The Providence journal, and town and country advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1801-06-10 00:00:00

The Providence Journal
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TOWN AND COUNTY 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. 128. ]
WEDNESDAY, June 10, 1801.
[ Vol. III. ]
THE Subscriber has for sale at his Store (formerly occupied by R. PEARCE and Co.) No. 2, Water-street, in Dr. WILLIAM BOWEN's house, just below the Market, a large and handsome assortment of warranted SHOES, which he is retailing at the following uncommon low prices, for cash only, viz. Mens Boston warranted shoes, 9s. to 10s/6 Ladies Morocco Slippers, with and without heels, at 7s/6 Ladies black and fancy stuff, and leather ditto, at 5s/3 Misses Morocco and Leather Slippers And Children's Shoes. Also for sale, A quantity of Indigo and Wool, one trunk of Muslins, Broadcloths and Coatings. EARL DOUGLAS PEARCE. June 3.
For Sale, THE SCHOONER LUCRETIA, Now lying at Col. WILLIAM ARNOLD's Wharf, burthen 47 99-88 tons, three years old, and can be fitted for sea at a very little expence. Terms of payment will be made easy, and long credit given, with approved security. For terms, apply to SUSANNAH WEEDEN. N. B. If said Schooner should not be sold at private sale previous to Saturday the 13th inst, she will be sold at Public Auction. Conditions of sale to be made known at the time of sale. Sale to begin at four o'clock, P. M. East-Greenwich, June 1.
Strayed or Stolen. ON the night of the 28th ult. from an inclosure of Mr. JONATHAN PAGE, innholder in Charlestown (Massachusetts) a light red roan HORSE, about nine years old, light mane and tail, all of his feet white, a white stripe in his forehead, natural trotter, and good carraiged. Whoever will give information to Mr. PAGE, or the subscriber, living in Shrewsbury, so that he may recover his Horse again, shall receive 5 dollars reward, or 10 dollars for the Horse and Thief, (if stolen) and all necessary charges paid by NATHANIEL BRIDGHAM. Shrewsbury (Massachusetts) May 10. State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, May 25th, 1801.
THE creditors of Nathaniel P. Whiting, of Providence, in the county of Providence, Saddletree-Maker, are hereby notified to appear, if they shall think fit, at the General Assembly to be held at Newport on the third Monday in June next, then and there to shew cause, if any they may have, why his petition for the benefit of an act passed in June 1756, entitled, "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors," ought not to be granted. SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y.
THE Creditors of NATHAN ALDRICH, of Cumberland, in the county of Providence, Labourer, are hereby notified to appear, if they shall think fit, at the General Assembly to be held at Newport on the third Monday in June next, then and there to shew cause, if any they may have, why his petition for the benefit of an act passed in June 1756, entitled, "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors," ought not to be granted. SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y.
THE Creditors of Andrew Dillon, of Providence, in the County of Providence, Taylor, are hereby notified to appear, if they shall think fit, at the General Assembly to be held at Newport on the third Monday in June next, then and there to shew cause, if any they may have, why his petition for the benefit of an act passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," ought not to be granted. SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y.
WANTED, A QUANTITY of JOIST and STUDS, for which cash will be paid if delivered by the first of June. Enquire at this Office. April 25.
INOCULATION. THE Hospital in this town is now opened for the reception of such persons as wish to take the SMALL-POX by inoculation. LEVI WHEATON. May 27.
William Blodget, jun. CHEAPSIDE, No. 3, HAS just received a consignment from the cargo of the ship Bedford, recently 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 Jalalpore Mamoody Muslins 2 do. Janah do. do. 2 do. Alibad do. do. 1 do. Mow Coffes do. do. 1 do. Sandah do. do. 4 do. Burboom Gurrahs do. 1 do. Mow Sanahs do. 3 do. Alibad Omerty do. 1 do. Jalalpore Sawn do. 2 do. Patna Baftas do. 2 do. Jugda do. do. 1 do. Table-Cloths 1 do. Blue Romal Handkerchiefs 1 do. Mock Pulicat do. 1 do. Ginghams 1 do. Checks 2 cases Bandago Handkerchiefs 4 bags Pepper 50,000 Segars A few pieces each Dacca, Jacomet, Book, Surhaw, and Silver wrought Mull Mull Muslins. May 27.
Just received, and now opening, by Bowers and Bucklin, At their Store, opposite Messrs. BROWN and IVES, ONE package Linen Checks, assorted. One case low priced 4-4 Irish Linens One do. fine do. One do. India Bandanees, of a superior quality. N. B. The above goods for cash only. Also, per ship Osiris, via New-York, Two casks, containing a general assortment of Hard Ware, and one case fashionable Buttons, upon liberal approved credit. May 27.
Now landing from the ship Minerva, and for sale by Samuel G. Arnold and Co. SEVEN Thousand bushels of Bonavista SALT. They have likewise for sale, Turks-Island Salt 30 tons of Old Sable Russia Iron Russia and Ravens Duck, of various qualities Russia Sheetings; bleached and unbleached Russia Diaper Cordage assorted White Lead and Spanish Brown Looking-Glasses A quantity of Flag-Stones Most of the above goods are entitled to debenture on exportation, and will be sold on a liberal credit for approved security. May 17.
FOR SALE, BY James Rhodes and Co. At their store on the east side of the Great bridge, a few wharves below the Market, ALEXANDRIA fine and superfine Flour; Corn and Rye, either per quantity or single bushel; a few thousand of good Shingles, &c. Said articles will be sold low for cash or short credit. May 27.
New Cash Store. SULLIVAN MOULTON HAS opened a Store in the House of Dr. A. THROOP, No. 6, Cheapside, where he is now opening a handsome assortment of ENGLISH and SCOTCH GOODS, proper for the present and ensuing seasons. Those ladies and gentlemen that will favour him by calling and seeing for themselves, will be entitled to his utmost attention. N. B. Cash is only received in pay for his goods, and for that they will be sold on terms that cannot fail to suit the purchasers. May 27.
N. B. Cash is only received in pay for his goods, and for that they will be sold on terms that cannot fail to suit the purchasers. May 27.
From the PALLADIUM, PHOCION, No. IX. FRENCH INFLUENCE. FRENCH INFLUENCE has found, and will long find, both motives and means to disturb and controul the measures of any honest and truly national government in America.
Since Rome, no state has ever manifested such exorbitant ambition as France. Whether this arises from the nature of her power, which has ever been military, or the extent of it, which, for two centuries, has proved an overmatch for any European state; whether two centuries spent in efforts for aggrandizement have formed martial habits, or whether the national character be the cause rather than the effect of those struggles, the fact is certain, that France is, of all modern states, the most military, intriguing and ambitious. Since the revolutionary traces of every other nation have disappeared, and the sword is the only general to occupy industry or to carve out a new influence. With that, Frenchmen reap where they have not sowed: By waving that, they command the diamonds of Brazil, and strip the churches of Italy. Good fortune, scarcely less than Roman, has kindled a passion for conquest, and blown up a pride, which the hostile force of the civilized world would not intimidate, the empire of the world would not satisfy. The avarice of a commercial nation calculates its means, and reckons up the value of them. A conquering nation disdains both gold and arithmetic, and computes the presumption and audacity of its attempts as surprises on its plodding neighbours, and as the resources to insure its triumphs. Behold France, conducting her intrigues and arraying her force between the arctic circle and the tropics; see her in Russia the friend of despotism, preparing to subvert the empire of the Turks; in Ireland the auxiliary of a bloody democracy; in Spain and Italy a papist; in Egypt a musliman; in India a bramin; and assume an atheist; countenancing despotism, monarchy, democracy, religion of every sort, and none at all, as suits the necessity of the moment. It may be said that it is nothing to the people of France whether their armies win or lose a battle: glory is not bread.
