The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1801-10-23 00:00:00

The National Intelligencer,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. I. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, NEW-JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL.
No. CLIII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1801.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
THE period is approaching when, according to the original and indispensable terms of The NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, each subscriber will be required to pay Five Dollars in advance for his second year. As the chief support of the paper depends upon subscriptions, it is confidently hoped that subscribers will be punctual in their remittances, which may be made in any Bank Paper, or in Gold, the postage being paid.
A considerable number of subscribers of respectability, as far as the Editor is acquainted with their character, have requested papers, which have been accordingly forwarded, under the unequivocal engagement to render immediate payment. This, in many cases, has not been done. Unless payment be soon made a discontinuance of their papers will be unavoidable.
In order that each Subscriber may be informed in time duly to make remittances the period of payment and the sum required to be paid will be stated on his Paper, in general some time before hand. After such notice, immediate payment will be expected nor will any subscriber, it is hoped, take offence at a discontinuance of his paper in case payment is not made, as the heavy expenses attending a Newspaper cannot be defrayed without the regular remittances of subscriptions.
Some misconception of the provisions of the post-office law existing, the Editor informs his subscribers, that the mode of stating his accounts was not adopted, until he had obtained the approbation of the Post Master General. On examination it will be seen, that the existing law does not, though the previous law did, prohibit such statement.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
STRAYED OR STOLEN from the City of Washington, on the 14th inst. a SORREL HORSE, about fourteen hands and a half high, bald face, both hind legs white, and marked with the letter S. on his right shoulder and buttock. Any person who will bring said horse to the subscriber in said city, shall receive, if strayed, five dollars reward and all reasonable expenses paid; and if stolen, the above reward on detection and commitment of the thief.
JAMES MATHERS, Near the Capitol.
October 21, 1801.
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PUBLIC SALE.
The House and Lot occupied by the subscriber near the Navy-Yard, will be sold at Stille's Hotel, near the Capitol, on Monday the 26th inst. at 12 o'clock at noon.
THIS beautiful situation having been for some time described in this paper, any thing farther 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.
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Two handsome well finished three story brick houses on Greenleaf's Point, to rent on moderate terms.
POST-OFFICE.
WASHINGTON CITY, Oct. 7, 1801.
The great Northwestern 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.    Bourbonton, Ky.  Manchester, N. W.    Brook C. H. Va.  Mayville, Ky.    Cannonsburg, Pa.  New Lancaster, N. T.    Chambersburg, Pa.  Pittsburg, Pa.    Chillicothe, N. T.  Somerset, Pa.    Clarksburg, Md.  St. Clairsville, N. T.    Frankfort, Ky.  Versailles, Ky.    Fredericktown, Md.  Washington, Pa.    Greencastle, Pa.  Washington, Ky.    Greensburg, Pa.  Wheeling, Vir.    Hagerstown, Md.  Zaneville, 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, Hobbville, Howard's Mill, Wright's Mill and Taney Town, Maryland, will be closed at this office every Tuesday at 5 P. M.
THOMAS MONROE, Postmaster.
October 9.
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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 house may know the terms by applying to
DANIEL CARROL, of Dud'n. Sep. 28. ep1
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 or 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. CALDWELL, Clerk to the Commissioners. October 7, 1801. cp3w
FOR SALE.
In pursuance of an order of the Orphan's Court for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, will be exposed to sale on Friday the 23d of October Inst. at 10 o'clock, A. M. at ROCK-HILL, late the residence of GUSTAVUS SCOTT, Esq. deceased.
A number of Negroes, household and kitchen Furniture, Horses, Cows, and a variety of other articles. The terms of sale will be as follows:—Where the property sold to any one purchaser shall not exceed twenty dollars, cash; but where the property sold to any one purchaser shall amount to more than that sum, a credit of six months will be given, on the purchaser's passing bond, with good security, for the payment thereof, with interest from the day of sale.
And on Tuesday following, being the 27th day of October, at 10 o'clock A. M. will be exposed at public sale, at the farm called Strawberry-Vale, situate in Virginia, about nine miles from George-town.
A number of Negroes, Horses, Mules, Cows, Calves, and Farming Utensils, belonging to the estate of the said Gustavus Scott. The terms of sale the same as above.
On the day of sale at Rock-hill, will likewise be sold at public vendue, one moiety of a GRIST-MILL, standing on Rock-Creek. likewise a number of well situated Lots in the City of Washington. Also, a number of Potomac, and Potomac Bridge Shares, belonging to said estate. The terms will be made known on the day of sale.
ELIAS B. CALDWELL, Adm'r. Washington, October 2. ept
NOTICE.
The following slaves have been committed to the jail of Washington County in the District of Columbia, viz.
JOHN MAYNARD—Twenty-nine years old, a bright mulatto, 5 feet 10 inches high, says he was formerly the property of David McMecken, Esq. of Baltimore, who sold him to a Mr. White, a Mr. Bingham, and a Mr. Sargeant from Georgia.
JIM WILMER—Twenty-six or 27 years of age, very black complexion, 5 feet 8 inches high, says he was formerly the property of Mr. Cumberland Dugan, of Baltimore, who sold him to the said White, Bingham and Sargeant—Both of these men have on coarse negro clothing, not much worn.
CHARLES—25 years of age, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, well made, and has a good countenance; says he belongs to a Mr. Mahan of Benedict, in St. Mary's county, Maryland—he has on coarse negro clothing, a good deal worn.
The owners of the above slaves are desired to come and take them away, or they will be sold to pay their prison expenses, according to the provision of the law respecting runaways.
DANIEL CARROLL BRENT, Marshal of the District of Columbia Washington, October 21, 1801. tf
TRANSLATED
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, From a St. Domingo Paper of Sept. 6.
[The following address and reply were occasioned by the adoption by the Central Assembly of a code of organic laws. The same paper from which we have made these extracts contains the first part of the report of the committee who presented the code. As it is imperfect and does not appear to be interesting we omit it.]
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE to the Members of the CENTRAL ASSEMBLY of St. Domingo.
Fruador 10—Aug. 18.
