The Providence journal, and town and country advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1800-10-22 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. 95. ]
WEDNESDAY, October 22, 1800.
[ Vol. II. ]
FALL and WINTER GOODS.
Samuel Ames,
Has received by late arrivals from London and Liverpool, and is now opening for sale,
 BEST superfine fashionable mixed, navy blue and other Broadcloths  Middling and low priced do.  Best double mill'd Cashmeres  Middling and low priced do.  Superfine and common Swan-down Waistcoating  Worsted Hose, a great variety  Ladies cotton do.  A variety of Swanskins  Flannels and Baizes  A variety of worsted Stuff Goods  Book, Jaconet and Cambric Mullins  Muffinets and Dimities  Cammels Hair Shawls white and coloured, fringed or plain bordered  Muslin and chintz do. 
With every other article usually called for in his line, at the most reduced prices, for cash. Also, an assortment of HARD-WARE, at wholesale only: a few hogsheads of good retailing MOLASSES.
October 15. (6w.)
Benjamin Thurber,
Has just opened, for sale, at the Sign of the Bunch of Grapes, in Williams Street, No. 30 a complete assortment of WINTER and FANCY GOODS; amongst which are the following articles, viz.
 SCARLET , blue, black and London brown Broadcloths, Forest Cloths, from the highest to the lowest prices, Cashmeres, Flannels and Baizes of all colours, India and English Silks, black Sattins, Modes, and Persian high and low priced Patches and Callicoes, Camel-Hair, Silk and Patch Shawls, a complete assortment of Looking-Glasses, Morocco and Florentine Shoes, India Mullins and Dimities. And other articles 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. 8 W. 
October 15.
For SALE by Harris and Rhodes,
 20 Boxes Havana White and Brown Sugar  5 Hogsheads W. I. Rum  3 Pipes Brandy  10 Hogsheads Molasses  Hyson, Souchong and Bohea Tea  Turk-Island and Rock Salt  Tobacco by the Hogshead  A few Kegs Honey 
October 15.
Notice is hereby Given,
THAT the subscriber has removed his Office, to the Office of THEODORE FOSTER and THEODORE A. FOSTER, where he should be happy in a continuation of the favours already received of the public.
P. ALLEN.
N. B. The Office of the CLERK of the SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT, for the county of Providence, is removed to the place above mentioned.
P. ALLEN, Clerk.
The subscribers inform their friends in particular, and the public in general, that they transact all business appertaining to the Profession of the Law, at the place above mentioned, where constant attendance will be given. Mr. FOSTER first named, having relinquished his concern, in the future business, at the Office abovementioned, to us.
PAUL ALLEN, THEODORE A. FOSTER.
October 8.
Foreign Intelligence.
From a London paper, by the last arrival.
COMMERCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF A RUPTURE WITH RUSSIA.
THE formation of the Northern League, which every day is more and more developed, begins to divide the public attention with the great question of Peace or War, upon which, indeed, it must exert no inconsiderable degree of influence. The Emperor Paul, our late magnanimous ally, will naturally be at the head of this confederacy; and after the frequent symptoms of caprice or inconsistency that have recently characterised his measures, it must gratify more than curiosity to enquire on what grounds this league is entered into, and by what spirit it is likely to be directed. Should a jealousy of our naval pre-eminence and commercial prosperity prompt it to entertain hostile intentions against Great-Britain, its consequences must prove prejudicial not only to our trade, but also to our national security. It is not, however, probable that the Cabinet of Petersburg will rashly run into a war which must expose Russia also to great commercial sacrifices. Her trade with this country is various and extensive, and the advantages resulting from it are supposed by some nearly to counterbalance those which we derive from it. A little attention to the nature of the commerce we carry on with Russia, and of the commodities we bring home in exchange for those which we export into that country, will pretty clearly shew to what side the balance must incline.
We export into Russia the produce of the soil, and of the manufactures of the three kingdoms; that of our Colonies, and of the commerce of both Indies. To this we add most of the commodities of the growth of Europe, and especially those of France, in time of peace, upon which we gain the profits of freight, and the advantages of a commerce of economy.
What we take from Russia in exchange for these consists principally in naval merchandise and stores, such as timber for ship building, masts, iron works, hemp, tar, &c. We even keep up manufactures in parts of Russia, where the raw materials are put through the first process at two-thirds less expence than the same labour would cost in England. We have commercial houses and factories established at Moscow, Wolodga, at Tula, Joroslavl, Casan, and even at Astracan, from whence we push forward our trade into the Caspian Sea. In the interior of Russia are English factories and commissaries, who superintend the manufactures of sails, cordage, and of all kind of coarse iron work, for the use of our arsenals, docks, &c.
The advantages accruing to England from our trade in all these important articles are incalculable; but the most prominent and essential advantage we derive from it, is our possessing in Russia, under our unobstructed management and controul, an inexhaustible source of every thing that can contribute to the creation, to the reproduction, and the augmentation, of a marine both military and commercial.—It is this commercial intercourse with Russia that supplies England with the aliment and vehicle of every other species and means of commerce: it is that trade which enables Great-Britain continually to maintain, to repair, and re-establish a mass of navigation, the most extensive and formidable which the world has ever witnessed. It may also be observed that the whole of this great and prolific commerce is active on the part of England, and merely passive on the part of Russia; and thus we secure all the net benefit of commission, freight, exchange, and even a part of the manufacturing labour, as has been already observed.
But on the other hand, it may be said that notwithstanding all these disadvantages of a passive commerce, Russia draws annually from England a balance of half a million sterling, at least in time of peace, and that for the most part in specie.—Thus it appears that this reciprocal commerce is nearly as valuable to Russia as to England; and before either power foregoes such advantages, it is natural they should seriously come to a mutual and amicable understanding; but the balance in favour of Russia is more apparent than real, and is fully compensated by a variety of considerations.
Together with all the naval materials and stores which we draw from Russia, and with which we not only build, but equip our commercial navy, England gains a profit from freight, &c. more than double that which it pays in specie or goods, to adjust the supposed balance; and the cost of this freight is not taken from herself, but Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, (we allude to times of peace) from Germany, the whole of the North, and even from Russia, with which country England keeps up an active commerce of economy. England profits, therefore, as much and more than Russia, by the continuance and consolidation of this commerce; it is, consequently, more valuable to her than to the passive party, that gains only in appearance, but loses, in reality, in as much as Russia comparatively gains much less than she might otherwise do if her commerce with this country was of an active or reciprocal nature. Upon the whole, it would appear that England absorbs three-fourths of the Russian trade: how cautious, therefore, should be our conduct and management, in order to avert a misunderstanding which may so materially affect not only the commercial, but the very vital interests of the country!
From a London Paper.
