The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1800-04-03 00:00:00

THE KENTUCKY GAZETTE.
[No. 706.]
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1800.
[VOL. XIII.]
LEXINGTON:—PRINTED BY JOHN BRADFORD, (On Main Street)—PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAID IN ADVANCE.
Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday March 6.
Mr. H. Lee said, he would call for the unfinished business of yesterday, with a view that it might be decided on, and the business of the nation proceeded in.
The question was put and carried: and the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole on Mr. Livingston's resolutions—Mr. Edmond in the chair—when Mr. Nicholas spoke about two hours in favor of them—after he sat down, the question was called for, and taken—
Ayes 34.
Noes 58.
The committee then rose, reported progress and asked leave to sit again; and upon the question, "shall the committee have leave to sit again," it passed in the affirmative, in manner following, to wit:
AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Alston, Baer, Bartlett, Bayard, Bird, Bishop, J. Brown, R. Brown, Champlin, Clay, Condit, Cooper, Dana, Davenport, F. Davenport, Davis, Dawson, Dickson, Edmond, A. Foster, D. Foster, Freeman, Gallatin, Glenn, C. Goodrich, E. Goodrich, Griswold, Harper, Heister, Holmes, Imlay, Jackson, Kittera, H. Lee, S. Lee, Lieb, Lyman, Livingston, Macon, Marshall, Muhlenberg, New, Nicholas, Nicholson, Platt, Randolph, Sewall, Smilie, J. Smith, Stone, Sumpter, Tellierferro, Thatcher, A. Trigg, J. Trigg, Van Cortlandt, Varnum, Wadsworth, R. Williams.—59.
NEGATIVE.
Messrs. Bailey, Brace, Cabell, Christie, Craik, Dennis, Dent, Eggleston, Evans, Goode, Gordon, Gray, Gregg, Grove, Hanna, Henderson, Hill Jones, Kitchell, Lyon, Linn, Nott, Otis, Page, Parker, Pinkney, Powell, Reed, Rutledge, Shepherd, S. Smith, Spaight, Stanford, R. Thomas Thompson, Waln, L. Williams, Woods.—38.
The house then proceeded to consider the report of the committee of the whole, when the resolutions, were again read as follows:
Resolved , That it appears to this house, that a person calling himself Jonathan Robbins, and claiming to be a citizen of the United States, impressed on board a British ship of war, was committed for trial in one of the courts of the United States, for the alleged crime of piracy and murder committed on the high seas on board the British frigate Hermoine .—That a requisition being subsequent to such commitment, made by the British minister to the executive of the United States, for the delivery of the said person, (under the name of Thomas Nash,) as a fugitive under the 27th article of the treaty with Great Britain. The president of the United States did by a letter written from the department of state, to the judge who committed the said person for trial, officially declare his opinion to the said judge that he "considered an offence committed on board a public ship of war, on the high seas to have been committed within the jurisdiction of the nation to whom the ship belongs," and in consequence of such opinion and construction, did advise and request the said judge to deliver up the person so claimed to the agent of Great Britain, who should appear to receive him provided only that the stipulated evidence of his criminality should be produced. That in compliance with such advice and request of the president of the United States, the said person so committed for trial, was by the judge of the district court of South Carolina, without any presentment or trial by jury, or any investigation of his claim to be a citizen of the United States, delivered up to an officer of his Britannic majesty, and afterwards, tried by a court martial and executed on a charge of mutiny and murder.
Resolved , That inasmuch as the constitution of the United States, declares that the judiciary power shall extend to all questions arising under the constitution, laws and treaty of the United States, and to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and also that the trial of all crimes except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the state where such crime shall have been committed but when not committed within any state, then at such place or places as congress may by law have directed. And inasmuch as it is directed by law, that the offence of mur-
der committed on the high seas shall be deemed to be piracy and murder, and that "the trial of all crimes committed on the high seas, or in any place out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, shall be in the district where the offender is apprehended, or into which he may be first brought." Therefore the several questions whether the alleged crime of piracy and murder, was committed within the exclusive jurisdiction of Great Britain, whether it comes within the purview of the said twenty-seventh article? And whether a person stating that he was an American citizen, and had committed the act of which he was accused in attempting to regain his liberty from illegal imprisonment ought to be delivered up, without any investigation of his claim to citizenship, or inquiring into the facts alleged in his defence, are all matters exclusively of judicial enquiry, as arising from treaties, laws, constitutional provisions, and cases of admiralty, and maritime jurisdiction.
That a decision of those questions by the president of the United States, against the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, in a case where those courts had already assumed and exercised jurisdiction by his advice and request, to the judge of the district court, that the person thus charged should be delivered up, provided only such evidence of his criminality, should be produced as would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, are a dangerous interference of the executive with the judicial decisions, and that the compliance with such advice and request, on the part of the judge of the district court of South Carolina, is a sacrifice of the constitutional independence of the judicial power and exposes the administration thereof to suspicion and reproach.
And upon the question, "will the house agree with the committee in their disagreement to the said resolutions;
Mr. Gallatin spoke at great length in favor of them; when an adjournment was called for and carried. Adjourned.
Saturday, March 8.
The house resumed the consideration of the report of the committee of the whole on Mr. Livingston's resolutions, and the question for agreeing with the committee in their disagreement to the said resolutions, after a lengthy speech in favor of them by Mr. Nicholas, was taken by yeas and nays, as follows:
AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Alston, Baer, Bartlett, Bayard, Bird, J. Brown, Cooper, Craik, J. Davenport, F. Davenport, Davis, Dennis, Dent, Dickson, Edmond, Evans, A. Foster, D. Foster, Freeman, Glenn, Goode, C. Goodrich, E. Goodrich, Gordon, Gray, Griswold, Grove, Harper, Henderson, Hill, Imlay, Jones, Kittera, H. Lee, S. Lee, Lyman, Linn, Marshall, Nott, Otis, Page, Parker, Pinkney, Platt, Powell, Reed, Rutledge, Sewall, Sheaffe, Shepard, Spaight, Stone, Tellierferro, Thatcher, J. Thomas, R. Thomas, Varnum, Wadsworth, Waln, L. Williams, Woods.—61.
NEGATIVE.
Messrs. Bailey, Bishop, R. Brown Cabell, Christie, Clay, Condit, Eggleston, Elmendorf, Fowler, Gallatin, Gregg, Hanna, Heister, Holmes, Jackson, Kitchell, Leib, Lyon, Livingston, Macon, Muhlenberg, New, Nicholas, Nicholson, Randolph, Smilie, J. Smith, S. Smith, Sumpter, Thompson, A. Trigg, J. Trigg, Van Cortlandt, R. Williams.—35.
