Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1802-04-17 00:00:00

Rhode-Island Republican.
AN INDISSOLUBLE UNION OF THE STATES, IS ESSENTIAL TO THEIR LIBERTY AND EXISTENCE.—WASHINGTON.
Published weekly, by OLIVER FARNWORTH, (Printer to the STATE, and of the LAWS of the UNITED STATES,) Thames-Street, NEWPORT.
TO THE PEOPLE.
"The great, the important day draws nigh— "Big with the fate of Cato, and of Rome!"
Friends, Citizens, and Neighbors,
THE period has arrived, when the course of events and the views of men, have arranged the Nation under two parties. One has assumed the distinction of Federalist , the other Republican . The character of the Federalist, we have in the measures and events of the short period of twelve years, to March, 1801. The Republican is known by the course he has pursued the same term of time, and from March 1801, to this day. Under the Federal Administration, we have seen a dreadful National Debt created, in a short period of peace and unusual prosperity. We have seen this bane and oppression of our Country created by the funding of all the old paper medium and certificates, which had sunk in the hands of the people and were estimated worth little or nothing. We have seen this dead, depreciated stuff, by unreasonable views and unjust means, resuscitated and advanced to 200, in the pound indiscriminately. We have seen the indiscriminate assumption of State Debts, which had indeed a suspicious foundation. We have seen the necessary institution of a Navy, created by a course of extravagance unheard of, and which no people ought patiently to have endured. We have seen a British Treaty formed, by which our Citizens were exposed, and actually have been extensively plundered at sea, & our nation loaded with the enormous and unfounded claims of Refugees, Tories, and British Creditors . We have seen our nation sued and distressed by these claims, and the proceedings under the treaty suspended, by the enormity of the claim and the novelty of the procedure. We have seen our nation exposed by the interference of this treaty, to all the dreadful effects of British influence , attended with dangerous intrigues in our councils and dissensions in the community. We have seen our country by this impolitic transaction and its effects, nearly drawn into a war with France. We have beheld taxes and public officers multiplied beyond all necessity, and to the unreasonable burthen of the people. We have experienced the instance of a Land or Direct Tax , in a time of Peace. We have seen our Federal conductors torturing their financial powers, in search of ways and means , for new resources to support the most extraordinary and unnecessary expenditures. And we have seen these good friends of the People , in utter despair of extending taxes further, resort to Loans and actually borrowing in a time of Peace, Five Millions of Dollars, at the shameful and unjustifiable interest of eight per cent . Under the operation of these strange proceedings, we have beheld the People loyal and true to their cause and country—but instituting a sober enquiry—for what causes these things were done? And what were the designs of their rulers? In the course of this enquiry, we have seen the signs of disaffection and doubt of the wisdom and frugality of such an administration. We have seen the extraordinary resort to an army—not a few men—but many thousands raised at an enormous expence and scattered over the country. Not to oppose an invasion or even the well grounded expectation of a foreign enemy, but believed to be solely for the purpose of overawing the public mind, and securing thereby a submission to all the wild projects of the late administration. By all these occurrences we have seen a National Debt fixed on us of upwards of Eighty Millions of Dollars !—We have lived to see every presence of the late administration, on the score of economy, frugality and concern to prevent the increase of the debt, empty and deceitful. With uninterrupted peace, with unexampled prosperity, procured by the wants of the Belligerent powers, and the fruitful productions of our country, with a vast and increasing Revenue, we have been distressed to see all these advantages diminished by prodigal expenditures and absurd applications of the national resources. For the Public Debt has constantly increased in exact proportion to all the prosperity and revenues of the Country . Thus the energies of the nation have been exhausted in ineffectual and insincere endeavors to lessen the debt and diminish the public burthens. And thus our Federal Patriots , have procured us blessings long to be remembered, in pursuance of their favorite principle, " that a National Debt is a national blessing ." Not content with having pricked us into a lively recollection of all these noble deeds they yet modestly demand our confidence and support.
But Fellow-Citizens, consider these things. No longer suffer yourselves to be deluded by the most baneful hypocrisy ever practised by men exalted to rule. In the state of embarrassment in which the country was found in the year of 1801, what if the country had been obliged to go to war? Where were we to obtain the means of supporting it? Not surely by imposts, tonnage and excises. No my friends, but two miserable resources were left; one a Land Tax —the other Loans . Thus situated, was it not time to shake off the public lethargy and commence a reformation? Was it not time to prevent those invested
with authority from proceeding further in acts of oppression, by causing them, in the language of our Constitution, " to return to private life ?" Who would undertake a work so useful, necessary and glorious? Not surely those who had led us into these difficulties and dangers. No, it must be those who had uniformly remonstrated against these measures of extravagance, whose small voice at least was heard through the land. Events had matured the crisis: The 4th of March, 1801, gave our country a new administration, composed of men distinguished for their firm attachment to constitutional principles, with habits suited to the public exigency, and possessed with talents adequate to the task of arresting the progress of so many evils. But was the public opinion, the clear expression of the national will on this occasion, respected by the federalists ? No, they in defiance of known duty, of the national will, and at the risk of the general safety, attempted to impose a President on the Union not designated by the suffrages of the people, and if not successful in that, to prevent any President from being elected. The mad attempt failed; A kind Providence once more interposed and saved us. Thus the people caused their former rulers to return to private life, and delegated others, respecting the sense and spirit of the nation, and willing to respect it.
They have performed in a short time many acts which demand our esteem and confidence. They have in divers instances retrenched the national expenditures. Unnecessary establishments and offices have been abolished. Inconvenient and expensive duties and taxes are in a course of repeal.—Economy and frugality, industry and justice are every where the order of the day. Agriculture and manufactures are in promotion. The natural advantages of our country will be effectually aided and improved. The revenues are faithfully directed to the extinguishment of the national debt in the shortest period of time.—These vast and important operations have commenced and will be vigorously pursued. These, fellow-citizens, are the grounds of public confidence in the Republican Administration , and the best commentary on Republican virtues and purposes : " By these fruits ye shall know them ." Look at the acts of these two parties (if yet the final minority of federalists can be called a party) and then candidly determine which you ought to esteem & confide in. Those who are satisfied that the tendency of federal measures was and yet is dangerous to our peace, and hostile to liberty, will avoid giving their votes for Governor, Lieut. Governor and Senators, to men of that party. Those who think the support of the Republican Administration best calculated to ensure peace and prosperity to our LIBERTIES, will vote for men who are firm and intelligent Republicans . These principles were uniformly inculcated by the immortal
RITTENHOUSE.
To the Freemen of Rhode-Island, &c.
CITIZEN REPUBLICANS, WE have often read of the high toned patronage of an Adams ; of the intriguing faction of an Hamilton ; and of the desperate efforts of an Essex Junto !—but who ever heard, till lately, of the Providence Round Robin !—This is a combination of conspirators, formed for the express purpose of making a last and desperate effort against the sacred liberties of the good people of the State of Rhode Island. This nefarious Club, consists of about twenty or thirty members; divided, and sub-divided into various committees, for the more convenient fabrication of falsehoods, and are headed by the noted Grand Turk ; who long since abandoned his turban, and has lately laid aside his civic crown of Babeau ! and condescended, on every delicate occasion, to accept a new Bearer ! in which the apostate disciple of Omar , makes a very scurvy appearance.—A notorious slanderer, known by the appropriate name of Skillet-Head , officiates as secretary to the banditti.— Spies, Runners, Riders, Hawkers, Clappers, Clappers, and Swindlers bring up the rear.—In short, they are the dregs, the very maggot and grub-worms of modern Federalism .—Old Laciter , the father of the lying family, has furnished his hopeful children a suitable Printer , hot , from the regions of his own sulphureous press!—Thus equipped, countenanced, and supported, their ready lies find through the medium of the " dirty Chronicle ," a quick circulation amongst the astonished inhabitants of the country.
