Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1802-12-25 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.
GEORGE THOMAS,
Confectioner & Distiller,
INFORMS the Public, that he has taken a Shop next South of Messrs. Gardner & Dean's Auction-Room, and adjoining Mr. Nicolas Gelfrey's, Watch-Maker, where he has constantly for Sale, in addition to a compleat Assortment of Confectionary, the following Articles, viz.
Fresh Malaga grapes; box and cask raisins; figs; almonds in shell; prunes; currants; nutmegs; cloves; cinnamon; allspice; pepper; ginger; teas; coffee; chocolate, No. 1 & 2; do. prepared with and without vanilla; brown, powdered & loaf-sugar; Cordials all kinds; best cherry wine; together with a small assortment of fashionable
Crockery Ware:
In addition to which he expects to receive shortly, a compleat assortment of Wines, Liquors, and other articles. Particular attendance given, and the smallest favors gratefully acknowledged. Newport, Dec. 18. [16tf]
JOHN M. MANSFIELD,
At his SHOE STORE, corner of Church Lane, Thames-Street,
KEEPS constantly for sale, a general assortment of warranted SHOES, among which are—a beautiful variety of the most fashionable Kid Slippers for Ladies, just received.—Also,
A fresh supply of Morocco Shoes; Ditto, with cork soles, made plain & to lace—Florentine Shoes—Gentlemen's fine & common Shoes—a large assortment of men's and boys' thick do.—Children's do. of almost every description. The smallest favor will be gratefully acknowledged. Newport, Dec. 10. 115119
TO THE PUBLIC.
Newport Long-Wharf, No. 12.
Keyes and Brigham,
Have constantly for sale,
PRIME and mss PORK—prime mss, mss and prime BEEF, of the first quality, re-packed in the best order, suitable for domestic or foreign use.—Also, by the kegg or box, LARD, first sort—refined mould tallow CANNLES, first quality; ditto ditto—No 1 and 2 Bar SOAP.—Likewise, corned, and fresh BEEF. December 10, 1802.
John & Henry Cahoon,
HAVE FOR SALE,
At their STORE on Banister's Wharf,
BROWN SUGAR, by the barrel; Hibberts; Molasses, by the bag/head; Flour, by the barrel; Brown Stout; Raisins per cask; Candles, by the box; Iron Cabbages; 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 Stout—Salt-Peter'd Hams—Butter, and Hog's Lard, &c.—Likewise,
LIQUORS, of the best kinds, a general Assortment—and various other Articles in the Grocery Line—a complete Assortment of which they propose to be constantly supplied with.
MASTERS of Packets, Passengers, &c. may be supplied at said Store, on the Post Office Notice—with any Article they may want—and their Favors gratefully Acknowledged.
GREEN CHAIRS, per Dozen—Middlings, per bushel or barrel—Onions, per Hundred bunches, or smaller quantities—LOAF-SUGARS, and a variety of the best of TEAS. Newport, Dec. 18, 1802. 3tf
State of Rhode-Island, &c.
Newport, ff. Dec. 15, 1802.
WHEREAS David Lawton, of Exeter, in the county of Washington, and State aforesaid, hath filed his petition in the Clerk's office of the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Newport, against his wife Elizabeth Lawton, now residing in Palestine, in the county of Montgomery, and State of New-York; praying for divers causes therein stated, that the bonds of marriage between him and her said wife be dissolved, and a decree of divorce promulgated:—Notice, therefore, is hereby given to the said Elizabeth, and to all persons concerned, to appear at the next Term of said Supreme Judicial Court, to be held at Newport, in and for the county of Newport, on the first Monday of March next, and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said Petition should not be granted.
62] P. M. MUMFORD, Clerk.
Blank Deeds, and Justice's Writs, and Executions, for sale at this Office.
THOMAS PAINE,
To the Citizens of the United States.
LETTER THE FOURTH.
AS Congress is on the point of meeting, the public papers will necessarily be occupied with the debates of the ensuing Session, and as in consequence of my long absence from America, my private affairs require my attendance (for it is necessary I do this or I could not preserve as I do my Independence) I shall close my address to the public with this letter.
I congratulate them on the success of the late elections, and that with the additional confidence, that while honest men are chosen and wise measures pursued, neither the treason of apostasy, masked under the name of federalism, of which I have spoken in my second letter, nor the intrigues of foreign emissaries, acting in concert with that mask, can prevail.
As to the licentiousness of the papers calling themselves federal, a name that apostasy has taken, it can hurt nobody but the party or the persons who support such papers. There is naturally a wholesome pride in the public mind that revolts at open vulgarity. It feels itself dishonoured even by hearing it, as a chaste woman feels dishonour by hearing obscenity she cannot avoid. It can smile at wit, or be diverted with strokes of satirical humour, but it detests the blackguard. The same sense of propriety that governs in private companies, governs in public life. If a man in company runs his wit upon another, it may draw a smile from the persons present, but as soon as he turns a blackguard in his language the company gives him up, and it is the same in public life. The event of the late elections shews this to be true; for in proportion as those papers have become more and more vulgar and abusive, the elections have gone more and more against the party they support or that supports them. Their predecessor, Porcupine , had wit. These scribblers have none. But as soon as his blackguardism (for it is the proper name of it) outrun his wit, he was abandoned by every body but the English Minister that protected him.
The Spanish proverb says, "there never was a cover large enough to hide itself," and the proverb applies to the case of those papers & the shattered remnant of the faction that supports them. The falsehoods they fabricate, and the abuse they circulate, is a cover to hide something from being seen, but is not large enough to hide itself. It is as a tub thrown out to the whale to prevent its attacking and sinking the vessel. They want to draw the attention of the public from thinking about, or enquiring into, the measures of the last administration and the reason why so much public money was raised and expended. And so far as a lie to day, and a new one to-morrow, will answer this purpose, it answers theirs. It is nothing to them whether they be believed or not, for it is the negative purpose, be answered the main point is answered to them.
He that picks your pocket always tries to make you look another way. Look, says he, at yon man tother side the street—what a nose he has got!—Lord yonder is a chimney on fire! D'ye see yon man going along in the salamander great coat? That is the very man that stole one of Jupiter's satellites and sold it to a countryman for a gold watch, and it set his breeches on fire. Now the man that has his hand in your pocket does not care a farthing whether you believe what he says or not. All his aim is to prevent your looking at him; and this is the case with the remnant of the federal faction. The leaders of it have imposed upon the country, and they want to turn the attention of it from the subject.
In taking up any public matter, I have never made it a consideration, and never will, whether it be popular or unpopular, but whether it be right or wrong. The right will always become the popular, if it has courage to shew itself, and the shortest way is always a straight line. I despise expedients; they are the gutter-hole of politics, and the sink where reputation dies. In the present case, as in every other, I cannot be accused of using any; and I have no doubt but thousands will hereafter be ready to say, as Governor Morris said to me, after having abused me pretty handsomely in Congress, for the opposition I gave to the fraudulent demand of Silas Deane, of two hundred thousand pounds sterling—Well! we were all duped, and I among the rest.
Were the late administration to be called upon to give reasons for the expense it put the country to, it can give none. The danger of invasion was a bubble that served as a cover to raise taxes and armies to be employed for some other purpose. But if the people of America believed it true, the cheerfulness with which they supported those measures and paid those taxes, is an evidence of their patriotism, and if they supposed me their enemy, though in that supposition they did me injustice, it was not injustice in them. He that acts as he believes, though he may act wrong, is not conscious of wrong.
But though there was no danger, no thanks are due to the late administration for it. They
fought to blow up a flame between the two countries; and so intent were they upon this, that they went out of their way to accomplish it. In a letter which the secretary of state, Timothy Pickering, wrote to Mr. Skipwith, the American consul at Paris, he broke off from the official subject of his letter to thank God in very exulting language, that the Kaffirs had cut the French army to pieces . Mr. Skipwith, after showing me the letter, very prudently concealed it.
It was the injudicious and wicked acrimony of this letter, and some other like conduct of the then secretary of state, that occasioned me, in a letter to a friend in the government, to say, that if there was any official business to be done in France, till a regular minister should be appointed, it could not be trusted to a more proper person than Mr. Skipwith. He is, said I, an honest man, and will do business, and that with good manners to the government be commissioned to act with a facility which that Bear, Timothy Pickering wanted, and which the Bear of that Bear, John Adams, never possessed.
