The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1809-12-12 00:00:00

THE RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
"THE NATION WHICH INDULGES TOWARDS ANOTHER AN HABITUAL HATRED, OR AN HABITUAL FONDNESS, IS IN SOME DEGREE A SLAVE." — WASHINGTON.
VOLUME II.
PROVIDENCE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1809.
NUMBER 16.
Original Poetry.
For the RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN. On the Death of Governor GREENE.
SWELLS the full note of generous woe When, midst the blood of glory, bleeds the brave. A grief more soft, more deep, must flow When, press'd with Age's chilling snow, The Friend of Virtue seeks the dreary grave. Yet sweet must be his downward way Who, midst the blessings of surrounding friends, Crowned with the well earn'd civic Bay, More with years, than honours, grey, To the still Rose of Life, in peace, descends. Such, venerable GREENE, thy fate, In publick praise and love domestic blast! Thus he, who graced the chair of state In manhood firm, in age sedate, Still, mildly smiling, sinks to silent rest. So evening twilight, soft, serene, When past are all the splendours of the day, Sheds a calm lustre o'er the scene, And ling'ring, glows the glades between, Then, lost in deep'ning shades, dissolves away! But twilight, though to human eyes It seems involved in black, unawaking night, Yet, as on joyful wing it flies, Flies but to find more brilliant skies, And still exults in never ceasing light. CARROL.
For the RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN. THE FOOL-FLOWER.
ONCE on a time young Dick was told, (The date I cannot now declare.) The Fool-Flower would a leaf unfold More fair than all her sisters were. Celia, the fair and ruddy maid, Of Lovers' hearts an arrant thief, Describ'd the various light and shade That broke from each unfolding leaf. She sent our Hero now in quest, And bade him search to find the prize; And proffer'd to a lover's breast The first reward—her partial eyes. Well pleas'd, he searches grove and mead, And rifies Mey's delicious sweets; But still so stubborn fate decreed, The flower he seeks for yet retreats. From morn to night his course he steer'd Thro' verdant fields and groves of dew; And still the blossom disappear'd And vanish'd from his eager view. 'Twas here, 'twas there, 'twas every where, The plant so dear to Dick was found; He plucks fresh courage from despair, And scours the country round and round. How hard my fate, thus (Dick repin'd,) Sure Fortune's outcast I must be; The blossom ev'ry one can find Shuns and eludes the search of me. O grant me Jove! his lips exclaim, And I will gladly own thy power, While others ask for wealth and fame Give me to find that precious flower. But how his heart with anger swell'd When Celia's lips this precept taught, That each and ev'ry flower he held Was the same flow'ret that he sought.
Documents,
Accompanying the President's Message to Congress, November 29, 1809. [CONTINUED.]
MR. SMITH TO MR. JACKSON.
Department of State, October 19, 1809.
SIR, I have had the honour of receiving your letter of the 11th instant.
Before I proceed to the more material topics, which it embraces, it is proper that I should take some notice of your construction, which has unhappily converted an intimation of the expediency of conducting in a written form our further discussions, on this particular occasion, into a general prohibition of all verbal communications whatever, and into an unprecedented violation of the most essential rights of a publick Minister, requiring a formal protest and a resort to the commands of your sovereign.
A recurrence to that intimation cannot fail to show that its sole object was to avoid, in the further discussions of a case of unusual delicacy and importance, the misconceptions well known to be incident to oral proceedings, and of which the diplomatic intercourse between the two governments had furnished so many and such serious proofs—nay, of which your letter itself is an additional illustration, that a change in diplomatic discussions from an oral to a written form, is not without precedent, I cannot refer to one which will be more satisfactory to you than the intimation recently given by Mr. Canning, in the case of the proposal by Mr. Pinkney on the subject of the Orders in Council, and the Embargo, that the discussions which had been previously verbal, must
thenceforth take a written form. And with this view I take the liberty of recalling your attention to the subjoined extracts (See A and B) of letters that passed on that occasion.
On the present, as on that occasion, the change from verbal to written communications was requested, after two conferences, and when the subject appeared to one of the parties to have, by those verbal discussions, been brought to a point, which required a precise understanding of the views and positions of the other.
You will, Sir, hence perceive, that in maintaining the right, which every government has as to the rules of intercourse with foreign functionaries near it, no encroachment has been made or intended on any right or customary privilege belonging to you in that character, nor any thing done to impede the proper and usual course of negotiation.
You have been sufficiently apprised, by my letter of the 9th, of the light in which the President views the arrangement lately made by your predecessor with this government, and of the grounds on which he has expected a formal and satisfactory explanation of the reasons for the refusal of his Britannick Majesty to carry it into effect. He persists in that expectation, and in the opinion, that there has been given no explanation that is adequate, either as to the matter, or as to the mode.
When one government has been solemnly pledged to another in a mutual engagement by its acknowledged and competent agent, and refuses to fulfil the pledge, it is perfectly clear, that it owes it, both to itself and to the other party, to accompany its refusal with a formal and a frank disclosure of sufficient reasons for a step, which, without such reasons, must deeply injure its own character, as well as the rights of the party confiding in its good faith.
"To refuse with honour, (says a high authority on publick law,) to ratify what has been concluded on by virtue of a full power, it is necessary that the government should have strong and solid reasons, and that he shew in particular that his Minister has violated his instructions."
Although it is particularly incumbent on the sovereign in such case to show that his instructions have been violated, yet it is not a mere violation of them on immaterial points that will be sufficient. It is indispensably requisite, moreover, that the reasons be strong and solid, that they manifestly outweigh not only the general obligation to abide by what has been so done, but also the disappointment and injury accruing to the other party. And it is worthy of notice that the case under discussion is of a higher character, and appeals with greater solemnity to the honour and justice of the refusing party, than the case stated in Vattel, inasmuch as the transaction, now disavowed, was not a treaty or convention to be ratified by both parties, previous to an execution by either. It had according to the terms of it, (and this peculiarity appears to have been contemplated by your government,) been actually and immediately carried into effect by the United States. The refusal of his Britannick Majesty is, therefore, not simply to ratify what had been ratified by the other party, but to carry into effect on his part an arrangement which had been carried into full effect with good faith on the part of the United States. Nay, the case is strengthened by the further peculiarity, that some of the circumstances attending the execution of the arrangement on the part of the United States renders it unsusceptible of a full equivalent for the refusal to execute it on the other side.
It has not escaped observation, that the obligation of your government to tender explanations on this occasion is admitted by your attempt to show that it has been sufficiently done in what passed in conversation between Mr. Canning and Mr. Pinkney, and by the instructions given to Mr. Erskine to communicate such explanations. With every disposition to view in the most favourable light whatever may affect the relations between the two countries, it is impossible to mistake the conversations of those Ministers for a discharge of such a debt to the good faith and reasonable expectations of the United States. Besides that they were mere conversations in a case requiring the precision and respect of a formal communication, it is certain; that it was neither understood by Mr. Pinkney, nor intended by Mr. Canning, that those conversations were so to be regarded. Mr. Pinkney is explicit on this point. And Mr. Canning himself, after declining to recapitulate in writing what he had verbally remarked, signified to Mr. Pinkney in a letter dated May 27th, that his observations on the subject would be more pro-
perly made through the successor of Mr. Erskine who was about to proceed to the United States.
With respect to the instructions on this point, given to Mr. Erskine, it might be sufficient to remark that they were never carried into execution; but it may be asked, whether it was a mark of friendly respect to the United States to employ for such a purpose a Minister from whom his government had thought proper publicly to withdraw its confidence, and to the peculiar delicacy and embarrassment of whose situation you have yourself referred, as accounting for his not having executed the task imposed upon him.
I must here repeat, what was suggested in my former letter, that the successor of Mr. Erskine is the proper functionary for a proper explanation. Nor can I perceive the force of your remark, that the delay incident to your arrival in the United States rendered it more consistent with the friendly sentiments of his Majesty to prefer the other channels for communicating the motives for his disavowal. To your own consideration I appeal whether the course most consonant to those friendly sentiments was not the obvious one of employing the new organ, guarding at the same time against any misconstruction of the delay by apprising the American government, through its Minister, of the cause of it.
The supposition, that the delay incident to your mission gave rise to the conversation of Mr. Canning and Mr. Pinkney, is not reconcilable to the correspondence of the latter, which contains no such indication. On the contrary, it distinctly shews that he was apprised of the intention to replace Mr. Erskine by a successor, whom he regarded as the proper channel for the explanatory communications, that he understood Mr. Canning to be under the same impression, and that he learned from himself, not more than two days after his conversations with Mr. Canning, that you were to sail for the United States within three weeks.
Although it may not have been your intention to have given to this subject a posture which it would not have naturally assumed, yet such has been the tendency of some of your remarks, and particularly of the conclusion you have drawn from the two circumstances, 1st. That no trace of complaint from this government against the disavowal appears in the records of the British mission, or was distinctly announced by me in our conferences, and 2d. that from the official correspondence of Mr. Erskine with his government, it appears, that although he did not communicate in extenso his original instructions, he submitted to me the three conditions therein specified and received my observations on each.
If there be no trace of complaint against the disavowal in the archives of the mission, it is because this government could not have entered such complaint before the reasons for the disavowal had been explained, and especially as the explanations were justly and confidently expected through the new functionary. And as to the supposed reserve on my part on this subject in our several conferences, I did not imagine, that my repeated intimations to you of the necessity of satisfactory explanations, as to the disavowal, were sufficient indications of the dissatisfaction of this government with respect to the disavowal itself.
The stress you have laid on what you have been pleased to state as the substitution of the terms finally agreed on, for the terms first proposed, has excited no small degree of surprise. Certain it is, that your predecessor did present for my consideration the three conditions which now appear in the printed document—that he was disposed to urge them more than the nature of two of them, (both palpably inadmissible,) could permit, and that on finding his first proposals unsuccessful, the more reasonable terms comprised in the arrangement respecting the Orders in Council were adopted. And what, Sir, is there in this to countenance the conclusion you have drawn in favour of the right of his Britannick Majesty to disavow the proceeding? Is any thing more common in publick negotiations than to begin with a higher demand, and, that failing, to descend to a lower? To have, if not two sets of instructions, two, or more than two grades of propositions in the same set of instructions, to begin with what is the most desirable and to end with what is found inadmissible in case the more desirable should not be attainable. This must be obvious to every understanding, and it is confirmed by universal experience.
