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THE KENTUCKY GAZETTE.
[No. 715.]
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1800.
[VOL. XII.]
LEXINGTON:—PRINTED BY JOHN BRADFORD, (On Main Street)—PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAID IN ADVANCE.
FOR THE KENTUCKY GAZETTE.
ON CLASSICAL LITERATURE.
PHILOLOGUS, No. I.
Still green with bays each ancient altar stands, Above the reach of sacrilegious hands; Secure from flames, from envy's fiercer rage, Destructive war, and all involving age. See, from each clime the learn'd their incense bring! Hear, in all tongues contenting peans ring! To praise so just, let ev'ry voice be join'd, And fill the gen'ral chorus of mankind. Pope.
THE principal object of Education is to make youth wise and virtuous citizens; and thereby qualify them for being useful members of society.—The Classic Authors are exceedingly well calculated for that end. They abound with excellent precepts of morality, sage observations, wise maxims, and prudent directions for the regulation of our passions, and for the conduct of our lives. The authors usually read in schools, may be divided into three classes—the Historians, the Orators and the Poets.
The Historians recount the events of past ages, the foundation, rise and fall of empires—exhibit the genius, manners, laws and customs of different nations—they arraign all the renowned characters of antiquity, at the bar of justice—examine their lives, and scrutinize their actions with freedom and impartiality.—they carefully display the bright patterns of virtue for our imitation; pointing out at the same time, in an exemplary manner, the vices we should avoid, as well as the virtues we should emulate. And, in a word, they communicate in an entertaining and amusing manner, useful information, and instructive lessons to persons of all ranks and conditions in life.
The Orators, actuated by a sincere love for their country, employ the most persuasive eloquence in its defence.—Animated by their patriotic feelings, they exhaust the powers of language in the cause of liberty and humanity; while, with irresistible impulse, they engage the attention, convince the judgment, and rouse the lethargic faculties of their astonished countrymen.
The Poets convey the most salutary instructions in the most delightful manner. In order to allure men to the practice of virtue, they ransack nature for the most becoming ornaments—paint her in the most lively colors—deck her with all the graces and beauties of language, sedulously culled, and so harmoniously adjusted, that emerging from the poetic bowers, this majestic Goddess flings forth so incomparably amiable, as to command the esteem, attract the admiration, and enrapture the heart of the most insensible. On the other hand, the poets depict vice in the most odious colors, to excite our disgust, and to deter us from immoral practices, they represent in the most pathetic manner, the fatal effects, the woeful consequences necessarily resulting from, and inseparably connected with every deviation from the paths of moral rectitude.
That example is more influential than precept, is a truth incontestibly proved by the experience of all ages.—What greater incentive, therefore, to the love of virtue and detestation of vice, than to set before youth the great models of antiquity? Those noble heroes and patriots, who, by their inflexible adherence to truth, virtue and generosity, who, by their inimitable patriotism, and almost incredible application to their own improvement, and that of their fellow citizens, have justly excited the admiration and esteem of all succeeding ages.
Young men, by having those brilliant examples continually before their eyes, will insensibly imbibe their principles; and receive from them a tincture of that greatness of soul, that liberality of sentiment, that disinterested generosity, that hatred of injustice, that patriotic flame and unextinguishable love of liberty, which make so bright a figure in the pages of ancient history.
The republican plainness of manners, firmness of mind, and incorruptible integrity, which in so eminent a degree distinguished the ancient worthies, were never more needful to be recommended to youth than at this time, when luxury, effeminacy, and avarice, with all their baneful consequences, seem advancing with rapid strides—and young minds are
daily allured to taste the wine of error, and quaff the deceitful draughts of soul-destroying pleasures. In this age of declining virtue, young men have need of a proper stimulus to spur them on to noble actions—to give them a taste for real and solid glory—to inspire their breasts with a glorious emulation, and cause their kindling hearts to glow with the love of all that is truly noble and great and good. From classical reading they may acquire a fund of useful knowledge—may learn to form a right judgment of men and things, not from their external appearance, but from the intrinsic merit of their actions. By classical reading they may be enabled to overcome the foolish prejudices which fetter the unthinking multitude; and place their esteem and admiration on personal worth alone, despising the empty and ostentatious parade of tinsel'd villainy and worldly grandeur; preferring real merit in rags, to ignorant audacity in brocade.
I now proceed to answer some objections which may be made to the morality of the classics.
Objection 1. The classic authors are not proper to be read in Christian schools, because they abound with impure ideas, and indecent expressions, which lead to vice and licentiousness.
Answer. This charge is in a great measure false, invidious and unfounded—we have books enough in both languages for a complete course, in which scarce a single sentiment can be found, capable of offending the most delicate ear, or of raising a blush on the cheek of virgin modesty. I grant however, that there are in some of those authors which have been commonly read in schools, a few indecent passages unfit for recitation, and which I would be happy to see entirely omitted in all future editions of those books. The greatest poets both of ancient and modern times, have, in their loose unguarded hours, composed verses, of which, in their cooler moments they by no means approved, and which would never have offended the public eye, but for the indiscreet zeal of injudicious friends, and interested mercenary book-sellers.
Obj. 2. The works of the ancient Pagans are not fit to be read in Christian schools, because they abound with idolatry—the profane worship the shameful and licentious amours of their heathen deities, which being read & studied by youth, have an immediate tendency to corrupt their religious principles, & contaminate their morals, by giving them contemptible ideas of the Deity.
Answer. As to their religion I will readily allow they were not Christians; neither had they the aid of divine revelation to direct them in their religious duties, nor to point out the mode of worship most acceptable to the Divinity; and on that account, candor demands some allowance for the inconsistency, obscurity, and even absurdity of many of their religious doctrines and traditions.—Though amongst them (as well as among Christians) we find different opinions respecting God & divine things; yet the following general principles are every where inculcated in the Classics.—The immortality of the soul, and the rewards and punishments of another life.—We learn from them that their is a necessarily existent Being, who is supreme over all—the Parent of the Universe, who is infinite in power, wisdom, and goodness, whose all-pervading eye penetrates the inmost recesses of the human mind, who rules the world in righteousness, exalts the humble, and depresses the proud, and will, finally, "render to every man according to his works." In short, they represent him as the standard of all perfection—the original source of every excellence—the munificent donor of all the blessings we enjoy—the most proper object of universal adoration, who claims our warmest gratitude for the favors which he graciously bestows upon his unworthy creatures.
