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The Providence Journal.
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TOWN AND COUNTRY ADVERTISER.
Published on WEDNESDAYS, by JOHN CARTER, JUN. Printer of the UNITED STATES for the State of RHODE-ISLAND, At the NEW PRINTING-OFFICE, West Side of the great Bridge, PROVIDENCE.
[ No. 83. ]
WEDNESDAY, July 30, 1800.
[ Vol. II. ]
Laws of the United States.
PUBLISHED
By Authority.
SIXTH CONGRESS
OF THE
United States. At the First Session, begun and held at the city of PHILADELPHIA, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the second of December, 1799.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
An ACT for the better government of the Navy of the United States.
Sec. 1. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of June next, the following rules and regulations be adopted and put in force, for the government of the Navy of the United States:
Art. I. The commanders of all ships and vessels of war belonging to the navy, are strictly enjoined and required to shew in themselves a good example of virtue, honour, patriotism and subordination; and be vigilant in inspecting the conduct of all such as are placed under their command; and to guard against, and suppress, all dissolute and immoral practices, and to correct all such as are guilty of them, according to the usage of the sea service.
Art. II. The commanders of all ships and vessels in the navy, having chaplains on board, shall take care that divine service be performed in a solemn, orderly and reverent manner, twice a day, and a sermon preached on Sunday, unless bad weather, or other extraordinary accidents, prevent it; and that they cause all, or as many of the ship's company as can be spared from duty, to attend at every performance of the worship of Almighty God.
Art. III. Any officer, or other person in the navy, who shall be guilty of oppression, cruelty, fraud, profane swearing, drunkenness, or any other scandalous conduct, tending to the destruction of good morals, shall, if an officer, be cashiered, or suffer such other punishment as a court martial shall adjudge; if a private, shall be put in irons, or flogged, at the discretion of the captain, not exceeding twelve lashes; but if the offence require severer punishment, he shall be tried by a court martial, and suffer such punishment as said court shall inflict.
Art. IV. Every commander or other officer who shall, upon signal for battle, or on the probability of an engagement, neglect to clear his ship for action, or shall not use his utmost exertions to bring his ship to battle, or shall fail to encourage, in his own person, his inferior officers and men to fight courageously, such offender shall suffer death, or such other punishment as a court martial shall adjudge; or any officer neglecting, on sight of any vessel or vessels of an enemy, to clear his ship for action, shall suffer such punishment as a court martial shall adjudge: And if any person in the navy shall treacherously yield, or pusillanimously cry for quarters, he shall suffer death, on conviction thereof by a general court martial.
Art. V. Every officer or private who shall not properly observe the orders of his commanding officer, or shall not use his utmost exertions to carry them into execution, when ordered to prepare for, join in, or when actually engaged in battle; or shall, at such time, basely desert his duty or station, either then, or while in sight of an enemy, or shall induce others to do so, every person so offending shall, on conviction thereof by a general court martial, suffer death, or such other punishment as the said court shall adjudge.
Art. VI. Every officer or private who shall, through cowardice, negligence, or disaffection, in time of action, withdraw from, or keep out of battle, or shall not do his utmost to take or destroy every vessel which it is his duty to encounter, or shall not do his utmost endeavour to afford relief to ships belonging to the United States, every such offender shall, on conviction thereof by a general court martial, suffer death, or such other punishment as the said court shall adjudge.
Art. VII. The commanding officer of every ship or vessel in the navy, who shall capture, or seize upon any vessel as a prize, shall carefully preserve all the papers and writings found on board, and transmit the whole of the originals unmutated to the judge of the district to which such prize is ordered to proceed, and shall transmit to the Navy Department, and to the agent appointed to pay the prize money, complete lists of the officers and men entitled to a share of the capture, inserting therein the quality of every person rating, on pain of forfeiting his whole share of the prize money resulting from such capture, and suffering such further punishment as a court martial shall adjudge.
Art. VIII. No person in the navy shall take out of a prize, or vessel seized as prize, any money, plate, goods, or any part of her rigging, unless it be for the better preservation thereof, or absolutely necessary for the use of any of the vessels of the United States, before the same
shall be adjudged lawful prize by a competent court; but the whole, without fraud, concealment, or embezzlement, shall be brought in, and judgment passed thereon, upon pain that every person offending herein shall forfeit his share of the capture, and suffer such further punishment as a court martial, or the court of admiralty in which the prize is adjudged, shall impose.
Art. IX. No person in the navy shall strip of their clothes, or pillage, or in any manner maltreat persons taken on board a prize, on pain of such punishment as a court martial shall adjudge.
Art. X. No person in the navy shall give, hold or entertain, any intercourse or intelligence to or with any enemy or rebel, without leave from the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Navy, the commander in chief of the fleet, or the commander of a squadron; or in case of a vessel acting singly, from his commanding officer, on pain of death, or such other punishment as a court martial shall adjudge.
Art. XI. If any letter or message from an enemy or rebel be conveyed to any officer or private of the navy, and he shall not, within twelve hours, make the same known, having opportunity so to do, to his superior or commanding officer; or if any officer commanding a ship or vessel, being acquainted therewith, shall not, with all convenient speed, reveal the same to the commander in chief of the fleet, commander of a squadron, or other proper officer whose duty it may be to take cognizance thereof, every such offender shall suffer death, or such other punishment as a court martial shall adjudge.
Art. XII. Spies, and all persons who shall come or be found in the capacity of spies, or who shall bring or deliver any seducing letter or message from an enemy or rebel, or endeavour to corrupt any person in the navy to betray his trust, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as a court martial shall adjudge.
Art. XIII. If any person in the navy shall make, or attempt to make any mutinous assembly, he shall, on conviction thereof by a court martial, suffer death; and if any person as aforesaid shall utter any seditious or mutinous words, or shall conceal or connive at any mutinous or seditious practices, or shall treat with contempt his superior, being in the execution of his office; or, being witness to any mutiny or sedition, shall not do his utmost to suppress it, he shall be punished at the discretion of a court martial.
Art. XIV. No officer or private in the navy shall disobey the lawful orders of his superior officer, or strike him, or draw, or offer to draw, or raise any weapon against him, while in the execution of the duties of his office, on pain of death, or such other punishment as a court martial shall inflict.
Art. XV. No person in the navy shall quarrel with any other person in the navy, nor use provoking or reproachful words, gestures or menaces, on pain of such punishment as a court martial shall adjudge.
Art. XVI. If any person in the navy shall desert to an enemy or rebel, he shall suffer death.
Art. XVII. If any person in the navy shall desert, or shall entice others to desert, he shall suffer death; or such other punishment as a court martial shall adjudge; and if any officer, or other person belonging to the navy, shall receive or entertain any deserter from any other vessel of the navy, knowing him to be such, and shall not, with all convenient speed, give notice of such deserter to the commander of the vessel to which he belongs, or to the commander in chief; or to the commander of the squadron, he shall on conviction thereof be cashiered, or be punished at the discretion of a court martial. All offences committed by persons belonging to the navy while on shore, shall be punished in the same manner as if they had been committed at sea.
Art. XVIII. If any person in the navy shall knowingly make or sign, or shall aid, abet, direct, or procure the making or signing of any false muster, or shall execute, or attempt, or countenance any fraud against the United States; he shall on conviction be cashiered, and rendered forever incapable of any future employment in the service of the United States, and shall forfeit all the pay and subsistence due him, and suffer such other punishment as a court martial shall inflict.
Art. XIX. If any officer, or other person in the navy, shall, through intention, negligence, or any other fault, suffer any vessel of the navy to be stranded, or run upon rocks or shoals, or hazarded, he shall suffer such punishment as a court martial shall adjudge.
Art. XX. If any person in the navy shall sleep upon his watch, or negligently perform the duty assigned him, or leave his station before regularly relieved, he shall suffer death, or such punishment as a court martial shall adjudge; or if the offender be a private, he may, at the discretion of the captain, be put in irons, or flogged not exceeding twelve lashes.
