The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1801-01-26 00:00:00

The National Intelligencer,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. I. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, NEW-JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL. No. XXXVII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, JANUARY 26th, 1801.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
Foreign Intelligence.
FRANCE.
STATE OF THE REPUBLIC.
2 Brumaire, Nov. 23.
[This article was this day presented to the Legislative Body by the Counsellors of State, Regnier, Gouyon St. Cyr, and Najac.]
“At the moment when the Legislative Body resumes the course of its labors, the government submits to all France a sketch of its operations. This is a duty dictated by its principles, and it discharges the task with that frankness which it owes to the public interest, and the purity of the sentiments by which it is animated. All know what was the situation of the Republic on the 4th Nivose, year 8, 25th Dec. 1799. —The events of the 18th Brumaire had reanimated the courage of the people, but men's minds still floated in uncertainty. —The departments of the West were a prey to civil war; every where there prevailed feeble, distracted administrations, without unity of principles, or concert of operations. No energy in command, no promptitude in execution. A police without activity; tribunals without authority; disorder in the public receipts; requisitions which harassed the public, and consumed our revenue; commerce and manufactures in a state of stagnation; the armies of Austria from the top of the Alps and Appenines menacing Liguria and France; neutral vessels driven from the sea by the terror of the English maritime code; America, which owed to us her independence, armed against ours; Spain, Batavia, Helvetia, Liguria, faithful to our allies, but waiting with a painful anxiety what the future should decide respecting our fate and theirs. It was under these auspices that the year 8 began. Peace was the first want, and the ardent prayer of the nation; Peace too was the first object that occupied the mind of government. Two letters written by the Chief Consul to the Emperor of Germany and the king of England, expressed to them with frankness, but without guile, the wish of France and of humanity. This prayer was rejected by the minister of Austria and Great Britain. The Cabinet of Vienna mingled some hopes with the refusal. The Cabinet of England blended bitterness and reproach with its correspondence, and afterwards declamation and invective in the public discussions, in which it exposed the overtures made by France. This publicity, these declamations and invectives, but ill assisted the animosity and the plans of the British administration. Frenchmen recognized in the conduct of their Chief Magistrate, the sincere desire of peace. They felt indignant at the enemy by whom the overtures were rejected, and saw that they had to expect peace only from their efforts and their courage. Hence the principle of that energy, which produced our last success, and our last victories. Hence, perhaps, in the minds of the English, a sentiment of justice towards a people, who, after so many exploits, and so much glory, sighed only for peace: hence, in the minds of other nations, a return of favor for the cause of our independence and our liberty. The rebellion in the West was suppressed. Nothing more was necessary than to support by the display of force the authority of reason and principle, in order to bring the people back to their duty. All those who had been led away by seduction and terror submitted to a government beneficent and protecting. Every day the attachment to the Republic increased in these departments as well as respect for our institutions, and hatred towards our enemies. The establishment of gend' armerie a pied will serve to clear the country from the remains of a few wretches habituated to pillage, and covered with crimes, which the amnesty could not reach. In these departments, as in others, the influence of the authority established by the Constitution, has been marked by progressive improvements. A power concentrated in an individual; an
therefore, inevitable responsibility gives to public and private affairs a rapid movement, and will restore, by degrees, economy in administration. Inspection is more active; information more prompt and more certain; the citizens perceive more clearly the advantages of the power which protects them, as well as the vigor of that authority which represses and restrains them. Throughout the Republic there still exists some individuals who regret the past; some feeble minds whom a residue of fanaticism torments; but these regrets become daily more weak, fanaticism dies away, and manly sentiment gains more the ascendancy. To wish that man should disavow with readiness, to-day, what he yesterday professed—that he should submit at once, without murmuring, to the yoke of the laws which lately he spurned, is the wish not of lawful power, but of tyranny. Let us leave to time to complete its work.—Time alone confirms institutions. It is only after they have long existed, that they come to obtain an absolute respect. The Administrators have been chosen for the people, not for a particular faction or a particular party. Government asks not to know what any man has done, or what he may have said, under particular circumstances, and at particular periods. It has required only to ascertain if he possesses virtue and talents; if he was inaccessible to hatred or vengeance: if he is likely to be always impartial and just. The maxim of the government is, that the denunciations which attack public functionaries, at this time, still full of the remembrance of ancient divisions, ought to be weighed in the balance of justice, and verified by the most strict examination. The same principles and the same views have directed the choice of the magistrates. Let them judge things and opinions. Let them be inflexible as the laws themselves. Such is the wish, such the only wish which ought to influence a government. The Constitution guarantees to them the independence and the perpetuity of their functions. It is to the nation, and to their own consciences that they must answer for their decisions. Before the 4th Nivose December 25, it was the government which decided upon the appeals of citizens, inscribed in the list of emigrants, and it decided on the simple report of the minister of general police. Thus it had the power of deciding questions which involved the tranquility of the state, the lot of individuals and the assignment of property. In order to clear up this subject, the government wished to know what was the nature of the laws of emigration; what the nature of those of whom the list of emigrants was composed; how, and by whom it was formed, and what were the principles on which it was drawn up? It then learnt, that in each municipality there had been prepared lists of citizens absent from the commune where they had either property or a settled abode; and that of these particular lists, collected into nine volumes, had been formed what was commonly called the list of emigrants—that citizens inscribed as absent, or emigrants in one commune, were at the very time public functionaries in another: that labourers, artisans, individuals in service, were confounded with men whom the prejudices of birth, and the interests of rank, marked out as enemies to the revolution—that inscription collected and indiscriminate applied to whole families, and families too often unknown to the persons by whom the inscriptions was formed. From these circumstances, a conviction was produced that there did not exist a true list of emigrants, and it was necessary to form a new list, in which those whose names ought never to have been inscribed, should be distinguished from those whom prejudices and their circumstances pointed out as true emigrants, and hence originated the specifications and conditions of the decree of the 28th Vendemaire, (September 20). A plan of regulations will be proposed to give additional security to those who have acquired national property. An important work is on the eve of being accomplished, which during six years, has been called Legislation. I
