The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1809-12-08 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, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1809.
NUMBER 15.
J. B. WOOD'S GENERAL PRICE-CURRENT OF BANK NOTES.
AS THEY ARE RECEIVED AT HIS EXCHANGE-OFFICE, PROVIDENCE, (R. I.)
 NEW-HAMPSHIRE.  Bills of the New-Hampshire, ditto payable in Philadelphia, Portsmouth, } Union, Strafford, and Exeter Banks, . . . . . 2 to 3 per cent. dis.  Concord Banks, . . . . . 6 to 10 do.  Cheshire, Coos, and Hillsborough Banks, . . . . . 50 to 75 do.  MASSACHUSETTS.  Bills of the United States Branch, Massachusetts, Union, and Boston Banks, } Salem, Essex, Beverly, Marblehead, Newburyport, Gloucester (Cape- Ann,) Plymouth, Worcester, Bedford, Pacifick, and Nantucket } Banks, . . . . . Par. 1 1-2 per cent. dis.  Portland, Maine, and Saco Banks, . . . . . 2 do.  Hallowell and Augusta, and Lincoln and Kennebec Banks, . . . . . 15 to 30 do.  Penobscot and Northampton, . . . . . 20 to 40 do.  Berkshire Bank, . . . . . no demand.  CONNECTICUT.  Bills of the Bridgeport, Middletown, Hartford, New-Haven, Norwich, } New-London, and Union Banks, . . . . . 1-3 per cent. dis.  VERMONT.  Bills of the Vermont State Banks, . . . . . 20 to 25 per cent. dis.  RHODE-ISLAND.  Bills of the Providence, Exchange, Roger Williams, Bank of Rhode- Island, Newport, Rhode-Island Union, Bank of Bristol, Commercial, } Warren, Rhode-Island Central, and Narragansett Banks, . . . . . Par.  Smithfield Union Bank, . . . . . 2 to 3 per cent. dis.  Washington Bank, . . . . . 3 to 4 do.  Farmers' Exchange Bank, . . . . . dead!!!  KENTUCKY.  Bills of the Kentucky Insurance Company, . . . . . 20 per cent. dis.  NORTH-CAROLINA.  Bills of the Cape Fear, and Newbern Banks, . . . . . 12 1-2 per cent. dis.  SOUTH-CAROLINA.  Bills of the United States Branch Bank, . . . . . Par.  State, and South-Carolina Banks, . . . . . 5 to 6 per cent. dis.  OHIO.  Bills of the Marietta, and Miami Exporting Company Banks, . . . . . 20 to 30 per cent. dis.  NEW-YORK.  Bills of the United States Branch, Merchants, Manhattan Company, Bank } of New-York, New-York State, Bank of Albany, Mohawk, Farmers', } Bank of Hudson, and Bank of Columbia, . . . . . from Par to 1-2 per cent. dis.  NEW-JERSEY.  Bills of the Jersey, Trenton Banking Company, Newark Banking and } Insurance Company, and Bank of New-Brunswick, . . . . . Par and 3-4 per cent. dis.  PENNSYLVANIA.  Bills of the United States, Farmers' and Mechanics', Philadelphia, } Bank of Pennsylvania, and Bank of North-America, . . . . . Par and 3-4 per cent. dis.  Bills of the Pennsylvania Branch Bank at Pittsburg, . . . . . 10 per cent. dis.  DELAWARE.  Bills of the Farmers' Bank, and Bank of Delaware, . . . . . 2 to 6 per cent. dis.  MARYLAND.  Bills of the United States Branch Bank, . . . . . Par.  Union Bank of Maryland, Bank of Columbia, Hagerstown, Bank of } Baltimore, Branch of the Farmers' Bank of Maryland, and Mechanics', } Bank of Baltimore, . . . . . 1 to 2 1-2 per cent. dis.  VIRGINIA.  Bills of the United States Branch Bank, . . . . . Par.  Bank of Virginia, Bank of Alexandria, and Bank of Potomack, . . . . . 2 to 6 per cent. dis.  LOUISIANA TERRITORY.  Bills of the United States Branch Bank, . . . . . Par.  Bank of Louisiana, . . . . . 25 per cent. dis. 
The above Price-Current will be carefully corrected every Friday. To the above Discount there will be a small advance for small sums, and Bills under 5 dollars, not of this State. Boston money, or specie, will be given for any Bills received at par, for half per cent. for sums over $20—under $20, 1 per cent. advance. Any distant Banking Company, wishing their Bills to be received at PAR, will please to make arrangements accordingly, and they will be duly attended to. The most punctilious attention will be paid to all Letters, (post paid,) addressed to J. B. Wood, enclosing Bills to be exchanged, and the earliest remittances made to any part of the Union, per first, or not to exceed the second mail. All Bank Notes that he passes will be WARRANTED GOOD, and should any counterfeit Bills be received in Letters, they will be returned. Bank Notes examined GRATIS. Office hours from sunrise until sunset. Three additional Banks will soon have a place in the above Price-Current, viz. Derby Bank in Connecticut, Chillicothe Bank in Ohio, and Union Bank in the District of Columbia. EXCHANGE-OFFICE, Providence, (R. I.) December 8, 1809.
Documents,
WHICH ACCOMPANIED THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES.
LETTER from Mr. ERSKINE, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannick Majesty to the Secretary of State.
WASHINGTON, July 31, 1809.
Sir—I have the honour to enclose to you a copy of an Order, which was passed by his Majesty in Council on the 24th of May last. In communicating this Order, it is with the deepest regret that I have to inform you, that his Majesty has not thought proper to confirm the late provisional agreement which I had entered into with you on the part of our respective governments.
Neither the present time, nor the occasion, will afford me a favourable opportunity for explaining to you the grounds and reasons upon which I conceived I had conformed to his Majesty's wishes, and to the spirit, at least, of my instructions upon that subject; nor, indeed, would any vindication of my conduct, (whatever I may have to offer,) be of any importance further than as it might tend to shew, that no intention existed on my part to practise any deception towards the government of the United States.
I have the satisfaction, however, to call your attention to that part of the enclosed Order, which protects the commerce and shipping of the United States from the injury and inconveniences which might have arisen to American citizens from a reliance on the provisional agreement before mentioned; and I cannot but cherish a hope, that no further bad consequences may result from an arrangement, which I had fully believed would have met with his Majesty's approbation, and would have led to a complete and cordial understanding between the two countries.
With sentiments of the highest respect and consideration, I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, D. M. ERSKINE.
The Hon. Robert Smith, &c. &c. &c.
The Secretary of State to Mr. Erskine. Department of State, August 24th, 1809.
Sir—I have just received from Mr. Pinkney a letter, enclosing a printed paper, purporting to be a copy of a despatch to you from Mr. Canning, which states among other things, that "from the report of your conversations with Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Smith, it appears—"
"1st. That the American government is, prepared in the event of his Majesty's consenting to withdraw the Orders in Council of January and November, 1807, to withdraw contemporaneously on its part, the interdictions of its harbours to ships of war and all non-intercourse and non-importation acts, so far as respects Great-Britain, leaving them in force with respect to France and the powers which adopt or act under her decrees."
"2d. That America is willing to renounce, during the present war, the pretension of carrying on in time of war all trade with the enemies colonies, from which she was excluded during peace."
"3d. Great-Britain for the purpose of securing the operation of the embargo, and the bona fide intention of America, to prevent her citizens from trading with France, and the powers adopting and acting under the French decrees, is to be considered as being at liberty to capture all such American vessels, as may be found attempting to trade with the ports of any of these powers; without which security for the observance of the embargo, the raising it nominally with respect to G. Britain alone, would in fact raise it with respect to all the world."
