Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1803-04-16 00:00:00

Rhode-Island Republican.
AN INDISSOLUBLE UNION OF THE STATES, IS ESSENTIAL TO THEIR LIBERTY AND EXISTENCE.—WASHINGTON.
Published weekly, by OLIVER FARNWORTH, (Printer to the STATE, and of the LAWS of the UNITED STATES,) Thames-Street, NEWPORT.
MEIN & ROGERS
HAVE FOR SALE, At their STORE in Thames-Street, at the Head of Banister's Wharf, NEWPORT. A general ASSORTMENT of GROCERIES, WHOLESALE & RETAIL.
Jamaica Rum, 4th and 5th Proof... Mace... Nutmegs... Cloves... Cinnamon... Cassia... Allspice... Pepper... Ginger... Cayenne Pepper... Best Durham Mustard... Do. English Starch... Pearl Barley... Olive Oil—in Flasks... Bakers Salt... Salt-Petre... Alum... Best Indigo... Roll Brimstone... Gun Powder... Patent Shot... Ingredients for Bitters... Spermaceti Candles... Best Maccabai and Scotch Snuff... Tobacco... Best Spanish Segars... China—in Tea-seas... 25 bbls. Pilot Bread... 25 Do. Ship do. An Assortment of Glass & Crocker Ware—together with a Variety of other Articles.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership between Joseph Martin and Benjamin Mumford, under the firm of Martin and Mumford, was dissolved by mutual agreement on the 25th of March last.
The public are respectfully informed that the Block-Making business will be carried on as usual, at the most reduced prices, by JOSEPH MARTIN. Newport, March 31, 1803.
FOR SALE,
And possession immediately given, A LOT of Land, situated in Middletown, about 3 miles from the State-House in Newport, on the West road leading to Bristol Ferry; containing about 10 acres, under good improvement, and pleasantly situated. For terms, apply to JOSIAH COGGESHALL. Middletown, March 31, 1803.
Real Estate at Auction.
ON Monday, the 11th day of April next, at ten o'clock A. M. Two Fifths of the real estate, late belonging to Gould Marsh, deceased, next South of the Post Office; together with the House now occupied by Samuel Wilcox. Conditions, &c. at time of sale. GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, March 18, 1803.
THE Hon. Court of Probate in the town of Newport, (Rhode-Island) have appointed as the subscribers, Commissioners to receive, examine, and adjust the claims of the creditors to the estate of SARAH MUMFORD, late of Newport, deceased, represented insolvent.—Six months are allowed for that purpose.—The creditors to said estate are hereby notified to bring in their claims to us, or either of us at our dwelling houses, within the time allowed as aforesaid, from this 4th day of April, 1803.
SAMUEL CARR, } Commissioners. ANTHONY DIXON, } Justices. All persons indebted to said estate, are required to make immediate payment to PAUL MUMFORD, Admin'r. Newport, April 4th, 1803.
Washington fc. Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court, April 2d, 1803.
WHEREAS Bela Badger, of Providence, in the County of Providence, filed his Petition in said Office, on the nineteenth day of February A. D. 1803, praying for causes therein set forth, that the bonds of marriage between him and his Wife Suley, might be dissolved.—This is therefore to give notice to the said Suley, to appear (if she shall think fit) before the Justices of said Court, at their Term to be held at South-Kingstown, within and for the County of Washington, on the fourth Monday of April instant; then and there to show cause (if any she hath) why the prayer of said petition ought not to be granted. JAMES HELME, Jan. Clerk.
LETTER from the Honorable JOHN FOWLER, Member of Congress from Kentucky, to his Constituents. (CIRCULAR.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. 1803.
THE constitutional term for which I have been elected by your suffrages to the seventh Congress, expires in a few days. Believing it to be my duty to communicate such matters of a political nature, in which the general welfare of the Union, and of my constituents in particular, are concerned, my usual mode has been to communicate concisely what appears to me of the first importance, and to refer for the details on the subordinate transactions to the common vehicles of information the public papers.
If my memory is correct, in my letter addressed to you at the close of the last session, I noticed the very flourishing state of the public revenue, and the measures recommended by the President and adopted by Congress, to relieve the people from the severe oppression of taxes with which they had been loaded during the four years of error and madness, in which our government was entrusted to men either incompetent or unworthy of public confidence. Great alarm was attempted to be raised by the fallen party—aim to our finances, and distress to our country, were pretended to be foretold. The event has proved these to be false prophecies. I will give you a few facts, and you can draw your own conclusions. The present administration will have been in office two years on the 4th of March. In the year beginning with October 1799, and ending with September 1800, the last year of John Adams's administration, the expenditures of government, exclusive of public debt, interest and reimbursements, amounted to 7,180,000 dollars. In the year beginning and ending in the same months of 1801 and 1802 being the second year of Thomas Jefferson, the expenditure was 4,045,000 dollars, leaving a saving in public expense of 3,035,000 a year. In the last two years of the former administration the expenses of government amounted to the enormous sum of 22,954,930 dollars! Taking the average of the two years of the present to be double the expense of the present year, it would amount only to little more than 8,000,000 which presents a difference very characteristic of the parties, say 15,000,000 of dollars saved to the public from waste and corruption; indeed from employment to the public danger and ruin. The estimate of the Secretary of the Treasury of the full expenses for the ensuing year, are under three millions.
The management of the finances in every other respect is equally prosperous and wisely regulated. During the late administration it was customary to leave in the hands of public officers in the customs, loan offices, surveyors, contractors, navy agents, and paymasters, vast sums of the public money, which were employed in private speculation. This was done to procure adherents, and to reward those who defended their old principles of 1776, or went to the most violent lengths in hostility to republican government.—Vast sums lay in this way, when the public were imposed upon to borrow money at 8 per cent. It has not been brought completely home to the individuals, but there is strong ground to believe, that a great part of the public's own money, which was thus supposed to be in the hands of public officers, was lent to the public at this enormous interest, a complete stop has been put to this traffic and corruption, and a system laid down by which every individual officer is obliged to account at short periods for the money in hands, and to repay it to the treasury where there are not disbursements on the public account to be made from it.
Seven months after the administration came into office, the amount in the treasury was only 2,943,718 dollars. I notice seven months, because about that period, the measures of the former administration had about ceased to operate, and the present had begun to go into action. In one year after that date, that is on the 1st of October, 1802, there was in the treasury 4,539,675 dollars. Beside which the government has paid upwards of nine millions of the public debt including interest. And what is highly flattering to the public feeling and credit to our country and government; I have good ground to believe that steps have been effectually taken to discharge by anticipation, all claims upon us for the foreign debt, up to the month of June 1804. No nation on earth ever exhibited in so short a space, so many evidences of a happy government wisely & successfully administered.
