The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1799-01-31 00:00:00

TO JOHN SKEY BUSTACE, Of the City of New-York.
FROM the character which you left behind you, when you went from America to France, it might reasonably have been expected that you would, on your return to America, have wished to have been as little talked of as possible. But instead of pursuing such a line of conduct, as would have given you a chance of escaping public notice, you had scarcely landed before you became in the most ostentatious manner, the avowed newspaper instructor, of an administration, which you profess to esteem and admire; the reviler of individuals; and the calumniator of a state. Until you gave your name to the world, the readers of your writings were at a loss to determine whether the author of them excelled most in vanity, assurance or a total disregard of truth; but, you being once known to be the writer, your former well established reputation, removed all doubt upon the subject, because it had been long ascertained that you excelled equally in all of them. Your name, wherever you are known, is so perfect an antidote to the poison contained in your publications, that if you were as well known in all parts of America, as you are in some, it would be unnecessary to say a word in answer to them; but as this is not the case, a respect for the opinion of the uninformed part of the citizens of America, makes it proper to expose your calumnies. I shall leave it to others, to state in their proper colors, other parts of them, and confine my observations to those which respect the state of Kentucky.
The charge which you bring against that state, is, that its inhabitants are enemies to the union, that they do now, and long since have meditated a separation from the United States, and a close connexion with France; and, that to effect these purposes, they, as long ago as the year 1794, sent a confidential agent to Paris. And to prepare the public mind, to give credit to this charge, you state what you say is the true character of the people of this country. I will first enquire into the justness of the character which you give them, and then examine the proofs which you adduce to support the charge brought against them. You say, "the present inhabitants of Kentucky are the most heterogeneous, and the least known there or at the seat of government , of any, in a state so populous. It contains more men accustomed to the use of arms, and the service of war; and more adults in proportion to females and infants; besides, these men have few local or general ties, as federal Americans—because it has been the sole refuge , since the peace, of all those delinquent and desperate individuals , whom other states have arraigned, expelled or disgraced . To this source of augmentation, may be added another, more copious, and less odious, though equally unfriendly ; that class of reduced persons , who, forcibly yet reluctantly abandoned the cultivated and abundant shores of the atlantic, to seek a shelter from the dazzling blaze of their wealthy relations or rivals." It is strange that a man who has just returned to America, after having, as he informs the public, been absent from it for fourteen years, should undertake to give to the citizens of America, the character of the inhabitants of one of the United States, which has been settled during his absence. Unacquainted as you must necessarily have been, with the real character of those inhabitants, you must have either received the one which you have given of them from others, without any proof; or have fabricated it yourself, to answer your malicious purposes; but the character which you have given them, is so totally void of truth, that it cannot be believed that any man to whom you would have given credit, could have represented it as a just one to you: and we may therefore, fairly conclude that it was the production of your own vicious mind, fabricated to assist you, in supporting the false charge that you intended to bring against them. Instead of Kentucky's having been peopled with such men as you say it has, it is a well known fact,
that no new country in America, was ever settled by as respectable characters as that state has been; that its inhabitants are more generally independent in their circumstances, and clearer of debt, than the generality of the people in most of the states in the union; and that the improvements of every kind, which have been made in that state during the last ten years, greatly exceed in value, the improvements which have been made in the same space of time, in any inland part of America. What then must the citizens of America think of you, after your publication, when they are informed that this is the true character of their fellow citizens, who you have attempted so grossly to misrepresent to them; and that while they are enjoying that ease and happiness, which are the just reward and fruit of virtuous industry and independence, that their calumniator is roving to and fro over the earth—a vagabond . When you say, that "it is well known that the life of any individual may there be menaced, (and if I am rightly informed, even sacrificed to the resentment of certain privileged homicides ) without the smallest risk of punishment or prosecution;" you assert one absolute falsehood, and then pretend to have been informed of another. It is well known not only to those who live here, but also to the numerous visitors to this country, that all who are here, enjoy in a state of the most perfect security, all their personal rights, as well as those which are necessary for the security of their property; and instead of "that dread of immediate ruin" which you suppose influences in this country, the conduct of those who are friendly to some of the obnoxious measures of government, there is no state in the union, where a small number of men enjoy and express with the same freedom, that they do in this state, sentiments expressly contrary to those of nineteen twentieths of the inhabitants of the state. Indeed the spirit of forbearance is so great here, that some of this small number, as well as some of the zealous friends of arbitrary power, who have visited us from the other states, have in vain courted and merited a very different kind of treatment.
When you say that "the inhabitants of Kentucky are the least known there ," I am at a loss to comprehend your meaning; but the false representations which there is good reason to suppose have been given by others as well as yourself, of them & their conduct, will readily account for their being the least known at the seat of government , of any in a state so populous; & it is to be lamented, that these falsehoods gain credit there, when it would be so easy for those whose duty it is to get true information as to both.
After having thus falsely traduced the character of the people of this country it is not surprising that you should bring forward a groundless charge against them, and then attempt to support that charge by assertions altogether void of truth. The first proof which you adduce to support your charge against the state of Kentucky, is a letter which you say was written by the spy A, to the democratic society of Kentucky. There never was but one democratic society fully established and regularly organized in Kentucky: it consisted of between forty and fifty members, all of whom except six, were inhabitants of the town of Lexington; the society was called the Lexington democratic society; and this society had no connexion or correspondence with any other citizens of the country, in any part of it. Their principal object was to enquire into the steps which had been taken to procure the navigation of the Mississippi; and to recommend such measures as they thought would be most likely to obtain it; and the society dwindled away to nothing, as soon as it was known that the government was pursuing effectual measures to procure it for us; their meetings and deliberations were public, and a regular journal was kept of their proceedings, which is still in existence, and may be examined by any person wishing to do it. Samuel Fulton is supposed to be the person designated by you, by the character of the spy A; he never was an inhabitant of
the state of Kentucky, altho' he visited it twice, first in '94, and last in '95. So far from his being employed as a spy or agent by the democratic society of Lexington, it is a fact which can be established, as well by their proceedings, as by the united declarations of its members of both parties, that he never had any communication with that society, and was never employed by them in any manner whatsoever. It is said here, that Fulton went to France to solicit a commission in the French army, & during his stay there, the letter hereto annexed was addressed by him to that society, but it was not received here, until after that society was dissolved. If you ask how it happened, if he was not employed by the society, that he should address such a letter to them; altho' it is not incumbent on me to explain his conduct, I answer, that he was intimately acquainted with you in France, and therefore it is probable that he was either instigated by you to do it, or that he was led by your example, to act the part of a great man, in a strange country, or that upon a supposition, that such a communication would be pleasing to the society, he made it without having had any previous directions from them, respecting any such business. From this plain statement of facts, I should be glad to be informed how the democratic society of Lexington could be responsible for the contents of the letter which you have published, even if it was genuine? And if the democratic society of Lexington had acted ever so improperly, how could their conduct be made the foundation of a charge against the state of Kentucky? Are the unauthorized acts of fifty men in a state, formed into a separate society, without any connexion or communication as a society, with the rest of the state, to criminate a whole state, even if those acts were ever so improper? Both, common sense and justice will answer these questions in the negative, although you may not choose to do it.
I have said so much upon a supposition, that the letter which you have published as his, was really written by Fulton; but I more than suspect—I believe that it is a forgery. That letter is dated at Paris the 13th of February, 1795: the one which I now publish, the authenticity of which, cannot be doubted, is dated at the same place, on the following day, the 14th of February, 1795. This last letter takes no notice of his having written the day before; and the first sentence in it proves, that it was the first letter he had written to them on that subject. Until I saw Fulton's real letter of the 14th of February, I could not tell how to reconcile what you say was your opinion, "that the declared enemies of the American government could have no partisans among the citizens of the American confederation," an opinion, which you also say, "you had dared, in open defiance of public clamour, and not long ago, to alledge;" with this part of your letter, "but that I was deceived, most grossly deceived, many late and damning proofs conspire to impress on my mind an irrefragable conviction." The principal of these proofs which you now adduce to justify this change of opinion in you, is this letter which you published of the 13th of February; but, from the matter of that letter, from the place where it was written, from its date, and from your local situation when you published your letter to Mr. Pickering, you must have been possessed of this letter, if it is a genuine one, and been fully informed of its contents, long before your return to America; and yet you state to Mr. Pickering, that this letter is a full and complete proof of the treasonable intentions of the state of Kentucky. If you really did entertain your first opinion then , when you had this letter in your possession, and if this letter as published is now the most satisfactory proof even in your judgment, that that opinion was erroneous,—this letter must have undergone a change; for as long as it continued the same, it could not produce such repugnant and opposite opinions in the same man. If it has been altered, the world will know to whom to at-
tribute that alteration; and if, since that alteration has been made in it, you have, as you promised the world to do, made oath to the authenticity of it as published, we may readily conceive why you declare this letter to be "a damning proof ." If the world wishes to know how you could have been furnished with such materials as would have enabled you to fabricate or alter this letter, let it be informed, that Fulton, though brave and generous, was illiterate and very little acquainted with the world; and that he was upon the most friendly footing with you when in France; and then it will readily conjecture, that by your arts he was, in common with many other Americans, made both your dupe and pigeon , when in France. A comparison of the two letters, and an examination of the additions and alterations contained in the one which you have published, as having been written by Fulton, will prove the honest view with which, those additions and alterations were made.
