Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1804-03-29 00:00:00

Rhode-Island Republican.
AN INDISSOLUBLE UNION OF THE STATES, IS ESSENTIAL TO THEIR LIBERTY AND EXISTENCE. — WASHINGTON.
Published weekly, by OLIVER FARNSWORTH, (Printer to the STATE, and of the LAWS of the UNITED STATES,) Thames-Street, NEWPORT.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In GENERAL ASSEMBLY February Session, A. D. 1804.
UPON the petition of Artemas Fith and others, praying that a new road may be laid out in the town of Portsmouth, from the Guide Post near Mr. Job Duffey's on a south-easterly course to the east road, in some place between the widow Fith's and Borden Chace's, and that they may be permitted and authorized to erect a turnpike gate, and receive tolls thereon; Resolved, That the subject matter of said petition be referred to Messrs. Simeon Martin, James D'Wolf, and Isaac Wilbour, to examine the proposed road, and report to the next session their opinion of the expediency thereof, with a plan: That said Committee give public notice in one of the newspapers printed in Newport, of the time and place of their meeting to proceed on said business, when and where all persons interested may appear before said Committee, if they see fit: That said Committee ascertain on what terms the proprietors of the land over which the proposed road will pass, will relinquish the same for that purpose, and in cases where the said proprietors will not agree to relinquish their land, that said Committee estimate and appraise the damages which said proprietors may sustain by the laying out of said road. A true Copy. Witness, SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y.
In obedience to the above Resolve, notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the proposed Road, that the Committee will be in Portsmouth, on Thursday, the 5th April 1804, at 10 o'clock A. M. to proceed on the business of their appointment.
SIMEON MARTIN, JAMES D'WOLF, ISAAC WILBOUR, } Committee. Newport, 15th March, 1804.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT the Hon. Court of Probate for the town of Newport, having allowed a further time of six months from the 5th instant, for the subscribers to receive the claims against the Estate of George Wilbour, late of Newport, labourer, deceased, Represented insolvent:—All persons, therefore, having any just claims, are desired to exhibit them within said time; and those who neglect, will be by law precluded. ROBERT SHEARMAN, } Commissioners. HENRY BULL, } finners. All persons having any property belonging to said estate, or are any-wise indebted thereto, are once more requested to make payment to BENJAMIN CORNELL, Administrator. Newport, March 15th, 1804.
THE Subscribers being appointed by the Hon. Court of Probate for the town of North Kingstown, to receive and examine the claims, as Commissioners to the estate of Samuel Brown, late of said North Kingstown, deceased; represented insolvent:—Give notice, that six months having been allowed by said Court, from the twentieth day of March instant, for the above purpose, we shall attend upon said business at the Dwelling-House of Paul Briggs, in said North Kingstown, on the last Saturday in July and August next. No accounts will be received unless properly attested. BENJAMIN SMITH, } Commissioners. ISAAC HALL, } finners. All persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment to WILLIAM BROWN, Executor. North Kingstown, March 12th, 1804.
DANCING SCHOOL. M. CARPENTIER has the honor to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Newport, that owing to the inclemency of the weather, he shall not commence a new Quarter, until Monday, the second of April ensuing. ** The French language taught as usual.
SHERRY WINES. THE subscriber has just received from Boston, a few quarter-casks of Sherry Wine, of a very good quality, which he will sell on reasonable terms.—Likewise, Boston Chocolate, warranted, No. 1 and 2. NATHAN B. MILLER. Newport, Dec. 28.
FOR SALE, TWO hundred and fifty acres of Land, of the first quality, lying in Johnstown, in the state of New-York. Thirty-four thousand acres in the first Delaware purchase, with the Connecticut title only. Eight thousand acres of land, purchased at Sheriff's sales, with an indisputable title. The above lands are of the first quality, and well worthy the attention of those who wish to advance their interests, by placing their money in lands—or actual settlers. For further particulars, please to call on the subscriber. ROBERT LATHAM. Groton, (Conn.) Feb. 28, 1804.
To be Sold or Let, AND possession given the 27th inst. a convenient two-story Dwelling House, with four rooms on a floor, well calculated for two families, having two cellars under it, with a well of excellent water in the yard. Also, a two-story building, on the same lot, calculated for business of almost any kind, with a cellar under the same.—Said lot is situated on Spring Street, being about 116 feet square, and extends back to the Street eastward of it.—Any person wishing to purchase, or hire, may know the terms, by applying to WILLARD BRIGGS. Newport, March 14th, 1804.
SAMUEL JAMES HAS FOR SALE, THIS Paper-Hangings-Factory, which is in the House he now occupies, opposite Mr. Lewis Peck's, on the West-Side of the Bridge, Providence, a great variety of House Paper and Borderings, of the newest and most elegant Figures at wholesale and retail, on as good terms as can be purchased in America. A generous credit given to those who purchase by the quantity for retailing. N. B. The above is printed on good paper, and the work well executed, by and under the direction of a workman from Europe. May 14, 1803.
To be Sold or Let, ONE Lot of land, lying eastward of Mr. Francis Brindley's Reservoir. Apply to SAMUEL F. GARDNER. Newport Feb. 9, 1804.
FOR SALE BY SAMUEL VERNON, jun. FRESH superfine RICHMOND FLOUR, a few Hhds. of James River sweet scented mountain TOBACCO,—Cognac Brandy,—Holland Geneva,—Verdigris,—and Loaf SUGAR. Newport, Feb. 9, 1804.
THOMAS VOAX, SUGAR-REFINER, Has for sale, South end Thames-Street, LOAF SUGAR—LUMP ditto—MOLASSES—and SYRUP. ** Also, a constant supply of West-India and Refined Brown SUGAR, in barrels and bags, suitable for the use of families.
WINTER GOODS. JOHN F. TOWNSEND & Co. HAVE just received a large supply of Woolens and other GOODS, purchased with cash; & which they offer for sale unusually low: Among which are; best superfine broadcloths; second, middling & low-priced do.; low-priced and fine ladies' coatings and Orleans cloths; flannels; baizes; waistcoating; blankets; ribbed and plain velvets; 6-4 & 4-4 white, black and coloured, cambric muslins; white fatin; bordered and black 5-4 & 6-4 came's hair shawls; Turkey-down shawls; coloured and black fatins; cotton and silk umbrellas; counterpanes; black bombazine; one box men's hats of an excellent quality, and one trunk of coloured interstings, of assorted handsome colours; with a variety of other Goods, too tedious to enumerate. ** Those who may be indebted to them, where the debt has been three months standing, are desired to call on them, and settle the same. Newport, Jan. 4, 1804.
Hard Ware, Stationary, &c. DAVID MELVILL, jun. RESPECTFULLY informs his friends that he has just received a very handsome addition to his former assortment of Hard-Ware, Cutlery, Ironmongery, Japan-Ware, Stationary, &c.—German-Steel—Fishing-Lines—Bed-Cords—Cloths-Lines, &c. &c. New-York Manufactured TOBACCO and SNUFF
of the first quality, at a small advance—Consisting of Negro-Head; Plug; Pigtail; Ladies' Twist; Paper, for chewing and smoking, and Scotch SNUFF. ** CASH given for Lead. Newport, June 4, 1803.
To be Sold, ON reasonable terms, three quarters of the Sloop ANN & SARAH. For terms, and further particulars, enquire of BENJAMIN MARSHALL. Newport, March 15, 1804. For Sale at this Office, BONNET PAPERS of the nicest kind, by wholesale or retail.
From the AURORA. TO THE EDITOR.—As the good sense of the people in their elections have now put the affairs of the Union in a prosperous condition at home and abroad, there is nothing immediately important for the subject of a letter, I therefore send you a piece on another subject.
THOMAS PAINE, TO THE PEOPLE ENGLAND. IN casting my eye over England and America, and comparing them together, the difference is very striking. The two countries were created by the same power and peopled from the same stock; what then has caused the difference? Have those who emigrated to America improved, or those whom they left behind degenerated? There are as many degrees of difference in the political morality of the two people, as there are of longitude between the two countries.