There is one other subject of very considerable importance, particularly to the State which I have the honor to represent, that has occupied much of the attention of the Executive and both Houses of Congress in the present session. It is already familiar to you by the general attention which it has excited. The conduct of the Spanish Intendant at New-Orleans.
Much clamour has been employed, but more pains have been bestowed to misrepresent and mislead, than to inform the public correctly on this subject. I shall endeavor to communicate what is the true state of the case, without regard to prejudices of any kind.
By our treaty of 1795 with Spain, we obtained through the friendly disposition of the Spanish government, a privilege of storing our produce intended for sale in such ware-houses as could be procured at New-Orleans. This privilege was limited to three years; but under this provision, that if the Spanish government found it not convenient to let our produce be deposited at New-Orleans after that period, that some other fit place would be provided in lieu of it.
While the war excited the necessities of the Spanish colonies compelled a relaxation of their very rigid colonial laws—for they do not admit any nation whatever to trade with their colonies in peace.—The period had expired to which our privilege of deposit was limited, about the period at which the present administration came into office and the usual system of colonial law was generally received. In the Spanish colonies a system of government prevails different from all the rest of the world. Their governors have no control over matters of trade, their functions are wholly of a political, juridical, or legislative character. But all the authority for regulating and controlling trade, is vested in an officer wholly independent of the governor. This officer is called the Intendant.
The Spanish Intendant at New-Orleans construing the general proclamation concerning trade, as excluding us, like all other nations, from commercial intercourse, and finding the period of our privilege of deposit expired, and that his court, which had alone the power of fixing another place, had not done so—took upon him how to execute in the most rigid manner the general restrictive principle, and to deprive us of that place without another being provided for the deposit of our produce.
This is the fair state of the business, as it respects the Spaniards. As it respects us, the matter is a very serious one, but our Executive had information of the transaction and had taken the most active and decisive measures to procure redress and right, before the subject had been taken up by those who always make a noise without regard to the merit of the case, additional instructions and negotiations on the subject of the Mississippi had long before commenced. Dispatches were sent to our Ambassador at Madrid, and to the court of Spain by the Spanish Ambassador. Mr. Monroe is also sent Ambassador to Paris, with a view to arrangements with the French government of great importance in every view to the western country.
Mr. Monroe is already well known, and no man is better qualified by actual knowledge of the western country to be entrusted with important negotiation. When he was Ambassador in France before, he very pointedly intimated to our government the negotiations which were then carrying on between France and Spain for the reception of Louisiana to the former; and I am informed from very good private authority, that had his advice been taken at that period, we might have had not only New-Orleans but the whole of the Mississippi on both sides in our possession.
At present it appears more than probable that the French will obtain Louisiana, and perhaps settle a large colony there. This has been made a subject of great alarm, and attempts have been made by combining this project with the conduct of the Spanish Intendant, to produce a war, with whom the proposers neither knew nor cared:—It was not right they wished to obtain, nor wrong to redress, but a war, by which the country might be involved in trouble and they might expect to obtain jobs or scramble into office. The advocates of war, however, have shown how little they know of the western people, for they asserted that we were ready to violate our duty to the federal government—that we were dissatisfied, and that the French when they should settle in Louisiana would find in the western States numerous persons ready to join them and to separate from the Union!
Such aspersions were not suffered to pass un-repealed, and the authors of these calumnies were told what every western man knows to be true, that the character of a free American citizen, who chases his own legislature and lives uncontrolled but by the laws which they make, is too precious to be changed for that of a subject to any power on earth.
Whatever may be the issue of the negotiation, I do not see the least reason to apprehend danger or injury from the colonization of Louisiana; our population is too far advanced ever to admit of their being dangerous neighbors; and as a friendly, sociable, and intelligent people, I see rather great advantages to our side of the river. The only evil that we can apprehend is from the jealousy which will be sought to be kept alive by the enemies of our government within ourselves, in the Atlantic States.
It is not necessary for me to inform you that Ohio has been added to our Union as the seventeenth State.
A circumstance took place here during the last session in the supreme court, it was the issuing a writ of mandamus to the Secretary of State for the delivery of certain commissions of Justice of the Peace signed by John Adams "in the last moments of his administration." The court has decided a few days since that it has not jurisdiction in the case.
I am with respect, Your faithful servant, JOHN FOWLER.
From the (Kentucky) Guardian of Freedom.
Presentment of the Grand Jury.
Monday last the Federal Court commenced its session in this place. The Grand Jury being empanelled, retired, and after some time returned and made the following presentment:
WE, the jurors of the grand jury of the United States, for the District of Kentucky, being clearly impressed with the importance of preserving the Union of the States entire, and of preserving and supporting in their fullest vigor and energy, the bond which binds them together, do declare that we receive with the utmost detestation and abhorrence, any speeches, writings or insinuations, tending to excite a spirit of discord, discontent or schism, among our citizens, towards the government of the Union, and consider such as utter or make the same, as enemies to the prosperity, welfare and peace of this country, and wickedly and viciously inclined, to bring upon us the heavy curse of disunion, which to a young and weak country, must be utterly ruinous—do, on our oaths present, one Francis Flournoy, of the county of Pendleton, in said district farmer, for unlawfully commencing a written correspondence, indirectly, with the government of the French nation, which is a foreign government to that of the United States, and with intent to influence the measures and conduct of the said government of the French nation towards the United States, and with intent to defeat the measures of the government of the said United States, relative to a certain controversy depending between the said government of the French nation and the said United States concerning the territory of West Florida, and the Island of New-Orleans, and the navigation of the river Mississippi—Which said unlawful, indirect written correspondence, was commenced as aforesaid, with the intent aforesaid, and at the county and district aforesaid, on the day of February, 1803, by the said Francis Flournoy, unlawfully, & without the permission or authority of the government of the said United States—by means of a certain unlawful writing, signed "A Western American," and addressed to the printer of the Guardian of Freedom, and which said unlawful writing, the said Francis caused to be printed, and published in a newspaper, on the 2d day of March, 1803, which is filed and called the Guardian of Freedom, and is edited in the town of Frankfort, in the said district, and which said unlawful writing is in tenor and effect as follows, to wit: [Here follows the publication]—contrary to the laws of the United States, in such cases provided, and against the peace and dignity thereof. This presentment made upon the knowledge of our body, and on the testimony of James M. Bradford, printer, of the town of Frankfort, in the county of Franklin. ROBERT ALEXANDER, Foreman. A true copy, TH. TUNSTALL, C. K. D. C.
