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The National Intelligencer,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. I. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, NEW-JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL.
No. CXXVI.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 st , 1801.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
For the satisfaction of our Subscribers we have obtained the following correct list of the principal officers of the Government of the United States
SUPREME EXECUTIVE.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, President. AARON BURR, Vice-President and President of the Senate.
Department of STATE.
James Madison, Secretary, Jacob Wagner, chief Clerk.
Department of the TREASURY.
Albert Gallatin, Secretary, John Steele, Comptroller, Richard Harrison, Auditor, William Miller, Commissioner of the Revenue,
Samuel Meredith, Treasurer, Joseph Nourse, Register.
WAR Department.
Henry Dearborn, Secretary, William Simmons, Accountant, Israel Whelen, Purveyor of Public supplies,
William Irvine, Superintendent of Military stores.
NAVY Department.
Robert Smith, Secretary, Thomas Turner, Accountant.
JUDICIARY.
SUPREME COURT.
John Marshall, Chief Justice. William Cushing of Mass. } Associate Justices. William Patterson, of N. J. } Samuel Chase, of Maryland, } Bushrod Washington, of Virg. } Alfred Moore, of N. Carolina, } Levi Lincoln, of Massachusetts, Attorney-general. Elias B. Caldwell, of Washington city, Clerk.
CIRCUIT COURTS.
John Lowell, of Massachusetts, Chief Judge, Benjamin Bourne, of R. I. and, } of the first Circuit. Jerem. Smith, of N. H. Judges } Robert Benion, of New-York, Chief Judge, Oliver Wolcott, of Conn. and, } of the second Circuit. Sam. Hitchcock, of Vermont, Judges } William T. Fitzhugh, of Pennsyl. Chief Judge, Richard Bassett of Delaware, and } of the third Circuit. William Griffith, of New-Jersey, Judges } Philip Barton Key, of Maryland, Chief Judge, Co. Keith Taylor, of Virginia, and } of the fourth Circuit. Charles Magill, of Virg. Judges } Dominick A. Hall, of S. Carolina, Chief Judge, Henry Potter, North-Carolina, } of the fifth Circuit. One appointment vacant.
DISTRICT OFFICERS.
District of Maine.
David Sewall, Judge, Silas Lee, Attorney, Isaac Parker, Marshal.
District of Massachusetts.
John Pickering, Judge, John S. Sherbourne, Attorney, Bradbury Gilley, Marshal.
District of Massachusetts.
John Davis, Judge, George Blake, Attorney, Samuel Bradford, Marshal.
District of Rhode-Island.
David L. Barnes, Judge, David Howell, Attorney, William Peck, Marshal.
District of Connecticut.
Richard Law, Judge, Pierpont Edwards, Attorney, Philip B. Bradley, Marshal.
District of Vermont.
Elijah Paine, Judge, David Fay, Attorney, John Willard, Marshal.
District of New-York.
John Sloss Hobart, Judge, Edward Livingston, Attorney, John Swartwout, Marshal.
District of New-Jersey.
Robert Morris, Judge, George Maxwell, Attorney, Thomas Lowry, Marshal.
District of Pennsylvania.
Richard Peters, Judge, Alexander J. Dallas, Attorney for the Eastern, and James Hamilton, Attorney for the Western District, John Smith, Marshal of the Eastern, and Presley Carr Lane, Marshal for the Western District.
District of Delaware.
Gunning Bedford, Judge, George Read junr. Attorney, Joel Lewis, Marshal.
District of Maryland.
James Winchester, Judge, Zebulon Hollingsworth, Attorney, Reuben Etting, Marshal.
District of Columbia.
William Kilby, chief Judge, William Cranch, and James Marshall, Judges, John Thomson Mason, Attorney, Daniel Carroll Brent, Marshal, John Hewett, Register of Wills for Washington County, and
Cleon Moore, for that of Alexandria, William H. Dorsey, Judge of the Orphans Court for Washington, and George Gilpin, for that of Alexandria.
District of Virginia.
Cyrus Griffin, Judge, John Monroe, Attorney for the Western District, and vacant Marshal of the Western District of Virg. Joseph Scott, Marshal of the Eastern District, Thomas Nelson, Attorney of the Eastern do.
Potomac District.
Walter Jones, Attorney, and William Baker, Marshal.
District of Kentucky.
Harry Innes, Judge, Joseph H. Daviess, Attorney, Joseph Crockett, Marshal.
District of North Carolina.
John Sitgreaves, Judge, Benjamin Woods, Attorney, John S. Wet, Marshal.
District of South Carolina.
Thomas Bee, Judge, Thomas Parker, Attorney, Charles B. Cochran, Marshal.
District of Georgia.
vacant Judge, Charles Jackson, Attorney, Ambrose Gordon, Marshal.
District of Tennessee.
John McNairy, Judge, Thomas Gray, Attorney, Robert Hays, Marshal.
Commissioners of Loans.
New Hampshire, William Gardner, Massachusetts, Thomas Perkins, Rhode Island, Jabez Bowen, Connecticut, William Imlay, New-York, Matthew Clarkson, New Jersey, James Ewing, Pennsylvania, Stephen Moylan, Delaware, John Stockton, Maryland, Benjamin Howard, Virginia, John Hopkins, North Carolina, Sherwood Haywood, South Carolina, John Neufville, Georgia, Richard Wyllie.
MINISTERS.
Of the United States resident in Foreign Countries. Rufus King, Minister Plenipotentiary, London, Robert R. Livingston, do. do. Paris, Thomas Sumter, jun. Secretary of Legation, Charles Pinckney, Minister Plenipotentiary, Madrid, John Graham, Secretary of Legation.
CONSULS AND COMMERCIAL AGENTS.
Consuls in the Kingdom of GREAT BRITAIN and its dependencies. George W. Erving, Consul at London, and agent for managing claims for spoliations, David Lenox, Agent for protecting American Seamen in Great Britain, Elias Vanderhorst, Consul Bristol,
Robert W. Fox, Falmouth, James Maury, Liverpool, Joseph Wilson, Dublin, Thomas Auldji, Vice-Consul at Poole George Knox, Consul at Kingston upon Hull,
John C. Murray, Glasgow, James Holmes, Belfast, John Church, Cork, Harry Grant, Leith, Jacob Lewis, Calcutta, India, Benjamin H. Phillips, Curacao, John Gavino, Gibraltar, Nicholas Roussel, Demarara and Essequibo, John Elmslie, jun. Cape of Good Hope Joseph Peelis, Malta.
Commercial Agents to the FRENCH REPUBLIC and her Dominions.
