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The National Intelligencer,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. I. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, NEW-JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL. No. XXIII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 22nd, 1800.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
THE BLACK HOLE At Calcutta.
The following affecting account of the cruelties exercised by an Indian Nabob on the gentlemen of the English factory at Calcutta, in 1756, is extracted from the second volume of the history of the Military transactions of the British nation in Indostan, by Mr. Orme, historiographer to the East India company, just published, which may be ascribed to a spirit of retaliation excited by the cruelties of the English practised on the nations of the East.
At five in the afternoon, the Nabob entered the fort, accompanied by his general, Meer Jafier, and most of the officers of his army. He immediately ordered Omichund and Kisendass to be brought before him, and received them with civility; and having bid some officers go and take possession of the company's treasure, he proceeded to the principal apartment of the factory, where he sat in state, and received the compliments of his court and attendants, in magnificent expressions of his prowess and good fortune. Soon after, he sent for Mr. Holwell, to whom he expressed much resentment at the presumption of the English in daring to defend the fort, and much dissatisfaction at the smallness of the sum found in the treasury, which did not exceed 50,000 rupees. Mr. Holwell had two other conferences with him on this subject before seven o'clock, when the Nabob dismissed him with repeated assurances, on the word of a soldier, that he should suffer no harm.
Mr. Holwell, returned to his unfortunate companions, found them assembled and surrounded by a strong guard. Several buildings on the north and south sides of the fort were already in flames, which approached with so thick a smoke on either hand, that the prisoners imagined their enemies had caused this conflagration, in order to suffocate them between two fires. On each side of the eastern gate of the fort extended a range of chambers, adjoining to the curtain; and before the chambers a varanda, or open gallery, it was of arched masonry, and intended to shelter the soldiers from the sun and rain; but being low, almost totally obstructed the chambers behind from the light: and whilst some of the guards were looking at other parts of the factory for proper places to confine the prisoners during the night, the rest ordered them to assemble in ranks under the varanda, on the right hand of the gate way; where they remained for some time with little suspicion of their impending fate, that they laughed among themselves with conjecturing what they should next be ordered to do. About eight o'clock those who had been sent to examine the rooms, reported that they found none fit for the purpose. On which the principal officer commanded the prisoners to go into one of the rooms which stood behind them along the varanda. It was the common dungeon of the garrison, who used to call it the black hole. Many of the prisoners, knowing the place, began to expostulate; upon which the officer ordered his men to cut down them that hesitated; on which the prisoners obeyed. But before all were within, the room was so thronged, that the last entered with difficulty. The guard immediately closed and locked the door, confining 146 persons in a room not 20 feet square, with only two small windows, and these obstructed by the varanda.
It was the hottest season of the year, and the night uncommonly sultry, even at this season. The excessive pressure of their bodies against one another, and the intolerable heat which prevailed as soon as the door was shut, convinced the prisoners that it was impossible to live through the night in this horrible confinement, and violent attempts were immediately made to force the door, but without effect; for it opened inward; on which many began to give a loose to rage.
Mr. Holwell, who had placed himself at one of the windows, exhorted them to remain composed both in body and mind as the only means of surviving the night, and his remonstrances produced a short in-
terval of quiet; during which he applied to an old Jemautdar, who bore some marks of humanity in his countenance, promising to give him a thousand rupees in the morning, if he would separate the prisoners in two chambers. The old man went to try; but, returning in a few minutes, said it was impossible; when Mr. Holwell offered him a larger sum—on which he retired once more, and returned with the fatal sentence that no relief could be expected, because the Nabob was asleep, and no one dared to wake him.
In the mean time, every minute had increased their sufferings. The first effect of their confinement was a profuse and continued sweat, which soon produced intolerable thirst, succeeded by excruciating pains in the breast, with difficulty of breathing, little short of suffocation. Various means were tried to have more room and air—every one stripped off his clothes; every hat was put in motion—and these methods affording no relief, it was proposed that they should all sit down on their hams at the same time, and, after remaining a little while in this posture, rise together. This fatal expedient was thrice repeated before they had been confined an hour; and every time several, unable to rear themselves up again, fell, and were trampled to death by their companions. Attempts were again made to force the door; which, failing as before, redoubled their rage—but the thirst increasing, nothing but water! water! became soon the general cry. The good Jemautdar immediately ordered some skins of water to be brought to the windows; but instead of relief his benevolence became a new cause of destruction, for the light of the water threw every one into such excessive agitations and ravings, that unable to resist this violent impulse of nature, none could wait to be regularly served—but each, with the utmost ferocity, batted against those who were likely to get it before him; and in these conflicts many were either pressed to death by the efforts of others, or suffocated by their own.
This scene, instead of producing compassion in the guards without, only excited their mirth; and they held up lights to the bars, in order to have the diabolical satisfaction of seeing the deplorable condition of the sufferers within; who finding it impossible to get any water while it was thus furiously disputed, at length suffered those who were nearest to the windows, to convey it in their hats to those behind them. It proved no relief to their thirst, or other sufferings; for the fever increased every moment with the encreasing depravity of the air in the dungeon, which had been so often respired, and was saturated with the hot and deleterious effluvia of putrifying bodies, of which the stench was little less than mortal.
Before midnight all who were alive, and had not partaken of the air at the windows, were either in a lethargic stupor, or raging with delirium. Every kind of invective and abuse was uttered, in hopes of provoking the guard to put an end to their miseries, by firing into the dungeon; and whilst some were blaspheming their Creator with the frantic execrations of torment in despair, heaven was implored by others with wild and incoherent prayers; until the weaker, exhausted by these agitations, at length lay down quietly, and expired on the bodies of their dead or agonizing friends.
Those who still survived in the inner part of the dungeon, thinking that the water afforded no relief, made a last effort to obtain air, by endeavouring to scramble over the heads of those who stood between them and the windows; where the utmost strength of every one was employed for two hours, either in maintaining his own ground, or in endeavouring to get that of which others were in possession. All regards of compassion and affection were lost, and no one would recede or give way for the relief of another. Instincts sometimes gave way to short intervals of quiet; but the first motion of one renewed the struggle through all under which ever and anon some one found to rise no more. At two o'clock no more than about fifty remained alive:—
but even this number were too many to partake of the saving air, the contest for which, and life continued until the morning employed, began to break—and, with the hope of relief, gave the few survivors the view of the dead.
