The Providence journal, and town and country advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1801-10-21 00:00:00

The Providence Journal.
AND TOWN AND COUNTRY ADVERTISER.
Published on WEDNESDAYS, by JOHN CARTER, JUN. Printer of the LAWS of the UNITED STATES for the State of RHODE-ISLAND, &c. At the NEW PRINTING-OFFICE, West Side of the great Bridge, PROVIDENCE.
[No. 147.]
WEDNESDAY, October 21, 1801.
[Vol. III.]
Benjamin Thurber
Has just received, and now opening for sale, at the sign of the Bunch of Grapes, No. 30, William-Street, a complete assortment of
Fall and Winter Goods,
Among which are the following articles. SCARLET , blue, black, and London brown Broadcloths, Callimere, Elastics, Forrest Cloths, blue, green, and London brown Serges; plain, striped, and clouded Coatings; Fearnought, for great coats; yellow, red, black, and white Flannels; ditto Baizes; cotton and worsted Hose; Swansdowns; English, India, and Italian Lute-strings; black and coloured Sattins; Modes, Sarfnet, fashionable fancy check Ribbons, black and coloured silk Shawls, Bandanno and fancy silk Handkerchiefs.
A large assortment of Camels-hair Shawls, Muslin and chintz do.
A large assortment of high and low priced fashionable Calicoes, blue, purple, and red Copperplate; long and short silk and cotton Gloves, plain and striped Russells, Durants, Moreens, Shallons, Rattenets, plain and striped Wildbore, Bengals, Crapes, linen Pocket Handkerchiefs, black and white Laces and Edgings, India Cotton of various prices, Mulls, Mulls, and Dimities, black and olive coloured men's Velvet.
A large assortment of new-fashioned Hats and Bonnets, Straw Trimmings, Cotton do. and a large assortment of Muffs and Tippits, and Fur Trimmings for cloaks.
A complete assortment of Looking-Glasses, Patent Lamps, brass and iron Candlesticks, house and floor Brushes, Coffee Mills, Flat Irons, London and Bristol Pewter, Knives and Forks, Table and Tea Spoons, Shovels and Tongs, brass Kettles, Cotton Wool, warranted Spanish Float and French Indigo, glass, China, and delf Ware; new-fashioned Tea-Pots, Cotton-Wool Cards, and other things, too numerous to mention.
All old friends are invited to call and see for themselves, and whether they purchase or not, they will be waited on with pleasure. The above articles will be sold at the lowest advance for cash.
October 14.
A Pocket-Book found.
FOUND, a few days since, on the road from Boston to Providence, a small Red Morocco Pocket-Book, containing sundry Notes of Hand, in favour of BENJAMIN L. HALL, to the amount of a considerable sum; and several other papers of small consequence. The Pocket-Book, Notes, &c. are left at this Office, where the owner may receive them, by proving property and paying reasonable charges.
October 14.
Take Notice.
WHEREAS the Freemen of the town of Providence, in town-meeting legally assembled on the 25th day of August A. D. 1801, ordered a tax of 16,600 dollars to be assessed on the ratable property of the inhabitants and others owning such property in said town, and the subscriber having been appointed collector of said tax, and also of the State tax of 3434 dollars and 73 cents, ordered by the General Assembly at their session in June last; requests all persons to call on him and pay the sums assessed on them respectively, on or before the first day of December next. And for the purpose of receiving said taxes, the subscriber will attend at the office of Samuel W. Bridgham, Esq. opposite the State-House, from the 21st day of November, to the 1st day of December next. Sundays excepted, from 9 o'clock till 11 A. M. and from 2 to 4 P. M. A deduction of three per cent. will be made to all such as call on the subscriber and pay the same by the time above mentioned.
JESSE WHITMORE, Collector. October 14.
LOST, about one o'clock on Sunday last, between Mrs. Welcome Arnold's and the head of Power's Lane,
A black lace Veil.
Whoever will give information of the same, to the Printer, shall be satisfactorily rewarded. October 14.
TO LET,
A CONVENIENT Tenement, a few doors north of the Episcopal Church. For particulars, enquire of ANNE KEENE. October 14.
From the GLASGOW COURIER of August 13.
INSCRIPTION, Sacred to the Ministerial Memory of The Right Hon. William Pitt, The Lineal Representative of The Genius, the Eloquence, and the Virtue, of the ever
VENERATED CHATHAM:
WHO, succeeding to the station, and inheriting the wisdom, of his illustrious father, like him retrieved the errors of preceding administrations, and realized the hopes of his country, by raising it to the highest pitch of human glory. At the early age of 22 years he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, and equally astonished his countrymen, and Europe, by his eloquence as an orator, and his wisdom as a statesman. Formed by nature for an exalted office, and trained by his immortal parent to fill it, he supplied the deficiencies of experience and years, by the extraordinary cultivation, extent and accuracy of his perceptive powers. Overleaping the distance between youth and experience, he grasped the wisdom of riper years; and in the earliest struggles of his administration, exhibited a mind so luminous, sagacious, and enriched, that even his eloquence was considered as a secondary to his judgment. When he came into office, he found the British nation deprived of an Empire in the West. When he went out of office, he left the British nation in possession of a new Empire in the East. When he assumed the management of its finances, he found an exhausted treasury, a declining revenue, a decaying commerce, and a mass of floating debt, which, with the unprovided means of liquidating past burdens, threatened the extinction of public credit. When he resigned the management of its finances, he left its revenue improved, its commerce reanimated, its exports tripling their amount in the most brilliant days of peace, and its debt, which former statesmen had predicted to threaten the Constitution, provided for by a fund defined, not merely to expunge the expenses of his own administration, but to realize the bolder conception of crushing the mass of its taxation, by extinguishing, within the probable period of less than forty years, the whole national debt.—Posterity, in deriving the benefit of this financial measure, will admire the genius, and revere the memory of the Minister, who, living less for his own age than after times, could thus, by so grand an operation, secure to them unimpaired, the blessings of the British constitution, without the burthens that it cost preceding ages to preserve it. When he came in, France possessed the blessings of regular government, immense revenue, an extensive commerce, a powerful navy, rich colonies, and the esteem and respect of Europe. When he went out, France exhibited what may be termed a blank in the map of civilization. Her altars and her rights, equally the sport of Atheists and usurpers; her soil stained by the blood of their victims; her people drooping over the loss of their trade, their credit, their capital, their colonies, their navy, and their liberties; and her government and principles alike the scorn and detestation of the civilized world. France, in her misery, was left a monument of the folly and wickedness of her rulers; Great-Britain, in her increased prosperity, remained an example of the superior wisdom and virtue of her Minister.
READER,
These were his services. His crimes were great in the eyes of a few. He taxed the people and saved the constitution. He aroused the virtues, and armed the energies of his country against the moral pollution of its shores. His enemies charge him, that in the sacred cause of religion, and social order, he would not surrender the British nation to atheism and impiety; but that, in the fall of surrounding nations, and the wreck of civil society, he preserved it, undefiled, from the dominion and contagion of France. The Jacobins reproach him with extinguishing the torch of sedition in Great-Britain, and quenching the flames of rebellion in Ireland. They allege, he beat down the enemy with a bold and victorious arm; and that, braving the Northern League, he successfully asserted the maritime rights of the United Kingdom against a confederated world in arms; And finally, they assert, that after having extended its fame, its commerce, and its empire, and fenced its laws, its liberties, and its religion, within the folds of triumphant banners, by the destruction of the trade, the annihilation of the navy, and the seizure of the most valuable possessions, of the enemy; in duty to the honest conviction of his mind, on a great state question, he resigned his station, in preference to relinquishing his opinion; exhibiting thereby an elevated example, to the present and future ages, that in him, the love of power and of station were subordinate to his reverence of public virtue, and his sense of public duty. These are the reproaches of his enemies; but his countrymen, more just, admire the sacrifice, and trace his glory, where they charge his shame.