Citizens Legislators,
I HAVE read with interest and attention the organic laws which you have transmitted to me. In announcing to your fellow citizens that they would be the development of the constitution which you have given them, you have not deceived their hopes. Nothing can be more concise or perspicuous; they will find in this collection of laws, written in indelible characters, their duties, their happiness, their country's prosperity: these laws will be the directory of the public magistrate and the private citizen; the support of the feeble against the enterprises of the powerful; the refuge of innocence, and the avenger of vice.
Penetrated with admiration by this immortal monument of your attachment to your country, I cannot too soon testify to you all the satisfaction which its perusal has inspired, nor too early assure you, on the part of the people of St. Domingo, of the sentiments of respect and gratitude they will ever preserve for you, for this benefit which they have received from your hands, which seems to convince them that they are not deceived in the choice they had made of their legislators. You have fulfilled the hopes of the colony; as its chief, I declare that you have deserved well of your country; and if after this authentic testimony of the public gratitude, my sentiments are deemed of any value, accept those of my esteem and consideration.
(Signed) TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE.
Reply of the CENTRAL ASSEMBLY to the above.
Citizen Governor,
YOUR letter of the 10th of this month contains expressions highly gratifying to our feelings. In this testimony of your satisfaction we find the recompence of our labours, as it is the presage of the prosperity of this colony. We doubt not, Citizen Governor, that a happy futurity yet awaits St. Domingo.
Under your auspices the planter will once more cheerfully resume his employments; because he will feel assured that it is not in vain that he will moisten the soil with the sweat of his brow.
The soldier, alive to his duties, will seek only to defend the post of honor confided to him, while cheerfulness and courage will be the virtues by which he is distinguished.
Justice will once more appear in its native splendor; a simple and uniform administration will restore credit and confidence. In the heart of every magistrate a noble emulation will excite and preserve the most valuable sentiments—every one will be emulous of hastening to follow the example of him who has terminated our miseries. Forever will your name be dear to the people of St. Domingo. To pronounce that name will be sufficient to remind each one of his duty.
The constitution and the laws impose on you a great task; but it is not above either your physical or moral powers. We may say with confidence, that it is worthy of you, and that you can completely fulfil it because to us are known your uncommon virtues.
The government of the mother country will add to the recompence which has been already decreed you—It will recollect that it owes to you the preservation and the re-establishment of an abandoned colony, invaded by enemies and torn by innumerable factions; it will stamp with the seal of justice, the constitution which the colony has
formed; it will applaud it; it will sanction it, since it will perceive in this act the first step to a restoration of social order; it will approve it, since it knows that the prosperity of this island will turn to the advantage of the mother country, and that to be productive, a colony should be agricultural and tranquil.
For us, the representatives of a people of whom you are the hope and consolation, we will not terminate this session without assuring you, citizen Governor, that at all times you will find us disposed to second your beneficent views. The surest guarantee we can give of this, is the attachment we feel towards you, which is founded upon that public gratitude which your good actions have merited. Accept, we pray you, these expressions of our hearts, together with the sentiments of our respect.
(Signed) BORCELLA, President. Raimond, Collet, Gaston Negero, Lacour, Roxas, Munoz, Mancebo, and Viart, Secretary.
LONDON, Sept. 3.
The following are the terms in which his majesty, as Elector of Hanover, gave his assent to the treat of Luneville.
"Cum Cæte is Votis.—His Majesty the King of Great Britain, as Elector of Brunswick and Luneburg, admits the extraordinary urgency of the circumstances which accompanied the conclusion of peace, and which rendered it impossible to have the co-operation of the Empire under the necessary forms which must have preceded it. But his Imperial Majesty having, in his high wisdom, and from his constitutional sentiments, recognized and given an express assurance that the mode of negotiation which this extraordinary case has compelled him to follow, shall not be drawn into a precedent for the future, and neither can or shall in any manner prejudice the known and admitted rights, assured by the Constitution of the Empire, which the Electoral Princes and States of the Empire possess, of co-operating in all matters and negotiations of peace: His royal majesty, in his quality of Elector of Brunswick and Luneburg, does not therefore hesitate a moment to vote with his co-estates, that the treaty of peace concluded on the 9th of February, at Luneville, with the French Republic, by his Imperial Majesty, in his own name, and in that of the Germanic Empire, such as it has been communicated to the Diet of the Empire, by the Imperial Decree of the 21st of February, be approved and ratified on the part of the empire.
September 4.
A flag of truce arrived last night at Dover, with dispatches, and with Paris papers of the 31st ult. They contain not an article of importance.
It is said that a convention was signed at Paris on the 10th of August, with one of the principal powers of Germany (Prussia) by which that power accedes to the principles adopted by France in concert with Austria, upon the subject of the indemnities. The death of the Elector of Cologne has certainly rendered the adjustment of this business less difficult than it would have been. There is every reason to believe that Prussia will receive the bishopricks of Munster and Paderborn.
The French funds have fallen one and a half per cent. They are 47.—There is no more visible cause for their fall than there was for their rise.
The funds yesterday morning felt a sudden depression, in consequence of a report that M. Otto had given up his lodgings at Hempstead, and was about to leave England. One part of this report is well founded, as M. Otto quits Hempstead this day, having only taken them for the summer months; but as to his leaving this country in virtue of the present state of the negotiation, the rumour is certainly false.
A letter from Augsburg, of the 20th August, asserts, that the courts of Vienna and Berlin have at length come to an understanding respecting the establishment in Germany of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and of the prince of Orange. The first is

to receive as a compensation the country of Salzbourg, Passau and Berchtesgaden, which would round the Southern States of the House of Austria. The Stadtholder is to receive the Bishopricks of Wurzburg and Bamberg, which, as well as the former states, are of course to be secularised. The Emperor has, it is said, already consented to the King of Prussia being indemnified for the Dutchy of Cleves, and his other possessions on the left bank of the Rhine, by the Dutchy of Munster. A third and last point, on which the two rival powers are said to have come to an agreement is, that the indemnities and the secularisations shall be regulated by the Diet of Ratisbon.
