Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1803-01-15 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.
REMOVAL.
ROBERT LAWTON
TAKES this method of informing his friends and the public in general, that he has removed from his late place of residence, to the house he formerly occupied, opposite Messrs. Gibbs & Channing's—where may be had an elegant assortment of GOODS, adapted to the season—too numerous to particularize in an advertisement—and as cheap, for cash, as at any store in the town.—Those who will please to call at his Store, he flatters himself, will find an inducement to purchase, as he is determined to dispose of them at very reduced prices.
N. B. He has also just opened for sale, a quantity of best Irish Linens, seven eighths, and yard wide, by wholesale or retail.—Likewise, a beautiful assortment of Latchrings, very cheap. January 13, 1803. c8tf
Dr. GUSTAVUS BAYLIES,
OF BRISTOL, Has just received, for Sale, an additional assortment of genuine
DRUGS & MEDICINES.
—ALSO— SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, OF WHICH ARE, ELEGANT Amputating Instruments, (of the latest Improvement.) Ditto, Trepanning ditto, Breast Pipes, Ivory Syringes, &c. &c. LIKEWISE,
a few modern Medical Books, among which are, James Latta's PRACTICAL SYSTEM OF SURGERY, illustrated with Cases on many of the Subjects, and with Copperplates—3 Vols. Townsend's GUIDE TO HEALTH, Darwin's Zoonomia—3 Vols. Bursier, on Medicine—a work of very considerable merit, containing a Course of Lectures delivered by the Author, which were translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown, and published in the English language at Edinburgh, in the present year—4 Vols.
Dr. GUSTAVUS BAYLIES likewise respectfully acquaints his friends, that he continues the Practice of PHYSIC, MIDWIFERY, and the various branches of SURGERY. November 29, 1802. 114tf
William Moore, jun. & Co.
HAVE FOR SALE, At their STORE on the Ferry Wharf—a general Assortment of GROCERIES,—SHIP CHANDLERY,—HARD WARE, &c.
Which they will dispose of on as reasonable terms as at any Store in Newport, by wholesale and retail—among which are the following articles:—
 40 Hhds. good retail- ing MOLASSES,  Holland GIN,  West-India RUM,  BRANDY,  Loaf & brown SUGAR  Hylon-skin, Souchong, and Bohea TEAS,  COFFEE, GINGER,  PEPPER, PIMENT,  TO, STARCH,  Catfe & N.Y. SOAP,  MUSTARD,  COPPERAS,  Sherry WINE,  Malaga do.  Spanish flote INDIGO  CASSIA,  ALLUM, SNUFF,  BRIMSTONE,  Wool & Cotton Cards,  TOBACCO,  7 by 9 GLASS,  COTTON WOOL,  German and blister'd STEEL,  NAILS—assorted,  GLASS WARE,  FLOUR, CANDLES  6 tons assorted IRON,  per ton or hundred,  &c. &c. &c. 
LIKEWISE, A great variety of DRY GOODS, suitable for the season. Newport, Dec. 4, 1802. 114tf
For Sale at Public Auction,
ON the first Monday of February next (weather permitting,) unless previously disposed of at private sale, a new two story Dwelling-House, with four rooms on a floor, with a Lot of Land, 60 feet front, situate on Spring-Street.—Also, a two story Shop thereon, calculated for a dwelling-house with a Cellar under it. Sale to be at ten o'clock A.M.
GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, Nov. 20, 1802. cxiif
N. B. Any person wishing to purchase at private sale, may know the terms, by applying to GARDNER and DEAN, or ROBERT LAWTON, jun. living on the premises.
FOR SALE,
HALF of a Body PEW, No. 80—situate on the West Aisle very near the pulpit, in the Rev. Mr. Bradley's Meeting House.—For terms, enquire of the Printer. Newport, Oct. 23, 1802. 108tf
Gold & Silver Smith.
THE Subscriber Respectfully informs his friends and the Public in general, that he has taken a Shop belonging to Mr. Jonathan Mayh, directly opposite the Post-Office, where he carries on the GOLD and SILVER SMITH, and JEWELLERY Business, in all its various branches.—Those who may favor him with their Custom, may depend upon punctuality. Constant attendance will be given, and the smallest favors most gratefully acknowledged, by the Public's humble servant, JOHN SNOW.
Cash given for old Gold and Silver. Newport, Sept. 25, 1802. civif
DAVID MELVILL, jun.
Has just opened, and now offers for sale, at his old stand, next door South of Mr. Townsend's Coffee-House, a neat and general Assortment of HARD-WARE, STATIONARY, and other Articles,
AMONG which are, a great variety of the most fashionable cabinet furniture—brass knobs and books—pendal rings—elegant enameled and brass cloak pins (or supporters for looking-glasses) brass locks, bolts, hinges, and table castors—files and rasps—screws, brads, and nails, of all kinds—brass and iron hinges—door, chest, trunk, cupboard, pad, and other locks of every description—gun-locks and brass furniture—knives and forks—desert knives—jack and pen knives—dole and office knives—scissors and shears—ring, knob, and thumb latches, brass and iron—pewter and iron, table and tea spoons—warming pans, copper and brass—composition, iron, sheet-iron and blocktin tea kettles—spades and shovels—hoes and tongs—sleeyards—candlesticks—gridirons, patent and common—stations—bellows, brass and iron mops—box, and iron coffee mills—brass, japan'd, and iron candlesticks—steel and japan'd snuffers—snuffer boats—patent lamps, various kinds—Glue, first quality—Also, A handsome assortment japan'd ware.
Patent and common Time Glasses—Looking glasses—brass and iron wire—curry combs—mouse and rat traps—axes, adzes and hatchets—drawing-knives—carpenters and Kent hammers—wood-saws—band and slitting do.—tenant dovetail and safe do. brass and iron back-turning, compass and keyhole do.—double iron jack plains—jointers and smoothing plains—single iron do.—moulding and rabbit do.—ogivalles, hollows and rounds, and table plains—moving pliers and plow-plains—bit stocks with bits assorted—best cast-steel former chisels—common do.—morticing and socket chisels and gauges—cast-steel fluting gauges—plain iron's—sliding gunners—iron squares and compasses—carpenters rules—spike and nail gimblets—tapsters, &c. Shoemakers hammers, knives, knippers, pincers, tacks, awl blades, do. lasts, and file-sticks.—House, hearth, clothes, bat, dusting, and tooth-brushes—horse, shoe, tar, scrubbing and painters do.—bones, razors, razor straps and cases—shaving boxes—horn and ivory combs—brass, pewter, leather, paper and glass inkstands—ink-powder—copper plate copy slips—letter, curling, and wrapping paper, every quality—quills from 50 cents to 3 dollars per hundred—feathering wax & wafers—black and red Morocco pocket books—best black led pencils, slates & slate pencils—gunner scales and dividers—powder flasks—best London pewter tea pots. And a variety of other articles as low as can be bought in this town. Newport, Dec. 24, 1802. 117tf
CLARK BLISS,
INFORMS his friends, and the Public, that he has removed from Danister's wharf, to the dwelling-house belonging to Capt. Caleb Gardner, in Thames Street, formerly occupied by Capt. Wing Spooner—where he has for sale a General Assortment of
West-India Goods:
Among others, are the following articles, viz Brandy, West-India Rum, 418 proof do. Gin, New-England Rum, Wines of different kinds, Molasses, Loaf & Brown Sugars, Coffee, Tea of various kinds, Chocolate, Raisins, Pepper, Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Flour, Rye and Indian Meal, Butter, Cheese, Soap, and Candles; various kinds of Glass Ware, Stone Ware, Knives, and Forks, Jack Knives, Pen-Knives, large and small Spoons, Chest Locks and Files, Crockett and Tin Ware, Axes, Hatchets and Hoes, Men's and Boys Shoes, Corks, Brimstone, Lamplight, Stone Lime, Lamp Oil, Powder, Shot and Blunts, Fishing Lines of various kinds, Leads and Hooks, deep sea Leads and Lines, Bellows, metal Tea Pots, writing Paper, wrapping paper by the ream, Bed Cords, Log Lines, Marlings, Seamen's Cloths, Oak Keys holding from one quart to six gallons, Buckets, Coffee and Pepper ready ground for use; and a number of other Articles not mentioned.—Captains of vessels, and others, may be supplied on the shortest notice, and every favor gratefully acknowledged.
