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European Intelligence.
France.
PARIS, November 9.
Detail of the late Revolution.
A new revolution has taken place in this country. On this day the council of Ancients, by virtue of the 102d and 103d articles of the constitution, transferred the legislative body to St. Cloud and appointed Buonaparte gen. of Paris, and Moreau commander of the directory.
Gen. Buonaparte appeared at the bar, accompanied by gen. Berthier, Lefebvre, Moreau, Macdonald, &c. and addressed the council to the following effect:
Citizens Representatives,
"The republic was perishing—you knew this, and your decree has saved it. Aided by generals Berthier, Lefebvre, and all my companions in arms, I shall arrest them. Seek not in the past examples which may retard your progress. Nothing in history resembles the close of the 18th century! Nothing in the termination of that century resembles the present moment. Your wisdom has passed this decree, our arms shall execute it. We will a republic, founded on true liberty, civil liberty, and national representation. We shall have it. I swear it—I swear it in my name and that of my companions in arms."
Lively applauses proceeded from the tribunes. The president called them to order. The council remained tranquil.
The president—"General, the council of Elders receives your oaths, and entertains no doubt of their sincerity and your zeal to fulfil them. He who never in vain promised victories to his country, must execute with fervor his new engagements of service and fidelity."
The council of five hundred met on the 19th Brumaire, November 10, at St. Cloud, agreeably to the decree. The minutes of the preceding sitting being read, the council passed a decree of urgency in 16 articles.
Art. 1st. There is no longer an executive directory, and the following persons are no longer members of the national representation on account of excesses and the violent attempt which they have uniformly made, and particularly the greater part of them in the sitting of this morning. [Here follows a list of the names of 61 members.]
2d. The legislative body creates provisionally an executive consular committee, composed of citizens Sieyes and Roger Ducos, ex directors, and Buonaparte, general—They shall bear the name of consuls of the French republic.
3d. This committee is invested with the full powers of the directory, and especially commissioned to organize order in all parts of the administration, to re-establish internal tranquility, and to procure an honorable and a solid peace.
4th. It is authorised to send delegates with a power limited according to its own power.
5th. The legislative body is adjourned to the 20th of February. It is to meet at that period in full power at Paris.
6th. During the adjournment of the legislative body, the members shall preserve their indemnity and their constitutional security.
7th. They may, without losing their quality as representatives of the people be employed as ministers, diplomatic agents, delegates of the executive consular committee & in all other civil functions. They are even invited in the name of the public good to accept them.
8th. Before their separation, and during the time of their sitting, each council shall name from among their members, a committee of 25 members.
9th. The committees appointed by the two councils, will in conjunction with the committee of the executive consulate, determine upon all urgent objects relative to the police, legislation and finance.
10th. To the committees of the council of five hundred will belong the right of proposing, and to that of the council of elders that of sanctioning them.
11th. The two committees will also, in the order above mentioned, regulate the change in those parts of the constitution which experience may have shewn to be inconvenient or vicious.
12th. These changes can have no other object but that of consolidating and guaranteeing inviolably the sovereignty
of the people, the republic, one an indivisible, the representative system;—the division of power, liberty, equality, and the safety of property.
13th. The executive consulate committee may lay before the other committee their views upon these subjects.
14. The two committees are charged to prepare a civil code.
15th. Their sittings will be held at Paris in the palace of the legislative body, & they may be convoked extraordinarily for the ratification of peace, or in case of great public danger.
16th. These resolutions shall be printed, and sent by extraordinary couriers to the departments and solemnly published and stuck up in the communes of the republic.
During a most tumultuary debate which ensued a letter was received from the director Barras, in which, after complimenting Buonaparte, whom he styles, "the illustrious warrior," he adds that he shall return with joy to the rank of a simple citizen, convinced by the elevation of that general, that the perils of liberty are now surmounted, and the interests of the armies secured.
Buonaparte entered the hall of the council of five hundred alone. A great tumult instantly took place.—The members universally rose, and in their eagerness to press towards Buonaparte, overthrew their seats upon which numerous officers advanced, and bore the general out of the assembly.
After a quarter of an hour's tumult the president attempted to speak, but was interrupted by a member who proposed to put general Buonaparte out of the protection of the law. Another cried it is necessary to make a great example.
Talot moved that the whole council proceed in their robes to the soldiers. Let us, cried another, in the same garb proceed to Paris.
Lucien Buonaparte demanded to resign the office of president, but the council refused to comply with his wishes. Immediately after which an adjutant mounted the tribune, and ordered his soldiers to carry Lucien Buonaparte out of the assembly.
During the confusion which resulted from this act, a detachment of grenadiers entered with quick step, and with fixed bayonets drove the members from the hall in the presence of gen. Buonaparte. He immediately quitted the hall, and harangued the soldiers, who surrounded him with testimonials of the most lively interest and attachment.
Buonaparte was wounded during the disturbance which took place upon his entering the council. One of the grenadiers saved him from the thrust of a poignard.
The executive directory has been dissolved and a provisional consulate committee substituted in its place, invested with unlimited powers, Sieyes, Buonaparte, and Roger Ducos, form this triumvirate.
The councils are not suppressed, but reorganized—One hundred and fifty members have been expelled; and 25 members chosen by the new rulers, are to exercise the authority of the legislative bodies till March next, when the councils are to resume their functions, unless previously assembled by the executive.
Eighteen members of the council of five hundred, amongst whom are Jourdan, Briot, &c. have been arrested as the enemies of Buonaparte! Barras and Moulin have likewise been arrested, charged with having attempted to usurp the sovereign authority and to divide the republic.
A general change has taken place in the several departments of the state: Berthier, is appointed minister at war, Genissieux minister of justice, and Rheinhard minister of foreign affairs.
November 18.
CONSULATE.
MINISTRY OF GENERAL POLICE.
Extract from the registers of the proceedings of the consuls of the republic, Paris, Nov. 17.
The consuls of the republic taking into their consideration the execution of the 3d article of the law of the 10th of this month, which specifically charges them with the re-establishment of internal tranquility, decree:—
Art. 1. The individuals hereafter mentioned; Destrem, ex-deputy; Arena, ex-deputy; Marquez, ex-deputy; Trux ex-
deputy; Lepelletier, Charles Hesse, Scipion du Roare, Gagury, Massard, Fournier, Guand, Fiquet, Basch, Buyer, Vanbeck, Michael, Jorry, Brutus, Maignet, Marchand, Gabriel, Mamin, J. Sabathiers, Clomener, Marne, Jourdeu, Mesge, Mesge, Mourgoing, Corchant, Maignant, (de Marfeil le) Henriot, Lebois, Soulavie, Dubruel, Didier, Lambarte, Dauguy, Xavier Andouin, shall depart from the continental territory of the French republic. They shall to that effect be bound to repair to Rochefort, for the purpose of being afterwards conducted to and detained in the department of French Guiana.