Immediately after the decease of his Royal Highness the Elector of Cologne, a courier was dispatched from Vienna to Paris, with orders to reach that city in seven days if possible. From this circumstance it is imagined that the death of his Highness will accelerate the execution of the 7th article of the treaty of Luneville, and enable the public to judge to what extent the system of indemnification will be carried.
The Duke of Modena still persists in the determination not to accept the Brisgau as a compensation for the loss of his dominions, and has now taken up his residence at Treviso in the Venetian states.
The Duke of Bassano Onesti has obtained, by the intervention of the French government, the restitution of all the property which he possessed in the Calpine territories.
Some disturbances lately broke out in the Prussian share of Poland; they were however, almost instantly suppressed by the military force.
Accounts have been received at Bengal from Java, which state, that at least one hundred neutral ships have arrived there annually for the these five years past, each of which, on an average, must have left 70,000 dollars, all of which is still in the island, besides immense magazines of produce.
PORTUGAL.
Lisbon, August 16.
There has been a report the French army is retiring from our frontiers, but which is not true. Admiral Truguet, who is arrived at Madrid, remains there as French ambassador.
The Portuguese army are gone into cantonments, and know that a Spanish ambassador is arrived, there is no doubt but that the English packets will be prevented entering this port. There has been a violent fracas at Cadiz between the French general who commanded the batteries at Algeziras and the Spanish commandant. The former absolutely struck the latter with the fibre in the public walls, which however the Spaniard has not resented.
PRUSSIA.
Berlin, August 14.
Gen. Bournonville, minister of the French Republic, has made to our court, on the part of his government, fresh overtures for the cession of the Duchy of Cleves. It is pretended that Prussia will receive as an indemnity the bishoprics of Munster and Paderborn: that that affair is already terminated, and that there has been sent a courier to Paris to carry the affirmative answer to our government.
Vienna, August 12.
Since Sunday the report is general here that a courier from Constantinople has brought to the English ambassador the news that the rest of the French army in Egypt, seeing the fate of Cairo, has capitulated. This news requires confirmation.
Frankfort, Aug. 23.
Prussia has voted against the erection of a monument to the Archduke Charles. In doing justice to the archduke, particularly in what relates to the part he took in the peace, the Prussian minister observed that the monument would always be a mournful reflection to the German nation because it would recal to posterity the most disastrous and least necessary war that had ever been undertaken.
Ratisbon, Aug. 19.
The ministers of Prussia, Saxony, and Mentz, are hitherto the only ones that have received instructions; those of Prussia proceed principally on the four following points:
1. Determination of the states of the Empire which are to be indemnified. 2. Designation of the possessions that are to be comprised in the indemnities. 3. Fixing of the ecclesiastical states that are to be secularised. 4. Modification of the secularisations and conditions upon which they are to take place. When these four points shall be
decided, it will be for the princes who are to be indemnified to make propositions to the Diet upon the most suitable manner of indemnifying them for the losses they have experienced. The minister of Prussia is charged to demand that these questions be treated at the Diet, and to propose for that purpose a committee, composed of ministers from Bohemia, Austria, Brandenburg, Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Hesse Cassel, and Baden, without the intervention of ecclesiastical ministers. He has communicated his instructions to the Austrian minister, and has agreed with them that he will not give any vote until they have received orders from their courts. We are the more impatient to know the instructions of Austria, because they must naturally throw some light upon the negotiations that are known to be entered into between the courts of Vienna and Berlin, on the subject of the indemnities.
Foreign Intelligence.
Taken from English Prints to the 5th of September, received at the office of the National Intelligencer.
LONDON, Sept. 4.
We yesterday received French papers to the date of the 30th of August inclusive, brought to Dover by a vessel which was also the bearer of dispatches for M. Otto. The negotiation is supposed to proceed with spirit, and we understand very flattering hopes are entertained in France of its ultimate success. The French funds continue steady—they are at 48f. 50c.
It was reported at Vienna on the 14th of last month, that a courier from Constantinople had brought the news of the remainder of the French army in Egypt having capitulated.
Copy of the first separate article of the Convention with the Court of London, signed June 17, 1801.
The pure and magnanimous intentions of his majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, already induced him to restore the ships and property of the British subjects, which had been laid under sequestration in Russia. His said majesty confirms this disposition in its whole extent, and his Britannic majesty equally engages to give immediate orders for removing all sequestration from the Russian, Danish, and Swedish property, detained in the ports of Great Britain, and the better to confirm his sincere desire of terminating in an amicable manner, the differences which have arisen between Great Britain and the Northern courts, and that no new incident may impede this salutary work, his Britannic majesty engages to give orders to the commanders of his naval and land forces, that the armistice now existing with the courts of Denmark and Sweden, shall be prolonged for the space of three months, reckoning from this day; and his majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, guided by the same motives, engages in the name of his allies, to cause the said armistice to be maintained during that period—This separate article, &c.
Copy of the second separate article of the Convention with the Court of London, signed at St. Petersburg, June 17, 1801.
The differences and misunderstandings which subsisted between his majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and his majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, being thus terminated, and the precautions taken by the present convention leaving no room to apprehend that they can in future disturb that harmony and good understanding, the establishment of which the two high contracting parties have at heart, their said majesties again confirm, by the present Convention, the treaty of commerce of February 21, 1797, all the stipulations of which are here renewed, to be maintained in their full extent.—This separate article, &c.
PARIS, Aug. 30. —Exchanges have been established in Strasburgh, Rennes, and St. Malo.
Champigny is expected to reach Vienna the 27th of August. The Imperial Chancellor has transmitted to him eight passports for the different persons in his suite. The equipages of count Philip de Gobentzel, who is expected in Paris as ambassador from the court of Vienna, have arrived at Strasburgh. The ambassador himself is daily expected in that city.
Duroc quitted Petersburg the 25th of July. Previous to his departure, he received considerable presents from the emperor Alexander. He will return to Paris by Stockholm and Copenhagen.
ARMY OF THE WEST.
Head quarters at Angers, August 25, 9th year of the Republic, one and indivisible.
From the reports which have reached me, it appears that some evil-deligning persons, in order to impede the execution of the laws, are endeavoring to mislead the inhabitants, by insinuating that, in consequence of the pacification, this district had acquired certain privileges and exemptions, and that it was not to be governed by laws common to all Frenchmen.
