Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1805-08-24 00:00:00

Gazet of the United States.
WARREN:—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 47, of Vol. XIII.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1805.
[Whole No. 671.]
John Croade
INFORMS his Customers, that he has just received a considerable Supply of Staple and fancy GOODS, which, added to his former Parcel, make a general Assortment, of seasonable Articles, of the Cheapest of which they will be convinced by calling and looking for themselves. Warren, Aug. 16, 1805.
JUST ARRIVED, AND FOR SALE, BY
John Haile,
56 Hnds. Tobago RUM, of the 3d and 4th Proof, of a good Flavor.
Warren, Aug. 16, 1805.
THE SUBSCRIBER, By the Sloop George, J. Cole, just arrived from Albany, has received, and for Sale,
Fresh Superfine FLOUR, CORN and RYE.—Apply next Door South of the Baptist Meeting House, to
THOMAS BAKER.
Warren, Aug. 16, 1805.
WANTED, immediately, by the Subscriber, as an Apprentice to the BLACKSMITH'S BUSINESS, a smart active Lad about 14 or 16 Years of Age.—One who can come recommended as such shall have good Usage.
JAMES C. HUBBARD.
Warren, Aug. 16, 1805.
Washington Academy Lottery.
THE Drawing of this Lottery will positively commence on the First Day of October next, at the Academy Hall, and continue from Day to Day until completed.
By Order of the Managers,
DANIEL E. UPDIKE, Sec'y.
Washington Academy (North Kingstown)
August 9, 1805.
TICKETS in the above Lottery, for Sale at this Office.
AUCTION STORE.
BLODGET and POWER
HAVING added to their Establishment the AUCTIONEERING and COMMISSION BUSINESS, solicit the Patronage of their Friends and the Public. Liberal Advances (if required) on Consignments. Their IMPORTING BUSINESS will be continued as usual. They have on Hand, at low Prices and accommodating Credit, a very handsome Supply of DRY GOODS and HARD WARE.
Providence, Aug. 9, 1805.
(6w)
WHEREAS, the Honourable Court of Probate for the Town of Bristol, appointed the Subscribers Commissioners to the Estate of
NOAH PEARSE, jun.
late of Bristol, Yeoman, deceased, represented Insolvent:—All Persons having Demands against said Estate, are hereby notified to exhibit the same to either of the Subscribers, at their respective Dwellings, within Six Months from the First Day of May last, being the Time allowed by said Court.
RICHARD SMITH, jun. } Com.
JOHN HOWLAND. } Com.
All Persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate Payment, to ELIZABETH PEARSE, Adm'trix. Bristol, Aug. 9, 1804.
FOR THE HERALD.
THE LAY PREACHER, JUN.—No. VI.
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
MANY are the instances from scripture, from history and from common observation in which we see verified the truth of the sage remark in our text; but we shall confine ourselves to scripture instances.
The first instance we shall mention after the flood, which happened, as before observed in the seventeenth Century of the world, was that ridiculous attempt of the antients to build a city and a tower whose top might reach to heaven, that they might make themselves a name. Ambitious of popular renown, they thought to build a city and a tower whose top might reach to heaven and break the flying clouds; and thereby to immortalize their names. But that God who resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble, frowned on them and they left off to build the city.
The observation in our text may well be applied to Pharaoh. In the natural language of human pride, he exclaimed "who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go?" Notwithstanding that remarkable series of miracles which the Lord performed by the
hand of Moses in the presence of that proud Despot, which one might think were enough to soften the hardest and humble the proudest heart—and notwithstanding he was so far humbled as to confess "the Lord is righteous and I and my people are wicked," yet such was the pride of his heart he could not submit to God, to let his chosen tribes go free. He pursued them with swords and threatening slaughter. But behold! his pride was the prelude to his destruction:—God checked the mad career of the proud monarch, and plunged him, with his mighty host into the deep abyss; but led his chosen tribes through the red sea dry shod.
HAMAN is another instance fall to our purpose: Mordecai, the Jew, bowed not to him nor did him reverence. His proud, his haughty soul could not brook the idea that Mordecai, of a different nation and religion, should not bend in reverence to his superior greatness. Haman had been advanced by Ahasuerus his king to a seat above all the princes. He was second in power to that monarch "who reigned from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces"—on whom, next to God, the life and breath of millions depended. Haman was his favorite. He drank, in vessels of gold, royal wine in abundance. Such is the nature of power, in fallen man, it will ever crowd on the boundaries which confine it. Haman, perhaps, before his advancement, thought within himself—could I be advanced to an equality with the seven princes of Media and Persia, who see the king's face, and who sit the first in his kingdom, it would give me complete content—my highest ambition would be fully gratified—no prince on earth would be happier than Haman. Such is the bliss which power affords in present. But, in possession, we find it, like other tempting baits to allure the fool, an unsubstantial shadow. It cannot satisfy the rational soul. It does but increase our thirst for more extensive domination. So Alexander found it, and so Haman found it.
Haman, instead of being satisfied with his superior station, was still unhappy, that Mordecai, his rival, should have a standing on the same earth and a breathing in the same air. He therefore determined his destruction. And that the destruction of Mordecai might be conspicuous—in a manner suited to the greatness of the destroyer, he prepared for him a GALLOW five hundred feet high, and a scheme how was his diabolical and malicious scheme frustrated! at the very juncture when Haman was about "to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows, which he had prepared for him," he was compelled to act as Mordecai's servant—to array him in royal apparel—to make ready for him the king's horse, and even, perhaps, to hold his golden stirrup; and when thus equipped, "he brought him on horse-back through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor."
When Ahasuerus, wishing to confer an honor on Mordecai, enquired of Haman, "what shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor?" Haman thought in his heart, to whom would the king delight to do honor more than unto MYSELF? He therefore recommended this extraordinary parade hoping that he, HIMSELF, should be the man, to be clothed in the royal apparel, to ride on the king's horse, and to wear the crown royal on his head. He hoped, likewise, without doubt, that Mordecai should be the man who should array him, and proclaim before him through the street, "Thus shall it be done," &c.
But this mortification, though great, was not all which the proud Haman suffered. Read the sequel of the story. Thus it ends—"So THEY HANGED HAMAN ON THE GALLOWS WHICH HE HAD PREPARED FOR MORDECAI."
The history of Nebuchadnezzar in another instance which affords additional evidence in confirmation of the truth of our text. He was intoxicated with the pride of his great power. "From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." From the effusions of his pride, he exclaimed, "Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power and for the honor of my Majesty?" But God resisted the pride of the haughty despot and, to humble him, expelled him from the habitations of men.
The last instance we shall now mention, is that of the enemies of Daniel. In this conduct we see a striking portrait of human nature; and in their end a striking specimen of the unhappy consequences of pride and envy. "Superiority of virtue is the most unparadisable provocation than can be offered to a base mind." Innocence is too amiable to be beheld without envy. Such were the virtue, candor and firm integrity of Daniel, and such his commanding talents, they excited the envy and wicked malice of the princes of Media and Persia. And to gratify their wicked malice, they contrived to have him cast into the den of lions! such are the methods which the wicked and the envious contrive to raise themselves on the ruin of their superiors. The princes of Media and Persia, instead of imitating the pious example of Daniel, made his piety the grounds of their accusation against him! what a proof is this of the shocking depravity of human nature! that
prayer and praise, the only employment truly worthy of the soul—the employment of Angels and glorified saints, should be the ground of accusation against that Godly man.
