Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1803-02-12 00:00:00

TOWARDS the latter end of last December I received a letter from a venerable patriot, Samuel Adams, dated Boston, Nov. 30. It came by a private hand, which I suppose was the cause of the delay. I wrote Mr. Adams an answer dated Jan. 18. and that I might be certain of his receiving it, and also that I might know of the reception, I desired a friend of mine at Washington to put it under cover to some friend of his at Boston, and desire him to present it to Mr. Adams. The letter was accordingly put under cover while I was present and given to one of the clerks of the Post-Office to seal and put in the mail. The clerk put it in his pocket book, and either forgot to put it in the mail, or supposed he had done so among other letters. The Post-master General on learning this mistake, informed me of it last Saturday, and as the cover was then out of date, the letter was put under a new cover, with the same request, and forwarded by the post. I felt concern at this accident, lest Mr. Adams should conclude I was unmindful of his attention to me; and therefore, lest any further accident should prevent or delay his receiving it, as well as to relieve myself from that concern, I give the letter the opportunity of reaching him by the news-papers. I am the more induced to do this, because some manuscript copies have been taken of both letters, and therefore, there is a possibility of imperfect copies getting into print; and besides this, it some of the federal printers, (for I hope they are not all base alike) could get hold of a copy they would make no scruple of altering it and publishing it as mine. I therefore send you the original letter of Mr. Adams, and my own copy of the answer.
THOMAS PAINE.
Federal City, Jan. 22, 1803.
BOSTON, Nov. 30th, 1802.
Sir, I have frequently with pleasure reflected on your services to my native, and your adopted country. Your Common Sense, and your Crisis, unquestionably awakened the public mind, and led the people loudly to call for a declaration of our national independence. I therefore esteemed you as a warm friend to the liberty, and lasting welfare of the human race. But when I heard, that you had turned your mind to a defence of infidelity, I felt myself much astonished, and more grieved, that you had attempted a measure so injurious to the feelings, and so repugnant to the true interest of so great a part of the citizens of the United States. The people of New England, if you will allow me to use a Scripture phrase, are fast returning to their first love. Will you excite among them the spirit of angry controversy, at a time, when they are hastening to unity and peace? I am told that some of our news-papers have announced your intention to publish an additional pamphlet upon the principles of your Age of Reason. Do you think, that your pen, or the pen of any other man can unchristianize the mass of our citizens, or have you hopes of converting a few of them to infidelity in so bad a cause? We ought to think ourselves happy in the enjoyment of opinion without the danger of persecution by civil or ecclesiastical law.
Our friend, the present President of the United States, has been calumniated for his liberal sentiments, by men, who have attributed that liberality to a latent design to promote the cause of infidelity. This, and all other slanders have been made without a shadow of proof. Neither religion, nor liberty can long subsist in the tumult of altercation, and amidst the noise and violence of faction.
Felix qui cautus.
Adieu.
SAMUEL ADAMS.
Mr. Thomas Paine.
To SAMUEL ADAMS.
My dear and venerable friend,
I received with great pleasure your friendly and affectionate letter of Nov. 30th, and I thank you also for the frankness of it. Between men in pursuit of truth, and whose object is the happiness of man both here and hereafter, there ought to be no reserve. Even error has a claim to indulgence, if not to respect, when it is believed to be truth. I am obliged to you for your affectionate remembrance of what you file my services in awakening the public mind to a declaration of independence, and supporting it after it was declared. I also, like you, have often looked back on those times, and have thought, that if independence had not been declared at the time it was, the public mind could not have been brought up to it afterwards. It will immediately occur to you, who were so intimately acquainted with the situation of things at that time, that I allude to the black times of Seventy-six; for though I know, and you my friend also know, they were no other than the natural consequences of the military blunders of that campaign, the country might have viewed them as proceeding from a natural inability to support its cause against the enemy, and have sunk under the despondency of that misconceived idea. This was the impression against which it was necessary the country should be strongly animated.
I now come to the second part of your letter, on which I shall be as frank with you as you are with me. "But (say you) when I heard you had turned your mind to a defence of infidelity, I felt myself much astonished, &c." What, my good friend, do you call believing in God infidelity? for that is the great point maintained in the Age of Reason against all divided beliefs and allegorical divinities. The bishop of Llandaff, (Doctor Watson) not only acknowledges this, but pays me some compliments upon it in his answer to the second part of that work. "There is (says he) a philosophical sublimity in some of your ideas when speaking of the Creator of the Universe."
What then (my much esteemed friend, for I do not respect you the less because we differ,
and that perhaps not much, in religious sentiments) what, I ask, is this thing called infidelity? If we go back to your ancestors and mine, three or four hundred years ago, for we must have had fathers and grandfathers or we should not be here, we shall find them praying to saints and virgins, and believing in purgatory and transubstantiation, and therefore all of us are infidels according to our forefathers belief. If we go back to times more ancient, we shall again be infidels according to the belief of some other forefathers.
The case, my friend, is, that the world has been overrun with false and creeds of human invention, with sectaries of whole nations, against other nations, and sectaries of those sectaries in each of them against each other. Every sectary, except the Quakers, have been a persecutor. Those who fled from persecution, persecuted in their turn; and it is this confusion of creeds that has filled the world with persecution & deluged it with blood. Even the depredation on your commerce by the Barbary powers, sprang from the crusades of the church against those powers. It was a war of creed against creed, each boasting of God for its author, and reviling each other with the name of infidel. If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and this is all that it proves.
There is however one point of union where in all religions meet, and that is in the first article of every man's creed, and of every nation's creed, that has any creed at all. I believe in God. Those who rest here, and there are millions who do, cannot be wrong as far as their creed goes. Those who choose to go further may be wrong, for it is impossible that all can be right, since there is so much contradiction among them. The first therefore, are in my opinion on the safest side.
I presume you are so far acquainted with ecclesiastical history as to know, and the bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the books that compose the New Testament were voted by year & days to be the word of God, as you now vote a law, by the popish councils of Nice and Laodicea, about 1450 years ago. With respect to the fact there is no dispute, neither do I mention it for the sake of controversy. This vote may appear authority enough to some, and not authority enough to others. It is proper however that every body should know the fact.
With respect to the Age of Reason which you so much condemn, and that I believe without having read it, for you say only that you heard of it, I will inform you of a circumstance because you cannot know it by other means.