Those who disseminate such false opinions, are the enemies of order and public tranquility. The amnesty granted by the government in Nivose of the year 8, restored to the milded inhabitants the right of citizenship. They have the same claim, with all the rest, to the protection of laws, and they have experienced its good effects; but they are not dispensed from any of the obligations common to all the citizens. The amnesty was not to any man a warrant of impunity for the future.
I request the public functionaries, and all citizens who are friends of tranquility, to be vigilant, and to inform me of those who make use of language tending to prevent the execution of the laws, and to destroy the unity and indivisibility of the Republic.
GIRARRON, general of Brigade.
GENOA, Aug. 17.
According to letters from Tuscany, the king of Sardinia finding the party of those who wish for a reform in the government, and for political changes, daily increases, in order to extirpate that party, has resolved to restore the Jesuits as very proper to keep the people in subjection. For this purpose, some feudatories and canons of Cagliari, calling themselves representatives of the Sardinian nation, have requested from the Pope the re-establishment of the Jesuits. Pius VII. kindly consented, and by a bull has authorised the Jesuits now in Sardinia to unite themselves into a society as before, and to establish themselves in the colleges of Cagliari and Sassari. Thus while the king of Spain is expelling from his territories these ambitious monks, attempts are made to restore them in other places.
BESANCON, August 23.
The efficacy of the fortunate discovery of the vaccine inoculation has been tried in a variety of instances, and in every case the experiments made have been attended with the happiest result. Our prefect, Jean Debry, however, who neglects no opportunity of promoting the success of any measure which he conceives is calculated to promote the happiness of those living under his administration, has lately submitted to the experiment on his own person, and two of his children have undergone a similar operation. They were inoculated on the 20th of last month, and the prefect has not since been interrupted for a single moment in the discharge of his ordinary duties, and his children have continued to all their accustomed gaiety. This example, which is worth a thousand dissertations, will find here a numerous body of imitators.
RATISBON, Aug. 18.
On the 16th of this month M. de Goertz, Prussian minister at the diet received a courier from his court bearing dispatches of the greatest importance. The same day he invited the Imperial commissary, the ministers of Saxony, Hesse, and several other states of the Empire, to his lodgings, and in the evening there was a conference between these envoys. M. de Goertz declared that his court, having received intelligence of the design of the Elector of Cologne, proposed to prevent the chapters of Cologne and Munster from proceeding to the election of a new elector or bishop, and to make the Duchy of Westphalia and the bishopric of Munster increase the mass of secularisations or indemnities. The Imperial commissary replied that he would communicate this proposal to his court, and demand instructions with regard to the manner he was to proceed upon it. The envoys of the hereditary princes declared unanimously that they agreed to the proposal of the king of Prussia. Next day citizen Bacher made a second overture to the envoys of the secular princes of the first order, in which he invites them anew to accelerate the affair of the indemnities. It was under his auspices that the discussions upon this important subject began in the sitting of yesterday. The state of the votes already given is not known; we only know that a great number of the envoys, and particularly those of the ecclesiastical states, have received instructions to demand that this affair may be entirely consigned to the Emperor, upon condition of submitting the plan he shall fix upon to the ratification of the Diet. It is believed that there will be a majority in favor of this proposition.
RAISBON, Aug. 19.
So late as the sitting of the Diet of the 17th, there was no vote given as to the indemnities. The business was entirely confined to insert in the Protocol of the College of Electors the last proposition made by the directorial minister of Mayence. The ministers of Austria and Bohemia wait for instruction; it is then that the deliberations will be opened.
The ministers of Prussia, Saxony, and Mayence, have not as yet received their instructions.
BERNE, August 20.
Helvetia is still on the eve of being involved in the most ruinous and most violent commotions. The Diet of the canton of Schwitz having refused to take the proposed oath, has been called to order by G. Muller, Commissioner of the Executive Directory, and then dissolved. This canton, as we are assured, wishes to form an important federation with other small cantons and with the great cantons on the East: the object of which would be contrary to the unity of the republic.
At Soleur, the Diet is divided; the minority consisting of six members declared, that they cannot sit with four Electors, whom they name, one of whom is accused of having been condemned to ten years confinement in irons, for political crimes; another had shown himself one of the first partisans of the ancient order of things, and the other two were emigrants who had borne arms against their country. The members of the majority of the Diet of Soleur have given a verbal answer to these charges, stating that they laboured only for the eternal and temporal happiness of the people and for the glory of God. Yesterday and the day before, a great many duels were fought between the French and Helvetic soldiers. The former as appears have suffered much more than the latter. In these different combats six men have been killed, and twenty-four wounded. When all the disputes were terminated, the combatants were reconciled, and went to drink together like honest fellows.
BASLE, August 19.
The declaration made at Ratisbon by citizen Bacher, was only addressed to a dozen ministers to the Diet. It is as follows:
"The French government sees with pain the delay which the execution of the treaty of Luneville experiences. It takes the warmest interest in the execution of the 7th article, and cannot be indifferent to the fate of the hereditary princes, because that delay only serves to encrease the losses of those who are authorised to claim indemnities, and to render their situation more painful."
With respect to the complaints of the recruiting by the English empire, the Diet has invited citizen Bacher to give more full details on the subject, which he has promised to do.
On the 17th instant, the Diet of the Canton of Schwitz had not opened its sittings; for, as the district of March had been again united to that canton, the operations of the assembly were retarded; the canton of Unterwalden has finished its elections, but the assembly of the canton of Uri had not yet assumed its functions. After having refused to take the oath prescribed by the legislative council, the Sub-Prefect of Altdorf suspended its sittings; but the members united again and declared, that they would not separate before they had nominated a deputy for the Helvetic Diet, and drawn up a constitution for the canton; and that if the government wished to influence them, they would one and all give in their resignation. They then proceeded to the election of a deputy, and their choice fell upon citizen Joseph Muller, an ancient Landgrave. A committee of five members was nominated to present the plan of a constitution. The sub-prefect received fresh instructions from the Executive Council, by which he was enjoined again to call the deputies to fulfil their duty, and conform to the laws; and in case of their refusal, to dissolve the assembly, re-assemble the electors of the districts, and proceed to a second nomination of the members of the assembly of the canton. As some disturbances were apprehended, different detachments of troops were sent into the canton.