This desperate phalanx of assassins have made several occasional attacks on the President of the United States, the heads of departments, members of Congress, &c. &c.—But their main battery of brimstone lies has been levelled against the Governor of the State, whom they have traduced, insulted, and abused, in a most shameful and scandalous manner.—For what purpose, Fellow-Citizens, is Governor Fenner thus brutally attacked? And every other Republican character basely libelled? The answer is easy.—It is for the sole purpose of overthrowing the Republican system, so happily established in this State, and to erect on its ruins, that of tyranny,
duplicity, and oppression.—Know ye not, Fellow-Citizens, that the moment the aristocrats gain an ascendancy in the Government, you will be saddled with a debt of not less than four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.—The spurious evidence of those spurious claims, are now in the hands of merciless, unscrupulous speculators. These vultures, who delight to prey on the vitals of the Republic, had they the power, (and you may thank your friend FENNER that they have not,) would exact the unjust demand, with accumulated interest, to the last mill; though you were stripped of your all, and turned naked into the streets and highways, like beggars of burden, to feed on thrubs and straw. Recollect yourselves, Republicans , and be upon your guard; for your enemies have every engine at work to deceive you.—They in one breath are exciting you to civil war , and in the next, soliciting you to give up your arms, and clothe a set of rapacious cormorants with power!—No, my friends, if Governor FENNER is to be removed from office, after his long and faithful services, wherein he has constantly labored for your true interest:—And it is a fact well known, that the State never has been so free from burthensome taxes, debts, and oppressions of every kind, as under his just, vigilant, and economical administration:—I say, that if after duly considering these things, and consulting your own, and the interest of the State, you should determine to abandon your old friend and faithful servant, merely because his enemies have calumniated him—for God's sake, and for the sake of every thing you hold dear and precious, do not precipitately throw yourselves into the power of a voracious, aristocratic faction, by giving your suffrages to men who are avowed enemies to Republican ism.—Nay, I am firmly persuaded, that on this important and trying occasion, you will rather tighten the bonds of union, and rally round the standard of liberty; and with a firm, and manly exertion of all your energies, support the Republican Prox.
If the " Chronicle " is to be credited, and we have no reason to doubt of the evil intentions with which it threatens us; the manes of poor old Mr. Greene , is to be dragged from its natural oblivion, followed by a long list of the mummies of faction , to be exhibited, in dum show, as candidates in opposition to the Republican interest.—I do not mean to say, that Mr. Greene is actuated by a spirit of opposition; no, nor do I believe he is actuated by any spirit at all, except it be the quiescent spirit of non-resistance, and passive obedience to the will and pleasure of those who wish to use him as a tool, in carrying their wicked purposes into execution.—The following extract, from a pamphlet, published sometime since, will serve as a comment on the hero of their Prox :—They "have almost disturbed the dead, and profaned the sanctuary of the Tomb to effect their purposes. The age and decrepitude of the venerable William Greene , could not escape them. He has long since done with the vexations of party, and the anxieties of the world. His fame and his infirmities required repose. Must he, when the lamp of life was throwing its last faint ray, and had ceased, for him to brighten the colours of the world—must he be dragged forth to be the tool of a faction, and to draw upon himself dishonor and chagrin, which shall extinguish the little light that surrounds him, and send him dark and comfortless to the gravel!"—This being the situation he was then in, it is not at all likely that the old Gentleman, since that time, has risen with renovated energies from his own ashes; for he was never, by the most credulous, thought to be a Phenix ; nor is it believed that any such bird was ever batched near his habitation.
It therefore remains with you, Republicans , to say, whether supernatural impotence , in the last stage of dotage, borne about on a litter by the demons of discord , shall predominate in your councils—or, whether those councils shall be purified, and wisdom, virtue and integrity, preside at the helm of State.—Your negligence, at this important crisis will introduce the disorders attached to the former; when, on the other hand, your joint and manly exertions in the cause of liberty, will effectually establish the latter desirable order of things.—I shall therefore, give my vote for Governor FENNER , with full confidence in his justice and integrity. Nay, I look with scorn and contempt on his calumniators, knowing, as I do, that the stories circulated to his prejudice, have no foundation in truth; but have been fabricated for the purpose of shifting the government out of the hands of the Republicans , into those of their opponents. Is there any one, so weak, as to be duped by those artifices? I believe not—but if there is, let him vote for Mr. Greene , and his guardians: He is unworthy of freedom, or our notice.
A REPUBLICAN.
To the Republicans of Rhode-Island.
AT a time when bribery aboundeth, and Federal artifices much more abound; when every exertion is made to divide and conquer you; when men, not measures, are held up
by your Federal opponents as "the order of the day;"—when Federal caucuses resolve on "hold strokes," it is your duty, to be vigilant, and united. When the "opposition" think themselves powerful; when they draw an aged, and therefore " honorable " man, from retirement to head their designs; (knowing that if successful, he will only be the nominal, while the son, will be the real Governor;) When the shears of the " Taylor " are sharpened to clip your privileges, and to cabbage your rights—you do wrong "to halt between two opinions."
At such a time little individual animosities should subside, every Republican should consider that the "general welfare" should surmount individual disagreement; that measures, and not men, should influence him in exercising the inestimable right of voting. Your Legislators are now men of wisdom; of respectability, of talents and of your own choice; they have long served you with honor; they have taken a "parent's care" of your treasure; they have preserved your liberty, and your property inviolate.
Will you then to recompense their fidelity give your suffrages for others, who have ever opposed your economical measures, and still oppose them? Will you support men who feed on slander; who practice abuse, who speak falsely? If this need be proved, recollect the abuse which has been heaped on your present patriotic Governor. Witness the columns of certain papers in this State, which abound with every falsehood tending to detract from the reputation of your rulers.—Witness the many attempts which have been unsuccessfully made to blacken you with abuse.—Witness the speeches which every Federal " school boy " utters against you.
Not content with judging you "by your fruits," they pour out execrations against you, as Jacobins , as disorganizers , as enemies to God, as foes to your country.—And how have you merited these things? The answer of candor, would be by a steady, and persevering opposition to the wiles, to the doctrines of certain men; who, lost to all sense of freedom, publicly declare that "we must have an hereditary President"—That "there will not be a happy time until the laborer shall be obliged to toil the live-long day for a scanty six-pence, and the poor man shall be excluded from a voice in the government"—Men who advance the doctrine of a " national debt being a national blessing ."—You must be sensible that these are not the suitable persons to rule, and govern you; that instead of perpetuating your rights and immunities; they will lay violent hands upon them. It should be furthermore maturely considered that the cause the Federalists wish you to maintain, is tottering, that sudden remedies must be applied, else it must expire.—Yourself know full well how to appreciate the base means used, to support it—yourself know fully sufficient to discriminate the good from the bad, the virtuous from the vicious, the Republican from the Aristocratical Federalist .—Examine, with your usual candor the views, the designs, of those who compose the heads of the Federalists ; you can at once perceive, that you are worked on by flattery, by threats, and by bribery, for your votes at this critical juncture, when afterwards these very men who now so assiduously court your votes, will look on you with contempt, and behave toward you with insolence.—Be not deceived; listen not to the voice of the Syren , lest you lose your liberties for a long, left your dear bought independence be wrested from you.
FELLOW-CITIZENS—Heretofore you have shown yourselves firmly attached to the freedom, and to the good and wholesome laws of your country;—heretofore you have voted for those to whom you are indebted for your present unexampled prosperity and happiness; men who would not barter their rights for lucre; heretofore you have convinced the "well born," the "noble blooded," & "the lordly few," that they did not merit your approbation, and will you from men, who have so highly estimated the liberty of opinion, dwindle into slaves?
You are placed at this time in a conspicuous station, and cannot be hid; the eyes of the Republicans from Georgia to Maine are upon you; act therefore worthy of your profession, and of your cause.—If you are but resolute, and moderate, you will succeed.—Let it not be said that we have "fallen from faith," but that "we have fought a good fight."—A rising generation are now looking to you as the guardians of their liberty—freedom has been put into your hands, and at your hands it will be required.—Do not therefore prostitute your rights to the voracious jaws of your opponents; "lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you."
FREEMEN—On your exertions on Wednesday next depends the future prosperity of your country—let no one retire from his post; be firm, be united, and you will be successful.—Though they would subvert your institutions, yet vigilance, & unanimity will reach them, that unawed by power, unled by bribery, you will not desert your station, until they shall have learnt by fatal experience that they cannot defeat you, and that "the sun of Federalism has set," never to rise again.
FRANKLIN.

[52] The following Address, although calculated for the meridian of our sister state, may be, without any official variation, applied to the Electors or Freemen of the state of Rhode-Island;—a candid and serious perusal is therefore solicited of every honest man.
A COMMITTEE of the REPUBLICANS from SALEM, MARBLEHEAD, BEVERLY, and DANVERS—To the Electors of the County of Essex.