The survivors then at the windows, finding that their entreaties could not prevail on the guard to open the door, it occurred to Mr. Cooke, the secretary of the council, that Mr. Holwell if alive, might have more influence to obtain their relief; and two of the company undertaking the search, discovered him, having still some signs of life—but when they brought him towards the window, every one refused to quit the place, excepting captain Mills, who, with rare generosity offered to resign his; on which the rest likewise agreed to make room. He had scarcely begun to recover his senses, before an officer, sent by the Nabob, came and enquired if the English chief survived; and soon after the same man returned with an order to open the prison. The dead were so thronged, and the survivors had so little strength remaining, that they were employed for near half an hour in removing the bodies which lay against the door, before they could clear a passage to go out one at a time; when, out of 146 who went in, no more than 23 came out alive, the ghastliest forms that ever were seen. The Nabob's troops beheld them, and the havoc of death from which they had escaped, within difference, but did not prevent them from removing to a distance, who were obliged from the intolerable stench, to clear the dungeon, whilst others dug a ditch on the outside of the fort, into which all the dead bodies were promiscuously thrown.
Ludicrous.
LONDON, October 8.
Ceremony of swearing the new Sheriffs.
The lord mayor, several Aldermen, the two Sheriffs, and the late Sheriffs, with the city officers went in state to Westminster hall in the grand City Barge, with the courts of assistants of the Clothworkers and Stationers companies, in their state barges up the Thames, and landed at Westminster. About three, his lordship and the whole procession came into the Exchequer court, where they were received by Baron Mazières.—The lord mayor being paramount of the fee, stood covered. The recorder made his long harangue in praise of the late Sheriffs, and then proceeded to expatiate on the high characters of the present gentlemen. The Baron shortly replied, that his majesty could not have any objections to the choice of his faithful citizens of London.
John Perring, esq. Clothworker, and Thomas Cadell, esq. Stationer, were then sworn into office. Thomas Perring, esq. the head under Sheriff was also sworn. Warrants of attorney were recorded, and then came the mirthful part of this ceremony, about which so many thousand fables have been propagated; the truth being that the Sheriffs have not the most distant share in the business.
Usher of the Court. "Senior Alderman below the chair come forth, and perform suit and service for a certain manor and tenement, called the moor, in Com. Chester."—Alderman Newman accordingly mounted the table, v. in the Usher's bundle, by the two ends, of white rod with both hands; these the alderman cut in the middle with the hook.
Remembrancer. "How many are here?"
Usher. "Twelve."—A. "A very good number."
Then a hatchet was delivered to the Alderman, and another bundle of sticks was cut in like manner; but the Alderman missed his aim and cut one of his fingers.
Usher (again) "Senior Alderman come forth, and perform suit and service for a certain tenement, called the Forge, without side Temple-Bar, in Com. Middlesex."—A bag was ready upon the table, and
the Usher assisted the Aldermen in counting out six large horse nails.
Remembrancer. "How many are there?"
Usher. "Six shoes and fifty-four nails." A. "A very good number;" and accordingly they were registered."
The ceremony being ended, the lord mayor asked the baron to honor them with his company to dinner at Clothworker's Hall, which was politely declined.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
BELFAST, October 10.
On Sunday, relief was administered to eight hundred and ninety seven poor people at the public kitchen in Smithfield, when this useful institution was closed for the present. Since the commencement of this charity on the 20th of December, 1799, to 5th of October 1800, the sum of 15471. 13s. 10d. 1.2 has been expended.
The twelve penny loaf this day is increased 14 ounces, the aflize being four pounds one quarter; it will in all probability exceed five pounds next week.
Application has, we hear, been made to government, for permission to resume the making of beer and barley, in consequence of the happy fall in every denomination of corn.
We are enabled to state the following as a fact, which has powerfully tended to lower the great price of flour in our market.
The seasonable supply of rice 2s. 2d. per stone which the industrious and necessitous are favored with, through the unceasing bounty and benevolence of marquis Cornwallis to substantially relieve the poor working classes of this metropolis, and which we are warranted to publish, averages half of Dublin, the ordinary consumption of flour, as appears by the weekly returns as follows;
The city of Dublin usually consumed 3400 bags of flour per week, and the recent consumption of the rice above mentioned, is returned to be about 2500 bags a week—in consequence of this cheap supply there has been a drawback to that amount to bring down the price of flour, which flour moreover at market must have felt a more material depreciation from the demand for it being less, and the monopolist finding it necessary in his own defence to sell, as the counteraction of forestalling, must oblige him to argue that the abundant produce of the harvest will soon cause a plenty of fair prices sufficient to make his stock in hand a means of loss, instead of ill gotten gains to him.
BELFAST, October 17.
Copy of a letter from a House of the first respectability in the Corn Trade, Elbing dated 12th September, to their correspondents in Glasgow.
"We have hitherto experienced such favorable harvest weather, as we have seldom seen in this country; and, notwithstanding the backwardness of the crops of grain in summer, every thing is now in safety in this quarter. Wheat cannot be deemed an abundant crop in this country, but we have reason to expect the quality for the most part will prove much better and heavier than for several years past; and accounts from Austrian Poland especially, are equally favourable as to quality as of quantity.—Barley and oats are everywhere in these provinces abundant, and of such good quality in general as to afford very flattering hopes of the existing restraints on their exportation being removed very soon. Pease are also much more abundant and of better quality than was expected. With regard to the new imposts on wheat which amount to about 100 per last, we have reason to conclude, it will be entirely taken off or greatly modified in the course of the winter if not sooner."

We this morning, at 3 o'clock, published in a Supplement, the following important Official Document, which now appears in regular course, for the benefit of our distant subscribers.
A mutilated Copy of the Convention with France having appeared, the Editor of the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, with permission, publishes the following
OFFICIAL COPY.
CONVENTION BETWEEN THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
The Premier Consul of the French Republic in the name of the people of France, and the President of the United States of America, equally desirous to terminate the differences which have arisen between the two States, have respectively appointed their plenipotentiaries, and given them full powers to treat upon those differences and to terminate the same; that is to say, the Premier Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the people of France, has appointed for the Plenipotentiaries of the said republic, the Citizens Joseph Bonaparte, ex-Ambassador at Rome and Counsellor of State; Charles Pierre Claret Fleurieu, member of the National Institute, and of the Board of Longitude, of France, and Counsellor of State, President of the Section of the Marine; and Pierre Louis Roderer, Member of the National Institute of France, and Counsellor of State, President of the Section of the Interior; and the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said States, has appointed for their Plenipotentiaries, Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice of the United States, William Richardson Davis, late Governor of the State of North Carolina, and William Vans Murray, Minister resident of the United States at the Hague; who, after having exchanged their full powers, and after full and mature discussion of the respective interests, have agreed on the following articles.
ARTICLE I.
There shall be a firm, inviolable, and universal peace, and a true and sincere friendship between the French Republic and the United States of America; and between their respective countries, territories, cities, towns and people, without exception of persons or places.
ARTICLE II.