The pious Daniel, had it not been for the miraculous interposition of divine power in his favor, must have been devoured by ferocious lions, to gratify the pride and envy of men more ferocious than the lions! but behold the transition! Daniel was miraculously preserved, and his enemies were cast into the den of lions which "break all their bones in pieces before ever they came at the bottom of the den!"
Let us then conclude that "pride was not made for man." Job says of the Leviathan "his Scales are his pride." And as well may the Leviathan be proud of his Scales, as man, of any thing he possesses.
From the Boston Weekly Magazine.
From GRANDPRE'S VOYAGE to BENGAL.
"THE inhuman custom of women burning themselves to death on the corpse of their husbands is not yet annihilated in India; but it is confined to the cast of the Bramins. When an individual of this cast dies, one of his wives is bound to exhibit this dreadful proof of her affection. This lamentable sacrifice is not imposed upon them by law, for they may refuse to make it; but in that case they lose their character, are held in dishonor and are deprived of their cast; a misfortune so intolerable, that they prefer to it, the alternative of being burnt alive. Nature however, revolts in some of these widows; and it is probable, if left to themselves, that they would never consent to so cruel a sacrifice; but the old women and priests are incessantly importuning them, and representing, that after death, the most exquisite happiness is their lot: as they are most commonly young, it is no difficult matter to triumph over their resistance and irresolution; they accordingly submit to the custom, and the prejudice which ordains it keeps its ground. The manner in which this sacrifice is performed is different in different places. As practiced at Bengal it is horrible. The funeral pile of the husband is erected near a wall with just space enough between, for a single person to pass, that the widow may walk, as is the custom, three times round it. A hole is made in
beam, upwards at twenty feet long is placed, with a rope fastened to the end of it and hanging to the ground for the purpose of making it oscillate. When the widow has performed her ablutions and taken off her jewels, which she distributes among her companions, she ascends the pile, and lies down, embracing the corpse of her husband. The beam is then put into motion and falls upon her so heavily as to break her loins, or deprive her at least of the power of moving. The pile is now set on fire, and the music striking up, contributes, with the shouts of the people, to drown the noise of her groans; and she is thus, in the full sense of the expression, burnt alive. My servant, a very brave fellow, who had been discharged from the military service for the loss of a finger, and who disliked the Bramins, informed me one day that a woman was going to be burnt at a place which he pointed out to me on the left side of the river, between Fulta and Mayapour. Having enquired into the circumstances, I learned that she was both young and handsome; that she had twice put off the ceremony, but that the day being a third time fixed nothing could longer defer it. I conceived, that a woman who had twice hesitated, would find at least no great pleasure in submitting; and conjecturing, that she might not be sorry to escape altogether, I formed the resolution of endeavoring to save her. I asked my man if he would assist me, which he readily agreed to, adding, that he had told me with the hope of engaging me in the enterprise. He requested that one of his comrades might be of the party, who was a bold fellow and would be of great use to me; I commanded his zeal, and accepted the proffered services of his friend. I took with me twenty good European sailors, whom I put on board my sloop, in the bow of which I mounted a swivel: I provided also a dozen muskets, eight pistols and a score of sabres. Two officers accompanied me who were resolved to aid me to the utmost of their power. I encouraged the sailors, by promising them the first part of whatever jewels the woman should have about her, intending to leave the remainder for herself, if she did not choose to stay with me. My servants and his companion were without arms, as it was not my intention to employ them in fighting. I disposed my forces in three bodies, in the following manner. One of the officers and eight men were to guard the boat. The other officers and six men were to follow me at a short distance with pistols but to reserve their fire till I gave orders. Six of the most resolute I selected to attend me in the business; four of them armed with muskets, and two who were to keep themselves close to my side, with pistols. The party who were left to guard the boat had muskets, and were to be in readiness to cover my retreat: besides his fire arms every man had a sabre, and no one was to fire without express leave. Such was the arrangement of my force, and I had no doubt, from the valor of my peo-
ple, that my intention would be admirably seconded. They had all seen some service, and would bravely stand before a veteran and experienced enemy, much more before men like the natives of this country. It was planned by my servant and his companion, that I should go up to her and touch her: this was a violation that would deprive her of her cast, and then she would have no right to burn herself: at the same time to tell her in the Moorish language not to be frightened, but to resign herself wholly to their direction, for that they came to release her. They were then to carry her away as expeditiously as possible, under the escort of the officer and party following me, while I and my six chosen sailors were to bear the brunt of the contest, that they might have time to reach the boat, to which I was to retreat when I supposed them safely arrived there. I hoped, that men, unarmed and thus taken by surprise, seeing a body of Europeans with sabres and pistols would not have the courage to attack us, but being prepared to receive them if they did, I resolved to run the risk. My intention was to leave the woman afterwards to her own disposal, that is to say, to give her the choice of either going with me, or of settling at Calcutta upon the produce of her jewels, which I should of course have the precaution to bring away with her. My whole plan was prepared and ready, and I set out to execute it. I arrived at the place, and alertly jumped on shore. The arrangements agreed upon, were made with precision, I advanced, and was assaulted at the silliness and silence that prevailed. I came to the spot. Alas! the dreadful sacrifice had been completed the preceding day. The wall was still warm, and the ashes were smoking. I returned with an oppression of heart that I can hardly express, and as much afflicted as if I had been a witness to the barbarous execution. My regret for this woman was as great as the pleasure I should have felt in saving her, and the idea I had formed of her youth and beauty."
Foreign Intelligence.
Annexation of the Ligurian Republic to France.
ITALY. GENOA, JUNE 2. A GREAT event has just taken place here. The General Senate, having formally, the conditions have been proclaimed; and the approbation of the People required, by the following
DECREE.
This decree of the Senate, states in its preamble, that the Ligurian Republic is without strength and means to protect its commerce; that since Piedmont has been incorporated with the French Empire, the state of Liguria cannot exist without being also united to it. That the English Government had refused to recognize the independence of the Republic of Genoa: that, of course, it was involved in all the naval wars between France and England;—that on the one hand the Ligurian commerce was desolated by the Barbary Powers; and on the other by the French land custom-house regulations:—That to avoid these evils, and to insure a participation of the commerce of France and all her other advantages, was to incorporate themselves, with the French Nation; and that to obtain this favor it was advisable to profit of the journey of the Emperor and King in Italy.—The Senate therefore decrees:—
ART. I. The union of the Kingdom of Italy with the French Empire, shall be proposed to His Majesty the Emperor and King, under the following conditions:—1st. That all the Ligurian territory, without the least reduction, shall compose an integral part of the French Empire.—2d. That the debt of the Ligurian Republic is to be liquidated in the same way with the debt of the French nation.—3d. That Genoa shall be a free port with all the privileges thereunto annexed.—4th. That in apportioning the land tax, due regard will be paid to the barrenness of the Ligurian soil, and the expenses of agriculture, more considerable than in any other country.—5th. That there are neither to be barriers nor custom-houses between France and Liguria.—6th. That the law of Conscription shall only apply to sailors.—7th. That the export and import duties shall be regulated in the manner the most favourable to the agriculture and manufactures of Liguria.—8th. That all civil and criminal suits shall be decided either at Genoa or in some of the adjacent departments of the empire.—9th. That all the proprietors of national property shall be secured in the possession and full enjoyment of the said property.
ART. II. The present decree shall be immediately submitted to the decision of the people.
LAZOTTI LANZOLA, Chief Secretary.
