Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1802-02-06 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 19.]
NEWPORT, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1802.
[VOLUME II.]
Published weekly, by OLIVER FARNWORTH, Printer to the State—Near the COFFEE-HOUSE, Thames-Street.
DIRECT TAX.
PURSUANT to an Act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to lay and collect a Direct Tax within the United States"—Will be sold at Public Sale, at the house of Peter Arnold , Esq. Inholder in the Town of Smithfield, on the sixth day of March next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the under mentioned Estates (situated in said Smithfield) or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the taxes due thereon, together with costs and charges, unless the said Taxes, Costs and Charges shall be paid previous to that time.
   Names of Occupants in Oct. 1798. Names of Reputed Owners in Oct. 1798. Kind of Estate. Tax   Dols. Cents.     Benjamin Arnold. Benjamin Arnold. Land. 1 43   Christopher Angel. Christopher Angel. Land & house. 1 18   Jeremiah Bucklin. Jeremiah Bucklin. Land & house. 2 5   Nathan Cargill. Nathan Cargill. Land & house. 5 14   Jesse Hutchinson. Arthur Fenner. Land & house. 5 55   Amos Keech. Amos Keech. Land. 2 27   Jonathan Newhall. Jonathan Newhall. Land & house. 3 1   Widow Olney. Jeremiah Olney dec'd heirs. Land & house. 7 14   Chad Smith. Arthur Fenner. Land & house. 6 1   Joseph Slack. Joseph Slack. Land & house. 6 55  
Smithfield, December 18, 1801.
JAMES PAINE, Collector of the Revenue.
N. B. The above Taxes may be discharged by calling on Thomas Buffum , at his Store in aid Smithfield.
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CONDITIONS OF THE
RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
I. To Subscribers in Town, whose Papers are delivered them, 95. per Ann. if paid within the first quarter; or Two Dollars, if not paid until the end of the year.
II. Subscribers in the Country, who depend on casual conveyance, One Dollar and 25 Cents, if paid within the first quarter; or One Dollar and 75 Cents, at the end of the year.
III. Distant Subscribers, who receive their papers by mail, One Dollar paid in advance, (exclusive of postage) or One Dollar and 50 Cents, at the end of the year.
POST OFFICE, Washington, Jan. 11, 1802.
WHEREAS sundry Letters lately sent to and from this office, particularly two from the Postmaster General, sealed with his official seal, one for Albany, New-York ; and the other for Bucks Town, Maine ; have been broken open before they were received by the person to whom they were directed. And other letters of importance from officers of government, and from individuals, have been suppressed and in some instances withheld or delayed in such a manner as to induce a belief of premeditated and fraudulent design. And as among the other injurious consequences of such atrocious conduct the innocent and the guilty are, in a state of uncertainty, alike subject to suspicion and censure. I therefore (being implicated with others) will pay a reward of 100 Dollars for information which shall convict any person or persons of any of the abovenamed offences, and 200 Dollars in each case of the said letters of the Postmaster General.
T. MUNROE, P. M. Washington.
** The several Editors in the U. States may benefit the public by publishing the above.
BENJAMIN WAITE CASE,
PHYSICIAN,
HAS the pleasure of presenting to the Public, three additional proofs of the efficacy of the KINE-POX against the Small-Pox:—Mr. Henry Tew, son of Capt. Henry Tew; Miss Polly Woodman, and Miss Sally Goodson, who had been, at different periods, his patients in the Kine-Pox; the latter, more than fourteen months past—were, by permission of the Honorable Town-Council of Newport, at his request, on the 13th of January 1802, admitted into the Hospital on Coaster's Harbour, and there inoculated several times, by the Doctors who attend there, with matter fresh from persons then under full eruptions of the Small-Pox, and exposed to its contagion in various ways, without the least symptom of the disease, except slight inflammations at the punctures, which subsided in a few days.
At the same time, six others who had been vaccinated, were admitted into that hospital, and exhibited the same proofs of the efficacy of the Kine-Pox, in preventing the Small-Pox.
Newport, Jan. 30, 1802. 18tf
Take Notice.
WHEREAS Silence Slocum , of Newport, in the county of Newport, wife of James Slocum , of the said Newport, mariner, did, on the twenty-ninth day of January, A. D. 1802, lodge her Petition in the Clerk's office of the Supreme Judicial Court, for the county aforesaid, praying for divers causes therein set forth, that the bond of marriage, between her and her said husband, may be dissolved, and a decree of divorce from the bond aforesaid promulgated:—This is to give notice to the said James Slocum , and to all other persons concerned, to appear at the next Supreme Judicial Court, to be held at Newport, within and for said county, on the first Monday of March next, and there cause, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted.
Wm. B. HAZARD, Clerk. Newport, January 29, 1802. 18tf
FOR THE RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
A MEMOIR
On the formation of a MILITARY SCHOOL, in the United States.
IT seems to be generally admitted, that a Military School in this country, under proper regulations, would be of great public utility. The law of July 16, 1798, which authorizes the appointment of four professors, may be considered as the foundation of one. No other difficulty presents itself than the modification and extent of such an institution. Some entertain fears that, after the expenditure of much public money, the school will not answer any valuable purpose—while others seem inclined, for the sake of experiment, to limit it in its first operation as to preclude the hope of any good effects from it. It is, therefore, much to be regretted, that this collision of sentiment should frustrate, or at least impede, a measure of such high import to the United States; especially, as in case of another war, we wish to be competent to the management of our own artillery, and to the construction of our own public works.
The constitutions of the military schools in England and in France, will afford some leading hints in the formation of one for ourselves. These two European systems differ only in some immaterial particulars. The government and internal police of the latter, are accurately detailed in the travels of professor Byrge of the University of Copenhagen—who, in 1798, repaired to Paris by order of the King of Denmark, to consult the national institute relative to an uniformity of weights and measures. But it is not in our power, nor is it for our interest, to establish a school on a very extensive plan: Yet the military institutions of those nations, who have made the greatest progress in the art of war, will afford a basis, on which we may raise a superstructure of our own—adapted to our finances and wants—and calculated to make the science of our Artillerists and Engineers, as well as the bravery and discipline of our infantry, respected by foreign nations.
As the Artillerists and Engineers of the United States are united in one corps, it is proper that the officers be acquainted with both branches. Our military school, therefore, ought to be divided into three separate and distinct departments or classes; and nothing but a progressive improvement in the one, ought to serve the cadet as a passport into the other. The first may be denominated the
DEPARTMENT OF PREPARATION.
In this Department, all cadets ought first to enter. Here they ought to be instructed in drawing—in arithmetic—and in those branches of the mathematics, which comprehend Algebra, Geometrical problems—plain and oblique trigonometry; of course, they must be provided with a mathematical professor, able to instruct his pupils in the rules of drawing. The study of Geography, and the elements of history, both ancient and modern, must by no means be neglected: A knowledge of these are essential to the Artillerist and Engineer; and therefore ought to be inculcated by the professor. After a regular probation, and a suitable progress in the requisite sciences, cadets may be transferred to the
DEPARTMENT OF ARTILLERISTS.
A general knowledge of the more simple mathematics, and of drawing, will qualify the cadet to enter on the study of those higher branches, which particularly relate to the Artillery. To obtain a clear conception of the use and government of Artillery, he must become acquainted with physics and chymistry—understand the nature and compression of fluids—the laws of motion, and the theory of military projectiles. The cadet must also study architecture and mechanics; the proportions and uses of various kinds, and even parts of ordnance carriages, and other muniments of war—so as to be able to construct them in case of necessity. In fine, he must reduce these theories to practice. Occasional experiments in gunnery, combined with laboratory experiments, founded on solid principles, and conducted in a scientific manner, will enable him more clearly to understand the appropriate branches of science, and to be doubly useful when called into actual service; for theoretic information is not more difficult to acquire than the practical illustration of it. A work-shop, furnished with suitable tools, ought to be accessible to the cadet, where he may, at least in miniature, construct gun-carriages, ammunition waggons, and many other articles, not to be dispensed with in the service of Artillery. In addition to these, the inculcation of the several branches of science, incident to the preparatory school, must not be omitted here. This department may be under the superintendence of the inspector of artillery; who ought to have two professors united with him—one of physics and chymistry—and another of architecture and mechanics. The acquisition of the several branches, assigned for the study of this department, ought to be the only criterion of admission into the
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERS.