The Ministers Plenipotentiary of the two parties not being able to agree at present respecting the treaty of alliance of 6th February 1778, the treaty of amity and commerce of the same date, and the convention of 14th of November 1788, nor upon the indemnities mutually due or claimed; the parties will negotiate further on these subjects at a convenient time, and until they may have agreed upon these points, the said treaties and conventions shall have no operation, and the relations of the two countries shall be regulated as follows.
ARTICLE III.
The public ships which have been taken on one part and the other, or which may be taken before the exchange of ratifications, shall be restored.
ARTICLE IV.
Property captured, and not yet definitely condemned, or which may be captured before the exchange of ratifications (contraband goods destined to an enemy's port excepted) shall be mutually restored on the following proofs of ownership: viz. The proof on both sides with respect to merchant ships, whether armed or unarmed, shall be a passport in the form following:
"To all who shall see these presents,
GREETING:
"It is hereby made known that leave and permission has been given to master and commander of the ship called _____ burthen _____ tons, or thereabouts, lying at present in the port, _____ and _____ and havon of _____ and bound for _____ after that his ship has been visited
and before sailing, he shall make oath before the officers who have the jurisdiction of maritime affairs, that the said ship belongs to one or more of the subjects of the act whereof shall be put at the end of these presents, as likewise that he will keep, and cause to be kept by his crew on board, the marine ordinances and regulations, and enter in the proper office a list, signed and witnessed, containing the names and surnames, the places of birth & abode of the crew of his ship, and of all who shall embark on board her; whom he shall not take on board without the knowledge and permission of the officers of the marine, and in every port or haven where he shall enter with his ship, he shall shew this present leave to the officers and judges of the marine, and shall give a faithful account to them of what passed and was done during his voyage; and he shall carry the colours, arms and ensigns of the French Republic or the United States during his voyage. In witness whereof we have signed these presents, & put the seal of our arms thereunto, and caused the same to be countersigned by _____ at _____ the _____ day of _____ anno Domini"
And this passport will be sufficient without any other paper, any ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding: which passport shall not be deemed requisite to have been renewed or recalled, whatever number of voyages the said ship may have made, unless she shall have returned home within the space of a year. Proof with respect to the cargo shall be certificates, containing the several particulars of the cargo, the place whence the ship sailed and whither she is bound, so that the forbidden and contraband goods may be distinguished by the certificates; which certificates shall have been made out by the officers of the place whence the ship set sail, in the accustomed form of the country. And if such passport or certificates, or both shall have been destroyed by accident, or taken away by force, their deficiency may be supplied by such other proofs of ownership, as are admissible by the general usage of nations. Proof with respect to other than merchant ships, shall be the commission they bear.
This article shall take effect from the date of the signature of the present convention. And if, from the date of the said signature, any property shall be condemned contrary to the intent of the said convention, before the knowledge of this stipulation shall be obtained; the property so condemned shall without delay be restored or paid for.
ARTICLE V.
The debts contracted by one of the two nations with individuals of the other, or by the individuals of one with the individuals of the other, shall be paid, or the payment may be prosecuted in the same manner as if there had been no misunderstanding between the two states. But this clause shall not extend to indemnities claimed on account of captures or confiscations.
ARTICLE VI.
Commerce between the parties shall be free. The vessels of the two nations and their privateers, as well as their prizes, shall be treated in the respective ports as those of the nation the most favored; and, in general the two parties shall enjoy in the ports of each other, in regard to commerce and navigation, the privileges of the most favored nation.
ARTICLE VII.
The citizens and inhabitants of the United States, shall be at liberty to dispose by testament, donation, or otherwise, of their goods, moveable and immovable, holden in the territory of the French Republic, in Europe, and the citizens of the French Republic shall have the same liberty with regard to goods, moveable and immovable holden in the territory of the United States, in favor of such persons as they shall think proper. The citizens and inhabitants of either of the two countries, who shall be heirs of goods, moveable or immovable, in the other, shall be able to succeed ab intestato , without being obliged to obtain letters of naturalization, and without having the effect of this provision contested or impeded, under any pretext whatever; and the said heirs, whether such by particular title, or ab intestato shall be exempt from every duty whatever in both countries. It is agreed that this article shall in no manner derogate from the laws which either state may now have in force, or hereafter may enact, to prevent emigration; and also that in case the laws of either of the two states should restrain strangers from the exercise of the rights of property with respect to real
estate such real estate may be sold, or otherwise disposed of, to citizens or inhabitants of the country where it may be, and the other nation shall be at liberty to enact similar laws.
ARTICLE VIII.
To favor commerce on both sides, it is agreed, that, in case a war should break out between the two nations, which God forbid, the term of six months after the declaration of war shall be allowed to the merchants, and other citizens and inhabitants respectively on one side and the other, during which time they shall be at liberty to withdraw themselves with their effects and moveables, which they shall be at liberty to carry, send away or sell, as they please, without the least obstruction; nor shall their effects, much less their persons be seized, during such term of six months; on the contrary, passports which shall be valid for a time necessary for their return, shall be given to them for their vessels and the effects which they shall be willing to send away, or carry with them; and such passports shall be a safe conduct against all insults and prizes which privateers may attempt against their persons and effects. And if any thing be taken from them, or any injury done to them or their effects by one of the parties, their citizens or inhabitants, within the term above prescribed, full satisfaction shall be made to them on that account.
ARTICLE IX.
Neither the debts due from individuals of the one nation to individuals of the other, nor shares, nor monies, which they may have in public funds, or in the public or private banks, shall ever, in any event of war or of national difference, be sequestered or confiscated.
ARTICLE X.
It shall be free for the two contracting parties to appoint commercial agents for the protection of trade, to reside in France and the United States. Either party may except such place, as may be thought proper, from the residents of these agents. Before any agent shall exercise his functions, he shall be accepted in the usual forms by the party to whom he is sent; and when he shall have been accepted and furnished with his exequatur, he shall enjoy the rights and prerogatives of the similar agents of the most favored nations.
ARTICLE XI.
The citizens of the French Republic shall pay in the ports, havens, roads, countries, islands, cities and towns of the United States, no other, or greater duties or imposts, of what nature soever they may be, or by what name soever called, than those which the nations most favored are, or shall be obliged to pay; and they shall enjoy all the rights, liberties, privileges, immunities and exemptions in trade, navigation and commerce, whether in passing from one port in the said states to another, or in going to and from the same from and to any part of the world, which the said nations do or shall enjoy. And the citizens of the United States shall reciprocally enjoy in the territories of the French Republic in Europe, the same privileges and immunities, as well for their property and persons, as for what concerns trade, navigation and commerce.
ARTICLE XII.
