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The Providence Journal.
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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. 146.]
WEDNESDAY, October 14, 1801.
[Vol. III.]
From the COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
To THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
SIR, I SHALL not enter into a discussion of your opinions, respecting the strength and goodness of our government. Your opinion, that it is the "strongest government on earth," and that "every man would, on summons, rally round the standard of the law, may be just—I hope it is. But the two insurrections in Pennsylvania authorize us to question its soundness. It is more probable that factions will some time or other brush it away, as easy as a housemaid sweeps away the cobwebs that disfigure the walls of her kitchen.
You ask triumphantly, "have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern us?" No, Sir, we have not; and what is more to our purpose, we have not found angels in the form of demagogues. If Moses was not an angel, were Korah, Dathan and Abiram angels, who conspired against him? If David was not an angel, was Absalom one, who courted the people to dethrone his own father, and put himself in his place? Lewis the Sixteenth of France was not an angel; but could Brissot, Danton and Robespierre, lay claim to the title? If France under royal government was not a heaven, has the revolution converted it into a paradise? Indeed, Sir, when names cease to fascinate us with fowrds, and shadows shall give place to substance, the real question of the excellence of government will be decided by its effects on public happiness. It will be found that governments called republican are often the most arbitrary and tyrannical, and others called monarchies are free and mild, because they are under the dominion of steady, wholesome laws. Hereditary Monarchies are liable to fall into the hands of fools and knaves; but what do men gain by elective governments, if fools and knaves have the same chance to obtain the highest offices, as honest men? And please, Sir, to name the republic on earth, which is or ever was so constructed, that its government has not been frequently, not to say generally, in the hands of vile or weak men. If there ever was a government, which under the name of a republic or democracy, was generally guided by eminent wisdom, virtue and talents, it was a government of a mixed kind, in which an aristocratic branch existed independent of popular suffrage. Such was the fact in Rome—In Athens the Senate, which combined in its bosom the wisdom of the State, was chosen by lot; a mode often preferable to that of suffrage—because it precludes corruption, which always has and probably always will annihilate the benefits of the right of suffrage.
In short, republican forms of government are charming things on paper and in imagination; but I challenge all the partizans of such forms to name an instance, in which elections and the whole machinery of the government has not ultimately been managed by money and factions, so that the people have lost their free agency and liberty, as effectually as in monarchies. As I have been an enthusiast in favour of republics, and cannot yet abandon all hope that our experiment in America may succeed, I will rank you among angels and demigods, if you will prescribe the institutions which shall defend our government effectually against the invasions of undue influence and corruption; the instruments with which vicious and unqualified men destroy the freedom of elections, and exalt themselves into power, trampling first on the great and the good, and afterwards on the very people to whom they owe their elevation.
Your address proceeds: "Let us then, with courage and confidence, pursue our own federal and republican principles." Here again you connect characters, which in other places you consider as distinct, and which your partizans represent as wholly dissimilar and incompatible. It is insisted, by your friends, that your supporters are the only republicans in the Union—that federalists, so called, are the friends of monarchy. And this charge has been rung in the ears of the people, until it has operated in favour of your election. And how can you justify your countenancing the charge? In your letter to Mazzei, you expressly say, that a party had arisen in our country, which was in favour of a monarchy, and whose avowed object was to impose on us the substance, as they had the form of the British government. Of this party you declare to be the executive power, the judiciary, and the officers of government; and this, during the administration of one of your predecessors. Throughout that letter, you represent the federalists as hostile to our liberty and republican government; their measures as establishments devised for corrupt purposes—and your own party as arrayed in opposition, with the view of destroying that party. Yet after all this, you could assume a conciliatory tone, and yet tell us, that feder-
alists and republicans are the same, and no parties exist!
You next take occasion to mention the subject of religion, in a way calculated to remove from the public mind the impression that you are an infidel. This clause in the address seems to be calculated for the northern citizens of the Union, who generally continue to believe in the old fashioned tenets of the truth of religion, and its utility in this life, as well as its necessity to secure the blessings of another. You mention the people of this country, as being "enlightened by a benign religion," and acknowledge "an overruling Providence," that delights in the happiness of men, present and future. You speak also of "divinities, beyond the reach of mortal eye;" but not a word about a Supreme intelligent Being, or christianity. Whether this omission was accidental or intentional I will not venture to pronounce; but your predecessors did not leave us room to question their opinions on this interesting subject. In President Washington's inaugural address, he declared, he could not omit, in his first official act, his fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe. Mr. Adams, in his inaugural address, professed his veneration for the Christian Religion, and declared that he should consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations of men for the public service. Whatever modern pride and sophistry may incline your friends to believe, it is a truth sanctioned by history, that in the most profligate ages and most corrupt States, that man has been most esteemed and confided in, who has venerated religion, and obeyed its injunctions.
FROM THE SAME.
Modern Liberality of Sentiment.
AMONG the boasted improvements of the present age, few have received more frequent panegyrics than the increasing liberality of sentiment in Morals and Religion. —That the present age enjoys in a high degree the means of enhancing social happiness, and of insuring (under God) eternal felicity, every benevolent heart will gratefully acknowledge. But it is by no means true that every innovation is an improvement, and that the dereliction of an acknowledged error is of course the assumption of its opposite truth. Because we have ceased to invoke the Holy Virgin, and to give our deceased friends a written passport to St. Peter; because we do not compel criminals to walk barefoot over burning ploughshares, or to swallow indigestible substances as a proof of their innocence, it does not result that we have gained the summit of enlightened liberality, and escaped entirely from the darkness of Superstition. Mankind, at the present day, stimulated by their strong aspirations after liberty, and their consequent hatred of tyranny, have broken down every barrier against anarchy, and rushed headlong to destruction. In the same way, having exploded the corruptions and abuses of the Romish Hierarchy, they have impiously denied the SAVIOUR, and questioned the being and attributes of the ALMIGHTY. The same wicked extravagance has prevailed and corrupted every branch of science, and every system of practical knowledge. Medicine has theoretically rendered the body of man immortal; Philosophy has changed selfishness into philanthropy; individual affection into general benevolence; and vice and misery into perfect virtue, and supreme felicity. But upon no subject has this spirit of licentious extravagance advanced farther, or with more rapid steps, than in Morality and Religion. A firm adherence to religious principle is stigmatized with the appellation of Bigotry and Superstition, while a total destitution of religion and morality, is graced with the name of Liberality. Let a Clergyman play a good hand at whist, and stake a few shillings to enliven his attention; let him drink his bottle at the jovial board, and linger from the meridian to the setting sun; let him spice his conversation with an elegant innuendo, and a half uttered oath; let him swell the theatrical applause, when Kotzebue affronts his God, and sanctions incest by the pretended dictates of nature; let him gaze with delight upon the voluptuous charms of a meretricious address, beheld through the transparent and adhesive lawn, or exposed with less appearance of decency in the dress of the other sex; let him preach gentlemanly morality, and exclude every hint of the more offensive parts of christianity; let him strew the road to heaven with flowers, fill it with genteel company, and line it with houses of refreshment; then he will be pronounced a man of liberality, and a clever fellow. But the real man of God, who conscientiously refrains from gaming, believing it a mispense of time, and a means of corrupting public morals; who uses the good things of this world "as not abusing them," and
See the "Duke of Burgundy."