In another letter to the same friend in 1797, and which was put unsealed under cover to Col. Burr, I expressed a satisfaction that Mr. Jefferson, since he was not president, had accepted the vice-presidency, for, said I, "John Adams has such a talent for blundering and offending, it will be necessary to keep an eye over him." He has now sufficiently proved that though I have not the gift of prophecy, I have the gift of judging right; and all the world knows, for it cannot help knowing, that to judge right, and to write clearly, and that upon all sorts of subjects; to be able to command thought, and, as it were, to play with it at pleasure, and be always master of one's temper in writing, is the faculty only of a serene mind, and the attribute of happy and philosophical temperaments. The scribblers, who know me not, and who fill their papers with paragraphs about me, besides their want of talents, drink too many flasks and drams in a morning to have any chance with me. But, poor fellows! they must do something for the little pittance they get from their employers. This is my apology for them.
My anxiety to get back to America was great for several years. It is the country of my heart, and the place of my political and literary birth. It was the American revolution that made me an author, and forced into action the mind that had been dormant, and had no wish for public life; not has it now. By the accounts I received, he appeared to me to be going wrong, and that some meditated treason against her liberties lurked at the bottom of her government. I heard that my friends were oppressed, and I longed to take my standing among them; and it other "times to try men's souls" were to arrive that I might bear my share. But my efforts to return were ineffectual.
As soon as Mr. Monroe had made a good standing with the French government, for the conduct of his predecessor had made his reception as minister difficult, he wanted to send dispatches to his own government by a person to whom he could also confide a verbal communication, and he fixed his choice upon me. He then applied to the committee of public safety for a passport; but as I had been voted again, into the convention, it was only the convention that could give the passport; and as an application to them for that purpose would have made my going publicly known, I was obliged to sustain the disappointment and Mr. Monroe to lose the opportunity.
When that gentleman left France to return to America, I was to have come with him. It was fortunate I did not. The vessel he failed in was visited by a British frigate that searched every part of it, and down to the hold for Thomas Paine. I then went, the same year, to embark at Havre. But several British frigates were cruising in sight of the port who knew I was there, and I had to return again to Paris. Seeing myself thus cut off from every opportunity of returning that was in my power to command, I wrote to Mr. Jefferson, that if the fate of the election should put him in the chair of the presidency, and he should have occasion to send a frigate to France, he would give me the opportunity of returning by it, which he did. But I declined coming by the Maryland, the vessel that was offered me, and waited for the frigate that was to bring the new minister, Mr. Chancellor Livingston, to France; but that frigate was ordered round to the Mediterranean; and as, at that time, the war was over, and the British cruisers called in, I could come any way. I then agreed to come with commodore Barney in a vessel he had engaged. It was again fortunate I did not, for the vessel sank at sea, and the people were preserved in the boat.
Had half the number of evils befallen me, that the number of dangers amount to, through which I have been preserved, there are those who would ascribe it to the wrath of Heaven; why then do they not ascribe my preservation to the protecting favor of Heaven? Even in my worldly concerns I have been blessed. The little property I left in America, and which I
cared nothing about, not even to receive the rent of it, has been increasing in the value of its capital more than eight hundred dollars every year for the fourteen years and more that I have been absent from it. I am now, in my circumstances, independent, and my economy makes me rich. As to my health it is perfectly good, and I leave the world to judge of the stature of my mind. I am in every instance a living contradiction to the mortified federalists.
In my publications I follow the rule I began with in Common Sense , that is to consult with nobody, nor let any body see what I write till it appears publicly. Were I to do otherwise, the case would be, that between the timidity of some, who are so afraid of doing wrong they never do right, the puny judgment of others, and despicable craft of preferring expedient to right, as if the world was a world of babies in leading strings, I should get forward with nothing. My path is a right line, as straight and clear to me as a ray of light. The boldness (if they will have it to be so) with which I speak on any subject is a compliment to the judgment of the reader. It is like saying to him, I treat you as a man and not as a child . With respect to any worldly object, as it is impossible to discover any in me, therefore what I do, and my manner of doing it, ought to be ascribed to a good motive.
In a great affair, where the happiness of man is at stake, I love to work for nothing; and so fully am I under the influence of this principle that I should lose the spirit, the pleasure, and the pride of it, were I conscious that I looked for reward; and with this declaration I take my leave for the present.
THOMAS PAINE.
Federal City, Lowell's Hotel, Dec. 3, 1802.
NORTH-CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
Nov. 29.—A letter was read from the Governor (J. B. Albe) dated the 24th inst. acknowledging the receipt of the message of the two houses, informing him of his election, expressive of the honor conferred upon him by the Legislature, and assuring them that as soon as his strength would permit, he would attend to take the necessary oath: but alas! the bearer of this letter was also the bearer of an account of his death, having died three days afterwards at 7 o'clock in the morning.
Both houses immediately resolved to go into mourning for thirty days, by each member wearing a piece of black crape or ribbon on the left arm.
Thursday next is fixed for balloting for a new governor. No one has yet been nominated. It is supposed there will be several candidates.
Raleigh Reg.
Number of Inhabitants on the Earth.—"It is agreed by all nations that this globe is capable of subsisting three thousand millions of the human species, but that a third part of that number never actually existed at one time." The following calculation by an author on the use of the bills of mortality, shews, "That Europe contains upwards of 125 millions, Asia 450 millions, Africa 150 millions, America 160 millions, making in the whole eight hundred and eighty five millions and one third of a million of human beings on the earth. If we reckon with the ancients that a generation lasts thirty three years, in that space 385 millions and 300 thousand men will be born and die, and consequently 81,762 will die every day, 3406 every hour, 56 every second, and at the end of 84 years they are all dead. More males born than females in the proportion of 1050 to 1000; but wars and other accidents bring both sexes to nearly an equality.
"The children of a country are computed to be one fifth part of the inhabitants.
"Since the Christian Era, there has been between 54 and 55 generations." Best. Weekly Mag.

"RUTLEDGE'S CASE"—REVIEWED. NO. 2.
WITH mingled emotions of pity, and abhorrence we pursue this monstrous, and disgusting subject. No doubt the sensibilities of the public mind will be painfully urged; for it is, indeed, a tale whose lightest word must harrow up the soul.—But, however painful, however loathsome; and notwithstanding the importunities of fellow feeling, which are the result of weaker judgment, it is their duty, as it is ours, to pay it such attention, as shall preserve the principles of justice unimpaired, and save from outrage, and defecation the polarity, and ascendancy of truth.
At the commencement of this review we omitted to assign, expressly, the reasons which induced us to resume it, through an idea that those reasons would readily be conceived by a vigilant, and candid public. But from a publication which appeared in the last Mercury, it seems to be made necessary that they should be stated, and that, too, with all the unequivocal certainty of judicial pleadings.
It will be remembered that some few weeks ago we made mention that the New-York Evening Post had entered the list of controversy in behalf of Mr. Rutledge, and had treated the subject with a great deal of unfairness, and affectation of triumph. That in consequence of it, the New-York American Citizen had enlisted its energies on the part of the accusation, and promised to assume the consideration of the subject as soon as certain derangements of office, occasioned by a late fire, could be remedied. And that in case the "Citizen" should not assume the subject, we would, and pursue it with undeviating steps.
The managers of the Mercury probably considering the subject as waved by us, in consequence of this conditional engagement, instantly modulated their tone, and have ever since been harping upon it in a "still small" way, and in such a fly, underhanded manner, as was calculated to impress the public mind by flow, and imperceptible degrees. Their weekly quotations from papers printed at a distance, of "opinions" given on the subject (but how or by whom no body knew) could have no other object. But we were patient, and at rest, fully sensible that the discernment of our fellow-citizens would detect their subtlety, and afford a righteous decision upon the facts that were before them.
