The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1809-12-15 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 15, 1809.
NUMBER 17.
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, } Salton, Essex, Beverly, Marblehead, Newburyport, Gloucester (Cape- Ann), Plymouth, Worcester, Bedford, Pacifick, and Nantucket } Banks, . . . . . 1-2 per cent. dis.  Portland, Maine, and Saco Banks, . . . . . 2 do.  Hallowell and Augusta, and Lincoln and Kennebec Banks, . . . . . 10 to 15 do.  Penobscot and Northampton, . . . . . 30 do.  Berkshire Bank, . . . . . no demand.  CONNECTICUT.  Bills of the Bridgeport, Middletown, Hartford, New-Haven, Norwich, } New-London, and Union Banks, . . . . . 1-2 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, . . . . . 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 Pittsburgh, . . . . . 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 Potomac, . . . . . 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 15, 1809.
NEW FLOUR.
JUST received per the Little Sarah, from Alexandria, and for sale by SAMUEL BUTLER, jun. 600 Barrels of superfine and fine FLOUR.
FOR ALEXANDRIA.
THE Sloop LITTLE SARAH, HENRY ELDREDGE, Master, to sail with all convenient speed. For Freight or Passage, apply to the Master, or to SAMUEL BUTLER, jun.
Said BUTLER wants to purchase, CIDER, CHEESE and POTATOES. December 12, 1809.
Flour, Corn and Tobacco.
Now landing from on board the brig Mary-Ann, and for sale by
C. S. Jones or B. T. Chandler, Opposite the Providence Bank,
FIFTEEN Hhds. of VIRGINIA TOBACCO,
300 Barrels of FLOUR, 1000 Bushels of CORN, and 70 Barrels of sifted MEAL. December 12, 1809.
PECKHAM & BARKER
HAVE just received a large supply of HARDWARE GOODS, which makes their assortment equal to any in the country. Those in want of Goods in their line, will do well to call and see for themselves, as it would exceed the reasonable limits of an advertisement to particularize their articles.
N. B. Those indebted to them, by Note or Book Account, are seriously called upon for payment. December 12, 1809.
BOSTON and PROVIDENCE STAGE-OFFICE.
THE publick are hereby informed, that the Stage-Books for Boston, are kept at EZEKIEL 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.
FOR CHARLESTON, (S. C.)
(By the way of NEW-YORK.)
THE well-known and remarkably fast-sailing Sloop NEW-YORK, H. Williams, Master, will sail by the 20th instant, having superior accommodations for Passengers. For Freight or Passage, apply on board, at GODFREY'S Wharf, or to WILLIAMS and BULLARD.
Those who wish to send Freight, will please to send it on board the first fair weather, as the season is far advanced. December 12, 1809.
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Original Poetry.
The gentleman who favoured us with the following incomparable effusion of genius, in a strain of uncommon diffidence, remarks in his note enclosing the song, that "If he were the Editor of a newspaper he should hardly thank any body for such communications; but that cheap he bought them, and cheap he sold them." We have the misfortune to differ from our Correspondent. We wish to haul such pre-eminent and stupendous merit before the eye of the publick. It is hoped every reader will hold his handkerchief in a state of requisition.
For the RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN. SONG.—FOUNDED ON FACT.
Come, all you fair maidens, and lovers so gay, Come, lend me your ears, and attend to my rhyme: Though you may have heard better, as doubtless you may, I warrant you've heard many worse, in your time. As I was a trudging along the highway, Not dreaming that I an adventure should find; Before me, the road and my errand they lay, My pack and my troubles, I carried behind. 'Twas all in the morning, one morning of spring, The little birds singing from every spray, I heard a fair maiden a trying to sing, And if not so sweet, she sung louder than they. I stopp'd for to listen, to what she might say, And listen'd, and listen'd, and forwards did bend; But, though I could hear her as plain as the day, The dickins a word on't, could I comprehend. So I kept on my way;—but, first to remember, I wrote in my pocket-book, this memorandum: "Though people should talk from Septem, to December, 'Tis folly to stop, if you can't understand 'em."
Documents.
Accompanying the President's Message to Congress, November 29, 1809. [CONCLUDED]
MR. SMITH to MR. JACKSON. Department of State, November 8, 1809
SIR, In my letter of the 19th ult. I stated to you that the declaration in your letter of the 11th, that the despatch "from Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine, of the 22d of January, was the only despatch by which the conditions were prescribed to Mr. Erskine, for the conclusion of an arrangement on the matter to which it related, was then for the first time made to this government." And it was added, that if that despatch had been communicated at the time of the arrangement, or if it had been known that the propositions contained in it were the only ones on which he was authorized to make an arrangement, the arrangement would not have been made.
In my letter of the 1st instant, advertising to the repetition in your letter of the 23d ult. of a language implying a knowledge in this government that the instructions of your predecessor did not authorize the arrangement formed by him, an intimation was distinctly given to you, that after the explicit and peremptory asseveration that this government had not any such knowledge, and that with such a knowledge, such an arrangement would not have been made, no such insinuation could be admitted by this government.
Finding that in your reply of the 4th instant, you have used a language which cannot be understood, but as reiterating and even aggravating the same gross insinuation, it only remains, in order to preclude opportunities which are thus abused, to inform you that no further communications will be received from you, and that the necessity of this determination will, without delay, be made known to your government. In the mean time a ready attention will be given to any communications affecting the interests of the two nations, through any other channel that may be substituted. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) R. SMITH. The Hon. F. J. Jackson, &c. &c. &c.
Mr. Oakley, his Majesty's Secretary of Legation, is desired by Mr. Jackson to state to the Secretary of State, that, as Mr. Jackson has been already once most grossly insulted by the inhabitants of the town of Hampton, in the unprovoked language of abuse held by them to several officers bearing the King's uniform, when those officers were themselves violently assaulted and put in imminent danger; he conceives it to be indispensable to the safety of himself, of the gentlemen attached to his mission, and of his family, during the remainder of their stay in the United States, to be provided with special passports or safe-guards from the American government.
This is the more necessary since some of the newspapers of the United States are daily using a language whose only tendency can be to excite the people to commit violence upon Mr. Jackson's person. In consequence he requests that the undermentioned names may be inserted in the document to be furnished him.
 FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON, Mrs. JACKSON, THEIR THREE CHILDREN, CHARLES OAKLEY, Esq. His Majesty's Secretary of Legation, MR. GEORGE OTTEY, Private Secretary. 
SIRVANTS.—Robert Clavering, Francis Martin, William Attree, Charles Beecroft, Richard Lowe, John Price, John Lilly, James Wright, Amelia George, Mary Smith, Harriet Patten, Martha Wood, Frances Blacknell. [Received at the Department of State, on the 11th November, 1809.]
Mr. Oakley is desired by Mr. Jackson to say to the Secretary of State:
That Mr. Jackson has seen with much regret that facts, which it has been his duty to state in his official correspondence, have been deemed by the American government to afford a sufficient motive for breaking off an important negotiation, and for putting an end to all communication whatever, with the Minister charged by his Sovereign with that negotiation so interesting to both nations, and on one point of which, an answer has not even been returned to an official and written overture.
One of the facts alluded to has been admitted by the Secretary of State himself, in his letter of the 19th October, viz. that the three conditions forming the substance of Mr. Erskine's original instruction were submitted to him by that gentleman. The other, viz. that that instruction is the only one in which the conditions were prescribed to Mr. Erskine, for the conclusion of an arrangement on the matter to which it related, is known to Mr. Jackson by the instructions which he has himself received.
In stating these facts, and in adhering to them, as his duty imperiously enjoined him to do, Mr. Jackson could not imagine that offence would be taken at it by the American government, as most certainly none could be intended on his part; but since he has been informed by the Secretary of State, that no farther communications will be received from him, he conceives that he has no alternative that is consistent with what is due to the King's dignity, but to withdraw altogether from the seat of the American government, and await the arrival of his Majesty's commands upon the unlooked for turn which has thus been given to his affairs in this country.