GENTLEMEN, THE present moment is every way important to our country.—It is a moment which must test the principles, fix the character, and model the existence of Republican governments.—The public contest no longer involves mere party measures, or personal preferences:—On its decision awaits the safety of each state, the confederacy of our empire, and eventually the fate of mankind. The Republicans hold the right of suffrage, frequency of elections, liberty of press, and independence of state governments, as first principles, acknowledged, sanctioned and consolidated by the constitution, and national compact; they pledge their lives, liberty and property, for the firm and unqualified defence of the letter and spirit of this glorious instrument—they hold, that its strict and rational construction should never be abandoned to the artifices of sophistry, or overawed by the denunciation of party zeal—they hold, that the interest of the state is the common interest of all; and consequently the very whisper of a division is pregnant with disorder, anarchy and despotism.
Diametrically opposed to these ideas, ever has been, and still is, the policy of a body of men, who cloak themselves under the honorable, but misapplied name of Federalists. The great majority of the American people are unquestionably "all Federalists, all Republicans." But their credulity has been imposed on—their honesty deluded, and their manly confidence abused to the worst purpose—they have been enlisted under the banners of names and artfully made to war against their own pure and unspotted sentiments.—It is time our yeomanry should see the division line of parties in its true light, as a division of first principles—the question, on which they are to decide, is not what person shall rule, or what measure of ordinary legislation shall be adopted. It traverses a wider range, and requires every man to decide, whether he prefers a government founded on popular elections, and supported by popular talents; or a government organized for permanent aristocracy and exclusive prerogative:—In one word, a hereditary tenure of office without responsibility, and without change, or a Republican representation, elected by the voice and supported by the countenance of the people. It cannot be doubted but that the yeomanry of this country, if once the pseudo federal doctrines were stripped of their shallow pretences, would trample them under feet as royal ambitious insinuations.
Influenced by these considerations—believing that we should cling to the federal constitution, as the anchor of our safety, and "the world's best hope"—and perceiving a systematic opposition to the general government pursued and invigorated by an impetuous party, in order to throw an odium on popular administration, and thus open the way to a gradual display of greater executive permanency and presidential patronage; the Republicans of this part of the country have determined to support new candidates for official stations in this commonwealth. They wish to avoid the imputation of invidious remarks, personal abuse, and private slander. They ground the necessity of change upon the necessity of the states harmonizing with the general government—in strengthening the bonds of national union—in allaying the bitterness of party spirit—in promoting plans of economy, and retrenchments of public expenses—in exciting a love of order, industry, improvement, and manufactures—in all which views the political sentiments of the falsely called federal ticket oppose a direct, influential, and determined negation. To prove this, reference need only be made to votes on the late legislative debate to address the President, which is correctly stated by both parties, as forming the partition wall between them.
If therefore, Gentlemen, you value your independence, purchased at the expence of so much blood and toil—if you value the stability of the Union, whose basis is equalized rights and uncorrupted elections—if you abhor a division of our states as involving bloodshed and anarchy—if you value the constituted authorities of our nation, as promoters of patriotism, morality and the arts—let us intreat you, by all you hold sacred, to assert these principles at your next meeting, and uninfluenced by federal faction, and unalarmed by seditious menaces, to give your votes for men, who hold the good of the people and the principles of our revolution in their hearts and actions. The opposition are concentrating all their forces, and shall we decline the contest? Shall we forget to act on principles which Washington confirmed by practice and authorized by advice? No laudable exertion should be remitted—no measure of honor and integrity declined. While republicans detect corrupt influence, they deem themselves entitled to meet their adversaries on the ground of reason and religion, by a free discussion of public characters, and a decent animadversion on political tendencies.
READ—PAUSE—AND CONSIDER I "Federal Artifices," Detected.
NOT long since, when the Republicans were considered as the minority; every individual of the party, "who would not deny himself and take up the 'Federal' cross," was denounced as a Republican, whose very name implied an athief, Deist, a foe to government, a friend to disorder, and confederate. —Now when the Republicans are the majority, the Federalists assume the very name which before was execrated, as tho'
they could delude us into a belief that by changing names, they change their principles; as tho' George the 3d. would be less a king, if his name should be changed. Republican Brethren, "beware of wolves in sheeps' clothing."
Another piece of Federal Policy, which the Federalists circulate very assiduously, and which appeared in the last Mercury, is, "That a bill has passed the House of Representatives to augment the salaries of certain officers of the government."—And that notwithstanding the professions of economy, &c. the Republicans are laying "burdens grievous to be borne." The following are the facts which the author of this pledge himself to be correct.—On the 2d day of March, 1799, a law* which augmented the salaries of the Secretary of State, and thirteen other officers, which had previously passed the Senate and House of Representatives was approved by John Adams, then President of the United States. This law was to continue to be in force for three years only, and expired a few weeks since, when a bill was agreed to by the respectable majority of 50 against 22, for "reviving and continuing in force said law." Thus the officers do not receive a Cent more than has been allowed them for three years last past.—It is equally criminal in the Federal gentlemen to "suppress the truth," as to "sugget fallhood." To have been innocent of the former, they should have stated that the law was passed by the last, & revived by the present administration.—Therefore, that which was proper in the former, cannot be accounted improper in the latter. Federal gentlemen, ye are all honorable, very honorable men; nevertheless you "strain at a gnat and swallow a camel."—When will Federalists learn consistency!!!
VERITAS. * The following is the act alluded to. "AN ACT, To augment the salaries of the officers herein mentioned."
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the salaries heretofore allowed by law to the officers of the government of the United States herein mentioned, the following annual compensations be, and are hereby granted to the said officers respectively from the commencement of the present year; That is to say:
 The Secretary of State, five thousand dollars:  The Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars:  The Secretary of War, four thousand five hundred dollars:  The Secretary of the Navy, four thousand five hundred dollars:  The Attorney General, three thousand dollars:  The Comptroller of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars:  The Treasurer, three thousand dollars:  The Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars:  The Commissioner of the Revenue, three thousand dollars:  The Register of the Treasury, two thousand dollars:  The Accountant of the War Department, two thousand dollars:  The Accountant of the Navy Department, two thousand dollars:  The Postmaster-General, three thousand dollars: 
And, the Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand seven hundred dollars. Which sums shall be respectively paid, quarterly, at the Treasury of the United States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force for three years, and no longer.
JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JAMES ROSS, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 2, 1799. JOHN ADAMS. President of the United States."
From the POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL.
SIR, I SEND you herewith, for the information of my constituents, a statement of savings made by the President of the United States since his accession to office; and of the savings effected by acts of Congress passed during the present session: Which I have derived from the most authentic sources, and for the general accuracy of which I am willing to hold myself responsible. I have also added an estimate of further retrenchments in our fiscal system, contemplated by acts at present in an incipient state, and which will probably obtain legislative sanction before the rising of Congress. I likewise subjoin a general result of the Treasury operations, during the last nine months of the year one thousand eight hundred and one.
During the past summer and autumn, various reports and misrepresentations were industriously circulated in every section of the Union, through the medium of the press, tending to impair the public confidence in the President, and to implicate several acts of his administration. In order to correct such misrepresentations. I have been at some pains to enquire into the facts and circumstances from which they have probably originated. For this purpose I have had recourse to the public offices and official documents. The result of my enquiries on this subject I now also communicate.
This statement being derived from documents which can only be attained at the seat of government; and it having ever been my opinion, that it is the duty of a representative to guard his constituents against misrepresentations, by giving them faithful views of the proceedings of their agents; I feel persuaded that my conduct on this occasion will not subject me to any merited imputation or censure from them.
I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, THEODORUS BAILEY.
Savings by the President
Collection of Revenue.
1. The President had a power to establish districts and surveys for the collection of the internal taxes: A supervisor to superintend the collection of each district, an inspector to superintend that of each survey in the district. Collectors of taxes were appointed under the superintendence of the supervisors and inspectors. Under these regulations, each State made a district, with a supervisor to each: And the States of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, were divided into from three to six surveys, with an inspector over each survey. In the States thus divided the collectors accounted with and paid to the inspectors; the inspectors accounted with and paid to the supervisors; and these to the Treasury: Hence great delays, and want of power to bring real delinquents to account. The other States were not divided into surveys, had no inspectors; and collectors accounted with and paid to the supervisors. The accounts were there better rendered, and the President, convinced of the uselessness and indeed mischief arising from the said inspectors, abolished them last summer. By the report of the commissioner of the revenue, it appears that the emoluments of the sixteen inspectors thus suppressed, amounted for the year 1800, to 19,823 dollars 36 cents, which sum is a clear saving in the collection, and has reduced the whole expence of collection about two per cent. Note. This is independent of the commission allowed to those inspectors on the district tax; said commission not being included in the above; and amounted, in the States abovenamed, to 3,255 dollars.