It shall be lawful for the citizens of either country to sail with their ships and merchandise (contraband goods always excepted) from any port whatever to any port of the enemy of the other, and to sail and trade with their ships and merchandise, with perfect security and liberty, from the countries, ports, and places of those who are enemies of both, or of either party, without any opposition or disturbance whatsoever, and to pass not only directly from the places and ports of the enemy aforementioned, to neutral ports and places, but also from one place belonging to an enemy, to another place belonging to an enemy, whether they be under the jurisdiction of the same power, or under several; unless such ports or places shall be actually blockaded, besieged, or invested.
And whereas it frequently happens, that vessels sail for a port or place belonging to an enemy, without knowing that the same is either besieged, blockaded, or invested, it is agreed that every vessel, so circumstanced, may be turned away from such port or place, but she shall not be detained, nor any part of her cargo, if not contraband, be confiscated, unless, after notice of such blockade or investment, she shall again attempt to enter: but she shall be permitted to go to any other port or place she shall think proper. Nor shall any vessel of either, that may have entered
into such port or place before the same was actually besieged, blockaded, or invested by the other, be restrained from quitting such place with her cargo, nor if found therein after the reduction and surrender of such place, shall such vessel or her cargo be liable to confiscation, but they shall be restored to the owners thereof.
ARTICLE XIII.
In order to regulate what shall be deemed contraband of war, there shall be comprised under that denomination gunpowder, saltpetre, petards, match, ball, bombs, grenades, carcases, pikes, halberts, swords, belts, pistols, holsters, cavalry saddles and furniture, cannon, mortars, their carriages and beds, and generally all kinds of arms, ammunition of war, and instruments fit for the use of troops: all the above articles, whenever they are destined to the port of an enemy, are hereby declared to be contraband, and just objects of confiscation: but the vessel in which they are laden and the residue of the cargo shall be considered free, and not in any manner infected by the prohibited goods, whether belonging to the same, or a different owner.
ARTICLE XIV.
It is hereby stipulated that free ships shall give a freedom to goods, and that every thing shall be deemed to be free and exempt which shall be found on board the ships belonging to the citizens of either of the contracting parties, although the whole lading, or any part thereof, should appertain to the enemies of either, contraband goods being always excepted. It is also agreed, in like manner, that the same liberty be extended to persons who are on board a free ship, with this effect, that although they be enemies to either party, they are not to be taken out of that free ship, unless they are soldiers and in actual service of the enemy.
ARTICLE XV.
On the contrary, it is agreed, that whatever shall be found to be laden by the citizens of either party on any ship belonging to the enemies of the other, or their citizens, shall be confiscated without distinction of goods, contraband or not contraband, in the same manner as if it belonged to the enemy, except such goods and merchandizes as were put on board such ship before the declaration of war, or even after such declaration, if so be it were done without knowledge of such declaration; so that the goods of the citizens of either party, whether they be of the nature of such as are prohibited, or otherwise, which, as is aforesaid, were put on board any ship belonging to an enemy before the war, or after the declaration of the same without the knowledge of it, shall in no ways be liable to confiscation, but shall well and truly be restored without delay to the proprietors demanding the same; but so as that if the said merchandizes be contraband, it shall not be any ways lawful to carry them afterwards to any ports belonging to the enemy.
The two contracting parties agree, that the term of two months being passed after the declaration of war, their respective citizens, from whatever part of the world they come, shall not plead the ignorance mentioned in this article.
ARTICLE XVI.
The merchant ships belonging to the citizens of either of the contracting parties, which shall be bound to a port of the enemy of one of the parties, and concerning whose voyage, and the articles of their cargo, there shall be just grounds of suspicion, shall be obliged to exhibit, as well upon the high seas as in the ports or roads, not only their passports, but likewise their certificates, shewing that their goods are not of the quality of those which are specified to be contraband in the thirteenth article of the present convention.
ARTICLE XVII.
And that captures on light suspicions may be avoided and injuries thence arising prevented, it is agreed, that when one party shall be engaged in war, and the other party be neuter, the ships of the neutral party shall be furnished with passports similar to that described in the fourth article, that it may appear thereby that the ships really belong to the citizens of the neutral party; they shall be valid for any number of voyages, but shall be renewed every year, that is, if the ship happens to return home in the space of a year. If the ships are laden, they shall be provided not only with the passports above mentioned, but also with certificates similar to those described in the same article, so that it may be known whether they carry any contraband goods. No other paper shall be required, any usage or ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding.

And if it shall not appear from the said certificates that there are contraband goods on board, the ships shall be permitted to proceed on their voyage. If it shall appear from the certificates, that there are contraband goods on board any such ship, and the commander of the same shall offer to deliver them up, the offer shall be accepted, and the ship shall be at liberty to pursue its voyage, unless the quantity of the contraband goods be greater than can conveniently be received on board the ship of war or privateer, in which case the ship may be carried into port for the delivery of the same.
If any ship shall not be furnished with such passport or certificates as are above required for the same, such case may be examined by a proper judge or tribunal, and if it shall appear from other documents or proofs, admissible by the usage of nations, that the ship belongs to the citizens of the neutral party, it shall not be confiscated, but shall be released with her cargo (contraband goods excepted) and be permitted to proceed on her voyage.
If the master of a ship, named in the passport, should happen to die or be removed by any other cause, and another put in his place, the ship and cargo shall nevertheless be equally secure, and the passport remain in full force.
ARTICLE XVIII.
If the ships of the citizens of either of the parties shall be met with, either sailing along the coasts, or on the high seas, by any ship of war or privateer of the other; for the avoiding of any disorder, the said ships of war or privateers shall remain out of cannon shot, and may send their boats on board the merchant ship which they shall so meet with, and may enter her to the number of two or three men only, to whom the master or commander of such ship shall exhibit his passport concerning the property of the ship, made out according to the form prescribed in the fourth article. And it is expressly agreed that the neutral party shall in no case be required to go on board the examining vessel for the purpose of exhibiting his papers, or for any other examination whatever.
ARTICLE XIX.
It is expressly agreed by the contracting parties, that the stipulations above mentioned, relative to the conduct to be observed on the sea by the cruisers of the belligerent party towards the ships of the neutral party, shall be applied only to ships sailing without convoy; and when the said ships shall be convoyed, it being the intention of the parties to observe all the regard due to the protection of the flag displayed by public ships, it shall not be lawful to visit them: but the verbal declaration of the commander of the convoy, that the ships he convoys belong to the nation whose flag he carries, and that they have no contraband goods on board, shall be considered by the respective cruisers as fully sufficient: the two parties reciprocally engaging not to admit under the protection of their convoys, ships which shall carry contraband goods destined to an enemy.
ARTICLE XX.
