The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1793-06-29 00:00:00

Kentucky Gazette
NUMB. XLI]
Quicquid agunt homines—nostri farrago libelli. Juv. Sat. 8. v. 85.
[VOL. VI]
S A T U R D A Y, JUNE 29, 1793.
LEXINGTON; Printed by JOHN BRADFORD, at his Office on Cross Street; where Subscriptions, (at Fifteen Shillings per Annum) Advertisements &c. are thankfully received, and Printing in its different branches done with care and expedition.
Debate on the Official Conduct of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Madison's speech, (Continued.)
FRIDAY, March 1.
The instructions from the President to the Secretary were given, as has been seen, on the 28th of August 1790. The latter of the Secretary contravening this instruction, was dated, as has also been seen, on the same 28th day of August, 1790.
The actual drawing of bills by the Secretary, commenced on the 15th of December 1790.
The law now pleaded in justification of the conduct of the Secretary, passed on the 3d of March, 1791.
There are other facts material to a correct and full view of the business.
The speech of the President was delivered on the 8th of December 1790. It briefly informed the house, that "a loan of three millions of dollars, towards which some provisional measures had previously taken place, had been completed in Holland," and "that the Secretary of the Treasury had his direction to communicate such further particulars as might be requisite for more precise information."
The consequent report of the Secretary recommending the provision in the supplementary act, was not received till the 25th of February, 1791, six days only before the constitutional dissolution of the house.
In the interval between the speech of the President and the Secretary's report, he had proceeded to draw bills to the amount of 793,392 dollars.
His report, notwithstanding what has been said of it, contained not a word from which it could be known that a single dollar had been actually drawn over to the United States.
The other attempt to elude the evidence before the committee recoiled with equal force on the gentlemen who had hazarded it. In the report lately made by the trustees of the sinking fund, is a statement laid before them by the secretary, in which it is noted, "that the acceptance of the loan of three millions of dollars, and the application of one third of it to the purpose of that fund, was under the consideration of the President."
From this fact it had been inferred, not only that the secretary had withheld no proper information from the trustees, but that the result of the president's deliberations on the subject had varied the purpose signified by
his first instructions to the secretary.
It happened, however, most unfortunately for the gentlemen who exulted in this argument, that they had entirely overlooked the dates of the two papers. The paper laid before the trustees and alleged to have explained the final purpose of the president, was dated on the twenty-fifth of August, seventeen hundred and ninety. The paper relied on by the other side as the final, as well as the most formal designation of the will of the president, was dated the twenty-eighth of August, seventeen hundred and ninety. The gentlemen, therefore, instead of the inference they had made, should have reversed their premises, and joined with their opponents in concluding that the president was led, by a consideration of the subject, not to do what the secretary, in his note to the trustees, seemed to anticipate, but what had been evinced by the president's own act of posterior date.
The second point, then, as well as the first rests on the most solid proofs taken from a collective view of authentic documents.
Much has been said on the necessity of sometimes departing from the strictness of legal appropriations, as a plea for any freedoms that may have been taken with them by the secretary. He would not deny that there might be emergencies in the course of human affair, of extraordinary and pressing nature, as to absolve the executive from an inflexible conformity to the injunctions of the law. It was, nevertheless, as essential to remember, as it was obvious to remark, that in all such cases the necessity should be palpable; that the executive sanction should flow from the supreme source, and that the first opportunity should be seized for communicating to the legislature the measures pursued, with the reasons explaining the necessity of them. This early communication was equally enforced by prudence and by duty. It was the best evidence of the motives for assuming the extraordinary power; it was a respect manifestly due to the legislative au-
thority; and it was more particularly indispensable as that alone would enable the legislature, by a provident amendment of the law, to accommodate it to like emergencies in future.
In the proceedings falling under the present enquiry, no necessity appeared for the liberties which had been taken, the money appropriated in Europe being more wanted there than at home. It appeared that the instructions of the supreme executive, instead of warranting those liberties, had precluded them. Nor had the proper explanations been disclosed in due time to the legislature.
To place the subject in a more distinct point of view, it was proper to advert to the precise authorities and duties of the secretary, as his office is defined by the act establishing a treasury department.—For this purpose Mr. M. read the second section of that act, which is in the words following—"That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to digest or prepare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue and for the support of public credit; to prepare and report estimates of the public revenue and the public expenditures; to superintend the revenue, to decide on the forms of keeping and stating accounts, and making returns, and to grant under the limitations herein established or to be hereafter provided, all warrants for monies to be issued from the treasury, in pursuance of appropriations by law; to execute such services relative to the sale of the lands belonging to the United States as may be by law required of him; to make report and give information to either branch of the legislature, in person or in writing (as he may be required) respecting all matters referred to him by the Senate and house of Representatives or which shall appertain to his office; and generally to perform all such services relative to the finance, as he shall be directed to perform."