Letter from Mr. John Carmlington, to his brother in New-Castle, dated Muskat, 29th of October, 1799.
SHORTLY after my last, captain Spence, of the Pearl, proceeded to India to purchase a vessel or two more for the Gulph trade; Mr. Joseph Cambridge Fowler, the chief officer, was appointed to the command of the Pearl, and I succeeded him in his former station. On the 1st of October we got clear of Bassora river, bound for Bombay, and were proceeding very pleasantly on our voyage until the 7th, when having got about two thirds down the Gulph, at 9 o'clock at night, we were suddenly surprised by the appearance of a ship close to us; she had been lying under an Island called the Great Tomb, and had seen us before sunset, though we had not perceived her. We hailed each other, and to our sorrow, we found her to be French—an action commenced; but her fire was so much superior to ours, that she soon drove the Lascars from their quarters, and the whole of them ran below. The privateer was at that time about pistol shot from us, and prepared to board, and not an armed soul to receive them except myself and five or six Arabs, who had never flinched.
Under such circumstances, I was under the disagreeable necessity of striking to her, after throwing three packets of government dispatches overboard. We had previously endeavoured to run, but unluckily our main-top-sail tye was shot away. Capt. Fowler was shot through the body with an 8 pound shot the second broadside; we had likewise three Lascars wounded, one of whom died shortly after. I had a grape shot through my trousers, which grazed the back part of my thigh, and a slight wound on my left, by a splinter from the same shot which killed the Captain. We did not engage above a quarter of an hour. I was taken on board the privateer; she had nobody killed on board, and only some shot
through her sails. She was named La Iphigenie, Capt. Malroix, from the Isle of France, mounting 18 guns, two of them 48 pound carronades, 6 long French 8 pounders, 10 do. 6 pounders, and 170 or 180 men. We only 10 guns, and all of them small, and different sizes, none of them good except two 9 pounders, and 50 men, all natives but the captain and myself. They got in us a very valuable prize, as we had on board 100 packages of treasure, value upwards of three lacks of rupees, 40 horses, 5000 slabs of copper, besides several bales, chests, &c.
The treasure was shifted on board the privateer the next day, and they were so elated with their success, that they determined to return from their cruise immediately; but on the 10th at night we fell in with his majesty's ship Trincomalee, Capt. Rowe, mounting 18 24 pound carronades, but badly manned;—she had been fitted out at Bombay, and been cruising in the Gulph nine or ten months; her crew very sickly, had lost a number of them by death, and had no fresh supply. I have been told that they had only 70 active men on board; a partial action took place the next day as they passed each other, and on the 12th, at 3, P. M. they came within gun-shot again, and kept firing at each other till after sunset, but at too great a distance for much damage to be done; owing to the calm and light airs they could not get near each other. A Schooner named the Comet, was in company with the Trincomalee, mounting eight small guns. The Captain of the privateer wanted very much to cut her off, but through the bravery and good conduct of her captain all his schemes failed, and she served to engage the Pearl, for whom she was more than a match.
At half past 6 o'clock the same evening a fine breeze springing up, the privateer bore down towards her prize; the Trincomalee followed, and at ten P. M. (being moonlight) brought her to action, which continued with great fury for two hours within musket shot, when one ship luffing up, and the other edging down, they fell along side each other, and grappled muzzle and muzzle. In this situation they remained about half of an hour, the slaughter very great on both sides. The French being more numerous, were preparing to board, when by some fatal accident the Trincomalee blew up, and every soul on board perished except one English seaman, named Thomas Dawson, and 4 Lascars. The explosion was so great, and the ships so close, that the privateer's broad-side was stove in.
I leave you to judge the dreadful situation I was in at this crisis, being below two decks, in the square of the main hatchway, in the place appropriated for the wounded, which was full of poor souls of that description, in circumstances too shocking to be described. All at once the hatchway was filled with wood, the lights were driven out, the water rushing in, and no visible passage to the deck. The ship appeared to be shaken to pieces, as the hold beams had shrunk so considerably, that where there was room before to stand nearly upright, you could now only crawl on hands and knees, which I did towards the hole in the side where the water was coming in; close to this, by the light of the moon, I found a hole through both decks, which had been newly made, I suppose, by the falling of some of the Trincomalee's guns or other wreck.—Through this I got with difficulty upon deck, when I found the ship just disappearing forward, and hastened aft as fast as I could over the bodies of the killed, with which the deck was covered, to the rafterel, and jumped overboard.
I swam a little way from her, dreading the junction, and looked round for her, but she had totally disappeared. I afterward caught hold of a piece of wood, to which I clung for about an hour and a half, at which time the boats of the Pearl

came to pick us up, there being nearly thirty Frenchmen in the same predicament. They however, were all taken up first; and when I solicited to be taken in, I had a blow made at my head with an oar, which luckily missed me. This treatment I met with from two different boats, and I began to think they were going to leave me to my fate; but the French officer in command of the Pearl, hearing there were some Englishmen upon the wreck, ordered the boats immediately to return, and take us up, viz. myself, and Thomas Dawson, then the only survivor of the Trincomalee.
There were killed and drowned on board La Pique 116 or 120 men, among whom were the captain, seven officers, surgeon, two young men volunteers from the Isle of France, the first boatswain, gunner and carpenter. All the treasure went down in the privater. Captain Rowe, of the Trincomalee, was killed before the ship blew up, as was also the first Lieutenant, whose name was Williams. The Comet, immediately on the accident happening, made sail from the Pearl. I suppose she was afraid there might be too many Frenchmen for her to manage. On the 15th we arrived here for water, &c. and the French officer was so good as to give me my liberty. They let me come on shore on the 24th, the day the Pearl sailed. They disposed of their horses here, and I have bought them in again for Mr. Mansel, the Company's resident at Bassora. I hope in two or three days to have them all on board a vessel for Bombay, in which I also take a passage.
Late Foreign Intelligence.
By the ship Cornelia , arrived at Portland from Liverpool.
LONDON, August 31.
GOVERNMENT yesterday received accounts of increased exertions to prepare the Brest fleet for sea; that considerable bodies of troops had been ordered thither from the interior, and that Buonaparte was about to repair to Brest, to accelerate and animate the meditated enterprise.
Lord St. Vincent has moored his vessels in such a manner, that whilst the season will admit of his retaining his situation, it is impossible that a vessel of any description can either leave or enter Brest. Our tars were in high spirits at the prospect of more active service.
The public funds yesterday experienced a further rise of one per cent. under a prevalent opinion, that France had expressed a desire to treat with the allies collectively for a general peace. We are wholly unacquainted with the circumstances which have induced this impression. We are assured that citizen Otto, the agent for French prisoners in this country, who has been mentioned as the medium of pacific overtures from the French government to our cabinet, has not, directly or indirectly, received from M. Talleyrand, or any other individual composing the French executive, any communication which in the slightest degree involved the subject of negotiation.
