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WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, January 19, 1801.
On Friday morning the Editor waited upon the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and informed him, that he had called upon him to know the precise extent of the order delivered from him, through the Serjeant at Arms, the preceding day.
For the purpose of a more concise and clear statement of the conversation that ensued, the narrative will be made in the form of a dialogue between the Speaker and the Editor.
Editor. It is my wish to know whether the exclusion from the gallery was intended to apply to the day on which the exclusion took place, or to the whole of the Session?
Speaker. Undoubtedly, to the whole of the Session.
Editor. I would then ask, whether the prohibition applies to me in the character of taking the debates and proceedings of the House; or whether it applies to me in the character of a citizen of the United States?
Speaker. I will inform you of the grounds of my order. I can have no doubt that either through incompetency, or intentionally, you grossly misrepresented my conduct as well as that of the House.
Editor. With respect to the fact of misrepresentation, I can only say, that in my opinion it does not exist; in which opinion I am not only supported by my own recollection, but by the declarations of Gentlemen, whose correctness and veracity I respect as highly as those of any other men (though I do not wish to be understood as insinuating a want of respect for any other) who have explicitly declared my statement to be correct. With respect to intentional misrepresentation , no such charge can be sustained. With respect to incompetency , I shall be altogether silent, trusting without fear to the decision of others.
Speaker. It must be evident to you that ever since I have held the office of Speaker, a certain description of men have done every thing in their power by misrepresentation and abuse, to throw me into contempt, and to disgrace the government.
Editor. With respect to the actions of any particular description of men, it does not become me on this occasion to say any thing. But with respect to myself, in whatever I have done, I have been governed by a sense of duty. Feeling every personal disposition to treat every man with respect, I have not been regardless of the duties and rights with which public opinion and the laws of my country have invested me. In conformity with them, in reporting the proceedings and debates of the House, I have invariably stated the truth.
Speaker. In my opinion, your conduct, ever since you have been on the floor, has had no other object than to disgrace me and the government.
Editor. Suffer me to say, Mr. Speaker, that these remarks appear to me altogether improper to be made by the Speaker. I am fully impressed with the necessity of treating you in this interview with respect. But if remarks, such as have just been made, and which convey reflections that I declare to be unfounded, are repeated, I may from the unavoidable vindication of my own character, be drawn into the expression of opinions that may give offence.
Speaker. The Speaker suspended his remarks.
Editor. Returning to the question I submitted; I wish to know whether as a citizen, I am excluded?
Speaker. The object of the order was to prevent you from giving any further statements of the proceedings of the House.
Editor. Candour may require me to
say, that in all events, I shall continue to publish a statement of the debates and proceedings of the House.
Speaker. If that be your object, you cannot be admitted.
Editor. I do not say that that will be the object of my personal attendance. If it were, I do not see how the order of the Speaker can apply to it. The order may apply to the act of attending in the gallery; but any thing which shall be done by the Editor afterwards out of the gallery, is a distinct thing. It is, however possible, that, hearing the proceedings of the House from the gallery, as the Editor would, he might correct, should there appear any inaccuracy in them, statements obtained in other ways.
Speaker. If the attendance be with any view to give to the public the proceedings of the House, you must consider yourself absolutely excluded.
Editor. It then only remains to enquire, whether, having still in view the object of obtaining a correct statement of the proceedings of the House, I may have access to the clerk's office, and obtain copies of official papers.
Speaker. I have no objection to your obtaining copies of those papers that are proper to be published. But you must know it would be manifestly wrong to publish papers that relate to transactions in an incipient state. For instance, a member may make a motion that refers to a particular subject. It may be made inadvertently. Its meaning may be equivocal. To publish it in this immature state, before the house has decided upon it, might be to produce misconceptions, and might essentially injure the respect of the people for the government. Such papers ought not to be published. But in cases in which the house has come to a decision, you may publish what is decided upon.
