The Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1809-11-08 00:00:00

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Miscellany.
MR. ADAM'S
CORRESPONDENCE CONTINUED.
To the Printers of the Boston Patriot.
SIRS,
ON the 20th September, 1780, wrote to his Excellency Joseph Reed, Esq. President, and to the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, in answer to a letter recommending Mr. Searle and his mission, that he might depend upon every civility and assistance in my power, consistent with the duties of the place I was in.
Mr. Searle was sent by them to Europe, to borrow money. Such was the distress of America for money, that there were four Agents then in Europe from several States, all sent to borrow money, and all recommended to me for assistance: Commodore Gillon, from South-Carolina, Mr. Mazzei, from Virginia, and Mr. Searle, from Pennsylvania, and Mr. Jonathan Loring Austin, from Massachusetts. But as Agent from the United States, for the same purpose, I wanted their assistance as much as they mine. Neither United States nor separate States had as yet much credit.
September 23, 1780, wrote to Mr. Jennings, at Brussels—"I find that my friend in Philadelphia re-printed the letters on the spirit and resources of Great-Britain, after which they were again printed in Boston and much admired. A gentleman from Boston told me, he heard there that they were written by one Mr. Jennings. I wish his countrymen knew more than they do about that same Mr. Jennings.
I take a vast satisfaction in the general approbation of the Massachusetts Constitution if the people are as wise and honest in the choice of their rulers, as they have been in framing a government, they will be happy and I shall die content with the prospect for my children, who, if they cannot be well understood such a form and such an administration, will not deserve to be at all.
I wish the "Translation" might appear as soon as possible, because it may have some effects here. It certainly will, for there are many persons here, attentive to such things in English, whether in pamphlets or newspapers. I wish it was published in a pamphlet, and I could get a dozen of them. I begin to be more fond of propagating things in English, because the most attentive people, to our affairs, read English, and I wish to the number of students in it. You must know that I have undertaken to prophecy that English will be the most respectable language in the world, and the most universally read and spoken, in the next century. American population will produce a greater number of persons who will speak English than any other language: and these persons will have more general acquaintance and conversation with all nations than any other people, which will naturally introduce their language every where as the general medium of correspondence and conversation, among the learned of all nations, and among all travellers and strangers, as Latin was in the last century, and as French has been in this.—Let us then encourage and advise every body to study English.
I have written to Congress a serious request that they would appoint an Academy for correcting, improving, refining and ascertaining the English language. If Congress should do this, perhaps the British King and Parliament may have the honour of copying their example. This I should admire. I know not whether England will ever have any more honour, excepting now and then, that of imitating the Americans.
I am not altogether in jest. I perceive a general increasing inclination after English in France, Spain, and Holland, and it may extend throughout Europe. The population and commerce of America will force their language into more general use."
The "Translation" mentioned in this letter, was the abridgement of Mr. Pownal's memorial, which had been translated into French at my request, by Mr. Adenet, and printed by Mr. Luzac, under the title of Pensées Extrâits, &c. It was afterwards published in English, in London, under the whimsical title of "A Translation into Common Sense and Plain English."
September 23, wrote to Mr. Searle, acknowledging the receipt of the letters and despatches brought by him from Congress, and promising to do whatever might be in my power to render his residence in Europe agreeable, and to assist him in the purpose of his mission. That his relation of the state of affairs in our country, as it has been repeated to me, was very pleasing and promised much good: that I should obey the commands of Congress with great pleasure, but with what success time only could discover.
September 25, wrote to my correspondent in London—"The people on your side the water seem determined to revenge themselves, for the loss of their power on those who have done all they could to preserve it—I should not say all they could.—They have never made an opposition upon any principal or system. The men who condemn a Minister in one breath for the American war, and in the next for not doing more in it, and for not succeeding in it, will never make any
great hand of it. One who applauds the Americans for their resistance, and then condemns the French for coming in aid of that resistance, and the Americans for accepting that aid, will never make any great figure.—An Admiral who cannot serve against America, and yet will serve against the French in the American war, may well expect Keppell's fate. Mankind are not well governed in this manner. If a man would lead others to a good end, he must lay down his principles and digest his plan. He should let others into it, and obtain their approbation of it, and then pursue it, through all its variety of fortune, and all its consequences.
But what is this to us, who is in, or who out? The nation will go the end of its tether, as Governor Bernard did, let who will be in or out of parliament. We know the worst and are prepared. Let it come. The weaker our enemies before they make peace, the safer we shall be, and the longer the peace will last. As to the friendship of Great Britain towards America, if they ever had any, it is gone to all eternity. She can never forgive us the injuries she has done us. Send me a few copies of the Memorial to the sovereigns of Europe, and a copy of Dr. Price's Population, &c.
Sept. 24, wrote to Congress—"Since the receipt of the despatches brought by Mr. Searle, I have been uninterruptedly employed in attempts to carry into execution their designs.
The first enquiry was, whether it was prudent to make any communication of my business to the States General, or to the Prince. Considering that my errand was simply an affair of credit, without any political authority, I thought, upon consulting gentlemen of the most knowledge and best judgment, and most undoubted inclination for a solid and lasting connection between the two republics, I found them of the same opinion, that it was best to keep my designs secret as long as I could.
I then enquired whether it would be proper to communicate any thing to the regency of Amsterdam, or any other branch of this complicated government, and was advised against it, and to proceed to endeavour to effect a loan upon the simple foundation of private credit. I have accordingly made all the enquiries possible for the best and most exceptionable house. To-morrow I expect an answer to some propositions I made yesterday.
This business must all be settled with so much secrecy and caution, and I am under so many difficulties, not understanding the Dutch language, and the gentleman I have to deal with, not being much more exact English at all, that the business goes on slower than I could wish. Commodore Gillon, by his general acquaintance here and familiarity with the language, which is his mother tongue, has been as useful to me as he has been friendly.
I never saw the national benefit of a fine language generally read and spoken in so strong a light as since I have been here.—The Dutch language is understood by nobody but themselves. The consequence of which has been, that this nation is not known. With as profound learning and as great ingenuity, as any people in Europe, they have been overlooked, because they were not known and were situated among others more numerous and powerful than they. I hope we shall take warning from their example, and do every thing in our power to make the language we speak, respectable throughout the world. Separated as we are from the kingdom of Great Britain, we have not made war upon the English language, any more than against the old English character. An academy for fixing and improving the English language, would strike Great Britain with envy and all the rest of the world with admiration.—The labours of such a society would unite all America in the same language for thirty millions of people to speak, by the middle of the nineteenth century.
September 25, wrote to Congress—"there are some persons in this republic who have been attentive to this war and know something of the rise and progress of the United States of America; but it is astonishing that the number should be so small as it is. Even in the city of Amsterdam, which is the most attentive to our affairs, and the best inclined towards us, there are few persons who do not consider the American resistance as a desultory rage of a few enthusiasts, without order, discipline, law or government. There are scarcely any who have an adequate idea of the numbers, the increasing population, or the growing commerce of America.
Upon my arrival here, some gentlemen were inquisitive about our governments; I asked, if they had seen them in print? I was answered no. Upon this I made it my business to search in all the booksellers shops for a collection of American constitutions, which was published in French two or three years ago, but could find only two copies, which I presented to the gentlemen who made the enquiries.
Nothing would serve our cause more than having a complete collection of all our American constitutions correctly printed in English at Philadelphia, by order of Congress, and sent to Europe as well as sold in America. The Rhode-Island and Connecticut Constitutions ought not to be omitted, although they have undergone no alteration, and it would be well to print the confederation in the same volume.
This volume would be read by every body
in Europe who reads English and could obtain it, and some would even learn English for the sake of reading it. It would be translated into every language of Europe, and would fix the opinion of our unconquerability, more than any thing could, except driving the enemy wholly from the United States.
There has been nobody here of sufficient information and consideration, to turn the attention of the publick towards our affairs—to communicate to the publick, from time to time, in a language that is understood, intelligence from England, France, or America. But on the contrary, there have been persons enough employed and well paid by our enemies, to propagate misinformation, misrepresentation and abuse.