this session the civil code and a code of procedure will be proposed to the consideration of the legislative body; other objects less important will form the subject of laws, of which the elements are already prepared. Public instruction, still neglected in many of the departments, has assumed in others a better direction, and a higher activity. New asylums have been opened for the children of those who have fallen in defence of their country. If the hospitals are still in distress, a decree secures to them at least the payment of a part of what is due to them on the capital of their rents, of which the redemption was authorised by a law passed during the last session. Measures have been taken to ascertain the number of deserted children, the number of whom has very much increased of late, and plans are adopted to succour their wants. Some manufactures which are peculiar to the nation, and which honour French industry, begin now to rise from that languor in which our former misfortunes has plunged them. Painting and sculpture have obtained encouragement and are prepared to transmit to posterity the traits and actions of those heroes who have combated for our independence and glory. The monuments of art are preferred and offered to the public admiration, in places worthy of containing them.—The high roads are almost throughout in a state of alarming decay, but the administration does every thing to remedy this, which the feeble resources entrusted to them enables them to execute. The right of keeping up the public roads has received certain modifications which public justice, and public interest, demanded. The perception of this right, separated from the obligation of keeping up the roads themselves, had been confirmed, and a fund is now provided on proper securities, which will not be vain or illusory as in former years. The application of products, still too feeble, is ascertained for each department, in the proportion of its wants. Inspection becomes every day more active, and responsibility becomes every day more clear, and approaches nearer to perfection. The government has extended its views to interior navigation, and to canals. It is not to vast projects to which it has directed its attention, it is not a great system of general navigation which it wishes to create. The conclusion of the labours already begun, which refer immediately to inland navigation, and the commerce of France, is all that it now proposes, is all that the present circumstances of the country enables it to adopt. Execution rather than project, is the fundamental maxim of its administration. The finances have been one of the objects of its constant inspection and anxiety, the primary base, and necessary support of all the plans which can be formed for the happiness and glory of the state government has thought necessary to apply itself to the consideration of all the principles, and become acquainted with all the causes which can operate either their restoration or destruction.—It was not merely funds that were wanting to the Republic on the 4th Nivose, of the year 8; it was activity in the subdivision and assessment of direct contributions, regularity in the receipts, care in the disbursements, a clear accountability in the public treasury, a well managed distribution in the different channels of expence. The bearers of bills authorised to draw directly on the funds of the receivers and their overseers purchased by corruption the funds which either then had no existence, or which ought to have been reserved for the services of the republic; goods of requisitions, debts of arrear, uncertain rents were admitted as payment of direct contributions; and it was receivers, overseers, collectors who trafficked in goods of depreciated value, and exchanged them in their office for real property which they had received, paymasters concealed the payments which had been made to them to obtain from those who were to superintend their accounts, and for advances which they have never made. Thus the public treasury was ignorant equally as to the funds received, and sums which had been paid in the departments. Hence arose uncertain distributions and illusory assignments. In the mean time every thing was ordered by the ministers, every thing was sanctioned by the Directory.—Hence the want of public credit and its scandalous train of negotiations and disgraceful decrees. Since the 14th Nivose (Dec. 25) the period of the subdivision and assessment of the contributions has been fixed with precision, and this year, for the first time, the quotas of almost all the Departments were in the course of payment made during the course of Vendemaire. The public treasuries have been shut against delegations (a species of Exchequer Bills) but 52 millions of delegations, or orders upon the Treasury, of this description, have been rapidly extinguished by operations which have not cost the Treasury either loan or interest, and at the same have procured effectual advances.—These delegations the Government might with some colour of Justice have objected to. They had been issued to contractors even before they entered on their contract, it was extremely probable that the service was not performed completely by any, and by few with good faith. But these delegations had been negotiated under the view, and with the consent of the former Government.—They had gone out of the hand of the original holder. They were letters of exchange, of which the actual holders had advanced the value, and it was impossible, without injuring public credit, to postpone or refuse payment of them. Requisition bills have been taken out of the circle of jobbing, and must now be nearly all paid into the Exchequer for taxes, and in the year 9, there will exist almost none of them. The public creditor will receive his money in cash, and the public will receive almost nothing but solid cash. A part of the direct contributions of the year 8, that part which it was calculated would not be consumed by the bills in arrear, and requisition bills, has been, by anticipation, paid into the treasury on the obligations of the collectors, and these obligations which have in a particular fund the certain means of their discharge, are now as solid a value as the public or the merchant can offer. The direct contributions of the year 9 are already in the portfeuille of the Treasury in obligations equally solid.—These successive receipts of indirect or casual contributions are then represented by the bills of the collectors payable at sight. A fixed sum of these obligations and these bills is appropriated to the expence of every month. No order for payment will be given but in the proportion to the sums actually rested in the Treasury. Thus the orders will no longer be arbitrary. There will be no mistake in the arrangement, no illusion in promises of payment will exist, and persons accepting such paper on the faith of payment, will not be deceived by a new organization. An active superintendence pervades every part of it. The arrear accounts proceed without obstacle. The current payments are in a manner at par. Every month the minister of finances, and the director of the public treasury will submit to the inspection of the government, statements of all the receipts and payments, particularly every payment made to the orders of each minister. The collection of these statements at the end of every year, will shew the receipt, the expenses paid, and the nature of each expence.—The estimate necessary for the expence for the year 9 has been formed with the strictest regard to economy. The revenues have been valued with every degree of possible precision. These revenues are not adequate to the calculated expenditure. The government will propose to the legislative body what it conceives the best expedient to cover this deficiency, and leave to their wisdom to decide on its propriety. A sinking fund has been created. The administrations of it will not increase the burdens of the finances; it will at once furnish extensive means of extinguishing the public debt, and prove a powerful instrument of public credit. In examining its operation it will be found to promote successfully the important end of an office of security for the bonds of the receivers.