The next proof which you offer to support the charge against the state of Kentucky, of entertaining treasonable designs, is, the resolutions of Clarke county, which, with your usual candour, you state as having been passed in Lexington; that you might be able to concentrate all the treasonable acts (as you are pleased to call them) in that place. Those resolutions, you say, contain, "a formal promise of revolt ;" and again "I say, a promised revolt , since the laws have passed which the revolters stand pledged to resist ." But, when we examine these treasonable resolves themselves, we find that they only say, that those making them "will, at the hazard of their lives and fortunes, support the union, the independence, the constitution & liberty of the United States; that certain powers given to the president, are dangerous and unconstitutional; that the alien bill is unconstitutional, impolitic, unjust, and disgraceful to the American character; that the privilege of speaking and publishing their sentiments, is inalienable, and that they will exercise and assert their just right to this privilege, in opposition to any law that may be passed to deprive them of it." So far are these resolves from containing any treasonable matter, that there is not a single expression in them, which is not fully justified by the constitution.
The last piece of testimony which you bring to support your charge against the state of Kentucky, is, the political creed of George Nicholas; although you yourself state this creed to be "an opposition proceeding from one single, solitary voice;" and altho' the creed itself, only contains an opinion, common to a majority of the American citizens, that the sedition bill is unconstitutional.
From a full examination of this charge, it must be evident, that it is false and malicious; and that you have attempted to support it by the basest means.
The following passage in your letter, discovers, as well the contempt in which you hold those who are now employed in America, in the military line, as your own unequalled vanity and assurance: "This moral consequence is entitled to our serious regard, to stop at the physical detail of regimental service, may suit the genius & the local views of our present subalterns, pupils, or preceptors ; from the veteran and highly graded authors of our national independence, something more will be required, and we should not disappoint the flattering hopes of those who look to us for counsel and examples." I beseech you to inform the public, how you became entitled to the character of one of "the veteran and highly graded authors of our national independence;" and who they are who "look to you for counsel and examples with flattering hopes." How unfortunate is it that your country, "in whose defence you have so cheerfully sacrificed eight years of the summer of your life, without one single hour of repose or domestic recreation," should be absolutely ignorant of the debt of gratitude, which she owes you. In justice to yourself, you should point out the particular services you have rendered. (See last page.)

AN ADDRESS, TO THE PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY.
FELLOW-CITIZENS;
AT a period of many months subsequent to those decrees which had been passed in France, and which had spread the most distressing devastation over the American commerce, similar ones were issued from the cabinet of Great Britain. The resentment which these hostile measures inspired in America, is, perhaps, one of the strongest instances that can be adduced, to discover the different dispositions which the United States felt towards France and England. Repeated injury, added to insult, had marked the conduct of the first, from the commencement of the revolution. They were overlooked with the amiable forbearance of friendship, and felt, with more real sorrow than resentment. One solitary instance of aggression, now marked the conduct of the latter; which awakening the remembrance of former injuries, gave birth to a degree of rancour and resentment, throughout the union, that seemed to threaten an immediate and open declaration of war. What could those different dispositions indicate? A superiority of injury and insult, had marked the conduct of France, which every day grew with accelerated vigour. A lesser degree of either, had been experienced from England, which had a speedy termination. The conclusion to be drawn from these circumstances, is every day exemplified in social life—We overlook with patience, the foibles of a friend, to whom we are sincerely attached, and even put up with some degree of injury, which his improper conduct may have communicated; whilst an injury or an insult from a character who has not made so far an advancement in our esteem, receives immediate resentment, and is repelled with intrepidity.
In addition to the above instance of friendship on the part of America, towards the French republic, another of equal import, may be adduced—Beneath the influence of the above mentioned decrees, made in the French convention, the ports of France were crowded with American vessels, captured on the high seas. These were loaded many of them, with the whole fortunes of our citizens. Many months passed, without the most remote cause being suggested for a system of aggression, which doomed our merchants to bankruptcy and threw additional impediments in the way of our national prosperity. These serious injuries, however, which would have been the signals for war against any other nation, were not all sufficient to attract the resentment of America; who only expressed the sensations she felt, in appeals of friendly remonstrance and conciliation. These appeals were as coolly listened to, as they were unfeelingly neglected. Many of the claims of our citizens have since been unaccredited, and property to a considerable amount, placed beyond the probability of reclamation.
It is thus that America has been treated by a nation, whom she had been accustomed to view in the character of the ally and the friend. The history of piracy can only afford similar instances of unjust aggression. The divan of Algiers has not been more unnatural than the directory of France, nor will the commerce of nations receive more lenity from the French republic, than the world has experienced, from the inhospitable states of Africa. It must, surely, be a strange infatuation in a country, which can view these direful aggressions, without feeling a proper and unanimous resentment. Still America appears not conscious of the ills she suffers, and stoops to "kiss the despotic hand that has purloined her from herself."
It has already been observed, that the decrees which had issued from the British cabinet gave considerable alarm to the United States; and inspired the general resentment of our citizens. These decrees made liable American vessels having on board provisions, bound to France; which were to be carried into the ports of Britain, for sale, or, to give security for their being sold in the ports of nations, then in friendship with the kingdom. Another also, of equal injury to our commerce issued sometime after, made
liable American vessels, laden with the produce of a French colony, or carrying provisions to the same. These vessels were to be brought into English ports for adjudication and their cargoes disposed of agreeable to a decree of admiralty.
Such conduct in the cabinet of England, could not fail to demand immediate redress—The clamour for war was so loud and so general that the government must have yielded to the voice of the people had not some pacific measures been adopted. Preferring negotiation, therefore as the only resource of happiness and prosperity, as the only means of restoring that tranquility to desirable in a republic, an envoy was dispatched to England with instructions to negotiate a treaty of peace, or to settle the existing differences. But before I proceed further, permit me to digress from the point in question, to make some remarks upon the conduct of the democrats of 1794 and those of 1798, with respect to our dispute with England, at that time, and our present difference with the French republic. These remarks will form a contrast, representative of a system of inconsistency, which can never be formed from the principles of right reason and of unbiased truth .—It is upon these principles, that the stores of democratical institutions are pretended to be laid; and the conduct of their advocates, therefore, deserves commutation.
It is the prerogative of right reason , to originate in the mind, every true political opinion. If there is any degree of partiality, either dictated by prejudice, or formed in the suggestions of interest, it is a sign that right reason could not have dictated a political opinion, which might rest on these principles.—Political opinions should be regular and steady, when right reason gives them the semblance of truth; and there are no considerations whatever, that should gain so complete a dominion over the mind of the patriot, as to induce him to relinquish the power of conviction.—The smallest bent of partiality, the least attention to personal interest or aggrandizement degrades his understanding and opens his mind to the whole chaos of political folly.
In the year 1794, when the depredations of Great Britain aroused the American mind to a contemplation of the injuries our commerce then suffered, many of the most conspicuous democrats of 1794 were loud in the denunciation of immediate vengeance. In 1798, when the insults and aggressions of France has laid our commerce under contribution and ruined the brightest prospects of our mercantile body, war and vengeance are the least thought of, but condemned on principles which in '94 that sagacious body had never thought of.—In '94 our resources to go to war with Great Britain were ample and fully adequate to resent on honorable terms, the injuries and insults we then suffered. In '98 four years afterwards when we had a fleet, for marine operation, when our commerce had increased, and consequently our sufferings on the high seas greater, when our resources had actually accumulated, and when the train of provocation have been much superior, that wise body who build their doctrines of policy upon right reason , suggest the impolicy of a war with France, make calculations of our resources, and dwell on the horrors of hostility with all the feeling eloquence which political piety can inspire.—In 1794, during the existence of grievances which bear no degree of parallel with those which France has inflicted, or which she has threatened, to our sovereignty, when no hostile inclination on the part of Great Britain, ever appeared to extend itself beyond the high seas, when no ministers of peace had been most shamefully insulted, and our government treated with merited contempt, as has been the case repeatedly by the French republic, the democrats at that period, blamed our administration as the dupes of England, as permitting our sovereignty to be insulted, and our independence threatened with invasion. In 1798, when France has really broken the laws of nations, commenced pirate and has actually threatened the United States, with war, this warlike body has retracted from the idea of hostility with the precipitation of a pursued thief, and is silent as to the unprecedented obloquy which the French republic has thrown upon the dignity of this country.—In 1794, among other suggestions as reasons for an immedi-
ate declaration of war, it was said, that the commencement of hostilities, on our commerce by Britain, was only the beginning of that plan, which the cabinet had formed, to bring America back to her former colonial situation. In 1798, when France, grown insolent beneath her successes, and feeling that triumph which power brings, has extended her arm to molest the quietude of Europe and Asia, when it is apparent that dominion is her object, and not the happiness of the human race, it is pretended by that order, who ground their political principles on right reason , that the republic of America is secure from a French invasion and that the designs of France are too virtuous ever to make an attack upon a nation whose sovereignty has been formed on principles similar to her own.—This idea is as ridiculous as it is impolitic. It serves to lull the mind into that fatal security, which has authorized the struggles of Europe and filled the dominions of princes with slaves.—Republican government dictated to France a defensive war; but her ambition has carried her beyond the limits of Europe, when success had attended her arms, to invade the regions of the east. The same principles suggested an observance of the laws of nations; but her pride has induced her to commence pirate, and invade the property of her best ally and friend.—When we discover such glaring instances of perfidiousness, mingled with such unbounded ambition, what violation of duty may we not expect to see, even in a republic? In a word, are the United States, which nature has rendered the object of envy by the powers of Europe, beneath the ambitious hopes of France, or exempt from dangers which an unprincipled power may brood into existence? Finally in 1794, such was the impulse inspired by British aggressions, and so palpably degraded was the dignity of our country, in the estimation of the democrats, that negotiation for the return of a happy peace, was deemed absurd, was deemed as derogatory and as impolitic. In 1798, when the waring system, from every circumstance of insult and vexation, might with more justice have been urged, to have protected our honor and saved us from the aspersions of all Europe, the democrats, governed by right reason , viewed negotiation as essential. They appear to have made no proportion between the crime and the punishment, no discrimination between the political urgency in the one case, and the propriety of it in the other. Governed by the impulse of prejudice, England was doomed to feel the rigor of war, for a crime of inferior magnitude, with those of France, whilst France, whose enormities have been unexampled in the annals of nations, was deemed worthy of conciliation, upon any terms whatever.