2. The individuals hereafter mentioned: Briot, Antonelle, Lachwardiere, Poulain Grandpre, Grandmaison, Talot, Quirot, Daubermesnel, Frison, Declereq, Jourdan, (de la Haut Vienne), Lessage Senault, Prudhom, Grocassan, Dormond, Gueidon, Julien, (de Toulouse), Santhonax, Tilly, (ex-charge des affairs at Genoa) Stevenotte, Gafain, Bouvier, and Delbrel, shall be bound to repair to the commune of Rochelle, in the department of the Lower Charente, for the purpose of being afterwards conducted to, and detained in such place of that department as may be fixed upon by the minister of the general police.
3. Immediately after the publication of the present decree, the individuals comprehended in the preceding articles shall be deprived of the exercise of all the right of property, and it shall not be restored to them until the authentic proof shall be furnished of their arrival at the places determined by the present decree.
4. Those who shall depart from the place to which they shall have been conducted by virtue of the preceding articles, shall be equally deprived of that right.
5. The present decree shall be inserted in the Bulletin of Laws; and the ministers of the general police, the marine, and the finances, are respectively charged, as far as it relates to them, with the superintendence and execution of the present decree.
By the CONSULS OF THE REPUBLIC, ROGER DUCOS. BUONAPARTE. SIEYES.
November 20.
One of the benefits resulting from the 18th Brumaire, one of the guarantees of the re-establishment of order and tranquility in the interior, will be the freedom of religious worship, a freedom which has been so often, and so delusively promised. An event well entitled to the public notice has lately occurred. The prudent General Hedouville having learned that a canton in a state of insurrection, in the environs of Angers required the release of two or three of their old priests who were much beloved by the inhabitants, made strict enquiries concerning them, & found they had been transported to Oleron. He instantly ordered that they should be released and restored to their respective parishes. Four days afterwards the inhabitants of the Canton laid down their arms and tranquility was restored in all the villages.
Buonaparte, in an official message to Sieyes and Ducos, complains of the audacity of several members of the council of five hundred in the following words:
"Those wretches, said he, have only attempted to recriminate my just reproaches for their uniform baseness, when they accused me of having infringed a constitution they never regarded, therefore instead of my vengeance, they have only my contempt. It is too much for them to boast of their regard for my glory, when it is so well known that their own selfish views have ever governed them entirely. When I departed for Egypt, I went in pursuit of that glory, which I hope I have attained in spite of them, and of the misfortunes incident to that crime. I well knew that many who encouraged the adventure hugged themselves in hopes of my death, either in the field or by the plague. I forgive their crimes against me; but for my country's sake, I must not forget them.—Those wretches who were so presumptuous as to hope that neither a constitution nor religion, that only sure prop to temporal as well as spiritual order, were necessary, have shewn by such base ignorance, how far they were unworthy to govern; and they are of course beneath all further notice from me. Let them return to the dirt, from whence they sprang, with the
silent contempt of all friends to regenerating France."
December 1.
THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
Several plans of a constitution are circulated. The following form the principal basis of that which we are assured will be immediately submitted to discussion.
A representative government is preferred.
The number of active citizens is to be very much reduced. To entitle them to exercise their functions, they must immediately pay a contribution to the amount of twelve days pay.
The whole French Republic will be divided into twenty-five grand divisions, to be called prefectures: each of which will be sub-divided into a certain number of cantons or districts. All the citizens in employment, shall meet in the chief place of their canton, and there reduce themselves to 100. Each of these centimes is to reduce itself to 10.
The total amount of these tenths, by a late estimate, will be 5000 citizens, who shall alone be eligible to the places to which the people have hitherto appointed.
But who will make these elections? There will be a constitutional jury, composed of 80 places, of which 20 will remain vacant, for the purpose herein after mentioned. It is this jury that will make all popular elections, and have power to depose for misconduct.—It will have another function. Should one of the citizens elected by it, or any other person filling an employment of influence, become dangerous to liberty, whether from his great talents or his great successes, the jury is to pronounce against him a species of ostracism, and according to an expression which is going to be consecrated to use, absorb him in deposing him, and calling him to one of the 20 places which we said were to remain vacant in the jury itself; and each of the citizens thus absorbed shall rise by seniority as one of the 60 places becomes vacant. Besides this, the constitutional jury has no influence in the government thus composed.
At its head shall be placed one citizen to be called Grand Elector. Immediately under him will be two consuls, one for the interior the other for the exterior. They are to be governors in fact, but deposable at the will of the Grand Elector. Under the Grand Elector and the two Consuls will be a Council of State, composed of six members and seven ministers. Such is the government.
The following is the composition and organization of the legislative body:
There will be two chambers, one of 220 members, to be called the Senate; the other of 80, to be called the Tribune.
The Tribune shall alone possess initiative of the laws. It will discuss them in presence of the Senate, who shall judge when the discussion ought to be closed, and decide in a secret scrutiny either on their adoption or rejection. The Members of these two Chambers shall continue five years in their functions, and be renewed a third at a time.
The constitutional jury is alone to appoint to places, but will be confined in its choice to the five thousand people declared eligible by the people.
The twenty-five Prefectures, into which we have already said France is to be divided, shall be presided over, each by a single Prefect, who shall have under him Vice-Prefects in each principal part of the Canton.
In the judicial arrangement, each principal place of Prefecture will be the seat of a Supreme Tribunal, from which there will be no appeal, and there will be also an inferior Tribunal in each canton.
The New Constitution will appear in complete organization, and contain the names of the public Functionaries whom it puts in activity.
Germany.
HAMBURG, December 2.
The misunderstanding which exists between the Russians and Austrians is now confirmed by the Petersburg and Court Gazette. General Suwarow states in his official report, that Baron Thugut, in promising the British minister at Vienna that the Archduke Charles would continue in Switzerland had deceived him by such an assurance.
In his dispatches from Taverna: The Austrian gen. Teller and his commissaries

deceive us by their equivocal promises. —This is the fifth day we have lost at Taverna.
Under such circumstances it is not to be expected that the order which Suwarow has received to return to Russia will be countermanded; and it is probable that the French will take advantage of those dissensions, to conclude a separate peace with Austria.
England.
LONDON, October 17.
