The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1801-10-26 00:00:00

The National Intelligencer,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. I. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, NEW-JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL. CLIV.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1801.
PAID IN ADVANCE
REMARKS ON LIBELS,
Occasioned by the late presentment by a Grand Jury, of the Editor of the National Intelligencer for an alleged Libel against the Judiciary.
THE present case is a plain one, which can only be truly decided by those great and original principles, which our governments have been the first to establish, and which, it is to be hoped, they may be the last to abandon. It is not to be decided by a recurrence to the precedents of common law, but by the constitution and laws of our own country.
If the publication whereon the presentment was founded, be a libel, it must be either under the constitution of the United States, or the laws of Congress; or under the constitution of Maryland, or the laws of its legislature.
The constitution of the United States says—
“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”
The constitution of Maryland says—
“That the liberty of the press ought to be inviolably preserved.”
Thus it appears that the constitution of Maryland declares, “that the liberty of the press ought to be inviolably preserved;” and the constitution of the United States declares, that “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.”
The liberty of the press, then, may be considered as sacred.
Let us enquire in what this liberty consists, so far as the enquiry relates to the present case.
It is altogether foreign to our purpose to define the limits of the press with respect to personal or private character. The animadversions charged as libellous do not apply to private, but to public character. It is the officer, and not the man, they affect. It is the discharge of official duty to which they exclusively apply. To whatever degree, or whether in any degree, the press has a moral right to investigate private character, it is unnecessary here to enquire; for even the private character of the judges, so far as it might elucidate their public duty, is not directly or indirectly touched.
The true enquiry is, how far we may speak or publish, or cause to be spoken or published, our opinions of the public measures of public men.
I reply, that to this right, abstractedly viewed, there is no limit.
Laws may and do punish the manner in which we express our opinions. Thus they inflict a punishment for obscene or blasphemous language; but the punishment inflicted is not for the ideas conveyed, but for the corrupt and vicious terms in which they are conveyed. Thus, if a writer in the National Intelligencer, or in any other print, should applaud as wise and virtuous the public and private deportment of all the judges in the universe, and should yet express this approbation in terms vulgar and obscene, he might be called before the bar of justice to answer for a violation of the laws of his country, and he might be punished. But the punishment would not be for the eulogium, but for the words in which it was couched.
It will be remarked, that this right for which I contend, as no otherwise limited than as I have stated, relates to the free expression of opinions on the measures of public men. I say of opinions; for it must be again noticed that the present enquiry need not extend so far as to determine how far facts relating to public measures, whether true or false, may with impunity be published. I will not say that our laws cannot, or even that they at present do not punish publications which wilfully falsify the proceedings of public men, which unbindingly assert that to be fact which is not fact, and deny that to be fact which is fact. For instance, if the Editor of a newspaper assert that for a particular executive act of the Chief Magistrate there exists no law that warrants or directs it; if such Editor is informed that such a law does exist, and its very terms, as clear a
lay light, are laid before him; and if, notwithstanding, he persevere in concealing the truth, if he still denies the existence of the law, and charges the President with usurping power; I will not say whether, under such circumstances, our laws may not or do not punish the calumniator—Yet, almost every day's occurrence brings to our ears some such calumny against the Chief Magistrate, without, however, our hearing at the same time that the writer or the printer is charged with a libel by him, though the case be so much stronger than the present one. I will not attempt to assign a reason for this, which might perhaps be erroneous; but I will not suppress what, in my opinion, is the truth; the Chief Magistrate is above the influence of libels; they pass by him, as the Sirocco of Italy passes by the Alps.
But this enquiry need not be further prosecuted. The matter, charged as libellous, states no facts; it only infers opinions from facts.
Whatever then these opinions may be, if they are couched in terms neither indecent or blasphemous, it was the right of the writer in the National Intelligencer, to make them, and of the printer to publish them.
As this right has been, and may be still further, disputed, I will state concisely the grounds on which it rests.
A republican government is one in which the supreme end of the ruler should be the good of the people. From the people he received all the power he possesses, and at every moment of his existence he is subject, in one way or other, to a deprivation of this power by the people. Whether his political conduct be virtuous and enlightened, or vicious and weak, as far as relates to his continuance in office, the people are the ultimate judges. Frequently, and at stated periods, the people are called upon to judge; and their judgment is exercised, either directly in the choice of their immediate representatives, or indirectly through them, by impeachment, and the passage of laws, which affect executive or judiciary magistrates.—In order to render this right of the people, in its exercise, a blessing instead of a curse, they must be informed of what their rulers do, what they ought to do, and the general grounds on which they act or decline acting. All this information is essential to the forming a correct judgment on the merit or demerit of public agents, and whether they are worthy of further confidence, or ought to be deprived of that which they possess.—This information can only be obtained in two ways; by speaking, or publishing freely our sentiments; for no one will question the inability of the great mass of the people of any nation to be enlightened without one or other, or both of these means. In our country we believe both to be necessary, and particularly the liberty of the press. There is not a republican citizen among us who does not consider the liberty of the press as the palladium of his rights.
How is this liberty exercised, or how can it be exercised, otherwise than in approving what is right in the measures of public men, or in censuring what is wrong? Public measures may be merely stated, but disconnected with the motives which dictated them, and the effects they are calculated to produce, the statements are mere caput mortua, which impart no ability to judge, where the ability existed not previously.
Now, it seems, (I know not why according to the tenets of those who recommend it) that public measures, whether good or bad, may be indiscriminately approved, without subjecting him who approves them to punishment. If a government, or any part of a government, shall invade the rights of the people, oppress them with heavy taxes, violate the constitution, proscribe its particular enemies, and even deprive them of their properties and lives, if any slave, trembling with fear, or animal in its praise. The nation may curse, but the government will protect him. Let it not be supposed that I apply these remarks to the government of the United States. I apply them only to those men who support such illegitimate principles.
However unworthy, such servile adulation may be, and however deplorable in our eyes he may be who practices it, and further however inconsistent in principle those men are who would screen such a wretch from punishment, while they would consign to punishment the individual who virtuously reproved the vices or errors of government; still, it is not my ambition to rank myself among those who would forcibly drag him before the bar of justice. I would rather say, let him follow his own course. Suffer the Press to remain free, and his errors will be impotent when combated by truth.
This brings me to the second point. viz. the right of the Press to censure what is deemed wrong.
This censure is itself either just or unjust. I do not suppose on this occasion any one will be found to say, (though on other occasions such have been found) that if just it is not the right of the press to express it. I shall therefore pass over this branch of the right as undisputed, and examine the other, viz. the right of the press to express unjust censure.
