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THE KENTUCKY GAZETTE.
No. 811.]
FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1802.
[VOL. XV.]
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CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
SENATE.
THURSDAY, January 14, 1802.
DEBATE
On Mr. Breckinridge's motion to repeal the act passed last session, for a new organization of the JUDICIARY SYSTEM.
[Mr. Breckinridge in continuation.]
The gentleman from Massachusetts has conceded a point, which is at variance with the principal ground he has taken. He admits, if a judge in a particular district be incompetent from insanity, disability, or other sufficient cause to perform his duties, Congress might repeal so much of the law as relates to his district, and thereby put down that judge. How is this? If a law can be repealed, and a judge put down, because he is unable to discharge the duties of his office, cannot a law be repealed and a judge be put down, where he has no duties to discharge. If because a judge who cannot discharge the duties actually assigned him, (although by the act of government) may be dispensed with, is it found reasoning to say, that you cannot dispense with a judge, although you have abolished his duties? Again, pursuing the gentleman's own case, if part of a law can be repealed, and a particular district and judge put down, what is it that arrests your power, as to all the districts, and the whole corps of judges?
[Here Mr. Jona. Mason rose to explain; and said the gentleman had misunderstood him. The idea he intended to convey was, that if congress had power to put down one judge or one district, they had power to put down all the courts and judges; but that they had no power to do either.]
Mr. Breckinridge said, he was sorry he had misunderstood the gentleman; he had so noted his observation; but he would then beg leave to notice an observation of the gentleman from New-York; which applies to this part of the subject. That gentleman has admitted, that you may new model your courts for the benefit of the people; but you cannot affect the judges; for they are in (to use his expression) under the constitution; and he contends that not only the 1st sec. of the 3d art. is imperative, but also the 8th sec. of 1st art. which gives to congress the "power to constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court." This last section gives to congress the power also to pass bankrupt laws; naturalization laws, tax laws, &c. &c. Are all these powers imperative also? And after you have established a post road, passed a bankrupt law, or a tax law, are they all irrepealable and are all the officers created by them in also under the constitution? The same construction applies to all; and shews them all to be discretionary powers. But this modification is to be for the benefit of the people. Can it be for the benefit of the people never to abolish courts? Two instances have been already cited. And what principle is it, which ought to force to accurate legislators in enacting, modifying or repealing any law, but the good of the people? Gentlemen really argue as if they considered courts made for the judges and not for the people.
Suppose this subject could be discussed by the people and the judges, what would be the language of each. The people would say, these additional courts are totally useless. The judges would reply, (if they held the same opinion, that the gentlemen in opposition do) that they are not useless, for they tend to inspire terror and keep men honest: The people alledge there is no business for them to transact: The judges answer, that the country is increasing fast in population and there will be business perhaps bye and bye: The people contend they ought not to incur an expence without some advantage: Their honors reply, it amounts to but one cent a man, and is not worth growling about: The people however declare their determination to abolish these courts as things for which they have no use: The judges then reply, in the language of the gentleman from New-York, "You are a den of robbers, your constitution is gone, and all men will fly your shores."
The gentleman from Massachusetts admits, the president has power to remove at pleasure all officers appointed by him but the judges, but does not see the force of my application of it.—I apply it in this way: Although those officers have a right to hold their offices at the will of the president, and the legislature cannot remove them during the continuance of their offices, yet the legislature can remove without the will of the president, by abolishing their offices. In case, for example, the excise law is repealed, what will become of the supervisors, and other officers created by that law? They will go out with the law; for an extinguishment of their duties will necessarily carry with it an extinction of their offices, whether the president wills it or not.
But a judge stands on more independent ground. He shall not be removed at the will of the president, nor be starved out by the legislature. He shall be removed from the exercise of his duties for misbehavior only, whilst exercising those duties: and during the continuance of his office, or in other words, his duties, the legislature shall not diminish the consideration annexed to those duties. His independence and honesty in office, therefore, are sufficiently secured against executive or legislative influence.
But the gentleman from New-York has racked his very fertile imagination to render familiar to us by comparisons, this wonderful and unprecedented thing; an officer without an office, a judge without a court, without duties, or without authority. He has likened him to a bridge, to a boat, to the national debt, and to an 8 per cent usurer. I will spare your gravity, and that of the committee, by refraining to examine the similarity as to the first two objects. What likeness is there between the salary of a judge, and the national debt? The national debt is a vested right; a right not accruing for services which may be rendered, but for services or money actually rendered or advanced. It is a debt, the consideration for which we have acknowledged to have received, and for the discharge of which we have pledged ourselves. It is a debt we are under moral obligations to pay, having previously received from the creditors its equivalent. Here stands the case of the salary, which is said to be opposite? Is that a vested right? Is that a debt for which the community have received an equivalent? It is neither. It is a debt which from its nature the public faith cannot stand pledged to pay, except so far only as the services actually performed require; it being dependant in its very creation on services to be performed; and which may be dispensed with when they are no longer wanted.
Is the case of the 8 per cent usurer more opposite? If the occasions of men induce them to resort to the boards of usurers, it is a voluntary act; they know its intent and consequences, and they ought in justice to be bound by their contract. Although Shylock may not be entitled to his pound of flesh, yet he is intitled to his usury and interest. And the case of the petty usurer stands on the same ground, with all these important usurers, who loaned at 8 per cent their money and flock to the United States, during her late preparations to fight the French.
The gentleman from New-York expresses his utter astonishment at the idea of judges and courts being too numerous; and refers to the example of Alfred, whose courts and judges were so numerous, and well organized, and had imposed such terror into his kingdom, that a purse of gold might lay in safety on the high-way. I remember reading long since of these hundred courts, courts leet, courts baron, &c. and if I am not mistaken, sir, he had a court of chivalry too, of much about the same value and advantage in his kingdom, as your additional courts are here. But if the gentleman meditates such extension and perfection in our judicial system, why not resort to the fountain head and take example from Moses, who is certainly a higher authority. He, sir, established his rulers or judges, of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens; and men too, says the book, hating covetousness; that is, I presume, having no salaries. But I take it, that both Alfred and Moses had a wider range in legislation than this senate, and therefore their regulations cannot be very applicable.
The gentlemen both from New-York and Connecticut have pressed upon us the policy of increasing courts and judges, to prevent crimes and wrongs, to protect the weak against the strong, and to insure virtue and humanity among the people. I deny both the proposition and inference drawn from it, in the extent contended for. From whence, I ask, do gentlemen draw their authority for such extensive legislation? From whence arises their power to pass these laws to prevent crimes, to protect the weak against the strong and to punish the guilty? Not from the constitution, I will safely affirm; for under it, but 3 or 4 species of crimes are punishable by federal laws: to wit, treason, piracies and felonies on the high seas, offences against the laws of nations, and counterfeits of the securities or coin of the United States. These constitute their powers on the subject of criminal jurisprudence; and are the sum total of our powers, written or unwritten; unless indeed the gentlemen draw some of their authority for their extensive notions of legislation, from the lex non scripta of Alfred's country, which I am told some gentlemen consider as attaching itself to our constitution. But admitting the proposition to be true, is the conclusion drawn from it well founded, that a multiplicity of courts and judges inspire terror and prevent litigation, and the commission of wrongs. I confess I am now for the first time to learn, that to inspire terror and prevent wrongs, you ought to embody an army of judges; and that to support or discourage litigation, you ought to embody another set of men, their general attendants, called lawyers,
who it seems, for the first time, are become peace makers; who with their robes and green bags will strike such terror into the nation, that a purse of gold may hang in safety by the high way. Halcyon days, these indeed, which are promised from a continuance of these judges; and if not visionary, I could then answer the gentleman from Massachusetts in the affirmative, that the millennium was indeed approaching.
