Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1801-10-17 00:00:00

RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN
"LIBERTY is the basis, and whoever would dare to sap the foundation, or overturn the structure, under whatever specious pretext he may attempt it, will merit the bitterest execration and the severest punishment which can be inflicted by his injured country." WASHINGTON.
NUMBER 3.]
NEWPORT, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1801.
[VOLUME II.]
Published weekly, by OLIVER FARNWORTH, Printer to the State—Near the COFFEE-HOUSE, Thames-Street.
HAVILA FARNWORTH, Surgeon & Physician,
INFORMS the Public, that he has taken residence a few doors north of the Coffee-House, Thames-Street, where he will at any time attend to the calls of his friends. Newport, Oct. 9th, 1801.
Take Notice.
THE Managers of the Bristol Church Lottery , inform the Public, that the drawing of the Second class, commenced on Wednesday: The following numbers were drawn and are Prizes of Five Dollars each.
No. 97, 215, 296, 344 576, 415, 841, 965, 1000, 1024, 1051, 1432, 1557, 1673, 1752, 1997, 2127, 2322, 2349, 2492, 2515, 2613, 2624, 2788, 2946.
In consequence of having received no returns, from many of those who had tickets for sale, the Managers have postponed the drawing to the second Wednesday in November, at which time they have no doubt, but they shall be able to complete the drawing.
Bristol, Oct. 1, 1801.
A few Tickets in the above Lottery, may still be had at O. Farnsworth's Printing-Office.
FOR SALE,
A TWO-Story-Dwelling House, pleasantly situated at the north-end of Thames-street; with a good well of water, yard, garden and stable.—For further particulars, enquire of JOSEPH COZZENS. Newport, Sept. 25, 1801.
For Savanna, (Georgia)
THE fast sailing Schooner MERCURY , Samuel G. Hudson, master; having excellent accommodations for passengers. Will sail in ten days. For freight or passage, apply to the master on board, at Capt. John Coggeshall's Wharf. Newport, Oct. 9.
ROWSE TAYLOR, Has opened his Evening SCHOOL. Newport, 9th of 10th Mo.
WILLIAM DOUGLASS, Has just received and for sale, At the Head of Broad Street,
A General Assortment of Liverpool & Crockery Ware.—All kinds West-India GOODS , sold as CHEAP as at any Store in Newport.—Also, 4,000 rot. long, clean brown FLAX. ** Cash and the highest price given for Cotton and Linen Rags.
Francis Anderson and Company,
TAKE this method to request those that are indebted to them, to call and make speedy settlement, as they are about dissolving their connection in partnership. They are also ready to make payment to those to whom the firm is indebted. Newport, August 27, 1801.
FOR SALE, By JOSEPH BRIGGS, 15 Hhds. W. I. Rum, 20 do. Jamaica Spirits, high 4th proof, and good flavored, —ALSO— A few Hogsfheads good Retailing Molasses. Newport 12th Sept. 1801.
TO BE SOLD,
On Reasonable Terms,  A FARM in Exeter, (one mile South of the ten-road highway, and six miles from Wickford) Containing about one hundred Acres of Land, with a good House, Barn, and Corn Crib; well fenced with stone wall. Said Farm has a quantity of young growing wood, and is tolerably well watered. For particulars, enquire of DANIEL TILLINGHAST, living near said Farm. —ALSO— BY PARDON TILLINGHAST, adjoining the above, about 180 acres, two Dwelling Houses and other Out Buildings. It may be purchased together or in separate divisions.—Payment will be made easy. Exeter, Sept. 21, 1801. 50¢
TO BE SOLD,
AND possession given the ensuing fall, a valuable FARM, joining Point-Judith ponds, in South-Kingstown, pleasantly situated, containing nearly 130 acres of land, with an Elegant two story Dwelling House thereon, 46 feet square; ALSO, a large Barn, and other out Houses, complete; is well proportioned for mowing, pasturing and tillage; well watered, and fenced with wall, &c. having a large orchard, of the best kind of fruit. Terms of payment will be made easy to the purchaser. For further particulars, apply to JOB HOPKINS, on the premises. South-Kingstown, June 25, 1801. 39½¢
EVENING SCHOOL.
THE Subscriber would inform the citizens of Newport, that he purposes to open an Evening School, on the 5th of October, at Mr. Mac Intosh Alexander's house in Marlborough-street, where he now keeps a Day School; in which will be taught Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Geography, &c. Parents or masters, who wish to send their children or apprentices, may be assured of the subscriber's careful attention to instruct them. Those who have a desire to send, may be informed of the terms of tuition, and other particulars, by calling at the Rev. Joshua Bradley's. JASON SPRAGUE. Newport, Sept. 28, 1801. 30¢
WILLIAM WILLBOR, Sign of the GOLDEN FISH , directly opposite Mr. Joseph Briggs' Thames-Street,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public in general, that he carries on the Glazing business in its various branches, where he offers for Sale, Window Glass of different sizes, by the Box, or smaller quantity, viz.—13 by 18, 12 by 16, 10 by 14, 10 by 13, 10 by 12, 9 by 11, 8 by 10, 7 by 9, 8 by 6—likewise, Sheet Glass, cut in any form or size—Putty by the quantity or single pound.
He has also, at Retail—Brandy—Rum—Gin—Brown, & white powder'd Sugar—Molasses—Flour—Rice—Souchong, Congee, and Bohea Teas—Chocolate—Coffee—Negro-head, cut, and Pigtail Tobacco—Sugars—Raisins—Mustard—Pepper—Ginger—Starch—Candles—Writing Paper—Dutch Quills—Best New-York Hard Soap, &c. &c. Newport, Sept. 19, 1801. 50¢
FROM THE TRUE AMERICAN.
TO THE PEOPLE CALLED Quakers,
Residing in the State of New-Jersey, worthy of the perusal, however of every class of Citizens in the United States.
[Concluded from our last.]
THE foregoing points of comparison or contrast, are but a few of the most prominent. The same disagreement may be traced through almost all the official acts and sentiments of the two Presidents. In fact, not a trait of that peaceful, economical, prudent, & liberal policy which distinguished the administration of Washington , is discoverable in that of Adams ; which is remarkable only for profligacy, turbulence, corruption, and oppression.
