The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. — Washington City [D.C.], 1801-01-19 00:00:00, page 4

ALTHOUGH 1 was among the num
be jf thofe who concurred ruoft.cordialiy
in the pro>ofal for eredting a monument to
the nemory of the late Gen. Wafhington,
Aid at firft faw no other objection to the
in tufoleum which was propofed by the
committee, thin the incalculable expence
wr.h which fach a monument be
aztended, in a country where fuoh edifices
have as yet been unknown ; yet I confei's
that a finale expreffion which lately fell
ft »;a a member of Gongrefs in the debate
o i that fubjeel, has given a very different
turi to my ientiments refpefttng the beft
jm eof tranf.n tting to pollerity-.he
fil ml affectionate tribute which all are
Cicerely difpofed to pay to that illuflrious
chara&er. This has led me to fome re
fj-ftions on tlie fubjeft of monuments,
which may ferve to illuitrate my reafons
for preferring that mode which I am now
*bout to propofe.
The moft ftupendous monument attempt-!
Ed to be erected by man, is that of which)
0o trace nmw remains but in the records of
the Scriptures—l mean the Tower of
Babel, intended as a monument to com
memorate the event of the univerfal de
lude, and vainly defigned as a place of re
from A 1 nighty wrath, Ihoald it again
manfeft itfelf towards mankind in a fimi
lar i ode. Although this monument may
b- fumed to have furpafled the pyramids
#f vot in magnitude, «s much as thefe
do \ie of the propofed mauloleum, no!
tell: 3 e now remains of it that is known to
m .n ; and had »ot letters preferred the
of it, the world would have been
as ignorant of it as it is of the name of
Jb. n by whom fuch a wondenfui fabric was
pror*- r-d, or :d.
The pyramids of Egypt claim our notice
In .tie f cotvd pl ce ; they remain, but the
Barnes of their founders, and of thofe to
w'.iofe memory they were ere&ed, have for
age* been buried in oblivion, as perfectly
4ts if their bones had been depotited in the
Confufed mafs »f an Indian barrow.
Mofes, the oldift and greateft legiflator
find founder of a nation chat the world has'
ever kn wn, died and was buried, no man
knov/*th where, without any fepulchre or
monument. Had the Ifraelites teft.fied
th ir devotion to his memory in that wode,
the place would prabably be as littl know
as the fcite of the Power of Babel.—
When the prophet 3fdras collected the
boo.es of the he thereby ere X
e J .i monument to him, which will eniure
fo long as letters fhall be known amongft;
m n.
T • ofalms of David «nd the books of
the vifdom of Solomon, have furvived the
city lad fenluchre of the kings of Judah,
A id the temple therein, near twa thoufand
y i«, and will probably furvive them as
much longer. Such has been the fate of
the greatefl attempts to perpetuate the
memory of men and their adtions, by
tneans of fepulchr J monuments.
When Lycurgus travelled : nto Afia
M no-, and there collected ani tranferibed
the poems of Home,-, he erected a monu
ment to his memory, which grows with
ages, and with the progrefs of civilitation
and tafte among mankind.
A celebrated flattury propofed to Alex
ander the Great -o cut a ftatue of him out
of a m umtain, holding in one hand a river,
and in the other a city. Could Alexander
have feen this monument (in comparifon of
■which the prcnofed mauloleum would be
but as a dirt-dauber n»ft under the cor
nice of the tap tol) fini/hed as highly as
Phidias could have made a ftatue
of the ordinary fize, of marble, would he
not willingly have exchanged it for a faith-
All memorial of his exploits and vaft de
figns, recorded by the pen of a Xenophon,
or blazoned by that of an Homer ?
When Julius Caefar was compelled to
fa e his Lie n Egypt, by fwimrmngto his
fh-ps, he held his commentaries in one of
ins hands, carefully prefcrving them from
injury, by extending his arm above th.
