The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1796-01-02 00:00:00

KENTUCKY GAZETTE.
[NUMB. XVI.]
S A T U R D A Y, JANUARY 2, 1796.
[VOL. IX.]
STRAYED from the subscriber, living near Parker's mill, a pair of dark brown OXEN: one with a white face, marked with an under-keel in each ear. Any person that will deliver them at his house shall receive five dollars reward.
WM. STRASALY. ** I wish to purchase a quantity of PORK. W: S.
Wanted to Purchase, By the subscriber, A QUANTITY of good clean Barley, old Wheat and Rye, also a quantity of Hops, for which a generous price will be paid in Cash, when delivered at the Brewery in this place, known by the name of Major Short's Brewery. JOHN HOLMES, Jun. Lexington, Aug. 31, 1795.
FOR SALE, Two or three HOUSES and LOTS, In the Town of CYNTHIANA, Situated on Main street and water front, either of them are an excellent stand for a store or tavern, one of them has been used as a tavern, and furnished with a stable and several other conveniences, and convenient to water; another large house not quite finished; the other is at present occupied as a store, and pretty well finished. The whole will be sold together or separate to suit the purchasers, who may apply for terms to the subscriber on the premises. W. Coleman. November 23, 1795.
I hereby forewarn all persons from making an assignment on a bond, given by me, with John M'Dowell security, to William Hoghead, for the sum of fifty pounds, dated in October last, and payable on demand. My reasons for advertising this bond is, because the negro which I purchased of said Hoghead is disordered, and not agreeable to his bill of sale. JOHN GORMAN. November 30. *4W.
THOMAS HART & SON, Have Just Received, and are now opening, An EXTENSIVE and GENERAL Assortment of MERCHANDIZE, Which they will sell LOW by Whole Sale or Retail. They have also a large assortment of Bouling Cloths & Copper, Which they will sell at a more reduced price than they have ever been sold at in this country.
JOHN TODD INFORMS the public, that he has employed JOHN M'MILLIN, FULLER and DYER, from a Northern State, to carry on the above business in its different branches, branches, on the Kentucky river, near Todd's Ferry; and hopes from a constant attention to merit the favor of those who may employ him. He also dyes Greens, Blues, Claret, Pompadour, &c. &c. November 16.
WANTED, TWENTY TENANTS, To rent a tract of LAND, lying within six miles of Lexington, to whom beneficial Leases for seven or fourteen years will be given by John Breckinridge. November 10. tf.
ALL those indebted to the subscribers, by bond, note or book account, are earnestly requested to discharge them on or before the 20th of December next. Those who do not avail themselves of this notice, may expect the next to be a legal one.
Alex. & Jas. Parker.
FOR SALE, A Valuable Tract of LAND, Adjoining the Town Lots of LEXINGTON; CONTAINING 200 acres; the whole of it enclosed; about sixty acres well cleared and under good fence; fifteen acres of which is excellent Timothy Meadow, with a fine stream of water running through it, and a never-failing spring; a Peach and Apple orchard. For terms apply to ALEX. & JAMES PARKER, in Lexington.
TO BE SOLD One hundred acres of LAND, With a never failing spring, within two miles and a half of Lexington; twenty-five acres cleared, eleven or twelve of which are in clove, blue grass and timothy, also several convenient houses—The title indisputable. Apply to ALEXANDER & JAMES PARKER. Lexington, September 2.
FOR SALE, A tract of LAND, Containing about thirty acres, lying within one quarter of a mile of Lexington. Also TWO LOTS, Lying on High street, on which is an excellent dwelling house of hewed logs, with a stone chimney, and conveniently laid off into apartments, a good kitchen and out buildings. For terms apply to ALEXANDER & JAMES PARKER of Lexington.
A QUANTITY OF PORK WANTED On the Foot For which a generous price will be given in Cash and Merchandise, by Alex. & Jas. Parker. Lexington, November 9.
M'COON & CASTLEMAN, HAVE JUST RECEIVED, AND NOW OPENING, their STORE, second door below the sign of the Buffalo, a large & general Assortment of MERCHANDIZE, CONSISTING OF Dry Goods and Groceries of all kinds; Which they are determined to sell low for CASH FIDES and Country LINEN. Lexington, August 10, 1795.
SELLING OFF. THE subscriber, intending to quit the Mercantile business, will dispose, by wholesale or retail, of a well chosen and general assortment of MERCHANDIZE, considerably lower than the usual prices, for Cash, Whiskey or Corn. Those indebted to him are requested to call and pay their respective accounts. M. Forrester. Lexington, next Store to Mr. Lea-vy's. tf.
BAIRD AND OWEN, AT THEIR NEW STORE, NEXT door to Mr. M'Nair's tavern, and nearly opposite the court house, have just received, and are now opening, a large and general assortment of MERCHANDIZE, suited to the season, which they will sell whole sale and retail on their usual low terms. They return thanks to their friends for the encouragement they have experienced; and beg leave to inform them that they have removed their Store from the lower end of Main and Cross Streets, where they first opened, to the place mentioned above, where they intend conducting their business in the same manner they have done heretofore; and as they expect their customers require no other recommendation, they request a call from the public, who, they presume, will be equally pleased with their mode of dealing.
FOR SALE, The following tracts of LAND, (Viz.) TWO thousand acres on Salt river, twelve miles above Bullet's lick, Jefferson county. Five hundred acres on Cedar creek, Nelson. Two hundred do. do. Two hundred do. do. Two hundred do. near Bullitt's licks. Two hundred and fifty do. on Hay's fork of Silver creek, Madison. Three hundred and forty-eight and two thirds do. near the mouth of Green river. Five hundred do. on Cabin creek, six miles above Limestone, near the Ohio. Three hundred and fifty do. five miles East of Lexington, on North Elkhorn, Fayette; with an improvement of forty acres cleared land, a dwelling house twenty-four by eighteen, of hewed logs, a kitchen eighteen by sixteen, of do. and some cabins, cribs &c. about four acres planted with peach trees, a hundred and odd apple trees, and some meadow. The terms of said lands will be made known by applying to the subscriber living on the last mentioned tract.
William Porter jun. P. S. I have also for sale, four or five head of HORSES, amongst which is a full bred Stud Horse, of an elegant form, upwards of fifteen hands high. 3w||6. W. P.
ALL persons indebted to the subscriber, are requested to make payment to Doctor RIDGELEY, without any kind of delay; who has the books of DUKE and RIDGELEY in his possession: I am wanting money and am determined to enforce immediate payment from all those who are in arrears to me.
Basil Duke, December 6th. 3W TAKEN up by the subscriber two miles from Miller's mills, Bourbon county, an old bay mare, about seventeen years old, about thirteen hands high, has a star and snip, and four white feet, branded on the right shoulder and buttock but not legible; appraised to 6l. Jacob Jones. October 21.
BOGGS & ANDERSON, Have just received and are now opening at their Store in Lexington, next door to the Market house, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF Meachandise, Well adapted to the present and approaching season. ALSO A WELL CHOSEN ASSORTMENT OF Drugs & Patent Medicine, Consisting of the following articles: (Viz.)