Editor. My ideas, Mr. Speaker, are so completely at war with those you have expressed, that I can entertain no expectation of coming to an harmonious correspondence in sentiment. I have always believed, and do still believe, that the only respect which the government of a republican country ought to receive, is that, which flows from a knowledge of its acts, and of the manner in which those acts are passed; except in peculiar cases that may require secrecy. However, I ask pardon for troubling you with my ideas. My only object is to understand the precise line you draw between different kinds of papers that I may know how to act.
It appears to me that I shall be very much embarrassed in finding the line. For instance, a committee, to whom any business is referred, reports; that report is laid over by the house for consideration, with the express view that it be published for the consideration of the citizens; yet, presenting a measure of the house in an incipient state, and involving opinions not acted upon by the house, it would seem to come within the limits of your restriction. The same remarks will fully apply to all the stages through which a bill goes, until its final passage.
Speaker. I find that you do not understand me now any better than you did before. I think I have explained myself clearly. There are some papers, unimportant in themselves, whose publication can do no manner of harm. But with respect to those of national importance, until they are decided upon by the house, they ought not to be published. At all times, the government should be treated with respect; but at the present period it is peculiarly important.
Editor. I confess, Mr. Speaker, that to my mind the line, as drawn by you, is still vague. I do not understand it; and I thought I had assigned conclusive reasons for my want of apprehension.
Speaker. I have drawn the line as clearly as I can. I have no objection to your obtaining such papers as the clerk pleases to let you have.
Editor. May I then, without violating your rule, publish such paper as the clerk permits me to copy.
Speaker. You may.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1801.
The House went into committee of the whole on the bill to continue in force the acts laying duties on licences for selling wines and foreign distilled spirits by retail, on property sold at auction, and on carriages for the conveyance of persons.
The chairman reported an amendment, limiting the duration of the bill (which was originally without limitation) to the 3d of March, 1803.
On the question of agreeing thereto, the yeas and nays were taken, and were—Yeas 41—Nays 47.
Ordered, that the bill be engrossed and read a third time to-morrow.
The following resolution was referred to a committee of the whole:
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to bring in a bill to repeal the act entitled, "An act to provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States," with a proviso that nothing therein contained shall be construed so as to prevent the assessing and collecting of the direct tax, passed the 14th July, 1798.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16.
The act to continue in force the act, laying duties on licences for selling wine and foreign distilled spirits by retail, on property sold at auction, and on carriages, was read a third time and passed. Yeas 46—Nays 31.
The house took up the Judiciary Bill, to which several amendments were made.
Directed that it be engrossed and read a third time on Tuesday next.
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At nine this morning arrived an Austrian officer, said to be the bearer of dispatches of a nature extremely urgent. He came from the head-quarters of the archduke John. He went immediately to see Count Cobentzel. He was accompanied by an adjutant of the garrison of Strasbourg.
At six in the evening gen. Moreau arrived here. He dined with the minister plenipotentiary of the republic, and set off at nine o'clock. Count Cobentzel having gone to the minister's to pass the evening, met the general there.
FRANKFORT, Nov. 10. While we were flattering ourselves with hopes of peace, appearances here have suddenly become very warlike. Yesterday gen. Angereau received a courier from Paris, with orders to give notice immediately of the termination of the armistice; which he accordingly did on the same day: Adjutant gen. Richer was yesterday afternoon sent with the following note to the commander of the Austrian troops, and to Baron Albion, commander of the Mentz troops at Aschaffenburg.
GENERAL, According to the orders I have received from my government, I hereby notify to you the termination of the armistice. Hostilities will therefore recommence in four days from to day, that is, on the 22d day of November.
ANGEREAU. STRASBURG, Nov. 17. The armistice has been denounced to all the armies. General Desolies, who has the provisional command during the absence of Moreau, has notified to the archduke John, the commander in chief of the Austrian army, that the armistice is at an end, and that hostilities will recommence on the 7th Frimaire, Nov. 28. Orders have been publicly given to the army at Mayence, that the armistice is to conclude on the 29th Brumaire, Nov. 20. Adjutant gen. Angereau arrived at Aschaffenburg on the eve of a grand festival.
