The Providence journal, and town and country advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1801-05-06 00:00:00

The Providence Journal.
A N I A
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, At the NEW PRINTING-OFFICE, West Side of the great Bridge, PROVIDENCE.
[ No. 123. ]
WEDNESDAY, May 6, 1801.
[ Vol. III. ]
From the PALLADIUM.
THE NEW ROMANS.
To raise curiosity, wonder and terror, is the great ordinary effect of great political events. All these (but especially wonder) have been produced by the progress of the French revolution. To wonder is not the way to grow wise. To extract wisdom from experience, we must ponder and examine—we must search for the plan which regulates political conduct, and its ultimate design. To know what is done without knowing why it is done, and with what spirit it was undertaken, is knowing nothing—it is no better than laborious ignorance and studious error. Such has been the crude mass of newspaper information, the blind and undistinguished admiration of French victories, it would be difficult to understand all that it is profitable to know in regard to these surprising events, if history did not teach us that like actors and like scenes have been exhibited in ancient days, and that we may, if we will, learn wisdom from the sad experience of the nations which have gone before us.
Since the Romans, no nation has appeared on the stage of human affairs, with a character completely military, except the French; and that character was mingled with the commercial until the revolution.
With less than half a million of citizens in her whole territory, according to the census or enumeration preserved by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Rome, soon after the expulsion of her kings, was ready to commence the conquest of Italy—a country scarcely less populous than France. It was however divided into petty States, many of which were as numerous, as brave, and as warlike as the Romans. But there was an immense difference nevertheless in their national character and maxims of State. The citizens of Rome were all soldiers—they had no pay—all that rewarded their toils in war was pillage. Poor as they were, and bands of robbers are ever poor, the spoils of an enemy's camp, or the division of conquered lands, was ample reward for a fortnight's campaign. Their enemies were near at hand, and ever ready for combat; of course, the term of service was short, but the calls for it were frequent. In Rome, therefore, there was but one trade, and that was war: all were soldiers. Accordingly, Rome could array sixty thousand of the finest infantry in the world, while she had not five hundred thousand citizens. A Province in Italy, with a million, did not offer to resist one demi-brigade of French soldiers—what a prodigious difference! Holland is now kept in subjection by twenty thousand French troops, and its miserable people are ground to powder to pay and clothe these ragged masters for the trouble they take to oppress them.
One eighth of the population of Rome were soldiers, the best in the world. The United States, with not less than five millions five hundred thousand people, are pronounced by the democrats to be beggared and ruined to such a degree, that the children in every farm-house will go supperless to bed to maintain three thousand: Nay, that this STANDING ARMY of three thousand was raised with the design, and possesses the force and means, as well as disposition, to enslave the people, and to set up a monarchy in America. France is exceedingly populous, and cannot need, if she could bear, as great a draft from her numbers as Rome. No modern nation has, however, come so near being like the Romans, all soldiers, as the French. It is exceedingly difficult to state the proportion of soldiers to other citizens. It has generally been thought that Germany had soldiers in the proportion of one to an hundred. The distresses of Austria and the zeal of the Hungarians may have doubled the proportion during the most trying periods of the war with France. There is however reason to believe, that in the energies of Robespierreism, France, with her sixteen armies, arrayed within and without her territory nearly one twelfth of her vast population. Without a merchant ship, her navy hauled up, arts stagnant, capital spent, skill occupied in making arms, Lyons blown up with gunpowder, the only place to find business, to get bread, fame and promotion, was in the army. No modern State has been so nearly all military. This was not the effect of her momentary distress—it was the plan of her government, and a consequence of the character of the people. Her government, ever changing hands, was ever the same in spirit. Like Rome, who extended her conquests while she was convulsed with civil war, every change has breathed new fury into the military enthusiasm of France. One passion like a tyrant has banished all others. It is the only one that has aliment, or finds scope for its exercise. We see how prevalent this passion is in every French bosom; the emigrants who came here and to England, bespattered with the blood and brains of their
fathers, and wives, and kindred, strut on the news of their victories as if they were an inch taller, on the success of their oppressors, and they weep and mourn when their fleets or armies are beaten. In France, the age of chivalry is not gone. A spirit more ardent than the crusaders engendered glows there, which burns not for liberty, but for conquest. The money getting and money loving Dutch and Americans can scarcely credit the influence of this passion. Doubts of this sort are plausible errors, and they oppose metaphysics as to what ought to govern men, to the confounding and decisive authority of experience, which determines what does govern men.
It might, if it were necessary, be shewn, that the chivalry of the military spirit ever was predominant in that country. All that was respected was military. The lower classes were emulous of this spirit, and they allowed that gentility consisted in bearing arms. The common soldiers fought duels, affected to be men of honour, and gloriied in the distinction of wearing ragged uniforms, and eating bad provisions for the Grand Monarque. All this happened before the revolution. It might be added, that all trades, that merchandise, and a condition of labour, were ever held base and degrading. It happened that the merchants, to whom honour was not ascribed, wanted honour and integrity. They were brought down, as might naturally be expected, to the rank in which they were held. There was nothing that ought to rival the splendour of military distinction. There was nothing in the State that did rival it. All other passions were quenched, all the energies of the human character were concentrated in the passion for arms. The revolution came and sublimated all the passions to fury and extravagance. It gave an immediate preponderance, nay, a sole dominion to the love of glory. The national guards were formed, and their epaulets and swords were worth more in their eyes than liberty.
The bloody struggle that has buried arts, and institutions, and wealth, and thrones, and churches of God, under heaps of cinders, has given that strength to this passion which might be expected from partial indulgence and strict discipline.
Very early, the French perceived the affinity of their national character with that of the Romans, though it is manifestly with the Romans after they were corrupted and had lost their liberty. Their vanity instantly prompted them to emulate this model, and to illustrate this resemblance. They have been vain of their Consuls and Tribunes, and they have adopted the haughty demeanour as well as the insidious arts of the Roman Senate. If modern nations are any better than barbarians, they ought to mark the spirit of these new Romans, and exert in self-defence a spirit of intelligence and patriotism, which was wanting to the ancient world, and which might have saved them from bondage. It is much to be desired that your learned correspondent would pursue his comparison of the French and Roman policy. It is what popular prejudice needs, and I perceive, by the Aurora, it is what jacobinism dreads.
ARISTOMANES.
INTERESTING.
[Among the literary productions of the last Leipzig Fair, in August last, were the Adventures of a German traveller, which are extremely curious and interesting.]
C. F. DAMBERGER.
A Poor German, a carpenter, and a fugitive soldier, was, in the year 1781, reprieved at Amsterdam, into the service of the Dutch East-India Company, as a common soldier. On account of illness he was detained for a while at the Cape of Good Hope, though enlisted and sent out from Holland to serve at Batavia. Refusing to gratify the lewd desires of the wife of one of the officers commanding at the camp, he was, in consequence of her artifices and feigned complaints, ordered for Batavia a second time. He had been, ere this time, informed of the unwholesomeness of the climate of Java, and dreading it as if he had been ordered for execution, he deserted; and as his desertion could not otherwise be concealed, took the desperate resolution of advancing into the interior of Africa.