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.
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LIBEL S.
It was the intention of the Editor to have presented on an earlier day a statement of the proceedings of the District Court on the late presentment of the Grand Jury, for an alleged libel on the Judiciary of the United States. But he has been prevented from doing this by indisposition, and a desire to state nothing whole correctness had not been previously ascertained.
He had thoughts of subjoining to the statement the piece charged as libelous. But as it has had an extensive circulation through the Union, the re-insertion of it has been thought unnecessary.
As the doctrine of libels must always in a free country be interesting to the community, it is proposed in the next paper to publish animadversions, occasioned by this charge, but which will be equally applicable to all discussions of political principles, and the measures of public men.]
On the 22d June last, at the first meeting of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia held at Washington, Judges Marshall and Cranch, contrary to the opinion of Chief Justice Kilty, called to the bench the Attorney for the District, and directed him to take measures to institute a prosecution against the Editor of the National Intelligencer for a publication in his paper of the 12th. entitled, "Appointments by the President." Judge Cranch took from his pocket the paper, which contained the publication. Judge Marshall observed that he was a friend to the freedom, but an enemy to the licentiousness of the press. That the printers in this country on both sides of the political questions which agitated the public mind, had taken most unwarranted liberties, and descended to the most shameful scurrility and abuse; it was difficult to say on which side of the question they had been most abusive. That so long as he remained upon the bench it should be his particular care to restrain these abuses as well on the one side as on the other. The Attorney declined having anything to do with the business, further than as the officer of the court to hand the paper in question to the Grand Jury, to express the sentiments of the different members of the court, and his own to the Grand Jury, which he then informed the court were like those of the chief justice, inimical to any interposition of the court. This was done, and the Grand Jury presented the Editor for printing and publishing a libel against the Judiciary of the United States. Upon the return of the Presentment, the Court ordered a Bench Warrant against the Editor, returnable immediately. Upon the service of this warrant the Editor immediately appeared. The court ordered him to enter into a recognizance in the sum of 1000 dollars, for his appearance at the next court, and for his good behaviour in the meantime; and further ordered that he should receive a rule, to be laid upon him by the Attorney, to show cause at the next court why an information should not be filed against him. The former part of this order was executed, the latter was not. The Attorney stated to the court that the spirit of the laws of Maryland discountenanced informations, that he saw no reason for departing in this instance from the usual mode of proceeding by indictment, and declined laying the Editor under any rule. Judge Cranch concurred with the Attorney that it was proper in this case to proceed in the ordinary way by indictment, which mode was adopted. Judge Marshall declared himself in favour of proceeding by way of information in this case, and all others of a similar nature, and declared himself in favor of making a rule of court to that effect; but the other judges neither of them concurring, no such measure was adopted. Judge Marshall urged as a reason that induced him to wish to see this mode adopted, his desire in all cases to give the accused an opportunity to prove the truth of what he had published; he doubted whether upon an indictment he could be permitted to do so; but there was no doubt that upon a rule to show cause he might give the truth in evidence, and that upon doing so the court would discharge the rule. At September Term a bill of indictment against the Editor, was by the Attorney sent to the Grand Jury, who returned it ignoramus.
We have received a file of London Prints to the 4th, and of Bristol Prints to the 5th
of September. They contain few interesting articles of Intelligence which have not been already published. Among these our readers will find the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation between Sweden and Russia, containing several important stipulations.
We have selected a number of minor articles which will be found in our columns.
The Insertion of PLAIN SENSE has been delayed from the necessity of revising it, certain parts of it being, in the opinion of the Editor, inadmissible.
NEW-JERSEY ELECTION.
In Bergen County the federal ticket for 1 Councillor and 3 Assemblymen has carried by a majority of 212. The federal ticket had 949, and the republican 737 votes.
In Essex County the republican ticket for 1 Councillor and 3 Assemblymen has carried; the majority is not stated.
In Gloucester County, 1 Councillor and 2 Assemblymen of the federal, and 1 Assemblyman of the republican ticket carried. The highest federal candidate had 1115, and the highest republican candidate had 1074 votes.
In Burlington County, the federal ticket for 1 Councillor and 3 Assemblymen carried. The federal ticket had 1783, and the republican ticket 841 votes.
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
The votes in Chester County, the result of which we stated in our last, where for the federal ticket 2196, for the republican ticket 2126.
In the year 1799, the federal majority was 1010—in 1800, 120—in 1801, 70 votes.
In Lancaster County, the republican ticket for the first time for many years has carried, consisting of 6 representatives. The republican ticket had 2170 votes, and the federal ticket 2020 votes.
In Berks County, the republican ticket, consisting of 1 Senator, and 5 representatives, has carried by a majority 1700 votes.
In York County. The republican ticket, consisting of four representatives has carried. The republican ticket had 1749 votes, and the federal ticket 903 votes.
A republican Senator has been also elected for York and Adams counties.
Westmoreland County. The republican ticket, consisting of three representatives, has carried. The republican ticket had 1774 votes, and the federal ticket 529.
Returns from three townships wanting. Allegheny County. The republican ticket for member of Congress, viz. William Hoge, has carried—William Hoge had 1,096 votes, Alexander Fowler 619, and Isaac Weaver 129. The same ticket, consisting of 1 Senator and 3 representatives, has also carried. The republican ticket had 1094 votes, the federal 818.
Fayette County. The republican ticket, consisting of 3 Representatives, has carried.
The aggregate returns received give to the republicans 9 Senators and 42 Representatives, and to the federalists 7 Representatives.
On the 13th inst. the CONVENTION of New-York assembled at Albany. Aaron Burr was unanimously elected President. The Convention resolved that their doors remain open, and that their sittings be opened by prayer.
On the 14th inst. the Convention was engaged in settling disputed elections.
The Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia have elected JONATHAN BAYARD SMITH Mayor of said City.
