Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1802-11-27 00:00:00

Rhode-Island Republican.
AN INDISSOLUBLE UNION OF THE STATES, IS ESSENTIAL TO THEIR LIBERTY AND EXISTENCE.—WASHINGTON.
Published weekly, by OLIVER FARNSWORTH, (Printer to the State, and of the Laws of the UNITED STATES,) Thames-Street, NEWPORT.
SAMUEL VINSON, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends, and the public in general, that he has just received by the latest arrivals, a large and well chosen assortment of  GOODS, suitable for the season; to enumerate which, would be tedious. Those who will favor him with their custom, may depend on having them on the lowest terms. He has likewise received a variety of Muffs, Tippets, and Fur Trimings.—Also, a small box of elegant  JEWELRY, Consisting of Ladies Necklaces, Ear-rings, Hankerchief Pins, Brooches, Bracelets, & Lockets, of the most fashionable kinds. Newport, Nov. 12, 1802. cxi.tf
NEW GOODS.  ROBERT LAWTON INFORMS the Public, and his Friends in particular, that he has just received, at his Store, opposite Mr. Townsend's Coffee-House, Thames-Street, an elegant Assortment of  Fashionable Dry Goods, adapted to the season—too numerous to particularize in an advertisement. Those who will please to call at his Store, he flatters himself, will find an inducement to purchase, as he is determined to dispose of them at very reduced prices. N. B. He has also just opened for sale, a quantity of best Irish Linens , seven eighths, and yard wide, by wholesale or retail.—Likewise, a beautiful assortment of Lutestring , very cheap. October, 23, 1802. c8tf
Green & Tillinghast, HEREBY inform their old Customers and the Public in general, that they have just received a large Assortment of  Fall & Winter Goods, which they are now selling at the most reduced prices at their Store, by Wholesale and Retail. Newport, Nov. 1, 1802. 86tf  William Douglass, At the Head of Broad-Street, HAS constantly for sale, a general Assortment of West-India and other  GOODS. —Likewise— 600 weight best Fleece WOOL , and 1200 wt. New-Milch CHEESE , Cheap for Cash, Or West-India Goods. Newport, October 2, 1802. 67tf
John A. Shaw, & Co. INFORM the Public that they have taken a Shop next door but one North of the Coffee-House, where they carry on the  WATCH-MAKING BUSINESS in all its Branches. Likewise all kinds of  Hair Work & Gold Cyphers neatly executed. They have for Sale, English and Geneva gold & silver Watches, Gold Necklaces, silver tea and table Spoons, salt, mustard & pap Spoons, soup and punch Ladles, sugar Tongs, large & small Looking Glasses, dressing Do. tea Trays, Waiters & dressing Cases, plated, wooden, and Britannia Castors, Britannia tea and coffee Pots, Gentlemen's and Children's best & common Hats, Suspenders, Knives and Forks, brass globe & common Handirons, Shovel & Tongs, brass and japanned Lamps, elegant plated & brass Candlesticks, dart and common Cains, horse & chaise Whips, Ladies do. Scissors, Pen-Knives, Snuffers & Trays, powder Boxes and Puffs, Razors, in cases and without, shaving Boxes, and Windsor Soap, Cream Balls, writing Paper, Dutch Quils, Spanish Segars, Maccabau, Rapper & Scotch Snuff, Starch, Purple Brown, together with a complete Assortment of Jewellery & Perfumery.—They Also carry on the  GOLD & SILVERSMITH'S Business: Cash given for Old Gold and Silver. +† Punctual attendance, and the smallest favors gratefully acknowledged. Newport, Oct. 3, 1802. 72tf
TO THE PUBLIC. Newport Long-Wharf, No. 12. CONSTANTLY on hand, and for Sale, prime Pork, Mefs and prime Beef of the first quality, repacked in the best order, suitable for domestic or foreign use.—Gentlemen desirous of being accommodated with the best of provisions, by calling at said Store, will meet the greatest encouragement, and the smallest favor gratefully acknowledged, by  KEYES & BRIGHAM. Corned and Fresh BEEF of the first quality, at said Store, constantly for sale. November 5, 1802. cxtf
EUROPEAN & INDIA GOODS.  Benjamin Thurber Has just received, and is now opening for Sale, at the sign of the Bunch of Grapes, No. 30, WILLIAMS-STREET, A complete Assortment of  FALL and WINTER GOODS, Consisting of  RED , blue, black, London brown and mixed broadcloths; plain & striped Cashmeres; blue, green & London brown Serges; spotted & striped elastics, plains, forest cloths, from the highest to the lowest prices, Rattinees very cheap, coloured and clouded coatings, light do. black, red, yellow and white Flannels, do. Baizes, fashionable Swandown, black and olive plain & striped Velvets, rose Blankets from 6 3/4 to 10 3/4, worsted and cotton Hosiery of every description. A complete assortment of New and Fashionable, blue and tea ground CALICOES , low priced do. red, blue, and purple COPPER-PLATE , chintz and purple Shawls.  INDIA COTTONS , by the piece or yard very cheap; English Bed-ticking. A complete assortment of coloured Camel's Hair SHAWLS , white do. high and low-priced; Bandannas and checked silk Handkerchiefs, pocket do. Linnens, 4-4 wide, Diapers, black and coloured India Sattins, colour'd Lutestring, Italian do. silk and cotton Gloves, cotton Mitts, Sarsnets and Modes, pelong Sattin, Persians of all colours, Bengals; Cambric, Jacquet and book Muslins. Fashionable Dunstable, straw, Leghorn and chip BONNETS , and Straw Trimmings, Glove Ties, fancy Ribbons, black and white Laces & Edgings, white cotton fringed Shawls, Dimities & Muslinets, silk Crapes, Wildborea, Russells, Moreens, Durants, Shallons, Rattinees, and striped Russells. A large and complete Assortment of MUFFS & TIPITTS , and fur trimmings, of various prices, very cheap. Ladies Morocco, Cloth and Leather SHOES , children's do. oil Cloths, brown Hollands. A complete Assortment of LOOKING GLASSES ; new fashioned Tea-Pot China Delf, Crockery and glass Wares; London and Bristol Pewter, Knives & Forks, iron and brass Candlesticks, patent Lamps, iron and block-tin Spoons, cotton Wool. Warranted Carolina, French and Spanish float INDIGO ; Sovels & Tongs, Japan Waiters, warming Pans, brass Kettles, &c. &c. The whole forming a general assortment, much too numerous to particularize in an Advertisement. They are offered for sale at the most reduced prices for Cash. Providence, Oct. 23. c9tf
For Sale, by the Subscriber, that Valuable Real Estate in THAMES-STREET, Consisting of a Dwelling-House, 37 feet by 32, almost new; with a good Cellar; paved Yard, and good Well of water, with a Pump therein; together with the Garden, Wharf, Stores, Stable, Chaise-House, &c. belonging to the same.—Likewise, a large Garden Lot, on the Hill, 126 feet on John-Street , and the same distance extending to Leven-Street .—Also, a good second hand Chaise, Two Horses, one Yoke of Oxen, and an Ox-Cart.—Likewise— A quantity of LUMBER ; consisting of clear, and merchantable Pine Boards, Spruce Boards, Joist, Laths, and a few North-Carolina Cedar Shingles. Newport, Sept. 17, 1802. cxi.tf
For Sale, by the Subscriber,  JAMAICA RUM by the hoghead, Ditto SUGAR by the hhd. or barrel, Ditto MOLASSES , all of 1st Quality. JOHN MEIN. Church-Lane, July 12, 1802. 94tf
JEFFERSON'S Full Length PORTRAIT. JUST received from Philadelphia, and for Sale at this Office, (elegantly framed,) the Portrait of "The Man of the People."—Price, in large Frames. Ten Dollars—small, Eight Dollars—and in sheets. Four Dollars.  LAMP-BLACK , (of the best quality) FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
From the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
A VIEW  Of the relative strength of parties, in the United States, in the year 1800 and 1802. (Continued.)
A SECOND criterion of the relative strength of parties, at the close of the year 1800, & the present period, may be found, in some measure, in the political complexion of the Federal Senate at those periods. It will, however, be recollected, that as the election of the members of that body is made for six years, the new appointments of the Senators, with the two last years, can but imperfectly exhibit the change of public opinion. As far, however, as it does go it is conclusively demonstrative of the increase of republicanism.