  Aqua Fortis Rhubarb   Oil Vitriol Antimon   —Castor Spirits Lavender   —Olives comp.   —Almonds Turpentine   —Lavender Sal Ammoniac   —Anise seed Salt Tartar   —Juniper Steel   —Amber Fluings ditto   —Peppermint Sugar Lead   Essence Bergamot White Vitriol   —Pepper Blue ditto   mint Flour Sulphur   British oil Sulphur Antimony   Godfrey's cordial Glass ditto   Bateman's drops Red Sanders   Daffy's Elixir Orange peel   Turlington's Balsam Camomile flowers   Anderson's Pills Vol. Sal Ammoniac   Ippecacuanha Jalap Castor   Tartar Emetic Dragon's blood   Calomel Cremor Tartar   Gum Opium Spermecei   —Camphor Liquorice   —Aloes Sugar Candy   —Arabic Japan earth   —Guacum Columba Root   —Myrrh Borax   —Ammoniac Arsetica   —Asafetida Pink root   Red Bark Caustic soap   Pale ditto Glauher Salts   Senna Diachylon with Gums   Manna Simple ditto   Spanish flies Pipes   Balsam Capivi Yirges   Laudanum Vials and Corks   Quick Silver Smelling Bottles   Cor. Sublimate Pill boxes   Lunar Caustic Crucibles &c &c.   Magnesia 
The above articles will be sold cheap for Cash.
PETER JANUARY, JR. & CO., HAVE JUST RECEIVED, & ARE NOW OPENING, A QUANTITY OF GOODS, Consisting of a complete and well chosen assortment of CLOTHS, Plains, Coatings, Blankets, Scarlet Cloaks, Hats and other Dry Goods, Hard Ware, Crockery Ware, Stationary and Medicine; which they have themselves, they are able to offer FOR SALE, on reduced terms.
WANTED, A quantity of Corn, Oats, Hemp, Pork, Country Sugar, Linen, Butter, Cheese and Furs. Lexington, Jan. 2, 1796.
FOR SALE, Five hundred and twenty-five acres of LAND ON the head of Long lick creek, about four miles from the Long lick, eight from Bullitt's lick, and twelve from Bairdstown, on the main road from that place to both the licks mentioned above; about fifty acres cleared, and a tolerable good log house. Also one or two hundred acres on the road from Shelbyville to Bairdstown, about six miles from the former. For terms apply to Austin Hubbard. Bairdstown, Dec. 16. *3W

LONDON, September 30.
Just as this paper was putting to press, we received, by express, the Paris journals of the twenty sixth and twenty seventh instant: the intelligence they contain is extremely important, but the lateness of the hour precludes the possibility of giving any thing more than a mere outline in this day's paper.
The accounts brought by the vessel arrived from Paris, mention that Paris is in a state of extreme confusion and disorder. In the tumults which appear to have taken place, several lives are stated to have been lost, and the convention seeing the determined resolution of the sections to oppose the attempt for perpetuating their power, are preparing to quit the metropolis.
CIVIL WAR IN PARIS.
The contents of the papers which we have received warrants us in saying, that a CIVIL WAR is actually broken out in Paris!!
The section of Brutus has declared itself in a state of insurrection against the Convention. The Sovereign section (assemblage and procession were numerous and after this proclamation against the Convention, the air resounded with the cry of "A bas les Deux Tiers!"—Down with the Two-Thirds! In the evening sitting of the 2d Vendemaire, (Sept. 25.) Delaunay (d'Angers) Reporter to the Committee of General Welfare, informed the Convention, that several soldiers had been insulted by individuals, and the armed force attacked; three pistols had been discharged in the Garden of Equality, where Bertelle, a serjeant of the grenadiers of the Convention, was slightly wounded.—The cry of—"To arms"—was heard in different parts of the metropolis. The exclamation of "Down with the Two-Thirds!" was also general.
In several of the groups collected in different places, people observed, that the Convention ought to be driven from Paris, otherwise there would be a famine; and that the presence of the Compt d'Artois and the Prince of Lambesc was necessary for the restoration of order.
Lefage (d'Evre et Loire) read an address to the Parisians, the purport of which was, to render the citizens of Paris responsible for the safety of the Convention—to declare, that if any attempts were made on the persons of the deputies the legislative body would meet at Charenton-sur-Marne; and to order the republican troops to prepare themselves for defending the Representatives of the People. This address was adopted, and was ordered to be pasted up immediately, in form of a proclamation, in every part of the city, and to be forwarded to the departments, and to the armies.
In the sitting of the 4th Vendemaire, (Sept. 20.) Larvellers Lepaux, in the name of the Committee of Public Welfare, informed the Convention, that the agents of the sections had pulled down all the proclamations which had been pasted up by order of the Convention during the night. It was therefore decreed, that the administrators of the department of Seine should immediately publish, in Paris, the Proclamation and the declaration adopted by the Convention on the preceding night.
Tallien proposed the establishment of an extraordinary commission of sixteen members of the convention, to superintend the police of Paris. This proposition gave rise to a long debate, and
was at length referred to the committees.
The President of the section of the Temple having put in requisition the commander of the armed force of that district, the Convention annulled the order he had issued, and decreed, that all persons who should call out the armed force without an order from the Representatives of the People, should be deemed traitors to their country, and prosecuted as such.
It was also decreed, on the motion of La-tourneur, (de la Manche) that the Administrative Committees of Paris should take care that all the young men of the first requisition should immediately join their respective corps, and that every person of that description, who should be found in any group or assemblage of people, should without any further proof, be deemed a rebel, and treated as such.
October 5.
Yesterday forenoon an express was received by a respectable house in this city, stating that the Barriers of Paris were shut, and that an embargo had been laid upon all vessels at Calais.
These violent measures are supposed to proceed from some fresh commotions at Paris. It seems more than probable that the sections will oblige the Convention either to fly, or to revoke the unjust and tyrannical decrees for the re-election of the two thirds.
October 10.
We have invariably asserted, that the dissensions between the sections of Paris and the Convention would not terminate without the effusion of blood; our assertion was well founded; a Paris paper of Tuesday last, the sixth instant was brought to us by express this morning. It is we have every reason to believe, the only Paris paper of that date, that has been received.
An insurrection of some of the Sections against the Convention for dissolving the Primary Assemblies by force, if necessary, the Section Lepelletier, on the fifth, beat the GENERALE and flew to arms. Two other Sections the same. The Committee of public Safety immediately sent troops to surround the Section Lepelletier. This was effected, but the General who commanded the troops having received assurance from the inhabitants of the Section, that they were only arming in their defence, thought proper to retire.
The Section immediately secured and fortified some strong posts, and made every preparation for a formidable resistance. The Government ordered troops to be marched a second time, and a contest ensued, in which many fell on both sides. The firing of cannon against the Section commenced at noon on the fifth and was not terminated at half past nine at night, when the Paris Paper which we have received was put to press.
The Convention sat all night on the fourth, and the whole of the fifth instant, guarded by a large detachment of military with Cannon. Strong patrols paraded all the streets and squares, and every preparation was making by the convention, and by the revolted sections both for an attack and defence.
The section Lepelletier was in hopes of receiving succour; the other sections having assured them that they would send assistance to them during the night of the fifth.
The proceedings of the Convention on the fifth, and the Paris article which we have translated literally from the Paris paper ( les Cent-seur des Journeaux ) of the sixth, will shew, that the insurrection, though partial, is of an alarming nature, and that the government suspect that the resistance of the revolted sections will be extremely obstinate.—The inhabitants of the suburbs of St. Antoine and St. Marceau, and the troops appear to
be firmly attached to the Convention.
A Hamburg mail arrived this morning. It brings an account of a sharp action on the 23d last month between the Austrians and the French, on both sides the Neckar. The French commenced the attack upon the Austrians, but were forced to retreat with considerable loss.
In consequence of this victory, the Austrians have been able to blockade Mannheim, and to cut off the communication between that city and the French army.
Mentz is completely surrounded by the French, and Ehrenbreitstein is still closely invested.
