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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. 124. ]
WEDNESDAY, May 13, 1801.
[ Vol. III. ]
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Just received, and for sale, by William Wilkinson,
At the POST-OFFICE.
ROBINSON'S Report of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty, G. B. A work replete with information, not only to Gentlemen of the Bar, but to the Merchant, the Underwriter, and the Sea Captain; in which the multum of Wattel , of Grotius and Pufendorf , are brought into view and condensed in parvo .
The Farmer's Boy, a Rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield. There is a pathetic simplicity of sentiment and description, a morality the most pure, and the feelings of a heart alive to the tenderest duties of Humanity and Religion, which consecrate its glowing landscapes, and shed an interest over this little Poem.
The American Review, and Literary Journal for January, February, and March, 1801.
The Sailor Boy; a new Novel, 2 volumes in 1.
"The seal of Providence is sure upon thee,
"And thou wert born for yet unheard of wonders."
A New System of the Art of Writing Short Hand; By Thomas Rees. The English Reviewers, in speaking of this work, say, "We do not hesitate to affirm, that this is the best, because one of the easiest systems of Short Hand, that has at any time come under our observation."
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March 6.
GENTLEMEN in the different parts of the United States, who have received the proposals and undertaken to obtain subscriptions for the Country Gazette of the United States , are requested to return them by the 1st day of June, in order that the publication may be commenced, or a relinquishment of the object take place. All persons desirous of becoming subscribers are requested to forward their names immediately, as the publication will not be commenced unless the number stipulated (500 exclusive of the present Country Subscribers to the daily Gazette) should be obtained. Those disposed to become Subscribers need only transmit their names at present—the advance money will be demanded on the receipt of the first number.
The Printers throughout the United States, will confer an obligation on the Editor of the Gazette of the United States by publishing the above a few times in a conspicuous part of their papers. Philadelphia, April 24.
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THE subscriber agreed, about the 6th of February last, with a gentleman in Boston, at Mr. Hatch's Inn, to carry a bag made of tow and linen cloth, drawn together at one end with a string, full of clothes and other things, to Mr. Aldrich's in Providence; among which were, two Handkerchiefs, one Coat, one Jacket, one pair of Trowsers, one pair of Breeches, two pair of Pantaloons, three Shirts, five pair of Stockings, one pair of Boots and Shoes, and several other articles. I sent on to get information whether they had arrived or not, but could not obtain any, and have now come on myself, and find that they are not at Mr. Aldrich's. It is probable they have been lost on the road, or left at some other place in Providence. Whoever has found the same, and will leave them with the Printer hereof, or at the sign of the Lion, in Boston, shall be generously rewarded.
April 29.
PETER MORSE.
Character of Mr. St. John and the Duke of Marlborough, from Somerville's history of the reign of Queen Anne.
MR. St. John was appointed Secretary at War, on the 20th of April 1704. The pregnant abilities of Mr. St. John had attracted the flattering attention of his tutors during the course of his academical studies. The quickness of his conception, and the wonderful strength of his memory, counterbalanced the great disadvantages which he lay under from extreme dissipation, and the unbridled pursuit of pleasure. His classical taste, his erudition and vivacity, procured him a high reputation in the literary world; and excited a general expectation of his making a shining figure in public life. Nor was this expectation disappointed. His clear and comprehensive views of business; the dignity and eloquence with which he acquitted himself in debate; the splendor and fluency of his expression, and the gracefulness of his manner, recommended him to the notice of every party as soon as he began his political career. Although different testimonies have been transmitted to us, with respect to the prejudice which he had imbibed in early life, both high church and puritanical zeal having tainted his immediate ancestors, * yet, as he had joined the Tories in arraigning the partition treaty, and had entered warmly into the defence of their favourite bill against occasional conformity, he was marked as one of their partisans. He had formed an intimate connection with Mr. Harley, and entertained a high admiration of the Duke of Marlborough, which disposed him cordially to take a part in an administration in which they were united.
The accomplishments of a courtier and statesman the Duke of Marlborough possessed in a degree inferior to none of his contemporaries, while his military talents raised him far above all rivalry and competition. The natural advantages of a fine figure and dignified mien, embellished with all the graces of the court, to which he was introduced at an early stage of life, before his more useful qualifications were discovered, made Lord Churchill the first object of notice and admiration in every polite circle. While these exterior excellencies recommended him as the fittest person to be employed on business of compliment at foreign courts, his fascinating address, his political knowledge, and his acute penetration into characters, rendered him the most able and successful negotiator in the more weighty affairs of state.
The early proficiency of Lord Churchill in every branch of warlike science, and his meritorious exploits in the station of a subaltern commander, had excited a general expectation of his ascending to distinguished superiority in the line of his profession. The history of ten eventful campaigns demonstrated, that nothing was expected from him which he did not perform; and that there was not a single accomplishment of a general in which he did not excel. His comprehensive and various capacity was equally adapted to complicated and detached objects. In the several departments of plan and stratagem, and of enterprise and action, he was alike successful. The general arrangement of the campaign, and the dispositions which he made in the day of battle; his choice of ground, his composure and presence of mind in the heat of an engagement, his improvement of victory, and his ready expedients under bad fortune, for a defeat he never knew, were all evidences of such diversity of talents, and such a stupendous pitch of military genius, as never have been surpassed by those of the greatest commanders in ancient or modern times.
The professional conduct of the Duke of Marlborough exhibits the most favourable view of his virtue as well as of his genius. Among the various hostile operations which he had directed, during so long a service, no example occurs of any propensity to wanton severity. He was a merciful and generous conqueror, and studied, more than any commander before his time, to reconcile the affections of vanquished states by kindness and lenity; and to mitigate the sufferings of his prisoners, by providing them with medicine, attendance, and every palliative of which their situation could admit. Thus far we admire and praise; but as all human characters
* His grandfather and grandmother were disciples of Dr. Burges, whose distinguished popularity among the presbyterians afterwards exposed him to the fury of the high church mob. Lord Bolingbroke himself acknowledges his early connection with the dissenters: and, in a letter to Mr. Pope, mentions his having been condemned, when a boy at school, to read a folio volume of Dr. Mantel, a puritanical divine, who composed a hundred and nineteen sermons upon the hundred and nineteenth psalm. Letters to Mr. Pope, &c. p. 526, printed 1753.
Mr. St. John was chosen member for Wotton Bassett, in Wiltshire, in the year 1700, and continued to represent that burgh in three successive parliaments.
are imperfect, so it cannot be denied, that the admirable endowments and good dispositions of the Duke of Marlborough were counterbalanced by a more than common alloy of meanness and depravity. Self-interest was his ruling passion, and when its object interfered, perverted his talents, and degraded his conduct.
His ingratitude to king James, political prejudices apart, will be condemned by every feeling and honourable heart. If he ever afterwards felt any kind inclinations towards the person or family of his unfortunate benefactor, they were quickly controlled by motives of party resentment, or personal aggrandizement; which, notwithstanding renewed professions of his attachment to them, rendered him the principal instrument of confirming their exile and degradation.
Extract from Hall's Sermon on Infidelity.
THE exclusion of a Supreme Being and of a Superintending Providence, tends directly to the destruction of moral taste. It robs the universe of all finished and consummate excellence, even in idea. The admiration of perfect wisdom and goodness, for which we are formed, and which kindles such unspeakable rapture in the soul, finding in the regions of scepticism nothing to which it corresponds, droops and languishes. In a world which presents a fair spectacle of the order and beauty of a vast family nourished and supported by an Almighty Parent; in a world which leads the devout mind, step by step, to the contemplation of the first fair and the first good, the sceptic is encompassed with nothing but obscurity, meanness and disorder.
