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RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
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Printed ond Thursdays, by
WILLUAM SIMONS,
(‘-wnu% z“l.un OF CONGRESS,)
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g TERMS.
e papagr ia printed ouce a week, at 2 dollars a
ysary g, ¢ half in’ idvance.
- Adpr o conspicuouslyinserted, atthe rate
&t 1 Ado la il 50 centa a square, for three weeks—
¢ 2llar otide in the same proportion.
"’hfi {a« A Lm. CesaßsnntEa .
: its variety, executed withaccurac
':’{ [ atch. Ordere rn’p.eflfid salicited. ’
: o. 119 !!!
" UST received from Boston, and for sale, by
T homas H. Mumford,
No, 119, T!Au!.l-b'tlll'r,
A general assortment of FRESH DRY
GOODS—among which are :
antriperk P Nelson B ™ her pasdilooiio
) o erial an or pantaloons—
Plains and Devonshire Keneyo—Coad:g and Duf
gils ; Vutiosn black, white, and green Lustrings ;
white and col Cambrics ; black, bottle, brown,
and scariet Bombazetts ; common and super, London
Péints; elegant cotion Shawls, 4.4, 5-4, 6-4 and 7.4 ;
g”pn C“K" black, lead and lilac ; bandamna and
ag Handkerchiefs ; India Cottons ; Irish Linens ;
British Shirtings, various prices ; common and sa.
perfine Ginghams ; Tapes, Pins, Needles, &c. &c.
With a variety of other Goads, all of which will be
disposed of on the lowest terms, for cash, and the
smallest favor gratefully acknowledgad.
Newport, Jau. 21, 1813.
Cheap ! Cheap ! ! Cheap ! !
PRIZE GOOD»b,
Purchased at Marshalls’ Sales in Boaston.
snd now for sale by
P. 0. RICHMOND,
% trunks cgnm superfine Calicoes
Cambrick Ginghams, new pactterns ;
Undressed figured Cambrics ;
An assortment of cambric Muslins;
1 case Bombaszetts ; do. Wildbores ;
bale white Flannells, extra fine ;
3 do. common, assorted colors ;
do. blue Plains and Hunter’s Cloths 3
gl assortment of cotton Shirtings ;
orsted Hosiery, some very fine ;
Prab, bottle-green and blue Cassimeres ;
Pelice Cloths ;
L bale rose DBlankets, from 166 to 102¢. per pair ;
Few pieces dark mizeg Hunier's Cloths, new style ;’
4 gtm‘e Mn_o::l and 1 {neec black, real superfino Weofst
n’llll B cloths, superior to any ever of
fered in this town. "
All which will be sold wholesale and retail for cash,
ower than has been offered for some years. N.lO.
William S. Nichols,
gQLU, AND SILVER SMITH,
89, Thames-street, Has for sale,
A GENBERAL assortment of plated Britannia &
Jappanéd Wares—Cutlery——Brass Andirons—
duovel and Topp-,-%l}ou—l!rm Candlesticks—
Warming Pens—Brushes, of every description—an
extensive assortment of modern Jewelry—warranted
Gold Necklaces—Silver Cream Pcu-l’orcn‘fcn—
Ladles Spoons—sugar Tonsa—Bouuwain’s Calls,&ec.
With a variety of other articles ; which will be sold
a 3 cb-q as can be purchased of equal quality.
Orders fro n distant cutigmers promptly attended to.
G Cash givea for old Gold and :ilver.
Newport, November 19, 1812.
"CRANSTUN & SiiAWw,
Offer at private sale, at their Auction Office,
the fca:'ipé Goops, on the most reasonable
terms, for Cash, or approved paper-e
34 bhds. 3d proof W.l RUM ¢
19 Pr‘ Providence Gin
% i Bt o
pipes 4th proof Brandy ,
wfi ' ula_ Wine ¢
9 n: Teneriffe do, ;
14 hhds. Kentucky Tobacco ;
18,000 wt. Coffee ; '
10 hhds. Muscavado Sugar ;
27 boxes No. 1, 2 & 3 Chocolate ¢
194 bales Cassia ; 16 do. Cotton. ,
Casn, advanced as usual, ou Goods d:x_oited for
blic or private Sale.—All Cash Sales effected by
!‘e‘ at Auction, will be immedlately made up and
proceeds paid ou the day of sale. Dec. 10.