In the science of causes and effect, every thing that enters into the composition of either must be allowed its proportion of influence. Investigating therefore, into the cause of this difference, we must take into the calculation the difference of the two systems of government, the predatory and the representative. Under the hereditary system it is the government that forms and fashions the political character of the people: In the representative system it is the people that form the character of the government. The two own happiness as citizens form the basis of their conduct and the guide of their choice. Now it is more probable that an hereditary government should become corrupt, and corrupt the people by its example, or that a whole people should become corrupt and produce a corrupt government; for the point where the corruption begins becomes the source from whence it afterwards spreads.
While men remained in Europe as subjects of some hereditary potentate, they had ideas conformable to that condition; but when they arrived in America they found themselves in possession of a new character, the character of sovereignty: And like converts to a new religion they became inspired with new principles. Elevated above their former rank, they considered government and public affairs as part of their own concern, for they were to pay the expence; and they watched them with circumspection. They soon found that government was not that complicated thing, enshrouded in mystery, which church and state, to play into each other's hands, had represented it; and that to conduct it with proper effect was to conduct it justly. Common sense, common honesty, and civil manners qualify a man for government; and besides this, put man in a situation that requires new thinking, and the mind will grow up to it, for like the body it improves by exercise. Man is but a learner all his lifetime.
But whatever be the cause of the difference of character between the people and government of England and those of America, the effect arising from the difference is as distinguishable as the sun from the moon. We see America flourishing in peace, cultivating friendship with all nations, and reducing her public debt and taxes, incurred by the revolution. On the contrary we see England almost perpetually in war, or warlike disputes, and her debt and taxes continually increasing. Could we suppose a stranger, who knew nothing of the origin of the two countries, he would, from observation, conclude that America was the old country experienced and sage, and England the new, eccentric and wild.
Scarcely had England drawn home her troops from America after the revolutionary war than she was on the point of plunging herself into a war with Holland, on account of the Stadtholder; then with Russia; then with Spain on account of Nootka Sound, and actually with France to prevent her revolution. Scarcely had she made peace with France, and before she had fulfilled her own part of the treaty, than she declared war again to avoid fulfilling the treaty. In her treaty of peace with America she engaged to evacuate the western posts within six months, but having obtained peace she refused to fulfil the conditions and kept possession of the posts and embroiled us in an Indian war. In her treaty of peace with France she engaged to evacuate Malta within three months, but having obtained peace she refused to evacuate Malta and began a new war.
All these matters pass before the eye of the world, who form their own opinion thereon, regardless of what English news papers may say of France or French papers of England. The non-fulfilment of a treaty is a case that every body can understand. They reason upon it as they would on a contract between two individuals, and in so doing they reason from a right foundation. The affected pomp and mystification of courts make no alteration in the principle. Had France declared war to compel England to fulfil the treaty, as a man would commence a civil action to compel a delinquent party to fulfil the contract, she would have had
acquitted in the opinion of nations. But that England still holding Malta, should go to war for Malta, is a paradox not easily solved; unless it is supposed that the peace was invidious from the beginning, that it was concluded with the expectation that the military ardour of France would cool, or a new order of things arise, or a national discontent prevail, that would favor a non-execution of the treaty and leave England arbiter of the fate of Malta.
Something like this, which was like a vision in the clouds, must have been the calculation of the British Ministry; for certainly they did not expect the war would take the turn it has. Could they have foreseen, and they ought to have foreseen that a declaration of war was the same as to send a challenge to Bonaparte to invade England and make it the seat of war, they hardly would have done it unless they were mad; for in any event such a war might produce, in a military view; it is England would be the sufferer, unless it terminated in a wise revolution. One of the causes assigned for this declaration of war by the British ministry, was that Bonaparte had cramped their commerce. If by cramping their commerce it is to be understood that of encouraging and extending the commerce of France, he had a right, and it was his duty to do it. The prerogative of monopoly belongs to no nation. But to make this one of the causes of war, considering their commerce in consequence of that declaration is now cramped ten times more, is like the case of a foolish man who after loosing an eye in fighting renews the combat to revenge the injury and looses the other eye.
Those who never experienced an invasion by suffering it, which the English people have not, can have but little idea of it. Between the two armies the country will be desolated, where ever the armies are, and that as much by their own army as by the enemy. The farmers on the coast will be the first sufferers, for whether their flock of cattle, corn, &c. be seized by the invading army or driven off, or burnt, by orders of their government, the effect will be the same to them. As to the revenue, which has been collected altogether in paper, since the bank stopped payment, it will go to destruction the instant an invading army land: And as to effective government, there can be but little, where two armies are contending for victory in a country, small as England is.
With respect to the general politics of Europe, the British ministry could not have committed a greater than to make Malta the ostensible cause of the war; for though Malta is an unproductive rock, will be an expence to any nation that possesses it, there is not a power in Europe will consent that England should have it. It is a situation capable of annoying and controlling the commerce of other nations in the Mediterranean; & the conduct of England on the sea, and in the Baltic, has shewn the danger of her possessing Malta. Bonaparte by opposing her claim has all Europe with him. England by asserting it loses all. Had the English ministry studied for an object that would have put them at variance with all nations from the north of Europe to the south, they could not have done it more effectually.
But what is Malta to the people of England compared with the evils and dangers they already suffer in consequence of it. It is their own government that has bro't this upon them. Were Burke now living he would be deprived of his exclamation that "the age of chivalry is gone;" for this declaration of war is like a challenge sent from one knight of the sword to another knight of the sword to fight him on the challenger's ground, and England is staked as the prize. But though the British ministry began this war for the sake of Malta, they are now artful enough to keep Malta out of sight. Not a word is now said about Malta in any of their parliamentary speeches & messages. The King's speech is silent upon the subject, and the invasion is put in its place, as if the invasion was the cause of the war and not the consequence of it. This policy is easily seen through. The case is, they went to war without counting the cost or calculating upon events, and they are now obliged to shift the scenes to conceal the disgrace.
If they were disposed to try experiments upon France, they chose for it the worst possible time as well as the worst possible object. France has now for its chief the most enterprising and fortunate man, either for deep project or daring execution, the world has known for many ages. Compared with him, there is not a man in the British government, or under its authority, has any chance with him. That he is ambitious the world knows, and he always was so; but knew where to stop. He had reached the highest point of probable expectation, & having reduced all his enemies to peace, had set himself down to the improvement of agriculture, manufactures and commerce at home; and his conversation with the English ambassador, Whitworth, shewed he wished to continue so. In this view of his situation, could any thing be worse policy than to give to satisfied ambition a new object.

1. and provoke it into action? Yet this the British ministry have done. The plan of descent upon England by gun-boats, began after the first peace with Austria, and the acquisition of Belgium by France. Before that acquisition France had no territory on the North sea, and it is there the descent will be carried on. Dunkirk was then her northern limit. The English coast opposite to France on the channel, from the straits between Dover and Calais to the land's end, about three hundred miles, is high, bold and rocky, to the height, in many places perpendicular, of three, four or five hundred feet, and it is only where there are breaks in the rocks as at Portsmouth, Plymouth, &c. that a landing can be made, and as those places could be easily protected, because England was mistress of the channel, France had no opportunity of making an invasion unless she could first defeat the English fleet. But the union of Belgium to France makes a new order of things.
The English coast on the north sea, including the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Lincolnshire is as level as a bowling green, and approachable in every part for more than two hundred miles. The shore is a clean firm sand, where a flat-bottomed boat may row dry a ground. The country people use it as a race ground and for other sports when the tide is out. It is the weak and defenceless part of England, and it is impossible to make it otherwise; and besides this, there is not a port or harbor in it where ships of the line or large frigates can rendezvous for its protection. The Belgic coast and that of Holland which joins it, is directly opposite this defenceless part, and open a new passage for invasion. The Dutch fisherman know this coast better than the English themselves, except those who live upon it; and the Dutch smugglers know every creek and corner in it.