The flag of truce which sailed from Dover on Tuesday, for Calais, returned on Thursday, and was again sent off for France on Friday. She was charged with dispatches, said to be from the Transport Office, but which were not directed to Capt. Gotes, our agent for prisoners in France, or to citizen Forfait, the republican minister of marine, as the ordinary communications of that board are wont to be addressed: but from this nothing satisfactory can be collected.
We can however with decision say, that the Court of Vienna, on signing the treaty with this country on the 12th inst. issued a declaration to all the courts of Europe, announcing the determination of his Imperial majesty not to treat with France, except in conjunction with England and his other allies. This instrument is dated the 12th of August; we have seen an abstract of it; the Hamburg-mail due this day will most probably put us in possession of the detail.
The late dispatches from Lord Whitworth, we have reason to believe, were less satisfactory than government had expected. The Danish minister, we are told, assumed a lofty tone, declaring, that although his Danish majesty should be unaided by Russia or Sweden, he would nevertheless assert the rights of nations, and oppose, to the extent of his powers, the growing tyranny of the British flag:—The subsequent intercourse between the ministers is stated to have been more moderate, but nothing less decided. We are not of opinion, that the interference of Admiral Dickson in the negotiation will be necessary; but we are satisfied, that the presence of his force will powerfully tend to its adjustment.
INUNDATION IN CHINA.
The late overland dispatches brought recent accounts from Canton, stating that an uncommon succession of rain had laid entire districts in China under water. The great river Hoang-ho had been swelled to such excess, as totally to wash from its banks many of the villages which adorn them, and inundate all the adjacent country. Such of the inhabitants as escaped this awful visitation, had fled with the remains of their property to the hills.
The beautiful and level plains, which lately exhibited all the rich variety of cultivation,
were, at the date of these accounts, covered with boats, employed in collecting the wreck of the country floating on the waters.
HAGUE, August 18.
We learnt last evening, that the English made good a landing in Zealand, near the Briel; but that General Churier, with a body of Batavian troops, have obliged them to re-embark, with the loss of five men. The object of the English is to obtain a permanent footing in Zealand, erect the Stadtholderian standard, and rally the numerous Orange partizans:—But measures are taking for an effectual defence of the coast.
FRANCE AND AUSTRIA.
PARIS, August 24.
We are assured that Duroc has returned to Vienna, with Bartholemey. If this is true, it is pretty certain that nothing is decided respecting peace with Austria.
VENICE, August 8.
The Austrians continue to erect fortifications. Their army under General Melas has within a month been reinforced with 27,000 men.
FRENCH AFFAIRS IN EGYPT. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 28.
Fresh intelligence has reached us from Egypt. General Kleber has been murdered, and General Menou has succeeded him in his command. It is reported that a Janissary, under the pretence of delivering a petition to Kleber, stabbed him. General Menou, in a letter which he wrote to Sir Sidney Smith, says, that the assassin had been purposely sent from Gaza, to commit the murder. But there are sufficient reasons to believe to the contrary; and Menou himself is accused of having hired the murderer, an Egyptian, in disguise, who was cut in pieces immediately after the assassination.
Other reports say, that the murderer was probably actuated by private revenge, as the French had committed unheard of cruelties, especially at Boulac, a suburb of Cairo, where they spared neither women nor children.
What occasion the suspicions against Gen. Menou, are his Jacobinical principles, and his having been at the head of that French party in Egypt, which was always against the evacuation of that country.
Gen. Kleber, who was as much beloved by the other party as they hate his successor, is generally regretted here; and his death is the more unwelcome to the Porte, as he was on the eve of adopting the capitulation of El-Arish, for the evacuation of Egypt. Menou immediately broke off these negotiations, declaring that he first required the consent of his government.
The Porte will now take up arms again; the Grand Vizier and Captain Pacha are conjointly to decide the fate of Egypt by the sword. The former is said to have completed his army, and will have a reinforcement of 45,000 fresh troops under the Pacha of Maden.—The Captain Pacha has likewise a strong corps of Albanese on board his fleet, and the attack will be made in various points. When the last letters left Gaza, the Captain Pacha had failed thence with his fleet.
Tichelebi Effendi, late paymaster of the army of Egypt, has been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is a man of great talents and influence, and highly esteemed by the Grand Signior.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
LONDON, August 30.
A new religion, instituted by a descendant of Ab Dool Wahaub, is rapidly increasing proselytes in Syria, Arabia, and in Egypt.
The war contributions in Bengal, amounted to 139,333 l.
FRENCH COMMANDERS. —Gen. Brune commands the army of Italy.—Gen. Macdonald the army of Reserve at Dijon.—Gen. Moreau the army of the Rhine. He, and Gen. Lecourbe, are at Strasburg.
Gen. Berthier is gone on a mission to Spain.
“MR. JAY’S MISSION.”
To the Editor of The SUN , a paper printed at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
SIR,
AS the Mission of Governor JAY to Great-Britain has been made the source of much calumny and misrepresentation, you are requested to publish the inclosed letter, that your readers may see how grossly the expenses of that mission have been exaggerated, and how unmeritedly the Envoy himself has been, and continues to be, slandered.
A FRIEND TO TRUTH.
October 1, 1800.
DEAR SIR, MR. BEERS , in compliance with your request, has delivered to me an extract from the Albany Register, of the 15th of last month, which contains the following erroneous statement of the expenses incurred by the United States, for negotiating the Treaty with Great-Britain:
  “Mr. JAY, for his outfit to make the treaty, 18,000   For his passage to Europe, 3,708 52   To pay incidental expenses, 10,000   To ditto in negotiating the treaty, 5,000   To get papers of captures,” 16,012 83   52,721 85 
This statement is not a new one—it appeared in Greenleaf's paper in March '97. It is calculated, and was doubtless designed, to impress an opinion that the administration of President Washington was too prodigal of the public money, in the negotiation with Great-Britain, and that I derived extravagant emoluments from it.
Calumny, my dear Sir, has been an engine of party in all countries, and particularly in elect-
ive governments. It is an evil which, originating in the corruption of human nature, is without remedy, and consequently is to be borne patiently. The esteem of the wise and good is valuable; and to acquire and preserve it is all that ambition ought to aim at.
As to the statement in question, you are desirous to know exactly how far it deviates from the truth; and to gratify this desire, I will give you a concise and accurate state of the facts.