Fulwar Skipwith, Paris, James Blake, Antwerp, Peter Dobell, Havre de Grace, William Lee, Bordeaux, Edward Jones, Island of Guadaloupe, Mr. De la Motte, Vice Commercial Agent, Havre de Grace, Thomas Aborn, Commercial Agent Cayenne,
William Buchanan, Isle of France and Bourbon. Etienne Cathalan, Commercial Agent Marfeilles, Thomas F. Gantt, do. Nantz. Francis L. Taney, do. Ostend. Tobias Lear, General Commercial Agent in St. Domingo, resident at the Cape,
John E. Caldwell, Commercial Agent for the City of St. Domingo. Bartholomew Dandridge, Consul for the Southern Department excluding Petit Goave, Robert Ritchie, do. for Port au Prince.
Consuls to the Kingdom of SPAIN and its Dominions.
Moses Young, Consul at Madrid, Joseph Yznardi, jun. Cadiz, Robert Montgomery, Alicante, William Kirkpatrick, Malaga, Lewis Meagher O'Brien, Consul St. Andero, Augustin Madan, Consul at La Guaira, Daniel Clark, New Orleans, William E. Huling, Vice Consul at New Orleans,
John Morton, Consul at Havanna, Josiah Blakely, St. Jago, in Cuba, William Willis, Barcelona, John Culnan, Teneriffe.
To the Kingdom of PORTUGAL and its Dominions.
Thomas Buckley, Consul at Lisbon, John Street, Fayal, To the BATAVIAN Republic. Sylvanus Bourne, Consul General Amsterdam, Joseph Forman, Consul Rotterdam. To the Kingdom of DENMARK and its Dominions. Hans Rodolpho Saabye, Consul at Copenhagen, Henry Cooper, Santa Cruz.
PRUSSIA.
Frederick W. Lutze, Consul at Stettin, To GERMANY.
Joseph Pitcairn, Consul at Hamburg, Frederick J. Wichelhausen, Bremen, Philip Marck, Francoia, John Lamson, Trieste.
To the Kingdom of SWEDEN.
Elias Backman, Consul Gottemberg, To the Italian States.
Thomas Appleton, Consul at Leghorn, John Matthew, Naples, John Baptiste Sartori, Rome, Frederick H. Wallston, Consul Genoa. To the Barbary Powers. Richard O'Brien, Consul General Algiers,
James Leander Cathcart, Consul Tripoli, William Eaton, Tunis, James Simpson, Morocco.
MINISTERS.
Consuls and Commissaries of Foreign Powers resident in the United States. FROM THE KINGDOM OF GREAT-BRITAIN. Edward Thornton, Charge des Affaires, Thomas Barclay, Consul General for the Eastern states.
Phineas Bond, Consul General for the Middle and Southern states.
Thomas McDonough, Consul for New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island, and Connecticut.
John Breese, Vice Consul, Rhode-Island.
Gabriel Wood, Baltimore.
Benjamin Moodie, Consul for North and South-Carolina and Georgia.
John Wallace, Vice Consul for Georgia.
FROM THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
Louis Andre Pichon, Charge des Affaires and Commissary General of Commercial Relations.
Citizen Oster, Vice Commissary of Commercial Relations for Virginia.
Charles Francois Liot, Commissary of Commercial Relations for Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Louis Arcambal, (temporary) vice Commissary of Commercial Relations for Maryland.
Marc Antoine Alexis Girand, Commissary of Commercial Relations, for New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island, and Connecticut.
FROM THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN.
Chevalier de Yrujo, Minister Plenipotentiary.
Thomas Stoughton, (temporary) Consul General.
Antonio Argote Villalobos, Consul for Virginia and Kentucky.
Jean Baptista Barnabeu, Consul for Maryland.
Diego Murphy, Consul for North and South-Carolina.
Felipi Fatio, Consul for Pennsylvania.
Don Manuel Rengel, Consul for Georgia.
Ivan Stoughton, Consul for New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island and Vermont.
Josef Wiseman, Vice-Consul at New-port.
FROM THE KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL.
John Abram, Vice Consul at New-York.
James F. Verecock, Vice Consul for South-Carolina.
Richard Godman, Vice Consul, Massachusetts.
FROM THE BATAVIAN REPUBLIC.
R. G. Van Polanen, Minister Resident.
Adrian Valck, Consul for Maryland and Virginia.
Jan Rosinen Graves, Consul for South-Carolina and Georgia.
J. H. C. Heincken, Commercial Agent, Pennsylvania.
FROM PRUSSIA.
Johann Ernst Christian Schultz, Consul, Baltimore.
FROM SWEDEN.
Richard Soderstrom, Consul General.
Joseph Winthrop, Vice-Consul, Charleston, South-Carolina.
Jonathan Swift, Columbia, and the ports on the Potomac.
Charles F. Deyen, Vice Consul for New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode-Island.
Henry Gahn, Vice-Consul for New-York and Connecticut.
John Cowper, Vice-Consul for Norfolk and all other ports in Virginia, except those on the Potomac.
John Baritz, Vice-Consul for North-Carolina.
Peter Collin, Vice-Consul for Maryland.
North-Western Territory.
Arthur St. Clair, Governor.
Charles Willing Byrd, Secretary.
Jas. Findlaye, Marshal, } for the dist.
Wm. McMillan, Attorney, } trict Ohio.
John Cleves Symmes, Chief Justice.
Joseph Gilman, } Judges.
Return Jonathan Meigs, junr. } Judges.
Mississippi Territory.
William C. C. Claiborne, Governor.
John Steele, Secretary.
Seth Lewis, Chief Justice.
Peter Bryan Bruin, 2d Judge.
Daniel Tilton, 3d do.
Indiana Territory.
William H. Harrison, Governor.
John Gibson, Secretary.

William Clark, Chief Justice. Henry Vanderburgh, 2d Judge. John Griffin, 3d do.
Receivers of Public Money for Lands.
James Findlay, at Cincinnati. Elijah Backus, at Marietta. Zaccheus Biggs, at Steubenville. Samuel Findlay, at Chillicothe.
Registers of the Land Office of the United States.
David Hoge, Register, Steubenville. Peregrine Foster, do. Marietta. Israel Ludlow, do. Cincinnati. Thos. Worthington, do. Chillicothe.
From the Albion.
PAOLIST.
HOUSE OF LORDS, March 24.
DISSSENTIENT.
1st. Because it appears to us to be useless and inadvisable to attempt to provide for possible cases of extreme necessity by legislative acts; since the effect of such cases is to supercede all legal provisions. A state of things, in which the ordinary course of law and justice in a civilized country must be suspended, cannot be legally supposed. Necessity, whenever it occurs, will dictate its own measures without regard even to the law that provides for it; and those measures, in our judgment, should be left in every instance to a special justification on the merits of the case. With respect to the case of rebellion said to exist in Ireland, it is particularly superfluous to give or confirm, by act of parliament, to the crown or its representatives, a power to act by discretion, considering that, by the laws passed in Ireland, and which it is now proposed to continue, it is repeatedly declared, though not, as we conceive, on true constitutional principles, to be the undoubted and acknowledged prerogative of his majesty to resort to the exercise of Martial law for the public safety.