Mr. Jackson means to make New-York the place of his residence. Washington, November 13th, 1809.
MR. SMITH to MR. PINKNEY. Department of State, November 23, 1809.
SIR—My letters in the correspondence with Mr. Jackson, already transmitted to you, sufficiently evince the disappointment that was felt on finding that he had not been charged to make to this government either the frank explanations or the liberal propositions which the occasion manifestly required. Instead of this obvious course of proceeding, it was in the outset perceived that his object was to bring us to resume the subjects of the arrangement of April in a way that would imply that we were aware that the arrangement was not binding on his government because made with a knowledge on our part that Mr. Erskine had no authority to make it, and thus to convert the responsibility of his government for the disavowal into a reproach on this for its conduct in the transaction disavowed. In the first instance it was deemed best rather to repel his observations argumentatively than to meet them as an offensive insinuation. This forbearance had not the expected effect of restraining him from a repetition of the offence. And even on his further insinuations nothing more was done than to premonish him of the inadmissibility of so indecorous a course of proceeding. This also being without effect, nothing remained but the step finally taken. And there was the less hesitation in shutting the door to further opportunities for insulting insinuations, as the disclosures he had made, and the spirit of his discussions had so entirely shut it to the hope of any favourable result from his mission.
I will not dwell on his reluctance to give up the uncertainties of verbal for the precision of written discussion; nor on the manner or the time of his denial that he had given any room at all for a statement, which, in order to guard against the misconceptions incident to verbal conferences, I had placed before him in writing, with a
request that he would point out inaccuracies, and to which he did not then object, otherwise, than by intimating that he could not have made the statement with the particular view which seemed to be supposed. Nor will I dwell on the various instances in which partial or inconsistent views of the subject have taken place of its real merits. But it may not be amiss to make some observations on the correspondence, as it relates to the justification of his government in having disavowed that act of his predecessor.
With respect to the Orders in Council, the ground of the disavowal is the difference between the arrangement and the printed despatch of Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine of the 23d of January. According to this despatch then, the arrangement failed in three points.
1st. In not relinquishing the trade of the United States with enemies' colonies.
With respect to this point, it is not necessary at this time to discuss the right of that trade. It is sufficient to remark: 1st, That as the trade is admitted to have become, in the view of Great-Britain, of little practical importance, why has it been made a ground of the disavowal, and, especially, as important considerations only could, upon principles of publick law, have justified a measure of so serious a character? 2d, that as the colonial trade is a subject no wise connected either with the Orders in Council or with the affair of the Chesapeake, why has it been permitted to frustrate an arrangement relating to those subjects; and to those only? 3d, that as this condition is allowed to have originated in a supposition, that it would be agreeable to the American government, why has it been persisted in after the error was made known by the representation of Mr. Erskine to his government, that neither this nor the other conditions of the despatch of the 23d of January were attainable here?
2d. Another point in the despatch, and not in the arrangement, is, that the British navy might capture our trade to ports prohibited by the United States.
This condition too appears to have had its origin in a mistake of your meaning in a conversation with Mr. Canning, as noted by yourself, and in an inference then deduced as to the disposition of this government. But this double mistake must have been brought to light in time to have been corrected in the new mission. In urging it Mr. Canning has taken a ground, forbidden by those principles of decorum, which regulate and mark the proceedings of governments towards each other. In his despatch the condition is stated to be for the purpose of securing the bona fide intention of America to prevent her citizens from trading with France and certain other powers. In other words, to secure a pledge to that effect against the mala fide intention of the United States. And this despatch too was authorized to be communicated in extenso to the government of which such language was used. Might it not have been reasonably expected that such a condition and such observations would at least on such an occasion have been given up by a government, willing to smooth the way to an amicable settlement of existing differences?
In his zeal to vindicate his government, Mr. Jackson too has attempted a gloss on this most extraordinary idea of calling on a foreign sovereignty, not indeed to make laws for us, but, what is equivalent in principle, to supply a supposed inability to execute them. He calls such an interposition of his government, not an execution of the laws of Congress, but of a compact binding as a publick law on both parties, and which both would have a common interest in seeing duly executed. On his own principles there ought to be a reciprocity, not only in the execution of the compact, but in the obligation and interest resulting from it. Besides, where there is a reciprocity in compacts between nations touching attributes of sovereignty, there is always as much of sovereignty gained as is parted with, so that there be no loss nor indignity on either side.
3. The remaining point in the despatch, not secured by the arrangement, is that which required that whilst our prohibitory laws should be repealed as to Great-Britain, they should be left in force as to France and the powers adopting or acting under her decrees.
This is the condition which alone properly belongs to the subject, and it is to be remarked in the first place that the British project, of which this condition makes a part, contemplated two things in their nature incompatible: one a repeal of the prohibitory acts as to Great-Britain, without waiting for the conclusion of a regular treaty, the other, a pledge or engagement for their continuance as to the

other powers. Now, from the nature of our constitution, which, in this particular, ought to have been attended to by the British government, it is manifest that the executive authority could have given no such pledge, that the continuance of the prohibitory acts being a subject of legislative consideration, could not have been provided for until the meeting of the legislature, and that the condition could not therefore but have failed, either in the immediate renewal of commerce with Great Britain, or in the immediate engagement that it should not be renewed with France. The British government ought to have acquiesced in, and indeed ought to have been satisfied with the attainment of the important object of an immediate repeal of our prohibitory laws and with the consideration, that the other object, not immediately attainable, was unnecessary, at the time, because the prohibition as to France was then in force, and because there was every reason to infer not only from this fact, but from the spirit of the communications made from time to time and from the overtures before submitted to the British government that, without a repeal of the French Decrees, our prohibitory laws would be continued in force against France, and especially, in the case of a repeal of the British Orders, which would necessarily render a continuance of the French Decrees doubly obnoxious.
But if on this head doubts could have been entertained, instead of rejecting the arrangement, ought not the repealing act on our part to have been met with a suspension at least of the Orders in Council, until it could have been seen whether the non-intercourse law would or would not have been continued against France. Such a suspension, could not have given, in any point of view, more advantage to the United States, than was given to Great Britain by the repeal, which had taken place on their part.
If this reasonable course could not have been substituted for the disavowal, why was not a final disavowal suspended with a proposition, that the arrangement would be executed by Great Britain in the event of a compliance on the part of the United States with the condition required as to France.
I am not unaware, you may be told, that the non-intercourse law of the U. States did not extend to Holland, though so intimately connected with France, and so subservient to her Decrees against neutral commerce.
It would not be improper on this occasion to observe that this objection can be the less urged by Great Britain, as she has herself never in her alleged retaliations adhered to the principle on which they were founded.
Thus she has from the date of them, until very lately, directed them against the American trade even to Russia, although Russia had never adopted the French Decrees, nor otherwise violated our neutral trade with Great Britain. So, in her Order of April last, she has discriminated, not only between the countries devoted to France by the ties of blood, and other powers, but between Holland, Westphalia and Naples, in enforcing her prohibitory Order against the first and not against the two last. Whilst, therefore, she finds it expedient to make these distinctions, she ought to presume, that we too may perceive equal propriety in the distinctions we have made.
But it may be of more importance here to compare the British Order in Council, of April last, with the arrangement of April, made by Mr. Erskine. It will thence be seen how little is the real difference, and how trivial it is when compared to the extensive and serious consequences of the disavowal.
Under the Order in Council of April, all the ports of Europe, except France, including the kingdoms of Italy and Holland and their dependencies, are opened to our commerce.