Mr. Harper then called for an adjournment, which was opposed by Mr. Macon, who wished the house now to go into committee of the whole on Mr. Bayard's resolution, appropriating the conduct of the executive with respect to the requisition for Robbins, and that the question upon it might be taken this day.
The question for an adjournment was put and carried—ayes 52.
American Intelligence.
Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, March 6.
SENATE.
On Wednesday in the senate, Mr. Tracy called for the resolution for the appointment of a committee of privileges, to enquire who is the editor of the Aurora , &c. laid on the table some days ago.
A member then proposed the following amendment, which, after considerable discussion, was negatived.—Ayes 11.—Noes 16.
Between the word "senate," and the word "and," in the fourth line from the end—insert "and that the committee be also directed to enquire, who is the editor of the newspaper printed in the said city called "Gazette of the United States, and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser." And by what means the said editor became possessed of the votes in the senate on the bill sent from the house of representatives, for suspending the enlistments of the 12 regiments, &c. as published in the said newspaper, bearing date the 13th of February inst. and by what authority he published those votes partially, and under the classification contained in the said newspaper; and also whether the said editor is the author or not, and if not, who is the author of sundry assertions, observations, and reflections, immediately preceding and following the statement of the said votes, and published in the said paper, of, and concerning the senate of the United States, and the members thereof in their official capacity.
The senate of the United States yesterday resumed the consideration of the resolution instructing the committee of privileges to enquire into the conduct of the editor of the Aurora and after making sundry amendments, one of which directed the committee to notice generally the paragraphs contained in said paper, relative to the conduct of members of that body in their official capacity; Mr. Pinckney moved to strike out all the resolution as amended, except the word "resolved," for the purpose of introducing an amendment which he meant to propose—and entered into a lengthy debate upon the inadequacy of the power of that house to prosecute the business as intended. We are informed the senate rose without taking a question upon it.
IN SENATE.
The consideration of the resolution respecting the editor of the Aurora , being called for, Mr. Pinckney read in his place, two or three resolutions, prefixed by a preamble, containing certain reasonings on the rights and privileges of the senate, and on the independence of the press. This performance, which was equivalent to a substitute for the original proposition, he wished to have entered on the journal: Several questions of order arose out of this motion, which was not disposed of when this paper was put to press.
March 7.
IN SENATE.
This day the business respecting the editor of the Aurora , was resumed; and Messrs. Read, Tracy, Coke, and Pinckney spoke at length on the subject.
March 10.
THE SENATE.
Of the United States, was engaged on Friday, and Saturday last, in discussing the resolution instructing the committee of privileges to enquire what measures ought to be taken in respect to sundry publications in the Aurora ,—and on Saturday the question was taken by ayes and nays, and carried, ayes 19, noes 8.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of the United States of America, TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
PETER COLLIN, esq. having produced to me his commission as vice-consul of his majesty, the king of Sweden, for the state of Maryland, I do hereby recognize him as such, and declare him free to exercise and enjoy such functions, powers and privileges as are allowed to the vice-consuls of his said majesty the king of Sweden.
IN testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand, at the city of Philadelphia, the twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, and of the independence of the said states the twenty-fourth.
JOHN ADAMS.
By the president of the United States, TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary of State.
ENVOYS TO FRANCE.
Extract of a letter from a respectable gentleman at Providence, to his friend in this town, dated February 28.
"News has been received here this day from Charleston, that our commissioners had arrived at Paris, and had been received with tokens of general respect and joy. The information reached Charleston by a ship from London, in a short passage. I have not seen the papers; but the whole will be in print to-morrow. I assure you, however, that such information is really in the Charleston papers."
Since preparing the above letter, we have been informed, by a gentleman from Providence, that the vessel which arrived there from Charleston, was commanded by captain Cooley, and left that February 21—That he said he brought papers, containing intelligence received by a late arrival from Europe, that our envoys had reached Paris, and been well received; and that the consuls had decreed that the American flag should be respected by the French cruizers.
Georgia.
SAVANNAH, February 4.
The following is given in a late London paper as an authentic account of the substance of the speech of Buonaparte to the bankers of Paris, when assembled respecting an advance into that government; there are some striking passages in it. "Every thing, said he, stimulates you to the most noble efforts. The great object now in view is to maintain our armies on a respectable footing, and to give to our negotiations the imposing character they ought never to have lost. Let us all unite; Let us draw, stand firm together, and we shall not be under the necessity of opening a new campaign in the spring, and 100,000 of our fellow citizens will not be compelled to go and perish in foreign lands. If your fortune and your credit have been compromised under the government which has been overthrown the cause is easily to be found. It was because none of the measures pursued tended either to tranquility at home or peace abroad; neither to liberty, nor to public happiness."
"Now however those who step forward to assist the government will have the honor of having obtained that peace so much desired, and having secured the general happiness. I say the honour—that principle so powerful in the mind of a Frenchman. Yes they will be honored both in France and in foreign countries for having aided a revolution that tends so evident to put an end to that social disorganization, that scourge of humanity, and to that war which has arisen from it."
February 11.
By the arrival of the brig Phoenix , capt. Mason, in 24 days from Jamaica, we have received the following account of a villainous plot to involve in blood and massacre the island of Jamaica, which was to have taken place on the 25th of December last, but providentially discovered and frustrated, only three days previous to the time appointed for carrying it into execution: the particulars are as follows.
Information having been sent by an English gentleman resident at St. Domingo to Lord Balcarres, governor of Jamaica, of three men being in the island, and of their intended project, in consequence of which orders were issued to the magistrates to apprehend and examine all foreigners, who were not in possession of regular certificates or passports. By this means M. Dubuisson, formerly an officer in the Royalists service was taken up as a suspicious character, who immediately gave information against his brother (Salportas) then in Kingston under cloak of purchasing a small vessel for the Spanish trade, (and passing himself for a Spaniard.) On the trial, M. Dubuisson, turned king's evidence, matters were so clearly proved against Salportas as condemned him, and he was executed agreeably to sentence, on the 24th of December as a spy, sent from St. Domingo by the French Agent, to foment an insurrection among the Negroes, to liberate the prisoners at Kingston (who were to be armed,) and the town set on fire, when a general massacre was to take place in the midst of the confusion. Emissaries were also employed on the north side, to prepare the slaves there, to effect the same purpose. Salportas defended himself with the utmost coolness on his trial, in a speech of near an hour, and endeavored, with much art to invalidate the evidence against him, but to no effect—facts were too clear.

After being marched round the parade with L'Espion, or (spy, written on his back) the sentence was put into execution in presence of an immense concourse of spectators.
In consequence of the above alarming circumstances, Martial Law was immediately proclaimed, and was still in continuance when our informant came away.
The north side of Jamaica has lately been much infested with French and Spanish cruizers.