For this heterogeneous plan of politics, America has been indebted to the democratical doctrine of right reason . If, however, the influence of right reason , agreeably to the true meaning of the word, should ever extend itself over the affairs of nations, it will be better for the world. Statesmen, in applying its injunctions to the situation of mankind, governed by prejudices, and swayed in their various pursuits by interest and ambition, will find the genuine doctrine of right reason to concentrate in plans that shall promote their happiness, by ameliorating the human condition.
TIMOLEON.
Lexington, January 31.
At a very numerous meeting of the inhabitants of FAYETTE COUNTY, held at the Meeting house near Bryant's Station, on Saturday the 26th inst. in conformity to a previous public notice, for the purpose of adopting some mode of forming a general ticket of proper persons to represent that county in convention; the following resolutions were agreed to, and ordered to be published:—
Whereas the only proper and honest object of a convention, in a state enjoying a regular organized government, is, by amendments made to the existing constitution, more effectually to secure the liberties and every species of property, which the free citizens of that state are entitled to and possessed of; and not to impair, or destroy them, or any of them,
Resolved, That no man ought to be elected to the convention in this state, unless he will give the most unequivocal
assurances, that he will be for inserting in the constitution every regulation which shall be necessary for the better securing to the free citizens of this state, those liberties and that property which they are now entitled to, and possessed of; and that he will consent to nothing, as a part of that constitution, which will impair or destroy, or which shall put it in the power of any future legislature to impair or destroy any of those liberties, or any species of that property.—And that every necessary evidence may be given of their intention to conform to these principles, by those who may be proposed as proper persons to be elected to that convention.
Resolved, That no man ought to be voted for, as a member of that convention, unless he will unequivocally say, that he will use his utmost exertions to have it declared by the constitution:
1. That representatives shall be apportioned among the free citizens of this state, according to their numbers, and not by counties, or any other mode, by which one set of those citizens may be entitled to a greater number of representatives than the same number of such citizens in any other part of the state, will be entitled to:
2. That the legislature shall consist of two branches; but that the senate shall be elected for as short a time, and as immediately by the people, as the wisdom of the convention shall deem to be consistent with the proper design of that institution.
3. That the judges and courts shall be independent; and that no encroachments shall be made on the powers which ought properly and exclusively to be lodged in the judiciary.
4. That the compact with the state of Virginia shall be considered as a part of the constitution; and,
5. That the legislature shall have no power to direct or authorize an emancipation of slaves, either immediate or gradual, without the consent of their owners, or, without paying their owners their full value, in money, previous to such emancipation. Reserving, however, to the legislature, full power to pass laws to enable owners to emancipate their slaves, when they may wish to do so, upon such terms as the legislature may direct: reserving also to the legislature power to prevent the future importation of slaves into this state from any of the other states in the union, whenever they shall think that the policy of this state requires such a regulation; and expressly prohibiting by the constitution itself, the importation into this state, of any slave who hath been, since the first day of January 1789, or who may hereafter be imported into any of the United States, from a foreign Country.
And whereas, at a time when so much depends on the making of a proper choice of men to represent us in convention, those means ought to be made use of which will be most likely to produce such a choice; and whereas, a communication of sentiment and opinion between those possessing the right of suffrage, appears to be the most likely means of effecting this desirable purpose:
Resolved, That it be recommended to each religious society, and to the free male inhabitants above the age of twenty-one years, living within the bounds of each militia company within this county, to proceed as soon as may be, to elect two proper persons to meet in committee at this place, on the 3d Saturday in March next: which committee, or a majority of them, shall then form a general ticket of proper persons to represent this county in convention; but it is clearly to be understood, that the name of no person shall be inserted by the committee in this ticket, unless he shall previously have made the declaration before mentioned in these resolves, to at least one member of this committee: and we do pledge ourselves to each other, that we will, to the utmost of our power, support the ticket which shall be formed.
Signed by unanimous consent,
JOHN M'DOWEL, Chm.
The scarcity of news from Ireland, may be accounted for from the following fact—a commander of an American vessel, and the mate, now in this city, could not obtain a clearance from an Irish port, until they had sworn not to communicate for a given time, any of the public transactions in that country.
Philad. pap.

PORTSMOUTH, December 12. Capt. Furnas, 30 days from Tortola—spoke an English sloop of war, which informed him that they had spoken a flag of truce from Guadalupe, with three commissioners on board, bound to the United States, to try to settle the differences between the French West-India islands, and America; which vessel the British commander suffered to proceed.
PHILADELPHIA, December 27. Friday evening the election of a member to the seat vacated by J. Hutson, in the Pennsylvania Legislature, closed, when, upon counting up the votes in the several districts, the Northern Liberties—Southwark, Moyamensing, and Passyunk—Blockley and Kingsessing—German town, and Bushkill-town: the numbers appeared to be— Total. For George Logan, 1256 F. A. Muhlenberg, 769 Majority for Logan, 487
In the supreme court of Pennsylvania in the case of the said state against William Cobbett, Printer of this city, application was made by the said defendant, that the jurisdiction of the said might be transferred to the circuit court of the United States. Saturday and Monday were employed by the counsel on each side in arguments on this application. Tuesday morning the hon. chief justice delivered the decision of the court, which was, that the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted.
A rumour has been for several days in circulation, that information of a very interesting nature has been received from England by persons in this city. We have taken much pains to arrive at the facts, but find all their lips closed who should know it. The most general fact asserted is, that a revolt has taken place in part of England and Scotland.—As report we give it. (Aurora)
AMERICAN NAVY.
List of vessels in service.
   Frigates. Guns.     United States 44, John Barry,   Constitution 44, Sam. Nicholson,   Constellation 36, Thos. Truxton,   Ganges 24, Thos. Tingey,   Delaware 20, Stephen Decatur,   Montezuma 20, Alex. Murray,   Baltimore 20, Isaac Philips,   G. W. 24, Patrick Fletcher,   Herald 18, James Serer,   Portsmouth 24, Daniel M'Neal,   Pinckney 18, Samuel Heyward,   Norfolk 18, Thomas Williams,   Richmond 18,   Merrimack 24, Moses Brown,   Galley.   Retaliation 14, Wm> Wm. Bainbridge.  
Eight Revenue cutters.
BUILDING.
   Gen. Greene, 24, Chas. R. Perry,   Connecticut, 24, Moses Lyon,   Adams, 24, Rich. V. Morris   1 at Boston 24,   2 at Baltimore 18, each.   1 at Charleston 24,   1 at Salem 32,   2 at New-York 44, each.   1 at Phil. 44,   1 at Norfolk 36,   1 at Portsmouth 44,   1 at Middletown 32,   1 at Warren R. I. 32,   1 at Boston 36,  
TO THE PUBLIC.
TAKE notice that a certain John Cobb, has now a judgment obtained against me in the county of Amhurst, by John Ley for 22 or 23 pounds in his possession, which I have a legal receipt against, this is to caution any person from purchasing said judgment as they may rely on what I say.
JOSEPH EDWARDS.
January 7th, 1799
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Leatherwood fork of Little Barren, one bright bay mare six years old, hath a blaze in her face, some saddle spots, hath on a three drilling bell, with an old leather collar, and iron double buckle, thirteen hands and a half high, appraised to 81.
Also one sorrel filly, adjudged to be one year old last spring, hath a star in her forehead, and a streak of white below her eyes, no brand, perceivable appraised to 61.
HENRY VOTAU.
November 19th, 1798.
Transylvania Library.
AT a meeting of the Library Committee, January 20th, 1799—
Resolved, That the following shares in the Transylvania Library, be forfeited, if the contributions due thereon are not discharged by the first Saturday in April:
No. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 23, 29, 30, 33, 34, 41, 45, 47, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 68, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 79, 82, 84, 85, 86, 89, 93, 94, 102, 103, 105, 106, 116.
Extract from the Minutes,
THOS. T. BARR, C. T. L. C.
*** Such persons as owe for shares and shall fail to make payment to T. T. Barr, by the 1st of April next, may expect to be sued, without discrimination.
Books will be received in payment, for arrearages, shares or contributions; provided they are approved of by the committee, who will meet at the library room, on the first Friday in every month, at 4 o'clock, in the afternoon. In the mean time they may be delivered to the Librarian, or T. T. Barr.
The following presents were made to the Library.
The American edition of the Encyclopaedia—by Mr. Andrew Holmes.
Sacred and Moral Poems—by Mr. James M c Bradford.
Stevens's History of Algiers—by the Author.
Chaucer's works—by Mr. James Blifs.
Brown on Equality—by Mr. John Nancarrow.
For which,
Resolved, That the thanks of the Library Company be presented to the Donors.