A bank has been founded; feeble, indeed as yet; but whose feebleness is in proportion to the actual wants of circulation. On a peace it will embrace a range which our commerce, encreased by a restitution of our ancient relations, and by the storms of the revolution, will require. The government, which has favored its birth with all its power, will always protect it by its influence, will continue to regard it as a sacred deposit, to be protected by the powers and the fidelity of the nation. Other ameliorations will be presented in the report of the minister of the finances. Other plans of amelioration are still under the eye, and in the contemplation of government. Once delivered from the chaos of dilapidations, abuses and injustice, every day will bring a new accession of salutary principles, and present new means of prosperity. Honest citizens, those who have wealth and reputation to preserve, will offer their resources and their support to a government faithful to the plans which are laid; to good faith and the public interest have pointed out to it. It is no longer embarrassed by those intrigues which make a traffic of the confusion of the finances, nor by the cupidity which exchanges, at a dear rate, real, though distant advantages, for that miserable succour which only supplies the wants of the present moment by adding to the demands of futurity. Already companies of good credit have entered into engagements on the most moderate terms, and have not, as was formerly done, demanded any security in real possessions for services which they have not yet performed. Our success in war has exceeded our expectations. Four armies, all victorious, are united by an uninterrupted chain from the line formed by the Prussian neutrality to the centre of Italy: masters of the Danube and the Po, they occupy by their detachments the borders of the Adriatic and Tuscany. The genius of France saved the army of the East from the execution of the convention which would have placed it in the chains of the English. Malta has surrendered, but it was after two years of the most glorious resistance. Every thing which could be tried to save this important place, the government has attempted, though without effect. The organization of the army, military discipline, inquiries into dilapidations and abuses, the re-establishment of order and economy in all the branches of the service, have been the object of the labors and decrees of the government. A report from the minister at war will present the result. Peace, peace alone can give to the success which they have already obtained completion and solidity. It has not been in the power of the government to repair at once the disasters of our marine and to restore its ancient lustre; but it has collected its wrecks, and prepares its re-establishment and its glory. Regulations have reformed abuses, enured regularity of service, established in the ports union of power and severity of inspection; former dilapidations have been enquired into and removed; burdensome contracts have been cancelled; agreements more advantageous to the Republic have been concluded; in a word, considerable advances have been made towards order and economy. But, still much remains to be done!—How much labor must be submitted to, and how long an interval must elapse, before the government can execute the task which it has imposed on itself, and which the public interest demands of it. In the present state of our marine, it has been impossible to keep up regularly with our colonies those relations of intercourse and authority which belong to the mother country. The government however, preserved those ties which attach them to France, and it prepares in silence the means of restoring them to calmness, to industry and prosperity. A council for prizes authorised by a law promulgated in the last session, has applied to this delicate subject a spirit of impartiality and justice which has already had a happy influence on our commercial relations. Neutral flags have experienced them on the seas and in our ports. The powers on the coast of Barbary have renewed their ancient relations towards us. If government had been able to renew them sooner, Malta might perhaps still have been in our power. But at least they will secure subsistence to Liguria, and to our Southern departments, nor will they be useless to the army of the East. A convention founded upon common interests and the most perfect reciprocity, will renew the ties which the United States of America were bound to France. These ties shall last forever, because there is no unequal condition to alter their force and purity. The French nation does not desire any exclusive privilege or partial favor. She merely demands from the nations in friendship with her, the rights of equality; that no nation be more favored than her-
self, and that she herself be not favored more than any other nation. Such are the pretensions and interests of all states which may contract engagements with her. All nations who are sensible of their rights will rally round these principles. The North will shake off the tyranny which oppresses its commerce and its seas. It will feel that our interests are the interests of the human race. Russia, in particular, will remember what is due to her dignity, and the ancient relations by which she was united to France.
She will know that France is a necessary counterpoise in the maritime balance of the world. The government had offered peace before the opening of the campaign. It made the offer on the field of battle, and in the bosom of victory. It offered a peace worthy of the French people, and on conditions which should have guaranteed to us both its acceptance and stability. On the slightest hope of drawing near so desirable an epoch, it suspended those successes which ensured the position of our armies, and the ardor of our warriors. If we do not yet enjoy it, we have to accuse only that power which, unaffected by the disasters of the continent, is anxious to cement with the blood of nations, its empire over the seas, and its monopoly in every part of the world. To conclude, an Austrian negotiator is now at Luneville; a man who merits the esteem of Europe. If he possesses the perfect confidence of the sovereign who has sent him, he will display that frankness, which the French government has a right to expect from its own frankness, and which is promised by his personal character. Austria will cease to sacrifice the repose and interest of the continent to the ambition of the despots of the seas. Yet in the present uncertainty, prudence prescribes to France not to permit herself to be amused by an empty show of negotiation. She will support her proposition with all the force of her arms. The conduct of the government has shewn, that it has not carried to too great a height the pretension of the republic; nor sacrificed to the madness of ambition the interests of humanity. The crimes of the war all fall upon those who are the real authors of them; upon those governments which are so weak and so blinded as to become subservient to the mercantile designs of a single nation, and to sell to gold and intrigues, the blood and the industry of the nations, who obey them, and the freedom of the seas, which is the property of the whole human race."
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, January 23d, 1801.
Mr. GRISWOLD from the committee of ways and means, reported a bill making appropriations for the navy of the United States for the year 1801.
Mr. RUTLEDGE from the joint committee to whom had been referred the letter from the commissioners of the City of Washington, requesting the use of an apartment in the Capitol, for the accommodation of the supreme court of the United States, reported, that it would be expedient to assign a room on the lower floor of that building for that purpose.
The house resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the unfinished business of yesterday, which was a resolution reported by the committee of revival and unfinished business, for continuing in force the act, commonly called the Sedition Law, and on the question will the committee agree to the said resolution, it was determined in the affirmative by the casting vote of the chairman, the committee rose, reported the resolution as agreed to. The house then took up the resolution as reported, and on the question will the house agree to the same, it was determined in the affirmative by the vote of the Speaker, there being 48 for it and 48 against it.
Gen. Lee and Mr. Dennis spoke in favor of the resolution, and Messrs. Mason, Nicholas, Nicholson, and Lyon, against it.
The arguments urged by the Speakers on both sides of the question in this debate, were generally a repetition of those used on former occasions when this business was before the house. Almost the only new ground of argument resorted to, was the conduct of the courts of the United States in their charges to juries and their decisions under this law.
The following resolutions were laid on the table by Mr. Harper and directed to be printed.
Resolved , That for completing the public buildings already commenced at the City of Washington, the sum of one-hundred thousand dollars each, ought to be advanced by the United States by way of Loan; and that the public property in the said city, after discharging the encumbrances incurred for former advances for the said city and buildings, ought to be pledged and applied under the direction of Congress, as a fund for the reimbursement of the said loan.
Resolved , That the said sum and all other sums applicable to the same objects, and hereafter to be received, or now on hand, ought to be applied under the direction of the Secretaries of the State, Treasury, Navy and War departments, with the approbation of the President of the United States; and that the said Secretaries or any three of them, ought to be empowered to employ a proper clerk or clerks for keeping the accounts of the said expenditures, and all suitable architects, agents and workmen, for carrying on and completing said buildings.
Resolved , That a suitable apartment or apartments in that part of the capitol already finished, ought to be fitted up for the temporary accommodation of the courts of the United States, appointed or hereafter to be appointed to be held in the said city, and of such courts as may hereafter be appointed to be held therein for the Territory of Columbia; and that in completing the capitol, permanent accommodations for the said court ought to be provided therein.