The necessity for numerous courts and judges is also insisted on by suggestions that foreign invasions may happen, & that insurrections may also happen; that consequently great revenues will be wanting, and consequently numerous courts to enforce their collection. This is reasoning at a very great distance indeed from the subject, to prove its utility. But I am willing to indulge the gentleman and admit, that invasion will happen, and annually if he chooses, and insurrections quarterly; I will then contend, that until the population of America amounts to five times the present number; we shall not stand in need of as many judges as there now are, to administer justice on all the subjects which may rightfully under the present constitution be carried to federal adjudication.
The gentleman from New-York has favored us with another argument on this head, not addressed to the fears, but to the pride of the people, and asks, if the paltry additional expence ought to have any weight, when it cannot amount to more than one cent a man. Answer sir, that one cent a man will not to be sure oppress the people; but this is a very unfair way of appealing to the ability of the people, by shewing them, among the 1000 items which compose the aggregate of their business, what each man's proportion is, of one very small item. But as that honorable gentleman has told us, "that he considers the government relying on the reason of man as a despotism ," I should suppose with due deference to him, that the better way would be, to govern this machine man, to increase the army rather than the judiciary. Twenty thousand regulars, properly disposed of, would make us as honest as Alfred's subjects, and would cost us only 3 or 4 dollars a head.—This too is a kind of terror familiar in countries like Alfred's: but an army of judges is a new experiment, as we have been told this law is; and was reserved for the politicians of these our enlightened times.
Much has been said about the hardship which will arise to judges, who have quitted lucrative employments and taken seats on the bench, considering them as permanent provisions. One gentleman describes them as a venerable set of men bending under the weight of years, and not possessing the agility of post-boys: another, as men who have been induced to abandon the active and lucrative pursuits of the law. Take them as portrayed by either gentleman. If they are men of the first description, there can be little hardship in permitting them to return to that state of tranquility and retirement, from which they must have been no doubt reluctantly drawn; and to which their age and infirmities must again invite their return. If they are men of the last description, can they not readily return to those same active & lucrative pursuits which they have quitted? Have their talents and faculties, for the pursuits to which they were bred, been palsied, by a seat for a single year on the bench? and can that single year's derangement of their affairs be retributed only, by a pension of 2000 dollars a year for life? Such calculations and demands must illy comport with the character of those of the first description; and they are poor compliments indeed to the talents, legal acquirements, and legal standing of the second. But is there no hardship on the side of the community? Is it enough for them to be told by these judges, true it is, you have established an useless set of courts; but we have been lucky enough to get into office, the constitution protects us there, and get us out if you can? I doubt, sir, this reasoning would not be satisfactory to men possessing common honesty and the ordinary notions of right and wrong. It would not, however, be taken as a satisfactory set off against the 50,000 dollars annually.
The gentleman from New-York has contended strongly against the idea which he apprehends is entertained, of increasing the power and influence of the states, by lessening your federal courts.
I hold no such idea. It was a surmise of the gentleman. I wish the federal government to possess and exercise all its rightful powers, but no more. I wish the states also, to be left in the exercise of theirs. I do not wish to see every thing valuable extracted from them. I do not wish to see all possible subjects drawn into the great vortex of federal legislation and adjudication. I do not in short wish, as some gentlemen may do, to see one mighty consolidated sovereignty collected from, and erected on the ruins of all the state sovereignties.
It is now growing late, and the committee must be fatigued; I will trespass very little longer on them. Many of the observations, which I have answered, were it is true, very
foreign and irrelevant to the subject. They were, it is true, but the gleanings, as the gentlemen, who have preceded me left little for me to answer.
But, permit me for a single moment to draw gentlemen's attention to the real merits of this question, and ask, have the arguments been fairly and satisfactorily answered by the gentlemen in the opposition; arguments which went to the many difficulties and absurdities which would grow out of the constitution, under the construction against which I contended; which went to shew, that the constitution could only be fairly and rationally construed to secure the independency of a judge in office, during the continuance of that office; which went to shew, that the power of congress to erect inferior courts; was discretionary and was therefore necessarily accompanied by the power to abolish them; that by the construction contended for, sinecure offices for life would be created under the constitution; that the absurdity of an officer without an office, would exist; that the power of legislation on judicial subjects, would in effect be arrested; indeed destroyed; and that it would produce the extraordinary phenomenon in our government, of an officer not amenable to your laws, to your constitution, or to the people themselves? I appeal to gentlemen, if these have been fairly and satisfactorily answered?—They have not.
Mr. BALDWIN of Georgia, observed, that in the seat with which he had been honored by the senate during the preceding part of this debate, his duty had obliged him to pay particular attention to gentlemen who rose to offer their opinions: he had felt himself pleased and instructed by one of the most luminous discussions, in both views of the question, that he had ever witnessed, which he hoped and trusted would guide the senate to a useful and proper result. In this late stage of the debate it could not be expected of him to be able to contribute any thing new or important. But as gentlemen had so generally thought proper to express their opinions, he would not withhold a public declaration of his own.
He thought the range of this question and the field of argument had been made more extensive than strictly related to the question; but they might be useful in leading to a final determination on the subject of the resolution now under consideration. The remarks that had been made of improper motives and designs, on the one side and on the other, either that there was an intention to urge forward the powers of the government, till it was carried altogether beyond its principles, or that there was an inveterate system of opposition to it, which sought nothing less than its overthrow, he should take no notice of, as they had already been extended farther than he had wished. His respect for worthy gentlemen, with the greater part of whom he had so long labored in our public councils, his respect for the people whom they represented, and for the state legislatures who had on this occasion preferred them to their fellow citizens, it is to be presumed, from full experience of their talents and virtues, forbade him to entertain any doubt of their desire to promote the best interests of their country, and to preserve our excellent constitution, which they are all sworn to support. If at any time observations different from these escaped him, he hoped they would be considered as the suggestions of his own infirmity, and not the result of deliberate reflection. His own general opinion on such subjects was, that it is the nature of all delegated power to increase: it has been very aptly said, to be like the screw in mechanics; it holds all it gains, and every turn gains a little more; the power keeps constantly accumulating, till it becomes absolutely insupportable, and then falls in ruins of tremendous crash, and the accumulation begins again; so that the history of civil society is but a general view of these vast waves, following each other, oftentimes in dreadful succession. That this was the tendency of society, he thought appeared in some measure from our own short history, whether viewed in relation to our State or federal governments; several of them had already made considerable advances in this course; he knew of none of them that had declined. Though he hoped and trusted, that this fatal progression would be slower in our country, than it had ever been before on the face of the earth, and that it would allow to us many ages of great political happiness, yet he did not expect it would be found in the end, to be an exception to his general remark. He alluded to several instances in the federal government, and observed generally, that as we were now in the 15th year under the present constitution, as we had been 13 years under the old system of the articles of confederation, he thought it useful in our reflections to make a comparison between them: during the first period of 13 years the federal government, as it was called, possessed neither legislative nor judicial power, nor any revenue at all; they were not able even to form their own body by compelling the attendance of their members; they attended or were absent as they pleased. Their ideas of the encroachments that it was

necessary to make on the powers that were then in the possession of the State governments appeared to have been very different from ours; they carried on a long and obstinate war, and as they supposed, had nearly finished a settlement of their accounts; and yet their was much less complaint of a want of power, uneasiness and struggles for more, at the close of that first period of 13 years, than at the present time. He should not enlarge on this view of the subject; when he saw that he was speaking in the assembly of the most ancient statesmen of our country, he knew that though he barely glanced at the ideas, their own recollections would present them in all their extent. The observations that had been made before by gentlemen on this view, had been so general, that he could only meet and qualify them by other general observations: he thought they did not furnish a foundation to apprehend an overthrow of the government.