Mr. Cheetham, one of the Editors of the "Citizen," undertook the subject. But tho' a gentleman of undaunted intrepidity of spirit; of inimitable energy of mind, joined with great scrutinizing power of genius, he was not able from a want of correct information, at that time, to place it in its proper light. He had not then seen the forged letters, nor did he know any thing of the circumstances more than what he collected from the papers he had received, which probably were not half that contained the facts in the case. We perceived the inaccuracy he had fallen into, and were on the point of commencing the review which we have since undertaken, when we were informed that he had obtained a true account of the business, and was about to begin it anew, and go through it again. And having received the first number of his second statement, we were again induced to wait until we should be furnished with a sufficient number to be enabled to ascertain their merits, in order that we might know whether it would be proper to republish them. But here was an intermission. Though we had received the first number, no other came to hand, which led us to suppose that they were intercepted in their conveyance, and that we should never obtain them with any regularity, or in any tolerable fashion. We, therefore, determined to undertake a review of the subject ourselves, and to do it all the justice, which our leisure, and our ability would permit.
Since we thus determined, we have received two other numbers of Mr. Cheetham's second statement, which in point of perspicuity, and talents, claims the precedence of any thing that we can say. We shall, therefore, here introduce them and reserve our further observations for the close. We think they claim the diligent and candid attention of our readers.—The extracts follow:
"AFTER Rutledge had sent the packet of letters to Mr. Gerry, as described in our last number, it was natural for the Deputy-Post-Master to view him with a suspicious eye. He was accordingly observed with all that attention which so improper a transaction was calculated to excite. To keep up appearances of unspotted innocence, the frequency of his visits to the Post-Office was not lessened. In his conversations with Mr. Richardson he was loquacious and sprightly as usual. Not a trait in his subsequent deportment had a tendency to betray his guilt. He was all suavity; in his exterior he seemed as innocent as a lamb."
"Having, as he imagined, been as successful as could be wished in his (known) first attempt to sport with the feelings of individuals by anonymous letters, he ventured on a repetition of the offence. Fancied concealment increased his confidence in the perpetration of the crime, and operated as aliment to the scandalous propensity.—'Tis the nature of vice to hurry its victims from step to step in the ascending scale. Rutledge is a confirming instance of this remark. His first letters were anonymous; he grew bold with impunity, and afterwards ventured to write in other men's names."
"The second time Rutledge was detected in this shameful practice, was in the case of the two forged letters addressed to the "President"
of the United States," the one signed "Nicholas Geoffrey," the other "Nico Geoffrey." They are dated, one "New Port August 18 1801," the other, "New Port August 7th 1801" and were delivered at the Post Office on those days respectively. They were both handed to the Deputy-Post Master, in the presence of his assistant, by Mr. Rutledge's girl.—This girl who shall be more particularly noticed hereafter, had, for some time, been in the habit of fetching newspapers from the Post Office for Mr. Rutledge. The girl was by no means a stranger to the Deputy-Post Master and his Assistant; they knew her well from her frequent visits to the office for, and with letters from, Mr. Rutledge. Such is the nature of guilt, that with the most dexterous management, it is difficult to conceal it. There was something suspicious in the act of delivering the letters. They were handed to the Post-Master in the evening of the respective days, when the office was about to be closed. Rutledge no doubt was of opinion, that from the presumed hurry of the Post-Master to quit business, he would put the letters in the mail without looking at their superscriptions. The notion, although plausible, was not correct. The Post-Master, Mr. Richardson, (who has holden the Office upwards of twenty years) looked at the directions, and that they were addressed "to the President of the United States," recognized the hand-writing, and said to the girl, "these come from Mr. Rutledge, who answered yes. The Post Master and his assistant looked attentively at the girl, and, apart from her declaring that she brought them from Mr. Rutledge, were satisfied that she was the same who had for some time, regularly taken letters from and carried them to the Post Office for him.—They were more than ordinarily particular on the occasion, for two reasons, first, because of the packet which, as already described, Rutledge had sent to Mr. Gerry, and second, since he was known to be too violently opposed to Mr. Jefferson, to hold a correspondence with him. The letters were enclosed in the mail and sent on to Washington."
"Anticipating what has since transpired, the Post-Master and his assistant minuted the manner in which the letters were delivered, by whom, the remarks which occurred at the time, and their conviction that they were written by Mr. Rutledge. To the first letter, Mr. Jefferson returned an answer very laconic and cautiously worded. The letter bears internal marks that Mr. Jefferson suspected imposition when he wrote it."
"The President's letter of course was addressed to "Geoffrey" who resides in Newport. The receipt of a letter, signed, "Th. Jefferson," confounded Geoffrey. He could not divine the cause. He knew he had not written to the President, and yet the letter was evidently an answer to one which he had received. After ruminating on this singular transaction he returned the letter to the Post Office and demanded back the postage."
"It would be prolix, perhaps uninteresting to detail all the conversations which took place between the receipt of the President's letter by Geoffrey, and his receiving back the postage. It is sufficient to say, that from the circumstances under which the letters were delivered at the Post-Office for the President, Rutledge was justly suspected of being the writer, and measures were accordingly taken to ascertain the fact, expose his baseness, and prevent a second letter from the President. The very day, therefore, on which the letter of the President to Geoffrey was returned to the Post-Office, the remarks made by Mr. Richardson, when the two letters were handed to him by Rutledge's girl, were communicated to Washington, and the forgery sufficiently brought home to Rutledge to preclude a second letter from the executive."
"The two forged letters were obtained from the President. This was necessary to a discovery of the writer by similitude of hand-writing and other appropriate circumstances. They were examined at the Post-Office. The Post-Master and his Assistant were convinced that they were the same letters handed to them by Rutledge's girl, and have since made oath that they were written by JOHN RUTLEDGE."
"Indeed, those who have examined or who may examine the forged letters, who shall compare them with diligence and care with the acknowledged hand writing of John Rutledge, and more with accuracy and attention the formation of the letters and words, cannot have a doubt that he is the writer of them. And yet such was Rutledge's care to disguise his handwriting that he who holds the letters in his hand, extended from his eyes, will at once say that he is not the writer of them.—The letters are written in a constrained hand, which resumes more and more its natural freedom as the writer proceeds. Bring them close to the eye, examine the structure of the letters and syllables, and collate them with attention with Rutledge's known hand writing, and the mind becomes irresistibly convinced that he is the writer of them. His y's, as in by, are written loosely, have more the appearance of the letter x, carelessly and hastily written, than any other in the alphabet, and seem to defy imitation. They are formed uniformly alike, and in his acknowledged writings and in the forged letters are exactly the same. His y's, as you, are in fact y's, and would be so read by every one, if dots were placed over them. In his known hand-writing and in the forged letters they are precisely the same, and are unquestionably written by the same hand. His m's, in writings confessedly his own, are in reality n's, and his n's, i's, with a small stroke of the pen from the right.—They are precisely the same in the forged letters. In the former he writes not for would; the same uniformly occurs in the forged letters and the structure of the letters wd is formed with no perceptible difference. It is difficult, perhaps impossible to describe by words the exact similarities found throughout, between writings confessedly his own and the two forged letters. The latter have been examined in this City, by twenty per-
sons at least, among whom but one opinion is to be found, and that is, that Rutledge is the writer of them. Included in these, are the editors, who could not hesitate, on oath, to give it as their decided opinion that Rutledge is the forger."
"In the second forged letter, namely, that dated August 7th, are the following words: "My great delight is in the charms of Botsany & I have lately received from Portugal some bulbs of the Daily Rose—this Rose blossoms every month in the Year, & flourishes very much in my Garden—If two or three of these Trees wd be acceptable at Monticello, it wd give me great pleasure if you wd receive them." This is a very unfortunate passage for Rutledge. It happens that in all Newport there is not a bulb of the Daily Rose, as he terms it, but what grows in his own garden there! Rutledge may delight in Botsany, but it may admit of doubt whether his greater delight is not in forging letters?
"There is another circumstance that must have great weight in this case, one that has often produced important decisions in courts of justice, and to which as a consummate forger Rutledge did not pay sufficient attention."
