The Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1809-06-14 00:00:00

THE RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
No. 12.
NEWPORT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1809.
Vol. 1.
NEWPORT, R. I.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED ON WEDNESDAYS,
BY WILLIAM SIMONS,
No. 15, MILL-STREET.
TERMS.
The paper is printed once a week, at 2 dollars a year, one half in advance.
Advertisements conspicuously inserted, at the rate of 1 dollar and 50 cents a square, for three weeks—smaller one in the same proportion.
Printing, in all its variety, executed with accuracy and despatch. Orders respectfully solicited.
New Store.
MARTIN FEARING and RICHARD FAIRMAN , having formed a connexion in the Fancy Dry Goods business, under the Firm of
FEARING & FAIRMAN,
Have taken the Store No. 134, Thames-street, formerly occupied by Messrs. Gardner & Dean, where they offer for Sale, a general and well-chosen Assortment of India, English and French GOODS, on the most reasonable terms.
Newport, June 7, 1809.
Spring and Summer Goods.
NATHANIEL SWEET & CO. having recently returned from Boston with an assortment of elegant and seasonable Goods, flatter themselves, that with these, together with their former assortment, they cannot fail to please those who may do them the favour to call at No. 109, Thames-street.
N. B. Their goods being purchased on liberal terms, will be sold as low as at any store in Newport. May 24.
Benj. & Solomon G. Weaver, HATTERS,
TAKE this method to inform their friends and the publick in general, they have REMOVED from No. 90 to No. 91, nearly opposite their old stand, and directly opposite JAMES MUMFORD's dry goods store—where they have just received from New-York, an addition to their former stock, selected by themselves, which makes their assortment of MEN'S, YOUTH'S and CHILDREN'S HATS, as good as was ever offered from any store in Newport, all which they intend to sell as low as can be purchased in this town.
Newport, April 19.
HENRY Y. CRANSTON & CO.
No. 15, Market-Square,
RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and the publick in general, that they have for sale, at their Store, the following Goods, which they would dispose of for Cash or approved Credit: viz.—6 hhd. St. Kitts high 2d, 3d, and 4th proof Rum; 10 pipes Gin, of an excellent quality; 8 bags Coffee; 6 kegs Virginia Tobacco; 20 kegs Ginger; 6 chests Souchong Tea; 30 quintals Cod Fish; 1000 lbs. Cordage; 12 dozen Bed Cords; 50 lbs. Sewing Twine; 4 bags Pigmento; 300 lbs. Loaf Sugar; 100 reams Brown Paper; 20 do Foolscap do. &c. &c.
Those who are indebted to them by Note or Book Account, are requested to call and settle the same. All Orders from their distant customers will receive punctilious attendance.
Newport, April 26, 1809.
JASON SPRAGUE,
Offers for sale, at his Store, in Washington-Street, No. 4,
100 bbls. fresh superfine Alexandria and New-York Flour, by the barrel or larger quantity; 2000 wt. Cabin Bread; 60 barrels pickled Cod; dry Codfish by the quintal or larger quantity; Pork; Beef; Rice by the tierce; Loaf, powdered and brown Sugar; Souchong and Bohea Teas; Coffee; Molasses; West-India, New-England and Cherry Rum; Wine, Brandy and Gin, by the barrel or less quantity; Ginger, Allspice, Pepper, Cinnamon, Soap, Candles, Starch, negro-head, pigtail and leaf Tobacco; Segars by the thousand or less quantity; Men's and Women's Shoes; Boots; writing and wrapping Paper; merchantable and clear pine Lumber; Hogs-head Shooks, Oars; black and bright Varnish; Rosin; a few barrels gurry Oil. Also, a small quantity of Flax.
Which Articles may be had on reasonable terms, for Cash or approved credit, and the smallest favours gratefully received.
Newport, March, 21, 1809.
FOR SALE,
THAT pleasant situation South of Brick Market, about 60 feet on Thames-street, extends about 400 feet west, with a small Wharf. There are two large and very commodious Dwelling-Houses, one fronting on Thames-street, No. 197 and 199, with two convenient Shops in front; the other stands west, very well calculated for two families.
Also—a Lot of Land, at the south-east part of the town, containing three quarters of an acre. Good title will be given.
JOSEPH ALLEN.
Newport, April 26.
Miscellany.
MR. ADAMS'
CORRESPONDENCE CONTINUED.
To the Printers of the Boston Patriot.
SIR,
ON the 5th of March a Letter was written by the Secretary of State by my order, in the following words, to Mr. MURRAY:—
Philadelphia, March 6, 1799.
SIR,
I enclose a commission constituting you, in conjunction with the Chief Justice Elsworth and Patrick Henry, Esq. of Virginia, Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the French Republick. By the President's direction, I enclose for your information, copies of his Messages to the Senate of the 18th and 28th of March; (it should have been the 18th and 25th of February) by the latter of which you will see the motives inducing the nomination of a Commission for the purpose of negotiation with France, instead of resting the business wholly with you. This will doubtless be agreeable, by relieving you from the weight of a sole responsibility in an affair of such magnitude.
It is the President's desire, that you by letter to the French Minister of foreign relations, inform him, "that Oliver Elsworth, Chief Justice of the United States, Patrick Henry, late Governor of Virginia, and yourself are appointed Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the U. States to the French Republick, with full powers to discuss and settle by a Treaty, all controversies between the U. States and France." But, "that the two former will not embark for Europe until they shall have received from the Executive Directory direct and unequivocal assurances, signified by their Secretary of foreign relations, that the Envoys shall be received in character, to an audience of the Directory, and that they shall enjoy all the prerogatives attached to that character by the law of nations, and that a Minister or Ministers of equal powers shall be appointed and commissioned to treat with them."
The answer you shall receive to your letter, you will be pleased to transmit to this office.
You will also be pleased to understand it to be the President's opinion, that no more indirect and inofficial Communications, written or verbal, should be held with any persons whatever, Agents on behalf of France, on the subjects of difference between the U. States and the French Republick. If the French government really desire a settlement of the existing differences, it must take the course pointed out: unless the Executive Directory should prefer sending a Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States.
I have the honour to be, very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant, TIMOTHY PICKERING.
WM. VANS MURRAY, Esq. Minister of the U. States at the Hague.
MR. MURRAY obeyed these instructions by a letter in these words:—
The Hague, 5th May, 1799.
CITIZEN MINISTER,
It is with the greatest pleasure that I hasten to fulfil the instructions, which I have just had the honour to receive from the government of the U. States of America, by informing you that the President has appointed Oliver Elsworth, Chief Justice of the U. States, Patrick Henry, late Governor of Virginia, and Wm. Vans Murray, Minister resident of the U. States at the Hague, to be Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the U. States to the French Republick, with full powers to discuss and settle by a Treaty, all controversies between the United States and France; but that the two former, Mr. Elsworth and Mr. Henry, will not embark for Europe until they shall have received from the Executive Directory, direct and unequivocal assurances, signified by their Minister of foreign relations, that the Envoys shall be received in character to an audience of the Directory, and that they shall enjoy all the prerogatives attached to that character by the law of nations, and that a Minister or Ministers of equal powers shall be appointed and commissioned to treat with them.
I request you, Citizen Minister, to lay this subject before your government, and as the distance is so great and the obstacles so numerous in an Atlantic voyage, that you will favour me, as speedily as possible, with the answer which is to lead to such happy and important consequences.
Accept, Citizen Minister, the assurances of my perfect high esteem.
(Signed) WM. V. MURRAY.
To the Citizen TALLEYRAND, Minister of the Exterior Relations of the French Republick, &c. &c. Paris.
When Mr. MURRAY received the answer of the French Minister, he enclosed it, with the following Letter from himself, to the Secretary of State:—
The Hague, 7th of May, 1799.
DEAR SIR,
On the 4th inst. late in the evening, I had the honour to receive your No. 22, containing the commission of envoys.
On the fifth I addressed, precisely, agree-
able to your instructions, as I conceived, the enclosed letter to Mr. Talleyrand, the minister of exterior relations. You will perceive, sir, that I did not think myself at liberty to go, not only out of the commas, but beyond them. In one word alone I deviated, in the word minister, instead of secretary of foreign relations. No direct nor indirect and inofficial communications, written or verbal, will be held by me with the French agents on American affairs.
I accept the appointment which it has pleased the President to clothe me with, under a grateful sense of the high honour conferred upon me, so unexpectedly, by this mark of his confidence. I may be allowed to say, that though I was deeply sensible of the honour conferred by the first nomination, and shall always, I hope, retain a most grateful recollection of it; yet, sir, the new modification of that nomination gave me great pleasure, always conceiving as I thought I did, that any negotiation with France would be full of anxieties and political perils to the Envoys that should be employed by our government. I had no wishes to be engaged in it, and no expectation that I should be: To have a share in it was by me unsought: You will excuse this declaration, because I was instrumental in certain preliminary steps relative to the advances of France which produced the basis of the appointment.
