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THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Th: JEFFERSON,
Vice-Pref dent of tbe United States, and
PreJident of the Senate.
Approved—April 4, 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
PreJident of the United States.
CHAPTER XX.
An ACT to difebarge Robert Sturgeon,
from his imprifomnent.
BE it enacted by tbe Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of tbe United States of America, in
Congress afcmbled, That the keeper of the prif
on^ in Lewiftown, county of Mifflin, and Rate
of Pennsylvania, be, and he is hereby authori
zed and direded to release Robert Sturgeon
from imprisonment, on a process, in favor of the
United States, by virtue of which he is now im
prisoned : Provided, he obtains and - produces to
him, the laid keeper, a certificate from the
Secretary of the Treasury, that he the said Rob
ert has assigned and conveyed all his estate, re
al and perfdnal, in his possession, or to which
he is entitled, to feme person or persons, for the
life cf the United States, under the direction and
to the fatisfa&ion of the Secretary of the Trea
fury,which certificate (hall be fufficient authority
for the keeper of said prison to release said Robert,
so far as he is holden, by virtue of said process, in
favor of the United States.
And provided also, That the judgment obtain
ed, or to be obtained on said process, shall re
main in full force against any estate the said
Robert may hereafter acquire.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of tbe House of Representatives.
Th : JEFFERSON,
Vice-Pi evident of tbe United States, and
PreJident of tbe Senate.
Approved—April 5, 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
PreJident of tbe United States.
PROMOTION.
Major W. W. Burrpws to be Lt. Col, of
Marines.„ _____
Our Envoys travelled through France incognito, but
wherever tbe, mere difeovered, they mere received
and entertained with tbe mos entbujiaftic refpeA and
bofpitality,
Mr. "Sitgreaves has fofel, arrived in London,
on negotiations refpe&ing tbe Britijb treaty.
Laws of the Union.
Pub/yhed by Authority.
Sixth Confrefs of the United States,
At the firft session, begun and held at the city of
Philadelphia, in the date of Penufylvanh,
on Monday the 2d of December, 1799.
CHAPTER XIX.
An ACT to efablijb an uniform fiflew of
Bankruptcy throughout the United States.
[Concluded from our laft.]
Sec. A ND be it further enacted, That the lands
59. fl and effects of any perlon becoming
bankrupt may be fold on such credit, Pc on such
security, as a major part in value of the credi
tors may direct : Provided, nothing herein con
tained Shall be allowed so to operate, as to re
tard the granting the bankrupt's certificate.
Sec. 60. And be it further cnaßed, That if any
person becoming bankrupt, Shall be in prison, it
shall be lawful for any creditor or creditors, at
whose suit he or she shall be in execution, to
difeharge him or her from custody, or if such
creditor or creditors shall refufe to do so, the
prisoner may petition the commiflioners, to lib
erate him or her, & thereupon, if, in the opinion
of the commiflioners, the conduct of such bank
rupt shall have been fair, so as to entitle him or
her in their opinion, to a certificate, when by
law such certificate might be given, it shall be
lawful for them to direct the difeharge of such
prisoner, and to enter the fame in their books,
which being notified to the keeper of the gaol
in which such prisoner may be confined, shall
be a fufficient authority for his or her difeharge :
Provided, That in either case, such difeharge
shall be no bar to another execution, if a certifi
cate shall be refufed to such bankrupt : And
provided also, that it shall be no bar to a subse
quent imprisonment of such bankrupt by order
of the commiflioners, in conformity with the
provisions of this aft.o
Sec. 61. And be it further enabled, That this
acl shall not repeal or annul, or be continued to
repeal or annul the la& erf any state now in
force, or which may be hereafter enabled, for
the relief of insolvent debtors, except so far as
the fame may refped persons, who are, or may
be clearly within the purview of this aft, and
whose debts shall amount in the cases fpecified
in the second Section thereof to the sums therein
mentioned. And if any person within the pur
view of this act shall be imprisoned for the
space of three months for any debt, or upon any
contract, unless the creditors of such prisoner
shall proceed to prosecute a commission of bank
ruptcy against him or her, agreeably to the pro
visions of this act, such debtor may and shall be
entitled to relief, under any such laws for the re
lief of insolvent debtors, this aft notwithfland
i°g-
Sec. 62. And be it further enabled. That nothing
contained in this law shall, in any manner, effect
the, right of preference to prior fatisfa&ion of
debts due to the United States as Secured or
provided by any law heretofore passed, nor shall
be construed to lessen or impair any right to, or
fecurit, for, money due to the United States or
to any of them.
