Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1806-06-28 00:00:00

Gazet of the United States.
WARREN:—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 39, of Vol. XIV.]
SATURDAY JUNE 28, 1806.
[Whole No. 705.]
WEEKLY ALMANACK.
   JUNE. D. O. F. S. Remarks.     29 Sunday, 4 29 8 3 12 Dry weather for some time.   30 Monday, 4 30 8 4 26 Warm.   1 Tuesday, 4 31 8 5 10 Low tides.   2 Wednesday, 4 31 8 6 24   3 Thursday, 4 31 8 7 8   4 Friday, 4 31 8 8 22   5 Saturday, 4 32 8 9 6  
New and seasonable Goods.
Elizabeth Croade,
Inform the Public that she continues the business of her late husband JOHN CROADE, and solicits the patronage of old Customers and the Public.
HAVING received a large addition of new and well chosen
GOODS,
of the latest Importations, makes her present Assortment complete, which she is enabled to sell at low, and on as good Terms as heretofore:
Among the Goods are,
1st and 2d quality SUPERFINE BROADCLOTHS, of the most fashionable colors.
Middling and common ditto.
Superfine and common CASSIMERES.
Ribbed and plain do.
MOREENS, JOANS, SHALLOONS, DURANTS and DUROYS—all colors.
Black & blue, ribbed & plain RUSSELLS.
Black FLORENTINES.
1/2 & 3/4 & 1 black and coloured Sarfett CAMBRICS, for Ladies' Gowns.
1/2 & 3/4 & 1 white glazed and unglazed do.
Laced and figured ditto do.
Laced, piquet, colonade and mouselin MUSLINS.
JACONET do.
Figured black and white Cambric MUSLIN, for ditto.
A large assortment and extensive variety of the most fashionable and elegant Superfine and common CHINTZES and CALICOES.
CHINTZ FURNITURES—a variety.
Red and white, purple and white, and blue & white COPPERPLATE do.
BRITANNIA and PLATILLAS.
RUSSIA SHEETING, Ravens' DUCK.
DOWLAS & ROANS.
Long CLOTHS and fine MUSLIN.
Long LAWNs.
A great variety of INDIA COTTONS, from fine SHEETING to the SHIRTING, by the piece or otherwise, unusually low—1/2 & 3/4 wide.
Black, blue and brown ditto.
A great variety of Factory CHECKS STRIPES and TICKING.
English cotton and linen CHECKS.
India CALICOES.
1/2 & 3/4 BOOK MUSLINS—figured do.—an assortment.
LENO, plain and figured do.
DIMITIES—a great choice.
Cambric DIMITY—corded do.
Linens CAMBRICS.
Plain and checked cotton, and silk and cotton CHAMBRAYS.
Beck and jacquet MUSLIN HANDKERCHIEFS.
1/2 Damask Silk SHAWLS.
1/2 plain do. do.
1/2 embroidered Muslin do.
Silk and camel's hair SHAWLS.
Black, white, buff and slate fringed, and cotton cambric do.
A variety of fashionable coloured and black fringed Silk HANDKERCHIEFS.
Blue and red China checked do.
Bandanna do.
Men's Mullin CRAVATS.
A variety of LINEN and Cotton POCKET HANDKERCHIEFS.
Sooty ROMALS and GILLA.
Black and coloured CRAPES.
Black, white and green plain GAUZES.
Black and white Rolland do.—Love do.
Black, white and brown BUCKRUM.
Black and white MILLINETS.
A variety of fashionable India, French and Italian black and coloured SILKS for gowns: 1st chop of colored SATIN for Cloaks.
Black India SATINS, 1st and 3d quality.
English and Italian flour ribbed ditto, suitable for Gentlemen's Vests.
Plain and figured MUSLINET, JANE and MARSEILLES, for ditto.
Black, Blue, B.F. Yellow, and Olive plain, ribbed and twilled VELVETS—a great choice.
THICKSETS and CORDUROYs.
1st Chop India blue & yellow NANKEENS, by package piece or otherwise.
English blue, black and colored do. of every description.
Stained NANKINETs, do. do.
Black and coloured Silk do. do.
Black, blue, olive & mixed, twilled & cambric GRANDURILLS.
BOGLEFORES.
JEANS and FUSTIANS.
Black & colored SATINS, for Ladies' Bonnets.
MODES, SARNETS and PERSIANS.
A great variety of fashionable RIBBONS, TASSES and EDGINGS.
Black and white LACES—an assortment.
Black and colored GALOONS.
Plain and figured Velvet BINDINGS.
Black, cinnamon, lead, green & Murray, Silk VELVETS, suitable for Ladies Shawls, &c.
Black and colored, fashionable Willow BONNETS.
Siraw, ditto, a great Choice.
Cane and Willow SHEETS.
Scotch THREADS—colored do.
TAPES and BOBBINS.
SILK, TWIST, and BUTTONS.
QUALITY and SHOE BINDINGS—all colors.
Ladies' black and colored extra long French and English plain & pic nic Silk GLOVES, a great choice.
Black and colored cotton MITTS & GLOVES.
Long Kid do.
Silk and cotton BRACES.
Glove TIES.
Gentlemen's black and coloured Silk and Cotton GLOVES.
Common and best beaver, and tanned dog-skin Gloves.
Kid and Morocco SLIPPERS.
Black Velvet and Florentine do.
Silk, silk and cotton plain and ribbed black, white and coloured cotton HOSE.
Vandyke and Hemp do.
Ladies' black, white and colored cotton ditto, with lace Clocks.
A variety of ivory, bone, and other wood-fick FANS.—Tiffany do.
India fan, and common size do.
1/2 & 3/4 OIL CLOTHS, &c. &c.
LOOKING-GLASSES;
a handsome assortment.
A few articles in the STATIONARY LINE,
such as quarto and common Bibles, Testaments, Rippon's Hymns, Watts' Psalms and Hymns, Spelling Books, Alden's 1st and 2d vols. and Reading Books, Preceptors, Geographies, Dictionaries, Arithmetics, Bowditch's Algebra, &c. &c. &c.
Writing Paper, Copy slips, Winton's Ink Powder, Ink-Stands, Sand-Boxes, Dutch Quill Slates; red and black Morocco Pocket Books, &c. &c. &c.
HARD-WARE—viz.—
Shovels, Flat Irons, Warming Pans, Shovels and Tongs, Knives and Forks, Pen and Jack Knives, Nail and Shoe Hammers, Candlesticks, Desk and Draw Trimmings, Door, Chest, Cupboard, Stock and Trunk Locks, single and double warded pad do. Hinges, Door and Table Butts, Saws, Files, Chisels, Plane Irons, Table and Tea Spoons, Block-tin Tea-Pots, House, Hearth, Clothes and Shoe Brushes, Waiters, Souffers and Souffler Trays, brass, japanned and common Thumb Latches, Carpenter's Rules, Size Sticks, Pincers and Nippers, Chisels and Guages, Tea Canisters, Razors, Sheep Shears, Cotton and Wool Cards, Spectacles, and many others, too numerous to mention.
An assortment of Nails and Brads.—German Heart and Clob, Crawley and Halback, English and Philadelphia Steel, &c.
London PEWTER.
Platters, Plates, Bafons, Porringers, Pint and Quart Pots.
An assortment of TIN-WARE.
Boston and New-York SNUFF, per bladder.
W. India GOODS & GROCERIES.
Among which are,
West-India Rum, French and Spanish Brandy, Holland Gin, Sherry, Vidonia and Malaga Wines, Imperial, Hylson-skin, Souchong and Soucha Teas, white and brown Sugars, Loaf do. Molasses, Flour, Rice, Coffee, Raisins, Pimento, Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmegs, Ginger, Almonds, Starch, bar and shaving Soap, &c. &c.
Cotton Warp and Filling, at the Factory prices.
