The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1800-04-10 00:00:00

THE KENTUCKY GAZETTE.
[No. 707.]
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1800.
[VOL. XIII.]
LEXINGTON.—PRINTED BY JOHN BRADFORD, (On Main Street)—PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAID IN ADVANCE.
A LIST OF LETTERS
IN the post-office Lexington, which if not taken out within three months, will be returned to the general post-office, as dead letters.
Etnathan Andrews; Elisha Allin, 2; Harmonious Alkier, care of Mr. Ingles; Wm. Atkins, Garrard county; Jacob Adams.
John Bobbs; Cuthbert Banks; John Boyd; Baird & Owens; Wm. Bishop, 2; Mess. Green & Burges; John Byrus, care of Mr. Wilkinson, white-smith; Robt. Ballentine, care of Richd. Biddle; Wm. Brown; David Barclay, care of Mr. McNair; Washington Boid; John Batterhall; John Bean; John Borger; Thomas C. Briggs; Thomas Baker, care of Mr. Parker; Hicheson Bell; George Baitzel, Winchester; John Bell; Walter Beall, Bourbon Furnace, 3.
John Caldwell; John Clark; Revd. Valentine Cook, Jessamine county; Thomas Carneal; Sally Cleveland, Clarke county; John Calhoun; James M. Campbell; Peter Crumbaugh; Samuel Creigh; John Colther; John Courtney; Capt. John Cord; Green Clay; John Henry Christian; Jacob Coons, Montgomery county; James Crawford, Clarke county; Dennis Casset; Robert Caldwell, 2; George Clark, 11.
Jean Jacques Dufour; John Dougherty; Thos. Dozer, Madison county; Robert Deening; Revd. Ambrose Dudley; Robert Denniston.
Ambrose Eglinton; Thos. Easton, care of James H. Stewart.
James Fleming, care of Mr. Bright; James French, Madison county; Joshua Flood, at McNair's, 2; Peter Follman; Maddox Fisher, 2; Jacob Fishback; Humphrey Grubbs; Samuel Gibson; Joseph Gray; Henry Gist, at Doctor Warfield's; Reuben Grant; Benjamin Gibbs.
William Haynie, Clarke county; Polly Humphreys; Jonathan Hutchinson; Hezekiah Hutchinson; Obadiah or John Higbee; Henry Hyman; Anne Hambleton, care of Dr. Brown; Benj. Harris; John Hammond; James Henry; Andrew Holmes; John Hollingsworth; Daniel Harragan; Richard Harding.
William Johnson, care of Jos. Gray; James B. January, 2; Samuel January, 2; Gabriel Jones; Michael Jones & Brother; Richard Johnson; John Jackson; John W. Johnson, 2; William Irwine; Robert Irwine.
Thomas King; Robert Kirk; Archd. Kincaid, Versailles, 2; Matthew Kennedy, care of George Trotter.
Jacob Lehre; William Lister, care of Mr. Black; Thomas Leland, care of Dr. Leland; Maj. John Lee, 2; David Lusk; George Lewis.
John Mayhee; George Mosit; John McKinney; Thomas Montgomery, Slate creek; Reuben M'Daniel, Montgomery county; David M'Cord; Rev. Robert Marshall; David M'Gee; Peter Moore; John Morrison; James M'Gowan; Col. Nathaniel Maffie; Alexander MacGregor; Cloner Mixon.
William Niblick; Charles North, care of Archd. M'Ilvain; Francis Newman, near Ipswich.
John Osburn, Scott county.
John Pritchett, Clarke county; James Parker, care of Mr. Clark; William Porter; Joseph Perkins, Garrard county; John Price, Jessamine county.
William Reiling; Theok. B. Ruffin; John Roehester; George Rowland; Mary Robinson; Capt. John Roberts, Montgomery county; Capt. Joseph Richeson.
John Slofs, care of Joseph Rodgers, 2; John Spangler; James Spillman; Robert Steel; James H. Stewart, 2; Cornelius Sullivan, care of Robert Beatty; John Sterritt, near Georgetown, 2; Nathaniel Scples; Sheriff of Fayette county; David Shield; Benj. Stephenson, care of James H. Stewart; Mr. Savary; David Strong; Reuben Searcy; Williby Sladuen, Boone county; William Smith, Winchester; Isaac Stob; Richard Smith, Hatter.
Buckner Thruston, 2; Jacob Teaford; James Twyman, Scott county; Patty Tatterton; James Twineham, Harrison county; William Thomas, hatter; Benjamin Turner.
William Vawter, Woodford.
Mrs. John Wagon, 2; John Weaver; Dr. Walter Warfield; James Ware; David Wath, Fayette or Woodford; Isaac Webb, 2; Jacob W. Walker, Jessamine county; Gersham White, 2; George
Webb, attorney; John Williamson; William Winters; Charles Wilkins.
James Young; Robert Young; David Yancy.
JOHN W. HUNT, P. M. April 1, 1800.
WHEREAS my wife Anne Owley has without any just cause absented herself from my bed and board, and appearing by her behaviour and threats that she does not wish to return to her duty again. These are therefore to warn all persons from trusting trading or bartering with her in any respect as I am determined not to comply with or pay any debts of her contracting; I also forewarn all persons from harbouring or entertaining her; and those indebted to me are hereby forbid on their peril, to pay unto her any monies or property; as she considers herself now not to be my wife; she calls herself Anne Calf Slade.