This establishment of the office, evidently had no reference beyond the case of superintending the regular and ordinary collection of the revenue, and granting warrants issued from the Treasury, in pursuance of appropriations by law.
The case of loans as an occasional and extraordinary resource, was left to be provided for by a particular law, for the purpose. The authority with respect to the loans in question was accordingly committed to the president,
in order to secure for so special a trust, the highest responsibility to be found in the government.—And when it was considered that the whole sum contemplated was no less than fourteen millions of dollars, and when the attitude as to the terms and contracts was combined with the vastness of the sum; it might well be questioned whether so great a power would have been delegated to any man in whom the legislature and the people of America had less confidence than they so justly reposed in the existing chief magistrate; and whether an equal power will ever be committed to a successor.
This distinction between the case of ordinary revenue and that of loans, is not only consonant to the actual policy of our laws, but is founded in inviolable and solid considerations.
In the collection and disbursement of the ordinary revenues arising from taxation, the business flows in official channels; is subject in every stage to official checks, and the money being in constant influx and efflux, no where accumulated in large sums.
The case of loans is in all these respects different. In settling the term and arranging the negotiations, there is always an important discretion involved. When the loans are foreign as well as great, regulations concerning the bills of exchange form another occasion where great latitude is implied in the trust. Whilst the magnitude of the sum's falling under the same direction at the same moment, present a further and material variance between the two cases.
The tendency of these observations is to shew, that as the permanent law establishing the treasury department does not extend the authority of the secretary to the case of loans, and as the law authorizing loans exacts, for special reasons, a responsibility from the President himself, the authority of the secretary in executing the loans and the appropriation of them, must be derived from the President; and, consequently where that authority fails, there can be no resort to the law establishing the department, much less to any general discretion incident to his official character. It is evident, that the President, altho' no doubt guided by the most proper considerations in employing the agency of the secretary of the Treasury, in the business of the loans, might, if he had judged fit, have substituted the agency of another; and that whatever agency he might prefer, his own instructions would always regulate the extent and exercise of the power conferred.
To be continued.
IRWIN & BRAYSON, At their STORE in Lexington,
WILL purchase all the clean good HEMP, that may be brought to them. They will also give a generous price for good fat Cattle in Cash and Merchandise.
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BRUSSELS , April 3. A letter from General Clairfayt to the Imperial Minister at the Hague, dated Tourney, March 31, 1793.
"I lose not a moment in communicating to your Excellency what M. Dumourier has just written to me, when he sent to our camp eight or nine prisoners this morning, four of whom, with General Bournonville, he says, were specially commissioned by the national Convention, to arrest and conduct him a prisoner to their bar, and on any resistance on the part of Dumourier, to have him assassinated on the road: "But, adds the writer, I have been before hand with them, in securing those commissioners and their deputies as my prisoners. These he has sent under a strong escort to the Prince de Cobourg, after having put seals on all their papers, &c.
"M. Dumourier transmitted me at the same time a list of the prisoners, and concludes, by saying, "that he was at that instant about to move with the trusty part of his army in order to destroy those who may further oppose themselves to the public good of France, and to give to that distracted kingdom permanent peace and tranquillity. I have the honor to be, &c. &c.
HAGUE , April 4.
Intelligence has been received from General Clairfayt, dated at Tourney the 2d instant, advising that General Dumourier had that morning sent to him, as prisoners, M. Bournonville, M. Camus, and other commissioners, who had been authorized by the national Convention to apprehend him, and conduct him to Paris, and that in a letter to General Clairfayt, he declared his intention to march the next morning to Paris.
April 8.
Lord Auckland, the British minister, set off yesterday for Antwerp, to meet his Royal Highness the Duke of York, and the Prince of Saxe Cobourg. The honorable terms granted to the French garrisons of Breda and Gertruydenbergh, appear now to have been stipulated by Dumourier in his conference with the Prince of Cobourg.
It is now rumoured that Dumourier having found reason to suspect the sincerity of a great part of the army in the promises they had given to support him in his plan of marching to Paris, and placing young Louis on the throne, had left his army at the head of a regiment of cavalry, and gone to the Austrian army. We give this merely as a report; we may, however add, that no official intelligence of any such event has been received.
PHILADELPHIA , May 8.
The society of United Irishmen have entered into very spirited resolutions on the transaction relating to the confinement of the Hon. Simon Butler, and Oliver Bond.
Twenty-eight French privateers have been taken and carried into England. The Roman Catholic bill has passed the Irish Parliament—there was a majority of forty in the house of Lords in favor of extending the elective franchise to that denomination.
It is too obvious to escape notice, that the accounts of the several actions between the French and the combined armies, are confused and contradictory—the loss of the French in the affair of the 18th March, is stated at 2000, 2200, 7000, &c. &c.—time alone will determine the truth.
