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THE KENTUCKY GAZETTE.
[No. 710.]
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1800.
[VOL. XIII.]
LEXINGTON.—PRINTED BY JOHN BRADFORD, (On Main Street)—PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAID IN ADVANCE.
NEW CONSTITUTION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
An Official Copy.
CAPITOL I.
Art. 1. The French republic is one and indivisible.
Its European territory is distributed into departments, and communal districts.
2. Every man born and resident in France, and of the age of 21 years, who has inscribed his name in the civic register of his communal district, and afterwards remained a year on the territory of the French republic, is a French citizen.
3. A foreigner becomes a French citizen, who, after having attained the age of 21 years, and declared his intention of fixing his residence in France, and has resided there for ten successive years.
4. The title of French citizen is forfeited: By naturalization in a foreign country.
By accepting any office or pension from a foreign government.
By affiliation with any foreign corporation, which supposes distinctions of birth.
By condemnation to corporal or infamous punishment.
5. The exercise of the rights of a French citizen are suspended by a bankruptcy, or by a total or partial succession to the property of an insolvent.
By a state of hired servitude, either attached to the service of the person or the family.
By a state of judicial interdiction, accusation or contumacy.
6. In order to exercise the rights of citizenship, they must have been acquired by being domiciliated by a year's residence, and not forfeited by a year's absence.
7. The citizens of every communal district shall appoint by their suffrages, those, whom they think most worthy of conducting the public affairs. There shall be a list of confidence, containing a number of names equal to a tenth of the number of citizens possessing the right of suffrage. From this first communal list the public functionaries of districts shall be taken.
8. The citizens comprised in the communal lists of a department, shall also appoint a tenth of their number. These shall constitute a second list, called the department list, from which the public functionaries of each department shall be taken.
9. The citizens included in the departmental list shall also appoint a tenth of their number. This 3d list shall consist of the citizens of each department, eligible to public national functions.
10. The citizens who shall have a right of co-operating in the formation of any of the lists mentioned in the three preceding articles, shall every third year, be called upon to exercise the power of replacing those who shall have died, or absented themselves for any other cause, than the exercise of a public function.
11. They may also withdraw from the lists those whom they shall not judge proper to continue, and replace them by other citizens in whom they may have greater confidence.
12. No one shall be erased from the lists, otherwise than by the votes of the decisive majority of the citizens, having the right of co-operating in their formation.
13. No one shall be erased from the list of those eligible to public national functions, merely because his name may have been struck out of a list of an inferior or superior degree.
14. The appointment to the list of eligibles is only necessary with regard to public functions; for which that condition is expressly required by the constitution or by the law. All the lists of the deliberates shall be formed in the course of the 9th year.
CAPITOL II.
15. The conservatory senate shall be composed of 80 members, of 40 years of age at least; to be irremovable during life.
For the formation of the senate, there shall be nominated, in the first instance, 60 members: this number shall be increased to 62, in the course of the 8th year; to 64 in the 9th year; and shall be gradually increased to 80, by the addition of two members in each of the ten first years.
16. The nomination to the office of senate, shall be by the senate, who shall make choice out of these candidates presented them; the first, by the legislative body; the second by the tribunate; and the third by the chief consul.
17. The chief consul, upon his quitting his office, either by the expiration of his functions, or by resignation, necessarily, and as a matter of right, becomes a senator.
The other two consuls, during the month which follows the expiration of their functions, may take their seats in the senate; but are not obliged to exercise that privilege.
They lose it altogether, if they lose their consular functions by resignation.
18. A senator is always ineligible to any other public function.
19. All the lists made in the departments, by virtue of the 9th article, shall be addressed to the senate. They shall compose the national list.
20. From this list shall be elected the legislators, the tribunes, the consuls, the judges of cassation, and the commissaries a la responsibilité.
21. They shall confirm or annul every act referred to them, as unconstitutional, by their tribunate, or the government: the lists of the eligibles shall be included among these acts.
22. The revenues of national domains, the terms of which are expired, shall be liable to the expenses of the senate. The annual salary of each of its members shall be paid out of those revenues. It shall be equal to a twentieth of that of the chief consul.
23. The sittings of the senate are not public.
24. Citizen Sieyes and Roger Ducos, the two consuls who are to go out of office, shall be nominated members of the conservatory senate: they shall unite with the second and third consuls nominated by the present one. These four citizens shall appoint the majority of the senate; which shall afterwards complete itself, and proceed to the elections entrusted to its direction.
CHAP. III.
Of the Legislative Power.
25. No new law shall be promulgated, unless the plan shall have been proposed by the government, communicated to the tribunate, and decreed by the legislative body.
26. The plans which the government may propose shall be drawn up under different heads. In every case in which such plans shall be discussed, the government may withdraw them, and present them again in a proper modified state.
27. The tribunate is to be composed of 100 members, of 25 years of age at least: They shall be renewed by fifths, every year, and infinitely re-eligible while they remain upon the national list.
28. The tribunate shall discuss the plans of every law that may be proposed: It shall vote for the adoption or rejection of them.
It shall send three Orators, taken from its body, by whom the motives of its vote, with respect to each of the plans, shall be stated and supported before the legislative body.
It shall refer to the senate, but for the cause of unconstitutionality only, the list of the eligibles, the acts of the legislative body, and those of the government.
29. It shall express its opinion as to the law made or to be made, the abuses to be corrected, the ameliorations to be attempted, in every part of the public administration; but never relative to the civil or criminal affairs referred to the tribunals.
The opinions it shall give, by virtue of the present article, are to be followed by no necessary consequences; they compel no constitutional authority to come to any deliberation.
30. When the tribune adjourns, it may appoint a committee, from ten to fifteen members, charged to convoke it, if it shall be deemed necessary.
31. The legislative body shall be composed of 300 members, of 30 years of age at least: they shall be renewed by fifths, every year. There ought always to be one citizen, at least, of each department of the republic present.
32. A member who goes out of the legislative body, cannot re-enter, till after the interval of a year: but he may be immediately elected to any other public function, including that of tribune, provided he is in other respects eligible.
33. The sitting of the legislative body shall commence every year on the 1st Brimaire, and shall continue only four months. It may be extraordinarily convoked, during the other eight, by the government.
34. The legislative body enacts the law, by determining by secret scrutiny, and without any discussion on the part of its members, upon the plans of the law debated before it, by the orators of the tribune and the government.
35. The sittings of the tribunate and of the legislative body, shall be public: the number of strangers in either of them, not to exceed 200.
36. The annual salary of a tribune shall be 15,000 francs; that of a legislative, 10,000 francs.
37. Every decree of the legislative body, shall the 10th day after it be made, be promulgated by the chief consul, unless in the mean time it is referred to the senate, on the ground of unconstitutionality. Such reference cannot be made with regard to laws that have been promulgated.
38. The first renewal of the legislative body, and of the tribunate, shall not take place till the 10th year.
CHAP. IV.
Of the Government.
39. The government is entrusted to three consuls, appointed for ten years, and indefinitely re-eligible. Each of them is to be elected individually, with the distinct quality of chief, second, or third consul. The first time, the third consul shall only be named for five years.
For the present time, gen. Buonaparte is appointed chief consul; citizen Cambacérès, now minister of justice, second consul; and citizen Lebrun, member of the committee of ancients, third consul.
40. The chief consul has particular functions and attributes, which, when he is exercising, he may be temporarily supplied by one of his colleagues.
41. The chief consul is to promulgate the laws: he is to name and revoke at pleasure, the members of the council of state; the ministers, ambassadors, and other principal foreign agents; the officers of the army, by land and sea; the members of local administration, and the commissioners of the government at the tribunals. He is to appoint all judges, criminal and civil; as well as justices of peace, and the judges of cassation, without the power of afterwards revoking them.