North-Carolina.
LOUISVILLE, January 21.
We are informed by a gentleman from Greensborough, that col. Hawkins had written to a gentleman on the frontier, by the Indian chief Big Beard, who was at Greensborough when our informant left there that the Seminoles instigated by Bowles, were meditating mischief against this state; that they had made an attempt to kill col. Hawkins but were prevented by a party of the Cawetas and Cussetahs headed by Big Beard, that the Indians came in for the purpose of informing the inhabitants on the frontier that it was only the Seminoles that were for war, and that Cowetas and Cussetahs were friendly and would endeavour to guard them from injury.
Maryland.
BALTIMORE, February 28.
COUNTERFEIT BANK-BILLS.
From an Alexandria paper of Tuesday last, received by yesterday's mail.
Yesterday two men were apprehended for having passed a number of counterfeit 50 and 100 dollar bills of the bank of the United States. On their examination, it was proved that they, a few days since, arrived at this port in the schooner Two Brothers from New-Orleans, and from evidence it appeared, that vast quantities of counterfeit notes of the above description were in general circulation at that place.
From an Alexandria Paper
CAUTION.
The money brought from New-Orleans by James Elliot and others, and which on examination proves to be counterfeit is of the United States paper—dated Philadelphia, February 1795, June 1796, April 1797, and February 1798, for the 100 dollar bills, and marked A. and red E.—The bills are well imitated, but the paper inferior to that of the true bill; the signing hard to be known from the true bill, except the G. in the cashier's name, and Simpson are written larger and the ink paler than the real bill some of them are signed John Kean, cashier.
The public are warned that a great quantity of this paper is in New-Orleans, and coming on to the United States.
Two men who arrived here in the schooner Two Brothers, from New-Orleans, were apprehended on Monday, for passing bills of the above description—on examination, one of them was dismissed if not appearing he had passed any of the bills, and the other, (he above named James Elliot) kept in custody for further examination.
March 11.
BRITISH FRIENDSHIP.
Leave has been given by his grace the Duke of Portland, to our half-pay officers to enter into the service of the United States; in consequence of which, several of this description, residing in that country, have taken commissions, and are now doing duty in the provisional regiments.
(Canada paper.)
REMARKS.
Many have been surprised on observing British half pay officers, holding military commissions in these states? we have also observed ebullitions of indignation, break forth from men who had bled profusely for our national independence, on seeing the tools sent here, by a sanguinary tyrant, clothed in our uniform, and holding commands over the Americans, whom but a few years ago, they essayed to enslave. Are the incendiaries who burned our dwellings and laid waste our fields, to become our leaders, and to teach us how to contend with our former friends?
The British ministry design to furnish us with officers, that they may increase the English influence among us, and the English prints assert that our government having accepted the favour, have appointed several of these gentlemen to commands in the provisional regiments.
Can this proof of an existing good understanding between the British and American governments be a cause of pleasure to the people of the United States? Can we expect that professed royalists, are fit or qualified to be supporters of our republic, or can we be such dupes, as not to perceive that the permission allowed to them by their master, arises from an insidious policy, which embraces every mean that
can be ultimately hostile to our interest, and subversive of republicanism.
Mr. Pitt has denounced republican principles, and every country which cherishes them. He commenced a war, and now continues it avowedly, to extirpate them. To accomplish this purpose, he wields the weapons of force and of corruption, both he applies, with what success it is unnecessary to recapitulate, should we not then guard against his hostile designs, under what ever mask they may appear. To the liberties of this country, neither he, nor his corrupt supporters can ever be friendly. How highly improper must it be, to admit his notorious agents, to fill places of trust, and of the utmost importance, for certainly no situation can be so dangerous to have such men in, as the military line, on whose fidelity, very little reliance can be placed, and who are known to be attached to principles and forms of government foreign to our own.
(Argus.)
Lexington, April 3.
FIRE!
On Monday night between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, a fire broke out in a cooper's shop, at the upper end of Main-Street, which was entirely consumed. No other damage was sustained.
WARS OF AUSTRIA.
The following historical account of the wars which Austria has sustained during the two last centuries is inserted in the foreign papers. This relation cannot fail to interest the reader, who may extract many important events from it in their chronological order, and at the same time he will see the power and the immense resources of the August House of Austria.
1. The war with the Ottoman Porte from 1592 to 1606, terminated by the Peace at Sathmarok, in Hungary, on the 21st of October 1606.
2. The war commonly called the Thirty years war, which lasted from 1610, till 1648, terminated by the Peace at Westphalia, on the 13th of October 1648, at Munster in Westphalia.
3. The war respecting the Mantuan Succession, which lasted from 1628, till 1631, terminated with France by a treaty of Peace at Ratisbon on the 13th of October 1630, and with Spain by arrangements made on the 6th of April, 1631, at Cherasco in Piedmont.
4. The second war with the Ottoman Porte, which lasted from 1651 till 1664, terminated for 20 years, by the peace of Vasvar in Hungary, on the 10th of August 1664.
5. War with France from 1662 to 1678, terminated by the peace of Nimeguen in Holland, on the 5th of February 1679.
6. Third war with the Ottoman Porte, from 1683 to 1698, terminated by the peace of Carlowitz in Selavonia, on the 26th of January 1699.
7. Second war with France, from 1688, to 1697, terminated by the peace of Ryswick in Holland, on the 30th of October, 1697.
8. War with France and Spain from 1701 to 1713, terminated by the peace at Rastadt in the Empire, on the 6th of March 1714.
9. Fourth war with the Ottoman Porte, from 1716 to 1718, terminated by the peace of Passarowitz, in Servia, on the 21st of July 1718.
10. Second war with Spain respecting the possessions in Italy from 1717 to 1720, terminated by the Peace of Vienna in Austria, on the 30th of April, 1725.
11. War with France and Spain from 1735, to 1739, terminated with France by the peace of Vienna in Austria, on the 3d of October 1738, and with Spain by the peace made at Versailles, the 20th of April 1739.
12. War of Austrian succession at the death of the Emperor Charles the VI, from 1740, to 1748; it lasted with Prussia (for the first time), from 1740 to 1742 and was terminated by peace made at Bresslaw and Berlin on the 11th of June and 24th of July in 1742: it then lasted with Bavaria from 1742 to 1745, it was terminated by the peace made at Fulpens in Suabia on the 22d of April 1743. It lasted with France and Spain from 1741 to 1748, and was terminated by the peace made at Aix la Chapelle on the 21st of October, 1748. Lastly, it was again carried on with Prussia (for the second time) from 1744 to 1745, and was terminated by the peace concluded at Dresden, on the 25th of December 1745.
