The Providence journal, and town and country advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1800-03-26 00:00:00

no 65 The Providence Journal AND TOWN AND COUNTRY ADVERTISER.
Published on WEDNESDAYS, by JOHN CARTER, JUN. Printer of the LAWS of the UNITED STATES for the State of RHODE-ISLAND, &c. At the NEW PRINTING-OFFICE, West Side of the great Bridge, PROVIDENCE.
[ No. 65. ]
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 1800.
[ Vol. II. ]
THOMAS JONES
Has for sale, the ensuing season, the following SEEDS, received from London in the ship Halcyon, last month; which he presumes, from the care taken to procure them, are genuine and good, viz.
EARLY golden Hotspur, early frame, charlon, Spanish dwarf and mar-rowfat PEASE
Early Yorkshire, early Dutch, drumhead, large late winter, yellow and green Savoy, and true red CABBAGE
Early and late Colliflower, and green Cale Four sorts of Radish, and five sorts of Lettuce Early and long late Cucumber
Beet, Carrot, Turnip, and many small seeds, too tedious to particularize
Fresh Onion Seeds, from Concord, Harvard and Bristol, and a variety of Garden Seeds of this country's growth
Long-Island Flax-Seed, imported the last winter, and other Flax-Seed, clean for sowing
Carolina Field-Beans and Pease
Clean Barley from Vermont, and elsewhere
Oats, Rye, &c.
Herd's-grass, clover, bent, and red-top GRASS-SEEDS.
March 19.
Morocco Pocket-Books.
David Vinton,
At the corner store, No. 7, Market-Square,
HAS just received a large and beautiful assortment of MOROCCO POCKET-BOOKS, per dozen or single, from the largest to the smallest size, and much lower than they are usually sold.
Hopkins' celebrated patent RAZOR-STROPS , of all sizes, with the Composition-Paste, in boxes, with directions, &c. per dozen or single.
Fresh and real SPANISH SEGARS , warranted of a superior quality, by the box, &c.
Genuine Maccabean Snuff, per pound or in bottles
Fresh Turkey Figs, per box
Malaga ditto, per cask
Fruit ditto, per quantity
Muscadel Raisins, per box
Prunes, soft-shell Almonds per sack
Fresh Florence Oil, without smell or taste, in flasks
Warranted Mustard in bottles, Cayenne
Cayenne Pepper-Sauce in bottles, per dozen
Basket blown Salt, Capers
India Japan Soy, per gallon or bottle
Stomachic Bitters, of a fine flavour, in bottles
Spice do. in papers, per dozen
A variety of confections, and spices of every kind.
ALSO,
Patent Liquid Blue
Perfumes, Pomatums and Hair-Powders
Dressing-Boxes and Powder-Puffs, of various sizes
New Music, from the most celebrated and modern authors
Musical Instruments
An invoice of green and white Spectacles, just opened
A few boxes of Types and figures, alphabetically disposed, with peculiar ink, and directions for marking linen.
All the above, in addition to a large and extensive assortment of fancy articles, much beyond the limits of this advertisement to particularize.
TAKE NOTICE.
He has for sale, a genteel, handsome and fashionable CHARIOT , with brass saddles and harness complete, very commodious in a gentleman's family. It will be sold a great bargain to the purchaser.
Also for sale, on approved credit,
Two fashionable fallback CHAISES
—harnesses entirely new, and will be ready for delivery in 30 days. He has on hand, fifteen barrels of good Table Cider, and one pipe of Brandy, very low.
March 19.
DANCING-SCHOOL.
John C. Devero
Respectfully informs the inhabitants of Providence, and its vicinity, that he purposes renewing his Dancing-School on Wednesday the 9th of April next, for one quarter. He returns his grateful thanks for the very liberal patronage he experienced from the citizens of this town last season; and as a further encouragement to those parents and guardians who are pleased to bestow on their children this polite and necessary part of their education, he proposes the following moderate terms:—If one scholar, six dollars; two from a family, eleven dollars; and if three, fifteen dollars—to attend two days in the week, and the hours of tuition regulated so as not to interfere on the time appropriated to other schools.
March 19.
Latest Advices from Europe.
NEW CONSTITUTION
OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
AN OFFICIAL COPY.
CHAPTER I.
Art. 1. THE French Republic is one and indivisible.
Its European territory is distributed into departments and communal districts.
2. Every man born and resident in France, and of the age of 21 years, who has inscribed his name in the civic register of his communal district, and afterwards remained a year on the territory of the French Republic, is a French citizen.
3. A foreigner becomes a French citizen, who, after having attained the age of 21 years, and declared his intention of fixing his residence in France, and has resided there for ten successive years.
4. The title of French citizen is forfeited—
By naturalization in a foreign country.
By accepting any office or pension from a foreign government.
By affiliation with any foreign corporation which supposes distinctions of birth.
By condemnation to corporal or infamous punishments.
5. The exercise of the rights of a French citizen is superseded by a bankruptcy, or by a total or partial succession to the property of an insolvent.
By a state of hired servitude, either attached to the service of the person or the family.
By a state of judicial interdiction, accusation, or contumacy.
6. In order to exercise the rights of citizenship, they must have been acquired by being domiciliated by a year's residence, and not forfeited by a year's absence.
7. The citizens of every communal district shall appoint by their suffrages, those whom they think most worthy of conducting the public affairs. There shall be a list of confidence, containing a number of names equal to a tenth of the number of citizens possessing the right of suffrage. From this first communal list the public functionaries of districts shall be taken.
8. The citizens comprised in the communal lists of a department shall also appoint a tenth of their number. These shall constitute a second list called the department list, from which the public functionaries of each department shall be taken.
9. The citizens included in the departmental list shall also appoint a tenth of their number; this third list shall consist of the citizens of each department, eligible to public national functions.
10. The citizens who shall have a right of co-operating in the formation of any of the lists mentioned in the three preceding articles, shall every third year be called upon to exercise the power of replacing those who shall have died, or absented themselves for any other cause than the exercise of a public function.
11. They may also withdraw from the lists those whom they shall not judge proper to continue, and replace them by other citizens in whom they may have greater confidence.
12. No one shall be erased from the lists, otherwise than by the votes of the decisive majority of the citizens, having the right of co-operating in their formation.
13. No one shall be erased from the list of those eligible to public national functions, merely because his name may have been struck out of a list of an inferior or superior degree.
14. The appointment to the list of eligibles is only necessary with regard to public functions, for which that condition is expressly required by the constitution or by the law. All the lists of the eligibles shall be formed in the course of the ninth year.
CHAPTER II.
15. The conservatory senate shall be composed of 80 members, of 40 years of age at least, to be irremovable during life.
For the formation of the senate, there shall be nominated in the first instance 60 members—this number shall be increased to 62 in the course of the eighth year, to 64 in the ninth year, and shall be gradually increased to 80 by the addition of two members in each of the ten first years.
16. The nomination to the office of senate shall be by the senate, who shall make choice out of these candidates presented to them; the first by the legislative body; the second by the tribunate, and the third by the chief consul.
17. The chief consul, upon quitting his office, either by the expiration of his functions, or by resignation, necessarily, and as a matter of right, becomes a senator.
The two other consuls, during the month which follows the expiration of their functions, may take their seats in the senate, but are not obliged to exercise that privilege.
They lose it altogether, if they quit their consular functions by resignation.
18. A senator is always ineligible to any other public function.
19. All the lists made in the departments,
by virtue of the ninth article, shall be addressed to the senate. They shall compose the national list.
20. From this list shall be elected the legislators, the tribunes, the consuls, the judges of cassation, and the Commissaries a la Responsabilité .
21. They shall confirm or annul every act referred to them as unconstitutional by their tribunate, or the government; the lists of the eligibles shall be included among these acts.
22. The revenues of national domains, the terms of which are expired, shall be liable to the expenses of the senate. The annual salary of each of its members shall be paid out of those revenues.—It shall be equal to a 20th of that of the chief consul.
23. The sittings of the senate are not public.
24. Citizen Sieyes and Roger Ducos, the two consuls who are to go out of office, shall be nominated members of the conservatory senate; they shall unite with the second and third consuls nominated by the present one. These four citizens shall appoint the majority of the senate, which shall afterwards complete itself, and proceed to the elections entrusted to its direction.
CHAPTER III.
