The Providence journal, and town and country advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1799-10-09 00:00:00

FOR THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL.
The Adelphiad, No. XX.
IT must be peculiarly gratifying to the pride of an American, to reflect on the rapid progress of science and literature in his native country. We behold schools established, academies founded, and colleges erected in every part of the Union. In the most remote towns of the country, where one would suppose nothing but ignorance and barbarity prevailed, we behold the arts and sciences expanding under the sunshine of public favour and encouragement. This will gradually tend to raise and elevate the character of our country in the eyes of admiring Europe. We shall soon, I trust, be able to shew to the world, that a great and generous nation, distinguished for an ardent love of rational liberty on the one hand, and for an aversion to a misguided jealousy and mistrust of the constituted authorities on the other, will soon be no less remarkable for the splendour of her science and literary acquirements.
It cannot be too often repeated, that science and public liberty are always connected; and that those who neglect the former, cannot long live in the possession of the latter. This is a truth that shines like the sun in the front of creation. Were I not afraid of awakening the jealousy of party, this might be verified by modern examples too strong to resist; but it shall always be my design to avoid, in these disquisitions, topics of so delicate a nature.
When we survey our sister states gradually progressing in knowledge, it ought to rouse a spirit of emulation. Supineness and inactivity have frequently deprived nations as well as individuals of the first favours and blessings of heaven. Let us then display to the world that a State, though one of the smallest in the Union in its territorial acquisitions, is one of the largest in its literary acquirements.
Knowledge is not the tenant of this or that particular country: but the inhabitant of every country where her influence is courted.
But, my fellow-citizens, it is not my intention to say that this State has not furnished her full quota of genius. I only wish to behold her persevering in the same glorious path in which she has begun her splendid career. Let us exemplify these by a few instances. Dr. LADD, though his poems are imperfect, owing perhaps in some measure to his unfortunate death, may justly be considered as the first of American Poets. Posterity, I am firmly persuaded, will do justice to his memory. Let any one read with common candour the poetical letters of Aruot to Amanda, and I very much question whether in any English author they will find sentiments and expressions more beautiful and energetic. The warmest energy of feeling, the strength and glow of his poetry, and the tender sympathy of his sentiments, have engrossed my admiration and respect as much as any author that ever fell within the compass of my observation. With every other admirer of science, I lament his melancholy death—a death that deprived society of one of the brightest poetical ornaments that this country can boast of. Let any one compare his writings with that clumsy poetical performance entitled the "Vision of Columbus," and he will easily discover the diversity between the genuine ease and elegance of poetry, and the stiff and awkward performances of a bungler. He will see the difference between genuine sympathy and affected sensibility. This opinion I have always entertained, and no political prepossessions shall ever deprive me of offering the full tribute of justice to any person entitled to that offer.
Another poetical performance may be mentioned, and that is the small volume of poems composed by the late Josias L. Arnold. I will be bold to say, that they contain more of genuine poetry than many other performances, which have met the full voice of public approbation. He never cringed to the prevalent temper of the times. No distortion of figure, no extravagant conceits, no turgid affected bombast, which shews rather a poverty than an abundance of imagination, and which is, in fact, poetry turned putrid, ever contaminated his writings. All is simple, all is nature, all is elegance. He wrote for posterity, and posterity will reward him. I thought it a duty which I owed to the memory of a much respected friend; to pay this small tribute to his memory; and it is with pride and satisfaction that I do it.
ANECDOE.
DEAN SWIFT was invited to preach an anniversary discourse, by the worshipful corporation of tailors, in Dublin. In his facetious way, he chose the following text—Romans, ix. 27, "And a remnant shall be saved." Though there was nothing in the discourse which could give offence, the knights of the thimble took the text in high dudgeon. They complained of the affront to the Dean, who affected sorrow for the offence, and observed, that if ever he should have occasion to preach before them again, he would make honourable amends for this unintentional insult. They took the hint. The Dean was invited to preach the next year; and when the injured corporation expected to be gratified with Swift's apology, before a large audience, he chose his text from Psalm cv. 31, "And there was lice in all their borders."
Latest European News.
Received at Marblehead, by the Hannah, Capt. Barker, from Hamburg.
Capitulation of Alessandria.
VIENNA, JULY 31.
THIS day's Court Gazette contains the following
SUPPLEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
The General of Cavalry, Melas, has sent the pleasing intelligence from the head-quarters of Alessandria, under date of the 22d inst. of the surrender of that citadel to the Imperial Royal troops.
"As mentioned in our last, the works from the second parallel had already been advanced towards the glacis, on the 19th; in the night between the 19th and 20th, the advancing of the said works took place in three different points, and ground was gained on the glacis to the extent of 30 yards against the covered way. The building of batteries being finished at the same time in the second parallel, and the artillery introduced, the fire was now continued with vigour from all our batteries.
"Gen. Gardanne, the hostile commandant of the citadel finding danger approaching, and probably not wishing to stand an assault, sent, on the 21st, at half-past two o'clock, by his adjutant-general Louis, 3 letter to F. M. Lt. Ct. Bellegarde, informing him, 'That his answer to the first summons sent him, was such as it ought to be, and as F. M. Lt. Ct. Bellegarde would himself have sent, under the same predicament. But that now, being able, without any reproach of conscience or fear of accusation, to listen to the call of humanity, he was not disinclined to enter into a negotiation for capitulation, provided it were founded on such terms as Frenchmen, who knew how to make every sacrifice for honour, could accept.'
"The bearer being unprovided with powers, he was sent back with the intimation, that he should fetch the necessary instructions and powers within two hours, and mention to the commandant, that he should be responsible for all loss that should arise from further delay.
"At three o'clock at night the fire was silent on both sides, and the capitulation concluded; by virtue of which the garrison, consisting of prisoners of war, marched out at two o'clock in the afternoon of the 22d, laid down their arms on the glacis, and will be sent through Pavia, to the hereditary dominions.
"Gen. Melas reserves giving hereafter the capitulation, with an inventory of artillery, ammunition and other stores found in the citadel, as well as the return of our loss in this obstinate siege."
Yesterday arrived here Capt. Errel, of the Staff, with the articles of capitulation, and the six French standards. Not less than 107 pieces of cannon are said to have been found in Alessandria.
Official report of Gen. Melas, to Count Concastelli, the Imperial Commissioner at Milan.
"I have the honor to inform you that the citadel of Alessandria surrendered yesterday, July 21, at seven o'clock in the evening, by capitulation.
"The garrison will march out to-morrow, at four o'clock, P. M. with military honours, lay down their arms on the glacis, and be escorted prisoners of war into the dominions of his Imperial Majesty.
"This happy and sudden success may justly be ascribed to the perseverance of our brave troops, and particularly to the skillful manœuvres of General Count Bellegarde, who directed the siege, but above all to the terrible effect of our excellent artillery.
(Signed)
MELAS."
"From the Head-Quarters before Alessandria, July 29, 1799."
ROVEREDO, JULY 26. The citadel of Alessandria has surrendered after several days bombardment. In the evening of the 21st ult. at the moment when eight battalions of Russians were going to storm it, the French Commandant, Gardanne, desired to capitulate. The capitulation was drawn up and signed on the 22d. The garrison, consisting of 2200 men, are prisoners of war.
MILAN, JULY 22. The capture of the important citadel of Alessandria has caused great joy here. The French have made a most obstinate defence. On the 14th inst. 170 pieces of ordnance played upon it from the first parallel. On the 15th, the second parallel being ready, a most dreadful fire was continued, and every five minutes 45 bombs were thrown into the place. The Piedmontese cannoniers signalized themselves so much, that Suwarrow, publicly, bestowed the highest praises upon them. A great fire broke out in the citadel, and the French garrison could hardly hold out any longer on the ramparts. General Gardanne, their commandant, would, however, not even hear of a surrender, and had an officer and non-commissioned officer shot, for openly saying that all resistance was in vain and that the place must, sooner or later, surrender.
Surrender of Mantua.
LOWER ELBE [Hamburg] AUG. 10.