In all cases where vessels shall be captured or detained under pretence of carrying to the enemy contraband goods, the captor shall give a receipt for such of the papers of the vessel as he shall retain, which receipt shall be annexed to a descriptive list of the said papers: and it shall be unlawful to break up or open the hatches, chests, trunks, casks, bales, or vessels found on board, or remove the smallest part of the goods, unless the lading be brought on shore in presence of the competent officers, and an inventory be made by them of the said goods. Nor shall it be lawful to sell, exchange or alienate the same in any manner, unless there shall have been lawful process, and the competent judge or judges shall have pronounced against such goods sentence of confiscation, saving always the ship and the other goods which it contains.
ARTICLE XXI.
And that proper care may be taken of the vessel and cargo, and embezzlement prevented, it is agreed, that it shall not be lawful to remove the master, commander or supercargo of any captured ship from on board thereof, either during the time the ship may be at sea after her capture, or pending the proceedings against her, or her cargo, or any thing relative thereto. And in all cases where a vessel of the citizens of either party shall be captured, or seized, and held for adjudication, her officers, passengers and crew shall be hospitably treated. They shall not be imprisoned or deprived of any part of their wearing apparel, nor of the possession and use of their money, not exceeding for the captain, supercargo and mate five hundred dollars each, and for the sailors and passengers, one hundred dollars each.
ARTICLE XXII.
It is further agreed, that in all cases,
the established courts for prize causes, in the country to which the prizes may be conducted, shall alone take cognizance of them. And whenever such tribunal of either of the parties shall pronounce judgment against any vessel or goods, or property claimed by the citizens of the other party, the sentence or decree shall mention the reasons or motives on which the same shall have been founded, and an authenticated copy of the sentence or decree, and of all the proceedings in the case, shall if demanded, be delivered to the commander or agent of the said vessel, without any delay, he paying the legal fees for the same.
ARTICLE XXIII.
And that more abundant care may be taken for the security of the respective citizens of the contracting parties, and to prevent their suffering injuries by the men of war or privateers of either party, all commanders of ships of war and privateers, and all others the said citizens, shall forbear doing any damage to those of the other party, or committing any outrage against them, and if they act to the contrary they shall be punished, and shall also be bound in their persons and estates to make satisfaction and reparation for all damages and the interest thereof, of whatever nature the said damages may be.
For this cause all commanders of privateers before they receive their commissions, shall hereafter be obliged to give, before a competent judge, sufficient security by at least two responsible sureties, who have no interest in the said privateer, each of whom shall be jointly and severally bound in the sum of seven thousand dollars or thirty six thousand eight hundred and twenty francs, or if such ships be provided with above one hundred and fifty seamen or soldiers, in the sum of fourteen thousand dollars or seventy three thousand six hundred and forty francs, to satisfy all damages and injuries, which the said privateer, or her officers or men, or any of them may do or commit during their cruise, contrary to the tenor of this convention or to the laws and instructions for regulating their conduct; & further, that in all cases of aggressions, the said commission shall be revoked and annulled.
ARTICLE XXIV.
When the ships of war of the two contracting parties, or those belonging to their citizens which are armed in war, shall be admitted to enter with their prizes the ports of either of the two parties, the said public or private ships, as well as their prizes, shall not be obliged to pay any duty either to the officers of the place, the judges or any others: nor shall such prizes, when they come to and enter the ports of either party, be arrested or seized, nor shall the officers of the place make examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes; but they may hoist sail at any time and depart and carry their prizes to the places expressed in their commissions, which the commanders of such ships of war shall be obliged to shew. It is always understood that the stipulations of this article shall not extend beyond the privileges of the most favored nation.
ARTICLE XXV.
It shall not be lawful for any foreign privateers who have commissions from a prince or state in enmity with either nation, to fit their ships in the ports of either nation, to sell their prizes, or in any manner to exchange them; neither shall they be allowed to purchase provisions, except such as shall be necessary for their going to the next port of that prince or state, from which they have received their commissions.
ARTICLE XXVI.
It is further agreed, that both the said contracting parties shall not only refuse to receive any pirates into any of their ports, havens or towns, or permit any of their inhabitants to receive, protect, harbor, conceal or assist them in any manner, but will bring to condign punishment all such inhabitants as shall be guilty of such acts or offences.
And all their ships, with the goods or merchandizes taken by them and brought into the port of either of the said parties, shall be seized as far as they can be discovered, and shall be restored to the owners, or their factors or agents duly authorized by them; (proper evidence being first given before competent judges for proving the property) even in case such effects should have passed into other hands before sale, if it be proved that the buyers knew or had good reason to believe, or suspect that they had been piratically taken.
ARTICLE XXVII.
Neither party will intermeddle in the fisheries of the other on its coasts nor disturb the other in the exercise of the rights which it now holds or may acquire on the coast of Newfoundland in the
Gulph of St. Lawrence, or elsewhere on the American coast, northward of the United States. But the whale and seal fisheries shall be free to both in every quarter of the world.
This convention shall be ratified or both sides in due form, and the ratification exchanged in the space of six months, or sooner if possible.
In faith whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles both in the French and English languages, and they have thereto affixed their seals; declaring nevertheless that the signing in the two languages shall not be brought into precedent nor in any way operate to the prejudice of either party.
Done at Paris the eighth day of Vendemiaire of the ninth year of the French Republic, the thirtieth day of September anno Domini eighteen hundred.
 (L. S.) Joseph Bonaparte.  (L. S.) Oliver Ellsworth.  (L. S.) Charles Pierre Claret Fleurieu.  (L. S.) William R. Davis.  (L. S.) Pierre Louis Roederer.  (L. S.) William V. Murray. 
We understand that in the progress of the negotiations attending the French Treaty, the commissioners on the part of France labouriously strove to obtain the restoration of the Treaty of 1778, and offered in case that was restored an indemnification for spoiled property; but stated that in case that treaty was not reinstated, the claims of the American government for indemnities made under that treaty, ought not to be allowed. Our commissioners, in conformity to instructions received, declared the reinstatement of the Treaty of '78 to be altogether inadmissible; but endeavoured for a considerable length of time to obtain compensation for illegal seizures, without connecting therewith the condition insisted upon by the French commission. They however failed in the accomplishment of this object, and finally submitted the consideration of indemnities to future negotiation.
The votes of the Electors of RHODE ISLAND, contrary to all the printed accounts, have been given as follows:
  For John Adams 4   C. C. Pinckney 3   John Jay 1 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, December 19, 1800.
Mr. CLAIBORNE laid before the House a memorial of the House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory, stating some inconveniences which had arisen from the want of authority in the governor, to issue writs of election, in case of improper returns; suggesting also the want of disposition on the part of Governor Sargent, to have the General Assembly organized, and stating the advantage which would accrue to the territory, if an earlier day for the meeting of the legislature was fixed by a law of Congress.