Under the arrangement of April, combined with our act of non-intercourse, all the ports of Europe, except France and her dependencies, including the kingdom of Italy, would have been opened to our commerce.
The difference then is reduced merely to Holland, and that again is reduced to the difference between a direct trade to the ports of Holland, and an indirect trade to Holland, through the neighbouring ports of Tonningen, Hanburgh, Bremen and Emden.
Now, as the injuring of the enemies of Great Britain is the only avowed object of her interdicting Order against our trade, let a computation be made of the effect, which this difference between the Order in Council and the arrangement could possibly have in producing such an injury. And then let the question be candidly answered, whether, laying aside all considerations of right and justice, sufficient inducements could have been found in that result for rejecting the arrangement, and for producing the consequent embarrassments, as well to Great Britain, as to the United States.
If it be necessary, as Mr. Jackson has stated, to set bounds to a spirit of encroachment and universal dominion, which would
bind all things to its own standard, and to falsify by honourable and manly resistance an announcement that all Europe is submitting by degrees, the effort must be feeble, indeed, which is to be found in the inconvenience accruing to the formidable foe from the operation of this Order in Council, and especially when we combine with it the strange phenomenon of substituting for the lawful trade of the United States, a trade of British subjects, contrary to the laws of the adverse party, and amounting, without a special license, in the eye of British law, to high treason.
Thus much for the Orders in Council. What has taken place with respect to the case of the Chesapeake will equally engage your attention.
You will perceive, that throughout the early stages of the correspondence this case was in some respects improperly confounded with, in others improperly separated from that of the Orders in Council; and particularly that pains had been taken by Mr. Jackson to substitute verbal and vague observations on the disavowal of this part of the arrangement for an explicit and formal explanation, such as was obviously due. It will be seen also that when finally brought to the point, he referred for a justification of the disavowal to the departure of Mr. Erskine from his instructions without shewing what those instructions were, and to allusions to an expression in the arrangement without giving to his meaning the distinctness prerequisite to a just reply.
It appears, however, that he lays great stress on the proposal enclosed in his letter of the 27th October, as at once indicating the departure of Mr. Erskine from his instructions, and as containing the conditions on the basis of which he was ready to enter on an adjustment. And from a note from the Secretary of the British Legation, it appears that he has complained of not having received an answer to this proposal, as he had before complained that no answer had been given to his verbal disclosures on this head, in his interviews with me.
With respect to his intimations in conversation, as they were preceded by no proper assignment of the reasons for not having executed the original adjustment, it cannot be necessary to remark that no such notice as he wished to obtain, could with any sort of propriety have been taken of them.
With respect to his written project it will suffice to remark:
1st. That besides his reluctant and instinctive explanation of the disavowal of the original adjustment, he did not present his proposal until he had made such progress in his offensive insinuation as made it proper to wait the issue of the reply about to be given to it, and that this issue had necessarily put a stop to further communications.
2dly. That although he had given us to understand that the ordinary credentials, such alone as he had delivered, could not bind his government in such a case, his proposal had neither been preceded by nor accompanied with the exhibition of other commission or full power; nor indeed has he ever given sufficient reason to suppose that he had any such full power to exhibit in relation to this particular case. It is true that in his letter of the 23d October, he has stated an authority eventually to conclude a Convention between the two countries . Without adverting to the ambiguity of the term eventually , with the mark of emphasis attached to it, and to other uncertainties in the phraseology, it is clear that the authority referred to, whatever it may be, is derived from instructions subject to his own discretion , and not from a patent commission, such as might be properly called for. It is true, also that in his letter of the 4th of November, subsequent to his proposal, he says he was possessed of a full power in due form for the express purpose of concluding a treaty or convention.
But it still remains uncertain, whether by the treaty or convention to which it related, was not meant an eventual or provisional treaty on the general relations between the two countries without any reference to the case of the Chesapeake. Certain it is that the British government in former like cases, as will be seen by the adjustment of that part of the affair at Nootka Sound, which is analogous to this case, did not consider any such distinct full power as necessary; nor is there the slightest ground for supposing that Mr. Erskine, though confessedly instructed to adjust this very case of the Chesapeake, was furnished with any authority distinct from his credential letter. That Mr. Jackson has any such commission is the less to be supposed, as it is but barely possible, that possessing it he should not on some occasion or in some form have used a language susceptible of no possible doubt on this point.
But proceeding to the proposal itself, it is to be kept in mind that the conditions forming its basis, are the very conditions for the deviating from which Mr. Erskine's adjustment was disavowed. Mr. Jackson, if not on others, is on this point, explicit. "I now add, says he, that the deviation consisted in not recording in the official documents signed here, the abrogation of
the President's proclamation of the 2d July, 1807, as well as the two reserves specified in the paper of memoranda enclosed in my official letter to you of the 27th ult."
Considering then the conditions in the proposal as an ultimatum, in what light are we compelled to view such an attempt to repair the outrage committed on the frigate Chesapeake and to heal the disappointment produced by a disavowal of a previous equitable reparation.
It is impossible on such an occasion not to recall the circumstances which constituted the character of the outrage to which such an ultimatum is now applied. A national ship, proceeding on an important service, was watched by a superior naval force enjoying at the time the hospitality of our ports, was followed and scarcely out of our waters when she was, after an insulting summons attacked in a hostile manner; and the ship so injured as to require expensive repairs, the expedition frustrated, a number of the crew killed and wounded, several carried into captivity, and one of them put to death under a military sentence. The three seamen, though American citizens, and therefore on every supposition detained as wrongfully as the ship would have been detained, have notwithstanding remained in captivity between two and three years; and, it may be added, after it has long ceased to be denied that they are American citizens.
Under these circumstances we are called upon to ransom the captives.
1st. By acknowledging that a precautionary proclamation, justified by events preceding the outrage, by the outrage itself, and by what immediately followed it, was unjustifiable, and that a repeal of it was properly a condition precedent to a reparation for the outrage. And this requisition is repeated too, after such an acknowledgement had been uniformly asserted by this government to be utterly inadmissible, and when is particularly remarkable at a time when the proclamation, as is well understood, was no longer in force. The occasion obviously invited a silent assumption of the existing fact, and this would have excluded the difficulty heretofore found to be insuperable.
2d. By throwing into complete oblivion the conduct of the officer answerable for the murderous transaction, with a knowledge too on our part, that instead of being punished or even brought to trial, he has been honoured by his government with a new and more important command.
3d. By admitting a right on the part of Great Britain to claim a discharge from our service of deserters generally, and particularly of her natural born subjects, without accepting such as had been naturalized in due form under the laws of the United States.
It has not been explained whether it was meant, as the universality of the term "deserters" would import, to include American citizens who might have left the British service. But what possible consideration could have induced the British government to expect that the United States could admit a principle that would deprive our naturalized citizens of the legal privileges, which they hold in common with their native fellow-citizens. The British government ought not to have made such a proposition; because it not only, like others, naturalizes aliens; but in relation to the United States, has even refused to discharge from the British service native citizens of the United States, involuntarily detained. If an American citizen has resided in Great Britain, or has married therein, or has accepted a bounty in her naval service, his discharge therefrom, or the regular application to the British government, has been invariably refused by its board of admiralty. This I state on the authority of the official reports made to this department. It is, therefore, truly astonishing that, with a knowledge of these facts, such a pretension should have been advanced at all, but above all, that it should have been made a sine qua non to an act of plain justice, already so long delayed. This is the more to be regretted as the omen does not favour the belief we would willingly cherish, that no predetermination exists in the councils of his Britannick Majesty irreconcilable to an amicable arrangement of an affair, which affecting so deeply the honour of the United States, must precede a general regulation of the mutual interests of the two countries.
After the correspondence with Mr. Jackson was terminated, two notes, of which copies are herewith sent to you, were presented to me in the name and by the hand of Mr. Oakley, the British Secretary of Legation.