Government received advices, from Sir Gilbert Elliot, Viceroy of Corsica, which are said to contain intelligence of the insurrection in that kingdom still continuing to wear a very alarming aspect. Measures for restoring order and tranquility have however, been adopted, from the prudence and vigour of which the happiest consequences are expected to result.
PARIS, October 6.
We can no longer dissemble.—Civil war is organized in our unhappy city, the ardor of discussion is about to give place to the eagerness and delirium of battle. Three sections have already raised their standard, beat the generale, and given the watch word.
The Convention is surrounded with cannon and bayonets. The streets Vivienne, Filles St. Thomas, St. Augustine, Petit Champs, du Mail, &c. are full of armed men, and of advanced posts; during the whole night we heard nothing but those lucubrous words; Centinel take care—the sad momentous expression of which, infused into the mind of the impartial observer the most frightful presages.
The Convention sat all night on the fourth, and the whole of the fifth instant, guarded by a large detachment of military with cannon. Strong patrols paraded all the streets and squares, and every preparation was making by the Convention and by the revolted sections, both for attack and defence.
This apparatus of a city in a state of siege, these cries, these soldiers, this frightful perspective of ills, ready to fall upon our unhappy country, have wrung from us tears of blood. Shall we never be released from this deplorable situation? and are we fated to be exposed before we die, to all the degrees of opprobrium and grief?
As soon as it was known in the committees of government that the section Lepelletier had beat the generale, troops were sent to surround the section. It was nine o'clock. Menou commanded the troops—two representatives were with him.
The armed force advanced to the focus of insurrection; but upon repeated assurances being given by the revolted section, that its warlike preparations were not for attack but defence, the troops retired; but hardly had they retired when the rebellious citizens again re-assembled; and the government perceived they had been duped—upon which the general immediately marched back his troops.
First Post Script It is nine o'clock at night: the firing of cannon is heard at a distance; the streets are deserted and calm at distance from the seat of war. The details are not precisely known. We are therefore to refer them till to morrow, however eager we may be to satisfy the anxiety of our readers.
Second Post Script . It is now half past nine o'clock, the firing of cannon continues, and it is said against the post of the section Lepelletier, which defends itself with desperation—relying still that the sections of Paris, which promised them succour and guarantee, will come to their relief.—The prisoners and all the prisoners are secure.
EDINBURGH, Sept 23.
Extract of a private letter.
"This letter is meant principally to inform you, that a brig is just arrived with the crews of 3 British vessels taken yesterday morning off the Isle of May, in the mouth of the Firth, by a Dutch privateer; among these are the Star, the Neptune, and another belonging to Leith; the former is valued and insured at 15,000l.
"To mend the matter, we have two Russian and two British frigates lying in the roads."
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2.
The European news, of this day, is several days later than heretofore published. It was received yesterday from Liverpool.
The leading events recorded, are the proclamation at PARIS of the ratification by the French people, of the new Constitution, in toto , with the Decrees for re-electing two thirds of the Convention; and the alarming uneasiness which those decrees have occasioned—Tho' the accounts comes through the medium of the English Papers, as translated from PARIS journals, and of course some allowance must be made for colouring; yet many various corroborative circumstances lead to a belief, that the interior of FRANCE is approximating to an important crisis. Three or four of the most powerful sections of PARIS are violent against re-electing decrees, and have assumed an extraordinary imperious tone of language in their addresses to the Convention. That body, however, appears firm; and will unquestionably be protected from insult, by the numerous troops which it has assembled in the environs of Paris, and who are devoted to its interest. The issue is not easily foreseen; but the intelligence from that quarter, will continue for some time to be highly interesting.
It was said the Convention had determined to adjourn to Chalons-sur-Marne (95 miles east from Paris) in case the insurgent sections were not quelled.
Bolon Centinel.
ELIZABETHTOWN, Dec. 2.
At the court at Weymouth, the fifteenth of September, the king of Great Britain, with the advice and consent of the Privy-Council, declared WAR against the United Provinces of Holland.
KNOXVILLE, November 6.
Repulse of the Creek army by the Chickasaws.
Extract of a letter from Opiao Mingo, dated Chickasaw Nation, September 29, 1795.
"About 1000 Creeks came in order to take the Chickasaw nations. They encamped in the edge of the wood back of Colbert's fort, to the west of the town.—They brought white people with them, drums and ammunition for a siege; a great number of them were on horseback. In the morning they killed a woman just below Colbert's fort, and advanced against it in a half moon; their line extended half a mile. We met them (that is the Long Town warriors) gave them battle, and beat them back. The warriors of Big Town attacked them and put them to the rout. We pursued them about five miles, our horse on their flanks and our foot upon their rear, and took from them all their baggage and cloathing, except their flaps, the only cloaths they had on when they made the attack. The baggage consisted of their blankets and cloathing (except their flaps) their ammunition, kettles, and their provisions.—The loss of the Chickasaws is six warriors and one woman killed; and we have found of the Creeks twenty-six killed, and many must have been wounded. About two hundred Chickasaws were engaged in defeating this great army of Creeks."

This action must have taken place between the twenty second and twenty sixth of September.
Lexington, January 2.
By the late London Papers, it appears that great uneasiness prevails in Paris, in consequence of a division of sentiments respecting the re-election of two the Convention. The accounts are painted in the sharpest colours by the English writers; but no conclusion can be drawn from them, as to the real state of France. No doubt every thing would be said by them to place the affairs of the Republic, in the worst point of view. This has ever been the practice of the British, but hitherto the event has proved the folly of their accounts. The Ministerial papers are employed for this purpose, and in short, the Ministers are now reduced to this pitiful alternative. They are obliged to make war on paper, while the powers which were in league with them, are quitting their service. By late accounts the French are victorious in every quarter, the Ministers know this, and are now obliged to buoy up the spirits of the people, that some hopes remain to them by representing commotions in France.
It is possible however, that the accounts are true, but it is more probable they are false. The Republicans know the worth of liberty, they have experienced the effects of despotism, and it cannot be supposed at this crisis of the revolution, when their arms are victorious, when their allies are strong—when the British are nearly exhausted—that they would fail in accomplishing the great purposes for which they have been so long contending. Impossible, they would amid these favourable events, lose sight of those objects, which caused them to action.—The British are sensible of this, and use their little arts to support their desperate efforts—these are the only cordials left them to administer to an expiring nation, and this cup of consolation is offered by the faltering hand of their emissaries, to revive the dying British Partisans in America.
May Heaven direct the councils of France, and in this way, every citizen of the United States will readily join, as it is reduced to a serious certainty, that the happiness, liberties, and prosperity of America, depends on the successes of that Republic. Chronicle.
GRAND EPOCHS OF EUROPE.
In contemplating the history of Europe, observes a late writer, since the period of civilization, we remark four Grand Epochs, or ages, during which some favorite object appears to have engrossed the attention of mankind. The first was the age of Chivalry; here we observe tilts and tournaments, crusades, fair ladies and beautiful damsels, leading mankind captives at their pleasure. To this succeeded the age of Religion, bigotry, superstition, and the intolerant principles of Papal Rome, enslave the human mind, till the light of reformation, and the invaluable discovery of the art of Printing, dispersed the darkness of error and ignorance. The third Epoch was the age of Commerce; this was attended by its usual concomitant, speculation of every kind. The Mississippi scheme of our celebrated countryman, the Chevalier Law, in France, the South Sea bubble in England, and the Darien expedition from Scotland, are memorable instances of this universal mania.
After mankind had successively proceeded from the frivolity of gallantry, to the furor of bigotry, and thence to the selfishness of avarice, we have at length arrived at the age of politics: every person, male and female, high and low, rich and poor, in every country of Europe, is now a politician. How long this furor may last, and
what shall be the succeeding age, no person can with certainty predict.
