Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1806-04-05 00:00:00

Gerald of the United States.
WARREN:—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
No. 27, of Vol. XIV.]
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1806.
[Whole No. 693.]
WEEKLY ALMANACK.
   APRIL. h. m. s. h. m. s. REMARKS.     6 Sunday, 5 39 7 10 33 11 Pleasant.   7 Monday, 5 35 7 11 28 12 Windy & cool.   8 Tuesday, 5 34 7 12 24 11 [17h. 4m.]   9 Wednesday, 5 32 7 13 18 1 Night's length   10 Thursday, 5 31 7 14 1 2 Now warm.   11 Friday, 5 29 7 14 35 3 Low tides.   12 Saturday, 5 28 7 15 8 4  
United States.
NINTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1806.
Sketch of the Debate on Mr. Gregg's Resolutions for prohibiting the Importation of British Goods.
THE House went into committee, on the resolutions offered by Mr. Gregg.
Mr. Gregg rose in support of them. He told the House of our importance to Great-Britain as consumers; and of the effect of his measure, which he said would raise the manufacturers about the ears of the Minister: That there was no danger from Great-Britain's taking it in hand, because she had enemies enough upon her hands without troubling us:—That it was necessary for us to do something: and being averse to war, he could think of nothing better than this measure, which, he said, was mild and effectual; as it attacked Great-Britain through the medium of her mechanics, starving by its effect. If, however, contrary to his expectation, Great-Britain should sweep off our commerce from the ocean, or dare to block up our harbours, we had it in our power to make a sweep greater than her's—Look at the British debts in this country—the amount of debts owed to her merchants by our's, and the amount possessed by British subjects in our funds. We could also take Canada; and to get all the fur trade. Besides, her merchant ships are more valuable than our's, and our privateers will be able to make two captures for her one.—He said our situation was precisely the same as in 1799, when Mr. Madison's resolution was adopted by a great majority; and he trusted that now there would be as great unanimity.
Mr. Clay (of Philadelphia) followed.—He said there had been no doubt we had been insulted and injured; but in attempting redress, we ought to take care not to injure ourselves more than our enemies. He thought that such would be the effect of the resolution; and that, if adopted, it could not be maintained for any length of time. We had no other means of being paid for our exports than by importations; so that the effect would be to destroy the value of our own products. As to the scheme of confiscating British debts, he very much doubted whether more was owing to our merchants from the British, than from the Americans to their's. It appeared by the documents that not less than one hundred millions of dollars belonging to Americans, were at the mercy of the British cruizers; that the mere shells of our ships, without the cargoes, were worth thirty millions. He said, that all our iron, hard-ware, cotton, coarse woollen manufactures, we had from Great-Britain necessarily. From her East-India possessions alone can we get those white cotton goods, which custom has made necessary; and from her British Indies, articles which pay one sixth of our whole revenue. Shall we cut off the exportation of our cotton to Great-Britain, to an amount of six millions of dollars, by refusal to take the same cottons in a manufactured state? But the great evil is the destruction of our revenue. Five millions and an half of dollars are paid by articles coming from Great-Britain, and her dependencies. How shall we pay our public debt, if we thus cut off the right hand of our revenue? If this could be a permanent resolution, it would be better; but we could not do without British manufactures six months. Mr. Clay said the spirit of the people was now very different from what it was in 1794.—Then a majority of the people were in favour of an union with France and against Great-Britain. But are we willing to go to war to assist Napoleon to subjugate the continent of Europe.
Mr. Crowninshield (of Massachusetts) said, the trade with Great-Britain was eleven or twelve millions against the United States; and a disadvantageous trade to us. He did not believe Great-Britain would go to war with us. But if she should, he had no objection. Our privateers would take two vessels for one. He hoped Great-Britain would not suffer the measure to go into operation, but would restore our captive seamen, and repay what she had plundered. As to her imports, we could get every thing but woollen goods elsewhere. But no consideration of this kind had any effect upon his mind. As to the British navy, which was so great a bugbear, he had no doubt we could meet her on the ocean. Our ships would at once be turned into privateers. Canada and Nova-Scotia would fall into our hands: And we could confiscate her debts to the amount of thirty millions of dollars. He considered this as a pacific measure, and voted an unanimous vote.
Mr. Randolph (of Virginia) followed. He said, from the style adopted by the friends of the measure, there was no need of documents: that the House was sensible that we went into the debate hand-cuffed, and menaced, and tongue-tied, relative to the business of the secret session, which had an intimate connexion with this business. He would attempt, however, to hobble over it, as well as he could, fettered and paralyzed as he was.
He declared the resolution was a war measure. Now if war is necessary, out with it. But I will never consent to these incipient war measures, which breathe peace and bring war with a powerful nation of Europe.
I am not surprised to hear gentlemen, who have not travelled beyond the born book in politics, pretend to compare our situation, and that of Great-Britain, with what it was in 1793. She was then contending for the freedom of the channel against France. Now, all the fleets of France, Spain and Holland are dispersed. Indeed, I am not surprised to hear any thing from a man like him from Massachusetts, (Crowninshield) who sports such wild doctrines, as we are a match for the British fleet. With such an one I shall not pretend to argue. He deserves nothing but a strait waistcoat, a dark room, phyg and water-gruel.
Three points are to be considered. 1. Our ability to contend with Great-Britain. 2. The policy of such contention. 3. The manner in which we can retaliate on our adversary.
As to the first, gentlemen have settled that, by a sweeping clause. We are equal—we are superior to Great-Britain!! And why? Because we beat her in the revolutionary war. And why did we then? Because Lord North was at the head of the Ministry, and Lord Sandwich of her Admiralty. Because she was governed by counting-house politicians. Because a French fleet blockaded the harbours, commanded the American seas, and kept off the British. This was the reason why Cornwallis was taken, and our ships in safety. But if we go to war with Great-Britain, the first thing we shall hear will be, that Charleston, the Chesapeake, New-York and Boston, are blockaded. And who, will the gentleman tell us, is to raise the blockade? Count De Grasse, or Admiral Villeneuve, or Gravina? But it seems we are not only to reap glory, but profit. We are to reduce Canada and Nova-Scotia! Indeed!! Then we shall catch a Tartar. I confess I do not want to see the Representatives of Tories and refugees on this floor: And I ask, upon what other terms are they to be admitted into our union? But I ask, what is the carrying trade in dispute? Is it the fair, the usual, the accustomed carrying trade, which takes our cotton, tobacco, flour, fish and lumber, to market? Nothing less. It is a mere covering for enemy's property: a mere veiling of sugar and coffee under the neutral flag. If Sir, this great agricultural country is to be governed by Salem, Boston, New-York, Baltimore and Charleston, we had better go about our business, and let those towns choose a committee of Public Safety. For my part, I have no hesitation in saying, I will not mortgage my farm for this traffic. It is not the fair accustomed trade; it is a functus ; a mushroom commerce, to gratify the spirit of mercantile avarice, that we are to be plunged into a war.
But what, it will be asked, are you willing to submit and truckle to Great-Britain? When the advocates of this resolution will tell us what has been done respecting the invasion of the United States by Spain, then I will tell you what ought to be done respecting the insults of our flag, of which they complain so much. We have had laid before us this session an invasion of our territory, not of our ships under the Equator, or in the Narrow Seas, but in the old United States. Great-Britain knows this, and she will ask, what has been done? The people of the United States ask the same question. But we shall have no answer. The gentlemen dare not answer. And do you think she will dread the menaces of a nation which can bear thus patiently such aggressions from Spaniards? But although I cannot tell what we have done, I have a right to say what we have not done. We have then, Sir, not raised an army. No, Sir, no. Although we are governed by political militia Generals, who are incompetent even to the classification of the militia. I never heard but one incompetent , and that was by Mr. Bayes, in the " Rehearsal "; although, from some dramas I have seen on this floor, I should not be surprised to hear of a similar expedient.