The ancient and intimate connection between the Houses of Orange and Brunswick, the family alliances and the vast advantages which the Princes of Orange have derived, in erecting, establishing, and perpetuating the Hereditary Stadtholdership, against the inclination of the Republican party; and the reliance which this family still has upon the same connection to support it, have attached the executive power of this government in such a manner to England, that nothing but necessity could make a separation.—On the contrary, the Republican party, which has heretofore been conducted by Barneveldt, Grotius, the De Witts, and other immortal patriots, have ever leaned towards an alliance with France, because she has always favoured the Republican form of government in this nation. All parties, however, agree, that England has been always jealous and envious of the Dutch commerce, and done it great injuries; that this country is more in the power of France, if she were hostile, than of England; and that her trade with France is of vastly greater value than that with England. Yet England has more influence here than France. The Dutch, some of them at least, now see another commercial and maritime power arising, with which it is their interest to form an early connection.—
All parties here see, that it is not their interest that France and Spain should secure too many advantages in America, too great a share in her commerce, and especially in the fisheries in the American Seas. All parties too, see that it would be dangerous to the commerce and even independence of the United Provinces, to have America again under the dominion of England: And the Republicans see, or think they see, that a change in this government and the loss of their liberties, would be the consequence of all these speculations, the BRUNSWICK AMBASSADOR, with his swarms of Agents and emissaries, are busily employed in propagating reports, in which they are much assisted by those who are called Stadtholderians, and there has been nobody here to contradict or explain any thing. This should be the business in part of a Minister Plenipotentiary from Congress. Such a Minister, however, would not have it in his power to do it effectually, without frequent and constant information from Congress. This nation, at present, is so ignorant of the strength, resources, commerce and constitutions of the United States; it has so many doubts of our final success; so many suspicions of our falling finally into the hands of France and Spain; so many fears of offending the British Ministry; the English Ambassadors; the great mercantile houses that are very profitably employed by both; and above all, the Stadtholder and his friends; that even a loan of money will meet with every obstruction and discouragement possible.—Such chimeras and many more are held up to the people, and influence their minds and conduct to such a degree that no man dares openly and publickly to disregard them.
I have this day received an answer to some propositions which I made last Saturday to a very respectable house, declining to accept the trust proposed. I do not, however, despair. I still hope to obtain something; but I am fully persuaded, that without a commission of Minister Plenipotentiary, and without time and care to lead the publick opinion into the truth, no man living will ever succeed to any large amount. Those persons who wish to lend us money, and are able to lend us any considerable sum, are the patriots, who are willing to risk British and Stadtholderian resentment for the sake of extending the commerce, strengthening the political interests, and preserving the liberties of their country. They think, that lending us money without forming a political connection with us, will not answer those ends. That cause which rests on the shoulders of patriotism, in any part of Europe, stands very insecurely; but in such a case if patriotism is left in a state of doubt, whether she ought to sustain it, the cause must fall.
September 27, wrote to Dr. Franklin, "Mr. Samuel Andrews formerly of Boston, lately of Demarara, is going to Paris upon business respecting a vessel taken by the French and carried into Martinico. He will lay before you his papers, and hopes for your countenance in the prosecution of his appeal, though he claims as a Dutchman, I have the honour to recommend him to your excellency's notice.
My affairs will oblige me to remain here, if Mr. Laurens should not arrive; and if he does it will be proper for me to stay until I can communicate to him all I now at least.
I have often heard mentioned a letter from

your excellency to the grand pensionary of Holland, near a year ago. It is much esteemed here: but I cannot obtain a sight of it: I should be glad to support the sentiments in it as far as I have heard them: but could do it to better purpose if I had a copy of it, which if there is no material objection I request of your excellency.
What this republic will do, in the northern confederation, is a question that divides all parties. Neither Statholderians nor Republicans, neither Anglomanes nor Franco-manes are agreed. Time will show."
September 28, wrote to Congress. "On the fifth of this month, the Barons of Wassenaar and Heeckeren, ministers plenipotentiary of the states general, had their first audience of the Empress of Russia, presented their letters of credence and were graciously received. Wassenaar in presenting his letters addressed the Empress in the following language:
"This is long and very complimentary on her project, as great as it is just and equitable, the honour of which is solely to your imperial majesty, &c. but at present I will not copy it: nor the Empresses answer."
Oct. 2, 1780, wrote to Mr. Tracy, among other things, "the English papers give out insurrections in South America, on account of a new tax, and committees of correspondence appointed at a Boston aise. Whether this is true I know not: and whether it will be useful or hurtful to us. If true, I am equally ignorant. I am not apprehensive of any bad consequences to us. The elections in England have gone much in favour of our ministry, and war will undoubtedly continue: whatever insinuations the Anglomanes may propagate among you."
Oct. 2, wrote to Mr. Jackson of Newburyport. "I have long had it in contemplation to pay my respects to you, but a wandering life and various avocations have hitherto prevented me."
I am very happy to find that our labours in convention were not in vain. The constitution, as finished by the convention, and accepted by the people, is published in all the publick papers of Europe: the report of the committee having been published before. Both have been treated with much respect both in Europe and the other States of America. The noble simplicity of your address to the people is much admired.—The substitute for the governor's negative is generally thought an amelioration: and I must confess it is so wisely guarded that it has quite reconciled me.
I want to hear of the elections; if these are made with as much gravity, sobriety, wisdom and integrity as were discovered in the convention, and among the people, in the whole course of this great work, posterity will be happy and prosperous. The first citizen will be one of two whom we know. Whichever it may be, I wish him support and success. If
en.—There are however other great trusts. —The Governor's office will be rendered more or less useful, according to the characters that compose the Senate and the council. If the people are as prudent in the choice of these, as they were in the choice of the convention, let the Governor be almost what he will, he will not be able to do much harm. He will be necessitated to do right.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties each arranged under its leaders, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution. We cannot have a bad Governor, at present. We may possibly have the best that might be found. But we shall have a good one. One who means to do no evil to his country, but all the good he can.
The convention I shall ever recollect with veneration. Among other things for bringing me acquainted with several characters, that I knew little of before, of which number Mr. Jackson is one. I shall be much honoured sir, if you will be so good as to write me the state of things. There are more opportunities I think from your port to Spain and Holland than from any other.
JOHN ADAMS.
Quincy, Aug. 4, 1809.
LONG TALK.
Delivered by the Grand Sachem, General LEIB. (Concluded.)
BROTHERS— LET us turn our eyes to times past, time too, which ought never to be forgotten, and directing them towards the prison in this city, for an eternal memento of British barbarity, let me demand—who there is, so lost to the feelings of humanity, as to desire that period to be renewed, when Americans, in their own land, and a land of plenty, would be doomed to languish and die with grass in their mouths, snatched greedily from the earth, vainly to sustain famished nature? Or if scenes of more complicated horror can furnish delight let us transport ourselves to the Wallabout, and there in gloomy silence, surveying the bleached bones of our brethren, cast your eyes to the Jersey prison ship, and in its infernal cavern of horror and death, behold the victims to liberty! Yes, my brothers, if our eyes can be blinded to human misery, and our ears rendered callous to the sighs and the groans of tortured and expiring nature, if we can survey every fibre of the body and the soul stretched upon the rack of British inhumanity, and that too, without the sigh of sympathy, or the tear of agonized sensibility, then
let us denounce the pacific measures of Jefferson, then let us join in the chorus of fiends against the embargo.
Let the profligate and the base, and the sitpeditaries of Great Britain, rail and vilify our government for the measure; the approbation of the enlightened and the patriotick must surely be their reward, and the peace of the nation and the security of mercantile property, must attest his wisdom, and verify its utility.
Brothers, there is a crisis in our affairs which ought to command our attention, and demands the exercise of all our energies.—The enemy without is aided by the enemy within, and the inconveniencies and privations to which we have been subjected by the British government are most wickedly and traitorously ascribed to the administration of the general government. An important election is approaching, and endeavors are making to delude and misguide the publick judgment. It is incumbent upon us, therefore, to be on the look out. Every man to his post—let no one slumber while the storm threatens and the vessel is in danger. The sons of Tammany would be unworthy of the high station of freemen, if at the call of patriotism they did not fly to the post of danger, and offer up all their faculties on the altar of their country.