As to the important battle of the 22d of March, the accounts are involved in great uncertainty—if not palpable contradictions—the reports are of a winged description—and rumour appears to be double-tongued
on the occasion—from 7 to 40,000 are said to have been slain of the French; while other accounts rate the loss on both sides at 20,000.
The ship Birmingham Packet, Captain Leeson Simmons, arrived at Marcus-Hook last Sunday morning, from Bristol, which the left the 25th March. In this vessel came passenger Phineas Bond, Esq. his Britannic Majesty's Council-General for the middle and Southern States of America.
By an arrival at Charleston from Cape Francois, intelligence was received that tranquillity is restored in Hispaniola—the blacks have been completely quelled.
May 11. A paragraph in the (London) Public Ledger of March 28, received by the Galen, arrived in Boston, informs, that "it is said that Gen. Dumourier has sent orders to Ostend for all the vessels in that port to quit it immediately and sail to Dunkirk."
General Valence, according to the above paper, was not killed, but severely wounded, in the late battle with the combined army.
A number of artists and manufacturers arrived here in the ship Glasgow, from Greenock, and have engaged with the directors of the national manufactory at the town of Patterson.
On the 23d of March the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, gave his assent to an act for facilitating the trade and intercourse between that kingdom and the United States of America.
A New-York pilot saw a ship of war off Sandy-Hook, which he supposed to be an English frigate.
By Captain Thomas, of the schooner John, arrived on Wednesday from Barbadoes, we learn, That on the 12th April, the Trusty, of fifty guns, Admiral La Foret, and the La Blanch and Nauutilus frigates, with transports and 1200 troops, under the command of General Cuyler, sailed from Barbadoes for Tobago, on which day, previous to their sailing, an embargo was laid on the vessels in Barbadoes.—On the 16th April, intelligence being received of the Island of Tobago being captured, the embargo was taken off, and Captain Thomas failed.
On the 10th, the Packet from England had arrived, and brought intelligence, that Admiral Gardner, with eight ships of the line, and a considerable body of troops had sailed two days before the Packet, for the West-Indies, and that it was thought Martinique or St. Lucia was the object of attack; a small French privateer of eight guns was taken by Admiral La Foret and sent to Domingo. Three privateers were fitting out in Barbadoes to cruise for some French Guineamen, bound to Tobago, of whose sailing from Africa, they had received intelligence.
Captain Green, of the schooner Thorn, informs us, that when he left Port-au-Prince, on the 7th ult. a French seventy-four had arrived with a commissary (an officer sent by the government in France) on board. The town had resolved not to receive him, and the seventy-four determined he should land. The American vessels were notified to leave the harbor, and on the 9th, when Capt. Green had got out of sight of Port-au-Prince, he heard now and then the firing of guns, and plainly saw the smoke of cannon rising from the town.
Extract of a letter from Newbury-Port, dated May 3, to a gentleman in Boston.
"A vessel has just arrived here, in twenty-six days from Plymouth in England:—The Captain says, it was currently reported and believed, that Gen. Dumourier had got possession of Amsterdam. The Captain (Hacket) adds, that the above news was not received from any authority, but considered in
general as the news of the day. However, he thinks it certain, the French have been successful.
Capt. Hacket further informs, that the French and English fleets had failed, and it was supposed for the West-India Islands: And also, that the French had captured three East-Indiamen.
May 14.
The most prominent intelligence brought by the Morning Star, relates to the battle fought near Tirlemont on the 18th of March. From a letter of Dumourier to the Minister of War, we extract the following particulars.
Dumourier finding Namur in danger by the march of a body of near ten thousand men against it, thought it prudent to risk a battle. His right wing was commanded by Valence, his centre by Egalite, and his left by Miranda and Champmorin.
The right and centre were successful, but the left shamefully ran without opposing the least resistance, and suffered the great loss of men and several pieces of cannon. Dumourier under some serious apprehensions for the situation of Miranda not having heard any thing from him for some time, left the victorious part of the army about dusk to see in what situation he stood, and reached Tirlemont without meeting with that part of the army so total was their flight.
Dumourier after this check announces, that he will post himself near Louvain to cover Brussels and Malines. He represents in his letter, affairs as in a disagreeable situation,—want of order and discipline among the troops and the Belgians disaffected to the French owing to pillage and severity.
He states his loss at two thousand men. Complains of want of officers, especially disciplinarians. He disapproves of the mode of electing them, which he concludes by saying, neither ensures talent, confidence or subordination.
Dumourier transmits a copy of a letter from Gen. Valence to him. In it he states, that his infantry was repulsed twice; he then led on the cavalry and broke thro the enemy, receiving three sabre wounds on his head and a violent blow on his right arm. One of the sabre wounds he says laid the skin of his forehead over his eyes, but he is assured, neither of his wounds are mortal.