We however, see one party prognosticating, from the present distracted state of Europe, nothing but a second reign of anarchy, while another party sees the return of the golden age.
It would however, be advisable, while this rage for politics continues, for all parties to dispute with temper, to listen down their violent passions, which narrow and contract the mind, and endeavour, by mollifying those asperities, which are productive of much mischief, both to nations and individuals, to cultivate PEACE AND GOOD WILL TO ALL MANKIND.
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INTERESTING INFORMATION OF THE STATE OF IRELAND.
By a letter from Dublin it evidently appears, the Government entertain such apprehensions as to have lately employed the reading Members of Opposition to procure an interview at the Castle with the Catholic Committee, and some other respectable citizens of Liberty.
At this interview, somewhat like terms of capitulation were offered to those they have so cruelly oppressed, and whose justice they dread:—An AGGREGATE MEETING of the citizens of Dublin was proposed, at which Messrs. O'GATIAN, PONSONBY and CURRAN declared their intention of attending and enforcing the necessity of a Parliamentary Reform, the abolition of Tithes and in short of every other grievance of which it has been ANY WISE SA TO complain.
The repeal of those penal laws which still exist was offered to the Catholics, who in the enlightened spirit of men asking for mercy, declared they had given their emancipation up—that they were unalterably determined never more to move as a separate body, but united and acting in concert with their countrymen to rise with them, or sink in their ruin.
The result of the deliberation was, that nothing could be done, since the people would no longer support such measures, looking up to those of a more solid NATURE.
An article from Vienna, of the fifth inst. says, our government is fully determined to continue the war with France through the year 1796, if circumstances do not alter. A plan for a war-tax was determined upon in the cabinet on the 2d inst. Persons accused of crimes against the state still continue to be apprehended in Hungary.
London, September 5.
I let us talk no more of Chouans and royalists harassing the republic of France, for if the accounts from Dublin be true, "Monarchy is in danger in Ireland."
September 22.
A postscript to a letter from Warsaw, of the 22d ult. says, it is this moment reported that the Empress of Russia has published a declaration, in which the acknowledgment of the French republic by the Ottoman Porte is made a subject of complaint. It is added, that this declaration contains expressions rather unfriendly to a northern power, whose connexion with the French is notorious to all Europe.
JOHN AND DAVID COONS, COPPERSMITHS, From Berkly, Virginia,
BEG leave to inform their friends and the inhabitants of Lexington, and its vicinity, that they now carry on the Copper-smith's Business, near Mr. Leavy's, where they may be supplied with the best of Stills on the shortest notice, and most reasonable terms, as they have a large supply of the best of Copper on hand.
THE SUBSCRIBER
Is now opening a General Assortment of
DRY GOODS, HARD WARE, GROCERIES, &c. &c. Which he will dispose of on VERY LOW terms.
George Tegarden.
Lexington, January 2, 1796.
SCHEME OF A LOTTERY
For raising the sum of 2250 Dollars, for the use of the LEXINGTON LODGE, No. 25.
   No. Prizes. Dolls. Dolls.     1 of 1500 is 1500   2 — 500 — 1000   3 — 250 — 750   5 — 100 — 500   12 — 50 — 600   30 — 25 — 750   100 — 20 — 2000   170 — 15 — 2550   251 — 10 — 2510   450 — 6 — 2700  
2 of 100 each being 1 for the first and for the last drawn ticket 200
Dolls. 15,000 1016 prizes } Not two blanks to 1984 blanks } a prize.
3000 tickets at 5 dolls. 15,000
The Prizes subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent.—Prizes to be paid for by the managers, twenty days after the lottery is drawn. A credit of one half of any number of tickets exceeding twenty, shall be given, until the Lottery shall have finished drawing. Prize drawn and not called for within eighteen months after the Lottery finishing drawing, will be considered as a donation made to the Lexington Lodge.
The drawings of the lottery will be published in the Kentucky papers, regularly, shewing the blanks and prizes.
Tickets may be had by applying to James Morrison, Alex. McGregor, Edm. Butts, Hugh McLean, Robert Megowan, OR William Murray, John Fowler. Managers appointed by Law.
Will be sold or rented,
ON MONDAY,
The first day of February next, A LOT, lying on Mulberry Street in Lexington, on which is a framed House better than fifty feet front. Also, at the same time and place, will be sold to the highest bidder, all my household furniture; a set of wheelwright's tools, with some live stock. A credit of six months will be given for all sums above twenty dollars, on giving bond with approved security. AMOS GUSTIN. January 1, 1796. 21*
BY the imprudent conduct of my wife, I am induced to forewarn all persons from crediting her on my account; as I will pay no debts of her contracting after this date. AMOS GUSTIN. January 1, 1796. 21*
NOTICE to all whom it may concern, that on the fifteenth and sixteenth days of January next, I shall attend with the commissioners appointed by the county courts at Clarke at a cabin on the East side of a branch of Licking, (now known by the name of Small-Mountain creek.) Then and there to perpetuate certain testimony respecting a claim of 400 acres of land entered in my name in May 1780 and also 400 acres adjoining the same on the west side, and running west for quantity. Nicholas Anderson. December 15, 1795. 3w*
TAKEN up by the subscriber, on the head of Boone's creek in Fayette county, two sorrel horse bits, the one has a star in his face, potted and appraised to six pounds. The other came a stud, potted and appraised to 71. John Whitesides.
NOTICE
TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED. THAT an order of Court in Campbell county has been obtained to perpetuate testimony to establish the special places called for in an entry, in the name of Robert Sanders, on the Lick Ridge in said county for 1616 acres of land. Also one other entry in the name of John Craig and Robert Johnson, for 50,000 at the same place. Also one other in the name of Howell Lewis, near Reed's, for 3500 acres; and that the commissioners appointed, are to meet at Small's on the said Lick Ridge the 20th day of January 1796, in order to proceed to the said special place called for in said entry, made in the name of Robert Sanders, which is near said Small's held, to take depositions of certain witnesses concerning the same, according to law. Also at the same time and place to take depositions of certain witnesses, concerning the special places called for in said entry, made in the name of John Craig and Robert Johnson, to establish the same also. The commissioners will meet the 20th day of January 1796, at Reed's tavern, in order to proceed to a marked Red Oak on the old war road, between Bank Lick creek and Grassy creek, which is the special place called for in said entry, made in the name of Howell Lewis for 3500 acres, in order to take the deposition of certain witnesses to establish the said special places called for in said entry.
Robert Johnson. Robert Sanders.
NOTICE is hereby given to all to whom it may concern, that the commissioners appointed by the county court of Bourbon, at their December court instant, under the act of assembly entitled "an act to ascertain the boundaries of land, and for other purposes" will meet on the North side of Hinkston, between the upper and lower Blue Licks, on the head of a small branch emptying into Hinkston on the twentieth day of January next then and there to take the deposition of witnesses, to establish the beginning corner of a survey of two thousand acres, made for Daniel Asturgas, it being a honey locust.
Jacob Ham.
Bourbon county, December 22.
NOTICE
IS hereby given to all whom it may concern, that on the twenty sixth day of January next, I shall attend with the Commissioners appointed by the county court of Shelby at Steels Cabin, on the head waters of a branch running into the Kentucky River on the South side, about four miles South East of the Clay Lick, to take such measures to perpetuate testimony as the law directs respecting an entry made in behalf of Joseph Cox on a military warrant of one thousand acres.