The original plan formed in the time of the Directory (but now much more extensive) was to build one thousand boats, each sixty feet long, sixteen feet broad, to draw about two feet water, to carry a twenty-four or thirty six pounder in the head and a field piece in the stern to be run out as soon as they touched ground. Each boat was to carry an hundred men, making in the whole one hundred thousand, and to row with twenty or twenty-five oars on a side. Bonaparte was appointed to the command, and by an agreement between him and me I was to accompany him, as the intention of the expedition was to give the people of England an opportunity of forming a government for themselves and thereby bring about peace. I have no reason to suppose this part of the plan is altered, because there is nothing better Bonaparte can do. As to the clamour spread by some of the English newspapers that he comes for plunder, it is absurd. Bonaparte is too good a general to undisciplined and did not like his army by plundering, and too good a politician as well as too much accustomed to great achievements, to make plunder his object. He goes against the government that has declared war against him.
As the expedition could choose its time of setting off either after a storm, when the English fleet would be blown off, or in a calm, or in a fog; and as thirty six hours rowing would be able to carry them over, the probability is it would arrive, and when arrived no ship of the line or large frigate could approach it on account of the shoals of the coast; and besides this the boats would form a floating battery close in with the shore of a thousand pieces of heavy artillery; and the attempt of Nelson against the gun-boats at Boulogne shows the insufficiency of ships in such situations. About two hundred and fifty gun-boats were built when the expedition was abandoned for that of Egypt, to which the preparations had served as a hint.
The present impolitic war by the English government has now renewed the plan, and that with much greater energy than before, and with national unanimity. All France is alive to chastise the English government for recommencing the war, and all Europe stands still to behold it. The preparations for the invasion have already demonstrated to France, what England ought never to have permitted her to know, which is, that she can hold the English government in terror, and the whole country in alarm, whenever she pleases, and as long as pleases, and that without employing a single ship of the line, and more effectually than if she had a hundred sail. The boasted navy of England is out-done by gun-boats! It is a revolution in naval tactics. But we live in an age of revolutions.
The preparations in England for defence, are also great, but they are marked with an ominous trait of character. There is something fallen on the face of affairs in England. Not an address has been presented to the King by any county, city, town, or corporation since the declaration of war. The people unite for the protection of themselves and property against whatever events may happen, but they are not pleased and their silence is the expression of their discontent.
Another circumstance, curious and awkward, was the conduct of the house of commons with respect to their address to the king in consequence of the king's speech at the opening of parliament. The address which is always an echo of the speech, was voted without opposition, and this equivocal silence passed for unanimity. The next thing was to present it, and it was made the order for the next day that the house should go up in a body to the king with the speaker at the head for that purpose. The time fixed was half after three, and it was expected the procession would be numerous, three or four hundred at least, in order to show their zeal and their loyalty, and their thanks to the king for his intention of taking the field. But when half after three arrived, only thirty members were present, and, without forty, (the number that makes a house) the address could not be presented. The sergeant was then sent out, with the authority of a precept warrant, to search for members, and by four o'clock he returned
with just enough to make up forty, and the procession set off with the slowness of a funeral, for it was remarked it went slower than usual. Such a circumstance in such a critical juncture of affairs, and on such an occasion, shews at least, a great difference towards the government. It was like saying, you have brought us into a great deal of trouble and we have no personal thanks to make you. We have the address as a customary matter of form, and we leave it to find its way to you as well as it can.
If the invasion succeed, I hope Bonaparte will remember that this war has not been provoked by the people. It is altogether the act of the government, without their consent or knowledge; and though the late peace appears to have been insidious from the first on the part of government, it was received by the people with a sincerity of joy.
There is yet, perhaps, one way, if it be not too late, to put an end to this burthensome state of things, and which threatens to be worse; which is for the people, now they are embodied for their own protection, to instruct their representatives in parliament to move for the fulfilment of the treaty of Amiens, for a treaty ought to be fulfilled. The present is an uncommon case accompanied with uncommon circumstances, and it must be got over by means suited to the occasion. What is Malta to them? The possession of it might serve to extend the patronage and influence of the crown on the appointment to new offices, and the part that would fall to the people would be to pay the expence. The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home. This has always been the case in England.
The non-fulfilment of a treaty ruins the honor of a government, and spreads a reproach over the character of a nation. But when a treaty of peace is made with the concealed design of not fulfilling it, and war is declared for the avowed purpose of avoiding it, the case is still worse. The representative system does not put it in the power of an individual to declare war of his own will. It must be the act of the body of the representatives, for it is their constituents who are to pay the expence. The state which the people of England are now in, shews the extreme danger of trusting this power to the caprice of an individual, whatever title he may bear. In that country, this power is assumed by what is called the crown, for it is not constituted by any legal authority. It is a branch from the trunk of monarchichal despotism.
By this impolitic declaration of war, the government of England have put every thing to issue; and no wise general would commence an action he might avoid, where little is to be gained by gaining the battle, and every thing is to be lost by losing it. An invasion and a revolution, which consequently includes that of Ireland, stand now on the same ground. What part people may finally take in a contest pregnant with such an issue is yet to be known. By the experiment of raising the country in mass the government have put arms into the hands of men whom they would have sent to Botany Bay but a few months before, had they found a pike in their possession. The honor of this project, which is copied from France, is claimed by Mr. Pitt; and no project of his has yet succeeded in the end, except that of raising the taxes and ruining the bank. All his schemes in the revolutionary war of France failed of success and finished in discredit. If Bonaparte is remarkable for an unexampled series of good fortune, Mr. Pitt is remarkable for a contrary fate: And his want of popularity with the people, whom he deserted and betrayed on the question of a reform of parliament sheds no beams of glory round his projects.
In the present eventful crisis, for an eventful one it is, should end in a revolution, the people of England have, within their glance, the benefit of experience, both in theory and fact. This was not the case at first. The American revolution began on untried ground. The representative system of government was then unknown in practice, and but little thought of in theory. The idea that man must be governed by effigy and show, and that superstitious reverence was necessary to establish authority, had so benumbed the reasoning faculties of man, that some bold exertion was necessary to shock them into reflection. But the experiment has now been made. The practice of almost 30 years, the last twenty of which have been of peace, notwithstanding the wrong-headed tumultuous administration of John Adams, has proved the excellence of the representative system, and the new world is now the preceptor of the old. The children are become the fathers of their progenitors.
With respect to the French revolution, it was begun by good men and on good principles, and I have always believed it would have gone on so, had not the provocative interference of foreign powers, of which Pitt was the principal and vindictive agent, distracted it into madness and sown jealousies among the leaders.
The people of England have now two revolutions before them. The one as an example; the other as a warning. Their own wisdom will direct them what to choose and what to avoid, and in every thing which regards their happiness, combined with the common good of mankind, I wish them honor and success.
THOMAS PAINE. AMERICA, March 4, 1804.
It is asserted in a late Royal Standard, a paper set up in London by Mr. Addington, in defence of the British politics, and his own administration to demonstrate the probability of a sudden conversion in this country to the favorite tenets of that upright government—that the President of the United States, is soon to assume the highly dignified title of HIS HIGHNESS, THOMAS JEFFERSON, President of the United States & PROTECTOR & DEFENDER of their liberties!
Thus what with the other title of Emperor of the Gauls, which they have in England so generously conferred on Bonaparte, and this new title so lately contrived as a proof of their knowledge of things in this country, they have before them the flattering prospect of a speedy restoration of true liberty, "social order and good government," both in the French and American republics!
[The sentiments contained in the following extract of a letter from Mr. JEFFERSON, evince his independence as a man, his integrity as a politician, and his purity as a Christian.]
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman belonging to the Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, to his Friend in New-York.
"Some time ago I forwarded to Mr. Jefferson, a Copy of the Extracts of our General Assembly, to let him see the fallacy of the fears of many good people, upon his accession to the Presidency; that he might see that, under his Administration, the Gospel runs and is glorified. I subjoin an Extract from his answer to me. His answer is dated from Monticello, Aug. 12, 1803. After friendly communication, he says, "I thank you for the Pamphlet. The obloquy with which I have been loaded, by Monarchists and Ecclesiastics, on the subject of Religion, I have ever considered as the most honorable testimony I can expect from them. They evinced their apprehension, that I would be an obstacle to the alliance between Church and State; which some of them avowedly sought, and more of them secretly. Pure religion, unadulterated by political embraces or political passions, will thrive most when most free; and if it has experienced any benefit from the present order of things, it has proceeded from that encouragement which arises from conscientiousness, that it is free and safe." S. S.