One of the German papers contains an extract from a letter of a Hessian counsellor of education, Hefbach, from Jerusalem, dated the 2d of July, in which, amongst other accounts, viz. of having discovered an important manuscript of the New Testament, &c. he says of Buonaparte; "It is true that the greatest part of his army consist at present mostly of natives, but the difference is very trifling: most of them are already exceedingly well republicanised and disciplined. This in every respect extraordinary man is highly esteemed by Persians, Arabs, Jews and Saracens; Fanatics even look upon him as a superior being. In consequence of a secret understanding, a flotilla is fitting out in the Caspian sea. French principles and French emissaries are spread all over Asia."
American Intelligence.
Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, February 3.
Mr. Livingston laid the following resolutions on the table.
Resolved , That provisions ought to be made by law for carrying into effect the 27th article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation between the United States and the King of Great Britain.
Resolved , That the President of the United States be requested to lay before this house, copies of the requisition for, and other papers relative to the apprehension and delivering of Jonathan Robbins, under the 27th article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between the United States and the King of Great Britain, together with copies of the communications (if any) between either of the executive departments and the judge of the district court of S. Carolina, on the subject.
Mr. Livingston said, at the time the law was passed respecting the British treaty, provision was supposed to have been made for carrying it fully into execution—the 27th article, however, of that treaty, had been found unjust, impolitic and cruel—He then read the article; by a recent construction of which, Mr. Livingston said, a citizen of the United States might be dragged from his country, his connexions, and his friends, and subjected to the judgment of an unrelenting military tribunal.
The second resolution, Mr. Livingston said, was connected with the first, although addressed to the chief magistrate of the Union. It had been said, and repeated in every paper throughout the United States, that a letter had been written by an executive officer, advising a judge in his judicial capacity, the line of conduct which it was wished by the executive should be pursued—He did not know this to be the fact—and would be happy to find it was not. Nor did he mean now to enter into any discussion on the subject—and concluded with laying the resolutions on the table.
February 4.
Mr. Livingston said, if no gentleman wished for a farther delay, he would now call up the consideration of the resolutions which he laid on the table yesterday.
No objection appearing, Mr. L. said, he would, on the suggestion of some gentlemen who otherwise would vote against the first resolution, propose a slight modification of it; so as to read as follows:
Resolved , That a committee be appointed to enquire whether any legislative provision is necessary to be made for the purpose of carrying into execution the 27th article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation between the United States and the king of Great Britain; and report by bill or otherwise.
The resolutions were then agreed to without debate; and a committee of two members appointed to wait on the president with the second one.
Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, February 10.
From a supposition that the copies of the original papers laid by the president of the United States, before the house of Representatives on Friday last, could be
procured for publication, on the following day, our reporter did not take such minutes of them, as would have ensured a correct statement of their contents—and we are sorry to add, that mistakes occurred by representing them from memory:—The following sketch, however may be considered as accurate; and the originals will be submitted as soon as they can be procured for publication:— (D. Ad.)
No. 1. Copy of a note from Sir Robert Liston, esq. minister plenipotentiary, &c. of the king of Great Britain, to the secretary of state, requesting that application might be made to the president of the United States to issue his order for the delivery of Thomas Nash; the judge of the district court of South Carolina, and the attorney general of the United States for that district, having expressed their doubts upon the subject, and wished for the interference of the executive.
No. 2. A letter from the secretary of state to the honorable Thomas Bee, judge of the district court of the United States, for South Carolina, stating it to be the opinion of the president, that Thomas Nash, ought to be given up, under the 27th article of the British treaty, if upon due investigation it should be found, that he had committed the crime of piracy and murder in the manner imputed.
No. 3. A letter from judge Bee, to the secretary of state, informing of his proceedings in relation to the above.
No. 4. Certificates of the select-men and town clerk of the town of Danbury, in the state of Connecticut, proving that there was no family, or resident, of the name of Robbins in that town.
No. 5. Extract of a letter from admiral Sir, Hyde Parker, dated Port Royal to Mr. Liston, stating that Nash had been tried, convicted, and hung in chains—and that he confessed himself to be an Irishman.
No. 6. Extract of a letter from Benjamin Moody, esq. consul of his Britannic majesty at Charleston, to Mr. Liston stating that he had written to admiral Parker, for a copy of the minutes of the court martial by which Nash had been tried—and containing admiral Parker's answer, that it was not in his power to comply with the request which could be alone granted by the lords of the admiralty—that Nash had been executed, &c. and confessed himself to be an Irishman.
From English accounts it appears that the French have been beaten in Italy, and have lost 4,000 prisoners, while French accounts declare the victory to have been the other way, and state that the Austrians have lost 3,920 prisoners, and 16 cannon.
Ancona, surrendered on the 13th of November. The garrison consisted of 6 generals of Brigade, besides the commandant, 23 staff officers, 202 commissioned officers, 2599 non commissioned officers and privates.—They became prisoners of war to the Austrians. There was found in the place 58 cannon, 32, 294 lbs. gunpowder, 4400 small arms, in the harbor a ship of 70 guns and two of 64, besides small privateers.
On the 16th, the French general Lecourbe advanced from Manheim, after communicating to his troops the late events at Paris and attacked the Austrians whom he compelled to retire with considerable loss, reinvested Philipburg, and established his head quarters at Bruchsal.
New-York.
NEW-YORK, January 18.
Argus Office, Friday night, half past 11, January 17.
Between nine and ten, we were alarmed with the cry of FIRE! which terrific sentence was almost instantaneously proclaimed by the bell designated for that purpose, and followed by the principal ones of this city, which are still chanting the awful sound!
On examination it appeared (if the term can be consistently used) to have two origins—one a house, said to be within the vicinity of the State Prison; and the other the British ship Admiral Duncan , lying between the Old and Coenties slip. The alarm of Fire, in different parts of the city, and so remote from one another at one and the same moment, unavoidably created more than ordinary confusion; and must have so operated as to impede the alacrity, so repeatedly acknowledged, and so conspicuously displayed by our Fire-Men and Citizens on all similar occasions.
We can state the event but imperfectly:—The house we are told is consumed to its last vestige: and the ship having been cut from her moorings, appears as though at anchor, in the East-River—and exhibits a dreadful spectacle of the irresistible
power of that unruly element to which she is doomed a sacrifice.
It is said that a noble, but unfortunate fellow, who volunteered in hauling the vessel out, though he escaped the ravages of the aerial tyrant, fell a victim to the more merciless one—the waves!
Saturday morning, 2 o'clock.
The bells had ceased about half past 12, and the citizens retired to their repose.—Our ears are again assailed with the hideous cry and doleful sound. The fire has communicated to other vessels in the harbour—How we have not learnt. We have only time to express our solicitude for the welfare and property of our fellow citizens.
Maryland.
GEORGE-TOWN, Feb. 7.
BUONAPARTE—A Report.
From the United States Gazette of Feb. 3. A vessel is said to have arrived at New-York on Saturday last, in 40 days from England, with letters to December 18.