According to the last intelligence from Switzerland, the government and constituted authorities at Zurich were informed that the armistice had been denounced the 18th Brumaire, November 9. Hostilities will recommence in that quarter on the 3d or 4th Frimaire, Nov. 24 or 25. The head quarters of general Macdonald are at Coire. The greater part of the army of the Grisons has already set out on its march to the frontiers. A considerable force is assembling in the country of the Grisons.
Nov. 18. A courier, who is just arrived from Basle, brings us the following intelligence: The question about a new change in the superior authorities of Switzerland, is again agitated: The establishment of Consuls is the subject of very general conversation. A report is anew in circulation, that different parts of this country will be united to the neighboring countries: Perhaps there are persons who give currency to these reports for the purpose of facilitating their plans.
CONSTANTINOPLE, October 15. The English commodore, Sir Sydney Smith, is soon to return to England, another officer having been appointed to succeed him in the command of the English squadron cruising on the coast of Egypt.
HANAU, November 16. The French adjutant-general Richer, who carried to Baron d'Albini the notice of the termination of the armistice, was by him requested to communicate the same at the head quarters of the Austrian field-marshal lieutenant Simbschen. General Richer immediately proceeded to Schweinfurt, where general Simbschen was. Baron d'Albini immediately made preparations to evacuate Aschaffenburg. All the Mentz troops, and subsidiary, and contingent corps, will now form a junction. It is supposed that the whole corps under gen. Simbschen will be placed under the command of the Arch-duke Charles, to cover the upper Palatinate and Bohemia.
ZURICH, Nov. 5. The army in the Grisons is completely in motion. The head quarters are established at Coire, whither gen. Macdonald who is lately recovered from a violent illness, is gone. The left wing of the army of Macdonald has thrown a bridge over the Rhine at Rheineck, in order to advance into the Voralberg.
ROVEREDO, Nov. 3. The Austrian army in Italy is in motion. Gen. Bellegarde has returned from Venice to Verona, where he has fixed
his head-quarters. The main force of the Austrians is collecting near Mantua. All communication with the Cisalpine Republic is now cut off. The Neapolitan troops are drawing towards the frontiers to defend their country.
RUSSIA. In the house of commons the 29th inst. Mr. Nicholas suggested the propriety of detaining Russian subjects, and seizing Russian property in England, as a security for British property detained and seized in Russia. He said he did not wish to make any specific motion on the subject, but merely to suggest the propriety of the measure to his majesty's minister.
Banks of the Necker, Nov. 14. The French garrison in the Heilbron, received orders in the night between the 12th and 13th to break up and march towards Franconia. Gen. Collaud, who after a long absence, has within these few days arrived here from Nancy, yesterday took the same road. The troops of the Polish legion lately in the vicinity of Heidelberg, have also marched for Franconia by the way of Heilbron. The French garrison of Stuttgart has broke up for Bavaria.
Rome, Oct. 25. A Russian fleet of transports, with from 3 to 4,000 troops on board bound for Naples, is arrived off Corfu.
VENICE, Oct. 28. The French have required from the city of Florence a contribution of two millions of livres, from Leghorn two millions, from Pisa one million, and in proportion from the other towns in the grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Bologna, Oct. 23. The expedition of the French and Cisalpine advances rapidly. On the 22d a division of the 11th regiment of French cavalry entered Fort St. Leo, in the Ecclesiastical states. Other French corps have marched against Citta di Castello and Perugia, and have taken possession of both those towns. A Journal published here says, commissaries are expected to organize anew the department of Monte Feltrio.
The Austrians again occupy the line of Fans Fossambroni and Cagli, and their commander at Fossambroni has stopped all communication between the mark of Ancona and the Duchy of Urbino.
HAMBURG, Nov. 15. A Prussian ship a few days ago was captured by an English man of war of the Texel, under pretence that the papers were irregular. The captors would have carried her into Yarmouth, but a storm arising, she was parted from the ship that had taken her, having sprung a leak at sea, and put into Cuxhaven in distress, where the captors again found and took possession of her. The Prussian minister has, in consequence, delivered in a note to the senate, in which he demands in the name of the king his master, the immediate restitution of this ship, and expressing himself in the most haughty and contemptuous terms, threatened to march 12,000 men from the army of demarcation into Hamburg and Cuxhaven, if his demand was not immediately complied with. This menace has excited the utmost alarm in this city, but is now so far settled by an agreement between our Government and the Commander of the British ship of war, that the Prussian ship has been set at liberty, and permitted to sail.
