The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser — Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.], 1797-03-16 00:00:00, page 1

The Potomak Guardian,® Berkeley Advertiser*
i
y0Li 7.] ? H U R S D A Y, March 16, 1797. « [No. 3323
Franklin.
£3" WHIR! LIBERTY DWELL*, THERE II MY COUNTRY.
[Open and uninfluenced.}
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250 Acres of LandJor fale.
To be fold at Public Sale, at the Gourt-Haufe in
H,1 gee's-Town,Mury 1 and,on ihe 15'h of Apr,1 next,
rg ’■WO hundred and fifty acres of Land, king on
J Back-Creek, Jo miles above William/ Port,
in Virginia ,* there are ahoi” 10 acres ot cleared
Lod, with a tolerable goo lioule and (<■ e tra
bleir.g ,• a great p-rr may >e m He 'nto ,,-adow
g.ouud, with tome apple and ch rry trees thereon,
the laud is wcil timbered with aluioft all kind of
timber.
Ar the fame time there will be fold, Three Lots
in the Federal City of Walhington. George-Town,
viz. L-t No. m, in Iquare 79—No. 4, in Iquare
J2o—and No. 11, in t'q are 12Z.
"t he terms will be m^dt known at the day of fale,
by JACOB RENCH. 1
J OH N S(' H N A VELY, > Executors
JACOB ZELLER. J
March 9*
TO BE SOLD,
ATwo-ftory Home, with a lot and half of ex
cel lent gtouud, wnh a number of fruit trees
in a healthy and plenfant filiation in Burke-S:
The houte contains fix room4-, an excellent cellar,
fiabie, and a good lione finoak-houle. By paying
a parr of the purchale money in hand, the reft wili
bv taken in five annual payments. Pofseilion may
b* had thefirit day or April nexc, and an indil’pura
ble title made the purthai'er. Apply to the lub
isu iber, oa the prtn^ifes.
WILLIAM ARMSTRONG.
March 9.
Commiffinners appointed by the Counry
C .urt of B-rkcley, for the purp.ue of pur
chding land and contracting for the building the
necefsary boufeS for the recept ion ot the poor of the
tkid County,
GIVE THIS PUBLIC NOTICE, tfcat Pii TtiuH
day the 25 i ot this iimam, (at 12 o'clock if Fair, it
rot the next fair * ay) on the pmnifes purchasedfor
ti.it purpoie, near Mr. Jofeph Minghinni’c, at the
Suipiier bpring, they wdl offer to contract with
the lowr.it bidder, the builbinj* and completing
TWO HOUSES for their reception, which will be
then and there mere particulaily deferibed.
'I he contractor, or toi'ractcrs, mu ft find ev^ry
jiecetsar'y article for the completing the fa id build
ings, and enter into bond with h.If*, lent fecurity,
for the fimihitig the lame, 011 or before the firIc day
©f October next.
March 9.
TO BE SOLD,
A Tract of LAND, lying ou ihe Poromak Ri
ver, one and half mile btlo'v Shepherd's
To'.vn, containing i!2 acres, well improved ; on
laid land there is a good ftjuare log-houfe, 24 by ig,
and a good kitchen adjoining the henfe, good barn
and other out-houies convenient ; there are about
80 acres cleared and under good fence, a conftant
Ipring neat the hou e ,* there are about id acres of
bortotn, tnoft of it in good timothy meadow ,• two
bearing orchards of apple trees, bath containing go
trees, befides a number of young trees, and as ma
ny peach trecS that bear ; there 13 luppofed by
good judges to be as good a mill feat as any in the
county, and a plenty of water by taking it out 61
the river; there are 8 feet id inches fall, in about
So poles, and can be taken out into the race very
e-ny. Any perlon inclining to purebafe faid land,
tu.iy know rhe terms, by applying to the iublcriber,
living on the premilcs.
John barnes.
LcrltUy County, March 3.
r iP'HE lubferibers intending to clofe their bufinefs
JL in this town, re»jueSt ail thole who are in
debted to them to come and make immediate pay
fiu-nc to Mr. William Moooe, who is fully auiho
tlied to id vie the bufinefs. Thofe having any de
p.v.nds egainir us, will uleafe call and receive pay
ment. We- hope this notice will be attended to, as
Hu further indulgence can be given.
JOHN BLVVKFORD,
wjlliam Taylor.