Here we see the great outlines both of natural and revealed religion, which the All-wise Author of nature originally implanted in the heart of man.—A system of morality may be collected from those ancient authors, approaching very near to the Divine Precepts of the Gospel. As to what is further related by the evangelists, it consists chiefly of matters of fact, and consequently of faith, such as the nativity of our Redeemer, his being the
Messiah, his miracles, his death, resurrection and ascension: but in this respect we cannot with any semblance of justice blame, or condemn the ancients, for being ignorant of certain facts which happened in general, long after their death. The general principles of religion I may here observe, are all that it is incumbent on masters of colleges, and seminaries, to inculcate on the minds of their pupils, and indeed, as there are so many different sects of religionists among us, who all contribute more or less, to the encouragement and support of such institutions, it would be ungrateful, as well as highly improper, for the professors to attempt to instill their own peculiar religious opinions into the minds of their students. The immediate duty of masters, is to instruct them in the several kinds of learning necessary to prepare them for their intended profession in life; and, at the same time, to form their taste, and superintend their morals.
As to the popular religion of the Greeks and Romans commonly called the heathen mythology, it consisted of a multitude of fables, allegories and mysteries, all manifestly intended to convey some natural or moral instruction; and the poets, who delight in figurative language, seem to have adopted these popular stories chiefly for the embellishment of their poems.—Thus, when they would represent the dangerous effects of ambition, they illustrate it by the example of Phaeton. The fatal consequences of presumption, impiety, insolence, incontinence, robbery, murder, barbarity, profanity, calumny &c. are represented in the stories of Prometheus, Lycaon, Ixion, Sisyphus, Danaides, Tantalus, Tityus, &c.—Having no written system of religion which was acknowledged to be of divine authority, and the popular religion consisting of a number of old traditions handed down from father to son, and consequently very vague and unsettled, the poets did not scruple to model the mythology each according to his particular taste, make such additions, or retrenchments as they thought fit, considering this as a peculiar privilege of the sons of Parnassus, to feign or invent unquestioned what they pleased.
The theology of the Greeks was originally derived from the Orientals and Egyptians. The Grecian Philosophers, travelled through most of the eastern countries in quest of knowledge, and in particular they studied the allegorical symbols of the Egyptian magi.—The Eastern nations have always discovered a fondness for representing spiritual properties and operations, by sensible corporeal images.
All the pagan theology, says a celebrated historian, was divided between two schools—the Poets, and the Philosophers. The first preserved the substance of the popular religion, established by custom and immemorial traditions, authorized by the laws of the state, and annexed to the public feasts and ceremonies. The Philosophers, who were secretly ashamed of the gross errors of the people, privately taught a purer religion, cleared from the multitude of Gods, abandoned to shameful passions.—The Philosophers, though differing among themselves in particular opinions, believed generally in one only supreme God, the Author and preserver of all things, who ought to be worshipped in truth and sincerity of heart. Let us hear the testimony of a Christian writer a man eminent both for piety and erudition, speaking of the heathen mythology, of which, however, he was no admirer—"Jupiter, saysthis reverend father,* is according to the philosophers, the soul of the world who takes different names according to the different effects which he produceth. In the ethereal spaces he is called Jupiter, in the air Juno, in the sea Neptune, on earth Pluto, in Hell Proserpine, in the element of fire Vulcan, in the Sun Phœbus, in divination Apollo, in war Mars, in the vintage Bacchus, in the harvest Ceres, in the forests Diana, and in the sciences Minerva. All that crowd of Gods and Goddesses, are but the same Jupiter, whose different powers and attributes are expressed by different names."
Notwithstanding the opinion and doctrines of the heathen philosophers concerning the unity of the Godhead, they did not all avowedly and directly oppose the public opinion of the polytheistical populace; some through complaisance
and an unwillingness to disturb the consciences of their countrymen; and others through fear of raising religious persecutions, and encountering the fury of a bigotted, and incensed mob.—Socrates alone is an eminent exception, who by publicly owning his contemptible opinion of the superstitious solemnities of the religion of his country, incurred the people's displeasure, was pronounced an Atheist, and died a martyr to the unity of the Deity.—His pupil Plato, though maintaining the same sentiments with his venerable master, instead of declaiming against the established traditions, lays all the blame upon the Poets, who by their absurd fictions had disfigured the mythology, and rendered the characters of their Gods ridiculous. By this artifice he escaped the imputation of an infidel, and consequently the fate of Socrates; though in effect, by excluding the poets from his republic he banished the popular religion by a necessary consequence; for the poets celebrated only such Deities, and preserved such traditions, as the public religion pointed out to them: the poets were not the original authors or inventors of these fables; they received them by tradition, and only embellished and decked them off in the most pleasing manner, to suit the appetites of a prejudiced people.—But to return—if the frequent allusions of the ancient poets to their fabulous mythology be condemned as dangerous to youth, and exploded as tending to corrupt their morals; we must for the very same reason, condemn and reject all those modern compositions that are built upon the same model, which would, in effect, be to destroy the greatest part of the learning as well as the noblest poetical performances we have at present amongst us.
A man of sense and judgment, will admire the beauties of a composition without suffering its sentiments to influence his principles. He will be charmed with the graces of diction, the energy of style, and the harmony of numbers, without considering himself bound to believe, and reduce to practice every opinion or notion on which the author may advance. A reader will (we hope) consider himself as a rational creature endowed with freedom of thought, and liberty of action; whose duty it is, as a lover of truth to examine, and as a candid critic, to condemn, what is faulty, either in matter or manner; and to commend and be pleased with whatever is laudable and excellent; not like the malignant cynic whose microscopic eyes can magnify only small inaccuracies, while the greatest beauties escape his notice.—Whose narrow capacity can never take a comprehensive view of all the parts which constitute a complex work, and will therefore, for the sake of a few blemishes, piously sacrifice a meritorious performance, as a whole burnt offering on the altar of ignorance.