HAMBURG, Nov. 21. The Austrian army in Italy, in consequence of orders it had received, has advanced on several points, namely, between Mantua, Vicenza, and Ferrara; and provisional directions have been sent to General Sommariva, relative to assembling the troops and the Militia.
PARIS, Nov. 15. The French attached to the office of our Consul General at Cadiz have with the Consul General, fallen victims to the epidemic malady.
The last letters from that quarter give the most afflicting details of the cruel ravages of the plague. Men, women, and children daily expire in the midst of the streets; and the bodies remain without burials; while many perish with absolute want, caused by the impossibility of all intercourse.
Nov. 16. The hurricane of the 9th has not confined its ravages to our territories; almost all the houses of the Hague have been damaged. The waters rose out of their channels, and spread over the town. Letters from Brussels mention, that two shocks of an earthquake were felt during the tempest.
More than 2000 trees were torn up in the forest of Loigues.
Nov. 22. A corps of 800 infantry belonging to the Consular Guard, with all its cavalry and artillery, is ordered to hold itself in readiness to march to-morrow. Yesterday morning the horses, and a part of the First Consul's equipage left Paris.
Nov. 24. The first Consul will probably leave Paris the instant negotiations may be broken off.
It is said, that the French Government has required of Austria, that the Russians shall not penetrate into Galicia, and that the 4000 troops of the nation, who are to land at Naples, shall not proceed beyond the frontiers of that kingdom.— Clef du Cabinet.
Riga, Nov. 8. Yesterday morning government laid an embargo on all the English ships that were in our port; the number is about 70. It is thought that a similar measure will be adopted in all the ports of Russia; but it is not yet known whether the English property and merchandise will be sequestrated.
Vienna, November 12. The last letters from Vienna state, that the whole Austrian army is in motion to advance towards Mantua; but they say not a word respecting the restoration of hostilities.
We are assured that the Emperor of Russia has demanded of the King of Prussia a passage for his armies; but neither their force nor destination is mentioned. It is only said in some Circles, that Paul I. is determined to restore the political balance of Europe, and the general tranquillity, by every mean in his power.
WASHINGTON CITY. MONDAY, January 19, 1801.
The EDITOR of the National Intelligencer invites the attention of every free man to an account of his interview with the SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, which appears in the preceding columns.
The Senate have rejected the 2d and 3d articles of the French Treaty. The 2d article was rejected 16 votes to 13, the 3d 15 to 12.
The President of the U. States, has nominated LUCIUS HORATIUS STOCKTON, Secretary at War; and the Senate has postponed the nomination to an indefinite day.
The Mayor of New-York has issued a Proclamation subjecting all vessels from the ports of Spain to a quarantine.
Extract of a letter from a respectable commercial gentleman in London, to his friend in N. York, dated London, November 15, 1800.
"Our ministers are perfectly satisfied with your treaty with France, and have assured Mr. King they are pleased to find every respect has been paid to your connection with us. This is undoubted."
A treaty has been entered into between the king of Great Britain and the elector of Mentz, on the 4th Nov. by which he furnishes 3464 men to fight the French, at 30 dollars per head, and 80 dollars per man and horse.
From the foreign intelligence received by the Duke of Clarence, it appears:
That the Congress at Luneville was about breaking up; and that the armistice in Germany was to expire on the 22d of Nov.—that of Italy, at an earlier period.
That the English ships in Russia, to the number of about 300, were detained by order of the Emperor Paul; though it does not appear that the ships or property was confiscated; and that in consequence of this measure, the government of Great Britain had given orders to their cruisers to detain all Russian vessels.
That the king of Prussia had marched troops into Cuxhaven, and taken possession of that place.