On motion, The said memorial was referred to Mr. Claiborne, Mr. Goodrich, and Mr. Nott, with authority to report by Bill or otherwise.
Mr. DAVIS moved the reference to the same committee of certain resolutions submitted by him to the house during the last session, but then not acted upon, stating the alleged existence of several unconstitutional laws in the Mississippi Territory, whereby unjustifiable extortions were practised on the citizens.
The resolutions were read: after the reading Mr. Griswold desired a postponement of the motion for a reference till Monday, which was agreed to.
Mr. GRISWOLD, from the committee to whom was referred so much of the President's Speech as relates to the Judiciary of the United States, which having been read twice, was referred to a committee of the whole house on Monday.
Mr. H. LEE from the committee to whom was referred the several propositions made commemorative of the services of George Washington, reported a bill for the erection of a Mausoleum, differing in no other respects from the former bill reported, except as to the materials of which the Mausoleum is to be constructed; the present bill directing it to be made of stone, the former one directing it to be made of marble.
He said that the committee, after maturely considering the relative merits of all the plans proposed, had preferred the Mausoleum, as well from its superior durability as cheapness to any other.
The bill was read twice, and referred to a committee of the whole house on Tuesday.
The Committee on unfinished business re-
ported in part a list of certain laws relative to revenue which expired with the present session, and recommended to refer the expediency of continuing them to the committee of Ways and Means.
Which report, being read twice, was agreed to.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. ANTICIPATION.
Tuesday the 23d of December. After the report of the Committee was read Mr. ***** arose and addressed the Speaker as follows:
SIR, "The Committee appointed to report to us the best mode of depositing the sacred relics of our illustrious Patriot, and of testifying the National Gratitude have recommended a Mausoleum," and although we had already fixed upon the Capitol, they advise that we should leave the selection of a Site to the four Secretaries, who may have it in contemplation to place a Mausoleum on some sublime rugged Eminence near George Town, and with that view have already made a footway toward it, and a bridge otherwise superfluous over Rock Creek. Perhaps the four Secretaries may differ in opinion about a site, and thus occasion us further references, who already regret too many on this solemn occasion. But shall we his Children now assembled in this City, bearing his venerable name, leave to others with cold indifference to place our parent's remains as fancy or predilection may dictate. Can a more proper place be selected than the spot where we ought all to vie in emulating his wisdom and his virtues? It has occurred to me that a moderate sized Dome might be immediately erected (either in the Centre of the Capitol or of the Square) on sixteen pillars with a wreath uniting each and bearing one letter of the General's immortal name, for it is particularly singular that the letters in the name of "GEORGE WASHINGTON," correspond with the number of our States. This done may receive the remains of our departed benefactor, and we may erect a Statue of our own Potomac Marble (which equals the Parian) in the centre and a protecting Iron rail between each Pillar. Would not something like this be more appropriate than a pitiful diminutive imitation of Egyptian pyramids, which tyrants raised with useless & tasteless consumption of labor and materials, and whose cumbrous piles have only proved that the stupidity and not the names of the authors of them, may be commemorated—A monstrous mass of the size of a mountain is a grand object, but conveys nothing characteristic—The achievements, the virtues of our hero and statesman, can never be forgotten. All therefore that we can do is to cherish his remains amongst us and to transmit to posterity those noble features and that manly figure, which alone are subject to obliation by Mortality.
"The breathing statue shall each soul inspire, With patriot virtue and heroic fire, Love, Gratitude and Reverence combine To consecrate his ever-hallow'd shrine."
Let us leave to the President a decision upon the best plan of an architect for a cemetery, and for the attitude and design of the statue—Let us not also hesitate about the sum—This occasion can occur but once, and let us remember that our general, without avarice and without ambition, or any selfish motive, did not delay to calculate the quantum of danger to his fortune his life, and his reputation, but at once devoted all to his country. The old soldier who by Octavius's partiality, enjoyed a safe retreat whilst all around were complaining of misery, exclaimed with unmeasured terms of gratitude,
Oh Meliboe Deus nobis hac otia fecit, Namque erit ille mihi semper Deus— illius aram. Saepe tener nostris ab ovilibus imbut agnus.
This humble being enjoyed peculiar felicity in the midst of surrounding distraction. We can behold which ever way we cast our eyes over this immense emporium nothing but prosperity and happiness—We all enjoy equal independence, equal blessings.—If every man gave but once this humble peasant's tribute of affection, the value would far exceed all that the most extravagant mind can form of the probable expence; and shall we deliberate about once doing what he would frequently perform—Forbid it honor! forbid it gratitude! forbid it every generous sensation—Let us with unanimous voice resolve upon a statue—The antient statues of Rome remain preserved amongst the lovers of liberty and the fine arts, whilst the materials of edifices and monuments have been removed—But let us not look forward to sacrilegious spoliation—We must all be solicitous to preserve the resemblance of Washington—We can ne'er look upon his like again—Alas! that his image in marble is all that we can ever again behold!

Letter respecting an ITALIAN PRIEST, killed by an ELECTRIC COMMOTION, the cause of which resided in his own body.
We read in one of the journals of Florence, an extract of a letter from Mr. Joseph Battaglia, surgeon at Ponte Bono, which contains the following relation, as curious as it is interesting to those who apply to the study of philosophy.
Don G. Maria Bertholi, a priest, residing at Mount Valere, in the district of Livizzano, went to the fair of Filetto, on account of some business he had to transact, and after spending the whole day in going about through the neighboring country, in order to execute commissions, in the evening he walked towards Fenile, and stopped at the house of one of his brothers-in-law, who resided there. No sooner had he arrived than he desired to be conducted to his apartment, where he put a hankerchief between his shoulders and his shirt, and when every body retired, he began to repeat his breviary. A few minutes after, a loud noise was heard in Mr. Bertholi's chamber, and his cries having alarmed the family, they hastened to the spot, where they found him extended on the floor, and surrounded by a faint flame, which retired to a greater distance in proportion as it was approached, and at length disappeared entirely. Having conveyed him to bed, such assistance as seemed necessary was given him. Next morning I was called, and after examining the patient carefully, I found that the teguments of the right arm were almost entirely detached from the flesh, and hanging loose, as well as the skin of the lower part of it. In the space contained between the shoulders and the thigh, the teguments were as much injured as those of the right arm. The first thing, therefore, to be done, was to take away those pieces of skin, and perceiving that a mortification was begun in that part of the right hand which had received the greatest hurt, I scarified it without loss of time; but notwithstanding this precaution, I found it next day as I had suspected the preceding evening, entirely sphacelous. On my third visit, all the other wounded parts appeared to be in the same condition. The patient complained of an ardent thirst, and was agitated with dreadful convulsions. He voided by stool bilious putrid matter, and was distressed by a continual vomiting, accompanied with a violent fever and delirium. At length the fourth day, after a comatose sleep of two hours, he expired. During my last visit, whilst he was sunk in the composed sleep of which I have spoken, I observed with astonishment, that putrefaction had already made so great progress, that his body exhaled an insupportable smell. I saw the worms which issued from it crawling on the bed, and the nails of his fingers drop off themselves; so that I thought it needless to attempt any thing farther, whilst he was in this deplorable condition.