It is said, that a high officer is in possession of advices to the following purport, viz. That Buonaparte has openly proclaimed his intention to restore the ancient monarchy of France—and declared himself Regent for thirteen years.
BALTIMORE, February 13.
Having waited the proper portion of time allotted me by the publishers of the will of general Washington, I have thought proper to give it entire in this days paper. It is a production that will last as long as time, and nothing can be adduced by any editor that will appreciate its intrinsic value.
[American.]
THE WILL OF GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON,
In the name of God—Amen.
I GEORGE WASHINGTON, of Mount Vernon, a citizen of the United States, and lately president of the same, do make, ordain, and declare this instrument which is written with my own hand,* and every page thereof subscribed with my own name, to be my last will and testament revoking all others.—Imprimis. All my debts, of which there are but few, and none of magnitude are to be punctually and speedily paid, and the legacies herein after bequeathed, are to be discharged as soon as circumstances will permit, and in the manner directed.
Item. To my dearly beloved wife Martha Washington, I give and bequeath the use, profit, and benefit of my whole estate real and personal, for the term of her natural life, except such parts thereof as are specially disposed of hereafter.—My improved lot in the town of Alexandria, situated on Pitt and Cameron Streets I give to her and her heirs forever; as I also do my household and kitchen furniture of every sort and kind with the liquors and groceries which may be on hand at the time of my decease, to be used and disposed of as she may think proper.
Item. Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will and desire, that all the slaves which I hold in my own right shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her life, would, though earnestly wished by me, be attended with such insuperable difficulties on account of their intermixture by marriages with the dower negroes, as to excite the most painful sensations, if not disagreeable consequences from the latter while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in my power under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them. And whereas among those who will receive freedom according to this devise, there may be some who from old age, or bodily infirmities, and others who, on account of their infancy, that will be unable to support themselves, it is my will and desire that all who come under the first and second description, shall be comfortably clothed and fed by my heirs while they live; and that such of the latter description as have no parents living, or if living are unable or unwilling to provide for them, shall be bound by the court until they shall arrive at the age of 25 years; and in cases where no record can be produced, whereby their ages can be ascertained, the judgment of the court upon its own view of the subject, shall be adequate and final. The negroes thus bound are (by their masters or mistresses) to be taught to read and write, and to be bro't up to some useful occupation, agreeably
* In the original manuscript, GEORGE WASHINGTON's name was written at the bottom of every page.
to the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of orphans and other poor children.—And I do hereby expressly forbid the sale or transportation out of the said commonwealth of any slave I may die possessed of under any pretence whatsoever. And I do moreover most pointedly and most solemnly enjoin it on my executors hereafter named or the survivor of them, to see that this clause respecting slaves and every part thereof be religiously fulfilled at the epoch at which it is directed to take place, without evasion, neglect or delay, after the crops which may then be on the ground are harvested, particularly as it respects the aged and infirm; seeing that a regular and permanent fund be established for their support as long as there are subjects requiring it; not trusting to the uncertain provision to be made by individuals;—And to my mulatto man William, (calling himself William Lee) I give immediate freedom, or if he should prefer it (on account of the accidents which have befallen him and which have rendered him incapable of walking or of any active employment) to remain in the situation he now is, it shall be optional in him to do so: in either case however I allow him an annuity of 30 dollars during his natural life, which shall be independent of the victuals and clothes he has been accustomed to receive if he chooses the last alternative; but in full with his freedom, if he prefers the first: and this I give him as a testimony of my sense of his attachment to me, and for his faithful services during the revolutionary war.
Item. To the trustees (governors, or by whatsoever other name they may be designated) of the academy in the town of Alexandria I give and bequeath, in trust, four thousand dollars, or in other words, twenty of the shares which I hold in the bank of Alexandria, towards the support of a free school, established at, and annexed to the said academy, for the purpose of educating such orphan children, or the children of such poor and indigent persons as are unable to accomplish with their own means & who in the judgment of the trustees of the said seminary, are best entitled to the benefit of this donation. The aforesaid twenty shares I give and bequeath in perpetuity; the dividends only of which are to be drawn for, and applied by the said trustees, for the uses above mentioned the stock to remain entire and untouched, unless indications of the failure of the said bank should be so apparent, or a discontinuance thereof, should render a removal of this fund necessary. In either of these cases, the amount of the stock here devised is to be vested in some other bank, or public institution whereby the interest may with regularity and certainty be drawn and applied as above: and to prevent misconception, my meaning is, and is hereby declared to be, that these twenty shares are in lieu of, and not in addition to the thousand pounds given by a mislaid letter some years ago; in consequence whereof, an annuity of 50l has since been paid towards the support of this institution.
Item. Whereas by a law of the commonwealth of Virginia, enacted in the year 1785, the legislature thereof was pleased (as an evidence of its approbation of the services I had rendered the public during the revolution, and partly I believe in consideration of my having suggested the vast advantages which the community would derive from the extension of its inland navigation under legislative patronage) to present me with one hundred shares of one hundred dollars each, in the incorporated company established for the purpose of extending the navigation of James River from tide water to the mountains;—and also with fifty shares of one hundred pounds sterling each, in the corporation of another company likewise established for the similar purpose of opening the navigation of the river Potomac from tide water to Fort Cumberland; the acceptance of which, although the offer was highly honorable and grateful to my feelings, was refused as inconsistent with a principle which I had adopted, & had not departed from—Namely, not to receive pecuniary compensation for any services I could render my country in its struggle with Great Britain for its rights; and because I had evaded similar propositions from other states in the Union. Adding to this refusal, however, an intimation that, if it should be the pleasure of the legislature to permit me to appropriate the said shares to public use I would receive them on those terms with due sensibility; and this it having consented to, in flattering terms, as will appear by a subsequent law and sundry resolutions, in the most ample and honorable manner. I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case to declare—that as it has always been a source of serious regret
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with me to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of Education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to Republican government, and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind; which, there after are rarely overcome. For these reasons, it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and state prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed, ought to admit, from our National Councils. Looking anxiously forward to the accomplishment of so desirable an object as this is, (in my estimation) my mind has not been able to contemplate any plan more likely to effect the measure than the establishment of a UNIVERSITY in a central part of the United States, to which the youths of fortune, and talents from all parts thereof might be sent for the completion of their education in all the branches of polite literature; in arts and sciences, in acquiring knowledge in the principles of politics and good government, and (as a matter of infinite importance in my judgement) by associating with each other and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which have just been mentioned; and which, when carried to excess, are never failing sources of disquietude to the public mind, and pregnant of mischievous consequences to this country under these impressions, so fully dilated.