The resolution now under consideration proposes to reconsider and repeal the new judiciary law passed last session; it does not follow that this is an effort of a general plan of destruction, as applied to our federal government: all public bodies must at some time review their own proceedings; while the maxim remains true that it is the lot of human nature to err, this must be the case; parliamentary assemblies have provisions for reconsidering their questions, and courts of justice for granting new trials.
The first and most natural source of argument that presents itself on such occasions is, the circumstances in which the act took place; to enquire whether there was any surprise or unfairness, not according to principle and customary form. Gentlemen have had the candor several times to acknowledge, and it was very fresh in his own recollection, that this was the case on the passage of the law, which the motion proposes to repeal; that it was very generally believed at the time not to possess an actual majority of the votes of the other House, and therefore every proposed amendment was rejected by its friends in the Senate, as they did not consider it safe to send it back open to any question in the House of Representatives. He instance the proposed amendment to strike out Bairdstown, the place fixed by the law for the court in Kentucky, which was acknowledged to be a proper amendment, and afterwards introduced in a supplemental law; he said he was himself now acting under an impression that that law never did unite here in its favor an actual majority of votes according to the rules of the Senate and of the constitution. He then read the rule of the Senate which forbids a Senator to vote on a question where he is interested, and a clause in Sec. 6. Art. 1. of the Constitution which prohibits a Senator or Representative from making an office to hold it himself: he referred also to the settled principle in the investigation of truth, that a person's relation of a common matter of fact in a question of a few shillings value, could not be relied on, if he had even a remote interest in the result of it. He hoped his assurances would be accepted, that he did not make these remarks to excite any unpleasant sensations; he wished to avoid them; he touched them as slightly as he could, giving them their proper place in the argument; he was sensible they did not prove that law to be a bad one; but they formed the first and the strongest reason why the subject should be reconsidered, which was the main object of the present motion; for it was open to all amendments in its progress.
Another obvious source of argument, he said, on this question of repeal, is the comparative merit between this new judiciary law and the old one, which will be restored, if this is repealed, with such other provisions as may be thought necessary. The whole of the discussion at the last session was on this ground; it is familiar to us all; it was then ample and convincing, so as to produce the effect which has been acknowledged; no doubt it would do the same if repeated at this time; it is to be presumed the effect of it is not lost; to pursue it in all its detail on this occasion would make the discussion altogether too prolix and tedious. There were, however, two or three points in the comparison, he begged leave a little to dwell upon. 1. In taking a general look at the two systems the strongest point of distinction, which seizes the first view, is, that in the old system the same judges hold the supreme court here, and a court in each of the States, with the exception of the State over the mountains: in the new system, now proposed to be repealed, this is not the case; the courts in the several States are held by different judges. This had ever appeared to him a radical and vital failure in the new system; it deprives the judges of the opportunity of a full knowledge of local laws and usages, and destroys the possibility of uniformity: it is also a main artery of healthful circulation in the body politic. In giving a satisfactory administration of a government over a country of this vast extent, the great object must be to avoid the necessity of dragging the people from the remote extremes, the distance of thousands of miles, to the seat of our government, or far from their homes, where they cannot have the usual advantages in courts of justice. While two of the judges of the supreme court held a court in each state, this was almost entirely avoided, except in some of the largest states. The suits were rarely determined at the first court; at the second court the judges were considered as bringing the sense of the supreme court on the subject; it seemed to give as satisfactory a conclusion to the business as if the parties had been themselves before the supreme court. Though gentlemen all appear to submit to
the force of this argument, yet they suppose they defeat it by the vague and general declaration that experience has proved to be impracticable; that we should have no more venerable judges; that men must be appointed for their agility rather than their wisdom, &c. He averred experience had determined so such thing; very venerable judges had gone thro' that duty from the beginning of the government, without any apparent injury to their constitutions, with as few resignations as ordinarily take place among state judges, and in fact with less bodily labor than is required of many members of congress, for a much smaller compensation; he thought experience proved that men equal to the labor, and also well fitted for the office might be found, rather than give up so indispensable a provision, especially as under the present motion additional provisions may be made to render the system more practicable and less laborious. The change that had been made, was no doubt, a great relief to the judges; but we have other and more numerous constituents whose relief must also be attended to.
2. Another strong point in the comparative view of the two systems is, that the new law, now proposed to be repealed, attempts to draw off more business from the state courts to the federal courts. When gentlemen talk of expediency, may they not be asked, what is the expediency of that measure? Will it make a more convenient and complete organization? When they talk of carrying justice to the door of every man, may they not be asked whether that is most perfectly carrying justice to the door of every man? His situation in the former part of the debate was such that his duty would not permit him to take notes of what was then said, but if he had the arguments of gentlemen on this head before him, he should be pleased in applying it to every one of them to see how they would appear to defeat themselves by the application of this principle. This, said he, goes directly to the great defect in the theory of federal government, which has at all times given uneasiness apprehensions to its best friends respecting the final success of this vast and benevolent experiment in government. The idea of a continent uniting under a general government, which should settle general regulations, and do away the most common causes of war, is not a thought so much out of the ordinary subjects of reflection as to require any inventive or profound genius to call it into view. It is readily conceived that the eastern continent, as well as this western, might have often reflected on the practicability of the vast experiment; the great discouragement which has probably prevented it, has been that the immense and unwieldy machinery which would be necessary to carry it on, to administer its laws, and manage its money transactions, with tolerable intelligence and fidelity, and keep up the great vital circulation, is not within the compass of human faculties and endowments. If our fails it will be from that cause; its wisest and best friends appear always to have been aware of it, and therefore have, as far as possible, directed it to a few great and general regulations, which seemed indispensable, and which were least difficult in their operation; but that it should be put to ordinary business, then well done by states, as though in its nature better suited to it than ordinary governments, had always appeared to him to be the most un-promising direction that could be given to it. He considered that as the strongest possible objection to the new judiciary law now proposed to be repealed, that it was unnecessarily drawing the business from the states, where it was as well lodged, and probably as well conducted as in any government on earth, to the federal establishment, where, if it was possible to conduct it at all, it was not possible to conduct it so well and so much to the satisfaction of the people, for whom alone governments are instituted.
The 3d source of argument which he should notice was the document No. 8, sent by the executive. As this had already been the principal topic of argument to several gentlemen, and had been placed in so irresistible a point of view, in support of the proposed resolution, he should add but a few words upon it. It is said the document is incorrect; it is sufficiently correct for all the purposes of the argument, which depends not on there being three or four more or less suits in a particular place, but to show that the old judiciary system was perfectly sufficient for all the business, and that the business was actually decreasing when the system was extended. To this the document is perfectly sufficient and conclusive. On this it has been observed, that there being but little business and that decreasing, is so far from being an objection to the system, that it is the best argument in its favor; but this proves the perfection of the old judiciary system, which was the cause of it, and is now proposed to be restored, and not of the new which is yet scarcely got into operation. If the decrease of business proved the necessity of the further extent of the system, in the new judiciary law, the continuing to decrease which appears since that time, proves that the system ought now to be still further extended. (To be continued.)