42. In the other acts of the government, the second and third consuls are to have a consultative voice: they are to sign the register of the acts, in order to manifest that they were present; and if they please, they may counter-sign their opinions; after which the determination of the chief consul shall follow.
43. The salary of the chief consul shall be 500,000 francs, for the 8th year. The salary of the other two consuls shall be equal to three tenths of that of the first.
44. The government is to propose the laws, and to make the necessary regulations to ensure their execution.
45. The government is to direct the receipts and expenses of the state, conformably to the
annual law, which determines the amount of each: it shall superintend the coinage of money, of which the law alone shall order the issue; fix the value, the weight and the impression.
46. When the government is informed of any conspiracies against the state, it may issue orders to arrest and bring before them, the persons who are suspected as the authors or accomplices; but if, within ten days after such arrest, they are not set at liberty, or brought to trial, it shall be considered, on the part of the minister signing the order, as an act of arbitrary detention.
47. The government is to superintend the internal safety, and external defence of the state; it is to distribute the forces by sea and land, and regulate the direction of them.
48. The national guard, on duty, is subject to the regulations of the public administration. The national guard, not on duty, is only subject to the law.
49. The government is to manage political relations abroad, to conduct negotiation, to make preliminary stipulation, to sign and conclude all treaties of peace, alliances, truce, neutrality, commerce, and other conventions.
50. Declarations of war, and treaties of peace, alliance and commerce, are to be proposed, discussed, decreed and promulgated in the same manner as laws.
Only the discussions and deliberations relative to these objects, as well in the tribunate as in the legislative body, are to be in a secret committee, if the government desires it.
51. The secret article of a treaty cannot be destructive of the public articles.
52. Under the direction of the consuls, the council of state is charged with the drawing up of the plans of the laws, and the regulations of the public administration, and to resolve such difficulties as may occur in all administrative matters.
53. It is from among the members of the council of state that the orators are to be selected, who shall be appointed to appear in the name of the government before the legislative body. There are never to be any more than three of these orators sent to support the same plan of a law.
54. The ministers are to procure the execution of the laws, and the regulations of the public administration.
55. No act of the government can have effect, till it is signed by a minister.
56. One of the ministers is specially charged with the administration of the public treasury. He is to verify the receipts, direct the application of the funds, and the payments authorized by law. He is not to be at liberty to pay any thing, except by virtue, first, of a law, and only to the extent of the funds, for defraying those expenses such law has determined upon; 2dly, by a decree of the government; 3dly, by an order signed by a minister.
57. The detailed accounts of every minister, signed and certified by him, are to be made public.
58. The government can only elect or retain, as counsellors of state or ministers, such citizens whose names are inscribed in the national list.
59. The local administrations established, whether for each communal district, or for the more extended portions of territory, are subordinate to the ministers. No one can become or remain a member of these administrations, unless he is entered in one of the lists mentioned in the 7th and 8th articles.
(To be continued.)
European Intelligence.
England.
LONDON, December 22.
Various accounts are still afloat respecting Pashwan Oglou. Letters from Semlin announce, for the third time, that he is marching against Belgrade; they say that the rebel Pacha has taken possession of Niza.
January 13.
According to the last letter from Semlin, Pashwan Oglou has made himself master of Niza, whence he cuts the communications of the fortress of Belgrade with Bulgaria, and Romelia. It is said he has detached a body of his troops to blockade that place, the Pacha of which redoubles his efforts to prepare for his defence. Pashwan Oglou, it is said makes new pretensions, and demands the heads of several persons, who, he said are enemies to the Janissaries, of whose nation he professes to be. The Pacha of Belgrade is among the number.
January 21.
OFFICIAL.
Second Letter from the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Paris, with its accompanying inclosure and the answer returned by the Right Honorable Lord Grenville, his majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
(TRANSLATION)
Paris 24th Nivose; 8th year, January 14th, 1800
My Lord,
I lost no time in laying before the First Consul of the Republic the official note under the date of the 14th Nivose, which
you transmitted to me; & I am charged to forward the answers equally official, which you will find annexed. Receive my lord the assurance of my high consideration.
CHA. MAU. TALLEYRAND.
To the Minister for Foreign affairs at London
Translation of the Note referred to in No. 1.
The official note under the date of the 14th Nivose, the 8th year, addressed by the minister of his Britannic majesty, having been laid before the first consul of the French Republic, he observed with surprise, that it rested upon an opinion, which is not exact respecting the origin & consequences of the present war. Very far from its being France which provoked it, she had, it must be remembered, from the commencement of her Revolution, solemnly proclaimed her love of peace & her disinclination to conquests, her respect for the independence of all governments; and it is not to be doubted that, occupied at that time entirely with her own internal affairs, she would have avoided taking part in those of Europe, and would have remained faithful to her declarations.
But from an opposite disposition, as soon as the French Revolution had broken out almost all Europe entered into a league for its destruction. The aggressions were real long time before it was public: internal resistance was excited; its opponents were favorably received—their extravagant declarations were supported; and the French nation was insulted in the person of its agents—and England set particularly this example by the dismissal of the minister accredited to her. Finally France was in fact, attacked in her independence, in her honor, and in her safety, long time before the war was declared.
Thus it is to the projects of subjection dissolution and dismemberment, which were prepared against her, and the execution of which was several times attempted and pursued, that France has a right to impute the evils which she has suffered and those which have afflicted Europe—Such projects for a long time without respect to so powerful a nation could not fail to bring on the most fatal consequences.
Assailed on all sides, the Republic could not but extend universally the efforts of her defence, and it is only for the maintenance of her own independence that she has made use of those means which she possessed, in her own strength and the courage of her citizens. As long as the law that her enemies obstinately refused to recognize her rights, she contended only upon the energy of her resistance, but as soon as they were obliged to abandon the hope of invasion, she sought means for conciliation, and manifested pacific intentions—and if these have not always been efficacious, if in the midst of the critical circumstances of her internal situation, which the Revolution and the War have successively brought on, the former depositaries of the executive authority in France have not always shown as much moderation as the nation itself has shown courage—it must above all be imputed to the hateful & persevering animosity with which the resources of England have been lavished to accomplish the ruin of France.
But if the wishes of his Britannic majesty (in conformity with his assurances) are in unison with those of the French Republic, for the re-establishment of peace why instead of attempting the apology of the war, should not attention be rather paid to the means of terminating it?—And what obstacle can prevent a mutual understanding, of which the utility is reciprocal & is felt, especially when the first consul of the French Republic has personally given so many proofs of his eagerness to put an end to the calamities of war, and of his disposition to maintain the rigid observance of all the treaties concluded?
The first consul of the French Republic could no doubt that his Britannic majesty recognized the Right of Nations to choose the form of their government, since it is from the exercise of this right that he holds his crown—but he has been unable to comprehend how this fundamental principle, upon which rests the existence of political societies, the minister of his majesty could annex insinuations which tend to an interference in the internal affairs of the Republic, and which are no less injurious to the French nation and to its government than it would be to England and to his majesty, if a for-

invitation were held out in favor of that Republican government of which England adopted the forms in the middle of the last century, or an exhortation to recal to the throne that family whom their birth had placed there, and whom a revolution compelled to descend from it.