The first requested a document, having the effect of a special passport or safe-guard to Mr. Jackson and his family during their stay in the United States. As the laws of this country allow an unobstructed passage through every part of it, and with the law of nations, equally in force, protect publick Ministers and their families in all their privileges, such an application was regarded as somewhat singular. There was no hesitation, however, in furnishing a certificate of his publick character and to be used in any mode he might choose. But what surprised most was the reasons assigned for the application. The insult he alluded to was then, for the first
time, brought to the knowledge of this government. It had, indeed, been among the rumours of the day, that some unbecoming scene had taken place at Norfolk or Hampton between some officers belonging to the Africaine and some of the inhabitants, and that it originated in the indiscretion of the former. No attention having been called for, and no inquiries made, the truth of the case is unknown. But it was never supposed that Mr. Jackson himself, who was on board the frigate had been personally insulted. Nor is it yet perceived in what way he considers it as having happened. It is needless to remark that any representation on the subject would have instantly received every proper attention.
Another ground on which a protection was asked for, is the supposed tendency of the language of our newspapers to excite popular violence on Mr. Jackson's person. Had he been longer and better acquainted with the habits and spirit of the American people, he would probably never have entertained an apprehension of that sort. If he meant to advertvert on the free language of the newspapers, he might justly be reminded that our laws, as those of his country, set bounds to that freedom: That the freedom of British prints, however great with respect to publick characters of the United States, has never been a topic of complaint, and that supposing the latitude of the American Press to exceed that of Great Britain, the difference is infinitely less in this respect between the two, than between the British press and that of the other nations of Europe.
The second note seems to be essentially intended as a justification of the conduct of Mr. Jackson in that part of his correspondence which has given umbrage. If he intended it as a conciliatory advance, he ought not to have preceded it by a demand of passports, nor by the spirit or the manner in which that demand was made. He ought, in fact, if such was his object, to have substituted an explanation in the place of his reply to my premonitory letter. But whether he had one or the other, or both of these objects in view, it was necessary for him to have done more than is attempted in this paper.
It was never objected to him that he had stated it as a fact that the three propositions in question had been submitted to me by Mr. Erskine, nor that he stated it, as made known to him by the instructions of Mr. Canning that the instruction to Mr. Erskine containing those three conditions was the only one from which his authority was derived to conclude an arrangement in the matter to which it related. The objection was that a knowledge of this restriction of the authority of Mr. Erskine was imputed to this government, and the repetition of the imputation even after it had been peremptorily disclaimed. This was so gross an attack on the honour and veracity of the government, as to forbid all further communications from him. Care was, nevertheless, taken at the same time to leave the door open for such as might be made through any other channel, however little the probability that any satisfactory communications would be received through any channel here.
To the other enclosures I add a printed copy of a paper purporting to be a circular letter from Mr. Jackson to the British Consuls in the United States. This paper speaks for itself. As its contents entirely correspond with the paper last referred to, as they were unnecessary for the ostensible object of the letter, which was to make known Mr. Jackson's change of residence, and as the paper was at once put into circulation, it can only be regarded as a virtual address to the American people of a representation previously addressed to their government—a procedure which cannot fail to be seen in its true light by his sovereign.
The observations to which so much extent has been given in this letter, with those contained in the correspondence with Mr. Jackson, will make you fully acquainted with the conduct and the character he has developed, with the necessity of the step taken in refusing further communications from him, and with the grounds on which the President instructs you to request that he may be immediately recalled. You are particularly instructed at the same time in making these communications to do it in a manner that will leave no doubt of the undiminished desire of the United States to unite in all the means the best calculated to establish the relations of the two countries on the solid foundation of justice, of friendship and of mutual interest.
With great respect, &c. R. SMITH. William Pinkney, Esq. &c. &c. &c.
Mr. CANNING to Mr. PINKNEY.
Foreign Office, May 27, 1809. SIR—According to the intimation which I gave to you in our last conference, I have now the honour to enclose to you a copy of the Order in Council, which his Majesty has directed to be issued for the purpose of preventing as far as possible, any inconvenience or detriment to the merchants of the United States, who may have entered into commercial speculations on the faith of the unauthorized engagements of Mr.
Erskine previously to the notification in America of his Majesty's disavowal of those engagements.
Having had the honour to read to you in extenso the instructions with which Mr. Erskine was furnished, it is not necessary for me to enter into any explanation of those points in which Mr. Erskine has acted, not only not in conformity, but in direct contradiction to them.
I forbear equally from troubling you, Sir, with any comment on the manner in which Mr. Erskine's communications have been received by the American government, or upon the terms and spirit of Mr. Smith's share of the consideration.
Such observations will be communicated more properly through the Minister, whom his Majesty has directed to proceed to America—not on any special mission, (which Mr. Erskine was not authorized to promise, except upon conditions not one of which he has obtained,) but as the successor of Mr. Erskine, whom his Majesty has not lost a moment in recalling.
I have the honour to be with great consideration, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
(Signed) GEORGE CANNING. [Here follows the Orders in Council of May 24, 1809, as already given in THE AMERICAN.]
Mr. PINKNEY's Answer. Great Cumberland Place, May 29, 1809. SIR—I have received the communication which you did me the honour to address to me on the 27th instant, and will hasten to transmit it to the Secretary of State of the United States.
No instructions or information from my government concerning the transactions in America to which your communication alludes having yet reached me, I can only express my concern that the conciliatory arrangements concerted and concluded, as you have done me the honour to inform me, between the American Secretary of State and his Majesty's accredited Minister at Washington, acting in consequence, and professing to act in pursuance of regular instructions from his Court, are not likely to have all that effect which was naturally to have been expected from them.
I have the honour to be, with great consideration, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant, WILLIAM PINKNEY. The Right Hon. George Canning, &c. &c.
[Here follows the President's Proclamation of the 9th of August, 1809—and Mr. Gallatin's Circular Letter explaining the legal operation of that Proclamation; both of which were published in THE AMERICAN on the 15th of August last.]
General ARMSTRONG to Mr. SMITH, Secretary of State. PARIS, 4th September, 1809.
SIR—The letter, of which I send you a copy, was received during my absence and detained in Paris till my return. The note promised in it has not yet been received. Mr. Warden informs me, that the Council of Prizes has been ordered to suspend their proceedings with regard to our vessels.
I have the honour to be, Sir, with high consideration, your most obedient, and very humble servant, JOHN ARMSTRONG.
Count CHAMPAGNY to General ARMSTRONG. VIENNA, 8th of August, 1809. [TRANSLATION.]
SIR—You have desired that one of the American vessels which are in the ports of France might be authorised to depart for the United States with your despatches. I have taken the orders of his Majesty on the subject of this demand, and his Majesty always disposed to facilitate your communications with your government, has permitted the departure of the vessel you shall designate. I inform the Ministers of the Marine and of the Finances of this disposition, requesting them to ensure the execution of it so soon as you shall have made known to them the name of the vessel and the port from which she is to depart.
I have the honour, Sir, to apprise you that I shall forthwith address to you a note by order of his Majesty, on the actual situation of our relations with the United States. Please to profit by the departure of the vessel, to make this known to the federal government; and permit me also to send by that conveyance some despatches to the Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty to the United States.
Accept, Sir, the assurances, &c. &c. (Signed) CHAMPAGNY. His Excellency Gen. Armstrong, &c. &c.
Extract of a letter from General Armstrong to Mr. Smith, Secretary of State. "PARIS, 16th September, 1809.
"I received on the 6th inst. on my return from Holland, two notes from Count Champagny, copies of which I have the honour to enclose. In one of these you will find an exposition of the principles which have governed, and which will continue to govern the conduct of his Majesty with regard to neutral commerce. To this which was offered as a definitive answer to our propositions, I have believed that any reply, before I had received the further instructions of the President, would have been premature."