Leather and hair TRUNKS.
WARREN, June 6, 1806. (5w.)
FOR SALE,
A HANDSOME ONE
Story DWELLING.
HOUSE and BARN, with a small GARDEN.—Also, a COWARD HOUSE LOT, to the Westward of said House. The Terms will be made easy to the Purchaser. Apply to
WILLIAM TRIPP.
WARREN, June 13, 1806.
RASCHAL ALLEN,
Opposite the Baptist Meeting-House.
HAS just received and now opening
for Sale, an extensive supply of
SUMMER GOODS,
selected from the latest importations from Europe, consisting of a beautiful assortment London fashionable Superfine Priests, calculated to please every fancy. English India and Madras Calicoes, every description of figure, Chints and copperplate Furniture.
Plain figured and lace Cambrics,
1/2, 3/4 & 1, glazed and unglazed ditto. Pink Buff, Blue and black ditto. Gauze, Jacquet, Book, plain & figured Mullins, plain, striped & checked Chambrey, Silk, ditto, red checked Tamboured Lace Mullins, Silk and Cambric Shawls. Printed figured Cambric, white and coloured, ditto, 1/2, 3/4 & 1 China and Purple, ditto. Madras, Palacet, Gilla, red & blue Barndana and Black striped Silk Handkerchiefs, Linen and Cotton Pocket, ditto, Dimities, 1/2, Cambric, ditto, 1/2, 3/4 & 1, Dutch and Irish Linens, Diaper, Brown Linens, Platillas, Russia Sheetings, Douglas, Roan, India Cottons, Sheetings and Shirting by piece or otherwise, American Shirts, Checks and Tickings, English and India Stripes, and Checks, black and white Millinet, black Craps and Rotland Gauzes, Brown & white Buckram, Ladies black Satins, & Lastings, Fancy Velvet, Marcelline, Jean & silk Vestings, pelice Velvets, black and colored ribbed do. India blue and yellow Nankeens, plain & striped, twilled & untwilled Grandurills, Neckties, Cotton Cammerets, Modes, Persians. A great variety fashionable Ribbons, Tassels and Edgings, broad and narrow, black and white Laces, Velvet Ribbons, Galloons, Duarts, Duroys, Russells, Russellets, Calimancos, 1st and 2d quality, black superfine Broadcloths and Cassimeres, common & middling mixed and Blue, ditto. A great variety Cotton and Linen Threads, white and colored from No. 7. to 290. Linen and Cotton Stacks, Spas, Bobbins, Cotton and worsted Bindings. Ladies long and short Silk and Cotton Gloves, Silk, Cotton and Morocco Braces, Gloveties, Gentlemen's Cotton black and colored Gloves, Ladies, Misses and Childrens Kid and Morocco, Slippers and Shoes, an assortment. Ladies and Gentlemen's Hosiery, Youth's, ditto. Wood and Ivory fack Fans, 1/2, and 3/4, Oilcloths, Umbrellas, Ladies Parasols, Walking Sticks, Hatters trimmings, of all kinds, &c. &c.
STATIONARY.
Quarto and common Bibles, Testaments, Watts' Psalms and Hymns, Spelling Books, Alden's 1st and 2d vols. and Reading Books, Preceptors, Geographies, Dictionaries, Arithmetics, Writing Paper, Copy Slips, Walkden's Ink-Powder, Ink-Stands, Sand-Boxes, Dutch Quills, Slates; red and black Morocco Pocket Books, Children's Primers and Toy Books, Read's 2d edition Singing Books.
HARD-WARE.
Shovels, Flat-Irons, Warming-Pans, Shovels and Tongs, Knives and Forks, Pen and Jack Knives, Nail and Shoe Hammers, Candlesticks, Desk and Draw Trimmings, Door, Chest, Cupboard, Stock and Trunk Locks, single and double warded pad do. Hinges, Door and Table Butts, Saws, Files, Chisels, Plane Irons, Table and Tea Spoons, Block-tin, Tea-Pots, House, Hearth, Clothes and Shoe Brushes, Waiters, Souffers and Souffler Trays, brass, japanned and common Thumb Latches, Carpenter's Rules, Pincers, and Nippers, Guages, Tea Canisters, Razors, Spec-tacles.
German Heart and Clob Steel, Coffee-pots, Lanterns, Tanners, Measures, Pepperboxes, Platters, Plates, Bafons, Porringers, Pint and Quart Pots.
W. India GOODS & GROCERIES.
West-India Rum, French Brandy, Holland Gin, Sherry and Current Wines, Hylson, Hylson-skin, Souchong and Boha Teas, white and brown Sugars, Loaf ditto. Molasses, Flour, Rice, Coffee, Raisins, Pimento, Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmegs, Ginger, Starch, bar and shaving Soap, &c. &c.
A consignment of Pictures, various figures and sizes.
CONSTANTLY IN HAND.
An assortment Cotton Warp and Filling per bundle fixed and fixed, and Stock- ing Yarn, at Factory prices.
Best American LINSEED OIL,
per barrel or less quantity, on as good terms as can be obtained at the Mills.
WARREN, May 23, 1806. (11.)
HERRING.
Three hundred Barrels excellent Herring for Sale, by
SAMUEL CARR.
WARREN, June 13, 1806.
Sales at Auction.
On Saturday, the Fifth of July next
at 11 o'Clock, Afternoon, in the late Dwelling House of Simon Barr, deceased.
A VALUABLE and complete set,
of Set Work Cooper's TOOLS; Carpenter's TOOLS, and Household Furniture, consisting of a BED and BEDDING, a Weaver's LOOM, &c. &c. Conditions of Sale, over Five Dollars, approved. Notice at Three Months.
SETH PECK, Auctioneer.
Warren, June 20, 1806.
On Wednesday, the 9th Day of July
next, on the Premises, the Property of Jonathan Munroe, deceased.
GOODS in the Store, consisting of
Cotton, Wool, Glass, Barilla, Pewter and Tin Ware; India and European GOODS, with his FURNITURE, convenient for a Retailer; a second Hand CARRIAGE, and a number of other Articles.
ALSO,
THAT pleasantly situated well
Built, convenient and almost completely finished DWELLING HOUSE, belonging to Jonathan Munroe, for which good Titles will be given, and Possession immediately, at 3, 6, and 9 Months, or a Discount will be allowed for Cash.
SETH PECK, Auctioneer.
Warren, June 20, 1806.
Advertisement.
THE Subscriber hereby gives notice,
that there will be held at Public Auction, in Somers, Mass. on Monday the First day of December next, at 11 o'Clock, A. M. the following real Estates belonging to the heirs of SIMEON POTTER, Esq. late of Swanzey, deceased, viz.
THE very pleasantly situated Mansion House, being the well known Seat of the late Henry Bowdoin, Esq. with the out Houses and Eighty ACRES of Land adjoining, all under good improvement and well fenced with Stone-Wall. This seat presents one of the best views on the River, and is in the very heart of Somers.
THE DWELLING-HOUSE, STORES and Warehouse, heretofore belonging to the late Lloyd Bowdoin, Esq. is confessedly the best in Somers for Business. The Stores are ample and convenient, the Warehouse is in good repair and well built, is at the head of the deep navigable water, and at ordinary Tides, Vessels of 200 Tons will float along side.
THE MANSION-HOUSE and LOT whereon it stands, fronting the Main Street, and very conveniently situated for Business, heretofore the property of Mr. Caleb Bowdoin, subject to a right of Dower.
A TEN ACRE LOT at the head of broad Cove, a Wood Lot of 12 Acres, and another of Three Acres. The above Estates will be Sold entire or in Lots as shall suit purchasers. The Terms of Sale will be made known at the Time and Place of Sale, which will be on the Premises. For any information that may be wanted about the Premises, apply to Mr. David Anthony, of Somers.—By Order and in behalf of the Heirs of Col. Simeon Potter.