A chief Magistrate of the United States is to be chosen, for he who has for eight years presided over our affairs, and has directed our destinies, and whose principles, and whose virtues have been assiduously, actively, and successively employed in the promotion of the happiness of his country, with a patriotism worthy of himself, is about to retire to the peaceful and serene shade of private life. The example deserves our homage.—It has resulted from the purity of those principles which have directed his political course, and while it excites our regret must inspire our admiration and command our applause. But in the dispensation of human good, we always find an alloy to render it less valuable; for while principle approves the act, and patriotism bestows upon it its highest commendation, expediency refuses its approbation. While all hearts would have united in him, our confidence and our affections are variously drawn towards a successor. Serious injury to the publick interest may arise from jarring and discordant opinions among men of the same family, and having the same views as to the general good. As members then of that common family, brothers, let our efforts be directed to promote harmony, let reason and not denunciation, charity and not intolerance, be our weapons of warfare with each other, and let our energies be employed to procure the election of a successor to Jefferson, who shall neither occasion regret in him for having yielded to the dictates of patriotism, nor in the people for having submitted to his wishes.
Brothers, we will not deem a word of admeasurement. The times are critical, and strength is necessary to safety, both in relation to foreign as well as domestic concerns. Men once of our family have estranged themselves from us, and have allied themselves to aliens to our principles, some from choice, but more from mistake. Those who have sinned against conviction I mean not to consider—let them receive the reward of apostates; but the mistaken are still entitled to our sympathies, and by kindness may be recalled to a common union with former friends and an alliance with former principles. To such let us extend the hand of fraternity—let us not consider error as crime, and punish delusion as the sin of perfidy. In the language of the poet "to err is human, to forgive, divine"—let us then forgive and cherish those; whose "hands are guilty, but whose hearts are free."—Let us welcome them to our wigwam and smoke the calumet of peace and good fellowship together. Let a common interest bind us together, and let our future competition be, who shall render most service to the democratick cause, who shall be most active in the promotion of the happiness of his country.
FROM THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE PATRIOT.
TRUTH AND ELOQUENCE.
We are proud that our paper should be chosen as the vehicle by which the voice of the Patriots of our Revolution should sound in the ears of Republicans. For the following correspondence we are indebted to the same person who forwarded us a similar correspondence with the republicans of Bennington. Reiterations of applause are due the venerable STARK, from the friends of our Union, not only for his revolutionary services, but for his present timely monitions and warnings.
Salem, Washington County, N. York, 17th September, 1809.
SIR.—In behalf of the Republican Citizens of the County of Washington, convened on the 14th inst. for the purpose of taking into consideration the present critical situation of their country, and as foreman to their committee, I am instructed to transmit you their unfeigned gratitude for those military services, which in a pre-eminent manner freed this Country, it being adjacent to Bennington, from the hirelings of tyrants; and thereby in a manner restored tranquility to its inhabitants. At the meeting a letter from you to the Bennington committee was read. Its genuine sentiments drew forth applause, and many soldiers in the Revolution, and with you at Bennington; could not repress the tear of sensibility. At this crisis it enkindled the fire of Patriotism, and filled the bosoms of our young men with noble sentiments. Such
ideas, coming from a man who fought the battles of Freemen, whose age and experience has enabled him to form correct opinions with respect to our governmental concerns are worth volumes of abstract and metaphysical reasoning to show that this or that form of government is best .—That meeting instructed me to say, "that they sincerely love and venerate Gen. STARK—that they thank the God of Battles for having prolonged his life to a good old age—that his sentiments, as expressed in his letter, are their sentiments, and they fervently pray his life may yet be spared—his mind continue unimpaired for years to come—and that he will not be wanting in warning his countrymen of the dangers arising from that faction, in former times called "tories," but now assuming the name of federalists."—Thank God, we are not under their influence; and in this part of the Union there is a manly display of true democratick, constitutional principles.
May that Being, in whose hands are all the issues of life—who gave us a STARK in the hour of peril and danger, and who has been watchful for us hitherto, pour the balm of sweet repose into your declining bosom, and still preserve to our common country those blessings for which you fought and conquered. Accept from me and through me, the respect and esteem of the true Sons of Liberty in this Country.
JESSE L. BILLINGS.
Foreman of the Committee.
General JOHN STARK.
ANSWER,
My Quarters, Derrysfield, 10th Oct. 1809.
SIR, I have lately received a letter from you, as Chairman of a Committee of the Republican Citizens of Washington County, convened on the 14th September last—in which you say much of my services in freeing your neighbourhood of British hirelings. It is true, we all did what we could, and our doings were crowned with success. But there is much to be done. The most dangerous part of those hirelings are still in this country. We must know how to distinguish those Wolves from the Sheep of the flock, although they appear covered with wool.—From their mouths we may know them. For the wolf cannot imitate the voice of the sheep; nor can the hireling think or express the thoughts of freemen. While one like the parrot, is mimicking the high sounding words of his royal employers, and crying aloud that our only dependence is on commerce: the other, in Republican simplicity, declares his own unborrowed sentiments, and says we can never be independent till we can supply all our necessary wants within ourselves. We must learn likewise to distinguish the men who fought for the equal rights and liberties of the great whole, from those who fought only for the exclusive privileges of a federal aristocracy. These, like the others, cry for commerce, all the idle trappings and encumbrances of royalty. Merchants and Lawers are commonly of this description. The first merchants (or money changers) that I recollect hearing of, Christ found in the Temple, and called them a den of thieves and overthrew their tables. And in the same Book it is said the Lawers are hypocrites and despoilers of widows' houses, and for a show made long prayers. It is, however, a little remarkable, that these two professions have preserved this character so long: it is now above 1800 years.
I thank you, Mr. BILLINGS, and the Republicans of Washington County for your prayers for the continuance of my life, because I consider them as the expression of your good will. But I have lived full long enough. Nevertheless, as long as the Lord sees cause to keep me here, I will employ the remnant of my faculties in exposing the enemies of the rights of man. And I exhort you all, that in your praying, not to forget to watch too.
I hope you will all enjoy the peace and liberty that belongs to freemen. My strongest friendship for you, as long as you maintain the spirit I found among you in '77.
JOHN STARK.
JESSE L. BILLINGS, Foreman of the Committee of Washington Republicans
Literary Miscellany.
FOR THE RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
MISCELLANEA—No. XII.
LAVOISIER.
LAVOISIER was endowed with superior powers of genius. His attention was early attracted to physical science. Chemistry, was his darling pursuit. In this department of natural knowledge, he shone a luminary of the first magnitude. To him the world is indebted for many important discoveries, and the useful application of numerous facts, which remained, unproductive, in the hands of his contemporaries. He was distinguished for his philosophical induction. Precision and brilliancy characterized his observations. His writings are a "most beautiful model of scientific composition—clear, logical, and elegant." Long will his untimely death be deeply lamented, and call forth bitter curses on the memory of that ferocious monster, who doomed him to the bloody scaffold.
DAMPIER'S VOYAGES.
LET those who wish to become acquainted with the state and aspect of the country, bordering the Bay of Campeachy, the wes-
tern shores of South-America and Mexico, and a great portion of the East-Indies, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, consult the Voyages and Adventures of William Dampier . The work, though old, bears the marks of inquisitive and discerning genius. A little time devoted to its perusal, would be better employed than in poring over the impiety of Voltaire and Paine, or even inspecting the pages of Godwin's Political Justice .
OSSIAN AND HOMER.
CHARLOTTE, in one of her letters, during her connexion with Werter, makes the following comparison between these two celebrated poets. "I am much pleased with many passages in Ossian, but the perpetual recurrence of the same images, and a continual effort to effect the sublime, so wearies the mind, that I can never read more than a few passages at a time. Ossian resembles a tremendous rock, overhung with waving woods, where you may discover foaming cat-aracts, gloomy caverns, and dismal precipices. Homer is like a fertile country, in which you may at once contemplate the varied beauties of woods and water-falls, torrents that rush with impetuosity from lofty mountains, and streams that murmur through Arcadian vallies. Like the shield of Achilles, the poems of Homer present the whole world to our view."
SIMPLICITY.
"SIMPLICITY," says Mrs. Wollstonecraft Godwin, "seems, in general, the consequence of ignorance, as I have observed in women and sailors—the being confined to one tract of impressions." The Authoress appears to have unfortunately mistaken ignorance for simplicity. Of the latter I doubt whether she possessed any correct ideas.
Political Miscellany.
From the AURORA.
INFLUENCE OF BRITAIN.
