Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1804-08-02 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.
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.
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 mitters; 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 Preferred Fruits in brandy, olives, anchovies, peas, nuts; beet Frontigniac, Sherry, Teneriffe and Malaga; Wines; Syrup, already prepared for punch, superior to any commonly used; rye and 4th proof Jamaica Spirits, and Antigua Rum; best Spanish segars; with an elegant assortment of Glass and Crockery WARE, which he is determined to sell very low.—Punctual attendance and the smallest favors gratefully acknowledged.
MEDITERRANEAN PASSPORTS. Notice is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport issued to vessels of the United States; that from the eighth day of July next, those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport of which the may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange: and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use.
New Variety Store. THOMAS D. STALL, INFORMS his friends, and the public in general, that he has opened a Grocery Store, in his house in Thames-Street, late the property of Joseph Rogers, and directly opposite W. R. Wilder's Book-Store, where he offers for sale the following Goods at a very low price: Loaf, lump, white, powdered and brown; Hylon; Young hylon; Souchong, hylon skin, & bohea; Sherry and Malaga; Brandy; Jamaica Spirits; W. India & N. England Rum; Best Holland Geneva, Molasses, Rice & Flower, Coffee, Button Chocolate No. 1 and 2, Fresh box & cask Raisins, Cinnamon, Cassia, Mace, Cloves.
A L S O, A general and extensive variety of Crockery and Glass Ware, With many other Articles too tedious to mention. Newport, April 19. 1804.
C. Taber & Wm. Gardner, Have for Sale. FORTY Hhds. Sugar, part of which is of the 1st quality for retailing, 12 Hhds. & 60 bags Coffee, A few Hhds. old Demerara Rum, Several quarter cask old Sherry Wine, And 2500 bushels Turks Island Salt, part of it very coarse and white, suitable for Dairies. Newport, July 26, 1804.
LAWS OF THE UNION. [PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.] EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, At the First Session, begun and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on the Seventeenth day of October, 1803.
AN ACT Relative to the compensations of certain officers of the customs; and to provide for appointing a Surveyor in the district therein mentioned. BE it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the last day of June in the present year, the salaries heretofore allowed by law to the several collectors of the customs, for the districts of Bath, Portsmouth, Newport, Middletown, New Haven, Delaware, Richmond, Wilmington in North-Carolina, Newbern and Edenton, shall cease and be discontinued. And there shall be allowed and paid annually to the officers of the customs hereafter named, the following sums respectively, viz.
To the collector for the district of Natchez, in addition to the fees and other emoluments of office, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars; and to each of the surveyors at New-London, Middletown, New-Haven, & Alexandria, in addition to the allowances already established by law, the sum of fifty dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said last day of June in lieu of the emoluments heretofore allowed by law, there shall be allowed to the collectors of the customs for Wilmington in North Carolina, and Newbern, two and a half per cent: To the collectors for Petersburg and Richmond, two per cent: To the collectors for Kennebec and New-London, one and three quarters per cent: To the collector for Bath, one and a half per cent: To the collectors for New-Haven and Middletown, one and three eighths per cent: To the collectors for Providence and Alexandria, one and one quarter per cent: To the collector for Newburyport, one and one eighth per cent: To the collector for Portland, three quarters of one per cent: And to the collectors for Salem and Beverly, five eighths of one per cent; on all monies by them respectively received on account of the duties arising on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships and vessels. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed a surveyor for the district of Marblehead, to reside at Marblehead: who shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the other emoluments allowed by law, a salary of one hundred dollars annually.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. APPROVED, March 27, 1804. TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT For the appointment of an additional judge for the Mississippi territory; and for other purposes. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there shall be appointed an additional judge for the Mississippi territory, who shall reside at or near the Tombigbee settlement, and who shall possess and exercise, within the district of Washington, as fixed and ascertained by an act of General Assembly of the Mississippi territory, entitled, an "Act for the more convenient organization of the courts of the said territory," the jurisdiction heretofore possessed and exercised by the superior court of the said territory within the said district of Washington, and to the exclusion of the original jurisdiction of the said superior court within the same: Provided always, That the said superior court shall have full power and authority to issue writs of error to the courts established by this act, and to hear and determine the same when sitting, for the district of Adams, as fixed and ascertained by the act of the General Assembly of the Mississippi territory herein before mentioned. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said superior court are hereby authorized, upon the reversal of a judgment of the court established by this act, to render such judgment as the said court ought to have rendered or passed, except where the reversal is in favor of the plaintiff in the original suit and the debt or damages to be assessed, are uncertain, in which case, the cause shall be remanded, in order to a final determination.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. APPROVED, March 27, 1804. TH: JEFFERSON.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any person, not being an executor or administrator, applies for a writ of error, such writ of error shall be no stay of proceedings in the court to which it issues, unless the plaintiff in error shall give security, to be approved of by a judge of the said superior court, that the plaintiff in error shall prosecute his writ to effect, and pay the condemnation money, and all costs, or otherwise abide the judgment in error, if he fail to make his plea good.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all pleas, process and proceedings whatever, which may have been commenced in the said superior court within the aforesaid district of Washington, shall be and the same are hereby transferred to the court established by this act; and the officers appointed to issue or execute the process of the said superior court within the district of Washington, and to record the proceedings of the same, are hereby authorized and required to issue and execute the process of the court established by this act, and to record the proceedings thereof.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the court established by this act, shall hold two terms in each and every year, at the place where the courts for Washington county, within the said territory, shall be held, to commence on the days following; to wit, on the first Monday in May and September annually; and shall then and there proceed to hear and determine the pleas, process and proceedings depending before them, in the same manner as the said superior court within the district of Washington aforesaid might or could have done, in case this act had not been passed.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the judge to be appointed by virtue of this act, shall receive the same salary and payable in the same manner, which is established by law for judges of the said superior court of the Mississippi territory.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. APPROVED, March 27, 1804. TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT For imposing more specific duties on the importation of certain articles; and also for levying and collecting light money on foreign ships or vessels.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the following articles, in addition to those already exempted from duty, shall, and may be imported free from any duty, namely, rags of linen; of cotton, of woolen, and of hempen cloth; bristles of swine, regulos of antimony, unwrought clay, unwrought burr stones, and the bark of the cork tree.
Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the duties now in force upon the articles herein after enumerated and described, at their importation into the United States, shall cease, and that in lieu thereof, there shall be therefor laid, levied, and collected, upon the said articles, at their said importation, the several and respective rates or duties following, that is to say:
On foreign caught dried fish, fifty cents per quintal: On salmon one hundred cents per barrel; on mackerel sixty cents per barrel, and on all other pickled fish, forty cents per barrel: On cables, tarred cordage, white lead, red lead, almonds, currants, prunes and plums, figs, raisins imported in jars and boxes, and muscadel raisins, two cents per pound: On all other kinds of raisins, one cent and an half per pound: On tallow, yellow ochre in oil, anchors, and sheet iron, one cent and an half per pound: On Spanish brown, dry yellow ochre, flax and hoop iron, one cent per pound: On starch, three cents per pound: On hair powder, glue, and scines, four cents per pound: On pewter plates and dishes, four cents per pound: On untarred cordage, two cents and a half per pound: On quicksilver, six cents per pound: On Chinese cassia, and gun powder four cents per pound: On cinnamon an cloves, twenty cents per pound: On mace, one dollar and twenty-five cents per pound: On nutmegs, fifty cents per pound: On black glass quart bottles, sixty cents per gross. On window glass as follows:—On all not above eight inches by ten, one dollar and sixty cents per hundred square feet, not above ten inches by twelve, one dollar and seventy-five cents per hundred square feet and on all above ten inches by twelve two dollars and twenty-five cents per hundred square feet.