I have the honour to request you to favour me with such explanations, as your candour will at once suggest, in relation to these imputed conversations.
I forbear to express to you Sir, the surprise that I felt at the extraordinary pretensions set forth in this letter of instruction, and especially at the expectation that this government would, as a preliminary, recognize conditions, two of which are so manifestly irreconcilable to the dignity and interest of the United States. I, however, would remark, that had you deemed it proper to have communicated in extenso this letter, it would have been impossible for the President to have perceived in its conditions, or in its spirit, that conciliatory disposition which had been professed, and which, it was hoped, had really existed.
I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) R. SMITH.
The Hon. David M. Erskine, &c. &c. &c.
From Mr. Erskine to Mr. Smith. Washington, August 14th, 1809.
Sir—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant,
informing me that you had just received a letter from Mr. Pinkney enclosing a printed paper, purporting to be a copy of a despatch to me from Mr. Canning, which states, among other things, "from the report of your conversations with Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Smith, it appears—"
"1st. That the American government is prepared in the event of his Majesty's consenting to withdraw the Orders in Council of January and November, 1807, to withdraw contemporaneously on its part, the interdictions of its harbours to ships of war, and all non-intercourse and non-importation acts so far as respects Great-Britain, leaving them in force with respect to France and the powers which adopt, or act under her decrees."
"2d. That America is willing to renounce during the present war, the pretension of carrying on, in time of war, all trade with the enemies colonies, from which she was excluded during peace."
"3d. Great-Britain for the purpose of securing the operation of the embargo, and the bona fide intention of America to prevent her citizens from trading with France and the powers adopting, and acting under the French decrees, is to be considered as being at liberty to capture all such American vessels as may be found attempting [to trade] with the ports of any of these powers, without which security for the observance of the embargo, the raising it nominally with respect to Great-Britain alone, would in fact, raise it with respect to all the world."
The explanations which you request from me upon that subject, shall be given with candour, and I will proceed accordingly, to lay before you an abstract of the communications which I made to his Majesty's government, relative to the unofficial conversations which I had held with Mr. Madison, (then Secretary of State,) Mr. Gallatin, and yourself at the time, and upon the occasion alluded to by his Majesty's Secretary of State, (Mr. Canning,) in that part of his instructions to me, of which you inform me you have received a printed copy from Mr. Pinkney.
Upon referring to my despatches, addressed to his Majesty's government of the 3d and 4th December last, in which these communications are detailed, I conclude that the conversations alluded to must have been held some days previous to that period, and were to the following effect:—
Mr. Madison, (then Secretary of State,) is represented by me to have urged various arguments tending to prove that the United States had exerted all their efforts to persuade the French government to withdraw their unjust restrictions upon neutral commerce, and that recourse might have been had to measures of more activity and decision against France than mere remonstrances, but that, in the mean time Great-Britain had issued her Orders in Council before it was known whether the United States would acquiesce in the aggressions of France, and thereby rendered it impossible to distinguish between the conduct of the two belligerents who had equally committed aggressions against the United States.
After some other observations, Mr. Madison is stated by me at that time to have added, that as the world must be convinced that America had in vain taken all the means in her power to obtain from Great-Britain and France a just attention to her rights as a neutral power by representations and remonstrances, that she would be fully justified in having recourse to hostilities with either belligerent, and that she only hesitated to do so from the difficulty of contending with both; but that she must be driven even to endeavour to maintain her rights against the two greatest powers in the world; unless either of them should relax their restrictions upon neutral commerce; in which case, the United States would at once side with that power against the other which might continue its aggressions.
That every opinion which he entertained respecting the best interests of his country, led him to wish that a good understanding should take place between Great-Britain and the United States, and that he thought that the obvious advantages which would thereby result to both countries were a sufficient pledge of the sincerity of his sentiments.
These observations, Sir, I beg leave to remark, were made to me by Mr. Madison about a month after the intelligence had been received in this country of the rejection by his Majesty's government of the proposition made through Mr. Pinkney by the President for the removal of the embargo as respected Great-Britain, upon condition that the Orders in Council should be withdrawn as respected the United States; and his sentiments were, as I conceived,
expressed to me, in order that I might convey them to his Majesty's government, as to lead to a reconsideration of the proposition abovementioned with a view to the adjustment of the differences upon that subject between the respective countries. But I never considered that Mr. Madison meant that the government of the United States would pledge themselves beyond the proposition respecting the embargo, as above stated—because that was the extent of the power of the President by the constitution of the United States.
I understood, very distinctly, that the observations of the Secretary of State were intended to convey an opinion as to what ought and would be the course pursued by the United States, in the event of his Majesty's Orders in Council being withdrawn.
In these sentiments and opinions, you concurred, as I collected from the tenour of several conversations which I held with you at that period.
With respect to the second point, as stated in your letter to be contained in a "Despatch from Mr. Canning," I beg leave to offer the following explanation:
In the course of a private interview I had with Mr. Gallatin, (the Secretary of the Treasury,) he intimated that the non-intercourse law which was then likely to be passed by the Congress, might be considered as removing two very important grounds of difference with Great-Britain, viz. the non-importation act, as applicable to her alone, and also the President's Proclamation, whereby the ships of Great-Britain were excluded from the ports of the United States, while those of France were permitted to enter—but that by the non-intercourse law, both powers were placed on the same footing. He did not pretend to say that this measure had been taken from any motives of concession to Great-Britain; but as, in fact, those consequences followed, he conceived they might be considered as removing the two great obstacles to a conciliation.
He adverted also to the probability of an adjustment of another important point in dispute between the two countries, as he said he knew that it was intended by the United States to abandon the attempt to carry on a trade with the colonies of belligerents in time of war, which was not allowed in time of peace, and to trust to the being permitted by the French to carry on such trade in peace, so as to entitle them to a continuance of it in time of war.
As it may be very material to ascertain what "trade with the colonies of belligerents" was, in my conception, meant by Mr. Gallatin, as intended to be abandoned by the United States, I feel no hesitation in declaring, that I supposed he alluded to the trade from the colonies of belligerents direct to their mother country, or to the ports of other belligerents, because the right to such trade had been the point in dispute; whereas, the right to carry on a trade from the colonies of belligerents to the United States had never been called in question, and had been recognized by his Majesty's Supreme Court of Admiralty; and the terms even upon which such colonial produce might be re-exported from the United States had been formally arranged in a treaty signed in London by the Ministers Plenipotentiary of both countries, which was not indeed ratified by the President of the United States; but was not objected to as to that article of it which settled the terms upon which such trade was to be permitted.
Such was the substance, Sir, of the unofficial conversations which I had held with Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin and yourself, which I did not consider or represent to his Majesty's government as intended with any other view than to endeavour to bring about the repeal of the Orders in Council by shewing that many of the obstacles which had stood in the way of an amicable adjustment of the differences between the two countries were already removed, and that a fair prospect existed of settling what remained; since the United States had exhibited a determination to resist the unjust aggressions upon her neutral rights, which was all that Great-Britain had ever required; but I certainly never received any assurances from the American government that they would pledge themselves to adopt the conditions specified in Mr. Canning's instructions as preliminaries; nor did I ever hold out such an expectation to his Majesty's government; having always stated to them that in the event of his Majesty's thinking it just or expedient to cause his Orders in Council to be withdrawn that the President would take off the embargo as respected England, leaving it in operation against France and the powers which adopted or acted under her decrees; according to the authority which was vested in him at that time by the Congress.
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the United States, and that there was every reason to expect that a satisfactory arrangement might be made upon the points of the colonial trade which had been so long in dispute between the two countries.