That grain had experienced a rise in England. The American barrel of flour was at 77s. Parliament was about giving a bounty on Indian corn and rice.
That a Vienna article of the 8th Nov. mentions that hostilities had recommenced in Italy by Gen. Brune, in the most unexpected manner—and troops pouring in from all quarters.
That the troops in France were all in motion.
That the Swedish court had made representations to the court of London, relative to the violence done by the English to a merchant ship from Swedish Pomerania in the harbor of Barcelona.
That Napper Tandy's trial was to come on in Dublin the 21th Nov.
That cardinal Ruffo, in Italy, was organizing a fresh mass of troops.
On the 27th Nov. in the British House of Commons, Mr. Tierney rose to move that the House do resolve itself into a committee of the whole to take into consideration the state of the Nation—This motion called forth a lengthy discussion in which all the eloquence of Mr. Tierney, & Mr. Pitt was exerted—Mr. Tierney, in his speech, censures the conduct of Ministers in most severe and pointed terms, and in a part of it exclaims with warmth "We are now a lost character in the eyes of Europe, lost all confidence at home, and no longer are the terror of the enemy but a mere bloated fungus on the face of nature." Mr. Pitt in his reply to a part of Mr. Tierney's speech where he hints the probability of the Emperor treating separately with France, says:
"On a former night I spoke of dispatches from the cabinet of Vienna, to the 4th of November; since that others have been received so late as the 9th, which strongly confirm the contents of the former, and relate the great and extraordinary preparations for war, in case the enemy should refuse the only conditions on which Austria can consent to treat."
The motion was lost—Ayes 37—Noes 157.
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On the MAUSOLEUM proposed to be erected to the memory of General WASHINGTON.
ALTHOUGH I was among the number of those who concurred most cordially in the proposal for erecting a monument to the memory of the late Gen. Washington, and at first saw no other objection to the mausoleum which was proposed by the committee, than the incalculable expence with which such a monument might be attended, in a country where such edifices have as yet been unknown; yet I confess that a single expression which lately fell from a member of Congress in the debate on that subject, has given a very different turn to my sentiments respecting the best mode of transmitting to posterity the grateful and affectionate tribute which all are sincerely disposed to pay to that illustrious character. This has led me to some reflections on the subject of monuments, which may serve to illustrate my reasons for preferring that mode which I am now about to propose.
The most stupendous monument attempted to be erected by man, is that of which no trace now remains but in the records of the Scriptures—I mean the Tower of Babel, intended as a monument to commemorate the event of the universal deluge, and vainly designed as a place of refuge from Almighty wrath, should it again manifest itself towards mankind in a similar mode. Although this monument may be presumed to have surpassed the pyramids of Egypt in magnitude, as much as the size of the proposed mausoleum, no vestige now remains of it that is known to man; and had not letters preserved the memory of it, the world would have been as ignorant of it as it is of the name of him by whom such a wonderful fabric was proposed, or erected.
The pyramids of Egypt claim our notice in the second place; they remain, but the names of their founders, and of those to whose memory they were erected, have for ages been buried in oblivion, as perfectly as if their bones had been deposited in the confused mass of an Indian barrow.
Moses, the oldest and greatest legislator and founder of a nation that the world has ever known, died and was buried, no man knoweth where, without any sepulchre or monument. Had the Israelites testified their devotion to his memory in that mode, the place would probably be as little known as the site of the Tower of Babel. When the prophet Elisha collected the books of the Pentateuch, he thereby erected a monument to him, which will endure so long as letters shall be known amongst men.
The psalms of David and the books of the wisdom of Solomon, have survived the city and sepulchre of the kings of Judah, and the temple therein, near two thousand years, and will probably survive them as much longer. Such has been the fate of the greatest attempts to perpetuate the memory of men and their actions, by means of sepulchral monuments.
When Lycurgus travelled into Asia Minor, and there collected and transcribed the poems of Homer, he erected a monument to his memory, which grows with ages, and with the progress of civilization and taste among mankind.