Sec. 63. And be it further enaßed, That no
thing contained in this a<ft Shall be taken, or
construed to invalidate, or impair any lien
cxifting at the date of this a&, upon the lands
or chattels of any person who may have be
come a bankrupt.
Sec. 64. And be it further enacted. That this
a& Shall continue in force during the term of
five years, and from thence to the end of the
next feffiou of Congress thereafter, and no
longer : Provided, that the expiration of this a&
shall not prevent the complete execution of any
commission which may have been previously
thereto issued.
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No. 125.
Embrace again, my four, be forr no more,
Nor fain your country with her childrens gore.
DRYDEN.
MY worthy friend Sir Roger, when we are
talking of the malice of parties, very fre
quently tells us an accident that happened
to him when he was a School-boy, which was
at a time when the feuds ran high between the
round-heads and cavaliers. This worthy knight,
being then but a Tripling, had occasion to in
quire which was the way to St. Anne's lane,upon
which the person whom he spoke to, instead of
answering his queftlon, called him a young po
pifh cur, and aSked him who had made Anne
a faint ? The boy, being in some confufion, in
quired of the next he met, which was the way
to Anne's lane ; but was called a prick-eared
cur for his pains, and instead ofbeing Shewn the
way, was told that she had been a faint before
he was born, and Would be one after he was
hanged. Upon this, fays Sir Roger, I did not
think fit to repeat the former question, but go
ing into every lane in the neighbourhood,
aiked what they called the name of that lane.
By which ingenious artifice, he found out the
place he inquired after, without giving offence
to any party. Sir Roger generally closes this
narrative with reflexions on the mifehief chat
parties do in the country ; how they spoil good
neighbourhood, and make honest gentlemen
hate one another ; befid, that they manifeftly
tend to the prejudice of the land-tax, and. the
destruction of the game.
There cannot a greater judgment befal a
country than such a dreadful spirit of division
as rends a government into two diftinX people,
& makes them greater strangers and more averse
to one another, than if they were actually two
different nations. The effects of such a divi
sion are pernicious to the last degree, not only
with regard to those advantages which they
give the common enemy, but to those private
evils which they produce in the heart of almost
every particular person. This influence is very
fatal both to men's morals and their understand
ings; it finks the virtue of a nation, and not
only so, but destroys even common sense.
A furious party-spirit, when it rages in its
full violence, exerts itfelf in civil war and blood
fned ; and when it is under its greatest restraints,
naturally breaks out in falfhood, detraction, ca
lumny, and a partial administration of justice.
In a word, it fills a nation with fplcen and ran
cour, and extinguishes all the feeds of good-na
ture, companion, and humanity.
Plutarch fays very finely, that a man Should
not allow himfelf to hate even his enemies, be
cause, fays he, if you indulge this passion in
fome'occafions, it will rife of itfelf in others ;
if you hate your enemies, you will contrast such
a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will
break out upon those who are your friends, or
those who are indifferent to you. I might here
observe how admirably this precept of morality,
which derives the malignity of hatred from the
passion itfelf, and not from its object, answers
to that great rule which was dictated to the
world about an hundred years before this philo^
fopher wrote ; but instead of that, I shall only
take notice, with a real grief of heart, that the
minds of many good men among us appear sour
ed with party-principles, aad alienated from
one another in such a manner as seems to me
altogether inconsistent with the dilates either
of reason or religion. Zeal for a public cause
is apt to breed passions in the hearts of virtu
ous persons, to which the regard of their own
private interest would never have betrayed them.
If this party-spirit has so ill an effect on our
morals, it has likewise a very great one upon
our judgements. We often hear a poor insip
id paper or pamphlet cried up, and sometimes
a noble piece depreciated, by those who are of
a different principle from the author. One who
is actuated by this spirit is almost under an inca
pacity of difeerning either real blemishes or
beauties. A man of merit in a different princi
ple's like an object seen in two different me
diums that appears crooked or broken, however
straight & entire it may be in itfelf. For this rea
son there is scarce a person of any figure in Eng
land, who does not go by two contrary charac
ters, as opposite to one another as light and
darkness. Knowledge and learning fuffer in a
particular manner from this Grange prejudice,
which at present prevails amongst all ranks and
degrees in the British nation. As men former
ly became eminent in learned societies by their
parts and acquisitions, they now diflinguifh
thtmfelves by the warmth and violence with
which they elpoufe their refpeCtive parties. —
Books are valued upon the like considerations;
an abufivc scurrilous fttle passes for satire, and
a dull Scheme of party-notions is called fine
writing.