I have said in the first page of the first part of that work, that it had long been my intention to publish my thoughts upon religion; but that I had reserved it to a later time of life. I have now to inform you why I wrote it and published it at the time I did.
In the first place, I saw my life in continual danger. My friends were falling as fast as the guillotine could cut their heads off; and as I every day expected the same fate, I resolved to begin my work. I appeared to myself to be on my death bed, for death was on every side of me, and I had no time to lose. This accounts for my writing at the time I did; and so nicely did the time & the intention meet, that I had not finished the first part of that work more than six hours before I was arrested and taken to prison. —Joel Barlow was with me, & knows the fact.
In the second place, the people of France were running headlong into Atheism, and I had the work translated and published in their own language, to stop them in that career, and fix them to the first article (as I have before said) of every man's creed, who has any creed at all, I believe in God. I endangered my own life, in the first place, by opposing in the convention the execution of the king, and laboring to shew they were trying the monarchy, and not the man, and that the crimes imputed to him were the crimes of the monarchical system; and I endangered it a second time by opposing Atheism; and yet some of your priests, for I do not believe that all are perverse, cry out, in the war whoop of monarchical priest-craft, What an infidel! What a wicked man is Thomas Paine! They might as well add, for he believes in God, and is against shedding blood.
But all this war whoop of the pulpit has some concealed object. Religion is not the cause, but is the stalking horse. They put it forward to conceal themselves behind it. It is not a secret that there has been a party composed of the leaders of the Federalists, for I do not include all Federalists with their leaders, who have been working by various means for several years past, to overturn the Federal constitution, established on the representative system, and place government in the new world on the corrupt system of the old. To accomplish this a large standing army was necessary, and as a pretence for such an army, the danger of a foreign invasion must be bellowed forth, from the pulpit, from the press, & by their public orators.
I am not of a disposition inclined to suspicion. It is in its nature a mean and cowardly passion, and upon the whole, even admitting error into the case, it is better. I am sure it is more generous, to be wrong on the side of confidence, than on the side of suspicion. But I know as a fact, that the English government distributes annually fifteen hundred pounds sterling among the Presbyterian ministers in England, and one thousand among those of Ireland, and when I hear of the strange discourses of some of your ministers and professors of colleges, I cannot, as the quakers say, find freedom in my mind to acquit them. Their anti-revolutionary doctrines invite suspicion even against one's will, and in spite of one's charity to believe well of them.
As you have given me one scripture phrase I will give you another for those ministers. It is said in Exodus, chapter 22, verse 28, "Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people." But those ministers, such I mean as Dr. Emmons, curse ruler and people both, for the majority are, politically, the people, and
it is those who have chosen the ruler whom they curse. As to the first part of the verse, that of not reviling the gods, it makes no part of my scripture. I have but one God.
Since I began this letter, for I write it by piece meals, as I have leisure, I have seen the four letters that passed between you and John Adams. In your first letter you say, "let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity, and universal philanthropy." Why, my dear friend, this is exactly my religion, and is the whole of it. That you may have an idea that the Age of Reason (for I believe you have not read it) inculcates this reverential fear and love of the Deity, I will give you a paragraph from it:
"Do we want to contemplate his power? We see it in the immensity of the creation. Do we want to contemplate his wisdom? We see it in the unchangeable order by which the incomprehensible whole is governed. Do we want to contemplate his munificence? We see it in the abundance with which he fills the earth. Do we want to contemplate his mercy? We see it in his not withholding that abundance even from the unthankful."
As I am fully with you in your first part, that respecting the Deity, so am I in your second, that of universal philanthropy; by which I do not mean merely the sentimental benevolence of wishing well, but the practical benevolence of doing good. We cannot serve the Deity in the manner we serve those who cannot do without that service. He needs no service from us. We can add nothing to eternity. But it is in our power to render a service acceptable to him, and that is not by praying, but by endeavouring to make his creatures happy. A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve, and as to hiring or paying men to pray, as if the Deity needed instruction, it is in my opinion an abomination. One good School Master is of more use and more value than a load of such persons as Dr. Emmons and some others.
You, my dear and much respected friend, are now far in the vale of years; I have yet, I believe, some years in store; for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both, by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance.
This I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life. You will see by my third letter to the citizens of the United States, that I have been exposed to, and preserved thro' many dangers, but instead of buffeting the Deity with prayers, as if I distrusted him or must dictate to him, I reposed myself on his protection; and you, my friend, will find, even in your last moments, more consolation in the silence of resignation than in the murmuring wish of prayer.
In every thing which you say in your second letter to John Adams respecting our rights as men and citizens in this world, I am perfectly with you. On other points we have to answer to our creator and not to each other. The key of heaven is not in the keeping of any sect, nor ought the road to it to be obstructed by any. Our relation to each other in this world is as men, and the man who is a friend to man and to his rights, let his religious opinions be what they may, is a good citizen, to whom I can give, as I ought to do, and as every other ought, the right hand of fellowship, and to none with more hearty good will, my dear friend, than to you.
THOMAS PAINE.
Federal City, Jan. 1, 1803.
FROM the AURORA.
THE FORGERY AFFRAY.
WE were in our former remarks on the affray at Piscataway, lead involuntarily from the subject, from the contemptible figures which Rutledge and his aid exhibited, to treat them with merited ridicule and contempt. Excepting Griswold and Dayton in the attack on Lyon, perhaps no two characters honored with a legislative trust, ever disgraced themselves or dishonored their constituents more than Rutledge and his second on this occasion. We shall now endeavor to treat the subject with the seriousness which it requires, though we find it almost impossible to bridle the derision which it provokes.
The affidavits published under the authority of L. R. Morris, are fairly before the public; they demand notice, and shall have it. Whether the affidavit published as Simmes's, was drawn up in the same way that the affidavits at Newport were prepared, or mutilated afterwards, is not very important to be considered, because the suppression of the truth in any instance which might give a different colour to the remaining facts, amounts to all intents and purposes to as gross an iniquity as the most palpable assertion of falsehoods.
In the affidavit of Simmes, he says, (or is made to say,) he heard Mr. Ellery cry out—but the fact is that he did not cry out at all, nor utter one word to any person until he had forced Rutledge against the wall and there held him, and then he spoke to Morris to interpose and end the disgraceful scene by the removal of his associate assassin.
