The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1809-12-29 00:00:00

THE RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
"THE NATION WHICH INDULGES TOWARDS ANOTHER AN HABITUAL HATRED, OR AN HABITUAL FONDNESS, IS IN SOME DEGREE A SLAVE." — WASHINGTON.
VOLUME II.
PROVIDENCE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1809.
NUMBER 21.
J. B. WOOD'S GENERAL PRICE-CURRENT OF BANK NOTES,
AS THEY ARE RECEIVED AT HIS EXCHANGE-OFFICE, PROVIDENCE, (R. I.)
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Bills of the New-Hampshire, ditto payable in Philadelphia, Portsmouth, } 2 to 4 per cent. dis. Union, Strafford, and Exeter Banks, } Concord Banks, } 6 to 10 do. Cheshire, Coos, and Hillsborough Banks, } 50 to 60 do.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Bills of the United States Branch, Massachusetts, Union, and Boston Banks, } Par. Salem, Essex, Beverly, Marblehead, Newburyport, Gloucester (Cape-Ann,) Plymouth, Worcester, Bedford, Pacifick, and Nantucket } 1-2 per cent. dis. Banks, } Portland, Maine, and Saco Banks, } 2 do. Hallowell and Augusta, and Lincoln and Kennebec Banks, } 8 to 10 do. Penobscot and Northampton, } 30 do. Berkshire Bank, } no demand.
CONNECTICUT.
Bills of the Bridgeport, Middletown, Hartford, New-Haven, Norwich, } 1-2 per cent. dis. New-London, and Union Banks, }
VERMONT.
Bills of the Vermont State Banks, } 20 per cent. dis.
RHODE-ISLAND.
Bills of the Providence, Exchange, Roger Williams, Bank of Rhode-Island, Newport, Rhode-Island Union, Bank of Bristol, Commercial, } Par. Warren, Rhode-Island Central, and Narragansett Banks, } Smithfield Union Bank, } 2 to 3 per cent. dis. Washington Bank, } 3 to 4 do. Farmers' Exchange Bank, } dead!!!
KENTUCKY.
Bills of the Kentucky Insurance Company, } 20 per cent. dis.
NORTH-CAROLINA.
Bills of the Cape Fear, and Newbern Banks, } 12 1-2 per cent. dis.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, } Par. State, and South-Carolina Banks, } 5 to 6 per cent. dis.
OHIO.
Bills of the Marietta, and Miami Exporting Company Banks, } 20 to 30 per cent. dis.
NEW-YORK.
Bills of the United States Branch, Merchants, Manhattan Company, Bank of New-York, New-York State, Bank of Albany, Mohawk, Farmers', } 1-2 to 2 per cent. dis. Bank of Hudson, and Bank of Columbia, }
NEW-JERSEY.
Bills of the Jersey, Trenton Banking Company, Newark Banking and Insurance Company, and Bank of New-Brunswick, } 3-4 to 2 per cent. dis.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Bills of the United States, Farmers' and Mechanicks', Philadelphia, } 3-4 to 2 per cent. dis. Bank of Pennsylvania, and Bank of North-America, } Bills of the Pennsylvania Branch Bank at Pittsburg, } 10 per cent. dis.
DELAWARE.
Bills of the Farmers' Bank, and Bank of Delaware, } 2 to 6 per cent. dis.
MARYLAND.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, } Par. Union Bank of Maryland, Bank of Columbia, Hagerstown, Bank of Baltimore, Branch of the Farmers' Bank of Maryland, and Mechanicks' } 1 to 4 per cent. dis. Bank of Baltimore, }
VIRGINIA.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, } Par. Bank of Virginia, Bank of Alexandria, and Bank of Potomack, } 2 to 6 per cent. dis.
LOUISIANA TERRITORY.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, } Par. Bank of Louisiana, } 25 per cent. dis.
The above Price-Current will be carefully corrected every Friday. To the above Discount there will be a small advance for small sums, and Bills under 5 dollars, not of this State. * Boston money, or specie, will be given for any Bills received at par, for half per cent. for sums over $20—under $20, 1 per cent. advance. Any distant Banking Company, wishing their Bills to be received at par, will please to make arrangements accordingly, and they will be duly attended to. The most punctilious attention will be paid to all Letters, (post paid,) addressed to J. B. Wood, enclosing Bills to be exchanged, and the earliest remittances made to any part of the Union, per first, or not to exceed the second mail. All Bank Notes that he passes will be warranted good, and should any counterfeited Bills be received in Letters, they will be returned. Bank Notes examined gratis. Office hours from sunrise until sunset. Three additional Banks will soon have a place in the above Price-Current, viz. Derby Bank in Connecticut, Chillicothe Bank in Ohio, and Union Bank in the District of Columbia. EXCHANGE-OFFICE, Providence, (R. I.) December 29, 1809.
Green Coffee, fresh Raisins, Co- coa, &c.
Just received, and for sale on liberal terms.
By C. R. GREENE,
SIX Thousand pounds of best green Coffee.
20 Casks of fresh Raisins,
4 Boxes of superior Cordials,
Bags of Cocoa.
Also on Hand,
Gin by the Pipe or Barrel,
A few Hhds. of retailing Molasses,
Jamaica Spirits,
Sherry Wine,
Fresh Flour,
Chests of Hyson and Souchong Tea,
Boxes of brown Sugar, &c. &c.
Cash liberally advanced on consignments for publick or private sale.
December 26, 1809.
TAFT AND WATERMAN
Have for sale,
FIVE Pipes of 4th proof Brandy, 5 do.
Bowen's best Geneva, 15 Hhds. of Antigua and St. Croix Rum, a few Quarter
Casks of Sherry Wine, 5000 Wt. of retailing Coffee, 1000 Wt. of Pepper, Boxes of
Havana brown Sugar, 100 Chests of Gunpowder, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin,
Souchong, Campoi and Bohea Teas, of warranted qualities; a few Casks of Rice,
150 Barrels of Beef and Pork, Mess and Prime; 100 Firkins of Butter, 200 Bushels
of White Beans, 50 Boxes of brown Soap, 2000 Wt. of Clover Seed, &c. &c.
December 26, 1809.
INDIGO.
JUST RECEIVED BY
BOWEN & EDDY,
Opposite the Market,
500 lbs. Indigo of superior quality.
100 lbs. Oil Vitriol,
100 " blue do.
2000 " Copperas,
2000 " Alum,
6 Tons Logwood,
1 do. Nicaragua-wood.
1 do. Fustick.
100 lbs. Nutmegs,
300 " Cassia,
1000 " Pimento,
50 " Cloves,
100 Kgs. Ginger,
Roll Brimstone,
&c. &c.
December 5, 1809.
PHILIP PECK
Has just received a very extensive assortment of
Crockery and Glass Ware, viz.
THE best kinds of English Cut Wines, Tumblers, Decanters, Celery Dishes, Grands for do. Glass Plates of all sizes, Glass Tart Basons, Lemonades, Cordials, Jellies, and many other articles in the Glass Ware line. Also, all kinds of common Glass Ware, wholesale and retail. Likewise, best blue printed Ware of all kinds, in Tea and Coffee sets, or otherwise, as best may suit purchasers; best red enamelled and Gilt Ware, in Sets or otherwise.
The above articles, with his former assortment, he takes on himself to say is the best, most elegant and useful that is to be found in any one store in this State.
N. B. He has a very extensive assortment of Brass and Japanned Lamps, Tea Trays, Waiters, Shovel and Tongs, Brass Kettles, Warming-Pans, Knives and Forks, &c. to be sold for cash or approved credit, on as good terms as can be had in this town or Boston.
December 26, 1809.
Superfine BROADCLOTHS.
A FEW pieces of superfine Broadcloths, colours, black, blue and bottle-green, (purchased low,) for sale, by the single pattern, at 25 cents per yard advance from the cost, by
JOSEPH S. COOKE,
No. 2, Market-Square.
Who has also for sale, a general assortment of ENGLISH GOODS—branch cheap.
December 19, 1809.
Providence Insurance Company.
THE Stockholders of the PROVIDENCE INSURANCE COMPANY are hereby notified, that their annual Meeting for the choice of thirteen Directors, and to transact such other business as may come before them, will be held at the Office of said Company, on Monday the first day of January next, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
By order of the Directors,
OTIS AMMIDON, PRESIDENT.
December 22, 1809.
NOTICE.
THE Copartnership of BENJAMIN HOPPIN and SON was dissolved on the 15th instant, by the death of BENJAMIN HOPPIN, sen. Those persons, therefore, who have unsettled accounts with said firm, are desired to exhibit them for settlement.
B. HOPPIN, Surviving Partner.
B. HOPPIN,
Having taken into Copartnership his Brother, THOMAS C. HOPPIN, will continue the Auction and Commission Business, at the old stand of B. HOPPIN and SON, under the firm of
Benjamin & Thomas C. Hoppin;
Who offer at private sale, 2 Bales of very fine Russian Sheetings, 2 do. Ravens Duck, 4 Cases of Mammee chop Nankeen, 600 Chests of Souchong, Congo, Hyson and Young Hyson Teas, of the Baltic's, Caravan's, Juno's and Arthur's Cargoes; 50 Bales of Upland Cotton, A quantity of Coffee, contained in Hhds. Barrels and Bags; A quantity of Bristol Steel, 30 Hhds. of Molasses, with a variety of other articles.