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SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE FIRST SESSION,
Begun and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday, the Seventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and one.
AN ACT
To repeal certain acts respecting the organization of the Courts of the United States; and for other purposes.
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act of Congress passed on the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and one, entitled "An act to provide for the more convenient organization of the courts of the United States," from and after the first day of July next, shall be, and is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the act passed on the third day of March one thousand eight hundred and one, entitled "An act for altering the times and of places holding certain courts therein mentioned, and for other purposes;" from and after the said first day of July next, shall be, and is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the acts and parts of acts, which were in force before the passage of the aforesaid two acts, and which by the same were either amended, explained, altered, or repealed, shall be, and hereby are, after the first day of July next, revived, and in as full and complete force and operation, as if the said two acts had never been made.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all actions, suits, procsess, pleadings and other proceedings, of what nature or kind soever, depending or existing in any of the circuit courts of the United States, or in any of the district courts of the United States, acting as circuit courts, or in any of the additional district courts, which were established by the aforesaid act of Congress, passed on the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and one, shall be and hereby are, from and after the said first day of July next, continued over to the circuit courts, and to the district courts, and to the district courts acting as circuit courts respectively, which shall be first thereafter holden in, and for the respective circuits and districts, which are revived and established by this act, and to be proceeded in, in the same manner as they would have been, had they originated prior to the passage of the said act, passed on the thirteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and one.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all writs and procsess, which have issued, or may issue before the said first day of July next, returnable to the circuit courts or to any district court acting as a circuit court, or any additional district court established by the aforesaid act passed the thirteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and one, shall be returned to the next circuit court, or district court, or district court acting as circuit court re-established by this act; and shall be proceeded on therein, in the same manner, as they could, had they been originally returnable to the circuit courts, and district courts acting as circuit courts, hereby revived and established.
NAHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED, March 8, 1802. TH: JEFFERSON, President of the United States.
DANVILLE DISTRICT, to wit: January Term, 1802.
Nathan Huston, and Joseph F. Lewis, } Complainants. Against Spencer Griffin, Defendant. IN CHANCERY.
THE defendant, having failed to enter his appearance herein, agreeable to law 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 complainants, by their counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here, on the third day of the next May Term, and answer the complainants' bill, and that a copy of the order be forthwith inserted in the Kentucky Gazette for two months successively; another copy posted up at the court house door, and a third copy published at the Danville meeting house door, some Sunday immediately after divine service. A Copy. Teste, WILLIS GREEN. C. D. D. C.
December 8th, 1801.
TAKEN up by Jeremiah Wilson, a bay filly, three years old, with a star in her forehead, no brand, thirteen hands one inch high, appraised to 9l. A Copy. Teste. EDMUND SEARCY. D. C. W. C.

A LIST LETTERS
Remaining in the Post Office, Lexington, on the 31st of Marb, 1802, which if not taken out by the 30th of June next, will be sent to the General Post Office as dead letters.
A.—Richard Ashton, Lexington; Eliza Allen, near ditto Fayette county, on Hickman waters; Aga Adman, care of James Brown; Anne Askin, care of Mr. Brownlee; Adw. Armstrong, care of Messrs. Saml. & Geo. Trotter; Geo. Adams, Lexington, 3.
B.—Jos. Beard, Lexington; Jno. C. Bayless, do. 2; David Brown, do. Wm. Brown, near do. George Brownlee, do. Anth'y. Blest, do. 3; Rebecca Bain do. Stephen Barrett, to the care of the Post Master, do. John Blyth; Valentine Barnard, Fayette cy. David Barkley; Mr. Beallart, at Col. Hart's rope works, Lexington; Thos. Belt, Lexington; Benj. Berry near do. care of Maj. Wagon; capt. John Bell, Fayette 3. capt. Thos. Bell, near Lexington.
C.—John Chiles, esq. near Lexington; John Calhoon, near do. Alex Colwell, do. col. Marquis Calmes, near do. Thomas Clarke, Crofs Plains, Fayette, cy. 2; Tho. Cavins, near Lexington; Allen Campbell, near do. Thos. Cox, South Elk horn; James Cord, care of Robt. Campbell, Lexington, 2; the rev. Mr. Chayer, catholic missionary, near do. Tho. Cavins, near do. Benony Ceshow, Fayette cy. Chas. Clarke, Lexington; Walter Carroll, do. Jas. Crutcher, Jessamine cy. Elizabeth Curry, Fayette cy. Delia Cromwell, Lexington; Danl. Caldwell, near do. Jas. B. Crawford, do.
D.—Adrian Devinport Lexington; Geo. Dodds, care of Mr. Key, Louisville; Jno. Daniel Lexington; rev. Mr. Jacob Dotsman, do. 2; Geo. Durret, Fayette cy. J. J. Dufour Lexington.
E.—Hugh Emmison near Lexington; Rolfe Eldridge, jun. do.
F.—Jno. or Jas. Fleming, Lexington; Leo. Fleming, near do. Jos. Freeland, care of R. Wilson, esq. near do. Millesent Fowler, Manchester; Leo. Fleming, Lexington.
G.—James Gray, near Lexington, 2; Jno. Gray, do. Jno. Gregg, care of Mr. Todd, cotton manufacturer; capt. Wm. Grant, Lexington; col. John Grant, do. capt. Benj. Graver, do.
H.—Andw. Holmes, Lexington; Jos. Harkins, do. Geo. Hunter, near do. care of Benj. Parish; George Hamilton, Kentucky, America; Penelope Hart near Lex. 2; Abel Headington, do. care of Saml. Ayres; Danl. Huffert, near do. David Huston do. Jas. Harrison, do. Benj. Howard, att'y. at law, Fayette; Pary Humphreys, Lexington; Thos. Hawes, Georgetown, Scott cy. maj. Adam Hoope, Lexington, 2; Hezekiah Harrison, esq. near do. 3.
I.—Alexander Irvine, care of Thos. Irvine, near Lexington; Richd. Jones, near do. Ephraim January, Jessamine cy. Wm. Irvin near Lexington; James B. January do. 3.
K.—Ro. Kindall, near Lexington, care of Alex. Parker; Jno. Knox, do. care of Mr. Todd, merchant; Tho. Kirtley, near do.
L.—Wm. Leavy, merchant; Jacob E. Lehre, Lexington; James Loney, do. 2; Wm. Ledlie, near do. Henry Lankert, do. Barnard Linglefelter, Fayette cy. Asa K. Lewis, student, Lexington; Wm. Lytle esq. do. Saml. Lewis, near do.
M.—Wm. McFarland, to the care of maj. Morrison; John McKinney, Lexington; Mr. M'Gowan, near do. maj. Jno. Morrison, Hickman C. K. Jno. Morris, Fayette cy. James Millegan, care of Geo. Tegarden, Lexington; David Mitchell, Cain run, Fayette cy. A. M'Glaughlin, Gardner, Lexington, care of Maj. Morrison; Mary Ann Marshall, care of H. Marshall; maj. Jas. Morrison, Lexington; Jno. Mason, do. Zach. Marigum, care of Doct. Freeman, do. Ann McGregor, do. Charles McPheter, near do. col. James McDowell, near do. Nich. Morgan Fayette cy. cd. David Meade, Lexington; Geo. Mansel, do. Jno. M'Dowell near do. capt. Tho. M'Murdie, do.