On segars, two dollars per thousand: On kid & Morocco shoes, fifteen cents a pair: On foreign lime, fifty cents per cask, containing sixty gallons, and on Sicily wine, thirty cents per gallon.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the several rates of duties above specified and imposed in respect to all such goods, wares and merchandise as aforesaid, as shall after the said thirtieth day of June, be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the duties laid by this act, shall be levied and collected in the same manner, and under the same regulations and allowances as to drawbacks, mode of security, and time of payment respectively, as the several duties now in force on the respective articles herein before enumerated: Provided however, That no drawbacks shall be allowed on the exportation of foreign fish, or fish oil, or of paying cards.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all duties and drawbacks, which, by virtue of this act, shall be payable and allowable on any specific quantity of goods, wares and merchandise, shall be deemed to apply, in proportion, to any quantity greater or less than such specific quantity.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That a duty of fifty cents per ton, to be denominated "light money" shall be levied and collected on all ships or vessels not of the United States, which after the aforesaid thirtieth day of June next, may enter the ports of the United States: Provided however, That nothing in this act shall be construed as to contravene any provision of the treaty or conventions concluded between the United States of America and the French Republic, on the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and three: And provided also, That the said light money shall be levied and collected in the same manner and under the same regulations as the tonnage duties now imposed by law.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the person exercising the powers which, under the Spanish government were vested in the intendant of the province of Louisiana, shall until a district court of the United States shall be established in the territory of Orleans, in conformity with the provisions of the act entitled "An act erecting Louisiana into two territories; and providing for the temporary government thereof," have and exercise, in all cases whatever arising within the said territory under the laws regulating and providing for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, or under any other revenue laws of the United States, the same jurisdiction and powers which by law, are given to the district and circuit courts of the United States. And the powers to remit fines, penalties or forfeitures, and to remove disabilities, which, by law, are vested in the secretary of the treasury, may, and shall, in all cases of such fines, penalties, forfeitures or disabilities incurred within the the territory of Orleans, and until a governor of the said territory shall be appointed and shall enter into the functions of his office, be exercised by the person exercising the powers which, under the Spanish government, were vested in the governor of the province of Louisiana; and the said powers to remit fines penalties or forfeitures and to remove disabilities, may and shall in like manner, be exercised by the governor of the said territory, from the time when he shall enter into the functions of his office, in conformity with the provisions of the said act, until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. APPROVED, March 26, 1804. TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Concerning the Public Buildings in the City of Washington.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Fifty thousand dollars shall be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, in proceeding with the public buildings at the city of Washington, and in making such necessary improvements and repairs thereon, as he shall deem expedient.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. APPROVED, March 27, 1804. TH: JEFFERSON.
LAWS OF RHODE-ISLAND.
FOR sale at this Office, complete copies of the Laws of this State, passed since the session of the General Assembly in January 1798.

THE most abandoned characters always profess to love truth and to hate falsehood: And I believe that I shall be false in asserting, that there is no person who possesses a heart so depraved, that he does not really prefer the former to the latter, abstractedly considered. But when aspiring and wicked men, become desirous of raising themselves to situations more elevated than their conduct entitles them to, and of acting in a sphere too extensive for their knowledge and abilities, their only alternative is, either to abandon their ambitious projects, or to have recourse to falsehood and stratagem for the purpose of carrying them into effect:—And unfortunately for mankind, the latter resolution most commonly determines their choice. But as the great body of the people have no interest in encouraging falsehood; and as their feelings naturally declare on the side of truth; those deceiving hypocrites find themselves constrained, first to cover the deformities of the former with the bright robe of the latter, and then to impose her upon the world under the specious name of her enemy. Thus truth and falsehood both appear before the public in the same garb, and both claim the same name; and until they can be distinguished from each other, they both stand upon the same ground.
To strip falsehood of all her borrowed ornaments, and set her before the public in her native deformity, is a task by far too arduous for my present undertaking. My only design at the present is, to expose to public view the malice and fallacy of those charges which appeared in the Newport Mercury of the 14th inst. against Mr. Gallatin. As the burthen of proof always lies upon the shoulders of the accuser, and as the writer who has brought forward those charges, has not offered a single particle of evidence in support of them, it would be sufficient for me to declare them unfounded, and call upon him to prove the truth of his assertions. But I am aware that in that case, he would either be silent, or establish the truth of his accusations (like his great teacher Laco) by telling the public, with an impudent assurance, that the authenticity of what he had advanced concerning Mr. Gallatin was never till now disputed. By either of these means, the public would be deprived of a fair investigation of the subject, and left wholly in the dark with regard to Mr. Gallatin's true character. Under this impression, I have thought proper to offer to the consideration of the candid and enlightened, the best evidence the nature of the case will admit of, to prove the abovementioned charges to be false, malicious, and unfounded.
The principal accusation against Mr. Gallatin, in the Mercury of the date above mentioned is, that he was engaged in the insurrection, which happened in the four western counties in Pennsylvania in 1794. In order to give a clear idea of his conduct relative to that insurrection, it will be necessary to insert a short abstract of some of the principal events which it involved.
"In the month of June 1791, the first year on which the bills were to have been entered, there were no offices of inspection opened in the western counties: And though the people were in great consternation, no public or general consultation was held on the subject, till the latter end of July following, when a meeting was advertised to be held at Red-Stone old fort. Individuals attended from different places, but not by delegation, and, being in harvest, few attended from a distance. There were four or five from Westmoreland, few from Allegany, or the distant parts of Washington or Fayette. The hardships, naturally resulting from the execution of the excise law to that country, were explained, but at the same time the constitutional authority of congress to enact it was asserted. It was resolved to petition Congress for relief, and no petition being prepared, a committee was appointed to meet at Pittsburgh to draught one. The committee was also authorised to correspond with the citizens in other places, who might be disposed to petition Congress on the subject, and it was recommended to the different counties to appoint committees to superintend the signing the petitions and forwarding them to Congress."
"In August a committee met at Washington, agreeably to the recommendation of the Red-Stone meeting, and in September a committee, composed of persons from the western counties, met at Pittsburgh. I presume none of them were delegated, except perhaps from Washington county, for only in it had there been a county committee. From Westmoreland there was but one person, and he was not delegated."
"A petition was proposed by the general committee at Pittsburgh to be signed by the people, and several resolutions were published in the Gazette, some of which were intemperately expressed, and respected subjects but little connected with the excise law, such as the salaries of office, the funding system, &c."
"About eleven months after, in August 1792, a number of persons, from Washington, Fayette, and Allegany counties, formed the second and last committee of that kind that was held at Pittsburgh. They prepared and published another petition to Congress, praying for the repeal of the excise law, to be signed by the people. The committee also published its sentiments on the principles of taxation, and the supposed impropriety and injustice of an excise system. Though it did not censure any other measures of government, it resolved to take all legal methods of obstructing the operation of the excise law, and to have no fellowship with such as accepted offices under it, and to withdraw from them every assistance, to withhold the comforts of life, &c. They also recommended to the people to follow their example. A similar resolution had been published by the committee of Washington, about a year before. A defunct meeting was held, in consequence of an advertisement in Allegany county; it formed rules of association, and published some intemperate resolutions, but never had a second meeting. Col. Morton, the chairman, near
whose residence the meeting was held, behaved always in an orderly manner, and discovered great firmness and discretion through the whole of the insurrection. A meeting was advertised to have been held at Greensburgh, in the same winter, James Guthry chairman; but the supposed chairman contradicted the advertisement in the next week's Gazette, denying that there was any such meeting, or that he was chairman, and we heard no more of it. It may be remarked, that Guthry has uniformly supported the character of a good citizen."
