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The Providence Journal,
AND
TOWN AND COUNTRY ADVERTISER.
Published on WEDNESDAYS, by JOHN CARTER, JUN. Printer of the LAWS of the UNITED STATES for the State of RHODE-ISLAND, &c. At the NEW PRINTING-OFFICE, West Side of the great Bridge, PROVIDENCE.
[No. 135.]
WEDNESDAY, July 29, 1801.
[Vol. III.]
EGYPTIAN POLITICS.
There are in the politics of the three powers, France, Russia, and Turkey, some circumstances of a peculiar interest, involving Egypt, which have given a new character to the relations which heretofore subsisted between them. As the subject has become popular from its novelty more than its great importance, it may be satisfactory, to throw together such information as may not be so well understood, from the detached and too often contradictory accounts which appear in some servile prints of the old and new world.
THE Turks, who have held the sovereignty of Egypt since Selim, son of Bajazet, with the aid of the Mamelukes, subjected it in 1518, have never possessed the actual and efficient authority in that desirable region. The Porte sends a Bashaw or Bey, or Governor of Egypt, but only to become a prisoner in the Castle of Cairo. An annual tribute is demanded and apparently transmitted; a caravan of camels and mules sets out annually from Cairo for Constantinople with the pretended revenue, but the sumptuous coverings conceal bags of rice, and not unfrequently stones! This mock dominion, however, was dear to the vanity of the Divan. Vanity, which maintains a sovereign hold over uncivilized barbarians, has taken in all ages a more inveterate dominion in the breasts of nations degenerating from refinement to luxury, and from enervation to ignorance. This is very conspicuous in Asiatic nations, particularly the Turks, and of which the miseries of a great part of mankind are the consequences. It is to this vanity that we must attribute the desire of the Turks to retain Egypt as a province.
Russia, which had formed the vast project of attacking the Turks in Asia, in order that the forces in European Turkey being withdrawn might leave Constantinople an easy prey to another army; had formed some design likewise upon Egypt as an necessary acquisition. But when France seized upon Egypt, though the world saw in it nothing that could interfere with the interests of Russia, and heard that power employ the seizure of Egypt by Buonaparte as the argument for binding Turkey in an alliance against France, those who reflected on the duplicity of kings and cabinets, were not at a loss to form a judgment very different from the body of common observers.
It was easy to foresee, that the Porte might be very soon satisfied by an able agent of the inefficacious rule and unproductive revenue in Egypt; and that by ceding her nominal sovereignty to her oldest ally, to maintain Turkey against Russia. It thus became the interest of Russia to disturb the French colony in the first instance, and finally to provoke an hostility between them, which might in the end induce the French to suffer the overthrow of the Turkish Empire, in order to retain possession of this important country with the consent and guarantee of Russia.
We do not enter into the collateral views of the British, and the motives which they pursued to accelerate the plans of Russia in the first course of its politics, nor the subsequent conduct of the British agents, when the Russians withdrew from the coalition. These are separate considerations, which may be touched hereafter.
The views of the French in Egypt remain to be considered. And here we shall extract, from Eton's Survey of the Turkish Empire , some matter very interesting and pertinent in these political views.
Eton's book was published before the French invaded Egypt. He had resided twenty years in the Russian and Turkish dominions; and though he displays the inveterate national prejudices of an Englishman, is certainly entitled to full confidence, where those prejudices do not interfere with his narration, which in this work they very often do. He gives the following interesting facts in a paper forming a part of his appendix.
OF EGYPT.
"The French have it in their power either to seize Egypt, or to make such an alliance with the Beys, as will open to them a communication with India. The Beys would eagerly embrace any offer which would secure to them a perfect independence of the Ottoman Porte; or they would even become tributary to any other sovereign or state, who would maintain them in their separate governments, and protect the one against the other, and the whole country against the Turks. They have frequently made such offers."
"Had not the domestic affairs of France engaged all the attention of that cabinet, the effects of M. de Truguet's mission to Cairo, and the treaty he concluded with Murad Bey, the 7th of February, 1785, would long ago have been visible."
"We think it useful to remark here, that
the colonization of Egypt has been usually ascribed to Buonaparte; it here appears to have been designed by the cabinet of Louis XVI, four years before the revolution. It is also worthy of remembrance, that Truguet is at this time (1801) one of the counsellors of State in the department of the Marine and Colonies, under the consular government. Eaton proceeds:
"Were the Turks driven out of Europe, their force would be more concentrated; they would be stronger, and more able than they are now to reduce to obedience those provinces, which at present are either in a state of open rebellion, or virtual independence, and from which the Porte draws neither troops nor money; they would then be able to reduce Egypt, and to defend it against the French. In such a state of affairs, a commercial communication through Egypt to India, would be attended with less risk, though not with much less expense than it now is. [Here the Englishman betrays his nationality and cunning; he knew perfectly well that the productions of India could be purchased at half the price in Europe brought up by the route of Egypt, for which they are sold when brought round the Cape of Good Hope.] It is not, however, probable, that the Porte would so readily as the Beys permit troops to be sent across to Egypt."
"Volney says, the memorials have been laid before the French cabinet, on the expediency of obtaining possession of Egypt. These memorials are now no secret. The principal force of Egypt consists in 1800 horses; Janizaries are not to be estimated as soldiers. There are not four cannon to defend the Pharo or Castle of Alexandria, which according to the regulations should be garrisoned by 500 Janizaries, but there are never half that number. A single frigate might beat down those fortifications. The greatest difficulty a foreign nation would have to encounter in keeping possession of Alexandria, is the want of water; this city has none but what is brought in canals to their cisterns when the Nile overflows. The Egyptian cavalry, if it had the prudence never to come to a general action, might render the passage across the deserts perhaps impracticable to an European army."
"The revenues of the Beys consist in a tax on land, and the customs, which produce about two millions sterling a year [9,000,000 dollars] of which the Porte gets very little."
"Suez is a most miserable and defenceless place; it has no water nearer than ten miles, and that is very brackish, and drawn from a well. No ships can approach Suez nearer than three miles. [Suez is 26 miles from Cairo.]"
"Egypt produces a considerable quantity of Sugar of a very good grain. Were that country under a better government, it might supply Europe with a great quantity. The sugar cane grows also very well in Candia, and Sicily; where, if the inhabitants were more industrious, or were there enterprising people of capital among them, this would become a product of much consequence. The same may be said of a great part of the coast of Barbary."
"There is a coffee tree growing in the open air at Malta, in the garden of the French minister, and the fruit ripens perfectly. The French have tried the experiment in Candia and it has succeeded; probably it would grow in Sicily. There can be no doubt of the coffee tree growing in Egypt, which also produces excellent flax and hemp."
"Indigo has been cultivated with success on the eastern coast of the Adriatic, near Zante, till the planter; it is not known by whom, or for what reason, was assassinated. Were the French possessed of Egypt they might abandon their West-India islands. The French court a very few years ago paid much attention to these speculations."
"We have thought it useful to give this paper at length, because it presents a multitude of facts, which exemplify many points of the policy which has rendered Egypt an object of interest at this time; and furnishes particulars by which we are better able to estimate the probable results of the contests for that country, between France and Great-Britain."
GREAT SCARCITY.
From the new Picture of Paris, written by Mercier, member of the National Assembly.
In the preface to which the author gives the following account of himself—that he has been, "from the first moment of his literary career, the herald, the friend, and the fellow-workman of the great regeneration undertaken for the public happiness, which already he sees realized in France, in Holland, in Switzerland, in Italy! and of having been at the same time the adversary of those who have sullied the revolution with crimes for their own advantage, and through motives of sordid interest."