THE day before yesterday we received a letter from Inspruck [a capital town of Tyrol, situated on the road from Mantua to Augsburg and Hamburg] of the 31st ult. announcing the surrender of Mantua on the 27th. This news is the more probable, as the latest letters from Roveredo and Verona state, that Field Marshal Suwarrow had made a short visit to the camp before it, and that since the 23d a terrible fire had been kept up from 11 batteries, by 443 heavy guns, besides mortars and howitzers. All the out-works were taken before the 26th. We expect to receive the confirmation, by the letters from the Empire, this afternoon.
INSPRUCK, JULY 31. "Intoxicated with joy, I have to announce the pleasing intelligence, that this morning at seven o'clock, the news of the surrender of Mantua arrived here. Little credit, however, was paid to it, till twelve at noon, when its real confirmation reached us. At four in the afternoon, trumpets and kettledrums resounded from the steeples, to make known to the inhabitants of the town and the neighbouring villages this happy event."
AUGSBURG, AUGUST 2. "We this day received by an express from Inspruck, the news of the capitulation of Mantua, on the 27th ult. The courier was sent to his Serene Highness the Elector of Treves, resident here since yesterday. Our Italian letters of to-night are most anxiously expected. Farther confirmation may arrive, by the letters of the Empire, this afternoon."
General Articles—Interesting.
LOWER ELBE, AUG. 10. Gen. Macdonald's retreat by the road of mules, by Sarzana, Sestri, and Spezzia, has cost him dear, being obliged to burn and throw into the sea every utensil or implement of the least weight.
The Tuscan insurgent army, invading the Roman territory, have taken Viterbo and Tacti, and marched against Perugia. The forts Cecina and Bibbona, and the cities of Grosseto, and Castiglione, with eight pieces of cannon, have also been taken, and the French garrisons made prisoners. All the precious effects taken at Florence, and which the Tuscan insurgents were compelled to embark on the Arno for Leghorn, have been recovered by the peasants, who cut the French escort to pieces.
ROVEREDO, JULY 26. The siege of Tortona will now be carried on with redoubled vigour. Field-Marshal Suwarrow went thither on the 23d, to accelerate the operations. This citadel being situated on a high and steep mountain, is very difficult of approach.
PIACENZA, JULY 20. The number of French under the command of Moreau and Macdonald, who occupy the chain of mountains from Leghorn to Genoa, is estimated at 30,000—Moreau's head-quarters are now at Arena.
BOLOGNA, JULY 21. What was to be expected has really happened: The French have entirely evacuated Leghorn, and Macdonald saw himself forced, for want of provisions, to retire from the Genoese mountains, which produce nothing but oranges, olives and mulberries, to Genoa, so that he is now actually united with Moreau.
VERONA, JULY 23. Since the month of April, the Austrians have taken Peschiera, Brescia, Pizzighettone, Milan, Turin, Ferrara, and the citadel of Alessandria, which has all been effected by regular sieges. The French on the contrary, starved out both Mantua and Luxemburg, by blockading them, and obtained possession of some other fortresses by treachery.
Gen. Macdonald is said to have requested permission of Field Marshal Suwarrow, to go to the baths of Pifa, for the recovery of his health, which the latter humanely granted in the kindest terms.
MILAN, JULY 24. Gen. Macdonald, who went from Spezza in a felucca to Genoa, has resigned his command.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 10. It is this day rumoured here, that the Anglo-Turkish forces have taken the commercial city of Rosetta, on the Nile, which is near Alexandria.
HAMBURGH, AUG. 10. The fort of Tortona will, no doubt, surrender after this; Field Marshal Suwarrow having already detached, on the 3d, many of his troops, from before Alessandria. To bombard this mountainous spot would be difficult; but the great want of provisions in the garrison will accelerate its fall.
The forced preparations of defence in Holland and Flanders continue with great reluctance on the part of the inhabitants, especially in the Dutch provinces.
VENICE, JULY 24. We have this day received direct letters from Rome down to the 13th inst., of which the following is the purport:
"This city is surrounded from all sides with Neapolitan troops and insurgents. The French
commandant has declared Rome and all the Papal dominions in a state of siege, suspended the senate, the consuls and the tribunal, and given orders to levy quickly all the arrears of contributions. The wearing of arms is prohibited. The French troops dispersed here and there in the Roman territory collect in Ancona, Civitta Vecchia and Fort Angeli. The Jacobins and patriots fly thither, having no other refuge. Our gates are shut and the streets lined with French guards. Within this last week upwards of 200 persons have been arrested.
Field-Marshal Suwarrow has been on a short visit to the Imperial camp before Mantua.
The French Commandant at Mantua has sent his son and daughter out of the place, previous to the dreadful bombardment, recommending them to the kindness of Gen. Kray.
Before the French left Leghorn, a great quantity of artillery, with 40,000 muskets, purchased by the Spanish Consul, for the account of his Court, had been embarked.
FLORENCE, JULY 20. The French have emptied all our public chests, and an extraordinary contribution of 80,000 scudi has been ordered for the relief of the poor, &c.
In Lucca the French left behind 150 pieces of cannon and burnt a great quantity of military stores.
PAVIA, JULY 24. A correspondence has been remarked going on for 3 days past between F. M. Suwarrow and General Moreau, the object of which remains a secret. They talk of great events, which are on the eve of development.
BERN, JULY 26. Yesterday we received certain intelligence that the French General Hardi arrived, with 8 battalions of infantry, and four companies of artillerymen, in the canton of Lemman, and his troops are to be stationed between Lausanne and Genoa, till further orders. Provisions being scarce in the canton of Lemman, the French Generals have applied to the Helvetic Directory for the support of the troops.
This day and yesterday strong detachments of troops passed through this place, some going through Fribourg into the Valais country, others through Thun into the Oberland. They all come from the interior of the republic.
HANAU, AUG. 2. At Vevai, in the canton of Bern, some detachments of French troops are arrived, on their way to the Valais, where Gen. Tureau's army is to be augmented to 20,000. French troops are continually marching to Geneva, to form a camp, which will be principally occupied by a part of the army of the Alps.
The head-quarters of the great French army will, it is thought, be removed to Aran. Gen. Massena is soon expected to make a grand attack from all quarters; if possible before the Russians arrive.
FRANKFORT, AUG. 3. Upon a moderate calculation it appears, that the French have levied every year contributions and requisitions of every kind in Holland, the right bank of the Rhine, Switzerland, Piedmont, Genoa, Cisalpinia, Tuscany, Naples and Rome, to the amount of 300,000,000 of livres. The source is now for the best part drained by the success of the allied arms.
TRIEST, JULY 21. There are private accounts from Smyrna, stating the taking of Alexandria, in Egypt, by the English, but this news wants confirmation.
FRANKFORT, AUG. 3. Some letters from Brunswick state, that the King of Prussia, and the Electors of Saxony, Bavaria, &c. will all furnish the army of the Empire with their contingents in natura.
Capitulation of Leghorn.
LEGHORN, JULY 19.
"In the night between the 16th and 17th inst. the French evacuated this city.
"About three weeks since, the insurgents of Arezzo advanced in several columns towards Florence and Siena, and took the latter by capitulation. Every where the people joined them in a mass. The French, not thinking themselves safe at Florence, evacuated that city on the 5th.
"The French minister, Reinhard, arrived here, and embarked in an American ship with Keréi, the French consul, and Samadet, late delegate of the French commissioner, and partner of an English house, under the firm of Darby, Samadet and Co. which ship was captured by the English.
"A few days ago, the insurgents, under the command of the Chevalier Curcio Inghirami, formerly an officer of the Grand Duke's marine, advanced to Montenero, and were joined by the inhabitants of the district of Leghorn. It was their intention to seize the fortress of Antignano, and to maintain themselves there till the Austrians advanced farther from Florence. In the mean time, the French reinforced the garrison of Antignano.
"In the night of the 17th, a courier, very unexpectedly, brought orders to Gen. Dargouet, the French commandant of Leghorn, to evacuate that city instantly. In consequence, he sent for the Tuscan ex-governor, Gen. Lavielette, the president of the commune, Alliaz,

and the presidents of the bank and commerce, who soon after concluded the following
CAPITULATION.