What were the real and entire instructions given to your predecessor, is a ques-
tion essentially between him and his government. That he had, or at least, that he believed he had sufficient authority to conclude the arrangement, his formal assurances, during our discussions, were such as to leave no room for doubt. His subsequent letter of the 18th June, renewing his assurance to me, "that the terms of the agreement so happily concluded by the recent negotiation will be strictly fulfilled on the part of his Majesty," is an evident indication of what his persuasion then was as to his instructions. And with a view to show what his impressions have been ever since the disavowal, I must take the liberty of referring you to the annexed extracts, (See C) from his official letters of the 31st July, and of the 14th August.
The declaration "that the despatch from Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine, of the 23d January, is the only despatch by which the conditions were prescribed to Mr. Erskine, for the conclusion of an arrangement on the matter to which it relates," is now for the first time made to this government. And I need hardly add, that if that despatch had been communicated at the time of the arrangement, or if it had been known that the propositions contained in it, and which were at first presented by Mr. Erskine, were the only ones, on which he was authorized to make an arrangement, the arrangement would not have been made.
As you have disclaimed any authority to offer explanations for the disavowal, as you have been willing to ascribe the want of such authority to the consideration that other channels had been preferred, and as you have even considered the circumstances under which the arrangement took place, to be such as could only lead to a disavowal, and therefore as superseding the necessity of any explanation whatever, it is to be regretted, that you had not deemed it proper to render precise and explicit, that part of your letter which seems to imply that you had in our conversations, in relation to the affair of the Chesapeake, following the words of your instructions, held out not only the manner in which the reparation had been accepted, but even the form in which it had been rendered, as warranting his Majesty in even retracting the offer of reparation, and that you had elucidated the observation by a reference to the particular expressions which, at all events, put it out of his power in any act containing them.
Whatever may have been your intention in this part of our conversation, or whatever may be the import of the passage to which I have just alluded, I have now the honour of signifying to you, that I am authorized to receive in a proper form whatever explicit explanations you may choose to make, with respect to the grounds of this part of the disavowal; and without inquiring whether your authority be derived from instructions that have been addressed to yourself, or that have devolved on you, as the successor of the Minister who had declined to execute them.
As you have, at the same time, been pleased to say that his Britannick Majesty had authorized you to renew the offer of satisfaction which Mr. Erskine was instructed to make, it was also naturally expected that you would in your letter have stated with precision in what that offer differed from the reparation solemnly tendered by Mr. Erskine, and accepted by the United States, and that you would have shown in what the reparation thus tendered differed from his instructions. And when I had the honour to intimate that in order to avoid the misconceptions incident to oral proceedings, it was thought expedient that our further discussions on the present occasion should be in the written form, there was no part of the subject to which that intimation applied with more force than the case of the Chesapeake; none on which it was more desirable to avoid misconceptions, and to obtain a precise knowledge of the propositions which you were authorized to make, not only because I did not really understand the particulars of the offer as distinctly as you seem to have supposed, but also because, on that point, and on that alone, you had expressly stated that you had propositions to make, and that you were authorized to carry them into immediate execution.
On the subject of the Orders in Council, the President perceives with sentiments of deep regret, that your instructions contemplate neither an explanation of the refusal of your government to fulfil the arrangement of that branch of the existing differences, nor the substitution of any other plan of adjustment, nor any authority to conclude any arrangement on that subject; but merely to receive and discuss proposals that might be made to you on the part of the United States; and these, it ap-
pears must include a stipulation on the part of the United States to relinquish the trade with the enemies' colonies, even in branches not hitherto interrupted by British Orders for capture, and also a sanction to the enforcing of an act of Congress by the British navy.
Were the way properly opened for formal propositions from this government, a known determination on the part of his Britannick Majesty to adhere to such extraordinary pretensions, would preclude the hope of success in such advances, whether regard be had to the conditions themselves, or to the disposition they indicate, in return for the conciliatory temper which has been evinced by the United States.
As to the demand in relation to the colonial trade, it has been the less apprehended, as it is not in itself connected, nor has it ever before been brought into connexion, either with the case of the Orders in Council, or with that of the Chesapeake. And it was reasonably to be presumed, if the idea of such a condition had in the first instance proceeded from the erroneous belief that it was not objectionable to the United States, that it would not have been persisted in, after that error had been ascertained and acknowledged.
The other demand could still less have been apprehended. Besides the inevitable and incalculable abuses incident to such a license to foreign cruisers, the stipulation would touch one of those vital principles of sovereignty, which no nation ought to have been expected to impair. For where would be the difference in principle between authorizing a foreign government to execute and authorizing it to make laws for us?—Nor ought it to be supposed, that the sanctions and precautions of a law of the United States, in the cases of the prohibited trade in question, would prove inefficacious for its purposes.
Had none of those obstacles presented themselves to the course corresponding with the sentiments and dispositions of the President, I should have felt great pleasure in giving you formal assurances of his readiness to execute the conditional authority with which he is invested for restoring in its full extent, as far as it may depend on the United States, the commercial intercourse of the two countries, and that he would, moreover, be disposed to extend the experiment of a friendly negotiation to every point of difference and of mutual interest between them. If, indeed, in the event of successful termination of what relates to the case of the Chesapeake, it be thought that a removal of the difficulties arising from the Orders in Council might be facilitated by comprehending them in a general negotiation and the operation of the Orders can in the mean time be suspended, the door might be considered as immediately open to that course of proceeding.
To such a suspension no reasonable objection can be made, if, as you have stated, the Orders in Council as now modified leave the trade of the United States nearly as great as it would be without the existence of such Orders, so long as France and the other powers shall continue their Decrees, and inasmuch as a discontinuance of their Decrees by those powers confessedly requires an immediate and entire revocation of the Orders in Council.
That a suspension of the Orders with a view to their being brought into a general negotiation is more reasonable than a temporary submission to their authority, by the United States with that view, is obvious from the reflection that such a submission would necessarily involve a relinquishment of the principle which they have steadfastly asserted; whereas, a discontinuance of the Orders in Council, in the present actual state of things would not be incompatible with the principle on which they were originally founded.
This principle was, as you well know, the necessity of retaliating through neutrals, injuries received through a violation of their rights by another belligerent. In the actual state of things, and under the modification of the Orders in Council produced by it, it is admitted by you, that the Orders have no practicable effect in abridging the commerce of neutrals, and can of course have no retaliating effect on the other belligerents.
Although it cannot be allowed to be true that the Orders in Council are no longer injurious to the commerce of the United States, it is certainly true that they produce no degree of injury to the enemies of Great-Britain that can countenance the retaliating plea alleged in support of them.
What, permit me to ask, is the degree of injury actually accruing to the enemies of Great-Britain from her retaliating Or-

ders? According to those Orders, as now modified, and more especially taking into view along with them the prohibitory law of this country in relation to France, the essential difference between their repeal and their existence consists in this—that in the case of their repeal, as pledged by the arrangement of April, the trade of the United States might be carried on directly with the ports of Holland, whilst during their existence, as at present, it is to be carried on through the contiguous and neighbouring ports. To your own calculations, Sir, I submit, whether the considerable effect of this circuit on the prices in Holland and in the countries supplied through her, can any longer sustain the plea of inflicting distress on an enemy, or palliate the injuries done to a friend by a proceeding so contrary to his sentiments of justice, and which subject his regular commerce not only to inconvenient channels, but to all the abuses which may result from the suspicion, real or pretended, of interested cruizers. You cannot but be sensible, that a perseverance under such circumstances in a system, which cannot longer be explained by its avowed object, would force an explanation by some object not avowed. What object might be considered as best explaining it, is an inquiry into which I do not permit myself to enter, further than to remark, that in relation to the United States, it must be an illegitimate object.
It remains to make a few observations which are due to the just interests of the United States, and which are invited by yours relating to the Order in Council of May last.
You seem to consider that measure as comprising the utmost precaution that was in the power of his Britannick Majesty to take, for preventing losses from his disavowal of the engagement of your predecessor, to citizens of the United States, who had resumed their commercial pursuits on the faith of that act.
Without entering into a full view of the inadequacy of the Order in that respect, I take the liberty of pointing out the following instances in which it falls essentially short of its declared intention.
1. The Order does not provide for the important case of vessels returning with cargoes from the ports of Holland.
2. The exemption from interruption of vessels bound from the United States to Holland was restricted by that Order to such as should have departed prior to the 20th of July, at which date it is not certain that the Order, which was not officially communicated until the 31st of that month, had even reached any one point of the United States. So that some vessels may have sailed between the limited date and the arrival of the Order in the United States, and many from distant ports must have done so after its arrival, but before a knowledge of it had become general; all proceeding on the faith of the arrangement, yet all left by the Order exposed to capture and condemnation.
3. The Order does not provide for the important case of vessels, which had sailed on the like faith for Dutch ports other than those of Holland.
4. It does not include in its provisions the extensive list of vessels going indirectly from the United States, but directly from foreign ports to those of Holland, nor vessels trading entirely from foreign ports to Holland; and in both these instances proceeding on the faith of the arrangement professed to be respected within the defined period.
It is true, in these last instances the vessels were not to be captured without an attempt, after contrary warning, to proceed to those ports. But I need not remind you that the injuries incident to the delay and to the breaking up of such voyages cannot but have been considerable, and will have resulted as manifestly from the disappointed faith in the arrangement, as in the cases specially provided for, and consequently with all other losses fairly resulting from the same bona fide confidence in that act they will fall within the just indemnification for which the principle, assumed in the Order, is a formal pledge.