There is one piece of sophistry pra^ifed
by both fidcs, and that is the talking any scan
dalous story that has been ever whispered or
invented of a private man, for a known un
doubted truth, and raising suitable speculations
upon it. Calumnies that have been never
proved, or have been often refuted, are the or
dinary poftulatums of these infamous scribblers,
upon which they proceed as upon firft princi
ples granted by all men, though ix their hearts
they know they are falfe, or at bel very doubt
ful. When they have laid these foundations of
fcuri ility,it is no wonder that their fuperftruc
turc is every way answerable to them. If this
fhamclefs practice of the present age endures
much longer, praise and reproach will cease to
be motives of action in good men.
There are certain periods of time in all go
vernments when this inhuman spirit prevails.—
Italy was long torn in pieces by the Guelfes and
Gibellines, and France by those who were for
and against the league : but it is very unhappy
for aman to be born in such a stormy and tem
peßuoui fcafon. If is the reftkfs ambition of
MR. PEIRCE,
PERHAPS you cannot better fill up a few
columns of your paper, than by publishing
No. 125 and part of No. 126 of the Spectator,
written by the celebrated Addison in the year
1711, he therein though dead, yet fpeaketh.
A. B.
For tee United States' ORACLE.
On Parties.
O^«D\^ «».•
artful men that thus breaks a people into fac
tions, and draws several well-meaning persons
to their interest by a specious concern for their
country. How many honest minds are filled
with uncharitable and barbarous notions, out
of their zeal for the public good ? What cruel
ties and outrages would they not commit a-1
gainft men of an adverse party, whom they
would honour andefteem, if instead of confider- :
ing them as they are represented, they knew I
them as they are ? Thus are persons of the
greatest probity seduced into Shameful errors;
and prejudices, and made bad men even by that I
noblest of principles, the love of their country. 4
1 cannot here forbear mentioning the famousj
Spanifli proverb," If there were neither fools !
*nor knaves in the world, all people would be
of one mind."
For my own part, I could heartily wish that|
all honest men would enter into an association, 1
for the support of one another against the en
deavours of those whom they ought to look up
on as their common enemies, whatsoever fide
they may belong ' to. Were there such an 4
honest body of neutral forces, we Should never ;
fee the word of men in great figures of lifc,be-1
cause they are ufeful to a party; nor the heft 1
unregarded, because they are above praXifing
those methods which would be grateful to their
faction. We Should then Single every criminal
out of the herd, and hunt him down, however,
formidable and overgrown he might appear :
on the contrary, we Should Shelter distressed in
nocence, and defend virtue, however beset with
contempt or ridicule, envy or defamation. In
Short, we Should not any longer regard our fel-|
low-fubjeds as Whigs or Tories, but Shouldl
make the man of merit our friend, and the
villain our enemy.
Part of No. 126.
I do not know whether I have observed in
any of my farmer papers, that my friend Sir
Roger de Coverley and Sir Andrew Freeport
are of different principles, the firft of them in
clined to the landed and the other to the moni
ed interest. This humour is so moderate in
each of them, that it proceeds no farther than
to an agreeable- raillery, which very often di
verts the rest of the club. 1 find however that
the knight is a much Stronger in th^coun
try than in town, which, as he has told me in
my ear, is absolutely necessary for the keeping
up his interest. In all our journey from Lon
don to his house we did not so much as bait
at a whig inn ; or if by chance the coach man
flopped at a wrong place, one of Sir Roger's
Servants would ride up to his mailer full speed,
and whisper to him that the matter of the house
was against such an one in the last election. —
This often betrayed us into hard beds and bad
cheer, for we were not so inquisitive about the
inn as the innkeeper ; and provided our land
lord's principles were found, did not take any
notice of the staleness of his provisions. This I
found Still the more inconvenient, because the
better the host was, the worse generally were his
accommodations ; the fellow knowing very well
that those who were his friends would take up
with coarfc diet and an hard lodging. For
these reasons, all the while I was upon the road
I dreaded entering into an house of any one'
that Sir Roger had applauded for an honest
man.