I send the original of the enclosed to Mr. Talleyrand, by post; another, a copy, to Maj. Mountflore, to be handed to him; a third to a Mr. Griffith for Maj. M. in case the other failed, to be opened by Mr. G. if Maj. M. should have been cut off, and directed Mr. G. to follow the instructions, which he would find in the letter to Maj. M. which were to deliver the enclosed to Mr. Talleyrand, and take his letter in answer for me, and send it to me.
As soon as I have the answer of the Directory, I shall have the honour of transmitting copies to you, sir, by different ways.
I am, with the greatest respect and sincere esteem, dear sir, faithfully your most obedient servant,
WILLIAM V. MURRAY.
The Hon. TIMOTHY PICKERING, Esq. Sec'y of State, of the U. States of America.
PARIS, 23d Floreal, (12th May, 1799) 7th year of the French Republick, one and indivisible.
The Minister of Exterior Relations.
To Mr. WM. VANS MURRAY, Minister resident of the U. States, at the Hague.
I augur too well, sir, from the eagerness you display, in fulfilling the instructions of your government, not to hasten to answer the letter I received from you, dated the 15th of this month.
The Executive Directory being informed of the nomination of Mr. Oliver Elsworth, of Mr. Patrick Henry, and of yourself, as Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States to the French Republick, to discuss and terminate all differences which subsist between the two countries, sees with pleasure, that its perseverance in pacific sentiments has kept open the way to an approaching reconciliation. It has a long time ago manifested its intentions with respect to this subject. Be pleased to transmit to your Colleagues, and accept yourself, the frank and explicit assurance, that it will receive the Envoys of the United States, in the official character with which they are invested: that they shall enjoy all the prerogatives which are attached to it by the law of nations and that one or more Ministers shall be authorised to treat with them.
It was certainly unnecessary to suffer so many months to elapse for the mere confirmation of what I have already declared to Mr. Gerry, and which, after his departure, I caused to be declared to you at the Hague. I sincerely regret that your colleagues await this answer at such a distance. As to you, sir, whom it will reach in a few days, and who understand so well the value of time, when the restoration of harmony between two republics which every thing invites to friendship, is in question, be assured, that as soon as you can take in hand the object of your mission, I shall have the honour immediately to send you passports.
Accept, sir, the assurances of my very sincere consideration.
(Signed) CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND,
The foregoing documents were not published till they were communicated to Congress with my Message of December 5th, 1799. The Messages to the Senate nominating the Minister and the Envoys were never published till now, as I remember. I may be, however, mistaken. These papers were not published till the mischief was done that they might have prevented, and innumerable prejudices and errors propagated all over the nation.
I have omitted two facts which ought to have been inserted in a former letter:
1. One is, that one of the Heads of Department at Trenton was more diffident than the rest. He said he was far from being sanguine. He had signed the letter to me, urging a postponement of the mission, because he did not like to be singular; but he wished me to decide the question according to my own judgment and sentiments. He also showed me a letter from the Attorney-General in Virginia, saying that the people ex-
pected that the envoys should proceed, and would be disappointed if they did not.
2. Another fact is, that I transiently asked one of the Heads of department whether Elsworth and Hamilton came all the way from Windsor and Newark to Trenton, to convince me that I ought to suspend the mission?
JOHN ADAMS.
Quincy, May 10th, 1809.
To the Printers of the Boston Patriot.
SIR,
At first I intended to encumber your paper with no Documents but such as were absolutely necessary for my own vindication. But as the peace with France in eighteen hundred was not only an event of great importance in itself, but produced demonstrations of the prejudices, passions, views, designs and systems of parties, more perhaps than any other; I hope you will allow me room for such other papers as may serve to throw light upon this subject. At present it may not be very interesting, but the cause of truth and justice may hereafter be promoted by having the facts and evidences laid together in a series. The future policy of the nation will not be injured by it.
Besides the communications already published from the sovereign of the French nation, through their Minister of foreign relations, their diplomatic organ at the Hague, and our Minister there, another was communicated through the same channels in these words:—
Copy of a Letter dated PARIS, 11th Fructidor, 6 year, (August 28, 1798,) from Mr. TALLEYRAND, as Minister of Exterior Relations, to Mr. PICHON, Secretary of Legation, Hague.
TRANSLATION.
I see with pleasure, citizen, that the intercourse of society has procured you some political conversations with Mr. MURRAY. I entertain an esteem for that Minister.—Like all the men at the head of the affairs of the United States, he has received the impressions which the British Cabinet has known how to give, against us. He thinks the measures of his government just and supports them: but he possesses reason, understanding, and a true attachment to his country: he is neither French nor English, he is ingenuously an American. I am not at all surprised that he has appeared to you to wish sincerely for the reconciliation of the two Republics. I will therefore cheerfully answer the questions you put to me, on different points, which appeared to you not to be well established in his mind. I do not see, between France and the United States any clashing of interest, any cause of jealousy. The Americans wish to be fishermen, sailors, manufacturers, and especially husbandmen. In all these points of view, their success is more at the expence of England than us. Why should we be uneasy about them? They aspire to the consolidation of their national existence, and it is to our purpose that they should succeed. In fact, we should have decided upon very superficial views, to sustain their Independence, if the matter was to separate them from England, merely to leave them finally insulated among themselves, on an extensive sea-coast, weak rivaling, and impoverished by each other, and torn by foreign intrigues. We know that Great Britain would soon have put together, piece by piece those scattered shreds, and we should have done nothing useful for ourselves, if so miserable a chance of it, were not daily rendered more remote.
What, therefore, is the cause of the misunderstanding, which, if France did not manifest herself more wise, would henceforth induce a violent rupture between the two Republics? Neither incompatible interests, nor projects of aggrandizement divide them. After all, distrust alone has done the whole. The government of the United States has thought, that France wanted to revolutionize it. France has thought that the government of the United States wanted to throw itself into the arms of England. It does not require much skill to divine, which is the Cabinet interested in the two events producing each other, and which invisibly puts in motion all the expedients calculated to make them take effect. Let us open our eyes on both sides. I am disposed to admit that the conduct of the government of the United States may be explained by other causes than those heretofore presumed. But let it on its part, understand, that the French government, wounded as it may be, is too wise to entertain the views of disturbance, which the other supposes. It concerns a Republick founded on the system of Representation, to support and not to weaken similar establishments. The stability of this system abroad is a necessary example at home. France in fine, has a double motive as a nation and as a republick, not to expose to any hazard, the present existence of the United States. Therefore it never thought of making war against them, nor exciting civil commotions among them: and every contrary supposition is an insult to common sense.
These fundamental principles being established, it is natural to ask by what fatality, a good understanding was not long since restored? It was because irritation being mingled with distrust, neither party yielded to real conciliatory inclinations. In the United States it was supposed that the French government was temporizing, in order to strike the blow with greater certainty; whence the

called a crowd of measures, more and more aggravating. In France it was supposed that the government of the United States, wished only the appearance of a negotiation, whence resulted a certain demand for fledges of good faith.
Let us substitute calmness for passion, confidence for suspicion, and we shall soon agree. I used my endeavours to enter upon a negotiation in this spirit, with Mr. Gerry. My correspondence with him, until the day of his departure, is a curious monument of advances on my part, and of evasions on his. It is wrong to think that I confined myself to vague protestations. Among that series of official letters, which will doubtless be published at Philadelphia, I select one of the 30th Prairial, wherein you will see that I make very positive propositions, without any mixture of, preliminary conditions. This letter was followed by three notes upon the Articles to be discussed, and I intended to complete the others in this manner, if Mr. Gerry had not refused, to answer thereto.
When it became necessary to abandon the idea of treating with that envoy, who thought it important only to know how a negotiation might thereafter be resumed, I gave him the most solemn assurances concerning the reception that a new plenipotentiary would receive. It was far from my thoughts to insinuate that the President should send one from the United States, instead of investing with his powers some one who was in Europe; far less that the envoy should land directly in France, instead of announcing it in a neighboring country. I wished merely to say that the Executive Directory was so decided for a reconciliation, that all tampering would be superfluous, that an act of confidence in it, would excite its own. I should be very badly understood, if there should be found in my expressions, a restriction on the nature of the choice which the President might make. I wished to encourage Mr. Gerry by testimonies of regard, that his good intentions merited. Although I could not dissemble that he wanted decision at a moment when he might have easily adjusted every thing. It does not thence follow that I designated him; I will even avow that I think him too irresolute to be fit to hasten the conclusion of an affair of this kind. The advantages that I prized in him are common to all Americans, who have not manifested a predilection for England. Can it be believed that a man who should profess a hatred or contempt of the French Republic, or should manifest himself the advocate of royalty, can inspire the Directory with a favourable opinion of the dispositions of the government of the United States? I should have disguised the truth, if I had left this matter ambiguous: it is not to wound the independence of that government, to point out to a sincere friend of peace, the shoals he ought to avoid.