The Resident Physician of New-York has informed the public that from the 17th ult. to the 1st of October, 18 persons have died of malignant fever; and that from the 1st to the 18th, 88 persons have died of the same disease—that, on the 18th there did not exist more than 30 cases. He further states that owing to the influence of terror three fourths of the citizens had fled; and recommends to the absent citizens not to return until there shall have been a continuance of some cold dry weather.
The New-York Gazette of Monday, says, "the mate of the brig Mary from Bordeaux, informs us, that at the time the vessel left that port the greatest exertions were making to procure men, for a secret expedition, said to be of considerable importance."
Extract of a letter dated, Malaga, August 26.
"This year you will receive a very short supply of new fruit, on account of quarantine, which is still in force on all vessels from the United States, few American vessels have ventured this way."
Gibraltar, August 14.
DEAR SIR, I have only time to tell you, the two Tri-politan cruisers, having had a further despatch, they have hauled into the new mol, to lay up, as they say. In the two vessels they can only muster 26 or 30 men officers and all together.
I am truly, dear Sir,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN GAVINO.
Wm. Kirkpatrick, American consul at Malaga.
Malaga, August 26, 1801.
A true copy, (Signed) Wm. Kirkpatrick.
Extract of a letter from an officer on board the United States frigate Philadelphia, dated Gibraltar, 15th July, 1801.
"Accounts have been received at this place, that the French and Spaniards are preparing to attack the fort—which is force I laid to consist of 40 vessels of war, 1200 gun boats, and 50,000 men. The troops stationed here are constantly employed in strengthening and enlarging the fortifications.
"The Spaniards are daily committing depredations on our commerce in those seas here are at present six American vessels at Algeciras, prizes to their gun boats. The noted Lieut. Maley, who formerly commanded the United States schooner Experiment, is a prisoner there—he was made a prisoner by a ship belonging to Philadelphia, commanded by Captain Hlinn, which has been lately bro't in. We expect to lose the Tripolitan admiral—out of 500 men he has only about 70 remaining—he has offered to fill his vessels, but can get nothing for them—they are much in want of provisions and now live on about four ounces of bread per day, and the governor has refused to supply him with any more.
"An English cutter just arrived from Barcelona and Port Mahon, informs that the Tripolitans were cruising off their ports; one of their cruisers was seen in chase of an American ship, and it is supposed had taken her."
Longevity.] According to a list published by the Synod of Russia, there died during the last year, in the thirty-two divisions of the empire, 216 persons 100 years old, 133 between 101 to 110, 26 between 111 to 119, 9 aged 120, 1 aged 125, 2 aged 130, and 2550 above 90.
The French government has published a decree relative to the administration of the colony of Guadaloupe. It is henceforth to be under the superintendence of three magistrates, a captain-general, colonial presecutor, and commissary of Justice.
The elector of Bavaria lately published a decree, which does equal honor to the policy and the liberality of his government. He intimated that diversity of religious principles should form no obstacle to the enjoyment of all the rights of citizenship throughout his dominions. Some bigotted magistrates, whose narrow souls could not enter into the beneficent views of their sovereign, protested against this measure as contrary to the treaty; their remonstrances were treated with the contempt which they deserved, and in several instances the edict has been carried into full effect.
A large plant of Indian corn is now growing in a garden belonging to Mr. Eglin, of Kendal, which was sown by some children in the month of May last. It is six feet high, six inches in circumference, and one of the leaves measures three feet three inches. It is not yet in flower, and to what height it may arrive cannot even be guessed at. It is certainly a most extraordinary plant, and numbers of people resort daily to see it. [Lond. pap.]
NORFOLK, Oct. 16.
The deaths in this town, according to the mayor's last notice, were—from Monday 12 o'clock to Wednesday 12 o'clock only five.
Philadelphia, October 21.
The Eastern Water Pier of the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge was, on Saturday last, exposed from the bottom of the river, to the view of the president and directors of the company, and a great number of other respectable citizens. The coffer dam was pumped out, for the purpose of examining the work, and the part of the bed of the river contained within the dam, laid entirely bare.
This is the first undertaking of the kind ever attempted in America. It has been completed in six weeks, from the laying
the first stone. Many difficulties have attended the execution, especially in the coffer-dam, all of which have been happily surmounted.
The foundation of this extraordinary work has been laid in a rapid river; and the masonry carried on, without interruption, in a depth of water of from twenty-two to twenty-four feet. The lower course of stone is bedded, and dwelled or bolted with iron in the solid rock. The exterior courses, of cut stone, are laid in terras (which is found to be already completely incurated under water) and chinked horizontally at the joints with iron. The filling of the interior is composed of immense massive stones, many whereof weigh from three to six tons, well bedded in mortar of common lime and sand, and grouted. The ends are semi-circular. The piers sixty-eight feet six inches long at the foundation, and twenty-eight feet eight inches broad. It diminishes by steps or offsets, whereof there are three, until it takes the dimensions which appear above water, of sixty-six feet six inches in length, and twenty-five feet in thickness. There are four strong chains of iron stretched across the pier, at proper distances, bolted and worked in with the body of the masonry.
It is now raised three feet eight inches above common low-water mark, being the height of the spring of the intended arches. The coffer-dam will be removed, and the pier left, through the winter, in its present state.
From the perfect success attending this new and arduous part of this great and useful enterprise, we anticipate the satisfaction of seeing this important erection completed. The experience gained in the progress of the present coffer-dam and pier, will enable those who direct and those who execute the future work, to perform their respective duties with facility, and a solid prospect of stability, and economy in expenditures.
Every person of intelligence who has viewed the pier, is convinced of the practicability of a work, concerning which doubts have heretofore been entertained. It is allowed to be a masterly piece of workmanship, not exceeded by any in Europe.
The circumstance of accomplishing an entire foundation on a rock, at so great a depth, is uncommon in any country. The failure of many bridges has occurred, from a defect in this particular. Most foundations of piers, even of the most noted bridges, are artificial, either in the whole or in part.
The plan of an elegant bridge, and of this pier comprising a part of it, was furnished by the celebrated Mr. Weston, well known in this country, and in England, as an hydraulic engineer, of extensive science in this branch, and long practical experience.