Water. Caefar by that aftion demonftra
ted, that if he could have looked forw i
to his day, he would have been better
alea'ed to find thofe commentaries th -
achool-boyt guide, and the manual o:
generals and ftatefmen throughout the ci
vitized world, than to have found all th»
ftatues erefted to him throughout the Ro
man empire remaining unimpaired by time,
accident, or Gothic barbarifm.
To come nearer to our own times—.Had
France ere&ed a monument to the memary
©f Henry the Fourth, equal in magnifi
cence to the Louvre, or Verfailles, woul<
fuch an ! See h "e infpired pofterity w tl-,
% far km jni w«nts, o»
•Q i i 'ie StAUSQL .(Jlvl oropased to be ercct•
ed to the memory if General IVash
jxg ros.
r<tß TRE ViTtoVAL TWfRLLTCEHCP.tt,
conveyed an idea of the gratitude, <»ffec-!
tion and grief of the nation for their lofs,i
• equal to that which has been transmitted
• to them in the memoirs of his faithful and
illuflrious friend and m nifter, Sully? Such
s the train of reflections produced by that
■ admirable obfervation of iv!r. Macon,
' " that if we wifh to demonft'ate our af--
i feclion and gratitude to the name ©f Wafh
i iugton, we fhould make his life a fchool
book for our chddren." The moft labour
ed panegyric from the -lips of a Tully or
a Demofthenes, could not have conveyed
a more exalted eulogium to my appre
henfion. '
Purfuing this excellent hint, I would I
wifli that it might be propofed in Congrefs !
to appropriate the fura of two hundred 1
thoufand dollars (or more if neceflary) to 1
the purpofes of purchaling, printing and
publifhing, at the expence of the Union, 1
all the memoirs, journals, plans, commu- i
nications, letters and correfpondence of a ;
public nature, which were left by the late >
General Wafhington : That a fuperb edi- '
tion of one or two thoufand copies be dif- }
tributed and depofited in every public li- ! 1
brary in the United States, in Europe, :
'and every other part of the civilized world: <
That a lefs collly edition of one hundred l , i
thoufand copies be likewife printed at the i
common expence, and diflributed among ;
the feveral ftatcs of the Union, in propor-l
tion to the cenfus ; and that no monopolyjt
of the copy-right be ever admitted in the i
United States. ji
This would, I conceive, be a monument. <
tyuod nec J avis ira, nec Ignis, ji
" Nec fioterit Ferrunt, nec edax abolere 1
Vctustas."
A DI3TAXT SUasCRIBER. i
Review af the present State of France^jt
(Published by order of the Chief Consul 1
on the 22d of November.)
This interefting Paper fets forth in
forcible language the weaknefs of the
Government, previous to the Bth year of
the Republic ; the Weftern Departments,
it fays, were defolated by inteftinc broils, '
there was no energy in the {late ; the P -
lice was without power, the Tribunals
were without a&ivity, the public coffers
in the utmoit dii'order; the Citizen was
taxed beyond meafure, and ftill the in
come of the nation did not anfwer the de- \
mands made upon it; the armies of Auf. "
t a from the Alps .ind the Appeiln.nes
threatened Liguria and France ; the ncu.
t-*il flag was banifhed from the feas, '
hroj h ♦he terror of the then exifting
laws ; America, who owed her indepen
dence to France, was taking up arms a-
her ic >vas under thefe circunftances
tha' the c.'ghth year commenced. Peace.
;was the firft obj % the m' ft cherifhed
wifh of the nitio, two letters, written
by the Firft Confui to the Emperor of
Germany, and to the Kinnf of England,
explained to them (w.thout weaknefs but
without duplicity) the defire of the French
peoph and thr wifh < f Humani y.
This wifh (cont nucs the State Paper)
was rej»dted by the Miniftcrs of Auftria
and of Great Britain ; the Cabinet of Vi
enna blended fome hopes with its refu
fyl ; the Cabinet of London firft mingled
ill-nature and reproaches with its corref
?ondence, and foon alter it« public dif
cufions, in confequenc of the propofals
made by France, became illiberal and
abufive.