"Mr. Lawrence arrived at L'Orient on the 9th, and Mr. Haswell at Paris, with your despatch of the 12th August last, on the 13th inst. I immediately communicated to Count Champagny the President's proclamation interdicting anew all commercial intercourse between the United States and Great-Britain, and gave such other explanations as the case appeared to require."
Extract of a letter from Count Champagny to General Armstrong, dated Altenburg, August 22, 1809
TRANSLATION. "I have the honour to address to you the subjoined note, which his Majesty has ordered me to send to you, and which I have announced in my last despatch. If France does not do at this time all that the United States of America can desire, your government will be able to see that neither prejudice nor animosity influences its conduct; that it is the effect of its attachment to principles which the Americans, more than any other people, are interested in supporting, and of the necessity of reprisals which circumstances impose. The Emperor will consider as an happy event that which shall enable him to contribute to the prosperity of America, in leaving to its commerce all the liberty and all the extension which can render it flourishing."
[Here follows the Letter of Champagny to General Armstrong, as published in THE AMERICAN on the first of December.]
Congress.
IN SENATE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1.
THE resolutions yesterday submitted by Mr. Giles were agreed to; and Messrs. Giles, Pope, Bradley, Gooding, Leib, Sumpter, and Gilman were appointed a committee in pursuance thereof.
The following resolution was submitted for consideration by Mr. Leib:
Resolved, That so much of the President's Message as relates to an efficient organization of the militia of the United States be referred to a select committee with leave to report by bill or otherwise.
Mr. Condit was appointed to join a committee to be appointed by the House for examining enrolled bills.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4.
Mr. Pope submitted a proposal for an amendment of the constitution, to provide that Judges shall not hold their seats after they attain the age of 65; and be removable for reasonable causes which shall not be sufficient ground for impeachment, on the address of Congress.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5.
Mr. Giles from the committee on the Message, reported a resolve, which after stating that Mr. Jackson's letters to Mr. Smith, were highly indecorous, insolent and affronting; that the refusal of the President to receive any further communications from him, was dignified and honorable; and that Mr. Jackson's "Circular" was a still more direct and aggravated insult and affront to the American people, as being an appeal to them against their government; solemnly pledges Congress to stand by and support the Executive in its conduct towards Mr. Jackson; and "to call into action the whole force of the nation, if necessary, to reject such insults, and to assert and maintain the rights, interests and honour of the United States."
STRONG MEASURE.
Mr. Giles also presented a bill, which enacts, That if any foreign Minister shall have committed, or may hereafter commit any such act as by the law of nations would justify the President to order him to quit the United States, he, the President, shall be authorized to cause a State Warrant to be issued, requiring all officers, civil and military, to enforce the departure of such Minister; and also enacts, that such officers as shall refuse or fail to execute such warrant, shall be punished as guilty of high misdemeanour.
Mr. Giles gave notice that he should move for the consideration of this subject on Thursday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5.
A petition of the widow of the late Gen. Alexander Hamilton, on the subject of his arrears of half pay, was committed.
Mr. Coles delivered a message from the President covering the statements from the Navy Department. Referred to a committee.
A motion on the subject of Custom-house Officers' fees, was committed.
FOREIGN LICENSES.
Mr. McKim moved for a committee to report on the expediency of prohibiting American vessels trading under Foreign Licenses to any place not under the dominion of the power granting them. Committed.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6.
A committee was raised to report on the expediency of making further provision by law for disabled and supernumerary revolutionary officers and soldiers.
Mr. Whitman, (of Massachusetts,) presented a petition for a uniform system of Bankruptcy; which, after debate, in which several gentlemen expressed their aversion
to Bankrupt systems, was refused commitment.
On an amended motion of Mr. Whitman, the President was requested to favour the House with information on the subject of the capture, seizure and condemnation of American vessels and merchandise, made under orders from the governments of Denmark, Great-Britain and France.
Several subjects of a private and local nature were disposed of. Adjourned.
By the Mails.
NORFOLK, November 24.
THE following extract of a letter from Captain Vickery, of the ship Eliza of this port, furnishes another instance of Napoleon's justice, and of his friendship for this country. Our ships captured and their crews imprisoned; others destroyed or ransomed, (we think they call it,) would pass for war; but this is the way that Napoleon vindicates the "liberty of the seas." This extract requires no comment from any American, but the advocates of the Corsican will justify this conduct. The letter from which this extract is made, was written by Captain Vickery to Mr. James B. Timberlake, Purser of the United States Schooner Enterprise, cruising off the Texel, and by the latter transmitted to the owners of the Eliza. This ship was cleared, and destined originally to Amsterdam, had the French Consul's certificate of origin, and every document that could be required; her cargo cost here eighty-two thousand dollars, and the ship was worth about twenty thousand!
"PAMPOL, September 11, 1809.
"'Twas but yesterday that I was certain of your being at the Texel, and I am now truly sorry to inform you of my being in this part of the world, in the situation that I am at present. I was captured on the 10th of August nearly abreast the Eddystone, bound to Tonnigen, by a privateer belonging to St. Maloes, by name Jean Bart, a lugger mounting one carriage gun, a one pounder and 30 men, about the size of my long-boat, and brought into this place where I now have been 50 days and it is but three days since I have been allowed liberty to go out of my ship. My officers and men have been marched all off to Morlaix and are there confined in prison, they could not treat us worse if we were prisoners of war. Had I have been bound to England I should not think so much of it, but being bound to an allies port it is galling to be thus treated. I am here and here I must remain, for I cannot obtain a passport to go out of this place; they have discharged my cargo and put it into magazines, under the locks and keys of the commissioners of marine."
NEW-YORK, December 11. FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
"Philadelphia, December 9.
"Arrived below, ship Coromandel, Captain Hunt, 39 days from London. Sailed October 24, and brings London papers of the 23d, which contain nothing new. They are entirely filled with matter relative to the celebration on the 25th, of the King's 50th year's reign."
"Mr. Davy, a passenger, is bearer of despatches from Mr. Pinkney, which have been forwarded to Washington. The new British Ministry were very unpopular, and a change it was thought would soon be produced by the publick discontent.—A Regency was spoken of."
A letter from Washington to the Editor of a democratick paper in Baltimore, states, that in the course of the present week two important reports will be laid before Congress by the committee of foreign relations. It is conjectured something like an impartial retaliatory commercial warfare will be adopted! Something like a belligerent neutrality.—No other kind of warfare will be hazarded at present.
The correspondent of the Freeman's Journal says, "I am convinced Jackson's wound is mortal"—and adds, "The remote as well as the immediate consequences of the duel seem to be pretty serious.—Several members wishing to visit Mr. Jackson, were politely furnished with the President's new carriage, of the value of one thousand dollars, for the excursion. Upon their return in the evening, one of the wheels struck against a stump, the driver was thrown from his seat, the horses ran away, the carriage was dashed to pieces, and one of the gentlemen, Dr. Jones, considerably bruised, but not to such a degree that any dangerous result was apprehended."
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
The editor of the Baltimore American, has translated the following articles from Altona papers to October 27, received by the brig Robert, 33 days from Tonnigen.
ALTONA, October 27.
Extract of a letter from Paris, dated October 18.—"We are assured that the Emperor will remain at the castle of Fontainbleau until the middle of December, when he will depart for Spain and Portugal. The castle of Marrae, near Bayonne, is already fitted up for the reception of the Emperor."
"It is said that the guards, a part of whom have been on their march since the 15th October, together with the corps of Marshals Oudinot, Marmont and the Duke of Abrantes, will go to Spain."
"The famous actor, Dugazon, insane for some time past, is terminating his career at Orleans."