Art. XXI. The crime of murder, when committed by any officer, seaman or marine, belonging to any public ship or vessel of the United States, without the territorial jurisdiction of
the same, may be punished with death by the sentence of a court martial.
Art. XXII. The officers and privates of every ship or vessel, appointed as convoy to merchant or other vessels, shall diligently and faithfully discharge the duties of their appointment, nor shall they demand or exact any compensation for their services, nor maltreat any of the officers or crews of such merchant or other vessels, on pain of making such reparation as a court of admiralty may award, and of suffering such further punishment as a court martial shall adjudge.
Art. XXIII. If any commander or other officer shall receive, or permit to be received, on board his vessel, any goods or merchandise, other than for the sole use of his vessel, except gold, silver, or jewels, and except the goods or merchandise of vessels which may be in distress, or shipwrecked, or in imminent danger of being shipwrecked, in order to preserve them for their owner, without orders from the President of the United States, or the Navy Department, he shall, on conviction thereof, be cashiered, and be incapacitated forever afterwards for any place or office in the navy.
Art. XXIV. If any person in the navy shall waste, embezzle, or fraudulently buy, sell or receive, any ammunition, provisions, or other public stores; or if any officer or other person, shall, knowingly, permit through design, negligence or inattention, any such waste, embezzlement, sale or receipt, every such person shall forfeit all the pay and subsistence then due him, and suffer such further punishment as a court martial shall direct.
Art. XXV. If any person in the navy shall unlawfully set fire to or burn any kind of public property, not then in the possession of an enemy, pirate or rebel, he shall suffer death; And if any person shall, in any other manner, destroy such property, or shall not use his best exertions to prevent the destruction thereof by others, he shall be punished at the discretion of a court martial.
Art. XXVI. Any theft not exceeding twenty dollars, may be punished at the discretion of the captain, and above that sum, as a court martial shall direct.
Art. XXVII. If any person in the navy shall, when on shore, plunder, abuse, or maltreat any inhabitant, or injure his property in any way, he shall suffer such punishment as a court martial shall adjudge.
Art. XXVIII. Every person in the navy shall use his utmost exertions to detect, apprehend and bring to punishment, all offenders, and shall, at all times, aid and assist all persons appointed for this purpose, on pain of such punishment as a court martial shall adjudge.
Art. XXIX. Each commanding officer shall, whenever a seaman enters on board, cause an accurate entry to be made in the ship's books, of his name, time, and term of his service: and before sailing transmit to the Secretary of the Navy a complete list or muster-roll of the officers and men under his command, with the date of their entering, time and terms of their service annexed; and shall cause similar lists to be made out on the first day of every second month, to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Navy, as opportunities shall occur; accounting, in such lists or muster-rolls, for any casualties which may have taken place since the last list or muster-roll. He shall cause to be accurately minuted on the ship's books, the names of, and times at which any death or desertion may occur; and in case of death, shall take care that the purser secure all the property of the deceased, for the benefit of his legal representative or representatives. He shall cause frequent inspections to be made into the condition of the provision, and use every precaution for its preservation. He shall, whenever he orders officers and men to take charge of a prize, and proceed to the United States; and whenever officers or men are sent from his ship, for whatever cause, take care that each man be furnished with a complete statement of his account, specifying the date of his enlistment, and the period and terms of his service; which account shall be signed by the commanding officer and purser. He shall cause the rules for the government of the navy to be hung up in some public part of the ship, and read once a month to his ship's company. He shall cause a convenient place to be set apart for sick or disabled men, to which he shall have them removed, with their hammocks and bedding, when the surgeon shall so advise; and shall direct that some of the crew attend them, and keep the place clean; and if necessary, shall direct that cradles, and buckets with covers, be made for their use: And when his crew is finally paid off, he shall attend in person, or appoint a proper officer, to see that justice be done to the men, and to the United States, in the settlement of the accounts: Any commanding officer offending herein, shall be punished at the discretion of a court martial.
Art. XXX. No commanding officer shall, of his own authority, discharge a commissioned or warrant officer, nor strike nor punish him otherwise than by suspension or confinement; nor shall he, of his own authority, inflict a punishment on any private beyond twelve lashes with a cat-of-nine-tails; nor shall he suffer any wired
or other than a plain cat-of-nine-tails, to be used on board his ship; nor shall any officer, who may command by accident, or in the absence of the commanding officer (except such commander be absent for a time by leave) order or inflict any other punishment than confinement, for which he shall account on the return of such absent commanding officer. Nor shall any commanding officer receive on board any petty officers or men turned over from any other vessel to him, unless each of such officers and men produce to him an account, signed by the captain and purser of the vessel from which they came, specifying the date of such officer's or man's entry, the period and terms of service, the sums paid and the balance due him, and the quality in which he was rated on board such ship. Nor shall any commanding officer, having received any petty officer or man as aforesaid, rate him in a lower or worse station than that in which he formerly served: Any commanding officer offending herein, shall be punished at the discretion of a court martial.
Art. XXXI. Any master at arms, or other person of whom the duty of master at arms is required, who shall refuse to receive such prisoners as shall be committed to his charge, or having received them, shall suffer them to escape, or dismiss them without orders from proper authority, shall suffer in such prisoners' stead, or be punished otherwise at the discretion of a court martial.
Art. XXXII. All crimes committed by persons belonging to the navy, which are not specified in the foregoing articles, shall be punished according to the laws and customs in such cases at sea.
Art. XXXIII. All officers, not holding commissions or warrants, or who are not entitled to them, except such as are temporarily appointed to the duties of a commissioned or warrant officer, are deemed petty officers.
Art. XXXIV. Any person entitled to wages or prize money, may have the same paid to his assignee, provided the assignment be attested by the captain and purser; and in case of the assignment of wages, the power shall specify the precise time they commence. But the commander of every vessel is required to discourage his crew from selling any part of their wages or prize money, and never to attest any power of attorney, until he is satisfied that the same is not granted in consideration of money given for the purchase of wages or prize money.
NAVAL GENERAL COURTS MARTIAL.
Art. XXXV. General courts martial may be convened as often as the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Navy, or the commander in chief of the fleet, or commander of a squadron, while acting out of the United States, shall deem it necessary: Provided, That no general court martial shall consist of more than thirteen, nor less than five members; and as many officers shall be summoned on every such court as can be convened without injury to the service; so as not to exceed thirteen; and the senior officer shall always preside, the others ranking agreeably to the date of their commissions; and in no case, where it can be avoided without injury to the service, shall more than one half the members, exclusive of the President, be junior to the officer to be tried.
Art. XXXVI. Each member of the court, before proceeding to trial, shall take the following oath or affirmation, which the judge advocate, or person officiating as such, is hereby authorized to administer:
"I, A. B. do swear or affirm, that I will truly try, without prejudice or partiality, the case now depending, according to the evidence which shall come before the court, the rules for the government of the navy, and my own conscience; and that I will not by any means divulge or disclose the sentence of the court, until it shall have been approved by the proper authority; nor will I at any time divulge or disclose the vote or opinion of any particular member of the court, unless required so to do before a court of justice, in due course of law."
This oath or affirmation being duly administered, the President is authorized and required to administer the following oath or affirmation to the judge advocate, or person officiating as such:
"I, A. B. do swear or affirm, that I will keep a true record of the evidence given to, and the proceedings of this court; nor will I divulge, or by any means disclose, the sentence of the court, until it shall have been approved by the proper authority; nor will I at any time divulge or disclose the vote or opinion of any particular member of the court, unless required so to do before a court of justice, in due course of law."
Art. XXXVII. All testimony given to a general court martial shall be on oath or affirmation, which the President of the court is hereby authorized to administer; and if any person shall refuse to give his evidence as aforesaid, or shall prevaricate, or shall behave with contempt to the court, it shall and may be lawful for the court to imprison such offender at their discretion: provided that the imprisonment in no case shall exceed two months: And every person who shall commit wilful perjury on examination on oath or affirmation before such court, or who shall corruptly procure or suborn any person to commit such wilful perjury, shall and may be prosecuted, by indictment or information.