Camus, one of the commissioners from the National Convention to Belgium, related to them in the sitting of the 22d, some details of the battle of the 18th. Valence, he informed had been carried by the enemy from the body of cavalry, at the head of which he had placed himself. Thus situated and surrounded by his aids-de-camp, he received the wounds above mentioned, and then, with one officer, also wounded, made his way, his pistol in one hand and sword in the other thro the enemy. His other aid-de-camps had not been since heard of.
He informed the Convention, that the army had taken an excellent position, and that nothing is to be feared. He complained much of indiscipline, and the cowardice of some parts of the army. He represented the Belgians as greatly vexed by some of the executive agents, but by no means, totally disaffected. He concluded by giving an account of some measures he had taken in concert with his colleagues to restore discipline and preserve order.
A decree of accusation has been passed against Miranda. The Austrians are stated, to have lost as many men as the French. Accounts from Belgium complain of alarming desertions.
In the Convention on the 25th the minister of war made two communications. By the first, it appears, that Dumourier made a retrograde movement after the bat-
tle of the 18th to recognize the army.
In the second, he gives an account of an advantage of Custine over the Prussians. He beat them in an attack they made on one of his posts. The French fought with great intrepidity. No action on the 22d.
The latest papers contain some accounts of the insurrections in the departments of Mayenne and Loire. The rebels are led on by fanatic priests and emigrant servants. Their number had increased to an alarming degree; but the latest accounts state, that effectual opposition had been made to them; and that recruiting went on with great spirit in those as well as the other departments.
NORFOLK , May 8.
General Cuyler is gone with a sufficient armament to take Tobago, and it is thought he is in full possession before now. Admiral Gardner with the fleet and troops must be at Barbadoes, as he sailed two days before the first March packet, which is arrived.
Extract from Lindsay's Hotel Diary, May 5.
This day landed Capt. Henry Tacker, who informs us, that he sailed from Nassau, New-Providence, on the 13th of April, as master of the schooner Eunice, bound to Philadelphia—that on the 29th, in latitude 36, in 27 fathom water, he was captured by a privateer under French Colours, called the Sans Culotte, commanded by Capt. Ferry; the Eunice bore away for Baltimore, with a Mr. Hooper on board as prize master—that the privateer carried four pounders, and had on board forty-seven men; seventeen of whom appeared to be French, a few Englishmen, and the rest Americans—there were seven prize masters, all Americans, several of them Capt. Tucker knew—that they all behaved well to him, particularly Capt. Ferry. They put the Captain and crew on board the American brig Union, arrived here from Bristol.
May 7. Yesterday arrived here in fourteen days from St. Kitts, the sloop Betsey, Capt. Pitt. She was chased off the Capes by the privateer above mentioned, and would have been taken, had not an American ship hove in sight, to which she immediately gave chase.
The Pilots inform us, they saw the privateer take the ship William, of Glasgow, last Friday. One of the Portsmouth pilots spoke another French privateer off the Capes, commanded by a Capt. Conly, about the same force as the Sans Culotte.
RICHMOND , May 12.
On Thursday last, about 5 o'clock in the evening, arrived in this city from Charleston, on his way to Philadelphia, Citizen Genet, Ambassador from the Executive Council of France, to the President and Congress of the United States. He was welcomed by the discharge of cannon, &c.
On Friday morning Colonel Richard Adams was deputed by the citizens of this place, to wait on Citizen Genet, and to invite him to partake of a public dinner with them; to which he gave the following answer:
CITIZEN GENET receives with a deep sentiment of gratitude, the obliging invitation which Mr. Adams was so obliging as to transmit to him from the Citizens of Richmond: He would accept with pleasure the agreeable opportunity they afford him to fraternize with them, and to mingle his wishes with those they form for the good cause of France and Liberty, if his duty did not oblige him to set off to-morrow morning for Philadelphia. Citizen Genet begs Mr. Adams to express his thankfulness and his grief to his Fellow-Citizens, and to accept his particular esteem and regard.

He left this on Friday morning, and was escorted out of town by his Excellency the Governor of this Commonwealth.
WINCHESTER, May 20.
By comparing dates our readers will remark, that the intelligence brought by the vessel arrived at Newbury-port from Plymouth, must be as late as the 5th or 6th of April. We have accounts as late as the 26th of March from the Hague. These are through Lord Auckland, and therefore may be depended on. They leave Dumourier near Louvain, on the 24th and 25th of March: the lapse of time between this date and the 3d or 4th of April is too inconsiderable to favor an idea of the probability of Amsterdam's being taken. A formidable body of Austrian and Prussian forces stood in the way, and even if these were defeated the precautions necessary in a march to Amsterdam, even supposing all opposition done away, called for more time: this account is probably only an off-spring of prolific rumour.
Capt Bowles, arrived at Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, from England, after a short passage, says Dumourier's defeat was much talked of there; but the reports were various, and not much credited, even by the English themselves.
LEXINGTON, June 29.
By a gentleman just arrived in Town from Fort Washington we are informed, that the treaty is put off till the first of August, and that the information is communicated thro' the War-Office.