therefore passes no more time at table than is necessary for the refreshment of his body, and the recreation of his mind; who chastens his most enlivening conversation by the maxims of christianity; who avoids the theatre, as being the school where impracticable virtues are held forth for imitation, and atrocious vices are dressed in enchanting colours; where the imagination, assisted by all the powers of poetry, painting and music, is filled with the most voluptuous ideas; where beauty displays its half naked charms to the eye, and every art is used to seduce the mind from christian virtue, and from sober life; who preaches the gospel in its truth and sincerity; represents the gate of life as strait and narrow; who pays no court to the fashionable vices of the day, but denounces every thing which is condemned by the scriptures; this man will be hooted at and shunned as a mad an enthusiast. Yet, who will hesitate to say, that the former is that guilty, and the latter, who will be devoured by the lion in the way, while the latter, at the great day of account, will receive from the Judge that delightful sentence:—"Well done good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord?"
If a young lady conducts with the dignity of conscious virtue, repulses every attempt at indecent familiarity, and frowns upon the man who would insult her with indecent language, which, though veiled, cannot be misunderstood, she is at once pronounced a prude. But the gay, volatile girl, who walks alone with a gentleman by moonlight, in a grove—who despises the delicacies of her own sex, and romps and frolics, and jokes with men, as she would with women; who can retort a double entendre—laugh at the purloiner of a kiss for the want of address, and look a modest man out of countenance; she is a fine, spirited, liberal girl, she carries the bell, and draws around her a crowd of admirers. The man of excellent sense, extensive acquirements, but of modest, virtuous, and unassuming manners, passes for a spiritless being; while the light brained and ignorant rake, who is splendid, bold, and impudent, is stamped a fine gentleman and a man of the world. These are instances of modern liberality of sentiment; that liberality which is so much eulogized by modern reformers, and which is rapidly usurping the dominion of society. The truth is, this liberality is a legitimate branch of jacobinism. It is only another name for licentiousness. It is a broad veil which will cover a multitude of sins. Lewdness, seduction, gluttony, inebriety, indecency, infidelity and profaneness, may lie concealed beneath its ample dimensions. By the magical influence of this talismanic word, vice whitens into virtue, and the man who is covered all over with foulness and crimes, stands forth an object of dazzling splendour; his fame is wasted by the breath of public applause, and every knee is prepared to do him reverence. What a benevolent forgiving age is this in which we live! We are prepared not only to fulfil the scriptural precept of forgiving the guilty, but even to load them with caresses, with honours, and with fame. We even depress the good to forward their exaltation, and sacrifice virtue, talents and fidelity at the shrine of their ambition. Else why are infidelity, visionary philosophy, lewdness, drunkenness and bankruptcy, elevated to the magisterial chair, and invested with the scales of justice, and the sword of power? Why are hoary sages and warworn veterans who have spent their vigour in their country's service, turned adrift in the evening of old age, and left to perish, unassisted in the cold night of death? All this is the result of jacobinism, of which this boasted liberality of sentiment is the herald and companion. My countrymen, it is high time to distinguish liberality from licentiousness, religious principle from bigotry, and sound morality from superstition. Cease to palliate infidelity, atheism, and crimes, with the name of liberality—brand them with their own appellations. Hold them up in their native deformity, and do not attempt to screen them from the public abhorrence. This is an awful—an eventful crisis. The contest is between order and anarchy, religion and atheism, morality and licentiousness. Your enemies do not often attack you in the open field; they mine; they ambush and ensnare. No art is more frequently or more successfully practised by jacobins, than to spread their principles under borrowed names; hence all the cant about liberality of sentiment; an expression which is made to mean any thing, every thing, and nothing. I would not be understood to stigmatize real liberality of sentiment. In good men it is a virtue of the first order. It reconciles, pacifies, and harmonizes society; it rubs off the asperities of party, moderates the pride of science, and tends to improve every social disposition. But it is this very circumstance which renders the counterfeit more dangerous. So respectable and amiable is real liberality, that whatever comes recommended by it, commands the ap-
probation of our hearts. But in the mouth of jacobins, the imputation of liberality of sentiment is a libel; it throws a suspicious aspect upon the character commended, which cannot easily be removed; while on the other hand, the imputation of bigotry, superstition, and attachment to tyranny, when thrown out by the same men, affords the best reason to believe that the character calumniated is entitled to singular and distinguished respect.
From the NEW-JERSEY FEDERALIST.
[The subsequent communication contains many seasonable and important observations on the subject of LIBELS.]
Opus nihil, magna materia.
FREE enquiry, indulged in matters of political concern, is the soul of a free government. Without it liberty cannot exist, and while sufferance is given to this inestimable privilege, oppression cannot be extreme. The toleration of political discussion is, in fact, but another name for liberty itself; for where is the region, which recognizes their distinction? Or where shall we find them severed by a momentary separation! Their being is co-existent, their origin and death must be coeval. Every great and enlightened government will foster this privilege, and, from the nature of the things, it cannot but induce freedom and security, and give stability to the rights of mankind. Oppressors seek to envelop themselves in secrecy and gloom, while liberty of enquiry tends to disclose all that is transacted. They strive to bury their subjects in the profundity of ignorance, while this great enlightener penetrates every recess, and illuminates the mind with the rays of celestial truth. Information is the great guard against every encroachment, and there is no surer method of securing the rights of a people, than by perpetually reminding them of their liberties, and awakening them to every minute aggression which may lead to their usurpation. These sentiments are not singular; they may be fortified by the opinion of a great political writer, who declares, that if it was possible to introduce into the most arbitrary State the freedom of enquiry, a portion of liberty must immediately follow; the increase of which would progress with the extension of this privilege.