"Dargoubet, general of brigade, and commandant of Leghorn, Pisa, and Lucca, proposes to the governor and Gen. Lavilette and the chamber of commerce, to evacuate the city of Leghorn, on the subsequent conditions:
"Art. 1. Gen. Lavilette and the chamber of commerce promise all the French remaining in the hospitals of Leghorn, protection and assistance. On their recovery, they shall be sent back to the French army.—Accepted.
"Art. 2. Gen. Lavilette and the chamber of commerce farther pledge themselves to receive the garrison of Porto Ferrajo, and to send it, the day after its arrival, under escort and in safety, to the French army.—Accepted.
"Art. 3. The chamber of commerce likewise promises to let such commercial houses in Leghorn, as have been ruined by requisitions for lead and salt-petre for the French army, partake of the indemnities and compensations that shall be hereafter granted. All the goods and effects of the French army, implements of siege, and other things belonging to the said army by right of conquest, shall be left behind for this purpose.—Accepted.
"DARGOUBET, Gen. "LAVILETTE, "ALLIATA, "RIELLET, "FILICCHI."
(Signed) On the 17th, at 2 o'clock in the morning, the French quietly marched out, without beating a drum. Immediately after, the people left their houses, and appeared with the Imperial and Tuscan cockade.
Gen. Lavilette immediately took upon him the command, and ordered the chasseurs to be armed to do military duty.
The first act of the people was to cut down the tree of liberty on our great square, that in the quarter of the Jews had been removed the night before, and to destroy all the statues and emblems of liberty. They began to break the windows in the quarter of the Jews, but numerous patrols soon restored tranquility. Many of the partisans of the French had not had time to follow them in their retreat. They were arrested and committed to the great guard, amidst the execrations of the people. The patrols were obliged to exert themselves to the utmost, to save them from falling sacrifices to popular fury. Gen. Lavilette has since published rigid regulations, to prevent excesses, and all is to be left to the justice and clemency of the Grand Duke, whose government is now restored. The arbitrary arrests, which continued till yesterday, have now diminished.
On the 7th nothing but feux de joie were to be heard, and Imperial and Tuscan colours every where seen, which the people carried exultingly through the streets, with the images of the Grand Duke, Grand Duchess, and the Pope.
This day business is carried on. The banks pay as usual, and all is quiet. This morning two French privateers, who were detained here, failed under the Austrian and Tuscan flag; two
The French evacuated Pisa on the 17th, and Lucca is now likewise free from them. Next week great feasts and rejoicings.
Citizen Reinhard, his secretary, Citizens Kerner and Caillashon, commissioner at Pisa, are said to have been carried by the English to Porto Longone, in the island of Elba, others say to Palermo, in Sicily.
The populace here have forced the Batavian consul to take down the arms of his republic from his house.
On the Grand Duke's balcony are floating the flags of the 6 allied friendly powers, viz. the 3 Imperial, the English, Neapolitan and Tuscan flags, to which has been added that of Sardinia.
BOLOGNA, July 16.
On the 13th, 22,000 Neapolitans advanced against Ancona, and made themselves masters of that place. This is the army that was encamped near Jessi for these 8 days past.
Fort Leo, in the Papal territory, surrendered to an Austrian captain of marines on the 13th. The garrison, consisting of 17 officers, 23 inferior officers, 5 commissaries, and 165 privates, was permitted to retire, on condition of not serving, for one twelvemonth, against the Emperor and his allies.
GLASGOW, August 6.
The interior situation of France is highly interesting. The new Directory have, in the most pressing terms, urged their want of men, arms and money; but these appear to be wholly unattended to by the councils. Violent struggles have taken place in the council of ancients, and in the council of five hundred, relative to a new form of oath to be taken by the members. The proceedings of the latter seem to be altogether under the influence of the Jacobin Club at the Metropole, where those of the former have denounced this club as having entertained a plan for the assassination of two of the directors, Sieyes and Barras, who are esteemed Moderates; the other three newly elected directors, appear to be at the head of the violent Jacobin party. The following is the tenor of the oath which was at length adopted.
"I swear fidelity to the Republic, and the Constitution of the third year. I swear to oppose myself to the utmost of my power, to the re-establishment of Royalty in France, and to that of every other species of tyranny." The words Hatred to Anarchy, introduced by the Moderates, were struck out by the Jacobins. The revival of the reign of terrorism is very much to be dreaded at Paris.
Official letters from Sir Sidney Smith, relative to the discomfiture of Buonaparte before Acre, were read in the East-India house. Buonaparte's army, totally dispirited from their immense loss, and worn out with fatigue, having been furnished with shoes and water gourds to
cross the desert, left Acre on the 20th. May. His inhuman conduct towards his own wounded is beyond example—he dragged them along with him to Jaffa, and then sent them to Damietta, on board vessels without water, provisions and seamen. Such of those poor wretches who could move, decided to steer strait for Sir Sidney, in perfect confidence of his affording them the good offices of humanity, and in which, we are happy to observe, they were not disappointed. In these vessels were also found all Buonaparte's twelve pounders that he had with him at Acre; his eighteen and twenty-four pounders and mortars, lay scattered on the road with the dead and dying, the whole way between Acre and Jaffa. Thus has the would be Hero of Lodi fallen; thus has this ferocious "Bandit; mast with pride," amply justified the words of an author fully competent to the subject, "he sacrificed the lives of four thousand men to the vanity of forcing a pass [Lodi] which he could have turned without the loss of one," as was lately done by the Austrians and Russians.
Letters received over land from India, on Friday last, bring the important intelligence of hostilities having commenced in India between the British forces and the army of Tippoo Saib. On the 6th of March, Tippoo's army, commanded by himself in person, attacked the British army under the command of Gen. Stuart. The overthrow of the tyrant was so complete, that it is doubtful whether he can retain, even for a short time, the remnant of his power, which he has so shamefully misused. We trust that the king of Mysore, long kept a prisoner by Tippoo, has, ere now, been reinstated on his throne. No official accounts of the engagement have been received, if we except the orders of thanks issued by Gen. Stuart on the following day.
LONDON, August 3.
French Counter Revolutionary Plan. The Mercury of Europe (Hamburg paper) under the head Paris, has an article bearing the following title, and which is said to be in general circulation through France:—
PROPOSITIONS
 Which are already popular, and are daily becoming more and more so, here; viz.  "1. The re-establishment of Monarchy in France, on rational terms.  "2. The King shall grant a general amnesty, without any exceptions or exemptions whatever.  "3. Property which, according to the existing laws of the Republic, has been legally acquired, and is now legally held, shall be respected as legal property.  "4. Such of the army who shall join the standard of the King, shall be continued in their respective ranks, advancements, and pay.  "5. The King shall renounce all claim on the territorial acquisitions of the Republic; and the King, as well as the powers at war with the Republic, shall solemnly guarantee the integrity of ancient France, and shall proclaim a general peace.  "6. Every species of vassalage, tithes, corvees, foccage, or bound service, and all other contributions in kind, shall be forever abolished.  "7. The impositions or revenues, necessary for maintaining the government, shall be raised upon the produce of the fixed and moveable property of the state, without any exceptions or exemptions whatever.  "8. The French people shall all be governed by the same publicly defined and determined laws, both civil and municipal.  "9. Honesty and capacity shall be the criterion whereby the public functions in the state shall be filled.  "10. When these preliminaries are agreed upon, the king shall invite the French nation to elect or nominate, from among their sage and discreet men, a representative body, to meet the King at such part or place in ancient France, as the King may point out, there to consult with him and assist him with their wisdom; to arrange, draw up, and settle, a national code or charter, whereby the French people shall be governed, upon the before stated principles.  "The Members of the present Republican government, or other functionaries of the Republic, being otherwise qualified, shall be eligible to sit in the Representative body." 
The Gazette of Saturday last is the richest in naval captures that we have seen for a long time, and is another proud trophy of the triumphal superiority of the British navy, and of the unequalled skill, gallantry and vigilance of our sailors: It contains official accounts of the capture or destruction of forty-four vessels, and at least one thousand seven hundred men.
MANIFESTO.
Addressed to the Belgians, distributed by the advanced posts of Gen. Scharnhorst's corps.