But a boy, it may be objected, is not capable of distinguishing what is useful, and what not—he has not judgment to select the good from the bad.—I his I will allow, but here also I have an ample remedy, sufficiently calculated to supply this defect, and that is, an able and judicious teacher, who will in whatever author his students may be reading, guard their young minds against any thing that might otherwise have a tendency to bias their judgments, contaminate their principles, or corrupt their morals.—To teach them to understand an author's language, is but a small part of the master's duty; his primary object should be to acquaint them with the design, the spirit and characteristical beauties of the writer—to improve their taste, and enable them to discover and correct his faults—discern and relish his perfections.—In a word, it is the principal business of the instructor, to endeavor to make them found critics on life and manners;—
"To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast."
A faithful guide will direct his pupil, to cull the choicest flowers from the garden of the muses, and will take care lest while he gathers the blooming rose, he should also incautiously pick up some noxious weed, whose fallacious colours might ensnare his youthful fancy, & have a poisonous influence on his mind. He will give him to understand, that vice, to hide her deformity, often assumes the mask and takes upon her the name of virtue to allure the unwary and unexperienced youth.
*St. Augustine de civ. Dei. lib. 4. cap. II.

—thus prodigality calls her liberality; avarice styles herself frugality; luxury takes to herself the appellation of happiness; and ambition arrogates the honor of patriotism.
NOTE.
It is the particular request of Philologus, that if any gentleman shall feel himself disposed to reply, he will wait until the whole be published.
European Intelligence.
France.
PARIS, February 14.
Racine presented to the Conservative Senate, a report from the government of the number of French citizens who had refused, and who had accepted the new constitution.
1,562 persons had refused it.
3,012,569—had accepted it.
The number of those who accepted the present exceeded by more than 1,200,000 the number of those who accepted the constitution of 1793, and about 2,000,000 more than those who accepted the constitution of the year 3.
Three millions of voters form a great majority of Frenchmen, of age to exercise political rights; and almost the whole of the citizens, heads of families, who unite intelligence with property.
By the last letter from Germany it appears, that the innumerable armies are forming, France has no great occasion to be alarmed. It is certain that the letter of Buonaparte to the Emperor was infinitely better received than that which he wrote to London.
By a letter from Angiers, dated 10th of February it appears that the pacification of the West is complete. After a conference of two hours between General Brune and Georges, on the 4th Feb. between Thôix and La Trinity, the latter surrendered. He for some time made difficulties on account of giving up his arms; but the fear of being beaten, and abandoned by the English, decided the question, it is fit to be known that an agent of the English government was with Georges, when he received the check near Vannes. This agent seeing that the force of Georges could not promise the considerable advantages to the English government, which had been held out, refused to suffer the rest of the forces to be disembarked from the vessels, together with the sum of 1,500,000 livers, which he was to give him.
Georges, on surrendering himself to the laws of the republic, gave up 20,000 stand of arms, and 12 pieces of cannon, which he had received from the English. He promised to disarm all Morbihan, and even a part of the Cotes du Nord.
February 26.
A French officer of artillery wrote to Buonaparte from Hamburg in nearly the following terms:
“We have been heretofore comrades and friends: the difference in our principles induced us to an opposite conduct in the revolution: yours has led you to great power; mine has caused me to be plundered of my effects, of my estates, and to be proscribed from my country.
I do not repent of what I have done, and shall persist in my principles to the end of my life. But I have left in France a father & mother whom I tenderly love. For their consolation and my own. I set a great value on embracing them before death shall separate us for ever, I therefore request of you a passport, as limited as you shall think proper, in order to make them my last adieu. If you shall please to grant it me, I declare that during my sojournment I shall do nothing to disturb the existing order of things.”
In answer, the author of this letter received an unlimited passport, and money to defray the expenses of his journey.
General Lefebvre to General Buonaparte, First Consul of the Republic.
Head Quarters at Paris February 25.
Citizen Consul,
I hasten to communicate to you some interesting dispatches, which I have received from General Gardanne, Commander of the 14th military division. It appears from these dispatches, that he has discovered, in the neighborhood of the commune of Chanu, several hiding places where the chiefs of the Chouans were in the habit of retiring during peace, and when they were pursued by justice.
They had deposited there part of the arms and equipments furnished by the English. This discovery was made in consequence of two Chouans, who were at his mercy, and whom he threatened to shoot. They pointed out to him a locksmith, named Aubine, of the commune of Chanu, whom they knew to be perfectly acquainted with secret places,
In the first they found arms, casks, and papers in great quantity. In the second, which was the asylum of Frotte, they surprised his secretary, and a person named Legrenade. The former was killed as he stood on his defence; the second promised to make some useful discoveries in case his life was spared. It was in consequence of his information, that five other places of concealment have been discovered, containing Pilleul, called Desour; major general Champy, aide-major, and Augilt aid-du camp of Gaumarque. The latter remained on the field of battle.
They found besides in a subterraneous magazine, about 200 suits of English uniform, a great many slippers, boots about 30 muskets, a quantity of bayonets, sabres cartridges, and various other articles. Legrenade said that the father of Frotte was expected from England in 6 days. The secretary who was killed, was to have come to meet him.
This expedition was commanded by citizen Lafitte, captain adjoint to adjutant general Briis, who has displayed on this occasion much zeal and judgement.
By another dispatch the same general informs me, that a person of the name of Laviétoire, who commanded a company of twenty five men, in the vicinity of the same commune of Chanu, has been taken in arms, and shot on the spot: that after the death of their chief his men submitted to the laws of the republic; and that this expedition has completely purified the surrounding communes, which were the resort of the Chouans. This last success is to be attributed to citizen Bertrand, captain of the movable column of Corneille, the conduct of which general Gardanne has highly praised.