On his retreat from office, unlike to former Ministers, he shrunk from the feuds of faction, and kept within the pale of his principles, supporting as zealously his successors, out of office, as he had strenuously opposed his antagonists when in power; thus clearly evincing, that the love of his country, and not the lure of situation, was the ruling passion of his heart. A nation secured from anarchy and desolation, by the genius and intrepidity of
The Right Hon. WILLIAM PITT, raises this fragile column, in testimony of its gratitude, to the Preserver of its liberties and constitution; until the future historian shall erect a more durable monument, to perpetuate his renown, by recording his name on her imperishable page, and classing him with those illustrious statesmen, whose actions have adorned the annals of the world.
From the PORT FOLIO.
“Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ornament.”
THOUGH much occupied in preaching, and noted, as some of my friends say, for a certain poetical heedlessness of character, yet, if not oftener, at least every Sunday, I copy the common custom, and invest my little person in clean array. As, from a variety of motives, and none of them, I hope, bad ones, I go with some degree of constancy to church, I choose to appear there decently, and in order. However inattentive through the week, on the solemn day, I brush, with more than ordinary pains, my best coat, am watchful of the purity of my linen, and adjust my cravat, with an old batchelor's nicety. While I was lately busied at my toilet, in the work of personal decoration, it popped into my head that a sermon in praise of neatness would do good service, if not to the world at large, at least to many of my reading, writing and thinking brethren, who make their assiduous homage to mind, a pretext for negligence of person.
Among the minor virtues, cleanliness ought to be conspicuously ranked; and, in the common topics of praise, we generally arrange some commendation of neatness. It involves much. It supposes a love of order, and attention to the laws of custom, and a decent pride. My Lord Bacon says, that a good person is a perpetual letter of recommendation. This idea may be extended. Of a well-dressed man, it may be affirmed that he has a sure passport through the realms of civility. In first interviews we can judge of no one, except from appearances. He, therefore, whose exterior is agreeable, begins well in any society. Men and women are supposed to augur favourably, rather than otherwise, of him, who manifests, by the purity and propriety of his garb, a disposition to comply, and to please. As, in rhetoric, a judicious exordium is of admirable use to render an audience docile, attentive, and benevolent, so at your introduction into good company, clean modish apparel is, though an humble, at least a serviceable herald of our exertions.
As these are very obvious truths, and as literary men are generally vain, and sometimes proud, it is singular that one of the easiest modes of gratifying self complacency should, by them, be, for the most part, neglected; and that this sort of carelessness is so adhesive to one tribe of writers, that the words poet and sloven are regarded as synonymous in the world's vocabulary.
This negligence in men of letters sometimes arises from their inordinate application to books and papers, and may be palliated by a good-natured man, as the natural product of a mind too intensely engaged in sublime speculations, to attend to the blackness of a shoe, or the whiteness of a ruffle. Mr. Locke and Sir Isaac Newton might be forgiven by their candid contemporaries, though the first had composed his essay with “unwashed hands,”
and the second had investigated the laws of nature, when he was clad in a soiled night-gown. But slovenliness is often affected by authors, or rather pretenders to authorship, and must then be considered as highly culpable; as an outrage of decorum; as a defiance to the world; and as a pitiful scheme to attract notice, by means which are equally in the power of the drayman and the chimney sweeper. I know a poet of this description, who anticipates renown no less from a dirty shirt, than from an elegant couplet, and imagines that when his appearance is the most sordid, the world must conclude, of course, that his mind is splendid and fair. In his opinion, “marvellous foul linen” is a token of wit, and inky fingers indicate humour; he avers that a slouchy hat is demonstrative of a well-stored brain, and that genius always trudges about in unbuckled shoes; He looks for invention in rumpled ruffles, and finds high sounding poetry among the folds of a loose stocking. But this smirched son of Apollo may be assured there is no necessary connexion between dirt and ability. It is not necessary to consummate such a marriage to produce the fairest offspring of the mind. One may write brilliantly, and, strange as it may seem, be dressed well. If negligence be the criterion of genius, a critic will, in future, inspect a poet's wardrobe, rather than his works. Slovenliness, so far from being commendable in an author, is more inexcusable in men of letters, than in many others, the nature of whose employment compels them to be conversant with objects sordid and impure. A smith from his forge, or a husbandman from his field, is obliged sometimes to appear stained with the smut of the one, or the dust of the other. A writer, on the contrary, sitting in an easy chair, at a polished desk, and leaning on white paper, or examining the pages of a book, is, by no means, obliged to be soiled by his labours. I see no reason why an author should not be a gentleman, or at least as clean and neat as a quaker. Far from thinking that filthy dress marks a liberal mind, I should suspect the good sense and talents of him who affected to wear a tattered coat, as the badge of his profession. Should I see a reputed genius totally regardless of his person, I should immediately doubt the delicacy of his taste, and the accuracy of his judgment. I should conclude there was some obliquity in his mind, a dull sense of decorum, and a disregard of order. I should fancy that he conformed with low society: and, instead of claiming the privilege of genius, to knock and be admitted at palaces, that he chose to sneak in at the back door of hovels, and wallow brutishly in the sty of the vulgar.
It is recorded of Somerville and Shenstone, that they were negligent, and of Smith that he was a sloven. But disregard of dress is by no means a constant trait in the literary character. Edmund Waller, Prior, Swift, and Bolingbroke, were remarkably neat in their persons, and curious in the choice of apparel: and of David Mallet, Dr. Johnson observes, “that his appearance was agreeable, and he suffered it to want no recommendation that dress could give.”
The orientals are careful of their persons, with much care. Their frequent ablutions, and change of garments, are noticed in every page of their history. My text is not the only precept of neatness that can be quoted from the Bible. The wise men of the east supposed there was some analogy between the purity of the body and the mind; nor is this a vain imagination.
I cannot conclude this sermon better than by an extract from the works of Count Rumford, who, in few and strong words, has fortified my doctrine.

"With that care and attention do the feathered race wash themselves and put their plumage in order; and how perfectly neat, clean and elegant do they ever appear. Among the beauties of the field, we find that those, which are the most cleanly, are generally the most gay and cheerful; or are distinguished by a certain air of tranquility and contentment; and singing birds are always remarkable for the neatness of their plumage. So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain."
Late Foreign Intelligence.
By the latest arrivals from Europe.—London dates to September 3.
LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
Sunday, August 23.
Downing Street, August 22.
DISPATCHES (in duplicate) of which the following are copies, have this day been received at the office of the Right Hon. Lord Hobart, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, from Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir John Hely Hutchinson, K. B. transmitted in a letter from the Earl of Elgin to the Right Honourable Lord Hawkesbury.
Extract of a Dispatch from the Earl of Elgin to Lord Hawkesbury, dated Constantinople, July 18, 1801.
I have the satisfaction of acquainting your Lordship, that the inclosed letters to Lord Hobart contain the intelligence of the surrender of Grand Cairo to the combined forces under General Hutchinson, the Vizier, and the Captain Pacha.
Head-Quarters, Camp before Gizah, June 21, 1801.
My Lord,
I have nothing new or of very essential import to communicate; but I avail myself of the opportunity of a messenger going to Constantinople to inform you that we are now encamped near Gizah, which is on the opposite side of the river to Cairo. We mean to erect batteries in the course of twenty-four hours; it cannot hold out long, as it is a very weak place; but it covers a bridge of communication which the French have over the Nile, and it is therefore essential to us to have it in our possession. This operation cannot last more than four or five days at most: I then mean to cross the river, and join the army of the Grand Vizier, who is at present encamped very near Cairo: we shall then besiege the place, which is garrisoned by four or five thousand French; but their works are very extended, and would require a much greater number of men to defend them. Great delays have been occasioned in this operation from the low state of the river, and from the bar of the Nile at Rosetta, which is frequently impassible for ten days together, so that our march has been much retarded. The difficulty of procuring provisions for the army, and the obstacles which we encountered in bringing the heavy artillery up the river, (which has not yet been entirely accomplished) have been very great. However, we have now a sufficiency to begin the siege.