A carbine, a few pounds of gunpowder, some balls, a small sum of money, and a few other articles of indispensable necessity, were his only apparatus for the enterprise. He journeyed north-east from the Cape; passed onwards without interruption through the country of the kind, simple, and hospitable Hottentots; and even among the fierce and less humane Caffrarians, met with much more of gentle beneficence than of injury. With the narrative of the travels of Le Vaillant he was before acquainted; and as he went on, he found continual occasion to detect the errors and fictions of that traveller.
He observed among other things, that the
Caffrarian matrons had the privilege of not being liable to be struck by their husbands; and yet, that married pairs lived there in enviable unanimity and peace. From the country of the Caffrees, he turned westward, and continued his journey in a north-west direction, till he arrived in the kingdom of Angola. Among the Muhotians, a race not more savage, but more egregiously vicious than any horde he had before visited, he discovered the bodies of five Europeans, who appeared to have been cruelly massacred; and was himself exposed to danger, from the unnatural lust of some wretches of that community. He, however, escaped from their brutality, and after long wandering, came to Malemba, a walled town on the river Congo. Its king treated him at first with kindness; but was afterwards persuaded by the prime minister to reduce him to the condition of a slave, and use him cruelly. He at last escaped out of that king's service, travelled eastward, and then again backward, to the north, west, in a line of journey contiguous to those which are called by geographers the Mountains of the Moon. After dangers almost incredible, he was made a slave by the Moors. A merchant of Mezzabeth, whose property he had become, sold him to another, who was returning to Morocco with a caravan; from Morocco he was carried by this man to the seaport town of Azeffe, in the Moorish dominions. A Mr. Vandehaft, a Dutch gentleman, there ransomed him from servitude. He was brought on board a Dutch merchant ship to Amsterdam.—The interposition of a Prussian ship captain rescued him from detention in Holland. He took his passage with the captain to Dantzick, and soon after arrived, in 1797, at his native town in the Prussian dominions, from which he had been more than sixteen years absent.
Captain William Bainbridge, Commander of the United States ship George Washington, has authorised the publication of the following correspondence relative to the affair between him and the Dey of Algiers.
Algiers, 10th October, 1800.
SIR, I WROTE you on the 25th ult. informing that the arbitrary Dey of Algiers had made a demand, that the United States ship George Washington, under my command, should carry his presents to the Grand Signior, at Constantinople.
By my letter on the 25th you will see the responsibility this Regency confiders the United States at on this embassy, although forced into it by the power of the Regency. Every effort that was possible to suggest, has been attempted by Consul O'Brien and myself, to obviate my going.
An English ship of war arrived here, and offered to carry the embassy; but her they would not accept; supposing they would be under some obligations to the British.
The light that this Regency looks on the United States is exactly this; you pay me tribute, by that you become my slaves, and then I have a right to order as I please. Did the United States know the easy places of this barbarous coast called Barbary, the weakness of their garrisons, and the effeminacy of their people, I am sure they would not be long tributary to so pitiful a race of infidels.
Inclosed you have the letter of Richard O'Brien, Esq. Consul General, of the 9th of October, to me on the business of this embassy; my answer, and his reply, by which you will see that I have no choice in acting, but am governed by the tyrants here.
Consul O'Brien and myself had a very warm dispute with the Dey and Minister of Marine (which was very near causing a declaration of war) respecting hoisting the mission flag; the Consul and myself insisted that if the Dey forced us to go, to wear our own flag; or if it was meant as a compliment to the Minister of Marine, to hoist it at the fore-top-mast-head; but no arguments would avail, their despotic will must be complied with: the Minister of Marine came on board with his Admiral, and several Algerine captains, who went into the main-top, and hauled down the American pennant, and hoisted the Algerine mission flag.
Had we 10 or 12 frigates and sloops in those seas, I am well convinced in my own mind that we should not experience those mortifying degradations that must be cutting to every American who possesses an independent spirit.
This forced cruise, compelled by the Dey, will cost 14 or 16 thousand dollars in expenses for pay and provisions, and after effected will have no tendency to promote the interest of the United States with this Regency; it is not in the nature of those people to regard any favour done to them by a christian nation.
I hope, Sir, you will consider the very unpleasant situation that I was fixed in, having no alternative but compliance or war. The fear of slavery for myself and 131 under my
command, was the least alarming to me; but a valuable commerce in those seas, that would fall a sacrifice to the pirates of this port, on account of our not having cruisers adjacent to protect it.
I sincerely hope on my return from the Levant that I shall see some of our frigates off Algiers; it is my candid opinion, that in no part of the world there is more need to shew them than in the Mediterranean sea.
It is the opinion of Consul O'Brien, should any accident happen to the Washington, against the interest of Algiers, by whatever cause it may be, the Algerine cruisers will immediately capture our vessels, unless they are prevented by our cruisers being in these seas. I candidly believe, on the safety of the embassy in the ship under my command, hangs the preservation of our peace with Barbary.
I have the honour to be, With great respect, Your most obedient servant, WM. BAINBRIDGE. Hon. Benjamin Stoddart, Secretary of the Navy.
SIR, The Dey of Algiers has this day called for me to appear in his presence, and demands that the United States ship George Washington, under your command, will proceed for Constantinople, with his ambassador and presents: and he declares that if this request is not complied with, he no longer holds to his friendship with the United States of America. I have stated to the Dey and Ministry all my and your objections on behalf of the United States—but to no effect.
I am Sir, Your most obedient servant, (Signed) RICHARD O'BRIEN. Algiers, 9th October, 1800. Wm. Bainbridge, Esq. Commander of the U. S. ship George Washington.
Algiers, 9th October, 1800.
SIR, I have read your letter of this day, stating the arbitrary demand of the Dey of Algiers. As this business was in agitation some days past, my orders being then made known to the despotic Dey, and every possible argument made use of both by you and myself, pointing out the impossibility of such a compliance on our part, those reasons stated to him, and the arrival of a British 24 gun ship who has offered to carry his ambassador and presents, I was in hopes would have relieved me from the truly unpleasant situation I find myself in. Bound by the orders of my government on one hand, and viewing the loss of property, and slavery of our citizens on the other, brings me in a dilemma, that none can express but those who feel it. I now reply as I have verbally done, that I cannot accede to this demand voluntarily. Your long experience of the government of this Regency leaves you a more competent judge than I possibly can be, of the event that would occur if the ship under my command did not proceed as demanded. You will be pleased to state your opinion fully, and make the requisition in behalf of the United States, for the compliance of said demand.—Sir, I cannot help observing that the event of this day makes one ponder on the words Independent United States .
I am, Sir, with great respect, Your most obedient servant, WM. BAINBRIDGE. Richd. O'Brien, Esq. Consul General for the U. States.
