The Providence journal, and town and country advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1800-12-24 00:00:00

The Providence Journal.
AND
TOWN AND COUNTRY ADVERTISER.
Published on WEDNESDAYS, by JOHN CARTER, JUN. Printer of the LAWS of the UNITED STATES for the State of RHODE-ISLAND, &c. At the NEW PRINTING-OFFICE, West Side of the great Bridge, PROVIDENCE.
[ No. 104. ]
WEDNESDAY, December 24, 1800.
[ Vol. II. ]
GROCERY STORE.
S. C. Blodget
Respectfully informs his friends and the public at large, that he has taken the store lately occupied by THOMAS LLOYD HALSEY, Esq. in his old mansion-house, nearly opposite Bank-lane, where he is opening for sale, on very moderate terms, a general assortment of GROCERIES, genuine in kind.
NEW GOODS.
Elisha Dyer
HAS imported, direct from the Manufactories, per the Friendship, from Liverpool, via Boston, a few bales of Woolen, in addition to the assortment opened a few days since, received per the Minerva, from London, and has for sale, at a regular advance, which he wishes to sell at wholesale only,
 Low pric'd blue Broadcloths  Forest Cloths  Plains  Cassimeres  Coatings  Baizes  Flannels  1 Bale Blankets, 5 to 10 quarters, assorted  Russells  Moreens  Durants  Calicoes  Purple and Chintz Shawls  Camels Hair do.  Modes  Ribbons  Sewing Silk and Threads  Muslinets  Hosiery, &c. &c. On a liberal credit.  December 17.
FOR CHARLESTON, S. C. The SLOOP LUCY, DANIEL ANTHONY, master, now lying at Mr. JOHN INNES CLARK'S Wharf, to sail on the 24th or 25th inst. For freight or passage, apply to the master on board, or to DAVID ANTHONY.
Said ANTHONY wishes to purchase a few barrels of good Cider; likewise, some Apples and Onions. 12mo. December 17.
LOST, IN THE STREET,
A Note of Hand,
SIGNED by HARRIS and RHODES, payable at Providence Bank, in 60 days, to CHRISTOPHER C. OLNEY, and Co. for 242 dollars, dated December 1, 1800.
Any person finding the same, is desired to leave it at the store of the subscribers, and they shall be handsomely rewarded.
C. C. OLNEY and Co.
N. B. Said Note is of no use to any person but the owners, the payment of it being stopped.
December 14.
Notice.
THE members of the Providence Insurance Fire Company are hereby informed, that agreeably to their charter, their first annual meeting will be held on Tuesday the 6th of January next. They are requested to meet at the Coffee-House, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, to transact such business as may by them be thought necessary towards promoting the institution, and also to choose Directors for the year ensuing. It is hoped the members will be punctual in their attendance. Those gentlemen who are not named in the charter, and incline to give their kind assistance in forwarding so beneficial a plan, are also invited to attend said meeting.
By order of the Directors, JOSEPH LAWRENCE, Clerk. December 17.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, December 9, 1800.
THE creditors of RANSOM PARKER of Johnston, in the county of Providence, labourer, are hereby notified to appear, if they shall think fit, at the General Assembly to be held at East-Greenwich, on the third Monday in February next, then and there to show cause, if any they may have, why his petition for the benefit of an act, passed in June, A. D. 1756, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," ought not to be granted.
SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y.
William Blodget, jun.
Store No. 7, Cheapside. Has this day received and opening for sale, an extensive additional supply, to his recently largely replenished Stock, completing a very general assortment of Fashionable, Staple and Fancy GOODS, viz.
PLAIN, sprigged, and fancy wrought, book, and jaconet Muslin, India and Scotch; linnen and cotton Handkerchiefs; white, fancy, coloured, book, jaconet Muslin, do. India and English silk Handkerchiefs; every description; blue and yellow Nankins; Durants, Tammies, Sha-loons, Ratinets, superfine, fine and mock Moreens; Russells; Calimancoes, and Wild-bores, striped and plain; Muslinets, Dimity, Calicoes and London Chintzes, a very extensive variety; linnen and cotton Cambricks; Irish linnen Sheeting, an extensive choice; Hosiery, a large supply, worsted, cotton, thread, plated and silk of every quality, for ladies and gentlemen; fancy silk and cotton Shawls, a very extensive assortment; camels hair do. with and without silk and worsted fringes; Sattins; Lutestring; Florentines; Saracens and Pelongs; fancy silk and embroidered Marcelline Vestings; plain and milled twandown do. Hats of every description; Flannels and Baizes at all prices; Ratinets and fashionable Coating, and habit Cloths for ladies; silk and cotton long and short, plain and laced Gloves and Mitts of all colours; long and short kid Gloves; a beautiful variety fashionable Ribbons; Russia and American made fox Muffs; Umbrellas; silk Velvets, and Bindings; fancy coloured Crapes; Suspenders; Stocks; Blankets, every size; Serges; Forest Cloths; Plains; Kerseys; fashionable black and other coloured striped Velvets; Diapers; fancy coloured Muslins; Gown Trimming, a recent fashionable article; Gauzes; Dress Combs; Lion Skin and Fearnoughts; Shags; Elastic Cloths; Dutch, French, and English Broadcloths and Cassimeres of the most fashionable and best kinds, a very extensive supply calculated for every taste; all at very moderate prices, wholesale or retail. With the addition of very many other useful articles.
November 26. (6 w.)
Musical Instruments
MOROCCO AND POCKET-BOOKS.
Just received, and for sale, by DAVID VINTON, At the Corner Store, No. 7, Market-Square, IN addition to his usual extensive assortment of FANCY-GOODS, he has opened a large and beautiful variety of Ladies and Gentlemen's MOROCCO POCKET-BOOKS, of almost every size and quality, per dozen or single, of different prices, from 25 cents up to ten dollars each. The Ladies Pocket-Books and Thread Cases, with high finished instruments, and silver and enameled Clasps, are richly bound with silver rims.
Likewise, Just Opened,
144 Good toned VIOLINS, and genuine Roman Violin and Bass-Viol Strings, of a superior quality; Bass-Viols, Clarionets, Hautboys, German Flutes, and Fifes, plain and tip'd with ivory.
400 Different pieces NEW MUSIC, and SONGS, from the most celebrated and modern authors.
Also,
A new supply of Green and White SPECTACLES, calculated for all ages, and of various prices.
Spices of every kind, and Fresh Malaga, real Muscadel, and Bloom RAISINS, per box, excellent soft shell'd Almonds, and large Turkey Figs, Sweet Oil, per box or flask, warranted Mustard and Cayenne, India Soy, Capers, Pepper-Sauce, Anchovies, &c. &c.
POWDER and SHOT.
Ten different sizes real PATENT SHOT, per bag, or less quantity; warranted GUN-POWDER, of the first, second, third and fourth qualities, and best Oil Flints.
Two New CHAISE for sale, very low, on a long and approved credit. November 26.
War Department,
November 13, 1800.
THOSE Gentlemen who have applied for military appointments in the service of the United States are informed, that their applications, with all the recommendatory letters accompanying, were consumed by fire in the War-Office, on Saturday evening last. Those who continue to desire to be considered as candidates will see the propriety of renewing their applications.
SAMUEL DEXTER, Secretary of War.
ANECDOTE OF GENERAL WASHINGTON.