A celebrated statuary proposed to Alexander the Great to cut a statue of him out of a mountain, holding in one hand a river, and in the other a city. Could Alexander have seen this monument (in comparison of which the proposed mausoleum would be but as a dirt-dauber nest under the cornice of the capitol) finished as highly as Phidias himself could have made a statue of the ordinary size, of marble, would he not willingly have exchanged it for a faithful memorial of his exploits and vast designs, recorded by the pen of a Xenophon, or blazoned by that of an Homer?
When Julius Cæsar was compelled to save his life in Egypt, by swimming to his ships, he held his commentaries in one of his hands, carefully preserving them from injury, by extending his arm above the water. Cæsar by that action demonstrated, that if he could have looked forward to this day, he would have been better pleased to find those commentaries the school-boys guide, and the manual of generals and statesmen throughout the civilized world, than to have found all the statues erected to him throughout the Roman empire remaining unimpaired by time, accident, or Gothic barbarism.
To come nearer to our own times—Had France erected a monument to the memory of Henry the Fourth, equal in magnificence to the Louvre, or Versailles, would such an edifice have inspired posterity with a veneration for his virtues and talents, or
conveyed an idea of the gratitude, affection and grief of the nation for their loss, equal to that which has been transmitted to them in the memoirs of his faithful and illustrious friend and minister, Sully? Such is the train of reflections produced by that admirable observation of Mr. Macon, "that if we wish to demonstrate our affection and gratitude to the name of Washington, we should make his life a school-book for our children." The most laboured panegyric from the lips of a Tully or a Demosthenes, could not have conveyed a more exalted eulogium to my apprehension.
Pursuing this excellent hint, I would wish that it might be proposed in Congress to appropriate the sum of two hundred thousand dollars (or more if necessary) to the purposes of purchasing, printing and publishing, at the expence of the Union, all the memoirs, journals, plans, communications, letters and correspondence of a public nature, which were left by the late General Washington: That a superb edition of one or two thousand copies be distributed and deposited in every public library in the United States, in Europe, and every other part of the civilized world: That a less costly edition of one hundred thousand copies be likewise printed at the common expence, and distributed among the several states of the Union, in proportion to the census; and that no monopoly of the copy-right be ever admitted in the United States.
This would, I conceive, be a monument. "Quod nec Jovis ira, nec Ignis, Nec poterit Ferrum, nec edax abolere Vetustas."
A DISTANT SUBSCRIBER.
Review of the present State of France, (Published by order of the Chief Consul on the 22d of November.)
This interesting Paper sets forth in forcible language the weakness of the Government, previous to the 8th year of the Republic; the Western Departments, it says, were desolated by intestine broils, there was no energy in the state; the Police was without power, the Tribunes were without activity, the public coffers in the utmost disorder; the Citizen was taxed beyond measure, and still the income of the nation did not answer the demands made upon it; the armies of Austria from the Alps and the Appennines threatened Liguria and France; the neutral flag was banished from the seas, through the terror of the then existing laws; America, who owed her independence to France, was taking up arms against her; it was under these circumstances that the eighth year commenced. Peace was the first object, the most cherished wish of the nation; two letters, written by the First Consul to the Emperor of Germany, and to the King of England, explained to them (without weakness but without duplicity) the desire of the French people and the wish of Humanity.
This wish (continues the State Paper) was rejected by the Ministers of Austria and of Great Britain; the Cabinet of Vienna blended some hopes with its refusal; the Cabinet of London first mingled ill-nature and reproaches with its correspondence, and soon after its public discussions, in consequence of the proposals made by France, became illiberal and abusive.
The British Ministry (this Paper states) gained nothing by the acrimony of its language; the French People saw that their First Magistrate was sincere in his professions to obtain peace, and their indignation was roused against the enemy that refused to accede to his honest proposals; in fine, they felt that they had nothing to expect, but from their efforts and their courage; hence our splendid success; hence our important victories; hence, perhaps in the hearts of Englishmen, a sentiment of justice for a people who, after so many exploits, such a harvest of glory, breathed only for Peace, and in the hearts of other nations a return of good wishes for the independence of France, and for her liberty.
