The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1809-11-17 00:00:00

THE RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
"THE NATION WHICH INDULGES TOWARDS ANOTHER AN HABITUAL HATRED, OR AN HABITUAL FONDNESS, IS IN SOME DEGREE A SLAVE." — WASHINGTON.
VOLUME II.
PROVIDENCE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1809.
NUMBER 9.
J. B. WOOD'S
GENERAL PRICE-CURRENT OF BANK NOTES,
AS THEY ARE RECEIVED AT HIS EXCHANGE-OFFICE, PROVIDENCE, (R. I.)
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Bills of the New-Hampshire, ditto payable in Philadelphia, Portsmouth, } 3 per cent. dis. Union, Strafford, and Exeter Banks, } 6 to 10 do. Concord Banks, } no demand. Cheshire, Coos, and Hillsborough Banks, }
MASSACHUSETTS.
Bills of the United States Branch, Massachusetts, Union, and Boston Banks, } Par. Salem, Essex, Beverly, Marblehead, Newburyport, Gloucester (Cape Ann), } 1 1-2 per cent. dis. Plymouth, Worcester, Bedford, Pacifick, and Nantucket Banks, } 3 do. Portland, Maine, and Saco Banks, } 4 to 6 do. Hallowell and Augusta, and Lincoln and Kennebec Banks, } 15 to 20 do. Penobscot and Northampton, } fluctuating. Berkshire Bank, }
CONNECTICUT.
Bills of the Bridgeport, Middletown, Hartford, New-Haven, Norwich, } 1 3 to 1 per cent. dis. New-London, and Union Banks, }
VERMONT.
Bills of the Vermont State Banks, } 15 to 20 per cent. dis.
RHODE-ISLAND.
Bills of the Providence, Exchange, Roger Williams, Bank of Rhode-Island, Newport, Rhode-Island Union, Bank of Bristol, Commercial, } Par. Warren, Rhode-Island Central, and Narragansett Banks, } 2 per cent. dis. Smithfield Union Bank, } 3 to 4 do. Washington Bank, } dead!!! Farmers' Exchange Bank, }
KENTUCKY.
Bills of the Kentucky Insurance Company, } 20 per cent. dis.
NORTH-CAROLINA.
Bills of the Cape Fear, and Newbern Banks, } 12 1-2 per cent. dis.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, } Par. State, and South-Carolina Banks, } 5 to 6 per cent. dis.
OHIO.
Bills of the Marietta, and Miami Exporting Company Banks, } 20 to 30 per cent. dis.
NEW-YORK.
Bills of the United States Branch, Merchants, Manhattan Company, Bank of New-York, New-York State, Bank of Albany, Mohawk, Farmers', } from Par to 1 1-2 per cent. dis. Bank of Hudson, and Bank of Columbia, }
NEW-JERSEY.
Bills of the Jersey, Trenton Banking Company, Newark Banking and Insurance Company, and Bank of New-Brunswick, } Par and 3-4 per cent. dis.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Bills of the United States, Farmers' and Mechanicks', Philadelphia, } Par and 3-4 per cent. dis. Bank of Pennsylvania, and Bank of North-America, } 10 per cent. dis. Pittsburg Bank, }
DELAWARE.
Bills of the Farmers' Bank, and Bank of Delaware, } 2 to 6 per cent. dis.
MARYLAND.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, } Par. Union Bank of Maryland, Bank of Columbia, Hagerstown, Bank of Baltimore, Branch of the Farmers' Bank of Maryland, and Mechanicks' Bank of Baltimore, } 1 to 2 1-2 per cent. dis.
VIRGINIA.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, } Par. Bank of Virginia, Bank of Alexandria, and Bank of Potomack, } 2 to 6 per cent. dis.
LOUISIANA TERRITORY.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, } Par. Bank of Louisiana, } 25 per cent. dis.
MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
Bills of the Detroit Bank, payable at Detroit, and at their Office of Discount and Deposit at Providence, R. I. (NEVER WAS ANY!) } contemptible!!!
The above PRICE-CURRENT will be carefully corrected every Friday.
To the above Discount there will be a small advance for small sums, and Bills under $5 dollars, not of this State.
* Boston money, or specie, will be given for any Bills received at par, for half per cent. for sums over $20—under $20, 1 per cent. advance.
Any distant Banking Company, wishing their Bills to be received at par, will please to make arrangements accordingly, and they will be duly attended to.
The most punctilious attention will be paid to all Letters, (post paid,) addressed to J. B. Wood, enclosing Bills to be exchanged, and the earliest remittances made to any part of the Union, per first, or not to exceed the second mail. All Bank Notes that he passes will be WARRANTED good, and should any counterfeit Bills be received in Letters, they will be returned. Bank Notes examined GRATIS. Office hours from sunrise until sunset.
EXCHANGE-OFFICE, Providence, (R. I.) November 17, 1809.
SPANISH BRANDY—fifteen
Pipes of excellent, just landing and
for sale by
BLODGET & POWER.
November 14, 1809. Gt.
TO BE SOLD,
On MONDAY the 27th instant, (if not disposed of before that time by private contract,) by Auction, in the Market-Place, Providence,
EIGHT SHARES in the STERLING FACTORY. Terms of sale will be made known at the time. The situation is good and secure, on a steady stream sufficient to turn 3000 Spindles the year round, which number, with preparation Machinery, the Building is calculated to hold. There is a good secure new Dam, an excellent Water-Wheel eight feet wide on the Trough, cast Iron Cants six inches on the Trough, Crown Wheel six inches on the Trough, perpendicular Shaft five inches square, Fly-Wheel and Spur-Nut four inches on the Trough, horizontal Shaft three and half inches square, all cast iron; one new double Carding Machine 36 inches on the Wire, calculated to discharge 54 pounds of good clear-carding per day; one Drawing Frame four Heads, one Roping Frame four Heads, and one Throstle Spinning-Frame containing 108 Spindles, with all the necessary apparatus thereto, all new, and in good working trim. Also, 20 acres of Land belonging to the Factory, the proportionate undivided Shares whereof will be sold or included in the Shares of the Factory. For further particulars, apply to the subscriber, in Providence.
SAMUEL OGDEN.
November 14, 1809.
WANTED,
APPRENTICES to the Business of making COTTON MACHINERY. Parents, or Guardians to Boys in the country, have an opportunity to put them to a good Business, where they may get a thorough knowledge of the above in its respective Branches, by applying to the subscriber, at his Workshop, near the Mill-bridge.
SAMUEL OGDEN.
November 14, 1809.
NOTICE.
THE Partnership of BOWEN, SNOW & Co. is dissolved by mutual consent. HORATIO G. BOWEN, HAMPTON R. SNOW, HENRY BOWEN.
November 11, 1809.
For WILMINGTON, (N. C.)
THE Brig CANTON, SPOONER RUGGLES, Master, will sail by the 25th instant. For Freight or Passage, apply to S. RUGGLES, or STEPHEN ARNOLD.
November 14, 1809.
A FINE CHANCE.
THE noted DAIRY FARM owned by the subscriber, lying in Brooklyn, (Con.) containing 400 acres or upwards, will be sold at the price of $25 per acre—one third of the pay down, the other two thirds in ten equal annual payments, on good security. This Farm is well situated, and contains an uncommon proportion of good farming Land, with two Dwelling-Houses, a Grist-Mill, with two Run of Stones, a Saw-Mill, Barns and other Out-Houses sufficient for the Farm. This Farm, exclusive of the Mills, before embargo times, for a number of years has cleared a rent of $750. As it was taken in Cheese, it is now rented, with the Mills, for two years from the first of April next, at $700 per annum, and the Tenant will quit, if the purchaser should wish; otherwise the lease and securities will be endorsed over. For other particulars, inquire of the subscriber, near Brooklyn Meeting-House.
DANIEL TYLER.
Brooklyn, (Con.) November 13, 1809.
Teas, Rum and Brandy.
BLODGET & POWER
HAVE just received an extensive assortment of the very first quality of Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Sou-chong, Gunpowder, Campoy and Congo TEAS, so circumstanced as to enable them to sell much under the usual prices.
ALSO,
French and Spanish BRANDY and St. Croix RUM.
October 24, 1809.
CHARLES F. BLODGET & SAMUEL C. BLODGET
HAVE formed a Commercial Connexion at Charleston, (S. C.) for the purpose of transacting, solely, COMMISSION BUSINESS, under the firm of
Charles F. & Samuel C. Blodget, and respectfully solicit the aid of their friends, and the publick. They are enabled to grant the usual facilities, and pledge themselves to devote their 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.
THE MOST WORSHIPFUL
EPHRAIM BOWEN, jun.
GRAND MASTER.
A QUARTERLY Communication of the GRAND LODGE of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, will be held at MASON'S HALL, in Providence, on Monday the 27th instant, at 6 o'clock, P. M. of which the Officers and Members of the Grand Lodge, Proxies of Lodges, and all others concerned, are requested to take notice, and give their punctilious attendance accordingly.
By order,
OTIS AMMIDON, Grand Sec'y.
November 10, 1809.
JOHN P. HELLEN
WISHES to purchase a quantity of FLAX-SEED, for which a generous price will be given.
Who-likewise has for Sale,
A large and general assortment of China and Liverpool-Ware, by wholesale and retail, cheap for Cash or approved Credit.
November 10, 1809.
PETER GRINNELL & SON
Offer for sale, at their Store, formerly occupied by GRINNELL & TAYLOR, near opposite the Providence Bank,
A LARGE assortment of Paints, wholesale and retail, dry or ground in Oil. Also, Window-Glass of every size, Linseed and Lamp-Oil, Varnishes, Spirits of Turpentine, an assortment of Ship-Chandlery, Looking-Glasses, with Mahogany and burnished gilt frames in the newest fashion, of their own manufacture; with every other article generally called for in a Paint Shop, 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.