2. The President had a power under certain limits, to increase or diminish the size, and number of officers and crews of the revenue-cutters. They had been increased in some instances, (in New-York, Virginia, South-Carolina, and Boston) a high as six officers and twenty men; the whole establishment cost annually near 50,000 dollars, and the matters being thereby more on a footing of navy captains than of revenue officers, did consider their proper duty, that of watching and preventing smuggling, as almost degrading. The President has reduced them to their original establishment of two officers and six men: They do their duty better, and near 30,000 dollars are annually saved; the precise sum is not ascertained, as the accounts are not yet rendered.
Department of State.
1. The following Foreign missions have been suppressed, Minister plenipotentiary to Portugal, annual salary, 9,000 dollars. Minister resident at Holland, 4,500 Their secretaries, 2,700 Contingencies other than personal, (annually) 1,100 Average outsets, 1 for 4 years, 4,050 Total 21,350
2. The following agencies suppressed, viz. One commissioner under 6th Art. British treaty (annual salary) 4,440 One of the two agents in Great-Britain for causes & seamen, do. 3,000 7,440
Dolls. 28,790 Sundry agencies—Deputy-Quartermasters, &c. estimated at 10,000
Navy Department.
Contractors in the several sea-ports at 3,000 dolls. a year, estimated at 15,000 Note. The superintendents and store keepers for navy yards, and materials, have been retained where necessary. The above agencies were unknown to law.
Marine Corps.
When the act for the navy peace establishment passed last year, the House of Representatives proposed to reduce the marines in proportion to the reduction of the navy, but the Senate refused to concur. The original law had, however, in relation to the privates, declared, that they should be raised for a certain number of years, unless sooner discharged by the President; but had left him no power in relation to the officers. The President, last summer, reduced the privates to the number wanted for the service of the vessels kept in commission, and for guarding the navy yards and public stores. The number of men discharged, including noncommissioned officers, is 612; the sum appropriated annually for the corps, under the old arrangement, was dolls. 166,903 78 cents; the sum wanted for the present year, under the new modification, is dolls. 101,381 23; and the saving consequently amounts to dolls. 65,522 55.
Recapitulation of Annual Savings by the President, before the meeting of Congress.
  Inspectors of internal taxes, 19,823 36   Revenue Cutters, 30,000   Diplomatic and foreign agencies, 21,350   War Department agencies, 10,000   Navy Department do. 15,000   Marine Corps, 65,522 55 
Annual Savings. Dolls. 161,695 91
The annual savings by Congress already effected, viz.
  1. On Military establishment, by reduction of the army, 450,000   2. On Naval establishment (by act of the President, conformably to the late law) 200,000   3. On Judiciary (by late law) 45,000 
Annual savings by President and Congress, effected. Dolls. 856,695 91
Contemplated savings by Congress, viz.
  Collectors of customs, including naval officers, estimated at 25,000   Mint establishment, 21,000   Accomptants and Clerks in departments, 14,000   Commissioners of revenue, and stamp-office, 13,000   Officers of marine corps reduced in proportion to men, 17,000   90,000 
Total annual savings, Dolls. 9,66,695 91 Which enables Congress to repeal all the Internal Taxes.
General result of the Treasury operations for the last nine months of the year 1801.
1. The following parts of the principal of the public debt have been discharged from the 1st day of April to the 31st day of Dec. 1801, viz.
8. On the Dutch debt. The payments out of the Treasury, on account of principal and interest, have been, 1,306,726 59
Deduct the part applied to the payment of interest, viz. the interest and charges on the Dutch debt, amounting for the whole year 1801, to dolls. 491,961, and for nine months thereof to 368,970 75
The amount paid on account of principal is therefore, dolls. 937,755 84
2. Temporary loans reimbursed to the bank of the United States, 700,000
3. Reimbursement of the principal of the registered debt and loan office certificates, 17,878 7
4. Several species of stock received in payment for lands, 23,816 58
5. Reimbursement of the principal of the six per cent. and deferred stocks, viz.
The whole amount reimbursed in 1801, was, 1,051,500 73
Deduct the amount paid before the 1st day April, 1801, 42,625 36
Total amount of public debt discharged during those nine months, 2,688,325 86
II. The specie in the Treasury on the 31st December 1801 amounted to dolls. 3,089,761 78
And on 1st April, 1801, only to dolls. 1,794,044 86
The difference gained during 9 months, dolls. 1,295,726 92
Total amount in favor of the United States, or gained those nine months, dolls. 3,984,042 79
Misrepresentations answered.
I. Berceau. —That vessel was repaired, like all other vessels of the United States, out of the navy fund, not in a more expensive manner than any other vessel. But it is true that the President (on account of the French government having restored seventeen vessels before the treaty was finally ratified, and in order to keep that government in a favorable disposition towards our merchants, who had claims against it) did assume the responsibility of restoring her, before the Treaty was ultimately ratified. All the clamour about expence has not the least foundation. She was regularly (having been condemned and purchased by the United States) repaired under existing appropriations.—The only irregularity, is the act of restoration before ratification: The motives for this have been stated; let the President be tried by these, and as the treaty was afterwards ratified, the effect is precisely the same.
II. Maryland. —was fitted and stores laid in for carrying Mr. Bayard; she being ready, and a great proportion of the expence of her voyage having been incurred before Mr. Jefferson was President, the was used to carry Mr. Dawson.
III. Boston. —was sent to reinforce the Mediterranean squadron, and deposited Mr. Livingston on the way. The whole expence incurred on Mr. Livingston's account consisted in the few days difference between a direct voyage to Gibraltar, and a circuitous one to the same place, by previously touching in France; or rather, that the arrived a few days later in Gibraltar.
IV. It has been said that "a thousand dollars were given as fees to lawyers by the Secretary of the Treasury during the Attorney General's absence:" This I am able to assert, is a downright fallhood; not a cent was ever given in fees: One of the clerks in the office is a lawyer, whose salary (900 dollars) is such as is usual for a clerk; and no legal opinion, I am convinced, is ever asked from him. The whole amount spent by the secretary, for clerks in his own office, is less than the old appropriation, which has lately been increased fifteen per cent. He in fact, spends twenty per cent. less than the appropriation and keeps the surplus for extra clerk hire in any of the offices, to bring up accounts left in arrear, or erroneous, under the late administration. It appears, from official documents, that the accounts of collectors were from six to twelve months in arrear; at present every account has been brought up, and every collector tied up to the rule of rendering his quarterly account before the end of the next quarter. That rule, rigidly adhered to, is the best; it is the only security against delinquencies.
In addition to this refutation of misrepresentations, it may be proper to observe, that in the twelve years previous to the Presidency of Mr. Jefferson, the national debt was considerably increased. This however, is denied by the Federalists, who say it was diminished during that period three millions and an half. Supposing this, for argument sake, to be the case, yet the above statement will demonstrate that we have gained near four millions in the first nine months of Mr. Jefferson's administration, notwithstanding.

ing the payments on the deferred debt, which exceed one million one hundred thousand dollars a year, only commenced on the 1st of January, 1801. This additional burden has not been attended to in the comparative view of the economy of the two administrations. And to show that public credit has been appreciated under Mr. Jefferson's administration, in consequence of his wise and salutary arrangements, it will be sufficient to mention this decisive fact: Under Mr. Adams the public debt was never at par; 6 per cent. stock in '98 was as low as 13. 8d. in the pound; it has been raised to par under Mr. Jefferson.
The following gross misrepresentations are copied from Russell's Boston Centinel :
"A letter from Washington, dated January 23d, among other evidences of the economical arrangements of the present administration, exhibits the following, viz. 20,800 dols. expended on the mission of Mr. Dawson, at 6 dols. per day, and rations, and a sloop of war to carry him; when the message, as has been practised, might as well have been sent by the captain of a private ship to Mr. Murry: 6,000 dollars expenses of the Boston frigate, to carry Mr. Livingston to France: 1000 dollars extra pay to an attorney for advice to Mr. Gallatin, in the absence of the attorney general," &c. &c.
NOTES.