As to the third condition referred to by you, specified in Mr. Canning's instructions, I have only to remark, that I never held any conversation with the members of the government of the United States, relative to it, until my late negotiation—or had ever mentioned the subject to his Majesty's government—it having, for the first time, been presented to my consideration in Mr. Canning's despatch to me of the 23d of January, in which that idea is suggested, and is stated to have been assented to by Mr. Pinkney.
It would be unavailing at the present moment, to enter upon an examination of the "pretensions set forth in Mr. Canning's letter of instructions," (which you are pleased to term,) "extraordinary."
I consider it, however, to be my duty to declare that, during my negotiation with you which led to the conclusion of the provisional agreement, I found no reason to believe that any difficulties would occur in the accomplishment of the two former conditions, as far as it was in the power of the President of the United States to accede to the first, and consistently with the explanation which I have before given of the second point:—On the contrary I received assurances through you, that the President would comply, (as far as it was in his power,) with the first condition, and that there could be no doubt that the Congress would think it incumbent upon them to assert the rights of the United States against such powers as should adopt or act under the decrees of France as soon as their actual conduct or determinations upon that subject could be ascertained; but that, in the mean time, the President had not the power, and could not undertake to pledge himself in the formal manner required to that effect.
I received also assurances from you, that no doubt could be reasonably entertained that a satisfactory arrangement might be made in a treaty upon the subject of the second condition mentioned in Mr. Canning's instructions according to my explanation of it in the foregoing part of this letter, but that it necessarily would form an article of a treaty in which the various pretensions of the two countries should be settled.
The third condition you, certainly, very distinctly informed me could not be recognized by the President, but you added, what had great weight in my mind, that you did not see why any great importance should be attached to such a recognition; because it would be impossible that a citizen of the United States could prefer a complaint to his government on account of the capture of his vessel while engaged in a trade absolutely interdicted by the laws of his country.
Under these circumstances, therefore, finding that I could not obtain the recognitions specified in Mr. Canning's despatch of the 23d of January, which formed but one part of his instructions to me, in the formal manner required, I considered that it would be in vain to lay before the government of the United States the despatch in question, which I was at liberty to have done in extenso , had I thought proper. But as I had such strong grounds for believing that the object of his Majesty's government could be attained, though in a different manner, and the spirit, at least, of my several letters of instructions be fully complied with, I felt a thorough conviction upon my mind that I should be acting in conformity with his Majesty's wishes; and, accordingly, concluded the late provisional agreement on his Majesty's behalf with the government of the United States.
The disavowal by his Majesty is a painful proof to me that I had formed an erroneous judgement of his Majesty's views and the intention of my instructions; and I have most severely to lament that an act of mine, (though unintentionally,) should produce any embarrassments in the relations between the two countries.
It is a great consolation to me, however, to perceive that measures have been adopted by both governments to prevent any losses and to obviate any inconveniences which might have arisen to the citizens or subjects of either country from a reliance on the fulfilment of that provisional agreement; and I cannot but cherish a hope, that a complete and cordial understanding between the two countries may be effected.
I beg leave to add, that it would have given me great happiness to have contributed to so desirable an object, and to offer you the assurances of the great respect and high consideration with which I remain, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
D. M. ERSKINE. The Hon. R. Smith, &c. &c. &c. The Secretary of the Treasury to Mr. Erskine.
Washington, 13th August, 1809. Sir—I do not believe, that in the conversations we have had respecting the practicability of an adjustment of the differences between the United States and Great-Britain, we ever have misunderstood one another. Yet as from Mr. Canning's instructions lately published by your government, it would seem that some opinions are ascribed to several members of this administration, which they did not entertain, it appears necessary to ascertain whether on any point a misapprehension can have taken place.
I will forbear making any observations on what in the instructions is called the third condition, since it is not asserted that that inadmissible proposition was suggested at Washington.
The points embraced in Mr. Canning's first proposition formed the principal topic of our conversations, relative to a revocation of the Orders in Council. Yet in the manner in which that proposition is expressed, it goes further than had been suggested by the members of the administration. It is sufficiently evident from the proceedings of Congress, both previous and subsequent to the unratified agreement of April last, that the United States intended to continue the restrictions on the commercial intercourse with France, whilst such of her decrees as violated our neutral rights continued in force, and to remove those restrictions in relation to Great-Britain, in the event of a revocation of the Orders in Council. But that state of things so far as it related to France was to result from our own laws , known or anticipated by your government when they authorized an arrangement; and it was not proposed by us that the continuance of the non-intercourse with France should be made a condition of that arrangement.—Whilst on that subject, I will add an observation, though perhaps not immediately connected with the object of this letter. I think that the object of that proposition, so far as it agreed with your previous understanding of the intentions of this government, has been substantially carried into effect on our part. It is true that your government might at the date of the instructions have expected from the incipient proceedings of Congress, that Holland would be embraced by the restrictive laws of the United States. Not only however was the omission nominal, since American vessels were at the time by the decrees of that country refused admission into its ports; but under the same construction of our laws by which the commercial intercourse with Holland was permitted, that with Portugal was also considered as legal in the event of that country being occupied by British troops in the name of the Prince Regent.
It is therefore principally as respects the second condition which relates to the colonial trade, that erroneous inferences might be drawn from the expressions used in Mr. Canning's instructions. Although the subject must have been mentioned here incidentally, and only in a transient manner; as it is one to which I had paid particular attention, and on which my opinion had never varied, I think that I can state with precision in what view I have always considered it, and must have alluded to it.
1. I never could have given countenance to an opinion that the United States would agree, or that it would be proper to make any arrangement whatever respecting the colonial trade, a condition of the revocation of the Orders in Council. The two subjects were altogether unconnected, and I am confident that such a proposition was never suggested either by you, or by any member of this administration. Such an arrangement could be effected only by treaty; and it is with a considerable degree of surprise that I see your government now asking not only resistance to the French decrees, but the abandonment of a branch of our commerce, as the price of the revocation of the Orders in Council. This seems to give a new character to a measure which had heretofore been represented as an act of retaliation reluctantly adopted, and had been defended solely on the ground of a supposed acquiescence on the part of the United States in the injurious decrees of another nation.
2. In the event of a treaty embracing all the points in dispute, and particularly that of impressments, without which I trust no treaty will ever take place, it was my opinion, and I may certainly have expressed it, that if the other subjects of difference were arranged, that respecting the colonial trade would be easily adjusted. I had considered the principles recognized in a former correspondence, between Lord Hawkesbury and Mr. King, on the subject of the colonial trade, and subsequently again adopted in the treaty negotiated by Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney, as a general basis agreed on under different administrations, by both governments, from which neither could now recede, and susceptible only of modification as to details. The instructions to our Ministers in London on that subject had also been published and were known to your government. I therefore believed that the United States, in the event of a treaty, would still be disposed to wave, for the present, in the manner and on the terms contemplated by those instructions, their right to that branch, and to that branch only, of the colonial trade, known by the name of direct trade , that is to say, the trade carried directly from belligerent colonies to the belligerents in Europe, when that trade was not permanently in peace as in war permitted by the laws of the country to which those colonies belonged. The right
to a trade between such colonies and the United States generally, and to that in colonial articles between the United States and other countries, never can, or will in my opinion, be abandoned, or its exercise be suspended by this government. On the contrary, it is solely in order to secure, by an express treaty stipulation, that trade against the danger of interruption, and thus by a mutual spirit of accommodation to avoid collisions, that the abandonment of the direct branch can ever be assented to.
Permit me therefore to request that you will inform me, whether you understood me on those two points, as I certainly meant to be understood: namely, that the relinquishment during the present war, of what is called the direct trade , was alone contemplated; and that no arrangement on that subject was suggested as a condition of the revocation of the Orders in Council. I have the honour to be, with the highest respect and consideration, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) ALBERT GALLATIN. Hon. D. M. Erskine, Minister Plenipotentiary, &c. &c.