I will never consent to war, but for something tangible; something within my reach. I am willing to say to the Leviathan of the ocean, "I am unable to contend with you." But let them come within the limits of the United States, I will no longer reason, but feel. I will obey an impulse higher than reason. I will meet them at the water's edge, and fight every inch of ground to the Mississippi. But it seems we have great hopes from privateering, in case of a war with Britain. What is the fact? Great-Britain is in a different situation from what she was in 1776. Her commerce is chiefly carried on in fleets—by con-
voys. And if in single vessels, they are of force sufficient to bid defiance to privateers. She has nearly 800 ships of war. Her enemies not many more than 10. I do believe that to well appointed British ships of the line would rejoice to meet the whole combined fleet of France and Spain. So I forewarn the gentlemen from Massachusetts, and his constituents in Salem, that their golden hopes of privateering are at an end . I forewarn them also, that the first thing they will hear of will be the British fleet bombarding their towns about their ears, and they be obliged to take refuge in the country. But this is not my only objection to a naval war. I was against it in 1793. I am against it now. I do not veer with every wind that blows. I do not believe any thing in this great Land Animal, the United States;—this Mammoth wading out into the ocean to fight the mackerel of the deep; and getting his proboscis bitten off by the shark.
But will you not fight for the carrying trade? Not without I am certain it will be to some purpose. I am not in favour of risking the prosperous condition of this country in a contest with the mistress of the ocean; or for throwing ourselves into the arms of Bonaparte, because it is popular to go to war with England. Nor do I believe that Britain will be much terrified by the paper threats of a nation, who have surrendered their domicile; who have permitted their own citizens to be taken out of their beds, by agents of Spain; and who bluff and look big because their enemy is now three thousand miles off.
I confess, I have no wish to conquer Nova-Scotia, or Havana, or Canada, or the Isle of France. Instead of confiscating debts, which seems so popular with the gentlemen from Pennsylvania (Gregg) and Massachusetts (Crowninshield) I wish to pay them. I ask, does any honest debtor know, or wish to know, who holds his bona fide promise? All he is to do, is to pay it to him who brings his obligation according to its terms. I will never sanction this detestable principle of forming a fund for national indemnification, by robbing our creditors. God help us, say I, if these are our Chancellors of the Exchequer, who have no other ways and means than a sponge. Gentlemen had better stick to their trades. I say, Ne sutor ultra crepidam ; and if you want a rump steak, go to the butcher. I hope no revolutionary Legends will be permitted to involve us in war, under pretence of supporting the carrying trade. I am free to declare I will not go to war for such a carrying trade.
But the gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Gregg) says, Great-Britain calculates upon intestine divisions.—There are parties in this country;—and that is the reason the injuries and insults us. Had any nation ever less reason to calculate upon our divisions? Look at the last election. Was ever any party stronger, or more united? It is impossible, in any country like this, to expect an unanimous vote for a President of the United States. But surely nothing could exhibit more unanimity than the event of the last election. How then could Great-Britain calculate on our divisions, unless she calculated, indeed, upon a course of conduct contrary to our promises and professions, which should originate divisions? The fact is, the division which she supposes known to Great-Britain, never took place until we met here. It is not the foreign nation, but the gentleman's own conscience which speaks.
At the commencement of this session you had, Mr. Chairman, a message from the President of the United States, breathing a great deal of national honour and indignation against the outrages committed by Spain. You have also received resolutions and memorials from various parts of the country, pledging lives, and fortunes, and sacred honour, in support of the measures you might adopt in vindication of your interests. Well—what have you done? You have had resolutions—bad resolutions, pen, ink and paper. The State quacks have each offered his sovereign specific.—We have had Church's cough-drops, and Strooghon's elixir. If we die, it is not for want of prescriptions. But it is in politics as in physics.—The doctor is often more dangerous than the disease. And I am free to declare, that I am not for taking any of these panaceas from irresponsible hands. If the Executive has a measure to recommend, let him state it to us, and I am ready to consider it: And, if proper, to adopt; and if it is improper, to reject it. I prefer always to take medicine from the hands of a regular bred Physician, rather than from the Apothecary.
Well, I ask again, what have you done?—Not as it respects Spain. There is no Spain. Spain is a mere juggler;—a puppet, played off for the benefit of those behind the curtain.—But as it respects France, what have you done? Ah, there the shoe pinches. You have applied however the remedy to the part effected.—You have gone to France, and not to Spain, for relief. But what have you done? You will not answer. Your lips are hermetically sealed. The wound will not bear opening. It will not cure up, if you suffer it to take air.
When I saw this resolution, the first question which struck my mind was, Whence came it, Unde derivatur ? It is the gentleman from Pennsylvania only the putative father of the
child, who is delegated by the parish to maintain it; or is he the actual progenitor? And why? Because when I arrived at Washington, at the opening of the session, upon enquiring of a Cabinet Minister, what was the opinion of the Cabinet, on the public relations, I was told by him, there was no Cabinet! I found that dispatches had been for weeks in the country relative to our most important foreign relations, the contents of which were unknown to men who held some of the highest offices in the country, and who were the known Council of the Executive.
Mr. R. concluded with the most pointed opposition to the resolution.—[Columb. Cent.]
FRIDAY, MARCH 14.
A message was received from the Senate, stating the appointment of a committee on their part, to unite with such committees as the House might see fit to appoint, to consider and report such business as it will be necessary to transact during the present session; in which the House concurred.
On motion of Mr. Findley, it was resolved that Major-General Arthur St. Clair be allowed to be heard at the bar of the House, in support of his claim, on Monday, at twelve o'clock.
Mr. Aiton called for the order of the day for the House to resolve itself into a committee of the whole on the state of the Union. Mr. Clark moved to postpone this order till Monday. The Speaker declared it out of order to postpone such an order of the day.
The question of going into a committee was then put and carried—Ayes 70.
Mr. John C. Smith took the chair. The committee having agreed to take up the resolution submitted by Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Mumford spoke at considerable length in vindication of the mercantile character, and in favor of prompt and efficient measures.
Mr. J. Randolph spoke against the resolution, and avowed himself in favor of negotiating with Great-Britain.
Mr. J. Clay believing a delay of four or five days very desirable, moved that the Committee should rise.
Mr. Aiton opposed this motion, and took occasion to express his opinion of the general course of measures proper to be pursued, declaring himself decidedly in favour of adopting the resolution under consideration.
Mr. Smith spoke against the rising of the committee, and in favour of an early decision of the measures contemplated to be pursued.
He was followed by Messrs. J. Clay, J. Randolph, and Nicholson, who advocated the rising of the committee, principally on the ground that it was proper to wait a short time to learn the issue of the negotiation depending between Mr. Monroe and the British ministry, and of the great events passing on the theatre of Europe.
The motion for the committee to rise was rejected—Ayes 48—Noes 63.
Mr. J. Clay then rose, and made a short speech, chiefly embracing facts of a commercial nature. In the course of his remarks he said he considered the resolution under consideration as well calculated to induce Britain to abandon her unjust and unauthorized pretensions. He was therefore in favour of acting upon it, though not at this time. For this reason, and as it was near the usual hour of adjournment, he moved that the committee should rise.
Mr. Mumford opposed the rising of the committee, and said he had received a very important letter from the President of the Maine Insurance Company of New-York, which he read. The letter expresses the deep apprehension entertained by the merchants of New-York, that Congress will rise without adopting effectual measures for the protection of commerce against the depredations of the belligerent nations, and particularly those of Britain.
Messrs. Stanton and Jackson likewise spoke against the rising of the committee, and urged the strong necessity of prompt and vigorous measures.
When the question was taken—Ayes 65—Noes 47—and the House adjourned a short time after three o'clock, to Monday next.
MONDAY, MARCH 17.
Mr. Nicholson's resolution was again taken up; and after a short discussion, the question, Will the House pass the Resolution? was decided by yeas and nays, as follows:— Yeas 87; Nays 35.
