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- RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
« LIRERTY is the nasts, and whoever would dare to fap the foundation, or overturn the firucture, under whatever [pecious pretext he attempt
it, wwill mirit the bittereft execration and the feverefk punifbmeht which can be inflicted by bis injured country.’ ‘ WASHIIG&'ON.
Numsir 8.1
' + A CHANCE.
ONE Prize of 1500 dollars,and
one of 1000 dollars, befides
feveral other valuable Prizes, may
and will foon be obtained, for only
15 fhillings, in the Brifel Church
Lottery.—The following numbers
were drawn on Wednefday, the
- fecond day of Drawing, and are
. Prizes of five dollars :
« No. 20, 33, 44, 845 1335 150,
204, 231, 247, 3'4s 385 471,
485, 507, 515, 532, 562, 597,
601, 628, 655, 665, 682, 774,
788, 813, 832, 913, 953, 968,
1033, 1061, 1074, 1099, lI§I,
1182, 1192, 1230, 1242, 1243,
1250, 1255, 12068, 1322, 1339,
1353, 1359 14306, 1445, 1489,
- 1637, 1679, 1711, 1791, 1945,
1947, 2047, 2158, 2239, 2282,
2286, 2319, 2321, 2378, 2549,
2610, 2668, 20683, 2710, 2783,
2852, 2869, 2913, 2096, 2997.
The Managers, will politively
draw again on the fecond day of
December. \
Brifial, Nov, Iz, 1801,
AT A few Tickets remain for
Sale at this Officc, and at the florés of
Meffrs. Riciraznson and WILDER.
( it ity eo < o e Ao~
" An Acr to prevent the [moking of
Pires and SEGARS.
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At @ Town Meeting, Decs 12, 1799
It is Voted and Refolved, That no per
fon bz foffered to fmoke a Pipe or Scgar, in
any of the fireets of Newport, after S:nfet,
wpon the penalty of paying a fine of One
Dollar, to and for the vit of the Town, to
be profecuted and recovered before any or
cither of the Juftices of the Peace in faid
"Lown, who are required to take Cognizance
of the fame, e
: In Fown-Meeting, Now. 10, 1801,
It is Vated and Rejolved, That the A&
refpebliog fmoking of Pipes or Segars in
- goy of the ftrcets of Newport, afier funfet,
he put in force, and that it be the duty of
all the civil officers in the town to fee the
fame executed ; and that the fame be pub
liled in both the Ne.vf?apg%finted in
this town. Witaely,
JONATHAN ALMY,
Town-Clerk,
S AR
Tgxlw Notuce.
“ ‘ TE the Subfcribers being appointed by
§ the Hon. Court of Probate of New-
Shoreham, cominifioners, to receive and ex
" amine the claims of the creditors to the eftate
of James Rofe, late ot faid New-Shoreham,
Yeoman, deceafed, reprefented infolvent; aad
Ҥx months from the fist of November inft,
being the time allowed by f2id Court: We
hereby o faid creditors, to exhibic their
claims to of us, at our rxfpefive dwell
“¢iogs, in .Shorcham, within faid time ;
ot they he g‘rccloded according to law,
JOHN GORTON,
'THOMAS D, LITTLEF(ELD.
‘ : Commifhioners,
' N. B. The Subfcriber {olicim all per.
* fons indebted to faid eftate, to make imme
" diate payment to reih's
MOSES ROSE, Adwiniftrator
Neavport, Nov. 12, 1801. 7t9
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‘ ?‘# Publifped and for Sale at this Office,
{Per Groce, Dozen, or Single. ]
THE -
" Rhode-Yfland
- ALMANAC,
, FOR THE
: Year 2802,
- siniag, befide the ufual calculstion,
3 ng matier, ’ |
Peblithed weekly, by OLIVER FARNSWORTH, Printer ¥ the State—Near the COFFEE-HOUSE, Thames-Street.
NEWPORT, Sarurpay, NOVEMBER 21, 1801.