NEW-ORLEANS.—In consequence of the frays that occurred at the Dancing Assembly in New-Orleans the particulars of which have been already given, the Municipal Body have directed that, except the Governor General of the Province, General Officers and the Officer of the Guard, in future no person of any office, quality, or condition whatsoever shall be admitted into the public ball, with a sword, sabre, dirk, cane, stick, or any other weapon.
JAMES G. PECKHAM, Gold & Silver Smith,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public that he has taken a shop directly opposite Mr. Israel Pease, Thames Street, where all commands will be punctually attended to, and favors gratefully acknowledged.
He has just opened a handsome assortment of Jewellery & Fancy Goods, Which he will sell as cheap as can be purchased in the town. Also, an assortment of Hard Ware, &c. &c. with many other articles too tedious to enumerate.
N. B. Cash and the highest price given for old Gold, Silver, Copper, Brass, Pewter, and Lead. Newport, March 7, 1804.
WASHINGTON, Jf. Clerk's Office Supreme Judicial Court, March 13th, A. D. 1804.
WHEREAS Joseph Sheffield, of Richmond, in the county of Washington, yeoman, hath this day lodged his petition in said office, praying for certain reasons therein stated, that the Bonds of marriage between him and his wife Elizabeth might be dissolved, and a sentence of divorce promulgated:—Notice is therefore hereby given to the said Elizabeth, to appear (if she shall think fit) before the next Supreme Judicial Court, to be held at South-Kingsdown, within and for said county, on the fourth Monday of April next, then and there to show cause (if any she hath) why the prayer of said petition ought not to be granted.
JAMES HELME, jun. Clerk.
KENT, ss. State of Rhode-Island, &c. Clerk's Office of the Supreme Judicial Court, March 17th, 1804.
WHEREAS Elizabeth Stafford, of Exeter, in the county of Washington, wife of Samuel Stafford, has filed her petition in said office, praying for certain reasons therein set forth, that said Court would pass a sentence of divorce, rendering null and void the bonds of matrimony subsisting between her and her husband Samuel Stafford:—Notice is therefore hereby given to the said Samuel, to appear (if he shall think fit) before the next Supreme Judicial Court to be held at East-Greenwich, in and for said county of Kent, on the second Monday of April next, then and there to show cause (if any he has) why the prayer of said petition ought not to be granted.
JOHN G. MAWNEY, Clerk.
THE Hon. Court of Probate for the town of Westerly, have appointed the subscribers to receive, and examine the claims, as Commissioners to the estate of Jofhua Kinyon, late of Westerly, deceased, represented insolvent:—Give Notice, that six months having been allowed by the said Court from the 26th of September last past, for the above purpose, and that we shall attend upon said business at the dwelling house of Sylvester Gaver, Esq. in said Westerly, on the first Monday of January, February, and March, at 9 o'clock, A. M. No accounts will be received unless properly attested to.
THOMAS HOXIE, } Commissioners. THOMAS NOYES, } Jones.
All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to
MARY KINYON, } Administrators. ISRAEL CHAPMAN, } LUTHER PALMER, } AMOS CROSS, }
Westerly, Oct. 20, 1803. 159-6m
Cash given for Rags, at this Office.
100 Dollars Reward.
LOST a short time since at the Vineyard, an elegant GOLD WATCH, having the maker's name marked on the face, viz. "JOHN & C. JOYCE, Lombard Street, London."—Watch Makers and others, are requested to take particular notice, and secure it if offered for sale. Any person who will return it to the subscriber, or to Mr. J. C. Scott, merchant, in Newport, shall receive the above reward.
JACOB SMITH. March 25, 1804. 82
For New-York, Albany & Troy,
THE fast sailing Sloop FAIR PLAY, burthen 50 tons; will sail the 5th of April. For freight or passage, apply to Seth Burden, Master, or to JEREMIAH HUNT, on Newman's Wharf, Newport, March 28, 1804.
Now Landing
AT Mr. Robert Stevens' wharf, from the Sloop Columbia, Thomas Sanford, master, and to be sold cheap for Cash, 50 Hhds. 12 tierces, & 12 bbls. best of Havana Molasses, 4 Hhds. Havana Honey, 6 Tons Rustic, 34 Kegs English & Dutch Gun Powder. Newport, March 22, 1804. 81
THE subscribers, being appointed by the Hon. Court of Probate, Commissioners to receive, examine, and adjust the claims of the Creditors to the estate of Reuben Taber, late of South-Kingsdown (Tailor) deceased, represented insolvent; and six months being allowed for that purpose; do hereby give notice, that we will attend on said business at our respective dwellings, at any time within the period above prescribed. JOHN WILLIAMS, } Commissioners. HOLMES WEAVER, } Jones. All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to MERRIBAH TABER, Executrix. Newport, March 21, 1804. 81
William Douglass, on the Head of Broad-Street,
HAS constantly for sale, a general Assortment of West-India and other GOOD S.—Also, 6000 wt. of FLAX, (four different kinds and prices) very cheap for cash. He has just received, and offers for sale, 600 wt. fresh Chocolate Shells, very cheap. And One Ton first quality of clean FLAX.
HAY SEEDS.
Has also received from New-York & Vermont the following Hay-Seeds, viz. Red Clover, Herds-Grass, Red-Top, and Bardsens, by wholesale and retail. They are new and clean, and will be sold as low as can be purchased in the State.
A few bushels Foul Meadow Seed, which will produce the best kind of Fodder, although but little known in these parts.
Also, on hand 2 casks new FLAX-SEED, from the same place. The first quality Sythes and Sythe Sticks, complete:—Rakes, Hoes & Hoe Handles Fork Tails, &c.
CASH, and Two Pence half Penny per pound, given for Cotton and Linen RAGS.
Rhode-Island Bridge.
THE subscribers, having been appointed a committee, to advertise for proposal, for rebuilding the Bridge at Howland's ferry, publish the following, to wit:
The distance from one abutment to the other, is 764 feet.—The average depth of water upon the stone already thrown in, from the western abutment to the draw, is 28 feet at low water.—From the eastern abutment to the draw, which is 140 feet, is 8 feet on an average at low water.—The draw to be in 16 feet water, 24 feet wide:—The western side of the draw to be filled up with stones promiscuously thrown in, until they can be levelled off to the width of 40 feet, 2 feet below high water.—The abutment on the east side to be built out to the draw, with suitable stone.—A wall is to be built on each side the base, 6 feet high, 8 feet wide at the bottom, and 6 feet at the top, with large split hammered stone, to be perpendicular on the inside, with a slope facing the sea. The passage for carriages, which is to be 20 feet wide, to be filled up with small stone, 2 feet above high water and levelled off with gravel.—The abutments at the draw are to be built of the same kind of stone as the side walls, not less than 6 feet long, 1 foot thick, and 18 inches wide, secured with composition bolts at the corners, to be sunk in caissons of 40 feet long and 12 wide. The draw to be constructed of timber and plank upon the most approved model—and railing is to be placed on the outside walls, supported by iron standards, secured in the stone on the top of the wall. The whole to be completed in the year 1805.
Any persons desirous to contract for the whole, or in part, agreeable to the above statement, will please to send in their proposals sealed, to either of the subscribers.
HENRY SHERBURNE, } DANIEL LYMAN, } JOHN L. BOSS, } CHRISTOPHER FOWLER, } Committee. WILLIAM R. ROBINSON, } AUDLEY CLARK, }
Newport, Feb. 15, 1804.
WRITING-PAPER, By the Ream or Quire, for sale at this Office.

Late Foreign Articles.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THE SUBJECT OF INVASION.