SAMUEL VINSON,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends, and the public in general, that he has just received by the latest arrivals, a large and well chosen assortment of
GOODS,
suitable for the season; to enumerate which, would be tedious. Those who will favor him with their custom, may depend on having them on the lowest terms. He has likewise received a variety of Muffs, Tippets, and Fur Trimings.—Also, a small box of elegant
JEWELRY,
Consisting of Ladies Necklaces, Ear rings, Hankerchief Pins, Brooches, Bracelets, & Lockets, of the most fashionable kinds. Newport, Nov. 12, 1802. cxiif
CASH, PAID FOR LINEN & WOOLLEN RAGS, BY
Christopher Olney, & Co.
Delivered at their Mills, or at their Paper Warehouse,
WHERE they have for sale, at wholesale & retail, all kinds of Paper, viz. Foolscap Writing-Paper, No. 1 and 2.—Vellum Letter do.—Pot do.—Wrapping do.—Bonnet do.—Clothier's do. 1st quality.—Sheathing, with and without Sand.—Book-Binder's Boards.—Candle Paper, and Sugar Loaf Blue.—ALSO, A complete Assortment of Blank Account and Record Books.—LIKEWISE
Account Books made and ruled to any pattern, to suit the purchaser.—A complete Assortment of School Books, and Stationary of all kinds, &c.
Also, Warranted Chocolate, by the Box, or pound, Cocoa Shells, by the Bag.
N. B. Wanted, one or two Boys, from 12 to 14 years of age, as Apprentices to the Paper-making and Clothing business.—To such great encouragement will be given.
Providence, Oct. 26, 1802. 74tf
FROM THE AURORA.
THE following paragraphs have been found among the numerous rejected articles sent to this office for insertion while Congress sat in this city—they are in the same hand-writing, as the forged letters—our readers will judge for themselves, whether such articles were or were not likely to be written by Mr. Rutledge.
Copies of anonymous paragraphs in the same hand-writing as the letters forged in the name of Nicet Jeffrey.
From Mr. Rutledge's partial manner of discharging the duties of the chair (when the whole House is in committee) we may figure to ourselves what will be his conduct if he shall succeed in being elected Speaker. The truth is that whenever his honorable friends Sewall, Pinckney, Otis, or Harper rise, he roars to order in the most rentorophonic manner, but when any of the minority are up, the chairman takes up his pen and writes his bills down and receives the soft and vanquished looks of the pretty girls in the gallery and lobby with as much sang froid as if he was in his chamber.—Lord, lord, what a charming thing it is to be a man of fashion! Mr. R. is a man of fashion, and the women say 'twas very sensible in old thunderer to make him the heir apparent, for that he is a man of fine parts. Rutledge's wish to please all his honorable friends induced great efforts to command silence when poor Gordon spoke, &c."
ANOTHER.
On Monday last his excellency in Arch-Street gave a splendid ball. Mr. Dayton tho' the dignity of the chair would be committed if both he and his chairman danced, and he adjourned with the active Secretary at war, and Judge Cushing, and Chief Justice Ellsworth to a snug back room, where they twigg'd his majesty's old port at a great rate—their honors were soon put under the table—the next morning the Speaker sent to the House to say he was sick and could not attend—the little Secretary was monstrous maulish the whole day, and that accomplished & beautiful man Judge Ellsworth, vowed he would not have drank so much if he had known that wine was stronger than cyder."
P. S. The printer is respectfully requested not to make alterations in the articles relating to Messrs. Champlin & Rutledge and the party at Liston's.
(The articles concerning Champlin is as follows,—written on the same sheet.)
Young Champlin has commenced Speaker to the very great mortification of his friends; they are fearful that his habits of vociferating in society, to the exclusion of every body present will be practised in public, and that he
will become as great a chatterbox in Congress as he is in private." [Here follows an anecdote of the most vulgar bawdy.]
ANOTHER ARTICLE.
MR. RUTLEDGE'S RESOLUTION. "Mr. Rutledge thinking himself mighty cunning, offered for preventing a debate on any bill or resolution being protracted beyond one day. Mr. Gallatin however, who mars all tory plots, easily discovered that Rutledge and Otis as members of the committee of vigor, had laid their heads together and hatched this contrivance for securing success to a bill into which they meant to cram all their war measures and the details of which could not be examined in a day, made the House indignant and only 26 votes could be obtained." Goody Harper voted against the resolution, not because it was a contrivance or a trick, but because it would prevent his making three speeches, &c."
ANOTHER.
The Southern feds have been completely jockeyed and Mr. Rutledge is not it seems, to be the successor of the federal Jove. At a select Caucus held some evenings past at Tracy's; it was determined that, as Rutledge would not vote for a declaration of war, and as the chair was no object to him, and as Mr. Sedgwick was willing to go all lengths—as he had descended from the Senate—as he was ready to declare war, and as twelve dollars a day was an object to Theodore, that he ought to be supported for the chair.—The Southern feds protested against the Eastern decree—Bayard said the chair at a former caucus had been promised Rutledge—Crask thought it would be good policy to fill it with a Southern man—Evans shewed mathematically that the Virginians would be displeased if Theodore succeeded, because they already complained of the government being a government of Eastern men; and Dennis complained and Grove kicked—but it was all to no purpose, and Mr. Sedgwick is up as the federal candidate for the chair.—'Tis not certain whether Theodore will succeed, but it is certain that Rutledge deserved to be laughed at: Whenever the Southern men follow the Eastern, they are invariably jockeyed and rode.
COMMENTS.
To persons who are not intimately acquainted with the arts of men of mean or mercenary ambition, it may appear absurd to suspect Rutledge of writing concerning himself and betraying the actual secrets of characters of his own party, and even sneering at himself. But in these articles and others, we perceive independent of the positive identity of the writing, reasons of a personal and political nature to fix those articles on Rutledge.
 1. His well known expectations of the speaker's chair when Sedgwick was elected.  2. His vanity to be considered as a man of fashion and a killing creature among the women.  3. His secret but unalterable hatred and jealousy of Harper.  4. The well known fact that he forfeited the confidence of the Yankee feds—upon the question of war.  5. His being constantly at the dinner parties at Liston's.  6. His contempt for Otis & Champlin's understanding—though much on a par with his own. 
But it will be asked, why he should write in the Aurora? For very obvious reasons—his knowledge of the federal movements enabled him to say so much as was likely to subserve his own views, without danger of discovery? and by publishing on one side in the Aurora he had an opportunity of answering himself in the Gaz. of the U. States, and thereby persuading that he could not be the author of what he answered.
The letters of this man have been diffused all over the country, and his conduct is one among the cogent arguments against the blindness of fortune in bestowing the means of employing time and industry to pernicious ends, when the same character might with less fortune have become a very respectable coal-porter, wood-cutter, or ship's boatwain.

INTERESTING DOCUMENT.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying his Report—Prepared in obedience to the directions of the act, supplementary to the act, entitled, An act to establish the Treasury Department.
SIR, I have the honor to enclose a report prepared in obedience to the directions of the act, supplementary to the act, entitled, "An act to establish the Treasury Department."
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Sir, your obedient servant, ALBERT GALLATIN.
Treasury Department, Dec. 16, 1802. The Hon. the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
REPORT.
In obedience to the directions of the act supplementary to the act, entitled "An Act to establish the Treasury Department," the Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits the following Report.
The permanent Revenues of the United States, exclusively of fees, fines and penalties, which in a general view of the subject, may be omitted, consist of, duties on Merchandise and Tonnage, proceeds of the sales of public Lands, and duties on Postage.
The duties on postage which were, in the annual report of last year, estimated at 50,000 dollars, have, during the year ending on the 30th day of September last, yielded 50,500 dollars. The decrease of ship letters, the extension of the establishment through unproductive roads, and the acceleration of the progress of the mail, may, however, cause some defalcation in the receipts of the ensuing year.
Three hundred and twenty six thousand and fifty two dollars and eight cents have been received during the same year, on account of the public lands, of which sum, 17 162 dollars and 50 cents were paid into the Treasury, in evidences of the public debt, and 179,575 dollars and 52 cents in specie. The local situation of the land offices not having yet rendered it practicable to draw the balance from the receivers of public monies.
Three hundred and forty thousand acres of land have been sold for six hundred and eighty thousand dollars, during the year ending on the 31st day of October last; of which quantity, near ninety-seven thousand acres were sold on account of pre-emption claims by purchasers under John Clevens Symmes, and two hundred and forty-three thousand acres are the result of current sales. The annexed statement (A) designates the quantities respectively sold in the several districts, and the annual payments receivable on account of the balance of nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars due on these and on the preceding sales.
From those several results it appears probable that the annual receipts under this head, will not, on an average, fall short of the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, at which they have been estimated.