LAWS OF THE UNION.
[PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.]
SEVENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, at their second session, Begun and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday, the 6th of December, 1802.
AN ACT
To provide for the granting of Clearances to Ships or Vessels owned by citizens of the United States, lying in the river Mississippi, south of the southern boundary of the United States, and therein to amend an act, intitled, "An act to regulate the Collection of Duties on Imports and Tonnage," and for other purposes.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That whenever articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, shall be intended to be exported from any of the ports of the United States within the Mississippi, by the way of New-Orleans,

to any foreign port, the identity of such articles shall be ascertained and certified in the same manner by the proper officers as has been or hereafter may be provided, for the transportation of the same articles to any of the ports of the United States, without the Mississippi.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That it shall be lawful for the collector of the customs for the district of Mississippi, to grant to any ship or vessel owned by citizens of the United States, laden with articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the said States and actually lying in some part of the river Mississippi, south of the southern boundary of the United States, a clearance in the same manner as if such ship or vessel was lying within the said district, which clearance shall be of the form following, to wit:
"District of Mississippi, to Port of Adams,
These are to certify to all whom it doth concern, That [blank] master or commander of the [blank] burthen [blank] tons or thereabouts, mounted with [blank] guns (if any) navigated with [blank] men built, now lying in the river Mississippi, out of the limits of the United States, and bound for [blank] having on board (here specify the articles if required) being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, or (if no specification be required) being laden with articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States hath here cleared his said vessel according to law:
Given under my hand and seal, at the custom house of Fort Adams, this [blank] day of [blank] one thousand eight hundred [blank] and in the year of the Independence of the United States of America."
Provided nevertheless, That such clearance shall not be granted until the identity of the articles laden on board such ship or vessel, as being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, shall be established to the satisfaction of the said collector, either by the exhibition of a certificate to that effect, from the consul, vice consul, or other authorized agent of the United States, residing at or near New Orleans on the said river, or otherwise: And Provided also, That before the departure of such ship or vessel for any foreign port or place without the said river, it shall be the duty of the master or commander thereof, to exhibit such clearance to the said consul, vice consul, or other authorized agent of the United States, who shall certify thereon, under his consular seal, if he be satisfied that the state of the cargo at the time of such exhibition, correspond therewith, that such is the case; or if the whole or any part thereof, shall have been unladed, or otherwise changed, so as not to agree with the tenor of such clearance, he shall accordingly state the same.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That the consul, vice consul, or either authorized agent of the United States, residing at New Orleans, or at such other place of deposit on the banks of the Mississippi, south of the southern boundary of the United States, as may be assigned by virtue of the treaty of San Lorenzo shall be entitled to receive from the captains or owners of American vessels, two dollars for each certificate he shall sign, certifying that the articles contained in such certificate, are of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States; and he shall also be authorized to employ a proper person to attend to the landing and loading of such articles, whose duty therein, and compensation, shall be the same as those of an inspector of customs in one of the ports of the United States, which compensation shall be considered as a charge against the revenue, and defrayed by the collector for the district of Mississippi, out of the monies received by him on account of the duties on tonnage and merchandise.
NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives, A. BURR, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, February 19, 1803. TH: JEFFERSON, President of the United States.
AN ACT For the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the Town of Portsmouth.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all persons who, being indebted to the United States, for duties on merchandise, have given bond therefor, with one or more sureties, payable to the collector for the district of Portsmouth, and who have suffered a loss of property by the late conflagration at that place, shall be, and they hereby are allowed to take up, or have cancelled, all bonds heretofore given for duties as aforesaid, upon giving to the said collector new bonds, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of said collector, for the sums of their former bonds respectively, payable in twelve months from and after the day of payment specified in the bonds to be taken up or cancelled as aforesaid; and the said collector is hereby authorized and directed, to give up or cancel, all such bonds upon the receipt of others as described in this act; which last mentioned bonds shall be proceeded with, in all respects, like other bonds which are taken by collectors for duties due to the United States: Provided however, that nothing in this act contained shall extend to bonds which had fallen due before the twenty sixth day of December last.
NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives, A. BURR, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, Feb. 19th, 1803. TH: JEFFERSON, President of the United States.
$40 CASH given for clean Cotton and Linen RAGS, and old Sail Cloth, at the Office of the Republican.
To the Republicans of Rhode-Island.
FELLOW-CITIZENS,
THE time is nearly at hand when your suffrages are to be given for the choice of Officers in the State. Fully aware that the election will be attended with the same arts, the same intrigues—the same corrupt and tyrannical proceedings as have formerly characterised the Federalists, you will not I presume charge me of presumption in thus addressing you. At the same time, you will remark that I do not deviate from that temperance and impartiality which a candid and enlightened people have a right to expect.
From the time when those who are now in authority, were first elected, to the present, a spirit of detraction, of enmity, and of inveterate persecution, seems to have pervaded that class of men among us, commonly called Federalists—who assume the name of Republicans—but are in heart Aristocrats.—As in the beginning, so now, there are some who are extremely anxious, and uncommonly active in promoting the election of these men. Yet, thank God, their numbers are few, (to say nothing more) and their exertions have been ineffectual; and though they boast of an influence, which increases the actual number—we neither fear such an increase—nor dread the influence. Destructive as such an influence is in this State, that destruction, instead of materially injuring us, is a fatal injury to themselves, and merits the indignation of a free people.
In a Republican government, like ours, diversity of sentiment, and opposition in politics, are naturally expected. Indeed, such a diversity in a certain degree, is beneficial; for were it not for that diversity, the people would cease to be vigilant. An ambitious, and wicked ruler might subvert the government, however good it might be, to an aristocracy, monarchy, or despotism. In such a case, by ceasing to be vigilant, the people would cease to be free.—Notwithstanding a diversity of sentiment is often beneficial—how often does it produce tumults, and revolutions. Some who are influenced by the alluring prospect of personal aggrandizement and promotion are indefatigable to overturn all law order and government. Wicked and designing men never fail to exaggerate the faults of rulers; they employ the subtle, the vile, and the infamous, in the warfare. These are armed with deadly weapons—the smallest error is represented as a criminal and an inadvertent act, as a wilful one; the representation fully accords with their intentions. The public good is hardly thought of—or if thought of, it is only to defeat it. Eager to supplant men in power, and not daring to question their official integrity, how unmercifully is private reputation attacked! Persons against whom slander could not lip before elected, are falsely said to be infamous and undeferving.