The State of Rhode-Island, &c.
PROVIDENCE, SC.
THE Creditors of PARDON HANDY, of Providence, Merchant, are hereby notified to appear before the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Providence, within and for the County of Providence, on the third Monday of December next, then and there to nominate Commissioners, agreeably to an Act of the General Assembly, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the Benefit of which has been extended to him the said PARDON.
N. R. KNIGHT, Clerk.
November 10, 1809.
COTTON.
Received per sloop Jefferson, Capt. Pitcomb, and sloop Susannah, Capt. Yorke,
TWO Hundred and Eighty Four Bales
UPLAND COTTON, for sale on liberal terms.
ALEX. JONES.
October 31, 1809.
THE subscriber, being ap-
pointed by the Honourable Town-Council, Guardian, over JOSEPH EDDY, Shipwright, hereby forbids all persons trusting him, as he will not pay any debts of his contracting after this date.
THOMAS TABER.
October 31, 1809.
COFFEE, PEPPER, &c.
2000 lbs. Java Coffee, 7 entitled to debenture
800 " Pepper, 5 ture;
Pipes and Barrels best Country Gin,
For sale on liberal terms, by
CHRISTOPHER R. GREENE,
No. 3, MARKET-STREET.
October 27, 1809.
8000 Dollars, and no deduction!
THE HATFIELD BRIDGE LOTTERY will commence drawing in Boston early in this month, (November.)—
Tickets at $5 50, and Quarters at $1 50.
November 1, 1809.
CIRCULATING LIBRARY.
NATHANIEL DEARBORN informs those persons who have kept Books belonging to his Library, for more than three weeks, that the price of detention is double until returned, and those who have had them more than six weeks, he hopes this notice will be sufficient to have them returned immediately, but if not, he will be under the necessity of calling on them in a much more disagreeable manner.
As the Belinquens in this respect are numerous, it is impossible to wait on them personally, and this general notice must be all they receive from him.
November 3, 1809.
Poetry.
FROM A LATE LONDON PAPER.
TALAVERA.
A very beautiful Poem has been published in Ireland on the battles of Talavera. It is too long for insertion in a newspaper; but it were to withhold justice from the subject, as well as from the author, whoever he may be, not to gratify the English publick with a few stanzas from it. The reader who feels for his country's honour, and for the fame and fate of her gallant sons who bled upon that memorable day, cannot fail to feel the ardent glow, the felicitous fancy of the youthful mind, who with a most justifiable license, represents the three attacks on General Hill's position to have been made about midnight, and in immediate succession. Indeed, in this he deviates but very little from the strict line of the real fact; and the deviation is admirably calculated to produce the most striking impression on the reader's mind,—with that view the Poem thus opens:—
'Twas dark; from every mountain's head The sunny smile of heaven had fled, And evening, over hill and dale Dropt, with the dew her shadowy veil; In fabled Tajo's darkening tide Was quenched the golden ray; Silent, the silent stream beside, Three gallant armies lay, Three gallant armies, hope and pride, Welcome to them the clouds of night, That close a fierce and hurried fight; And wearied all and none elate With equal hope and doubt, they wait A fiercer bloodier day. France, every nation's foe, is there, And Albion's sons her red-cross bear, With Spain's young Liberty to share, The fortune of the fray. Thrice come they on, and thrice their shock Rebounding breaks, as from the rock The wintry billow's thrown; And many a gallant feat is done, And many a laurel lost and won, 'Unwitnessed and unknown; Feats that achieved in face of day, In Pizarro's holy side for aye, And live in sculptur'd stone. Oh for a blaze from heaven to light The wonders of that gloomy fight, The wreath of honour to bestow, Of which the sullen envious night Bereaves the warrior's brow! Darding they fight and only know If chance has sped the fatal blow, Or, by the trodden corse below, Or by the dying groan: Furious they strike without a mark, Save now and then the sulphurous spark Illumes some visage grim and dark, That with the flash is gone!
And its pathetic conclusion, while it discloses the private feelings of the author, must come home to the bosom of every man who knows how to sympathize in the sorrows of those who are doomed to mourn over the most exulting triumphs of their country.
I would not check the tender sigh, I would not chide the pious tear, That heaves the heart and dims the eye When honoured friend and kinsman dear, Even upon victory's proudest bier, Loved, lost, lamented, lie! But I would say, for those that die In honour's high career, For those in glory's grave who sleep, Weep, fondly, but, exulting weep! The fairest wreath that fame can bind, Is ever with the cypress twined; And fresher from the untimely tomb Renown's eternal laurels bloom; Fickle is Fortune and unsure, And worth and fame to be secure Must be in death embalm'd! I too have known what 'tis to part With the first inmate of my heart; To feel the gash of nature given, To witness o'er the glowing dawn, The spring of youth, the fire of heaven, The grave's deep shadows drawn! He slept not on the battle plain Worn with disease, and racked with pain, Far o'er the Atlantic wave He sought eluding health—in vain Health never lit his eye again, He fills a foreign grave; Oh had he liv'd, his hand to day Had woven for the victor's brow, Such chaplet as the enthusiast lay Of genius may bestow; Or, since 'twas heaven's severer doom To call him to an earthly tomb; Would, Wellesley! would that he had died Beneath thine eye, and at thy side! It would have lightened sorrow's load, Had thy applause on him bestow'd The fame he loved in thee; And near'd his honoured tomb beside Those of the gallant hearts who died, Their kinsmen's, friends' and country's pride, In Talavera's victory.
Moral.
FOR THE RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS HINTS. No. XVI.
THE greatest saint, that ever lived, could never find peace in sin. And all things are sin, which are not conducted in a gracious spirit and for a gracious end. This sin is the source of all sorrow. A negligent walk and conversation proceed from lifelessness in grace; and therefore it either degenerates into downright hardness and stupidity, proving the man to be a hypocrite; or it brings on trouble and inquietude of soul, in order to shew the man, that he is out of the high way to heaven. If a careless walk will break tranquillity; what must be said of a sinful or unholy conduct? There are many persons, who are always aiming to unite God and mammon; and it is, indeed, from one of the prevalent corruptions in our nature that they do so. They carry on their business in the world without the least grace in it, or prayer over it. And a man, who cannot pray over what he is doing, may be sure that there is no grace in it, but a great deal of sin. A person, in the commission of a fraud, (though it may not be an open cheating like an avowed thief; but a fraud of trade and occupation,) can never be so impudent with God, as to pray for his assistance in it. And, if he doth it by himself, God surely leaves him to misery as the effect of it. A cool and deliberate smuggler, for this reason, has no title to the name of a christian. Neither have those liars, (for they cannot be called by a softer name,) who ask high prices, that people may bid for commodities more than they are worth; nor those cheats, who will take more. People, who follow evil professions of business, (and a man may know that a business is evil, which cannot be a subject of prayer, both in its act and design,) or who follow just professions in an evil way, who seek nothing but money or self in them, without any respect to God's glory or the good of men. These people cannot expect happiness in the christian profession, while they allow themselves in practices incompatible with it. They cannot say over their gains, "here, Lord, thy providence hath bestowed this money upon me, as the medium to answer my own necessities and those of my family. Thou hast been pleased to give it me in the use of that lawful vocation, which thou hast assigned to me in the world; and I pray thee to put thy blessing in it, that the little may go a great way in good purposes, or that the much may answer thy will in the holiest uses; so that, for all of it, I may have reason to bless thy providence and love, in bestowing upon me the means of doing good, and enabling me to employ the means for thy glory. O help me to be thankful for this mercy in time and eternity." Can a man be so presumptuous as to expect peace with God in the world, who cannot thus pray to him? Can he dare to hope that God will be his partner in fraud and deceit, or telling lies in the shop, or in perjury at the custom-house? Can he believe, in his sober senses, that, while he lives in the indulgence of any impurities, either in thought, word, or deed, the Holy Spirit will vouchsafe him the comforts of holiness? It is impossible.
Searle's Hora Solitaria.
FRIDAY, 17th NOVEMBER, 1809.
Miscellany.
From the New-York Herald.
VILLAINS EXPOSED.
THE French scoundrel, who so slavishly serves the interest of his master, Bonaparte, has, in his Aurora, of Saturday last, a long article of three columns, which he entitles, "VILLAINS DETECTED," and which he lately received from France, in vindication of General Armstrong, against the united complaints of every unfortunate American prisoner, who has escaped from the infernal French dungeons for two years past. This article contains extracts of several letters, which Mr. Aurora introduces with wonderful parade and exultation, as a confutation of all the charges against Armstrong, and supposes that no federal editors will republish this counterstatement, taking it for granted, that federal editors are as great rascals as himself. But federal editors are always as ready to publish the refutation as the charge, and let the world judge. I shall now republish all the documents which have been sent to Duane, and the people shall pronounce the verdict.
Previous to their introduction, however, it may not be amiss to observe, that the
The article is introduced into the Public Advertiser of yesterday, but very distantly gusted of certain expressions.

principal writer, advocate, witness and certificate master, in favour of Armstrong is one David Baillie Warden, a correspondent of Colonel Duane's, who concludes his letter to the Colonel with assurances of his respect for him; besides which it appears from one of his official signatures, he is now the "consul and agent of prize causes at Paris," having been so constituted and appointed by Armstrong himself, in place of some more deserving and proper man, and therefore it is to be presumed that Mr. Warden must be wonderfully impartial to Mr. Armstrong. I am much misinformed if this man is an American citizen even artificially; he has formerly been an itinerant, or rather vagrant preacher, and of course must be intimately acquainted with commerce and law. Him, Armstrong has appointed to be one of his right hand men; he noted and thrice infamous Haley, his constant attendant and principal adviser, being the other. After this short but pertinent information respecting Mr. Warden, let us introduce him. He begins his letter to Duane in the following manner:
"Paris, 18th September, 1809."