* Mr. Dawson had no allowance of rations. He partook of the ship's stores already laid in; nor was there an additional cost of disbursement of this kind for his special accommodation. Indeed none such could have been useful or necessary, as the provisions made by Mr. Adams was truly bountiful. Thus it happens that the 20,800 dols. expended on this mission was a federal measure altogether, and intended, not for the accommodation of Mr. Dawson but for that of Mr. Bayard, whom Mr. Adams had wisely destined to be the bearer of the treaty.
† 60,000 dollars are said to have been expended on the Boston, to accommodate Mr. Livingston with a passage to France. In this there is not a syllable of truth. The Boston was fitted out for a cruise, and destined for the Mediterranean station, and on her way thither took Mr. Livingston to L'Orient. Even her cabin was unaltered, as she had been previously employed in bringing Geo. Davie and Mr. Swift from France, by order of Mr. Adams. Mr. Livingston's further accommodation did not cost the United States a shilling, as he laid in his own ship stores, &c. &c.
For the REPUBLICAN.
My honest Countrymen, PERMIT me for a moment to leave my plough, and for once become a prophet; or at least attempt the gift of prophecy. You have already been told in several of the federal newspapers which are devoted to falsehood, that the salaries of the principal officers of our government have lately been raised to a vast amount—that the Constitution has been broken down and destroyed by repealing the Judiciary Act of the last session of Congress, and that in consequence of it, the blood of our citizens would soon be running down our streets—and finally that a French fleet had arrived in the Chesapeake, and made a DEMAND on our government for SIX MILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!
But, my honest friends, these alarming reports have all proved to be idle tales, without the least foundation or colour of truth. They were fabricated for electioneering purposes, in order to deceive and delude the unwary class of our citizens.
I mention to you these gross impositions, only with a view to put you on your guard against their future wiles. Their last federal papers which shall circulate previous to the day of giving in your votes, will (if I have not greatly lost the gift of prophecy) teem forth with the vilest falsehoods and the most abominable slander. They may not be "Ocean massacres," nor "Tub Plots;"—but perhaps some dreadful conspiracy in our government! Or the still more alarming intelligence of the landing of a large army of French desperadoes in some of the Southern States!! or something else as terrible and frightful.
But I again caution you to beware of those who may at any time, with a view of influencing you in your suffrages, thus insult your understandings by circulating either verbally or in print, such base and palpable insinuations.—After the election is over, you will not see them so busy in mischief, running from corner to corner, and from pillar to post with their bull-bogger stories.
A RHODE-ISLAND FARMER.
To the Independent Electors of the State of RHODE-ISLAND.
ARE you prepared to admit in preference to your present federal Constitution, a nobility for life? Are you prepared to admit a President who shall hold his office during good behavior, and can only be impeached before Judges chosen by himself? Are you fond of measures which enhance public expenditure and promote corrupt influence? Are you attached to the projects of internal taxation, multiplication of public officers, and excise calculators? Are you willing to abandon your revolutionary Patriots, to disclaim your dearly purchased rights, to insult the relics of your fathers, who fought and bled for your salvation? If these are your sentiments then turn away, and vote for the federal Prox—Choose men, who are the firm friends of Hamilton and his associates; who are the secret despisers of republican governments; who smile with contempt upon the boasted freedom of "THE PEOPLE";—turn, and let federalism have its triumph in the destruction of the Constitution.
But if you admire the venerable government formed by the wisdom of long tried Patriots, by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and other illustrious compatriots—if you hold sacred
the right of election, of the press, of national honor, and pure administration—if you glory in your emancipation from British domination, and respect the achievements of the revolution—if you admire the purity of the present constituted authorities of your country—the virtuous JEFFERSON, the friend of liberty and rational government—if you believe that national glory is best supported by national union and republican honesty—if you detest the insatiable ambition, which would deluge our nation in blood to accomplish its accursed designs—if you are convinced, that you are yet something more than "the sweepings of walls holds," or the "bees of cities;" and have rights, as respectable, as opulence and power—if in one word, you are sworn to protect your liberties, and determined to adhere to principles of government founded in economy, public good, and popular honesty—then let me intreat you to wake on Wednesday next, and give your patriotic votes for republican candidates.
The Voice of WASHINGTON.
NEWPORT, Saturday, April 17, 1802.
Our readers are this day presented with a variety of original pieces, which we presume will be read with attention.—The interesting statement from Mr. Bailey, a Representative in Congress from the state of New-York, which is published from the "Poughkeepsie Journal," a Federal paper, while it fully elucidates the President's economy, cannot fail of being gratifying to the Republicans of this state. It is taken from Official Documents, and contains undeniable facts, highly important to the community at large.
To your Posts, Republicans!
THE Republicans of this town are hereby notified, that their adjourned Meeting will be held at the State-House, next TUESDAY Evening, at 7 o'clock—at which time, business of the greatest importance will be transacted.—Punctual and general attendance is requested. A WATCHMAN.
Extra of a letter from Washington, dated March 31, 1802.
"I wish to send you a Bill, now before the Senate, to provide for the more convenient organization of the Courts of the United States, but cannot procure a copy—the bill is long, and I shall not attempt more than merely to notice its principal features.—This, with the former, passed this session, will complete a judiciary system, more perfect than either of those before in operation.—The Supreme Court, the Circuit Court, and the District Court, are all to be preserved, notwithstanding the discharge of the SIXTEEN JUDGES. And the business of the Courts will be easily done, through the proper distribution of the various duties of the Judges. The Supreme Court is to consist of the same number of Justices as at present.—One of these Justices is to reside (soon as practicable) in each circuit, of which there are to be six. A term of the Supreme Court is to be held in Washington, in August, of a preparatory nature, one Judge only to sit.—Another term in February—four Justices to make a quorum .—In the Circuit Court sit the Judge of the Supreme Court (who resides in that Circuit) and the District Judge, who together, or either of them (in case of death, &c.) compose the Court for each District comprehended within the Circuit. The District Court is as before.—Thus the Justices of the Supreme Court travel to Washington once a year only.—They ride through their Circuit easily instead of riding through all the States.—They are better acquainted with the laws and customs of the States within their Circuit.—At the same time the uniformity is preferred, agreeably to the old idea."
"To any candid mind, this system must appear more perfect than the former.—Who will be found hardy enough to deny, again , the expediency of the repeal of the act of last session? Here are the Supreme, the Circuit, and the District Courts, all in existence, and much improved—without fifteen additional Judges.—There are in this bill, some new provisions for jurors—some under the bankrupt act—and several others, useful and necessary."
"It is expected that a new State, the North Western Territory, will be erected before Congress rises."
"Many subjects occupy the attention of Congress and when this session closes (probably in April) it may be said with truth that it has been most important."
Another Federal Electioneering Lie.
WHEN any important election is about to take place, we are told from Federal authority, some frightful bug-bear story.
Who does not recollect the account of the ship Ocean —The frightful tale of the Tubs—and the story of the President's ordering the arms and military stores from Springfield to the Southward, and a thousand more falsehoods propagated to answer electioneering purposes? A new story is now told from the same authority, to answer the same purposes.—The story is that a French fleet of 25 sail of the line have arrived in Chesapeake bay, and have demanded, or are going to demand of our government six millions of dollars!—The truth is, no French fleet have arrived in any part of the United States. The story is a downright falsehood—nor is there any more fear of one for any hostile purpose, than there is that a fleet will come from the Moon. Very probably the French general in the West Indies may send vessels here to purchase provisions, and grain for his army.
We sincerely hope he will—it will raise
their price, and be a very happy thing for our farmers who have them for sale—the idea that they are coming to menace our government, could never have originated in any other thing but what is called a federal head.
COMMUNICATION.
GEORGE BROWN is brought forward as Lieut. Governor, who was an old tory during our revolutionary war, in opposition to SAMUEL J. POTTER, who marched out at the head of a company of Infantry in the year 1775, to defend the cause of liberty and the rights of man.
A SOLDIER of '75.
Extra of a letter to the Editor of the Aurora, dated, London, February 10.
"I derive much consolation and great pleasure here, from the sentiments which prevail concerning our country and government. Mr. Jefferson's conduct, at which so many inexperienced and viciously disposed men at home have cavilled, has excited here no sentiment but that of admiration, yes, unlimited admiration; I have not seen one since my arrival here (and I have seen many) of the old anti-revolutionary Tories, who did not say, that Mr. Jefferson's election had at this time saved America from a war with France. I know not what your opinion is on this particular, but I have more than conjecture to uphold that sentiment—I have had evidence that pains were taken here to produce that effect."
More Federal Consistency!