LONDON, Feb. 13. The public may place the fullest reliance on the authenticity of the following statement, which we have just been favored with from the most unquestionable authority.—Two Swiss officers, (brothers) in the French service, are just arrived from France, having made their escape from thence. They have been examined before the Privy Council, and made a declaration that the invasion of this country will be attempted in the course of the present week, wind and weather permitting.
Price of stocks this day at one o'clock. Reduced 56—1 8 1-4—Consols 55 5 8 3-4
DEATH OF THE KING OF ENGLAND.
[By an arrival at Philadelphia.]
PHILADELPHIA, March 20.
By the Pignon, Collet, which arrived at this port on Sunday, in 29 days from London, newspapers to the 19th February have been received in this city, containing news five days later than that received by way of Boston. These papers state that no interesting event had taken place in the interval, and we are yet to conjecture whether or when any are likely to occur. The indisposition of the king of Great Britain appears to have engaged the principal attention, at the date of the last advices; and when the state of Europe and the situation of England in particular, are considered, the solicitude, excited by the illness of this monarch, will not appear surprising: According to the public prints, he had in some respects recovered his health, but the Capt. of the Pignon informs that on the 19th and 20th of February it was currently reported and generally believed that the king had died; that the privy council was in session, but that for political reasons the cause and object of their deliberations were concealed, and a desire manifested to persuade that the king was not dead. Whether this event has actually occurred or not cannot be decided at present, but arguing from probabilities we consider the report entitled to belief—the age of the monarch, the knowledge that he was afflicted with a complication of diseases, that the indisposition we are told he laboured under on the 18th February, was unusually severe, all render it extremely probable that the report of his recovery was deceptive. When the state of parties and the views of particular men in England, are reflected upon, there will be found reasons tending to impress a belief that the ministry, or privy counsellors, had determined to conceal for a time the knowledge of the death of the King. The recent refusal of the ministry to confer on the prince of Wales any post of honor in the army, was but one of the evidences of that enmity and jealousy with which he has ever been viewed; he is well known to have paid great deference to Mr. Fox and the whig interest, and to have coincided in opinion with them in their opposition to a war, and it may be reasonably supposed that on his accession to the throne he would totally change the face of affairs. The Duke of York is the man upon whom the opponents to the prince of Wales desire to succeed to the throne, but how they could accomplish their object under present circumstances we cannot conceive: Nothing but death can now prevent the accession of the prince, the object of the ministry therefore may have been to effect a compromise or to induce the prince to "agree to terms." We confess we think the death of George III. highly probable, and if such shall be found to be the case, we shall not be surprised to hear of overtures of peace with France having been the consequence—that there will be a change of ministry, and a complete one too, we consider as certain.
Of the French expedition the latest rumors intimated that it would not be undertaken before March, as the preparations could only then be completed. One would imagine, from all that has heretofore been said of preparations that it was impossible any thing could have remained unfinished in the middle of February, the fact seems otherwise, the building of vessels of every description continued to be carrying on in the ports of France and its dependencies with vigor—troops continued to be collected, and dispositions of the naval force to be made. Bonaparte was to have left Paris early in February for a third visit to the coast.
We have seen nothing in the extracts from English papers relative to the predicted rupture between Spain and England.
The northern powers, particularly Russia, were forming cordon of troops on their frontiers—the cause is mysterious, for we cannot believe the rumours of the English prints that any of the continental powers are disposed to commence hostilities against France.
The German empire appears to have been considerably agitated in its internal concerns, the late accounts throw no light on the causes which produced the agitation, nor are we informed whether it continued. An act of partial hostilities had taken place between the German and Turkish troops on the frontiers, which had been made the pretext for a claim on the empire for an additional force "to preserve its territory respected;"—Future events may explain these circumstances; at present the Ottoman empire appears insecure on all sides—disaffection encreases at home and in Egypt it is questionable whether the crescent will ever again be respected.
The French and Italian forces in Italy had been encreased and concentrated; but few surmises are thrown out respecting their object. It is, however, again stated as probable that Bonaparte mediates another attempt on Egypt, and some even insinuate that the Mares is his object.
The next arrival will probably decide the question of the truth of the report of the death of the king of England—if the event has really taken place, the effect on the state of European affairs will be considerable, and our solicitude for information be encreased.
WASHINGTON, March 16.
The Senate have elected Mr. FRANKLIN, of North Carolina, President pro-tempore of the Senate in the absence of the Vice-President of the United States.
It may quiet the unfounded apprehensions which have been lately excited, to state, from information derived from the Governor General of Louisiana, that perfect tranquility prevails at New-Orleans.
We are authorised to state that the frigate John Adams will sail from this place for the American squadron in the Mediterranean in the course of 3 or 4 weeks—the friends of the officers in the Mediterranean may avail themselves of this opportunity to write or send any small packages.
Nat. Intel.
NEWPORT,
Thursday, March 29, 1804.
The Governor of South-Carolina has issued his proclamation for convening the legislature of that State on Thursday the 10th of May next. The Amendment of the constitution of the U. States will then come under their consideration, and very little doubt exists but it will be agreed to.
Much tempestuous weather has been experienced, the past season on the British coast. On the 14th of Jan. 5 ships with coals, were sunk near Scarborough Harbor. Great numbers of dead bodies were daily thrown on shore.
A New-Hampshire federal paper says—"It requires not the spirit of prophecy to predict a change in the administration of our State government the present year. Whether Mr. Gilman or Mr. Langdon are chosen to fill the first office of the State, almost certain it is, that in the next House of Representatives there will be a republican majority."
The Portsmouth (N. H.) paper, of the 20th instant, contains a statement of the votes of 89 towns, by which it appears that the Hon. JONATHAN LANGDON, the Republican candidate, had a majority of one hundred and five.
JUDGE PICKERING. —The Senate of the United States on the 12th inst. declared Judge Pickering guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, and adjudged that he be removed from office.
Yea's —Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Breckenridge, Cocke, Ellery, Franklin, Jackson, Maclay, Nicholson, Porter, Israel Smith, J. Smith, Ohio—J. Smith, New-York—S. Smith, Sumpner, Venable, Wells, Worthington, Wright—20 Nays —Messrs. J. Q. Adams, Hildreth, Olcott, Pickering, Plumer, Tracy—6.
The witnesses against Judge Pickering were Messrs. Joseph Whipple, John Steel, J. Sherburne, Thomas Chapman, Ebenezer Shearman, Michael McClary, and Edward Hart.
JUDGE CHASE. —The House of Representatives of the United States have agreed to the impeachment of Judge Chase, 70 to 32.
Georgia Land. —The further consideration of this subject has been referred to the next session of Congress.
WEST INDIES. —It is reported from Guanaives, that the black Gen. Saline, has issued a Proclamation, commanding the extirpation, by massacre, of every white in the Island.—The British are besieging Curacoa; Martinique is in a state of blockade. An English schooner of 16 guns, blockading that port, blew up on the 9th of Feb. and the whole crew are said to be lost.
DOMESTIC. —The Middlesex Canal, from Merrimack River, to Boston, is completed, and will be in operation as soon as the ice is dissolved. This is the greatest public enterprise that ever was accomplished in the New-England States—and we hope the Proprietors will soon be remunerated for the very heavy expenses they have incurred in finishing this important Canal.
The New-York Humane Society has made a report which will be very acceptable to the friends of humanity. By their soup and fuel this society has been able to relieve 131 prisoners for debt; 15,206 quarts of soup have been provided, of which above 8,000 were given to the poor, and nearly 5,000 to the prisoners. The rest was disposed of to such as could purchase on easy terms. In 1803, the society received 688 dollars, and expended nearly that sum. They have seen the great utility of their plan, and invite that charity which will maintain it. This is not the only thing in which the city has given a good example.—A most atrocious murder was committed in Pendleton, (S. Carolina) on the 27th Jan. Miss Polly Young, a fine amiable young woman on that morning left her father's house to go to a mill two miles distant, and was killed on her return by her father's negro fellow, in a manner too barbarous and indecent to detail. It is however certain it was one of the foulest murders ever known in this country. This monster of inhumanity and bloodshed, was fairly convicted of the crime, and has been executed.—A few weeks since a man named Wilkinson, shot himself at Steubenville, in the State of Ohio. What renders this remarkable is, that he was married on Thursday evening, and on Friday morning he perpetrated the horrid act, in the presence of his wife. [Boh. W. M.]