N.—Wm. Niblock jr. Crofs plains; John Nancarrow, Lexington, 2;
O.—Thomas Ogletree, cont. Lexington; Waller Overton, Fayette cy. 3.
P.—Henry Payle, esq. Fayette, cy. Col. Ro. Patterson, Lex. 9. Jos Patterson, Fayette cy. care of col. Trotter. Ro. Poag, Fayette cy. Jno. Peake, Ky. Fielder Parker, near Lex. Mr. Page, at col. Meade's, Jno. Parish, Lex. Ira Percival, do. Mary Pickett, near do.
R.—Jas. Reed, Fayette cy. Geo. Robinson, Ky. care of rev. Mr. Marshall, Alex. Rofs, Lex. Jno. Right, near Brian's station; Ninan Riley, Fayette cy. Jas. Russel, Instructor of an Academy near Lex. Thos. Ramsey, S. Elk horn, 2. Sufannah Runian, Lex. Wm. Robertson, Clarke cy. Wm. Rinson, Lex. Jno. Rogers, Fayette, capt. Jos. Rogers, near Lex. 4. Capt. Jno. C. Richardson, near do. Mr. Wright, do. Gen. Wm. Russell, Fayette.
S.—Peyton Short esq. near Lex. Thos. Simpson, care of Jno. Arthur, Merchant do. Sufanna Shack, do. Jos. Smith, student, care of rev. J. Welch, do. Jas. H. Stewart, do. 3. Martin Sidner, Fayette cy. Henry Sidner, Lex. Mr. Sullivan, Surveyor do. Francis Stall, do.
T.—Ro. Taylor, Fayette cy. col. Stephen Temple, Lex. Wm. Taylor, fuller, Howard's creek; Jno. Taylor, Lex. Tatman Truitt, Scott cy. Michl. Troy, Lex. David Taylor, Rockbridge cy. Mr. Tibbats Lex. The Hon. B. Thruston, do.
V.—Jno. Vanpraddle, Lex. Jas. Vinson, do.
W.—Hallett Mitchell Winslow, Fayette cy. David Williamson, Lex. J. Wier do. Jas. Wilson, Woodford cy. care of H. Marshall, 2. Wm. Welsh, care of Jona. M'Guire Lex. Jas. Wilson, schoolmaster Scott cy. Alex. Wright, care of John Anderson, Lex. Rev. Jas. Welsh, do. Jos. Williams, do. Hon. Caleb Wallace, near do. 2. Mr. Warfield, near do. capt. Robt. Wilson, Fayette cy. maj. Jas. Ware, near Lex.
Y.—Jno. Young, Lex. Philip Yeizer & Son, do.
Z.—Fred. Zimmerman, Lex. JOHN W. HUNT, P. M.
NEW & CHEAP STORE.
Lewis Sanders, & Co.
HAVE received from Philadelphia, and are now opening a choice and general assortment of
MERCHANDIZE,
Consisting of DRY GOODS, viz.
 Superfine Cloths,  Velvets and Fancy Cords,  India Muslins, which they would sell low for cash, by the original package.  Figured, plain & glazed cambric do.  Tambores & plain Jacquet do.  Ditto Book ditto,  A choice assortment of Chintzes & Calicos of the newest and most fashionable patterns;  India silk, Romals & Bandanas,  Irish Linen, sold very low by the piece;  Luteflings, Sattins & Saranets,  Marseilles Waistcoating,  A large assortment of Umbrellas, &c.  A very general assortment of Hardware, German, Crawley & English Blister steel, Vices,  A general assortment of Saddlery &c.  China, Glass, Queen's & Tin ware.  Groceries,  Coffee, Teas,  Spices, Dye Stuffs,  Best Red Bark for sale by the pound or larger quantity;  Port Wine,  Bengall, Spanish and French Indigo,  Anatto,  Cotton and Wool Cards, &c. &c. 
Having laid in the above assortment on such terms as will enable them to give greater bargains than has heretofore been given in this place, they flatter themselves that the purchaser will find it his interest to give them a call. No credit on any terms whatever.
Lexington, 2d April, 1802.
VALUABLE MEDICINES, AT REDUCED PRICES.
THE public are respectfully informed, that the PATENT MEDICINES hitherto in the hands of messrs. MACBEE & POYZER, will in future be sold by Mr. NATHANIEL HART, only, in Lexington, messrs. M. & P. having relinquished the agency in his favor. A fresh supply of the following are received from LEE & Co. Baltimore.
DR. HAMILTON'S ELIXIR.
A sovereign remedy for Colds, obstinate Coughs, Asthma, fore Throats and approaching Consumption. To Parents who have Children afflicted with the HOOPING COUGH.
This discovery is of the first magnitude, as it affords immediate relief, checks the progress, and in a short time entirely removes the most cruel disorder to which children are liable. The Elixir is so perfectly agreeable, and the dose so small that no difficulty arises in taking it.
INFALLIBLE AGUE AND FEVER DROPS,
For the Cure of Agues, remittent and intermittent Fevers.
Thousands can testify of their being cured by these drops, after the bark and every other medicine has proved ineffectual; and not one in an hundred had occasion to take more than one, numbers not half a bottle.
Extract of a letter from Dr. Henry C. Soper, Kent County, Delaware.
"I have given the ague drops to a number of patients this fall, and with constant success; in some obstinate cases they acted like a charm, the diseases yielding in a day or two to this remedy, after resisting the barks for months, and when they had been thrown in the largest doses."
TOOTH-ACHE DROPS.
The only remedy yet discovered which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe instances.
DR. HAHN'S TRUE AND GENUINE GERMAN CORN PLAISTER.
For corns speedily removing them root and branch without giving pain.
DR. HAMILTON'S GRAND RESTORATIVE.
Is recommended as an invaluable medicine for the speedy relief and permanent cure of the various complaints which result from dissipated pleasures - Juvenile indiscretions - residence in climates unfavorable to the constitution - the immoderate use of tea - frequent intoxication, or any other destructive intemperance - the unwholesome or excessive use of mercury - the diseases peculiar to females at a certain period of life - bad lyings in, &c. &c.
And it is proved by long and extensive experience to be absolutely unparalleled in the cure of Violent cramps in the stomach and back, Nervous disorders, Consumption, Indigestion, Looseness of spirits, Melancholy, Loss of appetite, Relaxations, Impurities of the blood, Involuntary emissions, Hysterical affections, Obstinate gleet, Inward weakness, Fluor albus, &c.
The principal operation of this remedy is in the stomach, restoring the digestive powers and sending forth from that organ new health and vigour into every part of the system; it enriches and purifies the blood without endangering it; braces without fatiguing too violently the nervous system; strengthens the secretory vessels and the general habit; bring back the muscular fibres to their natural and healthy tone, and restores the nutrition which immoderate evacuations have destroyed and whose loss had thrown the whole frame into languor and debility.
In cases of extremity, where the long prevalence and obstinacy of disease has brought on a general impoverishment of the system, excessive debility of the whole frame, and a wasting of the flesh which no nourishment or cordial could repair, a perseverance in the use of this medicine has performed the most astonishing cures.
HAMILTON'S ESSENCE AND EXTRACT OF MUSTARD.
A safe and effectual remedy for rheumatism, gout, palsy, sprains and bruises, white swellings, old strains, and relaxations, numbness and weakness of the joints, stiffness of the neck, pains of the side, head ache, swelled faces, frozen limbs, and every similar complaint. It prevents chil-bias, or chopped hands, and the ill effects of getting wet or damp in the feet.
