The Providence journal, and town and country advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1801-12-30 00:00:00

The Providence Journal.
AND
TOWN AND COUNTRY ADVERTISER.
Published on WEDNESDAYS, by JOHN CARTER, JUN. Printer of the LAWS of the UNITED STATES for the State of RHODE-ISLAND, &c. At the NEW PRINTING-OFFICE, West Side of the great Bridge, PROVIDENCE.
[ No. 157.]
WEDNESDAY, December 30, 1801.
[ Vol. III. ]
At a Town Meeting of the Freemen of the Town of Providence, assembled according to law, at the Town-House in said town, on the 17th day of April, 1799.
WHEREAS the due preservation of this town from the alarming accidents of FIRE, has become greatly endangered by the improper practice of smoking PIPES and SEGARS in the compact parts of the same: For prevention of such offences, as far as may be, in future,
It is Voted and Resolved, That whoever shall be discovered in any of the streets of this town, or upon any of the wharves in the compact parts of the same, in the act of smoking, or carrying a lighted PIPE or SEGAR, he, she, or they, so offending, upon due conviction thereof, on complaint or information before any single Justice of the Peace in this town, shall forfeit and pay, as a FINE, the sum of ONE DOLLAR for the first offence, and for the second offence the sum of TWO DOLLARS, and the same penalty of Two Dollars for every subsequent offence.
It is further Resolved, That this act be published in all the Newspapers in this town, and that the same shall commence and take effect in TEN DAYS from the date of its first publication.
A true Copy of Record:
Witness, NATHAN W. JACKSON, T. Clerk.
We the subscribers, Presidents and Firewards, have respectively agreed, and hereby pledge ourselves, to use our best exertions to carry into effect the above law of the town; and hereby give this public notice, that we will, after TEN DAYS from the date, complain to the proper authority of all persons, without discrimination, who may be found in violation of said law: All persons are therefore cautioned to govern themselves accordingly.
We further agree, that the aforesaid law, and this notification, be published three weeks successively in all the newspapers printed in this town.
  JOHN BROWN, JABEZ BOWEN, JEREMIAH OLNEY, BENJAMIN HOPPIN, SAMUEL BUTLER, JOHN DORRANCE, JOHN LIPPITT, SETH WHEATON, AMOS MAINE ATWELL, CHARLES LIPPITT, JOHN MUMFORD, WILLIAM POTTER, NICHOLAS BROWN, MOSES LIPPITT, DAVID L. BARNES, JOHN WHIPPLE, RICHARD JACKSON, jun. EPHRAIM BOWEN, jun. JOHN CARLILE, JOSEPH PECK, SILVANUS MARTIN, JAMES FENNER, ELISHA DYER, CALEB WILLIAMS.  Presidents.  
Providence, December 10, 1801.
Just received, and for sale, by Jeremiah F. Jenkins, At the Sign of the GOLDEN BEE-HIVE, A few bags of PIMENTO, Of the best quality. December 23.
THE Members of the Providence Mutual Fire-Insurance Company are hereby notified, that Tuesday the fifth of January next, is the day appointed by their charter for their annual meeting, for the choice of officers. It is requested that a general attendance may be given at the Coffee-House, at 2 o'clock, P. M. on said day.
By order of the Directors, JOSEPH LAWRENCE, Sec'y. December 16.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Honourable Court of Probate for the district of Pomfret, hath allowed six months from the 3d of November last, for the creditors to the Estate of Mr. GEORGE KEITH, late of Thompson, deceased, to exhibit their claims to the subscribers, or be debarred a recovery, agreeable to law. NOADIAH RUSSELL, DANIEL LEARNED, } Administrators. Thompson, December 15.
WANTED, A Quantity of BARLEY, for which a generous price in cash will be given, if delivered within ten days. Cash will also be given for FLAX-SEED by JAMES FOSTER, December 9.
VACCINATION.
DOCTOR WHEATON
TAKES this method to inform the public, that he has, for the last 8 weeks, been in the constant practice of inoculating families and individuals with the kine-pox, in upwards of 50 cases has successively produced the same characteristic appearances. Doctor Wheaton, whose reputation as a physician and whose experience on this particular subject entitle him to the esteem and confidence of the public, to whom Dr. Wheaton has accurately stated one of his cases, does not hesitate to pronounce it the genuine vaccine disease, the result of matter which he was kind enough to furnish. Dr. Wheaton, for the last 18 months, has taken much pains to obtain all the new publications on this subject, and has now in his possession several coloured engravings, curiously marking the progress of the disease in its different stages, as it has appeared in Europe. Frequent reference to these, his own experience in cases somewhat analogous, with the opinion of Dr. Waterhouse, have given him the fullest confidence on the subject.
The sufficiency of the Vaccine to secure the constitution from the Small-Pox has been so often proved, and rests on such ample testimony, as a plain matter of fact, that no person who will give himself the trouble to examine, can rationally withhold his belief; yet, for the satisfaction of his patients and the public, Dr. Wheaton proposes, with the consent of the Town-Council, to test with the small-pox, at the Hospital, gratis, any person he has or may inoculate for the Vaccine.
In all the cases he has attended, there has been no difficulty in identifying the disease. The symptoms have been generally mild, and in children and infants productive of very little inconvenience.
The advantages of this mild and safe disease over the Small-Pox, are too great and numerous to require any comment.
He has Fresh Matter on hand, and those who wish to take the disease, will please to make application. December 16.
KINE-POX.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the inhabitants of Providence and its vicinity, that he has some of the real KINE-POX MATTER, with which he will inoculate any who shall apply to him for that purpose, at Mr. SHAW's boarding-House, near the Market.
ZADOK HOWE.
Providence, December 9.
Franklin, December 7, 1801.
This may certify, that I the subscriber, the Autumn past, have inoculated with the genuine Cow-Pox near one hundred patients, of every age. That Dr. Zadok Howe has attended them all with me, and many of whom he inoculated himself. He has lived in my family about two years, in the character of a Pupil; I am perfectly convinced of his integrity, honesty, and skill in the Kine-Pox; also that the town of Franklin granted me liberty to set up an Hospital, to inoculate those that have had the Kine-Pox, with the Small-Pox Matter. I have already inoculated a number of them with the Small-Pox, and not one has taken the disease. Likewise, I tender my word to every patient that Dr. Howe shall inoculate with the Kine-Pox, and desire them to have taken it, by a Certificate signed by him, I will inoculate any of them at my Hospital, in Franklin, gratis (20 miles from Providence) with my Small-Pox Matter, which is fresh, or any that they may procure. And if they should take the Small-Pox, I will refund the fee they gave for the Kine-Pox Inoculation, and give them every medical attendance through the Small-Pox, that they may require, free from any expense. NATHANIEL MILLER.
WARRANTED GENUINE DRUGS and MEDICINES.
Horatio G. Bowen
Offers for Sale, directly opposite the Bridge,
A COMPLETE Assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES, received by the Rising States and Latona, with the latest and most approved PATENT MEDICINES that are now in use.
Medicine Chests put up with full directions, and old ones replenished, on short notice.
Physicians' Prescriptions, and Orders from the country, will be particularly attended to. December 9.
REAL ESTATE.
AS the Providence Bank will soon be removed to the house lately occupied by Mr. THOMAS P. IVEY, the House now used as the Bank, together with the Lot, and other building thereon, is offered for sale. A liberal credit will be given. For terms, apply to OLNEY WINSOR. December 2.
THE Subscribers for the Encyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary, published by John Low, of New-York, are requested to call and receive their Numbers at the store of CHRISTOPHER OLNEY. December 2.
LEGISLATURE OF THE NORTH-WESTERN TERRITORY.
CHILLICOTHE (N. W. T.) Nov. 28.
MONDAY last, being the day appointed by the Governor of this Territory for a meeting of the General Assembly, a number of members, composing the two branches of the Legislature, appeared, and having made a quorum, proceeded to business.