If at periods not far distant, when the constitutional system of the republic presented neither the strength nor the solidity which it contains at present, his Britannic majesty thought himself enabled to invite a negotiation and pacific conferences how is it possible that he should not be eager to renew the negotiations to which the present and reciprocal situation of affairs promises a rapid progress. On every side the voice of nations and humanity implores the conclusion of a war marked already by such great calamities and the prolongation of which threatens Europe with an universal convulsion and irremediable evils. It is therefore to put a stop to the course of these calamities, or in order that their terrible consequences may be reproached to those only who shall have provoked them, that the first consul of the French Republic proposes to put an immediate end to hostilities, by agreeing to a suspension of arms, and naming plenipotentiaries on each side, who should repair to Dunkirk, or any other town as advantageously situated for the quickness of the respective communications, and who shall apply themselves without any further delay to effect the re-establishment of peace and good understanding between the French republic and England.
The first consul offers to give such passports which may be necessary for this purpose
(Signed)
CH. M. TALLEYRAND.
Paris, 24th Nivose, (14th Jan. 1800) 8th year of the French republic.
Letter from Lord Grenville to the minister for foreign affairs at Paris.
Downing-Street, Jan. 20, 1800.
SIR,
I have the honor to inclose to you the answer which his majesty has directed me to return to the official note, which you transmitted to me. I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, Sir,
Your most Obedient, Humble Servant,
(Signed)
GRENVILLE.
To the minister for foreign affairs, &c. &c. at Paris
Note referred to in the preceding.
The official note transmitted by the minister for foreign affairs in France, and received by the undersigned on the 28th has been laid before the king.
His majesty cannot forbear expressing the concern with which he observes, in that note, the unprovoked aggressions of France, the sole cause and origin of the war, are systematically defended by the present rulers, under the same injurious pretences by which they were originally attempted to be disguised. His majesty will not enter into the refutation of all allegations now universally exploded, and in (so far as they respect his majesty's conduct) not only in themselves utterly groundless, but contradicted both by the internal evidence of the transactions to which they relate, and also by the express testimony (given at the time) of the government of France itself.
With respect to the object of the note his majesty can only refer to the answer which he has already given.
He has explained, without reserve, the obstacles which in his judgment, preclude at the present moment all hopes of advantage from negotiation. All the inducements to treat which are relied upon is the French official note; the personal dispositions which are said to prevail for the conclusion of peace and for the future observance of treaties; the powers of infusing the effect of these dispositions, supposing them to exist; and the solidity of the system newly established, after so rapid a series of revolutions—all these are points which can be known only from that test to which his majesty has already referred them—the result of experience and the evidence of facts.
With that sincerity and plainness which his anxiety for the re-establishment of peace indispensably required, his majesty has pointed out to France the surest and speediest means for the attainment of that great object. But he has declared in terms equally explicit, and with the same sincerity that he entertains no desire to prescribe to a foreign nation the form of its government; that he looks only to the security of his own dominions and of Europe; and that whenever that essential object can in his judgment be, in any manner whatever sufficiently provided for he will eagerly concert with his allies the means of immediate and joint negotiati-
ons for the re-establishment of general tranquility.
To these declarations his majesty steadily adheres; and it is only on the grounds thus stated, that his regard to the safety of his subjects will suffer him to renounce that system of vigorous defence, to which under the favor of Providence, his kingdoms owe the security of those blessings which they now enjoy.
(Signed)
GRENVILLE.
Downing Street Jan. 20, 1800.
January 23.
NEWS FROM EGYPT
The French Government have received dispatches from the Army in Egypt, by a vessel which has arrived at Toulon, and which sailed from Alexandria, Nov. 16. The dispatches relate several victories obtained over Murad Bey in Upper Egypt, and a variety of other successes, over the Turks and Sir Sydney Smith in Lower Egypt. The French letters mention that the Grand Vizier, with his army, had advanced from Syria as far as Gaza; that his army was in a bad condition; and that the French troops were prepared to receive them. [There is a private account of the total defeat of the Grand Turkish Army, but it does not appear to deserve credit.]
The French are exerting themselves to improve their Marine. Admiral Bruix has lately been very active in the principal naval forts. Rear Admiral Latouche, has gone to Toulon, to take command of a small squadron which is ready for sea, bound to Egypt. Supplies have been thrown into Malta.
January 24.
Government received yesterday important information respecting the dispositions of the different courts of Europe, and preparations for the approaching campaign. Of the magnitude of those preparations an opinion may be formed from the accounts which arrived by the Hamburg mail, and which state that
ON THE RHINE,
The Austrian army is to consist of
100,000 men. The Russian, - - 70,000 The armed peasants - 30,000
IN ITALY,
The Austrian and Piedmont troops, 150,000 men.
To meet this force, the chief consul of France is making the most strenuous efforts. Massena is in the south; procuring supplies for the army of Italy. Moreau is at Strasburgh, organizing the army of the Rhine.
As the season is become mild, the campaign will open almost immediately. The great pressure of the war is likely to be in Suabia. There the French, who have drawn their Swiss army towards Balle, will probably strike the first blow, before the Russians have received their expected reinforcements, and before the Austrians have assembled their force, or raised and formed their corps of peasantry. It is not probable that Buonaparte, will take the field in person against Suwarow. In Italy the first efforts of the Austrians will be directed against Genoa; an operation which is likely to occupy a considerable portion of their time. Should they succeed in expelling the French, they will still think, will content themselves with taking a position on the frontiers of France, without entertaining any idea of entering the French territories.
February 3.
Mr. Charles Lind arrived in town yesterday morning from Guernsey, with official information to government of a desperate battle having taken place in Brittany between the Chouans and the republican forces, in which the latter were repulsed with the loss of 5000 men in killed, wounded and prisoners. Such was the report of yesterday, in consequence of Mr. Lind's arrival. Other rumours diminished the loss of the Republicans to three and even to two thousand. Such intelligence was certainly brought to Guernsey from France, but we doubt its truth. It appears, however, that the Republicans have renewed hostilities; and the account of this victory may be circulated with the design of inducing the British government to forward succours to the Chouans. It is the brother of D'Autichamp, who arrived on Friday. He brought an assurance that the Chouans are in great numbers and good spirits; and their force amounts to between 60 and 100,000 men; but he comes to solicit succours, and will not represent his cause as desperate.
On Lloyd's books on Saturday were entered no less than fifteen captures by the enemy and six losses at sea; one of the blackest days for the underwriters that has appeared for a long time.
Turkey.
CONSTANTINOPLE, November 25.
Intelligence of a very disastrous kind has just been received from the Grand Vizier. He took six months to march from Scutaria to Damas, and the contributions that he raised for the subsistence of his army, have alienated the minds of the inhabitants of Asia Minor, from the government of the Porte.
When the news reached him at Ervan, that the Turks were defeated at Aboukir, nearly one half of his army disbanded on its way to Aleppo.
The French General Kleber dispatched to El-Aristol a body of troops, to protect that place, and prevent the passage of the Desert. The Grand Vizier transferred his camps to the utmost cultivated part of Syria, at the beginning of the Deserts of Egypt. He remained there 15 days, making every preparation, and collecting camels and skins, to enable him to traverse a desert eighty leagues in extent.
General Kleber having been informed of his preparations, reinforced the French advanced guard at El-Aristol, repaired to that place in person, and on the 22d October marched forward at the head of 2000 dragoons or French hussars, and a regiment of 1000 men mounted on dromedaries, with foot soldiers behind them. He also took with him a great number of light field pieces, and having made a circuit in the desert arrived in the rear of the enemy's camp at break of day nearly about the same time when a corps of 10,000 infantry had arrived at the well of Sebahlah, about a league & a half distance from the camp. The Grand Vizier thus unexpectedly attacked, could not make a long resistance; and the French took the camp, a part of his baggage, and several thousand prisoners.
