The Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1809-10-11 00:00:00

THE RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
No. 30.
NEWPORT, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1809.
Vol. 1.
NEWPORT, R. I.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED ON WEDNESDAYS
BY WILLIAM SIMONS,
No. 15, MILL-STREET.
TERMS.
The paper is printed once a week, at 2 dollars a year, one half in advance.
Advertisements conspicuously inserted, at the rate of 1 dollar and 50 cents a square, for three weeks—smaller one in the same proportion.
Printing, in all its variety, executed with accuracy and despatch. Orders respectfully solicited.
JOSEPH BRIGGS,
No. 68, 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.
JOHN W. DAVIS,
Has just received and now opening at his Shoe-Store, No. 100, Thames-Street.
An Elegant and well chosen assortment of ladies and gentlemen's SHOES, of the latest patterns, viz:—Ladies English Kid Slippers and Ties, different patterns; do. do. spangled Sandals; Ladies French silk quilted Slips and Ties; Ladies, misses and children's black, blue, red, green, yellow, fig and tea coloured morocco Slips and Ties, with and without heels; men's and boy's morocco, and seal-skin Dancing Pumps; men's and boy's calf and seal-skin fine Shoes; Also, black, red, green and yellow morocco Skins, horse-skin, calf-skin and neat-leather Boot Legs, Boot Tops, Skins for binding, Boot Webbing, silk Cord—Likewise, A handsome assortment of HATS—He keeps constantly employed, a number of experienced workmen in his Manufactory, from which his Shoe-Store is constantly supplied with warranted Boots and Shoes of every description. Measures taken as usual for Boots and Shoes, and made at the shortest notice.
Also—a few pair, of low priced Morocco Slippers, at fifty cents a pair.
The smallest favors will meet with due attention, and be received with gratitude. All orders from town or country will meet with punctual attendance.
Wanted, Two experienced workmen in the above business.—Also, A lad as an apprentice, 14 or 15 years of age. One from the country would be preferred. Newport, June 12, 1809.
GODFREY WENWOOD,
HAS FOR SALE,
On the most reasonable Terms,
A QUANTITY of Ship and Cabin Bread; Alexandria and New-York Flour of the first quality; Molasses by the gallon; coarse and blown Salt by the bushel; Ginger and Pearl-Ash 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.
P. O. RICHMOND,
Has just received (at his Cash Store, No. 155, Thames-Street,) in addition to his former assortment—
A LARGE supply of India Cottons; Checks; Callicoes and Muslins, of every description; Cotton Shirting; black and white Cotton Cambricks; plain and figured Leno; Spider-net and Book Muslins; London print and Fancy plaid Ginghams; Ladies' long and habit Silk Gloves; do. white and coloured Kid do.; plaid and plain Lustrings; Gentlemen's and Ladies' white and coloured Hosiery; Common and Cambric Dimities; Sewing Silks; Silk Umbrellas; and Bandanna Handkerchiefs; with a variety of other seasonable GOODS; all of which having been bought at Auction in Boston, can be afforded lower than was ever sold in Newport. Newport, July 26, 1809.
Negro Head Tobacco.
SAMUEL CARR & SON have for sale, at their store, on Ferry-wharf, Newport, A quantity of Negro Head TOBACCO, by the keg—warranted of a good quality; if proving otherwise, and returned within three weeks, in good order, it will be taken back. If cutting the kegs in two would be more satisfactory to purchasers, they shall be indulged. July 12. [3 m.]
SIMPSON & BARKER,
Offer for sale, At the Brick Market 40 bbls. mess Pork. March 22, 1809.
JAMES WESTGATE, BAKER,
No. 195, 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.
LOPEZ & DEXTER,
OFFER FOR SALE,
 36 Puncheons St. Croix RUM;  11 Pipes 4th Proof Spanish BRANDY;  15 do. 1st do. Country GIN;  10 do. Madeira WINE;  24 Quarter Casks Lisbon do.;  75 Chests Souchong TEA;  8 do. Hyson Skin do.;  26,000 lbs. West-India COFFEE;  15 Bags PIMENTO;  74 Bales Upland COTTON;  100 Boxes Muscatel RAISINS;  55 Barrels N. Y. inspected Prime PORK;  60 Tons assorted Sweden's IRON;  700 Quintals CODFISH;  15 Boxes Window GLASS;  150 Reams Wrapping PAPER;  100 do. Writing do.;  3 Hogsheads LOAF SUGAR. 
The following Fresh imported DRY GOODS:—
 5 Cases India Silks;  600 Pieces Blue Nankeen;  200 do. Yellow ditto;  250 do. White ditto;  3 Bales Superfine Broadcloths;  2 Cases Cotton Sewings;  4 do. Fancy Prints;  1 do. English Sewing Silks;  1 do. Men's and Women's Gloves;  2 do. Cotton Shirting;  1 do. Fancy Muslins;  1 do. Marseilles Vesting;  1 do. Cambric Muslins;  1 do. Bombazetts;  1 Bale Cassimeres;  1 Case Velvets;  100 Pieces Russia Diaper;  50 do. Red, Yellow and Brown Bandanoes. 
Newport, August 16, 1809.
NOTICE.
Extract of an Act entitled, "an Act for the Relief Support, Employment, and Removal of the Poor."
SECT. 15. And be it further enacted, That in case any Tavern Keeper, Inn-holder, Vitualier, or any other person who soever, inhabitant in any town within this State, shall entertain or keep in his or her house, any single person or family, being strangers, for more than one whole week from the time of their coming into such town, without giving notice thereof in writing, to the President of the Town Council, such person, so offending, shall forfeit and pay a fine of Seven Dollars, for every such offence, to be recovered by the Town Treasurer of such Town, before any Justice or Warden, to and for the use of such Town.
By order of Council. JONATHAN ALMY, Council Clerk. Newport, Oct. 3d, 1809.
NOTICE.
WE the Subscribers being by the Court of Probate of North Kingstown, in the County of Washington, appointed commissioners to receive, and examine the claims of the creditors, to the estate of JOSEPH CAMMELL, late of said town deceased, (Represented Insolvent) and have allowed us six months for that purpose.—These are therefore to Notify the creditors to said Estate to bring in their respective claims to either of us, the Subscribers, at our respective dwellings, in said town, at any time within six months from the date hereof.
GEO. THOMAS, } Com'rs. JOHN HALL, }
All persons indebted to the said Estate are desired to make immediate payment, to MARGARET CAMMELL, Admin'tx. North-Kingstown, Sept. 11th, 1809.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
THE Creditors of SAMUEL COT-TRELL, of South-Kingstown, in the County of Washington, House-Carpenter, are hereby Notified to appear (if they think fit,) at the General-Assembly, to be holden at South-Kingstown, in the county of Washington, on the last MONDAY of October, instant, and there shew cause, (if any they have) why his Petition for the benefit of an Act made June 1756, for the relief of insolvent Debtors, should not be granted.
THO: PECKAM, Dep. Sec'y. Newport, October 2, 1809.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
THE Creditors of BENONIGARD-NER of South-Kingstown, in the County of Washington, Mariner, are hereby Notified to appear, (if they think fit,) at the General-Assembly to be holden at South-Kingstown, in the County of Washington, on the last MONDAY of October, instant, and shew cause (if any they have,) why his Petition for the benefit of an Act, made June, 1756, for the relief of insolvent Debtors, should not be granted.
THO: PECKAM, Dep. Sec'y. Newport, October 2, 1809.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
THE Creditors of JOSEPH LEWIS of Exeter, in the County of Washington, Labourer, are hereby Notified to appear, (if they think fit,) at the General-Assembly, to be holden at South-Kingstown, in the County of Washington, on the last MONDAY of October, instant; and then shew cause (if any they have,) why his Petition for the benefit of an Act, made June, 1756, for the relief of insolvent Debtors should not be granted.