Ttu Britifh Miniftry (this Paper ftates)
gained nothing by the acrimony of its
lanyuaye; the French People law that
their Firft Magiftrate was fincere in his
profeflions to obtain peacc, and their in
dignation was roufed againft the enemy
that refufed to accede o his honeft pro
fals; in fine, they felt that they had
nothing to expett, but from their efforts
and their courage; hence our fplendid
fuccefs ; Jience our important victories ; \
hence, perhaps in the hearts of Englifh- <
men, a feniiment of jufV.ce for a people 1
who, after fo many exploits, furh a har- '
veft of glory, breathed only for Peace,
?nd in ♦he hearts of other nations a re- ,
turn of good wifhes for the independence j
of France, and for her liberty. ']
The p«prr before us then proceeds to 1
ftat« the fitiiatior. of the Departments, 1
he capture of Malta, the meafures which
Government is adopting for the eftablifh
ment of hofpitals and alms-houfes, for
♦he perfection of Manufa&ures, the en
couragement of the arts and fciences, &c.
—It concludes as follows:
A Convention, founded upon common
n'erefts and the mofl perfeft reciprocity,
HI renew the ties by which the States
■f America were bound to France. Theft
ie« fhall lafl for ever, becaufe there ic
to unequal condition to alter their force
nd purify. The French nation does not
VH-e any exclufive privilege, nor partial
uvour. She merely demands from the
(nations in fri-ndfhip with bw, the rights'
<>f eqahty ; that no natior be ir,ore ia
voured than herfelf, and that Hit* he l it-11;
be not favoured more than others natidn.
Such are the pretenfions and interelt of
all States which may contratt engagements
with her.
All nations who are fenfible of their
rights will rally around theft principles.
The North will take off the tyranny
which oppteflca its commerce and its
feas. It will feel that our interefts are
the interefts of the human race. Rufha,
in particular, "will remember what is due
to her dicrnity and the ancient relations
by which (he was united with Fiance.
She knows that France is a necefTary coun- (
terpoife in the maritime balance of the
world. '
The Government had offered peace ■
before the opening of th<* campaign. It '
made that offer on the field of battle, ,
and in the bofom of viftory. It offered
a peace worthy of the grandeur, but alln ]
worthy of the moderation of the French
people, and on conditions which fiiould
have guaranteed to us both its acceptance
and its {lability. On the flighted hope
of drawing near to fo deftrable an epoch,
jit fufpended thofc fucceffes which enfu
red the pofition of our armies and the
ardour of our warriors.
If we do not yet enjoy it, we have
|to accufc ordv that Power, which, unaf
;fefted by the difafters of the Continent,
lis anxious only to cement, with the blood
of nations, its empire over the I'cus
land its monopoly in every part of the
world.
To conclude, an Auftnan negociatoi
is now at Luneville ; a man who meriti.
the efteem of Europe. If he poffefles <
the perfeft confidence of the Sovereign <
who has fent him, he will difplay tha'j 1
jfranknefs which the French Government j
!has a right to expedf from its own frank- (
nefs, and which is proniiftd by his per- ,
fonal charad>er. i
Auftria will ceafe to facrifice the re-«
pofe and intereft of the Continent to the 1
ambition of the defpotsof the feas.
Yet, in theprefent uncertainty, prudence ]
prefcribes to France not to permit h- r-.
felf to be amufed by an empty (hew of
negociation. She will fupport her pro- 1
pofitions with ail the forcc of her '
arms.
The conduct of the Government has
(hewn, that it has not carried to too ,
great a height the pretentions of the Re- ,
public ; nor facrificed to the madnels oi
ambition the interefts of humanity. The 1
crimes of the war will all fall upon thole J
who are the real authors of them ; -
on thofe governments which are f > weak j
and fo blinded as to become ful.ferv.ent
to the mercantile defigns of a fingle na
tion, and to fell to its gold and its in
trigues the blood and the induftry of '
the nations who obey them, and the free
dom of the feas, which is the property
of the whole human racce.