Daniel Owley. Lincoln, March 8th, 1800. *3w
MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
February court of quarter sessions, 1800.
William Nelson, complainant, vs.
Mark Lacey, Oliver Badger, John Steel, and Jeconias Cooper, defendants, IN CHANCERY.
THE defendants Badger, Steel and Cooper not having entered their appearance agreeably to law and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth—on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the second Tuesday in June next, and answer the complainant's bill—and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Kentucky Gazette, for two months successively, and published at the door of the courthouse of this county, and also at the door of some meeting house in the neighborhood of the town of Mountsterling.
A copy. Teste, M. Harrison, C. M. C. Q. S.
STATE OF KENTUCKY, ss.
PARIS DISTRICT, March term, 1800.
John Roberts, complainant, against
Edward Ford, defendant, IN Chancery.
THE defendant not having entered his appearance herein agreeably to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state; on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the third day of the next June term, and answer the complainant's bill, and that a copy of this order be published for two months successively in the Kentucky Gazette, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the court-house in Bourbon, and another posted at the front door of the Presbyterian meeting house in Paris, some Sunday immediately after divine service. W.G.P.
A Copy. Teste, L. H. Arnold, D. C. B. D. C.
KENTUCKY.
Ohio county, to wit.
February court of quarter sessions, 1800.
Samuel M'Graw, complainant, against
The heirs of John May and John Harvey, defendants, In a Caveat.
THE defendants, John May's heirs, and John Harvey's, not having entered their appearance herein agreeably to law, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth; on the motion of the complainant, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the first Tuesday in June next, and answer the complainant's caveat—that a copy of this order be inserted in the Kentucky Gazette or Herald, for two months successively, and published at the door of John Atherton's house some Sunday immediately after divine service, and a copy set up at the door of the court-house in this county.
A Copy. Teste, Aquilla Field, C. O. C.
LEXINGTON DISTRICT COURT.
February Term 1800.
Christopher Greenup and Francis Keene, Complainants, against
Joseph Frazier and Simon Keaton, Defendants, In Chancery.
THE defendant Keaton, having failed to enter his appearance herein agreeable to law, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to our satisfaction that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth, on the motion of the complainants by their counsel, it is ordered that the said Keaton do appear here on the third day of our next term, and answer the complainants bill; that a copy of this order be inserted in the Kentucky Gazette or Herald according to law, another posted at the door of the courthouse for Fayette county, and that this order be published on some Sunday immediately after divine service at the door of the Presbyterian meeting house in Lexington.
A Copy. Teste, Thos. Bodley, C. L. D. C.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Clear creek, one bay mare, thirteen and half hands high, no brand perceivable, some saddle spots, twelve years old, appraised to 61.
William Morrison. Jessamine county, 26th January, 1800.
WOODFORD COUNTY,
March Court of Quarter Sessions, 1800.
James Wason, complainant,
AGAINST
Jane Bowles, Samuel Baird, James Baird, and William Baird, and James M'Bride and Henry M'Bride, heirs at law of James M'Bride, dec. defendants,
IN CHANCERY,
THE defendants Samuel Baird, James Baird, & William Baird; and James M'Bride and Henry M'Bride, not having entered their appearance and given security according to act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this state; on motion of the complainant by his attorney, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first Monday in July next, and answer the bill of the complainant; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Kentucky Gazette for two months successively, and published at the door of Clear creek meeting house, on some Sunday immediately after divine service, and at the door of the Court house in the town of Versailles.
A copy. Teste, T. Turpin, Clk.
ALEXANDER PARKER,
HAS just imported from Philadelphia, and opened at his store in Lexington, opposite the court-house, a LARGE and GENERAL ASSORTMENT of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hard Ware, Queens, China and Glass Ware, which he will sell at the most reduced prices for CASH.
Lexington, April 1st, 1800.
WHEREAS my wife Ruth, has left her bed and board—I do forewarn all persons from crediting her on my account. Mercer county, 27th March, 1800.
*1t Overton Harris.
FOREWARN all persons from taking an assignment on two bonds given by me to William Stewart—one for 271 10s. to be paid in pork, in December 1799: the other for 271 10s. to be paid in beef, in February or March 1800; as I do not intend to pay Mr. Stewart another shilling until he comes forward and pays the taxes that are due on the bills I purchased of him, and the damage I have sustained for want of License to work the said bills. 3t*4b Thos. Berry, March 29, 1800. Clarke county.
I HAVE just arrived from Philadelphia with a very large and general assortment of
MERCHANDIZE,
In addition to those remaining on hand.
From the terms on which those GOODS were laid in, they can be sold on as low, (if not on lower terms) than any ever imported into this state.
For sale also, a general assortment of LAW, HISTORY, DIVINITY, AND SCHOOL BOOKS.
WRITING PAPER of the best quality, with WAFERS, QUILLS, SLATES and SLATE PENCILS.
An elegant
COACHEE
WITH PLATED HARNESS, also for sale.
WILLIAM LEAVY.
Lexington, Dec. 27, 1799.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS.