T GROCERI! S
William White,
HAS JUST RECEIVEL AND
@ffers for sale, at the store, on AP boy Bl
TR S
Nflm—vm'r;nc "__'7»
Pepper
Table Salt
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..“'..i:.‘.."‘} FLOUR
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Tobacco
Rum
Gin
S‘Sfl *3 BRANDY
olasscs
Boeo ok |
ysomskin \ TEAS.
Souchoug &
lo:n O }
Coffee
Soap
White & SUGAR. Dutter
JBrown ALSO and Meal.
.{UST RECEIVED
1» Codtishy :ohw.uou.’.g.,
2004 ; ' Qflm Sugar ;
10 ¢ | 8 bbls pewdered do. ;
6 do. Cherry Juice ; 5 boxes New-York Soap;
< bbls. Masois Gin’ | 10 do. Butter;
:af“‘n ) p&g‘l‘ ,
€A
o toe sy of e
A 0 n ‘ and Ware;
_ - with a ity of Plank, Shin
-fi?w: i B o vy e
cles two numcrous (o
The above articles are to be sold on the most res-
aooo-'t.’mga-lu_ou Batavia Corree,
for sale by , 0. RIGHMOND. Bec. 10.
NEWPORT, THURSDAY., FEBRUARY 4. 1813,
MISCELLANY.
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From the Native Americen.
O ——
STATE OF YHE UNITED STATES AS RESs
PECTS ITSELF, AND THEIR RELATION
WITH THE POWERS OF EUROPR.
——
“ By the dead are the privlhg:l of Rome bestow
ed, not. on privute .pcr'oonu only, but upon Nations and
whole previnces. Cicewre.
IN recapitulating the many events which
have tranepiied since the dismemberment of
the United States from Great Brituin, per
haps there is none’ whieh hus excited so much
anxiety and developed so much political pas
sion, as the belligerent station which our uns
ion has taken since June 18th, 1812, The
Declaration of War has calicd forth both the
energios of the Government and the energies
of Faction, and if the confederation which
has bound us together continue to exist two
years from this date ; end (he wer is prose
cuted, we shall present to the world one of
the most pueriie and inconsisten specimens
of conduct ever evincetl i any nation or in
sny revolution. This I say, uniess the opgo
m{m which at present sppears so formidable
ceases, and their rancour subsides.
We have now about nineteen confederated
Republics, similar in government—but not in
manners or interest. IThe hardy peasant of
the Maine, politically considered is on an e
quality with the sickly planter of the Caroli
nas, and the tawny Creole of the Lousianes ;
one government at present prescribes laws
for them, and also protects them : but they
are as dissimilar in habits as the Tuscan is
from the Florentine, or a Savoyerd from a
Venetian ; but nowwithstanding this there
have existed republics for centuries under one
common government, and totully heterogeni
al——as the seven United Provinces—-the
states of Italy ; the republics of Poland ; and
lastle the Cisaipine confederation. A Pre
nossession for their individual intcresta and a
pariality for foreign manncrs, first disunited
theme=then discord ensued ; snd now the
four above once happy flourishing govern
ments are subjected to the sceptre of a ty
rant ; and conscription and vassalage is the
reward of their toil ! ! The year 1819 has
placed this government in a critical «ituation,
for now it is not a strife to support the exist
ing laws but a strife for domination, and war
has severed what war had united.
The great financiers of Europe, particu
larly Apam SmiTa, on the wealth of nations,
bas supposed, Ihat those governments which
combined the agricuitural and menufacturing
interests wost ciokely, were calculated te en
dure the longest and ucquire the most wealth;
particularly when connected with the common
mechanic arts.
This idea no doubt is verified in the prov
inces of France ; the Flanders, Englend, Ire
land, and the provinces boardering on the In
dias, Gangesy and more particularly the Chi
nese dominions; and in this particuler the
northern eection of the United States will
ever hold a distinguished renk smong the re
publics of America~commerce mekes pa
tions rich of itself, unaided by agriculture,but
assisted by arts ; such are the silk manufac
turing provinces in European Turkey, snd
many of the states of Italy which border on
the head of the Mediterranean sea.
