The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1809-12-19 00:00:00

THE RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
"THE NATION WHICH INDULGES TOWARDS ANOTHER AN HABITUAL HATRED, OR AN HABITUAL FONDNESS, IS IN SOME DEGREE A SLAVE." — WASHINGTON.
VOLUME II.
PROVIDENCE, TUESDAY DECEMBER 19, 1809.
NUMBER 18.
PEWS AT AUCTION.
ON FRIDAY next, the 22d instant, the PEWS in the Beneficent Congregational Society's new Meeting-House will be sold at Public Auction. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock, A. M. N. B. The Meeting-House will be open for examination the day previous to the sale.
R. HOPPIN, Auctioneer. December 13, 1809.
Sherry Wine, Tobacco, Provisions, &c.
ONE Hundred and Twenty Quarters Casks of excellent Sherry Wine, D. G. brand; 30 Hds. of Fayetteville Tobacco, 70 Barrels of prime Beef, 10 do. do. Pork, 50 do. Pilot Bread, 120 do. do. Tans, 40 do. Turpentine, 1200 W. O. Hhd. Staves and Heading, For sale, on liberal terms, by ABORN & JACKSON.
They want to purchase 3000 feet of two inch Ship Plank, and a quantity of Ship Knees, for which cash will be paid on delivery. December 15, 1809.
SUGARS.
BLODGET & POWER Offer, now landing, on accommodating terms, EIGHTY-one Boxes of Havana brown SUGARS, 43 Boxes of Havana white do. of superior qualities, December 15, 1809.
A CLERK WANTED.
A YOUNG MAN of steady and industrious habits, capable of keeping books, and who writes a good hand, and is willing to devote his time entirely to business, will receive employment and a liberal salary. Apply to this Office. December 15, 1809.
THE Subscriber has just received a large supply of FALL and WINTER GOODS of the latest importations, in which he is determined NOT TO BE UNDERBOLD.
JOHN R. CARPENTER. No. 8, MARKET-SQUARE. December 15, 1809.
House and Store Lots, &c. &c. The subscriber offers for sale the following valuable Property:
THIRTY-ONE House and Store Lots, situated in High-Street, on the Plain leading to and adjoining on the Estate now occupied by Mrs. C. Olney. These Lots are most advantageously situated for stores to command the principal country trade, or for House Lots. It is notorious that 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 manured.
One House Lot on Constitution Hill, fronting 50 feet on Stumper's-Street, on which there is a Barn paying an annual rent, which can be removed if the purchaser wishes.
One large three story Store, situated in the centre of this town, (now occupied by Mr. Samuel Nightingale, jun. as a Flour and Grocery-Store,) being a most valuable stand for business.
Twenty acres of Woodland, situated in Johnston, about eight miles from the Great Bridge, on which there is a growth of very excellent timber.
Twenty-one acres of Woodland situated in North-Providence, adjoining Lands of the heirs of the late Messrs. Clark and Nightingale, (commonly called the Rutenburg place.) On this Lot there are a very valuable quantity of Building Stones.
One Share in the Ohio Purchase containing about 1100 acres.
Two Rights in the township of Navy, in the State of Vermont, of about eight hundred acres, on one of which Rights there is 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 various Branches, and has now on hand the kinds usually called for.—Manufacturers of Cotton Yarn can be supplied with large extra Wrapping Paper of a very durable quality.
No. 1 and 2 Chocolate, manufactured at his Mill, and as good as any made in this country. Also, Chocolate Shells. N. G. OLNEY.
December 15, 1809.
THE Copartnership between BROWNELL and ARMINGTON is this day dissolved by mutual consent. THOMAS BROWNELL, GEORGE ARMINGTON. November 28, 1809.
FOR CHARLESTON, (S. C.)
(By the way of NEW-YORK.) THE well-known and remarkably fast-sailing Sloop NEW-YORK, H. Williams Master, will sail by the 20th instant, having superior accommodations for Passengers. For Freight or Passage, apply on board, at GODFREY'S Wharf, or to WILLIAMS and BULLARD.
Those who wish to send Freight, will please to send it on board the first fair weather, as the season is far advanced. December 13, 1809.
PROPOSALS BY KIMBER & CONRAD
of Philadelphia, for publishing by subscription, a general collection of VOYAGES and TRAVELS: forming a complete History of the Origin and Progress of Discovery by Sea and Land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Preceded by an Historical Introduction, and Critical Catalogue of Books of Voyages and Travels; and illustrated and adorned with numerous Engravings.—By JOHN PINKERTON, 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 obtained.
It is expected the work will be completed in ten or twelve volumes, each containing 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.
The English edition sells at Fourteen Dollars a volume.
Subscriptions received by HENRY CUSING, at the Bible and Anchor, Market-Street; where a specimen of the work may be seen. December 12, 1809.
NEW FLOUR.
JUST received per the Little Sarah, from Alexandria, and for sale by SAMUEL BUTLER, jun. 600 Barrels of superfine and fine FLOUR.
FOR ALEXANDRIA. THE Sloop LITTLE SARAH, HENRY BEEBE, Master, to sail with all convenient speed. For Freight or Passage, apply to the Master, or to SAMUEL BUTLER, jun.
Said BUTLER wants to purchase, CIDER, CHEESE and POTATOES. December 12, 1809.
Flour, Corn and Tobacco.
Now landing from on board the brig Mary-Ann, and for sale by
C. S. Jones or B. T. Chandler,
Opposite the Providence Bank,
FIFTEEN Hds. of VIRGINIA TOBACCO.
300 Barrels of FLOUR,
1000 Bushels of CORN, and 70 Barrels of sifted MEAL. December 12, 1809.
PECKHAM & BARKER
HAVE just received a large supply of HARDWARE GOODS, which makes their assortment equal to any in the country. Those in want of Goods in their line, will do well to call and see for themselves, as it would exceed the reasonable limits of an advertisement to particularize their articles.
N. B. Those indebted to them, by Note or Book Account, are seriously called upon for payment. December 12, 1809.
BOSTON and PROVIDENCE STAGE-OFFICE.
THE publick are hereby informed, that the Stage-Books for Boston, are kept at EZENEZER FOSTER'S Inn, near the Market; where Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to call and take their seats.
Extra Carriages at the shortest notice.
JOHN NEDHAM and CO. July 14, 1809.
REPLENISHMENT.
CHARLES POTTER,
No. 3, Market-Square, RESPECTFULLY informs his customers, that he has lately received an additional supply of
FALL and WINTER GOODS,
of the latest importations into Boston, among which are a good proportion of scarce articles, all of which were bought for cash, and are offered for sale at reduced prices, for ready pay. He assures his customers that his prices are very low, that no person can, either at wholesale or retail, under sell him.
Also, received as above,
Several additional supplies of CARPETING, among which are a few thousand yards of best Kidminster Carpeting, at 6s. per yard, and a quantity of Scotch Carpeting at 4s. 9d. with a variety of rich Scotch and Venetian Stair Carpeting, at reduced prices.
Also for sale, as above,
A quantity of Coffee in Bags,
Ditto Whale-Oil in Hds. Ditto Glass-Ware in ditto. November 28, 1809.
Original Poetry.
We beg leave to recommend the following as one of the choicest Odes of Parnassus For the RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN.
A FABLE.
LITTLE Robin, he sung from the red cherry-tree, Loodle, loodle, loodle, loo. I sing very well for myself, thought he, And they who don't like, have the same liberty; So, loodle, &c.
And fast by the tree a siver did creep. Gillyflower gentle rosemary. The bottom was muddy, the water was deep, The margin was slippery, the margin was steep. Gillyflower, &c.
I went to the river, I carried my gun. Dand'd over, my Lady Lee. I trod upon eggs to make sure of my fun; But Robin still kept between me and the sun. Dance, &c.
The leaves or the boughs, always spoild a good sight. Down, down, down derry down. Though I kept my eyes on her, with all my might; Till I plump'd in the brook, to my arm-pits quite. Down, down, &c.
What soundings, said Robin, how deep is the mud? Oh, dear, what can the matter be? By plopping my fall, you have fallen in the flood: Cold water won't hurt, 'tis as good as my blood. Oh, dear, &c.
I'll remember your moral, I said with a sigh, Heigh ho, the wind and the rain. Methinks, for a Robin, you're wonderful dry: 'Tis well there's one of us, for so am not I. Heigh ho, &c.
"CARROL's amendment to his last piece came too late for insertion, as the paper was published before it came to hand. The alteration he proposes is a substitution of this stanza for the last."
BUT twilight, though to human eyes It seem forever lost in night's black hue, Yet, as on joyful wing it flies, Flies but to find more brilliant skies, And holds a wide, eternal day in view.
Miscellany.