SIR, I have stated to you a narrative of facts relative to the Dey and Regency demanding per force , that the United States ship George Washington, under your command (in this port, and in the power of a faithless people) should proceed to Constantinople with the ambassador and presents of the Regency, and return to Algiers. The consequence of a positive refusal would be—war made immediately by this Regency on the United States—the ship under your command would be detained, and detention and slavery would be the fate of yourself, officers, and crew; the vessels, property, and citizens of the United States would be captured, and condemned in this city of bondage; the innocent would suffer not for the guilty, but for those that had no orders to act to prevent this calamity; out of two evils we will be obliged to take the least, by acquiescing to the forced demand. By, Sir, proceeding with the ship under your command to Constantinople with the ambassador and presents of Algiers, and returning, you will first extricate yourself, officers, crew and ship, and save the peace of the United States; it is what all other nations at peace with this regency have done, at times, as a favour to Algiers, and is what occasionally must be done by those which in-

tend to keep their peace, it is custom; and circumstanced as the United States are at present, in arrears in debt, no funds, no credit, and no corsairs adjacent, there is no alternative, in my opinion, but to acquiesce; and in so doing, I am convinced you are, considering all difficulties, acting for the best, for the present interests of the United States. I shall observe to you, Sir, that the United States made their peace in September, 1795, that the regency got impatient on account of the cash stipulation not coming forward. At this time Mr. Barlow and Donaldson, thought proper, without orders, to stipulate a 34 gun frigate, to preserve our affairs. The government of the United States approved their conduct, and made good the stipulation. At this time the United States had not paid the cash for the peace, or had not sent forward the stores stipulated. It is true, of our citizens 100 were as yet in Algiers; but the number is greater at present in the power of a despotic government, bound by no treaty or equity, dumb to reason, and fully determined to renounce his friendship with the United States, if his demand was not complied with. Under all those circumstances and evils, which should happen in case of a positive refusal to the demand of the Dey and regency, I have to demand of you, Sir, in the name, and on behalf of the United States, that you will consider the purport of this letter, and I think you will see the necessity of acquiescing, to do the favour required of you by the Dey and regency of Algiers. Witness my hand and seal of office, at Algiers, this 10th day of October, 1800.
I am, very respectfully, Your most humble servant, (Signed) RICHARD O'BRIEN. Wm. Bainbridge, Esq. Commander of the U. S. ship George Washington, in the port of Algiers.
For the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL.
MR. CARTER, RESPECT for the general cause of truth, and justice to a calumniated private character, I presume, are reasonable inducements for exposing, in a public paper, the conduct of a notorious slanderer.
At a time when the history of human baseness is honoured with so illustrious a name as that of the Chief Magistrate of a Sovereign State, it is no wonder that ambition and malice should conspire in the perpetration of deeds unknown to the practices of ordinary iniquity, or that infamy should at once throw aside her thread-bare veil of hypocrisy, and present to public view her unblushing votary, decked in the full pride of dauntless villainy. It will be, therefore, unnecessary for me to apologize, or make any preface, for the purpose of preventing surprise, when I thus publicly declare, that ARTHUR FENNER, Governor of the State of Rhode-Island, is a mischievous and notorious calumniator; that he has falsely, maliciously and cruelly slandered my character, with an intent to injure me. I now solemnly charge Arthur Fenner with reporting, at sundry times, for a year past, a false, scandalous story, purporting that I sold to Dr. Pardon Bowen, for the purpose of dissection, the dead body of a certain man, who, some time in the year 1799, hung himself in the town of Scituate, which body had been left to my care by some inhabitants of said Scituate, to be decently buried;—that I received of said Bowen a beaver hat, in payment for said body;—and that I had the impudence to wear the same hat on my head, while I officiated as Moderator of a Town-Meeting in Providence.—I say, that Arthur Fenner has not only verbally reported the above story to citizens of this State, but has had the same reduced to writing; and has shown it to many people, particularly to a number of the Representatives in the General Assembly, for the purpose of preventing my election the last year to the office of Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. I say, and I can prove, that Arthur Fenner, Governor of the State of Rhode-Island, for a year past, has frequently reported such a scandalous story, and I can prove the same to be false. To do which, I will briefly state the facts which occurred relative to the dead body alluded to, as far as came to my knowledge; together with attested documents from people who were well knowing to the whole transaction relating thereto.
Some time in the winter of 1799, John Harris, Joseph Knight, and Gideon Austin, Esquires, all of Scituate, came to my house one evening, and wished to obtain of me a Search Warrant; I asked them on what account; they replied, that a stranger, a few days before, who was passing through their town, hung himself by the side of the road; that an inquest was held, and the body was buried in the absence of the town, and the second night after the interment, the body was carried off, the coffin and winding-sheet left in the grave; that they had been in pursuit of the body for two or three days, and had then got satisfactory information that it was concealed in a store in this town. I observed to them, that a Search Warrant could not be executed in the night time, and asked them who they suspected to have taken the body; they replied, some young men who were students under Dr. Pardon Bowen, and Dr. Benjamin Dyer. I then proposed that they should come to my house the next morning, and I would send for Dr. Bowen to meet them; at the same time assured them, I was confident, if his young men had done amiss in this affair, he would cause ample satisfaction
to be made, without having recourse to the law. This the gentlemen from Scituate agreed to. The next morning Dr. Bowen met the gentlemen at my house, and on conversing with them on the affair, he observed, that this man, whose body was taken, being an entire stranger, having no known friend or connexion whose feelings would be hurt, and having put a period to his own life, the young men no doubt deemed the body a proper subject, from which they might in the pursuit of their profession gain some knowledge, which would prove beneficial to the living; and therefore did not consider the taking the body a crime. This suggestion did not appear to satisfy the gentlemen that the taking of the body was right; however, the Doctor said he did not wish to have any controversy about the matter, and asked their terms of accommodation; they, after conversing by themselves a few minutes, produced their terms for settlement, which were nearly as follows: That Dr. Bowen pay to them a sum (which I am confident was more than forty, and I think less than fifty dollars) that he procure a coffin, and cause the body to be decently buried in Providence, under my directions. Dr. Bowen agreed to the terms, paid them the money, and immediately asked my directions; which I gave as follows: That he procure a coffin, cause the body to be put therein, and that it be decently interred in that part of the west burying-ground allotted for strangers. The Doctor said it should be so done; and on the evening of the same day, or the next morning, he informed me that he had punctually performed the direction given by me; on which I conceived that I had discharged my undertaking, and troubled myself no farther about the matter.
MR. JOHN DORRANCE, SIR,
I have just received your billet of this date, respecting a stranger who some time since hung himself in Scituate, and the scandalous story attached to it, of my buying the body of you for a beaver hat, for the purpose of dissection. This I hesitate not in declaring to be totally false; for every condition that you engaged to see executed, was punctually performed, and of course there could be no object to give a hat or any other gratuity, without a prospect of compensation.
That I presented you a beaver hat I am free to acknowledge, and in doing that, I conceive I made you but a small and inadequate compensation for services rendered me, prior to, and totally independent of, the transaction above alluded to.
The facts are these: In the year 1797, finding my health much impaired, I had concluded to and did actually embark for Europe to seek relief, and in making the arrangements for so momentous an undertaking, with the uncertainty of ever revisiting my native country, I had frequent recourse to you for advice, as a person I conceived well versed in the law, and the adjustment of accounts and estates, and at the same time prevailed on you to undertake to settle my affairs in my absence. The vessel in which I embarked was cast away, and I returned.—About this juncture my late father in law, the Hon. Henry Ward, Esq. died, and it became necessary that I should administer on his estate, and I had again frequent occasion to call upon and consult you respecting the interpretation of the law relating to the administration of estates.—For these frequent calls and advice, I had often offered to pay you, but you always declined—thus circumstanced, and conceiving that I owed you an honourable debt, I requested you would accept of a hat, as a small compensation for your advice and trouble—this you acceded to; and I requested Mr. Benjamin Randal to make and deliver the hat to you.—These were the motives, and the only ones; and as far as my memory can serve for this length of time—the proposition to you certainly, and I think the orders to Mr. Randal, were prior to any transaction relating to the stranger above alluded to.