Being at Philadelphia, on official business, in May, 1795, President Washington desired me to go as Envoy to Great-Britain. I earnestly endeavoured to fix his attention elsewhere; but he persevered, and I found it impossible to reconcile it with my duty to persist in declining the appointment. Circumstanced as I was, and aware of the nature of the business, of the temper of the times, and of the union of certain interests against any amicable settlement with Great-Britain, personal considerations opposed my undertaking the task. When I finally yielded to the President's request, I told him that I declined any compensation for my services—that my necessary and actual expenses only should be paid, but that my stated salary as Chief Justice must be continued.
A vessel in ballast was chartered to carry me to England, for you will recollect that an embargo was then in operation; but in contracting or paying for this vessel I had no agency.
The Secretary of State gave me a bill for 18,000 dollars towards the expenses of the mission, and for which I was to account.
All my expenses of every kind, as Envoy to Great-Britain, including the salary of my secretary, the expense of my passage home, and sixty-three pounds sterling paid in counsel fees, respecting capture cases, amounted to the sum of 12,000 dollars and 33 cents, which being deducted from the before mentioned 18,000 dollars, left in my hands a considerable balance due to the United States.
This balance I accounted for and settled with the Treasury in the following manner, viz.
  By cash advanced to an American gentleman in the service of the United States, and whose account with the public was charged with it by the Treasury, 233 33   By amount of my order on the Banker, in favour of Mr. Pinckney, who was the American Minister at London, towards a fund for expenses respecting capture cases, to be accounted for by him to the Treasurer, 5,270 22   By cash paid by me to the Treasury, 496 9   My expenses, 5,999 64   12,000 36   18,000 
These facts are verified by the Treasury Report of the account between the United States and me, marked No. 7373; by the Auditor's Report, marked No. 8330, on which is endorsed the Comptroller's certificate; and by the Register's certificate of the final settlement of the account.
With sentiments of esteem and regard, I am, &c. JOHN JAY.
Domestic Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, October 10.
It appears that General Gabriel has arrived safe at Richmond, and it is thought he will be exalted to a station somewhat higher than the one he has hitherto held; but this unambitious patriot seems rather anxious to wave the matter, if possible. After an involuntary, and we rather suspect disagreeable interview with the Governor, his Excellency was escorted to the penitentiary, where he is to wait for further orders. Notwithstanding the great anxiety exhibited for his safety, the General is said to have manifested the utmost composure; and with the true spirit of heroism seems willing to resign his high office and even his life, rather than gratify the officious enquiries of the Governor, which may endanger the necks of his dark satellites.
From a late London Paper.
Richard Riley, a marine belonging to the Queen Charlotte man of war, blown up off Leghorn, arrived in town last week. He, with Mr. Dixon, the gunner, fortunately saved themselves by floating on the head of a cask; and after being tossed about from eleven to one in the afternoon, were taken up by an American boat. This is the second providential escape Mr. Riley has experienced, being one of the crew saved out of the Boyne, when she blew up at Spithead, on the first of May, 1795.
October 11.
Toussaint has invited the return of the emigrants from St. Domingo, assuring them of safety in their persons and property. Many of these Frenchmen in this city are preparing to proceed home.
October 14.
General Gabriel, the black fellow, who has been so instrumental in exciting an insurrection among the negroes, had his trial at Richmond, Virginia, the 6th inst.—He was convicted of the fact upon the strongest testimony, and condemned to be hanged the day following. Gabriel during his trial appeared extremely uneasy in his mind, as if labouring under the severest oppressions of a guilty conscience. After sentence was passed, the court observed to him that
much anxiety and trouble seemed to hang upon his countenance; and recommended an open confession of all that he knew concerning the conspiracy, to relieve himself in a measure of the heavy burthen which evidently distressed him. However, he would make no discoveries, but plead earnestly for the day of his execution to be put off until Friday the 10th.
October 15.
Yesterday afternoon the United States frigate New-York, commanded by R. V. Morris, Esq.; weighed anchor and dropped down to the watering place. She is shortly to sail on a cruise.
October 16.
Swindlers and Coiners!
On Tuesday evening last, two fellows came to the store of Mr. Cock, in Cherry-Street, purchased goods to the amount of 50 dollars, and paid for them in specie; after they had gone off, every dollar was found to be counterfeit.—The public should be on their guard, and endeavour to detect and bring to justice such villains.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 14.
Extract of a letter from Capt. Perkins Salter, late master of the ship Pacific , of this port, to his owners, dated New-York, Sept. 30, 1800.
“I am extremely sorry to inform you of the disagreeable news of the Pacific being burnt on her passage from St. Ubes, in long. 43:6, W. lat. 37:6, N. by a French frigate, of 40 guns, from the River la Plate, bound to Rochefort, in France; this happened on the 7th of Sept. after being out 25 days. The Frenchman, after taking out all the hands, 26 boxes lemons, 4 quarter casks wine, and every loose article on board, set the ship on fire in the cabin, scuttled and forecasked, after which they made sail from her.—The frigate's name was Franchise , commanded by a Capt. Jevrein. They took all our quadrants, books, charts, and almost all our clothing, so that we are left in a most deplorable situation. This is a hard case, to be deprived of the earnings of our whole lives, by a piratical set of French robbers.”
The cargo of the ship Pacific consisted of 1350 bds. of excellent salt besides lemons, wine, &c. &c.
NEWBURY-PORT, Oct. 14.
The New Episcopal Church in this town, was consecrated on the 8th inst. by the name of the St. Paul's Church. On the 10th inst. the Rev. Theodore Dehone, of Newport, was admitted to the order of Priest, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Bats.
NEW-BEDFORD, October 10.
LOSS OF SHIP HOPE.
Last evening arrived in town Elihu Doty, late master of the ship Hope , of this port, by whom we learn the loss of that ship—the following particulars, of which distressing event are hastily collected from his report, made at Portsmouth.
The Hope sailed from Wilmington, N. C. on the 19th of Aug. for Jamaica, laden with lumber and corn—on the 7th of Sept. in lat. 26:00, N. long. 69:30, W. met with a severe gale of wind—on the 8th, the gale increased, and the ship leaked so much that notwithstanding the deck-load was thrown over, and every exertion made at the pumps, at 11 o'clock P. M. the water came over the cabin-floor—the wind at this time blowing so excessively hard, as to bring the salt water over the vessel, so as to endanger smothering a man on deck, in addition to the rain which we supposed had been incessant and very hard for 24 hours, as it had been almost as dark at noon as at night, but the rain could not be distinguished from the drift of the sea, which flew over the mast head—it was now found necessary to cut away all three of the masts to prevent the ship from upsetting—at 12 o'clock at night the ship was entirely filled with water, and a high sea beating over her—John Bolter, a seaman, was washed overboard and drowned—the rest of the people, 7 in number, secured themselves by lashings—at 4 o'clock A. M. on the 9th, the gale, which for 30 hours had seemed continually to increase, abated a little, when it was found that three wax candles were every portable thing that could be obtained, and no fresh water—found a drowned rat, and laid it aside. The distresses of the people from this time till the 17th, are hardly to be described—on the 10th, they eat part of the rat, also found a piece of pork—the 12th, obtained more meat, but their throats were too much parched to swallow—very hot weather for several days past, and wind light;—from a shower in the evening caught a little water—the 14th, caught more water, and from the great temptation drank so much as to have very prejudicial effects—the 15th, high sea, deck began to rip up—the 16th, good weather—the 17th, were taken off by the ship Mercury , Capt. Jacob Treadwell, of Portsmouth, and arrived at that port on the 2d of Oct.—The next day, Mark Lamb, one of the seamen, who had been sick from the 21st of Sept. died—Robert Colter, the 2d mate, had died previous to the gale.