Health and Respect.
(Signed)
LEFEBVRE.
England.
LONDON, February 21.
In consequence of the scarcity of corn in Great Britain, the legislature of that country has recently passed a law by which it is enacted, “that it shall not be lawful for any person residing within the cities of London, and Westminster, and the bills of mortality, after the 26th day of February, 1800, or residing in every other part of Great Britain, after the 4th day of March following, to sell any bread until the same shall have been baked 24 hours at the least; and every person who shall act contrary hereto shall for every offence forfeit the sum of five pounds for every loaf of bread so exposed to sale.
Ireland.
DUBLIN, January, 30.
The corporation of Dublin has unanimously resolved to petition parliament against an Union. The people of Dublin are to meet to-morrow to adopt the same measure. Limerick and Downpatrick, have also petitioned against the Union.
February 8.
In consequence of violence offered to the members of parliament, who are in favor of a Union, a troop of horse had been stationed in the circus by the parliament house; a party of cavalry has also been stationed in Sackville street. The anti-union members, it is thought, will make this matter the subject of a motion.
No theatre was ever more crowded than the house of commons last night. The house rose about one o'clock this day. The avenues were filled by the populace. Mr. Martin's coach was broken to pieces by them, and he narrowly escaped. Other union members were assailed. A military body was called forth, and Major Swan discharged a pistol among the people; but was afterwards obliged to flee.
Varney Darby, esq. and Major Rogers, are ordered to the bar of the commons, to answer for an interference with military force to prevent the people of Bir from holding a meeting to consider the union.
February 11.
The parliament of Ireland have decided in favor of this measure, 158 to 110, absent 21 members only. The presence of the military alone prevented the Dublin populace from committing excesses.
The union is to take place in January 1801, and the two kingdoms, after that period, are to bear the name of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.
The north of Ireland is in such a state, that a military escort is thought necessary to the safe travelling of persons of eminence.
February 19.
The main question of the union has been at length been carried in a committee. A
decisive but fierce and angry debate was terminated at eleven this morning, by a division on the chairman leaving the chair.
Ayes, 162 Noes, 116 Majority, 46
February 28.
In the debates last night on the question of the union, Mr. Grattan gave a smart phillippic against the advocates of the measure. In alluding to Mr. Corry, chancellor of the exchequer, Mr. Grattan called him “a parliamentary declaimer, a political pedler, a trimmer, who comes to parliament to prostitute his talents and his principles, first for bread, & then for a station; and for that station risking the peace of the country, and the lives of the people.” Mr. Corry, in reply, said, if he meant to be personal towards Mr. Grattan “he would have accused him of associating with traitors, & of having been privy to treason, of having created rebellion, and then flying from its consequences; and of having made that people on whose bounty he subsisted, the wretched instruments of his ambition.” He concluded by saying, “the hon. gentleman had returned to inflame that parliament which ought to be employed in an examination of his conduct.” Mr. Grattan in return, was pointed and severe; he almost in express terms called Mr. Corry a ruffian, a jackanapes, and a coward; and said, that had Mr. Corry uttered what he did without the walls of that house his answer would have been a “blow.” The chancellor of the exchequer immediately retired sent in a message by general Craddock to Mr. Grattan, demanding satisfaction.—Mr. Grattan instantly left the house accompanied by Mr. Metge. The parties met and fought. Mr. Corry was wounded in the arm. The ball was immediately extracted, and the wound being dressed, Mr. Corry returned to the house before the division.
Germany.
VIENNA, February 3.
Yesterday arrived here, as unexpectedly as it was sudden, a courier from Petersburg, with dispatches to our court of the very highest importance. Paul the first, having yielded to the representations of Suwarrows in regard to the misunderstandings which had arisen between the two imperial courts, has for the fourth time, changed the destination of the Russian army. In consequence, he has ordered his army to return to the line, where it will receive reinforcements without delay. The intendant of the magazines for supplying the Russian troops, resident in this city, has also received a courier from Suwarrows, ordering him to remain here, and to continue his functions.
February 9.
A letter from Constantinople of the 31st of December contained in the Brunn Gazette, states, that the Reis Effendi continues to hold frequent conferences with the Foreign ministers, and that the port has taken anew the first resolution of employing every means for driving the French out of Egypt.
MUNICH, February 9.
The elector of Bavaria issued orders on the 3d. inst. for all the regiments to be ready to march, and that 12,000 men should join the army of Prince Charles in the beginning of spring. In this number are comprised the life guards, and the regiment of the electoral Prince, hitherto accustomed to serve only in Munich.
Col. Colloredo has sent with important dispatches to Vienna, where he arrived on the first inst. It is pretended that they relate to new propositions of Peace made by the French government.
Prussia.
BERLIN, February 13.
Sweden begins to act jointly with Russia. It is very interesting to France to watch the former power. The alliance of the Russians does not please the friends of freedom in Sweden.
Batavian Republic.
HAGUE, February 13.
News was yesterday received here from Amsterdam that Batavia and all our other possessions in the Island of Java had been surrendered to the English, who had found at Batavia more than ten millions specie, together with the property belonging to our government, which was stored. This intelligence has caused great agitation here as well as at Amsterdam.
American Intelligence.
Massachusetts.
BOSTON, April 26.
INTERESTING.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Cadiz, to a respectable house in this city, dated the 12th Feb. 1800 received by the Reserve.
“By the last mail we have received information, that fifty British transport ships have landed nine thousand men Russians and French emigrants, in Bretagne.”
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in England to his friend in this town, dated February 26, 1800.