No. VIII.
IN my anterior discussions, it has been shewn that the influence of Britain in the United States, subsequent to the revolution, was in a principal measure, the consequence of the American people accepting the credits offered to them by British merchants, and adopting the use of the manufactures of Great Britain, which came ready to their hands—and abandoning the pursuit of American manufactures, which at the period of Dr. Franklin's agency in England, excited so much alarm; and though more tedious to bring to maturity, would, if they had been carefully nursed by the American people, after the revolution, in due season, have placed this nation in that independent situation, which is best understood by being applied to the circumstances of a family, who produce within themselves, whatever is necessary to clothe and afford them a comfortable existence.
We should not for the last eighteen years have been the football for foreign nations to kick about the universe—and we should have been exempt from the passions which have been constantly excited to maintain that influence by agitating our country; nor would those unnatural sympathies have existed for foreign nations, which have degraded our country in the eyes of the world, and sunk it even in our own. We have seen that the progress and advancement of British Influence has been a consequence of the great mass of the people on the seaboard, having relinquished their habits of industry, and economy, their virtuous primary avocations, and turned their sole attention to the inordinate spirit of speculation in foreign commerce—and that commerce, if not wholly supported, at least materially assisted by British capital and British credit. We have noticed too the great influx of British traders into the United States, for the purposes of commercial operations only, not to settle and become part of a free people, but to indulge luxury and become rich, and leave nothing behind them on their departure, but the fatal example of their vices or their evil habits; and we may remark further, that although they did not always make their entre into the country in quite so flourishing a style as their countryman, the Marquis Wellesley, lately did into Spain—that is, with the colours of France triumphantly spread on the wharf by way of a carpet for him—they found no difficulty in making their way into what have been ridiculously called the "first families;" a species of aristocracy which I have already noticed. Indeed it has been remarked that their matrimonial alliance has been sought by those " first families ," with avidity, not exactly in accordance with any discretion, and not always producing either a real or even the imaginary happiness of a durable ostentation.
A youngster from behind a counter in London, or from a packing loft in Leeds, Manchester, or Liverpool, whose political consequence in his own country had never extended beyond an opposition to the dog tax, and who was sent here to gather money—not to spend it—suddenly feels himself translated from plain Jacky Blunt, into a thing resembling in scent something indicative of a spurious nobility;—here he swells into a politician of immense bulk, and although he has not in his whole life read two volumes of the history of England, nor a page of the history of any other country, all of which like a true son of John Bull he most gravely despises, he can with amazing fluency pass encomiums on every thing appertaining to Great Britain, and approve of every act of the British government, from its conquest by Cæsar, down

to its disgrace and ruin by the united powers of Pitt and Canning.
If you can but believe, and all the females of the "first families" are taught to believe with more earnestness than the gospel, we have nothing in this country equal to what is in England—our trees are all shrubs and our rivers mere rivulets; our cows are not larger than their calves; our beef is carrion; and our mutton not fit to feed the puppies of England; our turkeys are not quite the size of their chickens; and even our moon is not bigger than one of their stars.
And extravagant as this may appear to many, it is much more close to the style of Jacky Bull in America, than a reasonable man would without experience credit.
If it should be disputed, that the British merchants and agents did not give the ton here, and taught the Americans, who previously had barely existed, how to live, it will not be difficult to point both in town and in the country, to the magnificent monuments of British extravagance and luxury—these mausolea of extravagance and ignorance, have to be sure for the most part changed their tenants; but they have left behind, their contagious example, the habits which were formed in the orgies of dissipation, for which these temples of extravagance were constructed.
Whoever imagines that a splendid style of living does not create and obtain admiration and influence, is not well acquainted with human nature.
Dr. Franklin, who knew the weak, as well as the strong side of human nature, well said, that "the nearest road to the heart, was through the mouth," perhaps the access by the eyes and ears in certain circumstances is equally certain.
Let Mr. and Mrs. Dumpling, the sausage makers, from Fetter Lane or Shoreditch, London, set up their chariot, keep a couple of stout fellows with red or yellow cloth and worsted lace about their necks, as men in livery; let them give good dinners, and elegant balls, and see who of our "first families," will refuse to do them reverence. Jacky Bull went to work in this way, and he succeeded to a little; several of the family who followed him, have been heard to express their astonishment at the unsusppected splendour, taste, learning, and even the fashionable consequence of their early linsey-woolsey relation; and the before-unheard-of grandeur of their own English connections; they, however, soon found out the secrets of Jacky, and for the honour of old England, could not fall behind their relation in his progress through life; meanwhile, Jacky Bull's expenses forced him to extend his business, and this forced him into the banks—a situation wherein a man may receive condign punishment, for the heaviest of sins; the surprising manner of his passage through this part of history, is no less marvellous than amusing.
In a future number, I shall take a glance at the interior of the banking edifice.
A WHIG.
FOR THE RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
No. IV.
To the Honourable E***** R. P*****
SIR, AS I intend to give you all the credit you are entitled to, you will permit me to make a few observations on your elegant and argumentative speech in the Legislature of this State, on a motion, which I think you had the honour of making, for the repeal of the act for the establishment of free schools. I regret, however, that in consequence of our Legislature's not employing a Stenographer, I am obliged to rely, altogether, on my own memory for the quotations I shall think proper to make. Should I be so unfortunate as to make you the author of more than what ought to be ascribed to you, you or your friends will be good enough to correct me. You recollect how completely you silenced the honourable gentleman from Providence, who intimated to the house that you were actuated by motives different from those of benevolence. Your reply was such an one as bespoke a noble mind and philanthropic heart. "Shame should have burnt his cheek to cinder," who could have the unblushing effrontery to assert that you wished to have an act repealed because you had no children to enjoy the benefit of it. You considered the whole people of our State your children; you scorned to gratify the wishes of the people of any one district, when you well knew that there might be some parts of our State that would deprecate the shackles attendant on a scholastick education. You considered the petitions of our rising youth, the flower of our country, of more consequence than those of decrepit age. Of selfishness, then you might, with propriety, accuse that man who would vote for the continuance of an act merely to gratify his own feelings, although he might at the same time, disturb the peace and tranquillity of his children's minds. You considered the love of liberty to be inherent in the youthful breast, and that any attempt to check the growth of this principle, would be attended with fatal consequences; that it would be adding fuel to a spark that might produce a conflagration, in whose ruins would be involved the fabric of our government. How much nobler was it to leave it optional with the youth of our country, either to polish or not, their minds, by plodding over moral and scientific discourses. You supposed that the will of the parent would on most occasions, be warped by the inclination of the child, when the purse-strings of the former must be drawn, in order to make an effectual opposition to the propensities of the latter.
In addition to what has been said, you fore-
saw that the continuance of the forementioned act, might have given rise to another, similar in its nature. We have an university, one that has never been patronized by our Legislature; one that has been wholly supported by private donations—You anticipated what would have been the conduct of some of the sons of our university who have always viewed their alma mater with a benignant eye—you were jealous of the intentions of those eminent advocates, who head the respective bars of Providence and Newport, and who are likewise sons of our university—They might have introduced into our Legislature a bill, the success of which would have given the meanest of our citizens an opportunity of reaping the advantages of an education similar to their own, without money, and without price.
EURYALUS.
NEWPORT :
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8, 1809.
NEW BRITISH MINISTRY.
A change has recently taken place in the British Cabinet. By virtue of the new arrangement, Lord Wellesley is to be Secretary of War; the Earl of Harrowby takes the foreign department; Mr. Percival is to be the first Lord of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Grenville and Lord Grey were invited to participate, but declined.
MILITARY.
On Thursday last, the Artillery Company of the town of Newport, under the command of Capt. Fry, mustered for military exercise. On this occasion they were reviewed by Maj. Gen. SULDEN; and passed through a variety of evolutions and firings in a soldierlike and spirited manner.
Yesterday the U. S. frigate President, Commodore BAINBRIDGE, dropped anchor in this harbour.
English mode of gaining victories.
Among the various marks of honour paid to His Excellency Marquis Wellesley on his arrival in Cadiz, the people brought out a French flag, and spread it upon the steps of the landing place, in such a situation, that the first foot which his Excellency set upon Spanish ground must trample upon the colours of the most perfidious and cruel foe of the Spanish nation.