It is incredible to many that a nation should perform labours and make efforts of the most perilous and astonishing kind merely for glory. Those, however, who reason against the military passion as a chimera, arraign the authority of history. What was it to the Romans, that MITHRIDATES, or TIGRANES, or ANTIOCHUS, or PERSEUS, or ARSACES, did not respect the majority of the Roman people? Surely that did not affect the markets or amusements of Rome: Yet never was there an objection in the forum, never was there any repugnance to the enrollment of the legions for chastising the rebellious insolence of any king who had never heard of the Roman name, or who did not tremble when he heard it. Accordingly, the soldier citizen cheerfully engaged to march across deserts and mountains to the extremities of the then known world to assert the glory of the Roman name, and so fix the statue of the God TERMINUS as far east as the shore of the Euphrates. The sons of business, who do not feel this spirit, will be slow to believe that others feel it. But Frenchmen are animated with as large a portion of it as the soldiers of PAULUS EMILIUS, LUCULLUS, or CRASSUS.
France is probably the most populous of European states, if we except the wandering tribes subject to Russia. It is the only state in which the sword is the only trade. Commerce has not a single ship: arts and manufactures exist in ruins and memory only. Credit is a spectre that haunts its burying place. Justice has fallen on its own sword; and liberty, after being sold to Ishmaelites, is stripped of its bloody garments to disguise its robbers. A people, vain enough to be satisfied with the name of liberty, are called free, and the servants of its spirit are roused to bind other nations in chains. From all these circumstances thus singularly combined, the whole physical force of France is its political force. There is not a vein nor a purse that its gigantic despotism cannot open at pleasure.
It is impossible that means so vast should be possessed without the desire to employ them. The obstacle to their successful employment is England. In all her ambitious attempts Great-Britain stands in her way. She stands like a necromancer, herself invulnerable, and by her spells the giant France is smitten with a palsy. With a spirit less generous than her courage, and sometimes with an intention to objects unworthy of her situation, England stands the bulwark of the civilized world, the only obstacle to the universal despotism of France.
Every thing, therefore, concurs to give activity to French influence. Her ambition, that seeks territorial aggrandizement in all parts of the earth, and the impediments that
the naval power of Great-Britain every where throws in her way, create the necessity, the motive, and the means of influence. Being inferior at sea, she tries to gain friends or to subdue allies on the shore of every sea. Accordingly, in Italy she obliges the Genoese, the Tuscans and the Romans, to exclude the ships and manufactures of England from their ports. She will exact the like terms from the Emperor and from Portugal. She will never cease to stir up the jealousy and ambition of the Emperor of Russia till he has forced the Turks to banish the English from the Mediterranean. Egypt is seized to secure a station on the land that may finally expel the English from India. Popular passions are courted in America; that they may obstruct first, and then subvert and revolutionize the government. Credit, public and private, is an anti-gallican interest. By subverting credit and abolishing debts, British hostility is insured, British commerce excluded. Besides, French islands in every war are destitute of the protection of a naval force. They are forced to depend on the resources of their own soil and on the supplies that the United States will furnish. The neutrality, and still more the friendship and co-operation of the United States, will be sufficient to preserve their colonies and eventually to turn the scale of power, in the contest for empire, in favour of France. Having no trade of her own, she is our customer; not our rival; her public ships, fugitives on the ocean, are seldom its tyrants. She is interested, and has the opportunity, to foment the passions which arise in America from the use and too frequently from the abuse of the British dominion of the sea.
It is then difficult to explain by this theory all the conduct of France and her emissaries, and the co-operation of her partisans in America? She has exerted her diplomatic skill to seize Louisiana, Florida and Canada, and employed her GENETS to enlist men in our back country to occupy them. She was, in 1783, averse to our aggrandizement, lest it should make us strong enough to stand alone, and to do without her aid. She has opposed every step towards the stability of our government, and for the establishment of its resources and credit. Her emissaries, in 1783, opposed the grant to the army, wishing to foment factions and divisions; in 1787 the federal constitution; in 1789 the funding system. She has been leagued with every faction, as FAUCHET's intercepted letter shews. There is no doubt that the Jacobin Gazettes are in her pay. The dispatches from Messrs. GERRY, MARSHALL and PINCKNEY, shew that she relies on her power over the constituted powers of the United States. She has interfered in our elections—and she needs us as instruments of her hatred of England too much to lose a moment, or any practicable means, or to forbear any expence, that will secure the preponderance of her influence in our councils.
These are foreign influence, and it is French.
Philadelphia, April 30. I THINK it my duty to inform all owners and masters of vessels, that I have made use of Messrs. Gould's Patent Nautical Perambulator, from Liverpool to America, on the last construction, which is so much preferable to those on the old plan that I can hardly introduce a comparison betwixt them: they shew the distance in the cabin with the most perfect degree of accuracy; its principles and formation are as unquestionable in giving true distance as the best constructed clock is in giving true time; the machine is, in all its parts, reduced to perfect system; every part of it now appears to be very durable; and the risque of losing is but small, as the part which goes in the water can be replaced for four or five dollars at most. The construction of the fly is such that it cannot choke by passing through the thickest held of sea-weed; and it is perfectly calculated to regulate with as much ease and accuracy as the best constructed clock. I paid every attention to the machine, and feel myself perfectly justifiable in expressing my opinion that it ought to hold a rank among the most important inventions, and that it will prove of the utmost use and consequence to the commercial world.
N. B. The calculation and construction of the fly wheel, which is the moving cause and governing principle of this machine, is a piece of mechanism worthy the attention of the most curious mathematician. S. B. DAVIS.
Five Dollars Reward. LEFT, on Wednesday last, in a necessary-house on a wharf, the west side of the bridge, a silver watch, maker's name John Curter, of London, No. 8896. Whoever will return the said watch, or give information at this office so as the watch may be obtained, shall receive the above reward. May 27.

Foreign Intelligence.
Advices from Egypt.
By the Iris, Capt. Griffin, arrived at Boston from Naples.
British Account.
GIBRALTAR, April 17. YESTERDAY arrived from Aboukir, in 28 days, his Majesty's hired armed brig Louisa, Truscott, from whom we have the following information:
The British army, under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, arrived in Aboukir Bay on the 22d of March; but did not attempt to disembark, on account of the tempestuous weather, until the 28th, when a landing was effected by 7000 men, under a heavy fire from artillery and small arms. The French made a vigorous opposition, advancing towards the beach, and actually levelling their muskets over the gunwales of the boats; but the British soldiers leaping on shore, attacked the enemy with the bayonet, made good their debarkation, and drove the French about two miles towards Alexandria, and into the castle of Aboukir; taking from them 8 pieces of cannon.
Our loss in killed and wounded this day is computed to amount to 400 or 500 men; and the enemy's about the same. Among the corps which made this first landing were the guards, 28th, 42d, 90th, and 92d regiments. Our troops were reinforced the same evening by 5000 more men who landed afterwards, and having established themselves in this position, they remained until the 13th of March; when a general action took place, which terminated in the total rout of the French, and 4 pieces of cannon being captured by the English, who lost about 1000 men in this affair: but by accounts from prisoners, the loss of the French was greater.
On the 14th the attack commenced upon the castle of Aboukir; and on the 18th that garrison surrendered to the British forces; all the guns except two having been dismounted by the fire from our batteries.
When the Louisa left Egypt, the British army was posted within two miles of Alexandria; and the French, supposed to be about 6000 strong, were entrenched on the heights at Pompey's Pillar, said to command Alexandria. The British were occupied in disembarking their field train of battering cannon, two thirds of which were already on shore; and the attack upon the French camp was expected very soon to begin; when it was supposed there could be little doubt of the event being as glorious to Britain as the preceding actions had proved. The French had at first mistaken the 42d regiment, in the Highland dress, for Turks, and attacked them with their usual confidence; but were received with a gallantry and spirit which they did not expect, and probably had not been accustomed to. The Highlanders received the French cavalry on their bayonets; in their turn made a brisk charge; checked and completely routed that part of the French army opposed to them.