Cash advanced on deposits for either Publick or Private Sale, and Storage in a fire proof Building for a moderate compensation; and as they intend to confine themselves strictly to the sale of Goods on Commission, their employers' interest will be particularly consulted in all cases.
December 22, 1809.
FRESH FLOUR now landing
from the Brig George Washington, from Alexandria, and for sale by SALOMON ARNOLD, at his Store on the Long Wharf.
December 26, 1809.
Hartford and Providence Stages.
THERE will leave Hartford at 6 o'clock, A. M. every Wednesday, a Stage with four horses for Providence, passing through the towns of Coventry, Windham, Scotland, and Plainfield, intersecting the Stage at Plainfield which runs from New-London to Providence, and will arrive at Providence early on Thursday morning. It will leave Providence, return by the same route to Hartford on Wednesday, at 5, P. M. and arrives at Hartford on Thursday at 6, P. M.
There likewise leaves Hartford a Stage for Providence at 8, A. M. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, lodges at Pomfret, and arrives at Providence at noon on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Returning by the same route, leaves Providence Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 9, A. M.—lodges at Pomfret, and arrives at Hartford on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at 6, P. M.
A Stage arrives at Hartford from Danbury and Litchfield every Monday at 5, P. M. and leaves Hartford for Danbury and Litchfield, every Tuesday at 9, A. M.
For seats in the Boston, Providence and Litchfield stages, and for expresses and extra carriages, apply to the subscriber at Mr. Bennett's Stage-House.
HORATIO G. BROOME.
Hartford, (Con.) November 4, 1809.
JOHN ROGERS & SAMUEL
NIGHTINGALE, jun.
HAVE for sale, the following articles, on reasonable terms and liberal credit, viz.
3000 Bushels of coarse Liverpool Salt, 13 Hhds. of Virginia Tobacco, 10 Crates of Glass Ware, well assorted; 20 do. of Liverpool Ware, do. 15 do. do. C. C. Dinner Plates, 5 do. do. blue edged do. 1 do. do. C. C. Pint Bowls, 2 do. do. blue and white Coffee Bowls and Saucers, 1 do. do. Tea Cups and Saucers, 1 very handsome Breakfast Set of China, consisting of 67 pieces; 5000 Wt. of green Coffee, in Hhds. and Bags; 20 Bales of Liquorice Root, 4 Boxes of Cordials, 1 Small Bag of Cloves, 2 Casks of Bar Lead, 1000 wt. each; 7 Pieces of Ravens Duck, 1 Cask of Whale Oil, 4 Coils of Iron Wire, large sizes, assorted.
December 19, 1809.
RUM FOR SALE.
A FEW Hhds. of excellent flavoured ANTIGUA RUM, for sale by WM. CHURCH, at his Store, South End. December 19, 1809.
SUGARS.
BLODGET & POWER
Offer, now landing, on accommodating terms,
EIGHTY-one Boxes of Havana brown SUGARS.
43 Boxes of Havana white do. of superior qualities.
December 15, 1809.
NOTICE.
THE Members of the PROVIDENCE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY are hereby notified, that their annual Meeting will be held at Mr. AMMIDON's Hall, on the first Tuesday of January next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
By order,
WALTER LAWRENCE, Sec'y.
December 22, 1809.
Poetry.
To the Editors of the Rhode-Island American
The success that attended the last Latin fragment of the Poet Gray, which I sent you for insertion, induces me to send another, in the hope it will meet with a similar reception.
ODE
WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE GRANDE CHATREUSE, IN DAUPHINY, AUGUST, 1741.
OH TU, severi Religio loci, Quocunque gaudeas nomine (non leve Nativa nam certe fluenta Numen habet, veteresque sylvas; Præsentem & conspicimus Deum Per invias rupes, fera per juga, Clivosque præruptos, sonantes Inter aquas, nemorumque noctem; Quam si repertus sub trabe citra Fulgeret auro, & Phidias manu) Salve vocanti rite, fesso et Da placidam juveni quietem. Quod si invidendis sedibus, & frui Fortuna sacra lege silentii Vetat volentem, me resorbens In medios violenta fluctus: Saltem remoto des, Pater, angulo Horas senectæ ducere liberas; Tutumque vulgari tumultu Surripias, hominumque curis.
We have been favoured by another correspondent with the following version of the Latin lines of Gray, published in the RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN of the 22d instant.
SOMETIMES with look and garb demure, Love acts and talks like friendship pure; Sometimes in ire he flirts and flings, And threatens doing dreadful things: Anon he languishes and sighs, With piteous voice and tearful eyes. Beware: trust nothing that appears, Nor blandishments, nor threats, nor tears. Let him put on what face he will, He's LOVE; and was, and will be still.
Moral.
For the RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN.
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS HINTS.
No. XX.
"WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?"
THE close of the year is well suited to awaken our attention to some useful and important considerations. At such a time, we are urged to review the dealings of God towards us, and our conduct towards our Creator and our fellow-creatures. If we properly review what is past, it may serve to prepare us for the future. But, alas! to us how uncertain is futurity! How fearfully hidden from our knowledge is the hour of our dismissal from this state of trial! It is not for us "to know the times, or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power." Should a person be required to judge how long he may live; from what could he form a judgement? May one conclude he shall live a long time, because he is now young? Thousands have died in younger life. May one conclude he shall live long, because he is healthy and active? "One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. His breasts are full of milk and his bones are moistened with marrow." Is one greatly useful and much needed in his family and in the community? "How dieth the wise man? As the fool." Are you wholly unprepared to die, and therefore do you hope to live? "Wickedness shall not deliver those, who are given to it." Are you deeply engaged in worldly schemes, and preparing to enjoy the good things of this life for many years? Remember a certain rich man, whose grounds brought forth plentifully—"and he thought within himself, saying, what shall I do, because I have not where to bestow my fruits? And he said, this will I do: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease; eat, drink and be merry. But God said unto him, thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided." The rich fool's schemes for many years were destroyed in a moment. Whatever may be our schemes and expectations, if they be worldly, they are liable to be as suddenly destroyed. "Go to now, ye that say, to day, or to-morrow, we will go into such a city, and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain. Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away." We may expect to live many years, and no one of us may expect soon to die. But our continuance in life may not accord with our expectations. "For man knoweth not his time; as the fishes are taken in an evil net, and as the birds
that are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them." Every one of the living may truly say, what the Patriarch said to his son, "I know not the day of my death."
Indeed those persons who now have a fair and pleasant prospect of many days, may soon die. Are you young and healthy? Do you belong to a family that is not especially liable to the consumption, or to any fatal disorder? Has no one lately died in your family, or neighbourhood? Has no one lately died of your age among your acquaintance? Have you not the least appearance or apprehension of sickness and death? Yet sickness may be near. The King of Terrours may be the nearest to those persons who are the least suspicious of his approach. For life and death depend upon the will of heaven, and not upon present appearances, nor upon our apprehensions. "Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." It appears from calculations, that ninety-six thousands, six hundred and sixty-two die every day. The thousands, who die to-day, were living yesterday.—And the thousands, who will die to-morrow, are alive to-day. Death has the names of all the living upon his list of victims, and no mortal can tell whose name stands first, and, who will first be called from time into eternity. It is probable, that they, who have died the year, which is now closing, did not realise, or expect a year ago that they should now be in the grave. Doubtless many, who now hope and fondly imagine they shall live many years, will die during the following year. Indeed they, who have the highest hope and the fairest prospect of many days, may die the soonest. Shall we not then so number our days, that we apply our hearts to wisdom? May God teach us so to live, that we may enjoy not only a happy new year, but an happy eternity, whenever we shall be called by death into the world of spirits.
"Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life; Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene."
ANTHROPOS.
FRIDAY, 29th DECEMBER, 1809.
Miscellaneous.
For the RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN.
Messrs. Editors,
Please to insert the following extract from ANDERSON's ingenious Origin of Commerce.
THE immenseness of the enhanced value of many manufactures, from their first raw or unimproved material, is here well worth remarking, as we find it in an ingenious treatise published in London in 1723, entitled "The Payment of old Debts without new Taxes."—"One hundred pounds," says the writer, "laid out in wool, and that wool manufactured into goods for the Turkey market, and raw silk brought home in return, and manufactured here, will increase that 100l. to 5,000l. which quantity of silk manufactures being sent to New-Spain, would return 10,000l. which vast improvement of the first 100l. becomes in a few years dispersed amongst all orders and degrees of the community. Thus, again, a parcel of iron-stone, which when first taken from its natural bed, was not worth five shillings, when made into iron and steel, and thence into various manufactures for foreign markets, may, probably bring home to the value of 10,000l. Steel may be made near three hundred times dearer than standard gold, weight for weight:—For six of the finest steel wire springs for watch pendulums, shall weigh but one grain, and when applied by our greatest artists they shall be worth seven shillings and six pence each, or two pounds five shillings for the six, or two hundred and seventy two-pences; whereas one grain of gold is worth but two-pence."
"Twenty acres of fine flax, when manufactured into the dearest and most proper goods for foreign markets, may in return thereof, bring from thence what may be worth 10,000l. for one ounce of the finest Flanders thread has been sold in London for four pounds; and such an ounce made in Flanders into the finest lace, may be sold here for forty pounds; which is above ten times the price of standard gold, weight for weight. Fine thread of that description is spun by little children, whose feeling is nicer than that of grown people, whereby they are capable of spinning a thread smaller than the finest hair; and one ounce of such thread is said to reach in length six-teen thousand yards."