[The Resolution thus passed, prohibits after a time to be specified, the importation into the United States of the following articles, being the growth, produce or manufacture of Great-Britain or Ireland, viz. All articles of which leather, tin (except tin plates) or brass, hemp or flax, or silk, is the material of chief value; woollen cloths over price, woollen hosiery of all kinds, window and all other glass, silver and plated wares, paper, nails and spikes, hats, clothing ready made, millinery, beer, ale, porter, and pickles and prints.]
A Resolution was laid on the table, that the House do adjourn on the first Monday in April.

MONDAY, MARCH 17.
MR. BRADLEY, from the committee to whom was referred the application of Hamet Caramalli, Ex-Bashaw of Tripoli, submitted the following REPORT—
The Ex-Bashaw founds his claim on the justice of the United States, from his services and sufferings in their cause, and from his having been deceived and amuled with the prospect of being placed on his throne, as legitimate sovereign of Tripoli, and frequently drawn from eligible situations for the purpose of being made the dupe and instrument of policy, and finally subjected to misfortune and wretchedness. The committee, from a full investigation of the documents which have been laid before Congress, with other evidence that has come within their knowledge, are enabled to lay before the Senate a brief statement of facts in relation to the Ex-Bashaw, and the result of their deliberations thereon.
This unfortunate prince by the treason and perfidy of his brother, the reigning Bashaw, was driven from his throne, an exile to the regency of Tunis; where the agents of the United States in the Mediterranean, found him; and as early as August, 1801, entered into a convention to co-operate with him, the object of which was to obtain a permanent peace with Tripoli, to place the Ex-Bashaw on his throne, & procure indemnification for all expense in accomplishing the same. The agreement was received in November following, with encouragement that the United States would persevere, until they had effected the object; and in eighteen hundred and two, when the reigning Bashaw had made overtures to the Ex-Bashaw to reside on him the Provinces of Derne and Bengazi, and when the Ex-Bashaw was on the point of leaving Tunis, under an escort furnished him by the reigning Bashaw, the agents of the United States prevailed on him to abandon the off, with assurance that the United States would effectually co-operate, and place him on the throne of Tripoli.
The same engagements were renewed in 1803, and the plan of co-operation so arranged, that the Ex-Bashaw by his own exertions and force, took possession of the province of Derne; but the American squadron, at that time under the command of commodore Morris, instead of improving that favorable moment, to co-operate with the Ex-Bashaw, and to put an end to the war, unfortunately abandoned the Barbary coast, and left the Ex-Bashaw to contend solely with all the force of the reigning Bashaw, and who in consequence was obliged, in the fore part of the year 1804, to give up his conquest of Derne, and fly from the fury of the usurper into Egypt. These transactions were from time to time, not only communicated by our agents to government, but were laid before Congress in February, 1804, in the documents accompanying the report of the committee of claims on the petition of Mr. Eaton, late consul at Tunis, which committee expressed their decided approbation of his official conduct, and to which report the committee beg leave to refer.
In full possession of the knowledge of these facts, the government of the United States, in June, 1804, dispatched commodore Barron, with a squadron into the Mediterranean, and in his instructions, submitted to his entire discretion, the subject of availing himself of the co-operation of the Ex-Bashaw, and referring him to Mr. Eaton, as an agent out by government for that purpose.
After commodore Barron had arrived on the station in Sept. 1804, he dispatched Mr. Eaton and Capt. Bull into Egypt to find the Ex-Bashaw, with instructions to assure him that the commodore would take the most effectual measures with the force under his command, to co-operate with him against the usurper, his brother, and to establish him in the regency of Tripoli. After encountering many difficulties and dangers, the Ex-Bashaw was found in upper Egypt with the Mamelukes, and commanding the Arabs; the same assurances were again made to him, and a convention was reduced to writing, the specifications of which had the same objects in view; the United States to obtain a permanent peace and their prisoners, the Ex-Bashaw to obtain his throne. Under these impressions, and with the fullest confidence in the assurances he received from the agents of the United States, and even from Commodore Barron himself, by one of his (the Ex-Bashaw's) secretaries, whom he had sent to wait on the commodore for that purpose, he gave up his prospects in Egypt, abandoned his property in that country, constituted Mr. Eaton general and commander in chief of his force, and with such an army as he was able to raise and support, marched through the Lybian desert, suffering every hardship incident to such a perilous undertaking; and with his army, commanded by general Eaton, aided by O'Bannon and Maud, three American officers, who shared with him the dangers and hardships of the campaign, and whose names their country will forever record with honour, attacked the city of Derne, in the regency of Tripoli, on the 27th day of April, 1805, and after a well-fought battle, took the same; and for the first time planted the American colors on the ramparts of a Tripolitan fort. And in several battles afterwards, one of which he fought without the aid of the Americans (they having been restrained by orders, not war-anted by any policy, issued as appears by Mr. Lear, the American consul,) defeated the army of the usurper, with great slaughter, maintained his conquest, and without the hazard of a repulse, would have marched to the throne of Tripoli, had he been supported by the co-operation of the American squadron, which in honor and good faith he had a right to expect. The committee would here explicitly declare, that in their opinion, no blame ought to attach to commodore Barron, a waiting officer, and
consequent mental as well as bodily debility, had rendered him totally unable of exercising the duties of commanding the squadron, previous to this momentous crisis, and from which he has never recovered; and to this cause alone may be attributed the final failure of the plan of co-operation, which appears to have been wilfully concurred by the government, and hitherto bravely executed by its officers.
But however unpleasant the task, the committee are compelled by the obligation of truth and duty, to state further, that Mr. Lear, to whom was entrusted the power of negotiating the peace, appears to have gained a complete ascendancy over the commodore, then debilitated by sickness; or rather, having assumed the command in the name of the commodore, to have dictated every measure; to have paralyzed every military operation by sea and land; and finally, without displaying the fleet or squadron before Tripoli, without consulting even the safety of the Ex-Bashaw or his army, against the opinion of all the officers of the fleet, so far as the committee have been able to obtain the same, and of commodore Rodgers (as appears from Mr. Lear's letter to the secretary of state, dated Syracuse harbour, July 5th, 1805) to have entered into a convention with the reigning bashaw, by which, contrary to his instructions, he stipulated to pay him sixty thousand dollars, to abandon the Ex-Bashaw, and to withdraw all aid and assistance from his army. And, although a stipulation was made that the wife and children of the Ex-Bashaw should be delivered to him, on his withdrawing from the territories of Tripoli, yet that stipulation has not been carried into execution, and it is highly probable was never intended to be. The committee forbear to make any comment on the impropriety of the orders issued to general Eaton, to evacuate Derne, five days before Mr. Lear's sailing from Malta for Tripoli, to enter on his negotiation; and the honor of the nation forbids any remarks on the unworthy attempt to compel the Ex-Bashaw and general Eaton, to give up and abandon their conquest, by withdrawing supplies from the army at Derne, eight days previous to the commencement of the negotiation; nor will the committee condescend to enter into a consideration of pretended reasons assigned by Mr. Lear to palliate his management of the affairs of the negotiation; such as, the danger of the American prisoners in Tripoli, the unfitness of the ships for service, and the want of means to prosecute the war ; they appear to the committee to have no foundation in fact, and are used rather as a veil to cover an inglorious deed, than solid reasons to justify the negotiator's conduct. The committee are free to say, that, in their opinion, it was in the power of the United States, with the force then employed, and a small portion of the sixty thousand dollars, thus improperly expended, to have placed Hamet Caramalli, the rightful sovereign of Tripoli, on his throne; to have obtained their prisoners in perfect safety, without the payment of a cent, with assurance, and probably certainty, of eventual remuneration for all expense; and to have established a peace with the Barbary powers, that would have been secure and permanent, and which would have dignified the name and character of the American people.
