The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1801-10-28 00:00:00

The National Intelligencer,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. I. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, NEW-JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL.
No. 117.
NEW JOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1801.
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CAROLINE.
By THOMAS CAMPBELL, Esq.
Author of "the Pleasures of Hope."
I'll bid the Hyacinth to blow, I'll teach my Grotto green to be, And sing my true love all below The Hallow Bow'r and Myrtle tree.
There, all his wild-wood scents to bring, The sweet South Wind shall wander by, And with the music of his wing Delight my rustling Canopy!
Come to my close and clustering Bow'r, Thou Spirit of a milder clime, Fresh with the Dews of Fruit and Flow'r, Of mountain Heath and moory Thyme!
With all thy rural echoes come, Sweet Comrade of the rosy Day, Waking the wild Bee's gentle hum, O: Cuckoo's plaintive roundelay.
Where'er thy morning breath has play'd, Whatever Isles of Ocean fan'd, Come to my Blossom-woven shade, Thou wand'ring Wind of Fairy Land!
For sure, from some enchanted Isle Where Heav'n and Love their Sabbath hold— Where pure and happy Spirits smile Of Beauty's fairest brightest mould;
From some green Eden of the Deep, Where Pleasure's Sigh alone is heav'd, Where tears of rapture Lovers weep, Endear'd, undoubting, undeceiv'd:
From some sweet Paradis- afar Thy Music wanders, distant, lost, Where NATURE lights her leading star, And LOVE is never, never cross'd!
On, gentle Gale of Eden Bow'rs, If back thy rosy feet should roam, To revel with the cloud-Is hours In NATURE's more propitious home.
Name to thy lov'd Elysian Groves That o'er enchanted Spirits twine, A fairer form than Cherub Loves— And let the name be CAROLINE!
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Sept 16, 1801.
REMARKS ON LIBELS,
Occasioned by the late presentment by a Grand Jury, of the Editor of the National Intelligencer for an alleged Libel against the Judiciary.
[CONCLUDED.]
CONSIDERING this right as demonstrably established, it becomes me next to enquire, whether the publication charged as libellous does more than assert and exercise this right. In order to judge whether it does, or does not, I will concisely state its contents, after making a few preliminary remarks.
Of this publication, the Editor is to be considered as the printer, not the author. It is for the act of publishing, and not for that of writing, that he was charged. In justifying the right of the author to make the remarks which that piece contains, he is not to be considered as responsible for the accuracy of those remarks, nor is it to be inferred that because he barely published them, they are his own. So far from this being the case, he would as strenuously contend for the right, as he now does if the opinions expressed were directly the reverse of what they are, if they approved all the measures of the late administration, and all the acts of all the courts in America.
Viewing him then as the Editor of the National Intelligencer, mark the character in which he stood when this piece was offered for publication. It became him to examine it, not with a view of deciding the precision of its ideas, or the logical accuracy of its inferences; but with a view of determining whether it contained any wanton and illegal invasion of character—if, on examination, he considered it free from this, then he possessed the right of publishing it, and no tribunal other than that of public opinion could call him to account for the act of publication. It is true that he still had the power to reject it. Every printer has this power over every article offered for publication in his paper. He has a right to discriminate, to pursue his own taste, and to consult the taste of his readers. This right printers exercise in various ways. Their profession is numerous; their degrees of information various; their judgments sometimes good, and sometimes bad. They generally, it is to be presumed, do their best: but this best is often bad enough; and too often their best efforts are deservedly chastised by public ridicule. But here the matter ends. The laws do not, and ought not to, pursue them. They are too magnanimous to interfere in such concerns. As well might they interfere in the common concerns of ordinary life. If folly were criminal, and our jails were filled with its votaries, or our treasury enriched with amercements derived from them, the former, it is to be feared, would know no bounds, and the latter would certainly overflow. Here we should behold a victim dragged from the sacred bench, and there a judge forced from the no less sacred tribunal of justice. In one apartment we should behold the philosopher turned fool, and in the next, the fool turned philosopher. In short, if according to the poet, "we are all fools of different kinds," we should be all locked up, nor should we be able to find one wise man to be our jailor.
This performance appeared in the National Intelligencer on the 12th of June. Three months had just passed since the nation had willed a great change in its public agents, executive and legislative; or, in other words, in all those agents, whom the rights of election could at that time affect. It had especially placed in the great chair of state an individual believed to hold different political opinions from his predecessor. To this gentleman was ascribed a decided conviction of the unconstitutionality of the Sedition Law, and a no less decided conviction of the universal right of the citizen to investigate the measures of public men. In the opinion of the nation, this right had been infringed by the federal law, and in the execution of this law by the courts of justice. The force of the
opinion, co-operating with other causes, had produced the change I have just alluded to. Believing it to be his duty, as the organ of the public will so emphatically expressed, to withdraw as much as in him lay the unconstitutional restraints imposed on the press, he had removed from their offices a number of marshals and attorneys, who had aided the execution of that act. For such removal the executive magistrate was instantly assailed with the most virulent reproach. His performance of duty was stigmatised as the base indulgence of resentment; and what arose from a desire of restoring harmony to society was ascribed to a malevolent desire of fomenting its divisions.
In the vindication of a character thus traduced, a character deemed so sacred by a previous legislature as to justify the barrier of a sedition law, the writer in the National Intelligencer, under the signature of "A Friend to Impartial Justice," stepped forward. His avowed and only object appears to be, to defend the measures of the President. In defending them, it became necessary to assign the causes which dictated them. These causes, as assigned, are, the execution by the courts of justice of an unconstitutional law, commonly called the Sedition Law.
The writer condemns this law as unconstitutional, declares its dangerous tendencies, and then says, "The instruments of this law—instruments unfortunately inextinguishable to other feelings than those which gave it existence—were the courts of law."
So far we have nothing but the expression of two opinions, viz. that the law is unconstitutional, and that the courts of law had the same feelings with those which gave it existence.
These opinions may be erroneous, they may not be our opinions; but, notwithstanding, any citizen may have a right to express them without punishment.
The writer proceeds to observe—"In the erection of these tribunals, the constitution had wisely declared that the judges should hold their commissions during good behaviour, hoping, in the spirit of confidence, that the chief magistrate would appoint exclusively those men who would administer justice with impartiality and talent, and not suffer themselves to be made the instruments of political intolerance. The liberal confidence of the constitution has been abused, and future events have shown that what was created by the constitution as a barrier against undue power has been converted into its most efficient instrument. Hence our courts, with scarcely an exception, have been prompt to seize every occasion of aggrandizing executive power, of destroying all freedom of opinion, of executing unconstitutional laws, and of inculcating by the wanton and unsolicited diffusion of heterodox politics, the doctrines of passive obedience and non-resistance."