WHILE a Colonel he was stationed at Alexandria with his regiment. There happened at this time to be an election in Alexandria for members of Assembly, and the contest ran high between Col. George Fairfax and Mr. Elzy. Washington was the warm friend of Fairfax, and a Mr. Payne headed the friends of Elzy. A dispute happening to take place in the court-house yard, Washington, a thing very uncommon with him, got warm, and which was still more uncommon, said something that offended Payne, whereupon the little gentleman, who though but a cub in size, was the old lion in heart, raised his sturdy hickory, and at a single blow, brought our hero to the ground. Several of Washington's officers being present, whipped out their cold irons in an instant, and it was looked upon that there would have been murder off hand. To make bad worse, his regiment hearing how he had been treated, bolted out from their barracks with every man his weapon in his hand, threatening dreadful vengeance on those who had dared to knock down their beloved Colonel. Happily for Mr. Payne and his party, Washington recovered time enough to go out and meet his enraged soldiers, and after thanking them for the expression of their love, assured them that he was not hurt in the least, and begged them as they loved him or their duty, to return peaceably to their barracks. As for himself, he went to his room, generously chastising his imprudence, which had thus struck out a spark, that had like to have thrown the town in a flame. Finding on reflection that he had been the aggressor, he resolved to make Mr. Payne honourable reparation by asking his pardon on the morrow! No sooner had he made this noble resolution, than recovering that delicious gaiety, which ever accompanies good purposes in a virtuous mind, he went to a ball in town that night, and behaved as pleasantly as though nothing had happened. Glorious proof, that great souls, like great ships, are not affected by those puffs which would over-set feeble minds with passion, or sink them with spleen!
The next day he went to a tavern, and wrote a polite note to Mr. Payne, whom he requested to meet him. Mr. Payne took it for a challenge, and repaired to the tavern, not without expecting to see a pair of pistols produced. But what was his surprise on entering the chamber to see a decanter of wine and glasses on the table. Washington arose, and in a friendly manner met him, and gave him his hand. "Mr. Payne, said he, to err sometimes is nature, to rectify error, is always glorious. I find I was wrong in the affair of yesterday; you have had, I think, some satisfaction; and if you think that sufficient, here's my hand; let us be friends."
A few years after this, Payne had a cause tried in Fairfax County, and Washington happened on that day to be in the house. The lawyer on the other side finding he was going fast to leeward, thought he would luff up, with a whole broadside at Payne's character; and after raking him fore and aft with abuse, he artfully bore away under the lee of the jury's prejudices, which he endeavoured to inflame against him. "Yes, please your worship," continued he, "as a proof that this Mr. Payne is a most turbulent fellow, and capable of all I tell you, be pleased to remember, Gentlemen of the jury, that this is the very man who some time ago treated our beloved Washington so barbarously. Yes, this is the very wretch, who dared in this very court-house yard, to lift up his impious hand
against the greatest and the best of men, and knocked him down, as though he had been but a bullock of the stall."
This, roared out in a thundering tone, and with a tremendous stamp on the floor, made Payne look very wild, for he saw the countenances of the court beginning to blacken on him. But Washington arose immediately and addressed the bench.
"As to Mr. Payne's character, may it please your worship," said he, "we all have the satisfaction to know that it is perfectly unexceptionable; and with respect to the little difference which formerly happened between that gentleman and myself, it was instantly made up, and we have lived on the best terms ever since; and besides, I could with all my acquaintances to know, that I entirely acquit Mr. Payne of blame in that affair, and take it all on myself as the aggressor."
Mr. Payne used to relate another anecdote of Washington, which reflects equal honour on the goodness of his heart.
"Immediately after the war," said he; "when the conquering hero was returning in peace to his home, with the laurels of victory green and flourishing on his head, I felt a strong desire to see my best friend, and so set out on Mount-Vernon. As I drew near the house, I began to experience a rising fear, lest he should call to mind the blow I gave him in former days. However, animating myself, I pushed on. Washington met me at the door, with a smiling welcome, and presently led me into an adjoining room where Mrs. Washington sat. "Here, my dear," said he, presenting me to his lady, "here is the little man, you have so often heard me talk of, and who, in a difference between us one day, had the resolution to knock me down, big as I am. I know you will honour him as he deserves, for I assure you he has the heart of a Virginian." He said this, continued Mr. Payne, with an air that convinced me that his long familiarity with war had not robbed him of a single spark of the goodness and nobleness of his heart; and Mrs. Washington looked at him, I thought, with something in her eyes which shewed that he appeared to her, greater and lovelier than ever."
From a late London Paper.
RE-MANUFACTURE OF PAPER.
A COMPANY has just been established in London, for the purpose of extracting every kind of ink, printed or written, from paper of every sort, and re-manufacturing it in the usual way. Such an invention, which has long been a great desideratum, promises to be of considerable benefit to the public, by converting to great use the immense mass of waste paper, which is every where to be found; and thus we hope, reducing the price of the most useful article, which has of late risen to such an extravagant height as to impede very materially the advancement of literature. A patent has been granted for this discovery.
Paper already printed on, is now regularly bought in at the rag-shops of foreign countries, to be re-manufactured by the paper-makers. Newspapers, old books, unseable books, can all be reduced to white pulp by the process of Madame Meisson.—It is thus described in a continental Journal. Choose papers of similar hues to be used together. On one hundred weight of paper pour five hundred weight of boiling water. Stir it continually with indented paddles, until the whole is reduced to a pulp. Drain off the water through an opening covered with flannel, pour on fresh boiling water, and repeat the stirring with incessant industry. Such of the component parts of the printer's ink as are not soluble in water, will sink to the bottom of the vat gradually, and the pulp will assume a whiter and whiter appearance, and may be removed in shallow pails to be submitted to the usual process of manufacture. This fortunate discovery will be the grand defence of posterity against superfluous and tedious books.
The quantity of paper stuff may in another manner be increased. Instead of making tinder from rags, it might be made as in France, from the agave of the aloe. The

fungus is sliced thin, dried, beaten with a hammer until it becomes very elastic, and boiled in water impregnated with salt-petre. In this state it readily catches fire from the spark of a flint, and is sold very cheap at the shops by the name of AMADOU. If this substance were easily to be had, the rags now burnt for tinder might be preserved."
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
Received at Boston by an arrival from London.
PARIS, October 31.
CITIZEN Pichon is appointed French Commissary General, to reside at Philadelphia. He will act as Chargé d'Affaires until a Minister is sent out.
CADIZ, October 26.
Lord Keith, with his fleet, has withdrawn from before this city. It is said, the contagion which has prevailed here, has made its appearance in an alarming manner on board the English ships.
LONDON, November 14.
The French funds have lately experienced a fall; and orders have been given for the movement of the troops. These are disagreeable omens to the friends of peace.
L. Buonaparte is gone to Russia, and his commission is conjectured to be connected with the prospect of peace, or to neutralize that power, if war is renewed.
Letters from Mannheim, Oct. 31, state, that the Austrian army have received orders to be in readiness to march; and the resumption of hostilities is expected.
Several vessels have failed for America in ballast, for the purpose of bringing out rice, which is now 40s. per cwt.
An expedition, destined against South-America, is nearly ready. Sir Home Popham will command it. Five or six regiments will be employed.
CONVENTION
Between the French Republic and the United States of America.