Our readers will observe, that the article in the Washington Federalist was intended to exonerate Mr. Pickering from mal-practices , and to impose a belief on the public that the charges made against him in this paper had no foundation, but were forgeries and tricks calculated for electioneering purposes. Our readers will further perceive another characteristic trait of the party; they not only attempt to cover Mr. Pickering's conduct from censure by mutilating the letter of Mr. Pickering's avoiding to commit a robbery, because he had it in his power to commit it. They appear to entertain one uniform opinion out of power and in—that the public money belonged exclusively to them , that every disposition of it by them however contrary to law was not only proper, but that even the disposition of it by law, if the law was not dictated by them, is criminal ; nay that not to plunder in a given instance, where an oath of office commands and obliges a faithful discharge of the duties, that in itself it was a surprising act of virtue —"to neglect so easy a mode of acquiring 14,000 dollars"!!!
Upon the face of the official document the following facts appear—
 1. That the sum of 78,583 dollars 11 cents was expended by Mr. Pickering beyond the appropriations made by law.  2. That the accounts of Mr. Pickering have not been accepted by the Comptroller and consequently are not legal and just.  3. That even the statements given in favor of Mr. Pickering, depend on the credit due to the veracity and probity of Mr. Kimball, the private secretary of Mr. Pickering.  4. That there remain still unaccounted for, under the several heads, of Foreign Intercourse, Mediterranean Powers, and Contingent expenses of Government , 78,583 dollars and 11 cents.  5. That to cover misapplications of the public money by Timothy Pickering, further appropriations must be made of 14,782 dollars 2 cents. 
We shall just observe, that our readers in referring to the accounts of Timothy Pickering formerly published in this paper will find the sums exactly agree with this report—for example, the Mediterranean Powers —347,394 dollars 59 cents. [Aurora.]
* See last Newport Mercury.
From a New-York paper, April 14. Capt. Hovey, of the schr. Nancy, who arrived here last evening, in 22 days from Guadalupe, informs us that the French fleet had not arrived when he failed. The white inhabitants are in continual dread of being massacred by the negroes; the houses are shut up every evening at 7 o'clock, and the wretched occupants pass the night in watching under the most dreadful apprehensions. Capt. H. says, that nearly all the American vessels in port, had been plundered by the negroes; from the brig Sally, of Philadelphia they took 1500 dollars in specie. An armed galley full of negroes is anchored near the buoy, at the entrance of the harbor, watching the approach of the French fleet, which they are determined to oppose to the utmost, and die rather than submit.
The Bill for the repeal of the internal taxes passed the Senate, 15 to 11.
MARRIED.—At South-Kingstown, by James Congdon, Esq. Mr. THOMAS DOUGLASS, to Mrs. JEMIMA THOMAS, widow of the late Mr. William Thomas, of that town.
CUSTOM-HOUSE.
   District of Newport, April 16.   ENTERED. From     Ship Commerce, Lawton, Havana   Brig Neptune, Baker, Gaudaloupe   Sloop Washington, Gardner, Providence   Two Siders, Earl, New-York   CLEARED. For   Schooner Nancy, Spencer, New-York   Roby, Briggs, Norfolk   Fox, Baxter, Wilmington   Sloop Lady Washington, Winflow, Providence   Washington, Gardner, Ditto   Lucy, Almy, St. Andrews   Brandywine, Cozzens, Martinique   Three Siders, Friske, Boston   New-York Packet, Barker, Philadelphia   Gen. Greene, Gardner, Providence   Polly, Butt, Edenton  
Editorial Notice.
From the "Providence Gazette" of Saturday last.
The Public are requested to suspend their judgment relative to the charge against the Chief Magistrate of this State, contained in the last Chronicle, until a fair statement of the case shall be made, which will be done as soon as the necessary documents can be procured.
The public are also requested to suspend their opinion of the multitude of false, malicious, base, and inflammatory assertions, which have lately been made in a paper called the Newport Mercury, a paper highly respectable for its printers, its editors, its owners, and the profusion of lies which it usually contains.—Being on the eve of an Election, this much beloved group have sprouted up afresh, to verify their late menace of their teeth and their nails .—They are hereby notified, that however we may disdain, at the moment of an Election, to return "railing for railing," yet their infernal regalia shall not hereafter have them from their desert. However bravely some of their cunning leaders may have boasted, saying "we have silenced 'em," let them be patient but a little while, and they will see who are silent.
Our advertising friends will, we presume, excuse us in omitting some of their Advertisements at this interesting crisis.
Wm. Moore, jun. & Co.
HAVE FOR SALE, On Credit, for approved Notes payable at Bank, if applied for soon, 14 Hhds. Tobacco, 144 bbls. Pitch, 125 bbls. Tar, in good order Also, a small quantity of Hoghead Heading. Newport, April 16, 1802.
TO BE SOLD, By JOHN THURSTON,
On Banister's Wharf, the following Garden Seeds, viz.
   English Peas: Hardhead Cabbage,   DWARF Marrow- Beer,   fats, Carrot,   Dwarf Sugar, Parsnip,   Dwarf Green. Round Turnip,   English Seeds: French Turnip,   Sweet Marjoram, Parsley,   Sallad Sallety, Pepper Grass,   Early low Dutch, Squash,   Cucumber, Watermelon,   Short top Radish, Cauliflower,   Cauliflower. Cantelope,   American Seeds: Lettuce,   Green Savoy, Onion; and a variety of other Seeds.  
—ALSO—
Salt-Peter'd Beef-Hams, Salt-Pork, Sweet Corn, White Beans, Rye and Indian Meal, Powder, and Shot of all sizes, Fishing Lines, Hooks, and Leads of all sorts, Nova Scotia Grind-Stones, and a general assortment of Groceries, by Retail. Newport, April 17, 1802. 81
House for Sale.
To be sold at Public Vendue, on the 11th day of May next, at eleven o'clock A. M. (if the weather be fair, if not the first fair day) for Notes payable at the Bank of Rhode-Island sixty days after date, with approved endorsers—a new dwelling House, in Broad-Street, owned by Matthew R. Johnson, forty feet in front, completely finished, with a large Garden, and a well of water adjoining. Indisputable title, and immediate possession will be given to the Purchaser.
GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, April 16, 1802.
DANCING SCHOOL.
MR. BELLEVUE has the honor to notify the inhabitants of Newport, that he shall begin his second quarter on Monday the 19th of this inst. at the Hall usually occupied as a Theatre.—He purposes to open school on Mondays and Tuesdays in every week; and he will also give private Lessons at the houses of those who shall please to apply to him for that purpose. Mr. Bellevue desires, that if his usual mode of teaching should prove unsatisfactory to any of his scholars or to their parents, they will freely communicate their sentiments to him, and he will conform to their wishes. Newport, April 17, 1802. 81
To be Let,
A HOUSE in Thames-Street (next door to Major John Handy's) having a Garden and Well of water. Apply to JOHN R. SHEARMAN. Newport, April 17, 1802. 81
NOTICE.
THE subscriber having been appointed by the Honorable Town-Council of Newport, Guardian to Joseph Carpenter, Cabinet Maker, of said Newport, hereby warns all persons against trusting or employing him without my consent, as I shall pay no debts of his contracting after this date. JOHN WILLIAMS. Newport, April 12, 1802. 81
FOUND,
IN the pasture of the subscriber, a Horse, with Saddle, Bridle, and Halter. The owner, on proving property, and paying Charges, may have them again, by applying to JOHN COOK, jun. Tiverton, April 7, 1802. 81

For the REPUBLICAN.
"Though perils should abound As thick as thought can make them, and appear In forms more horrid;—yet our duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood, Would the approach of this wild river break, And stand unshaken!" SHAKESPEARE.
To the FREEMEN of the State of Rhode-Island.
YOU have succeeded in placing at the head of our popular Government, a man whose sentiments are congenial with our Republican Constitution, who, having been raised to that high seat of power to which he supports the most legitimate claim, is willing to meet the storm of adverse and conflicting opinions, with no other support than the rectitude of his measures, and scorn to call to his aid the system of terror, or silence, by fine and imprisonment; whose conduct so well accords with those beautiful sentiments which all know how to admire, few how to express, "that political opponents may remain monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."—A man whose talents as a lawyer and a fine writer is the admiration of the polite world.