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) J. H. HUTCHINSON.
To the Right Hon. Lord Hobart.
Head-Quarters, Camp before Gizah, June 23, 1801.
My Lord,
The combined armies advanced on both sides of the river on the 21st instant. The British troops, and those of his Highness the Captain Pacha, invested Gizah, on the left bank of the Nile, whilst the army of his Highness the Grand Vizier moved forward, and took a position nearly within a cannon shot of Cairo. On the 22d, in the morning, the enemy sent out a flag of truce, and informed me, that they wished to treat for the evacuation of Cairo, and the forts thereunto belonging, upon certain conditions. After a negotiation of several days, which was conducted by Brigadier-General Hope with much judgment and ability, they agreed to surrender the town and forts on the conditions which I have the honour to inclose.
We took possession of the gate of Gizah at five o'clock yesterday evening, and also of the fort Sulukoski, on the Cairo side of the river: hostages have been mutually exchanged, and the final evacuation will take place in about ten days.
I should suppose that there are near six thousand troops of all kinds in the town, but I speak without a perfect knowledge on the subject, as I have not yet received any returns.
This has been a long and arduous service: the troops, from the great heat of the weather, the difficulties of the navigation of the river, and the entire want of roads in the country, have suffered a considerable degree of fatigue—both men and officers have submitted to it with the greatest patience, and have manifested a zeal for the honour of his Majesty's arms that is above all panegyric; the conduct of the soldiers has been orderly and exemplary; and a discipline has been preserved which would have done honour to any troops.
I am extremely obliged to Lieutenant-Col. Anstruther, Quartermaster-General, for the great zeal and ability he has shown, under very difficult circumstances, in forwarding the public service. From Generals Cradock and Doyle, who were the general officers employed immediately under my orders, I
have derived the greatest assistance, and I beg leave to recommend them as highly deserving of his Majesty's favour.
The exertions of Captain Stevenson, of the navy, have been extremely laborious and constant during this long march; they have done every thing that was possible to forward our supplies; and indeed, without their powerful aid, it would have been impossible to have proceeded. Your Lordship will recollect that the river is extremely low at this season of the year, the mouth of the Nile impassible for days together, and the distance from Rosetta to Cairo between 160 and 170 miles. Capt. Stevenson has been ably supported by Captains Curry and Hilley, who were employed under him. The service in which they have been engaged has not been a brilliant one; but I hope it will be recollected that it has been most useful, and had required constant vigilance and attention; it has lasted now for many weeks; the labour has been excessive, and the fatigue greater than I can express.
This dispatch will be delivered to you by my Aid-de-Camp, Major Mottresor, who has been in the most intimate habits of confidence with me since my arrival in Egypt, and will be able to give your Lordship a most perfect account of the situation of affairs in this country. I beg leave to recommend him to your Lordship's protection, as an officer of merit, and highly deserving of his Majesty's favour.
I have the honour to be, &c.
J. H. HUTCHINSON, Major General. To the Right Hon. Lord Hobart, &c.
[The terms of capitulation are comprised in 21 articles; in which it was agreed, that the French troops and their auxiliaries should march to Rosetta, along the left of the Nile, in order there to be embarked for the French ports in the Mediterranean, at the expence of the allied powers; that the members of the administration, and commission of arts and sciences, should be at liberty to take with them not only all the papers relative to their mission, but all their private papers, and every other article connected with them; that such of the inhabitants of Egypt who were disposed to follow the French troops, were at liberty to do so, and their families, after their departure, should not be molested, nor their property confiscated; that the sick, who were unable to proceed with the army, should be sent to an hospital, and when recovered, transported to France at the expence of the allied powers. The part of Egypt evacuated by General Bailliard, consists of the city and citadel of Cairo, the forts of Boulac, Gaza, &c.]
The average price of sugar computed from the returns made for the week ending the 19th day of August, 1801 is forty-six shillings and elevenpence farthing per hundred weight.
At the corn exchange, this day, the prices of wheat met little or no alteration from Friday's market. Fine flour was 7s. 6d. per sack.
Extract of a letter from Earl S. Vincent, to Lord Viscount Nelson, K. B. dated the 17th instant.
It is not given to us to command success.—Your Lordship, and the gallant officers and men under your orders, most certainly deserve it; and I cannot sufficiently express my admiration of the zeal and persevering courage with which this gallant enterprise was followed up; lamenting most sincerely the loss sustained in it. The manner in which the enemy's flotilla was made fast to the ground, and to each other, could not have been foreseen: the highest praise is due to your Lordship, and all under your command, who were actors in the gallant attempt.
Dover, August 23.
The French position at Boulogne is very strong, being covered by eleven batteries on shore, and the assistance of 17,000 troops encamped, which, together with the danger of approaching the shore near enough with large ships, renders any attack very difficult. The French have much the same sort of craft all along shore to the westward, as they have at Boulogne, which are laid, it is reported, as traps to draw our ships and men into a greater danger unseen. A ship lately got two men wounded, and her rigging much cut, in going to cannonade some gun boats; the French batteries being on the cliffs, have a great advantage of our ships, and are so masked as not to be perceived until they open their fire. Our cruisers continue to block up Calais and Boulogne.
Lord Nelson failed yesterday morning from the Downs, with the Medusa, Leyden, Dart, and several bombs, fire-ships and gun vessels.—The place of his destination is not known; if it were, however, it would be improper to state it. In the afternoon his squadron was out of sight.
After the termination of the war in Egypt, the English and Turks are to undertake an expedition for the purpose of curtailing and confining the depredations of the Barbary powers. It has always been a matter of surprise and regret, that those powers have been suffered to carry on their predatory warfare so long.
LONDON, August 24.
Advices have been received in town of a later date than the dispatches from Gen. Hutchinson. They state that the convention of Cairo had already been begun to be carried into execution; and that the two English and French armies were returning towards Rosetta, marching in parallel lines. Of Menou's determination, in consequence of the convention of Cairo, these advices make no mention.
The surrender of Cairo was celebrated at Constantinople in a very splendid manner, and with the greatest rejoicings. No intelli-
gence has yet arrived of the effect which the Convention of Cairo has produced upon Menou. Alexandria, however, cannot hold out long. The five transports belonging to Gantheume which were captured, are said to have on board 800 men. The Grand Seigneur lately presented Lord Elgin with a superb aigrette, adorned with brilliants, a horse richly caparisoned, and several other articles of great value.
NEGOCIATION.
Never since the commencement of the negotiation, was the correspondence more active between the two governments than it is at present. Two packets failed from Calais on Friday—one arrived at Dover on Friday night, another yesterday. The latter brought us the Paris papers to the 20th inst.
August 28.
BRITISH NAVAL EXPEDITIONS.
Lord Nelson arrived yesterday morning in the Downs, with his squadron. We are informed that his Lordship was on Monday off Middleburg, where he lay to the whole day. On Tuesday he went on board a cutter, to reconnoitre Flushing and the adjacent coast; but, it is rumoured, found it too strong to be attacked with any probability of success.
We do not yet know whether Lord Nelson means to visit the ports of Picardie, of Flanders, or of Holland, first—probably they all come within his plans—for on the 18th, in his general orders, he promised to annihilate the enemy's flotilla.—Certain it is, that the dispositions made by the enemy, exact a degree of activity equal to that of the Admiral. The flotillas multiply all along the opposite coast; and although the port of Dunkirk was blockaded, 35 vessels succeeded last week in getting out, and have actually arrived at Boulogne.