It is true however, that there was crying out—but they were the cries of the assailant, who having been completely laid on his back, roared out lustily for help, be bites me! be bites me!" This cry, however, Mr. Simmes is made to say came from Ellery!—It so happened that Ellery had Rutledge so fast by the head, that it was necessary for Morris, with Simmes's aid, to interfere and extricate this valiant knight from the clutches of his antagonist!
Two Members of Congress who took the trouble of calling on Simmes, to obtain the truth on the spot, give us the information which they received, not only from Simmes himself, but from others; and it is upon the ground of the contradiction in the relation to these gentlemen we infer that the affidavits were either framed in
the first instance, or mutilated afterwards for the purposes of deception.
Simmes being asked whether he tho't Ellery would have been suffered to beat Rutledge answered doubtingly, but said that he would not relieve Rutledge a second time, till Rutledge promised not to renew the attack; a fact which pretty clearly shews that the affidavits did not tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Another circumstance which has not appeared, but which goes closely to mark the preconcert and understanding which subsisted on this occasion. Ellery intending to deliver Rutledge over to an officer of the peace in the spot, was told that there was not a magistrate within sixteen miles, though it appears now that a magistrate stood in the porch when Ellery entered the house, and was a quiet spectator of the whole transaction from beginning to end.
Simmes being asked if Rutledge had pulled Ellery's nose, said he believed Rutledge made the attempt once or twice, and did reach him once but no more, and being asked if he had pulled his ears, Simmes said no, it was impossible, for Ellery had pinned him so completely against the wall, that it was out of his power, for he found it enough to defend himself from being choked. It is not necessary to go into further details of a transaction, originating in a disgraceful cause, and terminating in the more complete shame of the first igoominy.
The conduct of Morris, however, deserves a few observations. Morris is one of the Vermont Representatives, and this is the only the third freak of this kind in which he has been engaged since his obtaining a seat. The duel between Bayard and Champlin, is said to have originated in the anonymous writings of their mutual friend Rutledge; and Morris, the mutual friend of both, took an equally friendly interest in that affair also.
Morris on this occasion has acted the part of a Neapolitan Lazarone, for it was he who went to Tunnicliffe's to enquire to which part of the country Mr. Ellery had gone to spend his Christmas, and thither upon the secret information of Morris, Rutledge and he dogged Mr. Ellery and way laid him!
Why pursue this assassin like course, why did Rutledge pursue the philosophy of Sancho Panza and let his honor take so long a nap? Why not challenge Mr. Ellery on the scene of original exposition at Newport, where there was neither an inequality in the number of political partisans? Why if he was to be attacked only, and not murdered, not inflict the vengeance where the provocation took place? If disgrace alone was intended, it would seem that a public place, a place where there were numerous spectators could alone be the proper theatre of his vengeance. To follow a man 40 miles into a retired part of the country, where there were few inhabitants, looked rather like the enterprise of an Italian bandit, than the open and generous courage of a pure and manly dignity; this scandalous course alone, supposes conscious guilt, meanness and cowardice; it is repeated cowardice; for it is not in secret, where a man was alone and a stranger, that any man of true courage would undertake to avenge a public injury.
But it will be said that the object was to challenge Ellery to the contest, according to the received usages among gentlemen. If that alone was intended, it is repeated, that the hero's honor should not have taken so long a nap. And the course to be pursued after Ellery's declining that resort, at that time, should have been conformable in all respects to those usages, he should have proceeded to post him by public advertisements as a coward and a slanderer, and brought forward his evidence to the public to show the misconduct of Ellery and his own innocence.
But having neglected this recourse on the spot where the cause of complaint originated, and for several months after it had been brought before the world;—after having learned that Ellery had determined to lay the whole before Congress—is neither bespoke conscious innocence nor true courage to resort to the very means which the greatest villain and the most abject coward would employ to inflict vengeance on the man of honor whom he feared & hated.
But independent of the attempt to way lay in this Italian fashion, how ought Mr. Ellery, or any man in similar circumstances, to conduct himself.
Leaving out of the consideration all question of the propriety or consistency of resorts to duel in private quarrel?—Would any man of decency think himself bound to answer the challenge of a felon confined in irons in a goal? Would any man of moral character consider himself bound to place himself in opposition, and to take the chances of life and death upon the shot of a pistol, with one whom he had detected in the meanest acts of fraud?
We leave out of view the fact, whether Rutledge was or was not guilty of the forgeries. It is enough that Mr. Ellery was satisfied in his own conscience, that Rutledge stood in that disgraceful predicament. He could under such a belief no more accept a challenge according to the usages of men of honor, than from the felon we have alluded to; for until Rutledge should have gone through the ordeal of the enquiry proposed, and established his innocence, both honor and justice forbade any means by which the guilty should escape. Rutledge himself would have been most unfortunate indeed, if Mr. Ellery should have acquiesced in a resort to duel: For suppose Ellery to have fallen—what then would the public say?—That Rutledge had put the man out of the way who was alone bound by circumstances and capable of exposing his fraud? When he must have perished with the stain on his reputation without explication.
In all these views Mr. Ellery could not by the laws of justice, prudence, or honor have complied with the resort to arms—much less when he conscientiously believed the man who challenged him to labor under the criminality of forgery and perjury.

By the laws of Rhode-Island, from which Mr. Ellery comes, duelling is punished with extreme disgrace. A law passed, in 1799, directs the duellist to be carried in a cart with a rope about his neck to the gallows and there to sit an hour, after which fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.
Beside, Ellery had no cause to solicit death; he has a happy and interesting family, wholly dependent on him for their present comforts and future prosperity; Rutledge has not perhaps the same motives to be solicitous to live; and the merits and good fortune of his progenitors have provided for his family much better than he appears to be capable of providing himself or of using with the discretion of a man who knows the value of an earned fortune.
Ellery's situation in domestic life is amiable. Rutledge's is at best apocryphal.
Ellery conceives that the situation entrusted to him imposes a awful obligations on him both of decorum and duty.
Rutledge evidently does not entertain such notions.
Ellery's concern in detecting the forgeries was merely accidental, unpremeditated, and when discovered, public duty as well as personal consistency, obliged him to conduct himself in that way which should be most conducive to the public good. He had no cause of animosity or resentment against Rutledge, for they had no rivalry, no interfering interests, no acquaintance of any kind with him.
The evidence brought forth, and daily bringing forth, goes clearly to substantiate the guilt of Rutledge, and to prove the correctness of Mr. Ellery's conduct. We refer our readers to a pamphlet which has just appeared, published at the city of Washington, entitled an "Examination of the Question."