*
FOR SAU.
r T , HE Subfcriber will fell at private fale, two
A Three ftory Brick Houles, adjoining cad
other, 28 feet front each, by forty feet deep, cti
Capitoi Hill, Lot No 6 Fq. 0 6—a fine com
modious'ot 61 feet 'rout. by 196 feet deep, run ,
ning back to an lley 30 feet wifJe, a> d may he
occupied as ore or two tenements, th< y arc firiftied;
in a plain, but fubOantial " anner, and buitt oil
the belt materials—a credit of three, fix and
nine monti , on giving approved notes, nego- j
tiable at the bank of Columbia, < r Baltimore j
—apply to Daniel Carrol, or in Baltimore to
HENRY H. CARR LL
Waftiingtan, Jan 5 1801.
. bar ah M^Karaher,
Mantua Maker and
RETURNS her thanks for the encou
ragement (he has met with from the Ladies
if this city, and informs them Ihe has re
moved to the houfe of Mr. De France,
within one door of Mr. Smith's Printing-
Office. She will either attend Ladies at
their own honfes, c t;.ke in Mantua-
Making, or Plain Sewing.
City of Washington, J un. 16, I
THi* SUBSCRIBER ij
BEGS leave to inform the Public in genera!. J
that he has opened a Beef fteak and Oyfter
Hon ft. on Capitol Hill, Ciry of WafhingtoH, in
the Houfe lately occupied br Brown and Snow
den a* a Printing Office, a fn;all diUance lrom
the (. apitol, where Gent'emen may be accommo
dated at any hour in the day or Evening, with
Beef flakes, Oyftem, Sawfage* tcc. at the horteft
notice and on the moft reafor.able terms Like
wife the Subfcriber has takt n particular pa ns to
lay in a flock of Good Liquor*, and flatters ,
himfelf that by paying ftri& attention •to the
h»finefs to Merit the favour oi the Public in (
General.
WI \LIAM TONKIN.
December 48. fept.
M c nt.ua-Making.
• MRS. DEMPSEY,
FROM "NEiy-TORK,
"DKGS leave to inf' l-ni the Ladies and
r -*- i) Public in general, that (he has com
menced bulinefs in the Cityf 011 the New
' Jerfcy Avenue, five doors from Mr. Smith's,
,j Printing-Office, where Ihe makes Ladles'
' Drefs on the Ihortell lioticc, and of the
ucweft falhioM.
' January 16, 1801. 2w
CHEAP LUMBER.
FOR SALE,
By the Subfcriber, on reafonable term*, either by
large or i'mall quantities,at his Lumber Yards,
the north end of Lamberton, ami at the olid
Sturgeon x ond, above Richards'* wharf,
A qUANTJFY jT
ASSORTED LUMBER, viz.
One and 1-4 inch, 1 1-8, and 1 do. Yellow
pine he;irt boards—l inch pannel, I 1-4 do. for
floors, 1 co. common, white pine do—a do.
7. 1 4 and 4 1-2 do planks, 1 do. 5-8, and
2-8 do. boards, black walnut—2 do. plai.lt, 3
do. 1-a do. pannel board*, bcd Dead fetts poplar
the whole of the above arc well I afoi.cd an«f
fit for ul'e ] — r lear heart pint, and fap pint*
white oak, and bilftead, hemlock ami white pine
fcanrling, aflorted—beft ltind three feet cedar
Ihingles, drelTcd and undrtiT.d, do two -feet
white pine do. ; do. 18 inch cyprefs do~ctdar
rails—A'fo, white pine fawed rails—fhirgnng
* r "' ptaiftering laths, beft kind ; white oak waggon
timber—lap p;»e planks fap pine one inch boards,
3 4 cedar, b«lt k.ad, 3-4 white pint, 3-4 lap
pine, fe lolled weather boards—A quantity of
handfcH;* chefnut pailings, fawed I by 3 incht»
«.nd from 4 to 16 teet long, for garden fence, &.c.