Can we wonder at the wealth and resources of Great-Britain while her commerce and manufactures are so immense and so profitable? When she suffers her manufactures to decline, and her commerce like ours to languish, then our surprise may be justly excited, and her ruin inevitably accomplished.
From the COLUMBIAN CENTINEL. THE DIPLOMATIC POLICY OF MR. MADISON UNVEILED. No. IV. The Origin, Progress and Issue of Mr. Erskine's Arrangement.
We have already shown that this famous arrangement originated in several propositions stated by Mr. Erskine to be the result of certain conferences with the members of our Cabinet; and that so far from being the cause of new offence, these propositions must have been presumed by Mr. Canning to have been acceptable to our Ministers. To disprove this point, the members of our Cabinet have assailed the discontented and disgraced Minister, Mr. Erskine, and have induced him to make so explanatory concessions. These concessions, published by our Government in their own vindication, must, according to all fair rules of construction, be considered most strictly against themselves; and we deduce from them most unequivocal proofs, that Mr. Canning had a right to draw the inferences which he has announced.
Mr. Erskine's letter of the 14th of August is brought forward as the apology of our Government, and as calculated to prove that Mr. Canning was not authorized to presume that our Government would accede to the three conditions stated in his letter of instructions. The contrary inference may most fairly be drawn from Mr. Erskine's letter. His letter consists of two distinct parts:—
1st. His statement of what he had actually communicated to his own Government. And,
2dly. His declaration of what were his own private impressions, when drawn out by the denial of our Ministers. Upon the first condition, which imported that upon the repeal of the British Orders in Council, we would withdraw our Non-Inter-course as it respected Great-Britain, and persevere in our Non-Inter-course with France and her allies, Mr. Erskine states, that Mr. Madison assured him that, "the United States would at once side with that power against the other which might continue its aggressions."
Upon being pressed now, after the affair, to explain himself, he says, that he never considered this to be a preliminary condition, because he knew that the President had no such power without the concurrence of Congress.
This, it must be remembered, is Mr. Erskine's private opinion, after the disavowal, and is not stated to have been made known to his Cabinet. This distinction of Mr. Erskine, sophistical and absurd enough to be sure, is the same which Mr. Erskine set up in his own defence in the Gazette of the United States, where he says, that he could not have presumed that a British Minister was so ignorant of the American Constitution as to believe that the President had such a power.
This very argument proves, that he never stated this distinction to his own Government, but presumed that they would understand it themselves. The whole of this reasoning is however bottomed upon an error; for as the President and Senate have a right to conclude Treaties, which ipso facto become the supreme law of the land, Congress are bound like all other subjects of this country, to carry them into execution.—This principle was settled in the case of Jay's treaty.
Upon the second condition, Mr. Erskine stated to his Government that Mr. Gallatin said, "that it was the intention of the United States to abandon the attempt to carry on a trade with the Colonies of the belligerents in time of war, which was not allowed in time of peace;" and the reason he assigns is conclusive evidence, that he understood Mr. Gallatin rightly; for he adds, "that the United States would trust to their being permitted by France to carry on such trade in time of peace, as to entitle them to a continuance of it in time of war."
This is too plain to require any explanation; it includes the total cession of the colonial trade. This is what Mr. Erskine stated to his Government, and on this express idea is Mr. Canning's second proposal founded.
Four months after this, and after his disgrace, Mr. Erskine declares, that he understood by this, only the Direct colonial trade: but this he did not state to Mr. Canning—and could Mr. Canning divine it? Might not, indeed did not Mr. Canning suppose, that as our trade with the colonies of France was reduced by captures of the French islands, and actual blockade, to almost nothing, that our Cabinet were ready to relinquish it?
Thus it is proved, that the propositions made in Mr. Canning's letter of the 23d of January, 1809, so far from being insolent, were in fact founded upon what he had a right to presume were principles to which our Ministers had acceded; and it is far
from being proved that they did not give Mr. Erskine reason to believe that they did agree to them.
We shall now proceed to prove that the arrangement entered into with Mr. Erskine affords no proof of a wish on the part of our Cabinet to adjust our differences with Great-Britain; but that it was rather expected that it would widen the breach.
1st. There was good reason to believe at the moment of the arrangement, that he not only acted without full powers; but that he had violated his instructions.
This point once established, and it being once conceded that our Government expected a disavowal, it is a proof of great insincerity, instead of a desire of preserving peace.
No point can be more fully settled than that a mere letter of credence, appointing a man a Minister resident, or even Plenipotentiary, does not of itself, include the power to make a treaty.—Hence we find that when Ministers Plenipotentiary have made treaties, they have exchanged their full powers, with the persons appointed to treat with them, although they themselves may have been resident at the Court of the sovereign with whom the treaty is made for several years.*
This principle acquired additional force, and if usage had not sanctioned it, the particular circumstances in which Mr. Madison stood, would have afforded an ample apology for demanding Mr. Erskine's powers. Mr. Madison is an officer with limited power. This fact foreign nations are supposed, and indeed obliged to know. He was not empowered to restore the intercourse with Britain, except on the condition of his Britannick Majesty's having actually withdrawn his Orders in Council. He might, however, considered his Majesty's promise to withdraw them, on a day certain, as tantamount to an actual repeal; but in such case, he had a right, nay, he was in duty bound, to call for the power of the Minister. Why was it not done? Because it was known, we say, not to exist. The delicacy in this case was truly affected. Great-Britain could not have taken offence at the demand of an authority, when that authority was indispensable to the exercise of Mr. Madison's power.
But the actual conditions of Mr. Erskine's instructions were known; and it was known that the arrangement violated them.
This is in proof, 1st. By Mr. Erskine's letter of the 29th of April, to his own government, in which he states, that he had discussed the three conditions verbatim et seriatim, that is, word for word, and gives the replies of our ministers.
2d. By Mr. Smith's letter of the 19th of October last, in which he admits that the three conditions were known to him.
And, 3dly. By Mr. Erskine's explanatory letter, written at the request of our government, in which he says, "that in the discussions upon these conditions, he found no reason to believe, that any difficulties would occur in the accomplishment of the two former conditions as far as it was in the power of the President of the United States to agree to the first, and consistently with the explanation which I had given of the last."
*IMPORTANT NOTE. Full Powers of a Minister necessary in addition to his letters of credence.
To prove that the ideas suggested in this number of the total incompetence of a general letter of credence to authorize the conclusion of a treaty, are not only correct, but founded upon an authority which will not be controverted by the United States or by Mr. Madison, I shall insert the correspondence between Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Hammond on this subject.
I think this the more important, as an idea has been circulated in this town, founded, as it is pretended, on the authority of Mr. John Q. Adams, that our government had no right to demand Mr. Erskine's special powers; and that it would have been insolent in them so to have done. Let those who have been influenced by this opinion, read the following letter, and then answer how Mr. Madison could be justified in not demanding Mr. Erskine's full powers; and how he can, with any decorum, object to the disavowal, by Great-Britain, of an act, not merely unauthorized, but contrary to positive instructions.
PHILADELPHIA, December 13, 1793. "Mr. JEFFERSON, Secretary of State, to Mr. HAMMOND, Minister Plenipotentiary of Great-Britain.
"SIR, "I have laid before the President of the United States the letters of November 30th and December 6th, with which you honoured me, and in consequence thereof, and particularly of that part of your letter of December 6th, where you say you are fully authorized to enter into a negotiation, for the purpose of arranging the commercial intercourse between the two countries, I have the honour to inform you, that I am ready to receive a communication of your full powers for that purpose, at any time you may think proper, and to proceed immediately to their object. I have the honour to be, &c. T. JEFFERSON."
Mr. Hammond, in his reply, says, he is only instructed, not empowered to conclude a treaty; but he coincides in the principle, and adds, that as he is a Minister Plenipotentiary, and is instructed, he thinks it sufficient "for the commencement of a preliminary negotiation."
It will be observed that Mr. Hammond had been before accredited as a Minister Plenipotentiary. In proof that Great-Britain adheres to the same principle which Mr. Jefferson set up in 1793, against a British Minister, we find that Mr. Jackson, in addition to his letters plenipotentiary, is furnished with a distinct set of full powers, and offered to show them, but our Cabinet declined to meet his offer.
Thus then it seems the conditions were in fact known, and if there existed full powers, arising from Mr. Madison's limited powers, to require an authority before he abrogated, by his fiat, an act of Congress, how much were these reasons increased, with how much more force they operated, when he was informed, that the British Minister was clogged with certain conditions, not one of which was conceded? If prudence would before have required a full exhibition of powers, how much were these motives increased by this disclosure of the expectations of the British Cabinet, and the certainty of their discontent with the terms actually agreed upon?
But a nice metaphysical distinction is set up, rather calculated for the mob, than for the reasoning part of society, that the instructions of January 23d, from Mr. Canning, though known in substance, were not shown in extenso; and a species of jockeying law is introduced, that it was possible there might be provisional instructions of a lower tone. The whole evidence is now before the publick, and it appears that the conditions were not merely the substance, they were the whole of Mr. Erskine's instructions, and under the very limited authority of Mr. Madison it was his duty so to have presumed.
But I shall perhaps be asked, what motive could Mr. Madison have, knowing he was thus restricted, and knowing he was liable to punishment for violating a law of Congress, to make a convention which he presumed would not be ratified?
I have one answer to make, which will be amply sufficient, though I can give twenty.
He knew that the party, on which alone he depended for support, would praise him for any act which would prevent an adjustment with Great-Britain. He knew more, that any honest and fair arrangement with that nation, would be fatal to his popularity and power.