An adequate knowledge of artillery, and the various principles on which it is founded, will enable the cadet to pursue the study of engineering with greater ease and facility. Here, as in the department of artillery, the cadet ought to carry his theory into practice. A previous conception of the several branches of science, developed in the two preceding departments, will enable him here to make an easy progress in this practical branch. To survey and draw maps of square and angular pieces of ground—to measure and take plans of regular and irregular fortifications, ought to occupy a portion of his time. The cadet ought also to erect fortifications, and other works on a small scale; to defend and besiege them; to mine and counter-mine them; and generally to practice every science, which belongs to engineers, either in the defence or the attack of fortified places. It must not, however, be understood, that the cadets of this class are to be wholly employed in the practical illustration of their theories: On the contrary, the study of all the sciences, inculcated in the other departments, together with some of the higher mathematics must be revived and pursued with vigor in this, under the occasional direction of the professors of the two other classes—as also an investigation of the principles of statics, hydrostatics, & hydraulics. An acquaintance with these, will be of great use; they will be found necessary on many occasions. The superintendence of this department, seems very properly to devolve on the inspector of fortifications. A miner of knowledge and experience ought to be appointed, to instruct the young engineer in this military science:—Yet as regular and protracted sieges are probably very distant in this country, the mining art, as a branch of military education, may be well dispensed with for the present, except so much of it as may be understood by the other professors.
The professor of the first class, tho' particularly attached to the duties of it, must also occasionally instruct the cadets in the second and third; and the professors of the artillery class will likewise attend to the instruction of the third and last department. As the cadets, on their admission into a higher class, are not to neglect their former studies, each professor need only attend, thro' all the grades of instruction, to his own appropriate pursuits. To avoid the multiplicity of professors, is the aim of this arrangement.
The removal of cadets, in regular gradation, from one department to another, ought to depend on their immediate professors; or, perhaps, on their superintending one—of course, none will be admitted into the department of artillerists, without the previous sanction of the teacher of mathematics—and of course also, none will be preferred to the department of engineers, except on the recommendation of the inspector of artillery. It ought to be established as an invariable rule, never to promote a cadet in the line of the army till he be regularly instructed in all the Departments; and not even then, unless he be recommended by the inspector of fortifications. Several good effects would result from this scheme: The professors would be extremely cautious in their removal of unqualified Cadets from their own to an higher department, because their reputations would in some measure depend on the exercise of their judgment in this particular. The inspector of fortifications, for the same reason, would exercise great caution in his recommendations for commissions. Added to these, the Cadets, conscious of one invariable rule for removal & promotion, would be the more stimulated to excel in the several pursuits allotted them. It may be considered, however, as an hardship on Cadets, qualified for actual service, to remain in the school, with very moderate pay and subsistence, in expectation of promotions on the occurrence of subsequent vacancies. As soon, therefore, as they get through the several grades of instruction, and are qualified for service, justice and good policy both seem to dictate, that they be promoted to the rank and pay of lieutenants, and permitted afterwards to fill vacancies as they occur. This would prove a new incentive to exertion, and induce them to make the military profession the business of their lives; so that the army would very soon be filled with young officers endowed with many important qualifications, not always manifested by those of more experience, and of riper years.—This plan has long been adopted in the foreign military schools.
It is hardly necessary to add, that this military school ought to be furnished with a philosophical and chymical apparatus—and with an assortment of books, professedly written on appropriate subjects—as also with many tools and instruments, designed for the use of mechanics, and calculated for the use of the artillerists and engineers. The law of April 27, 1798, authorizes the purchase "of military books, instruments, and apparatus;" of course the Secretary of war is already enabled to supply the school with these necessary articles. The expense of them would not be great—nothing in comparison with the good to be expected from the institution.
To be Sold, A FARM,
CONTAINING about Two Hundred acres of excellent land, well wooded & watered, suitable for Plowing, Pasturing, and Mowing, with a good Orchard that will make sixty or seventy barrels of Cider in a bearing year: Also, a convenient Dwelling-House, Two Barns, Corn-House, Cheese House, Blacksmith's Shop, &c. thereon. For Terms, apply to
SAMUEL LEWIS, on the premises.
N. B. Said FARM is situated about fifteen miles west from Wickford, and one mile from the Ten Rod Road; and there is also a public road leading through said Farm.
Exeter, Jan. 29, 1802.
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REAL Port Wine, in quarter and half quarter Casks.
Malaga ditto ditto. 30 Casks Raisins. 40 Boxes Muscatel ditto. 10 ditto Jordan shelled Almonds. 20 Jars Malaga Grapes. Turkey Figs of the nicest quality. Malaga ditto in frails. 10 Cases Creme de Noyau Cordial. 1 Butt Currants. Prime Nutmegs—Mace—Cloves—Cassia—Cinnamon. Madeira Citron. India Preserves in Jars, viz. Ginger—Citron—Lemon and Lime.
The above Articles are of the latest Importation.
A L S O—
A few Puncheons Antigua Rum, Black Pepper in bags. Best green Coffee ditto. Kegs of English Mustard. Salt-Petre by the cwt. Wrapping Paper per ream. Spanish Flute—French & Carolina Indigo, &c.
For Sale, by HAZARD & GARDNER.
Newport, Jan. 29, 1802.
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DOCTOR H. FARNSWORTH,
HAS removed to the House, belonging to Capt. EBEN'R SHEARMAN, in Spring-Street, nearly opposite the House of Mr. ROBERT LAWTON, jun.
Newport"> Newport, January 23, 1802. 
State of Rhode-Island.
THE Creditors of Levi Barlow , of Newport, Mariner, are hereby notified to appear at the General Assembly of the State aforesaid, on the last Monday of February next, then and there to shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer of his petition for the benefit of an Act passed at June session, A. D. 1756, for the relief of insolvent debtors, ought not to be granted.
By order,
B. HAZARD, Dep. Sec'y.
January 27, 1802.
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To be Sold, a Valuable FARM,
SITUATED in Exeter, on the ten rod road, fifteen miles from Wickford landing, containing six hundred acres of good meadow and tillage land, well wooded & watered, with a large Dwelling-House, three large Barns, a Corn Crib, Work & Tool-House, Cooper's Shop, Merchant's Store, a Saw-Mill and Grist-Mill, Flax-Mill, &c. with a never failing stream of water; also a Blacksmith's Shop, and a large Tan Yard, in good repair. The whole will be sold together, or separate, as may best suit purchasers. A Public House has kept on this stand for about 20 years successively. For further particulars, enquire of
JOE WILLCOX, on the premises.
Or SOLOMON LITTLEFIELD, of Newport, Exeter, Jan. 26, 1802. 18tf

About the public expense, in consequence of the appointment of professors, no diversity of opinion can possibly exist. The law of July 16, 1798, has made provision for four of this description, at fifty dollars per month, and two rations per day each. Whether the total expense of the system, hinted at in this memoir, will exceed that already contemplated by law, depends on the future employment of the inspectors of artillery and fortification. If they continue to be attached to the line of the army, and their offices be not vacated, the extra expense will be very small—otherwise it will be somewhat increased.
In fine—the author of this system has endeavored to adapt it, as much as possible, to the laws now in operation, relative to a military school. If inspectors of artillery and fortification are to exist under a new arrangement of the army, and their connection with it be not abolished, it will be found, that no material innovation is suggested—otherwise, perhaps, than the appointment of one or two additional professors.
NUMA.
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
FRIDAY, January 8. 1802.
DEBATE
On Mr. Breckenridge's motion to repeal the Act passed last Session, for a new organization of the Judiciary System.
