The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1809-11-21 00:00:00

THE RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
"THE NATION WHICH INDULGES TOWARDS ANOTHER AN HABITUAL HATRED, OR AN HABITUAL FONDNESS, IS IN SOME DEGREE A SLAVE." — WASHINGTON.
VOLUME II.
PROVIDENCE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1809.
NUMBER 10.
REMOVAL.
THOMAS RHODES
Has removed to the Store lately occupied by Mr. Jacob Saesman, in Weybosset-Street, one door west of Messrs. Taft and Waterman's Store—where he has for sale
 A FEW Hhds. of sweet flavoured St. Croix Rum,  2 Pipes of American Gin, of an excellent quality;  2 Pipes of Spanish Brandy,  A few Bags and Barrels of Coffee,  Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Souchong and Bohea Teas per Chest, very fresh;  Havana white and brown Sugars per Box, First and second quality Loaf Sugar per cwt.  A few hundred Bushels first quality Turks-Island Salt,  200 Bushels of coarse Lisbon do.  A few Kegs of excellent Butter for family's use,  A few Kegs of shipping Butter,  1000 Wt. of Cheese,  30 or 40 Boxes of mould and dipped Candles,  50 Quintals of large Codfish, suitable for retailing;  3 to 4000 Bunches of Onions, in excellent order for shipping;  Mess and Prime Beef in whole and half Barrels,  A few Barrels of Prime Pork,  Empty Rum and Provision Barrels,  20 M. White Oak Barrel Staves—together with his usual assortment of Groceries at retail.  November 17, 1809. tf.
LOTTERY NOTICE.
THE Baltimore Grand Lottery has commenced drawing in the city of Baltimore. The Grand Lehigh Lottery has commenced drawing in the city of Philadelphia. And the Hatfield Bridge Lottery has commenced drawing in Boston—Orders for Tickets and parts, warranted undrawn, may be obtained at the real Fortunate Lottery and Exchange Offices of GEORGE TAYLOR, jnn. Philadelphia; BRIDGE and RENOUF, Boston; and J. B. WOOD, Providence, Rhode-Island.
J. B. WOOD will receive regular Lists of Prizes from the above Lotteries weekly, where adventurers can examine them gratis.
Wanted at the Exchange-Office, a likely, steady Lad, that can be well recommended.—No other need apply to
J. B. WOOD.
November 17, 1809.
PHILIP PECK
Has just received, in addition to his former Stock,
A FEW Hogheads of Irish GLASS-WARE, consisting of pint and half pint Tumblers, Cruets, Salts, Goblets and Wines, (engraved and plain.) This, with almost every other article of CROCKERY, GLASS and CHINA, he will sell at wholesale or retail on as good terms as can be bought in this town or Boston.
Any of the above articles will be repacked at the shortest notice, to suit the convenience of large or small purchasers. November 17, 1809.
CHARLES F. BLODGET & SAMUEL C. BLODGET
HAVE formed a Commercial Communion at Charleston, (S. C.) for the purpose of transacting, solely, COMMISSION BUSINESS, under the firm of
Charles F. & Samuel C. Blodget, and respectfully solicit the aid of their friends, and the publick. They are enabled to grant the usual facilities, and pledge themselves to devote their most unremitted and prompt attention to the concerns of those who patronize their establishment.
For more particular information, apply to BLODGET & POWER, Providence. Charleston, October 25, 1809. 12t.
THE MOST WORSHIPFUL
EPHRAIM BOWEN, jun.
GRAND MASTER.
A QUARTERLY Communication of the GRAND LODGE of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, will be held at MASON'S HALL, in Providence, on Monday the 27th instant, at 6 o'clock, P. M. of which the Officers and Members of the Grand Lodge, Proxies of Lodges, and all others concerned, are requested to take notice, and give their punctual attendance accordingly.
By order,
OTIS AMMIDON, Grand Sec'y.
November 10, 1809.
JOHN P. HELLEN
WISHES to purchase a quantity of FLAX-SEED, for which a generous price will be given.
Who likewise has for Sale,
A large and general assortment of China and Liverpool Ware, by wholesale and retail, cheap for Cash or approved Credit. November 10, 1809.
COTTON.
Received per sloop Jefferson, Capt. Pitcomb, and sloop Susannah, Capt. Yorke, TWO Hundred and Eighty Four Bales UPLAND COTTON, for sale on liberal terms.
ALEX. JONES.
October 31, 1809.
PUBLICK NOTICE.
THE Subscribers, transacting business under the firm of the POMFRET MANUFACTURING COMPANY, have this day appointed ABRAHAM ARNOLD as their Agent, and have duly authorized him to transact business of every description in their behalf.
They have opened a Store in Whitman's Buildings, next door to the Post-Office; where will be constantly kept a general assortment of COTTON YARNS, THREADS and CLOTHS of every description, and of the best quality manufactured in this country. Agents and others can be supplied at wholesale and retail by applying as above, or, at their Manufactory in Pomfret, to their SMITH WILKINSON, general Agent for the concern.
 OZIEL WILKINSON,  JAMES RHODES,  TIMOTHY GREENE,  WILLIAM WILKINSON,  A. I. & D. WILKINSON,  CHR. & WM. RHODES,  SMITH WILKINSON.  Providence, October 26, 1809.
PETER GRINNELL & SON
Offer for sale, at their Store, formerly occupied by GRINNELL & TAYLOR, nearly opposite the Providence Bank,
A LARGE assortment of Paints, wholesale and retail, dry or ground in Oil. Also, Window-Glass of every size, Linseed and Lamp-Oil, Varnishes, Spirits of Turpentine, an assortment of Ship-Chandlery, Looking-Glasses, with Mahogany and burnished gilt frames in the newest fashion, of their own manufacture; with every other article generally called for in a Paint Store, as cheap as can be purchased in this State.
They execute House, Ship, Sign and Ornamental Painting, Oil and Burnish Gilding, Polish and Re-silver old Looking-Glasses, &c. &c.
November 10, 1809. tf.
The State of Rhode-Island, &c.
PROVIDENCE, SC.
THE Creditors of PARDON HANDY, of Providence, Merchant, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an Act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the Benefit of which has been extended to him the said PARDON.
N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk.
November 10, 1809.
THE subscriber, being appointed by the Honourable Town-Council, Guardian over JOSEPH EDDY, Shipwright, hereby forbids all persons trusting him, as he will not pay any debts of his contracting after this date.
THOMAS TABER.
October 31, 1809.
COFFEE, PEPPER, &c.
2000 lbs Java Coffee, } entitled to debenture 800 " Pepper, } Pipes and Barrels best Country Gin, For sale on liberal terms, by
CHRISTOPHER R. GREENE, No. 3, MARKET-STREET. October 27, 1809.
SPANISH BRANDY—fifteen
Pipes of excellent, just landing and for sale by
BLODGET & POWER.
November 14, 1809. 6t.
TO BE SOLD,
On MONDAY the 27th instant, (if not disposed of before that time by private contract,) by Auction, in the Market-Place, Providence.
EIGHT SHARES in the STERLING FACTORY. Terms of sale will be made known at the time. The situation is good and secure, on a steady stream sufficient to turn 3000 Spindles the year round, which number, with preparation Machinery, the Building is calculated to hold—There is a good secure new Dam, an excellent Water-Wheel eight feet wide on the Float, cast Iron Cants six inches on the Tooth, Crown Wheel six inches on the Tooth, perpendicular Shaft five inches square, Fly-Wheel and Spur-Wheel four inches on the Tooth, horizontal Shaft three and half inches square, all cast iron; one new double Carding Machine 36 inches on the Wire, calculated to discharge 54 pounds of good clear-carding per day; one Drawing Frame four Heads, one Roping Frame four Heads, and one Throstle Spinning-Frame containing 108 Spindles, with all the necessary apparatus thereto, all new, and in good working trim. Also, 20 acres of Land belonging to the Factory, the proportionable undivided Shares whereof will be sold or included in the Shares of the Factory. For further particulars, apply to the subscriber, in Providence.
SAMUEL OGDEN.
November 14, 1809.
WANTED,
APPRENTICES to the Business of making COTTON MACHINERY. Parents, or Guardians to Boys in the country, have an opportunity to put them to a good Business, where they may get a thorough knowledge of the above in its respective Branches, by applying to the subscriber, at his Workshop, near the Mill-bridge.
SAMUEL OGDEN.
November 14, 1809.
Poetry.
PATIENCE.
BY THOMAS CAMPBELL.
At the silence of twilight's contemplative hour, I have mused in the mournfullest mood, On the wind-shaken reeds, that embosom the bower, Where the home of my forefathers stood.  All ruin'd and wild is their roofless abode, And lonely the dark raven's sheltering tree, And travell'd by few is the grass-cover'd road, Where the hunter of deer and the warrior trode.  To the hills that encircle the sea. Yet wandering, Lament, on my ruinous walk, By the dial-stone's aged and green, One rose of the wilderness, left on its stalk, To mark where a garden had been.  Like a brotherless hermit, the last of its race, Or wild in the silence of nature, it drew From each wandering sunbeam a lonely embrace, For the night-weed and thorn overshadowed the place  Where the flower of my forefathers grew. Sweet bud of the wilderness! emblem of all That survives in this desolate heart! The fabric of bliss to its centre may fall, But PATIENCE shall never depart.  Though the wilds of enchantment all vernal and bright, In the days of delusion by fancy combin'd, With the vanishing phantoms of care and delight, Abandon my soul like a dream of the night, And leave but a desert behind.  Be hush'd my dark spirit! for wisdom condemns, When the faint and the feeble deplore— Be strong as the rock of the ocean, that stems A thousand wild waves on the shore.  Thro' the perils of chance and the scowl of disdain, May thy front be unalter'd, thy courage elate; Ah, even the flame I have worship'd in vain, Shall awake not the sigh of remembrance again, To bear is to conquer our fate.
Miscellany.
To the EDITORS of the RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN.