IT was during the winter of 1794 that the want of meat was felt at Paris. A crowd
at one and at the same time, filled the shops of the butchers; housemaids, cooks, servants, &c. A pound of beef rose at once from eighteen to twenty-five sous. The citizens murmured, and none reflected that the consumption of this article by an army of twelve hundred thousand men, joined to the extreme scarcity of forage, and the war of the Vendee, occasioned this increase of price. From that time, the sending cattle to Paris diminished insensibly. The penury was also augmented by the manoeuvres of malevolence. The sanguinary commune issued their famous arrest, which reduced every mouth to a pound of meat each decade, and was affixed at the door of every house; and the members of the revolutionary committees were like so many Dr. Sangrados, who lowered every appetite without mercy. How many mothers of families have I seen grow pale, and wipe away their tears at the reading of this sinister pastoral letter on the universal fast! Nevertheless droves of milch-cows arrived from the provinces; the devourers of the people began in this way the fast of famine, and laboured sedulously to annihilate the reproduction of the species. The forerunners of the revolutionary army like famished wolves had already swept the country, darting their prying eyes into every farm and every yard. Thither they precipitated themselves, armed with pitch-forks and bayonets, seized the sheep, the fowls, burnt the barns, untied the oxen in the stable in the face of the proprietor, and sold their prey to infamous speculators. These atrocious robberies made eggs and butter disappear. At nine in the morning the Hall, till now the vast and rich storehouse of all the productions of nature, was stript. The women formed themselves in long files, and from midnight braving the inclemency of the season, waited patiently each in their turn to procure at the hazard of their lives three eggs and four ounces of butter. The cavalry and military force of the sections, detached by the prowling beasts of the revolutionary committee, augmented the tumult and disorder. How many women with child (they were afterwards treated with more respect, and took their turn before the rest) were victims of this unhappy period! How many precious fruits of conjugal love have been stifled in their embryo, and annihilated at the source of life! Oh! what feeling man could have seen, without weeping for grief, thousands of individuals of both sexes running after the carcass-porters in streets leading to flesh-markets; who, bending under the weight, ran themselves to avoid being assailed by the crowd which pressed upon them; and seemed to devour with their eyes the raw meat! A sullen discontent darkened every visage; they cursed life, and the execrable authors of the famine; meanwhile the gens d'armes galloped their horses amongst the stalls of three feet in length, overthrew the vendors, and increased the number of accidents, under pretence of preventing them, favouring by cunning tactic the most shameful traffic.
Ruffians in the pay of the commune made the women range themselves in files, but while they waited for their turns, shivering with the cold, broad-shouldered carcass-porters, forming an impenetrable rampart before the shops, carried off whole oxen, and when the lion's share was taken, the women ranged after each other had not advanced a single step, and withdrew by hundreds with empty hands.
Fish, which had been spoilt from being too long kept, was bought up with avidity, and from its corrupted state occasioned diseases. On the Quay of the Vallee, lamb was sold at fifteen livres a pound, and the sale continued a long time with scandalous profusion. The peasants went about the streets with baskets of fowls in their arms. The Parisians lived for some time on hens and chickens, which it was impossible to bring up in the country, since all the grain was put in requisition. This factitious abundance of a commodity, which was almost exclusively the portion of the rich, lasted but a little while, and gave place to vegetables. What is called dry pulse, such as rice, lentils, beans, was heaped up in military magazines, and the discovery of half a peck of this cattle, which more than one family was forced to dress in pure water, was looked upon as an instance of good fortune.
To this desolate penury of subsistence was joined the more desolating difficulty of having bread. From two in the morning the women ranged themselves in a long line, which the people designated afterwards by the name of queue. The young girls were not the last to put themselves in the ranks. Their wanton chatter, their immoderate laughter, was heard afar, and kept awake more than one young man. The darkness of the night, the gates of alleys conveniently half open, were favourable to a tête à tête, dextrously concerted. We saw men of sixty years old, valets, shop-boys, slopping to review these ranks, and chule their dulcineas.
Others, more shameless, began with kissing the women at the head of the file, and continued on to the last. These embraces were accompanied with other liberties less discreet; and this sort of amusements contributed much towards the perversion of morality, and extinction of female modesty. The sentiment of fraternity was annihilated in every heart. Every one held it as a maxim to prefer himself openly to his equal. Gunning became a quality common to every mind. The last of the file found means of sliding forward to the first ranks. The women soon struggled forcibly with the men. Their characters acquired a tone of sharpness from resistance. They all became impetuous, contracted a habit of swearing, and at length their voices, grown hoarse from loud and angry cries, were not distinguishable from those of car-men.
In the intervals of silence which followed these scandalous discussions, were heard the cries of infants, and of the aged asking for bread. How should I pity the insensible being who would not have been moved by these cries!
Nearly at the same time other queues were formed for oil, soap and candles. The day-labourer, with mournful and downcast looks, counts with sighs the hours that he loses from his work.
The sudden and excessive increase of wages was the consequence of the homicidal law of maximum. The execrable commune had built its plan of universal famine on this law, but in order to conceal the prospects from the eyes of the credulous multitude, an advertisement was stuck up at the moment of its formation, by which every tradesman, either butcher or grocer, who gave up business, should be reputed suspected, and arrested as such.
This ferocious law aggravated the evil; every thing disappeared, and the tradesman to indemnify himself for his losses, and particularly for the pillage of his butter, sugar, coffee, and for the arbitrary confiscations of the commissaries for monopolies, hawked about his goods in secret from house to house, where individuals bought them up at any price.
Such, in 1794, was the situation of this populous city for subsistence, in which formerly reigned that peace and abundance which makes our country an object of affection to us.
The year 1795 was not more happy than the preceding; from the beginning of the autumn, flesh-chandlers began by selling their meat at twenty-five sous; who, in the month of Ventose, asked three livres ten sous, stript also of its fat, in order to make tallow.
The agents of the old commission had given birth to this abominable traffic. By means of the right of requisition and detention with which they were invested, they bought meat at the price of the maximum, then sold it again to the retailers at an exorbitant price.
The same pillage took place with respect to other commodities, which joined to money-jobbing, as well as that of watches and trinkets by the brokers of the hall, contributed very much to the depreciation of the assignats.
The cold came at length to aggravate these evils; during two years the capital received its firing from day to day. Coals were extremely rare, and it was remarked that never but a single boat entered at once into each wharf. People sometimes passed their nights there in order to take their turn. The wood was sold as fast as the wood-porters could take it out of the water.
The river suddenly frozen up caused a total failure of supply, and no other resource was to be had but cutting down the woods of Boulogne, Vincennes, Verreries, St. Cloud, Meudon, &c. Blood-suckers, issuing from dens of robbers, took advantage of the public misfortunes to satiate themselves with gold and silver. They sold two cart-loads of wood for four hundred livres; the necessitous sawed their wooden bedsteads to dress their food, and keep themselves from dying with the cold. Old men returned from the forests bending under their loads, and reminded us of the fable of the poor wretch and death. The public fountains were frozen; the water-carriers in those quarters distant from the river, forced to go far in search of water, were paid fifteen and even twenty sous the bucket; the citizens, enraged at this imposition, all became water-carriers; and when the reservoirs of the public fountains were unthawed, queues for water took place, and each man had his turn.
THE ORIGIN AND PRINCIPLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, COMPARED WITH THE ORIGIN AND PRINCIPLES OF THE FRENCH. Translated from the German of GENTZ, By an American gentleman, and lately published at Philadelphia.
REVIEW.
IT is the grey-headed artifice of villains, to shelter themselves under the precedent of good men, and it is the common avocation of

their genius to strain an analogy in their respective operations. Frequently weak and evanescent in its character, this analogy perishes under the first investigation; but when contrived by provident subtlety, leagu- ing passion, and the short-sighted virtues in its support, it takes and keeps the currency of sterling until the worthless mass of its base is exposed by its own wear. The abortive rebellions of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts were moved by art, too bald for a moment's imposition, and their fate was of the first description; but the wheedling and equerry of France contrived a favourable reception for her equally wicked and unprovoked revolution, and in a good measure her's has been of the last character.