Let not henceforth the ashes of Washington be disturbed, to cover the living guilt of Adams . Let not his respected memory be loaded with a share of the reproach, which has justly fallen on the character of his successor. The principles of the two were so different, their conduct so directly adverse, that no one can praise one without conveying a censure on the other. And those who applaud Adams , indirectly condemn Washington .
On the other hand, between the principles of Washington and of Mr. Jefferson , the most perfect resemblance exists. And those who bestowed their approbation on the former, may with consistency and propriety transfer that approbation to the latter. You have seen by the foregoing contrast, as well as by other documents, what were the leading traits of Washington's administration: The following extract from Jefferson's Speech, will show you what are to be the governing principles of his:—
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend every thing dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently, those which ought to shape its administration:—I will compress them within the narrow compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations."
"Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political—peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none—the support of the State Governments, in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies—the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad—a jealous care of election, by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are
unprovided—absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principles of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle, and immediate parent of despotism—a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them—the supremacy of the civil over the military authority—economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened—the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith—encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid—the diffusion of information, & arraignments of all abuses at the bar of public reason—freedom of religion—freedom of the press, and freedom of person, under the protection of the Habeas Corpus—and trial by juries impartially selected."
From the character Mr. Jefferson has always sustained, we have no reason to doubt that the above sentiments were the legitimate offspring of his heart; and that he will strictly adhere to the principles here announced as those which "shall shape his administration." Judge, then for yourselves, whether he is worthy of your support, or deserving of your confidence? And whether those who calumniate and abuse him, and condemn or misrepresent his measures, are actuated by good motives; or whether their hearts are not desperately wicked, and the poison of adders under their lips.
I shall now leave you seriously to reflect on the brief statement I have made; and your candor, love of truth, and good intention, will, I doubt not, guide your judgment to a just conclusion.
A Friend to Peace, Liberty, and the Constitution.
AUTHENTIC MEMOIR.
A GENTLEMAN at the east-ward had five daughters, all of whom he brought up in such a manner as was proper to render them useful and respectable characters in life. These daughters, as they came to years, married, one after another, with the approbation of their father. One of them married a gentleman of the name of Poor :—Another one married a Mr. Little :—The third married a gentleman of the name of Short :—The fourth married one Mr. Brown :—and the fifth married a Mr. Hogg .—At the wedding of the latter, her sisters, with their husbands, were present. After the ceremonies of the wedding were over, as social conversation ensued, the old gentleman made this remark to his guests: "I have taken great pains," said he, "to educate my five daughters in a suitable manner that they might act well their part in life; and, from their advantages and improvements, I fondly expected that they would do honor to my family: But, having now no more daughters to marry, I find that all my pains, care, and fond expectations, in the result have turned out nothing but poor, little, short, brown, hogg! "

Plain, unadorned Facts.
THE Circular-Letter from the Merchants in the town of Boston, subscribed by some of those who now emphatically style themselves Federalists, conveys in the strongest terms their disapprobation of the British government, in violating the commercial privileges of the United States. The sentiments inculcated at that period by those high-toned Federalists, are now denounced as Jacobinism. I would not hurt the feelings of the gentlemen by mentioning them individually, as any man by reading over the names of the Committee, can easily designate the apostates.
If the merchants, tradesmen, and others, in the town of Boston, were justifiable in their proceedings, at the time they forwarded their Circular-Letter, we must certainly conclude, that the advocates for the British Treaty were blameable in every particular—for this ignominious instrument baffled every principle contemplated by that measure. We gave up, by its adoption, every sentiment, as it respected our neutrality, and basely submitted to the most humiliating, degradation. Our Carrying Trade we laid prostrate at the feet of Britain, and as to British Factors, we have, in the humble attitude of sycophants, courted them to our embraces. We have placed our own Citizens at the footstool of Aliens, and suffered our Young Men to become suppliants to their clemency. We have surrendered our mercantile rights to the decisions of British Judges, and are obliged to crawl in the humble position of vassals, before their Courts of Admiralty. We have relinquished our claims for adjudicated property, by admitting demands upon the United States which would nearly bankrupt America, to cancel them.
Thus have we been duped by a pretended Federal Junta—thus have the honor and interest of our country been subservient to the personal emolument of a faction. Thus have we followed a few desperadoes, who, under the disguised mask of "friends to order," have wantonly sacrificed the reputation of their country.
To estimate our European connections, let us attend to the following statement, as submitted to Congress, in 1794:
  Our Trade with   Spain was 1,670,797 in our favor.   Portugal, 1,687,696 do.   Netherlands, 791,182 do.   Sweden, 932,635 do.   France, 2,030,387 do.   Denmark, 126,000 against us.   G. Britain, 5,923,912 against us. 
These are documents from which there can be no appeal; they are authentic, and yet such has been our infatuation, that every measure has been taken to assist that nation whose trade was against us, and injure those whose trade was in our favor.
When we talked of a non-intercourse with England, the partisans of Britain exclaimed that it would lead to a war; but when a proposition was made to annihilate our trade with France, these same men acceded to the measure with the most fervent complacency—that is, they were anxious to continue in connection with a nation, the balance of whose trade was upwards of five millions against us, and break off every intercourse with those, whose balance was upwards of two millions in our favor. They were willing further to hazard in the controversy, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, &c. (whose balance also were in our favor) in order to form an alliance offensive and defensive with Britain. What a degree of infatuation must have possessed the minds of those infuriated projectors!!
The non-intercourse with France was such a favorite object, (notwithstanding our trade with her was so advantageous) that the Young Men were called upon to celebrate the period of its adoption—prayers were offered to heaven for its continuance—the courtly Priest paraded our streets arrayed in his canonicals—the Meeting House was thronged to hear the servid effusions of a clerical, political fanatic unfortunately led astray by the hypocrisy of some of his parishioners, the Young Men were summoned to attend the solemn mockery of the SUPREME BEING—an inflated, bombastic, poetic Orator was selected to celebrate, in the strains of a maniac, the blessings of a controversy with a nation, whose balance of trade was nearly three millions in our favor.—Mysterious! unexampled!! incomprehensible!!