The Grand Vizier immediately retreated with the remains of his army towards Damas which is 10 days march from Gaza.
The French have levied very large contributions in the province of Gaza, particularly in oil and tobacco, which are very much wanted in Egypt. They have left a strong garrison in El-Aristol, and a number of engineers to complete the works. They have also collected at that place near 10,000 Turkish prisoners, who are constantly employed in finishing the works. The intelligence has caused a great consternation among the members of the Divan, and encreased the number of those attached to the French. It is thought that the Grand Vizier will be disgraced, and no hopes are entertained at Constantinople of re-conquering Egypt.
Lord Elgin has arrived at Constantinople, and has assumed the character of Ambassador of his Britanic majesty.
France.
PARIS January 18.
Buonaparte first consul of the republic, to the French soldiers,
Soldiers!
In promising peace to the French people, I have been your organ. I know your valor.
You are the same men who have conquered Holland, Italy, and made peace under the walls of astonished Vienna.
Soldiers! It is no longer your frontiers that you must defend; it is the enemy's states that must be invaded.
There is none who has not made several campaigns, who does not know that the most essential quality of a soldier is to know how to support privation with constancy; several years of bad administration cannot be repaired in a day.
As first magistrate of the republic, it will be pleasing to make known to the whole nation the corps which shall deserve by their discipline and valour, to be proclaimed the supporters of the country.
Soldiers! When it shall be time, I will be in the midst of you; and astonished Europe shall remember that you are a race of brave men.
Paris, 4th Nivose, 25th Dec.
January 30.
Official dispatches, from gen. Kleber, dated Cairo, 25th Brumaire (Nov. 16.) state, that on the 10th Brumair, (Nov. 1.) at break of day about four thousand Turks landed at Damietta, and immediately endeavored to entrench themselves in a place between the right bank of the Nile, the sea, and the lake Menzaleh. General Verdier, who was encamped between Leshbeh, being informed of this descent, marched to attack them, put to the sword three thousand and took about 800 prisoners. General Verdier took from the enemy 32 standards, one 24 pounder, and four field pieces with their
ammunition. This landing was effected under Sir Sidney Smith, who commanded the fleet. On the 18th the fleet was forced to sea by tempestuous weather, and had not again appeared when Kleber's dispatches were sent off. Some vessels, however, were still cruising off Alexandria, among which was the Theseus.
Germany.
STUTGARD, January 6.
The return of the Russian army to the theatre of war is now officially announced. The head quarters, it is said, will be at Augsburgh. Thus all hopes for peace have again vanished; but the neutrality of Switzerland, it is said, is still a subject of negotiation.
In the territories of Farstenberg, Schwarberg, and the other parts of the circle of Suabia, every tenth man, from seventeen to 45 years of age, is now obliged to become a soldier.
American Intelligence.
Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, April 4.
Captain Barry, in the frigate United States is arrived in the Delaware; and yesterday afternoon he came himself to this city.
He has bro't dispatches from Messrs. Ellsworth and Davie, our envoys to the French republic, dated the 10th of February, at Burgos, in Spain. They had received, the day before, a letter from M. Talleyrand, the minister of foreign affairs, covering their passports; expressing impatience for their arrival at Paris, and informing them, that the form of their letters of credence (which were addressed to the executive directory) would be no obstacle to the opening of negotiations.
The envoys arrived at Lisbon the 27th of November, and after some detention in the Tagus by contrary winds, failed from thence for L'Orient on the 21st December, but encountering, for three weeks, violent and adverse winds in their attempts to gain that place, they were at last constrained to make the first safe port in Spain; and they arrived on the 11th of January, at Corunna, whence they dispatched a courier to Paris for their passports; and at Burgos received an answer as above mentioned.
[We understand the rout from Corunna to France, is by way of Burgos, Victoria, and St. Sebastians, to Bayonne, the nearest French port, and from thence to Paris.]
Maryland.
GEORGE-TOWN, April 11.
The House of Representatives of the U. S. have adopted a resolution to adjourn on the first Monday of May.
Mr. Murray had been at Paris, some time before the date of the dispatches from our envoys. The secretaries of the Embassy, who went by land from Lisbon had also arrived there.
The Burgomasters and senate of Hamburg in a long note, dated December 16, 1799, and addressed to the consuls of the French republic, apologized for their conduct in delivering up Napper Tandy and Blackwell to the English. Buonaparte made the following laconic
A N S W E R.
"Paris, 9 Nivose, 8th year (Dec. 30.)
"We have received your letter, gentlemen, it is no justification of your conduct.
"It is by courage and virtue that states are preferred; cowardice and vice prove their ruin.
"You have violated the laws of hospitality; such a violation would not have taken place among the barbarian hordes of the desert.—Your fellow citizens will impute it to you as an eternal reproach.
"The two unfortunate men whom, you have given up will die illustrious; but their blood will be a source of greater evils to their persecutors than could be brought upon them by a whole army.
(Signed)
BUONAPARTE, first consul. H. B. MARET, sc'ry, &c.
Massachusetts.
BOSTON, April 2.
From St. Sebastians Jan. 18.
"It is considered here that our Envoys have arrived in Europe, at a very favorable period; and that they will be able to adjust the disputes between the two countries, very satisfactorily, and form a treaty upon very liberal principles.—Bu-

bonaparte the premier consul, who in fact has the government entirely at his control, appears to be disposed for pacific measures particularly with the American government; those unjust arrests against the commerce of neutrals, which marked the infamy and impolicy of the late rulers of France, are repealed."
The New-Hampshire Gazette, of the 26th March, states the following to be the number of votes for a governor of that state.
For Mr. Gileman 6687. Walker 3993.
Extract of a letter from Ganaives to a gentleman in Wilmington.
"Certain accounts are received here that Toussaint has taken Jacquemel from Rigaud."
Lexington, May 1.
From the Mississippi Gazette. March 22.
It is with extreme regret we learn, that an affray happened at Loftus' Heights on Tuesday last, between maj. William Kersey and lieut. Peter Marks, officers in the United States army, in which the former was ran through the body with the sword of the latter, of which wound maj. Kersey expired on Friday night last. We understand that this unhappy quarrel commenced in a conversation respecting the trivial circumstance of the sale of a horse—that in the course of the conversation the major became irritated, and shook his cane at lieut. Marks, who immediately wrested it from him and threw it away—the major took up the cane and struck lieut. Marks. This happened between three and four o'clock in the afternoon; and immediately after sun set lieut. Marks came up to maj. Kersey on the parade, and demanded of him instant satisfaction for the insult he had offered him—the major replied, that he had not insulted him, and should give him no satisfaction. Lieutenant Marks then gave the major a stroke with his cane, upon which each drew his sword, and lieut. Marks received a wound upon the head, and instantly ran the maj. through the body in the direction of the vital parts.
FOR THE KENTUCKY GAZETTE.
Mr. PRINTER,
It must be with real satisfaction, that the true friend to peace and harmony, finds our fellow citizens, after being torn with intestine broils and party dissensions, for two years past, now about to proceed to one of the most important election we ever had, with that composure, and freedom of sentiment so necessary for the promotion of the worthy citizen, and as such, all important in a republic.
That constitution, the formation of which rent our country into party factions, is about to be carried into effect with the good wishes of all, and a joint desire of having it well executed. The alterations concerning the manner of voting, is one which at this period seems most important to us, and whether it will prove beneficial, or disadvantageous, depends in a great measure, on ourselves, in the execution of it.