Another flotilla was met on the 16th, near St. Marcou, by our cruisers—a firing took place on both sides without effect, and the French boats were obliged to enter La Hogue and Cherbourg; at length a division was intercepted fleeing from Dieppe, for Boulogne—we engaged them near St. Valery, and, in spite of the fire of the batteries, we took three, and sunk three others.
The preparations along the Dutch and French coasts still continue, and their ostensible object is defence against any attack from our fleet. No less than 100,000 men are said to be collected betwixt Dunkirk and Brest, but we believe this number is exaggerated.
August 29.
A treaty of peace has been signed at Paris between the French republic and the Elector of Bavaria.
We received this morning, by express, the Paris papers to the 25th instant. The most remarkable intelligence brought by them is the great and rapid rise in the French funds. On the 21st, they were 43 3/4; on the 22d, they rose to 46, and on the 23d to 48. For such a rise we are unable to account. There is no news in the papers that could have occasioned it, nor indeed is there any article of importance in them.
Yesterday a report by no means favourable to peace was in circulation. It was said that our Minister had sent an ultimatum. This rumour, however unlikely, occasioned a fall of half per cent. in the public funds.
Sir J. B. Warren's arrival on the Italian coast has wholly changed the face of affairs with respect to the siege of Porto Perrajo. The French had sent three frigates to cover the siege. As soon, however, as the admiral made his appearance, the three frigates attempted to make their escape. Two of them succeeded, the other (the Ceres) was taken. Several ships were also taken near Piombino, and part of a French flotilla, with troops for the little Isle of Elba, was destroyed. The French who were encamped at Longone, to carry on the siege of Porto Perrajo, are now besieged themselves, and as they cannot receive supplies from Leghorn, must, it is supposed, surrender. Several ammunition wagons, and the war chest, have also fallen into our hands.
The island of Zante has been taken possession of by the English, at the request of the inhabitants.
BOULOGNE, August 22.
The English, after having burned the depot of naval stores, as I wrote you on the 31st, attacked a division of flat bottomed boats, that failed from St. Valet to join our flotilla—they took three, and drove four on shore.—We are as yet ignorant of the killed and wounded on either side.—Our division could receive no assistance from the land—our troops cantoned in the neighbourhood having arrived too late.
A division of from 30 to 40 sail of flat bottomed and gun boats, which we expected to join the flotilla at Boulogne, are blockaded in Calais by 12 ships of war.
Nothing can be more interesting than the present moment. In Boulogne we have but 2 ships of the line, one frigate, two brigs, and three or four cutters.
DEAL, September 1.
Admiral Nelson still continues in the Downs, with his flag flying on board the Amazon frigate.
LEGHORN, August 7.
BLOCKADE OF TRIPOLI.
The American Consul resident here has been directed by Mr. Cathcart, the Consul of the United States at Tripoli, to give all publicity to the following—
"Consulate of the United States of America at Tunis, July 25th. "The Bey of Tripoli having declared war against the United States, our government
has sent a flotilla to prevent the regency from injuring our commerce. In consequence are to inform the Agents of all powers with us, that Tripoli is now blockaded by the said American flotilla, and that every ship whatever, which shall attempt to enter the port, will be treated conformably to the laws of nations, applicable to such cases.
(Signed)
W. CATAN, Consul at Tunis."
PETERSBURG, July 30.
Citizen Duroc, the French Ambassador having failed in the objects of his mission, this Court, is about to leave Russia for Stockholm. Count Markov is to succeed Count Kalitschew, at Paris, but will pass some time on his estates to arrange his affairs, before he sets out for France.—All games of hazard are prohibited by the Emperor; and the train and German comedians have been dismissed. The trade between Astracan and India is rapidly reviving; great quantities of Indian goods have arrived over land.
ROME, July 25.
The Sovereign Pontiff held a Consistory a few days since; at which he created six Cardinals, and named besides to eighteen vacant Bishopricks, several of which are in the Cisalpine and French Republics.
BRUSSELS, August 9.
Three divisions of French troops are in march for Dunkirk and Boulogne; 600 horse-chasseurs; 200 horse-artillery, three companies of foot artillery, and three battalions of light infantry, with a large train of artillery ammunition-wagons, &c. to join the grand army destined for the invasion of England.
HAMBURGH, August 15.
The negotiation between England and France is not likely speedily to terminate in peace. It is said Buonaparte demands that England shall surrender Gibraltar to the Spaniards!
August 28.
Letters have been received from Smyrna by an opulent Greek banking-house, at Vienna, stating that general Menou had informed general Hutchinson that he would surrender the fortress and harbour of Alexandria to the Anglo-Turkish forces, if in the course of six weeks he received no succours from France. According to the reports of some deserters from Menou's division, they were in extreme want of water and various necessaries, but particularly medicines for the sick. Menou is said to have requested a limited supply of the articles of which he is most destitute, until the expiration of that period. This proposal Gen. Hutchinson rejected; signifying to the French Commander, that he would grant him no longer than ten days to surrender Alexandria, on the same terms given to the French at Cairo; but that afterwards he must surrender at discretion.
Gen. Hutchinson had, by all accounts, received a reinforcement of 7000 men, with which he hoped to terminate the war in Egypt in a few weeks. Should Menou refuse to surrender on the terms proposed to him, it is intended to carry Alexandria by storm.
VIENNA, August 14.
Several Greek commercial houses have received letters from Smyrna, and other places in Turkey, the news that a considerable number of English and Turkish vessels had sailed from before Alexandria, in order to oblige the Dey of Algiers to pay the arrears of tribute he owes to the Porte. The letters which bring this news add, that it had been agreed between the Turks and the English, to unite their forces, when the expedition to Egypt shall have terminated, to put a stop to the period to the piracies exercised by the Barbary pirates.
Domestic Intelligence.
WASHINGTON, September 30.
GODWIN'S REPENTANCE.
The famous Jacobin Godwin has written to a correspondent in this country, that he regretted exceedingly his ever having written what he had written; that he was now brought to see the weakness and viciousness of his writings, and that his head and heart revolted from the reflection of his former conduct and opinions.
If any one doubts this, he may, by applying at this office, have the name of the person who received the letter from Godwin, and complete evidence of the truth of this statement.
NEW-YORK, October 7.
A copy of the ratification of the French convention, we understand, was brought in the brig Franklin, Capt. Newel, arrived this morning from Bourdeaux, which was immediately forwarded to the seat of government.
October 10.
The brig Clio, Capt. Bourne, arrived yesterday, in 29 days from Bourdeaux. By her we have received Paris papers to the 29th of August. From a gentleman passenger we learn, that the negotiations for peace between France and England had assumed a consistent tone; it was no longer treating for a treaty.—Bonaparte had applied to the English government, and obtained a passport for his brother Joseph, who was to proceed to London in quality of a negotiator. It was confidently believed in France (to the great joy of the people of that country), that a peace was not far distant, which would afford some respite to Europe, deluged with the blood of a destructive nine years' war.

October 12. The Resident Physician has announced, that the number of reported new cases since his former publication (7th inst.) is very few; that there have been twenty-three deaths; but that he can perceive nothing that warrants the suggestion that pestilence is spreading among us.
BOSTON, October 17. Mr. Eaton, Consul of the United States at Tunis, under direction of Mr. Consul Cathcart, has declared Tripoli to be in a state of blockade, by Commodore Dale's squadron; and that all vessels attempting to enter that port, will be dealt with conformably to the laws of nations.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. BY HIS EXCELLENCY CALEB STRONG, Esq. Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A PROCLAMATION FOR A DAY OF PUBLIC THANKSGIVING.