BRAVE BELGIANS! "We are now arrived on the frontiers of the empire, whose chief is your lawful sovereign, his majesty the emperor and king. It now depends upon you, brave Belgians! to abandon the banners of your usurpers, and repair to the standard of your ancient, most illustrious sovereign, where you will be received with open arms. The victorious troops are advancing with great strides, and only wait your arrival to receive you in its bosom, and, supported by your courage, to lead you back to your country. Belgians! his imperial majesty promises, from this moment, to all those who have been guilty of desertion, the total oblivion of their offences, and a general amnesty."
(Signed) COUNT SZTARRAY. Head-quarters at Donaufchingen, July 1, '99.
LOWESTOFFE, August 1.
Yesterday afternoon arrived off this place from the Nore, a Russian vice-admiral of the blue, with two sail of the line, two frigates, and a brig
loop of war, and after exchanging some signals, were soon after joined by the Russian vice-admiral of the red, from Yarmouth Roads, with four sail of the line, and at sunset they made sail for the coast of Holland.
Domestic Articles.
SAVANNAH, September 10.
Extract of a letter from Capt. William Malcolm, late master of the ship Carolina, dated Paimpol, 10th May, 1799.
BEFORE you receive this, you must be acquainted of my capture, on the 27th of February. Five weeks out, the Star Point distant four leagues, I was attacked by the French lugger privateer the Couragcaux, of six guns and fifty men; when, after an action of two hours, he boarded and carried me with thirty men; having but a slender force to oppose with, which was weakened by two of my men being severely wounded in the early part of the engagement. I defended the property as long as there was a possibility of resisting, and now acquaint you I am detained here as a prisoner of war, and can form no idea when I shall be released; my people have been marched about 200 miles into the country. On writing to the consul-general at Paris, he promises to demand my release, and if refused, to solicit my absence on parole."
RALEIGH, (N.C.) September 17.
On Wednesday last, the Governor of the state left this place on his way to Philadelphia, in order to take on him the important duties of his mission to France.
Previous to his departure, the inhabitants of Raleigh and of its neighbourhood, met and caused him to be presented with an address, of which the following is a copy.
To his Excellency WILLIAM R. DAVIE, Esq; Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the state of North-Carolina; SIR,
THE inhabitants of the city of Raleigh and of its vicinity, learn with concern, that you leave this place in the morning, preparatory to your departure from the state, and in order to take on you the duties of the appointment to which they understand you have been lately called by the government of the United States, as one of the mission to the Republic of France.—However well pleased and gratified they may be at this distinguished mark of the high trust and confidence reposed in you by your country; and however ready they feel individually to declare their full and entire reliance on your long tried and acknowledged patriotism and talents; yet they would do a violence to their feelings were they to suffer this opportunity to pass away without a declaration of their regret at the necessity of your absence, and without an expression of the affectionate and respectful sentiments with which they are persuaded, all who have the pleasure of knowing you behold your departure. That the great national object which thus calls you from your government, your family and your friends in Carolina, may be fully and happily accomplished, is their most sincere and devout wish—And they beg you to be assured, that as friends and fellow-citizens, they not only feelingly regret your departure from among them, but offer up their sincere and best wishes for your personal safety, health and prosperity during your absence; and for your speedy and happy return to the bosom of your country, to your family and to your friends.
Signed by appointment, and under the direction of the inhabitants present.
JOHN HAYWARD, WM. POLK, WM. WHITE, J. CRAVEN, S. HAYWOOD,
Raleigh, Sept. 10.
To which the Governor returned an answer as follows:
To the inhabitants of the city of Raleigh and its vicinity.
GENTLEMEN, I thank you for the polite and friendly address with which you have been pleased to honour me; such an expression of the affectionate esteem of my fellow-citizens, could not fail to excite the most lively sensation.—The importance of the object of my journey, and the hope of being more serviceable to my country, could alone reconcile me to an absence from the duties of my office, or even a departure from the state, at this interesting crisis. I shall leave the city of Raleigh, where every moment has been marked with the most respectful attention to me, with sincere regret; and I beg you to be assured, that I feel with proper sensibility the interest you are pleased to take in my welfare.
Be so good as to accept of my warmest wishes for your individual happiness and prosperity, and believe me, with great respect and esteem, Your most obedient servant,
WILLIAM R. DAVIE.
Raleigh, September 11.
On the morning of his departure, the officers of the cavalry, together with a number of their troops, met at the State-House square, where being joined by the inhabitants of this city, the officers of the federal troops remaining in town, and by a number of other gentlemen, they waited on the governor at the hour of his setting out, and having escorted him four miles on his journey, they alighted and bade him an affectionate adieu.
NEW-LONDON, October 2.
An American citizen cannot expatriate himself.
"On Wednesday last came on before the circuit court for the district of Connecticut, the Hon. Chief Justice Ellsworth presiding, the trial of Capt. Isaac Williams, formerly of Norwich. He was arraigned, we understand, on two distinct indictments; the first charged him, being a citizen of the United States, with having taken a commission under the French
government, to cruise against a nation with whom the United States were at peace, contrary to existing treaties; the second indictment charged him with having, under such unauthorized commission, captured a British ship. On a plea of Not Guilty, to the first indictment, it was admitted that he was a natural born citizen of the United States, but that he was naturalized in France in the year 1793, the date of his commission, and thereby invested with all the privileges with which the laws of France could invest a foreigner; and received a commission to serve on board a 74 gun ship of war. Upon these facts the case turned entirely upon the question of the power of a citizen of the United States, to put off the allegiance due to his native country. The prosecution was forcibly maintained by the district attorney, Mr. Edwards, and Mr. Chauncy Goodrich, and ably defended by Messrs. Daggett and Holmer, for the prisoner. The Judge in an explicit manner declared to the jury, the law that a citizen could not expatriate himself. On a verdict of guilty by the jury, the prisoner received sentence by the court, to suffer four months imprisonment, and pay a fine of 1000 dollars. Upon which he pleaded guilty to the second indictment, and received a similar sentence.
The law on this great and interesting point, as pronounced by the Chief Justice, is founded on a sound and important principle, however misunderstood by a great class of our fellow-citizens. And it is to be hoped that this decision will dissipate the doubts of many wavering men, and add another nerve to national energy."
BOSTON, October 4.
Bruix and Massaredo.
It is reported, That a vessel has arrived at Marblehead from Bilboa, and has brought news, that the valorous French and Spanish Admirals, with their respective fleets, have got safe into Brest.
On Monday last, the President of the United States, set out from Quincy, for the Seat of government.
On Tuesday evening, the President reached Worcester, on his way to Philadelphia.
At the annual Commencement at Princeton (N. J.) College, on the 25th ultimo, the Degree of L. L. D. was conferred on the Hon. Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury, and the Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, Member of Congress from Massachusetts.
Notwithstanding the re-election of the LYON , to represent the creatures of a certain District in Vermont, his subjects in that State are few. Maugre all their fawning and roaring, the fur of their paws and the fire of their eyes, the People of Vermont have re-elected, by a large majority, their federal Governor, His Excellency Isaac Tichenor, and their federal Lieutenant Governor, His Honour Paul Brigham.
Gen. Dearborn, of Pittston, Maine, has arrived at Cape Hatteras, with the materials for erecting a Light-House at that place, and a Beacon at Shell-Castle.
New Publications,
Just received, and for Sale or Circulation, at
JOSEPH J. TODD'S
Book Store and Circulating Library.
Among the latest European and American Publications, are the following:—
 THE Beauties of Nature and Art, displayed in a Tour through the World, 13 vols.  Travels in Spain, by the Chevalier de Bourgranne, 2 vols.  History of Paraguay, by Charlevoix, containing new, curious, and interesting particulars, of that country. 2 vols.  Essays, Civil, Moral, Literary and Political; interspersed with Characters, Portraits and Anecdotes, by the Marquis D'Argenson.  Gonzalva of Cordova  The German  Gil Blas  Mountain Cottager  Wonder upon Wonder, a Tale  Agnes and Leonora  Josephine de Mordant  Confessions of a Beauty  Margaretta Rolandhalla  Godfrey de Hastings  Love's Pilgrimage  Constantia de Valmont  Ildegerte, Queen of Norway, from the German of Kotzebue. 