Freedom of choice in the citizen voting, is the object sought for, in both, and the GREAT PALLADIUM OF LIBERTY. Our constitution guards against direct attacks on this, by bribery and corruption, but it is for the citizen to repel the indirect attacks. They are too numerous and too varied to be arrested by legislative sagacity. In England, (the first model of a representative branch of government) their elections are partial, being granted in many places, to small and trifling boroughs. This opens an easy field to bribery, and which, if we may believe their own historians, is notoriously practiced, whence have arisen those systems so burthensome to the Briton, and may with much more propriety be considered as the real cause of the present slavery of that country, than the circumscribed prerogatives of a weak monarch.
In Virginia, our mother state, public treats were customarily given, and it may yet be the case for aught I know. Whilst we were a part of it, such practices were not unknown among us; but our old constitution struck so completely at the root of it, that we have heard little complaining on that head, under its administration, and I hope will not under the present.
There was one practice indirectly of currying favor, whilst we were a part of Virginia, and may have been peculiar to this district. It was by mounting in a conspicuous place, and with a low bow, and a "thank you sir," repaying every vote received. This, when or how introduced, necessarily expired, when we began voting by ballot. Voting viva voce , being now reëstablished, may we not apprehend a return of this practice? And what is its tendency?
The man whose independence will not permit him to bow and scrape to every one who gives him a vote, will be termed a "stiff-necked" fellow not to be trusted; whilst the sycophant who will do almost anything to be elected, will be preferred! If the good citizen in giving his vote, is only discharging a debt due to himself, and to his posterity, & is obliged to a well qualified fellow citizen that is willing to serve him, why should the candidate return him thanks for his vote? Thanks are due for favors bestowed. It is the language of the suppliant courtier to his lordly master, of whom he wishes a private favor. But when I see a man uncommonly solicitous for a place not profitable, and frequently unthankful, I set him down as a man having some sinister end in view: At all events an unbounded vanity to satisfy.
The man who will stand up, and by his conduct at an election, endeavor to draw votes severally, must think his former conduct has not entitled him to the suffrage of his countrymen. The good citizen depends on that alone, to decide his election.
You will permit me then, Mr. Printer, if at the ensuing election, I see a candidate returning bows and thanks for votes, to mark him down as a person having more than the public good at heart.
A. CITIZEN.
BY LAST EVENING'S MAIL.
LONDON, Feb. 3.
The prospect of a rupture between Sweden, and Denmark and France, increases, Citizen Grouville has left Copenhagen, and Mr Dreyer is recalled from Paris.
Switzerland is to be treated in future as a neutral country.
Accounts from Egypt are extremely contradictory. Some assert that the Grand Vizier had been defeated by Gen. Kleber, on the confines of Syria, had lost his camp, part of his baggage, and several thousand prisoners. This news comes from Constantinople, but later Vienna accounts appear to doubt the intelligence.
BERLN, January 4.
Accounts from Genoa, dated the 19th of December, contain the following intelligence:—"We have received letters from Naples which confirms the news we had received by the way of Tuscany with respect to the insurrection of Calabria, La Pouille, and Abruzzo. The insurgents made themselves masters of Naples, where they slaughtered a great number of Lazzaroni, who had joined the Russian & Neapolitan troops that composed the garrison. The latter was defeated and dispersed, and the governor of the place with the chiefs of the royal party, escaped with difficulty from the fury of the insurgents."
PHILADELPHIA, April 2.
A letter from one of the most respectable houses in Liverpool, to a gentleman in Baltimore, dated 5th Feb. 1800, says, "We have just time by this conveyance to inform you that wheat has this day been sold at 24s. per 70lbs. A cargo of flour is arrived from New-York, for which 80s. to 84s. per barrel is expected. New rice is 35s. to 36s. per cwt. and all in great demand."
Extract of a letter from a mercantile house in Amsterdam, dated late in December.
"This city has at present the prospect of again becoming the great mart for the supply of the continent, and of resuming the rank and importance it formerly held among the commercial cities of Europe."
"The ill effects which resulted to Great Britain herself, from the blockade of our ports, has tended to bring about a change of system in this regard, and they are now declared free for all neutral navigation."
"It is said that to the stagnation produced by the blockade, and the late invasion of Holland, we may in a great measure attribute the disorders which have within a short time past, overwhelmed the mercantile world."
"Nothing can prove more clearly than this, its importance in the commercial scales, while the firm manner in which the merchants of this place have withstood the wreck of bankruptcies in Europe, must at once tend to shew the weight of their capitals, and to establish abroad, a confidence in the prudence of their negotiations."
"I cannot but congratulate you particularly, that the intercourse between the two countries should be restored, at a time when the probable adjustment of the disputes between France and the United States, will open a new and advantageous connexion with the French colonies, from whence a supply of West-India produce can be drawn, for which you will find here a valuable market, especially if peace should be made with the emperor, as that would revive a large demand from the interior of Germany."
TAKE NOTICE.
WHEREAS I purchased John Boggs's right of a pre-emption of 1000 acres of land, lying on the east branch of Huttons fork, adjoining John Virgin's pre-emption, on the north side, beginning 200 poles west of said Boggs's improvement, made in the year 1776, and running at the cardinal points to include his improvement, in the centre of his survey, and being desirous to perpetuate testimony concerning the several calls in the same, have obtained an order from the county court of Bourbon, appointing commissioners under the act of assembly, entitled "an act to ascertain the boundaries of land and for other purposes," said commissioners will meet on the 16th day of May next, at the house of Philad. Ledford's at the improvement, and to continue from day to day until the business shall be done, then and there to do such other things as they may think necessary and the law requires.
James Mattson. April 25th, 1800.
NOTICE.
I SHALL attend with commissioners appointed by the county court of Bourbon, under an act entitled "an act to reduce into one the several acts for ascertaining the boundary of and for processioning land," on the 16th day of May, at the house of Harmonious Alkire, in the county of Bourbon, and on Huttons fork, then and there to perpetuate the testimony of certain witnesses, respecting the special calls of an entry of 1000 acres, made in the name of Rezin Virgin, and pre-emption warrant, on the 31st day of October, 1786, then and there to do such other things respecting the premises as may be thought necessary, and agreeable to law.
Charles Smith, jur. for Rezin Virgin.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on the Hickman road, Fayette county, five miles from Lexington, a sorrel mare, about seven years old, a blaze face, the right hind and fore feet white, no brands perceivable, about thirteen hands high, appraised to twenty dollars.
Also a bay mare, blaze face, about ten years old, some white hairs in her mane, branded thus S S, on the near buttock, with foal, about fourteen and a half hands high, appraised to 40 dollars.
Patrick Vance.
April 15th, 1800.
MY dear wife being out of her proper reason, I hereby forewarn any person or persons to have any dealings with her, for I will not answer, nor settle any other contracts, and if any person or persons have my property without my leave I will make an example of them according to law.
John Jackson.
Clarke county, April 24th, 1800.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Fayette county, near the mouth of Tates creek, a sorrel horse, about 14 hands high, 4 years old, branded on the near buttock B, the near hind foot white, a small white streak in his face, shod before appraised to 40 dollars.
Lawrence Fleurnoy.
November 15th, 1799.
Territory of the United States, north-west of the river Ohio.
WAYNE COUNTY, ss. WHEREAS a writ of foreign attachment hath issued from the court of common pleas, for said county of Wayne, returnable at March term 1800, against the lands and tenements, goods, chattels and effects, rights and credits of John Swift of the state of New-York, at the suit of Israel Ruland, of Detroit, in said county of Wayne, silversmith, for seven hundred dollars.—Notice is hereby given to the said John Swift, that unless he appears and gives special bail to the action, judgment will be entered against him by default, and the property attached disposed of as the law directs.