Resolved , That the sum of dollars annually ought to be appropriated towards the establishment of a National Library, to be applied under the direction of the Secretary of State, and that a suitable apartment in that part of the capitol which is now finished, ought to be fitted up for the reception of the said Library; and that when the capitol shall be completed, suitable apartments for the reception and use of the said Library ought to be provided therein.
Resolved , That the sum of dollars ought to be appropriated for the suitable furnishing of the President's house, to be applied under the direction of the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War and Navy departments, with the approbation of the President of the United States; and that the said Secretaries, or any three of them, ought to be empowered to employ a suitable agent for that purpose.
Resolved , That the board of commissioners for the City of Washington, ought to be discontinued, and the public property in the said city to be placed under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, with authority to appoint such clerk or clerks for the particular management thereof, as he may judge necessary, and that all powers, rights, duties, and trusts, now vested in, or belonging to said board, ought to be transferred to the said Secretary.
The House then adjourned till Monday 11 o'clock.
NORRISTOWN, Jan. 16, 1801. On Wednesday last, the Northampton prisoners left the prison in this town, in consequence of a FREE PARDON granted them by the President of the United States. A company of Northampton light dragoons, commanded by captain Jarrett (one of the prisoners) and captain Rawn's troop of horse, of this county, arrived here in order to escort them to their respective places of abode.
The day was held by them as a day of festivity and mirth: joy beamed in every countenance: sorrow and care seemed for the moment, banished from every breast. In fine, they expressed that heart felt satisfaction which is usually demonstrated on such occasions; and in general, they accompanied themselves with that becoming dignity which ever characterises the freeman and the citizen. About two o'clock the horsemen mounted, and after performing a few evolutions, and firing a couple of volleys, they gave three huzzas for their released friends, and three for Mr. Wells, the goaler, for his humane treatment to the prisoners whilst under his care, when the whole company departed, leaving a numerous assemblage of the inhabitants of this town and its vicinity, to witness the pleasing scene.
To ISAIAH WELLS, KEEPER of the PRISON of MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
SIR, Impressed with a due sense of gratitude for the humane, kind, and generous
treatment we have generally and individually received from you, as well while in sickness as in health, we are induced from motives of duty as well to ourselves as to the public in general, to embrace this opportunity to convey our grateful acknowledgements to you, through the medium of the press, previous to our departure to our respective places of abode: and while we applaud your humanity and benevolence, we cannot help deprecating the inhumanity, nay, the brutality of the keeper of the prison of Philadelphia, whilst we were under his command: the haughty, sullen, and insulting manner in which we were treated by him, can never be obliterated from our minds.
As perhaps another opportunity may not occur, we are induced to return our grateful acknowledgements to the Executive, for the pardon we have received, even at this late period of our confinement, and which you, Sir, have been eminently useful in procuring.
In bidding you, Sir, adieu, we cannot but esteem ourselves fortunate in having been entrusted to your charge: and may that omniscient eye, who discerns the secret actions of men, receive you under its peculiar care, and may your future undertakings be marked with that prosperity which should ever attend the honest man .
With gratitude and esteem,
We remain affectionately yours.
HENRY JARRIT, CONRAD MARK, I. I. EYERMANN, VALENTINE KUDER, ANTHONY STAHLER, HENRY SCHMIDT, HENRY SHANWILER.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
The second accident that has occurred in this city, whereby the public records have been endangered, evinces the propriety of establishing a police which may require the citizens to have buckets and fire-engines, and the mouths of the pumps to be constructed with screws fitted to the pipes of the fire-engines; of course the inhabitants of the district of Columbia are looking out with solicitous anxiety for the assumption of the jurisdiction by congress, when many beneficial regulations will naturally be adopted.—For the present, I request my fellow citizens always to have a pound of brimstone ready to throw on their fires, whenever their chimneys are in flames, as the vapor will smother the blaze and extinguish it.
CIVIS.
Take Notice.
THE partnership under the firm of PHELAN and NOYES, is dissolved this 21st day of January, 1801.
PHELAN & NOYES.
N. B. The business will be continued, as usual by the Subscriber LEVI NOYES. Washington, Jan. 21, 1801. tw.
Take particular Notice.
WITH astonishment, I read the dissolution of the partnership of the firm of PHELAN and NOYES, bearing date the 21st Instant, without my consent, and under the peculiar circumstances of my situation. My own property, and that of the creditors to a large amount, being made over for the security of the rent, that of the creditors, the firm is responsible for—Also large sums of money received by Levi Noyes, unaccounted for.—While thus situated, I do hereby declare the notification of Levi Noyes, under the firm of Phelan and Noyes, to be illegal and unjust, and that the public take no notice of it—All persons are forbid trusting Levi Noyes on account of said firm.
JOHN PHELAN, of the firm of Phelan and Noyes. Washington city, Jan. 24, 1801. 3t
WANTED to purchase a Small farm consisting of one, two or three hundred acres of land—at a convenient distance from this City, with comfortable buildings thereon for the accommodation of a small family. Enquire of the Editor of the National Intelligencer. Washington, Jan. 26, 1801.
Conrad & M c Munn
HAVE opened houses of entertainment in the range of buildings formerly occupied by Mr. LAW, about two hundred paces from the Capitol, in New Jersey avenue, leading from thence to the Eastern Branch. They are spacious and convenient, one of which is designed for stage passengers and travellers, the other for the accommodation of boarders. There is stable sufficient for 60 horses.—They hope to merit public patronage. City of Washington, Nov. 24, 1800. tf

MONDAY, January 26, 1801.
FRENCH TREATY.
In Senate of the United States.
On Friday last the Senate proceeded to consider the form of ratification of the Treaty reported by a select committee, which was substantially that the treaty be ratified with the exception of the 2nd, and 3rd Articles, and with the addition of two new Articles, one declaring that the Treaty should not be construed in any of its provisions to affect any pre-existing treaties formed with other nations, and the other limiting its duration to eight years.
A division of the distinct questions contained in the form of ratification was called for, when the following questions were taken.
1st. Shall the 2nd article of the treaty be excepted?
Two thirds of the members not concurring the question was lost, and of consequence the 2d article was not excepted.
2. Shall the 3d article of the treaty be excepted?
Two thirds of the members not concurring the question was lost, and of consequence the 3rd article was not excepted.