tion, in any court of justice of the United States, and shall suffer such penalties as are authorized by the laws of the United States in cases of perjury or the subornation thereof. And in every prosecution for perjury or the subornation thereof under this act, it shall be sufficient to set forth the offence charged on the defendant, without setting forth the authority by which the court was held, or the particular matters brought or intended to be brought before the said court.
Art. XXXVIII. All charges, on which an application for a general court martial is founded, shall be exhibited in writing to the proper officer, and the person demanding the court shall take care that the person accused be furnished with a true copy of the charges, with the specifications, at the time he is put under arrest, nor shall any other charge or charges, than those so exhibited, be urged against the person to be tried before the court, unless it appear to the court that intelligence of such charge had not reached the person demanding the court, when the person so to be tried was put under arrest, or that some witness material to the support of such charge, who was at that time absent, can be produced; in which case, reasonable time shall be given to the person to be tried to make his defence against such new charge. Every officer so arrested is to deliver up his sword to his commanding officer, and to confine himself to the limits assigned him, under pain of dismissal from service.
Art. XXXIX. When the proceedings of any general court martial shall have commenced, they shall not be suspended or delayed on account of the absence of any of the members, provided five or more be assembled; but the court is enjoined to sit from day to day, Sundays excepted, until sentence be given: And no member of said court shall, after the proceedings are begun, absent himself therefrom, unless in case of sickness, or orders to go on duty from a superior officer, on pain of being cashiered.
Art. XL. Whenever a court martial shall sentence any officer to be suspended, the court shall have power to suspend his pay and emoluments for the whole, or any part of the time of his suspension.
Art. XLI. All sentences of courts martial, which shall extend to the loss of life, shall require the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present; and no such sentence shall be carried into execution, until confirmed by the President of the United States; or if the trial take place out of the United States, until it be confirmed by the commander of the fleet, or squadron: All other sentences may be determined by a majority of votes, and carried into execution on confirmation of the commander of the fleet, or officer ordering the court, except such as go to the dismissal of a commissioned or warrant officer, which are first to be approved by the President of the United States.
A court martial shall not, for any one offence, exceed in punishment beyond one hundred lashes.
Art. XLII. The President of the United States, or when the trial takes place out of the United States, the commander of the fleet or squadron, shall possess full power to pardon any offence committed against these articles, after conviction, or to mitigate the punishment decreed by a court martial.
Sec. 2. Art. I. And be it further enacted , That courts of enquiry may be ordered by the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Navy, or the commander of a fleet or squadron, provided such court shall not consist of more than three members who shall be commissioned officers; and a judge advocate, or person to do duty as such; and such courts shall have power to summon witnesses, administer oaths, and punish contempt in the same manner as courts martial. But such court shall merely state facts, and not give their opinion, unless expressly required to do so in the order for convening; and the party, whose conduct shall be the subject of enquiry, shall have permission to cross examine all the witnesses.
Art. II. The proceedings of courts of enquiry shall be authenticated by the signature of the president of the court and judge advocate, and shall, in all cases not capital, or extending to the dismissal of a commissioned or warrant officer, be evidence before a court martial, provided oral testimony cannot be obtained.
Art. III. The judge advocate, or person officiating as such, shall administer to the members the following oath or affirmation:
"You do swear, or affirm, well and truly to examine and enquire according to the evidence, into the matter now before you, without partiality or prejudice."
After which, the president shall administer to the judge advocate, or person officiating as such, the following oath or affirmation:
"You do swear, or affirm, truly to record the proceedings of this court, and the evidence to be given in the case in hearing."
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That in all cases, where the crews of the ships or vessels of the United States shall be separated from their vessels, by the latter being wrecked, lost or destroyed, all the command, power, and authority, given to the officers of such ships or vessels, shall remain and be in full force as effectually as if such ship or vessel were not so wrecked, lost or destroyed, until such ship's company be regularly discharged from, or ordered again into the service, or until a court martial shall be held to enquire into the loss of such ship or vessel; and if by the evidence of the court, or other satisfactory evidence, it shall appear that all or any of the officers and men of such ship's company did their utmost to preserve her, and after the loss thereof behaved themselves agreeably to the discipline of the navy, then the pay and emoluments of such officers and men, or such of them as shall have done their duty as aforesaid, shall go on until their discharge or death; and every officer or private who shall, after the loss of such
vessel, act contrary to the discipline of the navy, shall be punished at the discretion of a court martial, in the same manner as if such vessel had not been so lost.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted , That all the pay and emoluments of such officers and men, of any of the ships or vessels of the United States taken by an enemy, who shall appear by the sentence of a court martial, or otherwise, to have done their utmost to preserve and defend their ship or vessel, and, after the taking thereof, have behaved themselves obediently to their officers, agreeably to the discipline of the navy, shall go on and be paid them until their discharge or death.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted , That the proceeds of all ships and vessels, and the goods taken on board of them, which shall be adjudged good prize, shall, when of equal or superior force to the vessel or vessels making the capture, be the sole property of the captors; and when of inferior force, shall be divided equally between the United States and the officers and men making the capture.
Sec. 6. And be it enacted , That the prize-money, belonging to the officers and men, shall be distributed in the following manner:
1. To the commanding officers of fleets, squadrons, or single ships, three twentieths, of which the commanding officer of the fleet or squadron shall have one twentieth, if the prize be taken by a ship or vessel acting under his command, and the commander of single ships, two twentieths; but where the prize is taken by a ship acting independently of such superior officer, the three twentieths shall belong to her commander.
2. To sea lieutenants, captains of marines, and sailing masters, two twentieths; but where there is a captain, without a lieutenant of marines, these officers shall be entitled to two twentieths and one third of a twentieth, which third, in such case, shall be deducted from the share of the officers mentioned in article No. 3, of this section.
3. To chaplains, lieutenants of marines, surgeons, pursers, boatswains, gunners, carpenters and masters' mates, two twentieths.
4. To midshipmen, surgeons' mates, captains' clerks, schoolmasters, boatswains' mates, gunners' mates, carpenters' mates, ships' stewards, sail-makers, masters at arms, armourers, cockswains, and coopers, three twentieths and an half.
5. To gunners' yeomen, boatswains' yeomen, quarter masters, quarter gunners, sail-makers' mates, serjeants and corporals of marines, drummers, fifers, and extra petty officers, two twentieths and an half.
6. To seamen, ordinary seamen, marines, and all other persons doing duty on board, seven twentieths.
7. Whenever one or more public ships or vessels are in fight at the time any one or more ships are taking a prize or prizes, they shall all share equally in the prize or prizes, according to the number of men and guns on board each ship in fight.
No commander of a fleet or squadron shall be entitled to receive any share of prizes taken by vessels not under his immediate command; nor of such prizes as may have been taken by ships or vessels intended to be placed under his command, before they have acted under his immediate orders; nor shall a commander of a fleet or squadron, leaving the station where he had the command, have any share in the prizes taken by ships left on such station, after he has gone out of the limits of his said command.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted , That a bounty shall be paid by the United States, of twenty dollars, for each person on board any ship of an enemy at the commencement of an engagement, which shall be sunk or destroyed by any ship or vessel belonging to the United States of equal or inferior force, the same to be divided among the officers and crew in the same manner as prize-money.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted , That every officer, seaman or marine, disabled in the line of his duty, shall be entitled to receive for life, or during his disability, a pension from the United States according to the nature and degree of his disability, not exceeding one half his monthly pay.