Peter Audroon, Prothonotary. E. Brust, att'y. for the plaintiff.
PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THE GENERAL INSTRUCTOR: OR THE Office, Duty & Authority, OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, SHERIFFS, CORONERS & CONSTABLES, IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY;
With precedents suited to every case that can possibly arise in either of those offices, under the laws now in force, with references to the laws out of which they do arise.
There will be given in this work, upwards of 200 Precedents; consisting of Forms of Attachments, Bonds in Special Cases, Bail, Challenges, Charges, Executions, Examinations, Informations, Inquests, Indictments, Judgments, Mittimus, Oaths, Records, Recognizances, Subpenas, Warrants, &c. together with the Explanation of several Writs and Law Terms. To which will be added, Maxims & General Rules, Actions & Remedies.
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JOHN BRADFORD.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
FOR apprehending, bringing home, or securing in gaol, a Mulatto Man, named PHIL, formerly the property of Mr. Innis Brent, of Lexington. He has been caught once or twice, since he left home, and has made his escape—he is lurking about in the neighborhood of this place.
Richard Higgins, near Lexington.
FOR SALE,
FIVE HUNDRED acres of land on the waters of Slate, or Lulubulgrud, in Clarke county.
Also 295 acres near the above. 400 acres on Green river, about 16 miles from Lincoln court house. About 300 acres Big Brush creek, Greene county. About 400 acres on and near the road from Harrodsburg, to Frankfort, near Grays Horse Mill—For terms apply to the subscriber, in Jessamine county.
Samuel M'Dowell.
April 9th, 1799.
TO RENT,
And possession given immediately, THAT excellent stand at the corner of Main and Gros streets, Lexington, known by the name of the old court-house. The house is two story, with two rooms on each floor, 18 feet square, with a fire-place in each; also two good dry cellars, 18 feet square. For terms apply to the printer hereof.
I HAVE just arrived from Philadelphia with a very large and general assortment of
MERCHANDIZE,
In addition to those remaining on hand.
From the terms on which those GOODS were laid in, they can be sold on as low, (if not on lower terms) than any ever imported into this state.
For sale also, a general assortment of LAW, HISTORY, DIVINITY, AND SCHOOL BOOKS.
WRITING PAPER of the best quality, with WAFERS, QUILLS, SLATES and SLATE PENCILS.
An elegant
COACHEE
WITH PLATED HARNESS, also for sale, WILLIAM LEAVY. Lexington, Dec. 27, 1799.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS.
THOSE indebted to the subscriber are once more requested to discharge their respective accounts. Those who neglect to comply with this notice previous to the 20th of next month, are informed that suits will be commenced against them without discrimination.
Roberts Barr.
March 12, 1800.
LAWSON M'CULLOUGH, TAYLOR.
TAKES this method to inform his friends and customers, that he has removed his shop from Main street, to High street, in the same house where he formerly carried on his business, and as he keeps a number of hands constantly employed, those who will please to favor him with their custom, may depend on having their work done on the shortest notice, and in the neatest and best manner. Lexington, 9th April, 1800.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
February court of quarter sessions, 1800. William Nelson, complainant, vs.
Mark Lacey, Oliver Badger, John Steel, and Jeconias Cooper, defendants, IN CHANCERY.
THE defendants Badger, Steel and Cooper not having entered their appearance agreeably to law 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 counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the second Tuesday in June next, and answer the complainant's bill—and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Kentucky Gazette, for two months successively, and published at the door of the courthouse of this county, and also at the door of some meeting house in the neighborhood of the town of Mountsterling.
A copy. Teste, M. Harrison, C. M. C. Q. S.
MR. BRADFORD,
YOU will inform the public whom it may concern, that I have business of importance in Virginia, that will require my absence for a few months. I have authorized my son Amos Edwards, to collect my debts—and with William Clark esq. to sell several species of valuable property, in order to raise money to settle with my creditors, whose accounts are not fully paid up.
6th April 1800. John Edwards sen.
GINSENG.
WANTED to purchase a few thousand pounds of clean, dry and well picked GINSENG.—Apply at the store of
John Jordan jun.
Who has for sale several valuable tracts of LAND in this state—also in the Territory North-West of the Ohio. Lexington, 3d February, 1800.
READY FOR THE PRESS,
And will be published as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers can be procured, THE ADVENTURES AND VOYAGES OF THE
FRENCH EMIGRANTS,
In the course of the REVOLUTION. Translated from the French, By A LADY
This work, throwing a strong light upon some of the events of the revolution, seems to us to be impartial, and bears the character of truth, together with the entertainment of a novel. Its utility will be acknowledged by all the friends of Liberty, even in the present situation of affairs in France.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for this paper, at two dollars per annum, paid in advance, will be received at the following post-offices, viz. in Frankfort by Mr. Daniel Bradford—in Harrodsburg, by Mr. George Mart—in Danville, by Mr. Josiah Moore—at Bairdstown, by Mr. James E. Winn—and at Washington, by Mr. E. Harris—who are also furnished with the accounts of those whose papers have been lodged in their respective offices, and are hereby authorized to receive payment.
JOHN BRADFORD.
WINCHESTERS, DIALOGUES ON UNIVERSAL RESTORATION,
For sale at this Office, Price 3s.

SACKED TO THE MUSES.
THE TEAR.
Erin Darwin's Botanic Garden.
NO radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem, that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars, which nights blue arch adorn, Nor rising Suns, that gild the vernal morn; Shine with such lustre, as the Tear that breaks, For others' woe, down Virtue's manly cheeks.
ANECDOTE.
One Mr. Ash, who was himself a famous punster in Ireland, coming into an inn, desired the landlord to lend him a hand to pull off his great coat; indeed Sir, said he, I dare not. Dare not, replied the other, what do you mean by that? you know, Sir, answered he there is an act of parliament against stripping of Ash.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living near Bethel meeting house, one bright forrel mare colt, two years old, blaze face, appraised to 51. Thos. Obernut. March 29th, 1800.
FOR SALE,
A VALUABLE STAND FOR A TAVERN OR STORE,
AND PLANTATION, containing 150 acres of Land, lying six miles from Lexington, on the Hickman road. There is a framed house, 22 by 28 feet, a framed barn, 24 by 36 feet, smoke-house and other out houses; 250 bearing peach trees, and a small apple orchard; 14 acres of good meadow, and 10 of pasture; about 70 acres of cleared land. An indisputable title will be given, it being part of Gen. Stevens's survey of military land. For terms, apply to the subscriber, on the premises.
Jasper Shotwell.
I will take one half the value of the above tract, in Lands in the North-Western Territory, between the Sciota and Little Miami. J. S.
I HEREBY forewarn all persons from dealing with or crediting my wife Margaret Harbour, as I am determined not to pay any debts of her contracting, after the date hereof: and I caution all persons not to receive, from her hands or from any person for her, any of my property, as they shall answer it at their peril. Garrard county, } Elisba Harbour. April 10 1800. 3w*
TAKE NOTICE.
I SHALL attend on the third day of June next with the commissioners appointed by the County Court of Montgomery, at the beginning of the following entry, made March the 2d 1784— "Enoch Smith, assignee of James Laurdon, with draws 1000 acres, the remainder of his 1500 acre entry on a treasury warrant, No 4372, and re-enters the same between Small mountain creek and the upper salt springs; beginning at three sugar trees and two hickories, Jeremiah Moore's north east corner of his two thousand acre survey, and extending S. 85 east, 320 poles; thence N. 5 east, 500 poles; thence N. 85 west, 320 poles; thence to the beginning." then and there to take depositions for perpetuating testimony, and do such other acts as the law may deem necessary.