Published by Order,
THOS. T. BARR, CLK.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Harrods fork of Crocus, one sorrel mare, judged to be seven years old next spring, about fourteen hands three inches high, hath a blaze and small snip, no brands perceivable, and trots, appraised to 201.
ENOCH M c KINNY.
December 12th, 1798.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, Madison county, Tates creek, one three year old sorrel horse colt, four feet four inches high, with a white face, the off fore foot and the hind foot white, branded on the off shoulder thus, J appraised to 41.
BENJAMIN CLARKE.
November 7th, 1798.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living on the waters of Big creek, in Greene county, one black horse five years old, fourteen hands one inch high, some white below his hind fetlock, some small saddle marks, hath a lameness in his off shoulder, potted and appraised to 121.
ISAAC M c HENRY.
December 24th, 1798.
NOTICE,
ALL persons are cautioned not to take an assignment on an order drawn some time in July, or August, or September, 1797, by Peter Crouse of Lexington, for the sum of 651 2s 2d, accepted by the subscriber, as the said Crouse gave him notice not to pay it but for the sum of 411 4s 6d which has been paid by the subscriber in the course of the year 1797, to the bearer of the said order, as per receipt of several sums of the amount of 1051 8s 7d.
P. D. ROBERT
January 23th, 1799.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against taking a conveyance of five hundred acres of land lying in the county of Fayette and state Kentucky, on the waters Clear creek, (being the land whereon Charles Pigman now lives,) of Jesse Pigman; as I have purchased the said lands from John Lucas, who assured to me a writing obligatory given by said Jesse Pigman to said Lucas, for the conveyance of the said tract of land, dated the 5th day of April 1787, and also as I have the oldest patent for said land.
LEWIS CRAIG.
January 29th, 1799.
BLANK DEEDS
For Sale at this Office.
RUN-AWAY from the subscriber, living in Bourbon county two negro men, called Jery and Allen. It is probable that they are in Clarke, or in the upper end of Fayette; Whoever will apprehend them and deliver them to me, or at the furnace on slate, or confine them in prison in Lexington, shall be paid an adequate reward.
ROBERT BUCKNER.
January 20th, 1799.
NICHOLAS BRIGHT, BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURER;
RETURNS his thanks to his customers, for their past favors, and hopes by his attention to business, to merit them in future. He begs leave to inform the public in general, that he continues to carry on the above business in all its branches, on Cross street, two doors above Short street. He will take three or four apprentices, to the above business.
Take Notice,
THAT I shall attend with the commissioners appointed by the county court of Bourbon, under the act of assembly, entitled "an act to ascertain the boundaries of land, &c." to prove the special calls of an entry, obtained by John Burger sen. it being a preemption warrant of 400 acres, lying on the waters of Townsend. Any person that wishes to hear the testimony taken, concerning the calls of the above entry, may attend on Monday the 25th day of February next, and should we not finish on that day, continue from day to day, until the business is completed, agreeable to the above recited act.
JOHN BURGER sen.
25th January, 1799.
NOTICE.
THOSE gentlemen who have subscribed for, and all others who may incline to purchase THE KENTUCKY ENGLISH GRAMMAR, published by S. Wilson, may be furnished at Mr. Bradford's Printing-Office in Lexington, Mr. H. Brent's store in Paris, and by the subscriber in Clarke county.
S. WILSON.
January 1, 1799.
Just arrived from New-Orleans,
A quantity of high proof
30 JAMAICA SPIRITS;
Also a quantity of
BEST HAVANNAH SUGAR,
which will be sold on low terms.—Apply to
A. HOLMES.
Lexington, May 26, 1798.
A TAVERN.
THE subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that he has opened TAVERN at the sign of the Sheaf of Wheat, just back of the court house. He is furnished with every necessary which may tend to accommodate those who may call upon him.
THOMAS TIBBATS.
Lexington, January 18, 1799.
N o . B. Travellers can always be furnished with travelling biscuits, bacon hams, venison dried beef, beef tongues, cheese, &c. &c.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And for sale at the office of the KENTUCKY GAZETTE in Lexington, and the GUARDIAN OF FREEDOM in Frankfort,
Price 15.
A LETTER
FROM GEORGE NICHOLAS OF KENTUCKY, TO HIS FRIEND IN VIRGINIA, Justifying the conduct of the citizens of Kentucky, as to some of the late measures of the general government; and correcting certain false statements, which have been made in the different states of the views and actions of the people of Kentucky.
FOUND
ON the road leading from Georgetown to Lexington, a RED MOROCCO POCKET BOOK, containing sundry papers, and two rings, which appear to be the property of Mess. Smith and Campbell, of Scott or Woodford county. The owner may get information by applying at the office of the Kentucky Gazette.
THURSDAY, January 31st—12 o'clock.
We have delayed our paper till this late hour, waiting for the Southern Mail—It has not yet arrived.
For advertisements, &c. see Gazette Extraordinary.
C. FREEMAN, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Late of the Indian towns, from the North-Western Territory of the United States, now at Lexington in Kentucky.
RESPECTFULLY informs the public, that he has been regularly bred to the art of PHYSIC and SURGERY, studied three and an half years with doctor Laurence, V. D. Med. an eminent practitioner, and late president of the medical society of the state of New-Jersey; attended doctor William Shippen's lectures on anatomy, surgery and midwifery, in the city of Philadelphia—received a license to practice as a physician and surgeon throughout the state of New-Jersey, 13th of August, 1785, from the honorable David Brearly and Isaac Smith, two of the justices of the supreme court of the state of New-Jersey, agreeable to an act passed 25th November, 1783, by the council and general assembly of that state, for regulating the practice of physic and surgery.
Since which time, he has travelled through twenty-two different tribes of Indians, among whom he has resided nearly four years, and made it his constant study to investigate and find out the virtues of all kinds of herbs, roots, plants and simples, used by them in the curing of diseases, by which means he has made a number of valuable discoveries in the healing art, and now (with the blessing of God) cures and gives relief in most diseases incident to the human body—viz. fevers, inflammations, eruptions, hemorrhages, fluxes, fits, cramps, convulsions, head-aches, sore-eyes, bleeding at the nose, colds, coughs, pain in the breast, spitting of blood, pains in the stomach, indigestion, night sweats, inward debilities, low spirits, vapours in men, hysterics in women, difficulty of making water, bloody urine, coltiveness and incontinence, effectually destroys worms, cures flux and wandering pains arising in different parts of the body, the effects of the improper use of mercury, green wounds, old sores, ulcers, burns, scalds, cankers, scald-head in children, piles and fistulas, the whites in women, and all feminal weaknesses in both sexes; the bite of the viper, rattle snake, and all venomous bites effectually cured.
The many cures performed within four years past, which will fully appear (to any gentleman who will please to call upon him, being too lengthy for this paper) by papers and vouchers of cures performed, now in his hands, properly attested, and whose authenticity cannot be denied, flatters himself is sufficient to convince the public that he has been successful in curing diseases, and that this is not intended as an imposition upon mankind.
Just published by John Bradford, and for sale at his office, Lexington, and at the office of John Bradford & Son, Frankfort, Price 18d
EXTRACTS from the REVENUE LAWS of the UNITED STATES.
Comprehending such parts of the excise laws, laws laying duties on licenses for selling wine, &c. on riding carriages, on property sold at auction—and on stamps, as appears best calculated for the information of such as have not an opportunity of perusing the laws of the general government.
Also, (Price 4d.)
STAMP DUTIES,
Printed on thick paper, and calculated to be fitted into a pocket book.
LATELY RE-PUBLISHED.
A Short and Easy method with the DEISTS.
Also,
The Truth of Christianity
DEMONSTRATED. Both these performances are now comprised in one pamphlet, and are for sale at John Bradford's Printing Office, and several of the libraries in Lexington.
They were written by the celebrated Dr. Charles Lister; have been recommended by some of the most eminent defenders of the Christian Religion, and are esteemed by many equal to any publications on that subject which are not much more voluminous.
At the said office may likewise be had, Dr. Watson's APOLOGY for the BIBLE.

SACRED TO THE MUSES.
From the American Farmer.
THE UNFORTUNATE FAIR.
By a Young Poet.
TWAS from a high projecting cliff, A lovely fair I spy'd, Her heart of every joy bereft, Invok'd the raging tide.
"Why was I born, or why possess "So large a share of woe? "Or why those raging billows toss, "And sink my love below?
"Then waft me, ever rolling flood, "To where my love is laid, "Or in some distant lonely wood, "I mourn a hapless maid."
Transported thus with grief, she flew To plunge her in the deep; With hasty steps I to her drew, And bade her cease to weep.
I took her by the lily hand, And led her to a grove, Her tender sighs my soul unman'd, With sympathetic love.
I seated her upon a green, Of verdant foliage made, Beneath her feet a purling stream, Above her head a shade.
With gentleness I prest to know, The cause of her distress; The silent tears began to flow, Replete with tenderness.
With heartfelt unaffected pains, Her swelling bosom rose, And in the softest, saddest strains, Began her tale of woes.
"My youthful heart no sorrows knew. "Till Albert cross'd the tide—" With quiv'ring lips and sickly hue, She fainted by my side!
Her eye, to dimness reconcil'd, Her pulse beat faint and few, And speechless, with a gentle smile, She bade the world adieu.
Go—gentle spirit, ever bless'd, From scenes of grief retire, To you fair worlds of happiness, And join the heavenly choir.
ANECDOE.
A person seeing his friend wear a thread-bare cloak, asked him if it was not sleepy? Why do you ask? said the other: because, replies the first, I think it has not had a nap these seven years.
From an English print.
MARRIED.