Mild and promising in its aspect, and modest in its primary objects, precluding only to resist aggressors of unfeeling power, and to re-instate Frenchmen in their rights, this revolution bottomed itself on our own glorious achievement in America, and allured to its support one half of the world. Absorbed by the novelty of popular resistance in France, and something elated by the vanity of having been its remote cause, the people of America looked not to the previous condition of the French government for fifty years, to the character of the French King, to the ambition of the tiers etat, nor chose to assign one motive for the stupendous rising but the love of liberty operating like their own. This dreadful hallucination seconded the projects of France; it warmed our wishes for her friends; it embittered our enmity to her foes; it created a weak, yet generous sympathy, which would have sought her battles, and threatened to choke in its rapid growth all our political feeling.
Within the same terrific vortex, reflection, or the same weak friendship, drew a large portion of the European world. The prescient and dignified spirit of our Washington, denoted the sentiments a legal excellence in this country, and the maternal providence of foreign governments, together with French tampering, and French force, in its unpurposed operations, effected a similar one abroad. Our own country, however, although it aided not France, came slowly into the orthodoxy. There are still some men who credit the analogy of our revolutions, and eye, with joy or anguish, each victory or defeat of France. The wide convulsions, the interesting drama, the impiety, the treachery, the thefts and the murders of that people, they call the necessary effects of royal exchequers, of the unextirpated darel of despotism, and the spirit of liberty itself. While this infatuation remains, with as little foresight and prudence we shall espouse a revolution in Spain, in Russia or in England. The spirit of liberty, and the gold of kings, produce none of the animosities of the French revolution; these spring from lawless and blood-thirsty ambition; from a nature, not at war with kings alone, but with all superiors, whether of money, mind or majesty.
To erase what of the unfortunate impression still remains, and to cherish the honest pride of having justified, by no single precedent, even the best step in the career of France, every good man should welcome the pamphlet of Mr. Gentz. It is a sober exposition of the whole case. On the one hand he proves, that America grounded herself partly upon principles evidently right, partly upon such as were questionable, and from beginning to end, upon no one that was clearly and decidedly wrong; while the French revolution was an uninterupted series of steps, the wrong of which could not for a moment be doubted.
He shews you America turning her second check to distain the spite of a foreign administration, and waiting for her rights by resistance, and not by attack; while France, happy under the auspices of the mildest government she had ever known, unaggravated, unoffended in her rights, rose with incon siderate wrath from her repose, offending the constitution of all civil society, and striking down blindly her laws, her religion, and her good king.
He shews America with "a fixed and definite object, moving within definite limits, and in a definite direction to this object;" and he presents France, without object, "running in a thousand various directions continually crossing each other, the unbounded space of a fantastic arbitrary will, and of bottomless anarchy." In fine, he shews young America marching to her goal amid the good wishes, the prayers, the benedictions, the honest and unanimous support of her extended country; while France, in the outset, spurning, and even combating the religion, the honour, the law, and the private integrity of the kingdom;" challenging almost every human passion to the most vehement resistance, had to force her way, by violence and crimes," through the pious, the brave, and honest, and faithful.
Under the fourfold consideration of rights, object, character of the war, and nature of the resistance, our country is placed in dignity, and in honesty, so transcendant above comparison with France, that nought here but the growing eye of some heaven-hated monster, and nought in France, but the aspiring gaze of some levelling Lucifer, could see enough through the distance even to imagine an apology.
As a specimen of the becoming energy and good sense of our author, we select the following:
"As the founders of the American revolution, from the beginning, knew exactly how far they were to go, and where they must stop; as the new existence of their country, the constitutions of the several provinces, and even the organization of the federal government, at least in its principles, were prescribed
to them; as their purpose was in no sort to create, but only to preserve; not to erect a new building, but to free the old from an external, burthensome, straitening scaffolding, and as it never occurred to them, in the rigorous sense of the word, to reform even their own country, much less the whole world, they escaped the most dangerous of all the rocks which in our times threaten the founder of any great revolution, the passion for making political experiments, with abstract theories, and untried systems. It is of the utmost importance, in judging the American revolution, never to lose sight of this point; and by so much the more important, as certain expressions in the early resolves of Congress, the maxims of single writers, but especially the frequent appeals of the first leaders of the French revolution to the example of their predecessors in America, have encouraged and spread abroad the opinion that these, in truth, opened the wide field of revolutionary speculations, and of systematic anarchy." "Never, in the whole course of the American revolution, were the rights of man appealed to for the destruction of the rights of a citizen; never was the sovereignty of the people used as a pretext to undermine the laws, or the foundation of social security; no example was ever seen of an individual, or a whole class of individuals, or even of the representatives of this or that single state, who recurred to the declaration of rights to escape from positive obligation, or to renounce obedience to the common sovereign; finally, never did it enter the head of any legislator or statesman in America, to combat the lawfulness of foreign constitutions, and to set up the American revolution as a new epocha in the general relations of civil society."
If there be a resemblance in the sentiments which advanced these revolutions, it is too small for the heart to reverence. If we both rose for freedom, never was this moral condition so strangely misconceived as by one of us. "Here liberty was a grace, there a fury. Here feeling scattered her tear wet rose; there cold chagrined was ever culling nettles. Here joy sympathized with every deed of triumph, and hope arched her glittering rainbow over every scene of storm; there displeasure vented her unvarying "voice of rook;" and despondency, pacing over ruin, still pointed to gathering tempests."
Late Foreign Intelligence.
By recent arrivals from Europe.—London dates to June 9.
LONDON, June 8.
It is said to be determined that Lord Nelson is to be immediately superceded in the command of the Baltic fleet. The health of the gallant Admiral being very much impaired, an intimation was made to him in the most delicate manner, on the part of government, that he might, without any scruple, resign the command which he had exercised with so much honour to himself and to his country. His Lordship at first hesitated, but has at length, we understand, agreed to return to England.
The Gazette of Saturday contains the order of Council for removing the Embargo on Russian and Danish ships, which we mentioned on Saturday. Our intercourse with those powers is therefore restored to its former footing. Ministers must entertain a sanguine hope that the Emperor of Russia is disposed to terminate the disputes in the North, and to settle the question of search of neutrals in a manner agreeable to the views of this country. Upon the conduct of the Court of Petersburg all seem to depend. Denmark is stated to show the most conciliatory disposition, and to have expressed its readiness to concur in any amicable arrangement that may be concluded between this country and the Emperor of Russia.
It is probable that the principle respecting search, as contended for by this country, will undergo some regulations, but it is to be presumed that the demand of free bottoms making free goods will not be conceded. It will be wise and just, however, to submit the exercise of the right of search to some restriction, so as to take away all cause of complaint which may have arisen from particular abuses.
Sweden hitherto has shown a disposition to adhere to the confederacy, but being now left alone, there is no doubt that she must follow the example of Denmark. The arrangement which Lord St. Helen's is about to conclude, will comprehend Sweden as well as Denmark.
We received this morning the Paris Papers to the 6th inst. The official paper announces the arrival of a courier from Madrid, with an account of the entrance of the left wing of the Spanish army into Portugal, by the way of Badajos, and of the capture of Olivenza and Monte-Mayor. M. de Pinto, as soon as he reached the Spanish head-quarters, demanded a truce, and produced his full powers to negotiate and sign a definitive treaty of peace; but the Spaniards refused to grant a truce until the Portuguese government had laid an embargo upon British ships, and that their ports against England. M. de Pinto not having authority to accede to such a requisition, returned to Lisbon for further instructions, and the Spanish army continued its march. It does not appear that the French army has yet entered Portugal.
Admiral Gantheaume, after staying some days off Leghorn, has failed for the place of his destination, which is known to be Egypt.