Enoch Smith.
April the 14th, 1800.
CHEAP GOODS.
SAMUEL & GEORGE TROTTER, Have just received from Philadelphia, a LARGE AND GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF MERCHANDIZE, consisting of Dry Goods, Hardware, Groceries, Glass, China and Queens-ware, Bar Iron, Steel, &c. &c. Which, for CASH IN HAND, they offer for sale on the most reasonable terms. Lexington, December 23th, 1799.
JOHN CLAY,
HAS JUST RECEIVED AND NOW OPENING, A HANDSOME ASSORTMENT OF MERCHANDIZE,
IN the house formerly occupied by Mr. Robert Carr, opposite Messrs Samuel and George Trotter's, which he will sell on low terms for Cash or Country Produce, viz. Tobacco, Hemp, and Good Clean Wheat, delivered at any of the merchant mills in this county or in Woodford. He will purchase BEES-WAX & TALLOW, For which he will give one half Cash. Lexington, December 3d, 1799.
THE SUBSCRIBER
THANKS the public for the confidence with which they have hitherto honored him in the FARRIER'S BUSINESS —he continues to attend sick horses, either boarding at his own house, on Hickman, or to visit abroad those whose owners are pleased to call on him. W. Mentelle.
CAUTION.
ALL persons are hereby forewarned from taking an assignment of a couple of notes given by me to Henry Henricks, for the payment of five pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence each, payable the ninth day of January 1801. The above mentioned notes were given in consequence of a purchase of land. Whereas he has left the parts unknown to me, and I am determined not to pay until I obtain a title to said land agreeable to contract. 3w* Absalom Wilson. April 14th 1800.
WAR DEPARTMENT, March 12, 1800. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT separate proposals will be received at the office of the secretary of the Department of War, until the expiration of the 25th of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of October 1800, to the 30th day of September 1801, both days inclusive, at the places and within the two districts herein-after first mentioned; and also that separate proposals will be received at the said office until the expiration of the 25th day of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required as aforesaid, from the 1st day of January, in the year 1800, to the 31st day of December in the same year, both days inclusive, at the place and within the several states herein-after mentioned, viz.
First. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Oswego; at Niagara; at Pittsburgh; at Presqu'isle; at Michilimackinac; at Fort Franklin; at Le Boeuf; at Cincinnati; at Picquetown and Loramies stores; at Fort Wayne; at Fort Defiance; at any place below Fort Defiance, on the Miami river, to Lake Erie; at Fort Knox, and Ouatonon, on the river Wabash; at Maysville; at any place or places on the east side of the river Mississippi, above the mouth of the river Ohio, and upon the Illinois river.
Second. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at any place or places, on the east side of the Mississippi river, below the mouth of the river Ohio, to the southern boundary of the state of Kentucky, and within the said state; at Knoxville; at all other posts and places within the state of Tennessee; at South-West Point; at Tellico Block House; at St. Stevens, or other fort or post on the river Tombigby, and any place or places within the Choctaw boundaries; below the southern boundary of the state of Tennessee, and within the boundary of the United States.
Third. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Point Petre; at Colerain; at Savannah, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Georgia; at all forts or stations on the Oconee & Altamaha, & at all other places in the Creek nation, within the limits of the United States, where troops are or may be stationed.
Fourth. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Johnson; at Fort Pinckney; at Charleston, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the state of South Carolina.
Fifth. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at the fort at Wilmington, Cape Fear; at Beacon Island, Ocracoke; at Charlotte; at Fayetteville; at Salisbury, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the state of North Carolina.
Sixth. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Norfolk; at Portsmouth; at Kempville; at Charlottsville; at Winchester; at Staunton; at Richmond; at Alexandria; at Leesburg; at Fredericksburg; at Carterville; at Harper's Ferry, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the state of Virginia.
Seventh. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort M'Henry; at Baltimore; at Annapolis; at Frederickstown; at Leonardtown; at Hagerstown; at Bladensburg; at Georgetown; at Easttown; at the Head of Elk, and at any other place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Maryland.
Eighth. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Mifflin; at Philadelphia; at Darby; at Lancaster; at Wilkesbarre; at Reading; at Bristol; at Yorktown; at Carlisle; at Lewistown (Mifflin county); at Bedford; at Greensburg; at Washington; at Easttown; at Wilmington; at Christiana; at Dover, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the states of Pennsylvania & Delaware, except the posts within the state of Pennsylvania, enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Ninth. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Hackensack; at Elizabethtown; at New Brunswick; at Burlington; at Woodbury; at Trenton, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Jersey.
Tenth. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at New-York, at West point; at Plattsburg; at Haerlem; at West-Chester; at Poughkeepsie; at Kenderhook; at Stillwater; at Newburg; at Albany; at Conesjoharie; at Cherry-Valley, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of New-York, except the posts within the said state enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Eleventh. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Hartford; at Hebron; at New-London; at Brooklyn; at Windham; at Litchfield; at Guilford; at New Haven; at Fairfield; at Danbury; at Middletown, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Connecticut.
Twelfth. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Wolcott, at Brinton's point; at Newport; at Providence, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Rhode-Island.
Thirteenth. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Portland, in the District of Maine; at Gloucester; at Cape Ann; at Salem; at Marblehead; at Boston; at Springfield; at Uxbridge; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Massachusetts.
Fourteenth. —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Portsmouth; at Exeter; at Windsor; at Bennington; at Rutland; or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of New-Hampshire and Vermont.
The Ration to be supplied, is to consist of the following articles, viz. Eighteen ounces of bread or flour, or when neither can be obtained, of one quart of rice, or one and a half pound of sifted or bolted indian meal, one pound and a quarter of fresh beef, or one pound of salted beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted Pork, and when fresh meat is issued, salt at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations, soap, at the rate of four pounds; and candles at the rate of a pound and a half for every hundred rations.
It is expected the proposals will also extend to the supply of rum, whiskey, or other ardent spirits at the rate of half a gill per ration, and Vinegar at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations. The proposals will specify the price of the several components parts of the ration, as well as those of substitutes or alternatives for parts thereof.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contracts be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac; Detroit; Niagara; and Oswego; for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places, or posts, to call for
at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper. It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expence and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and at all losses, sustained, by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the price of the article captured or destroyed, on the depositions of two or more persons of creditable characters and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles, for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is to be understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring, that none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts shall be issued, until the supplies which have or may be furnished under contracts now in force have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the sea-board or Indian frontiers not exceeding three months.
JAMES M'HENRY, Secretary of War
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on the head of Indian creek, Clarke county, one bay filly, two years old past, about 13 hands high, docked, but not branded, appraised to 81. Robert Johnston.
November 28th, 1799. B. N. The cause this stray was not Gazetted sooner, it ran away from me, and I never got it until lately.
FRESH GOODS.
