Rhode-Island American, Volume XIV, Number 90, Tuesday, August 13, 1822, published on Tuesday and Friday by William G. Goddard, Editor and Proprietor, at Providence, RI — measures: 27 1/4" x 21" — 4 pages.
Contents:
- Notices - Steamboats, Rhode Island Coal Company
- poem: Reminiscence, by James Montgomery
- The World in Contrast with Religion
- From a London Paper : Prussian naturalist, M. Schweiger, killed by a strike on the head with a cudgel
- From the Columbian Centinel : The existence of Mermaids and Mermen
- From the Christian Observer : The Reverend J. W. Fletcher
- Sketches of Scenery, Manners, Customs, &c. in Spain : A visit to Chiclana at the Festival of St. John
- John Quincy Adams vs. Jonathan Russell - Ghent
- Foreign : Latest From Europe
- House of Commons called for abolition of the slave trade
- Town of Uleaborg, Finland, destroyed by fire
- Irish papers continue to present the heart rending descriptions of want and misery of the peasantry
- Constantinople : Cruelties in Scio - all are massacred by the Turks
- Mail Articles:
- China : Differences which have existed between the Chinese Government and the British inters have been amicably settled
- South America : Quiet on both sides of La Plata
- Brazil : Deputies arrive from Peruambuco to recognize the Prince Regent as supreme in the government
- Benjamin Van Loon of Catskill, aboard a steam-boat, fell into its engine, and was mangled to death
- By the Steam-Boat:
- Considerable alarms continued to be felt respecting the fever, ascertained to be malignant
- Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, of the British Navy arrived here, will proceed to Boston
- The Hon Ezekiel Whitman, late member of Congress, nominated a candidate for Governor of Maine
- Hon. Jonathan Russell head to New York to prepare for his lawsuit with Seth Hunt
- English Papers:
- The Turks refuse to evacuate Moldavia and Wallachia
- British Ministry interrogated in Parliament - barbarous proceedings of the Turkish government
- Gen. Gascoyne objects to resolution for granting employment to the poor in Ireland
- His Majesty will not proceed to Scotland this summer, nor visit the Continent
- Princess Olive in the Prerogative Court, regarding the Will of his late Majesty
- 240,000 hands, chiefly children, are employed in the spinning of cotton thread
- 100 perished in flames inside their church, in the parish of Grue, Hedemark, Norway
- French papers tell of the destructive effects 3-7 pound hailstones in the late storm
- Arrival of the U.S. frigate Macedonian, Captain Biddle, has arrived in Hampton Roads
- Married:
- George W. Wilmarth to Ruth Webber
- Rev. Timothy Alden to Miss Mulcock - daughter of the late George Mulcock
- Died:
- Fanny Washburn - age 20 months
- Mrs. Isaac Arnold [Ruth Arnold] - age 80
- Deacon Kent Brown - age 57
- Nathaniel Chaffee - age 87
- Mrs. Moses Guild [Abigail Guild] - age 62
- Debee Ann Hudson - age 19
- Marshal Ames White - son of Captain James White - age 6
- John H. Rutledge - no age given
- John Bray (comedian) - no age given
- Miniature Almanack
- Marine Intelligence
- Notices, ads