Happily, this great point is secured to us; and I feel a confidence in saying, that we have spirit to preserve it, and prudence to regulate its enjoyment. We will not easily surrender this invaluable right, neither shall it be used as the vehicle of unmerited detraction. The freedom of the press is one of the great items in our constitution, and whatever may be the opinion of some men, the sedition act did but render it the greater blessing. We glory in a fair investigation of the acts of public men, but we seek not to injure them and ourselves by false insinuations. We enjoy not, at present, the benefit of this improvement, and in consequence engage with less advantage. But our rulers cannot take offence at animadversions on their conduct, since many are the great advocates of toleration, and sticklers for the unlicensed freedom of discussion. In name they are the purest of republicans; to be such in fact, we ask no more from them than a confirmation of our present enjoyments without improvements and without corrections. The privilege of complaint, we hold to be the most excellent and valuable of these enjoyments; but I tremble for their consistency, when I reflect that they are to be the objects and not the authors of public reprehension. They are impatient for the reign of philosophy and emancipation, and their masters have declared, that this is to be brought about solely by liberty of sentiment. They must then leave us the right of divulging our opinions, and perhaps we may aid them in the accomplishment of their object, and assist in crushing the monstrous wretch. But—they are men, in possession of power, and invested with the ensigns of authority. Like the rest of mortals they must be pleased with dignity, and are not willing that their integrity or wisdom should be for a moment disputed—Yet they cannot be infallible; and when we see them mistaken, we cannot nor should not refrain from telling them their errors. If these truths be allowed, I fear we shall see our patriots lose sight of principle, act the apostate, "and feeling power they will forget right." But can candour advance such an opinion of men, who have declared themselves such disinterested republicans? To this question I will oppose another, and will then proceed to give my answer. What sort of candour is meant in this interrogation? Common, or philosophical candour? If the latter, then candour cannot yield to this sentiment. But if the good old candour of antient days be alluded to, then I aver—candour must hold to this opinion, for the experience of ages has proved that it is correct. Americans, be not deceived—If the federal administration found it necessary to check the license of abuse, the other will find it no less so, supposing them to be equal in talents and integrity. But if they prove inferior, and their operations be-

come the objects of aspersion; we are to look not for a sedition act, but inquisitorial decrees. Then we shall see that common law, whose adoption by this country was some few months ago disputed, universally applied as a corrective of the press, and the tyrannical doctrine of libels adhered to; the overthrow of which was one of the consequences of the reprobated sedition bill. The inconsistency is nothing—for remember, their former object was to destroy administration, their present is to confirm its existence. The law of libels is monstrous, though constitutional, and should it ever be executed upon us, I trust we will have energy enough to strive at a reform. We will not submit to the lacerations of a swepn, which generosity forbids us to use against our adversaries.—No! The liberty of the press is our most valuable right; but this liberty is nothing if fettered by the tyranny of the law of libels, and surely we will not be robbed of our best privilege without one effort to preserve it. Remember we have been told, that a virtuous government needed no sedition act to support it, and that the public sentiment would ever do it justice: If hereafter these men should advocate laws more binding and severe, suspect their integrity; challenge their disinterestedness, and oppose with the ardour of freemen the infringement of your rights. If our place men should adhere to the spirit of our constitution, I trust, they would find a supporter in every member of the federal body. Federalists would never be induced to join in opposition to men whose demeanour displayed a respect for our chartered privileges: But on the contrary, they would afford a stable support to administration, and in the moment of trial and danger, they would rally round the constituted authorities, they would brave every peril in their defence, and one common ruin should involve them and the independence of their country.—If this disposition should be abused, by a marked contempt of our sentiments; if our rulers will pursue a system of politics, which shall endanger the grand pillars of our constitution; if, in the pursuit of visionary or philosophical theories, they forget they are dealing with Americans; you will not tamely be imposed on—you will step forward in a noble defence of your country, and with a manly resistance oppose their zeal and patriotism to unconstitutional aggressions. But it is to be expected, that the limits of decency and order will ever bound your defence, and that detraction will be prescribed from your censures.—The public good being your aim, truth will be your weapon; and you will never so far forget yourselves as to become subjects liable to the penalties of a sedition act. Remember that you represent the dignity of the people, and if you should descend to shameful curiosity, and unlicensed abuse, the national character suffers degradation—your firmness should be tempered with moderation, and when punishment , not reformation , is our object, you will not pass unnoticed the defects of individuals.—At the present moment lay a secure but prudent hold on the charter of your liberties; when the storm of contention increases, seize with a decisive grasp, and let the whirlwind of destruction bear you off in company.
ADRASTUS.
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
COUNT RUMFORD'S DONATION.
SIR,
DESIROUS of contributing efficaciously to the advancement of Science, which has long employed my attention, and which appears to me to be of the highest importance to mankind, and wishing, at the same time, to leave a lasting testimony of my respect for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , I take the liberty to request that the Academy would do me the honour to accept Five Thousand Dollars three per cent. Stock in the funds of the United States of North America, which Stock I have actually purchased, and which I beg leave to transfer to the Fellows of the Academy, to the end that the interest of the same may be by them and their successors received from time to time, forever, and the amount of the same applied and given, once every second year, as a premium to the author of the most important discovery or useful improvement, which shall be made and published by printing, or in any way made known to the public, in any part of the continent of America, or in any of the American Islands, during the preceding two years, on HEAT or on LIGHT , the preference being given to such discoveries as shall, in the opinion of the Academy, tend most to promote the good of mankind.
With regard to the formalities to be observed by the Academy, in their decisions upon the comparative merit of those discoveries, which in the opinion of the Academy may entitle their authors to be considered as competitors for this biennial premium, the Academy will be pleased to adopt such regulations as they, in their wisdom, may judge to be proper and necessary: But in regard to the form in which this premium is conferred, I take the liberty to request, that it may always be given in two Medals , struck in the same die, the one of Gold , and the other of Silver , and of such dimensions, that both of them together may be just equal in intrinsic value to the amount of the interest of the aforesaid five thousand dollars Stock, during two years; that is to say, that they may together be of the value of three hundred dollars.