"During the administration of John Adams, paper was imported from England for the use of the members of Congress. The two Houses were furnished with hot-press letter paper with the stamp "T. Status 1799" upon it. Whether Stains was the maker or the importer of the paper we are not certain, but it was undoubtedly imported for the exclusive use of Congress. Rutledge was a member of the House of Representatives in 1799, and has continued to be so until now. With this paper Congress was supplied in that year, in 1800, in 1801, and the Senate during the session of 1802, but not the House of Representatives. It is usual for the members to carry with them to their lodgings paper for their private correspondence. In 1801, the two forged letters were written. Rutledge, in all probability inadvertently, carried home with him when Congress adjourned some of the paper stamped "T. Status 1799." The forged letters are written on this paper! This is indeed a strong presumptive circumstance of Rutledge's guilt. There was not a sheet of paper with that stamp upon it to be found in Newport. We have made diligent inquiry in this City, we have applied to the first stationer's stores, and we have uniformly received for answer that paper with that stamp upon it was never known to be sold here!
"Hitherto, Rutledge flourished away with tolerable success, and was no doubt highly pleased with his art.—After writing to Mr. Gerry and the President he turned his attention to Deputy Post-Masters in different parts of the Union. Whether he wrote in the name of Mr. Granger or not we shall not say. How many Post-Masters he dismissed it is not necessary to relate.—Whether he wrote letters or not in the name of Mr. Granger which have appeared in many of the federal prints cannot perhaps be ascertained. But certain it is that he wrote circular letters to Deputy Post Masters, sporting with their feelings and in all probability misrepresenting the government."
"Such has been the honorable career of the honorable John Rutledge!
"A momentary digression is here necessary. By way of mitigating the offence of Rutledge, an apology has been offered in the Evening Post for his not appealing to the laws of the State of Rhode Island against the Editor of the REPUBLICAN, published at Newport, for a libel. The language of Coleman's apology is so modest and respectful that we here transcribe it for the inspection of our friends."
"Most of the readers of this article will be ready to say, why has not Mr. Rutledge appealed to the laws of the country, and instituted a suit against the publisher for a libel? Alas! The people in the different States in the Union little know the sort of justice to be expected from a Rhode-Island Court of law. No man who has not read the Report of the Trial of Judge Dorrance against Governor Fenner, for slander, can have any possible idea of the manner in which justice and decency may be outraged, I was about to say under colour of law, but the more correct expression is, in defiance of law and even its forms. Mr. Rutledge therefore has been advised by all his friends to refrain from appealing to the laws of a community which openly laughs the law to scorn."
"Folly and iniquity are equally conspicuous in this article. Folly, because by appealing to the federal courts, Rutledge might have obviated the imaginary difficulty complained of; iniquity, since to screen an outrageous offender, the State of Rhode Island is vilified and its courts of justice represented as vitiate beyond example. The plain fact is, that Rutledge durst not appeal to the laws. There was no obstacle in the way of such an appeal but his own guilt. It is not true, it is a wicked disorganizing calumny to say, that the courts of Rhode Island are impurer than those of the other States. Let it however be admitted that the State Judges are as blameless as Chace—their sheriffs as partial and corrupt as those of Mr. Adams, and that the laws are made solely to benefit a faction; what then? Were the State courts the dernier resort? Could he not have appealed to the federal courts, the fountain of pure justice! Say, thou mean calumniating pander, had not Rutledge the option whether to appeal to the State or federal courts? He had undoubtedly. What apology then will be offered for his not instituting a suit in the latter? Will it to shield this enormous culprit, be said that there is no justice in the country? To what length will not party rage carry the faction, when we behold an outcast proscribing from the pale of national justice a respectable State?
"But if the Editor of the Newport Republican has published a libel against Rutledge, we are guilty of the same offence. Will Coleman say that here no there is no justice?
"To return to forged letters."
"We all know the profligacy of Callender; that disappointment in his extravagant expectations has wrought an exhibition of the same time concealed rotteuhs of his heart. Few men are ignorant of the atrocious calumnies which for six months back he has adroitly propagated concerning the President. The political character of the executive has been incessantly assailed by an anti-republican faction from the adoption of the federal constitution to the present time; but the assailants have found it invincible. An ambitious clergy, aspiring to dominion over the souls and bodies of men, have ventured to question the soundness of his religious faith! Under the pretended sanction of the religion of the Redeemer, they have outraged his precepts, unhappily lessened public veneration for the church, and brought many of its ministers into merited contempt. From this point, too, have the hypocrites been repulsed. Finding that they have failed in their attack on these two leading subjects, the monarchical and clerical combination have encouraged Callender, the very perfidious of morals, to enter the sanctuary of the President, ran sack his domestic concerns, pervert his domestic conduct, and by efforts the most foul and scandalous, to endeavour to lessen him in the merited esteem of his Fellow-Citizens. Here also the faction have been abashed. Themselves have been covered with the very infamy with which they hoped, and intended to overwhelm the executive."
"Will it be believed that the chief justice of the United States patronizes the wretch who has committed these offences?
"The late fire having destroyed our files and papers, we cannot exactly date the time when the false and infamous story about Sally was first uttered into the world; we think however it was sometime in July.—The miscreant Callender, if we are not mistaken, says, that the malevolent and groundless rumor was communicated to him by a correspondent. About July, Rutledge, then in Newport, wrote a letter to Callender, signed "ROBERT T. SMITH." This letter was delivered at the Post Office with others, and accordingly forwarded to Callender, at Richmond, to whom it was directed. The superscription was in Rutledge's hand-writing, and the letter was sealed with the initials of his own name, J. R.—Similar previous transactions of Rutledge induced a close inspection at the Post-Office. The signature of the letter "ROBERT SMITH," was clearly perceived. The intermediate initial "T." although somewhat obscured by the seal was made out. By the return of the mail from Richmond, a letter was received at the Post-Office in Newport, directed to "Robert T. Smith" of that town, accompanied with one of Callender's news papers addressed to the same unknown gentleman. Rutledge called at the Office for the letter, and said that Mr. Robert T. Smith was then at Boston, but having concluded not to return to Newport, had requested him to take up such letters from the Post-Office as might be directed there for him! There has not been, nor is there in Newport a man of the name of ROBERT T. SMITH. There was no man of that name in the town, when Rutledge sent the letter to the Post Office, written by himself and signed "ROBERT T. SMITH." The South-Carolinians in Newport, of whom enquiries have been made, knew no man of the name of "Robert T. Smith." Robert T. Smith has been advertised in the Republican of New port, but no information could be obtained of the man. These enquiries were made, not to ascertain the writer of the letter with that signature, for it was in Rutledge's known hand-writing, but for other purposes."
The last Newport Mercury came out burthened with a very curious performance, in the true style of Rutledge's mouth-piece. It plainly appears to be a work of the same hand that formed the neat-tongue eulogium upon him which immediately preceded the publication of the forged letters; and is of the same kidney with every thing that has since appeared in his behalf.
They appear in the character of litho bog-trotters, and seem to consider personalities as a ground upon which no one will dare to approach them.
The bog-trotters in Ireland are a certain "flash company," or gang of thieves, who are federalised to plunder. When they are pursued for their crimes, they rush into a certain bog, where they remain until the pursuit is over. This bog, few except the trotters will venture to go upon. But the trotters do not mind it. They are on it so much, and are so often mired in it up to the chin, that they are callous, and inured to its dangers. They receive it as a settled principle of their profession, that it is better to perish in the bog, than to perish by the halter, or at the whipping-post.
Thus it is with the bog-trotters of the "Mercury." When they are pressed, and pinched upon the up-land of fair argument, they turn, and trot off for the bog of personalities, in which they are war-worn veterans, covered with immortal scars. Here they are frequently beheld, pawing for dear life, up to their chins in mock, and mire. But it seems to be their element: They can live in, and enjoy it like an oyster.
But one of these bog-trotters pretends to be an "eminent counseilor." Let his legal notions be inquired into. He may remain on the bog unmolested for the present.
Here comes one short sentence.—"He (that is, Mr. Rutledge) obtained not only a verdict of acquittal; but after a trial on the merits, the opinion of the most eminent counseilor, &c. was pointedly expressed in his favor."