If you will, Fellow-Citizens, for a continuation of the empire of honesty and reason, which will finally banish forever from the world that tremendous scourge to society, War, in which, under the plausible guise of national honor and safety; but in truth to gratify private passion and avarice; your sons must be butchered in the field, or suffer a more painful and lingering death in a hospital, on some distant shore. Do you mean to support an administration who in choosing ministers of reconciliation with foreign nations, will make choice of characters well esteemed by the powers to whom they are sent, and whose work of peace will therefore be half accomplished as soon as begun? who wish that the harvest of industry should be reaped by the hand that toils, and that the high seat of honor and power should be filled by temperance, honesty and talents alone?—Then you will at the approaching Election, choose for your Representatives the known and avowed friends of THOMAS JEFFERSON, and the majority of our national government.
The English party, the friends of war, the enemies of Republics, are very active in discharging their filth, in lies and misrepresentation; one of the grossest of which is concerning the judiciary system. The truth is, on the last days of Adams' administration, they pulled down, and rebuilt the courts that existed under Washington, & added sixteen more judges, in order, by this new corps of choice feds, to entail upon the country an authority about to expire in Congress. These new recruits were to receive large sums of public money yearly, for little or no other service, than a quarterly sermon to grand juries about Jacobins, Atheists, Talleyrand, Buonaparte, and foreign influence. The present administration, much to their credit, have cleared away this superfluous number of judges, and restored the plan of courts as they were under President Washington, which is a saving of about Fifty Thousand dollars annually. This disbursing of the 16 new judges, has been bewailed in the federal papers, as the assassination and massacre of the Constitution!
There is, also, much lamentation about the repeal of the internal taxes. We are told the feds profess great tenderness for the Poor, and for bohea tea. It should be observed that this tenderness did not appear until the administration was changed. Mr. Jefferson is convinced that the taxes at present are more than sufficient for the public expenses, and very justly began the reduction with those taxes where so much was lost on the way between the man who pays and the public treasury. In collecting the internal taxes, the collector takes a pitareen or nineteen cents from every dollar; and on that upon bohea tea, four cents only is taken for collecting a dollar. The internal taxes were made for no other purpose than to strengthen the government as administered by John Adams; and the government did not want the money any more than a horse needed two tails. This has been said openly and often by their own federal tax gatherers. In the fullness of their power and gait of heart, at a convivial meeting, one of their toasts was, "May Federalism be mounted astride upon Antifederalism—whip and spur." But we have placed our riders on the ground; and, God willing, we will keep them there. The internal tax was made to strengthen government, says the federal collector; that is, to slip money from the pockets of republicans into the pockets of feds. The abolition of the internal taxes will be injurious to those who have ridden and wish to ride their fellow men, and to none other.
The trial of Fenner and Dorrance, is another disappointment and cause of lamentation. They have published a book about it, and circulate them gratis, with many thanks to him who will take and read one. This book, or pamphlet, has been declared by David Howell, Esq. in open court, to be the most abominable collection of lies ever published. The truth is, Gov. Fenner has presided in this state about twelve years with a reputation for dispatching business, equal to, if not better than any man before him. But when aristocracy and royalty dropped the mask, and showed, that under the few names of good order and energetic government, they meant to assimilate and make us like Ireland, a sister kingdom, dependant on Great Britain, he withdrew from their politics, and declared for Jefferson. From that moment he became very immoral and wicked in the sight of feds. Federalism had been defeated in the continent, by the choice of President and Vice-President; Defeated in the state, by the choice of a republican assembly. They were determined to make a third stand and trial, at Providence bridge, Dorrance vs. Fenner. There too, like their good brother the Duke of York, they have been defeated.
The feds, who know nothing of religion, but as a cloak to crimes, complain of republicans as being infidels. All the world are infidels. Those devout feds at Constantinople are infidels. At Rome they are heretics. Whether Mr. Jefferson and his friends, believe with the Trinitarians, in three Gods, or with the Church of Rome in transubstantiation; and that when we eat bread and drink wine, we swallow a component part of divinity, is no public concern. The law requires no religious test. And whatever Mr. Jefferson may believe of futurity, and a being infinitely powerful, wise, and just, his writings and his actions proclaim to the world that he means to live as though there were such.
The feds affect to call themselves federal republicans, but they proclaim themselves disciples of the old school. I leave to the curious to determine how a disciple of the old school can be a christian or republican. Fellow-Citizens, you will probably be visited with the same old string of lies so often told and refuted before; and perhaps some new alarms about the distresses of our country, arising from a glut of meat and flour. But a very short remark is sufficient to all their objections. Under Mr. Adams, we had the liberty to praise, but not to blame his government. But under Jefferson we have the liberty to praise and blame too. And when the enemies of the present administration shall show it blameworthy, we will think of a change, and not till then. INQUISITOR.
* The duke of Marlborough took 60 thousand pounds sterling a year, as perquisites, and was charged in parliament with leading his army to battle merely to cause a great number of officers to be killed, that he might receive the fees for signing new commissions.
Miss E. FIRTH, & Co.
RETURN their sincere thanks to the Ladies of Newport, and its vicinity, for their past encouragement, and hope to merit a continuance of their favors—and take this opportunity of informing them, they have just received a large assortment of fashionable Dunstable, Leghorn, Silk, Dress, and Mourning BONNETS, by the two Friends, from London, which they are selling on the most reasonable terms, at Mr. JAMES MUMFORD'S, sign of the Bee Hive. Newport, April 10.
SARAH HORSEFIELD
INFORMS the public, and her friends in particular, that she has on hand a good assortment of TIN WARE, which she will sell very cheap for Cash. She has also several articles of Household Furniture to dispose of, such as Beds, Chairs, Tables, &c. and a good Franklin Stove. She again requests all those who have any demands against the Estate of her late husband, Israel Horsefield, to bring them in for settlement; and those indebted to said Estate, are earnestly desired to make immediate payment to SARAH HORSEFIELD Executrix, or TIMOTHY HORSEFIELD, Executor. Newport, April 9, 1802.
Kitchen and Flower Garden SEEDS,
Just imported from London, by the ship Neptune, via New-York, warranted to be of the last Year's Growth, for sale by
MARY DUNBAR,
Opposite Mr. GEORGE GIBBS'—
  PEASE:  White Mustard,    EARLY TURNER,  Early Dutch Turnip,    Early Charlton,  White Round Do.    Blue Prussian,  Scarlet Beet,    Green Marrowfat,  Orange Carrot,    Dwarf Do.  Scarlet Onion,    Dwarf Sugar,  Large Parsnip,    BEANS:  Early frame Cucumber,    Large Windsor,  Long Prickly Do.    Early White Bush,  Roman Cantaloupe,    Red Speckled,  Nasturtium,    Refugee.  Asparagus,    CABBAGE:  Bush and Long-neck Squash.    Early Dwarf May,  Annual Flowers.    Early Yorkshire,  Egg Plant,    Early Sugar Loaf,  Sensitive Plant,    Early Cauliflower,  Double Balsam,    Large Buttercup,  Superb Aster,    Large Dutch Red,  Mignonette,    Green Savoy,  Chinese Pink,    Yellow Do.  Flos Adonis,    Red Scotch Kale.  Double rose Larkspur,    LETTUCE:  Dwarf Larkspur,    Early Frame,  Venus' looking Glass,    Large Cabbage,  Strip'd French Marigold,    Tennis Ball,  Convolvulus Minor,    Silesia.  White Chrysanthemum    RADISH:  Painted Lady Sweet Pease,    Scarlet,  Rose Lupins,    Early Short Top,  Heranium,    Purple Salmon,  Biennial & Perennial Flowers:    Red Turnip-rooted,  Carnation,    Sweet Marjoram,  Pheasant eye'd Pink,    Summer Savory,  Sweet Rocket,    Double Parsley,  Everlasting Pease.    Thyme and Sage,  ROOTS:    Lavender,  Ranunculus,    Green Curled Endive,  Anemones.    Solid Celerie,     Italian do.     Curled Cress,     Broad-leav'd Spanage,     Prickly-leav'd Do.   
Newport, April 3, 1802. 79tf
FOR SALE, AT W. R. Wilder's Book Store,
ABOUT 500 Rolls PAPER HANGINGS, of last year's stock, which will be sold at cost. Also, this day received, and for sale as above, a very elegant assortment of PAPER HANGINGS of new Figures, which will be sold at the manufactory price. Newport, April 3, 1802. 79tf
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, February Session, A. D. 1802.
AN ACT for limiting the time for bringing into the General-Treasury certain evidences of the State debt, and for barring all future claims.