His Excellency Governor St. Clair arrived in town on Wednesday morning, and addressed the Legislature.
[We have extracted the subsequent paragraphs from his speech, from a conviction that they will afford pleasure to our patrons.]
Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
At this first meeting of the second General Assembly of the Territory, I cannot lay any business before you, without first turning your thoughts to the Supreme Being, the author and giver of all good. Favoured as we have been with another most plentiful harvest in every kind, and blessed with the continuance of peace at home and abroad, when we contrast our situation with many countries in the old world, suffering from want—deluged in blood, and shaken to their centres—their civil and religious institutions overturned, and anarchy, and despotism, and atheism, reigning in their stead, how thankful ought we to be to Almighty God, whose kind Providence has sheltered us from similar calamities; neither should our gratitude be withheld from the general government of our country, which has been the instrument in his hands to shield us from harm, and to procure to us many blessings. This comparison, gentlemen, which it seems impossible not to make, holds out to us also a very useful lesson, not lightly to part with the real advantages we enjoy, in the hope of imaginary and contingent good. Could the thousandth part of the atrocities that have been committed in, and the miseries that have been brought upon unhappy France, have been presented to that people beforehand; they would have turned from them with horror, and exclaimed with one voice, "Are thy servants dogs, that they should do this thing?" It is true, gentlemen, that many parts of our country have, this last season, been severely afflicted with sickness; but this, far from being a ground for murmuring or discontent, should lead us to examine ourselves—to the correction of our vices, which may have brought that evil upon us, and to a reformation of manners. I submit it to you, gentlemen, whether it would not be proper, by law, to set apart a day for a public and solemn acknowledgments to God, for the numberless benefits we have received; to supplicate the continuance of them; to deprecate his wrath for the multitude of our transgressions, and to implore his grace to assist us to amend our lives.
The time, gentlemen, that was chosen for your meeting, will, I hope, be found convenient to you. The labours of the field are now over, and a sufficient space for the business of Legislation, to which you are called, remains, before you will be obliged to return to them. Of Legislative business, a considerable field lies open before you; for from the unavoidable early adjournment of the last Assembly, many things were left unattended to, which would otherwise have been taken up by them. You will find them, gentlemen, on the journals, in my address to that Assembly, on opening the last session, and I request you to consider them as now repeated to you. But, in a particular manner, I must recommend to you the revision of our criminal laws. From some defect in the laws themselves, or in the application of them, it is painful to think how often offenders escape with impunity—the laws become despised—offenders audacious, and the peace of society endangered.
As connected with the militia, gentlemen, I have to observe to you, that a considerable number of the people called Quakers have lately become inhabitants, and that more may be expected. The general character of the people of that profession for industry, sobriety, and good morals, is generally known and acknowledged, and renders them a valuable acquisition;—but their religious principles forbid them to take arms. To find people principled against arms for not attending musters established for the purpose of acquiring skill in the use of them, seems to be a species of prosecution: nevertheless it is reasonable that, should they be exempted, they should render something to the community in exchange. I make no doubt but they would willingly pay a small sum of money annually for the exemption. I recommend it to your consideration and it might be left optional with themselves.
ARTHUR ST. CLAIR, Chillicothe, November 26, 1801.
From the N. Y. COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
L E T T R,
From a HINDU PHILOSOPHER, resident in Philadelphia, to his FRIEND in Delhi.
BELOVED EL HASSAN, THANKS to the Goddess Seraphaty, thy friend Millives, to observe the manners and investigate the ideas of nations remote from his beloved Hindustan. In my first letter I dropped some hints respecting the modern philosophy. I met yesterday with a philosopher of this school, whose sentiments upon one subject were entirely novel to me. He was a grave man, about forty years old; affected the character of a philosopher, and talked much in abstruse and undefined language. I met him walking alone upon the banks of the Schuylkill; his appearance attracted my attention, and finding him courteous in his manners, I requested the pleasure of his society in a walk to and fro along the banks of the river. He opened his remarks by an elaborate eulogium upon the progress of republicanism; which word, as I afterwards found, mean modern philosophy. "Thrones (said he) are tottering; kings tremble at the progress of liberty; nobles and priests are conspiring, but in vain, to prop the altar and the throne; they must and they will fall—never to rise again."
"Republicanism has made a glorious progress in America; a philosopher and philanthropist is in the chair of Supreme Magistracy, and the minions of aristocracy are skulking into private life."
"But what (continued he) signifies this, so long as a distempered and unnatural state of civilization, continues to corrupt the original innocence, and cramp the native freedom of man? I sigh for the private state of nature, and confidently trust that this century will see it restored. The earth, the great parent of man, beast, fowl, and herb, has been wickedly appropriated to the use of individuals. Instead of ranging at large over the ample face of nature, I am now forbid to enter my neighbour's field, lest I should tread down his grain; I am confined by fences to a narrow road, and compelled to travel in a prescribed track."
Sir (rejoined I) do you not travel with infinite more ease in an established road, usually the shortest distance between the places which it connects, than you would over mountains and crags, and through morasses, deserts and deserts? and does not the earth, when inclosed and cultivated, produce an hundred times more food, than when overrun by beasts of the forest, and covered with heath and jungle? Does not a cultivated country also exhibit to the eye a landscape beyond comparison more beautiful than the barren wilderness of nature?"
"But (said the Philosopher) this is no compensation for the loss of my liberty; the liberty of rambling just where wild unheeding fancy leads."
"How oppressive is the whole system of laws by which this arbitrary assumption of property is defended. Why should my neighbour ride an elegant English courser, breathing fire from his nostrils, and shaking the earth with his tread, while I, a better man than he, because a better philosopher, must travel on foot; and should I take his horse for my own use, I must swing on the gallows, or toil in the mines. Kings, nobles and priests, conspiring against the liberty of man, have enacted systems of laws, on purpose to entangle the unwary. There is no crime where there is no law. A pure state of nature, where man is innocent, does not know a crime, because crimes have never been prevented by the institution of laws. What but a distempered civilization has rendered it criminal to obey the dictates of nature in promiscuous concubinage? Why should I be confined to one woman, while the whole animal world beside obey the impulse of passion, and seek gratification wherever it may be found? Why should I be compelled to support and educate those beings whom my physical energies, operating according to the established laws of nature, without the assistance of mind, have produced? I am no more accountable for their existence, than the mountain for the cedar which it bears, or the stream for the wheel which it turns. As the cedar is cut down, and the mountain does not mourn; the wheel is removed, but the stream still continues to flow; so these beings may be born, grow up and die, without my assistance, and with no claim to my love or my grief."
Mr. Philosopher, rejoined I, your doctrine are new, and I must therefore be indulged my doubts, as we cannot at once eradicate established prejudices, nor banish old modes of thinking."
If your neighbour's superior industry or good fortune enables him to ride an English courser, while your indolence or untoward fate obliges you to walk, why should not laws be made to secure to him the fruit of his industry and the gifts of fortune? Your invectives against kings, priests, and nobles, are unfounded. Have crimes been less

quent in republics than in monarchies? Let Rome, Athens, Carthage, Venice and modern France answer the question.
Your assertion, that where there is no law there is no crime, is false. Do not murders, maimings, and rapes, occur more frequently in the state of nature, which is called the state of nature, than in any other; and do they cease to be crimes, because not forbidden by positive laws.
I am astonished that a philosopher should be willing at a single stroke to destroy nearly all the virtue and the happiness of life. For why should one man be permitted the use of an hundred women, when one will answer all the purposes of his existence.—Abolish the institution of marriage, and where would be that social virtue, that mild but constant philanthropy, which springs from the most delightful of all connexions, the union of congenial souls:
"Where heart meets heart reciprocally soft Each other's pillow to repose divine."
What would remain in its stead, but brutal lust, emaciating the body and corrupting the mind?