It is further reported, that Murad Bey and his followers have attacked the French at Cairo, and prevented Menou from joining the forces at Alexandria, where all the rest of the French troops in the Delta had been concentrated. Certain accounts had arrived that the Grand Vizier with his army had marched towards the Delta about the 20th of February.
One of the lieutenants of his Majesty's ship Swiftsure writes as follows to his friends in Gibraltar, dated 17th of March.
"Our gallant army only is waiting for the heavy artillery to attack the enemy's height near Alexandria, which must immediately fall on our becoming masters of this height, as it entirely commands the town."
Sir John Warren fell in with and chased the squadron under Admiral Githaume, on the 21st of March, but lost sight of them in the night. They were seen on the 4th of April, by his Majesty's brig of war the Mutine, off the island of Sardinia, steering north-east. Two of the line of battle ships had lost their foremast.
It may be worthy of remark to news-mongers, that the late French account of their victory in Egypt, on the 20th of March, was from General Menou, dated at Milan, the 2d of April, in which he says, 'the intelligence of the English defeat and embarkation was founded on advices from Naples; and that the Iris, which arrived here yesterday, left Naples the 11th of April—nine days after the date of Menou's letter—and then no such accounts had been in circulation.'
Boston Gaz.
FROM THE BARBARY COAST.
(CIRCULAR.)
To the Agents and Consuls of the U. S. of America, residing in the different ports of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Barbary States, and British garrisons in the Mediterranean, and to others whom it doth or may concern.
GENTLEMEN, I HAD the honour to inform you, in my circular letters of November 1800, and 3d of January 1801, of the state of our affairs with this regency; I have now to add, that all hopes of accommodation have subsided; I therefore request you to detain all merchant vessels navigating under the flag of the United States in port, and by no means to permit any of them to sail, unless they are under convoy, as I am convinced that the
Bashaw of Tripoli will commence hostilities against the United States of America in less than sixty days from the date hereof, and I am persuaded he has made his demands upon the United States, for no other reason than to have an unjust excuse for capturing our vessels and enslaving our fellow-citizens; the being of such a nature that none but the President of the United States, with the consent of the Senate, can agree to. And having offered him the sum of thirty thousand dollars merely to state his demands, and wait for answer from the President, which he has refused, is sufficient proof that his intentions are as I have stated them, and dictate the necessity of taking every precaution, in order to prevent our vessels from falling into his hands.
I request you, gentlemen, to make this letter public, and to transmit a copy of it to the department of state.
I am, with assurances of respect, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
JAMES LEANDER CATHCART. Chancery of the U. S. of America, at Tripoli, in Barbary, Feb. 21, 1801.
Mr. Ansaldo will please to forward copies of the above to Palermo and Naples, without delay of time.
(Signed) WM. ENGLAND.
[CONSULAR.]
SIR, I HAVE this day received letters from Consul Cathcart, dated at Tripoli, the 19th and 26th of February, informing me that the Bashaw of Tripoli has rejected every offer of accommodation which Consul Cathcart has made him on the part of the United States of America; that said Bashaw has rejected the letters of interference of the Dey of Algiers, and declares the treaty of the United States to be void—demands great sums of money of the United States, and has sent his corsairs to sea, with orders to capture all American property, and enslave the citizens of the United States in consequence.
This is to inform all citizens of the United States of the impending danger that is to be apprehended. The United States are startled at by Algiers, and nearly the same by Tunis.
Given from under my hand and seal of office, at Algiers, this fifth day of April, 1801. (Signed) RICHARD O'BRIEN, Agent and Consul-General for the United States of America.
William Kirkpatrick, Esq; Consul for the United States at Malaga. A true copy. Malaga, April 22, 1801. WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK, Consul for the United States
Domestic Intelligence.
WASHINGTON, May 28. We hasten, with the least possible delay, to communicate to the public the following important letters respecting the disposition of Tripoli and Algiers, received by the Secretary of State.
Extract of a letter from Colonel Humphreys to the Secretary of State, dated the 14th of April, 1801.
"I think I cannot display too much eagerness in communicating to you, by different conveyances, the news this moment received by me from Algiers. I hasten then to transmit copies of Consul O'Brien's letters to the 6th inst. which came to me through the Department of the First Minister of State of his Catholic Majesty. From the last of these letters you will learn, that the Bey of Tripoli, having refused the mediation of Algiers, the presents sent from thence, and the bills of Consul Cathcart, was determined upon war against the United States, and was sending his cruisers to sea accordingly. It is devoutly to be wished that he may soon have reason to repent this wicked and rash proceeding at his leisure. As it is a considerable time since Consul Cathcart (whom I consider a very faithful and vigilant public officer) took the wise precaution of giving extensive advice of the great probability of this event, I cannot but hope that our unarmed merchant vessels will not be exposed to the hazard of falling into the possession of these pirates, but that they will rather be retained in port (however inconvenient or expensive it may be) until they can be protected by armed vessels of the United States, adequate to the purpose. On the policy of repelling force by force, and of blocking the ports of this aggressor, I can add little to the motives which I have already had the honour to offer. I may, however, just be allowed to say, that the circumstances seem more than at any former time to reduce us to the alternative of having a few frigates and light armed vessels in the Mediterranean, or of relinquishing our trade in it. To be at war with one of the Barbary powers, subjects our commerce to nearly the same risk as to be at war with all of them. To chastise that haughty but contemptible power which now dares first to insult us by its aggression, would certainly serve, not only as a salutary example to the other principal states, but it would produce an almost incalculable effect in elevating our national character in the estimation of all Europe."
Algiers the 5th of April 1801.
SIR, The Algerine corsairs are as yet all in port, and wait the result of the second mission to Constantinople. I hope something will come forward from the United States before they sail; if not, I have my fears. On the 1st inst. I sent to the Dey, requesting
he would permit a second letter to be wrote by his orders to the Bashaw of Tripoli; he answered that his letter had certainly gone safe, and would answer the desired effect. April 5th—this morning at 8 A. M. the Prime Minister of Algiers sent a choux or constable to me, to inform me that the Americans were in arrears in their annuities nearly three years; that what has been sent lately is very trifling, and that the Dey is not well pleased at this neglect or detention. I answered by my drogoman to give my best respects to the Prime Minister, to inform him that in our last settlement we arranged the annuities for two years and nine months: that one year was considered by the United States to be omitted; that we had brought sundry stores since (in the Sophia and Washington) which were not counted; that great commissions of timber and other articles were wrote for or ordered by the regency on the annuities; that these articles, I expected, were preparing in the United States to be shipped for Algiers; that our rivers were frozen till March, and that by this time I expected said articles were shipped, and would of course come forward sufficient to answer all the requisite stipulations on the part of the United States, which were due to the regency.
The Prime Minister observed, that we were much in arrears, more so than is customary to admit any nation; that he hoped these requisite articles on the annuities would soon arrive at Algiers; that they were the chain of our friendship with this regency. This looks squally.
Sir, I am, very respectfully, Your most obedient servant, (Signed) RICHARD O'BRIEN. The Hon. William Smith, at Lisbon.
Algiers the 6th of April 1801.