The states which can beneficially avail
themselves of commerce are eight, Massa
chusntts, Rhode-Island, Maryland, Connec
ticut, South-Carolina, Grorgia and Louisiana,
these can support large shipping, and are so
situated as to receive the produce of the oth
er states, and export them and pay in foreign
manufactures and luxuries. The state of
Pennsylvania, is a state fertile in grain and I
ron foundaries—~<New-Jersey abounds with
mines, and Ohio, with many of iron, coal and
the ingredients for glass manufacturing~=Up
per Louisiana with salt and lead. The cot
ton and sugar states are the two Louisianas,
Tennessec, and Indiana territory. Perheps
if this nation continues united, and becomes
a military people there is no portion of the
globe, or kingdom which will be amply so
supplied with every ingredient, and article, for
either an offensive or defensive war.
The two states of Massachusetts and New-
Hampshire farnish lumber of every descrip
tion,except the most bulky (such as live oak)
which is abundant in Georgia and on the Sea
Islands. '
South-Ceroline, North-Carolina, the sec
tion of cuuntry bordering on the head of the
Allegany and Monongahela rivers, the Ken
nebeck, Merrimack, Kennebunk and Casco,
in New-England afford a vast surpius of tur
and pitch. New-York, Kentucky. Tennessee
and Virginia abound with hemp almost equal
to Russian ; the three latter tobacco seems in
digenous to. To the prospect of affording
sait for exportation, we may edd that Ken
tucky will manufacture cord;ge which will
not only employ the hand of a sumerous
industrious portion of the community, but
constitute one of the staples of this state.
The states of Pennsyivania, Virginia and
Matyland are exclusively entitled to be called
the flour states.
The river Ohio annually floats down to N.
Orleans 30,000 barrels of flour, and spirits
and bacon in proportion j these three last ar
ticles are sent to the West-India Islands and
to the south of Europe. It may be enqggired
what states will afford raiment for our con
sumption. They are four; and each uge has
within eight years evinced to what sn aston
ishing beight the arts and improvements of
life may rise,when encouraged by a fosfeiing
‘and {rée government. Connecticut is hap‘u
ly siumos for the rearing of sheap ; and its
industrious and enterprising i ot will
soon rival the shepherds og Linnshire in
Eogland, and the Bag-Shot, Biffiesjcad and
Devonshire, all of wg'icb shear some of the
Bnest wool in Great-Britvin. New-Hamp
shire is famous for its manufacturing of lin
ed, particularly Londonderry, Windham and
Pelham, and it is said the first town almost
rivals Londonderry in Ircland. Rhode-Islund
aiso has outvied her sister states in the man
ofactures in which they are so zealously en-
Reged, particularly that ¢f cotton. QOur fur
coviiries are the ewiy acquired possessions
of the Upper and Lower Loutsianas and the
Ilinois territory ; the Missouri ; Mississippi
“wbove the Ohio, the Arkenzas and Red Riv
grs float down some of the choicest furs
iwhich are caught in our country. With such
wbundance, such fertility of soil, such a vari
egated portion of country and suchd & Aappy
and fiecceful government, still the avarice and
ambiticn of enr couniiywen, is insligatng
ihiem to lay waste und forever eXtinguish the
blessings which Providence has pouted upon
us.
On the big Kenhawy, the Ohio and Sal
rivers there are vast works for the mupufuc
turing of salt==theie are two houses fur the
blowing ot glass st Piusburgh.~Leud mines
in wbundance in Ujpper Louisiane. Shot
manufuctories on the Missouri, wund flour
mills in Obio.
It is supposed New-England will net soon
become a manulucturing country, because its
inbabitants wili not confine thewselves to
such sedentary duties where land is so easily
purchused, gnd labour so high; but if the wa
conuinues, what is to become of that numer
ous portion of our citizens which have man
ned our commerce and those who huve set
tled the territory west of the Alleghany ?
Mines, fuel, labor and a feriile soil are only
necessary Jor cvery descrifition of foundevies.