3. Shall the article declaring that this Treaty shall not affect any pre-existing Treaties be agreed to?
Two third of the members not concurring the question was lost, and of consequence the new article was not agreed to.*
4. Shall the article, limiting the Treaty to eight years be agreed to?
This question was agreed to by nearly an unanimous vote.
The first three members of the form of ratification being virtually disagreed to, the ratification remained unconditional, except as to the limitation of the Treaty to eight years.
On agreeing to this form of ratification there were 16 Yeas.—14 Nays.
The ratification was therefore lost, there not being two thirds of the members in favor of it.
The Yeas and Nays were as follows.
   YEAS. NAYS.     Messrs. Langdon, Messrs. J. Mason,   Livermore, D. Foster,   T. Foster, Tracy,   Green, Hillhouse,   Paine, Morris,   Chipman, Dayton,   Armstrong, Schureman,   S. T. Mason, Bingham,   Nicholas, Ross,   Bloodworth, Latimer,   Franklin, Wells,   Marshall, Hindman,   Brown, Howard,   Baldwin, Read. 14.   Cocke,   Anderson—16.  
We understand that some doubt is entertained of the conclusiveness of the vote in Senate.
* The disagreeing to this article, arose altogether from the opinion entertained on all hands that it was unnecessary, as the same effect would be produced without it, that would be produced by it.
Our readers will observe that the report of the committee of revival and unfinished business, recommending a continuance of the SEDITION LAW, was approved on Friday in the House of Representatives by the casting vote of the SPEAKER. Since that vote was taken three members have
arrived who are decidedly hostile to it. No doubt can, therefore, be entertained of its ultimate rejection. On this prospect we congratulate the friends of the liberty of the press, and the guardians of the constitution.
HENRY LATIMER, Senator from Delaware, has signified his intention to resign his seat in Senate on the 3rd day of next March.
FROM THE AURORA.
Extract of a letter from Thomas Paine, dated Paris 2d Oct. 1800.
(After treating of personal concerns.)
“With respect to news, the events of war have been again decisive in favor of France, I will give you a summary of the events. First, the battle of Marengo in Italy, where the Austrians under general Melas were utterly defeated—the armistice in consequence thereof, and the surrender by the Austrians of Genoa, Milan, &c. to the French—the success of the French army under Moreau, in Germany—his conquest of Bavaria, the abettor of which had furnished 12,000 troops to the coalition, and has now to pay a contribution to Moreau, part of which the very money received as a subsidy from poor John Bull, and beside to maintain the French army in his territory. The extension of the armistice to the armies of Germany, the sending of Count de St. Julien as an envoy to Paris, by the Emperor, to negotiate and sign the preliminaries of peace which was done—the refusal of the emperor to ratify the preliminaries—the breaking of the French government in consequence of that refusal—the gallant expedition of the Emperor to put himself at the head of his army—his making his will before his departure—the putting up of prayers in all the churches for the preservation of the life of this hero—his pompous arrival at the army—general Moreau announcing to him, immediately on his arrival, that hostilities would commence, the day after the next at sunrise, unless he signed articles of peace, or gave security that he would sign—his surrendering up, thereupon, to the French, three of the principal keys, and fortresses of Germany, Ulm, Ingolstadt, and Philipsburg, as security that he would sign them, or in similar language, that he would be a good boy and tell no more lies. This is the state of things as they are now, the emperor has 45 days given him from the 10th of Sept. to sign the articles; and the joke of this tragi-comedy is, that the News-papers of John Bull, the last of which came to hand here on the 26th of September, (I write October 2) say nothing of repentance of the Emperor, and are boasting of his valorous determination to push the war with vigor even to the gates of Paris. I believe he has now (after this gallant exploit) given up the command of the army, and is set off to make his triumphal entry into Vienna.
“From all this it appears to me that he is now so completely in the hands of the French, that he has no way of getting out but by making peace, or risking his crown; Peace is more than he deserves, for he has been a faithless, lying, treacherous man through the whole of his conduct; notwithstanding your late Secretary of State Timothy Pickering wrote a letter to Paris, which I saw, thanking Heaven for the successes of the coalition against France! This letter has been prudently concealed, that the madness or—of an individual might not injure America. I now come to John Bull’s government.
“You will have heard of the insolent and impolitic expedition of John Bull (who makes more bulls in politics than Paddy does in speech) of his impolitic expedition I say, with a fleet into the Baltic against Denmark having refused to recognize the pretended right of John Bull to thrust his horns into neutral vessels, and to search and turn their goods to search them. Some temporary accommodation, such I suppose as John Bull found it necessary to come into, has been arranged with Denmark.—But the question of right is adjourned! This hostile appearance in the Baltic, has awakened, as John Bull ought to have foreseen, the three Baltic nations, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, who are all in consequence arming! Paul has taken this Baltic expedition in deep dudgeon, and has laid an embargo on the English vessels and English property in Russia; the embargo we hear is to continue till John Bull recognises the rights of neutral nations.
“This calls into view a great and important question, which is, the Establishment of the law of Nations, by an associated Congress of Nations, who alone can have the right of declaring what the
law shall be; and providing means, which can easily be done, for compelling an observance thereof by the belligerent powers, at all times. If this can be accomplished, it will be of more benefit to America, admitting she become wise enough (after so much folly) to profit by the opportunity, than all the little secret jobbing politics that have been practised of late years. They have only served, as might easily have been foreseen, to encrease and multiply expences, and embarrass her politically in every step she advanced. It is necessary that the whole of her unsystematized system with respect to foreign politics, should be changed. She has pretended to get clear of European politics, and yet has been always running aground upon some of them by dabbling in them by secret and partial and contradictory treaties.”
Kid, Eliot & Co.
HAVE received by late arrivals, a general assortment of Hard ware and Ironmongery, which they offer for Sale at their Store opposite the Great Hotel.
They have also on hand Madeira, } Wines. Sherry & } Lisbon. } Cogniac Brandy. Jamaica Spirits, Holland Gin, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Tea, Coffee, &c. &c. Washington, Dec 18. tf.
Kid, Eliot & Co.
At the Brick Store opposite Blodgett's Hotel.
HAVE received by the Brig UNION, Capt. Leonard, from Liverpool, a large supply of Crockery Ware. Some of which is well assorted in small casks for the country.
Also, by the same Vessel. White Lead, ground in oil. Spanish Brown do. Red Lead, Patent yellow, &c. &c. They expect by the Roba and Betsey arrived at Norfolk, an additional Invoice of crockery and a large assortment of Glass ware. All which will be sold at the Philadelphia prices. December 28.