As to the mediation of the Batavian Republic and of Spain, I do not know that there is any serious question about it, and it appears to me absolutely useless. The United States might hesitate, in the present state of things; to refer themselves to their impartiality, and besides I see no subject which may not be arranged directly.
I know that the distance which separates France and the United States opens a vast field for incident, and there have been but too many of them. But the Executive Directory is unshaken in the conduct which may best obviate them. The excess even of provocations has deadened their effect. The government of the United States surrounds itself with precautions against an imaginary attack. To stretch the hand to deluded friends, is what the republic owes to another, and I cannot doubt that the dignity of that attitude will convince the President of our pacific dispositions.
The two governments ought above all to be attentive to indirect attempts to alienate them still more. Their prudence will secure this object, and I shall cite but one example of it. You have told Mr. Murray the truth respecting Dr. Logan. But I perceive, that on all hands it is attempted to produce a belief in America, that we are negotiating with him. On the 7th of this month a very insidious paragraph was inserted in the "Bien Informe." It is therein intimated, that guided by the citizen Thomas Paine, Dr. Logan has made application to the Executive Directory, in the character of secret agent. The Doctor has complained of it bitterly to me. He has no need of justifying himself concerning a matter, the falsity of which I know better than any body: but he assured me that having once met Thomas Paine, at the house of a third person, he found him so prejudiced against the United States, and so opinionative, with respect to an influence he neither possesses among them nor us, that he abstained from conversing any more with him. Moreover, to cut short all misunderstanding, I engaged Dr. Logan to postpone, till another time, the experiments he proposes to make on agriculture, and to return home. As to Mr. Hitchborn, of Massachusetts, I was even ignorant till now that he was in Europe. A single word will suffice for the rest.
We want nothing but justice on the part of the United States: we ask it: we offer it to their government: it may depend upon the courtesy of the Executive Directory.
You will not doubt, citizen, that I approve of the communications which your zeal has caused you to seek with Mr. Murray, since I enable you to resume them with official elucidations, &c. &c. &c.
CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND.
This and all the other communications from the French minister, heretofore published in my letter to you, were produced by my message to Congress of the 21st of June, 1798, which was in these words:
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, While I congratulate you on the arrival of General Marshall, one of our late envoys extraordinary to the French republic, at a place of safety, where he is justly held in honour, I think it my duty to communicate to you, a letter received by him from Mr. Gerry, the only one of the three who has not received his congé. This letter, together with another from the minister of foreign relations to him, of the 3d of April, and his answer of the 4th, will shew the situation in which he remains, his intentions and prospects.
I presume, that before this time he has received fresh instructions, a copy of which accompanies this message, to consent to no loans, and therefore the negotiation may be considered at an end.
I will never send another minister to France, without assurances that he will be received, respected and honoured as the representative of a great, free, powerful and independent nation.
JOHN ADAMS.
United States, June 21st, 1798.
In my next letter you will have the evidence of the compliance of the French government with the conditions and requisitions in my message to the senate, nominating Mr. Murray, and other ministers and envoys to France.
JOHN ADAMS.
Quincy, May 9, 1809.
Latest Foreign News.
The American Despatch ship Pacific , Capt. STANTON, has arrived at New-York, from England, bringing important despatches for our government. The Pacific left Falmouth on the 8th May, and is the bearer of London accounts to the 5th May, from which the following extracts are made.
DECLARATION OF WAR
By Francis I. Emperor of Austria.
VIENNA, APRIL 12.
Before his Imperial Majesty left this capital, he was pleased to issue the following
PROCLAMATION.
Francis I. by the Grace of God, Emperor of Austria, &c.
People of Austria!—I leave my capital to join the brave defenders of the country, assembled on the frontiers for the protection of the state.
For these three years past I have made the utmost exertions to procure you, my beloved subjects, the blessings of a permanent peace. No sacrifice, any ways consistent with your welfare, and with the independence of the state, however painful, have I spared to secure your tranquility and welfare by a friendly understanding with the Emperor of the French.
But all my endeavours proved fruitless. The Austrian Monarchy was also to submit to the boundless ambition of the Emperor Napoleon; and in the same manner he strives to subdue Spain; insults the sacred Head of the Church, appropriates to himself the Provinces of Italy, and parcels out the German dominions. Austria was to do homage to the great Empire, the formation of which he has loudly announced.
I have adopted all necessary measures to assert the independence of the state. Not only have ye answered my call, but your love for your native country has prompted you to anticipate it. Accept my cordial thanks; they will be repeated by my posterity and yours. Self defence, not invasion, was our aim. But the conqueror will not allow the sovereign of his people, strong in their mutual confidence, to possess sufficient means to oppose his ambitious views. He declared himself hostile to Austria, unless she should relinquish her measures of defence, and prostrate herself disarmed at his feet. The disgraceful proposal was rejected, and now his hosts are marching against us, arrayed for battle.
I confide in God—in the valour of my armies, in the heroick conduct of my brother, who leads them on to glory, in you my beloved people: our exertions for this war are great; but such they must be in order to attain more securely the important end of self preservation.
What you have hitherto done is the most unquestionable pledge of the powerful assistance which I am to receive from you. They who bear no arms will also share in the protection of their country. Unanimity, order, obedience, activity, and confidence, constitute the real strength of a nation. You have evinced them, and to this alone is it owing, that we start with a fairer prospect of success than we ever did. Fortunate events will not unnerve your energy, nor disastrous occurrences, should any happen, shake your firm resolve. Perseverant valour overcomes all dangers, enhances every advantage, and supplies all losses. Our cause is just; Providence does not forsake those who do not forsake themselves.
I depend on your love, your tried fidelity to your Prince and Country. Depend ye on the paternal solicitude of your Monarch, who finds all his happiness in you.
Vienna, April 9, 1809. FRANCIS.
The Archduke CHARLES has issued the following:
ADDRESS TO THE GERMAN NATION.
His Majesty the Emperor of Austria is forced to take up arms, because the French Emperor will not tolerate the existence of a State which does not acknowledge his supremacy of Power, nor stoop to become subservient to his views of conquest; because he requires that Austria shall renounce her independence, unbend her energies, and surrender
at the Conqueror's discretion; because the armies of the Emperor of France, and of his dependent allies, advance against Austria with hostile views.
The forces of Austria have risen for self defence and self preservation at the nod of their Monarch; I am leading them on against the enemy, to prevent the certain attack he prepared against us.
We pass the frontiers not as conquerors; not as enemies of Germany; not to destroy German institutions, laws, customs and manners, and impose foreign ones; not to appropriate to ourselves the property of Germany, or to sacrifice her children in distant wars, carried on to destroy and subjugate foreign nations.—No; we fight to assert the independence of the Austrian Monarchy, and to restore to Germany, the independence and national honours which are due to her.
The same pretensions which now threaten us have already proved fatal to Germany. Our assistance is her last effort to be saved. Our cause is that of Germany—United with Austria. Germany was independent and happy; it is only through the assistance of Austria that Germany can receive happiness and independence.
Germans! Consider your destruction. Accept the aid we offer, and co-operate with us for your salvation. We demand from you no exertions, but such as the war for our common cause requires—Your property and your domestic peace are secured by the discipline of our troops. The Austrian armies will not oppress, nor rob you; they respect you as brethren, chosen to fight jointly with us for your cause and ours. Be worthy of our respect; such Germans only as forget themselves are our enemies.
Depend on my word which I have more than once pledged, and redeemed to save you! Depend on the word of my Emperor and Brother, which has never been violated.
CHARLES, Generalissimo.
PROCLAMATION BY DAVOUST,
To the Army of the Rhine.
HEMAU, APRIL 12.