Among other instances of this nature, I muff
not omit one which concerns myfelf. Will
Wimble was the other day relating several
strange ftorics that he had picked up nobody
knows where, of a certain great man ; and up
on my staring at him, as one that was surpris
ed to here such things in the country, which
had never been so much as whispered in the
town, Will stopped short in the thread of his
difeourfe, and after dinner asked my friend
Sir Roger in his ear, if he was lure that I was
not a fanatic.
^3I t gives me a serious concern to fee such a
spirit of dffintion ; not only as it dejiroys virtue &
common sense, and renders us in a manner barba
rians towards one another, but as it perpetuates our
animojities, widens our breaches, and transmits our
present paffons and prejudices to our ptferity.—
For my own part, I am sometimes afraid that I
difeover tbe feeds of a civil war in these our divi
fons ; and therefore cannot but bewail, as in their
firft principles, tbe miseries and calamities of our
children. C.
War Depaitment,
March 12, 1800.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT feperate proposals will be received
at the office of the Secretary of the Depart
ment of War, until the expiration of the 25th of
July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations,
which may be required for the uf c of the United
States, from the lit day O&ober, 1800, to the
30th day of September, 1801, both days inclu
sive, at the places and within the two diftridts
herein after firft mentioned ; and also that se
parate proposals will be received at the said of
fice until tbe expiration of the 25th day of July
next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which
may be required as aforefaid, from the ift day
of Jantin the year 1801, to the 31st day of De
cember in the fame year, both days inclusive, at
the place and within the several states herein
after mentioned, viz.
FirG. Proposals to supply all rations, that may
be required, at Ofwego ; at Niagara; at Pittf
hurg ; at Prefqu'ifle ; at Michilirnackinac ; at
Fort Franklin ; at Le Boeuf ; at Cincinnati; at
^Picque town, and Loramie's (lores ; at Fort
Wayne ; at Fort Defiance , at any place below
Fort Defiance, on the Miami river to Lake
Since my Stay at Sir Roger's in the country,
I daily find more instances cf this narrow par
ty-humour. Being upon the bowling-green at
a neighbouring market-town the other day, for
that is the place where the gentlemen on one
fide meet once a week, I observed a Stranger
among them of a better presence and genteeler
behaviour than ordinary ; but was much sur
prised, that notwithstanding he was a very fair
better, nobody would take him up. But upon
inquiry I found, that he was one who had gi
ven a disagreeable vote in a former parliament,
for which reason there was nota man upon
that bowling-green who would have so much
correspondence with him as to win his money
of him.
Sixth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Norfolk, at Portsmouth, at
Kempfville, at Charlotteville, at Winchester, at
Staunton, at Richmond, at Alexandria, at Leef
burg, at Fredericksburg, at Carterfville, at Ha
per's Ferry, or at any other place or places
where troops are or may be Stationed, marched
or recruited, in the state of Virginia.
Seventh. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Fort M'Henry, at Baltimore,
at Annapolis, at Fredericli town, at Leonard
town, at Hagers town, at Bladenfburg, at George
town, at E-iftown, at the Head of Elk, and at
any other place or places, where troops arc or
may be Rationed, marched or recruited within
the limits of the Rate of Maryland.
Eighth. Proposals to Supply all rations that
may be required at Fort Mifflin, at Philadel
phia, at Darby, at Lancaster, at Wiikefbarre, at
Reading, at Bristol, at York town, at Carlifle,
at Lewiftuwn (Mifflin county) at Bedford, at
Gicenfburg, at Washington, at Eaftown, at
Wilmington, at Chriftidua, at Dover, or at any
other place or places where troops are or may
be Rationed, matched or recruited within the
limits of the Rates of Penrifylvania & Deleware,
except the posts within the state of Pennfyivania,
enumerated in the firft proposals aforefaid.
Ninth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Hackanfac^ at Elizabeth
town, at New-Brunswick, at Burlington, at
Woodbury, at Trenton, and at any other place
or places where troops are or may be Rationed,
marched or recruited within the limits of the
Slate of Jersey.
Tenth Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at New-York, at Weft Point,
at Flushing, at Hrerlem, at Weft Chester, at
Poughkeepsie, at Kenderhook, at Stillwater ac-
Newburg, at Albany, at Conajoharie, at Cherry
Valley, and at any other place or places where
troops are or may be Stationed, marched or re
cruited within the limits of the Rate of New-
York, except the posts within the said Rate en
umerated in the firft proposals aforefaid.