Boarding & Lodging
MAY Be had, for six or eight Gentlemen, at the WHITE HOUSE, between the City Post-Office, and Pennsylvania Avenue. January 14th, 1801. 3t
FOR SALE.
THE Subscriber will sell at private sale, two Three story Brick Houses, adjoining each other, 28 feet front each, by forty feet deep, on Capitol Hill, Lot No. 6. Sq. 686—A fine commodious lot 61 feet front, by 196 feet deep, running back to an alley 30 feet wide, and may be occupied as one or two tenements, they are finished in a plain, but substantial manner, and built on the best materials—a credit of three, six, and nine months, on giving approved notes, negotiable at the bank of Columbia, or Baltimore—apply to Daniel Carroll, or in Baltimore to HENRY H. CARROLL. Washington, Jan. 5, 1801.
RHODE ISLAND LIME.
A Few hundred casks will be delivered in good order at any landing in the City—on application to BENJAMIN MORE, New Jersey Avenue—or William Yeaton, Alexandria. Washington, Jan. 17, 1801. 1w3tq
Mantua-Making.
MRS. DEMPSEY, FROM NEW-YORK,
BEGS leave to inform the Ladies and Public in general, that she has commenced business in the City, on the New-Jersey Avenue, five doors from Mr. Smith's Printing-Office, where she makes Ladies' Dresses on the shortest notice, and of the newest fashion. January 16, 1801. 2w
I WILL Sell, or Rent for 2 years, a convenient two story Brick House near the LITTLE HOTEL. Possession may be had on the 10th day of March. JONATHAN PANCOAST. Washington, Jan. 20. 1800. codtf.
A Tutor Wanted.
ONE qualified and willing to take charge of a school in the country about 30 miles distant may hear conditions and other particulars by application at the bar of J. H. Barney in George-Town—Preference will be given to a person capable of teaching the Latin language. Jan. 22. 1801. 2t
CONVEYANCER'S OFFICE.
THOMAS HERTY has opened an office a few yards from the CAPITOL, on the New Jersey Avenue, where he will attend daily till 3 o'clock during the sitting of Congress, and in the afternoon, at his office opposite the LITTLE HOTEL—Conveyances of land, wills, mortgages, leases, assignments, copartnership deeds and dissolutions, marriage settlements and separations, letters of licence and composition, bills of sale of vessels, slaves, and other chattels, bonds of conveyance, and other bonds, powers of attorney, awards, manumissions, partitions, exchanges, petitions, annuities, post obits, scamen's wills and powers, and all other instruments in the above line, are drawn according to the legal import of the same respectively, with the utmost punctuality, accuracy, secrecy, and dispatch, and on moderate terms.
Titles investigated, and opinions given where necessary.
N. B. Hertys Abridgment of the laws of Maryland, approved and sanctioned by the Attorney General and Legislature of Maryland, may be had at the above office, price Six Dollars neatly bound and lettered; also Hertys Digest of the Laws of the United States, price Three Dollars, neatly bound and lettered. December, 1800. twtf
JUST IMPORTED,
IN the ship Missouri, via Philadelphia, and now opening for Sale at the Subscriber's Store on New Jersey Avenue Capital Hill, Square 690.
A General Assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Sadlery, Brass Wares and Building Materials.
Among which are the following Articles. Iron pots, frying pans, chafing dishes, Brass, iron and Japanned Candlesticks, patent metal tea kettles and sauce pans; japanned tea trays, waiters and Bread baskets, lad irons, wind up Jacks, Sweeping, scrubbing, hearth and shoe brushes; Mathematical instruments, mahogany knife cases, filed with ivory handled knives and forks, Cruet stands, ladies dressing cases; mill, pitt and croscut Saws, 56, 28 and 14lb. Iron weights. Also scale beams to weigh from 5 to 10 cwt. at an end. HENRY INGLE. November 24th, 1800.
Sarah M c Karaher,
Mantua-Maker and Seamstress,
RETURNS her thanks for the encouragement she has met with from the Ladies of this city, and informs them she has removed to the house of Mr. DE FRANCE, within one door of Mr. Smith's Printing-Office. She will either attend Ladies at their own houses, or take in Mantua-Making, or Plain Sewing. City of Washington, Jan. 16, 1801.
John Minchen.
BOOT MAKER FROM PHILADELPHIA.
RESPECTFULLY acquaints his FRIENDS, CUSTOMERS, and the PUBLIC, that he has removed his BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORY from near the Eastern Branch, to New Jersey Avenue, on the hill, near the Capitol, where he makes Gentlemen's Boots, Bootees, dress and undress Shoes on the shortest notice, in the neatest manner, and of the best materials. December 3d. 3tw.
TO JOURNEYMEN SHOEMAKERS.
WANTED, a number of Journeymen Shoemakers, to whom constant employment and good wages will be given.
LOTS FOR SALE, In the City of WASHINGTON.
THE SUBSCRIBER offers for Sale a number of valuable Lots beautifully situated between the Capitol and the Eastern Branch. Also a few Lots to be let on lease for ninety-nine years in the vicinity of the Navy yard. WILLIAM PROUT. City of Washington. December 12, 1800. tf
N. B. A few Tons of good Meadow Hay, one Kilm of Bricks, and some Cord Wood. W. P.
THE SUBSCRIBER
BEGS leave to inform the Public in general, that he has opened a Beef-steak and Oyster House, on Capitol Hill, City of Washington, in the House lately occupied by Brown and Snowden as a Printing Office, a small distance from the Capitol, where Gentlemen may be accommodated at any hour in the day or Evening, with Beef steaks, Oysters, Sausages &c. at the shortest notice and on the most reasonable terms. Likewise the Subscriber has taken particular pains to lay in a flock of Good Liquors, and flatters himself that by paying strict attention to the business to Merit the favour of the Public in General. WILLIAM TONKIN. December 28. fept.
CABINET AND CHAIR MANUFACTORY.
WILSON AND HANDY,
HAVE commenced the above business at their Shop on New Jersey Avenue between the Episcopal church and Sugar House. As they are confident from the experience they have had in the principal shops in Europe and America, that they shall be able to give general satisfaction to those who will please to favour them with their custom. They have on hands, viz. Secretary Desks, Portable Writing Desks, Dressing Chests, Card Tables, &c. N. B. Orders from country or city thankfully received and faithfully executed. December 30. 3tiw

FRENCH REPUBLIC.
REGULATIONS.
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE,
General in chief of the army of St. Domingo, to his fellow citizens.