13. The seven years war or third with Prussia, from 1756 to 1763, terminated by the peace of Hubertbourg in Saxony, on the 15th of February 1763.
14. Fourth war with Prussia respecting the Bavarian succession, from 1778 to 1779 terminated by the peace of Teschen in Upper Silesia, on the 13th of May 1779.
15. Different wars with the States General of Holland, from 1784 to 1785, respecting the opening of the Scheldt, terminated by the treaty of Fountainbleau on the 8th of November 1785.
16. Sixth war with the Ottoman Porte, from 1788 until the Armistice of 1790, stipulated by the Congress at Reichenbach in Silesia and terminated by peace made at Szilistors on the 4th of August 1791.
War with France from 1792 to 1797, terminated by peace at Leoben in Upper Styria on the 17th of April 1797.
NEWS-PAPER.
It has been observed, that there is not so inconsistent, so incoherent, so heterogeneous, although so useful and agreeable a thing as a public news-paper: the very ludicrous advertisements, the contradictory substance of foreign and domestic paragraphs, or opposite opinions and observations of contending essayists, with premature deaths, spurious marriages, births, bankruptcies, &c. form a fund of entertainment for a world, of which it is in itself no bad epitome.
Abstracted from politics, the general tenor of our domestic information is not a little curious. Whether it arises from accident or design I know not; but I have frequently seen after a paragraph reciting the elegance of an entertainment, a commission of bankruptcy has immediately followed; after a city feast I have seen the melancholy account of a sudden death of an alderman by an apoplectic fit; after an advertisement of the art of fencing by Monsieur Longsword, the circumstances of a duel have followed, wherein one of the combatants has been run through the body, after a marriage divorce; and thus have I seen the paragraphs follow, in the same natural order in a news-paper, as their consequences do in real life.
Our curiosity may be extended by observing the various effects the different articles of intelligence have on different persons. Thus a marriage will fortify the breast of an old maid, hurt the pride of a young one, while it gives consolation to many a poor dejected husband, who reads that another has fallen into his situation. —a death if it is a wife, will make a husband envy the widower; wives and widows pity the deceased, and hurt at the husband's good fortune, exclaim against the monster for not shewing a proper degree of sorrow on the occasion, while one of them perhaps marries him in a month after. Indeed all the passions of the human frame are elated and put in motion by a news-paper. It is a bill of fare, containing all the luxuries as well as necessaries of life.
Politics are now the roast beef of the times and a dishequally sumptuous to the King and the Cobler; poetry is a plum-pudding, and palatable only to the lovers of the mules: there are others that act as vegetables to compleat the course; while our mails from Europe serve up nothing but battles and bloodshed.
It is a caricature, happily calculated to hit the ordinary and unbounded prejudices of society. One person's affections lie in the price of stock; another in a dreadful battle either by sea or land, in which he solaces himself that he can read them free from its dangers, a third places his delight in a curious anecdote; a fourth in a tale of scandal; a fifth in an elopement; and a sixth in a poet's corner.—Thus is a newspaper a magazine, or toy shop, where every one has his hobby-horse; and thus all capacities and descriptions are periodically furnished with instruction, amusement and information.
[N. H.]
ALEXANDER PARKER,
IS just imported from Philadelphia, and opened at his store in Lexington, opposite the court-house, a large and general assortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hard Ware, Queens, China and Glass Ware, which he will sell at the most reduced prices for CASH.
Lexington, April 1st, 1800.
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.
WHEREAS my wife Ruth, has left her bed and board—I do forewarn all persons from crediting her on my account. Mercer county, 27th March, 1800.
*15 Over--
A LIST OF LETTERS
IN the post-office Lexington, which if not taken out within three months, will be returned to the general post-office, as dead letters.
Ethan Andrews; Elisha Allin, 2; Harmonious Alkier, care of Mr. Ingles; Wm. Atkins, Garrard county; Jacob Adams.
John Bobbs; Cuthbert Banks; John Boyd; Baird & Owens; Wm. Bishop, 2; Mess. Green & Burges; John Byrus, care of Mr. Wilkinson, white-smith; Robt. Ballantine, care of Richd. Biddle; Wm. Brown; David Barclay, care of Mr. McNair; Washington Boid; John Batterhall; John Bean; John Borger; Thomas C. Briggs; Thomas Baker, care of Mr. Parker; Hicheson Bell; George Baltzel, Winchester; John Bell; Walter Beall, Bourbon Furnace, 3.
John Caldwell; John Clark; Revd. Valentine Cook, Jessamine county; Thomas Carneal; Sally Cleveland, Clarke county; John Calhoun; James M. Campbell; Peter Crumbaugh; Samuel Creigh; John Colther; John Courtney; Capt. John Cord; Green Clay; John Henry Christian; Jacob Coons, Montgomery county; James Crawford, Clarke county; Dennis Casset; Robert Caldwell, 2; George Clark, 11.
Jean Jacques Dufour; John Dougherty; Thos. Dozer, Madison county; Robert Deening; Revd. Ambrose Dudley; Robert Denniston.
Ambrose Egliston; Thos. Easton, care of James H. Stewart.
James Fleming, care of Mr. Bright; James French, Madison county, Joshua Flood, at McNair's, 2; Peter Follman; Maddox Fisher, 2; Jacob Fillsback; Humphrey Grubbs; Samuel Gibson; Joseph Gray; Henry Gift, at Doctor Warfield's; Reuben Grant; Benjamin Gibbs.
William Haynie, Clarke county; Polly Humphreys; Jonathan Hutchinson; Hezekiah Hutchinson; Obadiah or John Higbee; Henry Hyman; Anne Hambleton, care of Dr. Brown; Benj. Harris; John Hammond; James Henry; Andrew Holmes; Daniel Harragan; Richard Harding.
William Johnson, care of Jos. Gray; James B. January, 2; Samuel January, 2; Gabriel Jones; Michael Jones & Brother; Richard Johnson; John Jackson; John W. Johnson, 2; William Irwine; Robert Irwine.
Thomas King; Robert Kirk; Archd. Kincaid, Versailles, 2; Matthew Kennedy, care of George Trotter.
Jacob Lehre; William Lister, care of Mr. Black; Thomas Leland, care of Dr. Leland; Maj. John Lee, 2; David Lusk; George Lewis.
John Mayhee; George Moffit; John McKinney; Thomas Montgomery, Slate creek; Reuben M'Daniel, Montgomery county; David M'Cord; Rev. Robert Marshall; David M'Gee; Peter Moore; John Morrison; James M'Gowan; Col. Nathaniel Massie; Alexander MacGregor; Cloner Mixon.
William Niblick; Charles North, care of Archd. M'Ilvain; Francis Newman, near Ipswich.