The extract is celebrated for removing cold and windy complaints in the stomach and bowels, flying pains, and other spasmodic affections.
The testimony of thousands, and daily experience sufficiently prove the superiority of the above medicines over all others, in the cure of the maladies we have enumerated.
Letter from Dr. Weatherburn. Wythe county, Virg. October 7, 1801.
Gentlemen, I purchased at your shop the preparations you call Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mustard, which I believe has perfectly removed a chronic rheumatism (of that kind named Sciatica, or of the hip joint) under which I had laboured for a long time, and which had baffled every article in Materia Medica, and every mode of treatment received into practice for the cure of this obstinate disease.
If you think this letter may be useful, you are at liberty to make it public.
P. WEATHERBURN.
Messrs. R. LEE & Co.
DR. HAHN'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS.
The operation of these Pills is perfectly mild, so as to be used with safety by persons in every situation, and of every age.
They are excellently adapted to carry off superfluous bile and prevent its morbid secretions - to restore and amend the appetite to procure a free perspiration, and thereby prevent colds which are often attended with fatal consequences - a dose never fails to remove a cold, if taken on its first appearance. They are celebrated for removing habitual costiveness - sickness at the stomach, and severe head aches - and ought to be taken by all persons on a change of climate.
PERSIAN LOTION.
So celebrated among the fashionable throughout Europe is an invaluable cosmetic, perfectly innocent and safe, from corrosive and replent minerals, (the basis of other lotion) and of unparalleled efficacy in preventing and removing blemishes of the face and skin of every kind, particularly freckles, pimples, inflammatory redness, scurf, tetter, ring worms, sun-burns, prickly heat, premature wrinkles, &c. The Persian Lotion operates mildly, without impeding that natural insensible perspiration, which is essential to health, yet its effects are speedy and permanent, render the skin delicately soft and smooth, improving the complexion and restoring the bloom of youth.
DR. HAHN'S GENUINE EYE WATER.
A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eyes, whether the effect of natural weakness or of accident deflections of rheums, dullness, itching, and films on the eye, never failing to cure those maladies which frequently succeed the small pox, measles and fevers & wonderfully strengthening a weak sight - Hundreds have experienced its excellent virtues when nearly deprived of sight.
THE RESTORATIVE POWDER FOR THE TEETH AND GUMS.
This excellent preparation comforts and strengthens the gums, preserves the enamel from decay, and cleanses and whitens the teeth, absorbing all that acrimonious slime and foulness, which suffered to accumulate never fails to injure and finally ruin them.
THE DAMASK LIP SALVE,
Is recommended (particularly to the ladies) as an elegant and pleasant preparation for chopped and sore lips, and every blemish and inconvenience occasioned by colds, fevers, &c. speedily restoring a beautiful rosy colour and delicate softness to the lips.
THE ANODYNE ELIXIR
For the cure of all kinds of Head Ache.
FOR THE CURE OF VENEREAL COMPLAINTS.
The patent Indian Vegetable Specific, prepared by Dr. Leroux.
CHURCH'S COUGH DROPS.
HAMILTON'S WORM-DESTROYING LOZENGES.
Description of worms, and the symptoms by which they are known.
Worms which infest the human body, are chiefly of four kinds, viz the Teres, or large round worm, the Cucurbitina, or short flat white worm, the Ascarides or small narrow worm, and lastly, the Tania, or tape worm, so called from its resemblance to tape - this is often many yards long, and is full of joints - it is most hurtful, and most difficult to cure.
Among the symptoms attending worms, are, disagreeable breath, especially in the morning, bad and corrupted gums - itching in the nose and about the seat - convulsions and epileptic fits, and sometimes privation or speech - starting and grinding of the teeth in sleep - irregular appetite, sometimes loathing food, and sometimes voracious - purging, with slimy and lated stools - vomiting - large and hard belly - pains and sickness at the stomach - pains in the head and thighs with looseness of spirits - flow fever, with small and irregular pulse - a dry cough - excessive thirst - sometimes pale and unhealthy countenance, and sometimes the face bloated and flushed.
Persons afflicted with any of the above symptoms, should have immediate recourse to Hamilton's Worm Destroying Lozenges, which have been constantly attended with success in all complaints similar to those above described.
This medicine, which is innocent and mild, as it is certain and effectual in its operation, cannot injure the youngest infant, or the most delicate pregnant lady, should no worms exist in the body; but will, without pain or griping, cleanse the stomach and bowels, removing whatever is foul or offensive within, particularly that slimy humor from whence worms and many fatal disorders proceed.
Children generally take this medicine with eagerness, having a pleasing appearance and agreeable taste.
As upwards one hundred and twenty thousand persons of both sexes, and of every age, have received benefit from this extraordinary medicine, a multitude of certificates of cures may be seen, in addition to those already published.
A dose of this medicine given occasionally will effectually prevent the vomiting and purging of children, a dreadful disorder which annually destroys thousands of the infant part of our cities. It is likewise the mildest and most certain remedy known, and has restored to health and strength a great number when in an advanced stage of this fatal complaint - particular and plain instructions are given for every part of the necessary treatment in such cases.
Letter from Mr. Benj. Williams, No. 50, Baltimore street, two doors above South Gay street.
Gentlemen, I have a son six years of age, who for four years past has been generally in a very unhealthy state, particularly in the summer; frequently afflicted with alarming convulsion fits, the whole of his little frame waiting fast, his breath became sterted, an almost constant itching of the nose was excited, with other alarming symptoms. During the course of the above period, the advice and attendance of three of the most eminent physicians in Baltimore was successively procured. Each of these gentlemen in their turn declared worms to be the cause of his disorder, and exhausted their skill in attempts to expel them. pink root, steel filings, with a variety of other medicines were administered without the least success. It was once pronounced impossible for the child to live many hours. I had frequently heard of your Worm Destroying Lozenges, but like many others, did not think highly of so cheap a medicine, until a gentleman of my acquaintance (Mr. Wm. S. Moor) in whose family they had been used with good effect, advised me to make a trial of them. Accordingly gave my son a dose, agreeable to directions, which soon expelled eight large worms, some of them about 12 inches in length; a second dose brought away four more of similar size; a third dose being administered, no worm appeared. The child recovered, and now enjoys a good state of health.
BENJ. WILLIAMS.
Messrs. Richd. Lee, & Co.
THE SOVEREIGN OINTMENT FOR THE ITCH
Which is warranted an infallible remedy at one application, and may be used with perfect safety by pregnant women, or on infants a week old, not containing a particle of mercury, or any dangerous ingredient whatever, and is not accompanied with that tormenting smart which attends the application of other remedies.
CAUTION.
*** Those who value their Money and their health, and wish to procure the Genuine Medicines, will apply only as above.
BY LAST EVENING'S MAIL.
WASHINGTON (City) March 19.
The Executive has received authentic information that the trade between the United States and St. Domingo, except with Cape Francois and Port Republican, in that island, is for the present suspended.
The French frigate Bayonnaile has arrived at Baltimore, the captain whereof came on Wednesday last to this City. The Bayonnaile left St. Domingo 6 days later than our advices from Mr. Lear.
We learn that the French troops had met with no obstacles to their progress and that Christophe and Dessalines, the two chiefs, subordinate to Toussaint had been taken prisoners.
On the 17th of February, a cessation of hostilities was announced, which was to last for four days, when a general attack of the blacks was to take place throughout the whole extent of the island, unless the blacks submitted.
BALTIMORE, March 17.