My constant solicitude for the welfare of my country, having brought to my knowledge, the numerous abuses which are occasioned by the duty of one-fourth of subvention,* I have determined to convert it into a simple duty upon objects of importation and exportation. And in order, that the taxes may operate equally on all property, to create an impost on the incomes of houses and several manufactures, equivalent to that which is established on the incomes of plantations, so that the aggregate revenue may be sufficient for the payment of the army, and of the public functionaries, who have a long time been without their salaries.
But, having never been able to procure an exact knowledge of the amount of the public revenues, on account of the complexity of the present administration, and the difficulties attending the collection of the duties; my intention being to procure correct information as to our resources; I have thought that the most easy and certain method to attain that end, was to simplify the operations of the administration, which will at the same time free my fellow citizens from the expenses of collection, which are very considerable, and prevent a multitude of frauds and abuses. I, however, intend, after having obtained correct statements of our expenditures and receipts, to augment or diminish these duties, as the wants of the colony may require.
In consequence whereof, I decree as follows:
ARTICLE 1. From the date of the publication of the present declaration, the duties of one-fourth, one-sixteenth and one-twentieth of subvention, laid on the revenues of plantations and received in produce are abolished.
2. All produce exported from the colony, of whatever nature it may be, shall pay a duty of 20 per cent.
3. On the first day of each decade, the tribunals of commerce for the colony, shall fix the current prices of all colonial produce subject to the export duty. After which a table shall be made out and sent to the ordonnateur, who shall, the same day, send copies to all whom it may concern, to serve as the basis for the collection of the duty of 20 per cent. The said tables shall be officially printed in the News-papers of the colony. The lowest price shall serve as the basis for the regulation of the duty.
4. All goods or merchandise imported into the colony, of whatever value or quality, shall pay an entrance duty of 20 per cent.
5. The tribunals of commerce for the colony, together with the consuls of neutral nations, shall fix on the first day of each decade, the prices current of all merchandise imported into the colony, on the lowest prices of which the duty of 20 per cent shall be laid. After which a table shall be made out, and sent to the ordonnateur, who shall the same day send copies to all whom it may concern, to serve as the basis for regulating the duty of 20 per cent. The said table shall be officially printed in the News-papers of the colony, every first day of a decade, and shall serve as a rule for the collectors, during the decade.
6. No goods or produce shall be imported or exported, into or out of the colony, except at such ports as shall be designated by the government.
7. Custom-houses shall be established at the ports designated for the imports and exports of the colony. The said custom-houses shall be erected in such a manner, that all goods imported shall enter at one gate, and those exported at the other. For this purpose, there shall be
* Every owner of a plantation is obliged to pay one-fourth of the income of his plantation to the government, and such persons as are in possession of confiscated plantations, by lease from the government, pay one-sixteenth or one-twentieth of the income of such plantations as may have been agreed on, besides the rent. This the French stile one fourth, one-sixteenth or one-twentieth of the duty of subvention.
established two public wharves, one whereof shall be especially appropriated for imports, and the other for exports. The public scales shall be placed in the custom-houses.
8. In each of the ports designated for imports and exports, there shall be appointed a collector of customs, a public weigher, a searcher and a comptroller. It shall be the duty of the last named, constantly to oversee the business of the former three.
9. The import and export duties shall be paid in specie. For this purpose, all merchandise or produce, entering the custom-house, shall be weighed or valued, and the account of it, delivered to the proprietor, with which he shall then repair to the treasurer, and discharge the duties. The said account shall be made out by the collector of the customs, from the certificate of the weigher and searcher, and shall be certified to be true by the comptroller of the customs. No vessel shall be permitted to sail or receive a clearance unless the receipt of the treasurer, answering to the account of the collector of the customs, shall be produced.
10. Every proprietor of a vessel, or his representative, will be bound, from the moment of his landing, in one of the ports of the colony, to deliver unto the ordonnateur or administration officer, an invoice of his cargo, signed and certified by him. This ordonnateur will immediately send faithful copies thereof to the collector of the custom-house and the military commandant. The officers of the custom-house will certify the cargo is agreeable with the invoice. All goods which shall not appear on the face of the invoice shall be confiscated for the benefit of the Republic.
11. All goods or produce taken in contravention to the regulations of the present declaration, shall be confiscated for the benefit of him, who having discovered the fraud, will make it known to the government.
12. Every collector, weigher, searcher and comptroller of the custom-house, who shall be convicted of prevarication in the exercise of his duty, shall be summoned before a council of war, and if declared guilty, shall be judged and punished in conformity to the laws.
13. The trade from port to port in the colony shall be free; but no goods or produce shall be permitted to go from one port to another, unless the captain has previously obtained an acquittal.
14. Every port in the colony, except those designated for imports and exports, shall have for administrator only a receiver of the national property, who shall be appointed to receive the income of the sequestered estates, to receive the taxes upon houses and manufactures, to weigh the produce, to deliver receipts of duties, and to survey all goods or produce, coming in or going out of his port.
15. Every vessel loaded fraudulently shall be confiscated for the benefit of the republic. In consequence whereof, every officer of administration who may know of any vessel, not having paid the duties, is authorized to order the unlading thereof, and to have a verbal process made in presence of the commissary of government, or his representative, and of the justice of peace or his assistant. If the fraud is proved, the latter is to address the verbal process to the tribunals, in order to have the confiscation ordered; and in case of the fraud not being proved, the goods or produce shall be re-embarked immediately by the government.
16. The military commandants and municipal administrators are equally authorized, whenever they may suspect any vessel to be fraudulently loaded, to request the administration officer to have her unloaded. They shall be bound in the mean time to communicate to the general in chief the motives of their behavior.
17. All the houses in the cities, towns and landing places shall pay a duty of twenty per cent on the amount of their rents.
18. During the time required by the municipal administration to have a general statement made to serve to the exact payment of this contribution. Every inhabitant or householder will be bound to present during the first 15 days his lease in due form unto the ordonnateur of his department or the administrative officer of the place. The price of the lease shall be inscribed on the special register, and the twenty per cent. tax on the price of the lease shall be paid by the tenant or on account of the owner, in three equal terms of four months; as soon as the statement shall be made, it shall serve as a basis of this tax.
19. Every owner, living in his own house shall be bound to present himself, before the municipal administration of the
place, within 15 days after the present declaration, in order to give information respecting his house. The municipality shall proceed to the estimation of the value of the rent of the said house, and the verbal process thereof, shall be addressed to the office of administration.