The Registers for inscribing the votes, on this question, were opened throughout Liguria, and ratified by a great majority of affirmative votes. The Registers containing the votes were then sent by a deputation, to the Emperor of the French, and to entreat His Majesty to grant the request expressed. The following is the origin of this important measure:—A

the return of the Senators who were sent to Milan to assist at the Coronation of the Emperor Napoleon, as King of Italy; they, in concurrence with M. Salicetti, the French Minister, proposed the Union, at an Extraordinary Sitting of the Ligurian Senate; where it was immediately adopted.
When the deputation of the Ligurian Senate presented their request to the Emperor and King, it received the following answer from Bonaparte:—
"You, the Dogs, and Deputies of the Senate and People of Genoa."
"CIRCUMSTANCES and your wishes have often called upon me, for the last ten years, to interfere in your domestic concerns. I have always endeavoured to procure peace for you, and to introduce those liberal ideas which could alone confer on your government that splendor which it formerly enjoyed. But I early had convincing proof of the utter impossibility in which you were placed to achieve any thing worthy of your forefathers.—A great change has taken place; the new principles of maritime law, which the English have adopted, and compelled the greatest part of Europe to recognize; the right of blockade, which it is in their power to extend to places which are not blockaded, even to whole coasts and rivers, and which in effect is nothing else than to control at their pleasure the commerce of the world; the increasing depredations of the Barbary Powers; all those circumstances presented to you only a nominal independence. Posterity will be grateful to me for having endeavoured to establish the freedom of the seas, and to compel the Barbary Powers to refrain from molesting the weaker flag, and to live at home as agricultural and honest men. The welfare and the dignity of the human race were my only objects. At the Treaty of Amiens, England refused to co-operate in those liberal ideas. Since that time a great Continental Power has shown as much repugnance to the same principle. Alone to maintain those principles, I should have had recourse to arms; but I have no right to spill the blood of my people, except for their own peculiar interests."
"From the moment that Europe could not obtain from England, that the right of blockade should be restricted to places really blockaded; from the moment that the flag of the weak was unprotected, and at the mercy of the piracy of the Barbary Powers, there was no longer any maritime independence; and from that moment every sensible man must have foreseen what is now come to pass. Whenever a commercial nation has no maritime independence, it becomes incumbent on it to place itself under the protection of a more powerful flag. I will realize your expectations; I will raise you to my great people. I shall thereby acquire additional means of rendering that protection more powerful which I have always been so well disposed to extend to you. My people will with pleasure receive you. They know, that at all times you have been friendly to their armies, and that you have assisted them with all your force, and with all your means. They find, moreover, in your territory, ports, and an increase of maritime power, which is necessary for the support of their laws and rights against the tyrants of the seas."
"In the union with my people you will find a Continent; you, who have only ports, and the sea before you, will, in the union, find a flag, which whatever may be the pretensions of my enemies I shall support throughout all the seas of the universe, free from insults or attacks, and against the right of blockade, which I shall never recognize, but in such places as are really blockaded by land as well as by sea. In short, in it you will find yourselves protected against that shameful slavery which, contrary to my wishes, I am obliged to suffer weaker powers to endure, but against which I shall always protect my subjects."
"Your people will always find, in the regard I have ever had for them, and in the parental sentiments I shall feel for them henceforth, the assurance that every thing which can contribute to their welfare shall be done for them."
"Dogs, and Gentlemen of the Deputation of the Senate, and people of Genoa."
"Return to your country; I shall be there ere long, and will confirm the union which you and my people are about to form. These barriers, which separate you from the continent, shall be removed for the common interest, and things will soon be in their natural order."
"The signatures of all your citizens, subscribed to the request which you now make to me, dispel every objection I might have had to make. They constitute the only right which I considered as legitimate. In causing that law to be respected, I shall only establish the independence which I have promised you."
Bonaparte's Inaugural Speech, as King of Italy.
MILAN, JUNE 8. YESTERDAY, His Majesty, Napoleon I. went in state, to the Legislative Assembly; and opened its session, in person, in the following
SPEECH:—
"Gentlemen of the Legislative Body." "I HAVE caused a detailed account to be rendered to me of the parts of the Administration. I have introduced into these divers branches the same simplicity that, with the help of the Consulta and of the Censure, I established in the division of the Constitution of Lyons."
"Whatever is good, whatever is beautiful, is always the result of a uniform and simple system. The statutes which you have just heard read extend
to my people of Italy the benefits of the Code, over the drawing up of which I myself presided. I could not approve that a Prætor alone should be called to pronounce upon the fortune of the citizens; and that Judges hidden from the eyes of the public should decide in secret not only upon their property, but upon their lives. In the organization which will be presented to you, my Council will study to make my people enjoy all the advantages which result from collective Tribunals, from a public procedure, and from a right of defence. It is to secure to them a justice more evidently enlightened, that I have established that the circumstances in which Italy now is, permitted me to think of the establishment of Juries; but the Judges must pronounce like the Juries, from their sole conviction, and without delivering themselves up to that system of half proofs which much oftener endangers innocence than it serves to discover guilt."
"I have consented that the Public Debt should bear the name of Monte-Napoleon, to give a guarantee the more of fidelity in the engagements which constitute it, and a new vigor to credit. The finances are in the most prosperous situation, and all payments are free of arrears. My people of Italy are, of all the nations of Europe, the least loaded with taxes. No new burthens shall be laid on them; and if there be any change made in any contribution, if the enrolment is established in the project of Budget, according to a moderate tariff, it is for the purpose of diminishing more onerous impositions."
"I shall leave depositary of my authority this young Prince, whom I have brought up from his infancy, and who will be animated with my spirit. I have besides taken measures to direct myself the most important affairs of the State. Orators of my Council will present to you a project of law, authorising my Chancellor Keeper of the Seals, Melzi, to act for four years in the quality of depositary of my authority, as Vice-President; a domain which, remaining in his family, must return to his descendants the satisfaction I have felt from its services."
"I think I have given fresh proofs of my constant resolution to fulfil towards my people of Italy every thing they expect from me. I hope that in their turn they will be desirous of occupying the place that I desire for them in my thoughts; and they never will attain it, but by persuading themselves that the force of arms is the principal support of States."
"It is time that youth who live in the idleness of great cities, should cease to fear the fatigues and dangers of war, and that they should enable themselves to make their country be respected, if they with their country to be respectable."
"Gentlemen of the Legislative Body, vie in zeal with my Council of State, and by that concurrence of wills towards the sole aim of the public prosperity, give to my representative the support he should receive from you."
"The British Government having received with an evasive answer the propositions I made to it, and the King of England having immediately rendered them public by insulting my people in his Parliament, I have seen the hopes considerable weakened, which I had conceived of the re-establishment of peace. However, the French squadrons have since obtained successes to which I attach Importance only because they must further convince my enemies of the inutility of a war which affords them nothing to gain and every thing to lose. The divisions of the flotillas and the frigates built at the expence of the finances of my kingdom of Italy, and which at present makes a part of the French forces, have rendered useful services in many circumstances. I preserve the hope, that the peace of the Continent will not be troubled, and at all events I find myself in a position to fear none of the chances of war: I shall be in the midst of you the very moment my presence
may become necessary for the preservation of my kingdom of Italy."
The King then directed one of his Ministers to present the Third Constitutional Code, which completes the government of the Monarchy."