This was the day of political madness. A Priest and a Lawyer, in full communion, and with fantastic gravity, strutting in front, while a few deceived Old Men countenanced a train of misguided Youths, to celebrate the most destructive measure that ever disgraced our country.
Young Men are not always to blame for imprudencies, as experience will naturally mature their judgment. Time will ripen their decisions. Those whom they have heretofore considered as their enemies, will ere long be known as their friends; those whom they have reprobated as inimical to their interest, will soon be considered by them as the most attached to its promotion.
Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Madison, Gen. Dearborn, Judge Lincoln, &c. are the uniform
supporters of the real liberties of this country, as they relate to Commerce, Agriculture, and Manufactures.—The abuse thrown on them, are the last desperate efforts of a British faction, which now sickens at the prospect of our real national independence. While such people considered America as tending to a War with France, and an alliance with Britain, the highest encomiums were passed upon our government; now they find their projects are frustrated, they are endeavoring to destroy our confidence in the administration; but, we trust in GOD, their mischievous designs will be baffled, and the United States rise superior to their infernal machinations.
OLD SOUTH.
For the RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
THE formation of society occasions a necessity for the establishment of certain institutions, which as they are declaratory of right and wrong, and prescriptive of expediency as related to the common good of the community, become a vital principle of civil happiness and freedom. As public prosperity is, with every virtuous and well directed mind, a distinguished and primary object; so the preservation of those institutions have ever attracted the concern, and engrossed the attention of a people determined to be free. To preserve them in their full constitutional vigor, as a means of infusing health into the political system, that it may be rightly sustained in its various functions, experience has taught the necessity of investing in individuals definitive authorities, corresponding with different departments, which primitive and general agreement had established. Those individuals, when advanced to their respective posts by the free suffrages of their fellow-citizens, have great and important duties to fulfil, and are responsible to their constituents for any abuses of the trust reposed in them. Such responsibility is promulgated, not by the envenomed aspersions of the lurking slanderer, but at the period of Election, when the majestic and infallible voice of the people at large is to fix the seal of their approbation or the brand of disgrace. If by the decision of the majority, he is, in his re-election, proclaimed worthy of confidence, from that instant he again becomes entitled to public support; and as his life has been devoted to the public service, he is entitled to the affection of his country-men. And for disappointed pride, unprincipled avarice, personal enmity, and desperate revenge, united in a gorgon renege, to aspire to an infernal dignity, by vilifying and traducing him, is a direct and flagrant insult to the State, and the understanding of the people.
These reflections have been excited by the perusal of a variety of pieces under different signatures which have appeared in a paper printed at Providence, the first of which was signed "John Dorrance," containing a web of aspersions, against the Governor of this State, heightened and inflamed by every colouring which his well known malignity and impudence could invent. That piece was afterward re-published, and the said Dorrance having been dismissed from the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Providence, of which, however, unworthily, he had been a member, has since seemed to have little else to do, than with the help of his literary assistants, and compeers in disappointment, to prepare slander and invective for the press. A steady current of the most studied provocation and abuse, leveled with contemplative virulence at the character of our First Magistrate, evidently for no other reason than because he has had the firmness to resist the encroachments which were about to be made upon our rights and privileges, has continued to flow to a degree which threatens his personal safety; and while it awakens a warmth of indignation, calls for a public, express, and positive discountenance. While we behold on every side, the incessant flight of poisoned arrows, prepared by a fallen host, to wreak a deadly vengeance; while their gaping mouths, yet warm with the vital currents of the country, which they were sucking at every pore, are extended wider and wider, in continued brawlings, impatient and peulant, lest what they value more than they do the peace and prosperity of mankind, should be taken from them; while the ordinary restraints of decency are set at defiance, and every principle of truth rent asunder, well might we exclaim that "we have fallen on evil times." But how much more daring the project—how much more glaring the insult, when a nest of miscreant mercenaries, (because their characters and conduct has been disapproved by the Legislature of the State, in refusing to appoint them to office) unite their nefarious faculties against a man whom the united voice of the people of this State, have continued to honor, as the safe repository of their rights. "On evil times indeed are we fallen!" Are we, then, to be insulted? Is the man whom we have appointed to the chief dignity of the State, and who through a long course of public services, has ever preserved, and still retains our confidence to be left a sacrifice to private revenge—a revenge too, occasioned by his faithful discharge of the duties of the station in which we have placed him? Is the voracious beast,
in the figure of a man, who has the audacity to attempt it, and to set on the tools of his impious wrath, to be suffered to wanton in the purposes of his disappointment, with impunity? I trust not. I trust he will be overtaken by the indignation of a generous people, and taught to repress the insolence of his nature with which he invades their authority. Who is this "John Dorrance"!—Fellow-Citizens, enquire for yourselves. Who are the miscreants whom he has enlisted in his service, and who from the hope of reward, or bankrupts in every hope, have so long been distorting and torturing their faculties in the most violent paroxisms of desperation? Sure I am, that they are
"Monsters of so horrid mien, As to be hated need but to be seen."
Preternatural in figure as they are monstrous in thought, their abodes, like their deeds, are in darkness. Forms that would shrink and sneak from common observation—hearts that would sicken at the fight of virtue—minds that would recede from the truth like vapor from the beams of the morning. Are we, then, so far benighted—so far lost to all duty to ourselves, and justice to those with whom we have solemnly engaged a mutual support in right and privilege, as to suffer them to be traduced, vilified, and scandalized, and not extend a hand in their support? Be assured, that if such means, by reason of our neglect, are found to be effectual, we bid an immediate and eternal adieu to our peace, our liberty, & our safety. A Dorrance, in the follies of his impudence, and the strength of his pride, will rise superior to law, drive us whither-soever he pleases, and convert us to a "swinish multitude" indeed. By traducing the constituted authorities, divest the State of its controul, destroy its weight in the balance of other States, annihilate our government, which refused him office, and rise himself the sole arbiter of all office, and all controul. Such is evidently the tendency of the numerous publications to which I allude, and of which a Dorrance as evidently has been the central spring.