“Our calamitous situation wears a more gloomy aspect than when I wrote you the last month. The manufacturing towns are in a state of idleness and starvation, never before experienced in England. You must not expect any goods, and those who do will be disappointed, in a great measure; for the manufacturing interest have felt so severely the bankruptcies in our own and in various capitals of Europe, that discredit and distrust have completely taken the place of confidence and credit, that every man, from the highest merchant to the lowest labourer, is suspicious even of their old customers.—In fact, the country is in so distracted a state, that I now begin to think seriously of quitting it in a short time; for I see no prospect of a peace with us and the French, while the minister can dive into our pockets at any time and as far as he pleases, and take out as much as he pleases—and all this is done by a bribed majority in the house of commons.”
A gentleman arrived at Charleston, who was at Martinico when the British packet with the February mail had arrived, who says, that he brought intelligence of the American envoys having arrived at Paris, and that they were well received.
A new agent, it is said, is arrived at Guadaloupe, from France.
Virginia.
ALEXANDRIA, May 6.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in England, to his friend in this town dated February 26, 1800.
“The times are alarming; the great deficiencies in the corn crops, last harvest, are computed to be rather above one third. If great supplies are not brought to us, a famine must ensue. The newspapers are every day full of the most alarming accounts. Parliament have taken it into consideration. No bread is to be made use of or sold, from the bakers in less than 24 hours after it is baked.
“The prospect is still bad, this year does not seem likely to produce more than the last, the violent rains last fall prevented the farmers from putting in their seed, and great rains have continued ever since.
“It is said at Plymouth, that a leg of mutton and a loaf of bread was hung up bathed in blood with the words: “Cheaper or more blood.” Is this not a striking picture of the effects of war, which has brought many a country to ruin, when government might have avoided it, and ought it not to serve as a lesson to other countries, that are not yet involved therein”
Lexington, June 5.
NO MAIL THIS WEEK.
Owing to our receiving no Southern Mail, we are obliged to fill that part of our paper left open for any thing new we might receive by it, with gleanings from papers received by the last mail which did arrive.
PARIS, March 9.
TRIBUNATE.
SITTING OF MARCH 8.
The consuls of the republic decree, “Art. 1. The department which at the end of Germinal, (20 April) shall have paid the greatest part of its contributions shall be proclaimed as having deserved well of the country. Its name shall be given to the principal square of Paris.
“2. All old soldiers who should have obtained leave of absence, all those who forming part of the companies of veterans, are still in a condition to make a campaign, all the young men of the conscription, and the requisition, shall be summoned in the name of honor, by a

proclamation from the prefects, and generals, commanding divisions, to rejoin their standards before the 15th Germinal (5th April.) Such as shall not be attached to any corps shall repair to the head-quarters of the army of reserve at Dijon, where they shall be armed and clothed; the first consul will review them in the course of Germinal.
3. The French citizens, others than those named in the second article, who, in these extraordinary circumstances, will accompany the first consul, and share in the perils and glory of the approaching campaign, shall give in their names to the prefects and sub-prefects. The minister of war shall give the necessary orders to form them into battalions of volunteers. Such as should have the means of procuring horses shall be formed into squadrons of volunteers; they shall be definitively organized at Dijon, and the officers appointed by the chief consul.
4. On the 20th of next Germinal (April 10) the prefects of each department shall send to the minister of the interior, a statement of the young men who shall have joined. There shall be presented a report of them to the consuls of the republic, who, shall proclaim throughout the republic, and at the head of the armies, the ten departments which shall have furnished the most, as the most sensible of honor, and of the national glory.
The first consul. (Signed) "BUONAPARTE." The secretary of State, (Signed) "H. B. MARET,"
Extract from the Deliberations of the Consuls of the Republic. Paris, 17th Ventose, (March 8,) 8th year of the Republic, one and indivisible.
The Consuls of the Republic decree. Art. 1. There shall be raised an army of reserve of 60,000 men.
2. It shall be commanded directly by the first consul.
3. The artillery shall be commanded by gen. St. Remy. The park, by the chief of brigade, Gellendi. The engineers, by the first inspector of the engineers, Marefcof.
4. The commissary Duberton shall discharge the functions of a commissary in chief.
5. The different corps of conscripts of which the army is to be composed, shall set out immediately on their march for Dijon; they shall be cantoned within the circumference of twenty leagues.
6. The minister of war is charged with the execution of the present decree. He shall adopt all measures to collect at Dijon all the necessary articles for the army, clothing and equipping the army of reserve.
The first consul, (Signed) BUONAPARTE. The secretary of State, (Signed) H. B. MARET.
LEGISLATIVE BODY.
MARCH 8.
A message from the consuls announced, that three Orators would be sent in the course of the sitting, with an important communication.
At two o'clock, they were introduced, and Boulay de La Meurthe read the Proclamation to the people, issued by the Consuls, and two arrests respecting the Army of Reserve. After he had read them, he addressed the Legislative Body in the following terms:
"The government (said the Orator) has proclaimed with confidence, in presence of the legislative body, its sentiments and its views, and called to witness the efforts which it makes for the happiness of the nation. It had at its heart to extinguish the civil war which desolated the departments of the West, and has succeeded by its wisdom and its measures. It has shown itself the enemy of all factions; but it endeavors to assuage them, to melt them down into one sole party, that of public virtue. It wishes to rectify all that is wrong, and consequently is endeavoring to establish order in all the parts of the administration. It will not be least zealous to secure to the republic all the advantages of a glorious peace; it has not been afraid to propose peace; it is ready to make it on suitable terms, but our enemies must relinquish all hopes of interfering in our internal administration. It has recognized in other nations the right of their independence; that, therefore, of the French nation ought to be respected. It claims only those just rights which it holds from nature and its industry, charged with the task of watching over the interests of a people destined to appear with glory in the midst of other nations. It feels all the nation dignity, and will suffer nothing unworthy of its grandeur. The eyes of the whole world are open-
ed to the — of the —; and the coalition, the victim of its —, will shortly dissolve itself, on beholding the moderation of the French republic, and the ambition of the —. If a last effort be necessary, the nation will make it. The First Consul will go, if it be necessary, to combat at the head of the armies, and this generous determination will, no doubt, infuse courage and affection into the soul of every citizen. Believe me, citizen legislators, the general administration left in prudent hands, shall suffer nothing from the absence of the first consul and his noble devotion."