On Tuesday, 15th August, 1809, Flushing, surrendered to the British arms! On the same day, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE attained his 40th year?—From this period of time, Prophecies have declared that his greatness will decline!
From Russia we have such information as may lead us to presume favourable from the mission of Mr. Adams to that country. The local prohibitions and temporary restraints which have been imposed from the present state of the Baltic seas, have been magnified into general policy, and national jealousy, but it appears that neutral Commerce is not without good hopes in Russia. From some documents, officially offered, it appears that neutral property will be respected, and that it may be proved, such forms have been announced, as may be sufficient to save it from embarrassments and confiscation. Essex Reg.
A question for our mercantile conscience, or moral sense.
Which is held in the greatest esteem—the life and liberty of a poor unfriended American seaman by the merchants of Boston;—or, a slave by the planters in Virginia?
In Boston there are a thousand tender sympathies for the distress of the southern black slaves; but there is not much sorrow for the sufferings of those poor seamen (many of them Bostonians), who are now impressed on board King George's ships.
And why is this so?—Because "ENGLAND IS IN DISTRESS!!!" Because she is blameless in her conduct; because she is perfectly just, and of unassuming humanity;—and because she is fighting our battles;—for all these reasons we are bound to wish her well; and to believe she has done us no essential harm.—Boe. Patriot.
If a Republican asserts, that in comparison to England, France has but slightly injured us, the federalists have the address to construe it into a crime of the first magnitude. It is horribly audacious, and most tremendously wicked! But when Timothy Pickering, at the very moment when Britain is heaping outrage upon outrage, and insult upon insult, declares that she has not essentially injured us, it is all very well, and precisely as it should be! [Boat. Chron.]
A Nashville (Tennessee) paper, speaking of the improvements and discoveries in the western country, observes—"the prying eye of science has discovered on the Caby fork of Cumberland river, in an unfrequented mountain, thousands of tons of Copperas and Allum mingled together."
From the BOSTON CHRONICLE. The following is expressive of the temper which governed the federalists on the subject of the federal constitution, as published in the Centinel, April 26, 1788.—The State of Rhode Island is thus described, because they exercised their rights in taking time to deliberate on it. We now republish it for the perusal of that State, to shew in what estimation they were held by their federal friends: "It is ardently to be wished, writes a correspondent, that the little nest of villains who inhabit the petty territory of Rhode-Island, may not have the grace to accept of the CONSTITUTION—that boon from Heaven, offered to an half ruined country, in order to restore it to a state of happiness and splendor. May they be divided in their councils, and at length scattered, as a people, among the other States, and all political power which they have forfeited as a state taken from the sinful hands of those who have uniformly abused it, ever since they have been known as a government; and who are at length come a "hissing and a bye word among the nation." Bravo! Major.
The Legislature of New-Jersey has re-elected JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD, esq. Governor of the State.
The Legislature of Connecticut have voted to procure 21,000 stands of arms, to be kept for the use of the state.
QUESTIONS ON MAGNETISM.
1. Whether any gentleman who is in the practice of using the magnetick needle, has made any discovery that the needle is now returning or receding from the meridian? And if so, then
2. At what time past did the needle begin to alter its motion from approaching the meridian, to its departing further therefrom? And then,
3. As what rate is the receding motion of the needle?
Ay to myself, I would state, that according to the observations which I have made in practical surveying, I have for several years past suspected that the needle did not continue to approach the meridian as heretofore, but was departing further therefrom; and I have of late become confirmed in that opinion. Now, therefore, if any gentleman has been so fortunate in his observations as to be able to make an accurate discovery of the position of the magnetick needle at this day, and will publish correct answers to the foregoing questions, it will be very useful to the publick and much oblige the Subscriber.
NATH'L. SPENCER.
Surveyor for Litchfield county. New Hartford, (Con.) Sept. 24, 1809.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
"The Patriot," No. 4, is received, and shall be published in our next.
"A Fragment," by a Subscriber, shall be duly attended to.
MARRIED.
In this town, on Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Eddy, Mr. BENJAMIN WEAVER, to Miss HANNAH BRIGGS, daughter of Joseph Briggs, Esq.
On Monday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Gibson, Mr. Wm. JAMES, to Miss RUTH CARTER, both of this town.
On Tuesday evening last week, by the Rev. Mr. Gibson, Mr. JOHN PALMER to Miss SALLY DWIGHT, both of East-Greenwich.
On Thursday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Eddy, Mr. BENJAMIN HOWARD, to Miss HANNAH CORNELL, daughter of Mr. George Cornell, of this town.
At Bellingham, Mass. Mr. ISRAEL SCOTT, of Providence, to Miss SALLY HOLBROOK, of the former place.
DIED.
In this town, Mr. JOSEPH PECKHAM, eldest son of Mr. Isaac Peckham, aged 22. He was a young man whose urbanity of manners rendered him dear to his connections and friends. His remains were interred on Sunday last, with military honours by the Artillery Company of the town of Newport, of which he was a member.
At North-Kingstown, on the 19th ult. Mrs. EXPERIENCE TAYLOR, widow of the late Col. Joseph Taylor, in the 81st year of her age.
At Newshereham, on the 25th ult. Miss TAMAR RATHBONE, daughter of Walter Rathbone, Esq. after a lingering illness, which she bore with christian patience and fortitude, for many years.
MARINE LIST.
PORT OF NEWPORT.
Entered.—Sloop Express, Wood, New-York; do. Fame, Walden, do.; do. Golden Age, Earl, do.
Cleared.—Ship Sachem, Earl, Baltimore; schooner John, Hatch, Georgetown; do. Mary, Collins, New-York; Sloop Liberty, Nichols, Richmond; do. Golden Age, Cottrell, New-York; do. Fame, Helme, do.
VALUABLE STAND.
FOR SALE, AT PUBLICK AUCTION, On the First MONDAY of December next, [If not previously disposed of at private sale,]
THE Dwelling-House and Lot of the Subscriber, corner of Thames and Pelham-street, directly opposite Mr. TOWNSEND'S Coffee-House. The great advantages of this stand, for any kind of business whatever, are too well known to require a particular recommendation, to claim the attention of any who may wish to purchase.—For terms, (which will be liberal,) apply to DAVID MELVILLE. Newport, Oct. 25.
STOVE PIPES.
OF TIN, or sheet IRON, of any length or size, made by the Subscriber, at his Shop one door west of Messrs. J. MUNROE & Co's. Grocery Store.—Also, Tin Ware for sale as cheap as can be purchased in this state. The smalles favour gratefully acknowledged.
N. B. Cash given for old Pewter and Lead. NATHANIEL NASON. Newport, Nov. 1, 1809.
William and Henry Moore,
OFFER FOR SALE, AT THEIR STORE, No. 5, MARKET-SQUARE, For Cash, Country Produce, or approved Credit, at as low prices as can be purchased at any store in Newport— 30 boxes excellent brown SUGARS; 5 do. do. white do.; 20 bbls. do. do.; 2000 wt. excellent COFFEE; 10 chests Souchong TEAS; 5 do. Hyson do.; 5 do. Hyson do.; 10 casks GINGER; Bags of PEPPER; do. PIMENTO; 5 pipes Country GIN, of a superior quality; 5 hlds. 3d proof W. I. RUM; 15 do. N. E. do.; IRONMONGERY, CUTLERY, and HARD WARE; NAILS of all kinds; ANCHORS, of every size; Sunday articles in the Dry Goods Line; 4 bales COTTON. Also, at their Store, No. 100, THAMES-STREET, A general and extensive assortment DRY GOODS, as cheap as can be found. The above articles will be sold at wholesale or retail. N. B. All those persons who have long standing accounts, are desired to call and settle the same by cash or note. Nov. 8.
Watches' Watch-Makers' and Jewellers' Tools, Materials, &c.