In the sharp contest for the finest women, for women would then become an article of luxury, what contentions, what public murders, what private assassinations would ensue. How wretched must the women themselves be. Thrown from paramour to paramour, without a dwelling, without a protector. How would their hearts sink in that most trying hour, when, about to give life to a rational being, their own hangs suspended on a thread.
But how, Mr. Philosopher, can you say that you are not obliged to afford protection and support to the being whom you have begotten? The mountain, it is true, produces the cedar, and the stream turns the wheel, according to the established laws of vegetation and motion; for in them resides no volition. But you are a rational being, and in yielding to the impulse of nature, are able to foresee the consequence of your agency. Who shall maintain the helpless little being, if you do not? Call upon the wide world, and unrecognised by him who gave it being, the infant must perish, unless sustained by the hand of maternal care, or by the voluntary attention of strangers.
The Philosopher paused, and stroaking his beard, as if preparing for another display of his powers, proceeded to condemn civilized life, and to enounce the state of nature. But the sequel of our conversation must be deferred till the next epistle of
Thy Friend, SCHAHCOOLEN.
From the PALLADIUM.
RESTORATOR.
ON THE VANITY OF AUTHORS.
THERE is no weakness to which ordinary writers are more subject, than that of vanity, the inseparable attendant on little minds, puffed up with their own imaginary importance. Every scribbler of turgid prose, and fulsome poetry, every compiler of Columbian dictionaries, and spelling-books, is, in his own opinion, a much greater man, and of more consequence to the public, than the Popes, the Miltons, the Johnsons, and other great luminaries of literature, who, from time to time, have enlightened mankind.
In great authors, we find, either a modest diffidence that sooths, or a lofty arrogance that displeases our self-love, which it wounds; but the latter is still the offspring of an ardent mind, conscious of superior power.—Virgil is a striking instance of the first kind of eminent writers; Swift and Johnson of the second; such was the modesty of the great Roman poet, that he requested, on his death-bed, that his Aeneid might be burnt, as it had not received his last hand. Swift and Johnson take no pains to conciliate the affections of their readers. They dictate, with the magisterial air of preceptors, who, conscious of being right themselves, care very little what others may think on the subject. But there is dignity even in their faults, and though their claims to our regard may be too arrogantly obtuse, we cannot but allow them to be just. In such writers, we can discover no traces of vanity; and we may truly say of them, that they are too proud to be vain.
If we wish to discover those who are most fond of this food of fools, as Swift terms it, we must look for them in the lowest class of writers; in the reformers of orthography, in the inventors of a Columbian language, paragraph writers, and the candidates for fame in the poets' corner of a newspaper. Blackmore was incomparably the worst, and at the same time the vainest writer in England; and the heroes of the Dunciad , consecrated to immortal ridicule, in that admirable poem, seem to have had an insatiable appetite for this gross food.
But we need not cross the Atlantic to find examples of vanity. We have a sufficient number at home; and may, therefore, in this instance, save our pride the mortification of descending on foreign markets.
Sometimes vanity appears among us in the shape of a new spelling-book, which, ornamented with a wooden engraving of its author, fondly hopes, together with its own merits, to transmit his features to admiring posterity. Sometimes it appears in proposals for publishing a Columbian Dictionary, in which the vulgar provincialisms of uneducated Americans are to be quoted as authorities for language. If the victim of this miserable passion should chance to be the Editor of a public print, he will employ his types in founding his own praises, and recommending his
own works. If any writer should be hardy enough to doubt the propriety and usefulness of such an undertaking, and endeavour to prove it the wildest scheme that folly could ever conceive, or vanity think of executing, he will write a weak and passionate reply, filled with disgusting egotisms without attempting to remove a single objection, or to answer a single argument, of his antagonist. In this piece he will modestly declare, that he has devoted his whole life to promote the honour and defend the rights of his country, though no one can discover how this could have been effected by the perishable mediocrity of writings, which have long since gone to the tomb of the Copulets . If the literary infallibility of such a writer should be called in question, he will declare, that a fellow citizen is vilified. If his absurd innovations should be censured, vanity will prompt him to assert, that the essential interests of morality, religion, and good government, must ultimately suffer; thus indissolubly connecting the silly trash of Columbian Dictionaries, spelling-books, &c. &c. with the most important interests of an extensive community. If he is charged with vanity and presumption for his own attacks on the grammarians of the age, he will affirm, that he is personally abused, though the writer, and not the man, should be alluded to throughout the whole criticism. He shall declare, that he will not proceed to a contest with any writer in a newspaper, and yet with admirable consistency, he will write in a newspaper, what he conceives a defence of his own pursuits. In short, the freaks of vanity are endless, and from their weakness would be undeserving of serious notice, were it not that the silliest writers frequently find readers still more silly. If this is not a sufficient apology for the Restorer, in condescending to remark on such trifles, he would remind the public, that a Roman Emperor did not think it beneath his dignity, to amuse himself, at his leisure moments, with killing flies.
Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Friday, December 11.
THE speaker laid before the House a letter from the late Treasurer of the U. States, accompanied with sundry documents relating to the last year's accounts.
A petition from sundry inhabitants of West-Jersey, relating to a post road, was presented, and referred to the post road committee.
Mr. Milledge, chairman of the committee of elections, reported in part on the due return of the members who appeared in the House.
Mr. Nicholson moved that a committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of amending an act entitled, an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters; with instructions to report by bill or otherwise.
Mr. N. stated that a bill had been reported last session for this purpose, but the session being near its close, it was not acted upon.
The resolution was agreed to, and five members appointed.
General S. Smith, after a few introductory observations, moved that the committee of commerce and manufactures be directed to enquire whether any and what alterations may be necessary in the acts laying duties on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States.
Mr. Griswold thought that the subject belonging to the revenue, properly attached itself to the committee of ways and means. He contended that any alteration whatever would either increase or diminish the revenue, and therefore belonged to the financial system, which the committee of ways and means especially had in charge, and on that account moved its reference to that committee.
Mr. Smith contended that it was usual and necessary for the subject to be discussed by commercial men, of whom alone the committee of commerce and manufactures was composed. It was desirable to consolidate all the revenue system, as much as possible, into one law; it was also desirable to know the precise state of our imports, and of our progress in manufactures; by a reference to commercial men, the House besides, might be acquainted with a very desirable object, to wit: how far certain articles would bear additional duties, or how far others admitted a diminution, proportioned to the wants of the country.
Commercial men were practical men, and therefore, without disparaging the merits or talents of gentlemen composing the other committee, whose express appointment did not so pointedly relate to commerce, but to revenue, he thought the original motion ought to be carried.
Mr. Griswold had no doubt but that either committee would do justice to the subject, but it was an usual reference for all subjects relating to revenue. It certainly contemplated a total revision of that part of the revenue, and he again contended that all matters relating to revenue ought to go to the committee of ways and means, for which purpose alone that committee was formed. He should not have risen, he said, but that he did not see the chairman of that committee in his seat.
The speaker said, that either reference was perfectly in order, and therefore either motion would have been proper: the reference to the committee of commerce and manufactures at present had the preference, being first moved.
Forty-five rising in the affirmative, and being a majority, the reference moved by Mr. Smith was carried. Adjourned till Monday.
Monday December 14.
After some local business was dispatched Mr. Nicholson called up the resolution, laid by him on the table respecting the expenditure of public monies by Timothy Pickering, Esq. late Secretary of State. Mr. Nicholson observed that some ideas expressed by a gentleman from Massachusetts, when this subject was before the House, had weight with him, and had induced him to modify his motion. It had been properly, in his opinion, remarked that such a motion should not point at any particular officer, but that it should be extended to all officers who superintended the disbursements of public money. He had, therefore, prepared another resolution, which, while it embraced his first object, would be seen to be connected with other objects equally interesting, as follows:
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire and report, whether monies drawn from the Treasury, have been faithfully applied to the objects for which they were appropriated, and whether the same have been regularly accounted for; and to report, otherwise, whether any further arrangements are necessary to promote economy, enforce adherence to legislative restrictions, and secure the accountability of persons entrusted with the public money.