For the RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN. THE LATITUDINARIAN—No. XXIV
IT may be justly doubted whether the strength of some of our modern belles, like that of Samson of old, does not lie in their locks of hair, and whether their amputation will not modernize at least as far as allegory can be extended, the catastrophe of Samson. We hope it will not be regarded as presumption if we endeavour to inform some of the damsels of the present age what the ancients deemed the pride and ornament of a woman, viz. the flowing ringlets. In the hope that some locks may thus be preserved from the usurpation of the scissors, we proceed to lay before our readers some historical facts. So far back as the Trojan war, Helen, who was certainly a belle of the first beauty, as both Paris and Menelaus are ready to testify, was remarkable for the length of her ringlets. Nay, the goddess of beauty, Madam Venus herself, if all the Poets may be credited, never submitted her locks to the tonsuration of a barber. Amongst the Greeks, amongst the Romans, it was ever regarded as almost the perfection of beauty to suffer the hair to remain possessed of its natural rights, privileges and immunities. Virgil in one instance, it must be confessed, declares that Juno sent down her waiting maid, Iris, to clip off a lock from the head of Dido, her special favourite; but the argument to be derived from that fact bears strongly against the modern innovation. Iris, though Juno's attendant, did not think it beneath the dignity of her office to play the part of a barber, when Dido was dying, because the lock so taken away was to be preserved as a precious relick. In the same way, Homer's hero, the bone-breaking Achilles, who had he lived in modern times would have kept a whole regiment of surgeons in constant employ, after he had cried to his heart's content for the death of Patrocles, amputates a lock of his hair as an offering sacred to the gods. If then after death the long ringlets were amputated as a present worthy of the gods, the argument is irresistible that during life, the scissors dared not to play so hazardous a game as to deprive such illustrious personages of their perquisites and emoluments. When we look into the history of England, we find the same ideas prevalent; for although in the barbarick ages of that country, the natives sometimes disfigured, and even mutilated their bodies to improve their beauty, their barbarism never extended so
far as to amputate their locks. In times more modern, we find that when time had done the office of scissors, the ladies regarded his conduct with such abhorrence that they wore wigs, determined at all events to comply with that mandate of the Apostle that enjoins the wearing of long hair, even though they should violate every other. Until very lately a Poet who should have addressed a sonnet in commendation of female beauty, and have neglected the lock, would have been, in the language of Commodore Trunnion, "keel hauled for his presumption." Mr. Pope conceived the amputation of one lock of hair such high treason against the rights of Parnassus, that he made it the basis of one of his most beautiful poems, and emphatically denominated it "The Rape of the Lock." In the machinery of his poem he has introduced Sylphs and Gnomes, and all the race of butterfly divinities, to guard the lock from profanation. Such, therefore, has been the envied prerogative of our belles from remotest antiquity to the present time, until the tyranny of the scissors commenced its depredations. The children of Ethiopia have been at immeasurable pains to counteract nature and to discipline their locks to the same graceful symmetry with ours. Huge bobs of lead have been applied to their hair for the purpose of overcoming those pestilent curls; but the labour was in vain. They have lived to see the day when the tables are turned, and their heads regarded as the standard of fashion for us. We were recently led into this train of reflections by a circumstance that befel our truly worthy friend Tobias Bradford.—His daughter, Peggy Bradford, a beautiful girl, had submitted her locks to the tyranny of modern custom. On entering his study one morning, the sage gazed at her for several moments through his spectacles with great attention, and then slapping his hand on the table, he exclaimed with an energy and emphasis peculiar to the Bradfords, "my daughter is docked."
THE DIPLOMATIC POLICY OF MR. MADISON UNVEILED—No. I.
IT is proposed to examine, in a calm and dispassionate manner, without invective, and, as far as is practicable, without undue prepossessions, the very interesting measures of Mr. Madison's short administration. Our observations and arguments will be addressed to that enlightened portion of the community, who examine before they decide:—who collect, combine and compare facts, before they draw inferences; and who habitually keep their passions in some degree of subordination to their understandings.
It will be seen by this introduction, that there are other classes of citizens to whom the following candid remarks, the result of close examination and honest and sedulous inquiry, are in no degree addressed: Let all such men forbear to read what will only serve to confirm their prejudices, and inflame their passions:—for no observation is more correct than that where men have formed violent prepossessions upon slight, or no foundation, those prejudices are only embittered by strong and forcible arguments directed against such favorite opinions. Those, therefore, who believe that our administration is always in the right, and Great-Britain always in the wrong; those who consider it a proof of hatred to one's own country, to shew that the existing and temporary rulers of it are hurrying it to its ruin; and especially those who entertain the ungenerous and unmanly sentiment that every man who examines with candour, the conduct of a foreign nation, or of a foreign nation, or of its Ministers, is either a partisan or a pensioner of such nation, had better shut their eyes to these essays, at the very outset, for they will only tend to inflame their resentments by a firm and resolute exposure of their errors.
There are some, however, who are neither so candid or so enlightened as to be entirely open to conviction, and yet not so prejudiced as to be proof against its force, who had learned from sad experience to distrust the sincerity of Mr. Jefferson, and were therefore capable of discussing with closeness the nature of his measures: Yet these same persons deem it unfair to examine with the same degree of suspicion, the conduct of Mr. Madison.
A charitable sentiment towards this gentleman, has acquired a wonderful influence, owing principally to the undeserved praise innocuously bestowed upon a measure little understood, and which, when thoroughly examined, will be found to merit a high degree of censure. The adjustment with Great-Britain was a measure so gratifying to all the true lovers of their country, and of its peace, that, without a reflection, they
were willing to bury all party recollections of Mr. Madison's conduct; and to believe, that a statesman who had grown hoary in the cultivation of deep antipathies to Great-Britain, who had staked his literary reputation, (dearer to an author than country or life,) in favour of principles which rendered a sincere accommodation absolutely hopeless, had, by a sort of miracle, been converted by a feeble diplomatick stripping of Great-Britain, into a sincere friend, to an honourable accommodation.
It was openly said that Mr. Madison always had been at heart a federalist; that he had never pledged himself to the system of eternal hatred to England which formed the most marked features in the policy of his predecessor; that the part which he had borne under that administration was only subordinate and theatrical; and that no opinion could be formed from that cause of his future measures.
Disgraceful as such a supposition was to his character, mean as must his conduct have been thus to have played the hypocrite or the slave, and false as his measures now prove this opinion to have been; yet these opinions gained proselytes, and there have been moments in which Mr. Madison, for an act which will eventually destroy his reputation, might have obtained the praises of the degraded federalists.
Though the counteraction will eventually be as strong as the deception was complete, and deep indignation will succeed to a momentary applause; yet at this moment, the difficulties of a publick writer are materially increased.
Adapted to this state of things must be our course of procedure. The political history of Mr. Madison will be first and briefly discussed, in order to shew us what we had a right to expect of him, and to prove that hatred to Great-Britain and attachment to French politicks were deeply rooted in his own character, totally independent of his connexion with Mr. Jefferson.
We shall then proceed to consider the arrangement with Mr. Erskine; in which we shall examine the proofs of the imbecility of that young gentleman—the extraordinary course which was adopted of setting upon him all our ministers separately—the errors into which he was led and which produced his violation of his orders: The measures the administration adopted to prevent Great-Britain from acceding to the arrangement—the proofs that it was never expected the arrangement would be agreed to, and of course the evidence it affords of insincerity—the appointment of Mr. John Q. Adams to the Court of one of the allies of Bonaparte and enemies of Great-Britain, before the rejection of the arrangement was known, with a view, as it will turn out, to form a coalition against Great-Britain, or to combine in the means of resistance; a measure calculated to excite her jealousy, and to gratify Bonaparte.—Under this head we shall notice also the conduct of Congress at the June session, and shew, that it was a violation of the implied bargain with Mr. Erskine, and a departure from Mr. Madison's personal assurances to that gentleman; and, lastly, the late course of Negotiation with France, which proves that the arrangement with Erskine was explained to Bonaparte as a measure which must fail, and that it was intended to widen the breach between us and England: In this light Bonaparte received and approved of it.
Having taken this view of the arrangement with Erskine, we shall say a few words about the rejection of it by Great-Britain, and the motives and grounds of that measure.
We shall then proceed to discuss the late negotiation with Mr. Jackson. In the progress of this discussion we shall first consider the foundation of the charge against Mr. Jackson of having insulted our government: We shall endeavour to shew, that there has been no intimation on his part of any want of veracity in our administration—that upon the point on which the contradiction has been alleged to have existed no discordance whatever can be perceived—that he has not advanced any thing which has not admitted on the part of our administration; and that, so far from having aggravated his supposed insult, he purposely and delicately abstained in his last letter from repeating the allegation which was pretended to be offensive.
We shall then proceed to analyze the whole correspondence, and to shew that the charge of indecorum rests against Mr. Smith: That his first letter to Mr. Jackson was a departure from those established rules of delicacy and decorum which invariably usage has rendered indispensable, that misrepresentations of Mr. Jackson's proposals, and offensive adherence to them

after he had explained them, are to be per- ceived throughout the whole correspon- dence: That instead of Mr. Jackson's in- timating in the most remote degree any- thing which was denied by our government, they on the contrary have, in a most ex- plicit manner, not only questioned his ve- racity, but have directly intimated that he had been guilty of falsehood.
We shall then attempt to shew the rea- son of the rupture of the Negotiation— that they are to be found in the very able and perspicuous manner in which Mr. Jackson had apologized for his own gov- ernment and had repelled the charges made against their sincerity—in the impos- sibility of continuing a negotiation in which every pretext for continued hostility was so perfectly removed—and in the danger to which the administration was exposed of having their views completely and un- answerably displayed.
We are aware that in proving these pro- positions, not by argument merely, but by quotations from the correspondence, we shall expose ourselves to the hasty cen- sures of those rash politicians who, regard- less of the high and ultimate reputation of their country, of that reputation which posterity, uninfluenced by our momentary passions, will give to us, will stigmatize the writer of the advocate of our enemies.
We are aware that it is impossible to make the truth palatable, where the pas- sions of our readers lead them to prefer deception: But the duty of attempting to inform is not the less imperious because it is painful and hazardous. Let the writer be sacrificed; let him be branded with all the epithets which inflamed and bigotted passions can invent; the truth however will remain unchangeable, and the day will certainly arrive, too late perhaps for our safety, too late certainly for the vind- ication of the writer, in which all honest and enlightened men will concur in the maintenance of his opinions. This may be deemed vanity: It deserves that cen- sure, if to expect conviction from a cool and dispassionate display of facts, and an impartial course of reasoning, is an indica- tion of vanity.
The confidence felt by the author in his opinions arises from a conviction, that he has thoroughly examined the late policy of our rulers; that he has proceeded no far- ther than he is supported by facts, the evidence of which he shall cite and of which the publick must judge. He means to assume nothing but what he proves, as he advances; and he begs the publick to withdraw their belief of his statements whenever they are unsupported by the evidence. On the other hand he invites and challenges all who may dissent from his opinions to controvert the facts he may state and the arguments he may deduce from them.
Happy will he be, if for the first time in moments of political excitement the pub- lick verdict shall be rendered in conformity to strict principles and conceded evidence, uninfluenced by existing prejudices, and unmanageable prepossessions.