"Sir—On looking over the files of some American journals, (brought by the Wasps sloop of war,) I find that several charges have been publicly made and circulated against the Minister of the United States, (General Armstrong,) by certain sea-faring men, which being to my knowledge utterly destitute of truth, require from me some degree of notice."
"1st. A person of the name of Hopkins is made to assert, that General Armstrong refused to give him a passport, unless he, (Hopkins,) should previously pay therefor, ten or twelve francs, and that the general gave an order to this effect, to his secretary in the presence of Hopkins. On this subject I offer the following deposition, viz."
"Having been secretary to General Armstrong, at the time Hopkins was in Paris, and having been specially charged by him with the giving of passports, I do solemnly swear, on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, that no such order in relation to Hopkins, or any other person, ever was given to me by the said Minister; and farther, that the rule prescribed by him, and observed by me, in all cases, was to give passports and other official acts gratis."
"DAVID BAILLIE WARDEN."
"Sworn and subscribed to before me, consul of the United States, for the district of Antwerp, this 18th day of September, 1809. J. RIDGWAY."
"The aforesaid Hopkins is also made to declare, (on the authority of Captain William Nichols,) that, when he, (Nichols,) called on the minister to inform him that Captain Waterman, whose ship had been burnt at sea, was near Paris, and on his way to Arras prison, that the general refused to interfere for, or in any way to assist, the said Waterman."
Had Mr. Nichols made this assertion, there would be no difficulty in shewing it to be a most wicked and impudent falsehood, (as will be seen hereafter,) but the original letter from Nichols, written to a friend at Paris, and which I send herewith, will prove, that his name has been employed on this occasion in a way equally remote from his wishes and from the truth.
"(EXTRACT.)"
"AMSTERDAM, July 5, 1809."
"Dear Sir—Yours of the 8th and 29th of June, have come to hand. I was very much surprised that Hopkins should take the liberty of making use of my name, I don't remember of having any conversation with Hopkins, concerning General Armstrong. If I had, I am confident I said nothing disrespectful of his excellency.—There is no American that has taken part in favour of the general more than I have. Hopkins I knew protested against General Armstrong before he left Paris. Palmer I do not know."
"(Signed) WILLIAM NICHOLS."
"REMARKS."
It is now above a year since I first began to make known to the publick, through the press, the indignities, the losses, and the sufferings inflicted upon every unprotected American citizen, who had the misfortune to be captured by French pirates under colour of the Berlin and Milan decrees. In a statement made on the 31st of October, 1808, I stated the particulars of the cases of Captain Palmer, and Captain Hopkins, which I received from themselves, and which I had no doubt then, nor have I now, were in every important circumstance strictly correct. These statements were both contradicted by the same fellow, who now publishes the above letter from Warden, he was sure they were not true; they could not be true; he went so far as to call my informant an impostor. But as soon as the Aurora reached this place, an answer was put in, which induced the noble and gallant colonel to look about him. In short, he was told if any one dared to repeat the falsehood, Captain Palmer would soon find a way to make him eat it. Like his prototype, Falstaff, the colonel thought the better part of valour was discretion, and he kept a very discreet silence from that time to this. Now, however, he comes out doubly armed; with both letter and affidavit; the letter and affidavit too of David Baillie Warden. Instead of taking Mr. David's statement of what Captain Hopkins
asserted respecting Armstrong's conduct, I copy the following from the New-York Evening Post, of October 31, 1808, taken at the time from his own lips; though elated in the third person.
"Along with Captain Palmer, came Captain Caleb Hopkins, of Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, (my other informant,) who sailed from this port for Cherbourg, in the ship Victory, of Portsmouth, and having been captured and sent into England, but not detained, proceeded to his original destination, where he arrived, landed and warehoused his cargo some days before the Milan decree had been acted upon, except in case of the Horizon. Nevertheless the vessel and cargo were seized under the same decree and held for trial. Captain Hopkins then applied to the American Ambassador at Paris, by letters from Cherbourg, and most earnestly besought him to interfere, or at least to send him a passport, to come to Paris to attempt to recover his ship."
"Armstrong, after preserving a perfect silence for many months, at length on the 18th of July last designed to write him by his secretary, in which he told him it would be useless to come to Paris; and he had the cruelty to attempt to play off a sarcasm on his wretched countryman, by saying in his letter, which now lies before me, "I would advise you that Paris is not on the route to L'Orient, the only port in France from which you can sail for America."
"After his vessel was condemned, he walked all the way from Cherbourg to Paris, more than three hundred miles, to see Armstrong personally, and get a passport home. Armstrong asked him if he had any money to pay for this passport? The poor man answered no, he was not the owner of a farthing.—Armstrong then turned to his secretary, and cut the business short by telling him to grant the man a passport whenever he produced 12 francs to pay the fees. Capt. Hopkins then went into the street, and begged the money of an American whom he met, with which he went back and bought a Licence to return to his native country, penniless and ruined."
But now David Baillie Warden, the consul, swears, on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, which oath he takes before another consul at Antwerp, that no such order in relation to Hopkins or any other person was ever given him by Armstrong, but that the rule was in all cases to give passports and other official acts gratis. What mental reservation there may be here, or what loop-hole to creep out at, I do not know, but by turning back to my files of the above date, I am enabled to produce an affidavit that I fancy will go quite as far in the minds of the American publick as that of this Mr. David Baillie Warden, who swears he gives gratis, [for nothing] other official acts as well as passports: I offer an extract from the affidavit of a respectable citizen, who was, like Captain Hopkins, a prisoner in France, and exposed to the same infamous treatment. Extract from the Deposition of William Palmer.
"Sixth.—The deponent saith that he did apply to General Armstrong at Paris, for assistance to get out of the country, and obtained the same by paying twelve livres for it."
"Seventh.—The deponent saith that he was present when Captain Hopkins stated the circumstance of General Armstrong's refusing him a passport unless he could produce the money to pay for it, as published in the Evening Post of the above date; and the deponent saith he verily believes that this is the constant conduct of General Armstrong towards American citizens in France, unless he has particular reasons to depart from it in favour of, now and then, an individual."
"Eighth.—The deponent saith that he conveyed into the Post-Office as many as a dozen letters to General Armstrong, during the confinement of Captain Watson in the dungeons aforesaid, informing him of his wretched situation, which he has every reason to believe General Armstrong regularly received, but no answer was ever given thereto, nor notice taken of the case; and it is the deponent's belief that if it had not been for the humane interference of Mr. Skipwith, Captain Watson would have been transferred from the dungeon of Dieppe to the prison of Arras, and there been confined at this moment."
"W.M. PALMER."
"Sworn this 9th November, 1808, before me, BENJAMIN TUCKER, Pub. Not'y."
Thus much for the fact of extorting money for passports. I leave it to the publick to judge to which of these persons most credit is due. One circumstance only I add, which is, that the name of the gentleman who lent Hopkins the money was left with me, and he can, if at all necessary, be vouched in corroboration of the fact.
As to the letter of Nichols, it is produced to controvert a fact which has never been stated: viz. that Hopkins declared that Nichols had informed him of the base conduct of Armstrong towards Captain Waterman.—Now by turning to the Evening Post above quoted, it will be seen that this fact is stated by myself, but from what particular authority is not even named, and as it was not Captain Hopkins, Nichols's letter must go for nothing.
No. II.
Warden, Armstrong and Duane, (for I know not which has the principal hand in the defence,) next take up the cases of John Wyle and Isaac Doolittle; a letter from the former of whom was first published in the Evening Post of July 12th, and one from the latter was republished in the Evening Post of August 17th, from the Connecticut Herald. The following is the shape in which the defence appears, given at full length, that there should be no room for any pretence of unfairness. Thank God, no man can complain that I ever refused the accused a hearing through the same medium through which he had been attacked. My readers will excuse the length of the article, and I wish they would give it a full share of their attention. I am mistaken if Armstrong or his advocates will derive much advantage from their management, cunning as they doubtless think it.
"From the Aurora."
"John Wyle, mate of the Two Brothers, in a letter addressed to Messrs. Hathaway and Russell, merchants of New-York, and dated the 18th April, 1809, says, that he and others having been made prisoners at Charente, were marched to Arras; and that they frequently applied to General Armstrong for relief, but that he would not even answer their letters."
"3d. Isaac Doolittle, mate of the ship Neptune, of Portland, Massachusetts, and who like Wyle, had been arrested at Charente, and marched to Arras, in a letter published by Coleman in the Evening Post of August the 9th, complains in nearly the same style with Wyle, but admits that General Armstrong did answer his first letter."
"These papers, if genuine, exhibit the very worst side of human nature, falsehood and hypocrisy; and in support of this opinion, I send you the letters enclosed and marked, No. 1, 2 and 3. No. 1 is the joint letter of Doolittle, Wyle, Taurman and Copping. No. 2, is the separate letter of Wyle, and No. 3, is the private letter of Doolittle to his father and mother—which after using, you will be good enough to forward to New-Haven."
"(No. 1.)"
"ARRAS, September 10, 1809."
"General Armstrong—"
"Sir—We received your esteemed favour of the 1st, and beg leave to communicate to you our most sincere thanks for your kind interposition in our behalf, which we cannot but hope will have the desired effect. The departure of last detachment from this depot, is fortunately postponed until further orders, which we hope will be a sufficient length of time for your excellency's application to meet a decision."
"Mr. Hamilton Smith, late mate of the American ship Nancy, who was brought here as a prisoner on the evening of the 9th ult. finding nothing but a long march and hunger before his eyes, has entered for a privateer and left his depot yesterday, whether he has been too hasty or not your excellency will be the best judge."
"According to your excellency's offer, we send the enclosed to be forwarded to America, begging you will do us the honour to believe that we feel sentiments of thankfulness which we cannot express."