I conclude, Sir, with pressing upon your candid attention, that the least which the President could have looked for in consequence of the disavowal of a transaction such as was concluded by your predecessor and carried faithfully into effect by this government, was an explanation from yours of the disavowal, not through the Minister disavowed, but through his successor—an explanation founded on reasons strong and solid in themselves, and presented, neither verbally, nor vaguely, but in a form comporting with the occasion, and with the respect due to the character and to the good faith of the disappointed party, that it has been found with much concern and with no less surprise, that you are charged with no such explanation, that you have apparently wished to bring the subjects, which have been formally and definitively arranged into fresh negotiations, as if no such arrangement had taken place; that one of the cases thus slighted, viz. that of the frigate Chesapeake, is a case for which reparation, not denied to be due, had been previously so long withheld, or rather in which the aggression itself has
been spun out, to the present moment, by the continued detention of the mariners, whose seizure, making a part of the original hostility committed against the American frigate, must be regarded in a light analogous to a continued detention of the ship itself;—that in the other case, viz. that of the Orders in Council, you are not authorized to tender explanation for the disavowal, or to propose any new arrangement, nor to conclude any agreement, but solely to receive and discuss propositions which might be made to you, not concealing, at the same time, that, to be satisfactory, they must include two conditions, both inadmissible,—one altogether irrelevant to the subject, and the other requiring nothing less than a surrender of an inalienable function of the national sovereignty.
Notwithstanding these repulsive considerations, such is the disposition of the President to facilitate a final and comprehensive accommodation between the two nations, that he is ready, as I have already had the honour of signifying to you, to favour any mode of bringing about so happy an event that may be found consistent with the honour and the essential interest of the United States.
I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) R. SMITH. The Hon. Francis James Jackson, &c. &c.
(A.) Extract of a letter from Mr. Pinkney to Mr. Canning, dated London, October 10, 1808.
"At our first interview, (on 29th June,) verbal communication was not discountenanced, but commenced. For, after I had made myself understood as to the purpose for which the interview had been requested, you asked me if I thought of taking a more formal course, but immediately added that you presumed I did not, for that the course I had adopted was well suited to the occasion. My reply was in substance, that the freedom of conversation was better adapted to our subject and more likely to conduct us to an advantageous conclusion, than the constraint and formality of written intercourse, and that I had not intended to present a note. At the second interview, (on the 22d July,) it did not occur to me that I had any reason to conclude, and certainly I did not conclude, the verbal communication had not continued to be acceptable as a preparatory course, and it was not until the third interview, (on the 29th July,) that it was rejected as inadmissible."
(B.) Extract of a letter from Mr. Canning to Mr. Pinkney, dated November 22, 1808.
"It is highly probable that I did not, (as you say I did not,) assign to you as the motive of the wish which I then expressed my persuasion, that written communications are less liable to mistake than verbal ones; because that consideration is sufficiently obvious, and because the whole course and practice of office is, in that respect so established and invariable, that I really could not have supposed the assignment of any specific motive to be necessary to account for my requesting a written statement of your proposals previous to my returning an official answer to them."
"I had taken for granted all along that such would, and such must, be the ultimate proceeding on your part; however you might wish to prepare the way for it by preliminary conversations."
(C.) Extract of a letter from Mr. Erskine to Mr. Smith, dated Washington, July 31st, 1809.
"Neither the present time, nor the occasion will afford me a favourable opportunity for explaining to you the grounds and reasons upon which I conceived I had conformed to his Majesty's wishes; and to the spirit, at least, of my instructions upon that subject, nor indeed would any vindication of my conduct, (whatever I may have to offer,) be of any importance, further than as it might tend to shew, that no intention existed on my part to practice any deception towards the government of the United States."
From the same to the same, dated August 14th, 1809.
"Under these circumstances, therefore, finding that I could not obtain the recognitions specified in Mr. Canning's despatch of the 23d of January, (which formed but one part of his instructions to me,) in the formal manner required, I considered that it would be in vain to lay before the government of the United States the despatch in question, which I was at liberty to have done in extenso, had I thought proper. But as I had such strong grounds for believing that the object of his Majesty's government could be attained, though in a different manner, and the spirit, at least, of my several letters of instruction be fully complied with, I felt a thorough conviction upon my mind, that I should be acting in conformity with his Majesty's wishes and accordingly concluded the late provisional agreement on his Majesty's behalf with the government of the United States."
The disavowal by his Majesty is a painful proof to me that I had formed an erroneous judgement of his Majesty's views and the intention of my instructions; and I have most severely to lament that an act of mine, (though unintentionally,) should produce any embarrassment in the relations between the two countries."
Mr. JACKSON TO MR. SMITH. Washington, 23d October, 1809.
Sir—The letter which you did me the honour to address to me on the 19th inst was delivered to me on the following day. I shall without loss of time, transmit it to my court, where the various and important considerations which it embraces will receive the attention due to them. In the interval, I would beg leave to submit to you the following observations, as they arise out of the communications that have already occurred between us.
In fulfilling a duty which I conceive to be due to my publick character, I have never suggested, nor meant to suggest, that the mode of negotiating prescribed by you on this particular occasion—an occasion selected for the purpose of removing existing differences—was otherwise objectionable, than as it appeared to me to be less calculated, than it does to you, to answer the professed purpose of our negotiation.
It was against the general principle of debarring a foreign Minister, in the short space of one week after his arrival, and without any previous misunderstanding with him, from all personal intercourse, that I thought it right to protest. Since however I find by your letter that it is not intended to apply that principle to me, I will only observe, that in the case which you mention to have occurred between Mr. Canning and Mr. Pinkney, the conferences were held, under an expectation at least on the part of the former, of their leading to a written communication, whereas in ours, I, from the beginning, stated that I had no such communication to make. There is also this essential difference between the two cases, that Mr. Pinkney was charged to convey an important proposal to his Majesty's government, the particulars of which it might be very material to have correctly stated, whilst the object of that part of my conversation, to which you seem to attach the most importance, was to say, that I was not charged to make any proposal whatever.
It could not enter into my view, to withhold from you an explanation, merely because it had been already given, but because, having been so given, I could not imagine, until informed by you, that a repetition of it would be required at my hands. I am quite certain that his Majesty's government having complied with what was considered to be the substantial duty imposed upon it on this occasion would, had this been foreseen, have added to the proofs of conciliatory good faith already manifested, the farther complacency to the wishes of the United States of adopting the form of communication most agreeable to them, and of giving through me the explanation in question. I have therefore no hesitation in informing you, that his Majesty was pleased to disavow the agreement concluded between you and Mr. Erskine, because it was concluded in violation of that gentleman's instructions, and altogether without authority to subscribe to the terms of it. These instructions, I now understand by your letter, as well as from the obvious deduction which I took the liberty of making in mine of the 11th inst, were at the time, in substance, made known to you; no stronger illustration therefore can be given of the deviation from them which occurred, than by a reference to the terms of your agreement.
Nothing can be more notorious than the frequency with which, in the course of a complicated negotiation, Ministers are furnished with a gradation of conditions, on which they may be successively authorized to conclude. So common is the case which you put hypothetically, that in acceding to the justice of your statement, I feel myself impelled to make only one observation upon it, which is, that it does not strike me as bearing upon the consideration of the unauthorized agreement concluded here, in as much as in point of fact Mr. Erskine had no such graduated instructions. You are already acquainted with that which was given, and I have the honour of informing you that it was the only one by which the conditions on which he was to conclude were prescribed. So far from the terms, which he was actually induced to accept, having been contemplated in that instruction, he himself states that they were substituted by you in lieu of those originally proposed.
It may perhaps be satisfactory that I should say here that I most willingly subscribe, on this occasion, to the highly respectable authority which you have quoted, and I join issue with you upon the essentials which that authority requires to constitute a right to disavow the act of a publick Minister.
It is not immaterial to observe on the qualification contained in the passage you have quoted—as it implies the case of a Minister, concluding in virtue of a full power. To this it would suffice to answer that Mr. Erskine had no full power; and his act consequently does not come within the range of your quotation, although it cannot be forgotten that the United States have,
at no very distant period, most freely exercised the right of withholding their ratification from even the authorised act of their own diplomatick agents, done under he avowed sanction of a full power.
I conceive that what has been already said establishes beyond the reach of doubt or controversy that his Majesty's Minister did violate his instructions, and the consequent right in his Majesty to disavow an act so concluded. That his Majesty had strong and solid reasons for so doing will appear not only from his instructions having been violated, but from the circumstance that the violation of them involved the sacrifice of a great system of policy deliberately adopted and acted upon in just and necessary retaliation of the unprecedented modes of hostility resorted to by his enemy.
There appears to have prevailed throughout the whole of this transaction a fundamental mistake, which would suggest that his Majesty had proposed to propitiate the government of the United States in order to induce it to consent to the renewal of the commercial intercourse between the two countries; as if such had been the relations between Great-Britain and America, that the advantages of that intercourse were wholly on the side of the former; and as if in any arrangement whether commercial or political, his Majesty could condescend to barter objects of national policy and dignity for permission to trade with another country.
Without minutely calculating what may be the degree of pressure felt at Paris by the difference in the price of goods, whether landed at Havre or at Hamburg, I will, in my turn, appeal to your judgement, Sir, whether it be not a strong and solid reason, worthy to guide the councils of a great and powerful monarch, to set bounds to that spirit of encroachment, and universal dominion which would bend all things to its own standard? Is it nothing in the present state of the world, when the agents of France authoritatively announce to their victims, "that Europe is submitting and surrendering by degrees," that the world should know, that there is a nation which by that Divine goodness so strongly appealed to in the paper to which I allude,* is enabled to falsify the assertion? Is it not important at such a moment, that Europe and America should be convinced, that, from whatever countries honourable and manly resistance to such a spirit may have been banished, it will still be found in the sovereign of the British nation and in the hearts of his subjects?