WHEREAS I purchased a tract of land containing 234 acres lying between Elkhorn and Frankfort in Woodford county, of a certain James Erwin for the conveyance of which I have his bond: And whereas I passed two bonds to the said Erwin for the price of said land, both dated the 15th of April 1793; one for a horse worth 20l. payable in December next. The other for 80l. payable the 15th of April next. Now I do hereby forewarn all persons from receiving assignments of either or both of said bonds because I have discovered that every foot of the land will be taken by better claims.
SETH CASON,
June 27. S. and Rappée SNUFF
Made and sold by
EDMUND PURSELL, At his SNUFF-MILL, in Baird's Town, Nelson County,
WHERE gentlemen store-keepers and others, may be supplied by the large or small quantity on lower terms than at Philadelphia or Baltimore, packed in kegs, bladders or papers of pound, half pound, 18l. and 9d. papers.
Clean linen Rags will be taken in payment for snuff at the mill.
* Said Snuff to be had also by the quantity, at Mr. John M'lylan's Store in Lexington.
Taken up by the subscriber living on the Kentucky, opposite the mouth of Paint-Lick, Fayette county, an Iron gray mare, 4 years old about 4 feet 8 inches high, 3 white feet, a blemish in the right eye, has on a 3d bell tied with a rope, has some white about her nose and face, the end of her tail white. Appraised to £5-10.
Thomas Williamson.
June 12, 1793
A few copies of the A C T S Of the last session of Assembly, for sale at this Office.
I hereby notify all whom it may concern, that I sold unto John Hunt and Thomas Flowers on the first day of April last, the following tracts of land, to wit: one of twenty-nine thousand acres on the waters of Licking. One of ten thousand acres on the Kentucky river, on the north side, at the mouth of Severn reek, and one other of five thousand acres on gun-powder creek, near the big bone lick; all of which tracts of land were mortgaged to me for the payment of the consideration money agreed upon on the aforesaid first day of April, which will more fully appear by reference to the record of Woodford county.
JOHN CRITTENDEN.
June 18.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD,
TO him who shall apprehend and secure in any Goal, giving information thereof to the honorable Secretary of War, or any Officer of the United States Army, a certain JOHN, LAWLESS, Soldier of Captain Henry Bowyer's troop of Light Dragoons: Said Lawless deserted from Philadelphia on or about the 20th of April last, then in the service of Maj. Belli, Deputy Quarter Master General, from whom he took 160 Dollars, and a variety of cloathing; his stature about 5 feet 7 inches, straight and well proportioned, dark eyes, black curly hair, a plausible talker, appears to have constitutional cough, his vocation was that of an Hostler. It is presumable he will endeavor to get to his place of nativity. (Amhurst County, Virginia, near Lynchburg) tho' he is acquainted in several parts of Pennsylvania.
L. COVINGTON, Lieut. Light Dragoons
Fort-Washington, June 10, 1793.
Taken up by the subscriber living on the South fork of Bear grass, Jefferson county, a red cow, with a white face, marked with an underbit in the right ear, and half crop in the left, appraised to £1-16.
Also a black steer, one year old, marked with a swallow fork in the left ear and under bit in the right; appraised to 12s.
T.C.Gp Charles Durey.
Taken up by the subscriber living in Nelson county, a bay horse, three years old this Spring, near fifteen hands high, neither docked nor branded, a small star in his forehead, his off hind foot white, a natural trotter; appraised to £1-11.
Thomas Lowry.
April 26.
Taken up by the subscriber, Scott county, a white mare, 15 or 16 years old, about 13 hands and a half high, with a large scar on her off Cushing; appraised to £3.
Landon Kay.
April 27.
Taken up by the subscriber living in the settlement of Knoll Lynn, in Nelson county, a bay horse, fifteen hands high, four years old, neither docked nor branded, has a small star in his forehead, appraised to £6.
Jonathan Anderson.
Taken up by the subscriber living in the settlement of Knoll Lynn in Nelson county, a dark bay mare, fourteen hands and an inch high, two years old past, has a star in her forehead, her near hind foot white, neither docked nor branded; appraised to £5.
Abel Anderson.
Taken up by the subscriber, living on the Kentucky river, between Brien's creek and Juit's creek, one black mare, fourteen hands three inches high, branded on the off buttock thus qj a half crown bell on marked W has a star in her forehead and shod before; appraised to £1-12.
Samuel Talbert.
Clarke county, April 12.
JUST OPENED, AND FOR SALE, In the house lately occupied by Mr. John Huston, in Bourbon;
A neat and General Assortment of Wet and Dry
GOODS,
SUITABLE for the season; which I will sell on the most reduced prices, for Cash, Beef cattle, Whiskey, Sugar, Linen-Cloth, Butter, Cheese, Bacon, Furs, &c.
May 23. WILLIAM SCOTT.