And here my brethren, for a moment let us consider whether this has not been precisely the conduct of the Federalists. Do you not see them attacking every measure of government—and not content with this, exaggerating the faults of your rulers? Do you not see the vicious, the vile, and the infamous employed for that purpose? (We might mention some particular persons, to verify if necessary the truth of this.) Do you not see inadvertent errors, represented as wilful acts? Do you not see the public good opposed? And what means are left untried to blacken and defame those we have elected to the first offices in government? And why is it? Is it for a purpose which can be justified? Or is it not to rid them of that confidence the people have bestowed on talents, integrity, and worth? No candid man, in the uprightness of his heart will say the Federalists in this State have not been guilty of these offences. Yes—and happy for them, had they stopped here. But fearful that such arguments, (and some of them were specious) would not prevail, have we not beheld them adopting that desperate, though ancient maxim—
"Quid non mortalia pectora cogis
Auci sacra famet?"
by velling and bribing the consciences of those who were wavering or perhaps destitute. If we suffer our lives, and liberties to be thus bought and sold, how wretched must be our situation, and what is worse, we should deserve to be wretched.
Seeing then that such has been the conduct of the Federalists, as they appear to have suffered no change, (unless as some will have it from bad to worse—while others assert it to be impossible,) we should be on our guard against their evil machinations. Notwithstanding repeated efforts which have produced nothing but defeat and rueful countenances, they still struggle. And without possessing the spirit of prophecy, we dare predict that just on the eve of an election, some tub plot, or massacre, mal-appropriation of the public money, or miscondut of public officers will be conjured up. Or they may again repeat the true report of the Kentuckians rising en masse to vindicate a nations injury. For what will not an expiring man grasp at.—A violent and unceasing aspersion of private reputation, has so long existed, that it is reasonable to conclude, it will not abate at this momentous period.
My Brethren,
To counteract the wicked designs of those who still persevere in the hope of effecting a change, should be our first with and determination. Should there be no danger from the federal combination, still we should be at our posts. The inattention or neglect of an individual, may occasion the downfall of the whole. You must be sensible, that our exertions must be joint—and our voices united—Unanimity is of the greatest importance—Perhaps some of you have different interests, the one may clash with the other—perhaps some other trivial disagreements prevail, but are these sufficient considerations to induce a single freeman to act in contrary to his sentiments. In fact I would ask, and your consciences will dictate the answer, whether local prejudices, and those differences,
which it is utterly impossible to avoid, and unwise to notice or repeat, should not be sacrificed to the common good? Need more be said to convince any one of the absolute necessity of an early and united attendance on the day when our rulers are to be (I might say re-) chosen? Need I remind you of those times when liberty was not cherished by those who governed us, when the patriot's reward was neglect and persecution, when your public monies were shamefully squandered, when the dissolute, the abandoned, and the "well born" had well nigh subverted your government, & trodden you into the dust. Think of these times fellow countrymen—let the integrity and economy of your rulers be an incentive to perseverance in the cause you have espoused—with that republicanism in our hearts, which produces unanimity in action, we may still enjoy the liberty for which we have contended, and the blessings which flow from good government.
"MOUNT HOPE."
For the R. I. REPUBLICAN.
'Tis not for mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Republicans—we'll deserve it.
AT the threshold of the approaching conflict, I presume to address a few lines to the republican Electors of this State; and as one warmly, and unalterably attached to a free government, honestly and prudently administered, I shall do it with frankness & sincerity. The time is at hand, fellow-citizens, when you will again be called upon by the provisions of your original charter, and the duties which as members of the community, you owe society, to express by suffrage the sentiments which you entertain of those who have served you in the different departments of government for the last year. To the faithful discharge of this momentous duty you are under the most solemn obligations. It is in fact a duty of the highest order: It involves the first, and most estimable principles of freedom, of civil liberty, and that too, not merely as respects yourselves in the present age, but as it is to affect your descendants to the end of time. As among us, so in all countries there are different descriptions of persons who are striving for the ascendancy in politics. There are those who are thirsting for domination; who are grasping after power; who view with envious eyes the pretensions of man to an equality of right with his neighbor; who are striving with all the persevering industry of the beaver, to concentrate, and establish in their own unhallowed hands all the means of coercion and control, and who sigh, and groan to see the mass of mankind borne down, and trodden to the ground, and converted to mere beads of burthen, and engines for their foreign pleasure, and convenience. There are, on the other hand, those who resist these dominations—who though humble in circumstances, possess an elevation of mind, and maintain the pride of opinion: Who have lived: Who have experienced: Who have reflected: Whose notions of right, and propriety are just; and who disdain to submit to the unauthorized, and unwarrantable assumptions of self-conceited, and domineering individuals. Affected wisdom, and supremacy—the mock patrician stride—the monkey's frisk—the weasel's grin cannot cow their spirits, or break down, and subdue their determination. It is founded in principle—it is sanctioned by experience—it is supported by truth, and by fortitude. Thus the issue is joined between Republicans, and Federalists. Happy for the human race that there are of the republican sentiment men of wealth and power, whose minds are not benighted by the lust of gold—whose popular affections are not absorbed by the tinseled glare of equipage; but whose bosoms flow with the milk of human kindness, and who feel a sacred, generous and sympathetic regard for the rights, and immunities of others: Who have nobly stood the benefactors of their species—whose arms have often, and ever been stretched as the invulnerable fortress of liberty.
Such, Republicans, is the ground on which you stand—such the advantages with which you are invested. Be cautious then, be extremely cautious how you relinquish the one, or neglect the other. Remember that the principles for which you are now contending, are the same for which you once unheathed the sword, and braved the shock of battles—the same for which a Hancock, a Lee, a Dickinson wrote; for which a Warren, a Montgomery, a Mercer died—the same for which America conquered, and on which the public felicity materially depends.—If there is any thing more than a contemplation of principle required to stimulate exertion, suffer your imaginations to revert to former periods of our history. You who lived in the days of our deepest and darkest calamity—who bore your parts through the revolutionary struggle, call to mind the crimsoned and atrocious scenes you have witnessed. Remember the points then in dispute between the mother and the infant country: Remember the measures which were pursued by that country to enforce its will and its wishes; and remember the friends and abettors of those measures among us.—You who since that gloomy season have come forward in life—whose bones and sinews were not then hardened and distended to endure the hardships of campaign, will have, in some sort, a transcript of what had passed, by recurring to the summer of '98, when the impsoned trumpeters of high toned measures usurped the powers of dictation—when the sable badge of crouching servility and servitude was by terror and menace imposed upon the peaceable credulity and accommodating temper of the citizens—when rapine, insolence and violence rushed through our streets "like the noise of many waters."