WILLIAM D'WOLFE, Agent for the Heirs.
Bristol, June 13, 1806.
THIS is to give notice, that the Honorable the Court of Probate for the Town of Bristol, have allowed three months further for all Persons having any just claim against the estate of
THOMAS SWAN, Esq.
late of said Bristol, deceased, intestate, represented insolvent, to exhibit the same to the said Subscriber within three months from the 15th inst. will be excluded from any future settlement agreeably to law.
RICHARD SMITH, jun. } Executors.
ALLIN BOURNE, } Executors.
All Persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate Payment or the demands against them will be put in suit at the next Court.
THOMAS SWAIN, Administrator.
Bristol, May 23, 1806. (5w.)
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Subscribers have been duly appointed Executors to the last Will and Testament of
JABEZ GIBBS,
late of this Town, Mariner, deceased; and have taken upon themselves that Trust by giving Bonds to the Law directed. All Persons having Demands upon the Estate of the said Jabez Gibbs, are required to exhibit the same; and all indebted to the said Estate, are called upon to make Payment, to
HANNAH GIBBS, } Executrix.

Massachusetts Legislature.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1806.
At half past four, a joint Committee was appointed to wait on His Excellency THE GOVERNOR, to inform him, the two Houses were ready to receive any communications he should be pleased to make.—Soon after, Mr. CLEAVLAND, from the Committee, reported, That His Excellency would meet the two Houses in half an hour.
At the time appointed, His Excellency, preceded by the Sheriff of Suffolk, and attended by his Council, came into the Representative's Chamber.—[where the Senate had previously assembled]—and delivered the following
SPEECH:
Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives.
THE Constitution makes it necessary for the Legislative Body to assemble on the last Wednesday of May, that the two Houses may judge of the election of their own Members, appoint their officers and determine their rules of proceeding; and in case the full number of Senators is not elected by a majority of all the votes returned, to supply the deficiency; and to make choice of a Council to advise in the Executive part of Government. Having performed these several duties, you will proceed to make and establish such reasonable Laws as you shall judge expedient for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth; and the necessary support and defence of the Government. But it has been found inconvenient for the Members of the General Court to be long employed in the public service at this season of the year, and therefore they have usually postponed to the winter session such business as did not require their immediate notice.
The Secretary will deliver you a communication, which I have received from the Governor of Maryland relative to an Amendment of the Federal Constitution: and also a letter from WILLIAM EATON, Esq. expressing his acknowledgements to the Legislature of this State for the testimonial which they presented him at the last session, of their approbation of his services.
He will also deliver to you a letter from the Superintendent of the State prison, representing, that a sea wall will be necessary to prevent the earth which is taken from the prison yards from being washed away, and proposing some regulations for the security of the prison which cannot be adopted without the sanction of Legislative authority.
The Treasurer has transmitted to me a State of the Treasury on the first day of this month, with a request that I would communicate the same to the General Court.
Permit me also to recommend to your consideration the contents of a letter addressed to me by Theophilus Parsons, Esq. Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, relating to the compensation allowed to the Justices of that Court, and particularly to the grants made by the Legislature in part of it, which are not permanent.
By a message to the General Court of the 6th of June, 1804, they were informed, that I should readily acquiesce in such resolution for disposing of the Province House, as they might think proper to adopt. But I have not heard that any measures were afterwards taken by the two Houses on that subject. The family who had lived in the house for several years, and with whom I resided when in town, have left it since the last session, and it remains unoccupied.
I have received a letter from Charles Turner, jun. Esq. who was appointed by the Agents of the Commonwealth, and of the Plymouth company, in pursuance of a resolve of the 27th of last February, to perform the duties which had been assigned to Litchrop Lewis, Esq. by a resolve of the 13th of February, 1804, stating that in March last, he attempted to run the eastern line of the Plymouth company's land on the river Kennebec, as far as the land of the Commonwealth and that of the Plymouth company joined each other, and that he met with such opposition from the people in that vicinity, as induced him to desist, before the business was accomplished.—This letter will also be laid before you.
The Treasurer informs me, that the directors of several of the incorporated banks in this state, neglected last year to have the weights used in their respective banks, compared, proved and sealed by the Treasurer, or by a person specially authorised by him, in the manner required by the additional act for the due regulation of weights and measures, passed on the 9th of March, 1804. If those requisitions are unnecessarily burdensome, you will doubtless amend the act; but if they are useful and important, you will probably take measures for carrying it into full execution.
In a letter directed to me by the Inspector of beef and pork, he suggests, that the inspection laws of this state are very imperfect; and that some of the additional acts which have been made to regulate the system, have tended rather to perplex and embarrass, than to improve and explain it. This subject, I presume, will receive from you that degree of attention which is due to its importance.
In free States, where the mind is neither seduced by force nor awed by terror, even the appearance of unanimity is not to be expected. But whatever differences of opinion may prevail among our fellow-citizens, we, as agents of the Commonwealth, have one and the same interest to pursue, and are bound by the most solemn obligation to pursue it invariably. Our constituents have a right to expect our warmest zeal, not for the success of a party, but for the public good. You, Gentlemen, I trust, will have this object constantly in view, and instead of consulting private interest, or
gratifying partiality or resentment, will be ready to agree in all cases where the general welfare of the State is concerned. Such an example in the Legislature will have the happiest tendency in every part of the Commonwealth to abate the fervor of political dissensions, and prevent or repress those internal feuds, which if long continued, admit of no reconciliation; and which in other countries have proved fatal to almost every free Government. CALEB STRONG. June 17, 1806.
Foreign Intelligence.
FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 22. FROM THE MONITEUR.
THE Maastricht Courant, and some other papers in the North, already teem with false reports, and seem to rejoice in the apprehension of a new opportunity to mislead Europe with false and ridiculous misrepresentations of the gigantic power of Russia. They of course would make it appear, that Dalmatia is inundated with Russian troops and that a very respectable army is collected near the mouths of the Cataro. At St. Petersburg, probably, they would form better plans for a campaign than these. If it were not that France insisted upon the fulfilment of the late treaty with Austria, and upon receiving the mouths of the Cataro from the hands of Austria, the Russians would have been defeated ere now, the Montenegrins, brought to reason, and tranquility restored; but the Dalmatian provinces must be delivered up to the French by the Austrians; and the French will not receive them from any other hands. The mouths of the Cataro are separated from Dalmatia by the State of Ragusa, to the extent of about 30 miles, so that the possession of Cataro is quite unconnected with that of Dalmatia. The French are masters of the whole of Dalmatia and Itria, where they have upwards of 30,000 men; the Russians at this moment have not more than three battalions at Cataro, making, in the whole, about 1500 men, and not one soldier beyond that number. When General Brady surrendered the forts to the Russians by an act of base treachery, he found the regiment of Thorn in the place 1600 strong, and this General delivered the forts up to 300 Russians, who were landed from two frigates. The indignation of some of the officers of that regiment was then at the highest pitch, and M. Ghislieri was so base as to write to their officers, for the purpose of allaying their resentment, and reconciling them to the surrender of the forts. These officers, reckoning upon the esteem of the French soldiers, afterwards published the Marquis's letter, adding the assertion, that the ports above mentioned were sold by the Marquis and Gen. Brady. On the same day that the Marquis wrote the aforesaid letter to the Austrian officers, he wrote another to Gen. Molitor. M. Ghislieri, and those who had given him orders, sold their master and their country in the same manner as when the second coalition was formed. One would think it was time to adopt that kind of conduct that would ensue peace and not to continue to seek for causes of eternal discord, in contemptible subterfuges. We by no means doubt, but when these letters come to the knowledge of the War Department at Vienna, proper punishment will be inflicted upon those who have been capable of such perfidious conduct. The following observations appear in a note upon the foregoing article:
"An account of the circumstances that attended the surrender of the Mouths of the Cataro to the Russians, adds, to several particulars already known, that neither the Marquis Ghislieri, nor the Austrian Commandant, protested against the entrance of a Russian squadron into the port, though, at the same time, they were waiting in expectation of the French; and though in consequence of this conduct they also exposed the French, who were on their way thither, to the danger of falling into the hands of their enemies, when they might have possessed of them without a friendly port. The said Gentlemen also, had taken no measures for repelling the attack of the Montenegrins. It is likewise repeated, that the Austrian Officers had protested against the conduct of their Commandant; that some of them were put under an arrest on this account, but were liberated, in consequence of the remonstrances of their brother officers:—that the Marquis Ghislieri, seeing the Officers were determined to resist any attack on the part of the Russians, said, that he had orders from his superiors for surrendering the forts of Cataro to the Russians; and that the Russians were even invited by the Austrian Commandant to take possession of Cataro, for which they had orders from their own Court, and which could only be approached by the Russian squadron, under command of H. Bayle, an Englishman; lastly, that the Russian Commandant at Corfu being applied to for assistance in this affair, refused it, being unwilling to act without orders from his Court."