(Continued.)
Mr. JONA MASON, of Massachusetts, said it would be agreed on all hands that this was one of the most important questions that ever came before a legislature. Were he not of this opinion he would not have risen to offer his sentiments. But he felt so deep an interest in the question, and from the respect which he entertained for the district of country he represented, he deemed it his duty to meet the subject, and not be satisfied with giving to it his silent negative.
It was well known, and he presumed it would be readily agreed to, that no people on earth, for the last 24 years, had been so much in the habit of forming systems of government as the people of the United States. Nor had any people been so fortunately situated for cool and correct deliberation. In the constitutions they had formed, it would appear that there had been an uniform concurrence in the establishment of one great prominent feature, and also in the application of one uniform principle to that feature. That the legislative, the executive and the judicial should form the three great departments of government, and that they should be distinct from and independent of each other. —And the more the proceedings and sentiments of the people were examined, the more clearly would it appear that all the new and additional checks created, had been applied to adjust the relative weakness or strength of the several departments of government. The same principle had been observed in the old world, whenever an opportunity presented for forming a constitution, having for its object, the protection of individual rights. It accorded too with the uniform opinions of the most celebrated historians and politicians both of Europe and America; with the opinions and practices of all our legislatures. Nor had Mr. Mason ever heard any one hardy enough to deny the propriety of its observance.
He well recollected that among the great grievances, which had roused us into an assertion of our independence of England, it was declared in the instrument asserting that independence "that the crown had the appointment of judges dependent on its will and favor."
From all these circumstances, he concluded that the people of America, when they formed a system for a federal government, intended to establish this great principle; and the conclusion would be confirmed by an examination of the constitution, which in every section recognized or referred to it.
The constitution, in the construction of the executive, legislative, and judiciary departments, had assigned to each a different tenure. —The President was chosen for four years; the Senate for six years, subject to a prescribed rotation biennially; the House of Representatives for two years; and the judiciary during good behavior. It lays to the President, at the expiration of every four years, you shall revert to the character of a private citizen, however splendid your talents or conspicuous your virtue. Why? Because, you have assigned to you powers which it is dangerous to exercise. —You have prerogatives. —The temptation to an abuse of your power is great. Such has been the uniform experience of ages. The constitution holds the same language to the Senate and House of Representatives: —It says it is necessary for the good of society that you also should revert at short periods to the mass of the people, because to you are consigned the most important duties of government, and because you hold the purse strings of the nation.
To the judiciary: What is the language applied to them? The judges are not appointed for two, four, or any given number of years; but they hold their appointments for life unless they misbehave themselves. Why? For this reason. They are not the depositaries of the high prerogatives of government. They neither appoint to office, or hold the purse-strings of the country, or legislate for it. They depend entirely upon their talents, which is all they have to recommend them. They cannot, therefore, be disposed to pervert their power to improper purposes. What are their duties? To expound and apply the laws. To do this with fidelity and skill requires a length of time. The requisite knowledge is not to be procured in a day. These are the plain and strong reasons which must strike every mind, for the different tenure by which the judges hold their offices, and they are such as will eternally endure wherever liberty exists.
On examination, it will be found that the
people, in forming their constitution, meant to make the judges independent of the legislature as of the executive. Because the duties which they have to perform, call upon them to expound not only the laws, but the constitution also, in which is involved the power of checking the legislature in case it should pass any laws in violation of the constitution. —For this reason it was more important that the judges in this country should be placed beyond the controul of the legislature, than in other countries where such power attaches to them.
Mr. Mason challenged gentlemen to exhibit a single instance, beside that lately furnished by Maryland, of a legislative act, repealing a law passed in execution of a constitution, under which the judges held their offices during good behavior. In truth, no such power existed, nor was it in the power of any legislature, so circumstanced, by a single law to dash them out of existence.
The opinion of Mr. Mason, therefore, was that this legislature have no right to repeal the judiciary law. For such an act would be in direct violation of the constitution.
The constitution says: —"The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such Inferior Courts as the Congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish. The judges, both of the Supreme and Inferior Court, shall hold their offices during their good behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office."
Thus it says, "the judges shall hold their offices during good behavior." How can this direction of the constitution be complied with, if the legislature shall, from session to session, repeal the law under which the office is held and remove the office. He did not conceive that any words, which human ingenuity could devise, could more completely get over the remarks that had been made by the gentleman from Kentucky. But that gentleman says, that this provision of the constitution applies exclusively to the President. He considers it as made to supersede the powers of the President to remove the judges. But could this have been the contemplation of the framers of the constitution, when even the right of the President to remove officers at pleasure, was a matter of great doubt, and had divided in opinion our most enlightened citizens. Not that he stated this circumstance, because he had doubts. He thought the President ought to have the right; but it did not emanate from the constitution; was not expressly found in the constitution; but sprang from legislative construction.
Besides, if Congress have the right to repeal the whole of the law, they must possess the right to repeal the law so far as it applies to a particular district, and thus get rid of an obnoxious judge. They may remove his office from him. Would it not be absurd still to say, that the removed judge held his office during good behavior?
The constitution says, "The judges, shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office." Why this provision? Why guard against the power to deprive the judges of their pay in a diminution of it and not provide against what was more important, their existence?
Mr. Mason knew that a legislative body was occasionally subject to the dominance of violent passions; he knew, that they might pass unconstitutional laws; and that the judges, to support the constitution, would refuse to carry them into effect; and he knew that the legislature might contend for the execution of their statutes. Hence the necessity of placing the judges above the influence of these passions; and for these reasons the constitution had put them out of the power of the legislature.
Still, if gentlemen would not agree with him as to the unconstitutionality of the measure proposed, he would ask, was it expedient? Were there not great doubts existing throughout the United States? Ought not each gentleman to say, though I may have no doubts or hesitancy, are not a large portion of our citizens of opinion, that it would violate the constitution? If this diversity of sentiment exists, ought not the evils under the judiciary law to be very great before we touch it? Ought we not to aim at harmonising instead of dividing our citizens? Was not the constitution a sacred instrument; an instrument ever to be approached with reverence; an instrument which ought not lightly to be drawn from its hallowed retreat, and subjected to the flux and reflux of passion. But where is the evil complained of? This system was established only last session: Scarcely had it been yet organized; scarcely had we tried it on its very threshold; where then the necessity of being so pointed, as to destroy a system scarcely formed three days ago? Does not this manifest precipitation? Will it not manifest more magnanimity, more rationality to abide by it until we try it; instead of taking up a pen and dashing it out of existence?
The reason that the suits depending were not so numerous, arose from the nature of the old establishment. That establishment had no parallel. It carried with it the seeds of its own dissolution. No set of judges could be found physically hardy enough to execute it. Such was the labor of their duties, that they were denied time for study or improvement. Besides a case was heard at one term by one judge, and postponed for consideration to the next term. At that term another judge appeared, and all the arguments were to be gone over anew; and the same thing might happen again and again. Was this the way to extend justice to our citizens? Was not the delay equivalent to a denial of justice? It was a fact that three-fourths of the time of the judges had been taken up in travelling.
It may be true, that the number of suits in the federal courts is lessened; and if the internal taxes are to be swept away, it may be still more lessened as far as depends upon that source. But
it is possible, that suits will go on diminishing as the gentleman seems to think? Is reason so predominant? Is the millennium so near at hand? On the contrary is not our commerce increasing with great rapidity? Is not our wealth increasing? And will not controversies arise in proportion to the growth of our numbers and property? Controversies, which will go to federal tribunals as soon as the judiciary system is fully established. By the documents quoted by the gentleman from Kentucky, it appears, that more business has been lately done in the federal courts, than in any other antecedent time, except in one or two counties in Pennsylvania.