THE propriety of learning our young ladies instrumental musick appears to me a matter of prime consideration. Whether the blooming damsel has any attachment to the concord of sweet sounds or not, appears to me an object of no importance, provided she can be taught manual musick. It was but the other day, Gentlemen, when I observed a beautiful young girl banging her Forte Piano with such unmerciful activity, that I really believed the instrument was punished for some offence it had unintentionally committed. To this belief I was led by another circumstance, which was the sorrows, complaints and supplications the instrument uttered, and it seemed really to shed tears for such undeserved ill usage. I have, in consequence of such treatment, and out of pity to the suffering instrument, volunteered my services in behalf of the afflicted. In short, I have constructed a Forte Piano on a new principle, to go by water. I can indoctrinate the water to run and gurgle through all the melodies of musick, and my patrons shall find a tune performed, by such aquatint machinery much cheaper than the toll which they gather from the corn which is carried to be ground. Further, if the tempestuous elements of nature can be disciplined to the deficiency of female fingers, and discourse most excellent musick, the Forte Piano will acknowledge itself bound by peculiar obligations. This will save our ladies, who wish to learn musick, the wear and tear of their fingers, which, as I have been credibly informed, has inflamed them to such a degree as to render them perfectly incompetent to the exercise of the needle. The plan, Gentlemen, will shortly be published, illustrated with copper plate engravings, and an alliance will then be formed between those two contending parties, the needle and the Forte Piano, which are now in an irreconcilable state of hostility.
PHILO-MUSICÆ.
From the NEW-YORK HERALD.
VILLAINY EXPOSED.—CONCLUDED.
THE evidence on both sides laying now before us, let us go back to Monsieur Warden's defence of his patrons. Having inserted the three letters; one from Wyle, Doolittle and two others, and one from each of the two former, he asks with seeming triumph:
"Will Mr. Coleman say, after reading these letters, that General Armstrong has treated these men with harshness, con-
tempt, or inhumanity? The fact is just the reverse. To them in particular, he has rendered all the service in his power, having done every thing for them, but give them publick money; and having even become responsible for them to the French government."
What I say shall be short, but I flatter myself it will be pertinent, and will satisfy every reader where the real truth lies. I very much mistake if it does not take from Armstrong and his advocate, all cause for exultation.
In the first place, it must be remembered that the charges advanced against General Armstrong by his several unfortunate countrymen for neglect, "harshness, contempt and inhumanity," related to his conduct at periods, at least three months antecedent to these three letters here brought to exculpate him. That the extracts I have made from the several letters heretofore published by me, abound in complaints, expressed in explicit terms of lively indignation will not be denied; surely then if they were unfounded, they required retractions and concessions equally explicit. But what are the concessions and retractions really made, if such they can be called? The charges are, that in April, and even as late as the 18th of June, the prisoners had received no relief whatever from Armstrong, no interpositions in their favour; nor even an answer to their repeated letters, soliciting his interference, with a single exception, which, as the writer says, was written merely to get rid of his importunities; and now other letters are produced from the same persons, dated the 10th and the 13th of September, about 3 months, afterwards admitting—what? Let us see.
In the first letter signed by Doolittle, Wyle and two others, the writer says,
"We received your esteemed favour, and offer sincere thanks for your kind interposition in our behalf, which we cannot but hope will have the desired effect."
In the second letter, same date, Mr. Wyle, one of the signers of the first, makes Armstrong his acknowledgments individually, thus:
"I return you my sincere thanks for the kind attention you have paid me, and the rest of my countrymen, in our great extremity. I being fully convinced that your Excellency was well disposed to do what lay in your power to obtain my liberty when opportunity offered; I have communicated all this to my friends by letter, in care of Mr. and Mrs. Clubb."
What Mr. Wyle communicated to his friends in his letter by Mr. and Mrs. Clubb, I do not know; that letter not having appeared. But what Mr. Doolittle communicated to his parents by Mr. and Mrs. Clubb, we do know, as I happen to have a copy of this letter before me.
On the 20th of June last, Mr. Doolittle wrote to his parents by Mr. Clubb, of which he sent a duplicate by Captain Harrison, whose release, he informed them, had been obtained not by General Armstrong, but by Mr. Coxe Barnett. In this letter he says:
"DEAR PARENTS,
"I embrace this opportunity of sending you this duplicate, the one part by Captain Clubb, the other by Captain Harrison, the gentleman mentioned in my last.
"Ever since our arrival here I have been soliciting General Armstrong from time to time to allow some small pecuniary assistance, have tried both complaints and flattery, but all does not do, he will neither grant nor refuse it, in short he will give us no answer on that head.
"June 22.—Since writing the foregoing, I have been waiting in earnest expectation of receiving an answer to our last to General Armstrong, but he has not thought proper to give us any intelligence."
For further information he refers his parents to the bearer, Mr. Stephen Clubb. The following is an extract from that gentleman's letter, to Mr. Doolittle's father:
"August 6th, 1809.
"Mr. I. DOOLITTLE,
"SIR—When I arrived at Paris, the Minister was sick and not to be seen, my wife however procured a sight of Mr. Armstrong, and sent the petitions in to him, who returned for answer, that it was impossible for him to do any thing, for that there are no Americans at Arras."
Here we have the unbiased impartial statement of a gentleman, against whose veracity nothing has been, or can be whispered. From him it appears, that Armstrong first refused even to be seen by him, as a supplicant in behalf of his unfortunate countrymen, pretending, (for I have no doubt it was pretence,) that he was sick. And at last, when Mr. Clubb's lady, by some means or other, procured an interview, and presented the petitions with
which she was commissioned from the wretched tenants of the dungeons of Arras, the good General Armstrong cut the matter short by declaring there were no American prisoners there; which was all the answers he could get. And now Mr. Baillie Warden demands in a flourish, "will Mr. Coleman say, after reading these letters, that General Armstrong has treated these men with harshness, contempt or inhumanity!"—Oh! no, certainly not. It was the gentle, the compassionate, and the humane General Armstrong, who had this civility and the courtesy, to tell a respectable American lady, who presented herself before him, as a supplicant in behalf of the miserable captives, whose fellow-captive she had been, that there were no such men in prison. After receiving letters upon letters, and documents upon documents from them, for nearly twelve months, he was quite ignorant, so he was, that there were any such men in prison.
But we must return to the defendant's evidence.
The third piece of evidence is the acknowledgment of Isaac Doolittle, writer of the last letter, who in one dated Arras, September 13th, says:
"His Excellency General Armstrong who has kindly offered to forward this, has applied for our release." His Excellency has also offered to become responsible to the Minister at war, for our good conduct, in order to obtain for us privileges which we cannot otherwise enjoy."
Which makes up the whole of the exculpatory evidence adduced by the General's advocate in his behalf. It appears then from his evidence, that in the early part of September last, after the arrival of the Wash, General Armstrong did condescend to apply for the release of the American prisoners at Arras. But surely we are not required to forget that this was eleven months after he had treated them, and continued to treat them, with the most shameful neglect; the most cruel indifference; looking upon them, as Wyle expresses it, "more with contempt than pity;" and after having, as Doolittle declares, even opposed their release, after having, as he adds, so long acted the part of a powerful misanthrope against them, for all this length of time; to be sure he at last thought it necessary for him to attempt something in their behalf, and the ready success, which it appears he met, renders it incumbent on him to account to the publick, why he did not attempt it before. Well, it is admitted, nay, the above extracts from the prisoner's letters of September last, shew, that General Armstrong had then applied for their release; that he had sent and informed them of his application, and offered, that until they were finally liberated, he would take charge of any letters they might wish to send to their friends; all which, I doubt not, was conveyed to them in the right sort of style, for when the General pleases, his tongue drops manna. Now all this, however meritorious, is certainly very far from disproving a single title of what had been advanced against him. But again: if the merit of an action depends upon its motives, I fear there are some so uncharitably disposed, as to draw in question the General's title to any very great credit for his interference at last. I fancy, if we only turn back to Warden's first paragraph, we shall be at no loss to account for the immediate cause that instigated him to interpose in September. Warden begins by informing us that several American journals had been received by the Wasp, and among them, it appears was a file of the Evening Post, which contained the statements of Palmer and Hopkins, of Waterman and Folger, and the letters of Wyle and Doolittle. The General could not be long in perceiving that indignation and disgust must have seized the minds of the American publick, at the base conduct which these unfortunate American prisoners had charged upon him; nor was he slow in determining that something must be done to soften resentment, and avert detestation. And now let me and my impartial reader, would have been the course pursued by any man of honour who was conscious of his innocence? Would he, or would he not, do you think have taken the papers containing the charges, and sent them to the authors, accompanied with a letter, calling upon them in the tone of injured innocence, to acknowledge or deny, what appeared under the authority of their names? But lo! instead of this, he sets himself about doing them the greatest favour they could receive, or he accomplish; and then writes them a kind and soothing letter, informing them of what he had done, but without lipping a syllable of the knowledge he had of the disrespectful manner in which they had mentioned his name

the other side of the Atlantick, and in return he entraps them into acknowledgements, and surreptitiously draws from them thanks for his kindness, in this particular instance, which he very honourably delivers to humble advocate, Mr. Bailie Warden, and directs him to send them home as evidence against the poor deceivers, writers, that their former letters were "papers exhibiting the very worst side of human nature—falsehood and hypocrisy." Such has been the honourable dealing of the honourable General Armstrong.
For my own part, far from being in the least surprised at the thanks expressed in these September letters, or the style in which they are conveyed, the only surprise experienced by me, is, that they do not go much farther.—Astonished, electrified at such unthought of condescension and such unexpected kindness from the "misanthropic" a ray of hope once more springs up in their almost frozen breasts, at the information conveyed into their dungeons; their chains feel lighter; they cast a longing eye upon the canopy of heaven; they revisit in imagination, their native shores; they enter their homes; they are happy—In such a moment can they feel other than gratitude to the man who has at length promised them these greatest of blessings; how can they do otherwise than thank him for his interposition? Surely this was no time for upbraidings for the past. They thank him for the present, and they look with the liveliest hopes towards his good offices for the future. And this is the evidence to prove that they were false accusers when they charged him with having been deaf to their supplications, and irresistibly establishes that he has always treated them with gentleness, compassionated their sufferings, and humanely interfered for their release, during twelve months before.
After producing a deposition from Armstrong's French clerk by the name of Deville, (there is no difficulty in getting a plenty of depositions in France,) to show that the General once advanced 12 louis and an half to Captain Waterman, then a prisoner at St. Dennis. The remainder of Warden's paper is very honourably allotted to a justification of the French prize courts, for condemning and fining Captain Folger, and four of his men. We have not yet forgot the General's famous justification of the French for robbing Nicklin and Griffith, and we are not now to wonder at a similar display of talents and integrity in his puppet Warden. But as Captain Waterman and Captain Folger are both in the United States, and can speak for themselves, in answer to this part of Armstrong's defence, I shall not detain my readers with any further remarks at present. Enough, I believe, has already been said to convince every impartial and dispassionate man, that Armstrong's defence has only proved to corroborate all that has ever appeared against him.
