The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1801-08-14 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. CXXIII.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14th, 1801.
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APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.
AS it appears to me in the highest degree conducive to the welfare of a republic that the people should be well informed, I propose offering a few remarks additional to those which have been already made, on some recent appointments by the President. From the tendency of error perpetually to accumulate, and to be emboldened by impunity, it is of great moment to the cause of truth, to eradicate, as soon as discerned, its first germs. It is certainly true that but little dissatisfaction has arisen from the measures of the administration; so little, that the whole of it, when probed to its sources, will be found to originate either in a spirit of pre-determined crimination, or in the disappointment of personal ambition. Yet, lest sentiments, unworthy as even these are, should, under the mask of patriotism, seduce one honest mind, I will, without further preface, explain the justifiable grounds, on which, in my opinion, certain removals have been made.
My preceding remarks must have convinced the reader, that the change of Marshals and Attorneys, which has taken place, was enjoined by principle, and that the public good absolutely required it.
The removals, which I am about to notice, will also appear to have proceeded altogether from a regard to the general interest, independently of personal favour or prejudice. They are chiefly confined to certain Revenue officers, who have been removed, in the opinion of the writer, on one or other, or all of the following grounds:
 1. Defalcation in the payment of monies actually received, or which ought to have been received, or a failure to account to the Treasury.  2. Gross immorality of character.  3. Incompetency to discharge official duties.  4. Negligent attention to the discharge of duties.  5. Settled hostility and active enmity to republican principles. 
One or all of these charges will be found to apply to this class of removals.
How far they are just grounds of removal will appear, if any elucidation be required, by the following observations.
 1. Defalcation in the payment of monies actually received, or which ought to have been received; or a failure to account to the Treasury. 
The expences of our revolutionary struggle, and the occurrence of subsequent events, have swelled to a considerable magnitude the taxes imposed by the government. As the people, who pay them, contribute them for their own good, they have a right to demand their rigid and scrupulous devotion to that exclusive purpose. At all times they possess this right; but at the present time the right appears asserted with uncommon vigour. A belief, well founded or not, exists, that taxes have been needlessly multiplied, and that public treasure has been shamelessly lavished, not to promote the public good, but to enrich individuals, and to increase, in an unconstitutional way, the patronage of the executive. This conviction has undeniably operated with great effect in the removal by the people of the last administration. Under such circumstances, the people have a right to expect from their new rulers the application to subordinate officers of a rigid principle of justice. As, therefore, the President values the good will of his constituents, must his solicitude be to prevent, as well as to remove, all such existing or probable grounds of complaint. Under such impression he will remove men, who,
 1. either withhold from the public, monies actually collected;  2. or who have neglected, thro' partiality or negligence, to enforce the payment of public monies;  3. or who, from their past conduct, prove that in a season of temptation, when opportunity presented, they were guilty of such acts, however exempt from them they may now be, under the fear of being rigidly called to account;  4. men who fail to render at prescribed periods their accounts, without which it is impossible to ascertain their fidelity. 
2. Gross immorality of character.
In a republic, no man can be respectable in a public, who is odious in a private, station. However fit an instrument vice may be in states of society corrupt, and under governments despotic, where the public good is scarcely the pretext of governors, we believe, and it is hoped our practice will long continue to illustrate the belief, that virtue is even more essential in public than in private life. Not that it is to be dispensed with in either; but that, as in the former, the sphere of influence and the temptation to misconduct are greater, so the individuals thus situated, should possess a sterner integrity.
Among those immoralities, which are the most disgraceful to ourselves, as well as the most pernicious to society, is intemperance. Do not all men, and all nations, shun the drunkard, even in the relations of private life? If such a man possess property, is it not a proverb that he will soon lose it? Would any rational being trust his life, his property, or his reputation in the hands of such a man? Shall it then be expected that a nation will trust its concerns to him? Would not the continuance of such a man in either a post of profit or honor, be a dishonor to the government that continued him? Would it not shew a wanon and criminal disregard of character, and contempt for public opinion?
Yet such men have been removed, and for the removal of such men, Mr. Jefferson is censured.
Party clamour condemns the removals, denies the charges, and triumphantly asks, could Washington or Adams have appointed drunkards! But how short-lived is the triumph! We lay not that Washington or Adams appointed drunkards. We are convinced that neither of those gentlemen would knowingly have committed such an act. We further believe that neither of them actually did so. But we believe and know, that men, thus appointed, became so after their appointments. Certificates to this effect are in existence.
3. Incompetency to discharge official duties.
A man may be appointed to a particular office under a full impression of competency to a discharge of its duties, and yet the mode in which its duties shall be discharged may convince the appointing power of his unfitness. Notwithstanding a want of qualification for a particular place, he may in general be well informed, and he may be strictly virtuous. We all of us know that in this country the influence of party has been so dominant, that in many cases the enquiry previous to appointment, has not been, what are a man's talents, but what are his politics; what is the weight of his interest with the people? Appointments, dictated by such motives, cannot be supposed, in all instances, to have been made from an unbiased regard to the qualifications of individuals. In some cases, citizens, scarcely able to write grammatically or intelligibly, have been entrusted with the superintendence of extensive and involved accounts.
When we consider the President, as we must in all cases consider him, as answerable for all the injury accruing to the public from the continuance of an incompetent officer, surely we must unhesitatingly agree that it is his duty to remove in all cases where a man's talents are unequal to the faithful discharge of duties assigned him.
4. Negligent attention to the discharge of duties.
As an individual, who undertakes to discharge duties, to the performance of which he is unequal, ought not to expect a continuance in office, so ought not a man to expect a continuance, who, with competent talents, either entirely neglects to perform, or devolves on others the performance of them. The trust which his country reposes, is in the officer himself. It is not in his clerk—It is his discretion, and not the discretion of a clerk, that is confided in. It is for his time and his talents, that, in general, a liberal compensation is made. If, where such trust is confided and such compensation allowed, a public officer employ clerks imperfectly to transact business, which it was intended
he should himself with more correctness transact, it follows that an additional expence is created beyond that contemplated by law, and the security for a faithful and able discharge of duty lessened or destroyed.