"The meetings which have been enumerated, I consider as lawful and harmless in themselves; but some of their resolutions, were censurable in point of discretion. It is my own opinion, that if they had been more generally attended by men of discretion, they might have been advantageous. They were not permanent associations."
"There was, however, an association of a more permanent nature commenced in the winter previous to the insurrection. A great proportion of the Mingo creek regiment of militia became members of it. It is said, that during its existence it was frequently attended by three hundred persons. The rules of this institution, and various powers which it is reported to have exercised, imitated the language, and assumed the forms of regularly constituted authority. This association never was announced in the newspapers, & its existence was known to but few."
"Though the whole country disapproved of the excise, yet the people in the settlement where this association was formed, seem to have been more zealous in their disapprobation of it than many others. It is true, their rules did not apply particularly against the excise, nor contain any thing unlawful, yet the circumstance of being associated made them formidable in what they undertook, and encouraged them to undertake what they otherwise would not have done as individuals. This association was the more dangerous that it was secret. And though it was not actively concerned in many of the outrages preceding the insurrection; yet various concurring circumstances render it more than probable, that that unfortunate event was principally to be ascribed to its instrumentality."
"At the funeral of Major McFarlane, who had been killed in an attack upon the house of Gen. Nevil, a meeting was appointed to be held at Mingo creek. This meeting was composed of a number of those who had been at the inspector's house, some others in the vicinity, who had refused to join in that measure, and a few individuals from Pittsburgh and those parts of Fayette county which lay most contiguous. At this meeting, Messrs. Marshall, Cook, Bradford, and Brackenridge, whose names became so conspicuous afterwards, appeared publicly, for the first time on the stage. It appears that Bradford and Marshall were consulted at the town of Washington, previous to the second attack on Nevil's house, and it is said that at first they declined having any thing to do with it; but having once consented they were afterwards considered as leaders. At this meeting, Bradford, in a violent and lengthy harangue, openly advocated what had been done, urged the propriety and necessity of unanimity in making it a common cause, &c. Marshall endeavored to change the state of the question into an enquiry, what was best to be done, in preference to deciding on the merits of what had been done."
"Brackenridge, in a speech of considerable length, drew their attention by amusing them, and seeming to countenance their conduct; but before he concluded, he ventured to suggest, that though what they had done might be morally right, yet it was legally wrong, and suggested the propriety of their consulting their fellow citizens in the other parts of the survey, and in the mean time of their sending commissioners to the President."
"The only measure agreed on before the meeting broke up was, to call a meeting of the four counties, which they published in the following words. By a respectable number of citizens, who met on Wednesday the 23d inst. (July) at the meeting-house on Mingo creek, it is recommended to the townships of the four western counties of Pennsylvania, and the neighboring counties of Virginia, to meet, and choose not more than five, nor less than two, representatives, to meet at Parkinson's ferry, on the Monongahela, on Thursday the 14th day of August next, to take into consideration the situation of the western country."
"Though this was moved for by the well disposed, and cautiously worded by the chairman and secretary, and designed by them as a means of stopping the disorder, and procuring an amulet for the guilty, yet that it was designed to be used by Bradford and some others, to draw the whole western counties of Pennsylvania and Virginia into the vortex of insurrection, is evident from their subsequent conduct."
"Tho' no other plan was proposed at the meeting, it was but a few days until Bradford who now assumed the direction of the business, planned and procured the robbing of the western mail. When they opened the mails, that from Washington contained no letters from Gen. Gibson, Col. Nevil, Mr. Bryson, & Mr. Day, which gave great offence. They contained a statement of the attack on Nevil's house, & the sentiments expressed by Bradford at the Mingo meeting. These were taken out, and the rest put up carefully, to be returned to Pittsburgh."
"Though these letters contained little else than a state of the facts as they really happened, they were made the engine of bringing about the Braddock's field meeting."
"At Cannonburgh the following circular letter was agreed upon, and directed to the militia officers in the same manner as an order would have issued from the proper authority, and was in several regiments as promptly obeyed. By such officers as wished to promote the measure, the people were called on as for a usual tour of militia duty, without being informed of the contents of the circular letter, which is as follows: "Sir,"
"Having had suspicions that the Pittsburgh
"post would carry with him the sentiments of some of the people in the country, respecting our present alarming situation; and the letters by the post being now in our possession, by which certain secrets are discovered, hostile to our interest, it is therefore now come to that crisis, that every citizen must express his sentiments not by his word, but his actions. You are then called on, as a citizen of the western country, to render your personal service, with as many volunteers as you can raise, to rendezvous at your usual place of meeting, on Wednesday next; and from thence you will march to the usual place of rendezvous at Braddock's field on the Monongahela, on Friday the first day of August next, to be there at two o'clock in the afternoon, with arms and accoutrements in good order. If any volunteers should want arms and ammunition, bring them forward, and they shall be supplied as well as possible. Here, Sir, is an expedition proposed in which you will have an opportunity of displaying your military talents, and of rendering service to your country; four days provision will be wanted, let the men be thus supplied."
"This general order was signed I. Canon, B. Parkinson, D. Bradford, A. Fulton, T. Speers, I. Lochry, J. Marshall."
"There were but three days from the date of the orders to circulate the information and prepare for the rendezvous. Great exertions were made however in communicating the circular letters, and though many who probably wished to suppress them did not, there were some who did keep them secret, and some clergymen and others in the south of Washington County were active and successful with their neighbors in dissuading them from going."
"On the day of rendezvous it was supposed, that a mixed multitude, not much short of seven thousand, appeared on the ground. Several field officers in the vicinity of Braddock's field attended, with as many of their friends as they could collect, to be prepared to prevent excesses, and to save Pittsburgh if it should be in danger, and some of the field officers of the most formidable and warlike corps who attended are known to have been well disposed to peace and order."
"The greatest number was from Washington county, but though those from the regiment about the town of Washington came in force, with the General of the County and their Colonel at their head, yet it is notorious that Gen. Taylor and Col. Stokely were uniformly opposed to the whole system of outrage and resistance. Col. Hamilton of the Mingo creek Battalion was also opposed to it, and when he heard of the orders of march coming to his regiment, tho' he had not seen them himself, he rode with all possible speed to the county town to countermand them, but too late to have effect. Gen. Wilkin with a great many others of his Allegany county Brigade were well disposed. This was particularly the case with Col. Patterson, and Col. M. Nair, and their friends and also with the principal part of the citizens from Pittsburgh."
"There was but one Major and a company of about 60 men from Westmoreland county, who appeared in a state of preparation according to orders. The Major is said to have discovered a warlike disposition. I am certain the Colonel & Majors of the nearest Westmoreland Battalion were well disposed. There were not more than twelve men from Fayette county at Braddock's field. The orders had been sent to Col. Cook, who concealed them from his most intimate neighbors, and went alone to endeavor by his advice to prevent excesses. The few others from the county had been informed of the meeting by rumor. Bradford reviewed the troops on the ground and is said to have assumed the powers and to have received the honors of Major General."
"A committee was appointed at the rendezvous, who resolved that Gen. Gibson and Col. Nevil should be expelled, and authorized the Pittsburgh committee to put this resolution into execution. It was resolved that the army, as it was called, should march to Pittsburgh."
"They marched in by the Monongahela road; and being furnished with refreshments in Pittsburgh by the town-people, they crossed the Monongahela without giving any disturbance."
July, 1804. WILLIAM TELL. (To be continued.)
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LETTER FROM GENERAL MOREAU TO THE FIRST CONSUL. Temple, 17th Ventose, year 12.