A new ORDER OF NOBILITY. Is established, to be called, " The Order of the Iron Crown. "—The motto, " Dieu mea l'a donne, gave a qui y touchera. "—In English—"God has given it unto me; woe be unto him who dares to attack it." It is to be suspended from an orange ribbon with a green border. The order is to consist of 60 Great Officers, 100 Commanders, and 500 Knights, two hundred of the order of Knights, and 25 places of Commanders are to be conferred upon an equal number of those French Officers and Soldiers who have distinguished themselves in the battles by which the Italian Kingdom has been established.
His Majesty the King yesterday presented Prince Eugene Beauharnois, as Vice-Roy of Italy, to the Italian Legislature.
FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 30. Freemasonry, under the auspices of the Imperial Family, has revived in all parts of the Empire. Lodges have been re-opened in the most brilliant style; the ancient landmarks have been recovered; and the initiates are very numerous. A Grand-Lodge has been opened in this city; of which the following brethren have been elected Officers, viz. His Imperial Highness Prince JOSEPH, Grand-Master. His Imperial Highness Prince LOUIS, Deputy-Grand-Master. Field-Marshal MESSENA, Grand-Administrator. Senator DE CHOISEUL PRASLIN, Grand-Lecturer. His Imperial Highness Prince MURAT, Senior-Grand-Warden. M. DELA CECLE, (Grand-Chancellor of the Legion of Honor) Junior-Grand-Warden. DE LALANDE, (Member of the National Institute) Grand-Orator.—Senator DE JANCOURT, Grand-Secretary.—Rear Admiral MACONDE MEDINE, Grand-Treasurer. Gen. BOURNONVILLE, Senior-Grand-Deacon. Gen. MACDONALD, Junior-Grand-Deacon. Gen. SEBASTIANI, Grand-Seal-Keeper. Senator DE LUYNE, Grand-Architect. M. DARANTEAU, Member of the Legislative Body, Grand-Marshal. M. GIARDIN, Member of the Tribune, Deputy-Grand-Marshal. Field-Marshal AUGEREAU, Grand-Hospitaller. Marshal LE FEVRE, Grand-Almoner, (or Chaplain).
* There are no similar offices in the English or American Grand Lodges.
ENGLAND. LONDON, JUNE 29. Trade between United States and West-Indies.
HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1805.
Lord Holland wished for information whether any orders had been sent to Jamaica for discontinuing the restrictions on the importation of goods from the United States in American bottoms;—or whether the House was to understand, that no orders had been sent to enforce the restrictions on the trade between the United States and the West-India Islands?
The Duke of Montrose observed, that the state of the law on the subject in question was this:—According to the Navigation Act, there could be no communication between the United States and the British West-India Islands, except in British bottoms. But a power was given to the Governor of every Island to allow the importation of provisions and other articles in cases of necessity. It having appeared, however, that some irregularities had arisen in the exercise of this power, and that a too general importation had been permitted, directions were sent out to the Governors not to make too frequent use of the discretion which they possessed. There was no ground for supposing they were prohibited from suspending the restriction; they were only required not to give way to too great a facility of importation.
Lord Holland, in reply, said, all he had heard convinced him, that the restriction had been improperly enforced; and he conceived it would be his duty to move for certain papers respecting that trade.
The Marquis of Buckingham said, the Lt. Gov. of Jamaica had understood his hands to be tied up by the orders transmitted to him from government.
Lord Hawkesbury, and Lord Camden applauded the conduct of the Lt. Governor; and the conversation terminated.
Domestic Occurrences.
VIRGINIA. NORFOLK, AUG. 7.
List of vessels belonging to this port, captured by French and Spanish Privateers, during the present war, with an estimate of their value.
Ship Eliza, valued vessel and cargo— 25,000 Brig Mary, — 26,000 Comet, — 20,000 Jane, — 9,000 Schr. Sarah, — 25,000 Helen, — 25,000 Telemachus, — 14,000 Iris, — 11,500 Unity, — 13,000 Comet, — 12,000 Sloop George, — 10,500 Ship Charles Carter, and Schooner Olive Branch, taken and re-taken by the British—probable loss, 5,000 Dolls. 196,000
It is now about twelve months since the depredations on our commerce commenced, in which time, the amount of loss sustained by this place is 196,000 dollars.
STATE OF NEW-YORK.
NEW-YORK, AUG. 16.
North West Coast of America.
J. B. CORDIS, Esq. of Bladensburg, has added something to the information we lately gave concerning discoveries and settlements on the Western Coast of North-America. He was an officer on board the same vessel with Capt. Kendrick. On the arrival of Capt. Metcalfe, at Washington-Island, Mr. Cordis, engaged with him as his second officer, and pilot, for the coast. That was the first port visited by Captain Metcalfe. Mr. C's Journals, during the time of his being in the Elionora, until his arrival in China, are now in the state of Massachusetts. Capt. Metcalfe was cut off on his second visit to Washington Island, in attempting to tow his vessel into Barrell's Inlet, and all the people, excepting one, were massacred. The tract of land purchased by Capt. Kendrick, as mentioned in Capt. Crowninshield's statement to Dr. Mitchill, was at Nootka Sound; and his grantors were CALLICUM and MARQUINA, two noted Chiefs, though both are since dead. Mr. Cordis says, the Russians were on the coast as early as 1788 as far south as Cook's River, where they had erected several huts. Speaking of Columbia River, he thinks the name was given by Capt. Gray, of the Mary Washington, at the very time he was on the coast with Capt. Kendrick, in the ship Columbia.
Capt. Denison, of the brig Henry, arrived here yesterday from St. Croix, was boarded, on the first of this month, in lat. 24, 20, long. 67, 20, by a French, or Spanish privateer of one gun, yellow sides, red bottom, and no topsail. They boarded the Henry at 9 A. M. with 7 men, and ordered Capt. Denison and 8 of his men on board the picaroon. After a minute examination of the brig's papers, they permitted the captain to return, sending at the same time, for Mr. William M'Dougall a passenger on board the Henry, and obliged him to take on board the privateer the passes of five lady passengers. During this time, the seven Russians who boarded the brig, broke open every trunk, and took 1500 dollars in specie from the ladies, robbed the Henry of hogs, poultry, sheep, wine, &c. About the same time, they boarded the brig Planter, Capt. Henry Denison, from St. Croix for New-York, and robbed her also of several small articles. And the same day they captured the brig Neptune, Ray, of and for Philadelphia, from St. Croix, loaded with sugar, mostly the property of Messrs. Armroyd and Dacosta. At 5 P. M. the brigs Planter and Henry were permitted to make sail. The above pirate had with her, which she had captured, three days before, the brig William, Thomson, of New-Haven, from St. Croix for New-York; and the Hamburg barque Hebe, from New-York bound to Havanna, all of which vessels they intended to send into a port the west end of Porto-Rico.
AUG. 17.
The brig Success, Capt. Brum, of this port, sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, for New-York, on the 6th of July.—On the 13th she was captured two leagues from Cape St. Anthony

by a Spanish galley (belonging to Havana) without deck, with two masts and two square sails, and called La Bonne Union. The galley was commanded by Capt. Cæsar, and manned with thirty or forty Spaniards and Frenchmen, with one Irishman who served as an interpreter. Three days after they were taken Captain Brum, the passengers (eight in number) and the hands, were all ordered below, and the hatches shut upon them. In this situation they were kept through the night. In the morning, the pirates prepared their knives, cutlasses and clubs, opened the forecastle, and called for the captain. One of the seamen (Peter Duchemin) with the view of preserving the captain's life, stepped forward, and ascended to the deck. The ruffians with their instruments of slaughter, having arranged themselves in two ranks, compelled the seamen to run the gauntlet, while each gave him a blow, a gash, or a stab, as he passed. Captain Brum and his passengers and crew were all in succession taken from the hold and treated the same horrid cruelty, excepting 5 French passengers. An English gentleman, by the name of Smith, who was one of the passengers, was beaten with such severity, that he sprang into the long-boat and broke his ankle in two places. The mate of the brig, two English passengers and two seamen were put in irons on board the Galley, and three days afterwards were sent ashore at Couyabouts, about 180 miles from Havana; and the brig with the captain and remainder of the crew, were sent to Campeachy.