To attempt a recapitulation of the reiterated calumnies which have been promulgated in every possible shape which a heated and invidious imagination could place them, against the first Executive of the State, would be painful in the extreme. The various artifices of suggestion and farmise—of fabricated interrogatories, destitute of foundation—of subtle and delusive feints, and insolent menaces, have been employed, and again and again repeated. Every scurrility which the most degenerate nature could afford, has been seized upon, and hurled with classical dexterity, to render his situation unhappy. I forbear a further investigation of the fallacies which have been employed. Those who have seen the different papers from Providence, will be enabled to judge for themselves; to those who have not seen them, it would be impossible for any one not induced with the same temper and the same feelings, to give any adequate idea.
Citizens of Rhode-Island, pause and reflect. Examine your hearts, your understandings, and your feelings. Ask yourselves whether you mean to be free, or to bow beneath an accumulated pressure of audacity and usurpation. Are the laws to be preserved or trampled under feet by an Egyptian throng of indolent vermin? Are the authorities to be respected and maintained, or are they to fall a devoted sacrifice to the envenomed breath of private animosity, and implacable revenge? Are the departments provided by our Constitution for the protection and defence of our liberties, our lives, & our property, to be vacated at the will of an infuriated junta? Are they, when told in the language of the Constitution that their services are not required, to question its authority, and turn the enmity thereby excited upon those who are retained as deserving confidence? Are the barriers erected by the original compact, to be borne down by a wilful perseverance in enormity and confusion, entailed upon society by a restless faction, because their projects have, in some measure, been defeated? Are a few men in Providence, or Newport, or any other town, by the dint of their brains, and the sovereignty of their goose-quills, to say who we shall, or shall not, or ought, or ought not to elect our Governor? Is John Dorrance, of noted memory, by the metaphysical sharpness of his pen, and the assistance of his classical adherents—with the indefatigable labor of his head, and the relentless atrocity of his heart, to be tolerated in harassing, through the medium of a newspaper, the principal officers of our government, who have been appointed in the regular administration thereof? These fellow-citizens are serious questions: Questions which come home to the feelings of every individual; and which every individual is bound to decide upon.
Let us for a moment consider the situation of the man whom we have appointed as our Governor, and who has been so long calumniated. Let us endeavor to enter into his feelings, which is the only means whereby we can appreciate the wrongs he has sustained. What must be his sensation, enveloped as he is by the shas of invective and detraction, which seem to bid defiance to shame,
and which he cannot attempt to repel without stooping from his dignity. Were he a private citizen, he might with propriety carry an indignant vengeance to their lurking places. In that case their personal cowardice might be a sufficient shield against their depraved and implacable wrath. But invested with the endurance of the law, his measures of defence cannot, consistently, be other than legal. And to contend with an unprincipled banditti, even in that way, must be repugnant to his feelings. I ask if our first magistrate has deserved the execrations which have been heaped upon him, by an obscure individual? I say obscure, because he is known for nothing but his political deformity. Did John Dorrance when he came to this State (as I am told he did "without a second thirteenth") come privileged to revile our authorities at his pleasure? Has not our Governor through a long course of public services, ever acquitted himself to the satisfaction of his constituents? He has, I say he has because I believe it. I believe he has, because the whole tenor of his public life has been marked by a warm attachment to the liberties of the citizen. When applied to by a person, who at that time possessed a dangerous influence, for the purpose of obtaining his concurrence with a plan which had been formed, of depriving the people of the right of choosing the Electors of a President, and confining it to the General Assembly, what was his answer? He peremptorily refused his assent, and declared that he would resist the attempt by all the means in his power. That it would be a violation of the confidence reposed in him, and dangerous to the freedom of the State. Do we not approve, in public officers, such principles as these? Yet it is for the independent assertion of these principles, that he has been so long, so wantonly, and wickedly abused. There are, I know, who, to appease the malignity of a personal resentment, were it not for the terror of the halter, would murder, and burn. Such are restrained by their fears. But the more despicable though less atrocious villain, who, entrenched by curious evasions of fact and the truth, with the poniard of slander, assails a character, is emboldened by a hope that his own insignificance, or the inadvertence of the public, may secure him from punishment. Such, however, is not the present question. It is a concern, not between private individuals, but, which calls the attention and alarms the interest of every citizen. The peace and dignity of the State are attacked in the person of its first magistrate: And it becomes the duty of the public to interpose its voice.
Often have I wondered, while reading the different productions which have appeared in the Providence papers, under the various signatures of "John Dorrance," "Cuffee," "Nimrod," &c. &c. which have been kept up ever since the last election; when I observed their artful management of new fangled phrases; their v. v. and embittered warfare upon the MAN whose integrity has offended them: Often, I say, have I wondered that the irresistible indignation of the people, against whom they have committed such gross indignities has not arose & overtaken them. But, perhaps it is fortunate that they have been able to repress their resentment. There is another way of vindicating their honor more compatible with their character. It is by a solemn appeal to the Legislature.
John Dorrance has found means to worm himself into that body, the better to pursue his Jacobin projects of anarchy and disorganization. It must be mortifying to every Member of that House, to think that he is to be connected in Legislation with a public and notorious slanderer, a political assassin. One who from malice aforethought has had the baseness to attack with wanton scurrility and invective the Governor of the State, and circulate his libels through the continent. One who has labored with unremitted and treasonable zeal, to delude and blow up the passions of the citizen, and set him in arms against the government. One whose darling object seems to be that of extending confusion and dismay through society, that in some general convulsion he may reap his reward. One so arrant in pride, so abominable in design, so infernal in wickedness, that to see the prevailing policy of our country banished from the earth, seems to be the first wish of his heart, and the principal duty of his satanic life.—Who, when this Dorrance rears his crest in the Legislature, will not feel debased by his presence? Who will not experience a noxious infection from him, as from a putrid carcase? Who is there that will not say, in a loud voice, this man is more than we can bear?—Like the basilisk, there is perdition in his very looks!