Having dismissed the subject of our ne- gotiations with Great-Britain, he shall con- sider our despatches from France, and the manner in which they are submitted to the publick attention. He shall then invite the most strenuous supporters of the admin- istration to defend this conduct of our gov- ernment in relation to France consistently with even a moderate degree of impar- tiality, (that has long ceased to exist,) but of common honesty and fairness. He shall then deduce some strong arguments in sup- port of his opinions of the insincere views of our administration towards Great-Bri- tain from the unexampled tameness and partiality of their conduct towards France. [TO BE CONTINUED.]
Foreign Intelligence.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. LONDON, October 29. WHITEHALL, October 28.
THE King has been pleased to consti- tute and appoint the Right Honourable Henry John Viscount Palmerston to be his Majesty's Secretary at War.
Despatches were received this morning from Lord Wellesley, dated on the 16th inst. He was preparing to return to this country immediately. Our army in Spain was recovering fast. The French have pushed a corps into La Mancha.
According to private letters from Portu- gal, Lord Wellington has established mag- azines at Almeida, with a view of op- posing the enemy, in case he should make an attack on Ciudad Rodrigo, which he was still expected to do. Sir Robert Wil- son had charge of the flying bridge at Villa Velha, and occupied the frontier north of the Tagus. The Duke del Parque was near Ciudad Rodrigo, waiting for rein- forcements.
The Princess Amelia's disorder is a liver complaint, under which she may linger for some time: but we are sorry to say, little hope are entertained of her restora- tion to health.
Extract of a letter from Gijon, Oct. 18. "Our American friend, Mr. Brown, is just this moment arrived at Santander.— He brings account of the French troops (400) having left Bilbao in a hasty manner,"
and that the patriots, to the number of 3000 men, have entered it, as also Santona and Castro. At his departure from San- tander, it was supposed that General Bon- et would pursue the same route."
October 30.
It is finally settled, that not merely Wal- cheren is to be maintained but Portugal also shall be defended—and all the dis- posable force in England is under orders for those two destinations. On Saturday an order was sent down to the Sussex district, for every regiment except the 18th light horse, to hold itself in immediate readiness for embarkation.
Advices from Hamburg, of so late a date as the 30th ult. were received yester- day. They state that a desperate battle has been fought between the Russian and Turkish armies, consisting of 30,000 each, in which the latter were completely vic- torious; but no particulars are mentioned. It is added that Ismael continued to hold out on the 27th September.
The following ministerial appointments were expected to take place at the Levee, at the Queen's House, on Wednesday last; the Earl of Liverpool, Secretary of State for War and Colonies, vice Viscount Castle- reagh; and Mr. Ryder, Secretary of State for the Home Department, vice, the Earl of Liverpool. The Cabinet will therefore consist of the following members: Lord Eldon, Lord Liverpool, Lord Bathurst, Mr. Ryder, Lord Camden, Lord West- moreland, Lord Harrowby, Mr. Dundas, Lord Mulgrave, and Lord Chatham.
October 31.
The death of the Duke of Portland took place at half past five o'clock yesterday afternoon. From the excess of his suffer- ings he was induced to have the operation of the stone performed; a large stone was extracted, and every thing appeared to be going on well, but unfortunately an epileptick fit came on, and after a faint struggle his Grace expired. His Grace was in the 72d year of his age. He is suc- ceeded by his eldest son, the Marquis of Titchfield, now Duke of Portland.
November 2.
A morning paper says, that an answer has been received by his Majesty's Min- isters from Lord Wellesley, and that it is in substance this—"that the state of af- fairs in Spain rendered it expedient for him, if possible, to remain there, but that if the interests of his Majesty's govern- ment required his return to this country, he would of course consider it a point of duty to pay immediate obedience, to his Majesty's commands." Orders have there- fore, it is added, been despatched for his Lordship's immediate return; and it is hoped his Lordship will take the office for Foreign Affairs.
No Paris papers have been received of a later date than the 24th; but letters are said to have arrived from Paris of the 27th, and from Munich of the 23d. The latter announce that Bonaparte passed through that capital on the 23d, on his way to Paris; the former state that he reached Paris on the 26th.
November 11.
The following is just received by a ves- sel which left Oporto the 28th ult.
BULLETIN EXTRA.
We hasten, with peculiar satisfaction, to communicate the following
"Extract of a letter to his Excellency Colonel Tynt, the Governor of the City of Oporto."
"I have the satisfaction to inform you, that on the 18th inst. the Spanish ar- my, under the command of the Duke del Parque, had an engagement with a corps of French troops, that had advanced from Salamanca, under the command of Gene- ral Marchand, which terminated in fa- vour of the Spanish arms. I have not yet received the details. It was fought at Ta- mames, or in the vicinity. It is said that the French lost, in killed and wounded, about 1000 men; the Spaniards only 150; the enemy also lost a 12 pounder, a stand of colours, and 300 muskets, and the Span- iards retook at the point of the bayonet, 6 pieces of artillery, which they had lost on the morning of that day. The French re- treated after the action to Salamanca. It is not known whether the whole of the Duke del Parque's army was in the en- gagement. It is reported the French con- sisted of 10,000 infantry, 1200 cavalry, with 9 pieces of artillery. The day after the action the Duke was reinforced by General Ballesteros, with 7000 men. I am in haste, &c."
"WILLIAM COX."
"Almeida, October 20."
DUBLIN, November 1.
We were enabled yesterday, from an exclusive source, to publish the only po- sitive account of the conclusion of a peace between France and Austria. We find the intelligence repeated in the packet which arrived to-day, accompanied and corroborated by further foreign articles which will be found under their approp- riate titles, but which add little, if any thing to the substance of the account which we had previously given. We mentioned yesterday that government had received an outline of the treaty. The assertion we find repeated in the London papers of Sat- urday, as well as in our private letters.— As to the conditions of the treaty they are
still unknown; but the following report is said to contain the outline of Austria's sub- jugation:
"The chief part of Austrian and Polish Gallicia is to be surrendered by Austria.— A small portion is to be ceded to Russia.— The Archbishoprick of Saltzburgh is to be given to Bavaria. France is to have Trieste and Fiume, and the whole of the Littorale, that is all the coast which Austria possess- ed on the borders of the Adriatic; so that Austria will, in future, be excluded from all communication with the sea."
November 3.
By the remonstrances of the Russian Minister at Copenhagen, the privateers are called in. All Americans can now pass the sound unmolested on condition of their pay- ing the dues.
LISBON, October 11.
There have been some new movements of the French corps. Marshal Soult with 8000 men, who occupied Placentia, (in Estramadura,) has retired into Castile.— Ney with 14,000, who had taken a position between Zamora and Toro, (in Leon,) had advanced to Salamanca. Marshal Victor, with 4000, is at Orapessa, in Castile;— Mortier, with 16,000, who had entered Estramadura, had retired on Talavera, in Castile; and Sebastiani, with 10,000, was in La Mancha, said to be advancing on Guadaloupa.
The Spanish corps under the Duke del Parque has its advanced guard at Galistio, near Coria; but if Ney should be advancing to occupy Soult's late position, it must retire.
The Spanish army under Venegas has been reinforced and is advancing towards the Tagus.
Lord Wellington, [Wellesley,] whose army continues near Elvas, arrived here yesterday; from which circumstance we expect there was no danger of an attack on it at present. Marshal Beresford, and General Sir R. Wilson are also here.
By a decree of the [Portuguese] Royal Court of Brazil, Lord Wellington has been appointed principal Member of the Regency of this kingdom, Commander in Chief of all the forces, and principal of the De- partment of War, Trade and Finance.— [This appointment probably occasion- ed his Lordship's visit to Lisbon. It makes him Regent of Portugal. Before this appointment, Marshal Beresford was Commander in Chief of the Portuguese forces.]
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, DECEMBER 7th, 1809.
SIR—I have the honour to enclose a Re- port prepared in obedience to the act en- titled "An act to establish the Treasury Department."
I have the honour to be, very respectfully, Sir, your obedient servant,
ALBERT GALLATIN. The Hon. the President of the Senate.
REPORT.
In obedience to the directions of the act supplementary to the act entitled "An act to establish the Treasury Department," the Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits the following report and estimates:
The duties on merchandise and tonnage which accrued during the year 1807, amounted, after deducting the expenses of collection, to $ 26,126,648
From which deducting for deben- tures issued on account of re- exportations, 10,067,191
Left for the nett revenue accrued during that year 16,059,457
The same duties during the year 1808, amounted, after deduct- ing the expenses of collection, to $ 10,581,559
From which deducting for deben- tures issued, and which on ac- count of the embargo did not exceed 249,396
Leaves for the nett revenue accru- ed during that year, as will ap- pear by the statement (A) 10,332,163
The statement (B) exhibits in detail the several species of merchandise and other sources from which that revenue was col- lected during the year 1808; and the state- ment (A) gives a comparative view of the importations and re-exportations of the several species of merchandise for the year 1807 and 1808, shewing thereby dis- tinctly the effect of foreign aggressions and commercial restrictions on the importations of foreign articles.
From the returns already received for the three first quarters of the present year and from the general knowledge of the importations made during the two last months, it is believed that the gross amount of duties on merchandise imported during the whole year, will, after deducting the expenses of collection, amount to about ten millions of dollars.
But as the debentures issued on account of re-exportations, (principally of colonial produce,) will amount to about 3,500,000 dollars, the nett revenue accrued during the year 1809, cannot be estimated at more than six millions and a half.
It appears by the statement (C) that the sales of publick lands, have during the year ending on the 30th September, 1809, a- mounted to 143,000 acres; and the pay- ments by purchasers to near 500,000 dol- lars. The proceeds of sales in the Miss- ippi Territory, being, after deducting the
surveying and other incidental expenses, appropriated in the first place to the pay- ment of a sum of 1,250,000 dollars to the state of Georgia, are distinctly stated.