As to the precautions taken in England to insure from injury upon this occasion the citizens of the United States, and which appear to you to be even yet insufficient, I am confident that in every doubt full case the usual liberality of our tribunals will be exercised in determining upon the circumstances of it; and it was at Mr. Pinkney's express requisition, that additional instructions were given to the commanders of his Majesty's ships of war and privateers to extend to vessels trading to the colonies, plantations and settlements of Holland, the same exemption from capture and molestation, as was granted to vessels sailing for any of the ports of Holland.
On the subject of return cargoes from those ports, I must observe, that although it was intended to prevent as far as was practicable the inconveniences likely to be created by the unauthorized agreement made here in April last, yet it was not and could not be intended to obviate all possible inconveniences, even such as might have arisen if no such agreement had ever been made.
If an American vessel had sailed from America for Holland in time of profound peace, or in time of war the ports of Holland not being at the date of sailing under blockade, it might yet have happened that, in the period between the commencement of such voyage and the arrival of the vessel at the port of destination, a blockade might have been established before that port. The vessel arriving would in that case have been warned not to enter the port, and would have been turned away with the loss of the whole object of the voyage. This would be no extraordinary hardship, and would afford no legitimate ground of complaint.
The Order in Council is far less strict than such a blockade would be, for as much as it provides for the original voyage, commenced in expectation of being admitted to the port of destination, by permitting the entry into the ports of Holland; and it is not just ground of complaint, that it does no superadd to that permission the liberty to re-export a cargo of the enemy's goods or produce.
I beg leave briefly to recapitulate the substance of what I have had the honour to convey to you as well in a verbal, as in written communications.
I have informed you of the reasons of his Majesty's disavowal of the agreement so often mentioned; I have shewn them, in obedience to the authority which you have quoted, to be both strong and solid, and such as to outweigh, in the judgement of his Majesty's government, every other consideration which you have contemplated; I have shewn that that agreement was not
*Augereau's Proclamation to the Catalonians.
concluded in virtue of a full power, and that the instructions, given on the occasion, were violated.
Beyond this point of explanation which was supposed to have been attained, but which is now given, by the present letter, in the form understood to be most agreeable to the American government, my instructions are prospective; they look to substituting for notions of good understanding, erroneously entertained, practical stipulations on which a real reconciliation of all differences may be substantially founded; and they authorize me, not to renew proposals which have already been declared here to be unacceptable, but to receive and discuss any proposal made on the part of the United States, and eventually to conclude a convention between the two countries. It is not, of course, intended to call upon me to state as a preliminary to negotiation, what is the whole extent of those instructions; they must, as I have before said; remain subject to my own discretion, until I am enabled to apply them to the overtures, which I may have the honour of receiving from you.
I have the honour, &c. F. J. JACKSON. The Honourable Robert Smith, &c. &c.
Mr. JACKSON TO MR. SMITH. Washington, October 27, 1809.
Sir—Finding by your letter of the 19th inst. that, notwithstanding the frequent statements made by me in our conferences of the terms of satisfaction which I am empowered to offer to this country for the unauthorized attack made by one of his Majesty's ships of war upon the frigate of the United States, the Chesapeake, I have not had the good fortune to make myself distinctly understood by you, I have the honour to enclose herewith a paper of memoranda containing the conditions on the basis of which I am ready to proceed to draw up with you the necessary official documents in the form proposed in my letter of the 11th inst, or in any other form upon which we may hereafter agree.
I have the honour, &c. F. J. JACKSON. The Honourable Robert Smith, &c. &c.
PROPOSITIONS Offered by Mr. Jackson to Mr. Smith.
The President's Proclamation of July, 1807, prohibiting to British ships of war the entrance into the harbours of the United States having been annulled, his Majesty is willing to restore the seamen taken out of the Chesapeake on reserving to himself a right to claim, in a regular way, by application to the American government, the discharge of such of them (if any) as shall be proved to be either natural born subjects of his Majesty, or deserters from his Majesty's service.
His Majesty is willing to make a provision for the families of such men as were slain on board the Chesapeake, in consequence of the unauthorized attack upon that frigate, provided that such bounty shall not be extended to the family of any man who shall have been either a natural born subject of his Majesty, or a deserter from his Majesty's service.
Mr. SMITH TO MR. JACKSON. Department of State, November 1, 1809.
Sir—Your letter of the 23d ult. which was duly received, would have been sooner acknowledged, had I not by sickness been rendered for several days utterly unfit for business.
Although the delay and the apparent reluctance in specifying the grounds of the disavowal of the arrangement with respect to the Orders in Council, do not correspond with the course of proceeding deemed most becoming the occasion; yet as the explanation has at length been thus made, it only remains, as to that part of the disavowed arrangement, to regret that such considerations should have been allowed to outweigh the solid objections to the disavowal; it being understood at the same time that his Britannick Majesty perseveres in requiring as indispensable conditions on the part of the United States, an entire relinquishment of the right to trade with enemies' colonies, and also permission to the British navy to aid in executing a law of Congress; pretensions, which cannot but render abortive all proposals whatever upon this subject, whether made by the United States or by his Britannick Majesty.
Whilst you have deemed it proper to offer an explanation with respect to the disavowal of one part of the arrangement, I must remind you that there is not to be found in your letter any like specification of the reasons for the disavowal, nor particularly is, it shown that instructions were violated, as to the other part, viz. the case of the Chesapeake; the case in which in an especial manner an explanation was required, and in which only you professed to have authority to make to this government any overtures.
For the first time it is now disclosed that the subjects, arranged with this government by your predecessor, are held not to be within the authority of a Minister Plenipotentiary, and that, not having had a "full power" distinct from that authority, his transactions on those subjects might, of right, be disavowed by his government." This disclosure, so contrary to every antecedent supposition and just inference, gives a new aspect to this business. If the authority of your predecessor did not embrace the subject in question, so as to bind his government, it necessarily follows, that the only credentials yet presented by you being the same with those presented by him, give you no authority to bind it, and that the exhibition of a "full power" for that purpose, such as you doubtless are furnished with, is become an indispensable preliminary to further negotiation; or, to speak more strictly, was required in the first instance by the view of the matter now disclosed by you. Negotiation without this preliminary would not only be a departure from the principle of equality, which is the essential basis of it, but would moreover be a disregard of the pre-

cautions and of the self-respect enjoined on the attention of the United States by the circumstances which have hitherto taken place.
I need scarcely add, that in the full power alluded to, as a preliminary to a negotiation, is not intended to be included either the whole extent or any part of your instructions for the exercise of it. These, of course, as you have justly remarked, remain subject to your own discretion.
I abstain, Sir, from making any particular animadversions on several irrelevant and improper allusions in your letter; not at all comporting with the professed disposition to adjust in an amicable manner the differences unhappily subsisting between the two countries. But it would be improper to conclude the few observations to which I purposely limit myself without advertting to your repetition of a language implying a knowledge on the part of this Government that the instructions of your predecessor did not authorize the arrangement formed by him. After the explicit and peremptory asseveration that this government had no such knowledge, and that with such a knowledge no such arrangement would have been entered into, the view, which you have again presented of the subject, makes it my duty to apprise you, that such insinuations are inadmissible in the intercourse of a foreign Minister with a government that understands what it owes to itself.
I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) R. SMITH. The Hon. F. F. Jackson, Esq. &c.
Mr. Jackson to Mr. Smith. Washington, 4th November, 1809.
Sir—When I forwarded to my court your letter of the 19th ultimo, and the answer which I returned to it, I imagined, and I may add, I hoped, that the retrospective correspondence into which you thought it necessary to enter with me had been closed. You will, no doubt recollect with what reluctance I acquiesced in your intimation on this head; not, as I believe has been seen, from any difficulty in maintaining the justice of the cause which is entrusted to me, but because I was, and still am of opinion, that this sort of correspondence is not calculated to remove differences and soothe irritations of the most unfortunate tendency. As, however, I had no choice but to renounce, for the present, the hope of effectuating this desirable object, or to pursue it in the manner prescribed in your letter of the 9th ultimo, so I am now unwillingly compelled to enter upon the consideration of another letter from you under date of the 1st instant, which but too strongly confirms the opinion I before entertained.
Since, Sir, it has been judged expedient to confine a written form this important and interesting discussion; since that mode has been declared by you to be indispensable, I will first appeal to the written communications which have passed between us; and I do this with the greater satisfaction, because I consider it to be the chief cause of the present remarkable state of things, that in speaking of engagements contracted or supposed to have been contracted between the two countries, understanding or implied engagements have been allowed to take place of written compacts, and have been considered, in some instances, as having the same validity. It is furthermore necessary to place in the most unequivocal light a topic, which I observe to be constantly and prominently repeated in your letters, notwithstanding the repeated, but, as it should seem, fruitless endeavours used in mine, to clear it from the slightest shadow of obscurity.
You say "that it is understood that his Britannic Majesty perseveres in requiring as indispensable conditions on the part of the United States, an entire relinquishment of the right to trade with the enemies' colonies, and also a permission to the British navy to aid in executing a law of Congress."
This same statement is contained in your letter of the 9th instant, and represented as the substance of what had fallen from me in our previous conference. In my answer to that letter I took the liberty of showing that such a supposition was erroneous, and I have looked in vain to my letter of the 23d, to find in it any suggestion of a similar tenor. I believe, therefore, that by reference to my two letters you will find, that the statement now again brought forward is contained in neither of them, that it made no part of my previous conversations with you, and that I have in no way given room to suppose, that I ever made any such statement at all.
That before the Orders in Council can be revoked, their object must be obtained in some other way, is unquestionably true; but you may be assured, Sir, that there is no wish whatever entertained in England, that the British navy should be employing in executing a law of Congress. If the proposal that was made upon that subject, and made, as you now know, because it was believed to be acceptable here, had been adopted, and had become a matter of compact between two countries, and thereby a part, not of the law of Congress, but of the publick law binding upon both parties, and which both would have had a common interest in seeing duly executed; in that case the agency of the British navy would not have had the invidious aspect, which is now attempted to be given to it. At present there is no engagement between the two countries, no laws of Congress which bear a reference to any such engagement, and consequently it cannot be wished to take any share whatever in the execution of those laws.