The Academy will be pleased to order such device or inscription to be engraved on the die, they shall cause to be prepared for striking these Medals, as they may judge proper. If, during any term of two years, reckoning from the last adjudication, or from the last
period for the adjudication of this premium by the Academy, no new discovery or improvement should be made in any part of America relative to either of the subjects in question ( Heat or Light ) which, in the opinion of the Academy, shall be of sufficient importance to deserve this premium, in that case, it is my desire that the premium may not be given, but that the value of it may be received, and being laid out in the purchase of additional Stock in the American funds, may be employed to augment the capital of this premium; and that the interest of the same, by which the capital may from time to time be so augmented, may regularly be given in money, with the two Medals , and as an addition to the original premium, at each succeeding adjudication of it. And it is further my particular request, that those additions to the value of the premium, arising from its occasional non-adjudication, may be suffered to increase without limitation.
With the highest respect for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and the most earnest wishes for their success in their labours for the good of mankind, I have the honour to be, with much esteem and regard, Sir, your most obedient humble servant.
RUMFORD.
To the Honourable JOHN ADAMS, Esq. President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
London, July 12th, 1796.
At a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, held in Boston, May 29th, A. D. 1798.
WHEREAS Benjamin, Count Rumford, of Munich, in Bavaria, has presented to this Institution the sum of Five Thousand Dollars , in the three per cent. Stock of the United States, the interest of which, by the terms of the donation, as expressed in his letter of July 12, 1796, to the President of the Academy, is to be "applied and given, once every second year, as a premium to the author of the most important discovery, or improvement, which shall be made and published by printing, or in any way made known to the public, in any part of the continent of America, or in any of the American Islands, during the preceding two years, on HEAT or on LIGHT ;" which donation has been accepted by the Academy, and by proper certificates, which accident only has delayed, has now become the property of the Academy.
Voted, That the thanks of the Academy be presented to Count Rumford, for this his very generous donation; that they experience the highest satisfaction, in receiving additional and very liberal aid, for the encouragement and extension of those branches of Science, which he has so successfully cultivated; that they entertain a high sense of the sentiments and views so becoming a philosopher, which have prompted him to this distinguished act of liberality and in the execution of the grateful office, which they have undertaken, of awarding and distributing the premiums, which Count Rumford has thus appropriated, they will sacredly comply with the conditions of the donation, indulging a hope that he will meet his reward in learning, that many of his native country are thereby excited to emulate his labours, and to promote the accomplishment of his beneficent wishes for the advancement of science, and the augmentation of human happiness.
Public notice is hereby given, That the Academy, at their meeting in Boston, on the Tuesday next preceding the last Wednesday in May next, and afterwards biennially, at their May meetings, will decide on the discovery or improvement, which may appear to be entitled to the premium directed to be given by Count Rumford, according to the terms of his donation.
By order of the Academy: ELIPHALET PEARSON, } Secretaries. JOHN DAVIS, } Boston, October 5, 1801.
Foreign Intelligence.
Received at Boston by an arrival from London.—Dates to August 22.
From the LONDON GAZETTE, August 18.
Admiralty Office August 18, 1801. Copy of a letter from Lord Viscount Nelson, R. B. Vice-Admiral of the Blue, &c. to Even Nepean, Esq. dated on board the Medusa , off Boulogne, August 16, 1801.
SIR, HAVING judged it proper to attempt bringing off the enemy's flotilla, moored in the front of Boulogne, I directed the attack to be made by four divisions of boats for boarding, under the command of Captains Sumervill, Cotgrave and Parker; and a division of howitzer boats under Capt. Conn. The boats put off from the Medusa at half past eleven o'clock last night, in the best possible order, and before one o'clock the firing began, and I had from the judgment of the officers, and the zeal and gallantry of every man, the most perfect confidence of complete success; but the darkness of the night, with the tide and half tide, separated the divisions, and from all not arriving at the same happy moment with Capt. Parker, is to be attributed the failure of success; and I beg to be perfectly understood that not the smallest blame attaches itself to any person; for although the division, did not arrive together, yet each (except the fourth division, which could not be got up before day) made a successful attack on that part of the enemy they fell in with, and actually took possession of many brigs and flats, and cut their cables, but many of them being aground, and the moment of the battle's ceas-
ing on board them, the vessels were filled with volleys upon volleys of musketry; the enemy being perfectly regardless of their own men, who must have suffered equally with us, it was therefore impossible to remain on board even burn them; but allow me to say, who have seen much service this war, that more determined persevering courage I never witnessed, and that nothing but the impossibility of being successful, from the cause I have mentioned, could have prevented me from having to congratulate their Lordships; but although in value the loss of such gallant and good men is incalculable, yet, in point of number, it has fallen short of my expectations. I must also beg leave to state, that greater zeal and ardent desire to distinguish themselves by an attack on the enemy was never shewn than by all the captains, officers and crews of all the different descriptions of vessels under my command.
The commanders of the Hunter and Greyhound Revenue cutters went into their boats in the most handsome and gallant manner to the attack. Amongst the many brave men wounded, I have with the deepest regret to place the name of my gallant good friend, an able assistant Capt. Edward T. Parker; also my flag Lieutenant, Frederick Lanford, who has served with me many years, they were both wounded in attempting to board the French commodore. To Capt. Gore of the Medusa I feel the highest obligations; and when their Lordships look at the loss of the Medusa , on this occasion, they will agree with me, that the honour of my flag, and the cause of their king and country, could never have been placed in more gallant hands. Capt. Bedford of the Leyton , with Capt. Gore, very handsomely volunteered their services to serve under the master commander; but I did not think it fair to the latter, and I only mention it to mark the zeal of those officers. From the nature of the attack only a few prisoners were made; a Lieutenant, eight seamen, and eight soldiers are all they brought off. Herewith I send the reports of the several commanders of divisions and a return of killed and wounded. I have the honour to be, &c.
NELSON AND BRONTE.
P. S. Capt. Somerville was the senior Master and Commander employed.
[Here follow the report of Captains Somerville, Parker, Cotgrave, Jones and Conn; of the operations entrusted to them—which we think need not be detailed. the total loss of the British in the expedition, was 4 officers, 33 seamen, 7 marines killed; 14 officers, 84 seamen, 30 marines wounded. Total 172.]
LONDON, August 20.
A letter from Brunswick, said to have been received by the way of Holland, speaks with confidence of the capitulation of Alexandria, six days after the fall of Cairo.