It appears by the statement (D) that the payments on account of the principal of the publick debt, have, during the same period, amounted to near 6,730,000 dollars, the reimbursement of the eight per cent. stock having taken place on the first of January last. But the aggregate of pay- ments on account of principal and interest, will not for the two years 1808, and 1809, exceed the sum of sixteen millions of dol- lars appropriated by law.
The same statement shews, that about 34,795,000 dollars of the principal of the debt, have been reimbursed during the eight years and a half commencing on the 1st of April, 1801, and ending on the 30th September, 1809; exclusively of more than six millions of dollars paid in confor- mity with the provisions of the convention with Great-Britain, and of the Louisiana Convention.
The actual receipts into the Treasury during the year ending on the 30th September, 1809, have amounted to $ 9,315,733 16
Making, together with the ba- lance in the Treasury on the 1st of October, 1808, and amounting to 13,846,717 52
An aggregate of 23,162,470 68
The disbursements during the same year have consisted of the following items, viz.
Civil Department, including mis- cellaneous expenses, and those incident to the intercourse with foreign nations, 1,439,633 23
Military and naval establishments including the Indian Depart- ment, viz.
Military, including arms and fortifi- cations, 3,366,403 13
Navy, 2,379,267 80
Indian Department, 292,303 84
Interest on the publick debt, 6,037,974 76
Reimbursement of principal of the publick debt, 3,126,149 15
Amounting together, as will ap- pear more in detail by the statement (E) to 10,603,757 14
And leaving in the Treasury on the 30th of September, 1809, a balance of 17,333,534 67
23,162,470 68
Whence it appears that the expenses of government, exclusively of the payments on account of the principal of the debt, have exceeded the actual receipts into the Treasury by a sum of near thirteen hun- dred thousand dollars, and that that defi- ciency, as well as the reimbursement of the principal of the debt, have been paid out of the sums previously in the Treasury, or in other words, out of the surplus of the re- venue of the preceding years.
The outstanding revenue bonds may, after deducting the expenses of collection, and al- lowing for bad debts, be estimated to have amounted on the 30th of September, 1809, to $ 7,500,000
The duty on the importations during the last quarter will not probably, after making a sim- ilar deduction fall short of 2,800,000
All those will fall due prior to the 1st day of January, 1811, and make, together with the balance in the Treasury on the 30th of September, 1809, and amounting as above stated, to 5,800,000
An aggregate of 16,100,000
The expenses of the present quar- ter, though not yet precisely as- certained, will not probably, including the payments on ac- count of the publick debt, ex- ceed 3,600,000
Leaving on the first day of Janua- ry, 1810, a sum of 12,500,000
About twelve and a half millions of dol- lars in cash or bonds payable during the year 1810 and applicable to the expenses of that year. This estimate however, is founded on the supposition that the amount of debentures payable in that year will not exceed two millions of dollars, and that the receipts during the year arising from importation subsequent to the first of Jan- uary next, and from the sales of land, will be sufficient to pay those debentures and to leave at all times in the Treasury at least one million of dollars.
Estimating the expenses of a civil nature, both domestick and foreign, for the year 1810, at the same amount actually expended for those objects during the preceding year, or at about $ 1,500,000
And adding thereto the annual appropriation of 8,000,000
For the publick debt, (of which sum about three millions seven hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars will be applied to the final reimbursement of the exchanged six per cent. stock;) 4,100,000
It follows that unless the aggre- gate of the expenses for the mi- litary and naval establishments should be reduced to about 3,000,000
12,500,000
three millions of dollars, a loan will be ne- cessary to make up the deficiency. That
state of the Treasury had been anticipated, and, for that reason an increase of duties had been respectfully submitted in the last annual report. But should that measure be now adopted, it would not, on account of the terms of credit allowed for the pay- ment of duties, supersede the necessity of a loan for the service of the year 1810, com- mensurate with the extent of those estab- lishments and with the appropriations which may be made for their support by Congress. No precise sum is suggested, since this must vary according to the plans which may be adopted in relation to for- eign nations, and will particularly de- pend on the decision of Congress on the question of war or peace. It is sufficient to state that if the actual expenditure of the year 1810 for all military and naval purposes should be estimated at the same sum which was disbursed by the Treasury for those objects during the year ending on the 30th of September, 1809, and exceed- ing as above stated six millions of dollars, the deficiency according to the preceding estimates would amount to three millions; on which supposition, it would seem pru- dent, in order to provide against any defi- ciency in the receipts beyond what has been estimated, to authorize a loan of four millions of dollars.
In the event of war the necessity of ren- dering it efficient, and of calling for that purpose into action all the resources of the country, is too obvious to require any com- ment. On that subject nothing will at this time be added by this department to the suggestions respectfully submitted in the two preceding annual reports. Loans reimbursable by instalments, and at fixed periods after the return of peace, must con- stitute the principal resource for defraying the extraordinary expenses of the war.— For the support of publick credit, the basis on which rests the practicability of obtain- ing loans on reasonable terms, it appears necessary that the revenue should, in the meanwhile, be equal to the interest on the publick debt including that on the new loans, and to all the current expenses of government calculated on a peace estab- lishment, or, for the present, to about eight millions of dollars. An immediate and considerable increase of the existing duties will, it is believed, be requisite for that purpose in order to cover the defalcation which a maritime war must necessarily produce in a revenue almost exclusively depending on commerce. That increase appears preferable in the present situation of the United States to any other source of taxation, and is not, in time of war, liable to the objection of its encouraging smug- gling. It is only in the event of that reve- nue being still more affected by a war than is apprehended, that a resort to internal taxes, either direct or indirect may become necessary.
If war should not be resorted to, it does not appear requisite, unless Congress should resolve on a permanent increase of the military and naval establishments in time of peace, to lay at present any addi- tional duties, beyond a mere continuance of the two and a half per cent. known under the name of "Mediterranean Fund." It has already been stated that an increase of the impost would not supply the defi- ciency which may take place in the year 1810, and exclusively of the reimbursement of the loan which may be wanted for the service of that year, all the national ex- penses calculated on a peace establishment and on the average of the actual expendi- tures of the six years, 1802—1807, will not exceed ten millions of dollars for the year 1811, and eight millions after that year.
For the only portion of the existing debt which according to law it will be practica- ble after the year 1810 to reimburse, will, exclusively of the annual reimbursement of the six per cent. and deferred stocks, con- sist only of the converted six per cent. stock, which amounts to less than two millions of dollars. The payments, on ac- count of the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars, for the debt cannot for that reason (except for the purpose of re- imbursing the loan which may be wanted for the service of the year 1810) much ex- ceed six millions of dollars in 1811, and four millions of dollars annually after that year. The expenses for the year 1811 and the ensuing years may, therefore, if cal- culated on a peace establishment, be esti- mated as follows, viz.
Civil expenses, domestick and for- eign, $ 1,500,000
Military and naval establishments, (including the Indian depart- ment,) calculated on the average of the actual expenditure for those objects during the six years, 1802—1807, as will ap- pear by statement (F) about 2,500,000
Interest on the publick debt, in- cluding the annual reimburse- ment on the six per cent. and deferred stocks, 4,100,000
Total of the annual expenses after the year 1811, 8,100,000
Reimbursement of the converted six per cent. stock, 1,860,000
Total of expenses for the year 1811, $ 9,960,000
Whatever may be the decision of Con- gress in other respects, there is a subject which seems to require immediate atten-

tion. The provisions adopted for the purpose of carrying into effect the non-intercourse with England and France, particularly as modified by the act of last session under an expectation that the Orders of Council of Great-Britain had been revoked, are inefficient and altogether inapplicable to existing circumstances. It will be sufficient to observe that exportation by land is not forbidden, and that no bonds being required from vessels, possibly employed in the coasting trade, nor any authority vested by law which will justify detention, those vessels daily sail for British ports, without any other remedy but the precarious mode of instituting prosecutions against the apparent owners. It is unnecessary, and it would be painful to dwell on all the effects of those violations of the laws. But without any allusion to the efficiency or political object of any system, and merely with a view to its execution, it is incumbent to state, that from the experience of the two last years, a perfect conviction arises, that either the system of restriction partially abandoned must be reinstated in all its parts, and with all the provisions necessary for its strict and complete execution, or that all the restrictions, so far at least as they affect the commerce and navigation of the citizens of the United States, ought to be removed.
All which is respectfully submitted. ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury. Treasury Department, December 7th, 1809.
Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7.
MR MORROW , from the committee on public lands, reported a resolution favourable to the petitions of the Canada and Nova-Scotia refugees. The resolution recommends the revival of the law of April 7, 1798, for a limited time. Adopted and referred to the same committee to bring in a bill.
The Indiana bill was read a third time and passed.
On motion of Mr. Seybert, ordered, that the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, (the late General Hamilton,) made to the House on the 5th of December, 1791, be printed for the use of the members. The report is on the subject of American manufactures.
Mr. Poedras presented two petitions, one from the Mayor and Common Council of the city of New-Orleans; the other from sundry inhabitants of said city respecting the Bature in front of that city. Referred to the committee on public lands.
The bill for franking documents was returned from the Senate, with an amendment. The amendment was agreed to by the House.
Mr. Poindexter presented a resolution for extending the jurisdiction of the Supreme Territorial Courts, where no District Courts are established, to cases of treason. Referred to a select committee to report by bill or otherwise.
Mr. Bacon offered three resolutions for the regulation of the House. The first prohibits all reproachful language from one member to another; and all language on the floor of the House which may call in question the motives of the Executive of the United States unless on questions of impeachment. The second, that the sending a challenge to any member of the House, be considered as a breach of the privileges of the House, and all concerned to be liable to punishment. The third, that an assault on any member of the House, during his attendance at the seat of government, be deemed a breach of privilege, and all concerned to be liable to punishment. Laid on the table until to-morrow.
Mr. Van Horn offered several resolutions for the regulation of navigation.