Although it had been anticipated that the receipts in the treasury, on account of duties on merchandise and tonnage, could not, for the present year, be effected by the restoration of peace in Europe, yet the sum actually paid has exceeded the most sanguine expectations: twelve millions, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, have been received during the course of the year ending on the 30th day of September last; a sum larger, by, two millions of dollars, than the amount received for the same duties during the preceding or any other year; and which exceeds, by twelve hundred thousand dollars, the aggregate heretofore collected, in any one year, on account of both the import and the internal duties, repealed by an act of last session.
This excess, which had not been calculated upon, is considered, alone, as amply sufficient to cover any possible defalcation which might, during the next and ensuing year, reduce that branch of the revenue below last year's estimate of nine millions five hundred thousand dollars, which defalcation is not however, apprehended, for although there are not sufficient data, precisely to ascertain the effect of peace on the amount of duties, those which are in the possession of this department, tend to corroborate the presumption, that that sum, (at least nine millions and a half) will hereafter be annually received. The statement (B) which exhibits a comparative view of that revenue, for each quarter during the last two years, shows that the amount of duties accrued during the nine first months of the present year, exceeds eleven millions three hundred thousand dollars, and after deducting three millions five hundred thousand dollars, amount of debenture issued during the same period, on account of the re-exportations of foreign goods, leaves for those three quarters, a balance of more than seven millions eight hundred thousand dollars, subject to no other deduction than the expenses of collection; and from knowledge already obtained of the importations during the present quarter, as well as from the gradual diminution of re-exportations, no doubt remains that the net revenue accruing during the whole year, will exceed the estimate.
From present appearances, the whole of the permanent revenues of the United States may therefore be reasonably computed at ten millions of dollars—of which sum, seven millions three hundred thousand dollars are appropriated for the payment of the principal and interest of the public debt, and two millions seven hundred thousand dollars are applicable to the current expenses of government.
According to the estimates of the year 1803, those expenses will, exclusively of a sum of 180,000 dollars wanted to cover the navy deficiencies of the years 1801 and 1802, but including sundry permanent appropriations which make no part of the annual estimates; amount to 2,660,000 dollars; to wit:—
For the civil department and all domestic expenses of a civil nature, 680,000 dollars.
For the expenses attending the intercourse with foreign nations, including prize causes & Barbary powers, 250,000 dollars.
For the military and Indian departments, 830,000 dollars.
For the naval establishment, calculated on a supposition that six frigates shall be kept in constant employment, 900,000 dollars.
Total, 2,660,000 dollars. Neither the payments due on account of the convention with Great Britain, and which will, for three years, amount annually to eight hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars, nor the instalments and interest due on account of the 200,000 dollars loan obtained from the State of Maryland, for the city of Washington, are included in that calculation; as they may be defrayed out of the following resources, which make no part of the permanent revenues, viz.
1st. The surplus of specie in the treasury which, as the whole amount, there will not at the close of the present year fall much short of five millions of dollars, far exceed the sum it is prudent to keep.
2dly. The uncollected arrears of the direct tax, estimated at four hundred thousand dollars. And
3dly. The outstanding uncollected internal duties, amounting to near seven hundred thousand dollars.
The only embarrassment experienced during the course of the last year, arose from the difficulty of procuring the remittances necessary to meet the large instalments of the debt due in Holland. The impossibility of obtaining bills on that country, to the amount wanted by government, and the loss which, on account of the rate of exchange, must be incurred by remitting circuitously through England, induced the secretary of the treasury to recommend, in a report to the commissioners of the sinking fund, (marked C.) a recourse to bank stock as the most favorable mode of remitting.
Of the five thousand shares in the stock of the Bank of the United States, originally subscribed by the United States, 2,780 shares had been sold in the year 1796, by virtue of the act, entitled "An act making provision for the payment of certain debts of the United States," and for the purpose of discharging a part of the debt due to the Bank. The remaining 2,220 shares were now under the same authority, sold at 45 per cent. advance; the 1,287,600 dollars which they produced were, in conformity to the provisions of the said act, applied towards discharging an equal amount of that part of the debt which had become due to the bank before or during the year 1796; and the purchaser of the stock, sold, at the same time, to the treasury, an equal sum in bills on Holland at 40 cents per guilder; the securing of which large amount, at that rate, was the inducement on the part of government to dispose of the bank stock on those terms. As the dividend usually received on the bank stock sold, and the annual interest payable on the debt due to the bank, thus extinguished, were nearly equal, the July half yearly dividend on the stock, was in fact the premium paid for the purpose of effecting the remittance; and government has thereby been enabled to obtain, without raising the price of exchange, the whole amount wanted to meet the payments due in Holland, till the month of September, 1803.
Exclusively of, and in addition to the debt of 1,287,600 dollars thus paid to the bank, out of the proceeds of the sales of bank shares; a sum of eight millions three hundred and thirty-four thousand, seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty-nine cents has been paid out of the treasury during the year ending on the 30th day of September last, on account of the principal and interest of the public debt, and the payments in part of the principal of the debt, made during the same period, have been as followeth:—
1st. The payment on account of the principal and interest of the domestic debt have been 4,628,105 dollars and 39 cents. From which deducting one year's interest on the same, 3,470,259 dollars and 75 cents, leaves a sum applied to the reimbursement of the principal of the six per cent. & deferred stocks, of 1,157,845 dollars and 64 cents.
2d. Paid to foreign officers, and for the registered debt, 9,603 dollars and 18 cents.
3d. Principal of domestic loans (exclusive of the 1,287,600 dollars paid out of the proceeds of bank shares) 202,400 dollars.
4th. Evidences of public debt paid for land, 17,162 dollars and 50 cents.
5th. The payments on account of the principal and interest of the foreign debt have been 3,310,874 dollars and 32 cents. From which sum deducting one year's interest and charges equal to 462,731 dollars. And on account of the different rates at which bills have been purchased, and of sundry bills returned for non-payment, and now in suit, a further sum of 82,284 dollars 98 cents—makes 545,015 dollars and 98 cents: Leaves applicable to payment of the principal 2,765,858 dollars and 34 cents. Amounting altogether to 4,152,869 dollars and 66 cents.
And if to that sum be added the 1,287,000 dollars paid on account of the principal of the debt due to the bank, out of the proceeds of the sale of the bank shares the 5,440,469 dollars & 66 cents.
Total amount of debt extinguished during that year, will be found to exceed five millions four hundred and forty thousand dollars.
The balance of specie in the treasury, which on the 1st of October, 1801, amounted to 2,048,718 dollars & 73 cents, had increased on the 1st Oct. 1802, to the sum of 4,530,673 dollars and 57 cents, making a difference in favor of the treasury, of 1,500,956 dollars 84 cents: Which last sum added to the above mentioned payment of 4,152,869 dollars and 66 cents, made out of the treasury on account of the principal of the public debt, makes an actual differ-
ence in favor of the United States, of more than five million, seven hundred and forty thousand dollars, during that year.
The payments on account of the principal of the public debt, from the 1st day of April, 1801, to the 30th day of Sept. 1802, (exclusively of and in addition to the bank debt discharged out of the proceeds of bank shares) amounts to 5,339,886 dollars & 44 cents.—Viz. on account of the domestic debt, 1,334,942 dollars and 81 cents. On account of the foreign debt, 3,302,543 dollars and 63 cents: And in re payment of temporary loans, 702,400 dollars—Total 5,339,886 dollars and 44 cents.
And if to that sum shall be added the increase of specie in the treasury, during the same period, which, (as the amount on the 1st April 1801, did not exceed 1,794,044 dollars and 85 cents) amounts to 2,745,630 dollars and 72 cents, the difference in favour of the United States, 8,085,517 dollars and 16 cents, for those eighteen months will be found equal to eight millions, eighty-five thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars sixteen cents.
Of the annual appropriation of 7,300,000 dollars for the principal and interest of the public debt, near three millions, nine hundred thousand dollars will be wanted to pay the interest which falls due in the year 1803, and the residue, amounting to three millions, four hundred thousand dollars, may be considered as the sum applicable, during that year, to the extinguishment of the principal of the public debt.
From all which, it results that so long as the United States shall not be afflicted by any unforeseen calamity, and whilst the public expenditures shall be kept within their present limits, there does not appear any necessity for increasing the public revenues.
All which is most respectfully submitted by ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury. Treasury Department, Dec. 16, 1802.