2d. Because, were it ever advisable to arm the executive government, by positive law, with a power of depriving a whole kingdom, or any part of it, of the protection of its laws, and of the regular administration of justice, at the discretion of ministers, it ought to be on clear and incontrovertible evidence of the truth of the facts assumed, or at least on a formal recommendation from the crown, for the grounds of which ministers might be made answerable; whereas this bill comes before us, not only without evidence of that supposed state of things in Ireland, which is said to make the grant of such power indispensably necessary, but is founded on a direct contradiction to documents and authorities, on which alone parliament can regularly proceed, or safely rely. The preamble asserts what the bill in all its provisions supposes, that a rebellion still exists in Ireland; whereas we find that on the 15th January 1800, the lord lieutenant did declare to the parliament of Ireland, that all tendency to insurrection had been effectually repressed; and, on the 10th of July following, "that he had the happiness to acquaint them that the country in general had, in a great measure, returned to its former state of tranquility; and if in some districts a spirit of plunder and disaffection still existed, those disorders, he believed would prove to be merely local, and would he doubted not, be soon effectually terminated; and if, in the interval between the latest of those dates, and the meeting of the present parliament on the second of the last month, unexpected events had proved that a rebellion still existed in Ireland, we cannot doubt, that such events would be taken notice of in his majesty's gracious speech from the throne."
Opinions of individuals, however respectable, are in no case to be evidence even in parliament, unless they are subject to examination; least of all, in legal acceptation, is a voluntary witness entitled to legal credit, to which no questions have been or can be proposed. In the present instance this objection is to our minds particularly weighty, considering the state of violence and contention to which Ireland has unhappily been subject for some months past, and from which it is fair to presume, that the parties charged with factious principles and unprovoked rebellion, if they were in a situation to be heard, would be equally ready to complain of violated rights, of cruel treatment, and of a general system of oppression exercised over them. And furthermore, if those opinions, to which we have alluded, are in this instance to guide the resolutions of parliament, no reason occurs to us why they should not equally prevail in all other cases, in which the future government of Ireland may be concerned; but, if that should be admitted, one of the principal objects of the Union, strongly urged in debate, by eminent per-
sons, viz:—The establishment of an impartial and dispassionate legislature for the United Kingdoms, aloof from local prejudices, would be defeated. The dissolution of a local legislature would have been unnecessary, and the union an unjust and useless measure, if the government of Ireland had been conducted on principles which ought still to prevail, or if it had not been principally intended, by uniting the two countries under one parliament, to take power out of the hands of prejudice; and not to suffer the affairs and interests of Ireland to be governed by the same parties or passions, which prevailed in its own legislature, and which were said to make the dissolution of that legislature indispensably necessary for the good of both kingdoms.
3d. Because the remedies proposed by this bill, far exceed the exigency of the case stated. The executive power is bound in the first instance, to provide for the due administration of justice in its ordinary course, and for the security of the civil magistrate. But, if it were true that, in particular districts, such terrors prevailed, that juries could not be found to do their duty in the trial of offenders; and if, in such circumstances, it became unavoidably necessary to resort to other courts, and to other forms of proceeding, it does not follow that new and exorbitant powers should be given to such courts, much less that offenders under trial, or in custody of the civil magistrate, should be removed from thence and brought before a military tribunal; or that persons already tried and acquitted, should be seized and tried again for the same offences by a court martial. We are well assured that abuses of this kind, which in their nature suppose a complete suspension of the administration of justice, have been practised, and do still prevail in many parts of Ireland, where the courts of law are actually open, and in the face of the judges.
4th. Because it has been uniformly maintained in debate, on the merits and advantages of the union, that it would reconcile all parties, and put an end to all divisions in Ireland: Whereas the present measure seems to us to amount to an acknowledgment that all such views are fallacious, and that the hope held out of removing discontent in that country, are as little likely to be accomplished now as they were before the Union; considering that the very first effect of that measure, and the first act of the United Parliament is to continue a military government there, with all its unavoidable severities and all its possible abuses.
5th. Because it is neither constitutional nor safe to trust exorbitant power to the discretion of any individual, on a presumption, drawn from private character and personal reputation, that it will be exercised with lenity and moderation. Such power, in its nature, tends to corrupt the minds of those who hold it; nor can it be applied to its own purposes without devolving into many hands, by all which it must be exercised discretionally and without control—in this case the hopes to be derived from experience or confidence in personal dispositions, are defeated by the actual removal of the noble person in whose prudence we might be most disposed to confide.
6th. Because the power which has been already exercised in Ireland, without a law, and which the present bill is intended to confirm, viz. to punish all persons concerned, or said to be concerned, in the rebellion, by death, or otherwise, by the sentence of a court martial, may be employed in the institution of tortures and cruelties unknown to the laws of England, and from which the greatest criminals in this country are exempted. We will not consent to vest such dangerous and arbitrary powers in any hands, and least of all in court martial, in the constitution of which no care is taken to exclude the effects of levity and passion, and in which it is left to the discretion of seven officers, or of a majority of that number (none of whom possibly may be of age) to pronounce a sentence of death, or to inflict tortures more than death.
THANET, ALBEMARLE, HOLLAND, KING, PONSONBY.
[From Poulton's American Daily Advertiser.] To the manufacturers of paper, in the United States.
I have lately received a letter from a medical correspondent in London, written on paper manufactured from an East India article, called Past or Jute , ( Crotalaria Juncea ) which grows in India; it is the same from which Gunney bags, or such as bring over sugar, salt, pepper, balswoods, &c. are made. The paper is of a light brown colour. The plant which yields
the fibre from whence this flax like substance is obtained, is called by the natives of Bengal Past , with additional names to distinguish the several varieties. The fibre is called Jute . It is much cultivated in Bengal for the making coarse sacks called Gunney, ropes, twine, &c. but is not much used for marine purposes, nor is paper manufactured from it in Bengal. The cost of this article in Bengal is about one dollar and twenty five cents per cwt.
The substitute for Hemp in Bengal is the fibre of the plant called Sun , ( Crotalaria Juncea ) by which name the fibre is also known when dressed. It grows abundantly in many parts of Bengal, and is much used for sails, ropes, fishing nets, and other marine purposes. The cost of Sun , in Bengal is about two dollars per cwt. The refuse of this plant furnishes the material for making paper in Bengal. As Sun as well as Past offers a very good material to fill up a cargo completely, as dunnage, (and if venient) the paper makers would find it their interest to encourage the importation of these articles for manufacturing into coarse wrapping paper. Old bags are better than new for the purpose of making paper.
As Past and Sun, would doubtless thrive in our southern states and in our south western territory, I recommend to the supercargoes and surgeons of India vessels to endeavour to procure a quantity of the seeds of these plants, and to try the experiment of sowing them when about to leave port—more seeds may be sown when half passage over.
JAMES MEASE, M. D. Mulberry-street, Aug. 13.