Lord Nelson remains in the Downs, and was not expected to sail from thence to-day. His Lordship, it is said, is waiting for men from the Nore, to replace those he has lost.
August 23.
Lord Nelson remained in the Downs on Friday, nor was there any appearance at that time of his immediate sailing: His Lordship had not given any indication of an intention to pursue the design, which his former orders for all the hired Cutters to put to sea appeared to indicate.
Letters from off Havre, mention, that the frigates in that harbour, appeared to be ready for sea. Capt. Rogers, of the American frigate Maryland , is complained of by the French, as having given information to the British. The charge is doubtless unfounded.
Thirty-five gun boats have lately escaped from Dunkirk to Calais.
The London Courier of August 22, contains an article "from Constantinople, July 18," stating the capture of Cairo as officially known, with no other particulars than those already published, except that two days after the victory, the Grand Vizier made his formal entry into Cairo, and gave orders for 36,000 of his men to march against Alexandria.
August 22.
Parliament, it is said, is to be assembled early in the month of October, to grant a vote of credit, and for other purposes. Perhaps also it is the intention of Ministers to lay before Parliament the long and mysterious correspondence, as a preliminary to a negotiation with the French government, that has so long engaged the public attention.
It is otherwise stated, that Mr. Addington having caused particular terms to be laid before the French government, from which it is impossible to recede, the answer of the first Consul will determine whether the negotiation shall assume a more legitimate aspect, or be discontinued altogether. Neither of these reports, we believe, will be found to rest on very respectable authority, hopes, flattering to the friends of peace, may, however, continue to be entertained, so long as the official correspondence between London and Paris is kept open.
HALIFAX, September 22.
A letter from St. John's, Newfoundland, to an officer in this garrison, mentions, that a person in a dreadful fit of insanity, having possessed himself of a hatchet, went to the house of a poor woman, in which were three children, and split their skulls in a most shocking manner.—The mother hearing the cries of her children, ran to their assistance, and shared the same fate.—The unhappy wretch was at length disarmed by Col. Hatton; but not before he had dangerously wounded nine persons, six of which were dead, when the vessel in which the letter came left St. Johns.
Domestic Intelligence.
KNOXVILLE, September 19.
WE hear from South-Well Point, that the treaty with the Cherokees is broken up, the commissioners not being able to effect the object of their appointment. The Cherokees refuse to sell lands, or to permit roads being cut through their country.—Doublehead concluded his last talk with saying, "That the Indians do not wish to be again spoken to on that subject." He then addressed the people of Tennessee, and said, "That the white people owed them three lives: that they had waited some time for satisfaction, and would wait yet longer, but were determined on retaliation."
WASHINGTON, September 29.
French Convention ratified.
Letters have been received at the Department of State from Major Mountbrennee, who acted as Secretary to Mr. Murray, dated Paris, 3d and 6th of August, announcing that the ratifications of the Convention between France and the United States were exchanged on the 31st of July, and that the gentleman charged to carry the French ratification to America had left Paris on the 5th of August for Dieppe, whence he was to embark for Philadelphia.
NORFOLK, September 26
Extract of a letter received by a person in this town from a relation in Whitehaven (England.)
"You will be much surprised when I tell you Mr. Martin's ship, the Glorious Memory (which it was supposed was lost 32 years ago) was taken by the Algerines; two of the men have got home, all the rest are dead."
[The person to whom the above was addressed, formerly failed in the said ship; she was built at Col. H. Mosely's yard, at New-town, in the county of Princess Ann, in 1761 and 2, and was then called the Gooseland . She was loaded at Whitehaven with tobacco for the Farmers General in 1769, was bound to Cetté, in France, and never heard of since the time of her sailing, till the arrival of the two men above mentioned, a few months ago.]
PHILADELPHIA, September 29.
Extract of a letter to the Editor of the Aurora , dated Bourdeaux, August 16.
"About ten days since I fell in with a young Irishman from Belfast who knew you, he is an officer in the army, and was on his way from Paris to Portugal with his brigade, and spent two days here, during which I learned that the invasion of England will be determined only by the deliberations of the question of peace. He says the influential men in the present French government do not possess the general confidence, and that there exists at this moment three very powerful parties, who are kept from action only by the sense of a necessity for general union against England. All parties confess that Buonaparte has done more for the Republic than any other man, but that he places confidence in men whom no honest man with honest views could avoid suspecting. The people like the effects produced by the Consular government very well, and the Consul as a man, but they think as some of our dispassionate men in America thought at the first, that the act of usurpation was in itself fatal. Many evil eyes are upon him as another Gæsar , and I should not be surprised to hear of the simile being carried further."
"A commercial regulation of some importance to America, has taken place in the Ligurian Republic . Ever since the year 1656, the commerce in Tobacco was a monopoly, and subject to heavy impositions, on the 24th of July, a law was promulgated by the Legislative Council (or Council) making the commerce in Tobacco free, and admitting strangers to import it into any part of the Republic. This I conceive must be of advantage, to the southern States in particular."
The execution of the revenue laws of the United States is under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the Excise Law is still in force.—How well qualified to carry those laws into effect a certain Secretary may be, let the following Resolve, copied from the Aurora , of September 1, 1792, determine. It was passed at a whisky-boy meeting, at Pittsburg, August 22d, as follows:
August 22, 1792.
The Committee appointed yesterday made report, which being twice read, was unanimously adopted.
The following is one of several resolutions unanimously adopted.
"And whereas some men be found amongst us so far lost to every sense of virtue and feeling for the distresses of this country, as to accept offices for the collection of the duty."
"Resolved therefore, that in future we will consider such persons unworthy of our friendship: Have no intercourse or dealings with them, withdraw from them every assistance, and withhold all the comforts of life, which depend upon those duties that as men and fellow-citizens, we owe to each other, and upon all occasions treat them with that contempt they deserve, and it is hereby most earnestly recommended to the people at large to follow the same kind of conduct towards them."
Signed,
JOHN CANNON, Chairman.
ALBERT GALLATIN, Clerk.
This said clerk accepted the pardon of Washington, and is entrusted with all the public money of the United States!
October 5.
Extract of a letter from Norfolk to a gentleman in this city, dated the 26th ult.
"After going so well through the summer

until this late period, we had suffered ourselves that our town would have continued healthy; but this day the Mayor of the city, John Cowper, Esq.; has found himself under the painful necessity of announcing to the public, that a malignant fever is now raging with some considerable violence; as yet it has been confined to strangers, of which we have had an uncommon influx this year. It has only been within three or four days that the fever has assumed a serious aspect, and we do hope that the approaching cool weather, which we have a right to expect, will arrest its progress.—This is an uncommon thing with us."
