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