I am convinced that our next General Assembly, in the assertion of their abhorrence of the enormities of which he has been guilty, will preclude this monster from a seat among them. His repeated libels upon the State; his gross indignities to its First Magistrate; his utter dereliction of the principles for which we have contended; his open hostility to our rights and privileges, to order and government, will not only justify, but do absolutely require it. Expulsion is as lenient a corrective as can be applied to his temerity.

It has been the practice in all countries, that their supreme councils, in cases of this kind, have disapproved the mischief, by excluding the author of it from their debates. It has ever been considered, that no person capable of such flagrant misconduct ought to have any hand in making laws for a Nation or State. Indeed, it would be, over & above the encouragement to such vicious practices, a virtual admission of poison to the system.—Without any predilection for the government of that country, I would mention a few instances from the British House of Commons. In 1580, Arthur Hall was expelled for a flandorous libel , derogatory to the authority of the House. In 1679, Mr. Sackville , for asperging the First Magistrate . In 1713, Mr. Steel , for a scandalous and malicious libel . In 1768, John Wilks , having been previously elected a Member of the House of Commons, and being brought to the bar of the same for a libel which had been published, which he acknowledging himself to be the author of, was immediately expelled. The same principle is recognized by the American Constitution.—“Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings; punish its members for disorderly behavior; and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.” The case of Lyon and Griswold is universally known. In that the question of expulsion was taken, upon an allegation that the former, to repel an insult offered him, had spit at the other. They were both members, and consequently upon the same footing. The law had invested no pre-eminence. Yet it was but a small number that preserved Mr. Lyon his seat.
What comparison is there between the instantaneous eruption of an involuntary, and perhaps, a rightful contempt, arising from a humorous jest between two individuals standing upon the same footing, which thus brought into question the right of Mr. Lyon to retain his seat in Congress; and Dorrance's deeply meditated and long continued slander against the first Executive authority of the State? There is none. The same principle, which for Lyon's offence, would have inclined him in his seat, would for the incorrigible outrage of which Dorrance has been guilty, send him to the clouds.
Moved by what I feel to be a laudable impulse I have thus endeavored to express my sentiments upon the subject of Dorrance's attack upon the Governor of this State. Though I am conscious that the subject requires a superior talent, yet so odious has been the light in which I have viewed the conduct of Dorrance , that I have been irresistibly impelled to undertake it. If what has been said is any way calculated to arouse the attention of the public, and to awaken my fellow-citizens to a just sense of the infolence which has been offered them, I am satisfied. However unknown in person, or obscure in situation, I shall console myself in the purity of the motive, fully satisfied that the object is good, and deserving an earnest attention. As we value our liberties—as we value the institutions, which, from early time, have kept us free and firm—as we value their preservation, which as they have been preferred to us by our fore fathers, we are bound to transmit unimpaired to posterity; as we value the principles by which alone they can be supported, we are called upon in a commanding voice unequivocally to manifest a hearty indignation.
A considerable acquaintance with the public character of our Governor fixes me in the belief, that he possesses a heart which beats in unison with the welfare of his country. Not all the inuendo of the blackest malice can shake my opinion of his integrity, until I see him depart from his principles. Others before him have been crucified, and expired with the smiles, and approbation of Heaven beaming upon them. If thorns have been placed upon his head—if spears have pierced his side—if in his retirement he has heaved a secret sigh, they are but particles to his desire of the general good, and while he sees it advancing, the shafts of his enemies fall pointless to the ground. It is not on his account that I have written: I know he would not desire it. It is the general cause which I have (perhaps vainly) attempted to espouse.
EUSEBIUS.
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
SMYRNA, July 9.
Private advices from Egypt inform us, that the troops which Admiral Gantheaume landed on the coast of Africa, arrived on the 30th of June at Alexandria. There are among these troops 600 cavalry, and several generals. These troops immediately joined the troops under Gen. Menou. It is asserted, that when these advices were sent off, Gen. Menou was making dispositions to proceed against Alkam. where there was a corps of English troops. Gen. Friant is to command
at Alexandria during the absence of the commander in chief. We may therefore expect great events in these countries. It cannot be conceived here why the English squadron could not prevent the landing of the troops which Admiral Gantheaume had on board his fleet.
BRUSSELS, August 9.
The 24th, 25th and 26th divisions of French troops are in march for Dunkirk and Boulogne; and also 600 horse chasseurs, 800 hussars, 200 horse artillery, three companies of foot artillery, and three battalions of light infantry, with a large train of artillery, ammunition waggons, &c. to join the grand army destined for the invasion of England.
LEGHORN, Aug. 7.
We have received the unfortunate intelligence of the English having taken a French frigate and six transports, as they went out of Porto Ereole.
The American Consul resident here has been directed by Mr. Cathcart, the consul of the United States at Tripoli, to give all publicity to the following:
“ Consulate of the United States of America, at Tunis, July 25th. ”
“The Bey of Tripoli having declared war against the United States, our government has sent a flotilla to prevent the regency from injuring our commerce. In consequence we are to inform the Agents of all powers at peace with us, that Tripoli is now blockaded by the said American flotilla, and that every ship whatever, which shall attempt to enter the port, will be treated conformably to the laws of nations, applicable to such cases. (Signed) W. EATON, Consul at Tunis. ”
NEW-YORK, Oct. 10.
The brig Clio , Capt. Bourne, arrived yesterday in 29 days from Bourdeaux. By her we have received Paris papers to the 29th of August. From a gentleman passenger we learn, that the negotiations for peace between France and England, had assumed a consistent tone; it was no longer treating for a treaty—Buonaparte had applied to the English government, and obtained a passport for his brother Joseph, who was to proceed to London in quality of a Negotiator. It was confidently believed in France, (to the great joy of the people of that country) that a PEACE was not far distant, which would afford some repose to Europe, deluged with the blood of a destructive nine years' war.
NEWPORT, Saturday, October 17, 1801.
On Monday, 26th inst. the Hon. General Assembly of this State will convene at South-Kingstown.
The Rev. Dr. MAXCY, of Providence, is chosen President of Union College, Schenectady, State of New-York, Salary 1,500 Dollars per annum.