At the close of 1800 the Senate stood thus:     Republican, Federal.    New-Hampshire, 1 1  Massachusetts, 0 2  Rhode-Island, 0 2  Connecticut, 0 2  Vermont, 0 2  New-York, 1 1  New-Jersey, 0 2  Pennsylvania, 0 2  Delaware, 0 2  Maryland, 0 2  Virginia, 2 0  North Carolina, 2 0  South-Carolina, 1 1  Georgia, 1 1  Kentucky, 1 1  Tennessee, 2 0  11 21  11 11  
Federal Majority 10.  At present the Senate stands thus:     Republican, Federal.    New-Hampshire, 0 2  Massachusetts, 0 2  Rhode-Island, 2 0  Connecticut, 0 2  Vermont, 1 1  New-York, 1 1  New-Jersey, 0 2  Pennsylvania, 1 1  Delaware, 0 2  Maryland, 1 1  Virginia, 2 0  North-Carolina, 2 0  South-Carolina, 2 0  Georgia, 2 0  Kentucky, 2 0  Tennessee, 2 0  18 14  14 14  
Republican Majority, Republican Majority, 4.  It follows that, in a period of two years, the Senate has been changed, from a federal to a republican body, by the appointment of eight republicans, in the room of a like number of federal members; which constitute a charge of one fourth of the whole body.  But to exhibit fairly the change which has taken place in the State Legislatures, of which the Senate is the constitutional representative, it is necessary to show what would be the complexion of that body, if an entirely new election of Senators were now to take place.
Such an election would produce the following result.     Republican, Federal.    New-Hampshire, 0 2  Massachusetts, 0 2  Rhode-Island, 2 0  Connecticut, 0 2  Vermont, 2 0  New-York, 2 0  New-Jersey, 2 0  Pennsylvania, 2 0  Delaware, 0 2  Maryland, 2 0  Virginia, 2 0  North-Carolina, 2 0  South-Carolina, 2 0  Georgia, 2 0  Kentucky, 2 0  Tennessee, 2 0  24 8  8 8  
Republican Majority 16.  It follows that the national will, fully expressed at this time, through the constitutional organ of the State Legislature, would give the republicans three fourths of the members of the Senate.  There is every prospect that this splendid success will attend the republicans in little more than two years and a half. Nor is there wanting the probability that Delaware, Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, and even Connecticut, will be Republican States before that period. In all those States, Republicanism is gradually gaining ground.  We shall now close this branch of our view, with an exhibition of the complexion of the
Senate on the 4th day of next March, when the terms of appointment of one third of the present Senators will expire. There may be some dispute respecting the last period, from the remote date to which it refers. There can be none respecting the subjoined statement.
   Republican. Federal.    New-Hampshire, 0 2  Massachusetts, 0 2  Rhode-Island, 2 0  Connecticut, 0 2  Vermont, 2 0  New-York, 2 0  New-Jersey, 1 1  Pennsylvania, 2 0  Delaware, 1 1  Maryland, 2 0  Virginia, 2 0  North-Carolina, 2 0  South-Carolina, 2 0  Georgia, 2 0  Kentucky, 2 0  Tennessee, 2 0  24 8  8 8  
Republican Majority 16, or 3 to one.  Let it be recollected that the Senate has been uniformly represented as the shield of liberty.—Why it has been so represented, it is no difficult task for us to say. Removed from popular system by the organ of its appointment, and elevated above responsibility by the long period of its power, it partook less of the essence of republican institutions, than any other department of the general government. Hence the eulogium lavished by those, who dread the people as their own greatest enemies.  But notwithstanding the strength of the fortress, it has yielded to the omnipotence of public opinion. Like the proud oak of the forest, its airy honors have been blasted by the lightning of liberty.  (To be continued.)
From the INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE.
OLD-SOUTH—No. LXXIII.
IN the progress of Federalism , every passion of the human mind has been assailed: Interest, fear and pride have been the bulwarks more immediately exposed to the attack of the enemy.—The Young Men of all ranks in society have been arrested by the Federal party; the weight of pecuniary influence has threatened them with poverty, and in many instances with the ruin of themselves and families. How often have we seen the overbearing spirit of a rich despot, exercised on the days of Election—and it is known as a fact, that many Tradesmen were explicitly told, at the time the British Treaty was in agitation, if they did not sign in favor of its adoption, that every means would be taken to deprive them of the employment of Federalists . Even since the last Election, certain petty tyrants have refused to employ some independent Mechanics , because they exercised their right of suffrage as conscience dictated; when they had ever fulfilled their engagements with undoubted honesty and fidelity.
But the most powerful and artful method pursued was the exciting a kind fashionable currency to the politics of the day. Those who presumptuously titled themselves the "better sort" introduced a cant phraseology of Federal and Jacobin . Federalism was as inalienable as a spencer or pantaloon —in all those refined circles, Federalism was the card of invitation or introduction, which admitted the respective guests—"Mr. Such-a-one, a Federalist ," was the common passport which ushered him into these polite associations. Masters & Misses were taught to reverence and respect all those who were complimented with this appellation; young Gentlemen and young Ladies , were noticed by their respective Mamas and Papas , in proportion as they gave evidences of their Federal inclination .
Billy Dapper was a Federalist , and Sam Steady a Jacobin ; the former was received with every mark of cordiality, while the latter was reprobated as the most abandoned profligate. Billy would talk with a peculiar flippancy about politics, and lament the progress of infidelity; he would repeat with rapid volubility, d-n the Jacobins, d-n the Disorganizers, d-n the Deists, d-n a Republican Government , and generally concluded his pious rhapsody with, d-n Tom Paine! He was a prodigy of perfection, and every thing Billy said was considered as wondrous wise and wonderfully profound; he gained such an ascendancy that all he proposed was adopted, and many deep speculations were made in consequence of his sage recommendations. His notes were readily endorsed, and Billy had only to ask and receive; he pursued his plan, and increased in reputation to the amount of about 100,000 dols. At length his affairs began to grow a "little squally;" his "checks" on the Bank were all "balanced;"

and finally he had no other resource than to take himself to the place of refuge in "Scolly's Buildings," and there, like many of his predecessors, en- bed himself by impoverishing his creditors; thereby cancelling all debts, dues & demands by a noli prosequi or "let it pass it gloria mundi ." Billy Dapper, after thus legally and honorably disencumbering himself from the rude assaults of impetuous dunners and more insolent baliffs , struttish about with a dignified deportment; took new apartments, decorated with fashionable furniture, and commenced Gentleman under the "modern philosophy" of the Bankrupt Act. He now renews his old language: D—m the Jacobins, d—m the President , and is peculiarly energetic in anathematizing Tom Paine the Infidel . He is greatly concerned for the cause of Religion, and laments the consequences of demoralizing the rising generation; he will often exclaim: What will become of society when men are not held to do justice by moral obligation .—But Billy is a Federalist; he has assumed his credit, goes on in his business, and even now looks down with ineffable contempt on Sam Steady .—During the reign of terror , Billy and his comrades were outrageous against every man who dared to think different from themselves; the card table would sometimes be disturbed by their vociferations; even the tranquil game of whist would be thrown into confusion; all the bonors would oftentimes be lost, and the tricks would be the only part of the game to count upon.
Thus much for the history of Billy Dapper —but, alas, Sam Steady was peculiarly unfortunate under his political denunciation. He was a young man who had received a virtuous education, and well instructed in the principles of honesty and economy; he had not only applied himself to business, but had appropriated his leisure hours to reading history, and from thence had been able to judge with propriety of the systems of government which secured the rights of the people; he knew the baneful effects of Monarchy, the destructive tendency of Aristocracy, and had from reflection approved a Republican form as most congenial to his country. Knowing that economy was the basis of this government, he always reprobated those expenditures and establishments under the former administration, which led to a subversion of the purity of its principles. In the reign of terror, therefore, he had the resolution not to wear a Cockade ; he exploded the idea of a Standing Army; he did not approve of Excise Laws or Stamp Acts, and thought it was an imposition for Mr. Adams to allow eight per cent. for the loan money, at the time when all the Federalists had pledged their lives and property, in support of his measures. He would often say, why did Mr. Adams thus sport away the public credit in giving such excessive usury, when he had the strongest assurances from the addresses of the Federalists, that their property was at his disposal? Sam , by this kind of conversation, and by adhering to these principles, was early denounced in all circles of his acquaintance, as a Jacobin ; the young Gentlemen forsook him, the young Ladies eyed him askant; even when he entered into company, it was quickly whispered that he was a Jacobin ; if any parties were proposed in his presence, it was soon humed till Sam had retired—No Gentleman would be seen abroad in his company; no Lady would condescend to ride with him, none to walk with him, none to talk with him, none to curtsy to him, even if he submissively bowed to them:—Alas, poor Sam was forsaken by all his former acquaintance: And even the Ladies , who always before were pleased with him, took a strong aversion, and he was left alone to wander about like Rachel mourning for her first born.