Soldiers—His Majesty the Emperor of Austria commenced hostilities on the 8th inst. This was announced by his Generals in Chief on the 9th. They have taken up arms. The orders of the day delivered to the Austrian armies are merely the effusions of scurrility. This is not the way to attack the soldiers of the Emperor Napoleon. They threaten to overwhelm us with defeat and disgrace upon the plains of Ulm and Marengo. Your conduct will show what right they have to make use of these threats. Soldiers, our beloved Sovereign, when he was first Consul, offered peace, the Emperor of Austria refused it—Marengo compelled him to accept of terms. The English broke the treaty of Amiens. Our Sovereign had collected his armies on the French coast, and the Emperor of Austria, availed himself of that juncture, and without any previous declaration of war, violated the territory of our allies, and threatened ours.—Ulm compelled the enemy of our sovereign to make peace. In the present instance the Emperor of Austria has threatened the territory of our allies, without the least appearance of any difference between the two powers, and conceiving himself in a situation to undertake hostilities, has actually commenced war. The directors of the Austrian Cabinet have a very great interest in the result of their libellous scurrilities. Woe be to those who may dare to disseminate them, and by these means excite disturbance; the prompt execution of military law will be the inevitable consequence.
Soldiers—In spite of those libellous reproaches, Germany has done honour to your discipline and good conduct. You do not make war against the inhabitants; those unfortunate sacrifices to the views of the House of Austria, whose ambition has stained so many pages of history with blood, and whose arrogance has again excited such agitation among the nations.
A soldier of Napoleon must not only be free from censure but without fear. If there are any of a contrary character in our ranks, and who shall so far transgress against the fundamentals of all discipline as to dishonour his cloth by plunder or disobedience, punishment shall speedily follow.
The results of this war are certain. We shall be supported by the Emperor Alexander, who is faithful to his engagements in peace or war. With his armies, whom you highly respect; with the confederate Sovereigns whose wish is that we should avenge their cause, and secure them in future against the ambition of our eternal enemy; and lastly, through the justice of our cause, victory must be ours. Your courage, and the genius of your Sovereign, when you see him in the midst of you will be the most infallible assurance of your triumph.
The Marshall Duke of AUERSTADT.
LONDON, APRIL 22. Destruction of the Rochefort Squadron.
ATTACK IN BASQUE ROADS.
The circumstances of the late attack upon the enemy's fleet, and the extraordinary services of Lord Cochrane in conducting the enterprise, are not sufficiently known. We have great pleasure in laying them before the public upon the authority of an officer who shared in the gallant and perilous achievement.
Lord Cochrane personally conducted the explosion ship, which had been charged by himself in a manner than which nothing was ever contrived to be more dreadful. His Lordship caused about 1500 barrels of gunpowder to be started into puncheons, which were fixed end upwards. Upon the tops of
these were placed between 300 and 400 shells, charged with fuses, and again, among and upon these were between 2 and 3000 hand grenades. The puncheons were fastened to each other by cables wound round them, and jammed together with wedges; and moistened sand was rammed down between these casks, so as to render the whole, from stem to stern, as solid as possible, that the resistance might render the explosion the more violent. In this immense instrument of destruction Lord Cochrane committed himself, with only one lieutenant and four seamen; and after the boom was broken his Lordship proceeded with the explosion ship towards the enemy's line. Let it be recollected, that at this moment the batteries on shore were provided with furnaces to fire red hot shot, and then his Lordship's danger in this enterprise may be properly conceived. The wind blew a gale, and the tide ran three knots an hour. When the blue lights of the fire ships were discovered, one of the enemy's signal ships made the signal for fire ships; which being also a blue light, the enemy fell into great confusion, firing upon her with very injurious effect, and directly cut their cables.
When Lord Cochrane had conducted his explosion ship as near as was possible, the enemy having taken the alarm, he ordered his brave little crew into the boat, and followed them, after putting fire to the fuse, which was calculated to give them 15 minutes to get out of the reach of the explosion. However, in consequence of the wind getting very high, the fuse burnt too quickly; so that, with the most violent exertions against wind and tide, this intrepid little party was six minutes nearer than they calculated to be, at the time when the most tremendous explosion that human art ever contrived took place; followed by the bursting at once in the air of near 400 shells, and 3000 hand grenades, pouring down a shower of cast metal in every direction! But fortunately the boat reached, by unparalled exertion, only beyond the extent of the destruction. Unhappily this effort to escape cost the life of the brave lieutenant, whom this noble captain saw die in the boat, partly under fatigue, and partly drowned with waves, that continually broke over them. Two of the four sailors were also so nearly exhausted, that their recovery has been despaired of. Such were the perils our hero encountered, and which have hitherto been buried in silence. When they reached their ship, the Imperieuse, it was known that Lord Cochrane was the first to go down to the attack, and was for more than an hour the only Englishman of war in the harbour. His attack and capture of the Calcutta, which had one third more guns than the Imperieuse, has been properly spoken of.
The repetition of his explosions was so dreaded by the enemy, that they apprehended an equal explosion in every fire-ship; and immediately crowding all sail, ran before the wind and tide so fast, that the fire ships, though at first very near, could not overtake them, before they were high and dry on shore, except three 74's, besides the Calcutta, which were afterwards engaged, taken and burnt. Seven went ashore, of which two three deckers afterwards got off, before our ships of the line got in, and they went up the river—Two of the remaining five were on their beam ends before Lord Cochrane came away, and it was his lordship's opinion, that with proper exertion they might be completely destroyed.
Our hero soon turned his attention to rescue the vanquished ships from the devouring elements; and in bringing away the people of the Ville de Varsovie, he would not allow even a dog to be abandoned, but took a crying and now neglected little favorite in his arms, and brought it away. But a much greater instance of goodness was displayed in his humanity to the captain of a French 74, who came to deliver his sword to Lord Cochrane: lamenting, that all he had in the world was about to be destroyed by the conflagration of his ship.—His lordship instantly got into the boat with him, and pushed off, to assist his prisoner in retrieving some valuable loss; but in passing by a 74, which was on fire, her loaded guns began to go off, a shot from which killed the French captain by Lord Cochrane's side, and so damaged the boat that she filled with water, and the rest of this party were nearly drowned.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 29.
At the Court of Queen's Palace, the 26th of April 1809, present the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas His Majesty, by his Order in Council of the eleventh of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven, was pleased, for the reasons assigned therein, to order that "all the ports and places of France and her allies, or of any other country at war with his Majesty, and all other ports or places in Europe, from which, although not at war with his Majesty, the British flag is excluded, and all ports or places in the colonies belonging to his Majesty's enemies, should from henceforth be subject to the same restrictions, in point of trade and navigation, as if the same were actually blockaded in the most strict and rigorous manner," and also to prohibit, "all trade in articles which are the produce or manufacture of the said country or colonies."
And whereas his Majesty having been nevertheless desirous not to subject those countries which were in alliance or amity with his Majesty to any greater inconvenience than was absolutely inseparable from carrying into effect his Majesty's just determination to counteract the designs of his enemies, did make certain exceptions and modifications expressed in the said Order of the eleventh of November, and in certain subsequent Or-

date of the twenty fifth of November, declaratory of the aforesaid Order of the eleventh of November and the eighteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven and thirty of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
And whereas, in consequence of divers events which have taken place since the date of the first-mentioned Order, affecting the relation between Great Britain and the territories of other powers, it is expedient that sundry parts and provisions of the said Orders should be altered or revoked.—His Majesty is therefore pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to revoke and annul the said several Orders, except as hereinafter expressed, and so much of the said several Orders, except as aforesaid, is hereby revoked accordingly.
And his Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that all the ports and places, as far north as the River Ems inclusive, under the Government of the Kingdom of Holland, and all ports and places under the government of France, together with the colonies, plantations, and settlements in the possession of those Governments respectively, and all ports and places in the northern parts of Italy, to be reckoned from the ports of Orbetello and Pesaro inclusively, shall continue and be subject to the same restrictions, in point of trade and navigation, without any exception, as if the same were actually blockaded by his Majesty's naval forces in the most strict and rigorous manner; and that every vessel trading from or to the said countries and colonies, plantations or settlements, together with all goods and merchandise on board, shall be condemned as prize to the captors.
And his Majesty is further pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that this Order shall have effect from the day of the date thereof with respect to any ship, together with the cargo, which may be captured subsequent to such day on any voyage which is and shall be rendered legal by this Order, although such voyage at the time of the commencement of the same was unlawful and prohibited under the said former Orders; and such ships, upon being brought in, shall be released accordingly; and with respect to all ships, together with their cargoes, which may be captured in any voyage which was permitted under the exceptions of the Orders above mentioned, but which is not permitted according to the provisions of this Order, his Majesty is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that such ships, and their cargoes, shall not be liable to condemnation, unless they shall have received actual notice of the present Order before such capture; or in default of such notice, until after the expiration of the like intervals from the date of this Order, as were allowed for constructive notice in the Orders of the twenty fifth of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven, and the eighteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and eight, at the several places and latitudes therein specified.
And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and Judges of the High Court of Admiralty, and Judges of the Courts of Vice-Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain.
STEPH. COTTRELL.