ALSO,
A new supply of Classical and School Books. Foolcap and Post Paper, from the Worcester, Sutton, and Providence Mills, by the Ream or Retail.
Blank Books of various sizes
A new and pleasing assortment of Children's Books, of more than 75 different kinds, all ornamented with beautiful engravings.
Seaman's Books, among which are Journals, Naval Gazetteer, American Coast Pilot, and Moore's New Practical Navigator, improved and greatly enlarged.
Real Havanna Segars, by the box or retail.
Constant attendance from sunrise till 9 o'clock, P. M. October 9.
For Sale,
At the GOLDEN BEE-HIVE,
 A FEW pipes of 4th proof very pleasant French Brandy  Hyson, Souchong and Bohca Tea per chest  Light and heavy Russia Duck  Russia Sheeting  Sewing Twine, &c, 
October 9.

Providence, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9.
At the annual meeting of the Stockholders in the Providence Bank, the following gentlemen were re-elected Directors of the same; John Brown, John I. Clark, Zabez Bowen, Moses Brown, Samuel Butler, Thomas L. Halsey, Nicholas Brown, John Corlis and William Holroyd.
COMMUNICATION.
"When the Congress of the United States are about to make an establishment for the use and benefit of the federal government at large, any information that may be given by any individuals, I have no doubt will be received as worthy their attention. The situation at Nanquid-Point, on Providence River, in the town of Warwick and county of Kent, in this state, has been recommended as a place which embraces many natural advantages for making a dry dock, for the fitting and repairing the navy of the United States: and to satisfy the public that a sufficient depth of water may be had in channel way to bring the largest ships of war to said point, a number of citizens, on the 28th of August last, took the exact soundings of the channel, from Nanquid-Point, to the lower part of Poppasquash-Point, opposite Bristol, and found it not to have less than five fathoms at low water, in the shoalest ground, and that a small part of the distance so shoal as that, being mostly from six to seven fathoms to where the channel below, falls into deeper water.
A CITIZEN.
The following prime clin appears in a late Eastern paper:
"Dogood; no matter how 'tis done Man needs no more—beneath the sun."
'Tis wonderful that this capital rhymester had not the moon in his head at the time of inditing.
From the same source is derived this:
"On to your posts; the mimic thunders wield, And dare all Gallia to the warlike field..."
which seems naturally enough to remind one of the following excellent specimen of the Bathos, from one of Sir Richard Blackmore's poems:
And thou, Dalbeuffy , the great god of war— Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Mar.
A certain " Wittol Editor " entitles a long string of villainous nonsense " Recent Omissions ." We think he had much better have laid recent commissions,
Tom Paine having so unsuccessfully wielded his blasphemous pen against heaven, has turned his impotent weapon against the U. States. As the Telegraph observes, he croaks a little, but has totally lost the favour of all parties, that they universally exclaim,
"Cease babbling, monster, born to vex the state, With wrangling talents form'd for foul debate."
It is astonishing what absurd conclusions "grave and formal" Philosophy often makes. The love of theory and the zeal to account for, and explain every thing, from the machinery of a mousetrap, to the nature of the mind, and the structure of the universe, is the foul blot of science, and the bane of good sense. Alexander, in his " History of Women ," talks in the following absurd manner of the well known roughness of the generous tars, and describes it as occasioned by the rareness of their intercourse with the sex. "Men secluded from the company of women, become slovenly in their persons, and rough and untractable in their manners; but this is not all, even their gait assumes a more uncouth appearance and their voice a harsher, and less musical tone; their sensations become less delicate, their sentiments less religious, and their passions seem to have more of the brutal, than those of the rest of their sex; circumstances, which appear but too conspicuous in Sailors, &c." Though we are far from depreciating the numberless advantages, which arise from the company, conversation, and example of woman, yet the general position of this author, as he has here stated it, is not true. It is fact that those, who choose to resort with the ladies, may be, and, generally are, polished, gentle, neat, &c. but it is false that he, who never visits a toilet, is necessarily a brute and a sloven. The soldier, the scholar, the hermit, and the monk are all, in a great measure, strangers to the company of ladies, and yet, some of the above classes are clean in person, gentle in deportment, and of delicate, pure and upright mind. A sailor obliged to swab the deck and "dawby marline bind," is slovenly because tar and pitch combine to make him so. His gait assumes an uncouth appearance from the rolling of the ship, not from the absence of the fair. His voice is hoarse and unmusical, not because he does not listen to the syrens, but because he is obliged to vociferate, amid the dash of billows, and the howl of storms, and because his only instruments of sound are the boatwains call and the bellowing trumpet.
[Farmer's Museum.]
SCRAPS
FROM LATE LONDON PAPERS.
The sailor who ordered his limbs to be put into a gun and shot off at the enemy, took a better method to be canonized for a hero, than the Pope himself could have suggested!
It appears from Mr. Park's travels, that in Africa crim. con. is punished with stripes. This is a clear proof of the barbarism of these people. How it would shock the feelings of a civilized nation, to see a fashionable intrigue punished like a petty larceny.
Jean Debry's promotion to the office of President of the Council of Five Hundred is no doubt the reward of an escape, which perhaps not one in five hundred could have effected.
Elopement. —A young lady at Baden, in Wilts, has eloped with a Rascals , distinguished in that neighbourhood as a famous wrestler, determined, it seems, to try a fall with him.
Improvement in the art of Printing. —Mr. Cun-
ningham, of Southampton, has discovered a method of making and keeping printing balls, without the smallest taint of that noxious and highly offensive process hitherto made use of. Besides cleanliness, the invention has economy to recommend it, as at least half the present expense of that article will be saved; and, what appears extraordinary, the balls in a few minutes may be altered from black to red, or vice versa, without the smallest detriment to either colour.
A young lady, at Wittenburg, was suffocated by the effluvia of Violets, and a quantity of other flowers, kept in her bed-chamber. We mention this as a caution to many who are in the habit of decorating their chambers with dying flowers, not knowing that a most deleterious gas is emitted by them, always highly injurious to health, even when the consequence is not so fatal as in the above instance.
It is objected to Kotzebue's plays, that all his profligates are men of rank. But how could it have been otherwise? Poor profligates are very unfit for the business of Comedy , being generally "hanged by the neck till they are dead!"
The Suwarrows Hat is sported by young ladies going upon conquest ; while the Bonnet au Resentir shades the blushing faces of those who have been untimely conquered .
Oxford, this year, has 7 Regents, 3 Doctors in divinity, 3 in civil law, 3 in medicine, and 112 Masters of Arts.
In the small village of Blackrod, near Sheffield, there are eight men, whose united ages amount to 743 years; excepting one, they are all capable of working at some employment.
On the death of Gen. Wolfe, a premium being offered for the best written Epitaph, on the brave officer, a number of poets of all descriptions started as candidates. Amongst the rest, there was a poem sent to the editor of the Public Advertiser , from which the following curious stanza is selected:
"He marched without dread or fear, At the head of his bold grenadiers; nay, And what was more miraculous—very particular, He climbed up rocks that were perpendicular."
The following, copied from a late London paper, is the act of accusation against the Ex-Directors, proposed by a special commission of the French Council of Five Hundred.
For having made to be sold, or for having themselves sold, our ammunition, our arms, our provisions, effects of every species, and for having left our fortified places without warlike stores.
For having remained in the most cruel inaction, whilst every thing announced war; whilst our enemies made the most formidable preparations, and whilst the North was vomiting forth trained soldiers in immense numbers.
For having sent our brave legions, without arms, without ammunition, without provisions, to be destroyed upon the banks of the Danube and of the Adige, by an enemy three times more numerous than they.
For having preferred in the interior, an army of more than an hundred thousand men, at the very moment at which war was declared.
For having sent away by their own authority above forty thousand men to perish in the deserts of Arabia.
For having discouraged and exasperated the army of Italy, by dismissing Gen. Championnet, who had dethroned a king, and by the nomination of Scherer to the command of that army.
For never having punished the agents and commissioners of the Directory accused of harrowing and plundering the allied republicans.
For having destroyed, by a military force, the constitution of the Cisalpine, and for having mutilated its authorities.