Here the "verdict" comes first, and then a "trial on the merits." It would be natural to suppose that a trial, would precede the verdict; and that a verdict could be founded on no other trial than a trial on the merits. But it is not only convenient for him to have the verdict before trial, but even without any trial at all. Legally speaking, my Lord (since you have chosen the language of the Law!) we are entitled to the close of the case, seeing that we com-

enced the "prosecution," and preferred the indictment against the prisoner "at the bar." But have we had the opportunity? Have you not, as "eminent council" for the accused, continually rose, and interrupted? Have we had an opportunity even to lay the case, with the evidence fairly before the country? Away, then, with your legal pomposity, and ostentation; for you are not going to get your cause by it.
He says in another place—"What ought we then to do? Resume a controverted fact? and in our favor! Is there to be pleading after judgment?"
The question is asked, has judgment been rendered in the case? Where are the minutes of it? Where it is recorded? Who keeps the record? Who constituted the tribunal? Who presided, and took the opinion of the Court?
It will be a miserable shift for him here to point to his "addresses," and say—"those men of 'found, and enlightened opinions, who make the public, were convinced of his innocence, lamented, and resented the mean, dastardly, and unrelenting persecution he (Rutledge) encountered." Every modest, and principled man who signed that infamous "address," will have reason to execrate the wretch by whom they were deceived, and imposed upon. Like Judas of old, he had his reward to betray them. Nor can his "eminent" co-adjutor, with all his solemn parade of legal phraseology, extricate him from the load of eternal infamy, which he has incurred by a series of similar conduct.
RUTLEDGE—again.
A remarkable fact has just come to our knowledge, from which we hope we may obtain a clue to many others equally so. During the session of congress in this city in 1798-9 in particular, a number of communications on various subjects, mostly political, were sent for publication in the Aurora , written in a disguised hand, and without signature—whole sheets of these communications were rejected from the indecency of their contents, and from other motives. We have seen the forged letters to the president of the United States, said to be written by John Rutledge, member of congress, and find the writing perfectly agrees with that of the communications sent for publication in the Aurora . Philadelphia Aurora.
The arrival of the affector of the rights of man gives as much pain now to the tories as his common sense did during the war. The tories of that time denounced Mr. Paine for his political writings, and would have destroyed him as they did others, for his rights of man —the tories of this day would do the same and for the same reasons, they now cloak their hatred under pretence of revering religion, but tories will be tories .— ib.
From the INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE.
OLD-SOUTH—No. LXXV.
SEVENTY-FIVE , in the 17th Century, is a prominent number in the American calendar; it is emphatically designated "the time which tried men's souls;" it is the period of the American Revolution, which called forth all the energies of patriotism, valor and decision. The man who halted between two opinions at this crisis, was justly considered an enemy to his country. America then assumed the attitude of an injured & determined nation. Britain avowed the principle and pursued measures to carry into execution, the detestable declaration, to "bind us in all cases whatever." This veto was attempted to be enforced by the laws of the bayonet , and the citizens of America had no other alternative than to decide between SLAVERY and FREEDOM.
In this contest, Liberty or Death was the motto—"Uniting we stand, dividing we fall," was the creed to which every real friend to his country subscribed. The Tories took one side of the question, and the Whigs the other; one party assisted the British, and the other opposed them. The Boston Town-Meetings were an epitome of the controversy between Britain and America. Fellow-citizens! ye who remember the contest, recollect the debates in your solemn assemblies; bring to mind the crowded audiences, who with anxious concern attended to the deliberations of your intrepid patriots. Can ye forget the machinations of your enemies or the subtle designs of Hutchinson and his adherents? Were not your liberties suspended on the intrepidity of your determinations, and were not a body of Tories assailing you in every direction? If you had then been afraid to espouse your rights, they would have fallen a sacrifice to your timidity. Recollect the Horn-Book Faction , who intermixed themselves among the Sons of Liberty ; the soldiery who were sent to intimidate the Citizens during their freedom of debate and investigation. Our souls were then "invigorated
with the spirit of Liberty;" Faneuil-Hall bore testimony that men were superior to wolves; the decisions of the town of Boston gave ample evidence that the liberty of brutes, and the unalienable rights of Freemen, were not analogous. No real American at this period contemplated the derogatory connection between the voracious animals of the desert, and the deliberate sentiments of Citizens. Even at this period, when the Revolution of America was in swaddling cloths, when the Independence of our country had scarcely formed its features in embryo, no one was hardy enough to draw a parallel between our exertions for liberty and the savage disposition of wolves in the forest! This degrading similitude was reserved for the man who rose to his pre-eminence by the magnanimous efforts of those whom he now degrades.
The period of 'SEVENTY-FIVE reminds us of that sanguinary scene, when the streets of Boston were crimsoned with the blood of its citizens! The horrid massacre on the night of March the 5th, 1770 , is a lesson which ought to impress on the minds of Americans the hostile disposition of Britain. Can any friendship exist in a nation, whose myrmidons spread indiscriminate slaughter among the inhabitants of this metropolis? Can the old Whigs forget the distressing scene when the corps of five of their fellow-citizens were followed in solemn procession through the streets of Boston? When the Tories were rejoicing at the sanguinary catastrophe, and only bemoaned the misfortune that SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK were not the objects of general lamentation. The Whigs well remember the Town-Meeting at the Old-South the preceding day: the assembly of citizens was august and impressive; the debates were forcible and decisive; the energies of the inhabitants appeared in their full majesty; one spirit invigorated the whole body, and one tongue expressed their ultimate determination. Can we forget the venerable SAMUEL ADAMS on this solemn occasion? Can we forget the fortitude of his mind, or the integrity of his conduct? Do we not even at this day recognise him in the Old-South Pulpit , while standing as a bulwark to impede the encroachments of the enemy? "How did our hearts burn within us," when he recounted the impositions we had suffered! and how did our souls beat in unison with the sentiments which he inculcated! This was truly the " time to try men's souls ." Venerable Patriot! you are now retired from the world to enjoy that composure which your services merit; happy are you in the reflection, that you have never deviated from the road which you early described as the only path of safety and happiness. In your retirement you have to lament, that some who began the journey with you have strayed into the broad way which leads to destruction; but still your reflections must give consolation to your declining years; and though feeble in body, yet your soul must experience those joys which are ever strangers to the breasts of apostates. While others have received the sycophantic addresses of men, who in '75 would have led them to the gibbet, you have enjoyed domestic tranquility, and have had the satisfaction to reflect, if you was not flattered , you was not despised ; you never became the dupe of a party, or the sport of those who made an instrument of your crudulity;—firm, manly, and decisive, you never was obliged to apologize for your conduct, by laying the blame on those who presumed to dictate through an "expected or unexpected quarter." No—you was a politician equal to your emergencies, and certainly you was placed in a responsible situation, when the most critical precaution was necessary for your judgment. When the proscription of Britain entwined you and HANCOCK , as victims to satiate their vengeance, even at this momentous crisis, ADAMS and HANCOCK
never stooped to become suppliants for Ministerial or Tory clemency. Your fellow citizens, Venerable Patriot , will ever embalmed your memory with their praise, and your name will never be mentioned without reverting to the magnitude of your virtues and the pre-eminent testimonies you have given of your unbiased attachment to their freedom and happiness. You have done your duty, and no man can impeach your fidelity.
[To be concluded next week.]
Washington, Dec. 13.
James Turner , a decided Republican, is elected Governor of North-Carolina. There were several candidates. On the fourth ballot, Mr. Turner had 112 votes, out of nearly 180.
MARRIED —At Portsmouth, Mr. BENJAMIN IRISH, of Little-Compton, to Miss DEBORAH IRISH.—Mr. SMITH BORDEN, to Miss LUSANNA SHAW.
In this town, Mr. ELEAZER TREVETT, to Miss CATHARINE EASTON, daughter of the late Mr. Walter Eaton.
DIED —At Wilmington (N. C.) Capt. BENJAMIN GREENE, of this town.
At Middletown, (on this Island) Capt. JAMES POTTER, in the 73d year of his age.
At Portsmouth (on this Island) Capt. NICHOLAS GARRISON, of this town, in the 77th year of his age.
The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged beyond the common walks of life, Quoniam on the verge of Heaven.
