The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1801-08-31 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. CXXV.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, AUGUST 31st, 1801.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
CIRCULATING LIBRARY.
HUGH SOMERVILLE,
Has lately received and is now ready to circulate, a large and valuable collection of NOVELS, History, Romances, Voyages, Travels, &c. which will be lent out to read, by the week, month, quarter, or year, as his store and residence in a frame building, south side of the Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Hotel bridge, and three new brick buildings, and the building now erecting for the city of Washington market-house, where the terms may be known, and attendance given from nine in the morning till one in the afternoon, and from two till four.
August 18.
7t.
By virtue of a decree from the Chancery Court of Maryland, will be exposed to
PUBLIC SALE,
To the highest bidder, at Mr. William Rhodes's Tavern, on the eighth day of September next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon (the same being part of the real estate of Abraham Young, deceased)
A LOT of ground situate in the District of Columbia, adjoining the City of Washington; whereon is erected a two story brick house 32 by 36 feet, unfinished; one small frame house in good repair about 12 by 16, one meat house 12 by 12, and one small log house; subject to the widow's right of dower. A credit of 12 months will be given to the purchaser or purchasers, on giving bond with approved security, on interest.
On the ratification of the sale by the chancellor, and on payment of the purchase money, a deed will be made to the person or persons purchasing, conveying all the right, title, interest and estate, belonging to the heirs of Abraham Young, deceased.
A Plat of the premises will be shown on the day of sale.
HENRY WHETCROFT, Trustee.
Washington City, August 14, 1801.
7t.
LAND FOR SALE.
A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND,
LAYING on Mountain Run, in the county of Culpeper, whereon the subscriber now lives, containing 1130 acres and well improved, with buildings for a large and genteel family; orchards, barns, corn houses, &c. A large proportion of meadow land, which is now in grass sufficient to cut 50 or 60,000. of hay annually; 5 or 6 acres of highly improved red clover lots, the first cutting this spring and very luxuriant; the whole of the cleared land in good farming order and in a progressive state of improvement; the tract may with great convenience be divided into two good farms with equal advantages except that of buildings. The buildings on one of them would be small, but might with no great expense be made comfortable for a small family with the necessary buildings now on it, with a very productive garden; convenient to church, court house and three valuable merchant mills two of them within one mile and an half and the other seven and an half miles, immediately on the road leading to Fredericksburg; distant 50 miles from Alexandria and the Federal City; 30 miles from Fredericksburg and Falmouth. As to its healthiness of situation and agreeableness of neighbourhood, I am fully persuaded no one will be disappointed in them. Wishing to sell the land to make a more equitable division among my children, and as some of them are young, the payments will be made easy on paying the interest annually; one third or one fourth of the purchase money will be expected on giving possession, which may take place on or about Christmas next, or perhaps sooner if required, with the liberty of feeding this fall. All kinds of stock, plantation utensils, corn, fodder, hay, household and kitchen furniture, except beds, may be had with the plantation: Also a parcel of likely NEGROES in families, who can be well recommended for their honesty, &c. Any person wishing to retire from trade, and set himself in the farming line, will seldom find an opportunity of doing it more to his mind than the present one.
One other tract of nearly 700 acres of Land laying on the river, 4 or 5 miles above Fredericksburg, known by the name of Sutherland's Tract of land, the greatest part of which is now in wood, containing a quantity of valuable timber, and its vicinity to so thriving a town as Fredericksburg, will render it truly valuable; there is a small plantation on it now in cultivation and may be converted into a small grass farm to great advantage. It is needless to say much on its quality or other advantages, presuming any one wishing to purchase, will chuse to satisfy themselves by taking a view of them. The payments for the last tract of land will be one third on giving possession on or about Christmas next, the other two thirds in two equal annual payments. The price of each tract may be known on application to the subscriber, either by letter or otherwise; the price of the latter tract may also be known of Mr. E. Grinnan, of Fredericksburg, or my son, living with Mr. Stone, of Fredericksburg.