You have of late, Fellow Citizens, had it in your power to note the diversity between Republican and anti-republican measures; and you will soon have it in your power to say, in the most unequivocal manner, on which you bestow the preference. It is not necessary for me to attempt any comparison between them—
Possessing the information, you are competent to make that comparison, and to decide with certainty, without my assistance. Nor am I loth to leave it with you. The voice of an enlightened people is the voice of wisdom—it is the voice of GOD. Their will is the will of righteousness and truth.
One caution, however, it may not be improper to give; and it is hoped that it may be received with as much confidence as it contains sincerity.
If Republicans would gain the shore for which they are embarked together, and enjoy in safety, and in reserve the fruits which their enterprise merits, it is indispensable that they remain united. They cannot be insensible of the arts that are practiced by their opponents to divide their interest, and to break their ranks. The enemy (for they are indeed enemies to every thing that is fair, and honorable) are left without any other hope. If they can stir up strife, and work divisions among us; if they can create in us resentments, and inflame those resentments towards each other, why then indeed we are beaten, but we are beaten by ourselves. If, therefore, in the origin we were impelled by principle, let us lay aside local prejudices, and personal disgust, and hand in hand pursue those principles. By this means shall the cause which we advocate—the common cause—the cause of man "shine brighter, & brighter unto the perfect day."
SHADE OF WASHINGTON.
Dissolution of Partnership.
GREEN & TILLINGHAST,
HAVING this day by mutual consent dissolved their Partnership, request all persons indebted to them by Note or Book Account, to make payment to either of the subscribers. As many of their unsettled Accounts (and all of long standing, if not settled immediately) will be put into the hands of an Attorney, to be sued at May Term.
CALEB GREEN, WILLIAM TILLINGHAST. Newport, April 7, 1803. 132
NEW SCHOOL.
NOAH BSBEE, jun. respectfully informs the citizens of this town, that on Monday the 11th inst. he will open a school in the building next north of Mr. David Williams' dwelling-house, Broad Street.—Those who are disposed to put Scholars under his care, may rely on a strict and careful attention to their morals and instruction.—Terms of Tuition:—For each Scholar, in Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, Two Dollars per quarter:—For Geography and English Grammar, Three Dollars:—For Latin and Greek languages, Four Dollars. Newport, April 8. 1803.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons having any demands against the estate of Oliver Read, late of Newport, Mariner, deceased, to exhibit them to the subscriber for settlement; and all those any with indebtedness to said estate, are hereby called upon to make immediate payment to MARY READ, Adminx. Newport, April 9, 1803. 132 3m
To be SOLD, or LET, And possession given the 20th inst. THE Dwelling-House now occupied by Mr. Cross, pleasantly situated at the north end of Thames-Street; with a Yard, Garden, Stable, and a good Well of Water.—For further particulars enquire of JOSEPH COZZENS. Newport, April 9, 1803.
State of Rhode-Island & Providence Plantations, March 7, 1803.
THE Creditors of Daniel Barber, of Exeter, in the county of Washington, Labourer, are hereby notified to appear, if they shall think fit, at the General Assembly to be held at Newport on the first Wednesday of May next, then and there to show cause, if any they may have, why his petition for an act passed in June A. D. 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of insolvent debtors," ought not to be granted. SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y.
State of Rhode-Island & Providence Plantations, April 7, 1803.
THE creditors of Job Sisson of Newport, in the county of Newport, labourer, are hereby notified to appear at the General Assembly to be held at Newport, on the first Wednesday of May next, then and there to show cause, if any they may have, why his petition for the benefit of an act passed June A. D. 1756, for the relief of insolvent debtors, ought not to be granted. B. HAZARD, Dep. Sec'y.
HAY SCREWING.
THE subscriber informs the public that he has taken the building of Mr. Jonathan Simmons, lately occupied by Jonathan Marsh, deceased; where the Hay-Screwing business will be carried on as usual, and on reasonable terms. Any quantity, of Hay, ready screwed, may be had on very short notice, and all favors thankfully acknowledged. JOHN IRISH. Newport, April 9, 1803. 132
TO BE LET, And possession given immediately, A convenient Dwelling-House, in a central part of the town, lately occupied by Mr. Francis Friend; having a Shop in front, and an excellent stand for a Boarding-House. For terms, apply to JOHN CARR, Jamstown, or GEORGE W. CARR, on the Point. Newport, April 9, 1803. 132
WANTED Immediately, A SMART active LAD, as an Apprentice to the Printing or Book-Binding Business. Apply to this Office.

FOR THE REPUBLICAN.
To the People of Rhode-Island, &c.
THE Citizen who is prejudiced in favor of aristocracy, because it favors strong monarchism...
That citizen, on the contrary, who prefers the mild Republican form of government...
CITIZENS!
You will on that day be your own Legislators & Judges; but so soon as a reform takes place...
A PLOUGH, for the "Greenward."
To the honest and virtuous Yeomanry.
BROTHER FARMERS,
I HAVE heretofore addressed you on the subject of the General Election. Permit me once more to call your attention to this important subject.
My friend Elisha has taken much pains to bring about an opposition, in hopes of effecting a division among the Republicans.
I have good and substantial reasons, Fellow Freemen, to suppose that the most subtle arts will be practiced by the whole of the federal party...
The progressing republicanism of the New-England states, is a circumstance highly gratifying to the friends of administration...
The eastern states have been long adduced as the unfailling resource of the federal interest.
These assertions were advanced in many instances, by gentlemen who were desirous of producing the event they thus foretold...
meaning men who had been taught to credit these stories: Who supposed the republican party a set of jacobin animals...
"The people, for a while, stood motionless and terror-struck—their mouths opened to the utmost extent in gaping horror...
"These rational sentiments are rapidly extending: Apprehension is converted into confidence...
A Narraganset Farmer.
NEWPORT, Saturday, April 16, 1803.
Republican Meeting.
THE Republican Citizens of this town are desired to meet at the State-House, on TUESDAY EVENING next...
The Circular Letter from the Hon. JOHN FOWLER, Member of Congress from Kentucky...
We need not call the attention of our readers to the several original communications which grace the preceding columns...
The Charleston (S. C.) Gazette, of the 24th ult. gives the following official return of the votes for a Member of Congress, viz.
For the election district, comprehending the districts of Beaufort, Barnwell and Edgefield.
Gen. William Butler, 700; John Rutledge, 50
At the late Election in Vermont, General Lewis R. Morris, the assistant in an attempt at assassination...