Captain Howes, who arrived here on Thursday from Havanna, informs, that the day he failed, one of the French frigates which went out from France with the squadron to the West-Indies, arrived at Havanna. She was sent to demand of the Spaniards 11,000 troops, and provisions to assist in the reduction of St. Domingo. Several other French ships of war, were expected at Havanna to refit, and to take in provisions for the supply of the West India squadron. N. Y. Pap.
The house of representatives of the United States on the 15th March went into a committee of the whole, on the bill for repealing the internal taxes.
When Mr. Dennis from Maryland, moved to strike out the following words: "On refined sugars, licenses to retailers, sales at auction, pleasure carriages, and stamped vellum parchment and paper" The question was then taken on each of the articles separately, and all negatived.
Narwhorthy Hunter, a delegate from the Mississippi territory, died in the city of Washington on the 11th March.
Gaz. Edit.

SACRED TO THE MUSES.
SONG—for a Family Party.
HAIL the festive, joyous hour! Welcome ev'ry social power! Smooth, old TIME, thy furrow'd brow, Far hence be care and sorrow now: Love and friendship crown the day, Ev'ry heart shall own their sway.
Mem'ry bring the choicest stores; Fancy, threw thy brightest flow'rs; Hymen, God of chaste desires, Now trim thy lamp, and fan thy fires: Chorus— Love, &c.
Tell of childhood's playful years, Free from cares, and free from fears; Tell of youthful sports and wiles, And tender sighs, and wanton smiles Chorus— Love, &c.
Sing the parent's op'ning joys, Infant train of girls and boys, Rising virtues, growing charms, Wide love each kindred bosom warms: Chorus— Love, &c.
Sing the precious fruits matur'd, Firm affection, faith assur'd; Mutual kindness, mutual aid, Each debt of love by love repaid. Chorus— Love, &c.
Band of happy brothers hail! Joys like these can never fail; Mirth with all her frolic train, Shall echo back our joyous strain: Chorus— Love, &c.
ANECDO'E.
There dwelt at Vicenza, a notorious usurer, who was always declaiming against usury. One day he called on the parson of the parish, and desired him to preach of this vice. The preacher, who was acquainted with his character, asked him the reasons which induced him to make this singular request. "Mr. Rector," replied the usurer, "there are so many persons in this parish who follow my trade, that I can get nothing by it; but should your sermon correct and restrain this practice, people would then come to my house only."
JAMES MACCOUN, Has just received from Philadelphia, a large and well chosen assortment of MERCHANDIZE, of the latest importations from Europe, AND now opening at his Store on Main street, nearly opposite the Market house, which will be sold at the LOWEST PRICES FOR CASH. Also, from his Nail Manufactory, A constant supply of Cut and Hammered NAILS, of the best quality. Lexington, January 18, 1802.
I will either Sell or Rent, my HOUSES & LOTS In town, reserving a small piece in front of Mr. Reed's (the chair maker) shop, for an Office. IF I do not sell, I would make an allowance to any one who would rent for a term of years, for repairs and improvements. J. HUGHES.
NOTICE
HAVING removed my family to a farm in the neighborhood of Lexington, and intending still to do my business in town, I think it necessary to inform my clients that except during the sessions of the Court of Appeals, General Court, and Circuit Court of the United States for Kentucky and the Territories North-West of the Ohio, I shall attend at my office, in Lexington, every day, from nine o'clock in the morning, until one in the afternoon, at which time and place, all who have business with me must attend. J. HUGHES. Lexington, September 11th, 1801.
WAGON'S
R. BRADLEY RESPECTFULLY announces that he succeeds Major WAGON , in the commodious Brick House and Stables, which he lately occupied in this place, with a revision of assistants and servants, arranged to respective departments; which together with that peculiar respect shown himself while with Major Wagon, emboldens him to anticipate a patronage from GENTEL GUESTS, ONLY, as durable as his solicitude to please. Lexington, 15th Feb. 1802.
FRESH MEDICINE.
Just arrived from Philadelphia, at our shop, near the Stray-Pen, Lexington, and to be sold for CASH , Fine Linen, or Flax-Seed.
Also RED CLOVER SEED, FOR SALE.
ANDW. M'CALLA & Co.
WINCHESTER'S DIALOGUES, For sale at this office.
FOR SALE,
THE Property lately occupied in this town, by Mr. Arthur Thompson, and at present by Mr. Bellum, consisting of Two New Two Story FRAME HOUSES, lately finished, large and convenient Cellars, a large frame Stable and Kitchen, good Smoke House, and Three Lots belonging to the above premises. Also two hundred acres of GOOD QUALIFIED LAND, lying on the head of Salt River, about seven miles from this town; the title clear of every kind of dispute; the Land is well-watered, but entirely unimproved. A liberal credit will be given for the payment, and the whole amount will be received in Produce. The terms will be made known by application to Messrs. Cochrane & Thurby, merchants, of Philadelphia, or the subscriber, in Danville.
J. BIRNEY. Danville, 9th February, 1801
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD,
STRAYED from the subscriber's plantation in Shelby county in December last a BAY MARE, fifteen hands high, well made, six years old last spring, has four white feet, a blaze in her face, paces trots and canters, branded W W on the near shoulder and buttock, was with foal, when she went away.—Also, a BROWN HORSE, with a bob-tail, fourteen hands high, well made, seven or eight years old, trots and gallops, I do not recollect whether the horse was branded or not.—Whoever will deliver said mare and horse to Doct. W. Warfield in Fayette county, or to me in Shelby county, shall receive twenty dollars for each.
JOHN POPE. Nov. 1801. wwtw tf.
NOTICE.
PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT will be kept at the SIGN OF THE BUFFALOE, On Main street, in Lexington, opposite the Public square.
FOR SALE,
TWO STILLS & A BOILER, MADE of Copper, of superior quality. The terms will be made easy to the purchaser, and likely young Horses taken in payment. For further particulars application may be made to the Editor of this Paper. November 4, 1801
THE President and Directors of the Kentucky Insurance company, think it their duty to inform their fellow citizens and the public in general, that they are now organized, and ready to receive proposals to insure vessels or boats of every description, on their voyages up or down the Western waters, or at sea. Application may be made at their office in Lexington, accompanied with declaration of the shipper and certificate containing the name, burthen, dimensions and the goodness of the said vessel or boat, their being well found for the intended voyage, the bill of lading or manifest of the cargo, the port from which they sail and place of destination. Further information may be had at their office. Lexington, 1st February, 1802.
A LARGE, ELEGANT, AND WELL CHOSEN ASSORTMENT OF GOOD S, Just received, now opening And For Sale at the STORE of JOHN A. SEITZ. Lexington, Feb. 3d, 1802
WANTED,
A QUANTITY OF MERCHANTABLE WHISKEY, (If delivered at Frankfort would be preferred) Apply to MACBEAN & POYZER. Lexington, 26th, Feb. 1802.
KENTUCKY, Paris District, ss. October Term, 1801. Robert Johnston, Complainant, against Robert Martin & others, Defendants. In CHANCERY.
THE defendant Martin, not having entered his appearance herein, agreeably to the act of assembly and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth—on the motion of the complainant, by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant Martin, do appear here on the third day of the next term of this court, and answer the complainant's bill—that a copy of this order be inserted in some one of the Gazettes of this state for eight weeks successively, another copy posted at the front door of the court house in Paris, and published at the door of the Presbyterian meeting house, in Paris, some Sunday immediately after Divine service. A copy—Teste Tho. Arnold, C. P. D.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Montgomery county, on the waters of Brushy Fork of Flat, a SORREL MARE, with a blaze face, two white feet, no brand, fourteen hands high, three years old past, appraised to 15l. Wm. Woodlan.