OF THE LEGISLATIVE BODY.
25. No new law shall be promulgated, unless the plan shall have been proposed by the government, communicated to the tribunate, and decreed by the legislative body.
26. The plans which the government may propose shall be drawn up under different heads.—In every case in which such plans shall be discussed, the government may withdraw them, and present them again in a modified state.
27. The tribunate is to be composed of 100 members of 25 years of age at least; they shall be renewed by fifths every year, and indefinitely re-eligible while they remain upon the national list.
28. The tribunate shall discuss the plans of every law that may be proposed; it shall vote for the adoption or rejection of them.
It shall send three orators taken from its body, by whom the motives of its vote, with respect to each of the plans, will be stated and supported before the legislative body.
It shall refer to the senate, but for the cause of unconstitutionality only, the list of the eligibles, the acts of the legislative body, and those of the government.
29. It shall express its opinion as to the laws made or to be made, the abuses to be corrected, the ameliorations to be attempted, in every part of the public administration, but never relative to the civil or criminal affairs referred to the tribunals.
The opinions it shall give, by virtue of the present article, are to be followed by no necessary consequences; they compel no constituted authority to come to any deliberation.
30. When the tribunate adjourns, it may appoint a committee from ten to fifteen members charged to convoke it, if it shall be deemed necessary.
31. The legislative body shall be composed of 300 members, of 30 years of age at the least; they shall be renewed by fifths every year—they ought always to be one citizen, at least, of each department of the republic present.
32. A member who goes out of the legislative body cannot re-enter till after the interval of a year—but he may be immediately elected to any other public function, including that of tribune, provided he is in other respects eligible.
33. The sitting of the legislative body shall commence every year on the first Frimaire, and shall continue only four months; it may be extraordinarily convoked during the other eight by the government.
34. The legislative body enacts the law by determining by secret scrutiny, and without any discussion on the part of its members, upon the plans of the law debated before it, by the orators of the tribunate and the government.
35. The sittings of the tribunate and of the legislative body shall be public—the number of strangers in either of them not to exceed 200.
36. The annual salary of a tribune shall be 15,000 francs, that of a legislator 10,000 francs.
37. Every decree of the legislative body shall, the 10th day after it be made, be promulgated by the chief consul, unless in the mean time it is referred to the senate, on the ground of unconstitutionality. Such reference cannot be made with regard to laws that have been promulgated.
38. The first renewal of the legislative body and of the tribunate shall not take place till the 10th year.
CHAPTER IV.
OF THE GOVERNMENT.
39. The government is entrusted to three consuls appointed for ten years, and indefinitely re-eligible. Each of them is to be elected individually with the distinct quality of chief, second or third consul.—The first time the third consul shall only be named for five years.
For the present time General Buonaparte is appointed chief consul; citizen Cambacérès, now minister of justice, second consul; and citizen Lebrun, member of the committee of ancients, third consul.
40. The chief consul has particular functions and attributes, which, when he is exercising, he may be temporarily supplied by one of his colleagues.
41. The chief consul is to promulgate the laws; he is to name and revoke at pleasure the members of the council of state; the ministers, ambassadors, and other principal foreign agents, the officers of the army by land and sea, the members of local administration, and the commissioners of the government at the tribunals. He is to appoint all judges, criminal and civil, as well as justices of peace, and the judges of cassation, without the power of afterwards revoking them.
42. In the other acts of the government, the second and third consuls are to have a consumptive voice; they are to sign the register of the acts, in order to manifest that they were present—and if they please, they may countersign their opinions; after which, the determination of the chief consul shall follow.
43. The salary of the chief consul shall be 500,000 francs, for the 8th year. The salary of the other two consuls shall be equal to three tenths of that of the first.
44. The government is to propose the laws, and to make the necessary regulations to ensure their execution.
45. The government is to direct the receipts and expenses of the state, conformable to the annual law, which determines the amount of each; it shall superintend the coinage of money, of which the law alone shall order the issue, fix the value, the weight and the impression.
46. When the government is informed of any conspiracies against the state, it may issue orders to arrest and bring before them the persons who are suspected as the authors or accomplices; but if within ten days after such arrest, they are not set at liberty or brought to trial, it shall be considered, on the part of the minister signing the order, as an act of arbitrary detention.
47. The government is to superintend the internal safety and external defence of the state; it is to distribute the forces by sea and land, and regulate the direction of them.
48. The national guard on duty is subject to the regulations of the public administration. The national guard not on duty is only subject to the law.
49. The government is to manage political relations abroad, to conduct negotiations, to make preliminary stipulations, to sign and conclude all treaties of peace, alliances, truce, neutrality, commerce, and other conventions.
50. Declarations of war and treaties of peace, alliance and commerce, are to be proposed, discussed, decreed and promulgated in the same manner as laws.
Only the discussions and deliberations relative to these objects, as well in the tribunate as the legislative body, are to be in a secret committee, if the government desires it.
51. The secret article of a treaty cannot be destructive of the public articles.
52. Under the direction of the consuls, the council of state is charged with the drawing up of the plans of the laws and the regulation of the public administration, and to resolve such difficulties as may occur in all administrative matters.
53. It is from among the members of the council of state that the orators are to be selected, who shall be appointed to appear in the name of the government before the legislative body. There are never to be any more than three of these orators sent to support the same plan of a law.
54. The ministers are to procure the execution of the laws, and the regulations of the public administration.
55. No act of the government can have effect till it is signed by a minister.
56. One of the ministers is specially charged with the administration of the public treasury. He is to verify the receipts, direct the application of the funds, and the payments authorized by law. He is not to be at liberty to pay any thing, except by virtue, first of a law, and only to the extent of the funds for defraying those expenses, such law has determined upon. 2dly, by a decree of the government. 3dly, by an order signed by a minister.
57. The detained accounts of every minister, signed and certified by him, are to be made public.
58. The government can only elect or retain, as counsellors of state or ministers, such citizens whose names are inscribed in the national list.
59. The local administrations established, whether for each communal district, or for the more extended portions of territory, are subordinate to the ministers. No one can become or remain a member of these administrations unless he is entered in one of the lists mentioned in the 7th and 8th articles.
CHAPTER V.
OF THE TRIBUNAL.
60. Every communal arrondissement shall have one or more justices of the peace, elected immediately citizens, for three years.
Their principal duty consists in reconciling the parties applying to them, and in case of non-reconciliation, to decide their dispute by arbitrators.

PROSPECT OF PEACE.
A letter from London, by Monday's mail, contains an observation on the ministerial prints there, affecting to shake the credibility of an armistice being concluded between the Austrian and French armies on the Rhine, &c. which in our opinion merits the attention of the stockholders in this country. That an armistice has been concluded, is by a corroboration of letters confirmed; it is a fact beyond a doubt, and that there is the strongest probability it has extended to every hostile station, must be admitted; which circumstance, together with the dereliction of the Russian troops, authorises an hope of a speedy and general pacification. The cabinet, continues our correspondent, is not ignorant of this, but wishes that its financial agents may repair all their past losses, by purchasing at a low rate before the certainty of a peace rises the funds, and this object is best accomplished by keeping them low for the present.
December 24.
It was on Wednesday last reported in London, that Government were in possession of the outlines of the peace now negotiating between Austria and France. The articles of the treaty of Leoben, or Campo Formio, are said to be the basis, with exception of the city and fortress of Mantua, which the Emperor is to retain: the cession of Venice and its territory, with some additions, to be confirmed, it being now an object of much greater magnitude to the cabinet of Vienna, on account of the revival of the Venetian commerce with Egypt, which for two centuries has suffered more from the barbarous oppressions of the Turks and Mamelukes, than from the discovery of the direct navigation to India by Vasco de Gama.
Propositions from France, it is said, have come to England, recommended by the cabinet of Berlin, an acquiescence in which would obtain to a reasonable peace on the continent, in return for the restoration of certain colonial possessions we now hold. Projects of this nature were hinted by Lord Malmesbury, and the French, it is said, have seized upon them. But perhaps the British cabinet will not now listen to those terms.
Domestic Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, March 14.
Last evening arrived the brig Rebecca, Capt. Harding, 25 days from Curacao. Capt. Harding informs, that nine days previous to his sailing, the French ship La Vengeance, rated 50 and mounting 36 guns, commanded by Capt. Perot (the ship which had the engagement with Commodore Truxton) arrived there a mere wreck, with the loss of all her masts, spars and rigging, and 100 men killed and 60 wounded.