However, Sam adhered to his principles, and pursued his business with industry. By not being admitted into so many parties of pleasure, he had more leisure to prosecute his business. He got forward in opposition to the vile means of his enemies to injure his reputation; he acquired a commercial character by punctiliously complying with his engagements; his credit was established by the rectitude of his conduct; his notes were never hawked upon the Exchange at a discount; he baffled his opponents by the uniformity of his principles, and now stands in that elevated situation, as it relates to property and honor, that his enemies envy him. He is not disturbed by the cries of the injured widow and orphans; he walks through the streets without the curfew of honest creditors; and when he passes, no man can say, there goes a Villain! He does not carry the Bankrupt Act as a passport, or a " WHEREAS " as a receipt in full for all delinquencies; his payments are 20 shillings in the pound, and what he eats, drinks and wears are not the earnings of other men's industry. He does not make Religion a cloak for licentiousness, or curse Tom Paine for a mask to cheat an indolent Tradesman; he esteems honest men, let their religious professions be what they may, and never embraces a hypocrite to gain an advantage by his sycophancy; he speaks his mind on all proper occasions with the sincerity of a freeman, and scorns to flatter, though he might obtain the approbation of the powerful.—He remains collected in the various changes of parties, and steady to his purpose when he is threatened with the frowns of the opulent; an approving conscience raises him above fear, and all his actions are the result of a deliberation, founded on the basis of inviolable integrity. He never smiles to betray the innocent, or frowns to dismay the timid; he inculcates Christianity to promote charity and philanthropy, but despises the man who makes the benevolence of the Deity a scourge to inflict the mischief rankling within his own bosom; his practice and his profession in every respect correspond; he is not a saint in words, and a fiend in deeds.
Thus stand in general the characters of these two men, and thus have they proceeded in their respective intercourse with society. To avoid as much as possible, personalities, they are not so particularly described as to designate any in-
dividual. One, however, has been covered with the mantle of Federalism , which, like Charity, hides a multitude of sins; while the other has been obliged to exercise all his virtues, to screen himself from the malignant disposition of his adversaries—while one reveled in luxury and dissipation, imposed on the credulous and defrauded the unsuspicious, the other was beset with all the venom of malice, and his character rendered the sport of every unprincipled man who had enrolled his name in the Federal catalogue. "Such things have been," but we trust in God that the time is arrived, when characters will be estimated, not by the phraseology of party, but by the standard of honor and honesty; that imperious lordlings who have acquired fortunes by the necromancy of speculation, despots who exercise an insolent control over the tradesman and laborer, and fanatics who with to snackle the reason of mankind, will be brought to that "check and balance" which gives them no other pre-eminence than what arises from their inherent merit. When this takes place, the hypocrite will be stripped of his plumage, the purse-proud speculator of his trappings, and spurious Federalism appear in that deformity to which its advocates have long since reduced it.
OLD-SOUTH.
FOR THE RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
SEVENTY-FIVE—NO. IX.
TEXT.—"Some measures (of the civil administration during the period when I was President of the United States) were the effects of imperious necessity . MUCH AGAINST MY INCLINATION. Others were the measures of the Legislature , which, altho' approved when passed, were never previously proposed, or recommended by me. Some of them left to my discretion, were never executed, because no necessity for them, in my judgment ever occurred. Let me add one observation more. Under the continual provocations breaking and pouring in upon me from unexpected as well as expected quarters, during the two last years of my Administration, he must have been more of a modern epicurean philosopher than I ever was or ever will be to have borne them all without some incautious expressions , at times of unutterable indignation . I have no other apology to make, to individuals or the public."
JOHN ADAMS.
THE preceding quotation is taken from the answer which John Adams, late President of the United States, gave to an Address presented to him by an assemblage of his particular friends, at Quincy , on the 30th of October last. This it seems was no less than the birth day of Mr. Adams, which had awakened in the minds of those friends a grateful remembrance of the important services, rendered to his country, in the various scenes in which he had been called to act ; and they were disposed to pour out before him on that occasion, the effusions of that remembrance, as libations of homage. It is certainly an unpleasant task to scan and scrutinize the sentiments which were drawn from the pretended idol of federalism on that interesting occasion. But they involve so much treacherous duplicity; so much of the pick-thank policy, which has always, in our opinion, actuated Mr. Adams, that they ought not to escape observation. Coupled with the address, great pains has been taken to circulate, and diffuse them, as if they were calculated to afford a prominent specimen of federal perfection. Thus have we another instance of the frailty of human judgment, and of the positive infatuation into which some people are plunged. Did they suppose—could they suppose these sentiments, as uttered by the late President, would co-operate with their "fond desires" of clamouring down the present administration? Could it be imagined that they would contribute to renew and invigorate the efforts of their jaded partisans? Do they expect that every thing which issues, and is ushered out from under federal auspices is ipso facto entitled to prerogative, & to be worshipped without consideration? The gathering together of "a large number of gentlemen at Quincy ," on such an occasion was no doubt a splendid scene, and the probability is that the wine was made to sparkle in bumpers, and circulate freely: But these circumstances will not afford a sanction to sentiment, and invest it with qualities which in itself it is not found to possess. True sentiment is the same, independent of all circumstances, and wherever it may exist. It is the result of feeling, purified of passion, sharpened to perception, and expounded into wisdom, upon which as a permanent and satisfactory basis, it sustains the flight of time, and endures without lamentation the erosions of accident, & chance. Satisfied of its object, and confident in the means to attain it, it will never recoil upon itself in confusion, and complain of fate as an obstacle to its progress. Its peculiar faculty is to face the difficulties of situation, and enforced by the insuperable impulse of duty, so to conduct as to preclude occasion of complaint. Thus we behold the victor of adversity with admiration, and with all the energies of the soul, proclaim him great.
Mr. Adams has been called an exquisite and finished writer, and has been considered as capable, beyond almost any other man, of making the most, and most favorable representations. On this account principally it is that he became what he has been. It is true it was a talent, but it was such an one as involved misfortune. By means of his imagination he travelled in a region not human, nor divine. He had it seems formed his judgment of mankind from a certain class of men, probably that which he was most in the habit of attending to, and respecting. His temper is doubtful of the church-cast, prone to disappointment because violent in expectation, and disposed to fretfulness because fraught with ambition. His deportment was lofty, and supercilious, because he had been honored; his habits tyrannical be-
cause his opinions had not been much controverted: Armed, and defended by a brazen shield of classical habiliments, which he always studied to display, he stalked unopposed through the fields of literature; and while his writings were approved for strength and correctness of style, the many dark passages, and inexplicable mysteries which attended them, were overlooked or forgotten. Those mysteries the eagle eyed of our country quickly understood. They read in them his overtures to royalty, and they embraced him as their man . Thus advancing under cover he gained, for a time, the pinnacle of power. Looking to those who he supposed united the powers of the nation, he deemed it enough for the rest, that is the "simplemen" or "swinish multitude," to conciliate their voices, by what they could not understand; hoping they would yield their confidence without the pains of inquiry.
It is of material consequence that this idea be fully explained; because it is invariably the point of departure from an honest and laudable policy; which departure has been made in a most masterly manner by the character now under consideration.