Item. I give and bequeath in perpetuity the Fifty Shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid acts of the legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a UNIVERSITY to be established within the limits of the district of Columbia, under the auspices of the general government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it; and until such seminary is established, and the funds arising on these shares shall be required for its support, my further WILL and DESIRE is, that the profit accruing therefrom shall, whenever the dividends are made, be laid out in purchasing Stock in the bank of Columbia, or some other bank, at the discretion of my executors or by their treasurer of the U. S. for the time being, under the direction of Congress—provided that honorable body should patronize the measure, and the dividends proceeding from the purchase of such Stock is to be vested in more Stock, and so on, until a sum, adequate to the accomplishment of the object, is obtained; of which I have not the smallest doubt, before many years pass away, even if no aid or encouragement is given by legislative authority, or from any other source.
Item. The hundred shares which I hold in the James River Company, I have given, and now confirm in perpetuity, to and for the use and benefit of Liberty Hall Academy, in the county of Rockbridge, in the commonwealth of Virginia.
Item. I release, exonerate & discharge the estate of my deceased Brother Samuel Washington, from the payment of the money which is due to me for the land I sold to Philip Pendleton (lying in the county of Berkley) who assigned the same to him the said Samuel, who, by agreement, was to pay me therefor; And whereas, by some contract (the purport of which was never communicated to me) between the said Samuel and his son, Thornton Washington, the latter became possessed of the aforesaid land, without any conveyance having passed from me, either to the said Pendleton, the said Samuel, or the said Thornton, and without any consideration having been made, by which neglect neither the legal nor equitable title has alienated; it reflects therefore with me to declare my intentions concerning the premises, and these are to give and bequeath the said land to whomsoever the said Thornton Washington (who is also dead) devised the same, or to his heirs forever, if he died intestate, exonerating the estate of the said Thornton, equally with that of the said Samuel, from payment of the purchase money which, with interest, agreeable to the original contract with the said Pendleton, would amount to more than a thousand pounds: And whereas two other Sons of my said deceased Brother Samuel, namely George Stoptoe Washington, and Lawrence Augustine Washington, were, by the decease of those to whose care they were committed, brought under my protection, and in consequence have occasioned advances on my part for their education at College and other schools, for their board, cloathing, and other incidental expenses, to the amount of near five thousand dollars over and above the sums furnished by their estate, which sum it may be
inconvenient for them or their fathers estate to refund—I do for these reasons, acquit them and the said estate from the payment thereof—my intention being that all accounts between them and me, and their father's estate and me, shall stand balanced.
(To be concluded in our next.)
Lexington, March 6.
OBITUARY.
DIED, on Tuesday night last, at his seat about 6 miles from Lexington, after a short illness, Robert Parker, esq. county surveyor for Fayette county. He was an early adventurer to Kentucky—of extensive acquaintance—and universally esteemed.
VINEYARD SOCIETY.
THE sharers in the Vineyard Society are requested to be punctual in meeting at the house of John Poffethwaite, on the 20th instant, precisely at 12 o'clock, in order to choose twelve persons to be directors of said society, for the ensuing year agreeably to an act of assembly for incorporating the same.
Robt. Patterson, manager.
March 5th, 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.
DANCING SCHOOL.
CHARLES V. LORUMIER WILL continue his School in Lexington, on High street, in that large, commodious house, the property of Maj. Morrison, at four dollars per quarter. Also the art of FENCING, at the moderate price of six dollars per quarter. Not more than twenty five scholars will be admitted to the latter. 4t
PUBLIC NOTICE
TO all whom it may concern, that we will attend on the second Tuesday in April next, in the county of Fayette, to take depositions and perpetuate testimony to establish the special calls of a military survey, made for David Bell, on the head of Shannons run, a south branch of South Elkhorn, including part of said creek—will meet with the commissioners appointed by the court of said county, at the house of John Bell, in order to do such acts as may be consistent with the law in that case made and provided.
John Bell. James Bell.
March 4th, 1800.
FOR SALE, The Noted Horse RED STREAK,
At a much lower price than he has ever been sold at before. I will wait till Christmas next for one half, and till Christmas come a year for the balance: the purchaser giving bond with approved security for payment. The horse is now in full perfection for the season—he is a good foil getter, and as a running horse as this state affords, for further particulars apply to
John Jones, Lexington.
March 1st, 1800.
NOTICE.
THE subscribers (in Bourbon county) request all those indebted to the estate of Robert Peery dec. (prior to administering thereon) by bond, note or otherwise, to come forward without loss of time, and discharge their respective accounts. Also all those who have unsettled accounts with, or demands against said estate, are requested to make them known immediately, that preparation may be made to discharge them.
Isabella Peery, adm'r. James Morrow, adm'r. 2t
March 3d, 1800.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living near the Knoblick, Lincoln county, one roan mare and foal colt; the mare is about ten or eleven years old, about fourteen hands high, branded on the near shoulder and buttock thus m, apprais'd to fifty dollars.
James Warren. W Gtp
December 10th, 1799.
BY LAST EVENING'S MAIL.
PARIS December 2.
The late accounts from Switzerland, state, that there has been concluded a suspension of arms for three months between the archduke and general Massena. A French officer, Massena's aid de camp, brought this news to Arau.—Yet adds our correspondent, this treaty will not be published till it is ratified by the governments of Austria and France. We wait the confirmation of this news which will be the best proof of that negotiations for peace are about to be entered upon between the cabinet of Vienna and the French republic.
Letters from Constantinople confirm the defeat of a division of the army of the grand vizir by general Kleber.
December 3.
There is some talk to day, of sup pressing of the office of the Great Elector, and of the two Consuls revocable at his pleasure, and to substitute in place of them three Consuls, appointed for ten years, but re-eligible after that period. The first of these three is to be called first Consul with a permanent presidency, & a preponderating and decisive voice, a distinct palace, and a more considerable revenue than his colleagues, whom however, he is not to have any power to supersede.
LONDON, December, 14.
Paris papers to the 9th December, were received last night—If we except an order of the consulate for setting at liberty or recalling from deportation the priests who have at different periods of the revolution, complied with the oaths exacted of them, or who are married, the French government have done nothing really important with respect to the civil or political condition of the French.—The fittings of the intermediate commissions, of which, however, some have not been made public, have been principally occupied by measures of finance. The most remarkable of them is an indulgence granted to the purchasers of national demesnes, and some regulations for the mode of their payments by means of which the government is in hopes of bringing some millions of specie into the public treasury. Nothing authentic, nor even decided, has yet been circulated respecting the new constitution, which we think we can discover amid the servility and the cautious language of the French papers, to have already become the bone of contention between the two heads of the new revolution, Sieyes and Buonaparte. It is supposed that the latter does not approve the creation of a great elector, or at least not for life. That office is, it is said, to be reduced in the duration of the supreme power for ten years. Our readers will find in our columns, the different conjectures which have been formed at Paris respecting the new, political composition, which is at present merely on the stocks. It is according to the last accounts, to be launched in a few days.