Besides, (said Mr. Mason,) even if there be not a great pressure of business, had we not better pay the paltry sum of 30 or 40,000 dollars for a system too broad, than have one that is too narrow? Is it not a melancholy consideration, that in many of the European States, the costs are equal to the principal contended for? It would be honorable to the United States to exhibit a different example. It would be honorable to them to hold out an example, even if confined to foreigners, of prompt and efficacious justice, though at the expence of 100,000 dollars. Such an example would be a cause for national triumph, and our people would exult in it.
Inasmuch, therefore, as to render the judges respectable, it was necessary to make their appointment permanent, as time, labor, experience and long study, were required to perfect any man in a knowledge of the laws of his country; inasmuch as it has been thought good policy, that the judges should be well paid; and that they should be so placed as to be divested of all fear, and neither to look to the right or to the left; inasmuch as they should be so placed as to render them independent of legislative as well as of executive power; he hoped this law would not be repealed.
These were the reasons, which Mr. Mason assigned as those which would influence his decision. He acknowledged, that he had not entered the House prepared to offer his sentiments; but as the question was about to be put, he had thought it best to offer them, such as they were, rather than to give a silent vote on a subject of such great importance.
Mr. WRIGHT, of Maryland, said it must be agreed that this subject was one of great importance from its effect upon our revenues. If the repeal of the act of last session was constitutional, he presumed there could be little doubt of its expediency from the documents on our table. Has the constitution vested the legislature with a power over the subject of the resolution? If so, then should a law, which had been the effect of a flux of passion, be repealed by a reflux of reason. He believed that it had been introduced at the period of an expiring administration. It had been resisted by the republican side of the Senate; and he trusted that now on the return of reason it would be repealed.
An allusion had been made to the state of Maryland, which had repealed a law respecting the judiciary. Mr. W. here quoted the constitution of that state, whose provisions, he observed, so far as respected the tenure of the office of a judge, corresponded with those of the constitution of the United States. —The Legislature of that State had been of opinion, and correctly too, that they did possess the power of repealing a law formed by their predecessors. And the legislature of the United States possessed the same power. This they had already determined by the very act of the last session, which, while it created a number of new judges, abolished the offices of several district judges.
It was clear that the constitution meant to guard the officer, and not the office. Will it be said that what the legislature makes to-day they cannot annihilate to-morrow. Even as to the judges of the Supreme Court, had not the law first constituted fix, and was it not now reduced by law to five? And if Congress has power to reduce the number of the superior, have they not the same power to reduce the number of inferior judges? Are we to be eternally bound by the follies of a law, which ought never to have been passed?
Why the expression in the constitution, "The judicial power shall be vested in such inferior courts as Congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish," if it had been intended, as is now contended, that the office being once bestowed, no change can be made.
If the case of those, who have accepted those offices, be considered as a hard one, may it not be said that they knew the constitution, and the tenure by which their offices were to be held. In our regard for individual interest, we ought not to sacrifice the great interests of our country; and was it not demonstrable that, if 21 judges were sufficient when 100 suits existed, they were equally so when there were no more than 700.
The gentleman from Massachusetts was wrong in stating that Maryland was the only state that had repealed a law creating judiciary office. Virginia, if he was not misinformed, had done the same thing. But we wanted not these precedents. Our own archives furnished us with abundant precedents. We had reduced the judges of the Supreme Court from six to five, we had annihilated two districts. The very gentleman opposed now to the repeal of this law had voted for these measures. Thus it appeared, that tho' the Constitution justified the measure then , it prohibited it now .
Believing the judiciary law of the last session had arisen from a disposition to provide for the warm friends of the existing administration; believing that great inconveniences had arisen under it; believing its expence to be oppressive; and believing that if one legislature had a right to pass it, another legislature had the same right to repeal it; he trusted that, however a preceding legislature might have been governed by passion, the present legislature would by repealing it, shew that they were governed by reason.
(Debate to be Continued.)
La Grande Fête de la Paix,
LONDON, Nov. 14. We received last night the Paris papers to the 11th inst. They contain an account, tho' not a very detailed one, of the Fête of the 9th November. It was, as we said it would be, one of the most brilliant Fêtes that was ever celebrated. Between 10 and 11 in the morning, the following Proclamation was made in all the public squares and streets:
PROCLAMATION.
By the Consuls of the French Republic.
FRENCHMEN,
YOU possess at length, in its full extent, that Peace which you have merited by such long and such generous efforts.
The world no longer presents to you any but friendly nations, and hospitable ports open themselves to your vessels on every sea.
Faithful to your wishes and its own promises, your Government has not given way either to the ambition of conquest, or to the attraction of bold and extraordinary enterprise. It was its duty to restore repose to mankind, and to draw together, in solid and durable ties, the great family of Europe, whose destiny is to form the destiny of the world.
Its first task has been accomplished; another commences for it and for you. To the glory of battles let another glory succeed, a glory more pleasing to our citizens, and less dreadful to our neighbors.
Let us bring things to perfection, but above all let us teach the rising generation to cherish our institutions and our laws. Let them grow up for civil equality, for public liberty, for the prosperity of the nation. Let us carry into the labors of agriculture and the arts, that ardor, that constancy, and that patience, with which we have astonished Europe in all our difficulties. Let us join to the efforts of the Government, the exertions of the citizens to enrich and to fertilize every part of our vast territory.
Let us be the bond and the example of the nations that surround us, so that the stranger whom interest or curiosity shall bring among us, may stop, attached by the charms of our manners, by the happy spectacle of our union and our industry, by the attraction of our enjoyments, and that he may return to his country more friendly to the French name, and wiser and better.
There are yet men tormented with the necessity of hating their fellow-citizens, or irritated with the recollection of their losses, there are immense countries open to them—let them dare to go and search in them for riches, and endeavor to lose the remembrance of their misfortunes and their distresses. The regards of their country will follow them—and will assist their courage! Happy, one day, with their labors, will return to her bosom, worthy of being citizens of a free State, and cured of the madness of persecution.
Frenchmen! two years are past since this same day saw your civil dissensions put an end to, and all factions annihilated! From that time you were able to concentrate all your energy, to embrace all that is great in the eyes of humanity, all that is useful to the interests of the country; the Government was every where your guide and your support; its conduct shall be constantly the same; your greatness constitutes theirs, and your happiness is the only recompence to which they aspire.
Bonaparte, First Consul of the Republic, orders the above Proclamation to be inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws, published, printed, and stuck up, in all the Departments of the Republic.
Given at Paris, at the Palace of Government, the 18th Brumaire, (Nov. 9.) 10th Year of the French Republic.
(Signed) BONAPARTE.
By the First Consul,
H. B. MARET, Sec'y of State.
The official paper and the other papers contain the following notice of THE FÊTE.
The Fête of Peace, conceived on a vast plan, and according to ideas as new as they were happy, has been carried into effect with great magnificence and perfect uniformity. We shall return to the details—we shall only say at present, that it fixed the attention and excited the interest of an immense crowd which flocked to the places where it was prepared. The scenic amusements, for the exhibition of which a Theatre was prepared on the Place de la Concorde, produced great effect; no one remembered an illumination more rich, more various, or disposed with more elegant design. The two superb basins which the Seine forms between the three principal bridges, presented the appearance of long draperies of fire, which multiplied their brilliancy by the reflection of the water. The Palace of the Government, that of the Legislative Body, the buildings of the Place de la Concorde, united by brilliant rows of lights, seemed to form but one monument. The weather was more favorable than the season, or than the preceding day gave reason to expect. The most perfect tranquility reigned during the whole Fête.
COMMUNICATION.
THE opposition papers have charged President JEFFERSON with a violation of the Constitution, in withholding the commission of Mr. Greene, as District Judge of Rhode Island. The charge is founded upon the principle, that he was nominated by President ADAMS, and the nomination ratified by the Senate, which constituted an appointment; and, altho' there was an error in his commission, in which his office was described as that of a Circuit instead of a District Judge, for the correction of which error his commission was returned; yet, that the issuing of the commission was but a ministerial act, which followed of course from the appointment. The facts on this subject have not, so far as

I have observed, been particularly stated to the public. To give every reader a fair opportunity to judge for himself, you are requested to insert in your useful paper, the following statement, furnished by Mr. Wagner, who was under the former administration, and still continues to be, principal Clerk in the Department of State:—
"Mr. Greene was nominated District Judge of Rhode-Island District, and the Senate concurred in the nomination. By a clerical error, however, the commission to him was made out as for a Circuit Judge.—He returned it for correction; but the office not being considered to be filled, Mr. Burner was substituted in the office of District Judge."