The facts were received from Peter Duchemin, one of the seamen who were sent ashore in irons. He made his escape from Couyabouts, put himself on board the ship Cato and arrived at this port on Monday last.
The object of these barbarous wretches was money. They offered to release the Captain and ship on receiving 6,000 dollars. [Com. Adv. AUG. 19.]
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia. "We are enabled to state, on authority which we deem correct, that the matters in dispute between the United States and the Spanish Government have been amicably adjusted, and that dispatches on this important subject, from our Minister at Madrid are now on their way to the Executive."
By the sloop Semiramis, from Charleston, we have received the papers of that place as late as the 10th inst. from which we have made some extracts.
The following is an answer of Mr. Madison to the memorial and remonstrance of the South-Carolina Insurance Company, relative to the violation of the laws of nations, by France, in capturing the ship Two Friends, and the predatory conduct of French privateers off Charleston bar.
Department of State, 10th July, 1805.
I have received your letter of the 22d ult. inclosing the Memorial of the Insurance Company of which you are President, and of the Merchants and others, interested in the commerce of Charleston.
Having been before made acquainted by the Collector of the Customs, with the circumstances of the capture of the Two Friends, I lost no time in stating it to the French Minister, who has replied, that the communication made to him respecting this affair, by the commissary of his nation at Charleston, had enabled him to anticipate my desires, by requesting the Captains General of the French colonies, to all of whom he had written respecting it, to obtain satisfaction for this violation of the convention between France and the United States.
The observations contained in the Memorial respecting the local situation, and the protection necessary for the port of Charleston and the adjacent coast, have been weighed by the President and in connection with the other information, will promote such measures as the nature of his functions, and
the existing laws and public good, may be thought proper to admit.
I have the honor, to be, Sir, Very respectfully, your most obedient servant, JAMES MADISON. Thomas Corbett, Esq.
MASSACHUSETTS. BOSTON, AUG. 20.
Extract of a letter from Bordeaux, to a respectable merchant's house in this town, dated June 26.
"All merchandize coming to this place must be accompanied with a certificate of origin. This is to be rigorously observed. We are much afraid that several hogheads of sugar and coffee shipped by you, which are not included in your certificate of origin, will give us a great deal of trouble. The receiver tells us the law leaves no sort of discretion; he must, he says, seize them, and we may petition the Minister, who will hearken to us, since you have not had time to know the new law relative to importations."
From the HAVANNA.
Letters from the Havanna, state an important occurrence—the almost entire suppression of the monastic and religious orders in that island, and which of course will not be confined to that colony. A Royal Order has lately been received there for the sale of all property belonging to those religious establishments; consisting of houses and lands, sugar and coffee estates, and negroes, as well as mortgages, debts, &c., due to them. The monies arising therefrom are to be paid into the Treasury of the King, who will provide for the persons so dispossessed, by paying them a certain allowance per diem for their support. The revenue arising therefrom must, doubtless, be immense; and the purposes to which it is to be applied, and the source to which this serious innovation may be traced, do not require the gift of divination to ascertain. It may, perhaps, be considered as only a preliminary step to more serious changes in the Spanish government and nation.
The Commissioners nominated to enforce the aforesaid decree in the Havanna, and the Island, are—the Governor, the Bishop, the Intendant General, the collector of the Customs, and Don J. B. Menez.
WARREN, SATURDAY, AUG. 24.
A duel was fought on the 7th inst. near Alexandria (Vir.) by E. M. Lytle, of Alexandria and John T. Bowie, of Piscataway. The former was mortally wounded and expired soon after.
Casualties.—A Pison, on the 13th inst. the house of a Mr. Combs was struck by lightning, and, we are informed, considerably damaged. Two children, in the house, were also struck and much burnt, but will probably recover. The same day a child of Mr. William Browning, fell into a well forty feet deep. The bottom of the well was solid rock, and it contained no water; yet the child survived the fall and was alive next day.
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
DISTRICT OF NEWPORT.
Entered. From Sloop Fame, Justin, New-York Huntress, Earl, Ditto Schooner Pegasus, Hudson, Havanna Brig Agenor, Hudson, Marquette John, Thatcher, Ditto Adventure, Chase, Havanna Marian, Manchester, Ditto Hannah, Dayton, Ditto Ship Fame, Gardner, Ditto Cleared. For Sloop Maria, Cooper, New-York Fame, Walden, Ditto Brig Dispatch, Vial, Havanna
DISTRICT OF PROVIDENCE.
Entered. From Schooner Rebecca, Fenner, Norfolk Brig Hiram, Briggs, New-York Ship Abby and Sally, Earle, Long-Island (Bahamas) Cleared. For Sloop Warwick, Saunders, Hudson Schooner Collector, Faribault, Edenton Brig Juno, Bates, Havanna
NEW LONDON, AUG. 17.
Arrived, schr. Ariel, Cooley, from St. Bartholomews, 31 days, via Demerara. Fell in with brig Dispatch, Strong, of Portland, who informed Capt. Cooley, that he had been taken by a Spanish privateer from the river Oronoke, all his people and passengers put in irons, his brig manned by Spaniards, who were proceeding with him to the Oronoke, when they fortunately fell in with the British mail boat from Barbadoes, which re-took the brig, gave the Spaniards the brig's long-boat (well worm-eaten) and sent them adrift, to look for the river from whence they came. Lat. 21, long. 68, fell in with Capt. Strong, again; he said he had been boarded and detained nearly two days, by two privateers, one French and one Spanish—they dismissed him after putting on board a passenger whom they had taken from an American brig, which they had captured on her passage from Antigua, for Charleston, and sent into Porto-Rico.
NEW YORK, AUG. 17.
The ship Ambition, Nexien, in 12 days from Havanna. A French or Spanish privateer had taken an Eastern brig commanded by a Capt. Lee from Jamaica—they put the crew on shore at the S. W. end of Cuba. The mate, a passenger and two men had arrived at Havanna three days before the Ambition sailed, and informed that the captain had been mangled and thrown overboard! Sugars at Havanna were rising.
The brig Phœbe, Spencer, in 27 days Demerara, and 12 from St. Thomas. On the 18th July arrived, the schooner Stevens, from Baltimore, and brig America, Pray from Portsmouth. Capt. Pray said he was brought to by a French privateer brig in lat. 28, long.
54, in the night, and ordered on board with his papers—that when he passed over the privateer's gang-way he was first saluted with a severe flogging, and his pockets' romaged. The boat was then immediately dispatched to his brig, & plundered of every thing they could lay their hands on. Capt. P's mate was very severely flogged, and peremptorily ordered on board with his papers—was received very roughly, and after enquiring where from was told he must pay 20 dollars, for the extra shots they fired to bring him to. When Capt. S. told them he had no money, they said they must take what he had, and immediately dispatched a boat on board the brig, and robbed her of half of the live stock, small stores, liquors, &c. They refused to tell the name of the captain or vessel but learned that she cruised from the Oronoke. The pilot boat Schooner Virginia of New-York, failed to windward the same day with the Phœbe. Spoke, August 9, in lat. 27, long. 69, brig Ontario, from New-York for Trinidad.