EXPLANATION.
The following explanation has been made by the Board of Trade, to a committee of merchants, interested in the trade to America: Their Lordships state, "that by this regulation, the United States may trade without interruption from British cruisers, with all the ports of Russia, Norway, and Sweden, in the Northern Ocean; with the whole circuit of the Baltic Sea; with the British Isles; with Spain from the Eastern extremity of Asturias to the Southern Bank of the Lobergat; and Italian and French ports excepted, with every harbour of the Mediterranean from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Sea of Marmora."
"Licenses will be granted to all the ports North of the Weser and South of the Eyder; but we understand they are to be withheld with respect to the rest of the Continent, excepting the Havens of the Baltic."
"It is further ordered that no vessels shall be liable to capture, for being in a voyage not prohibited by former Orders, but which is not permitted by the provisions of this Order, unless such vessels shall have received actual notice of the present Order, or until after the same interval allowed for constructive notice in the Orders of the 25th of November, 1807, and 18th of May, 1808."
"It is proposed under the new consolidation Act, that all Cotton wool not being the growth or production of British Colonies, shall be subject to a duty of 11s. 6d. per 100lbs. and 12s. 6d. temporary or war duty; if not imported in a British ship; but until the passing of this Act, it is intended that cotton wool, being the growth or produce of the United States, shall, when imported in American ships, navigated according to law, be subject to the same duties, whether such importations shall be made directly or indirectly from the place of its growth."
MAY 1.
The intelligence from the North of Spain continues to be of a very favourable nature. The Marquis de Romana, with the regular troops under his command, and a large body of armed peasants, has completely cut off all communication between Gen. Ney at Coruña and Soult who still remains at Oporto, although reports have been circulated of his having advanced towards Coruña.
We entertain strong hopes that the Marquis de Romana will soon be strong enough to attack Ferrol and Coruña.
Bonaparte, before he set off to join the army, issued a decree, containing the three following provisions:—1. All Frenchmen who have carried arms against France since September 1, 1806, are declared to have incurred the punishment of death; 2. Frenchmen in the service of any foreign power, are to quit such service the instant hostilities arise between that power and France; 3. All Frenchmen recalled by this or former decrees, and continuing refractory and disobedient, are declared to have suffered civil death, and their estates and effects are to be confiscated.
Sun Office, half past 2 o'clock P. M.—We stop the press to state, that we have just received an account from Dover, which states, that there was a heavy firing on the French coast on Friday night and Saturday morning. Some of our cruisers who were on the opposite coast observed a general illumination, and some neutral vessels that have arrived report that the firing and illumination were in consequence of a victory obtained by the French over the Austrians.
MAY 2.
Two vessels arrived at Yarmouth yesterday morning from Holland, the Captains of which state, that Bonaparte was endeavouring to enforce the Conscription in Holland, and that in many places the people had manifested a disposition to resist it by force.
We feel great pleasure in stating, that every fresh account from the North of Spain, confirms the hopes we entertain respecting the ultimate success of the Spaniards. The Fugitive which is just arrived from the North of Spain, brings intelligence of the complete failure of an attempt made by the French for the recovery of Vigo. They had collected a force of about 4000 men with the intention of attacking that important place, but they were repulsed with very considerable loss.
A letter has been received from Charente, giving a dreadful description of the battle in Basque Roads. The mouth of the river Charente is entirely choked with wrecks of the French ships. The enemy have lost about 8,000 killed, besides a great many wounded.
The fruits of the late expedition in Basque Roads, are four large and fine ships destroyed, and three drove on shore, very much damaged. The Warsaw, Aquila and Calcutta, were set on fire by our boats, and the Tonnerre by the French.
MAY 4.
By a signal arrived from the Dutch coast yesterday, letters of last Wednesday's date have been received.—They state, that hostilities had actually commenced, between Austria and France, and that a battle had been fought near Munich, in which the French were defeated. We have no authority for the statement but the letters in question. The wages to a considerable amount were made on Change, that the account was correct.
We are unable to lay before our readers any authentic information respecting the reported battle between the Austrians and French in Bavaria. The captain of a French privateer recently taken and brought into port, states that a desperate battle has taken place, in which after three days hard fighting, the Austrians were defeated with the loss of 30,000 men.
All prospect of Russia taking a part in favour of Austria seems to have vanished. The negotiation between Russia and the Porte have been suddenly broken off and a Russian army is said to be in motion towards the Danube to commence hostilities against Austria; at least this intelligence is repeated in the Amsterdam Courant of the 21st April.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 29.
Austria has at length drawn the sword and her existence is staked upon the issue of the conflict. Hannibal and Scipio, Cæsar and Pompey, were no greater Generals than Bonaparte & Archduke Charles. The stakes they fought for were no less than the civilized world; and the fate of the civilized world once more vibrates betwixt France and Austria. Should Austria fall, the blackest despotism will pervade the Continent. Should Austria triumph, a general insurrection of the oppressed States will probably follow. We look forward to the event with trembling anxiety.
Accounts received here from Lisbon of a late date state, that Gen. Craddock, with 20,000 British troops had marched to meet the French army under Soult, and that Gen. Beresford was covering Lisbon with 40,000 regular Portuguese troops, encamped near the city.
American Congress.
ELEVENTH CONGRESS—Extra Session.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
SENATE—FRIDAY, JUNE 2.
Stanley Griswold, appointed a Senator by the Executive of the state of Ohio, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Edward Tiffin, appeared and took his seat.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill to amend and continue in force the act entitled "An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the U. S. and G. B. and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes," together with the amendment submitted yesterday; and on motion by Mr. Pickering further to amend the bill, ordered, that the bill and the amendment be re-committed, to Messrs. Smith of Md. Giles, Lloyd, Pope and Gregg.
Mr. German, from the committee to whom was referred so much of the President's message as relates to the defence of our seaport towns and harbours, &c. reported a bill making further appropriations to complete the fortifications commenced for the security of the ports and harbours of the U. S. and to erect such fortifications as may be necessary for the protection of the Northern and Western frontiers of the U. S.
Ordered to the second reading. Adjourned to Monday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, JUNE 5.
A message was received from the Senate, announcing the death of FRANCIS MALBONE, Esq. a member of that body from the state of Rhode-Island.
On motion of Mr. Potter, the following resolutions were immediately adopted:
Resolved, That this House do attend the funeral this afternoon, at five o'clock, of Francis Malbone, late a Senator of the U. S. from Rhode-Island.
Resolved, That the members of this House will wear crape on the left arm for the space of one month, in testimony of respect for the deceased.
Mr. Nelson from the committee on that part of the message of the President which
relates to the military establishment, moved that the committee be discharged from the consideration of the surplus appropriations for the expenses attending the building, equipping, &c. of the gun-boats. Not acted upon. The House then adjourned.
TUESDAY, JUNE 6.
Mr. Basset, from the joint committee appointed to enquire into the business necessary to be done before the adjournment of Congress, reported several subjects on which it would be necessary to act before the adjournment of Congress; and recommending an adjournment on the 30th instant.—Ordered to lie on the table.
GUN-BOATS.
Mr. Pitkin, after some observations on the state of the Treasury, and the necessity for diminishing the expenses of government, moved
"That the committee on the naval establishment be instructed to enquire into the expediency of selling such of the gun-boats belonging to the U. S. as are not necessary to be employed in actual service."
On motion of Mr. Macon, Mr. Pitkin's motion was so modified as to insert the words "publick armed vessels and" before the word "gun-boats;" and after a short debate between Messrs. Cutts, Dana, Lyon, Randolph, Macon, and Troup, agreed to, Ayes 70.
Mr. Randolph reported a bill authorising a summary mode of procedure against marshalls and their deputies, who have received money by virtue of executions issued from the courts of the United States. Twice read and committed.
Mr. Eppes from the committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill supplementary to an act entitled "An act making further provision for the support of publick credit, and for the redemption of the publick debt." [This bill is reported according to the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, to explain the act authorising the borrowing of money if necessary, to discharge the annual instalments of the publick debt.] Twice read and committed.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
On Motion of Mr. J. G. Jackson, the committee of the whole was discharged, Yeas, 130, from the further consideration of the bill for amending and continuing in force the non-intercourse, &c.—And it was re-committed for amendment.
Two attempts were made by Mr. Gardenier, the one to refer the bill to a different committee with instructions, and the other to instruct the committee of foreign relations to report the whole of the system judged proper to be retained in one bill. The House refused to consider the motion in both instances; in the first, 66 to 52; and in the second 66 to 59.
On account of the melancholy intelligence of the death of Mr. MALBONE, the colours at Fort Wolcott and of all the Vessels in port, were on Friday last hoisted at half-mast. At sun-set, the Artillery Company fired minute guns.