When we reflect on the manner in which the idea of Deity is formed, we must be convinced that such an idea, intimately present to the mind, must have a most powerful effect in refining the moral taste. Composed of the richest elements, it embraces in the character of a Beneficent Parent and Almighty Ruler, whatever is venerable in wisdom, whatever is awful in authority, whatever is touching in goodness.
Human excellence is blended with many imperfections, and seen under many limitations; it is beheld only in detached and separate portions, nor ever appears in any one character whole and entire; so that, if we wish, in imitation of Stoics, to form out of these fragments the notion of a perfectly wise and good man; we know it is a mere abstraction; a fiction of the mind, without any real Being in whom it is embodied and realized. In the belief of a Deity these conceptions are reduced to a reality; the scattered rays of an idol excellence are concentrated and become the real attributes of that Being with whom we stand in the nearest relation, who fits supreme at the head of the universe, is armed with infinite power, and pervades all nature with his presence.
The efficacy of these sentiments, in producing and augmenting a virtuous taste, will indeed be proportioned to the vividness with which they are formed, and the frequency with which they recur, yet some benefit will not fail to result from their existence, even in the lowest degree.
The idea of a Supreme Being has this peculiar property, that as it admits of no substitute, so from the first moment it is impressed, it is capable of continual growth and enlargement. God himself is immutable; but our conception of his character is continually receiving fresh accessions, is continually growing more extended and resplendent, by having transferred upon it new perceptions of beauty and goodness, by attracting to itself, as a centre, whatever bears the impress of dignity, order or happiness. It borrows splendor from all that is fair, subordinates to itself all that is great, and sits enthroned on the riches of the universe.
Extract of a letter from General WASHINGTON, to the President of the United States, dated Mount-Vernon, the 25th of September, 1798.
"IT is an invidious task, at all times, to draw comparisons; and I shall avoid it as much as possible; but I have no hesitation in declaring, that if the public is to be deprived of the services of Col. Hamilton in the military line; the post he was destined to fill will not be easily supplied, and that this is the sentiment of the public; I think I can venture to pronounce. Although Col. Hamilton has never acted in the character of a general officer, yet his opportunities, as the principal and most confidential aid of the commander in chief afforded him the means of viewing every thing on a larger scale than those who had only divisions and brigades to attend to; who knew nothing of the correspondencies of the commander in chief, or the various orders to, or transactions with the General Staff of the army—these advantages, and his having served with usefulness in the old Congress, in the general Convention, and having filled one of the most important de-
partments of government with acknowledged abilities and integrity, has placed him on high ground; and made him a conspicuous character in the United States, and even in Europe. To these, as a matter of no small consideration, may be added, that as a lucrative practice in the line of his profession is his most certain dependence, the inducement to relinquish it must in some degree be commensurate.—By some he is considered as an ambitious man, and therefore a dangerous one. That he is ambitious, I shall readily grant, but it is of that laudable kind which prompts a man to excel in whatever he takes in hand.
"He is enterprising, quick in his perceptions, and his judgment intuitively great.—Qualities essential to a great military character, and therefore I repeat that his loss will be irreparable."
NEW INVENTIONS.
A DESCRIPTION
Of various Machines and Engines, invented by Mr. APOLLOS KINGSLEY, now resident of the city of New-York.
From the NEW-YORK MONTHLY REVIEW.
1. For making Printing Types. —This machine is constructed on five different models. The mode of operation is, by passing type moulds (of a new and peculiar form) under the bottom of a vertical tube, filled with type metal, kept constantly in a state of fusion.—Forty moulds and matrices, for different letters, are fixed in a sliding brass frame, to move under the bottom of the tube, containing the melted metal, and pass in close contact with a polished plate at the bottom of the same, by which means the moulds are filled, and the superfluous metal, or sprues, is cut off. The moulds are moved backward and forward under the tube, by turning a crank, and by the same operation the moulds open, discharge the types, and close again in continual succession.
The Encyclopædia states, that in the usual way, one man will cast 3000 types in a day, and another day is required to cut off the sprues. The inventor supposes, that his machine will cast 5000 types in one hour, and cut off the sprues at the same time.
2. A Printing Press on three models. —In the first of these the types are placed perpendicularly on a level stone, or plate of metal, and ink is applied to the type by means of rollers covered with soft leather, and the rollers are supplied with ink by passing under a box containing it, having a narrow aperture in the bottom. The impression is made on the paper by passing the same, with the types, under a roller covered with several folds of cloth. The whole machinery is put in motion by the turning of a crank.
In another of these presses, the plate against which the types are fixed stands perpendicularly, and has a set of types on each side.—This is moved upwards and downwards between two sets of rollers, and thus prints two sheets at once.
In the third model, the types, made for the purpose, are fixed round a cylinder, and confined to it; the paper to be printed is pressed between this cylinder and a roller covered with cloth, and the ink is supplied by rollers in the same manner as before mentioned. It is calculated that by either of the modes one man and a boy will print four sheets in the same time that two men can now print one, and with more ease.
A small press on this model was made a few years since, and on experiment printed very well, and very expeditiously. These printing machines, and several others, have not as yet been put into operation on a large scale, as the indisposition of the inventor for two years past has prevented him from making the necessary exertions.
3. Three Steam Engines on different constructions. —The first of which has an uniform circular motion round an axis, by means of a column of water. This engine has no more friction than what is produced by the turning of its axis, loaded with the water passing through a smooth circular tube; which occasion, but a trifling resistance to the stream. It is extremely simple in its parts, being chiefly made of wood, and not liable to derangement.
The second is composed of a brass or iron cylinder, closed at each end by a polished metal plate, through the centre of which plates and cylinder is a metallic axis, made to turn in any direction, to which is fixed a solid wing or piston, packed with some elastic substance to make it air and steam tight. On the inner surface of the cylinder, on and against each of the plates before mentioned, this axis and wing have an alternative motion round the centre of the cylinder, by the application of steam on the one side of the wing, and at the same time a communication to a condenser or vacuum on the opposite side; which powers are alternately reversed.

by opening and shutting two valves, or by turning a brass cock, either of which is moved by the operation of the engine without manual assistance. The cylinder is divided by a metallic plate on one side, between the axis and its inner surface; from which division, being air tight on all sides, the steam re-acts, and from that acts against the wing or piston before mentioned.
The third differs from the second only in this respect, that it has two wings or pistons, fixed on one axis in such a manner as to move in opposite directions till they meet; and are then, by means of steam, forced asunder till they again meet on the opposite side of the cylinder. This operation of the engine is effected with a single brass cock.
The two last mentioned engines are calculated to act with great power, without occupying that large space required for those on the common plan, and which are encumbered with a massy beam, and a ponderous fly wheel, and they are cheaper in their construction, move with much less friction, and are not subject to disorder. They are calculated to move a saw mill, a boat, &c. without any cog-wheel, or additional gears to give the motion required. One of them has been made to give a rotatory motion of such simple and convenient application, that it might be rendered very serviceable in a grist-mill or other machinery. The two last are now constructing at Corlear's Hook, in this city, for the purpose of being applied to a boat.