The La Vengeance had on board at the time of the engagement 70 American prisoners, was bound from Guadalupe to France with a valuable cargo, besides a large amount in specie, and had on board the Governor of Guadalupe and his family. When she arrived at Curacao she had seven and a half feet of water in her hold.
The French Capt. said, at Curacao, that he was on the eve of striking; and indeed had no hopes of escaping from his gallant, though then unknown antagonist.—But before the Rebecca failed, he learned who it was that so bravely contended with him.
Capt. Harding also informs, that the noted Williams, an Irishman commanding the Romeo, a French privateer, mounting 4 guns, has captured the Mary, of Baltimore, an East-Indian, and the Sally, of Salisbury, and carried them into Curacao.
March 15.
We are this day enabled to give further interesting particulars of this almost unparalleled action, from the mouth of Mr. James Howe, who was on board of the Vengeance before, during, and some days after the conflict.
Mr. Howe, who is sensible and intelligent, informs us, that the Vengeance mounted on her gun-deck 32 long 18's, including 2 that were used as stern chasers—on her quarter 12 36 pound brass caronades, with 4 long 12's—and on her forecastle 6 long 12's. That she had on board 400 men, including 30 passengers, who all assisted during the engagement; besides 36 American seamen, who were taken out of prison at Guadalupe to work on board this ship some weeks before she failed, and who nobly refused to fight, and said they considered themselves as prisoners of war, and rather than act offensively against their country, or any nation at peace with them, they would die by the sword!
They were then ordered below, where they remained till the firing ceased, as appears by a certificate from the Capt. of the Vengeance, of which we have obtained a translation from the original now in the hands of Mr. Howe. A similar certificate was given to each of the prisoners, agreeably to promise, on condition that they would exert themselves in getting the wreck into port, which they effected on the fifth day after the engagement.
The Vengeance had 186 bullet-holes in her hull above water, some of the balls having gone through and through. Most of the passengers were killed, and from three to five of the wounded died each day before she reached port, one of whom was the sailing master.
Capt. Perot is said to be an old and brave commander, having lost a hand, &c. in former battles. In the present one he had his trumpet knocked out of his hand by the same ball which took off the arm of a Lieutenant who was standing near him.
It was the number of passengers, with upwards of a million of dollars on board, that made the Vengeance unwilling to come to action. She had been out only 36 hours from Guadalupe, and was bound to Brest.
61. In civil matters there are tribunals of first instance and tribunals of appeal. The law determines the organization of the one and the other; their competence of territory forming the jurisdiction of each.
62. In cases of crimes, to which are annexed a corporal or infamous punishment, a first jury admits or rejects the charge. If it be admitted, a second jury pronounces on the fact, and the judges composing a criminal tribunal apply the punishment. Their judgment is without appeal.
63. The function of public accuser to a criminal tribunal is filled by the commissioner of government.
64. The crimes which do not amount to corporal or infamous punishment are tried before the tribunals of correctional police, saving an appeal to the criminal tribunals.
65. There is for the whole Republic a tribunal of cassation, which pronounces on appeals against judgments in the dernier resort, given by the tribunals in cases referred from one tribunal to another on account of lawful suspicion or the public safety, upon exceptions taken by the party against the whole tribunal.
66. The tribunal of cassation does not inquire into the merits, but it reverts the judgment given on proceedings in which form is violated, or which contain something contrary to the expressed law, but sends the case back to be tried on the merits, by the tribunal which has cognizance of them.
67. The judges who constitute the tribunals of first instance, and the commissioners of government established at the tribunals, are taken from the communal or departmental list.
The judges forming the tribunals of appeal, and the commissioners placed with them, are taken from the departmental list.
The judges composing the tribunal of cassation, and the commissioners belonging to that tribunal, are taken from the national list.
68. The justices, except the justices of peace, remain in office for life, unless they should be condemned to forfeit their places, or should not be continued on the list of eligibles corresponding with their functions.
CHAPTER VI.
OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PUBLIC FUNCTIONARIES.
69. The functions of members, whether of the senate or of the legislative body, or of the tribunal, and also those of the consuls or counsellors of state, do not discharge them from responsibility.
70. Personal crimes, to which are annexed corporal or infamous punishment, committed by a member either of the senate, tribunal, legislative body, or of the council of state, are prosecuted before the ordinary tribunals, after a deliberation of the body to which the person charged belongs, has authorized such prosecution.
71. The ministers arraigned, in their private capacity, of crimes to which are annexed corporal or infamous punishment, are considered as members of the council of state.
72. The ministers are responsible—1st, for every act of government signed by them, and declared unconstitutional by the senate—2d, for the non-execution of the laws, and of the regulations of the public administration—3d, for the particular orders which they have given, if these orders are contrary to the constitution, the laws and ordinances.
73. In the several cases of the preceding articles, the tribunal denounces the minister by an act on which the legislative body deliberates in ordinary form, after having heard or summoned the person denounced. The minister placed in a course of judgment is tried by a high court, without appeal or recourse, for a revisal.
The high court is composed of judges and jurors. The judges are chosen by the tribunal of cassation, and from its bosom. The jurors are chosen from the national list; the whole according to the forms prescribed by law.
74. The judges, civil, and committing crimes relating to their functions, are prosecuted before the tribunals to which the tribunal of cassation sends them, after having annulled their acts.
75. The agents of government, other than the ministers, cannot be prosecuted for acts relating to their functions, but by virtue of a decision of the council of state, in this case the prosecution is carried on before the ordinary tribunals.
CHAPTER VII.
GENERAL DISPOSITION.
76. The house of every person inhabiting the French territory is an inviolable asylum.
During the night no person has a right to enter it, except in case of fire or inundation, at the request of the persons within.
In the day, one may enter it for the special purpose, determined either by the law, or an order emanating from a public authority.
77. In order that the act which ordains the arrest of a person may be executed, it is necessary, 1st, that it expresses in form the causes for such arrest, and the law in execution of which it is ordered; 2d, that it issues from a functionary to whom the law has formally given that power; 3d, that it be notified to the person arrested, and a copy of it left with him.
78. No keeper or gaoler can receive or detain any person without having first transcribed on his register the act ordering his arrest. This act must be a mandate, given in form prescribed by the preceding article, or a warrant for taking the body, or a decree of accusation, or a judgment.
79. Every keeper or gaoler is bound, without any order being able to dispense with it, to represent the person in his custody to the civil officer having the police of the house of detention, whenever this officer shall demand such account.
80. A representation of a person in custody shall not be refused to his parents and friends, carrying an order from the civil officer, who shall be obliged always to grant it, unless the keeper
or gaoler produces an order of a judge to keep the prisoner secret.
81. All those who not being vested by the law with the power of arresting, shall give, sign, or execute the arrest of any person whatever; all those who, even in the case of arrest authorized by law, shall receive or detain the person arrested in a place of confinement not publicly and legally designated as such; and all keepers or gaolers who shall act contrary to the dispositions of the three preceding articles, shall be guilty of arbitrary detention.
82. All severities used in arrest, detentions, or executions, other than those commanded by the laws or crimes.
83. Every person has a right of addressing private petitions to every constituted authority, and particularly to the tribunal.
84. The public force is necessarily in a state of obedience; no armed body can deliberate.
85. Military crimes are subjected to special tribunals, and particular forms of judgment.
86. The French nation declares, that it will grant pensions to all the military, wounded in defence of their country, and also to the widows and children of such military as have died on the field of battle, or in consequence of their wounds.
87. It shall decree national rewards to the warriors who shall have rendered distinguished services in fighting for the republic.
88. A constituted body cannot deliberate except in a sitting, at which two thirds of its members, at least, are present.
89. A national institute is charged with receiving discoveries, and perfecting the arts and sciences.
90. A committee of national comptabilité regulates and verifies the accounts of the receipts and expenses of the republic. This committee is composed of seven members, chosen by the senate from the national list.
91. The regime of the French colonies is determined by special law.
92. In case of the revolt of an armed body, or of troubles which menace the safety of the state, the law may suspend, in the places and for the time it determines, the empire of the constitution.