A month has nearly elapsed since I am detained as an accomplice of Georges and Pichegru, and perhaps I am detained to appear before the tribunals to exonerate myself from the crimes of an attempt against the safety of the State, and the Chief of the Government.
I was far from thinking, that after having passed through the revolution and the war, exempt from the least reproach of incivism and of ambition; and especially when, at the head of the great victorious armies, I might have had the means of gratifying those passions, that it would be at a moment when, living as a simple citizen, occupied with my family, and seeing a very small number of friends, I should be assured of such folly. No doubt but my former connections with General Pichegru have given rise to this accusation.
Before speaking in my justification, permit me, General, to go back to the source of that connection, and I doubt not but I can convince you that the intercourse which one may preserve with an ancient chief and an ancient friend, tho' divided in opinion, and having served different parties, is far from being criminal.
Gen. Pichegru came to take command of the army of the North in the beginning of the year 2—I then had been general of brigade for about 6 months. I was fulfilling, ad interim, the
functions of divisionary. Satisfied with the success, and of my dispositions at the outset, he speedily obtained for me the grade I was fulfilling.
On entering upon the campaign, he gave me the command of half the army, and entrusted me with most important operations.
Two months before the close of the campaign, his health obliged him to absent himself, government charged me, at his recommendation, with finishing the conquest of part of the Dutch Brabant and Guelders. After the winter campaign, which rendered us masters of the remainder of Holland, he passed to the army of the Rhine, naming me for his successor; and the National Convention entrusted me with the command he had just quitted. One year afterwards I filled his place in the army of the Rhine, he being called to the Legislative Body; and from that time I ceased having frequent intercourse with him.
In the short campaign of the year 6, we took the chief of the general staff of the enemy's army; and a great quantity of papers were brought to me, when Gen. De Saix, who was then wounded, amused himself in perusing. It appeared to us, by this correspondence, that Gen. Pichegru had had some connection with the French Princess. This discovery gave us much concern, and to me particularly. We agreed to let it be forgotten.—Pichegru, in the legislative Body, could so little injure the public safety, that peace was assured. I however took some precautions for the safety of the army, in regard of an espionage that might be hurtful to it. These researches and the deciphering, were confided to the hands of different persons.
The events of the 18th Fructidor were rumored; the uneasiness was great: In consequence of which two officers who had knowledge of this correspondence engaged me to give notice to government; and gave me to understand that it was becoming public, and that at Strasburg they were preparing to inform the Directory thereof.
I was a public functionary, and could not preserve a longer silence; but, without addressing myself directly to government, I wrote of it in confidence to the Director Barthelemi, one of its members, requesting his opinion, and telling him that these papers, although genuine, were not sufficient judiciary proof; as none of them were signed, and nearly the whole written in cyphers.
My letter arrived in Paris a few moments after Citizen Berthelemi's arrest; and the Directory, to whom it was remitted, required of me the papers I had mentioned.
Pichegru went to Cayenne, and returning afterwards to Germany and England: I had no connection with him. A short time after the peace with England, M. David, uncle of Gen. Souham, who had passed a year with him in the army of the North, wrote me that Pichegru was the only one of the Fructidorists not returned; and he mentioned that he was surprised to hear that it was upon my opposition alone that you refused to permit his return to France. I replied to M. David, that so far from opposing, I would make it a duty to demand it. He communicated my letter to several persons, and I have the positive assurance, that this demand has been made to you.
Some time afterwards, M. David wrote to me that he had enjoined Pichegru to ask you himself for his recall; but that he had answered, he would not demand it without the certainty of its being granted. Above all, he charged him to thank me for the answer I had made to the imputation of being opposed to his return; that he had never thought me capable of such an act; and that he even knew that in the affair of the correspondence of Klinglin, I had found myself in a very delicate situation. M. David again wrote me three or four insignificant letters upon the subject. Since his arrestation he wrote to me requesting I would take some steps in his favor. I was very sorry that my distance from government would not permit me to enlighten your justice in that respect, and I doubt not but it would have been easy to remove the prejudice you might have received. I heard no more of Pichegru but very indirectly, and by persons whom the war obliged to return to France. From that period to this, during the first campaigns in Germany, and since the peace, he has made distant overtures to me, to know if it would be possible to draw me into a coalition of the French Princes. I found all this so ridiculous that I did not ever reply to these overtures.
As to the actual conspiracy, I can equally assure you, that I am far from having taken the smallest part in it. I acknowledge to you that I am at a loss to conceive how a handful of scattered men could hope to effect a change in the state and to replace upon the throne a family, which the efforts of all Europe, aided by civil war, could not succeed in accomplishing; and that, above all I should be so unreasonable by concurring to lose the fruits of all my labour, which would have insured me perpetual reproaches.
I repeat to you, General, whatever proposition has been made to me, I have rejected, and have considered it as the best of all follies: And that when the chances of a descent upon England have been represented to me as favorable to a change of government, I have answered that the Senate was the authority to which all Frenchmen would yield obedience in case of trouble: And that I should be the first to submit to its orders.
Such overtures made to me, an insolated citizen, not wishing to preserve any kind of relation either with the army of which nineteenth century have served under my orders, or with any of the constituted authorities, would not but meet with my refusal. To become an informer was too repugnant to my character: To always judge with severity, becomes odious, and impresses a seal of reprobation on him who has rendered himself guilty of it towards persons to whom he owed gratitude, and with whom he was in ancient connections of friendship. Duty itself

will sometimes yield to the voice of public opinion.
This, General, is what I had to say respecting my connections with Pichegru. It will doubtless convince you that very false and dangerous inferences have been drawn from my steps & actions, which, tho' perhaps imprudent, were far from being criminal: And I doubt not, had you required an explanation of most of the facts which I would have hastened to give you, they would have prevented the regret of ordering a detention, and to me the humiliation of being in fetters, perhaps obliged to appear before the tribunals to say that I am no conspirator, and to appeal for my justification to a probity of twenty-five years which has never been impeached, and to the service which I have rendered to my country. I shall not dwell upon these, General; I flatter myself they are not yet effaced from your memory; but I will remind you that if the desire of taking part in the French Government had been for a single moment the object of my services and of my ambition, the career was open before me in a very advantageous manner, some time before your return from Egypt; and surely you have not forgot the disinterestedness I showed in seconding you on the 18th Brumaire. Our enemies since that time have kept us asunder. It is with much regret I find I am obliged to speak of myself and what I have done; but in a moment when I am accused of being an accomplice of those who are considered as acting from the impulse of England, I shall perhaps have to defend myself against her insinuations. I have the vanity to believe the most judge of the injuries I can do her from those I have already done.
If I obtain, General, your complete attention, I have no doubt of your justice. I shall wait your decision of my fate with the tranquility of innocence, but not without an apprehension of seeing those enemies triumph who are always attracted by celebrity. I am with respect, MOREAU, General.
PARIS, 29th Floreal (May 19.) The Senate in a body went yesterday, as we have already noticed, to St. Cloud for the purpose of presenting the Organic Senators Consultum to the Emperor; the retinue was accompanied by several bodies of troops. The Senate was immediately on its arrival, admitted to an audience of the Emperor. Consul Cambacérès, President of the Senate, spoke in these terms:
"SIRS, The decree which the Senate has just rendered and which it hastens to present to your Imperial Majesty, is but the authentic expression of a will already manifested by the nation. This decree which confers upon you a new title, and which infuses the inheritance of it, after you, to your race, adds nothing to your glory, nor to your rights."