The estimated price shall be described on the register for the lease of houses, and shall be the basis on which the 20 per cent. tax shall be paid, in three equal terms of 4 months. There shall be no alteration made in the engagements entered into with the rebuilders of burnt houses, who shall be free from this tax, till the expiration of their leases, as well as those who may rebuild in future.
20. Every owner or tenant of a house who may not have obeyed the two foregoing articles of this declaration, in the time prescribed, shall be subject to a fine of 23 per cent on the amount of the rent of his house.
21. Every manufacture of any nature whatsoever, such as distilleries, tanneries, lime manufactures, potteries, bricks kilns, and tile kilns, of which the manufactures is used in the colony shall be subjected to a duty of 20 per cent. on the value of the objects raised or manufactured thereon.
21. For the more easy payment of the tax imposed on manufactures, an estimation shall be made of the value of their revenue, between the proprietor or tenant, the comptroller of the navy or his representative, and the commissary of government, appointed for the municipal administration or his substitute; from which estimation the duty of 20 per cent shall be regulated. In consequence hereof every manufacturer shall make his declaration, in the form of a subscription, to the said ordonnateur or administration officer or of the place, and the price paid in three equal terms of 4 months.
23. During the fifteen days following the publication of the present declaration, every owner or tenant of a manufactory, shall be held to present himself before the ordonnateur or administration officer of the place, to make a declaration of the manufactory he is in possession of, which said declaration shall immediately be sent by the ordonnateur or administration officer to whom it may concern, in order to proceed to the estimation thereof. Every owner or tenant of a manufactory, who may not have obeyed this present article shall be subject to a fine of one year's tax.
24. Every holder of a plantation, whose lease was granted by the administration, and who was free from the subvention duty, shall obtain a deduction of one third of the price of his lease, on account of the encrease of export duties, that deduction shall take place from the date of the publication of this present declaration.
25. Those planters who have rented plantations, whose leases were given by the administration, on condition of their paying besides the rent of the farm, the duty of subvention, after adding together the price of the farm and the duty of subvention, which shall be still attached, shall receive a deduction of one third of the total arising from these two sums, by way of the export duty. This deduction shall likewise take place from the date of the publication of the present declaration.
These regulations shall be printed, read, published and posted, addressed to all the civil and military authorities, and the execution thereof confided to their care and vigilance. All good citizens are invited to inform the proper authorities of such abuses and infractions of the declaration as may come to their knowledge.
Given at Cape Francois, the 21st Frimaire, ninth year of the French republic, one and indivisible.
(Signed)
The general in Chief TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE.
STATE PAPER,
The following proclamation from the archduke Charles has been published at Prague:
"Charles Lewis, prince royal of Bohemia, Archduke of Austria, &c. Earnestly as his majesty the emperor and king endeavors to procure an honorable and lasting peace for the whole of his hereditary dominions, and much as it is to be wished, that in honor of suffering humanity, after a long period of devastation, the enemy would be inclined to join for the same purpose, it nevertheless remains admissible, and is now more than ever absolutely necessary, to be prepared for the worst, if, contrary to our wishes and hopes, the obstinate refusal and extravagant demands of the enemy should make a continuation of hostilities indispensably necessary, and to prepare for the greatest possible general defence. Precaution and prudence demand speedily and with
sufficient means, zealously to effect whatever the existing laws and the increasing danger of the country require at this decisive moment. From this consideration the extraordinary armaments in the kingdom of Hungary, Transylvania, in Austria and Tyrol, will be effected with the utmost activity in a short period. The same precaution of his majesty also induces to prepare full security for the kingdom of Bohemia and the adjoining Moravia, as well as for all his faithful subjects, against any destructive attacks from the enemy. For obtaining this great object, his majesty orders as the most suitable means, to form a legion of 20 battalions of infantry from among the faithful inhabitants of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, solely and wholly to be employed in the defence of the country, to be entrusted to my command, and to be called after my own name. This internal armament, however, must be speedily completed, by zeal and courage in every class of inhabitants, according to the present circumstance of the armies.
The exertion necessary for this purpose can justly be expected from nations, the proper and prominent features of whose character have ever proved themselves by their attachment to their regiments, their country and religion, by their firm principles and sound judgement, which in every thing looks for the evidence of truth, and affixes the stamp of conviction and necessity to an undertaking once now resolved upon. This conviction will be more decisive and general, as, without living recourse to artificial or intricate reasoning, it is founded merely upon facts, the strongest proofs of the ruin and degradation which have befallen the countries occupied by the enemy, being manifest. Let the melancholy sensation of these events and examples rouse our full patriotic strength; let it steadily animate our spirit of resistance to the arrogant demands of the enemy; let the consciousness of our own strength and dignity speak so powerfully to our hearts, that we fear no personal services, nor evade any exertions and sacrifices what ever: let resolution distinguish our proceedings; let nothing prevent our having at heart the interests of the country! The enemy seeing the zeal, which animates our bosom, and the courage which strengthens our arms, will desist from menacing with any attacks. However, be the plan on which he has resolved whatever it may, it will be defeated by the united exertions of an organized whole, increased patriotic sentiments, energy and perseverance, which is the only means of determining the enemy to an equitable and just peace, and which as experience has shown, is the only form of behavior with which security and independence can be connected. On my part, I shall take upon myself, with the most conscientious care, the management of all that, with the honorable confidence placed in me, can lead to the great point in view. In return I confidently expect from the well meaning states and subjects (agreeably to the plan of organization, which will be communicated to the proper officer) the most vigorous and undivided co-operation in the defence of this just concern, which leaves no choice between destruction and preservation, between ignominy and honor. I am fully persuaded, that by an imitation of the behavior of our loyal and brave ancestors, on similar occasions, the security and happiness of our country will further be obtained, as it has hitherto been gloriously preserved, under the protection of Providence, by perseverance, energy and virtue, even at the period of universal danger and misery.
(Signed)
Charles, Archduke.
Thomas Carpenter, TAYLOR,
GRATEFULLY acknowledges the numerous favours conferred on him, and informs his friends and the public that he has entered into partnership with CHARLES VARDEN, likewise from Philadelphia, on Capitol Hill, opposite Mr CARROL's buildings, where, as well as in Pennsylvania Avenue, between the Presidents House and George Town, from their long and extensive experience in Military, Naval and Fancy dresses, and in Ladies Habits &c. and from their having procured the best of workmen and materials, he utmost taste and punctuality might be expected.
Two apprentices wanted.
Washington, Dec. 22,
et.