Under our government there are two descriptions of office. The first embraces those of the higher order, whose chief duties are the general superintendence of subordinate officers, and the obtaining, in order to communicate to Congress and the Executive, correct and comprehensive statements of the results of particular laws, and the manner in which they are executed. In the necessary discharge of these duties, a large share of discretion is involved. A selection of the best means requires, in many cases, extensive general information, and laborious reflection. From such officers, therefore, to require the duties of common clerks, would be to hazard the great interests of the country. Such duties, of course, are not expected. But, the second class embraces officers strictly ministerial, who legitimately have little or no discretion. From these officers may rationally be expected a personal devotion to all the duties of office, and in many instances no other than the duties of a clerk are required to be performed.
When officers of this class, instead of attending themselves to official duties, pass their time in indolent inactivity, or in an attention to private or political pursuits entirely distinct from the nature of their office—the inevitable consequence is, that public business is often badly executed, and that at an unnecessary expence. Such habits of inattention are good grounds for removal.
To give an illustrating example of these remarks, it is only necessary to advert to the case of Henry Miller, removed from the office of Supervisor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Miller, when appointed to this office resided in York county, where his political influence was understood to be great. The office of Supervisor was held in 1798, in Philadelphia, and as the office, from its constitution, is a superintending one, under whose direction the whole internal revenue of Pennsylvania is collected, it would seem more than other offices to require the presence of the principal.
In the month of June of that year, a bill was brought into the House of Representatives for determining the compensation of the officers engaged in the internal revenue, whose incidental expences, &c. had previously, by the direction of Congress, been laid before them. In the debate on this subject it was observed by a member that the charge for clerk hire made by Mr. Miller was uncommonly great, and it was further remarked that this probably arose from the frequent absence of Mr. Miller, who was then in York county, instead of being at Philadelphia. Mr. Otis replied, with great animation, that in the present state of the country clerk hire was a paltry consideration, infinitely outweighed by the services which the Supervisor of Pennsylvania had rendered, and was then rendering his country, by his absence from Philadelphia (the seat of office) and his patriotic employments in York county.
What these employments were will fully appear from the existing circumstances of the times. The period of election in Pennsylvania was at hand. At this election were to be chosen thirteen members of the federal House of Representatives, and the members of the state legislature. The Alien and sedition bills, recently passed, had excited great indignation in Pennsylvania. In York county, heretofore devoted to federalism, and considered as its strongest ground in that state, the people were so dissatisfied that in one day petitions against those laws from 1600 persons were presented to Congress. The language of these petitions, and more especially the numbers by which they were signed, alarmed the federal members. They knew their cause would be desperate, should Pennsylvania be lost to them. The influence of Mr. Miller was relied upon to calm the agitation of York, and he was immediately despatched to arrest the progress of popular resentment. But, unfortunately for the enemies of republicanism, popular resent-
ment, though slow to anger, when once roused by the remonstrances of reason, does not soon subside. The people do not soon forget their oppressors; and Mr. Miller has, since that period, had the mortification of labouring ineffectually against the tide of public opinion. Is it surprising that in a contest between him and the people, he should find himself on the weaker side?
It is not intended by the writer of these remarks, to rest the removal of Mr. Miller exclusively on the foregoing grounds, though most men will see in them an abundant justification of the act. If any information, other than that which is official, can be relied upon, the late Supervisor of Pennsylvania has been removed not so much by the act of the Executive, who has given his commission to another, as by the force of the revenue laws that virtually make it the duty of the President to remove delinquents—Had Mr. Miller, at the legal periods, paid into the Treasury all monies received by him? Had he, at the legal periods, rendered his accounts?—Until his friends can prove these facts, they may well be silent.
5. Settled hostility and active enmity to republican principles.
Though in a republican government every man should be suffered, without oppression or reproach, to think as he pleases, and to declare what he thinks, it by no means follows that all men, whatever may be their opinions and declarations, have equal claims to places of profit and honor. The private individual derives no influence from the government by which he is protected, whereas the public officer is invested by that government often with great influence. If this influence is employed in depreciating republican principles, in overawing and persecuting those who profess them, and in endangering the public peace, has not a republican government, itself the guardian of republican principles, a moral right to displace him? Would it not be accessory to a political crime, if it did not displace him?
If then one individual shall have been actively engaged at New-York, and another shall have been equally active at Pe-nobscot, in times that tried men's souls, when an invading enemy desolated the country, and both shall have manifested no change in their old convictions, shall the man, who penned the declaration of Independence, be condemned for distrusting their republicanism?
These are the grounds, it is presumed from the personal knowledge of the writer, on which most, if not all, of the recent removals have been made. They are grounds which are deemed substantial and conclusive. No man, unprejudiced by party feeling, can consider public monies as safe in the hands of a defaulter, of one who is grossly immoral, incompetent, or negligent.
But it may be enquired, if these charges exist and can be sustained, why are they not officially assigned at the time of removal? To this question it may be replied, that to assign them would be unnecessarily to wound the character of the person removed. Were the act of removal dictated by malevolent feelings to the individual displaced, such feelings would find their highest gratification in giving publicity to his ignorance or misconduct. But no such vindictive passions being indulged, it must be the wish of the Executive rather to soften than to aggravate the unpleasant duty, which a regard to the public interest alone enforces. A man may be altogether unfit for a public, who may yet be well qualified for a private station. To proclaim his incompetency for the former, might blast his prospects in the latter—While, therefore, a respect to the public constrains his removal, a regard to him as a man recommends his being treated with tenderness and forbearance.
He who has read the partial and impassioned statements of party, would, without other information, be apt to believe that every federalist, every friend to the late administration, had been removed. But how great will be his surprise when informed, that out of ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO Revenue Officers, not more than TEN have been displaced;—that

all the officers engaged in the management of the treasury, excepting the secretary appointed in the room of his predecessor, who resigned, are the old officers, without exception federalists and friends of the late administration.
These facts and remarks are deemed sufficient to demonstrate that principle , and not personal bias , has governed the President; and that while he has magnanimity to respect the virtues and talents of those who differ from him in political opinion, he has spirit and patriotism to displace those who, from default, immorality, incompetency, neglect, or anti-revolutionary principles, are unfit public agents.