BOSTON, October 18. LATEST FROM EUROPE.
Last night arrived the ship Morning Star, Capt. Stover, 39 days from Liverpool. By her we have London papers to September 1st, one day later than by the Cornelia. They do not contain any thing essentially important. "Upon the subject of peace or war, they still afford nothing but vague speculation and loose conjecture." Military preparations are vigorously making both in France and Germany.
The common report at Liverpool, the 7th of September, was, that the Brest fleet was out. The assassination of General Kleber is officially confirmed.
Providence, WEDNESDAY, October 22.
The Honourable General Assembly of this State will convene on Monday next, in this town, agreeable to adjournment.
GENEROUS SYMPATHY. A large sum having been collected in Philadelphia, by voluntary subscription, for the towns of Baltimore, Norfolk and Providence, on Monday the 13th inst. the President of our Town-Council received a letter from SAMUEL COATES, Esq. Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence at Philadelphia, covering a draft for Two Thousand Dollars on one of the Banks in Boston, "for the use of the poor of Providence, and its districts, who have suffered by the fever."
Congress will meet at the city of Washington on Monday the 17th of November, for which place the President of the United States set out on the 13th inst.
Arrived at Boston Schooner Margery, Cole, Liverpool, N.S. 6 days. Passenger, E. Hopkins, Esq. who informs of the arrival of the privateer armed brig Rover, Godfrey, of 14 guns, and 41 men, with her prize, a Spanish privateer of 12 guns, and 130 men. Capt. G. met with her Sept. 10, on the Spanish main, when a severe conflict ensued, which lasted three glases, and terminated in the capture of the Spaniard, notwithstanding there were 2 gun boats assisting. There were 59 killed on board the Spanish privateer, including the Capt. and what is very remarkable, adds our informant, not one was either killed or wounded on board the victorious American.
A report is in circulation that the U. States frigate Portsmouth, Captain M'Neil, with the American Commissioners and a French Envoy on board, has been spoke off the coast. We cannot vouch for the authenticity of this report. It is however a very probable circumstance. [Gazette U. S.]
In the present state of eager and anxious suspense, with respect to the much wished for authentic biography of our illustrious WASHINGTON, it is withington, it is with pleasure we hear it generally whispered, and with a very high degree of confidence, that his life, from the documents now in the hands of the Hon. Bushrod Washington, will be written by Joseph Dennie, Esq. the reputed author of the Lay Preacher. Phila. pap.
From a late London paper. A letter received yesterday from a gentleman on a visit at Ludlow, in Shropshire, mentions the following very distressing particulars: "I suppose, ere this, you will have heard of the burning of Radnor Forest; but lest you have not, I shall give you some account of it. A person who owns part of it (that is a sheep walk) wanting to dig out some pit-marl (that is coal) set fire to the peat and moss to clear the way; but alas! the fire burnt so rapid as to be out of his power to stop its fury, and at this time it is burning for thirty miles in circumference, to the destruction of thousands of sheep, and the distress of many poor cottagers, whose huts become a prey to the flames. I am sorry to add, that there being no water, and the fire having burnt as low in the ground as eighteen feet, no trench can be cut to stop it. No one can yet form any idea when it will burn out. The people are fearful it will reach to the wood; if so, the whole country will be almost ruined. The wood is about 16 or 17 miles from hence, and it can be seen from the hills, like as a furnace, at night. I saw a gentleman who came over the Forest, as far as he dare venture, who confirms this sad account. He says he rode till the fire came through the bottom of the roads, having penetrated quite under the same."
ROBERT BURNS, THE SCOTCH POET. The following is an Extract from an Original Letter, addressed by the Ayrshire Poet to Dr. Moore, in which the early part of his life is delineated. "For the first six or seven years of my life, my father was gardener to a worthy gentleman
of small estate in the neighbourhood of Ayr. Had he continued in that station, I must have marched off to be one of the little underlings about a farm-house; but it was his dearest wish and prayer to have it in his power to keep his children under his own eye, till they could discern between good and evil; so with the assistance of his generous master, my father ventured on a small farm on his estate. At those years I was by no means a favourite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic ideot piety. I say ideot piety, because I was then a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs and particles. In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry; but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp look-out in suspicious places; and though nobody can be more sceptical than I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrors.
"The earliest composition that I recollect taking pleasure in, was the Vision of Mirza, and a Hymn of Addison's, beginning, "How are thy servants blest, O Lord!" I particularly remember one half stanza, which was music to my boyish ear—
"For though on dreadful whirls we hung, High on the broken wave."
I met with these pieces in Mason's English Collections, one of my school-books. The two first books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read since, were, the Life of Hannibal, and the History of Sir William Wallace. Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wished myself tall enough to be a soldier; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice in my veins, which will boil along there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest."
Married, On Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Gano, Capt. Walter Armington, of Rahaboth, to Miss Marcy Jenckes, second daughter of Capt. Jeremiah Jenckes of this town.
At Philadelphia, by the Right Rev. Bishop White, Mr. Samuel Relf, one of the Editors of the "Philadelphia Gazette," to Miss Sarah Poyntell, daughter of Mr. William Poyntell, of that city.
Died, In this town, of a consumption, Mr. Timothy Ingraham, son of Mr. Simson Ingraham, in the 20th year of his age: a sickness which he sustained with christian fortitude. His relations and friends are requested to attend his funeral this afternoon, at three o'clock, at his father's house, in the south part of the town, without further notice.
Miss Ann Smith, in the 39th year of her age. At South Kingston, suddenly, Mr. John Gardner.
"At Salem (West-Jersey) Oct. 6 (in about the 33rd year of his age) Abijah Whiting, Esq. Counsellor at Law. He languished under a long and severe typhus fever for 20 days. He had every attention from the physicians and other attendants, but without the desired effect. He was attended at 11 o'clock on the succeeding Lord's day morning, attended by a large and respectable number of friends and acquaintances, who exhibited evident marks of the deepest regret on the mournful occasion."