THOSE indebted to the subscriber are once more requested to discharge their respective accounts. Those who neglect to comply with this notice previous to the 20th of next month, are informed that suits will be commenced against them without discrimination.
Robert Barr.
March 12, 1800.
LONDON, December 27.
The armistice upon the Rhine is at end. The Archduke refused to accede to it, and notified his refusal on the 8th to the French commandant at Mannheim. The French, who were inferior in force, immediately made dispositions to retreat, and evacuated by capitulation Mannheim and Neckerau, of which the Austrians immediately took possession. In order to divide and divert the attention and forces of the Archduke, General Lecourbe means immediately to enter Suabia from the side of Switzerland.
Suarrow's army continuing its march had arrived at Ratisbon, where on the 11th he received dispatches from Petersburg,
in consequence of which the troops were ordered to halt.
December 28.
We received this morning the Paris papers to the 26th instant, three days later than those which arrived yesterday.
The consuls and legislative commissions, continuing to adopt measures for giving immediate activity to the constitution have published the names of the Conservative Senators, the Tribunate and the Council of State. A report has also been presented to the commissions of Five Hundred, proposing that the Conservative Senate and the Consuls should enter upon their functions on the 25th inst. and that as soon as the Senate had completed the nomination of the members of the Tribunate and the legislative body, which was to be completed on the 26th, the Councils of the Antients and of Five Hundred and the legislative Commissions should be dissolved.
This proposition, together with some other regulations respecting the new Government was immediately adopted.—The last sittings of the Councils were on the 25th, when the Consuls and the Senate were installed. The unfortunate persons who were so unjustly sentenced to transportation after the revolution of the 18th Fructidor, have at length engaged the attention of the legislature, whose last act almost has been upon the suggestion of the minister of Police and the Consuls, to pass a decree, in virtue of which, the unhappy sufferers who were transported to Guiana, and other places, will, in all probability, be permitted immediately to return to their country.
The Constitution is very generally accepted and the votes of rejection are but few.
On the Rhine the two armies remain tranquil.—The cause of the Archduke's refusal to consent to the armistice, seems to have been, because it was only a partial one. The Paris papers contain an important address from the Archduke respecting the revolution in Paris, which shall be given in our next.—We still expect that a suspension of arms, extending from the Rhine to Switzerland and Italy will take place.
In Italy the Austrians proceed in their career of victory. Coni is said to have surrendered by capitulation on the 3d inst. The garrison consisting of 300 men, are prisoners of war. In consequence of this event, the French will probably, unless they are very strongly reinforced, be obliged to fall back to Nice.
An article from Nice, of the 15th, says the head quarters were expected there. Moreau has set out to take the command of the army of the Danube. Massena was to leave Paris in a few days, to put himself at the head of the army of Italy.
The Chouans have not undertaken any operation of decisive importance against republicanism. According to a letter from Angers of the 21st, they lent on the preceding evening three deputies, it is said, to enter into a definitive treaty.
CAIRO, September 3.
The division destined to attack the army of the Grand Seignior, set out from this place about a fortnight ago. It consists of 60,000 men, including 6,700 French both infantry and cavalry. The remainder is composed of Arabs, Copts, and young Mamelukes, instructed by Buonaparte in the art of War. Five hundred camels are employed to transport the baggage and small field pieces across the desert which separates Syria from Rosetta. The Arabian cavalry were well mounted and equipped, and the whole army is well supplied with every thing necessary for so long a march. This expedition is commanded by gen. Legrange. In three months he has destroyed all the revolted Mamelukes, who were left, and taken their baggage, horses, camels, and provisions. The environs of Cairo are at present cleared of all the banditti by whom they were infested. The national institute continues to employ itself on objects of general utility to the country.
NEW-YORK, March 14.
At a late hour last night we float the Press, to give our readers a piece of news they have been eagerly looking for, and which redounds more to the honor of the intrepid Truxton and his brave crew, than we had even reason to expect.
The brig Rebecca, Capt. Harding, belonging to Messrs. Scott and Seaman, arri-

Wed here last evening, in 25 days from Curacao.
By capt. Harding we are informed, that about 9 days before he sailed, the French ship Vengeance, capt. Perot of 54 guns, arrived there entirely dismasted, with the loss of 100 men killed, and 60 wounded, in the engagement with the United States frigate Constellation, Commodore Truxton, of 38 guns.
The Vengeance was bound from Guadeloupe to France, with a valuable cargo, beside a large quantity of specie, and had on board the Governor of Guadeloupe and family, besides, it is said, 60 American prisoners.
Captain Harding also informs, that the Vengeance was a mere wreck when she arrived—both pumps were going and nine feet water in the hold.
The French captain said at Curacao, that he was on the eve of striking; and indeed had no hopes of escaping from his gallant, though then unknown antagonist—but, before the Rebecca failed, he learned who it was that so bravely contended with him.
March 15 Extract of a letter from capt. Baker, of the Delaware sloop of war, to the secretary of the Navy, dated Curacao, 8th of February, 1800.