"Mr. Bourne accepted the office of Circuit Judge, by a letter to the Secretary of State, dated 23rd March last. I know of no letter (except the above) from Mr. Bourne, which expressed or implied a resignation of the office of District Judge. Mr. Green's commission must, if valid, have been dated antecedently to the 4th of March last."
From the foregoing statement, on the accuracy of which the public may rely, it appears, that Judge Bourne continued District Judge until March 23; for his previous appointment to another office could not operate as a removal of him from that of District Judge. The tenure of his office being during good behaviour, he was not removable by any act of the President. His office was not vacated until his acceptance of another, which was on the 23rd of March. Mr. Green's appointment was therefore void—for the law did not admit two Judges in the same office at the same time; nor could President Adams anticipate and fill a future vacancy, which did not occur during his Presidency. If a President could thus go forward, and make a present appointment, to take effect upon a vacancy to happen three weeks after the termination of his own Presidency, he might thus provisionally fill all vacancies accruing in the whole succeeding Presidential term of four years, or even during the present generation; the absurdity of which doctrine is too glaring to be seriously adopted by any man in his senses. The simple truth is, that there was no vacancy in the office of District Judge of Rhode-Island, until March 23; when Mr. JEFFERSON was at liberty to fill it, by an appointment, to continue until the next meeting of the Senate, and then be submitted to them for concurrence or non-concurrence.
Those Printers who have published the animadversion on President JEFFERSON's conduct, in relation to Mr. Green's commission, are requested to be so just, as to publish the above statement of facts. A Friend to Truth & Justice.
[Bost. Chronicle.]
Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 18.
Petitions from the haters at Wilmington, (D.) and New-York, for an increase of the duty on imported Hats, were presented & committed.
January 20.
The House took up the amendments to the bill fixing the military peace establishment.
Mr. Bayard moved to strike out the office of Brigadier-General. He said there could not be any occasion for such an officer as the men were scattered over the whole extent of our frontiers, and Atlantic coast, and placed in small divisions. The question was taken by Yeas and Nays for striking out, 37 against it, 54 for it.
The Bill proposed to give those officers who should be deranged three months pay when they were dismissed from the service.
Mr. Griswold moved to strike out "three months" that a greater compensation might be given to those who had grown grey in the service of their country. He thought more was due to them than what the Bill proposed to allow.
The question for striking out was taken by Yeas and Nays. For it 26, against it 56.
Gen. S. Smith made a motion to raise it to the same as was granted in 1796.
Dr. Eustis advocated it, but it was not carried, the result being 26 for it and 45 against it.
January 21.
The Bill for fixing the peace establishment of the United States, was read a third time and passed. Yeas 77—Nays 12—This Bill reduces the present military establishment to 3,000 men; and consists of 1 Brigadier General, 1 Adjutant and inferior, 3 military agents, 2 surgeons, 25 sergeants, 1 regiment of artillery, 20 companies; 2 regiments of infantry, 10 companies each.
January 22.
A bill for the protection of American commerce and seamen in the Mediterranean and adjoining seas, was read a third time, and passed without a division.
This bill authorises the President to equip the national vessels against Tripolitan corsairs—to seize and capture Tripolitan vessels—and to authorise their capture by private American vessels.
The House went into a committee of the whole on the bill for altering the act to lay and collect a direct tax.
Motion to strike out 1st section, which takes away the right of redeeming, within two years, land sold for taxes.
Agreed to strike out said section.
Mr. Rutledge moved that the committee of ways and means be instructed to enquire into the expediency of reducing the duties on brown sugar, coffee, and bohea tea.
This motion produced a debate which occupied the remainder of the sitting, during which the previous question was moved.
Those who supported the reference were, Messrs. Rutledge, Dana, Griswold, Bayard, Goddard, Dennis, and T. Morris.
Those who opposed it were, Messrs. S. Smith, Claiborne, Smilie, Southard, Giles, Elmer, Nicholson, and Davis.
To make such a reference could only tend to embarrass the operations of the committee of ways and means. When the report of that committee was made, it would be seasonable to offer any proposition, whose merits would then be duly weighed. Such propositions as the present only tended to retard business. If its object was to defeat a repeal of the internal taxes, it ought to be referred; as those taxes, from their oppressive operation, ought to be first removed. They ought to be removed from their odious character; they were enormously expensive in the collection, and they were grounded on a system of espionage hateful to free people; under them, instead of every man's house being his castle, it was thrown open to any revenue officer; and their effect was to swell executive patronage, by creating a host of officers who took their political tone from those on whom they were dependant, and diffused their sentiments throughout the nation.
On the previous question being taken, as follows: "Shall the main question be put? It was carried in the negative—Yeas 15—Nays 49."
[PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.]
SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE FIRST SESSION,
Begun and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday, the Seventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and one.
AN ACT for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States, according to the second enumeration.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and three, the House of Representatives shall be composed of members elected agreeably to a ratio of one member for every thirty three thousand persons in each State, computed according to the rule prescribed by the Constitution, that is to say: Within the State of New-Hampshire, five; within the State of Massachusetts, seventeen; within the State of Rhode-Island, two; within the State of Connecticut, seven; within the State of New-York, seventeen; within the State of New-Jersey, six; within the State of Pennsylvania, eighteen; within the State of Delaware, one; within the State of Maryland, nine; within the State of Virginia, twenty-two; within the State of North Carolina, twelve; within the State of South-Carolina, eight; within the State of Georgia, four; within the State of Kentucky, six; and within the State of Tennessee, three members.
NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ABRAHAM BALDWIN, President of the Senate pro tempore.
APPROVED Jan. 14. 1802.
TH: JEFFERSON, President of the United States.
NEWPORT, Saturday, February 6, 1802.
On the question in Senate, whether it was expedient to repeal the new Judiciary Act, the Yeas and Nays were as follows:
YEAS.—Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Breckenridge, Brown, Cocke, Ellery, Theo. Foster, Franklin, Jackson, Logan, S. T. Mason, Nicholson, Stone, Sumner, Wright—15.
NAYS.—Messrs. Calhoun, Chipman, Dayton, D. Foster, Hillhouse, Howard, Morris, J. Mason, Olcott, Sheaffe, Tracy, Wells, White, —13.
Two Republicans and two Federalists were absent, viz. Armstrong, Bradley, Ogden, Rofs.
In Senate of the United States, Jan. 22. The Committee appointed for that purpose, reported a bill for repealing the act of the 13th February 1801, for new organizing the Judiciary of the United States.
The act is a short one; and is confined to a repeal of the above act, and a restoration to the courts under the old system of the business by it confided to them.
It was read the first time, and ordered to be printed.
At an Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the BRISTOL INSURANCE COMPANY, held at their Office in Bristol, on the 6th ult. the following gentlemen were elected Directors of said Company, for the year ensuing to wit:—CHARLES D'WOLF, THOMAS CHURCH, JOHN D'WOLF, BARNARD SMITH, CHARLES COLLINS, jun. JOHN CHAMPLIN, JAMES D'WOLF, ISAAC MANCHESTER, HENRY BRADFORD, JEREMIAH INMAN.—And on the same day at a meeting of the Board of Directors, was unanimously re-elected JAMES D'WOLF, President, and GUSTAVUS BAYLIES, Secretary.
Capt. Taylor, in the Eucharis, from Havre-de-Grace, informs, that the first division of the fleet destined for the Cape, sailed from Brest on the 24 of November; the second division was to sail from Havre-de-Grace on the 20th Nov.
they amounted to forty sail, including ships of war and transports—the whole number of troops to be sent to St. Domingo was said to be 50,000 men. [Norfolk pap.]