Last Saturday night, the Dwelling House of Mr. Noah Gifford, of Little-Compton, was unfortunately consumed by fire, together with all the family's clothing, and furniture, and a considerable quantity of grain & cheese. Happily none of the family were detained, although the house was nearly encircled in flames before it was discovered. It was supposed to have taken fire by a candle, from which a spark might have fell into a drawer of clothes in the evening.
It is said the Fever rages with considerable violence at New-York, Charleston (S. C.) & Savannah (G.)
The Convention, containing the articles of capitulation, and the particulars of the evacuation of Cairo in Egypt, by the French, has been received by the last arrivals.
Mr. Charles Barker, a native of Connecticut, in a letter to his father, dated on board the British ship Edgar , of 74 guns, off Bournholm, June 8th, mentions, his having been in the action of Copenhagen, in which the Edgar lost 133 men, killed and wounded, though he escaped; and begs that a protection may be sent to release him from a man of war. Mr. Barker it appears, was forced into the service, and we hope immediate attention will be paid to his situation.
A man named Wilson, says a Baltimore paper, with a team and five horses, was driving from Baltimore on his way to Kentucky, when the gust on Tuesday commenced. About a mile from Mr. Towson's tavern a sudden flash of lightening struck himself and horses, all of whom were instantly killed.
A treaty of peace has been signed at Paris between the French Republic and the Elector of Bavaria.
MARINE NEWS.
Arrived here on Monday last from the Havana, Schr. Betsy , Richard Cornell, Master. Sept. 24th, off Menanzes, spoke the Schooner Eliza , of Boston, Skillinghorn, master, bound to the Havana, out 45 days; all well.
The writer of “PLAIN FACTS,” is informed, that his communication was received too late for insertion in this day's paper, but shall have a conspicuous place in our next.
Some other important political matter is also again unavoidably omitted.
FOR SALE,
An undoubted CHECK on the Bank of South-Carolina, for 1000 or 1500 Dollars. If preferred, a Bill of Exchange will be drawn on an individual at sight. Enquire of the Printer. Newport, Oct. 16, 1801.
For Sale,
A FARM, on Point-Judith, in South-Kingstown, containing about One Hundred and fifty acres, with a dwelling house thereon. The fertility of the soil, commodiousness of situation, and the advantages of fish and manure from its houses, are too well known to need a particular description. For terms, apply to JOSEPH CASE. North-Kingstown, Oct. 15, 1801. 3tf
Sloop Concord,
WILLIAM SLOCUM, jun. MASTER. WILL sail for CHARLESTON, (S.C.) on or about the first of November.—This vessel, so well known for her superior and elegant accomodations, and the Master for his experience on that coast, needs no recommendation. For freight or passage, apply to John & Henry Caboorne, or the Master on board. Said vessel now lying at Banister's wharf. Newport, Oct. 16, 1801.
For Charleston (S. Carolina.)
THE Sch'r. Mount Hope , Cornelius Bennet Master, now lying at Banister's wharf, having excellent accomodations for passengers; and will sail on Tuesday next. For freight or passage, apply to the Master on board, or JESSE BARLOW, Long-Wharf. Newport, 17, 1801.
FALL GOODS.
James Mumford
Has just received from New-York and Boston, a fresh supply of ENGLISH and INDIA GOODS, which he offers for sale at the Sign of the GOLDEN BEE-HIVE, Thames-Street—vis.
   BROAD Cloths, Cassimere, Baizes, Flannels, Plains, Cassinet, Blue & Mix'd Serges, India Blankets, Fine Lamb's Wool Stockings, Worsted ditto, White & other figur'd camel's hair Shawls, Parisian Gauze, Swan-down, Surtout Buttons, Bombazer, Ladies' Shoe Bows, Linen Checks, Chintzes, Calicoes, Pencil, blue, & white Copperplate, India Calicoes, Striped Cottons, Russells, Calimancoes, Durants, Bandanno & Barcelona Handkerchiefs, Spanish Silk for knitting, Dimities, Mullinets, Ladies Silk Gloves & Mitts, of different colours, White Cotton do. Linens, Fine Humhums, Gentlemen's 3 thread-ed Silk and white Cotton Hose, Marseilles Quilting, Ladies Silk Shawls, of different colours,    Kid Gloves, White linnen pocket Handkerchiefs, Red & white spotted ditto, Worsted Binding, Nankeen Ferrer, Suspenders, Cambries, Sprig'd, Tambour'd, Jacquet, and Bock Mullins, Black & Blue Lute-strings, Changeable ditto, Italian Silks, Pink & yellow Crape, Glove Ties, Ladies Sprigs & Feathers, Spotted and Plain Gauze, Velvet bindings for Boots, Narrow ditto for seam'd pantaloons, Ribbons, Edgings, Satin pealings, Sarcenets, Gentlemen's black & white Satten for Vests, Chintzes, Shawls, Galoom Binding, Black Mullins, Best kind Morocco Shoes, Ladies Bonnets, Gentlemen's Cravats, Thread of all colours, Shirt Buttons, Black Lace, as low as 1/2 per yd. &c. &c.   
—Also—
One Box of Gentlemen's Beaver Hats, Sundry other Articles, too tedious to mention. Newport, Oct. 17, 1801. 3tf
Take Notice.
THE subscribers, appointed by the Hon. Town-Council of Newport, Commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of CALEB CORY, late of Newport, (Mariner) deceased, represented insolvent.—Notify said creditors to exhibit their claims to either of us at our respective dwellings within six months from the fifth inst. being the period limited by law.
SAMUEL CARR, ANTHONY DIXON.
The subscriber solicits all persons indebted to said estate, to make immediate payment.
ELIZABETH CORY, Administratrix. Newport, Oct. 15, 1801.
For Georgetown & Charleston,
THE Sloop SALLY , Nathl. Lyndon Master. Will sail in ten days. For freight or passage apply to the master on board, now lying at Capt. Peleg Wood's wharf or to
HUGH VICKARY. Newport, Oct. 17, 1801.