"A liberal education, good person, handsome address, strong powers of mind, and indefatigable industry, all combined to render his ornamental and useful to society."
"As a companion, he was cheerful and agreeable. As an attorney, labourious, faithful, enterprising and successful."
"As a christian, he was correct in his opinion, and in his last illness gave the most satisfactory evidences of a firm faith in the Lord Jesus Christ."
"In politics, he always held in abhorrence that frantic philosophy which has turned so many weak heads: fired so many vicious hearts, and drenched so great a portion of the earth with human gore."
"The true Christian and Federal Republican will long deplore his untimely death."
THEATRE---Providence.
MR. HARPER respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Providence, and its vicinity, that the Theatre will be opened
THIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY October 22, With a much admired COMEDY, written by Goldsmith, called,
She Stoops to Conquer, Or, The Mistakes of a Night. To which will be added, the celebrated ENTERTAINMENT of The Mayor of Garrat, Or, The Humours of Electioneering. (Characters in the bills of the day.)
Tickets and places in the Boxes to be had at the Theatre, from two o'clock, P. M. till the hour of performance. Doors opened at 6, and curtain drawn up at 7 o'clock.
Sales at Auction.
TO-MORROW, the 24th, Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, at Benjamin Hoppin and Son's AUCTION-ROOM, ON THREE MONTHS CREDIT. TWO Bales of fresh WOOLLEN GOODS, consisting of 6-4 wide plain and twill'd, and strip'd and mix'd Coatings—common and fine drab and blue Broadcloths—Plains of different colours—Cassimeres and Flannels—with a variety of other articles. Sales to begin at TEN o'clock.
And on WEDNESDAY the 29th inst. if fair, will be sold, A GREAT VARIETY OF Household Furniture, AMONG WHICH ARE, 1 mahogany Side-board, do. Tables, do. Bureau, do. Chairs, do. easy do. 1 pair large Looking-Glasses, smaller do. 8 feather Beds, Bedsteads, and every description of Bed-Furniture; Window-Curtains, Table Linnen, 3 dozen silver handle Knives and Forks, China and Glass-Ware, with every article necessary for kitchen use. Likewise, mens Wearing Apparel, one Sextant, one night Spy-Glass, Charts and Mariners Books, valuable; a 2 barrel Gun, a Chariot, Harness, &c. &c. Sale to begin at half past 10 o'clock.
District of Massachusetts District, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 20th day of September, in the twenty-fifth year of the independence of the United States of America—GEORGE CHIPMAN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "The American Moralist; containing a variety of moral and religious Lessons, together with humorous and entertaining Pieces,—designed principally for the Use of Schools." By GEORGE CHIPMAN.
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."
N. GOODALE, Clerk of the district of Massachusetts. A true copy of record, Attest, N. GOODALE, Clk. (4 w.)
WANTED, A Good Man Servant. Apply to NICHOLAS BROWN. He has a good farrow COW, in excellent order, which he wishes to exchange for a new milch Cow and Calf; and would pay a reasonable difference. October 15
Just received from Amsterdam, and for sale by William Wilkinson,
At the Post-Office, SIXTY dozen Slates assorted, of the best Quality, which will be sold as low by the dozen as can be purchased in Boston. Also for sale, 50,000 Dutch Quills, from 40 cents to 2 dollars 50 cents per hundred—a general assortment of School Books of the best editions, at wholesale and retail. Writing Paper of various prices and qualities, Wrapping and Letter Paper, by the ream or quire. A great variety of BLANK Books, such as Ledgers, Journals, Record Books, Day Books, &c. &c. RED MOROCCO POCKET BOOKS, and a general assortment of articles in the stationary line with an assortment of Books as usual. October 15.
THE subscribers having obtained from Dr. WATERHOUSE, the true COW-POX matter, fresh, under the approbation of the Town-Council, propose to Inoculate those who may think proper to take this safe and easy method of preventing the Small-Pox. BENJ. and CHARLES DYER. "He who reflects on the difference of the two diseases, the Kine and the Small-Pox, the one contagious, the other not; the one not unfrequently attended with disagreeable consequences, and sometimes fatal, while the other is as little hazardous as the Swine or Chicken-Pox, he, I say, who compares the two diseases and their consequences, will not hesitate a moment in his preference."
[Extract om Dr. Waterhouse.] October 15.
THE Town Council having directed that the PUBLIC SCHOOLS commence on Monday the 27th of October instant, have, for the better regulation and government of the same, divided the town into four districts, nominated and described as follows, to wit: From the house of the widow Hall, eastward, up the Church lane, across Benefit-street; all that part of the town lying northward of said lane to constitute the first district.—The second district to include all that part of the town lying between the Church lane, and the lane that runs eastward by the house of the late Welcome Arnold, Esq. and to take in part of the west side of the river, as far as Orange-street.—The third district to include all that part of the town lying southward of the said lane, by the late Welcome Arnold's.—The fourth district on the west side of the river to include all that part of the town lying westward of Orange-street.—Children will attend the school of their respective districts, namely, those in the first district at Whipple-Hall School-House; the second at the Old Brick School-House; the third at the New School-House on Transit-lane; and those in the fourth district at the School-House in Clara-rack-street. The books directed to be read in said schools, are the Bible, the first and second part of Alden's Spelling-Book, the Young Ladies Accidence, by Caleb Bingham, the American Preceptor, Morfe's Geography abridged, and such other books as shall be hereafter adopted and appointed by the School-Committee. The Town-Council having ordered a supply of the above named books, those scholars who may not be provided with them, will be furnished on application to the masters of their respective districts with such as they may want, at the original cost. By Order of the Town-Council, NATHAN W. JACKSON, C. Clerk. October 22.
Bankruptcy. NOTICE.
WHEREAS a commission of Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against MICHAEL PITTS and JOHN CHEDEL, of Providence, late merchants in company, under the firm of PITTS and CHEDEL, and they being declared Bankrupts, are hereby required to surrender themselves to us the undersigned Commissioners on the twenty-third day of October instant, and on the twelfth day of November next, and on the third day of December next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon of each day, at Dr. John Williams' house in Providence, and make a full discovery and disclosure of their estate and effects;—when and where the Creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts; and at the first meeting to choose Assignees, and at the last meeting the said Bankrupts are to finish their examination; and the Creditors are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of their certificates.—All persons indebted to the said Bankrupts, or that have any of their effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the said Commissioners shall appoint: PARIS J. TILLINGHAST, JOSEPH JENCKES, GEORGE R. BURRILL. October 22.