406 Dollars Reward.
‘N ’HEREAS one Oliver Homes, who
lately lived in Colburstown, on Pe
nobfcot River, was miffing from his facly
about the middle of Aprfi lat—aond about
two months atter thae time fufpicions arofe
in that neighborhood, that he had been mur
dered—and after feveral attempts of the
Magiftiates and people to afcertain the fa@t, a
child of faid Homes of 10 years of age, de
clared that he faw me the Subferiber kill faid
Homes—upon which I was apprehended, ex
aminded, and am now confined in prifon and
there to remain neardy 11 months before I
can receive a final trial—and am then liable
to lofe my life, Now fuolly believing faid
Homes is alive, 1 hereby offer the above re
ward to any perfon, who fhall }ive informa
tion where he is; fo that ou trial proof may
be had of his being alive. Said Homes 1s
fhort of ftatate, thick, of dark eompletion,
thort black hair, an/d fomewhat bald,"
Since my confinement in Gaol, the Wife
of faid Homes has likewife been arrefted, ex
amined, and committed, on a charge of be
ing acceflary to the foppofed murder of hee
hofband, where unlefs {’aid Homes is found,
fhe muft remain to receive her trial before
the Supteme Court of June next,
JUSEPH INMAN,
Caftine Gaol, 04, 15, 1801,
PUBLIC NOTICE.
ALL perfons having demands agaioft the
A ERate of Saran Mcourorp, late of
Newport, deceafed—are called on to exhibit
their demands for payment ; and all thofe
who are indebeed to the Eftate, are called on
to fetcle the fame, and inzke payme to
PAUL MUMKJRD,
Adminifirator,
Newgort, Now, 13, 1801,
... Yo be Sold or Let,
A TWO Story Dwell-
Tt iy ing- Houfe, pleafantly fita
-3§ ated at thie norch-end of Thames
% ftreet ; with a good well of wa.
radiyasad ter, yard, gardeo and Rable.—
For farther particalam, enquire
of JOSEPH COZZENS.
Neavport, Sept. 25, 1801,
.
[BY AUTHORITY.]
State of Rhode-Iland and Provi-
dence Plantations.
In General Affembly, Ollaber Scffion,
A. D, 1801.
FORASMUCH as feveral Pub
lications have of late been
made, in a certain News-Paper prin
ted at Providence by Bennet Whee
ler, called the United States Chron
icle, flandering and defaming the
Governor, Supreme Court, and
other conftituted Authotities of this
State, one of which Publications
was fubfcribed by Joba Derrance,
Refslved, That in the Opinion
of this General Affembly, the faid
Publications tend to difcredit this
State abroad, and to dilquiet the
good People of this State, by weak
ening public Confidence in the con
ftituted Authorities thereof.
Refolved, That in the Opinion
of this General Aflembly, His Ex
cellency the Governor, the Su
preme Court, and the other confli
tuted Authorities of this Srate, are
well entitled to the public Confi
dence, and have deferved well of
their Fellow-Citizens, by a faithful
and meritorious Execution of the
Trufts repofed in them by the
People.
Voted, That the above Refolu
tions be publifhed, for three weeks
fucceflively, in all the News-Papers
printed in this States
A troe Copy @
' Witnefs,
- Political Mifceiany.
[The independent, axd manly fentimewts con.
tamed in the follinving excellent production,
ought to be indelibly impreffed om she mind of
every Democratic Republican ix the United
Stater, Ewery friend to the Conflitution,
' gcl bas a dembe in bis mind refpeling the
onflitutionalrty of the meafurcr puvfued by
Mr, Jevvensow, will find thofe doubts re.
moved, by an attentive pevafal of the fate.
ment of fal; adduced By this energetic avrit
er, who has hua}’iuelj centrafled the mea-
Sures ”r{awl by the lafi awith the meafures
purfwed by the prefent aduminifration.——Read
Republicans ; and judge, wwbether the pre.
Jent, and if ot the projent, avbether Ihe laff
admivifiration, did not violate the Conflitu
tion. | it
[Feom the Corunmmian Mussum.]