In confirmation of the foregoing account I subjoin the following attested certificate. I am with respect your obedient servant, PARDON BOWEN.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That John Dorrance, Esq. never sold to me, directly nor indirectly, for a beaver hat, or any other compensation, the dead body of a stranger, who hung himself in Scituate, or any other dead body, for dissection or any other purpose; but that the hat I presented to Mr. Dorrance was for essential services rendered me in the arrangement and settlement of Mr. Ward's and my own estates, prior to the death of the stranger above alluded to. And moreover, that every particular that Mr. Dorrance was bound to see executed relating to the above said stranger, was punctually performed. PARDON BOWEN.
April 30th, 1801.
Providence, Sc.
PROVIDENCE, May 4th, 1801. IN person came Pardon Bowen, and made oath to the above certificate by him subscribed, before WM. JONES, Just. Peace.
I WILLIAM SPENCER, of Providence, testify, that in the winter of the year 1799, I was requested to dig a grave in the burying-ground on the west side of the river in said Providence; that after digging the grave, I brought a coffin on a sleigh, from the South end of the town, to the place where the body of a stranger who had hanged himself a few days before in Scituate, was, and with some assistance I put the said body into the coffin, and by the request of Dr. Pardon
Bowen, who told me he had pledged his word to Judge Dorrance that the body should be decently buried, I conveyed the same to the grave, and buried it in a decent manner. WILLIAM SPENCER.
Providence, Sc.
PROVIDENCE, May 1, 1801. THE above named William Spencer appeared, and made oath to the deposition by him subscribed, before me. WM. JONES, Just. Peace.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That some time in the winter of the year 1799, I assisted William Spencer, and one other person, in burying the dead body of a certain man, who had a short time before hung himself in the town of Scituate. We buried him in that part of the west burying-ground allotted for strangers. GEORGE W. HOPPIN.
Providence, Sc.
PROVIDENCE, May 4th, 1801. IN person came George W. Hoppin, and made oath to the above deposition by him subscribed, before WM. JONES, Just. Peace.
I confess I hardly know what terms to assume for expressing my sentiments on this occasion, what language to use in commenting upon such vile conduct, or what colours to compound for painting so black a foul. I do not vainly pretend to have discovered a new trait in the Governor's character, and do not publish this for the purpose of raising wonder, neither do I expect to excite in him any contrition, remorse, or disposition to reformation; no, I am conscious I shall only irritate a mean and contemptible spirit, without delicacy to be ashamed, or humanity to be sorry for being detected in an infamous falsehood, and having without provocation injured a fellow-citizen: my motives are only to defend my character from slander, for which purpose I have deemed this a proper mode at present, rather than the commencement of an action for defamation.
It seems to be a solecism in human nature, that the Governor of a State should so far descend from the duty of an honest man, and depart so far from the dictates of common prudence, as to employ the lowest arts of malice and cunning, in industriously, and almost without disguise, propagating little, sneaking, paltry lies, to the injury of a private citizen, and for the purpose of disgracing the functions of a constituted officer of the State.
What worthy motives, other than these, induced the Governor to pursue such extraordinary steps, I cannot conceive; but this I shall not scruple to say, that the man whose dark, insidious malice impels him to such an extremity of depravity, as to deliberately and repeatedly traduce a private character for ambitious and selfish purposes, is worse than an assassin, and deserves not only the abhorrence and contempt of all mankind, but that condign punishment which the law provides for perpetrators of such crimes. JOHN DORRANCE.
Providence, May 4, 1801.
Late Foreign Intelligence.
Received by the Sampson—arrived at New York—London dates to the twenty-eighth of MARCH.
LONDON, March 28.
THE King has so far overcome his late indisposition as to be able to take the benefit of the air on horseback. His Majesty received the formal resignation of Mr. Pitt on the 14th of March.
The English are sitting out a very powerful expedition to the North, to destroy or cripple the marine of Sweden, before a junction can be formed with the Russian fleet, by which junction the confederacy calculated on soon putting to sea a force of 50 sail of the line. A flotilla of 200 sail was shortly expected in the Sound, destined for the defence of the coasts.
A Minister has been sent from Hamburg for Paris, for the purpose of re-establishing the relations of amity between that city and the French republic.
Ireland is still in a state of convulsion, and the country is subject to martial law.
New overtures for Peace are making from the English to the French government, and Lord St. Helens is to be the negotiator.
LONDON, March 19.
The dispatches received by government, from Lord Elgin and Lord Keith, are not, we understand, calculated to excite very sanguine hopes of the success of our expedition against Egypt.
The Chevalier D'Almeida, the Portuguese Minister, is recalled from our Court, and the arrival of his official successor is hourly expected.
A cartel arrived at Plymouth from Nantz reports, that another division of the Brest fleet, consisting of four sail of the line and eight frigates, sailed from that port, supposed to be destined for the East-Indies. The ships of the line are said to have each 300 troops, and each of the frigates as many as they can stow.
It is now said, that as the Portuguese have refused to accede to the heavy terms proposed by Bonaparte, a treaty has been concluded between the French and Spaniards, by which it is stipulated that Portugal shall be conquered and guaranteed to Spain by the French. In return for which they are to yield to France the provinces of Biscay and Catalonia, in Old Spain, and two ports in the Brazils.
The Channel Fleet, under Admiral Cornwallis, sailed from Torbay on Sunday morning. Government have received advice, that the French squadron, under the command of Admiral Gantheume, passed Carthagena on the 25th of February, having been reinforced by 2 Spanish sail of the line and 3 frigates, from Cadiz.
March 20.
Boards of Treasury will continue to be held daily, in order to get through all the business of the old administration, not yet completed. Mr. Dundas is also occupied in his office, finishing what remained unsettled. This is the reason of his not having yet formally resigned.
Lord Hawkesbury has adopted a different mode of communicating with M. Otto, than that practised by his predecessor. Instead of employing M. Hammond to write his notes, Lord Hawkesbury wrote a letter in his own hand to M. Otto, acquainting him of the suspension of the previous order for capturing French fishing vessels. M. Otto has mentioned this attention to his Court, and has declared his personal gratification at this instance of civility.
A letter received from an officer of the in-shore squadron, off Brest, dated the 13th inst. at noon, states, that there were seven sail of the line, besides frigates, cruising to watch the motions of the French fleet. On the 12th the guard boat fell in with and captured a Spanish boat belonging to a frigate of that nation in Brest. They informed our people, that they were now quite ready for sea, in Brest, for a secret expedition, on a plan similar to Gantheume's seven sail of the line and four frigates and corvettes; they were also to take in troops, and try to get out the first N. E. wind. In consequence of this important intelligence, a very strict look-out is ordered to be kept throughout the whole of the British squadron.