In the time of the Revolution there is no doubt but that he harmonized with the best of our patriots to effect our separation from the mother Country. In this glorious, and immortal work all hearts, and all hands were united, however different might be the object, and design of their labors. At the close of the war by which our independence was established, those who during its continuance had not been actuated by principle, marked out their plans of individual advantage, and private aggrandizement. Their conceptions were, that they had secured the popular side, and had only to look for the countenance of those, who are ever inimical to civil liberty as vindicated by the revolution, and who had resisted the arrogant dominations exercised by the crown and parliament of Britain, from no other motive than to share the same claim of domination among themselves. Hence the establishment of the Society of Cincinnatus , which was similar to the present Legion of honor established in France. From such indications, men like Mr. Adams took the hint. His calculations were, that the people , disposed to quietude, were inclined to resignation; and that the turbulent, unprincipled, & ambitious, would carry the lead, and effect their desire of reducing the government to a source of emolument to themselves and their descendants. These views were the political gear by which their partisans were known; and he who could manifest them to the satisfaction of the honorary legion, and at the same time unbeknown to, and free from the suspicion of the people , was the better politician. Hence those sketches of ingenuity which shine with ineffable, and unmeaning lustre, in the pages of Mr. Adams, at which common sense stands astonished and amazed.
But the Ratagem took, and succeeded for a while. The mouth of labor was deprived of the bread it had earned: The substance of the husbandman, bedewed with the sweat of his brow, went to fatten, and garnish the disciples of the times.
At the noon-tide predominance of these measures, Mr. Adams stood at the helm. Their wisdom, and utility were then by many, and still are by some, defended with frantic zeal. They were, in terms of wild enthusiasm, proclaimed as the key of our national prosperity: But their operation upon the Citizen who toiled in retirement, announced a contrary effect. His jealousy was excited; his vigilance stimulated; he discerned the enormities that were practiced, and with an intrepidity not less than that which forced the strong grasp of British bondage, set his shoulder to the wheel of reformation. It was effected. Thus there are two parties at issue; each condemning, vilifying, & reproaching the other.
Are we forever to conflict in a war of opinion? Is there to be no end to bickering, and strife? Are not the "simplemen," as Mr. Adams has denominated them, who comprise the great body of the good people of this nation, ever to find repose united with safety? Are they to enjoy the liberty for which they sacrificed their blood, and their treasure; or must they be disturbed, and distressed, by the continual clangor of mere verbal, and factitious altercation, until they consent to give up all claim to opinion, and sentiment, and yield their bodies as instruments of burthen, to the purposes of those who arrogate to themselves all talents, all learning, and all wisdom?
The questions are, was the administration of John Adams prudent, judicious, and calculated to insure the happiness, and prosperity of the States? Was he qualified and disposed to execute the duties of a President, with ability, and faithfulness, agreeably to the elementary principles sanctioned by the Constitution? If he was—if the measures of his administration were good, the Republicans are in fault. If those measures were not good; much more, if they were pernicious, Republicans are justified, and their exertions must be approved in the sight of heaven. They have been, because they have been crowned with success.
But argument, though drawn from the most authentic sources, and handed forth in the clearness of demonstration, will not do. There is no end to reasoning: None are so blind as those who will not see: None so difficult to convince and pacify, as those who are determined to contradict, and oppose.
Would it not be fair, and equitable to offer to submit the controversy to some judicious umpire, to whom our opponents cannot object? What would they say if we should offer to invest even Mr. Adams himself with the power of deciding it? Has not his situation commanded a view of the whole ground? Will they pretend that he is not a competent judge? Or that he is prejudiced against them? They will not. Let them attend, then, to "the words of our text," which is the language of his own lips.
SEVENTY-FIVE.
[Subject to be continued.]
An elegant travelling carriage has lately prepared for the First Consul of France, which contains a bed, library, writing table, and small service of plate. The carriage is lined with thin copper, or composition metal, so that a ball cannot penetrate it.
The population of the state of Vermont, in 1791, was 85,538; in 1800 it amounted to 154,494! The increase in 10 years is 68,956.
The establishment of Female charitable associations in the United States, rapidly increases. "It is at once a monument to the honor of our fair country women, and an era in our social and moral history."
GEN. MARSHALL, it is said, will be the writer of the life of GEN. WASHINGTON.
On the 7th inst. a son of Mr. Sayles of Gloucester, R. I. aged 11 years, while at work in a sand pit, the earth over him caved in, burying the lad several feet below the surface, which terminated his existence.
TADE, a small town in Germany, containing 182 houses, was entirely consumed by a fire which originated in a brew-house, on the 24th of August last.
The house of Mr. Lawlor, at Sackville, in Nova-Scotia, has been destroyed by fire; five persons perished in the flames.
To be Sold at Public Auction,
ON Monday the 20th of December next, at 10 o'clock A. M. (if fair weather, if not the first fair day,) unless disposed of at private sale before: That pleasantly situated FARM in Middletown, late belonging to Beniah Anthony , deceased, containing about 50 acres of Land, with a Dwelling-House, Barn, Corn-house, and other out-buildings thereon. There is two good Apple Orchards on the same, and other Fruit Trees—Two wells of water, one of which never fails; said Farm, lying on the main road from Newport to Howland's Ferry , and about 3 1/2 miles from the State-House.
ANNE ANTHONY, Admin rix . Middletown, Nov. 18, 1802.
Conditions to be made known at time of sale. xvii
Thomas Voax,
At his Sugar-Refinery, South end of Thames-Street—Has constantly for Sale,
SUGAR Refiner's MOLASSES, of an excellent quality, in Hogsheads, Tierces, and Barrels, or by the Gallon; Lump SUGAR (very cheap for the quality) by the single lump, or larger quantity.—Also, Loaf SUGAR, by the Loaf; White Syrup, and Vinegar, by the gallon.—He also continues to take in Brown Sugar, (to Manufacture into Loaf Sugar,) on reasonable terms.
Newport, Oct. 7, 1802. cviii
Nicholas Webster,
INFORMS the Public, that he has opened a GROCERY STORE in Broad Street, in the house, late the property of Mr. Caleb Earl, where he has for Sale a general assortment of
WEST-INDIA GOODS.
Among others, are the following articles:—Rum, Brandy, Gin, Cherry-Rum, Molasses, Flour, Rye and Indian Meal, Teas of various kinds, Coffee, Chocolate, Raisins, Currants, Pepper, Ginger, Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Butter, Cheese, Candles, Onions, Tobacco, Snuff, Powder and Shot, Lamp-Oil, Loaf and Brown Sugars, &c.—ALSO,
A general and extensive variety of Crockery and Hard Ware; Men's and Women's Shoes, &c. &c. with many other articles, too tedious to mention; all which will be sold at the most reduced prices.
Newport, Nov. 21, 1801. cxix
Hard Ware Store.
THE Subscriber, respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has just received by the latest arrivals at Boston from Liverpool, a general assortment of HARD WARE, direct from the Manufacturers, which he will offer for sale, in Providence , at the Store of Mr. ISAAC PITMAN, directly opposite the Baptist Meeting House, by Wholesale only, upon as reasonable terms as can be purchased at New-York or Boston.—They are now opening, and will be all opened in a few days, by
HENRY GREW. Providence, May 21, 1802. cxx
FLEECE WOOL.
FOR sale, three or four hundred weight of excellent Sheep's Wool, cheap for Cash.—Enquire of the Printer.
Newport, Sept. 11, 1802. cxxi
FOR SALE,
The Snow Mary,
LYING at Mr. John C. Scott's wharf—one hundred and one tons burthen, two decks, may be put to sea at a small expence.
Also—About 10 tons of Fastic, and 22 tons of Cam- peachy Wood, now on board her. For Terms apply to SIMON DAVIS. Newport, Oct. 2, 1802.
WHEREAS the Court of Probate of the town of Newport, have allowed six months longer for the Creditors of the estate of Charles Laffelle, late of Newport, Merchant, deceased, represented insolvent, to bring in their claims:—Notice is hereby given to all persons having demands against said estate, to exhibit them for settlement; and all such as are indebted, are earnestly requested to make immediate payment to SIMON DAVIS, Admin re . Newport, Aug. 18, 1802. cxxii

THOMAS PAINE, To the Citizens of the United States.
LETTER THE FIRST.
AFTER an absence of almost fifteen years, I am again returned to the country in whose dangers I bore my share, and to whose greatness I contributed my part.
When I failed for Europe in the Spring of 1787, it was my intention to return to America the next year, and enjoy in retirement the esteem of my friends and the repose I was entitled to. I had stood out the storm of one revolution, and had no wish to embark in another. But other scenes and other circumstances than those of contemplated ease were allotted to me. The French revolution was beginning to germinate when I arrived in France. The principles of it were good, they were copied from America, and the men who conducted it were honest. But the fury of faction soon extinguished the one, and sent the other to the scaffold. Of those who began that revolution, I am almost the only survivor, and that through a thousand dangers. I owe this not to the prayers of priests, nor the piety of hypocrites, but to the continued protection of Providence.