The first prohibits the exportation of any goods, wares or merchandise of the growth or manufacture of the United States in any vessels except such as are owned and navigated by Americans. The second prohibits the re-shipment of any goods, wares and merchandise not the growth or manufacture of the United States. The third proposes discriminating duties on all imports from foreign countries. The fourth prohibits American vessels from trading from one foreign port to another. The fifth proposes to repeal all laws of the United States permitting drawbacks. Laid on the table. Adjourned.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8.
The annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury was received. It gives a deplorable account of the state of the revenue. The imports for nine months of 1809, do not exceed six millions and an half of dollars; and the expenses of the present year are calculated to exceed the receipts about one million three hundred thousand dollars; and the coming year about three millions. He recommends a loan of four millions.
Several private and local subjects were disposed of.
Mr. Taylor moved for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the affair of the attack of Mr. J. A. Coles, on a member of the House, and to report thereon. A committee of seven was appointed.
A motion to appoint a standing committee of manufactures was negatived. Adjourned to Monday.
IN SENATE, DECEMBER 6-7.
The resolution to support the Executive, and the bill on the subject of Foreign Ministers, were read a second time.
Mr. Pope's proposed alteration of the Constitution, on the subject of Judges, was referred to Messrs. Pope, Crawford, Goodrich, Brent and Lloyd.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8.
Mr. Giles' Resolution was debated, and agreed to.
The bill on the subject of foreign ministers was read a third time, and laid over until Monday.
Providence,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1809.
Our government, figuratively styled, we presume, the collected wisdom of the nation, have, according to the report of our redoubtable Secretary of the Treasury, a most glorious object in perspective. Mr. Gallatin after regaling us with the blessed intelligence that a loan of four millions may be necessary to replenish our overflowing Treasury, (viz. a Treasury that has overflowed by Louisiana purchases, &c.) further informs, that all the restrictions on commerce must be reinstated, or all restrictions removed.
Thus ends the boasted farce of negotiation, and thus the comedy of errors has concluded. During the whole of President Jefferson's mis-administration, the magnitude of the diplomatic promise was a kind of apology for the meanness of the performance. All our external relations were left unsettled and undefined; the merchant who committed his property to the ocean, had not the plighted faith of the belligerents to preserve it from confiscation, but a swift sailing vessel. Our Secretary of State asserts in his correspondence, that while the United States were gravely deliberating what course was to be pursued with regard to the Berlin decrees, England counteracted the measures that were, or about to be contemplated, by her retaliatory Orders in Council. Now there is only one year's difference in the date of those two mandates. Here was leisure for our philosophic administration to have awakened from their learned repose, or at least to have dreamed during its continuance, of some measures of defence. The moment however Great-Britain by her Orders in Council, jogged their recollection a little, then, at that very precise period of time, the vital cord of independence was touched. The fact is that France cannot from the necessity of the case affect our independence, but Great-Britain can, by merely doing the self-same thing. The quality of the same fact is changed by the different parties by whom it is done. After all this uproar of negotiation, Mr. Secretary Gallatin quiets our minds by the declaration that all our commercial restrictions, (such as enforcing acts, and acts supplementary without number,) must be imposed, or commerce left to struggle in the present quiet state of the world without any. Does not the view of our foreign relations sufficiently evince that our administration are decided enemies to commerce? Does it not seem to imply that they are determined to destroy all our resources of revenue, at the very moment when they begin to threaten Great-Britain with all the hostility that Legislative pen and ink, backed and enforced by all the aid that the prime blusterer Giles is by word of mouth capable of affording. Unanimity at this time, saith this statesman, is essentially necessary; in plainer dialect, misery loves company. We do not wonder that this gentleman after he has so entangled himself, should call upon the federalists to help him out.
Washington papers furnish us with the proceedings of Congress to Monday last; at which time no distinct measure, as it regards our foreign relations, had been agreed on, or any disclosure made of the exact point at which the ministerial party aimed. Mr. Giles' resolution had been received in the house, and was to be taken up on Wednesday; Mr. Van Horn's resolutions for abridging the Carrying Trade were still suffered to sleep on the table; Mr. Gallatin's annual Report had excited considerable interest, and would influence the house in their final determination on the subject of peace or war, he states, that the expenses of the present year will exceed the receipts about one million three hundred thousand dollars, and the coming year, about three millions; to meet this deplorable circumstance, he recommends A LOAN OF FOUR MILLIONS. Hail Columbia! happy land!
Boston Gaz.
COMMUNICATED.
THE present is a momentous and interesting crisis. The affairs of our country present a new and alarming aspect—a cloud is suspended over our heads and the fate of America would seem involved in the form, if not designed perplexities of wicked and unprincipled men. The publick pulse beats high with anxious solicitude and doubtful apprehension. The question that is now presented for publick decision is not between the interests and affairs of party—nor is on the conduct of our Executive, as immediately involving in cen-
tion the interests of the people with them; but it is a question which affects the dearest rights of every son of freedom—a question between our Executive and the Minister of a foreign government. The people of this country have long been oppressed by foreign and internal restriction, and had well nigh long since sunk under the load; but for the prospect of reconciliation, which we were told, was at hand, and that impulse of the mind, which is the great antidote to all affliction. On the arrival of Mr. Jackson, man of penetration and sagacity predicted consequences the most alarming. The prejudices of democracy had already condemned him, and her minions wreaked their diabolical vengeance on that man, who against them had committed no crime. These prejudices of party we are however not disposed to notice, but in disgust turn from so disgraceful a scene to objects more interesting and important. To dismiss the functionary of a great and independent empire from that seat of confidence to which his credentials had raised him, and refuse all further communication with an individual as the representative of the dignity and the sovereignty of his master, is an act perhaps rash and impassioned, and involves consequences lasting and fatal. Between the Secretary of State and Mr. Jackson much has passed, which the publick now have before them, and it bespeaks no littleasperity and acrimonious invective. From an attentive perusal of this interesting correspondence, it appears, first, that the Executive of the United States were distrustful of his powers and began by an interdiction of oral communication. In this letter of Mr. Smith's we see that deadly hatred to a Briton, which elevated him to the high rank which he has now so flagrantly abused. Mr. Jackson's answer is, in most parts, mild and gentle—neither imitating the style or the spirit which appears in the letter of Mr. Smith. In the short correspondence between those gentlemen much has been said respecting the formality of a disavowal of the arrangement made by Mr. Erskine, and the necessity of receiving that disavowal through Mr. Jackson. As the reasons for that disavowal had previously been stated by Mr. Cannon to Mr. Pinkney in London, the British government deemed it unnecessary again to enter into the motives by which they were governed, as the ground of their disavowal was acknowledged to be solid and substantial in all books upon the laws and usages of nations. Had Mr. Smith been impressed with a real desire to conciliate all existing differences, and have met Mr. Jackson on the ground of amicable negotiation, he never would so long have adhered to a futile position, nor asserted principles so insupportable and untenable. Mr. Smith accuses the British government with a want of faith in the non-ratification of Mr. Erskine's agreement, and adduces the authority of Vattel to support his accusation. Here the inveterate malignity of Mr. Smith so glaringly appears that as an American I blush for our Secretary of State. Such an overweening partiality for one nation and obstinate malignity toward another is detestable and disgraceful. The same thing however we observe in the message of Mr. Madison, which at some future time we shall not forget to mention. Vattel acknowledges the right of a sovereign to disavow the acts of his ministers on strong and solid grounds. And is not this a strong and solid ground, when Mr. Erskine far exceeded his instructions, and that too by the knowledge of the American government? Suppose Mr. Erskine had agreed to have delivered to America half of the British navy and half her possessions, would the British government have been bound by faith and honour to ratify the agreement? Mr. Smith meanly quibbles on his being a minister plenipotentiary. And does that give him full power to destroy his government? That Mr. Erskine did show to Mr. Smith his instructions, Mr. Smith himself has acknowledged, and because Mr. Jackson dared to repeat the fact he is told that such assertions are inadmissible, and is interdicted all further communication. Such an act never will end with the departure of Mr. Jackson, and though the President and his Secretary may delight in the deed, the American people will never submit to it.
Mr. Jackson in his letter has made no positive assertions, but such as were founded upon the acknowledgment of Mr. Smith. Upon the question then, was the dismissal of Mr. Jackson justifiable? I make no hesitation in answering in the negative. Was it politic or prudent? Upon this question every American, who consults the interest of his country, will condemn the transaction. I would not here be understood to express a desire to sacrifice the honour of our nation to the cold calculations of stoical prudence. But at such a time and in such a situation, humiliating and disgraceful, I never can silently see the existence of our country jeopardized by the private malignity or prejudice of a few men, whose popularity so much depends on the meanest artifice or the blackest crime. After an attentive perusal of this interesting correspondence, who but the unprincipled fugitives of justice, and senseless advocates of excessive vice, will ever justify an act, which may involve consequences that may be felt for centuries to come. Was not Great-Britain now engaged in a contest with the darling master of our Executive, too soon would Robert Smith know the consequence of his rashness. To Great-Britain, in war, our whole force would not exceed the sting of a hornet. To her, in peace, we are useful, and all advantages are reciprocal. My design is not however to be premature in apprehending danger, nor anticipate consequences which I pray God may be averted. It is only simply to warn those, whose interest calls loudly for an investigation of this subject, to divest themselves of every prejudice of party—to decide upon the facts as they are now before the publick, and discountenance a mean though ministerial attempt to involve us in mazes of political danger. In every letter of Smith's I can easily discern thatasperity, which at length ripened into open insult. Through the whole of this difficulty the Executive seem to have laboured hard to convince the people that they were ignorant of Mr. Erskine's instructions. But to Mr. Jackson Smith was constrained to confess, that the articles which constituted them he saw. When Mr. Jackson calls on Mr. Smith to substitute reason and argument for the vapour of assertion, or his more slimy opinion, the talents of this statesman are found in the evasive, and in concert with the President; this illustrious massacre upon the peoples' right is at once committed. The determination of Mr. Smith to stop the negotiation, may be seen from his silence respecting the Chesapeake. Here Mr. Jackson made such offers as the Executive cannot refuse; but they dignify themselves by silence. The United States were never involved in more serious difficulties, and the talents that led to them are insufficient to extricate us.