John Osburn, Scott county. John Pritchett, Clarke county; James Parker, care of Mr. Clark; William Porter; Joseph Perkins, Garrard county; John Price, Jessamine county.
William Reiling; Theok. B. Ruffin; John Rochester; George Rowland; Mary Robinson; Capt. John Roberts, Montgomery county; Capt. Joseph Hicheson.
John Sloss, care of Joseph Rodgers, 2; John Spangler; James Spillman, Robert Steel; James H. Stewart, 2; Cornelius Sullivan, care of Robert Beatty; John Sterrit, near Georgetown, 2; Nathaniel Seples; Sheriff of Fayette county; David Shield; Benj. Stephenson, care of James H. Stewart; Mr. Savary; David Strong; Reuben Searcy; Willy Sladuen, Boone county; William Smith, Winchester; Isaac Stoub; Richard Smith, Hatter.
Buckner Thruston, 2; Jacob Teaford; James Twyman, Scott county; Patty Tatterton; James Twineham, Harrison county; William Thomas, hatter; Benjamin Turner.
William Vawter, Woodford. Maj. John Wagon, 2; John Weaver; Dr. Walter Warfield; James Ware; David Wath, Fayette or Woodford; Isaac Webb, 2; Jacob W. Walker, Jessamine county; Gerlham White, 2; George Webb, attorney; John Williamson; William Winters; Charles Wilkins.
James Young; Robert Young; David Yancy.
JOHN W. HUNT, P. M.
April 1, 1800.
WINCHESTERS, DIALOGUES ON
UNIVERSAL RESTORATION,
For sale at this Office, Price 3s.

WHEREAS my wife Anne Owsley has without a ny just cause absent herself from my bed and board, and it appearing by her behaviour and threats that she does not wish to return to her duty again. These are therefore to warn all persons from trus- ting trading or bartering with her in any respect as I am determined not to comply with or pay any debts on her contracting; I also forewarn all persons from harbouring or entertaining her; and those indebted to me are hereby forbid on their peril, to pay unto her any monies or property; as she considers herself now not to be my wife; the calls herself Anne Calf blade.
Daniel Owsley.
Lincoln, March 8th, 1800.
FOREWARN all persons from taking an assign- ment on two bonds given by me to William Stewart—one for 271 10s. to be paid in pork, in December 1799: the other for 271 10s. to be paid in beef, in February or March 1800; as I do not in- tend to pay Mr. Stewart another shilling until he comes forward and pays the taxes that are due on the bills I purchased of him, and the damage I have sustained for want of Licence to work the said bills.
Thos. Berry, Clarke county.
March 29, 1800.
TWO DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living about two miles from Lexington, Fayette county, a young lad, named Alexander Stewart, a foolish, half witted boy, about sixteen years of age, about five feet four or five inches high, slender made, knock- kneed, and bare foot—had on a round bout sailors jacket, an old hat, and an old pair of overalls. I forewarn all and every person from taking him on board any boat or other vessel going out of the state, for if they do, I am determined to prosecute them with the utmost rigor of the law. The above re- ward will be paid to any person delivering said lad to me, or securing him in any jail, and giving infor- mation so that I get him again. Persons taking him up are requested to watch him carefully, as he will make his escape if he has an opportunity.
William Stewart.
April 2d, 1800.
STRAYED AWAY
FROM Capt. William Allen's, about two miles from Lexington, about the 4th or 5th of February;
A BAT MARE,
about fourteen hands three inches high, about seven years old, both hind feet white, and is with foal—branded on the near shoulder (as well as I recollect) AE, trots and paces, shod before, switch tail. Whoever delivers said mare to Capt. William Allen, from whence she strayed, shall have THREE DOLLARS RE- WARD, and reasonable charges.
George Elliott.
March 17, 1800.
WILL BE EXPOSED TO SALE, BY PUBLIC VENDUE,
ON Thursday the 17th day of April next, at the late dwelling house of Robert Parker, dec. on South Elkhorn, part of the personal estate of the de- ceased, consisting of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Farming Utensils, &c. A considerable credit will be given, and the terms of sale made known on that day, by
The Executors.
March 27th, 1800.
CHEAP GOODS.
SAMUEL & GEORGE TROTTER, Have just received from Philadelphia, A LARGE AND GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF MERCHANDIZE, CONSISTING OF Dry Goods, Hardware, Groceries, Glass China and Queens-ware, Bar Iron, Steel, &c. &c. Which, for CASH IN HAND, they offer for sale on the most reasonable terms.
Lexington, December 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 Trot- ter'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.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
A QUANTITY OF BARLEY & HOPS. Apply at George Anderson's store, or A. Holmes's brewery.
Lexington, September 23d, 1799.
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 cus- tom, may depend on having their work done with dispatch, neatness and punctuality.
Lexington November 21st, 1799.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Green river, in Green county, one black mare, about fourteen hands one inch high, about eight years old, with a small star in her forehead, a part of her near hind foot white, a small sad- dle spot on the off side, had on about a three shilling bell, appraised to thir- teen pounds.
Also a forrel horse about three years old, about fourteen hands high, with a blaze face, his near hind foot white, bran- ded with a stirrup iron, appraised to 50 dollars. The above horses were posted and appraised the seventh of Jan. 1800.
John Layman.
FRESH GOODS.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
HAS just received from Philadelphia, and is now opening for sale, in the brick house, lately oc- cupied by Mr. A. Hare, a handsome, and very ge- neral assortment of
MERCHANDIZE,
Among which are the following articles:
 Superfine cloths, Fine and coarse do.  Kerseymeres, Flannels and Coatings, Blankets, Velvets, Thicksets, Cor- duroys and Fustians, Hair Plush stuffs, Brown and White Irish Linens, Galicoes and coarse mus- lins, Fine Jacquet do. Plain, striped and tam- bored do. Book and Jacquet hand- kerchiefs, Fashionable Ribbons, Family & School Bibles. Testaments and spelling books, Dictionaries, Morrie's Universal Geo- graphy—2 vols. Do. American do. 1 vol. Do. do. and Universal abridged, Staunton's Embassy, Scott's Gazetteer, American do. Scott's Lessons, Taplin's and Mills' Far- rery, Copper Tea Kettles, London Pewter, Weavers', Sweeping and scrubbing brushes,  Cloth and furniture do. Writing paper, Slates, Quills and Wafers, Girth, spring and strain- ing Webs, Plated and tinned stir- rup irons, Do. do. Bridle Bits, and Furniture. A general assortment of Cutlery, Desk and bureau furni- ture, Carpenters' Adze, Screw Augers. Hand, panel, dove tail, saw, lock and key hole saws. Pitt, mill and croquet do. Crowley Steele, Sheet Iron and sad Irons, Nails and Brads assorted, Teas, Coffee and Choc- olate, Loaf, White, Havana and Mucovado su- gars, Pepper and spices, Arnott's Robin, Brimstone, Copperas and Logwood, Cotton, Wool and Hat- ters' Cards. Also, a few excellent double and single birt- ger'd Rifle Guns. 