THE First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French People, and the President of the United States of America, equally animated with a desire to put an end to the differences which have arisen between the two States, have respectively nominated their Plenipotentiaries, and invested them with full powers to negotiate upon these differences, and terminate them: That is to say, the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French People, has nominated for Plenipotentiaries of the said Republic, the Citizens Joseph Buonaparte, Ex-Ambassador of the French Republic at Rome, and Counsellor of State; Charles-Pierre Claret-Fleuriou, Member of the National Institute, and of the Office of Longitude of France, and Counsellor of State, President of the Section of Marine; and Pierre-Robert Raderer, Member of the National Institute, Counsellor of State, President of the Section of the Interior; and the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of said States, has appointed for their Plenipotentiaries, Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice of the United States, William Richardson Davis, ci-devant Governor of North-Carolina, and William Vans Murray, Resident Minister of the United States at the Hague:
Who, after having exchanged their full powers, and patiently and carefully discussed their respective interests, have agreed to the following articles:
Art. I. There shall be a firm, inviolable and universal peace, and true and sincere friendship, between the French Republic and the United States of America, as well between their countries, territories, cities and places, as between their citizens and inhabitants, without exception of persons or places.
II. The Ministers Plenipotentiary of the two parties, not being empowered at present to agree relative to the treaty of alliance of the 6th of February, 1778, to the treaty of friendship and commerce, of the same date, and to the convention of the 14th of November, nor to the indemnities mutually due and claimed, the parties shall further negotiate upon these points at a convenient time; and until they shall be agreed upon these points, the said treaties and conventions shall have no effect, and the relations of the two nations shall be regulated as follows:
III. The ships belonging to the State taken on either side, or which may be taken before the exchange of ratifications, shall be given up.
IV. The properties captured, and not yet definitively condemned, or which may be captured before the exchange of ratifications, except contraband merchandise destined for an enemy's port, shall be mutually restored upon the following proofs of property, viz.
On the one part and on the other, the proofs of property relative to merchant vessels, armed or unarmed, shall be a passport in the following form:
"To all those to whom these presents shall come, be it known, that power and permission has been given to —, Master or Commander of the vessel called the —, of the city of —, of the burden of — tons, or thereabouts, now lying in the port or harbour of —, and destined for —, laden with —; that after his ship has been visited, and before his departure, he shall make oath before officers authorized for that purpose, that the said ship belongs to one or more subjects of —, the execution of which form shall be annexed to these presents, in order that he may observe and cause to be observed by his crew the maritime ordinances and regulations, and give in a list signed and attested, containing the names and surnames, places
of birth and abode, of the persons composing the crew of his ship, and of all on board her, whom he shall not receive on board without the knowledge and permission of the officers authorized for that purpose; and in every port and harbour where he shall enter with his ship, he shall shew the present permission to the proper officers, and make to them a faithful report of all that has passed during his voyage, and carry the colours, arms and flags of the French Republic, or the United States, during his said voyage. In testimony of which we have signed these presents, caused them to be countersigned by —, and thereunto put the seal of our arms."
"Given at —, in the year of our Lord —" And this passport shall be sufficient without any other document, notwithstanding any regulation to the contrary.
It shall not be necessary to renew or revoke this passport, whatever number of voyages the said ship shall have made, unless they shall not have returned home within the space of a year.
With respect to the cargo, the proof shall be certificates, containing an account what place the ship has left, and where it is going to, so that prohibited and contraband merchandise may be distinguished by certificates, which certificates shall have been made by the officers of the place from whence the ship shall have set out, agreeable to the accustomed forms of the country. And if these passports or certificates, or both, shall have been destroyed by accident, or taken away by force, the want of them shall be supplied by every other proof of property admissible, according to the general usage of nations.
For other ships besides merchant ships, the proof shall be the commissions they bear. This article shall take effect from the date of the signature of the present Convention; and if by the date of the said signature property shall have been condemned contrary to the spirit of the said Convention, and previous to the knowledge of this stipulation, the property so condemned shall be restored or paid for.
V. The debts contracted by either of the two nations towards the individuals of each, shall be acquitted, or the payment shall be in course, as if there had been no misunderstanding between the two States; but this clause shall not extend to indemnities, claimed for captures or condemnations.
VI. The trade between the two parties shall be free; the ships of the two nations, and their privateers, as well as their prizes, shall be treated in their respective ports as those of the most favoured nation, and in general the two parties shall enjoy in each other's ports, with respect to commerce and navigation, the same privileges as the most favoured nations.
VII. The citizens and inhabitants of the United States may dispose by will, donation, or otherwise, of their goods, moveable and immovable property, possessed in the European territory of the French Republic, and the citizens of the French Republic shall have the same power with regard to the goods, moveable and immovable property possessed in the territory of the United States, in favour of such persons as they shall think proper. The citizens and inhabitants of the two States, who shall be heirs of the goods, moveable and immovable property situated in the other, may succeed ab intestat , without there being any necessity for letters of neutrality, and without the effect of this stipulation being contested or impeached under any pretence whatever; — and the said heirs, whether by private right or ab intestat , shall be exempt from all right whatever of any one in either of the two nations. It is agreed, that this article shall not derogate in any manner from the laws which are now in force, in either of the two nations, or which may be promulgated hereafter against emigration; and also, that in case the laws of either of the two States shall limit to foreigners the exercise of the right of immovable property, such immovable property may be sold, or otherwise disposed, in favour of the inhabitants or citizens of the country where they shall be situated; and it shall be open to the other nation to establish similar laws.
VIII. To favour the commerce of both nations, it is agreed, that if war (which God forbid) should break out between the two nations, the merchants and other citizens, or respective inhabitants, shall be allowed on both sides six months after the declaration of war, during which period they shall have time to retire, with their effects and moveables, which they may carry away, or sell, as they shall think proper, without the least impeachment; their effects, and still less their persons, shall not, during the period of six months, be seized. On the contrary, they shall have passports, which shall be valid for the time necessary to enable them to return home, and those passports shall be given for themselves, as well as for their ships and effects which they shall desire to take or send away. These passports shall serve as protections against all insults and all captures on the part of privateers, as well with regard to themselves as their effects; and if within the term above mentioned there shall have been committed by one of the parties, its citizens or inhabitants, any wrong towards their persons or their property, they shall have complete satisfaction.
IX. The debts due by individuals of one of the two nations, to the individuals of the other, shall not in case of war or national dispute be sequestered or confiscated, no more than the claims or funds which shall be found in the public funds, or in the public or private banks.
X. The two contracting parties may nominate, for the protection of trade, Commercial Agents, who shall reside in France and the
United States. Each of the parties may accept such place as it shall judge proper, where the residence shall be fixed. Before any agent can exercise his functions, he must be accepted according to the received forms of the party to which he is sent, and when he shall be received and provided with his exequatur, he shall enjoy the rights and prerogatives which are enjoyed by similar agents of the most favoured nations.
XI. The citizens of the French Republic shall not pay, in any ports, harbours, roads, countries, islands, cities and places of the United States, other or greater duties or imposts, or whatever nature soever they may be, and whatever names they may have, than those which the most favoured nations are or shall be bound to pay; and they shall enjoy all rights, liberties, privileges, immunities, and exemptions, relating to trade, navigation and commerce, whether in passing from one part of the said States to another, or whether in going there or returning from some part to any part of the world, that the said nations enjoy, or shall enjoy; and reciprocally the citizens of the United States shall enjoy, in the territory of the French Republic, in Europe, the same privileges and immunities, as well for their goods as their persons, as for what concerns trade, navigation and commerce.