He was influenced in that case by the same motives which induced him to adopt the late more extraordinary step, of dismissing a British Envoy under a pretence of an insult which never existed.
In both cases he was sure of, and he has received, much more sincere praise from his friends, than if he had closed with Mr. Jackson's offer, and had conducted, as that gentleman is authorized to do, a final adjustment of all our differences.
That these suggestions are not the offspring of a jealous and fault-finding disposition, the publick will believe, when I come to consider the offensive measures adopted by our government, to prevent even the one-sided arrangement of Mr. Erskine from being accepted by the British Cabinet.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20.
Mr. JOHNSON, from the committee of claims, reported on the petition of Edward Turner, that the prayer of the petition ought not to be granted. The report was agreed to.
Mr. Love reported a bill for removing slaves from one part of the District of Columbia to another. Read twice and referred to a committee of the whole House on Monday.
The bill for the relief of William and Elias Rector, was read a third time and passed.
Mr. Love, from the committee on the District of Columbia, presented a bill to amend the charter of Alexandria. Referred to a committee of the whole House on Tuesday.
Mr. Rhea called for the order of the day on the resolutions from the Senate. The House went into committee of the whole. Mr. Basset in the chair.
Mr. M'Key spoke in favour of the resolutions. Mr. Wheaton spoke against them. Mr. Johnson followed in favour. Mr. Dana rose to explain.
Mr. Emmott then rose and went into the whole business argumentatively; he spoke till three o'clock, and was about to proceed, when Mr. Wilson, observing that the gentleman was hoarse, made a motion to have the committee rise and report progress. On the question shall the committee rise, 56 rose in the affirmative. The committee rose, and the House adjourned.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21. The contested Election Evidence Bill was read twice.
The resolution on the subject of the rupture with Mr. Jackson, was again taken up in committee. Mr. Emmott concluded his speech against it. Mr. Gholson and Ross spoke in favour of it. At half past 3, the committee rose, reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. Adjourned.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22. Mr. Troup had leave of absence for two weeks from Monday.
Mr. Love reported a bill for incorporating the Trustees of Washington College. Read twice and referred to a committee of the whole House on Wednesday.
The report of Mr. Latrobe, laid on the table yesterday, was referred to a select committee of five.
The bill from the Senate respecting foreign ministers was read twice and re-
ferred to a committee of the whole House on Tuesday.
A joint resolution from the Senate for appointing a committee of members from each House to dispose of the money appropriated for a library, was read and concurred in by the House.
Mr. Findley from the committee of elections, reported in the case of the contested election of Jonathan Jennings, that his election was not made according to the authority of law, and that it was therefore void; and that the seat of the said Jonathan Jennings was accordingly vacant. The report was referred to a committee of the whole on Friday next.
The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the resolutions from the Senate, Mr. Basset in the chair.
Mr. Gold spoke at great length and with great strength of argument against the resolutions.
Mr. Macon opposed the resolutions, but on different ground from those who had gone before him. He did not like to praise the President, when he had done no more than his duty, and he did not like a declaration of war against Great-Britain at this time. The committee rose, reported progress and had leave to sit again. The House then adjourned until Tuesday next.
IN SENATE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20.
The President communicated a letter from the Secretary of War, which was read with closed doors, and ordered to lie for consideration. Referred to the committee on fortifications in the House.
By the Mails.
WASHINGTON, December 20. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting extracts from the correspondence of Mr. Pinkney.
To the House of Representatives of the United States.
AGREEABLY to the request expressed in the resolution of the 13th inst. I lay before the House extracts from the correspondence of the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at London.
"JAMES MADISON.
"December 16, 1809." Brief account of an unofficial conversation between Mr. Canning, and Mr. Pinkney, on the 18th of January, 1809, continued on the 22d of the same month.—[Transmitted by Mr. Pinkney to the Secretary of State.]
I dined at Mr. Canning's with the corps diplomatique, on the 18th January. Before dinner he came up to me, and entering into conversation, adverted to a report which he said had reached him, that the American Ministers, (here and in France,) were about to be recalled. I replied, that I was not aware that such a step had been resolved upon. He then took me aside, and observed, that according to his view of the late proceedings of Congress, the resolutions of the House of Representatives in committee of the whole, appeared to be calculated, if passed into a law, to remove the impediments to arrangements with the United States, on the subjects of the Orders in Council, and the Chesapeake, by taking away the discrimination between Great-Britain and France, in the exclusion of vessels of war from American ports. He added, that it was another favourable circumstance that the non-importation system, which seemed to be in contemplation, was to be applied equally to both parties, instead of affecting as heretofore Great-Britain alone.
I proposed to Mr. Canning, that I should call on him in the course of a day or two, for the purpose of a free communication upon what he had suggested. To this he readily assented; and it was settled that I should see him on the Sunday following. (the 22d,) at 12 o'clock, at his own house.
In the interview of the 22d, Mr. Canning's impressions appeared to be in all respects the same with those which he had mentioned on the 18th; and I said every thing which I thought consistent with candour and discretion, to confirm him in his disposition to seek the re-establishment of good understanding with us, and especially to see in the expected act of Congress, (if it should pass,) an opening for reconciliation.
It was of some importance to turn their attention here, without loss of time, to the manner of any proceeding that might be in their contemplation. It seemed that the resolutions of the House of Representatives, if enacted into a law, might render it proper, if not indispensable, that the affair of the Chesapeake should be settled at the same time with the business of the Orders and Embargo, and this I understood to be Mr. Canning's opinion and wish. It followed that the whole matter ought to be settled at Washington, and, as this was more desirable on various other grounds, I suggested that it would be well, (in case a special mission did not meet their approbation,) that the necessary powers should be sent to Mr. Erskine.
In the course of the conversation, Mr. Canning proposed several questions relative to our late proposal; the principal were the two following:
1. In case they should wish either through me, or Mr. Erskine, to meet us
upon the basis of our late overture, in what way was the effectual operation of our embargo as to France, &c. after it should be taken off as to Great-Britain, to be secured? It was evident, he said, that if we should do no more than refuse clearances for the ports of France, &c. or prohibit under penalties, voyages to such ports, the effect which my letter of the 23d of August, and my published instructions, proposed to have in view, would not be produced; for, that vessels although cleared for British ports, might, when once out, go to France, instead of coming here; that this would in fact be so, (whatever the penalties which the American laws might denounce against offenders,) could not, he imagined, be doubted; and he therefore presumed that the government of the United States would not, after it had itself declared a commerce with France, &c. illegal, and its citizens who should engage in it, delinquents, and after having given to Great-Britain by compact, an interest in the strict observation of the prohibition, complain if the naval force of his country should assist in preventing such a commerce.
2. He asked whether there would be any objection to making the repeal of the British Orders and the American Embargo cotemporaneous? He seemed to consider this as indispensable. Nothing could be less admissible, he said than that Great-Britain after rescinding her Orders, should for any time, however short, be left subject to the Embargo in common with France, whose decrees were subsisting, with a view to an experiment upon France, or with any other view. The United States could not upon their own principles apply the Embargo to this country one moment after its Orders were removed, or decline, after that event, to apply it exclusively to France, and the powers connected with her in system.
I took occasion towards the close of our conversation, to mention the recent appointment of Admiral Berkeley to the Lisbon station. Mr. Canning said, that whatever might be their inclination to consult the feelings of the American government on that subject, it was impossible for the admiralty to resist the claim of that to be employed, (no other objection existing against him,) after such a lapse of time since his return from Halifax, without bringing him to a court martial. The usage of the navy was in this respect different from the army. But I understood Mr. Canning to say that he might still be brought to a court martial; although I did not understand him to say that this would be the case. He said that Admiral Berkeley, in what he had done had acted wholly without authority. I did not propose to enter into discussion upon the subject, and therefore contented myself with speaking of the appointment as unfortunate.
In both of these conversations Mr. Canning's language and manner were in the highest degree conciliatory.
Extract of a letter from William Pinkney, Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in London, to the Secretary of State, dated London, May 28, 1809.
"In the interview which took place, (on May 25,) Mr. Canning said, that the British Minister had acted in his late negotiation and engagements with you not only without authority, but in direct opposition to the most precise instructions; that the instructions actually given to him had been founded on his own letters received here in January, in which were set forth the particulars of several conversations that had passed between him and Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin and yourself, but especially the two last; that it appeared from these conversations, that in the opinion of the persons with whom they were held, the government of the United States would be willing that Great-Britain should consider the measures then contemplated by Congress, relative to non-intercourse, and the indiscriminate exclusion of belligerent vessels from our waters, as presenting an opening for the renewal of amicable discussions with this country; that it would be disposed, in the case of the Chesapeake, to receive as sufficient reparation, in addition to the prompt disavowal and recall of Admiral Berkeley, the restoration of the seamen forcibly taken out of that vessel; that on the subject of the Orders in Council, it would have no objection, in case they were revoked as regarded the United States, to repeal the Embargo and non-intercourse laws as to Great-Britain, and to continue them as to France and Holland and such other countries as should have in force maritime edicts similar to those of France, so long as those edicts remained; that it would allow it to be understood that the British cruisers might capture American vessels attempting to violate the Embargo and non-intercourse laws so modified: that it would even agree to abandon during the present war, all trade with enemies colonies from which we were excluded in peace; that it was prepared to regulate by treaty, the commercial relations of the two countries, upon the basis of the most favoured nation, or upon that of reciprocal equality, and in a word, that it was extremely desirous of re-establishing the most perfect good understanding and

the most friendly connexion with Great Britain.