Yesterday I received letters from Consul Cathcart, dated Tripoli, the 19th and 26th of February. The Bashaw of Tripoli has disregarded the friendly letters and interference of the Dey of Algiers; and has rejected to receive the presents I sent from Algiers. Consul Cathcart offered to give him bills, &c. to the amount of 25,000 dollars, to gain time to have a reference to the United States: but this also was rejected. Our treaty is in a manner declared void, and the Bashaw of Tripoli has sent his corsairs to sea, with an intent to capture Americans. He wants war, and he should have it. Even if he should accept of the bills, I have not money or credit to pay or answer them; further, it would be establishing an example for Algiers and Tunis to make greater demands, and I have no such powers to act without a reference, on such a great affair, to the government and Mr. Smith. I have sent many important papers on this business to Mr. Montgomery, to copy and forward, and am so hurried that I have not time to add more than to inform you of this impending danger, and to assure you, Sir,
Of the sincere regard and esteem of your most obedient servant, (Signed) RICHARD O'BRIEN. Hon. Col. Humphreys, at Madrid.
The requisite precautions should be taken. I have wrote circular letters on this event to the Consuls in Spain, Gibraltar, and Mahon. Copy of this letter you will please to forward to the Secretary of State and Mr. Smith.
PHILADELPHIA, June 1.
The ship Merchant, Capt. Knox, arrived at Boston on the 25th inst. in thirty days from London. Her papers, though only to the 20th of April, furnish us with several interesting articles, which were not received by way of New-York.
A messenger arrived at Rhodes on the 14th of February, with dispatches from the E. Indies for Sir Sidney Smith, as the commanding officer on that station, announcing the departure of the eastern army for Egypt.
Advices were received in England on the 20th of April, via Hamburg, that the British forces from Bombay, destined to co-operate with Sir Ralph Abercrombie, had arrived in the Red Sea. They consist of eleven thousand Sepoys, under the command of General Baird. It was the knowledge of this fact which induced Sir Ralph Abercrombie to sail without waiting for the Turkish armament.
In consequence of the urgent applications of the Minister of the United States, the Batavian government has taken off the embargo on American vessels; but it still continues with respect to the trading vessels of other nations.
The project of the new Batavian constitution is printing.
The following is a statement of the force employed in the English expedition to Egypt.—General Sir Ralph Abercrombie, commander in chief. Major-General Hutchinson, second in command. 12th and 26th light dragoons. 1st and 3d battalion Colastream guards. 1st brigade; 2d battalion royals, 1st and 2d battalions 54th regiment, and 92d regiment. 2d brigade; 8th, 13th, 18th and 90th regiments, under General Cradock.—3d brigade, 50th and 79th regiments, under Major-General Lord Cavan. 4th brigade; 2d, 30th 44th and 84th regiments, under Brigadier-General Doyle. 5th brigade; Minorca regiment, De Rolles and Dillons, under Brigadier-General Stewart. Reserve; 23d, 28th, 42d and 53th, foot, and Corsicans.—Flank companies; 2d battalion 40th regiment, detachment 11th light dragoons, and a detachment of Hompesch's rifles. Maltese pioneers, and detachments of sappers.
Commandant of artillery, General Lawson; chief engineer, Major M'Kerras; Adjutant-General, Brigadier-General Hope; assistants, 18th and 89th regiments.
NEW-YORK, June 1
Arrived this morning, ship Jane, of Philadelphia, Capt. Yard, 217 days from Canton.—Left there ships Clothier, of Baltimore; Alexander, of Massachusetts, and a brig, name unknown. Left Macao in company with the ship John Jay, Dexter, of Providence; Neptune, Hurlbert, of New-Haven; Oneida, Buntell, of do. and the ship Barclay, Capt. Barney, of New-Bedford—parted company with the above vessels on the 24th of February, four days from the Straits of Sunda.
June 4.
TRIPOLI against the UNITED STATES. Extract of a letter from an American gentleman, now at Barcelona, dated the 30th of March, 1801, to his friend in Salem; received by the ship Two Brothers, Capt. Holman.
"We have received an official letter a few days past, from the American consul at Tripoli, of that Dey intending positively to declare war against the United States of America on the 22d inst. unless his demands were complied with before that time; and as the limited period has now actually expired, and no arrangement is made to alter the Dey's determination, we may conclude with certainty that his cruisers are now out, and capture, indiscriminately, every American vessel that falls in their way. What have they to restrain them, or curb their piratical conduct? Nothing."
"The ship Washington, the only ship of war from the United States that ever visited these seas, at the moment when she would have been of the most essential service, failed for America; and instead of affording us some kind of protection and security, left us to our fate. I do not mean to criminate her commanding officer, well knowing he has implicitly obeyed his instructions. Should war actually have taken place on the part of Tripoli, redeeming the American slaves, and the annual tribute paid, will cost the United States more than the whole wages of two of our frigates crews for two years; and were those frigates in these seas, the Barbarians would be overawed by their presence, and this would always restrain them from a sudden declaration of war. Behold the situation of the American commerce in the Mediterranean. The mouth of the Straits blocked up by the French and Spanish privateers. It seldom happens that a vessel escapes all those licenced thieves; which if they should, a greater evil awaits them—not only capture and loss of property—but Slavery! What rational merchant will therefore risk his property, and what fool of a captain will hazard his liberty and property, for the paltry gain of his wages? It is a chimerical farce to depend for security on Barbarian treaties, when we daily see with pain treaties broken by nations who dignify themselves with the name of christians—How then can we expect an adherence to duty from those wretches, whose sole object is to enrich themselves upon the weak and defenceless? It is evidently the object of other neutral nations to excite hatred and distrust, and to prevail by every exaggeration in their power, with the different Dey's to make war with America, that the vessels belonging to their own nation may not only sail with greater security, but that their flag may claim the preference in every quarter—and the Consuls who represent those nations never cease to multiply the smallest jealousy into mountains of suspicion, and alarm and awaken the fears of the Dey's. It is from their vile machinations so many wars are decided and put into execution in a moment; and it is also whispered, with credibility, that our government has not been punctual in remitting in season to the respective Dey's their tribute; and as it is of the greatest consequence to those powers to be at war with some one nation or other, the smallest infraction of a treaty is all sufficient to give them the appearance of a just pretext for war. When these things are so well known in America, is it not astonishing that they are neglected and never attended to in season? It appears, upon reflection, as if America preferred to pay for, rather than guard against, or prevent, an evil the most distressing and afflicting. The American vessels now in the Mediterranean are all unarmed, which increases their danger; it would be some alleviation of our misfortunes, and lessen the risk, if we were prepared to resist an attack; but situated as we are, our defence is certainly hopeless."
"The feelings of humanity are wakened when we reflect, how many valuable men and members of society are often dragged into slavery, and their wives and children watering their husbands and fathers' chains with tears of affliction and distress; and misery increases, in proportion to the absence of those to whom they are accustomed to look for subsistence and protection. Those who never felt the galling chains of slavery cannot appreciate the value of liberty and freedom; nor those who have spent all their days in the lap of luxury, describe the feelings incident to the excruciating pangs of hunger and cold. Admitting heaven should be pleased to bring us to our destined port, other distresses and embarrassments still attend us. The Spanish government has laid forty days quarantine upon all our vessels coming from America; and as this estate is excessively hot in summer, few cargoes, if any, escape without great injury, and many have been nearly ruined; and the only redress you receive for this malignant act, is, "it is the King's orders." Your demand, therefore, must be carried to Madrid;

and if you should prosecute it at that court, the expences would be double your claim; and after a delay of sixteen or twenty months, be turned off without any restitution for the loss on your goods. No cargo of fish can escape ruin, so long as they are compelled to perform so ruinous a quarantine. The Spanish privateers out of that piratical hole, Algeziras, capture indiscriminately every American vessel they meet with, and take them in for adjudication; forty days expire before you are admitted to practice, or visit the shore; three or four months more escape before you are acquainted with the decree; as for liberation, it seldom happens, and when it does, great part of your cargo is stolen by the privateersmen, which plunder is sanctioned by the government; no redress is given you, nor must you expect any; it would be criminal should you demand it; you must be captured without reason, suffer without murmuring, be plundered without redress, and condemned without justice. These are the virtues which dignify this nation, and which, except sleeping, are their most predominant qualities. In addition to these numerous vexatious evils, his Majesty of Spain (who is a great politician) has lately laid an additional duty of five dollars upon every quintal of cocoa, and sixty cents upon every quintal of sugar, so that the duty alone upon cocoa is equal to its first cost in America, and the duty upon sugar is now six and a half dollars per hundred. Profound policy, to enrich himself and his beloved subjects! These are the distressing embarrassments which attend our commerce with this country; and I fear my country sees it with a cool, indifferent eye, and does not wish to extricate us from the overbearing difficulties, or else some exertion would be made to rescue us from so many calamitous evils, which it is not in our power to oppose, as defenceless individuals: it loudly calls for the intervention of government: and as long as we place our security on the faith of treaties, we shall be the dupe of every state and power, that are able to fit out and man fishing boats to harass and intercept our commerce. No neutral nation on earth is so much plundered as ours, and none bears it with the same steady, cool indifference. Should the other Barbary States declare or make war upon us, they will not only ruin our commerce in the Mediterranean, but will extend their captures, as they did before, in to the Atlantic."