"The love and acknowledgment of the French people have for four years past confided to your Majesty the reigns of the Government; and the Constitutions of the State already entrusted to you for the choice of a successor. The still higher denomination which is decreed for you is, therefore nothing more than a tribute which the nation pays to her own dignity, and to the desire she feels of giving you every day testimonies of a respect and an attachment which increases daily."
"Ah! how could the French people find bounds to their acknowledgments, when you do not put any to your cares and your solicitude for them? How could they, preserving the remembrance of the hardships they have undergone when abandoned to themselves, think without enthusiasm of the happiness they experienced since they were inspired by Providence to throw themselves into your arms? The armies were defeated; the finances in disorder; public credit annihilated; factions disputing between themselves the remains of our ancient splendor; ideas of religion and even of morals had become obscure; the habit of giving and taking back power would leave the magistrate without importance, and had even rendered odious every kind of authority."
Your Majesty has appeared. You have recalled victory to our standards; you have established regulation and economy in the public expenditure; the nation encouraged by the use you have made of it, has recovered confidence in its own resources; your wisdom has calmed the rage of party; religion seen its altars raised anew; ideas of justice and injustice have awakened in the minds of the citizens when they have beheld the punishment follow the crime, and honorable distinctions reward and signalize virtues. In short, and this doubtless is the greatest of the miracles wrought by your genius, that people whom civil effervescence had rendered refractory to all restraint, and at enmity with all authority, you have known how to make them cherish and respect a power which existed only for their glory and their repose."
"The French people pretend not to sit in judgment on the constitutions of other States; they have no criticisms to make, no exactness to imitate; their lesson henceforward is derived from experience. They have for ages relished the advantages attached to hereditary power; they have made a short but painful experiment of a contrary system; they return, by the effect of a free and mature deliberation, to a path formidable to their genius."
"They make a free use of their rights, to delegate to your Imperial Majesty a power of which their own interests forbid them to exercise. They covenant for generations to come; and by a solemn compact they confide the happiness of their nephews to the branches of your race. The latter will imitate your virtues: The former will inherit our love and our fidelity."
"Happy the nation which, after so many troubles and incessant trials, finds in its bosom a man worthy to appease the tempest of passions, to conciliate all interests, and to unite all voices!"
"Happy the Prince who holds his power from the will, the confidence, and the affection of the citizens! It is within the principles of
our constitution (and already several similar examples have been given) to submit to the sanction of the people that a part of the decree which concerns the establishment of hereditary government, the Senate has thought fit to submit your Imperial Majesty to agree that the organic dispositions should be immediately carried into execution; and for the glory as well as the happiness of the republic, it now proclaims NAPOLEON, Emperor of the French."
The Emperor made the following reply: "Whatsoever can contribute to the good of the country, is essentially connected with my happiness. I accept the title which you think useful for the glory of the nation. I submit to the sanction of the people the law of hereditary succession. I hope that France will never repeat of the honors with which she encircles my family. At all events my spirit will have ceased to animate my posterity whenever they shall cease to deserve the love and the confidence of the great nation."
The Senate had then an audience of her Imperial Majesty, to whom the Consul Cambacérès addressed a speech of congratulation on her accession to the imperial dignity.
Letter of his Imperial Majesty to the Consuls Cambacérès and Le Brun.
"Citizen Consul Cambacérès, your title is about to be changed. Your functions and my confidence remain the same. In the high dignity of arch-chancellor of the empire (and of arch-treasurer) with which you are going to be invested, you will manifest, as you have done in that of consul, the wisdom of your counsels, & the distinguished talents which have given you so important a part in every thing good I may have done. I have, therefore, nothing to desire from you but a continuation of the same sentiments for the state and for myself. Given at the palace of St. Cloud, 28th Floreal, year 12. NAPOLEON."
By the Emperor, H. B. MARET, Secretary of State.
The members and principal clerks of the different branches of administration took the oath prescribed by the Organic Senators Consultum, "I swear obedience to the Constitutions of the empire, and fidelity to the Emperor." The troops in Paris have also taken the same oath in the Camp de Mars.
FRENCH IMPERIAL DECREES.
Bearing regulations on the mode of presentation to the acceptance of the people of the proposition, announced in article 142 of the organic Senators Consultum, of the 26th Floreal, 12th year.
NAPOLEON, by the Grace of God, and by the constitutions of the Republic, Emperor of the French, upon the report of the ministers and council of state, of the 28th Floreal, year 12—Ordains the regulation, the tenor of which follows:
Article 1. There shall be open to the records of all the administrations and of all the municipalities, to the officers of all the Tribunals, to all the justices of peace, and to all the notaries—registers, upon which all the French are called upon to subscribe their votes on the following proposition:
"Do the people desire that the Imperial dignity shall be hereditary in the direct, natural, legitimate and adoptive descendants of Napoleon Bonaparte, and in the direct, natural and legitimate descendants of Joseph & Louis Bonaparte, as regulated by the organic Senators Consultum, on the 28th Floreal year 12."
Art. 2. The registers shall be open 12 days.
Art. 3. Immediately after the expiration of the time given for voting, each depositary of register shall be closed, and said register shall be certified, and then directed and forwarded in the course of two following days to the Mayor of each municipality; and within the space of 24 hours, the latter shall forward the same to the under-prefect of his district, with a note certified by him, and which shall be conformable to model, in present regulation, under No. 1.
Art. 4. Twenty one days after the publication of the present regulation, the under Prefect shall transmit to the Prefect all the registers of his district, with a note by him certified, and which shall be conformable to model No. 2.
Art. 5. Twenty-five days after the publication of the present regulation, each Prefect shall forward to the Minister of the Interior, all the registers of his department, with a general note by him certified, and which shall be conformable to model No. 3.
Art. 6. The Prefects are authorized to put in extraordinary requisition, the Gens d'Armes, for the quick transmission of the Registers of the several municipalities and the orders relative to the execution of the present regulation.
Art. 7. The Ministers are charged with the execution of the present regulation, which shall be printed in the Bulletin of the laws.
(Signed) NAPOLEON. By the Emperor, Secretary of State, H. B. MARET. (Signed)
PARIS, May 28.
The trials which begin to-day are the most important that could ever occupy the public attention. They will afford a full development of all the intrigues carried on these to years against the French Republic. The act of accusation is already made public. It is stamped with a character of frankness & evidence which bears conviction to every mind. The first deposition of the accused all agree in the principal points, as to the participation of the English government, as to the arrival of the conspirators in France, as to their designs and as to their conferences. It is not for us to discuss facts which are still depending before an impartial tribunal; we consider this great affair only in a political view, and in as far as it relates to the English Government, which is so deeply implicated in it. June 11.
The council of state of the Italian Republic has decreed that a monument shall be raised to the glory of Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, the founder and restorer of the Italian
Republic, and that his accession to that dignity shall be solemnly celebrated on the 16th August, the day of St. Napoleon.
Most of the Bishops have already addressed to the faithful of their diocese a mandate—ordering solemn thanksgivings for the accession of Bonaparte to the dignity of Emperor of the French.
Letters from Constantinople, of the 30th April, state that the French Minister General Brune was highly satisfied with his last conference of the Reis Effendi, on the subject of the indemnifications he had required in favor of his countrymen on whose property an embargo was laid during last war; in this audience the imperial duties on French merchandise were definitively settled to the satisfaction of both parties. A slight coolness had before subsided between the French and the Ottoman minister, which had entirely ceased since this conference. It is added that the Russian ambassador had lately paid a visit to Gen. Brune. Some time had elapsed since these ministers had seen each other before.
A pamphlet has lately made its appearance in the North of Germany, entitled, "Reflections upon the conspiracy denounced at Paris, the 27th Pluvoise, year 12, and the subsequent events." It bears visible marks of being the work of some miserable underling of Mr. Drake.