The expedition against the Isle of Elba has not succeeded. Porto Ferrajo still holds out, and the French have begun to bombard it.
The two frigates which failed some time
since from Brest, with troops, have put into Cadiz. It is said that these ships went first to Ferrol, and that as soon as they appeared off that port, a Spanish squadron of 7 sail of the line, and some frigates, with 2000 troops on board, put to sea and proceeded to Cadiz, where they are to be joined by ten more sail of the line. At Carthagena and Barcelona, as well as at Cadiz, the naval preparations are unusually active. Expeditions, whose destination is conjectured to be Egypt, are to sail from each of those ports.
The French troops who were about to evacuate the Brisgau, have received counter orders; they have even occupied the Forest Towns. The difficulties which have occurred upon the subject of the indemnities are alleged as the cause of these movements. The French funds are, 50 f. 63 c.
A packet arrived at Falmouth on Friday from Lisbon, which she left the 24th of last month. The letters bring the important intelligence of a battle having taken place between the main bodies of the Spanish and Portuguese armies, in which the Spaniards were defeated, with the loss of upwards of 1000 men. The intelligence reached Lisbon the night before the sailing of the packet, which was immediately dispatched with the news. The French army had not joined the Spaniards, but their advanced guard was within two or three days march of the Spanish head-quarters.
It is to be remarked, that the intelligence which the packet has brought from Lisbon must be of a later date than the official news in the French papers, which was sent by the king of Spain from Madrid to the Count of Leghorn at Paris. The two accounts, therefore, may both be true. The Spaniards might have met with no resistance in entering the Portuguese territories, and they might have taken possession of some towns. Their defeat might have taken place after the capture mentioned in the Moniteur, of Olivenza and Monte-Mayor.
It is not probable, however, that this first success of the Portuguese will be very decisively advantageous. The junction of the French with the Spanish would make their combined force infinitely superior to any which Portugal could send against them.
Great activity prevails in the different ports, in order to send reinforcements to Egypt as quick as possible. Transports failed yesterday from Portsmouth for Ireland to take on board troops; and on Saturday the Monmouth failed from Plymouth with the 24th regiment on board.
The discussions between this country and France, on the subject of peace, it is understood, have not been wholly suspended. They could not make much progress while the fate of Egypt was undecided, and while the collateral difficulties arising from the northern confederacy remained. In a short time, however, these obstacles will in all probability be removed. There will soon be an opportunity for entering fully and directly into the question, as the state of possession and the relative situation of the parties will be such as are not likely to undergo any sudden change from military operations. It will then be seen what sincerity and moderation animate those by whom the negotiation is conducted.
July 9.
At a late hour last night arrived the Hamburg mail due on Saturday. As was expected, the intelligence from Stockholm shews that the same progress towards pacification is now made with that as with the other powers of the north. The King of Sweden has by a new Edict removed the one which prohibited all commerce with England, and enjoined that the English be admitted without molestation into the Swedish harbours.
The next Gazette may therefore be expected to announce the removal of the embargo from the Swedish vessels in our different harbours.
The mail brings nothing new that is worthy of credit from Egypt.
It is stated, that by some dispatches intercepted from Gantheaume to the chief consul, it appears that 4000 French troops at Leghorn were ordered on board his ships as a reinforcement for Egypt, but not a man would embark—and that 2000 troops were tried at Ancona, and with no better success.
Lord Elgin has been superceded in his embassy to Constantinople, and Mr. Drummond, our late negotiator at Copenhagen, is appointed his successor.
Dublin Castle, May 24.
The Earl of Hardwicke, who embarked at Holyhead yesterday evening at 8 o'clock, on board his Majesty's yacht the Dorset, arrived in this harbour at 6 o'clock this morning. His Lordship, on his arrival in Dublin, was received by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Commons of the city of Dublin. His Lordship, attended by a squadron of dragoons, proceeded to the Castle, and upon his arrival there at 12 o'clock, was introduced in form to his Excellency the Marquis Cornwallis, who received him sitting under the canopy of state in the presence chamber, from whence a procession was made, in the usual state, to the council chamber; the council sitting, his Lordship's commission was read, and the oath being administered to him, his Excellency was invested with the Collar of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, and received the sword of State from the Marquis Cornwallis. His Excellency afterwards repaired to the Presence chamber, and received the compliments of the Nobility, and other persons of distinction, upon his safe arrival, and taking upon him the government of Ireland.
STOCKHOLM, May 22.
By order of his Majesty, the following decree was published here the day before yes-
terday: We, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, &c. make known by these presents, that, having been induced to break off all commercial intercourse, by the unfriendly measures of the English government, and its acts of hostility against the Swedish flag, we have hitherto, and as long as there appeared no prospects for a change, faithfully adhered to that resolution, founded upon such firm principles, in order that we might faithfully observe the engagements entered into, and on every occasion watch over the honour and dignity of our kingdom. Having, however, now learned, that our allies have resumed their former commercial intercourse with England at an earlier period, and the commander of the English fleet in the Baltic having likewise solemnly declared, that the Swedish merchant vessels shall not be molested in the Baltic and in the Categat, we find ourselves no longer bound, circumstances being thus changed, to persevere in a resolution which at present would merely tend to impede the navigation and commerce between us and his Britannic Majesty. We, therefore, hereby not only revoke the prohibition of trading with England, issued by our College of Commerce, on the 30th of March, but grant permission to all English merchant ships to sail to and from the Swedish ports without molestation, and import and export all permitted commodities, paying the customary tolls and duties which were in force before the late misunderstanding between England and Sweden; and we expect that the English government will by this measure be convinced of the justice and moderation of our sentiment, and be induced to treat our subjects with similar moderation and justice.
Given at our Palace, at Stockholm, May 19.
(Signed) GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS.
The above unexpected publication has caused the most pleasing sensation on our exchange, and trade will soon resume its former activity. In the neighbourhood of Carlscrona some English ships have still continued cruising. At Cimbrithaven an English frigate made its appearance, with two white flags, the commander of which desired to speak with the Swedish officer commanding the guards of that part of the coast, of whom he requested leave to see the place and purchase provisions, which being refused, he expressed his astonishment, saying, that England might be considered as being at peace with Sweden.—He further stated that the frigate was cruising between Bornholm and the Swedish coast, in order to meet the English merchant ships that had been under an embargo in the ports of Russia.
FALMOUTH, June 6.
The King George Packet, Capt. Yescombe, which arrived yesterday, in 12 days from Lisbon, brings intelligence that the long meditated war between Spain and Portugal has at length commenced, with a battle between the main bodies of the Spanish and Portuguese armies, in which the latter were victorious, and in which the Spaniards are said to have lost upwards of 1000 men. This intelligence reached Lisbon only the night before the packet failed; and no official account of the affair had been published when he left the Tagus.
We have seen a letter from a respectable merchant at Lisbon, in which it is stated, that the Spaniards commenced the attack, by driving in the advanced posts of the Portuguese, who, retiring to the main body, concentrated their forces, and fell upon the Spaniards with such fury as compelled them to retreat, leaving 1500 dead on the field of battle.
The advanced guard of the French army were within two or three days march of the Spanish head quarters; and on their junction it was expected that another attack would be made on the Portuguese.
Two French frigates had arrived at Corruna, with battering artillery.
The Packet had been only two days at Lisbon, and was sent off immediately with the account of the above affair to the Court of London.
LEGHORN, May 15.
The French continue the siege of Porto Ferrajo. It is said that the order to surrender the place will arrive from Vienna before the English can introduce reinforcements, and get entire possession.—Admiral Gantheaume's squadron failed several days ago for the place of its destination.
GENOA, May 23.
We have learnt by the last courier from Spain that two French frigates had appeared before Ferrol, and that there immediately failed from that port a squadron of seven sail of the line and several frigates with 2000 troops. It is now said that this squadron has got into Cadiz, in order to join ten more sail of the line with which it is to sail. At Barcelona and Carthagena, other naval expeditions are preparing.