"On the 6th inst. appeared off this harbour, a French ship of 52 guns called La Vengeance, & from what I can learn she left Guadeloupe last Sunday, bound to France with a great deal of money, &c. on board; and also two French generals, and a number of other officers and passengers: but on Monday evening she was overtaken by an American or British frigate (but generally believed to be former) and from her shattered condition, she must have had a very severe action, La Vengeance having left standing but her bowsprit, fore and mizen-mast; her fore and mizen shrouds, stays &c. being cut up so, that you could scarce see any of them for stoppers. In short, there appears no place that has escaped a shot; her starboard side, has been much hulled and it is said she had 140 men killed and wounded, and when she parted she had 8 feet water in the hold: They say the other vessel was in a similar situation, and in fact, that neither of them had the command of their ships. The French ship is now hauled up in the harbor, and will require some months to refit, not having masts, cordage, &c. for that purpose."
P. S.—This moment arrived a Schooner from St. Thomas's with an American gentleman on board. They were spoke by a British frigate this morning at 8 o'clock, who informed them that yesterday he spoke Commodore Truxton going down to Jam. who informed them that last Monday night he got along side of a French 50 gun ship, and after a long and severe action, had the misfortune to lose his main-mast, fore, and mizen top mast; the ship became unmanageable, at which time the French ship made her escape, severely wounded.
Capt. Truxton said, that if he could have kept along side 15 minutes longer, he would have taken her. This agrees with the French report, for they say they were in such a situation, they could have defended the ship much longer.
PHILADELPHIA, March 20. Extract of a letter from Surinam, dated 3d February, to a merchant in this city.
"Victor Hughes has arrived at Guiana with troops and ships from France, and it is feared, will have this place in a little time.—Of this be assured, that every day since I have been here, all the Forts have been firing forty and fifty rounds morning and evening, in order to practise their men. There are a very few troops here, and not ship of war, and I am afraid Hughes will have the place."
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES. IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MARCH 14th 1800 The Committee of Privileges, to whom it was referred, by a resolution of the Senate of the 8th inst. to consider & report what measure it will be proper to adopt in relation to a publication in the newspaper printed in the city of Philadelphia, on Wednesday morning, the 19th of February last, called the General Advertiser, or Aurora—have had the same under investigation, and have agreed to report, as the result of their deliberations, that it would be proper for the Senate to adopt the following resolutions, viz.
Resolved, that the said publication contains assertions and pretended information respecting the Senate, and the committee of the Senate and their proceedings, which are false, defamatory, scandalous, and malicious, tending to defame the Senate of the United States, and to bring
them into contempt and disrepute, and to excite against them the hatred of the good people of the United States; and that the said publication is a daring and high-handed breach of the privileges of this House.
Resolved, that William Duane, now residing in the city of Philadelphia, the Editor of the said news-paper, called the General Advertiser, or Aurora, be, & he is hereby ordered to attend at the bar of this House on the
day of March inst. at which time he will have an opportunity to make any proper defence for his conduct, in publishing the aforesaid false defamatory assertion & pretended information, & the Senate will then proceed to take further order on the subject: and a copy of this and the foregoing resolution, under the authentication of the Secretary of the Senate of the United States, and attested as a true copy by James Mathers, Sergeant at arms for the said Senate, and left by the said Sergeant at Arms with the said William Duane, or at the office of the Aurora, on or before the day of March inst. shall be deemed sufficient notice for the said Duane to attend in obedience to this resolution.
March 10. Mr. Bayard moved that the Committee of the whole House, to whom was referred the message of the President relative to Thomas Nash alias Jonathan Robbins, and a resolution submitted by myself to the House, appropriating the conduct of the President, and referred to that committee: be discharged, from the further consideration thereof.
A long debate arose from this motion, in which Messrs. Randolph, Davis, Jones, Nicholas, Livingston, and Eggleston spoke against it—and Messrs. Bayard, Bird, Otis, Kittera, Varnum, Rutledge, Edmond, Shepherd, and H. Lee, in favor of it; when the question was taken.
Ayes 62—Nocs 31.
UNION, March 21. On Monday the 17th inst. both Houses of the Legislature of this State adjourned sine die, without coming to an agreement to provide a law for the appointment of Electors to choose a President and Vice President of the United States: Thus our House of Representatives, rather than to trust the good people of Pennsylvania, to elect in districts as in other cases, have thought proper to persevere in their opposition to the bill of the Senate, and thereby to exclude the sovereign State of Pennsylvania from a voice in the choice of the most important officers in the Union! with the House the maxim clerly is, aut Caesar aut nihil.
Lexington, April 10.
ANOTHER FIRE. Between 11 and 12 o'clock, on Tuesday morning last, a town was alarmed with the cry of FIRE—It was a small building adjoining Maj. Wagoner's new framed house on Crabb street. The fire had got to such a height before the citizens could collect, that it was found impracticable to get it under without pulling down the building. No other damage was sustained.
We this day commence the publication of the Laws passed at the first session of the sixth Congress of the United States: during the continuance of their publication, a Gazette extra will be occasionally added, when an influx of news shall make it necessary.