March 25.
Admiral Gravina has succeeded Admiral Maffarado in the command of the Spanish fleet in Brest harbour.
A letter from Peterburgh, dated the 9th of February, contains the following official note.—
"His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, being desirous of giving to his faithful allies a fresh proof of the zeal with which he is animated for the success of the Maritime Confederacy of the North, and wishing to prevent the English from procuring, by means of other nations, any articles necessary for the equipment of their marine, at a moment when all direct commerce with Russia is prohibited, has judged it expedient to forbid all exportation of such articles from the ports of Russia. This resolution, which shews that his Imperial Majesty does not hesitate to sacrifice the interest of his empire to the cause in which he is embarked, has been notified by an official declaration to the Swedish Ambassador, and also to the Ministers of Prussia and Denmark."
According to one of the Paris Journals, a plot against the life of Menou has been discovered at Cairo.
March 28.
We have already stated that Mr. Otto had sent off dispatches to Bonaparte on Saturday night last: they were forwarded from Dover on Monday morning, and reached Paris on Tuesday night. Bonaparte returned an answer on Wednesday, which arrived at Calais on Thursday morning, from whence it was instantly conveyed to Dover in a flag of truce, and reached London about midnight.—Nothing yet transpired.
One of the last Paris papers contains the following article, which it states to have extracted from a paper of considerable authority published in the north of Germany:—Prince Adolphus of England, Governor of Hanover, is at Berlin, where he has been invited: it has been notified, that all resistance will be useless for defending Hanover, since the occupation of that country by the Prussian troops was a thing irrevocably agreed upon between the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Russia, and the French government.
Mr. Tallien appeared last night in the gallery of the House of Commons, accompanied by Mr. Scott, the barrister. He soon attracted the eyes of the members. He seemed to listen with much attention to Mr. Scott, while he described to him the mode of proceeding in the House, and pointed out the principal members. Mr. Sheridan came up to the gallery, and was introduced to him. He was addressed by several members, among whom were General Tarleton, &c. After remaining some time, he went to the House of Peers.
Mr. Tallien is about five feet ten inches high; his colour tinged by the climate of Egypt; his countenance grave and observant, and his eyes remarkably acute. He seems about 40 years of age.
WESEL, February 28.
The army of insurrection in Transylvania, under the orders of Baron de Kienmayer, and which with the Hungarian levies is approaching the Turkish frontiers, is said, in a letter from Strasburgh, of February 26, to have for its object the expulsion of the Turks from Europe. The French army, for the purpose of better subsistence, had, notwithstanding the signing of peace, advanced to St. Polten, within ten leagues of Vienna.
VIENNA, February 17.
Lord Minto continues to assert that the English have effected a disembarkation in Egypt without obstacle; but he added, without doubt to give more credit to the news, that they have been repulsed from the interior.

Whither they had penetrated. We must then believe that the descent has been effected by another division than that which was, at the end of December, at the Bay of Makri.
PARIS, March 5.
Government have this year clothed above 40,000 prisoners of war.
The squadron of Admiral Gantheaume has seized five or six vessels; among others, one containing 180 women, on the road from Malta to Port-Mahon, belonging to the soldiers in Sir Ralph Abercrombie's army.
Domestic Intelligence.
PHILADELPHIA, April 27.
A writ of Capias was this morning served on the Editor of this Gazette, at the suit of the Honourable Doctor MICHAEL LEIB, and Five Thousand Dollars bail demanded, and given, for the Editor's appearance in the Supreme Court.—Five Thousand Dollars appears to be a favourite number with some people. [Wayne.]
We are credibly informed that the President of the United States has ordered Mr. Dallas, the district attorney, to enter a noli prosequi , that is, to stop proceedings, in every action commenced, under the sedition act, against Duane, except in the one commenced by the Senate.
NEW-YORK, April 25.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman on board of the United States frigate Adams, to his friend in this city, dated Cape-Francois, March 22.
"SIR, "I have to request you will attend yourself to the insertion of the following statement, in one or more of the Daily Papers, in order to correct any erroneous reports that may occur:—
"On Tuesday afternoon, 4 o'clock, March 27th, 1801, a duel was fought at Cape-Francois, between two officers of the United States frigate Adams; Mr. Killian Van Rensselaer, 1st Lieutenant; and Mr. George R. Turner, 2d Lieutenant. Mr. Van Rensselaer, gave the challenge, and fired first; but fell with the first shot from Mr. Turner; the distance ten paces—the ball struck Mr. Van Rensselaer just above the right temple, and fractured his skull; I performed the operation of trepan upon him the following morning at 8 o'clock (in company with three respectable French Surgeons) and took out several pieces of bone from the brain, that had been driven into the substance of it, by the force of the ball; he died the same evening at 11 o'clock, and was buried next day, with all the honours of war, the colours of all American vessels in port flying half-mast high, and the ship firing minute guns.
JAMES DODGE, Surgeon of the United States ship Adams." Also please insert the following certificate. WE certify, that the above statement (by Mr. Dodge, Surgeon of the Adams) of the duel between Lieutenants Van Rensselaer and Turner, is correct and strictly true; that we were eye witnesses at the time; attended his funeral; and that every possible attention was paid him as a man, and an officer of the Navy of the United States.
Ed. HALL, Lieut. Marines, Wm. HOLLINGSWORTH, Purser, B. H. TOMLINSON, Clerk, On board the Adams.
Extract of a letter dated Marietta, March 16.
DEAR SIR, "Yesterday was launched from the dock in this place, the brig St. Clair, of one hundred tons burthen. This vessel is not only the largest, but is by far the best built, of any that has descended the Ohio. It is shortly to proceed to the Havannah. Its cargo is to consist of flour and pork. Several more vessels are to be built immediately at this place. The greatest objection, which has been made to this country, is its distance from market. This objection is now entirely done away. Farmers will be able to sell their produce any where upon the Ohio.—Flour purchased here for three dollars per barrel, can be afforded, even at Boston, for ten.
"Owing to the exceeding fertility of the soil, and the mildness of the climate, this country seems to be the best calculated for the farmer, of any under heaven; and with its present increase of population, will soon be one of the most flourishing ports of the United States. For the year past, the people of Marietta have enjoyed an uncommon degree of health. Out of upwards of one thousand inhabitants, but one child has died. We have experienced a very mild winter; the weather was so warm in January, that people were obliged to put out their fires, and open their windows. On this sixteenth day of March, while you at Worcester are doubtless shivering over a winter's fire, or freezing your feet and hands in the snow, nature has here arrayed herself in her loveliest green; the areas of the wilderness are unfolding their buds, and the blossoms of the peach and cherry tree breathe a delicious fragrance through the air. Yours, &c.