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 ac- counts, by giving their notes. No further notice will be given.
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 wa- ter, and a log cabin—the remainder in timothy and clover.
We will also sell 2000 acres of MILI- TARY LAND, of an excellent quality, on Cumberland river, near Walker's set- tlement, adjoining M'Nabb, Fitzhugh, &c.—The title to which is indisputable.
And if any gentleman, with a hand- some capital, wishes to make an indepen- dant fortune, we will sell him our possess- ions in this town, far superior to any in the state for a PUBLIC HOUSE, and ready furnished to enter on business im- mediately.
* * * 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.
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 grist-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 clear- ed—a description of the situation and works are un- necessary as they will do credit to the best inspec- tion. Merchandize or negroes will be taken in part.
Haden Edwards.
February 3d, 1800.
FOR SALE,
FIVE HUNDRED acres of land on the waters of Slate, or Lulubulgrud, in Clarke county.
 Also 295 acres near the above.  400 acres on Green river, about 16 miles from Lincoln court house.  About 300 acres Big Brush creek, Greene county.  About 400 acres on and near the road from Har- rodsburg, to Frankfort, near Grays Horse Mill—For terms apply to the subscriber, in Jessamine county. 
Samuel McDowell.
April 9th, 1799.
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.
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.
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.
March 4th, 1800.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned not to purchase all or any part of 5000 acres of land, from George Mathews, or any person authorised by him to sell the same, which land was conveyed to said Ma- thews by Sampson Mathews of Virginia, about the first of October last; as the said Sampson Mathews had formerly sold the same land to Alexander Nelson of Augus- ta county Virginia, and empowered John Allen of Shelbyville (Kentucky) to convey the said land to said Alexander Nelson. The land sold to said Nelson by said Samp- son Mathews was 2000 acres, the lower end of 5000 acres, located for James Har- ris, on Pitmans Creek, a branch of Green River, near Green Courthouse—2000 a- cres surveyed for said Sampson Mathews, on said Pitmans creek, and includes a part of Killpatrick's mill tract—& one half of 2000 acres located and surveyed for said Sampson Mathews, in Shelby county Ken- tucky. The above sale made to said Nel- son by said Sampson Mathews, was known to the said George Mathews and his agent in Virginia, (Samuel Blackburn) before the purchase was made by said George Mathews or his agent, or conveyance made to him.
ALEXANDER NELSON.
4t * 6t.
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 im- partial, and bears the character of truth, toge- ther with the entertainment of a novel. Its uti- lity will be acknowledged by all the friends of Li- berty, even in the present situation of affairs in France.
BY LAST EVENING'S MAIL.
TOULOUSE, November 4.
The royalists conspiracy had not only its troops, its arsenals, its treasurers and administrators, but it also had (and it still appears to have) its tribunals. The fol- lowing paper will shew beyond a doubt, that the assassins of the republicans have executed the orders of this conspiracy:
"Louis, by the grace of God, king of France and Navarre, to all our faithful subjects—greeting:
"The provisional chamber established by our letters patent of the 21st of May, sitting in the district of Villemur, has, upon the requisition of our attorney be- longing to the said chamber, issued the following order:
"The said chamber, desirous of conform- ing to the declaration of the king our master, who grants an amnesty to all his subjects, whom the impulse of human pas- sions led to revolt against his brother the Martyr of blessed memory, and against the present king; and not willing to punish any but those whom a criminal obstinacy has continually armed against the royal sovereignty, has condemned to death 12 persons.
"The following are condemned to per- petual banishment:—La Poyre, calling himself a judge; Mathieu, the elder; Barrere, a priest; and Jerome Terran- ele; and all inhabitants of Villemur.
"Given at the provisional chamber in the presence, and by the advice of the noble president, J. F. Advocate; B. Merchant: F. Burges: and F. Attor- ney to the king; on the 22d of Sept. 1799 of the incarnation.
"The present order shall be executed on the requisition of the king's attor- ney.
"All acts of the Royalists, anterior or posterior to the rebellion, shall be signed only by initials, or by figures.
CONSTANTINOPLE, October 29.
The Grand Vizier and the famous Ghez- ar Pacha, who commands at Acre, are at variance. The former demands that the latter shall proceed to Egypt with his troops, which he refuses to do, not
being inclined to quit the Castle of Acre, which he considers as his patrimony, and as a possession which had been preserved only through his brave defence. The Grand Vizier has experienced considera- ble delay on his march to Egypt, which may have very bad consequences, he in- tended to march through the deserts, but wanted the necessary vessels for convey- ing water. He demands some of Ghez- ar Pacha, who replied that he wanted them for his own use.
Sir Sidney Smith is still at Rhodes, with two English ships of war, waiting the arrival of a reinforcement of Turkish ships under the command of Seid Aly, which has been ordered by the Captain Pacha to join him from the Dardanelles.
BOSTON, February 25.
It appears by the latest information from Europe, that the northern armies have remained for a long time inact- ive. Moreau had taken the place of Massena, who was at Paris. We have no positive account yet of the march of the Russian army under Suwarow, to- ward home.
FROM LEGHORN.
We learn by captain Rich, who failed from thence December 6, that it was then reported that the Austrians has invaded Genoa, and by proclamation invited its inhabitants to surrender.
PITTSFIELD, March 4.
We learn from Virginia, that Judge Washington has taken possession of all the papers belonging to his great relative; from which only materials for forming a just history of his life can be acquired:—that no one has been permitted to per- use them, with a view to publication; and access to them will not be per- mitted except to such person as shall be deemed qualified to do justice to the subject. A biographer worthy of Wash- ington is not to be found in the race of our pamphleteers.
A letter from Cadiz, dated Dec. 7. states, that prizes taken by French cru- isers are no longer to be tried by the Consuls of that nation in Spain; but by the Courts in France. This is suggest- ed to be ordered by a proclamation of the French Government. This mea- sure, if true, is very just and very impor- tant.
SALISBURY, March 6.
The Perpetual Motion
In the Goal of Goshen, in this state, two men are confined on suspicion of counter- feiting hard dollars. During their impri- sonment, without other instrument than a penknife, they fabricated a machine of ce- der wood, which discovers the perpetual motion. The machine consists of about 30 cog and spur wheels of various dimen- sions, and is set in motion by weights. It can be adopted to a clock, saw-mill grist- mill, or any other piece of machinery that moves by weights, water or wind; and will continue in motion so long as the ma- chinery will last.