THO: PECKAM, Dep. Sec'y. Newport, October 2, 1809.
Salt, Crockery Ware & Coal.
NOW landing on Gardner's Wharf, from the Ship Union, just arrived From Liverpool, and for sale on liberal terms, by EDWARD EASTON on, JOHN PRICE, JUN.
3000 Bushels of coarse Liverpool Salt, 23 Crates and 7 hds of Crockery ware, 12 Chaldrons Coal. Newport, Sept. 26, 1809.
Miscellany.
MR. ADAMS' CORRESPONDENCE CONTINUED.
To the Printers of the Boston Patriot. SIRS,
Project of an Answer to the three Belligerent Courts.
Answer Mutatis Mutandis.
THE Courts of Versailles and Madrid, having caused to be transmitted to the two Imperial Courts, their respective answers to the articles to serve as a basis to the negotiation which had been communicated to them, as the court of London had communicated her answer to them on the 15th June last, they think they ought not to delay to communicate them reciprocally to the three Courts respectively, as necessary for their mutual directions. And they have consequently charged their Ambassadors and Ministers to the said Courts, to present copies of them to their Ministers.
Their Imperial Majesties have perceived, with great satisfaction, in that which His Most Christian Majesty has transmitted to them, the assurance of the gratitude and zeal with which he had received the said articles; but they could not but be so much the more afflicted (peinees) at the exposition of the reasons which have appeared to his Majesty, to oppose themselves to their acceptance.
It appears to them convenient, in the present state of things, to refer to other times and other circumstances, the observations of which they are susceptible, and which it would be probable uses to disclose at this moment; but that which is not (useless) neither for the present nor for the future, is that the belligerent powers may contemplate in a true point of view, the articles which have been proposed to them, and consequently appreciate them at their just value.
The mediating powers ought not to allow themselves, either any of those propositions which have wounded the dignity or the delicacy of one or the other of the parties; nor any of those which might antecedently have drawn after them, explicitly or implicitly, decisions which can only be the result of consent, obtained by the way of negotiations.
They ought, consequently, to confine themselves to seek and to find some means proper to place the belligerent powers in a situation to be able to assemble their respective plenipotentiaries at the place of the congress, there to labour, under the mediation of the two Imperial Courts, for the amicable arrangement of all the differences which are the causes of the present war; and to the end, that, once assembled and furnished with instructions for all possible events, they may be continually ready and authorized to seize one or another of those happy moments, which circumstances sometimes present, and which frequently are lost forever, or at least for a long time, when men have not been vested with power to take advantage of them. They have not perceived in this plan any other inconvenience possible, than perhaps that of the progress of a negotiation not altogether so rapid as it would no doubt be desirable that it should be. The idea of a suspension of arms and the fixation of a statu quo, in itself independent of the rest of the propositions, may be adopted or not adopted, at pleasure. And as it has consequently appeared to them, on weighing with the greatest impartiality the possible advantages and inconveniences of the acceptance of their propositions, that nothing was more convenient to the respective interests of belligerent parties, as well as to their general and particular circumstances; they persist in this opinion, and by this means, from the sincere interest which they take in the circumstances of all the belligerent parties, they cannot but wish that they may still admit among themselves, with the modifications which they wish to subjoin, the articles which have been proposed to them; which, as is very justly observed by his Most Christian Majesty, are not, in fact, preliminary articles, as by the nature of things they could not be, but are not, the less a measure which may cause to succeed, in some moment or other, not only an arrangement of preliminaries, but perhaps even an accomplishment of peace the most prompt possible return of which is for so many reasons so desirable.
The two Imperial Courts have thought it due to the confidence with which his Most Christian Majesty has explained himself in regard to them, in his answer, to manifest that with which they expose to him in return, the manner in which they consider the measure of their propositions of the articles, which they have caused to be communicated to him; as well as the wishes which they persist to entertain, provided the belligerent parties can still adopt those which have been proposed to them, or at least if that cannot be done, communicate to them some other idea proper to produce the same effects, or still happier effects, if that be possible.
His Most Christian Majesty may be assured beforehand, that in this case, with all possible zeal, they will exert themselves to make such use of it, as shall appear to them may be the most useful and the most convenient;
nothing being more certain than the sincerity of those sentiments, with which they will take care to justify on all occasions, the confidence which has been reposed in them by the high belligerent parties, by accepting their mediation.
Answer of His Most Christian Majesty to the Reply of the two Imperial Courts.
JANUARY, 1783.
THE King has received, with equal sensibility and gratitude, the answer of the two mediating Courts. His Majesty regards it as a new proof of their amity for him; of the justice they render to his confidence in their impartiality, and in the genuine interest they take in the prompt reëstablishment of peace.
The King has not wavered, nor will he vary in his desire to second views so salutary, and the two high mediators may be assured, that nothing will be wanting in any thing which concerns his Majesty, to place them in a situation to give a free course to their benificent zeal.
But the Court of London deprives the King of all means and of all hope, in this respect, by her invariable resolution, to regard and to treat the Americans as her subjects. Such a resolution renders useless every attempt that can be made to accomplish a peace. It destroys from the foundation, the plan of the two mediators, since it prejudices in the most peremptory manner, the question which makes the subject of the quarrel, and the direct or indirect decision of which ought to be the preliminary basis of the future pacification.
In this situation of things, the King judges the conferences proposed by the two mediating Courts, would be at this moment without an object, and that the Assembly of the respective Plenipotentiaries would only be a vain phantom (simulacre) which would neither diminish nor abridge the horrors of war, and which might compromise the dignity of their Imperial Majesties.
The King is really afflicted to see that things have taken a turn so contrary to his wishes, and to the expectations of their Imperial Majesties; and if it were in his power to change it, he would do it with a zeal which would demonstrate to them the purity of his intentions. But his Majesty thinks he ought to observe, that he has Allies, with whom he has inviolable engagements: that he would betray them by abandoning the American cause; and that he should abandon it if he should consent to negotiate a separate peace, independently of the United States. The high mediators have perceived the impossibility of this procedure, since they have themselves proposed to cause to march with an equal step, the negotiations of the King and that of the United States.
But on the supposition that the King could make an abstraction of the affairs of America; that he could prevail upon himself to transact his own personal interests alone and leave to the Americans the care of accommodating with their ancient Metropolis, what would result from this conduct? It would result, that the peace would be illusory; that it would be a figment of imagination; in fact if, as is most evident, the Americans would persist in their refusal to return under their obedience to the British Crown, the war would continue between England and her ancient Colonies; the King would be obliged in that case, as he is at present, to assist them; the King of Spain, on his part would be in the case, to assist his Majesty, so that France and Spain would find themselves, after the signature of their particular treaties, in the same state in which they are at present.
These considerations appear to the King to be of the greatest weight, and his majesty does too much justice to the information and penetration of the two high mediators, not to be convinced beforehand, that they will perceive them in the same point of view and that they will give their entire approbation to the reserved conduct which they compel him to pursue.
The King ardently wishes to find himself in a situation to change it; and it is in consequence of this sentiment that he invites the high mediators to employ all their influence with the Court of London to engage her to manifest dispositions proper to convince, that she is finally resolved to give her hand in good faith to a prompt and equitable peace.
The King believes he ought to inform the high mediators that his Ambassador at Vienna, is from this time authorized to hear all the overtures and all the expedients extending to this end, whether they come from the Court of London, or are proposed by their Imperial Majesties. And he is even authorized to connect the negotiation, if they present to him sufficient foundations, for conducting it surely to a happy conclusion, under the auspices of their Imperial Majesties.