AS we are under the highest obligations for the goodness of the Supreme Being, in giving this land to us and to our fathers, in upholding our lives with a rich variety of his bounty, in appointing his Son to lay a foundation for our happiness, and in bestowing numberless favours upon the people of this State in the course of the last year; it becomes us, at the close of it, to render our joint tribute of adoration and praise to that great and constant Benefactor, who has daily loaded us with benefits, and who pours comforts upon all that live:
THEREFORE, with the advice and consent of the Council, I appoint THURSDAY, the twenty-sixth of November next, to be observed through the Commonwealth as a day of public Thanksgiving and Praise; and the Ministers and people of every denomination are requested to assemble on that day, in their respective places of public worship, that we may devoutly present to the LORD our Maker, the affectionate gratitude of our hearts, for all the goodness which he has caused to pass over us; for the support and accommodation of our lives; for the continuation of our civil and religious liberty; for the unusual degree of health which He has granted to us; and for the means we possess of attaining and diffusing useful knowledge. And that He has been pleased to give us rain in due season, and to cause the earth to yield her increase in abundance; that He has prospered our commerce, navigation and fisheries; that He has given us peace in our borders, and quietness and safety in our dwellings; and that He has crowned the year with his goodness, and caused our cup of blessings to run over.
AND while with grateful emotions we contemplate the scenes of prosperity, let us humble ourselves before Him, that He would forgive us, and make us still the objects of His divine favour; that with the bounties of nature He would grant us the blessings of grace, and that He would animate us to a temper and conduct, which may correspond with the benefits we have received, and the felicity after which we are encouraged to aspire. That He would smile upon our University, Colleges and Schools, and succeed the means of religious and moral instruction. That He would direct and prosper the government of the United States, and that the President and all others, who are employed in its important offices, may discharge their respective duties with prudence, integrity and patriotism. That the governments of the several States may do all that is incumbent upon them, to preserve union, order and tranquility; and that the whole people may duly estimate the advantages by which they are distinguished. That He would restrain the rage of contending nations, and that the great events which are taking place may be made subservient to the triumph of the Gospel, and the happiness of mankind; and that the period may arrive, when violence and oppression shall cease, and righteousness shall be established in all the earth; when the different nations of men shall be united in the bonds of brotherly love; when every species of false religion shall disappear, and the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
AND the inhabitants of the State are earnestly requested to abstain from such labour and recreation as are inconsistent with the solemnities of the said day. Given at the Council Chamber in Boston, this fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, and in the twenty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
CALEB STRONG. By his Excellency's Command, with the advice and the consent of the Council. JOHN AVERY, Secretary. God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MILLOT'S DESCRIPTION OF EGYPT. EGYPT, which is situated between the twenty-fourth and thirty-third degrees of north lat. is one of the countries of the world the most favoured by nature; the sky is serene, the soil fertile, the plants and fruits agreeable and salutary: but a wonderful degree of industry would have been necessary to render it habitable for a considerable number of people. The overflowing of the Nile procures
every advantage, and supplies the want of rain, which never falls in that country. That river has its source in a mountain in Abyssinia, from whence it does not arrive in Egypt till after it has been precipitated over seven cataracts, with a noise which is heard at the distance of a number of leagues. It begins to swell in the month of May, and by a gradual increase, which is almost imperceptible at first, it arrives at a sufficient height to overflow the country, and remains in that state from the month of June till October. The ancients, who were ignorant of the causes of the inundation, have assigned some fabulous reasons, which will always be the case when people substitute conjectures instead of facts. At present we know that it rains in Ethiopia five months of the year, from April to September, which is the secret of the overflowing of the Nile; and the precious mud which it deposits produces the amazing fertility of Egypt: thus lands, which are naturally dry and sandy, become the best soil in the world. They need only sow, without almost any culture to reap, in a very short time, all the natural productions. Egypt, during the summer, appears like a sea, with cities, villages, and thickets, scattered over it, and affording a most wonderful and singular prospect; in the winter flocks, herds, and husbandmen, where orange, citron, and other fragrant trees are seen, whose flowers delight the eye and perfume the surrounding air. Modern travellers give nearly the same description with the ancients.
Providence, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21.
Late last evening we received a New-York paper of Monday last, which contains a report of the resident physician in that city, stating the number of deaths, from the 1st to the 18th inst. to have been 88, of a malignant fever.—The same paper contains London news to the 4th of September; the most important article of which represents the negotiation between England and France as rapidly drawing near to a good understanding on the basis of preliminaries, or to a complete rupture. It was understood that the ultimatum of the British cabinet, on the outlines of the proposed treaty, had been transmitted to Paris.—The king of Great-Britain has acceded to the treaty concluded at Luneville, in February last, between France and Austria.
At the annual election of the Stock holders in Providence Bank, on Monday the 5th inst. the following gentlemen were re-elected Directors for the year ensuing, viz. John Brown, John I. Clark, Jabez Bowen, Moses Brown, Samuel Butler, Thomas L. Halsey, Nicholas Brown, John Corlis, and William Holroyd.—John Brown was re-appointed President, and Olney Winfor, Cashier.
At the Supreme Judicial Court held at South Kingstown last week, Mr. Samuel Jackson Prescott, was admitted an Attorney and Practitioner at Law.
The review and inspection of the militia in the county of Providence commenced with the first regiment, commanded by Col. Whiting, in Providence, on Monday the 5th inst. The battalion was drawn up at 10 o'clock, A. M. Col. Smith's company of light dragoons, Col. Fisher's artillery, and Col. Taylor's independent volunteers, on the right. The presence and co-operation of the officers and soldiers of the independent companies, excited in those of the battalion an emulation, which produced a degree of facility and precision of military evolutions unusual and highly honourable. Silence and subordination were observable, and an improvement in arms and accoutrements heretofore unparallelled. At half past 5, P. M. the regiment took up the line of march, and proceeded to the bridge, where the whole were dismissed. The other five regiments were reviewed and inspected in the course of the same week: The several chartered companies attached to the battalions displayed proofs of improvement and good conduct. The weather being remarkably pleasant, a variety of manœuvres were performed much to the credit of the officers and soldiers of the brigade. An uncommon degree of military spirit animated every citizen in arms, who, with one voice and soul, pledged himself "to support a government, which protects life, liberty and property." The General, in his addresses to the regiments, called their attention to the important duties of American citizens in arms, and excited their ambition and patriotism by a reference to the examples of the great and illustrious Washington; assuring them "that efforts of imitating him, should eventually be crowned with a destiny as glorious and beatific." The spirit and ambition of the troops, their correctness in evolutions, their subordination and soldierlike behaviour, their improvement in arms and equipments, are sure and pleasurable proofs of future perfection in the military art.
Coup d'œil de Paris. Much activity, many carriages, horses and jack-asses, thousands of beggars, a great number of foreigners, and of course kept women; young men who are pursuing the road to ruin, and old men who are already ruined; gaming-houses that prosper, and commercial houses that languish; little money, much expence; fortunate men who are still complaining, unfortunate who do not complain at all; women drowning themselves, men shooting themselves; fools laughing, and wise men grieving.
Public places continue to be frequented. The Marchandes de Modes have all the trade of the capital.
The number of men of abilities diminishes, and as a necessary consequence, the number of works increases.
Luxury is like a torrent which threatens to inundate the capital. Those who have seized the time by the forelock, to make their fortunes, have done well, for the harvest appears to be over; and the men who are poor this year, will not in all probability be rich the next.
Want of faith makes great progress, and often triumphs; probity maintains an unequal contest; actions multiply; attorneys get rich.