Again, we have nothing more than inferences drawn from facts; inferences which are merely the opinions of the writer. These opinions are—
That the federal courts had been converted into the efficient instruments of undue power; that they had been prompt to seize every occasion of aggrandizing executive power, of destroying all freedom of opinion, of executing unconstitutional laws, and of inculcating by the wanton and unsolicited diffusion of heterodox politics, the doctrines of passive obedience and non-resistance.
Now, these are all matters of opinion, denied by some citizens, and affirmed by others. If the sedition law was in truth unconstitutional, it immediately and necessarily follows that the courts, in executing it in so many cases and with such rigor, had become the instruments of undue power, as without their instrumentality the law could not have been carried into effect; it follows that they were prompt to seize every occasion (within their reach) of aggrandizing executive power—for to silence the animadversions of the press on executive measures was to aggrandize executive power by removing its strongest restraint; it follows that they were prompt to seize every occasion of destroying all freedom of
opinion—for we all know the astonishing effect of fine and imprisonment on the tongue and the pen; and it follows that they were prompt to seize every occasion of executing unconstitutional laws, even if the sedition law was the only unconstitutional law they did execute, supposing there was no other unconstitutional law for them to execute.
One other charge is made; that they inculcated by the wanton and unsolicited diffusion of heterodox politics, the doctrine of passive obedience and non-resistance.
We all of us must recollect how full the newspapers were, some time since, of charges made to grand juries by the presiding federal judges. Unconfined to a plain and concise statement of the duties of jurors, many of them were so many political essays on the principles of government, discussions of the constitutionality or expediency of particular laws, and declarations of the court on the propriety of legislative and executive acts of the government, entirely disconnected with judicial duties; and in general all the measures of the late administration were applauded, while those who censured or opposed them were exhibited as discontented, ignorant, or turbulent men.
Now the sentiments of the courts, thus expressed, were approved by one part of the nation, and disapproved by another. Those who disapproved them were of opinion that the politics inculcated were heterodox, and that they enforced the doctrine of passive obedience and non-resistance. If they sincerely believed the Sedition law, itself, independent of all other laws, to be so unconstitutional and odious, as they repeatedly declared it to be, did not they, in their opinion, who justified this law, which repressed free enquiry, enforce passive obedience and non-resistance. They thought, and perhaps, they thought truly, that if the press be once silenced, passive obedience and non-resistance follow of course.
I have noticed substantially all the opinions, in relation to the Judges, contained in this performance. The others contained in it follow necessarily; such as, that the whole corps of judges were found by the Chief Magistrate in hostility to the change of public opinion which placed him in office, and that such hostility had been exacerbated by fruitless efforts to avert it; that the political ideas of the judges involved in their wide range, strong personal regards and antipathies; & that the President "found the community divided; he found the asylum of justice impure. There, where reason and truth, unagitated, and unimpaired even by suspicion, ought to preserve a perpetual reign, he contemplated the dominance of political and personal prejudice, habitually employed in preparing or executing partial vengeance."
Now, whether these opinions of this writer are true or not, is not the question. Such an enquiry is altogether irrelevant to the present occasion. The single question is whether if he thought them true he had not a right to express them publicly. That he had such a right, and that those who differed from him have the same right to publish their opinions, I contend, cannot be doubted by any man who holds inviolable that liberty of the press which the Constitution, both of the United States, and of Maryland, so sacredly guaranties.
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WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1801.
The Captains of the Navy of the United States have been reduced to the number prescribed by the act of Congress of the last session.
The statement on this subject, which originated in the Philadelphia Prints, and which has been copied into several other papers, is erroneous.
The 1st Volume of the New Universal Biographical Dictionary, by James Hardie, has been published in New-York. Among those characters, whose lives are given we notice several respectable citizens of the U. States.
In the first Eastern District of Massachusetts, the votes of 26 towns for a Representative in Congress are thus divided :
Table with 3 columns: Name, Repub. Votes, Fed. Votes. Rows: Mr. Cook (508), Mr. Kinsley (253), Mr. Dummer (216), Scattering (24).
Two towns only remain to be heard from.
In the state of Delaware the New Legislature stand thus :
Table with 5 columns: County, Senator, Represen'ts, Votes for Repub., Votes for Fed. Rows: New-Castle, Kent, Sussex.
It follows that two thirds of both branches are federal.
The ascertained majority for Mr. Van Nels, the Republican candidate for a seat in Congress, in the room of John Bird resigned, is 916. At the last election, not a year since, this district was decidedly federal. The delegation from the state of New York in the House of Representatives will consist of 7 republicans and 3 federalists ; it previously consisted of 6 republicans, and 4 federal.
THEODORUS BAILEY, republican, is elected representative to Congress for the district of Duchess.
STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, republican, is said to have been chosen a senator of the United States from Vermont.
Pennsylvania Election.
In Dauphin County, the republican ticket, consisting of 1 Senator and 3 Representatives, has carried.
New-Jersey Election.
Middlesex County. The federal ticket, for 1 Councillor, and 3 representatives has carried. The federal ticket had 1130 votes, and the republican ticket 856.
Somerset County. The federal ticket, for 1 Councillor, and 3 representatives, has carried. The federal ticket had 1336 votes, and the republican ticket 477 votes.
Hunterdon County. The republican ticket, for 1 Councillor, and 4 representatives has carried. The republican ticket had 1853 votes, and the federal ticket 1588 votes.
At the last election for members of Congress the federal ticket in this county had a majority of near 1900 votes.
Cumberland County. The republican ticket has carried by a majority of near 400 votes.
Monmouth County. The republican ticket has carried.
VERMONT ELECTION.
Newbury, October 8.
This day the General Assembly of this state convened in this town. After sorting and counting the votes for governor, &c. for the present year, it appeared that his Excellency ISAAC TICHENOR, was elected Governor.
PAUL BRIGHAM, Lieutenant Governor. BENJAMIN SWAN, Treasurer. AMOS MARSH, Speaker. ROSWELL HOPKINS, Secretary.
Judges, &c of the County Court of the county of Windham.
Samuel Knight Chief Judge. Benjamin Burt and Jalon Duncan, Judges.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in the Natchez to the Editor.