Regulations relative to the completion of the Land Army.
17th Ventose, March 8.
The Consul of the Republic, upon the report of the Minister of War, the Council of State having been heard, decrees as follows:
Title the first.
30,000 conscripts for the army of reserve: Art. 1. The conscripts placed at the disposal of the government by the law of the 17th Ventose, 8th year, shall furnish for the army of reserve a detachment of 30,000 men.
2. The ministers of war shall address to the prefect of each department, in three days from the receipt of the date of the present decree, a summary statement of the number of conscripts which the department is to furnish for the army of reserve, according to the proportion of its population.
3. Within three days from the receipt of the order of the minister, each prefect shall send to the sub-prefects of the department a summary statement of the number of conscripts which each municipality is to furnish. If the sub-prefects think it necessary to unite two or more municipalities, in order to furnish conjointly one or several conscripts, they shall determine the places of meeting, and shall appoint the mayor under whose authority the operation shall take place.
4. In no cases shall the French incapable of service, pointed out in the 3d article of the law of the 17th Ventose, form part of the contingent which each municipality is to furnish; in consequence, their names shall be struck out of the list, by an order of the Mayor.
5. The decision of the mayor shall be transmitted by him to the sub-prefect, who shall transmit it with his advice, to the general commanding in chief the military division, who is to pronounce definitively.
6. The conscripts absent from their homes at the moment in which the contingent is to be furnished, shall not be placed upon the list of individuals who are to concur in furnishing the contingent demand of their municipality.
The articles between the 6th and 14th relate to the equipping, paying, &c. of the conscripts.
14. All the conscripts who are placed in active service by the above articles, who shall not repair to the places prescribed, and at the periods fixed, shall be denounced to the council of war of the military division, by the mayors, sub-prefects, prefects, and the etat major of the army.
The remainder of the regulations relate to the leave of absence exemptions, the mode of furnishing substitutes, the equipment and marching of the requisitioned, conscripts, and their substitutes.
JUST RECEIVED
FROM PHILADELPHIA & BALTIMORE, AND NOW OPENING BY
JOHN A. SEITZ,
IN the stone house at the corner of Main and Mill streets, formerly occupied by Seitz & Lauman, and lately by Mr. John Jordan Jun.
AN EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF
MERCHANDIZE,
CONSISTING OF
Dry Goods; Groceries; Hard, Glass, Queens & China Wares:
Also, a constant supply of
Salt, Castings, Nails, Bar-Iron, &c. &c. which will be sold cheap for CASH, or such COUNTRY PRODUCE as may occasionally suit him.
Those who have accounts with the late firm of SEITZ & LAUMAN, yet unsettled, are again solicited to come forward and close them, as a delay may prove very injurious both to the debtor and creditor.
Lexington, June 3d, 1800.
A GREABLY to a decree of the worshipful the a quarter session court of the county of Fayette, will be sold at public sale on the 30th day of June next, at the late dwelling house of John Gess decd all the slaves belonging to the said decedent's estate, consisting of Men, Women and Children. Twelve months credit will be given the purchasers, on their giving bond and approved security to the administrators.
30th May, 1800. John Gess adm'r. Sarah Gess adm'x. Edm. Bullock, H. Harrison, John Hendly, Owin Winn, } Committee.
TAKE NOTICE,
THAT JOHN JORDAN JUN. has taken his brother GEORGE W. JORDAN, into partnership, and the business in future will be carried on under the name and firm of JOHN JORDAN JUN. & Co — Who, have just received from Philadelphia and Baltimore, a large and general ASSORTMENT OF EUROPEAN, EAST AND WEST INDIA
GOODS,
Which they are determined to sell at the most reduced prices for CASH, or such PRODUCE as may suit them.
JOHN JORDAN JUN. intends setting out for Philadelphia, on the 1st July next — he therefore requests those indebted to him either by bond, note or book account, to come forward and discharge the same before the above time.
INDIA MUSLINS.
A few pieces for sale at a LOW PRICE for CASH — enquire of the Printer here-of.
ALL persons indebted to the subscriber, will come forward and settle, without the least delay, as I am about to leave this state for a considerable time. Variations from this notice will be attended with serious consequences.
Nathaniel Shaw.
31st May, 1800.
6t
NOTICE.
I HEREBY forewarn all persons from taking an assignment upon two notes, to the amount of near twelve pounds, which I gave to John Derham Jun — the said notes I have settled and paid to said Derham, and shall not answer any note or demand prior to this date, unless compelled to it by law. Given under my hand this 23d day of May, 1800.
Isaac Prewitt.
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 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 1801, 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 Olweago; at Niagara; at Pittsburgh; at Presqu'isle; at Michilimackinac; at Fort Franklin at Le Beau; 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 Ouatamou, on the river Wabash; at Massac; 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 rivers Mobile or Tombigby, and any place or places within the Cherokee 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 Beaufort 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 Charlottesville; at Winchester; at Staunton; at Richmond; at Alexandria; at Leesburg; at Fredericksburg; at Catterville; 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 Fredericktown; at Leonardtown; at Hagerstown; at Bladensburg; at Georgetown; at Easton; 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 Greencastle; at Washington; at Easton; 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 Hacketstown; at Elizabethtown; at New Brunswick; at Burlington; at Woodbury; at Trenton, and 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 Flushing; at Haerlem; at West-Chester; at Poughkeepsie; at Kenderhook; at Stillwater; at Newburg; at Albany; at Conajoharie; 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; Gloucester; Cape Ann; Salem; Marblehead; 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 Fort, place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states 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 boulted 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 component parts of the ration, as well as those of substitutes or alternatives for part 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 Olweago; 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 expense 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 dispositions of two or more persons of creditable character 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 referred 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 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
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, April 21, 1800.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
IN pursuance of the act of congress, passed on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred, intitled "An act in addition to an act, intitled, an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the Society of the United Brethren, for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen," as follows:
1st. All the fractional parts of the quarter townships adjoining to the Indian boundary line of the tract of land referred to in said act, except the fractional quarter townships, number four in township number seven of range number twenty. Also, all the fractional parts of the quarter townships adjoining to the river Scioto, except the quarter townships number one and four, in township number one of range number nineteen; the quarter townships number two and three of township number three, in range number nineteen; and the quarter townships number one and four in township number five, of range number twenty; together with the 50 quarter townships hereafter described, are referred to be located, for the original holders of warrants granted for military services, or their heirs, in lots of one hundred acres, pursuant to the act above recited.