Having taken care to get every possible information from the patient himself respecting what had happened to him, he told me, that he had felt a stroke, as if somebody had given him a blow over the right arm with a large club, and that at the same time, he had seen a spark of fire attach itself to his shirt, which in a moment was reduced to ashes, though the fire did not in the least injure the wristbands. The hankerchief which he had placed upon his shoulders, between his shirt and the skin, was perfectly entire, without the least appearance of burning, his drawers were untouched, though a single hair of his head was not hurt.
That this flame, under the form of elementary fire, burnt the skin, reduced the shirt to ashes, and entirely consumed the night cap, without in the least touching the hair, is a fact which I affirm to be true; besides every spot that appeared on the body of the deceased, announced severe burning. The night was calm, and the circumambient air very pure; no bituminous smell could be perceived in the chamber, nor was there the least trace of fire or of smoke. A lamp, however, which had been full of oil was found dry, and the wick almost in ashes. We cannot reasonably suppose this fatal accident to have been occasioned by any external cause, and I have no doubt, that if Massie were still alive he would take advantage of it, to support an opinion which he entertained, that lightning is some kindled within the human body, and destroys it.
The above observations respecting Mr. Bertholi, naturally bring to our remembrance the fate of the unfortunate Countess Cornelia Bandi, of Verona, concerning whom the Canon Bianchini has published the details collected by Dr. Cromwel Mortimer, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, with some similar facts, to which we may add others more recent, such as the observations which Mr. Merille and Mr. Mu-
faire inserted in the Journal de Médecine , for the months of February and May, 1783.
The authors of these different observations, almost of the same nature, remark, that those subjected to such accidents were, for the most part advanced in years, remarkably fat, and had been much addicted to the use of spirituous liquors, either in their drink, or applied in frictions to the body; whence they have concluded, that these people had perished by their whole substance spontaneously taking fire, the principal seat of which had been the entrails of the epigastric viscera, and that the exciting cause was naturally found in the phlogiston of the animal humors, called forth by that of the spirituous liquors combined with the latter.
It is indeed known, and it is an interesting article in the doctrine of the ancient philosophers, which modern physiologists have above all well elucidated, that the material principle of animal heat is an internal fire capable of acquiring, when excited by several adventitious causes, a certain force and energy which produce a degree of deflagration in the animal body, carried sometimes even to incineration.
But the case of the unhappy Mr. Bertholi, presents particular circumstances which distinguish it from the preceding observations, and seem to refer to another principle than that of a spontaneous burning. Indeed Mr. Battaglia seems decidedly inclined to attribute this phenomenon to that cause, but to his opinion we may oppose doubts founded upon the following considerations: First, it is demonstrated, that this priest, whose age and constitution we are unacquainted with, experienced a strong electric shock; that he perceived at the same time a spark of fire, by which his shirt, his drawers, and his cap were entirely consumed, without injuring his hair, his wristbands, or the hankerchief placed between his shoulders and his shirt; that a sphacelus soon after appeared in his right hand, which had principally sustained the shock, and that there was besides a laceration of the skin of the whole arm, and the corresponding side of the body, without the least apparent symptom of pain in the patient, who was found after the accident surrounded by a light flame, which vanished on the approach of the people of the house. But these different marks indicate much less the effects of a fire kindled internally, than the destructive action of a flame coming from a highly electric atmosphere; though it is too reasonable to think, that this igneous matter, or phlogiston, which we have supposed to be the principle of animal heat, encreased by the electric fire of the atmosphere and strengthened by the latter, concurred in part by its expansion to produce those effects which were observed on the body of the patient. In the second place, besides the speedy putrid degeneration of the solids and fluids, this dissolution of the vital chain, which connects the particles one with the other, or establishes their cohesion, and which in the like cases shews itself more particularly on the tissue of the flesh, was observed on Mr. Bertholi, as it has been observed on animals subjected to the electric spark, in a number of well known experiments, and particularly in those made by the illustrious Abbe Fontana.
Are there then fulminating atmospheres, or lightning without detonation, and noise, as formidable in their effects as ordinary thunder? And is this a scourge of a new kind, which man, already exposed to so many causes of destruction, which surround and attack him, has also to dread? This is a problem, the solution of which we must leave to Dr. Franklin, that eminent philosopher and politician, who drew from nature the secret of the thunder, and who, after exploring the interests of mankind, as well as the meteors of the air, was one of the grand conductors of the glory and liberty of his country.
As the following phenomenon seems to be somewhat similar to that above related, it may not be improper to subjoin it here. "On the 21st of April, 1781, the first battalion of the brigade of Savoy set out from Tortona, in order to go to Arti, at a time when the weather was excessively hot. On the 22d, having made rather a forced march, the soldiers suffered a great deal from the ardor of the sun, so that at the village of Serre, where they halted, one of them, named Boquet, a man twenty-five years of age, whose skin being hard and thick, had not perspired, sent forth a loud cry, which seemed to announce some very extraordinary commotion, and instantly fell down. Mr. Bianet, surgeon major to the regiment, being instantly called, found the patient in convulsions. When he was carried to the hospital, the upper part of his body to the thighs, appeared to be withered and black, and in a gangrenous state. Mr. Bianet employed scarifications, but without effect; it was
impossible to make him swallow any thing, and it was found necessary to abandon him to his dismal fate. His body soon exhaled a putrid smell, and he died at the end of five hours. That his disorder might not be communicated to others, he was interred, together with his clothes. Upon enquiry after his death, it was found, that this man was addicted to the constant use of spirituous liquors, and that he had even drunk of them to excess during the march."
CONVEYANCER'S OFFICE. THOMAS HERTY has opened an office a few yards from the CAPITOL, on the New Jersey Avenue, where he will attend daily till 3 o'clock during the sitting of Congress, and in the afternoon, at his office opposite the LITTLE HOTEL—Conveyances of land, wills, mortgages, leases, assignments, copartnership deeds and dissolutions, marriage settlements and separations, letters of licence and composition, bills of sale of vessels, slaves, and other chattels, bonds of conveyance, and other bonds, powers of attorney, awards, manumissions, partitions, exchanges, petitions, annuities, post obits, seamen's wills and powers, and all other instruments in the above line, are drawn according to the legal import of the same respectively, with the utmost punctuality, accuracy, secrecy, and dispatch, and on moderate terms.