The following article is given from Guines of the date of the 2d of December.
"Gen. La Fayette arrived yesterday evening at his ci-devant Chateau of Fontenoy, near Chaume, in the department of Seine, and Morne. His health appeared very much altered, but rather better than that of madame La Fayette, who since her confinement in the prisons of Austria, has been afflicted with a complaint which sometimes deprives her of the use of her limbs."
The inscription over the gate of Luxembourg is already changed; it is now the national palace of the directory.
Buonaparte and his wife have taken up their residence in the palace of the consuls in the apartments lately occupied by Gobier and Moulin.
A grand festival is speedily to be celebrated, in commemoration of the signal triumphs achieved by the army of the Danube, commanded by Massena, over the Austrian and Russian armies commanded by generals Hotze and Suwarrows.
PHILADELPHIA, February 10.
By recent accounts from St. Mary's, there is reason to apprehend the business of the commissioners, appointed to run the boundary line between the United States and Spain, on the Mississippi, is about to suffer a new interruption. The celebrated British Indian emissary, Bowles, has again appeared among the Creek Nation, after an absence of some years in Europe; and assuming the title of Director-General of Indian affairs, denies the right, either of the United States or Spain, to run the boundary line; proscribes the commissioners as conspirators, and orders their arrest, if found acting by virtue of their Commissions after the 8th of November last. He menaces with death, those Indians who shall hold intercourse with the Commissioners without his authority, or who shall in any way oppose his sovereign will or pleasure.
The issue, from the decided tone which the business has assumed, will be the expulsion of Colonel Hawkins, the Agent of the United States, from the ground or the extirpation of Bowles. Col. Hawkins, by a pacific disposition, has obtained a great degree of popularity among the Indians; and combines a discreet, with a resolute and determined conduct. Bowles however, possesses no inconsiderable degree of influence among these tribes; which if exerted, must prove a source of much perplexity and expense to the United States.
This speculative enterprize of Bowles, is undoubtedly under the auspices of the British government; but such is the con-
fidenc reposed in our Executive, that we feel assured, neither the honor nor the interest of the United States, will be insulted or infringed with impunity.
N. Y. paper.
PETERSBURG, February 11.
The Spanish government of South America has offered a thousand pounds for the apprehension of Bowles, the promoter of Indian disturbances.
An English paper says, the late changes in France are esteemed highly favorable to the United States and to peace. One of the first acts of the new consuls of France, we learn, was the liberation of the American prisoners confined therein.
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY.
THE trustees of the Transylvania University anxious to diffuse the benefits of the institution as extensively as possible, have resolved to inform the inhabitants of Kentucky, and the Western country in general, of the arrangements which they have recently made for the promotion of academic and professional studies. It has long been a subject of sincere regret to the enlightened part of the community, that there was no college west of the Appalachian mountains sufficiently organized to preclude the necessity of our youth resorting to the Atlantic states, in order to complete their education, and qualify themselves for professional employments. The trustees flatter themselves that this cause of complaint will no longer exist. The auspicious union of the Kentucky Academy, with the Transylvania Seminary, as it has concentrated the objects, so it has combined the powers and efforts in the two institutions, and affords a pleasing presage of harmony and public utility.
The limits of this publication will not allow the trustees to state, in a particular manner, the advantages, which they anticipate from the regulations lately adopted. They must therefore wait until experience shall unfold them. At present they can only observe in general that no measures which in their opinion, could tend to preserve the morals, enlarge the understandings, or polish the manners of the youth committed to their charge, have been disregarded. To effectuate these salutary purposes the most approved code of academical laws has been prepared for the University, and will be enforced with vigilance and impartiality by the different officers, who are themselves to be accountable to the trustees for the faithful performance of the duties of their stations. Whilst the trustees announce to the public the solicitude with which they are determined to watch over the morals of the youth, they pledge themselves in the most unequivocal manner, that no instance shall be used to inculcate those principles of religion which are characteristic of the different sects. It is their unalterable determination that the students shall be left at perfect liberty in the formation of their religious creeds. As the trustees, in common with those of every other institution of the kind in Europe and America, considered classical learning as forming an essential part of a liberal course, they have made ample provision for it by the appointment of the rev. James Welch, professor of the learned languages, for which station his experience in teaching, his industry and attention, they have no doubt, sufficiently qualify him. The rev. James Byrne, whose distinguished and persevering exertions for the promotion of literature in the Western country, cannot have escaped the public notice, is appointed professor of Mathematics, Geography, Natural-Philosophy, and Astronomy.
Belles Letters, Logic, Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy, are committed to the rev. James Moore, principal of the University. The aid which he will derive from his colleagues, will enable him to devote his attention to those studies, which are the last and most important in the course of Academical education.
In order to complete the plan contemplated by the founders of the University, the trustees have also made provision for the study of all the learned professions. Either or all of the above named gentlemen will feel it a duty until a professor be appointed, to superintend the studies of such youth as may devote themselves to divinity.
As it was obvious to the trustees, that our state jurisprudence could not be studied with equal advantage in any of the Atlantic states, because many of our civil institutions, are in a great measure peculiar to ourselves, they thought it their duty to connect with the University, a School of Law; and accordingly have appointed James Brown esq. professor of that branch. His liberal education, and long residence at the University of William and Mary, together with twelve years extensive practice in the superior courts of this country determined the trustees to make this choice; and the number of Law students, who already crowd his class, give the most decided proof of the propriety of the appointment.
The reasons for introducing the study of Medicine and surgery were not less cogent. Dr. Frederick Ridgely, a physician of long experience, and unquestionable reputation, has been appointed professor of Materia Medica, Midwifery, and the practice of physics. This gentleman is so well known in the Western country, that any recommendation of him by the trustees would be superfluous.
The important studies of Chemistry, Anatomy and surgery are confided to Dr. Samuel Brown. His great application, and uncommon opportunities of acquiring an accurate, and comprehensive knowledge of those subjects; his easy and perspicuous mode of conveying information have already gained him a considerable class; and from his perseverance and attention the trustees expect the happiest effects.
The library of the University consists of more than 1000 volumes of the best ancient and modern authors; in addition to which the trustees have procured a valuable Law Library for the students of that profession, and have appropriated 500 dollars for the purchase of Medical books, which will soon be brought forward.
Law and Medical societies meet every week in town, in which the fundamental principles of those professions are discussed with a freedom, which cannot fail of affording to every student the most permanent advantages. At these societies the professors attend, and placing themselves on a level with the students, encourage them to that free exercise of reason, which is so well calculated to elicit the dormant powers of the human mind.