(Signed) ISAAC DOOLITTLE, JOHN WYLE, JOHN TAURMAN, THOMAS COPPING. (No. 2.)
"SAME DATE."
"Sir—I return you my sincere thanks for the kind attention you have paid to me and the rest of my countrymen in our great extremity—I being fully convinced that your excellency was well disposed to do what lay in your power to obtain my liberty when opportunity offered; I have communicated all this to my friends, by letters under care of Mr. and Mrs. Clubb, who left here for the United States. They informed me that they would deliver the letters themselves, which I have no doubt but they will, therefore I think a repetition of the same grievances would be wearisome to them. Therefore I defer writing, hoping, through your excellency's solicitation, to have a personal interview with them in a short time, which will produce the long wished for moment, that is a happy sight of my friends and country, where slavery and oppression do not exist, after two years absence, the first time was spent embargued in Holland, the latter part a captive in France."
(Signed) JOHN WYLE. (No. 3.)
"ARRAS, September 13, 1809."
"Dear Parents—His Excellency General Armstrong, (who has kindly offered to forward this,) has made application for our release, which I doubt not would have been granted long before this, had it not been for the convulsed state of Holland, and indeed all Europe, for a few months past; but I hope this political squall will soon blow over, and we be blest with a moderate breeze to drive us out of this country. His Excellency has also offered to become responsible to the Minister at war for our good conduct, in order to obtain for us some privileges, which we could not otherwise enjoy, and should we be base enough to abuse the confidence placed in us, I hope we may be branded with a name
more infamous than Arnold, be punished with a confinement more rigorous than Baron Trenk, and be no longer considered as Americans."
(Signed) ISAAC DOOLITTLE, jun. REMARKS.
Instead of taking Warden's statement of Mr. Wyle's case, so artfully mitigated, I prefer giving his own relation, taken from his printed letter to his owners. It is dated "Arras Prison, April 18th, 1809." After mentioning the particulars of his voyage after leaving New-York, and giving an account of his capture by the French pirates, he says:
"I am here friendless and moneyless. Our pay here is 19 cents per day, to supply every necessary of life, and no support whatever can we obtain from our Minister. I write frequently to his Excellency General Armstrong, to alleviate our distress, by allowing some pecuniary support, if he cannot obtain our release. He will not even answer our letters; he listens to the sufferings of his countrymen and gives them no redress. He looks on us more with contempt than pity.—We are furthermore informed by Mr. Cox Barnett, American Consul for the District of Havre, that his Excellency the French Minister, would immediately give us up, were General Armstrong to make application for us."
Thus far the letter of Mr. Wyle, but his case and Mr. Doolittle's being coupled together in the defence, it may be as well to bring them together here so as to dispose of both at once.
"Isaac Doolittle, (says Warden, who I strongly suspect writes with Armstrong's pen,) "Isaac Doolittle complains in nearly the same style with Wyle, but admits that General Armstrong did answer his first letter." But let us hear Mr. Doolittle tell his own story. It is taken from his letter, under the care of Mr. and Mrs. Clubb, and I fancy will be quite as satisfactory to the inquirer after truth as the above account of it by Mr. Warden. His letter is dated Arras, 8th of June. Take the following extracts:
"Since our arrival here, we have written many times to the American Minister, General Armstrong, requesting him to make application for our release, or give us some small support, our allowance being too scant to live on, as it is but 19 cents per day to furnish every necessary of life. To our first we received an answer, saying, "that although no exertions on his part should be wanting to obtain our release yet it would be wrong in him to flatter us with hopes that it would suddenly be granted. After writing repeatedly to him, soliciting him, if he could not liberate us, to give us some small pecuniary assistance that we might with the more comfort support the shackles of our captivity, I received a letter from H. E. [His Excellency] on the 27th of April, which I believe was written merely with a view to rid himself of my importunities."
"[Here follows the letter.]"
"By the above it appears that he does not dispute our claims to the protection of the United States, but there is a RANSOM to be paid for our release; yet I am well persuaded that had Ms Excellency made the necessary demand for our liberation, on our first arrival here, we should ere this have landed in that blessed country where alone true and genuine liberty is enjoyed. Should his Excellency's neglect be caused by political circumstances which might render it necessary for him to defer making application for our liberty, would he allow us some small support, so as to render our situation a little comfortable, I should spend my life contentedly, and die a voluntary martyr for my country's good, but as it appears obvious from circumstances which daily occur that it is the effect of obstinacy or opposition, it is impossible to rest satisfied."
"Mr. Isaac Cox Barnett, American Consul for the District of Havre has been for a long time using every possible means for the release of his unfortunate countrymen, who are detained as prisoners in this country, but being opposed by the above mentioned powerful misanthropist his efforts have unhappily fell short of his expectations."
"I saw a letter three days since, received by Mr. C. from Mr. B. stating that he, (Mr. B.) had been authentically informed at the war-office, that General Armstrong had not claimed the release of any Americans, during the twelve months last past, and that without his claims, they could not with propriety be cleared."
"Here is a Captain Hugh Harrison, who was born in Ireland, but is naturalized in Charleston, (S. C.) and has commanded a ship for a considerable time from that port. He was unfortunately taken on his passage and brought here about fifteen months since, and has been at times, flattered with hopes of a release, but I believe he may conclude they are all visionary, as he has this day received a letter from a Captain Seymour, who is a prisoner at Valenciennes, who has received from his parents by the Mentor, proofs of his being a citizen of the United States, but still General Armstrong will not claim him, on account of his being taken under the Eng-
lish flag; nor will he liberate us who were detained under that of our country."
"Finally, I can draw no other conclusion from his conduct, than that he is no friend either to America or her citizens, as I cannot learn that he ever did a good deed designedly since he has been honoured with the title of His Excellency."
Let us now go back to Monsieur Warden's Defence. But this must be postponed to the next paper.
FROM THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL. WORKS OF THE BEAST!
However the so much agitated question, whether Bonaparte be or be not the Beast mentioned in the Revelations, may be settled, it is evident that a great portion of the French people have, in the course of their Revolution, performed many of the acts ascribed to the Beast in Scripture.—Scenes so blasphemous were never displayed before. A writer in an eastern paper, in an essay, an extract from which we annex to these remarks, has made "an essay towards a statement" of these enormities, in which his pen appears to have been guided by truth. The adoration of the Goddess of Reason, and the abolition of the Sabbath, are known to all to have been official acts of the French Revolutionary Government. It may be useful to us to pause and ponder upon these things, imploring Divine Providence to preserve us from such awful delusions, and to save the French people themselves from a recurrence of events so dreadful and destructive.
"In the year 1792, the French nation endeavoured entirely to abolish Christianity. It first began with an indiscriminate persecution of the priests. The utmost pains were taken to render them odious, and to excite the people against them, by calling them aristocrats. True it was, that the church required a radical reform in respect to its revenues: Some of its benefices, as they became vacant, ought to have been applied to the publick use, as this would have lightened the burthen of taxes which fell so heavily upon the people. But this was only a pretext for a general extirpation of the whole order; they meant not to correct, but to destroy. Scribes were hired to write pamphlets, in which the clergy were set forth as fomenters of insurrections against the new government, as persecutors, extortioners, and practising every species of vice, which degrade the human character. Pieces were written and acted on the stage, which were calculated to inspire the utmost degree of horror and indignation against the priesthood, and to place them in the most atrocious point of view. Decrees fraught with severity and cruelty, were issued by the government against those priests who refused to take the oaths prescribed by the new constitution. It was not enough that they should be deprived of their livings, and banished their country; these, they chose to comply with, rather than submit to a violation of conscience: But when a man has sacrificed his interest and his establishment in life from a scruple of conscience, which, taking it in its worst light, can only be construed into weakness, it seems to every candid mind, that resentment ought there to end. But that was not the case; they were proscribed as conspirators, and sought in every part wherever they fled, and murdered with indiscriminate slaughter. Many who were going into banishment, were overtaken and massacred; and above two hundred priests who were confined at Paris in the convent of Carmes, on no particular accusation, but merely because they were priests, were, at one time, inhumanly butchered within its walls, and the only pretext alleged was, that they refused to take the oaths! Garnier, who was employed by the convention as a commissioner in the horrid business, wrote thus to that body, on the 11th December, 1793: "I have caused fifty eight priests to be drowned." The next month he wrote again—"Ninety priests have just been brought to me; I have drowned them, which has given me great pleasure." During the time the French nation called itself a republick, 24,000 priests were put to death, and many of them protestants. All the records of religious persecution cannot present scenes so atrocious!
"Having so far succeeded as to foment the prejudices of the people against the clergy, and destroy their influence, they no longer concealed their designs under the mask of patriotism, but openly avowed their intention of extirpating, entirely, all kinds of religion. On Sunday, November 17, 1793, Anacharsis Cloots did homage to the convention, and made the following
"We do not think the "French Nation," as a nation, ought to be thus accused. They were then groaning under the most horrible of all tyrannies. [ED. JOURN.]
"It is curious to observe how our French revolutionists in this country have, lately and servilely, endeavoured to imitate their masters in France, in the glorious work of political and religious regeneration. The same means were employed to bring about the same ends. Not many years since a well known writer in the publick newspapers, accused the clergy of "adverse combinations, oppugnations, diatribe, reproach, systematick revilings, sedition, treason and rebellion," declared that they ought not to be supported by their parishioners, and deserved "punishment from the law severe to the most horrid kind."