Thomas Howland,
MOST respectfully informs the Public at large, and his friends in particular, that he has qualified himself for an Auctioneer, and will be ready to serve them at any time or place. July 18, 1801. 2tf
THE TRIAL of JASON FAIRBANKS, for Murder, to be sold at the Post-Office, Newport.

SONNET TO A LADY.
On her presenting the AUTHOR with a Pair of GARTERS.
If once a single Garter could surprize, And lure a courtly circle's wond'ring eyes; Could draw from Majesty a Royal Charter, And cause an "Institution of the Garter;" If such high honors were—as said to be— Shewn to a Lady's Ribbon from her knee, What ought not I, when garter'd by the Fair, Not with a single—but substantial PAIR; What ought not I a grateful sense to show, If 'tis as thought the pow'r of words could flow?
But since no words nor language can impart My vast sense of the Garter's worth, Permit me just to say—respecting Charters, I reverence most your Order of the Garters!
EPIGRAM.
Old Cato, on his death-bed lying, Worn out with work, and almost dying, With patience, heard his friends propose, What bearers for him they had chose:— There's Cuff and Cæsar Pomp and Plato: "Dey will do berry well," quoth Cato; And Bantam Philips—now for Coddler, We must take Scipio, Bantam's brother, "I no like Scipio," old Cato cries, "Scip rascal—tell about me lies, "And get me whipp'd;"—"Ei, 'tis all one, Scip shall be bearer, Scip or none. "Mind," quoth Cato, "if dat cur, "Dat Scip come bearer, I won't 'tir!"
AFFECTING STORY
Of a MERCHANT and his Dog.
A French Merchant having some money due from a correspondent, set out on horseback, accompanied by his dog, on purpose to receive it. Having settled the business to his satisfaction, he tied the bag of money before him, and began to return home. His faithful dog, as if he entered into his master's feelings, frisked round the horse, barked and jumped, and seemed to participate in his joy.
The merchant, after riding some miles, had occasion to alight; and taking the bag of money in his hand, laid it down by his side, under a hedge, and on remounting, forgot it. The dog perceived his lapse of recollection, and wishing to rectify it, ran to fetch the bag, but it was too heavy for him to drag along. He then hastened to his master, and by crying, barking, and howling, seemed to remind him of his mistake. The merchant understood not his language; but the assiduous creature persevered in his efforts, and after trying to stop the horse in vain, at last began to bite his heels.
The merchant absorbed in some reverie, wholly overlooked the real object of his affectionate attendant's importunity, but waked to the alarming apprehension that he was going mad. Full of this suspicion, in crossing a brook, he turned back to look if the animal would drink. It was too intent on its master's service to think of itself: It continued to bark and bite with greater violence than before.
"Mercy!" cried the afflicted merchant; "it must be so—my poor dog is certainly mad. What must I do? I must kill him, lest some greater misfortune befall me—but with great regret! Oh, could I find any one to perform this cruel office for me! But there is no time to lose—I myself may become the victim, if I spare him."
With these words he drew a pistol from his pocket, and with a trembling hand took aim at his faithful servant. He turned away in agony as he fired, but his aim was too sure. The poor animal falls wounded; and weltering in his blood, still endeavors to crawl towards his master,
as if to tax him with ingratitude. The merchant could not bear the sight—He spurred on his horse with a heart full of sorrow, and lamented he had taken a journey which had cost him so dear. Still, however the money never entered his mind. He only thought of his poor dog, and tried to console himself with the reflection, that he had prevented a greater evil by dispatching a mad animal, than he had suffered a calamity by his loss.—This opiate to his wounded spirit was yet ineffectual. "I am most unfortunate," said he to himself; "I had almost rather have lost my money than my dog."—Saying this, he stretched out his hand to grasp his treasure. It was missing—no bag to be found. In an instant he opened his eyes to his rashness and folly. "Wretch that I am! I alone am to blame. I could not comprehend the admonition which my best and most faithful friend gave me; and I have sacrificed him for his zeal. He only wished to inform me of my mistake; and he has paid for his fidelity with his life."
Instantly he turned his horse, and went off at full gallop to the place where he had stopped. He saw, with half averted eyes, the scene where the tragedy was acted. He perceived the traces of blood, as he proceeded. He was oppressed and distracted: But in vain did he look for his dog—He was not to be seen on the road. At last he arrived at the spot where he had alighted.—But what were his sensations! His heart was ready to bleed. The poor dog, unable to follow his dear, but cruel master, had determined to consecrate his last moments to his service. He had crawled, all bloody as he was, to the forgotten bag; and, in agonies of death, lay watching beside it.—When he saw his master, he still testified his joy by the wagging of his tail—He could do no more. He tried to rise, but his strength was gone. The vital tide was ebbing fast. Even the caresses of his master could not prolong his fate for a few moments. He stretched out his tongue to lick the hand that was now fondling him in the agonies of regret, as if to seal forgiveness of the deed that deprived him of life. He then cast a look of kindness on his master, and closed his eyes forever.
THEFT PUNISHED.
The following Account of a remarkable instance of prompt and decisive, though accidental or Providential, punishment of a Thief, is extracted from the Supplement to the European Magazine, for 1795.
A few days ago, a man, who had the appearance of a laborer was found strangled in a field near Cumberwell, Surrey. It appeared that he had stolen a sheep, the hind legs of which he had tied together, and put them over his forehead, in order to carry it away; but it is thought, that, in getting over the gate the sheep struggled, and by a sudden spring slapt its feet down to his throat; for in that posture they were found, the Animal hanging on one side of the gate, and the dead Man on the other.
A Sailor's Description of Hunting.
GOING to see my father the other day, he ax'd me to take a voyage a hunting with him. So when the swabber had rigged the horses they brought me one to stow myself on board of—one that they told me was in such right and tight trim, the would go as fast upon any tack as a Faulkstone cutter. So I
got aloft, and clapt myself athwart ship & made as much way as the best on 'em; and to the windward of a gravel pit we spied a hare at anchor; so weighed and bore away, and just as I had overtaken her, my horse came plump ashore upon a rock—the back stay broke—she pitched me over the forecastle, came keel upwards, and unshipped my shoulder; and hang me if ever I sail on land privateering again.