Whenever Hamet, the Ex-Bashaw may have said, in his letter of June 29th, 1805, to palliate the conduct which first abandoned and then ruined him, the Senate cannot fail to discern that he was then at Syracuse, in a country of strangers to his merits, and hostile to his nation and religion, and where every circumstance conspired to depress him, which, together with the fear of starving, left him scarcely a moral agent.
Upon these facts, and to carry into effect the principles of duty arising out of them, the only remuneration now left in the power of the United States to make, the committee herewith present a bill for the consideration of the Senate. The committee are confident that the legislature of a free and christian country, can never leave it in the power of a Mahometan to say that they violate their faith, or withhold the operation of justice from one who has, fallen a victim to his unbounded confidence in their integrity and honor.
* Extract of a letter from Captain Dyer.
"It was generally believed by the Officers in the Mediterranean, that Mr. Lear had a great ascendancy over the commodore in all his measures relative to the squadron, and from frequent observations of Mr. Lear's intemperate with the commodore, during his debilitated state, I am of the same opinion."
† I must here pay a tribute of justice to commodore Rodgers, whose conduct during the negotiation on board, was mixed with it in many firmness and evident wish to continue the war, if it could be done with propriety, while he displayed the magnanimity of an American, in declaring that we fought not for conquest, but to maintain our just rights and national dignity, as fully convinced the negotiators that we did not ask, but grant peace.
"You will pardon me if I here introduce a circumstance evasive of the spirit of our countrymen. At breakfast this morning, commodore Rodgers observed, that if the Bashaw would consent to deliver up our countrymen, without making peace, he would engage to give him two hundred thousand, instead of sixty thousand dollars, and raise the difference between the two sums from the officers of the navy, who he was perfectly assured, would contribute it with the highest satisfaction."
‡ Extract of a letter of Commodore Rodgers.
"I never thought the prisoners were in danger."
§ Extract of a letter of Lieut. Wormley, then a prisoner in Tripoli.
"I do not believe that there is any danger to be apprehended for our lives, even if general Eaton and Hamet Bashaw had moved under the walls of Tripoli."
Foreign Intelligence.
By an arrival at New-York.
ENGLAND. LONDON, DEC. 20.
High Court of Admiralty.
DOCTORS' COMMONS, December 19.
THIS day the Right Hon. Sir William Scott proceeded to the adjudication of the following ship case:—
Hannah, Holmes, master. This American vessel, with a cargo of colonial produce, was captured by his Majesty's ship of war Ramilies, Francis Pcknoe, Esq. commander, and brought to Portsmouth. Cargo restored, as claimed.
DEC. 27.
Court-Martial on Sir R. Calder.
4th day, Dec. 26.
The Court met this morning, at ten o'clock, for the purpose of determining on the sentence, when, after a deliberation of six hours, the doors were opened, and Sir Robert Calder was called in. Silence being ordered, the judge Advocate read the sentence nearly in the following words:—
"At a Court-Martial held on the 23d of Decem. and continued by adjournment to the present 26th, pursuant to an order from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 15th of November, directed to the President—[here the names of the Court-Martial were read]—sitting forth, that Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Calder requested an enquiry into his conduct on the 23d of July, the day after his engagement with the enemy, to explain his reasons why he had not taken them all, as well as part of the enemy's ships, and to give the reasons for his conduct on that day, and his subsequent conduct to the moment that the enemy finally lost sight of his Majesty's fleet. The court proceeded to enquire into that conduct, and also his subsequent conduct, and to try him thereon, and they have heard with attention the evidence in support of the charge, and the defence which has been made, as well as the allegations in support thereof. The Court is therefore of opinion, that the charge has been proved, and that the conduct of Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Calder has been highly reprehensible; but they are of opinion that his conduct has arisen from error in judgment, and not from fear or cowardice; and therefore this Court doth order and adjudge, that the said Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Calder, be severely reprimanded, and he is hereby reprimanded severely."
Sir Robert, during the whole of the trial, manifested an uncommon degree of firmness. In the examination of the witnesses, he discovered a considerable degree of acuteness.—He wore an undress uniform. When the sentence of the Court was delivered, it seemed to make a very deep impression upon him; and he retired evidently very much affected. He was accompanied by a great number of friends, and on descending from the deck of the Prince of Wales into his barge, scarcely lifted up his head, which was apparently bowed down by the weight of the sentence.
The Court was uncommonly crowded; and a general feeling pervaded the auditory, who sympathised with the Admiral on the event of his trial.
FEB. 11.
Letters from Italy state, that Gen. St. Cyr, at the head of 40 000 men, had halted on the frontiers of Naples, waiting the arrival of Gen. Massena, who is on his way with considerable reinforcements, to take the chief command. The probability, however is, that the etat of entering Naples in triumph, is reserved for Prince Eugene, who set out from Munich, on the 21st, on his return to Italy, accompanied by his new married bride, the Princess of Bavaria. It is to this young man that Bonaparte has avowedly given the command of the army destined to effect the destruction of the kingdom of Naples. In one of the orders of the day published at Milan, on this subject, is the following passage:—"His Majesty the Emperor and King, our sovereign, has conferred on our Viceroy, Hs Royal Highness Eugene Napoleon, son of His Majesty the Emperor of France, the title of his Lieutenant-Commandant-in-Chief in Italy; and General Charpentier is appointed Chief of the Staff."
The conclusion of the armistice is fully confirmed, and we have to regret, that nearly about the time the Emperor Francis was ratifying the melancholy act of his disgrace and subjection, his two brothers, the gallant Archduke Charles and prince Ferdinand were successfully employed in reviving the drooping spirits of his subjects, and restoring the glory of the Austrian name. The former, after one of the most skillful marches ever executed, and which is admitted, even in the Vienna Gazette, to have been a chef d'œuvre in the military art, and after defeating, with the loss of 6000 men, in killed and wounded, general Ney's division, penetrated into Austria, and on the 10th summoned the garrison left by Bonaparte in Vienna, to surrender up that city. The latter, at the head of an inferior force, succeeded on the 5th, in routing the Bavarian army, and took a strong position at Igau, about 15 leagues in the rear of the French grand army. These important successes were further strengthened by the arrival of a fresh corps of 12,000 Russians, under the command of general Essen, which effected a junction with the main body, shortly after the fatal battle of the 2d. The armistice, however, extinguished all prospect of a change in the fortune of the allies, and the Archduke Charles had the mortification to find that his admirable operations but contributed to cast an additional gloom on the calamities of his route.
FEB. 14. Price of Stocks, at one o'clock.—Consols, for money, 60 7 8.—for account 61—reduced, 61 5 6.
Domestic Occurrences.
GEORGIA. AUGUSTA, FEB. 20.
Extract of a letter to the editor of the Augusta Chronicle, dated Old Lead Mines, District of St. Genevieve, Territory of Louisiana, December 16, 1805.
"THE following articles of intelligence I have just received from St. Louis, through an organ too respectable to be doubted.—A few days since, a party of Sac Indians killed 2 American traders up the Missouri and scalped them, which is always a sign of war—they have also been to the little village of the Osage Indians and killed and carried off prisoners, all the Indians found there—Upwards of five hundred Kickapoo and Patawatame Indians have been for some time encamped in the neighborhood of a flourishing settlement of Americans, exceeding one hundred families, called Goshen, fifteen miles from St. Louis, eastern side of the Mississippi, St. Clair county, Indiana territory—these Indians have committed considerable depredations, by burning up almost entirely, their plantations, killing their stock, and taking their grain, &c. A courier has been dispatched to governor Harrison, with a statement of the hostile manner in which these Indians have acted, upon which the governor dispatched a man to inform them that unless they ceased in their nefarious conduct, and departed immediately, he should be compelled to send his warriors to disperse them; to which they replied, that the land (there) was theirs; that they had never sold it; and that they did not care how soon governor Harrison sent his warriors."
"Eight or nine days since a marauding party of Indians attacked some Americans at a corn husking in the Barbary settlement, district of Cape Girardeau, killed seven men on the spot, and wounded six more; a messenger was dispatched to governor Wilkinson, who ordered the militia to pursue them immediately—of what nation the party was composed, is unknown."