From the Bahama Register—printed at Nassau, May 16.
Mr. Long, Having lately arrived from the Muskogee nation, and finding the accounts from that nation in circulation here vague and untrue, I therefore take the liberty of enclosing, for the information of your readers, the copy of a talk delivered to the heads of the Muskogee nation by the Director General W. A. Bowles, after his return from St. Mary's, where he was near falling into a snare that was laid for him, by a set of treacherous men, inhabitants of that country, who knew the woods, and promised to join him, but changed their minds, and engaged to betray him to the Spaniards for the sake of 3000 dollars that were offered them by the government of St. Augustine: But had the Director General fortunately fallen in with the detachment that was in his rear, but which did not get up in time, they would have paid dearly for their treachery. The detachment not finding the General, returned, just as he was ready to start after them, when he deserted the expedition, and delivered the following talk: Your's, &c. G. M. Redington.
Dearly beloved brethren, You see the difficulties I have to encounter in order to open a port, and get supplies into this country for all our beloved people. The Spaniards, wishing to make themselves masters of part of this land and the people in it, have made war, and endeavoured all they could, both by force and lying, and deceiving talks, to divide us, that they may gain their ends.
I have seen the talks of the great king of Spain; he orders his governors to draw this nation and its confederates into its interest, and set us at war with the United States. This is a bad policy, to which we must not submit—to make war on one people to please another. We must not make war on the Americans unless they attack us—then, and then only, we shall be justifiable. The United States is a free government, governed by reason and justice, when understood—therefore they will not attack this country, or make war on us, to take by force what they have no right to; it is only the conduct of land speculators that has created disturbance between us; but, when these people and their practices are properly pointed out to the government, they will themselves put a stop to all innovation. They, I know, were drawn by the Spaniards into the plan of usurping this country, not aware of what they were doing—but I am persuaded, they will now drop it, and proceed no further.
I request that all our headmen will have an eye on the young people, and prevent them from doing mischief by trespassing on the United States, that they may have no complaint against us, or any grounds for war on us; so that if a war should happen, it must be their own fault, and not ours; a war of usurpation on their parts, and self defence on ours: then we shall find friends enough to assist us.
Several talks have come from the Governor of Pensacola to this country touching peace; but they do not contain a just and equitable talk, as they all contradict one another. Peace will come on by and by, but we must not be in a hurry—for the future good or bad state
of the country will depend on the peace that may be made; this nation must be firm, and hold each other fast by the hand, so that lying talks cannot divide it.
I will get supplies into the land at some place, in spite of all opposition: but we must not lay still. The Spaniards draw all their force to where they hear I am; but they do not make war on me only, but on the name of Muskogee: It is I that hold forth the name of Muskogee against them all, and I will not let it go:—I will not throw away the talk you gave me at the last meeting of the nation at the Wekywa, when you appointed me Director General of Muskogee. Every Red Man that loves his country, his wife, his children and parents, ought to hold fast each other, and have but one talk among us.—I now call on the warriors and young men, whose hearts lead them to turn out in the defence of their country, to follow me to Picolata, where I am going to join those already gone.
You now see that Col. Hawkins could not say before me what he told you all last winter: I formerly told you so:—I told you he dare not see me after the lies he had told, and the mischief he tried to make. I told you that he would run away as soon as I came near him—you now see it was true.
I desire that you will give this talk out in the Square, then send it to Abutithla Mekke, or Tame King, that he may give it to his people, and the Upper Towns may hear of it as my talk; also let the white people have copies of it.
Your Brother, W. A. BOWLES, Director General of Muskogee.
BOSTON, June 5.
We are sorry to state, that the valuable ship Packet, Capt. Trott, on her outward bound passage to Liverpool, was stranded on the south side of the Isle of Sable, on the 7th of May, at about 9 o'clock in the evening. The passengers, crew, and a small part of her cargo, were saved.
LATEST NEWS.
Capt. Swasey, from Rotterdam, procured, in the British Channel, a London paper of April 23. It mentions the receipt of the Paris official paper the Moniteur to April 19, and it is still silent as to the reported battle in Egypt, March 20; and the Clef du Cabinet says the rumour stands in need of confirmation! The London Editor conceives the story thus refuted. Peace is said to be far advanced between France and Turkey. The prospect of an accommodation between Great-Britain and Russia improves.
BRITISH COURTS.
We last evening received a copy of the note presented by the American Minister to the Court of London, relative to the conduct of British cruisers and courts in capturing and condemning American property, when conveying in American vessels to enemies' colonies, if the property is the growth or manufacture of enemies' countries. The following report was made three days afterwards, and ordered by the King to be sent to the Judges of the Vice-Admiralty Courts for their government.
Extract of the Advocate General's Report, dated the 10th of March, 1801.
I HAVE the honour to report, that the sentence of the Vice-Admiralty Court appears to me to be erroneous, and to be founded in a misapprehension or misapplication of the principles laid down in the decision of the Court of Admiralty referred to, without attending to the limitation therein contained.
The general principle respecting the Colonial trade has, in the course of the present war, been to a certain degree relaxed, in consideration of the present state of commerce. It is now distinctly understood, and it has been repeatedly so decided by the High Court of Admiralty, and the Court of Appeal, that the produce of the Colonies of the enemy may be imported by a neutral into his own country, and may be re-exported from thence even to the mother country of such Colony; and in like manner the produce and manufactures of the mother country may in this circuitous mode legally find their way to the Colonies. The direct trade, however, between the mother country and its Colonies has not, I apprehend, been recognized as legal either by her Majesty's government or by his Tribunals.
What is a direct trade, or what amounts to an intermediate importation into the neutral country, may some time be a question of some difficulty:—A general definition of either, applicable to all cases, cannot be laid down. The question must depend upon the particular circumstances of each case. Perhaps the mere touching in the neutral country to take fresh clearances may properly be considered as a fraudulent evasion, and as, in effect, the direct trade; but the High Court of Admiralty has expressly decided (and I see no reason to expect that the Court of Appeal will vary the rule) that landing the goods and paying the duties in the neutral country breaks the continuity of the voyage, and is such an importation as legalizes the trade, although the goods be shipped in the same vessel, and on account of the same neutral proprietor, and be forwarded for sale to the mother country or the Colony.
A true copy from the files of the American Department of State.
JACOB WAGNER, Ch. Clk.