P S. Thofe who gave their obligations to Con
rod Oiler and George Wilt, may hear oftlumby
applying as above, which obligations are now be
come due.
Sh :>r- yjs' Tt.n<j»/ *1nrch 4.
for >a!r, a: tre Printing I'j/ice,
Elank Dscgo ol Ea rgaiu and £ale.
Pumps and Leading-Pipes.
T HE fubfcriber informs the public, that he will
contract for making Pumps and Leading
Pipes of any dimenfions, and complete them with
expedition. 1 hole who wilh to employ him, may
find him at Mr. johu Rohr’s, tavern k-eper.
JOHN LALLMGH.
March
COMMITTED to the jail of this County, the
Ijth of December, ’©6. a negro Alan, on lulpL
cion of being a run away Have. He is about five
feet eight inches high, appears to be about thirty
years of age, (peaks plain Knglith, plays on the
fife, and is a very f hflbie fellow ; had on when he
cam • to i ail a vvhinlh coloured coat and jacket faced
with red. O his examination, he d< uies being a
(lave, fays his n?me is James, and is free born. His
matter, if he has an*', vie tired to come, pay char
ges anti tuKe ;iim a wav.
fe ROBERT COCKBURft,
(Keeper of tile Jail of Berkeley County.
YOUNG CHESTER BALL,
WILL Hand this lea I on, Fridays and Saturdays, r. t
Andrew Haines’s, on Hite’s roofi, about three miles
from Churles-Towr., and the remainder of the
week at Alexander Burnett’s, one mile from Keys’s
ferry, ar.d cover mares at the moderate p’ice of
Four dollars each, payable the laic day of October.
Young. Chefter flail is rifing four years old this
fprir.o,- he is a beautiful blood bay, fifteen hands
three incite? high, excellent for the laddie, and well
formed for rite geers He was got by a ft.II Clief
i:er B.• 11, out of a Sweep-Stake mare. To fpeak
much nf liis pedigree would be needlfTs, as I ant
confident his figure wili fufnciently recommend him
to the h-ft judges, The featon to commence the
24th of March, and end the 10th of tune.
WiLLlAiXi'BURNETT.
March 9. ___
To the Freeholders of Berkeley.
Gentlemen,
IB ICG leave to inform you, that I offer myfetf as
a Candidate at »he enluing Election of Repre
fentatives for the General Alsetnbly of this State,
and am - gentlemen, with due reipecr, your obedient
lervam, ALEX. WHITE.
To be fold at PUBLIC VENDUE,
On Wednelday the 29th of March, at the houfe of
the fubferiber, on iuskeruro, a couflderable itock
of
Hogs, fome milch Cows, ycungCattle,
Hones and Colts, with a few articles ot houlehold
Furniture. Nine months credit will be given ,•—
bond and fecurity will be required. 'I he fate to
begin at len o’clock.
EDWARD RUMSEY.
REPUBLICAN,
WILT., hand the enluing featon, at the plantation of
James Hite, about two miles from Gen. Lee’s place,
and eight from Shepherd's-Town, and will cover
Marcs at Ex dollars the feafon. The money to be
paid on or before the fir ft day of September next
enfuiog.
Tilt Republican is a chefnrt forrel, rifing 7
years old, fifteen hands one inch high,in fine order,
was got by Celer, Celer was gut by the noted im
ported horte Janus, out of a thorough-bred Fear
nought mnre, his dam was got by Carelels, out of a
thorough-bred Jolly Roger, his grand-dam by Ari
el, his great-grand-dam by the imported Lurie
Dabfter.
For the convenience oftlie fanners belowCharles
Town, we have concluded to fraud the Republican
every Thurfday. Friday, and Saturday, at Mr. Je
hu Lalbel’s, on Bulllkin, until the loth June, the
remainder of the ieaton at the place firft advertiled,
where mares that are not done before the tot It of
June, will he paftured gratis, from the neighbour
hood of Lalhel’s. but will not be anfwerablt ior ac
cidents or elcape#.
JAMES HITE,
THOMAS GLENN.
March g.
TO BE SOLD, 9
A good fecond-hand Waggon, with
hind geer.. Inq lire ol utc Printer.
Authentic State Papers.
DOCUMENTS
Which accompanied the ine(s3<ze of' the Frcfident of
the United States to both Houles ot Congreis,
January 19, 1797.