The Schooner Little Sarah, Hodge, from Wilkesbarre. She was bound to Trinidad, but on the first inst. while lying to in a gale, in lat. 40, long. 64, was obliged, for the preservation of the crew, to cut away the mainmast, and put in here to repair.
A gentleman, who was for some time a prisoner in Barracoa, (Cuba) has lately arrived in Baltimore from that place, he furnishes the following account of the privateers fitting out at that port, with a request that it might be published for the information of those concerned in the West-India trade.
La Bangour—Commanded by a woman, carrying two 18 pounders, four 6's, two short carronades, and 100 men, (18 of whom are Americans) and rows forty sweeps, (painted black.)
La Superb—Capt. Demick, six 9's—95 men, (15 Americans) forty sweeps; painted black, with a white bottom—falls remarkable fast, and cruises generally close in with Cape-Francis.
La Confidence—Capt. Paris, two 9's—45 men, and 26 sweeps—painted black.
Voltaire—Capt. Jack, two 9's—40 men, and 20 sweeps; painted black.
Marblane—Capt. —, four 6's—43 men, 20 sweeps—painted black with yellow bottom.
Defiance—Capt. —, two 6's—40 men, 20 sweeps; painted black with yellow bottom.
La Bologne—Capt. —, two 9's—45 men, 28 sweeps—painted black.
Beauty—Capt. —, two 6's—40 men, 20 sweeps.
Two feluccas, one 12 pounder each, and 32 men—and two schooners, to carry two guns each and 40 men.
CHARLESTON, AUG. 3.
Arrived, brig Lydia, Pynchard, St. Thomas 13; brig Washington, Slocum, Havana 7.
Capt. Slocum was boarded by the privateer off the bar, who robbed him of two balls. Slocum was a just to keep their hands in.
The privateer, it is said, is a schooner of about 120 tons, is called the Regulator, owned by the celebrated privateer Jack Mathew—She is at present almost filled with Dry Goods, taken from her prizes, of which she is said to have taken a considerable number on her present cruise. She has been running successfully during the whole war.
PHILADELPHIA, AUG. 15.
Arrived, brig Alexander, Reynolds, Point-Petre 19 days, sugar and coffee.
On passing Basseterre, Guadalupe, Capt. R. saw a brig come out, which he supposed to be the Sally, Brown, of and for Philadelphia—saw her again the 2d August, in lat. 25, long. 66, 57. Aug. 11, in lat. 37, long. 74, 25. spoke a large French privateer schooner—she is pierced for either 12 or 14 guns, but mounts only two long 9 or 12 pounders; she keeps them run in and covered with canvas, has no waist cloths, nettings, &c. yellow sides and a dark coloured bottom, has a fore-top sail, a small main-top sail, and a ring-tail boom; she was formerly the Mary, of Baltimore, and has the same still on her stern—when she spoke they showed no colours, said they were from St. Domingo for Baltimore, and was, he judged, about 18 leagues off shore—and after parting from us continued his course N. While in company showed only 7 persons on board but before she was out of sight we could see (with a glass) a large number of people on her deck; we knew the sch't while fitting out in Guadalupe.
Yesterday arrived, the brig Sally and Jenny, Hunt, from Barbadoes. On the 30th ult. in lat. 25, long. 68, at 7 o'clock in the evening, was brought too by a shot from a French privateer schooner of 12 guns, who ordered the boat on board with the papers; a barque rigged ship and a large single decked brig being in company, prizes to the schooner. The privateer's boat was put out, and 4 men came on board the brig and searched every part of her in a very particular manner, bundling up every paper, and all the letters, and sent them on board the privateer; the captain declaring he should detain Capt. Hunt on board all night. The papers belonging to the vessel were first examined—the letters were then looked over, breaking open and examining every one that had the appearance of business—such as had bills or accounts were detained, and all the Baltimore letters; the privateersmen declaring the Baltimoreers coquans. After detaining Capt. Hunt until 10 o'clock at night—then demanding two oars, and some bottles of wine, which they received, their boat left the brig, and Capt. H. was allowed to return, in his own boat, with his papers, and such letters as they did not detain. The prize brig belonged to Boston, and was bound to New-York with a freight from some of the Windward Islands. The barque was a high, full built vessel, prob-
ably from London for Baltimore—The privateer was from St. Domingo.—Same day, spoke the sch't Highland. [This was probably the same pirate that robbed Capt. Denison.]
AUG. 17.
Arrived, the ship America, Lelar, Amsterdam, 54 days.
Capt. Lelar was boarded off Dover by a British cruiser, and informed, that there were stationed in the narrow seas, 3 cutters, with orders to send in for adjudication all neutral vessels from the ports of Holland and France, bound to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope—that they had a list of the Americans in those ports, their destination, &c.—That they had sent in the ship Sally, Williamson, of Boston, for Batavia, (cleared out for Madras) and that the ship was condemned—that the ship Active, Morris, of this port, from Antwerp to Canton, was detained in the Downs.
Extract of a letter from Capt. Gilder, who arrived at the Lazaretto in 15 days from Point-Petre, Guad. to the editor.—"On the 6th of August, in lat. 23, long. 66, 15, was boarded by a French privateer brig of 14 guns and 150 men, and treated politely—She had in possession a brig, name unknown, Capt. A. Stewart, of Portsmouth, left from Antigua, standing towards Porto-Rico.
BALTIMORE, AUG. 15.
Arrived, brig Telemachus, Poor, Martinique 15. On the 8th inst. lat. 34, long. 71, spoke brig Alexandria, from Philadelphia for Guadalupe. On the 4th inst. passed a very large fleet, in lat. 23, long. 64, a number of them appeared to be ships of the line and frigates, they were steering due south, flew no colours, none of them attempted to chase the brig. Two days after spoke a ship from Guadalupe for North-Carolina, who said he ran through the fleet without being hailed or spoken by any of them; the fleet he said was upwards of 100 sail, mostly ships of the line and frigates a few appeared to be transports.
AUG. 16.
Arrived the schr. Ethan Allen, Bryden, Trinidad 22 days. August 1, in lat. 24, long. 68, 20, was fired at and brought too by a French privateer then in sight, and ordered on board with the papers; she was the H. H. formerly of Hamburg, 40 days from New-York for Havanna. The privateer had also in company, brig William, Thompson, of New-York, from St. Croix, bound home, with sugar, &c. taken on suspicion of coming from St. Domingo. The supercargo and mate were on board the barque, but I was not allowed to speak to them. This information was obtained by one of my men from the mate of the William, while the Frenchmen were overhauling my papers; they afterwards sent a boat with two men on board the schooner and overhauled trunks, chests and lockers, but finding every thing right, politely dismissed us after 2 or 3 hours detention, keeping a letter from Capt. Low to Mr. Philip Rogers, of Baltimore. While on board they asked the privateer was in chase of two sail one of which was standing towards the barque, supposed she was captured. The privateer was about 40 tons, had a 4 pounder and 20 men, 9 of whom were on board the brig and barque.