Mr. Canning proceeded to inform me that in consequence of these representations, some parts of which he said I had myself confirmed in two conversations in January, he had framed and transmitted to Mr. Erskine, two sets of instructions, dated the 23d of that month, but not forwarded till some time afterwards, the first of which related to the business of the Chesapeake, and the second to the Orders in Council, and the proposed commercial arrangements. These instructions, together with the passages in Mr. Erskine's letter written, I believe in December last, which contained the above mentioned representations and some other details which I ought not to repeat, Mr. Canning read to me.
"Although Mr. Canning made me acquainted with Mr. Erskine's instructions, he did not in any degree apprise me of the explanations, transmitted by that Minister, of the grounds and motives of his proceedings: And I could not be sure, from any thing which Mr. Canning had stated to me, that I had been made to understand the exact nature and character of the transaction. I believed, therefore, that it behoved me to be particularly careful how I received what Mr. Canning thought fit to disclose to me. In looking back upon the past I discovered no inducements to a less cautious course. I remembered that Mr. Canning had not told me in our conversations in January, (one of which occurred the day before the date of his letter to Mr. Erskine,) that he intended to confide to him such powers as he must then have been in the act of preparing, or indeed any powers at all. That in our conferences in April after the arrival of the Pacific, the same reserve was practised. That in the last of these conferences Mr. Canning admitted only, (and that too upon being pressed by me,) that in the business of the Chesapeake, he "had written to Mr. Erskine, in compliance with what he understood to be my wish, that the settlement of that affair should be transferred to Washington," that even then the time he had done so was not mentioned; and that as to the Orders in Council, I was suffered to suppose that negotiation in America had not been authorized. It occurred to me, moreover, that, as it had already been decided that Mr. Erskine was to be disavowed, and as that decision had been made publick through the board of trade, I could not hope to prevent that disavowal, and that with my imperfect knowledge of facts, it might be worse than useless by laboured discussion to attempt it.
"With these impressions I could do little more than manifest my concern that conciliatory arrangements between the American Secretary of State and his Majesty's accredited Minister at Washington, acting in consequence and professing to act in pursuance of orders from his court, were not likely to have that effect which was naturally to be expected from them. "I undertook, however, to declare with confidence that the American government had met Mr. Erskine's proposals in a just and friendly spirit, and with a sincere desire that, while its own honour and essential interests were fairly consulted and maintained, a liberal respect should be shown for those of Great Britain."
[Extracts to be continued.]
PHILADELPHIA, December 22.
Accounts from the Mississippi Territory state, that several of the Osage tribes of Indians had been murdered by the Joways, near the Missouri. Several of the tribes are at war; and preparations were making for savage depredations.
Attempts have been made to plunder the publick money, on its way from Ohio to Washington; but they have been frustrated.
Extract of a letter from Washington, dated House of Representatives, December 19.
"In the moment of writing you, I am for a moment diverting my attention from the speech of Mr. Dana, on the resolutions from the Senate. It is conciliatory and good natured; but it is perspicuous, forcible and overpowering beyond any thing I ever heard in this House. And I venture to say the man who can either hear or read it; without being convinced of the impropriety of passing the resolutions, must be determined to plunge the country into war. In truth, the people of this country are now to decide whether they will suffer themselves to be plunged into a war, at once unnecessary and ruinous, or shew the administration the danger of persisting in its destructive projects. God grant that the American people, hitherto equal to self-government and self-preservation, may now, in the most perilous moment, which has succeeded our glorious revolution, rise to the magnitude of the occasion.
"The point of decisive importance, insisted on by Mr. Dana, is, that our government has no right to conclude an arrangement with a minister resident, as such, unless he exhibits to them specific instructions authorizing him to make the specific arrangement; and that therefore it is no argument for Mr. Smith to say he did not know but that Mr. Erskine might have
been authorized. To bind the British government, he should be able to prove that Mr. Erskine was authorized to make the arrangement which he did make. This point he has most conclusively and irresistibly established—of course, all Mr. Smith's logic is cut up by the root. I hope you will feel anxious to read this irresistible speech; for the perusal of it, will answer more than the expectation I have endeavoured to excite in you."
NEW-YORK, December 25.
Our Philadelphia Correspondent informs us of the arrival there of the ship Stranger, in 30 days from Lisbon—and that on the 15th of November advices were received at Lisbon, from Admiral Collingwood; stating, that a fleet of 16 sail of the line, and 16 frigates had passed the Straights of Gibraltar, destination not known. Admiral Collingwood, not having sufficient force to attack them, had despatched a cutter to England.
Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United States, was, on the 18th of September last, elected a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at Warsaw.
From an apprehension that our merchants may be led into a mistake respecting the opening of the Havana, received by the schooner Samson, it would be well to state that she brings no positive accounts of the opening of the port, but merely that all the vessels then there were permitted to land and sell their cargoes; this may have given rise to the report of a captain when she was getting under way that the port was open. Philadelphia paper.
The London Courier of the 13th ult. says, "Mr. Hill, of Whitten, near Hounslow, who died on Thursday last, has left the enormous amount of 800,000. sterling. He bequeathed 360,000. each to two gentlemen who conducted his business, and 40,000. to a clergyman of his acquaintance."
BOSTON, December 25.
Massachusetts C. M. Association. On Thursday was the annual choice of Officers of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanick Association; on which occasion the TRIENNIAL FESTIVAL of the Association was celebrated. The Members assembled in full numbers at the Exchange Coffee-House, at 10 o'clock; and, after the admission of New Members, and the transaction of the usual business, proceeded to the CHOICE OF OFFICERS; when the following gentlemen were unanimously elected:—
BENJAMIN RUSSELL, Esq. President. DANIEL MASSINGER, Esq. V. President. Mr. JOSEPH LOVERING, Treasurer. Mr. THOMAS WELLES, Secretary. Trustees—Mr. Asahel Benjamin, Capt. Thomas Dean, Mr. Jeremiah Gardner, Capt. Samuel Curtis, Mr. John Pierce, Mr. Henry Hutchinson, Capt. Jonathan Loring, Capt. Jonathan Whitney, and Mr. Samuel Tuttle. *New Members.
About noon, a very long and respectable Procession was formed under the direction of Capt. Jonathan Loring, Head Marshal, assisted by eight Deputy-Marshals, (the Standard of the Association borne by Capt. Henry Purkitt,) which proceeded through State-street, Cornhill, Marlborough, and Summer-streets, to the First Church, in Chauncy Place, where were the following exercises:—1. A Hymn, "Before JEHOVAH's awful throne," sung by a full and select choir. 2. An excellent and peculiarly appropriate prayer, by the Rev. Mr. Emerson, Chaplain of the day. 3. A Hymn, "Father of our feeble race." 4. An address to the Association, on the origin, improvement, and flourishing state of the Mechanick Arts, by Benjamin Russell, Esq. President of the Association. 5. An Original Ode, written for the occasion by Mr. Snelling, and sung with skill and effect, by Mr. Stebbins. 6. Benediction, by the Rev. Chaplain. The Procession was then re-formed, and escorted his Excellency the Governor, the Hon. President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, and many other civil, ecclesiastical and municipal officers, gentlemen, and strangers, to the Exchange Coffee-House; where an excellent dinner was served up in the best style of the keeper of that house. After dinner a number of toasts were given, and songs sung, accompanied by a full band of music. Of the toasts were the following:— 1. The Day—May the Wedge of disunion never divide the affections of our Associates.—Boston March. 2. The Constituted Authorities of the United States—May no partial policy ever impede the wheel of our country's Prosperity.—President's March. 3. The Constituted Authorities of Massachusetts—the strength and ornament of the National Edifice—Yankee Doodle. 4. Mechanicks—May the Screw never be employed to depress their happiness,
* The able Editor of "Something," in noticing this performance, says, "The address by Benjamin Russell, Esq. this day, was, in our opinion, complete in every thing that should have been delivered on such an occasion to such an institution. An institution, to the members of which we owe every thing—but flattery. The compass described the circle to which he confined himself; the level kept him from rising too high; and the square made all his turns—right angles—and if there was no extraordinary acuteness in them, there was at least no obtusity."
while they offer willing hearts and strong hands at the Lever to lift their country above the world—"Hail Columbia."
VOLUNTEERS.
By His Excellency the Governor—The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanick Association—May they find no object for their funds, but in improving the arts.
[After His Excellency retired, the following toast was drunk, with nine cheers.]
His Excellency the Governor—The son of a Mechanick—the brother of Mechanicks; and the patron of Agriculture, Arts and Sciences.
By the Honourable Mr. Otis—May the funds of Industry be always sufficient to meet the drafts of misfortune.
[After Mr. Otis retired.]
The President of the Honourable Senate—An early and steady friend to the Mechanick Association; and an ornament to this his native town, and country—Six Cheers.
By the Honourable Mr. Bigelow—Science, Arts, and Arms—As neither can subsist without the others; may those who possess them cultivate perpetual harmony.
[After Mr. Bigelow had retired.]
The Hon. Speaker of the House of Representatives—Our steadfast friend when we were surrounded by enemies—Six Cheers.
By the Rev. Chaplain—Labour, Health and Enjoyment. "Toil strings the nerves, and purifies the blood."
By the Hon. Mr. Tudor, Secretary of the State—The Mechanick Arts, and Independence of our Country—May we ever consider them as reciprocally dependent.