Eleventh. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Hartford, at Hebron, at
New London, at Brooklynn, at Wyndham, at
Litchfield, at Guilford, at New Haven, at Fair
field, at Danbury, at Middletown, and at any
other place or places where troops are or may
be Rationed, marched or recruited within the
limits of the Rate of Connecticut.
Twelfth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Fort Wolcott, at Brinton's
Point, at Newport, at Providence, and at any
place or places, where troops are or may be Ra
tioned, marched or recruited within the limits of
the Rate of Rhode Island.
Thirteenth. Proposals to supply allrations that
may be required at Portland in the Diftridt of
Maine. Glouceftcr, Cape Ann, Salem, Marble
head, Boston, at Springfield, at Uxbridge, and
at any other place or places where troops arc
or may be Rationed, marched or recruited with
in the limits of the Rate of Massachusetts.
Fourteenth. Proposals to supply all rations
that may be required at Portsmouth, at Exeter,
at Windsor, at Bennington, at Rutland, or at
any Fort, place or places, where troops are or
may be Rationed, marched or recruited within
the States of New Hampshire and Vermont.
The Ration to be supplied, is to consist of the
following articles, viz. Eighteen ounces of
bread or flower, ®r when neither can be obtain
ed, of one quart of rice,or one andahalf pound of
fifted or boulted indian meal, one pound and a
quarter of freih beef, or one pound of salted
beef; or three quarters of a pound of' salted
Pork, and when frefh meat is issued, salt, at the
rate of two quarts for every hundred rations ;
soap at the rate of four pounds, and candles at
the rate of a pound and a half for every hun
dred rations.
Erie ; at Tort Knox, and Ouatanon on the river
V abafli ; at Maffac; at any place or places on
the east fide of the river Mifliflippi, above the
mouth of the river Ohio, and upon the Illinois
aiver.
Second. Proposals to Supply all rations that
may be required, at any place or places, on the
cast fide of the Mifliflippi river,below the mouth
of the river Ohio, to the Southern boundary of the
Slate of Kentucky and within the said date ; at
Knoxville ; at all other polls and places within
the date of I enneffee; at Soutli Well Point ;at
1 ellico Blockhouse: at St. Stevens, or other fort
9 L .P°^ 011 the rivers Mobile or Tombigby, and
any place or places within the Cherokee boun
daries ; below the southern boundary of the state
of Tennessee, and within the boundary of the
United States.
Third. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required, at Point-Petre ; at Coleraine ;
at Savannah, and at any other place or places
where troops are or may be Rationed, marched
or reciuitcd within the state of Georgia ; at all
forts or Rations on the Oconnee and, Alatamaha,
andat all other places in the Creek Nation, within
the limits of the United States, where troops
are or may be Stationed.
Fourth, Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Fort Johnson, at Fort Pinck
ney, at Charleston, or at any other place or
places where troops are or may be Rationed,
marched or recruited in the State of S. Carolina.
Fifth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at the Fort at Wilmington,
Cape Fear; at Beacon Island, Ocracock ; at
Charlotte ; at Fayetteville ; at' Salisbury, or at
any other place or places where troops are or
may be stationed, marched or recruited in the
state of North Carolina.
It is expected the proposals will also extend to
the supply of rum, whilkey,or other ardent spir
its at the rate of half a gill per ration, and Vin
egar at the rate of two quarts for every hundred
rations. The proposals will fpecify the price of
the several component parts of the ration, as well
as those of substitutes or alternatives for parts
thereof.
The rations are to be furnifhed in such quan
tities as that there (hall at all times, during the
term of the proposed contrasts be fufficient for
the consumption of the troops at Michilimack
inac, Detroit, Niagara and Ofwego, for fix
months in advance, and at each of the other
posts on the weftern Waters, for at least three
months in advance, of good and wholcfome pro
visions, if the fame (hall be required. It is also
to be permitted to all and every of the command
ants of fortified places, or polls, to call for, at
Book, jaconet, flrip'd, check'd, bppet
and cambrick Mullins; Muffin Hand
kerchiefs ; men's Neckerchiefs ; tam
bor'd Mullin (haw 1s ; chintz, purple and
silk (bawls ; romal, cotton, linen, ban
dannoe, and black silk Handkerchiefs.
A large afotment of
Thread Laces and Edgings ;
black (ilk Laces ; black Modes ; black
and color'd Lullrings; black and color'd
Satins ; Tiffanies ; black and color'd
Crapes ; plain, net, and Rutland black
Gauzes ; black lace Veiling; Millinets;
Men's black Satin.