For having interrupted the correspondence between the diplomatic agents and the minister, and for having appropriated to themselves this correspondence.
For having made an attack on the national sovereignty, by violating the liberty of elections.
For having sent commissaries to influence the elections on the side of the Directory, and by threatening the arrestation of those who would not conform to the will of what they called the government.
For sending confidential letters to the central commissaries, in which were developed the means of corrupting opinion.
For suffering to remain unpunished the central commissary of La Sarthe, which is attested even by the messages of the Directory.
For the means of terror which these central and special commissaries employed to remove the patriots from the political assemblies.
For the arbitrary and innumerable detentions of republican functionaries before the elections, under the pretence of anarchy, in order to deprive them of the suffrages of the people; a conduct which benumbed all public spirit.
For having rendered themselves culpable by arrests and arbitrary imprisonments.
For having suffered the war in La Vendee, and of the Chouans, to be re-organized, which ought to have been prevented by wise precautions, or combated by forces sent from the interior.
For having encouraged by the re-action, and multiplied by impunity, murders and assassinations, directed principally against the republicans and the functionaries; in fine, for having hazarded the Republic by the vices of their administration.
FROM THE AURORA.
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE EXTRA!
On the second Tuesday in October next, will be run for on the Pennsylvania course, the Governor's purse, of immense value.
Of the horses entered we have only heard of two, viz. JUPITER , and SALOMON ; both of which, by those who have entered them, are valued as the first nags in the state;—the following is their characters, as taken from the racing calendar.
Judge , high-chested, large-boned, and full American blood, remarkably sagacious, never ran
out of the course, and has the good quality of preventing other horses from waiting the pro-render of his master. He was entered for the Congress Sweepstakes in Delaware State, where he distanced the field, carrying odds in weight, and has continued a favourite ever since—lately received a bite from a vicious horse named President, while at play, which raised an inflammation on his pastern joints. He however is recovered, and supposed to be better able to stand a long heat. A handful of dirt has been thrown in his eyes by a Lancaster groom, but by the application and skill of a Doctor Editor, an excellent Fartier, he sees clear as ever.
The grooms who back him have attempted several knowing tricks on Judge, and all the arts of English jockeyship with a view of injuring his speed. Finding themselves disappointed, they were in hopes of weakening him by mixing Spanish Flies in his food, but this attempt has also done him no injury, for it is known that he has too much bottom, and is expected to carry the race hollow.
Seeker , is about 16 1-2 hands high, spirited and well made; his pedigree is unknown, supposed to have been crossed by English blood. He once started at Democracy heath, where he flew the course, and threw his rider—He is very long-winded, but has been set down in the back finews while practising. He has the remarkable fault of feigning lameness or spavin, on critical occasions, which has occasioned many serious losses to those who have bet on him. It is the opinion of the best sportsmen, that he cannot win the purse by fair running; and it is hoped no crossing or jostling will be allowed. He is now in training by thirteen city grooms, who, from having studied the British maxims in such cases, their knowledge of British jockeying, will no doubt do every thing in their power to secure the race.
The horses will start precisely at ten o'clock, when all those who are fond of sport, will please to give punctilious attendance.—Bets in favour of Judge, five to one.
From BOSTON.
By last Evening's Mail.
By the Philanthropist, Capt. Prince, arrived at Marblehead, since our last, from Bilboa, 44 days, we learn, that the French and Spanish fleets, after a pleasant excursion, have escaped the British Squadrons, and are safely moored in Brest waters.—This information was reported at Bilboa, Aug. 20th. Off Cape Ortugal, Capt. Prince fell in with the English frigate Fishguard , who informed him, that the fleets had safely arrived at Brest.—Capt. P. also mentions the taking of Mantua.
On Friday arrived ship Mercury , Capt. Pearson, from Embden, 48 days.—By which we learn, that 95,000 Prussians were marching to augment the expedition against Holland; and that the hereditary Prince of Orange, and two Prussian General Officers, had arrived at Embden to examine the coast, and ascertain a proper place for the disembarkation of the troops.
Same evening arrived, private armed ship Camilla , Capt. Seward, 71 days from Amsterdam. On passing the town, she manned yards and shrouds, and gave three cheers, which were returned from her prize, the Little John , from the Herald sloop of war, from the Orion , and from the citizens of Long and Hancock's wharves.
Capt. Seward took dispatches from Mr. Murray, for our government, with written directions to destroy them, in case he met with any cruiser; which Capt. S. did on falling in with the Andromeda British frigate.
When captain S. was at Norway, the Danes and Swedes were embargoed, in expectation of a war with France. French privateers were not allowed to tarry longer than 24 hours in Norway.
The buoys in the Texel were all taken up, in expectation of a visit from the British.
FROM CAPE FRANCOIS.
A gentleman recently from thence, mentions, that several French letters of marque were there loading with coffee; and expected to sail soon. The United States frigate Boston , was cruising round the Island.
"The French, by going to the East, have acquired a practical proof of the local nature of their new calendar. Although Buonaparte, according to their own mode of expression, fait le pluie et le beau tems in Egypt, he cannot make a frost month or a snow month ( Frimaire—Nivose .)"
The Frigate launched at Salem is called the Essex , designed for 32 guns; but, we understand, is of superior dimensions. The expense of her building has been defrayed by the subscription of the merchants of Salem. Messrs. Derby and Gray subscribed 10,000 dollars each. The frigate has been erected in the short period of six months.
We learn that the yellow fever is in Newbern (N. C.) We understand that in two days 16 persons died; Mrs. Craddock has lost in one week, the whole of her children, 5 in number. The inhabitants are flying in every direction.
Acre , supposed to be the ancient and once splendid Ptolemais, after sleeping in obscurity for so many centuries, emerges at the end of the eighteenth, in a resistance to the destroying arms of an infidel marauder, equally resolute with that offered to the arms of the Christian Prince, Richard Cœur de Lion. How singular are the variations in the fortunes of cities and of empires.
Mr. Adams, the American minister, has left Berlin, and proceeded to Dresden.
The Wesel Gazette asserts that the three French ex-directors have transmitted very large sums of money by the way of Hamburg and Bremen, to be vested in the English Funds.
3 deaths were reported at the Health Office, in New-York, for the 24 hours ending October 2, at 12 o'clock.
8 deaths were reported in Philadelphia, for 24 hours, ending Monday evening September 30 at 8 o'clock.
Died,
At Castleton (Vermont) Mrs. Amy Fitch, relict of Col. Eleazer Fitch, late of Windham, aged 73 years.
In this town, Mrs. Mary Holland, relict of the late Capt. Holland.
Port of Providence.
ENTERED. Ship Neptune , West, St. Peterburgh; sloop Boston Packett, Deane, Boston; sloop Lucy , Holmes, Boston; brig Betty , Graves, New-Providence.
CLEARED. Sloop Greyhound , Mathewson, Warren; sloop Liberty , Mooers, Nantucket; sloop Friendship , Godfrey, Norfolk; sloop Betty , Tucker, Norfolk; schooner Betty , Hutchins, Wilmington.
❖ The conclusion of the Acts of Congress, accompanies this day's Paper.
❖ The Subscribers to the Journal , who, upon examining their files of the Acts of Congress, should find a deficiency in any of the signatures or sheets, may probably be supplied, on sending a note to the office, specifying the signatures or pages deficient.
For Boston,
THE Sloop LUCY , of Barnstable, B. HOLMES master; will sail in a few days. For freight either way, or passage (as she is a regular packet) please to apply to the mailer on board, lying at the Market Wharf.
October 9.
Tristram Burges
INFORMS the Public, that he keeps his office, as ATTORNEY AT LAW , in the Market-House Chamber, room No. 4. All persons who favour him with their commands may rely on his utmost exertions to serve them.
October 9.
FLAX-SEED.
CASH given for FLAX-SEED , delivered at the Oil-Mill, near Col. Christopher Olney's, or at the store of the subscriber in Providence.
JOHN INNES CLARK.
October 9.
To be exchanged for Cash.
Fresh FALL and WINTER GOODS, OPENING, AND FOR SALE, BY
Elisha Dyer,
A FULL and large supply of Goods, suitable for the present and approaching season, with many articles in the fancy line— New, Cheap and Good.