COPENHAGEN, May 20.
Rear-Admiral Stiekfeth has received orders to proceed immediately to Norway, to take the command of the squadron returned from the Mediterranean, and to superintend the defence of the Southern part of Norway, as far as Bergen.
HAMBURGH, June 2.
Count Bernstorff, the Danish Minister of State, who goes as Ambassador Extraordinary to London, is arrived here on his way to Cuxhaven. The English fleet under Admiral Nelson, is at present off Warnemunde, two leagues from Rostock, in order to take in provisions. Strangers are flocking thither from all parts to see the fleet. Lord Nelson went on shore, and visited Rostock. On Sunday last a convoy of 36 sail arrived here from Hull.

to the great joy of the inhabitants of this city. They passed the Danish ships of war in the Elbe, without saluting them, as formerly.
PETERSBURGH, May 18.
The embargo on the English ships, and the requisition on property, was taken off yesterday. The Russian Admiralty has received orders to get all the British ships in the Russian harbours repaired at the expence of Russia. The 24 ships at Riga, which were given to the heirs of Zuckerluker, to discharge a demand which they made upon the English government, have likewise been restored to their lawful owners. The harmony and friendly relations which formerly subsisted with England, are again entirely restored. Lord Nelson is expected here on a friendly visit.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 26.
Intelligence has been received from Egypt that Rosetta is now likewise in the hands of the English, but that the French garrison at Alexandria still continues to make a valiant defence. The English had bombarded the latter city, and attempted taking it by storm, but were driven back with considerable loss. The blockade of Alexandria, by sea and land, still continues. It is said that very few houses remained without some damage from the bombardment; in consequence of which the French had desired and obtained a cessation of hostilities for 31 days. While some persons here expect the speedy surrender of Alexandria, and the evacuation of Egypt by the French; others maintain, that at Alexandria, as well as in several other parts of Egypt, the inhabitants are attached to the French, and rather support them than the English.
The news of the death of the Emperor Paul I. has made a great sensation here, and already caused several changes. A disagreeable circumstance has again happened here, a few days ago, to the Russian Ambassador, General Tamara. He had requested leave to visit the different Mosques in this city, which was granted him by a firman; and the Ambassador, accompanied by the Neapolitan Minister, Count Ludoff, the Swedish Charge d'Affairs, M. de Konig, his Consort, and other Ladies, went to inspect the Mosque of St. Sophia, and other temples; after which the whole company proceeded to the Mosque of Soliman. Near this place, a concourse of Turkish students, and other young men, had been formed, who behaved very rudely, ill treated the attendants of the Ministers, particularly the ladies, and severely hurt a Russian interpreter, till at last the Turkish military succeed in dispersing them. The Porte immediately dispatched some persons of rank to the Russian Ambassador, to apologize for what had happened, and at the same time sent presents, which were refused. The ringleaders were arrested, and publicly whipped.
PARIS, May 22.
Mr. Dawton, Envoy Extraordinary of the United States, accompanied by General Kosciusko, went within these few days to visit Thomas Paine, and transmitted to him a very affectionate letter from Mr. Thomas Jefferson, in which he invites him to return to America, and offers him for his return a national vessel.
June 2.
A courier extraordinary from Madrid, who arrived to-day at the Court of Leghorn, has brought him a letter from the King of Spain, who informs him that the left of the Spanish army have entered Portugal by the bay of Badajos, following the Guadiana; that it has taken Olivenza, Monte-Maggiore, and surrounded the fortress of Elvas; the Court of Portugal hastened to send M. de Pinto to demand a truce, shewing his full powers to negotiate and sign a definitive treaty; but that his Catholic Majesty had ordered the army to continue its march until, as a preliminary, an embargo has been placed upon English ships, and the ports of Portugal shut against England. M. de Pinto proceeded towards Lisbon, to wait for fresh instructions, and the army has continued its march.—(Official.)
June 4.
The Count and Countess of Leghorn went yesterday to the First Consul's, where they dined.
The Consul is expected to-morrow to assist at the grand parade. There arrived at Dijon a few days ago a state prisoner, who is said to be one of the conspirators against the life of the First Consul in the affair of the infernal machine; he was arrested at Valence, under the name of Rotang; but he is said to be the famous Chandelier. At the period of his arrest, his beard, which he had suffered to grow without doubt for the purpose of disguising himself better, was three or four inches long; he is pale, dejected, and from Geneva to Dijon did not speak a single word. By the precautions taken he appears to be a prisoner of the greatest importance; a Lieut. of Gendarmerie who accompanies, is responsible with his life for his safe custody, and four gendarmes surround the carriage; he has his hands bound, and during the night still fettered; he has the gendarmes in his room. He is going to Paris, and the road he has taken is a very circuitous one, because a rescue was apprehended.
COPENHAGEN, May 26.
The Secretary of State, Count Bernstoff, will set out for England on Sunday next. The Count goes by Pinneberg, Hamburgh and Cuxhaven, to London. Yesterday a Russian brig arrived in our road from the Baltic, with dispatches for England.
We are still daily employed with the utmost activity in repairing our batteries and fortifications, to effectually resist every attack, should hostilities (which however we do not expect) again be renewed.
ELSINEUR, May 26.
It is said that Lord Nelson only waits the arrival of the English merchant ships detained in the Russian ports, to return with his fleet to Copenhagen, and thence to England.
HAGUE, May 26.
Yesterday the plan of the new Constitution, together with the report of the committee, was published. It consists of 174 articles, and is divided into the following sections: 1. On the right of voting. 2. The College of National Electors. 3. The Legislative Body. 4. The State Directory, or Executive. 5. The Finances. 6. The Departmental Administration. 7. The Judicial Power. 8. The National Supreme Court. 9. The Courts of Justice in the Departments. And lastly, 10. General Regulations relative to Religion, Public Instruction, Agriculture, Trade, &c.
The report of the committee consists of eighteen pages. Among other things it is suggested, that when the Legislative Body shall have decreed, that the plan of the Constitution shall be presented to the people, a bill shall be left at the house of every active citizen, in which he shall write yes or no, subscribed with his name, according as he means to accept or reject the new Constitution. These billets will then be collected, and the majority decide for or against the acceptance of the Constitution.
The Director Van Zwinden has protested against the plan of the new Constitution. Admiral De Winter has left his ship and gone to Amsterdam.
BERLIN May 20.
The army in and around Berlin amounts to 33,000 men. The number of troops assembled here at the time of the review was never so great before, even under Frederick the Great. The review begins on the 21st, and ends on the 23d inst. All our troops ordered to the coasts of Prussia and Pomerania, to prevent a landing of the English, have now orders to return.—Negotiations have now begun between Mr. Hulteman, on the part of the Batavian Republic, and General Stamford and Counsellor Arnold, on the part of the Prince of Orange, in order to fix on the indemnification of that Prince. It had been in contemplation at first, to restore to the House of Orange the dignity of Stadtholder; but this subject meeting with some obstacles, has been laid aside for the present.
Domestic Intelligence.
WASHINGTON, May 17.
We understand that Mr. Peale, of Philadelphia, has lately returned from a trip up the North River, where he purchased the most material parts of the bones of the great American animal commonly called the Mammoth, as well as the right of taking up the remainder. Within the space of two or three months he expects to have it in his power to put together a complete skeleton for the Museum.
BALTIMORE, July 17.
In the ship Nancy, Capt. George Hobbs, who arrived yesterday from Amsterdam, returned to this country R. G. Van Polanen, Esq. Minister resident of the Batavian republic near the government of the United States; who left this country in the month of June 1800, with the permission of his government.
NEW-YORK, July 18.
Extract of a letter received by a gentleman in this city (who was concerned in a commercial establishment in Leghorn) from one of his partners in Scotland, dated June, 1801.