proposal: "It is now become an acknowledged truth that the adversaries of religion have deserved well of mankind. On this account I demand that a statute be erected to the first abjuring priest in the temple of reason." This proposal was referred to a committee and adopted. Immediately after, Gobet, the revolutionary bishop of Paris, with his inferior clergy, made a formal abjuration of Christianity at the bar of the convention. He threw himself, he said, on the mercy of the nation, for having so long deceived them with the absurdities of the impostor Christ; and assured them that in future, he would acknowledge no other deity than reason. Hebert, the atheist, kept a trumpeter by the name of Marmaro, who was inaugurated the Goddess of Reason. She was fantastically dressed, and borne on the shoulders of jacobins, at the head of a grand procession, and escorted by the National Guards, Mayor, Judges, and all the constituted authorities, to the church of Notre Dame, the cathedral of Paris. Here she was solemnly placed on a throne of turf and flowers, and Gobet, and the rest of the revolutionary clergy, proffered her their adoration, and burned incense on an altar before her. The festival then concluded by the burning of prayer-books, bibles, saints, confessionals, &c. while the multitude danced round the flames, with an appearance of frantic and savage mirth. The representatives of the people often presided at these ceremonies as priests, and these proceedings were inserted among the publick records of the convention, or published in the bulletin, and distributed among the people at the expence of government.
"The following sentiments appeared in a discourse composed by Anacharsis Cloots, and printed and circulated by order of the national convention. "Man when free wants no other divinity but himself. Reason dethrones both the kings of the earth, and the king of heaven. No monarchy above, if we wish to preserve our republick below. Volumes have been written, to determine whether a republick of atheists could exist; I maintain that every other republick is a chimera. If you admit the existence of an heavenly Sovereign, you introduce the wooden horse within your walls; what you adore by day, will be your destruction by night."
"In the month of November, 1793, Chaumette made a motion in the council of Paris, which was received with applause and adopted.
"1. That all the churches and temples of different religions and worship, which are known to be in Paris, shall be instantly shut.
"2. That whatever troubles may arise in Paris, in consequence of religious motives, the priests and ministers of the different religions, shall each be particularly responsible.
"3. That every person, requiring the opening of a church or temple, shall be put under arrest as a suspected person, &c.
"October 25, 1793, a new calendar was proposed and adopted in the convention, with a view to obliterate, entirely, the remembrance of the Sabbath. It was made a crime to pass the first day of the week in religious worship, and substituted in its stead, every tenth day, called a Decade, a day wholly given to profane amusements and diversions. Many of their temples were converted into play houses, stores, rope walks, stables and the like.
"November, 1793, the pupils of a new republican school in Paris, appeared at the bar of the convention, and set forth that all religious worship had been suppressed in their section, and declared that they detested God! They were applauded by the president in the name of the convention, admitted to the honours of the sitting, and received the fraternal kiss.
"While the greatest alarm prevailed in Paris, while the prisons were crowded with suspected persons, of both sexes, and murders and assassinations were perpetrated in the streets at open day, the national assembly were employed a considerable time, in forming a decree, the object of which was, to facilitate the means of divorce. In consequence of this decree it was calculated that in 1793, one hundred and fifty divorces took place in every month in the city of Paris only!
"By a decree of the convention, June 6, 1794, it was declared, "that there is nothing criminal in 'the promiscuous commerce of the sexes.'" In consequence of this decree, the grossest prostitution openly prevailed. In the year 1796, when the army under General Jourdan ravaged the country near the Black Forest, each soldier was allowed as many mistresses as he could support by his plunder, and every infant that was born, either of wives or mistresses, was drowned under military escort!!"
By the Mails.
NEW-YORK, November 12. VERY LATE FROM TONNINGEN.
CAPTAIN M'Millen, who arrived last evening in the remarkable passage of 36 days from Tonningen, informs, that it was believed at the time of his departure, (the 8th ult.) that hostilities would soon be re-commenced between Austria and France;
that there was an expectation that the whole of Germany and her neighbours would rise en masse , to expel the common disturber, who was still struggling under some just affliction, somewhere in the neighbourhood of the spot where he last caused the earth to be stained with human blood.
It will be seen in another part of this Gazette, that Captain M'Millen has favoured us with a list of about 80 sail of American vessels, which he left at Tonningen—nothing could be more acceptable to owners and underwriters, as, it appears, there was no difficulty in disposing of their cargoes to great advantage. Our list does not state particular situations of each vessel, but Captain M'Millen says, many were loaded and loading with German goods for America, some of them were gone and going up the canal, and others for Russia, England, &c.
BOSTON, November 15.
From LISBON, October 7.—LATEST.
A Lisbon paper, received at Baltimore, contains the following letter from a British Officer, dated
"Badajoz, September 19, 1809.
"The head-quarters of the British army are in this city. My regiment is encamped about two leagues distant with the 4th division of the army; the 5th division is on our left at Campo Major, the rest extend towards Madrid. The army will certainly remain in its present position for three weeks, unless unforeseen circumstances influence the commander of the forces. My opinion is that we shall defend Portugal by advancing again into Spain. If we cannot fight the French in the Peninsula with Spain and Portugal at our back, we certainly cannot do it with Portugal only, in the present distracted state of that kingdom. The British army at this moment is in a more efficient state than it has been at any period on this part of the continent. By remaining a short time here it will be still more so by the junction of many small detachments from almost every town in Portugal. The most experienced officers of the army are of opinion that we are able to beat the collected forces of the French in the Peninsula whenever we meet them: That the disparity of numbers may not permit our profiting by the victory it cannot be contested; but that the fate of the whole Peninsula depends on the events in Germany, while the French have any army on this side the Pyrenees; but if we succeed in driving them to their own frontier, and rousing the dormant kingdom of Portugal into activity, these countries may still be free and independent for ever, in spite of the Emperor of the French, the conqueror of all the rest of the continent of Europe. Lord Wellington, or his noble brother, are not men of despondent character—they are not likely to forsake Spain because in one importance their just expectation was not answered. It is evident there still exists in the government, and in the people of Spain a zeal for independence.—Because the British arms proved their superiority and the army of Spain was unhurt at Talavera, is there any cause for despondence? In my humble opinion, the lesson is turned to great profit, and I look now with as much hopes to see Madrid, as I did when I left Lisbon. Many Spanish regiments have been decimated, and the cowards shot in view of the British soldiers."
Southern papers state, that the President is in possession of very late despatches both from France and England; and is assured, that his Non-Intercourse scheme is as effectual to effect the repeal or even relaxation of the Decrees and Orders, as the Embargo was.
To encourage plunder and treachery in Vienna, Bonaparte, by his worthy agent Berthier, has offered a quarter part of any secreted property confiscated, to the informers . This is only adopting on land, his iniquity on the seas.
More French Accommodation.
We yesterday received the following particulars, from Captain William Hathaway, master of the ship Belvidere, which has arrived at New-Bedford, from London. "On the 25th October, 1809, in lat. about 43, long. 46 1/2 W. at 10, P. M. after a chase of 16 hours, the ship Belvidere, of Boston, from London to New-Bedford, was taken possession of by a French schooner privateer, called the Lis, of Rochelle, Louis Flagelle, owner and supercargo. Besides a number of others, they fired two shots at the ship that went between the masts, a little above the hull, after we had hove too , and they within hail. They detained us until the 26th, when at 4, P. M. they dismissed us, in the mean time they robbed us of two barrels pork, half the beef we had on board, one barrel of bread, half our potatoes, all our cheese, four casks of water, most of our porter, all our live stock, a quantity of new sail cloth, old canvas, sail twine, needles, one barrel of tar, the ship's caboose (leaving a poor one in exchange); the stern boat, oars, and tackle; the hanging compass and cabin compass, a kedge anchor, topgallantmast carpenter's tools, and several small articles such as books, thimbles, marlinespikes, spunyarn, mats, points, robins, &c.
They took all the letters on board the privateer, opened them, and delivered them up again."
A Staunton (Virginia) paper, by the last mail, mentions the report of the death of Governor Meriwether Jones, of Upper Louisiana, by suicide. The manner of his death as told was very extraordinary.
Providence.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1809.
The Circuit Court for this District commenced their November term in this town on Wednesday last. After the Throne of Grace was addressed in a very appropriate Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Wilson, his Honour Judge BARNES delivered a pertinent Address to the Grand Jury.
Congress are soon to convene, and to them will be committed the destinies of the nation at a most important crisis. We can but cherish the hope that a liberal and enlarged policy will guide and govern their deliberations, and the all-important result. If they will but consider that the existence of the nation is deposited in their hands, and that it is in their power to make slaves or freemen of the present age and the subsequent; if they will behave with a dignity worthy of themselves and their constituents, we are prepared to abide with confidence their decision. On the other hand, if they suffer, a mean and local policy to extinguish that sacred debt they owe to the whole nation, their constituents are lost without any other subject of self-conclement than that they have been instrumental in furnishing the dagger by which their own interests have been stabbed to the vitals. Let our Representatives act worthy of themselves—let them reflect on what they are about doing, and they will be Americans . But if it is their settled and sedate determination to aggrandize party on the ruins of the nation, and on the ruins of that constitution which they have sworn to support and defend, they may make the sacrifice. The constitution of our country has virtually declared the fact, and they are free from any other reproach than the reproach of their own consciences and their God. It is in their power to barter and chaffer away that independence which was obtained by the blood of their ancestors, to augment the glory of Bonaparte.—It is in their power to indulge party malice, and to sacrifice a camel to the manes of a fly; but if such should be their determination, we advise them not to tread on the dust of Bunker's Hill, nor on the Plains of Eutaw, nor on the heights of York-Town, lest some murdered patriot might arise and say, in the appropriate language of the first of Roman Poets,
"Procul! O procul este prophani!"