Letter to Mr. Pinckney, MiniHer Plenipotentiary of the
United States, to tk: French Republic.
SIR,.
IN my letters of the yth »ad r.6th Nov. t Cent
you two. Notes from ivlr. Auet, the Mtnilter of
the French Republic to.the United State r ; the iur
mer dated the 27th of October, and ilia other the
1 jth of November lal't ; and my ant v. r to the fir ft.
T"e latter note embracing numerous t , ics> ot com
plaint, and going as tar back aS the year 1,93s
required a particular examination ot all the trant
actions of ocr govertimenr from that time to the
prslcnt. The other indifpenfable duties ot the of
1 rice prevented my entering on this examination as
early as I had expected, and the current bulintls
has retarded the purluit. The relult cl this exa
mination 1 am now, by the direction of the Freli
dent of the United States, to communicate to you,
— i his hiftory of bur affairs, you will rind fupportr
ed by documents, many of which were delivered to
you, at your departure, and the refidee will.be
herewith tranlinittsd. The remarks arid rea
fonings on facts you will duly appreciate} and,
from the whole, joined with your ovVn oblervati
ons, you will be enabled, it is believed, to vindi
cate the United States, and to demonkj are their im
partiality, us a neutral nation, their fidelity in the
• •blervatioii of treaties, and their Iriendthip as an
ally.
The riifcufilon on which I am entering will involve
much repetition ; tor the general qiel't ions and par
ticular cafes grouped together in the iVfinilter's lat’c
note, have been tuhjerrs of conrroverly and correl
poudencefrom May, '93, to this day. Some other
points have indeed been contended lor. which the
Minilter has now pafsed without notice. Why
they are omitted I know not ; for in thele cafes the
United States were as pofitively charged with vio
lating treaties as in thole which iie has pleafeti
now 10 detail. Seme of them it may he found pro
i per to introduce, to render lels imperfect the view
of our relations to France.
The complaints of the French ninifter againft
the United States, have reference to three princi
pal fubjects. I ft To t he abandonment ol their neu
tral rights to the injury of France,- in not main
taining the pretended print-ink s of the modern law
of nations, that fret Jhips make free goods, and that
timber and naval ftores for the equipment of velsels
are nor contraband of war.
2d. To violations of our treaties with France,
eve;i in their letter,
3d. To the treaty of Amity and Commerce be
tween the United States and Great.Britain ; which
he alledges “ deprives France of all the advantages
it i pul a ted in a previous treaty." A fourth com
plaint is truly ingenious. The fortune of war has
conftrained fome of the belligerent poweif from ene
mies, to become her allies j and it the alledged a
bandonment of the rules of the modern, law of nati
ons, in its confequences, works an injury to thofe
allies, frofri that moment France is alio injured.
Perhaps it will he in time to notice this lal’t charge
when the allies themfelveg complain ; it the anfwer
to the firft, involving the fame principle, i'hould not
render fuch notice altogether unoeceftary.
I lhall now prefent to your view thole facts and
obfervations which will prove,. tve conceive, that
the midifter’s complaints are without any juft foun
dation.
Under the firft charge, That we have not main
tained, as we ought to have done, our neutral
rights, ir is alfedged ,*
I ft. That the pofition, that freeflAps tna.fefree goods,
is an eltablilhed prinaiple of the modern law of nati
ons, and that Great Britain by capturing French
property onboard our velsels, has violated our neu
tral right ; and that nnlefs vt e compel Great Bri
tain to relpect thofe rights, France will he ju (tided
in violating them.
Not to rentatk on the fmgular rcafoning, that if
one warring power commit an act of irjuftice to
wards a neutral and innocent nation, another war
. ring power may lawfully commit t he like injulfice,
we may sik, what authority is adduced, to (bow
that the modern law of nations has enahlilhed the
principle that free jhips make free goods ? Vatel fays f
pofitiwely that “ tlfects belonging to an enemy
four.d on board a neutral Ihip, are feized by the
rights of war.’* Agreeable to this long eftahlifhed
rule of the law of nations, France herfelf, in her
marine laws, has directed that the merchandizes ami
1 frits belonging to her enemies which Jfi.ll kr found onb.urd
fitftrill •vefftii jball be good prizes. -By '■* former law,
indeed, the neutral vefsels themft Ives, as well as
the effects of her enemies on hoard, were declared
to be good pri/;e, Valin remarks, however, iha£