Devonshire, Cornwall and Dorsetshire are
the great mining counties in Englend ; wnd
Birmingbham and Shropshire swallows up in
their manufactories the lubor of 60,000 min
ers. Why in process of time may not New-
England rival any country in this particular.
The grazing grounds are not inferior to the
finest downs in the Isle of Wight., It is ine
dubitably the fact that the constitution of the
people in the southern states, and the na
ture of the country never will admit of eith
ena perfection of arts or In manufactures, for
at this perio:,ge wmechanic arts have scarce-
Iy afforded bines for the pirescing of to
bacco, the cleansing of coitont and the pound.-
ing of rice; in South-Carolina I have found
them in most perfection.=These states nev
er can [yrpish scamen; for every traveller
knows that the two states South-Carolina and
Georgia ure populated b('gemlemcn end ne
groes ; in Virgiola und North Caroiina there
are a mixed race, which rank betweed the
two furmer. As respects the roligious divi
sions and ioterests of the states almost every
wan throughout the Union believes in doc:
trines and creeds, not half so fuf removed
from each other us a Mahomedan and an
Hindoo.=~T he political relation is surely the
most interesting and important, and calls
particularly at this ficried for the attention
and potice vi every freeman in the union ; it
is a relution which bas A+rergfore brought
peace, wealth und strength, but Heaven only
knows how long this sacred ligament is to fast.
The time has elapsed’ when Patriotism
burnt throughout Ainerica ; the spark was
near extinguished when the renewed indigni
ties and insults of our old foe lighted it ap.
and the world will soun be convinced that the
government of our country is neither pusil
lanimous nor timid. In case the three facti
ous states of New-England resist the admin-.
istration, and eveotvaily, with New-York re's.
cl, the evil will not appear to be haltf so gr sat
8s is conjectured, for the six western #tetes,
and three seuthern ones will always have, the
eame opportunity to aveil themselves of theis
locality and produce ; for if England faily in
her narthern alliances and conspiracies, she
must be driven to some purt of America for
her naval stores ; and cven if she does not
her cupidity and fondnese for universal domi
nation on the sca will urge her commmerce to
our harbors. England raises very little hemp
—manufactures little fron from the oree=has
no fprine trees, and is now obliged to bave re
course to the Oak Ranges and forests of the
Istand w 0 sypply her “ Navy Yards !!!”
These are facts und within the knowledge of
every man any wise conversant with the fig
lish government.
If the tyrant of Europe sways his scep
tre over those northern natioms which have
made Engjand their market for every produce.
how or where is England to dispose of the
labor of onNE MiLLICN of Aer manyfuctUrers 7
men that scarcely knew how leather is tanned
or rurnips raised ; and even if the wealth and
exigencies of the nation could sfford them
employ, what land are they to till, or wha
occupation pursue ! for the space of 426
years, which comprises the period when the
company of linneu weavers estublished them
selves in Londony the manufacturing systew
bas been increasing and perfeciing ; and ler
sny roan tell me how men can turn their ot
temion to sny emplyment when they have
worked ot a trude for filty years.,
Thus we find the three great sections of
the Union adopted to different demtlom.
possessing different interests, and hebivs and
fitted for various importont obiecty
SR T VSRR TN
As rospects our relation to the powers of
Europe, ihat consists wholly of ths political
“and commercial kind. ‘ | siofl
Moat of the exports of the Ugited States
“consist of the various fruits of commeon hus
bandry and the nutural growth of the soil ;
the fruit comprises the three great steple
commodities ol life, decsfy pork and bdread,
with homespun dlistilled spirits :=-the states
which'embrace this extensive intorest are the
five New-England aates, with two middle
ones end Virgwia, The great marts for cop.