XII. The citizens of the two nations may conduct their vessels and their merchandise, (always excepting such as are contraband) from any port to another belonging to the enemy of the other nation. They may navigate and commerce, with full liberty and security, with their ships and merchandise, in the countries, ports, and places of the enemies of the two parties, or of the one or the other party, without obstacles or interruption, and not only pass directly from the places and ports of the enemy abovementioned to neutral ports and places, but from every port belonging to an enemy, whether it be or be not subject to the same jurisdiction, unless those places or ports shall be really blockaded, besieged, or invested.
And in case, as it often happens, when vessels shall be sailing for places or ports belonging to an enemy, ignorant that they are blockaded, besieged, or invested, it is agreed that every ship which shall be found under such a predicament shall be turned from that place or port without any part of its cargo being retained or confiscated (unless it shall be contraband, or it shall be proved that the said ship, after having been informed of the blockade or investiture, attempted to enter the same port) but it shall be allowed to go to any other port or place it shall think proper. No ship of either nation, entered in a port or place before it shall have been really blockaded, besieged, or invested by the other, shall be prevented from going out with its cargo; if it shall be there when the said place shall surrender, the ship and cargo shall not be confiscated, but sent away to the proprietors.
XIII. To regulate what shall be understood by contraband warlike stores, under this denomination shall be comprized powder, salt-petre, petards, matches, balls, bullets, bombs, grenades, cartridges, pikes, halberds, swords, bales, pistols, scabbards, saddles, harness, cannons, mortars, with their carriages, and generally all arms and ammunitions of war, and utensils for the use of troops. All the above articles, whenever they shall be destined for an enemy's port, are declared contraband, and justly subject to confiscation; but the ship in which they shall be laden, as well as the rest of the cargo, shall be considered as free, and shall in no manner be vitiated by the contraband merchandise, whether they belong to the same or different proprietors.
XIV. It is stipulated by the present treaty, that free ships shall equally assure the liberty of merchandise, and that all things shall be deemed free, which are found on board ships belonging to the citizens of one of the contracting parties, even though the same, or part of it, shall belong to the enemies of one of the two; provided nevertheless, that contraband goods are always excepted. It is likewise agreed, that the same liberty shall extend to persons who may be on board the free ship, though they should be enemies of one of the two contracting parties, and they shall not be taken from the said free ships, unless they are in a military capacity, and actually in the service of the enemy.
XV. It is on the contrary agreed, that all property which shall be put, by the respective citizens, on board ships belonging to an enemy of either party, or their subjects, shall be confiscated without distinction of merchandise, prohibited or not prohibited, so and in like manner as if it belonged to an enemy, with the exception always of property and effects which shall have been put on board the said ships before the declaration of war, or even after the said declaration, if at the time of lading, the party were ignorant of it; so that the merchandise of citizens of the two parties, whether they be in the number of contraband or not, which, as has been already said, shall have been put on board a ship belonging to an enemy before the war, or even after the said declaration of war, in ignorance of it, shall not be in any manner subject to confiscation, but shall be faithfully and truly given up without delay to the owners claiming them, provided, nevertheless, that they shall not be permitted to carry into the enemy's ports merchandise which shall be contraband. The two contracting powers agree, that after a term of two months has passed from the declaration, their respective citizens, in whatever part of the world they may be, shall not be at liberty to plead the ignorance mentioned in this article.
XVI. Merchant vessels belonging to citizens of either of the contracting powers, when they shall have a mind to pass to the port of an enemy of the one or the other, and that their voyage as well as the nature of their cargo shall afford just cause of suspicion, the said ship shall be obliged to exhibit at high
sea, as well as in ports and roads, not only their passports, but further their certificates proving that these goods are not of the class of contraband specified in the 13th article of the present convention.
XVII. And in order to prevent captures on frivolous suspicions, and the damage thus resulting, it is agreed, that when one of the two powers shall be at war, and the other neutral, the vessels of the neutral party shall be provided with passports similar to those specified in the 4th article, so that it may thence appear that the parties belong to a neutral party. These passports shall be valid for any number of voyages whatever; but they shall be renewed every year, if the ship returns home within the space of a year. If these ships are laden, they shall be provided not with the passports abovementioned, but also with certificates of the description of those mentioned in the same article, so that it may be known whether they have on board contraband goods. No other paper shall be required, all usages and regulations to the contrary notwithstanding; and if it should appear from these certificates that there is not contraband merchandise on board, the said ships shall be left to pursue their destination. If, on the contrary, it should appear from these certificates that the said ships have contraband merchandise on board, and the Commander offers to deliver them up, the offer shall be accepted, and the ship left at liberty to prosecute her voyage, unless the quantity of contraband goods should be too great to admit of being taken on board of the ship of war or cruiser; in this case the ship shall be carried into port for the purpose of there delivering the said goods.
Should a ship be found without the passports or certificates above required, the business shall be examined by competent judges or tribunals; and if it should appear from other documents or proofs admissible by the law of nations, that the ship belongs to citizens of the neutral power, it shall not be condemned, and it shall be set at liberty with its cargo, contraband goods excepted, and shall have leave to prosecute its voyage.
Should the captain named in the passport happen to die or be removed, and another shall have been appointed in his place, the ship and cargo shall be nevertheless secure, and the passport shall remain in full force.
XVIII. If the vessels belonging to citizens of the one nation or the other shall be met along the coast, or on the high seas, by any ship of war or cruiser belonging to the other, to prevent all disorder, the said ships or cruisers shall keep beyond the reach of cannon shot, and shall send their boat on board the merchant vessel so met with. They shall not be allowed to send on board more than two or three men, to demand from the master or captain of the ship the exhibition of his passport concerning the property of said ship, executed agreeable to the form prescribed in the 4th article, as also the certificates abovementioned relative to the cargo. It is expressly agreed that the neutral captain shall not be obliged to go on board the visiting ship for the purpose of there shewing the papers demanded, or for any other information whatever.
XIX. It is expressly agreed by the parties, that the above stipulations relative to the conduct to be observed at sea by the cruisers of the belligerent party towards the vessels of the neutral party, shall apply only to ships sailing without convoy; and in case when the said ships shall be convoyed, the intention of the parties being to observe all the respect due to the protection of the flag hoisted on board ships of the State, no visit shall be made. But the verbal declaration of the commander of the escort, that the ships under his convoy belong to the nation whose flag he carries, and that they have no thing contraband on board, shall be taken by the respective cruisers as simply sufficient. The two parties bind themselves reciprocally not to admit under protection of their convoys any vessels carrying contraband merchandise destined for an enemy.
XX. In case when the ships shall be taken or stopped, under alleged grounds of their carrying any contraband articles to the enemy, the captor shall give a receipt of the ship's papers, which he shall detain, which receipt shall be subjoined to a declaratory list of the said papers. He shall not be permitted to force open the hatches, coffer, chests, drawers, bales, &c. found on board ships, nor to carry off the smallest article of the effects, before the cargo has been disembarked in presence of the officers competent to make an inventory of the said effects. They cannot in any manner be sold, exchanged, or alienated, unless, after a legal process, the competent judge or judges have passed upon the said effects a sentence of confiscation (excepting always the ship and the other objects that it contains.)
XXI. In order that the vessel and the cargo may be watched with care, and in order to prevent mistakes, it is decreed that the master, captain, or supercargo of the captured ship, cannot be taken from on board, either while the ship is at sea, after being taken, during the proceedings against it, its cargo, or any thing relative to it.