FOR SALE, 150 Acres of LAND, in Jessamine county, within one mile and a half of the court house. For terms apply to the subscriber, on Hickman road. Jonas Davinport. April 4th, 1800. 62 31
NEWPORT ACADEMY. THE Academy at Newport will commence on the first of April. The Rev. Robert Stubbs is president of said academy, in which will be taught reading, writing and arithmetic, at eight dollars per annum; also the English grammar, the dead languages, the following branches of the mathematics, viz. geometry, plain surveying, also by latitude and departure, navigation, geography, astronomy, mensuration of surfaces and solid; also logic, rhetoric, book keeping, &c. at four pounds per annum.
Board can be had in Newport and its vicinity, on reasonable terms, and the greater part received in produce. The following gentlemen are trustees to the above mentioned academy, viz. Washington Berry, Charles Morgan, John Grant, Thomas Kennelly, Thomas Sanford, Thomas Curnea, Richard Spitzgat, Daniel Mays, Robert Stubbs, James Taylor & Bernard Stuart, who will pay strict attention to the regulations and management of the same.
Washington Berry, chm. March 12th, 1800. 314
MR. BRADFORD. YOU will inform the public whom it may concern, that I have business of importance in Virginia that will require my absence for a few months. I have authorized my son Amos Edwards, to collect my debts—and with William Clark esq. to sell several species of valuable property, in order to raise money to settle with my creditors, whose accounts are not fully paid up.
John Edwards sen. 6th April 1800.
THE SUBSCRIBER THANKS the public for the confidence with which they have hitherto honored him in the FARRIER'S BUSINESS—He continues to attend sick horses, either boarding at his own house, on Hickman, or to visit abroad those whose owners are pleased to call on him. W. Mentelle.
SIX PENCE REWARD. RAN AWAY from the subscriber, WILLIAM HUGHES, an apprentice to the silver smith's business, who went to Frankfort on Tuesday the 7th of January last, by my permission, and was to have returned the Thursday following, but did not; and I am informed that on the night of the 26th of last month, he left Frankfort to go down the river; he is about 18 years of age, slender made, has black hair, and black eyes, much of a gambler, and very capable of deceiving; his clothing I can't very well describe, but when he left me he had a dark mixed coat and vest, a short round-a-bout coat and overalls of grey Bath coating, a pair of black leather overalls, and black fur hat. Whoever delivers him to me, in Lexington, or confines him in any jail within the United States, and gives information so that I get him again, shall be entitled to the above reward, as this is the fourth time he has run away. Samuel Ayres. April 3d, 1800.
LAWSON MCCULLOUGH, TAYLOR: TAKES this method to inform his friends and customers, that he has removed his shop from Main street, to High street, in the same house where he formerly carried on his business, and as he keeps a number of hands constantly employed, those who will please to favor him with their custom, may depend on having their work done on the shortest notice, and in the neatest and best manner. Lexington, 9th April, 1800.
TROTTER & SCOTT HAVE just received, and opened at their store, opposite the market house in Lexington, the most complete assortment of Merchandise they have exposed for sale in this place—among which are Queens Ware, Glass and Hard Ware, Bar-Iron and Steel. Also a good assortment of Law, History, Divinity, Blank and School Books, Writing Paper, Quills & Wafers. Taking into consideration the scarcity of cash, we will make it an object for those who buy for money, to call upon us, but from our reduced prices, no credit can be given. Lexington, April 9th, 1800.
BY LAST EVENING'S MAIL.
SAVANNAH, March 7. Yesterday we were favored by a friend with London papers down to the 8th of Jan. and a Liverpool paper of the 9th, received by the ship Hope, capt. Callaghan, 54 days from Liverpool: they contain nothing of moment, except the following interesting correspondence.
LONDON, January 6. (Published by Authority.) Letters from the minister of foreign affairs in France, and from gen. Buonaparte, with the answers to them by the right hon. lord Grenville, his majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs.
TRANSLATION. MY LORD, I dispatch by order of gen. Buonaparte, first consul of the French republic, a messenger to London: he is the bearer of a letter from the first consul of the republic, to his majesty the king of England. I request you to give the necessary orders that he may be enabled to deliver it directly into your own hands. This step in itself, announces the importance of its object. Accept, my lord, the assurance of my high consideration.
CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND. Paris, the 5th Nivose, 8th year of the French republic. (December 25. 1799.) TRANSLATION. French republic: Sovereignty of the People: Liberty: Equality. Buonaparte first consul of the republic, to his majesty the king of Great Britain and of Ireland. Paris, the 5th Nivose, 8th year of the republic.
Called by the wishes of the French nation to occupy the first magistracy of the republic, I think it proper, on entering into office, to make a direct communication of it to your majesty.
The war which for eight years has ravaged the four quarters of the world, must it be eternal? Are there no means of coming to an understanding? How can the two most enlightened nations of Europe, powerful and strong beyond what their safety and independence require, sacrifice to ideas of vain greatness, the benefits of commerce internal prosperity, and the happiness of families? How is it, that they do not feel that peace is of the first necessity, as well as of the first glory?
These sentiments cannot be foreign to the heart of your majesty, who reigns over a free nation, and with the sole view of rendering it happy. Your majesty will only see in this overture my sincere desire to contribute efficaciously, for the second time, to a general pacification, by a step, freely, entirely of confidence, and disengaged from those forms which, necessary perhaps to disguise the dependence of weak states, prove only, in those which are strong, the mutual desire of deceiving each other.