4. A Ship's Pump, or a Fire Engine, on two models. —These are suction and forcing pumps on a new plan. In one there is an alternate motion of an axis and piston, by means of ropes in a cylinder closed at each end and placed horizontally; the alternative motion of the piston draws water into the cylinder from beneath, from the depth of 30 feet, and will at the same time force it into a continual stream to any height, through a leather hose, and to a very great height in the open air, in proportion to the force applied. One of these engines, with a brass cylinder, twelve inches long and twelve inches in diameter, has raised about 300 gallons of water in a minute, to the height of 26 feet.
The second is differently constructed, has a communication round an axis, and is moved by a double crank on the captain of a ship, or otherwise.
Either of them is suitable for a ship's pump, or a fire engine. They are of smaller dimensions, less liable to disorder, and will discharge more water than those in common use. The frigates President, New-York, Connecticut, and Trumbull, are furnished with them, and employ them as pumps and fire-engines; they are serviceable in wetting the sails, washing the decks, &c. and when used as pumps they are attended with several peculiar advantages; for one that is capable of raising three hundred gallons of water in a minute occupies, with all its appendages, not much more space than a common barrel; and as it may be worked by ropes, these may be extended in such a manner, that fifty men may work at it, if necessary, at once.
This pump may be placed on the lower deck, safe from cannon shot, and the water conducted to a sufficient height by means of a leather hose, which will admit of easy repair in case of accident.
5. A Machine for making Bricks on two models. —The clay is tempered by a perpendicular axis, with cutters placed obliquely, and turned round in a hollow cylinder, at the bottom of which it is received into moulds presented in succession, the full ones being shovelled out by the empty ones.
These machines have been established in various parts of the continent, and continue to work with profit, except in those places where the workmen belonging to the brick manufactures have opposed, with violence, the use of them, on account of the reduction of the number of hands and the diminution of wages occasioned by them. Some of the largest buildings in the United States have been erected with bricks made in this new mode. Twelve thousand excellent bricks have been made in this manner in one day, which number is as great as can be spread around the machine at a convenient distance.
6. A machine for making Pins, which heads and points twelve pins at every revolution of a wheel and crank, that may be turned by a crank.
7. A machine for cutting Screws.
8. A new kind of Oars for impelling a boat.
9. A machine of three models for cutting Tobacco —one of which has cut a hoghead of tobacco a day.
10. A striking Clock, with but one cog wheel, without pendulum or balance wheel.
11. A machine for casting Lead Bullets, by which a man may easily cast a ton of them in one day.
12. A machine for Currying Leather, which much abridges the manual labour of that business.
As no patents have been obtained by Mr. K. for several of the above mentioned inventions, we forbear giving a more particular description of them at present. We are indebted to the inventor, a man of truly original genius, for the foregoing account.
Late Foreign Intelligence.
From European papers, by the last arrivals.
LONDON, March 29.
A MEETING of the Cabinet Ministers was held yesterday on the subject of the communication which has lately taken place between our government and France, through the medium of M. Otto, on the subject of negotiation. We believe our new rulers to be actuated with a sincere and ardent desire for peace, on terms consistent with the honour and interests of the nation, and we are persuaded that the enemy is no less anxious to terminate a war to the successful prosecution of which the successful prosecution of which his means are so inadequate; yet with this impression, and a further opinion that negotiation will be shortly instituted, we regard the question of peace to depend upon the issue of the Northern and Egyptian expeditions.
Our funds have, during the last week, risen about two per cent. on the rumour of the adjustment, and were yesterday a fraction better than on Friday.
March 31.
A messenger arrived yesterday from Copenhagen, with dispatches from Mr. Vanhiltart, by which we understand that Government has reason to expect, that the obstinacy of that Court is likely to produce an early commencement of hostilities. The dispatches were dated the 15th. We still, however, anxiously hope, that the moderation, and sincere disposition shown on the part of Ministers to terminate the dispute by Negotiation, may yet prevent things from coming to that extremity.
March 14.
Expedition to the River Plate.
It is reported, that Governor Brook, of St. Helena, having taken out a part of the cargoes of four homeward bound East-Indiamen, had failed with them for the River-Plate, to seize upon the Spanish vessels lying there bound to Europe. This enterprise, if undertaken as reported, we sincerely hope will be as successful as the gallantry of it deserves.
The following Captains in the Navy have been appointed flag officers of his Majesty's fleet, viz.
Edward Tyrall Smith, Thomas Graves (1) Thomas Macnamara Russell, Sylvanus Moriarty, Sir Henry Trollope, to be Rear-Admirals of the White.
Henry E. Stanhope, Robert M c Dowall, Billy Douglas, John Wickey, John Inglis, John Fife, Jahleel Brenton (1) John Knight, Edward Thornborough, James Kempenhoeve, Sampson Edwards, George Campbell, Thomas Hicks, Henry Cromwell, Arthur Phillips, Sir William George Fairfax, Thomas Toty, and Sir James Saumarez, to be Rear-Admirals of the Blue.
March 19.
The report of the sailing of a second squadron from Brest, obtains very little credit. A squadron of 7 sail of the line, with troops, is undoubtedly watching an opportunity to escape, which we hope it will not find. [As our latest papers do not mention the sailing of the second squadron, we presume the report was found untrue.]
March 20.
Letters from the Hague say, the naval equipments of Holland go on with activity. By April 1, it is expected there will be ready for sea five ships of 76 guns, eleven of 68, 6 frigates, 93 gun boats.
March 25.
Captain Rogers, of the Mercury frigate, on the 6th of January, fell in with twenty sail of French vessels, bound from Cite to Marseilles, under convoy of some gun-boats, and captured fifteen of them, which have safely arrived at Port-Mahon. They are deeply laden with brandy, sugar, corn, wine, oil, and other merchandise. He also captured the French National corvette Le Sans Pareille, laden with shot, arms, medicine and supplies, bound from Toulon for Egypt.
The Danes and Swedes, it is said, will not defend the Sound; but reserve their forces to dispute the narrow passage between the Islands of Amak and Salthom.
March 26.
Mr. Gray's motion in the House of Commons, for the House to go into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the state of the nation, was negatived; ayes 105, noes 291.
March 27.
We find that the Dutch government have sent a commissioner to Berlin to treat with the Hereditary Prince of Orange, under the mediation of Prussia, respecting the indemnity due to his family, for the sequestration and forfeiture of their property in the United Provinces. To what extent this indemnity may reach under the mediation of Prussia, is naturally the subject of much political speculation.
Letters from Frankfort mention, that no doubt is entertained of the perfect agreement of France and the Emperor, with the concurrence of Prussia, respecting the division and spoliation of the Empire. The conditions were doubtless settled before the interchange of signatures at Luneville. They are carefully kept secret, however, lest the Ecclesiastical States should intrigue against their performance, if they knew what fate was in store for them.
The fortifications of Mentz, it is said, are about to be levelled, and the city is to be declared a free town, upon the footing of Frankfort and Leipzick, with two grand fairs every year.
It is said that Denmark and Sweden are disposed to listen to negotiations, and that the new Ministers are ready to convince those powers that they will gain more by resorting to pacific arrangements, than to those of a hostile nature, especially on a question, the principles of which are interwoven with the existence of our navy, and of course with the security and prosperity of the British nation.
Our government, it is said, have received an intimation from the Prince Regent of Portugal, that he is desirous of putting the Bra-
zils into their hands, during his hazardous warfare with his relation the King of Spain.
The duke of Parma, who is a very religious prince, has, it is said, from scruples of conscience, refused to take possession of the Duchy of Tuscany. Hopes are entertained that the grand duke will be permitted to retain it; more particularly as Prussia has remonstrated against the Prince's being indemnified in Germany, where it would require almost a whole circle of the empire to compensate the loss of his Italian territories.