At Clyde, on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Pace, Mr. Trot, to Miss Gallop.
At Gosport, on Sunday evening, by the Rev. Mr. Church, Mr. Ring, to Miss Bell.
At Manchester, on Friday, by the Rev. Mr. Spade, Mr. Coffin, to Miss Grave.
(Continued from the first page.) her: you should say in which of the brilliant actions of our gallant countrymen, you had an honorable share. The public has never yet been informed of any noble actions of theirs in which you participated, although the world retains the remembrance of many of yours which were of such a nature, that those heroes would resent in the warmest manner, an insinuation that they had been, in the smallest degree, concerned in them.—It appears somewhat strange, though it may possibly be true, "that your alarms for the safety of your native country, your zeal to avert the dangers which threatened the liberties of the United States, and your horrors of a second invasion from some of the tyrants of Europe, should have induced you to publish in 1794, in Europe, and not in America, the ease with which America might be invaded and conquered. But if your stock of knowledge, of which you acknowledge yourself to be "proud," and
which was acquired "during ten years of travel and of study in various climes," could suggest no better means of defending our country, and our liberties, than standing armies and ruinous navies, your country would not have had much cause to regret, if all your labors, as well as "the first fruits of your filial concern for the safety of your beloved country," had been exerted and left in France.
You account in the most satisfactory manner, for "your present devotion to a government which has so fully consummated your wishes" with respect to a standing army and a ruinous navy; and "your abnegation of every public favor and emolument" certainly ought no longer to be urged as a testimony of your aversion to the actual president of the Union," when at the same time that you inform the public of your having made it, you prove that it is not sincere, by declaring your readiness "to perform the duties that may be required of you, as an American citizen, or an American soldier, either by the chief magistrate of the Union, or of the state in which you reside." Even without this declaration, no person who is acquainted with your history, and who has seen your writings, could doubt as to your real views and objects: for however fruitful in resources, your genius may have been, it must be now exhausted, by having without any other aids, than those which could be derived from tricks and stratagem, supported you for fourteen years, without your possessing any visible or known means, sufficient to maintain you for a week. It is therefore natural for you to wish to exchange this precarious mode of subsistence for the certain emoluments of office. Your prospect of hereafter possessing "dead men's shoes," cannot be very flattering, as from your own account, it depends upon your uncle's success in a law-suit, whether he, who is not now well shod, will have shoes enough to carry him through the journey of life, without laying up a store for you. And as your noble relations, if they exist at all, are amongst the poor Scotch lairds, and as you can expect nothing from them, but that contempt which they always feel for those who are still poorer than themselves, you ought not to be expected to give up a chance of getting into office, on that account.
Your persevering labours in the execution of the infamous task which you had taken upon yourself, notwithstanding "you have been condemned to write under two rapidly successive attacks of the prevailing epidemic," are the most convincing proofs, either of the superior degree of the malevolence of your heart, or of your dread of perishing from the want of the necessary means of support.
Leaving you to be "cheered by the conscious rectitude of your public and private principles," I declare, that, notwithstanding the infamous character you have given to the inhabitants of my country, it is with pleasure that I subscribe myself
A CITIZEN OF KENTUCKY.
Letter from Samuel Fulton, to the Democratic Society of Lexington, Kentucky.
"PARIS, February the 14th, 1795. "My dear friends & fellow citizens.
"I was happy to find, on my arrival in this country, the government exceedingly well disposed towards the United States in general, and far from being indifferent to the immediate concerns of our western brethren. The victorious and amazing success of the French arms, put them in a situation to dictate law to all Europe astonished at the achievements of the sons of Liberty. I have the most sanguine hopes that the opening of the Mississippi will be the consequence of their conquest; and at this critical juncture would be the most impolitic and improvident step for us to hazard any means which could defeat, in great part, all the advantages the western country would reap from the friendly and truly brotherly disposition of this government to procure to us what we have so long wished for. I request you therefore, my dear friends, to recommend the suspension of every thing which could impede my efforts here until you hear further from me or see myself. Weighty reasons prevent me from being more explicit, as possibly, this letter
may miscarry: but you may be assured that I have reason to trust to the friendly and generous French nation.
I have great deal more to say, but do not think it safe to communicate in a letter, upwards of three thousand leagues, thro hostile seas, and rival states.
So my dear friends, I will conclude with giving you the latest accounts from the victorious armies. On the 21st day of January, the army of the North, took possession of all Holland, with the greater part of the Dutch fleet, which was blocked up in the ice, and on the 8th of this instant, the army of Catelan took the city of Rôle, by storm. In short, they are everywhere victorious.
I remain
With every sentiment of Regard and esteem, Your affectionate Fellow-Citizen,
SAML. FULTON.
To the Democratic Society of Lex- ington Kentucky.
The original letter from which the above is copied, is lodged in the office of the printer of the Kentucky Gazette, for the inspection of all who may wish to see it.
The following is the letter said to have been written by Fulton on the 13th of February, as it was published by Eulace in his letter to Mr. Pickering.
The best comment on the publication of this credence, is the following letter, of which I shall attest the authenticity (with that of the several facts I have given to the public under the subjoined signature,) by a solemn deposition before the chief magistrate of the city.
Letter of the American Spy, A, to the democratic society of Kentucky—when the accredited agent of gen. Rogers Clark, and his associates and the inseparable intimate of the American minister plenipotentiary in France.
Paris 13th February, 1795.
"I shall not amuse you my dear friends and fellow citizens, with a recital of the several adventures to which your confidential mission has subjected me on both sides of the great water; these will serve for a personal interview; but to use the language of our red brethren and fellow-sufferers, I shall proceed to give you a great talk, in as few words as possible.
A knowledge of the unmerited evils under which we labour, had long since excited the sympathetic concern of several of our countrymen, whose private affairs had called them from the Atlantic states, to France, and the late spirited remonstrances of the Western assemblies and societies, have considerably enhanced their fraternal solicitude—as the latter shew we now have courage to set forth, and insist on, as inalienable rights what we were once content to sue for as a charitable donation; need I add that this sentiment is common to all the persons I converse with here? No—for even in the French, can it appear wonderful that the triumphant assertors of the right of man on the Maese and on the Rhine should be ever ready and anxious to aid the progress of civil and political freedom among their fellow democrats on the Ohio and Mississippi! Suffice it then to say, that the main object of my patriotic mission is fast advancing to the accomplishment—though not precisely in the way projected by ourselves.
Your situation rather than mine, forbids me to be more minute in the announcement of this welcome intelligence; nor can I, in justice to those warm and cordial friends who are my fellow labourers in this mighty work, communicate at present either the names or services of our fraternal benefactors. The period, thank God! is not distant when both will be made known to the world, as a grateful tribute to their solicitude for our happiness, and as a testimony of the purity of our own principles and projects. It will then be found that the avowed adversaries of the western Americans are secret foes of American prosperity and independence, for they cannot seriously doubt, though they have so strenuously dared to deny that "we love those states from which we were all congregated, and that no event (not even an attempt to barter away our most valuable rights) shall alienate our affections from the individual members who compose them,"—and
the testimonies we are about to exhibit of this truth, will spare us, we trust, from the painful necessity of legitimating by some other, our degradation from the union; for attachments to governments cease to be natural, when they cease to be mutual.
I must candidly confess, that a very dangerous plan had been laid for us, without your knowledge; but I have fortunately discovered and defeated the projector—(this was the French spy La Chaise)—he once possessed your confidence, and would have repaid your friendship by a series of evils too enormous to be fully or safely communicated in a letter destined to travel nearly two thousand leagues, through hostile seas and rival states.
By the first of May, I hope to give you, in person, the necessary information for a prompt and final accomplishment of our purpose; I have therefore only one previous injunction to enforce, that every possible step may be taken to prevent the enemy from receiving provisions; [and that proper boats may be prepared, as we shall certainly have occasion for them.] I must equally enjoin on you, not only to forbear every act of hostility, but even to mask your very acts of precaution, so as to leave no door open for suspicion, or remonstrance from any quarter.
Accept my sincere and cordial salutation of health and brotherly affection.
A. P. S. On the 21st of January, we celebrated here the death of the last French king; and on the same day the victorious armies of the republic completed the conquest of Holland, by the taking of Amsterdam."
TO BE SOLD,
TO the highest bidder on Friday the eighth of February at the late dwelling house of George Taylor, dec. the personal estate of the said deceased, consisting of stock, household and kitchen furniture.
All those who are indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment. And all those who have any demands against the same are requested to present their accounts that provision may be made for the discharge thereof, nine months credit will be given for all sums above four dollars with bond and approved security.
MARY TAYLOR, Adm'r x. January 23d, 1799.
TO BE SOLD,
TH the highest bidder, for ready money, on Tuesday, the 12th day of February next, at the late dwelling house of Andrew Gatewood, dec. all the personal estate of said dec. consisting of slaves, stock of all kinds, household and kitchen furniture, farming utensils, &c, the sales to begin at 10 o'clock, and continue until the whole is sold, where due attendance will be given by,
MARGARET GATEWOOD, Ex'rx. WILLIAM GIST, } Ex'ors. and, JOHN KAY. January 27th, 1799.
I HAVE for sale, several thousand acres of land on Green river, and the waters thereof (which I will dispose of in such quantities as may best suit the purchasers,) for which I will take cash, negroes, and horses.
NINIAN EDWARDS. Bairdstown. January 18th 1799.