SIMON DAVIS
HAS FOR SALE, ST. Croix Rum by the Hoghead, 2d and 3d proof, ditto, ditto, Antigua Rum, ditto, ditto, Retailing Molasses, ditto, ditto, Superfine Flour by the quantity or single Barrel, Pilot, Navy, and Ship Bread, ditto, Tar and Turpentine, ditto, Brown Sugar by the Barrel, Coffee by the Hoghead, Barrel, or Bag, Logwood & Fustick by the Ton, Cwt. or smaller quantity. A few pieces Mahogany, A quantity of Menhaden Fish, in excellent order for shipping, A few tons Whale Oil, Spermaceti Candles per quantity or single Box. Newport, Jan. 1, 1803. [118if]
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy, under the Hand and Seal of the Hon. David Leonard Barnes, Judge of the District Court for the Rhode-Island District, has been awarded and issued against EDWARD DEXTER, of Providence, in said District, Trader; and he being declared a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in the said Commission named, on the 8th and 22d days of January next, and on the 4th day of February next, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon of each day, at Alpheus Ammidon's Golden Ball Inn, in said Providence, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects; when and where the Creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the second meeting to choose an Assignee or Assignees, and at the last meeting the said Bankrupt is required to finish his examination; and the Creditors are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate. All persons indebted to said Bankrupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the Commissioners shall appoint. By Order of the Commissioners, SAMUEL W. BRIDGHAM, Clerk. Providence, Dec. 24, 1802. [18]
On FRIDAY, 21st instant, at 11 o'clock, (if fair, if not the first fair day)
WILL be sold at Auction (if not sold before at private sale) the Schooner GENERAL GREENE, with her sails, rigging, &c. as per inventory. Also, 1 Fore top-sail, 1 Foresail, 1 Main top-sail, & 1 Mizzen-top-sail; all new—large enough for a ship of 250 tons.
1 Anchor, 4 Four pound carriage guns, 4 Swivel guns.
Conditions at time of Sale. For further particulars, respecting the selling the Schooner at private sale, &c. apply to
GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, Jan. 1, 1803. [18]
GEORGE THOMAS
Confectioner & Distiller,
INFORMS the Public, that he has taken a Shop next South of Messrs. Gardner & Dean's Auction-Room, and adjoining Mr. Nicolas Gessner's, Watch-Maker, where he has constantly for Sale, in addition to a complete Assortment of Confectionary, the following Articles, viz.
Fresh Malaga grapes; box and cask raisins; figs; almonds in shell; prunes; currants; nutmegs; cloves; cinnamon; allspice; pepper; ginger; tea; coffee; chocolate, No. 1 & 2; do. prepared with and without vanilla; brown, powdered & loaf-sugar; Cordials of all kinds; best cherry wine; together with a small assortment of fashionable
Crockery Ware: In addition to which he expects to receive shortly, a complete assortment of Wines, Liquors, and other articles. Punctilious attendance given, and the smallest favors gratefully acknowledged. Newport, Dec. 18. [16if]
For Sale, by the Subscriber, JAMAICA RUM by the hoghead, Ditto SUGAR by the hhd. or barrel, Ditto MOLASSES, all of 1st Quality. JOHN MEIN. Church-Lane, July 12, 1802. 94if
WILLIAM HELME
Respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, THAT having employed an experienced Workman from New-York, he has for sale, at his Manufactory on the Point (by the large or small quantity) mould and dipped tallow Candles, hard and soft Soap, warranted to be of equal quality to any imported. Newport, Sept. 3, 1802. cif
John & Henry Cahoon,
HAVE FOR SALE, At their STORE on Banister's Wharf, BROWN SUGAR, by the barrel; Hubbert's Brown Stout; Raisins per cask; Molasses by the hoghead; Flour, by the barrel; Candles, by the box; Iron Caboose; and genuine SPANISH SEGARS.—Also,
HONEY, by the barrel or gallon—New-York Soap, by the box—Negro-Head Tobacco—Best 4th proof Jamaica Rum—Iron Stoves—Salt Peter'd Hams—Butter, and Hog's Lard, &c.—Likewise,
LIQUORS, of the best kind, a general Assortment—and various other Articles in the Grocery Line—a complete Assortment of which they propose to be constantly supplied with.
MASTERS of Packets, Puffengers, &c. may be supplied at said Store, on the shortest Notice—with any Article they may want—their favors gratefully acknowledged.
GREEN CHAIRS, per Dozen—Midling, per bushel or barrel.—Onions, per Hundred bunches, or smaller quantities—LOAF SUGARS, and a variety of the best of TEAS. Newport, Dec. 18, 1802. 3if
For Sale, Freight, or Charter,
THE Sloop Hiram, 86 tons burthen, only 2 years old, strong well built, and in complete order in her hull and full rigg'd.—Will be Sold on reasonable terms if applied for soon.—Or may be Chartered or Freighted, to any port in the United States, or West-Indies. For terms apply to AARON BORDEN, at Providence, or to Wm. MOORE, Jun. & Co. Newport, December, 23, 1802. [17if]
Public Entertainment.
THE subscriber inform the Public that he has opened a House of Entertainment in Water-Street, in the town of WARREN, sign of the Ship; west of Cole's Inn.—Constant attendance will be given, and every attention paid to Ladies and Gentlemen, for their accommodation, by the Public's humble servant, PRESERVED ALGER. October 23, 1802. civitif
ELEAZER TREVETT,
INFORMS his friends and the Public in general, that he has opened a Shop in the house of Calhane Esq. in Washington-street, on the Point, next north of the ship-yard.—Where he has for sale a general assortment of
West-India GOODS; also, a quantity of Dry Goods, as cheap as at any store in town.—Captains of vessels and others may be supplied on the shortest notice, and every favor gratefully acknowledged.
Among others, are the following articles: HONEY, molasses, loaf & brown sugars, coffee, chocolate, Hyson-skin, Souchong, and Bohea Teas, Raisins, superfine and common flour, rice, pepper, ginger, starch, copperas, alum, redwood, logwood, fustick, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, nutmegs, cassia, lady's twist, pigtail, & negro-head tobacco, soap, mustard, Scotch and Maccabean snuff, segars, glass, stone and earthen ware, pails, sieves, hammers, pincers, nails, gimblets, penknives, spoons, pins, needles, scissors, snuffers, butter, cheese, and hog's-lard, rye and indian meal, snuff boxes, pipes, brooms, quills, candles; and various other articles too tedious to mention.
Likewise a quantity of Dry Goods,
Consisting of Coatings, plains, baizes, linens, checks, brown holland, swansdown, wild bores, tamies, ruffsels, women's white and black cotton gloves & mits, men's thick ditto, men's beaver ditto, lady's fancy silk handkerchiefs, bandanno, linen & cotton ditto, men's neck ditto, cambricks, book and common muslins, black fartin, India & English silks, a variety of salicocs and chintzes, the most fashionable fancy ribbons, men's worsted, yarn and cotton hose, women's ditto, men's thick woollen caps, worsted binding, tapes & bobbins, men's and women's shoes, boys ditto, all numbers of factory cotton yarn. A few handsome MUFFS & TIPPETS.
A small assortment of BOOKS, chiefly on Divinity.—Also,
To Let, the lower part of a convenient House and a Joiner's Shop, with bench and tools, near the Rev. Mr. Bradley's meeting house.
Fifteen Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, a Malay Boy, named PARIS, about 13 years old, full faced, marked with the small Pox, long black hair, had on a short blue jacket & trowsers. Whoever will inform where said Boy resides or frequents, shall receive Five Dollars reward, or Fifteen Dollars if returned to the Subscriber, at Mr. ABIJAH ADAMS's, in Tremont-Street, Boston. JACOBUS HERREBRUGH. December, 29, 1802.

"RUTLEDGE'S CASE," REVIEWED.
WE now come to S. T. NORTHAM.—This deponent, it must be confessed, is not quite as "long-winded" as we are in these numbers: He is laconic. Northam has received many favors from Rutledge. Rutledge served him in Charleston, where he has frequently been as a pedlar.—Since his peregrination to Charleston he has risen, as a charming commentator on the "rights of editors" as the energetic Morning Chronicle says, "like a rocket" but not to the usual height. In business he is a little above a backster but far below a merchant. This, however, does not hinder him from telling truths. We give this description only that something of him may be known, such as his situation in life, and his subserviency to Rutledge.—Northam states in his affidavit, that "having known Rutledge in Charleston, on his arrival here [Newport] he offered him his services;" and it seems he was determined how or other to serve him. He then adds, that he has examined the forged letters, and does not think that Rutledge is the writer of them.