ALL persons indebted to the subscriber, are requested to make immediate payment to Mr. Gabriel Jones, who is authorized to receive the same.
WILLIAM MORTON.
Lexington, June 3, 1793.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN AWAY from this place, the 4th. inst. a bright Mulatto Man, who calls himself JOHN GREY; he is about Eighteen years old, five feet eight or nine inches high, pretty well made, rather handsome than otherwise, a down look, it is probable he will try to pass for a freeman, and will either make for the mouth of Licking or the Eastern settlements: he was raised in Caroline county Virginia. Any person apprehending him and delivering him at this place, shall receive the above reward.
THOMAS CARNEAL.
Lexington, May 14, 1793.
Taken up by the subscriber living in Scott county, near Maj. Henry's mill, a dark gray horse, four years old, about 14 hands high, his left hind foot white, branded on the left buttock and right shoulder with a stirrup iron. Appraised to £5-10.
Hugh Boyd.
TO BE LET
The Store formerly occupied by PETER JANUARY & SON.
AND MORE LATELY BY
IRWIN & BRISON.
For terms apply to the subscribers at their Store the corner of Main and Upper Streets.
PETER JANUARY JUN & Co Who wishes to purchase, a quantity of Furs of all kinds, Bacon, Butter, Cheese and Sugar, for which the highest price will be given.
THE Distillers in Fayette County are requested to take notice, that the law requires entries to be made of all Still's between the last day of May and the first day of July in each year: An office of inspection will be open in Lexington for that purpose—Those who have not settled the tax for the last year, are requested to be prepared to do it on or before the fifteenth of day of July next, as no possible indulgence can be given after that date.
THOMAS CARNEAL, Collector of Revenue.
WANTED.
A NUMBER of NAILORS, to come well recommended, who shall have constant employ and generous wages. Apply to the subscriber in Lexington.
THOMAS LOVE.
May 24.
Blank
WARRANTS and EXECUTIONS,
For County Court Magistrates, may be had at this Office.
WILLIAM HUGHES & Co.
At their STORE in the house lately occupied by Mr. Cornelius Beatty, have for sale a large and excellent assortment of
DRY GOODS, 15
Among which are,
A BEAUTIFUL collection of Ladies Hats, white, black, brown, blue, pink and Seagreen; which they will dispose of on the most reasonable terms for Cash, Whiskey, Bacon and Sugar.
They have also a large quantity of assorted Nails 4d. 6d. 8d. 10d. 16d. & 20d. ---Hollow and window Glass 7 by 9, 8 by 10 & 10 by 12.--- A large quantity of cast and bar iron of superior quality. And a small quantity of genuine and excellent Madeira Wine.
WHEREAS I have purchased a negro man named GEORGE, that was the property of Alexander Roland, that has not been delivered to me. I will pay any person their demand that will deliver me said negro, or put him in some jail so that I get him: He is near forty years old, six feet high and will pass for a free man; and perhaps may have a pass.
Hugh Megary.
Mercer County. 24w
WANTED an apprentice to the Copper-Smith's business. A lad of about 14 years of age, under good character will be taken.
CHARLES WHITE, copper-smith. Lexington, April 27.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY.
By the subscriber,
A Hand that understands the dressing business.
GEORGE HYTLE,
Who has for sale, white Leather for Saddlers.
MONEY
READY to be given for a NEGROE, boy between ten and fourteen, years old, who can come well recommended for his honesty, and who is likely, healthy and active. Enquire of the Printer.
AS the subscribers intend quitting their present line of business, will sell the balance of their goods, either by wholesale or retail, at the most reduced prices, in order to enable them to close their accounts; they request all those indebted to them, by bond, note or book account, to settle them between the date hereof and the first of August next, as their business will not admit of further delay.
ALEX & JAS. PARKER.
June 4. 1793.
CLEAN LINEN
RAGS
Will be taken at the George Town Fulling mill, for dressing Cloth, by
CRAIG & LOGAN.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN away from the subscriber on Tuesday the twenty-first of this inst. a black Negro man the name of Jack, about twenty-seven years old, about five feet seven inches high, he has a small squint with his eyes, he has a pert lively look, speaks freely, he is a lively active fellow, walks brisk, and is pretty impudent, had on when he went away an old tow linen shirt and trowsers, and yellow coloured linsey hunting shirt, a wool hat about half worn—whosoever will apprehend the said negro, and bring him to me, shall receive the above reward and all reasonable charges paid by me.
Charles Wickliff.
Living on the waters of Cartwrights creek in Washington county. 12w May 25

THE PROSPECT BEFORE US.
As when from ANDES' lofty brow, The howling storm is seen below; Dark thunders roll and lightnings fly, Clouds blacken all the lower sky, We safely view the awful scene, The Heavens above us all serene:
Thus war, with all his black'ning forms, The European sky deforms, COLUMBIA'S Sons, united, free, In peace, the direful conflict see; Alas! they hear the tempest roar, And bless their native tranquil shore.