Property is respected; some individuals grieve at it, but they dare not complain. The police is active, public crimes are rare, and if morality could ensure society against the secret crimes and vices that ravage it, men would forget the past, enjoy the present, and fear not the future; but when we reflect that bad morals have successively destroyed the hardest people, and overthrown the strongest empires, one is afraid to walk so near a precipice which the French nation does not perceive, because it is dazzled by the brilliancy of its glory.
Married, In this town, on Wednesday morning last, by the Rev. Mr. Wilson, Mr. Royal Farnum, to Miss Betsy Whitney. On Thursday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Wilson, Mr. Elisha Dyer, merchant, to Miss Frances Jones, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Jones.
The same evening, by the Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, Mr. Stephen Smith, to Miss Amy Jencks, daughter of the late Capt. Charles Jencks, of this town.
"On Sunday evening the 4th inst. by the Rev. Dr. Maxey, Mr. Waterman Pratt, to Miss Mary Barduc, both of this town."
Died, "In this town, on Friday last, Miss Sally Packard, in the 27th year of her age, the eldest daughter of Mr. Melzar Packard. She bore the pains and distress of a lingering consumption not only with patience but with resignation. A firm belief of the merits of a Redeemer disabused her of its terror, tore off the fascination of sublunary enjoyments, and opened the prospect of future bliss, unalloyed with doubt—unmixed with apprehension. Faith had established her hope, and her view of future retribution was full upon her mind, and smoothed the bed of death. Her benevolence was not confined to professions, but to acts. Her friendship was estimable as it was sincere. Her mildness of disposition endeared her to, and augmented the number of her friends. Her natural inclination to reading had enlarged her mind with a store of acquirements that made her society not only pleasurable but valuable. She embraced in her character those pleasing traits, which secure friendship and esteem. Her funeral was attended on Sunday last, by a procession of afflicted parents and friends."
"At Taunton, on the 12th inst. aged 38 years, Mrs. Susannah Smith, comfort of Mr. John Smith, merchant, and daughter of the late Hon. Nicholas Tillinghast, Esq; formerly of this town."
"At Newport, in the 58th year of her age, Mrs. Mary Stiles, relict of the Rev. Dr. Ezra Stiles, late President of Yale College."
"At Smithfield, Mr. Joseph Brown Whipple, son of Mr. William Whipple."
"At Charleston (S. C.) Seth Paine, Esq; Printer."
Amos T. Jencks Has for sale, on liberal terms and credit, entitled to debenture, 29,000 lb. Java Coffee 6,000 do. do. Sugar 5,000 do. heavy black Pepper October 21.
FRESH FLOUR. Now landing, and for sale, by Malachi Rhodes and Son, ALEXandria superfine and fine Flour Pilot, Navy, and Ship Bread They have also for sale, Turks-Island Salt Molasses, by the hogshead Antigua Rum, by do. October 21.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been appointed Executrix to the Estate of ISRAEL SHELTON, late of Providence, deceased, and has taken upon herself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs. All persons having demands against said estate are requested to exhibit them for settlement; and all persons indebted to said estate are called upon to make payment. ALMY SHELTON, Executrix. October 21.
THEATRE---Providence.
THIS Evening, Wednesday, October, 21, will be repeated a celebrated Tragedy, from the German of Kotzebue, called PIZARRO IN PERU,
OR, The Death of ROLLA, With new Scenery, Dresses, and other Decorations.
Ataliba (King of Quito) Mr. Dickenson. Rolla } Leaders of the { Mr. Harper. Alonzo } Peruvians { Mr. Downie. Pizarro (the Spanish General) Mr. Kenny. Almagro, Mr. Barnes. Orano, Mr. Coles. Gomez, Mr. Parsons. Valverde, Mr. Cromwell. Las Casas, Mr. Story. Orozembo (An old Cacique) Mr. Powell. Boy, Mrs. Downie. Cora, Miss Field. Elvira, Mrs. Harper. Priests of the Sun, by Gentlemen of the Company. Priestesses, and Peruvian Women, } by Ladies of the Company. Peruvian Soldiers, } by Supernumeraries. Spanish Soldiers, } by Supernumeraries. Act 1st. Inside of Pizarro's Tent. Act 2d. The Temple of the Sun. In the Centre an Altar, upon which the Sacrifice offered by the Inca is consumed by Fire from above. Act 3d. A wild Retreat among stupendous Rocks. Act 4. A Dungeon in a Rock. Act 5. A Forest and Indian Hut. Spanish out Post, the back Ground wild and rocky; a Torrent falling down a Precipice, over which a Bridge is formed by a felled Tree; Rolla, pursued by the Spaniards, tears away a Part of the Tree which supports the Bridge, and the Spaniards fall into the Cataract. Death of Rolla, solemn Procession and Dirge. The scenery, &c. painted by and under the direction of Mr. Grayham, from Boston.
To which will be added the Farce, of Like Master, Like Man, OR, The Wrangling Lovers.
Washington Academy.
At a meeting of the Trustees of Washington Academy, held at South Kingstown, on the 16th of September, 1801.—Voted and Resolved,
THAT the Treasurer be, and he is hereby directed to call upon the subscribers to this Institution to pay up their subscriptions to him; and also, that he publish a notification to this purport in the Newport Mercury, and one of the Providence newspapers.
Voted and Resolved, That in consequence of an examination into the expenses already accrued, and what probably must be expended before the Academy-buildings are completed, it is found that they considerably exceed the amount subscribed; it is therefore thought proper to call a general meeting of all the subscribers to this institution, in order to consult upon the best mode of raising the money so deficient; that the said meeting be held at the Academy the first Wednesday in November next; and that the Treasurer give notice thereof in the Newport Mercury, and one Providence newspaper.
Agreeable to the above resolve, I hereby earnestly request all delinquent subscribers to make immediate payment.
ROBERT ELDRED, Treasurer. North-Kingstown, October 16.
N. B. The next meeting of the Trustees will be on Wednesday the fourth of November next, agreeable to adjournment.
Nathaniel Croade and Co.
THE subscribers having purchased the Oil Works on the East side of Pawtucket Falls, four miles from Providence (R. I.) have entered into co-partnership, under the above firm, for conducting the same; and now inform the public, that particular attention will be paid to any demands, in their line of business; and to render it more commodious, they have established a store near said works, which is furnished with a complete assortment of English and West-India Goods, where orders addressed to NATHANIEL CROADE and Co. will be carefully attended to.
NATHANIEL CROADE, ELIPHALET SLACK, EBENEZER TYLER, OLIVER STARK, WEATHER.
N. B. Cash given for Flax-Seed. Oil and Oil Casks for sale. Pawtucket, October 21.
WHEREAS my wife, PRUDIA, having conducted herself very unbecomingly in all respects; I have resolved to live with her no more, and caution all persons not to trust her on my account, as I will pay no debt of her contracting. EBENEZER ROBINSON. Coventry, October 20.

Selected Poetry.
THE LIGHT OF THE MOON.
HOW swift flew the moments away, When our hearts were too small for a sorrow; When in childhood we hoped like to-day Would rise the bright beams of to-morrow.
Unconsciously time went along, And when evening arriv'd, oh, how soon! We listen'd the nightingale's song, Or made shades by the Light of the Moon.
How bright broke our youth's rosy morn, Unclouded by trouble or care— As pure as the dew on the thorn Was each mind flowing free as the air.
Then HOPE sweetly gilded the scene, And each heart was as gay as the tune That merrily rang round the green, While we danc'd by the Light of the Moon.
But while came this knocking within, Why oft "you lead wrong," cried the swains? Ah, surely it never had been, Had ELIZA ne'er danc'd on our plains:
Oh would she had never been there— Indeed but she left us too soon! She seem'd most bewitching fair— And mild as the Light of the Moon.