The increase of trade down this river, surprises old settlers—the number of boats is I believe trebled, even since last year. More boats have likewise been lost ; but that is chiefly owing to Whisky, as I have
been told. Yet as far as I could judge, I am astonished so few accidents have happened. Boats are ill found, and left, often to the conduct of men not well acquainted with great waters. Two things are particularly essential to safety and dispatch, attention to the currents of the river, and carefully to avoid fastening to high banks. Where willows grow, on young cotton trees, there is no danger, but high banks are very apt to fall in, with their growth of trees.
Several boats and people have thus been lost. Two or three boats should descend together. They should not let Indians board them, at least if they do, they should give them no liquor.
Some narrow escapes have been made ; & if not guarded against, mischief must be expected. Something like benevolence has written this, and wishes that these hints should be improved into legible form and published, as nobody's.—It is said, nobody does much mischief : but thus he may do some good. I have not health to write as I intended.
I have been told near 100,000 barrels of flour have been floated down this year, and the greater part carried to New Orleans. One brig built near Pittsburg is gone to sea, and two more are building. This will be a great country. But some remarks on this I shall endeavour to make correctly soon for publication”.
CONVENTION OF NEW-YORK.
Friday, October 16.—On motion of Mr. Van Nels, of New-York, Convention adopted the following resolution, with its recitals, to wit :
Whereas, by the sixteenth clause of the constitution of this state it is provided, that the number of senators shall never exceed one hundred, nor the number of assembly three hundred ; and
Whereas, pursuant to an act of the legislature of this state, this Convention has been elected, among other things, for the purpose of considering the parts of the constitution of this state respecting the number of senators and members of assembly, and with power to reduce and limit the number of them as the said Convention may deem proper : Therefore,
Resolved, As the sense of this Convention, that the number to which the members of the senate and assembly are permitted to encrease by the sixteenth clause of the constitution is too great and ought to be reduced.
Mr. E. L'Hommedieu, of Suffolk, moved that the Convention should agree to the following resolution, to wit :
Resolved, As the sense of this Convention, that after the return of the census of the electors of this state, taken in the present year, the number of members of assembly be and the number of senators
Resolved, That on the return of the next census thereafter, the number of members of assembly be in the ratio of one member to electors, and the number of senators in the ratio of one member to electors.
Resolved, That the same encrease on the return of every census after the one taken this present year, be continued in the aforesaid ratio, until the number of members of assembly shall amount to and the number of senators shall amount to
Committed to a committee of the whole.
Saturday, October 17.
Mr. Savage, of Washington, made a motion, that the Convention should agree to reconsider the resolutions which were yesterday adopted, relative to the number of senators and members of assembly ; and on the question to agree to the same, it was carried in the affirmative.
On motion of Mr. Savage, Resolved, That the Convention resolve itself into a committee of the whole on so much of the subjects referred to their consideration, as relates to the number of senators and members of assembly.
On motion of Mr. Hoffman, (attorney general)
Resolved, That the resolutions relative to the number of senators and members of assembly, which were yesterday adopted, and this day re-considered, be committed to the committee of the whole, when on the resolution proposed by the motion of Mr. Savage,
Mr. Van Nels, of New-York, made a motion, that the Convention should agree to the following resolutions. to wit :
1. Resolved, as the sense of this Convention, that as soon as the result of the census, which was directed to be taken by an act of the legislature of this state, passed the 7th April, 1801, shall be received by the secretary of this state, the legislature shall proceed so as to regulate the representation of the people of this state, that the whole number of members of assembly shall amount to
and the whole number of senators to
2. Resolved, That if on the taking of any Census thereafter, it shall appear that the whole number of Electors in this state shall have increased
or upwards, the Legislature shall make a new apportionment of the Members of Assembly among the respective counties of this State, allowing one Representative for every such increased number of Electors.
Mr. Elmerdorf, of Ulster, made a motion, that the Convention should agree to a resolution in the words following, to wit :
Resolved, as the sense of this Convention, that the true construction of the 23d article of the constitution of this state, relative to the right of nomination to office, be and is hereby determined to vest a concurrent right of nomination to office in the governor-governor, or president of the senate, when they shall respectively administer the government, and the council of appointment.
Ordered, That the consideration of the said resolution be postponed, and that a sufficient number of copies thereof be printed for the use of this convention.
Then the convention resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on so much of the subject referred to their consideration as relates to the number of Senators and members of assembly, the hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer in the chair ; and after some time spent thereon, the committee reported progress, and had leave to sit again.
To fill up the first blank in the first resolution of Mr. E. L'Hommedieu.
Mr. Talmadge, of Herkimer, proposed that the number be one hundred and eight.
Mr. Floyd, of Suffolk, that the number be one hundred.
Mr. E. L'Hommedieu, that the number be ninety ; and Mr. Hoffman, that the number be seventy.
Monday, October 19.—The convention, this day, in committee, came to a resolution that the House of Assembly shall be reduced to one hundred members—the present number is 108.
It is with pleasure we learn that a Time-Piece is finished by Simon Willard, of Roxbury, for the Senate of the United States. It is made upon a model principally of his own invention, and is judged to be the best work of the kind in the Union.
The Editor of newspapers and almanacks are requested to publish the following.
To raise fruit and forest trees by a rapid growth, dig the holes for setting the trees at least one feet larger every way than the roots extend, let part of the earth thrown into the holes be richer than that which was taken out, and the whole be well pulverized ; the first tender shoots from the roots passing into the earth, thus enriched and made soft, will have a quick and strong growth, and thereby penetrate the more solid earth with vigour. No grass, or weeds, or any vegetable, should grow near the tree to rob its roots of nourishment : and the ground must be hoed two or three times in the summer, five or six feet every way from the tree, until it has attained a proper growth.
By such culture, trees will often grow as large in six or seven years as they commonly do in twenty, in the usual practice of setting them in a small hole, with few and crowded roots, and the grass permitted to form a sward round them. Indeed great numbers die before they come to maturity, and the labour of the farmer is lost. Few trees ever attain a large growth that were not properly cultivated while young. The farmers often lose ten times the expense of a proper cultivation, in fruit and in timber besides waiting many years longer for the produce.
An attention to this subject becomes every year more important as many old orchards are in decay, and forest trees decrease in most of the old towns. Nothing more strongly marks the improvidence of farmers, than their neglect to preserve and cultivate trees. By planting forest trees, thick in double or treble rows, they will form a good fence, and also produce much wood and timber. If a more active attention shall not be paid to this subject in future, the next generation (and some of the present) must greatly suffer.
[Boston Centinel.]
Counsellor JOLLIVET has enjoined the Editor of the Mentz Gazette to publish no news respecting France but what he knows to be true ; otherwise his paper will be suppressed.