Thomas & Benj. Demilt,
No. 156, Water-Street, New-York. OFFER for Sale on the most reasonable terms, the following articles selected, by one of the Firm at the Manufactories, and purchased for cash, viz:—Chronometers; detached, duplex, patent lever, horizontal, double balance wheels, and a great variety of verge Watches, of different prices; cameram and cornelian Seals, most fashionable patterns; gilt Chains; Seals and Keys; silk Watch Strings; best prepared Oil for watches; a general assortment of Clock and Watch Springs; Watch Glasses, Dials and Verges; steel Wire, assorted round and square; pinion do. do. of 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12; click and brass Wire; Brass for fusees and barrels; roll'd cast Steel for repeating work; Watch Bolts and Springs for English and French watches; gold and metal Hands, assorted from size No. 3 to 12, some with very small sockets, suitable for French watches; Watch Pinions of 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12; clock do.; Forged and Brass Works; do. Movements; watch and clock makers, jewellers and silver-smiths Files, of a superior quality; very superior Hand Saws; cross cut and mill saw do.; Blue Stone for jewellers; turkey stone Slips; 2, 3 and 4 row watch Brushes; 2 1/2 and 4 inch time piece Dials; Geneva Draw Plates; do. Pivot Piles, and an extensive assortment of Clock and Watch Maker's, and Jeweller's Tools. New-York, Nov. 5, 1809.
GODFREY WENWOOD,
HAS FOR SALE, On the most reasonable Terms, A QUANTITY of Ship and Cabin Bread; Alexandria and New-York Flour & the first quality; Molasses by the gallon; coarse and blown Salt by the bushel; Ginger and Pearl-Ask by retail.—Also, Mystick Tyle by the dozen, and Philadelphia Bricks by the hundred; Hops by the pound; Malt by the bushel or smaller quantity; Wheat Bran by the bushel; Coal by the bushel.—Also, A quantity of Bricks and Tile, made of Pipe Clay, suitable for Ovens. Newport, Aug. 30, 1809.
JOESPH BRIGGS,
No. 63, Thames-street, HAS for sale—100 bbls. Prime Pork, warranted; Gin, per pipe. Also—An assortment of GROCERIES. N. B. He transacts Commission Business. Those who are disposed to favour him in this line, may depend on his exertions in their behalf. STORAGE for goods may be had by applying as above. July 26.
CASH;
AND the highest price given for good clean Flax-Seed, Tow-Cloth or Feathers. Wanted 2000 bushels good clean Barley. Apply at No. 5, MARKET-SQUARE. Nov. 8.
The Progressive Company,
AT THEIR GRAINERY AND GROCERY STORE, No. 11, LONG-WHARF, Have for Sale, Wholesale and Retail, at the lowest current prices,
A Constant supply of Rye and Indian Corn & do. do. Rye and Indian Meal; Flour, of the most approved brands. An extensive assortment of GROCERIES and LIQUORS—among which are—
10 hlds. 3d proof St. Croix and Antigua Rum; 20 pipes 4th proof Spanish Brandy; 20 quarter casks Sherry Wine; 20 boxes Raisins; 20 do. Chocolate; Hyson, Souchong, and Bohea Teas, by the chest or lesser quantity, &c. &c. 1600 bushels Exuma Salt, of a superior quality; 1500 do. Liverpool do. 500 do. Turks-Island do. 500 do. Bonavista do. Also—a quantity of well seasoned mer. Boards; Likewise—Just received, 5 pipes Gin; 5 hlds. old Jamaica Spirits; 26 chests Compoys Tea, of an excellent flavour; 1000 wt. Cheese; 200 Meal Bags; 8 crates and 2 hlds. Crockery Ware, &c. &c. ** Cash given for Corn and Rye. N. B. Those persons who have in their possession Meal Bags belonging to the Company, will have the goodness to return them. WILLIAM COGGESHALL, jun. Agent. Newport, Oct. 18.
SIMPSON & BARKER,
Offer for sale, At the Brisk Market, 40 bbls. mess Pork. March 22, 1809.
JAMES WESTGATE, BAKER,
No. 193, Thames-Street, Offers for sale, 100 bbls. excellent Ship Bread. Groceries of all kinds, Crackers and Ginger Bread put up at the shortest notice. Newport, March 23.

Poetry.
[The following elegant and patriotick Song, written by Mr. WILLIAM C. FOSTER, was sung by 200 Ladies, and as many Gentlemen, at the late celebration of the Tannancy Society , in the Village of Troy.]
A NEW SONG.
Tune—"INDIAN CHIEF."
WHEN dark superstition sunk Europe in night, And the mandates of tyrants put Freedom to flight; COLUMBUS, undaunted, his canvas unfurl'd, To find her a home in this far Western World. Our titular saint met the sage on the strand, And welcom'd him safe to the fair promis'd land.
The Great Council Fire was trim'd on the shore, Where our Chiefs by the God of their fore-fathers swore, That no tyrant our race e'er in fetters should bind, Nor banish from hence the just rights of mankind: That these shores ever sacred to Freedom should be, And the mountains re-echo'd the solemn decree.
To commemorate this, we together have met, The glorious DISCO'RY we'll now celebrate; And chant songs of praise to our Chiefs who're no more,
Who sought for the freedom and rights of our shore: Who seal'd with their blood the eternal decree, That COLUMBIA's brave sons should forever live free.
When our rights were infrig'd by the despots afar, We indignantly flourish'd the hatchet of war; From bosom to bosom expanded the flame, And our nation, a nation of warriors became: For they'd sworn to maintain the eternal decree, That COLUMBIA's brave sons should forever live free.
Then Patriot virtue our Councils inspir'd, With the cause of their country our heroes were fir'd, Our foes were led captive or driven afar, For the God of ALBANY was with us in war. He smil'd on the Patriot—he frown'd on the slave, And deck'd with rich laurels the brows of the brave.
The bones of our heroes still whiten the plains, But faithful in story their glory remains, And their spirit descending shall fire the brave To cherish the prize which their ancestors gave— Who for an asylum this wilderness chose, And caus'd the rude forest to bloom, as the rose.
Here, afar from all foreign contentions and broils, Peace strews the green olive and harmony smiles; Here Plenty extends her all-bountiful hand, And the bright star of Science shines over the land. Thus may our Republick be prosper'd thro' time, The most happy nation—the most favour'd clime.
The fame of our altars has shone o'er the sea, And the tyrants are marshall'd lest man becomes free; But their day star's declining—their thrones shall be hur'd, And the spirit of Freedom awaken the world. From the shores of the WEST the dread thunder has roll'd, And the light of the NEW WORLD has spread thro' the OLD.
AMUSING MISCELLANY.
FROM THE ANTHOLOGY.
Original Letters, from an American Traveller in Europe, to his friends in this country.
LETTER TWENTY-FIRST.
Rome, Feb. 25, 1805.
MY DEAR FRIEND, I HAD commenced in my last letter a short to- pographical description of modern Rome. I have spoken of its size, its surface, and general form and appearance. 'Something has been said also of its mountains, or rather as we should call them, hills.
The Monte Celio, or Mons Celius, is no otherwise remarkable at the present day, than as being the site of the famous church of St. John in Laterano, the second church of Rome in point of splendour, and the oldest in Christendom as the catholicks pre- tend. Whatever may be the justice of its pretensions in this respect, they are so far admitted by the Apostolick see, that the ceremony of the induction of the pope is always performed in this church, to the great prejudice of its proud sister, St. Peter's.
In the early ages of Rome, this mountain was cal- led the mountain of Oaks, on account of its being covered with a thick forest: it is said to have deriv- ed its present name from Celius, who, according to Tacitus, brought succours to Tarquin the ancient, in his war against the Sabines. It would not be an in- jury to Rome, if it were again covered with oaks, since it embraces a portion, which is among the most deserted, and seems from that cause to cast a gloom over the rest of the city.
The Aventine mount is not worthy of notice on account of any remarkable modern edifices; its ex- tent is very considerable, and its height has been as little improved as any of these famous hills.
The Mons Quirinalis is situated in the most popu- lous part of modern Rome; it is in fact covered with fine streets and magnificent edifices, but it is most distinguished by being the seat of the papal palace, in which the pope always actually resides. Upon occasions of great splendour and solemnity, the Va- tican is preferred, but the constant domestic estab- lishment of the pope is at the Quirinal palace. It is a most beautiful and noble hill, and gives an air of grandeur to this city, of which no other city of Eu- rope can boast.
Though the Mons Janiculus was not considered as one of the seven hills, (probably because it was on the opposite side of the river from the others, and rather without the populous part of the city,) yet it is always formed, and still forms a very important and interesting portion of the metropolis. It is now in- ferior to none of the other hills in point of splen- dour, since it has the honour to support the incom- parable palace of the Vatican and the metropolitan church of St. Peter's. These edifices, so beautiful, so magnificent, so princely, so filled with relicks of ancient art, and with the incomparable productions of modern genius, would alone be sufficient to be- stow distinction and consequence upon any hill or any city, in which they should be placed.