Much has already been said respecting the conduct of our Minister, General Armstrong, and more we doubt not will soon be developed, to place his infamy in strong and lasting colours. Hundreds of our unfortunate countrymen, whose fate has cast them within the purview of his diabolical agency—who have received the hug of "French fraternity," and wasted their health and strength in the dungeons of Arras and the infectious prisons of France, call loudly for vengeance, and demand of their injured and insulted country redress for their wrongs, and punishment of that wretch who tamely submits without a murmur to the greatest injury, and seals by his turpitude the wound inflicted on the honour of his country. For such perfidy perhaps no parallel can be found on the pages of history; for had it ever have existed, nature would have revolved from the page, and none but an Armstrong could ever have recorded it. Washington knew him and despised him; and it was left to democracy to reward "his talents" and "exalted virtues." Like Cain he ought forever to be exiled from all society, and every friend to his country—every friend to the feelings of our common nature should shun him as "the pestilence that walketh in darkness." His country's honour demands that he suffer the lash of justice. And to his eternal judge the sufferings of the injured will cry for redress, and, like Milton of Satan, we may yet say—
"Him the Almighty power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th'etheral sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire."
It is a fact no less astonishing than true, that Bonaparte has now more sincere admirers, devotees and idolaters in the United States than he has in his empire of France. In the latter country, notwithstanding it is now and has been the theatre of all his glory, still that glory has been accompanied with such waste of blood and treasure, such conscriptions and extortions that even those whose glory is most promoted by it, begin to murmur, and nothing but the bayonet prevents rebellion. Still, Americans! Gracious God! those who profess to adhere to the principles of our revolution, publicly vindicate Bonaparte! We tremble for our country when we reflect that those who profess an attachment to the principles of our revolution, should dare to palliate the enormities of the Corsican tyrant. A detested scoundrel, he is
blasted with infamy in the sight of God and man—a monster of perjury, perfidy and meanness, whose victories only serve to make his tyranny and turpitude more abominable! Yet this very climax of infamy finds in America his supporters, and those who even dare to designate by the appellation of Tories , those who assert the independence of their country! Shame hast thou yet a blush in reserve? Charitably confer it on cheeks that have never known its influence.
The Jacobins, ever since they have elected President Madison to his office, have been very sparing in the article of their panegyrics. Ex-President Adams they have belaboured with their encomiums, and the poor old gentleman believes them sincere, and scribbles and dashes away so adroitly that the types have scarce any reprieve, as the editor of the Boston Patriot can testify to his sorrow. A vanity surviving sound intellect invites Mr. Adams to go on; and forsaking Washington's principles, whom he once in a clumsy piece denominated his " lost brother ," he reviles all those who revere the sanctity of that patriot. Now will our democratic friends inform us why they so pertinaciously praise President Adams , the former object of their abuse, and neglect President Madison , whom they themselves have invested with office. The answer is plain. President Adams has lost his intellect, and they adore him; President Madison preserves his, and they hate him.
FROM A LONDON PAPER.
Gallant Exploit.
It is with pleasure we are enabled to state the following gallant exploit achieved by Captain Hanchett, of the Raven sloop, on the 3d instant, and which deserves to rank with the most brilliant in the naval records of the country:—When it was observed that the French were throwing reinforcements daily into Flushing from Cadsand, it was found necessary to resort to some means of intercepting this communication. Several gun-boats were consequently sent up the channel between them in order to take soundings, as a direction for stationing vessels to prevent all communication between Flushing and Cadsand. These gun-boats were to be protected by the Raven sloop of war, Captain Hanchett. The batteries soon opened on the gun-boats, when Captain Hanchett most spiritedly ran his vessel up between the gun-boats and the fire of the enemy, which was instantly transferred to his ship. He was fired at from five batteries on Cadsand, and from the whole sea front of Flushing, and from thirty-nine gun-boats. For four hours he bravely maintained the unequal contest, and brought off the gun-boats safe, after having silenced the battery of Breskens, in Cadsand, though not before he had three of his own guns dismounted, his vessel dismasted, and several times set on fire, and above a thousand shot discharged against him from all sides.
Captain Hanchett has since received the distinguished thanks of his commander in chief, Sir R. Strachan, and the most flattering assurances of the high approbation of every General Officer who was a spectator of his gallantry and devotion to the service. It must enhance the value of such an exploit, that it has been achieved without much comparative loss, only the gallant Captain and 18 of his brave crew having been wounded and none of them badly, and not a single man having been killed during such a long contested action against such fearful odds.
Died,
In Wilmington, SAMUEL WHITE, Esq. for a long time past a member of the U States Senate from Delaware.
American Marine List.
PORT OF PROVIDENCE.
NOVEMBER 17, 1809.
ENTERED.
Sloops—Nancy, Mitchell, New-York; President, Killy, Baltimore; Lydia, Potomac, Fredericksburg; Rebekah, Hicks, Warren.
CLEARED.
Brigs—Jolly Robin, Rhodes, Norfolk; Industry, Gladding, Alexandria. Schooner—Little Ann, Butler, Norfolk. Sloops—Mary, Cole, St. Bartholomews; Dolphin, Johnson, Portland; Providence, Currie, New-York.
The sloop Cynthia, of Providence, was at Surinam 26th September.
Captain Saunders, from Archangel, informs, that the brig Perseverance, Smith, of Providence, had arrived at St. Petersburg, from Bergen, early in September.
PHILIP PECK
Has just received, in addition to his former Stock,
A FEW Hogheads of Irish GLASS-WARE, consisting of pint and half pint Tumblers, Cruets, Salts, Giblets and Wines, (engraved and plain.) This, with almost every other article of CROCKERY, GLASS and CHINA, he will sell at wholesale or retail on as good terms as can be bought in this town or Boston.
Any of the above articles will be re-packed at the shortest notice, to suit the convenience of large or small purchasers. November 17, 1809.
REMOVAL.
THOMAS RHODES
Has removed to the Store lately occupied by Mr. Jacob Boesman, in Weybosset-Street, one door west of Messrs. Taft and Waterman's Store—where he has for sale
A FEW Hhds. of sweet favoured St. Croix Rum. Pipes of American Gin, of an excellent quality; 2 Pipes of Spanish Brandy, A few Bags and Barrels of Coffee, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Sonchong 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 Turkey 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.
Prizes worthy of Farmers, Merchants, Mechanicks or Labourers.
LOTTERY
FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE.
BALTIMORE GRAND LOTTERY commences drawing this month, (November,) in the city of Baltimore.
2 Prizes of $20,000 3 do. 10,000 3 do. 5,000 2 do. 2,500 10 do. 1,000 15 do. 500 20 do. 200
And a host of prizes of 100, 50, 30, &c. Present price, Wholes $11 50, Quarters $3, but will soon rise.
RIVER LEHIGH GRAND LOTTERY.
2 Prizes of $10,000 2 do. 5,000 3 do. 2,500 3 do. 1,000 6 do. 500 15 do. 200
And a general assortment of prizes of 100, 50, 20, 10, &c.
Whole Tickets, $4 Quarter, do. $1 25, but will soon rise.
This Lottery has commenced drawing in Philadelphia.
PENNEPACK LOTTERY, (Philadelphia,) commences this month, (November.)
SCHEME.
1 Prize of $10,000 1 do. 6,000 1 do. 4,000 1 do. 3,000 3 do. 2,000 6 do. 1,000 10 do. 500 20 do. 200
And a number of prizes of 100, 50, 20, &c. Tickets, $6 Quarters, $1 73
Orders for the above Tickets will be received by GEORGE TAYLOR, jun. Philadelphia, or J. B. WOOD, Providence, Rhode-Island.
All Tickets obtained at J. B. Wood's Office, (if they draw prizes,) the prize money will be paid there, which is of the utmost importance to purchasers. Regular lists of prizes will be sent to the above office of J. B. Wood, as soon as the Lotteries have completed drawing, when adventurers can examine their numbers.
N. B. All Letters for Tickets must be post paid, and enclose good current Bank Notes.
Philadelphia, October 25, 1809.
LOTTERY NOTICE.
THE Baltimore Grand Lottery has commenced drawing in the city of Baltimore. The Grand Lehigh Lottery has commenced drawing in the city of Philadelphia. And the Hatfield Bridge Lottery has commenced drawing in Boston.—Orders for Tickets and parts, warranted undrawn, may be obtained at the real Fortunate Lottery and Exchange Offices of GEORGE TAYLOR, jun. Philadelphia; BRIDGE and RENOUR, Boston; and J. B. WOOD, Providence, Rhode-Island.
J. B. WOOD will receive regular Lists of Prizes from the above Lotteries weekly, where adventurers can examine them gratis.
Wanted at the Exchange-Office, a likely, steady Lad, that can be well recommended.—No other need apply to J. B. WOOD.
November 17, 1809.
AMERICAN BEAVERS.
PROVIDENCE HAT-MANUFACTURING COMPANY, No. 13, Canal-Street.
HAVE constantly for sale, an extensive assortment of HATS of superior quality, viz. No. 1, at 6 dollars; No. 2, at $3; No. 3, at $2, and No. 4, at $1; 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 facility 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.

NOYES & HALL, Opposite the Baptist Meeting House, HAVE just received by the Ships Rose , from London, and Robert Burns , from Liverpool, (via New-York,) and offer for sale a general assortment of HARDWARE, at wholesale, consisting of Cutlery, plated and common Saddlery, brass Cabinet Furniture, plated and brass Harness and Bridle Furniture; and a general assortment of other Goods usually kept in a Hardware Store, viz. Locks, Hinges, Thimbles, Latches, Hammers, Brads, Tacks, Nails, Shovels and Tongs, Warming Pans, brass Kettles, metal Teapots, brass and iron Wire, plated, brass and iron Candlesticks; Flesh Forks and Ladies' Glass and Sand-Paper, Whip Thongs, &c. &c. To enumerate every article of which, would exceed the reasonable limits of an advertisement.
ALSO, A general assortment of wrought and cut Nails, at wholesale and retail. November 14, 1809.
WANTED, An Apprentice to the Boot and Shoe-making Business. A smart active lad, from 14 to 16 years of age, will meet with good encouragement. Apply to the subscriber, on the west side of the Bridge. JAMES ANTHONY, 2d. November 14, 1809.