A gentleman in London, by the Packet, writes to his friend in Philadelphia in the following manner:—
"The report respecting the changes in the Ministry is as follows:—That the Duke of York and Mr. Pitt have had, first, a dispute, and then a violent quarrel, in the course of which, it is said, the Duke charged Mr. Pitt with not only having ruined the country, but that he would bring his father (the King) and family, into ruin along with it:—that Mr. Pitt, in his turn, charged the Duke with being a coward, and the cause of the failure of the late expedition to Holland. Upon this, it is
said, the Duke drew his sword, and would have run Mr. Pitt through, had not the Prince of Wales, who was present, hastily stepped in and prevented it. This is the report; therefore I give it to you as report only. This is said to have happened 3 or 4 days previous to the rumour of Mr. Pitt's resignation: after which a cabinet council was held, in which Mr. Pitt was out-voted by one, and then he resigned.
"The dispute above mentioned, between the Duke of York and Mr. Pitt, is said to have arisen from this circumstance. The Duke was for sending the supplementary militia out of the kingdom, and for ordering out the volunteer corps, to be embodied and do duty in their stead. Mr. Pitt was decidedly against the measure, being contrary to the faith and assurances of government when they were first trained to arms; and further, that it would most assuredly cause an insurrection of the people. This produced high words, from whence the quarrel arose, and the violence that followed."
Providence, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6.
From the N. York Spectator.
The late election in Connecticut, more than any one for several years past, evinces that the people of that State are at length roused to see the dangers with which they are threatened, and to feel the importance of standing to their post, for the defence of those venerable institutions and "steady habits," which have been the foundation of their civil and domestic happiness for more than a century and a half. There have not been fewer Democrats chosen representatives for their Legislature for several sessions past. The party, at present, seems only large enough to be seen in retrogression.
How aptly was the situation of that State described, by a GREAT REPUBLICAN* of this city, last fall, on his return from an unsuccessful attempt to revolutionize it. "Concessions must be given up.—There is no hope for them. We may as soon attempt to revolutionize the kingdom of heaven. There is not a respectable man in the State who is not a Federalist."
* The Vice-President. The American agent at Paris has addressed the following note to the American agents of the different ports of France:—
"A circular letter of M. L. L. Catchart, agent of the United States at Tripoli, dated the 3d of January last, informs me, that the Regency has made an official declaration of war against the United States; and that the King of Sweden having concluded a treaty with that power, the frigates of this sovereign in the Mediterranean can no longer protect our vessels against the Tripolitan cruisers. I request that you would communicate this disagreeable intelligence to our merchants and captains, and to those of the American agents with whom you have any intercourse."
COMMUNICATION.
In several of the public papers Mr. Jefferson has been censured for dismissing certain navy agents, which proceeds from mistake—navy agents are persons employed as occasion requires, at the different seaports, at the pleasure of the Secretary of the Navy; they do not hold a commission, of course the President does not interfere with the Secretary of the navy in his employing of such persons as he may think proper for agents, they being, equally as the clerks of the navy office, under the immediate direction of the Secretary of the navy. [Baltimore Fed.]
The frigate United States, Commodore Barry, has arrived in the Delaware.
Died,
In this town, yesterday morning, in the 56th year of her age, Mrs. A. Hitchcock, the amiable consort of the Rev. Dr. Hitchcock: Her funeral will be attended tomorrow afternoon, at 5 o'clock, at which time the friends and acquaintance of the family are desired to attend, without further notice.
In this town, on Monday the 20th ult. Mr. Florence Sullivan, of Philadelphia.—His remains were next day respectfully interred in the North burial-ground.
Sale at Auction.
TO-MORROW, being the 7th of May, will be sold, by Public Vendue, at Benjamin Hoppin and Son's AUCTION ROOM,
ON SIXTY DAYS CREDIT, ONE case of Linen Checks, one case of Linens, one case of Bretagnes, one trunk of Jacone; Tamboured and Book Muslin Handkerchiefs, with many other English Goods. LIKEWISE,
3 Chests of Hyson, 3 chests of Souchong, and 3 chests of Bohea Tea; 20 boxes No. 1, and 20 boxes No. 2, Chocolate; 10 barrels Brown Sugar, 6 bags of Cape Coffee, 4 hogsheads Batavian do. one ton Cordage, 10 bags of Charleston Cotton, Negro Head Tobacco, 20,000 Spanish Segars, and sundry other articles.
* Sale to begin at 9 o'clock. May 6.
PROVIDENCE BANK, April 28, 1801.
THE Customers of Providence Bank are informed, that new Discounts will be made at Thirty or Sixty Days, at the option of the applicants, from Monday the 4th day of May next; and that for the four ensuing Discounts, Notes now due to the Bank, not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, may be Renewed for Sixty Days, if most agreeable; and those Notes due to the Bank for a greater Sum, be made payable one half in Thirty Days, and the other half in Sixty Days.
By Order of the President and Directors, OLNEY WINSOR, Cashier.
GENTLEMEN in the different parts of the United States, who have received the proposals and undertaken to obtain subscriptions for the Country Gazette of the United States , are requested to return them by the 1st day of June, in order that the publication may be commenced, or a relinquishment of the object take place. All persons desirous of becoming subscribers are requested to forward their names immediately, as the publication will not be commenced unless the number stipulated (500 exclusive of the present Country Subscribers to the daily Gazette) should be obtained. Those disposed to become Subscribers need only transmit their names at present—the advance money will be demanded on the receipt of the first number.
* The Printers throughout the United States, will confer an obligation on the Editor of the Gazette of the United States by publishing the above a few times in a conspicuous part of their papers. Philadelphia, April 24.
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 Maissac; at the Cannonon 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, marched 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, marched or recruited, within the State of Tennessee; 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 Natchez; at Fort Adams and its dependencies, and thence to the Mobile River.
Separate PROPOSALS will also be received 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 1801, until the 31st day of December in the same year, both days inclusive, within the several States herein after mentioned, viz.
FOURTH. At Point Peter; at Fort Greene; at Fort Wilkinson; at Fort Pinckney; at Fort Johnston; at Fort Moultrie 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, within 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 Oswego 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 recruited, 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, within the States of Massachusetts, New-Hampshire 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 alternatives, 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 waters, 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 fortified places, or of posts, to call for at 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 sustained 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 circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is to be understood to be reserved 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 supply 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.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Just received, and for sale, by William Wilkinson, At the POST-OFFICE.
ROBINSON's Report of Cases argued 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 Humanity and Religion, which consecrate its glowing landscapes, and sheds an interest over this little Poem.
The American Review, and Literary 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 Writing 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 Wedgewood Ink-stands.—A beautiful assortment of best high finished PENKNIVES, red and black Morocco POCKET BOOKS. Als-Skin Memorandum Books.—Scales and Dividers, Surveyors' Instruments, &c. with most other articles in the Stationary Line.
Also,
COTTON YARN and Wicking, warranted of the best quality, from the new Factory at Rehoboth, near Pawtucket. March 6.
JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE BY Salmon Arnold,
At his Store, on the Long Wharf, EIGHT Hundred bushels MARYLAND CORN; LIKEWISE,
A few casks first quality NEGRO HEAD TOBACCO. May 5.
Notice.
THE Stockholders of the Providence Insurance Company are notified to meet at their office on Monday the 11th inst. at 10 o'clock, A. M. for the purpose of electing a Director, in the place of ZACHARIAH ALLEN, Esq. deceased.
J. MATHEWSON, jun. Sec'y.
Providence Insurance Office, May 6.

Selected Poetry.
NEW TITLES.