THE SUBSCRIBER, HAS just received from Philadelphia, and is now opening for sale, in the brick house, lately occupied by Mr. A. Hare, a handsome, and very general assortment of MERCHANDIZE,
Among which are the following articles:
  Superfine cloths,  Cloth and furniture do.    Fine and coarse do.  Writing paper,    Kerseys,meres,  Slates,    Flannels and Coatings,  Quills and Wafers,    Blankets,  Girth, spring and straining Webs,    Velvets, Thicksets, Cor-  Plated and tinned stir-    duros and Fustians,  rupirons,    Hair Plush stuffs,  Do. do. Bridle Bits, and Furniture,    Brown and White Irish Linens,  A general assortment of Cutlery,    Calicoes and coarse mus-  Desk and bureau furniture,    lins,  Carpenters' Adze,    Fine Jaconet do.  Screw Augers,    Plain, striped and tam-  Hand, pannel, dove sill, fall, lock and keyhole saws.    bored do.  Pipe, mill and croset do.    Book and Jaconet hand-  Crowley steel,    kerchiefs,  Sheet Iron and sad Irons,    Fashionable Ribbons,  Nails and Brads assorted,    Family & school Bibles,  Teas, Coffee and Chocolate,    Testaments and spelling books,  Loaf, White, Havanna and Mucovado sugars,    Dictionaries,  Pepper and spices,    Morse's Universal Ge-  Arnotto Rofin,    ography—2 vols.  Brimstone, Copperas and Logwood,    Do. American do. 1 vol.  Cotton, Wool and Hatters' Cards.    Do. do. and Universal abridged,  Also, a few excellent double and single trig-ger'd Rifle Guns.    Staunton's embassy,     Scott's Gazetteer,     American do.     Scott's Lessons,     Tapin's and Mills' Far-     riery,     Copper Tea Kettles,     London Pewter,     Weavers', sweeping and scrubbing brushes,   
All which will be sold at reduced prices for ready money only.
N. BURROWES.
N. B. N. BURROWES requests those indebted, to come forward and make payment, or close their accounts, by giving their notes. No further notice will be given.
STATE OF KENTUCKY. WASHINGTON DISTRICT, ss.
February term 1800.
David Davis, complainant,
against
John W. Hunt, David Duncan jun. Joseph Allen, John M. Price, & Bert Morgan, defendants.
In Chancery.
IT appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendant Bert Morgan is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth, on the motion of the complainant by his attorney, it is ordered that he appear here on the third day of our next July term, and answer the complainant's bill, and that a copy of this order be inserted in the Kentucky Gazette for two months successively another posted at the door of the court house in Mason county, and that this order be published some Sunday immediately after divine service at the door of the Baptist meeting house in Washington.
A Copy. Teste, Francis Taylor, C. W. D. C.
WOODFORD COUNTY,
March Court of Quarter Sessions, 1800.
James Wason, complainant,
against
Jane Bowles, Samuel Baird, James Baird, and William Baird, and James M'Bride and Henry M'Bride, heirs at law of James M'Bride, dec. defendants,
IN CHANCERY.
THE defendants Samuel Baird, James Baird, & William Baird; and James M'Bride and Henry M'Bride, not having entered their appearance and given security according to 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 state; on motion of the complainant by his attorney, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first monday in July next, and answer the bill of the complainant; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Kentucky Gazette for two months successively, and published at the door of Clear creek meeting house, on some Sunday immediately after divine service, and at the door of the Court house in the town of Versailles.
A copy. Teste, T. Turpin, Ck.
ALEXANDER PARKER,
HAS just imported from Philadelphia, and opened at his store in Lexington, opposite the court house, a LARGE AND GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF Dry Goods, Groceries, Hard Ware, Queens, China and Glass Ware, which he will sell at the most reduced prices for CASH. Lexington, April 1st, 1800.
N. B. In the above assortment, there are the best of Sherry, Port, and Teneriff Wines, the best of Lime Juice, Spirits and French Brandy, likewise Boulting Cloths, Silks and Muffs assorted, Hilling Hoes, and cut Nails assorted, Sickles, English & Dutch cythes, Red Wood, Paints and Brushes, Sheet Tin in boxes, Sheet Copper, and Tab mill Irons.
LANDS TO SELL
At a Reasonable Price, viz.
1836 2 3 acres, in Montgomery county, bounded on the south by Red river, on the north by Beaver creek, and a branch of Slate, the tract includes the whole Indian creek and its branches which afford many seats for mills, it is well timbered and watered with a great number of never failing springs besides Indian creek, its soil is very fertile for cultivation tho' broken, it is intermixed with fine bottoms, with a little trouble and a small expence valuable profits out of cultivation may be got in some part of the tract. The title indisputable.
11646 1 3 acres, on the north side of the North fork of Kentucky river about 8 miles above the mouth, running up the river with the meanders thereof 1100 poles when reduced to a straight line, the soil pretty level and rich. The title indisputable.
2367 1 2 acres, on the waters of the North fork of Rock-Castle river, Madison county.
300 acres, in Garrard county on White Oak run opposite the mouth of Hickman creek, the road to Danville crosses the tract N. E. & S. W. about 2 3 of a mile, it is of a very early entry.
418 acres, military land on the bank of Cumberland river joining the town of Clarksville well watered and timbered.
46 town lots and out lots in the said town of Clarksville.
6000 acres, of land in several small grants reserved by the state of Virginia, and confirmed by two acts of Congress, lying on the bank of the river Kaskaskia, near the town of the same name, territory N. W. of the Ohio.
200 acres, military land in the Illinois grant N. W. of the Ohio, 918 poles from the river and opposite 18 miles inland which lies about 25 miles above Louisville, the tract is not far from a flourishing settlement in the grant.
N. B. Negroes, Produce, Merchandize, Lots & Houses in Lexington, Paris or Danville will be taken in part; a good plantation between Lexington and Mount Sterling will command a profitable bargain for the purchaser of a considerable quantity of said lands. For further information apply to P. D. Robert, High Street Lexington.
MR BRADFORD.
OBSERVED a piece in your paper of the third instant by James Gay, informing the public, that I had made over to him the tract of land on which I now live, as security till I should make him a title to half my settlement right which I told him; and in consequence of that bargain, interdicts all persons from purchasing said tract or any part of it from me—but I never made any such bargain either verbally or by writing—the gentleman must have made the bargain altogether himself, as nothing of this kind ever transpired between us, therefore this is to let him know (as well as the public) that the bargain is void, for I will not stand to it until he makes considerable alterations. Alexr. M'Connell. April 9th 1800. 3w*3s
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT on the first friday in may next, I shall attend with the commissioners appointed by the county court of Bourbon, at the beginning called for in an entry made for John Tabb, and in his name of ten thousand acres, and two of five thousand acres each, which calls to begin at two afa saplings growing from one root, with the letter K on each, which is at the forks of Clear creek, a branch of Hinkson, and lies in Bourbon county, & to do such other acts as may be thought proper. Philemon Thomas. April 11 1800.
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT commissioners appointed by the county court of Bourbon county, will meet on the first Saturday in may next, if fair, if not the Monday ensuing, between the hours of ten and two, at a Home called for in an entry in the name of Basil Holms, made for fifteen thousand acres of land in December 1782, in Bourbon county, near the upper Blue lick, to take the depositions of certain persons to perpetuate testimony, and do such other things as may be necessary to establish said entry, agreeably to law. Lewis Craig & Philemon Thomas for themselves & others.
TAKEN
up by the subscriber, in Bourbon county, a bay filly, with black mane and tail, no brands, two years old this spring, appraised to 25 dollars. Jno. Purovance.
TANNING AND CURRYING.
WANTED immediately two active BOYS, as apprentices to the above branches, from the age of 14 to 16 years. *3tf Philip Yeiser, Danville.
STATE OF KENTUCKY, ss.
PARIS DISTRICT, March term, 1800.
John Roberts, complainant,
against
Edward Ford, defendant,
In Chancery.
THE defendant 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 state; 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 June term, and answer the complainant's bill, and that a copy of this order be published for two months successively in the Kentucky Gazette, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the court house in Bourbon, and another posted at the front door of the Presbyterian meeting house in Paris, some Sunday immediately after divine service. A Copy. Teste, L. H. Arnold, D. C. B. D. C.