IMPORTANT!
A gentleman belonging to a respectable mercantile house of Alexandria, now in this town, received a letter from his partner last night, dated the 2d inst. which says, I am sorry to inform you that Toussaint is no more. He had been caught by the blacks & burnt alive. The letter mentions nothing further on the subject; but from the gentleman's connexion in trade at Cape-Francois, there is no doubt but his information is from the most unquestionable source. His letter, probably came by way of Norfolk, where Capt. Ferguson, whose packet left there on Thursday last states, that the same report of Toussaint being burnt was current, though not generally credited.—Toussaint was probably way-laid by some of the Moyes' party in his usual tour from the Cape to Port-Republican, which he mostly made without any guard. And as a retaliation for the death of their general, and to prevent as they suspected, betraying them to the whites, it is not unlikely that they have inflicted this savage excruciating torture.
Should this news unfortunately be true, a ferocious resistance will be made to the troops embarked for that colony, and much blood will be shed before the blacks can be subdued.
Balt. Pap.
Further from GUADALOUPE.
Extract of a letter from Capt. Spain, to his owner in Wilmington, dated Port Liberty, Guadalupe, Dec. 14. 1801.
"I am afraid we shall be glad to make our escape with our lives before many days. The negroes have made two attempts to rise; the first was in Basseter, about the first of this month, but without any success—they only stabbed four men in the town, and did some mischief in the country; the second was in this place on the night of the 10th inst. and they also were dispersed, and their ringleaders made prisoners.—Last night the negroes began their riot in the market place again, which greatly alarmed the people. The whites were running with their wives and children from every direction, begging of us to take them on board of our vessels. The women themselves did not stop at running into the river up to their waists, with repeated screams for God's sake to save them.—Altho' I used all possible exertions to cast my falls off, my deck was crowded before I could effect it; in a few minutes I was under way, towed out in the bay, and came to anchor."
"A flag of truce which had been sent to Domingo, returned yesterday with a very unfavorable answer: the words were, No, we will treat with no negroes or mulattoes, neither shall they hold any office; but we will be there in a few days, with a fleet of men of war and transports, and will shew you your places."
"The fever has been very mortal amongst the Americans; some vessels have lost half their crews, and others nearly all."
Extract of a letter from an officer of the United States frigate President, dated MALAGA, Nov. 9. 1801.
"With pleasure I inform you that we take our departure from the Straits very soon; we proceed from this to Algiers—we are detained here in consequence of a headwind. From Algiers we shall proceed home. It is said we will touch at Cadiz. I suppose I shall see you about the 1st of February."
[As the account lately published in the Baltimore papers, of the capture of the ship President, by a number of gallies belonging to the Bey of Tripoli, may have created some apprehension in the minds of the friends of Commodore Dale, his officers and ship's company, the above extract is given to shew they were safe at the date of the letter, and of the improbability of the report being true.]
By a late arrival from the Havana, it is stated that American vessels were permitted to enter the port for 30 days from the 1st of Jan.
The election of Col. Hall, the first republican governor of Delaware, is confirmed by the legislature of that State.
A few days since, the large and extensive Manufactory for Fire-Arms, belonging to Mr. Elisha Brown of Foster, was unfortunately consumed by fire. A parcel of unfinished arms were in one of the buildings. Mr. Brown has heretofore, by contract, furnished large quantities of excellent arms for the United States.
The season has been remarkably mild in England, as well as in this country, and instances are mentioned of fruit trees bearing second crops, and birds returning to their nests and laying again.
MARRIED.—Mr. WILLIAM REYNOLDS, of North-Kingstown, to Miss ELIZA BOWEN, daughter of Col. Aaron Bowen, of Coventry.
In this town, on Sunday last, by the Rev. Mr. Brunson, Capt. ROBERT M. AMEROS, to Miss SALLY LANGLEY, daughter of William Langley, Esq.
DIED.—In this town, on Tuesday evening last, Mrs. SARAH SYMMES, aged 29.
On Thursday, Miss ELIZABETH TILLINGHAST, daughter of the late Capt. Phillip Tillinghast. Her funeral will proceed from the house of her brother Joseph Tillinghast, to-morrow at the usual hour, at which her friends and relations are desired to attend.
Wanted Immediately,
1000 Bushels good clean BARLEY, to be delivered at Newport, for which CASH will be paid on delivery, by BENJ. MARSHALL.
Newport, Oct. 30. 1801.
Cheap! Cheap! Cheap!
THOMAS GREEN, by reason of age and infirmity, proposing to retire from business in a short time—and having on hand, a handsome assortment of
English and India Goods,
which he wishes to sell soon, either by wholesale or retail:—And instead of an Auction (as usual in such cases) is disposed to deal them out with his own hand.—Accordingly, said Goods are now selling at as
LOW RATES, or LOWER,
than might reasonably be expected at a Vendue, free from those disorders and impositions which frequently take place at a public Sale. Customers will receive decent and orderly attention with utmost dispatch.
Town and Country Traders, may probably find their accounts, by calling at his Store. Newport, Feb. 5.
Miss E. FIRTH,
(MILLINER IN NEW-YORK)
RETURNS thanks to the Ladies of Newport and its vicinity, for their past favors, and begs leave to inform them, that her partner
Miss MART MOODIE,
has arrived at Mr. JAMES MUMFORD'S, Sign of the Bee-Hive, Thames-Street, where she will reside for some months.—The Ladies may have their Millinery and Mantua-making done in the most fashionable manner, at the shortest notice, and on reasonable terms.—She will be regularly supplied with new patterns from England.
Velvet and other Bonnets, a great variety, may be had as above.
Newport, Feb. 6.
19122
Public Notice.
WHEREAS Isaac Cate, of Tiverton, in the county of Newport, blacksmith, did, on the third day of February, A. D. 1802, lodge his Petition in the Clerk's office of the Supreme Judicial Court, for the county aforesaid, praying for divers causes therein set forth, that the bond of marriage, between him and his wife Esther Cate, may be dissolved, and a decree of divorce from the bond aforesaid promulgated:—This is to give Notice to the said Esther, and to all other persons concerned, to appear at the next Supreme Judicial Court, to be holden at Newport, within and for said county, on the first Monday of March next, and shew cause, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted.
Witness, B. HAZARD, Clerk. Newport, Feb. 5. 1802. 1911
Notification.
WE the subscribers being by the Honorable Court of Probate of the town of Newport, appointed commissioners to receive, examine and adjust the claims of the creditors to the estate of CHARLES LASSELL, late of Newport, merchant, deceased, represented insolvent; do hereby give notice to all persons having claims against said estate, to bring them in to either of us at our respective dwellings, within six months from the date hereof, being the time allowed by said Court.
WILLIAM GARDNER, JOHN COGGESHALL.
And all persons indebted to said estate are hereby required to make immediate payment to SIMON DAVIS, Administrator. Newport, Feb. 1. 1802. 19
Take Notice.
WHEREAS the Subscribers are by law qualified to settle the Estate of Thomas Chadwick, late of Newport, deceased, they do hereby give public notice to all persons having any demands against said Estate, to exhibit their claims to either of us at our dwellings in said Newport:—And all persons indebted to said Estate, are also requested to come and settle the same with either of the Subscribers.
ROBERT TAYLOR, DANIEL DUNHAM, jun. JOHN TILLINGHAST.
Newport, Feb. 5. 1802. 1911
STRAY HORSE.
CAME into the inclosure of the Subscribers, a few days since, a dark bay Horse, with a star in his forehead; trots and paces, and is shod before. The owner is desired to prove property, pay charges, and take him away.
WM. & MANLY BATEMAN. Newport (Brenton's Neck) Jan. 25. 1802.
FOR SALE,
By the Subscriber, Twelve Yoke of Working OXEN, also, one Yoke of Fat OXEN; twenty-five COWS, 150 SHEEP, and several head of Young CATTLE. The above Stock will be sold separate, or together, as purchasers may apply.