A'Vindication of Mr. JEWT‘:RSON.
Frirow-Cirizens!
THE difplacement of a few Federalifts
trom office, has lately drawn down on’
the prefidential head, all the wonted vesom,
and iufolent abule of that mifguided fadtion,
‘The hotlile prefles of the anion teem
with produtions, expreflive of thofe acute
fenfations ciernally attendant on envy, difap
poiatment, aud criminality. |
I reverence misforione and afi@ions:
when produced by oppreflion.—l can com.
wanicaie my {ympathy to the caufe of perfe
cuted worth and innocence. 1 deteft an aft
of ty fanny, concealed in any fhape ; ** wheth.
it fuliinate from the Vatican, or fteal
lently forth, from the Harem—whether it
: clothed ia the certain fcience of a bed of
ce, or in the legal fulemnities of a bench
xf lawyers ; whether, it be pirchafed by the
arcffes of a woman, *or whether, it iffucs
from a more re(petiable fource—the foveseign
power of the people, R
Tyranny and oppreflion have been im.
puted to the Prefideot, in the, exercife of a
power legally vefted in him, namely, the dif
placement of certain men from office, the du
ration of whofe appointments depends npon
the pleafure of the Executive,
It, then, Mr, Jeffcifon has been aétuat
ed in thefe difplacements, by private or un.
official corfiderations—if he has exceeded or
cover-lcaped the bounds of authority, by
which he is conftitutionally ¢ nfined—or if
his condut has militated with the benifnlm
{pirit of the republicaa inftitution ; 1 fay, if
either of thefe particalars can be fairly fub
flantiated againft him, there is not one—not
even the moft clamorous of the federal clan,
that would be more vchement in his oppofi
tion than myfelf,
Loving my country and its conftitution,
the magiftrate, not the man, claims my ref
peét and obed The citizen forgets his
duty, when aftray by an id‘fhuom
veucration for nd—a name.
Without tracing, therefore,a parailel be
tween an Adams ora Jefferfon, in order to
joftity the meafutes or conduét of one, by
fimilar meafures or condu@ of the other, |
fhall proceed to view Mr, Jefferfon as the firft
magiitraie of the Union, and in that cgyzcity
to invefligate the motives of his condufl, in 2
difficction of the following enquiry :
Has Mr. Jefferfon by removing particu
lar men from oflice, acted conformably to the
withes and expeéiations of the great body of
the American people ? '
A difcuflion of this enquiry, muft necef
farily precede an approbation, or condemaa
tion of Mr, Jeffesfon’s difplacemsents.
The anathemas of an individual, or a
few individuals, and perhaps thofe very indi.
vidoals, who have Et the fings of difap.
pointed ambition, or popular execration,
ouglht not in the nature of things, to be reited
spon, as an orthodox afcersainment of the
smpreflions on the opinions of a people.
The virulence of an American, ot the
contemptible hamcur and inverfions of the
vagabopd Steneo, caonct force a conviflion
on the aggregate body of the republican citi.
zens, llu::l?’t:f db. jh;" ':{.'tot l;‘ the fto
' ident Jeiizrior, Q-1 re
peat m intcrrogation : Has Mr, Jcfierfon
Mcn?u-bly to the wifhes and expecs
tations of the great body of the people 7
Amlhnmp(’d-xhe bafis of the
pqskac uu‘kfl , :
~ Lam compelled by mof my
fubjeét, to take a thort seerofpe®, and to
catch ot fome of Ihe mo@ prosaingas featuscs
of the federal adminiltrations
» It wasld require the prolixity and paine
ful pec(cvcienc':q of the hiftorian, to ganicu.
latige every alt, and ohullmlon of that ad
minifration ¢ itwould be in the language of
the paet, '
o To poner in light au Plute's drear abodes,
- ddberred by e, dreadful emtoGods”
; But what were the prominent features of
that adminiftration }—i, Attempts to tram
ple on the wnights and privileges of the peo
ple by the ena@tment of nnconfitational
| &'fl.aud the creation of a groundiefs apprea
henfion of fareign invafion, fid_fihofiflilm n
order to obtain 31« great engine of defpotic
aathority—Standing Armiesie—as A mfli- ~
gne walte of the public, tv ri=
ational hanar wdependence, to
\m and "’“‘m" ifh cabinet.