Titles investigated, and opinions given where necessary. N. B. Herty's Abridgment of the laws of Maryland, approved and sanctioned by the Attorney General and Legislature of Maryland, may be had at at the above office, price Six Dollars neatly bound and lettered; also Herty's Digest of the Laws of the United States, price Three Dollars, neatly bound and lettered. December 5, 1800. twf.
RAN AWAY FROM the Subscriber on the 10th inst. Negro FIDELIO, well known about the City, and it is thought he is lurking about Mrs. Young's where he has a wife. I will give a generous reward for having him put in Jail, and One Dollar for flogging him and bringing him home. All persons are also forewarned from crediting any person on my Account, without an order from under my hand, and also from Harbouring my People, or permitting them to cross the Ferry without a line from,
JAMES R. DERMOTT. St. Elizabeth, Dec. 15, 1800. 3t
This day is Published and for Sale
BT
RAPINE, CONRAD & Co.
AT THE WASHINGTON BOOK STORE,
Corner of South B. Street and New Jersey
Avenue, near the Capitol.
A FEW remarks on MR. HAMILTON's late
Letter, concerning the Public conduct and
character of the President, price 25 cents.
The BEGGAR GIRL and her Benefactors 3
Vols. by Mrs. Bennet author of Welsh heiress,
Juvenile indictions, Agnes De Courci, and
Ellen Countess of Castle Howell. price 3 dollars,
neatly bound.
To RENT.
A Commodious Two Story brick dwelling
house on square No. 701—the lot is well
inclosed and hath every necessary out house, and
is very convenient for a small family—it may be
entered on immediately, the terms made known
and the premises shown by applying to
BENJAMIN MORE.
Washington, New Jersey Avenue,
December 17, 1800. 3t
CONRAD & McMUNN
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 stable
accommodation for 60 horses.—They hope to
merit public patronage.
City of Washington, Nov. 24, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may
concern, that two Tracts of land belonging
to CHARLES GRANDPRE lying in the County
of Pickering in the Mississippi Territory, and
adjoining land belonging to Adam Bingaman,
are attached by a Foreign attachment at the suit
of Joseph Calvet for a debt of 2063 dollars 50
cents
JOSEPH CALVET.
Nov. 28, 1800.
BOARDING AND LODGING.
FIVE or Six gentlemen can be accommodated
with Genteel Board and Lodging, in a good
and comfortable House, on New-Jersey Avenue,
at Mr. Law's former residence. Also good
Stabling wherein twenty horses can be accommo-
dated by,
SAMUEL BOOTES.
Nov. 26th, 1800. 4t
TO BE RENTED,
FOR a few months, a Two story brick house
with 4 rooms, together with, mahogany
chairs, bureau, sofa, bedstead, looking glasses &c.
Kid, Eliot & Co.
HAVE received by late arrivals, a general assortment of Hard ware and Ironmongery, which they offer for Sale at their Store opposite the Great Hotel.
They have also on hand Madeira, } Wines. Sherry & } Lisbon } Cognac Brandy. Jamaica Spirits, Holland Gin, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Tea, Coffee, &c. &c. Washington, Dec. 18. tf.
Notice is Given
THAT I shall attend at the Eastern Branch Ferry on Monday, the 29th inst. for the purpose of renting the Filhing Landing. If any person should want to rent it, with whom I am not acquainted, security will be required.
JOHN WALLACE, of Wm. December 22, 1800.
Thomas Carpenter, TAYLOR,
GRATEFULLY acknowledges the numerous favours conferred on him, and informs his friends and the public that he has entered into partnership with CHARLES VARDEN, likewise from Philadelphia, on Capitol Hill, opposite Mr. CARROL's buildings, where, as well as in Pennsylvania Avenue, between the Presidents House and George Town, from their long and extensive experience in Military, Naval and Fancy dresses, and in Ladies Habits &c. and from their having procured the best of workmen and materials, the utmost taste and punctuality might be expected.
Two apprentices wanted. Washington, Dec. 22. tf.
20 Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the Subscriber, living in Frederic County, Virginia, a Mulatto boy named Tom, about twenty years of age, of a sturdy make, about five feet nine inches high, he has no particular mark.—He will endeavour to pass as a free man.—He has a mother, a black woman, slave to Mr. Frederic Conrad, living in the Federal City; where it is conjectured he will harbour. The above reward will be paid on his being brought home, or Ten Dollars if procured in any jail and information given to
A. LINDO. December, 22. 1w3t
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
FOR Apprehending and securing in any Goal, so that the Subscriber gets him again, a Negro MAN named NACK, ran away some time in the month of October, aged thirty years, about five feet high, light complexion, wears his hair queued, a well set trunky fellow. I have cause to believe he is in the City of Washington. It is unnecessary to describe his Clothing as he will have it in his power to change them. I will give TWENTY DOLLARS if ten miles from home, THIRTY DOLLARS if twenty miles, and the above reward if a greater distance.
ZACHARIAH SOTHORON. Charles County near medi October 8, Bcf 1w
JOHN MINCHIN, BOOT MAKER
FROM PHILADELPHIA. RESPECTFULLY acquaints his FRIENDS, CUSTOMERS, and the PUBLIC, that he has removed his BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORY from near the Eastern Branch, to New Jersey Avenue, on the hill, near the Capitol, where he makes Gentlemen's Boots, Footees, dress and undress Shoes on the shortest notice, in the neatest manner, and of the best materials. December 3d. 3tw.
TO JOURNEYMEN SHOEMAKERS.
WANTED, a number of Journeymen Shoemakers, to whom constant employment and good wages will be given.
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
FOR SALE,
Lot No. 2, in Square 122.
THE above is inferior to few lots in this city, being but two squares west of the President's Square, commanding an extensive view of the Potomac, it is a corner lot, and fronts 155 feet 10 inches on F. Street, and 59 feet and an half inch on 20th Street.—An inalienable title will be given on receiving the amount of the purchase money. For terms apply to the subscriber a few doors east of the Little Hotel.
JOHN KEARNEY.
N. B. I will also sell Lot No. 4, in Square No. 497, fronting 55 feet 3 inches on the Pennsylvania Avenue, and extending back 150 feet to an alley of 30 feet wide, with the advantage of a 15 feet alley along side of it; and Lot No. 24, in Square No. 378, fronting 51 feet 5 inches on Ninth Street, and running back 107 feet 2 inches to a 30 feet alley. West India goods will be taken in payment for a considerable part of the above property.
I. K. November 17, 1800.