An official account of the peace concluded between France and Austria is received, and will be given in our next. The terms do not seem so humiliating to Austria as have been expected.
Married.
On Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Edea, Mr. SAMUEL YATES, to Miss HANNAH ATKINSON, all of this town.
American Marine List.
PORT OF PROVIDENCE,
DECEMBER 19, 1809.
ENTERED.
Ship—Columbia, Cooke, Liverpool. Schooner—Shilly, Aplin, New-York. Sloops—Polly, Brown, New-York; Juno, Comstock, do. Warwick, Sanders do. Ann, Comstock, do.
CLEARED.
Schooners—Delight, Burt, Plymouth, (N. C.) Rambler, Martin, Savannah. Sloops—Triphena, Simmons, St. Mary's; Providence, Currie, New-York. Ship Ann and Hope, Olney, passed the Straights of Sunday on the 18th of July, for Canton, in 83 days from this port—all well. The ship Patterson, Pearce, of this port, was spoke October 28, lat. 40, long. 30, 28 days from Baltimore for Lisbon—November 4, lat. 42, long. 47, 30, was spoke the brig Union, 18 days from Providence for Norway.
New-York, December 13.
Arrived, this morning, ship Eliza-Ann, Porter, 34 days from Dublin. The Eliza-Ann left at Dublin brig Eliza, Thomas, of Newburyport, for St. Ubes; ship Rover, Glenn, for do. next day. Sailed 21 days before the Eliza-Ann, ship Venus, for New-York, and in lat. 42, 30, long. 59 1-2, spoke her in distress, being short of provisions and leaky. November 10, in lat. 40, was boarded by a French schooner mounting 12 guns and 30 men, 4 days from St. Maloes, who robbed us of ten bales of linen, and all the cabin stores. The captain of the schooner informed Captain Porter, that he had captured 6 vessels, 2 of which he had burned. He said he had received a new order on the 14th of October, to capture all vessels bound to or from an English port—and reported that Bonaparte was on his way to Spain. November 12, in lat. 46, 44, long. 11, 30, was boarded by the French brig Revenge, Captain L'Orient, from St. Maloes, who robbed us of one whole bale and part of two others of linen, two barrels of bread, three casks of water, and other small articles, and put on board nine English prisoners belonging to the ship Sarah, Captain Briscoe, from London to the South Seas, which he had captured.
December 16.
Yesterday morning, the United States ship John Adams, Captain Evans, sailed from this port, with a fine westerly breeze for England and Holland, with despatches and specie, being 6 months interest due on the Dutch loan.
For sale at Publick Auction, at EDWARD DEXTER's Store, THIS DAY, the 19th inst. on liberal credit—to close different Consignments.
100 Chests of Hyson Tea, 100 do. of Hyson Skin do. 25 do. of Souchong do. 150 Small Boxes of do. 40 Half Chests of Bohea do. 20 Quarter Chests of do. 2 Hhds. of Havana white Sugars, 15 Bags of Pepper, 3 Casks of Lamp Oil, 20 Casks of Raisins, 12 Boxes do. 1 Pipe of Cognac Brandy, 1 Cask of Lisbon Wine.
Sale to commence at 10 o'clock, A.M. EDWARD DEXTER, Auctioneer. December 19, 1809.
Superfine BROADCLOTHS.
A FEW pieces of superfine Broadcloths, colours, black, blue and bottlegreen, (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.
RUM FOR SALE.
A FEW Hhds. of excellent flavoured ANTIGUA RUM, for sale by Wm. CHURCH, at his Store, South End. December 19, 1809.
NOTICE.
THE second DANCING ASSEMBLY will be held on THURSDAY EVENING next, at AMMIDON's HALL. By order of the Managers, N. TINGLEY, Sec'y. December 19, 1809.
Lehigh Grand LOTTERY.
OWING to the rich state of this Lottery, (the wheels having gained upward of $ 6000, and the two $ 10,000 and two $ 5000, besides almost all the other capital Prizes, remaining in the wheel,) the Tickets have risen to $ 3, Quarters $ 1 75. Orders for the above Tickets, duly attended to by J. B. WOOD, who has received a complete List of Blanks and Prizes, (as far as drawn,) of those Numbers which were obtained by orders through his Office. Also, eighteen day's drawing of the Baltimore Grand Lottery; all of which may be examined gratis. Lists of Prizes from the Nashfield Bridge Lottery, drawing in Boston are received here.—No. 3600 drew a Prize of $ 1000—sold in Quarters. December 19, 1809.
At the ASSEMBLY-ROOM, (YOUNG'S TAVERN.)
TO-MORROW Evening, December 20, (for that night only,)
MR. BATES solicits the patronage of his Friends, as he intends presenting an Evening Amusement, in three parts, called
WHIM OF THE MOMENT; Or, A Display of the Wags and Oddities of the World.
Consisting of various Descriptions, Moral Reflections, Comick Songs, &c. with Remarks and Observations, satirical, whimsical and laughable—on the different Pursuits, Professions and Passions of Mankind, chiefly selected from Steven's celebrated Lecture on Heads, Dibdin's Merry World, &c.
FIRST PART.
Prologue on the Difficulty of Pleasing—Portraits, with Sketches of Characters—A Comical Fellow, or the Story-Teller—A Lawyer, with an interesting Cause—Song, the Sentimental Sailor—A London Buck going to "keep it up"—and a drunken Buck returning from a Frolick—The smooth Face of Courtship contrasted with the sour Aspect of Matrimony—or "John loves Jane, and Jane loves John."
PART SECOND.
A Moral Tale—Mrs. Thrale's three Warnings, or Death an unwelcome Visitor—Two Oddities, "An old Maid and an old Bachelor"—After which will be brought forward "A Devilish odd Character," with three Changes, viz. a Lawyer, a Doctor, and a Tailor—Comick Song, the Learned Pig, or Fortune-teller upon all Fours.
PART THIRD.
Matrimonial Squabbles, or the Spirit of Contradiction—SONG, Dibdin's Country Club—Two Portraits, Gen. WASHINGTON compared and contrasted with ALEXANDER the Great—A Picture personified, or "The poor old Woman of Eighty,"—And (by Way of Epilogue) the Character of No-Body.
THE WHOLE TO CONCLUDE WITH CHINESE FIRE-WORKS,
On the following Subjects, viz. A Playing Fountain—Boston State-House—Emblems of Free-Masonry—The Arms of the United States—A Monumental Tribute to superior Worth, or a Tomb, and grand transparent Painting, taken from the celebrated Engraving of the Apotheosis of WASHINGTON.
The performance to commence at seven o'clock precisely—Tickets of admittance Half a Dollar—Children half price. A good fire will be kept to make the room warm. Tickets to be had of Mr. Bates, at Mr. D. Snow's, new Meeting-House Square, and at the Bar of the place of performance.
N. B. Should the weather prove stormy, the performance will be postponed to Thursday.
December 19, 1809.
JOHN ROGERS & SAMUEL NIGHTINGALE, jun.
HAVE for sale, the following articles, on reasonable terms and liberal credit, viz. 3000 Bushels of Liverpool Salt, 13 Hhds. of Virginia Tobacco, 10 Crates of Glass Ware, well assorted; 20 do. of Liverpool Ware, do. 15 do. C. C. Dinner Plates, 5 do. blue edged do. 1 do. C. C. Pint Bowls, 2 do. blue and white Coffee Bowls and Saucers, 4 do. Tea Cups and Saucers, Very handsome Breakfast Sets 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. December 19, 1809. cf. Valuable Books at Auction. C. R. GREENE WILL sell at his Office, on SATURDAY, the 23d instant, a valuable collection of BOOKS; among which are, Bowell's Life of Johnson, 3 vols. Young's History of France, 2 vols. Goldsmith's Essays, 2 vols. Plowden's History of Ireland, 5 vols. Payne's Naval History of Great-Britain, 5 vols. Tatler, 4 vols. Idler, 2 vols. Hayley's Life of Cowper, 2 vols. Milton's Works, 3 vols. Blair's Lectures, Memoirs of Jefferson, 2 vols. Armstrong's Art of Health, Plutarch's Lives, 6 vols. &c. &c. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock, A.M. C. R. GREENE, Auctioneer. December 19, 1809. SARAH CORY RESPECTFULLY informs her friends, and the publick in general, that she intends carrying on the Tailoring, Mantua-making, Millinery and Seamstressing Business in all their various branches, at her residence in the house of the late Captain 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. AMERICAN BEAVERS. PROVIDENCE HAT-MANUFACTURING COMPANY, No. 13, CREEPERS. 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. November 24, 1809.

CHEESE. THE subscriber respectfully acquaints his friends and customers, that he has on hand, at his Store back of the Market, a quantity of Tyler's celebrated CHEESE , warranted equal to any made in America. Those who are in want of Cheese for the use of their families, are solicited to call and examine for themselves.
He has also, constantly for sale, Rum, Brandy, Gin and Molasses, per Barrel or less quantity; Loaf and brown Sugars per cwt. or less; Coffee, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Souchong and Bohea Teas of the first quality; Salt, superior Flour, Cotton, Rice, Pepper, Ginger, Allspice, fresh Raisins—with many other articles; all of which he will sell on the most reasonable terms for cash or country produce.
ALSO. A few Barrels of Mess and Prime Pork. The above articles may be recommended to be of a genuine quality, and any article proving inferior to the recommendation, will be cheerfully received and the money returned.
The subscriber would also further inform those who are indebted to him, that it would be a cause of very agreeable sensations if they would call and settle their accounts.
LUTHER AINSWORTH. December 5, 1809.
RUM AND SUGAR. BLODGET & POWER Of, now landing from the Alonso , 10 Hds. of Loaf SUGAR, 13 do. sweet flavoured St. Croix RUM, on accommodating terms. November 28, 1809. 6t.