In regard to the colonial trade I need only observe, that all or nearly all the enemies' colonies are blockaded by British squadrons, it cannot therefore be so much an object of solicitude as you imagine, to obtain the relinquishment of the trade of any country to those colonies. On the contrary you will find it stated in my letter of the 11th ultimo, to be a "matter of indifference whether the Order in Council" (on this subject) "be continued, or an arrangement by mutual consent substituted in its room."
When I informed you that the agreement concluded here in April last, had been framed in deviation from the instructions given for the occasion, my explanation was intended to apply to both parts of that agreement. That nothing, required by the most scrupulous accuracy, may be wanting, I now add, that the deviation consisted in not recording in the official document signed here, the abrogation of the President's Proclamation of the 2d of July, 1807, as well as the two reserves specified in the paper of Memoranda enclosed in my official letter to you of the 27th ultimo. There is another motive for the disavowal of this part of the arrangement, considered to be so strong and so self-evident upon the very face of the transaction, that I am not commanded to do more than indicate it in the manner I have already done. By this forbearance his Majesty conceives that he is giving an additional pledge of his sincere disposition to maintain a good understanding with the United States.
I am somewhat at a loss to give a distinct reply to that part of your letter which relates to Mr. Erskine's authority to conclude with you in virtue of his general letter of credence, be-
cause I do not very distinctly understand the tendency of it. I never before heard it doubted that a full power was requisite to enable a minister to conclude a treaty, or that a mere general letter of credence was insufficient for that purpose.
If it were otherwise, and a government were in all cases to be bound by the act, however unauthorized, of an accredited Minister, there would be no safety in the appointment of such a Minister, and ratifications would be useless. No full power was given in the present case, because it was not a treaty, but the materials for forming a treaty, that was in contemplation.
In his despatch of the 23d of January, Mr. Secretary Canning distinctly says to Mr. Erskine—"Upon receiving through you on the part of the American government a distinct and official recognition of the three above-mentioned conditions, his Majesty will lose no time in sending to America a minister "fully empowered to consign them to a formal "and regular treaty."
This Minister would, of course, have been provided with a full power; but Mr. Erskine was to be guided by his instructions, and had the agreement concluded here been conformable to them it would without doubt have been ratified by his Majesty. I must beg your very particular attention to the circumstance that his Majesty's ratification has been withheld, not because the agreement was concluded without a full power, but because it was altogether irreconcilable to the instructions on which it was professedly founded. The question of the full power was introduced by yourself to give weight, by a quotation from a highly respected authority, to your complaint of the disavowal, in answer to which I observed that the quotation did not apply, as Mr. Erskine had not full power. Never did I imagine, or any where attempt, to rest the right of disavowal upon that circumstance—indubitably his agreement would, nevertheless, have been ratified, had not the instructions, which in this case took the place of full power, been violated.
I am surprised at the transition by which it appears to you that this part of the subject is connected with the authority empowering me to negotiate with you. It will not, I dare say, have escaped your recollection that I informed you at a very early period of our communications, that in addition to the usual credential letter, his Majesty had been pleased to invest me with a full power under the great seal of his kingdom, for the express purpose of concluding a treaty or convention. I well remember your testifying your satisfaction at the circumstance; and I have only now to add that I am ready, whenever it suits your convenience, to exchange my full power against that with which you shall be provided, for the progress of our negotiation.
I am concerned, Sir, to be obliged a second time to appeal to those principles of publick law under the sanction and protection of which I was sent to this country. Where there is no freedom of communication in the form substituted for the more usual one of verbal discussion, there can be little useful intercourse between Ministers; and one, at least of the epithets which you have thought proper to apply to my last letter is such as necessarily abridges that freedom. That any thing therein contained may be irrelevant to the subject, it is of course competent in you to endeavour to shew and as far as you succeed in so doing, in so far will my arguments lose of its validity—but as to the propriety of my allusions, you must allow me to acknowledge only the decision of my own Sovereign, whose commands I obey, and to whom alone I can consider myself responsible. Beyond this it suffices that I do not deviate from the respect due to the government to which I am accredited.
You will find that in my correspondence with you, I have carefully avoided drawing conclusions that did not necessarily follow from the premises advanced by me, and least of all should I think of uttering an insinuation, where I was unable to substantiate a fact. To facts, such as I have become acquainted with them, I have scrupulously adhered, and in so doing I must continue, whenever the good faith of his Majesty's government is called in question, to vindicate its honour and dignity in the manner that appears to me best calculated for that purpose.
I have the honour to be, with great respect, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant, F. J. JACKSON. The Hon. R. Smith, Esq. &c. &c. [DOCUMENTS TO BE CONTINUED.]
Congress. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1.
MR. MACON offered the following resolutions, which were adopted, and ordered to be printed:
Resolved , That the committee of commerce and manufactures be instructed to inquire into the expediency of prohibiting the entry of any vessel into the United States, from any port or place to which a vessel of the United States is not admitted by permanent regulation of the government owning such port or place, or by treaty.
Resolved , That the committee of commerce and manufactures be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the registering anew of vessels built in the United States, which are owned in whole by citizens of the United States, any disability incurred by such vessel to the contrary notwithstanding; and also into the expediency of forbidding by law, sea-letters or any custom-house documents being granted to vessels not registered or licensed according to law, or not owned by citizens of the United States within a limited time after the passing of such law.
Mr. Dana submitted the following resolution, prefacing it by a few remarks, which was referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures:
Resolved , That for the benefit of seamen of the United States it is proper to make provision that registered ships or vessels, after a time to be limited by law, shall not continue to enjoy the benefits and privileges appertaining to ships or vessels of the United States, unless a certain portion of mariners on board the same shall be citizens of the United States.
On motion of Mr. Eppes, the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the state of the Union. Mr. Macon in the chair.
Mr. Eppes then moved the following resolutions which were adopted:
Resolved , That so much of the Message of the President of the United States, as respects the relations of the United States with foreign nations be referred to a select committee.
Resolved , That so much of the Message of the President of the United States, as relates to the revision of penalties involuntarily incurred by infractions of the law respecting commerce between the United States and Great-Britain and France, and their dependencies, be referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures.
Resolved , That so much of the Message of the President of the United States, as relates to the abuse of the flag of the United States, by collusive prostitution, be referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures.
Resolved , That so much of the Message of the President of the United States, as relates to the naval establishment of the United States be referred to a select committee.
Resolved , That so much of the Message of the President of the United States, as relates to the military establishment of the United States, be referred to a select committee.
Resolved , That so much of the Message of the President of the United States, as relates to the organization of the militia of the United States, be referred to a select committee.
Resolved , That so much of the Message of the President of the United States, as relates to the finances of the United States, be referred to the committee of ways and means.
Resolved , That so much of the Message of the President of the United States, as relates to the fortification of ports and harbours of the United States, be referred to a select committee.
Providence, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1809.
Our next paper will conclude the correspondence laid before Congress between Messrs. Smith and Jackson. We cannot hear what effect has been produced by this disclosure amongst the democratick members. Now it is hoped the President will, by communicating the French documents whole and entire, atone for the deficiency of the intelligence on that subject, promulgated in his message. We earnestly hope that he is not so entirely a proselyte to Mr. Jefferson's politics, as to give us garbled extracts and mutilated paragraphs. It is honest policy to let the people know all the embarrassments they labour under. The Constitution declares, that "he, the President, shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the nation." Now if the President should, in imitation of Jefferson, communicate information on one side only, or what is the same thing, by detailing all our grievances at full length with one belligerent, and none with the other, but partial scraps and extracts, we do aver that not only the spirit, but the express letter of the Constitution has been violated. Congress might from such mis -information be impelled to declare war against one belligerent, whose demands, however outrageous, were exceeded in enormity by the other.
The importance of the Documents has excluded many articles; and it is hoped all our Patrons will give them a perusal, and re-perusal, and they will be competent to form a correct opinion on the subject which now agitates the nation.
By the annexed extract it will be seen that President Jefferson is equally respected on the other side of the Atlantick, as on this.
Extract of a Letter from a gentleman in Palermo, dated August 30, 1809.
"In regretting the event of Mr. Erskine's conference and engagements, one great source of pain is the exultation which Mr. Jefferson will feel on the result. I was enchanted to hear him spoken of by the Russian Minister at the Court of Sardinia—a Prince, a favourite of the Emperor, an admirer of the French, and of course we should suppose, if biased at all, it would be in favour of our Ex-Bashaw. In conversing upon his conduct, his proclamations, and general character, he remarked, that it reminded him of the Revelations to the Church of Laodiceans, which is, "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot; so then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth." I should admire to gall Mr. Jefferson with the knowledge that the representative of Alexander, who doubtless spoke the sentiments of his master, and probably of the great idol Bonaparte, had delivered himself concerning him in such terms."
From the Boston Gazette of Yesterday.
A few minutes after our paper was put to press, the southern mail arrived, bringing accounts from Washington, to Monday last. They state, that on that day, Colonel Troup laid on the table, certain resolutions whose object was,
"1st. To authorize the capture of all vessels belonging to France or England, who should be found trading to any ports, other than those of their own colonies." "2d. To authorize the detention of all British vessels, for the purpose of securing such augmented duties as may be judged proper to levy on their cargoes; and until they receive due license to depart."
"3d. To authorize the detention of all French ships, with their cargoes, until the further decision or order of the government in relation to the same."
"4th. That an augmented duty be levied on all British manufactured goods."
"5th. That the President be authorized to grant licenses for the departure of British vessels, on their paying the duties authorized to be levied and collected on the goods laden on board such vessels."
"Mr. Nicholson offered a resolution for a general system of Banking through the United States."
"Mr. Fisk moved that a third census of the United States be taken."