The young gentlemen who go out as supercargoes and surgeons of merchant vessels, have hitherto evinced no disposition to add to our stock of native vegetables. The latter are more particularly in fault. It is to be hoped they will be more attentive in future. They should remember that we have all the climates in the world, and that consequently no plant or animal can be brought to the United States which will not find a temperature suited to its nature. Seeds may be preserved very well by packing them in absorbent or common brown paper, and surrounding the same by raisins or brown moist sugar, which, by experiment, seems to afford that genial moisture requisite to preserve seeds in a state fit for vegetation.
The boxes in which plants are sown, should be arched with hoops, and a tarred cloth cover put over them at night to prevent the minute particles of salt water settling on the plants, and when the air is charged with these particles, as it is when the wind is not sufficiently high to beat the water into the white caps.
J. M.
BROHAWN AND BOYS,
BEG leave to inform the citizens of Washington, that they have taken Mr. N. Young's wharf, very conveniently situated to the Capitol and President's Square; where they have opened a LUMBER YARD, and expect to go pretty largely in that line of business; and in about two or three weeks will have a general assortment of the first quality of groceries that can be procured in Baltimore.
Washington June 24, 1801.
N. B. Any gentleman wishing to apply for bills of scanning of any size or dimensions, may obtain them at the shortest notice by applying as above.
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WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, August 21, 1801.
We are informed that upon the return to the Navy Department of the proceedings of the court of enquiry in the case of Captain GEORGE LITTLE, a court martial has been ordered by the Secretary of the Navy to investigate and decide on the charges exhibited against Captain Little; and also that another court martial has at the same time been ordered by him to investigate and decide on charges exhibited by Captain Little against one of his Lieutenants, purporting that this Lieutenant had aided and assisted the French officers of the Bercéau in concealing and embezzling money and other property belonging to the prize. These courts martial, it is understood, are to consist of thirteen navy officers, of high rank and respectability, because it has been conceived that the honor of the country, as well as of the navy, called for a solemn investigation and determination upon accusations of so atrocious a nature. It is, however, devoutly to be wished by every American, that the charges may not be established in either case.
In our last we stated the abolition of nineteen of the offices of the internal revenue by the President.
We had not then time to point out many of the benefits likely to arise from this measure, or to appreciate fully the motives of the Executive magistrate in adopting it.
It is an act which, we are persuaded, needs only to be understood, to be universally approved. It produces an immediate and permanent positive good, and is the practical pledge of a vigilant spirit of economy, directly opposed to the general, the almost invariable spirit of executive power.
This department of government, bent upon its own aggrandizement, has heretofore, under almost every system, recommended and pursued those acts which increased its own power, by the creation of new offices. Rarely, if ever, has an instance, similar to the one to which our present remarks relate, occurred. The Executive Magistrate, in taking from himself the power of appointing nineteen officers, has deprived himself of the opportunity of making, according to the language of his political opponents, nineteen warm friends. He has further taken a step, which, if justified by the public benefit, expected to flow from it, is likely to be imitated by the legislature, and in its effects greatly to lessen the public expenses, while it diminishes Executive patronage.
Why does the President part with this power? Why does he set such an unprecedented example? He parts with this power, he sets this example, fellow citizens! because his supreme object is your happiness, and because he feels that in securing this, he has insured his own.
The republicans said that the new administration would be economical; and that it would despise the unworthy means of building up an interest distinct from that of the people.
Behold expectation realised! Already, in the short period of a few months, with all the cares and embarrassments of a new administration, three important retrenchments have been made. Two diplomatic offices, worse than useless, have been vacated, whereby an annual expenditure of above 20,000 dollars is saved; a diminution of the marine corps has been effected, whereby above 100,000 dollars are annually saved; and nineteen revenue offices have been abolished, whereby 20,000 dollars are saved; producing in the whole, an annual saving of more than 140,000 dollars.
It will not escape the notice of the public, that this last measure, from its nature, comes directly under the cognizance of the Treasury Department, and of course must, in all probability have been agreed to, if not advised, by the Secretary of that department, whom political prejudice has represented, and still continues to represent, as rapacious of power, and bent upon extending to the utmost a system of extravagant patronage. Can this picture be true, when the very man it delineates, is the first to diminish his own power by destroying nineteen offices, the nomination to which hitherto in most cases appertained to the Secretary himself?
It appears from the returns made to the Secretary's office in Cincinnati, that the whole number of persons in the North-western Territory, (exclusive of Indians not taxed) is 45,365.

BOSTON, AUG. 14. Capt. Silbee, from Cape-Francois, sailed on the 25th July, and on the 28th was boarded by a French corvette of 22 guns, treated politely, and informed that she was from Brest, bound to the Cape, and failed in company with fifteen sail of the line, destined to the same place.
Died, at Staten Island, of a malignant fever, Dr. Richard Bailey, physician of the port of New-York.
FROM THE BOSTON CHRONICLE.
OLD SOUTH—No. XXXIX.
On the CONSTITUTIONAL and APPROPRIATE Executive Appointments.
THE present number is particularly reserved for the investigation of a subject, which has peculiarly drawn forth the whole artillerie of the British faction, against Mr. Jefferson. They have expended in a great measure their fire of delin, atheism, and jacobinism, &c—they find themselves defeated in those attacks; but as the last resort, have rallied their whole force to check him in his official appointments.
The constitution has wisely reserved, in particular instances, this right to the executive. At the time the constitution was adopted, this prerogative was considered as a high preservative to the government; for if the President is amenable to his conduct, he ought surely to have officers of whole political integrity he can confide. If he adopted a particular system of administration, it was proper that all those with whom he was connected should be friendly to his purposes. This is an essential quality in an elective government, for as the people have a right to change their public servants, the process of their administration, should be uniform in all its parts, in order to ascertain the merits or demerits of the officers, as unreasonably as the Egyptian plans adopted and prosecuted. If this position is not admitted, how can a President maintain a consistency of conduct in the various objects contemplated, while a certain part of the government are inimical to his proceedings—such a discordancy of parts would be like a house divided against itself; the government must ever be in a fermentation, while there are various wheels in the machinery counteracting the motions of each other.
This mode of conduct, generally, if not universally, was adopted by Mr. Adams. He displaced almost every man opposed to his politics, and appointed others, in whom he could confide for an adherence to all his measures. Mr. Adams had by this means, a fair trial of his political system, as every one acting under him, assented to his utmost ability to promote his wishes. If this was right in Mr. Adams, why should it be wrong in Mr. Jefferson? Why should we not admit Mr. Jefferson to the same privileges exercised by Mr. Adams? The last administration went to the utmost extent of Presidential patronage; nearly every officer stood ready to execute the will of this branch of the government. Prosecutions were commenced, and ever person who dared to lisp any thing against the administration, immediately became the object of vindictive resentment. Every person must allow that Mr. Adams had the full sweep of Executive influence; and the friends of Mr. Jefferson only require a balance to restore the government to a just equilibrium.