And now comes Mr. JACOB READ, of Charleston. Read was one of the objects of Mr. Adams' midnight labors, a little before he ran away from Washington as fast as post horses could drag him. Mr. Read was appointed district judge for South-Carolina. The office, it is true, was not vacant when he was appointed, but that was nothing towards the close of Mr. Adams' administration. It was supposed that the celebrated JUDGE BEE might resign, and that was the same thing! Accordingly Jacob Read was appointed district judge. But as the instrument judge Bee, wherewith JONATHAN ROBBINS was sacrificed, could not be persuaded to resign, Read, the puzzling rogue, contrary to all the maxims of philosophers, was an instance of the novel case of judge and no judge at the same time.
This singular judge of a queer President went to examine the forged letters. The judge is somewhat of a fly-like man. He put on his spectacles, blustered like a porpoise, and in his own imagination looked quite big. Here, says his honor with a noble air, let me look at these forged letters? They were handed to him. He held them with his hand, extended them from his eyes, and with much gravity said, "I say, they are not written by Mr. Rutledge, and I have been attorney-general of the State of South-Carolina, a Senator of the federal government, and was once appointed a judge!" and off he decamped. This to be sure was a fine argument; very convincing. He was desired to place the letters nearer his eyes, and examine the syllables and words of them. But this he would not do, although without it a correct opinion could not be formed. He thought it beneath his dignity.
With hasty strides he marched to the notary "Ben. Hazard" (and a hazardous affair it was!) and there actually swore that he did not believe that the forged letters were of the handwriting of John Rutledge!
WILLIAM PRICE stands next in order, Mr. Price is a jovial man after dinner.—He chose this unfortunate time to examine the forged letters. When he entered the office of the Republican, he was rather beyond the state of merriment. His eyes were dim although there was ruby enough in his cheeks. However great the similitude between the hand writing of the forged letters and that of the known productions of Rutledge, it was clear to every one but Mr. Price that he could not perceive it. He attempted nevertheless to look at them; swore stoutly that they were not written by John Rutledge, quarrelled with the Editor of the Republican, offered violence to persons in the office, and at length reced off. Whether he went in this joyful state to the standing notary of Rutledge, "Ben. Hazard," is unknown to the Editors. But, certain it is, that before that perilous gentleman, he deposed (of course) that he had "compared the forged letters with genuine writings of Mr. Rutledge, and after an attentive examination, found said letters to be unlike the hand writing of Mr. Rutledge, and was convinced they were not written by him." No one will doubt the soundness of his judgement. He was unquestionably quite competent to decide! He was sober and dispassionate!
Now let us hear what NATHANIEL RUSSELL has to say, who is one of the most respectable of Rutledge's suevarri. Mr. Russell is a Charleston merchant.—He states in his affidavit that he is "convinced that the forged letters were not written by Mr. Rutledge: That some words and letters in them bore some similitude to the hand writing of a letter written by Rutledge, but in opinion of the deponent, the letters in question are by no means a good imitation, and are very dissimilar to Mr. Rutledge's general manner of writing." These are the words of Mr. Russell. Here then we have, first that he is convinced that the forged letters were not written by Rutledge, second, and yet they bore some similitude to his hand-writing, but third, notwithstanding this similitude, they were by no means a good imitation of his hand-writing, and fourth, although they bore some similitude, still they were very dissimilar to Mr. Rutledge's general manner of writing! Now really this is admirable! We do not recollect to have seen so many glaring contradictions in so small a compass. Virgil, with all his pruning, could not have made a fuller and completer chapter of incongruities. On the whole, however, Mr. Russell's deposition contains a sufficient acknowledgment, that in his opinion Rutledge is the writer of the forged letters.
There are two or three other affidavits made on the side of Mr. Rutledge; they are however, alike tinged with partiality and inconsistency, and it is therefore not deemed important to give them a more particular notice. But as some importance has been attached to the testimony of Kinlock, we will examine it in our next number, with which we propose to close our remarks on the scandalous proceedings of the honorable John Rutledge.
NEWPORT, Saturday, January 15, 1803.
JOHN RUTLEDGE!
THE FORGER, THE ASSASSIN, & THE COWARD!! "Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness; My blooming boons all are faded, withered! — But yesterday the boast and pride of Federalism, And now the scoff and scorn of friends and foes! O, party zeal, to what hast thou reduced me? To tempt to perjury, and offer bribes! To sacrifice the sacred trust reposed — Honor, conscience, fame and ev'ry earthly boon: — 'Twas a base deed. —"
Those of our readers who have seen the account of that base, and villainous attempt on the part of "the forger of letters," to way-lay and assassinate Mr. Ellery, our Senator in Congress, given in the Newport Mercury of Tuesday last, need not be surprised at the misrepresentation it contains. Falsehood so much predominates in that paper, that truth can hardly be distinguished with certainty.—The conductors of the Mercury, from the beginning, have defended the "honorable John Rutledge" with an unbecoming warmth, and with the weapons of untruth.
The same principle which induced them to justify, had almost said a perjured wretch, will carry them through. Being a federalist, Mr. Rutledge was justified when guilty of writing "forged letters;" being a federalist, he is justified in a murderous design! The editors of the Mercury, alive to the feelings of honor, seem to regret that John Rutledge!!—pardon, reader, John Rutledge!! (Stranger to what? to vice?—No—very intimate with the darkest shades of it,) should have been the object of "unmerited abuse;" and in the same breath calumniate another.—It is a real misfortune to the Mercury club, that they are so entirely employed in detecting and exposing the pretended faults of others as to forget their own:—And that while they consider it a crime to speak the truth of Mr. Rutledge, they deem it praiseworthy to utter falsehood of Mr. Ellery.—Our readers, however, have too much good sense, to believe that cause a just one, in which so much intrigue, abuse, false-tweeting, and personal violence has been used, as hath been by Rutledge and his friends, in the affair of "the forged letters."
Want of room prevents our saying much, at present, upon the late truly federal attack of the right "honorable" John Rutledge!! But the account which his loyal subjects in this quarter have undertaken to give of it contains many objections to its veracity. To that account, as it was borrowed from the Washington Federalist, they have hammered out a pretence, which begins with an extract from Shakespeare, applied to their "purse," and their "fame." Their same needs no trumpeting! Their purse can have as little influence in settling a matter of fact, as it has, now-a-days in an election.
As if impressed with, and self-convicted of the atrocity which must attach to the act of Rutledge's dogging his antagonist thirty miles, for an opportunity to take him alone, and defenceless, they attempt to save it over by saying that "Rutledge had also been invited to pass a few days in the same quarter!" This seems a little extraordinary. But Mr. Ellery took that journey to visit his relations. Had Rutledge relations there? Morris then it seems must have had an invitation too! Had he also relations at Port-Tobacco? It is a certainly very remarkable, that in the very neighborhood, and that a day's journey from Washington, which Mr. Ellery had an anxiety to visit, on account of family connection, Rutledge should happen to be, and attended by a man like Morris, than whom he could not have selected a fitter one for the purpose which it appears he had at heart, from the whole House of Representatives. Wherever we hear of Rutledge, we at that instant are struck with horror, and blinded in mystery.
They would have it to appear, then, that Rutledge took that journey on a visit by invitation—that he had no expectation of seeing Mr. Ellery, or intention of doing what he has done. We ask why Morris was sent to his lodgings to know where he had gone! If Rutledge had had a peaceable invitation to spend the holidays with some of his friends, why did he not spend them peaceably? If he had no design of enormity lurking about his heart, why did he dispatch his chosen armagero to scout out, and track the object of his wrath?
It seems the purport of the challenge was, that he "would meet him at any place except Rhode-Island." What does this mean? It was an excuse for his not having challenged here. Why did he not? Was it because he feared he should not have justice done him? Or that he feared he should have too much! Do his defenders intend to charge and criminate a whole community; to vilify its laws; to condemn its jurisprudence, to uphold a villain to fight his character thro' a world of testimony, who dares not take one honorable step to retrieve it!—If he was innocent, he would not have shrunk from the laws even of Rhode-Island. If he united innocence and bravery, the fangs of destruction would not have daunted him: But that he is guilty, needs no further evidence to prove: That he is a coward, he has confessed by his own deliberate act.—The genius of Rhode-Island is fatal to rogues. Here, the intrepid foot-pad; the laborious shop-lifter; the bounding horse-stealer, and the lurking forgerer, share the same fate—that of detection and punishment. That they unite their clamors to impair its reputation, is not surprising.
Several other positions contained in the statement they have given, equally liable to animadversion, we are obliged for the reason before mentioned, to pass by for the present.