March 28.
OF PEACE.
The late hour (4 o'clock in the morning) at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer rose to speak, and the evident fatigue, from ill health and exhaustion, under which he laboured, did not permit him more than to state the outline of those principles upon which he and his colleagues so justly claim the support of the independent part of the House of Commons, and of the country at large.
The modesty which distinguished both his style and his arguments was peculiarly commended. He disclaimed all animosity towards his adversaries, and asserted the independence of his administration upon the Seceders with dignity and candour. Respecting peace, it is impossible for any one to deny that he expressed the only sentiments which an Englishman could desire to hear avowed by the government; and the country must recognize in them the first real overtures of peace which have been made on either side during the present sanguinary war. Advertising to the forms of conciliation which he is determined to pursue, he declared his dislike of asperity and intemperance of language, and his concern at it whenever it was used.
These words evidently made an impression upon the House, as they must do upon the public, who will not see, without satisfaction, politeness and good manners restored in the intercourse of statesmen. Mr. Addington said, that he had no reason to think the enemy adverse to negotiation, but that it was by the terms which France should propose, that he would judge of her sincerity. Can any honest or enlightened man refuse his assent to this principle?
For our own part, we think that the conferences which the new Secretary of State for the Foreign Department has not felt it beneath his dignity to hold on this subject with M. Otto, must lead at least to the production of that contre projet which there is so much reason to regret was not obtained in 1797, or in 1799, upon the overture of Buonaparte. Should the terms proposed by France be inconsistent with our interests, our honour, or our security, the nation will be unanimous in rejecting them, and Mr. Addington will have the advantage of that energetic support in the prolongation of the war, which a conviction of the impossibility of peace can alone procure for him. But there is reason to hope that the Chief Consul, who cannot increase his glory as a warrior, will sincerely turn his thoughts to the security and consolidation of his authority, by the only peace that can itself endure, or make the peace on the Continent endured.
It is mentioned in the Paris papers, that on Mr. Wickham's being informed that the Minister of the Elector of Mentz had voted for the ratification of the Peace, he gave notice to the Elector, that the English subsidies would be discontinued.
There is a report in the foreign papers, that the duke of Parma, who has got Tuscany by the treaty of Luneville, will take the title of king of Etruria.
It appears from our Hamburg letters, that intelligence of the sailing of Sir Hyde Parker's fleet for the north sea was received there on the 17th or 18th, and would be immediately transmitted to Copenhagen; so that it is probable that the Danish government would have short warning of its approach. No farther intelligence has been received from the north sea fleet, but may now be expected every moment.
Letters from Constantinople, dated Feb. 18, state that the English fleet had failed for Egypt, and that the Turkish fleet would sail in 12 days. It is asserted that General Abercrombie had offered General Menou an honourable capitulation, if he would evacuate Egypt with the troops, and return to France, but had received, say these letters, a positive refusal. The English expect the co-operation of 6000 men from the East-Indies, which will give employment to the French on the eastern part of Egypt, while General Abercrombie attacks the country on the northern and western sides.
HAGUE, March 7.
PROPOSED CHANGE.
On the 4th inst. the Directory sent a message to the Legislative body, requesting they would take into their early consideration a revision of the Constitution. The message stated, that all human institutions were capable of improvement, and that experience had proved that the present Constitution had given rise to many collusions and inconveniences. The present was of all others the most fit time to institute a revision of it, being the period of a continental and general peace. The Directory suggested the propriety of immediately convening the Burghers of the country who had votes, in order to determine in the first instance whether the revision was necessary; should they determine in the affirmative, they should then empower the Directory to name fourteen persons, of whom seven, or at most nine, should be charged with the revision, and make their report within two months, when the new Con-
stitution should be submitted for the acceptance of the people; or should the Burghers approve, it might be left to the Directory themselves to make the revision, subject also to the approval or rejection of the Burghers.
This proposition was acceded to after very violent debates; and a Commission was appointed for the purpose, which is to make its report on the 16th inst.
PARIS, March 21.
Armistice between the French Republic and his Majesty the King of the two Sicilies.
Impressed with the sentiments of moderation and generosity manifested by the French government, as well as with the assurances of kindness displayed by the Emperor of all the Russias with respect to the Court of Naples, and desirous of putting an end to the calamities of war between France and his Sicilian Majesty, by contributing on their part to the conclusion of a general peace;
General Murat, Commander in Chief of the army of Observation, and M. le Chevalier Micheroux, consent to an armistice on the following conditions:
Art. 1. The armistice shall take place between the armies of his Sicilian Majesty and those of the French Republic by land and by sea.
All the captures made within ten days from the signing of the present treaty shall be reciprocally restored.
2. The Neapolitan army shall evacuate the States of the Church, and commence its march from the present date, so as to quit altogether the Ecclesiastical territory within ten days.
3. The French army shall keep its present positions.
4. All the ports of the kingdom of Naples and Sicily shall be shut against all vessels of war or of trade, whether English or Turkish, until the definitive treaty of peace between France and those two powers; and the ships which belong to them shall depart from the said ports within 24 hours from the signing of the present treaty, after due notice.
5. The French ships of war and merchant vessels, and those of their allies, shall enjoy in the ports of the two Sicilies the privileges granted to the most favoured nations.
The subsequent articles relate to the liberty given by the French Republic to the Neapolitan vessels to enter all French ports, to the prohibition of the exportation of all kinds of grain and ammunition in favour of the English, particularly from the island of Malta, until the conclusion of a general peace, and to the release from prison of Citizen Dolumieu and the Generals Dumas and Montecoul, taken on their return from Egypt, as well as to that of the Neapolitan prisoners.
The armistice is dated Head-Quarters, Toligno, February 18, and signed by General Count DE DAMAS, The Chevalier DICHEROUA, MURAT, the Commander in Chief.
“We learn from Hamburg, that the Duke of Brunswick has set out from Magdeburgh, at the head of 20,000 Prussian troops, in order to take possession of Hanover; and that another army of 15,000 men is about to set out from Berlin, for the same purpose.”
BAYONNE, February 15.
We have just received information from Madrid, that Spain has declared war against Portugal. Probably the Portuguese government waited for this formal declaration, to notify their guests, the English, of the necessity of their quitting their territory.
HAGUE, March 12.
According to Admiral De Winter's report, the Batavian fleet, consisting of 28 sail of the line, besides frigates and cutters, will be ready to put to sea in March.
Navy of the Northern Powers.
Sweden, 30 sail of the line, 10 frigates, 60 gallies, 15,200 seamen. Denmark, 33 of the line, 13,961 seamen. Russia, 120 of the line and frigates, besides gallies; seamen, 40,000.
BERMUDA, April 12.
By the Pheasant, from New-Providence, we are sorry to learn, that his Majesty's frigates Cleopatra and Andromache went on a secret expedition to cut out a number of valuable Spanish ships from a port on the north side of Cuba, near Punta Malas, with all the boats they could collect, and failed in the object from the information given to the Spaniards by a schooner which failed from New-Providence three days before the frigates. The Spaniards being apprised of their coming, were ready with their gun-boats, batteries, &c. and never fired a shot until the boats were opposite, when they cut them almost to pieces, with a number of their crews. Lieutenant Joseph Taylor, and two midshipmen of the Cleopatra, with eight men, were killed, and a great number desperately wounded, among which were some brave officers. The ships had been dismantled, and all that was acquired was a king's armed schooner of little value.