Sec. 9. And be it enacted , That all money accruing, or which has already accrued to the United States from the sale of prizes, shall be and remain forever a fund for the payment of pensions and half pay, should the same be hereafter granted, to the officers and seamen who may be entitled to receive the same; and if the said fund shall be insufficient for the purpose, the public faith is hereby pledged to make up the deficiency; but if it should be more than sufficient, the surplus shall be applied to the making of further provision for the comfort of the disabled officers, seamen and marines, and for such as, though not disabled, may merit by their bravery, or long and faithful services, the gratitude of their country.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted , That the said fund shall be under the management and direction of the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of War, for the time being, who are hereby authorized to receive any sums to which the United States may be entitled from the sale of prizes, and employ and invest the same, and the interest arising therefrom, in any manner which a majority of them may deem most advantageous: And it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to lay before Congress, annually, in the first week of their session, a minute statement of their proceedings relative to the management of said fund.
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted , That the act passed the second day of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, entitled, "An act for the government of the navy of the United States," from and after the
first day of June next, shall be and hereby is repealed.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED—April 23d, 1800. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States.
Foreign Intelligence.
By an arrival at New-York from London.
VIENNA, May 12.
FROM Corsica we learn, that the inhabitants have refused to give the assistance demanded by Massena, and that the whole of that island is in insurrection against the French.
May 14. [After the particulars of the defeat of the Turkish Grand Vizier, in Egypt, by Gen. Kleber, on the 17th and 18th of March, at the moment when he was preparing for his solemn entry into Cairo, with 20,000 men; the Vienna Gazette adds,]
The cavalry having effected their escape, to the camp of Osman Pacha, this Lieutenant of the Grand Vizier soon after marched towards Cairo, with a long body of troops, where he massacred several thousand French, amongst whom were their learned men (Scavans) and members of the National Institute. These accounts were communicated by the Turkish Ambassador to the Foreign ministers. It is added, that Murad Bey attacked and put to the sword a division of the French army, which had marched from Cairo, for Alexandria, to embark for France previous to the attack made by General Kleber on the army of the Grand Vizier, and to which he had been particularly instigated by that circumstance.
War operations on the Lower Rhine.
MANHEIM, May 14.
This morning the French crossed the Rhine, near Sandhofen, and attacked the Austrians at Neckar. Our city was immediately invested, and the following capitulation agreed upon:—That on account of the able defence of the Imperial troops, they shall march out without being prisoners of war: That property, the civil administration and religion shall be respected and continued in force: That considering the disasters which Mannheim has suffered during the war, it shall remain free of contributions. The offer of supplying the army with 500 shirts, and 500 pair of shoes is accepted, and must be fulfilled this day. The money belonging to the Elector shall be delivered into the treasury of the army, to be receipted for. Signed, by the French General Thune.
War from Switzerland.
St. Gall, May 13. The French entered Bregenz, the 10th inst. Bregenz is on the lake of Constance, in the Tyrol country.
Of Malta.
TOULON, May 6.
We have advices from Malta in 17 days. Valletta is only blockaded. The French have 4000 men in a condition for service, besides Maltese; and have subsistence for four months. The place is blockaded by sea, by twenty-seven ships of war.
DOUBLET, Commissioner of Malta, to BUONAPARTE.
Malta, 20th Ventose, (9th of March.)
"CITIZEN CONSUL,
"Remaining for more than a year without receiving from the government any answer to my dispatches, I have doubts respecting the fate of the Republic, because you were no longer in Italy. But as soon as I knew of your return to Toulon I exclaimed "the Republic is saved!" My love for my country, and my admiration for you, inspired me with the idea. Yes, you will verify the prediction, for all true Republicans repeat with joy that Buonaparte will save and secure the Republic.—His name inspires the brave defenders of Malta with fresh courage.—We have arms and provisions. The acquisition of the island to France, is sufficient to give us confidence.
"Health and respect, (Signed) "DOUBLET."
PARIS, May 30.
An American frigate, placed by the government of the United States at the disposal of their ministers plenipotentiary, has entered the Road of Havre. A French pilot was sent on board to conduct her into the harbour; but as late as the 24th she remained in her former anchorage.
June 1. We are assured that the negotiations with the ministers of the United States of America, at Paris, are rapidly advancing to an amicable conclusion.
The Council for deciding on prize causes, yesterday ordered the American ship Pigou, taken by the Cocarde and Bravoure, to be restored with cost.
STRASBURGH, May 24.
The Austrians have evacuated the Grisons; Coire, Feldkirch, Bregenz and Lindau are in our hands. A letter from Augsburg states, that on the 18th a courier from Vienna passed that way on his route to Paris. He was supposed to be charged with pacific dispatches.
HULL, May 15.
Near 40 sail of ships have arrived within the last fortnight, from foreign ports, laden wholly, or in part, with corn for this port, which has considerably reduced the price. Animal food has fallen in proportion.
Domestic Articles.
BALTIMORE, July 17.
We yesterday mentioned that five persons had been committed to prison, on suspicion, of being a part of the gang of depredators who have for some time infested our city. The following particulars respecting those daring violators of the laws are taken from the American: "On Tuesday evening a most daring and villainous plot was discovered at Fell's Point, to commit robberies to a very great amount on several warehouses at that end of the city. Such of the particulars as I have been able to collect, are nearly as follows:
"A party consisting of about eight persons, whose characters stood very fair in society, had concerted a plan to open, by means of false keys, the stores of captain James Bays, and those under the care of W. L. Nickol, and to rifle them of their contents, consisting of West-India and dry goods to a very large amount. This plan was so well arranged, that the party chartered two bay crafts of about 30 tons each, for the purpose of conveying the goods to Norfolk—one of the vessels was loaded in the above manner, and set sail; the skipper of the other gave information to captain Bays, as that he was enabled, by the assistance of his fellow-citizens, to secure the thieves, and commit 4 of them to prison.
"A dispatch boat was immediately sent in quest of the one which had sailed, and last evening she was momentarily expected to be brought back, with her illegal cargo.
"From a regard to the feelings of the connections of those who are committed on the above business, I forbear to mention their names—they have all moved in a respectable sphere in life, and will no doubt meet a sufficient punishment for so violent a breach of the laws of society, and common honesty."
PHILADELPHIA, July 22.
A letter from an officer on board the frigate Philadelphia, captain Decatur, announces the capture of a valuable American vessel.
The 7th ult. the United States Schooner Experiment, Capt. Maley, of 12 guns, arrived at Wilmington, N. C. Capt. Maley informed the Custom House Officer there, that during his cruise he had taken 13 prizes.
LOOK OUT.
Captain Boyer, of the brig Polly, arrived at New-York on Saturday from New Providence, informs, that on the 8th of July, in lat. 27, long. 74, he was boarded by the British ship Thunderer, captain Hardy, who said he had information of two French privateer brigs, one cruising off Cape Henlopen, and the other off Charleston, for which place captain H. was steering.
HORRID. Information has been received at Kingston, Jamaica, by L'Amirante, that there were laying in Miraguane harbour 12 or 13 sail of American vessels without a soul on board. Their commanders and crews, it was feared had been murdered by Rigaud and his sanguinary adherents.
NEW-YORK, July 23.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Patrick Tagert, to Andrew Elliott, Esq. dated Coweta Tallahassee, Creek Nation, June 11, 1800.
"St. Marks was surrendered to Bowles the 20th of May last, and by the articles of capitulation between him and the commandant, the latter was permitted to march out, and with difficulty got an escort to see him and his men safe out of the Bay. During the siege, Bowles captured two or three vessels laden with provisions and other stores for the use of the fort, just as they had arrived.
"Since Gen. Bowles got possession of St. Marks, the Indians are flocking to his standard from every quarter—even the prince of this town, immediately after the Colonel had gone to the talks at the Tookawbatchees, started down to the mischief-maker, with many others of the Tallassees, Cufetahs, &c. &c.
"The Colonel arrived here the night before last from the Tookawbatchees; the chiefs there have taken his talks, and have promised to hold their warriors in readiness to go with him at his call, and aid him with all their might in restoring peace to the nation, reducing the Seminoles and others to obedience, and expelling or taking every mischief-maker that comes into their land.
"Bowles' next design is suspected to be against Pensacola, as he has now got not only a strong force, but plenty of provisions and other stores."