* In the case of the American brig Leopard, Ropes, laden in part with Malaga wine. The cargo, so far as it consisted of wines, though regularly imported into the United States, was condemned by Judge Kufai, O.B. 20, 1801, "the same being productions of the Spanish territory in Europe, and bound to the transatlantic ports of that empire."
Providence, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10.
Extract from Governor STRONG's Speech, to the Legislature of Massachusetts:
Among the various subjects of State Legislation, there is none more important to the preservation of our free governments, or more interesting to the happiness of society, than the instruction of the people, and particularly the education of youth:—It is not enough to teach children to read and write, and understand the first rules of arithmetic; it is also of importance to habituate them to restraint; to form their temper and manners by the principles of benevolence and justice, and to awaken the useful energies of their undertakings, and cherish the virtuous propensities of their hearts. A bad temper is often made a good one by education; and the difference we observe in the characters of men is, in a great measure, owing to the impressions they received from the examples and precepts of their instructors.—In the presence of those who are respectable they are accustomed to controul their passions, and learn the important lesson of self command. With such an education they seldom fail to make useful and quiet members of society; but those who are idle and unrestrained in early life, will be ready afterwards to oppose lawful government, and disturb the public peace. Moral qualifications are of the first importance in the office of instructors; their virtues should serve for models in the conduct of life. If they are chargeable with vice or impiety, no attainments in knowledge can compensate for the contagion of their bad examples.
The celebrated Legislators of antiquity considered the education of children as the most essential duty, and the most important exercise of government: It was regulated by the authority of the magistrates, and upon principles of the public good. Their institutions were calculated to inspire the youth with respect for the laws and love to their country; to form them to habits of temperance and truth, and teach them to honour their superiors and venerate old age. Our ancestors were impressed with the importance of this subject, and manifested an earnest solicitude, that their children might be educated in literature, and religious and moral principles. The university in the neighbourhood is an evidence of this. Soon after the settlement of the country, they provided for the establishment of schools for the children of the poor as well as the rich; and if parents neglected to teach their children to read, and to bring them up in some honest employment, the selectmen, with the assistance of two magistrates, were authorised to take such children from them, and place them with masters, to be strictly attended to. The whole influence of education is necessary in republican governments; they depend, for their support, upon the enlightened and virtuous attachment of the people; and there is no ground to expect they will be preserved, unless the youth are trained to knowledge and virtue, and taught by example and education, to submit their own to the public will. Our constitutions have liberty for their vital principle: but this liberty is reasonable, and subordinate to the laws, and whenever it shall become supine to law, it will degenerate to licentiousness, and be lost.
The care which is now employed in the instruction of youth, must give pleasure to every friend of the State; and if the failures in education are owing, not to the want of legislation, but to inattention in the people, the influence of the individual members of the Legislature may go far to remedy the effects.
A part of this subject, permit me to suggest that the institutions of the Sabbath, and of public Worship, were regarded by our ancestors with peculiar devotion; and that our late Constitution recommends the support of them, while at the same time it carefully guards against a violation of the right of conscience.
It will be acknowledged by every one, that public Worship is useful, as a school of good manners, and of decent and orderly deportment. But as religion is the only foundation of human virtue, the prosperity of a state must be essentially promoted, by a due observance of the Sabbath, and by the meek together of the citizens to learn the duties of moral obligation, and contemplate the power and goodness with which the Almighty governs the world. In such assemblies they can hardly fail to receive useful instruction in the conduct of life, and impress of reverence for the Deity, which will for ever be totally effaced. Even the instructions that produce no apparent effect at the time, may so far gain a place in the memory, as to revive in it, when occasion calls them. It is the nature of vice to dislodge; but these institutions tend to uphold it, in a condition favourable to order and virtue; by preserving them, therefore, shall preserve the virtue, and secure the benefit of the people."
Then, General Assembly of this State will meet at Newport on Monday next, agree to adjournment.
Intelligence that a British expedition against Manilla had failed, is corroborated by the information of Capt. Newell, who chanced at St. Helena on his passage to B.
When that Samuel Snow, Esq; of this town, sailed for the United States at Canton, taken passage on board the ship John D. D. D. of this port, which may shortly be expected.
The medium of the annual deaths at Paris, is said to be about 21,000 persons.
On the 22nd of April arrived at New-Providence the privateer Three Brothers, with an American brig for adjudication. This account is received at New-York from Nassau, by the sloop Who-would-have-thought it.
Arrived at Baltimore, brig Java, Capt. Nye, 137 days from Batavia.—Left there ship Samuel Smith, Capt. Stiles, of Baltimore, taking in her cargo; Washington, Williamson, of Philadelphia; and Massachusetts, of Boston. On the 18th of February, in lat. 20:30 S. long. 80 E. spoke the ship Minerva, Capt. Newell, from Manila, bound to Boston.
The ship Enterprize, Capt. Simmons, of this port, is arrived at Canton from a sealing voyage, with 25,000 skins.
At a Town-Meeting of the Freemen of the Town of Providence, held on the First Day of June, A. D. 1801.
VOTED and Resolved, That the Suit heretofore ordered to be commenced against Henry Bowen, on Account of Taxes, be suspended until the next August Town-Meeting:—And that he be directed to exert himself, in the Interim, to collect all Arrearages of Taxes due him as Collector for the Town:—And that he produce at said Meeting a List of the Names of all Delinquents, and the Amount of the Sums or Arrearages due from them respectively.
It is also Voted, That Jesse Whitmore and Benjamin Taylor be directed to exert themselves to collect all Arrearages of Taxes due them as Collectors for the Town; and that they produce a List, at the next August Town-Meeting, of the Names of all Persons who may be delinquent in paying the same, specifying also the Amount of the Sums due from such Persons respectively.
Ordered, That the foregoing Resolutions be published in the several Newspapers printed in this Town.
A true Copy: Witness, NATHAN W. JACKSON, T. Clerk.
At a Town-Meeting of the Freemen of the Town of Providence, legally warned and assembled at the Town-House on the First Day of June, 1801.
WHEREAS for the greater Security of the Health of the Inhabitants of this Place, during the warm Season of the Year, it is highly necessary that all dead Fish should be gutted in the River below the Town, previous to their being brought up and exposed for Sale in the same:—Resolved therefore, That from this Time henceforward, and until the last Day of September next, no dead Fish shall be permitted to be sold in the Market, or be exposed for Sale therein, without being first gutted as aforesaid. Any Person or Persons transgressing in this Particular shall incur a Penalty of Ten Dollars, to be sued for and recovered before any Court proper to try the same. And the Clerk of the Market is directed to cause this Resolution to be carried into Effect.
A true Copy: NATHAN W. JACKSON, T. Clerk.
For SALE,
By the Executrix of the late Capt. ZACHARIAN ALLEN, 40 Boxes of Havana White } Sugars, entitled to Draw-back: 28 Ditto Brown } 35 Hhds. of Cape } 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 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.
By Direction of the Secretary of the Navy of the United States.
Notice is hereby given, That on THURSDAY the 18th Day of June inst. precisely at 12 o'Clock (Noon) on UNION WHARF, Boston, will be sold by Public Vendue, to the highest Bidder,
THE United States Copper-bottomed Vessel of War the WARREN, lately commanded by Cyrus Talbot, Esq; now lying at said Wharf.
The Warren is a Ship of 400 Tons Burthen; pierced for 18 Guns on the main Deck, and 6 Guns on the Quarter Deck; has two full Suits of Sails, and her Masts and Spars complete. She is a remarkable fast Sailer, easy in her Rigging, was built near Newbury, in the Year 1798, of the best of Materials, and may be justly estimated one of the best Ships in the State, for Beauty, Strength and Sailing, and is well calculated for the India or China Trade.
The Terms of Payment will be a Credit of 3 and 6 Months, by Notes with two approved Endorsers.