Bowers and Bucklin Have just received, direct from the Manufactories, an Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS, Suitable for the APPROACHING SEASON, viz. BROADCLOTHS, Cassimeres Silk Hose, Worsted ditto 1-2 and 3-4 ell Mode Mode Squares, twill'd Florentine Plain Sattin, strip'd ditto Black Fringes Black Silk Velvet Dove colour'd ditto Brown ditto Straw Carpetings Oil-Cloths And sundry other Articles, (by Wholesale only) which will be disposed of on as reasonable terms as they can be obtained in New-York or Boston. October 2.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 1st, 1800.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
In pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 23d day of April, one thousand eight hundred, entitled "An act to establish a General Stamp-Office,"
THAT a General Stamp-Office is now established at the seat of government, in the city of Washington, from whence there will issue, from and after the date hereof (upon the application of the Supervisors of the Revenue, under whose management the collection of the stamp duties is placed) any quantities of paper, parchment and vellum, marked or stamped, and duly counterstamped, with the following rates of duty, which are demandable by law:—
For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, upon which shall be written or printed any or either of the instruments or writings following, to wit,
   D. C. M.     ANY certificate of naturalization, 5   Any licence to practise, or certificate of the admission, enrollment or registry of any counsellor, solicitor, attorney, advocate or proctor, in any court of the United States, 10   Provided, That a certificate in any one of the courts of the United States, for any one of the said offices, shall, so far as relates to the payment of the duty aforesaid, be a sufficient admission in all the courts of the United States, for each and every of the said offices.   Any grant or letters patent, under the seal or authority of the United States, (except for lands granted for military services) 4   Any exemplification or certified copy of any such grant or letters patent (except for lands granted for military services) 2   Any charter-party, bottomry or respondentia bond, 1   Any receipt or discharge for or on account of any legacy left by any will, or other testamentary instrument, or for any share or part of a personal estate, divided by force of any statute of distributions other than to the wife, children or grand-children of the person deceased, the amount whereof shall be above the value of fifty dollars, and shall not exceed the value of one hundred dollars, 25   When the amount thereof shall exceed the value of one hundred dollars, and shall not exceed five hundred dollars, 50   And for every further sum of five hundred dollars, the additional sum of 1   Any policy of insurance, or instrument in nature thereof, when the sum for which insurance is made shall not exceed five hundred dollars, 25   When the sum insured shall exceed five hundred dollars, 1   Any exemplification of what nature soever, that shall pass the seal of any court, other than such as it may be the duty of the clerk of such court to furnish for the use of the United States, or some particular State, 50   Any bond, bill single or penal, inland bill of exchange, promissory note or other note (other than any recognizance, bill, bond or other obligation, or contract, made to or with the United States, or any State, or for their use respectively; and any bonds required in any case by the laws of the United States, or of any State, upon legal process, or in any judicial proceeding, or for the faithful performance of any trust or duty) 10   If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, 25   If above one hundred and not exceeding five hundred dollars, 50   If above five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars, 75   And if above one thousand dollars,   Provided, That if any bonds or notes shall be payable at or within sixty days, such bonds or notes shall be subject to only two-fifth parts of the duty aforesaid, viz.   If above twenty and not exceeding one hundred dollars, 4   If above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars, 10   If above five hundred dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars, 20   If above one thousand dollars, 30   Any foreign bill of exchange, draft or order for the payment of money in any foreign country, 20   The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of exchange, without respect to the number contained in each set.   Any note or bill of lading or writing, or receipt in nature thereof for goods or merchandise to be exported;   If from one district to another district of the United States, not being in the same State, 4   If from the United States to any foreign port or place, 10   The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of lading, without respect to the number contained in each set.   Any notes issued by the banks now established, or that may be hereafter established within the United States, other than the notes of such of the said banks as shall agree to an annual composition of one per centum on the annual dividends made by such banks, to their stockholders respectively, according to the following scale:   On all notes not exceeding fifty dollars, for each dollar, 6   On all notes above fifty dollars, and not exceeding one hundred dollars, 50   On all notes above one hundred dollars, and not exceeding five hundred dollars, 1   On all notes above five hundred dollars, 2   Any protest or other notarial act, 25   Any letter of attorney, except for an invalid pension, or to obtain or sell warrants for land granted by the United States as bounty for military services performed in the late war, 25   Any inventory or catalogue of any furniture, goods or effects made in any case required by law (except in cases of goods and chattels distrained for rent or taxes, and goods taken in virtue of any legal process by any officer) 50   Any certificate of a share in any insurance company, of a share in the bank of the United States, or of any state or other bank;   If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, 10   If above one hundred dollars, 25   If under twenty dollars, at the rate of ten cents for one hundred dollars.  
II. THAT the power of the Supervisors of the Revenue to mark or stamp any vellum, parchment or paper chargeable with duty, will cease and determine from and after six months from the date hereof, to wit, on the last day of February, 1801.
III. THAT, If any persons shall, after the last day of February 1801, have in their custody or possession, any vellum, parchment or paper, marked or stamped by the Supervisors of the Revenue, upon which any matter or thing, charged with duty, shall not have been written or printed, they may at any time within the space of sixty days after the said last day of February, 1801, bring or send such vellum, parchment and paper, unto some office of inspection, and in lieu thereof, receive a like quantity or value of vellum, parchment and paper, duly stamped, in pursuance of the act herein before recited. And in case any person shall neglect or refuse, within the time aforesaid, to bring or cause to be brought unto some officer of inspection, any such vellum, parchment or paper, it is hereby declared, that the same will thereafter be of no other effect or use, than if it had never been marked or stamped, and that all matters and things, which may after that time be written or printed upon any vellum, parchment or paper, authorized to be exchanged in manner aforesaid, will be of no other effect, than if they had been written or printed on paper, parchment or vellum, not marked or stamped.
IV. AND for the convenience of those persons who may be inclined to have their own vellum, parchment and paper stamped or marked, it is hereby declared, that when any person shall deposit any vellum, parchment or paper at the office of a supervisor, accompanied with a list, specifying the number and denomination of the stamps or marks, which are desired to be thereto affixed, the same will be transmitted to the General Stamp-Office, and there properly marked or stamped, and forthwith sent back to the same supervisor, who will thereupon collect the duties and deliver the paper, parchment or vellum, to the order of the person from whom the same was received.
GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of the Treasury, at WASHINGTON, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
YELLOW FEVER.
LEE's Genuine New-London Patent BILIOUS PILLS,
WHICH were greatly successful in preventing and curing Epidemical, Bilious, Inflammatory, Yellow and Malignant Fevers in New-London, New-York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Baltimore, Charleston, &c. &c. and the West-Indies. Prepared by SAMUEL H. P. LEE, M. D. New-London (Connecticut.) Patent right secured according to a law of the United States.
For Sale, wholesale and retail, by WILLIAM WILKINSON.
