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1Author:  Cooper James Fenimore 1789-1851Add
 Title:  The Red Rover  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 
 Description: In submitting this hastily-composed and imperfect picture of a few scenes, peculiar to the profession, to your notice, dear Shubrick, I trust much more to your kind feelings than to any merit in the execution. Such as it may be, however, the book is offered as another tribute to the constant esteem and friendship of No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognize, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast. It would seem, at the first glance, that nature had expressly fashioned the spot to anticipate the wants and to realize the wishes of the mariner. Enjoying the four great requisites of a safe and commodious haven, a placed basin, an outer harbour, and a convenient roadstead, with a clear offing, Newport appeared, to the eyes of our European ancestors, designed to shelter fleets and to nurse a race of hardy and expert seamen. Though the latter anticipation has not been entirely disappointed, how little has reality answered to expectation in respect to the former! A successful rival has arisen, even in the immediate vicinity of this seeming favourite of nature, to defeat all the calculations of mercantile sagacity, and to add another to the thousand existing evidences “that the wisdom of man is foolishness.” “An accident has disabled the Master of the out “ward-bound ship called the `Royal Caroline!' Her “consignee is reluctant to intrust her to the officer “next in rank; but sail she must. I find she has “credit for her speed. If you have any credentials “of character and competency, profit by the occasion, “and earn the station you are finally destined to fill. “You have been named to some who are interested, “and you have been sought diligently. If this reach “you in season, be on the alert, and be decided. “Show no surprise at any co-operation you may un “expectedly meet. My agents are more numerous “than you had believed. The reason is obvious; “gold is yellow, though I am
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