Also, the brig Sally, Low, Trinidad, 29 days. On the 30th July, the Sally was boarded by the French privateer Refouca, Captain Jeapett—when the captain went on board they took our people out, and sent a prize master and 7 or 8 men on board, and began to plunder every thing they could lay their hands on. After having rummaged the cabin, and taken every thing they wanted, they ordered Mr. Burn, a passenger, on board the privateer, with his trunks and baggage; they had then taken from him upwards of 600 ounces of gold coins; some jewellery to the amount of 750 dollars, with several other articles. He was then made to write and sign a paper, dictated to him by the captain of the privateer, the purport of which was, that Mr. Burns acknowledged himself a British subject, and that he freely abandoned to the privateer Refouca, the whole of his property, except 500 dollars and his clothes, which the captain was to return him. Mr. Burns was then returned 60 pieces of his money, which might weigh about 20 ounces, and his clothes, and was sent again on board the Sally. Nine men that had been captured on board of different vessels, by the same privateer, were likewise left on board of us: with them were sent about 20 lbs. meat, 100 lbs. bread, and a 60 gallon cask of water, and we were allowed to proceed on our voyage after a detention of 9 hours. They took one bag of brown sugar and half a loaf of sugar, most of our fowls, one pig, and most of our porter, wine and rum—they took our pendant, all our needles, twine and fish-hooks, and broke open the captain's trunk, and took some tea out, besides some other articles. Some of them went into the fore castle, and broke open the people's chests, and took from them every thing that they fancied, but part of their things was returned by order of the captain of the privateer—an old burger was given us in the room of our pendant. The following vessels were taken by the privateer:—A New-York schooner, but was re-taken by the British, the sloop George, Reynolds, of Norfolk, cut out of Turks-Island, where she had put in with the loss of her rudder; the Hamburg barque Hebe, Capt. Harcup, from New-York for Havanna, captured about 10 days before the brig William, Thompson, of New Haven, from St. Croix for New-York.—The two last mentioned vessels were along with the privateer.
OPENING THIS DAY, BY
Benj. T. Chandler, at his Shop, No. 9, Cheap Side, directly opposite the Roger Williams Bank, Providence, 5 Bales of Ingrain, Scotch and common floor CARPETINGS, which he will sell lower than can be purchased in the State. Also, a general Assortment of DRY GOODS as usual. Aug. 23, 1805.

APOLLO'S FOUNT.
From the BOSTON WEEKLY MAGAZINE.
THE STORM—A SIMILE.
WHEN lightnings flash and hoarse winds howl, And thunders shake the spheres; Fill'd with dismay, the coward soul, Trembling avows its fears. But Sol breaks forth serenely bright, The clouds are chas'd away; With double joy we bless the light, And hail the coming day. Just to the heart, torn and oppress'd, By heavy weight of care; Sinks cold and languid in the breast, And welcomes black despair. But when the cherub Hope appears, The clouds before her fly; She soothes our sorrows, dries our tears, And fills the heart with joy. How welcome is the rising day, Chasing the threat'ning blast; How bright the sun's reviving ray, After the tempest past. So dear the charm the sad heart knows, Which Hope's bright vision cheers, And few taste joy so well as those, Who shed the bitter tears.
From the BOSTON WEEKLY MAGAZINE.
NUMA.—No. XIII.
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipt them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish'd by our virtues." SHAKESPEARE.
PLEASURE and pain are the concomitants of human life. Success and disappointment, mirth and despondency, alternately accompany us thro' the journey of time. One day we set forth on our road with vigour and animation, favoured by an auspicious atmosphere, and a serene sky, full of anticipation and elated with hope; but ere night arrives, to lay our weary limbs to rest, some incident has discomposed our minds or injured our persons; the morn which beamed forth its radiance, and dispensed to us pleasure, is supplanted by a sable night, which brings to us, a sad reverse, of many pains, anxieties and sorrows. Joy and mourning, hilarity and distress, succeed one after another and chequer the path of our pilgrimage. But why, is there not dispensed to us a continued series of peace and serenity, rather than a mixed state of satisfaction and discomforture? Rather enquire of yourself; is your mind so formed, as to realize pleasure, were it not informed of the nature of pain, or occasionally made to taste of sorrow? Or would not that continued sameness, which men term pleasure, be far more insupportable, than the present variegated tenor of human allotments. It is inconsistent with the laws of an unstable and mutable world, and incompatible with our duty as probationers for another state, even to hope for that state of repose, in this world, which numbers are daily and without reason desiring for.
A moderate share of trouble is indispensably requisite for the formation of a great character, and found principles; for to give us prudence, fortitude and discretion, sufficient to enable us in some measure, to triumph over the savage propensities and direful inclinations of our passions. How happy are the operations of sickness and adversity, upon those who have dipped deep in pleasure, and given a loose rein to their appetites and passions; it fully teaches them, the wisdom of forsaking the false enjoyments and illusive vanities of the world; upon the sick bed the passions are hushed, the affections unstrung, the object debilitated in body and in spirits, he has a feeling sense of the dangerous tendency of vice, and knows the weakness and inefficacy of all the succours of voluptuousness and pleasure in the hour of calamity and death. How many salutary truths and principles has the sick bed instilled into the mind of the valetudinarian, which the school of dissipation and luxury never could have taught him. Whilst the resorts of folly and the pursuits of worldly pleasures, enervate and corrupt the mind, and make men ignorant of themselves, the pressure of affliction and melancholy work out for them, exceeding great and abundant comforts. It inspires men with a knowledge of themselves, and establishes them in full approbation of rectitude and adherence to virtue. In trouble, or on the sick bed, men become acquainted with their own
hearts, and learn the usefulness of morally communing with themselves, and religiously with their God; and are assisted in surmounting trouble with firmness, and meeting death without timidity.
"Sweet are the uses of adversity." The calamities and what are termed the evils of life, are in the highest degree happy and advantageous. They are beneficial as they effectuate firmness and strength of mind; as they produce stability of principles and conduct; as they solve the things of time, to be, but empty bubbles, and point out another and a better world. Observe him who has yet encountered few or none of the adversities of the world, and you will discover in him the fickleness and instability of childhood; you will find his principles unregulated by any certain criterion and in all the attitudes and employments of life, governed by the frowns or smiles of men, and actuated by the influence of his hopes and fears.
"To him, alas! to him I fear The face of death will terrible appear, Who in this life flattering his senseless pride, By being known to all the world beside, Does not himself, when he is dying, know Nor what he is, nor whither he's to go." COWLEY.
Adversity, if rightly appreciated, is contributory to true happiness and virtuous principles; as it learns us the vexations and vanities, it instructs us, to look above the miseries of a mutable world. As our calmness or disturbance is altogether the result of the mind, it is essential for the cultivation, peace and purity of that mind, that it should be subject to agitation and disaster. As a body of water when in an unmoving state becomes stagnant and unwholesome, so does the mind; but when its thoughts meander like the smooth rivulet, or burst forth in rugged torrents, its waters become ultimately pure, pellucid and wholesome.
Adversity gives to us principles adopted to the right regulation of our actions and conduct in prosperity. And as an ancient writer (Pliny) very justly observes, "We may lay down a short rule, which philosophers have endeavoured to inculcate at the expence of many words and many volumes, that, "We should practice in health and prosperity, those resolutions we form in sickness and calamity."
Wentworth, (Con.) June 1805.
From the BOSTON WEEKLY MAGAZINE.
THE TRIUMPH OF FORTITUDE AND PATIENCE, OVER BARBARITY AND DECEIT: A TRUE STORY.
[From the Female Spectator.]
[Continued from our last.]
TO write her mind all on this affair seemed little less bold, but she found an absolute necessity of knowing what she had to expect from him, and this was the method she at last made choice of.