The suspension may be provisionally declared in the same cases, by an arrest of government, the legislative body not being sitting, provided this body be convened at a very short term, by an article of the same arrest.
93. The French nation declares, that in no case will it suffer the return of the French who, having abandoned their country since 1789, are not comprised in the exceptions contained in the laws against emigrants. It interdicts every new exception on this point.
The property of emigrants irrevocably belongs to the republic.
94. The French nation declares, that after a sale legally completed of national property, whatever may be its origin, the lawful purchase, cannot be dispossessed, saving the right of third persons, if such there should be, claiming to be indemnified out of the public treasury.
95. The present constitution shall be offered forthwith for the acceptance of the French people.
Done at Paris, the 22d Frimaire, (December 13th) in the 8th year of the French Republic, one and indivisible.
[The signatures of the members of legislative committees and consuls follow.]
PARIS, December 15.
The three consuls were named the day before yesterday by the two commissioners. Buonaparte was unanimously appointed first consul. Cambacérès and Lebrun had each 21 votes. The consuls, and five persons who are to assist them, met last night to appoint the conservators to the number of sixty. These sixty will elect the tribunes and senators. The consuls appoint the ministers and the thirty collectors of state.
General Kilmaine is dead.
The new constitution was published at Paris with much pomp.
December 18.
The armistice on the Rhine is officially published the very moment that we hear of its having been broken. The Chouans also continue to violate the armistice.
Moreau had given in his resignation after some warm words with the minister of war; but a reconciliation having taken place, the General will immediately take the command of his army.
The news from the Cotes de Nord, state, that the Chouans are organizing themselves more and more—18,000 are in the departments of the West—they have in 10 days received 60 waggons of ammunition.
December 20.
Buonaparte has been slightly indisposed—after long want of sleep, labour and fatigue, almost even beyond the strength of man, he always drinks coffee in great quantities.
The constitution has been unanimously accepted this day by the invalids of the National Hotel.
LONDON, December 20.
We yesterday received by express Paris papers to the 13th inst. which, although they contain no military fact that is at once authentic and of much importance, will, we have no doubt, be found interesting. Beginning with military affairs, and with that theatre of the war which is farthest removed from us, we find nothing new, except an affair which took place on the 23d ult. in the Riviera de Ponenti, in which the Imperialists were the assailants, and in which the Republicans do not positively arrogate to themselves the victory. They say that the loss of the Austrians has been very considerable, amounting to 2000 men—the ordinary manner in which they colour a defeat. It does not appear that any engagement has taken place between the army of General Melas and that which is opposed to him, now no longer under the command of General Championet, subsequent to those of which the Vienna Court Gazette has already brought us an account.
The most important intelligence which that letter contains, is that the siege of Coni was to be regularly begun on the 24th ult.
In Switzerland there is nothing new. The French army is increasing there every day in the absence of its commander. Our readers are already apprized that Massena has repaired to Paris, and exchanged the command of the army of the Danube for that of the army of Italy; and that the former of these, which, with that of the Rhine incorporated, is placed under the orders of Moreau. The French papers contain letters, from Augsburg, of a date two days more recent than those brought us by the last mail, from which it appears that the Russians were decidedly about to pass the Lech, and to march into Bavaria.
The banks of the Neckar offer more interesting matter than those of the Bornida and the Stura. The reinforcements sent by the Archduke to General Sztarray have enabled him to attack the Republicans, and to defeat them. Engagements took place on the 2d, 3d and 4th, which were both warm and general. The French do not disguise that they were entirely to their disadvantage; and this we may easily judge, by seeing that on the 5th their head quarters had retreated as far as Manheim, and that their army, which is now commanded by Baraguay D'Hilliers, had at the same period taken that concentrated position at the confluence of the Neckar and the Rhine, which it had occupied after every one of its former three defeats. This information is conveyed to us in a letter from Strasburgh, of the 7th inst. and inserted in the Moniteur of the 12th. The same letters add what, if true, would be of very great importance in the present situation of affairs, that an armistice was concluded on the 5th between General Sztarray and Baraguay D'Hilliers. Another letter from Strasburgh, of so late a date as the 8th, in the Clet du Cabinet, confirms this armistice, which it states to be concluded for eighteen days from the 6th inst. subject to the ratification of the two hostile governments; but hostilities were not to be renewed without notice, should it not be ratified.
It is asserted, if the Emperor of Germany concludes a treaty of partition with France, at which the feelings of other governments must revolt, he will have cause to dread the indignation of those powers. This cannot be true; for admitting, for instance, that England and Russia could endanger his existence as a Prince, what would be the consequence of an attack by them? The moment the Emperor Francis found himself closely pressed, perhaps before, he would throw himself into the arms of France, and thus promote the cause of the revolution, opposition to which is here pretended to be the only object of hostility. If England and Russia be sincere in their professions, they would dread attacking Austria, under these circumstances, more than sanctioning her acquisitions.
Among other speculations upon the terms of partition upon which France and Austria may conclude a treaty of peace, it is conjectured, that Bavaria may be sacrificed, the Elector of which has broken all terms with France, and has thrown himself into the arms of Russia. France must, therefore, feel less desire to protect that Electorate, and we all know that Austria has long coveted it as its most darling object. By the secret articles of the treaty of Campo Formio, it is believed part of Bavaria was given to Austria, and by the next treaty the whole of the territory may be assigned. Such an unprincipled act would probably excite the resentment and perhaps the hostility of Russia, which would feel a duty in protecting Bavaria; but if Austria, Prussia and France, sanctioned the measure, as they probably would, the efforts of Russia could produce no effect.
December 27.
The armistice upon the Rhine is at an end. The Archduke refused to accede to it, and notified his refusal on the 8th to the French commandant at Manheim. The French, who were inferior in force, immediately made dispositions to retreat, and evacuated by capitulation Manheim and Neckerau, of which the Austrians immediately took possession. In order to divide and divert the attention and forces of the Archduke, Gen. Lecourbe means immediately to enter Suabia from the side of Switzerland.
Suwarow's army continuing its march, had arrived at Ratisbon, where, on the 11th, he received dispatches from Petersburg, in consequence of which the troops were ordered to halt.
December 28.
We received this morning the Paris papers to the 26th inst. three days later than those which arrived yesterday.
The consuls and the legislative commissioners, continuing to adopt measures for giving immediate activity to the constitution, have published the names of the conservative senators, the tribunate and the council of state. A report has also been presented to the commission of Five Hundred, proposing that the conservative senate and the consuls should enter upon their functions on the 25th inst. and that as soon as the Senate had completed the nomination of the members of the tribunate and the legislative body, which was to be completed on the 25th, the Councils of Ancients and of Five Hundred, and the Legislative Commissioners, should be dissolved.
This proposition, together with some other regulations respecting the new government, were immediately adopted. The last sittings of the Councils were on the 23th, when the Consuls and the Senate were installed. The unfortunate persons who were so unjustly sentenced to transportation after the revolution of the 18th Fructidor, have at length engaged the attention of the Legislature, whose last act almost has been upon the suggestion of the Minister of Police and the Consuls to pass a decree; in virtue of which, the unhappy sufferers who were transported to Guiana, and other places, will, in all probability, be permitted immediately to return to their country.

By the last Mails.
Important Letters.
SAVANNAH, March 7.
YESTERDAY we were favoured by a friend with London papers down to the 8th of January, and a Liverpool paper of the 9th, received by the ship Hope, Capt. Callaghan, 54 days from Liverpool. They contain nothing of moment, except the following interesting correspondence.
LONDON, Jan. 6. (Published by Authority.)
LETTERS from the minister of foreign affairs in France, and from General Buonaparte, with the answers to them by the right honourable Lord Grenville, his majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs.
TRANSLATION.
MY LORD,
I dispatch, by order of General Buonaparte, first consul of the French Republic, a messenger to London: he is the bearer of a letter from the first consul of the Republic, to his majesty the king of England. I request you to give the necessary orders, that he may be enabled to deliver it directly into your own hands. This step, in itself, announces the importance of its object.
Accept, my lord, the assurance of my highest consideration.
CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND.
Paris, the 5th Nivose, 8th year of the French Republic (Dec. 25, 1799.)
TRANSLATION.
French Republic—Sovereignty of the People—Liberty—Equality.
BUONAPARTE, first consul of the Republic, to his majesty the king of Great-Britain and of Ireland.