* Colonel Hawkins, agent-general for the United States.
Fort St. Marks is situated on a point of land formed by the junction of the Apalachicola and another river about the same size, and insulated by a deep wet ditch, joining the rivers. The fort is built of hewn stone; the walls are nearly 20 feet high, and defended by twenty pieces of ordnance. It was formerly a place of considerable importance, and the residence of some of the Spanish governors; but has been on the decline ever since the Floridas were ceded to Great Britain by the peace of 1763. On account of the shoals, and numerous oyster banks in the bay and river, it is not considered as a good seaport, but is advantageously situated for the Indian trade.
July 24.
Capt. Cooley, arrived yesterday from St. Vincent, informs, that previous to his sailing, the U. S. frigate Constellation had sent in there a French privateer, and he left her in chase of a French brig, of 14 guns.
The British letter of marque ships, Fanny and Nisus, part of the St. Vincent's fleet, foundered at sea, while beating between there and St. Kitts, having on board valuable cargoes. The crews were saved by the Scourge sloop of war.

SALEM, July 24. A letter from captain Richard Gardner, of the ship Hazard, of this port, dated Teneriffe, May 27, informs: That he has seen and conversed with the captain of a French national brig, which had been chased in there, direct from Brest, bound to the Isle of France—who informed, that peace had been concluded between France and America—that the American flag was flying at Brest—that his orders were particular not to interrupt unarmed neutrals, i. e. vessels without commissions, and positive, not to molest any American ship whatever—and that prize vessels had been purchased up by the Americans at the different ports in France, in order it was supposed to come home in. This intelligence the French captain testified in the presence of the new French Consul (who captain Gardner speaks of in respectful terms) to be the truth—and the Consul affixed the Seal of the Republic to the declaration, and gave it to captain Gardner. The brig left Brest about the last of April, or the first of May, and was bound to the Isle of France with new Commissioners and Dispatches from the First Consul, which the Commissioners assured Capt. G. (on their honour) contained declarations of peace and good will towards the American flag. Capt. Gardner adds, I am really inclined to think it is peace.
BOSTON, July 22. On Friday last a carter was convicted by a verdict of the jury of the Municipal Court in this town, of cruelly beating and killing a horse in Bowdoin's Square, to the injury of the humane feelings of all the citizens there inhabiting and passing. He was sentenced to pay a fine of ten dollars, with cost of prosecution. July 24. On Tuesday last arrived here from her station off the West-Indies, the United States frigate Boston, George Little, Esq. commander. To the vigilance and naval skill of this able and meritorious officer, is to be attributed the excellent order in which the ship is returned to port, after an absence of twelve months, the general health of the seamen, and the success which has attended her cruise. The crew, we understand, are immediately to be paid off, and the vessel put to sea again with all possible dispatch.
July 26. The warlike operations of Bowles have occasioned great alarm in the Spanish colony of East-Florida.—The castle of St. Marks, which he has taken from the Spaniards, was a regular stone-built fortification, and supposed capable of withstanding the assaults of all the Indian tribes. The Creeks are said to be flocking to Bowles's standard in great numbers.—We doubt not if this last particular should be authentic, and it should infringe on the treaty between the United States and Spain, the Executive will immediately direct measures for the rigid observance of the stipulations of that treaty.
A Hint to the Underwriters at LLOYD's. The second day after the English fleet left St. Vincent's, under convoy of the Scourge sloop of war, the weather being very fine, two large ships, the Nereus, of 600 tons, Gill, of Liverpool; and the Fanny, of 700 tons, Brookbank, of London, deeply laden with sugar, cotton and rum, both went down, and only the crews saved. Also a brig sunk at her anchors at Tortola, belonging to the same fleet. Several American captains offered their assistance to the mate (the captain not being on board) who refused their offer, telling them he knew what he was about. The crew of the brig decided the mate for scuttling her while they were at work forward, by which means they had lost all their clothes. The mate refused to give to the American captains the name of the brig, or the commander; nor would he allow them to save any thing from the vessel.
By last Evening's Mail. Latest Foreign Intelligence. From the BOSTON MERCURY. We have received a paper and letter from Halifax, of the 17th inst. which contains the following items of Foreign Intelligence, received by the June Packet arrived there.
From the HALIFAX JOURNAL , of July 17. We have stopped the press to mention the arrival of the Earl of Leicester Packet, from Falmouth in 35 days. We have papers by her to the tenth ult.—Genoa still held out.—The French army having crossed the Alps, had reached the plains of Piedmont on the 18th of May.—Gen. Melas had advanced with the main body of his army to Turin, and it was expected that a general engagement would take place in a few days, which would decide the fate of Italy.—The Austrian army under Gen. Kray, had retired behind the Danube, after leaving a garrison in Ulm, and Gen. Moreau did not discover a disposition to advance further into Germany, but was detaching a part of his army to Italy. The renewal of hostilities in Egypt is confirmed by official advice received by government.—A report prevailed that the French fleet was at sea, and this report was confirmed by an American vessel which the Earl of Leicester fell in with, the master of which reported that he had fallen in with a Venetian, which came through them.—If this intelligence is true, we have no doubt but our brave tars will soon give a good account of them. The treaty between France and America, was progressing fast, and it was expected would in a very short time be finally concluded.
The following articles are extracted from the London Papers. LONDON, June 10. Gen. Melas, as we had previously observed, appears to have had early information of the progress of Generals Berthier and Buonaparte. He was to proceed to Turin the 14th of last
month, in considerable force, and having effected a junction with the Austrian cavalry near that place, it was expected that he would immediately prosecute offensive operations against the enemy in Piedmont.
Massena still makes a gallant defence in Genoa, and the hopes of the speedy reduction of that important city becomes every day less sanguine, more particularly as the French have received large supplies of provisions by sea.
The death or Suwarrows has at length been officially announced to our government. It happened on the 18th of May, at Peterburgh.
The Russian Ambassador at Vienna has been recalled. The affairs of the Imperial court are in future to be conducted by a charge des affaires, the same as in this country. The Emperor Paul is said to be negotiating a peace with the French republic, through the medium of the court of Berlin.
FRANKFORT, May 24. Yesterday several German deputies passed through Nancy, with passports from General Moreau, on their way to Paris, to enter into negotiations for peace.
Letter from Halifax, July 17. On the 10th of May, the channel fleet under Lord St. Vincent, put into Torbay in distress; several of the ships dismasted, and otherwise materially injured. This gave the combined fleets an opportunity to leave Brest, which 'tis said they embraced, and actually failed. On the 27th of May Lord St. Vincent, with as many ships as could be got ready, and several others that had joined him, put to sea in quest of the enemy. Should they meet the consequence is obvious. The Duke of Kent leaves this place in a short time, being, as we have just learnt by the packet, appointed Commander in Chief of the army in Ireland. The captain of the packet reports, that Genoa is actually relieved; but we do not find this report authenticated—it is, however, more than probable. Royalism is said, in the late papers, to gain ground fast in Paris—but whether in favor of Louis XVIIIth or King Buonaparte, is perhaps problematical.
PROVIDENCE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30. On Monday last the citizens of this town were highly gratified with a sight of the valuable ship Reliance entering our harbour; she had been for many days anxiously looked for, and at length has returned safe, after a tedious passage of six months and two days from Canton. Off the Cape of Good Hope, May 20, she fell in with the Sampson, of New-York, which sailed in company with her from China, all well. Left at Canton the ship Ann and Hope, Bentley, of this port, to sail in five or six weeks. Mr. William F. Magee, merchant, and part owner of the Reliance, has returned in good health; on coming too, the ship fired a very handsome salute.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman on board the ship Ann and Hope, Capt. Bentley, of this port, dated Whampoa (Canton Bay) January 20, 1800. Nothing remarkable occurred in our passage to the line. We had light, flattering, variable winds from the westward to the latitude of 30 N. when we took the N. E. trade wind, and crossed the tropic of Cancer, from which to the equator we had moderate breezes, though sometimes squally rainy weather. On the 9th of October we were up with the longitude of the Cape of Good Hope, though nearly 8 degrees to the southward of it. Here we met a very heavy gale from the S. E. the severity of which continued about 24 hours. Few vessels double this cape without a bruise, and it is with reason that the Portuguese call it Cape-Tormentos; but the Ann and Hope being a strong well built vessel, sustains these conflicts of the elements exceedingly well, this being the first time she ever lay too for any gale. On the 10th of November we were up with the South Cape of New-Holland, being then only 91 days from port. At sunset the same day we made Maria Islands, when we hauled to the N. E. having cleared the land, and entered the Pacific Ocean.