Domestic Intelligence.
PITTSBURG, April 2.
On Thursday last a duel was fought in the city of Richmond, between Mr. Skelton Jones, and Mr. Armistead Seldon—the former shot the latter through the heart, and he instantly expired. Mr. Jones immediately made his escape. There are a variety of reports respecting this unhappy event, all of which appear very unfavourable against Mr. Jones, and his second also—whether they are well grounded or not, a legal investigation will probably develop. An inquest was summoned, and the jury brought in a verdict of wilful murder!

PHILADELPHIA, April 30.
The United States frigate, Commodore Barry , arrived at the Lazaretto on Tuesday afternoon—and in the evening the Commodore arrived here in good health.
Messrs. Printers.
I find many are disposed to place the same confidence in Prices Current , from Europe, as if they were commercial laws; the following fact will shew how ill founded such dependence has been.
A gentleman now in this city was favoured with the Price Current of the 7th of March, from Liverpool, which quoted superfine flour at 86 to 88 shillings per barrel.—He, from the same house, of the same date, had an account of the sales of 500 barrels of superfine, sold on his account, at eighty-two shillings!
EASTON (Penn.) May 1.
We are informed that the mail from Huntingdon , in Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia, was robbed a few days since, and a large sum in Bank Notes taken out. Among the Notes were two of Five Hundred Dollars , and several of smaller denominations.
NEW-YORK, May 2.
A letter was yesterday received by Captain Preble , from Commodore Truxton , mentioning that he would not be able to go on the present expedition without great inconvenience; and that he had therefore requested leave to retire for the present.
Yesterday the Vice-President of the United States , accompanied by the Navy agent , made a visit on board the Essex frigate, Captain Preble , when a salute of 16 guns was fired in compliment to the Vice-President .
The Essex sails on Tuesday next, to join the squadron in Hampton Roads .
May 5.
A letter from St. Thomas's (inclosing a copy of the summons from the British commander, requiring the surrender of that island) was received by a gentleman in Philadelphia on Saturday last, from which the following is copied:
" St. Thomas's, 7th of April. "
"You will undoubtedly have been informed of the expedition sent out from England under General Triggs and Rear Admiral Duckworth , to capture the Danish and Swedish islands. They took St. Bartholomews first, then St. Martins , this island, and St. Croix . I take the liberty of inclosing you a copy of the summons and surrender, &c. of this island—the same summons was sent to St. Bartholomews and St. Croix : I have not seen the capitulation of the former, or of St. Martins , at which latter there was some small resistance. The Governor of St. Croix surrendered to the summons, without capitulation; of course the Danish and Dutch loans are sequestered.
"A fleet of six sail of the line has escaped out of Brest waters; Admiral Calder , with nine sail and three frigates followed after them and arrived off this island last Thursday,—but never fell in with the French , they having sailed immediately to leeward, fearing a fleet might have failed for the Cape.
"Four companies of the Royals , No. 1, command here, and two companies of blacks of the Martinique regiment. The 64th, of about 1100 men, are at St. Croix . There never was better troops; their conduct, as also that of the fleet, do honour and credit to his Majesty.
"The French Consul Michel , is sent to Guadaloupe ; they gave him up all his papers, appertaining to the delegation, &c.
"Americans will be allowed in these islands to take off coffee and sugars for half the proceeds of their cargoes, the rest in cash or dry goods. It is said, the forced trade will be carried on as before.
"No Spanish property has been touched, and the Spanish prisoners were all released and sent down to Porto-Rico . Measures will be taken to make this port a kind of free port, by endeavouring to cultivate a trade with the Spanish Main and Porto-Rico . A capitulation has been agreed upon at St. Croix , similar to the one here. All Danish ships are given up to their owners, on security being entered into for their value in case of a declaration of war."
May 7.
A CHALLENGE.
Capt. Clarke , of the sloop Betsey , arrived here yesterday in three days from Norfolk , informs, that the British frigate Boston had arrived in Hampton- Roads 4 days before he sailed; and intended waiting for the French frigate Semillante ; and that the Captain of the Semillante had received a challenge from the Captain of the Boston , to come out and meet him at sea; to which the Captain of the French ship replied, that if he would assure him, on honour, no other British ship should interfere, he would accept it. The Semillante was lying at Norfolk . It was generally supposed a meeting would take place.
NOTICE
Is hereby given to merchants trading with the Island of St. Domingo , that the government of the said Island , in order to provide against the fraudulent entries and declarations made by traders, with a view of evading the duties laid on the value of goods, have desired the Commercial Agents of the French Republic in the United States to attest the prices quoted in the invoice bills as conformable to the prices current in the places from which the shipments are made. In conformity to that desire, the Agents aforesaid are desired to give the above mentioned certificates. Such, therefore, as choose to have their bills for cer-
tified, may apply for that purpose to the French Commissioners in the several ports of the United States .
L. A. PICHON.
George-Town (Pow.) 7th Floral, 9th year, 27th of April, 1801.
The Captain of the Madona Rosario , arrived here yesterday from Messina , informs, that orders have been issued at Malaga for all American vessels to perform a quarantine 40 days.
It was reported at Malaga that a very heavy engagement had taken place between an English and Danish frigate, which terminated in the capture of the latter, who was carried into Gibraltar in a very shattered condition.
Malaga is crowded with Danes and Swedes , to keep out of the way of the English .
Yesterday arrived, in 13 days from Nassau , (N. P.) the sloop Washington , Capt. Weston , who informs, that one Thomas Bradley and Brant , of New-York , and a Capt. Cole , of Baltimore , were detected in passing counterfeit notes of the United States Bank , to a very large amount. They had passed off about 10,000 dollars before they were detected, and about 60,000 dollars more were found in their possession, when taken up. This discovery was made by the House of Forbes and Co. who had taken one of the bills.
The President of the United States arrived at the city of Washington last Wednesday.
NEW-LONDON, May 6.
On Thursday last the French prisoners who have been for some months in this place, were sent to New-York . Those which were at Hartford and Middletown have also gone to the same place. We understand they are to be transported to Guadaloupe , in the schooner Swan , Captain Samuel H. Parsons , of Middletown .
SALEM, May 8.
A mining company, by the name of the " Offapee Mining Company ," is formed under an act of this Commonwealth . They are to meet the 14th inst. at Major Hatches , in Boston , to choose officers, form rules, &c.
BOSTON, May 6.
Yesterday the Hon. Oliver Ellsworth , late Envoy of the United States to the French Republic , arrived here, in the ship Nancy , Capt. Orne , from Bristol ; and was immediately waited upon by a number of gentlemen of respectability.
The Dey of Tripoli has agreed to wait for an answer from the President of the United States , before he commences any act of hostility—and if he does not then receive a present, he will declare war.
The ship Nancy , Jov , of Boston , with her cargo, valued at 100,000 dollars, is left on the south side of Cuba —a small part of the cargo saved.
May 9.
An expedition from the Chesapeake , for the Mediterranean , is still talked of; but nothing official has transpired on the subject.
The Merrimack sloop of war was sold on Wednesday last for 20,400 dollars. She was purchased by Nathaniel Fellows , Esq.
MEDITERRANEAN COMMERCE.