Men's and youth's white,
random, imperial and vandyke cotton
H>fe ; mens white and black silk ditto,
with laced clocks; men's brown cotton
ditto ; women's cotton and silk Hofei
with embroider'd clocks; women's black,
white and color'd (ilk Gloves and Mitts ;
women's white and color'd cotton Gloves
and Mitts; men's cotton anl worded
Caps ; warded Pantaloons ; Pantaloon
Hole ; men's beaver and wash-Leather
Gloves ; cotton and (ilk Slings ; Stock
Stiltners ; bed white Kid Gloves ; men's
and youth's black and color'd Hatts.
A large affirtment of
Black Morocco and fashiona
ble Kid Shoes ; a great variety of faille
ionable draw Bonnets; fafhionable black,
color'd and beaded Feathers ; spangled
and black Fans ; Parafoles ; Umbrellas;
cotton and filk'Girdles ; Glove ties ;
(ilk gown Trimming; Bugle and Chain
Trimming.
A great variety of
Satin, China & love Ribbons;
cotton and silk Purses; gold and silver
Cord ; gold and silver Thread ; gold and
silver Epaulets, some very elegant.
Fashionable Necklaces and
Ear-drops ; elegant Steel Shoe Orna
ments ; Shoe Roses ; gald and silver
Fringes ; Spangles ; Shirt Buttons ; —
Tooth Brushes ; Morocco Pocket Books.
Fashionable steel, gilt, plated,
Silvered and matthewman Buttons; Ital
ian ditto ; Button m>ulds; fleevc But
tons, polic'd Geel Knee Buckles ; Loc
kets ; silver Thimbles ; steel and gilt
Watch Chains, Seals and Keys; Pins.
White and color'd Threads ;
embroidering and common Sewing Silks;
Twill : Gillooms; cotton and (ilk Fer
rets; Bindings ; Tapes ; Bobbins ; tine
Linens; Britannas ; Brown Hollands ;
Checks ; green Table Coverings,
Tammies ; Durants ; Shal
loonY; Ruffcis ; Calimancoes ; Mo
reans ;,Tamborcens ; Florentines.
A large affirtment 0/ Ktddermmfter.
Carpets and Carpetings.
seasons when the-fame can be transported, or at
any time in case of urgency, such supplies of
like provisions in advance, as in the difc^etion
of the commandant Shall be deemed proper.—
It is to be understood that the contractor is to
be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies
to the troops, and at all losses, fuflained, by the
depredations of an enemy, or by means of the.
troops of the United States; Shall be paid for at
the price of the article captured or destroyed,
on the depofitionsof two or more persons of cred
itable characters and the certificate of a com
missioned officer, ascertaining the circumflances
of the loss, and the amount of the articles, for
which compensation Shall be claimed.
The privilege is to be understood to be re
Served to the United States of requiring, that
none of the supplies which may be furnished un
der any of the propsfed contracts Shall be ilfued,
until the supplies which have or may be fur
nilhed under contracts now in force have been
confumed,and that a supply in advance may be
always required at any of the fixed polls on the
Sea-board or Indian frontiers not exceeding
three months, fr,.t.%/v25.]
JAMES M'HENRY, &/, ts% r .
SnLim'r#^CTr~^ ~ I<..^. -^ .V Jr: CT b sAfco
NEWJ3OQDS.
Peter Coffin,
HAS JUST RECEIVED
per the Jhip Packet, front Liverpool, a
large and general afortment of
Fafhio table, Fancy and Staple
GOODS 9
Which are now opening for sale, by Whole
file and Retail.—Conffling of
Broad Cloths; Caf
iimeres ; a great variety of fafhion.
able Waistcoating ; Foftians; white and
color'd Jeans; cotton Denims ; Seinetts;
cotton and Silk Nmkeenets ; Thickfetts;
Velvets ; Velveteens ; color'd worsted
and silk Plush; Silk V Ivets for Capes.
A la sge afortment of
Calicoes and Chintzes of the
latest fafhion; new fancy laced Prints ;
elegant Cirntz and Gingham Furniture ;
a great variety of falhionablo, plain, Strip
ed and check'd Ginghams ; fa fliionable
printed Muslins; striped and figured Mul
lincts ; Dimities; fine cotton Shirtings:
Cambricks; Counterpanes ; Tabie Cloths
of all sizes.
WASHINGTON'S l^cr.