Thomas Strebley. December, 21, 1795.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, near Georgetown Scott county, a bay horse five years old, twelve hands and a half high, his near hind foot white, and some white on the near fore foot, a blaze face, a natural trotter, branded on the near shoulder and buttock O, appraised to 61. John Weathers. Oct. 1795.
TAKEN up out of the settlement, on the frontiers of Scott County, and now in the possession of the subscriber, a dark brown Mare, three years old, fourteen hands high, branded on the near shoulder and buttock RC, natural trotter, no white whatever perceivable, appraised to forty Dollars. James Lemon. Georgetown, October 26 1795.

ALL persons having any demands against the subscriber are requested to give them to John Fowler or James Hughes Esquires, for settlement.
Aug. W. Waldrhyn. Lexington, Dec. 24, 1795.
BENJAMIN KING, who is married to my Daughter, and who moved to this country about twelve months ago, will please to call on me, or send me word where he lives. I am now at Jacob Sandow's on Sinking creek, on the road from Lexington to Delany's Ferry, and shall continue there until the 1st of February, unless I hear from him before that time.
FRANCIS COLE. December 30, 1795. 1w
NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that I shall attend with the commissioners appointed by the county court of Clarke, on the 20th day of January next, at my improvement of 1000 acres, near my house, upon a preemption warrant, on the dividing ridge between the waters of Gilt's creek (now Stoner) & Licking; then and there to perpetuate certain testimony respecting the said preemption obtained in my name.
EBENEZER CORN. December 20, 1795.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living near the viney grove Mercer county a bay mare about three years old, with a long tail about four feet three inches high, appraised to seven pounds two shillings.
Lewis Rose. October 23.
GENEROUS WAGES WILL be given for able bodied NEGRO MEN, to work at the Iron Works on Slate, where they will receive good treatment. Apply to Mr. John Breckinridge, or to the subscriber.
JOHN C. OWENS.
NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that I shall attend with the commissioners appointed by the county court of Clarke, on the twenty-ninth day of January next at the improvement made by James Davis, upon the waters of Gilt's creek (now Stoner) near Scholl's Station; then and there to perpetuate certain testimony respecting the preemption of one thousand acres, obtained in the name of the said James Davis.
Samuel M'Kee. December 20, 1795.
FOR SALE. One hundred and fifty acres of GOOD LAND;
WITH excellent, convenient & never failing water; a considerable improvement, of about forty acres of cleared land; a tan yard; a hewed log house, thirty feet by eighteen; a barn, thirty feet by twenty-six, with stabling underneath, and other stabling; a piece of good meadow; some bearing peach trees, and a small orchard of apple trees planted out; there are two extraordinary situations for distilleries all the year. This belongs to one hundred acres of the land.
The other fifty has an extraordinary good mill seat, with one pair of good Laurel hill stones running, and another almost ready to run, on the best construction; at the same place is an extraordinary situation for a saw mill. The title of this land is as good as any in this state. It lies near the forks of Hickman creek, and near the Tate's creek road. The terms of sale may be known by applying to the subscriber or the executors, who will sell both together or singular, as it will suit to divide. Credit will be given for part the amount, if both go together.
Mathew Anderson. December 30, 1795. 2w
NOTICE. THE Co-partnership of SEITZ & LAUMAN, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All those who have any demands against said firm are requested to bring in their accounts for settlement without delay; and those who are indebted to them, by bond, note or book account, are desired to make immediate payment to the subscribers, otherwise they will be under the disagreeable necessity to compel payment in a legal way.
John A. Seitz. Fred. Lauman.
NOTICE. THE Copartnership of ELISHA WINTERS & Co. will expire on the first day of December next. All persons having any demands, are hereby requested to call without delay; and those who are indebted to make immediate payment, particularly those who have engaged produce, as none can be received after the said first day of December (unless under a particular engagement;) and as the subscriber expects to leave this country soon after the expiration of the said copartnership, he will be under the disagreeable necessity of leaving all their bonds, notes and book accounts in the hands of a proper officer for collection.
Elisha Winters. Lexington, October 22.
The Subscriber having begun manufacturing
CORDAGE, Wa is a quantity of GOOD WELL CLEANED H. & M. P.
(As no other kind will be received) FOR which he will pay a GENEROUS PRICE in Cash and MERCHANDIZE, in the Stores of THOMAS HART & SON, or SAMUEL PRICE & Co.
Thomas Hart. July 10.
A Few Journeyman Rope-Makers Will meet with encouragement by applying as above.
FORGE-MEN WHO understand their business will meet with the greatest encouragement, by applying at the Forge on Slate creek. The Forge is now at work.
December 15, 1795. 2w. I wish to purchase a quantity of good
CLEAN RYE, to be delivered at my store in this place, for which I will allow a generous price in merchandise.
C. Beatty. Lexington December 26.
P. MCCULLOUGH. Wishes to inform his friends and the public in general that he has just imported and now opening at his Store on Main Street, A WELL CHOSEN ASSORTMENT OF MERCHANDIZE.
For which cash was chiefly paid, and which will enable him to sell LOW—and that is what he has never done before. Ladies and Gentlemen walk in, and see the alteration.
N. B. Cash, country sugar and linen, furs of all kinds will be taken in payment.
Lexington, Dec. 26, 1795.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living on Dry run, near Georgetown, Scott county, a black Mare, about two years old, the high hind foot white, a small star, no brand; appraised to fifteen pounds.
Samuel Dehaven. November, 1795.
BLANK DEEDS. —On parchment or paper— For sale at the Office of the Kentucky Gazette.
Notice. TO all whom it may concern, that on the fifteenth and sixteenth of January next I shall attend with the commissioners appointed for the county court of Clarke at a poplar tree marked J.H. on a branch of Lubbulgrud (now known by the name of William's creek) then and there to perpetuate certain testimony, respecting a claim of land, containing 400 acres, entered in the year 1780, in the name of
John Harper December 15th, 1795. 2w
WILLIAM WEST, At his STORE, at the back of the Court House, HAS OPENED FOR SALE, On very low terms, A Handsome Assortment of MERCHANDIZE, AMONGST WHICH ARE SUPERFINE, and second Cloths and Cashmers, plain and elastic Coatings, Flannels, Baize, Plains and Cardinals, striped and rose Blankets, and Coverlids. Corn, Rye, Oats, Brandy, Whiskey, Pork, Butter, Cheese, and bleached Country made Linens, will be received in payment. Lexington, November 21.
Public Notice,
THAT on the twenty-first day of December 1782, William Davis did enter by virtue of five treasury warrants, ten thousand acres of land, on the Southern branches of Licking, beginning at a Southeastwardly corner of a private survey of 15360 acres, made by George Rogers Clarke in 1775; as by reference to said entry will at large appear; which beginning corner of said entry depending on evidence; in order to perpetuate the same, all concerned are hereby desired to
Take Notice That I have, agreeable to an act of assembly passed in the year 1794, obtained from Clarke court, an order appointing sundry commissioners to take the depositions of witnesses, in order to perpetuate the said beginning; and that the said commissioners will attend at the said beginning corner, on the first Tuesday in February next; when and where I will proceed to have the depositions of sundry witnesses taken in order to perpetuate the said beginning; and to do such further acts, as may be necessary under the said act of assembly.
Note. The said 10,000 acre entry has been surveyed and patented the survey thereof beginning at the aforesaid Southeastwardly corner of the private survey of 15360 acres, made by George Rogers Clarke in 1775.
William Anderson, Attorney in fact for William Davis. December 23 1795.
PORK WANTED.