VACCINE or COW-POX.
HAVING procured the matter of the Vaccine or Cow Pox, I shall now commence the Inoculation; being perfectly satisfied that it will eradicate that principle which the Small Pox affords on. Jos. Boswell. Lexington, March 9th, 1801.
3 DANVILLE DISTRICT, ss. January Term, 1802. Cuthbert Harrison, Complainant, against James Barbour, Thomas Holt, and Philip Barbour, Defendants. In CHANCERY.
THE defendant Holt, not having entered his appearance herein, agreeably to law and the rules of this court and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the said defendant is not an inhabitant of this state; on the motion of the complainant, by his counsel, it is ordered that he do appear here, on the third day of the next May term, and answer the complainant's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Kentucky Gazette, for two months successively; another copy posted up at the court house door; and a third copy published at the Danville meeting house door some Sunday immediately after divine service. A copy. Teste, Willis Green, C. D. D. C.
ENTERTAINMENT.
DAVID HARVEY FROM Sharpburg, Maryland, wishes to inform the public, that he has opened TAVERN in the town of Zaneville, where Zane's road crosses the Muckingham, in a large two story house, at the sign of the Eagle and Ball, on the main street, leading eastward from the Muckingham ferry, and as it is on the main street and best road, it is by no means inconvenient for those who may cross either the upper or lower ford. Said Harvey has laid in a good supply of IMPORTED LIQUORS, and also has a number of FEATHER BEDS, for the accommodation of travellers; his house is commodious, and his stable complete; he will be thankful for the interest of all who may think he deserves it and will use every endeavor to give general satisfaction to all who may be pleased to favor him with their commands, and as he has followed this business for twenty years and upwards, it is hoped he will be able to give as general satisfaction as this country affords, and as he has been he still remains the public's Most obedient, humble servant. David Harvey. N. B. A good hostler wanted at the above tavern.
Taken up by the subscriber, living on Gray's run, Harrison county, a Brown mare, about seven years old, about fourteen hands and a half high, three white feet, a blaze face, very much wind galloped in one of her fore legs, no brands perceivable, appraised to 18l. George Zimalt. December 21st, 1801.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
THIS morning ran-away from the subscriber, in Lexington, an apprentice to the hatting business, named
THOMAS REES,
ABOUT twenty years of age, small and slender made, short brown curly hair, freckled. He took with him a long deep blue cloth coat, and sundry other clothing, which it is useless to describe, as he will likely change them. Whoever will deliver said apprentice to the subscriber, shall have the above reward and all reasonable charges.
All persons are hereby forewarned from harboring or employing said apprentice, as they will be prosecuted with the utmost rigor of the law. JOHN LOWREY. March 17, 1802.
NICHOLAS BRIGHT, BOOT & SHOE MANUFAC- TURER.
Returns his thanks to his customers for their past favors, and hopes by his attention to business to merit them in future. He begs leave to inform the public in general, that he has removed his shop next door to Mr. Bogg's, opposite capt. Henry Marshall's tavern, on Main street.—The ladies are respectfully informed that they may be supplied with Grecian Sandals, a new and much esteemed improvement, and superior to the former fashions. Other branches of his business is carried on as usual, with neatness and dispatch. Lexington, February 12.
AS my Son Tandy Rutherford, has without any just cause eloped from out of my care, or jurisdiction, I hereby forewarn any person or persons, whatever, from dealing with him, or harbouring him by any means, as I shall not spare putting the law in force against any body that will be liable for the above breach, &c. Archibald Rutherford. March 23, 1802.
TO BE RENTED FOR ONE YEAR, And possession given on the 1st of May, THE lot and buildings thereon, in the town of Lexington, opposite the Office of the Kentucky Gazette, and extending from Main-street, to Short-street. There is a handsome two story
BRICK BUILDING, Fronting on Main-street, a BRICK KITCHEN and SMOKE HOUSE, and a good FRAMED STABLE back. Any person inclined to take the above mentioned lot and buildings, may know the terms by applying to the Printer hereof.
THE Students of the Transylvania University, are credibly informed, that reports have been circulated, that they have established societies among themselves in the University, for the purpose of discussing Deistical principles. Conscious that such reports are circulated without the least shadow of truth for their support, and believing if not arrested, they will have a tendency not only to injure the institution in the public opinion, but also the reputation of the President and Professors, as well as themselves, deem it expedient on their part, to give this public notice, that they intend to petition the trustees of the University at their next meeting, which will be held on the first Monday in April, to make strict enquiry into the premises, and do justice to their individual reputations. And they hereby invite those who have circulated the above reports, to come forward prepared to support them. Signed by consent and on behalf of the Students, by their committee.
Thomas B. Reed, Rice Jones, William Watkins, Josiah S. Johnson, Alexander Pope. Committee.
March 25th 1802.
NOTICE.
AS I have invented a Machine for the CUTTING of NAILS, which will on a moderate calculation, cut one thousand pounds of Iron into Nails of any size, in twelve hours; and have shewn a model thereof, to a number of my friends and acquaintances; also, have taken the proper steps to obtain a patent for the same, I do hereby forewarn all persons from making use of said invention, under the penalty of what the law directs in such cases. EDWD. WEST. Lexington, 24th March, 1802.
WHEREAS my wife Isabella Green, on the 10th inst. left my bed and board without any just cause, I hereby forewarn all persons from contracting with, or crediting her on my account, as I will be bound by no contracts she may make. I also forewarn any person from harboring her, as I will most assuredly prosecute them with the utmost rigor of the law. WILLIAM GREEN. Jessamine county, March 25, 1802.
For the information of those who wish to make INSURANCE.
APPLICATION for insurance must be accompanied with a certificate, specifying the length and width of the vessel or boat, the cable, stern-post, number of oars, pump and canoe or skiff, the number of hands, &c. which ought to be given by persons who are judges, and who are disinterested reputable men.—A bill of lading signed by the captain, or a manifest signed by the inspector, which shall specify the whole of the cargo on board, or to be put on board—it must also state where the boat or vessel lies—where she will take in her cargo—when she will take her departure; or if the has failed, the time when, and the port to which she is bound; and if any information has been received from her since she failed, it must be communicated. The insurance does not commence until the vessel is under way, on her intended voyage and the premium paid.
In all cases of loss, if practicable, a survey must be made by disinterested men, who are to state in writing, what in their opinion is necessary to be done, for the interest of the parties concerned; as also a protest to be entered by the captain on oath, in which the hands must join, stating particularly the loss, where and how it happened, and what cargo was then on board.
In case a boat or vessel be lost, it is the duty of the captain and hands, to use all possible means to recover the whole or as much as possible, of the cargo, for which labor and expense, the insurers will pay their proportionable part.
No boat which is insured, must attempt to pass the Falls of the Ohio, without taking a pilot on board.
Any shipper, who intends to tarry at any port or place on the voyage, for the benefit of trading, or other purposes, must have an article to that effect, inserted in the policy of insurance.
Published by order of the Directors, WILLIAM MACBEAN, Ck. March 4th, 1802.
FOR SALE—ON CREDIT, 10,000lb of BACON, chiefly Points 20,000lb of TOBACCO, 1,000 gallons of BRANDY, 2,000 ditto WHISKEY. GREEN CLAY. Jan. 20, 1802.