Mr. Bayard declared his high pleasure at the liberality and candour which characterised the mover of the resolution; which had been manifested on the institution of it, as well as in the modification now offered. The motion, as it now stood, however, was not confined to one department, but embraced the whole. He thought it would be best to confine it to one department, but to give it a more retrospective effect, and to apply it not to Mr. Pickering only, but also to Secretaries of State that preceded him. He believed, that, on investigation, it would be found that monies disbursed had not been expended conformably to the strict letter of appropriations. But such a deviation was the result of necessity. The public service forbid delaying certain measures, for the execution of which competent appropriations had not been made, to the next session of Congress. He believed that the same thing had occurred in other departments. It had been the custom, in cases where money was wanted for one, though appropriated to another, under the same department, to take it from the latter, and to apply it to the former. This was illegal; but its being the custom palliates it.
Mr. Bayard could not but approve the conduct of the gentleman from Maryland. He had honourably to himself, and honourably to Mr. Pickering, declared his conviction that Mr. Pickering had acted like a man of honour and integrity; and that though he had sanctioned departures from the letter of appropriations, yet that this had been only as he had termed it a technical misapplication of money. For this enquiry Mr. Bayard thought there was sufficient cause.—The public mind had been agitated. The vilest slanders had been circulated. It had been asserted, not merely that Mr. Pickering had stated the appropriation of public money, that he had applied them to his own personal purposes. But after the praiseworthy candour of the gentleman, he trusted that all false impressions would be removed—and that it would be found that all the noise made, arose from inattention to prescribed appropriations of money;—and that the same inattention applied to the other departments.
Mr. Bayard desired to know the extent of the motion. If confined to the department of state; embracing all the secretaries, he would be in favour of it.
Mr. Nicholson would answer the gentleman from Delaware, that it was his intention that the motion should apply, as far as it affected the department of state, not only to Mr. Pickering, but to his predecessors also; and he had so framed it as to include the department of war and the navy, in case the committee saw fit so far to extend their inquiries. The accounts of the department of state could be easily examined, while those of the war and navy departments, from the want of specific appropriations, precluded so specific an investigation. But the committee may examine the subject, and the terms of the resolution give them authority to pursue their inquiries, if they thought fit, into those departments. They may also go back, if necessary. For himself, Mr. N. had no objection to this. Not that he thought such a measure necessary, as it was well known that the accounts of Mr. Pickering's predecessor had been settled, and that a suit, which had arisen from such settlement, was now depending. He had plainly answered the inquiries of the gentlemen, and he hoped satisfactorily.
Mr. Giles observed that he had always been in favour of giving the people the fullest information on the expenditures of public money. It would be recollected that he was among the first to institute an enquiry into the disbursements of the Treasury under this government. It was true that his efforts were attended with but little success; they had been treated with but little respect; and he might perhaps add, that they had been treated with some share of disrespect. He rejoiced, however, in the change which had taken place, and he expected that this House would hereafter be as jealous of public disbursements as he had long been.
The disbursement of public treasurers excited, and deservedly excited, the national sensibility. The people felt it as an important. He was, therefore, well pleased with the resolution whose effect would be to enquire into the conduct of all present and past Secretaries. As the whole would be included, it would exclude all party consideration.
He hoped that they were now assembled to legislate for the public good; and that stand-
ing on the ground of truth, all calumny, let it come from whatever quarter, would be dismissed. He felt no ill will to any public officer, but he thought the official conduct of all them should be tested by facts. He believed there had existed practices dangerous to our happiness; and his remarks were directed against those practices, not against particular persons. If inconvenience and injury had sprung from the practices, we should find a remedy for them.
Mr. Giles hoped that at the commencement of a new administration all the doors of information would be thrown open, that the people might be well informed, and be able to repel all calumny that was propagated, and know where real blame attached.
Mr. Giles said he wished to know what the practice alluded to commenced. The House sat here as a board of enquiry into the transactions of the government, and without respect to any particular man, it was their duty to enquire into the conduct of all. He therefore hoped, not only that this motion would pass; but that something similar to it would be incorporated in the standing rules of the House; whereby the act of enquiry would be general, and a matter of course. If this should be done, the measures of all the departments would pass in view every session, and checks would be sufficiently multiplied to satisfy the public mind.
Dr. Mitchel professed himself well pleased with the substitute offered to the original motion, which had in some measure excited his surprise. When an individual of great probity, and who had long served his country, was pointed at by the original motion, he could not avoid a painful sensation. The mover had wisely resolved, under the influence of such feelings, to modify his motion, and to make it general, instead of particular. Dr. M. did not know how business had been transacted in the departments; but he did know that suspicions and slanders had been levelled at our public officers. It was in the power of this House, if they were unfounded, to disperse them. The House might be considered as the protector of the innocent.
Dr. Mitchel did not believe that the gentleman pointed at had been guilty of corruption. He believed what was so called, was an allowable departure from the strict letter of the law in order to promote the public good.
Mr. Bacon said, if he understood the motion, it had nothing to do with the conduct of Mr. Pickering, which not only contained no particular reference to him, but avoided all personal reference to any of the officers. It applied solely to the expenditure of public money. He therefore saw no reason for bringing him, or any other person, into view. When an enquiry had been made, it would be time enough to approve or condemn the conduct of public agents.
The debate continued in the temper of the preceding for some length; when the question on Mr. Nicholson's motion was carried without a division—and Messrs. Nicholson, Griswold, Giles, Hastings, Jones, Bayard, and Elmendorf, were appointed the committee.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
The House went into a Committee of the whole, on the state of the Union; when
Gen. S. Smith observed, that among other objects to which the President had attracted the attention of the House, was our commercial situation. We were informed that the United States were at peace with all nations, and that peace had taken place among the powers of Europe. It became Congress to direct its attention to consequences that might proceed from such a state of things; and particularly to the injuries that might attach to our carrying trade. It was known that under the British treaty, Great-Britain, going perhaps beyond the meaning of the treaty, had imposed heavy countervailing duties on our goods; and that certain acts of France had the same effects, whereby many of our most valuable exports would cease to be carried in our own bottoms. Early under the present government, it had been deemed wise to lay discriminating duties, which had tended greatly to assist our carrying trade.—Our capitals had greatly increased, and if foreign nations restricted our trade, by unfair regulations, it became us to adopt countervailing measures; and this could now be done with the more safety and effect, from the force of our capital. He therefore voted:
Resolved, That so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty of tonnage between foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, and between goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, ought to be repealed; such repeal to take effect whenever the President shall be informed that the discriminating duties of foreign nations, so far as they operate to the disadvantage of the commerce of the United States, shall have been abolished.
Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Giles, referring to the census lately taken, moved the following resolution:
Resolved, That the apportionment of Representatives amongst the several states, according to the second enumeration of the people, ought to be in a ratio of one representative for every thirty-three thousand persons in each state.
Gen. S. Smith moved the following resolution:
Resolved, That it is expedient that the President be authorised by law, further and more effectually to protect the commerce of the United States against the Barbary powers.
Mr. Nicholson said, he did not like the resolution; as it had a reference to a point with which we are unacquainted. The President informed us that he had sent a squadron into the Mediterranean. It may have been a wise act; but he did not wish the House to commit itself until fully informed.—It

oved, with this view, to strike out the words "further and more effectually."
Mr. Giles proposed that the motion lie on the table until the documents on this subject were printed, which was agreed to.
The following resolution was then adopted:
Resolved , That the laws respecting naturalization ought to be revised or amended.
Tuesday, December 15.
The consideration of the resolution respecting the apportionment of representatives as postponed until to-morrow.