The tender regard of the tory prints for the men of their party can only be equalled by their rancour against their opponents in politics—few transactions, even in the reign of terror, can be compared for their wickedness and cowardice to Rutledge's late attack on Mr. Ellery; in whatever light it is viewed it must be confessed to be the opposite of what should be expected from a person honored with a seat in the supreme legislature, but because Rutledge is a federalist, not a word of complaint is heard from the friends of order—if the assailant was a republican we should hear of breach of privilege, democratic violence, persecution, &c. &c. but being otherwise, he is either praised or the matter is passed over without comment. Such is the complying temper of the federal editors. Aur.
The attack on Mr. Ellery, though to be lamented in as much as it will be made an instrument in the hands of domestic enemies to endeavour to lessen the national character in the eyes of the world, and as it respects Mr. Ellery himself, will nevertheless be attended ultimately with much good—The citizen who is governed by the judgment he forms from the conduct and professions of parties, will see in this mean and pusillanimous transaction a further evidence of the impropriety of aiding by his vote or influence a faction which cannot be supported but by a violation of all decency and by violence committed on the defenceless & peaceable citizen.—See a man remarkable only for his effrontery, his folly, devoid of shame, attempting so long to deceive by forging letters, whose violence as a factious leader rendered him long useful to the federalists, but abhorrent to republicans, now consummating his depravity by a base attempt on the life of a Senator of the United States, who had drawn down the enmity of Rutledge by his inflexible determination to exhibit him to the country he disgraced, in his true colours: and yet this man has defenders, persons too who are eternally chanting their praises of order and dislike of outrage, but it is as impossible to defend him as it is to deceive the reflecting citizens; from them we have had already much evidence of their dislike of the party measures of the federalists. Must not the conduct of such men as Rutledge make them yet more determined. ib.
On Thursday night, toward twelve o'clock, a fire broke out in the house of Mrs. Carr, corner of the Ferry-Wharf Lane, which, had it not been fortunately discovered at the moment, would have soon consumed the centre of the town in flames.—Hence the necessity of being speedily provided with a first rate ENGINE.
We understand that the Executive have received authentic information, that the late suspension of the right of deposit at NEW ORLEANS was undertaken without orders from the Spanish Government, and that the measure had been immediately communicated to the Governor of Cuba, who has a superintending authority over Louisiana, as it doubtless was to the Spanish Government. It is certain also that the Governor at NEW ORLEANS, who has no authority over the officer from whom the suspension issued, objected to the measure. Under these circumstances and the interpositions of our own Government, it may be reasonably hoped, that the matter will be peaceably and early adjusted. N. Intel.
We consider it scarcely necessary to attract the attention of the nation to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in our preceding columns. The friends of their country will rejoice in the untravailed prosperity of its finances, and the unprejudiced will find new grounds of confidence in an administration that opposes facts to slander, and the flourishing situation of the empire to the false statements of party prejudice and personal malice. What a host of sounding alarms are put down by the existing millions in the treasury! ib.
We have frequently expressed it as our opinion that the Newport Mercury was chiefly edited by the little "ex officio" whose disgusting countenance, emboldens him in iniquity.—This opinion has almost as frequently been controverted.—However, we find his brother in profession, and in principle, the Cole-man of New-York, carrying the idea still farther; for he, perhaps having been informed that the "ex officio" was the Editor, directed his paper (the "New-York Herald") of the 5th instant, to B. Hazard, printer. Whether (as Mr. Coleman has done) he intends to abandon the profession of law, and commence his career as a "son of the type," we know not. We are however somewhat curious to learn what station he is to take in a "Printing Office."—If we may conjecture any thing from colour, size, and habit, we should imagine he intended to become what is called a "Printer's devil."—Should that be his choice, for his own sake, we sincerely with that he may so conduct himself, that hereafter it may not be said, that he disgraced every station he ever sustained in society.
The little "ex officio" having some time since taken a tour to the land of "ready habits," we learn that his principal coadjutor who wrote the famous eulogium on Rutledge which called forth the forged letters, &c. &c. has undertaken to select and write for the Mercury during his absence. The public then will not wonder at the numerous lies which were published in last Tuesday's paper, & the exulting approbation of an evident attempt to commit murder, when they are informed that he too, is one of the pettifoggers who was fed by Rutledge to vindicate his lost reputation.
Such of our Subscribers who have not received the extra sheet, issued last Monday morning, containing a true and authentic account of the late dastardly attempt of John Rutledge to assassinate the Hon. CHRISTOPHER ELLERY, will please to call or send to this Office.
face therefore. We say authentic, because similar statements were given from three different quarters, viz. Baltimore, Philadelphia & Washington, corroborated by private letters from several gentlemen at the seat of Government, to their friends in Providence, as well as this town.
THE Subscriber hath on hand, a few Articles for Sale, consisting of Fresh Philadelphia Superfine FLOUR, A few Crates of assorted Liverpool WARE, Six Marble TABLES, Thirteen Casks Role BRIMSTONE. J. BIGLEY, Living on the Point-BrIDGE, Newport, Jan. 8, 1803. [129]
State of Rhode-Island, &c. Newport ss. January 8, 1803. WHEREAS Elizabeth Brownell, of Little-Compton, in the county of Newport, wife of David Brownell, hath filed her petition in the Clerk's office of the Supreme Judicial Court for said county, praying for the causes therein stated, that the bonds of marriage between her and her said husband be dissolved, and a decree of divorce promulgated: This is, therefore to give notice to the said David, and to all persons concerned, that they appear if they see cause, at the Term of said Supreme Judicial Court to be held at Newport, within and for the said county of Newport, on the first Monday of March next, and show the cause, (if any they have) why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. P. M. MUMFORD, Clerk.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons having any demands against the estate of William Gyles, late of Newport, deceased, are hereby requested to exhibit them for settlement; and all persons any wife indebted to said estate, are hereby called upon to make payment without delay to MARY GYLES, Administratrix. CHARLES GYLES, Administrator. Newport, Jan. 15, 1803. [120]
To be Sold at Public Auction, ON Wednesday, the 9th of February ensuing, if fair weather, if not, the first fair day, (unless previously disposed of at private sale) a large Two-story Dwelling-House, late the property of Capt. John Kilburn, situated in Broad-Street, with a Yard and Garden, and a well of excellent water. Sale to be at 10 o'clock A. M. The terms may be known by applying to GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, Jan. 15, 1803. [120]
For Sale, by the Subscribers, A QUANTITY OF Philadelphia Superfine FLOUR, As cheap for Cash, as can be purchased in this Town. EDWARD EASTON, JOHN PRICE, CLARKE COOK. Newport, Jan. 7, 1803. [19]
WE the subscribers, being appointed by the Hon. Court of Probate of the town of Newport, Commissioners, to receive and adjust the claims of the creditors to the estate of James Moore, late of Newport, deceased, represented insolvent; and six months being allowed for the same:—Hereby give notice that they will attend on said business at their respective dwellings, at any time within that period. JOHN TILLINGHAST, } Commissioners. ABRAHAM COREY, } finners. All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to ELIZABETH MOORE, Administratrix. Newport, January 3, 1803. [119]
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscribers have been appointed by the Hon. Court of Probate for the town of Newport, Commissioners, to receive, examine, and adjust the claims of the creditors to the estate of Richard Cornell, late of Newport, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent; and six months from the date hereof being allowed for that purpose;—all who have any claims against said estate, are requested to exhibit them to either of us, within that time, or be precluded agreeably to law. RICHARD BARKER, } Commissioners. EDWARD HEMPSTEAD, } finners. All persons indebted to said estate, are required to make immediate payment to SALLY CORNELL, Administratrix. Newport, Jan. 5, 1803. [119]
WE the Subscribers being by the Court of Probate for the town of Newport, appointed commissioners to receive, examine and adjust the claims of the creditors to the estate of Joseph Mumford, late of Newport, Tinplate-worker, deceased, represented insolvent, and six months longer from this date being allowed by said Court for that purpose:—Hereby give notice to all persons having claims to said estate, to bring them in to either of us at our respective dwellings, within said time; or they will be precluded agreeably to law. SAMUEL C. CARR, } Commissioners. JOHN WANTON, } finners. * And all persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to MARY MUMFORD, Administratrix. Newport, January 5, 1803. [119]
William Douglass, At the Head of Broad-Street, HAS constantly for sale, a general Assortment of West-India and other GOODS. 1000 weight good white FLAX.

From the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
If we are a nation, let us learn to be NATIONAL; and while the eye of every foreign country is upon us, let us know to respect ourselves, and recollecting, without party prejudice, the talents, the literary acquirements, and the high reputation of him whom we have been proud to honor, and whose praise was once unitedly our Country's glory.
TO THE PRESIDENT.