A quantity of ch''liiut oak polls, dreflea anJ
undicfTcd ; a quantity of cherry boards, a quantity
of large white oak joice, a quant-'y ol chefnut
polls—soCO leet of neat beach lording for tool
ftocki—sooo lect of ftckamore Icantling for
' edfteads ; 2 inch white oak plant ; 1 inch wKta
' oak boards, 3 4 do. do. d 0.—25,000 feet luperior
cherry board* and plank, 3,000 do vei y clear
2 inch white pine plank, 3,000 do. handfome
be. ton wood bed (lead ktts f> af'oned, 100,000
prime North Carolina Ihinglcs, a quantity of alh
plank, 150 tons pl&iftei Pans, warranted, 3.000
buflv 1.-, 1 « It Virginia pit coal, 200 bufhe'l# clean
houfe faiid.
he lubferibfr intends, cftnblifh'ng a Lumber
Y .rd at the Federal City of Waffling' 011, which
he will k ep regularly fupplied as above—.Any
quantifies may be agreed for by contract, dc'ivc
rah'e,as the wifh. provided that the
piice of d;liv.ry may be comc<>tahle by w ,'er
with a nav.gaM. vcflel— Any quantity that may
be ordered for (hippn.g abroad, fhall be fuppiisd
with pundu lity and difpatch, agreeable to
o-d r
G tlemen who are or r.~.ny be building— as
well as carpenters who miy ,e under 01 may
enter int<> contracts to bu.ld and 'furt Hi t e
.materials, will find it v eil w rth the.rai-tr a
'o apply as above—Applic; lion? may be 1 .e
Iby tatter (port pai !) or oth<rwif« to the 1 -
fcribtr or left with Vm. a - d 1 7 P/f.
(Buckley, or Benj. W Morris and "o. men... ants,
. Philadelphia
aI -> fir Sale or to Let.
jj A large con-niodiou" Dwelling iLufe, w>th
!out building# c< mplefe, _nd from three to Lvcn
jai»e* o. land—l so fniall do. with lots thereto.
' Alf a fmall Store near the river laying in
the village of Lamberton
NA 1 HAN COMBS
N. B A Screw Jack to let, th .t raifes from
lot 40 tons by haou—a conftant lupply of
(plaifter and Smith's Virginia coal.
Lamberton, New Jerfcy, (on Del )
r January 13, 1801. twtf.
LOTS FOR SALE,
In the City of Washington.
THE SUBSCRIBER offers for Sale a nurtv
ler of valuable Lot* beautifully fituated
between the Capitol and the Eaftern Branch.
Alfo a itW I ots to be let on leafe for ninety
nine year* in the vicinity of the Na«y yard.
WILLIAM PROUt.
City of Walhington. December 12, 1800. tf
N B. A few Ton* of good Meadow Hay, one
jKiln«f Bricks, and fomc Cord Wood.
W. P.
Jor Sale.
TWO NEAT GIGS.
Alfo a fuperior carriage Horfe.
Apply at Conrad and M'Mun's.
January 14, 1800. 36
CABINET and CHAIR MANUFAC
TORY.
WII SON avd HANDY,
]T T AVE commenccd the above buncf#
J I at their fliop on New Jurfey Avtnuc
between the Epifcopal church ami Sug-ir
Houfe. As they are confident from the ex
perience they have had in the principal {hops
ill Furope and America, that thoy flia'i be ; ble
to give general latisfa&ion to thofe who will
plf afe to tavou • them with their cuftom. 1 hey
have on hands, viz.
Secretary !)■ (ks,
Portable Writing Desks,
Duffing Chells,
Card / aMes, &c.
V P Orders from country or city thankful
'ly ' 'aithfuliy esccutid.
| Jjtwtniber $9.