Highly Interesting.
THE following is a copy of a letter from the President of the United States to Mr. Garrard, Governor of Kentucky, in answer to one received from him on the subject of the shutting the port of New Orleans against Americans. As it corroborates the opinion now generally adopted that the measure was that of an individual and not of the Spanish government, it is highly satisfactory—it will be observed too, that the clamour against the executive on the ground that no measures were taken to ascertain the true state of the affair, was false; immediate measures were taken to have it rectified—the intervention of the Spanish minister is also confirmed, relative to his application to the governor general, which Mr. Relf, disputed so logically; it has since, however, been thought proper by the Spanish minister to apply directly to the intendant, so that less delay may be apprehended than when the letter of the President was dated. The sentiments of the executive on the subject would put to shame the disorganizers who have endeavored to under-rate his integrity, if ashamed they could be; but the discerning will value in future, from what we now receive at the hands of some disappointed and wicked scribblers, in view and behind the curtain, what it is to come. The letter is calculated to do much good, it has been circulated by the Governor of Kentucky throughout that State, and has given great satisfaction; we doubt not it will do the same in every quarter where "our present situation is seen in a true point of view."
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 1802.
SIR, Your favor of Nov. 20, has been duly received. The occlusion of the port of New Orleans by the Spaniards, which is the subject of it, was calculated to give great alarm through the United States, and especially the western parts. Information of it was received here from New Orleans on the 6th inst. and on the 8th measures were taken to have the proceeding rectified. We think the evidence tolerably conclusive that it was not the consequence of any order from Europe, but merely an irregularity of the intendant. Measures were immediately put in motion for duly impressing him with the consequence of perseverance, and the Spanish minister here, expressing his entire conviction that the prohibition was unauthorized, undertook immediately to dispatch a letter to the governor general who resides at the Havana, to interpose efficaciously, and without delay. We trust therefore, that it will be as promptly remedied as the distance permits. It has furnished however a proper occasion of urging on Spain the danger of leaving the peace of the two countries exposed to the caprice of any officer, and the importance of some arrangement which shall leave us independent of that caprice, and free to maintain this treaty right, without crossing the Atlantic to seek redress. For the present it is the interest of every part of our republic to cherish peace, and await a friendly rectification of the injury; and I have no doubt, that seeing our present situation in a true point of view, you will concur in inculcating a reliance that the government will not be wanting in a just interference to preserve the rights of the nation. The uncertainty with what power we may have to settle this matter adds to its difficulties. I take the liberty of inclosing you a copy of my communication to Congress, and of tendering you assurances of my great respect and consideration.
TH. JEFFERSON.
GOV. GARRARD.
From WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.
The House this day rejected the motion of Mr. Rutledge for the importation of arms without paying duties. An evidence that, however, the Legislature may be deceived for a moment, reflection and enquiry soon overthrow the delusion. I believe most sincerely that the blow was aimed to destroy the American manufacture of arms—but the pistol missed fire.
January 31. The House of Representatives sat with closed doors this day, on what business is not to be ascertained. It was reported that it was on a motion intended to go to the expulsion of Rutledge; this is not, however, so certain as that the public mind is much irritated at the length of time he has been suffered to sit in the House after the proofs have been brought to completely home to him. There are other circumstances concerning this man's acts of a similar nature that have been brought to light within a few days, and which shall be published very shortly be published if no steps are taken by the House of Representatives to purify Congress. Some of the members have shown a very honorable sense of their own dignity, a very large number of the members declared their determination not to remain in the House should he be called to the chair in committee. This has had its due effect so far. There are others who do not appear to feel the same respect for themselves nor for the character of the government or the country which the forgeries were intended to dishonor.
The petition of the dislocated judges, which was lately before the house of representatives, has been also before the senate. A committee consisting of all on one side was appointed to gratify them, viz. James Relf, Governor Morris and Jonathan Dayton:—It will be readily conceived that they have made a thundering report, and that it is up to the hub, and calculated to rescue the people from their worst enemies! It is the order of the day for Wednesday next; and the report goes that the New-York Governor, and our would be Governor Relf, and the would-be governor and clerk in chancery of Jersey, Ogden, are all to make a great noise on that day—they mean to shew themselves before the 4th of March, and as the thief said at Tyburn, to die hard—die all—die nobly—die like demi-gods.
WILMINGTON, (N.C.) Jan. 20. The brig William, captain Coombs, arrived here on Sunday last, 12 days from Cape Francois. Captain Coombs is the bearer of melancholy intelligence from the Cape; he informs that when he failed, the town was closely besieged by the insurgents, who had embodied in immense numbers for the purpose of making a general attack. To describe the distress of the miserable inhabitants of that devoted place, is impossible—all the stores were shut up, and business was entirely suspended—no person was suffered to walk the streets, and every man compelled to bear arms.—About 250 French troops arrived at the Cape, the latter part of November, in a very emaciated condition; a number of whom died before they reached the barracks.
NEWPORT, Saturday, February 12, 1803.
JAMES MONROE, Esq. we are informed (says the New-York Mercantile Advertiser) has engaged his passage to Havre-de-Grace, in the ship Warren, which is intended to sail from this port on Sunday next.
ALEXANDER ADDISON, Esquire, has been found guilty, by the Senate of the state of Pennsylvania, of the charges preferred against him by the House of Representatives—20 votes for declaring him guilty, and 4 not guilty.—He is removed from office, and disqualified from holding the office of Judge in any court of law within that commonwealth.
The Cincinnati Society of Virginia, with a philanthropy which will for ever redound to their honor, have seconded the generous and benevolent exertions of their immortal leader through the revolutionary war, by transferring all the funds of that society, amounting to near twenty thousand dollars, for the use and benefit of Washington Academy, in the county of Rockbridge. This Academy was burnt to the ground on the 9th ult.
Toussaint Louverture's black servant, who was lately removed from his master into a different prison, has, it is said, offered to discover to Government, treasures, in hard money, to the amount of many millions, which that chief has left concealed among the mountains in St. Domingo. The negro is therefore to be sent out immediately to that isle.
We understand that the celebrated Mr. ROBINSON, the Antepodean Whirligig, (from the Theatres of N. York, Philadelphia, & Charleston,) arrived in this town last evening, and proposes to exhibit his astonishing Feats for two nights, at the Theatre; the first exhibition to be this evening, (Saturday, February 12.)—The performance will be expressed in the Bills of the day.