sumption, are the colonial possessions of
England and her allied ports——now if Eng
land could only for a moment sacrifice her
pride and pomposity to the welfare of her
subjects, her shipping could comvey all thiy
and even lumber 10 her possorsions; and then
we should uot hear of those distressing g‘m
plaints which speak loudly the misery of the
manufacturers of twenty of the ost value
ble counties in England ; but gloty and dom
ination has obliterated slmost every spark of
humanity in her ministers,and the abundance
which that sacrifice would afford two millions
of laborers und mechanics who are erying for
susienance !l )
There being o sufficiency of coin in the
United States for the puvpeses of internul
exchange=-prohibit the ex:otmhn of ‘bull
-lon 10 China and Indie, and we have no nced
to visit South-America for her gold.” It we
want mines, Louisiana affords siiver : the
whole of the Washitaw county and(he tracts
boardering on the Missouri trur afford as
pure silver as Peru ; and dollars are now in
circulation, coined in that country, which in
point of purity exeeed any in the world. The
manufacture of fine eotton having arrived at
great perfection in two cf the N‘ew-tng‘luhd
states, will soon be able to supply the sister
states : hence we need not cross three oceanis
in ques* of china, silk and Bengal musline—l
except those states which manufacture and
consume flax. I will ask any man what does
America want which she cannot ptoduse !
nothing I answer, but English butlers for the
nobility in Boston and New-York ; and per:
baps laces and jewels for the numerous train
of dutchesses and ladies of the Ndochpmbj;i
to be found in the above cities. Some of th
grandees of Connecticut have already ob
their backs, fieeces which a few years since
were the growth of Murcia and Andalusia in
Spain, but sheared and manufagtured in their
native state ! ! The article of silk has bl
reudy attracted the notice of our fimon,lm}
the ingenious hand of thousands of our m:
sant girls are empleyéd in the culture of stlk
worms. But some will ask where shall ‘W
get the implements of war ! We want i
but what the states afford«=R hode-Island an
Mpssachusetts will wgply ordinance enough
for twenty stat¢s—=Delaware ‘and New-Jer:
soy furnish powder in plenty, and T Aofte.
there cver will remain brave men enough o
use them, ;
Salt Petre Wuouisiana, will fuornish.
But in all probability if the war is termina
|cd, E“xlm d’ nor no Olhfll' m“ ."“ ‘m
advance their hostile banners to our shorg,
Spirits of <very kind are furnished from the
New-Eng'and and middie siates,except wings
and for that article we must look to Tence
see and the lower paris of the Ohio State ;
particularly near the growing settiement, cal
led the Sweedes sottlement, which 1 visited
in 1813 ; where 1 saw with pleasure the ex:
tensive plains bordering on the banks ecle
gantly ornamented with vineyards, which
afford a wine very much like Port wine. At
the confluence o{ Licki‘o: with Ohio rivers,
the project has been tried with great snccess,
a'ad beloW the flourishing scttlements of Cin
cinnati:
Considering the opulehce of our citizens,
the sbundance which our soif affords, and the
prospect which the Union presents, if fac
tion doca mot remder acunder the' obly happy
government ob earth, it is one ofitho most
astonishing things in the world, that the ob
sequious adorers of the British govef t
should loose sight of the only plan whick
will save them ,fo'm the greatest of all ‘sub
lunary misfortunes, h&c’fln and Civil War,
It may be that thet GREAT sPinry, vhfi
now directs the destinies of the world, #n
which has affrighted Princes from their
thrones and hurried monarchs into ruin is
born to lay waste ske Hng.lm qmfikh
we are contending, emphatically “the
bulwark of religion and the alcnd_ fo nasions
~if to thet very faction which is now oppo
sing the flmonmcm of America will be the
first sac he makes upen the altar of Ais
indignation. . '
It will be an immolation which will esll in.
10 effect the anger and the vengeance of the
most ""f'“’ Prince on earth. Butitis to bs
hoped this political mania will subside, and
America in commencing a new mra, will tes
tify to the world t4at virtue and alove of
country siill actuates the great dody g the A.
merican fpicople to perpetuate their Hberties:
NATHANIEL G. M. SENTER.
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Great Britain is fighting in Eutope m
her right band, and in A:l‘orlu Vhlpk’n
Do those who uniformly wish the success of
ner Europesn arm, expect its triumphs will
weaken her grasp on the American shores !
A correspandent of the Boston Gazette hes
writien &n essay to show that the Rwssian
Coasacks are fighting for American rights,a
wishes that Mr. Barlow might fal) inte tl:ij
hands and Le tren cd with thelr nenval riviliti®”
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