NATURALIZATION LAWS.
A committee of seven was appointed to bring in a bill for altering and amending the naturalization laws.
BARBARY POWERS.
In committee of the whole, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved , That it is expedient that the President be authorized by law, further and more effectually to protect the commerce of the U. States against the Barbary powers. Concur-
red in by the House. Mr. Smith's resolution on discriminating duties, was then taken up, and debated, but no decision had thereon.
MEMBERS of the SENATE of the UNITED STATES.
 New-Hampshire , James Sheafe, Simeon Olcott.  Massachusetts , Dwight Foster, Jonathan Mason.  Rhode-Island , Theodore Foster, Christopher Ellery.  Connecticut , James Hillhouse, Uriah Tracy.  Vermont , Nathaniel Chipman, Stephen R. Bradley.  New-York , Gouverneur Morris, John Armstrong.  Pennsylvania , James Ross, George Logan.  Delaware , William Hill Wells, Samuel White.  Maryland , John Eager Howard, Robert Wright.  Virginia , Stephens Thompson Mason, Wilson Cary Nicholas.  North-Carolina , Jesse Franklin, David Stone.  Kentucky , John Brown, John Breckenridge.  South-Carolina , Calhoun, — vacant.  Georgia , Abraham Baldwin, James Jackson.  Tennessee , Joseph Anderson, William Cooke.  New-Jersey , Jonathan Dayton, Aaron Ogden. 
MEMBERS of the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES.
 New-Hampshire , Abiel Foster, George Upham, Samuel Tenney, Joseph Pearce.  Massachusetts , William Eustis, Nathaniel Bacon, Phanuel Bishop, Joseph B. Varnum, Richard Cutts, Lemuel Williams, Seth Hastings, William Shepard, Ebenezer Mattoon, Nathan Reed, Peleg Wadsworth, Josiah Smith, Manasseh Cutler.  Rhode-Island , Thomas Tillinghast, Joseph Stanton.  Connecticut , Roger Griswold, Samuel W. Dana, John Davenport, Calvin Goddard, Benjamin Talmadge, — Perkins, John C. Smith.  Vermont , Israel Smith, Lewis R. Morris.  New-York , Samuel L. Mitchell, Philip Van Cortlandt, Theodorus Bailey, John Smith, Benjamin Walker, Thomas Morris, Killian Van Rensselaer, Lucas Elmendorf, Thomas Thomas, John P. Vanneps.  New-Jersey , John Condit, James Mott, William Helmes, Henry Southard, Ebenezer Elmer.  Pennsylvania , William Jones, Michael Leib, John Smilie, William Hoge, Isaac Vanhorne, Joseph Heister, Robert Brown, Andrew Gregg, Henry Woods, John A. Hanna, John Stewart, — Boude.  Delaware , James A. Bayard.  Maryland , John Archer, Joseph H. Nicholson, Samuel Smith, Daniel Heister, Richard Sprigg, John Dennis, Thomas Plater, John Campbell.  Virginia , Samuel J. Cabell, Thomas Claiborne, Thomas Newton, jun. J. Randolph, jun. G. Jackson, Philip R. Thompson, John Taliaferro, J. Trigg, J. Stratton, William B. Giles, Abram Trigg, Anthony New, John Clopton, John Smith, David Holmes, Richard Brent, John Dawson, Edwin Gray, Matthew Clay.  North-Carolina , Nathaniel Macon, Willis Alston, R. Stanford, J. Holland, Robert Williams, — Johnson, William B. Grove, William Hill, Archibald Henderson Stanley.  South-Carolina , T. Sumpter, — Butler, — Moree, John Rutledge, — Lowndes, Benjamin Huger.  Georgia , John Milledge, Benjamin Taliaferro.  Kentucky , Thomas T. Davis.  Tennessee , John Fowler. 
Domestic Intelligence.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.
The new Representative chamber is admirably adapted for the deliberations of a popular assembly. Its great extent, being the largest room in America, renders it very commodious to the members, who may have ingress to, or egress from any part of the house, without the least disturbance to others. The gallery is in front of the speaker's chair, and is sufficiently large for the present population of the city. The voice is heard distinctly throughout the whole area. This desirable result probably proceeds from
the lowness of the ceiling, and more than counterbalances the unpleasant effect upon the eye for a want of architectural proportion. It must, however, be noticed, that the windows, though numerous, are small, and do not admit sufficient light. This inconvenience can be easily surmounted by a skylight.
BALTIMORE, December 18. ROBBERY OF THE MAIL.
Post-Office, Charleston, December 4, 1801.
The Postmaster has thought it necessary to announce a robbery that has been committed upon the northern mail which left Charleston on Wednesday the 2d. inst.
A respectable gentleman who arrived in town this afternoon, informs, that he met the post-rider at Monk's Corner, who told him that on Wednesday night he was met by four negroes, who forcibly took away the mail.
The Postmaster has thought it necessary to give the earliest intelligence of the robbery, in order that those persons who may have sent money or bills by the post may take proper steps to have payment stop of the bills forwarded.
THOMAS B. BACOT, Post-Master.
PHILADELPHIA, December 17.
At the last session of the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania, the question with respect to the constitutionality of an individual holding at the same time the office of Attorney-General under the United States and that of Recorder under the State of Pennsylvania, was fully signed, and the decision laid over for next term. So that Mr. Dallas is both United States Attorney for the district of Pennsylvania, and recorder of the city of Philadelphia.
COMMUNICATION.
In order further to gratify the vindictive spirit with which the Federal Republicans are pursued, a petition has been presented to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, praying an alteration of the charter of the city, for the sole purpose of enabling the members of the Common Council to remove, by a joint vote, the present Treasurer of the Corporation of Philadelphia. A bill has accordingly been read in the House of Representatives for annulling the injunctions of a concurrent vote, and directing that the Treasurer shall hereafter be elected by a joint vote!
I am confident the Representatives of the people of Pennsylvania will not give their aid to this measure, when they are acquainted with the motives which induced the application. The present Treasurer was an officer of our army from the commencement to the termination of the late war; he had his horse shot under him, and was himself wounded, in the service of his country; and he has faithfully discharged the duties of the office which he now holds. Why then is he to be removed? Is it because he does not—cannot—conform to the political creed of those who now compose the Common Council of Philadelphia? It is. No other reason can be assigned. All good men should unite in the endeavour to discountenance, and to check, this abominable persecution. It is disgraceful to our State; while we boast of liberty, and talk of toleration, those who dare to exercise the right of suffrage according to their consciences, are either branded with odious epithets, or are punished with the loss of office.
Mr. Blakely, American Consul at St. Jago de Cuba, dates the origin of his misfortunes, from meddling in a prudential concern; and the master, supercargo, and a crew of said ship, being implicated in a charge of misconduct on the voyage, are indebted for their deliverance from the Spanish mines, to a strenuous exertion of interest made in their favour; and a douceur of four thousand dollars having been expended, and paid on their account, to the officers of government at the Havanna.
A very ludicrous report is prevailing, of the credibility of which we cannot pretend to judge—It is, that the present Governor of this State is contemplated to be our Minister at the Court of London.
NEW-YORK, December 18.
We have the pleasure to inform our readers and the public in general, that the road from the Bald Eagle's Nest to Presqu'Isle, is opened this season. It proceeds from the Nest in Centre County by the north side of Philipsburg, to the west branch of Susquehanna, thence through the growing Chindecannouch settlements, thence over Anderson's Creek in Lycoming to the head branches of Sandy Lick, thence to the two saw-mills of James Porter, Esq. on Sandy Lick, near the Sack, thence through the growing settlements on the south-east waters of Toby's creek, to Allegany river, and so through the counties of Venango, Crawford and Erie, to Le Beuf and Presqu'Isle. This road is about 140 miles in length from the Nest to Lake Erie.