Extract of a letter from Dresden, of the 13th October.
"Austria cedes Galicia, France, Trieste, and Istria which are to be annexed to the kingdom of Italy. Some letters say that Fiume and Trieste are to be held by the French and Austrian troops conjointly until the conclusion of peace with England."
"Bavaria extends her dominions as far as Lintz."
"The Grand Duke of Wurtzburg will be declared sovereign of Tyrol and the country of Salzburg."
"Bavaria, in compensation, will obtain a part of Wurtzburg."
"It is also said that the frontiers of the Dutchy of Warsaw will extend to the Saan."
Our translator informed us that upon a close perusal of our file of the "Abeille du Nord" published at Altona, he can discover no article of primary interest.
Peace between France and Austria was signed on the 14th October. Bonaparte left Schoenbrunn on the 15th. The fortifications which surround Vienna are to be entirely raised. The Russian army of Moldavia has gained some advantages over the Turks. By the capitulation of Middleburg the English promised to respect property of all kinds—as usual, in violation of this they have seized all the tea and spices in the ware-houses of the Dutch East-India Company, and in those of individuals and exposed them at publick auction. The inhabitants of Walcheren have resolved not to purchase a single article, notwithstanding the high price tea bears in Holland. But one sale has been made. The purchaser is treated with universal disdain, and the English have been obliged to suspend the sales. One hundred thousand men are said to remain in Austria until a general peace. The port of Antwerp is to be considerably enlarged. Additions are to be made to the fortifications at Ostend. Moravia has been evacuated by the French, and occupied by the Austrians.—The closing of the ports of Sweden was publickly announced in handbills at Stockholm, dated the 12th of October. John Q. Adams and family have arrived at Elsinore. It appears that in addition to his mission to Russia, he is charged with a special mission to Copenhagen.
In consequence of the peace between Sweden and Russia, the price of tea at Copenhagen suddenly fell from 21 to 17 marks. The national guards of Paris have been discharged, and their places supplied by the troops of the line of the city garrison. Mr. Adair, the English Minister at Constantinople, has demanded of the Ottoman Porte a free passage to the Black Sea, for England and her allies, which has been refused him, in consequence of which Mr. Adair was preparing to leave Constantinople.
Providence,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1809.
The President thus delicately simper over the wrongs and aggressions received from France—"With France, the other belligerent, whose trespasses on our neutral rights have been long the subject of our just remonstrance, the posture of our affairs does not correspond with the measures taken on the part of the United States to effect a favourable change." The virgin coyness of this paragraph reminds us of a passage in Peter Pindar.
"Do Frenchmen paint a wretch upon the wheel?"
And bone-breaking's no laughing thing—God knows;
Bless me, the man is so genteel,
He feels with such decorum all his blows."
This has given the tone to the Cabinet, and it seems to be the political axiom of the day, that English insolence cannot be spoken of in terms of too much asperity, nor French insolence in terms of too much politeness. Mr. Secretary Smith in his letter to Mr. Pinkney, when he mentions Mr. Jackson's vindication of the measures taken by his government, cites that Minister's own words when he speaks of France, and even then states the question hypothetically. "If it be necessary, as Mr. Jackson has stated, to set bounds to a spirit of encroachment and universal dominion, which would bind all things to its own standard," &c. &c. American ships rifled, plundered and burnt upon the ocean under the mandates of an arbitrary and blood-thirsty ruffian, "do not correspond with the measures taken on the part of the United States, to effect a favourable change."
When our Cabinet receive the mortifying and heart corroding intelligence, that American prisoners have been pining in French dungeons, the President announces the fact to Congress in these manly and energetic terms, that "the trespasses of France on our neutral rights have been often the subject of just remonstrance."—We are thankful for the monosyllable "just," or otherwise it might almost be
doubted whether the President thought we had a right against such petty "trespass" even "to remonstrate." Let the correspondence of Smith and Jackson be carefully weighed, compare the letter of the British Minister with that of Champagny, and see whose language is the most insulting and abusive. At the very time when Napoleon has made it criminal for an American even to exercise the functions of speech to an Englishman on the ocean, his Russian Minister has the insolence to tell us that "the sovereignty and independence of the flag, are like the sovereignty and independence of the territory, the property of all neutrals." Mr. Smith with rosy liped delicacy thus breathes his official sigh of regret—"If it be necessary to set bounds to a spirit of encroachment and universal dominion." This is true patent independence—to "become short by the knees" to the nation whose repeated robbery makes the flesh creep upon the bones with resentment. So audacious were the falsehoods contained in the letter of Champagny that many of the Democrats boldly pronounced it a forgery. Now, after they can no longer doubt its authenticity, they proceed to justify its principles.
It appears by the last Boston Mail, that some rumours have been in circulation in London, relative to a peace between England and France, that it was brought about by the agency of Russia. The evacuation of Spain was said to have been the terms on which England was to be admitted a party in the General Congress of the European powers.
It would gratify us to learn whether General Wilkinson is still in existence, as we have not read of his having been posted for some months past.
William Bluster Giles is at his old tricks again; he is now modifying the terms of his non-intercourse law so as to include foreign ambassadors within the provisions of the act.
Y's Communication on the late correspondence is in type, and shall appear in our next.
Married,
At Thompson, (Con.) on Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Dow, Mr. WILLARD ARNOLD, late of Providence, to Miss PATIENCE CONGDON, of the former place.
At New-York, by the Rev. Mr. Townly, Lieutenant ROBERT STERRY, of the United States Army, to Miss LOUISA ANN ARDEN, eldest daughter of James Arden, Esq. of that city.
Died,
In this town, yesterday, in the 18th year of her age, Miss REBECCA SEARLE, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Solomon Searle.—Her funeral will be solemnized on Sunday afternoon next, immediately after Divine Service.
On the 11th inst. at New-York, Mr. JOHN MOSHER, of Bristol in this State, put a period to his existence by means of a pistol. He formerly resided in the Counting-House of Mr. Caleb Greene, Newport.
On the 28th ult. at Charleston, (S.C.) Mr. JESSE BOLLES, jun. son of Mr. Jesse Bolles, of this town, in the 26th year of his age. He resided in the town of Thompson, (Conn.) and has left behind him a wife and family to mourn their irreparable loss, and the community to mingle their regret with the relatives and friends of the deceased, for the departure of one whose early promise gave hope of future excellence.
American Marine List.
PORT OF PROVIDENCE.
DECEMBER 15, 1809.
ENTERED.
Sloop—Hannah and Sally, Wardwell, Bristol.
CLEARED,
Ships—Mary-Ann, Russell, Norfolk; Hazard, Elderkin, New-York.
The ship Factor, Reynolds, and ship Asia, Ormsbee, of this port, were at Tonnigen, November 7.
GLASS WARE at AUCTION.
THE sale of Glass Ware, advertised by B. HOPPIN and SON, to have taken place at their Auction-Room on the 1st instant, stands adjourned until TO-MORROW, the 16th instant; at which time 30 Hhds. of retailing MOLASSES and several other articles will also be offered for sale.
B. HOPPIN, Auctioneer. December 15, 1809.
SUGARS.
BLODGET & POWER
Offer, now landing, on accommodating terms, EIGHTY-one Boxes of Havana brown SUGARS.
43 Boxes of Havana white do. of superior qualities. December 15, 1809.
A CLERK WANTED.
A YOUNG MAN of steady and industrious habits, capable of keeping books, and who writes a good hand, and is willing to devote his time entirely to business, will receive employment and a liberal salary. Apply at this Office. December 15, 1809.
PEWS AT AUCTION.
ON FRIDAY next, the 22d instant, the PEWS in the Beneficent Congregational Society's new Meeting-House will be sold at Publick Auction.