NEW-YORK, October 1.
In consequence of some unfavourable reports which a few sudden deaths had set in motion, the Mayor, we understand, requested the resident Physician to visit those parts of the city which were said to be unhealthy. He did so—and we are happy in stating that the result was in the highest degree flattering. In the wide range of his visits, which embraced all those portions of the town where poverty, filth and crowded hovels seemed to threaten the most danger, and therefore required the strictest scrutiny—the resident Physician, we learn, found but few cases of fever, and not a single case marked distinctly with the characters and symptoms of yellow or malignant fever.
INTERESTING TO MARINERS.
Captain Fellows, of the British Packet Lady Hobart, arrived yesterday, informs us, that Sir John Wentworth (Governor of Nova-Scotia) was about dispatching the armed brig Earl Moira, with several vessels laden with live stock and provisions, for the Isle of Sable.—The Governor had contracted with several persons to reside on that island, where a light-house is to be erected, and accommodations for unfortunate mariners, who strand upon that hitherto desolate place. A gun is to be kept at the light-house, to answer any signal, in cases of darkness or fog.
October 3.
MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON.
A letter from Consul O'Brien, dated Algiers, 22d of July, states the arrival there, on the 9th, of the frigate President, and Schooner Enterprise, whence they sailed for Tunis on the 11th.
The frigate Essex, Capt. Bainbridge, arrived off Marseilles on the 29th of July, and took under her convoy the American ship Martha, Capt. Prince, the only vessel ready for sea, and proceeded immediately to Barcelona, to convoy from thence the twenty-six sail we have in that port.
Extract of a letter from David Humphreys, Esq.; dated Madrid, July 27, 1801.
"Since the date of my last dispatch to you, I have received a letter from Commodore Dale, dated in Gibraltar Bay, the 2d inst. giving an account of the arrival of the squadron under his command, of his having found there the high Admiral of Tripoli, with one ship and one brig, and of his own design to sail for Algiers the next day, leaving one of his frigates to watch the motions of those vessels of Tripoli.—Nothing could have been more opportune for the protection of our commerce than the arrival of this force, to prevent them from proceeding into the Western Ocean, where, in a few days cruise between Cadiz and Lisbon, they might in all human probability have produced the most disastrous consequences, by capturing the property of our merchants to an amazing amount, and making slaves of a great number of our citizens."
"Fortunate indeed will it be for us, if our Mediterranean trade should escape the threatened peril, with only the damage it must suffer from having been interrupted for a short period; as I flatter myself, that whatever might have been the idea at the time of the sailing of Commodore Dale's squadron from America, that trade will never again be left in the same defenceless and exposed situation. Knowing, as I do, that the great and increasing value of it, in all points of estimation, is fully appreciated by government, I shall only remark, that the Dutch in common with most of the belligerent powers having lost their carrying trade, the Danes and Swedes having had their activity greatly paralyzed by the stroke lately given by England to their navigation, and the Hanseatic towns and Prussians having no vessels in the Mediterranean on account of their being at war with the Barbary states, no occasion could be more favourable than the present for the encouragement of the American spirit of industry and enterprise in that quarter."
ALBANY, October 6.
Some Notice of Eminent Characters.
S. MORE,
The liberty of whole press has been attacked, was, in August, 1801, Editor of a republican paper in Danbury, Connecticut, from whence he removed to Norwalk, and is now at New-Haven, engaged in the same good work. While at Danbury he wrote a letter to the Editor of the Aurora, which was published in that and many other papers, respecting Jonathan Robins, alias Nash, the pirate, whose execution has caused such bitter lamentation among a certain "sect." This letter he was afterwards induced to confess was "erroneous and incorrect." This precious confession was not published in many of the papers which published it himself. If his late blustering production should share the fate of the one above mentioned, his friends would perhaps be disappointed.
HARTFORD, October 5.
At a time when it is so fashionable to revile
the State of Connecticut for her opposition to Republicanism, and the government of the United States, it is with no small degree of pride and pleasure that we are able to assure our readers, that the whole quota of the Direct Tax of the United States, for this State, has been paid in, and not one dollar has been lost in collection. If some of our sister States would say less about their preeminent virtues, patriotism, and republicanism, and shew them by such deeds as the above statement exhibits, they would do better than in calling Connecticut and New-England the La Vendee of the United States.
STOCKBRIDGE, October 5.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Springfield to his friend in this town.
"A report has gone abroad, that the Executive of the Union had ordered the public military stores in this town to be removed to the southward. This report has excited much alarm in the minds of the people in this part of the country; you may therefore be anxious to know the true state of the business. The report originated in Connecticut; some of the principal democrats of that State gave out publicity, that all the military stores would be removed out of New-England, as the people of this district of country had shewn a spirit so hostile to the present administration, Mr. Jefferson was determined to put the public arms out of their reach. About the time that this report came abroad, Mr. Lincoln, the Attorney-General, arrived in this town; and many people supposed that he was charged with the order for the removal of the public arms. A considerable number of people were assembled at the arsenal at the time Mr. Lincoln visited it; and I believe from the conversation that there passed, the Attorney-General soon became sensible of the jealousy and indignation which a removal of the public stores would excite in the minds of the people of New-England. In order therefore to quiet the public mind, he began to enquire if the ground round the arsenal could be purchased by the government, and at what price, &c. but he did not purchase it, as it has been given out in some of the public papers, though he might have had it on reasonable terms. Whether this was a mere feint in order to conceal the actual designs of the government about this business, you can judge for yourself. For myself, I have no doubt that the arms will be removed from this town, and from New-England at some future day not far distant. I hope I am mistaken in my conjecture on this subject; but it appears to be a fixed principle in the present administration to bend and subjugate New-England to Southern, or rather to Virginia politics and habits; and to do this, I believe the government will go all lengths."
SALEM, October 9.
On Saturday last arrived the ship Martha, Capt. John Prince, from the Mediterranean; through whose polite attention we are enabled to give the public some satisfactory account respecting the expedition of Gantheume's squadron, and a confirmation of the capture of Grand Cairo by the Turkish and British forces.