There is certainly, in the measures of all governments a right and a wrong. But however true this remark may be, abstractedly considered, when we come to decide in every particular case what is right, and what is wrong, how widely do we differ? Do we, in truth, even agree? For instance, does any body of men individually believe all the measures of the general or of the state government to be as wise as they might have been? If they do not, it is clear that they, and those who enacted those measures, think differently; for they as legislators were morally bound to do what they considered to be for the best, and of consequence the wisest. Again, has every man precisely the same opinion of the degree of wisdom of each measure? On the contrary, were each individual to enquire into all that has been done by the two governments, would not one man consider that right which another deems wrong, and would not every one find himself holding different opinions of the degree in which certain acts were good or bad? Surely he would; and this familiar instance will convince us, that we may entertain different, even opposite opinions of the same men and the same measures; and that we may notwithstanding, be equally upright. Do not our very elections, so often repeated, establish this truth beyond doubt, where at least every year nearly as many votes are given for one man, as for another, and where the public safety is emphatically declared, and sincerely believed by many, to depend upon the preference of one candidate to the other. This instance is sufficient, did not a thousand others present themselves, to demonstrate the absurdity of coercing a uniform belief. All nature is at war with such an attempt; nor can it exist where slavery has not extirpated every germ of mind?
If then all of us differ in our political, as well as other opinions, who shall be the arbiter of right and wrong? Those in power may say we will be the judges; but the people will not hesitate to reply, “having given you no such power you do not possess it; for if you did possess it you would be, not our representatives, but our tyrants.”
The whole of these remarks centre in one grand result: Inasmuch as governments may err, every citizen has a right to expose an error in his opinion committed by them. I say in his opinion. For he, and not I or any other man, has the right of judging for him. We have the right of judging for ourselves, we have the right of censuring him, we have the right of expressing that censure; but we have not the right, nor has the government the right of punishing him.
Of the existence of this right all the archies of our councils, the uninterrupted stream of public opinion, furnish proof. From its vigorous assertion sprang our national independence, the change in our political systems from monarchy to republicanism, the establishment of our federal constitution, under whose benign & energetic protection we live and prosper, and all the national glory with which these splendid
acts have encompassed us. All these measures, without which we might now, and probably would be involved in external and internal war, groaning under slavery, and oppressed by taxes, sprang from the right of the citizen boldly to express his opinions of public men and public measures, however they differed, as indeed they actually did differ, from those embraced at the time by the government.
And let me add, that as all our present happiness is to be traced to this source, so on it will depend all our future prosperity.
This is the liberty of the press for which I contend. This is the liberty of the press which public opinion should protect. This is the liberty of the press, for the establishment of which our soldiers bled and our statesmen toiled.
(To be concluded in our next.)
PUBLIC SALE.
The House and Lot occupied by the subscriber near the Navy-Yard, will be sold at Stiles's Hotel, near the Capitol, on Monday the 26th inst. at 12 o'clock at noon.
It is a beautiful situation having been for some time described in this paper, any thing further on the subject is deemed unnecessary, especially as it is presumed those inclined to purchase will view the premises, which may be done at any time prior to the day of sale.
The dimensions of the lot, and the terms will be made known at the time and place of sale, or by application to the subscriber previous thereto. Possession may be had at farthest in thirty days after the sale.
At the same time and place a small parcel of household furniture.
THOMAS TINGER.
Washington Oct. 12, 1801. Two handsome well-finished three story brick houses on Greenleaf Point, to rent on moderate terms.
POST-OFFICE.
WASHINGTON CITY, Oct. 7, 1801.
The great Northwest Mail which includes the following Post Offices will be closed at this office every Wednesday at 8 A. M. and Friday at 5 P. M. viz.
  Bedford, Pa.  Lexington, Ky.    Bourbonon, Ky.  Mauchester, N. W.    Brook C. H. Va.  Mayville, Ky.    Cannonsburg, Pa.  New Lancaster, N. T.    Chambersburg, Pa.  Pittsburg, Pa.    Chillicothe, N. T.  Somerset, Pa.    Clarkburg, Md.  St. Clairville, N. T.    Frankfort, Ky.  V. Hailles, Ky.    Fredericktown, Md.  Washington, Pa.    Greencastle, Pa.  Washington, Ky.    Greensburg, Pa.  Wheeling, Vir.    Hagerstown, Md.  Zanesville, N. T.  
Mails for other northwestern post-offices will be made up as usual, every Friday at 5 P. M.
A mail for Unity Town, Brookville, H. bbs. Mills, Howard's Mill, Wright's Mill and Taney Town, Maryland, will be closed at this office every Tuesday at 5 P. M.
THOMAS MORAEE,
Postmaster.
October 9.
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For Sale,
At the Store lately occupied by Mr. F. M. HONR on Water street, opposite Messrs King & Davis Lumber Yard,
Cogniac brandy, Holland gin, West-India and N. England rum, Spanish brandy, cherry rum, brown, loaf and lump sugars, gunpowder, imperial, hyson, hyson skin andouchong teas, green coffee, pepper, allspice, nutmegs, ground ginger, fig blue, indigo, starch, Spanish legars, mould and gipt candles in boxes, white and brown soap in ditto, foal leather, molasses, best table colash, a few thousand weight est Rhode-Island cheese, mens' coarse shoes, apples in barrels, a quantity of onions, &c. &c. George-Town October 21. raw3w
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR,
Has just received a handsome assortment of Cloths, Cassimeres, swansdown, &c. OF SUPERIOR QUALITY.
GENTLEMEN who favor him with their orders, may rest assured of strict attention and the best & most fashionable workmanship and materials, and on reasonable terms.
Military and Naval Uniforms, and Ladies' Habits made with elegance.
City of Washington, between the President's House and the seven Buildings, Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 21, 1801.
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WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1801.
Extract of a letter from the Minister of the United States at the Court of Madrid, dated 29th August, 1801, to the Secretary of State.
"The five American vessels brought into Algebras, under charge of being bound to Gibraltar, were still detained there by my last accounts from them. I have received protests from three of the supercargoes, and shall have further occasion to treat of this unpleasant subject."
Our Minister at Madrid has been officially informed, that the King of Spain has found it convenient to determine that Don Carlos Martinez de Yrujo should continue his mission to the United States of America.
Chevalier FREIRE has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim of Portugal to the Court of Madrid.
His Catholic Majesty has issued a decree to the Prince of Peace, for dissolving the army employed in the war against Portugal, and for effecting reforms in the military and naval system.
LITERATURE.
An unusual number of new works have recently been published in England. It is gratifying to the friend of mankind to mark the attachment of men of enlightened understandings to the calm pursuits of useful knowledge, amidst scenes of war and distress, which subvert the ordinary state of society, and have an invariable tendency to estrange the mind from the cultivation of virtue and science.
From the titles of most of the works, they promise much instruction. The following list is derived from late London prints:
1. Method of educating the Deaf and Dumb. By the Abbe de L'Epee. Translated from the French.
2. A new volume, being the 5th of Blair's Sermons.
3. Annals of Infanity. By William Perfect, M. D.
4. A Summary of Universal History, in 9 vols. 12mo. By Francis Dobbs.
5. Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's Sermon—Being a reply to the attacks of Dr. Parr, Mr. Mackintosh, and others. By William Godwin.