Mr. Erskine to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Washington, August 15th, 1809. Sir—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th inst. in which you have been pleased to say that although you "do not believe that in the conversations we have had respecting the practicability of an adjustment of the differences between the United States and Great-Britain, we ever have misunderstood one another. Yet, as from Mr. Canning's instructions, lately published by my government, it would seem that some opinions are ascribed to several members of this administration which they did not entertain, it appears necessary to ascertain whether, on any point, a misapprehension can have taken place."
In answer to your inquiries, I have great satisfaction in assuring you that there appears to have been no misunderstanding respecting the substance or meaning of the conversations which passed between us, as stated in Mr. Canning's instructions alluded to.
After the most careful perusal of your statement of the purport of our conversations I cannot discover any material difference from the representation which I have made upon that subject to the Secretary of State, (Mr. Robert Smith,) in my letter to him of the 14th inst. to which I will therefore beg leave to refer you, as I have therein detailed the substance of the conversation according to my recollection of it; which is in every respect essentially the same as that which you seem to have entertained.
During the conversation which we held respecting the practicability of an amicable adjustment of the differences between the two countries, when the relinquishment by the United States during the present war, of what is called the colonial trade, was suggested by you, I conceived that you meant, (as you have stated,) "the trade carried directly from belligerent colonies to the belligerents in Europe, when that trade was not permanently in peace as in war, permitted by the laws of the country to which these colonies belonged."
I never supposed that you intended to convey an opinion that the government of the United States would make any arrangement respecting the colonial trade as a condition of the revocation of the Orders in Council, the two subjects being altogether unconnected; nor have I ever represented to his Majesty's government, that such preliminary pledges would be given.
With sentiments of the highest respect, I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) D. M. ERSKINE. The Hon. Albert Gallatin, &c. &c.
The Secretary of State to Mr. Jackson, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannick Majesty.
Department of State, October 9th, 1809.
Sir—An arrangement, as to the revocation of the British Orders in Council, as well as to the satisfaction required in the case of the attack on the Chesapeake frigate, has been made in due form by the government of the United States with David Montague Erskine, Esq. an accredited Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannick Majesty. And after it had been faithfully carried into execution on the part of this government, and under circumstances rendering its effects on the relative situation of the United States irrevocable, and, in some respects, irreparable, his Britannick Majesty has deemed it proper to disavow it, to recall his Minister, and to send another to take his place.
In such a state of things, no expectation could be more reasonable, no course of proceeding more obviously prescribed by the ordinary respect due to the disappointed party, than a prompt and explicit explanation by the new functionary, of the grounds of the refusal on the part of his government to abide by an arrangement so solemnly made,—accompanied by a substitution of other propositions.
Under the influence of this reasonable expectation, the President has learned,
with no less surprise than regret, that in your several conferences with me you have stated:
1st. That you have no instructions from your government, which authorize you to make any explanations whatever to the government, as to the reasons, which have induced his Britannick Majesty to disavow the arrangement lately made by your predecessor, and that therefore you could no make any such explanations.
2d. That in the case of the Chesapeake, your instructions only authorize you, (without assigning any reason whatever why the reasonable terms of satisfaction tendered and accepted, have not been carried into effect,) to communicate to this government a note tendering satisfaction, with an understanding that such note should not be signed and delivered by you, until you should have previously seen and approved the proposed answer of this government, and that the signing and the delivery of your note and of the answer of this government should be simultaneous.
3d. That you have no instructions, which authorize you to make to this government any propositions whatever in relation to the revocation of the British Orders in Council; but only to receive such as this government may deem it proper to make to you.
4th. That, at all events, it is not the disposition or the intention of the British government to revoke their Orders in Council, as they respect the United States, but upon a formal stipulation on the part of the United States to accede to the following terms and conditions, viz.
1st. That the act of Congress, commonly called the non-intercourse law, be continued against France, so long as she shall continue her decrees.
2d. That the Navy of Great-Britain be authorized to aid in enforcing the provisions of the said act of Congress.
3d. That the United States shall explicitly renounce, during the present war, the right of carrying on any trade whatever, direct or indirect, with any colony of any enemy of Great-Britain, from which they were excluded during peace; and that this renunciation must extend, not only to the trade between the colony and the mother country, but to the trade between the colony and the United States.
If, in the foregoing representation, it should appear, that I have in any instance misapprehended your meaning, it will afford me real pleasure to be enabled to lay before the President a statement, corrected agreeable to any suggestions, with which you may be pleased to favour me.
To avoid the misconceptions incident to oral proceedings, I have the honour to intimate that it is thought expedient, that our further discussions, on the present occasion, be in the written form. And with great sincerity I assure you, that whatever communications you may be pleased thus to make, will be received with an anxious solicitude to find them such as may lead to a speedy removal of every existing obstacle to that mutual and lasting friendship and cordiality between the two nations, which it is obviously the interest of both to foster.
With the highest consideration, &c. (Signed) R. SMITH. The Hon. Francis James Jackson, &c. &c.
Mr. Jackson to Mr. Smith. Washington, 11th October, 1809.
Sir—I have had the honour of receiving your official letter of the 9th inst. towards the close of which you inform me, that it had been thought expedient to put an end to all verbal communication between yourself and me, in discussing the important objects of my mission. Considering that a very few days have elapsed since I delivered to the President a credential letter from the King my Master, and that nothing has been even alleged to have occurred to deprive me of the facility of access, and of the credit to which, according to immemorial usage, I am by that letter entitled, I believe there does not exist in the annals of diplomacy a precedent for such a determination between two Ministers, who have met for the avowed purpose of terminating amicably the existing differences between their respective countries: But after mature reflection, I am induced to acquiesce in it, by the recollection of the time that must necessarily elapse before I can receive his Majesty's commands upon so unexpected an occurrence, and of the detriment that would ensue to the publick service, if my ministerial functions were, in the interval, to be altogether suspended. I shall therefore content myself with entering my protest against a proceeding which I can consider in no other light, than as a violation, in my person, of the most essential rights of a publick minister when adopted, as in the present case, without any alleged misconduct on his part. As a matter of opinion, I cannot, I own, assent to the preference which you gave to written over verbal intercourse for the purpose of mutual explanation and accommodation. I have thought it due to the publick character with which I have the honour to be invested, and to the confidence which his Majesty has most graciously been pleased to repose in me, to state to you unreservedly my sentiments on this point. I shall now proceed to the other parts of your
letter and apply to them the best consideration that can arise from a zeal proportioned to the increase of difficulty thus thrown in the way of the restoration of a thorough good understanding between our respective countries.
You state, Sir, very truly, that an arrangement had been made between you and Mr. Erskine, and that his Majesty had thought proper to disavow that arrangement.
I have, here in the outset, to regret the loss of the advantage of verbal intercourse with you, as I shall have availed myself of it to inquire whether by your statement, it were your intention to complain of the disavowal itself, or of a total want of explanation of it, or of the circumstance of that explanation not having been made through me. I observe that in the records of this mission there is no trace of a complaint, on the part of the United States, of his Majesty having disavowed the act of his Minister. You have not in the conferences we have hitherto held, distinctly announced any such complaint, and I have seen, with pleasure, in this forbearance, on your part, an instance of that candour, which I doubt not will prevail in all our communications, inasmuch as you could not but have thought it unreasonable to complain of the disavowal of an act, done under such circumstances, as could only lead to the consequences that have actually followed.