October 9.
For Sale,
A FARM pleasantly situated within three quarters of a mile of Mendon Meeting-House, on the great road from Providence to Worcester—containing 85 acres of excellent Land, well proportioned with mowing, ploughing, orcharding, pasturing and wood land, under good improvement; with a good Dwelling-House, Barn and Corn-House thereon. Said farm is well watered, and fenced chiefly with good stone wall.
ALSO,
One other Farm, within one mile of the former, containing 103 acres, pleasantly situated and well proportioned; with mowing, ploughing, pasturing, orcharding, and wood land, well fenced with good stone wall, with a House, Barn and Corn-House.
LIKEWISE,
One other Farm, situated on a large hill in the northwest part of said Mendon, known by the name of Misco-Hill —containing about 400 acres of the best Land, well watered and well fenced, with near two thousand rods of good stone wall, under the best improvement, with two Houses and two Barns. Said farm has been rented a number of years for five hundred dollars a year, and is capable of keeping sixty head of cattle summer and winter, besides horses, sheep, &c. Said farm has on it an excellent orchard of the best grafted fruit, of about four hundred trees, in their prime. Said farm may be divided into two or three farms, with equal advantages to each. The above farms will be sold together or separately. A long pay-day will be given for the greatest part, if it best suits the purchaser. For further particulars, enquire of the subscriber, living on the first mentioned farm.
LEVI RAWSON.
Mendon, October 9.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. October 5, 1799.
THE Creditors of JOHN JEFFERS , of Cumberland, in the county of Providence, Cordwainer, are hereby notified to appear (if they shall think fit) at the General Assembly, to be holden at South-Kingstown, on the last Monday in October instant, then and there to show cause (if any they may have) why his petition for the benefit of the insolvent act ought not to be granted.
By order, SAMUEL EDDY, Secretary.
Wanted,
AN Apprentice to the Shoemaking Business. —One of good character, and who can be well recommended, may have a place by applying to
JOHN C. FRANCIS,
October 9.

Selected Poetry.
FROM THE FARMER'S MUSEUM.
[In the Zoonomia of Dr. Darwin, among various instances recorded by that philosophical physician of what he calls maniacal hallucination, or mental delusion, is the case of a young farmer of Warwickshire, whose story was well authenticated in the public papers of the time. A poor elderly woman in his neighbourhood was in the habit, urged by the pinching necessities of an inclement winter, of taking a few sticks from his grounds and his hedge, to preserve the fading fire in her forlorn cottage. Suspecting the delinquent, the hard-hearted hind watched and detected her. After wrenching from her the scanty faggot, blows and reproaches succeeded. Struck with the misery of her situation, and the cruelty of her oppressor, the knave, and, rearing her withered hands to the cold moon, prayed that "he might never again know the blessing of warmth." The consciousness of wrong, the solemnity of the hour, the pathetic tone, "sharp misery," and impassioned gesture of the miserable matron, at once extinguished the dim reason of the rustic. He immediately complained of a preternatural chillness, was continually calling for more fire and clothes, and conceived himself to be in a freezing state, till the time of his death, which happened shortly after. On this singular story, the admirable author of "Lyric Ballads," a very new collection of Poems, has founded the following ballad, which is in the genuine spirit of ancient English song, and shews, by proof irrefragable, that simplicity and the language of ordinary life may be connected with the most exquisite poetry. The pathos, fine painting and natural imagery of this tender ballad, are worthy the mighty mind of Shakespeare. No man, who has a soul alive to the high enthusiasm of poetry can read, without emotion and tears, the following beautiful specimen of the magic of the bard. It is imitated in the very language of nature, and transcends the French paste and tintel of the childish Coleridges, Southey and Meryns of the age, as far as Hesper outlines the "dubious light" of the glow-worm. The poem in question is derived from no Gallic source; it is written, by an English gentleman, and relishes of the character.]
GOODY BLAKE and HARRY GILL: A TRUE STORY.
OH! what's the matter? What's the matter? What is't that ails young Harry Gill? That evermore his teeth they chatter, Chatter, chatter, chatter still? Of waistcoats Harry has no lack, Good duvil grey, and flannel fine; He has a blanket on his back, And coats enough to smother nine.
In March, December, and in July, 'Tis all the same with Harry Gill; The neighbours tell, and tell you truly, His teeth they chatter, chatter still. At night, at morning, and at noon, 'Tis all the same with Harry Gill; Beneath the sun, beneath the moon, His teeth they chatter, chatter still.
Young Harry was a lusty drover, And who so stout of limb as he? His cheeks were red as ruddy clover, His voice was like the voice of three. Auld Goody Blake was old and poor, Ill fed she was, and thinly clad; And any man, who pass'd her door, Might see how poor a hut she had.
All day she spun in her poor dwelling, And then her three hours' work at night! Alas! 'twas hardly worth the telling, It would not pay for candle light. —This woman dwelt in Dorsetshire, Her hut was on a cold hill-side; And in that country coals are dear, For they come far by wind and tide.
By the same fire to boil their pottage, Two poor old dames, as I have known, Will often live in one small cottage, But she, poor woman, dwelt alone. 'Twas well enough when summer came, The long, warm, lightsome summer day, Then at her door the canty dame Would sit, as any linnet gay.
But when the ice our streams did setter, Oh! then how her old bones would shake! You would have said if you had met her, 'Twas a hard time for Goody Blake. Her evenings then were dull and dead; Sad case it was, as you may think, For very cold to go to bed, And then for cold not sleep a wink.
O joy for her! whene'er in winter The winds at night had made a rout, And scatter'd many a lusty splinter, And many a rotten bough about. Yet never had she, well or sick, As every man who knew her lays, A pile beforehand, wood or stick, Enough to warm her for three days.
Now when the frost was past enduring, And made her poor old bones to ache, Could any thing be more alluring Than an old hedge to Goody Blake? And now and then, it must be said, When her old bones were cold and chill, She left her fire, or left her bed, To seek the hedge of Harry Gill.
Now Harry he had long suspected This trespass of old Goody Blake, And vow'd that she should be detected, And he on her would vengeance take. And oft from his warm fire he'd go, And to the fields his road would take, And there at night, in frost and snow, He watch'd to seize old Goody Blake.
And once behind a rick of barley, Thus looking out did Harry stand; The moon was full and shining clearly, And crisp with frost the stubble land. —He hears a noise—he's all awake— Again—on tip-toe down the hill He softly creeps—'Tis Goody Blake— She's at the hedge of Harry Gill.
Right glad was he when he beheld her; Stick after stick did Goody pull, He stood behind a bush of elder, 'Till she had fill'd her apron full. When with her load she turn'd about, The bye road back again to take, He started forward with a shout, And sprang upon poor Goody Blake.
And fiercely by the arm he took her, And by the arm he held her fast, And fiercely by the arm he shook her, And cried, "I've caught you then at last!" Then Goody, who had nothing said, Her bundle from her lap let fall; And kneeling on the sticks, she pray'd, To God, that is the Judge of all.
She pray'd, her wither'd hands uprearing, While Harry held her by the arm— "God! who art never out of hearing, O may he never more be warm!" The cold, cold moon above her head, Thus on her knees did Goody pray, Young Harry heard what she had laid, And icy cold he turn'd away.
He went complaining all the morrow That he was cold and very chill: His face was gloom, his heart was sorrow, Alas that day for Harry Gill! That day he wore a riding coat, But not a whit the warmer he: Another was on Thursday brought, And ere the Sabbath he had three.
'Twas all in vain, a useless matter, And blankets were about him pinn'd; Yet still his jaws and teeth they clatter, Like a loose calement in the wind. And Harry's flesh it fell away; And all who see him say 'tis plain, That, live as long as live he may, He never will be warm again.
No word to any man he utters, A-bed or up, to young or old; But ever to himself he mutters, "Poor Harry Gill is very cold!" A-bed or up, by night or day, His teeth they chatter, chatter still, Now think, ye farmers all, I pray, Of Goody Blake and Harry Gill.
FROM THE CONNECTICUT COURANT.