"In the letter written by the Marquis to the Austrian Officers, he says, the place is not considered as being (summoned by a hostile power, and much less by the Montenegrins, but by the repeated claims of a Russian Commandant; that he had chosen for himself the part of causing his Majesty's troops to withdraw from Cataro; and this, in consequence of its being the desire of a Court in friendship and alliance with the House of Austria, relative to which he had expired orders, from high authority, which enjoined him to take no other steps than those of protests and declarations: that he had entered into no terms of capitulation with the Russian Commandant, having bound himself to nothing more than the necessary protests and declarations, for the purpose of justifying the Court of Austria against any complaints on the part of the French, that the affair could not possibly be attended with any disagreeable consequences to himself, nor by any means tend to impair the bravery of the Officers, &c."
"The letter of the Marquis Ghislieri to Gen. Molitor, in which he magnifies the forces of the Russians and the Montenegrins, asserts that they were approaching the Austrian garrison on all sides, threatening the whole Province with death and destruction if any resistance should be made; he then adds, that, feeling all his protestations trampled in convincing them of the impropriety of their conduct, he was compelled to yield to imperious circumstances though with his master's brave troops he hoped to have been able to preserve the Province of Cataro in its prosperous condition for the Emperor of the French, &c."
"A Note was presented, on the 25th of March, by Gen. Lauriston, Commissioner in Dalmatia, to the Marquis Ghislieri, who was charged with the cession of Venetian Dalmatia. In this Note Gen. Lauriston asserts, that the regiment of Thorn would willingly have defended the place, and had shown much reluctance in quitting it. The general also put the question to the Marquis, whether he has surrendered Cataro, from his own motives, or whether he had acted according to superior orders, as it was of much importance to the General to inform his Government of the fact. He further asked, why Cataro was surrendered to the Russians; and remarks upon the absurdity of pretending to preserve Cataro in a flourishing state, as the Montenegrins had scarcely been two days in the place, before they had began to murder and plunder the inhabitants who had armed themselves, and come to blows with these strangers."
Contrary to the assertion in the above Note, the Marquis de Ghislieri, states, in the Correspondence, "that he had orders to give up to the Russians all the forts and territory of the mouths of the Cataro." That "it was only in consequence of the reiterated summons of a Russian Commandant, that he had taken the resolution of withdrawing the troops of his Majesty; and consequently it was only by the express wish of a Court in friendship and alliance with his own, and against which superior orders were very precise, not to use other means than those of declarations and protests, and never any measures of armed defence"—"that the part he had taken was a measure purely political, and the only one which circumstances permitted, and not a measure in any respect military"—that "the province was inundated by thousands of furious Montenegrins, who were in motion to attack the fort; and that in that moment the Commandant of the Russian squadron summoned the Governor of Cataro to give up all the forts, or to declare himself the enemy of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russians, and the next day he reiterated the same summons, in the peremptory terms of half an hour, always, according to the principle, that the Mouths of the Cataro were already French territory, from the day that the delay of two months fixed for their occupation by the French troops had expired."
ENGLAND. LONDON, MAY 5.
The Paris Papers acknowledge the report of the evacuation of the Cataro to be premature; and state the return of Prince Murat from the Duchies of Berg and Cleves, and the arrival of the Batavian Commissioners, appointed by the Chief Magistrate of that Republic to repair to the Court of France.
Admiral Sterling has left the Channel in quest of the French squadron. His force consists of the Glory, of 98 guns; Barfleur, of 98 guns; Mars, of 74 guns; Dragon, of 74 guns; Revenge, of 74 guns; Warrior, of 74 guns; Niobe, frigate, and a brig.
From the LONDON GAZETTE, May 6. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, May 6.
Copy of a letter from Sir John Borlase Warren, Bart. and K. B. Vice Admiral of the Blue, &c. to Wm. Marsden, Esq. dated on board his Majesty's ship Foudroyant, at Sea, the 14th March.
SIR—I request you will communicate to their Lordships, that at half past three A. M. on the 13th of March, his Majesty's ship the London, which I had stationed to windward of the squadron, having wore, and made the signal for some strange sails, I directed the squadron to wear likewise upon the larboard tack, the wind being at W. S. W. and as day-light appeared, made the signal for a general chase: soon afterwards the London was observed in action with a large ship and a frigate, and continued supporting a running fire with those ships which were endeavouring to escape, until half past seven, when the Amazon, being the advanced ship, pursued also and engaged the frigate, which was attempting to bear away. The remainder of the squadron approaching fast upon the enemy (and the action having continued from before day-light until 43 minutes after nine A. M.) the line of battle ship, bearing the flag of a Rear-Admiral, struck; and, at 53 minutes past the above hour, the frigate also followed her example, when an officer came on board the Foudroyant with Admiral Linois' sword, and informed
me that the ships which had surrendered to his Majesty's colours were the Marengo of 80 guns, 740 men, and the Belle Poule, of 40 guns, eighteen pounders, and 320 men, returning to France from the East Indies; these ships being the remainder of the French squadron which had committed so much depredation upon the British commerce in the Eastern world. I have much satisfaction in stating the meritorious and gallant conduct of Capt. Sir Harry Neale and William Parker, supported by the zeal and bravery of the officers and crews of their respective ships, who claim my warmest thanks and acknowledgements; and, whose exertions, I hope, will recommend them to their Lordship's particular notice and favour. I cannot, however, avoid regretting that the force of the enemy, did not afford to the officers and men of the other ships of the squadron, who shewed the most earnest desire to have closed with the enemy, an opportunity of displaying that valour and attachment to their King and Country, which I am confident, they will be happy to evince upon some future and more favourable occasion. I have enclosed a list of the killed and wounded on board his Majesty's ships, as well as their defects; and have likewise forwarded a particular statement of the ships captured, together with an account of the loss sustained by the enemy, being the most correct that could be ascertained from the role d'équipage. Rear Admiral Linois is among the wounded, as well as several other officers.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) J. B. WARREN.
A return of the killed and wounded on board the Marengo and Belle Poule, in the action. Marengo and Belle Poule—65 killed and 30 wounded.
(Signed) J. B. WARREN. Killed on board H. M. ship London—Mr. William Rooke, Midshipman; James Murphy, seaman; Henry Van Hayley, do.; John Zay, do.; James Slyde, do.; Wm. Bryan, boy; John Moore, Landsman; Wm. Griffiths, Wm. Sumner, Thomas Poole, private marines.
Wounded, dangerously—1 officer, and 14 seamen. Ditto slightly, 1 do. and 4 do. (Signed) H. B. LEALE.
Killed on board H. M. ship Amazon—Mr. Richard Seymons, first Lieutenant; Edward Prior, Lieutenant of the Royal Marines; Wm. Guady, A. B.; George Royal, private Marine.