The paper before us then proceeds to state the situation of the Departments, the capture of Malta, the measures which Government is adopting for the establishment of hospitals and alms-houses, for the perfection of Manufactures, the encouragement of the arts and sciences, &c. It concludes as follows:
A Convention, founded upon common interests and the most perfect reciprocity, will renew the ties by which the States of America were bound to France. These ties shall last for ever, because there is no unequal condition to alter their force and purity. The French nation does not desire any exclusive privilege, nor partial favour. She merely demands from the
nations in friendship with her, the rights of equality; that no nation be more favoured than herself, and that she herself be not favoured more than others nation. Such are the pretensions and interest of all States which may contract engagements with her.
All nations who are sensible of their rights will rally around these principles. The North will take off the tyranny which oppresses its commerce and its seas. It will feel that our interests are the interests of the human race. Russia, in particular, will remember what is due to her dignity and the ancient relations by which she was united with France. She knows that France is a necessary counterpoise in the maritime balance of the world.
The Government had offered peace before the opening of the campaign. It made that offer on the field of battle, and in the bosom of victory. It offered a peace worthy of the grandeur, but also worthy of the moderation of the French people, and on conditions which should have guaranteed to us both its acceptance and its stability. On the slightest hope of drawing near to so desirable an epoch, it suspended those successes which ensured the position of our armies and the ardour of our warriors.
If we do not yet enjoy it, we have to accuse only that Power, which, unaffected by the disasters of the Continent, is anxious only to cement, with the blood of nations, its empire over the seas, and its monopoly in every part of the world.
To conclude, an Austrian negotiator is now at Luneville; a man who merits the esteem of Europe. If he possesses the perfect confidence of the Sovereign who has sent him, he will display that frankness which the French Government has a right to expect from its own frankness, and which is promised by his personal character.
Austria will cease to sacrifice the repose and interest of the Continent to the ambition of the despots of the seas.
Yet, in the present uncertainty, prudence prescribes to France not to permit herself to be amused by an empty shew of negotiation. She will support her propositions with all the force of her arms.
The conduct of the Government has shewn, that it has not carried to too great a height the pretensions of the Republic; nor sacrificed to the madness of ambition the interests of humanity. The crimes of the war will all fall upon those who are the real authors of them; upon those governments which are so weak and so blinded as to become subservient to the mercantile designs of a single nation, and to sell to its gold and its intrigues the blood and the industry of the nations who obey them, and the freedom of the seas, which is the property of the whole human race.
FOR SALE.
THE Subscriber will sell at private sale, two Three story Brick Houses, adjoining each other, 28 feet front each, by forty feet deep, on Capitol Hill, Lot No. 6. Sq. 6-6—A fine commodious lot 61 feet front, by 196 feet deep, running back to an alley 30 feet wide, and may be occupied as one or two tenements, they are finished in a plain, but substantial manner, and built of the best materials—a credit of three, six, and nine months, on giving approved notes, negotiable at the bank of Columbia, or Baltimore—apply to Daniel Carroll, or in Baltimore to HENRY H. CARR. LL.
Washington, Jan 5. 1801.
THE SUBSCRIBER
BEGS leave to inform the Public in general, that he has opened a Beef-steak and Oyster House, on Capitol Hill, City of Washington, in the House lately occupied by Brown and Snowden as a Printing Office, a small distance from the Capitol, where Gentlemen may be accommodated at any hour in the day or Evening, with Beef steaks, Oysters, Sausages &c. at the shortest notice and on the most reasonable terms. Likewise the Subscriber has taken particular pains to lay in a stock of Good Liquors, and flatters himself that by paying strict attention to the business to Merit the favour of the Public in General.
WILLIAM TONKIN.
December 28. sept.
Sarah M c Karaher,
Mantua-Maker and Seamstress,
RETURNS her thanks for the encouragement she has met with from the Ladies of this city, and informs them she has removed to the house of Mr. DE FRANCE, within one door of Mr. Smith's Printing-Office. She will either attend Ladies at their own houses, or take in Mantua-Making, or Plain Sewing.
City of Washington, Jan. 16, 1801.
Mantua-Making.