JUSTICE.
TO THE PUBLIC.
“KNOWLEDGE,” said Lord Bacon, “is power;” it is likewise happiness, and it has been a subject of regret, with those who wish to see this kind of happiness disseminated, and the minds of ALL the citizens of these states inspired with this power, that no efforts are made, or encouragement given, for manufacturing books at the seat of government; that there is not, south of Pennsylvania, any extensive manufactory of paper or of books; these articles, great as the consumption is, are nearly all imported from Europe or the eastern states, while the means for manufacturing them, with which every country abounds, are wholly neglected here. Since the removal of the government to the City of Washington, the consumption and demand for paper in the district of Columbia, is supposed to be more than would be produced by ten ordinary paper mills, while there is not one within 40 miles of it.
The printed books for sale south and west of this place might be manufactured here, with more convenience than at any place north or east of it. In short, perhaps a greater field was never opened in America, for an easy and lucrative extension of these pursuits, than now presents itself to the enterprising adventurers in the district of Columbia. And no business is more profitable.
Governed by these considerations, and stimulated by a desire to render Washington City, as well the seat of literature as of government, a number of gentlemen have formed themselves into a “ PRINTING and BOOKSELLING COMPANY. ” To be governed by the following rules, till by experience, it shall be found necessary to add to, alter, or abridge them; the power for which purposes is vested in the stockholders.
CONSTITUTION OF THE “PRINTING AND BOOKSELLING COMPANY.”
1. The Subscribers do associate into a company for the purpose of printing and selling books in the City of Washington, and for promoting the general diffusion of Literature, and agree to the following Rules for the government of this institution, referring to ourselves the power of emendation:—
2. The Capital Stock of the company shall be vested in shares of five dollars each; to be paid at five instalments of one dollar each; the first instalment to be paid as soon as a board of directors are appointed, and one at every three months thereafter till all are paid.
3. In case the instalments are not paid within three days of the time on which they fall due, one fifth of what has been paid on the delinquent shares, shall be forfeited to the benefit of the company; and if they are not paid within 60 days, the whole shall be so forfeited.
4. The government of this institution shall be vested in two committees, one for literary and the other for pecuniary and economical concerns; a joint meeting of whom shall form a board of directors, who shall designate the duties of each committee.
5. The board of directors may appoint one of themselves to preside at their meetings, appoint a secretary, and such other officers or agents as are necessary; stipulate their salaries or perquisites; decide upon proper books or periodical works, to print or publish; and upon the propriety of extending their business to the erection of a paper manufactory, and generally to attend to all the concerns of the company; and to make all necessary appropriations of money.
6. The two committees shall be appointed semi-annually, on the 20th days of August and February, by ballot of the stockholders, from among themselves, each member giving a number of votes equal to the shares he holds; for which purpose a meeting of the stockholders shall be held semi-annually on those days.
7. If any vacancy happen in either of the committees, the board of directors shall fill it by an appointment from among the stockholders.—Removal out of the district of Columbia, or the sale of stock, so that a member of either of the committees, shall not possess ten shares, shall be considered as a disqualification from acting.
8. The board of directors, and each committee, shall appoint their own times and places of meeting; and the committee may, if necessary, elect one of each body respectively, to preside over their deliberations occasionally, and each may appoint their own secretary.
9. The capital stock of the company shall at present be limited to one thousand shares, subject to be extended at the discretion of the board of directors.
10. There shall be no debt contracted by the company, or by their agents on their account, beyond the capital subscribed and unexpired; therefore no stockholder can be involved beyond his subscription.
11. A dividend of the profits of the business shall be made semi-annually.
12. This association shall continue till two thirds of the stockholders in amount, shall, at a regular semi-annual meeting dissolve the company.
Washington City, August 1, 1801.
LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
NEW-YORK, August 10. Intelligence received by the Pollard from Liverpool, and the Clinton, 37 days from Greenock.
LONDON, June 18.
The army destined to act against Portugal is to be reinforced by twelve demi-brigades. General Moreau, in a late conference with the First Consul, at Malmaison, declared, that the grand plan of an invasion of England and Ireland was impracticable.
The Count of Leghorn is very unwilling to assume his new title of King of Etruria before a general pacification.
Monsieur de Kalitscheff, the Russian ambassador here, interested himself so strongly in favor of Count St. Marfan, the Sardinian envoy, that when the latter received a hint to quit Paris, Mons. de Kalitscheff declared, that should Count Marfan be ordered away, he would also quit Paris, since the French government had pledged itself to the Emperor, his sovereign, to treat with an envoy of the king of Sardinia.
LONDON, June 19.
FRANCE.—The following we copy from a morning paper of this day.
During the last fortnight, very few, if any, private letters were allowed to come from France to England, a circumstance which gave rise to much speculation. It is supposed the French government stopped them, in hopes of intercepting some treasonable correspondence, or gaining information, respecting certain political designs. On Monday, however, a great number of letters were received from France, and from them we are enabled to throw a light upon the present state of affairs.
The report of the arrest of Massena was not wholly unfounded. By persons arrived from France it was known that his arrest was expected. We can now add, upon good information, that a political intrigue has been for some time carrying on at Paris, for the purpose of supplanting Buonaparte and his government. The leaders of this intrigue are Reubell and Massena; We know not whether Carnot is a party to it.
Tongues have been busy in Paris, though the newspapers have been silent. As the means of succeeding in their designs, the Reubellists have represented Buonaparte's government as a despotism, wholly destructive of liberty. But, after what has
passed in France, the passion for freedom is as cold as it is in England, which has been shocked by the example of France. In the cause of freedom, Reubell could form but a weak party; in another cause he has been more successful. His friends
have represented the protracted negotiations between England and France, as a proof that the Chief Consul has no design of making peace; that he is trifling with the distresses of the people, and meditating new wars and conquests, which, however they may add to his glory, must prolong and aggravate the sufferings of the French people. Among other plans of ambition, that of the invasion of England has been held out as the most chimerical and dangerous.