By advices from Berne, we find that H. E. the Landamman, after announcing to the different Cantons the change which had taken place in France, added that he conceived it to be his duty and the interest of the country to send an extraordinary courier to H. I. M. with the compliment of the Helvetic confederation.
A flotilla of 50 sail, 10 of which were gun boats sailed from Calais on the 14th inst. for Boulogne where it arrived in safety, in spite of the English attempting to lay obstacles in its way.
At the end of the Mandate which the cardinal archbishop of Paris has just published, ordering public prayers, on account of the accession of the Emperor, we read the following letter which his Imperial Majesty has written to his eminence:
"My Cousin, the happiness of the French has ever been the object of my dearest thoughts and their glory that of all my labors. Called by Divine Providence and by the constitution of the Republic to the imperial power, I see in this new order of things only greater means to secure at home and abroad the national dignity and prosperity. I rely with confidence on the powerful succour of the Most High. He will inspire his ministers with the desire of seconding me with all the means in their power. They will enlighten the people with wise instructions, by preaching to them love of their duties, obedience to the laws, and the practice of all christian and civil virtues.—They will call down the blessings of heaven and the supreme chief of the State. I write this letter to you then, to tell you as soon as you have received it, you shall cause to be sung Vene Creator , and the Te Deum in all the churches of your diocese; that you shall invite to the prayers which will be read in your church the authorities which are accustomed to assist at such ceremonies, and that you shall cause to be read during the exhortation in all the churches of your diocese, the organic senators consultum of the 28th Floreal last. Assuring myself that you will excite by your example the zeal and piety of all the faithful of your diocese, I pray God to keep you, my cousin, in his holy and worthy care. Written at St. Cloud, the 1st Floreal, year 12. (Signed) NAPOLEON."
NEWPORT, Thursday, Aug. 2, 1804.
SUMMARY—FOREIGN.
EUROPE.—By an arrival at New-York, from Cork, Irish papers to the 9th of June, have been received.—They do not contain much later London intelligence than before received here. The New British Administration have commenced their career in a manner which justifies the opinion formed of them. Already have they planned several important expeditions—one of which is destined for the Cape of Good Hope and Batavia, and is entrusted to Gen. Sir Alured Clark. The arrangements to equip a complete armament for these objects are going on with energy and rapidity.—A bill for the total abolition of the slave trade, has passed the British House of Commons.—An extraordinary case in the annals of population deserves to be made public.—In the eparchy of Tamborf, in Russia, were born in the year 1803, 26,745 boys, 21,998 girls, together 48,744 children; married, 10,825 couple; died, 10,026 males, 9233 females, in all 19,259; that is, the births exceeds the deaths by 29,485, far more than half.—On the 16th May, all British subjects, resident at Leghorn, were arrested and thrown into prison, by order of Bonaparte. This intelligence was brought by Capt. Barnard, arrived at New-York.
WEST-INDIES.—Recent advices from Demerara, represent that colony as being very sickly.—Martinique was closely blockaded on the 6th July, by 12 or 14 British ships of war, and an attack was hourly expected.—An arrival at Philadelphia, brings intelligence of the defeat of the Haytian army, with the loss of 2000 men, by a large body of French and Spanish troops.
DOMESTIC.
In Louisiana, the spirit for exploring the country is awakened. Persons employed by authority are encouraged by the prevailing interest which is taken in the fate of this country to extend their researches. Dr. Hunter, of Philadelphia, and Mr. Dunbar of the Mississippi Territory, were at the Natches, under the direction of the President, to ascend the Red River. They then were to proceed to the head of the Arkansas, and then to descend that river. Their first object, it is said, is to examine the mineral kingdom. Salt in various forms has been found upon the Missouri, in springs and in chrysalis on the
surface and in great extent. On Washita River, 200 miles from its junction with the Red River, is an uncommon boiling salt spring. We may expect soon to possess a general view of this country.—Sal. Reg.—In Kentucky on the 17th June, a severe hail storm occurred; and in some places, the day after, measured 15 inches in depth. It destroyed the corn, wheat, oats, &c. and a number of fowls, birds, and small animals, were found dead the day after the storm subsided.—Capt. Snow Stetson, while on a fishing party, off Cohasset Rocks, caught a Haddock; and upon opening it, for the purpose of cookery, he found in the stomach, Three hundred and forty four Dollars! —in old continental money, new emission. The paper was formed into a roll; and was but little injured! B.W. Mag.
DREADFUL FIRE AT BAYONNE.
Yesterday we received a letter from Lisbon by the Britannia , Brown, arrived in the Downs from the Tagus, which states that Bayonne has recently nearly been destroyed by fire. The date of this calamity is not mentioned, but our correspondent gives the following account of it:—The flames were not discovered till nearly six o'clock in the morning, when they burst forth with irresistible violence; the large stores filled with brandy, tar, &c. presented one sheet of fire, ascending into the air upwards of 200 feet above the buildings. The brandy, tar, oil, &c. formed a stream, and running in flames into the Adour, presented the singular and terrible spectacle of a river on fire. The fire continued burning violently for two days, during which many lives, and property to the value of two millions of francs were lost. Lon. Paper.
DIED.—In this town, on Friday night last, Mrs. MARY HOOKER, consort of Mr. William Hooker in the 69th year of her age.
On Sunday evening, Mrs. ELIZABETH MILLER, widow of the late Mr. John Miller, in the 69th year of her age.
To Parents and Guardians.
WILLIAM BRIDGES RESPECTFULLY informs the Inhabitants of the town of Newport, that he has opened his Academy in Franklin-Street, for the instruction of youth in the English language, Writing, Arithmetic, Book-Keeping, Mathematics, Geography, Drawing and Land Surveying; he assures those that may intrust him with the charge of their children, that no pains shall be spared on his part to stimulate and encourage the minds of his Pupils to their learning, and the strictest attention paid to their morals. Private Tuition if required. Newport Aug. 1st, 1804.
Rhode-Island District, ss.
BY virtue of a warrant from the Hon. David Leonard Barnes, Esq. Judge of the District Court for the District of Rhode-Island.—Notice is hereby given, that there will be exposed for sale at Public Auction, on Friday the seventeenth of August next, at three o'clock in the afternoon of said day, the Sloop Mary Ann , as she now lies at Capt. William Wood's wharf, in Newport; said Sloop being sold for the payment of Seamen's wages. W. PECK, Marshal. July 30th, 1804.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all persons concerned, that he has taken upon himself the trust of an administrator on the estate of Isaac Sawyer, late of Little-Compton, Mariner, deceased; and as such, requests all persons who have any demands upon said estate, to bring in the same; and those who are indebted thereto, to make payment without delay to JOHN SAWYER, Administrator. Little-Compton, July 29, 1804.
To be Sold,
A VALUABLE, and convenient three story Dwelling House, situated on the Ferry Wharf (north side of the Red Market) late the property of the widow Elizabeth Miller, deceased. For terms, apply to the subscriber, on the premises. SAMUEL WATSON. Newport, August 2, 1804.
To be Let,
A CONVENIENT Dwelling-House, well calculated for boarding and lodging, situated on the street leading from Mr. Robert Sieven's house to his wharf. Likewise, a retail shop, on the south side of the Red Market, being an excellent stand for business, adjoining the Dwelling-House of Mr. William Freebody. For particulars, enquire of SPENCER HALL. Newport, August 21, 1804.
THE Subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that she has taken upon herself the trust of an Administratrix on the Estate of Lemuel Sawyer, late of Little-Compton, House-Carpenter, deceased, and as such she requests all Persons who have any demands upon said Estate, to bring in the same; and those who are indebted thereto to make payment without delay to BETTY SAWYER, Admin'tx. Little-Compton, July 29, 1804.