A Baltimore article states—"that the committee of the Senate who were to act on Mr. Giles's resolution, had framed a bill authorizing the President of the United States to order any diplomatick character out of the country who should dare to insult this government." This is said to squint at the French Minister.
The Vice-President of the United States has arrived at Washington.
Mr. J. Randolph is detained from Congress by ill health.
Mr. Payton Smith, son of Gen. John Smith of Virginia, has been killed in a duel with Mr. Joseph Holmes of the same state.
Mr. J. G. Jackson, Member of Congress, has been dangerously wounded in the thigh, in a duel with Mr. Pierson of North-Carolina, also Member of Congress.
A letter from Philadelphia, states, that "Bonaparte had blockaded, by Proclamation, all the ports of Europe, left open by the British Orders in Council." This was threatened in Champagne's last letter to General Armstrong.
At a Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Rhode-Island, on Thursday last, WILLIAM MARCHANT, Esq. was unanimously elected Cashier, in the place of Moses Seixas, Esq. deceased. Newport Mercury.
Married,
At Warren, on the 10th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Baker, JOHN T. CHILD, Esq. President of the Warren Bank, to Mrs. ELIZABETH CROADE, both of Warren.
At Swanzy, on Sunday evening last, by the Reverend William Barton, Mr. HENRY W. CHILD, to Miss BETSEY BOWEN, both of Warren.
Died,
In this town, on Sunday evening last, Miss SALLY CLIFFORD, in the 27th year of her age. She supported herself with fortitude under an illness unusually long and painful, expressing the most ardent wishes for a reconciliation with her Saviour, and closed a life of industrious and meritorious exertion with perfect resignation to the will of God, and full faith and hope in his mercy. Her funeral will be solemnized on Thursday next, at two o'clock, when the friends of the family are requested to attend.
Yesterday morning closed her mortal race, after a distressing illness, which was sustained with patience and resignation, Mrs. MARY BRADFORD, the affectionate wife of Mr. William Bradford, in the 35th year of her age. While the bereaved partner and children mourn the irreparable loss, they have the consolation to reflect on a life endeared by all the ties of affection, exemplified in the wife, the mother and the friend. Her funeral will be solemnized on Thursday next, at 2 o'clock, P. M. from her late dwelling, where her relations and friends are requested to attend without further notice.
At Warren, on Tuesday morning last, Mr. AARON HALL.
At Franklin, (Mass.) Mr. JAMES LETHBRIDGE, aged 48 years.
American Marine List. PORT OF PROVIDENCE. DECEMBER 12, 1809.
ENTERED.
Sloop—Little Sarah, Eldredge, Alexandria.
CLEARED.
Sloops—Rolla, Earle, Charleston; Lydia, Potter, Norfolk; Eliza, Currie, New-York; Minerva, James, Newport.
New-Orleans, November 9.
Arrived, the French schooner of war La Franchise, Lieutenant Chivalier, captured by the United States' gun vessel, No. 65, Lieutenant Commandant Dexter, for a breach of the third section of the non-intercourse law, passed March 1st, 1809. La Franchise is said to have a cargo of indigo and specie, taken from on board two Spanish schooners.
Coffee-House Books.
[La Franchise came into this port some time since, in distress, and after refitting, proceeded to sea, shortly after the sailing of a Spanish vessel, richly laden, with specie, indigo, &c. When she left port, Commodore Porter ordered Captain Dexter, to watch her out of the waters of the United States, under an apprehension we presume, that she might attempt to violate our neutrality.]
GLASS WARE at AUCTION.
THE sale of Glass Ware, advertised by B. HOPPIN and SON, to have taken place at their Auction-Room on the 1st instant, stands adjourned to SATURDAY next, the 16th instant; at which time 30 Hds. of retailing MOLASSES and several other articles will also be offered for sale.
B. HOPPIN, Auctioneer. December 12, 1809.
NEW FLOUR.
JUST received per the Little Sarah, from Alexandria, and for sale by SAMUEL BUTLER, jun. 600 Barrels of superfine and fine FLOUR.
FOR ALEXANDRIA.
THE Sloop LITTLE SARAH, HENRY ELDREDGE, Master, to sail with all convenient speed. For Freight or Passage, apply to the Master, or to SAMUEL BUTLER, jun.
Said BUTLER wants to purchase, CIDER, CHEESE and POTATOES. December 12, 1809.
Flour, Corn and Tobacco.
Now landing from on board the brig Mary Ann, and for sale by
C. S. Jones or B. T. Chandler, Opposite the Providence Bank.
FIFTEEN Hds. of VIRGINIA TOBACCO, 300 Barrels of FLOUR, 1000 Bushels of CORN, and 70 Barrels of sifted MEAL. December 12, 1809.
PECKHAM & BARKER
HAVE just received a large supply of HARDWARE GOODS, which makes their assortment equal to any in the country. Those in want of Goods in their line, will do well to call and see for themselves, as it would exceed the reasonable limits of an advertisement to particularize their articles.
N. B. Those indebted to them, by Note or Book Account, are seriously called upon for payment. December 12, 1809.
FOR CHARLESTON, (S. C.) (By the way of NEW-YORK.)
THE well-known and remarkably fast-sailing Sloop NEW-YORK, H. Williams, Master, will sail by the 20th instant, having superior accommodations for Passengers. For Freight or Passage, apply on board, at GODFREY'S Wharf, or to WILLIAMS and BULLARD.
Those who wish to send Freight, will please to send it on board the first fair weather, as the season is far advanced. December 12, 1809.
New Fancy Shoe Store,
Westminster-Street, a few doors west of the Exchange Bank, and directly opposite Mr. Whilman's new Brick Building.
THE subscribers beg leave to inform the inhabitants of this and the adjacent towns, that they are about opening a complete assortment of Ladies' Misses' and Childrens' SHOES of almost every description, some very elegant Walking Shoes; all warranted of the first quality, and positively as cheap by the dozen or single pair as can be purchased in the State of Rhode-Island, or the Metropolis of Massachusetts.
LIKEWISE, a few gentlemen's Morocco Pumps, very nice.
One of the partners superintending the Manufacturing of all their retailing Shoes, the publick are assured that the greatest care is taken in procuring the best materials and in selecting the neatest and most faithful workmen. As their Store is on a street which has a very pleasant sidewalk, the Ladies are respectfully invited to call and examine the Quality and Prices of their Shoes—every attention will be paid to those who may thus honour them.
Gentlemen, either in town or country, who are in the practice of retailing Shoes, are requested to call and learn our prices by the dozen—they will find it much to their advantage.—2, 3 or 500 pairs furnished for the southern market at short notice. EMERSON and NELSON. December 12, 1809.
PROPOSALS by KIMBER & CONRAD,
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THE Creditors of HARRIS ATWOOD, of Johnston, in the County of Providence, Labourer, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an Act of the General Assembly, passed in June, 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said ATWOOD.
N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. November 24, 1809.

WANTED, BY EBENEZER JOHNSON, ONE or two JOURNEYMEN TIN-PLATE WORKERS, who are good workmen—to whom good wages will be given. In addition to his usual assortment of Tin Ware, he makes Mule and other Cylinders, Roping and Drawing Cans, Lanters, and every other kind of Tin Ware used in the Cotton Spinning Mills. December 8, 1809.
REEDMAKERS ATTEND! NATHAN TRUMAN, Near the Baptist Meeting-House, has just received, and for sale, A FEW thousand CANE-POLES, or REEDS, which will be sold reasonably, if applied for soon. ALSO, Forty Southern HIDES, and a quantity of UPLAND COTTON. December 8, 1809.
REMOVAL. THE subscriber tenders his grateful acknowledgements to the publick for their many favours to him while resident in Sturbridge, and would inform them, that he has removed to Providence, and taken the Inn lately occupied by Mr. John Snow, three doors west of the Great Bridge, where he solicits a continuance of their favours, with the assurance that every attention shall be paid to render his friends comfortable and happy. AZOR BROWN.
N. B. Good and spacious accommodation for STABLING. December 8, 1809.
INDIGO. JUST RECEIVED BY BOWEN & EDDY, Opposite the Market, 500 lbs. Indigo of superior quality. ALSO, 100 lbs. Oil Vitriol, 100 lbs. Nutmegs, 100 " blue do. 300 " Cassia, 2000 " Copperas, 1000 " Pimento, 2000 " Allum, 50 " Cloves, 6 Tons Logwood, 100 Kgs Ginger, 1 do. Nicaragua, Roll Brimstone, wool, &c. &c. December 5, 1809. 6t.
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UPLAND COTTON AND HIDES. THIRTY-FIVE Bales of Upland COTTON, 212 Southern HIDES, received per schooner Rambler. ALSO, 100 Barrels Menhaden FISH, 500 Bushels coarse SALT, for sale by ELISHA DYER. December 5, 1809.
CODFISH. FOR SALE, from one to five hundred Quintals of STREIGHTS FISH, of a very good quality. ALSO, The Sloop EAGLE, burthen about 60 tons, a staunch well built vessel, and a fast sailer. Any person wishing to purchase either, may know the terms by applying to WANTON CASEY. East-Greenwich, December 4, 1809.
CHEESE. THE subscriber respectfully acquaints his friends and customers, that he has on hand, at his Store back of the Market, a quantity of Tyler's celebrated CHEESE, warranted equal to any made in America. Those who are in want of Cheese for the use of their families, are solicited to call and examine for themselves. He has also, constantly for sale, Rum, Brandy, Gin and Molasses, per Barrel or less quantity; Loaf and brown Sugars per cwt. or less; Coffee, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Souchong and Bohea Teas of the first quality; Salt, superfine Flour, Cotton, Rice, Pepper, Ginger, Allspice, fresh Raisins—with many other articles; all of which he will sell on the most reasonable terms for cash or country produce. ALSO, A few Barrels of Mess and Prime Pork. The above articles may be recommended to be of a genuine quality, and any article proving inferior to the recommendation, will be cheerfully received and the money returned. The subscriber would also further inform those who are indebted to him, that it would be a cause of very agreeable sensations if they would call and settle their accounts. LUTHER AINSWORTH. December 5, 1809.