By Colonel Carllile, Vice-President of the Providence Mechanick Association—The Mechanicks of Massachusetts—Free, by hereditary descent, Enlightened, by the genius of their government, Independent, by the application of their talents. By the Hon. Mr. Brown—Genius and Merit; if found in rags, may they be cherished by patronage, and clad with the purple of our own manufactures.
[After the President retired.]
By Jonathan Hunnewell, Esq. Past President—The Orator of the Day—An honour to the Association over which he presides; and a friend to all friends of good principles.
By Benjamin Dearborn, Esq. President of Massachusetts A. E. U. I.—The four supporting columns of the National Treasury—Useful Invention—Mechanick Art—Agriculture—Commerce.
By the Town-Clerk—Agriculture, the Mechanick Arts—Commerce—United, they will promote the prosperity of our country. There were several other volunteers from the Hon. Mr. Mason, Attorney General of New-Hampshire, who was a guest; the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Sheriff of Suffolk, General Winslow, Major Blanchard, &c. which we have not been able to obtain.
The thanks of the Society was voted to the Orator of the Day: a copy requested for the press; and a unanimous vote that 500 copies be printed for the use of the associates.
The Lieutenant Governor, Chief Justice Parsons, Judges Parker and Davis and the District Marshal, were prevented by official duties from attending.
Providence.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1809.
We congratulate sincerely the inhabitants of this town on the elegant and commodious edifice recently erected, and soon to be consecrated to the purposes of Divine Worship. To Mr. JOHN NEWMAN, who superintended the execution of the wood-work, and to Messrs. ASA and LEMUEL BOSWORTH, under whose advice and direction the brick-work was completed, the citizens are under peculiar obligations. Talents so well employed, and so competent to execute, deserve patronage and encouragement. The noble edifice is a monument of their genius and ability, and it is hoped that while the workmanship is admired the artificers will not be forgotten. Publick buildings are the evidences of the publick taste. We understand that Monday next is appointed for the day for consecrating this noble edifice to the service of the Deity.
We have not yet seen a democratick paper that answers the singular circumstance stated to have occurred in Paris, that the rejection of Mr. Jackson was calculated on there, before he was rejected by our government. If there is a foundation for this fact, we desire to bear no more of the insults and outrages offered by the British Minister. Another circumstance is somewhat unaccountable. Why are not our democrats alarmed, that one of the Napoleon dynasty, now in our country, "is suffered to rise like the issue of a King, and to wear upon his baby brow the round and tap of royalty?" Are we graciously bequeathed a Sovereign in reserve, to await the time when the democrats shall have enabled their dear friend Napoleon to gain a footing in our country? Does Colonel Duane expect to see his name enrolled on the archives of the Legion of Honour, or why is his Aurora silent on the subject?
In a late London paper, the STAR, we observe that the Ladies are fast returning
to the good old custom of wearing long hair, and that wigs are in great demand.
Jerome Bonaparte's Kingdom.
AN EXTRACT.
"It is particularly at Brunswick, where the inhabitants have been daily witnesses of the exemplary conduct of their late Prince, that the luxurious life of their new Sovereign is animadverted upon as forming a peculiarly striking contrast. An unbounded indulgence in licentious pleasures has so undermined his feeble constitution, that in order to support his tottering frame, he is reported to bathe every morning in a tub of claret! As this becomes the perquisite of his valet-de-chambre the story goes, that the wine is bottled off again, and retailed at reduced prices to the inn-keepers and publicans of the place where his decaying Majesty happens to reside.—Hence the reported dread of tasting any red wine at Cassel, except in respectable private houses."
A GREAT SECRETARY.
Mr. Secretary Smith has certainly "cut a figure" in the correspondence with the British Minister. A democratick magistrate at Washington having said, the other day, that the Secretary of State was a feeble man, was told that the letters of that gentleman to the British Minister, and to our Minister in London were written with ability. Very true, says he, but who wrote them? If Mr. Madison did not write those letters, it is certain that his Prime Minister has imitated his style with more felicity than the style of Pope or Sterne has ever been imitated by any one of the many hundreds who constitute the servile herd of their literary followers. Besides, there is a peculiar reason why the President should write them. He had, in the capacity of Secretary of State, become so completely master of the subject of our foreign relations, that he would naturally wish to extend the chain which he had manufactured with so much ingenuity into the precincts of his own Presidency, especially as it would be less labour for him to do it in the first instance, than to direct a Secretary of moderate talents how to do it, and also to correct it when done. The Secretary, however, although not pre-eminent as a literary character, is allowed on all hands to be very ingenious in a certain sort of management. The great interest which his brother, the Baltimore General and Senator, is supposed to have in producing a war with England, has subjected the Premier to some strong suspicions. But let us hope that he can only say, with Motley in the "Castle Spectre," "Certainly my transcendent merit has procured me some enemies; and in common with many other great men, my virtue at present labours under something of a cloud."—But can also say—"Produce your charges, let me justify my conduct, and I doubt not I shall retrieve my reputation from your hands as immaculate and pure as a new sheet of foolscap." Freeman's Journal.
American Marine List.
PORT OF PROVIDENCE,
DECEMBER 29, 1809.
ENTERED.
Schooners—Britannia, Brown, Hudson; Sally, Potter, Alexandria. Sloops—Maria, Comstock, New-York; Rebekah, Hicks, Warren; Eliza, Currie, New-York; Hannah and Nancy, Wardwell, Bristol.
CLEARED.
Ship—Robert Hale, Randall, Rusterziel, or any other permitted port in the North of Europe. Brig—Caroline, Rhodes, Wilmington, (N.C.) Schooners—Paulina, Grainger, Margarreta; Minerva, Rhodes, Alexandria. Sloops—Comet, Tolman, New-London; New-York, Williams, New-York; Juco, Comstock, do. Polly, Brown, do. Minerva, James, Newport.
Yesterday arrived the brig Perseverance, Captain Smith, from St. Petersburg.
From Burlington, (Vt.) Dec. 15.
Arrived here on Tuesday last, sloops Champlain, J. H. Pease, master, Essex. A. Rock, Eureka, E. Boynton, and yesterday, the Jupiter, N. Nicolls, all from Whitehall, having cut their way through the ice from that place to Crown-Point, a distance of 40 miles. The ice was from 4 to 10 inches thick and would probably average at 5. It is no more than justice to remark, that this is an instance of enterprise and perseverance which has rarely been equalled. The above vessels brought about 500 loads of goods, amounting to more than 200,000 dollars, a large proportion of which belonged to the merchants of this town.
Charleston, December 13.
Arrived, ship William and Henry, Hudson, 13 days from Newport. On Saturday last, in lat. 35, long. 75, 30, fell in with the wreck of the sloop Thetis, Capt. Taber, from New-Bedford, bound to Savannah, and took off from it the Captain, and Messrs. A. F. Taber, Braddock Gifford, Amos Kelley, and Thomas Snow, being the only survivors out of 34 souls, who were on board that vessel. The Thetis had sailed from New-Bedford on the 16th of November—about 7 o'clock in the evening of the
23d, being then in lat. of 34, 8, long. 67, 30, it blowing a gale, the sloop was upset by the sudden shifting of the wind, or what is commonly termed a white squall—22 of the persons on board were washed from the vessel, and instantly met a watery grave; the Captain and eleven others, however, clung to the wreck which lay in the same situation, upon her beam-ends, for 48 hours, during which time two out of the twelve who had adhered to the wreck, perished through the severity of the weather, being unable to sustain the hardships to which they were exposed. After much exertion and peril the survivors succeeded, by cutting away the rigging, in righting the vessel; but she was still full of water, and scarcely rising above its surface. In this dreary condition they continued until the seventh day, when a sea struck the wreck and swept nine out of the ten into the sea; Capt. Taber, who was amongst those washed off, fortunately regained the vessel, as did likewise three others, but the other five sunk from their view and were never seen more. These unfortunate men, after being a second time thus providentially saved, continued upon the wreck for ten days longer, being in all seventeen days from the time when the sloop upset; during which time they subsisted upon raw potatoes and some wine—when they were fortunately discovered and taken off by Capt. Hudson, from whom, and the passengers on board, they received the most kind and humane attention. Among the persons who perished, were Messrs. Nathaniel and Samuel Proctor, and Samuel Wing, merchants, the rest of the persons lost were mostly artisans, who were going to Georgia to work during the winter.
EXCHANGE BANK.
THE STOCKHOLDERS of the EXCHANGE BANK are hereby notified, that their Annual Meeting for the choice of Directors for the year ensuing, will be held at the Bank-Room on MONDAY the first day of January, 1810, at 9 o'clock, A.M.—at which time a Dividend will be declared and paid on or after Tuesday the 2d. By order of the President and Directors, STEPHEN JACKSON, Cashier. December 29, 1809.
Dixville Road Lottery.
CLASS FOURTH.
 12,000 Tickets at $5 each are $60,000  1 Prize of $10,000 is $10,000  1 1500 1500  3 1000 3000  4 500 2000  50 100 5000  50 50 2500  50 20 1000  200 10 2000  3644 7 25,508  4003 25,508  Subject to no deduction—not two blanks to a prize. 
Orders for the above Tickets received by J. B. WOOD, who takes Prize Tickets of the Boston, New-York, Philadelphia and Baltimore Lotteries, same as cash.
PRESENT PRICE,
WHOLE, - - - - $5 QUARTERS, - - - - 1:50, (guaranteed,) but will soon rise. Letters enclosing Cash or Prize Tickets, (post paid,) duly attended to. 7 J. B. WOOD pays all Prizes obtained through his Office, which is a great advantage to the holders thereof. Boston, December 20, 1809. 12.