A serious address "TO THE FRIENDS," in our next. We acknowledge the receipt of some very pertinent remarks upon a paragraph which appeared in a late Boston "Centinel." With reluctance they are deferred 'till next week.
William Moore, jun. & Co. HAVE FOR SALE, 20 Firkins good BUTTER, 12 Kegs Hog's LARD, suitable for shipping, or home consumption.
The Printer once more (and he hopes his expectations will not be always disappointed,) earnestly requests punctual payments for Newspapers and Advertisements, in particular.
Sales at Auction. ON MONDAY, (14th inst.) at 11 o'clock A. M. will be sold, 14 Hogheads of RUM, landed from the Schooner UNICE from Grenada, on Mr. Steven's Wharf. Conditions at time of Sale. GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, Feb. 12, 1803.
Adjourned Sale. WILL be held at Public Auction, on Friday, the first of April next (if fair, if not, the first fair day,) unless previously disposed of at private sale, a new two story Dwelling-House, with four rooms on a floor; together with a Lot of Land, 60 feet front, with a two story Shop thereon, calculated for a dwelling-house, having a cellar under it, situate on Spring-Street, near the State-House. Sale to be on the premises, at Eleven o'clock A. M. where the conditions of payment will be made known. GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, Feb. 12, 1803.
For Sale at Public Auction. ON Thursday the 5th of May ensuing, if fair weather, if not, the first fair day, (unless previously disposed of at private sale) a large Two-story Dwelling-House, late the property of Capt. John Kilburn, situated in Broad Street, with a Yard and Garden, and a well of excellent water. Sale to be at 11 o'clock A. M. The terms may be known by applying to GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, Feb. 12, 1803.
On WEDNESDAY, the Second Day of March next, at 11 o'clock A. M. WILL be held at PUBLIC AUCTION, the Snow MARY, burthen one hundred Tons; together with her appurtenances, now lying at Mr. John C. Scott's Wharf. GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, February 12, 1803.
For Norfolk & Richmond, THE Sloop Hiram, 86 tons burthen, having good accommodations for passengers: Will sail the 27th inst. weather permitting.—For freight or passage, apply to WM. MOORE, jun. & Co. or to AARON BORDEN, Freetown. Newport, February 12, 1803.
State of Rhode-Island & Providence Plantations. NEWPORT ss. County of Newport, Feb. 8, 1803. WHEREAS Thomas Wheeler, of Tiverton, in the county of Newport, hath filed his petition in the Clerk's office of the Supreme Judicial Court for said county, against his wife Sarah Wheeler, praying for divers causes therein stated, that the bonds of marriage between him and his said wife be dissolved, and a decree of divorce promulgated:—This is therefore to give notice to the said Sarah Wheeler, and to all persons concerned, that they appear (if they see fit) at the term of said Supreme Judicial Court to be held in said Newport, within and for said county, on the first Monday of March next, and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. P. M. MUMFORD, Clerk.
WHEREAS the Court of Probate for the town of Richmond, hath appointed the subscribers Commissioners, to examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of Robert Willeaf, late of Richmond, deceased, represented insolvent; and six months being allowed for that purpose:—Notice is hereby given to all persons having demands against said estate, to bring them in to either of us, within said time, at our respective dwellings, in North-Kingstown, or otherwise they will be precluded according to law. SAMUEL CARR, } Commissioners. WM. HAMMOND, jr. } North-Kingstown, Feb. 9th, 1803.
THE Court of Probate for the town of Newport, having appointed the subscribers, Commissioners, to examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of Gideon Cornell, jun. of said Newport, Hatter, deceased represented insolvent; and six months being allowed for that purpose from this date:—Notice is hereby given to all persons having demands against said estate, to bring them in to either of us, within said time, or otherwise they will be precluded agreeably to law. EDMUND TOWNSEND, } Commissioners. ROBERT DUNHAM, jun. } Newport, Feb. 7, 1803.
NOTICE. ALL persons having any demands against the estate of Mr. Nicholas Garrison, late of Newport, deceased, are hereby notified to bring them in to the subscriber for settlement; and those indebted to said estate, are desired to make immediate payment to DEBORAH GARRISON, Executrix. Newport, Feb. 12, 1803.
Almanacks, for 1803, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
NICOLAS GEFFROY, Watch-Maker, in Newport, HAS Constantly on hand, an elegant assortment of warranted, and common English, & Geneva Watches & Timepieces, which he will sell, on reasonable terms.—He also carries 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. He has likewise for Sale, Wholesale and Retail, all kinds of Jewellery, imported and of the latest fashions; officers' gold and silver epaulets; plated and brass candlesticks; plated and Britannia tea-pots; dunks, small swords and hangars; plated bits, stirrups & spurs; tea-trays; cafés, andirons, shovel and tongs; cutlery ware of all kinds; night and day spy-glasses; ladies and gentlemen's pocket-knives; dress-glasses; suspenders; trusses; horse-bits; razors; Hopkin's famous razor-strops; best Beaver hats; perfumery of all kinds, from London and Paris; hair-powder; starch; best Mackabau & Scotch snuff; and a great variety of other articles, too numerous to insert in an Advertisement. In addition to the above, he has received by the latest importations, a great variety of articles in his line, among which are, Gentlemen's fowling-pieces, double and single-barrel'd; a variety of musical instruments and books; elegant tea urns; looking-glasses; Jewellery of various kinds and fashions; spectacles of various prices from 6s. to 30s. per pair; elegant gold RINGS & breast PINS, inlaid with pearl. CASH, and the highest price, given for Old Gold and Silver. Newport, Feb. 12, 1803.
To be Sold, BY the subscriber, for cash, or country produce, a quantity of Window SASHES, of various dimensions, for 6 by 8, and 7 by 9 Glass JOHN PITMAN. Newport Feb. 12, 1803.
WHEREAS the Hon. Town-Council of Newport have allowed the subscribers six months longer from the 7th of February inst. to receive, examine, and adjust the claims of the Creditors to the estate of Sarah Ingraham, late of Newport aforesaid, widow, deceased, represented insolvent; the same time being allowed for the creditors to bring in their claims, and prove their demands:—Notice is hereby given to all persons having any legal claims or demands against said estate, to bring them in to either of us, at our respective dwellings, within said time, otherwise they will be precluded, agreeably to law. EDMUND TOWNSEND, } Commissioners. DANIEL DUNHAM, jun. } N. B. And all persons indebted to said estate, by Notes, Book Accounts, or otherwise, are requested to make immediate payment to BENJAMIN LAWTON, } Executors. Newport, Feb. 12, 1803.