MESSENGERS, PRINTERS,
OBSERVING in your last useful paper, some extracts upon imprisonment for debt; and as a general act for the relief of insolvent and imprisoned debtors has been for sometime in contemplation, in this, and other states, and may be again, it led me to a view of the subject.
The justice, the policy and humanity, of such a law, as it respects debtor and creditor, will not be questioned in any country, the principle of whose government is republican. Indeed we see examples under the most despotic forms, where the person of a debtor is free.—Hence it is, that property, and not the person, is the basis of credit in those countries. Shall it be said that personal liberty here, is less sacred than there? He who credits another implicitly agrees, more or less, to run a risque; and was there a law that none should be imprisoned for debt, perhaps it might be best for society in general. We should see commerce upon a sure footing—more pursuing their proper business—our gaols clearer—law suits diminished, and a train of evils prevented. But till this is the case the question still remains, what shall be done? We will at present see what has been done and attempted.
It appears that in the session of the last Congress, a bill for a general act of bankruptcy was lost, upon the question for its passing in the House of Representatives, by a small majority—because, as it has been said, of the difficulty of suiting one to the circumstances of the individual states. Also, least it might subject lands in the southern states to the payment of debts, and that of course it was best to leave the business to each state to make provision for themselves. As these undoubtedly were the objections against the bill, particularly by the southern members, who generally opposed it and always will, the inference is plain, that unless the state legislatures interpose, nothing will be done.
Congress have lately made a general law, that no debtor of the United States shall be held in gaol, upon giving up his estate, and the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to receive it and discharge him. So far the principle is adopted.
The state of New-York having long had a general act of bankruptcy, but said to be so fettered and modelled after the British act, that few can be benefitted by it, either debtor or creditor—the consequence is, their gaols are crowded.
Pennsylvania and Maryland have one upon more humane principles. Massachusetts has made a beginning. Not long since complaint was made to their legislature, that a merciless creditor oppressed his debtor, who had nothing to pay with, by holding him in gaol, at a pitiful weekly allowance, after he had taken the poor man's oath, as it is called. This at once produced a general law, that no creditor in future should hold such debtor in prison more
than thirty days. Thus that class of debtors are provided for in that state.
Connecticut, in May 1763, when a British colony, at the close of an eight years war, and when its citizens were not involved in the ruinous consequences of depreciation or speculation, made a general act of bankruptcy, and continued it, with some little variation made in May 1765, for four years. The preamble to those acts are worth noticing.
The evils and change of times occasioned by that war, were trifles compared with those undergone by the country in our last revolutionary one. Yet the former justified a general act.
In October last, the upper house observing the numerous petitions preferred to the legislature every session for particular acts of bankruptcy—the uncertain mode of decision, and the great expence to the state, and parties attending the hearing; unanimously passed a general act—but it was thrown out in the lower house. The objections, it was said, came principally from the law members. At the last May session, the business was again revived by a bill, for a joint committee to consider the subject; but as most of the time was consumed in hearing petitions, for the relief of individuals, there being upwards of forty applicants, nothing was done upon it, and until there is, the state must be at the extra expence of more than two thousand dollars every session.
OBSERVATOR.
ANECDOTES.
IN stating the fatigues of his official duty before the British House of Commons, some years ago, Mr. Dundas said, "He had no hesitation in confessing, that the multiplicity of affairs in which he was unavoidably engaged, rendered his situation truly irksome and difficult: that hour after hour from the time he rose in the morning, till hour after hour he went to bed at night, he found that he had undertaken a task which he was unable to perform!"
Mr. Dundas being newly married, the last sentence was caught and perverted to a meaning which at once occasioned the most violent fits of laughter; and to mend the matter, Mr. Sheridan, in the conclusion of his speech in reply to Mr. Dundas, ironically expressed "his sorrow for the right honourable Secretary, who had candidly confessed that the home department was a task superior to his powers!"
FREDERICK the Great had a high opinion of the utility of experience. A very young graduate presented a petition to him, requesting that his Majesty would appoint him a General in Chief. The King wrote under his petition—"Turn to your bible, and in the 10th chapter and 5th verse of the second book of Samuel, you will find it thus written; "Tarry at Jericho until your beard is grown, and then come again!"
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. August 21.
WANTED,
A good Man Servant.
ONE of good character and suitable qualities, may hear of a situation. Apply to NICHOLAS BROWN. Sept. 18.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, October 1, 1799.
THE Creditors of SABIN LEWIS, of Gloucester, in the county of Providence, Trader, are hereby notified to appear (if they shall think fit) at the General Assembly to be holden at South-Kingstown on the last Monday in October instant, then and there to shew cause, (if any they may have) why his petition for the benefit of the act for the relief of insolvent debtors ought not to be granted.
By order, SAMUEL EDDY, Secretary.
THE Subscriber informs the Public that he holds his office as ATTORNEY AT LAW, in the chambers opposite the Market-House (occupied by James Fenner, Esq. clerk of the Court of Common Pleas) where he is ready to serve those who may think fit to employ him in the line of his profession, to the best of his abilities.
JONATHAN RUSSELL.
October 2.
BY a vote of the Directors of the PROVIDENCE LIBRARY, the Proprietors of said Library are once more requested to meet at the Council Chamber on Saturday the 12th of October, 1799, at 1 o'clock, P. M. on business of importance to the Library.
October 2.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, September 24, 1799.
THE Creditors of JOHN FULLER, of Providence, in the county of Providence, Baker, are hereby notified to appear (if they shall think fit) at the General Assembly to be holden at South-Kingstown on the last Monday in October next, then and there to shew cause, (if any they may have) why his petition for the benefit of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," ought not to be granted.
By order, SAMUEL EDDY, Secretary.
John G. Francis, BOOT and SHOE-MAKER,
Respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he keeps his shop directly opposite Capt. Daniel Bucklin's, in the Main street, where he carries on his business in all its various branches, and in the latest fashions from Europe. After many years experience in his business, he has found out a new method of keeping the elasticity in Boots, till they are quite worn out, and warrants them to fit the leg, be it ever so badly shaped.
He has got Boot-legs and Seal-skins, manufactured in New-York, which he will warrant to be good.
N. B. He also makes Ladies' Boots and Shoes, of the newest fashion, and in the neatest manner. August 21. (t. f.)
Sugden's Specific,
For the Cure of Sprains and Bruises.
THE afflicted who are labouring under the painful accidents of SPRAINS and BRUISES, may be assured of being afforded permanent relief, by an immediate application of the above Specific, used agreeably to the printed directions, which will be given on purchasing the Specific; and which ought to be particularly observed in its application.
As one of the strongest proofs of its efficacy in the above complaints, the inventor has been politely favoured with the patronage of the following medical gentlemen; and who have been pleased publicly to recommend it, as follows:
"WE, the undersigned, Physicians of Providence, Rhode-Island, having given Sugden's Specific a trial, do venture to recommend it to the Public, as proving eminently serviceable in the cure of Sprains and Bruises.
AMOS THROOP, PARDON BOWEN, BENJAMIN DYER."
N. B. The above Specific is sold by Dr. Benjamin Dyer, and Dr. Amos Throop, in 8-ounce phials, provided with tin cases for the safety of travellers and mariners, at 6s each; and without tin cases, at 5s. July 31. 18w.
To be Sold or Let, ON REASONABLE TERMS,
A Large and commodious four story HOUSE, in Westminster-street, adjoining the Theatre, with a good store, convenient for the retailing business.
Also, to Let,
THE STORE in front of the House where the subscriber now lives, opposite the Town Pump. BENJAMIN TALBOT. (t. f.)
July 17.
To be Sold,
A FARM, pleasantly situated in the town of Mendon, in the county of Worcester, within half a mile of the Meeting-House, on the road leading from Providence to Worcester, containing one hundred and seventeen acres of good LAND;—consisting of mowing, ploughing, pasturing and wood land; with a House, Barn and a good Orchard. Said farm is well watered and well fenced.—For further particulars, enquire of
EBENEZER CHAPIN, jun. living on the premises. Mendon, August 21, 1799.
For SALE, by
Abbott and Ingals,
At their Tan-Yard in North-Providence, FOUR thousand dried HIDES, in excellent order, very reasonable for cash or short credit.