Wounded—1 quarter Master; 1 corporal and 2 seamen. (Signed) Wm. PARKER.
The attendance at Lord Melville's trial was yesterday more numerous than on any of the preceding five days. This was supposed to be owing to the increased curiosity which was raised by the expected examination of Mr. Trotter. After Messrs. Oliphant Standard and A. Douglas had been examined upon points of less moment, Mr. Trotter was called, and his examination continued from half past twelve till four.
This most important witness was examined, in the first instance, by Mr. Whitbread, and cross-examined by Mr. Plumer. At the close of his cross-examination, Mr. Whitbread declared his intention to re-examine him; but it being understood that the re-examination would occupy some time the Court adjourned till Wednesday.
A letter from Bombay, dated December 11th, contains a very satisfactory account of the distribution of our naval force in the Indian seas.
Sir Edward Pellew guards the Malabar and Coro mandel coasts, and the Gulphs adjacent with 6 ships and 5 frigates.
Sir Thomas Trowbridge has the Eastward station, with 3 ships and 7 frigates.
As it is also deemed very probable that Sir Home Popham, has, by this time, added a part of the force which he had at the Cape to one of the above divisions, we are so far from feeling any uneasiness at the possible arrival of French squadrons in those seas, that we anticipate the certainty of their meeting the same fate which awaited their countrymen in the bay of St. Domingo.
MAY 7. The King of Sweden, in consequence of hostilities having been commenced against his troops by Prussia, has ordered an embargo on all Prussian vessels in his ports. The Swedish troops are evacuating Lauenburg, and retiring to Swedish Pomerania, which

it is supposed, the Prussians will immediately invade.
The present policy by which the Prussian government are influenced has excited the greatest dissatisfaction, which is no where attempted to be disguised, and which the military are by no means active in repressing. Haugwitz is never mentioned without the deepest execration, whilst Hardenberg is universally beloved and respected. The windows of the house inhabited by the former have been broken, whilst garlands of flowers have been affixed to the house lately possessed by the latter. In the midst of this popular ferment, the distresses of the merchants are increasing daily, and a deputation has lately been sent to the King of Potsdam, to lay before him the calamitous situation of their affairs.
There was a report yesterday that Count Haugwitz was to be sent to England, to endeavour to adjust the differences between the two governments. A man more unlikely to succeed in such a mission could not easily have been selected. We do not believe the report.
SWEDISH BULLETIN.
Head-Quarters of the Swedish Army at Griefswald, April 26.
Reports received on the 23d from Adjutant Gen. Count Von Lowenheim, announced that the Prussians had on the 21st taken possession of several villages in the Mecklenburg territory along the frontiers of Lauenburg.
At Marienstatt their Vedettes approached to within 300 paces of the Swedish outposts. Count Lowenheim's principal force was then at Grosszecher and Skekorff. The Swedish van guard retained possession of Marienstatt, Sophienthal, the bridge of Bechen, and the approaches to Louenburgh and Attenburgh.
Yesterday Baron Glaes Ralame arrived as a courier with a report from Count Von Lowenheim, dated Gadebusch, April 23. It is stated in this dispatch, that at half past eight in the morning of the 23d, the Prussians passed the Louenburgh frontiers at Marienstatt in such force, that the Swedish troops found it necessary, after a brave resistance, to evacuate their posts in the evening. The loss of the troops under Count Von Lowenheim consists of 1 hussar killed and 8 wounded.
The loss of the Prussians cannot yet be stated with certainty, but during the action it was remarked that some men fell on their side; besides Count Von Lowenheim, has reserved the communication of farther details (which with respect to the conduct of the Prussians will be very ample) until his next Report, which is every moment expected.
In consequence of the hostilities thus commenced by the King of Prussia, his Swedish Majesty was pleased to issue orders yesterday for a general embargo on all Prussian ships in the Swedish harbours.
STOCKHOLM, APRIL 21.
By the last accounts from Germany we learn that Gen. Kalkreuth, who commands the Prussian troops destined to act against Swedish Pomerania (and who had halted) has received fresh orders to march; but private letters from Berlin give reason to believe that matters between the two countries will be accommodated.
On the question for the House to resolve itself into a committee on the bill for repealing the Additional Defence act, a debate of considerable length took place in the House of Commons last night. Mr. Fox delivered a decisive opinion in favour of the new military plan, but no information was afforded with respect to the period when the legislative measures necessary to carry it into effect will be brought forward. We still think that they will not be brought forward this Session.
Sir R. Strachan has returned from his cruise, and has rejoined the Channel fleet. During the whole of his long cruise he never saw a ship of the enemies; either French, Spaniard, or Dutchman.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 3. Arrived, the John Bull cutter, with dispatches from Admiral Sir John B. Warren, containing the agreeable intelligence of the capture of the famous Admiral Linois. It is gratifying to hear that the greater part of the treasure he obtained after a most successful cruise in the Indian Seas, is on board the Marengo.
Domestic Occurrences.
STATE OF NEW-YORK.
NEW-YORK, JUNE 20.
OUR Baltimore correspondent, under date of the 16th inst. at noon, informs us of the arrival of the Schooner Henrietta, from Curacao, which place she left on the 29th of May. He says, "The accounts of MIRANDA, from every part of the Main, are so various, that no positive opinion could be formed. It was generally believed that his object would be ultimately defeated in consequence of his want of alacrity, by giving the Spaniards an opportunity of organizing their whole military force along the coast. The account of his Schooners being taken was considered uncertain, and by many believed to be false, and only raised to lull the fears of the people."
The brig Leo, Gardner, from Leguira for Nantucket, has arrived at the Vineyard. Mr. Rembault, a passenger in the Leo, came to town yesterday, and informs, that it was reported at Leguira, that the two Schooners under the orders of Miranda were captured, and had arrived at Porto Cavello. The last accounts from Miranda stated that he was off Bonaire.
JUNE 21.
Capt. Connell, from St. Thomas, informs, that the most correct information from Miranda, by a number of recent arrivals from the Main, was, that the two Schooners were taken and carried into a small port to leeward of Leguira—and that it was currently reported, that Miranda had landed at Bonaire, where he was erecting fortifications. It was the general opinion at Caraccas, that the crews of Miranda's two Schooners, would be held as prisoners till an order respecting them was received from Spain—that there was no doubt but they would be treated with humanity. Both the officers and crews of the Schooners were marched to the city of Caraccas.
Capt. Connell farther informs, that the four French frigates were still at Porto Rico—so that the Cambrian will be there in time.
Capt. Hardie, of the Active Trader, in 17 days from Antigua, informs, that the day he sailed, a King's brig arrived at Antigua with dispatches from Admiral Cochrane, but not finding him there, sailed again immediately for Dominico. This brig brought advice of the arrival at Martinique of a French frigate from France, consisting of four sail of the line and six frigates.
WARREN:
SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1806.
London papers state, that letters from Gibraltar, speak in the highest terms of praise of the conduct of Sir Sidney Smith, who in disguise, had landed at Algiers, and after obtaining some useful information, effected the destruction of several Spanish gun-boats, by means of some light vessels which have been fitted out under the judicious direction of that enterprising and meritorious officer.
[ Boff. Gaz. ]
A Charleston paper of May 21, says—"The sale of the late Marquis of Lansdown's collection of Paintings, took place in London in March last.—They brought upwards of £9,000. A portrait of WASHINGTON, by Stewart, was sold for five hundred and fifteen guineas."
Flour inspected in the town of Alexandria, for the quarter ending the 11th June, 1806.
28,149 barrels flour. 1,835 half barrels do. 649 barrels Indian meal.
Mr. Ezekiel Powers, of Croydon, (N. H.) during the last session made upwards of fifteen hundred thousand pounds of Maple Sugar. His two sons gathered sap sufficient for seven hundred and thirty pounds, and made it into sugar in eight days and a half.