The difficulties in the way of the settlement of the indemnities have also assisted the Reubellists; and when it appeared that the French troops had crossed the Rhine, a strong sentiment of discontent was manifested among the public. This period too, was thought to be the favourable one in which Reubell and Massena should strike a blow, and an explosion was actually looked for at Paris. But Buonaparte is too vigilant and penetrating.—Fouche, Minister of Police, the Pitt of Paris, who has deserted the Jacobins as the other deserted the Parliamentary Reformers, has kept a most watchful eye over the conspirators, with all of whom he is acquainted, knowing their haunts and proceedings as well as their wishes, by the report of his spies, numerous and well paid.
Buonaparte and Fouche know so completely every step of their enemies, that they are under no uneasiness, and they will not arrest them, if it be possible to avoid that measure with safety, conscious that even the arrest of their enemies would excite an alarm of danger, and call in question the stability of the government. It was the dread of a political explosion, more than the appearance of war on the Rhine, that occasioned the late fall in the French funds.
It was to counteract the efforts of this faction, to banish the apprehensions of a new war, that the review of the state of the French Republic in respect to her Foreign Relations, appeared last week in the Moniteur , and that the project of invading England was discountenanced. For the same
reason was the high panegyric on the English ministers published in the official journal. But hollow are the praises of the Chief Consul, and little faith do we place in his professions of peace. He has adopted a kind and complimentary language, to lull the fears and to raise the hopes of France; to give the people this great proof of his own sincerity—and a great proof it is, that he believes the British minister sincere.
A letter received over-land from Bombay, under date 2d March, informs us that the inhabitants of Mewari, called on Wewatti, lying on the south of Delhi, within twenty miles of the capital, have again commenced hostilities against the Seiks. They are characterized as the most savage and brutal people in Hindostan, and give no kind of quarter.
The fleet of India ships which lately arrived with tea from China, occupy collectively 9273 tons.
The East-India Company have at this time in their service 76 regular ships; of this number 31 are of 1200 tons and upwards.
LONDON, JUNE 20.
A rapid interchange of dispatches has taken place during the whole of the preceding week between the governments of France and England, and very sanguine hopes have been entertained in consequence that the basis of negotiation may have acquired some solidity. We are told that yesterday Mr. Otto had a long interview with Lord Hawkesbury, in the presence of Mr. Addington, and that the terms submitted by the French as preliminary, are extremely favorable—it is even stated by some what these terms are, namely, that France consents to give up Egypt, and to allow England to retain the port of Alexandria; that Piedmont is to be restored to the king of Sardinia; and that with regard to the colonies, the general principle will be to give back very little to France and her allies in the East-Indies, but to restore with a liberal hand our conquests in the West. Such being the statements afloat—we do not, however, attach much credit to them, it not being probable that government, at so early a period of negotiation, should publish any report of its progress; we therefore consider all further speculation on the subject at present as impertinent.
By another flag of truce, which arrived yesterday at Dover, we again, last night, received Paris papers of one day later date than those which reached town on Thursday; as heretofore they contain but little news.
The rumour of peace having been concluded with Portugal, we find to have been premature; not a word appears in the Moniteur either of the 15th or 16th on this subject, or indeed on any other, deserving of notice.
The Defensors of the 16th states, under the head Pau, June 7th, that citizen Felix Desportes, first secretary of Lucien Bonaparte, has written as follows: “Peace will soon be signed; the ambassador is gone to Baldajos.”—He has been a long time travelling towards that town!
A letter from Franckfort, of June 5th, has the following passage:
“The German princes who had troops in the British pay, have at length, within this month, received the remainder of the subsidies, which they expected last December.
“Several princes of the empire, among others the electors of Mentz and Tiers, the bishops of Franconia, the duke of Wurttemberg, &c, have, in imitation of the court of Vienna, prohibited all clandestine meetings, and correspondence with foreign associations—it is moreover in agitation to extend the same prohibition to the whole of the empire.”
The minister of the navy has issued an instrument, directed to the maritime prefect of the second circle, in which he endeavors to stimulate the sailors, not only to repel with true French courage the aggression of the British, but to seize every opportunity of attacking them.
Yesterday a report prevailed, and was much credited on Change, that the frigate that brought M. d'Aranja to France, had been met with at sea by a British vessel. The minister was on board, and the frigate was returning to Portugal; the French government having refused to conclude a peace with the former country, unless considerable concessions were first made by the British nation.
We yesterday learnt from the best authority, that the enemy's fleet in Brest, according to the last advices, consisted of 27 ships of the line ready for sea. The complement of seamen on board the 74's, is fixed at only 300 men, which proves that room is left for double that number of troops, as the French complement on board ships of this rate is 850 men.
House of Commons, June 19.
Mr. Bragge brought up the report of the committee upon the trade of America with Ireland. The resolutions allowing the importation from America to Ireland of tar, wood, wheat and other grain, tobacco, &c. were agreed to, and a bill ordered.
HAGUE, June 9.
Government has ordered that part of the National domaines shall be sold at the end of the year. Little doubt is entertained that there will be a great competition to purchase them. We reckon in a great degree on the foreigners, as the want which reigns among the greater part of the inhabitants of this republic, will not allow them to make any great acquisitions. We shall begin by the lands of Guelders and those of Bergen-op-Zoom.
The French troops which are in the pay of our republic, still remain on the war establishment. It has been remarked, that there are very strong garrisons in Guelderland.
BERNE, June 4.
Yesterday a detachment of the Helvetic troops received orders to march into the canton of Soleure to collect the taxes. The inhabitants, however, refused to pay, on the grounds that as the government was only provisional nothing was due.
WESEL, June 6.
The army of observation continues to occupy its former positions, and nothing has yet taken place that indicates the evacuation of the Electorate of Hanover. It is even stated, with confidence, that after the grand review of Magdebourg, some more regiments will arrive on the Banks of the Weser. Magazines of provisions are certainly collecting in that quarter.
LOTS FOR SALE,
In the City of WASHINGTON.
THE SUBSCRIBER offers for Sale a number of valuable Lots beautifully situated between the Capitol and the Eastern Branch. Also a few Lots to be let on lease for ninety-nine years in the vicinity of the Navy yard.
WILLIAM PROUF.
City of Washington. December 12, 1800 N. B. A few Tons of good Meadow Hay, one Kiln of Bricks, and some Cord wood.