From the REPORT.
THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE.
OF all the states which compose the Union, the state of Pennsylvania affords us the most instructive warning, as to the deplorable tendency of unrestrained democracy. Changes in office, the substitution of ignorant and unprincipled men for those who are able and virtuous, are the consequence of jacobinick triumphs, and the administration of such men cannot be expected to conform to law, reason or virtue. Federalism has long been prostrate in Pennsylvania—there have been frequent dissensions among the more moderate and most violent of the democratic party, but the latter, in all such contests, have generally prevailed. There is now no chance of justice between man and man, if politics have any bearings upon the parties. A recent instance of Arson has furnished a striking illustration of this fact. A woman of the name of Snyder, of the name, whether of the family of his Excellency or not, we know not, was lately convicted as accessory to the burning of a paper-mill and property, to the amount of 30,000 dollars. She was convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment; but has received Governor Snyder's pardon! At this rate the State of Pennsylvania, if it can be said to have a government, has a government, not for the suppression and punishment, but for the encouragement of the most daring crimes. This is the happy situation to which they have arrived, after the democrats and jacobins overpowered the federalists, and then the jacobins overpowered the democrats. The fate of this distracted commonwealth was perfectly foretold, by the immortal AXES, in 1801—the Mc Keanites then ruled Pennsylvania.
"The ruling party contains within itself the seeds of discord; yet though the revolutionary spirit once indulged, naturally leads to changes, they are sure to be changes for the worse; a more violent faction will dispossess one that is moderate."
Other instances might be quoted, in which Governor Snyder has directly led on his faction to the violation of law, even to the point of rebellion against the authority of the Union.
Will the people of Massachusetts learn wisdom by observation, or must they too
go through the discipline of experience? We were in danger or closely following the footsteps of Pennsylvania. Federalism was overwhelmed in 1807. Governor SULLIVAN took the side of the moderate among his party. The violent were dissatisfied, and LINCOLN was their chief. Among the democrats he would soon undoubtedly have gained a majority, and had he federalists remained supine, we should have seen jacobinism triumph in all its enormities. But federalism returned to the glorious struggle with renovated vigour, and the commonwealth was saved. That infernal system of tyranny and proscription which Lincoln began, in his short-lived term of power, disappeared, and the conciliatory conduct of Governor GORE, we trust, has pointed out to the people of this commonwealth, the course to tranquillity and happiness. Disappointed in the measures of Governor Sullivan, the violent among the democrats, who will take the lead in that party, will not again look for a candidate whom they suspect of moderation. The contest, the year approaching, will be between old, approved, uncorrupted federalism, and violent, persecuting, intolerant, justice-hating jacobinism.
EXTRAORDINARY CAVERN.
THE following account of a famous cavern in England, called "Devil's Cave, or Peake's Hole," was written by the celebrated Astronomer, JAMES FERGUSON. Freeman's Jour.
"THE entrance (says that gentleman) into this complicated cavern, is through an almost regular arch twelve yards high, formed by nature, at the bottom of a rock, whose height is eighty-seven yards. Immediately within this arch is a cavern of the same height, forty yards wide and above one hundred in length. The roof of this place is flattish, all of solid rock, and looks dreadful over head, because it has nothing but the natural side walls to support it. A packthread manufacturery is therein carried on by poor people, by the light that comes through the arch. Towards the further end from the entrance, the roof comes down with a gradual slope to about two feet from the surface of the water, fourteen yards over, the rock in that place forming a kind of arch, under which I was pushed by my guide across the water in a long tub, as I lay on my back in straw with a candle in my hand, and was for the greatest part of the way on the river, so near the arched roof, that it touched my hat if I raised my head but two inches from the straw on which I lay in the tub (called the boat) which I believe was not above a foot in depth. When landed on the further side of this water, and helped out of the boat by my guide, I was conducted through a low place into a cavern seventy yards wide and forty yards high, in the top of which are several openings upwards, so high that I could not see to their tops. On one side of this place I saw several young lads with candles in their hands climbing up a very rough ascent, and they disappeared when about half way up. I asked my guide who they were? and he told me they were the singers, and that I should soon see them again, for they were going through an opening that led into the next cavern. At eighty-seven yards from the first water I came to a second, nine yards broad, over which my guide carried me on his back. I then went under three natural arches at some distance from one another, and all of them pretty regular; then entered a third cavern, called Roger's Rain-house, because there is a continual dropping at one side of it like moderate rain! I no sooner entered the cavern, than I was agreeably surprised by a melodious singing which seemed to echo from all sides, and on looking back I saw the above mentioned lads in a large round opening, called the chancel, nineteen yards above the bottom where I stood. They sing for what the visitors please to give them as they return."
"At the top of a steep rugged stony ascent, on one side of this cavern, I saw a small irregular hole, and asked my guide whether there was another cavern beyond it? He told me there was—but that very few people ventured to go through into it on account of the frightful appearance at the top of the hole where the stones seemed to be almost loose and ready to fall and close up the passage. I told him, that if he would venture through I would follow him—so I did, creeping flat, the place being rather too low to go on all-fours. We then got into a long, narrow, irregular and very high cavern, which has surprising openings of various shapes at top, too high to see how far they reach! We returned through the hole to Roger's Rain-house again, and from thence went down fifty yards lower on wet sand wherein steps are made for convenience. At the bottom we entered into a cavern called the Devil's Cellar, in which my guide told me, there had been many bowls of good rum punch made and drank, the water having been heated by a fire occasionally made there for that purpose. In the roof of this cellar is a large opening, through which the smoke of the fire ascends, and has been seen by the people above ground to go out at the top of the rock. But this opening is so crooked and irregular, that no stone let
down into it from the top, was known to all quite through into the cavern."
"From this place I was conducted a good way onward, under a roof too low to let me walk upright, and then entered a cavern called the Bell, because the top of it is shaped somewhat like to the side of a bell. From thence I was conducted through a very low place into a higher, in the bottom of which runs a third water, and the roof of that place slopes gradually downward, till it comes within five inches of the surface of the water running under it. My guide then told me, that I was just two hundred and fifty yards from the first entrance into the rock, and there was no going any farther!"
"Throughout the whole, I found the air very agreeable, and warm enough to bring on a moderate perspiration, although in less than a fortnight before, all the caverns beyond the first river, (where I was ferried under the lower arch,) had been filled to a considerable height with water during a flood occasioned by long and continued rains."
FROM LONDON PAPERS.
A CURIOUS circumstance happened in Walcheren to a sergeant of the name of Thorn, who had volunteered into the 35th regiment, with Captain G. Arthur, of that regiment, from the light company of the North Devon regiment, now in garrison.—At the attack and defeat of 300 French troops by about 84 of the 35th, led by Captain G. Arthur, Thorn dealt destruction around him and actually killed and wounded twelve French soldiers by his own personal prowess, till at length he fell, being bayoneted through the thigh, and having a bullet through his body; when the French retreated, Captain Arthur desired Thorn to be conveyed to the hospital; the gallant fellow refused, saying, he should soon die, and die contented, as he had done his duty. Captain Arthur left him, as he thought dying, and with his brave little troops returned to the British camp. On the surrender of Flushing, in searching the hospital for British wounded prisoners, poor Thorn was discovered sitting up on his straw mattress, almost recovered. The account he gives is, that on Captain Arthur's driving in the French, and retiring to the British camp, some French soldiers returned, as supposed, for plunder, and finding Thorn almost exhausted, humanely took him up, and conveyed him to the hospital at Flushing, where he remained during the siege, and is now able to join his regiment again.
AFFECTING OCCURRENCE.
The following affecting occurrence took place during the disastrous retreat of Gen. Moore's army from Spain last year:—An officer of one of the British regiments, overcome with fatigue and hunger, and no longer able to keep up with his companions, had dropped behind. He espied a tuft of trees in a field adjoining the road, towards which he crawled, with the view of resting his weary limbs secure from the sabres of the pursuing enemy. On his coming near to the trees, he perceived a woman, seemingly a soldier's wife, stretched upon the ground, and a little infant lying near her. He approached to administer such assistance as was in his power.—It was too late; the hand of death was upon her, and she was scarcely able to utter these words—"God bless you, it is all over," when she immediately expired. Having rested himself so as to be able again to go on, he tied the little infant in the poor woman's handkerchief and having fastened it to his back, he pursued his march; in this condition, procuring what sustenance he could for himself and the little orphan, he at last after a long and wretched journey, reached the port of Vigo, which at that time happened to be occupied by the French; there he got on board of a transport, and reached at last England with his little charge. His regiment, (or rather a remnant of it,) had arrived before him, and he joined it, still accompanied by the infant. He has it, (it is a boy,) always with him, and has one of the women of the regiment to nurse it; and he declares that this little orphan, whom heaven threw under his protection, shall, let his future fortune through life be good or bad, share it with him.
By the Mails.
NASHVILLE, October 20.
TO record the untimely end of a brave and prudent Officer, a learned scholar and scientific gentleman, this column of the Clarion is ushered to the world in black.—On the night of the 10th inst. Meriwether Lewis, Esq. Governor-General of Upper Louisiana, on his way to Washington City, came to the house of Mr. Grinder, near the Indian line in this state, called for his supper and some spirits, of which he partook, and gave some to his servants. Mr. Grinder not being at home, Mrs. Grinder retired to the kitchen with her children, and the servants, (after the governor went to bed, which he did in good order) went to a stable about 300 yards distant to sleep, no one being in the house with the governor.—Some time before midnight Mrs. Grinder was alarmed by the firing of two pistols in the house—she called to the servants without effect. At the appearance of day-
light the servants came to the house, when the governor said he had now done it for himself; they asked what? he said he had shot himself, and would die, and requested them to bring him water—he then lying on the floor, where he expired about 7 o'clock in the morning of the 11th. He had shot a ball that grazed the top of his head, and another through his intestines, and cut his neck, arm, and ham with a razor. When in his best senses he spoke about a trunk of papers that he said would be of great value to our government. He had been under the influence of a deranging malady for about six weeks, the cause of which is unknown, unless it was from a protest to a draft which he drew on the Secretary at War, which he considered tantamount to a disgrace by government.