The number of troops which this squadron carried out, and which in the French papers has generally been stated at 8000, and sometimes at 10,000, was actually no more than 4000, which number better accords with the capacity of the ships on board which they were embarked. A few days before Capt. Prince sailed from Marseilles, which was on the 20th of July, Gantheume's return to Toulon was announced, having been frustrated in the object of his expedition. He attempted to land his troops about 40 leagues to the westward of Alexandria, and actually disembarked a part of one brigade, when they were immediately attacked and mostly cut off by the Arabs; a few were able to regain the ships. Finding it at length impracticable to effect a landing, and the troops becoming very sickly, he found himself under the necessity of returning to Toulon, where he landed 1200 sick troops, and thus closed the expedition. Thus cut off from all means of supplying or reinforcing their army in Egypt, that country was considered, by every intelligent man in Marseilles, as completely lost to France; and vessels in that port which had been loaded several months for Egypt, and were waiting for intelligence of Gantheume's success, in order to their sailing, were taking out their cargoes, from despair of ever being able to send them safely to the place of their destination.
Capt. Prince touched at Gibraltar on the 29th of August, where he was informed, from the best authority, that Grand Cairo had surrendered to the combined forces of the British and Turks, on the 28th of June. The intelligence was brought by a frigate, which had proceeded to England with the dispatches. Public rejoicings had been made at Gibraltar, on account of this success to their arms. After the fall of Cairo, Alexandria was the only post remaining to the French in Egypt, which was expected soon to share the same fate.
Capt. Bainbridge, of the Essex frigate, also received the account of the surrender of Cairo from a British frigate near Malta.
BOSTON, October 10.
From Gibraltar.—August 29.
"There have been rejoicings at the intelligence of the capture of Cairo; and news of the fall of Alexandria is daily expected." The above serves to confirm our late information from England.
The aggregate amount of the cargoes of two Philadelphia vessels carried into Algiers, is 300,000 dollars. Probably they have American property to the amount of a million of dollars in that port for adjudication.
The resignation of Capt. Silas Talbot has not been occasioned by any new difficulty in point of rank between him and Capt. Truxton; that circumstance, it is well known, was settled by President Adams in his favour; and we have authority to add, that the government, in accepting his resignation, has reserved the right of again calling upon him, in case his services should be wanted, with the promise of holding the same rank he left.
Since our last, by the Minerva, from London, and by the Mary, from Bristol, (England) we have London papers to the 23d of August—Six days later than before received. They are unusually barren of important occurrences.
No additional official information of the surrender of Cairo had been received.—No doubts, however, of the certainty of the event, were entertained in London. Our readers will recollect, that the advices from Gibraltar, by Captain P. arrived at Salem, were to the 23th of August.—They are the latest by many days—and they pronounce unequivocally the fall of Cairo, with its garrison; and that rejoicings had taken place at the Rock, in consequence. A frigate had sailed for England with the official particulars. Those who remember the contradictory accounts circulated, and the length of time before the official letter transpired, of the victory at Aboukir—will not permit their faith in the accounts received to be shaken by the delay of Gen. Hutchinson's dispatches. The London papers of the 2d of August contain a Hamburg article which mentions, that two days after the Victory, the Grand Vizier entered the city in triumph; and detached a part of his force against Alexandria.
Lord Nelson was about setting forth on a third expedition.—Whither was not mentioned.—Perseverando is his watchword.
The negotiations between Great-Britain and France continued active; but its progress and probable issue are locked in impenetrable secrecy.
Providence,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14.
The Rev. Dr. Maxcy, of this town, is chosen President of Union College, Schenectady, State of New-York,—Salary 1,500 dollars per annum.
The Hon. Benjamin Talmadge is elected a Representative to Congress from the State of Connecticut.
Extract of a letter from Dr. Priestley to Dr. Rush, dated Northumberland, May 4, 1801.
"I think myself under great obligation to you for recommending to me so strongly as you did, the reading Mr. Webster's Treatise on pestilential disorders. I think, with you, that it is, indeed, a most important publication.—It has given much light on a subject in which I find I had been wholly in the dark before, and which is becoming every day more interesting."
"I am now convinced of what I had no suspicion, and should have thought exceedingly improbable a priori , viz. that pestilential disorders of various kinds are principally owing to a state of atmosphere generated by things which appeared to be too remote to have had any influence in the case, such as earthquakes, meteors, and comets; that the influenza, and other more common diseases, with the morbid affections of plants and animals, generally precede the more malignant disorders of yellow fever and the plague; that these two disorders which I had thought to be fundamentally different, are only modifications of the same thing; that quarantine laws are of little use, for that these disorders will not spread except in the morbid state of the atmosphere of any place; and that in such a morbid state of the atmosphere of sufficient continuance, nothing can prevent their appearance. These very extraordinary and important positions I cannot help thinking to be abundantly proved by the facts produced by Mr. Webster, and for this I think he deserves the thanks of all mankind."
Nat. Int.
Died,
"In this town, on Wednesday last, Mrs. Elizabeth Sterry, consort of the late Mr. Cyprian Sterry, aged 94 years and 7 months. In her the poor have known a friend, the unfortunate a comfortress. Her life was marked by a long course of usefulness, and ennobled by the exercise of every virtue. Among these, fortitude and resignation shone conspicuous. These were visible in every action, and in every change of life. They supported her expiring moments; and enabled her to meet undismayed the king of terrors. With a composure truly magnanimous, she bade adieu to her weeping friends, and sunk without a sigh into the arms of that Being whose name she had ever adored."
On Saturday last, Capt. John Burrough, aged 62, a worthy and respectable citizen.
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.
THEATRE---Providence.
THIS evening, Wednesday, October 14, will be presented, a favourite Play, from the German of Kotzebue, called The Wife Man of the East.
To which will be added, a humorous Farce, never performed in this town, called Fortune's Frolic;
OR, The True Use of Riches.
Doors opened at 6, and performance to commence at 7 o'clock, precisely.
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, Cassimere, 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; Swandowns; English, India, and Italian Lutestrings; black and coloured Satins; Modes, Sarfener, fashionable fancy check Ribbons, black and coloured silk Shawls, Bandanno and fancy silk Handkerchiefs.
A large assortment of Camels hair Shawls, Muffin and chiniz do.
A large assortment of high and low priced fashionable Calicoes, blue, purple, and red Copperplate; lond and short silk and cotton Gloves, plain and striped; Russells, Durants, Moreens, Shalloons, Rattenets, plain and striped Wildbore, Bengal, Crapes, linen Pocket Handkerchiefs, black and white Laces and Edgings, India Cotton of various prices, Mullins, Mullinets, 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, sad 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.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, October 5, 1801.