The Tiber, so celebrated by ancient poets, so de- serving of interest for having watered the first city in the world, is often spoken of contemptuously by modern travellers. It has been called a little, con- temptible, muddy rivulet. What pleasure these gentlemen literati can take in thus calumniating this noble stream, I cannot conceive; for my own part I have a different feeling on the subject, and as the Tiber fully answered my expectations, and respond- ed to the descriptions of it in classic writers, I think it worthy of a few lines of description, from which you will be able to form an opinion for your- self.
The Tiber takes its rise about one hundred and fifty miles from the Mediterranean, though it is rap-
idly for boats only to the distance of one hundred miles from that sea. At Rome, it is about three hun- dred feet wide at the narrowest point, and from Rome to the ocean is navigable for large ships. It is a fact, that a British frigate some years since ascend- ed to the city, and landed there the dutchess of Cumberland, the widow of the late duke of Cum- berland, brother to the present king of Great-Britain. At Rome, the river is exceedingly rapid, but from thence to the ocean its course is very lazy, and con- siderably impeded by quicksands and mud, which are deposited by the stream, and are frequently shift- ing their position and quantity. Its navigation or shipping is not extensive, considering the immense population of this city; it is principally carried on in feluccas of from thirty to sixty tons burthen. This torpid state of its commerce is rather to be attributed to the character of the inhabitants, and the wretched nature of the government, than to any nat- ural defects in the river. When Rome contained, as it formerly did, more than a million of inhabitants, the most luxurious and extravagant of every inhabi- ted any city; when the productions of every climate and the delicacies of every soil enriched their ban- quets, it is not possible, that such demands could have been supplied without a crowded navigation in the Tiber. I venture to say, that if Rome was at this moment in the possession of the people of our coun- try, the Tiber would be whitened by a thousand hips. [To be continued.]
NOTICE.
State of Connecticut, New-London County, ss.
Superior Court, September Term, A. D. 1809.
GILMOR ROBBINS, of Preston, in New-London County, brought his Petition to this Court, a- gainst his Creditors, alleging that by means of sun- dry losses and misfortunes, he has become insolvent, praying that his body may be exempted from future arrest and imprisonment, agreeably to the Act of the Legislature in such cases provided: which Petition is continued by said Court, to the Superior Court, to be holden at Norwich, in and for New-London County on the third TUESDAY of January, A. D. 1810, when and where the said Creditors of the Petitioner, are hereby notified to appear, if they see cause, and shew reasons, if any they have, why the prayer of said Pe- tition should not be granted.
CHARLES LATHROP, Clerk.
JAMES LANMAN, Attorney for Petitioner.
PUBLICK HEALTH.
BATHING-HOUSE.
FOR the accommodation of those Ladies and Gentlemen, who wish to partake of the luxury of the Bath, the BATHING- HOUSE will be opened every day, from sun- rise until 9 o'clock in the evening, Sundays excepted, when it will be closed at 10 o'clock in the morning.—Tickets may be had at the Medicine Store of SAMUEL W. VINSON, and of the Proprietor. Ladies will please to pass in at the door No. 72, Thames-Street. Gen- tlemen will enter at the east door of the Bathing-House, Pelham-Street. Subscribers will be furnished with Tickets on account of their Shares, as heretofore. Newport, April 19, 1809.
S. STACKHOUSE'S
(NEW INVENTED)
PATENT CHURN.
THIS Churn will work much easier than the com- mon one; besides, it has the advantage of col- lecting the butter in rolls; it may also be made to any size, so as to churn any quantity the possessor may wish: and it may be fixed in such a manner as to work either by hand, water, wind, or any other power.— Good Cream has often been churned into the best Butter, by this excellent and simple machine, in eight or ten minutes, and deposited in neat rolls, producing an eighth of the whole more butter than in the com- mon way.
** The above Churn may be had of BATMAN MONRO, in Portsmouth, or ROBERT & NICHOLAS LAWTON, No. 61 String-Street, Newport. August 2.
PLEASE TO TAKE NOTICE.
THE Subscribers respectfully inform their Friends and the publick, that they have entered into Partnership, and taken the well known Stables belonging to Mr THOMAS TOWNSEND, situated in Green-street, where Horses and Carriages for every purpose will be furnished at short notice; particularly Coachmen provided with careful and experienc- ed drivers, for parties of pleasure or travel- ers; and Saddle Horses either for Ladies or Gentlemen; they will also furnish despatch messengers for any direction. Their Stables being well calculated for the business, Horses will be taken in to keep at reasonable rates for long or short periods; and as they are deter- mined to attend well to every part of their bu- siness, they hope to merit the favours of the publick. JOHN G. EASTON. WM. E. DRUMMOND.
THE Subscriber from long and intimate knowledge of WM. E. DRUMMOND, and con- fidence in his Partner, recommends them as worthy the encouragement of the publick. THOMAS TOWNSEND. Newport, April 19, 1809.
TAKE NOTICE.
WILLIAM PEARCE,
Respectfully informs his friends, and the pub- lick in general,
THAT he continues keeping a TAV- ERN at his house in the village of Wickford, town of North-Kingstown, next door to PHILIP TIL- LINGHAST, 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 small- est favour gratefully acknowledged.
The House may be well known by its end front- ing the street, and the sign of a Bunch of Grapes. Wickford, (R. I.) Oct. 25, 1809.
APPRENTICE WANTED.
WANTED an Apprentice, to the Baking business. A smart active Lad a- bout 12 or 13 years of age, who can produce good recommendation, may hear of a situation by applying at the office of the Rhode-Island Republican .
N. B. One from the country would be pre- ferred. May 10.
PATENT SPRINGS.
MR. JAMES ARMOUR, junr. of New- York, obtained of the President of the United States, Letters Patent, dated June 27, 1808, se- curing to him throughout the United States, the SPIRAL SPRING, applicable to all kind of Carriages, and whereas the Subscriber has purchased of said Patentee, the right for the State of Rhode-Island.
The subscriber makes and will always keep on hand, Springs to supply the abovementioned dis- trict; and warrant the Springs manufactured by him, for the term of one year.
The abovementioned Springs have been in use in New-York, Philadelphia, and the principal part of New-Jersey, for more than a year. In Providence there have been eighteen pair of Chaise and two pair of Coach Springs sold, and are now in use; they are highly approved, as possessing more ease, con- venience, and durability than any other Carriage Springs.
Any gentleman wishing to purchase may be supplied by applying to WILLIAM DOUGLASS, head of Broad-Street, Newport. JONATHAN NICHOLS. Providence, Oct. 16.
DR. ROBERTSON'S
GENUINE
Patent and Family Medicines. Celebrated for the cure of most Diseases to which the Human Body is liable, Prepared only by the sole proprietor, T. W. DYOTT, M. D.
Grandson of the late Dr. ROBERTSON, of Edinburgh— to be had wholesale and retail at the Proprietor's MEDICAL DISPENSARY, No. 116, North Second Street, second door above Race-street, Philadelphia.
DR. ROBERTSON'S
CELEBRATED Stomachick Elixir of Health. (Price one dollar and fifty cents.)
Which has proved by thousands who have experi- enced its beneficial effects, to be the most valuable medicine ever offered to the publick, for speedily re- lieving and curing the cramp, pains and wind in the stomach, and carrying off superfluous bile removing habitual costiveness, sickness at the stomach, severe head ache, &c. &c.
For the dysentery or lax, cholera morbus, severe gripings and other diseases of the bowels, and the summer bowel complaint in children, it has proved a certain remedy and restored to perfect health from the greatest debility.
Persons afflicted with pulmonary complaints or dis- orders of the breast and lungs, even if in the most advanced state, will find immediate relief.
Common coughs and colds, which are generally oc- casioned by obstructed perspiration, will be found to yield to its benign influence in a few hours.
In asthmatic or consumptive complaints, hoarse- ness, wheezings, shortness of breath and the whoop- ing cough, it will give immediate relief.
DR. ROBERTSON'S
VEGETABLE NERVOUS CORDIAL, OR NATURE'S GRAND RESTORATIVE. (Price one dollar and fifty cents.)