It is certain that if the King of France had given me a commission with full power to conduct the negotiation in behalf of his Majesty, I could not have composed any thing more conformable to the sentiments I had expressed in my answer to the articles, and letter to the Comte De Vergennes, than is expressed in these answers, and replies of the Court of France to the two Imperial Courts. Nor could I have expressed my own sentiments so much to my own satisfac-

tion. Yet all these papers were carefully concealed, not only from me, but from Dr. Franklin, and Mr. Jay. I know not that Dr. Franklin ever knew them, or that Mr. Jay knows them to this hour. I knew nothing of them till after the peace was concluded. If I had known them in season, I should have sent them to Dr. Franklin and Mr. Jay, when the question arose whether we should treat with Mr. Oswald before commissions were exchanged, and they would undoubtedly have united Dr. Franklin in opinion with me and Mr. Jay. But of this, more hereafter.
Finding no prospect of any elucidations from the Comte De Vergennes, I returned to Holland, where I was persuaded that more might be done to accelerate peace, than in France. Anxiety concerning the state of my affairs in Holland, and zeal to be doing something to obtain a loan and a treaty with that Republick, excited me to presume too much upon my strength, and I rode day and night. The unwholesome damps of the night, and the excessive fatigue, threw me into a nervous bilious fever, which brought me as near to death as any man ever approached without being grasped in his arms. At least this was the opinion of the oldest physician in that country, Doctor Osterdyke, professor of medicine in the University of Utrecht, and of all my friends who attended me. This fever shook my constitution to the centre, and left me in the situation of Lord Chesterfield, who in one of his letters describes himself after such a sickness in the same country. I did not, however, cure myself by brine from the salters, but by obstinate perseverance in walking.
The maxim "Si velis Pacem, para bellum," which I believe is as ancient as national politics or war, induced me to think that a loan of money and a political connection with Holland and the maritime Confederacy of Europe, would accelerate peace more than mediations of any other kind. The principal hopes of England were founded on our want of pecuniary resources.
JOHN ADAMS.
Quincy, July 18, 1809.
Literary Miscellany.
FOR THE RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
MISCELLANEA—No. IX.
SCOTT'S LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL.
This poem has been compared to the "opening rose-bud wet with the dew of morning." Indeed it is "fresh and sparkling," and delights with a thousand beauties. Its merits, however, are not discoverable by a single perusal. Seven readings are requisite to perceive the full force and splendour of the enchanting numbers. It is, likewise, necessary to become acquainted with the "customs and manners which anciently prevailed on the borders of England and Scotland." Without this knowledge the reader will remain insensible to many of its sweetest charms. The writer has endeavoured to combine the "simplicity" and "rudeness of the old ballad, or metrical romance," with the "refinement of modern poetry." This authorizes the frequent "change of rhythm in the text," a license which he has improved to much advantage. Alliterations are profusely strowed through the work. These generally have a happy effect, but in some instances they might have been spared.
The character of the Minstrel is drawn by the hand of a master. It artfully unites those circumstances, which excite our tender feelings, and deeply interest us in his favour. "A son of song," on whom prosperity had erst propitious, smiled, who had charmed the ear of Kings, and revelled in the bounties of a Court, now bending beneath the weight of years, "the last of his race," is doomed to wander forth accompanied by an "orphan boy," the bearer of his harp, to seek sustenance at the door of hospitality. The description is so repete with poetick excellence, that I presume the reader will not be displeased by being presented with the whole passage.
"The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel is infirm, and old; His withered cheek, and tresses grey, Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he, Who sung of border chivalry; For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest. No more on prancing palfrey borne, He caroled, light as lark at morn; No longer, courted and caressed, High placed in hall, a welcome guest, Re-penned, to lord and lady gay, The unpremeditated lay; Old times were changed, old manners gone, A stranger filled the Stuart's throne; The bigots of the iron time, Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a King had loved to hear."
"He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye, No humble resting place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal arch he passed, Whose ponderous gate, and iron bar, Had oft rolled back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door, Against the desolate and poor. The Duchess marked his weary pace, His timid mien, and reverend face, And bade the page her meals tell,"
That they should tend the old man well, For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree; In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept on Monmouth's bloody tomb! When kindness had his wants supplied, And the old man was gratified, Began to rise his Minstrel pride. And he began to talk anon Of good Earl Francis, dead and gone, And of Earl Walter, rest him God! A braver never to battle rode: And how full many a tale he knew, Of the old warriors of Buccleuch, Aml-would the noble Duchess deign To listen to an old man's strain, Though still his hand, his voice, though weak, He thought even yet, the sooth to speak, That if she loved the harp to hear, He could make musick to her ear.
"The humble boon was soon obtained; The aged Minstrel audience gained. But, when he reached the room of state, Where she, with all her ladies, sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied; For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please; And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o'er his aged brain; He tried to tune his harp in vain. The pitying Duchess praised his chime, And gave him heart, and gave him time, Till every string's according glee, Was blended into harmony. And, then, he said, he would full fain, He could recall an ancient strain, He never thought to sing again. It was not framed for village churls, But for high dames and mighty Earls: He had played it to King Charles the Good, When he kept court at Holyrood; And much he wished, yet feared to try The long forgotten melody,"
"Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made; And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along; The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot; Cold indifference, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied; And while his harp, responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung."
* Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth, Representative of the Ancient Lords of Buccleuch, and widow of the unfortunate James, Duke of Monmouth, who was beheaded in 1685.
† Francis Scott, Earl of Buccleuch, Father to the Duchess.
‡ Walter, Earl of Buccleuch, Grandfather to the Duchess, and a celebrated Warrior.
Political Miscellany.
From the AURORA.
INFLUENCE OF BRITAIN.
No. III.
My last number concluded at a period when the people of the United States, instead of appearing in the plain, modest, and substantial apparel, which they in part manufactured at home, exhibited themselves in flimsy British drapery, manufactured not for service, but on purpose to take the eye of the gulls who purchased it. Hodges and Margery would no longer be seen in homespun. Sambo and Quashe paraded the streets with three time the cost of British finery on their backs, that could be detected on the persons of an English lawyer, and his consort, in the city of London, notwithstanding the lucrative profession of the learned gentlemen.
Men of reflection stared with astonishment at the metamorphosis. They very reasonably concluded, that the people were mad when they saw that British shopkeepers had put them into straight waistcoats.
We now arrive at an era, when the European belligerents were in a great measure incapacitated prosecuting their colonial from trade, and the business fell principally into the hands of the Americans.
The American merchants exported to the East and West-Indies, such objects as were in request by those countries, for which they generally obtained high prices, and received in payment at low rates, the produce of the colonies—but the consumption of the United States being inadequate to take off the quantity imported—it became necessary to find a medium for converting the surplus into money—colonial produce was offered to the British manufactures in payment for their goods, but as the commercial knowledge and enterprise of these gentry, in general, extended to further than their calico, buckle, and pin ware houses, they rejected it—neither the capitals nor the commercial experience of the American merchants, at that time, permitted their making shipments to any extent direct to the continent of Europe, so that almost all our European exports went first to England, and from thence found transit to the continent.—This introduced the Americans to a class of British traffickers, distinct from those who supplied them with British manufactures—I mean the very honourable gentlemen yeoman the London and Liverpool commission merchants.—These good men, by making advances of two thirds or three fourths the cost of produce consigned to them, raised up a set of mushrooms in the United States, denominated shipping merchants, who purchase and ship produce, and draw bills of exchange on it, to raise the wind; thus playing the game of hazard with those who trust them—themselves holding the tables.