[Paris pap.]
Accounts from Bengal say, “Indigo is the general object of cultivation at the side of France, of which four or five crops
a year are produced. One person lately sent to Europe 60,000 pounds weight, of a very superior quality. The town is large, and covers a great deal of ground, but the houses, in general, are mean. Port Louis is said to be impregnable, though troops may easily be landed in some parts of the island.”
A gentleman having lately written to his Friend to know if he was well pleased with the purchases made by his good spouse at Fonthill, the husband replied in the following distich—
Such bargains purchased by my dear, Her taste at auctions shewing, Will make me turn an auctioneer— For I am—going ! going !
The following discovery to make blue letters on Iword-blades, was made by an American gentleman at Dunkirk. Take a well polished blade, and hold it over a charcoal fire till it is blue ; then, with oil colour, write such letters as you with should appear & remain, and let them dry ; then warm some strong vinegar, and pour the infusion all over the blade, which will infallibly take off the blue colour ; after this process a little common warm water will take off the oil colour, and the letters will appear and remain of a curious and indelible blue. The same may be done, with equal success, on a common penknife, or any other instrument.
Mr. Addington, it is said, will demand a loan of 12,000,000 of the Turks, upon putting them in possession of Egypt. It is but fair that we should be paid for fighting their battles, somehow or other, either in money or land.
The India company, by their late treaties, with the native powers, receive an additional revenue of near 1,000,000l. ster. per annum.
SIERRA LEONE.—The following is an account of debts, credits, and capital stock, of the Sierra Leone company, on the 21st of December, 1800 :
Credits, viz.
Table with 3 columns: Description, Amount, p, s, d. Rows: Estimated value of property at Sierra Leone and afloat, Debts due to the company in England, Invested in 5 per cents, Interest due on it, and cash in hand.
Debts, viz.
Table with 3 columns: Description, Amount, p, s, d. Row: Deduct debts owing by the company chiefly for goods sent to the colony.
Capital Stock
The total effects of the company, at the end of 1799, amounted only to the value of 82,330l. 5s.
In their trade the company have not been very fortunate. Four ships with valuable cargoes, to the amount of above 30,000l. were successively lost.—Much distress was hence suffered in the colony for want of supplies. By two homeward cargoes captured by the French, they sustained a loss of 6600l. sterling. From government they have received assistance to the amount of 21,000l. which is not to be repaid.
Account of the several sums of money advanced by England by way of Loan or Subsidy to different states, from the commencement of the present war ; together with an account of the interest received on such sums as have been advanced by way of Loan.
Table with 3 columns: Issued for the service of, Amount, p, s, d. Rows: Prussia, Sardinia, 1793, 4, 5, and 6, of the emperor, in 1795 and 6, of the emperor, in 1797, Portugal, do. in 1798, of Russia, of the emperor, elector of Bavaria, &c. of the emperor, of Russia, of Bavaria, of the emperor, to enable his Imperial majesty to replace magazines which had been taken by the enemy at

Stockach, 150,000 0 8
Philadelphia, Oct. 24.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
£.12.599.288 2 10
N. VANSITTART.
Whitehall Treasury Chambers,
June 29, 1801.
*The subsidies voted for the king of Sardinia amount to 600,000l. of which 100,000l. remaining unissued, a payment has been made since the month of October, 1800, to the agent of his Sardinian Majesty, at the rate of 4000l. per month.
†The interest received on the above-mentioned loans to the emperor of Germany amounts to 935,573l. 19s. 2d.
Memorandum—A sum of 153,968l. 13s. 4d. which appears in the account presented to the House of Commons, of the distribution of the vote of credit for 1,4000,000l. for the year 1800, to have been issued for the service of the Queen of Portugal, was furnished in various supplies of military stores.
NATIONAL DEBT.—Three statements have lately been laid before the public; viz. Mr. Morgan's, Mr. Tierney's, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer's. The first states the national debt, after deducting the stock redeemed by the commissioners, at 506,136,972l. The second (exclusive of the stock redeemed by the land-Tax) at 490,009,846l.—The third states the whole of the debt, which was agreed to by the House of Commons, at 426,207,865l.
[Lond. Pap.]
POPULATION.
The authorities for the following estimates are, Busching, Crome, Lopez, D'Aranda, Necker, Menelle, Jageman, Hole, Schlotzer, and Garterer.
   States. Population.     Russian Empire with Polish addition 26,125,000   Austrian States in Germany and elsewhere, with Polish addition* 27,800,000   France, ancient limitation 23,000,000   Great Britain and Ireland 15,291,493   According to others 16 1-2 m.   Spain 10,500,000   Prussia 9,764,509   With Polish addition. (Poland 8,500,000)   Sardinia 3,170,000   Sweden 3,000,000   Venetian States 2,500,000   United Netherl. 2,500,000   Portugal 2,360,000   Pope's States 2,230,000   Denmark 2,200,000   Electorates of the Pal. and of Bavaria 2,100,000   Swiss States 2,000,000   Elect. of Saxony 1,870,000   Great Duchy of Tuscany 1,000,000   Elect. of Brunswick. 850,000   Duchy of Wirttemberg 1,000,000   Elect. of Cologne 550,000   Hesse Cassel 450,000   Genoa 400,000   Elect. of Mentz 320,000   Modena 320,000   Elect. of Treves 305,000   Mecklenburg 300,000   Hesse Darmstadt 300,000   Ark. of Salzburg 250,000   Parma 230,000   Liege 200,000   Wurtzburg 200,000   Baden 200,000   Brunf. Wolfenbut. 185,000   Bayreuth Anspach 185,000   Belongs to Prussia.   Berlin 180,000   Stettin 155,000   Magdeburg 150,000   Nassau 130,000   Offenburg 120,000   Lucca 120,000   Anhalt 100,000   Schwarzenburg 100,000   Oldenburg 85,000   Fulda 80,000   Lippe Schauenburg 67,000   Zweybruck 65,000   Ragusa 56,000   Ottoman Empire (namely) 49,000,000   In Europe 8,000,000   Asia 36,000,000   Africa and Egypt 5,000,000   Italy 16,250,000   German Empire† 25,000,000  
* Including Austrian Netherlands, Lombardy, Tuscany, &c.—The present population of the Hereditary States is infinitely short of this estimate.
† According to Busching, 25,000,000; to Crome, 27,191,000, and to Garterer, 24,000,000.
CIRCUIT COURT.
