Rhode Island Republican

NEWPORT,
Thursday, Oct. 24, 1805.

Owing to several accidents uninteresting to the public, the delay of the publication of this paper until to-day has been unavoidable.

TO THE PUBLIC.

HAVING undertaken the business of editing this paper, perhaps it may be of some consequence to its present patrons, and those who may hereafter become its subscribers, to be informed of the plan upon which it will in future be conducted, the cause to which it will be devoted, and the political principles by which it will be regulated. To furnish them with this necessary information is the object of the present address.

The plan upon which this paper will in future be conducted, is liberal and independent. The editor will uniformly be governed by the suggestions of his own judgment, and the deliberate and candid advice of his friends: He will not be controlled by a few interested and domineering patrons.--Sensible of the bad consequences which have arisen from a too free circulation of slanderous reports through the medium of newspapers, concerning the private characters of public men, and candidates for public offices, he is determined to do every thing in his power, to check, and if possible destroy, this great and public evil, as far as it relates to his own paper. And in order to carry his design in this particular into complete execution, he takes this opportunity of giving as public notice as the present circulation of his paper will permit, that if any person shall hereafter think himself injured, in consequence of any accusation, insinuation or allusion, which this paper may contain against him, he shall in that case have the liberty of answering the charges of his accusers, through the same medium thro' which they were at first conveyed to the public ear.

The cause to which this paper will in future be devoted, considered in a general point of view, is nothing less than the cause of man; but considered with regard to the politics of this Country only, it may with more propriety be styled the cause of Republicanism.

The reader has undoubtedly by this time anticipated the political principles by which this paper will in future be regulated. I will therefore only observe, that if any person be desirous of becoming thoroughly acquainted with the nature and tendency of those principles, there is no way in which he can gratify his wishes in that particular, in so easy and effectual a manner, as by reflecting upon the principles recognized in our national Constitution, and the political regulations therein contained. He will there find a much more correct list of the political principles, by which, the editor in conducting this paper will be uniformly governed, than could be contained in a political creed of several columns.

N. BISBEE, Jun.