I sought her, she own'd to approve, But 'twas him on a far distant plain! And I, though I could not but love, Return'd to my cottage again.
I cannot yet join the gay rings— At my door tho' I listen the tune, Its echo a new sweetness brings While I gaze on the Light of the Moon.
WILL CLEWLIN.
By EDWARD RUSHTON.*
FROM Jamaica's hot clime, and her pestilent dews, From the toil of a sugar-house bark, From those perilous beatings that oft stain the crews, And fill the wide maw of the shark.
From fever, storm, famine, and all the sad store Of hardships, by seamen endured, Behold poor Will Clewlin escaped! and once more, With his wife and his children safe moor'd!
View the raptures that beam'd in his sun-embrown'd face, While he holds his lov'd Kate to his breast— While his little ones trooping to share his embrace, Contend who shall first be caress'd.
View them climb his lov'd knee, while each tiny heart Puffs, and of cocoa-nut, sugar, and camewinds talls, And of coco-nut, sugar, and camewinds talls, That are soon to arrive from the hills.
Then see him reclin'd in his favourite chair, With his arm round the neck of his love; Who tells how his friends and his relatives fare, And how their dear younglings improve.
The evening approaches—and round the snug fire, Their little ones sport on the floor. When lo! while each accent, each glance is desire, Loud thund'ring are heard at the door.
And now like a tempest that sweeps through the sky, And kills the first buds of the year, Oh view, 'midst the region of innocent joy, A gang of fierce ruffians appear!
They seize on their prey, all relentless as fate, He struggles—is instantly bound, Wild scream the poor children, and lo! his lov'd Kate, Sinks pale and convuls'd to the ground!
To the hold of a tender, deep, crowded, and foul, Now view the brave seaman confin'd; And on the bare planks, all indignant of foul, All unfriended, behold him reclin'd.
The children's wild screamings still ring in his ear, He broods on his Kate's poignant pain; He hears the cat-hauling—his pangs are severe; He feels—but he seems to complain.
Arriv'd now at Plymouth the poor ensuav'd tar Is to combat for freedom and laws; Is to brave the rough surge in a vessel of war; He fails, and soon dies in the cause.
Kate hears the sad tidings, and never smiles more, She falls a meek martyr to grief. The children, kind friends and relations deplore, But the parish alone gives relief.
Ye statesmen, who manage this cold blooded land, And who boast of your seamen's exploits. Ah! think how your death-dealing bulwarks are stain'd, And learn to respect human rights:
Like felons, no more let the sons of the main Be sever'd from all that is dear; If their sufferings and wrongs be a national stain, Let those sufferings and wrongs disappear.
* Mr. Rushton, like Milton and Homer, is a blind poet— he has been deprived of his eye-sight for some years. He formerly resided at Liverpool, England; his present residence we do not know.
RED STRAW WHEAT.
THE subscriber having experienced considerable difficulty in arranging the price of this wheat, from the variety of the prices in the market, has to fix the value at two dollars per bushel, being the price at which wheat sold when this was first advertised. Gentlemen may be supplied with any quantity, and at any time, by applying at this place.
It may not be improper to mention, that this wheat ripens nearly as soon as the early wheat, which is so celebrated, and was cut almost at the same time during the last harvest—that it resists the Fly can be proved by the most respectable charac-
ters in this neighborhood, who have had a fair trial. No wheat has ever produced so much upon this estate as the red straw, which was sown in the poorest part; indeed, in that consists its excellence, as any grain will be luxuriant in a rich soil.
Vessels sent for this wheat can be furnished without the least delay.
GEORGE W. P. CUSTIS.
Mount-Vernon, September 30.
DANCING, MUSIC, and FRENCH LANGUAGE.
M. CARPENTIER
INFORMS the Gentlemen and Ladies of this town, that he intends opening a DANCING SCHOOL. He flatters himself that by his manner of teaching, those who may attend will acquire in a short time the graces necessary to this art. For the terms, apply at Mr. Aldrich's Inn, where the School will be opened twice a week, at five o'clock in the afternoon.
N. B. Those who may wish to learn Music, or the French Language, with its true pronunciation, will be taught at their respective places of above.
October 7.
NEW GOODS.
Freeman and Bartlet
Have just received and opened for sale, at No. 1, Cheap-side, a large assortment of Fresh Fashionable Goods, suitable for the present and approaching seasons, among which are,
LONDON superfine and low price Broadcloths, plain, ribb'd and silk striped Cassimeres of the newest fashion, striped Elastic, Orleans Stripes, common and superfine Serges, Plains, Forest Cloths, Velvets, Thicksetts, and Senoa Cords, of various colours; Rattens and Naps of the newest fashion, for furtouts and spencers; common and superfine Lambkin, for ladies coats; Blankets from 6 to 12 quarters; Baizes, Flannels, spotted Swanskins, Coatings, Toiletet and Swandown Waitcoatings, of the newest fashion; Pearnoughts; plain, ribb'd, and patent Worsted Hose; Ladies black do. plain, laced clocks, ribb'd, and figurd Silk Hose; Ladies Cotton and Silk do.
A great variety of Ladies fashionable Dunstable, chip, cane, Leghorn, and other Bonnets and Hats.
Men's, youth's and children's coarse and fine Hats.
Chintzes, Calicoes, white and coloured Cambrick Mullins; plain and figurd jaconet and sheer Mullins; coloured and white Camels Hair Shawls, with netting fringe, and satin borders; plain and figurd Marseilles; Cotton and Linen Checks, Wildbores, Russells, Birds-eyes, Camblets, Cambleteens, Calimancoes, Durants, Tamias, Jeans, Moreens, coloured Cambrick Shawls, Silk Shawls, Bandanno and India Silk Handkerchiefs, Crapes, Gauzes, Lace Veils, Scarfs, black cotton and other coloured Gloves, silk Gloves, Ribbons of the newest tip; Glove-Ties, Velvet Bindings, Silk, Oiled Silk and Linen Umbrellas; Sattins, Pelongs, Sarcenets, Modes, Laces, Edgings, Tapes, Bobbins, Pocket Handkerchiefs, Suspenders, Ladies fancy kid and Morocco Shoes, Linens, India Cottons, very low; Russia Sheetings, Ravens Duck, Oil Cloths, Pins, Bindings, Ferrets, Morocco Pocket-Books, and many other articles in the Dry Goods line, too numerous to mention.
A L S O,
A few hogheads of 3d proof W. I. Rum; Pepper in bags; fifteen bags of Coffee; a few firkins of excellent Butter; Cassia; Tobacco in kegs.
October 7.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the subscriber has been duly appointed Executrix to the Estate of ZACHARIAH ALLEN, late of Providence, deceased, and has taken upon herself that trust, by giving bonds as the law directs. All persons having demands against said Estate, are requested to exhibited them on or before the 4th day of May next; they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of said Estate. And all persons indebted to said estate, are called upon to make payment.
ANN ALLEN, Administratrix.
October 7.
A good Farm for Sale,
AND to be sold on liberal terms. Said Farm contains one hundred and twenty acres of Land, with an elegant two story Dwelling-House, and a Barn, and is well proportioned for mowing, pasturing and woodland, with orcharding sufficient to make forty or fifty barrels of cider annually. For further particulars, enquire of the subscriber on the premises.
THOMAS BUGBEE.
Woodstock, October 5.
TO BE SOLD OR LET,
A LARGE range of Stores, formerly the property of Messrs. JOSEPH and WILLIAM RUSSELL, merchants. They are, perhaps, better calculated for Wholesale Stores or Auction-Rooms, than any in Providence. Enquire of the Printer.
September 9.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, October 5, 1801.