PETER GRINNELL & SON Offer for sale, at their Store, formerly occupied by GRINELL & TAYLOR , near opposite the Providence Bank,
A LARGE assortment of Paints, whole-sale and retail, dry or ground in Oil, and Window-Glass of every size, Linseed and Lamp-Oil, Varnishes, Spirits of Turpentine, an assortment of Ship-Chandlery, Looking-Glasses, with Mahogany and burnished gilt frames in the newest fashion, of their own manufacture; with every other article generally called for in a Paint Store, as cheap as can be purchased in this State.
They execute House, Ship, Sign and Ornamental Painting, Oil and Burnish Gilding, Polish and Re-silver old Looking-Glasses, &c. &c. November 10, 1809. tf.
CHARLES F. BLODGET & SAMUEL C. BLODGET
Have formed a Commercial Connexion at Charleston, (S. C.) for the purpose of transacting, solely, COMMISSION BUSINESS , under the firm of Charles F. & Samuel C. Blodget , and especially solicit the aid of their friends, and the publick. They are enabled to grant the usual facilities, and pledge themselves to devote their most unremitted and prompt attention to the concerns of those who patronize their establishment.
For more particular information, apply to BLODGET & POWER , Providence. Charleston, October 25, 1809. 12t.
ONE Hundred Barrels of superior FLOUR , for sale by BENJAMIN T. CHANDLER , cheap for cash, this day. December 8, 1809.
New Fancy Shoe Store, Westminster-Street, a few doors west of the Exchange Bank, and directly opposite Mr. Whitman's new Brick Building. THE subscribers beg leave to inform the inhabitants of this and the adjacent towns, that they are about opening a complete assortment of Ladies', Misses' and Childrens' SHOES of almost every description; some very elegant Walking Shoes; all warranted of the first quality, and positively as cheap by the dozen or single pair as can be purchased in the State of Rhode-Island, or the Metropolis of Massachusetts.
LIKEWISE , a few gentlemen's Morocco Pumps, very nice.
One of the partners superintending the Manufacturing of all their retailing Shoes, the publick are assured that the greatest care is taken in procuring the best materials and in selecting the neatest and most faithful workmen. As their Store is on a street which has a very pleasant sidewalk, the Ladies are respectfully invited to call and examine the Quality and Prices of their Shoes—every attention will be paid to those who may thus honour them.
Gentlemen, either in town or country, who are in the practice of retailing Shoes, are requested to call and learn our prices by the dozen—they will find it much to their advantage—2, 3 or 500 pairs furnished for the southern market at short notice. EMERSON and NELSON. December 12, 1809. 6t.
WANTED, BY EBENEZER JOHNSON, ONE or two JOURNEYMEN TIN-PLATE WORKERS, who are good workmen—to whom good wages will be given.
In addition to his usual assortment of Tin Ware, he makes Mule and other Cylinders, Roping and Drawing Cans, Lanterns, and every other kind of Tin Ware used in the Cotton Spinning Mills. December 8, 1809.
REEDMAKERS ATTEND! NATHAN TRUMAN, Near the Baptist Meeting-House, has just received, and for sale,
A FEW thousand CANE-POLES, or REEDS, which will be sold reasonably, if applied for soon.
ALSO, Forty Southern HIDES, and a quantity of UPLAND COTTON. December 8, 1809.
INDIGO. JUST RECEIVED BY BOWEN & EDDY, Opposite the Market.
REMOVAL. THE subscriber tenders his grateful acknowledgments to the publick for their many favours to him while resident in Sturbridge, and would inform them, that he has removed to Providence, and taken the Inn lately occupied by Mr. John Snow, three doors west of the Great Bridge, where he solicits a continuance of their favours, with the assurance that every attention shall be paid to render his friends comfortable and happy.
AZOR BROWN. N. B. Good and spacious accommodation for STABLING. December 8, 1809.
UPLAND COTTON and HIDES. THIRTY-FIVE Bales of Upland COTTON. 212 Savannah HIDES, received per schooner Rambler.
ALSO, 100 Barrels Menhaden FISH, 500 Bushels coarse SALT, for sale by ELISHA DYER. December 3, 1809.
CODFISH. FOR SALE, from one to five hundred Quintals of STREIGHTS FISH , of a very good quality.
ALSO, THE Sloop EAGLE , but then about 60 tons, a staunch well built vessel, and a fast sailer. Any person wishing to purchase either, may know the terms by applying to
WANTON CASEY. East-Greenwich, December 4, 1809.
Pilot-Bread and Crackers. BENJAMIN ROBINSON
HAS on hand, for sale, at the Bake-House on the Wharf, opposite the Baptist Meeting-House, a quantity of PILOT-BREAD and CRACKERS on reasonable terms, or in Exchange for West-India produce. November 21, 1809. tf.
REMOVAL. THOMAS RHODES
Has removed to the Store lately occupied by Mr. Jacob Soesman, in Weybossett-Street, one door west of Messrs. Taft and Waterman's Store—where he has for sale
A FEW Hds. of sweet flavoured St. Croix Rum, 2 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, Souchong and Bohea Teas per Chest, very fresh;
Havana white and brown Sugars per Box, First and second quality Loaf Sugar per cwt.
A few hundred Bushels first quality Turks-Island Salt, 200 Bushels of coarse Lisbon do.
A few Kegs of excellent Butter for family's use, A few Kegs of shipping Butter, 1000 Wt. of Cheese, 30 or 40 Boxes of mould and dipped Candles, 50 Quintals of large Codfish, suitable for retailing; 3 to 4000 Bunches of Onions, in excellent order for shipping; Mess and Prime Beef in whole and half Barrels, A few Barrels of Prime Pork, Empty Rum and Provision Barrels, 20 M. White Oak Barrel Staves—together with his usual assortment of Groceries at retail. November 17, 1809. tf.
For Sale, on reasonable terms, by PAYTON DANA, At the Sign of the Turk's Head, East Front of Whitman's Buildings,
CLOCKS, Willard's patent Time-Pieces, gold and silver warranted and common Watches, gold Watch Chains, Seals and Keys, silver, gilt and steel do. silver Table, Tea and Salt Spoons; Sugar Tongs, Thimbles, gold Necklaces, Ear and Finger Rings, &c.
CUTLERY. Best Razors, Pen, Desk, Pocket and Pruning Knives, and Scissors, per dozen or single. Also, Ladies' and gentlemen's Pocket-Books and Purses.
JUST RECEIVED, Plated Teapots, Sugar 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.
Watches carefully cleaned and repaired as usual. November 21, 1809. tf.
FRESH FLOUR. NOW landing from on board the brig George Washington, and for sale by SALMON ARNOLD , on the Long Wharf, a quantity of FRESH FLOUR. November 3, 1809.
JOHN YOUNG, At the first corner Store south of the Market, HAS FOR SALE,
A VERY general assortment of GENUINE GROCERIES , viz. Old Madeira, Teneriffe, Sherry, Lisbon, Port, Claret and other Wines of the first quality; old Cognac Brandy, superior old Jamaica Spirits, Geneva, Cherry Rum, best Cordials of various kinds, Bourdeaux and Martinique, in Bottles; Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Citron, Cinnamon, Allspice, Pepper, Ginger, Starb, fresh Turkey Figs, Prunes, Muscadel and Bloom Raisins, Sultana and Cass ditto, Currants, not shelled Almonds, excellent Bottle and Flask Oil, Table Salt in baskets, India Soy, Catsup, Loaf and other Sugars, Olives, Capers, Nasturtions, Anchovies, preserved Sweetmeats and Fruits of different kinds in Brandy and other Syrups, Tamarinds, Spermaceti and Mould Tallow Candles, Windsor Soap, Bar ditto, Cayenne Pepper per lb. or bottle, Peppercorns in bottles, best Brown Stout Porter and excellent bottled Cider—Gumpower, Hyson and other Green and Souchong TEAS , of the best importations, warranted good; Coffee, No. 1 and No. 2 Chocolate, &c. &c. A few handsome LIQUOR CASES , with white Glass Bottles, very convenient.
CIGARS. A number of Boxes first quality Spanish Cigars of an excellent flavour, will smoke free, and are acknowledged by the best judges to be of a superior kind.
Fresh Lemons, Oranges and Limes. Preparation for Punch, of an excellent quality, in bottles.
N. B. Madeira, Port, Claret, Sherry and Lisbon Wine, of very superior quality, in bottles—recommended by Physicians to those who are sick, and by J. Y. to the well and healthy.
Cash given for empty Bottles and good clean Mustard and Hemp-Seed. Past favours gratefully acknowledged. September 1, 1809. tf.
Fall and Winter GOODS. This day received, and now opened at TIFFANY and HODGES'S, No. 6, CHEAPSIDE,
A LARGE and beautiful assortment of fresh imported FALL and WINTER GOODS , consisting of superfine black, blue, bottle-green, drab and mixed Broadcloths; black, blue drab, mixed and brown Cassimeres; black, bottle-green, brown, scarlet and lead Bombazets; Pelice Flannels, Serges, Plains, Satinets, Ratinets, Wildovers, Durants, first quality Rowe Blankets, at reduced prices, from 5 to 12-qr. black, blue, bottle-green, lead and crimson Tabby Velvets; black and olive twilled do. elegant Tolin-t and Swansdown Vestings, Ratinets, Coatings, Swansdown, Flannels of all colours, Silk, Cotton and Worsted Hosiery; India Cottons, English Shirting do. black, white and coloured Cambricks; Ginghams, Calicoes, a beautiful assortment of Fancy Muslins; with a variety of other articles, which will be sold at very reduced prices. November 5, 1809. tf.
TAKE NOTICE. WILLIAM PEARCE Respectfully informs his friends, and the publick in general,
THAT he continues keeping a Tavern at his house in the village of Wickford, town of North-Kingstown, next door to Philip Tillinghast, Esq. where the greatest attention will be paid to those who may please to favour him with their company, and may depend on having the smallest favour gratefully acknowledged.
The house may be well known by its end fronting the street, and the sign of a bunch of grapes. Wickford, (R. I.) February 22, 1809. 1y.