6. Observations on certain Antiquities of Egypt. By J. White, D. D.
7. Travels in Portugal, France and Spain. By Professor Link.
8. Letters of Lady Rachel Russell; with a vindication of the character of Lord Russell against Sir John Dalrymple, &c.
9. An Inquiry into the causes and effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ. By Dr. Jenner—4to.
10. The Iniquity of Banking.
11. The life and private memoirs of Thomas Whaley—written by himself.
12. Memoirs of the Reign of George III. from 1796 to 1799. By William Belsham.
13. Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, performed by order of the government of France, during the first six years of the Republic. By G. A. Olivier.
14. Thalaba the Destroyer, a metrical Romance. By Robert Southey.
15. The Satires of Juvenal—Translated by William Gifford.
The following is an interesting view of English Literature for the last year. Number and cost of all the New Publications, published in London during the year 1800. The cost of the books estimated in boards.
Table with 3 columns: Category, Number, Cost (L. s. d.). Categories include Agriculture, Antiquities, Arts, Biography, Chemistry, Dictionaries, Education, Dramatic, Ethics, History, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Natural History, Novels, Philosophy.
Table with 3 columns: Category, Number, Cost (L. s. d.). Categories include Philology, Poetry, Politics, Theology, Sermons, Voyages. Total number, 693. £.230 5 0
[The following statement is probably correct, though we do not vouch for it.]
NEW-JERSEY ELECTION.
Returns of the New-Jersey election, in full, from the different counties—Republicans and Federalists in each!
Table with 4 columns: County, Republicans, Federalists, Council Assem. Council Assem. Rows include Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset, Burlington, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, Cape May, Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex.
Majority of republicans in joint meeting, the mode by which a governor, judges, and magistrates must be chosen, 10.
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
In Northampton County, the republican ticket for 1 member of Congress, 1 Senator, and 4 representatives has carried. The republican ticket had 2,433 votes; the federal 576.
Isaac Vanhorne is elected member of Congress in the room of Peter Muhlenburg, resigned.
In Adams County, the federal ticket, consisting of 2 representatives, has carried.
An estimate has been made of the probable strength of parties in the ensuing Legislature of Pennsylvania, which gives, in Senate, to the republicans 16, and to the Federalists 9 members; and in the House of Representatives, gives to the republicans 76, and to the federalists 12 members.
In Connecticut the votes given on a nomination for assistants are, for the federal candidates from 10,533, the highest, to 5,203 the lowest; and for the republican candidates, from 3,935 the highest, to 1805, the lowest.
The Vermont Prints state the re-election of Isaac Tichenor as Governor, and Paul Bringham, as Lieutenant Governor, by a majority of 2,000 votes.
The Governor of Massachusetts has appointed the 26th day of November as a day of public Thanksgiving and praise.
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES FROM LONDON PRINTS.
The following event, which happened during the great fire in the town of Zechdenick, deserves to be recorded:—
"One house only escaped the fury of the flames; it was inhabited by a trooper belonging to the garrison, named Luck. His little daughter, about five years old, was in the house when the fire broke out, and the manner in which she escaped is next to a miracle. The trooper and his wife went out early in the morning to their work, and according to the custom of the labourers, they left the little girl behind. At the sound of the fire-bell, the mother perceived, from the field in which she was at work, the flames ascending from all parts of the town; she ran immediately to her house, hastened to collect a few articles of wearing apparel in order to deposit them in some place of safety out of the town, desiring the child to remain quietly in the house till she returned; yet, notwithstanding she made the greatest haste, the flames had gained such strength that she was not able to gain the habitation in which she had left the only fruit of her affection: she was scarce able to save herself."
"The next morning the father entered the town, reduced to ashes, and was amazed to see his house standing upright and untouched; he approached it with a throbbing bosom, full of impatience, his eye only sought his infant; but what was his joy in looking in through the window, to perceive his little daughter, quite easy, playing with the cat. Tears of transport
and gratitude ran down his cheeks; he rushed into the house. "Papa," cried the child as soon as she saw him, "why have you been so long away, there was a great fire, the room was quite light with it, I was very much afraid, but I am now quiet, give me a bit of bread, for I am very hungry."
NEWSPAPERS.—The following account of the various publications in the world, is given in a German paper: "There is but one paper published in Portugal, and that only appears three times a week; it is conducted by a German, who takes care to exclude only the French news, while he admits those of Madrid, Hamburg, and London. In China there is only one gazette a week, but it is a folio volume: it contains no foreign news, but merely the history of the events in the country. There is no joking in it about truth, for in 1726, one of the writers having thought proper to insert some false intelligence, &c. &c. was condemned to lose his head; the emperor himself sometimes contributes to this paper. In 1798, the present emperor inserted a funeral oration, which he composed upon his predecessor. It is a singular circumstance that some accounts once appeared in it, which it was thought improper to make known. That particular number was immediately suppressed, and the people were forbid ever to speak of it in future. There is a paper published in the Persian language at Delhi, the capital of the Great Mogul. Some curious persons have preserved copies of the paper of the 18th February, 1798, which is five French ells in length. The intelligence contained in it is of the most absurd nature, such as that "the men who had the care of the oxen and horses have taken leave of his highness the Great Mogul, for want of payment, and have sent their cattle to pasture, &c." The English, who ought to love a paper so many yards in length, have, however, instituted another paper in the East Indies."
The Journal des Debats contains the following details of circumstances respecting the husband and wife who lately went for the express purpose of committing suicide in the Elysian Fields at Paris. The particulars are communicated in a letter to the Editor from the chief surgeon of the hospital to which the unfortunate survivor was conveyed.—It is now about six months since Campagnac, aged thirty-four, accompanied by his wife Marie Joseph Fabre, then in the twenty-fifth year of her age, came from Brussels to Paris with a sum of money amounting to 500 Louis d'ors, being the wreck of an immense fortune. Ill concerted commercial speculations in less than fifteen days deprived him of 200 Louis d'ors; sensibly affected with this loss, Campagnac sought to repair it in a gaming house; there he was spoiled of the remainder in a very short time. He lost the clothes, the jewels, nay even the marriage ring of his wife. On his return to the furnished lodging, which he occupied in the Rue d'Orleans Saint Honore, he approached his wife bathed in tears, and said to her, "happiness, my friend, can no longer be our portion! indigence or death; can you have the courage to adopt this last with your husband?" At first she hesitated, but at length agreed to the proposal. The evening of the 22d of August was fixed upon for the catastrophe, but at half past eight on the evening of the 21st, Campagnac no longer being able, without doubt, to support the miseries of life, prevailed upon his young wife to take a walk in the Elysian Fields; they entered into the shop of Dubetuit, a cook, where they made a very frugal repast. About eleven o'clock Campagnac conducted her to the bank of the river, where they were seen locked in each others arms, taking a most tender adieu. The pressing solicitations which this interesting woman addressed to her husband to restore him to courage, were distinctly heard at a distance. All was vain, "the resolution is taken;" said he, "and we cannot survive without infamy. Recollect your promises." He tied a bandage over her eyes; "open your mouth" said he; he introduced the end of the pistol into her mouth, and executed his design; a second pistol terminated his own life. The inner part of the unfortunate woman's mouth is torn in a most frightful manner; the throat too is in a very deplorable state. Her recovery, however, is not altogether despaired of. It is worth while to observe, that Campagnac threw himself from the Pont Neuf into the river, immediately after the great loss he sustained, about six months before the final catastrophe.