MARRIED.
In this town, by the Rev. Dr. PATTEN, Col. JOSEPH BOSS, to Miss ABIGAIL H. RICHARDSON, daughter of Jacob Richardson, Esq.
At Providence, Mr. GEORGE BRADFORD, jun. to Miss ABBY HOPKIN.
At Taunton, Mr. AVAS HATHAWAY, of Raynham, to Miss HANNAH DEAN, of the former place.
DIED.
In this town, Miss SARAH MUMFORD, daughter of the late William Mumford, Esq.—Mr. LAWTON BURDICK.
At Providence, Mrs. SALLY MARTIN, wife of William B. Martin, Esq.—Mrs. JOANNA WESCOTT, widow of Mr. William W.—Mrs. LUCY TALLMAN, aged 39, wife of Mr. Benjamin T.—Drowned, Mr. NATHAN ALLEN, aged 47, and his son, HENRY, aged 13, and GEORGE, aged 10.
At Boston, Mr. ELEEZER JACKSON, aged 26.—Mr. THOMAS RAYMOND, aged 75.—Mr. GILEAD MORSE, aged 42.
At Charlestown, (Mass.) Mr. EZRA CHOATE, aged 22.—PHILLIPS PAYSON, Esq. aged 49.
At Newton, (Mass.) Mr. JOHN PALMER, aged 47.
At Salem, (Mass.) Capt. CLIFFORD CROWNINGSHIELD, aged 47.
At Norton, Mr. LORENZO BISHOP, aged 24. He was a graduate at Brown University.
At Amesbury, (Mass.) Dr. NATHAN HALE, aged 94.
At Bozrah, (Conn.) Gen. ELIJAH ABEL, aged 71.
At New-York, Mrs. MARY DAYRELL, wife of Capt. Paul D.—During the week ending the 3d inst. thirty-five, including one of the small-pox and five drowned; one of whom was ANDREW ELLIOTT, of Massachusetts.
At New-York, on the 8th inst. after a tedious illness, THOMAS PAYNE, aged 73, author of the Age of Reason, &c.—It is remarkable, that the ship Pacific sailed from this port, the death of Mr. Payne was currently reported—and on the day of her arrival, he actually died.]
N. York Gaz. June 9.
At Rhinebeck, (N. Y.) Mrs. STATE, aged 102. In West-Chester County, (N. Y.) Mrs. WARD, relict of the late Hon. STEPHEN WARD.
At Philadelphia, Dr. JAMES WOODHOUSE, late professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania.—Mrs. MARY STILES, relict of Edward R. Esq.—During the week ending the 3d, thirty-nine, including five of the small-pox.
In Virginia, Col. MOSES RAWLINGS, a well known distinguished patriot of the revolutionary war.
At Halifax, (N. S.) Mr. RICHARD COLES, aged 25, son of John Coles, Esq. of New-London, (Conn.)
MARINE LIST.
PORT OF NEWPORT.
Entered—Schooner Patsey, Hunning, Edenton; do. Concord, Pitts, Newbern; Sloop Express, Wood, New-York; do. Fanny, Helme, do.; do. Malacypa, Walden, do.; do. Zoar, — St. Bartholomews.
Cleared—Ship Hope, Shearman, St. Jago de Cuba; do. Nancy, Coggeshall, Tonnington; Schooner President, Tapp, Georgetown; do. Benoni, Delano, Boston; do. Azubah & Butty, White, Havana; Sloop Huntress, Esab, N. York; do. Aurora, Calhoun, do.; do. Fanny, Helme, do.
DIED.
Suddenly, at Washington, on the 4th inst. the Honourable FRANCIS MALBONE, a Senator from this State to the Congress of the United States, in the 51st year of his age.
If ever there was a man who rose, without an effort or a wish, by dint of mere alone, to those various and important dignities in publick life, filled by this great and accomplished man; and whose highest exaltations gave more pleasure to the virtuous and good than immediately to himself, it was MALBONE.
Some men appear great only while the bustle of Station dazzles the eye of the spectator; others become magnified as they recede from publick view, and are seen like stars in a distant sky: of this last description is MALBONE.
Above the prejudices of education, he relinquished whatever was wrong, and tenaciously adhered to whatever was right.
He was descended from an ancient and most respectable family, whose virtues he transmitted unsoiled to posterity. In early life, he discovered a capacity illumined by reason, and governed by the soundest and the most penetrating judgment. His capacious mind embraced every object; his heart was sincere, and melted at every woe. His manners were polished and captivating; his conversation chaste, sprightly, and facetious. He was charitable and forgiving; and as his ability to do good increased, so did his disposition. He was beloved by the good men, esteemed by the virtuous, and admired by all. These are some of his good deeds which will speak his virtues, when the morbid monument shall moulder into dust, and the statue no longer bear the similitude of man.
He has been elected to various and important offices.—a Member to the General Assembly of this State for many years; a Representative to, and a Senator in, the Congress of the United States; which appointments he received and accepted with a modest diffidence peculiar to himself, and executed with approbating ability.
As a Man, he was scrupulously honest and exemplary.
As a Christian, pious and devout, without ostentation.
As a Merchant, intelligent and correct.
As a Husband, affectionate, sincere, and enduring.
As a Parent, tender and indulgent.
As a Master, forgiving and lenient.
To his ashes honour! Peace be with him! And chairs of Angels sing him to his rest.
J. & D. WHITE,
ARTIFICIAL FLOWER MAKERS,
No. 213, Thames-Street, New-York.
BEG leave to inform the Ladies and publick in general, that they intend to open their collection on the 20th instant, consisting of Artificial Flowers, set in Pots, resembling nature; adapted as Ornaments for Parlours, Drawing-Rooms, Chambers, &c.—Also an assortment of Fancy Flowers for Ladies' Bonnets, &c. &c.—to which they solicit the favour of every indulgent call.—Flowers made to pattern or order, on the shortest notice, and at reasonable prices.
Pleasing Amusement for Young Ladies.
Ladies taught the whole art of Flower Making, Drawing and Painting, as above, and every attention paid the pupils, by Mr. and Mrs. WHITE. An apartment is purposely fitted for their accommodation.—The Ladies will be divided into three classes, viz.—the first class (hour) from 9 o'clock in the morning until 12; second class, from 1 o'clock until 4 in the afternoon; third class, from 4 till 7 o'clock; and each class to consist of Four Ladies only.
Terms—each person.—For each different Flower, when perfect, 75 cents; twelve different Flowers, $8; Drawing and Painting, 2s. 6d. each lesson, or, 5 lessons, $1.
Ladies can be taught separate, or both blended together. All materials in the Flower making, whilst teaching, free of expense, and Ladies, at the expiration of their engagement, will have the privilege of receiving the last Flower of each sort they might have made, so as to form a Handsome Cabinet, which in itself will be equal in value to the whole expense of learning.
N. B. It is requested those Ladies that are desirous of being taught in the above, to give in their names as early as possible, naming the class they wish.—The School will commence on Thursday, the 22nd instant.
June 10.
NEWPORT BANK.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the half yearly dividend will be declared and paid, on Saturday, the first day of July next, to those who (by the books of the Bank) appear to be Stockholders on the 24th instant.
By order of the President & Directors, JOHN R. SHEARMAN, Cashier, Newport, June 14. 1809. [3w]
NOTICE.
WE the Subscribers being by the Hon. Court of Probate of North-Kingstown, in the county of Washington, appointed Commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of George Scott Pindar, late of North-Kingstown, mariner—being upwards of three years absent from home, unheard of; these are, therefore, to notify the creditors to the said George S. Pindar, to bring in their respective claims to either of us the Subscribers, at our respective dwellings in said town, within six months from the date hereof—being the time allowed by said Court for that purpose.
GEO. THOMAS,
JONA. REYNOLDS,
All persons indebted to said Estate are desired to make immediate payment, to
STEPHEN CONGDON, Adm'r, North-Kingstown, April 21st, 1809.

Poetry.
THE ROSE.
THE rose had been wash'd—lately wash'd in a show'r, That Mary to Anna convey'd: The plentiful moisture enumber'd the flow'r; And weigh'd down its beautiful head.
The cup was all fill'd; and the leaves were all wet; And it seem'd to a fanciful view, To weep for the buds it had left with regret, On the flourishing bush where it grew.
ANECDOLE.
WHILE the celebrated Earl of Chesterfield was Secretary of State, under King George the second, he applied to his Majesty to appoint a man to fill a vacant office, when the King happening to be in a pet, said to him, "I care not who has the office, you may commission the Devil, if you please." "Very well," replied Chesterfield, "I suppose your Majesty would have the commission begin in the usual form, "Our trusty and well beloved cousin."