2d. The following is a description of the 50 quarter townships referred to in the preceding article and which were designated by lot in the presence of the Secretary of War, pursuant to the act above recited.
   Range. Township. Q. Town. Range. Township. Q. Town. Range. Township. Q. Town.     1 1 1 6 1 1 11 1 1   2 1 1 7 1 1 12 1 1   3 1 1 8 1 1 13 1 1   4 1 1 9 1 1 14 1 1   5 1 1 10 1 1 15 1 1   6 1 1 11 1 1 16 1 1   7 1 1 12 1 1 17 1 1   8 1 1 13 1 1 18 1 1   9 1 1 14 1 1 19 1 1   10 1 1 15 1 1 20 1 1   11 1 1 16 1 1 21 1 1   12 1 1 17 1 1 22 1 1   13 1 1 18 1 1 23 1 1   14 1 1 19 1 1 24 1 1   15 1 1 20 1 1 25 1 1   16 1 1 21 1 1 26 1 1   17 1 1 22 1 1 27 1 1   18 1 1 23 1 1 28 1 1   19 1 1 24 1 1 29 1 1   20 1 1 25 1 1 30 1 1  
3d. All the lands in each of the above fifty quarter townships, and in the fractional parts of quarter townships before described, have been divided upon the respective plats thereof, as returned by the surveyor general, into as many lots of one hundred acres each, as the quantity such quarter township or fraction is stated to contain will admit, in the manner pointed out and required by the above recited act.
4th. The plats divided as aforesaid into lots of one hundred acres, are deposited in the office of the register of the treasury where the locations are to be made; and upon surrendering the warrants which shall be thus located, patents will be issued in the manner and upon the conditions prescribed by law.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia the day and year above mentioned.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
April 22.
WINCHESTER'S DIALOGUS ON
UNIVERSAL RESTORATION,
For Sale at this Office price 3s.

SACRED TO THE MUSES.
SONNET.
THE MARINER.
THE sea-beat Mariner, whose watchful eye Full many a boisterous night hath wak'd to weep, When the keen blast descending from the sky, Snatch'd his warm tear-drop from the ravenous deep; Drench'd by the chilling rain, his dreary hour Creeps slowly onward to the dawn of day, Till burning Phœbus, darting thro' the show'r Warms with his golden beams the frothy spray, With Lightning's swiftness, he ascends the mast, And cries, "another tedious night is o'er!" He spreads the swelling sail—he fees at last, His darling mistress, and his native shore: The reflexes wand'rer then forgets his pain, Steals a fond kiss—and braves his fate again. October 14.
ANEGDOTE.
A few nights ago the conversation at the Duchesse of Gordon's happening to turn upon the consequences of a successful invasion by the French, several of the company mentioned the occupations they would adopt when all property should be seized by the Gallic freebooters. After various employments of a whimsical kind had been started by the company, the Marquis of Huntley observed, that he would turn "garter-maker for the ladies." "If that should be the case," said the Duchesse, "I fancy you would be above your business."
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RUNAWAY on the 16th inst. from the subscriber in Jefferson County; BOB a negro man, about 35 years old, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, slender made, he had on and took with him, a broadcloth coat of a mixed dark gray color, with polished steel buttons; a short gray colored coating ditto, calmer jackets and jingam ditto, new beaver hat, and several white linen shirts with a variety of other good clothing. He was former the property of Mr. John W. Hunt of Lexington and is probably lurking in the vicinity of that place. The above reward will be given to any person who will apprehend and secure him, with all reasonable charges if brought home. May 28th, 1800. James F. Moore.
NOTICE.
ABOUT the first of April last I purchased of one William Smith, a black mare, about fifteen hands high, branded on the near shoulder, but not legible, near hind foot white, star in her forehead, a small scar on her near thigh, about 6 years old, supposed to be worth twenty five pounds; I have been informed since I purchased the said mare that she was stolen—I therefore with the owner to come and prove property, pay charges and take her away.
John Turner, Living near Winchester, Clarke county. 3rCVLrp May 23, 1800. TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Raven creek, Harrison county, a dark bay Mare, four years old, fourteen hands one inch high, docked, and has some white hairs in her tail and a white spot on the off thigh. Christopher Musalman. January 10th, 1800.
PUBLIC NOTICE
TO all whom it may concern, that we, or one of us, will attend on the second Thursday in June, at Gilbert's meadow, on Thomas's run, near the south fork of Elkhorn, with the commissioners appointed by the county court of Fayette county, in order to take the depositions of such witnesses as shall attend, and perpetuate their testimony, to establish the special calls of a military survey, made for David Bell, on the head of Shannon's run, a south branch of South Elkhorn, including part of said creek; and to do such other acts as shall be deemed necessary and agreeable to law—to meet at 11 o'clock in the fore noon. May 14th, 1800. John Bell, James Bell.
LAWSON MCCULLOUGH, 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, and in the neatest and best manner. Lexington, 9th April, 1800.
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 14, 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 Boulton Cloths, Silks and Muslins assorted, Holling Hoes, and cut Nails assorted, Sickles, English & Dutch scythes, Red Wood, Paints and Brushes, beet Tin in boxes, Sheet Copper, and Tub-mill Irons.