"I received a letter from your brother yesterday, dated the 8th ult. He mentions that the moderation of the French on entering Leghorn was merely a snare to catch the unwary, and that the main object in invading Tuscany, was to pay their army out of the plunder they expected to find in the English warehouses, which they had calculated at 70 or 80 millions of livres. A contribution of 12 millions of livres was laid on the inhabitants, on condition that all public and private property should be respected.—This was laid on by General Dupont, who afterwards reduced it to one million, with 200,000 livres secretly to his private purse—500,000 to his officers, and 40,000 livres to the Commissaires Ordonnateurs, for their trouble and friendly offices. Scarcely was this agreement completed when a commission of five arrived, with full powers from the commander in chief to sequester all enemy's property, and the warehouses were all sealed up, which seals could only be taken off by a bribe of 190,000 livres, and it was agreed that such a report should be made as would lead to a final settlement; and no further search was to be made after enemy's property. This was no sooner done than a demand was made to furnish 110,000 sacks of corn for the army—value 3,300,000 livres, to be paid by the million laid on Leghorn by Gen. Dupont, and the balance out of the contributions levied on Florence, Pisa, and different parts of Tuscany. This was the fourth violation of the capitulation; and lastly the English were ordered to leave the place in six hours, and Tuscany in two days."
July 20.
Extract of a letter from an American Merchant in Paris, dated May 15, 1801, to his friend in Philadelphia.
"It is with pleasure I advise you of the arrival of Mr. Dawton, who I expect will have an audience this day with the First Consul."
It is my opinion all differences will be arranged, without further negotiation, or the interference of Mr. Ellsworth or Mr. Murray. To have our differences settled is of great importance, and the sooner our Minister arrives the better, as I hear it is in contemplation to liquidate all the foreign claims for provisions, &c. furnished, and then to fund their amount at 3 per cent. This will be unjustly depriving our citizens of half their claim, against which I hope and expect our Minister will seriously remonstrate. The highest funded debt in France is only 54 per cent. Prices of Island produce and Tobacco very dull. I expect they will mend after the trade once becomes regular. I do not find that the British interrupt our European commerce."
Extract of a letter from New-Providencia, dated June 20.
"It is now the opinion of the gentlemen of the law here, as well as in England, that captures made of any property, the production of any country, provided the owner has been duly admitted a citizen of the United States for a period of only ten days, are legal and bona fide neutral property."
July 22.
By the brig Thetis, from Liverpool, we learn, that two men arrived there the 31st of May, overland, belonging to the ship Liberty, of and from this port bound to Liverpool, which had set Capt. Taylor on shore in the channel—the information they gave of him was, that they left him sitting on a rock, between Holyhead and Carnavan Bay; he gave them orders not to trouble him, but make the best of their way for the ship, as he meant to end his days in that dreadful place.—No reason as yet can be given for his leaving the ship.
A letter from a respectable merchant in London to his partner in this city, dated June 6, mentions that there was a strong talk of Mr. Pitt's going into office again.
A letter from Newcastle, of the 5th of June, says, "I am sorry to inform you, that the riots still continue to an alarming degree in several parts of Lancashire [England.] Troops are daily passing through here, by forced marches, with artillery from the inland district."
SALEM, July 20.
By an arrival on Sunday last at Marblehead from Bilboa, in 26 days, we learn that that city has been dreadfully inundated by the continual and heavy rains, the water having rose in the town 14 steps above its usual height.
A vessel belonging to Mr. Hooper, of Marblehead, we are informed, was drove from her anchors high and dry into the city. * A step is about 8 inches. Bilboa was visited by a similar disaster about 50 years since, when all the inhabitants expected to have perished.
Four ships, belonging to this place and Beverly, arrived on Thursday and Friday last from the East-Indies. Their cargoes consisted of cotton goods, sugar, indigo, pepper, &c. and are estimated to be worth upwards of 700,000 dollars. The U. S. duty upon which must amount to 60 or 70,000.
BOSTON, July 24.
The property arrived in this port and in Salem from India, within a week past, is supposed to amount to above a million of dollars.
The Herald sloop of war has been sold for 14,100 dollars. She was purchased by Mr. De Wolfe, of Rhode-Island.
It is whispered at Washington, that the Attorney for the federal district is the author of the libel for which Mr. Smith, the democratic printer, has been indicted. The Attorney must support the bill.
Providence, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29.
The President of the United States has dismissed James Dole, Esq. Marshal of the District of Albany, and appointed in his place Harnanus H. Wendell, Esq.
Accounts from the City of Washington mention, that Robert Smith, Esq. of Baltimore, has been appointed Secretary of the Navy.
A Peterburgh (Vir.) paper of July 3, says, We say now presume that the wheat harvest is nearly completed; and we can venture to assert the public, that a better crop, either in quality or quantity, has not appeared in this state for many years.
The following curious paragraphs appeared in a late French paper, under the head of Copenhagen, May 12. "Admiral Parker is enjoying himself in our bay; though the Baronets labouring under the weight of fourteen letters, and the excruciating pangs of the gout, his splendid board announces that he is nonfriendly to the charms of conviviality—fortunate circumstance for the farmers and gardeners of the Isle of Amak, who never experienced such a market, as since this British Chief paid us his unwelcome visit. Four days ago the Admiral gave a splendid entertainment on board, to a Swedish officer, who had served under him. The company sat down to table at four P. M. and thanks to the juice of the Tuscany grape, the 5th hour, ante meridian, found the jovial guests singing "Go save the King!"
"The best tavern in London could not have served up a more princely repast; each service consisted of 27 dishes, and the tables were covered with a profusion of precious fruit, such as was never before seen in the month of April, and in the 56th degree of latitude!—but British gold can perform miracles; it has even the power to quicken vegetation!"
The Prussian government is likely to de-
rive similar advantages from the banishment of the deluded Irish, which this country reaped from the revocation of the edict of Nantz. Those people, instead of being made soldiers, as was expected, were carefully examined as to their qualifications, and furnished with the kinds of employment to which they had been respectively bred. The flax-dressers, weavers and bleachers, in particular, were sent to Silesia, where the example of their skill and industry has already produced a visible improvement in the linen manufacture.
Letters received on Sunday from Dublin, contain intelligence of the most unpleasing description—viz. of a number of stoppages and absolute failures in the commercial department; one house is mentioned as having failed for 400,000. and another, whose embarrassment is likely to involve almost all the South of Ireland. [Lon. pap.]
The first Consul meditates, beyond doubt, an expedition against Ireland. Considerable bodies of troops are kept in readiness for instant embarkation along the coast, and all the officers and men employed in the expedition under General Humbert, who landed at Killala, are incorporated with the detachments destined to attempt a descent. The state of defence in which Ireland has been placed by the exertions of the Marquis Cornwallis, suppresses all anxiety upon that subject, should the enemy even succeed in eluding the vigilance of our blockading squadrons. ibid.
The principal merchants and ship-owners of the port of New-Haven (to the number of 80 persons) have forwarded a Remonstrance to the President of the United States, on the appointment of Samuel Bishop, Esq. to the office of Collector of the revenue of that port, in the place of Elizur Goodrich, Esq.—to which the President has returned a lengthy Reply, in justification of that and other measures of the like nature.—As this Reply of the President tends to elucidate some of the principles on which he may be supposed to act, that, together with the Remonstrance prefixed, shall appear in our next.
The lines over the signature of "LA LUC," shall appear next week.
Married,
On Wednesday morning last, by the Rev. Dr. Gano, Nicholas Brown, Esq. to Miss Mary B. Stelle, daughter of Mr. Benjamin Stelle. Mr. Radcliffe, to Miss Tracy, both of the Island of Jamaica.
Died,
At Cumberland, in an advanced age, James Dexter, Esq.; he was a patriot in the "times that tried men's souls," an honest man, and a very respectable citizen.