"In taking the easternmost route to China, agreeably to orders, we did not find so open a sea as was expected. On the 5th of December, in lat. 19 S. long. 177 30 E. at day-break, saw the land on our starboard beam, bearing E. which surprised us, our charts laying down no land in this quarter. We coasted along 123 miles in a N. W. course, and saw, as we judged, more than 30 different islands. These I suppose must be the north-westernmost of the Friendly Islands, which were described to Capt. Cook, when he was at Tongataboo and Anamooka, as lying about 500 miles in a N. W. direction. The natives called them Hamoa, Vavaoo, and Teejee. Capt. Cook did not proceed to explore them, and it is probable that we are the first whites who have seen them. They appear to be well cultivated, and laid out in regular plantations. We saw none of the natives, but observed frequent smokes as we failed along the coast. From the second island there is a dangerous reef, extending 3 or 4 miles into the sea. How many islands to the southward of these we passed in the night I cannot say, but making the first land on the beam, gave reason to suppose more to the southward. Had we fallen in with the land 15 miles further eastward, or had not the wind abated that night, it might have proved fatal to us, by carrying us on the reef. From the latitude of 19 S. to 10 N. we were entangled by land and shoals, and our chart having deceived us, we could place no reliance on it. The nights were excessively dark, and in some instances the course we steered must have precipitated us on the reefs or shore; but the Deity, who regards the lives of
the meanest of his creatures, tempered the winds contrary to our vain wishes; and at the dawn, when we surveyed the dangers we had escaped in the night, our sense of his wisdom and goodness was increased. We saw more islands to the northward, between the track of the Scarborough and the Caroline Islands, amounting to upwards of fifty. January 6, at 8 P. M. we made the island of Saypan, shortly after Tinian and Aguijan. On the 15th we entered the Chinese Sea, and on the 18th anchored in the road of Macao.
A Capt. Gardner, who ran away some years since with a vessel belonging to John Brown, Esq. has been murdered by the Malays off Borneo. They stabbed him in his cabin while trading with them. The vessel, after the officers were cut off, for want of a navigator, was wrecked on a reef; the remaining crew all perished, except four men, who were saved by the vessel in which Gardner left Providence. Our landlord at Macao gave me this information, and I have no reason to doubt his veracity."
The ship Charlotte, Capt. Morgan, of this port, has arrived safe at Amsterdam. On her passage, in the English Channel, spoke two frigates, French and English, was treated politely by both, and suffered no loss.
It is said a handbill was published at New-York, on Thursday last, which contained news, received via Lisbon and St. Bartholomews, that Buonaparte had attacked and defeated the Austrians before Genoa, destroying three fourths of the army; and that Gen. Moreau had obtained another victory over the Austrian Gen. Kray, in Germany. [Bost. Mercury.]
OFFICIAL. Extract of a letter from Capt. William Cowper, of the United States ship Baltimore, to the Secretary of the Navy, dated at sea, June 24, 1800. "On the 21st inst. I captured the French ship Manuel, with a cargo of sugar and dye-wood, and have sent her for Norfolk. "On the 15th I recaptured the American schooner Jolly Robbin, of Rhode-Island, and sent her for St. Kitts, where she arrived safe."
A RECEIPT to make a JACOBIN. Take the herbs of hypocrisy, and the roots of ambition, six ounces, and two ounces of pride and vain glory; bruise them in the mortar of contention and discord; boil them over the fire of sedition, until you observe the scum of falsehood swim on the top; strain it through the cloth of rebellion, put it in the bottle of envy, and stop it close with the cork of malice; make it into pills of conspiracy, of which take two when going to bed.—They will set the blood in a state of fermentation, and you will find a comfortable evacuation by curling the President of the United States, and all others of the legislative body, except those of your own stamp. It will take such an effect, that you will think of nothing but to cheat and slander your neighbour—to deny the Christian religion—to establish despotism, curse bishops, behead kings, and set knaves and convicts to rule the nation. By an eminent Political Doctor.
Capt. Khron, of the Hamburg ship Johanna, arrived at Charleston from Lisbon, in 38 days, relates, that two or three days before he failed, the English frigate Flora arrived there, and gave the information of an engagement having taken place, off Cape Finisterre, between a United States ship and a French 45 gun frigate, which continued three hours, and ended in the capture of the latter; and ordering her for Falmouth, in England.
The armed schooner Experiment, Capt. Maley, in the service of the United States, has taken and sent into the Havannah the sloop Betsey, Capt. Munro, belonging to Charleston, S. C. from the coast of Africa, bound to the Havannah, near which port she was taken, with 80 prime slaves on board. We are informed that they consist principally of boys and girls, in good health, and were intended for sale at the Havannah.
It is not yet known what will be done with these unfortunate people, as the law, contemplating that the heavy penalties it imposes on those engaged in this inhuman traffic would effectually put a stop to it, makes no provision for the wretched strangers, after they shall be brought to the United States.
We are sorry to add, from good authority, that great numbers of vessels from different ports of the United States are constantly engaged in this barbarous employment; and that it will require the utmost vigilance of government to abolish a practice so disgraceful to our country. Mr. John Shaw, who is the bearer of dispatches to our government from Tunis, arrived at Philadelphia on Thursday evening last, in the ship Liberty, from Lisbon. He arrived at Lisbon the 21st of May, after having been driven by stress of weather into several ports of Sicily and Malta, and brings the following articles of intelligence:
"The government of Algiers is well affected towards the United States; but the Tunisians have been very impatient for the arrival of the stipulated military stores. Mr. Eaton, our consul there, has, however, prevailed upon them to wait some time longer; and the desire the Bey's minister has expressed of obtaining American bottoms to convey grain to Spain, has been an additional motive to this measure."
"Though all the states of Barbary (except Morocco) are at war with France, yet the French merchants resident in Tunis have not been made slaves of, as in Algiers, but are permitted to reside in the factory, in full possession of their property. They are not, however, permitted to go out of the factory."
A school for the tuition of black children has been opened at Philadelphia, under the immediate care and inspection of the committee of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. To every
institution of this kind, which has for its object the improvement and amelioration of the condition of the unfortunate blacks, we most cordially wish success.
On the 23rd of June, the Baltimore sloop of war appeared off St. Thomas's, with a large ship in tow, which proved to be a French corvette. The corvette had incautiously borne down on the Baltimore, and after a smart action was captured by her. Both vessels appeared much battered.
The Mercure de France, a well-known periodical work, literary and political, which had existed for upwards of a century, having been suspended since the revolution, is about to be resumed. Lucien Buonaparte, the minister of the interior, has sent round the prospectus to all the departments, recommending it to patronage. The language of it is very remarkable, as forming so great a contrast to what we have seen prevalent, and patronized by the governments, at least in the latter times of the revolution. In the literary department it says the object is, "To destroy, in modern sentiments and stile, the traces of that barbarism which the influence of the 18th Brumaire daily wipes away from our revolutionary laws." In the historical part, the greatest fidelity is promised; and it is added, "The conduct of the governments of Europe will sometimes be criticised in this Historical Register, but they shall never be insulted."
"It shall be the business of the authors to seek, in the manners of France, and in the respectful observances recognized by European diplomacy, all those generous ideas, and that character of stile, which, by softening men's minds, may accelerate the great work of peace."