"From the Indians considerable outrages are to be expected: some say they are urged by the French; and I think it not very problematical: for myself I live alone with a family, the head of which is scarcely able to fire a gun. I have considerable merchandise here, danger is to be apprehended—either I have been unprepared to receive these fell barbarians—this day I have sent for a couple of guns, and furnished myself with 200 lbs. of powder and lead; and mounting a swivel which carries 3-4 of a pound, determined in case of an attack, to hold out until succor can arrive from Mine a Barton, several miles from this. In fact, the present situation of affairs here is dangerous, and forebodes considerable distress."
PENNSYLVANIA.
DOYLESTOWN, MARCH 17.
STOP THE IMPOSTOR!
A villain, under the assumed name of HARVEY, pretending to be a clergyman, commissioned and sent out to preach among the Indians, under the auspices of the Missionary Society of the State of Rhode-Island,* has been fully detected, and proved to be a vile impostor. It has been discovered that this wolf in sheep's clothing has been preying upon society for ten years past, in this and the neighbouring counties of this State, and probably throughout the union. About five years ago he was taken up in Tinicum township, by the name of Taylor, but not in the character of a clergyman. He travelled through the county about five years before, in his present garb, carrying a brief, as he now does, certifying that he was robbed on his way home from the Creek nation of Indians. It is probable he will again change his name, character, and brief, and resort to some other plan of deception. He appears to be about sixty years of age, is fond of drink, and is always in a hurry. He is an ill-looking fellow, with a blemish in his left eye. He has on at present, an old black coat, reaching to his heels. It is thought that he has passed into New-Jersey.
* There is no such Society.

STATE OF NEW-YORK.
NEW-YORK, MARCH 29.
Capture of the Cape of Good Hope.
By the ship Æolus, Capt. Math-er, arrived yesterday from Canton and St. Helena, we have received the particulars of the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, by a British force under the command of Sir Home Popham and Sir David Baird.
On the 23d of January, the English brig L'Espoir, arrived at St. Helena from the Cape of Good Hope, and brought intelligence of the surrender of that place to the English on the 10th of January. The English troops were landed about the 5th of January, on the Hottentot shore. They were much annoyed in landing, by the Dutch light troops, and so on attacked by the whole Dutch force under the command of Gen. Yansen. A sharp engagement took place. Various were the reports at St. Helena respecting the number killed and wounded; but it was generally supposed that 1000 Dutch, and from 600 to 800 of the English were killed and wounded. The Dutch troops were finally defeated, and Gov. Yansen, with about 3000 troops, retreated to the country, and the place capitulated.
The force sent against the Cape consisted of 7,300 troops, under the command of Gen. Sir David Baird; and the following ships of war under the command of Sir Home Popham, viz. Diadem, 64 guns; Raisonable, 64; Belliqueux, 64; Diomede, 50; Narcissus, 38; Leda, 38; another 38 gun frigate; L'Espoir brig, 18, and another brig of 18 guns; 3 Indiamen and 38 transports.
The Britannia, a fine ship belonging to the company, having as report says 300,000 l. sterling in specie on board, and a transport, were totally lost off St. Roque—two lives only were lost, one of which was Colonel Yorke, of the Royal Artillery.
Saturday, 10th January, 1806.
Articles of Capitulation proposed by the Lieutenant-Colonel Hieronimus Casimirus von Prophalow, Commandant of the Town, Castle, &c. circumjacent Fortifications of the Cape of Good Hope.
To the Major-General, in the service of His Britannic Majesty, Sir David Baird, K. B. and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's forces, and Commandant Sir Home Popham, K. M. Commander in Chief of His Britannic Majesty's Naval forces in Table Bay.
ART. I. The capitulation being signed the Cape Town, Castle, and circumjacent Fortifications shall be immediately surrendered to the troops of his Britannic Majesty. The fortifications of the King's Block-House, Craig's Tower, and all the Batteries within that circuit, on the other side of Camp's Bay.
ART. II. The garrison shall, at the surrender, march out with all the honors of war—and shall then lay down their arms and become prisoners of war; but such officers as are natives of the colony, or married with natives, or in possession of sufficient landed property to become regularly, and bona fide domiciliated, shall be at liberty to continue here so long as they behave themselves as becometh good subjects and citizens; or proceed to Great-Britain with regular passports, having previously passed their paroles not to serve until regularly exchanged.
ART. III. All officers, who, according to the previous article must go to Europe, shall be provided with passages at the expence of his Britannic Majesty, and shall have leave to realize their property previous to their departure, and receive the same pay as they did in their own service, till the day of their embarkation.
ART. IV. The French subjects, who, belonging to the stranded frigate Le Atalante, and the stranded privateer Le Napoleon, were casually here, and comprehended in the capitulation, shall be treated on the same footing as the garrison, but they must all be embarked for Europe, as well as every other French subject in the colony.
ART. V. The inhabitants of the town, who have borne arms, to be considered as belonging to the town, and may immediately return to their former occupations.
But the distinction between the Burghers and other inhabitants is to remain the same, and subject to the same restrictions as under the Dutch laws.
ART. VI. All bona fide private property, whether belonging to the civil or military servants of the government, to the Burghers and inhabitants, to churches, orphans, and other public institutions of that kind, shall remain free and untouched.
ART. VII. Public property of every description, whether consisting of treasure, or naval, or military stores, buildings, estates or merchandizes belonging to the Batavian Republic or the Government of France, shall be delivered up, and proper inventories given of them as soon as possible.
ART. VIII. The Burghers and inhabitants shall preserve all their rights and privileges which they have enjoyed hitherto, public worship as at present in use, shall also be maintained without alteration.
ART. IX. The paper money actually in circulation shall continue current as heretofore, until the pleasure of his Britannic Majesty is known.
ART. X. The lands and houses, the property of the Batavian Republic, which must be delivered in consequence of the present capitulation, shall remain as security for that part of the Paper money which is not already secured by mortgages upon the estates of individuals, by its having been put to them. This is however to be without prejudice to the free use to be made of the said lands and houses for public purposes.
ART. XI. Prisoners of war, comprehended in the present Capitulation, shall not be pressed into his Britannic Majesty's service, or engaged against their own free will and consent. With respect to other persons, they are provided for in Article V. of this Capitulation.
ART. XII. The inhabitants of Cape Town shall be exempted from having troops quartered on them.
ART. XIII. Two ships having been sunk in Table Bay, to the great detriment of the Roadstead—either after the Batavian Republic had sent out a Flag of Truce, or whilst it was in contemplation to do so, they are to be raised again and delivered over in an entire state of repair: this having been done without the sanction of the Commandant, the raising of the said ships, shall be incumbent on those who sunk them.
ART. XIV. The capitulation shall be signed at Fom Otto this afternoon, when the Castle of the Cape Town, and all the adjacent Forts, previously mentioned, shall be surrendered to his Britannic Majesty's Troops.
Given under our Hands and Seals, this thirtieth day of January, in the year of our Lord 1806, at Papendorp, near Fort Knocke.
(Signed) H. C. Baron Von Prophalow. D. Baird, Major-General. Home Popham.
WARREN:
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1806.
HUGH LENNOX, Esq. of Philadelphia, has been appointed by the President of the United States, Agent from the United States to the Island of Jamaica.
FULWAR SKIPWITH, Esq. arrived at New-York on the 26th ult. and was to sail the next day in the Hornet sloop of war, for France, to resume his Consular functions.
JOHN LANGDON, Esquire is re-elected Governor of New-Hampshire.
In the Senate of the U. States a Resolution has been offered, for laying out a township of six miles square, to be called DERNE, in honor of General Eaton's conquest of that city, and large grants of land to be made to him and his gallant comrades in arms, within the fame.