W. P.
HORSES STOLEN.
50 DOLLARS REWARD
Stolen from the subscriber in the night of the 25th of July last two Horses—One of which has been found at Hagerstown in the state of Maryland; the horse yet missing may probably be in the neighborhood of Baltimore or the City of Washington in which city he was seen on the morning of the 30th—he is about 15 hands high, a bright bay, 8 years old, a small star in his forehead, white on one or probably both hind feet, the marks of geers appear on him—he is a good chair horse, trots fast, and accustomed to draw in a team.
The thieves it is said are known in Baltimore and George-Town by the names of THOMAS WATERS and ROWLAND ROGERS, and that Waters dwells near the road which leads from Baltimore to Frederick Town. Waters is a stout fellow about 6 feet high, the other about the same height, but not so lusty, as they are known to change their cloaths with a view to deceive, a description of them is unnecessary. Whoever will give information by which the horse may be got again shall receive Ten Dollars, and for the thieves on conviction Forty dollars.
JOHN PEARSON.
Darby, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, August 6th, 1801.
City of Washington, July 24, 1801.
The subscribers
HAVING on hand a number of house frames of different dimensions, also, a large quantity of the various kinds of lumber requisite for building, and having made such arrangements as will ensure a constant supply thereof, and enable them to sell the same on very advantageous and moderate terms to the purchasers, hereby give notice, that on application, accompanied by a memorandum or bill of the frames or lumber wanted, they will cause the same to be delivered as soon as may be, at any of the wharves in the city of Washington, George-Town or Alexandria. The circumstances under which the subscribers enter into this business, authorize an assurance that the strictest punctuality in their engagements may be relied on. They are therefore induced to believe, that many persons who are engaged in building, or who may intend to build, will find a great convenience and advantage in making timely application, and being thus supplied with the whole of the lumber necessary for their buildings by the time it may be wanted for use.
JOHN CONNER,
Somerset County, near Princess Ann, Maryland.
THOMAS MUNROE
City of Washington.
July 27. 1watt

WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1801.
By the Niagara Herald, printed in Upper Canada, which we received last evening, we find that the Legislature of that province was prorogued on the 9th ult.
A bill passed the House of Assembly giving to the affirmation of the Friends the same force with an oath, but was lost in council. On this measure the Editor of the Herald remarks—
“On this subject, which called forth the abilities of the members on both sides, on the rights of conscience, the public may expect much from us; but it must be noted at the same time, that a subject so extensive as this, where fully argued, is not always prudent to repeat what has been said by those who are privileged to say—We will, however, venture to predict, that from what we have discovered, toleration in religious sentiments will gain ground in Upper Canada, notwithstanding the establishment of it, as it respects so many, so worthy and valuable emigrants, has failed in the first attempt.”
In the same print are given the detailed proceedings of the court of Quarter Sessions against twenty-two delinquent collectors of taxes, summoned to appear and render a statement of their accounts.
CENSUS OF GEORGIA.
  Free White Males under 10 years of age, 19,841   of 10 and under 16 years, 8,469   of 16 and under 26 9,787   of 26 and under 46 10,914   of 45 and upwards, 4,957   53,968   Free White Females under 10 years of age, 18,407   of 10 and under 16 7,914   of 16 and under 26 9,243   of 26 and under 45 8,835   of 45 and upwards, 3,894   Total Females, 48,293   Males, 53,968   All other persons except Indians, not taxed, 1,919   Free persons, 104,180   Slaves of all ages and sexes, 59,699   Total inhabitants, 163,879 
By the foregoing statement, it appears that the number of inhabitants in Georgia is 163,879, from which if we deduct 2-5ths of the number of slaves, the remainder will be 140,000, by which the representation is to be apportioned—which divided by thirty-three thousand (the number fixed by law since the former census for sending a representative) will produce four, the number of representatives to which Georgia will be entitled in Congress (leaving a surplus of 12,000 inhabitants.)
  By the census of 1790, the inhabitants of that state, were,   Free White Males, 27,147   Females, 25,739   Other free persons, 390   Slaves, 29,264   Total, 82,548 
The numbers therefore, it will be observed, have very nearly doubled in ten years, and the proportionate increase in all classes has been nearly the same, excepting that of free persons of colour, whose increase has been nearly 5 for 1. The number of females in 1790, exceeded that of males, 1,408. In 1801, the number of males exceed that of females, 5,675, the excess rather exceeding the proportionate increase.
At an annual commencement of Columbia College, held in New-York, on the 5th inst. the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on fifteen gentlemen, and that of Master of Arts on four gentlemen.
A disagreeable circumstance has again happened at Constantinople to the Russian ambassador general Tamara. He had requested leave to visit the different Mosques in that city, which was granted him by a firman; and the ambassador, accompanied by the Neapolitan minister, count Ludoff, the Swedish charge d'affaires, M. de Konig, his consort and other Ladies, went to inspect the mosque of St. Sophia, and other temples; after which the whole company proceeded to the mosque of Soliman. Near this place a concourse of Turkish students, and other young men had been
formed, who behaved very rudely, ill-treated the attendants of the ministers, particularly the ladies, and severely hurt a Russian interpreter, till at last the Turkish military succeeded in dispersing them. The Porte immediately dispatched some persons of rank to the Russian ambassador to apologize for what had happened, and at the same time sent presents, which were refused. The ringleaders were arrested, and publicly whipped.
FOURTH OF JULY.
The Fourth of July was celebrated in Cayenne by the Government.
At sunrise, every gun on the fort and different batteries was fired. The French commodore fired sixteen guns, and hoisted the American ensign, which was also immediately displayed by all the French vessels in the harbour; as many of the Americans as could procure a national flag, hoisted it at their fore-top-gallant-mast head. their own colors flying at the main.
At noon another federal salute was fired by the commodore, and at four every American in Cayenne, having been invited the preceding day, repaired to the Government House, to partake of a grand dinner given on the occasion by Citizen Victor Hugues.
At the door of the saloon, the American colours on the right were entwined with the tri-colour standard, so as to form an elegant pavilion. At the entrance of the room, the busts of Jefferson and Bonaparte were crowned with wreaths of living laurel.