It was not known when I left England, whether Mr. Erskine had, according to the liberty allowed him, communicated to you in extenso his original instructions. It now appears that he did not. But, in reverting to his official correspondence, and particularly to a despatch addressed on the 20th of April to his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, I find that he there states, that he had submitted to your consideration, the three conditions specified in those instructions as the ground work of an arrangement which, according to information received from this country, it was thought in England might be made with a prospect of great mutual advantage. Mr. Erskine then reports verbatim et seriatim your observations upon each of the three conditions, and the reasons which induced you to think that others might be substituted in lieu of them. It may have been concluded between you that these latter were an equivalent for the original conditions; but the very act of substitution evidently shews that those original conditions were, in fact, very explicitly communicated to you, and by you of course laid before the President for his consideration. I need hardly add, that the difference between these conditions and those contained in the arrangement of the 18th and 19th April, is sufficiently obvious to require no elucidation; nor need I draw the conclusion, which I consider as admitted by all absence of complaint, on the part of the American government, viz. that under such circumstances his Majesty had an undoubted and incontrovertible right to disavow the act of his Minister. I must here allude to a supposition, which you have more than once mentioned to me, and by which, if it had any, the slightest foundation, this right might perhaps have been in some degree affected. You have informed me that you understood that Mr. Erskine had two sets of instructions, by which to regulate his conduct; and that upon one of them, which had not been communicated either to you or to the publick, was to be rested the justification of the terms finally agreed upon between you and him. It is my duty, Sir, solemnly to declare to you, and through you to the President, that the despatch from Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine, which you have made the basis of an official correspondence with the latter Minister, and which was read by the former to the American Minister in London, is 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 relates.
To return to the immediate subject of your letter. If, Sir, it be your intention to state, that no explanation whatever has been given to the American government of the reasons which induced his Majesty to disavow the act of my predecessor, I must in that case, observe, that in the instructions conveying to him his Majesty's intentions, these reasons were very fully and forcibly stated; and if he has not transmitted them to you, I can only attribute it to the peculiar delicacy and embarrassment of his situation, for which he probably trusted to the President's goodness to make some allowance; and he might the more reasonably be led to that reliance on it, as a full and ample communication was also made upon the subject by his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Mr. Pinkney, to whom the whole of Mr. Erskine's original instruction was read, and who, it was natural to suppose, would convey to his government so much information upon a very momentous occasion, as would relieve Mr. Erskine from the necessity of entering into minute details of the misunderstanding that had occurred. At all events, no complaint can be substantiated against his Majesty's government on this score, seeing that they not only instructed the Minister who had made the disavowed arrangement as to the motives which occa-

signed the disavowal, but also with frankness, promptitude, and a most scrupulous regard to national honour, gave notice to the American Minister in London of the disavowal, of the motives of it, and of the precautions spontaneously taken by his Majesty to prevent any loss or injury accruing to the citizens of the United States from a reliance on any agreement, however unauthorized, made in his Majesty's name. The mere allusion to this latter circumstance dispenses me from farther noticing the effects which you describe as being produced upon the United States by the circumstances of this agreement. How far they are irrevocable it is not for me to determine; but the word irreparable seems to imply that a loss had been sustained on the occasion by the publick or by individuals of this country. So far as his Majesty could be by possibility supposed answerable for such an eventual loss, he has, as I have before stated, taken the utmost precaution to avert it.
As to the expectation entertained here, that the explanation of his Majesty's share in this transaction should be made through me, I might content myself with simply observing, that I was not provided with instructions to that effect, because it was known that the explanation in question had already been given. But it accords with the sentiments of his Majesty towards this country to observe also, that he considered that at some time must necessarily elapse between my appointment and my entrance on the duties of my Ministry, it would be a more friendly mode of proceeding to state, without delay, and through the channels I have already mentioned, the motives that compelled his Majesty to disavow the agreement, than to leave the American government in uncertainty in these respects till the unavoidably protracted period of my arrival in America. I say this in regard to the original notification of his Majesty's determination, and of the motives of it, which I have already made, it could not be supposed in London that a repetition of them would be expected from me; and of course no such case has been foreseen in my instructions. But if beyond this any incidental explanation or discussion should be wished for by this government, I came fully prepared to enter into them. I even consider them to have taken place between us. I have certainly derived great satisfaction from the several hours which we have spent in conference upon these subjects, because they have enabled me to remove some misunderstandings, and to refute many misrepresentations which you yourself informed me of, in regard to the conduct of the British government. I consider such mutual explanations as highly beneficial to a right understanding of the views and interests of the two countries, and I should, with much pleasure, have renewed them, if you had not informed me that the President had been pleased to prescribe another and a different mode of conducting our negotiations.
I will nevertheless avail myself of that mode which he still permits to repeat to you, that his Majesty has authorized me, notwithstanding the ungracious manner in which his former offer of satisfaction for the affair of the Chesapeake was received, to renew that which Mr. Erskine was instructed to make. You have said that you so fully understood the particulars of that offer, that I deem it unnecessary to recapitulate them here: I regret that, since they were so clearly understood by you, you should not yet have been enabled to state to me either in our personal communications, or in the letter which I am now answering, whether they are considered by the President as satisfactory, or whether they are such as he ultimately means to accept. You seem not so distinctly to have understood the form of proceeding in this affair, which I took the liberty of suggesting as likely to lead to a satisfactory result, without however at all precluding any other method which might appear preferable to you. My proposal was, not to communicate a note tendering satisfaction, but to agree with you before hand upon the terms of a declaration on the part of his Majesty, which should actually give the satisfaction, (the conditions of which I informed you that I was authorized to carry into immediate execution,) and a counter declaration to be signed by you on the part of the United States, for the purpose of accepting such satisfaction. I expressly stated that this interchange of official documents was not meant by me as the means of conveying to each other our respective sentiments; that I understood to be, as is usual, the object of our conferences; and I imagined that the papers to be signed by us, respectively, would be the result of those sentiments so communicated, and that by being reciprocally corrected and modified, and simultaneously delivered, they would form one compact by which the two countries would be equally bound. This course of proceeding is conformable to the practice of the courts of Europe on similar occasions. You did not at the time appear to object to it; you even requested me to come the next day, prepared with a draft or project of a paper, framed in pursuance to these ideas; and although you desired to refer the subject to the President for his approbation, I do not find in
your letter either an expression of his sentiments upon it, or the substitution of any other form that might be more agreeable to him than the one which I have proposed.
I touch with considerable and very sincere reluctance upon that part of your letter, in which you state that I had not assigned "any reason whatever why the reasonable terms of satisfaction tendered and accepted have not been carried into effect."
I believe that I had observed to you, in the words of my instructions, that if his Majesty were capable of being actuated by any desire to retract an offer of reparation which he had once made, his Majesty might be well warranted in doing so both by the form in which his accredited minister had tendered that reparation, and by the manner in which that tender has been received. I believe that I elucidated this observation by a reference to the particular expressions, which made the terms of satisfaction appear to be unacceptable even to the American government, at the very moment when they were accepted, and which at all events put it totally out of his Majesty's power to ratify and confirm any act in which such expressions were contained.
On the subject of his Majesty's Orders in Council, I have had the honour of informing you that his Majesty having caused to be made to the government of the United States certain proposals founded upon principles, some of which were understood to originate in American authorities, and others to be acquiesced in by them; and having afterwards ascertained in the manner mentioned in a former part of this letter, that the sentiments of the American government were so different from what they were at first understood to be, I was not instructed to renew to you those proposals, nor to press upon your acceptance an arrangement which had been so recently declined, especially as the arrangement itself is become less important, and the terms of it less applicable to the state of things now existing.
Those considerations which were first intimated in Mr. Canning's official letter to Mr. Pinkney of the 23d of September, 1808, and which, in the process of the following six months, acquired greater weight and influence, induced his Majesty, before the result of Mr. Erskine's negotiation was known, to modify the Orders in Council of November, 1807, by that of the 26th of April, 1809.