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
Mr. CLAY lately stated in Congress, that in the city of Philadelphia Manufactures are now carried on to a greater extent than they were 40 years ago in the town of Birmingham, (England.)
The British sloop of war, Driver, Capt. Simpson, left from Bermuda, anchored within the Hook yesterday. Two Officers came up from her last evening, but they furnish nothing new. She left Bermuda, the 20th March. [N. York paper.]
COUNTERFEITERS.
The following persons have been lately convicted at Providence, and received the sentences attached to their names: viz.
  O. Owens, 1 year imprisonment, 2000 dolls.   A. Hunt, 1 do. do. 1000   Geo. Smith, 1 do. do. 1000   Geo. Lee, 6 months do. 500   W. Smith, 6 do. do. 400   A. Sayles, 6 do. do. 200   B. Spear, 6 do. do. 200 
The Senate of the United States have reported a bill, granting HAMET CARAMALLI, the Ex-Bashaw of Tripoli, 20 or 30 thousand dollars, as a gratuity for his disappointments.
A letter received in this city from St. Marc, mentions, that the ship LEANDER, captain Lewis, arrived at Jacquetel, about the 17th of February.
The Leander failed from this port the 2d of February. As the letter does not state her having touched at any other port, we presume that she has carried General MIRANDA, and those engaged in his expedition, direct to that place. [N. York Gaz.]
Extract of a letter from a respectable gentleman in Nantz, dated 13th Feb. to a gentleman in New-York.
"A Peace with England is now likely to take place soon—it is a very desirable event, and particularly to this unfortunate city. The Pope is coming to reside at Versailles, and Prince BORGHESE, brother-in-law of Bonaparte, is to be sovereign of Rome. Many other important changes are to be effected."
The French ships Alexander, of 80 guns, Le Brave 74, and Jupiter 74, captured in the engagement off the City of St. Domingo, have arrived at Kingston, Jamaica.
DIED.—In Providence, Mrs. Abigail Sanders, aged 25, wife of Capt. J. Sanders.—Miss Nancy Allen, aged 51.
At Washington-City, General James Jackson, a Senator from Georgia.
At Philadelphia, General Thomas Proctor.
At Newport, Mr. Moses Norman.
In India, the Marquis Cornwallis, Governor of British India.
At Deerfield (N. Y.) Isaac Brayton, Esq. aged 65, formerly of Smithfield.
In Fredericktown, (Mary.) Mrs. Mary Hymes, Æt. 81; a native of Germany—during the last 40 years she had not experienced an hour's sickness; her light, hearing, and all her faculties, and activity, remained unimpaired to her last moment.
SHIP NEWS.
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
DISTRICT of BRISTOL.
ENTERED. From Sloop Polly & Nancy, Gardner, Baltimore. Betty, Cowing, Norfolk.
DISTRICT of NEWPORT.
ENTERED. From Sloop Fame, Lawton, New-York. Polly, Bliss, ditto. Triton, Dean, Norfolk. Brig Betty, Arnold, Surinam. Ship Eleonora, Randall, New-Providence. Columbia, Aldridge, Havana. CLEARED. For Sloop Huntress, Earl, New-York. Brig Mary, Danwood, Amsterdam.
DISTRICT of PROVIDENCE.
ENTERED. From Sloop Hancock, Crapon, New-York. New-York, Williams, ditto. Juno, Comstock, ditto. George, Cole, ditto. Brig Swift, Allen, Havana. Providence, Spooner, Surinam. CLEARED. For Sloop Polly, Brown, New-York. Providence, Currie, ditto. Edna, Hall, ditto. Brig Planter, Harris, St. Croix.
The schr. Union, Eddy, of this port, was left at the Havana March 11, on discharge.
The brig Angelica, Bradford, was spoken with March 20th, in lat. 36, long. 72, 30, four days from Bristol (R. I.) for the Havana.
The ship Commerce, Lawton, of Newport, R. I. was left at the Havana March 11.
The ship Sultan, Gladning, of Providence, has arrived at Savannah.
The ship Eleonora, of Providence, has been acquitted at Nassau, and arrived at Newport.
The Mount Ætna, Dutton, of Boston, was left at the Isle of France, Dec. 6.
The ship Mandarin, Magee, of Boston, has arrived at the Vineyard from Canton.
The U. S. brig Franklin, Earl, from Washington, to New-Orleans, has put into Havana for supplies.
There has been an embargo at Havana, as reported by an arrival at the southward.
Several coasters which arrived at Boston, on Sunday last, inform that they saw a ship bottom upwards in Braine Bay; supposed to be the ship Confidence, which failed from thence on Sunday, for Africa. The Quadrant and chest of Capt. Knowles, were said to have washed on shore, and picked up. Her masts were cut away. It is expected the people were lost.
BOSTON, MARCH 31.
Arrived, ship Derby, West, from Canton 120 days. Sailed Nov. 30, in company with New-Jersey, Cooper, and Ploughboy, Jones, for Philadelphia, and parted co. with the Ploughboy, Dec. 15, clear of the Straits of Sunda. Left, at Canton, ships Dorothy, Hays, for Philadelphia, in 3 days; Jefferson, Harrison, do. in 6; Pekin, Waters, do. in 8; Hebe, Otto, do. 12; Active, Morris, do. Bingham, Williamson, do. Eliza, Cowman, for New-York, in 6; Ceres, Richey, of do. from Lisbon; Citizen, Hubbard, of do. from Amsterdam; Isis, Warner, Providence, in 12 days; Huron, Mouthrop, of New-Haven from Malacca; Monpezuma, Isaacs, Boston, ship ready, captain sick; Caroline, Sturgis, of do. from N. W. Coast; Amethyst, Smith, for Boston in 25 days. The ship Catharine, Woodward, failed from Canton, Oct. 26, destination unknown; ship Free American, Conklin, of New-York, for Europe, failed Nov. 5. The Ganges, and Rebecca, for Philadelphia; Mandarin, and Hancock, for Boston, failed Nov. 14. The ship Atahualpa, Adams, (late Porter) from N. W. Coast, arrived Nov. 16. The Atahualpa is June last, on the N. W. Coast, was attacked by the Natives, and an obstinate conflict ensued, in which Capt. PORTER, and nine others were killed and nine wounded; they defended themselves with great spirit and bravery, and with great
difficulty brought the ship off. Among the killed were both Mates of the ship, and Mr. LYMAN PLOUMMER, of Salem, nephew to the owner of the ship, who was on board as clerk to Capt. Porter, a very worthy and promising young man. Only 5 persons on board escaped injury. Nearly fifty of the Natives were killed or died of their wounds.
Same day, ship Halcyon, Ferryplace, from Canton, put into the Main, most rigorously but against neutrals indiscriminately. The English sloop of war Oprey, and a number of her prizes were cruising off Cumana and New Barcelona, 1st Feb.; they treated neutrals politely, but were troublesome to Spaniards.
NEW-YORK, MARCH 29.
Arrived, the ship Æolus, Mather, from Canton, via St. Helena, in 56 days, (where she was embargoed five weeks.) Arrived at Malacca Roads the 2d of October, and left there the ship Lancaster, Fothergill, of 64 guns, and three of the company's ships, bound to China, waiting the arrival of Admiral Trowbridge, with several ships under his convoy from Pulo Penang. On the 7th, passed several large ships, supposed to be the convoy from Pulo Penang. 12th, was boarded by the British ship Russell, of 74 guns. On account of experiencing bad weather, and being in want of provisions, put into St. Helena the 30th of December, and was embargoed there till the 31st of January. March 3, in lat. 24, 7, long. 65, 49, was brought too and examined by the British sloop of war Indian, of 18 guns, Capt. Austin, 15 days from Bermuda—treated politely. The boarding officer informed, that the day before they boarded the brig Alabaster, 10 days from New-York for Jamaica—and that two days before they chanced a three masted fmr. which they had been informed was from New-York, but could not come up with her.
SALEM, MARCH 30.