Yesterday evening the motion on a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted, was opened before the court, in the case Hollingsworth vs. Duane . The motion was grounded on the affidavits of three citizens, to two facts, one that the foreman of the jury was not a citizen—the second, upon a declaration made by another of the jury that he would if he could send the Editor of the Aurora out of the country. The question was merely opened, the rule being granted, but the arguments on account of the quantity of business before the court postponed to next session.
At the same time the motion for a rule against the Editor for a contempt was called up.
The court considered other business, and the time being short,
It was postponed to next session of the court, which adjourns this day. Aurora.
MINISTRY OF MARINE.
The Minister of the Marine has published the dispatches which he has just received from Rear Admiral LA CROSSE, Captain General of Guadalupe and its dependencies. They are dated the 4th of July, and contain the following details:
After giving an account of the engagement between the ANDROMEDA and COGARDE, the Rear Admiral goes on to state, that on his arrival he took immediate measures to check the spirit of disaffection and commotion, which had too long prevailed in the colony. Several individuals of that description, of all classes, were arrested and sent on board the Gocarde , on their return to France. Among them are MOLARD and MEGIS, Ex-Commissioners of the government; BIGARD, Ex-Consul at St. Bartholomew; MICHEL SENIOR, Ex-Consul at St. Thomas, &c. These measures have given to the Colony the certainty of profound peace. Several Citizens, imprisoned for political opinions, or on suspicion of emigration, have been released.
The Rear Admiral directed his attention to the manner in which the treaty between France and the United States was executed in the Colony.—He ascertained, indeed, that all the vessels which had been seized since the Convention, or condemned before the publication of it in the Colony, had been restored to their respective proprietors; but he was astonished at the number of those condemned between these two periods, and the products of which had been divided between the fitters out and the crews of the privateers. He proposes to draw up a report, which will make known to the Government the importance of the claims the subjects of the United States have still to make. The evil, is the greater, because the decree of the Consuls constituting a Council of Prizes at Paris, was unknown in the Colony, until the Rear Admiral's arrival; so that the neutrals were liable to the condemnation usually exercised by the Tribunals of Commerce. He found, in the distribution of justice, such fluctuation in the minds of the Judges, such incoherence in the laws of succession, and such confusion in the civil and criminal branches, exercised by the same tribunals, that he could not reject the remonstrances made to him from all quarters to adopt provisional measures for the organization of the tribunals.
The revival of the laws transmitted to France, on the measures respecting succession; the different decree issued by the Agents since the retaking of the Colony; the letters of privileges which each of them assumed the power of giving, have thrown the administration of Justice into a state of the most lamentable confusion.
An important question, one which in the opinion of the Rear Admiral ought to be instantly decided, is that of restoring creditors to the exercise of the rights which they held relative to debts anterior to the retaking of the Colony. The Ex-Agents had ordered a general suspension, with a few exceptions in cases of a particular nature. At present, order being restored to the Colony, and the planters enabled to attend to their agricultural affairs, and the revenues amounting to two thirds of their total before the Revolution, he conceives that every consideration of justice requires that the debtors should at least partially discharge what they owe since the restoration of the estates of the planters, whose absence had menaced them with total ruin.
The arrival of the Rear Admiral in the Colony has been the epoch of the reestablishment of commercial prosperity. Be-
fore that period the purses of individuals were drawn as close as their hearts. Articles of the first necessity bought the most extravagant prices. The ambition which distinguishes commercial speculation was extinct. Each person refused to enter into the most ordinary transactions; and that distrust which is the never-failing attendant on requisitions, had done all the mischief it was capable of producing. The Rear Admiral promulgated the instructions of the Government, and the scene was completely changed. The influence of the neutrals who rely upon the integrity of Frenchmen, restores abundance to the inhabitants of the town and the plantations, the productions of which are daily rising in value. He principally founds the prosperity of the Colony upon this commercial system, and the restoration of the finances, which are farther improved by suppressing the expenses of the Ex-Agents' table amounting to 30,000 livres per month, as well as those of the Departmental and Municipal Administrations, which had become useless to the Colony.
The Rear Admiral has published different proclamations, inviting the inhabitants to enjoy in peace the benefits of the Constitution of the year 8, and to engage with activity in the pursuits of agriculture and commerce. He has issued several decrees to fix the police upon a steady basis, to ensure the tranquillity of the Colony, and to erect in it several public establishments. One of them establishes a permanent military commission, to judge, without delay or appeal, all crimes of administering poison, which have, within the last six months, multiplied in an alarming manner, and which are practised both upon men and cattle. Another orders, that every person who sends a challenge shall be brought before a court martial.
The Rear Admiral has established at Porte de la Liberte, a school for drawing and painting, and likewise a theatre. He has given the widow DUGOMMIER and her daughter, Madame DUMOUSTIER, possession of the buildings assigned them. To conclude, he has recalled the inhabitants of the Colony, whom the terror of the revolutionary regiment had driven from it, by an decree, of which the following is a copy:—
IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
R. LA CROSSE, Rear Admiral, Captain General of Guadalupe and its Dependencies—Considering that malevolence has thought proper to throw doubts over the intentions of Government, when by an act of justice it recalled those inhabitants who had been too long absent from the Colony, compelled to banish themselves through a well grounded fear of becoming the victims of revolutionary events: Considering also, that those men who cannot be the sincere friends of a government which protects them, ought not to be confounded with those who have only shewn themselves inimical to the enemies of Republican Government: and considering that it is essential to determine the preliminary conditions to be fulfilled to those who wish to return to Guadalupe, and to assure those Republicans who have not quitted the Colony, and are at the same time farmers of national domains, that no measure shall be taken in opposition to those engagements entered into between them and the Republic: Considering, lastly, that it is the duty of a just Government to make known the principles which direct its actions, decrees as follows:—
Art. 1. Every person absent from the Colony, and inscribed on the list of emigrants, wishing to return, shall address immediately, either through the medium of his parents, or some person properly authorized, a petition to the Captain General, who will receive information, pronounce upon the demand, and make known his decision to those whom it concerns.
2. Those persons who shall be authorized to return, must present themselves on their arrival to the Commissary General of Police, who will deliver to them the necessary documents.
3. Those restitutions which Government shall find it just to make to proprietors who have any right to demand such, shall not be made to the prejudice of the actual possessors.
TO BE LET,
And may be entered immediately.
TWO LARGE TWO STORY BRICK HOUSES.
SITUATED in New-Jersey Avenue near the Capitol Adjacent to one of the houses is a frame two story building, which, with a stable and extensive garden, will be let with the house. In one of the brick houses there is a very large commodious store.—Enquire of the printer.