[G. A.] JUST ARRIVED, AND NOW OPENING FOR SALE, By the subscriber, At his STORE IN LEXINGTON, A LARGE and GENERAL ASSORTMENT of DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, QUEENS & GLASS WARE, With the following catalogue of BOOKS,
Which will be sold on the lowest terms for CASH. BLACKSTONE'S Reports, Vattel's Law of Nations, Ambler's Reports, Bayley's Greece, --- Egypt, Russell's Europe, Robertson's America, Preceptor, Drelincaurt on Death, Bailey's Dictionary, Johnson's do. Kennett's Antiquities, Horace, Robertson's Charles 5th. Annual Register 11 Volumes, do. do. 12 Volumes, red, Eady's Magazine, Volume 23d. Turner's Geography, Barnes' Notes, Burns' Law Dictionary, Cowper's Reports, Marble's travels, Burke's works, Drinkwater's Gibraltar, Gillice's Greece, Baller's Nil Prius, Williams's Conveyancing, Tidd's Practice, Torgan's Essays, Leach's Crown Law, Kelynges Reports. Epinalles Nil Prius, Dunlop, Truill's victory over Error, Pope's Iliad, Spectator, Littleton's England, Monitor, Hervy's Dialogues, Lee's Memoirs, Peter Pindar, Clair's Lectures, Knkrupt's Laws, Blackstones Commentaries, Junius's Letters, Rollins' Ancient History, Pilgrim's Progress, Harvey's Meditations, Female Spectator, Aristotle's works. Culpepper's Herbal, Boston, Syren, Hawkesworth's Voyages, Chesterfield's Letters, Citizen of the World, Letter writer, Maives's Gardiner, Tables of memory, English Theatre, Robinson Crusoe, Baron Trenk, Paine's works, Sparrman's voyage, Baron Trenk [small], Fisher on the Catechism, Confession of Faith, Rudiman's Rudiments, Ainsworth's Dictionary, Main's Introduction, Murphy's Lucian, Gibson's Surveying, Ferguson's Astronomy, Nicholson's Philosophy, Cathie's Grammar, Jackson's Book-keeping,
Cornelius Nepos, Mais Sallust, Chapman's Books, Briggs' Cookery, Rippon's Hymns, Eooth's Reign of Grace, --- Apology, Edwards on affections, Watts's Psalms & Hymns, Copies of David's Psalms, Sheridans Dictionary, Quarto Bibles, Pocket do. Large Margin do. Arminian Magazines, Fletcher's works, Preacher's Experience, --- Lives, Buchan's Family Physician, Watts's Hymns, Davidson's Virgill, Clarke's Homer, Horace, Clarke's Ovid, Selecta Profanes, Selected Vetri, Corderii, Form's Discipline, Clney Hymns, Wilton on the Sacrament, Fisher's Arithmetic, Dilworth's do. Rights of man, Sermons, Catechism of Nature, Mother's Catechism, Choice drops of Honey, Psalms Books, History of Pamela, Death of Abel, Economy of Human Life, Webster's Spelling Books, Dilworth do. do. New England Primers, Toy Books, Writing Paper, Letter do. Slates & Pencils, Sealing Wax & Wafers, Ink Powder, Ink Stands, Quills.
WILLIAM LEAVY. N. B. Subscribers in this State to Dr. Owens's "Death of Death in the Death of Christ," may get their Books by applying at the above Store.
ALL persons that have any demands against the subscribers, are desired to bring in their accounts for settlement on or before the 15th of July next; and those that are indebted to them, are requested in the most particular manner, to make payment before that time, as they cannot possibly have any further indulgence, except where it has been otherwise agreed on by special contract.
SEITZ & LAUMAN. Who have on hand, a neat assortment of Merchandise, which they will sell at the most moderate prices, for cash, beef, &c. &c. Lexington, June 25.
FOR SALE. DURING my stay in the state of Kentucky, which will be until the 1st of August next, a survey of one thousand acres of military land made in the name of William Preston in the year of 1774, adjoining the town of Louisville; for which a small part of the purchase money will be required in hand, the balance on credit; a fee simple title will be made on payment of the purchase money, or on giving bond and approved security, to bear interest from the date it not punctually paid.
J. PRESTON, Atty for Fra. Preston.
June 25. 3w WE hereby forewarn all persons not to take an assignment on two notes given by us to Benjamin Parkinson as we are determined not to pay either of them unless he recovers them by law; each note is for the sum of 17-10, one half in cash, the rest in wheat, flour, or whiskey, dated the 27th of May past, one of the notes due the 25th of December next, the other, May following, as the said Benjamin obtained the said notes by a fraudulent contract.