In the town of Northampton England a negro, named Maurice, aged 35 years, began about seven years ago to lose his native colour. A white spot appeared on the
right side of his belly, which is now about as large as the palms of two hands. Another white spot has appeared on his breast, and several more on his arms and on his shoulder. The change is not to the dead white of the Albinos, but to the good wholesome carnation hue.
The Secret Short Hand.—Of this new and singular invention, the Moniteur expresses itself in the following terms:— "Citizen BLANC offers to the world a mysterious language which every person can learn, and yet which each learner can keep secret to all but himself. It appears, that of 400 scholars, each taking the same oral lesson from the preceptor, each may retire and write oxygraphically to his father or his friend, and that none of his fellow-students can decypher one syllable of that which shall be perfectly understood by the person to whom it is addressed."
The Society of the Jesuits, from whose school so many of the most celebrated names in the records of literature have sprung, and whose maxims had long so powerful an influence on the councils of Princes, are about to be re-established in the island of Sardinia under their ancient designation. In this spot they may find a temporary retreat from poverty and wretchedness, but we have too high an opinion of the knowledge and refinement of the present times to dread the general establishment of this body. Their empire over mankind is, we trust, for ever destroyed, and small indeed is, we believe, the number of those who with the return of an influence which, though productive of partial advantages, had a direct tendency to injure the best rights of our nature.
A new religious order, under the appellation of Baccandristas , has made its appearance at Rome. Its professors wear the garb of the Jesuits. They derive their name from BACCANART, who attempted to establish that order in Poland and Germany.
The Prince of NASSAU ORANGE has abolished the tax hitherto imposed upon Jews residing within his territory.
PASWAN OGLOU, since his last victory over the Turks at Widdin, menaces the neighbouring Pachas with an expedition, immediately after the harvest is got in. His army is greatly increased by deserters, and it is certain that he has some French officers and soldiers with him, who made their escape from the Austrian part of Hungary, where they were detained as prisoners of war. He collects vast magazines of provisions, and has lately sent a Firman to the Caimacan of Kladowa, with orders to assemble the richest Bojars in Wallachia, and to signify to them, PASWAN OGLOU would for the present moderate his anger against them, and establish a peace of seven years, if they would acknowledge his authority; but if they did not, he swears by the great Prophet, that he will leave them nothing to fix their eyes upon but great flames and ruins. Owing to these threats, a great number of rich Bojars are moving with their most valuable effects to the Austrian part of Hungary.
The present sovereign of Persia is devoting himself with success to revive the trade of his empire, and has caused several large vessels to be built on the Caspian and Persian seas. The alarm excited by the movements of the Russians having subsided, the cities of Gangi and Tiflis, which had been nearly deserted, are again in a flourishing state; and Aggai Mohammed Khan having retreated from Malshad, the capital of Khoraisan, to Tabran, tranquility is restored. The emperor, in compliment to the English, has prohibited the sale of horses throughout the Persian dominions, for exportation, to any others than the agents of the India company.
ELECTOR OF COLOGNE'S WILL.
FRANCKFORT Aug. 18. The following is a copy of the will of his royal highness the Elector of Cologne, which was opened on the 28th of July:— In the name of the Most Holy Trinity, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen. We, Maximilian Francis, archbishop and elector of Cologne, prince royal of Hungary and Bohemia, archduke of Austria, grand master of the Teutonic order, prince bishop of Munster, &c.
BE it known to all men, and particularly to those whom it concerns, to consider that all men are mortal, and at the hour at which the Lord may be pleased to call us unto himself is uncertain, we have

resolved the day, month, and year hereafter designed, while still possessing strength of body and mind, to express here (according to the faculty granted to us in the general chapter of the Teutonic order held in 1769), our last will, and to regulate how our succession shall be disposed of after our death. We therefore declare the present testament to be our last will, or whatever denomination may be given to it, that it may be completely valid, and carried into due execution. 1st. When the moment arrives when, according to the decrees of the Most High, our soul shall be separated from the body, we commit the former into the hands of our Saviour and Redeemer, we consign our body to the earth from which it was taken; but we particularly order that it shall be buried according to custom, with as little expence as possible, in such of our countries, archbishopric or bishopric, we shall happen to die. But in case our decease shall take place at a distance from our country, and if it shall happen in the hereditary states of Austria, we desire to be interred as our brothers and sisters, in our family vault in the monastery of the Fathers Capuchins at Vienna, or otherwise in the nearest burying place, without pomp, and with a plain epitaph.
2d. In regard to the temporal succession, as the first fundamental rule of a will is to establish an heir, we constitute and name, in that quality, the third son of our dear brother the Archduke Ferdinand, viz. our nephew Maximilian, archduke of Austria, to whom we gave our name on the baptismal font, and who was admitted by us a member of the Teutonic order, in the bailiwick of Franconia: we constitute him residuary legatee of all our temporal property in ready money, capitals by contract, or otherwise, gold or silver plate, jewels, and precious stones, and all other objects belonging to us, including what we have successively acquired in money from our treasury, and which is our private property. All these effects shall belong to our residuary legatee, the archduke Maximilian, to enjoy it unconditionally, in such manner that his entrance or non-entrance into the Teutonic order shall in this respect produce no change. 3d. We bequeath to each of our chapters as follows, viz. To the superior chapter of Cologne, to the Teutonic order, and the chapter of Munster, all the sums found on the day of our decease in the treasuries of the country, and in all others belonging to the order (Frententhal included) as well as the sums not yet received and to be received, and in general every thing we have not yet levied, and in such manner that all these sums shall remain to the respective principalities, and in their particular treasuries, without our residuary legatee having any right to set up any claim to them; and in order to prevent any stagnation in the progress of public business, and of the usual payments.
Here follow eight articles, which contain the following dispositions.—By the 4th, the elector leaves to Cologne, Munster, and Mergentheim, the valuable articles left there.—By the 5th, he bequeaths 100,000 florins to the chapter of Munster, and the same sum to Cologne, and as much to the Teutonic order, for the purpose of causing solemn service to be performed for him on the day of his death.—By the 6th, he settles an annual pension of 1200 florins on his Valet de Chambre, as elector.—By the 7th, he recommends to his successor other servants.—The 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th articles, relate to the execution of his will.
His royal highness the archduke Charles, as executor, is ordered to cause a statement of his whole property to be made out; and prince Maximilian, the residuary legatee, has assigned this charge to Mr. M. Mayer, counsellor of the court.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22.
We understand that the chamber of commerce of this city, having presented to the President of the United States a remonstrance on the subject of depredations committed and threatened from the Spanish port of Algeziras, have received from the office of state, official intimation, that the interests of the United States, thus suffering, will engage the immediate attention of the President—that he will order without delay the proper representations and demands to be made to the Spanish government; and will take into consideration, with the solicitude due to the object, how far any other measures, within the authority of the Executive, may contribute to arrest the progress of so UNWARRANTABLE an aggression on the LAWFUL pursuits of our commerce.