The effect of this new Order is to relieve the system under which the former Orders were issued, from that which has always been represented in this country, as the most objectionable and offensive part of it; the option given to neutrals to trade with the enemies of Great-Britain through British ports on payment of a transit duty.—This was originally devised and intended as a mitigation of what is certainly more correct, but more rigid in principle—the total and unqualified interdiction of all trade with the enemy. If, however, this mitigation was felt as an aggravation, and, as has been sometimes warmly asserted, as an insult, that cause of complaint is now entirely removed. By the Order in Council of the 26th of April, 1809, all trade with France and Holland, and the ports of Italy, comprehended under the denomination of the kingdom of Italy, is simply prohibited altogether. No option is afforded, and consequently no transit duty is required to be paid. In another respect the Order in Council of the 26th of April must be admitted to be more restrictive than those of November, 1807.
The trade with enemies' colonies, which was opened to neutrals at the commencement of the present war by the Order in Council of the 24th June, 1803, was continued to be left open by those of November, 1807. The Order in Council of the 26th April retracts this indulgence. But it is to be observed, that since the period when the Orders in Council of November, 1807, were issued, the opening of the ports of Spain, of Portugal, of the South of Italy and of Turkey has afforded a more ample scope to neutral commerce, and that by the capture of Martinique, in addition to that of almost all the colonies of the enemies of Great-Britain, together with the blockade of Guadeloupe, the extent to which the liberty of commerce with enemies' colonies applied has been so far narrowed, that there is little of practical hardship in recurring to the rule which, however occasionally mitigated in its application, Great-Britain can never cease in principle to maintain. It is farther to be observed, that the Order in Council of the 26th April has this operation highly favourable to neutrals, that restricting the regulations of blockade to France, Holland and their colonies, and to the territories denominated the kingdom of Italy, it lays open to the direct trade of neutrals the ports of the North of Europe. Under the Order of the 26th April, therefore, while there are on the one hand fewer points of differences to stand in the way of a satisfactory arrangement between Great-Britain and the United States, it is possible that there may be less temptation to the latter, to enter into such an arrangement as the extent of their commerce may be, if they please, nearly as great under the Order in Council of the 26th April, as it would be under any arrangement
which should effect the indispensable objects to which that Order applies, or as it would be even without any such Order so long as France and the powers subservient to France continue to enforce their decrees. It is in the same proportion, matter of indifference to Great-Britain, whether the Order in Council be continued or an arrangement by mutual consent substituted in its room.
Such, Sir, are the grounds on which it has appeared to his Majesty to be unnecessary to command me to propose to the government of the United States any formal agreement to be substituted for that which his Majesty has been under the necessity of disavowing; but I am directed to receive and discuss with you any proposal which you may be authorized to make to me on this head.
As no disposition has hitherto been shown on your part to make any such proposal, it has been impossible for me to state by anticipation, (nor was I instructed to do so,) what might be the answer that I should eventually think it my duty to return to you; consequently I could not have made with that view the statement contained in the 4th section of your letter, and the three subdivisions of it. Such a statement would have been obviously inconsistent with the former part of my overture, which you very correctly regard in the 3d section, viz. that I was not instructed to make to you any proposal whatever upon this subject. I must necessarily reserve, until I hear from you, what proposals it may be deemed proper to make on behalf of the United States, to state in how far they do not accord with the instructions which it has pleased his Majesty to give me for my guidance in this negotiation.
I will only add, Sir, in conclusion of this letter, that his Majesty is very sincerely desirous of maintaining a perfect and cordial understanding with the United States, and of bringing to a complete and satisfactory adjustment all the points of difference that have arisen between the two governments; and that agreeing as I do with you, most heartily, as to the interest which both nations have in fostering a mutual and solid friendship and cordiality, no zeal or exertions shall be wanted on my part to carry into effect his Majesty's commands for this most salutary purpose.
I have the honour to be, with great respect, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, F. J. JACKSON. The Hon. Robert Smith, &c. &c. &c. [DOCUMENTS TO BE CONTINUED.]
By the Mails.
NEW-YORK, December 2. EXTRACT OF A LETTER. "Washington, November 29."
“I SEND you the first part of the Documents containing some part of the correspondence between our Secretary of State, and the British Ministers, Erskine and Jackson. Erskine's shews him to have been a dupe. But the tone and want of temper, in the correspondence between Smith and Jackson, I do not hesitate to say have excited serious apprehensions of the ultimate relations between the two governments. Although I have not seen that part which occasioned the refusal to hold further intercourse with Jackson; yet from the manifest captiousness displayed in his letter which has been published, a very painful result seems inevitable. It is deeply to be regretted by the friends of both nations, that claims, inadmissible by both, should be urged at a crisis, when every dictate of sound policy urges the cultivation of a friendly good understanding between them.”
The ship John Adams, is about to sail for France, with the tribute of the United States to the great Napoleon, consisting of the President's one-sided message; the dismissal of "Copenhagen" Jackson; and the refusal to acknowledge the Spanish Don Onis, because he is an enemy to Napoleon's brother Joseph. Whether or not she carries assurances of a War with England, Champagne will let us know in due time.
The Message from Washington reached this city in 29 hours after it was delivered, distance 245 miles.
The votes in this city at the late election were, Federal 3947.—Democratic, including Madisonians, Clintonians, and Jacobins, 3477.
December 4.
The United States schooner Enterprise, Lieutenant Tripp, who arrived here on Saturday, left the Texel on the 15th of October. She brings no verbal news, or despatches for government. An officer favoured the Editors of the New-York Gazette with the Amsterdam papers to the 13th. They contain no news—except a confirmation of the peace said to have been concluded between France and Austria on the 3d of that month.
Letters however, spark positively of a peace—and add, that French Custom-House Officers were soon to be sent to Tonnigen.
It is asserted in several of the southern papers, that General Turreau, the French Minister, treats the Executive with neglect and contempt. It is said he has a
number of spies near the government of the United States.
CONGRESS.
On Tuesday the House was in session only one hour. Nothing was done but the appointment of the usual standing committees.
On Wednesday, three hours were taken up in reading the President's Message and accompanying Documents—and 5000 ordered to be printed, when they adjourned.
The Senate have chosen Mr. Gregg, President pro tem. in the absence of the Vice-President.
No Mail was yesterday received south of Philadelphia; there is, therefore, nothing relative to the "alternatives." The editor of the Freeman's Journal pledges himself, that nothing decisive will be done in Congress this session, unless a change occurs in Europe.
December 5.
Letters from the Teazer, in 13 days from Antigua, state, that the British are making preparations to take Guadalupe, St. Martins, St. Eustatia, and probably St. Bartholomews!!!
BOSTON, December 7.
FROM TONNINGEN.
The brig Frederick, Captain Hulen, from Tonnigen for Boston, has put into Marblehead. She sailed from Tonnigen the 12th of October, at which time markets were generally rising, in consequence of the peace between France and Austria. We understand from Captain Hulen, that the terms of the peace had not been officially received there; but that it was rumoured, one of them limited the number of troops to be kept on foot by the Emperor Francis.
Nathaniel Stanley, alias Nathaniel R. Stanley, on Monday last was convicted before the Supreme Judicial Court on the charge of stealing the goods of Mr. A. Melville to the amount of $3455 69 cents, as alleged in the indictment, and was sentenced to three months solitary confinement, and ten years imprisonment to hard labour in the State-Prison. Much praise is due to Mr. Melville for his indefatigable exertions in bringing this old and artful offender to justice.
Providence, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1809.