But while I beheld with pleasure the dawn of liberty rising in Europe, I saw with regret, the lustre of it fading in America. In less than two years from the time of my departure, some distant symptoms painfully suggested the idea that the principles of the revolution were expiring on the soil that produced them. I received at that time a letter from a female literary correspondent, and in my answer to her, I expressed my fears on that head, in the following pensive soliloquy:
"You touch me on a very tender point when you say that my friends on your side of the water, cannot be reconciled to the idea of my abandoning America, even for my native England. They are right. I had rather see my horse Button eating the grass of Bordentown or Morristown, than see all the pomp and show of Europe."
"A thousand years hence, for I must indulge a few thoughts, perhaps in life, America may be what Europe now is.—The innocence of her character that won the hearts of all nations in her favor, may found like a romance, and her inimicable virtue as if it had never been. The ruins of that liberty, for which thousands bled, may just furnish materials for a village tale, or extort a sigh from rustic sensibility; whilst the fashionable of that day, enveloped in dissipation, shall deride the principle, and deny the fact."
"When we contemplate the fall of empires and the extinction of the nations of the ancient world, we see but little more to excite our regret, than the moldering ruins of pompous palaces, magnificent monuments, lofty pyramids, and walls and towers of the most costly workmanship: But when the empire of America shall fall, the subject for contemplative sorrow will be infinitely greater than crumbling brass or marble can inspire. It will not then be said, here stood a temple of vast antiquity, here rose a Babel of invisible height, or there a palace of sumptuous extravagance; but, here I ah painful thought! The noblest work of human wisdom—the grandest scene of human glory, the fair cause of freedom ROSE and FALL. Read this, and then ask if I forget America."
I now know, from the information I obtain upon the spot, that the impressions that then distressed me, for I was proud of America, were but too well founded.—She was turning her back upon her own glory, and making hasty strides in the retrograde path of oblivion. But a spark from the altar of SEVENTY-SIX, unextinguished and unextinguishable through that long night of error, is again lighting up in every part of the Union, the genuine flame of rational liberty.
As the French revolution advanced, it fixed the attention of the world, and drew from the pensioned pen of Edmund Burke a furious attack. This brought me once more on the public theatre of politics, and occasioned the pamphlet RIGHTS OF MAN. It had the greatest run of any work ever published in the English language. The number of copies circulated in England, Scotland, and Ireland, besides translations into foreign languages, were between four and five hundred thousand. The principles of that work were the same as those in COMMON SENSE, and the effect would have been the same in England as it had been in America, could the vote of the nation been quietly taken, or had equal opportunities of consulting or acting existed. The only difference between the two works was, that the one was adapted to the local circumstances of England, and the other to those of America. As to myself, I acted in both cases alike; I relinquished to the people of England as I had done to those of America, all profits from the work. My reward existed in the ambition to do good, and in the independent happiness of my own mind.
But a faction, acting in disguise, was rising in America, that had lost sight of first principles. They were beginning to contemplate government as a profitable monopoly, and the people as hereditary property. It is therefore no wonder that the Rights of Man was attacked by that faction, and its author continually abused. But let them go on, give them rope enough, and they will put an end to their own insignificance. There is too much common sense and independence in America to be long the dupe of any faction, foreign or domestic.
But, in the midst of the freedom we enjoy, the licentiousness of the papers called federal (and I know not why they are called so, for they are in their principles anti-federal and despotic,) is a dishonor to the character of the country, and an injury to its reputation and importance abroad. They represent the whole people of America as destitute of public principle and private manners. As to any injury they can do at home to those whom they abuse, or service they can render to those who employ them, it is to be set
down to the account of noisy nothingness. It is on themselves the disgrace recoils, for the reflection easily presents itself to every thinking mind, that those who abuse liberty when they possess it, would abuse power could they obtain it; and therefore they may as well take as a general motto for all such papers, WE AND OUR PATRONS ARE NOT FIT TO BE TRUSTED WITH POWER.
There is in America, more than in any other country, a large body of people who attend quietly to their farm, or follow their several occupations, who pay no regard to the clamors of anonymous scribblers, who think for themselves, and judge of government, not by the fury of newspaper writers, but by the prudent frugality of its measures, and the encouragement it gives to the improvement and prosperity of the country, and who, acting on their own judgment, never come forward in an election but on some important occasion.
When this body moves, all the little barkings of scribbling and witless curs pass for nothing. To say to this independent description of men, you must turn out such or such persons at the next election, for they have taken off a great many taxes, and lessened the expenses of government; they have dismissed my son, or my brother, or myself, from a lucrative office, in which there was nothing to do, is to show the cloven foot of faction, and preach the language of ill disguised mortification. In every part of the Union, this faction is in the agonies of death, and in proportion as its fate approaches, it gnashes its teeth and struggles. My arrival has struck it, as with an hydrophobia; it is like the sight of water to canine madness.
As this letter is intended to announce my arrival to my friends, and to my enemies, if I have any, for I ought to have none in America, and as introductory to others that will occasionally follow; I shall close it by detailing the line of conduct I shall pursue.
I have no occasion to ask, and do not intend to accept any place or office in the government. There is none it could give me, that would be any ways equal to the profits I could make as an author, for I have an established fame in the literary world, could I reconcile it to my principles to make money by my politics or religion. I must be in every thing what I have ever been, a disinterested volunteer. My proper sphere of action is on the common floor of citizenship, and to honest men I give my hand and my heart freely.
I have some manuscript works to publish, of which I shall give proper notice, and some Mechanical affairs to bring forward, that will employ all my leisure time. I shall continue these letters as I see occasion, and as to the low party prints that chuse to abuse me, they are welcome. I shall not descend to answer them. I have been too much accustomed to such common stuff to take any notice of it. The government of England honored me with a thousand martyrdoms, by burning me in effigy in every town in that country, and their hirelings in America may do the same.
THOMAS PAINE. City of Washington, Nov. 12, 1802.
NEWPORT, Saturday, November 27, 1802.
FORGED LETTERS!
THE hirelings of the Mercury, having selected part of an extended article, which made its first public appearance in the New-York Evening Post, it is incumbent on us to give our ideas upon it, which shall be done with brevity.
Being in our own minds, completely satisfied of the truth of the charge made against John Rutledge, of the crime of forgery, we are not affected by the wild, and envenomed clamors of his advocates, and are on that account, not so attentive to the subject perhaps, as we ought to be. We boldly in the face of day, and publicly in the eyes of the world, came forward with the charge. In doing it we were actuated, as we conceive, by sacred duty; by motives of regard for the public safety. In support of that charge we adduced the evidence which had created, and established our conviction. It consisted in—1st, the similarity of hand writing; 2d, the date of the letters, connected with the peculiar conduct of Mr. Rutledge at the Post-Office, about that time, which was a matter of public notoriety; 3d, the suggestions of the Post-Master, long before the contents of the letters were known, of their being delivered at the Post-Office, by a domestic of Mr. Rutledge's; 4th, the character he bears in this quarter as a political intriguer; 5th, his private and moral character, that of an intriguer in lewdness, and debauchery; 6th, the title of the letters, which contain many expressions peculiar to himself, as observed by those who are acquainted with him; 7th, the panics which he manifested at the first appearance of the charge; 8th, the conduct of his friends, their early exasperated menaces of the horrors of the law, and the pangs of a prosecution, which were afterwards taken back, and never executed; 9th, his consulting Counsel, and afterwards turning his back upon the law; 10th, his placing himself under the protection of a band of prostituted, discredited, pettifogging Editors; 11th, their outrageous, and we should be justified in saying rascally manner of conducting his defence, by false swearing, &c. &c. 12th, his attempt to establish his innocence by threatening to appeal to the sword.
The allegation has been substantiated by a body of testimony, sufficient to confirm, and fully establish the truth of the charge in every unprejudiced mind. It was not arranged by lawyers: Lawyers have therefore undertaken to carp, to quibble upon, and to evade it. But in vain. It is beyond their faculty. More magic than the honorable fraternity are masters of could not effect their purpose. The odium
of the diabolical deed will forever adhere to Rutledge, in spite of their teeth, and their gums.