The above observations are rather general; but I am willing to consider this subject on the particular premises admitted by the opposers of Mr. Jefferson. When this gentleman was chosen president, these people declared in every newspaper, that the system of the administration was to be changed. They openly avowed their enmity to him, and said that jacobin influence had introduced him to the government. If it is thus granted, that a particular interest supported Mr. Jefferson's election; and if it is further acknowledged, that the same interest were opposed to Mr. Adams; the consequences which follow are, that the parties were at issue on the event of the election.
The propriety of the opposition, and the utility of the change, are to be evidenced by the future operation of the administration—but can any reasonable man suppose that Mr. Jefferson could profess a system analogous to his sentiments, if he kept in office those men who were diametrically opposed to him? How could he move within the sphere assigned him; when the greatest part of his official agents were counteracting his measure? It was in my last number observed, that we are now trying the full extent of a republican government, under Mr. Jefferson; and if this is the case, is it not proper that he should have those in government who are friendly to the experiment, who wish to maintain the respecta-
bility of his character, and who are sincere friends, and not sycophantic hypocrites? Certainly Mr. Jefferson is entitled to the same indulgence with Mr. Adams, and while we allow him to exercise his constitutional rights, the people will be able to judge, during his four years officiality, whether the change is for the better or for the worse. To judge candidly on this question, we must allow him the privilege to appoint such men as will act congenial with his principles. If he is wrong in his judgment, we shall see the fallacy of our confidence, and at the next election endeavor to introduce some other person to rectify his mistakes.
The republicans only wish to try Mr. Jefferson by the same touchstone the Federalists proved Mr. Adams; if he fails, we are willing to relinquish him, and bring forward some other person more adequate to the purpose. Republicans are not attached to men but principles. At present we place our confidence in Mr. Jefferson, and in order that this gentleman should have a fair trial, we think he is perfectly right in appointing such persons as will promote the general system of his administration. If from a false delicacy, or from fear of the clamors of his opponents in office, how can he expect to maintain the government upon that ground which he has uniformly advocated? If he was in opposition to the extravagant conduct of the last administration, how can he adopt a plan of economy while he retains a majority of officers who were acting under an opposite regimen?
The fact is, as Mr. Jefferson is now President of the United States, he must have officers who are friendly to his operations; otherwise the business of government will move under a pressure which will baffle all his skill to remove. Those persons who are jealous of his administration, and yet expect him to retain all the former officers, are as unreasonable as the Egyptians, in forcing the Jews to make brick without straw. He must have republican materials, if he is to effect republican purposes—in an army, a general must have officers on whose friendship he can rely, to succeed in any expedition.
Who are the particular individuals in office, or who are out, is but a small question among the people. If honest, uniform republicans are appointed, and the government is administered on constitutional principles—if economy is practiced in the expenditure of public money—if the liberties of the country are maintained—if our property is secure, our persons protected, and peace and harmony prevail, "WE, THE PEOPLE" are perfectly willing that Mr. Jefferson should exercise his constitutional right, in putting down one who might oppose these salutary purposes, and setting up another who might promote them.
We have no partiality for men, otherwise than as firm friends to their country—we do conceive, however, that those who are partially attached to Britain, and in all instances endeavor to open a breach between France and America, are the greatest enemies to the happiness and prosperity of this country; such men ought to be avoided, and never suffered to partake of the official emoluments of government.
Why should a removal from office be considered "an intolerant spirit"! Rotation is rather a republican principle—no man has such a claim on government as to demand a constant support from it. If the officers under the former administration, have, for many years, experienced the emoluments of their appointments, why are they dissatisfied that some others should have equal advantages? The pecuniary benefits of the government ought to be diffusive, and no family or particular individuals have reason to find fault, if some other citizens are provided for, equally as serving as themselves. The "intolerant spirit" arises, not from the conduct of Mr. Jefferson, but from his opponents. As supreme executive, the constitution gives him a right to confer offices of trust and profit, and while exercising this prerogative, is it not unreasonable that those who have heretofore enjoyed them, should murmur and calumniate him for distributing his favors?
His constitutional right cannot be disputed, and certainly his appointments ought to be appropriate to the system which he contemplates. If he means to pursue a line of economy, he would be very unwise to keep those in office, whom he has reason to think have been lavish of the public money in their respective departments. If he means to prosecute measures on the pure principles of republicanism, he must be justified in placing such men in government, as have given the highest proofs of their attachment to it. If he has reason to think that many have not acted strictly conformably to those principles, common prudence will dictate the necessity of a
change. The question is, can a Republican system be carried on with alacrity, while many of the officers of government have a strong predilection for an Aristocracy? Can the government be kept in a state of quietude, while a great proportion of the officers are in heart opposed to THE MAN under whom the Executive part of the administration is conducted?
These persons are often quoting those words of Mr. Jefferson's speech, "We are all federalists, we are all republicans," and draw a conclusion in their own favor, that as such they ought to continue in office. However, if we are all federalists and republicans, let us practise on the acknowledged principle of republicanism, viz. rotation; but these men claim an exclusive right to the title, and say, none are federalists but we and our party; and they claim "all the religion, all the morality," all the patriotism, and of course ought to hold, all the lucrative offices in government—nobody can be trusted but they and their friends, and all the citizens who advocated Mr. Jefferson, ought to be reprobated by him. If we are "all federalists, all republicans," why should not Mr. Jefferson's friends be rewarded by some appointments, as well as Mr. Adams's adherents? They seem to think that the government was made for them, and unless they have an exclusive right, they are justified in calumniating the constituted authorities, and even convulsing society. They are the political horse-leeches, crying give, give.
OLD SOUTH.
(The following interesting article is translated for the New York Mercantile Advertiser from a Manuscript which is certified to be a true copy from the original Proclamation.)
EQUALITY. LIBERTY. IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. ARRETE.
R. LA GROSSE, Captain. General of Gaudaloupe and its dependencies.
Considering that malevolence is ever ready to circulate doubts respecting the intention of Government, when, by an act of justice, it recalls inhabitants, too long absent from this colony, whom the aim of certainty of falling victims to revolutionary events had kept away;
Considering that the same men, who cannot but be sincere friends of a government that protects them, ought not to be classed amongst those who have constantly shown themselves the enemies of the republican government;
Considering that it is essential to determine the formalities first to be fulfilled by those who may be willing to return to Gaudaloupe; that it is also thought requisite to remove the fears of all the Republicans who have not left it, who are at the same time farmers of the national domains, by announcing to them that these measures of justice are in no wise derogatory to the obligations they have contracted with the Republic and to those of the Republic towards them;
Considering, finally, that it is the duty of a strong and just government to make known the principles by which its conduct is guided;
Decrees as follows:
Art. I. Any person, absent from the colony and inscribed on the emigrants' list, who shall be inclined to return, shall address directly, or by his attorney, or thro' the mediation of his relations, a petition to the Captain-General, who will make inquiries, pronounce upon the demand, and forward his decision to the concerned.