The importance of the Official Documents with which the columns of this day's paper are occupied, and on which, if publick opinion is correct, peace or war is dependent, supersedes all editorial comment, and must apologize to our friends for the temporary suspension of their communications. Congress have now a momentous duty to perform; a trust is now committed to them, and millions of anxious freemen are watching the result. It will be soon seen whether by a wise and magnanimous policy they will dare to act with the independence becoming freemen, or whether they are to be the tame and obsequious tools of faction. They stand before the tribunal of their country, and the page of history will bear record of their actions. If they would feel as patriots ought to feel when their country is endangered, they would approach and sacrifice all their political animosities on the altar of freedom. At such an hour the wise, the virtuous, and the good, would rally around them and form a barrier more impenetrable than adamant. Publick opinion, not that prostituted opinion that offers the incense of idolatry to the Corsican Moloch, but the generous confidence of free minds, would rally, and the impulse be irresistible. But if on partial and sordid views, they immolate their country to party purposes, this fair domain of freedom, this last retreat of freedom on the globe, will sink divided—abased—and fall an unresisting prey to the ambition of Bonaparte.
The latest accounts from Congress state, that Mr. Giles had submitted a motion to the following effect:—
“Resolved, That so much of the President's Message as respects the relations existing between the United States and Great-Britain and France, with the accompanying Documents, be referred to a select committee, with instructions to examine the same, and report thereon to the Senate, and that the committee have leave to report by bill, or bills, or otherwise.”
Captain Coles, the President's Secretary, has addressed a letter to the Speaker of the House, in which he declares, that in horse-whipping Mr. Nelson, one of the members, he meant no disrespect to them, which is ordered to lie on the table.
“THE LATITUDINARIAN,” “MORAL AND RELIGIOUS HINTS,” and sundry Communications, are unavoidably postponed on account of the length of the important Documents which now occupy our columns.
Married.
At East-Greenwich, on Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Manchester, Mr. WILLIAM CRANSTON, of New-Bedford, to Miss SARAH GREENE, daughter of Mr. Joseph Greene, of the former place.
Died.
To the many instances of sudden death, which have recently alarmed us, we regret to add that of Miss ELIZABETH ABORN, daughter of Captain Samuel Aborn, aged 14 years. In this amiable young woman, an early maturity of talent was blended, with such loveliness of disposition, such modesty and propriety of deportment, as justly to render her loss a severe affliction to her family and friends. At her grave let the sons and daughters of health read an awful lesson! Not one week since, we saw the lamented subject of this obituary in health, gay, lovely; without a care to disturb the peaceful serenity of her mind; without a cloud to darken the fair horizon of promised felicity which opened on her youthful fancy. Awful and affliction is the contrast! But let us humbly hope that our loss is her great gain; that in "another and a better world" her opening virtues will ripen into heavenly joys.
American Marine List.
PORT OF PROVIDENCE. DECEMBER 8, 1809. ENTERED.
Schooner—Rambler, Martin, Savannah. Sloops—Flora, Gorton, Baltimore; New-York, Williams, New-York; Earl, Ellis, Perth-Amboy.
CLEARED.
Ship—Hope, Bowen, Havana. Sloops—Roxana, Holmes, Savannah; George, Bowen, Plymouth, (N.C.) Hannah, Burt, Taunton; Becca and Betsey, Pearce, Bristol.
Boston, December 6.
The sloop Philadelphia of Bristol, (R.I.) from Porto Rico, has put into Norfolk in distress.—The Charlotte, Avery, has arrived at St. Croix, in 100 days from Providence.
An order has been issued at Cadiz, by the Spanish government, allowing all vessels, which bring cargoes of rice, flour and provisions, to export specie.
A late Liverpool paper says, "It has been announced to the Merchants of Hull, that no convoys will be appointed to the Baltic after the 15th of November."
We understand that several ships in our harbour have been sold within the last 3 or 4 days, to New-York Merchants. We are happy to find our ship builders are likely to have sufficient employment.
LOST, last evening, between the house of Mr. Jason Williams, in George-Street, and the Court-House, a RED MOROCCO POCKET-BOOK, with the owner's name on the back of it; containing Ten Dollars in small Bills of the Exchange Bank, and several Papers of no consequence to any one but the owner. Whoever has found the same, and will leave it at the "Rhode-Island American" Office, shall be handsomely rewarded for their kindness. December 8, 1809.
ONE Hundred Barrels of superfine FLOUR, for sale by BENJAMIN T. CHANDLER, cheap for cash this day. December 8, 1809.
WANTED, BY
EBENEZER JOHNSON, ONE or two JOURNEYMEN TIN-PLATE WORKERS, who are good workmen—to whom good wages will be given.
In addition to his usual assortment of Tin Ware, he makes Mule and other Cylinders, Roping and Drawing Cans, Lanterns, and every other kind of Tin Ware used in the Cotton Spinning Mills. December 8, 1809.
REEDMAKERS ATTEND! NATHAN TRUMAN, Near the Baptist Meeting-House, has just received, and for sale,
A FEW thousand CANE-POLES, or REEDS, which will be sold reasonably, if applied for soon.
ALSO, Forty Southern HIDES, and a quantity of UPLAND COTTON. December 8, 1809.
REMOVAL.
THE subscriber tenders his grateful acknowledgments to the publick for their many favours to him while resident in Sturbridge, and would inform them, that he has removed to Providence, and taken the Inn lately occupied by Mr. John Snow, three doors west of the Great Bridge, where he solicits a continuance of their favours, with the assurance that every attention shall be paid to render his friends comfortable and happy.
AZOR BROWN.
N. B. Good and spacious accommodation for STABLING. December 8, 1809.
AMERICAN BEAVERS.
PROVIDENCE HAT-MANUFACTURING COMPANY, No. 13, CHEAPSIDE.
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 Hatting-Furs.
Liberal encouragement to Apprentices. N. B. Cases of Hats at 3 dollars, suitable for the Southern market. ARNOLD BUFFUM, Agent.

REPLENISHMENT. CHARLES POTTER, No. 3, Market-Square.
RESPECTFULLY informs his customers, that he has lately received an additional supply of FALL and WINTER GOODS, of the latest importations into Boston, among which are a good proportion of scarce articles, all of which were bought for cash, and are offered for sale at reduced prices, for ready pay. He assures his customers that his prices are very low, that no person can, either at wholesale or retail, under sell him.
Also, received as above, Several additional supplies of CARPETING , among which are a few thousand yards of best Kidminster Carpeting, at 65 per yard, and a quantity of Scotch Carpeting at 4a. 9d. with a variety of rich Scotch and Venetian Stair Carpeting, at reduced prices.
Also for sale, as above, A quantity of Coffee in Bags, Ditto Whale-Oil in Hds., Ditto Glass-Ware in ditto. November 28, 1809. tf.
RUM AND SUGAR. BLODGET & POWER Offer, now landing from the Alonzo, 10 Hds. of Loaf SUGAR, 13 do. sweet & sour St. Croix RUM, on accommodating terms. November 28, 1809. tf.
CHARLES LOW RESPECTFULLY informs the publick, and his old customers in particular, that he intends retailing his Goods at cost, as he is determined not to be undersold by any branch or root from any other State. He has established an agent in Boston, to purchase his Goods for cash, who will replenish his shop every week. He flatters himself there is no person who can undersell him. He has also a supply of CARPETS , which he will sell lower than can be bought in this town— Carpeting selling at one dollar per yard notwithstanding. November 28, 1809.
WILL be sold at Publick Vendue, on WEDNESDAY the 13th day of December next, at one o'clock, P.M. if fair, if not, the next fair day, at the late dwelling of Christopher Brown, of Smithfield, deceased, the Stock, Farming, Utensils and Household Furniture, belonging to the Estate of said Christopher, consisting of a Horse, Cows, Hogs, a Horse-Waggon, Beds and Bedding, Tables, Chairs, Looking-Glasses, &c. &c. SAMUEL ARNOLD, Attorney for ELIZABETH BROWN, Executrix of said Estate. November 28, 1809. tf.