Royal Correspondence. —Among the interesting articles extracted from the late London papers, we notice a long correspondence, between his Majesty,—the Prince of Wales,—the Duke of York,—and Mr. Addington, on the subject of the Prince's application for promotion in the army, at the commencement of the present war.—The Prince, it seems, is only a Colonel of Dragoons, while three of his younger brothers,
hold the rank of General Officers.—The Duke of York, his second brother, is commander in chief.—When the threatened invasion first became the subject of conversation, the Prince, applied to his Majesty, through Mr. Addington, for a command suited to his civil rank and dignity. The application was pointedly rejected, without any assignment of reasons, with positive injunctions from his Majesty, that "no farther mention should be made to him on the subject." This led to a direct application to his Majesty, which met the same fate. The Duke of York was then solicited by his brother, to make an official representation in his behalf. This the Duke declined, assigning as a reason, that upon presenting a letter from the Prince to his Majesty, on the same subject, in 1795, he had been ordered to decline being the bearer of any similar application in future.
After being thus disappointed in his wishes, the Prince repaired to Brighton, and resumed the command of his regiment of Dragoons.
There is a sort of mystery in this business which is not fully explained. It is suggested in the course of the correspondence, that reasons of state have induced his Majesty to this determination against the wishes of his son, and that he has always been of opinion the Heir Apparent ought not to hold a distinguished rank in the Army. The Prince argues historical precedents and the peculiar state of the Country, in support of his pretensions. He also refers his Majesty to his own determination, to place himself at the head of the Army, in case the threatened invasion should actually be attempted. We do not pretend to offer an opinion as to the Heir Apparent. But from the examples which have been exhibited by his Royal Brother, we cannot believe that he is second in either to his High Mightiness, the present commander in chief. We are much inclined to the opinion, that private policy, or personal pique, rather than the pretended reasons of state, have induced to this very extraordinary decision.— Regis.
Arrived here on Sunday last, sloop Edna, 4 days from Ocracoke Bar, (N. C.) Spencer Leonard, master. March 23d, in Lat. 37 36 N. Long. 78 30 W. took brig Caroline of Middletown, (Conn.) Wm. Snow master, 40 days from Turks-Island bound to New-York, with a good wind for that port—out of almost all kinds of provisions; it blowing fresh could not assist him.
Extract of a letter from an officer on board the Philadelphia frigate, dated at Tripoli.
"As I am using the only pen and ink, except one that the captain is using, which we can procure, I have only time to tell you, that yesterday at 12 o'clock, while in chase of one of the enemy's ships of war, we ran aground a few miles to the eastward of the fort and town of Tripoli, which being very soon perceived, the gun-boats flocked out upon us.—We fought the ship as long as we could do any good, and tried every expedient seamanship suggested to get her off, but all in vain.—About four o'clock in the afternoon, we were obliged to haul our colours down; before we did that we cut away the fore-mast. When they first came on board they behaved remarkably well, but when the rabble got on board, I never saw or heard of such plunder as they made, they drove us into their boats without any clothes, but what we had on. I had to fight with two of them some time to secure my great coat, and by scuffling I saved my money and watch. The Captain was robbed of his watch, money, and epaulets, the latter the Bashaw had returned to him. Before we got on shore, we were treated most brutally—some of the officers had their coat, vest, and cravat taken off. After we got on shore they treated us very well. We were all shown to the Bashaw in his audience chamber, surrounded by guards. We now inhabit the American house, as it is called. It is the house that our Consul inhabited, and are upon our parole of honor not to leave the place without permission, and that cannot be until we are all ransomed together, as the Bashaw will not receive ransom for one at a time, but must have all together. Unfortunately there was none of our vessels off here, but us, or else we should have gone on board them. The only person that has been attentive to us, or interested himself, is the Danish Consul—none of the other Consuls have been near us—they all hoisted their flags this morning. If the Danish Consul had not behaved as well as he has, we should have been badly off. He has seen himself to every thing necessary to make us comfortable.—Our Captain behaved remarkably well, very much like the officer, seaman, and gentleman, and I shall always feel a very great regard for him. He has made repeated enquiries for our clothes, without effect."
A postscript to the above letter says, that the wind had commenced a gale, and it was expected the frigate would bilge.
DIED —At Jaffery, N. H. Miss Nancy T. LINCOLN, Aet. 9, only daughter of Dr. Luke Lincoln. "She was on a visit at the house of Joseph Thorndike, Esq. her grandfather. The family were all absent, attending a funeral, in the neighborhood, except two small boys, one 12 and the other 14 years of age, who were at the barn; by some unknown and unfortunate accident, her clothes caught fire, and she was immediately enveloped in flames. No person being in the house to assist her, she found her way out of doors, and her cries of distress was heard by one of the neighboring women, who found her a number of rods from the house and afforded her the first assistance, but, by this time, all her clothes had been consumed on her body. Every exertion was made, with the aid of three physicians, for her relief, but to no effect. She survived about 14 hours, in the utmost distress, when the Messenger of Death executed his commission."
At Montville, an infant child of Mr. Dol-
bear. The mother tied it to a chair, and placed it before the fire, while she went to the well for some water, and during her absence the child by some means rocked the chair over, which fell towards the fire, and the helpless infant being fastened was held across the forelock, with its face over the blaze—it was burnt in a shocking manner, and lived about nine hours.
In this town, Mr. SAMUEL BROWN, in the 66th year of his age.
Miss SALLY HEATH, daughter of Mr. Records Heath, in the 19th year of her age.
CUSTOM-HOUSE.
District of Newport, March 28.
   ENTERED. From     Schooner Dolphin, Spencer, Baltimore   Sloop Henry, Rhodes, do.   Do. Columbia, Gardner, Alexandria   Brig Rowena, Potter, Havanna.   CLEARED. For   Brig Brandywine, Cozzens, Philadelphia   Sloop Sally, Congdon, Charleston   Do. Polly, Finch, Norfolk   Snow Ida, Appleby, Amsterdam   Schooner Polly, Hatch, Nantucket   Brig Favorite, Martin, Havanna.  
Warwick Channel & Road Lottery.
WHEREAS the Legislature of the State of Rhode-Island, at their Session in February 1804, granted a Lottery to raise the sum of Eight Thousand Dollars, for deepening the Channel of Apponage River, leading from the Bay to the Village called the Fulling Mills, in Warwick, for the purpose of improving the navigation thereof; and for repairing the Road leading westward of said Village over Ridge Hill: The subscribers being appointed Managers of said Lottery, and having given bonds according to law, offer to the public the following Scheme:
CLASS FIRST.
   1 Prize of 1000 Dollars, is 1000   2 500 1000   20 100 2000   42 48 2016   60 32 1920   70 24 1680   125 16 2000   2494 8 19952   1 First drawn Number 1st day 112   1 Do. Do. 2d day 108   1 Do. Do. 3d day 108   1 Last drawn Number, 104   2818 Prizes.   5182 Blanks.   8000 Tickets, at 4 Dollars each 32000  
The prizes will be subject to a deduction of only 12 1/2 per cent. All prizes under 48 dollars will paid in 60 days; the others in 90 days after drawing. Such as shall not be demanded within 9 months, will be considered as generously given for the purpose of said Lottery, and appropriated accordingly.
It is confidently expected, that the great advantages which will naturally result to the community at large by encouraging so laudable an undertaking in facilitating navigation, &c. will induce a rapid sale of the Tickets, and enable the Managers to issue the Second Class, without much delay. The low price of the Tickets, the many valuable prizes, the small deduction in comparison with some other lotteries, and there not being 2 blanks to a prize, are strong inducements for people of all classes to become adventurers.
All those who draw a prize in the First Class will be entitled to a Ticket in the Second, which will be considered as payment of 4 Dollars, and the remainder to be paid in money. A list of the fortunate numbers will be published in two or more of the newspapers printed in this State.