Arrived, ship Trent, Capt. Kimball, from Leghorn. Left there, Dec. 15, ships Cincinnati, Harkness, Salem, bound to Sumatra; Rebecca, Nimmo, Norfolk; Cabinet, do. brig Herald, Mugford, Salem; Belleisle, Leach, do. Beiley, Tucker, do. Lucy, Folter, Boston; Washington, Crodwel, Alexandria; Alexander, Baltimore; Louisa Wheeler, Rutter, do. Molly, Adams, Philadelphia; Hazard, Williams, do. felus, Molly, Boston; Hammond, Salem.
ON REASONABLE TERMS, AND LIBERAL CREDIT, FOR APPROVED SECURITY.
John D'Wolfe & Hersey Bradford HAVE FOR SALE,
One thousand Boxes assorted
HAVANA SUGARS,
of a superior quality, now landing from on board ship Andromache, at the wharf of Capt. James D'Wolf. They will contract to deliver said sugars in Boston, should the purchasers wish it.
—ALSO—
200 excellent Salted HIDES.
*Bristol, April 5, 1806.
SALT for Sale.
To be sold by NATHAN CHILD, at his Store in WATER STREET, 600 bushels of good Cadiz
SALT;
Also—A general assortment of GROCERIES & HARD-WARE; CROCKERY and DUTCH STONE WARE; POWDER and SHOT; a good assortment of NAILS and BRADS; —Likewise,
WINDOW GLASS, by the box or less.
SHIP-CHANDLERY.
TURPENTINE and FLOUR by the barrel.
FACTORY COTTONS, of various numbers. *Warren, April 5.
To be sold at Auction, On MONDAY, the 14th instant, At 2 o'clock, P. M.
A Lot of Land, the property of the Widow LYDIA BOWEN, of this town, opposite the Warren Bank—containing 60 feet front, and 60 feet back, with a Barn thereon.
Conditions of sale to be made known at time and place of sale.
SETH PECK, AUCTIONEER.
*Warren, April 5, 1806.
To be sold at Auction, On MONDAY, the 14th of APRIL, At 3 o'clock, P. M.
A number of House Lots, situated on the Main Road, leading from the Baptist Meeting House to the Little Bridge, (so called) the property of JAMES W. BRAYTON.
Conditions made known at the time and place of sale.
SETH PECK, AUCTIONEER.
*Warren, April 5.
Grinding Grain.
THE Public are hereby informed, that the Subscribers have purchased and put in order the WINDMILL, near the East Butment of KELLY'S BRIDGE, in this town—where good attendance will be given to all who send their CORN or RYE to be ground.
Meal to be sold by the bushel or smaller quantities, and all favours gratefully acknowledged, by
Jonathan Hicks,
William M. Hubbard.
*Warren, April 5.
TO BE SOLD,
AT PUBLIC VENDUE,
On MONDAY, 7th of April, on the Premises
THE residue of the reserved part of the Estate of MARMEDUKE MASON, Esq. so called, for the payment of the debts of the said Marmeduke, consisting of one half of the House where the said Marmeduke last dwelt, with about three Acres of Meadow Land, East of said House. Conditions of sale to be made known, at time and place of sale.
WILLIAM BARTON, Executor.

APOLLO'S FOUNT.
PARODY.
To import—or not to import? that is the question. Whether 'tis better for these states to suffer Plunder of property and wealth of men; Or use the means which God and nature give us, And by our firmness end them. To stop short, And import no more, and by this act to say we end the law's chicane and the robber's progress, Now heap'd upon us—'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To non-import— Stop trade—perchance to lose—ay, there's the rub, For in that stop of trade what ills may come, When we have shuffled off our present coolness, And taken the attitude of independence, Must make us pause. The solid reason this Which makes us patient bear the impositions; For who would have his children torn away, With stripes compel'd to join the bloody scene— Or have his property stole basely from him, When he might rid himself at once of all, By bare non-intercourse? Who would thus suffer, And groan and sweat in poverty and chains, But that we dread the scolding of our wives, Or calico and gauzes fine bereft, Or whitened linen to make them chemises? This fear of flippant tongue—this sad estate, Puzzles the meek and quiet hen-peck'd husband, And makes him rather bear the tyrant's rage, Than meet his scolding wife in smoky house, Crying aloud for linen, gauze and calico.
The following lines are extremely applicable.
HERE you may range the world from pole to pole, Increase your knowledge and delight your soul; Travel all countries, and inform your sense, With ease and safety, at a small expense.
A B C L N R U C E.
NO name of person or of place, By these letters mean; Yet if you them do rightly trace, A word will then be seen.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A LESSON FOR JURORS, Which cannot be too generally known and circulated.
A JUDGE, who lately travelled the north west circuit in Ireland, came to the trial of a cause, in which much of the local consequences of certain demagogues in the neighbourhood were concerned; it was the cause of a landlord's prosecution against a poor man, his tenant, for assault and battery, committed on the person of the prosecutor by the defendant, in the defence of his only child, an innocent and beautiful girl, from ravishment. Not only the bench, but the whole bar, dined with the prosecutor's father the day before the trial; and some of them praise the venison and the claret even to this day.
When the poor man was brought into court and put to the bar, the prosecutor appeared, and swore most manfully to every title in the indictment. He was cross-examined by the jurors, who were composed of honest tradesmen and reputable farmers. The poor man had no lawyers to tell his story; he pleaded his own cause—and he pleaded, not to the fancy, but to the judgement and heart. The jury found him—Not Guilty.
The court was enraged; but the surrounding spectators, gladdened to exultation, uttered a shout of applause. The judge told the jury they must go back to the jury room, and re-consider the matter; adding, "he was astonished they could presume to return so infamous a verdict." The jury bowed, went back, and in a quarter of an hour returned, when the foreman, a very venerable old man, thus addressed the bench:
"My Lord, in compliance with your desire, we went back to our jury-room; but as we found then no reason to alter our opinions or our verdict, we return it to you in the same words as before—Not Guilty. We heard your Lordship's extraordinary language or reproach, but we do not accept it as warrantably applying to us. It is true, my Lord, that we ourselves, individually considered, in our private capacities, may be poor insignificant men; therefore, in that light, we claim nothing out of this box, above the common regard of our humble, but honest station; but, my Lord, assembled here as a jury, we cannot be insensible to the great and constitutional importance of the department we now fill; we feel, my Lord, that we are appointed, as you are, by the law, and the constitution; not only as an impartial tribunal to judge between the King and his subjects, the offended and the offender, but that, by the favour of that constitution, we act in the situation of a still greater confidence; for we form,
as a jury, the barrier of the people, against the possible influence, prejudice, passion, or corruption of the bench!
"To you, my Lord, meeting you within these walls, I, for my own part, might possibly measure my respect by your private virtues; in this place your private character is invisible; for it is, in my eyes, veiled in your official one, and to open conduct in that only we can look.
"This jury, my Lord, does not, in this business, presume to offer that bench the smallest degree of disrespect, much less of insult; we pay it the respect one tribunal should pay to another, for the common honour of both. This jury, my Lord, did not arraign that bench with partiality, prejudice, infamous decision, nor yet with influence, passion, corruption, oppression, or tyranny; no, we looked to it as the mercy seat of royalty, as the sanctuary of truth and justice; still, my Lord, we cannot blot from our minds the records of our school-books, nor erase the early inscriptions written on the first pages of our intellects and memories. Hence we must be mindful, that monarchs and judges are but fallible mortals, that tyrants have sat on thrones, and that the mercy-seat of royalty, and the sanctuary of justice, have been polluted by a Tressilau, a Scraggs, and a Jeffries.
[Here a frown from the bench.]
"Nay, my Lord, I am a poor man, but I am a free-born subject of the kingdom of Ireland, a member of the constitution; nay, I am now higher, for I am there representative thereof. I therefore claim, for myself and fellow jurors, the liberty of speech, and, if I am refused it here, I shall assume it before the people at the door of this courthouse, and tell them why I deliver my mind there instead of this place.