THOU Chief revered! while slander pours, Her venom o'er thy tranquil hours, While many a rude unhallow'd tale The bosom of thy life assail, Even round thy virtues' calm retreat Would bid the warring passions heat And, arm'd with PARTY's vengeful dart, Strike the firm fortress of thy heart, Unmov'd amid the mental strife, Thy noblest "ANSWER IS THY LIFE," A Life, instructive wisdom's claim, Enrich'd by deeds of deathless fame; Wisdom, an Angel seem'd to guide! And Deeds, a grateful nation's pride! That grateful nation, early known, To claim thy dictates as her own, When doubting—daring—to be free, She caught th' inspiring words from thee: Still shall her letter'd annals shine With ev'ry brilliant act of thine, And TIME's impartial page declare What thy enclos'd glories were; While FALSEHOOD to her den shall fly, Drink th' applauding strain, AND DIE. COLUMBIA.
FOR SALE, By JOSEPH BRIGGS, 30 Barrels best N. Y. Superfine Flour. A few Hogheads of good raitailing MOLASSES. A few Casks of SHERRY WINE, of an excellent quality. Newport, May, 29. 5ctf
NICOLAS GEFROY, Watch-Maker, in Newport, HAS Constantly on hand, an elegant assortment of warranted, and common English, and Geneva Watches and Time-Pieces, which he will sell on reasonable terms. He also carries on the Goldsmith's & Silversmith's Business, in all its branches, and likewise will make, or repair, any kind of Jewellery, in the neatest fashion. He has likewise for Sale, Wholesale and Retail, all kinds of Jewellery, imported and of the latest fashions; officers' gold and silver epauletts; plated and brass candlesticks; plated and Britannia tea-pots; dunks, small swords and hangers; plated bits, stirrups and spurs; tea-trays; castors and cruets, shovel and tongs; cutlery ware of all kinds; night and day spy glasses; ladies and gentlemen's pocket-knives; dressing-glasses; suspenders; trusses; horse-whips; razors; Hophin's famous razor-strops; best Beaver hats; perfumery of all kinds, from London and Paris; hair-powder; starch; Barley-sugar, and sugar plums; Spanish Jigars; best Mokabau & Senich snuff; and a great variety of other articles, too numerous to insert in an Advertisement. Newport, May 13. 1802. 19tf
THE Court of Probate for the town of Newport, having appointed the subscribers commissioners, to examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of WALTER EASTON, late of said Newport, deceased, represented insolvent; and twelve months being allowed for that purpose:—Notice is hereby given to all persons having demands against said estate, to bring them in to either of us, within said time, or otherwise they will be precluded according to law. EDMOND TOWNSEND, } Commissioners. THOMAS PECKHAM, } fioneri. All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to MERIBETH EASTON, } Executrix. DAVID BUFFUM, } JOHN SLOCUM, } Newport, 4th Mo. 5, 1802. 82tf
Sail Making. THE subscribers having entered into partnership, under the firm of Spooner and Dunham, hereby inform the Public, that they carry on the Sail-Making business, in its various branches, at their Sail Loft, on the wharf of the late Gen. John Malbone, at the South part of the town. Those who may favor them with their custom, may depend on punctuality and dispatch. All favors will be gratefully acknowledged, by WING SPOONER, 2d. CHARLES C. DUNHAM. Newport, April 3, 1802. 79tf
HOLMES WEAVER, CABINET & CHAIR-MAKER, HAS for Sale, a number of pieces of the most Fashionable Furniture, As Cheap as can be purchased, of equal elegance. Newport, Nov. 15. exii
NOTICE IS hereby given, to all persons having any demands against the estate of Captain JOSEPH CONGDON, late of Jamestown, deceased, to exhibit them; and all persons indebted to said estate, are called upon to make payment to MARY CONGDON, of Jamestown, Executrix to said estate; or to REENEZER SHEARMAN, her lawful Agent, at Newport. November 22, 1802. 113tf
TO THE PUBLIC. Newport Long-Wharf, No. 12. Keyes and Brigham, Have constantly for sale,
PRIME and mess PORK—prime mess, mess and prime BEEF, of the first quality, re-packed in the best order, suitable for domestic or foreign use.—Also, by the kegg or box, LARD, first sort—refined mould tallow CANNLES, first quality; dist ditto—No 1 and 2 Bar SOAP.—Likewise, corned, and fresh BEEF. December 10, 1802.
FOR SALE, The real estate of Peleg Allen, late of Middletown, deceased, (about four miles from the State house in Newport, adjoining the road,) consisting of between fifty and sixty acres of land, with a dwelling-house, other buildings, and a good orchard thereon; well watered; good meadow, pasture, and tillage land, natural to Barley.—Possession will be given the 25th of March next. The terms may be known, by applying to either of the subscribers. ELIZABETH ALLEN, THOMAS C. ALLEN. Middletown, Dec. 3, 1802. civf.
TO BE SOLD, A F A R M, LYING in Exeter, State of Rhode-Island, about six miles from Wickford, containing 175 acres of good Land, with a Dwelling-House, and other out buildings. It may be purchased together, or in separate divisions. Payment will be made easy.—Also, A share in the Ohio Company, containing nearly Twelve Hundred Acres of excellent Land. For further particulars apply to FARDON TILLINGHAST. Exeter, Dec. 29, 1802. 50tf
Nicholas Webster, INFORMS the Public, that he has opened a GROCERY STORE in Broad Street, in the house, late the property of Mr. Caleb Earl, where he has for Sale a general assortment of WEST-INDIA GOODS. Among others, are the following articles: Rum, Brandy, Gin, Cherry-Rum, Molasses, Flour, Rye and Indian Meal, Tea of various kinds, Coffee, Chocolate, Raisins, Currants, Pepper, Ginger, Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Butter, Cheese, Candles, Onions, Tobacco, Snuff, Powder and Shot, Lamp-Oil, Loaf and Brown Sugars, &c.—ALSO, A general and extensive variety of Crockery and Hard Ware; Men's and Women's Shoes, &c. &c. with many other articles, too tedious to mention; all which will be sold at the most reduced prices. Newport, Nov. 21. 1801. 60tf
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscribers, Executors of the last Will and Testament of Samuel Sanford, of Newport, deceased, call upon all persons having any demands upon the Estate of the deceased, to exhibit them; and all persons indebted to the said estate, are called upon to make payment, to SAMUEL VERNON, SAMUEL VERNON, jun. VALENTINE WIGHTMAN. Newport, Oct. 14, 1802. eviij
FOR SALE, by the Subscriber, BETWEEN one and two thousand weight of Oakum, which will be disposed of, either in large or small quantities, as may best suit purchasers. * Cash, and the highest price, given for old JUNK, as usual. JOHN WILLIAMS, Keeper of the Work-House. Newport, Feb. 12. 72tf
John A. Shaw, & Co. INFORM the Public that they have taken a Shop next door but one North of the Coffee-House, where they carry on the WATCH-MAKING BUSINESS in all its Branches. Likewise all kinds of Hair Work & Gold Cyphers neatly executed. They have for Sale, English and Geneva gold & silver Watches, Gold Necklaces, silver tea and table Spoons, salt, mustard & pap Spoons, soup and punch Ladles, sugar Tongs, large & small Looking Glasses, dressing Do. tea Trays, Waiters & dressing Cases, plated, wooden, and Britannia Castors, Britannia tea and coffee Pots, Gentlemen's and Children's best & common Hats, Suspender, Knives and Forks, brass globe & common Handirons, Shovel & Tongs, brass and japanned Lamps, elegant plated & brass Candlesticks, dart and common Cains, horse & chaise Whips, ladies do. Scissors, Pen-Knives, Snuffers & Trays, powder Boxes and Puffs, Razors in cases and without, shaving Boxes, and Windsor Soap, Cream Balls, writing Paper, Dutch Quils, Spanish Segars, Maccabau, Rappee & Scotch Snuff, Starch, Purple Brown, together with a complete Assortment of Jewellery & Perfumery.—They Also carry on the GOLD & SILVERSMITH'S Business: Cash given for Old Gold and Silver. + Punctual attendance, and the smallest favors gratefully acknowledged. Newport, Oct. 2. 1802. 72tf
To be Sold or Let, A WELL finished Dwelling-House, situated on Thames-Street, opposite Mr. Robert Stevens'—Also a new Store, adjoining the yard and garden, with a good well of water.—If not immediately sold, the Shop, with some part of the House, will be to let.—The situation, both for health and business, is not inferior to any in town. Conditions may be known, by applying to HENRY G. CHAMPLIN. Newport, Nov. 20, 1802. exii
For sale by JACOB RICHARDSON and WILLIAM R. WILDER, DABOLL'S SCHOOLMASTER'S ASSISTANT. Being a plain practical system of Arithmetic. TRIED EDITION—By NATHAN DABOLL. RECOMMENDATIONS.