In the death of Governor Lewis the publick behold the wreck of one of the noblest of men. He was a pupil of the immortal Jefferson: By him he was reared—by him he was instructed in the tour of the sciences—by him he was introduced to publick life, when his enterprising soul, great botanical knowledge, acute penetration, and personal courage soon pointed him out as the most proper person to command a projected exploring party to the N. W. coast of the American continent.—He accepted the arduous command, on condition that he might take Mr. Clarke with him. They started—the best wishes of the American people in general attended them. After an absence of two years, (to us of anxious solicitude) we were cheered with the joyful return of our countrymen. A new world had been explored—additional knowledge in all the sciences obtained, at a trifling expence.—The voice of fame echoed the glad tidings through the civilized world, the name of Lewis was the theme of universal praise: The national legislature voted a complimentary donation to the brave band.
Scarcely had the governor time to pay his respects to a widowed mother, before he was again called into active service.—The Upper Louisiana had been torn to pieces by party feuds, no person could be more proper to calm them—he appeared and all was quiet.
The limits assigned this notice do not admit of a particular detail of his executive acts—suffice it to say that the parties created by local circumstances and Wilkinson were soon united—the Indians were treated with and large purchases of valuable land made of them—the laws were amended, and judicious ones adopted—to the securing the citizens of the territory from a renewal of the scenes of 1806.
During the few leisure moments he had from his official duties, he was employed in writing the particulars of his celebrated tour up the Missouri—to complete which appears to have been the wish nearest his heart—and it gives us much pleasure, if we can feel pleasure in the present melancholy instance, to state, that we have it from a source which can be depended upon, that he had accomplished the work in three very large volumes, with an immense number of paintings—and all was ready for the press. We hope these volumes may be the means of transmitting to posterity the worth of a man whose last act casts a gloom over the fair pages of his early life.
"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Awaits alike th' inevitable hour— The path of glory leads but to the grave."
WASHINGTON, November 13.
In the course of the Correspondence, which, it seems, has taken place between the Secretary of State and Mr. Jackson, we understand, that Mr. Jackson had stated that the despatches from Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine of the 23d January was the only despatch by which the conditions were prescribed to Mr. Erskine for the conclusion of an arrangement with this country on the matter to which it related—That Mr. Smith in his reply had assured Mr. Jackson that no such declaration had ever before been made to the government, and added, that if that despatch had been communicated at the time of the arrangement, or if it had been known that the propositions contained in it were the only ones on which he was authorized to make an arrangement, the arrangement would not have been made.—That, notwithstanding this assurance, Mr. Jackson in his next letter indecorously used a language implying that Mr. Erskine's instructions were at the time made known to this government—That in Mr. Smith's answer an intimation was distinctly given to him that such an insinuation was inadmissible, and especially after the explicit asseveration of this government that they had no such knowledge, and that with such knowledge such an arrangement would not have been made—That in Mr. Jackson's next letter the same gross insinuation having been reiterated, and even aggravated, it only remained, in order to preclude opportunities, which had been thus abused, to inform Mr. Jackson, as Mr. Smith did, that no further communications would be received from him, and that the necessity of this determination would without delay be made known to his government, with an assurance to it, at the same time that a ready attention would be given to any communications affecting the interests of the two
nations through any other functionary that may be substituted.
PHILADELPHIA, November 14. AN EXCLUSIVE CHRISTIAN.
One Elias Smith, a wandering preacher of New-Hampshire, has established what he calls the "Christian Church," and which he boldly pronounces to be the only church of real Christians that has existed since the days of the Apostles. He ranks all other preachers but himself, and those whom he ordains, with Monsters and Devils. One of his sermons contains such a climax as this—"Gorgons, Hydras, Impostors, Monsters, Hypocrites, Devils, Priests!" He publishes a newspaper, called the Herald of Gospel Liberty , which records his own miracles and those which he says are performed to spread his religion through the earth. He is one of the most industrious men in creation, frequently preaching, in the course of two or three days, at twenty different places in five or six different towns and collecting contributions, not only for the Sermons which he delivers, but for many others, as well as pamphlets and newspapers, all printed by himself, and which he sells to his enlightened followers at a pretty round price. In this manner he works day and night, and is rapidly growing wealthy. His religion, it must be confessed, is not of a theoretick and speculative character. The principal tenets of himself and followers are, that they are the only true Christians; that good men will be rewarded in a future state, and bad men annihilated; and that Thomas Jefferson is an angel, and has been commissioned from Heaven to introduce the Millennium. The following extracts from one of his recent discourses will illustrate the piety and charity of this Apollos, or rather Apollyon, of the new "Christian," or rather Anti-Christian Church of the north.
"I believe Thomas Jefferson is the Angel who poured out his phial on the river Euphrates, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared."
Elias Smith's discourse.
"Clergy, your plan is so united with that which is called Federalism, that it will go down with monarchy to perdition. Your popularity is falling daily, and soon God will make you contemptible and base before ALL the people." Ibid.
"What GOD showed Mr. Jefferson concerning religion and politics will prevail, not only through America, but through the whole world." Ibid.
THE CARRYING TRADE.
The Editor of the American Citizen has shown that our very wise system of non-intercourse by sea, and intercourse by land, makes the British our carriers. Nothing can be more obvious. But the people of the northern and middle states are still to be informed that the leading politicians of the south are more hostile to our carrying trade than they are to Great-Britain, although they are far from feeling much affection for that power. Strong as are their prejudices against England, they would gladly resign our whole carrying trade to her at any moment. We have ever felt the full force of the sage WASHINGTON's caution against indulging local prejudices, or misrepresenting local views. But we do not misrepresent. We speak that which we do know. Our southern brethren may be governed by no improper motives; they may not be envious or jealous of the commercial wealth and prosperity of the north; they may have no fear that commerce will one day give to other portions of the Union that political weight and influence which are now denied to them; they may be mere theorists, mere unreflecting devotees to the Chinese policy. BUT THE FACT EXISTS. It is of little consequence to them that half a million of people in the northern and middle states obtain their subsistence by commerce and the mechanical arts connected with it, and could scarcely exist in any other way. We have land enough, say they, let them clear up the woods. And yet the gentry who use this language neither clear the woods nor follow any other business, but live by the labour of slaves. This is not mentioned as a matter of reproach to them; but to shew their inconsistency and total want of feeling for the commercial interest. The carrying trade, say they, is the source of all our evils. They pronounce it a Pandora's box, more mischievous than that of antiquity, as it has not Hope at the bottom.
NEW-YORK, November 11. DAVID BAILIE WARDEN.
This important personage who now figures in the prints as General Armstrong's consul and agent of prize causes at Paris, defender, witness, certificate-maker, &c. ought to be known to the publick in order that they may be able to judge what degree of credit he is entitled to. I therefore present them with the following account of him received yesterday by a respectable friend.
"David Bailie Warden was born in Ireland, and was ordained there a Presbyterian Minister. He came to this country about 10 years ago, but was never naturalized, as I believe. He was considered a zealot, attached to French politics, and though generally guarded, was viewed to

be at heart a bitter Jacobin. He relinquished his ministerial functions when here, excepting that he preached now and then. He at first had the charge of the Academy at Kinderhook, in Ulster county, and afterwards of the one at Kingston. He boarded in Armstrong's family, and Armstrong took him with him when he went to France to serve in the double capacity of tutor to his children and private secretary to himself. And now it appears he is in the most unaccountable manner, constituted consul and agent of prize causes at Paris. He is a good scholar and understands French well."
The same correspondent then informs me who and what Armstrong himself is, and what he has been. But I know him well already and so do the publick generally, but if it becomes necessary, they shall know more. He was once a federalist, I am told. I know it.
"A fairer person lost not heav'n; he seem'd For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and shallow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worst ap- pear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels; for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful."
MILTON. I merely give this as a beautiful quotation from an admired author. Eve. Post.
November 15. LATEST FROM PORTUGAL. Captain Conner, in 34 days from Lisbon, reports, that the British and Spanish armies under General Wellesley, and General Eguia, still had their head-quarters at Badajoz; that the French were near Talavera, and that Soult's division was marching towards the North, destined to reoccupy Oporto. He further states, that the British and Portuguese armies were plentifully supplied with provisions; and that seven or eight British ships of the line, and a vast number of transports were in the Tagus.
BOSTON, November 18. LATE FROM PORTUGAL. To the 9th ultimo, accounts have been received from Lisbon. The rival armies had not altered their positions; excepting the corps under Marshal Soult, which had broken up from the vicinity of Placentia and taken a northward direction; probably with Ney's corps, to surprise and destroy the Spanish force in Asturias, &c. or to make a division to induce the combined army to advance into Spain; and then return and fall upon its rear. Supplies and reinforcements were daily despatched for the British and Portuguese armies.
Governor Hull, of Michigan Territory, has been indicted by the Grand Jury of that Territory, for remitting the fine of one Whipple, which had been inflicted on him, for saying that Judge Woodward, one of the Judges of the Territory, was "a d—d rascal."
VERMONT BANKS. The Vermont Reporter says—"It is stated, that on an investigation of the officers of the Vermont Banks, it was found, that in September last, there had been put in circulation upwards of 760,000 dollars, and that more than 404,000 dollars now remained unredeemed! A bill has been brought into the Legislature, to collect debts due the bank in a very summary way, by issuing Exts against the delinquent's person and property, in three days after the notes become due! It is also said, the Legislature have it in contemplation to create funds for the bank, by a land tax of 3 cents per acre, to be paid in specie or Vermont bills."
"We are likewise informed, that Messrs. Chapin and Campbell, Directors, and Campbell, the Cashier, of the Westminster Branch, have been removed."
November 20. We learn that Mr. Jackson is to leave Washington immediately. He takes Oakley with him, and leaves no agent to fill the vacancy.
The Legislature of Maryland, have re-elected Mr. Lloyd, as Governor of the State, and General Smith, a Senator of the United States.
Providence, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1809.