It is extraordinary that our government has not yet caused official publications to be made of the state of our affairs with the Dey of Tripoli . Merchants are extremely anxious for correct information on the subject. A very large amount of American property is now afloat in the Mediterranean —and hundreds of our valuable seamen are there employed. If the Dey of Tripoli is as hostile as he has been represented, no time should be lost in dispatching frigates, to afford all the protection possible to our vessels. Some of the exposed property and persons might certainly be preserved. There should be no delay to collect a squadron —a single frigate might be of very great service. If the Tripolitans are more pacific than we have been told, government should announce it, and remove the distressing apprehensions of thousands variously interested; and enable merchants to resume their trade to the Mediterranean .
In an account of sales of American flour in London , March 26, published in the New-London Price Current , we find that superfine was disposed of at various prices from 80 shillings to 90 per barrel; and Indian-corn meal from 41 shillings to 47 per barrel.
A squadron of English transports were spoken, February 26, with troops, bound to the Cape of Good-Hope , and from thence to Egypt by the way of the Red Sea , to operate against the French .
Letters from Lisbon state, that the French government have offered to take one half of the twenty millions of money, which they demand, in diamonds.
American property, we understand, was properly and honourably respected by the British in the capture of St. Croix and Bartholomews .
A visit from the British is apprehended at the Spanish  Island of Porto-Rico , in the West-Indies .
APPOINTMENTS.
Jacob Lewis , Esq. Consul to the Isles of France and Bourbon . Tobias Lear , Esq. Consul-General, St. Domingo . William Bainbridge , Esq. Consul at Aux-Cayes .
Captains to be retained in the Navy, and their Rank.
Talbott , Truxton , Morris , Murray , Crofs , Barron , Tryon , Rodgers , and Preble . It is said Captain Preble declines serving on account of his ill health; and that Captain Bainbridge is appointed in his place.
Providence,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13.
Wednesday last the General Election was held at Newport , when the following gentlemen were elected to the offices annexed to their respective names, viz.
His Excellency
ARTHUR FENNER, Esq; Governor.
The Honourable
SAMUEL J. POTTER, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor.
JOHN INNES CLARK, Esq; WATERMAN TIBBETS, Esq; BENJAMIN HOWLAND, Esq; JOHN ALLEN, Esq; THOMAS HOXIE, Esq; PAUL MUMFORD, Esq; JOE WATSON, Esq; JOHN HARRIS, Esq; TIMOTHY WILMARTH, Esq; WILLIAM WATERMAN, Esq; Senators.
SAMUEL EDDY, Esq; Secretary. JAMES BURNELL, jun. Esq; Attorney-General. HENRY SHERBURNE, Esq; General-Treasurer.
The Hon. William Bradford , Esq; was chosen Speaker , and John Hagadorn , Esq; Clerk of the House of Representatives .
In the course of the session, the following gentlemen were elected, in Grand Committee , to the offices respectively assigned to their names.
Those in italics are new officers. Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, &c. Newport . Nicholas Taylor , Chief; John Gould , 2d; John Little , 3d; Thomas Spearman , 4th; Nicholas Carr , 5th. Providence . Daniel Owen , Chief; John Harris , 2d; Wheeler Martin , 3d; Arnold Paine , 4th; Daniel Howard , 5th.
Bristol . Samuel Allen , Chief; William Barton , 2d; John D'Wolf , 3d; Joseph Reynolds , 4th; Benjamin Boffworth , 5th.
Kent . Thomas Rice , Chief; Benjamin Johnson , 2d; George Tillinghast , 3d; Thomas Remington , jun. 4th; Silvanus Greene (son of John), 5th.
Clerks of the Supreme Judicial Courts . Newport . Benjamin Hazard ; Providence . Theodore A. Foster ; Washington . James Helme , jun. Bristol . Jonathan Russell ; Kent . John G. Mawney .
Clerks of the Courts of Common Pleas, &c. Newport . Thomas Peckham ; Providence . James Fenner ; Bristol . Richard Smith , jun. Kent . Hopkins Cooke .
Sheriffs . Newport . William Dennis ; Providence . John Mawney ; Washington . John Segur ; Bristol . Richard Smith ; Kent . Thomas Wescott .
Public Notaries .
Newport . Paul M. Mumford ; Providence . Samuel Chace , George R. Burrill ; Washington . George Thomas , Paul Rhodes , Rowe Babcock , jun. Bristol . Richard Smith , jun. William T. Miller ; Kent . Hopkins Cooke .
Military Officers .
Simeon Martin , Major-General. William Barton , Brigadier-General, for Providence county. James Updike , ditto for Washington .
Isaac Johnson , ditto for Kent .
Ebenezer Burrill , Adjutant-General.
Christopher Ellery , Esq; was elected a Senator to Congress , in the place of the Hon. Ray Greene , resigned.
The committee appointed to count the votes for a Representative in Congress , reported that they stood as follows:
 Joseph Stanton , jun. 2292  Thomas Noyes , 1443  Majority for Stanton , 849 
A joint committee of both Houses having been appointed to prepare an address to the President of the United States , reported a draft, which was adopted, and ordered to be transmitted.
The choice of Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court , and of many other officers, civil and military, was postponed until the next session.
On Saturday the Assembly adjourned, to meet again at Newport , on the third Monday in June next. [A List of the Representatives will appear in our next.]
David L. Barnes , Esq; of this town, Attorney of the United States for this District , is appointed District Judge , in the room of the Hon. Benjamin Bourne , appointed Circuit Judge .
It appears, by the census lately taken of New-York , that that city contains 60,483 inhabitants. Philadelphia contains 58,752. Consequently New-York is the most populous city of the United States .
Commodore Truxton has issued a Proclamation at Norfolk , requiring those under his command to treat the French Officers and Seamen with civility and respect.
From the Washington Federalist.
The act to provide for the more convenient organization of the courts of the United States , passed the last session of Congress , has been published in most of the papers as having passed the 13th of January, whereas it was not passed until the 13th of February. This mistake is of importance, as it makes a difference as to the time when the next Supreme Court of the United States will be held; in the former case the next Supreme Court would be held in June, whereas the law not having passed until after the last February term, the next court will be held as usual in August, after which the terms will be changed agreeably to the directions of the law.
The Printers who have published the law above-mentioned, will please to give this a place in their papers.
The cause which produced the melancholy fate of the Invincible , is thus stated in a London paper.—
This appalling disaster is attributed solely to the ignorance of the pilot. He belonged to Harwich , and was taken on board at Sheerness . Instead of taking the ship through the ordinary channel from Yarmouth , he steered her through the narrow passage of the Cockle ; and when the ran upon the sands, he insisted that the fatal spot was not laid down in any chart. In this point, however, he was soon confuted by the gunner of one of the ships of Admiral Parker's fleet, who was only a passenger on board the Invincible . This man soon convinced the pilot of his error, by showing him the exact spot distinctly marked; but the pilot is among the numerous sufferers, and in common charity death must now be considered as having expiated
all his faults. When theizen mast went overboard, he also fell from the deck, and was never after seen.
A late London paper, commenting on sundry recent appointments, facetiously remarks, that they must have been predicated on the same principles which actuate Dogberry , in the play, where he enquires, "Who is the most senseless and fit man amongst you for a Constable?" [Probatur est.]
Married,
In this town, on Sunday evening last; Mr. Seth Cleveland to Miss Sally Haywood .
Sale at Auction.
TO-MORROW, the 14th inst. will be sold by Public-Vendue , at Benjamin Hoppin and Son's AUCTION-ROOM ,
A VARIETY of English and other Goods—among which are, 20 crates of well assorted Liverpool Ware, in such lots as shall best suit the purchasers; samples of which may be seen this day at said Office. Sale to begin at half past 9 o'clock.