SHAKESPEARE.
GOOD-DEN, Sir Richard—God-a'mercy, fellow, And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter: For new-made honour doth forget men's names; 'Tis too respectful and too sociable For your conversation. Now your traveller, He and his toothpick at my worship's meals; And when my nightly stomach is suffic'd, Why then I luck my teeth, and catechise My picked man of countries;—my dear Sir, (Thus leaning on my elbow I begin) I shall beseech you—that is the question now; And then comes answer like an A B C book: O Sir, says answer, at your best command, At your employment, at your service, Sir:— No, Sir, says question, I, sweet Sir, at yours. And L, ere answer knows what question would,
Saving in dialogue of compliment, And talking of the Alps and Apennines, The Pyrenean and the river Po, It draws towards supper in conclusion, for, But this is worshipful society, And fits the mountain spirit like myself; For he is but a bastard to the time That does not smack of observation.
CHARACTER of WILLIAM PITT,
WRITTEN IN 1796.
By the Author of the Pursuits of Literature.
I AM neither a personal nor political enemy to Mr. Pitt; I think him a powerful and efficient Minister, eminently adorned with natural gifts and endowments, and solemnly marked out and elected to his great office. He has talents to conduct, to persuade, and to command. He is a scholar; I knew him to be such, and a ripe and good one. The low passion of avarice has no root in his mind; but the sin, by which the angels fell, rages in him without measure and without controul. To tell a Minister, that pride was not made for him or for any man, because he has nothing which he has not received, would be to argue a gross ignorance of our fallen nature. He has no servility in him. Firm, constant, and unbending, he has the principles of a man, who knows and feels what is demanded of him by his country. He comes into the House of Commons, not to bow, but to do the business of the State, and he does it. There is not a subject presented to him, even casually, in which his ability is not conspicuous. He treats it as if it had been the subject of his continued meditation. In the conduct of the French war, he, his colleagues, and his allies, have been all found wanting; but in the principle just, if not fleshy. I will add, that in respect to personal individual gratification, I regard Mr. Pitt as the MOST FORTUNATE MAN upon record. Called by the circumstances of the times beyond human controul, and by events not in the wildest range of expectation, he was placed, almost without his seeking it, in the highest public station. He passed at once to the innermost of the temple, without treading the vestibule. In the bloom and vigour of his faculty (for he bore the blossom and the fruit at once) and in the prime of life, when every thing can charm, that which can charm the most, POWER, was voluntarily offered to him, confirmed, continued and established, by his King and by his country. His faults, his follies, and his blemishes (for he has all) might be easily removed, but I think he will not remove them. He felt at once, as many men have done before him, the highest ability in himself; and he found, what is denied most men of genius, a full and adequate exertion of it in high office. My hope and earnest prayer is, that the termination of his political labours, and the result of this just and tremendous war with the Republic of France, may be finally to establish "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace."—Is this the language of an enemy? I respect, nay, I would defend him; I wish him a long continuance in office, but I never can entertain a PERSONAL regard or affection for Mr. Pitt.
THE subscriber agreed, about the 6th of February last, with a gentleman in Boston, at Mr. Hatch's Inn, to carry a bag made of tow and linen cloth, drawn together at one end with a string, full of clothes and other things, to Mr. Aldrich's in Providence; among which were, two Handkerchiefs, one Coat, one Jacket, one pair of Trowsers, one pair of Breeches, two pair of Pantaloons, three Shirts, five pair of Stockings, one pair of Boots and Shoes, and several other articles. I sent on to get information whether they had arrived or not, but could not obtain any, and have now come on myself, and find that they are not at Mr. Aldrich's. It is probable they have been lost on the road, or left at some other place in Providence. Whoever has found the same, and will leave them with the Printer hereof, or at the sign of the Lion, in Boston, shall be generously rewarded.
PETER MORSE.
April 29.
A YOUNG MAN, who can produce a good recommendation, wishes for a place in a Grocery Store. Particular information can be obtained by applying at this Office.
March 18.
Bowers and Bucklin
Inform their Customers and Friends that they have just received, by the latest arrivals from London, an extensive assortment of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, which are now opening for sale at their stores, viz.
LONDON superfine and fine Broadcloths; Cassimeres, embossed and plain; Calimancoes, Tamboreens, Russells, Durants, Tammies; plain, stripe, tapan, colonade, checked, lappit and jacobet Mullins; Tambourd, jacobet, and book do. plain and figured Mullins, Dimities, Marcellas Quilting, silk Nankenees, cotton do. Gingham, 4-4 Linen, 5-4, 6-4, 7-6, 8-4, 8-10, 10-12, 10-14, 10-16 Damask Table Cloths, a great variety; long Lawns, Cambric, Cambric Handkerchiefs, 4-4 and 8-8 Cambric Mullin for gowns, handkerchiefs, &c. black Calicoes, fancy do. Chintzes, mens' Satin, plain and white; black silk Florentine fancy Silk Shawls, do. Handkerchiefs, black Fringes, Modes, Sarcenets, col'd Satins, Silk Velvet, assorted; velvet Binding; a great variety of Silk, silk and cotton Hosiery, plain and col'd; extra long silk Gloves, cotton do. ladies fashionable Hats and Bonnets, consisting of gypsy dunstables, open straw gypsies, black and white do. col'd Deventire press chip, open, fancy and ribbon do. with bugles, crimp'd, cane, and cheneal do. Straw Trimming; a great variety of Wreaths, Flowers, and fancy Feathers, with ornaments; fancy Kid and Morocco Shoes, with roses; a handsome assortment of Ribbons, Laces, Lace Veils, Edgings, Threads black, assorted colours, and fancy spangled Fans, mens', youths' and childrens' Hats, Umbrellas and Paracols, Jeans, Jeanets, and Fustian; Perfumery, Jewelry, Hardware, Japan'd Ware, &c. &c. With almost every other article in the English goods line. April 29.
REMOVAL.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public in general that he has removed to the large three story store, next door north of Governor Fenner's old Mansion-House, where he keeps constantly for sale a selection of BOOKS of various kinds, more particularly School Books, of every kind in use; at the general prices sold at elsewhere, of the like qualities, from one to a thousand.
PAPER and STATIONARY, Such as Writing, Printing, Sugar-Loaf, Bonnet, Press, Candle, Wrapping and Sheathing, by the hundred or single ream, or quire; Sealing-Wax, Wafers, Quills, black, red, blue, green and yellow Ink; black and red Ink Powder, Pounce and Boxes, Sand and Boxes, &c. &c.
A L S O, An assortment of GROCERIES, viz. Sugar, Molasses, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Spices, &c. &c.
BOOK BINDING
Of every kind, Account-Books of various kinds kept for sale, or bound to any pattern, to suit the purchasers; old Books re-bound. Cash and the highest price given for all kinds of cotton, linen, and woollen Rags, also for Sail-cloth and Junk. April 29. RUFUS GREENE.