October, 22.
Arrived this morning, Schooner Swallow Earper, 34 days from Bordeaux, which
he left the 17th September. No papers have been received by this arrival, nor does the captain communicate any verbal political intelligence. We have seen several letters of a late date, none of which contain information with respect to European events.
CARLISLE, October 14.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Granville County, N. C. to the Editor, dated Sept. 20th, 1801.
"It is probable you have, before this time, received accounts of the alarming drought, that has entirely blasted the hopes of the husbandman, in some parts of the southern states. It extends from James river in Virginia entirely across the Carolinas, and Georgia, and is in breadth upwards of 100 miles. The inhabitants of Cumberland and Prince Edward counties in Virginia, through which I passed in my way out, will be in a very distressing situation for want of bread, great numbers of them not receiving one grain of corn, for the subsistence of their families or stock. They have not had even a refreshing shower since before their harvest, which was in the latter end of June. This I had from several persons living in the counties above-mentioned. To complete the misery of their situation, a very mortal dysentery rages among them, which carries off great numbers daily, particularly of the younger classes. I am happy however in stating that from the luxuriance of crops, in the other parts of the states, the scarcity of corn, so necessary an article of diet, in the southern states, will in some measure be supplied, altho' at a dear rate. It is not, however, the will of inhabitants of these counties who claim much of pity at this time, it is their miserable slaves whose allowances, at best but scanty, will now be considerably curtailed by their unfeeling masters, who, incapable of just reflection, and callous to every sentiment of humanity, think they can subsist, to use their own words, upon "any thing." What I have said on this subject relative to Virginia, I give you from my own knowledge, and observation and you may consider it as strictly true; —the other is from information, which I believe to be equally true. The crops in the country have a fine appearance, the weather being in general pretty seasonable."
Sheriff's Sale.
By virtue of a writ of Venditioni Exponas to me directed, from the General Court for the Western Shore of the state of Maryland, returnable to October Term 1800, will be sold at Public sale, for ready money, on the twenty seventh day of October inst.
ALL that part of square numbered seventy four in the general plan of the City of Washington, which is included within the following lines, that is to say, Beginning on Pennsylvania Avenue, at the center of the party wall between the third and fourth three story brick houses from the westernmost of the buildings now erected on the said square, and running thence by a line running northwardly through the middle of the said party wall one hundred and twenty six feet, through the center of the wall between the third and fourth stable from the westernmost house of the said buildings built at the back part thereof, and stopping at the center of the north wall of the said stable, then easterly parallel with the lines of Pennsylvania Avenue, through the middle of the north wall of the said back Buildings and stables, so far as a line drawn from Pennsylvania Avenue, through the middle of the partition wall of the fourth and fifth houses, from the most westernmost house built on the said square one hundred and twenty six feet, forming a right angle with the said Avenue; will strike and intersect the same, and thence with the said line through the said partition wall southerly to Pennsylvania Avenue, and thence westerly with the said Avenue to the beginning, together with an elegant three story brick dwelling house, handsomely finished, and all necessary out houses upon the said lot being.
Will be also sold on the same day and by the same authority, Lots numbered seven, eight and nine, on square numbered thirty eight in the general plan of the said city of Washington; each of the said last mentioned three lots having thereon a two story brick house. Also, one dozen mahogany chairs, 3 mahogany tables, 2 mahogany bedsteads, 2 mahogany tea tables, 2 mahogany card tables, 1 mahogany book case, 2 pair of looking glasses, 8 framed prints, 3 carpets, 4 feather beds complete, 2 sets of china, 2 pair of brass andirons, fenders, shovels and tongs, some kitchen furniture, and one Negro boy slave named Butler, about fifteen years of age. The above property is taken as the property of Isaac Pollock, to satisfy a judgment of Abraham Vanloken against him.
The sale will commence at eleven o'clock on the day, and continue until all is sold. The lots and houses will be sold on the premises respectively, and the personal property upon square thirty-eight in the City of Washington.
NOTLEY MADDOX, late Sheriff of Prince George's County. October 4. xavts
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
From a London Paper of September sixth, Received at the office of the Mercantile Advertiser, by the ship two Brothers.
Yesterday upwards of six hundred thousand letters, brought from Egypt by the Spider sloop, were delivered from the Post-office. Our letters by this conveyance do not contain any intelligence of importance, being dated previous to the fall of Cairo. They reiterate the reports communicated by way of Rhodes and Constantinople, that the garrison of Alexandria was severely pressed by want, and that many of the inhabitants had been expelled the city, and conducted in the night across the old port to the neck of land which forms the Lake Mareotis.—The occasion of this measure is variously stated, some of our letters imputing it to a conspiracy amongst the natives to surrender the city to the English; and others, with more probability (considering the strength of the garrison,) to a desire on the part of the French Generals to reduce the consumption of provisions by the removal of all unnecessary hands. Some of these people have been conducted to the British camp, and make the most melancholy representations of the situation of the inhabitants of Alexandria, who are destitute of every thing, and from their supposed disaffection to the French, treated by them with extreme indignity and oppression. They state the Republicans to be discontented, and only held to their duty by the expectation of succour. They were informed of Gantheume being on the coast, and elated by the circumstance. The failure of his enterprize, it was expected in our fleet, would conduce to the surrender of Alexandria.
The French had constructed strong batteries on the bank of the inundation made by the English; and our people had in like manner lined the opposite shore. We have some gun-boats on this lake (which in one part is three miles broad) by means of which we could throw shells into Alexandria: but as the so doing would only injure the wretched natives without annoying the French to any essential extent, our commanders have humanely desisted from using these vessels. The ordinary depth of water in this extensive moat is about four feet; but it cannot be so drained as for a long time to admit the convenient passage of troops: and we apprehend that the liege, should Menou have sufficient supplies to enable him to hold out, will be prolonged by the impediments which this inundation will present to our operations.
The Moat extends from the lake Mareotis to the sea, in the direction of Aboukir, within about two miles of Alexandria, and on the eastern point runs close to Cleopatra's Needle, which is within the French line.
Sir R. Bickerton, with three sail of the line, including Le Tigre, had on the 18th June rejoined Lord Keith of Alexandria: on hearing that the enemy's fleet had appeared to the westward, his Lordship dispatched his little squadron along the coast to intercept them, reserving only four sail of the line to continue the blockade of Alexandria.
Sir R. Bickerton, on reaching his station, sent a brig in shore, when our people were informed by the Arabs, that the French had been there ten days before, and had plundered them of every thing worth carrying off. After an unsuccessful cruise, the gallant admiral returned to Alexandria.
Our fleet, at the date of these accounts, was perfectly healthy, and well supplied with provisions; and our army, possessing a possession of every necessary, was much more healthy than could have been expected from the nature of the climate and service.
FALL GOODS.