The assistance afforded to the latter by the former, in keeping them on their legs, created an influence in favour of Britain, nearly as extensive and perhaps more injurious to the interest and honour of the United States,
than even the influence produced by the credit given to us by the English manufacturers. Other causes, which operate in favour of British influence, are yet to be unfolded.
A WHIG.
FOR THE RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
Mr. Dwight's correct reasoning corrected.
[Concluded.]
IF there be a nation above all others, unjust, bloody and cruel, that nation is Britain. Gen. Burgoyne says it is hostile above all others to liberty—their enmity is not directed against American freedom alone, it is hostile to the whole world. Rosseau, a fine writer, takes it for granted, that the English are the most bloody and cruel; and says it results from their eating much animal food.
After the Scotch rebels, in 1745, were beaten, the Duke of Cumberland, otherwise called Billy the Butcher, went forward into the highlands, about fort William, and after all opposition had ceased, says Smollet, the country was laid waste with fire and sword, for fifty miles round; the old men were shot like wild-beasts on the mountain, and the smoking remains of the cottages presented a scene of ruin, silence, and desolation. Never was genius and poetry better employed than in painting this affecting scene. Smollet says
The infants perish on the plain, The ravish'd virgin shrieks in vain, The houseless wanderer sees from far, His all become the prey of war. Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast and curses life.
King William 3d disowned the affair of Glencoe, and the imputation stuck to his character all over Europe as a black business. The neutral French were happy; their own labours with that of their ancestors had dyed and reclaimed from the ocean the richest fields in the world; they are deceitfully invited to assemble on the shore; they are compelled to depart and leave forever their delightful fields, and coast and starve on the shores of New-England. History gives no instance of more deliberate and cool-blooded cruelty, or greater abuse of power. At Bengal, in Indostan, the English flag and bayonet, those ensigns of terror, had long been displayed. In the year 1779, the harvest in that country was so small as plainly to shew to government the necessity of sending abroad for food; but all the exertions or efforts the English government made was to collect and monopolize the small harvest in magazines for their own soldiers, and before the next harvest the dead bodies filled the highways to such a degree that two hundred soldiers in the English army and pay were constantly employed in throwing the dead bodies into the Ganges. Says an English officer in a letter to his friend, "within twenty yards of my window I have seen forty dead bodies lie in the morning." Nor does it appear that any vessels were sent by government in quest of food. But on the contrary that the great officers of government turned the famine to their profit, by selling rice to the dying. Indians at such price as they could obtain. So terrible was the famine that a quarter part of the population, or three millions of Indians are supposed to have perished under the eye and abuse of British government. We are told by authority better than Robert Wilson, and no less than members of the august parliament, E. Burke, speaking of British government in the E. Indies, says, he defies the united calenders of gaol delivery throughout the kingdom to produce a list of crimes in any proportion in point of foulness and atrocity. Sheridan on the same subject says British friendship is the damp of death. The author of travels in Asia, an Englishman, speaking of the Rohillas says, "the fatal battle was fought on the 23d of April, 1774, which iniquitously decided the melancholy fate of the brave, industrious, populous and inoffensive Rohilla nation. To the immortal honour of the brave Rohillas, it is asserted they left four thousand men lying dead on the field before they retreated, the surviving chiefs surrendered at discretion. The British general was under the command of a prince whose object was savage barbarism and inhumanity. The wives, daughters and sisters of princes were violated and abused—the plunder a million and a half sterling—and it is computed that above five hundred thousand industrious husbandmen and artists, together with their families were deliberately driven over the Jumna. [Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 2, page 148.]
The people of this country have the benefit of experience to warn them of the fatal consequences of an union with England. Sheridan, speaking in character of a Hindoo, says, "We sink under the pressure of their support—we writhe under the gripe of their pestiferous alliance." And their brotherly greetings of the Danes, and their kind visitation to Copenhagen, hath still further extended and confirmed their character. And we really believe and hope that there are and ever will be in this country, and in every other country, a great majority who would trust their lives and interest with Generals Rochambeau or La Fayette rather than with any Connecticut loyalist or friend to the English party in this country—the honourable Theodore Dwight not excepted.
A REPUBLICAN.
Vermont Election.
On Thursday the 12th inst. the Honourable Legislature of Vermont will convene at Montpelier, when the complete triumph of Republicanism in that State will be officially made known.
FOR several weeks past, the most opprobrious epithets which Federal licentiousness could invent, have swarmed in the columns of papers devoted to the sinking cause of disorganization. The principal cause of this "wailing and gnashing of teeth," is an order of the 13th July, issued at "Head-Quarters, Camp Terre au Bœuf," by the Commander in Chief of the Army, for the suppression of treason and mutiny. As the ringleader of the intended revolt is an Englishman, it will doubtless appear, as in the case of Burr, that the party who so highly censure the conduct of Gen. Wilkinson in this affair, were deeply interested in the final result of a scene of premeditated assassination and violence. Fortunately, their plans have been disconcerted by the vigilance of the officers of the army, and the energy of a General, whose indefatigable exertion quashed the nefarious schemes of a former conspirator, and placed the British party in the deplorable dilemma which the termination of Burr's intrigues found them.
The order alluded to, is a specimen of the correctness of the General's military principles. It conforms in every point with the true spirit of our military code; and is in itself sufficient to appal the traitor—to unnerve the assassin—arm of the mutinous soldier, and render him submissive to those laws under which he has voluntarily placed himself—laws, which by his solemn oath he is bound to respect and obey. The cause of this order is removed—its effect is a sufficient justification of its rigour, of which no one can complain but the devotees to the interests of Britain—friends to disunion, discord and rebellion. Such men only feel its effect. They are "galled to the quick," with the idea that General Wilkinson should discover the design of their hirelings, before they could wrest from him the command of a few hundred of our troops, and perhaps again push for the Washita lands, or grasp at the treasures of Mexico.
It must afford delight to the friends of government, to reflect that this base project has been cropped in the bud of imagination—that the views of the disaffected were anticipated by the General in time to meet them on the ground prescribed by martial law, and thereby prevent the effusion of blood, or the subversion of his authority. Perhaps a few hours longer delay on his part, would have witnessed nearly a total annihilation of our army in that quarter, and the formation of a banditti whose power might have counteracted every effort to restore subordination. Surely the hand of Burr or some of his "choice spirits" was in this thing: But their arms are palsied by the blow received on the evening of the 12th. Should these aspiring heroes meet with a just reward for their intended services, we may behold them exalted in all the majesty which a wooden throne and hempen insignia of loyalty can bestow. It is possible they may be suffered to retire to hard labour a number of years!—Such, such is the "ingratitude of Republicks." Alas! why should the "best blood of our country-men above the dull pursuits of civil life," be thus unfortunate?
The Editor of the Republican will confer a favour on his readers, by publishing the particulars of the intended revolt, together with General Wilkinson's Order. It may reclaim many from the path of error in which federal fabrication has misled them.
THEODORE.
New-Orleans, July 16.
THE ARMY.
On the 16th inst. a Lieut. Christian of the 7th regiment, reported to Lieut. Blue of the same corps, that a general revolt was intended as soon as the men had received their pay, and that the plan extended from right to left. He mentioned several names, and among them Corporal Donaldson of the 5th regiment, and a private by the name of Arnbukle of the 7th regiment, and particularly Hogau the Sergeant-Major of Dragoons, as the proposed leader, who is said to be a British deserter. This report reached the General's ear the morning of the 11th, and measures were immediately adopted to ascertain the ground on which it rested.