THE Creditors of JEPHA WILKINSON, of Cumberland, in the county of Providence, Labourer, are hereby notified to appear, if they shall think fit, at the General Assembly to be holden at South-Kingstown on the last Monday in October instant, then and there to shew cause, if any they may have, why his petition for the benefit of an act passed in the year 1756, entitled, "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors," ought not to be granted.
SAMUEL EDDY, Secretary.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, October 3, 1801.
THE Creditors of JABEZ GREENE, of Warwick, in the county of Kent, Blacksmith, are hereby notified to appear, if they shall think fit, at the General Assembly to be holden at South-Kingstown on the last Monday in October instant, then and there to shew cause, if any they may have, why his petition for the benefit of an act passed in the year 1756, entitled, "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors," ought not to be granted.
SAMUEL EDDY, Secretary.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, October 3, 1801.
THE Creditors of SILVANUS SMITH, of Gloucester, in the county of Providence, Husbandman, are hereby notified to appear, if they shall think fit, at the General Assembly to be holden at South-Kingstown on the last Monday in October instant, then and there to shew cause, if any they may have, why his petition for the benefit of an act passed in the year 1756, entitled, "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors," ought not to be granted.
SAMUEL EDDY, Secretary.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, October 3, 1801.
THE Creditors of JOSUA LINDLEY, of Providence, in the county of Providence, Gentleman, are hereby notified to appear, if they shall think fit, at the General Assembly to be holden at South-Kingstown on the last Monday in October instant, then and there to shew cause, if any they may have, why his petition for the benefit of an act passed in June, 1756, entitled, "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors," ought not to be granted.
SAMUEL EDDY, Secretary.
Bowers and Bucklin,
Importers of English GOODS,
No. 4, WATER-STREET,
Have just received by the Ship Two Friends, from London direct, a large and handsome Assortment of Fancy and staple GOODS, suitable for this Market and the present season, which are now opening and for sale, on as low terms to purchasers as can be procured in New-York or Boston, viz.
LONDON superfine Broadcloths and Cassimeres, of the most fashionable Colours; Swandowns of the newest fashion, Chintzes, Calicoes, Chintz Furniture, Cambricks, Cambrick Mullins, Book Ditto.
Ladies Fancy Kid and Morocco Shoes, Fancy Bonnets, Flowers and Wreaths Italian Crapes, Glove-Ties, Edgings, Laces, Lace Veils, black and white Ribbons, Velvet Bindings, Olive Velvet, Fancy Cord, buff Ditto.
Gentlemens' fashionable Hats, Ladies Ditto, Camel Hair Shawls, embroider'd and dyed Cambrick Ditto, Mullinets, Dimities, black Sattins, Florentines, coloured silk Velvets.
A great Variety of japanned Ware.
A few Cases of Irish Linens, long Lawns, Linen Checks, Umbrellas, Hat Cases, Hosiery.
A great Variety of Muffs and Tip-pets, Furr Trimmings, black Plush, Baizes and Flannels, Mens' Worsted Gloves, fleecy Ditto, Ditto lined with Furr, extra long Cotton and Silk Mitts, Ditto Gloves, embossed Silk Hose, Threads, Taste and Bobbins, Jewellery.
A handsome Assortment of Time Pieces, Watches, real Plate Coffee Beggins, Tea Pots, Cream Ewers, Sugar Basins, &c.
Sept. 30.
For SLAE, by William N. Rhodes,
30 Casks Hylon } 20 do. Souchong } T E A. 40 do. Bohea }
New-England and West-India Rum by the hoghead or barrel; Loaf and brown Sugars; Coffee in hogheads or by the hundred. Cash and the highest price given for Flax-Seed and Oats.
NOTICE.
THE Creditors to the Estate of ELEAZER BALLOUE, of Gloucester, in the county of Providence, deceased, are informed, that one year from the seventh of February last is allowed by the Honourable Court of Probate for exhibiting claims against said estate:—Therefore, all who have any, are requested to exhibit them within that time, and all who are indebted to the estate are called upon to make payment to the subscribers.
PHEBE BALLOUE, } Administratrix. JIRAH BALLOUE, } Gloucester, August 25.
THE Copartnership of RICHMOND and KING is dissolved this day, by mutual consent. All persons having accounts open with said firm, are requested to exhibit them for settlement; and all indebted are desired to make immediate payment to the subscribers. JOSHUA RICHMOND. JOHN KING.
Said RICHMOND has for sale, at the Store next south of Capt. Moses Lippitt's, sixteen Hogheads of good flavoured St. Croix Rum, and a few Barrels of Windward Island Sugar; all of which will be sold low for Cash or approved Credit. September 30.
GROCERIES,
Just received, and now ready for sale by Samuel Brown,
A little north of the State-house, Providence. Among them are the following, which are genuine:
WEST-India and New-England Rum
Cherry Rum Brandy and Holland Geneva Loaf and brown Sugars Hyson and Bohea Tea Coffee and Chocolate Pepper, Allspice, fresh Raisins, Cinnamon, Cassia Buds, Pearl-shes, &c.
ALSO,
Drugs, Medicines, Painters' Colours and Dye Stuffs; all of which are to be sold on the most moderate terms.
He will let the Store Chamber of the store he occupies.
Ornamental Painting and Gilding of various kinds, executed with accuracy and attention; and all favours thankfully received. August 26.
6w.
Turks-Island Salt,
LANDING from on board the Schooner Jerusha, and for sale, by CHARLES SHELDON,
South End.
Sept. 8.
THE subscribers having been, on the 27th day of August last, legally appointed Commissioners, to receive and examine the claims against the Estate of RICHARD BROWN, late of Providence, in said county, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent:—Hereby give notice, that six months is allowed from the date, for the creditors to bring in their claims to us; those who neglect will be precluded according to law.
JOHN SMITH, 2d.
SILVANUS G. MARTIN.
N. B. All indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment to ABBY BROWN, Administratrix. September 2.
LOST, on Thursday last, a black leather POCKET-BOOK, containing 35 dollars in Bank Notes, one Due-bill on SIMON ALDRICH, to the amount of 60 dollars, and one Note on Mr. SAMUEL YOUNG. Whoever will return the said Pocket-Book to the Subscriber shall receive Five Dollars reward. JOSEPH NEWELL. Smithfield, September 8.
John Ward,
Near the Market, Providence,
HAS just imported a parcel of Hibberts' best London Porter, and Brown Stout, which he will sell by the quantity, single cask or dozen.
He has also just received,
A few pipes 4th proof Spanish and Cogniac Brandy, and has at wholesale and retail, Madeira, Sherry, Port, Lisbon, Malaga and Teneriffe Wines, a few Hhds. St. Croix Rum, Loaf Sugar, and Brown Sugar in Hhds. and Bbls.—Also Hyson, Souchong, Young Hyson, and Bohea Teas.
THE subscriber has just received an assortment of Elegant Gilt-Frame LOOKING-GLASSES, with glass pannels, and ornamented tops, of the latest fashions, as low as can be bought in New-York or Boston.—Prices from 20 to 65 dollars the pair. SAMUEL AMES. July 29. (12 w.)
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankrupt, under the Hand and Seal of the Hon. DAVID L. BARNES, Judge of the District Court for the District of Rhode-Island, is awarded and issued against EZRA FARRAR, late of Upton, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Trader, and he being declared a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to us the underigned Commissioners, on the 5th and 26 instant, and on the 17th Day of October next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon of each day, at ALPHEUS AMMIDON's Golden-Bell Inn, in Providence, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his Estate and Effects; when and where the Creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the second meeting to choose Assignees; and at the last meeting the said Bankrupt is to finish his examination, and the Creditors are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate. All persons indebted to the said Bankrupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the said Commissioners shall appoint.
PARIS J. TILLINGHAST, } JOSEPH JENCKES, } Comrs. GEORGE R. BURRILL, }
Sept. 2.