Mr. Pinckney, the American Minister to the Court of Madrid, left the Hague on the 25th of September for the place of his destination.
At the close of the poll yesterday, for charter officers for the city and county of New-York, it appeared, that in the first second, and third wards, the federal ticket was successful; and that the republican nomination succeeded in the 4th ward by a majority of 33, in the 5th by a majority of 6, in the 6th without opposition and in the 7th by a majority of 237.
BOSTON, December 23.
"SONS OF THE PILGRIMS."
Yesterday the anniversary of the landing of our Pilgrim Fathers, at Plymouth, in 1620, was celebrated by upwards of a hundred of
their descendents at Concert-Hall. The Hon. Stephen Higginson presided at the table; and Joseph Russell, Martin Brimmer, and Peleg Coffin, Esquires, assisted as Vice-Presidents. Amongst the guests were the Hon. John Adams, Hon. Timothy Pickering, the President of the Senate, the Hon. Judges of the Federal and State Courts, the President and Professors of Harvard University, several of the Rev. Clergy, the Hon. John Q. Adams, George Cabot, and Fisher Ames, Esquires.
Nearly a ton of gunpowder has been advertised as having been seized by the firewards of this town, being found in situations contrary to law.
The fire at Roxbury, last evening, consumed two barns, with a horse and cow, belonging to the widow Curtis; an end of a house contiguous caught fire, but was extinguished.
Extract of a letter from Bourdeaux, dated Oct. 25.
"By a vessel for Philadelphia, with her anchor atrip in the river, I embrace the opportunity of dropping a few lines. I sailed from Boston the 4th of August, for Nantz and Bourdeaux, intending to continue out on a general freighting voyage in Europe; but an unexpected peace taking place, has put every thing in confusion. Times are intolerably dull here, and a prospect of worse, with Americans."
Joseph O'Neal, who has been tried and convicted for uttering and publishing as true a counterfeit bank bill of 100 dollars of the Union Bank of Boston, has been reprieved until March next, in order that the opinion of the Judges of the Supreme Court in January term next may be had on some questions which have been raised by his counsel.
December 26.
A letter from a merchant in London to his correspondent in New-York, received by the Brothers, dated October 23, says, "Yorkshire woollen-cloths have taken a very rapid advance in consequence of the great demand for the Spanish market. Cotton goods have likewise advanced fifteen per cent."
NEW-BEDFORD, December 18.
The ship Active, Captain Waterman, of this port, sailed from New-York, for Guadalupe, a few weeks past; having as passengers, about eighty of the former inhabitants of that Island. By the following extract of a letter from Captain Waterman, to one of his friends, it appears, that not withstanding the late change, they met with a favourable reception:
Paint-Petre, Guadalupe, Nov. 27.
"I embrace the first opportunity to acquaint you of my safe arrival, and to my great astonishment found the island in the hands of the coloured people: the revolution took place three days previous to our arrival; no blood was shed; they arrested the former Governor, and sent him off the island. I was honoured with a visit from the Mullatto Governor to welcome his countrymen home; he promised them his protection, and the restoration of their former property. The American flag is here treated with great respect."
Providence.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30.
TO THE PUBLIC.
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JOHN CARTER, JUN.
JOURNAL OFFICE, December 30.
The French Treaty has been laid before the Senate of the United States; but nothing has transpired on the subject, the debates being carried on with closed doors.
Further accounts from France, via N. York, concur in authenticating the report of an armament being on the point of sailing for St. Domingo. They also add, that the French mean speedily to become the masters of the United States, by taking possession of
Louisiana. A hundred thousand such military politicians, as were sent by the genius of France to the mountains of Switzerland, into Holland, Italy, &c. would make rare sport for the Southern democrats.
Mr. Mathew Carey has just published an address to the Printers and Booksellers of the United States, recommending a LITERARY FAIR, on the plan of those held at Frankfort and Leipzig, in Germany—that this Fair commence on the first day of June next, and be held at N. York. The plan is good, and deserves encouragement. When we consider that in consequence of the union between Ireland and England, cheap books from the former place can no longer be imported in the United States—that authorship in England is high, and the duties on paper enormous, it will occur to every one who thinks, that in a short time, we shall be able to print all books of merit at a much cheaper rate than we can possibly import them.
Prices current at Havanna, November 19, viz. lumber 34 dollars, pork 30, beef 20 to 22, flour 9; other provisions plenty; molasses and sugar very scarce.
By a late regulation at Trinidad (says a late New-York paper) the exportation of hides and cocoa is prohibited, excepting in British bottoms.
EXTRACTS.
"Gentile Bellini, a Venetian, son and disciple of Giovanni, was born 1421, and became an eminent painter. Mahomet the great, who took Constantinople 1453, and, as we are told by Mr. Knolles, in his history of the Turks, "greatly favoured men of excellence in any art, and honourably entertained them," having seen some of his works, was so charmed with them (not imagining how a man could accomplish performances so divine) that he wrote to Venice for the republic to send the artist to him, that he might see him work.
"Mr. Knolles say he made a portrait of the Sultan, which is probable enough; and Mr. Collier adds, that he made other fine pictures for his Highness. He painted, among other subjects, the decollation of St. John the Baptist, and the Emperor observed, the head was too high and too large when separated from the neck; and to convince the painter of this, he called for a slave, had his head instantly cut off, and bade Bellini observe, that the neck, when discovered from the head, was naturally stank, and grew extremely small. The painter was so astonished, so frightened with this cruel and horrible transaction, that he never could be easily till he obtained his dismissal. The Emperor, however, presented him with rich gifts (putting himself a gold chain about his neck, which is a singular mark of honour among the Turks) and sent him back to Venice with letters of recommendation to the republic, from which he received a considerable pension during his life.
SOUND.
[From a publication in an English Magazine] "We do not in general reflect how much the voice of a noise extends over a large space. This Dr. Adam, that ingenious observer of nature, in his operations, discovered, in an instance some years ago in the city of Philadelphia. He had a new bell imported from England. In order to judge of its power, the bell was raised on a scaffold in the market street of that city, and struck, as it happens, on a market day; when the people coming to market were surprised at hearing the sound of a bell at a greater distance from the city than they ever heard any bell before. This circumstance excited the attention of the curious; and it was discovered that the sound of the bell, when struck in the street, reached nearly double the distance it did when raised into the steeple.
In the course of the last four months, from 500 to 600 children have been inoculated, with the vaccine matter, in the Bailiwick of Peforcem, in Sussex, not one of whom has been attacked by the small-pox, which has lately made great ravages in that quarter. It is computed that of 500,000 children annually afflicted with the latter disorder in the whole of Germany, from 70 to 80,000 become victims to it. Lon. pap.
The Hon. Oliver Wolcot, we are told, is on his way to the city of Washington. It would be a prudent step for all the old heads of department, to repair thither during the present session of Congress, for the purpose of taking care of their characters; it would likewise be a patriotic and economical step, for as all slanderers are cowards, their defence would inspire these impartial and interested fault-finders with a suitable sense of temperance and caution. ibid.
DIED.
At Northumberland (Penn.) on the 10th inst. after a short illness, in the 68th year of her age, Jean M'Clure, of Buffalo, a venerable old lady, like the fruitful vine, left a numerous progeny to lament her death, having had 14 children, 18 grandchildren, 148 great grand children, and 14 great great grand children, amounting in all to 204.
At Kingston (Mass.) the 24th inst. Mary Cobb, aged 107 years, 8 months, 14 days; having lived in three centuries.
At Gloucester, Mr. Benoni Tucker, in the 96th year of his age. He lived with his loving companion 70 years; he has 12 children, grand children, and great grand children.
At Killings, Mr. Peleg Arnold.

Selected Poetry.
SONG, BY DIBDIN.
[Who is there, that admires the honest, open and free-hearted muse of the inimitable DIBDIN, but must be gratified with the following, his last production?]