Likewise, for Sale,
Several Hundred Bushels of excellent Potatoes, together with Farming utensils, such as Carts, Ploughs, &c. &c.
SAMUEL PEARCE.
On the Island of Prudence, Jan. 29. 1802.
To be Let, on Shares,
FOR the ensuing year, about Nine acres of good tillage land, suitable for Corn or almost any kind of Grain. Apply to ABIGAIL CARR.
Jan-stown, Feb. 5. 1802.
WANTED, in a small family, to serve till of age, a smart active Girl, about 12 or 13 years old. One from the country would be preferred; and to such an one, suitable education, and good encouragement will be given.—Enquire of the Printer.

[By W. THOMPSON.]
IF life be vain, on what shall man depend? Depend on virtue. Virtue is a rock Which stands forever; braves the frowning flood, And rears its awful brow, direct, to heaven. Though virtue sore not from the grave, she gives Her varieties to the stars; she plucks the sting From the grim king of terrors; smooths the bed Of anguish, and bids death, tho' dreadful, smile. Death smiles on virtue: And his visage, black Yet comely seems. A Christian scorns the bounds Where limited creation laid to time, "Here I have end." Rapt rous, he looks beyond Or time or space; he triumphs o'er decay; And fills eternity; the next to God.
The following public caution is given by the Royal Humane Society. "In great sinking of the strength, especially in the end of fevers, and other acute diseases, patients frequently lie in a state resembling death. If the bed cloths be removed, the heat of the body will be immediately dissipated, and every spark of life destroyed. By not attending to this important circumstance, it is feared that the lives of thousands of our fellow creatures have been sacrificed, and their bodies committed to the grave, who, by a more humane conduct, would have been restored to life."
"Death may usurp on nature many hours, And yet the fire of life kindle again The d'express'd spirits."
An Anecdote, characteristic of the present Opposition:—One of the proprietors of a certain Federal Newspaper, upon seeing the President's Message published in it, as the Message of "the Chief Consul of America," observed to another Federalist interested in the politics of that Paper, "This will not do. By black-guarding the President at this rate, we are depreciating our Paper and injuring our cause. Our subscribers will diminish, and people will fall off from our party." "All we can do with the President, replied the other, is to black guard him; and faith let us have all the satisfaction we can."
The Editors of the New York Gazette in their New-Years Address to Patrons, express their joy, "that the time cannot be far distant, when CAMILLUS shall be called from his exile, to guide the councils of his country." By CAMILLUS is meant ALEXANDER HAMILTON; who acquired the name, by his reputed writings over that signature. It is understood that he now "guides the councils," not indeed of his country, but of the Federal Party. More than any other man, he is and long has been, the rallying point of Federalism; and ought to have the credit of it. Pittsfield Sun.
For Sale, By JOSEPH BRIGGS, 10 Hhds. 3d proof Windward-Island RUM, good flavor'd. 3 Do. Jamaica SPIRITS, 4th proof. 20 Hhds. of good retailing MOLASSES. 50 Firkins of the best of Hog's LARD. Newport, Jan. 16.
To the Connecticut Susquehanna Company. THE standing Committee of the Connecticut Susquehanna Company in order to enable the agents of said Company to oppose right against might have Resolved, "That a tax of two dollars be laid on each and every right (whether located or unlocated) in and throughout the purchase; and on all parts of rights in the same proportion." All persons claiming or owning land in the aforesaid purchase, are hereby requested to transmit to the treasurer of said Company the aforesaid ratio, by order of the committee, JOSEPH KINGSBURY, Sec'y. Ulster, Luzerne County, Dec. 7, 1801. N. B. The treasurer of said company is John Franklin, Esq. of Tioga Point.
To be Sold, A FARM in Charlestown, pleasantly situated, lying between the stage road, and the Atlantic Ocean; containing about Two Hundred and Fifteen acres of excellent land, with a new large two story dwelling-house thereon; a good barn, crib, and other out-buildings.—Said Farm is well proportioned for pasture, meadow and plowland; with a sufficient quantity of wood for the Farm—is well fenced, and partly by the salt pond, which affords a great variety of fish. For further particulars enquire of the Subscriber, living on the premises. STEPHEN BROWNING. Charlestown, Dec. 4, 1801. 113
William Douglass, At the Head of Broad-Street. HAS just received Two Thousand weight of long clean FLAX, which will be sold at a very small advance for Cash. Also, West-India and other GOODS, as usual. Newport, Jan. 9, 1802. 15tf
STRAY MARE. TAKEN up stray, a Mare of a Chesnut colour, about 8 years old, natural to pace. The owner is requested to prove property, pay charges and take her away. JOB WILLCOX. Exeter, Jan. 28, 1802. 15tf
John & Henry Cahoon, HAVE FOR SALE, At their STORE on Banister's Wharf, BROWN SUGAR, by the barrel or box; Molasses, by the bag; Flour, by the barrel; Powder, by the cask; Sheathing-Paper, by the hundred; Candles, by the box; Iron Cabosets; and genuine SPANISH SEGARS. ALSO HONEY, by the barrel or gallon—New-York Soap, by the box—Negro-Head Tobacco—Best 4th proof Jamaica Rum—Iron Stoves, &c.— 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.—Midlings and Corners, per barrel—Onions, per Hundred bunches, or smaller quantities— LOAF-SUGARS, and a variety of the best of TEAS. Newport, Nov. 7th, 1801. 3tf
For SALE, in Good Repair, By THOMAS GREEN, THE large commodious Dwelling-House, in which he now lives, in Thames-Street, near Carr's Ferry; a well constructed large convenient store in the front, the yard and cellar well paved, a good well of water in the cellar, and a cistern in the yard.—Said House is well known to be one of the best stands in town, for every kind of business; and will be set up at Auction (if not previously disposed of) the first Thursday in May next. Said GREEN having on hand, of the latest importations, a complete assortment of English and India Goods, is determined to sell them for ready pay, at the most reduced prices. LIKewise Said GREEN earnestly invites all such of his friends and customers, who have open accounts, or any-wise indebted to him, more or less, by book, note, or mortgage, to make payment as soon as may be convenient; especially those standing beyond three months (the customary term of credit;) while he hopes his good old friends will continue their favors, and not forsake him now in the decline of life, to whom he devoutly offers his grateful acknowledgments for manifold favors, already received for a long series of time past. Newport, Jan. 16, 1802. 16tf
Just received and for sale at this Office, THE SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THE Late Unfortunate Jason Fairbanks, FROM the original Manuscript, composed and signed by himself, and attested by his Counsel, a short time before his Execution:—To which is added, some account of his LIFE and CHARACTER, and a Correction of the Depositions of the principal Witnesses, from the late publication of his Trial, as they were literally delivered in Court. "Tell them the lamentable Fall of me, And send the bearers weeping to their bed!" "Wailings be disdain'd, As marks of base and abject minds, nor gave His grief a voice!" The only Conversation held by the Sufferer, at the place of Execution, was the following reply to the officer, at his last moment:—"All that I have to communicate is already written in my Declaration!" The whole collected and published by EBENEZER FAIRBANKS, jun. a FARMER, of Dedham, Massachusetts.