Immediately after the Sale of the Warren, will be sold,
Sundry Provisions and Stores, belonging to the United States. The Terms of the payment of which will be a Credit of 90 Days, by Notes with two approved Endorsers.
Inventories of the Ship, Provisions and Stores, may be seen by applying at Store No. 6, Long-Wharf, Boston. Boston, June 4.

SCIENTIFIC POETRY.
CELIA.
CLASP'D in my arms as Celia laid, Enrapt with pleasing dreams of bliss, I fondly press'd my lovely maid To grant the precious boon—a kiss!
Absah'd her head the nymph reclind— My freedom with a frown repress'd; Yet, though her features seem'd unkind, Methought no anger fir'd her breast.
"And is it thus, too cruel fair, You treat your faithful swain?" I cry'd; "My passion spurn'd, and this my prayer, Dictated by your charms, deny'd!"
"Farewell, ingrate! some other swain May strive that frozen breast to move; A kinder nymph I'll seek to gain, Whose heart shall yield me love for love!"
Almost with thrilling joy distraught, I heard the blushing fair reply— "And tell me, where was Damon taught That not to give, is to deny?"
APEDALE.
Curious Case in Natural History.
A GENTLEMAN in Sterling in Scotland mentions, that on a fine sunshine morning, a few days ago, he let his bees out of a hive: there had been some snow during the night, which was not then entirely melted. Some of the bees alighted on the snow, and soon became lifeless. He gathered them up, carried them into his dining-room, and from its heat, they soon began to move; he then put a bit of honeycomb among them, which had a good effect. After a little, he was much struck with the appearance of one of them, which had nearly recovered his usual strength, darting his proboscis frequently at another, which led him to imagine that the bee was fighting with the other. He then lifted up the two bees, and, upon taking a microscope, observed that in place of fighting he was supplying with honey his sickly companion every time he darted at him. This he distinctly saw in small globules on the point of his proboscis, and the other received it upon his.
[London paper.]
Washington, May 20.
SEVERAL Cabinet councils have been lately held, the objects and results of which have not leaked out. The last was held on Saturday, at the President's house. Seeing the Secretaries and Attorney General gathering there, we fondly expected that devotional exercises were the objects; but nothing of this kind has transpired. Even Mr. Smith seems not to be trusted with their intention. It is said a number of frigates are to be sent to the Mediterranean, to take care of the Algerines.—This however, at present, is a profound secret. Our readers will be very careful to whom any thing of the kind is mentioned, as it must not be known for the world, lest some invidious friend to the Day should give him such timely information as to enable him in a great measure to defeat its intentions!
[Washington Fed.]
FOR SALE, BY
Benj. and Edward Aborn, NINETY hogheads Surinam and Hannah Molasses, suitable for retail- ing; 35 boxes white and brown Havana Sugar; 9 hogheads Tobacco; 50 barrels Tar; Turks-Island and Lisbon Salt.
20 or 30 Horses wanted,
On freight for Surinam, or the Windward-Islands, to be delivered by the 15th of June next. For terms, apply to B. and E. ABORN.
May 20.
New Cash Store.
SMITH BARTLETT
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public in general, that he has taken the Store No. 12, Market-Street, opposite the Turks-Head, where he is now opening and offers for sale, on terms remark- ably advantageous (for cash only) a fresh and genuine assortment of the most fashionable SPRING and SUMMER GOODS.
Those ladies and gentlemen that may please to call and look for themselves, shall be entitled to his utmost attention, and the smallest favours will be gratefully ac- knowledged.
May 20.
NEW GOODS.
Samuel James
Has just received, by the latest arrivals from London, via New-York and Boston,
A VERY handsome assortment of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, which he now offers for sale on the lowest terms for cash.
N. B. He has on hand a few hogheads of Molasses, of an excellent quality for re-exporting.
Coffee per bag.
Best quality of French Indigo, per quantity or single pound.
May 13.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
April 20th, 1801.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT separate PROPOSALS will be received at the office of the Secretary for the Department of War until the expiration of the 30th day of June next ensuing, for the supply of all RATIONS, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of October 1801, until the thirtieth day of September 1802, both days inclusive, at the following places, viz.
FIRST. At Pittsburg; at Fort Franklin; at Le Boeuf; at Presquille; at Niagara; at Oswego; at Detroit; at Fort Wayne; at Michilimackinac; at the Falls of St. Mary's; and at the Grand Portage on Lake Superior.
SECOND. At Forts Washington, Vincennes, and Massac; at the Cannonment near the mouth of the Ohio, and at any post or place on the east side of the Mississippi River, between the mouths of the Ohio and Illinois Rivers; and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, march- ed or recruited, within the State of Kentucky.
THIRD. At Knoxville, Tellico, South-West Point, and any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, march- ed or recruited, within the State of Ten- nessee; at Bear Creek on the Tennessee River, and at any place in the Chickasaw or Choctaw country between Bear Creek and Natchez; at the Chickasaw Bluffs; at Nat- chez; at Fort Adams and its dependencies, and thence to the Mobile River.
Separate PROPOSALS will also be receiv- ed as aforesaid for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States from the 1st day of January 1802, until the 31st day of December in the same year, both days inclusive, within the sev- eral states herein after mentioned, viz.
FOURTH. At Point Peter; at Fort Greene; at Fort Wilkinson; at Fort Pinkney; at Fort Johnston; at Fort Moul- trie in Charleston Harbour; at Fort Johnson, Cape Fear, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the States of Georgia, South- Carolina, and North-Carolina.
FIFTH. At Fort Norfolk; at Harper's Ferry; at Fort M'Henry; at the City of Washington, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the States of Virginia and Maryland.
SIXTH. At Wilmington; at Fort Mifflin; at the Laboratory near Philadelphia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, with- in the States of Delaware and Pennsylvania, excepting Pittsburg, Fort Franklin, Le Boeuf, and Presquille, in the State of Pennsylvania.
SEVENTH. At Trenton; at Fort Jay; at West Point, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the States of New-Jersey and New-York, excepting Os- wego and Niagara, in the State of New-York.
EIGHTH. At Newport; at New- London, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or re- cruited, within the States of Rhode-Island and Connecticut.
NINTH. At Fort Independence, Boston Harbour, at Salem, at Marblehead, at Portland, at Portsmouth, at Bennington, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, with- in the States of Massachusetts, New-Hamp- shire and Vermont.
A ration is to consist of eighteen ounces of bread or flour; or when neither can be obtained, of one quart of rice, or one and a half pound of sifted or boulted Indian meal, one pound and a quarter of fresh beef, or one pound of salted beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted pork; and when fresh meat is issued, salt at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations; soap at the rate of four pounds, and candles at the rate of a pound and a half, for every hundred rations.—The proposals will extend to the supply of rum, whiskey, or other ardent spirits, at the rate of half a gill per ration, and vinegar at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations. The price of the several component parts of the ration, as well as of substitutes and alter- natives, must be specified.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the terms of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara, and Oswego, for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the Western wa- ters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of forti- fied places, or of posts, to call for as seasons, when the same can be transported, or at any time in the case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper. It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expence and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sus- tained by the depredations of an enemy, or by the means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for by the United States, at the price of the article captured or destroyed, on the depositions of two or more persons of creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the cir- cumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is to be understood to be re- served to the United States of requiring that
none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts shall be issued until the supplies which have been, or may be furnished, under contracts now in force, have been consumed, and that a sup- ply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the sea board or Indian frontiers, not exceeding three months.
HENRY DEARBORN, Secretary of War.