MARRIED.
At Providence, on Thursday morning the 19th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Edes, Mr. Pardon T. Burdick, to Miss Mary Cowing, eldest daughter of Mr. Ward Cowing, all of that town.
DIED.
At Barrington, on Saturday the 21st inst. after a short and painful illness, Mr. Joseph Bofworth, aged 35 years, greatly lamented.
SHIP NEWS.
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
DISTRICT OF PROVIDENCE.
ENTERED. From Sloop Maria, Hull, New-York — Pelly, Brown, ditto — Fame, Bils, ditto — Juno, Comstock, ditto — Aurora, Cahoon, ditto — Fair-Play, Rhodes, New-Providen — Lydia, Potter, Alexandria — Maria, Whitfield, Washington — Betsey, Cole, Passamaquoddy Schr. Jane, Spooner, Martinique — Snow Ida, Sawyer, St. Kitts Brig Mount-Vernon, Martin, Savannah — Juno, Bates, Leghorn — America, Shaw, Lisbon
CLEARED. For Sloop Providence, Currie, New-York — Ann & Sarah, Justin, ditto — Ruby, Sheldon, Albany — George, Potter, Norfolk Schr. Minerva, Cook, Leghorn DISTRICT OF BRISTOL. ENTERED. From Sloop Lydia, Oxx, Newport Brig Mary, Champlin, Havanna CLEARED. For Sloop Two Brothers, Pearce, Boston — Becca & Betsey, Pearce, ditto Schr. Fame, Simpson, ditto
The brig Economy, E. P. Smith, of Pawtucket, arrived at Alexandria the 18th inst. in 10 days. The ship George Washington, Martin, of New-Port, arrived at Liverpool, (Eng.) the 2d May, from New-Orleans. From Nantucket, 6 mo. 19th, 1806. The ship Anacreon, Captain Fletcher, of Newburyport, has performed the following voyages, in twenty-three months and twenty-five days, viz.—From Newburyport to Virginia, from thence to Cork and London—from London to West Florida, and back, and thence to Boston, and from Boston to the Cape of Good Hope and back. She has performed all her passages in two hundred and sixty-two days, and sailed 36708 miles per log—the two hundred first days the averaged 144 miles per day, and the remaining 62 days, about 128 miles.
Philadelphia, June 21. Arrived at New-Castle, the ship Eugenia, Sturges, from Canton. The Eugenia touched at St. Helena, and was embargoed there several days, and failed from thence the 2d May. At St. Helena, Capt. S. was informed that the ship Active, Morris, of this port, was at the Cape the 13th April, up for freight. At the Boca Tigris, the Eugenia, was boarded by 3 armed boats crews, from the British ships of war Blenheim of 74, and Hughes of 50 guns, who brought the Eugenia to anchor, detained her during the night, broke up the stowage of all articles on the gun deck, and in the gun room, and put every thing in confusion and disorder, under pretence of searching for delters—not finding any, they pressed the ships steward and two American seamen, one of whom had an American protection. On application being made to Capt. Bissle (the Commodore) for their release, he refused to give them up, declaring "that he wanted men for his Majesty's service in India, and should take them wherever he could find them, without paying any regard to American protections, which he could purchase in the United States for 50 cents per dozen." May 18. A Company's Packet at Bengal for England touched at St. Helena, and brought intelligence of a Peace between the British and all the native Powers of India.
Boston, June 20. Arrived, brig Dilligent, Stacey, in the very short passage of 30 days from Lisbon. Off the Rock of Lisbon, spoke an armed ship, with red colors, and treated politely. Capt. Stacey wishes to observe, for the good of his brother seamen, that the captain of the armed ship was very particular in asking for, and examining his Mediterranean pass; had he been without it, he thinks he would certainly have sent him into port.
Marblehead, June 22. Arrived, schr. Betsey, Capt. Roundey, from Martinico. June 3, spoke ship Rising Sun, Hunt, from Rhode-Island for a market. 12th, lat. 21, long. 69, barque Fair-Eliza, Williams, from the Coast of Africa for Charleston, with slaves—short of provisions, 50 days out. 19th, lat. 39, 15, long. 71, schr. Hiram, of New-Haven, from Rhode-Island, for Martinico, 2 days out, all well, stock on deck.
New-York, June 21. Arrived, the brig Eliza, Connell, in 18 days from St. Thomas. June 5, in lat. 23, long. 68, was boarded by an officer from the Cambrian frigate, Capt. Nairne, and treated politely, then bound to Porto-Rico, having heard of the four French frigates being there.
June 24.—The ship Indian Hunter, Johnston, in 43 days from Liverpool. Left, ship Thomas, Boston, just arrived with flour; ship M'Nichol, from Savannah, with cotton, just released from quarantine.—It was reported at Liverpool the day Capt. Johnston failed, that a stop was put to all American vessels fitting out in England for the coast of Africa; and no English vessels were to be allowed to sell their slaves, in the United States. Spoke, June 20, in lat. 40, 8, in 30 fathoms water (it being calm) while Capt. Johnston, was on deck, Robert Bromhead and Chas. Light, slipped out of the cabin windows, into the sea, for the purpose of bathing. But before the boat could be got out, which was in less than 10 minutes, Robert Bromhead went down and was drowned. The other was picked up. The above Mr. Bromhead was an Englishman, aged about 23 years.
FOURTH JULY!
THE Subscribers being appointed a Committee by the Town on the 6th May last to make arrangements for its Celebration—DO give Notice, that a procession will be formed on that Day by the Citizens of this and the neighbouring Towns at COLE'S HALL, precisely at eleven o'Clock, A. M. from whence they will move to the Baptist Meeting House, preceded by the Company of Federal Blues, Commanded by Col. SETH PACK, when the Exercise will commence with vocal and instrumental Music—the throne of Grace will be addressed—Music—the Declaration of American Independence read—Music—an Oration by Mr. SAMUEL RANDALL, and close with Music—The procession will then form and return to the Hall. Those who value the blessings of American Independence, and feel a proper sense of gratitude for the rich legacy bequeathed them by their fore fathers and patriots in arms, will not fail of celebrating this the general Jubilee.
Hail Columbia Happy Land! CHARLES WHEATON, JOHN HAILE, NATHANIEL PHILLIPS. Warren, June 27, 1806.
NOTICE.
THE Subscribers hereby give public notice to all concerned, that they have been duly appointed, and taken upon them the trust of Executors, to the last will and testament of
NATHAN MUNRO, late of Rehoboth, in said county, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs: they therefore request all persons who are indebted to the said deceased Estate, to make immediate payment:—And those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same for settlement to us ALLEN MUNRO, THOMAS MUNRO. Rehoboth, June 27, 1806.
AMERICAN JUBILEE!
THE republican citizens of Bristol and its vicinity are respectfully invited to the solemnization of the approaching FOURTH of JULY. The procession will move, precisely at 11 o'Clock, from the Bristol Hotel to St. Michael's Church, where an Oration will be pronounced by Mr. Tisdale Hodges; the instrument of AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE will also be read and the whole interspersed with appropriate music. From the Church the procession will return to the Hotel, where a public dinner will be provided by Mr. Barker. On an occasion calculated to inspire such grateful emotions, we hope may be indulged all that temperate hilarity and thankful joy so welcome to the social heart and the bosom of patriotism.
JOSEPH REYNOLDS, JOHN D'WOLFE, CHARLES COLLINS, jun. } Com. Bristol, June 27, 1806.
FOR SALE, BY JAMES D'WOLFE, At lowest Prices and liberal Credit. 2,500 River la Plata Salted Oxx HIDES, and 300 Bales TALLOW. Bristol, June 18, 1806.