The federal party, or rather the Essex Juntos, presume to exult on the issue of the election.
IMPORTANT! From the NATCHEZ HERALD. Letter from Gen. Wilkinson to the Governor, dated Fort Adams, Feb. 17, 1803.
I wrote you to day by Lieut. Wilkinson, and inadvertently dated my letter the 18th.
The post from New-Orleans, which arrived yesterday, brings us the pleasing intelligence of the opening of that port.
We have also the pleasure to inform our fellow-citizens, that the infamous MASON and his four sons...
Execution of Col. Despard, &c. for treason! The ceremony of fastening the cord round the necks of the prisoners being finished...
"Fellow citizens, I come here, as you see, after having served my country, faithfully, honorably, and usefully served it...
Plague at Guadalupe and Curacoa. A letter from a gentleman at St. Thomas, dated March 6, to a mercantile house...
NEW-YORK, April 5. Last evening a number of persons confined in the State-Prison, attempted to escape...
NATHANIEL SWEET & Co. Hereby inform the Public, THAT they have taken the Store opposite Gen. S. Martin's in Thames-street...
FOR SALE BY MEIN & ROGERS FIFTY Casks best GUN-POWDER, Philadelphia & Baltimore best superfine FLOUR...
William Douglass, At the Head of Broad-Street, HAS constantly for sale, a general Assortment of West-India and other Goods.
WILLIAM TILLINGHAST Respectfully informs the Public, THAT he continues in the DRY GOODS business...
REMOVAL. THE subscriber wishes to inform the public, that he has removed from the Store belonging to Mr. Robert Stevens...
NEW HOTEL. THE subscriber informs the Public that he has now opened, and made provision for keeping a genteel Boarding-House...
ABNER TABER, HAVING been absent four months from home, and now having recommenced Taylorings...
Tin Plate Worker. GORTON ANDERSON, respectfully informs his friends and the public in general...
The partnership of Anderson & Heath, was dissolved, by mutual agreement, on the 18th of March, 1803.
State of Rhode-Island & Providence Plantations, April 12th, 1803. THE Creditors of Gardner Reynolds, of North-Kingstown...
State of Rhode-Island & Providence Plantations, April 13th, 1803. THE creditors of John Banister, jun. of Newport...
State of Rhode-Island & Providence Plantations, April 13th, 1803. THE creditors of John Phillips, of Hopkinton...
State of Rhode-Island & Providence Plantations, April 15th, 1803. THE creditors of John Harwood, of Newport...
State of Rhode-Island & Providence Plantations, April 13th, 1803. THE creditors of Jesse Larkin, of Richmond...
HOUSE PAPER. JUST received and for sale at this Office, a beautiful assortment of PAPER-HANGINGS...
*** For Advertisements, see Supplement.
For Sale, A New SLOOP, about 40 tons burthen, calculated for the Coastings business, built principally of good white oak. J. Winslow, Freetown.

The WILD ROSE-BUD.
AH! why did I gather this delicate flow'r— Why pluck the young bud from the tree? 'Twould there have bloom'd lovely for many an hour:—
How soon it will perish with me! Already its beautiful texture decays— Already it fades on my sight!
'Tis thus that chill languor too often o'erpays The moments of transient delight. When, eagerly pressing enjoyment too near, Its blossoms we gather in haste, How often we mourn, with a penitent tear, O'er the joys that we lavish in waste!
The elegant flow'r, had I left it at rest, Might still have delighted my eyes; But pluck'd prematurely, & plac'd on my breast, It languishes, withers, and dies.
From the Philadelphia True American, March 30. ROBBERY!!! The following interesting account of a most barbarous atrocious robbery has been communicated for publication by a respectable gentleman at Williamf- port, Pennsylvania.
The unhappy sufferer is a young lady, about 13 years of age, by the name of ESTHER M c DOWELL. The history of her misfortune is thus re- lated by our correspondent.
Miss M c Dowell is the daughter and only child of Dr. JOHN M c DO- WELL, who, about three years since, removed from Montreal to Kentucky, where he had purchased an estate. He left this daughter to reside with an aged aunt, who has since died and left her niece heir to a considerable property. Upon the death of her aunt, the young lady expressed to her father a wish to remove and reside with her parents in Kentucky. Accordingly he sent a man, who had been brought up from infancy in his family, and in whose fidelity and honor he had the most implicit confidence, to conduct her home. She proceeded with him from Montreal, and arrived in the neighborhood of Williamport, on Monday evening, the 21st of March inst. During the day the villain had tak- en pains to avoid observation as much as possible, by leaving the public road and passing through obscure and unfre- quented paths. They continued to travel till about ten o'clock in the evening, when he suddenly dismount- ed, dragged the lady from her horse, and presenting a pistol to her breast demanded her money, and threatened to murder her if she attempted to give an alarm. She implored his mercy, offering him all she possessed upon condition of sparing her life. At that instant he tore off her bonnet, and gagged her mouth to prevent her from speaking. He then proceeded to strip her of every article of cloathing, and tying her hands behind her, made her fast to a tree while he packed up her apparel in the saddle bags. Having done this, he removed her to a more distant part of the woods, made off with the horses and all the property that she had with her.
In this deplorable situation she remained, entirely naked, exposed to severe cold of the night, until about break of day, when by her struggles, she loosened herself from the tree, and with much difficulty made her way thro' the woods to a house 80 rods distant, where she was kindly received and supplied with such things as were immediately necessary. It was not until a considerable time that she was able to speak and relate the particulars of the disaster. She is now at the Rev. Isaac Grier's, who lives near that place where the inhuman crime was per- petrated. Though nearly a hundred persons have been engaged in pursuit of the villain we are sorry to say that no certain intelligence has been ob- tained. The following advertisement contains a description of the person and property:—
200 Dollars reward, for apprehending BENJAMIN CONNET.
He is about 22 years of age; of a middle size, swarthy complexion, has long black hair, tied with a ribbon; has a remarkable large mole above his left eyebrow, which he takes pains to conceal by suffering his hair to grow long upon his forehead; had on a light coloured
great coat, a blue srait coat, swansdown jacket, light coloured cassimere panta- loons; took with him two horses, one of which is grey, the other black, and about four years old; a woman's saddle new, with a piece of bear skin fastened to the seat; and two portmanteaus, or saddle bags, in one of which were up- wards of one thousand Guineas. He took also a Gold Watch with the owner's name Esther M c Dowell, at full length on the inside of the case, and the initial let- ters of her father's name, J. M. on the outside.
Any person that will apprehend the villain and secure him, so that he may be brought to justice, shall receive the above reward and all expences paid by ESTHER M c DOWELL.