By the help of this machine, it is be- lieved, water might be brought into this city with trifling expence.
Every friend of the arts and sciences will lament that the public are deprived of the benefit of this discovery, by the imprisonment of its authors.
The above intelligence was communi- cated to the editor of Mercantile Adver- tiser, in a letter from Mr. J. Seaman Van- devoort, of Goshen. Should it prove true, we congratulate philosophy, and our coun- try, on the important discovery.
N. York paper.
STAUNTON, March 17.
There has appeared at Paris a soldier from the army of Egypt; he quitted that country since Buonaparte: he states that the army, who did not know what had become of their general in chief, was ex- tremely discontented when they under- stood, that he had quitted it—but they were soon perfectly reconciled by the high ideas which they entertained of the talents of Kleber and Dessaix. They are in a position which leaves no reason to fear that they can be attacked by the e- nemy, and the troops begin to be habitua- ted to a climate so different from their own.
[Phil. Paper.]
RICHMOND, February 28.
A person was detected and committed to jail on Monday last, in attempting to pass counterfeit Bank Notes—Those that have been found upon him, were all of ten dollars each, and the fraud upon the U- nited States bank. It is said the perpe- trator is from the State of Kentucky, and no doubt may have many accomplices. As many of the notes may have got into circulation, the public will of course be on their guard. The notes can readily be distinguished, as they are but indiffer- ently executed.

SACRED TO THE MUSES.
From the City & Carolina Gazette.
LINES
Written by an old Planter, in the country, to his daughter, who having gone in her plain country dress to reside in the city, returned after some months trick'd off in all the gaudy attire of the gay world.
HOW, PHERE, can I else but snarl, When you who went a country girl, In habit frugal, neat and plain, That might attract some frugal swain; Who ne'er dreamt of silk or lawn, Nor rov'd beyond your country town; A Holland Doll?—Who did adorn Your head in this prodigious dress, Of foreign gewgaws, and not less Than live-oak tops on yonder bluff, A mountain of fantastic stuff? Now by flirtation's self, I swear, You must your old apparel wear; Those glit'ring follies lay aside, That feed at once your sloth and pride, Put on again your home-spun gear, And drop those pound-weights from your ear. As well might vanities like those, Be seen suspended from your nose. You shall not wear Morocco caps— For idle beaus they may be craps; But, though acquired at high expence, Will never catch a man of sense. What sops will now beliege my door Attracted by that dry goods store, In every form which cut and hack'd, Is to your idle carcase tack'd; But let them fear the vengeance due To all I catch in quest of you; Of such gay birds you may be vain, But mind—I tell you—there's my cane. Far hence from us be China's ware, Or India shawls of camel's hair; These quiltings, quilted at Marseilles, And silver'd shoes, and color'd veils; I execrate all trash like that, Nor shall you wear Sawarrows hat. These muslins, satins, mulinnet, God knows have brought a serious debt: You, PHERE, do not count the cost, Of time mis-spent, and labor lost; You may indulge your modish tricks, But I'm no fool at fifty-six; These ribbons, edgings and galoons, Will make me sing some dismal tunes, Will force me, when the bill is read, To bite my nails and scratch my head, If PHERE does not for me feel, And turn again the spinning-wheel.
ANECDOTE.
During the retreat of the British troops on the 7th October, while they were flouncing through the mud in a part of the road uncommonly bad, the commanding officer called out to the men to form "two deep,"—"damme! (shouts a grenadier from between two mountains of mud) I am "too deep" already; I am up to the neck!"
ON GAMING.
GAMES of chance, where money is the object, are dangerous in the extreme. They cherish evil passions without number: and avarice, anger, selfishness, discontent; and give rise to altercation and quarrelling, and sometimes, to the most shocking impiety: They occasion, as long as they continue, a total loss of time, and of all the rational pleasures of social life: They are generally detrimental to health, by keeping the body inactive, and encroaching on the hours of rest; they produce feverish agitation of the spirits, as hurtful to the mind, as habitual dram-drinking would be to the body: They level all distinctions of sense and folly, vice and virtue, and bring together, on the same footing, men and women of decent and of the most abandoned manners. Persons, who take pleasure in play, seldom fail to become immoderately attached to it, and the neglect of business, the ruin of fortune, family, and reputation, are too frequently the consequence. Savages are addicted to gaming; and, in this respect, whatever difference there may be in dress, or colour of the skin, the character of the gentleman gambler, and the gambling savage, are not only similar but the same. The savage will lose his wife, and children, and personal liberty; the other will throw away in the same manner, what should support his wife and children, and keep himself out of a jail; and it is well if he stop short of self-murder. It is impossible to keep at two great a distance from such enormities? And can the man, who once engages in the dreadful business, say where he will stop, or how far he may go? Let no such man be trusted.
HORRORS OF WAR.
However dreadful the imagination of any of my Readers may have painted the horrors of War, I dare say they have fallen somewhat short of the following relation of real consummate misery, extracted from the notes of a Poem written upon the campaign of 1794 and '95. It was during the retreat of the allied army to Deventer.
"We could not proceed an hundred yards, without perceiving the dead bodies of Men, Women, Children, and Horses, in every direction. One scene made an impression upon my memory, which time will never be able to efface. Near a cart we perceived a stout looking Man, and a beautiful young Woman, with an Infant about seven months old, at the breast; all three frozen and dead. The Mother had most certainly expired in the act of sucking her Child, as, with one breast exposed, she lay upon the drifted snow: the milk, to all appearance, in a stream drawn from the nipple by the Babe, and instantly congealed. The Infant seemed as if its lips had but just then been disengaged; and it reposed its little head upon the Mother's bosom, with an overflow of milk, frozen as it trickled from the mouth. Their countenances were perfectly composed and fresh, resembling those of persons in a sound and tranquil slumber.
The following description of a field of battle, is in the words of one who passed over the field of Jemappe, after Dumourier's victory.
"It was on the third day after the victory obtained by General Dumourier over the Austrians, that I rode across the field of battle. The scene lies on a waste common, rendered there more dreary by the desertion of the miserable hovels before occupied by the Peasants. Every thing that resembled a human habitation was desolated; and, for the most part, they had been burnt or pulled down, to prevent their affording shelter to the posts of the contending Armies. The ground was ploughed up by the wheels of the artillery and waggons; every thing like herbage was trodden into mire; broken carriages, arms, accoutrements, dead horses, and men, were strewed over the heath. This was the third day after the battle: It was the beginning of November; and, for three days, a bleak wind and heavy rain had continued incessantly. There were still remaining alive several hundreds of horses, and of the human Victims of that dreadful fight. I can speak with certainty of having seen more than four hundred Men, still living, unsheltered without food, and without human assistance; most of them confined to the spot where they had fallen, by broken limbs. The two Armies had proceeded, and abandoned these miserable Wretches to their fate. Some of the dead persons appeared to have expired in the act of embracing each other. Two young French Officers, who were Brothers, had crawled under the side of a dead Horse; where they had contrived a kind of shelter by means of a cloak. They were both mortally wounded, and groaning for each other. One very fine young Man had just strength enough to drag himself out of a hollow partly filled with water, and was laid upon a little hillock groaning with agony: a grape-shot had cut across the upper part of his belly; and he was keeping in his bowels with a handkerchief and hat!! He begged of me for God's sake to end his misery! He complained of a dreadful thirst. I filled him the hat of a dead Soldier with water, which he nearly drank off at once, and left him to that end of his wretchedness which could not be far distant."