FOR SALE. The fast sailing BRIG COLUMBIA, Burthen 102 Tons, and about 2 1/2 Years Old.
LIKEWISE, 62 Puncheons good flavored 3d Proof Antigua RUM. 9 Hogheads excellent retailing MO- LASSES.—Apply to CHARLES WHEATON, or WILLIAM CARR. Warren, June 20, 1806.
For Sale, Freight, or Charter, The good Sloop DEBORAH, Lying at the Wharf of William Barton, Esq. burthen 45 Tons, lately graven, and can be fitted for sea, with a trifling Expence.
TO BE LET, A CONVENIENT One Story DWELLING HOUSE, situated in Church Street, with a Lot sufficient for a Garden.—For Terms apply to ANSEL CHURCHILL. Warren, June 20, 1806.
BRISTOL BANK.
THE STOCKHOLDERS in the BANK OF BRISTOL, are hereby notified, that, agreeably to their Charter of Incorporation, a general Meeting, for the choice of Directors will be holden at the BANK-HOUSE, on Monday the 7th day of July next, at 2 o'Clock P. M. at which time a Dividend for the half year ending on the 30th day of June, will be declared, and paid to the several Stockholders or their Attorneys, at any time after, during Bank Hours, agreeably to the amount of Stock standing in their names respectively on the said 30th day of June.
By Order of the Board of Directors. JOSEPH SMITH, jun. Cashier. BRISTOL, JUNE 13, 1806.
THE Subscriber having been duly appointed Administratrix on the Estate of her Husband,
JOHN CROADE, late of this Town, in the State of Rhode Island, Merchant, deceased, and having given Bond according to Law, for the faithful discharge of the Trust thereby reposed in her, desires all who have unsettled Accounts, to call and close them, being determined to make punctual Payments, and strictly to fulfill ALL Contracts of her late Husband:—All those who are indebted, must see the propriety, on their Part, of making Payment. ELIZABETH CROADE. Warren, June 6, 1806.
FOR SALE, BY RUFUS & NATHAN M. BURR, 65 puncheons 3d proof Rum, Coarse Rock Salt, for the Diary, 14 half bbls. Mels Mutton, 20 nest Molasses Casks, 2 bbls. R. Beef. Terms of payment liberal. Inquire of the above. Warren, May 10, 1806.
THE Creditors of SHEARJASHUB BOURNE, of Bristol, in the County of Bristol, Esq. an Insolvent Debtor, are hereby notified, that they bring in and prove their demands within Nine Months from the date hereof before the Subscribers, who are appointed assignees to said Insolvent's estate. That four meetings will be held for that purpose, viz. on the First Wednesday of July, the Second Wednesday of September, the First Wednesday of November, and the Third Wednesday of January next, at the Dwelling-House of said Shearjashub Bourne, in said Bristol.—Those who shall neglect to comply with this notice, will be foreclosed by the Act, entitled "An Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors."
RICHARD SMITH, jun. } Assigns. FARKER BORDEN, BILLINGS WALDRON, } Bristol, April 21, 1806.

APOLLO'S FOUNT.
From the NATIONAL AEGIS.
MR. EDITOR,
Although the following real love song is not precisely in the usual style—though my Dorcasina may not appear to the "gentle reader," altogether as lovely as an angel: yet I will pledge all that is man about me with any Knight of gallantry that will enter the lists against me, that the description comes as near to real life, as one in the hundred, of the "love torn distres," with which the corners of our newspapers are continually filled.
To J— F—
WITH love inspir'd, with am'rous ken, With ardent zeal, I seize my pen, Attempting as it is my duty, To sketch your modest virgin beauty. Determined although no Stuart, To draw your portrait with a true art, And though I mention some quite rare goes, They are realities not scare-crows; Hung up in public dress for—"Why?" Because I dare not tell a lie: Therefore my chaste and virtuous youth, You shall hear nothing but the truth. Dear girl, do not show such a phiz; No weazle sure could equal this: Your speckled face, in wreaths convolv'd, Would make our modest swains, resolv'd, Sooner to wed, the monster fam'd, By former poets, Envy nam'd. Dont grumble thus, for—tut—between us, I'll tell them, you're as chaste as Venus, And not affected with the mania, Of that old fashion'd dame Diana. That you my charming loving creature, A perfect model are of nature. But should they think your squealing voice, Does not exactly suit their choice, Their arguments at once I'll dash in, And swear that squealing is the fashion. Then should they with presumption bold, Insinuate you are a scold, I'll swear, by your red glowing lip, You are as quiet as Xantipp: That you no more know how to rant, Than good Socrates termagant, I'll tell them, farther, if you please, Of more accomplishments than these, That you're a chip of the old block, As humble full as a peacock. As you pass by, I'll bid them wait, And view your graceful nipping gait. I'll tell them you are no magician, Although a red hot politician. That you dont trouble desk or shelf, But admiration of yourself, So much engrosses your attention, That needeist it would be to mention, The valuable rare realities, That form the rest of your good qualities. DON QUIXOTE.
From the MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE.
The affecting HISTORY of CAROLINE MONTGOMERY:
[From "ETHELINDE; or, the Refuge of the Lake," a new and beautiful Novel, by Mrs. CHARLOTTE SMITH.]
MRS. MONTGOMERY thus relates her history, in a conversation with Ethelinde Chesterville, the lovely heroine of this novel.
"My father was a native of Scotland, of the noble family of Douglas. He was a younger brother of a younger branch, and married very early in his life a young woman as well born, and as indignant as himself. In the year 1745, he was among those who joined the unfortunate Charles Edward; and he fell at Culloden, leaving me then about twenty months old, and his wife, then not more than seventeen, entirely dependant on the bounty of his father, and overwhelmed with the greatness of her calamity; but when she held in her arms her unfortunate orphan, the sole legacy and sole memorial of a man whom he had fondly loved, she struggled against her unhappy destiny, and for my sake attempted to live."
"Though peace was at length restored to the wretched country, which had been too long the seat of devastation, many families found themselves totally impoverished; and none had suffered more than my grand-father, who having narrowly escaped with life, survived to lament the loss of three brave sons, and to see great part of his property in ashes. He lingered only a twelvemonth afterwards, and then sunk into the grave, leaving his small patrimony to his only surviving son, who had himself a numerous family. My mother saw, or fancied she saw, that he could willingly have dispensed with any additional burthen; and she determined to go to England, where she hoped to be received by a brother of her own who was settled in London. Thither she conveyed herself and me in the cheapest way she could, and was received by a brother (who had sunk his illustrious birth for the convenience offered him of becoming partner with a merchant) with kindness indeed; but such kindness as a mind, narrowed by perpetually contemplating riches, shews to the poor who are dependent on them. His wife by whose
means his fortune had been promoted, convinced him that his sister and her child could not be commodiously received into his house. Lodgings were however provided for her in the neighbourhood, and she boarded with her brother: but the second month of her thus living was not passed, before the neglect she felt from him, and the pride and ill-nature of his wife, taught her to experience, in all its bitterness, the misery of dependence. Born with very acute feelings, and at an age when every sensibility is awake, my mother found this situation every day more insupportable. Yet whither could she turn? She had neither knowledge of business, nor any means of engaging in it. She had no acquaintance in England, and not in the world any friend who had at once the power and the will to assist her."
"Almost the first circumstance which made any impression on my mind, was the agonies of passion with which my mother clasped me to her bosom, and wept over me, while she called on the spirit of her departed Douglas to behold the wretchedness of his widow and his orphan. At that age, however, it is only a slight sketch now and then of some violent passion, or striking circumstance, that rests on the memory of an infant. I have no recollection of any thing else till the scene was greatly changed, and, in my childish eyes, greatly amended."