Providence, ff. Supreme Judicial Court, March Term, 1801. ON the Bill in Equity, Job Randall, Jeremiah Phillips, and Gideon Smith, praying for the redemption of an estate lately the property of William West, Esq. lying in Scituate, in said county, now under mortgage to the heirs of Daniel Jenckes, and John Jenckes, late of Providence, in said county, deceased: Notice is hereby given to all parties concerned, to appear at the next term of the Supreme Judicial Court to be holden at Providence, in and for the county of Providence, on the third Monday of September next, to make answer to said bill. April 29. P. ALLEN, Clerk.
By Direction of the Secretary of the Navy of the United States,
Notice is hereby given,
That on WEDNESDAY the 6th of MAY next, 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 MERRIMACK, lately commanded by Moses Brown, Esq.—now lying at said wharf.
The Merrimack is a ship of 460 tons burthen; pierced for 20 guns on the main deck, 6 guns on the quarter deck, and 2 on the forecastle; has two full suits of sails, and her masts and spars are complete. She is a remarkable fast sailer, easy in her rigging, was built at 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 she 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 indorsers.
Immediately after the sale of the Merrimack, The Iron Ballast will be sold, together with her Provisions. The terms of payment of which will be a credit of 90 days, by notes with two approved indorsers.
Inventories of the Ship and Provisions may be seen, by applying at store No. 6, Long Wharf, Boston. Boston, April 17.
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 22.
THE subscriber having lately received from a medical gentleman in London, a supply of COW-POX MATTER, undoubtedly genuine, proposes to inoculate such persons as may apply in the course of the ensuing week.
LEVI WHEATON.
April 22.
BANKRUPTCY.
NOTICE.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankrupt is awarded and issued forth against GEORGE ROBINSON, of North-Providence, merchant, and he being declared a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to us, the undersigned commissioners, on the eleventh, eighteenth, and twenty-fifth inst. and on the twenty-third day of May next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon on each day, at Dr. John Williams' house, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects; when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the first meeting to choose Assignees; and at the last meeting the said Bankrupt 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 commissioners shall appoint. PARIS TILLINGHAST, } Com's. JOSEPH JENCKES, GEORGE R. BURRILL, } April 8.
NOTICE.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankrupt is awarded and issued forth against SAMUEL W. GREENE and JOHN BARKER, of Providence, merchants, and they being declared Bankrupts, are hereby required to surrender themselves to us, the undersigned commissioners, on the tenth, eighteenth, and twenty-fifth inst. and on the twenty-second of May next, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon on each day, at Dr. John Williams' house, and make a full discovery and disclosure of their estate and effects; when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the first meeting to choose Assignees, and at the last meeting the said Bankrupts are required to finish their examination, and the creditors are to assent to, or dissent from the Allowance of their certificate. All persons indebted to the said Bankrupts, or that have any of their effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the said commissioners shall appoint. PARIS J. TILLINGHAST, } Com's. JOSEPH JENCKES, GEORGE R. BURRILL, } April 8.
Herds Grass and Redtop.
A QUANTITY of choice Herds-Grass and Redtop Hay-Seed, this day received, and to be sold at the store of THOMAS JONES, per bushel, or less quantities. April 8.
Five Dollars Reward.
RAN-AWAY from the subscriber on the 14th of March last, an apprentice Boy to the blacksmith's business, named BENONI THORNTON, dark complexion, about five feet four inches high, had on when he went away, a London smok'd coat and pantaloons, a swandown vest, and a white castor hat; he is about nineteen years of age. Whoever will return said Boy shall receive the above reward, but no charges. DANIEL OWEN, jun.
N. B. All persons are forbid harbouring or trusting him on penalty of the law. Gloucester, April 14.
Cheap for Cash.
Benjamin Thurber,
At the old Sign of the Bunch of Grapes, has for Sale,
A FRESH assortment of fashionable new Goods; among which are a variety of Fancy Patches, Chintzes, Calicoes, English and India Satins, Lustrings, Silk for Bonnets, Silk Shawls of different colours, Silk and Kid Gloves, Bengals, Crapes, tambourd Mullins, Lappets, Mullins, Dimities, fashionable Ribbons, Umbrellas, Vest Patterns, white and black Laces, Morocco and Florentine Shoes, Russells, Moreens, Velvets, India Cotton, Cotton Wool, a large assortment of Looking Glasses, London Pewter, Knives and Forks, China, Delft and Glass Ware, new fashioned Tea Pots; a great variety of other articles, too numerous to mention, all which to be sold at the lowest advance for cash in hand. Friends and customers are invited to call and see for themselves, and they will be waited upon with pleasure, whether they purchase or not. April 8. sw.
To be Sold,
A CONVENIENT and well-finished two story Dwelling-House, with four rooms upon a floor, and adjoining the Providence Bank. For particulars apply to the subscriber living on the premises. April 8. DEBORAH CLAP.
For SALE,
THAT valuable real Estate late the property of William Sessions, consisting 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 Merchantable 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.
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 selection from the most approved writers, ancient and modern, with original pieces, dialogues, &c. designed principally for the use of schools and young persons, but may justly claim some attention from the aged, the gentleman and the lady. The author's chief design, 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 inactive to that variety which is so pleasing and useful to young persons, and has interspersed pieces from natural and sacred history, together with biographical 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 wish 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 11.
THE subscriber, contemplating a removal into the State of New-York offers for sale the following tracts of Land, viz. the Farm he now lives on, situated in the centre of the town of Pomfret, State of Connecticut; containing one hundred and fifty-two acres of as good land as any whatever, well proportioned for mowing, ploughing, pasturing, orcharding and woodland; with a large dwelling-house, 3 large barns, merchant shop, and other necessary out buildings, and one of the best stands for a merchant or tavern, being on the stage road from Boston to New-York through Hartford, and where the New-London and Norwich road to Worcester intersects with the Boston stage-road, and the road from Providence to Hartford passes by the door of said dwelling-house, and is as pleasant a situation as any in the State.
Also, Another about a mile and a half from the meeting-house, containing between eighty and ninety acres of good Land, well proportioned for a farm, has one of the best orchards in Pomfret, which makes yearly from 70 to 100 barrels of cider, and is handsomely situated, with an upright House, and a large good Barn.
Also, Another, about one mile from said meeting-house, containing about 65 acres of Land, all under good improvement, and cuts yearly twenty loads of hay, and makes about twenty barrels of cider, with an old upright House thereon; the land is excellently watered, and as good as any in Pomfret.
Also, Another, lying about one hundred rods from said meeting-house, containing between 40 and 50 acres of the best kind of mowing and pasturing.
Also, A Meadow, one mile east of the first mentioned dwelling-house, containing about 30 acres of the first quality of Land, cuts yearly thirty-five loads of hay, and lays on the main road to Providence.
The above Lands are well watered, and as pleasantly situated as any in Pomfret, and will be sold altogether or separately as may best suit the purchaser or purchasers.
Also, a Farm in Windsor, county of Berkshire, State of Massachusetts, containing 350 acres of land, pleasantly situated, about 3-4 of a mile from the meeting-house, with a good farm house and two large barns, will keep yearly 20 cows, and with good husbandry in a few years would keep 40 with other stock, and is well situated to make a or 3 Farms.
Also, about one thousand acres of Land on Union river, State of Vermont. All the above Lands will be sold low for ready pay, and an indisputable title given, by SETH CROSVENOR. Pomfret (Connecticut) February 20.