Art. II. Those persons who may be authorized to return shall on their arrival present themselves to the commissary-General, who will deliver them the necessary passports.
Art. III. Whatever be the restitutions which government may find is just to make to the different proprietors who may be entitled to obtain them, they never shall be made to the prejudice of the present occupants; the intention of government being only to substitute in its place and stead those whom it will put in repossession of their estates.
Art. IV. The present Arrete shall be published, stuck up, and addressed to all the civil and military authorities.
Given in the Palace of the General Captainry, at the Port of Liberty, Isle of Gaudaloupe, the 7th Messidor, year 9th of the French Republic (26th June, 1801.)
The Captain General. Signed, R. LACROSSE. By the Captain General, Signed, B. GOYNEAU, Secretary-general. A true copy. Signed Bouge.
Sales at Auction.
On Saturday twenty-second
instant at 12 o'clock in the forenoon. Sixty hds. Antigua puit, 3d and 4th proof, from six to twelve months old and now landing at Mr. Anthony Reintzel's wharf in George Town, on a credit of sixty, and one hundred and twenty days.
JOHN TRAVERS, auc't'r.
August 20, 1801.
N. B. Also a quantity of limes, oranges and castor oil.
By virtue of a decree from the Chancery Court of Maryland, will be exposed to
PUBLIC SALE,
to the highest bidder, at Mr. William Rhodes's Tavern, on the eighth day of September next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon (the same being part of the real estate of Abraham Young, deceased)
A LOT of ground situate in the District of Columbia, adjoining the City of Washington; whereon is erected a two story brick house 32 by 36 feet, unfinished; one small frame house in good repair about 12 by 16, one meat house 12 by 12, and one small log house; subject to the widow's right of dower. A credit of 12 months will be given to the purchaser or purchasers, on giving bond with approved security, on interest.
On the ratification of the sale by the chancellor, and on payment of the purchase money, a deed will be made to the person or persons purchasing, conveying all the right, title, interest and estate, belonging to the heirs of Abraham Young deceased.
A Plan of the premises will be shown on the day of sale.
HENRY WHETCROFT,
Trustee.
Washington City, August 14, 1801.
LAND FOR SALE.
A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND,
LAYING on Mountain Run, in the county of Culpeper, whereon the subscriber now lives, containing 1130 acres and well improved, with buildings for a large and genteel family; orchards, barns, corn houses, &c. A large proportion of meadow land, which is now in grass sufficient to cut 50 or 60,000. of hay annually; 5 or 6 acres of highly improved clover lots, the first cutting this spring and very luxuriant; the whole of the cleared land in good farming order and in a progressive state of improvement; the tract may with great convenience be divided into two good farms with equal advantages except that of buildings. The buildings on one of them would be small, but might with no great expense be made comfortable for a small family with the necessary buildings now on it, with a very productive garden; convenient to church, court house and three valuable merchant mills two of them within one mile and an half and the other seven and an half miles, immediately on the road leading to Fredericksburg; distant 50 miles from Alexandria and the Federal City; 30 miles from Fredericksburg and Falmouth. As to its healthiness of situation and agreeableness of neighborhood, I am fully persuaded no one will be disappointed in them. Wishing to sell the land to make a more equitable division among my children, and as some of them are young, the payments will be made cash on paying the interest annually; one third or one fourth of the purchase money will be expected on giving possession, which may take place on or about Christmas next, or perhaps sooner if required, with the liberty of feeding this fall. All kinds of stock, plantation utensils, corn, fodder, hay, household and kitchen furniture, except beds, may be had with the plantation: also a parcel of likely NEGROES in families, who can be well recommended for their honesty, &c. Any person willing to retire from trade, and set himself in the farming line, will seldom find an opportunity of doing it more to his mind than the present one.
One other tract of nearly 700 acres of Land, laying on the river, 4 or 5 miles above Fredericksburg, known by the name of Sutherland's tract of land, the greatest part of which is now in wood, containing a quantity of valuable timber, and its vicinity to so thriving a town as Fredericksburg, will render it truly valuable; there is a small plantation on it now in cultivation and may be converted into a small grass farm to great advantage. It is needless to say much on its quality or other advantages, presuming any one willing to purchase, will choose to satisfy themselves by taking a view of them. The payments for the last tract of land will be one third on giving possession on or about Christmas next, the other two-thirds in two equal annual payments. The price of each tract may be known on application to the subscriber, either by letter or otherwise; the price of the latter tract may also be known of Mr. D. Grinnell, of Fredericksburg, or my son, living with Mr. Stone, of Fredericksburg.
R. SLAUGHTER, jun.
Culpeper, Vrg. August 21. eptat
The Schooners Dolphin & Kitty, now lying at Mr. Young's Wharf will constantly take freight every three weeks from this to Annapolis or Baltimore. For terms apply to BRO. HAWN and BOYS. Washington July 15, 1801.
The undersigned respectfully acquaints the public, that he has removed to the corner of 14th and L streets, where he continues to manufacture and sell all kinds of Ornament 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.

NASSAU, (N. P.) July 24.
THE HURRICANE.
On Wednesday, this island was visited with a tremendous hurricane. Whether we judge by the effects it produced on the observations of our senses, during its period, we are equally led to pronounce it one of the severest that we have ever witnessed in these islands.
On a former occasion, we expressed a hope, that we should be exempted from gales of wind this season—and, we gave as a reason for our opinion, the frequency of rains, accompanied with thunder and lightning.
It is worthy of remark, that for these some weeks, there has been little or no rain, and though the weather has been remarkably warm and close, there has been an entire absence of thunder and lightning. These unusual circumstances, at this season, should put us on our guard in future.
The wind, for a day or two previous to the hurricane, hung to the northward of east, and on the morning of its happening, it blew very fresh in squalls, from E. N. E. and kept backing to the northward, with increasing violence. About 12 P. M. cautious people began to be alarmed, and to prepare for what they expected would follow—but in general the calmness of the season, quieted the suspicions of the inhabitants, as they knew it was unusual for hurricanes to happen till about the equinox; doubt, however, was changed into certainty, and by two o'clock the gale had increased to that degree, which we denominate a hurricane. The vessels, pretty generally began to drive from their moorings, notwithstanding their masts and yards were struck, and all their anchors down, and every other precaution attended to. The harbour, fortunately was thinner of shipping than usual; yet they drove against one another, and came in whole strings to the shore.
As the tide rose, the hurricane increased in violence, and still kept backing, till it came about north. This very fortunately, drove all the vessels on the town side of the harbour, and prevented any from driving to sea. By three o'clock there was scarce a vessel riding in the harbour. The Guineaman—prize to his Majesty's ship Echo, that lay well up in the harbour, and on the Hog-Island side of it, parted her anchors, and drove towards the town. In her progress she got upon the middle ground, and turned over on her beam ends, so that the seamen got on her side.