In the course of the day and night, satisfactory evidence was obtained, that a revolt was in agitation, and that a paper had been circulated for signers! The General had heard that an overt act was necessary to constitute treason and to justify accusation, that he reflected that if he should in this instance wait for the act, the actors might perhaps enter the plea of justification, and put his authority and law at defiance, he therefore resolved, as on a former occasion, to anticipate the conspirators.
On the morning of the 12th, the ball-cartridges were returned by the troops, and the guards were strengthened. The line paraded in the evening, the light artillery on the right loaded with canister and lighted matches—the roll being called and the orders read, three Sergeants, one Corporal and four Privates, were drawn out and committed to the front guard, under an impressive silence, and a scene of obvious alarm from right to left. Picquets of confidential men were turned out in the course of the evening, and the officers emulated each other in vigilance; determined to lose their lives or extinguish the combination in its dawn.
On the 13th the inclosed order was issued, and a General Court-Martial was ordered to try the offenders. I left camp this morning, where every thing is tranquil. In short, this little excitement, operating like a panic on all ranks, has produced an unprecedented display of zeal and action, and will, no doubt, have the best effect.

EXTRACT OF GEN. ELLIS' ORDERS.
Head-Quarters, Camp Terre au Boeuf, July 13th, 1809.
It is with extreme pain, the general has heard of much licentious conversation in this camp, subversive of every principle of subordination and discipline; of patriotism and honour; and tending to dissolve those high and solemn obligations, by which every military man is bound to the service of his country.
"He is fully apprized of the acts which have been employed to seduce the incautious and innocent from their duty, to obtain their signatures to a bond of infamy, and to involve them in utter disgrace and ruin. He knows that his life has been menaced by a traitor, but he is persuaded, a great majority of the troops he commands, Americans by birth and in principle, will sooner suffer martyrdom, than attach an eternal stigma to their names and families, or raise their hands against the country which gave them birth. He knows also that this camp, like all others of equal extent, comprehends every species of human depravity and on strict scrutiny will exhibit the various traits of character, from the patriot and the hero, to the coward and the villain—men of profligate lives, fugitives from justice, and deserters from foreign service.
But were the general assured that every man of his camp had combined to violate their oaths, to abandon their duty, and defy the government and the laws, by an act of desperation as foolish as it would be cowardly, wicked and perfidious, they should march to the gibbet over his body, because his life, compared to a faithful discharge of the high trust confided to him, would be but a feather in the balance; in such a disgraceful extremity, the General would save his own honour, by shooting the first man who resisted his orders, and he can have no doubt, he would be gallantly seconded by every gentleman who wears a commission, and by every soldier of courage and honour.
"The officers of this army are commanded to exact the most prompt obedience from their inferiours, and to punish on the spot any man who may pause over an order, or utter a seditious expression."
PIRACY AND MURDER!
The following Circular has been forwarded by the Collector of Boston, to the Collectors of the respective Ports in the United States.
Boston, September 27, 1809.
To the Collector of
SIR—This will be forwarded to you by the Collector of the Port of Boston; the purpose is to request of you that, should the vessel below described enter your port, or come into your neighbourhood, she may be detained, the persons on board taken into custody, and immediate information forwarded to me, or to Gen. DEARBORN; the said vessel having been forcibly taken possession of by the persons below described, two of the crew killed, and the Captain compelled to leap into the sea.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, W. S. SKINNER, Pro Consul.
SCHOONER THREE SISTERS, a remarkable high stern Schooner, no Cabin windows, has a yellow streak fore and aft; from the break of the quarter deck to the stern, a white streak: no mouldings round the stern, but painted yellow in imitation of mouldings. She is registered in Halifax, owned by Messrs. JONATHAN & JOHN TREMAIN, burthen 63 40-94ths tons; JOHN STAINS, Master. The signatures to the Register, are, THOMAS N. JEFFERYS, Collector, I. SLATER, Comptroller, and JAMES GRANT, Deputy Naval Officer. She has her clearance from GASPE, or PEGE in the Province of Lower CANADA, signed by HUGH O'HARA, Deputy Collector. The people left on board were, EDWARD JORDAN, a man about thirty eight years of age, dark complexion, black hair, and a very black beard, of an innocent appearance. JOHN KELLY, Mate, about twenty two or three years of age, five feet three or four inches high, very much pitted by the small pox, will probably pass as master of the vessel. EDWARD JORDAN, has his wife and four children on board, one of the four a Boy about eight or nine years of Age, and the oldest Girl very much disfigured by a burn on her back and her right arm.
The above act of Piracy and Murder was committed on the 13th ult. on the eastern coast N. Scotia, and in two days sail of Halifax, where the vessel was bound. In an unguarded moment, while the Capt. and one of the hands were in the cabin, the above mentioned Jordan, having first corrupted the mate, Kelly, and secured the arms, discharged a pistol down the sky light at the Captain, which wounded him and killed the man who was with him. The Captain then ran on deck just in time to see the last stroke given to his only remaining man, who fell dead on the deck. He was then fallen upon by Jordan and his wife, and another pistol attempted to be fired at him, which flashed, and in the struggle was thrown overboard. Kelly at this time was charging another pistol; which the Capt. observing, while engaged with Jordan and wife, by great exertion disengaged himself, and seizing the hatch, threw it over and jumped upon it. As it blew very hard, he was soon clear of the vessel, and after remaining in the water about three hours was providentially fallen in with by the sch'r. Lisa, of Hingham, Captain Stoddard who took him up when nearly exhausted by cold and literally insensible. From Capt. Stoddard he received the most humane treatment,
and every attention necessary to his recovery and subsequent comfort.
Editors of Papers will subserve the cause of justice by giving the above every possible publicity, in order that the perpetrators of so atrocious an act may be brought to condign punishment. And all persons who may come to the knowledge of any facts likely to lead to any discovery of the property and the offenders, will have it in recollection, that, over and above the satisfaction they must feel in their detection, a competent salvage is in all such cases awarded. [Boston Patriot.]
NEWPORT:
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11, 1809.
Extract of a Letter from a gentleman in Guadalupe to his friend in this Town, dated August 18th, 1809.
On the 1st and 2d of this month we experienced a Hurricane which may be compared to that of 1776. It began at midnight and continued with violence until two in the morning, blowing from the north west; happily for us it did not return from the south which might have annihilated us. The fall of trees, and houses around us seemed to announce our destruction, we have not sustained any loss of consequence in buildings, but our crops are ruined—the Hospital which was a strong building was blown down,
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
FROM PORTUGAL.
Arrived at Philadelphia, on Monday last, the brig General Eaton, from St. Ubes, sailed the 10th August—the captain of which has favoured us with Portuguese papers to that date—but they contain nothing new. Aug. 13, lat 27 24, long. 13 27, spoke schr. John, 54 days from New-York, for Cadiz. Same day was boarded by a British brig of war from Lisbon, bound on a cruise off the western islands. Had no men impressed.
The captain of the above vessel informs that no official account of the battle of the 27th and 28th July had arrived in Portugal before he sailed—although sufficient time had elapsed. By all the private letters received at St. Ubes from Spain, it appeared that the English army had suffered much—the whole of their advanced guard having been cut up, previous to the general engagement, and Sir A. Wellesley had to make his escape to the main body of the army by flight, accompanied by a few horsemen.
The loss on the part of the British was understood to be at least 10,000 men, exclusive of officers; having been driven from all their positions, except that occupied by the artillery. This news dare not be published at St. Ubes—and was related to our informant by the British consul at that place.
The English (as usual) and their friends the Portuguese have laid all the blame upon the poor Spaniards—they say the Spaniards did not arrive at the field of battle, until the second day of the action—and when they did arrive expressed some unwillingness to occupy the positions their English friends had assigned them.