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. ep3t
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. ep9t
BY AUCTION.
On Friday the 23d instant, at 11 o'clock, at Mr. Henry Wilson's wharf, Falls Point, will be sold
THE United States loop of War MARYLAND. Built then about 460 tons, built of the very best materials, is only two years old, coppered to the bends, has two suits of sails, her running and standing rigging complete. Her inventory may be seen at the auction room.—Terms of sale at 6 and 9 months credit, for negotiable notes, with two approved indorsers.
Immediate after the sale of the ship, will be sold—A quantity of iron ballast, on 90 days credit, some provisions, armouries, coupers tools, water cask, &c.
JOSHUA DORSEY.
October 12. ep4t

STATE PAPER.
STOCKHOLM, August 2.
Our Government has now officially published the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, which, besides the Treaty of Alliance already existing, has been concluded between Sweden and Russia at St. Petersburg, on the 11th (13th of March,) and ratified at Landscrona, on the 11th of April, and at St. Petersburg on the 30th of May (11th June) of the present year.—Its principal contents are as follows:
Art. I. There shall be a durable peace and true friendship between the two realms, and their subjects shall mutually assist each other, particularly in transactions of commerce and navigation.
II. III. The Swedes shall enjoy full liberty of commerce in Russia, and the Russians in Sweden, and similar protection with the subjects of the two countries; but they shall not deal in goods the importation and exportation of which are prohibited.
IV. In order to obviate any inconveniences that might arise from an undefined extension of this liberty of commerce, both parties have agreed to limit it to all the ports of the two States, without distinction; and, as to the commerce in the country, to certain places on the frontiers of Russian and Swedish parts of Finland. In these frontier places, the subjects of the two powers, without going farther into the country, may carry on a wholesale, but not retail, trade, traffic with such merchants as arrive there from remote districts. Travelling merchants and hawkers of both nations shall not be suffered, but considered as smugglers.
V. VII. The subjects of both Powers shall pay the same importation and exportation duties on goods, and in the same coin, as the natives of the country to which they trade. They shall likewise enjoy all legal protection, the free exercise of their religion, and the right of leaving the country with their property.
VIII. The merchants of both nations may keep their books in what language they please, and never shall be forced to produce them, excepting in law suits, and then only such extracts as are absolutely necessary for clearing up the point contested.
IX. X. In case of bankruptcy or differences, the subjects of either Power shall be treated agreeably to the laws of the country in which they then reside. If the subject of one Power dies in the country of the other, without heirs, his property shall, within the space of five years, belong to the Government of the country in which he died, if, after a proclamation inserted in the newspapers three times, no heir should apply.
XI. XIII. The respective Consuls-general and Consuls, shall be under the particular protection of the laws, and enjoy the same rights and liberties as those of the most favoured nations. Sailors who have deserted, shall be delivered up by both parties even in foreign ports. Merchant vessels shall, on no account, take passengers without passports, or goods without proper certificates. With respect to contraband, and the punishment of persons importing it, the laws of the two countries shall decide.
XIV. Swedish alum, salt herrings, and salt, imported from Sweden into Russia (Petersburg excepted,) shall pay only one-half of the duties mentioned in the regulations of the customs, and smoked herrings imported from Sweden, only one third.
XV. All the produce of Swedish Finland, even wood, may be imported into Russian Finland (which had hitherto not been the case) free from all duties; and the wood from Swedish Finland may be exported from Wiburg and Fridricksham.
XVII. Hemp, linen, and tallow, imported into Sweden from Russia shall only pay one half, and linseed two thirds of the duties hitherto paid. The Russians shall remain in possession of their store houses at Stockholm, the limits of which are to be enlarged.
XVIII. XIX. Contain regulations for preventing Russians and Swedes to navigate foreign ships and goods as their own.
XX. XXI. Not more than four ships of war of one Power shall enter the fortified ports of the other at one time, if special permission has not been granted for a greater number. Ships of war as well as merchant vessels, that have suffered by storm and other accidents, may be repaired in the ports of the other Power.
XXII. XXIII. If ships of war of the two Powers, the Commanders of which are of the same rank, meet at sea, no saluting
shall take place; the Commander of inferior rank, however, shall salute the Commander of higher rank, who shall return the salute, shot for shot. Ships that have stranded, shall receive all possible assistance.
XXIV. If one of the contracting parties happens to be at war with other States, the subjects of the other party shall not, on that account be prevented from continuing their commerce and navigation with those States, on condition that they do not supply these States with contraband. Convinced of the principles laid down in the Convention concluded at St. Petersburg, on the 16th of December, last year, for the general good of trading nations, the two Crowns declare that they make it the inviolable rule of their conduct. They further declare, that they acknowledge the following principles:—1st. That neutral ships may freely sail for the ports and coasts of the Belligerent Powers.—2d. That, with exception of warlike contraband, the goods of subjects of the Belligerent Powers in neutral bottoms are free.—3d. That such ports only are to be considered as blockaded, where, from the proximity of ships of war, there shall actually be danger in entering.—4th. That neutral vessels can be detained only on just grounds, and evident facts.—5th. That no convoy shall be searched, when the Commander of the ship of war convoying them declares, that there is no contraband on board.
XXV. XXVII. In time of war, one Power may shut its ports against the privateers and prizes of the other that is engaged in war. The following articles only are declared to be contraband, viz. guns, mortars, firelocks, pistols, bombs, grenades, balls, muskets, flints, matches, powder, salt-petre, sulphur, cuirasses, pikes, swords, sword-belts, cartridge boxes, faccles, and bridles. All other goods, in neutral bottoms, are to be considered as neutral property.
XXVIII. The Power engaged in war shall grant leave for fitting out privateers to such of its subjects only as reside in the country, and are able to find security for the damage they may do to neutral vessels.
XXIX. If either of the two Powers should be at war with another State, its ships of war and privateers shall be allowed to search such merchant ships of the other Powers as are not under convoy; but only two or three men shall be sent on board, to investigate the legality and neutrality of the cargo.
