The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1829-07-23

this nsust be done BY vsnal, and rubssYvi
snt House Of Representatives. order te
harmonic with the administration Suppose
he should reooumend a ratio OF Represents
: ton, requiring 20O, 900 to one Representative
our Representatives are to acqu:ssce in all
measures, however preposterous--so long al
they do not directly violate any provision oi
the constitution--ifyo you want Representatives
so lost TO Republican principles--so 90 devoid Of
American spirit and Independence 30 III to
bs slaves themselves, and make slaves OF us
then sls:t Durfse and Eddy, tho men recon-
mepdsd-their friends and partisans assure
Us in this address Of their qualifications, and
for one I am not disposed to doubt them in this
particular. But IL you on the other hand
have any ambition to be we'll represented, to
maintain your Revolutionary Republican prin-
ciples. to preserve the existence and respecta-
biiity Of this chosen speck of FREQ land, to
have at Washington such viglant and capa-
bic guardians Of your rights and liberties, as
will only approve Of such measures of Gov
srnment as ought to be approved, and will
dare to oppose, and can Oppose such as mill.
tato against your interests ;--then support
Msssrs Pearcs and Burgess. men 20 whom
even this address, if it comedies nothing else,
comedies (" the classical beauties of studied
orstions, and the embittered sarcasms Of re-
tort"
And above all, before you make up your
minds TO elect Durfes and Eddy-=recollect
that you have heretofore tried them both and
both together that the mildness Of their man.
ners, and the strength of their arguments, Il
never yet hoard OF their using any during the
time they we're in Congress)- did not screen
them from John Randol ph's well merited ep
tibet Of Doogh-faces. RHODE. ISLAND.
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We have in onr possession, list Of persons
taken from the town Of Newport, by tho in.
fluence of the tories, and put on board the
Lord Sandwich British Prison Ship, in Octo
ber, 1777, because they refused to sign an as
sociation which obliged them to fight what
they called, Rebels. We shall publish it in
our next.
We have recently received the Jonrnal Of
the LIST session Of the 18th Congress, from
which we have made an abstract Of tho votes
of Messrs Eddy and Durfee, OH the Tariff
question, 20 called, in 1924 but as the same
is too long for our paper Of to-day, we are
obliged to defer its publication until our next
We are anxious TO lay the same before our
readers, as it has lately become fashionable for
Some mon to blow hot and to blow cold,' 10
gain as they fain would hope, a temporary
We believe many Of our readers
have actually forgotten Mr.. Durfee's course
when IN Congress, as we have been informed
that nt a late meeting in this town. his claims
were urged by certain gentlemen on the
ground that he had aitoays opposed the Tariff
that he is no,c anti-tariff no one can doubt,
for so he tells us /; but that he has heretofore
been so, we utterly deny. If tried for his po.
litical consistency, we believe that it would
not be dfficnlt to prove him as Judge Obadiah
Potter would say, to bc quite an acccmmodat-
ing politician.
THEATRE. Last night Messrs Thayer &
Brown. spsds their first appearance here this
season, for the benefit of Miss Riddle the
former ia the characters of Dr.Pangios and
Jeremy Diddier, the latter in ZekicL Home.
spun, and Sam. They have always been ia.
voritos with Newport audience, and we were
sorry to see such splendid acting 10 so thin
house. II was highly discreditable to the taste
of our community.
Tomorrow night is fixed for the benefit Of
Mr.. Riddle,thc Manager, who in the discharge
Of the duties of that responsible capacity, has
spared no pains to please and crafty the pub
lie. Tho pieces selected are very interesting
and with the sterling assistance of our old ia.
vorite JoHS MILis BRowS, cannot fail to in
sure Mr.. Riddle a liberal benefit.
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CoNuuSIcATrp.
administration Meeting An adjourn.
ed meeting Of the friends Of the admins
tration, will be held ut Mr.. Towers acade
my, on Saturday evening the R5th inst. al
half past o'clock
When we published few days since
(says the Providence Journal tho rumor
tha, our Minister to England was armed
with Instructions to treat away the Tariff
we expressed our opinion, that however
disposed to such scheme our government,
might be, the English government could
never listen to it for single moment
This rumor has not received any addt.
ional confirmation and we ars inclined now
TO consider it bare conjecture. With re.
gard to it the Intelligeneer says
Thething is absolutely incredible. far
exceeding any absurdity that has ever been
conceived Of under the widest notions Of
"reformp We hope that the story is alto.
gethcr a hoax, tho it is given to the world
from very respectable source. II is adj
ded 10 the runner, that "the British Minis.
tor at Washington approves Of the project"
No doubt Of il. How could the British
commercial, and manufacturing. and fiscal