Paris, the 5th Nivose, 8th year of the Republic.
Called by the wishes of the French nation to occupy the first magistracy of the Republic, I think it proper, on entering into office, to make a direct communication of it to your majesty.
The war which for eight years has ravaged the four quarters of the world, must it be eternal? Are there no means of coming to an understanding?
How can the two most enlightened nations of Europe, powerful and strong beyond what their safety and independence require, sacrifice to ideas of vain greatness, the benefits of commerce, internal prosperity, and the happiness of families? How is it, that they do not feel that peace is of the first necessity, as well as of the first glory?
These sentiments cannot be foreign to the heart of your majesty, who reigns over a free nation, and with the sole view of rendering it happy.
Your majesty will only see in this overture, my sincere desire to contribute efficaciously, for the second time, to a general pacification, by a step, speedy, entirely of confidence, and disengaged from those forms which, necessary perhaps to disguise the dependence of weak states, prove only, in those which are strong, the mutual desire of deceiving each other.
France and England, by the abuse of their strength, may still, for a long time, for the misfortune of all nations, retard the period of their being exhausted. But I will venture to say it, the fate of all civilized nations is attached to the termination of a war, which involves the whole world.
BUONAPARTE.
Downing-Street, Jan. 4, 1800.
SIR,
I have received and laid before the king, the two letters which you have transmitted to me, and his majesty, seeing no reason to depart from those forms which have long been established in Europe, for transacting business with foreign states, has commanded me to return, in his name, the official answer which I send you herewith inclosed.
I have the honour to be,
With high consideration, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
GRENVILLE.
To the minister for foreign affairs, &c. at Paris.
N O T E.
The king has given frequent proofs of his sincere desire for the re-establishment of secure and permanent tranquillity in Europe. He neither is, nor has been engaged in any contest for a vain and false glory. He has had no other view than that of maintaining against aggression, the rights and happiness of his subjects.
For these he has contended against an unprovoked attack; and for the same objects he is still obliged to contend; nor can he hope that this necessity could be removed by entering at the present moment into negotiation with those whom a fresh revolution has so recently placed in the exercise of power in France; since no real advantage can arise from such negotiation to the great and desirable object of general peace until it shall distinctly appear, that those causes have ceased to operate, which originally produced the war, and by which it has since been protracted, and in more than one instance renewed.
The same system, to the prevalence of which France justly ascribes all her present miseries, is that which has also involved the rest of Europe, in a long and destructive warfare, of a nature long since unknown to the practice of civilized nations.
For the extension of this system, and for the extermination of all established governments, the resources of France save from year to year, and in the midst of the most unparallelled distress, been lavished and exhausted. To this indiscriminate spirit of destruction, the Netherlands, the
United Provinces, the Swiss Cantons (his majesty's ancient friends and allies) have sufficiently been sacrificed. Germany has been ravaged: Italy, though rescued from its invaders, has been made the scene of unbounded rapine and anarchy. His majesty has himself been compelled to maintain an arduous and barthenome contest for the independence and existence of his kingdoms.
Nor have these calamities been confined to Europe alone: They have been extended to the most distant quarters of the world, and even to countries so remote both in situation and interests from the present contest, that the very existence of such a war was perhaps unknown to those who found themselves suddenly involved in all its horrors.
While such a system continues to prevail, and while the blood and treasure of a numerous and powerful nation can be lavished in its support, experience has shown that no defence but that of open and steady hostility can be availing. The most solemn treaties have only prepared the way for fresh aggressions; and it is to a determined resistance alone, that is now due whatever remains in Europe of stability for property, for personal liberty, for social order, or for the free exercise of religion.
For the security, therefore, of these essential objects, his majesty cannot place his reliance on the mere renewal of general professions of pacific dispositions. Such professions have been repeatedly held out by all those who have successively directed the resources of France to the destruction of Europe; and whom the present rulers have declared to have been all, from the beginning, and uniformly, incapable of maintaining the relations of amity and peace.
Greatly, indeed, will his majesty rejoice, whenever it shall appear that the danger to which his own dominions, and those of his allies, have been so long exposed, has really ceased; whenever he shall be satisfied that the necessity of resistance is at an end; that after the experience of so many years of crimes and miseries, better principles have ultimately prevailed in France; and that all the gigantic projects of ambition, and all the restless schemes of destruction which have endangered the very existence of civil society, have at length been finally relinquished: but the conviction of such a change, however agreeable to his majesty's wishes, can result only from experience, and from the evidence of facts.
The best and most natural pledge of its reality and permanence, would be the restoration of that line of Princes which for so many centuries maintained the French nation in prosperity at home, and in consideration and respect abroad; such an event would at once have removed, and will at any time remove all obstacles in the way of negotiation or peace. It would confirm to France the unmolested enjoyment of its ancient territory; and it would give to all the other nations in Europe in tranquillity and peace, that security which they are now compelled to seek by other means.
But, desirable as such an event must be, both to France and to the world, it is not to this mode exclusively that his majesty limits the possibility of secure and solid pacification. His majesty makes no claim to prescribe to France, what shall be the form of her government, or in whose hands she shall vest the authority necessary for conducting the affairs of a great and powerful nation.
His majesty looks only to the security of his own dominions and those of his allies, and the general safety of Europe. Whenever he shall judge that such security can in any manner be attained, as resulting either from the internal situation of that country, from whose internal situation the danger has risen, or from such other circumstances of whatever nature as may produce the same end; his majesty will eagerly embrace the opportunity to concert with his allies the means of immediate and general pacification.
Unhappily no such security hitherto exists; no sufficient evidence of the principles by which the new government will be directed; no reasonable ground by which to judge of its stability. In this situation it can for the present only remain for his majesty to pursue, in conjunction with other powers, those exertions of just and defensive war, which his regard to the happiness of his subjects will never permit him either to continue beyond the necessity in which they originated, or to terminate on any other grounds, than such as may best contribute to the secure enjoyment of their tranquillity, their constitution, and their independence.
GRENVILLE.
Downing-Street, January 4, 1800.
To the Minister of Foreign Affairs, &c. &c. at Paris.
THE Gentlemen who have subscribed for the purpose of establishing a Mutual Insurance Fire-Company, are requested to meet at the State-House, on Thursday the third day of April next, at two o'clock, P. M. to transact such business as may be needful for carrying the design into execution.
March 26.
N. B. A punctual attendance is necessary.
FOR SALE, by
Augustus Larned,
 200 Barrels of Prime Beef  100 do. Prime Pork  75 half Meis do.  75 do. do. Beef  100 Barrels of M'ndaden Fish  West-India Rum, per hhd.  Molasses, per do.  Sugar, per do. or barrel  First quality Cape Coffee, in barrels  A few bags of Cotton Wool  Butter and Lard, Hoops, &c.  The above articles will be sold on good terms for the purchaser. March 26.
Providence,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26.
Extract of a letter from Capt. Truxton, to the Secretary of the Navy, dated Port-Royal Harbour, Jamaica, 12th Feb. 1800.
"I arrived here the 8th instant, in company with the Insurgente, Capt. Murray, with whom I fell in, the day after I wrote you by Lieut. Shaw."
"Finding it impossible to get a main-mast here, I shall use every dispatch in my power to put the Constellation into a condition to proceed to the United States. I have met a kind and friendly reception from Admiral Parker; all the British post Captains here, have been on board the Constellation, and from seeing our situation, express every sentiment that would be wished by those true Americans who love their country and its honour, better than any thing else."
"I have heard nothing of the French 54 gun ship since the action. It is hard to conjecture whether she sunk, or whether she has got into St. Thomas' or Curacao. If she is still above water, she must be irreparably in the West-Indies. Her loss of men must have been prodigious in an action of five hours, with 600 men on board; my fire was directed principally at her hull."
"Several of my officers have told me that they thought they saw her go down—certain it is, that the ship and her lights disappeared of a sudden, and we ought to have seen her at day light. But I was so employed myself, in preserving our fore-mast and mizen-mast, after the main-mast went over the side, that I attended to nothing else."
Extract of a letter from Capt. Baker, of the Delaware sloop of war, to the Secretary of the Navy, dated Curacao, 8th of February, 1800.