R. SLAUGHTER, jun.
Culpeper, Virg. August 21. eptat
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THE REMONSTRANCE of the MERCHANTS of NEW-HAVEN, on the appointment of SAMUEL BISHOP Collector of that port, and the REPLY of the PRESIDENT, have engaged, as might have been expected from the importance of the subject, much of the public attention. When the chief magistrate of a nation makes known the grounds on which he acts in the government of its affairs, it is right that those grounds should be closely examined, that if false and weak, they may receive condemnation and rational resistance, and if true and enlightened, that they may receive approbation and support.
It is to be regretted that the nature of most governments, and among them, of our own, is such that executive power is almost always exercised without an exposure of its reasons, and that, of course, many measures, in themselves right, may be censured from the want of correct information; and on the other hand, that measures, in themselves wrong, may be justified by partial information, when a comprehensive knowledge of existing facts might demonstrate their error.
From this state of things, it has heretofore been the too prevalent sentiment, that the executive must always be considered as right, where it is not proven to be wrong; whereas the reverse, under a republican government, ought to be received, and no measure of the government ought to be approved, for which reasons are not, or may not be, assigned.
Fortunately the present case is free from this embarrassment. The clouds which too generally involve executive acts, have been dispelled by the President himself, who in terms simple and unequivocal, tells us what he has done, and in some measure, what he means to do.
The unprecedented candor of the President is prima facie , an evidence of his integrity and wisdom—of an integrity which feels not, and of a wisdom that discerns not, the necessity of concealment. On similar occasions, the executive has been silent. Tench Coxe was dismissed from office—He respectfully requested generally the causes of his removal. The executive remained silent—He particularly requested information on the score of delinquency, in order to vindicate his character from newspaper aspersions, some of which appeared in the official organ of the executive. But his request was treated with inextorable disregard. Mr. Munroe was removed from Paris, at a period and under circumstances the most critical to the country. On his fidelity depended, in a great degree, the preservation of the peace and prosperity of the nation. He asked an explanation—Mr. Pickering gave him none. The same style of procedure marked the case of Mr. Randolph, who was forced into a resignation, demanded the reasons, and was refused.
This enumeration is sufficient to shew (were it not sufficient, other instances could be added) that heretofore the executive has removed officers, as he deemed fit, without assigning any reasons for his conduct. Mr. Jefferson might have done the same thing. The confidence of the people in his integrity and talents is not less than that which accompanied his predecessor—But he has pursued a wiser course—Realising the danger of implicit faith, he has discerned the propriety of having reason and fact on his side. It is his opinion that the people ought to be informed, and he has informed them of the motives of their rulers.
That these motives should be variously appreciated, can excite no astonishment with those who have witnessed the late rage of party spirit. Neglecting a cultivation of harmony, and abandoning all regard to principle, it has risen and fallen with the elevation and depression of particular men. All power with which these men have been invested has been wise and salutary; while all power possessed by any other men has been weak and malignant! Federalists were all honest! Republicans were all knaves! Can it be a matter of surprise that minds thus infatuated, after a long career of victory, and scarcely realising their recent de-
feat, should consider every republican measure as weak or wicked? A predisposition to censure never wants fuel, for if it cannot find it elsewhere, it will find it in the stars.
With such men it is useless to reason—They will not hear what you say, and if they did, they would not understand it—But, thanks to education and the freedom of the press, there is a large class of our citizens, who, having no interests at variance with those of the public, preserve their judgments unperverted. It is the approbation of this class of citizens that an honest government will chiefly value, and on their support it may implicitly rely.
To this portion of my fellow-citizens, the following remarks are made. They would have been deemed useless, were it not necessary to counteract statements and sentiments partial and unjust, which, from the boldness wherewith they are asserted, may deceive those who are not uncommonly circumspect. All the ideas conveyed will probably be found in the reply itself, disposed, however, in such a way as to meet more distinctly objections whose particular form and mode of expression could not have been foreseen by the President.