Perhaps there is not any circumstance more interesting than the last scene of human life.—To see the Christian triumph over death, is a most instructive lesson—to surviving friends the strongest consolation; and such consolation have all the friends of Mr. Garrison. After an useful and well spent life, in entire resignation to the Divine Will, with hopes full of immortality he expired. Surely such a scene must inspire the wish—"O may I live the life of the righteous, and may my last end be like his."
In this town, last Sunday evening, Mrs. ESTHER MORRIS, widow of the late Capt. Owen Morris, and daughter of the late Capt. James Collins, aged 64—whose exemplary life was characteristic of the real christian. She lived beloved and respected, and died universally lamented by all those who had the pleasure of her acquaintance.
On Monday, Capt. WING SPOONER, aged 23.—His funeral was attended on Thursday in Masonic order, by a very great number of friends and acquaintance.
Arrived here on Thursday, brig Ida , Edward Tayer master, 20 days from the Havana. Off Block-Island, bearing N. E. 20 leagues, spoke scht. Isabella , Wm. Pitt, and from Boston, bound to Philadelphia, two days out; wind E. S. E. all well.
Produce very low at the Havana.
CUSTOM-HOUSE.
District of Newport, December 25.
ENTERED, From Scht' General Greene, Topham, Havana. Brig Ida , Tayer, Do. CLEARED, For Sloop Abigail , Billington, Philadelphia. Schooner Betsy , Cobb, Charleston. Brig John , Hudson, Surinam.
We are again disappointed of presenting the PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE to our readers. We have papers from Washington up to the 13th inst.—The Senate had not then formed a quorum.
For Advertisements see Supplement.
New Novels & Romances.
NOBILITY run mad, or Raymond and his Three Wives.— Isabel , or the Orphan of Valdarno .— Amelia , or the Influence of Virtue , an old man's Story.— Lady of the Cave , or Mysteries of the fourteenth Century .— Stella of the North , or the Foundling of the Ship .— Geraldwood .—The Three Spaniards .— Cattle of Otranto .— Interesting Memoirs , by a Lady.— Harold , or the Vindictive Father .— Malfon , or the Philosophy of the day .— Father and Daughter .— Martin & Mansfield , or the Romance of Franconia .—Who is the Murderer .— Correlia , or the Mythic Tomb .— Noble Wanderers .— White Knights , or the Monastery of Myrme .— Wife & Mistress .—With a variety of other Books.
Also, Registers and Almanacks for 1803. A great variety of MUFFS and TIPPETS .— Fur Trimmings and Skins .— Fur Caps, &c.
Likewise
TICKETS in the North-Providen Lot and South-Hadley Canal .
Gentlemen who wish to subscribe for the Life of WASHINGTON , and writings of OLD SOUTH , are requested to call soon.
JACOB RICHARDSON.
To be Sold at Public Auction,
On Monday, the Third of January ensuing, at ten o'clock A. M. at the house of Clarke Hopkins, in South-Kingstown (Boston Neck) about half a mile from the South-Ferry—Twelve Cows, One yoke of Oxen, Five two-year old Heifers, and Four Horses-kind.
ELISHA R. GARDNER, Vendue Master . South-Kingstown, Dec. 23, 1802.
DAVID MELVILL, jun.
Has just opened, and now offers for sale, at his old stand, next door South of Mr. Townsend's Coffee-House, a neat and general Assortment of
HARD-WARE, STATIONARY, and other Articles,
AMONG which are, a great variety of the most fashionable cabinet furniture—brass kettles and books—panda! it gi—legant name-ed and brass cloak pins (or supporters for looking-glasses) brass locks, bolts, hinges, and table cutlery—files and rasps—screws, brads, and nails, of all kinds—brass and iron hinges—door, chest, trunk, cupboard, pad, and other locks of every description—gun locks and brass furniture—knives and forks—desert knives—jack and pen knives—sk and office knives—scissors and shears—ring, knob, and thumb latches, brass and iron—powder and iron, table and tea spoons—warming pans, copper and brass—composition, iron, steel—iron and blocktin tea kettles—spades and shovels—shovels and tongs—sledgehammers—choosing axes—griddles, patent and common—flatirons—bellows, brass and iron noses—box, and iron coffee mills—brass, japan'd, and iron candlesticks—steel and japan'd snuffers—singer boats—patent lamps, various kinds—Also,
A handsome assortment japan'd wate-
Looking glasses—chaise and riding whips, and whip cords—brass and iron wires—curry combs—mouse and rat traps—axes, adzes and hatchets—drawing knives—carpenters and Kent hammers—wood saws—hand and fitting do.—tenant dovetail and saw do. brass and iron back—turning, compass and keyhole do.—double iron jack planes—jointers and smoothing planes—single iron do.—moulding and rabbit do.—astigalls, hollows and rounds, and table planes—moving phillips and plow planes—bit blocks with bits assorted—best cast-steel former chisels—common do.—morticing and socket chisels and gouges—cast-steel fluting gouges—plain iron's—sliding guages—iron squares and compasses—carpenters rules—pike and nail gimblets—tapborers, &c. Shoemakers hammers, knives, knippers, pincers, tacks, awl blades, do. lasts, and fire irons.—House, hearth, clothes, hat, dusting, and tooth-brushes—bottle, shoe, tar, scrubbing and painters do.—bones, razors, razor straps and cases—shaving boxes—horn and ivory combs—brass, pewter, leather, paper and glass inkstands—ink powder—copper plate copy slips—letter, writing, and wrapping paper, every quality—quills from 50 cents to 3 dollars per hundred—black and red Morocco pocket books—best black led pencils, plates and slate pencils—guage scales and dividers—powder flasks—best London pewter tea pots. And a variety of other articles at low as can be bought at any store in town.
Newport, Dec. 24, 1802.
ELEAZER TREVETT,
INFORMS his friends and the Public in general, that he has opened a Shop in the house of Catharine Easton, in Washington-Street, on the Point, next north of the ship-yard.—Where he has for sale a general assortment of
West-India GOODS;
also, a quantity of Dry Goods, as cheap as at any store in town.—Captains of vessels and others may be supplied on the shortest notice, and every favor gratefully acknowledged.
Newport, Dec. 25, 1802.
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For Sale, Freight, or Charter,
THE good Sloop HIRAM , only two years old,—strong well built, and in complete order in her hull and full rigg'd.—Will be Sold on reasonable terms if applied for soon.—Or may be Chartered or Freighted, to any port in the United States, or West Indies. Terms apply to AARON BORDEN, at Freetown, or to Wm. MOORE, jun. & Co.
Newport, December, 23, 1802. [17tf]
WILLIAM HELME
Respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, THAT having employed an experienced Workman from New-York, he has for sale, at his Manufactory on the Point (by the large or small quantity) mould and dipped tallow Candles, hard and soft Soap, warranted to be of equal quality to any imported.
Newport, Sept. 3, 1802.
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Nathaniel Nason,
RESPECTFULLY informs the public, that he has removed from the house of his father David Nason, to the shop of Mr. Thomas Howland, directly opposite—where all kinds of TIN WARE can be furnished at the shortest notice, and on as reasonable terms as can be bought in this town. Constant attendance will be given, and the smallest favors acknowledged.
Newport, Dec. 18, 1802.
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Cash & the highest price given for old PEWTER and LEAD.
To be Sold or Let,
And entered upon the 25th of March next,
A FARM, in East Greenwich, in that part called Frequentown, containing about 140 acres of excellent land, with a good dwelling-house, Barn, Crin, Cooper's Shop, & Cyder-shed.—It is pleasantly situated, well wooded and watered, with plenty of orcharding. A Grist Mill and one third of a Saw Mill, belonging to said premises. Any person inclining to purchase, or hire, may know the terms by applying to the Subscriber, on said premises.
BENJAMIN TILLINGHAST.
East-Greenwich, Dec. 18, 1802. [117tf]

The Sweets of Friendship.
HOW sweet when the nightingale sings from the grove, When the moon is half hid o'er the hill, When nothing is heard but the whispers of love, And the sound of the far distant rill. How sweet with the friend of our bosom to stray, 'Midst scenes such as these to commune, And quitting the glitter and bustle of day, Mend the heart, and the passions assuage. May this oft be our lot, to wisdom divine, Still lead us a flowery way; So our morning of life shall in brilliancy shine And our evening be cloudless as day.