"On the 6th instant appeared off this harbour a French ship of 52 guns, called La Vengeance, and from what I can learn, she left Guadalupe last Sunday, bound to France, with a great deal of money, &c. on board; and also two French Generals, and a number of other officers and passengers; but on Monday evening she was overtaken by an American or British frigate (but generally believed to be the former,) and from her shattered condition, she must have had a very severe action. La Vengeance having left standing but her bowsprit, fore and mizen-mast; her fore and mizen-shrouds, ratlings, &c. being cut up so, that you could scarce see any of them for stoppers. In short, there appears no place that has escaped a shot; her starboard-side has been much hulled, and it is said, she had 40 killed and wounded, and when she parted, she had 8 feet of water in her hold. They say the other vessel was in a similar situation, and in fact, that neither of them had the command of their ships. The French ship is now hauled up in the harbour, and will require some months to refit, not having masts, cordage, &c. &c. necessary for that purpose."
"P. S. This moment arrived a Schooner from St. Thomas' with an American gentleman on board. They were spoken by a British frigate this morning at 8 o'clock, who informed them that yesterday he spoke Commodore Truxton going down to Jamaica, who informed them, that last Monday night, he got along side of a French 70 gun ship, and after a long and severe action, had the misfortune to lose his main-mast, fore and mizen top-mast; the ship became unmanageable, at which time the French ship made her escape, severely wounded."
"Capt. Truxton said, that if he could have kept along side 15 minutes longer, he would have taken her. This agrees with the French report, for they say they were in such a situation, they could not have defended the ship much longer."
[The following answer was made to Commodore Truxton, responsive to his address to his ship's crew, after his engagement of the 1st of February, with the French 54 gun ship, as already published in this paper, and peculiarly characterizes the patriotism and bravery of Americans.]
ANSWER
TO COMMODORE TRUXTON.
SIR,
The officers of every description, the seamen, marines, and every other belonging to the United States ship Constellation, cannot suppress their feelings at the kind tribute which you have paid to their respective meritorious exertions.
They with one voice proclaim that under such a commander, whose example would have made even cowardice brave, they must have been less than men, not to have acted with the same stimulus of valour which they exhibited in the late engagement with the French national ship of 54 guns.
They have, with sincere regret, to lament the loss of some of their faithful comrades who fell in the lap of victory.
The circumstances of losing the prize is a secondary consideration, which could only devolve pecuniary advantages to the survivors, the glory and honour of the combat being diffused to the whole.
In behalf of ourselves and the rest of the ship's company, (Signed)
 ANDREW STERETT, 1st lieutenant.  BAT. CLINCH, lieut. marines.  DANIEL ELDRIDGE, sailing master.  JOHN MARSHALL CLAGETT, midshipman.  JAMES MORGAN, gunner.  PATRICK M'DONALD, carpenter.  ABRAHAM LONG, boatwain.  DAVID CARNS, } Quartermasters.  JOHN M'SHAYLE, }  At Sea, 4th of February, 1800.
A Resolution has been moved in the Senate of the U. States, to order Mr. Duane, Editor of the Aurora, to attend at the bar of that House, to answer for defamatory and malicious paragraphs respecting that body, laid to have appeared in his paper.
Mr. Parker has offered a resolution in the House of Representatives, that a GOLDEN MEDAL, emblematical of the late action between the United States Frigate Constellation, of 38 guns, and the French ship of war La Vengeance, of 54 guns, be prepared, under the orders of the Secretary of the Navy, and be presented to Captain THOMAS TRUXTON, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of his gallantry and good conduct in the above engagement, wherein an example was exhibited by the captain, officers, sailors and marines, honourable to the American name, and instructive to his rising Navy.
COMMERCIAL.
Capt. Talbot, of the United States frigate Constitution, has officially notified the American Merchants, that there is great danger in sending their vessels directly to Port Republic, from the increased number of Rigaud's armed boats in the Bay of L'oganne; and recommends their touching at Cape Francois, for the purpose of waiting a convoy, which will sail from the Mole for Port Republic every four or five days.
The property of the citizens of the United States, which crossed the ocean in 1799, is estimated at ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN MILLIONS of dollars. It is not erring, to say, our navy has prevented one quarter of this immense sum falling into the hands of the French, and other freebooters.—No wonder the Democrats and Jacobins are wishing the annihilation of our armed vessels! No wonder they curse our honest tars, and berate our intrepid commanders! The cause is thus developed. [Cent.]
NAVAL AFFAIRS.
The United States frigate Insurgent, Commodore Murray, has arrived at Baltimore from Jamaica, which he left the 10th ult.
The Insurgent fell in with the Constellation a few days after her engagement with the French 54 gun ship, and proceeded with her to Jamaica—where he left her rigging up jury-masts, to enable her to come to the United States, not finding it practicable to repair her damages in that port. She gives no further information of the Frenchman.
We learn from New-York, that the Portsmouth ship of war, of 24 guns, Capt. M'Neil, has been ordered by government to be got ready for sea in 12 days, to sail with dispatches for France.
An American frigate, of 44 guns, we learn, will be immediately dispatched for the Straits of Sunda, where the frigate Congress was to have been stationed.
The Maryland, of 20 guns, Capt. Rogers; and the Baltimore, of 20 guns, Capt. Cooper, have convoyed a fleet from Surinam, as far as lat. 28. 20.
The Petapso, of 18 guns, Capt. Geddes, has convoyed a fleet from New-Orleans, into safe latitudes.
A gentleman who saw the Vengeance launched at Nantz (the ship Commodore Truxton lately engaged) affirms her to be the largest frigate he ever saw, being much larger than the Constitution, whom the English commanders call "a 74 in disguise." Thus it appears that an American second-rate frigate, is an overmatch for one of the stoutest first-rate frigates in the world, sought by an old, brave and experienced commander.
Arrived on Wednesday last, the sloop George, Capt. S. Young, from St. Marks, in 18 days. Capt. Young arrived at St. Marks the 15th of February. On the morning of the 14th, the sloop -----, Capt. Spence, of Philadelphia, sailed with a valuable cargo for Port Republic, from St. Marks, and was captured by Rigaud's barges before she got out of the bay. The pirates carried her to the west end of the island of Ganaies and anchored; they then told the captain to take his crew, and go about his business. Capt. Spence told them he chose to stay by his vessel till she was condemned. They replied that the vessel was already condemned, and that if he and his crew did not immediately quit her, they would massacre every one of them. Capt. Spence thought it most prudent to quit his vessel, and with his crew took the boat and set off for St. Marks, where they arrived in two days.
On the 7th of March, in lat. 37; 31. long. 73; 22. spoke the Schooner Betty, Capt. Babbedy master, from Salem, bound to Savannah, 23 days out, all well.
On the 14th of March, 15 leagues E. N. E. of Cape Henry, spoke the sloop Sea-Hower, of New-Haven, from St. Bartholomew's, bound to Norfolk.
Two Spanish ships of the line, and a packet, have arrived at the Havanna from La Vera Cruz, with eleven millions of dollars on board.
The ship Rejouice, Capt. Pearce, of this port, was at Botany-Bay the 10th of September, bound for Canton, all well.
Arrived Schooner Roger Williams, Stephen A. Aplin. In lat. 23; 44. and long. 60. W. spoke the brig Hero, Capt. Hunt, from Newburyport, bound to Jamaica, out 20 days, all well. she met a heavy gale on the coast, and lost her lumber off deck.
Died,
On Thursday evening last, Mr. Henry F. Olney, of Hudson, in the 25th year of his age.
At Rehoboth, in an advanced age, the Rev. Aaron Wheeler, a Baptist minister, after a long and distressing illness, which he endured with exemplary patience. In early life he made a profession of religion, which he continued to practise and teach, and in the awful hour of death expressed great consolation and hope, that as he had spent his days in the service of his God, in the life to come he should obtain an entrance into his kingdom.
PROVIDENCE BANK, March 26, 1800.
A Semi-annual dividend will be paid to the stockholders in Providence Bank, on or after Tuesday the first day of April next. By order of the Board of Directors, OLNEY WINSOR, Cashier.
THE co-partnership of DODGE and WILLIAMS, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All persons having unsettled accounts with said firm, are requested to call and settle them immediately. The Goldsmith and jewellers business is carried on in all its branches by NICHOLAS DODGE, at his shop, opposite Mr. Hawes's Tavern, a little south of the Baptist Meeting-House. The Clock and Watch-making business in all its branches will be attended to with fidelity and dispatch, by STEPHEN WILLIAMS, at his shop, Main-Street, a few doors north of the Market, directly opposite Mr. Shaw's Tavern. The final settlement favours will be gratefully acknowledged by NICHOLAS DODGE, STEPHEN WILLIAMS
March 25.