Yale-College, Nov. 27, 1799. I HAVE read Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant. The arrangement of the different branches of Arithmetic is judicious and perspicuous. The author has well explained Decimal Arithmetic, and has applied it in a plain and elegant manner to the solution of various questions, and especially to those relative to the Federal computation of money. I think it will be a very useful book to Schoolmasters and their pupils. JOSIAH MEIGS, Professor of Mathematics & Natural Philosophy. I have given some attention to the work abovementioned, and concur with Professor Meigs in his opinion of its merit. NOAH WEBSTER, New-Haven, Dec. 12, 1799. Rhode-Island College, Nov. 30, 1799. I have run through Mr. Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant, and have formed of it a very favorable opinion. According to its original design, I think it well "calculated to furnish schools in general with a methodical, easy and comprehensive system of Practical Arithmetic." I therefore hope it may find a generous patronage, and have an extensive spread. ASA MESSER, Professor of the Learned Languages, and Teacher of Mathematics. Plainfield Academy, April 20, 1802. I make use of Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant in teaching common Arithmetic, and think it the best calculated for that purpose of any which has fallen within my observation. JOHN ADAMS, Rector of Plainfield Academy. Hudson, Aug. 21, 1802. I have perused Daboll's Arithmetic, and find it, in my opinion, far preferable to any system I am acquainted with. It is an improvement on Dilworth, as Dilworth's Schoolmaster's Assistant is calculated merely to assist the Schoolmaster; but Daboll's will equally answer this purpose, and assist the scholar to teach himself besides. Nothing I have seen so fully meets my ideas, and I give it my decided preference and recommendation. THOMAS WORTH, Teacher of Mathematics. Three large editions of this celebrated Arithmetic have been published in less than three years. It is in general use in the States of Connecticut and Rhode-Island, and introduced in many schools in the State of New-York. In the third edition improvements are made upon the 1st and 2d editions. December 1, 1802. 180w6t
John R. Shearman Has received his supply of FALL and WINTER GOODS, Comprising purple kid and silk GLOVES and elegant silk HOSE. Newport, Nov. 27, 1802. 113tf
FOR SALE, And possession given on the 25th of March next, A LARGE and valuable tract of LAND, in Hopkinton, adjoining Wood-River.—Containing about Seven Hundred Acres; known by the name of the Ellery Land, and now part of the estate of Col. GEORGE IRISH, deceased. About Two Hundred acres of said land is cleared, and fit for tillage or meadow. The remainder is mostly covered with Timber of the best quality for ship plank, &c. An excellent stream of water runs through said land, whereon a Saw Mill may be erected at a small expence. The terms may be known, by applying to either of the subscribers. NICHOLAS TAYLOR, JOHN IRISH. Newport, Oct. 23, 1802. c8tf
HEAR YE! To be sold, and possession given the 25th of March next, One Hundred and Fifty acres of Land of the first quality, lying in South-Kingstown, (Boston Neck)—about half a mile south of Gardiner's Ferry, commonly known by the name of the Bonner farm—and is bounded as follows: Westerly, partly on the Wescusque pond; partly on land of Simeon Potter, and partly on land of George Brown:—Southerly, on the ocean:—Easterly, on the Narragansett Bay, and Northerly on land of the subscriber. Its local situation is far preferable to any in said town.—It is well walled in six divisions, with double wall. For fishing and fowling, none is superior in the State, the pond abounding with perch of an excellent kind, and fowl of a great variety.—The beach affords an inexhaustible source of sea manure, such as rock & ribbon weed, and sea curril. There are two living springs of water on the premises. An indisputable title will be given, and the mode of payment made easy to the purchaser: The terms may be known by applying to JOHN GARDINER. South-Kingstown, Dec. 3, 1802. 114tf
For Sale, TWO House-Lots, 143 feet front, with a Dwelling-House, Stable, Chaise-house, Wood-house, & Crib, thereon standing; and a well of good water in the yard, with a pump therein. For terms, inquire of the subscriber, living on the premises. JOSEPH MARTIN. Newport, Nov. 20, 1802. exiif
State of Rhode-Island, &c. Newport, ff. Dec. 15, 1802. WHEREAS David Lawton, of Exeter, in the county of Washington, and State aforesaid, hath filed his petition in the Clerk's office of the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Newport, against his wife Elizabeth Lawton, now residing in Palatine, in the county of Montgomery, and State of New-York; praying for divers causes therein stated, that the bonds of marriage between him and his said wife be dissolved, and a decree of divorce promulgated:—Notice, therefore, is hereby given to the said Elizabeth, and to all persons concerned, to appear at the next Term of said Supreme Judicial Court, to be holden at Newport, in and for the county of Newport, on the first Monday of March next, and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said Petition should not be granted. 6w] P. M. MUMFORD, Clk.
W. R. WILDER, BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, Has Removed to the Store next Door North of Messrs. Gibbs & Channing's, WHERE he offers for sale, many thousand Volumes of BOOKS, in the different branches of Literature—together with almost every article in the Stationary line, wholesale and retail.—Also an elegant Assortment of Gentlemen's HATS, from 75 cents to 6 dollars and 50 cents. Newport, Aug. 21, 99tf
WHEREAS the Court of Probate of the town of Newport, have allowed six months longer for the Creditors of the estate of Charles Lefelle, late of Newport, Merchant, deceased, represented insolvent, to bring in their claims:—Notice is hereby given to all persons having demands against said estate, to exhibit them for settlement; and all such as are indebted, are earnestly requested to make immediate payment to SIMON DAVIS, Adm'r. Newport, Aug. 18, 1802. cvi
Entertainment, BY RICHARD BARKER, at the House formerly occupied by Capt. Robert S. Potter, sign of the Anchor, a little south-east of the State House, where Ladies and Gentlemen may depend on being accommodated to their satisfaction. Punctual attendance will be given, and all favors gratefully acknowledged by the public's obedient servant, RICHARD BARKER. Newport, April 2, 1802. 79tf
NOTICE. ALL those who are indebted to THOMAS A. GREEN, or to JOHN MOSHER, and Co. either by Book or Note, are hereby notified, that the accounts and notes are lodged with the subscriber for collection—and are earnestly requested to make immediate payment, and prevent unnecessary cost. EDWARD HEMSTEAD. Newport, Oct. 29, 1802. 69tf
To be Sold, A LOT of Land, containing upwards of 3 acres, fronting Tanner & Warner Street, with a House, well finished; paved Cellar; and never failing well of water. Also, a Stable and Chaise-House.—Likewise for sale, a Lot, fronting Broad-street and Tanner Street, with a large commodious Dwelling-House; Shop, Stable, and Chaise-House. For terms, apply to OLIVER READ. Newport, March 20, 1802. 77tf
TO BE LET, AND possession given immediately, a convenient two story Dwelling-House, on the Long-Wharf, but a few rods below the foot of the Parade. For terms, apply to WILLIAM RYAN. Newport, Dec. 10, 1802. 115tf
Nathaniel Nason, RESPECTFULLY informs the public, that he has removed from the house of his father David Nason, to the shop of Mr. Thomas Howland, directly opposite—where all kinds of TIN WARE can be furnished at the shortest notice, and on as reasonable terms as can be bought in this town. Constant attendance will be given, and the smallest favors acknowledged. Newport, Dec. 18, 1802. 116tf Cash & the highest price given for old PEWTER and LEAD.
To be Sold or Let, And entered upon the 25th of March next, A FARM, in East-Greenwich, in that part called Frenchtown, containing about 140 acres of excellent land, with a good dwelling-house, Barn, Crib, Cooper's Shop, & Cyder-shed.—It is pleasantly situated, well wooded and watered, with plenty of orcharding. A Grist Mill and one third of a Saw Mill, belonging to said premises. Any person inclining to purchase, or hire, may know the terms by applying to the Subscriber, on said premises. BENJAMIN TILLINGHAST. East-Greenwich, Dec. 18, 1802. 117tf
ALL Persons having any demands on the estate of Capt. John Coggeshall Almy, jun. late of Newport, deceased, are hereby requested to bring them to the subscriber for settlement; and all persons indebted to said estate, are required to make immediate payment to JOHN COGGESHALL ALMY, Ex'r, Jamestown, Dec. 17, 1802. 16 Blank Deeds, and Justice's Writs, and Executions, for sale at this Office.