FOR RENT,
THE house lately occupied by col. Blanton, in Lexington, on Short street, & near the public square: it is large, elegant and convenient, fit for the reception of a genteel family, with a kitchen, back yard, and other conveniences. Also the house adjoining, lately occupied by Richard Coleman, as a public house, and is a very good stand for business; three rooms on the lower floor, and two above, kitchen, back yard, garden and stable,—possession given immediately. For terms apply to William Morton esq. in town.
WALKER BAYLOR.
January 25th, 1799.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on the white oak branch of North Elkhorn, Scott county, a bright bay filly, two or three years old last spring, supposed to be branded T, on the near shoulder, 14 hands one inch high, long tail, appraised to 71 ros. JAMES DOHONY.

TAKE NOTICE
THAT I gave a bond to Thomas Carlan, in 1798—the bond I have nearly paid off—the balance I am determined not to pay, as the said Carlan will not come to a settlement with me, and there is another person that has a claim to a small part of the land I gave this bond for.
RICHARD TAYLOR.
Ten Dollars Reward
FOR apprehending and securing Thomas Fletcher, who deserted from a detachment of recruits under my command at this place, on the 31st of December, 1798. He was born in Wythe county, in the state of Virginia, nineteen years of age, six feet two inches high, dark complexion, smooth face, black short hair and black eyes—wore with him one pair regimental woolen overalls, one shirt, a striped furtout coat, nearly worn out and a short clouded nankin coat.
JONA. TAYLOR.
Lieut. 4th regt. Comds.
Winchester, Rendez. (Kentucky.)
GINSENG
A GENEROUS price will be given in merchandise for a quantity of good well dried GINSENG
BY the subscriber in this place, and OTHO BEATTY & Co. in Frankfort, from this time forward, until the middle of March next.
C. BEATTY.
Lexington, January 10, 1799.
The Subscriber
RESPECTFULLY informs the public in general and his friends in particular, who have been kind enough heretofore to favor him with their custom, that he has moved a small distance north of the court house, on the same street where he formerly lived, where he will keep the sign of the
AMERICAN EAGLE.
And is very commodiously situated to accommodate travellers, boarders, and such as may please to call on him. His furnishing his house and stables from the produce of his own plantation, together with his steady attention in the line of his business, will enable him to keep at least a regular and plentiful supply; he hopes therefore, to be able to do such justice to those who may favor him with their custom, as to merit a continuance of their favors.
JOHN HUNTER.
Georgetown, January 12th, 1799.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, on Chaplain fork, Nelson county, a bay horse with a star in his forehead, about fourteen hands one inch high, eight or nine years old, appraised to 161.
WILLIAM MORGAN.
May 14, 1798.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, upon the waters Dry run, Scott county, a black colt, two years old, branded on the near shoulder DH, off hind foot white appraised to 81.
SAMUEL DEHAVEN.
HOUSES FOR SALE.
WILL be sold at public auction, at the court house in Lexington, on the 11th of February next, being court day, on a credit of three months, that elegant and commodious house (in which Mr. Benjamin S. Cox formerly lived) and lot, situate and fronting on High-street, being four poles in front, and extending back to Water-street 13 poles. On that part of the lot, fronting Water street, is erected a large stone house, a principal part of the Carpenter work in said house completed. A stone spring-house, with an excellent and never failing spring. This property is very valuable, and in point of situation, is equal, if not superior, to any in Lexington. An inalienable title will be made to the purchaser.
JAMES MORRISON.
Lexington, January 10th, 1799.
FAYETTE COUNTY,
November court of Quarter Sessions, 1798. Percival Butler complainant.
AGAINST James Wilkinson, John Fowler and James Blair, defendants.
IN CHANCERY.
THE defendant James Wilkinson, not having entered his appearance agreeable to law, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of this court that he is no inhabitant of this state, on the motion of the complainant by his counsel it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the second Monday in March next, and answer the bill of the complainant, that a copy of this order be forthwith published in the Kentucky Gazette for two months successively, and some Sunday immediately after divine service, at the door of the Presbyterian meeting house in the town of Lexington, and another copy to be posted at the door of the court house of this county.
(A Copy.) Teste.
LEVI TODD, Clk. F. C.
BLANK DEEDS
For Sale at this Office.
FAYETTE COUNTY,
Court of Quarter Sessions, November, 1798. John Luke, complainant,
AGAINST George Kyger, defendant,
IN CHANCERY.
THE defendant not having entered his appearance agreeable to law and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of this court that he is no inhabitant of this state: On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the second Monday in March next, and answer the bill of the complainant; that a copy of this order be forthwith published in the Kentucky Gazette, for two months successively, and some Sunday immediately after divine service, at the door of the Presbyterian meeting house, in the town of Lexington, and another copy to be posted at the door of the court house in this county.
A copy, Teste
LEVI TODD, C. F. C.
THE subscriber earnestly requests all persons indebted to him, either by bond, note, or book account, to make payment on or before the 1st day of January next,—Those who fail to comply with this notice, may be assured that their accounts will be put into the hands of proper officers for collection.
December 9th, 1798.
JOHN M. BOGGS.
PARIS DISTRICT.
October term, 1798. Edward Worthington, complainant,
against Daniel Callaghan, John Tittle, Hugh Miller, and Benjamin Harrison defendants.
IN CHANCERY.
THE defendant Daniel Callaghan not having entered his appearance herein agreeably to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth; on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the third day of the next term, and answer the complainant's bill, and that a copy of this order be inserted in the Kentucky Gazette two months successively, another posted at the court-house door of Bourbon county, and published at the front door of the Presbyterian meeting-house in Paris, some Sunday immediately after divine service.
(A Copy.) Thomas Arnold, Clk.
NOTICE
THAT application will be made to the next General Assembly, to add a part of the present county of Fayette to the county of Jessamine, by a line, beginning at the place mentioned in the law for dividing Fayette county, near Allen's land, and to run with the line of Woodford to where said line comes to South Elkhorn; thence, up South Elkhorn, to above where Lewis Craig's old mill stood, about forty poles; thence a direct line to the six mile tree near Shotwell's on the Hickman road; and thence, a direct line to the six mile tree from Lexington on Tait's creek road; thence, a South East course, to Kentucky river: And that part of Fayette county which lies between the above line and the present bounds of Jessamine county, to be added to Jessamine county. And also a petition for incorporating the town of Lexington on moderate terms.
A TAN-YARD.
THE subscribers have opened a Tan-Yard, in the town of Versailles, which they are determined to carry on in the best manner possible. Cash, Merchandise, or Saddlery, will be given for all kinds of Hides.—They will also take hides to be tanned on the shares. Those who will be so good as to favor them with their custom, may depend on being satisfied.
S. WILKINS, WM. REID.
Versailles, Jan. 16, 1799.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Cane run, Fayette county, a black Mare, 13 and a half hands high, about 8 or 9 years old; has a star in her face, has two saddle spots, branded on the near shoulder IG, had on about a 6s bell, with a double collar sewed with a whang. Potted and appraised to 30 dollars.
WENDAL TROUT.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living half a mile from Horine's mill on Shawanee run, Mercer county, a bay Horse, about 5 feet 1 inch high, about 7 years old, branded on the near shoulder, side and buttock T, shod before, appraised to 241.
Also, a bay horse, 5 years old past, about 14 hands and a half high, a star, near hind foot white, shod all round, appraised to 201.
JAMES M'CULLOUGH.
October 29, 1798.
I WISH to inform my customers, and the public in general, that I have moved my falling mill to a much better stream, and that I expect great dispatch will be made in the business;—and that Mr. Burnit will attend at Mr. Innis B. Brent's tavern, in Lexington, the first day of every court, to receive and deliver cloth.
ELIJAH CRAIG.
January 18, 1799.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Mercer county, near Todd's ferry, one black horse six or seven years old, fifteen hands high, shod all round, a few white hairs in his forehead, no brand perceivable, appraised to 301.
EDWARD DARNEBY.
NOTICE.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against taking an assignment on a bond which I gave to Alexander Sloan, for sixty pounds, dated the 14th of June, 1797—also three bonds, of thirty pounds each, and one of fifteen pounds ten, all of the same date; which said bonds I am determined not to pay, as the said Sloan has failed to comply with his contract with me.
ROBERT ELDER.
January 21st, 1799.
FOR SALE.
FOUR hundred and twenty-four acres of LAND, lying on the Main branch of Licking, patented and surveyed in the year 1788—the title indisputable. For terms apply to the subscriber at Capt. William Allen's, Lexington. Produce will be taken in payment.
ROBERT BRADLEY.
LOST.
BETWEEN this place and Maj. Streshly's, about 7 miles on the Woodford road, a large bundle of papers rolled up in a sheet of parchment, which can be of use to no other person except the loser. The finder can be at no loss to whom they be belong, as the contents will point to the owner. If delivered to the printer hereof a handsome reward will be paid by the subscriber.
THOMAS CARNEAL.
Lexington, 28th December, 1798.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED from the subscriber living in the state of Tennessee, Grainger county, Raccoon valley, on the north fork of Bull run, the 25th of May last, a black horse, branded thus 3B, on the near shoulder—a little white spot on the near thigh, appears as if it was occasioned by the cork of a horse-shoe—he is nearly sixteen hands high—six years old next spring—with a swab tail. Any person delivering said horse to the subscriber, shall receive the above reward, or ten dollars to any person who will give information where he can be got.
JOHN SALLEY.
November 11th, 1798.
JOHN JORDAN JUN.
HAS just arrived from Philadelphia with a LARGE AND EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF MERCHANDIZE; which he is now opening and will sell whole sale, on moderate terms.
Lexington, February 18th, 1798.