At Stephen-Town (State of N. York) Mr. John Hempstead, aged 106 years.
A STORE TO LET.
TO be let, the Store lately improved by Mr. GAMALIEL L. DWIGHT, on the south side of Market-street, and only four doors from the great Bridge. Said Store is neatly finished for disposing of goods, and the stand equal to any in town. More room in the upper part of said store may be had if wanted. Apply to
THOMAS JONES,
WHO HAS JUST RECEIVED,
A quantity of the best heavy RYE, and has it to sell at his store in Market-street, July 29.
LOOKING-GLASSES.
THE subscriber has just received an assortment of Elegant Gilt-Frame LOOKING-GLASSES, with glass pannels, and ornamented tops, of the latest fashions, as low as can be bought in New-York or Boston.—Prices from 20 to 65 dollars the pair; SAMUEL AMES. July 29. (12 w.)
Joseph Mason
Informs his Friends,
THAT he has removed to Capt. SAMUEL GODFREY'S House, at the South End, where he will be at all times ready to attend the calls of those who may please to employ him in the line of his profession. He will keep constantly on hand a good assortment of Medicines, and will put up Medicines Chests for ships, and private boxes for officers and seamen, with particular directions, on reasonable terms, and on the shortest notice. July 29.
District of Rhode-Island.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Creditors of GEORGE ROBINSON, of North-Providencia, in the district aforesaid, against whom a Commission of Bankruptcy hath been awarded and issued, and who hath been declared a Bankrupt: That I have appointed Monday the tenth day of August next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling-house of AARON BOURN, Inn-holder in Bristol, in said district, for the hearing the objections of the Creditors of the said Bankrupt, if any they have, against the allowance of a certificate of discharge, signed by the Commissioners of said Bankrupt, dated the twentieth day of July, A. D. 1801; wherein they certify that the said Bankrupt hath made a full disclosure and discovery of his estate and effects, and in all things conformed himself to the act, entitled, "An act to establish an uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States."
GIVEN under my hand at Bristol, this twenty-fifth day of July, A. D. 1801, BENJAMIN BOURN, Circuit Judge.

CRAZY JANE.—A BALLAD.
By G. M. LEWIS.
WHY, fair Maid, in every feature Are such signs of fear express'd? Can a wand'ring wretched creature With such terror fill thy breast?
Doft thou weep to see my anguish? Mark me, and avoid my woe! When men flatter, sigh and languish, Think them false, I found them so;
Fondly my young heart receiv'd him, Which was doom'd to love but one; He sigh'd, he vow'd, and I believ'd him, He was false, and I undone;
Now forlorn, and broken hearted, And with phrenzied thoughts beset, On that spot where last we parted, On that spot where first we met,
Fire-Insurance Company.
Agreeable to a Vote of the Directors of the Fire-Insurance Company, the following calculation is inserted, showing the difference in expense of Insurance (from fire) done by the Society, and being done by individual un- derwriters.
INSURANCE FOR SEVEN YEARS, BY INDIVIDUALS.
Table with 3 columns: Description, Dolls, Cts. Rows include: 1000 Dolls. premium, first year, 10; Policy and Stamp, 2; Interest for seven years, 5 4; Second year, 10; Policy and Stamp, 2; Interest for six years, 4 32; Third year, 10; Policy and Stamp, 2; Interest for five years, 3 60; Fourth year, 10; Policy and Stamp, 2; Interest for four years, 2 33; Fifth year, 10; Policy and Stamp, 2; Interest for three years, 2 16; Sixth year, 10; Policy and Stamp, 2; Interest for two years, 1 44; Seventh year, 10; Policy and Stamp, 2; Interest for one year, 72. Totals: 104 16.
In the above insurance your premium is all expended at the expiration of seven years, and perhaps the insurer is a bankrupt.
INSURANCE FOR SEVEN YEARS, IN THE COMPANY.
Table with 3 columns: Description, Dolls, Cts. Rows include: 1000 Dolls. premium for seven years, 28; Policy, 1; Stamp, 1; Badge, 50; Interest of the above seven years, 12 31; Interest on 112 dolls. deposit, for seven years, 47 4; The sum saved on 1000 dolls. insurance, 13 31. Totals: 104 16.
In the above insurance, if no fire happens, the premium and interest still remain his property in stock, and he is sure of his loss, if any.
Marshal's Sales.
On Tuesday the 4th of August next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, will be ex- posed for sale, at the store of FREEMAN MAYBERRY, on the Point Ferry Wharf, in Newport, for the payment of duties, ABOUT 130,000 lb. of Batavia COFFEE, imported in the ship China, James Josiah, late master. WILLIAM PECK, Marshal. Newport, July 18.
FRESH FLOUR.
Just received, and for sale by Malachi Rhodes and Son, At the Long-Wharf, ALEXANDRIA fine and super- fine FLOUR; 20 barrels Ship Bread; Corn, Rye, and Wheat Bran, by the hun- dred or single bushel; Also, One ton of Red-Wood, July 15.
BANKRUPTCY.
NOTICE.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against JOHN HAVEN, of Providence, Tra- der, and he being declared a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to us, the undersigned Commissioners, on the twen- ty-fifth day of July, and on the eighth and twenty-second days of August next, and on the fifth day of September next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon on each day, at Al- pheus AMIDON's Golden-Ball inn, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects; when and where the Cre- ditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the third meeting to choose Al- signees, and at the last meeting the said Bank- rupt is required to finish his examination, and the Creditors are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate. All persons indebted to the said Bankrupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the said Commission- ers shall appoint.
PARIS J. TILLINGHAST, JOSEPH JENCKES, GEORGE R. BURRILL, } Com'rs. July 22.
THE Copartnership of HARRIS and RHODES, being this day dissolved by mutual consent; all those who have any unsettled accounts with them are requested to call on Wm. N. RHODES for settlement. CYRUS HARRIS, Wm. N. RHODES. July 15.
Bowers and Bucklin,
Importers of English GOODS, At their Store directly opposite Messrs. BROWN and IVES', have just received a new supply of LINENS, Shawls, Cambric Muslins, long Lawns, Muslinets, Dimity, Mar- seilles laces, Veils, &c. &c. which are now opened for sale upon liberal approved credit. Also, 50 pieces mock Madras Handker- chiefs, 50 pieces real do.
Likewise, 26 boxes of China, containing tea and coffee sets; a few quarter chests of Souchon Tea. N. B. The Linens are entitled to draw back on exportation. July 15.
To be Sold,
A NEW fall-back CHAISE. For terms, apply to JOHN C. JENCKES, At his shop, near the Turk's-Head, where he has for sale, GOLD and SILVER WORK, and JEWELLERY; ALSO, PLATED HARNESS-FURNI- TURE, as low as can be bought in Boston or New-York. N. B. All persons having accounts unsettled with the firm of JOHN JENCKES and Co. are requested to exhibit them to said JENCKES within three months from this date. Cash given for old Gold, Silver, Copper, and Brass. July 15. (5 w.)
A good Farm for Sale,
AND to be sold on liberal terms. Said farm contains upwards of Two Hundred and Forty Acres of Land, in the town of Brimfield, State of Massachusetts, county of Hampshire, on the road to Brook- field, from Providence, with a large Dwell- ing-house, two Barns and Sheds; said Farm a good proportion of mowing, ploughland, and pasturing, with an orchard, and is well furnished with excellent wood and wa- ter. It is desired that those who wish to purchase, would come and view said farm, and the owner declares on his honour that he will sell on reasonable terms. For further information enquire of the subscriber, living on said farm. ALEXANDER SESSIONS, Brimfield (Massachusetts) July 11.
BLUE Nankeens, Carpets and Carpettings, India Book Muslins and Handkerchiefs, a handsome supply just re- ceived, and for sale at the Store No. 7, Chap- Side. WILLIAM BLODGET, Jr. June 17.