TO LET, A HOUSE at the South End of the town, in Benefit-Street, recently occupied by THOMAS ALDRICH, a very convenient tenement. For further particulars inquire of PETER GRINNELL, or WILLIAM TAYLOR. November 14, 1809.
Forty Dollars Reward. At a Town-COUNCIL, held within and for the Town of Providence, on the first day of November, 1809. WHEREAS a most daring outrage against the Laws was committed by some person or persons, on the night of Monday last, in forcibly breaking the Locks and wrenching open the Doors of the Bridewell in this town, and rescuing the Prisoners confined there; and as such a flagrant violation of the Laws ought not to be passed over, the Town-Council, therefore, do hereby offer the above reward of Forty Dollars to any person who shall make discovery, so as to bring to conviction the perpetrator or perpetrators thereof. Signed by order and in behalf of said Town-Council. NATHAN W. JACKSON, C. Clerk
Fresh Imported Goods. TAPPAN and SEARLE, No. 34, Broad-Street, offer for sale on moderate terms, A LARGE assortment of newly imported EUROPEAN GOODS, just received by arrivals at New-York and Boston, comprising an extensive assortment of Cotton, Woollen and Silk Goods, adapted to the present and approaching seasons with many other articles which have hitherto been prohibited. 17 Plain and Fancy MUSLINS of every description. Boston, September 25, 1809. 12t.
WILLIAM PEARCE Respectfully informs his friends, and the public in general, THAT he continues carrying 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.
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, Serpes, Plains, Satinets, Ratinets, Wildbores, Durants, first quality Rose Blankets, at reduced prices, from 5 to 12 qrs. black, blue, bottle-green, lead and crimson Tabby Velvets; black and olive twilled do. elegant Tolin 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 7, 1809. tf.
EXCHANGE on New-York and Boston, at short sight, for sale by J. B. WOOD. November 7, 1809.
THE subscriber, appointed by the Hon. Court of Justice of the town of Providence, Administrator on the Estate of WILLIAM WESTCOTT, late of said Providence, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby calls upon all indebted to said Estate to make immediate payment, to JAMES WIEEDEN, North-Providence, November 6, 1809.
INDIA GOODS, &c. BLODGET & POWER Have just received, and offer on accomodating terms, TWENTY Bales of Gurrahs, Mamoodies, Checks, &c.
ALSO, 10 Pipes Spanish Brandy, 7 Chests Bohemian Tea, 100 Hhds. Molasses, 50 Boxes Havana brown Sugars. October 31, 1809. 6t.
MAIL-STAGE LINE. FROM PROVIDENCE TO NEWPORT. THE subscribers hereby inform the public, that the old Providence and Newport Line of Mail-Stages runs as heretofore, viz. leaves Providence every day, Sundays excepted, at 9 o'clock, A. M. and arrives at Newport at 4, P. M. the same day; leaves Newport at 9 o'clock, A. M. and arrives at Providence at 5 o'clock, P. M. They can also furnish Extra Carriages and Horses at short notice. Gentlemen and Ladies wishing to take seats for Newport are requested to call at the subscriber's house in Providence, or Col. BENNEZER MACOMBER's Inn; and for seats to Providence they are invited to call at PELEG FISH's, or RICHARD BAKER's Hotel in Newport, where the Books are kept. ISAAC FISH, Providence. PELEG FISH, Newport. November 7, 1809.
FRESH FLOUR. NOW landing on board the brig George Washington , and for sale by SALMON ARNOLD, on the Long Wharf, a quantity of FRESH FLOUR. November 3, 1809.
LUMBER. For Sale, on board Schooner Columbia , lying at the wharf next south of Colonel Carrillo's, 16 M. Clear seasoned Pine Boards, 6 M. Me-chantable do. 40 M. Shingles, 1700 Feet Pine Deck-Plank, 3 M. Birch Plank, and 3 1-2 M. Clapboards. Apply on board said Schooner. November 3, 1809.
For Sale, Freight or Charter, THE last-sailing Schooner LUCRETIA , 56 tons burthen, now lying at Eddy's Point; she has just had a thorough repair, and is ready for sea. For further particulars, inquire of JOHN S. EDDY, or BENJAMIN A. BATTEY, both at Eddy's Point. November 3, 1809.
Fall and Winter Goods. This day received, and now opening at WATSON & GLADDING'S, CHEAPSIDE, at the sign of the BUNCH OF GRAPES, SUPERFINE black, blue, bottle-green, mixed, drab and corbo Broadcloths; double milled do. double milled Cassimeres, low-priced do. lead, scarlet, drab and black Pelice Flannels; black and green Cassimeres, black, green, bottle-green, crimson, lead and corbo coloured Bombazets, at reduced prices; 3 Bales of low-priced Broadcloths, cheap; first chop Rose Blankets, from 7 to 12 qrs. made of the finest of Wool; Flannels of all colours, cheap; India Cottons, per bale, piece or yard, at reduced prices; Cambricks, Dimities, Fancy Muslins, halsitone, dotted, cut, striped, plain, leno and spidernet Muslins; Silk and Worsted Hosiery, British Cottons, black twilled Cambricks, black and plain Lustings, milled halsitone Muslins, Ginghams, Calicoes, Chinize Furnitures, black and plain Silk Handkerchiefs, with articles too numerous to mention. They have also received this day, direct from the manufacturers, Ten Trunks of MUFFS and TIPPLETS, viz. real Sable, Elk, Bear, black Jenett, North-West Sable, North-West mock Sable, and Canada mock Bear, which will be sold at the most reduced prices. October 17, 1809. 12t.
NOTICE. THE Subscriber having taken into Partnership JOHN FYFE, will in future conduct business under the firm of PETER HATTRICK and Co. PETER HATTRICK. Have received, at their Store, Main-Street, next door to Messrs. Adams and Lothrop's, and at New-York, which will be here in a few days, A HANDSOME ASSORTMENT OF Scotch and English Goods, suitable for the present and approaching seasons, consisting in part of the following, viz. SUPERFINE, mid-Ginghams, dingy and low-priced White and coloured Broadcloths; Cambricks, Ratinets, Shirting Cottons, Coatings, Velvets, Plains, Bindings, Hosiery, Blankets, Flannels, White Threads, Cassimeres, Brown Hollands, Satinets, Printed and Pulicat Bombazets, Handkerchiefs and Shawls, Ratinets, Plain and fancy leno, Wildbores, and book Muslins, &c. &c. which are offered for sale on accomodating terms, by the piece or package. ALSO, A few Bales of best Ingrain and common CARPETING, and three Boxes of white Linen THREADS, by the Box and Bale only. September 29, 1809. tf.
THE Copartnership between Goss and MASON is this day, by mutual consent, dissolved. All persons having unsettled accounts with them, are requested to present them for settlement; and those indebted, to make immediate payment. JOHN GOSS, JOSEPH R. MASON. JOSEPH R. MASON begs leave to inform the public, that he still continues to carry on the business of Boot and Shoemaking at the old stand of Goss and MASON, where every favour will be gratefully acknowledged. November 9, 1809.
ON Sunday evening last was picked up, in the Main-Street, a SHAWL, which the owner may receive at Mr. DEARBORN's Circulating Library, by paying for this advertisement. November 10, 1809.
THE Copartnership between Goss and MASON is this day, by mutual consent, dissolved. All persons having unsettled accounts with them, are requested to present them for settlement; and those indebted, to make immediate payment. JOHN GOSS, JOSEPH R. MASON. JOSEPH R. MASON begs leave to inform the public, that he still continues to carry on the business of Boot and Shoemaking at the old stand of Goss and MASON, where every favour will be gratefully acknowledged. November 9, 1809.
NEW GOODS. JOHN R. CARPENTER, No. 8, MARKET-SQUARE. Is now opening a large supply of FALL and WINTER GOODS, received by the ships President Adams and Packet , at Boston; among which are, SUPERFINE, middling and low-priced Broadcloths Cassimeres Coatings Fearnoughts and Duffsels Plains Devonshire Kerseys Drab and mixed Satinets Bombazets Pelice Flannels Ratinets Wildbores Calicoes and Furnitures of all descriptions White and coloured Cambricks Twilled do. do. Pink and dark Ginghams Cambricks and common Dimities A large variety of India Cottons, by the piece or yard One Bale of India Checks of a good quality Linen and Factory Cotton do. A few pieces of Russia Sheetings 50 Bales of Ravens Duck Brown Linens Oilcloths Velvets Tabby Velvets of all colours Ladies and Gentlemen's black and slate coloured worsted Hoes Lamb's Wool Hose Plain and fancy Leno Muslins Book and Jacomet do. A large variety of Ribbons Cotton and Silk Bandanees White and figured Handkerchiefs of all descriptions Pins, Needles and Tapes of all kinds Cotton Threads in Hanks and Balls Leather, Cotton and Netting Suspenders 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12-gr. Blankets, of a very superior quality A variety of Coat and Vest Buttons Basket and Glass Buttons of all kinds Yellow, red, white, green and crimson Flannels of all descriptions. With almost every other article usually called for in the Dry Goods line, too numerous for an advertisement. As he is Agent for a Cotton and Woollen Factory, he has constantly on hand, a very large variety of HOMESPUN COTTON and WOOLLEN GOODS, such as Sheeting and Shirting Cottons of all widths and qualities, by the piece or yard, brown and whitened Apron and Shirting Checks of a superior quality Bedruggings of various prices White, black, red, olive, light and dark blue Threads, in skeins and balls, by the pound or at retail Two and three threaded whitened Yarn for Knitting Warp and Filling of all numbers, at Factory prices Woollen Cloths of different colours, from 6 to 18 s. per yard Also, milled Flannels of all colours, of an excellent quality. All the above-mentioned Goods will be sold at wholesale or retail, on such terms as cannot fail to suit those who may call and see them. J. N. B. As he is still Agent for Messrs. BARRETT and SHATTUCK, Silk, Cotton and Woollen Dyers, of Boston, all persons who wish to have any Garments or Goods Dyed, will, by sending them to his Store, have their orders executed with fidelity and despatch. October 24, 1809. tf.