FOR SALE,
FORTY THOUSAND acres of land, lying on Licking. 3,350, ditto in Jefferson county, on the waters of Bear Grass. 1000 acres of a pre-emption in Shelby county, Foxe's run. 400 acres adjoining the pre-emption. 1000 acres on the Ohio, Jefferson county. 2,500 on the Ohio, Mason county. 2000 do. do. 4000 acres on the Beech Fork, Nelson county. 3,333 1-3 acres on Fern creek, Jefferson county. 7000 acres on Rough creek, Hardin county. 4,300 acres in Mason county, on the Ohio. 450 acres on Green-river, Lincoln county. 750 acres on Coxe's creek, Nelson county. 1000 do. near the Kentucky river, Woodford county. The greater part of the above lands I will sell very low for the next crop of tobacco; wheat, flour, hemp or merchandise.
SAMUEL P. DUVALL.
April 1st, 1798.
NOTICE
THAT the subscriber respectfully informs the gentleman merchants, and traders to New-Orleans, &c. that he intends carrying on the business of BOAT BUILDING, the ensuing winter, at or near the mouth of Silver creek, on the Kentucky river—and as he intends to keep a number of hands employed in that business, hopes to be able to supply his friends with any number of boats that may be wanting, on short notice. Cash Merchandize, Tobacco, Whiskey, Pork, Beef-Cattle and Corn, will be received in payment.
JOSIAS BULLOCK.
FOR SALE.
Two hundred and fifty acres of Military Land, LYING in Woodford county, on the road leading from Woodford court house, to Delany's ferry, six miles from the former, and two from the latter—about forty acres cleared, a good peach orchard, and a hewed log dwelling house, with a shingle roof. For further information, apply to Mr. Thomas Bullock, near the premises, or to the subscriber living in Shelbyville.
WINGFIELD BULLOCK.
FOR SALE,
Several Small Tracts of VERY Valuable LAND, and of incontestible TITLE, (viz:)
MILITARY LANDS IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.
360 Acres, comprehending three tracts of 120 acres each, adjoining the southern boundaries of an addition to the town of Clarksville, of the eastern bank of the river Cumberland, with a fine spring of water in each of the said tracts. 46 town lots; and out lots, being part of 56 town lots and out lots in the aforesaid addition to the town of Clarksville.
53 separated out lots of two acres each, being part of 55 out lots, lying on the east side of the aforesaid addition to the town of Clarksville, reserved for the accommodation of the purchasers of the town lots, during the term of 18 months from November last.
IN THE ILLINOIS GRANT, N. W. TERRITORY. 200 acres, being part of a 500 acre survey No. 126, granted to John Moore, as sergeant of artillery in the Illinois regiment, by a deed of the trustees of said grant.
LANDS LYING NEAR THE VILLAGE KASKASKIA.
In the Illinois district, now county of St. Clair, N. W. Territory granted by court or command for the state of Virginia, in 1783. 1440 acres, viz. 960 in 8 grants of 120 acres—480 in 2 grants of 240 acres; joined together on the east side of the river Kaskaskia, opposite the village of the same name.
364 acres bounded on the front by the said river Kaskaskia.
3880 ditto, comprehending 10 grants in the year 1784, lying together on the west side of the river Kaskaskia, above and near the village of the same name.
360 ditto, bounded on the north by the aforesaid 10 grants. Also one lot in the town of Kaskaskia, pleasantly situated near the bank of the river.
For further information apply to
P. D. ROBERT.
Who has for sale 450 lbs. of very good GUN POWDER.
Lexington, April 4, 1798.
JOHN JORDAN, JUN.
HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE QUANTITY OF MADEIRA, SHERRY, LISBON, & PORT, WINES.
ALSO, SPIRITS AND BRANDY.
Of a superior quality, which he purposes selling very low for Cash.
Opening For Sale.
By the subscribers in Main street (next door to Mr. Stewart's Printing Office) an elegant assortment of British and India Muslins,
Of all descriptions;
WITH a variety of other articles—amongst which are broad and softest cloths, cassimeres, printed callicoes, chintz, and printed shawls; silk and cotton bandanaes; best Scotch thread, mens' cotton stockings, fine white tapes, cambrics and lawns, 5-4-6-4-7-4-8-4, and 8 by 10 gr. diaper & damask table cloths; bed ticking, white and brown linens, cotton counterpanes, pulicat handkerchiefs, India and coloured nankins; hats assorted, needles, ivory and horn combs; Madeira and brandy by the quarter cask; loaf and muscovado sugars, tea, coffee, chocolate, &c. &c. with an assortment of Hopkins's new invented razor strops and composition—Which will be sold on the lowest terms for cash or approved notes.
GARDNER & BOARDMAN.
Lexington, October 29, 1798.
JOHN ARTHUR,
TAKES this method of informing his friends and the public, that he has opened store in the house adjoining Trotter and Scott's, opposite the Market house. He wishes to purchase a quantity of Tobacco, Hemp, Whiskey, Flour, Butter, Hogs' lard, Wheat, Rye, Oats and Corn—for which he will give cash and store goods.
Lexington, 18th December 1798.
** He has a ten plate stove for sale.
Dr. ESSEX,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, AND MAM MID WIFE.
A PUPIL of the late Dr. John Hunter of London, announces to his friends and the public, that he continues to practice in the several departments of his profession.
Lexington, Sept. 10, 1798.
N. B. Dr. Essex resides in the house formerly occupied by Mr. Seitz, at the end of the town of Lexington which leads out to Frankfort.

In the year 1792, February 19th, a certain John Dougherty, of this state, entered into an agreement with col. William Fontaine, of Hanover county, and state of Virginia, for the purchase of 1000 acres of land adjoining that of Fontaine's heirs, on Pogue's creek, in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the continental line, the aforesaid tract was surveyed for John E. Johnson, and assigned to said Fontaine, in whose name the patent issued. Dougherty, at the time of contracting for the land, paid a small part of the purchase money and received from Fontaine the plat and patent, he has failed to comply with his agreement. I do now call upon him or any person or persons legally authorized to come forward to me, at Lexington, immediately, where, if the agreement is fulfilled I am ready, and am fully authorized to convey Fontaine's title to the said land.
WILLIAM DANEY JUN. Agent for William Fontaine. Lexington, January 10, 1799.
STATE OF KENTUCKY. Washington District, set.
November term, 1798. Cary L. Clarke, complainant, Against Joseph Gankling jun. and William Lloyd, Thomas Lloyd, Abigail Lloyd, Betsy Lloyd and Thomas Lloyd, heirs and representatives of Samuel P. Lloyd deceased, defendants.
In Chancery.
THE defendants not having entered their appearance agreeably to an act of assembly and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth—On the motion of the complainant by his attorney, it is ordered that the defendants appear here on the third day of our next term and answer the complainant's bill: And that a copy of this order be inserted in the Kentucky Gazette or Herald for two months successively; another posted at the door of the court-house of Mason county: and that this order be published some Sunday, at the door of the Baptist meeting house in Washington.
A Copy Teste, FRANCIS TAYLOR, c. w. d. c.
STATE OF KENTUCKY. Washington District, set.
November term, 1798. Buckner Thruston complainant, AGAINST John Nicholson, and Robert Morris, and John Grayham, George Grayham, and Richard Grayham, infant heirs and representatives of Richard Grayham dec. and Humphrey Marshall, and George Rogers Clarke, defendants.
In Chancery.
THE defendants not having entered their appearance agreeably to an act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendants John Nicholson, Robert Morris, George Grayham and Richard Grayham, are not inhabitants of this commonwealth—On motion of the complainant by his attorney, it is ordered that the said defendants appear here on the third day of our next term, and answer the complainant's bill: and that a copy of this order be inserted in the Kentucky Gazette, or Herald, for two months successively, another posted at the door of the court house in Mason county, and that this order be published some Sunday at the door of the Baptist meeting house, in Washington.
A Copy. Teste, FRANCIS TAYLOR, c. w. d. c.
STATE OF KENTUCKY. Washington District, set.
November term, 1798. Joseph M'Goffin & Son, complainants, Against Bertrand Ewell, Jesse Ewell, Leroy Ewell and Thomas Waller, defendants.
In Chancery.
THE defendants not having entered their appearance agreeably to an act of assembly and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the said defendants Bertrand Ewell and Jesse Ewell are not inhabitants of this commonwealth—On motion of the complainants by their attorney, it is ordered, that the said defendants appear here on the third day of our next term, and answer the complainants' bill: And that a copy of this order be inserted in the Kentucky Gazette or Herald for two months successively; another posted at the door of the court-house in Mason county; and that this order be published some Sunday at the door of the Baptist meeting house in Washington.
A Copy, Teste, FRANCIS TAYLOR, c. w. d. c.
STATE OF KENTUCKY.
Washington District, set. November term, 1798.
Guy Bryan, complainant, AGAINST John Nicholson, Robert Morris, George Grayham, John Grayham, Richard Grayham, Humphrey Marshall, and George Rogers Clarke, defendants.
In Chancery.
THE defendants, John Nicholson, Robert Morris, George Grayham, and Richard Grayham, not having entered their appearance agreeably to an act of assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing satisfactorily to the court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth—On the motion of the complainant by his attorney, it is ordered that the said defendants appear here on the third day of the next term, and answer the complainant's bill; and that copy of this order be inserted in the Kentucky Gazette, or Herald, for two months successively, another posted at the door of the court house of Mason county, and that this order be published some Sunday at the door of the Baptist meeting-house in Washington.