For Sale by JACOB RICHARDSON and WILLIAM R. WILDER, DABOLL'S SCHOOLMASTER'S ASSISTANT. Being a plain practical system of Arithmetic. THIRD EDITION—By NATHAN DABOLL. RECOMMENDATIONS. Yale-College, Nov. 27, 1797. I HAVE read Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant. The arrangement of the different branches of Arithmetic is judicious and perspicuous. The author has well explained Decimal Arithmetic, and has applied it in a plain and elegant manner to the solution of various questions, and especially to those relative to the Federal computation of money. I think it will be a very useful book to Schoolmasters and their pupils. JOSIAH MEIGS, Professor of Mathematics & Natural Philosophy. I have given some attention to the work abovementioned, and concur with Professor Meigs in his opinion of its merit. NOAH WEBSTER. New-Haven, Dec. 12, 1799.
Rhode Island College, Nov. 30, 1799. I have run through Mr. Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant, and have formed of it a very favorable opinion. According to its original design, I think it well "calculated to furnish schools in general with a methodical, easy and comprehensive system of Practical Arithmetic." I therefore hope it may find a generous patronage, and have an extensive spread. ASA MESSER, Professor of the Learned Languages, and Teacher of Mathematics. Plainfield Academy, April 20, 1802. I make use of Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant in teaching common Arithmetic, and think it the best calculated for that purpose of any which has fallen within my observation. JOHN ADAMS, Rector of Plainfield Academy. Hudson, Aug. 21, 1802.
I have perused Daboll's Arithmetic, and find it, in my opinion, far preferable to any system I am acquainted with. It is an improvement on Dilworth, as Dilworth's Schoolmaster's Assistant is calculated merely to assist the Schoolmaster; but Daboll's will equally answer this purpose, and assist the scholar to teach himself besides. Nothing I have seen so fully meets my ideas, and I give it my decided preference and recommendation. THOMAS WORTH, Teacher of Mathematics. Three large editions of this celebrated Arithmetic have been published in less than three years. It is in general use in the States or Connecticut and Rhode-Island, and introduced in many schools in the State of New-York. In the third edition improvements are made upon the 1st and 2d editions. December 1, 1802.
1806W6E

William Moore, jun. & Co.
HAVE FOR SALE, At their STORE on the Ferry Wharf—a general Assortment of GROCERIES, SHIP CHANDLERY, HARD WARE, &c. Which they will dispose of on as reasonable terms as at any Store in Newport, by whole- sale and retail—among which are the follow- ing articles:—
40 Hhds. good retail- ing MOLASSES, Holland GIN, West-India RUM, BRANDY, Leaf & brown SUGAR Hyson-skin, Souchong, and Bohea TEAS, COFFEE, GINGER, PEPPER, PIMEN- TO, STARCH, Castile & N. Y. SOAP, MUSTARD, COPPERAS, Sheery WINE, Malaga do.
LIKewise, A great variety of DRY GOODS, suitable for the season. Newport, Dec. 4. 1802. 114tf
CLARK BLISS
INFORMS his friends, and the Public, that he has removed from Banister's wharf, to the dwelling-house belonging to Capt. Caleb Gardner, in Thames Street, formerly occupied by Capt. Wing Spooner—where he has for sale an Assortment of West-India Goods:
Among others, are the following articles, viz. Brandy, West-India Rum, 4th proof do. Gin, New-England Rum, Wines of different kinds, Mol- lasses, Leaf & Brown Sugars, Coffee, Teas of various kinds, Chocolate, Raisins, Pepper, Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Flour, Rye and Indian Meal, Butter, Cheese, Soap, and Candles; vari- ous kinds of Glass Ware, Stone Ware, Knives, and Forks, Jack Knives, Pen Knives, large and small Spoons, Chest Locks and Files, Crackery and Tin Ware, Axes, Hatchets and Hoes, Men's and Boys' Shoes, Corks, Brimstone, Lampblack, Stone Lime, Lamp Oil, Powder, Shot and Flint, Fishing Lines of various kinds, Leads, and Hooks, deep sea Leads and Lines, Bellows, metal Tea Pots, writ- ing Paper, wrapping paper by the ream, Bed Cords, Log Lines, Marlings, Seamen's Chests, Oak Kegs holding from one quart to six gallons, Buckets, Coffee and Pepper ready ground for use; and a number of other Articles not mentioned.— Captains of vessels, and others, may be supplied on the shortest notice, and every favor acknowledged. Newport, May 7 1802. 84tf
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons hav- ing any demands against the estate of Wil- iam Gyles, late of Newport, deceased, are hereby requested to exhibit them for settlement; and all persons any wise indebted to said estate, are hereby called upon to make payment without delay to MARY GYLES, CHARLES GYLES, Or to JESSE LILLIBRIDGE, Assistant. Newport, Jan. 15. 1803. [120
THE Subscriber being appointed by the Hon. Court of Probate of the town of Portsmouth, an Administratrix to the Estate of John Ward, late of Portsmouth, deceased; and being fully empowered for the same:—All per- sons having any claims against said Estate, are hereby requested to exhibit the same; and those who are indebted to said Estate, are required to make immediate payment to the Subscriber. SARAH WARD, Administratrix. Portsmouth, January 28, 1803. 129
WILLIAM HELME
Respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, THAT having employed an experienced Workman from New-York, he has for sale, at his Manufactory on the Point (by the large or small quantity) mould and dipped tal- low Candles, hard and soft Soap, warranted to be of equal quality to any imported. Newport, Sept. 3. 1802. cif
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subcri- bers, Executors of the last Will and Test- ament of Samuel Sanford, of Newport, deceas- ed, call upon all persons having any demands upon the Estate of the deceased, to exhibit them; and all persons indebted to the said estate, are called upon to make payment, to SAMUEL VERNON, SAMUEL VERNON, jun. VALENTINE WIGHTMAN. Newport, Oct. 14. 1802. cvijf
ISAAC SMALL,
INFORMS his friends, and the public, that he has taken his stand in Marlboro'-Street, near the Friends' Meeting-House, where he carries on the
Windsor-Chair Making Business, in its various branches—where he has for sale, all kinds of Windsor Chairs and Settes, of the newest fashions, and of the best quality. Also, old Chairs repaired and painted, and made to look as well as new. All orders strictly attended to, and the smallest favors gratefully acknow- ledged. All kinds of turning done at the above shop, with neatness and dispatch. Newport, Jan. 22. 1803. 120
TO BE LET,
AND possession given immediately, a con- venient two story Dwelling-House, on the Long-Wharf, but a few rods below the foot of the Parade. For terms, apply to WILLIAM RYAN. Newport, Dec. 10, 1802. 115tf
REMOVAL.