The negroes (250 in number) fell to leeward, in between decks, and were in imminent danger—but fortunately, the vessel beat over the bank, and righted, and at length drove ashore, against Mr. Benjamin Lord's wharf, which she in part demolished—the negroes and crew were, happily, all safe landed.
The ship George, a Guineaman, belonging to James Mole, esq. that arrived on Tuesday, and was still lying below the old fort, drove from her moorings also, and came ashore abreast of the bar, in an exposed situation, but by judicious management and great exertions, the negroes were all got safe on shore.
The wind, after three o'clock, began to haul slowly round to the eastward, but without any diminution of its violence—indeed, we are rather of opinion, that its violence was augmented. Objects, at a small distance from the shore, were now invisible, or indistinct, the spray rising from the water in such clouds, as to obscure every thing that was near it. In fact the harbour resembled three torrents, of different densities, passing with inconceivable velocity. First the water, from the accumulation at the end of the harbour, by being drove in from the bank and raised 6 or 8 feet above its common level, acquired an extremely rapid motion down the harbour. The foam and spray next, forming almost a smoke cloud, spun along with swiftest possible degree of visible motion and formed a stratum, as it were of 50 feet deep: and over that the raised in a rapid medium, in a perfectly horizontal direction; and appeared increasing from its projectile velocity. By half past four the wind got round to the east and kept veering round with a certain sign that the gale would not continue long. Its violence, however, as yet, was unabated.
Providentially, before it acquired any southing, the tide had fallen, and the vessels having all been driven up water, none of them were blown off; in which case they must have gone and probably would have been lost with those in them. About an hour before sun-
set, the wind had shifted round to south or south by west, and still blew with great violence; but the town and harbour was so sheltered by the hills, that it was very little felt. By sunset it moderated—and by eight or nine at night, there was nothing remaining of it, but a fresh gale.
We thank God before we proceed to recapitulate the damages sustained from the hurricane, that so few lives have been lost in the elemental strife, and crash of matter. We have heard but of two or three that were drowned, and none that lost their lives on the shore.
Of all the vessels in the harbour, 3 only rode out the storm, viz. the sloop Primrose an American, and a Spanish vessel near the eastern fort. Between Evan's hill, and Western Water Battery, we counted 120 vessels stranded; besides which there were several sunk, and others crushed to pieces, and laying under other vessels, that we could take no account of.
The most convincing proof of the extreme violence of wind, and perhaps the best criterion we can adduce is, that the greater part of all the vessels had their masts blown away—not cut, but blown away by the board. The prize Guineaman lost all her's and her bowsprit, by the sheer force of the wind.
Several vessels we understand are bilged; and others, from the extreme difficulty that would attend getting them off, are abandoned. In general, however, we are in hopes, the stranded vessels will be afloat, without much difficulty or damage to their hull.
On shore, in the town and its vicinity, the devastation was equally great; many valuable houses have been blown down, & all the fences and trees in general, laid level with the ground. Nearly one half of Mr. Joseph Hill's beautiful grove of cocoanut trees, were all destroyed by being broken off near the butt—one of which we measured, and found it to be 7 feet 7 inches in circumference, just above the part where it was broken.
Mr. Abel Ferguson's house one of the largest in town, was blown down; and the roof, in falling, had well nigh demolished Mr. Howie's house adjoining. Other new stone houses suffered considerably, from the mortar being in a moist state; and a great many wooden houses fell from the same cause, the stone underpinning not having had time to cement.
The sea, to the southward of fort Montague, made a breach through the solid hills, and has filled the extensive valley to the westward of it, many feet deep. It also rose five feet over the new eastern causeway, and the road, to the fort of Evan's Hill; which it has materially injured. The eastern parade and burying place was completely overflowed by the rising of the water in the harbour; and the sea passed, in a torrent, between the editor's house, in the ground, and the new road; it then found its way into the harbour, by passing the causeway and the road; by captain Gibbons, where it has made a large gulley and would have completely destroyed it, had not the shifting of the wind occasioned the water to fall in the upper part of the harbour.
To attempt to make an accurate estimation of the damages sustained by the inhabitants of Nassau and its vicinity, would be the height of presumption; for there is no person can say, what his own loss amounts to. If we may be permitted, however, to hazard an opinion, it is, that the aggregate loss sustained from the late hurricane, is not less than one hundred thousand pounds.
ANTHONY SAWYER,
LADIES' & GENTLEMEN'S HAIR-DRESSER. RESPECTFULLY informs the public, that he has opened a shop opposite the Little Hotel, in the City of Washington. Turban wigs of the newest fashion are made for the ladies, fillets, &c. He will wait upon any lady with the patterns. Any other business in his line shall be strictly attended to. F Street August 19, 1801.
CIRCULATING LIBRARY.
HUGH SOMERVILLE,
Has lately received and is now ready to circulate, a large and valuable collection of NOVELS, History, Romances, Voyages, Travels, &c. which will be lent out to read, by the week, month, quarter, or year, as his store and residence in a frame building, south side of the Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Hotel bridge, and three new brick buildings, and the building now erecting for the city of Washington market-house, where the terms may be known, and attendance given from nine in the morning till one in the afternoon, and from two till four. August 18.
Strayed from the Subscriber
on or about the 8th of August, a large black horse, shod all round, one white hind foot, a scar on his neck, where he was bled, and some saddle galls.
Also a dark brown cow, and a calf, the cow has both her horns sawed off at the end, and a board on the top; the calf is brown with a white face and the end of its tail white, is a bull calf about five months old. Whoever will take up said horse, cow and calf, shall be entitled to 4 dollars reward, and all reasonable charges paid, or two dollars for the horse, by returning them to the subscriber. AMOS WILKINSON, the tinner. Washington City, Aug. 19, 1801.
BOTTLED PORTER.
THE subscriber wishing to establish himself in the bottling of Porter informs the public in general that he at present has by him for sale at his bottling cellar, corner of Bridge Street, opposite the Post Office,
Vine Philadelphia Porter, in excellent order—also,
TAUNTON ALE of the first quality, and CIDER in bottles.
The public may depend upon always finding a constant supply at the cellar as above—and he is thankful for favours received. R. C. STANLEY. George Town, August 6. 1801.
VARDEN & CARPENTER, TAYLORS,
Gratefully acknowledge the favours of the public, whilst carrying on business opposite Mr. Sille's Tavern, and inform, that they have removed to the next house east of Mr. Tunnicliff's Hotel, where gentlemen and ladies will be served in a style of fashion and elegance which it has ever been, and ever will be, their study to execute, and they presume, equal to the most populous cities in the Union.
Regimental and Ladies Habits made in the neatest manner. May 15, 1801.