Within a few days past several persons have been punished agreeably to law for insulting legs in the streets. Our laws are adequate to the correction of almost every evil to which a town is liable, if duly enforced. [Bost. Mercury.]
During the violent thunder storm on Friday night, Capt. Meek had three men struck with lightning on the main-topgallant yard; one of them had the heel of his shoe taken off, and no other damage done. [Salem paper.]
DIED. In this town, Mrs. Chaffee, consort of Mr. Amos Chaffee. At Johnston, Miss Rebecca Leland, daughter of Mr. Jesse Leland, in the 23rd year of her age. At Philadelphia, Mr. Jesse Eddy, Shipwright, of this town, in the 30th year of his age.
Rhode-Island District.
BY virtue of a warrant from the Hon. BENJAMIN BOURNE, Esq. Judge of the District Court for Rhode-Island District, notice is hereby given, that there will be held at Public Auction in Newport, on the thirty-first day of July inst. at ten o'clock in the forenoon; a quantity of damaged Cieling Plank, for the benefit of the owners and all concerned in the ship Semiramis, Benjamin Pierce, late master. W. PECK, Marshal.
July 30. New Apothecary Store.
Drugs; Medicines, Dye-Stuffs and Painters' Colours. A general assortment for SALE, by Samuel Brown,
A little north of the State-House, and opposite Governor Sessions', the following really genuine patent Medicines, viz.
BEST stamp'd An- derdon's Pills Common do. Turlington's Balsam of Life Hooper's Pills Daffy's Elixir Bateman's Drops Kennedy's Corn-Plaster True English Essence of Peppermint Cephalic Snuff Godfrey's Cordial Cundell's Balsam of Honey British Oil Grenough's Tincture for the Teeth and Gums Hopwood's Dentifrice A great variety of Pungent Smelling Bottles, &c.
DYE-STUFFS. Oil of Vitriol Blue Vitriol Copperas Allum Logwood Redwood Indigo Borax, &c.
PAINTERS' COLOURS. White Lead Flake White Spanish White Stone Yellow Spanish Yellow Patent Yellow Copal and Chair Varnish Blue Verdeter Prussian Blue, No. 1 and 2 Powder'd Blue Verdigrise Umber Rose-Pink Hair Pencils Gold, Silver and Brass Leaf, &c.
The above articles are recommended to be of the best quality, as they are imported directly from the manufactory. They will be sold on terms the most moderate, and the smallest favours gratefully received.
N. B. Said Brown executes ornamental PAINTING and GILDING, of various kinds, with accuracy and attention. July 30.
To be sold at Public Vendue, TO-MORROW, at JOSEPH TILLINGHAST'S Wharf.
THE Schooner OLIVE BRANCH, 76 tons burthen, and her appurtenances. Also, at the same time and place, 6 hogheads of Carolina Tobacco, 4 barrels of prime Beef, 4 barrels of prime Pork, 10 barrels of Pilot Bread, with sundry other articles. Sale to begin at ten o'clock, A. M. when conditions will be made known. July 30.

Selected Poetry.
From J. RUSSELL'S GAZETTE.
MONODY.
N EAR where yon streamlet slowly finds With pebbly noise its silver way, And swift his horn the beetle winds To swell the dirge of closing day;
While many a flower of earliest spring Round the light greenfward bending creeps, And many an insect's glossy wing Slow circles o'er the humming steeps;
There rests the hamlet's native pride, The fairest maid, that deck'd the green; In foul to heaven alone allied, In form a grace, a love in mein.
Oh, she was gentle as the air That plays on summer's tranquil breeze; A heart so kind to every care Warms but the tender turtle's nest.
Her voice was softer than the lyre, That steals each echo from the breeze; Her eye, the blue of melting fire, That wins ere once it seems to please.
Oft, when the wild gust shook the leaf, Her pipe its mellow notes would pour, So sad, so soft, in virgin grief— So soft, so sad, it swells no more!
Nor more, as wont, at vernal wake, They dance the hayes with merry strain; But sighs from every bosom break To mourn the loss of holy Jane.
And while at eve the hoary swain Recounts the tale to infant ears, They seek the grave of hapless Jane, And turn their ready sports to tears.
Oft do the village maids repair In dumb distress to kneel and weep, To strew the rue and primrose there, And hymn her gentle sprite to sleep.
Pause then, sweet stranger, in this spot, And give her worth a parting sigh; So may thy grave ne'er be forgot, When the born pilgrim passes nigh.
HENRY.
Just arrived from Lisbon,
AND FOR SALE BY
Benjamin & Edward Aborn,
At their Store near the Long Wharf,
100 Boxes of fresh LEMONS, and
a cargo of clean white Lisbon SALT.
They have likewise for Sale,
A cargo of good retailing MOLASSES, from Antigua, and one puncheon of RUM which are offered for sale on reasonable terms.
July 23.
NEW FLOUR.
Just received, and for Sale by
Butler and Wheaton,
Cargo of superfine and fine FLOUR, of an excellent quality
Pilot and Ship Bread
Also for Sale,
 Georgia Tobacco  Spermaceti Candles  Feather Beds  Cordage assorted  Russia Duck  Russia Sheetings  Havannah white Sugar  Molasses 
July 23.
Benjamin Thurber
Has removed to his new Store, next house south of Darius Sessions, Esqrs. at the old sign of the Bunch of Grapes; where he has for sale, a fresh assortment of fashionable new Goods, cheap for cash.
AMONG THEM ARE,
 A VARIETY of fancy Patches.  Chintzes and Calicoes, such as must suit those who will call and see them; English and India Satins, Lustings, Silks for Bonnets, Silk Shawls of different colours, Silk and Kid Gloves, Bengals, Crapes, Tambour Mullins, Lappets, Mullinets, Dimities, fashionable Ribbons, Umbrellas, Window-Blinds, a large assortment of black and white Laces, Mullin Handkerchiefs, Cotton Shawls, Dunstable Hats and Straw Trimmings, Morocco and Florentine shoes, House Paper, Bohemia Tea by the dozen, French and Spanish Flute Indigo, warranted good; Durants, Moreens, Russells, London Pewter, Looking-Glasses, China and Delft Ware, with other articles too numerous to mention, at a small advance for cash. 
All are invited to come and see for themselves, as the articles are too numerous to be mentioned in an advertisement. July 21. (8w.)
NOTICE.
ALL persons having any demands against the estate of Dr. NICHOLAS COOKE, late of Warwick, deceased, are requested to exhibit their claims within six months; and all those indebted to said estate, are likewise requested to make immediate payment.
ELIZABETH GOOKE, Administratrix. July 16.
Notice.
THE underwritten request such persons in this State, and its vicinity, as may be disposed to become members of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company , soon to be organized in this town, to call at the office of Mr. JOS. LAWRENCE, Insurance Broker, and add their names to the catalogue already engaged, so as to assist in completing the Constitution (a sketch of which is published in the Providence Journal of the 23d of July instant) and establish an Institution which promises so much security and advantage to the town and country.
 JOHN PITMAN,  JOHN F. SHELTON,  SAMUEL THURBER, jun.  JOHN CARLILE,  WILLIAM JONES,  JOSEPH JENCKES,  ISAAC PITMAN,  PARIS JENCKES TILLINGHAST,  JOHN MUMFORD,  HENRY SMITH,  JEREMIAH BROWN HOWELL,  NATHAN WATERMAN. 
July 23.
For Sale,
(Now on the Stocks)
A VESSEL of the following dimensions, viz— 56 feet keel, 21 feet beam, 10 1/2 do. hold, and can be delivered in the month of September next. Said vessel is built of the best materials, and the workmanship is equal to that of any vessel whatever. Any person wishing to purchase, may know the terms by applying to GEORGE ROBINSON, at Pawtucket, North Providence:
Who has for Sale,
All kinds of SHIP TIMBER and SHIP PLANK, which will be delivered at the shortest notice.
July 23.