By an article from the National Intelligencer, of the 13th inst. republished in our paper of this day, it appears that all negotiation with Mr. Jackson, the British Envoy, is broken off. The cause, as stated, is, that Mr. Jackson declared to our Cabinet, in his correspondence, that the only despatch which authorized Mr. Erskine to make the overtures he did, was one from Mr. Canning, of the 22d of January, and which was at the time known to our government. This Mr. Smith explicitly denied, and further assured Mr. Jackson, that if Mr. Erskine's instructions had been known, no such arrangements would have been made. It further states, that Mr. Jackson, in his reply, persisted in the same declaration, and the result was, a refusal
on the part of Mr. Smith, to hold any further correspondence with that Minister. From this representation, it appears to have been the design of Mr. Jackson to throw the whole blame of the failure of the late negotiation on our own Cabinet, with one further circumstance of peculiar aggravation, viz. giving them the lie in direct terms. A conduct so gross and so little befitting that delicacy and respect which is due from one independent nation to another, deserves, (if the facts are correctly stated,) no other answer. We wait with impatience for the development of the correspondence, and as Congress will convene on Monday next, it will probably then be communicated. On questions so interesting, let us not be over-hasty in condemning without evidence. More than one half of the party ranour and bitterness now so prevalent, results from partial considerations of the subject, and we are often compelled with sorrow, shame, and reluctance to abandon our steps prematurely taken. No government ought for a moment to suffer its dignity to be trampled on. In all diplomatic correspondence, it is not the functionaries that speak, but the nations they respectively represent. An insult thus offered, is thus a national offence, and must be resented by the nation. A nation that does not protect the dignity of its representative, is incompetent to the maintenance of its own. The door of negotiation is however left open, for Mr. Smith assures Mr. Jackson, that "a ready attention would be given to any communications, affecting the interests of the two nations, through any other functionary that may be substituted."
We sincerely hope, that on this point, (if it proves to be as represented,) there will not be found to be two contrariant opinions in the United States. The Federalists, however they may differ with administration, are bound to vindicate the honour of their own government, when assailed by foreign nations. By such conduct they will give the denial-direct to that base and infamous charge, that they are advocates of monarchy in any shape, or disposed to l v the neck in servitude to English insolence. The party with whom we have the honour to act, glory in the contention for the preservation of principle alone, and as for calumny and misrepresentation, we are prepared to despise them and those who resort to such artifices.
The Hon. RICHARD JACKSON, jun. Esq. Representative from this State, and the Hon. LADAN WHEATON, Esq. a Representative from Massachusetts, left this town on Friday evening last for the seat of government.
SAMUEL DEXTER, JOHN B. SNOW, and HENRY WHEATON, Esquires, were last week admitted Attorneys and Counsellors in the Circuit Court of the United States.
The last Newburyport Herald announces the death of Captain Tucker, of that town, in the French prison at Rochefort, an unfortunate victim to the relentless barbarity of the tyrant, Bonaparte. While we condole with his unhappy widow, smarting under the rod of merciless power, we mourn for our insulted, degraded country. When shall we hear the last of the Jersey prison, though to make prisoners is the legitimate course of war? When shall we hear, from those who spoke of the Jersey with real or pretended horror, a single murmur at the cruelty inflicted on our unsuspecting, inoffensive countrymen, who by laws without precedent, are shut up in prison, by a power, pretending to be contending for our rights, and doomed there to drag out a wretched existence?—He offers us his protection! Yes, such protection as vultures give to lambs, covering and devouring them." This is the man, whose praises are rung through our country, as the chosen instrument of heaven, to ameliorate the condition of mankind! This is the generous friend, who shews the best disposition of kindness and justice! This is the hero, who is said to have drawn his sword in defence of the common rights of nations!
Who will be censured for this fresh instance of barbarity? Not the savage perpetrator, for he can do no wrong. Poor Tucker will find no sympathy for his fate, in the breasts of many of his countrymen, for he suffered himself to be spoken by a British man of war—or if he is not blamed, the British will be cursed, for having spoken him, and his lingering death will be laid at their door. They spoke his vessel, a right which Bonaparte says they shall abandon, and therefore they must abandon it to him exclusively, who advocates the freedom of the seas.
Let our countrymen perish in dungeons; who dares find fault? If any patriot should propose to unfurl the Republican against the Imperial standard, it will be reiterated a thousand times, as a crime against the state. It will be echoed with scorn by thousands of traitors to our independence, as proof of—attachment to England! No: let Bonaparte, wrest from us our property, liberty, and lives; we are to hail these downings of his favour: call down blessings on his head, and rejoice at the stricks of his power. Repository.
Married,
At Litchfield, (Con.) THERON METCALF, Esq. of Dedham, (Mass.) to Miss JULIA TRACY, daughter of the late Uriah Tracy, Esq.
Died,
On Sunday morning last, Mr. THOMAS A. LADD, of this town, in the 23d year of his age. We pause—we tremble at a transition so sudden and awful. While the swelling veins and the muscular limbs seemed almost in assurance of grey hairs, in the space of a few days the disembodied spirit stands in the presence of its Maker. The character of the deceased may be read in the gloom and dejection expressed in the countenances of the surviving relatives and friends. His judgement was solid, and illuminated by a vigorous fancy. His heart was like the receptacles of steady friendship, and the softer delicacies of friendship. Actuated by the honest simplicity of his own mind, no man despised more than the deceased, subserviency to opulence, or to the transitory fashions of the day. With his dying lips he received the Sacrament, and expired in humble tranquillity and hope. The star that "shone in the East," beamed consolation on the eye of death, and we trust that he has been guided by its rays to the mercy seat. This eulogy has been poured from the sorrowing pen of surviving friendship; but we are confident it has not trespassed on the sobriety of truth and fact. His funeral will be solemnized at 3 o'clock, P. M. this day, from his father's dwelling-house, and proceed to the Episcopal Church, attended by Colonel Blodgett's Independent Company of Cadets, of which the deceased was a worthy member.
At Pawtucket, on Saturday last, Mr. WILLIAM BATTEY, in the 93d year of his age; a man highly respected for his industry and integrity.
At Newport, on Thursday last, GEORGE CHAMPLIN, Esq.
In this town, on Saturday morning last, JOHN JAY, alias JOHN TODD, aged 14 years, a young man of colour.
American Marine List.
PORT OF PROVIDENCE, NOVEMBER 21, 1809.
ENTERED,
Ship—Hazard, Elderkin, Isle of Mayo. Brig—Sampson, Andrews, Penobscot. Schooner—Nancy, Baxter, Barnstable. Sloops—Juno, Comstock, New-York; Rolla, Earle, Charleston; Sally, Hull, New-York; Ann, Comstock, do. Roxana, Holmes, Charleston; Minerva, Bliven, Newport.
CLEARED,
Schooner—Lucratic, Fuller, Savannah. Sloops—President, Presby, Taunton; Rebekah, Hicks, Warren; Eliza, Currie, New-York; Polly, Brown, do. Newport, November 18.
The sloop Columbia, Barker, of this port, was stranded on the 21st of September near Texel Roads, in a heavy gale of wind. The crew and the principal part of her cargo, (consisting of sugar, coffee, &c.) were saved. The vessel it was expected would be lost.
A letter from Amsterdam, dated September 23d, to a merchant in this town, states, that six American vessels went ashore on the 19th September in Texel Roads in a severe gale of wind. The names or situation of the vessels were not mentioned.
Boston, November 17.
The schooner Priscilla, S. Hardy, of Chatham, from Boston, for Alexandria, with salt, on the night of the 30th October in a gale off Chincoteague, had two men and the captain knocked overboard, while reefing the mainsail, leaving but one man and a boy on board—the two men were lost, but the captain was got on board again by the man and boy, but so much bruised and exhausted, that he died in a few hours. On the succeeding Wednesday, she was relieved with two men from a Hampton Pilot-boat, carried into the Chesapeake, and run ashore on Old Point Comfort; but is in no danger. The next day the remains of Captain Hardy, were decently interred at Hampton.
Captain Butler, in the brig Hannah, arrived at New-York, from Trinidad, was boarded between Saba and St. Eustatia, September 28, from a French boat, manned by negroes, armed with blunderbusses, &c. robbed of 250 dollars; 50 of which belonged to Mr. Guillon, a passenger—Captain Butler was stabbed in several places; and the vessel was robbed of every moveable thing, including clothing.
Baltimore, November 7.
The schooner Sarah, Milner, of Kingston, Jamaica, on her voyage from thence to this port, was struck by a Sword-Fish, about 12 o'clock in the night, being out three days—she sword penetrated through solid timber, thirteen inches thick, and protruding within the vessel upwards of seven inches, into a tierce of coffee. He stuck until 7 in the morning, when he broke away, being severely wounded by strokes of the harpoon. The schooner being hove down yesterday, the sword was found and extracted.
JAMES BADGER, Mate of said schooner.
SALES AT AUCTION.
TO-MORROW, Wednesday, the 22d inst. will be sold at Publick Auction, at the Wharf of James Bowen, Esq. near the Market.
THE fast-sailing, staunch Schooner MINERVA and Appurtenances, 714 3/4 tons burthen, is in fine order, and may be sent to sea at a small expence.
Also, About 5000 Wt. of green Coffee, for retailing; and several other articles.
Sale at 11 o'clock. Conditions liberal. The Schooner's Inventory will be exhibited at the time of sale.
B. HOPPIN & SON, Auctioneers. November 21, 1809.
For CHARLESTON, (S. C.)
THE Sloop ROLLA, (having excellent accommodation,) JOHN EARLE, Master, to sail on the 29th inst. For Freight or Passage, apply to WILLIAM HOLBROOK, GEORGE and OLIVER EARLE, or the Master on board, at Joseph Tillinghast's Wharf, South End.
N. B. They want to purchase CIDER, APPLES and POTATOES.
November 21, 1809.
For SAVANNAH, (Georgia,)
THE Schooner RAMBLER, JESSE MARTIN, Master, will sail about the 5th of December. For Freight or Passage, apply to MOSES EDDY and BROTHERS. November 21, 1809.
For Sale, on reasonable terms, by
PAYTON DANA,
At the Sign of the Turk's Head, East Front of Whitman's Buildings, CLOCKS, Willard's patent Time-Pieces, gold and silver warranted and common Watches, gold Watch Chains, Seals and Keys, silver, gilt and steel do. silver Table, Tea and Salt Spoons; Sugar Tongs, Thimbles, gold Necklaces, Ear and Finger Rings, &c.
CUTLERY.