"It was summer; and though at that period the mercantile inhabitants of London were less accustomed than they now are to go to country villas, yet my uncle, who was growing rich, had one near Hammermith, where he usually repaired with his family on Fridays, returning again to town the beginning of the following week. The weather was uncommonly hot, and my mother, who was never of these parties, but was left in London to share the dinner of the solitary servant who took care of the house, fancied that I had for many days drooped for want of air; and alarmed by that idea, she took, after the family were gone, an hackney coach, and directed it to carry her to the gate of Hyde Park."
"Though the sun was declining, it had yet so much power, that in walking through the park with me in her arms, that I at least might not suffer, she became extremely fatigued. She saw people going into Kensington Gardens: thither she went also; and to avoid observation, betook herself to an unfrequented part of them, where, quite overcome with bodily fatigue and mental anguish, she threw herself on a seat, and, straining me to her bosom, began with a torrent of tears to lament not so much her own hard fate as that which awaited the infant of her lost Douglas, whose name she frequently repeated, broken by the sobs and groans which a thousand tender recollections of him, and poignant fears for me, extorted from her. From this delirium of fruitless sorrow she was awakened by the appearance of a gentleman, of about thirty, who suddenly approached her, and enquired with great politeness, yet with great warmth, whether her distress was of a nature which he could mitigate or remove?"
"Alarmed by this address from a stranger, my mother arose, and making an effort to conquer her emotion and conceal her tears, she thanked him in an hurried voice for his politeness, but assured him that she was merely fatigued by the heat of the weather, and should now hasten home."
"He was not however to be so easily shaken off. If my mother had at first struck him as a very beautiful young woman, he was still more charmed when she spoke, and when, amidst the confusion she was under, he observed as much unaffected modesty as natural elegance. It was in vain that she entreated him to leave her, and assured him that she lived in a very distant part of the town with a brother, into whose house she could not introduce a stranger, and that she should be otherwise much distressed by his attention. He would not leave her; but taking me up in his arms,
he carried me out of the gardens, and then delivering me to my mother, he ran towards the palace to procure, as he said, a coach. My mother, who trembled she knew not why, at the politeness she could not resent, now hurried on in the hope of escaping from her new acquaintance; but she had not proceeded an hundred paces before he was again at her side, and again took me in his arms, and under pretence that there was no coach to be had where he had been, but that one would probably be met with if they walked on, he engaged her to proceed, till a coach overtook them: not such as he pretended to have sought, but one on which was an earl's coronet, and the arms of Douglas, quartered, with those of an illustrious English family."
"Now," said he, stopping as it came up, "here is a carriage, which shall convey you and this little cherub to your home. You will not, I think, refuse me the honour of accompanying you, that it may afterwards take me to mine."
"Again my mother urged every thing she could think of to prevail upon her new friend to desist from a proof of attention which could only distress her. He would hear nothing; and the warmth of his importunity forced her, in spite of every objection, to get into his coach, where he seated me in her lap, and himself by her side."
"He then attempted to quiet her fears, by entering into discourse on the topics of the day; in which he exerted himself so effectually, his manners were so easy, and his conversation so entertaining, that the agitation of her spirits gradually subsided. The soothing voice of friendship, of pity, of sympathy, which she had not heard for many, many months, again made its way to her heart; and when he insensibly turned the discourse from less interesting matters to her own condition, the tears flowed from her eyes, softness pervaded her heart, and she confided to this stranger, whom she had not yet known above an hour, the unhappy uncertainty of her situation, the actual misery she suffered herself, and the anguish which weighed down her spirit when she reflected that she had no other portion to bequeath me than poverty, servitude, or dependence, more bitter than either. In making this avowal, she had named her family, and that of her father."
"Yes," interrupted her protector, "I heard, as I listened to you in the gardens, the name of Douglas. I am myself of the race; for my mother was a Douglas; such a circumstance, added to the captivating beauty of the fair mourner to whom I listened, made my curiosity invincible. Dangerous curiosity! to gratify it, I have, I fear, lost my peace!"
"Not to dwell too long on this recital, let me say that this nobleman professed himself passionately in love with the young widow; and though she insisted on his giving up so wild an idea, he declared before he left her that he would, by some means or other introduce himself to her brother, since to live without seeing her was at length prevailed upon to leave the house; and without extorting permission from my mother, he was there again the next day, and every day, till the family returned; after which he managed so adroitly, that in a few days he made an acquaintance with my uncle, and was in form invited to dinner; while neither himself or his wife at all suspected for whose sake the acquaintance was so anxiously cultivated, but were extremely elate at the notice which a man of rank took of them, and the compliments he paid to the respectability and intrinsic worth of men of business."
"The attention however which he found himself obliged to pay to the mistress of the house, and the few opportunities of seeing or conversing with my mother which this method of visiting allowed him, became very uneasy to him. And at length, after a long struggle with himself, he determined to hazard telling her his real situation. He probably knew that he
had by this time secured such an interest in her heart, that it was no longer in her power to fly from him, whatever her honour might dictate. Having with some difficulty obtained an opportunity of speaking to her, he told her, that he knew she must long have seen his ardent and incurable passion; "which perhaps," continued he, "I ought never to have indulged; but, alas! from the first moment I saw you, my heart was your's! while reason in vain condemned me, and repeated the fatal truth which you must now hear. I am already married—I am not villain enough to attempt to deceive you; but listen to what I have to add in extenuation of my conduct, before you condemn me to despair."
"The indignation with which my mother received this acknowledgment, the attempts of her lover to appease and soften her, I need not relate: having at length prevailed on her to hear what he had to urge, he told her, that to gratify his family he had when little more than twenty, married the heiress of a rich and noble family; plain, and even deformed in her person, with a temper soured by ill health and the consciousness of her own imperfections, and with manners the most disgusting. For upwards of three years he dragged on a life completely wretched with a woman whose malignity of temper deadened all pity for her personal misfortune: at the end of that period she was seized with the small pox, attended with the worst symptoms; but the distemper acting on an habit constitutionally bad, failed to deprive her of life, which would have been a blessing to them both; but left behind it violent epileptic fits, which continuing with increasing violence for many months, had deprived her of the slender share of reason she ever possessed, and threw her at length into confirmed idiotism, in which state she had invariably remained for the last six years. Thus situated, he considered himself, though the fatal tie could not by law be dissolved, as really unmarried, and at liberty to offer his heart to the lovely object who now possessed it, though the cruel circumstance he had related made it impossible for him to offer her that rank, in which it would otherwise have been his ambition to have placed her, and to which she would have done so much honour."
[To be continued.]
Horses & Carriages.
FOR SALE BY
Nathan M. Burr,
A pair of handsome Bay HORSES, 7 years old, well broke to the Harness.
Two others, coming five, all sound & far, and broken to the harness and draught, of every kind.
Two second hand CHAISES, and a handy two horse COACHEE, almost new.
ALSO,
200 BUSHELS OATS.
Terms of payment made easy and a liberal credit.
WARREN, May 3, 1806. (t.l.)
NOTICE.
WHEREAS the Honorable Court of Probate for the town of Bristol, appointed the Subscribers Commissioners to the Estate of
TIMOTHY DIMAN,
late of Bristol, Labourer, deceased, represented insolvent:—All persons having demands against said Estate, are hereby notified to exhibit the same, to either of the Subscribers, at their respective dwellings, within 6 months, being the time allowed by said Court.
RICHARD SMITH, jun. } Com's. GEORGE MUNRO, 2d. }
All Persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment, to
JOSEPH BOOTH, Adm'tr. *BRISTOL, APRIL 7, 1806. (6w.)
NOTICE.
ALL persons any ways indebted to the Estate of
NATHANIEL MARTIN,
late of Barrington, Esquire, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, Executors to the last Will and Testament of said NATHANIEL: And those who have any demands against said Estate are also requested to exhibit the same to
CALVIN MARTIN, } Executors. ANDERSON MARTIN, }
*Barrington, March 8, 1806. (6w.)