nell, Nicholas Geffroy, W. Nichols, and Thomas Arnold were manufacturers of jewelry and silver plate. The latter gentleman rendered himself somewhat obnoxious to the rigid sectarians of the day, by too strong an attachment to Mr. Murray, the great Universalist preacher. Notwithstanding this predilection, Mr. Arnold was one of the most reliable of men in his branch (that of silversmith); and I have a sample of his spoons, which have been in wear for fourscore years, unique in their shape, but of the purest metal. Chaffee & Lyon were dealers in brass castings, &c. Sailmaking was carried on very extensively by Mr. Spooner. He did a vast amount of work for Gibbs & Channing. I recollect the partial destruction, by a dog belonging to Mr. Spooner, of the record-book of receipts of duck and delivery of sails, from and to Gibbs & Channing; which event, for a time, threatened a legal suit between the parties, but was happily compromised. The saddlery business was under the control of Mr. D. Williams.

CHAPTER X.

BUSINESS MEN.

"The good trader is he who wrongs not the buyer in number, weight, or measure. These are the landmarks of all trading, which must not be removed; for such fraud were worse than open felony."

IT may be a gratification to the few surviving

friends who were brought up with me, and to their relatives, to read the names of the principal store and shop keepers, whose places of business were either on the wharves, or in Thames Street; viz., Simeon Martin, Bowen & Ennis, Earl & Allston, Christopher Fowler, Stephen Cahoone, Lopez Dexter & Miles, John Coggeshall, Christopher Rhodes, Gilbert Chase, J. & S. Whitehorne, Saunders Malbone, Mein & Rogers, Samuel Brown, John L. Boss, William Engs, Daniel Sheldon, Nicholas Geffroy, David Thacher, William Langley, Henry Bull, James Taylor, Jabez Dennison, P. O. Richmond, Peter P. Remington, Charles Gyles, S. Ambrose, Thomas Bush, Peter Bours, Luke Bours, Greene

& Tillinghast, Caleb Greene, Benjamin Hadwin, Thomas Hornsby, Chaffee, Peter Kane, Jacob Richardson, Stephen Gould, William Miller, David Wilder, Henry Moore, William Moore, Thomas Mumford, Clarke Cook, Silas Dean, Job Sherman, Nathaniel Sweet, Harvey Sessions, Isaac Gould, Daniel Vaughn, Valentine Whitman, John Barbour, Dockeray, J. & S.

Townsend, and Charles Feke.

Until the enactment of the embargo, under President Madison, no place of the size of Newport, on the seaboard, was more distinguished for commercial activity than "little Rhody." After the removal of the embargo, there was a slight re-action, but nothing to indicate the previous prosperity; and finally, when the few remaining capitalists withdrew from business pursuits, the town subsided into comparative inaction. Subsequently, a move was made in furtherance of the whale-fishery. This, however, failed to be productive, and was abandoned.

CHAPTER XI.

THER

MARKETS.

HERE were only two public places appointed for the sale and purchase of provisions, when I was a boy; viz., that on Ferry Wharf, a one-story building, now turned into a police station. By provisions, I mean every description of meat, poultry, game; fish of all kinds; and pure white corn-meal, peculiar to the island. I ought to say a word more about the fish market. Accounts have been sent from Havana, more or less exaggerated, of the surpassing excellence of the fish for sale in that city; but I will venture to affirm, that, in quality, freshness, and variety, no fish market could have excelled that at Newport. There are those living who will testify to the rich banquet provided by our old friend, Thomas Townsend, whose selection of tautog for broiling, bass for boiling, and perch for frying, was always of the

best. Besides, Newport held the monopoly of the turtle trade. Our vessels were actively employed in bringing from Nassau, and neighboring ports, fruits and turtle. Soup, that was soup, could be had, of the most delicious flavor. The turtle was of the green species, and of peculiar richness. It required, however, a Rhode-Island colored cook to manufacture from it a soup that would satisfy the taste of the lovers of good living of that day. Before the wooden bridge was swept out to sea, which connected the island with Tiverton, nothing was more common, after the arrival of live turtle, than for the "lords of creation" at that day to arrange for a turtle-soup dinner at the bridge: the dinner of course included game, common to the island, and the best of wines from Madeira and Cadiz. I am not stating this luxurious mode of living as commendable, but in order that the similarity of the habits of the past and present may be duly noted by the reader. I must say a word about the fruit which was cultivated on the island and in the town. The greening apple was the great staple, whether for the production of cider or for house use,