Best Razors, Pen, Desk, Pocket and Pruning Knives, and Scissors, per dozen or single. Also, ladies' and gentlemen's Pocket-Books and Purses.
JUST RECEIVED,
Plated Teapots, Sugar Basons and Cream Pots, Castors, Candlesticks, Lamps, Spurs, &c. Britannia Teapots, some very elegant patterns; Sugar Basons and Cream Pots; a very handsome assortment of Jappanned Ware, consisting of Tea Trays, Waiters, &c. of various colours, some rich centres and real gilt borders; with a variety of articles, useful and ornamental.
LIKEWISE,
A few patent Steel Pens, one elegant silver mounted Rifle Gun, and almost every article in the Military line. Watches carefully cleaned and repaired as usual. November 21, 1809.
RICE and COTTON.
Just received per sloop Rolla, TWENTY-seven Casks of Rice; and per sloop Roxana, 97 Bales of Upland Cotton.
On hand,
600 Bales of Sea-Island Cotton of different qualities and prices, for sale on extensive credits to approved purchasers.
ALEX. JONES. November 21, 1809.
WHEREAS at the Supreme
Judicial Court holden at Providence, and in for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of September last past, the subscribers were appointed Commissioners, or Assignees, to receive the Estate of THOMAS BRAYTON, of Foster, in the County of Providence, Husbandman, who has obtained the benefit of an act, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," and the several acts in aid thereof, and distribute the same among his Creditors, agreeably to the provisions of said acts:—NOTICE is therefore hereby given to the Creditors of the said THOMAS, to exhibit to us, or either of us, their respective demands, within nine months from the 30th day of September last, or they will be precluded according to the provisions of the acts aforesaid.
ZADOCK YOUNG, FRANCIS FULLER, OLIVER GREENE. Foster, November 20, 1809.
Commissioners' Notice.
THE subscribers being by the Honourable Court of Probate appointed Commissioners to receive and allow the claims of the Creditors against the Estate of Capt. CHARLES SPOONER, late of Providence, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice, that six months from the 13th instant are allowed to the Creditors to bring in and prove their claims to either of us. BENJAMIN CLIFFORD, JOHN F. SHELTON, } Com're. All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment, to SIMEON INGRAHAM, Admin. November 21, 1809.
The State of Rhode-Island, &c.
PROVIDENCE, SC. THE Creditors of HARRIS ATWOOD, of Johnston, in the County of Providence, Labourer, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be holden at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an Act of the General Assembly, passed in June, 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said Atwood.
N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. November 21, 1809.
Providence Theatre.
MR. BATES respectfully informs the publick, that he has engaged the celebrated INFANT ROSCIUS, (a child not eight years of age,) who has been performing in Philadelphia, New-York and recently in Boston, with general success and approbation.
THIS EVENING, November 21, 1809, will be presented an Evening Amusement, in 3 parts, under sanction of the old proverb of
"Be Merry and Wise."
THEN LAUGH WHILE YOU MAY.
PART FIRST.
The Maimed Soldier:
Or, A Merry Account of sad Disasters. Old Firelock, (with the Song of Meg of Wapping,) Mr. Bates.—Gentleman, (from the Charleston and New-York Theatres,) Mr. Holland.
After which, he will deliver an Address to introduce the Infant Roscius, who will recite the Story of the Cameleon, (written by Merrick,) and Hamlet's Soliloquy of "Oh what a wretch and peasant slave am I"—with the Comick Song, "Unfortunate Miss Bailey."
PART SECOND.
Doctor Last's Examination,
Or, The Cobler Turn'd Physician. President of the College, Mr. Holland. Dr. Last, Mr. Bates. Comick Song—"Giles Scroggins' Ghost," Infant Roscius.
Story—"Alonzo and Imogene," Mr. Holland.
"Paddy Bull's Ramble," Mr. Bates.
PART THIRD.
Clarence's Dream, (an extract from Henry 4th,) and the Song of "Robinson Crusoe," By the Infant Roscius.
"Hipsley's Drunken Man," Mr. Bates.
Othello's Address to the Senate—with an Epilogue, By the Infant Roscius.
The whole to conclude with a grand Transparent representation of the splendid Monument of the Brave Naval Officers, who so gloriously fell in the different Attacks upon Tripoli in 1804.
Admittance—Boxes half a dollar, Pits and Gallery 25 cents.
Doors to be opened at half past 6—Performance to commence at 7 o'clock.
If the weather should be stormy and unfavourable, the performance will be postponed till To-Morrow Evening, November 21, 1809.
GRAND LOTTERY.
UNION COLLEGE LOTTERY No. I. commences drawing in the city of New-York on the 3d Tuesday in April next.
SCHEME.
  3 Prizes of $ 25,000!!!! 3 75,000   1 1 10,000   1 1 5,000   4 4 250 Tickets each.   2 2 2,000   5 5 1,000   8 8 500   30 30 200   50 50 100   100 100 50   200 200 20   10,500 10,500 10 
The first 4,000 Blanks will be entitled to Ten Dollars each.
Tickets and Parts for sale by JUDAH and LAZARUS, No. 84, Maiden-Lane, New-York; GEORGE TAYLOR, jun. No. 35, south Second-Street, Philadelphia.
Orders for the above Tickets left with J. B. WOOD, Providence, (R. I.) will be duly attended to.
Present price of Whole Tickets, $ 9 50 Quarters, - - - - - 2 38
but will soon rise.
* * * Adventurers will do well to secure their Tickets at the present price—delays are dangerous.
New-York, November 15, 1809.
FOR SALE
By THOMAS BROWN,
On the Long Wharf,
FRESH superfine FLOUR, 500 Bushels Southern CORN, A few Bushels of RYE, 40 Barrels Mess and Prime PORK, 50 Barrels of BREAD. November 21, 1809.
Pilot-Bread and Crackers.
BENJAMIN ROBINSON
HAS on hand, for sale, at the Baker's House on the Wharf, opposite the Baptist Meeting-House, a quantity of PILOT-BREAD and CRACKERS on reasonable terms, or in Exchange for West-India produce. November 21, 1809.
BROKE into the inclosure of
the subscriber about the first instant, a BAY MARE about 14 hands and an half high, between 8 and 9 years old, a star in her forehead, off hind foot white, main and tail long, a natural trotter. The owner, paying expenses, may have her, by applying to JOHN WHIPPLE. November 21, 1809.
AMERICAN BEAVERS.
PROVIDENCE HAT-MANUFACTURING COMPANY, No. 13, CHESTERFIELD.
HAVE constantly for sale, an extensive assortment of HATS of a superior quality, viz. No. 1, at 6 dollars; No. 2, at 7; No. 3, at 8, and No. 4, at 9; made on a new and greatly improved system. A liberal deduction to those who purchase at wholesale.
ALSO,
An assortment of Men's, Youth's and Children's Hats, from 1 to 4 Dollars. Orders for any quantity executed with fidelity and despatch.
Cash given for Hattin-Furs.
Liberal encouragement to Apprentices.
N. B. Cases of Hats at 3 dollars, suitable for the Southern market. ARNOLD BUFFUM, Agent.

FOR SALE BY EDWARD DEXTER,  ONE hundred and thirty-three Chests of IMPERIAL TEA   1300 do. of Hyson do.  1300 do. of Hyson Skin do.  230 do. of Young Hyson do.  320 Boxes of Hyson Ceylon do.  350 Chests of Souchong do.  180 Whole Chests of Bohea TEA  120 Half Chests of Bohea TEA  60 Quarter Chests of Bohea TEA  240 Boxes of China Ware, consisting of Dining, Breakfast and Tea Sets  27 Boxes of Silks, containing Sattins, Satinets, Handkerchiefs and Shawls  250 Barrels of superfine Flour  30 Bags of Coffee  5 Hds. of Leaf-Sugar   A few Pipes of Madeira, Lisbon and Tenerife Wine, of a superior quality  A few Hds. of old St. Croix Rum   400 Bushels of Salt  20 Hds. of Tobacco  1400 Bushels of Corn  6000 lb. of Carolina Bacon.   ALSO, The Sloop FRIENDSHIP , a staunch vessel, and well found, suitable for a New-York packet, with the principal part of the Cabin Furniture. tf. July 7, 1809.
NEW GOODS. PETER BROWNELL, No. 9, CHEAPSIDE.  Has just received a large assortment of Goods, suitable for the present and approaching seasons, consisting of the following articles, viz.—Bottle-green, black, blue, smoke and mixed Broadcloths; red, green, yellow and white Flannels; Coatings, Plains, drab, bottle-green, black, brown and mixed Cassimeres; black, scarlet, snuff and slate Bombazets; Wild-bores, Durants and Rattinets, common do. Silver Cords, 75 pieces of Calicoes of different prices and figures, pink, buff and blue Ginghams; white, black and coloured 4 and 6-qr. Cambricks; Furniture, Cambricks and common Dimities, English Shirting Cottons, Cotton and Worsted Hosiery, India Cottons of all kinds, India and homemade Checks, Jacquet and Mull Cambricks, figured and plain Lecons, spindrift, laced, seeded, veined and Book Muslins; white and black Laces, black and white Footing Lace, 4, 5 and 6-qr. Cotton Shawls; Pulicat, Madras and Canton Checks; Silk Hankerchiefs, Cotton and Silk Bandanoes, white and printed Pocket-Handkerchiefs, Copperplates and Chintzes, No. 3, 3-1-2, 4, 4-1-2, and 5 Pack Pins; White Chapel Needles, 3, 6, 7 and 8-qr. Cotton Damask Diaper; Duper Napkins, black, green, pink and white Sarcenets; black Crapes, black Sattins and Lustings, Ladies' short Kid and long and short Silk Gloves, Coat and Vest Buttons, Leather and Cotton Suspenders, Marking Canvas, black and white Bonnet Paper, Ribbons, Shoe and Quality Bindings, Tapes and Bobbins, 26 and 28 inch Umbrellas, Gentlemen's Beaver and common Gloves, Linen Cambricks, Brown Linens, Cotton Thread in bails and hanks, of all colours and kinds, Cotton Yarn and Cotton Bedticks, with almost every other article usually kept in a Dry Goods Store, at wholesale or retail, on such terms as will not fail to suit every person who is in want of Goods. Town and country customers are requested to call and see for themselves.—Every favour will be thankfully received. October 10, 1809. tf.