Loft or Stolen, THE 8th instat, a Small Pinchbeck Watch, chased out side case, with a red stone Seal, set in silver. It either Watch or Seal is offered for sale, it is requested to be stopped; and either of the Watch-Makers in Newport, will pay a reward of EIGHT DOLLARS, if recovered and not injured. Newport, Oct. 23, 1801. 4tf
Wm. Moore, jun. & Co. HAVE FOR SALE, At their Store near the Red Market, A NEW and General Assortment of Seasonable DRY GOODS; A few Boxes English and American HATS; A Large Stock of Cutlery, Hard-Ware, and GROCERIES, WHOLE-SALE and RETAIL, warranted as Cheap as at any Store in the State. ALSO 20 Hhds. Good flavor'd Tobago RUM. 8 Do. Antigua and Jamaica RUM. 4 Pipes Holland GIN. 3000 wt. COFFEE. A few Chests TEA. 50 Kegs Negro head TOBACCO. A few Bags of PIMENTO. LIKewise 100 Bbls. fresh Alexandria FLOUR, for Cash or on liberal Credit, for approved Notes. Newport, Jan. 2, 1802. 16tf
LUMBER. BENJAMIN RUGGLES Respectfully informs his Customers, and the Public in general, THAT he will undertake to procure House or Store Frames, or any other dimensions of Timber, Plank for Wharves, &c. of the following kinds of Eastern wood, viz. White-Pine, Spruce, Norway-Pine, Hemlock, Black or Yellow-Birch, for Cabinet work; Cedar, Hackmatack, Maple, Black or White-Ash, Beach, or Rock-Maple:—Also, Masts and Spars of any dimension, and Birch or Hackmatack, Ship-Timber; any of which, if applied for this Winter, may be delivered here in the course of the next Spring or Summer, on the easiest possible terms. Any person wishing to contract, would do well to apply early in the Winter, that proper time may be had to get the Timber out. He has, likewise, on hand, at his Lumber-Yard, on Slocum's wharf, in Newport, a general assortment of Eastern Lumber; such as Boards, Timber, Spruce and Hemlock Joist, Window-frame-Ruff, Shingles, Clapboards, Cedar-Puffs, Laths, &c.—A supply of which he proposes to keep constantly on hand. Also, genteel Boarding and Lodging may be had for two Gentlemen, on easy terms. Newport, Nov. 27, 1801. 9tf
FOR SALE, By SAMUEL VERNON, jun. COGNAC Brandy, Claret Wine in casks and boxes, Silks, Britannia Linens, white wine Vinegar, Vandyke, & House-Paper:—The above articles are entitled to drawback, and are now landing from the Brig Hannah, from Bordeaux, at Mr. Robert Stevens' wharf. He has also for sale, Russia and Raven's Duck, a few Demijans and long and short Corks. Newport, Nov. 7, 1801. TO BE SOLD, A NEW House, in Broad-Street, completely finished, with a Yard, Garden, and good Well of water. Any person inclined to purchase, may know the terms, by applying at the House of M. R. JOHNSON. Newport, Jan. 9, 1802. 15tf
To be sold, and possession given next Spring, A FARM, LYING in Suffield, State of Connecticut, pleasantly situated, within 40 rods of the Meeting-House and Academy, in said town, and only 16 miles from the City of Hartford, on the great Stage Road leading from thence to Dartmouth College; and from Boston to New-York, Albany, &c. Said Farm contains 100 acres of Land under good improvement; well fenced; with a suitable proportion of Orchard, Mowing, Pasturing, Plow-land, &c. two handsome and convenient Dwelling-Houses; Barns, with good Stables, Out-Houses, two Wells of excellent water, and almost every other accommodation necessary for a Tavern. It is as beautiful and eligible a stand, perhaps, as any in the State, for a Public House, and has been improved as such upwards of 30 years successively. It is likewise central and commodious for a Merchant or Tradesman. A good bargain may be had, and an indisputable title given.—For further particulars, enquire of the Printer hereof, or the Subscriber, living on the premises. SETH AUSTIN. December 12, 1801.
TO BE SOLD, AND entered upon the 25th of March next, a tract of Land, containing about 40 acres; with a Dwelling-House thereon; situate in North Kingstown, on the Ten-rod Road, about one mile and an half from the landing. Said Tract is part plow land, and part wood land, and well watered.—Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms, by applying to GEORGE FOWLER, in Newport, or the subscribers, living on the premises. HANNAH FOWLER. SARAH FOWLER. North-Kingstown, Dec. 9.
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 Corral-House thereon—containing about Seventy Acres of LAND. Also, an Out 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.
Elopement. WHEREAS SARAH, wife of me the subscriber has eloped from my bed and board, and carried away all my furniture, clothing, &c.—This is therefore to caution all persons against trusting or harboring her on my account, as I shall pay no debts of her contracting after this date. JOHN VENDERSTIN. Newport, Jan. 23, 1802. 17tf Testaments & Primers For Sale by the Printer hereof.
BENJAMIN WAITE CASE, PHYSICIAN, WITH pleasure embraces the earliest opportunity of informing his fellow-citizens, that by permission of the Hon. Town-Council of Middletown, granted December 21, 1801, he has the satisfaction of exhibiting a proof, that the KINE-POX is a security against the small-pox. A son of Mr. William Rider of Middletown, whom he inoculated a year ago for the Kine-Pox, was on the 22d of said December, at his desire, inoculated by Doctor Farisworth for the small-pox; with matter fresh from a person having the small-pox, the natural way, and residing at the house of Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, and remained there the full term of fourteen days, without the least symptom of the disorder; except a slight inflammation at the punctures, which totally disappeared by the seventh day from inoculation. The author of this information is possessed of genuine matter of the Kine-Pox.—They who wish to be inoculated, by applying to him, may depend on careful treatment, and strict attention; and such as are unable to make compensation, he will inoculate gratis. If it should be thought that experience in the small-pox, will better enable a person to determine when the Kine-Pox has taken effect, he would mention that some years ago he inoculated for the small-pox, in the state of New-York. Newport, Jan. 9, 1802.
Nicholas Webster, INFORMS the Public, that he has opened a GROCERY STORE in Broad-Street, in the house, late the property of Mr. Caleb Earl, where he has for Sale a general assortment of WEST-INDIA GOODS. Among others, are the following articles: Rum, Brandy, Gin, Cherry-Rum, Molasses, Flour, Rye and Indian Meal, Teas of various kinds, Coffee, Chocolate, Raisins, Currants, Pepper, Ginger, Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Butter, Cheese, Candles, Onions, Tobacco, Snuff, Powder and Shot, Lamp-Oil, Loaf and Brown Sugars, &c. ALSO A general and extensive variety of Crockery and Hard Ware; Men's and Women's Shoes, &c. &c. with many other articles, too tedious to mention; all which will be sold at the most reduced prices. Newport, Nov. 21. 8tf
NICOLAS GEFROY, 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 & 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 fashions; officers' gold and silver epauletts; plated and brass candlesticks; plated and Britannia tea-pots; dishes, small forks and bangels; plated bits, stirrups and spurs; tea-trays; castors and cruets, spoons and forks; cutlery ware of all kinds; night and day fly-glasses; ladies and gentlemen's pocket-knives; dressing-glasses; suspenders; trusses; horse-rabbit razors; Hopkin's famous razor-strops; best Beaver hats; perfumery of all kinds, from London and Paris; hair-powder; starch; Barley-sugar, and sugar plums; Spanish Jigars; best Makaban & Scotch snuff; and a great variety of other articles, too numerous to insert here. Newport, Feb. 7, 1801. 19tf
TO BE SOLD, A FARM, LYING in Exeter, State of Rhode-Island, about six miles from Wickford, containing 180 acres of good Land, with two Dwelling-Houses, and other out buildings. It may be purchased together, or in separate divisions. Payment will be made easy. ALSO A share in the Ohio Company, containing nearly Twelve Hundred Acres of excellent Land. For further particulars apply to PARDON TILLINGHAST. Exeter, Nov. 28. 5ct
TO PAPER MAKERS. Notice is hereby Given, THAT the United States have granted a PATENT to the subscriber, for a discovery he has made in the manufacture of Paper, viz.—In making Paper from the shavings of tanned Leather, commonly known by the name of carrier's shavings—By which Patent, he has vested in him, for the term of 14 years, from the 28th day of December last, an exclusive right to use the same, or of vending it to others to be used, agreeably to the law of the United States, in such case made and provided. JOSEPH CONDIT, Jun. Bloomfield, (N. J.) Jan. 11, 1802. N. B. All applications for rights, must be made for the present at the Paper Manufactory at Bloomfield, where different samples of the Paper may be seen.