THOMAS ARNOLD (S. B.) HENRY REMINGTON, THOMAS WARNER, THOMAS RELPH, SAMUEL WRIGHT, } Managers.
Warwick, March 25, 1804. 182
Boarding for Students,
IN the Washington Academy, may be had in the families of either of the subscribers, at one Dollar and fifty Cents per week, and every other necessary accommodation, by the Public's obedient Servants,
ROBERT ELDRED, RICHARD THOMAS, DANIEL ELDRED, GEORGE TENNANT, PHILLIP TILLINGHAST, WILLIAM HAMMAND, Jun.
Wickford, March 28, 1804.
For Sale;
A Two story dwelling House, with a Shop adjoining, situated in Horn Lane, lying to the northward of the estate of Mr. Thomas G. Pitman, and southward of the lot of Mr. Thomas Weedon.—
Terms made easy. For further particulars, inquire of SOLOMON GLADDING, on the premises.
Newport, March 28, 1804. 182 1/2
THE Newport Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers, are requested to meet at the State House on the second day of April, at 7 o'clock, P. M. Per order, SAMUEL KING, Sec'y.
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND, ss. March 19th, 1804.
THE Creditors of Henry G. Champlin, of Newport, Trader, are hereby notified to appear if they think fit, at the General Assembly to be held at Newport on the first Wednesday of May next, then and there to show cause, if any they may have, why his petition for the benefit of an Act passed June, A. D. 1796, for the relief of insolvent debtors, ought not to be granted. B. HAZARD, Dep. Sec'y.

Notice is hereby given,
THAT proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary for the Department of War, until the eighteenth day of May next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of October, 1804, until the 30th day of September, 1805, both days inclusive at the following places, viz.
First. At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Chicago, Fort Wayne, the post on the Miami of the Lakes, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the State of Ohio; and at any place or places within the Indiana territory north of the 41st degree of north latitude.
Second. At South West Point, Tellico, Knoxville, Nashville, and within the Cherokee nation between Tennessee and Georgia, and on the Tennessee river, and on the road between the said river and Nashville, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the States of Tennessee and Kentucky.
Third. At the garrison near Vincennes, on the river Wabash.
Fourth. At Fort Massac, near the mouth of the Ohio, Kaskaskia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the Indiana territory, south of the 41st degree of north latitude, (Vincennes excepted.)
Fifth. At St. Louis, New Madrid, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in Louisiana, north of the settlements on the river Arkansas.
Sixth. At Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas, Natchez, Fort Adams, Fort Stoddart on the Mobile, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the Mississippi territory, and on the road between Natchez and the Tennessee river, (the post on said river excepted.)
Seventh. At New Orleans, and at any place or places on the Mississippi river, below Fort Adams, and at Opelousas, Natchitoches, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in Louisiana, not before mentioned, or provided for.
Eighth. At Fort Wilkinson, Cockspur Island, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the State of Georgia, or on the road between the State of Georgia, and on the Indian boundary between Georgia & the Creek nation.
Ninth. At Charleston, Rocky Mountain, on the head waters of the Santee, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the States of South and North Carolina.
Tenth. At Norfolk, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the State of Virginia.
Eleventh. At Fort M'Henry, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the State of Maryland and the district of Columbia.
Twelfth. At Fort Mifflin, Pittsburgh, Castle, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Thirteenth. At Fort Jay, West Point, Albany, Schenectady, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the State of New-York, (Niagara excepted.)
Fourteenth. At Fort Trumbull, Fort Wolcott, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Fifteenth. At Fort Independence, (Boston harbor) and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the State of Massachusetts, (the district of Maine excepted.)
Sixteenth. At Portsmouth, Portland, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the State of New Hampshire and the district of Maine.
A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of beef or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whisky or brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and one half of candles, to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the ration should be specified; but the United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price for the whole ration.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara and Chicago for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the western waters for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the Commandants of fortified places or posts to call for at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in the case of urgency such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the Commandant shall be deemed proper.
It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredation of an enemy, or by mean of the troops of the United States, shall be paid by
the United States at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or more persons of credible character, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the Sea board or Indian frontiers, not exceeding three months.
H. DEARBORN, Secretary of War.
JOSEPH BRIGGS
HAS for sale, 50 barrels best mess and prime PORK and BEER. Also, a few Hhds. first quality retailing MOLASSES. Newport, February 23. 177.
FOR SALE BY
Henry Moore, & Co.
WEST-INDIA Rum by the Ehd. Gin by the pipe, Brandy do. Molasses, Port, Sherry, 100 barrels superfine flour, 30 casks fresh Raisins, Loaf, powdered and brown Sugars, Coffee, Chocolate, Bohea and Souchong Teas, Pepper, Ginger, and Allspice, Nutmegs, Cloves & Cassia, Brimstone, Allum, Copperas, Soap by the box; All kinds Knives and Forks, Pen & Jack Knives, Razors in cases, Shears and Scissors, Patent hour and half hour Glasses, Casters, English Pewter, Sad Irons, Likewise, a handsome assortment of DRY GOODS, which they will sell on reasonable terms, for Cash or approved Notes, by wholesale or retail, at their Store on the Ferry Wharf. Newport, Feb. 2, 1804. 174.
Also, an Assortment of AMERICAN SEEDS, the growth of this State. Newport, Feb. 23, 1804. 100.
FLOUR STORE On Col. CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLAIN'S Wharf, By JOHN BOURS, jun. & Co. Who will always have on hand a supply of the best Superfine FLOUR. Newport, Oct. 20, 1803.
MEIN & ROGERS HAVE FOR SALE, FIFTY Hogsheads West-India Sugar, 1400 wt. St. Domingo best green Coffee, St. Croix & Jamaica Rum, 40 qr. casks Gunpowder, 4 crates assorted Liverpool Ware, 7 pipes Brandy, Holland Geneva, 200 buls. Superfine Flour, Bohea Tea, German Steel, &c. Also, at Retail, a constant supply and general assortment of Groceries, Crockery, & Glass Ware. Newport, Oct. 20. 190f.
Ten Thousand Dollars Highest Prize. TICKETS IN South-Hadley Canal Lottery, (15th Class) at 5 dollars each, for sale at the Post-Office, by J. RICHARDSON. Newport, March 1st.
FOR SALE, CHEAP FOR CASH, Clover and Herds Grass SEEDS. 20 Hhds. of good Retailing MOLASSES, for Cash or approved Notes. Also, Cabbins Bread, of the first quality, by HENRY MOORE & Co. Newport, March 6, 1804.
Dry Goods for Cash only. THE Subscriber intending to quit the line of business he at present pursues, has marked all his Goods, including a box of Hats assorted, at not exceeding 5 per cent. (the usual profit being 20 per cent.) on cost, by retail many less, and some at cost. A large quantity of the above Goods, especially Broad Cloths and other Woolens, were purchased at a very low advance, upon the flitting cost. He likewise offers for Sale or Lease, his Estate, situate on Thames-Street (formerly the property of Sarsey Sheffield.) For terms, apply to EBENEZER SHEARMAN, or JOHN R. SHEARMAN. Newport, Dec. 12, 1803. 67f.
WANTED, A Native Boy, about 12 or 13 years of age, as an Apprentice to the Hair-Dresser's business. One from the country will be preferred. Enquire at this Office. Newport, Jan. 4, 1804. 70.
Kitchen & Flower GARDEN SEEDS Just imported from London, by the Ship Commerce (via New-York) warranted to be of the last year's growth, and have every appearance of being genuine, for sale by MARY DUNBAR, Opposite Mr. GEORGE GIBBS's.