HAZARD & GARDNER,
Have for Sale, At their Store, one door North of Mr. Townsend's Coffee-House,
PIPES of GIN—Do. of BRANDY—Do. Old particular Teneriffe WINE, Hysop, Souchong, and Bohea, TEAS. Black Pepper—Brown Soap. 1600 wt. Best Green Coffee. 200 wt. Cassia—Nutmegs—Mace—Cloves. Kegs of Superfine Flour of Mustard. Bags of fine Ginger—10 cwt. Copperas. Casks of London Porter and Taunton Ale. Crates of common Crockery Ware. 50 wt. Spanish Flote Indigo—French Do. Boxes of Warrented Essence of Spruce—Do. of Muscatel and Smyrna Raisins—Casks and Jars of Malaga Do. Sacks of Soft Shell Almonds—Shelled Do. in Boxes.
No. 1, and No. 2. Boston Chocolate, and a few cases SWEET OIL.
—ALSO— Hogheads of best Retailing MOLASSES. Brown SUGAR per Hoghead or Barrell. Newport, Sept. 26, 1801. 36f
STEPHEN T. NORTHAM,
Has for Sale, THIRTY Hogheads 3d proof Antigua RUM. Newport, July 11, 1801. 41
NICOLAS GEFFROY,
Watch-Maker, in Newport, INFORMS the Public, he has taken into Partnership Mr. L. TISSOT, a superior Workman, late from the Watch-Manufactory in Geneva, who will undertake to make New Watches;—and to repair, in the best manner, for Watch makers, or private persons, any new-constructed and complicated Watches, and Time-Pieces.—They will also import, from said Manufactory, at nine months warning, all such Watches and Time-Pieces, as their employers shall order.
They have also Constantly on hand, An elegant Assortment of warranted, and common English, and Geneva Watches and Time-Pieces, which they will sell on reasonable terms.—In addition to the above, they carry on the Goldsmith's and Silversmith's business, in all its branches; and likewise will make, or repair, any kind of Jewellery, in the neatest fashion.
They also have for Sale, Wholesale and Retail, all kinds of Jewellery, imported and of the latest fashion; officers' gold and silver Epaulets; plated & brass Candlesticks; plated and Britannia Tea-Pots; Dirks, small Swords and Hangers; plated Bitts, Stirrups and Spurs; Tea-Trays; Castors; Andirons, Shovel and Tongs; Cutlery. Ware of all kinds; Night and Day Spy-Glasses; Ladies and Gentlemen's Pocket-Books; Dressing Glasses; Suspenders; Trusses; Horse-Whips; Razors; Hopkin's famous Razor-Straps; best Beaver Hats; Perfumery of all kinds, from London and Paris; Hair-Powder; Starch; Barley-Sugar, and Sugar-Plumbs; Spanish Segars; best Makabau and Scotch Snuff; and a great variety of other articles, too numerous to insert here. Newport, Feb. 7, 1801. 19f
William W. Vernon,
PAINTER, Has for Sale, at his shop, opposite William Cahone and Company's, near the foot of the New Lane; The following Paints, either Dry, or Ground in Oil:
BEST London White LEAD, Spanish BROWN, Whiting, and Spruce YELLOW (of an excellent quality) by the hundred wt. or single pound; India Red, Umber, Letharge, Red Lead, White Vitriol, Verdigrise, and Prussian Blue:
Painters Brushes and Tools; Black and Bright Varnish, Spirits of Turpentine, Linseed Oil, Boiled or Un-Boiled; 7 by 9, and 6 by 8 Window Glass, and Putty. Newport, August 15, 1801. 46f
Blank Deeds, and Justice's Writs, and Executions, for sale at this Office.
John & Henry Cahone, HAVE FOR SALE, At their STORE on Boottler's Wharf, BROWN SUGAR, by the hoghead or barrel; Molasses, by the bag; Flour, by the barrel; Pimento, by the bag; Powder, by the cask; Sheathing-Paper, by the hundred; Salt-Peter'd Hams; Candles, by the box; Iron Castings; Turkey-Island Salt; a few Boxes of Havana Sugar; and genuine SPANISH SEGARS.
—ALSO— HONEY, by the hoghead or gallon—New York Soap, by the box—Negro-Head Tobacco—Best 4th proof Jamaica Rum—Rasberry &c.—Iron Stoves—and two large Scale Beams.
—LIKewise— LIQUORS, of the best kind, a general Assortment—and various other Articles in the Grocery Line—a complete Assortment of which they propose to be constantly Supplied with.
MASTERS of Packets, Passengers, &c. may be Supplied at said Store, on the shortest Notice—with any Article they may want—and their Favors gratefully Acknowledged.
GREEN CHAIRS, per Dozen—Bar-Iron, per Hundred wt.—Mithings and Gravel, per barrel—Four Thousand Bunches Onions. Newport, Oct. 17th, 1800. 35f
DIRECT TAX. Table with 5 columns: Name of Occupant, Name of Deceased Owner, Date, Kind of Estate, Tax. Lists names like George Nichols, Sarah Jones, and tax amounts.
Christopher Holt INFORMS his Customers and others, that he has removed from the North side of Washington Square, to the House on the Long Wharf, late the property of Capt. Edward Davis—where he will continue to keep a Boarding House, as usual. Newport, May 16, 1801. 33f
For sale at this Office, A Blow at the Root. BEING A FASHIONABLE FAST-DAY SERMON, Delivered at Cheshire, Massachusetts, April 9, 1801. By JOHN LELAND. I will also show mine opinion. ELIZUR. Shoot at her, spare no arrows; for she hath sinned against the Lord. JEREMIAH.
TO BE SOLD, (And possession given immediately) A FARM, lying in West-Greenwich, about 7 miles from East-Greenwich Meeting-House—with a good Dwelling-House, Barn, and Corn-House thereon.—containing about Seventy Acres of LAND. Also, an Oak Lot, containing about 35 Acres; which will be sold together or separate. For further particulars, enquire of JOB HARRINGTON, on the premises. West-Greenwich, Oct. 1.
SEAMEN'S JOURNALS For sale by the Printer hereof.