Sale to commence at 10 o'clock, A.M. N. B. The Meeting-House will be open for examination the day previous to the sale.
B. HOPPIN, Auctioneer. December 15, 1809.
Sherry Wine, Tobacco, Provisions, &c.
ONE Hundred and Twenty Quarters Casks of excellent Sherry Wine, D. G. brand; 30 Hhds. of Fayetteville Tobacco, 70 Barrels of prime Beef, 10 do. do. Pork, 50 do. Pilot Bread, 128 do. Tar, 40 do. Turpentine, 1200 W. O. Hhd. Staves and Heading. For sale, on liberal terms, by ABORN & JACKSON.
They want to purchase 3000 feet of two inch Ship Plank, and a quantity of Ship Knees, for which cash will be paid on delivery. December 15, 1809.
Lehigh Grand LOTTERY.
OWING to the rich state of this Lottery, (the wheels having gained upward of $6000, and the two $10,000 and two $5000, besides almost all the other capital Prizes, remaining in the wheel,) the Tickets have risen to $5. Orders for the above Tickets, duly attended to by J. B. WOOD, who has received a complete List of Blanks and Prizes, (as far as drawn,) of those Numbers which were obtained by orders through his Office. Also, eighteen day's drawing of the Baltimore Grand Lottery; all of which may be examined gratis. Lists of Prizes from the Hatfield Bridge Lottery, drawing in Boston are received here.—No. 3800 drew a Prize of $1000—sold in Quarters. December 15, 1809.
THE Subscriber has just received a large supply of FALL and WINTER GOODS of the latest importations, in which he is determined NOT TO BE UNDER SOLD.
JOHN R. CARPENTER. No. 8, MARKET-SQUARE. December 15, 1809.
House and Store Lots, &c. &c.
The subscriber offers for sale the following valuable Property:
THIRTY-ONE House and Store Lots, situated in High-Street, on the Plain leading to and adjoining on the Estate now occupied by Mrs. C. Olney. These Lots are most advantageously situated for Stores to command the principal country trade, or for House Lots. It is notorious that landed property increases with the rapidity it does in this quarter of the town. Stores are already run out nearly to his line, and business increased and increasing there to a degree sufficient justly to alarm the Landholders in other parts of the town.
Also—Fifteen acres of Land directly back, and adjoining the above described House Lots; part of which was seeded down to grass last Spring and is highly manured.
One House Lot on Constitution Hill, fronting 50 feet on Stumper's-Street, on which there is a Barn paying an annual rent, which can be removed if the purchaser wishes.
One large three story Store, situated in the centre of this town, (now occupied by Mr. Samuel Nightingale, jun. as a Flour and Grocery-Store,) being a most valuable stand for business.
Twenty acres of Woodland, situated in Johnston, about eight miles from the Great Bridge, on which there is a growth of very excellent timber.
Twenty-one acres of Woodland situated in North-Providence, adjoining Lands of the heirs of the late Messrs. Clark and Nightingale, (commonly called the Ruttenburg place,) on this Lot there are a very valuable quantity of Building Stones.
One Share in the Ohio Purchase containing about 1100 acres.
Two Rights in the township of Navy, in the State of Vermont, of about eight hundred acres, on one of which Rights there is a Saw and Grist-Mill.
Five Shares in the Rhode-Island and Connecticut Turnpike Company. The travelling on this road increases to an astonishing degree, and the prospects are at present favourable for a dividend of 6 or 8 per cent. on the capital Stock.
One Share in the Thompson Turnpike Company, which now pays 8 per cent.
Any of the above Property will be sold on liberal terms for cash or approved credit.
The subscriber continues to carry on the Paper Manufacturing Business in its various Branches, and has now on hand the kinds usually called for.—Manufacturers of Cotton Yarn can be supplied with large extra Wrapping Paper of a very durable quality.
No. 1 and 2 Chocolate, manufactured at his Mill, and as good as any made in this country. Also, Chocolate Shells. N. G. OLNEY. December 15, 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.

New Fancy Shoe Store, Westmaster-Street, a few doors west of the Exchange Bank, and directly opposite Mr. Whitman's new Brick Building. THE subscribers beg leave to inform the inhabitants of this and the adjacent towns, that they are about opening a complete assortment of Ladies' Misses' and Children's SHOES of almost every description, some very elegant Walking Shoes; all warranted of the first quality, and positively as cheap as the dozen or single pair can be purchased in the State of Rhode-Island, or the Metropolis of Massachusetts.
DRUGS, a few gentlemen's Morocco Pumps, very nice. One of the partners superintending the Manufacturing of all their retailing Shoes, the publick are assured that the greatest care is taken in procuring the best materials and in selecting the neatest and most faithful workmen. As their Store is on a street which has a very pleasant sidewalk, the Ladies are respectfully invited to call and examine the Quality and Prices of their Shoes—every attention will be paid to those who may thus honour them. Gentlemen, either in town or country, who are in the practice of retailing Shoes, are requested to call and learn our prices by the dozen—they will find it much to their advantage—2, 3 or 500 pairs furnished for the southern market at short notice. EMERSON and NELSON. December 12, 1809. 6t.
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.
REED MIKERS 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 many favours to him while resident in Starbuck, 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.
INDIGO. JUST RECEIVED BY BOWEN & EDDY, Opposite the Market, 300 lbs. Indigo of superior quality, 1 do. Fustick. 100 lbs. Oil Vitriol, 100 lbs. Nutmegs, 100 " blue do. 300 " Cassia, 1000 " Coppers, 1000 " Pimento, 2000 " Alum, 50 " Cloves, 6 Tons Logwood, 100 Kgs Ginger, 1 do. Nicaragua wood, Roll Brimstone, December 5, 1809. 6t.
PINKERTON'S COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. THE first number of this interesting Work will be ready for Subscribers at Providence in a few weeks. This number is a fair specimen of the paper, printing, &c. and is deposited for inspection at the Book-Stores of Henry Cushing, William Wilkinson, and Nathaniel Dearborn, and at the Washington Insurance Office, where such as decline their subscriptions until they have an opportunity of seeing the engravings, the style of printing, and the paper, are invited to examine the execution of the work. Providence, 12th mo. 4th, 1809.
UPLAND COTTON and HIDES. HIDES. THIRTY-FIVE Bales of Upland COTTON, 212 S. vanah HIDES, received per schooner Rambler. ALSO, 100 Barrels Menhaden FISH, 500 Bushels coarse SALT, for sale by ELISHA DYER. December 5, 1809.
CODFISH. FOR SALE, from one to five hundred Quintals of STREIGHTS FISH, of a very good quality. ALSO, THE Sloop EAGLE, built about 60 tons, a staunch well built vessel, and a fast sailer. Any person wishing to purchase either, may know the terms by applying to WANTON CASEY. East-Greenwich, December 4, 1809. Pilot-Bread and Crackers. BENJAMIN ROBINSON
HAS on hand, for sale, at the Bake-House on the Wharf, opposite the Baptist Meeting-House, a quantity of PILOT-BREAD and CRACKERS on reasonable terms, or in Exchange for West-India produce. November 21, 1809. 1t.
CHEESE. THE subscriber respectfully acquaints his friends and customers, that he has on hand, at his Store back of the Market, a quantity of Tyler's celebrated CHEESE, warranted equal to any made in America. Those who are in want of Cheese for the use of their families, are solicited to call and examine for themselves. He has also, constantly for sale, Rum, Brandy, Gin and Molasses, per Barrel or less quantity; Loaf and brown Sugars per cwt. or less; Coffee, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Souchong and Bohea Teas of the first quality; Salt, superfine Flour, Cotton, Rice, Pepper, Ginger, Allspice, fresh Raisins—with many other articles; all of which he will sell on the most reasonable terms for cash or country produce. ALSO, A few Barrels of Mess and Prime Pork. The above articles may be recommended to be of a genuine quality, and any article proving inferior to the recommendation, will be cheerfully received and the money returned. The subscriber would also further inform those who are indebted to him, that it would be a cause of very agreeable sensations if they would call and settle their accounts. LUTHER AINSWORTH. December 5, 1809.