THE Providence Cheapside Circulating Library has been replenished with many interesting Works, among which are, Carr's Caledonian Tour, Griffith's Abbey, Lovers of Lavendee, or Revolutionary Tyranny, 2 vols. a complete set of the Ladies' Magazine in 14 volumes, with elegant Engravings. Just received, for sale, the Rambler's Magazine, No. 2. The Library will be opened in future from sunrise until 8 o'clock in the evening, during which time constant attention will be paid to the commands of its patrons. November 28, 1809.
NOTICE. MOULTON and JACOBS Having extended a Branch of their Business to this Town, respectfully inform their Friends, and those whose patronage they have (individually) so bountifully experienced heretofore, that they have taken the Brick Store, lately occupied by Mr. Samuel Ames, on the west side the Bridge; where they are opening an extensive assortment of DRY GOODS —the principal part of which were purchased in New-York at Auction, very cheap, (for the prices.) They request those who are in want of Goods to call and see for themselves. Having a Store in New-York, their advantages are great; and they flatter themselves that with these advantages they will be able to supply a Store here so cheap as to attract the attention of purchasers. Any Lady or Gentleman wishing for articles that are not to be found in this market, are informed, that if they will leave their orders at their Store, in Providence, they will be sent on to Mr. MOULTON, in New-York, and the strictest attention observed in the execution and expedition of them, free of expence. November 24, 1809.
Commissioners' Notice. The subscribers being by the Honorable 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, } Com'rs. JOHN F. SHELTON, All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment, to SIMEON INGRAHAM, Admin. November 21, 1809.
Pilot-Bread and Crackers. BENJAMIN ROBINSON Has on hand, for sale, at the Bakery 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. tf.
THE Copartnership between BROWNELL and ARMINGTON is this day dissolved by mutual consent. THOMAS BROWNELL, GEORGE ARMINGTON. November 28, 1809.
PETER GRINNELL & SON Offer for sale, at their Store, formerly occupied by GRINNELL & TAYLOR , near 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 finished 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 Monumental Painting, Oil and Burnish Gilding, Polish and Re-silver old Looking-Glasses, &c. &c. November 10, 1809. tf.
RUM, GIN, TEA, &c. PUNCHEONS of 4th proof Jamaica Spirits, Casks of Sherry Wine, D. G. brand; Barrels of best Country Gin, Chests of superior Souchong Tea, Barrels of Alexandria superfine Flour, Kegs of best ground Ginger, Sacks of Batavia Coffee, Ditto Black Pepper, 20,000 excellent Spanish Cigars, For sale, on accommodating terms, by CHRISTOPHER R. GREENE, No. 3, MARKET-STREET. November 24, 1809.
PUBLICK NOTICE. The Subscribers, transacting business under the firm of the POMFRET MANUFACTURING COMPANY , have this day appointed ABAS 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. Providence, October 26, 1809.
REMOVAL. THOMAS RHODES Has removed to the Store lately occupied by Mr. Jacob Soesman, in Weybossett-Street, one door west of Messrs. Taft and Waterman's Store—where he has for sale A FEW Hds. 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.
TO LET, And immediate possession given, A n excellent stand for Business, near the West End of the Bridge, consisting of a convenient Front Shop, and a large commodious Store on the Wharf back, accommodated with a well finished Counting-Room. ALSO, A very pleasant Country Seat, two miles from the Bridge, suitable for a genteel family, having necessary Out-Buildings, a spacious Garden, and some other Lands. The terms will be liberal. Apply to AVIS DONNISON. November 24, 1809.
CHARLES F. BLODGET & SAMUEL C. BLODGET Have formed a Commercial Connection 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.
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.
SPANISH BRANDY—fifteen Pipes of excellent, just landing and for sale by BLODGET & POWER. November 14, 1809. tf.
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; Wildbores, Duroys and Rattinets, black, snuff and slate Tabby Velvets, common do. Silver Corda, 75 pieces of Calicoes of different prices and figures, pink, buff and blue Gingham; 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 Lenos, spider-bones, 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 Bandanones, white and printed Pocket-Handkerchiefs, Copperplates and Chintzes, No. 3, 31-2, 4, 41-2, and 5 Pack Pins; White Chapel Needles, 3, 6, 7 and 8-qr. Cotton Damask Diaper; Diaper Napkins, black, green, pink and white Sarcenets; black Crap, black Sattins and Lustrinets, Ladies' short Kid and long and short Silk Gloves, Coat and Vest Buttons, Leather and Cotton Suspenders, Marking Canvass, 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 balls 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.
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 Basins and Cream Pots, Castors, Candlesticks, Lamps, Spurs, &c. Britannia Teapots, some very elegant patterns; Sugar Basins and Cream Pots; a very handsome assortment of Japanned 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. tf.
WILLIAM PEARCE Respectfully informs his friends, and the publick 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 a bunch of grapes. Wickford, (R. I.) February 22, 1809. 1y
BOSTON and PROVIDENCE STAGE-OFFICE. The publick are hereby informed, that the Stage-Books for Boston, are kept at EAZENEEZ 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.
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; Pelica Flannels, Serges, Plains, Sattinets, Rattinets, Wildbores, Duroys, first quality Rose Blankets, at reduced prices, from 5 to 12 qrs. black, blue, bottle-green, lead and crimson Tabby Velvets; black and olive twilled do. elegant Toilet and Swansdown Vestings, Rattinets, Coatings, Swanskin, Flannels of all colours, Silk, Cotton and Worsted Hosiery; India Cottons, English Shirting do. black, white and coloured Cambricks; Gingham, 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.
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.
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-Gingham, dingling and low-priced White and coloured Broadcloths; Cambricks, Rattinets, Shirting Cottons, Coatings, Velvets, Plains, Bindings, Flannels, Hosiery, Cassimets, Brown Holland, Printed and Pulicat Handkerchiefs and Shawls, Bombazets, Plain and fancy Jeans, Rattinets, and book Muslins, &c. &c. Wildbores, 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.
FOR SALE BY EDWARD DEXTER, ONE hundred and thirty-three Chests of IMPERIAL TEA 1300 do. of Hyson do. 1500 do. of Hyson skin do. 250 do. of Young Hyson do. 320 Boxes of Hyson Chulan do. 350 Chests of Souchong do. 180 Whole } Chests of Bohea TEA 120 Half } 60 Quarter } 240 Boxes of China Ware, consisting of Dining, Breakfast and Tea Sets 27 Boxes of Silks, containing Sattins, Sarcenets, Handkerchiefs and Shawls 250 Barrels of superfine Flour 30 Bags of Coffee 5 Hds. of Loaf-Sugar A few Pipes of Madeira, Lisbon and Tene-riste 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. July 7, 1809. tf.
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 Martineque, in Bottles; Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Citron, Cinnamon, Allspice, Pepper, Ginger, Starch, fresh Turkey Figs, Prunes, Muscadel and Bloom Raisins, Sultana and Cask ditto, Currants, soft shelled Almonds, excellent Bottle and Flask 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 very 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.
WHEREAS at the Supreme Judicial Court held at Providence, in and 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.
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.
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 Wood-land, 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 towns 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. 6m.
Commissioners' Notice. The subscribers, appointed by the Court of Probate of the Town of Providence, Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims against the Estate of LEWIS BOSWORTH , late of said Providence, Mariner, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice to all persons having claims against said Estate, that they exhibit them to us within six months from the date hereof, the time allowed by said Court to receive and examine said claims. DANIEL FIELD, DANIEL PROUD. All persons indebted to the Estate of the said LEWIS BOSWORTH are requested to make immediate payment; and those having accounts against said Estate, to exhibit them for settlement, to EARL POTTER. December 4, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.