WILLIAM OXLEY & Co. Have received by the late arrivals from London and Liverpool,
Fall and winter goods which are now opening and selling very low for cash or approved notes. A liberal credit will be given to those of known Punctuality. Alexandria, Oct. 19. eptf
For Sale or Rent,
Two three story brick houses in Alexandria completely finished, on King and Columbia street, with sundry valuable property near the same, possession whereof may be had immediately. The situation for the flour and grocery business is equal to any in Alexandria. For terms apply to Henry Thomas Moore Alexandria, or to the subscriber
NICHOLAS VOSS.
NOTICE.
In the case of JOHN BROWN, Bankrupt.
WHEREAS a commission of bankruptcy is awarded and issued against John Brown, of the City of Washington and District of Columbia, and he being declared bankrupt is hereby required to surrender himself to the commissioners in the said commission named, or the major part of them on the sixth and twentieth days of November next, and on the seventh day of December then next, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of each day, at Rhodes's tavern, City of Washington; when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, at the second sitting to choose assignees, and at the third and last sitting the bankrupt is to finish his examination, and the creditors are to assent to, or dissent from the allowance of the certificate to the said bankrupt; all persons indebted to the said bankrupt or who have any of his goods or effects in their hands, are requested not to pay or deliver up the same to him, but give notice to
JOHN C. DENT, Secretary to the Commissioners. October 26, 1801. iaw3t
NOTICE.
In the Case of CHARLES LOVE, Bankrupt.
WHEREAS a Commission of bankruptcy is awarded against Charles Love, late of the City and County of Washington, in the District of Columbia, merchant, and he being declared a bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the said commissioners on the 7th day of November next, on the 19th day of November next, and on the 7th day of December next, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of said days, at the house of William Rhodes in the City of Washington, Innkeeper, at the second of which meetings the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts and to choose assignees—All persons indebted to the said bankrupt, or that have any goods or effects of his in their hands, are desired to give notice thereof to
JOHN C. DENT, Clerk to the commissioners. October 26, 1801. iaw3t
TO BE LET,
And may be entered immediately, TWO LARGE TWO STORY BRICK HOUSES, SITUATED in New-Jersey Avenue near the Capitol. Adjacent to one of the houses is a frame two story building, which, with a stable and extensive garden, will be let with the houses. In one of the brick houses there is a very large commodious store.—Enquire of the printer. October 23. ept
A NEGRO MAN
To be hired by the year, half yearly or quarterly,
A SOBER well disposed man about 26 years of age, cleanly, and has been many years employed as a coach driver, stable boy, and occasionally waiting at table, and working in the garden.—His master wishes to hire him out in or about the city of Washington, he having a wife living near the District. He has never been accused or suspected of dishonesty—For further information apply to the printer. October 23. ept
To be Rented.
THE subscriber will rent by the year, or during the session of Congress, four large, convenient three-story BRICK HOUSES—they are well calculated for Boarding Houses, being all situate on the Capitol Hill, and the nearest houses to the Capitol; two of them adjoin the well known tavern occupied by Mr. Stille the other two are situate equally convenient to the Capitol. Any person qualified to keep such houses may know the terms by applying to
DANIEL CARROL, of Dud'n. Sept. 28. ept
The subscriber respectfully acquaints the public, that he has removed to the corner of Ninth and E streets, where he continues to manufacture and sell all kinds of Ornaments for Chimney pieces, Door Caps, Frontispieces, Metal Sashes, &c. which may also be had at his store No. 51, Barclay street, New-York, and at Mr. Wild's store, Market street, Baltimore. GEORGE ANDREWS.
Who has gold leaf for sale by the package at a book. May 8. 1801. tv
IN THE CASE
Of GEORGE W. KIRKLAND, Bankrupt.
Whereas a commission of bankruptcy is awarded against George W. Kirkland, late of Washington County, in the District of Columbia; and he being declared a bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the commissioners on the twentieth day of the present month of October, on the thirtieth day of the present month of October, and on the twentieth day of November next, at four o'clock in the afternoon of the said days, at the house of William Rhodes, innkeeper, in the City and County of Washington, and district of Columbia; at the second of which meetings the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts and choose assignees. And all persons indebted to the said bankrupt, or that have any goods or effects of his in their hands, are desired to give notice thereof, to
ELIAS B. GALDWELL, Clerk to the Commissioners. October 7, 1801. epw

THE DANGER NOT OVER.
Although one of my age (eighty) can have little to hope, and less to fear, from forms of government, as rather belonging to the next world than the present; and possibly may be charged with intermeddling where he has no interest, whenever he utters opinions concerning social regulations; yet I feel impelled by an anxious desire to promote the happiness of my country, to submit to the public consideration some reflections on our political state.
It is far from my intention to damp the public joy, occasioned by the late changes of our public agents, or to disturb the calm which already presages the most beneficial consequences; on the contrary, I consider this event as having arrested a train of measures which were gradually conducting us towards ruin.
These changes will be matter of tenfold congratulation, if we make the proper use of them; If instead of negligently reposing upon that wisdom and integrity, which have already softened even political malice, we seize the opportunity to erect new barriers against folly, fraud and ambition; and to explain such parts of the constitution, as have been already, or may be interpreted contrary to the intention of those who adopted it.
This proposition does not argue a want of proper confidence in our present Chief Magistrate, but the contrary. It can be no censure to believe that he has a nobler destiny to fulfil, than that of making his contemporary countrymen happy for a few years; and that the rare event of such a character at the head of a nation, imposes on us the sacred duty of seizing the propitious opportunity, to do all in our power to perpetuate that happiness; as to that species of confidence, which would extinguish free enquiry and popular watchfulness, it is never desired by patriotism, nor ought to be yielded by freemen.
In pursuit of our purpose, we ought to keep in mind certain principles which are believed to be found; to enquire whether they have been violated under the constitution? and then consider how a repetition of those violations may be prevented—As thus,
1. Government is instituted for the good of the community, and not to gratify avarice or ambition; therefore unnecessary increase of debt—appointment of useless officers, such as stationery ministers to foreign courts, with which we have little connexion, and sixteen additional judges at a time when the business of the Federal Courts had greatly diminished—and engaging us in a war abroad, for the sake of advancing party projects at home, are abuses in government.
2. The chief good derivable from government, is civil liberty ; and if government is so constituted, as to enable its administrators to assail that liberty with the several weapons heretofore most fatal to it, the structure is defective; of this fort, standing armies—fleets—severe penal laws—war—and a multitude of civil officers, are universally admitted to be; and if our government can, with ease and impunity, array these forces against social liberty, the constitution is defective.
3. Peace is undoubtedly that state which proposes to society the best chance for the continuance of freedom and happiness; and the situation of America is such, as to expose her to fewer occasions for war, than any other nation; whilst it also disables her from gaining any thing by war. But if, by indirect means, the executive can involve us in war, not declared by the legislature; if a treaty may be made which will incidentally produce a war, and the legislature are bound to pass all laws necessary to give it full effect; or if the judiciary may determine a war to exist, although the legislature hath refused to declare it; then the constitution is defective, since it admits constructions which pawn our freedom and happiness upon the security of executive patriotism, which is inconsistent with republican principles.