To be Let,
And entered upon immediately, THREE CHAMBERS, making a convenient tenement for a small family; situated on the plain near India-Point. For terms, enquire of BETSY WINMAN, or the subscriber. STEPHEN THURBER. July 23.
For SALE, by
Brown and Ives,
 40 Hogheads of Carolina Tobacco, of a very good quality  23 Barrels of Mels, and 22 Barrels of Prime Pork  6 Casks of Bohemia Tea  25 Tons of St. Petersburg clean Hemp  80 Pieces of Russia Duck and Sheetings  25 Boxes of Spermaceti Candles  3 Pipes 4th Proof French Brandy  20 Tons of Java Sugar  40,000 lb. of Java Coffee 
July 16.
Rhode-Island District.
BY virtue of a warrant from the Hon. BENJAMIN BOURN, Esq. Judge of the District Court for the District of Rhode-Island, there will be exposed for sale at Public Auction, on Friday the first day of August next, at twelve o'clock at noon, the snow Fair Eliza, as she now lies at Capt. Charles D'Wolf's Wharf, in Bristol; said snow having been decreed forfeit, at a special District Court, held at Bristol, within said District, for having been employed in transporting slaves from the coast of Africa to the West-Indies, contrary to law. July 16. W. PECK, Marshal.
THEODORE FOSTER, and THEODORE ADELPHIDOS FOSTER, HIS NEPHEW,
INFORM their friends and the public that they have opened an OFFICE, in Westminster-Street, on the west side of the river, in Providence, opposite the Dwelling-House of the former, for transacting all kinds of business pertaining to THE PROFESSION OF THE LAW, where every species of legal Writing, used in Conveyancing, and in Commerce, are executed with neatness, accuracy, fidelity and dispatch, in the appropriate forms of Law, on reasonable terms, and warranted to answer the purposes intended by the parties.
Persons wishing to buy or to sell Houses and Lands, in any part of the state, or its vicinity, by leaving a notice thereof at their office, may have their business transacted, as at the LAND OFFICES, or marts of real Property, in the Southern States, where sellers and purchasers apply, and reciprocally give and receive information, mutually beneficial, with the least trouble and with little expence.
There are many persons in the Northern States entitled to MILITARY BOUNTY LAND, not yet located. They are informed, that by applying at the above mentioned office, they may see a Plat of the country appropriated for satisfying their claims; and on giving the necessary powers may have their lands located in the best and most expeditious manner, pursuant to the last act of Congress respecting this business. The time limited for bringing in claims is the 1st day of January next, and as those who first locate have their choice of the country, the earlier applications are made the more beneficial will it be for the proprietors.
All kinds of STAMPED PAPER may be had at their office, where constant attendance is given.
THEODORE FOSTER, THEODORE ADELPHIDOS FOSTER. July 16.
BY AUTHORITY.
WHEREAS, by an act of Congress passed on the seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, the President of the United States is authorized to borrow, on behalf of the United States, from the Bank of the United States, or from any other body or bodies politic or corporate, or from any person or persons, and upon such terms and conditions as he shall judge most advantageous for the United States, a sum not exceeding three millions five hundred thousand dollars, so, however, that no contract or engagement be made, which shall preclude the United States from reimbursing any sum or sums borrowed, at any time after the expiration of fifteen years from the date of such loan. AND WHEREAS it is declared by said act, that so much as may be necessary of the surplus of the duties on imports and tonnage, beyond the permanent appropriations heretofore charged upon them by law, shall be pledged and appropriated for paying the interest; and also for paying and discharging the principal sum or sums of all the monies which may be borrowed according to the terms which may be fixed pursuant to the authority aforesaid. AND WHEREAS by the said act the faith of the United States is pledged to establish sufficient permanent revenues for making up any deficiency that may hereafter appear in the provisions before mentioned for paying the interest and principal sums, or either of them, or any monies which may be borrowed pursuant to the said act. AND WHEREAS the President of the United States did, by an act or commission under his hand, dated the seventeenth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred, authorize and empower the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow, on behalf of the United States, any sum not exceeding in the whole three millions five hundred thousand dollars, and to make such contract or contracts as should be necessary, and for the interest of the United States, in pursuance of the act of Congress above recited.
NOW THEREFORE, the undersigned Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of the act of Congress and the authority of the President of the United States above mentioned, doth hereby, on behalf of the United States of America, contract and engage in manner following, to wit:
1st. There shall be created a funded capital stock, to an amount hereafter to be designated by the said Secretary, but not exceeding three millions five hundred thousand dollars, which capital stock shall be divisible into shares of one hundred dollars each, bearing interest at eight per centum per annum, payable quarter yearly at the Treasury of the United States, or at the loan-offices where the said stock may stand credited, until the last day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and eight.
2d. After the last day of December, in the said year one thousand eight hundred and eight, and after reasonable notice to the creditors, which shall be given by an advertisement in some public newspaper printed at the seat of the government of the United States, the said capital stock shall be redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, by the reimbursement of the whole sum or sums borrowed, and which may constitute the said capital stock, either at the Treasury of the United States, or at the loan-offices where the same may stand credited.
3d. The credits for the said capital stock shall and may be separately certified in sums either for one hundred, four hundred, one thousand, four thousand, or ten thousand dollars, and the credits so certified shall be transferable by the creditors, or their attorneys, at the Treasury and loan-offices respectively, in pursuance of the rules which have been or which may be established relative to the transfer of the funded stock of the United States.
4th. A sufficient sum of the surplus duties on imports and tonnage beyond the permanent appropriations heretofore charged upon them by law—together with the faith of the United States, are hereby pledged for the fulfilment of this contract, in pursuance of, and according to the terms and conditions of the act of Congress herein before recited.
GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of the Treasury of the United States, at Philadelphia, this second day of June, one thousand eight hundred, and of the independence the twenty-fourth.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
BANK of the UNITED STATES,
June 21, 1800.
PROPOSALS will be received until the last day of July next, inclusive, at the Bank of the United States, and the Offices of Discount and Deposit at Boston, New-York, Baltimore, Norfolk and Charleston, for the purchase of one million, and five hundred thousand dollars of Stock, directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to be issued in pursuance of the above mentioned contract. The proposals most advantageous to the United States will be accepted, but no Stock will be issued at less than five per centum advance, or one hundred and five dollars in money for one hundred dollars in Stock. In case the sums specified in similar proposals shall exceed the amount of Stock offered for sale at the places above mentioned, they will be accepted, subject to a proportional deduction.
G. SIMPSON, Cashier.
STRAYED or stolen from the Subscriber, on Monday the 7th inst. from the pasture of Mr. Jacob Greene, in Coventry, a bay MARE, 7 years old—both of her hind feet and one of her fore feet white—a natural trotter, has a white face, and is square dock'd.—Whoever will take up said Mare, and return her to Mr. Nathaniel Weatherby's, in Easton, shall receive a handsome reward, and all necessary charges paid, by JOHN CROSSMAN. Easton, July 15.
To be Sold or Let,
And immediate Possession given, THE convenient and pleasantly situated MANSION HOUSE and LOT, lately tenanted by Jonathan Russell, Esq. and near Capt. James Aborn's, Westminster-Street; with a large and well-finished Building, calculated for a store, stable, and chaise-house—together with other convenient out-buildings, an excellent garden, water-works, &c. The Lot measures 130 feet back, and 45 front. For terms, apply to THOMAS JONES, WILLIAM JONES, or the subscriber, in this town. July 16. JOHN P. JONES
To be Let,
AND ENTERED UPON IMMEDIATELY, ONE half of a new two story DWELLING-HOUSE, situated at the north-westerly part of the town, on Olney's Lane, so called. Enquire of RICHARD and THOMAS JACKSON, or JEREMIAH OLNEY. June 11. (7m.)
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 saloon, 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.)
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 fashioned 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 RUDDER; 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 handfaws, 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 dis-appoint 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 hitted 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 inumbrance.
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, Dizziness 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.