MRS. DEMPSEY,
FROM NEW-YORK,
BEGS leave to inform the Ladies and Public in general, that she has commenced business in the City, on the New-Jersey Avenue, five doors from Mr. Smith's Printing-Office, where she makes Ladies' Dresses on the shortest notice, and of the newest fashion.
January 16, 1801.
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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 PROUT.
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.
CHEAP LUMBER,
FOR SALE,
By the Subscriber, on reasonable terms, either by large or small quantities, at his Lumber Yards, the north end of Lamberton, and at the old Sturgeon Pond, above Richards's wharf,
A QUANTITY OF ASSORTED LUMBER, viz.
One and 1-4 inch, 1 1-8, and 1 do. Yellow pine heart boards—1 inch pannel, 1 1-4 do. for floors, 1 do. common, white pine do—2 do. 7/1-4 and 2 1-2 do planks, 1 do. 5-8, and 2-8 do. boards, black walnut—2 do. plank, 3 do. 1-2 do. panel boards, bedstead sets, poplar the whole of the above are well seasoned and fit for use—Clear heart pine, and sap pine white oak, and bilstead, hemlock and white pine scantlings, assorted—best kind three feet cedar shingles, dressed and undressed, do two feet white pine do.; do. 18 inch cypress do—cedar rails—Also, white pine sawed rails—shingling and plastering laths, best kind; white oak waggon timber—sap pine planks sap pine one inch boards, 3-4 cedar, best kind, 3-4 white pine, 3-4 sap pine, seasoned weather boards—A quantity of handsome chestnut pailings, sawed 1 by 3 inches and from 4 to 16 feet long, for garden fence, &c. A quantity of chestnut oak posts, dressed and undressed; a quantity of cherry boards, a quantity of large white oak joice, a quantity of chestnut posts—5000 feet of neat beech scantling for tool stocks—5000 feet of Hickamore scantling for bedsteads; 2 inch white oak plank; 1 inch white oak boards, 3 4 do. do. do.—25,000 feet superior cherry boards and plank, 3,000 do. very clear 2 inch white pine plank, 3,000 do. handsome beaton wood bedstead sets seasoned, 100,000 prime North Carolina shingles, a quantity of ash plank, 150 tons plaster Paris, warranted, 3,000 bushels best Virginia pit coal, 200 bushels clean house sand.
The subscriber intends, establishing a Lumber Yard at the Federal City of Washington, which he will keep regularly supplied as above—Any quantities may be agreed for by contract, deliverable, as the purchaser may wish, provided that the place of delivery may be comecable by water with a navigable vessel—Any quantity that may be ordered for shipping abroad, shall be supplied with punctuality and dispatch, agreeable to ord.
Gentlemen who are or may be building—as well as carpenters who may be under or may enter into contracts to build and furnish the materials, will find it well worth their attention to apply as above—Applications may be made by letter (post paid) or otherwise, to the subscriber, or left with Wm. and Anthony M. Buckley, or Benj. W. Morris and Co. merchants, Philadelphia.
Also for Sale or to Let,
A large commodious Dwelling House, without buildings complete, and from three to seven acres of land—Two small lots with lots thereto. Also a small Store near the river—All laying in the village of Lamberton
NATHAN COMBS.
N. B. A Screw Jack to let, that raises from 10 to 40 tons by hand—a constant supply of plaster and Smith's Virginia coal. Lamberton, New Jersey, (on Del)
January 13, 1801.
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For Sale.
TWO NEAT GIGS.
Also a superior carriage Horse. Apply at Conrad and M c Mun's. January 14, 1800.
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CABINET AND CHAIR MANUFACTORY.
WILSON AND HANDY,
HAVE commenced the above business at their shop on New Jersey Avenue between the Episcopal church and Sugar House. As they are confident from the experience they have had in the principal shops in Europe and America, that they shall be able to give general satisfaction to those who will please to favour them with their custom. They have on hands, viz.
Secretary Desks, Portable Writing Desks, Dressing Chests, Card Tables, &c.
N B Orders from country or city thankful ly received and faithfully executed.
December 30.
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