In case of the ship belonging to either party being taken, seized, and retained for judgment, its officers, passengers and crews shall be treated with humanity; they cannot be imprisoned nor robbed of their clothes or pocket money, not exceeding for the captain, supercargo and second, five hundred dollars each, and for the sailors and passengers, one hundred dollars each.
XXII. It is moreover agreed on, that in every case the tribunals appointed for prize causes in the countries whither the prizes shall be taken, shall alone be competent to try them; and every judgment which the tribunal of

either party pronounces against a ship, or merchandise, or property reclaimed by the citizens of the other party, the sentence or decree shall make mention of the reasons or motives which have determined this judgment, of which an authentic copy, as well as of all the proceedings relative to it, shall on their requisition be delivered without delay to the captain or agent of the said ship, after paying the expenses.
XXIII. And finally, in order more effectually to provide for the respective security of the citizens of the two contracting parties, and to prevent the injuries to be feared from ships of war or privateers, of either party, all the commanders of ships of war or privateers, and all the citizens of both parties, shall refrain from all violence against one another, and from every personal insult. If they act in a contrary manner, they shall be punished, and bound over in their persons and properties to give satisfaction and reparation for the damage, with interest, of whatever kind the said damage may be.
To this effect all the captains of privateers, before receiving their commissions, shall become bound before a competent judge, to give security by two responsible cautioners at least, who shall have no interest in the said privateer, and whom each, as well as the captain, shall engage individually for the sum of 7,000 dollars, or 36,820 francs; if the said vessels carry more than 150 sailors or soldiers, for the sum of 15,000 dollars, or 78,670 francs, which shall serve to repair the damage that the said privateers, their officers, or crews, or any of them, shall have committed during their cruise, contrary to the dispositions of the present convention, or to the laws and instructions which ought to be the rule of their conduct; besides this, the said commission shall be revoked and annulled in every case where an aggression has been committed.
XXIV. When the ships of war of the two contracting parties, or those which their citizens shall have armed, shall be admitted with their prizes into the ports of either of the two parties, the said public or private vessels, as well as their prizes, shall not be obliged to pay any duties, either to the officers of the place, or to the judges, or to any others. The said prizes entering in the harbours or ports of one of the two parties, shall not be arrested or seized, and the officers of the place shall not take cognizance of the validity of the said prizes, which are to be suffered to go out, and be conducted with full freedom and liberty to their ports, by the commissions which the captains of the said vessels shall be obliged to shew. It is always understood, that the stipulations of this article shall not extend beyond the privileges of the most favoured nations.
XXV. All foreign privateers, having commissions from a state, or prince at war with one or other nation, cannot arm their vessels in the ports of either nation, or dispose of their prizes there, or in any manner exchange them. They shall not be allowed to buy provisions further than the necessary quantity to gain the nearest port of the State or Prince from which they shall have received their commission.
XXVI. It is further agreed, that neither of the two contracting parties shall receive pirates in its ports, roads, or cities, and shall not permit any of the inhabitants to receive, protect, support, or conceal them in any manner, but shall deliver up to due punishment such of its inhabitants as shall be guilty of the like acts or crimes: the ships of those pirates, as well as their effects and merchandise, shall be seized wherever they shall be discovered, and restored to the proprietors, agents, or factors, duly authorized by them, after having proved their right before judges competent to decide respecting the property.
If the said effects have passed by sale into other hands, and the purchasers were or might be informed, or have suspected that the said effects were carried away by pirates, they shall be equally restored.
XXVII. Neither of the two nations shall interfere in the fisheries of the other upon its coasts, nor disturb it in the exercise of the rights which it now has, or may acquire on the coasts of Newfoundland, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, or elsewhere on the coast of America, or the north of the United States; but the whale and seal fishery shall be free for the two nations in all parts of the world.
The Convention shall be ratified on both sides in due form, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in the space of six months, or sooner, if it be possible. In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles, as well in the French as in the English language, and have placed their seals, declaring nevertheless, that the signature in two languages shall be cited as an example, and shall not prejudice either of the two parties.
Done at Paris, the 3th day of Vendemaire, the 9th year of the French Republic, and the 3d of October, 1800.
(Signed) JOSEPH BONAPARTE, C. P. FLEURIEU, ROEDERER, OLIV. ELLSWORTH, W. R. DAVIE, W. V. MURRAY.
For an exact Copy, C. M. TALLEYRAND.
RECENT ARTICLES. Received by an arrival at New-York.
FRANKFORT, October 18. The question of peace or war has never been so difficult to resolve as at this mo-
ment. While France and its allies are naming the ministers who are to assist at the Congress, we have seen only the Emperor on the other side) as King of Hungary and Bohemia) discover any design of sending ministers to treat of his interests. None of the allies of Austria, as England, Naples, the King of Sardinia, the Princes of the Empire, and particularly the Elector of Bavaria, appear ready to meet on these negotiations, notwithstanding the preparations which the French have caused to be made at Luneville, announcing that several ministers were now there. But while France and Austria are exhibiting, in this respect, pacific intentions, the extraordinary levies in all the states of the House of Austria, the formation at Dijon of a third army of reserve, a body of 15,000 English which is ready to embark at Leghorn, Russian troops passing the Dardanelles to enter the kingdom of Naples, the King of the Two Sicilies, all ready for the formation of a new army of 60,000 men, disclose projects of hostility. Why do we behold a formidable army of 200,000 men, assembled by the Emperor of Russia, upon the frontiers of Galicia, &c. In a word, why are there such vast preparations? To all these things we can only answer by a well known axiom—If you wish for peace, prepare for war, and wait the event.
VIENNA, October 15. Letters from Italy inform us, that an Austrian army was formed in Romania, to which all the allies are to be joined. The Russian army in Galicia is daily reinforced.
PARIS, October 13. Buonaparte has been employed with Talleyrand, and other politicians, to lay a foundation for a general peace; and a new code of the Laws of Nations—which will be communicated to the belligerent and neutral nations for their concurrence.
October 15. During the first days of the second decade of Vendemaire (2d and 3d October) one Demerville distributed money to certain suspected persons, who had resorted to him for that and other purposes. On the 9th of October it was ascertained that eleven of these persons had fixed on a day and hour to assassinate the First Consul, which was to take place at the theatre. These people being known, the police took proper measures to watch them. The next day two of these assassins were arrested; both of them Italians by birth. One of them, Carrachi, was apprehended in the passage behind the boxes; both were armed with daggers. Demerville, and others concerned, were arrested during the night. He and Carrachi have discovered the whole plot; they were both accomplices in the murders of September and at Versailles, and were hardened in their crimes. Carrachi, who was a Sculptor, had been for some time executing the bust of the First Consul, who had frequently sat for the purpose.
Barrere, Destrem, Lamarque, and other Ex-Conventionalists, are implicated in the plot, and have been arrested.
The conspiracy was discovered by an emigrant, who had agreed with the conspirators on the day and hour in which their purposes should be accomplished, and discovered the whole to the First Consul. Immediately on this, Buonaparte, fearful that the assassins might accomplish their designs, and that the republic should not be in commotion by his loss, appointed Gen. Moreau as his successor; four couriers were, accordingly, immediately dispatched to him.
The Members of the Council of State, with the liveliest emotions, heard of this conspiracy against the life of the First Consul. They congratulated him, with great respect, on the defeat of the conspiracy; assured him that they would scotch into the bottom of the horrid design, and bring the authors to condign punishment; and of their undiminished confidence in him.