Conrad & McMurtry
HAVE opened houses of entertainment in the range of buildings formerly occupied by Mr. Law, about two hundred paces from the Capitol, in New Jersey Avenue, leading from thence to the Eastern Branch. They are spacious and convenient, one of which is designed for stage passengers and travellers, the other for the accommodation of boarders. There is stabling sufficient for 60 horses—They hope to merit public patronage. City of Washington, Nov. 24, 1800.
Ten Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or stolen from the subscriber two horses and a mare. The mare and one of the horses are matches, about 15 hands high, black colour, and bob tails. The other horse is a small bay, about 14 hands high, has a remarkable lump on the right side, cropt ears, and a bell round his neck. The above horses were missing on Sunday night. DANIEL C. BRENT. Washington City, Aug. 19. 1801.
To be sold or exchanged
For improved lots in the City of Washington or Alexandria,
A VALUABLE FARM,
In Frederick County, Virginia, CONTAINING three hundred acres; 60 acres at present in thriving CORN—it is situated in a genteel neighbourhood, and contiguous to a Mill and Blacksmith. The improvements are a handsome and convenient Dwelling House, Kitchen, Store house, Smoke-house, tables, Corn-house, Hen-house, Overseer's house, and necessary Negro Quarters. The whole of these buildings are new and complete.
Will be sold with it, if required, Negroes, Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Farming utensils, &c. &c. Likewise, fifty barrels of CORN on hands.
Any person desirous of possessing this valuable tract of land, by purchase or exchange, will apply to ROBERT W. PEACOCK. Attorney at Law, and Conveyancer. August 7.
NOTICE.
THE following slaves have been committed to the jail of Washington county, viz. SOLOMON JOHNSTON—Five feet 10 inches high, 33 years of age, has on a pair of man keen trowlers and a coarse shirt; says he belongs to captain Johnston of the city of Baltimore.
JOHN PAINE—Five feet 8 or 9 inches high, 26 or 27 years of age, has on a blue coat much worn, a pair of light coloured corduroy breeches and an old hat, says he belongs to col. Martin Pickett of Fauquier Court House, Virginia.
MARK, alias THOMAS GORDON—Five feet 9 inch high, 40 years of age, has on a pair of old trowlers, and an old shirt and a new felt hat; says he belongs to David Allison of Falmouth Virginia.
BEN COLE—Five feet 8 or 9 inches high, 22 years of age, has on a striped gingham coat, overalls of the same, and white dimity jacket; says he is a free man, and that he came from Fells Point in the city of Baltimore, where he resides.
The owners of the above Runaways are desired to come and take them away, otherwise they will be sold as the law directs, to discharge their prison expenses. DANIEL C. BRENT. Marshal of the District of Columbia. Washington, August 14, 1801.
Bottled porter & cider &c.
THE subscriber respectfully acquaints the public that he has, in addition to his grocery and dry goods store, a bottled Porter and Cider Cellar. He intends to keep a constant supply of the best London and Philadelphia Porter, and brown stout English and American Cider; where the public can be accommodated by the barrel carefully packed, by the single dozen, or less quantity, at the most moderate prices. GILBERT DOCKER. Capitol Hill, New-Jersey Avenue, City of Washington, August 12, 1801. N. B. The highest price given for empty Bottles.—$1 A two story Frame Store to let.
A GREAT BARGAIN.
I WILL sell or lease for ten years, a valuable Farm, in the county of Culpepper, and state of Virginia, on Flat Run, containing 750 acres the land is extremely fertile, and yields abundantly in the production of corn, wheat, and tobacco; there are about 100 acres of meadow land, 50 or 60 of which are cleared, and 25 acres well set in Timothy, about 350 acres of the tract are cleared and well inclosed. This land is distant from Fredericksburg about 28 miles, and 55 miles from Alexandria and the City of Washington. There are several valuable merchant mills in the vicinity, one within the distance of a mile, where the Fredericksburg prices are given for all kinds of grain.
I will also sell the Reversion of 250 acres of land adjoining the above, on which are erected a number of valuable buildings, among them a large dwelling house of 60 feet by 40, with four rooms on a floor, with fireplaces, and every necessary out-houses—A valuable peach and apple orchard.
A further description is deemed unnecessary, as any persons desirous of purchasing or leasing, will doubtless wish to view the premises. For terms apply to Robert Brooke Voss, Esq. who lives adjoining the premises, or to the subscriber.
I will also Sell or Rent, Two three story brick houses in Alexandria, completely finished, on King and Columbia-street, with sundry valuable property near the same, possession whereof may be had immediately. The situation for the flour and grocery business is equal to any in Alexandria. For terms apply to Henry Thomas Moore, Alexandria, or to the subscriber. NICHOLAS VOSS. City of Washington, July 13, 1801. N. B. I wish to hire by the month, or until the 1st day of November, ten or twelve labourers, for whom liberal wages will be given,—Apply to N. Voss, on E Street, or W. T. Voss, at the Navy-Yard.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
JUNE 7th, 1800. Regulations for ascertaining and fixing the Pensioners, and payment of pensions on the Navy establishment of the United States.
To obtain a pension the party must produce to the Secretary of the Navy a certificate from the commander of the ship or vessel on board of which he sustained the injury, which incapacitates him; or in the case of a marine, from the commanding officer of the marine corps, or commander of a detachment as the case may require; in the latter case however, if the injury happened on board a vessel of war, the certificate of the surgeon will also be required, if on shore, that of some respectable medical character of the place, that the same was received while he was acting in the line of his duty, specifying the nature and amount of the disability, the capacity or station in which he acted, and the monthly pay to which he was entitled at the time of sustaining the injury. On such certificate being produced, and it being ascertained to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy, that the disability still exists and is likely to continue, he will at once direct the applicant to be placed on the books of the Loan Office of the state in which he resides, and the loan officer will make the payments half yearly, viz. On the 1st of January, and 1st of July, to the party in person or his legal attorney during his life or the continuance of his disability. But if the pension is to be paid on a power of attorney, the loan officer must have it ascertained by the certificate of a Justice of the peace of the county where the pensioner resides, that he was living, and that his disability continued, in the month next preceding that in which payment is to be made every year, and must transmit the same to the Accountant of the Navy with the necessary receipts as vouchers for his payments.
Each person to be placed on the pension list, must receive at the Navy Office a certificate in the following form.
A. B. Seaman, &c. having been disabled in the service of the United States, on board of the ship of war while acting in the line of his duty, is entitled to receive dollars per month, from the loan officer of the state of payable half yearly, on the 1st of January and 1st of July in every year during his life or continuance of such disability, to commence from the day of The same will be paid to him in person or on his legal power of attorney. But no money will be paid on a power of attorney, unless the said A. B. shall send to the loan officer of said state, the certificate of a Justice of peace of the county wherein he resides, that he the said A. B. appeared before the said justice in the month preceding that in which the ill continued to be made and that his disability to payment is Signed
BENJ. STODDERT. The foregoing regulations are still in force.—By order, An. THOMAS, P. Clk.
Navy Department, June 17, 1801.