The corps, composed of the students, had disbanded and returned to their homes, being dissatisfied with the tyrannical conduct of the British officers that had been placed over them. The militia of St. Ubes had demanded permission of the governor to return to their homes, but being refused, the principal part of them had deserted—Aurora.
FROM SPAIN.
After we had got our paper to press last evening, we received the following account from Capt. SAMUEL LEACH, of the brig Harriet, from Cadiz.
He informs us, that on the 14th of August, two days previous to his sailing, accounts were received of another battle having been fought between the combined armies and the French, in which the British army, under Sir Arthur Wellesley, was totally defeated, and the Spanish army, under Gen. Cuesta, completely annihilated; and that the remnant of the British, together with a small body of Portuguese troops connected with them were on their retreat into Portugal. The action took place between Seville and Madrid, about the 10th of August. The combined armies were proceeding towards Madrid, with good prospect of success, when they were encountered by the French, who had received great reinforcements, and were thus enabled to overpower them. No particulars of the losses were ascertained previous to Capt. Leach's sailing. The Supreme Junta were said to be without apprehension of danger, notwithstanding this reverse; and the news was as much as possible suppressed in Cadiz.—Sal. Gaz.
From the New-York Mercantile Advertiser of October 4.
Late last night the Spanish frigate Cornelia, Capt. Don Joseph Rodriguez De Arias arrived at the quarantine ground. She sailed from Cadiz on the 20th August. This vessel has brought out his Excellency Don Lewis De Onis, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary from his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand VII. to the United States of America. Also, Don Bartholomew Regenet, Consul from his Catholic Majesty for Philadelphia, their ladies, daughters, and domestics, and Mr. Richard Bailey of this city.
[To the above is added the following stanzas to British hope on the continent.] On the 20th ult. the Frigate spoke the ship Ariadne, Wyberg, 27 days from Liverpool for Charleston— —informed, that the English had got possession of all the Islands on the coast of Holland.
We also learn that after the battle of Talavera, the French army attacked Gen. Venegas in Aranjuez, and were driven back with considerable loss, after three hard fought battles. Venegas afterwards returned towards the Sierra Morena, principally for want of provisions, the French having destroyed everything. The French garrison of Madrid had gone into the Retiro, with their adherents, the people having risen up against them, and gone out to meet Venegas in his advance.
[Not a word of the overthrow of the allied armies! The Spanish Patriots, and their magnanimous allies, are not less remarkable for concealing the truth, than for propagating falsehoods.]
From the same of October 5.
We learn further, by the Spanish frigate, that Gen. Cuesta, which defends itself in the most astonishing manner, has been relieved by Gen. Blake, who is collecting his army and artillery at Tortosa, to go against Saragossa, where the French have been obliged to concentrate themselves, in consequence of the people of Arragon having risen against them en masse.
The Spanish mountaineers from Arragon, Navarre and Catalonia, had made an irruption into several parts of France, burnt some towns, and levied contributions on the inhabitants.
The Supreme Junta continued at Seville; but it was expected they would soon remove to Madrid, from whence Joseph Buonaparte, with 6000 men, had a second time effected his escape. He was gone to Somma Sierra, a strong pass between France and Spain.
The Fulgencio, a Spanish 74, had arrived at Cadiz, from Lima, with 8,000,000 of dollars.
After the battle of Talavera, Venegas having advanced within sight of Madrid, received information from Cuesta, that the French were concentrating towards Toledo, and fell back as far as Aranjuez. In this position he was attacked three several times by the French, but he repulsed them every time with great slaughter. After this he fell back to Sierra Morena, principally for want of provisions.
During the battle of Talavera, a Spanish regiment which was not in the engagement, left the ground in a panic, and reported in Talavera that all was lost; in consequence of which, the Intendant of the army ordered all the provisions to fall back to the Tagus, by means of which hasty measure, the army which been engaged for nearly two days found itself without provisions for nearly 48 hours. For this misconduct, the brigadier who commanded the regiment, was executed on the spot, and orders given to put to death every third officer and every tenth man of the soldiers. Part of the execution took place, but a stop was put to them by the humane interposition of Sir Arthur Wellesley.
In consequence of the above order to remove all the provisions, the combined armies found it necessary to fall back to the Tagus.
On Sir A. Wellesley's retiring, he sent a flag of truce to the French, informing them that the great heat of the climate prevented his taking his wounded with him, and requesting he might have permission to send his surgeons to attend them; which was granted.
Beresford with a combined army of Portuguese, Spanish and English, Romana with the army of Galicia and Asturias, and the Duke of Parque, were coming down upon Madrid, with as was said, 80,000 men.
The Duke of Parque had already taken Salamanca from the French, and Romana was in Valladolid, by the last accounts.
Yesterday morning about 10 o'clock, the Spanish frigate, Cornelia, came up and anchored off Fort Columbus. At 4 P. M. she saluted the Fort, which was returned. At half past 5, his Excellency the Spanish Ambassador, his lady, and suite, landed at Steamboat wharf, amidst a large concourse of our citizens, the frigate Constitution, Commodore Rogers, firing at the same time a complimentary salute. Mer. Adv.
IMPORTANT.
Copy of a letter from Gen. Armstrong, dated Paris, July 4, 1809.
SIR—I have received your letter of the 1st June, stating the case of the Coroline, &c. The fate of this brig and cargo will probably depend upon the issue of a negotiation now pending between the United States and his majesty the Emperor and King—and which will, from my present views of the subject, be terminated within a month or six weeks from the present time. I can only add, that appearances are now more favourable than they have lately been. If there are any of your countrymen at Naples in your situation, you'll oblige me by communicating to them the contents of this letter. I am, sir, very respectfully, &c.
JOHN ARMSTRONG.
Mr. R. I. REED, supercargo of the American brig Caroline.
PROVIDENCE TAMMANY SOCIETY.
We are happy to observe, in the Providence Phenix an advertisement, calling a meeting of the members of the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order. We heartily wish that every town on the continent may establish similar Republican Institutions,
MARRIED.
In this town, on the 18th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Gibson, Mr. WM. CARL, jun. to Miss SARAH HELME, daughter of the late Mr. William Helme. At Lebanon, (Con.) BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, Esq. Professor of Chemistry and natural History in Yale College, to Miss HARRIOT TRUMBULL, daughter of the late Governor Trumbull.
DIED.
On his passage from Havana, on board the sloop Juliet of this port, on the 11th ult. Mr. SAMUEL T. HOWARD, son of Mr. William Howard of this town, in the 18th year of his age.
At Middletown, Mr. SAMUEL MANCHESTER, in the 50th year of his age. In the death of Mr. M. his widow has lost a kind and tender husband—his children, an affectionate and indulgent parent—his brothers and friends a true and faithful companion—and society a valuable and useful member. In him the town has lost a man that was greatly beloved, for he had been their Representative in the General Assembly for near ten years, and was never opposed. He was a firm friend to the constitution, and uniformly supported those principles on which our government is founded. He lived respected for his honesty and integrity, and his death is sincerely lamented.
At Wickford, on the 29th ult. Miss MARY FOWLER, daughter of the late Mr. George Fowler, in the 45th year of her age.
At Providence, on the 2d ult. Mrs. ALICE BEVERLY, Esq. 81 years.
At Pawtucket, Miss SARAH WHEATON, Et. 21 years, daughter of Mr. Moses Wheaton, of Richmond, (N. H.)
In Baltimore, Mr. JUTUS BROWN, Printer—a zealous patriot and a worthy citizen.
In Charleston, (S. C.) Mr. NATHANIEL BELLE, Printer, Et. 24, formerly editor of the Connecticut Gazette.