XXX. If any such ship should have contraband on board, that only and nothing else shall be taken and confiscated.
XXXII. XXXIII. If one of the Powers is carrying on war, the subjects of the other shall enjoy in the country of such Power, all liberty and security as before, and its men and ships shall not be employed in military services. In cases of bankruptcy of the subjects of either country, trustees of the estate shall be appointed.
XXXIV. If a war should break out between the two Powers, the space of a twelve-month, from the date of the declaration of war, shall be allowed to their respective trading subjects, for withdrawing their property from the country of the other.
XXXV. XXXVI. The present Treaty is concluded for twelve years, and signed by
Count Stedinck, Prince Kurakin, Count Von Der Pahlen, and Prince Gagarin.
Here follow the ratifications of GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, and ALEXANDER I.
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 City of Washington," the Commissioners will expose to public sale for ready money, at William Rhodes's Tavern, in the said city, on the EIGHTH day of DECEMBER next, the following Lots in the said city, to wit: Nos 3 4 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 317, 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, nos 1 & 8 in sq no 6, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 19 & 20 in sq no 20, nos 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 & 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 2 & 12 in sq no 23, 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 and 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 826, 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 135, nos 8 9 10 and 14 in sq 256, nos 2 3 17 18 in sq no 490, nos 2 5 6 13 14 in sq no 321, nos 1 3 5 and 9 in sq 321, 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 8 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 3 8 9 and 12 in sq 403, nos 3 4 5 6 7 in sq 40, no 2 3 6 7 10 and 11 in sq 427, nos 2 3 4 5 and 6 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 35, no 20 in sq 585, no 15 in sq 387, 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 south of sq no 1019, nos 2 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 26 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, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 24 in sq 1048, nos 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 & 9 in sq 164, no 14 in sq 799, nos 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 & 20 in sq 847, 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, no 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 and 14 in sq 453, no 1 in sq south of sq no 413, 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 & 23 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 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 & 21 in sq 567, 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 29 30 31 32 & 33 in sq 563, 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 3 4 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 1115, 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.
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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 book.
May 8, 1801.
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To the STOCKHOLDERS of the BANK of COLUMBIA.
GENTLEMEN & LADIES,
THAT the earliest method of informing you, that I was yesterday served with a notice from the President of this Bank, stating, that my "services as Cashier could no longer be employed." Immediately I wrote to him, demanding to be informed in writing, of the charges brought against me. His reply is, "He will, at their next meeting, lay my letters before the Directors—in the mean time he does not feel himself at liberty to make any other reply." Thus the President veils the unjustifiable conduct of the board under the old pretext of BANK SECRET. Thus your officer, who has discharged his duties for the term of seven and an half years, with diligence and fidelity—who has been unanimously elected eight times to the appointment, is dismissed without being made acquainted with the reasons of his dismissal. To the Stockholders I now appeal for redress, not doubting that they will take the earliest opportunity to reinitiate me in an appointment, not forfeited by any misconduct on my part. I pledge myself to prove that the Board of Directors are unworthy of your confidence—I pledge a character unsoiled, and hitherto unimpeached even by the malice of my enemies, to prove it, provided you are permitted to make the proper enquiries into their official conduct—provided the bandage which has been put upon your eyes by the insidious doctrine of BANK SECRET, be removed, without penalizing the veil which does, and which ought to, conceal the only secret that is proper in any Bank conducted upon upright principles, you will discover more than sufficient to perceive the necessity of removing these men as entirely unworthy of your confidence. The only secret which it is reputable for any Bank to keep, is the quantity of specie on hand, and the amount of notes in circulation. Perhaps, in commercial towns, it may be proper to conceal the Bank accounts of merchants. I say PERHAPS, because I do not myself perceive the propriety of such a concealment. But the merchants of George-Town bear but a small proportion to the other debtors of the Bank. Letting then the two secrets, the Specie-Secret and the Merchant-Secret, remain inviolable, it is your duty to explore all the other secrets of the Bank. You will then be convinced that the Directors, and not the Cashier, ought to be displaced. I am ready here at all hours, to make good my charges against them. In the mean time I persuade myself that you will not rely upon the declarations of the Directors themselves, the party accused, as evidence of their own innocence.
I am, respectfully, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your faithful servant, SAMUEL HANSON, of Samuel.
P. S. It is necessary to apprise you now of one BANK SECRET, without the knowledge of which it will be impossible for you to remove the present Directors. It has been, for several years past, a standing order of the Board, that no Stockholder, Directors not excepted, shall be furnished with a list of Stockholders. Sundry applications have been made for such lists, all of which have been rejected. Yet I do aver that the Directors themselves have repeatedly taken such lists privately, to aid them in obtaining proxies to vote at the election of Bank Directors. It is evident that unless you are also furnished with the same lists, the Directors may, as they have done, vote themselves in perpetually. From this Bank secret, you may judge of the nature of others, to be disclosed, and from this specimen, you will perceive with what good faith the board comply with their own rules.
October 14.
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City of Washington, July 24, 1801.
The Subscribers
HAVING on hand a number of house frames of different dimensions, also, a large quantity of the various kinds of lumber requisite for building, and having made such arrangements as will ensure a constant supply thereof, and enable them to sell the same on very advantageous and moderate terms to the purchasers, hereby give notice, that on application, accompanied by a memorandum or bill of the frames or lumber wanted, they will cause the same to be delivered as soon as may be, at any of the wharves in the city of Washington, George-Town or Alexandria. The circumstances under which the subscribers enter into this business, authorize an assurance that the strictest punctuality in their engagements may be relied on. They are therefore induced to believe, that many persons who are engaged in building, or who may intend to build, will find a great convenience and advantage in making timely application, and being thus supplied with the whole of the lumber necessary for their buildings by the time it may be wanted for use.
JOHN CONNER, Somerset County, near Princess Ann, Maryland.
THOMAS MUNROE City of Washington.
July 27.
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DISTRICT OF POTOWMAC, To wit:
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirty first day of August, in the twenty sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, AUGUSTUS B. WOODWARD, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "Considerations on the Substance of the Sun"; in conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." Witness GEORGE DENEALE clerk of the DISTRICT OF POTOWMAC, the day, month, and year aforesaid.
GEORGE DENEALE, clerk.
September 9, 1801.
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