REMOVAL. SAMUEL AMES RESPECTFULLY informs the publick, that he has removed from his old stand, to his new Brick Store, No. 1, Weybosset-Street, directly opposite the Turk's Head; where he is opening an extensive assortment of EUROPEAN, INDIA and HOME MANUFACTURED GOODS, at wholesale and retail, at prices not to be undersold. November 24, 1809.
ONE Hundred Barrels of superior FLOUR, for sale by BENJAMIN T. CHANDLER, cheap for cash, this day. December 8, 1809.
REPLENISHMENT. CHARLES POTTER, No. 3, Market-Square, RESPECTFULLY informs his customers, that he has lately received an additional supply of FALL and WINTER GOODS, of the latest importations into Boston, among which are a good proportion of scarce articles, all of which were bought for cash, and are offered for sale at reduced prices, for ready pay. He assures his customers that his prices are very low, that no person can, either at wholesale or retail, under sell him. Also, received as above, Several additional supplies of CARPETING, among which are a few thousand yards of best Kidminster Carpeting, at 6s. per yard, and a quantity of Scotch Carpeting at 4s. 9d. with a variety of rich Scotch and Venetian Stair Carpeting, at reduced prices. Also for sale, as above, A quantity of Coffee in Bags, Ditto Whale-Oil in Hds. Ditto Glass-Ware in ditto. November 28, 1809. tf.
RUM AND SUGAR. BLODGET & POWER Offer, now landing from the Alonzo, 10 Hds. of Loaf SUGAR, 13 do. sweet favoured St. Croix RUM, on accommodating terms. November 28, 1809. 6t.
WILL be sold at Publick Vendue, on WEDNESDAY the 13th day of December next, at one o'clock P. M. if fair, if not, the next fair day, at the late dwelling of Christopher Brown, of Smithfield, deceased, the Stock, Farming, Utensils and Household Furniture, belonging to the Estate of said Christopher, consisting of a Horse, Cows, Hogs, a Horse-Waggon, Beds and Bedding, Tables, Chairs, Looking-Glasses, &c. &c. SAMUEL ARNOLD, Attorney for ELIZABETH BROWN, Executrix of said Estate. November 28, 1809. 5t.
Pilot-Bread and Crackers. BENJAMIN ROBINSON HAS on hand, for sale, at the Bakery House on the Wharf, opposite the Baptist Meeting-House, a quantity of PILOT-BREAD and CRACKERS on reasonable terms, or in Exchange for West-India produce. November 21, 1809. tf.
THE Copartnership between BROWNELL and ARMINGTON is this day dissolved by mutual consent. THOMAS BROWNELL, GEORGE ARMINGTON. November 28, 1809.
PETER GRINNELL & SON Offer for sale, at their Store, formerly occupied by GRINNELL & TAYLOR, near the Providence Bank, A LARGE assortment of Paints, whole-sale and retail, dry or ground in Oil. Also, Window-Glass of every size, Linseed and Lamp-Oil, Varnishes, Spirits of Turpentine, an assortment of Ship-Chandlery, Looking-Glasses, with Mahogany and burnished gilt frames in the newest fashion, of their own manufacture; with every other article generally called for in a Paint Store, as cheap as can be purchased in this State. They execute House, Ship, Sign and Ornamental Painting, Oil and Burnish Gilding, Polish and Re-silver old Looking-Glasses, &c. &c. November 10, 1809. tf.
REMOVAL. THOMAS RHODES Has removed to the Store lately occupied by Mr. Jacob Soesman, in Weybosset-Street, one door west of Messrs. Taft and Waterman's Store—where he has for sale A FEW Hds. of sweet favoured St. Croix Rum, 2 Pipes of American Gin, of an excellent quality; 2 Pipes of Spanish Brandy, A few Bgs and Barrels of Coffee, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Souchong and Bohea Teas per Chest, very fresh; Havana white and brown Sugars per Box, First and second quality Loaf Sugar per cwt. A few hundred Bushels first quality Turks-Island Salt, 200 Bushels of coarse Lisbon do. A few Kegs of excellent Butter for family's use, A few Kegs of shipping Butter, 1000 Wt. of Cheese, 30 or 40 Boxes of mould and dipped Candles, 50 Quintals of large Codfish, suitable for retailing; 3 to 4000 Bunches of Onions, in excellent order for shipping; Mess and Prime Beef in whole and half Barrels, A few Barrels of Prime Pork, Empty Rum and Provision Barrels, 20 M. White Oak Barrel Staves—together with his usual assortment of Groceries at retail. November 17, 1809. tf.
BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE STAGE-OFFICE. THE publick are hereby informed, that the Stage-Boats for Boston, are kept at EBENEZER FOSTER'S Inn, near the Market; where Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to call and take their seats. Extra Carriages at the shortest notice. JOHN NEDHAM and CO. July 14, 1809. tf.
CHARLES F. BLODGET & SAMUEL C. BLODGET HAVE formed a Commercial Connexion at Charleston, (S. C.) for the purpose of transacting, solely, COMMISSION BUSINESS, under the firm of Charles F. & Samuel C. Blodget, and respectfully solicit the aid of their friends, and the publick. They are enabled to grant the usual facilities, and pledge themselves to devote their unremitted and prompt attention to the concerns of those who patronize their establishment. For more particular information, apply to BLODGET & POWER, Providence. Charleston, October 25, 1809. 12t.
FARMS FOR SALE. The subscriber offers for sale the following Farms in the State of Connecticut: ONE in the north Society in Coventry, on the road leading from Hebron to Tolland, containing about 110 acres of excellent Land, about two miles from the Meeting-House, half a mile from a School, and 100 rods from a good Grist-Mill and Saw-Mill. The Farm lies on Skungamug River, has about 25 acres of interval, the remainder upland, and consists of mowing, ploughing, pasturing, wood and timber land; will cut from 35 to 40 tons of hay annually, is well watered by the above river, and a number of living springs. There are on the premises a very neat, convenient Dwelling-House, Barn and Out-Houses entirely new, and nearly finished; a Well of Water which never fails, within ten feet of the door; a thrifty young Orchard just beginning to bear, and an old one somewhat decayed. Two in the first society in Hartland, pleasantly situated about one mile south of the Meeting-House, and within 20 miles of Hartford; one contains about 240 acres, with a large, good one story House, with two chimneys, well finished, and convenient for two families; three Barns, Out-Houses, &c. all in good repair; has about 40 acres of mowing, 150 of ploughing and pasturing and 50 of wood; has good Orchard, is well watered and well fenced. The other Farm contains about 60 acres, with a small one story Farm-House, Barn and Orchard; well proportioned into mowing, pasturing, ploughing and woodland; well watered and under good improvement. Possession given immediately. Three Farms pleasantly situated in the north part of Granville, they adjoin each other, and contain about 330 acres, and are extremely well calculated for the settlement and neighbourhood of a family connexion. One contains about 125 acres, with a two story House and Barn, and three flourishing young Orchards; will cut annually from 25 to 30 tons of good hay. One of 115 acres, with a one story House, Barn and young Orchard, will cut from 25 to 30 tons of hay; and one of about 90 acres, with a one story House, Barn, and a young Orchard; will cut from 8 to 12 tons of hay. These Farms are well watered, well fenced, and suitably proportioned into mowing, pasturing, ploughing and woodland; and will be sold separately or together, and possession may be had immediately. Also one in Blanford, of fifty acres, with a House and Barn; well watered, under good improvement, and well proportioned into mowing, pasturing, ploughing and woodland. The above Farms will be sold on reasonable terms, and long credit given for a considerable part of the purchase, on the payment of annual interest. The subscriber also offers for sale, an eligible and convenient stand for a Tavern and Store, in the town of Vernon, on the Hartford and Tolland Turnpike Road; twelve miles from Hartford, and about the same distance from Stafford Springs; lately occupied as a Tavern and Store by Mr. Lebbeus P. Tinker, and now occupied by Mr. James Chapman; consisting of a neat, spacious well finished House and Store, two Barns, one entirely new and large, having sufficient stabling, and every necessary accommodation for a Tavern; about three acres of Land, including a Garden with considerable fruit, and an Orchard that will produce from 20 to 30 barrels of cider annually. Also, ten acres of Woodland, within one mile of the above stand. Also, one hundred thousand acres of Land, in New-Connecticut; part of which lies in the flourishing towns of Hartford, Vienna, Nelson, and Rootstown; settled from thirty to sixty families in each town. These towns are well watered, and well accommodated with roads, Grist-Mills and Saw-Mills; the land is of a good quality, the water is good, and the country remarkably healthy; and part is situated in three entire towns of about 15,000 acres each, and in several tracts of land from one thousand to four thousand acres, not surveyed into lots, and which the subscriber will sell either by the whole township or tract, or by any less quantity, as may best suit purchasers. It will be noticed, that the price of land, in the unsettled towns and tracts, will be considerably less than those towns which are settling, and will not only give to an individual or company who may purchase, the advantage of a first choice, but also will secure to them, the rise in the value of the lands. A good title, and the most liberal terms given to purchasers. EPHRAIM ROOT For further particulars, apply to JOSEPH ROGERS, Esq. at Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford, (Con.) October 8, 1809. 6m.
TAKE NOTICE. WILLIAM PEARCE Respectfully informs his friends, and the publick in general, THAT he continues keeping a Tavern at his house in the village of Wickford, town of North-Kingstown, next door to Philip Tillinghast, Esq. where the greatest attention will be paid to those who may please to favour him with their company, and may depend on having the smallest favour gratefully acknowledged. The house may be well known by its end fronting the street, and the sign of a bunch of grapes. Wickford, (R. I.) February 22, 1809. 1y.