GRAND LOTTERY.
UNION COLLEGE LOTTERY No. 1, commences drawing in the city of New-York on the 3d Tuesday in April next.
SCHEME.
 3 Prizes of $25,000!!!!!!  1 10,000  1 5,000  4 250 Tickets each.  2 2,000  5 1,000  28 500  30 250  50 100  100 50  200 20  10,500 10 
The first 4,000 Blanks will be entitled to Ten Dollars each.
Tickets and Parts for sale by G. and R. WAITK, No. 38 and 44, Maiden-Lane, New-York; GEORGE TAYLOR, Jun. No. 35, South Second-Street, Philadelphia.
7 Orders for the above Tickets left with W. and T. KIDDEN, Boston, or J. B. WOOD, Providence, (R. I.) will be duly attended to.
Present price of Whole Tickets, $8 50 Quarters, - - - - 3 25 but will soon rise.
* Adventurers will do well to secure their Tickets at the present price—delays are dangerous. New-York, November 29, 1809.
AMERICAN BEAVERS.
PROVIDENCE HAT-MANUFACTURING COMPANY, No. 13, CHEAPSIDE, HAVE constantly for sale, an extensive assortment of HATS of a superior quality, viz. No. 1, at 6 dollars; No. 2, at 7; No. 3, at 8, and No. 4, at 9; made on a new and greatly improved system. A liberal deduction to those who purchase at wholesale.
ALSO, An assortment of Men's, Youth's and Children's Hats, from 1 to 4 Dollars. Orders for any quantity executed with fidelity and despatch. Cash given for Hating-Furs. Liberal encouragement to Apprentices. N. B. Cases of Hats at 3 dollars, suitable for the Southern market.
ARNOLD BUFFUM, Agent.

Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Nott. PROPOSALS, OF INTER SCHURMEYER, FOR PUBLISHING A VOLUME OF MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, BY ALPHALAT NOTT, D. D. PRESIDENT OF UNION COLLEGE. THE VOLUME WILL COMPRISE HIS SERMONS, ALREADY PUBLISHED IN SEPARATE FAN- FLETS, TOGETHER WITH HIS BACCA- LAUREATE ADDRESSES.
FOR presenting to the public the works of an eloquent preacher, the publisher conceives that no apology is necessary. He well knows that the many single sermons which almost daily issue from the press useful indeed by the pious instructions they contain, have no peculiar merit in their composition which should preserve them from oblivion. The Sermons and Bacca- laureate Addresses of Dr. Nott, however, are not of this ephemeral class. In them are found united the glowing eloquence of a SAURIN, and the humble piety of the humblest follower of Jesus. The man of taste may read them for amusement, and the Christian for instruction. Though di- vested of whatever adventitious advantages they derived from the persuasive eloquence of his delivery; yet on a calm perusal they will give no feeble proofs of intrinsic ex- cellence. To an attempt at a critical analysis of his peculiar style, the publisher confesses himself inadequate. It is suffi- cient for him to say that they have met with general approbation, evinced not only by the great popularity of his works, but by the applauses of the ablest critics in Europe and America.
CONDITIONS. I. The volume will contain between 250 and 300 octavo pages, printed with a new type, on fine paper. II. The price, in boards, to subscribers, will be One Dollar and Twenty-Five Cents. 17 Subscriptions for the above work received at the American Office. December 22, 1809.
PROPOSALS BY KIMBER & ONRAD, of Philadelphia, for pub- lishing by subscription, a general collection of VOYAGES and TRAVELS; forming a complete History of the Origin and Pro- gress of Discovery, by Sea and Land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Pre- ceded by an Historical Introduction, and Critical Catalogue of Books of Voyages and Travels; and illustrated and adorned with numerous Engravings.—By JOHN PINKER- TON, Author of Modern Geography, &c. CONDITIONS. The work will be handsomely printed, in quarto, on a fine paper and with a new type; and will be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers is ob- tained.
It is expected the work will be com- pleted in ten or twelve volumes, each con- taining between eight and nine hundred pages of letter press, besides several elegant engravings.
A quarter of a volume, or one number, is proposed to be published on the first day of every month, at 2 dollars, payable on delivery. To non-subscribers the price will be considerably enhanced.
A list of the names of such as patronize this valuable work by subscription, will be published in the last volume.
17 The English edition sells at Four Dollars a volume. Subscriptions received by HENRY CUSH- ING, Agent for the Publishers, for this town, at the Bible and Anchor, Mark 1 Street; where a specimen of the work may be seen. December 12, 1809. tf.
SARAH CORY RESPECTFULLY informs her friends, and the public in general, that she includes carrying on the Tailoring, Man- tuamaking, Millinery and Seamstress- Busin as in all their various branches, at her residence in the house of the late Cap- tain Lewis Bosworth, two doors west of the new Brick Meeting-House. She earnestly solicits their patronage, and assures them that she will use her utmost endeavours to give satisfaction to those who may employ her. December 19, 1809.
FOR SALE, BY CHARLES POTTER, A PATENT BALANCE, that weighs 2800 lbs. with a double set of Brass Weights complete, which will be sold very cheap. ALSO, A few Bales of Upland and Sea-Island COTTON. December 22, 1809. tf.
STRIKING and cheap LIKE- NESSES, by W. BACHE, and T. NIXON, who engage to furnish any per- son that will favour them with half an hour's sitting, an elegant painting and shaking Likeness for the small sum of Two Dollars and Twenty-five Cents.— Also, Profiles in a new and superior style, elegantly shaded, for Fifty Cents. The public are assured that this is something entirely different from any thing heretofore attempted in this place. It is therefore hoped they will not deem it be- neath their attention, but call and see spe- cimens of the work, at Major M'CLEL- LAN'S, next door to Col. Macomber's Tavern, near the Bridge, Main-Street. December 22, 1809.
THE subscribers, being ap- pointed by the Honourable Court of Probate of the town of Smithfield, Com- missioners to receive, examine and allow the Claims against the Estate of BALLOU STREETOR, late of Smithfield, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice, that six months from the 9th instant are allowed to the Creditors of said estate to bring in and prove their respective Claims, and that they will receive them at any time between this and the second Saturday in June next. On that day they will meet at the Dwelling-House of Benjamin Hall, for the purpose of allowing, or disallowing the several Claims presented. CHRISTOPHER DEXTER, BENJAMIN HALL, Smithfield, December 21, 1809.
STOP THIEF!!! Thirty Dollars Reward. STOLEN from the Barn of the subscri- ber, on the night of the 19th instant, a HORSE, a double padded SAD- DLE, considerably worn, and a single reined curb-bitted BRIDLE, with a cloth headstall. Said Horse is six years old, about 15 hands high, a natural trotter, has a star in his forehead, one white hind foot, a square dock and cut mane. Thirty Dollars reward will be given to any person who will return said Horse, Saddle and Bridle to the owner, and secure said Thief in any gaol in the United States, or Ten Dollars for the Horse, Saddle and Bridle. BARNARD CHACE. Smithfield, December 21, 1809.
Flour, Corn and Tobacco. Now landing from on board the brig Mary- Ann, and for sale by C. S. Jones or B. T. Chandler, Opposite the Providence Bank. FIFTEEN Hhds. of VIRGINIA TO- BACCO, 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 them- selves, as it would exceed the reasonab- le limits of an advertisement to particularize their articles. N. B. Those indebted to them, by Note or Book Account, are seriously called up- on for payment. December 12, 1809.
BOSTON and PROVIDENCE STAGE-OFFICE.
THE public are hereby informed, that the Stage-Books for Boston, are kept at EBENEZER FOSTER'S Inn, near the Market; where Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to call and take their seats. 17 Extra Carriages at the shortest no- tice. JOHN NEDHAM and CO. July 14, 1809. tf.
UPLAND COTTON and HIDES. THIRTY-FIVE Bales of Upland COT- TON, 212 Savannah HIDES, received per schoo- ner Rambler; ALSO, 100 Barrels Menhaden FISH, 500 Bushels coarse SALT, for sale by ELISHA DYER. December 5, 1809.
WHEREAS at the Court of Common Pleas held at Prov- idence, in and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December inst. the subscribers were appointed Commis- sioners, or Assignees, to receive the Es- tate of PHILIP BUMP, of Cranston, who has obtained the benefit of an act, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," and the several acts in aid thereof, and dis- tribute the same among his Creditors, agreeably to the provisions of said acts:— NOTICE is therefore hereby given to the Creditors of the said PHILIP, to exhibit to us, or either of us, their respective de- mands, within nine months from the 19th day of December inst. or they will be pre- cluded according to the provisions of the acts aforesaid. JOHN ARNOLD, ARTHUR GREENE, ABAH CAPRON. December 22, 1809.
RUM and SUGAR. BLODGET & POWER Offer, now landing from the Alonzo, 10 Hhds. of Loaf SUGAR, 13 do. sweet flavoured St. Croix RUM, on accommodating terms. November 25, 1809. tf.
FALL MACKEREL. NEHEMIAH BUCKLIN RESPECTFULLY acquaints his friends and customers, that he has just re- ceived 20 Barrels of FALL MACKEREL, at his Shop opposite the Market-House, Providence, which he warrants to be of the best kind; if they should prove otherwise, he will receive them back and return the money. December 26, 1809.