A GREAT BARGAIN! FOR SALE, A VALUABLE FARM, pleasantly situated in West-Greenwich, adjoining land of Dr. Stephen Allen, about fourteen miles from East-Greenwich, eight from the Cotton Factory in Coventry, and thirty from Newport, lying on the main road leading from East-Greenwich to Sterling. Said Farm contains 186 acres, well proportioned into mowing, ploughing, pasturing and woodland. It is well watered, and has a good Dwelling-House and Barn standing on it. It will be sold altogether or in two lots, as may best suit the purchaser or purchasers. Any gentleman wishing to view the Farm, or to receive further information, may call on BENJAMIN or BENONI WATERMAN, in Coventry. Coventry, November 3, 1809.
NOTICE. THE Partnership of BOWEN, SNOW & Co. is dissolved by mutual consent. HORATIO C. BOWEN, HAMPTON R. SNOW, HENRY BOWEN. November 11, 1809.
FOR WILMINGTON, (N. C.) THE Brig CANTON , SPOOKER RUGGLES, Master, will sail for the 25th instant. For Freight or Passage, apply to S. RUGGLES, or STEPHEN ARNOLD. November 14, 1809.
A FINE CHANCE. THE noted DAIRY FARM owned by the subscriber, lying in Brooklyn, (Con.) containing 400 acres or upwards, will be sold at the price of $25 per acre—one third of the pay down, the other two thirds in ten equal annual payments, on good security. This Farm is well situated, and contains an uncommon proportion of good farming Land, with two Dwelling-Houses, a Grist-Mill with two Run of Stones, a Saw-Mill, Barns and other Out-Houses sufficient for the Farm. This Farm exclusive of the Mills, before embargo times, for a number of years has cleared a rent of $750. As it was taken in Cheese, it is now rented, with the Mills, for two years from the first of April next, at $700 per annum, and the Tenant will quit, if the purchaser should wish; otherwise the lease and securities will be endorsed over. For other particulars, inquire of the subscriber, near Brooklyn Meeting-House. DANIEL TYLER. Brooklyn, (Con.) November 13, 1809.
Teas, Rum and Brandy. BLODGET & POWER  Have just received an extensive assortment of the very first quality of Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Souchong, Gunpowder, Campoy and Congo TEAS, so circumstanced as to enable them to sell much under the usual prices.  ALSO, French and Spanish BRANDY and St. Croix RUM. October 24, 1809.
FARMS FOR SALE. The subscriber offers for sale the following Farms in the State of Connecticut:  ONE in the north Society in Coventry, on the road leading from Hebron to Tolland, containing about 110 acres of excellent Land, about two miles from the Meeting-House, half a mile from a School, and 100 rods from a good Grist-Mill and Saw-Mill. The Farm lies on Skungamug River, has about 25 acres of interval, the remainder upland, and consists of mowing, ploughing, pasturing, wood and timber land; will cut from 35 to 40 tons of hay annually, is well watered by the above river, and a number of living springs. There are on the premises a very neat, convenient Dwelling-House, Barn and Out-Houses entirely new, and nearly finished; a Well of Water which never fails, within ten feet of the door; a thrifty young Orchard just beginning to bear, and an old one somewhat decayed.  Two in the first society in Hartland, pleasantly situated about one mile south of the Meeting-House, and within 20 miles of Hartford; one contains about 240 acres, with a large, good one story House, with two chimneys, well finished, and convenient for two families; three Barns, Out-Houses, &c. all in good repair; has about 40 acres of mowing, 150 of ploughing and pasturing and 50 of wood; has good Orchard, is well watered and well fenced. The other Farm contains about 60 acres, with a small one story Farm-House, Barn and Orchard; well proportioned into mowing, pasturing, ploughing and woodland; well watered and under good improvement. Possession given immediately.  Three Farms pleasantly situated in the north part of Granville, they adjoin each other, and contain about 330 acres, and are extremely well calculated for the settlement and neighbourhood of a family connexion. One contains about 125 acres, with a two story House and Barn, and three flourishing young Orchards; will cut annually from 25 to 30 tons of good hay. One of 115 acres, with a one story House, Barn and young Orchard, will cut from 25 to 30 tons of hay; and one of about 90 acres, with a one story House, Barn, and a young Orchard; will cut from 8 to 12 tons of hay. These Farms are well watered, well fenced, and suitably proportioned into mowing, pasturing, ploughing and woodland; and will be sold separately or together, and possession may be had immediately.  Also one in Blanford, of fifty acres, with a House and Barn; well watered, under good improvement, and well proportioned into mowing, pasturing, ploughing and woodland.  The above Farms will be sold on reasonable terms, and long credit given for a considerable part of the purchase, on the payment of annual interest.  The subscriber also offers for sale, an eligible and convenient stand for a Tavern and Store, in the town of Vernon, on the Hartford and Tolland Turnpike Road; twelve miles from Hartford, and about the same distance from Stafford Springs; lately occupied as a Tavern and Store by Mr. Lebbeus P. Tinker, and now occupied by Mr. James Chapman; consisting of a neat, spacious well finished House and Store, two Barns, one entirely new and large, having sufficient stabling, and every necessary accommodation for a Tavern; about three acres of Land, including a Garden, with considerable fruit, and an Orchard that will produce from 20 to 30 barrels of cider annually. Also, ten acres of Woodland, within one mile of the above stand.  Also, one hundred thousand acres of Land, in New-Connecticut; part of which lies in the flourishing towns of Hartford, Vienna, Nelson, and Rootstown; settled from thirty to sixty families in each town. These towns are well watered, and well accommodated with roads, Grist-Mills and Saw-Mills; the land is of a good quality, the water is good, and the country remarkably healthy; and part is situated in three entire townships of about 15,000 acres each, and in several tracts of land from one thousand to four thousand acres, not surveyed into lots, and which the subscriber will sell either by the whole township or tract, or by any less quantity, as may best suit purchasers. It will be noticed, that the price of land, in the unsettled towns and tracts, will be considerably less than those towns which are settling, and will not only give to an individual or company who may purchase, the advantage of a first choice, but also will secure to them, the rise in the value of the lands. A good title, and the most liberal terms given to purchasers. EPHRAIM ROOT.
For further particulars, apply to JOSEPH ROGERS, Esq. at Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford, (Con.) October 8, 1809. tf.
BOSTON and PROVIDENCE STAGE-OFFICE. THE public are hereby informed, that the Stage-Boats for Boston, are kept at EBENEZER FOSTER'S Inn, near the Market; where Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to call and take their seats. Extra Carriages at the shortest notice. JOHN NEDHAM and CO. July 14, 1809. tf.
NOTICE. THE Creditors of GEORGE EDDY, Shipwright, are requested to render their Demands to JOHN ANDREWS, on the West-Side of the Bridge, for adjustment; where security will be given if required. October 24, 1809.
NOYES & HALL, Opposite the Baptist Meeting House, Have just received by the Ships Radius , from London, and Robert Burns , from Liverpool, (via New-York,) and offer for sale a general assortment of HARDWARE at wholesale, consisting of Cutlery, plated and common Saddlery, brass Cabinet Furniture, plated and brass Harness and Bridle Furniture; and a general assortment of other Goods usually kept in a Hardware Store, viz. Locks, Hinges, Thumb-Latches, Hammers, Brads, Tacks, Sledge-Irons, Shovels and Tongs, Warming-Pans, brass Kettles, metal Teapots, brass and iron Wire, plated, brass and iron Candlesticks; Flesh-Forks and Ladles, Glass and Sand-Paper, Whip Thongs, &c. &c. To enumerate every article of which, would exceed the reasonable limits of an advertisement.  ALSO, A general assortment of wrought and cut Nails, at wholesale and retail. November 14, 1809.
WANTED, An Apprentice to the Boot and Shoemaking Business. A smart active Lad, from 14 to 16 years of age, will meet with good encouragement. Apply to the subscriber, on the west side of the Bridge. JAMES ANTHONY, 2d. November 14, 1809.
TO LET, A HOUSE at the South End of the town, in Benefit-Street, recently occupied by THOMAS ALDRICH, a very convenient tenement. For further particulars inquire of PETER GRINNELL, or WILLIAM TAYLOR. November 14, 1809.
Forty Dollars Reward. At a Town-Council, held within and for the Town of Providence, on the first day of November, 1809. WHEREAS a most daring outrage against the Laws was committed by some person or persons, on the night of Monday last, in forcibly breaking the Locks and wrenching open the Doors of the Bridewell in this town, and rescuing the Prisoners confined there; and as such a flagrant violation of the Laws ought not to be passed over, the Town-Council, therefore, do hereby offer the above reward of Forty Dollars to any person who shall make discovery, so as to bring to conviction the perpetrator or perpetrators thereof. Signed by order and in behalf of said Town-Council. NATHAN W. JACKSON, C. Clerk.
TAKE NOTICE. WILLIAM PEARCE Respectfully informs his friends, and the public in general, THAT he continues keeping a Tavern at his house in the village of Wickford, town of North-Kingstown, next door to Philip Tillinghast, Esq. where the greatest attention will be paid to those who may please to favour him with their company, and may depend on having the smallest favour gratefully acknowledged. The house may be well known by its end fronting the street, and the sign of bunch of grapes. Wickford, (R. I.) February 22, 1809. tf.
Fall and Winter GOODS. This day received, and now opened at TIFFANY and HODGES'S, No. 6, CHEAPSIDE.  A LARGE and beautiful assortment of fresh imported FALL and WINTER GOODS, consisting of superfine black, blue, bottle-green, drab and mixed Broadcloths; black, blue, drab, mixed and brown Cassimeres; black, bottle-green, brown, scarlet and lead Bombazets; Pelice Flannels, Serges, Plains, Sattinets, Rattinets, Wildbores, Durants, first quality Rose Blankets, at reduced prices, from 5 to 12-qr. black, blue, bottle-green, lead and crimson T. by Velvets; black and olive twilled elegant T. by T. and Swansdown Vestings, Rattinets, Coatings, Swansdown Flannels of all colours, Silk, Cotton and Worsted Hosiery; India Cottons, English Shirting do. black, white and coloured Cambricks; Ginghams, Calicoes, a beautiful assortment of Fancy Muslins; with a variety of other articles, which will be sold at very reduced prices. November 7, 1809. tf.