The guests were received with that politeness and hospitality which characterize the Government of Cayenne, and were placed at table alternately with the principal men in the colony.
The repast was truly superb; every delicacy which could possibly be procured, was exhausted on the occasion—The dessert was of the most splendid kind, and displayed a refinement of taste that conferred honor on the liberality of the founder of the feast.
After dinner the following Toasts were given and drank amidst thunders of applause:—
1st. By Gen. Hugues.—The 4th of July, 1776; the anniversary of American Independence. [16 guns—air, the Marseillois Hymn.]
2d. By Gen. Hugues—Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States—May his beneficent government have the success which Republicans fondly expect. [9 guns, air, Villons au salut de l'empire. ]
3d. By an American—Bonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic—May he procure the happiness of his country. [9 guns—air, La victoire en chantant. ]
4th. By Gen. Desvieux, commander of the troops—To the memory of the Heroes of both countries, who died in the cause of Liberty. [5 guns— Solemn Music. ]
5th. The Ordinator—The progress of commerce and agriculture, from whence flows the true prosperity of governments. [3 guns— Celebrons ce bon menage. ]
6th. Adjutant General Gaultier—The memory of Washington and Franklin, the founders of American Liberty. [3 guns— Le Vengeur. ]
7th. Citizen Franconie—The liberty of the sea and the freedom of commerce—May every nation maintain those principles, and force their enemies to adopt them. [3 guns— Valeureux Francois. ]
8th. Citizen Molere, President of the Tribunal—The French embassy in America. [3 guns— Ou peut en etre mieux. ]
9th. Citizen Noyer—The Fair Sex in all countries. [3 guns— Lodoiska. ]
VOLUNTEERS.
By Gen. Hugues—The elegant and patriotic speech of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, delivered at his auspicious inauguration into the first office of the American government—May the principles it contains become the gospel of the world, for the happiness of mankind.
By Captain La Couteur—The Conqueror of Guadaloupe,
By a Citizen—May the success of the allies in Europe procure a lasting peace to the universe.
By the General—The memory of the good Samuel Adams.
By an American—The union of France and America—May it endure as long as the summits of the Allegany tow'r, or the Mississippi rolls its waves.
The last toast was drank with repeated plaudits.
At nine the company broke up, replete with that festive spirit of hilarity which such an occasion must necessarily inspire.
During the whole of this festal scene, the Agent's obliging and particular attention to his American guests, ought to be particularly noticed, and the conviviality which he universally disseminated, will be long remembered by every one present.
LATE FROM LISBON.
A gentleman who arrived here yesterday in the ship Hare, in 31 days from Lisbon, informs us, that on their sailing, (on the 9th July) it was reported that the French, who were within 15 leagues were to enter that place on the 11th July, agreeably to treaty. He also adds that a house had been prepared for the reception of Lucien Bonaparte—that in consequence of an order from the English consul at Lisbon, posted up in the coffee-house, all the English merchants who wished to get off with their property, were requested to be ready to sail with the convoy for England on the 9th July, the day after the Hare sailed—that on the Saturday previous to the Hare's sailing, the princess of Portugal was safely delivered of a daughter, in consequence of which, illuminations for three successive nights took place, though they were not general on account of the confusion occasioned by the approach of the French troops.
Our informant further adds, that just before the Hare sailed, a number of Brazil merchant ships arrived at Lisbon, all armed with from 30 to 32 guns.
The capt. informs, that a treaty had been concluded between the French and Portuguese, in consequence of which Portugal was to remain in the hands of the French. No battle of any consequence had taken place. At the time the Hare sailed it was rumoured that the English had been defeated in Egypt; it was brought by an Algerine from the Straights.
Just before the Hare sailed, an Algerine vessel arrived at Lisbon from Gibraltar, bringing a report that the English had been completely defeated in Egypt.
The brig Bevonoto, which arrived here yesterday, in three months from Tunis, came out in ballast, with dispatches for our government, relative to the war lately declared against the United States by the Tripolitans.
NASHVILLE, July 15.
Copy of a letter from Chinnunibie, King of the Chickasaws, to brigadier gen. James Winchester.
Chickasaw nation, June 6. 1801.
Friend and Brother, We received your letter informing us that you had completed running and marking the line between the white people and our nation, with a map of said line.—We are glad that the line is run, that no mistake can hereafter arise from ignorance of it—but are sorry to be informed that even within the short time since the running the line, some of the white people, has opened and marked a road thro our land, on one of the branches of Duck river, which heads opposite Turnbull's creek; we hope sincerely that you will interfere to prevent a a repetition of such aggressions.
In pursuance of a council of the principal chiefs.
CHINNUNIBIE,
King of the C. N. By JOHN M'KEE, Dép. Sup. and Agent of Indian Affairs. The hon. Brig. gen. J. Winchester. }
The subscriber trusts nothing more than the publication of the foregoing letter will be necessary to stop the progress of the aggressions therein complained of—but if contrary to his expectation, any should so far forget what they owe to society, to humanity, and to themselves, as to continue, or commit new and other aggressions,—the law to “regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and preserve peace on the frontiers,” will be put in force against them.
J. WINCHESTER, B. Gen.)
To be sold or Exchanged
For improved lots in the city of Washington, 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 Black-smith. 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. 1803
BOTTLED PORTER.
THE subscriber wishing to establish himself in the bottling of Porter informs the public in general that he at present has for sale at his bottling cellar, corner of Bridge Street, opposite the Post Office,
Fine Philadelphia Porter, in excellent order—Also, TAUNTON ALE of the first quality, and CIDER in bottles.
The public may depend upon a ways finding a constant supply at the cellar as above—and he is thankful for favours received.
R. C. STANLEY. George-Town, August 6. 1801. 1803
NOTICE.
THE following slaves have been committed to the gaol of Washington county, viz.
SOLOMON JOHNSTON—Five feet 10 inches high, 33 years of age, has on a pair of nankeen trowsers 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 inches high, 40 years of age, has on a pair of old trowsers, 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 expences.
DANIEL C. BRENT. Marshal of the District of Columbia. Washington, august 14, 1801. 1803
District of Columbia, Washington County, ss.