France and England, by the abuse of their strength, may still, for a long time, for the misfortune of all nations, retard the period of their being exhausted. But I will venture to say it, the fate of all civilized nations is attached to the termination of a war, which involves the whole world.
Of your majesty, BUONAPARTE. Downing-Street, Jan. 4, 1800. Sir, I have received and laid before the king the two letters which you have transmitted to me and his majesty seeing no reason to depart from those forms which have long been established in Europe for transacting business with foreign
states, has commanded me to return in his name, the official answer which I send you herewith enclosed.
I have the honor to be, with high consideration Sir, your most obedient humble servant. GRENVILLE. To the minister for foreign affairs, &c. at Paris.
NOTE. The king has given frequent proofs of his sincere desire for the re-establishment of secure & permanent tranquility in Europe. He neither is, nor has been engaged in any contest for a vain and false glory. He has had no other view than that of maintaining, against aggression, the rights and happiness of his subjects.
For these he has contended against an unprovoked attack: and for the same objects he is still obliged to contend; nor can he hope that this necessity could be removed by entering, at the present moment, into a negotiation with those whom a fresh revolution has so recently placed in the exercise of power in France; since no real advantage can arise from such negotiation to the great and desirable object of general peace, until it shall distinctly appear, that those causes have ceased to operate, which originally produced the war, &c by which it has since been protracted, and in more than one instance renewed.
The same system, to the prevalence of which France justly ascribes all her present miseries, is that which has also involved the rest of Europe in a long and destructive warfare, of a nature long since unknown to the practice of civilized nations.
For the extension of this system, and for the extermination of all established governments, the resources of France have from year to year, and in the midst of the most unparalleled distress, been lavished and exhausted. To this indiscriminate spirit of destruction, the Netherlands, the United Provinces, the Swiss Cantons, (his majesty's ancient friends & allies) have been successively sacrificed. Germany has been ravaged—Italy, though now rescued from its invaders, has been made the scene of unbounded rapine and anarchy. His majesty has himself been compelled to maintain an arduous and burthensome contest for the independence and existence of his kingdoms.
Nor have these calamities been confined to Europe alone—they have been extended to the most distant quarters of the world, and even to countries so remote both in situation and interests from the present contest, that the very existence of such a war was perhaps unknown to those who found themselves suddenly involved in all its horrors.
While such a system continues to prevail, and while the blood and treasure of a numerous and powerful nation can be lavished in its support, experience has shown that no defence but that of open and steady hostility, can be availing. The most solemn treaties have only prepared the way for fresh aggression; and it is to a determined resistance alone, that is now due whatever remains in Europe of stability for property, for personal liberty, for social order, or for the free exercise of religion.
For the security, therefore, of these essential objects, his majesty cannot place his reliance on the mere renewal of general professions of pacific dispositions. Such professions have been repeatedly held out by all those who have successively directed the resources of France to the destruction of Europe; and whom the present rulers have declared to have been all, from the beginning, and uniformly incapable of maintaining the relations of amity and peace.
Greatly, indeed, will his majesty rejoice, whenever it shall appear that the danger to which his own dominions, and those of his allies, have been so long exposed, has really ceased; whenever he shall find that the necessity of resistance is at an end; but after the experience of so many years of crimes and miseries, better principles have ultimately prevailed in France, and that all the gigantic projects of ambition, and all the restless schemes of destruction which have endangered the very existence of civil society, have at length been finally relinquished; but the conviction of such a change, however agreeable to his majesty's wishes, can result only from experience, and from the evidence of facts.
The best and most natural pledge of its reality and permanence, would be the restoration of that line of princes which for so many centuries maintained the French nation in prosperity at home, and in consideration and respect abroad: such an event would at once have removed, and will at any time remove all obstacles in the way of negotiation or peace. It would confirm to France the unmolested enjoyment of its ancient territory, and it would give to all the other nations in Europe, in tranquility and peace, that security, which they are now compelled to seek by other means.
But desirable as such an event must be both to France and to the world, it is not to this mode exclusively, that his majesty limits the possibility of secure and solid pacification. His majesty makes no claim to prescribe to France what shall be the form of her government, or in whose hands she shall vest the authority necessary for conducting the affairs of a great and powerful nation.
His Majesty looks only to the security of his own dominions, and those of his allies, and to the general safety of Europe. Whenever he shall judge that such security can in any manner be attained, as resulting either from the internal situation of that country, from whose internal situation the danger has risen, or from such other circumstances of whatever nature, as may produce the same end; his majesty will eagerly embrace the opportunity to concert with his allies, the means of immediate and general pacification.
Unhappily no such security hitherto exists: no sufficient evidence of the principles by which the new government will be directed; no reasonable ground by which to judge of its stability. In this situation it can for the present only remain for his majesty to pursue, in conjunction with other powers, those exertions of just and defensive war, which his regard to the happiness of his subjects will never permit him either to continue beyond the necessity in which they originated, or to terminate on any other grounds, than such as may best contribute to the secure enjoyment of their tranquility, their constitution, and their independence.
GRENVILLE. Downing-Street, January 4, 1800. To the minister for foreign affairs, &c. at Paris.