Tickets in the Warwick Channel and Road Lottery (One Thousand Dollars highest Prize) for sale by O. FARNSWORTH.

FROM THE FORTUNES OF CAMEONS.
JUST like Love is yonder rose, Heavenly fragrance sound it throws, Yet tears its dewy leaves disclose, And in the midst of briars blows, Just like Love.
Call'd to bloom upon the breast, Since rough thorns its stem invest, They must be gather'd with the rest, And with it to the heart be prest, Just like Love.
And when rude hands the twin buds sever, They die—and they shall be from never, Yet the thorns be sharp as ever, Just like Love.
Carding Wool.
THE Public are notified that JONATHAN NICHOLS and JOSEPH CUNDALL have erected Machines for breaking and carding into Rolls Sheep Wool, at the Mills of said Cundall in Portsmouth, on this Island. Those who wish to have their wool broken or carded, may depend on having the Work done well, and with Dispatch. After the Wool has been duly picked and greased, with one Pound of soft Grease or Oil to from 10 to 16 Pounds of Wool, it should be sent in Sheets or Blankets, in which the Rolls may be packed and transported to any distance without injury.
NICHOLS & CUNDALL. Portsmouth, July 3. 1804. 83
Fresh Spring GOODS,
JUST received, and to be disposed of on the most reasonable terms, for CASH only, by W. C. BAEN. Newport, April 4. 1804. 83
Rhodes & Hammond
HAVE FOR SALE, (Wholesale and Retail) JAMAICA spirits 4th proof, Cognac Brandy ad do. Barcelons do. 4th do. Holland Geneva, Havanna brown, Do. white, } SUGARS, Loaf 1st and 2d quality, & } Lump Hylon, Souehong, } Teas of the & Bohea } best quality Coffee, Pepper, Pimento, Ginger, Mustard, Nutmegs, Allum, Saltpetre, Bonnerhove's Snuff, Superfine Flour, Glass Ware, A few bales Cotton Wool of an excellent quality, 20 Barrels Mels & Prime Beef & Pork, &c. &c. Newport, June 7. 1804. 92
Dry Goods for Cash only.
THE Subscriber intending to quit the line of business he at present pursues, has mark'd 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 Woolsens, was purchased at a very low advance, upon the sterling cost.
He likewise offers for Sale or Lease, his Estate, situated on Thames-Street (formerly the property of Aaron Sheffield.) For terms, apply to EBENEZER SHEARMAN, or JOHN R. SHEARMAN. Newport, Dec. 12. 1803. 67 3/4
FOR SALE, BY SIMEON MARTIN,
100 Hhds. good retailing Molasses, 1500 wt. Hart and Club Steel, 350 Boxes white & brown Havanna Sugars, 3000 Bushels Liverpool Salt, 30 Boxes plain Glass ware, each containing 80 straws of half pint Tumblers, 10 pr. straw —6 pint Decanters—6 half pint do.— 12 wine Glasses, and 6 Salt Cellars. 40 12-bottle empty Gin Cates, 100 Bhs. Superfine Flour, 120 Bhs. of good Shipping Herring. Newport April 4. 1804. 83
JAMES G. PECKHAM, (Nearly opposite Mr. Israel Fearst's store)
HAS lately received, from New York, a fresh supply of Jewellery, Fancy Goods, Hand Ware, &c. which, together with his former stock, makes his assortment complete. He has on hand, a variety of Ladies' Bonnets and trimmings of the latest fashion. Also, Trunks of various sizes, which will be sold cheaper than can be purchased in this town. N. B. Cash given for old Gold, and Silver. Newport, July 5. 1804.
Samuel Watson
INFORMS his Friends and the Public, that he carries on the Boot and Shoe-Making business, at his Dwelling House on the North side of the Red Market, and keeps constantly on hand Summer Boots of all sizes, as cheap as can be purchased in this town. Newport, May 9. 1804. 88
FASHIONABLE HATS.
S. Shumway & Co. Have this Day Received, A LARGE supply of fashionable HATS, imported this Spring, which will be sold at the lowest possible prices. Newport, May 9. 1804. 88
For Sale,
THE Schooner VENUS, eighty-three tons burthen; she is a strong well built vessel, fails remarkably fast, and is not one year old; she was built and finished for a New-York Packet, but is fit for any other trade being well furnished. For terms, apply to LUKE BLIVEN. Newport, July 18. 1804. 98 1/2
THE Hon. Court of Probate of the town of North-Kingstown, having appointed the Subscribers Commissioners, to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of Sylvester Gardner, Esq. late of said North-Kingstown, deceased represented insolvent; and six months longer from this date, being allowed for that purpose:—Notice is hereby given to all Persons having legal demands against said estate, to exhibit them to either of us within the time aforesaid.
NICHOLAS C. NORTHUP, } Commis- GEORGE THOMAS, } sioners. JONATHAN REYNOLDS, } All persons indebted to the estate aforesaid, are hereby requested to make immediate payment to BENJAMIN SMITH, Admin'r. North-Kingstown, July 9th. 1804.
State of RHODE-ISLAND and PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
In General Assembly, June Session, A. D. 1804.
RESOLVED, That the sum of ten thousand dollars be appropriated to the purchase of the evidences of the registered public debt of this State, under the direction and management of Commissioners to be appointed by the General Assembly.
Resolved, That Samuel Vernon, senior, Henry Sherburne and Nathaniel Hazard, Esq's. be appointed Commissioners to purchase the said evidences of the said registered public debt, in such way and manner, and on such terms, as they may think most advantageous to the public interest: That said Commissioners give public notice of their appointment, in the newspapers, advertising the creditors holding such evidences, to send to the General-Treasurer, on or before the second Monday of September next, sealed proposals of the terms on which they will sell the same; and that if proposals, equally advantageous to the State, shall be made for the sale of a greater amount of said debt, than can be purchased by the sum hereby appropriated, the amount thereof shall be applied, in a ratable proportion to the demands of the several creditors.
Resolved, That the sum appropriated as aforesaid, be subject to the order of the said Commissioners, and be paid out by the General-Treasurer accordingly; and that said Commissioners report, from time to time, to the General Assembly, their proceedings under these resolutions.
Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the several Town-Clerks, to read the foregoing resolutions to the freemen, to be assembled in annual town meeting in August next. A true Copy: Witness, SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y.
IN obedience to the before recited Act, the Commissioners therein named, are ready to receive proposals from the creditors to this State's Registered Debt, and request that the same be transmitted to the General-Treasurer, at his Office in Newport, free of postage, by the time limited in said Act.
SAMUEL VERNON, } Commis- HENRY SHERBURNE, } sioners. NATHANIEL HAZARD, } Newport, June 26th. 1804.
Rhode-Island Bridge.
THE subscribers, having been appointed a committee, to advertise for proposals 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 hammerstone, 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 iron pins at the corners, to be sunk in cessons of 40 feet long and 12 wide. The draw to be constructed of timber and plank upon the most a broad and 1—wide timber to be placed on the side walls supported by iron standards, secured in the stone on the top of the walls. The whole to be completed in 18 months.
Any person or persons 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. BOYD, } Committee. CHRISTOPHER FOWLER, } WILLIAM R. ROBINSON, } AUDLEY CLARK, } Newport, Feb. 15. 1804.
Cash given for Rags, at this Office.
THE Hon. Court of Probate for the town of Westerly, having lengthened the time to the last Monday in August next, for the settlement of the estate of Joshua Kinyon, late of said Westerly, deceased, represented insolvent.—In conformity thereunto, the subscribers gives notice, that they will meet at the dwelling-house of Sylvester Gower, Esq. in said Westerly, to receive and examine the claims against said estate, on the second and 4th Mondays in July, and second Monday in August next. No accounts will be received, unless properly attested.