PHILIP PECK HAS received his winter supply of Summer and Winter-strained LAMP OIL, which he will sell by the cask or re- tail at the most reduced prices. December 26, 1809.
TAKE NOTICE. WILLIAM PEARCE Respectfully informs his friends, and the public in general, THAT he continues keeping a Tavern at his house in the village of Wick- ford, town of North-Kingstown, next door to Philip Tillinghast, Esq. where the great- est attention will be paid to those who may please to favour him with their company, and may depend on having the smallest fa- vour gratefully acknowledged. 17 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.
For Sale, on reasonable terms, by PAYTON DANA, At the Sign of the Turk's Head, East Front of Whitman's Buildings. LOCKS, Willard's patent Time-Pieces, gold and silver warranted and com- mon Watches, gold Watch Chains, Seals and Keys, silver, gilt and steel do. silver Table, Tea and Salt Spoons; Sugar Tongs, Chimblet, gold Necklaces, Ear and Fin- ger 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 Purse. JUST RECEIVED, Plated Teapots, Sugar Basins and Cream Pots, Castors, Candlesticks, Lamps, Spurs, &c. Britannia Teapots, some very elegant patterns; Sugar Basins 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. 17 Watches carefully cleaned and re- paired as usual. November 21, 1809. tf.
REMOVAL. THOMAS RHODES Has removed to the Store lately occupied by Mr. Jacob Soesman, in Weybosset Street, one door west of Messrs. Taf- and Waterman's Store—where he has for sale A FEW Hhds. of sweet flavoured St. Croix Rum, Pipes of American Gin, of an excellent quality; 2 Pipes of Spanish Brandy, A few Bags and Barrels of Coffee, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Sou- chong 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 Can- dles, 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.
REMOVAL. THE subscriber tenders his grateful ac- knowledgments to the public for their many favours to him while residing 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 comfort- able and happy. AZOR BROWN. N. B. Good and spacious accommodation for STABLING. December 8, 1809.
Commissioners' Notice. THE subscribers, appointed by the Court of Probate of the Town of Prov- idence, Commissioners to receive and ex- amine the Claims against the Estate of LEWIS BOSWORTH, late of said Prov- idence, Mariner, deceased, represented in- solvent, hereby give notice to all persons having claims against said Estate, that they exhibit them to us within six months from the date hereof, the time allowed by said Court to receive and examine said claims. DANIEL FIELD, DANIEL PROUD. All persons indebted to the Estate of the said LEWIS BOSWORTH are requested to make immediate payment; and those hav- ing accounts against said Estate, to exhibit them for settlement, to EARL POTTER. December 4, 1809.
Sherry Wine, Tobacco, Provi- sions, &c. ONE Hundred and Twenty Quarter Casks of excellent Sherry Wine, D G. brand; 30 Hhds. of Fayetteville Tobacco, 70 Barrels of prime Beef, 10 do. do. Pork, 50 do. Pilot Bread, 128 do. Far, 40 do. Turpentine, 1200 W. O. Hhd. Staves and Heading, For sale, on liberal terms, by ABORN & JACKSON. They want to purchase 3000 feet of two inch Ship Plank, and a quantity of Ship Knees, for which cash will be paid on del- ivery. December 15, 1809.
NEW FLOUR. JUST received per the Little Sarah, from Alexandria, and for sale by SAMUEL BUTLER, jun. 600 Barrels of superfine and fine FLOUR. FOR ALEXANDRIA. THE Sloop LITTLE SA- RAH, HENRY ELDRIDGE, Master, to sail with all con- venient speed. For Freight or Passage, apply to the Master, or to SAMUEL BUTLER, jun. Said BUTLER wants to purchase, CI- DER, CHEESE and POTATOES. December 12, 1809. ONE Hundred Barrels of su- perfine FLOUR, for sale by BEN- JAMIN T. CHANDLER, cheap for cash, this day. December 8, 1809.
REPLENISHMENT. CHARLES POTTER, No. 3, Market-Square, RESPECTFULLY informs his custom- ers, that he has lately received an ad- ditional 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 re- duced 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 CARPET- ING, among which are a few thousand yards of best Kidminster Carpeting, at 6s. per yard, and a quantity of Scotch Carpet- ing 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 Hhds. Ditto Glass-Ware in ditto. November 28, 1809. tf.
New Fancy Shoe Store, Westminster-Street, a few doors west of the Exchange Bank, and directly oppo- site Mr. Whitman's new Brick Building. THE subscribers beg leave to inform the inhabitants of this and the adjacent towns, that they are about opening a com- plete assortment of Ladies', Misses' and Children's SHOES of almost every de- scription; 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 Mas- sachusetts. LIKewise, a few gentlemen's Morocco Pumps, very nice. One of the partners superintending the Manufacturing of all their retailing Shoes, the public are assured that the greatest care is taken in procuring the best materi- als and in selecting the neatest and most faithful workmen. As their Store is on a street which has a very pleasant side- walk, 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 furnish- ed for the southern market at short notice. EMERSON and NELSON. December 12, 1809. tf.
House and Store Lots, &c. &c. The subscriber offers for sale the fol- lowing valuable Property: THIRTY-ONE House and Store Lots, situated in High Street, on the Plan leading to and adjoining on the Estate now occupied by Mrs. C. Olney. These Lots are most advantageously situated for Stores to command the principal country trade, or for House Lots. It is notorious that no landed property increases with the rapidity it does in this quarter of the town.— Stores are already run out nearly to his line, and business increased and increasing there to a degree, sufficient justly to alarm the Landholders in other parts of the town. Also—Fifteen acres of Land directly back, and adjoining the above described House Lots; part of which was seeded down to grass last Spring and is highly ma- nured.
One House Lot on Constitution Hill, fronting 50 feet on Stampers-Street, on which there is a Barn paying an annual rent, which can be removed if the pur- chaser wishes. One large three story Store, situated in the centre of this town, (now occupied by Mr. Samuel Nightingale, jun. as a Flour and Grocery-Store,) being a most valuable stand for business. Twenty acres of Woodland, situated in Johnston, about eight miles from the Great Bridge, on which there is a growth of very excellent timber. Twenty-one acres of Woodland situated in North-Providence, adjoining Lands of the heirs of the late Messrs. Clark and Nightingale, (commonly called the Ruten- burg place.) On this Lot there are a very valuable quantity of Building Stones. One Share in the Ohio Purchase con- taining about 1100 acres. Two Rights in the township of Navy, in the State of Vermont, of about eight hundred acres, on one of which Rights there is erected a Saw and Grist-Mill. Five Shares in the Rhode-Island and Connecticut Turnpike Company. The travelling on this road increases to an astonishing degree, and the prospects are at present favourable for a dividend of 6 or 8 per cent. on the capital Stock. One Share in the Thompson Turnpike Company, which now pays 8 per cent. Any of the above Property will be sold on liberal terms for cash or approved credit.
The subscriber continues to carry on the Paper Manufacturing Business in its vari- ous Branches, and has now on hand the kinds usually called for—Manufacturers of Cotton Yarn can be supplied with large extra Wrapping Paper of a very durable quality. No. 1 and 2 Chocolate, manufactured at his Mill, and as good as any made in this country. Also, Chocolate Shells. N. G. OLNEY. December 15, 1809. tf.
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 reasona- bly, if applied for soon. ALSO, Forty Southern HIDES, and a quantity of UPLAND COTTON. December 8, 1809.
PETER GRINNELL & SON Offer for sale, at their Store, formerly oc- cupied by GRINNELL & TAYLOR, near- ly opposite the Providence Bank, A LARGE assortment of Paints, whole- sale and retail, dry or ground in Oil. Also, Window-Glass of every size, Lin- seed and Lamp-Oil, Varnishes, Spirits of Turpentine, an assortment of Ship-Chand- lery, Looking-Glasses, with Mahogany and burnished gilt frames in the newest fash- ion, of their own manufacture; with every other article generally called for in a Paint Store, as cheap as can be purchased in this State. 17 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.
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 ex- cellent 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 ri- ver, 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 some- what 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 conven- ient 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 Or- charding, 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 mow- ing, 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 set- tlement and neighbourhood of a family con- nexion. One contains about 125 acres, with a two story House and Barn, and three flourishing young Orchards; will cut an- nually 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 wood- land; and will be sold separately or to- gether, and possession may be had imme- diately. Also one in Blanford, of fifty acres, with a House and Barn; well watered, under good improvement, and well pro- portioned into mowing, pasturing, plough- ing and woodland. The above Farms will be sold on rea- sonable 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; late- ly 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 neces- sary accommodation for a Tavern; about three acres of Land, including a Garden, with considerable fruit, and an Orchard that will produce from 20 to 30 barrels of cider annually. Also, ten acres of Wood- land, within one mile of the above stand. Also, one hundred thousand acres of Land, in New-Connecticut; part of which lays 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 re- markably 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 sub- scriber will sell either by the whole town- ship or tract, or by any less quantity, as may best suit purchasers. It will be no- ticed, that the price of land, in the unset- tled 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 advan- tage 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.
Pilot-Bread and Crackers. BENJAMIN ROBINSON Has on hand, for sale, at the Bake- House on the Wharf, opposite the Baptist Meeting-House, a quantity of PI- LOT-BREAD and CRACKERS on rea- sonable terms, or in Exchange for West- India produce. November 21, 1809. tf. PUBLISHED TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS, BY DUNHAM and HAWKINS, At the sign of the AMERICAN EAGLE, Opposite the Market. $3.50 PER ANNUM.....HALF IN ADVANCE.