FOR SALE, FIVE HUNDRED acres of land on the waters of Slate, or Lulbulgrud, in Clarke county. Also 295 acres near the above. 420 acres on Green river, about 16 miles from Lincoln court house. About 300 acres Big Brush creek, Greene county. About 420 acres on and near the road from Harrodsburg, to Frankfort, near Grays Horse Mill. For terms apply to the subscriber, in Jessamine county. Samuel M c Dowell. April 9th, 1799.

Certain provisions of a former act applied to this. act, intitled "An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers," passed the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, be, and the same are hereby extended to carry into effect this act, and for the trial and punishment of offences against it, in the same manner as if they were herein specially recited.
Limitation. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted , That this act shall continue and be in force until the third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, and no longer.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,
Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.
APPROVED—January 17th, 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of the United States.
CHAPTER VI.
An ACT to repeal part of an act, intitled "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned, and to continue in force the residue of the same."
B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the fourth section of an act, intitled "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned," passed on the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, shall be and the same is hereby repealed, and the residue of the said act shall be and the same is hereby continued in full force without limitation of time.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
TH: JEFFERSON,
Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED—February 11, 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of the United States.
CHAPTER VII.
An ACT for the relief of John Vaughan.
B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to settle the account of John Vaugh-

CHAPTER II.
An Act extending the privilege of franking to William Henry Harrison, the delegate from the territory of the United States north-west of the Ohio; and making provision for his compensation.
Sec. 1. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That William Henry Harrison, the delegate to Congress from the territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, be entitled to the privilege of sending and receiving letters free of postage, on the same terms, and under the same restrictions, as are provided for the members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives of the United States, by the act, intitled "An act to establish the post-office and post-roads within the United States."
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That the said William Henry Harrison shall receive for his travelling expenses, and attendance in Congress, the same compensation as is or may be allowed by law, to the members of the House of Representatives of the United States, to be certified and paid in like manner.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,
Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate,
APPROVED—January 2d, 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of the United States.
CHAPTER III.
An Act, supplementary to the act, intitled "An act to provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves, within the United States."
Sec. 1. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the commissioners appointed under the act to which this is a supplement, shall have power, on consideration and examination of the lists, returns, valuations, and abstracts rendered by the assessors, to revise, adjust, and vary the valuations of lands and dwelling houses in each and every sub-division of the several assessment districts, by adding thereto, or deducting therefrom, such a rate per centum as shall appear to be just and reasonable: Provided , That the relative valuations of the different lots or tracts of land, or dwelling houses in the same sub-division, shall not be changed or affected.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That the said commissioners may direct the additions or deductions as aforesaid, to be made out and completed by the several principal assessors, or if they shall deem it more advisable, by their clerk and such assis-
Commissioners may vary the valuations in subdivisions of assessment districts.
They may direct the variationsto

ments as they shall find necessary, and appoint for that purpose; be made out  Provided , That the compensation to be made to the said assistants shall not exceed the pay allowed to the assistant assessors. by their clerk, &c. by the act to which this is a supplement.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,
Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED—January 2d, 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of the United States.
CHAPTER IV.
An ACT for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt.
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That persons imprisoned on process issuing from any court of the United States as well at the suit of the United States as at the suit of any person or persons in civil actions, shall be entitled to like privileges of the yards or limits of the respective gaols, as persons confined in like cases on process from the courts of the respective states, are entitled to, and under the like regulations and restrictions.
Prisoners entitled to the limits of gaols.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That any person imprisoned on process of execution issuing from any court of the United States in civil actions, except at the suit of the United States may have the oath or affirmation hereinafter expressed, administered to him by the Judge of the District Court of the United States, within whose jurisdiction the debtor may be confined; and in case there shall be no District Judge residing within twenty miles of the gaol wherein such debtor may be confined, such oath or affirmation may be administered by any two persons who may be commissioned for that purpose by the District Judge: The creditor, his agent or attorney, if either live within one hundred miles of the place of imprisonment, or within the district in which the judgment was rendered, having had at least thirty days previous notice by a citation served on him, issued by the District Judge, to appear at the time and place therein mentioned, if he see fit, to shew cause why the said oath or affirmation should not be so administered: At which time and place, if no sufficient cause, in the opinion of the Judge (or the commissioners appointed as aforesaid) be shewn, or doth from examination appear to the contrary, he or they may at the request of the debtor, proceed to administer to him the following oath or affirmation, as the case may be, viz. “You solemnly (swear or affirm) that you have no estate, real or personal in possession, reversion, or remainder, to the amount or value of thirty dollars, other than necessary wearing apparel; and that you have not, directly or
Prisoners in execution may have an oath of insolvency administered to them.

Whereupon they shall be discharged,
Proceedings to be filed in the district court.
Powers of the judge and commissioners.
Debtor may be removed to facilitate proceedings.
Penalty on taking a false oath or affirmation.