THOMAS HOXIE, } Commis- THOMAS NOYES, } sioners. All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to MARY KINYON. LUTHER PALMER, } Adminis- ISRAEL CHAPMAN, } trators. AMOS CROSS, } Westerly June 10. 1804. 93
MEIN & ROGERS
Have for sale at their Store, head of Banister's Wharf, Thames-Street,
JAMAICA Rum per Hhd, Amsterdam Geneva per pipe, Spanish Brandy per ditto, Cognac ditto per ditto, Tar per bbl. Flour (superfine) per bbl. C. & C. W. I. and Bourbon, best quality, Madeira & other Wines per qr. cask. Also, a general assortment of GROCERIES wholesale and retail at the lowest prices. N. B. A Consignment of Trunks and Paper Hangings. Newport, May 28. 159 1/2
John & Henry Cahone
Have for sale at their Store on Banister's Wharf, FOURTH proof JAMAICA RUM, HOLLAND GENEVA, ALICANT BRANDY, SUPERFINE FLOUR, RYE & 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.
PATENT CHIP FOR BONNETS.
THE Subscriber having purchased of the Patentee the exclusive Right of making and vending the Patent Chip in and for the State of Rhode Island, hereby cautions and forbids any Person or Persons either making or vending said Chip for Bonnets, within said State of Rhode Island, on Penalty of the Law of the United States in such Case made and provided—unless they have been duly and previously authorised by the Subscriber for making or vending the same. Twenty Dollars Reward will be given, by the Subscriber, to any Person who may discover, and produce satisfactory Proof, of any Person or Persons making or vending the aforesaid Chip within the State of Rhode-Island. JONATHAN NICHOLS. N. B. Mr. WILLIAM DOUGLASS, & Messrs. CHARLES COGGESHALL and Co. being appointed Agents for vending said chip for the Town of Newport, will keep a constant Supply at their Stores for Sale. Newport, July 3. 1804.
For Sale,
THE Ship Angeronis, 157 tons burthen. She is a strong, well built ship, fails remarkably fast; and will be only 2 years old next fall. She was built for a Charleston Packet but is so constructed as to answer the business of any vessel of her size. And if not sold at private sale previous to the 24th of August next, she will on that day be sold at Public Auction. Those who wish to purchase, will please to call on either of the subscribers. BENJAMIN CHURCH, ISAAC BURDICK. Newport, July 12. 1804.
Wanted Immediately,
AS an Apprentice to the Copper-Smith and Brass-Foundry business, a smart active boy, about 14 or 15 years of age. One from the Country would be preferred.—Apply to OTIS CHAFFEE, Newport, July 5th. 1804.
FLOUR STORE
On Col. CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN'S Wharf,—By JOHN BOURS, jun. & Co. Who will always have on hand a supply of the best Superfine FLOUR. Newport, Oct. 20. 1803.
Hard Ware, Stationary, &c.
DAVID MELVILL, jun.
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends, that he has just received a very handsome assortment of Hard-Ware, Cutlery, Ironmongery, Japaned Ware, Cabinet Furniture, Stationary, &c. &c. Also, Deep sea Lines and Leads, hand do. Fishing Lines, Bed-Cords, and Clothes-Lines. Also, New-York Manufactured TOBACCO and SNUFF Consisting of Negro-Head; Pigtail; Ladies' Twill, & cut Tobacco; Macedon and Scotch SNUFF, of the first quality, at the Manufacturer's prices. 10% CASH given for Lead. Newport, June 27. 1804. 140 1/2
BOOTS, SHOES & BUCKETS.
THE subscriber takes this method to inform the Public in general and his friends in particular, that he carries on the Boot, Shoe, & Bucket-Making business, at his Shop two doors west of John Gardner's, Esq. in the Ferry Wharf Lane—where he is ready to attend to their calls, having procured the best of materials therefor.
A good workman at the last mentioned branch of business, (if he calls soon) will find employ and good wages, by applying to JOSEPH DYRE. Newport, May 28. 1804. 91
To be Let,
The lower part of a dwelling-House in a pleasant part of the town, with four rooms; and a well of excellent water in the yard. Enquire of the Printer. Newport, June 13. 1804. 93
BENEDICT SMITH
Has for sale, Tat, Rosin, and Turpentine, By the 100 lbs. or less quantity. Newport, April 4. 1804. 83
SAMUEL JAMES
HAS FOR SALE, This Paper Hanging Manufactory, which is in the House he now occupies, opposite to Mr. Lewis Peck's, on the West-Side of the Bridge, Providence, a great variety of House Paper and Bordering, 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. April 2. 1804. 183
William Douglass, as the Head of Broad-Street,
HAS constantly for sale, a general Assortment of West-India and other GOODS. Fresh ESSENCE of SPRUCE, per gallon or quart. The first quality Sythes and Sythes Sticks, complete—Rakes, Hoes & Hoe Handles, Fork Tails, &c. One ton FLAX of various qualities. This day received 1000 weight clean FLAX. CASH, and Two Pence half Penny per pound, given for Cotton and Linen RAGS.
JOHN F. TOWNSEND & Co. As their Store in Thames-Street,
HAVE a beautiful and choice assortment of Fancy and Substantial Goods, among which are, calicoes and chinizes, dimities and muslinets, furniture calicoes and chinizes, ladies 6-4 silk damask shawls, 9-8 5-4 and 6-4 cambric ditto, very fine and other cambric muslins, ladies' white and black superfine and other cotton hose, fine India book muslins and handkerchiefs, black and coloured stuffings and satins, cotton and linen table-cloths, very fine diaper napkins, English diaper and fine linen per piece, ladies silk, cotton and kid gloves, linen and cotton fine pocket handkerchiefs, umbrellas, bed lace, blue, yellow and black nankins, men's very fine ribbed cotton hose, men's black and white best English silk hose, vest and coat gilt, plated and other buttons, per groce, pins, coloured and white thre's and tapes, India calicoes and checks, bohea tea at 1/9. lb. per 1/2 dozen, black and white handsome camels hair shawls, excellent bandanna handkerchiefs, counterpanes, men's fine and other quality hats, best superfine cloths and cassimeres, with a variety of other woolsens. Likewise, Three bales India cottons. Most of these articles were purchased cheap at New-York auctions; a considerable portion are a fresh supply, to make a more general and fashionable assortment. N. B. Those who are indebted to them, are requested to make speedy payment, as they intend closing their business in Newport in a few months. The house they occupy will then be re-let. 93 1/2
District of Rhode-Island, ss. BY virtue of a warrant from the Hon. David Leonard Baritt, Esq. Judge of the District Court for the Rhode-Island District,—Notice is hereby given to all persons concerned, that a libel is filed in said Court, by David Howell, Esq. Attorney of the United States for said District, against three bags of Coffee, imported into the Port of Newport, by the Schooner, German Peggy, Elisha Smith, Master, without having been included in the manifest of said Schooner's cargo, contrary to the statute in such case provided—and that trial will be had on the aforesaid libel, at the District Court which is to be held in Providence on the first Tuesday of August next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. WM. PECK, Marshal. Dated at Providence, July 2d. 1804.
HOUSE PAPER.
JUST received, and for sale at his Office a new & general assortment of elegant PAPER HANGINGS, which will be sold as low as can be purchased in the State. April 19. 1804.
To be Sold by
JOSEPH LYON, 150 Barrels Tar, 150 Barrels Pitch. Newport, June 6. 1804. 91