October 23. ep3t
THE period is approaching when, according to the original and indispensable terms of The NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, each subscriber will be required to pay Five Dollars in advance for his second year. As the chief support of the paper depends upon subscriptions, it is confidently hoped that subscribers will be punctual in their remittances, which may be made in any Bank Paper, or in Gold, the postage being paid.
A considerable number of subscribers of respectability, as far as the Editor is acquainted with their characters, have requested papers, which have been accordingly forwarded, under the unequivocal engagement to render immediate payment. This, in many cases, has not been done. Unless payment be soon made a discontinuance of their papers will be unavoidable.
In order that each Subscriber may be informed in time duly to make remittances the period of payment and the sum required to be paid will be stated on his Paper, in general some time before hand. After such notice, immediate payment will be expected, nor will any subscriber, it is hoped, take offence at a discontinuance of his paper in case payment is not made, as the heavy expenses attending a Newspaper cannot be defrayed without the regular remittances of subscriptions.
Some misconception of the provisions of the post-office law existing, the Editor informs his subscribers, that the mode of stating his accounts was not adopted, until he had obtained the approbation of the Post Master General. On examination it will be seen, that the existing law does not, though the previous law did, prohibit such statement.
A NEGRO MAN
To be hired by the year, half yearly or quarterly.
A SOBER well disposed man about 26 years of age, cleanly, and has been many years employed as a coach driver, stable boy, and occasionally waiting at table, and working in the garden.—His master wishes to hire him out in or about the city of Washington, he having a wife living near the District. He has never been accused or suspected of dishonesty.—For further information apply to the printer.
October 23. ep9t
The subscriber respectfully acquaints the public, that he has removed to the corner of Ninth and E streets, where he continues to manufacture and sell all kinds of Ornaments for Chimney pieces, Door Caps, Frontispieces, Metal Sashes, &c. which may also be had at his store No. 51, Barclay Street, New-York, and at Mr. Wild's store, Market Street, Baltimore.
GEORGE ANDREWS.
Who has gold leaf for sale by the package or book.
May 8. 1801. tv
IN THE CASE
Of GEORGE W. KIRKLAND, Bankrupt.
Whereas a commission of bankruptcy is awarded against George W. Kirkland, late of Washington County, in the District of Columbia; and he being declared a bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the commissioner on the twentieth day of the present month of October, on the thirtieth day of the present month of October, and on the twentieth day of November next, at four o'clock in the afternoon of the said days, at the house of William Rhodes, innkeeper, in the City and County of Washington, and district of Columbia; at the second of which meetings the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts and choose assignees. And all persons indebted to the said Bankrupt, or that have any goods or effects of his in their hands, are desired to give notice thereof, to
ELIAS B. CALDWELL, Clerk to the Commissioners.
October 7, 1801. cp3w
NOTICE.
The following slaves have been committed to the jail of Washington County in the District of Columbia, viz.
JOHN MAYNARD—Twenty-nine years old, a bright mulatto, 5 feet 10 inches high, says he was formerly the property of David McMeachen, Esq. of Baltimore, who sold him to a Mr. White, a Mr. Bingham, and a Mr. Sargeant from Georgia.
JIM WILMER—Twenty-six or 27 years of age, very black complexion, 5 feet 8 inches high, says he was formerly the property of Mr. Cumberland Dugan, of Baltimore, who sold him to the said White, Bingham and Sargeant—Both of these men have on coarse negro clothing, not much worn.
CHARLES—25 years of age, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, well made, and has a good countenance; says he belongs to a Mr. Tubman, of Benedict, in St. Mary's county, Maryland—has on coarse negro clothing, a good deal worn. The owners of the above slaves are desired to come and take them away, or they will be sold to pay their prison expenses, according to the provision of the law respecting runaways.
DANIEL CARROLL BRENT, Marshal of the District of Columbia. Washington, October 21, 1801. vi

Account of the late PROFESSOR MILLAR.
The late John Millar, Esq. of Mil- beugh, who died on the 30th ult. was born in 1735. He was educated for the bar, and was admitted member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1760. He was appoint- ed next year professor of Law in the Uni- versity of Glasgow; an office, the duties of which he continued till his death to dis- charge, in a manner equally beneficial to the University and honorable to himself.— Without any disparagement to the other professors, his contemporaries during that long period of forty years, of whom some have just celebrity by their writings, and many are distinguished for their learning, abilities, and taste, it may, with truth, be asserted, that to his exertions, and to those of his colleague and intimate friend Dr. Adam Smith, the college of Glasgow owes a great part of that high character for phi- losophical disquisition which it now enjoys.
Few men have possessed in so eminent a degree the qualifications requisite in a pub- lic teacher. His indefatigable industry enabled him to extend his Lectures to a variety of subjects besides the civil Law, which was more peculiarly the business of his chair, and in all his lectures he was sin- gularly successful in arresting the atten- tion, enlightening the understanding and commanding the assent of his hearers.— A spirit of philosophical inquiry, ingenious and profound, guided all his researches, and enabled him to discover those simple ge- neral principles in the feelings or in the cir- cumstances of mankind, which serve to unfold the origin and the nature of the le- gal and political institutions which it was his province to investigate. Possessing a understanding clear, comprehensive and vi- gorous, he could discover at once the whole outline of every subject that came under his consideration; and, in impressing it on the minds of his pupils, he could, with the happiest discrimination, select those points and features which were essential to its ex- planation, or which might convey to them a knowledge of it that should be accurate and permanent. His talent for distinct and perspicuous arrangement, enabled stu- dents of even ordinary capacities, to fol- low him with facility and benefit in his dis- cussion of topics, which, but for the order in which he placed them, the most ingeni- ous would have found abstruse and perplex- ing; and the extent and variety of his know- ledge, the readiness of his memory and the vivacity of his imagination, supplied him, on every topic, with a copious fund of il- lustration and remark, which he introduced with singular felicity, and which commu- nicated clearness, ornament and importance, to matter which otherwise might have been regarded as obscure, dull and insigni- ficant.