David Williams. William Pitts. June 4.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Clarke county on the waters of Lubergrud, three horse creatures, viz: the first is a bay Mare 5 years, 13 hands 3 inches high, with a star in the forehead, and some small saddle spots, no brand that is legible, appraised to £ 8. The second is a black Horse colt, 1 year old, came of the above mare, with a star in the forehead, no brand, appraised to £ 3. The third is a roan Horse colt, 2 years old, with both hind feet and the left forefoot white, and a blaze in the face, neither docked nor branded, appraised to £ 2. Moses Wilkinson.
March 20. TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Clarke county on the waters of Lubergrud, about 4 miles from Mount Sterling, a white Horse with gray legs, and has fleabitten spots about the head, a coat 10 years old, and about 14 hands 1 inch high, no brand that is legible, but it is thought to be made with a stirrup iron on the left buttock, appraised to £ 7-10. James A. Jerson.
March 20. TAKEN up by the subscriber in Woodford county, near Seamon's mill, a black and white fleer, 3 years old, marked with a crop in the 1st year half spa and underknee in the right, passed and appraised to £ 2. John P. Lee.
March 2. TAKEN up by the subscriber on Bull Skin waters of Bristers creek in Shelby county, one black Horse, about 12 years old, about 4 feet 3 inches high, branded on the right shoulder like this 6, and on the right buttock the appearance of a brand but not perceivable; there is also something like a brand on the left jaw like this, has some saddle spots, appraised to £ 5. John Riker.
TAKEN up by the subscriber in Woodford county near Buckrun Meetinghouse, one bay Horse, 4 years old, 13 hands 3 inches high, saddle spots on each side of his back, had on a 3/4 bell marked IC, a leather strap, no brand perceivable, appraised to £ 7-10. Chapman Taylor.
April 3. O I L M I L L. LINSEED OIL manufactured and sold by the subscriber, at his Mill at Lexington, either wholesale or retail at a very low price for CASH. 3w EDWARD HOWE.
FOR SALE. By public vendue in George Town on the 23d day of next July, (being Court day,) the estate of EDWARD WEST deceased consisting of Household furniture, Negroes, Horses, Cattle and shop utensils, together with one in-lot in said Town, whereon is a commodious dwelling house, Smith's shop and garden, also an out lot, containing four acres, and joining the town cleared and under good fence. Six months credit will be given for all sums exceeding twenty Shillings, the purchaser giving bond and approved security. Sale will commence at ten o'clock where due attendance will be given by THOMAS MARTIN, Ex. June 25.
ALL persons having accounts with the subscriber are requested to make payment and settle them on or before the 23d, of July, at which time I leave this place for the settlement. A neglect of the same will greatly injure their very humble servant. HUGH McILVAIN. Lexington June 26.
A large company will start from the Crab orchard on Tuesday the 16th of July, in order to go through the Welderness with the Post, and to meet at the Valley station the 10th of October in order to return.
FOR SALE. A plantation within six miles of this place; situated upon the waters of North Elkhorn and Cane Run; there is a good Log House weatherboarded, with other necessary conveniences for a farmer; for particulars, apply to AUGUSTINE W. WATKINS.
Who will go into the settlements in August next, and requests all persons to give in their accounts (every way) that they may be adjusted.
Lex. June 26, 1793. At a Court of Quarter Sessions continued and held for the County of Fayette, at the Court house in Lexington, on Tuesday the thirteenth day of June, 1793.
William Ellis, Complainant, Against John Cobb, John Holdr. Ebenezer S. Platt, Thomas Dawson, James Tompkins and Humphrey Tompkins. Defendants.
IN CHANCERY. THE defendant, John Cobb, not having entered his appearance according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is no 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 first day of their next September court and answer the complainants bill, that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Kentucky Gazette for two months successively, and published some Sunday at the front door of the Baptist meeting-house in the town of Lexington immediately after divine service.
A Copy Test LEVI TODD, CLK. C. Q. S.
ALL persons are hereby forewarned from purchasing or harboring from Andrew Adams, the following negroes, to wit: A yellow negro woman and child, and a boy about fifteen years old; as the above negroes are my property and privately taken away by the said Andrew. GEORGE ADAMS. Lexington, June 29.
Will be sold at public auction, at Lexington, on Tuesday the 9th day of July next, six Cavalry Horses, rendered unfit for service by lameness &c. Six months credit will be given, the purchaser giving bond and approved security. I. E. COLLINS. Q. M. Agent. Nov 18.
TAKEN up by the subscriber on the Beach fork, near the mouth of Chaplain's fork, a small gray Mare, about 9 years old, about a feet 4 or 5 inches high, branded on the near shoulder that C, appraised to £ 5. Thomas Ellison.
TAKEN up by the subscriber in Clarke county, between the mouth of Bonn's and Dyer's creek, on the Kentucky river, a black horse, 15 or 20 years old, a white feet, a bald face, branded nearly as in a piece, appraised to £ 2. A. M. Donald Barrett.
FOR SALE FOR CASH. A likely NEGRO MAN, about twenty years of age. Enquire of the Printer. June 22.