[Here the bench re-assumed complacency.]
"I say, my Lord, we have nothing to do with your private character; we know you here only in that of a judge; and as such we would respect you; you know nothing of us but as a jury, and in that situation we should look to you for reciprocal respect, because we know of no man, however high his titles or his rank, in whom the law or the constitution would warrant the presumption of an unprovoked insult towards that tribunal, in whom they have vested the dearest and most valuable privilege they possess. I before said, my Lord, that we are here met, nor individually, nor do we assume pre-eminence; but, in the sacred character of a jury, we should be wanting in reverence to the constitution itself, if we did not look for the respect of every man who regards it. We sit here, my Lord, sworn to give a verdict according to our consciences, and the best of our opinions, on the evidence before us. We have, in our own minds, acquitted our duty as honest men. If we have erred, we are answerable not to your Lordship, nor that Bench, nor to the king, who placed you there, but to a higher power, the King of Kings!"
The Bench was dumb, the Bar was silent; but astonishment murmured throughout the crowd, and the poor man was discharged.
SENTIMENTAL FRAGMENT.
***** THE tear of the morning hangs on the thorn, and impairs the rose. In the day of my joy, my cheek was likened to the blushing beauty of that charming flower; and though it has since lost its Ver million, it still retains a partial similitude, for the tear is on it. But, alas! no cheering sun exhales my sorrow; and the crystal that stole forth in the morning from my eyelids, holds its place at the midnight hour.
And is love, said I, the canker-worm that has preyed on thy beauty. Does that torturing passion make thee shed the ceaseless tear.
No, fir, replied Lucilla,—Love gave me all the choicest blessings,—During five years, I rioted in them, and this world was an heaven to me. William , it is true is no more; but he died
in the field of honor—He is recorded with those heroes who fought and fell for their country. I bathed his wounds—his last words blessed me—and his expiring sigh was breathed forth in my bosom—I wept the briny tears of honest sorrow—but I had my consolation—My William loved none but me, and he still lived in the blessed image which he left me of himself.
It was my duty, and soon became my sole delight to point out to the darling boy the path in which his father had trod, and to instill into his expanding mind an emulation of parental virtue. This young breast felt the growing flame,—and he was wont to weep when I led him to the grave which glory had dug for his father.
But he, too, is taken from me,—he sleeps beneath this turf which I adorn with flowers—Here my fancy feeds my sorrow, and this sacred shrine of affection I shall daily visit, till weary nature conducts me to my husband and my child *****
From a late British Magazine.
HOW TO MAKE EXCUSES.
MR. EDITOR,
I KNOW no talent in the application of which some gentlemen more excel, than in that of excusing ; and when I tell you that I am a tradesman, obliged, from the nature of my business, to give credit, I hope you will not doubt that experience has qualified me to speak upon this subject, and to speak feelingly.
In forming excuses, according to the common practice, the following rules are observed:
1st. That the same excuse shall be as seldom repeated as possible. 2d. That the excuses be as various and plausible as possible.
To exemplify these rules Mr. Editor, permit me to state a case.—Z. Y. owes me a bill. I send it in, we shall suppose,
The 1st of July. Now mark the excuses in succession.
July 1. "O! this is Mr. Mercer's bill—call again any day next week."
July 9. "Not at home!"—"When will he be at home?"—"Any time to-morrow."
July 10. "Has a gentleman with him."—Waits an hour.—"O! ha!—this is the bill—aye—hum; look in on Monday."
Monday. "Not at home—gone to the post-office."
Thursday. "Leave the bill, and I'll look it over."
20. "There seems to be a mistake in the bill—I never had this article—take it back to your master, and tell him to examine his books."
24. "Just gone out."
29. "I am busy now. Tell your master I'll call on him as I go up town."
August 16. "Bless me I quite forgot to call. This bill is not discharged; bring me a receipt any time to-morrow or next day."
17. "Gone to Yarmouth, and won't be home till next month."
September 12. "What! did I not pay that bill before leaving town? Are you going farther?" "Yes."—"Very well; call as you come back, and I'll settle it." Calls, and he is gone to dinner at Blofield.
16. "Plague on this bill! I don't believe I have so much cash in the house. Can you give me change for a 20 l. note?" "No" "Then call in as you pass to-morrow."
18. "Not at home."
25. "Appoint a day! D—me what does your master mean? Tell him I'll call upon him, and know what he means by such a message."
October 14. "What! no discount?" "Sir, it has been due these two years." "There's your money, then." These guineas are light." "Then you must call again; I have no loose cash in the house."
And here ends the payment of 9 l. 14 s. 6 d. with three of the guineas light.
As my fellow Shop-Keepers (and some say the Editors of News-Papers)
labour under the same hardships in these respects as myself, I hope you will not reject this humble statement of our case; and if it produces the payment of any one bill which I am now hunting after, you will merit the hearty thanks of, Mr. Editor.
Your constant reader, ROBIN MERCER.
Factory Cotton Yarn.
A Large supply of assorted numbers, at the FACTORY PRICES, per bundle, half bundle, pound or skein, of WARP FILLING, STOCKING YARN and SEWING THREAD. Also CANDLE WICK, BEDTICKING and STRIPES.
JUST RECEIVED BY
Nathan M. Burr.
Where also may be had, a handsome supply of INDIA CHECKS, STRIPES; HANDKERCHIEFS; SHEETING; SHIRTING, AND BOOK MUSLINS.
European & West India Goods, Etc. Etc. Etc.
A large and valuable supply of DRUGS, MEDICINES, DYE STUFFS, SPICES, and the whole Catalogue of PATENT MEDICINES, Imported and American, direct from the PATENTEES, being Agent for almost all of them. Also...
Herds Grass & Clover Seed, with a tolerable supply of GARDEN PEAS, BEANS, and the smaller seeds.
A Consignment of Hhd. SHOOKS, HALF BARRELS and Hhd. HOOPS, on easy terms.
Cash given for RAGS.
Warren, March 22, 1806.
Cotton Warp and Filling.
A LARGE supply, of various numbers, at the Factory prices, per bundle or otherwise, for sale by the subscriber, opposite the BAPTIST MEETING HOUSE.
WHERE A SO MAY BE HAD, Best American
LINSEED OIL.
per barrel or less quantity, on as good terms as can be obtained at the Mills.
European, East & West-India GOODS, &c &c.
PASCHAL ALLEN.
Warren, Feb 8, 1806.
GRASS SEEDS.
To be sold by JOSEPH ADAMS, AT HIS STORE,
CLOVER, Herd's and Burden's GRASS SEEDS, of an excellent quality, at reduced prices. Also,
A few barrels of excellent Superfine FLOUR—Likewise,
A good assortment of NAILS and BRADS.
N.B. Those who stand indebted to him for Tickets in the Bristol Road Lottery, are requested to call as soon as may be, and discharge the same. Prize Tickets will be received in payment.
Warren, March 29, 1806.
Take Notice.
ALL persons any ways indebted to the Estate of NATHANIEL MARTIN, late of Barrington, Esquire, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, Executors to the last Will and Testament of said NATHANIEL: And those who have any demands against said Estate are also requested to exhibit the same to
CALVIN MARTIN, ANDERSON MARTIN, Executors. Barrington, March 8, 1806. 6m.
Whereas the Hon. Court of Probate for the town of Warren, appointed the subscribers Commissioners to the Estate of
THOMAS ALLEN,
late of Warren, Mariner, deceased, represented insolvent:—All persons having demands against said Estate, are hereby notified to exhibit the same to either of the subscribers, at their respective dwellings, within six months, being the time allowed by said Court.
ALLEN HOAR, ANSELL CHURCHILL, Comm'rs.
ALL persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment, to STEPHEN DAVOL, Adm'r.
Warren, March 8, 1806.
Save your Rags!!
CASH given for clean Cotton and Linen RAGS, at the Printing-Office.