Selected Poetry.
A North-American Death Song.
By SCHILLER—translated by BERESFORD.
SEATED on a sedgy mat, See the honour'd dead, All erect as erst he sat Ere his spirit fled: Where is now his sturdy gripe? Where his manhood's bloom? Where the breath that from his pipe, Puff'd the votive fume?
Where the eye, that o'er the plain Mark'd the rein-deer's way? Sharper than the falcon's ken Beam'd its piercing ray: Where the leg, whose ample stride Brush'd the driv'n snow? Fleet as stag, the woodland's pride, Fleet as mountain roe."
Where the arm, whose peerless might Bent the stubborn bow? (Death has clos'd his eyes in night) Nerveless hangs it now! Cease the plaint—he soars above, Far from snow and hail; Rambles o'er the shady grove, Breathes the healthful gale.
There, in ev'ry tangled brake Throng the feather'd brood; Fishes swarm the lucid lake; Game, the tufted wood; There, with happy fowls, he eats, Quaffs his bev'rage there: While we sing his valiant feats, And his grave prepare.
Bring the gifts—the last sad boon, Songs funereal raise: And in silent grave be thrown Aught the dead can please: 'Neath his head the hatchet lay, Ting'd with hostile blood; Bring the grim bear's brawny thigh— Long the dreary road!
Bring the knife, whose sharpen'd blade Scalp'd the prostrate foe; O'er his grave the scalps be laid Rang'd in grisly row: Store his hand with colours meet, Ere he takes his flight, That his shade the ghosts may greet, Beaming crimson'd light.
For Sale,
6000 Acres of LAND, in the county of Luzerne, and commonwealth of Pennsylvania; situated in the neighbourhood of rich and flourishing settlements—four miles from Newtown, the seat of justice in the county of Tioga and state of New-York—about three miles south of the Tioga River, which is navigable for boats of 15 or 20 tons burthen, and fifteen miles west of Tioga Point. There are good saw and grist-mills on the settlements adjoining. A good road is opened, and much travelled, through this tract, from Newtown to the settlements on the head waters of Tioga River. This tract is choice land, selected from a large body. For grass and grain, it is not exceeded by any land in the western country. It lies in an oblong square, a mile by 5. A large creek, suitable for all kinds of mills, runs lengthwise through the middle of said tract.
Also,
A number of 300 acre lots, from 5 to 10 miles southeast from Tioga Point, lying between the main river and lands belonging to the Hon. Benjamin Bourn, Esq. and Messrs. Brown and Ives. Several of these lots are adjoining lots already settled, and under good improvement.
The above described Land will be sold at a very low rate to settlers, and a clear and warranted title will be given. Titles of the Land, and maps of the country, may be seen, and further particulars known, by applying to the subscriber, west side of the great Bridge, Providence.
COMFORT A. CARPENTER.
N. B. By a particular law of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the lands lying on the west side of the Susquehannah River are exempt from taxes for several years yet to come.
March 19.
MAIL-STAGE.
THE subscribers respectfully inform the public, that the only regular line of Stages for New-York and Boston, start from A. AMMIDON'S, at the sign of the Golden-Ball, near the State-House, in Providence; where ladies and gentlemen are invited to call and take their seats. The Mail Stage leaves Providence for New-York and Boston, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; for New-York at 4 o'clock, A. M. and for Boston, at 6 o'clock, A. M.
Particular care will be taken that the Mail-Stage is not crowded; not more than eight persons are allowed to go in the Mail-Stage to Boston.
SOLOMON HATCH, and Co.
January 22.
(t.f.)
PROVIDENCE LIBRARY, February 8, 1800.
AT a meeting of the Directors, this day, it was voted, That the Library be opened weekly, on Saturdays, to commence next Saturday afternoon, the 15th inst.—No proprietor to be allowed the liberty of taking out any books until the tax of one dollar on a right be paid, in conformity to a late resolution.
PARIS J. TILLINGHAST, Secretary.
This Day Published,
Price single, neatly bound and lettered, 75 cents; and for sale, by ABRAHAM SHEARMAN, jun. New-Bedford; and likewise may be had at the Book-store of RUFUS GREENE, Providence.
A WORK, entitled, "The Power of Religion on the Mind, in Retirement, Affliction, and at the Approach of Death: exemplified in the testimonies and experience of persons distinguished by their Greatness, Learning or Virtue.
'Tis immortality... 'tis that alone, Amidst life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill.
YOUNG.
From the seventh edition, corrected and much enlarged.
Advertisement to the sixth edition.
The compiler of this Work having very considerably enlarged the present edition, by the insertion of a number of additional characters and testimonies, the Bookseller will be under the necessity of advancing the price. But as the additions consist of many instances of female excellence (in which the former editions were defective) and of other instructive examples; in the choice of which, the introduction of a suitable variety of matter has been carefully attended to; the editor hopes that these considerations will prove a sufficient apology for enhancing the price of the book; and the more so, as he receives no pecuniary advantage whatever from the publication.
Besides the enlargement of this edition, with an accession of fresh characters, those of the preceding ones have been corrected and extended, and the arrangement so conducted, as to coincide nearly with the order of time, and to diversify the whole.
Subscribers are desired to call or send for their Books.—Those persons who may hold subscription papers, would much oblige the publisher by returning them to him at New-Bedford.
March 10.
Insurance against Fire.
SITUATED as we are in the town of Providence, the earnings of an industrious citizen for years may be consumed in an hour; and though his neighbours may be well enough disposed towards reinstating the sufferer, yet the contributions must be partial, and they will operate unequally; a permanent system is therefore desirable. This once adopted, it would be in the power of every man to secure his property, and perhaps not injure his creditors: and if he was unwilling to contribute towards the loss of another, he could have no claim to contribution, in case of his own loss.
It is therefore proposed, that a subscription be opened, at LAWRENCE'S INSURANCE OFFICE, to form a company in the town of Providence, by the name of THE PROVIDENCE MUTUAL INSURANCE FIRE-COMPANY, in manner following, to wit.
First. That a book be opened at said office to receive subscriptions, and any person, owner of a house or houses, may enter his name, with the sum he wishes to insure, and the term of time it is to continue.
Second. As soon as one hundred houses are entered on the book for insurance, the proprietors thereof shall be called together, and form themselves into a company, to be organized and incorporated.
Third. As soon as they have obtained an act of incorporation, and chosen a President, a Vice-President, a Treasurer, a Secretary, twelve directors, and such other officers as they may deem expedient, every member of the Company shall pay into the treasury twenty-five cents for each hundred dollars he may have subscribed, which sum, when paid in, shall remain as a fund to pay the expenses of the Company, and for such other purposes as they may direct.
Fourth. The Company, when empowered, will enact such rules, orders and regulations, as may be necessary for the well establishing of the institution.
EXAMPLE.
Supposing (as the town of Providence consists of between 1000 and 1500 houses) that 400 houses be subscribed on the books, and estimated on an average at 2000 dollars each, the whole amount of stock insured would be 800,000 dollars. Admitting that 4000 dollars of said property should be destroyed by fire, a tax of fifty cents on each 100 dollars of the stock will make good the loss to the sufferer, and so in any other proportion.
N. B. A book is already opened at said office for the purpose above said.
March 15.
Jacob Barker,
Hair-Dresser,
TAKES this method to inform the Public, that he has lately taken the shop in the house belonging to Capt. Samuel Allen, directly opposite the house of Mr. Nicholas Brown; where he will be happy to wait upon all those who may please to favour him with their custom, and who may depend upon being dressed with expedition and neatness.
March 19.
For Sale,
BY the subscriber, and at the different book-stores in this town, a handsome mezzotinto engraving of GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON: Pronounced by good judges to be an excellent likeness. WILLIAM HAMLIN.
Those who apply soon, may have proof prints of the above.
N. B. A few mezzotinto prints of Dr. Franklin, upon a small scale, for sale by said HAMLIN.
March 12.
Bristol Insurance Company.