We have had it in contemplation, in consequence of the unceasing howl, and desperate agitation which has been kept up on the part of the Mercury, to go back, to recapitulate the circumstances, and the proof, by way of review; but we choose to wait, and to let the "case" be fished at the scene of action, to which they have been fit to transfer the battle.
In consequence of the assumption of Hamilton's "Evening Post," the Editors of the American Citizen, a Republican paper, printed in New-York, have pledged themselves to examine the facts concerning the matter, as soon as the inconveniences shall be obviated which they experienced by the late fire in that city. If they should not undertake the subject, we engage to resume it, though it will be with reluctance, and, before we again decline it, to remove all doubt, if any can yet exist, relative to the guilt of the party accused.
They have rambled, and ranged over the wild fields of conjecture. Might we indulge one, relative to the origin of that high sounding "article" of the Evening Post:—Our conjecture is, that it was produced in Providence, in this State: That it mainly proceeded from that head which became famous for the production called "the report of cases, Arthur Fenner vs. John Dorrance." That united with this head, was the beautiful head of the little ex officio: That, for the sake of parade, their article thus produced, was sent on to New-York, for insertion in the Evening Post: That they were both rewarded for their trouble; and that little ginger heel Watty, who said to the Lady that he was formed to please, carried on the "article." These are rational conjectures, warranted by circumstances.
By that "article," the justice, and jurisprudence of the State of Rhode-Island is impeached, and that impeachment is promulgated far and wide. This, of itself, is enough to rouse the indignation of every Rhode-Island citizen. What! Shall our public character be traduced for the convenience of a culprit, who dreads the law? Is not every good citizen concerned in the credit of the State, and will he see it wantonly sported with by persons whose warmest desire is to cancel, and extinguish it, that their own villainies may go unpunished, and undetected? Is this the way, in which they are to compass their object? If they are thus to be privileged, their work is easy.
There are characters, who think their glittering trappings and gaudy habiliments set them above the reach of justice; who have an idea that their pranks are privileged; that vices in them are not like the vices of other men; and that they have a right to say and do what they please.—While they clamor and spout about "evil times," they are the source from whence all evil springs. Like the Box of Pandora, they are full of innumerable mischiefs.
When was the rectitude of our tribunals first assailed? Not until those who defame them, had by the same vile conduct by which they are yet agitated, lost the control.—Then it was they let loose, and set on their hirelings, to read and devour.
But it is in vain for Mr. Rutledge to see his pettifoggers to vilify our State: If he should hire them to mount the house-top, and proclaim that we are all a horde of thieves, and that our State Courts are a pandemonium, yet it would not absolve him; because he was not confined to them. He might with equal ease have gone to the Federal Court, which he could not escape with "violations of law and decency," without accusing his own political household.—How absurd and preposterous it is then, for his flickers to vomit up such an ample share of bile and bitterness, against that which he had no concern with.
But it was a come-off; and is another admission a confirmatory proof of his guilt. It is of a piece with all the rest of their brawlings, during the whole of the dispute. They have not confined themselves to the point in question: They have all along expended more words, and exhausted more energies to lacerate and frighten individuals, whom they suspected had an agency in the business, than to exonerate and exculpate their Dagon.
THOMAS PAINE.
Federal detraction charges Mr. Paine with poverty, as though it were criminal to be poor, and considers him dependent for subsistence on the charity of his friends.
It might be sufficient to reply to such remarks, that the disinterested patriot and war-worn soldier, two of the most illustrious characters delineated in history, are generally poor; and that their poverty is stronger evidence of virtue, than the possession of millions. But as these assertions to personal integrity are too often treated with derision by the inmates of a counting-house, we shall inform them that Mr. Paine is not poor; that he is not only independent in his circumstances, but that he possesses real property that will enable him to enjoy all the substantial comforts, and a good portion of the luxuries of life. Let it be known too, that this independence, nay affluence, is the reward which a grateful country has bestowed.
[National Intelligencer.]
HARTFORD (Con.) Nov. 28.
It may be relied on as a fact, that Letters from some FEDERAL LAWYERS in Connecticut (those noted friends of order) were written to gentlemen of that profession in the State of Vermont, advising them by all means to plead to the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court, and if possible to procure a continuance of all the causes, so that it might go out to the public as though the courts had scruples as to the constitutionality of the existing Circuit Court. The contents of those letters were communicated to the gentlemen of the Bar of that State, but the disorganizing proposal was rejected with disdain.
[American Mercury.]
On Monday last, the Hon. CHRISTOPHER ELLERY, Senator in Congress from this State, left town for the Seat of Government, where both branches of our National Legislature will convene the 6th of December ensuing.
By a late arrival from New-York, we learn that Mr. Rutledge was in that city when our informant left it. On the 25th day of October last, Mr. R. failed from this port, in the brig Angeronia, bound for Charleston (S. C.)—It is mysterious how he came, so suddenly, to be in New-York. He must have been put on shore some where in the course of the passage of the vessel he failed in. Whether it was in consequence of his intrigues on board, or by his own particular desire, it is difficult to conjecture. If there had been any variety of females on board, many would readily suppose that he became obsequious. He has however found his way to New-York. What brought him there?—Alas! poor Yorick!
From the (New-York) American Citizen.
We perceive that the Evening Post has early taken up the subject of "Rutledge's letters." The attempt to incline the public in favor of a man, who, by foul and false pretences, has dared to insult the Union in the person of its Chief Magistrate, will not eventually be of any advantage, either to Mr. Rutledge, or to the editor of the Post. As soon as the inconveniences occasioned by the late fire shall be obviated, so as to enable the editors to pursue their usual course, they will examine the facts concerning the alleged forgery, on the part of the South-Carolina representative; and they pledge themselves to prove, that, on the part of that gentleman, the transaction is a dishonorable one, and deserving of universal reprobation.
John R. Shearman
Has received his supply of FALL and WINTER GOODS.
Newport, Nov. 27, 1802.
113tf.
NOTICE
IS hereby given, to all persons having any demands against the estate of Captain JOSEPH CONGDON, late of Jamestown, deceased, to exhibit them; and all persons indebted to said estate, are called upon to make payment to MARY CONGDON, of Jamestown, Executrix to said estate; or to EENEZER SHEARMAN, her lawful Agent, at Newport. November 22, 1802. 113tf
To be Sold,
A NEW BRIGG, now on the stocks, and will be ready to launch in the month of December ensuing—burthen one hundred and fifty tons. She is built of good materials and by experienced workmen, and will bear the strictest examination. For terms, apply to STEPHEN WILCOX, or NATHAN POTTER. Westerly, (Paucautuck) Nov. 26, 1802.
REMOVAL.
THE Subscribers inform the public, & their friends in particular, that they have taken the Shop, next door but one South of the Brick Market—where they will carry on the Hair Dressing Business, as usual.—Every attention will be paid those who may please to favor them with their custom, and all favors thankfully acknowledged by J. & T. R. PECKHAM.
HOLMES WEAVER, CABINET & CHAIR-MAKER,
HAS for Sale, a number of pieces of the most Fashionable Furniture, As Cheap as can be purchased, of equal elegance. Newport, Nov. 15. xxii
For Sale,
TWO House-Lots, 143 feet front, with a Dwelling-House, Stable, Chaise-house, Wood-house, & Crib, thereon standing; and a well of good water in the yard, with a pump therein. For terms, inquire of the subscriber, living on the premises. JOSEPH MARTIN. Newport, Nov. 20, 1802. xxiii
To be Sold or Let,
A WELL finished Dwelling-House, situated on Thames-Street, opposite Mr. Robert Stevens'—Also a new Store, adjoining the yard and garden, with a good well of water.—If not immediately sold, the Shop, with some part of the House, will be to let.—The situation, both for health and business, is not inferior to any in town. Conditions may be known, by applying to HENRY G. CHAMPLIN.
For Sale at Public Auction,
ON the first Monday of February next (weather permitting,) unless previously disposed of at private sale, a new two story Dwelling-House, with four rooms on a floor, with a Lot of Land, 60 feet front, situate on Spring-Street.—Also, a two story Shop thereon, calculated for a dwelling-house with a Cellar under it. GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, Nov. 20, 1802. xxiii
N. B. Any person wishing to purchase at private sale, may know the terms, by applying to ROBERT LAWTON, jun. living on the premises.

F R E E D O M. Written at an Inn. To thee, fair Freedom! I retire, From fust'ry, cards and dice, and din; Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot or humble Inn.