BROUGHT before me, one of the justices of the peace for the county aforesaid, by Richard Spalding and Hezekiah Robinson, a brown horse, taken as a stray and trespasser. He is about fourteen hands and an half high, seven or eight years old, shod all round, shoes much worn, a round scar on the off side of his neck, under his mane, a narrow blaze and snip, a lump or hard swelling on his off knee, very strong marks of a collar and of his having been in hard service.
BENJAMIN MORE. Washington City, August 8. 1801.
The owner of the above horse is desired to prove his property, pay charges and take him away.
RICHARD SPALDING, HEZEKIAH ROBINSON. August 10. 1803
Land for Sale.
On the 28th day of September next, will be sold at Public Auction, at Mr. Stille's Hotel, in the City of Washington, (if not sold before at private sale)
Two Tracts of Land, lying on the Eastern Branch of Potomac river, and within the district of Columbia—containing together ninety-two acres. On each of these tracts is a quantity of good ash wood, within a few yards of the river, and the greater part, if not the whole, of said land, at a moderate expence, may be made excellent meadow. There is on one of the tracts an eligible situation for a dwelling-house, with about four acres of excellent upland suitable for a garden. Sale to commence at three o'clock, when the conditions will be made known. Information may be had from the subscriber at the Navy-yard.
GEORGE FRANK, On the premises, or of THOMAS HERTY, Conveyancer City of Washington. July 20, 1801. 1803
NEW BOOKS.
JUST received by the sloop Highland, capt. Hand, from Philadelphia, and now opening at the store of Rapine, Conrad and Co. corner of South B street and New-Jersey, Avenue; a very handsome assortment of books, amongst which are,
 De Valcourt, by Mrs. Bennett, author of Welch Heiress, Beggar Girl, &c. &c.  Nocturnal Visit, 2 vols. by Maria Regina Roche, author of the Children of the Abbey, &c.  The Girl of the Mountains, 2 vols. by Mrs. Farnons, author of “Women ast they are.”  Rash Vows; or the effects of enthusiasm, by Madame de Genlis.  The Farmer's Boy, a rural poem, by Robert Broomfield.  The life of Catharine the Second, Empress of Russia, 3 vols.  Dawin's phyologia; or, the philosophy of agriculture and gardening. 
Also a general assortment of law books, and miscellaneous history, Rationary, writing and wrapping paper, &c. &c. all which they will dispose of on the most reasonable terms.
N. B. Bookbinding in all its branches, with neatness and dispatch. Washington, May 15,
FOR SALE,
A young Negro Girl, About 15 years old—Apply at this office. April 22, 1801.

The following is an Extract from Theodore Dwight's Oration, delivered before the Society of Cincinnati, of this state, at New-Haven, on the 7th of July last. Messrs. Hudson & Goodwin's reviewers say, that it is "seasoned with his own Pepper" — [New-Haven Pap.]
"We have now reached the consummation of Democratic blessedness. We have a country governed by blockheads, and knaves; the ties of marriage, with all its felicities, are severed, and destroyed; our wives, and our daughters are thrown into the streets; our children are cast into the world from the breast, and forgotten; filial piety is extinguished, and our surnames, the only mark of distinction among families, are abolished. Can the imagination paint any thing more dreadful on this side hell? Some parts of the subject are, indeed, fit only for horrid contemplation. But let me point out to you, the progress of a being through this dreadful society. The offspring of the man whom; instead of feeding on the nectar of his mother's bosom, cast out a vagabond among co-sinopolites, with hearts harder than adamant, and colder than the frosts of Greenland, to pick up a miserable support in a world where Charity lets not a crumb fall from her table; trained up without a filial, or fraternal sentiment; loving and beloved by no human being; ignorant of himself, and ignorant of his God; in sickness friendless; in death deserted. What, can such a state of society breed but vice; what can it end in but misery?"
From the situation of an individual, extend your thoughts to a nation; and from a nation to the world. View, for a moment, millions of such wretches as I have described. Think of a world full of ignorance, impurity and guilt; without justice, without science, without affection, without conjugal felicity, without parental love, without filial piety, without domestic happiness, without a prayer, without a God! What can support the human mind in the hour of distress, in a world like this? Instead of the consolations of faith, we should find the madness of despair—instead of the fortitude and resignation of Christianity, we should see—
"whetting his interdicted knife, Grim Suicide, the damned fiend of hell." instead of the accents of adoration, and praise, we should hear "weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth." Is there a charm in this? Can even a co-sinopolite find a ray of comfort here?"
BERNE, May 25.
We have been assured that there has been presented to the Executive Council a second plan of Constitution, upon the same principles as the first, but with several important alterations, and much more detailed. The following are the essential articles:—
 1. The Helvetic Republic shall be composed of seventeen Cantons, which shall each have, according to its territorial extent and its means, an interior administrative organization, calculated upon its wealth, in relation, however, with the central government, for all the objects which are to determine the political force of the Republic.  2. The Helvetic Republic shall have a central government composed of a Diet of 22 members, to meet in the chief place for two months in the year—of a permanent Council of State, of 25 members; of a council of Regency, or Executive power: of a high court of justice.  3. Appointments. The members of the Diet shall be paid by their constituents according to their will. Those of the council of state shall each have 6000 francs. Those of the Council of Regency shall have; the reigning Landamme 50,000 francs; the 2d Landamme 10,000—the two Stadtholders 6000 francs each; the three Ministers, each 6000.  4. The council of state shall be presided by the Landamme who is not in Regency.  5. The council of Regency shall be composed of a reigning Landamme, President; of a second Landamme, of two Stadtholders; of three Counsellors performing the function of Ministers; of a Secretary of state, charged at the same time with the political correspondence (Minister for Foreign Affairs.)  6. The Diet names the Council of state from its own body, or not, according as they think fit.  7. The council of state names from its body the Council of Regency.  8. The Council of state shall be composed of one member from each Canton at least, and of three at most. 
9. The Ministers shall be for the Finance, for War, and for Justice.
10. With respect to the interior administration of the Cantons, there shall be no Minister of the Interior nor Minister of the Arts and Sciences. The Secretary of State performs the functions of Ministers of Exterior Relations.