PEASE: Scarlet & blood Beet, Early Turner, Orange Carrot, Early Charlton, Large Parsnip, Blue Perian, Scarlet Onion, Green Marrowfat, Early-frame Cucumber, Dwarf Spanish Sugar, Long Prickley do., BEANS: Bulk & long neck Squash, Large Windsor, Annual FLOWERS: White Bush, Purple Egg Plant, CABBAGE: Purple do., Early Dwarf May, Purple Jacobaea, Early Sugar Loaf, White do. & Ice-Plant, Early Yorkshire, Sweet Alyssum, Early Cauliflower, Amarantus Tricolor, Large Baccara, Mignonette, Large Dutch Red, Purple Candy-Tuft, Green Savoy, Double Balsam, Yellow do., Cyanus minor, LETTUCE: Summer Cypress, Early Cabbage, China Pink, Tamin Ball & Silesia, Rose Larkspur, RADISH: Sweet Marvel of Peru, Early Short-Top, Rose & Yellow Lupins, Early Salmon, Mix'd Sweet Sultan, And Long Scarlet, Mix'd China Aster, Sweet Marjoram, Mix'd Sweet Pease, Thyme and Sage, Biennial and Perennial FLOWERS: Summer Savory, Bloody Wall-Flower, Lavender & Angelica, Yellow do., Curled Parsley, Sweet Rockets, Burnett & cur'd Creep, Sweet William, Solid Celery, Honesty & Carnation, Broad-leav'd Spinage, Pheasant-eyed Pink, Prickley-leav'd do., Canterbury Bells, White Mustard, ROOTS: Nasturtium, Ranunculus, Asparagus, Anemone, Early Dutch Turnip.
NEW HOTEL. THE subscriber informs the Public that he has now opened, and made provision for keeping a genteel Boarding-House, a little South of Capt. Caleb Gardner's wharf, Thames-Street, where Ladies and Gentlemen may depend on being accommodated to their satisfaction. Every attention will be given, and the smallest favors gratefully acknowledged, by the public's humble servant, BENJ. FAIRBANKS. Newport, April 16. 133.
Tin Plate Worker. GORTON ANDERSON, respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he has taken a part of the store belonging to his father, Francis Anderson, opposite the Red-Market, where he carries on the business of a Tin Plate Worker, in all its various branches: Those who may favor him with their custom, may depend upon punctuality: Constant attendance will be given, and the smallest favors gratefully acknowledged. Cash given for old Pewter & Lead.
Doctor Gustavus Baylies, IN addition to his former assortment of Medicines, has just received (consigned to him by a wholesale vendor to a number of Patentees) the following patent Medicines, for sale, on the lowest terms, viz. Lee's genuine Windham Bileous Pills: Doctor Rawson's genuine Anti-Bileous & Stomachic Bitters: Doctor Rawson's genuine Ich, or Beautifying Ointment: Doctor Cooley's Vegetable Elixir, or Cough Drops, for consumptions, asthma, spitting of blood, shortness of breath, and every other species of disease, to which that organ of life, the lungs, is perpetually exposed. Doctor Nourse's Worm Destroying Powders, or a sovereign Medicine for the destruction of every species of Worms which infest the human body. Thomson's Aromatic Tooth Paste for the Teeth and Scurvey in the Gum's: and Hinkley's Infallible Remedy for the Hæmorrhoids, or Piles. Doctor BAYLIES, availing himself of this opportunity to tender his thanks to his friends, for the confidence they have hitherto reposed in him as Practitioner of Phyic and Surgery, begs leave to assure the public, that the various branches of the medical profession continue to occupy his attention. Bristol, Jan. 16, 1804. 72 gm.
FOR SALE, BY SIMEON MARTIN, SIXTY Hhds. good retailing Molasses, Two tons Hatt, Club, and Halbeck Steel, Twenty boxes brown Havana Sugars, Two thousand bushels Exuma Salt, suitable for pork, beef, and fish. Also, Just received from Amsterdam, per ship Eagle, (Daniel Austin Master) 35 Boxes plain Glass-Ware, each containing 80 straws of half-pint Tumblers, 10 per straw—6 pint Decanters—6 half pint do.—12 Wine Glasses—6 Salt Cells. 51 Boxes fluted Glass Ware, each containing, 400 half-pint Tumblers—2 quart Decanters, 4 pint do.—4 half-pint ditto—36 Wine Glasses—6 Salt Cells. 10 Pipes Weesp Gin—5 casks White Lead, 30 quarter casks of Pirol Powder, 4 casks Shot, of various sizes, 3 ditto Linseed Oil, 100 Dutch Cheeses, weighing 18 & 22 lbs. each, 200 (12 bottle) empty Gin Cases. Newport, Jan. 29, 1803. [122f]
John & Henry Cahone Have for sale at their Store on Banister's Wharf, FOURTH proof JAMAICA RUM, HOLLAND GENEVA, ALICANT BRANDY, SUPERFINE FLOUR, RYE do., BUCK WHEAT, do., POWDER, per cask, SHOT, by the bag, ROSIN, by the bbl. Ship and Pilot BREAD, by the quantity, Ready made COLOURS, different kinds.
TO THE PUBLIC. Newport, Long-Wharf No. 12. Keyes & Brigham, HAVE now for sale, and of the first quality, by a large or small quantity, whole and half barreled prime mess, mess and prime Beef, mess and prime Pork, Lard, Hams, bar Soap, mould and dipt tallow Candles. Also, corned and fresh Beef. Gentlemen desirous of being accommodated with the best of provisions, by calling at said Store, will meet the greatest encouragement. April 23, 1803.
THE subscribers, having been appointed by the Hon. Court of Probate for the town of Newport, Commissioners, to receive, examine & adjust the claims of the creditors to the estate of Edward Stanhope, late of said Newport, Baker, deceased, represented insolvent:—Give notice, that six months having been allowed by the said Court from the 2d day of January last, for the above purpose, we shall attend upon said business at the office of Daniel Lyman and Gold S. Silliman, in said Newport, on the fourth Monday of March, April and May, at 9 o'clock, A. M. No accounts will be received unless properly audited. WILLIAM S. N. ALLEN, } Commis- GOLD S. SILLIMAN, } sioners. All persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment to MARY STANHOPE, } Adminis- THOMAS D. STALL, } trators. Newport, March 14th 1804.
GEORGE THOMAS, Confectioner, Distiller, and Fruit Preserver, HAS for Sale the following Articles, viz. box and cask raisins; figs; almonds in shell; prunes; currants; nutmegs; cloves; cinnamon; allspice; black and Cayenne pepper; ginger; mustard; spice bitters; tea; coffee; cocoa shells; chocolate, No. 1 and 2, prepared with and without vanilla; brown, powdered & loaf-sugar; Cordials of all kinds; ginger preserves:—An assortment of Preserved Fruits in brandy, olives, anchovies, peas-nuts; best Frontignac, Sherry, Teneriffe and Malaga, Wine; syrup, already prepared for punch, superior to any commonly used; 1st and 4th proof Jamaica Spirits, and Antigua Rum; best Spanish Segars; with an elegant assortment of Glass and Crocker-ry WARE, which he is determined to sell very low.—Punctual attendance and the smallest favors gratefully acknowledged. Newport, July 2, 1803. [61f]
Nathaniel Nason, RESPECTFULLY informs the Public, that he has taken a Shop three Doors North of the New Church Lane, 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 favor acknowledged. Stove Pipes, either of Tin or Sheet-Iron, made with dispatch. * * * Cash, and the highest price, given for old Pewter and Lead. Newport, Oct. 27. 160.
SAIL-MAKING. THE subscribers having entered into partnership, under the firm of Dunham and Spooner, 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 Geo. 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 CHARLES C. DUNHAM, WING SPOONER. 2d. Newport, April 3, 1802. 79f.
WHEREAS the Court of probate for the town of North-Kingstown, having appointed the subscribers, Commissioners, to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of SAMUEL HUNT, Esq. late of North-Kingstown, deceased, represented insolvent:—All persons having any demands against said estate, are hereby notified to exhibit the same to either of the subscribers, at our respective dwellings, within twelve months from the date hereof, that being the time allowed by said court. GEORGE THOMAS, } Commis- BENJAMIN SMITH, } sioners. All persons indebted to the above estate, are desired to make immediate payment to JEREMIAH HUNT of Newport. North-Kingstown, April 21, 1803. 138.
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.
INDIGO. TWO Hundred wt. of excellent INDIGO, for sale by JOHN HAZARD, jun. Newport, Nov. 16, 1803.