Domestic Intelligence.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15. A gentleman, who left the city of Washington on Friday morning, and arrived here yesterday, informs, that late on Thursday evening letters were received at Washington, by a gentleman high in office, dated Columbia, Dec. 2. These letters stated that the Election for Electors of President and Vice-President had taken place that day, the result of which was, that the Electors considered as pledged to vote for Jefferson and Burr had succeeded. The following are the names of seven of them, copied by our informant from one of the letters—the eighth he accidentally omitted.
Robert Anderson Arthur Simpkins Wade Hampton Arthur Love Theodore Gilliard Paul Hamilton Jesse Blight.
NEW-YORK, December 10.
Capt. Bell, from Curacao, informs us, that all the American vessels that were at Curacao when the English took that place, are to pay a salvage of 25 per cent.—and that all property purchased by Americans, either from the French, Spanish or Dutch, after the 10th of September last, is to be repaid for. He further informs, that a very destructive fever raged at Curacao among the English soldiery—though the natives remained perfectly healthy. Capt. B. lost one man with the fever on his passage.
BOSTON, December 20. The Hon. Oliver Ellsworth has arrived in England from France, and has been presented to the King, by the American Minister; he was also present at the presentation of the sword to Lord Nelson by the city of London.—The treaty is scarcely spoken of in the London papers:—The Courier of the 27th of October says, "It relieves us from all apprehensions of any thing hostile to this country. In re-establishing harmony with France, America has not weakened the ties that bind her to this country; and her renewal of friendly intercourse with the French Republic has not been purchased by a sacrifice of the relations of amity and peace which subsist between her and Great-Britain. It is not difficult to divine the motives and the objects of the stipulation contained in the 10th article of the treaty, by which neutral vessels sailing under convoy are not to be visited."
Providence, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24.
A letter from the City of Washington, dated December 12, says,
A letter was received here this morning, by Col. Rutledge, one of the members of Congress, from South-Carolina, written by Mr. Detcaulure, at Columbia, and dated December 2, the day before the electors of President and Vice-President gave in their votes, of which letter the following is an extract:
"We are defeated in the election of electors, which is this moment determined. There were present 115 members of the Representatives, and 36 of the Senate, making in the whole 151—76, therefore, is a majority. The highest number on the federal ticket was 69.
"We could easily have formed a ticket, which would have been elected by a great majority, for the election of Mr. Jefferson and General Pinckney. But on the most mature deliberation, we deemed it wisest and most honourable to adhere to the federal arrangements, for the equal support of Mr. Adams and General Pinckney. General Pinckney firmly resisted any inducement to be associated with Mr. Jefferson, at the expence of Mr. Adams."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at the Seat of Government to another in this town, dated December 13.
"We are at last informed of the result of the Election in South-Carolina, which we have long expected would determine the Election of President and Vice-President.
"The Democratic Ticket has prevailed, and it is now past a doubt, that Messrs. Jefferson and Burr will appear to have been elected to the two most conspicuous and important offices in our nation.
"I forbear to make any comment, further than that it becomes us to be steady, and endeavour if possible to preserve our ancient New-England institution. On this preservation will depend in a great degree the future political prosperity of our part of the country."
A letter is said to have been received at Philadelphia from the City of Washington, announcing the ratification of the French Treaty by the Senate.
The length of the Treaty between France and the United States, in this day's paper, obliges us to omit many articles of foreign and domestic intelligence.
DIED, At Mendon, very suddenly, on Sunday evening last, Mrs. WARREN, relict of the late Mr. Samuel Warren, of this town.
Just received from New-York, THE celebrated CORDIAL BALM OF GILEAD, for Nervous Disorders, Consumption, Lowness of Spirits, &c. Likewise,
ANDREWS'S SPECIFIC LOTION, a safe, certain and speedy cure for all ERUPTIONS and HUMOURS of the FACE and SKIN.
Also, A few copies of Dr. Solomon's interesting and valuable Book entitled, THE GUIDE TO HEALTH. [Further Particulars in our next.]
For sale by Dr. THOMAS M. BARNOW, near the Episcopal Church; at the store of Mr. SAMUEL BROWN, and at the Book-store of Mr. HENRY CUSHING, Providence. Dec. 24.
LOOKING-GLASSES.
At the GOLDEN BEE-HIVE, Jeremiah F. Jenkins
HAS just received an assortment of English and Dutch Looking-Glasses some of which are elegant and of the latest fashion—English Window Glats 8 by 6 and 9 by 7. Warfe Irons, fine Table Salt, Basket ditto. A few pipes French Brandy; Canton dyed dark blue Nankens—and black wide ditto. And for the Ladies handsome Slips—useful at this Season. December 24.
To be Sold,
A VALUABLE FARM, in East Greenwich, containing about an hundred acres of most excellent land adjoining the compact part of said town, with a large Dwelling-house and Barn, and other out-buildings thereon. Said farm is excellently watered with durable springs. Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to JOHN PEACE, December 24.
Sales at Auction.
AT SIXTY DAYS CREDIT.
On SATURDAY next, the 27th inst. to close several consignments, will be sold by Public Vendue, at
Benjamin Hoppin and Son's AUCTION-ROOM,
ONE Bale, containing 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 3/4 Rose Blankets Three bales, containing 5 pieces Cassimeres, 12 do. Spotted Elastic, 6 do. Swandown, 3 do. Plains, 5 do. fine Broadcloths, different colours, 6 do. black and other coloured Flannels, and 8 do. Serge One bale of blue Broadcloths 30 Pieces Linnen, various qualities 100 do. Britannias One case of mens fashionable Hats A variety of worsted Hosiery, together with India Cottons, Bandanno Handkerchief purple and white Shawls, Cotton Cambric, &c. &c. Sale to begin precisely at 10 o'clock. Likewise, at half past 12 o'clock, at the door, 10 chests of best Hyson Tea 5 do. Souchong 3 hogheads of Rum 4 do. of Molasses 4 do. of Sugar 10 Russia Feather Beds, and many other articles. Dec. 24.
THE Subscribers beg Leave to inform the Public, that on the first Monday of January next an ACADEMY will be opened in a very healthy and delightful Part of this Town; in which, in one Apartment; young Masters and Misses will be instructed in Orthography, Pronunciation, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Composition, Geography, Astronomy and History; and in the other, Masters only will be taught the Latin and Greek Languages, the Art of Speaking, and such other Branches of Literature as are necessary to prepare them for College.
Prices of Tuition.
Dols. Cts. For the Languages, 4 00 per Quarter. For Geography, Astronomy and History, 3 25 ditto. For the other Sciences, 2 75 ditto.
The whole Business of the Academy will be superintended by Mr. LUCIUS CARY, who will be assisted by two able and accomplished young Gentlemen.
To facilitate the Mode of Instruction, and advance the Education of the Pupils by every possible Advantage, the Academy is furnished with a geographical and astronomical Apparatus, and an entertaining, historical, moral and religious Library.
Those Parents who may please to honour this Institution with their Patronage, may depend on the unremitted Exertions of its Preceptor, not only to improve their Children in useful Knowledge, but also in their Accomplishments and agreeable Manners; but also to inculcate the essential and inestimable Principles of filial Obedience, of moral Virtue, and of the Christian Religion.
JONATHAN MAXCY, Pres. R. I. Col. JOHN ROGERS, JOHN CORLIS, THOMAS P. IVES, Committee for the Proprietors.