11. Mode of Election.—Every municipality names a deputy; these deputies, chosen by the municipalities shall name for each district one elector. The elector of districts, conjointly with the national prefect and the administrative chambers, name the deputies to the diet, and determine the interior administration of their Cantons. There shall be prescribed to the municipalities a maximum of property upon which they shall decide their choice.
12. The council of Regency shall name for each Canton a Stadtholder, who shall be its representative.
13. According to their extent and proportion, the Cantons shall name to the Diet as follows:
Zurich, 8 members—Berne, with Oberland, and part of the Valais, 9—Leman, 7—Argover, with Baden, and the Upper Frickthal, 6—Zug, 1—Underwalde, 1—Schwartz, 1—Uri, 1—Appenzel, Toggenburg, and St. Gall, 6—Glarus, with Gaster and Sargans, 6—Lugano, with Bellinzona, 4—Fribourg, 4—Soleure, 4—Basel, with the Lower Frickthal, 4—Rheita (the Grisons) 6—Scaffhausen, with Targovia, 6—Lucerne, 6. TOTAL, 80.
14. Berne shall be the chief place of the Republic.
15. The diet proposes laws: the Cantons ratify. In default of a sufficient majority, the Diet itself functions.
16. The new organization shall commence the 1st of next August, and the constitution shall be put in force on the 23d September.
The Schooners Dolphin & Kitty
now lying at Mr. Young's Wharf will constantly take freights every three weeks from this to Annapolis or Baltimore. For terms apply to BROHAWN and BOYS. Washington July 15, 1801.
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 still continues.
Signed BENJ. STODDERT.
The foregoing regulations are still in force. By order,
AN. THOMAS, P. CLK.
Navy Department, June 17, 1801.
Nail Manufactory,
ALL kinds of Cut Nails for Sale by Wholesale and Retail at the Factory on F Street where persons building and all others wishing to purchase may be supplied with any quantity at the most reasonable rates.
JOHN JACK
Washington Feb. 4, 1801.
TO BE RENTED,
THE store lately in the tenure of Doctor Gailasspy and Co. Its situation for business is preferable to any other in the City, being on the Pennsylvania Avenue, between the President's House and the Capitol, and within a few yards of the spot on which is to be immediately erected the market house.
JOSIAS W. KING. At the Capitol.
May 20, 1801.
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 Ornament for Chimney pieces, Door Caps, Frontispieces, Metal Sashes, &c. which may also be had at his store No. 57, 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.
Conrad & M c Munn
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.
Bottled porter & cider cellar.
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.—A two story Frame Store to let.
WARDEN & CARPENTER, TAYLORS,
Gratefully acknowledge the favors of the public, whilst carrying on business opposite Mr. Scille'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.
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Intending to leave the city in October next; I am desirous of disposing of my Furniture, two Negro Men, one a cook, the other an oster and coachman, and a pair of very well gaited Riding Horses.
It may be a convenience to any family removing here, and taking the house I now occupy upon rent, to take the Furniture (which is but little worn) by purchase. The house, one of the six buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue, is pleasantly and conveniently situated, and the furniture, which is tolerably well fitted to it, will be reduced in price in proportion to the wear and tare, and change of fashion, shall have made right.
BENJAMIN GRAYSON ORR.
July 20, 1801.
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For Sale and to Rent,
TWO elegant two story Brick DWELLING HOUSES, situate on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue, a little to the west of the President's Square. Each house contains two parlours and passage on first floor; on second, two rooms, with fire-places, and well finished garrets, cellar, and kitchens. In the front of the buildings extending to the avenue, is a neat yard planted with trees, palisadoed, &c. The situation, in point of health and contiguity to the public buildings, is equal to any in the city, and is well adapted for private families, or to accommodate genteel Boarders. The title is indisputable. The terms will be moderate for part cash or slaves. For particulars inquire of OWEN ROBERTS, on the premises, or of
THOMAS HERTY, Conveyancer
City of Washington, May 25, 1801.
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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 scantling of any size or dimensions, may obtain them at the shortest notice by applying as above.
TO BE SOLD.
NINE Lots on square 693, on each of which is one two story brick house, six fronting on New-Jersey Avenue, and three on E Street south.
Also,
One lot on square 802, fronting on 3d Street, on this lot there is a cellar dug and walled up, and the first floor of Joists laid, designed for a house 25 feet 7 inches front, by 36 feet deep.—An indisputable title will be given. Terms of payment one fourth part cash on the day of sale, the remainder in three equal annual payments with interest. For further particulars enquire of.
MOFFAT & NESMITH.
New-Jersey Avenue, June 12, 1801.
12awn.U.&U.t
FOR SALE,
A good and convenient Lot and House, BEAUTIFULLY situated on the South-East corner of Square No. 973, in the vicinity of the Navy-Yard, commanding an extensive view of some miles down the Potomack. The house is two story high, fronting 42 feet on 11th street east, and 42 feet on South G street, adjoining the South front is a commodious kitchen, with oven and other conveniences. A large frame stable, carriage-house, with a hay-loft 50 feet by 25, and a pump of fine water near the back of the kitchen. The lot will extend ninety one feet on 11th Street East, and 139 on South G street. The purchaser may have a preference of the fourth half of the Square.
Also, a number of LOTS, eligibly situated in various parts of the City. The titles to the whole are indisputably free of every encumbrance, the terms moderate and convenient, which may be known by application to the subscriber, occupying the premises first mentioned, possession of which may be given within 30 days after purchase.
THOMAS TINGEY,
Who will also sell one whole and four half pipes, London particular Madeira wine, of excellent quality.
Washington, 10, April 1801.
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CONVEYANCERS OFFICE,
AND
OFFICE FOR SALE OF CITY LOTS,
On the Pennsylvania Avenue fronting the President's Square, near Rhodes's tavern, City of Washington,
THOMAS HERTY has connected with the business of drawing Conveyances of Land, Wills, Mortgages, Leases, Bonds, Assignments powers of Attorney, petitions, and every other species 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 knowledge of the laws relative thereto—the knowledge 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; together 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 opinions given thereon when required.
For sale a great variety of Lots, in desirable 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 Potomack, 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.
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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 15 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 F street, or W. T. Voss, at the Navy-Yard.
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