ROBERT LAWTON
TAKES this method of informing his friends and the public in general, that he has re- moved from his late place of residence, to the house he formerly occupied, opposite Messrs. Gibbs & Channing's—where may be had an el- egant assortment of GOODS, adapted to the season—too numerous to particularize in an advertisement—and as cheap, for cash, as at any store in the town.—Those who will please to call at his Store, he flatters himself, will find an inducement to purchase, as he is de- termined to dispose of them at very reduced prices.
N. B. He has also just opened for sale, a quantity of best Irish Linens, seven eighths, and yard wide, by wholesale or retail.—Likewise, a beautiful assortment of Lute strings, very cheap. January 13, 1803. cif
Nathaniel Nason,
RESPECTFULLY informs the public, that he has removed from the house of his father David Nason, to the shop of Mrs. Thomas Howland, directly opposite—where all kinds of TIN WARE can be furnished at the shortest notice, and on as reasonable terms as can be bought in this town. Constant attendance will be given, and the smallest favors acknowledged. Newport, Dec. 18, 1802. 116tf
Public Entertainment.
THE Subscriber inform the Public that he has opened a House of Entertainment in Water-Street, in the town of WARRICK, sign of the Ship; west of Cole's Inn.—Constant at- tendance will be given, and every attention paid to Ladies and Gentlemen, for their accommo- dation, by the Public's humble Servant, PRESERVED ALGER. October 23, 1802. cviiif
FOR SALE,
And possession given on the 25th of March next, A LARGE and valuable tract of LAND, in Hopkinton, adjoining Wood-River.— Containing about Seven Hundred Acres; known by the name of the Ellery Land, and now part of the estate of Col. GEORGE IRISH, deceased. About Two Hundred acres of said land is clear- ed, and fit for tillage or meadow. The remain- der is mostly covered with Timber of the best quality for ship plank, &c. An excellent stream of water runs through said land, whereon a Saw Mill may be erected at a small expence.—The terms may be known, by applying to either of the subscribers. NICHOLAS TAYLOR, JOHN IRISH. Newport, Oct. 23, 1802. cif
FOR SALE,
By JOSEPH BRIGGS, 30 Barrels best N. Y. Superfine Flour, A few Hogheads of good retailing MOLASSES. Also, a few Casks of SHERRY WINE, of an excellent quality—very cheap for Cash. Newport, May 29. 50tf
John R. Shearman
Has received his supply of FALL and WINTER GOODS, Comprising purple kid & silk GLOVES, and elegant silk HOSE. Newport, Nov. 27, 1802. 113tf
W. R. WILDER,
BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, Has Removed to the Store next Door North of Messrs. Gibbs & Channing's, WHERE he offers for sale, many thousand Volumes of BOOKS, in the different branches of Literature—together with almost every article in the Stationary line, wholesale and retail.—Also an elegant Assortment of Gentlemen's HATS, from 75 cents to 6 dol- lars and 50 cents. Newport, Aug. 21. 99tf
Entertainment,
BY RICHARD BARKER, at the House formerly occupied by Capt. Robert S. Potter, sign of the Anchor, a little south-east of the State House, where Ladies and Gentlemen may de- pend on being accommodated to their satisfac- tion. Punctual attendance will be given, and all favors gratefully acknowledged by the public's obedient servant, RICHARD BARKER. Newport, April 2, 1802. 79tf
CASH, PAID FOR
LINEN & WOOLLEN RAGS, BY Christopher Olney, & Co. Delivered at their Mills, or at their Paper Ware-House, WHERE they have for sale, at wholesale & retail, all kinds of Paper, viz. Foolscap Writing-Paper, No. 1 and 2.—Vellum Let- ter do.—Fool do.—Wrapping do.—Bonnet do. —Clothier's do. 1st quality.—Sheathing, with and without Sand.—Book-Binder's Boards.— Candle Paper, and Sugar Loaf Blue.—Also, A complete Assortment of Blank Account and Record Books.—LIKewise Account Books made and ruled to any pat- tern, to suit the purchaser.—A complete As- sortment of School Books, & Stationary of all kinds. Also, Warranted Chocolate, by the Box, or pound, Cocoa Shells, by the Bag. N. B. Wanted, one or two Boys, from 12 to 14 years of age, as Apprentices to the Paper- making and Clothing business.—To such great encouragement will be given. Providence, Oct. 26, 1802. 74tf
Dr. GUSTAVUS BAYLIES,
OF BRISTOL. Has just received, for Sale, an additional assort- ment of genuine DRUGS & MEDICINES. —ALSO—
SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS,
OF WHICH ARE, ELEGANT Amputating Instruments, (of the latest Improvement.) Ditto, Trepanning ditto, Breast Pipes,—Ivory Syringes, &c. &c. LIKewise, a few modern Medical Books, among which are, James Latta's PRACTICAL SYSTEM OF SURGERY, illustrated with Cases on many of the Subjects, and with Copperplates—3 Vols. Townsend's GUIDE TO HEALTH, Darwin's Zoonomia—3 Vols. Baylies, on Medicine—a work of very confi- derable merit, containing a Course of Lec- tures delivered by the Author, which were translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown, and published in the English language at Edinburgh, in the present year—4 Vols. Dr. BAYLIES likewise re- spectfully acquaints his friends, that he continues the Practice of PHYSIC, MIDWIFERY, and the various branches of SURGERY. November 29, 1802. 114tf
TO THE PUBLIC.
Newport Long-Wharf, No. 12. Keyes and Brigham, Have constantly for sale,
PRIME and best PORK—prime mests, mests and prime BEEF, of the first quality, re- packed in the best order, suitable for domestic or foreign use.—Also, by the keg or box, LARD, first sort—refined mould tallow CAN- DLES, first quality; ditto ditto—No 1 and 2 Bar SOAP.—Likewise, corned, and fresh BEEF. December 10, 1802.