MY LOVE'S A VESSEL TRIM AND GAY.
My love's a vessel trim and gay, Rigg'd out with truth, and stor'd with honour; As through life's sea she cuts her way, All eyes with rapture gaze upon her! Built, ev'ry wondering heart to please, The lucky shipwright's love and fancy, From stem to stern she moves with ease, And at her launch they call'd her Nancy. When bearing up against life's gales, So well she stems the dangerous trouble, I call her Anna as she sails, Her form's so grand, her air's so noble. When o'er the trembling wave she flies, What plays and sports as she advances— "Well said, my Nan," if fondly cries, As my full heart in concert dances. In sudden gales, before life's breeze, So sweetly gentle is her motion, She's Ann—for as she moves with ease, She seems the queen of all the ocean. But when on Sundays rigg'd in flays, Like beauty gay, and light as fancy, She wins my heart a thousand ways, I then delight to call her Nancy. When laying on a tack so neat, The breeze her milk-white bosom filling, She skims the yielding waves so fleet, I call her Nance, my bosom thrilling. Thus is the precious to my heart, By whate'er name comes o'er my fancy; Graceful or gay; grand, neat or smart, Or Anna, Ann, Nan, Nance, or Nancy.
HUMOUR.
THE following anecdote is told of a former Jack Ketch :—Some years ago, while the old Newgate was standing, Jack Ketch, finding himself dying, sent for the curate of the parish, and thus addressed him—"Ah, Mr. Parson, I've help'd many a poor dog out of this world, and I am now going out of it myself; and, to tell you the truth, my conscience won't let me alone." "Well, well," replied the curate, "take comfort, you are not to blame; the mea who suffered had been condemned by the laws of their country, and were more than the inf..." (the text is cut off by a large ink blot). ...One that... into... whispers to... Master... you do a poor wretch a... Twenty good guineas;... weight?" says I to him. "Ay, that's it," says he to me, "not a light guinea, 'em." My heart was sorry for him, I bid him to follow my directions, and I would see what could be done for him—when you get to the cart, says I, and all the people about it, pop down when I make the sign, and slip under it, and get away among the crowd. But after he had done so, as ill luck would have it, I happened to spy among the mob a journeyman tailor, with a thin white face, and a red night cap on; so I made a dash at him, seized him by the collar, and hoisted him into the cart. 'Tis true as you sit there; the poor devil lifted up his hands and eyes, protested his innocence—and all that but I howled louder than he did, and told the mob he went on at that rate in jail, and never would confess nothing. Now, Mr. Parson, I'm really afeard I hanged a man a little wrongfully."
the Sign of the Golden Padlock MAY BE HAD, FEW hogheads of good Molaf- Pepper and Coffee by the bag; by the chest, very low; and an assort- of China-Ware and Dry Goods at retail, by the cask, by JOHN LIPPITT. 6w.
ed, by the Subscriber, MART active Boy, about 12 or 14 years of age, at the Tanning and making business. Also another about 7 years of age. B. Cash given for Oak Bark. JOSEPH HEALY. March 11th Month.
VARIETY STORE.
At the SIGN of the GOLDEN BEE-HIVE, Jeremiah F. Jenkins, HAS FOR SALE,
A HANDSOME assortment of Bonnets, viz.—Bath shape, open work, plain and bordered pique straw, porcupine and porcupine bordered, gimp ditto—also, an as- sortment of straw trimmings for ditto.
Mock fable and other furr trim- mings assorted, silk and camel's hair shawls, plain and fringed white, coloured and black; superfine black flannel ditto, white fashiona- ble dark coloured coatings, superfine ditto for ladies wear.
Superfine London dressed broad- cloths, cassimeres, swansdowns, baizes and flout fearnoughts, flout plain kersey and other coarse cloths, blankets assorted, some extra large of a superior quality; fine and coarse edgings, very fine cambric threads, widow's crap, women's extra long, white, black and coloured silk and cotton gloves and mitts; misses ditto, lined with furs and furr; bea- ver ditto, fashionable ribbons assorted, furni- ture, dark mourning and other calicoes; cot- ton cambricks, velvet bindings of different widths and prices, sewing silks, flou ditto, linens assorted, very fine linen and cotton handkerchiefs, cambric ditto, dimities, table, towelling and clouting diapers; sheetings, linen and cotton; company gurrahs and other cottons, preferable to those commonly impor- ed; black and other coloured silk velvets, fine and coarse black and coloured cotton velvet- teen women's white worsted hose, open work clock, cotton ditto, men's silk hosiery assort- ed, worsted ditto, outsize ditto, superfine and coarse brown hollands, men's hats, boy's ditto, assorted colours; mill'd mitts, gloves and caps, superfine and common linen and diaper tapes.
A handsome assortment of common, Scotch ingrain, real Kidderminster, Wilton and Brussels carpets and carpeting, and a variety of patterns for carriages; oiled table- cloths in patterns, best Whitechapel needles, per M. in quarter hundreds, blunt and sharp; Saddle's blunt ditto, pins, 3 and 1-4, 4 and 1-2.
A handsome assortment of fashion- able steel, pearl, plated and gilt buttons; sin- gle and double bowed spectacles to suit vari- ous ages, steel spectacle cases, a great variety of neat finished table and desert knives and forks, carving ditto, scissors, &c. penknives, cloak, curtain and glass supporters; a variety of metal tea pots, tea sets, brushes, lead pencils of the first quality, writing books, playing cards per gross or dozen, message cards, glass ink-stands, and stands in pairs, Wedgwood ink-stands, assorted.
A variety of lamps, viz. japanned tall and flat, socket ditto, for candlesticks, urn ditto with glass chimneys for mantle lights, tall writing ditto, with shades, urn hanging ditto, fountain hanging ditto, flat and tall brass ditto, of various forms; small hand and pocket lanterns.
Fresh cask and box raisins, cur- rants, real and common cinamon and cinnam- mon buds, nutmegs, cloves, mace, pepper, al- spice, ginger, flour of mustard, best first and second quality of Boston chocolate, cocoa shells, bohea, souchong, hyson, young hyson and gun-powder tea, such as will please good judges; Spanish indigo, of the first quality; essence of spruce.
A handsome assortment of twig, chaie, phaeton and loaded whips, neatly fin- ished; fiddle strings assorted, as usual; cork soles.
And lately opened at his CROCKERY SHOP, An elegant assortment of cut wine and cordial glasses, barrel and upright tum- blers, festooned and flouted ditto, gilt edges, plain cut, &c.
A beautiful assortment of cut glass salt cellars, jelly glasses, fashionable festooned short wine and whip glasses; elegant cut cast- ors, plated frame spare castors, common half pint, pint and quart tumblers; common wine, water bottles and goblets, handsome blue and white wash basins and ewers.
ALSO, A great variety of cream colour- ed WARE, as usual. DEARBORN's approved patent BALANCES. December 16. 6w.
NEW GOODS.
Just received, and now opening, by Carpenter and Arnold, No. 14, Market-Street, A fresh supply of fashionable Fall and Winter Goods,
CONSISTING OF SUPERFINE common, and low priced Broadcloths; plain, ribbed and silk strip'd Kerseymere, Orleans and Elastic Cloths, Plains, Forest Cloths, Serges, Moul- skin, Ratteen, superfine and common Coat- ings, Swansdown and Marcellus Waistcoat- ings, Fancy Cords, black and coloured Cot- ton and Silk Velvets, Calicoes, India Cottons, Checks and Linens, Camels Hair, silk and chintz Shawls; fancy silk Handkerchiefs, Camels Hair, and Grey Fox Muff Furs; an excellent assortment of Hosiery, and many other articles too numerous for an adver- tisemen, which will be sold at low as can be purchased in town. December 2.