FOR SALE, BY Wanton Steere, At the Long Wharf, EIGHTY hogheads of good re- tailing MOLASSES, on reasonable terms; Likewise--For sale, freight, or charter, brig CHARLOTTE, burthen 102 tons. July 3.
To be sold, at private sale, a Dwelling-House and Lot of Land, with a Barn and Wood-House thereon standing, situated in the south part of the town of Providence, and fronting on John-Street, so called, 60 feet. For terms apply to CLARKE BROWN, in East-Greenwich, or to Capt. WILLIAM S. BROWN, living on the premises. East-Greenwich, June 24.
Take Notice.
THE Subscriber having lately ar- rived in Providence from Georgia, takes this method to invite all persons who have any demands against him to call on him at the house of Mr. Nathan Truman, or on Dr. Benjamin Dyer, and receive their money; and as he proposes returning to Georgia in the fall, the sooner a settlement of his affairs can be effected, the more agreeable to him. June 15. EBENEZER JENCKES.
Grinnell and Taylor
Respectfully inform the public, and their good customers in particular, that they have just received a general assortment of Painters Colours, &c. viz.
LONDON white lead, dry or ground in oil, per cwt. or lb. Spanish white, stone yellow, red lead and Spanish brown per do. Prussian blue, first, second and third qualities; Venetian red, vermilion, king's yellow, white vitriol, gold leaf, copal var- nish, ivory black, amber, lampblack, Dutch pink, rose pink, drop lake, strewing small litharge, verdigree per sack or lb. copperas, alum, brimstone, red chalk, pumice stone, rofin, patent yellow, English and Russia glue, linseed oil, per bbl. or gall. spirits turpen- tine, black and bright varnish for vessels use, painters brushes and tools of various sizes, marking brushes, large and small camel hair pencils, window and china putty, win- dow glass 10 by 12—15 by 11—14 by 10— 12 by 10—11 by 9—10 by 8—9 by 7 and 8 by 6. The above articles are of an excellent quality, and are sold as low as can be pur- chased in this State.
They continue the painting business at their Store opposite the Bank Lane; where colours are prepared at short notice, and all favours gratefully received. N. B. They earnestly solicit all persons that have been indebted to them more than one year, to call and settle the same without delay. June 17. 8 w.
For SALE,
By the Executrix of the late Capt. ZACHA- RIAH ALLEN, 40 Boxes of Havana White Sugars, enti- 28 Ditto Brown titled to Draw- 35 Hhds. of Cape back: 43 Hhds. of Cape, Surinam and Barbados SUGARS, 52 Boxes of white and 5 Boxes of brown Havana Ditto, 100 Hhds. of New-England RUM, 20,000 lb. of Loaf SUGAR, 1700 lb. of American SNUFF, in Hhds. and Kegs. The above articles will be sold on a credit, with approved security. N. B. To be let, near the centre of the town, the south wharf and stores, together or separately, one of which is calculated for a Grocery Shop. June 4.
REMOVAL.
THE new Cheap Cash Shop, kept by SMITH BARTLET, is re- moved from No. 12, Market-Street, to the Store lately occupied by Messrs. BOWERS and BUCKLIN, No. 1, Cheap-Side, where he has received a fresh supply of Goods, in addition to his former assortment, which he is selling at very reduced prices, for Cash only. Those who will have the goodness to call and look for themselves, will be convinced they are lower than can be bought in the town. N. B. He will let Shop No. 12, Market-Street. June 24.
For SALE,
On liberal terms, and credit, for ap- proved notes, 4 Boxes black India Lustrine, containing 160 pieces, 18 yards each 4 do. black Sinshaw do. 120 do. 30 do. each 2 do. 2d quality black Sattin do. 80 do. 18 do. each 2 do. 3d do. do. 60 do. 30 do. each 2 do. coloured striped Sattin, 60 do. 18 do. each 2 do. do. Sinshaws, 80 do. 30 do. each 1 do. do. coloured Lustrine, 40 do. 18 do. each 1 do. Sinshaws, 30 do. 30 do. each 1 do. 2d quality coloured Sattin, 30 do. 18 do. each 1 do. 1st quality Sattin, 30 do. 18 do. do. 7650 pieces long white Nankins 350 do. yellow do. Hyson, Souchong and Bohea Teas, per chest First quality Canton Sugar, in whole and half bags 150 bales Cassia 50 boxes China, containing each 1 Tea Sett The above are entitled to debenture on ex- portation. Please apply to SCOTT JENCKES, or AMOS T. JENCKES. June 7.
William Blodget, jun.
CHEAPSIDE, No. 7, HAS just received a consignment from the cargo of the ship Bedford re- cently from Calcutta, of the following Goods, now opening for sale, by quantities to suit the purchasers, at very favourable prices, for cash, or approved notes at Bank of 3 months 3 bales Jalolpore Mamoody Mullins 2 do. Janah do. do. 2 do. Alibad do. do. 1 do. Mow Coffes do. do. 1 do. Sandah do. do. 4 do. Burboom Gurrabs do. do. 1 do. Mow Sanahs do. do. 3 do. Alibad Omerty do. do. 1 do. Jalolpore Sawn do. do. 2 do. Patna Bastas do. do. 2 do. Jugda do. do. 1 do. Table-Cloths 1 do. Blue Romal Handkerchiefs 1 do. Mock Pulicat do. do. 1 do. Gingham 1 do. Checks 2 cases Bandano Handkerchiefs 4 bags Pepper 50,000 Segars A few pieces each Dacca, Jaco- net, Book, Surhaw, and Silver wrought Mull Mull Mullins. May 27. 92.
At a Town-Council, held in and for the Town of Providence, on the 6th day of June, A. D. 1801.
WHEREAS the health and safety of the town require that the exist- ing nuisances therein should be speedily removed or corrected;—It is therefore voted and resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire into, and make re- port to this Council, of all nuisances that shall come to their knowledge, and which shall appear likely to prove prejudicial to the health of the town; and that the following gentlemen be and they are here- by appointed a committee for that pur- pose, to wit, Messrs Philip Martin, Samuel Thurber, jun. and Rufus Water- man, for the north part of the town;— William Richmond, Jonathan W. Coy, and Paris J. Tillinghast, for the west side of the river; and Williams Thayer, John Spurr, and Jeremiah B. Howell, for the south part of the town;—and that said committee be entitled to a reasonable compensation for their services, to be paid out of the Town Treasury.
A true Copy: Witness, NATHAN W. JACKSON, C. Ck.
THE above named committee, on ex- amination, are exceedingly gratified to find a great majority of the inhabitants so attentive to the health of the Town, as appears by the cleanly and decent ap- pearance of the cellars, stores, and yards, in general.—We take the liberty to re- commend a perseverance in so necessary a work, by keeping the cellars and stores as far as possible dry and clean—by re- moving all manure, shells and rubbish, from the gangways and back yards—by preventing the vaults of necessaries from being full, and by frequently putting into them small quantities of air-slacked lime, —and by often clearing the gutters lead- ing from sinks, removing the filth, and sprinkling lime or dry ashes in and about them and other places disposed to become offensive.
The committee are assured that the above hints will be fully sufficient with all who have the health of the town at heart, and a proper regard to common decency and their own comfort and convenience. But we are sorry to add, that some there are who are so lost to such worthy con- siderations, that they seem disposed to support their nuisances after pressing and repeated remonstrances—such nuisances as remain after due notice will be report- ed to the Council without respect of per- sons.
The committee not only recommend, but enjoin as a duty, which each inhabi- tant of the town owes to the public and himself, to give information to some one of the committee in the district where he resides of any nuisance which may come to his knowledge.
To be let, a convenient tenement for a small family, on the west side of the great bridge, adjoining the back of Capt. JOHN MASON's House, that he now lives in. For terms, apply to HENRY BRICKLEY.