THE Public are hereby informed, that the above Company, being incorporated by the Legislature of this State, and possessed of a stock of sixty-five thousand dollars, are now prepared for business. Any propositions, therefore, for insuring vessels, &c. addressed to the Directors of said Company, and left at their office, kept in the northwest room of the house of Josiah Finney, Esq. Hope-street, Bristol, will be punctually attended to.
GUSTAVUS BAYLIES, Sec'y.
Bristol, March 11.
For SALE, by Pitts and Chedel,
In Main-street, opposite Amos Atwell, Esq's. 35 Boxes of Havannah brown Sugar 20 Boxes of white do. A few hogheads of good retailing Molasses 20 Barrels of good Sugar And sundry other articles, cheap for cash. March 12.
For Sale,
A FARM, as good, and as pleasantly situated, as any in the country, lying on the turnpike road leading from Hartford to Boston, near the centre of the town; with a large house, two barns, merchant's shop, corn-house, cider-mill, slaughter-house, and a forty-eight feet building; with a shed, chaise-house, &c. under the same roof. Said farm contains seventy-five acres in the home lot, eighteen acres of wood land, and fifteen acres of mowing and ploughing; and an orchard, which is a little distance off. Will make from forty to fifty barrels of cider annually. It is an excellent stand for Tavern, and is now improved as such.
ALSO,
A convenient HOUSE for a mechanic (to be sold separate from the above.) For further particulars, enquire of NATHAN GROSVENOR, living on the premises. (4w)
Pomfret, March 9.
Lumber Yard.
THE subscriber continues to keep his Lumber Yard well supplied with all kinds of pine lumber, oak boards, house plank and timber, birch and cherry-tree boards, &c. And he likewise makes and sells
All kinds of Cabinet Work, on reasonable terms for cash or approved credit. He requests all those who have accounts open with him, to call and make a settlement, as a delay may put them to cost, and will not be so satisfactory to the subscriber.
JAMES ABORN, jun.
March 12.
To be SOLD, by Samuel James,
On the west side of the great Bridge, Providence, 20 Hhds. of good retailing Molasses 2 do. W. India Rum, of an excellent flavour 40 Kegs of Lard 10 Firkins of Butter 10 Barrels of Prime Beef 100 Quintals of Codfish 30 M. Hoghead Hoops, of a good quality 400 Shaken Hogheads Rum and Fish Barrels.
Also—as usual,
A general assortment of Dry Goods, suitable for the season;—all which will be sold very cheap for cash, or on a short credit, with approved notes. February 26. (2m.)
To Let,
A Good FARM, lying in Scituate, 14 miles from Providence. It is situated on Chopanisk Hill, and is called the West Farm; containing 500 acres. Any person wishing to hire said Farm, by being well recommended, may know the terms by applying to ZECHARIAH ALLEN or JOSEPH JENCKES, in Providence. March 5.
Thomas S. Webb
HAS FOR SALE,
At his Paper-Hanging Manufactory, in Broad-street, opposite Dr. Dyer's (west side of the river) a large assortment of
PAPER-HANGINGS.
CONSISTING of upwards of four thousand rolls, suitable for covering rooms, chambers, entries and halls; with festoon, patch, chintz and common borders, from one to ten inches in breadth, by wholesale and retail. A handsome deduction made to those who purchase to sell again. Also, a general assortment of Books and Stationary, Music and Instruments.
C. and B. Clarionets, Hautboys, Flutes, Violins, Fifes, Books of instruction for the Clarionet, Hautboy, Violin, Flute, Forte Piano, &c. and several hundred different songs in sheet music. March 5. (6m.)
JUST RECEIVED,
AND FOR SALE, BY
Butler and Wheaton,
56 Hogheads of excellent Georgia Tobacco 40 Casks of new Rice 600 Barrels of superfine and fine Flour 150 Barrels of Ship Bread 100 Barrels of Pilot Bread.
They have also for Sale,
St. Peterburgh clean Hemp Russia and American Cordage New Sable Iron, Russia Sheatings Russia and Ravens Duck Feather Beds, Molasses. February 19.
For Sale,
At the Store of the Subscriber, 200 Barrels of Beef 20 ditto of Pork 50 Pipes of excellent Geneva, warranted equal to any imported 500 Casks of ditto 3 Tons of Ship Bread, 3, 4, 6 and 9 pound Cannon; round Shot, double headed ditto, grape, &c. suitable for the above sized cannon. The above articles will be sold in large or small quantities, as will best suit the purchasers—for cash or approved notes, payable at the Bank.
JOHN BROWN.
January 1.
(t.f.)
For SALE, by Amos Maine Atwell,
CONNECTICUT Salted Provisions of the best Qualities, and in excellent shipping order, viz. Prime Beef, Prime Pork, Mess Pork, and one hog Pork.—Also, 20 Firkins of Butter, 7000 feet 1-4 inch seasoned hard Pine Boards, 2000 feet 2 inch Pine Plank, 700 feet 1 inch cherry-tree Boards, Two thousand Clapboards. The above Goods are offered for sale on terms highly favourable to the purchaser.
ALSO,
25 Puncheons Jamaica Spirits, of the first flavour and quality, which will reduce 33 1-3 per cent.
October 30.
(t.f.)
HAPPY CONTRADICTION.
OLD FRIENDS WITH NEW FACES. An extraordinary event at the opening of the extraordinary year 1800. Being the beginning of the latter end of a century.
AT a tavern last night an old fashion-ed health was drank—"May we never see an old friend with a new face."—Q, who sat in a corner, slyly observed, that it was all RUMORS; that he could satisfy the company they would be all glad to see their friends with new faces. Some grumbled, others laughed, but all seemed curious to learn the particulars; he began thus 'Have you never used
HOPKINS' RAZOR STROPS?'
Yes, said one—No, said another; the experienced applauded the explanation, and those who had been in the habit of mowing their muzzles with hand-saws, felt the brushes on their chins bristle with eagerness to render their old fashioned faces new to their friends—to satisfy their curiosity Q went on thus, HOPKINS' RAZOR STROPS, which disappoint the most sanguine by their smooth and agreeable execution, are sold by appointment, at 75 cents, 1 dollar and 25 cents, and 2 dollars each, with the addition of a composition that will keep it in order for ages, at 50 cents.
BUT MARK THE IMPROVEMENT.
To men who travel where there are no professional face-scrapers—to seamen of every grade—to the whiskered soldier in his butted tent—(how comfortable.)
The new invented and improved Box, containing, in the compass of little more than an ordinary comb-case,
A polished Razor—Comb—Brush—Lather Box, and Mirror—with a box for the surprising composition, all in a Morocco case, most conveniently calculated to fit the pocket without inconvenience.
The whole of this new portable and useful apparatus sold at No. 65, South Third-Street (opposite the United States Bank) Philadelphia; and in Providence, by JEREMIAH F. JENKINS, at No. 3, Market-street.
At only three Dollars.
And by the agents usually appointed to dispose of the invaluable and agreeable STROP. Feb. 19. (t.f.)
Cooley's genuine Pills,
Prepared by Samuel Cooley, of Bolton, State of Connecticut, And secured to him by letters patent, signed by the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, and dated at Philadelphia, the 26th day of June, A. D. 1798, agreeable to an act of Congress.
THEY are justly esteemed for their easy operation and good effects; they are a most certain remedy for the Jaundice, Rheumatism, Erysipelas, Gravel, Piles, Scurvy, Diziness of the Head, Pain in the Stomach and Bowels; they are an antidote against infectious diseases; and are, taking two or three early in the morning, a great preservative against contagious air, remove obstructions of any kind, by dissolving and discharging the morbid matter, help digestion, restore a lost appetite, a sure relief for costive habits; decayed constitutions are removed by a thorough use of the above Pills.
They are found by experience to be the most safe and easy physic of any composition yet known: Persons under weak circumstances may take them with safety and not find themselves made weaker, as is common to other physic. They are to be taken twice in a day, two in the morning and one at night, more or less, so as to cause one or two movements of the body more than usual; let the patient fast one hour, then eat, drink and exercise as he pleases.
N. B. There is no Mercury in the above Pills.
Sold by JOHN POPE, Providence.
Wanted,
AN experienced SUGAR BOILER. Any one that can be well recommended, will meet with good encouragement. Enquire of JEREMIAH F. JENKINS. Feb. 5.