The University is now in possession of a considerable philosophical and Chemical apparatus, and 500 dollars are appropriated for the purchase of such additions to it, as are most immediately necessary; which sum shall be increased from time to time as the funds may permit.
Boarding can be had with Mr. Welch at the University for the moderate sum of 151 per annum paid half yearly in advance—the students furnishing their own bedding, washing, wood and candles.
The situation is elevated and healthful; and the public may be well assured that every exertion will be made to render the accommodations of the students as agreeable as possible.
WILLIAM MORTON, Ch.
Lexington, Kentucky, December 24, 1799.
Of the Standing Com.

SACRED TO THE MUSES.
IN PRAISE OF MIRTH.
LET others, anxious for a lasting name, Bow down submissive at the gate of fame; Immortal wreaths beseech her to entwine, And make their future memories divine; What boots the bubble praise, that fame can give, That praise unheard, when they no longer live! As to myself, when I resign my breath, And lie extended in the house of death, I value not what friend (if friend I have) With fading flowers may idly dress my grave; Or who awhile may quote my trifling lays, And kindly give some little share of praise: So little fond of what the world calls fame, As dies my body, so I wish my name. Mean while, each brisk emotion as I feel, I'll play with mirth, and trip up sorrow's heel. Sure some blithe spirit smiled upon my birth; For since I rambled on this speck of earth, I've lov'd to laugh, tho' care stood frowning by, And pale misfortune roll'd her meagre eye, While easy conscience builds her easy nest Within my bosom, and sits there at rest. Why not indulge the follies of the soul? Why stop the tides of pleasure as they roll? Shall peevish veterans, of rigid mould, Who think all wisdom center'd in the old, Shall such (though aged merit I revere) Blockade my fancy in its bold career? No:—light of heart, as long as health remains, And guides her puppet spirits through my veins; Through life's thick bustle I will edge my way, And join the laughing chorus of the day: Though short-liv'd wit should ridicule my name, And strive to brand me with the mark of shame; Though fools, who form no judgment of their own, Whom nature never meant to think alone; Who deal out praise at random, or condemn (Or right, or wrong, 'tis all the same to them) Though such insult me, camly shall I sit, And grin at folly, as I laugh at wit. With just so much religion in my heart, As will, I trust, secure my deathless part; With pure contentment ever in my sight, That makes the weight of poverty seem light; With two such friends, ye grave ones tell me why, Tell me, in sober sadness shall I cry?
ANECDOE.
The late Earl of Chatham, who entertained no great affection for a certain physician, rallied him on the inefficacy of his prescriptions. To which the doctor replied, "He defied any of his patients to find fault with him." "I believe you, (replied the Earl) for they are all dead."
DEFERRED ARTICLES.
MEMMINGEN, (Germany) Nov. 17.
The imperial Russian army will break up their present cantonments the 24th and 26th inst. if no counter order is given—and begin their return in 2 columns the one by the way of Pragus and Cracow, the other by the way of Brunn and Lomberg.
PHILADELPHIA, January 17.
Commercial Spoliations.
On making up their accounts to be presented to the stockholders of the insurance company of North America, the following was the amount of claims, January 15, 1800—for spoliations on bona fide American property, American property D. C. By British captures. 904,708 55 French ditto. 1,619,406 43
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away on Sunday night last, a negro fellow named TOM, about 22 years of age, nearly 5 feet 5 inches high, his complexion inclining to a yellow, well made, had on a round jacket and overalls of a drab color, and it is supposed he has a pass—took with him one purple coat, two pair of mankin overalls, had on a check shirt, he has gold ear-rings in his ears,—As he speaks the French language tolerable well, perhaps he may try to pass for a French negro. Whoever will take up said fellow, and lodge him in any jail, or deliver him to the subscriber near Lexington, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges.
February 17th, 1800. Elisba Winters. 3tf
WHEREAS I have passed sundry notes to John Hampshire, of Pittsburgh, which notes were lodged in the hands of other gentlemen in this state, to collect for him; and as I have paid the whole amount of said notes, and have not yet got possession of them, this is to forewarn all persons from purchasing them or any of them, as I am determined not to pay them a second time.
Geo. M. Bedinger. February 15th, 1800. 13t
TANNING AND CURRYING.
WANTED immediately two active BOYS, as apprentices to the above branches, from the age of 14 to 16 years old.
*3tf Philip Yeiser, Danville.
LEXINGTON DISTRICT COURT.
February Term 1800. Christopher Greenup and Francis Keene, Complainants, against Joseph Frazier and Simon Kenton, Defendants, In Chancery. THE defendant Kenton, having failed to enter his appearance herein agreeable to law, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to our satisfaction that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth, on the motion of the complainants by their counsel, it is ordered that the said Kenton do appear here on the third day of our next term, and answer the complainants bill; that a copy of this order be inserted in the Kentucky Gazette or Herald according to law, another posted at the door of the courthouse for Fayette county, and that this order be published on some Sunday immediately after divine service at the door of the Presbyterian meeting-house in Lexington. A Copy. Teste, Thos. Badley, C. L. D. C.
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,  Kerseymeres, Slates,  Flannels and Coatings, Quills and Wafers,  Blankets, Girth, spring and straining Webs,  Velvets, Thicksets, Cor-duroys and Futhans, Plated and tinned stirrup irons,  Hair Plush stuffs, Do. do. Bridle Bits, and Furniture,  Brown and White Irish Linens,  Calicoes and coarse muslins, A general assortment of Cutlery,  Fine Jaconet do. Desk and bureau furniture,  Plain, striped and tambores do. Carpenters' Adze,  Book and Jaconet handkerchiefs, Screw Augers,  Fashionable Ribbons, Hand, pannel, dove, ail, sail, lock and keyhole saws.  Family & School Bibles. Pitt, mill and croscut do.  Feastments and spelling books, Crowder fleecle,  Dictionaries, Sheet Iron and sad Irons,  Morie's Universal Geography—2 vols. Nails and Brads assorted,  Do. American do. 1 vol. Teas, Coffee and Chocolate,  Do. do. and Universal abridged, Leaf, White, Havanna and Muscovado sugars,  Staunton's embassy, Pepper and spices,  Scott's Gazetteer, Arnott's Roll,  American do. Brimstone, Copperas and Logwood,  Scott's Lessons, Cotton, Wool and Hatters' Cards.  Taplin's and Mills' Farrier, Also, a few excellent double and single triggered Rifle Guns.  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. tf
MONEY.