AMUSING MISCELLANY.
FROM THE ANTHOLOGY.
Original Letters, from an American Traveller in Europe, to his friends in this country.
LETTER EIGHTH.
Rome, Dec. 7th, 1804.
MY DEAR SISTER,
I HAVE undertaken a task more arduous than I had anticipated. The description of Rome is a work of time and exertion. Its beauties are too varied, too great, and too striking, to be passed over in a slight and cursory manner. When you ramble out of the populous part of the city beyond the seven hills, on which Rome originally stood, you find yourself amidst deserted and melancholy fields, strewed here and there with the magnificent remains of Roman edifices. Rome is as singular and unique in its appearance, as it has been in its fate. Its walls, which are antique and have been preserved in their full extent as they existed in the time of the Cæsars, embraced several miles square, in which scarce an habitable edifice now rears its solitary head. Perhaps some lonely convent, or some splendid and vacant church adds a sort of gloomy variety to the scenery. You must not infer from this, that Rome is a dull, or uninteresting city. It is crowded with people in its habitable parts, and motion and splendour are as visible as in any city of the continent. Amidst the deserted fields of ancient Rome strangers often delight to stroll, and scarcely a step is taken but offers some new object to gratify and amuse. Here some temple to the fanciful Gods of the Romans rears its mutilated form; there the vast arches of a magnificent aqueduct astonish you by their grandeur and extent. On this side, your eye ranges along the immense pile of the palace of the Cæsars; on the other, the huge relics of some mausoleum, or the more extended ruins of an imperial Therme, attract your eager attention. The baths of Diocletian, situated about a mile from present population, though still within the walls, were a surprising edifice, of which considerable relics are yet to be seen. The present pope, filled with a noble ardour for the fine arts, and willing, I presume, to repair the losses which Rome has sustained by the depredations of their good allies, and the protector of catholicism, the emperor of the French, has taken unswerving pains to restore the monuments of antiquity, and either to discover new ones, or the residue of those which have been partly discovered. I shall notice these exertions and discoveries as they occur.
The galley slaves, a numerous corps at Rome, are occupied in digging up the remains of the baths of Diocletian. The foundations of this vast edifice are from 15 to 50 feet below the present surface of the earth. The dancing hall of the emperor Diocletian which appertained to these baths, was discovered in the time of Michael Angelo, (indeed it had never been covered) and was by that first modern architect converted into a church.
The grandeur, simplicity, and beauty of this fine edifice proves the superiority of ancient artists, and the columns of granite, of a size inconceivable to modern builders, or single blocks of that prodigiously hard stone, justly excite our admiration. These pillars cannot be less than nine feet in circumference, and upwards of thirty feet high. That emperors should have exerted all their power and wealth to bring such monuments as the obelisks from Egypt, one can conceive, though the manner may be incomprehensible, but that they should have incurred the enormous expense of transporting from Egypt these monstrous pillars for every house or edifice of luxury or devotion, is a confession, to me almost incredible.
This church being one of the largest in Rome, the astronomers have availed themselves of it by drawing a meridian line in it. As we have nothing of the kind in our country, nor any building which could display one to advantage, I will describe it to you. To form a meridian line, you require a large surface, and a smooth uninterrupted one. The churches of Rome having marble floors, and no interruption from pews or any other objects, (because the devotion of the people is a secondary consideration, and is done in a different manner) they are very well adapted to this purpose. The object of the meridian line is to exhibit, on a visible and perceptible scale, the progress of the sun in the ecliptick. You well know the general system, that from the 21st of March, on which day the sun is said to cross the equatorial line, he travels northward according to appearances, and from 21st June he again travels southward till he reaches the equatorial line again, on the first of September, from whence he makes a similar journey towards the south. Excuse this rough sketch to explain the nature of this line.
A straight line is traced across the church, in a diagonal direction to give it greater length, and extending from south to north. A small hole is made near the roof of the building, and so contrived that the rays of the sun shall always enter through it, and strike the floor at noon, or when the sun is in the meridian. As the rays of the sun in winter make a more acute internal angle with the surface of the earth, than in summer, it will of course strike a further part of this line, and in midsummer, being nearly perpendicular, of forming a less acute angle, it will of course approach nearer the hole in which it enters. It will, as you see, change daily, as the sun appears to advance or recede in the ecliptick, and of course you are enabled to mark on this line his precise place every day in a year. These marks are accompanied with all the signs of the zodiac, elegant-
ly traced in inlaid marble, and the degrees are marked in the same durable manner. These monuments are honourable to the Italians, and remind us of their well-earned reputation in astronomy. Your literary friends will tell you how much the world owes to the celebrated Galileo, and to the distinguished family of Cassini.
The baths of Titus are more extensive, more perfect, more picturesque, and more useful, than those of Domitian. They are yet in a tolerably entire state. The lower story out of three is almost entire. In them were found many rare curiosities; but the walls of stucco or plaster, still perfect, with antique paintings, whose colours and forms are perfectly visible, have been very useful to those who study the beauties of antiquity. It is thought that they served as the model for some of the best works of Raphael in the same line. These are, and have been for ages; under the surface of the earth; and by what art the Romans could make their plaster and their colours so durable as to resist the effects of time and humidity, is astonishing to every one.
After all, I can give you but a very imperfect notion of these things in description. Plans and stamps which I shall bring home with me, and one hour's conversation, will do more than pages of laborious description.
The baths of Caracalla were as extensive nearly as the others, and the remains are as respectable, but not so curious. The only thing which the ancient and modern barbarians have left us in these baths to admire, is the extent and solidity of the Roman edifices. The size and form you can see, and the thickness of the walls, but the ornaments are chiefly gone. All their buildings were clothed within and without with marble and stone, or some other beautiful coverings, and ornamented with richest statuary. The walls consisted of a surprising thickness of bricks, laid in excellent mortar.
These walls are now in many cases stronger and more beautiful in point of masonry than modern edifices. Their grandeur, solidity, and extent, are the objects which strike us most.
What must have been ancient Rome, when it had standing, at the same time, publick baths that would accommodate at one moment 6000 persons; when its various theatres would contain 500,000 spectators; when 5000 wild beasts, all brought from Africa or Asia were all sacrificed in a single spectacle; when its enviro: extended from Rome to Otricoli, 40 miles, lined with houses, palaces, and temples! What are the awful reflections on its fate, when we find no country, no spot on the habitable globe so deserted, so wretched as the campania of Rome the seat of so much splendour, of so much human grandeur.
NEW HOTEL.
THE publick are informed that the subscriber has taken the house formerly occupied by Mr. OLIVER VARNS, north of the State House, in Broad-Street, where Parties and Clubs may be accommodated with private rooms, &c. Suppers prepared on Short notice. Persons may be accommodated with Boarding and Lodging. All kinds of refreshments provided; and good accommodations for horses, &c.
Pastery and Cake of various kinds, together with Porter, Mead and Beer, constantly at hand.
Families can be supplied with Calves head Soup, dressed turtle fashion, every Friday. Calves-Feet Jelly kept for sale. Cordials, of various kinds, a constant supply.
As the subscriber has been at considerable trouble and expence in obtaining one of the first Cooks from the city of New-York, he flatters himself he shall receive a portion of the publick patronage. Every attention will be paid to those who may visit his house, where the smallest favour will be gratefully acknowledged by the publick's most obedient servant,
CATO BARKER.
N. B. Horses and Carriages, to let. Newport, May 17, 1809.
"The liberal Man deviseth liberal things." WHEREAS a citizen of this town has contracted with me, by the year, to educate ten poor Children at a time, in my School, boys of the age of eight years and upwards—this is therefore to inform those who wish to embrace such an opportunity, to apply to Mr. GREEN BURROUGHS, capt. NATHANIEL SWEET, or to me, the Subscriber, to whom it is entrusted what applications may be proper. No regard will be had to the religious or political sentiments of their parents or friends. ELEAZER TREVETT. Newport, May 5, 1809.
PLEASE TO TAKE NOTICE.
AS the partnership of SARAH SANDS & CO. will shortly be dissolved, those to whom they may be indebted are requested to call immediately and receive their dues; and those indebted to them to call and settle their accounts previous to the 10th of June, as the business must then be closed. SARAH SANDS & CO. Newport, May 24, 1809.
APPRENTICE WANTED.
WANTED an Apprentice, to the Cabinet making business. A smart active Lad, about 14 or 15 years of age, who can produce good recommendation, may hear of a situation by applying at the office of the Rhode-Island Republican . N. B. One from the country would be preferred. April 5.
APPRENTICE WANTED.