A Copy. Teste, FRANCIS TAYLOR, c. w. d. c.
STATE OF KENTUCKY. Washington District, set.
November term, 1798. James Lamberton, complainant, Against John Blair, trustee and Thomas Waring, Robert Rankins, Simon Kenton and William Roe, mortgagees, and Robert Meek and Mary his wife, James Wood and City his wife, John Wood and Mary his wife, and Alexander Smith and Anne his wife, heirs of Nathaniel Allen, dec. defendants.
In Chancery.
IT appearing to the court, that the order to advertize, formerly had herein, has not been published agreeably to a rule of this court, and the said defendants James Wood and Mary his wife, John Wood and Mary his wife, Alexander Smith and Anne his wife, and Mary Meek still appearing to be no inhabitants of this commonwealth, and they not having entered their appearance agreeably to an act of assembly and the rules of this court—On the motion of the complainant, by James Hughes his attorney, it is ordered, that the said defendants appear here on the third day of our next term and answer the complainant's bill: and that a copy of this order be inserted in the Kentucky Gazette or Herald for two months successively; another posted at the door of the court-house of Mason county: and that this order be published some Sunday, at the door of the Baptist meeting-house in Washington.
A Copy, Teste, FRANCIS TAYLOR, c. w. d. c.
FOR SALE,
ALL the lands belonging to John Cockey Owings, in this state.—Also his share in the Iron Works—for terms apply to B. VANRADELLES, atty. in fact for John Cockey Owings.
TOBACCO MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber informs his friends and the public in general, that he continues to carry on the manufactory of tobacco, in all its various branches, equal to any in this state, nearly opposite lawyer Hughes's, on Main street, where he intends to have a quantity ready for sale, wholesale and retail. Those gentlemen who please to favor him with their custom may be supplied on the shortest notice. A considerable credit will be given, when purchased wholesale, by giving bond with approved security.
JACOB LAUDEMAN. Lexington, Jan. 15, 1798.
Five Dollars Reward.
WAS stolen or broke out of my stable in Lexington, on Thursday night, the 29th December last. a likely sorrel mare 14 and a half hands high, 7 or 8 years old, with a small star and snip, both hind legs white, branded thus W. on the near shoulder and buttock, but not very plain, her tail pretty bunchy, has the appearance of being worked. Whoever will deliver said mare to me shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges.
H. MILVAIN. Lexington, March 9, 1798. tf
JUST PUBLISHED, The Kentucky Almanac, For the year of our Lord 1799.
JAMES B. JANUARY.
HAS removed his Store to the House adjoining the sign of the Buffalo, kept by John M'Nair—where he has opened a very handsome assortment of GOODS, Suitable to the present and approaching season.
He has also for sale, a quantity of RED-CLOVER SEED, Of this year's produce and the growth of Kentucky—a large quantity of SALT, IRON & CASTINGS, Assorted.—But, LISTEN!
Those indebted to him, must pay off their respective balances on or before the 1st of February.
December 21, 1798.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to me, are requested to make immediate payment to James Hughes, attorney at law, who is authorized to collect the debts due to me, and from the collections to make payment to my creditors.
Melchor Myers, Butcher. Lexington, December 23d, 1798.
As the creditors of Melchor Myers are very pressing, and some of them have obtained judgments, no indulgence can be given to those of his debtors, who do not immediately make partial payments at least. I with all his creditors to furnish me with their accounts, in order to enable me to apportion the money I may receive.
JAMES HUGHES.
Lexington, December 23d, 1798. sw
Woodford county, December 22d, 1798. THE partnership of Crittenden and Turpin is this day dissolved by mutual consent, those having any demands against the same, are desired to come forward and have them adjusted, and those indebted to make immediate payment to John Crittenden in whose care the books and papers will be left during the absence of Thomas Turpin; Those who do not pay their respective balances before the 1st of February may expect suits to be commenced against them.
JOHN CRITTENDEN. THOMAS TURPIN.
ALEXANDER PARKER,
HAS JUST IMPORTED FROM PHILADELPHIA, And now opening, on Main street, opposite the court house, a very extensive
Assortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hard Ware, Glass, Queens & China Ware;
which he will sell on moderate terms for Cash. Lexington, Sept. 24, 1798.
Just Imported,
And now opening, at the corner of Main and Cross streets, opposite the old court-house, a variety of articles, adapted to the present and approaching season, viz.
  An assortment of dry goods, Hardware & cutlery, Sud irons, hoes scythes and files, Crockery and glass ware, Japaned do. A general assortment of tin do. Pewter basins, dishes and plates. Superfine post and common paper, School bibles and testaments, Spelling books, Dilworth's assistant. Mairs book-keeping, Blank books, Cherry bounces, Porter, Wines, Teas, Coffee, and Chocolate; Pepper,  Loaf, white & brown Sugars, Alspice, cinnamon, ginger &c. Alum, copperas, arnott, A few hundred of excellent logwood. Jesuit's barks. Glauber's salts. Copper tea kettles; Two large and one small still, Sheet iron & nail rods, Nails & flooring brads, from 3d. to 12d. Window glass, 7 by 9 8 by 10, 9 by 11, 10 by 12, A variety of saddlery, Saddles, saddle bags whips and bridles of every description. Also a few excellent double and single trigger rifles.  
All of which will be disposed of extremely low for cash, by the public's humble servant, NATHAN BURROWS. Lexington, March 8, 1798.
* A generous price will be given for country fugar,
THOMAS REID, COPPER & TIN SMITH;
INFORMS his friends and the public, that he carries on the above business opposite Mr. Bradfords Printing-Office, on Main street; where he will be happy to serve any person who will please to favor him with their custom.
Lexington, January 7, 1799. ** An active lad, of about fourteen years of age, and of good character, will be taken apprentice.
HENRY HYMAN,
GOLD & SILVER SMITH, CLOCK & WATCH MAKER, (FROM LONDON.)
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has served a regular apprenticeship to the above business, in Great-Britain, that he has opened shop in Lexington, in the house of Messrs. Robert and Andrew Porter, where he intends working in the above lines, in all their branches. Those who may please to employ him may depend on the utmost punctuality and reasonable terms.
Lexington, January 21st, 1799.
RAN AWAY on the 13th inst. Jonathan Hatter, an apprentice, bound to the rope-making business, about sixteen years of age, four feet eleven inches high, had on when he went away, a drab colored out side jacket and waistcoat, and leather overalls, has a down look.—Any body that will return the said boy, shall receive five shillings reward. I forewarn all persons against harbouring or trusting the said apprentice.
DAVID DODGE.
Lexington, January 22d, 1799. 3t
TWO DOLLARS REWARD.
LOST, or taken off my horse, who broke from Capt. Marshall's tavern, Lexington, on Friday the 4th inst. a saddle, nearly new, with a blue cloth, and leather pad, which has a hole in the forepart, about the size of a round ninepence, the saddle was girthed with a girth and surcingle, the stirrups not fellows, nor plated.—whoever delivers the saddle to the subscriber, or gives information to that he gets it again, shall receive the above reward.
GABRIEL TOMPKINS. January 21st, 1799.
TOWN LOTS FOR SALE.
TO be sold to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 5th day of February next, (being court-day) about Forty Valuable Lots, in the town of Richmond, in Madison county—The terms to be made known on the day of sale, by the
TRUSTEES.
Richmond, 8th Jan. '99. J Mtp 2t
Ready Money
GIVEN FOR GOOD CLEAN MERCHANTABLE WHEAT, Delivered at my Mill, three miles below Lexington.
THOMAS LEWIS.
September 29th, 1798. tf
CASH & MERCHANDIZE
WILL BE GIVEN BY THE SUBSCRIBER, FOR TOBACCO.
All those indebted to him are requested to make immediate payment.
JAMES WIER.
December 24th, 1798. tf
FOR SALE,
THREE PAIR OF French-Bur Mill Stones.
WELL cleaned Merchantable Hemp, Tobacco or Superfine flour, will be received in payment.
THOMAS HART.
1st January, 1799. N. B. A quantity of HEMP is wanting, for which, Nails, Iron or any kind of Merchandise, will be given—or Cash, payable in six months from the delivery.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
Has just returned from Philadelphia; with a large and very general assortment of
MERCHANDIZE,
Consisting of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hard Ware, Cutlery, Queen's Ware, &c. &c.
Also an assortment of BOOKS, consisting of Divinity, Law, History, School, Music, Copperplate Copies, &c.
A large assortment of Ladies' Morocco, Stuff, Leather Shoes and Slippers—all of which will be sold low for Cash.
All those indebted to him by bond, note or book account, are requested to make payment on or before the first day of September next. A compliance with this request will be gratefully remembered by WILL. LEAVY. Lexington, Aug. 13, 1798.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Montgomery county, near Springfield meeting house, a bay horse, 14 years old, 14 hands and a half high, branded on the near shoulder thus M, and on the near buttock D, both hind feet white, some saddle spots, a star in his forehead, appraised to 15 dollars.
JAMES M'LANATHEN.
October 19, 1798.
NOTICE
THAT commissioners appointed by the court of Garrard county, will meet on the first day of March next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, on Back creek, at the big spring where Samuel Rice formerly lived, there to perorate the testimony of sundry witnesses concerning the improvements of John Bruce, assignee of Thomas Pettit, and do such other acts as the law directs.
JOHN BRUCE.
Garrard county, January 8th, 1799. 3
WANTED,
A quantity of good clean
ASHES,
Delivered at Mr. A. F. Saugrain's, Lexington. JAMES M'COON.