EXTRACTS
From late London Papers.
Buonaparte, it is said, like Octavius, intends to change his name upon assuming the Empire. He is no longer to be called Buonaparte, but TUTTO.
Her Highness the Lady Protege's Buonaparte, has expressed her surprise at the opposition her fashions, and those of her husband meet with from the belles of London. "No sooner (says she) did my husband steal the Royal Diadem and put it in his pocket, but the Englishwomen left off pockets altogether. No sooner had I left off my chemise, than the Englishwomen would wear nothing else!"
Among the intercepted letters from Buonaparte's army, it is not generally known that one fell into the hands of government which contained the loves and jealousies of the Hero. It was from his son-in-law, Beauharnois, to his mama in Paris. In this epistle, he says, he heard the general sobbing and weeping aloud, and confiding to Berthier the causes of his misery. These were, madam Buonaparte's having accepted a pug dog from a
certain Muscadine, whom she also met upon the Boulevard, and suffered to see the Opera from her box, up three pairs of stairs. The Hero is now quite comforted as the pug dog is returned to the Muscadine; and his Queen has made a present of a jewel worth 2000 crowns to the grenadier who saved his life in the council of five hundred.
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.
WANTED
AN apprentice to the Tanning Business, a lad about 17 years of age, well grown, who can come well recommended—no other need apply.
Jonas Davinport.
Jessamine county,
March 14th, 1800.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
February court of quarter sessions, 1800.
William Nelson, complainant,
vs.
Mark Lacey, Oliver Badger, John Steel, and Jeconias Cooper, defendants, IN CHANCERY.
THE defendants Badger, Steel and Cooper not having entered their appearance agreeably to law and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth—on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the second Tuesday in June next, and answer the complainant's bill—and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Kentucky Gazette, for two months successively, and published at the door of the courthouse of this county, and also at the door of some meeting house in the neighborhood of the town of Mountsterling.
A copy.
Teste,
M. Harrison, C. M. C. Q. S.
WOODFORD COUNTY,
March Court of Quarter Sessions, 1800.
James Wason, complainant,
AGAINST
Jane Bowles, Samuel Baird, James Baird, and William Baird, and James McBride and Henry McBride, heirs at law of James McBride, dec. defendants,
IN CHANCERY,
THE defendants Samuel Baird, James Baird, & William Baird; and James McBride and Henry McBride, not having entered their appearance and given security according to act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this state; on motion of the complainant by his attorney, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first monday in July next, and answer the bill of the complainant; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Kentucky Gazette for two months successively, and published at the door of Clear creek meeting house, on some Sunday immediately after divine service, and at the door of the Court house in the town of Versailles.
A copy.
Teste,
T. Turpin, Clk.
AT a meeting of the Directors of the Vineyard Society, in Lexington, 22d March, 1800, RESOLVED That each subscriber to the Vineyard Society complete the payment of three fifths of each share subscribed for, (which is fifty dollars) in the following manner, to wit: fifteen dollars on or before the 1st day of April next—and fifteen dollars on or before the 1st day of May following.
RESOLVED That Cuthbert Banks be appointed collector for the ensuing year, to collect and receive such sums, as they become due on each share; and on failure of payment, to bring suits against all delinquents, and when received to pay the same into the hands of the treasurer.
Extract from the Minutes,
Wm. Macbean, Clk.
HEREBY forewarn any and every person or persons from taking an assignment on a bond given by Richard Higgins to William Dawson, for three hundred acres of land, out of a survey of 666 2-3 acres of land, made for Charles Yarborough, on the waters of Tradewater: and I also caution said Higgins against making a title to said Dawson or his assigns, for any part thereof, until I receive the amount of a judgment which I obtained against said Dawson, in the court of quarter-sessions of Fayette county, for which execution was stayed until the 1st day of June next, in consequence of his giving me said land in security.
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George Neal.
Jessamine county, March 17, 1800.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Clear creek, one bay mare, thirteen and a half hands high, no brand perceptible, some saddle spots, twelve years old, aprais'd to 61.
William Morrison.
Jessamine county, 26th January, 1800.
NOTICE
THAT on the first Monday of April next a public examination of the students of the Transylvania University will commence at ten o'clock, and continue until all in the several departments shall have passed examination.
The citizens are also informed that the students of the University (in number about fifty) will exhibit on the Thursday following, beginning at ten o'clock.
March 16, 1800.
WHEREAS Alexander M'Connel, on the 7th July, 1784, sold to James Gay, one half of a settlement granted to said M'Connel, heir at law to Francis M'Connel, which land was sold by said Gay to Francis Keen: and whereas the said M'Connel did also make over, the tract of land on which he now lives to said Gay, as security for the title to the one half of the settlement above mentioned. Wherefore as the said M'Connel is unable to make such title as he contracted to make, all persons are hereby forewarned from purchasing the tract of land on which said M'Connel now lives, or any part thereof.
JAMES GAY.
March 27th, 1800.
NEARLY READY FOR THE PRESS, A GENERAL INSTRUCTOR;
CONTAINING The duty of a JUSTICE of the PEACE, SHERIFF, CORONER and CONSTABLE, In the State of KENTUCKY.
Together 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.
From a view of the materials now before us, it is expected that the work will extend to about 300 pages, and if it does not exceed that number, can be afforded for two DOLLARS a copy, in boards. As soon as the price can be ascertained, subscription papers will be circulated throughout the state, and the work be put to press as soon as five hundred copies are subscribed for.
It is unnecessary to say any thing on the utility of a work of this kind, as the want thereof is sensibly felt by a large proportion of the magistrates in this state, and nothing of the kind within their power to procure.
TANNING AND CURRYING.
WANTED immediately two active BOYS, as apprentices to the above branches, from the age of 14 to 16 years old.
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Philip Teiser, 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. Bodley, C. L. D. C.
KENTUCKY.
Ohio county, to wit.
February court of quarter sessions, 1800. Samuel McGrady, 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 Atherton'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.
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.