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, Several additional supplies of CARPETING, among which are a few thousand yards of best Kidminster Carpeting, at 6s per yard, and a quantity of Scotch Carpeting at 4s. 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 favoured St. Croix RUM, on accommodating terms. November 28, 1809. 6t.
PETER GRINNELL & SON Offer for sale, at their Store, formerly occupied by GRINNELL & TAYLOR, near the opposite the Providence Bank, A LARGE assortment of Paints, whole-sale and retail, dry or ground in Oil. Also, Window-Glass of every size, Linseed and Lamp-Oil, Varnishes, Spirits of Turpentine, an assortment of Ship-Chandlery, Looking-Glasses, with Mahogany and burnished gilt frames in the newest fashion, of their own manufacture; with every other article generally called for in a Paint Store, as cheap as can be purchased in this State. They execute House, Ship, Sign and Ornamental Painting, Oil and Burnish Gilding, Polish and Re-silver old Looking-Glasses, &c. &c. November 10, 1809. tf.
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.
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 BRATTON, 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.
ONE Hundred Barrels of superior FLOUR, for sale by BENJAMIN T. CHANDLER, cheap for cash, this day. December 8, 1809. THE Copartnership between BROWNELL and ARMINGTON is this day dissolved by mutual consent. THOMAS BROWNELL, GEORGE ARMINGTON. November 28, 1809.
REMOVAL. THOMAS RHODES Has removed to the Store lately occupied by Mr. Jacob Soestman, in Weybosset-Street, one door west of Messrs. Taft and Waterman's Store—where he has for sale A FEW Hds. of sweet favoured St. Croix Rum, Pipes of American Gin, of an excellent quality; 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 Barrels first quality Turkey-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.
JOHN YOUNG, At the first corner Store south of the Market, HAS FOR SALE, A VERY general assortment of GENUINE GROCERIES, viz Old Madeira, Tenerife, Sherry, Lisbon, Port, Claret and other Wines of the first quality; old Cognac Brandy, superior old Jamaica Spirits, Geneva, Cherry Rum, best Cordials of various kinds, Bourdeaux and Martinique, in Bottles; Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Citron, Cinnamon, Allspice, Pepper, Ginger, 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, at the last importations, warranted good, Coffee, No. 1 and No. 2 Chocolate, &c. &c. A few handsome LIQUOR CASES, with white Glass Bottles, very convenient CIGARS. A number of Boxes first quality Spanish Cigars of an excellent flavour, will smoke free, and are acknowledged by the best judges to be of a superior kind. Fresh Lemons, Oranges and Limes. Preparation for Punch, of an excellent quality, in bottles. N. B. Madeira, Port, Claret, Sherry and Lisbon Wine, of very superior quality, in bottles—recommended by Physicians to those who are sick, and by J. Y. to the well and healthy. Cash given for empty Bottles and good clean Mustard and Hemp-Seg. Past favours gratefully acknowledged. September 1, 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.—Bottlegreen, black, blue, smoke and mixed Broadcloths; red, green, yellow and white Flannels; Coatings, Plains, drab, bottlegreen, black, brown and mixed Cassimeres; black, scarlet, snuff and slate Bombazets; Wildbores, Duroys and Rattinees, black, snuff and slate Tabby Velvets, common do. Silver Cords, 75 pieces of Calicoes of different prices and figures, pink, buff and blue Ginghams; white, black and coloured 4 and 6-qr. Cambricks; Furniture, Cambricks and common Dimities, English Shirting Cottons, Cotton and Worsted Hosiery, India Cottons of all kinds, India and home-made Checks, Jacquet and Muli Cambricks, figured and plain Lenos, spetternet, laced, seeded, veined and Book Muslins; white and black Laces, black and white Footing Lace, 4, 5 and 6-qr. Cotton Shawls; Pulleat, Madras and Canton Checks; Silk Hankerchiefs, Cotton and Silk Bandannos, white and printed Pocket-Handkerchiefs, Copperplates and Chintzes, No. 3, 51-2, 4, 4-1-2, and 5 Pack Pins; White Chapel Needles, 3, 6, 7 and 8-qr. Cotton Damask Diaper; Diaper Napkins, black, green, pink and white Sarce-nets; black Crape, black Sattins and Lustrengs, 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 Bed-ticks, with almost every other article usually kept in a Dry Goods Store, at whole-sale 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.
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 a 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 connection. 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, Connec.icut. Hartford, (Con.) October 8, 1809. 6m.
Commissioners' Notice. THE subscribers being by the Honourable Court of Probate appointed Commissioners to receive and allow the claims of the Creditors against the Estate of Capt. CHARLES SPOONER, late of Providence, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice, that six months from the 13th instant are allowed to the Creditors to bring in and prove their claims to either of us. BENJAMIN CLIFFORD, } Com'rs. JOHN F. SHELDON, } All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment, to SIMEON INGRAHAM, Admin. November 21, 1809.
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.
For Sale, on reasonable terms, by PAYTON DANA, At the Sign of the Turk's Head, East Front of Whitman's Buildings. LOCKS, Willard's patent Time-Pieces, gold and silver warranted and common Watches, gold Watch Chains, Seals and Keys, silver, gilt and steel do. silver Table, Tea and Salt Spoons; Sugar Tongs, Thimbles, gold Necklaces, Ear and Finger Rings, &c. CUTLERY. Best Razors, Pen, Desk, Pocket and Pruning Knives, and Scissors, per dozen or single. Also, ladies' and gentlemen's Pocket-Books and Purses. JUST RECEIVED, Plated Teapots, Sugar Basons and Cream Pots, Castors, Candlesticks, Lamps, Spurs, &c. Britannia Teapots, some very elegant patterns; Sugar Basons and Cream Pots; a very handsome assortment of 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.
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, bottlegreen, drab and mixed Broadcloths; black, blue drab, mixed and brown Cassimeres; black, bottlegreen, brown, scarlet and lead Bombazets; Pelice Flannels, Serges, Plains, Sattinees, Rattinees, Wildbores, Durants, first quality Rose Blankets, at reduced prices, from 5 to 12-qr. black, blue, bottlegreen, lead and crimson Tabby Velvets; black and olive twilled do. elegant Toilet and Swansdown Vestings, Rattinees, Coatings, Swanskin, Flannels of all colours, Silk, Cotton and Worsted Hosiery; India Cottons, English Shirting do. black, white and coloured Cambricks; Ginghams, Calicoes, a beautiful assortment of Fancy Muslins; with a variety of other articles, which will be sold at very reduced prices. November 7, 1809. tf.
TAKE NOTICE. 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 sigh of a bunch of grapes. Wickford, (R. I.) February 22, 1809. 1y.
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 Tenerife Wine, of a superior quality A few Hds. of old St. Croix Rum 400 Bushels of Salt 20 Hds. of Tobacco 1400 Bushels of Corn 6000 lb. of Carolina Bacon. July 7, 1809. tf.
The State of Rhode-Island, &c. PROVIDENCE, sc. THE Creditors of REUBEN THORNTON of Johnston, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an Act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said REUBEN. N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. November 27, 1809.
The State of Rhode-Island, &c. PROVIDENCE, sc. THE Creditors of GARDINER LAWRENCE, of Providence, Housewright, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said GARDINER. N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. Providence, November 27, 1809.
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS, BY DUNHAM and HAWKINS, At the sign of the AMERICAN EAGLE, Opposite the Market. $3:50 PER ANNUM—HALF IN ADVANCE.