N. B. For the Admission of Pupils, Application must be made to Mr. CARY. Providence, Dec. 24.
Kent, &c.
WHEREAS JERAD GORTON, of West-Greenwich, in the county of Kent, and State of Rhode-Island, labourer, preferred his petition to the next term of the Supreme Judicial Court, to be held in East-Greenwich, in said county, on the second Monday in April next; praying for divers causes therein set forth, that a decree of divorce between him and his wife Elizabeth Gorton, may be passed:—Notice is hereby given to the said Elizabeth, to appear at the next term of said Court, and shew cause, if any she hath, why the pray of said Petition should not be granted. A. BOYD, Clerk. December 24.
LOST,
On Friday afternoon last,
A RED MOROCCO POCKET-
BOOK, containing Fifty-eight Dollars in Providence Bank Notes, a Debenture Certificate from the Custom-House in Providence, No. 815, dated the 7th of November last, for 52 dollars and 28 cents; two Tickets in the Providence Episcopal Church Lottery, and a number of other papers of no consequence to any one but the owner. Whoever has found said Pocket-Book, and will return it to the subscriber, or leave it at this Printing-Office, shall receive Twenty-Dollars reward for the Pocket-Book, Money and Papers, or Five Dollars for the Book and Papers. GEORGE C. PECK. December 24.
For CHARLESTON, S. C.
The BRIG
John and Charles,
to sail in 12 or 15 days. For Freight
or Passage, apply at the Rose of
JOHN CORLIS. December 24.

Selected Poetry.
From the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
[The simplicity of the following song, the popularity of its tune, and the circumstance of its being written by "a flaxen-headed plough-boy" of Buchan, will procure it a ready perusal among the lovers of nature.]
Tune—"THE HUMOURS OF GLEN."
SOME sing of sweet Mally, some sing of fair Nelly, And some call sweet Susie the cause of their pain; Some love to be jolly, some love melancholy, And some love to sing of the Humours of Glen.  But my only fancy is my pretty Nancy, In venting my passion, I'll strive to be plain; I'll ask no more treasure, I'll seek no more pleasure, But thee, my dear Nancy, gin thou wert my ain.  Her beauty delights me, her kindness invites me, Her pleasant behaviour is free from all stain; Therefore, my sweet jewel, O do not be cruel, Consent my dear Nancy, and come be my ain.  Her carriage is comely, her language is homely, Her dress is quite decent, when ta'en in the main; She's blooming in feature, she's handsome in stature, My charming, dear Nancy, O wert thou my ain.  Like Phœbus adorning the fair ruddy morning, Her bright eyes are sparkling, her brows are serene, Her yellow locks shining, in beauty combining, My charming sweet Nancy, wilt thou be my ain?  The whole of her face is with maidenly graces Array'd like the gowans, that grow in yon glen; She's well-shap'd and slender, true-hearted and tender, My charming sweet Nancy, O wert thou my ain.  I'll seek thro' the nation for some habitation, To shelter my jewel from cold, snow and rain, With songs to my dear, I'll keep her ay cheery, My charming sweet Nancy, gin thou wert my ain;  I'll work at my calling, to furnish thy dwelling With everything needful thy life to sustain, Thou shalt not sit single, but by a clear ingle, I'll marry thee, Nancy, when thou art my ain.  I'll make true affection, the constant disposition Of loving my Nancy, while life doth remain. Tho' youth will be wasting, true love shall be lasting, My charming sweet Nancy, gin thou wert my ain.  But what if my Nancy should alter her fancy, To twine another, be forward and fair: I will not compel her, but plainly I'll tell her Begone, thou false Nancy, thou'ne ne'er be my ain.
HUNTING SONG.
[The poet DIBDEN is remarkable for his success, in hunting metaphors, without hunting them down. The following similitude of life and the chase is a proof of our statement, and of his fertility.]
LIFE'S a general chase, and the world is the field Where friends hunt, and brothers hunt brothers, Where to-day fairly hunted, to us others yield, And to-morrow we're hunted by others.  Through calling, profession, and trade, to get rich, All wrangle, and squabble and scramble, Through wood, dale and bottom, o'er hedge, stile and ditch; Through bush, and thro' briar, and thro' bramble.  Then come round me, ye hunters—in life's hark away; We have portions of pleasure and sorrow, And the man after game that's a hunter to-day, May be game for some hunter to-morrow.  The poor poet, of virtue would fain be the friend, Cries the age is corrupt, and he'll shew it, But, while hunting his brains the world's manners to mend, Pale poverty hunts the poor poet.  While hunting in battle for glory and fame, Grim death hunts the soldier and sailor; And the heir out of cash, who can start no more game, Is at last hunted down by his Tailor. Then come, &c.
Country Squires dash away, nor their noddles concern 'Bout the world, courts, jostlings and crosses, 'Till at length, to be bottom, Adzeons they turn, Eaten up by their dogs and their horses.
Wanted,
A HEALTHY WOMAN, with a good Breast of Milk, to take charge of an Infant. Enquire of the Rev. Dr. GANE. December 10. (N.F.)
WANTED,
A FEW thousand of good new twelve feet Hoops, to be delivered in ten days, for which a generous price will be given, by JOSEPH TILLINGHAST, South End.
WHO HAS FOR SALE,
A quantity of Rock and Turks-Island Salt.
December 3.
For SALE by Harris and Rhodes, 20 Boxes Havanna White and Brown Sugar 5 Hogheads W. I. Rum 3 Pipes Brandy 10 Hogheads Molasses Hyson, Souchong and Bohea Tea Turks-Island and Rock Salt Tobacco by the Hoghead A few Kegs Honey Cash paid for good clean Flax-Seed. October 15.
VARIETY STORE.
Jeremiah F. Jenkins,
No. 3, Market-Street,
HAS opened a handsome assortment of Ladies and Misses fashionable Bonnets, Straw Trimmings, silk Cord, white cotton Waist Cords and Balls, fashionable Muffs and Tippets, Fur trimmings per dozen pieces, different colours and very low; black and white Bugles, black and white Cap-Wire, cotton and silk Shoe-Roses, Gammels Hair Shawls, fringed and plain; black do. half mourning and chintz do. superfine 9-8 and 4-4 black flannel Shawls, and superfine white do. fine dark Coating and Batteen, fashionable colour for ladies wears; superfine Cloths, Cassimeres, Swandowns, Baizes and Coatings, Blankets, worsted Stuffs, fine Cambric Muslin, fine Lawn, plain and fancy silk Shawls, fine Edgings and Laces, Italian Widows Crape, extra long white kid and silk Gloves, coloured silk do. also cotton Gloves and Mitts, mens' white and coloured silk Gloves, Gauzes, different sorts; an assortment best Colrain Linens, fine linen and cotton Handkerchiefs, Dimities, cotton Checks, fine and coarse Sheetings and Shirtings, Cottons, black silk and other colour'd Velvets, very fine black Cotton Velvets, 6-gr. Table Diaper, narrow do. Suspender, Steels-Steiners, yellow Canvas, stout pieces silk Hair-Ribbon, American do. coloured Ribbons assorted, velvet Bindings, Apron Tapes, Chenal different colours, round black Feathers, fine and coarse milled Gloves and Mitts, mens and womens Hosiery, fair and floor Carpeting, oil Table-Cloths in patterns and per yard. An assortment of red and black Morocco Pocket-Books, White-Chappel Needles, Pins 3 1-2, 4, 4 1-2 and 5 lb. imperial Buttons, fashionable steel and gilt do. an assortment of fashionable handsome Stone Knee-Buckles, single and double bow Temple Spectacles, a variety of handsome Table-Knives and Forks, desert do. carving do. with and without guard springs; an assortment of Pocket and Pen-Knives assorted, long blade gloves and other Scissors, Gunter's Scales, and Dividers, Slates, Patent Pocket Lamp-Lanterns, quart and pint and a half Hard-Metal Tea-Pots, Mining-Knives, an assortment of Hard-Metal Table-Spoons, iron tin do. Tea do. Polishing Sand Paper, Cloak-Pins, Raisins per cask, best box do. Mace, real Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmegs, Cinnamon Buds, Pepper and Allspice, Citron, Currants, soft and hard shell'd Almonds Figs, genuine Flour of Mustard, long Mustard-Spoons, first quality Chocolate, Cocoa Shells, Spanish Indigo, Pimento per bag, Geneva per pipe, Bohea, Souchong, Hyson Skins, Young Hyson, Hyson and Gun-Powder Teas, all genuine in quality; Bohea Tea in half chests; a few pieces Russia Sheetings, and Russia Duck; Russia Feather Beds, Oil'd Hat-Cases, Oil'd Umbrellas, an assortment of fresh Fiddle-Strings, Looking-Glasses: a handsome variety of rich cut Decanters, do. Wine-Glasses, do. Tumblers, also gilt edged do. Sets and Casters various, some low priced, and a general assortment CrockeryWare, at his Crockery Store.