Is confidently recommended, as the most efficacious Medicine, for the speedy relief and cure of all nervous complaints, impurities of the blood, seminal weakness and various complaints, resulting from dissipated pleasures, residence in warm climates, the immoder- ate use of tea, the unskillful or excessive use of mercury, and diseases peculiar to females at a cer- tain period of life.
Under the denomination of nervous disorders, in its full extent, are included several diseases of the most dangerous kind, and are so various, that a vol- ume would hardly suffice to complete a description of them. It pervades with its baneful influence the whole nervous system, writhing the heart with inex- pressible anguish, and exciting the most dreadful suggestions of horror and despair. To this demon have thousands fallen a sacrifice in the direful trans- ports of its rage.
The most common symptoms at its commencements, are weakness, flatulence, palpitations, watchfulness, drowsiness after eating, timidity, flashes of heat and cold, numbness, cramp, giddiness, pains in the head, back and loins, hickup, difficulty of respiration and degulution, anxiety, dry cough, &c.
Since Dr. ROBERTSON's first discovery of this in- valuable medicine, upwards of Two Hundred Thou- sand persons have experienced its happy and salutary effects, many of whom had been reduced to the last stage, and had given up all hopes of recovering.
DR. ROBERTSON'S
PATENT STOMACHICK WINE BITTERS. (Price one dollar.)
These celebrated and well known Bitters are com- posed purely of vegetables of the most innocent yet specific virtues, and are particularly recommended for restoring weak constitutions, cleansing and strengthening the stomach and increasing the appe- tite; they expel worms in all ages, but from their simplicity and safety, are a most natural and effect- ual vermifuge when administered to children; they are gratefully warm and pungently aromatic; they are extremely serviceable in all seasons, but partic- ularly so on the approach of warm weather, when bi- lious habits experience such a total loss of appetite; they are also a certain preventive against those com- plaints so common in the spring and fall seasons such as intermittent fevers and agues, long autumnal fe- vers, dysenteries, &c.
They possess moreover, the property peculiar to themselves, of qualifying and ameliorating those in- flammatory pernicious qualities inherent in ardent spirits and so often fatal when taken upon an empty stomach, and convert them into a wholesome pleas- ant and invigorating stomachick.
From their celebrity as an antidote against the serpent, they are particularly calculated for seafaring persons, to whose attention they are particularly re- commended; they are a very pleasant Cordial Bitters and are recommended for the use of taverns as well as private houses.
DR. ROBERTSON'S
CELEBRATED GOUT AND RHEUMATIC DROPS. (Price two Dollars.)
A safe and effectual cure for the gout, rheuma- tism, lumbago, stone and gravel, gleet, swellings and weaknesses of the joints, sprains bruises and all kinds of green wound—the cramp, pains in the head, face and body, stiffness of the neck, chilblains, frozen limbs, &c.
Since the above invaluable medicine, were first dis- covered by Dr. Robertson, upwards of Seven hun- dred Thousand persons have experienced their salut- ary effects, many of whom from the greatest debility.
A fresh supply of the above Medicines just received and for sale by SAMUEL W. VINSON,
APOTHECARY Newport; where Pamphlets containing certificates of cures &c. may be had gratis.
Take Notice that none are genuine without the signature of T. W. DYOTT, M. D. Newport, September, 6 1809.
FOR SALE,
THE brig HIRAM, now lying at Gardner's wharf, burthen 100 tons, 6 years old. For terms and inventory, apply to EDWARD EASTON, JOHN PRICE, jun. or CHARLES DEYENS. Nov. 1.
For Freight, Charter, or Sale,
THE good brig AGENORIA; two decks, completely fitted for sea- going; burthen about 160 tons, and will carry, 200 tons; she may be ready to take a cargo in 3 or 4 days. If freighted to a port where sugars may answer, 80 bds. of Clayed and Musco- vado, from Martinique, is ready to be put on board, or will be sold, at a liberal credit, entitled to debenture. Apply to CONSTANT TABER. Newport, Sept. 13, 1809.
TO LET,
For the term of five years, or a shorter term.
A FARM in South-Kingstown, in that part called Boston-Neck, formerly owned by JOHN JENCKS, of Providence, deceased, and now owned by the Subscriber, consisting of about 350 a- cres. The natural fertility and advantages of Sea Manure, belonging to said Farm, are too well known to require description. The Tenant will be allowed to make payment of the greater part of the rent in improvements or repairs, such as making wall, cut- ting and clearing the land of bushes, &c. &c. The Tenant to give good security for the performance of the conditions in the lease, on his part. For further particulars and terms, enquire of the Subscriber in Bristol. Application to be made before the 25th of December next. JAMES D'WOLF. Bristol, Oct. 30.
FARM.
FOR SALE, by the subscriber, a val- uable Farm, situated in the town of Portsmouth, adjoining that of SAMUEL ELAM, Esq. about 5 miles from Newport.—Said Farm contains about 70 acres of excellent Land; a Dwelling-House, Barn, and other suitable out Houses. For terms and particulars, apply to HENRY TEW, on the premises. Newport, Aug. 23, 1809.
FOR SALE,
THAT pleasant situation South of the Brick-Market, about 60 feet on Thames-street, extends about 400 feet west, with a small Wharf. There are two large and very commodious Dwelling- Houses, one fronting on Thames-street, No. 177 and 179, with two convenient Shops in front; the other stands west, very well calculated for two families. JOSEPH ALLEN. Newport, September 13, 1809.
FOR SALE,
THE House and Lot at, the North part of Easton's point, lately occupied by the Rev. Mr Bradley. Also—The Marsts, Sails, Sails, Rigging, Stores, &c. suitable for a single decked Brig, of 110 or 115 tons, or a high or double decked Brig of 120 or 130 tons.—Apply to CONSTANT TABER. Newport, September 13, 1809.
FOR SALE OR TO LET.
THAT pleasantly situated HOUSE, and LOT, in Thames-street, next north but one of the Brick-Market. The Lot is 52 feet front, and 535 feet back, with a large yard, and an excellent gar- den, and a good well of water which is never dry. The House is large and convenient, and in complete repair, and is a most excellent stand for a Publick House, having two large and convenient stables, Coach and Chaise Houses, and a shed upwards of 100 feet long. Also, for sale, a number of well broke Chaise and Coach Horses, second hand Chaises and Gigs, with plated harness. The above property will be sold at a great bargain. For terms, apply to TH: D. STALL. Newport, Oct. 18.
FOR SALE,
A VERY handsome FRANKLIN STOVE, or Iron Fire-Place, with a Crane fix- ed in it.—This Stove is very convenient for a Smoke House, as it will entirely eradicate that great evil, and is a great saving of wood.—Also, a CLOSE STOVE and PIPE. For price, which will be very low, enquire of TH: D. STALL. Newport, Nov. 1.
FOR SALE,
TWO Lots of Land, pleasantly situ- ated at the head of Broad-street, adjoining each other, containing 250 feet front, and 70 feet rear, with a large two-story new building thereon fronting the head of Broad-street.—The building has been occupied as a Coach-maker's shop, and is well calculated for a Dwelling-House, and with a small expense may be made a beautiful situation.—On one of the Lots is a good well of water.—Also for Sale, Three good Chaises, with round and square tops, and one Gig, all with plated harnesses. Also, Two excellent Chaise Horses.—The above may be bought very cheap.—For terms apply to. ISAAC STALL. Newport, Oct. 25, 1809.
FOR SALE,
THE beautiful and pleasant FARM, im- proved by the Subscriber, in Middle- town.—Also, the House, Garden and Water Lot, situated in Water-street, Bristol; lately improved by Dr. Chillingsworth Foster.—For terms, apply to CARDER HAZARD. Middletown, June 6th, 1809.
FOR SALE,
AN elegant Mahogany BILLIARD TABLE, almost new, with all its apparatus. Enquire at this Office. Newport, Nov. 1.
NOTICE.
THE Persons that on the night of the 20th inst. broke down the fence of the Subscriber's Gar- den, on the Point, are well known, and unless they immediately satisfy him for the damage he has sus- tained in consequence of it, they are informed that coercive measures will be adopted to enforce a com- pensation. GEORGE CLARKE, jun. Nov. 1.