30 days after judgment, debtor may take the benefit of this act,
indirectly, given, sold, leased, or otherwise conveyed to, or intrusted any person or persons with all or any part of the estate, real or personal, whereof you have been the lawful owner or possessor, with any intent to secure the same, or to receive or expect any profit or advantage therefrom, or to defraud your creditors, or have caused or suffered to be done any thing else whatsoever, whereby any of your creditors may be defrauded." Which oath or affirmation being administered, the judge or commissioners shall certify the same under his or their hands to the prison-keeper, and the debtor shall be discharged from his imprisonment on such judgment, and shall not be liable to be imprisoned again for the said debt, but the judgment shall remain good and sufficient in law, and may be satisfied out of any estate which may then, or at any time afterwards belong to the debtor. And the judge or commissioners, in addition to the certificate by them made and delivered to the prison-keeper, shall make return of their doings to the District Court, with the commission, in cases where a commission hath been issued, to be kept upon the files and record of the same court. And the said judge, or commissioners, may send for books and papers, and have the same authority as a court of record, to compel the appearance of witnesses, and administer to them, as well as to the debtor, the oaths or affirmations necessary for the enquiry into and discovery of the true state of the debtor's property, transactions and affairs.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That when the examination and proceedings aforesaid in the opinion of the said judge or commissioners, cannot be had with safety or convenience in the prison wherein the debtor is confined, it shall be lawful for him or them, by warrant, under his or their hand and seals, to order the marshal or prison-keeper, to remove the debtor to such other place convenient and near to the prison as he or they may see fit; and to remand the debtor to the same prison, if upon examination or cause shewn by the creditor, it shall appear that the debtor ought not to be admitted to take the above recited oath or affirmation, or that he is holden for any other cause.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted , That if any person shall falsely take any oath or affirmation, authorised by this act, such person shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof, shall suffer the pains and penalties in that case provided. And in case any false oath or affirmation be so taken by the debtor, the court, upon the motion of the creditor shall recommit the debtor to the prison from whence he was liberated, there to be detained for the said debt, in the same manner as if such oath or affirmation had not been taken.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted , That any person imprisoned upon process issuing from any court of the United States, except at the suit of the United States, in any civil action, against whom judgment has been, or shall be recovered, shall be entitled to the privileges and relief provided by this act, after the expiration of thirty days from the time such judgment has been

or shall be recovered, though the creditor should not, within that time, sue out his execution, and charge the debtor therewith. altho' no execution is issued out.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,
Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED—January 6th, 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of the United States.
CHAPTER V.
An AGT for the preservation of peace with the Indian tribes.
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any citizen or other person residing within the United States or the territory thereof, shall send any talk, speech, message, or letter to any Indian nation, tribe, or chief, with an intent to produce a contravention or infraction of any treaty or other law of the United States, or to disturb the peace and tranquility of the United States, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding two years. Penalty on certain correspondence with the Indians.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That if any citizen or other person shall carry or deliver any such talk, speech, message or letter, to or from any Indian nation, tribe or chief, from or to any person or persons whatsoever, residing within the United States; or from or to any subject, citizen, or agent of any foreign power or state, knowing the contents thereof, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars and be imprisoned not exceeding twelve months. Penalty on the bearers of such correspondence.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted , That if any citizen or other person, residing or being among the Indians, or elsewhere, within the territory of the United States, shall carry on a correspondence, by letter or otherwise, with any foreign nation or power, with an intent to induce such foreign nation or power, to excite any Indian nation, tribe, or chief to war against the United States, or to the violation of any existing treaty; or in case any citizen or other person shall alienate, or attempt to alienate the confidence of the Indians from the government of the United States, or from any such person or persons as are, or may be employed and entrusted by the President of the United States, as a commissioner or commissioners, agent or agents, or in any capacity whatever, for facilitating or preserving a friendly intercourse with the Indians, or for managing the concerns of the United States with them, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding twelve months. Penalty on certain correspondence with a foreign power in relation to the Indians—and on attempting to alienate their confidence.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted , That the provisions of the

SIXTH CONGRESS
OF THE
UNITED STATES,
At the first session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the second of December, 1799.
CHAPTER I.
An ACT for reviving and continuing suits and proceedings in the Circuit Court for the district of Pennsylvania.
Sec. 1. B E it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all suits, process and proceedings, of what nature or kind soever, which were pending in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the district of Pennsylvania, at the time appointed by law, for holding a session thereof in October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and which were discontinued by failure to hold the said court, shall be, and they are hereby revived and continued, and the same proceedings may and shall be had in the same court, in all suits and process aforesaid, and in all things relating to the same, as by law might have been had in the same court, had it been regularly holden, at the time aforesaid.
Proceedings which were discontinued by the failure to hold October session 1799, revived.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all writs, and other process, which may have been, and which shall be issued, by the clerk of the said court, bearing teste of April session or October session, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, shall be held and deemed of the same validity and effect, as if the same court had been regularly held on the eleventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
Teste of writs.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Judge of the District Court of the district of Pennsylvania, to direct the Clerk of the said Circuit Court to issue such process, for the purpose of causing jurors to be summoned to attend at the session of the said Circuit Court, on the eleventh day of April next, as hath heretofore been issued for the like purposes, returnable to any preceeding session thereof; and the persons so summoned shall, in case of non-attendance, be liable to the same penalties as if such process had been issued in the ordinary course of proceeding.
Jurors may be summoned for next April term.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
SAMUEL LIVERMORE,
President of the Senate, pro tempore.
APPROVED—December 24th, 1799.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of the United States.