'Tis here with boundless pow'r I reign; And ev'ry health which I begin, Converses dull port to bright champagne; Such Freedom crowns it at an Inn.
I fly from pomp, I fly from plate! I fly from falsehood's specious grin; Freedom I love, and form I hate; And choose my lodgings at an Inn.
Here, waiter! take my sordid ore, Which Jacqueys else might hope to win; It buys, what courts have not in store, It buys me Freedom at an Inn.
Who'e'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been; May sigh to think, he still has found The warmest welcome at an Inn.
TO BE SOLD, ON the 15th day of December next, (if fair weather—if not, the first fair day)—at 2 o'clock P. M. at public auction, unless previously disposed of—all the right and title which John Manchester , late of Middletown, died seized of, in and to a certain Dwelling-House and yard thereto adjoining, late the property of Isaac Manchester , deceased—situate in said Middletown; consisting of the great room, stove bed-room, north-west bed room, and the north-east quarter of the cellar, and north-east quarter of the house yard. Sale to be on the premises. The building is valuable, and convenient for a small family; and is really worth the attention of any that may wish to buy; who, if they choose to purchase at private sale, are invited to apply to the subscriber, who will give a good title. Conditions will be made known at the time and place of sale. SARAH MANCHESTER, Adm rs . Middletown, Nov. 10, 1802.
L U M B E R.
THE subscriber having entered into Copartnership, under the firm of Sheldon & Ruggles, would respectfully inform the public, that they have taken Wickham's wharf , next southward of Col. Sherburne's , where they have for sale on reasonable terms, a complete assortment of Eastern and other Lumber—such as merchantable pine Boards & Plank, clear Boards, clear Joist—merchantable pine Do. square Oak-Timber, pine Do. spruce Do. Oak Joist, Hemlock, Do. spruce Do. Birch and Beech 3 inch Plank for bedsteads; red Cedar, locust and white cedar Posts, for garden fences; Cedar & Pine Clapboards; good Kennebec and other shingles and Laths, &c.—Lumber of any dimension or kind can be procured from the East or country at short notice.
They also have for Sale, W. R. India Rum by the Hoghead or Barrel; New-England do. Sugar by the Hoghead or Box; Molasses by the Hoghead; Cordage of all sizes by the cwt. or smaller quantity; Nails of all sizes; Pitch, Tar and Turpentine, &c. &c. DANIEL SHELDON, BENJAMIN RUGGLES. Newport, May. 15. 1801. 61tf
Just Published, and for sale at this Office, by the gross, dozen, or single, The Rhode-Island ALMANAC For the Year of our LORD, 1803. Containing a variety of matter, useful, instructive, and entertaining. Great allowance will be made to those who purchase large quantities.
WILLIAM HELME Respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, THAT having employed an experienced Workman from New-York, he has for sale, at his Manufactory on the Point (by the large or small quantity) mould and dipped tallow Candles, hard and soft Soap, warranted to be of equal quality to any imported. Newport, Sept. 3, 1802. civf
TO BE SOLD, A F A R M, LYING in Exeter, State of Rhode-Island, about 8x miles from Wickford, containing 180 acres of good Land, with two Dwelling-Houses, and other out buildings. It may be purchased together, or in separate divisions. Payment will be made easy.—Also, A share in the Ohio Company, containing nearly Twelve Hundred Acres of excellent Land. For further particulars apply to PARDON TILLINGHAST. Exeter, Feb. 25. 50tf
Nathaniel Nason, INFORMS the Public that he has commenced the TIN PLATE Working Business, at the house occupied by his father David Nason , nearly opposite the foot of the Church-Lane, where all kinds of Tin Ware is manufactured in the best manner, and at the shortest notice, of the best materials. All orders for any kind of Tin Ware, executed immediately. Constant attendance given, and the smallest favors acknowledged.
FOR SALE, By JOSEPH BRIGGS, 30 Barrels best N. Y. Superfine Flour. 15 bbls. Beef and Pork. 2000 Weight best Green Coffee, by Wholesale or Retail. A few Casks of SHERRY WINE, of an excellent quality. Newport, May, 29. 50tf
CLARK BLISS, INFORMS his friends, and the Public, that he has removed from Banister's wharf, to the dwelling-house belonging to Capt. Caleb Gardner, in Thames Street, formerly occupied by Capt. Wing Spooner—where he has for sale a General Assortment of West-India Goods: Among others, are the following articles, viz. Brandy, West-India Rum, 4th proof do. Gin, New-England Rum, Wines of different kinds, Molasses, Loaf & Brown Sugars, Coffee, Tea of various kinds, Chocolate, Raisins, Pepper, Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Flour, Rye and Indian Meal, Butter, Cheese, Soap, and Candles; various kinds of Glass Ware, Stone Ware, Knives, and Forks, Jack Knives, Pen-Knives, large and small Spoons, Chest Locks and Files, Crockery and Tin Ware, Axes, Hatchets and Hoes, Men's and Boys' Shoes, Corks, Brimstone, Lampblack, Stone Lime, Lamp Oil, Powder, Shot and Flint, Fishing Lines of various kinds, Leads, and Hooks, deep sea Leads and Lines, Bellows, metal Tea Pots, writing Paper, wrapping paper by the ream, Bed Cords, Log Lines, Marlings, Jammers, Chefs, Oak Kgs holding from one quart to six gallons, Buckets, Coffee and Pepper ready ground for use; and a number of other Articles not mentioned.—Captains of vessels, and others, may be supplied on the shortest notice, and every favor gratefully acknowledged. Newport, May 7 1802. 84tf.
Sail Making. THE subscribers having entered into partnership, under the firm of Spooner and Dunham, hereby inform the Public, that they carry on the Sail-Making business, in its various branches, at their Sail Loft, on the wharf of the late Gen. John Malbone, at the South part of the town. Those who may favor them with their custom, may depend on punctuality and dispatch. All favors will be gratefully acknowledged, by WING SPOONER, 2d. CHARLES C. DUNHAM. Newport, April 3, 1802. 79tf
W. R. WILDER, BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, Has Removed to the Store next Door North of Messrs. Gibbs & Channing's, WHERE he offers for sale, many thousand Volumes of BOOKS, in the different branches of Literature—together with almost every article in the Stationary line, wholesale and retail.—Also an elegant Assortment of Gentlemen's HATS, from 75 cents to 6 dollars and 50 cents. Newport, Aug. 21. 99tf
FOR SALE, BY Jacob Richardson, At the Post-Office, a great variety of Books and Stationary; among which are, several at new publications, viz. A VIEW of the Political conduct of AARON BURR, Esq. Vice-President.—Wood's Correct Statement.—Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales.—Also, Adams' Four Letters, being an interesting Correspondence between JOHN ADAMS , late President, and SAMUEL ADAMS , late Governor of Massachusetts.—Life of General Bonaparte—& An Antidote to John Wood's Poison.—Likewise may be had at said Store, a large Assortment of House Paper, and Borders. N. B. It may perhaps be unnecessary to inform the Public, that he has lately made an addition to his Circulating Library of "many thousand Volumes of BOOKS, in the different branches of Literature." To be sold as above, a few TICKETS in the Providence Baptist Meeting-House Lottery. August 21, 1802. 99tf
NICOLAS GEFFROY, Watch-Maker, in Newport, HAS Constantly on hand, an elegant assortment of warranted, and common English, and Geneva Watches and Time-Pieces, which he will sell on reasonable terms. He also carries on the Goldsmith's & Silversmith's Business, in all its branches, and likewise will make, or repair, any kind of Jewellery, in the neatest fashion. He has likewise for Sale, Wholesale and Retail, all kinds of Jewellery, imported and of the latest fashion; officers' gold and silver epauletts; plated and brass candlesticks; plated and tiffany tea-pots; dirks, small swords and hangars; plated bits, stirrups and spurs; tea-trays; cafés and urns, silver and brass; cutlery ware of all kinds, from London and Paris; hair-powder; starch; Barley-sugar, and sugar plums; Spanish Jigars; best Mahabon & Scotch snuff; and a great variety of other articles, too numerous to insert in an Advertisement. Newport, May 13, 1802. 19tf