N. B. They have likewise on hand, which are offered at private sale, at the lowest price, for cash or approved notes, 10 pipes 4 in proof Brandy , 8 hogheads Jamaica 4th proof Rum , both good flavour; 1 hogheads and bags Batavian Coffee , do. Pepper ; 20 bales Charleston Cotton , 12 chests Hyson , Souchong and Bohea Teas ; 30 boxes of 1st, 3d do. of 2d, and 12 do. of Shipping Chocolate , &c. &c. May 13.
THE Copartnership of WHITING and RICHARDSON is this day dissolved by mutual agreement. All persons that have any demands on said firm, are requested to call for payment; and those indebted are called on to make immediate payment to either of the subscribers.
NATHANIEL WHITING, MOSES RICHARDSON.
N. B. Moses Richardson continues business at the store lately occupied by said company, and has for sale, on reasonable terms,
300 bushels North River Corn 7000 wt. Bohea Tea , in whole and quarter chests 1000 wt. Loaf Sugar , 1st quality 25,000 Dutch Quills 2d, 4d, 6d, 10d and 20d Nails Calf-skins , Boot-Legs And sundry other articles. May 13.
NEW GOODS.
Samuel James
Has just received, by the latest arrivals from London , via New-York and Boston ,
A VERY handsome assortment of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS , which he now offers for sale on the lowest terms for cash.
N. B. He has on hand a few hogheads of Molasses , of an excellent quality, for retailing.
Coffee per bag.
Best quality of French Indigo , per quantity or single pound. May 13.
WHEREAS the Court of Probate for the town of Providence has extended the time for exhibiting claims against the estate of JOHN WARNER , jun. late of said Providence , Blacksmith, deceased, thirty days from the eleventh instant: Notice therefore is hereby given, to the creditors of said estate, to exhibit and prove to us their respective claims against the same, within the time abovementioned, or they will be precluded.
JOHN DORRANCE, NATHANIEL SEARLE, } Commissioners.
All persons indebted to said estate are hereby requested to call on the Subscriber and settle the demands against them, and such as neglect this request will positively be sued after the first day of July next.
SATH DAVIS, jun. Administrator.
REMOVAL.
William P. Gerrish,
WHO has been legally and constitutionally appointed one of the CRYERS for the Town of Providence , begs Leave most respectfully to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen who honour him with their Protection and Patronage, and the Public in general, that he has recently removed from his old Stand at the North End , to a small House belonging to his Excellency the Governor , near the Rope-Walks , South End ; where he shall always consider himself as being in a State of Requisition, and will at the shortest Notice attend to all Commands in the Line of his arduous Profession.
N. B. He cries, in order to live—and the Aridity of the Times and the State of his Finances are such, that, contrary to the natural Liberality of his Mind, he finds himself under the Necessity of requiring prompt Pay for the Exercise of his Stentorian Calling. May 13.

Selected Poetry.
ODE ON THE SPRING.
GRAY.
LO! where the rosy-bosom'd hours, Fair Venus' train, appear, Diselose the long-expected flow'rs, And wake the purple year!
Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er canopy the glade;
With me the Muse shall stand and think, (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud,
To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Methinks I hear, in accent low, The sportive kind reply, Poor mortal! and what art thou? A solitary fly!
INTERESTING TO NAVIGATORS.
BOSTON, April 30. THE following report, made to the Marine Society, describes the bearings of a sunken rock, lately discovered in the Straits of Sunda.
Boston, Jan 30, 1801. Capt. JAMES SCOTT, Master of the Marine Society, Boston:
Sir, The Committee appointed by this Society, at their last monthly meeting, to make enquiry respecting the communication made by Capt. Moses Barnard, of having discovered a sunken rock in the Straits of Sunda, on which the sea was seen to break, report, that they have carefully examined the last English charts, and those of Mr. D'Apris, and find that there is no rock laid down in said charts, between the south point of Sumatra and Flat Point; but that said coast is laid down as clear of rocks, and good anchoring ground;
JOSIAH ROBERTS, ISAAC BRIDGES, TRISTRAM BARNARD, } Committee.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Fort Harman, on the Ohio, dated February, 1801.
I MUST not close my letter without dealing a little in the wonderful. We have discovered the ruins of a very ancient town; it is 90 rods square, surrounded with a wall which is at this time two rods thick, and five or six feet high, and from the appearance of soil, two or three growths have already added to the manure, and the present timber affords trees seven feet diameter on the walls.
them, is as certain. Then it follows, that the present Indians are descendants of nations once acquainted with arts, or this continent was inhabited by a nation unknown, who are lost in the revolutions of time, and entirely extinct.
[Those who are pleased with the bungling bulls of Hibernia, will find some food for fun in the subsequent "adventurment," and not less for us being in a German attire.]
MINE ATVERTISHMENT.
RUND AVAY or Idolen, or vas Idrayed, mine large plack horse, apout 14 oder 15 hands and 6 inches hie. He has been cot four plack leks, two pehint, and too before; and he ish plack all oves his pory, but has been cot ish white spots pon his pack, where de skin vas rub off; but I greazod em, and now de white spots ish all plack skin; he trails, an canters, an paces, an sometimes he valks, and ven he valks, all his leks and feet goes on von after anoder; he has two ears pon his het both alike, but von ish placker than tode.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
April 30th, 1801.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT separate PROPOSALS will be received at the office of the Secretary for the Department of War until the expiration of the 30th day of June next ensuing, for the supply of all RATIONS, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of October 1801, until the thirtieth day of September 1802, both days inclusive, at the following places, viz.
FIRST. At Pittsburg; at Fort Franklin; at Le Boeuf; at Presquille; at Niagara; at Oswego; at Detroit; at Fort Wayne; at Michilimackinac; at the Falls of St. Mary's; and at the Grand Portage on Lake Superior.
SECOND. At Forts Washington, Vincennes, and Massac; at the Cantonment near the mouth of the Ohio, and at any post or place on the east side of the Mississippi River, between the mouths of the Ohio and Illinois Rivers; and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the State of Kentucky.
THIRD. At Knoxville, Tellico, South-West Point, and any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the State of Tennessee; at Bear Creek on the Tennessee River, and at any place in the Chickasaw or Choctaw country between Bear Creek and Naichez; at the Chickasaw Bluffs; at Natchez; at Fort Adams and its dependencies, and thence to the Mobile River.
Separate PROPOSALS will also be received as aforesaid for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States from the 1st day of January 1802, until the 31st day of December in the same year, both days inclusive, within the several States herein after mentioned, viz.
FOURTH. At Point Peter; at Fort Greene; at Fort Wilkinson; at Fort Pinckney; at Fort Johnston; at Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbour; at Fort Johnson, Cape Fear, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the States of Georgia, South-Carolina, and North-Carolina.
FIFTH. At Fort Norfolk; at Harper's Ferry; at Fort M'Henry; at the City of Washington, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the States of Virginia and Maryland.
SIXTH. At Wilmington; at Fort Mifflin; at the Laboratory near Philadelphia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the States of Delaware and Pennsylvania, excepting Pittsburg, Fort Franklin, Le Boeuf, and Presquille, in the State of Pennsylvania.
SEVENTH. At Trenton; at Fort Jay; at West-Point, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the States of New-Jersey and New-York, excepting Oswego and Niagara, in the State of New-York.
EIGHTH. At Newport; at New-London, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the States of Rhode-Island and Connecticut.