State of Rhode-Island, &c.
WHEREAS the Honorable the General Assembly did, at their session in Februa- ry last, appoint the undersigned Commissioners, to purchase a part of the Registered Public Debt of this State, bearing an interest of four per cent. per annum; and have appropriated about Twenty five Thousand Dollars for that purpose. We therefore request all Persons pos- sessed of said Debt, and who with to dispose of the same, to send us in writing (free of postage) the amount of the sum they have to sell, and their lowest price, on or before the 20th day of April next.
SAMUEL VERNON, CONSTANT TABER, HENRY SHERBURNE, } Commis- sioners. Newport, March 9th, 1803. 128
Nathaniel Nason,
RESPECTFULLY informs the public, that he has removed from the house of his father David Nason, to the shop of Mr. Thomas Howland, directly opposite—where all kinds of TIN WARE can be furnished at the shortest notice, and on as reasonable terms as can be bought in this town. Constant attendance will be given, and the smallest favors acknowledged. Newport, Dec. 18, 1802. 116f
Cath & the highest price given for old PEWTER and LEAD.
CLARK BLISS
Has for sale, a general Assortment of West- India GOODS, and GROCERIES, of a superior quality, at the lowest prices at retail: Among others, are the following articles, viz: Brandy, West-India Rum, 4th proof do. Gin, New England Rum, Wine of different kinds, Mol- asses, Loaf & Brown Sugars, Coffee, Teas of various kinds, Chocolate, Raisins, Pepper, Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Flour, Rye and Indian Meal, Butter, Cheese, Soap, and Candles; vari- ous kinds of Glass Ware, Stone Ware, Knives, and Forks, Jack Knives, Pen-Knives, large and small Spoons, Chest Locks and Files, Crockery and Tin Ware, Axes, Hatchets and Hoes, Men's and Boys Shoes, Corks, Brimstone, Lampblack, Stone Line, Lamp Oil, Powder, Shot and Flint, Fishing Lines of various kinds, Leads, and Hooks, deep sea Leads and Lines, Bellows, metal Tea Pots, writ- ing Paper, wrapping paper by the ream, Bed Cords, Log Lines, Marlings, Seamen's Chests, Oak Keger, & many more from one quart to six gallons. Buckets, Coffee and Pepper mills, &c. &c. &c. Rice, New-York best superfine Flour, per barrel; and a number of other Articles not mentioned.— Captains of vessels, and others, may be supplied on the shortest notice, and every favor acknowledged. Newport, March 4, 1803. Sattf.
Nicholas Webster,
INFORMS the Public, that he has opened a GROCERY STORE in Broad Street, in the house, late the property of Mr. Caleb Earl, where he has for Sale a general assortment of WEST-INDIA GOODS.
Among others, are the following articles: Rum, Brandy, Gin, Cherry-Rum, Molasses, Flour, Rye and Indian Meal, Teas of various kinds, Coffee, Chocolate, Raisins, Currants, Pepper, Ginger, Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Butter, Cheese, Candles, Onions, Tobacco, Snuff, Powder and Shot, Lamp-Oil, Loaf and Brown Sugars, &c. &c. &c. ALSO,
A general and extensive variety of Crockery and Hard Ware; Men's and Women's Shoes, &c. &c. with many other articles, too tedious to mention; all which will be sold at the most reduced prices. Newport, Nov. 21, 1801. 60tf
DRIFTED from Bristol, about 10 or 15 days since, a ship's YAWL. Whoever has found the same, and will return it to the Subscriber, or give information where it is, shall be generously rewarded therefor. JOSEPH WARDWELL. Bristol, March 25, 1803.
GEORGE THOMAS,
Confectioner, Distiller, and Fruit Preserver. Has for sale the following Articles, viz:
Fresh Malaga grapes; box and case raisins; figs; salmon is in shell; prunes; currants; nutmegs; cloves; cinnamon; allspice; pepper; ginger; teas; coffee; chocolate, No. 1 & 2, prepared with and without vanilla; brown, powdered & loaf-sugar; Cordials of all kinds. An assortment of preserved fruits, olives, pea- nuts; best Sherry, Malaga, & Teneriffe Wines; 1st and 4th proof Jamaica Spirits, and Antigua Rum; together with an elegant assortment of Glass and Crockery WARE, which he is deter- mined to sell very low. Newport, March 4, 1803. [6tf]
W. R. WILDER,
BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, Has Removed to the Store next Door North of Messrs. Gibbs & Channing's.
WHERE he offers for sale, many thousand Volumes of BOOKS, in the different branches of Literature—together with almost every article in the Stationary line, wholesale and retail.—Also an elegant Assortment of Gentlemen's HATS, from 75 cents to 6 dol- lars and 50 cents. Newport, Aug. 21, 99tf
Sail Making.
THE subscribers having entered into partner- ship, under the firm of Spooner and Dunham, hereby inform the Public, that they carry on the Sail-Making business, in its various branches at their Sail Loft, on the wharf of the late Gen. John Maibone, at the South part of the town. Those who may favor them with their custom, may depend on punctuality and dispatch. All favors will be gratefully acknowledged, by WING SPOONER, 2d. CHARLES C. DUNHAM. Newport, April 3, 1802. 79tf
JACOB RICHARDSON,
Has for Sale at the Post-Office, A Hundred Thousand Dutch Quills, from No. 6 to 15, to be sold as low as can be purchased in the State.—States of the first qual- ity, by the Dozen, of all sizes—Paper by the Ream of all qualities. Feb. 26, 1803. 126tf
For Sale at Public Auction,
ON Thursday the 5th of May ensuing, if fair weather, if not, the first fair day, (un- less previously disposed of at private sale) a large Two-Story Dwelling-House, late the property of Capt. John Kilborn, situated in Broad Street, with a Yard and Garden, and a well of excel- lent water. Sale to be at 11 o'clock A. M. The terms may be known by applying to GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, Feb. 12, 1803. 124
John A. Shaw, & Co.