FOR SALE,
THE real estate of Peleg Allen, late of Mid- dletown, deceased, (about four miles from the State-house in Newport, adjoining the road,) consisting of between fifty and sixty acres of land, with a dwelling-house, other buildings, and a good orchard thereon; well watered; good meadow, pasture, and tillage land, natural to Barley.—Possession will be given the 25th of March next. The terms may be known, by applying to either of the subscribers. ELIZABETH ALLEN, THOMAS C. ALLEN. Middletown, Dec. 3, 1802. cif
TO BE SOLD, OR LET,
A FARM, LYING in Exeter, State of Rhode-Island, about six miles from Wickford, contain- ing 133 acres of good Land, with a Dwelling- House, 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, Dec. 29, 1802. 50tf
HOLMES WEAVER,
CABINET & CHAIR-MAKER, HAS for Sale, a number of pieces of the most Fashionable Furniture, As Cheap as can be purchased, of equal elegance. Newport, Nov. 15. cxii
For Sale, by the Subscribers,
A QUANTITY OF Philadelphia Superfine FLOUR, As cheap for Cash, as can be purchased in this Town. EDWARD EASTON, JOHN PRICE, CLARKE COOK. Newport, Jan. 7, 1803. 119
To be Sold or Let,
AND entered upon the 25th of March next, A WELL finished Dwelling-House, situated on Thames-Street, opposite Mr. Robert Stevens'—Also a new Store, adjoining the yard and garden, with a good well of water.—If not immediately sold, the Shop, with some part of the House, will be to let.—The situation, both for health and business, is not inferior to any in town. Conditions may be known, by applying to HENRY G. CHAMPLIN. Newport, Nov. 20, 1802. cxii
NOTICE
IS hereby given, to all persons having any de- mands against the estate of Captain JOSEPH CONGDON, late of Jamestown, deceased, to ex- hibit them; and all persons indebted to said es- tate, are called upon to make payment to MA- RY CONGDON, of Jamestown, Executrix to said estate; or to EBENEZER SHEARMAN, her lawful Agent, at Newport. November 22, 1802. 113tf
Sail Making.
THE subscribers having entered into partner- ship, under the firm of Spooner and Dunham, hereby inform the Public, that they carry on the Sail-Making business, in its various branches, at their Sail Loft, on the wharf of the late Gen. John Malbone, at the South part of the town. Those who may favor them with their custom, may depend on punctuality and dispatch. All favors will be gratefully acknowledged, by WING SPOONER, 2d. CHARLES C. DUNHAM. Newport, April 3, 1802. 79tf
ELEAZER TREVETT,
INFORMS his friends and the Public in gen- eral, that he has opened a Shop in the house of Calbarius Bafson, in Washington-Street, on the Point, next north of the Ship-yard.—Where he has for sale a general assortment of West-India GOODS; also, a quantity of Dry Goods, as cheap as at any store in town.—Captains of vessels and others may be supplied on the shortest notice, and every favor gratefully acknowledged.
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 Crocker 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. 1801. 60tf
HEAR YE!
TO be sold, and possession given the 25th of March next, One Hundred and Fifty acres of Land of the first quality, lying in South- Kingstown, (Bolton Neck)—about half a mile south of Gardner's Ferry, commonly known by the name of the Bonnet farm—and is bounded as follows: Westerly, partly on the Wequaquag pond; partly on land of Simeon Potter, and partly on land of George Brown;—Southerly, on the ocean;—Easterly, on the Narraganset Bay, and Northerly on land of the subscriber. Its local situation is far preferable to any in said town.—It is well watered in six divisions, with double wall. For fishing and fowling, none is superior in the State, the pond abound- ing with perch of an excellent kind, and fowl of a great variety.—The beach affords an inex- haustible source of sea manure, such as rock & ribbon weed, and sea curtil. There are two liv- ing springs of water on the premises. An in- disputable title will be given, and the mode of payment made easy to the purchaser: The terms may be known by applying to JOHN GARDINER. South-Kingstown, Dec. 3, 1802. 114tf
THE Court of Probate for the town of New-
port, having appointed the subscribers commissioners, to examine the claims of the cred- itors to the estate of WALTER EASTON, late of said Newport, deceased, represented insolvent; and twelve months being allowed for that pur- pose;—Notice is hereby given to all persons having demands against said estate, to bring them in to either of us, within said time, or otherwise they will be precluded according to law. EDMOND TOWNSEND, } Commis- THOMAS PECKHAM, } sioners. All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to MERIBETH EASTON, DAVID BUFFUM, } Executors. JOHN SLOCUM, Newport, 4th Mo. 5, 1802. 82
For Sale, by the Subscriber,
JAMAICA RUM by the hoghead, Ditto SUGAR by the hhd. or barrel, Ditto MOLASSES, all of 1st Quality. JOHN MEIN. Church Lane, July 12, 1802. 94tf
For Sale, by the Subscriber,
BETWEEN one and two thousand weight of OAKUM, which will be disposed of, either in large or small quantities, as may best suit purchasers. * CASH, and the highest price, given for old JUNK, as usual. JOHN WILLIAMS, Keeper of the Work-House. Newport, Feb. 12. 72tf
FOR SALE,
HALF of a Body PEW, No. 80—situate on the West Aisle very near the pulpit, in the Rev. Mr. Bradley's Meeting-House.—For terms, enquire of the Printer. Newport, Oct. 23, 1802. 108tf
To be Sold or Let,
AND entered upon the 25th of March next, A FARM, in East Green- wich, in that part called Frenchtown, containing about 140 acres of excellent land, with a good dwelling-house, Barn, Crib, Cooper's Shop, & Cyder-shed.—It is pleasantly situated, well wooded and watered, with plenty of orcharding. A Grist Mill and one third of a Saw Mill, belonging to said premises. Any person inclining to purchase, or hire, may know the terms by applying to the Subscriber, on said premises. BENJAMIN TILLINGHAST. East-Greenwich, Dec. 18, 1802. [117tf
For Sale on Reasonable terms,
A Quantity of Window Frames and Sashes, for 7 by 9 and 6 by 8 Glass. Enquire of the Printer. Newport, May 2. 1802. 86tf
TO BE LET,
AND possession given immediately, a Two- Story Dwelling-House, situate on Wash- ington Street, on the Point, with four rooms on a floor. Enquire of the subscriber, now living on the premises. ASA SISSON. Newport, 21st of 1st Mo. 1803. 72tf