EXCHANGE on New-York and Boston, at short sight, for sale by J. B. WOOD. November 7, 1809.
THE subscriber, appointed by the Hon. Court of Probate of the town of Providence, Administrator on the Estate of WILLIAM WESTCOTT, late of said Providence, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby calls upon all indebted to said Estate to make immediate payment, to JAMES WEEDEEN. North-Providence, November 6, 1809.
INDIA GOODS, &c. BLODGET & POWER Have just received, and offer on accommodating terms, TWENTY Bales of Gurrahs, Mamoodies, Checks, &c. ALSO, 10 Pipes Spanish Brandy, 7 Chests Bohea Tea, 100 Hds. Molasses, 50 Boxes Havana brown Sugars. October 31, 1809. tf.
THE Copartnership between Goss and Mason is this day, by mutual consent, dissolved. All persons having unsettled accounts with them, are requested to present them for settlement; and those indebted, to make immediate payment. JOHN GOSS, JOSEPH R. MASON.
MAIL-STAGE LINE FROM PROVIDENCE TO NEWPORT.  THE subscribers hereby inform the public, that the old Providence and Newport Line of Mail-Stages runs as heretofore, viz. leaves Providence every day (Sundays excepted,) at 9 o'clock, A. M. and arrives at Newport at 4, P. M. the same day; leaves Newport at 9 o'clock, A. M. and arrives at Providence at 4 o'clock, P. M. They can also furnish Extra Carriages and Horses at short notice. Gentlemen and Ladies wishing to take seats for Newport are requested to call at the subscriber's house in Providence, or Col. EBENEZER MACOMBEN's inn; and for seats to Providence they are invited to call at PELEG FISH's, or RICHARD BARKEE's Hotel in Newport, where the Books are kept. ISAAC FISH, Providence. PELEG FISH, Newport. November 7, 1809.
For Sale, Freight or Charter, THE fast-sailing Schooner LUCRETIA , 56 tons burthen, now lying at Eddy's Point; she has just had a thorough repair, and is ready for sea. For further particulars, inquire of JOHN S. EDDY, or BENJAMIN A. BATTEY, both at Eddy's Point. November 3, 1809.
Fall and Winter Goods. This day received, and now opening at WATSON & GLADDING'S, CHEAPSIDE, at the sign of the BUNCH OF GRAPES.  SUPERFINE black, blue, bottle-green, mixed, drab and corbo Broadcloths; double milled do. double milled Cassimeres, low-priced do. lead, scarlet, drab and black Pelice Flannels; black and green Cassimeres, black, green, bottle-green, crimson, lead and corbo coloured Bombazets, at reduced prices; 3 Bales of low-priced Broadcloths, cheap; first chop Rose Blankets, from 7 to 12-qr. made of the finest of Wool; Flannels of all colours, cheap; India Cottons, per bale, piece or yard, at reduced prices; Cambricks, Dimities, Fancy Muslins, hailstone, dotted, cut, striped, plain, leno and spidernet Muslins; Silk and Worsted Hosiery, British Cottons, black twilled Cambricks, black and plain Lustings, mulled hailstone Muslins, Ginghams, Calicoes, Chintz Furnitures, black and plaid Silk Handkerchiefs, with articles too numerous to mention. They have also received this day, direct from the manufactories, Ten Trunks of MUFFS and TIPPLETS, viz. real Sable, Elk, Bear, black Jenett, North-West Sable, North-West mock Sable, and Canada mock Bear, which will be sold at the most reduced prices. October 17, 1809. tf.
NOTICE. THE Subscriber having taken into Partnership JOHN FYFE, will in future transact business under the firm of PETER HATTRICK and Co. PETER HATTRICK and Co. Have received, at their Store, Main-Street, next door to Messrs. Adams and Lothrop's, and at New-York, which will be here in a few days, A HANDSOME ASSORTMENT OF Scotch and English Goods, suitable for the present and approaching seasons, consisting in part of the following, viz.
SUPERFINE, mid-Ginghams, dingling and low-priced White and coloured Broadcloths; Cambricks, Rattinets, Shirting Cottons, Coatings, Velvets, Plains, Bindings, Blankets, Hosiery, Flannels, White Threads, Cassimets, Brown Hollands, Cassimeres, Printed and Pulicat Sattinets, Handkerchiefs and Bombazets, Shawls, Rattinets, Plain and fancy leno and book Muslins, &c. &c. Calicoes, which are offered for sale on accommodating terms, by the piece or package. ALSO, A few Bales of best Ingrain and common CARPETING, and three Boxes of white Linen THREADS, by the Box and Bale only. September 29, 1809. tf.
WANTED, A MAN to take charge of the Carding, and another to take charge of the spinning in a Cotton Manufactory.—Also wanted, a Man who understands Colouring Cotton Yarn and Cloth. None need apply unless they bring good recommendations. Inquire at The American Office. October 13, 1809. tf.
SHERRY WINE. SIXTY Quarter-Casks of Sherry Wine, of a superior quality, and imported less than 10 days ago, can be bought from GEORGE W. MARTIN, At a very reduced price for cash or negotiable paper. Newport, Church-Street, } August 26, 1809. tf.
LUMBER. For Sale, on board schooner Columbia, lying at the wharf next south of Colonel Carlie's, 16 M. Clear seasoned Pine Boards, 6 M. Merchantable do. 40 M. Shingles, 1700 Feet Pine Deck-Plank, 3 M. Birch Plank, and 3 1-2 M. Clapboards. Apply on board said Schooner. November 3, 1809.
8000 Dollars, and no deduction! THE HATFIELD BRIDGE LOTTERY will commence drawing in Boston early in this month, (November)—Tickets at $5 50, and Quarters at $1 50 November 1, 1809.
JOHN YOUNG, At the first corner Store south of the Market, HAS FOR SALE, A VERY general assortment of GENUINE GROCERIES, viz. Old Madeira, Tenerife, Sherry, Lisbon, Port, Claret and other Wines of the first quality; old Cognac Brandy, superior old Jamaica Spirits, Geneva, Cherry Rum, best Cordials of various kinds, Bourdeaux and Martinique, in Bottles; Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Citron, Cinnamon, Allspice, Pepper, Ginger, Sarsaparilla, fresh Turkey Hams, Prunes, Muscadel and Bloom Raisins, Sultana and Cask ditto, Currants, soft pressed Almonds, excellent Bottle and Plank Oil, Table Salt in baskets, India Soy, Catsup, Loaf and other Sugars, Olives, Capers, Nasturtions, Anchovies, preserved sweetmeats and Fruits of different kinds in Brandy and other Syrups, Tamarinds, Spermaceti and Mould Tallow Candles, Windsor Soap, Bar ditto, Cayenne Pepper per lb. or bottle, Peppercorns in bottles best Brown Stout Porter and excellent bottled Cider—Gunpowder, Hyson and other Green and Souchong TEAS, of the last importations, warranted good; Coffee, No. 1 and No. 2 Chocolate, &c. &c. A few handsome LIQUOR CASES, with white Glass Bottles, very convenient. CIGARS.
A number of Boxes first quality Spanish Cigars of an excellent flavour, will smoke free, and are acknowledged by the best judges to be of a superior kind. Fresh Lemons, Oranges and Limes. Preparation for Punch, of an excellent quality, in bottles. N. B. Madeira, Port, Claret, Sherry and Lisbon Wine, of very superior quality, in bottles—recommended by Physicians to those who are sick, and by J. Y. to the well and healthy. Cash given for empty Bottles and good clean Mustard and Hemp-Seed. Past favours gratefully acknowledged. September 1, 1809. tf.
NEW GOODS. JOHN R. CARPENTER, No. 8, MARKET-SQUARE.
Is now opening a large supply of FALL and WINTER GOODS, received by the ships President Adams and Packet, at Boston; among which are, SUPERFINE, middling and low-priced Broadcloths Cassimeres Coatings Fearnoughts and Duffles Plains Devonshire Kerseys Drab and mixed Sattinets Bombazets Pelice Flannels Rattinets Wildbores Calicoes and Furnitures of all descriptions White and coloured Cambricks Twilled do. do. Pink and dark Ginghams Cambricks and common Dimities A large variety of India Cottons, by the piece or yard One Bale of India Checks of a good quality Linen and Factory Cotton do. A few pieces of Russia Sheetings 50 Bolls of Ravens Duck Brown Linens Oilcloths Velvets Fanny Velvets of all colours Ladies and Gentlemen's black and slate-coloured worsted Hose Lamb's Wool Hose Plain and fancy Leno Muslins Book and Jacquet do. A large variety of Ribbons Cotton and Silk Bandanoes White and figured Handkerchiefs of all descriptions Pins, Needles and Tapes of all kinds Cotton Threads in Hanks and Balls Leather, Cotton and Netting Suspenders 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12-qr. Blankets, of a very superior quality A variety of Coat and Vest Buttons Basket and Glass Buttons of all kinds Yellow, red, white, green and crimson Flannels of all descriptions, With almost every other article usually called for in the Dry Goods line, too numerous for an advertisement. As he is Agent for a Cotton and Woollen Factory, he has constantly on hand, a very large variety of HOMESPUN COTTON and WOOLLEN GOODS, such as Sheetings and Shirting Cottons of all widths and qualities, by the piece or yard, brown and whitened Apron and Shirting Checks of a superior quality Bedtickings of various prices White, black, red, olive, light and dark blue Threads, in skeins and balls, by the pound or at retail Two and three threaded whitened Yarn for Knitting Warp and Filling of all numbers, at Factory prices Woollen Cloths of different colours, from 6 to 18 s. per yard Also, milled Flannels of all colours, of an excellent quality. All the above-mentioned Goods will be sold at wholesale or retail, on such terms as cannot fail to suit those who may call and see them. N. B. As he is still Agent for Messrs. BARRETT and SHATTUCK, Silk, Cotton and Woollen Dyers, of Boston, all persons who wish to have any Garments or Goods Dyed, will, by sending them to his Store, have their orders executed with fidelity and despatch. October 24, 1809. tf.
FRESH FLOUR. NOW landing from on board the brig George Washington, and for sale by SALMON ARNOLD, on the Long Wharf, a quantity of FRESH FLOUR. November 3, 1809.
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS, BY DUNHAM and HAWKINS, At the sign of the AMERICAN EAGLE, Opposite the Market. $3:50 PER ANNUM.....HALF IN ADVANCE.