For Sale,
AN excellent Farm, consisting of about 200 acres, having thereon 2 Dwell- ing-Houses, 2 Barns, and an excellent Saw- Mill and Grist-Mill; the Farm is well calcu- lated for mowing, ploughing, and pasturing; lays level and handsomely. Said Farm lies in West-Stafford, Tolland county, State of Connecticut, on the road to Hartford, five miles from Tolland Court-House, with plen- ty of apple and other fruit trees, and might very commodiously be divided into 2 farms. For particulars, enquire of SAMUEL RICH, On the premises.
West-Stafford, November 26.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the term of six months is allowed from this date, by the Honourable Court of Pro- bate for the district of Pomfret for the cred- itors of the Estate of OTIS LEARNED, late of Woodstock, deceased, represented insol- vent, to exhibit their claims for allowance to us the subscribers, appointed Commissioners on said Estate.—We shall meet for said pur- pose, at the dwelling-house of DANIEL LY- ON, Innholder in West-Woodstock, on the last Tuesday of December, and the second Tuesday of February next, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
JOHN PALMER, JOHN M'LELLAN, PHILIP HAYWOOD, } Commissioners. Woodstock, November 17.
N. B. Those accounts which have been presented to the Administrator previous to this, will be laid before the Commissioners without any further trouble to the creditors, unless when particular notice is given.
FOR SALE, BY THOMAS JONES, Market-Street, Providence, BEST 2d and 3d proof St. Croix Rum, and retailing Molasses, by the hoghead
Madeira, Lisbon, and Malaga Wine, per quarter cask Claret do. in boxes of 3 dozen bot- tles each Boxes of New-York Soap, and Sweet Oil Boxes of Short Pipes 60 Boxes of 6 by 8, and 7 by 9. Glass 40 Casks of Powder, of British, Dutch, and American manufacture 50 Bags of patent and common Shot of all sizes, from goose to musket, so called Iron Stoves, viz. Franklin, Ten-Plate, and Cast-Iron Stoves, of all sizes Iron Pipes for ditto Sheet Iron, 1, 2 and 3d thickness Sheet Lead Spanish Float Indigo, of an excel- lent quality Spanish Lump Indigo Few bags of fresh Allspice Ditto of clean hard Pepper Real Spanish Segars, per box, of a fine flavour New-York, Scotch, Macaboisie, and Rappes Snuff, by the hundred, bladder, or pound Refined and common Salt Petre Fresh Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, and Cinamon, by the dozen or pound. ALSO, Roll Brimstone, lump do. for gra- ving of vessels, Copperas, Allum, and Red- Wood, per hundred, at the lowest rate. November 18.
FLAX-SEED.
THE Subscribers want to purchase a quantity of Flax-Seed, for which they will pay cash on delivery, at their store, op- posite the Providence Bank; where they continue the PAINTING BUSINESS, and have for sale, Linseed Oil, Spirits of Turpen- tine, and a general assortment of Painter's Colours, dry or ground in Oil; Painter's Brushes, Tools, and Camels Hair Pencils of various sizes.
Colours prepared at the shortest notice, and all favours gratefully acknowledged. GRINNELL and TAYLOR. November 4.
JUST arrived from St. Kitts, the ship Two Brothers, with 16 hogheads of high proof good flavoured Rum; 3 hog- heads of good Sugar; and about 10,000 pounds of Green Coffee;
LIKEWISE, A cargo of Turs-Island Salt. The above articles will be sold cheap for cash or approved credit, by JAMES or ZEPH. GRAVES. At the South End. December 2.
Just published, and for Sale by J. CARTER, at the Printing-Office opposite the Market, under JACOB RICHARDSON, Esq; at the Post Office in Newport,
THE NEW-ENGLAND ALMANACK, OR, Lady and Gentleman's DIARY, for the Year of our Lord 1802. By ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, Philomath. Containing, besides the usual astronomical Calculations, a Variety of Matter, useful and entertaining. October 2.
William James,
Near the Long-Wharf, and directly opposite Dr. GEORGE W. HOFFIN's at the sign of Hippocrates' Head, has just re- ceived an extensive assortment of
ENGLISH GOODS,
Suitable for the present and approaching seasons;—among which are,
SUPERFINE, middling, and low
priced Broadcloths Forest Cloths, Ratteens Serges, Kerseymere Swansdowns, Coatings Bockings, Fearnoughts Flannels and Baizes Mens silk and worsted Hose 10, 9 and 8-4 Rose Blankets Wildbore, Poplins Cambletteens, Russells Durants, Tammies Shaloon, India Cotton English and India Checks Linens, Cambricks Copperplate Furniture, Calicoes Twill'd, black, blue, and olive coloured Velvets Camels Hair Shawls Silk do. Cotton do. Black Barcelona, Bandana, and Royal Hand- kerchiefs Flag and check do. Corded and plain Mullins Jaconet and Cambric do. Black Laces and Edgings Ladies Cotton Mitts Fancy Beads Mens Castor Hats Modes and Sattins A great variety of Fur Trimmings, &c. ALSO, An assortment of HARD-WARE, &c. &c. November 4. (2m.)
Benjamin Thurber
Has just received, and now open- ing for sale, at the sign of the Bunch of Grapes, No. 30, William-Street, a com- plete assortment of
Fall and Winter Goods,
Among which are the following articles: SCARLET , blue, black, and London brown Broadcloths, Cassi- meres, Elastics, Forest Cloths, blue, green, and London brown Serges; plain, stri- ped, and clouded Coatings; Fearnought, for great coats; yellow, red, black, and white Flannels; ditto Baizes; cotton and worsted Hose; Swansdowns; Eng- lish, India, and Italian Lute-strings; black and coloured Sattins; Modes, Sarfnet, fashionable fancy check Ribbons, black and coloured silk Shawls, Bandana and fancy silk Handkerchiefs.
A large assortment of Camels hair Shawls, Mullin and chintz do.
A large assortment of high and low priced fashionable Calicoes, blue, pur- ple, and red Copperplate; long and short silk and cotton Gloves, plain and striped Ruffles, Durants, Moreens, Shaloon, Ratteens, plain and striped Wildbore Bengals, Crapes, linen Pocket Handker- chiefs, black and white Laces and Ed- gings, India Cotton of various prices, Mus- lins, Mullins, and Dimities, black and olive coloured men's Velvet.
A large assortment of new-fash- ioned Hats and Bonnets, Straw Trimmings, Cotton do. and a large assortment of Muffs and Tippits, and Fur Trimmings for cloaks.
A complete assortment of Look- ing-Glasses, Patent Lamps, brass and iron Candlesticks, house, and floor Brushes, Coffee Mills, Flat Irons, London and Bris- tol Pewter, Knives and Forks, Table and Tea Spoons, Shovels and Tongs, brass Kettles, Cotton Wool, warranted Spanish Float and French Indigo, glass, China, and delf Ware; new-fashioned Tea-Pots, Cotton-Wool Cards, and other things too numerous to mention.
All old friends are invited to call and see for themselves, and whether they purchase or not, they will be waited on with pleasure. The above articles will be sold at the lowest advance for cash. October 14.
Freeman and Bartlet
Have just received and opened for Sale,
FOX , Anglo, Camels Hair, Russia Squirrel, Sable, and other MUFFS and TIPPITS; a variety of Fur Trimmings, Buck- skins and lined Gloves; elegant Chip Bon- nets and Hats of the latest fashion; Kid Shoes; and a great variety of Fresh Goods, suitable for the season, which will be sold at remarkably low prices for cash. November 11.
TAKEN from the Chaise-Box of the subscriber, while the chaise stood near her house, in the south-west part of Rehoboth, a PALL, made of superfine black broadcloth, measuring about three yards and a half, with a green oil cloth for a case, marked P. L. with white thread or silk; it was trimmed with black ferret, and had two or three small holes worn through it by lassing. Whoever will give information of the person who has thus defrauded a num- ber of individuals who purchased it, shall be thankfully rewarded for their kindness. ANNAH BROWN.