30,000 WEIGHT CORN FED PORK,
FOR which I will give the highest market price when delivered, two thirds in Cash, the residue in Goods. Also a quantity of well cleaned Hemp, Tow, Linen, Butter, Country Sugar Corn and Flax Seed. I will receive either of the above specified articles in discharge of book accounts.
J. MORRISON.
N. B. I will dispose of my Goods now on hand, at a moderate advance, by wholesale or retail; consisting of a handsome assortment well suited to the season. J.M.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, in Fayette county little north fork of Elkhorn, a black filly, one year old, last spring, a blaze face, hind feet white, branded on the near buttock R, natural trotter, appraised to 41. 10s.
John Ryley. December 9, 1794.
NOTICE is hereby given, to all whom it may concern, that I shall attend on the fifteenth and sixteenth days of January next at an old tree, the beginning of a claim of 400 acres entry, marked W. on a branch of the middle fork of Lubbulgrud; also at a cabin on or near the head branch of Lubbulgrud; then and there to perpetuate certain testimony respecting the said claim of 400 acres entered in my name, assignee of Absalom Crock, and a preemption of 400 acres, entered also in the name of
Edward Williams. December 15, 1795. 3w
Robert Holmes, Has just Received and is now Opening at his SHOP, on Cross Street, a few doors above Mr. Downing's Store, A LARGE AND GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
PAINTS; Consisting of the following Articles,
(VIZ.) WHITE and Red Lead, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Patent Yellow, Rose, Pink, Putty, Spanish Whiting, Spanish Brown, Lamp-black. With sundry other articles too tedious to mention; which will be sold low for Cash.
He has an elegant two story FRAMED HOUSE, where he now lives, to Sell, or Lease for a number of years. It is a good stand for business, and calculated for a Store or Tavern. Lexington, December 13.
Abijah & John W. Hunt, Have just received
A Large and General Assortment of MERCHANDIZE,
Calculated for the present and ensuing season. ALSO
An Extensive Assortment of
Iron Mongery, Cutlery, Glass, Queen's Ware, Books and Groceries,
Which they are now opening at their Store in this place, and will dispose of upon reasonable terms by wholesale or retail. Lexington, December 19.
WILLIAM SCOTT, FULLER.
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public, that he carries on the
Fulling & Dying Business In its various branches,
On the Town Fork, within six miles of Lexington; where all those who will favor him with their custom may depend on the strictest care and dispatch. He will also attend at Messrs. Trotter and Scott's store in Lexington, the second Tuesday in every month.
He dyes Bottle Green, Blue, &c. &c.
WILLIAM ALLISON,
FULLER AND DYER,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public in general, that he still continues to carry on the Fulling and Dying Business, at the Fulling mill on South Elkhorn, between John Parker's mill and Lewis Craig's old mill, and still continues to receive cloth at capt. Henry Marshall's tavern in Lexington every first day of Fayette court, and return them there when done. L'Enfant at capt. Sharp's in Woodford every first day of Woodford court. Those who chose to favor him with their custom may depend on having their work done in the best manner, and as expeditiously as the nature of the business will admit. It will be carried on very rapidly, as it is three hands constantly at work.
LEXINGTON:
PRINTED BY JOHN BRADFORD ON MAIN STREET.

No. XI.
THE TREATY.
TO THE WELL DISPOSED PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY.
Fellow-Citizens.
THE 26th article of the treaty is in the following words— "If at any time a rupture should take place (which God forbid) between his majesty and the United States, the merchants and others of each of the two nations, residing in the dominions of the other, shall have the privilege of remaining and continuing their trade, so long as they behave peaceably, and commit no offence against the laws; and in case their conduct should render them suspected and the respective governments should think proper to order them to remove, the term of twelve months from the publication of the order shall be allowed them for that purpose to remove with their families, effects, and property, but this favor shall not be extended to those who shall act contrary to established laws; and for greater certainty it is declared that such rupture shall not be deemed to exist, while negotiations for accommodating differences shall be depending, nor until the respective ambassadors, or ministers, if such there shall be, shall be recalled, or sent home, on account of such differences, and not on account of personal misconduct, according to the nature and degrees of which both parties retain their rights, either to request the recall, or immediately to send home the ambassador or minister of the other; and that without prejudice to their mutual friendship and good understanding." No reasonable man, will, I presume object to this article. It seems to me in every respect proper, and necessary; and will on comparison correspond with our other treaties.
The 27th article appears to me quite as unexceptionable, "since by stipulating for the surrender of murderers, and forgers, it adds security to life and property." It is in the following words—"It is further agreed that his majesty and the United States on mutual requisitions, by them respectively, or by their respective officers and ministers, authorized to make the same, will deliver up to justice, all persons who being charged with murder or forgery, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum in any of the countries of the other: provided that this shall only be done on such evidence of criminality as according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the offence had there been committed. The expence of such apprehension and delivery shall be borne and defrayed, by those who make the requisition and receive the fugitive." I make no further observation on this article.
The 28th and last is as follows—"It is agreed that the first ten articles of this treaty shall be permanent, and that the subsequent articles except the twelfth, shall be limited in their duration to twelve years to be computed from the day on which the ratifications of this treaty shall be exchanged, but subject to this condition—that where as the said twelfth article will expire by the limitation therein contained, at the end of two years from the signing the preliminary or other articles of peace, which shall terminate the present
war in which his majesty is engaged, it is agreed that proper measures shall, by concert be taken for bringing the subject of that article into amicable treaty and discussion so early before the expiration of the said term, as that new arrangements on that head, may by that time be perfected and ready to take place. But if it should unfortunately happen, that his majesty and the United States, should not be able to agree on such new arrangements, in that case, all the articles of this treaty, except the first ten shall then cease and expire together.
Lastly. This treaty, when the same shall have been ratified by his majesty, and by the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of their senate, and the respective ratifications mutually exchanged, shall be binding and obligatory on his majesty, and on the said states, & shall be by them respectively executed and observed with punctuality and the most sincere regard to good faith; and whereas it will be expedient in order the better to facilitate intercourse and obviate difficulties that other articles be proposed and added to this treaty, which articles from want of time and other circumstances cannot now be perfected—it is agreed, that the said parties will from time to time readily treat of and concerning such articles, and will sincerely endeavor so to form them as that they may conduce to mutual convenience, and tend to promote mutual satisfaction and friendship; and that the said articles after having been duly ratified shall be added to, and make a part of this treaty. In faith whereof, we the undersigned ministers plenipotentiary of his majesty the king of Great Britain, and the United States of America, have signed this present treaty, and have caused to be affixed thereto the seal of our arms.
"Done at London this 19th day of November 1794."
But few observations need be made on this article, since its meaning cannot well be mistaken; and since it must be agreeable to those who are opposed to the commercial part of the treaty to find that the whole is but an experiment, or may be made so—that if on experience it should be found disadvantageous, it may be terminated at the end of two years after peace, by the provision of this article. At present it forms a part of a peace establishment between Great Britain and America.