DROWNED.—On Friday evening the 29th ult. near the stone bridge at Howland's Ferry, by the sinking of a small boat, (in which they were returning from Portsmouth to Tiverton) Mr. ELISHA NORTON, Et. 46 years, Mrs. SARAH NORTON his wife, Et. 43 years, Mr. JOSEPH NORTON, his nephew, Et. 19 years, and Miss ALICE DUNKEE, daughter of Thomas Durdlee, Esq. Et. 27 years, all of Tiverton. The bodies were taken up in about half an hour after the sinking of the boat, and every possible exertion made to restore them to life, but in vain. Their remains were on the 31st ult. committed to the silent grave, attended by a numerous concourse of relatives and friends.
MARINE LIST.
PORT OF NEWPORT.
Entered.—Swedish Brig Falihong, Hanson Steer, St. Bartholomews; do German Peggy, Gorton, Havana; do Maria, Greene, New York; schooner Cantica, Head, St. Bartholomews; do Federal, Gardner, Wilmington; sloop Akeley, Sturges, Boston.
Cleared.—Schooner Juno, Hammond, Wilmington; do Sukey, Hallett, Boston; do Paragon, Hemmings, Edenton; do Mount Vernon, Shore, Philadelphia; sloop Betsey, Gifford, do; do Rover, Phillips, Wilmington; do Golden Age, Earl, New-York; do Fame, Walden, do; do Fame, Heist, do.
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PRIZE MONEY BOUND.
WAS found some time in August last, in the Neighbourhood of No. 4, Washington-square, a Ticket in the BLACK-RIVER LOTTERY, State of New-York, which has since been ascertained to have drawn 10 dollars.—Any person proving property and paying for this Advertisement, will receive the above mentioned ticket, by applying at said No. 4. Newport, October 11, 1809.
NOTICE.
State of Connecticut, New-London County, ss. Superior Court, September Term, A. D. 1809.
GILMAN ROBBINS, of Preston, in New-London County, brought his Petition to this Court, against his Creditors, alleging that by means of sundry 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 held 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 show reasons, if any they have, why the prayer of said Petition should not be granted. CHARLES LATHROP, Clerk. JAMES LINMAN, Attorney for Petitioner.
Proposal
FOR publishing a REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER, in the Town of Newburyport, (Mass.) to be entitled, the INDEPENDENT WHIG.
TO THE PUBLICK.
THE dissemination of correct political principles, has ever been considered an object of primary importance, by every real patriot and friend of his country. If we trace the history of the ancient republics, we shall find, that the principal causes which contributed to their overthrow, originated in a great measure from the extreme ignorance in which the middling and lower classes of the people were involved, as from the ambition of those of a higher order, who abused the trust reposed in them. Happily for America, we live in an age, when the light of Science profusely sheds its enlightening rays. Information can now be procured at so cheap a rate, that he must indeed be the veriest miser, who would refuse to purchase. The Press, that great "Palladium of our Liberties," ought ever to be devoted to the sacred cause of TRUTH. And when this is the case, the RIGHTS of the people are secured by an impervious fortress, which no attempt, however deep-laid or desperate, can render vulnerable to the artillery of its enemies.
It is a melancholy truth, and cannot be too strongly impressed on the mind, that FOREIGN INFLUENCE has created jealousies and dissensions among us. And to whatever cause may be assigned the unhappy prejudices which a portion of our citizens have imbibed against their own government there is no scruple in avowing, that they are to be attributed to THAT ALONE.
To assist in counteracting the baneful effects of FOREIGN PARTIALITIES—and in rendering abortive the machinations of a FACTION, who are aiming a death-blow to our liberties—to expose political hypocrisy, under whatever specious appearance it may assume—to cherish the vital principles of the Constitution—and to promulgate political sentiments founded on the broad basis of REASON—are the prominent designs of the contemplated publication.
Nor shall it be confined to these alone! The important interests of Religion and Morality, shall no longer be neglected; A portion of its columns shall ever be devoted to miscellaneous articles both useful and instructive: The earliest notice of transatlantick affairs, shall claim a conspicuous place: And the concerns of Agriculture, Commerce and Manufactures shall be attended to with assiduity.
Tis much for our professions. And now the Editor looks with confidence to a generous publick, for that support which shall enable him to fulfil the duties incumbent on him. Conscious of his limited abilities, the aid of his literary friends is requested. The Editor pledges himself, that the most intense application shall not be wanting on his part to render the paper worthy of publick patronage. NATH'L H. WRIGHT.
October 9, 1809.
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The church of St. Giovanni, in Latano, is the oldest church in Rome, and, as they pretend, in Christendom. It has been rebuilt by the later popes and is now the second in point of splendour in the city. Its front or facade is most magnificent, and alone cost 400,000 crowns. Its interior is ornamented with the richest marbles. Among the others, are twenty-four columns of verd antique, a rich species of Egyptian marble, taken from the temple of Jupiter. There are two superb brass columns which they assure you were taken from the palace of Pilate in Jerusalem. They shew you the original table, on which the last supper was served, as they pretend, and the very well were our Saviour encountered the Samaritan woman; the curb of which they have transported hither. But aside from the puerilities of catholic superstition, this church abounds in works of taste in architecture, sculpture, and painting. The church of St. Paul's just without the city, is most extensive and magnificent. It is 780 feet in length, and 260 in breadth, and of course larger, than any church in the world out of Rome. It is supported upon four rows of pillars of superb marble, to the number of one hundred, said to be taken from the mausoleum of Adrian, or, as some writers say, the baths of Constantine. It is ornamented with the portraits of all the popes, at the head of whom they take care to place St. Peter. [Letter 18th to be concluded.]
Fearing & Fairman, HAVE just received in addition to their former supply, an assortment of FANCY DRY GOODS, which will be sold on the most reasonable terms. Newport, September 6, 1809.
New Wholesale and Retail Grocery and Commission Store.
John Gardner & Sons, At the East store, in the house late the property of Mr. MARVIN MORRIS, Providence, OFFER FOR SALE,
FRENCH and Spanish Brandy, Holland Gin, Rum, Loaf and Brown Sugars, Molasses, Rice, Coffee per bbl. for small quantity, Flour per bbl. or quarter, Hysoskin and Sonchong Teas, best Virginia Tobacco, New-York Soap, Ginger, Starch, &c. &c. &c. all first chop. JUST RECEIVED, a small assortment of HARDWARE GOODS—Factory Cotton Cloths, Yarns, Sewing Threads, Balls, &c. at Factory prices. Many kinds of Country Produce will be taken in exchange for W. I. Goods, on accommodating terms. Goods received on commission will be strictly attended to. Providence, Broad-street, August 5, 1809.
New Granary & Grocery Store. No 11, Long wharf, WILL be kept constantly for sale CORN and MEAL, wholesale and retail—Also, Just received, a Quantity of RYE. Also for Sale—Flour, Salt, Molasses, Gin, Rum, Brandy, Sugars, various kinds, Coffee, and Teas, of different qualities. Likewise, Baltimore Superfine Flour by the Barrel—Also, Rice, Pimento, Ginger, Soap, Candles, and a quantity of Butter, by the fir. in.