4. Union is certainly the basis of our political prosperity; and this can only be preserved by confining, with precision, the federal government to the exercise of powers clearly required by the general interest, or respecting foreign nations, and the state governments to objects of a local nature; because the states exhibit such varieties of character and interests, that a consolidated general government would be in a perpetual conflict with state interests, from its want of local knowledge, or from a prevalence of local prejudice or interest, so as certainly to produce civil war and disunion. If then the distinct provinces of the general
and state governments are not clearly defined; if the former may assail the latter by penalties, and by absorbing all subjects of taxation—If a system leading to consolidation, may be formed and pursued—and if, instead of leaving it to the respective states to encourage their agriculture or manufactures, as their local interest may dictate, the general government may by bounties or protecting duties, tax the one to promote the other; then the constitution has not sufficiently provided for the continuance of the union, by securing the rights of the state governments and local interests.
5. It is necessary for the preservation of Republican government, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers should be kept separate and distinct from each other, so that no man, or body of men, shall be authorised to exercise more than one of them at the same time: The constitution, therefore, in consigning to the Federal Senate, a participation in the powers of each department, violates this important principle, and tends to create in that body, a dangerous aristocracy.—And
6. An essential principle of representative government is that it be influenced by the will of the people; which will can never be expressed, if their representatives are corrupted, or influenced by hopes of office. If this hope may multiply offices and extend patronage—if the president may nominate to valuable offices, members of the legislature, who shall please him, and displease the people, by increasing his power and patronage—if he may be tempted to use this power and patronage for securing his re-election—and if he may even bestow lucrative diplomas upon judges, whilst they are receiving liberal salaries, paid as the price of their independence and purity; then a risk exists, lest the legislature should legislate—the judges decide—and the Senate concur in nominations with an eye to those offices—and lest the president may appoint with a view to his re-election; and thus may at length appear the phenomenon, of a government, republican in form, without possessing a single chaste organ for expressing the public will.
Many of these objections were foreseen, when the constitution was ratified, by those who voted for its adoption; but waved then, because of the vast importance of the union, which a rejection might have placed in hazard.—Of the provision made for amendments, as trial should discover defects—and the hope that in the mean time, the instrument with all its defects, might produce social happiness, if a proper tone was given to the government by the several agents, in its operation.—But since experience has evinced, that much mischief may be done under an unwise administration; and that even the most valuable parts of the constitution, may be evaded or violated, we ought no longer to rely our security upon the vain hope which depends on the rectitude of fallible men in successive administrations; but now that the union is as firmly established by the general opinion of the citizens, as we can ever hope it to be, it behoves us to bring forward amendments which may fix it upon principles capable of restraining human frailties.
Having, I trust, shown the utility and necessity of such efforts at this time, I will venture to submit to the consideration of my fellow citizens, with great humility and deference, whether it would not be advisable to have the constitution amended,
1. By rendering a president ineligible for the next term, and transferring from him to the legislature, the appointment of the judges, and stationery foreign ministers; making the stipends of the latter to be no longer discretionary in the president.
2. By depriving the Senate of all executive power; and shortening their term of service, or subjecting its members to removal by their constituents.
3. By rendering members of the legislature and the judges, whilst in office and for a limited time thereafter, incapable of taking any other office whatsoever, (the offices of President and vice-president excepted;) and subjecting the judges to removal by the concurring vote of both houses of Congress.
4. By forming some check upon the abuse of public credit, which, though in some instances useful, like fleets and armies, may, like those, be carried to extremes dangerous to liberty, and inconsistent with economical government.
5. By instituting a fair mode of impanelling juries.
6. By declaring that no treaty with a foreign nation, so far as it may relate to peace or war—to the expenditure of public money—or to commercial regulations, shall be law, until ratified by the legislature; the interval between such treaty and the next meeting of Congress, excepted, so far
as it may not relate to the grant of money.
7. By defining prohibited powers so explicitly, as to defy the wiles of construction. If nothing more should be gained, it will be a great acquisition, clearly to interdict laws relating to the freedom of speech,—of the Press—and of religion: To declare that the Common Law of England, or of any other foreign country, in criminal cases, shall not be considered as a law of the United States,—and that treason shall be confined to the cases stated in the constitution, so as not to be extended further, by law, or construction, or by using other terms, such as sedition, &c.; and
8. By marking out with more precision, the distinct powers of the General and state Governments.
In the Virginia Bill of Rights is expressed this inestimable sentiment, "That no free Government, or the blessing of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." A sentiment produced, no doubt, by the experience of this melancholy truth, "That of men advanced to power, more are inclined to destroy liberty, than to defend it: there is of course a continual effort for its destruction, which ought to be met by correspondent efforts for its preservation."
These principles and propositions are most respectfully submitted to my fellow citizens, with this observation, "That it is only when great and good men are the head of a nation, that the people can expect to succeed, in forming new barriers to counteract recent encroachments on their rights; and whenever a nation is hapless, as to suffer such an opportunity to be lost, they will soon feel that" The danger was not over.
EDMOND PENDLETON. Caroline County, } Virginia, Oct. 5th, 1801. }
City of Washington, Commissioners Office, 2d October, 1801.