Thus have I gone over the treaty in the manner I proposed. I have generally given the whole article, as well as the objections to it, and my own observations. In a few instances I have omitted giving the whole article, where after laying down the principle the detail was long, and seemed to me unimportant in the discussion. I can truly say, that in this business my object was to inform—in order to diminish that false impression which had been made of the treaty on your minds. If I have in any degree succeeded, it is well—if I have not, I shall patiently await the operation of the treaty itself, to correct the erroneous opinions which have been formed of it; conscious that in all my deliberations on the great question of its adoption, I sought for the best information on the subject; and that my judgment was ultimately determined, as the weight of argument preponderated. We live in the time of a faction which first assumed a visible, and ostensible shape, under the name of Democratic Societies; they are the offspring of the Jacobin Clubs in
France, and from thence can be traced to America, if not to Kentucky. And they, like their progenitors, are revolutionary, and aspire to the direction of the government, by means of extraneous discussions and resolutions, the better to acquire that ascendancy with the people which is necessary to influence their minds and their conduct, the more securely to effect their purposes of anarchy and ambition. In avowing these sentiments, which are the result of observation, I only make myself the more obnoxious to those who would already do me every possible violence, if they yet dared to avow their object; and who will do every thing they can to injure me in your estimation. But it is not to be expected that I am to contend with mobs, or that I shall notice the vague and anonymous aspersions and insinuations of my enemies. To those which are announced to the public under real signatures of any note, I shall pay the proper attention. It was not to be expected that those who were so clamorous last year, would have been more quiet this—and that man must have very little knowledge of human nature, who expected that those, who caused Jay's effigy to be burnt last year, would this year agree to anything he had done. For my part, I am not disappointed in this respect. I had this party in my view at the time I gave my vote. I knew that I should incur their utmost resentment; and nothing but the clear conviction of the propriety of the vote I was about to give, could have induced me to hazard it. Believing myself to be on the right side, I did also believe that I should be able to satisfy the people—and that if I failed in this, I should at least, have the satisfaction to reflect, that I had discharged my duty faithfully—that is, according to my own judgment.
I had the more confidence in this belief, because it is conformable to my past experience. Since I can say with confidence, that in all my public transactions, I have consulted more what was right, than what would please; persuaded that however my conduct might appear when viewed through the medium of prejudice, when it was fully understood it would meet with the approbation of the candid and impartial. And of this belief, as a principle of practice, I have not yet had cause of complaint; my countrymen have seen, and approved. Should they teach me a different belief; its effect must be either to suspend my action, or to destroy my independent, yet responsible character.
H. MARSHALL. THE END.
No. V.
To HUMPHREY MARSHALL, one of the Senators from the State of Kentucky, in the Congress of the United States.
YOU found your defence of the ninth article of the treaty, on its not giving a general permission to British subjects, to hold land in America, and "its being confined to the lands held by British subjects at the signature of the treaty." So far is this from being an argument in favor of the treaty, that in my opinion, it is one of the strongest instances contained in it, of a partial regulation introduced by the treaty, for the express purpose of favoring British subjects, at the expence either of particular States, or of a certain class of American citizens. Your favorite writer says this article "does not abolish alienism in the tenure of lands, and permit all British subjects here-
after, to purchase and hold lands within the United States, it is expressly confined to the lands held by British subjects, at the signature of the treaty." And why, I ask, was it so confined? If the doctrine "of alienism in the tenure of lands," was a pernicious one; and the President and Senate had power to do it away by treaty; it ought to have been done away altogether. But if it is founded in good policy, and therefore ought to have been, and still is, the law of the land in general cases; what particular inducements were there, to make it necessary and proper, to introduce this article in the treaty, as to the lands now held by British subjects in America? Was it done to secure to American citizens, a greater amount of that kind of property, which they now hold in Great Britain? You yourself confess that this was not the case. Was it done to prevent what you call "a scheme of robbery and plunder," to prevent either government from doing injustice to the citizens or subjects of the other? If this had been the object in contemplation, it would have been extended to all future times and occasions. Was it intended "to prevent a cause of war between the two nations, by prohibiting confiscations in time of peace?" This could not have been its design, because then as the treaty is intended to secure, a perpetual peace and amity between the two nations, this clause would have been extended to all future cases of this kind, as well as the present. As none of these could have been the true reason which produced this article, we must try it we cannot find out that reason, from the situation of the two parties. A great number of British subjects had acquired land in America, prior to the declaration of independence, which lands in consequence of our independence, and the war which we were obliged to carry on to support it, became forfeited to the different States; this is stated fully in the Virginia act concerning escheats and forfeitures from British subjects, part of the preamble of which act, is in the following words: "Whereas during the connexion which subsisted between the now United States of America, and the other parts of the British empire, and their subjection to one common prince, the inhabitants of either part had all the rights of natural born subjects in the other, and so might lawfully take and hold real property: and transmit the same by descent to their heirs in fee simple, which could not be done by mere aliens; and the inhabitants on each part had accordingly acquired real property in the other, and in like manner had acquired personal property, which by their common laws might be possessed by any other, than an alien enemy, and transmitted to executors and administrators; but when by the tyrannies of that prince, and the open hostilities committed by his armies and subjects inhabitants of the other parts of his dominions, on the good people of the said United States, they were obliged to wage war in defence of their rights, and finally to separate themselves from the rest of the British empire, to renounce all subjection to their common prince, and to become sovereign and independent States; the said inhabitants of the other parts of the British empire, became aliens and enemies to the said States, and as such incapable of holding the property, real or personal so acquired in; and so much thereof as came by the law

Commonwealth." These forfeitures were considered as having taken place in every State in America, but in some of them they had not in particular instances been acted upon, before the treaty of peace in 1783; by that treaty it was declared, that there should be no future confiscations made. From the treaty of 1783, the United States were considered, even by Great Britain, as an independent nation, and as a consequence of that independence, all British subjects were as much aliens in America, as the subjects of Spain or any other foreign power; and therefore as aliens, were by the common law incapable of inheriting or holding lands in America. Notwithstanding this, they have since that time purchased and claimed by descent, great quantities of land in every part of America, the legal right to which, in consequence of their being purchased by, and descending on, aliens, become vested in the particular States where the land was situate. But a very few American citizens held land in Great Britain before the treaty of 1783, and still fewer have bought there since that time. This article is therefore reciprocal only in name, but really operates almost exclusively to the advantage of British subjects; and as the number of American citizens, who were to be benefited by it, was very small when compared with the number of British subjects, whose pretended claims were secured by it; it is evident, that it must have been introduced, to serve British subjects only. And as this article extends to all who held land, at the signature of the treaty, it included all those who had purchased since the treaty, as well as those who held land prior to the American war; and as the article declares "that neither they, their heirs or assigns, shall so far as may respect the said lands, and the legal remedies incident thereto, be regarded as aliens," it places those lands in such a situation, that they may be for ever held by aliens, contrary to the policy and general laws of both America and Great Britain on that subject. Whether this article can be justified will depend on two considerations: 1. Its policy; and 2. The power which the President and Senate had to include such a subject in a treaty. If the policy of all our former ages has been just, by which aliens have been prevented, from holding lands in a country, to the laws of which they owe no obedience; this clause must have been impolitic; because by allowing all British subjects, who held lands in America in November 1794, to continue to hold them, and to transfer them, without being subject as far as respected the said lands, to the laws concerning aliens, it so far contradicts and prevents the operation of the general laws, concerning aliens. And I have already observed, that from the numbers of American citizens who held lands in Great Britain, such a departure from the general principles of policy, was by no means necessary; and that from the manner in which the clause is limited, it was not thought necessary to make any lasting change in the laws of the two countries on this subject. I therefore must conclude, that this partial alteration, in an important branch of the common law, when it was not made necessary by the particular situation of the American citizens at the time it was introduced, was impolitic; and that this as well as every other change, which has been made in the general laws of America, by this treaty, was introduced from an unfair and unjust preference, which has been given by the treaty, to the interests of British subjects, whenever they were found to come into competition with the interests of American States or citizens. But supposing the policy of the treaty was manifest, this article can only be defended if it extends to all the subjects of the President and Senate, as already been
said, that by the common law, as soon as land was purchased by, or descended on an alien, in one of the American States, it became vested in the State, by virtue of its prerogative, as a sovereign and independent nation; and of consequence, that each of the United States had in November 1794 a right to all the land which had been, before that time purchased by, or descended on a British subject, within that particular State. By what authority then, could the President and Senate by this article say, "it is agreed, that British subjects who now hold lands in the territories of the United States, and American citizens who now hold lands in the dominions of his majesty, shall continue to hold them according to the nature and tenure of their respective estates and titles therein; and may grant, sell or devise the same, to whom they please, in like manner as if they were natives, and that neither they nor their heirs or assigns, shall so far as may respect the said lands, and the legal remedies incident thereto, be regarded as aliens." This article certainly takes from the States vested rights, and gives those rights to British subjects; if there is any article in the Federal constitution, which justifies such a step, I am a stranger to it, and it should be produced by the advocates of the treaty: for unless it is justified by that constitution, it is an unwarranted assumption of power on the part of the President and Senate; for by one of the amendments to the Federal constitution it is expressly declared, that "the powers not delegated to the United States, by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Nay further, I think it may be asserted, that such an article as this is, is expressly prohibited by that clause of the constitution, which declares that "the Congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; & nothing in this constitution, shall be so construed, as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular State. If these ideas are just, the ninth article is both impolitic and unconstitutional.