The State of Rhode-Island, &c. PROVIDENCE, SC.
THE Creditors of REUBEN THORNTON , of Johnston, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said REUBEN .
N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. November 27, 1809.
The State of Rhode-Island, &c. PROVIDENCE, SC.
THE Creditors of GARDINER LAWRENCE , of Providence, Housewright, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said GARDINER .
N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. Providence, November 27, 1809.
WHEREAS at the Supreme Judicial Court, held at Providence, in and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of September last past, the subscribers were appointed Commissioners, or Assignees, to receive the Estate of THOMAS BRATTON , of Foster, in the County of Providence, Husbandman, who has obtained the benefit of an act, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," and the several acts in aid thereof, and distribute the same among his Creditors, agreeably to the provisions of said acts;—NOTICE is therefore hereby given to the Creditors of the said THOMAS , to exhibit to us, or either of us, their respective demands, within nine months from the 30th day of September last, or they will be precluded according to the provisions of the acts aforesaid.
ZADOCK YOUNG, FRANCIS FULLER, OLIVER GREENE. Foster, November 20, 1809.
NEW GOODS. PETER BROWNELL, No. 9, CHEAPSIDE,
HAS just received a large assortment of Goods, suitable for the present and approaching season, consisting of the following articles, viz.—Bottle-green, black, blue, smoke and mixed Broadcloths; red, green, yellow and white Flannels; Coats, Plains, drab, bottle-green, black, brown and mixed Cassimeres; black, scarlet, snuff and slate Bombazets; Wildovers, Duroys and Ratinets, black, snuff and slate Tabby Velvets, common do. Silver Cords, 75 pieces of Calicoes of different prices and figures, pink, buff and blue Ginghams; white, black and coloured 4 and 6-qr. Cambricks; Furniture, Cambricks and common Dimities, English Shirting Cottons, Cotton and Worsted Hosiery, India Cottons of all kinds, India and homemade Checks, Jacquet and Mull Cambricks, figured and plain Lenos, spindled, laced, seeded, veined and Book Muslins; white and black Laces, black and white Footing Lace, 4, 5 and 6-qr. Cotton Shawls; Pulicat, Madras and Canton Checks; Silk Hankerchiefs, Cotton and Silk Bandanoees, white and printed Pocket-Handkerchiefs, Copperplates and Chintzes, No. 3, 31-2, 4, 41-2, and 5 Pack Pins; White Chapel Needles, 3, 6, 7 and 8-qr. Cotton Damask Diaper; Diaper Napkins, black, green, pink and white Saracens; black Crapes, black Satins and Lustrings, Ladies' short Kid and long and short Silk Gloves, Coat and Vest Buttons, Leather and Cotton Suspenders, Marking Canvass, black and white Bonnet Paper, Ribbons, Shoe and Quality Bindings, Tapes and Bobbins, 26 and 28 inch Umbrellas, Gentlemen's Beaver and common Gloves, Linen Cambricks, Brown Linens, Cotton Thread in balls and hanks, of all colours and kinds; Cotton Yarn and Cotton Bedticks, with almost every other article usually kept in a Dry Goods Store, at wholesale or retail, on such terms as will not fail to suit every person who is in want of Goods. Town and country customers are requested to call and see for themselves. Every favour will be thankfully received. October 10, 1809. tf.
Commissioners' Notice. THE subscribers being by the Honourable Court of Probate appointed Commissioners to receive and allow the claims of the Creditors against the Estate of CAPT. CHARLES SPOONER , late of Providence, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice, that six months from the 13th instant are allowed to the Creditors to bring in and prove their claims to either of us.
BENJAMIN CLIFFORD, } Com're. JOHN F. SHELTON, } All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment, to SIMPON INGRAHAM, Admin. November 21, 1809.
Commissioners' Notice. THE subscribers, appointed by the Court of Probate of the Town of Providence, Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims against the Estate of LEWIS BOSWORTH , late of said Providence, Mariner, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice to all persons having claims against said Estate, that they exhibit them to us within six months from the date hereof, the time allowed by said Court to receive and examine said claims.
DANIEL FIELD, DANIEL PROUD. All persons indebted to the Estate of the said LEWIS BOSWORTH are requested to make immediate payment; and those having accounts against said Estate, to exhibit them for settlement, to EARL POTTER. December 4, 1809.
PROVIDENCE, SC. THE Creditors of JOHN RUSSELL , of North Providence, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said JOHN .
N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. Providence, November 8, 1809.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. NOVEMBER 23d, 1809.
THE Creditors of CHACE ROUND , of Providence, Mason, are hereby notified to appear, if they shall think fit, at the General Assembly to be held at Providence, on the last Monday of February next, and there to show cause, if any they may have, why his Petition for the benefit of an Act, passed in June, 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," ought not to be granted.
SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y. Providence, November 24, 1809.
PROVIDENCE, SC. THE Creditors of EBENEZER HANDY , of Barrillville, late resident in Portsmouth, in the County of Newport, Labourer, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, and there to nominate, Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said HANDY .
N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. Providence, November 24, 1809.
PROVIDENCE, SC. THE Creditors of HARRIS ATWOOD , of Johnston, in the County of Providence, Labourer, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly, passed in June, 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the benefit of which has been extended to him the said ATWOOD .
N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk. November 21, 1809.
FARMS FOR SALE. The subscriber offers for sale the following Farms in the State of Connecticut:
ONE in the north Society in Coventry, on the road leading from Hebron to Tolland, containing about 110 acres of excellent Land, about two miles from 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. It consists of mowing, ploughing, pasturing, wood and timber land; will cut from 35 to 40 tons of hay annually, is well watered by the above river, and a number of living springs. There are on the premises a very neat, convenient Dwelling-House, Barn and Out-Houses entirely new, and nearly finished; a Well of Water which never fails, within ten feet of the door; a thrifty young Orchard just beginning to bear, and an old one somewhat decayed.
Two in the first society in Hartland, pleasantly situated about one mile south of the Meeting-House, and within 30 miles of Hartford; one contains about 240 acres, with a large, good one story House, with two chimneys, well finished, and convenient for two families; three Barns, Out-Houses, &c. all in good repair; has about 40 acres of mowing, 150 of ploughing and pasturing and 50 of wood; has good Orchard-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 mowing, pasturing, ploughing and woodland; well watered and under good improvement. Possession given immediately.
Three Farms pleasantly situated in the north part of Granville, they adjoin each other, and contain about 330 acres, and are extremely well calculated for the settlement and neighbourhood of a family connexion. One contains about 125 acres, with a two story House and Barn, and three flourishing young Orchards; will cut annually from 25 to 30 tons of good hay. One of 115 acres, with a one story House, Barn and young Orchard, will cut from 25 to 30 tons of hay; and one of about 90 acres, with a one story House, Barn, and a young Orchard; will cut from 8 to 12 tons of hay. These Farms are well watered, well fenced, and suitably proportioned into mowing, pasturing, ploughing and woodland; and will be sold separately or together, and possession may be had immediately.
Also one in Blandford, of fifty acres, with a House and Barn; well watered, under good improvement, and well proportioned into mowing, pasturing, ploughing and woodland.
The above Farms will be sold on reasonable terms, and long credit given for a considerable part of the purchase, on the payment of annual interest.
The subscriber also offers for sale, an eligible and convenient stand for a Tavern and Store, in the town of Vernon, on the Hartford and Tolland Turnpike Road's twelve miles from Hartford, and about the same distance from Stafford Springs; lately occupied as a Tavern and Store by Mr. Lebbeus P. Tinker, and now occupied by Mr. James Chapman; consisting of a neat, spacious well finished House and Store, two Barns, one entirely new and large, having sufficient stabling, and every necessary accommodation for a Tavern; about three acres of Land, including a Garden, with considerable fruit, and an Orchard that will produce from 20 to 30 barrels of cider annually. Also, ten acres of Woodland, within one mile of the above stand.
Also, one hundred thousand acres of Land, in New-Connecticut; part of which lies in the flourishing towns of Hartford, Vienna, Nelson, and Rootstown; settled from thirty to sixty families in each town. These towns are well watered, and well accommodated with roads, Grist-Mills and Saw-Mills; the land is of a good quality, the water is good, and the country remarkably healthy; and part is situated in three entire towns of about 15,000 acres each, and in several tracts of land from one thousand to four thousand acres, not surveyed into lots, and which the subscriber will sell either by the whole township or tract, or by any less quantity, as may best suit purchasers. It will be noticed, that the price of land, in the unsettled towns and tracts, will be considerably less than those towns which are settling, and will not only give to an individual or company who may purchase, the advantage of a first choice, but also will secure to them, the rise in the value of the lands. A good title, and the most liberal terms given to purchasers. EPHRAIM ROOT. For further particulars, apply to JOSEPH ROGERS, Esq. at Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford, (Con.) October 8, 1809. 6m.
PINKERTON'S COLLECTION OF TRAVELS.
THE first number of this interesting Work will be ready for Subscribers at Providence in a few weeks. This number is a fair specimen of the paper, printing, &c. and is deposited for inspection at the Book-Stores of Henry Cushing , William Wilkinson , and Nathaniel Dearborn , and at the Washington Insurance Office; where such as decline their subscriptions until they have an opportunity of seeing the engravings, the style of printing, and the paper, are invited to examine the execution of the work. Providence, 12th mo. 4th, 1809.
TO LET, An excellent stand for Business, near the West End of the Bridge, consisting of a convenient Front Shop, and a large commodious Store on the Wharf back, accommodated with a well finished Counting-Room.
ALSO, A very pleasant Country Seat, two miles from the Bridge, suitable for a genteel family, having necessary Out-Buildings, a spacious Garden, and some other Lands. The terms will be liberal. Apply to AVIS DONNISON. November 24, 1809.
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, BY DUNHAM and HAWKINS, At the sign of the AMERICAN EAGLE, Opposite the Market.
24 50 PER ANNUM—PAID IN ADVANCE.