WE will sell at a very reduced price for money, a small but valuable tract, of about 50 acres of LAND, with in one mile of Lexington, on the great road to Bourbon, thirty acres of which is pretty well timbered; the balance ready for cultivation.
Also, an OUT-LOT on Back Street, containing four acres, one and a half of which is laid off in a handsome garden, with a never-failing well of excellent water, and a log cabin—the remainder in timothy and clover.
We will also sell 2000 acres of MILITARY LAND, of an excellent quality, on Cumberland river, near Walker's settlement, adjoining McNabb, Fitzhugh, &c.—The title to which is indisputable.
And if any gentleman, with a handsome capital, wishes to make an independent fortune, we will sell him our possessions in this town, far superior to any in the state for a PUBLIC HOUSE, and ready furnished to enter on business immediately.
*** Those indebted by bond, note, or book account, cannot choose a time for payment that will be more serviceable.
John & Sam. Postlethwait. Lexington, December 16, 1799. tf
FOR SALE,
THE one half of my mills on South Elkhorn, about one mile from the junction, and about four and a half miles from Frankfort, consisting of a water grit-mill, calculated for four pair of stones, two pair of which are now in motion; the house 38 by 46, three story high, all of stone—Also an excellent saw-mill. Otherwise I will sell the whole, with upwards of two hundred acres of military lands, about seventy of which is well cleared—a description of the situation and works are unnecessary as they well do credit to the best inspection. Merchandize or negroes will be taken in part.
Haden Edwards. February 3d, 1800.
TAKEN up by the the subscriber, in Woodford county, two horses—one a brown bay, with some saddle spots on his back, with a small bell on, five feet high, nine years old, appraised to 18l.—The other a bay, with both hind feet white, branded with IH, on the shoulder and buttock, four teen hands high, appraised to 4l.
Robert Dale. November 20th, 1799.
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. tf
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 25th, 1799.
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. tf
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A QUANTITY OF
BARLEY & HOPS.
Apply at George Anderson's store, or A. Holmes's brewery. Lexington, September 23d, 1799. tf
TO SELL OR RENT,
MY BRICK HOUSE on Short street, opposite the Presbyterian meeting-house, and nearly opposite the market-house, Lexington. I will receive in payment, one third cash; and two thirds property, such as slaves and horses. The payments will be made easy to the purchaser. For further particulars apply to William Ross.
William Ross.
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. tf
LAWSON MCCULLOUGH, TAYLOR, TAKES this method of informing his friends and customers, that he has rented a room on Main Street up stairs, in the house where Mr. Robert Barr formerly lived, two doors below Messrs. Trotter & Scott's store, where he carries on his business. Those who will please to favor him with their custom, may depend on having their work done with dispatch, neatness and punctuality. Lexington November 21st, 1799. tf
THE SUBSCRIBER WILL GIVE SALT AND CASH For a few thousand weight of GOOD PORK. T. HART.
GLASS WORKS.
THE gentlemen merchants and citizens of Kentucky, are hereby informed that we have reduced the price of our 8 by 10 window glass to twelve dollars per box, and the other sizes in proportion, at our glass works, at New-Geneva, Fayette county Pennsylvania.
W. Nicholson, Acting partner of the late firm of Albert Gallatin & Co. January 2d, 1800. 2m
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.
NOTICE.
WILL be let to the lowest bidder, on the 10th day of April next, at the court-house in the town of Nashville, state of Tennessee.
The building a Brick Court-House, in said town, forty feet square in the clear, two story high. Any person inclining to undertake the same, may see a plan of said house by application to either of the commissioners. If wanted, about five hundred dollars upon closing the contract, will be advanced. Bond and sufficient security will be required.
John M'Nairy, Jos. Coleman, Robt. Searcy, Jos. Philips, David M'Gavock, commrs. 7th February, 1800.
TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC VENDUE, ON Saturday the 15th day of March, at the late dwelling-house of George Taylor dec. a good waggone, and a number of valuable horses—a 75 gallon still, with several still-tubs—and a wheat fan. Nine months credit will be given, the purchaser giving bond and approved security. At the same time and place will be hired several negroes for one year.
Mary Taylor, adm'x. February 22d, 1800. 2tf
TAKEN up by the subscriber, near mouth of Hickman, Jessamine county, two frays; one a bay horse, about thirteen hands high, a star in his forehead, no brands, with a bell on, appraised to 5l.—The other, a gray filly, upwards two years old, no brand about her, fourteen hands high, appraised to 9l.
Henry Bruner.
KENTUCKY.
Ohio county, to wit. February court of quarter sessions, 1800. Samuel M'Grady, complainant, against The heirs of John May and John Harvey, defendants, In a Caveat.
THE defendants, John May's heirs, and John Harvey's, not having entered their appearance herein 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, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the first Tuesday in June next, and answer the complainant's caveat—that a copy of this order be inserted in the Kentucky Gazette or Herald, for two months successively, and published at the door of John Atterton's house some Sunday immediately after divine service, and a copy set up at the door of the court-house in this county.
A Copy. Teste, Aquilla Field, C. O. C.
WORTHY OF ATTENTION.
ON Friday the 28th day of March next, will be sold at public sale, in the town of Frankfort, that valuable, elegant and handsomely situated new three story brick house, and lot of ground on which it is erected, at present occupied by Dr. Gano—together with the improvements, consisting of a two story brick kitchen; also a smoke-house, &c.
As it is presumed no person will purchase without seeing the property, a more particular description may be unnecessary. A satisfactory title, and possession, can be given immediately, and the terms of sale known by application to the subscriber. A part payment in cash must be made on the day of sale, or within a day or two thereafter.
George W. Field, at John Postlethwait's, Lexington. Kentucky, 7th February, 1800.
WANTED.
A quantity of well cleaned FLAX-SEED, by Macbean & Poyzer.
FOR SALE,
FIVE HUNDRED acres of land on the waters of Slate, or Lulbegrud, 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. tf
SUBSCRIPTIONS for this paper, at two dollar 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 Bairdsdown, 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.
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 Constitution of Kentucky.
TO BE SOLD,
BY virtue of a decree of the district court, held in Lexington, in a suit in chancery, wherein Hugh M'Hvain was complainant, and James Calquhoun, defendant, pronounced at the last March term, of the said court, will be exposed to sale at the door of the state house, in the town of Frankfort, on the 17th day of next March, it being the first day of the District and Federal courts, 6000 acres of land, situate lying and being in the county of Gallatin, entered in the name of John May, from him assigned to Gilbert Imley, and from him to Alexander Dick, and by him devised to James Fenton Mercer, and conveyed by James Fenton Mercer, to James Calquhoun.
Orbo Beatty, Daniel Weisiger, William Trigg, John Logan, Thomas Tunstall. commrs. January 8th, 1800. 2m