ALSO—LATELY RECEIVED, Sixteen hundred bushels EXUMA SALT, of a very superior quality, suitable for dairies or family use, as cheap as can be bought in this state. Also for sale, Snuff, Tobacco, New-York Soap, English Starch, and 10 Hogsheads of 3d proof Antique Rum, and 1 Hogshead of 4th proof Jamaica Rum, of an excellent flavour, and 3 pipes of Gin. JUST RECEIVED—as above, 20 Pipes of 4th proof Spanish Brandy; 20 quarter casks Sherry Wine; 20 Boxes excellent Raisins; 20 Boxes chocolate; and a quantity of well seasoned clear boards, and merchantable ditto. The above Goods will be sold, wholesale and retail, for cash or approved credit. Wanted to purchase—a quantity of CORN and RYE, for which Cash will be given. WILLIAM COGGESHALL, JUNR. Agent for the Progressive Company Newport, Aug. 30, 1809.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. WHEREAS some evil-disposed person or persons have dug up, and carried away from the Garden of the Subscriber, on the Point, a quantity of Potatoes.—Whoever will discover the thieves, or give information so that they may be brought to justice, shall receive the above reward. GEORGE CLARKE, JR. Newport, September 27, 1809.
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 sunrise 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 at the Proprietor's. Ladies will please to pass in at the door No. 72, Thames-Street. Gentlemen 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.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. THE Creditors of ISHAK ENOS, Jun. of Exeter, in the County of Washington, Labourer, are hereby notified to appear (if they think fit) at the General Assembly to be held at South-Kingston, in the County of Washington, on the last MONDAY of October next, and shew cause (if any they have) why his Petition for the benefit of an Act, made June 1756, for the relief of Insolvent Debtors, should not be granted. THO: PECKHAM, Dep. Sec'y. Newport, Sept. 25, 1809.
APPRENTICE WANTED. WANTED an Apprentice, to the Baking business. A smart active Lad about 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 preferred. May 10.
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 experienced drivers, for parties of pleasure or travellers; 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 determined to attend well to every part of their business, 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 confidence in his Partner, recommends them as worthy the encouragement of the publick. THOMAS TOWNSEND. Newport, April 19, 1809.
S. STACKHOUSE'S (NEW INTENDED) PATENT CHURN.
THIS Churn will work much easier than the common one; besides, it has the advantage of collecting 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 common way. The above Churn may be had of BATMAN MONRO, in Portsmouth, or ROBERT & NICHOLAS LAWTON, No. 61, Spring-Street, Newport. August 2.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
THE Creditors of JOSEPH ENOS, of Exeter, in the County of Washington, Labourer, are hereby notified to appear (if they think fit) at the General Assembly to be held at South-Kingston, in the County of Washington, on the last MONDAY of October next, and shew cause (if any they have) why his Petition for the benefit of an Act, made June 1756, for the relief of Insolvent Debtors, should not be granted. THO: PECKHAM, Dep. Sec'y. Newport, Sept. 23, 1809.
ATTENTION!!!
THE Subscribers contemplating a Dissolution of Partnership, an adjustment of their Accounts becomes necessary, they therefore solicit all such as are indebted to them by Note, or Account, to make immediate payment, as their business will shortly be closed. NATHANIEL SWEET & Co. July 12.
FOR SALE, THE House and Lot at the North part of Easton's point, lately occupied by the Rev Mr Bradley. Also—The Marsts, Sairs, Rigging, Stores, &c. suitable for a single decked Brig, of 110 or 115 tons, or a high or dubie decked Brig of 120 or 130 tons—Apply to CONSTANT TABER. Newport, September 13, 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. 197 and 199, 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 beautiful and pleasant FARM, improved by the Subscriber, in Middletown.—Also, the House, Garden and Water Lot, situated in Water-street, Bristol; lately improved by Dr. Chittendenworth Foster.—For terms, apply to CARDER HAZARD. Middletown, June 6th, 1809.
FARM. FOR SALE, by the subscriber, a valuable 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.
A VALUABLE FARM. FOR SALE, lying in Warwick, (one mile west of Apponaug, and two miles from four Factories) containing about 120 acres of excellent LAND not inferior to any in Rhode-Island. It has thereon standing, a Dwelling-House, two stories high, and 40 feet in length, in good repair; likewise, a new Barn 30 feet long, with a cellar of the same size, a new fashioned Cider-House 30 feet long, with a cellar 10 feet deep, which places the mill in the second loft, directly over the press.—Also, a new Crib 14 feet square, with a cellar beneath—and many other buildings in good repair, &c. Said Farm is well proportioned for mowing, pasturing and tillage, and is well watered and wooded for the Farm's consumption. It generally makes from 50 to 100 barrels of cider annually. The production of the Farm is equal to any in Warwick, according to the number of acres. It needs no other recommendation than the goodness of the soil. The Farm has an ascent which rises to an eminence. It is very pleasing to a philosophical eye to see the whole State of Rhode-Island. It is convenient for any gentleman in his summer retreat. The air is salubrious. If any gentleman wishes to purchase, he may know the terms by applying to the Subscriber, living on the premises. WATERMAN TIBBITTS. Febt, July 23.
For Freight, Charter, or Sale. THE good brig AGENORIA, two decks, completely fitted for sea, 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 hds. of Clayed and Muscovado, from Martinico, is ready to be put on board, or will be sold, at a liberal credit, entitled to debenture. Apply to CONSTANT TABER.
FOR SALE, (A bargain.) THE well known New-York Packet MARY ANN, 51 tons burthen, 16 months old, in perfect order for business, having lately been painted from the keel. Her inventory is complete as a Packet. The terms will be made easy. For particulars, Apply to EARL & ALSTON. N. B. If the above vessel is not sold at Private sale, by the 20th November next, she will then be Sold at Publick Auction. Newport, Sept. 13.
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 experienced its beneficial effects, to be the most valuable medicine ever offered to the publick, for speedily relieving 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 dysentary 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 disorders of the breast and lungs, even if in the most advanced state, will find immediate relief. Common coughs and colds, which are generally occasioned by obstructed perspiration, will be found to yield to its benign influence in a few hours. In asthmatic or consumptive complaints, hoarseness, wheezings, shortness of breath and the whooping 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 immoderate use of tea, the unskillful of excessive use of mercury, and diseases peculiar to females at a certain 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 volume would hardly suffice to complete a description of them. It pervades with its baneful influence the whole nervous system, writhing the heart with inexpressible anguish, and exciting the most dreadful suggestions of horror and despair. To this demon have thousands fallen a sacrifice in the direful transports of its rage. The most common symptoms at its commencement, are weakness, flatulence, palpitations, watchfulness, drowsiness after eating, timidity, flashes of heat and cold, numbness, cramp, giddiness, pains in the head, back and loins, hiccup, difficulty of respiration and deglutition, anxiety, dry cough, &c. Since Dr. ROBERTSON's first discovery of this invaluable medicine, upwards of Two Hundred Thousand 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 composed 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 appetite; they expel worms in all ages, but from their simplicity and safety, are a most natural and effectual vermifuge when administered to children; they are gratefully warm and pungently aromatic; they are extremely serviceable in all seasons, but particularly so on the approach of warm weather, when bilious habits experience such a total loss of appetite; they are also a certain preventive against those complaints so common in the spring and fall seasons such as intermittent fevers and agues, long autumnal fevers, dysenteries, &c. They possess moreover, the property peculiar to themselves, of qualifying and ameliorating those inflammatory pernicious qualities inherent in ardent spirits and so often fatal when taken upon an empty stomach, and converts them into a wholesome pleasant and invigorating stomachick.
From their celebrity as an antidote against the scurvy, they are particularly calculated for seafaring persons, to whose attention they are particularly recommended; they are a very pleasant Cordial Bitter and are recommended for the use of taverns as well as private houses.
DR. ROBERTSON'S CELEBRATED GOUT AND RHEUMATISM DROPS. (Price two Dollars.) A safe and effectual cure for the gout, rheumatism, 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 discovered by Dr. Robertson, upwards of Seven hundred Thousand persons have experienced their salutary 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 Signature of T. W. DYOTT, M. D. Newport, September, 6 1809.