They are approved by eminent Physicians, and others, for their virtues as an easy, safe, mild and efficacious remedy for all those complaints which arise from a redundancy of Bile in the stomach and first passages of men, women and children; such as Jaundice, remittent, Intermittent, and Ague Fevers; Yellow Fever, Cholera Morbus, Dysentery, Diarrhoea; sick Head-ache, Foul Stomach, Indigestion, &c. &c.
They are also found very useful in Worms, Dropsy, Gravel, suppression of Urine, Obstructions, obstinate Costiveness, and all those complaints where purging is indicated—also for restoring the lost appetite after eating and drinking to excess over night; for recruiting the habit in the spring season, and may be safely used in all constitutions, ages and sexes.
Certificates of their Efficacy.
I certify that my daughter and son were for some time exceedingly ill with a most violent jaundice, attended with a slow fever, pains in stomach and bowels, lost appetite, yellow skin, and great lassitude and weakness, information that I expected they never would recover; after trying various remedies to no effect. I made use of Lee's New-London Bilious Pills; then in great repulse in the yellow fever in New-London. They were attended with the most astonishing effects, and performed a cure greatly beyond my expectation. I use them in my family in all cases where I judge the complaints proceed from intestinal maladies, and find them to answer the best of purposes. I am convinced that I very often save the expence of doctor's bills, by a timely use of these pills in all ordinary complaints.
Signed, BENJAMIN GARDNER. New-London, Millstone Point, July, 1799.
Attested Cases of Yellow Fever.
CASE I.
JAMES MILLER, a lad about 12 years of age, was attacked with the Yellow Fever in September last. The parents endeavoured to throw off the disease by purgative oils, injections, jalap, &c. but could get nothing through him. The third day I was call'd, I found him in the second stage of fever, with the black vomit and red petechial spots on his skin, he had no evacuation from his bowels, and ejected every thing which he took—I administered two of the pills, and he kept them down; and the third was given two hours after—and within six hours regular passages were produced, at which time the black vomit began to abate, and with the use of aqua calcis and his ordinary medicines he recovered, beyond the expectation of any of the family.
CASE II.
JOHN WELD, nurse at the hospital, was seized with the fever, in all its violence, attended with the usual symptoms of constipated bowels, delirium, vomitings, &c. &c. he was bled, took the pills every day, and although he was brought to the verge of the grave, from having an uncommon share of the disease, he recovered and always felt immediate relief from the effects of the pills.
CASE III.
I was attacked myself with the fever the last of September, from imprudently going into an infected room with four sick persons in it, early in the morning upon an empty stomach. I was bled, and kept my stomach and bowels constantly affected by the pills, and recovered without the use of any other remedies except calomel in alternative doses. I felt an immediate sensation of ease and relief from every dose I took, and always felt myself secure from that alarming symptom the black vomit whenever they passed through the stomach, and I ever found this the case with all my patients; my wife and two servants in my family were ill of the fever, but happily recovered upon a free use of the pills.
These pills were the only medicines I used for the purpose of cleansing the first passages, and for preventing the black vomit, whenever they were given and produced liberal evacuation, they never failed to answer this purpose in all cases, even pregnant women could take them with the happiest effects.
Signed, SAMUEL H. P. LEE. Sworn before, and signed in presence of MARVIN WAIT, Justice Peace for New-London County. New-London, July 12, 1799.
Boston, August 1, 1798.
DR. LEE,
SIR,
From the high opinion which I have of your "New-London Bilious Pills," and from a desire to diffuse their utility among mankind, more particularly to my seafaring brethren,—I take the liberty to inform you that about the 20th of last month I arrived at New-London from the West-Indies, with the intermittent fever, commonly called the fever and ague, which I contracted there. I had had about forty fits when I arrived, I found them gaining upon me stronger and oftener, viz. from every other day to every day. I had made use of many things to break the fits but in vain...
till I took some of your pills at night, according to direction, next day my fit was scarcely perceptible, and from that time I had no more; as soon as I missed the fit I went to taking bark, and now thank God I am hearty and well.
Signed, PETER KEEN.
P. S. I request you to publish the above for the benefit of my fellow-citizens in the seafaring way.
September 3. (2m.)
NEW GOODS.
Now opening and FOR SALE, by ELISIA DYER,
A GENERAL assortment of FALL, WINTER, and FANCY GOODS of the latest importation, from London and Liverpool, which will be sold at a low advance.
October 8.
Munro, Snow and Munro,
HAVING received advice from their agent in London, that the captors of their ship Mary, William Rodman, master, from the Isle of France, have abandoned their appeal from the judgment at Jamaica: They therefore give notice to all the foremast hands, who can give good reasons for leaving the ship before her trial and acquittal at Jamaica, that they are ready to pay whatever wages may be due to them.
October 8.
KINE, or COW-POX.
THE subscribers having been furnished by Dr. BENJAMIN WATERSHOUSE, of Cambridge (Massachusetts) with the means of inoculating for the KINE, or COW-POX, with in the county of Bristol, state of Rhode-Island; hereby give notice, that they shall immediately commence inoculation for said distemper in the towns of Bristol and Warren. It being established by numerous experiments that this disorder is much milder and safer than the Small-Pox (more than sixty thousand having gone through it in England, and no one died of it) that it effectually secures the human constitution from ever being susceptible of the Small-Pox, and that it may be taken with the utmost safety in private families, as one person cannot take it from another, even by sleeping in the same bed.
They flatter themselves that few will neglect so good an opportunity, of securing themselves from the ravages of that terrible distemper, the Small-Pox. Their terms will be moderate; they will attend families in any part of the county, and to those who may not wish to take it in their own families, they will furnish boarding and lodging in Bristol or Warren, on easy terms.
Any person wishing to see a history of the disease, and an account of the experiment, both in England and America, may have the perusal of Dr. Watershouse's Pamphlet by calling on either of the subscribers.
LUTHER A. CROSSMAN, WILLIAM THOMPSON, In Bristol or Warren.
October 8.
FOR SALE, BY William Taylor,
 4 Boxes Harlem Stripes and Checks  50,000 Dutch Quills  1 Box Letter Paper  60 1-2 Dozen framed Slates  48 Boxes 8 by 10, 7 by 9, and 6 by 8, Window Glass  1000 first quality Glue  3 Casks dry Yellow Ochre  100 Pieces Hair-Ribbon, No. 3 and 4  7 Bolts Russia Duck 
The above articles will be sold very reasonable for cash or short credit. October 8.
For Sale,
A LOT in Triptown, containing five acres of choice LAND, with a Dwelling-House and Barn thereon. The moderate terms of which may be known, by applying to the subscriber, on the premises.
JOSEPH B. PEARCE.
Johnson, October 1.