The manner too in which he delivered his Lectures, contributed not a little to the lively interest with which they were re- ceived by his hearers. He committed to writing merely the arrangement of his plan, and the facts or the authorities which he had occasion to introduce; for the rest he trusted to his powers of speaking. Com- pletely master of his subject, and able to view it in all its bearings and relations, he was never at a loss for an idea, seldom for a word or an expression. Disregarding the polish of his language and the artificial structure of his sentences, perhaps avoiding them as embellishments ill suited to di- dactic oratory, he studied only how to ren- der his views perspicuous, his sentiments impressive; or rather, to speak more pro- perly, he possessed, without particular stu- dy or effort, the power of doing both. It was a power that resulted, partly from the extent of his knowledge, and the vi- gour and distinctness of his conceptions, but chiefly, perhaps, from the deep inter- est with which he regarded the important subjects which it was his business to eluci- date. Perceiving their close connection with the morals and the happiness of man- kind, and feeling the most lively sensibili- ty to every thing by which these great ob- jects could be affected, there were often in- fused into his Lectures on Law and on go- vernment, a warmth, an energy of which such topics, would, at first view, appear to be but little susceptible. The animation with which he delivered his opinions, the ardour which breathed in his sentiments, were communicated with an irresistible im- pulse to his pupils. His fervent zeal for their improvement awakened in them the wish to improve, and while he both grati- fied and stimulated their curiosity, while he excited and directed their mental ac- tivity, their hearts received the influence of his virtues; they derived from him the glow of independence and patriotism: he awakened in them the love of that liberty,
civil and political, of which he was, thro' life, the enlightened and manly defender. With such uncommon endowments a- these, it was impossible that Mr. Millar should not attract notice, it was impossible that his students should regard him but with the most affectionate respect and attach- ment. Accordingly, very early in his Professorship the reputation of his Lectures overcame all the disadvantages which Glas- gow, from the absence of the courts of justice, must lie under, as a school of law; his classes were ever regarded by those who devoted themselves to the Bar, as the best fountains of legal knowledge, and were at the same time eagerly resorted to by others who had no professional views, but who co- veted an acquaintance with his principles and doctrines as the best preparation for those public characters which their rank presented to them, or to which their ambi- tion or their talents might prompt them to aspire. Many who have held the most re- spectable stations at the bar, on the bench and in the Senate, will not hesitate to ac- knowledge, that to the public instruction, or the private tuition and direction of Mr. Millar, they have been indebted for a great part of that eminence which they had ac- quired. Mr. Millar's Lectures, in the institutions and on the Pandects of Justi- tian, on Scotch law, on English law, and on government, were divided into different courses, in giving which he was regularly employed three and often four hours each day during the session of College; and much of his time throughout the year was devoted to the superintendence of several gentlemen whose education was committed to his care; yet, amidst these multiplied occupations, he found leisure, in 1771, to prepare for the press his "Observations concerning the Distinction of Ranks in So- ciety;" a work which has been very fa- vorably received by the public, and which, with a slight variation of the title, and some important improvements, has passed through several editions. In the year 1787 he published the first volume of "An Hi- torical View of the English Constitution." This volume would have been since follow- ed to the present times, but its publication has been delayed, chiefly, it is believed, in consequence of the agitation excited in the public mind, by the great events that have lately passed on the theatre of Europe. It is known, however, to be in a state of con- siderable preparation, and, it is hoped, may yet be given to the world.
Although Mr. Millar, from the time when he accepted the chair in the Univer- sity, relinquished the profession of a prac- tical lawyer, yet he was sometimes indu- ced, most frequently from motives of huma- nity, to appear as a pleader in the courts of Justice, on which occasions he never failed to acquit himself in a manner highly honorable to himself and satisfying to his clients; his opinion as a counsel was often solicited in difficult causes, and his judg- ment as an umpire was frequently referred to, by the mutual consent of contending parties, as the best means of settling their disputes. In these cases, it is difficult to say whether his prompt and vigorous deci- sions sprung most from his eminent skill in the law of his country, from the native pe- netration and sagacity of his mind, or from his strong and acute sense of justice and equity. It is probable that they were de- rived equally from all these sources, and it is certain that accompanied as they were with a short and simple statement of the reasons which supported them, they were implicitly acquiesced in by the disputants, and usually gave entire satisfaction to both sides. His virtues, which will long live in the memory of his friends, were the spontane- ous growth of an understanding strong, en- lightened, and capacious; of a heart over- flowing with benevolence and sensibility. His life uniformly exhibited to the world honor and uprightness in all his conduct; disinterestedness and purity in his views; candour and liberality in his transactions; fidelity and diligence in the discharge of every trust. All who in any degree enjoy- ed his intimacy will remember the unaf- fected ease and urbanity of his manners; they will recollect his watchful attention to their feelings and habits, the solicitude he felt about them in their misfortunes or diffi- culties, the gaiety and cheerfulness with which he enlivened their hours of pleasure and relaxation—qualities which, though frequently of very ambiguous morality, yet in him merited the name of virtues, on ac- count of the pure spring of cordial benignity from which they flowed. No one who had any claim on his good offices, ever made that claim in vain, and the bounty he be- stowed was so entirely free from the ostent- atious parade of generosity, and was com- municated with such scrupulous attention to the feelings of those whom he relieved, that their hearts were knit to him by ties
of gratitude and attachment, which acts of incere but less delicate kindness can never form. But those only can make a true es- timate of his worth, who have known him as he appeared in the circle of domestic life; among his children, whose minds it was his most pleasing occupation to culti- vate, whose happiness it was his chief ob- ject to secure, and whose unbounded con- fidence and endearing affection formed the chief joy of his life. In the midst of that circle, he encountered the severe trial pre- sented by the sufferings and the prospects of a death bed. That trial he nobly sus- tained. His last scene was altogether wor- thy of the part he had uniformly maintain- ed on the stage of life. Soon after the ve- ry unexpected attack of the disease which brought him to the grave, he fore saw the issue, and awaited it with the most perfect composure. No symptom of impatience or of alarm ever escaped him; and no thought gave him pain, but the thought of being separated from his family, with whom he had long enjoyed the purest happiness, and to whose happiness his life was so impor- tant. By the violence of the fever in which his complaint terminated, his com- mand over his thoughts was occasionally suspended; but even then his ideas flowed in those channels and associations which his long habits of philosophical investiga- tion had given them; and the varying ex- pression of his countenance, the smile upon his lips, during these involuntary reveries, strikingly testified the interest and delight which this ardent friend of virtue and man- kind had ever felt in his speculations, and which to the latest moment of his life he continued to enjoy. From these occasional and not distressful wanderings of mind he could at all times be recalled; when he was particularly addressed, he roused him- self as from slumber, recalled his scattered thoughts, and was, to the last, firm, dis- tinct, and recollected.
Thus died Mr. Millar; and when he ex- pired (as one of his most respected friend has laid in a memoir intended for another publication) his family lost an affectionate father; his friends, the life and soul of their society; the University, her brightest ornament; and his country, a firm and enlightened assertor of her liberties.