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, and by the authority thereof it is hereby enacted, That the holders of the different kinds of State Notes, Certificates, and other evidence of debt issued by this State, as named and described in the acts of January 1795, and June 1797, be and they are hereby permitted to bring in the same to the General-Treasurer on or before the first day of January, A. D. 1803. That the General-Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and directed to receive the said Notes, Certificates, &c. and give the holders therefor his Certificates in behalf of this State, calculating and adjusting them on the same principles as is directed and described in the aforesaid Acts of January 1795 and June 1797.
And be it further enacted, That all Notes, Certificates, and other evidence of debt as before-named and described in the Acts aforesaid, that are not brought into the General-Treasury on or before the said first day of January 1803, be and they are hereby declared null and void, and the holders of them are forever debarred from receiving any compensation therefor.
And be it further enacted, That George Champlin and Constant Taber, Esquires, with the General-Treasurer, be and they are hereby appointed a committee to examine and decide on all applications that are made at the Treasury for State Notes, by the heirs or legal Representatives of the officers and soldiers of the late revolutionary army, where the Notes have been taken out of the Treasury by fraudulent measures.
And be it further enacted, That this Act be published, by the General-Treasurer, in all the News-papers in this State, for Six weeks successively. A true copy.
Witness, SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y.
Sail Making.
THE subscribers having entered into partnership, under the firm of Spooner and Dunham, hereby inform the Public, that they carry on the Sail-Making business, in its various branches, at their Sail Loft, on the wharf of the late Gen. John Malbone, at the South part of the town. Those who may favor them with their custom, may depend on punctuality and dispatch. All favors will be gratefully acknowledged, by WING SPOONER, 2d. CHARLES C. DUNHAM. Newport, April 3, 1802. 79tf
TO BE SOLD,
A LOT of Land, lying in Middletown, on the main road leading to Bristol and Howland ferry; about two miles from the State-House in this town; containing four acres. Also, another Lot, about half a mile distant, containing twelve acres of good land, all under improvement. Both of said Lots are inclosed with excellent stone wall. For terms, apply to JOSEPH PECKHAM. Newport, March 27, 1802. 78tf
Cheap! Cheap! Cheap!
THOMAS GREEN, by reason of age and infirmity, proposing to retire from business in a short time—and having on hand, a handsome assortment of
English and India Goods,
which he wishes to sell soon, either by wholesale or retail:—And instead of an Auction (as usual in such cases) is disposed to deal them out with his own hand.—Accordingly, said Goods are now selling at
LOW RATES, or LOWER,
than might reasonably be expected at a Vendue, free from those disorders and impositions which frequently take place at a public Sale. Customers will receive decent and orderly attention with utmost dispatch.
Town and Country Traders, may probably find their accounts, by calling at his Store. Newport, Feb. 5.
To be Sold, or Let,
BY SAMUEL F. GARDNER, two Lots of Land, situated a little to the Eastward of Mr. Francis Brinley's Rope-Walk. —ALSO—
For Sale, in the Grocery line, MOLASSES by the Hoghead;—SUGAR by the Box;—CROCKERY-WARE by the Crate;—Negro head TOBACCO by the Keg;—4000 wt. Excellent CHEESE. Newport, April 3, 1802. 79tf
William Douglass,
At the Head of Broad-Street,
HAS just received Two Thousand weight of long clean FLAX, which will be sold at a very small advance for Cash. Also, West-India and other GOODS, as usual.
ONE Thousand weight clean Clover Seed. 50 bushels Barden's do. And 30 ditto Red-Top. do. Newport, April 3, 1802. 15tf
To be Sold,
A LOT of Land, containing upwards of 3 acres, fronting Tanner & Warner Street, with a House, well finished; paved Cellar; and never failing well of water. Also, a Stable and Chaise-House.—Likewise for sale, a Lot, fronting Broad-street and Tanner Street, with a large commodious Dwelling-House; Shop, Stable, and Chaise-House. For terms, apply to OLIVER READ. Newport, March 20, 1802. 77tf
Entertainment,
BY RICHARD BARKER, at the House formerly occupied by Capt. Robert S. Paver, sign of the Anchor, a little south east of the State House, where Ladies and Gentlemen may depend on being accommodated to their satisfaction. Punctual attendance will be given, and all favors gratefully acknowledged by the public's obedient servant,
RICHARD BARKER.
Newport, April 2, 1802. 79tf
For Sale,
SEVERAL Lots of Land, lying between the Rev. Mr. Hopkins's Meeting-House, and the Stone Mill, on Mill Street.—Enquire of JOHN BANISTER. Newport, March 29, 1802. 79
CASH, PAID FOR LINEN & WOOLEN RAGS, BY Christopher C. Olney, Delivered at his Mills, or at his Paper-Ware House.
WHERE he has for sale, at wholesale and retail, all kinds of Paper, viz. Foolscap Writing-Paper, No. 1 and 2.—Vellum Letter do.—Pot do.—Wrapping do.—Bonnet do.—Clothier's do. 1st quality.—Sheathing, with and without Sand.—Book-Binder's Boards.—Candle Paper, and Sugar Loaf Blue.
ALSO—
A complete Assortment of Blank Account and Record Books.
—LIKEWISE—
Account Books made and ruled to any pattern, to suit the purchaser.—A complete Assortment of School Books, and Stationary of all kinds, &c.
Also, Warranted Chocolate, by the Box, or pound, Cocoa Shells, by the Bag.
N. B. Wanted, one or two Boys, from 12 to 14 years of age, as Apprentices to the Paper-making and Clothing business.—To such great encouragement will be given. Providence, March 3, 1802. 74tf
John & Henry Cahoon,
HAVE FOR SALE,
At their STORE on Banister's Wharf,
BROWN SUGAR, by the barrel or box; Molasses, by the hoghead; Flour, by the barrel; Powder, by the cask; Sheathing Paper, by the hundred; Candles, by the box; Iron Caboose; and genuine SPANISH SEGARS.—ALSO,
HONEY, by the barrel or gallon—New-York Soap, by the box—Negro-Head Tobacco—Best 4th proof Jamaica Rum—Ivon Stoves—Salt Peter'd Hams—Butter, and Hog's Lard, &c.—LIKEWISE,
LIQUORS, of the best kind, a general Assortment—and various other Articles in the Grocery Line—a complete Assortment of which they propose to be constantly Supplied.
THE MASTERS of Packets, Passengers, &c. may be Supplied at said Store, on the shortest Notice—with any Article they may want—and their Favors gratefully Acknowledged.
GREEN CHAIRS, per Dozen—Bar-Iron, per Hundred wt.—Mouldings and Corners, per barrel—Onions, per Hundred bunches, or smaller quantities—LOAF SUGARS, and a variety of the best of TEAS. Newport, Feb. 20, 1802. 3tf
Connecticut Free Stone.
THE subscribers inform the public, that they will make Stone Stoves of the Franklin construction, which are said to be far preferable to those made of Iron; and will furnish them of any dimension, on the shortest notice, at their Shop on Job Shearman's wharf. —ALSO—
They intend carrying on the Stone Cutting Business, in its various branches, during the Summer. EARL & CONE. Newport, March 27, 1802. 78
REMOVAL.
Francis Anderson,
TAKES this method to inform his customers, and the public at large, that he has removed to his New Store, at the south side of the market, on Newman's wharf, where he proposes to carry on business under the firm of
Anderson & Heath:
He has the same Assortment as before, and will sell as low as can be purchased in the State. He returns his sincere thanks to his former customers, and begs for a continuance of their favors.
N. B. Masters of vessels may be supplied at the shortest notice, by calling at their Store. Newport, March 25, 1802. 78tf
John A. Shaw, & Co.
INFORM the public that they have taken a Shop next door but one North of the Coffee-House, where they carry on the Watch-Making business in all its branches; and have for sale, warranted and common English and Geneva Watches, gold Necklaces, silver tea and table Spoons, Sagar-Tongs, &c.—Looking-Glasses, Tea-Trays, Waiters, Dressing-Cases, Plated and Wooden Casks, Suspenders, Knives and Forks, Globe Andirons, Shovel and Tongs, bras and japanned Lamps, Candlesticks, dart and common Walking Sticks, Scotch, Rapper & Makabau Snuff, Starch, Writing Paper, Dutch Quills, Britannia Coffee Pots, &c. &c. Together with an assortment of Jewellery and Perfumery.
Cash given for old Gold and Silver. Punctual attendance will be given, and the smallest favors gratefully acknowledged. Newport, Feb. 12. 72tf