SHERRY WINE. SIXTY Quarter-Casks of Sherry Wine, of a superior quality, and imported less than 10 days ago, can be bought from GEORGE W. MARTIN, At a very reduced price for cash or negotiable paper. Newport, Church-Street, } August 26, 1809. tf.
JOHN YOUNG, At the first corner Store south of the Market, HAS FOR SALE, A VERY general assortment of GENUINE GROCERIES, viz. Old Madeira, Tenerife, Sherry, Lisbon, Port, Claret and other Wines of the first quality; old Cognac Brandy, superior old Jamaica Spirits, Geneva, Cherry Rum, best Cordials of various kinds, Bourdeaux and Martinique, in Bottles; Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Citron, Cinnamon, Allspice, Pepper, Ginger, Starch, fresh Turkey Figs, Prunes, Muscadel and Bloom Raisins, Sultana and Cask ditto, Currants, soft shelled Almonds, excellent Bottle and Flask Oil, Table Salt in baskets, India Soy, Catsup, Loaf and other Sugars, Olives, Capers, Mustard, Anchovies, preserved Sweetmeats and Fruits of different kinds in Brandy and other Syrups, Tamarinds, Spermaceti and Mould Tallow Candles, Windsor Soap, Bar ditto, Cayenne Pepper per lb. or bottle, Peppercorns in bottles best Brown Stout Porter and excellent bottled Cider—Gunpowder, Hyson and other Green and Souchong TEAS, of the last importations, warranted good; Coffee, No. 1 and No. 2 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 I. V. 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.
NOTICE is hereby given to all those who are indebted to the Estate of Colonel CHRISTOPHER OLNEY, deceased, or the late firm of CHRISTOPHER C. OLNEY and Co. to call on the subscriber and adjust the same, as he is particularly desirous of making a speedy settlement without the disagreeable necessity of putting his accounts into the hands of an Attorney. N. G. OLNEY. October 20, 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, and consists of mowing ploughing, pasturing, wood and timberland; 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 some what decayed. Two in the first society in Hartland, pleasantly situated about one mile south of the Meeting-House, and within 20 miles of Hartford; one contains about 240 acres, with a large, good one story House, with two chimneys, well finished, and convenient for two families; three Barns, Out-Houses, &c. all in good repair; has about 40 acres of mowing, 150 of ploughing and pasturing, and 50 of wood; has good Orchard, is well watered and well fenced. The other Farm contains about 60 acres, with a small one story Farm-House, Barn and Orchard; well proportioned into mowing, pasturing, ploughing and woodland; well watered and under good improvement. Possession given immediately. Three Farms pleasantly situated in the north part of Granville, they adjoin each other, and contain about 330 acres, and are extremely well calculated for the settlement and neighbourhood of a family connexion. One contains about 125 acres, with a two story House and Barn, and three flourishing young Orchards; will cut annually from 25 to 30 tons of good hay. One of 115 acres, with a one story House, Barn and young Orchard, will cut from 25 to 30 tons of hay; and one of about 90 acres, with a one story House, Barn, and a young Orchard; will cut from 8 to 12 tons of hay. These Farms are well watered, well fenced, and suitably proportioned into mowing, pasturing, ploughing and woodland; and will be sold separately or together, and possession may be had immediately. Also one in Blanford, of fifty acres with a House and Barn; well watered, under good improvement, and well proportioned into mowing, pasturing, ploughing and woodland. The above Farms will be sold on reasonable terms, and long credit given for a considerable part of the purchase, on the payment of annual interest. The subscriber also offers for sale, an eligible and convenient stand for a Tavern and Store, in the town of Vernon, on the Hartford and Tolland Turnpike Road; twelve miles from Hartford, and about the same distance from Stafford Springs; lately occupied as a Tavern and Store by Mr. Lebbeus P. Tinker, and now occupied by Mr. James Chapman; consisting of a neat, spacious well finished House and Store, two Barns, one entirely new and large, having sufficient stabling, and every necessary accomodation 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 lays in the flourishing towns of Hartford, Vienna, Nelson, and Rootstown; settled from thirty to sixty families in each town. These towns are well watered, and well accomodated 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.
BOSTON and PROVIDENCE STAGE-OFFICE. THE public are hereby informed, that the Stage-Books for Boston, are kept at BENNEZER 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. July 14, 1809. tf.
WANTED, A MAN to take charge of the Carding, and another to take charge of the Spinning in a Cotton Manufactory.—Also wanted, a Man who understands Colouring Cotton Yarn and Cloth. None need apply unless they bring good recommendations. Inquire at The American Office. October 13, 1809. 6t.
NOTICE is hereby given to all those who are indebted to the Estate of Colonel CHRISTOPHER OLNEY, deceased, or the late firm of CHRISTOPHER C. OLNEY and Co. to call on the subscriber and adjust the same, as he is particularly desirous of making a speedy settlement without the disagreeable necessity of putting his accounts into the hands of an Attorney. N. G. OLNEY. October 20, 1809.
FOR SALE BY EDWARD DEXTER, ONE hundred and thirty-three Chests of IMPERIAL TEA 1300 do. of Hyson do. 1500 do. of Hysonkin do. 250 do. of Young Hyson do. 320 Boxes of Hyson Chuan do. 350 Chests of Souchong do. 180 Whole } Chests of Bohemian TEA 120 Half } 60 Quarter } 240 Boxes of China Ware, consisting of Dining, Breakfast and Tea Sets 27 Boxes of Silks, containing Satins, Saracens, Hunderkerchiefs and Shawls 250 Barrels of superfine Flour 30 Bags of Coffee 5 Hhds. of Loaf-Sugar A few Pipes of Madeira, Lisbon and Tenerife Wine, of a superior quality A few Hhds. of old St. Croix Rum 400 Bushels of Salt 20 Hhds. of Tobacco 1400 Bushels of Corn 6000 lb. of Carolina Bacon. July 7, 1809. tf.
NEW GOODS. PETER BROWNELL, No. 9, CHEAPSIDE, HAS just received a large assortment of Goods, suitable for the present and approaching seasons, consisting of the following articles, viz.—Bottle-green, black, blue, smoke and mixed Broadcloths; red, green, yellow and white Flannels; Coatings, Plains, drab, bottle-green, black, brown and mixed Cassimeres; black, scarlet, snuff and slate Bombazets; Wildbores, 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-gr. Cambricks; Furniture, Cambricks and common Dimities, English Shirting Cottons, Cotton and Worsted Hosiery, India Cottons of all kinds, India and homemade Checks, Jacomet and Mull Cambricks, figured and plain Lenos, spidernet, laced, seeded, veined and Book Muslins; white and black Laces, black and white Footing Lace, 4, 5 and 6-gr. Cotton Shawls; Pulicat, Madras and Canton Checks; Silk Hankerchiefs, Cotton and Silk Bandanees, white and printed Pocket-Handkerchiefs, Copperplates and Chinizes, No. 3, 3 1-2, 4, 4 1-2, and 5 Pack Pins; White Chapel Needles, 3, 6, 7 and 8-gr. Cotton Damask Diaper; Diaper Napkins, black, green, pink and white Saracens; black Crape, black Satins and Lustings, Ladies' short Kid and long and short Silk Gloves, Coat and Vest Buttons, Leather and Cotton Suspenders, Marking Canvass, black and white Bonnet Paper, Ribbons, Shoe and Quality Bindings, Tapes and Babbins, 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.
A GREAT BARGAIN! FOR SALE, A VALUABLE FARM, pleasantly situated in West-Greenwich, adjoining land of Dr. Stephen Allen, about fourteen miles from East-Greenwich, eight from the Cotton Factory in Coventry, and thirty from Newport, lying on the main road leading from East-Greenwich to Sterling. Said Farm contains 186 acres, well proportioned into mowing, ploughing, pasturing and woodland. It is well watered, and has a good Dwelling-House and Barn standing on it. It will be sold altogether or in two lots, as may best suit the purchaser or purchasers. Any gentleman wishing to view the Farm, or to receive further information, may call on BENJAMIN or BENONI WATERMAN, in Coventry. Coventry, November 3, 1809.
NATHANIEL DEARBORN HAS Proposals opened for Printing by subscription, a Course of LECTURES on RHETORICK, by John Q. Adams, late Professor of Rhetoric in Harvard University; to be handsomely printed in two octavo volumes, at two dollars per volume.—The subscription is nearly closed, and will be open but a short time longer; when closed, the price will be considerably enhanced. Also, subscription received for a Novel in three 12-mo vols. from the French of Madame Cottin, authoress of the elegant Novel of Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia, at one dollar per vol. New Works received, for Sale or Circulation: Thornton Abbey, being a series of Letters on Religious subjects, 1 vol. The Star in the East, a Sermon by the Rev. Claudius Buchanan, LL. D. Warburton's Letters to his Friend, 1 vol. 8-v. Petrarch's Sonnets, Hugginsiana, being a collection of the most esteemed productions, exposing the art of making a noise in the world without beating a Drum or crying Oysters, &c. The Cutter, showing the art of Cutting Friends and Acquaintances. October 27, 1809.
NOTICE. THE Creditors of GEORGE EDDY, Shipwright, are requested to render in their Demands to JOHN ANDREWS, on the West Side of the Bridge, for adjustment; where security will be given if required. October 24, 1809.
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS, BY DUNHAM and HAWKINS, At the sign of the AMERICAN EAGLE, Opposite the Market. $3:50 PER ANNUM.....HALF IN ADVANCE.