—4. Defigns wder blican co:rl\.
“infufficient and. pflm Ev' ion
tod, that Was perotitred > bafk W its {un
hine, particigaicd of itvtegper apd its pri
| m‘. " ’.‘, ! LN |
tuted che b , feco rdatl o'of
fice. e Y o
He that cpuld moft velie exclaim
againt the fovflei'ngf the people-<He, that
evinced the Rmnm aptitade of difpolition
for the cßablilhment of hereditary folly~—of
privileges, cafts, and orders—thele were the
men, oo whom the choiceft gifts of al ;
power were thowered, to the !nti eXe
clufion of thofe who were honeft wero d ‘
faithfal to the Conflitution, * .\ -y
Ténk trath, 0 a expedia
cucy of the governmental. jo% Lo évia :
a fin wemi ' | b
tabhith 3, to uffert the .
of the , were not n the fede. *
ral ethidation thah to difiolle’ the of
good otder, and to let {lip the dogs |
chys——=Profecution was the fifaw' en
gine of the government ; bat vistoe mnd tale
ents only folicits operation, Such, my
countrymen, were the uncxaggerated traits
of the late federal admivifteation e
contaminasing influence, ' L ¥
But a free and enlightened - cane
not long he the dupes o’ crror and delufion.
At this awfol crifis, when all thin,np
pearcd to be totiering 1o a fpeedy downlall—
when thefe principles which hnl coft youfo
much biood and treafure ; the principles of
Jewenty. fix, were beginning to be forgotten,
and 10 Jofe their efficacy.; when that ree
publicaft compatt, under the benign operae
tion, which bave commanded the refpeét
and admiration of the world, had ceafed to
be admuced or refpected by thofe whofe dusy
it was to preferve it facied and ,im}ollNc.{u-
At this period, big with events fo rtant
—fortanately the mifts were diflip.:d’:bich
fo fatally obfcured the American horizone
the people rofe in cheir ftiength, and {nagrhed
trom the firugflling and convulfive . g;nf,,s of
expiring federalifm, the chariers of their free
dom and their confidence. But even in ite
lalt agonies, the federal encrgies were .not in
di#m.—-l\ contemg: for, and 2 trarerove
Auempt to bifile the choice of the peo.
ple—a vindi@ive abufe of the only remaing of
power, were the lat fcenes tha &led up this
political drama,
4 i nave faid, that My, Jefetfo{l cofe
doét is 10 be julified, by contrafting 1t with
the wifhes and expe&tations of the peo]h. In
a republican _inftiturion, wex populi fuprema
lex, the voice of the people is paramount to |
every law. And [ mayadd a bolder axiom
—ox populi, vex Dei—the voice of the peo
ple, is the voice of God,
Upon thefe two axioms, the fovereign.
ty, the liberty, ahe rights of the peork, are
predicated, 1t is a difregard of, or inatrene
tion to their principles, that conflitutes the
only dißin®ion between a fiee, and tyrannic
government ; between the ‘:.p reflive u&:’g‘-
tions of Roffia, and the eq gflem of
ed America, 2
1 will gske it then, tr.conceied,' that
Mr, Jefferfon was bound in doty, and in
princsple, from the nature of the fepublicaa
com!.a. to pay obedience to the voice and
fentiments of the people. b 2
But, what n: the vui:: and leatiments |
of the e at the period he was called op
on 10 Sllot‘:‘: prefideniial chair ? They inay
be faid to be iavilvedin the Tollowing Na
tional Addrele—
TO THOMAS JEFFEKSON,
Prefident of the Unised Seaces,
Follow-Citizen ! | ‘ }
B our free and unbiafied fuffisge
have qfixo#a: w 0 Qfl
mfim«. the union. _
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