Gazette Of The United States

Extracts from the Newport Herald.

The members of the Convention in opposition to the Constitution, met in North-Kingston on Sunday evening, and afterwards at South-Kingston, on Monday and Tuesday evening. At these nocturnal meetings, the adjournment was agreed upon, and the time fixed as was voted by the Convention. One powerful reason which operated at those meetings, to induce an adjournment of the Convention to so distant a period, was an expectation that the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, would create great uneasiness in the States in the Union, which would terminate in insurrections, and thereby would establish the anti-federal power in this State, and make it the centre of opposition.

From the conduct and conversation of many of the members of the majority in the convention, in and out of the House, we have reason to believe that it is their determination again to adjourn, and never to agree to an adoption, but upon the most urgent necessity.

In justice to the numerous spectators who attended the Convention we cannot but observe, that altho many of them were known to entertain an unfavorable opinion of the New Government, yet they conducted themselves with great decency, and from the attention which they gave to the debates, and what has since fallen from them, we are led to believe, that many of them are persuaded that they have been deceived, and were before unacquainted with the merits of the Constitution.