On the Death of a Young Man.
WHEN torn from home, in lonely shades, The pilgrim's doom'd to rove, See now he lingers by the way, To seek the God he loves. Hard by a rill, that rattles by, I've seen him sit and sing, And praise the God who reigns on high, And, the new seasons bring. As by a lonely grove he pass'd, His sighs were rising slow, The thunders, gliding from the arch, Now sunk the youth as low. His soul now up to Heav'n is gone, In peace with Christ 'tis refuge; Behold him now, in Heav'nly garb, By God his father's side. ROCHESTER ACADEMY. December 1802.
The Laws of the Road.
THE laws of the road are a paradox quite, For when you are travelling along— If you keep to the Left you're sure to be Right, If you keep to the Right you'll be Wrong.
NEW GOODS.
To be sold at WILLIAM PECKHAM'S HARD WARE Store, by PECKHAM & MASON, A fresh supply of GOODS, viz.
BRASS KETTLES, warming and frying pans, block tin tea-pots, London and common pewter, fashionable table and tea knives & forks, iron and block tin table and tea spoons, brass and iron coffee-mills, brass and iron candlesticks, brass and iron headed shovels & tongs, polished and japanned snuffers, carving knives and forks, butcher's and table steels, flat-irons, brass and iron headed hand-irons, patent lamps, looking-glasses, glass, china and brass supporters, stoves and stove bottoms, house and hearth brushes, house, clothes, curriers, shoe and buckle brushes, tailors and clothiers shears, castle & common scissors, brass and iron nose bellows, brass and steel open top thimbles, sail-makers, saddlers and tailor's needles, paper and pound pins, high and low priced razors with cases, hones, oil stones and straps, tenter hooks, clock balls and bales, large & small scale-beams, brass scales and weights, steel yards from 25 to 300 wt. currier's knives and flees, house, sleigh, cow and sheep bells, men and boys hollow-iron feet, old and new fashioned brass and iron knockers, brass and iron thumb latches and catches, finished and common flock-locks, by the dozen, double bolt and common padlocks, spike and nail gimblets, box and brass sliders gunter rules, plated stirrups, bits, spurs, buckles and tips, horse chains, and cart whips, bed screws, covers and keys, patent and common brick and plastering trowels, saddlers strainers and creasing irons, brass & white bellows nails, rat and mouse traps, plates and pencils.
Best Kenyon faws, whet & set, mill, pitt, croscut, wood, hand, panel, tenant, sack, Dovetail and keyhole faws, anvils, long and short bench and hand Vices, plain blocks and irons, cooper's compasses, vices, bits, axes, adzes and plain irons, elastic best steel and iron nitting needles, black castle carver's tools assorted, carpenter's bits and bitt blocks, ship and common screw and pod augers, assorted, from 1/2 to 2 inches; English and American spades and shovels, snap and spring tobacco boxes, pistol and hanger blades, gun and pistol locks, flints and steels, drawing knives and spoke shaves, bar-iron, nail rods and plates, German, blister, Crawley and cast steel, thick and thin sheet iron, cart, waggon and chaise boxes, with a large assortment of hollow ware;—sheet lead and shot, wool and cotton cards, ivory and horn combs, black lead pots and crucibles, weaver's flays and cane poles, sewing and saire twine by the dozen.
Also, striped and plain hair seating, red, crimson, blue and white, wide and narrow hunting, buff, mixed and blue broadcloths, fine yellow-canvas, for samplers; No. 12 assorted threads, by the pound; nutmegs, pepper and spice; tea, coffee and sugar; hogs skins, seal leather and sheeps wool.
It would be too tedious to mention all the articles in the Store—with all those who are in want of any article in the Hard Ware line, to call & see for themselves; they will be waited on with pleasure, whether they purchase or not.
CASH given for Bees-Wax, Bubber Tallow, old Copper, Brass, Pewter, & Lead.
All Persons indebted to the firm of PECKHAM & MASON, are earnestly requested to make immediate payment, as the term for which they entered into Copartnership expires on the 1st of February next. Providence Dec. 9, 1802. [115]
William Moore, jun. & Co.
HAVE FOR SALE, At their STORE on the Ferry Wharf—a general Assortment of GROCERIES,—SHIP CHANDLERY,—HARD WARE, &c. Which they will dispose of on as reasonable terms as at any Store in Newport, by wholesale and retail—among which are the following articles:—
40 Hhs. good retail- ing MOLASSES, Holland GIN. West-India RUM, BRANDY, Leaf & brown SUGAR Hyson-skin, Souchong, and Bohea TEAS, COFFEE, GINGER, PEPPER, PIMENT- TO, STARCH, Castle & N.Y. SOAP, MUSTARD, COPPERAS, Sherry WINE, Malaga do. Spanish flote INDIGO CASSIA, ALLUM, SNUFF, BRIMSTONE, Wool & Cotton Cards, TOBACCO, 7 by 9 GLASS, COTTON WOOL, German and blister'd STEEL, NAILS—assorted, GLASS WARE, FLOUR, CANDLES 6 tuns assorted IRON, per ton or hundred, &c. &c. &c.
LIKEWISE, A great variety of DRY GOODS, suitable for the season. Newport, Dec. 4, 1802. [114tf]
HEAR YE!
To be sold, and possession given the 25th of March next, One Hundred and Fifty acres of Land of the first quality, lying in South-Kingstown, (Boston Neck)—about half a mile south of Gardner's Ferry , commonly known by the name of the Bonnet farm —and is bounded as follows: Westerly, partly on the Westquaque pond; partly on land of Simeon Potter, and partly on land of George Brown:—Southerly, on the ocean:—Easterly, on the Narragansett Bay, and Northerly on land of the subscriber. Its local situation is far preferable to any in said town.—It is well walled in six divisions, with double wall. For fishing and fowling, none is superior in the State, the pond abounding with perch of an excellent kind, and fowl of a great variety.—The beach affords an inexhaustible source of sea manure, such as rock & ribbon weed, and sea curull. There are two living springs of water on the premises. An indisputable title will be given, and the mode of payment made easy to the purchaser: The terms may be known by applying to JOHN GARDINER. South-Kingstown, Dec. 3, 1802. [114tf]
For Sale, by the Subscriber, JAMAICA RUM by the hoghead, Ditto SUGAR by the hhd. or barrel, Ditto MOLASSES, all of 1st Quality. JOHN MEIN. Church-Lane, July 12, 1802. [94tf]
NOTICE
IS hereby given, to all persons having any demands against the estate of Captain JOSEPH CONGDON, late of Jamestown, deceased, to exhibit them; and all persons indebted to said estate, are called upon to make payment to MARY CONGDON, of Jamestown, Executrix to said estate; or to EBENEZER SHEARMAN, her lawful Agent, at Newport. November 22, 1802. [113tf]
For Sale at Public Auction, ON the first Monday of February next (weather permitting,) unless previously disposed of at private sale, a new two story Dwelling-House, with four rooms on a floor, with a Lot of Land, 60 feet front, frontate on Spring-Street.—Also, a two story Shop thereon, calculated for a dwelling-house with a Cellar under it. GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, Nov. 20, 1802. [cxixf]
N. B. Any person wishing to purchase at private sale, may know the terms, by applying to GARDNER and DEAN, or ROBERT LAWTON, jun. living on the premises.
For Sale, by the Subscriber, BETWEEN one and two thousand weight of Oakum, which will be disposed of, either in large or small quantities, as may best suit purchasers. CASH, and the highest price, given for old JUNK, as usual. JOHN WILLIAMS, Keeper of the Work-House. Newport, Feb. 12. [72tf]
Take Notice.
WE the subscribers, having been appointed by the Court of Probate for the town of New-Shoreham, Commissioners to receive, examine, and adjust the claims of the creditors to the private estate of Nathaniel Briggs, late of New-Shoreham, deceased, represented insolvent:—Give notice to all persons having demands against said estate, to bring them in to either of us, at our respective dwellings, within nine months from the date hereof, being the time allowed by said Court.