But how often did this innocent young creature, begin and leave off—examine what she had laid—then tear the paper, as thinking it confessed too much. Long it was before she could find any words that would not shock her timidity, and at the same time express her meaning. However, after various efforts, that resolution which she still persisted in, enabled her to complete a letter in these terms:—
"TO LOTHARIO.
"SIR, "THE little experience I have in writing letters, especially to your sex, renders this a presumption, which can be excused by nothing but the cause that enforces me to it. You know Sir, the misfortunes of my family, and that I have nothing but my virtue and reputation that I can call my own: The first will doubtless call in question the two others, should I continue to listen to the addresses of a gentleman of your fortune. Permit me, therefore, for the future to deny myself the honour of your visits; the disparity between us will not allow me to think you condescend to make them for any other end than your amusement, and how low soever I am reduced, have too much pride to be the property of it.
Were it possible, which I am far from the vanity of imagining, that you
really found any thing in me, worthy of a serious attachment, you are very sensible I am under the care of a relation, who ought to be made acquainted with it, and who you cannot suppose will make any objections to what she finds is for the true interest of one who shares so much of her own blood.
In consulting her on this affair, you will give the best proof of your sincerity, and is the only means to satisfy the scruples of JEMIMA."
THIS she sent to him by a chairman, not caring to trust it to any of Delinda's servants, lest they should discover it to their lady, whom she was unwilling should be let into any part of the secret, until Lothario himself should reveal it, which she was sometimes ready to flatter herself he would do; so easily are we led to believe what we wish.
Satisfied, notwithstanding, she was within herself, that she had by this means discharged what her virtue and her prudence demanded from her; and for the rest, she had piety enough to leave the event to the Supreme Disposer of all things, and who, she was well convinced, knew what was best for her.
As for Lothario, it is certain that the thoughts of making her his wife had never once entered his head: nor, it is probable, had he foreseen the difficulties he now found in gaining his point, he ever had attempted to address her at all; but the humor of mankind is such, as not to endure being overcome, and to desist after having proceeded so far, seemed to him a meanness of spirit, and he thought would argue a pusillanimity and diffidence in himself, which his pride could by no means submit to.
Her letter, however, both astonished, and gave him an infinite vexation. He easily perceived by it, that she had more resolution and strength of mind than he could have possibly expected to find from a person of her years and experience of the world, and how to answer it in such a manner as might effectually deceive her, and at the same time not prove himself a deceiver, should the affair ever become public, took him up a long consideration.
Puzzled as the innocent Jemima had been in dictating her epistle, Lothario, though an adept in all the arts of intrigue, was not less so to make a proper reply to it; nor perhaps could have been able to do it in such terms as would have been satisfactory to her, and yet agreeable to his own, designs, had not invention came suddenly into his head, perfectly conformable to the baseness of his heart, and, I believe, the only one that could have been found out to ensnare the person, whose undoing he thought nothing too much to accomplish. But as the old poet justly enough observes,
"What cannot wicked will effect, When bound by no restriction but its own, And bent to act whatever it inclines?"
Thus Lothario having formed his scheme, returned to the plain sincerity of Jemima, this ambiguous but declusive answer:
"TO THE BEAUTIFUL JEMIMA. SWEETEST OF CREATURES.
"IT were to attempt an impossibility to go about to describe that unspeakable rapture which overwhelmed my heart at the receipt of your dear letter. A thousand and a thousand times I kissed the charming name, before I had power to examine the contents to which it was subscribed; but when I had gained power enough over myself to do it, good Heaven! how much was I surprised, not, my lovely maid, at the proof you seem to require of my affection, but that there was a possibility for you to doubt if anything in my power would be refused: Every request, every wish of your's shall always have with me the force of commands, and it would be the greatest joy, Heaven could confer upon me, to anticipate all you can desire. I have to say to you on that head, and therefore entreat you will give me an opportunity of revealing to you a secret, which indeed I intended should have died with me, but now find an absolute necessity of entrusting to you.
Delinda is this evening, I know engaged at Lady Rouncifull's, I will therefore come as if designing my visit to her, but beseech you to be at home, that I may offer you a more convincing testimony of the validity of my flame, than that insufficient one mentioned in yours.
In the mean time, my angel, be careful how your too scrupulous thoughts may wrong a heart wholly devoted to you, and which will ever be so while life remains in
Your most passionate and faithful admirer, LOTHARIO."
"P. S. The caution you observed in sending to me gives me the highest idea of your prudence and good sense; but you will find, when I have had the pleasure of imparting something to you, that your good angel had a hand in inspiring you with it on this occasion, and that there was an astonishing necessity for the happiness of us both, that you should act in the manner you did."
LONDON FASHIONS FOR JUNE.
Promenade and Fall Dresses.
1. A DRESS of white muslin, made plain over the bosom, with short sleeves; cloak of apple-blossom silk, trimmed with deep white lace. A white satin hat trimmed with crape and ornamented with a green sprig in front. 2. A dress of plain muslin, with apple-blossom cloak, the same as the former, representing the manner it is worn behind. A hat of satin and crape, ornamented with a flower.—3. Ball dress, worn at Frogmore. A dress of white crape, richly embroidered in stripes, with silver: the sleeves and bottom of the dress looped up with silver tassels; the whole covered with spangles. The hair dressed with a diamond bandeau and ostrich feathers.—White gloves and shoes.
Head Dresses.—1. Cap of lace and crape, bound and trimmed with primrose colors.—2. Cap of white lace, tied under the chin with a blue silk handkerchief, and ornamented with a yellow flower.—3. Turban of apple-blossom silk, with white ostrich feather.—4. Cap of pink crape, with a deep white lace round the front, and ornamented with a flower.—5. and 6. Straw hats turned up in front.—7. A bonnet of blue silk.—8. The hair dressed in the most fashionable manner, with a wheat wreath.—9. Bonnet of buff silk, with a wreath of roses.
General Observations.—The prevailing colors are apple blossoms, primrose, lilac, and blue. Long Spanish cloaks, lined with colored silk, and tied close round the throat, are much worn. For walking, short dresses of cambric muslin, made high in the neck, with a collar, and a very deep flounce round the bottom is much worn. Straw hats are universally worn chiefly turned up in front.
ANECDOTE.
THE Old Crier of Newburyport, has been employed almost exclusively to cry auction sales. The other day, after proclaiming the loss of a pocket book, he involuntarily concluded as usual, "Sale at 12 o'clock."
APPRENTICES WANTED.
THE Subscriber wishes to take a smart active BOY as an Apprentice to the MOROCCO SHOE-MAKING BUSINESS.—Likewise, a rugged steady young Man as an Apprentice to the MOROCCO LEATHER DRESSING BUSINESS—any young Man who has arrived to the strength of Manhood or nearly—who expects to get a living by Labor, and has not yet engaged in any Trade, may, for a short Term of Service, learn a Trade by which he can earn three the Wages of common Tradesmen.
ABNER KINGMAN.
Warren, Aug. 9. 1805.
FOR SALE, BY
FREEBORN SISSON, on Distill-House Wharf, 1500 Bushels coarse LIVERPOOL SALT, suitable for Packing Fish. Five Pipes well flavored old French BRANDY. 2 Hhds. do. old RUM. 50 Barrels Boston, No. 1 and 2 Salt BEEF. And a few Bbls. of Black & White VARNISH.
WANTED—Three smart Journeymen COOPERS, to whom good Wages and constant Employ will be given.
Also, Fifty Cords of Wood, to be delivered at the Distill-House.
Warren, March 2, 1805. (1bc)