MOULTON and JACOBS HAVING extended a Branch of their Business to this Town, respectfully inform their Friends, and those whose patronage they have (individually) so bountifully experienced heretofore, that they have taken the Brick Store, lately occupied by Mr. Samuel Ames, on the west side of the Bridge; where they are opening an extensive assortment of DRY GOODS—the principal part of which were purchased in New-York at Auction, very cheap, (for the prices) They request those who are in want of Goods to call and see for themselves. Having a Store in New-York, their advantages are great; and they flatter themselves that with these advantages they will be able to supply a Store here so cheap as to attract the attention of purchasers. Any Lady or Gentleman wishing for articles that are not to be found in this market, are informed, that if they will leave their orders at their Store, in Providence, they will be sent on to Mr. MOULTON, in New-York, and the strictest attention observed in the execution and expedition of them, free of expence. November 24, 1809.
FRESH FLOUR. NOW landing from on board the brig George Washington, and for sale by SALMON ARNOLD, on the Long Wharf, a quantity of FRESH FLOUR. November 3, 1809.
NEW GOODS. PETER BROWNELL, No. 9, CHEAPSIDE, HAS just received a large assortment of Goods, suitable for the present and approaching seasons, consisting of the following articles, viz.—Bottle-green, black, blue, smoke and mixed Broadcloths; red, green, yellow and white Flannels; Coatings, Plains, drab, bottle-green, black, brown and mixed Cassimeres; black, scarlet, snuff and slate Bombazets; Wild-scores, Duroys and Ratinets, black, snuff and slate Tabby Velvets, common do. silver Cords, 75 pieces of Calicoes of different prices and figures, pink, buff and blue Ginghams; white, black and coloured 4 and 6-qr. Cambricks; Furniture, Cambricks and common Dimities, English Shirting Cottons, Cotton and Worsted Hosiery, India Cottons of all kinds, India and homemade Checks, Jacomet and Mull Cambricks, figured and plain Lenos, spencer, laced, seeded, veined and Book Muslins; white and black Laces, black and white Footing Lace, 4, 5 and 6-qr. Cotton Shawls; Pulicat, Madras and Canton Checks; Silk Hankerchiefs, Cotton and Silk Handkerchiefs, white and printed Pocket-Handkerchiefs, Copperplates and Chintzes, No. 3, 31-2, 4, 41-2, and 5 Pack Pins; White Chapel Needles, 3, 6, 7 and 8-qr. Cotton Damask Diaper; Diaper Napkins, black, green, pink and white Sarcnets; black Crape, black Satins and Lustings, Ladies' short Kid and long and short Silk Gloves, Coat and Vest Buttons, Leather and Cotton Suspenders, Marking Canvass, black and white Bonnet Paper, Ribbons, Shoe and Quality Bindings, Tapes and Bobbins, 26 and 28 inch Umbrellas, Gentlemen's Beaver and common Gloves, Linen Cambricks, Brown Linens, Cotton Thread in balls and hanks, of all colours and kinds, Cotton Yarn and Cotton Bedticks, with almost every other article usually kept in a Dry Goods Store, at wholesale or retail, on such terms as will not fail to suit every person who is in want of Goods. Town and country customers are requested to call and see for themselves.—Every favour will be thankfully received. October 10, 1809. tf.
PAYTON DANA, At the Sign of the Turk's Head, East Front of Whitman's Buildings. LOCKS, Willard's patent Time-Pieces, gold and silver warranted and common Watches, gold Watch Chains, Seals and Keys, silver, gilt and steel do. silver Table, Tea and Salt Spoons; Sugar Tongs, Thimbles, gold Necklaces, Ear and Finger Rings, &c.
CUTLERY. Best Razors, Pen, Desk, Pocket and Pruning Knives, and Scissors, per dozen or single. Also, ladies' and gentlemen's Pocket-Books and Purses. JUST RECEIVED, Plated Teapots, Sugar Basons and Cream Pots, Castors, Candlesticks, Lamps, Spurs, &c. Britannia Teapots, some very elegant patterns; Sugar Basons and Cream Pots; a very handsome assortment of Japanned Ware, consisting of Tea Trays, Waiters, &c. of various colours, some rich centres and real gilt borders; with a variety of articles, useful and ornamental. LIKEWISE, A few patent Steel Pens, one elegant silver mounted Rifle Gun, and almost every article in the Military line. Watches carefully cleaned and repaired as usual. November 21, 1809. tf.
Fall and Winter GOODS. This day received, and now opened at TIFFANY and HODGES'S, No. 6, CHEAPSIDE. A LARGE and beautiful assortment of fresh imported FALL and WINTER GOODS, consisting of superfine black, blue, bottle-green, drab and mixed Broadcloths; black, blue drab, mixed and brown Cassimeres; black, bottle-green, brown, scarlet and lead Bombazets; Pelice Flannels, Serges, Plains, Sattinets, Ratinets, Wildbores, Durants, first quality Rose Blankets, at reduced prices, from 5 to 12-qr. black, blue, bottle-green, lead and crimson Tabby Velvets; black and olive willled do. elegant Toilet and Swansdown Vestings, Ratinets, Coatings, Swanskin, Flannels of all colours, Silk, Cotton and Worsted Hosiery; India Cottons, English Shirting do. black, white and coloured Cambricks; Ginghams, Calicoes, a beautiful assortment of Fancy Muslins; with a variety of other articles, which will be sold at very reduced prices. November 7, 1809. tf.
NOTICE. THE Creditors of JOHN RUSSELL, of North Providence, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said JOHN. N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. Providence, November 8, 1809.
TO LET. And immediate possession given, An excellent stand for Business, near the West End of the Bridge, consisting of a convenient Front Shop, and a large commodious Store on the Wharf back, accommodated with a well finished Counting-Room. ALSO, A very pleasant Country Seat, two miles from the Bridge, suitable for a genteel family, having necessary Out-Buildings, a spacious Garden, and some other Lands. The terms will be liberal. Apply to AVIS DONNISON. November 24, 1809.
THE State of Rhode-Island, &c. THE Creditors of REUBEN THORNTON of Johnston, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said REUBEN. N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. November 27, 1809.
THE State of Rhode-Island, &c. THE Creditors of GARDINER LAWRENCE, of Providence, Housewright, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said GARDINER. N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. Providence, November 27, 1809.
JOHN YOUNG, At the first corner Store south of the Market, HAS FOR SALE, A VERY general assortment of GENUINE GROCERIES, viz. Old Madeira, Teneriffe, Sherry, Lisbon, Port, Claret and other Wines of the first quality; old Cognac Brandy, superior old Jamaica Spirits, Geneva, Cherry Rum, best Cordials of various kinds, Bourdeaux and Martinique, in Bottles; Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Citron, Cinnamon, Allspice, Pepper, Ginger, Starch, fresh Turkey Figs, Prunes, Muscadel and Bloom Raisins, Sultana and Cask ditto, Currants, soft shelled Almonds, excellent Boile and Flask Oil, Table Salt in baskets, India Soy, Catsup, Loaf and other Sugars, Olives, Capers Nasturtions, Anchovies, preserved Sweetmeats and Fruits of different kinds in Brandy and other Syrups, Tamarinds, Spermaceti and Mould Tallow Candles, Windsor Soap, Bar ditto, Cayenne Pepper per lb. or bottle, Peppercorns in bottles best Brown Stout Porter and excellent bottled Cider—Gunpowder, Hyson and other Green and Souchong TEAS, of the last importations, warranted good; Coffee, No. 1 and No. 2 Ch. & etc. &c. A few handsome LIQUOR CASES, with white Glass Bottles, very convenient. CIGARS. A number of Boxes first quality Spanish Cigars of an excellent flavour, will smoke free, and are acknowledged by the best judges to be of a superior kind. Fresh Lemons, Oranges and Limes. Preparation for Punch, of an excellent quality, in bottles. N. B. Madeira, Port, Claret, Sherry and Lisbon Wine, of very superior quality, in bottles—recommended by Physicians to those who are sick, and by J. Y. to the well and healthy. Cash given for empty Bottles and good clean Mustard and Hemp-Seed. Past favours gratefully acknowledged. September 1, 1809. tf.
THE State of Rhode-Island, &c. THE Creditors of JOHN RUSSELL, of North Providence, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said JOHN. N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. Providence, November 8, 1809.
THE State of Rhode-Island, &c. THE Creditors of REUBEN THORNTON of Johnston, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said REUBEN. N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. November 27, 1809.
THE State of Rhode-Island, &c. THE Creditors of GARDINER LAWRENCE, of Providence, Housewright, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said GARDINER. N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. Providence, November 27, 1809.
THE State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. NOVEMBER 22d, 1809. THE Creditors of CHACE ROUND, of Providence, Mason, are hereby notified to appear, if they shall think fit, at the General Assembly to be held at Providence, on the last Monday of February next, then and there to show cause, if any they may have, why his Petition for the benefit of an Act, passed in June, 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," ought not to be granted. SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'yry.
THE Creditors of EBENEZER HANDY, of Burrillville, late resident in Portsmouth, in the County of Newport, Labourer, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate, Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said HANDY. N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. Providence, November 24, 1809.
TO LET. And immediate possession given, An excellent stand for Business, near the West End of the Bridge, consisting of a convenient Front Shop, and a large commodious Store on the Wharf back, accommodated with a well finished Counting-Room. ALSO, A very pleasant Country Seat, two miles from the Bridge, suitable for a genteel family, having necessary Out-Buildings, a spacious Garden, and some other Lands. The terms will be liberal. Apply to AVIS DONNISON. November 24, 1809.
THE State of Rhode-Island, &c. THE Creditors of JOHN RUSSELL, of North Providence, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said JOHN. N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. Providence, November 8, 1809.
THE State of Rhode-Island, &c. THE Creditors of REUBEN THORNTON of Johnston, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said REUBEN. N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. November 27, 1809.
THE State of Rhode-Island, &c. THE Creditors of GARDINER LAWRENCE, of Providence, Housewright, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said GARDINER. N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. Providence, November 27, 1809.
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS, BY DUNHAM and HAWKINS, At the sign of the AMERICAN EAGLE, Opposite the Market. $3.00 PER ANNUM—PAID IN ADVANCE.