NINTH. At Fort Independence, Boston Harbour, at Salem, at Marblehead, at Portland, at Portsmouth, at Bennington, and
at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the States of Massachusetts, New-Hampshire and Vermont.
A ration is to consist of eighteen ounces of bread or flour; or when neither can be obtained, of one quart of rice, or one and a half pound of sifted or boulted Indian meal, one pound and a quarter of fresh beef, or one pound of salted beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted pork; and when fresh meat is issued, salt at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations; soap at the rate of four pounds, and candles at the rate of a pound and a half, for every hundred rations.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the terms of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara, and Oswego, for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the Western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places, or of posts, to call for at seasons, when the same can be transported, or at any time in the case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper.
The privilege is to be understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts shall be issued until the supplies which have been, or may be furnished, under contracts now in force, have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the sea board or Indian frontiers, not exceeding three months.
HENRY DEARBORN, Secretary of War.
Bowers and Bucklin
Inform their Customers and Friends that they have just received, by the latest arrivals from London, an extensive assortment of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, which are now opening for sale at their stores, viz.
LONDON superfine and fine broadcloths; C. illimeres, embossed and plain; Calimancoes, Tamboreens, Russells, Durants, Tammies; plain, stripe, tapan, colonade, checked, lappit and jacomet Muslins; Tambour'd, jacomet, and book do. plain and figured Muslins, Dimities, Marcellus Quilung, silk Nankeneis, cotton do. Ging-ham, 4-4 Linen, 5-4, 6-4, 7-5, 8-4, 8-10, 10-12, 10-14, 10-16 Damask Table Cloths, a great variety; long Lawns, Cambric, Cambric Handkerchiefs, 4-4 and 8-8 Cambric Muslin for gowns, handkerchiefs, &c. black Calicoes, fancy do. Chintzes, mens' Satin, plain and white; black silk Florentine fancy silk Shawls, do. Handkerchiefs, black Fringes, Modes, Sarcenets, col'd Satins, silk Velvet, assorted; velvet Binding; a great variety of silk, silk and cotton Hosiery, plain and col'd; extra long silk Gloves, cotton do. ladies fashionable Hats and Bonnets, consisting of gypsy dunstable, open straw gypsys, black and white do. col'd Deventhire puffs chip, open, fancy and ribbon do. with bugies, crimp'd, cane, and cheneal do. Straw Trimming; a great variety of Wreaths, Flowers, and fancy Feathers, with ornaments; fancy Kid and Morocco Shoes, with roses; a handsome assortment of Ribbons, Laces, Lace Veils, Edgings, Threads black, assorted colours, and fancy spangled Fans, mens' youths' and childrens' Hats, Umbrellas and Parasols, Jeans, Jeanets, and Fustian; Perfumery, Jewelry, Hardware, Japan'd Ware, &c. &c. With almost every other article in the English goods line.
Providence, ff.
Supreme Judicial Court, March Term, 1801.
ON the Bill in Equity, Job Randall, Jeremiah Phillips, and Green Smith, praying for the redemption of an estate lately the property of William Well, Esq. lying in Scituate, in said county, now under mortgage to the heirs of Daniel Jenckes, and John Jenckes, late of Providence, in said county, deceased: Notice is hereby given to all parties concerned, to appear at the next term of the Supreme Judicial Court to be holden at Providence, in and for the county of Providence, on the third Monday of September next, to make answer to said bill.
April 29. P. ALLEN, Clerk.
WANTED,
A QUANTITY of JOIST and STUDS, for which cash will be paid, if delivered by the first of June. Enquire at this Office. April 22.
REMOVAL.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public in general that he has removed to the large three story store, next door north of Governor FENNER's old Mansion-House, where he keeps constantly for sale a selection of BOOKS of various kinds, more particularly School Books, of every kind in use; at the general prices sold at elsewhere, of the like qualities, from one to a thousand.
PAPER and STATIONARY,
Such as Writing, Printing, Sugar-Loaf, Bonnet, Preis, Candle, Wrapping and Sheathing, by the hundred or single ream, or quire; Sealing-Wax, Wafers, Quills, black, red, blue, green and yellow Ink; black and red Ink Powder, Pounce and Boxes, Sand and Boxes, &c. &c.
A L S O,
An assortment of GROCERIES, viz. Sugar, Molasses, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Spices, &c. &c.
BOOK BINDING
Of every kind, Account-Books of various kinds kept for sale, or bound to any pattern, to suit the purchasers; old Books re-bound.
Cash and the highest price given for all kinds of cotton, linen, and woolen Rags, also for Sail-cloth and Junk.
April 29. RUFUS GREENE.
Cheap for Cash.
Benjamin Thurber,
At the old Sign of the Bunch of Grapes, has for Sale,
A FRESH assortment of fashionable new Goods; among which are a variety of Fancy Patches, Chintzes, Calicoes, English and India Satins, Lustrings, Silk for Bonnets, Silk Shawls of different colours, Silk and Kid Gloves, Bengals, Crapes, tambour'd Muslins, Lappets, Muslinets, Dimities, fashionable Ribbons, Umbrellas, West Patteris, white and black Laces, Morocco and Florentine Shoes, Russells, Moreens, Velvets, India Cotton, Cotton Wool, a large assortment of Looking Glasses, London Pewter, Knives and Forks, China, Delft and Glass Ware, new fashioned Tea Pots; a great variety of other articles, too numerous to mention, all which to be sold at the lowest advance for cash in hand. Friends and customers are invited to call and see for themselves, and they will be waited upon with pleasure, whether they purchase or not. April 8. 8w.
FOR SALE,
THAT valuable real Estate late the property of William Sessions, consisting of a well finished convenient Dwelling-House, almost new, together with the Lot on which it stands, having a good well of water thereon, situated on the main street, nearly opposite the Episcopal Church, adjoining a 15 feet gangway leading to the water. If the above premises are not sold soon, they will be let. For further particulars enquire of
ABEL ALLEN,
Who has for Sale, At his Lumber-Yard, near the Episcopal Church,
Seasoned Merchantable Pine Boards and plank, Spruce studs and joists. Best Connecticut round bundle Shingles and Laths, &c. together with a quantity of Window Frames and Sashes of different sizes.
Also, One new fall back Chaise, brass mounted, with harness complete, made of the best materials. Providence, April 1, 1801.
This day Published, and for Sale at HENRY CUSHING's Book-Store, West Side of the Bridge, [Price 18 dols. per hundred in sheets, 3 dols. 50 cts. per doz. bound, or 37 1-2 cents single,]
The American MORALIST.
By GEORGE CHIPMAN.
The above is a judicious selection from the most approved writers, ancient and modern, with original pieces, dialogues, &c. designed principally for the use of schools and young persons, but may justly claim some attention from the aged, the gentleman and the lady. The author's chief design, in this selection, was to furnish school and young persons with a book containing ethical and religious lessons, represented and exemplified in such a manner as to enlighten the understanding, and captivate the heart. Though the general tenor of the book is of a moral and religious cast, yet the author has by no means been inattentive to that variety which is so pleasing and useful to young persons, and has interspersed pieces from natural and sacred history, together with biographical and allegorical descriptions. It has been honoured with the approbation of competent judges, but the compiler's request is, that parents and instructors of youth, who with well to virtue and religion, and desire that the minds of all under their care may be duly and deeply impressed with early and real piety, would examine the work, and judge for themselves. March 11. 3m.
A YOUNG MAN,
who can produce a good recommendation, wishes for a place in a Grocery Store. Particular information can be obtained by applying at this Office. March 18.