For SALE,
THAT valuable real Estate late the property of William Sessions, consist- ing of a well finished convenient Dwelling- House, almost new, together with the Lot on which it stands, having a good well of water thereon, situated on the main Street, nearly opposite the Episcopal Church, adjoining a 15 feet gangway leading to the water. If the above premises are not sold soon, they will be let. For further particulars enquire of
ABEL ALLEN,
Who has for Sale, At his Lumber-Yard, near the Episcopal Church,
Seasoned Merchactable Pine Boards and plank, Spruce studs and joists. Best Connecticut round bundle Shingles and Laths, &c. together with a quantity of Window Frames and Sashes of different sizes.
Also, One new fall back Chaise, brass mounted, with harness complete, made of the best materials.
Providence, April 1, 1801.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Just received, and for sale, by William Wilkinson,
At the POST-OFFICE,
ROBINSON'S Report of Cases ar- gued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty, G. B. A work replete with information, not only to Gentlemen of the Bar, but to the Merchant, the Underwriter, and the sea Captain; in which the multum of Vattel, of Grotius and Pufendorf, are brought into view and condensed in parvo .
The Farmer's Boy, a Rural Poem. by Robert Bloomfield. There is a pathetic simplicity of sentiment and description, a morality the most pure, and the feelings of a heart alive to the tenderest duties of Human- ity and Religion, which consecrate its glow- ing landscapes, and shed an interest over this little Poem.
The American Review, and Lite- rary Journal for January, February, and March, 1801.
The Sailor Boy; a new Novel, 2 volumes in 1.
"The seal of Providence is sure upon thee, And thou wert born for yet unheard of wonders."
A New System of the Art of Wri- ting Short Hand; By Thomas Rees. The English Reviewers, in speaking of this work, say, "We do not hesitate to affirm, that this is the best, because one of the easiest systems of Short Hand, that has at any time come under our observation."
For sale, as above,
A general assortment of School and Classical Books, English Dictionaries— Quarto and common Bibles, Testaments, a very great variety of Children's Books, Writing Paper of various kinds by the ream, Cartridge, Bonnet and Wrapping Paper.
100,000 Dutch Quills, some of a very superior quality, Slates and Pencils.—A great variety of WEDGWOOD Ink-stands.— A beautiful assortment of best high finished PENKNIVES, red and black MOROCCO POCKET BOOKS. As Skin Memorandum Books.—Scales and Dividers, Surveyors' Instruments, &c. with most other articles in the Stationary Line.
Also,
COTTON YARN and Wicking, war- ranted of the best quality, from the new Fac- tory at Rehoboth, near Pawtucket.
May 6.
This day Published, and for Sale at HENRY CUSHING'S Book-Store, West Side of the Bridge, [Price 18 dols. per hundred in sheets, 3 dols. 50 cts. per doz. bound, or 37 1-2 cents single,]
The American MORALIST.
By GEORGE CHIPMAN.
The above is a judicious se- lection from the most approved writers, an- cient and modern, with original pieces, dia- logues, &c. designed principally for the use of schools and young persons, but may justly claim some attention from the aged, the gen- tleman and the lady. The author's chief de- sign, in this selection, was to furnish schools and young persons with a book containing ethical and religious lessons, represented and exemplified in such a manner as to enlighten the understanding, and captivate the heart.— Though the general tenor of the book is of a moral and religious cast, yet the author has by no means been inattentive to that variety which is so pleasing and useful to young per- sons, and has interspersed pieces from natural and sacred history, together with biographi- cal and allegorical descriptions. It has been honoured with the approbation of competent judges, but the compiler's request is, that parents and instructors of youth, who with well to virtue and religion, and desire that the minds of all under their care may be duly and deeply-impressed with early and real piety, would examine the work, and judge for themselves.
March 13.
William Blodget, jun.
At Store No. 3, Cheapside, has just received, by the very latest arrivals from Eng- land, via New-York, a general assortment of DRY GOODS, of the best and most fashionable kinds; for sale on the most favourable terms for cash or unexceptionable short credit, whole- sale and retail.
FIFTY-THREE pieces fine and superfine Broadcloths, best qualities, and most fashionable colours
35 pieces Cassimeres, mostly very superior
60 do. Bandano Handkerchiefs
36 dozen fine linen white and fancy Pock- et Handkerchiefs
15 do. cotton do. do.
10 do. Madras do. Shawls
16 do. fancy silk do.
25 do. Muslin Shawls, fancy wrought bor- ders
40 do. Romall Handkerchiefs, kinds va- rious
10 do. black Barcelona Handkerchiefs
16 do. Mens fine, superfine, and plated Hats, every description
88 pieces cotton and linen Checks
50 do. Brown Silesias
74 do. 4-4, 7-8, and 3-4 Colerain and oth- er Linnens
6 do. long Lawn
20 do. black Mullins
7 do. do. crape Gingham
15 do. plain fashionable coloured Cambric Mullins
30 do. do. fancy sprig'd jaconet do.
23 do. do. do. do. Book do.
32 do. fine and superfine Dimities
14 do. Marceilles Quilting for vests
6 do. Mullinet do.
190 do. 3-4 and 4-4 Chintzes and Calicoes
21 do. linen and cotton Cambricks
20 do. do. do. for Gowns and Dresses
31 dozen mens and womens cotton, white, and fancy Hole
13 do. do. do. silk laced Clocks
8 do. ladies long open'd and plain Silk Gloves
20 do. do. Kid Gloves
5 do. do. fancy Fawn do.
9 do. mens beaver do.
12 do. Glove Tyes, with buttons and clasps
32 do. ladies and misses Dunstable, Chip, and Leghorn fashionable Hats and Bonnets, with trimmings
20 pieces Necklace Edgings
55 do. Stuff Goods, numerous descriptions
250 lb. white and colour'd Threads
200 packs 3-1-2, 4, 4-1-2, and 5 lb. Pins
20 Velvet Bindings, various widths
80 pieces fancy Ribbons
15 do. Linen Sheeting, for linings.
In addition to the above, a great variety of
Pelung and India Sattins, rich white and black Lace Veils, Sewing Silks, Twist and Bobbins, Tapes, silk and cotton Nankeneys, silk ready made Pantaloon, and a great variety of other articles.
Also, a Consignment of 30 Bales of Calcutta Mullins, all of the most useful and saleable kinds.
300 Pieces of Bandano Handker- chiefs.
A quantity of Sugar, Pepper, Al- spice and Segars, on favourable terms.
May 20.
Take Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Creditors of the Estate of JEREMIAH BARTLETT, late of Cumberland, Yeoman, deceased, to exhibit their claims to the sub- scriber (who is appointed Administrator thereon) within twelve months from the 6th day of September last, otherwise they will be excluded according to law. And all per- sons indebted to said Estate are requested to make payment immediately.
JEREMIAH BARTLETT.
Cumberland May 18.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Planta- tions, May 18th, 1801.
THE Creditors of JOHN JEFFERS, of Cumberland, in the county of Prov- idence, Cordwainer, are hereby notified to appear, if they shall think fit, at the General Assembly to be holden at Newport on the third Monday in June next, then and there to shew cause, if any they may have, why the petition for the benefit of an act, passed in June, 1756, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," ought not be granted.
SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y.
REMOVAL.
William P. Gerrish,
WHO has been legally and con- stitutionally appointed one of the CRYERS for the Town of Providence, be- Leave most respectfully to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen who honour him with their Protection and Patronage, and the Public in general, that he has recently removed from his old Stand at the North End, to a small House belonging to his Excellency the Gov- ernor, near the Rope-Walks, South End, where he shall always consider himself as be- ing in a State of Requisition, and will at the shortest Notice attend to all Commands in the Line of his arduous Profession.
N. B. He cries, in order to live— and the Ardency of the Times and the State of his Finances are such, that contrary to the natural Liberality of his Mind, he finds himself under the Necessity of requir- ing prompt Pay for the Exercise of his Stentorian Calling.
May 20.