By virtue of an act of Assembly of the state of Maryland, entitled "A further supplement to the act concerning the Territory of Columbia and the City of Washington," the Commissioners will expose to public sale for ready money, at William Rooder's tavern, in the said city, on the following day of DECEMBER next, the following lots in the said city, to wit: No. 3 and 5 in square no 99, nos 1 2 4 7 8 9 14 15 and 16 in sq no 196, no 10 in sq no 347, nos 1 & 19 in sq no 635, no 4 in sq no 217, nos 8 15 16 17 18 & 19 in sq no 37, no 8 in sq no 40, no 2 in sq no 43, no 4 in sq no 59, no 1 in sq no 60, nos 2 & 3 in sq no 71, nos 1 2 3 8 9 10 11 12 19 20 21 22 28 29 & 30 in sq no 76, nos 9 & 10 in sq no 77, no 3 in sq no 83, nos 16 17 & 18 in sq no 85, no 1 & 8 in sq no 6, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 19 & 20 in sq no 20, no 1 2 7 8 9 10 11 25 & 26 in sq no 33, nos 15 16 17 20 24 25 26 & 27 in sq no 105, nos 9 10 11 12 in sq no 118, no 20 in sq no 141, nos 14 15 & 16 in sq no 166, no 1 in square north of sq no 580, no 1 in sq north of sq no 583, nos 1 & 2 in sq no 107, nos 1 & 12 in sq no 3, no 12 in sq no 288, no 2 in sq no 317, no 7 in sq no 345, no 6 in sq no 409, no 13 in sq no 535, no 3 in sq no 579, nos 4 & 14 in sq no 580, nos 2 & 18 in sq no 583, nos 5 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 & 19 in sq no 585, nos 9 10 12 13 14 17 & 18 in sq no 587, nos 13 & 14 in sq no 643, nos 4 & 5 in sq no 734, no 3 in sq south of sq no 825, no 10 in sq no 799, no 2 in sq 821, no 13 in sq 846, no 2 in sq 847, nos 12 and 13 in sq 874, nos 15 and 19 in sq 102, no 1 in sq south of sq no 104, nos 6 7 & 8 in sq no 120, nos 24 25 26 & 27 in sq 126, no 7 in sq 142, one half of no 18 in sq 143, nos 3 and 4 in sq 70, nos 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 & 28 in sq 172, nos 1 2 5 6 10 11 12 13 16 17 and 21 in sq 185, nos 8 9 10 and 14 in sq 256, nos 2 3 17 18 in sq no 290, nos 2 5 6 13 14 in sq no 321, nos 1 3 5 and 9 in sq 32, nos 1 2 5 6 10 11 15 and 16 in sq no 348, nos 5 6 7 12 13 14 19 20 24 25 and 26 in sq 457, no 2 in sq 2, nos 1 and 3 in sq no 7, nos 6 7 10 11 12 and 15 in sq 75, nos 4 5 and 6 in sq 119, nos 1 9 11 12 and 15 in sq 222, no 7 in sq 432, nos 2 and 3 in sq 796, no 6 in sq 432, no 5 in sq 461, no 2 in sq 1064, nos 1 2 3 4 6 and 7 in sq south of sq no 744, no 1 in sq 461, no 2 in sq 644, no 16 in sq 799, no 17 in sq 728, no 1 in sq 291, no 2 in sq 47, nos 15 and 16 in sq 198, nos 3 5 6 7 9 10 12 13 and 14 in sq 317, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7 in sq 343, nos 2 3 4 5 and 6 in sq 344, nos 1 2 3 4 15 16 17 18 19 20 in sq 374, nos 1 4 5 8 9 and 12 in sq 403, nos 3 4 5 6 7 in sq 40, no 2 in sq 428, nos 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 and 21 in sq 534, nos 5 6 7 8 9 10 and 11 in sq no 535, no 20 in sq 585, no 15 in sq 587, no 2 in sq 643, no 2 in sq south of sq no 825, nos 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 and 26 in sq 826, no 2 in sq 997, no 3 in sq east of sq no 1019, nos 2 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 in sq 1020, no 2 in sq 1021, no 1 in sq 1022, nos 1 2 3 11 12 13 and 14 in sq 1023, nos 5 and 6 in sq 1024, nos 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 11 in sq 1045, nos 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 and 13 in sq 1026, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 and 28 in sq 1047, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 24 in sq 1048, nos 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 & 9 in sq 161, no 14 in sq 799, nos 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 & 20 in sq 347, nos 1
2 3 4 5 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 & 34 in sq 877, nos 25 26 27 28 31 and 32 in sq 1048, nos 1 and 3 in sq 1065, nos 1 5 6 in sq north east of 1065, no 1 in sq 1066, nos 2 3 7 8 9 10 12 and 13 in sq 158, nos 1 4 5 6 and 7 in sq 161, nos 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 and 18 in sq 247, nos 1 2 3 4 10 11 in sq 452, nos 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 and 14 in sq 453, no 1 in sq south of sq no 463, nos 3 4 5 and 6 in sq 492, nos 5 9 & 10 in sq no 493, nos 4 5 & 6 in sq no 494, nos 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 & 28 in sq 517, nos 2 4 6 & 8 in sq 518, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 & 20 in sq 529, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 & 7 in sq 537, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 & 28 in sq 538, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 & 8 in sq 565, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 & 21 in sq 567, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 & 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 & 33 in sq 568, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 & 24 in sq 569, nos 2 4 & 6 in sq 570, no 2 in sq 572, nos 2 & 3 in sq 577, nos 1 2 3 4 5 & 6 in sq 581, nos 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 & 20 in sq 584, nos 5 6 7 8 9 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 & 26 in sq 640, nos 2 3 4 5 15 16 17 18 20 21 & 22 in sq 642, nos 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 & 21 in sq east of sq no 642, nos 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 & 27 in sq south of sq no 643, nos 3 4 & 6 in sq 644, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 & 28 in sq 645, nos 1 2 & 17 in sq 1000, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 24 25 26 34 35 & 36 in sq 1043, nos 2 34 14 15 16 17 18 in sq 1066, nos 10 11 12 13 & 14 in sq 1067, nos 1 2 3 4 11 12 & 13 in sq 1078, nos 1 & 2 in sq south of 1091, nos 1 2 9 10 11 & 12 in sq 1092, nos 1 2 3 14 15 16 17 18 19 & 20 in sq 1105, nos 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 & 13 in sq 1116, no 9 in sq 1117, nos 5 6 7 & 8 in sq 1123, nos 5 6 7 & 8 in sq 1130, no 3 in sq 1148, and no 4 in sq 1149.
The sale to commence at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and continue from day to day (Sundays excepted) till the whole shall be sold, or until the further order of the Commissioners. The highest bidder shall be preferred; but if he fails to pay the money offered, on the day of sale, the next highest bidder shall be considered as the purchaser; provided he pays the money offered by him previous to opening the sale on the ensuing day; if he also fails, the sale shall be void, the lots bid for again, exposed without further notice, and both bidders excluded from purchasing during the sale.
WILLIAM THORNTON, ALEXANDER WHITE, TRISTRAM DALTON.
A Contract offered.
THE Directors of the Eastern Branch Bridge Company will receive proposals until the first day of December next, for erecting a Bridge over the Eastern Branch of Potomac River, at the City of Washington. The width of the River where the Bridge is contemplated to be fixed, is fifteen hundred and forty three feet, and the average depth of water at common low tide is four feet, except the channel, which is from 12 to 24 feet deep—the width of the channel is 150 feet. It is wished by the Directors that estimates may be furnished for a Bridge to be built on Piles or on Boats, as it is not yet determined by them, which of those two kinds to adopt—it is also desired, that plans of the Bridge may accompany the estimates, that the Directors may be the better enabled to judge of the advantages & disadvantages of the two plans which have been suggested. A draw of thirty feet is intended to be made over the channel.
The proposals must be sealed, and directed, post paid, to the Subscriber, in the City of Washington.
On good security being given for the performance of the contract—liberal advances will be made.
By order of the Directors, WILLIAM BRENT, Sec'y. Washington, Oct. 19. em4w.
IMPORTED,
In the Ship Thomas, from Liverpool, Ironmongery, Cutlery, Saddlery and Brass Ware - which are now opening for sale at the subscriber's store on New Jersey Avenue, Capitol Hill, viz. RAON and brass kim locks, fork ditto, butt and Hl. hinges, screws, bolts, saws, files, chisels, curriers knives, waggon boxes, frying pans, patent metal tea kettles, pots and fauces pans, chaffing dishes, iron pots, knife cases, knives and forks, bras and iron candlesticks, shovels and togs, brushes, ladies dressing cases, mathematical instruments, mill, pie and coopers saws, japanned ware, large scale beams, &c. &c.
HENRY INGLE.
October 19.
THE CABINET and CHAIR-MAKING Business is carried on by Ingle and Petton, at their shop next to the above store, where orders in that line will be thankfully received and punctually attended to.
N. B. A good steady Journeyman Cabinet-Maker will meet with employ by applying as above.