THE Creditors of JEPHTHA 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 held 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.
In the above advertisement, as published last week, the name of Joseph was inserted, by mistake, for Jeptha.
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 3 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.

Selected Poetry.
SONG.—FROM THE GERMAN.
LOVE, from those bright eyes imparting Soft desire and am'rous care; Through my breast his arrows darting, Lives and reigns a tyrant there.
On thy cheek with blushes glowing, When I print the eager kiss; Heart and soul with joy o'erflowing, Scarce can bear the thrilling bliss!
Dearest maiden, whilst I hold thee, 'Gainst my panting, fluttering heart!— Whilst my trembling arms enfold thee, Madd'ning bliss thy charms impart!
But too soon my ravished senses Sink beneath oppressive joy; Life and bliss thy smile dispenses! Bliss and pain alike destroy!
AMUSEMENT.
A SCOTCH Major, who had been so skilful with his sword as to fight several duels with repeated success, but who, on account of his extreme desire for quarrelling when a little intoxicated, and for his boasted courage, was deserted and despised by his brother officers, came one evening into a large company. There happened to be present a Yankee, an officer of the same regiment, which was then stationed at Montreal. This Yankee related among other things the failure of a certain expedition in which he had the misfortune to be wounded.—That was because you were a rascally set of cowards , observed the supercilious Major. You are a d—n'd liar , says the Yankee. The company stared. The Scotchman looked down upon him with as much contempt as Goliath did upon David, and immediately asked, are you a man to meet me? Yes, replied the Yankee, at any time and where you please, only with this proviso, that we meet without seconds. Well then, to-morrow morning at five o'clock, at — Agreed. The company present endeavoured to dissuade the Yankee, telling him the Major had every advantage where he had none, and that he had best compromise matters, or he would have cause to repent his rashness; but he still persisted. The next morning the Yankee repaired to the place somewhat before the appointed hour, armed with a large musket ; shortly after the Major made his appearance, with his brace of pistols and his sword. Before he had advanced far, the Yankee, in an austere tone, bid him stop, or he would blow his brains out. Upon which the Major, struck with amazement at this unexpected stratagem, reluctantly obeyed, but expostulated with him upon the injustice of such an ungentlemanlike proceeding; the Yankee was implacable, determined to punish him for his past conduct, and for the abuse he had himself received. Lay down your sword and pistols (still presenting his musket) and to the right about face, march! The poor Major was again under the necessity of obeying, and uttering a volley of curses against his stars, passively submitted. The Yankee then quietly took possession of his arms. 'Tis safe, 'tis cowardly thus to disarm me of all defence, says the Major. No, replied his fellow-combatant, I will deal honourably with you, there take my musket, throwing it towards him, and defend yourself. He, quite incensed, seized the weapon with a mixture of exultation and precipitate vengeance, and rushing forward demanded his arms, or he would blow him to h—ll; blow and be d—m'd, says the Yankee. Provoked at such unparalleled insolence, in a fit of frenzy, he drew the trigger! But, alas, the musket had not been charged. The glory of our bragadocio was so fulfilled, and his feelings so mortally wounded by this indignity, that he sold his commission and left the place.
PLEASE TO TAKE NOTICE
THE subscriber returns his grateful thanks to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Providence, for that degree of care and patronage they have ever extended to him; and would humbly inform them, so as to prevent giving them the trouble of sending for him at his late residence, that he has removed to a house belonging to Mr. Henry Bowen, near the burying-place, north end, where he will with pleasure receive the commands of those who please to honour him with their employ. WILLIAM P. GERRISH, September 23.
NEW GOODS.
Freeman and Bartlet
Have just received and opened for sale, at No. 1, Cheapside, 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 strip'd Cassimeres of the newest fashion, striped Elastic, Orleans Stripes, common and superfine Serges, Plains, Forest Cloths, Velvets, Thicksets, and Genoa Cords, of various colours; Ratteens 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 Swankins, Coatings, Toltan and Swansdown Washings, of the newest fashion; Pear-noughts; plain, ribb'd, and patent Worsted Hose; Ladies black do. plain, laced clocks, ribb'd, and figur'd 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 Cambric Muslins; plain and figured jaconet and sheer Muslins; coloured and white Camels Hair Shawls, with netting fringe, and satin borders; plain and figured Marseilles; Cotton and Linen Checks, Wildbores, Russells, Birds-eyes, Camblets, Cambleteens, Calimancoes, Durants, Tammies, Jeans, Moreens, coloured Cambric 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, Petongs, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 show cause, if any they may have, why his petition for the act, entitled, "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors," ought not to be granted.
SAMUEL EDDY, Secretary.
LOOKING-GLASSES.
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. he pair. SAMUEL AMES.
July 29.
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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 show 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 JOSHUA 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 show 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.
Take Notice.
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.
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, Cambric Muslins, 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.
Gentlemen's fashionable Hats, Ladies Ditto, Camel Hair Shawls, embroidered and dyed Cambric Ditto, Muslinets, 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, Tape and Bobbins, Jewellery.
A handsome Assortment of Time Pieces, Watches, real Plate Coffee Beggins, Tea Pots, Cream Ewers, Sugar Basins, &c. Sept. 30.
Young Seamans
HAS just received, by the Schooner Mary, from Bourdeaux, and offers for sale, on liberal terms,
30 pipes old French Brandy, of an excellent flavour 40 casks of Claret Wine 40 cases do. 24 bottles each 40 boxes of Cordials, 12 bottles each 120 baskets Annifed 140 bags of Corks 2 hoghead Verdegreafe 1 boxes fashionable Paper-Hangings. September 8.
For SLAE, by William N. Rhodes,
30 Casks Hyson } 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.
Take Notice.
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.
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, Pearlashes, &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 Judith, and for sale, by CHARLES SHELDON,
South End.
Sept. 8.
A large range of tores.
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.
PORTER and BRANDY.
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. August 26.
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 EBENEZER 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 undersigned 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-Ball 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, } Com'rs. JOSEPH JENCKES, } GEORGE R. BURRILL, } Sept. 4.
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.
NOTICE.
THE Creditors to the Estate of ELIEZER 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, } Adminx. JIRAH BALLOUE, } Gloucester, August 25.