TWO DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED from the subscriber, some time in March last, a dark iron gray MARE COLT, one year old, has no natural marks, nor branded, heavy mane and tail, natural trotter, a little cat-ham'd and had a custom of sucking her under lip after being salted. Whoever delivers said colt to me in Lexington, shall have the above reward. L. McCullough. Lexington, May 8th, 1800.
LANDS TO SELL
At a Reasonable Price, viz. 1839 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 in the Indian creek, its soil is very fertile for cultivation tho' broken, it is intermixed with fine bot tams, with a little trouble and a small expence valuable profits out of cultivation may be got in some part of the tract. The title is in disputable. 11636 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 Kaskaskias, 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 13 miles island which lies about 25 miles above Louisville, the tract is not far from a flourishing settlement in the grant. N. B. Negroes, Produce, Merchandise, 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.
STATE OF KENTUCKY,
and BAIRDSTOWN DISTRICT, to wit. John Bland's heirs and devisees, complainants, against Edward S. Thomas, and Gerrard Briscoe, defendants, In Chancery. THE defendant Gerrard Briscoe not having entered his appearance agreeable to law & the rules of this court & it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth, on the motion of the complainants by their counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the 30 day of the next July term & answer the complainants' bill, that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the Kentucky news-papers for two months successively, and published at the door of Cox's creek meeting house on some Sunday immediately after divine service, and a copy set up at the door of the court house of Nelson county. A Copy. Teste. *gw Ben Grayson, c. c.
KENTUCKY LAWS.
LATELY PUBLISHED, and for sale at the Office of the Kentucky Gazette, Price 21s. AN EDITION OF THE LAWS OF KENTUCKY; Comprehending those of a General Nature, now in force, and which have been acted on by the Legislature thereof. TOGETHER WITH A COPIOUS INDEX, And a list of Local and Private Laws. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, The Constitution of the United States, With the Amendments, The Act of Separation from Virginia, AND The Constitutions of Kentucky.
GINSENG.
I WISH to purchase twenty thousand pounds of clean well dried Merchantable GINSENG, Either in small parcels or packed in good tight barrels, I would recommend to persons who can procure considerable quantities to apply and contract for the same. I have just received an addition to my assortment of Merchandise which will be sold at the most reduced prices, for cash, Ginseng, country Sugar, and Linen. William West. Lexington, 20th May, 1800.
N. BURROWES
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public in general that he has removed from the brick house adjoining Mr. J. Jordan, and Messrs. S. & G. Trotter, to the brick house opposite the court house and next door above Mr. A. Parker—where he has in addition to his former assortment, Hard, Crocker and Glass Wares, also complete sets of China Tea Ware. N. B. Those indebted are requested to make immediate payment, as I shall shortly start for Philadelphia. Lexington, 10th May, 1800.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD,
FOR apprehending, bringing home, or securing in gaol, a Mulatto Man, named PHIL, formerly the property of Mr. Innes 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.
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.
CONDITIONS.
 I. The work will be executed on a neat type, and good paper, and will extend to between 250 and 300 pages, and bound in boards.  II. It will be put to press as soon as 500 copies are subscribed for; and finished within three months thereafter.  III. The price to subscribers will be two dollars: one half to be paid at the time of subscribing, and the remainder on delivery of the work. The price to non-subscribers will be two dollars and a half.  IV. Those who subscribe for twelve copies; or who shall procure twelve subscribers, and be accountable for the money, shall be entitled to one copy gratis. 
JOHN BRADFORD.
FOR SALE,
FIVE HUNDRED acres of land on the waters of Slate, or Lulubulgrud, in Clark county. Also 295 acres near the above. 420 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.
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.
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. Robert Barr. March 12, 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 Marr—in Danville, by Mr. Josiah Moore—at Bairdstown, by Mr. James E. Wines—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.
TO RENT,
And possession given immediately, THAT excellent stand at the corner of Main and Cross 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.
To all those to whom it may concern:
TAKE NOTICE, THAT I am agent for the representatives of Wm. Kennedy, dec. in the counties of Bourbon, Clarke, Montgomery and Fleming and will as soon as possible to divide all partnership lands, which they are entitled to in consideration of the said Kennedy's locating the same; where the persons or their agents, do not attend I shall call on the commissioners of the different counties where the land lies, in order to have the same divided. W. Sudduth. May 16th, 1800.
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.
STATE OF KENTUCKY,
WASHINGTON DISTRICT, ss. February term 1800. David Davis, complainant, against John W. Hunt, David Davis jun. Joseph Allen, John M. Price, & Bert Morgan, defendants. In Chancery.
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 complainants 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. F Taylor, c. w. D. C.
JOHN CLAY,
HAS JUST RECEIVED AND NOW OPENING, A HANDSOME ASSORTMENT OF MERCHANDIZE, IN the house formerly occupied by Mr. Robert Barr, 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.
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; 230 bearing peach trees, and a small apple orchard; 14 acres of good meadow, and 10 of pasture; about 70 acres of cleared land. An in-disputable title will be given, it being part of Genl. Stevens's survey of military land. For terms, apply to the subscriber, on the premises. Jasper Shovell. 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.
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.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT I will attend with witnesses at the mouth of Falls creek, at the long falls of Green River, in Ohio county, on the 1st day of July next, to establish the calls in an entry of five hundred acres of land, entered in the name of John Baker, as there are commissioners appointed for to perpetuate testimony. Charles Travis. 14th May, 1800.
NOTICE.
I SHALL attend on the 18th day of June next, at the house of John Grundy, with commissioners appointed by the county court of Washington, to establish an entry of 500 acres, made the 24th day of May, 1783, by Thomas Denton in the name of Robert Caldwell, lying between the Indian and Clay Peks, on the south side of the trace, leading from said licks to the Rolling Fork, to include Thomas Denton's hunting camp. Robert Caldwell. May 19th, 1800.
THE SUBSCRIBER
WISHES to sell six or seven likely young NEGRO BOYS and MEN. For terms apply to him at his farm, four miles from Lexington, on Strode's road. Thos. Hart jun. 12th May, 1800.
BLANK DEEDS
For sale at this Office.