Glasgow College, } June 10, 1801. }
POST-OFFICE.
WASHINGTON CITY, Oct. 7, 1801. The great Northwestern Mail which includes the following Post Offices will be closed at this office every Wednesday at 8 A. M and Friday at 5 P. M. viz.    Bedford, Pa.  Lexington, Ky.    Bourbon, Ky.  Manchester, N. W.    Brook C. H. Va.  Mayville, Ky.    Cannonsburg, Pa.  New Lancaster, N. T.    Chambersburg, Pa.  Pittsburg, Pa.    Chillicothe, N. T.  Somerfield, Pa.    Clarksville, Md.  St. Clairsville, N. T.    Frankfort, Ky.  Versailles, Ky.    Fredericktown, Md.  Washington, Pa.    Greencastle, Pa.  Washington, Ky.    Greensburg, Pa.  Wheeling, Vir. a.    Hagerstown, Md.  Zanesville, N. T.    Mails for other northwestern post-offices will be made up as usual, every Friday at 5 P. M. A mail for Union Town, Brookville, Hab- bville, Howard's Mill, Wright's Mill and Toney Town Maryland, will be closed at this office every Tuesday at 5 P. M.
THOMAS MCLAROE, Postmaster.
CONVEYANCERS OFFICE,
AND OFFICE FOR SALE OF CITY LOTS, On the Pennsylvania Avenue fronting the Presi- dent's Square, near Rhodes's tavern, City of Washington.  THOMAS HERTY has connected with the business of drawing Conveyances of Land Mortgages, Leases, Bonds, Assignments powers of Attorney, petitions, and every other pieces of deed or contract in the profession; that of buying, selling and leasing lots and houses in the City, negotiating loans, &c.  His long experience as a draftsman, and know- ledge of the laws relative thereto—the know- ledge which he has acquired by residence of the situation of City Lots, and how their titles have been acquired, or are liable to be affected; toge- ther with his impartial and strict regard to the interest of those who may be pleased to employ him, will, he hopes, secure to him a continuance of public patronage.  Titles to real property investigated, and opi- ions given thereon when required.  For sale a great variety of Lots, in desir- able situations in the City.  N. B. At the above office may be had, his Abridgement of the Laws of Maryland, price 6 dollars. Also his Digest of the Laws of the United States, price 3 dollars. As the Laws of Maryland are in full force on this side the Potomac, it behoves settlers to avail themselves of that information which affects their lives, liberties and property. He who is without a knowledge of his "rule of conduct" is like a stranger in his native land.  May 4. 2aw4w, Iowa
A LIST OF LETTERS Remaining in the Post-Office, Washington City, October 1st.
 A. Mrs. Lucy Addison 2.  B. James Brown, Jesse Brown, Samuel Blagden, John N. Barron, Philip Baker, James Blake, James Blair 2, Nancy Bury, Elizabeth and Daniel Bruffitt, Capt. Fran- cis Bright, James Burnside, Ignatius Booth, Juliet Bellybreaker, William Ba- ker.  C. Captain William Clark 3, Mrs. B. Courne 2, Mr. Cady, Benjamin Camhus, George Crock, Samuel W. Caud, James Chambers, Collector of the Customs, Sarah Calpeder, David Chambers, Cassander Can- ter, Mathew Callen, William Cole, James Thompson Callender, John Cowper.  D. Mathew Delany, Charles Derothy, Sim- ball Downes, Michael Dasey, Thomas Donovan, Richard Dinmore, Mrs. Dobbin.  E. Daniel Earl, Samuel Elbert, Samuel Eliot, Ebenezer Eliason 2, Henry Elliot.  F. Patrick Farrel, John French, Robert R. Flinn, Robert Flanagan.  G. James Gorham, Lieut. John Galven, Robert Goldsborough, George Gray, Ro- bert Goron, John Gatewood.  H. Captain Charles Hyde, James Hagan, William Harrison, William Hollings- worth, George D. Handy, Walter Hel- len, Upton Hobbs, D. Haragan 2, James Hemmings, John Hewitt, James B. Har- ris, John Hareton.  I. Mordecai Jones, Pierce Joice, Captain Izard, Edward Johnson, Samuel Jackson.  K. Thomas Kidd, Perigrin Knotts, John Kane, Teague Kerr, George Kisner.  L. Samuel Lane, Messrs. Law and Barry, Jacob Lewis 2, Archibald B. Lord 3, Samuel Levering, George Little, George Lenox, Thomas Lowndes, James Love- lals.  M. Robert Moore, Master of the Carpen- ters, Thomas Mein 2, Thomas Martin, Richard McCare, Joseph Mattingly, Mur- rough McCann, Master Mason, James Maad, master of the cotton manufactory, Thomas McMuun.  N. John Nixon 2, Benjamin Neely, Tho- mas Neals.  O. Thomas O'Conner 2, Monsieur Blekker Offen 3, James O'Hara, or the Account- ant of War.  P. Isaac Pollock 6, Miss R. Pollock, Tho- mas Proctor, John Purviance, Thomas Pye 3, John Pickford, Mann Page, Ro- bert Paxton, Cary Pratt, Mary Palmatary, Thomas Pratt.  Q. Capt. Joseph Queen.  R. James Rand, Thomas Raglefs, Alexan- der Reed 2, George Rowland, Owen Ro- berts, Mr. Reynolds 2.  S. James Salmon 2, Adam Stewart 2, Ann Shaw 2, Maurice Simmons, John Savary, surveyor of the revenue, John Scott, Isaac Smith, Lieut. William Smith, Joseph Simms, Thomas S. Stevens, John Stewart.  T. Emily Thompson 2, William Thomp- son, Philip Taylor 2, Francis Tompkins, Michael Tucker, — Thomas, offchoo- ner Orange.  V. Daniel Vertner 2, William Vernon.  W. Sylvester Woodward, Charles Wad- sworth 2, Francis Woodland, Mr. Wotkin, Richard Wilson, Edward Wynn, Sarah Wilson, Benjamin Williamson, Grove Wright.  Y. Priscilla Yearts.  Z. Jacob Zimmer. [October 7.]  District of Columbia, County of Washington. September, 28, 1801. LEWIN TALBURTT, of Washington coun- ty, has made application to the Register of Wills of said county, for letters of administra- tion on the estate of JAMES ROBINSON, de- ceased—All persons interested in the said estate are therefore to take notice that letters of admini- stration will be granted to the said Talburt, unless cause to the contrary be shown on or be- fore the 18 day of November next. JOHN HEWITT, Register. 1aw4t