JOHN GORTON, NATHANIEL G. SANDS, } Commis- N. B. All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment, to BATHSHEBA BRIGGS, Admin'x. New-Shoreham, Nov. 26, 1802. [115]
TO BE LET,
AND possession given immediately, a convenient two story Dwelling-House, on the Long-Wharf, but a few rods below the foot of the Parade. Forth. For terms, apply to WILLIAM RYAN. Newport, Dec. 10, 1802. [115tf]
NEW GOODS, ROBERT LAWTON
INFORMS the Public, and his Friends in particular, that he has just received, at his Store, opposite Mr. Townsend's Coffee-House, Thames-Street, an elegant Assortment of Fashionable DRY GOODS,
adapted to the season—too numerous to particularize in an advertisement. Those who will please to call at his Store, he flatters himself, will find an inducement to purchase, as he is determined to dispose of them at very reduced prices.
N. B. He has also just opened for sale, a quantity of best Irish Linens , seven eighths, and yard wide, by wholesale or retail.—Likewise, a beautiful assortment of Lutestring , very cheap. October, 23, 1802. [c8tf]
John R. Shearman Has received his supply of FALL and WINTER GOODS, Comprising purple kid and silk GLOVES and elegant silk HOSE. Newport, Nov. 27, 1802. [113tf]
Green & Tillinghast, HEREBY inform their old Customers and the Public in general, that they have just received a large Assortment of Fall & Winter Goods, which they are now selling at the most reduced prices at their Store, by Wholesale and Retail. Newport, Nov. 1, 1802. [86tf]
SAMUEL VINSON, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends, and the public in general, that he has just received by the latest arrivals, a large and well chosen assortment of GOODS, suitable for the season; to commerce which would be tedious. Those who will favor him with their custom, may depend on having them on the lowest terms. He has likewise received a variety of Muffs, Tippets, and For Trimings. —Also, a small box of elegant JEWELRY, Consisting of Ladies Necklaces, Ear-rings, Hankerchief Pins, Brooches, Bracelets, & Lockets, of the most fashionable kinds. Newport, Nov. 12, 1802. [cxif]
William Douglass, At the Head of Broad-Street, HAS constantly for sale, a general Assortment of West-India and other GOODS. Newport, October 2, 1802. [67tf]
CASH, PAID FOR LINEN & WOOLEN RAGS, BY Christopher Olney, & Co. Delivered at their Mills, or at their Paper Warehouse.
WHERE they have for sale, at wholesale & 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, Oct. 26, 1802. [74tf]
FOR SALE, By JOSEPH BRIGGS, 30 Barrels best N. Y. Supreme Flour. 15 bbls. Beef and Pork. 2000 Weight best Green Coffee, by Wholesale or Retail. A few Casks of SHERRY WINE, of an excellent quality. Newport, May, 29. [50tf]
For Sale, by the Subscriber, that Valuable Real Estate in THAMES-STREET,
CONSISTING of a Dwelling-House, 37 feet by 32, almost new; with a good Cellar; paved Yard, and good Well of water, with a Pump therein; together with the Garden, Wharf, Stores, Stable, Chaise-House, &c. belonging to the same.—Likewise, a large Garden Lot, on the Hill, 126 feet on John-Street , and the same distance extending to Leven-Street .—Also, a good second hand Chaise, Two Horses, one Yoke of Oxen, and an Ox-Cart.—Likewise—A quantity of LUMBER; consisting of clear, and merchantable Pine Boards, Spruce Boards, Joist, Laths, and a few North-Carolina Cedar Shingles. JOSEPH LYON. Newport, Sept. 17, 1802. [ciii]
For Sale on Reasonable terms, A Quantity of Window Frames and Sashes, for 7 by 9 and 6 by 8 Glass. Enquire of the Printer. Newport, May 21, 1802. [86tf]
Dr. GUSTAVUS BAYLIES, OF BRISTOL.
Has just received, for Sale, an additional assortment of genuine DRUG & MEDICINES.
—ALSO— SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, OF WHICH ARE, ELEGANT Amputating Instruments, (of the latest Improvement.) Ditto, Trepanning ditto. Breast Pipes,—Ivory Syringes, &c. &c. LIKEWISE,
a few modern Medical Books, among which are, James Latta's Practical System of Surgery , illustrated with Cuts on many of the Subjects, and with Copperplates—3 Vols. Townsend's Guide to Health , Darwin's Zoonomia —3 Vols. Barfieur, on Medicine —a work of very considerable merit, containing a Course of Lectures delivered by the Author, which was translated from the Latin, by William Cullen, M.D. and published in the English language at Edinburgh, in the present year—4 Vols. Doctor BAYLIES likewise respectfully acquaints his friends, that he continues the Practice of PHYSIC, MIDWIFERY, and the various branches of SURGERY. November 29, 1802. [114tf]
HOLMES WEAVER, CABINET & CHAIR-MAKER,
HAS for Sale, a number of pieces of the most Fashionable Furniture, As Cheap as can be purchased, of equal elegance. Newport, Nov. 15. [cxii]
FOR SALE, THE real estate of Peter Allen , late of Middletown, deceased, (about four miles from the State-house in Newport, adjoining the road,) consisting of between fifty and sixty acres of land, with a dwelling-house, other buildings, and a good orchard thereon; well watered; good meadow, pasture, and tillage land, natural to Barley.—Possession will be given the 25th of March next. The terms may be known, by applying to either of the subscribers. ELIZABETH ALLEN, THOMAS C. ALLEN. Middletown, Dec. 3, 1802. [cxvif]
CLARK BLISS, INFORMS his friends, and the Public, that he has removed from Banister's wharf , to the dwelling-house belonging to Capt. Caleb Gardner , in Thames-Street , formerly occupied by Capt. Wing Spooner —where he has for sale a General Assortment of
West-India Goods: Among others, are the following articles, viz. Brandy, West-India Rum, with proof do. Gin, New-England Rum, Wines of different kinds, Molasses, Loaf & Brown Sugars, Coffee, Tea of various kinds, Chocolate, Raisins, Pepper, Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Flax, Rye and Indian Meal, Butter, Cheese, Soap, and Candles; various kinds of Class Ware , Jew Ware , Knives, and Forks, Jack Knives , Pen-Knives , large and small Spoons, Chest Locks and Keys , Crockery and Tin Ware , Axes, Hatchets and Hoes, Men's and Boys' Shoes, Corks, Brimstone , Lampblack , Stone Limes , Lamp Oil, Powder, Shot and Flint, Piping Linen of various kinds, Leads, and Hook, deep Sea Leads and Lines, Bellows, metal Tea Pans, washing Paper, wrapping paper by the ream, Bed Cords, Log Lines, Marlings, Seamen's Cloths, Oak Kgs holding from one quart to six gallons, Buckets, Coffee and Pepper ready ground for use; and a number of other articles not mentioned.—Captains of vessels, and others, may be supplied on the shortest notice, and every favor gratefully acknowledged. Newport, May 7 1802. [84tf]
FOR SALE, And possession given on the 25th of March next, A LARGE and valuable tract of LAND, in Hopkinton, adjoining Wood River,—Containing about Seven Hundred Acres ; known by the name of the Ellery Land , and now part of the estate of Col. George L. Lathrop , deceased. About Two Hundred acres of said land is cleared, and fit for tillage or meadow. The remainder is mostly covered with Timber of the best quality for ship plank, &c. An excellent stream of water runs through said land, whereon a Saw Mill may be erected at a small expense. The terms may be known, by applying to either of the subscribers. NICHOLAS TAYLOR, JOHN IRISH. Newport, Oct. 23, 1802. [c8tf]
To be Sold or Let,
A WELL finished Dwelling-House, situated on Thames-Street , opposite Mr. Robert Stevens —Also a new Store, adjoining the yard and garden, with a good well of water.—If not immediately sold, the Shop, with some part of the House, will be to let.—The situation, both for health and business, is not inferior to any in town. Conditions may be known by applying to HENRY G. CHAMPLAIN. Newport, Nov. 20, 1802. [cxv]
Just Published, and for sale at this Office, by the gross, dozen, or single,
The Rhode-Island ALMANAC
For the Year of our Lord, 1803. Containing a variety of matter, useful, instructive, and entertaining. Great allowance will be made to those who purchase large quantities.