INFORM the Public that they have taken a Shop next door but one North of the Coffee-House, where they carry on the WATCH-MAKING BUSINESS in all its Branches. Likewise all kinds of Hair Work & Gold Cyphers neatly executed. They have for Sale, English and Geneva gold & silver Watches, Gold Neck- laces, silver tea and table Spoons, salt, mustard & pap Spoons, soup and punch Ladies, sugar Tongs, large & small Looking Glasses, dressing Do. tea Trays, Waiters & dressing Cases, plat- ed, wooden, and Britannia Castors, Britannia tea and coffee Pots, Gentlemen's and Children's best & common Hats, Suspenders, Knives and Forks, brass globe & common Handirons, Shovel & Tongs, brass and japanned Lamps, elegant plated & brass Candlesticks, dart and common Cains, horse & chaise Whips, ladies do. Scissors, Pen-Knives, Snuffers & Trays, powder Boxes and Puffs, Razors in cases and without, shaving Boxes, and Windsor Soap, Cream Balls, writing Paper, Dutch Quills, Spanish Segars, Macecabou, Rappee & Scotch Snuff, Starch, Purple Brown, together with a complete Assortment of Jew- elry & Perfumery.—They Also carry on the GOLD & SILVERSMITH'S Business: Cash given for Old Gold and Silver. Fair & punctual attendance, and the smallest favors gratefully acknowledged. Newport, Oct. 2, 1802. 72tf
For Sale,
ON reasonable terms a conveni- ent two story Dwelling-House, on Spring-Street, near Mr. John Banister's, with five rooms on the lower floor, and four above. A good Cellar, and a Shop adjoining, with an excellent well of water. For particu- lars, inquire of HENRY HOWLAND. Living on the premises. Newport, March 4, 1803. 127
Public Entertainment.
THE subscriber inform the Public that he has opened a House of Entertainment in Water-Street, in the town of WARRER, sign of the Ship; west of Cole's Inn.—Constant at- tendance will be given, and every attention paid to Ladies and Gentlemen, for their accommoda- tion, by the Public's humble servant, PRESERVED ALGER. October 23, 1802. cviiiif
To be Sold or Let,
A WELL finished Dwelling-House, situated on Thames-Street, opposite Mr. Robert Stevens'—Also a new Store, adjoining the yard and garden, with a good well of water.—If not immediately sold, the Shop, with some part of the House, will be to let.—The situation, both for health and business, is not inferior to any in town. Conditions may be known, by applying to HENRY G. CHAMPLIN. Newport, Nov. 20, 1802. exii
For Sale on Reasonable terms,
A Quantity of Window Frames and Sashes, for 7 by 9 and 6 by 8 Glass. Enquire of the Printer. Newport, May 21, 1802. 86tf
Wanted at this Office, a quantity of tanned
Sheep or Lamb Skins, dressed without oil, and suitable for Book-bind- ing.—A generous price will be given.
THOMAS VOAX,
SUGAR-REFINER, South-end of Thames-Street (Newport) has constantly for Sale,
LOAF SUGAR (1st and 2d quality) Lump Sugar and Syrup.—Also, Refined Brown Sugar and MOLASSES, of an excellent quality, for family's use. Loaf Sugar exchanged for Brown as usual. April 2, 1803. 131
For Sale, about 600 acres of Land,
LYING in a square piece, in the southwest corner of Hartland, about one sixth part cleared up, divided nearly in the middle by the Farmington River, and the new Turnpike road leading from Hartford to Albany, about 26 miles from Hartford; on which is a young Or- chard of 200 Apple trees beginning to bear, and many other fruit trees. The soil is of an excellent quality, very well watered and pro- ductive—and though somewhat stoney & rough in many parts, not more so than land in this country is in general. The Farm may be di- vided into parcels, suitable for good mowing, tillage and pasturing.—A Saw Mill has lately been erected on a canal leading from Farmington river through said Farm, where the dam being low is perfectly safe; and the trench affords convenient sites for a number of other Mills. There is timber enough on said Farm, of the very best kind, viz. White Pine, White Ash, Birch, Maple, Beech, Hemlock, &c. sufficient for one Mill 15 years, all within about half a mile, land transportation, and that down hill. The premises in their present state, will pro- duce 1000 dollars per annum, neat profit, clear of all expences; which sum, by good manage- ment, may be increased, and no fear of any fu- ture diminution. May be entered upon im- mediately, and a good title given, on reasonable terms. RALPH POMEROY. Hartland, March 21st. 1803. 131
HOLMES WEAVER,
CABINET & CHAIR-MAKER, HAS for Sale, a number of pieces of the most Fashionable Furniture, As Cheap as can be purchased, of equal elegance, Newport, Nov. 15. exii
TO BE SOLD, OR LET,
A FARM, LYING in Exeter, State of Rhode-Island, about 8x miles from Wickford, contain- ing 175 acres of good Land, with a Dwelling- House, and other out buildings. It may be purchased together, or in separate divisions. Payment will be made easy.—Also,
A share in the Ohio Company, containing nearly Twelve Hundred Acres of excellent Land. For further particulars apply to PARDON TILLINGHAST. Exeter, Dec. 29, 1802. cott
FOR SALE,
HALF of a Body PEW, No. 80—situate in the West Aisle very near the pulpit, in the Rev. Mr. Bradley's Meeting House.—For terms, enquire of the Printer. Newport, Oct. 23, 1801. 108tf
TALLIO,
FORMERLY owned by Gov. POTTER, a beautiful blood bay Horse, of size, figure, and movements; has proved himself to be one of the first fires that has ever been bred among us, as may be observed from his colts in the county of Washington, some of which have been sold for Two Hundred Dollars at two years old. TALLIO was fired by the young Liberty, whose fire ran at Newport against Vanguil's horse. Any Gentlemen, therefore, who would wish to improve in their breed of horses, are solicited to call at the stable of Mr. Amos Gardner, (Boston Neck) where the above horse may be seen on Mondays and Tuesdays from the first Monday and Tuesday in May; there to continue through the season on Mondays and Tuesdays;—and Fridays and Saturdays at the stable of Mr. Samuel Allen (North-Kingstown).—The re- maining part of the season he will be at the sta- ble of the subscriber, in South-Kingstown.— The terms of service, are Three Dollars the sea- son, money paid down; but if the money be not paid down, Four Dollars will be required; and One Dollar & fifty Cents the single leap. Good pasturing for mares, at the above stands. SIMON HAZARD. South-Kingstown, April 9, 1803.
To be Let,
A House, or part of one, situate in Thames-Street. Inquire of the Printer. Newport, March 12, 1803. 123
FOR SALE,
AND immediate possession given, a Two Story Dwelling-House, situate on the South side of Banister's wharf, next above the Store of Messrs. John & Henry Ca- boone, calculated for a Boarding House, with a Shop in front. As the subscriber is determined to remove into the country in the course of a few weeks—he will sell on very reasonable terms. EDMUND BRIGGS. Newport, April 9, 1803. 132
Book-Binding,
IN all its branches, performed at this Office, with neatness and expedition.—Ledgers and Account Books, of any dimension, made on the shortest notice. Old Books, re-bound, on reasonable terms.