But you say, "that as this article contains a mutual stipulation, a compact with a foreign power and could only be effected by a treaty, and as the President and Senate have the sole right of making treaties, without any description of particular kinds of treaties, but generally all treaties, and on all subjects, of which treaties are competent, without limitation or restriction, it is strictly constitutional." When we add to this, what you stated formerly, that treaties made by the President and Senate, were the supreme law of the land; and that all acts of congress, which were in opposition to them were void; it is evident that you consider the powers of the President and Senate, as unbounded; the limitations imposed by the constitution, as useless; the authority given by the constitution to the congress generally, as a dead letter; and the rights of the different States in the Union, as entirely swallowed up, in this unlimited power, claimed and exercised by the President and Senate. It must remain with the American people to say, whether the President and Senate does really possess this unlimited power, and if they do not, whether they will submit to their acts, founded on their supposed right to it.
But you say, "We may fairly assume, that a large majority of the states, were indifferent if not desirous of obtaining this article, since two thirds of the Senate, and seven states were unanimously in favor of it—two states only unanimously against it—the others divided." If this reasoning is just, it will also prove, that a large majority of the states, were indifferent
about, if not desirous of obtaining, the whole treaty; because the members of the Senate, voted for the ratification of the other articles, who approved of this: and it will also serve to prove, that as the Senators from this state were divided, in their opinions on this subject, that there are as many persons in this state, who approve of this treaty, as there are who disapprove of it. But as all these suggestions are evidently contrary to truth, they prove that your inference from the vote of the Senate in favour of this clause, is not a just one: and that a majority of those, who did vote for the ratification of the treaty, held a very different language from that used by the freemen of the states, they were sent from. That this is your case in particular, is well known to every man in the state, and is put beyond any doubt, by the unanimous address of the house of Representatives to the Governor, on the subject of the treaty.
If the members of the Senate are not bound to speak the sentiments of the states they represent, they make an aristocracy of the most dangerous kind; and as such their powers and time of service ought to be abridged: but if by the constitution and the nature of their office, they ought to consider themselves as the representatives of the different states, they are bound to vote in a manner consistent with the wishes of their respective states; and therefore, those members have violated the trust reposed in them, who have voted for the ratification of this treaty, contrary to the sentiments of the great body of freemen, in the states they represent.
A FREEMAN.
Notice,
IS hereby given that, I shall attend with the commissioners appointed by the court of Clarke county, on the first Tuesday in February 1796 at the forks of Stoner, where the stone quarry road crosses it; then and there to perpetuate certain testimony respecting a claim of one thousand acres of land, in my name and do such other things as the law directs.
Robert Fryer.
December 26.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
THAT on the fourth day of July, 1780, Benjamin Ashby did enter five hundred acres of land by virtue of part of a treasury warrant, on the north fork of the south fork of Licking; beginning one hundred poles westward of the said north fork, in a marked line, and to include an improvement made by Crittenden & Co. as by reference to said entry will at large appear; which beginning depends on the testimony of living witnesses. All concerned are hereby desired to
TAKE NOTICE,
That I have agreeably to an act of assembly passed in 1794, obtained from Clarke court an order appointing sundry commissioners to take the depositions of witnesses, in order to perpetuate the said beginning; and that the said commissioners will attend at the said beginning on the Wednesday after the first Tuesday in February next, and where I shall proceed to have the depositions of sundry witnesses taken, in order to perpetuate the said beginning; and to do such further acts as may be necessary, under the said act of assembly.
W. SUDDUTH, Atty for BENJAMIN ASHBY.
December 23.
I HEREBY give NOTICE, that I have purchased two tracts of Land from William Ballard, in Logan county; one on Big Barren river, and the other on Skaggs's creek, of six hundred and sixty-six and two thirds acres, in each tract.
HUGH M'GARY.
December 14, 1795.
GEORGE ADAMS, BOOT & SHOE-MAKER,
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that he carries on the above business in all its various branches in the house next door below where he formerly lived, on Main street, Lexington; where those who please to favor him with their custom, may depend on having their work done in the neatest and best manner and on the shortest notice. Ladies may have silk and stuff shoes and slippers made as neat and as well as those imported.
tf November 4.
FIFTY TENANTS WANTED.
ON a tract of LAND in Jefferson county, lately leased of the Transylvania Seminary. It is most eligibly situated, on the Ohio and Harrod's creek, at the distance of about eight miles above the Falls. The land is of the first quality, well watered and covered with the most luxuriant cane. The Beargrass settlements are within between two and three miles of it, and other settlements are forming on every side. There are good mills in the neighborhood, and it is intended to erect one very convenient to the settlers.
The land will be divided into tracts suiting the convenience of the Tenants, and will be let for seven years, on either of the two following terms:
1. The Tenants shall have the land they clear, rent free for five years, and pay two dollars or four bushels of wheat per acre, for each of the two remaining years. 2. Rent free three years, and half a dollar per acre for the fourth year,—three quarters for the fifth,—one dollar for the sixth, and one dollar and a quarter for the seventh.
Further particulars may be had by enquiring at the store of THOMAS HART & SON, or of SAMUEL PRICE & Co. in Lexington; or of the Agent Mr. WOODROW, now on the land.
November 2.
Notice
IS hereby given to all whom it may concern, that, pursuant to an act of assembly for ascertaining the boundaries of land and for other purposes; I have obtained an order of the court of Bourbon county, and commissioners are appointed, who will meet on Tuesday the 22d of December next, to take depositions in order to ascertain and perpetuate an improvement made by William Hall near a spring, on the east side of a small branch that empties into the waters of Licking, in a preemption of 400 acres granted to Edward Hall heir to William, and by him assigned to Higgerson Grubbs, who entered it and another preemption of 400 acres adjoining, granted to Thomas Hall, in the surveyor's office, May 30, 1780.
GEORGE M'COWN.
November 25, 1795.
FOR SALE
ONE thousand acres of the late General Stephen's military survey of LANDS on Hickman, about ten miles from Lexington, and adjoining that part on which General Lawson now lives. For terms apply to Thomas Hart and Cornelius Beatty of said town who are empowered to dispose of the same.
Lexington December 24, 1795.
JUST PUBLISHED,
AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, By the Six, Dozen, or Single,
THE KENTUCKY
ALMANAC,
For the Year 1796:
Containing, (Amongst other things common to Almanacs,) a short treatise on the culture of the Vine in America.