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscribers, Executors of the last Will and Testament of Samuel Sanford , of Newport, deceased, call upon all persons having any demands upon the Estate of the deceased, to exhibit them; and all persons indebted to the said estate, are called upon to make payment, to SAMUEL VERNON, SAMUEL VERNON, jun. VALENTINE WIGHTMAN. Newport, Oct. 14, 1802. cviii
CASH, PAID FOR LINEN & WOOLLEN RAGS, BY Christopher Olney, & Co. Delivered at their Mills, or at their Paper Warehouse. WHERE they have for sale, at wholesale & retail, all kinds of Paper, viz. Foolscap Writing Paper, No. 1 and 2.—Vellum Letter do.—Pot do.—Wrapping do.—Bonnet do.—Clothier's do. 1st quality.—Sheathing, with and without Sand.—Book Binder's Boards.—Candle Paper, and Sugar Loaf Blue.—Also, A complete Assortment of Blank Account and Record Books.—Likewise Account Books made and ruled to any pattern, to suit the purchaser.—A complete Assortment of School Books, and Stationary of all kinds, &c. Also, Warranted Chocolate, by the Box, or pound, Cocoa Shells, by the Bag. N. B. Wanted, one or two Boys, from 12 to 14 years of age, as Apprentices to the Paper-making and Clothing business.—To such great encouragement will be given. Providence, Oct. 26. 1802. 74tf
THE Court of Probate for the town of Newport, having appointed the subscribers commissioners, to examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of WALTER EASTON , late of said Newport, deceased, represented insolvent; and twelve months being allowed for that purpose;—Notice is hereby given to all persons having demands against said estate, to bring them in to either of us, within said time, or otherwise they will be precluded according to law. EDMOND TOWNSEND, THOMAS PECHAM, Commissioners. All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to MERIBETH EASTON, DAVID BUFFUM, JOHN SLOCUM, Executors. Newport, 4th Mo. 5, 1802. 82tf
FOR SALE, And possession given on the 25th of March next, A LARGE and valuable tract of LAND, in Hopkinton, adjoining Wood-River.—Containing about Seven Hundred Acres; known by the name of the Ellery Land , and now part of the estate of Col. GEORGE IRISH , deceased. About Two Hundred acres of said land is cleared, and fit for tillage or meadow. The remainder is mostly covered with Timber of the best quality for ship plank, &c. An excellent stream of water runs through said land, whereon a Saw Mill may be erected at a small expense. The terms may be known, by applying to either of the subscribers. NICHOLAS TAYLOR, JOHN IRISH. Newport, Oct. 23, 1802. c8tf
Public Entertainment. THE subscriber informs the Public that he has opened a House of Entertainment in Water-Street, in the town of WARREN, sign of the Ship; west of Col's Inn.—Constant attendance will be given, and every attention paid to Ladies and Gentlemen, for their accommodation, by the Public's humble servant, PRESERVED ALGER. October 23, 1802. cviii
NOTICE. ALL those who are indebted to THOMAS GREEN , or to JOHN MOSHER , and Co. either by Book or Note, are hereby notified, that the accounts and notes are lodged with the subscriber for collection—and are earnestly requested to make immediate payment, and prevent unnecessary cost. EDWARD HEMPSTEAD. Newport, Oct. 29, 1802. egf
FOR SALE, THE Sloop HARRIOT , 20 months old, now lying at Captain Caleb Gardner's Wharf, Eighty-one Tons burthen; may be put to sea at a small expense.—Also 18 Hogheads and 15 Barrels Hispaniola Coffee; about one Ton Campeachy Wood; 10 Tons of Lignumvita, and 28 pieces Mahogany—now on board said Sloop. For terms apply to SIMON DAVIS. Newport, Nov. 5. 50tf
Brafs Foundery. THE subscriber informs the public that he carries on the Brafs Foundery business in all its various branches, at his shop in Spring-Street, nearly opposite Mr. John Banister's .—He also Makes and Repairs House and Gun Locks. Those who may favor him with their custom, may depend on punctuality; and every favor will be acknowledged by the public's humble servant, WILLIAM TRICKETT, Newport, June 18, 1802. 50tf
For Sale on Reasonable terms, A Quantity of Window Frames and Sashes, for 7 by 9 and 6 by 8 Glass. Enquire of the Printer. Newport, May 21, 1802. 86tf
Gold & Silver Smith. THE Subscriber Respectfully informs his friends and the Public in general, that he has taken a Shop belonging to Mr. Jonathan Marsh , directly opposite the Post-Office, where he carries on the GOLD and SILVER Smith, and JEWELLERY Business, in all its various branches.—Those who may favor him with their Custom, may depend upon Punctuality. Constant attendance will be given, and the smallest favors most gratefully acknowledged, by the Public's humble servant, JOHN SNOW. Cash given for old Gold and Silver. Newport, Sept. 25, 1802. civif
To be Sold, A LOT of Land, containing upwards of 3 acres, fronting Tanner & Warner Street, with a House, well finished; paved Cellar; and never failing well of water. Also, a Stable and Chaife-House.—Likewise for sale, a Lot, fronting Broad-street and Tanner Street, with a large commodious Dwelling-House; Shop, Stable, and Chaife-House. For terms, apply to OLIVER READ. Newport, March 20, 1802. 77tf FOR SALE, by the Subscriber, BETWEEN one and two thousand weight of Oakum, which will be disposed of, either in large or small quantities, as may best suit purchasers. Cash, and the highest price, given for old JUNK, as usual. JOHN WILLIAMS, Keeper of the Work-House. Newport, Feb. 12. 72tf
NOTICE. THE subscriber, intending to leave this town the ensuing Fall, requests all persons having unsettled accounts with him, to adjust the same before the November Court, as all unsettled accounts will then be put in suit, without respect to persons. THOMAS HOWLAND. Newport, August 12, 1802. 98tf
Entertainment, BY RICHARD BARKER , at the House formerly occupied by Capt. Robert S. Potter , sign of the Anchor, a little south-east of the State House, where Ladies and Gentlemen may depend on being accommodated to their satisfaction. Punctual attendance will be given, and all favors gratefully acknowledged by the public's obedient servant, RICHARD BARKER. Newport, April 2, 1802. 79tf
John & Henry Cahoon, HAVE FOR SALE, At their STORE on Banister's Wharf, BROWN SUGAR, by the barrel or box; Molasses, by the hoghead; Flour, by the barrel; Powder, by the cask; Sheathing Paper, by the hundred; Candles, by the box; Iron Caboose; and genuine SPANISH SEGARS.—Also, HONEY, by the barrel or gallon—New-York Soap, by the box—Negro-Head Tobacco—Best 4th proof Jamaica Rum—Iron Stoves—Salt-Peter'd Hams—Butter, and Hog's Lard, &c.—Likewise, LIQUORS, of the best kind, a general Assortment, and various other Articles in the Grocery Line—a complete Assortment of which they propose to be constantly supplied with. MASTERS of Packets, Passengers, &c. may be Supplied at said Store, on the shortest Notice—with any Article they may want—and their Favors gratefully Acknowledged. GREEN CHAIRS, per Dozen—Bar-Iron, per Hundred wt.—Middlings and Cornel, per barrel—Onions, per Hundred bunches, or smaller quantities—LOAF-SUGARS, and a variety of the best of TEAS. Newport, Feb. 20, 1802. 3tf
A Good stand for Business. TO be Sold, and possession given immediately, a Two-Story Dwelling-House, with a convenient Shop, situate on the North side of Banister's wharf, next below Mr. Godfrey Wewwood's . For terms, apply to the Subscriber, on the premises. ANDREW BAKER. Newport, Sept. 17, 1802. ciif
Fifteen Dollars Reward. RANAWAY from the subscriber, on Sunday evening last, a Negro boy, named JAMES , about nineteen years old, five feet 6 or 7 inches high, focky built; was born in Jamaica; speaks something of the Creole dialect; has had one joint of his little Toe cut off; had on when he went off, a dark mix'd coloured Jacket and striped tow cloth Trowsers; took with him one nankkeen Jacket and a pair of overalls, one calico and one nankkeen vest; was heard of on the road to Providence, enquiring the way to Boston. Whoever will secure said Negro, so that the owner may receive him again, shall be paid the above Reward, and all necessary charges, by WALTER NICHOLS. Newport, Sept. 24, 1802. civ
FOR SALE, HALF of a Body PEW, No. 80—situate on the West Side very near the pulpit, in the Rev. Mr. Bradley's Meeting House.—For terms enquire of the Printer. Newport, Oct. 23, 1802. c8tf