Cash and a generous price given for FLAX-SEED. December 3.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 18, 1800.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
In pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 23d day of April, one thousand eight hundred, entitled "An act to establish a General Stamp-Office,"
THAT a General Stamp-Office is now established at the seat of government, in the city of Washington, from whence there will issue, from and after the date hereof (upon the application of the Supervisors of the Revenue, under whose management the collection of the stamp duties is placed) any quantities of paper, parchment and vellum, marked or stamped, and duly counter-stamped, with the following rates of duty, which are demandable by law:—
For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, upon which shall be written or printed any or either of the instruments or writings following, to wit.
   D. C. M.     ANY certificate of naturalization, 5   Any licence to practise, or certificate of the admission, enrollment or registry of any counsellor, solicitor, attorney, advocate or proctor, in any court of the United States, 10   Provided, That a certificate in any one of the courts of the United States, for any one of the said offices, shall, so far as relates to the payment of the duty aforesaid, be a sufficient admission in all the courts of the United States, for each and every of the said offices.   Any grant or letters patent, under the seal or authority of the United States, (except for lands granted for military services) 4   Any exemplification or certified copy of any such grant or letters patent (except for lands granted for military services) 2   Any charter-party, bottomry or respondentia bond, 1   Any receipt or discharge for or on account of any legacy left by any will, or other testamentary instrument, or for any share or part of a personal estate, divided by force of any statute of distributions other than to the wife, children or grand-children of the person deceased, the amount whereof shall be above the value of fifty dollars, and shall not exceed the value of one hundred dollars, 25   When the amount thereof shall exceed the value of one hundred dollars, and shall not exceed five hundred dollars, 50   And for every further sum of five hundred dollars, the additional sum of 25   Any policy of insurance, or instrument in nature thereof, when the sum for which insurance is made shall not exceed five hundred dollars, 1   When the sum insured shall exceed five hundred dollars, 50   Any exemplification of what nature soever, that shall pass the seal of any court, other than such as it may be the duty of the clerk of such court to furnish for the use of the United States, or some particular States, 1   Any bond, bill single or penal, inland bill of exchange, promissory note or other note (other than any recognizance, bill, bond or other obligation, or contract, made to or with the United States, or any State or for their use respectively; and any bonds required in any case by the laws of the United States, or of any State, upon legal process, or in any judicial proceeding, or for the faithful performance of any trust or duty) 10   If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, 25   If above one hundred and not exceeding five hundred dollars, 50   If above five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars, 75   And if above one thousand dollars,   Provided, That if any bonds or notes shall be payable at or within sixty days, such bonds or notes shall be subject to only two-fifth parts of the duty aforesaid, viz.   If above twenty and not exceeding one hundred dollars, 4   If above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars, 10   If above five hundred dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars, 20   If above one thousand dollars, 30   Any foreign bill of exchange, draft or order for the payment of money in any foreign country, 20   The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of exchange, without respect to the number contained in each set.   Any note or bill of lading or writing, or receipt in nature thereof for goods or merchandise to be exported;   If from one district to another district of the United States, not being in the same State, 4   If from the United States to any foreign port or place, 10   The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of lading, without respect to the number contained in each set.   Any notes issued by the banks now established, or that may be hereafter established within the United States, other than the notes of such of the said banks as shall agree to an annual composition of one per centum on the annual dividends made by such banks, to their stockholders respectively, according to the following scale:   On all notes not exceeding fifty dollars, for each dollar, 50   On all notes above fifty dollars, and not exceeding one hundred dollars, 1   On all notes above one hundred dollars, and not exceeding five hundred dollars, 2   On all notes above five hundred dollars, 25   Any protest or other notarial act, 25   Any letter of attorney, except for an invalid pension, or to obtain or sell warrants for land granted by the United States as bounty for military services performed in the late war, 50   Any inventory or catalogue of any furniture, goods or effects made in any case required by law (except in cases of goods and chattels distrained for rent or taxes, and goods taken in virtue of any legal process by any officer) 10   Any certificate of a share in any insurance company, of a share in the bank of the United States, or of any state or other bank; 25   If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars,   If above one hundred dollars,   If under twenty dollars, at the rate of ten cents for one hundred dollars.  
THAT the power of the Supervisors of the Revenue to mark or stamp any vellum, parchment or paper chargeable with duty, will cease and determine from and after six months from the date hereof, to wit. on the last day of February, 1801.
THAT, If any persons shall, after the 1st day of February 1801, have in their custody or possession, any vellum, parchment or paper, marked or stamped by the Supervisors of the Revenue, upon which any matter or thing, charged with duty, shall not have been written or printed, they may at any time within the space of sixty days after the said last day of February, 1801, bring or send such vellum, parchment and paper, unto some office of inspection, and in lieu thereof, receive a like quantity or value of vellum, parchment and paper, duly stamped, in pursuance of the act herein before recited. And in case any person shall neglect or refuse, within the time aforesaid, to bring or cause to be brought unto some officer of inspection, any such vellum, parchment or paper, it is hereby declared, that the same will thereafter be of no other effect or use, than if it had never been marked or stamped, and that all matters and things, which may after that time be written or printed upon any vellum, parchment or paper, authorized to be exchanged in manner aforesaid, will be of no other effect, than if they had been written or printed on paper, parchment or vellum, not marked or stamped.
AND for the convenience of those persons who may be inclined to have their own vellum, parchment and paper stamped or marked, it is hereby declared, that when any person shall deposit any vellum, parchment or paper at the office of a supervisor, accompanied with a list, specifying the number and denomination of the stamps or marks, which are desired to be thereto affixed, the same will be transmitted to the General Stamp-Office, and there properly marked or stamped, and forthwith sent back to the same supervisor, who will thereupon collect the duties and deliver the paper, parchment or vellum, to the order of the person from whom the same was received.
GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of the Treasury, at WASHINGTON, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. (L.S.)