WANTED an Apprentice, to the Baking business. A smart active Lad about 12 or 13 years of age, who can produce good recommendation, may hear of a situation by applying at the office of the Rhode-Island Republican . N. B. One from the country would be preferred. May 10.
APPRENTICE WANTED.
WANTED, an Apprentice to the House Carpenter's Business. A lad from 14 to 16 years, (producing satisfactory recommendations) would hear of a good situation, on application at this Office. N. B. One from the country would have the preference. June 7.
JAMES MUMFORD, Sign of the Bee Hive, No. 88, Thames-Street,
HAS just opened a variety of GOODS—among which are—lace and dotted Muslins; Leno do.; white and coloured Cambricks; a complete assortment of corded and plaid Ginghams of the newest fashion; Gentleman's superfine Vest Patterns; Washington Stripes; Cotton Cassimeres; Cambric Dimities; Calicoes, newest prints; best 9-8 London Prints; Silk Chambrays; variety of cotton Handkerchiefs; ladies' and gentlemen's silk and cotton Hose; black Bombazetts; black Crape; silk Gloves; silk Shawls; cotton do.; silk and cotton Suspenders; Durrants, Calimancoes, Russells, Rattinet—and a great variety of other Goods, too numerous to mention in an advertisement. May 3. [3m.]
ABNER HATHAWAY, BROAD-STREET,
HAS for sale, many kinds of LUMBER, consisting of Timber, Joist, Boards, and Shingles; Cedar and Pine Clapboards. Also—white oak Plank and round Timber; with a good assortment of birch and maple Bedstead Joist.
Nails and Hollow Ware, of many kinds; cast iron Oven Frames and Doors, on an approved construction. Corn and Potatoes, by the bushel or larger quantity. Newport, April 5.
JAMES WESTGATE, BAKER, No. 195, Thames-Street, Offers for sale,
100 bbls. excellent Ship Bread. Groceries of all kinds, Crackers and Ginger Bread put up at the shortest notice. Newport, March 23.
SIMPSON & BARKER,
Offer for sale, At the Brick Market 40 bbls. mess Pork. March 22.
SALE AT AUCTION.
On MONDAY, the 11th of Sept next, At 2 o'clock, P. M. on the premises,
WILL be sold at Publick Auction, the Right of Redemption, of a House and Land, formerly the property of GEORGE COOK, represented insolvent, now in possession of WILLIAM HOWLAND, situated in Little-Compton.
JOSEPH BALEY, DAVID DURFEE, jun. } Assignees. PHILIP GRAY, Little-Compton, June 6, 1809.
SALE AT AUCTION.
By order of the Supreme Judicial Court—will be sold at Publick Auction, on the 10th day of the 8th month, next, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
SO much of the Real Estate of PETER B. HAZARD, late of South-Kingstown, deceased, as will amount to the sum of Two hundred and seventy three dollars, together with incidental charges.—The Vendue to be on the premises, lying in Point Judith, in said South-Kingstown, where the conditions of sale will be made known.
THOMAS B. HAZARD, Administrator. 5th month, 8th day, 1809.
NOTICE.
THE partnership of WILLIAM BURROUGHS & SON was dissolved on the first day of January last. Those to whom they may be indebted are requested to call immediately and receive their dues; and those indebted to them are desired to make speedy payment. Accounts and notes, the payment of which has been repeatedly called for, will, without discrimination, be put in suit in ten days from date, unless previously settled. WILLIAM BURROUGHS. Newport, April 12, 1809.
WILLIAM G. BURROUGHS
Transacts business on his own account, at the store formerly occupied by Wm. BURROUGHS & SON, 50, Thames-Street. Wanted immediately—an active young Man. Good recommendations will be required. April 12.
PLEASE TO TAKE NOTICE.
THE Subscribers respectfully inform their Friends and the publick, that they have entered into Partnership, and taken the well known Stables belonging to Mr. THOMAS TOWNSEND, situated in Green-street, where Horses and Carriages for every purpose will be furnished at short notice; particularly Coachmen provided with careful and experienced drivers, for parties of pleasure or travellers; and Saddle Horses either for Ladies or Gentlemen; they will also furnish despatch messengers for any direction. Their Stables being well calculated for the business, Horses will be taken in to keep at reasonable rates for long or short periods; and as they are determined to attend well to every part of their business, they hope to merit the favours of the publick. JOHN G. EASTON. WM. E. DRUMMOND.
THE Subscriber from long and intimate knowledge of WM. E. DRUMMOND, and confidence in his Partner, recommends them as worthy the encouragement of the publick. THOMAS TOWNSEND. Newport, April 19, 1809.
HENRY Y. CRANSTON, & CO.
No. 15, Market-Square, HAVE just received for sale—75 bbls. Alexandria superfine and fine Flour, of a superior inspection; and 50 bbls. first quality Ship Bread. May 17.
PUBLICK HEALTH.
BATHING-HOUSE.
FOR the accommodation of those Ladies and Gentlemen, who wish to partake of the luxury of the Bath, the BATHING-HOUSE will be opened every day, from sunrise until 9 o'clock in the evening, Sundays excepted, when it will be closed at 10 o'clock in the morning.—Tickets may be had at the Medicine Store of SAMUEL W. VINSON, and of the Proprietor. Ladies will please to pass in at the door No. 72, Thames-Street. Gentlemen will enter at the east door of the Bathing-House, Pelham-Street. Subscribers will be furnished with Tickets on account of their Shares, as heretofore. Newport, April 19, 1809.
NEW ACADEMY,
Barney-Street.
THE publick are informed, that the new and airy ACADEMY of Mr. TREVETT's, is ready for the reception of pupils. He flatters himself that the pleasantness of the situation; the accommodation of the building; together with his determination to pay every attention to those placed under his tuition, will ensure him a portion of the publick patronage.
N. B. The Scholars will, as usual, be publickly examined (by the Rev. Clergy) quarterly. Newport, April 25, 1809.
TAKE NOTICE.
WE the Subscribers, being by the Hon. Court of Probate for the town of South-Kingstown, appointed Commissioners to receive, examine and adjust the claims of the creditors against the estate of JONATHAN CARPENTER, late of South-Kingstown, Yeoman, deceased, represented insolvent—hereby give notice, that six months from the date hereof, are allowed to the creditors of said Estate to bring in and prove their respective claims; and that we will attend at our respective dwellings for that purpose. NICHOLAS NORTHPUP. DANIEL STANTON.
All persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment to TIMOTHY CARPENTER, Administrator. South-Kingstown, April 10, 1809. [M.31.]
NOTICE.
WHEREAS the keeper of the Hospital on Coaster's Harbour, is about leaving it; and it is the opinion of the Town Council that some suitable person should go immediately. Application may be made to JONATHAN ALMY, Town Clerk.
SAMUEL VINSON, President April 5. Town Council.
WE the Subscribers, being by the Court of Probate of the town of Middletown, appointed Commissioners to receive, examine and adjust the claims of the Creditors against the estate of Capt. Joseph Taggart, late of Middletown, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice, that six months from the 15th instant, are allowed to the creditors of the said estate, to bring in and prove their respective claims, and that we will attend at our respective dwellings for that purpose. ALANSON PECKHAM, } Comr's. WILLIAM TAGGART, } All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make payment to SARAH TAGGART, Adm'x. Middletown, May 29, 1809. [J.6.]
NOTICE.
THE MANAGERS of the Newport METHODIST CHAPEL LOTTERY, have determined to commence Drawing said Lottery on the first MONDAY of SEPTEMBER next. Newport, May 31, 1809.
FOR SALE,
THE beautiful and pleasant FARM, improved by the Subscriber, in Middletown.—Also, the House, Garden and Water Lot, situated in Water-street, Bristol; lately improved by Dr. Chillingworth Foster.—For terms, apply to CARDER HAZARD. Middletown, June 6th, 1809.
FOR SALE,
THE Dwelling-house, Lot and Out-houses thereon standing, occupied by Capt. Simon Davis—situated in Spring-street, S. E. corner of Mill-street.
Also—the House and Lot at the North part of Easton's point, lately occupied by the Reverend Mr. Bradley.
Likewise—the Masts, Spars, Sails, Rigging, Stores, &c. suitable for a single decked Brig of 110 or 115 tons, or a high or double decked Brig of 120 or 130 tons.—Apply to CONSTANT TABER. Newport, June 7, 1809.
TO BE LET,
And immediate possession given. THAT pleasant and commodious Room, corner of Mill and Thames-Streets, hitherto occupied by the subscriber as an office. It is unquestionably by far the best situation for a publick office, of any in the town—and at small expence, might be fitted for a dry goods store. For terms apply to PAUL M. MUMFORD. May 9.