We shall in the first place notice the objections made by the remonstrants in the particular case to which their address refers, and the reply of the President as far as it relates to this case. Secondly. The general opinions declared by the merchants of New-Haven on the subject of removals, and the answer of the President thereto. And in both these divisions, it is proposed to notice the facts and ideas since offered to the public.
Samuel Bishop is represented by the merchants of New-Haven to be 77 years old; to be corporeally infirm; to have lost his eye sight in an alarming degree; to have never been bred an accountant; to be totally unacquainted with the system of revenue laws, and the forms of doing mercantile business. For these reasons they condemn the removal of Mr. Goodrich, and the substitution of a man so unfit as Mr. Bishop.
Let us consider these charges distinctly. Mr. Bishop is 77 years old. The President replies, "at a much more advanced age our Franklin was the ornament of human nature." He might have proceeded to multiply instances, and have stated that in the port of Newport both Collector and Naval officer are equally old. But they are federalists; and age while it brings premature decrepitude to a republican, only increases the energy of a federalist!
This charge, generally made without specifying how it applies, is frivolous. Mental as well as corporeal imbecility, overtakes us at no uniform age. Some men are in their dotage at 60, while others enjoy the full benefit of their faculties at 80.
We must consider this charge then as unmeaning in itself, and as only introductory to the specification that follows:
"He is said to labour under a full portion of those infirmities which are incident to that advanced period of life."
This remark is still general. What are the infirmities? When enumerated, they sink into the single fact of "an alarming loss of eye sight." We are not informed whether this loss is partial or total; whether it is radical or temporary; but we are simply told that it is alarming . To whom is it alarming? Surely not to Mr. Bishop; for in a few sentences after, we are advised that the legislature of Connecticut, who are not said themselves to be blind, confided to him several honourable and important offices. It is only then alarming to the merchants of New-Haven! They are afraid that the new Collector will not see their infractions of the revenue laws, and not seeing them will not punish them!
But to be serious, we all know that the partial deprivation of one sense does not impair the others. We know that Socrates, and Milton, and Mc Lauran, were all blind; and yet we know that one was a great philosopher, another a great poet, and another a great mathematician.
"He was never bred an accountant." It is totally unnecessary that the collector of a port should be bred an accountant.
He may soon become well acquainted with accounts, without having been accustomed to them from his infancy. In an extensive port, such as that of New-Haven, no more knowledge is necessary than that which superintendence requires; and that every well educated man, accustomed to the ordinary occupations of life, possesses.
If there be a doubt on this subject, we will ask whether Alexander Hamilton, or Oliver Wolcott, or Samuel Dexter, or Albert Gallatin, the four successive Secretaries of the Treasury, were bred accountants? We know not that they were—We know that the three first were lawyers, and we know that mere lawyers know very little of accounts—and yet nobody has alleged the unfitness of these gentlemen, because they were not bred accountants. Before we are done with this head, it will not be unamusing to remark, that Mr. Goodrich, whose removal is complained of, is himself a lawyer, never bred to accounts.
"He is totally unacquainted with the system of revenue laws, and the forms of doing mercantile business."
Who will believe a word of the last charge, when he recollects that Mr. Bishop held at the time of his appointment four judiciary offices, and that before him as chief judge of New-Haven county, must have come for decision the greater part of the mercantile suits that have been controverted for a number of past years.
As to his alleged ignorance of the revenue laws, grant, what however may be doubted, that he was totally unacquainted with them when appointed, what follows? That he had to acquire a knowledge of them. How long would such an acquisition take? Any one can answer this question when informed that the revenue laws of the United States, necessary for a collector to understand, do not exceed 100 pages.
Again we cannot forbear being amused at the folly of a complaint which deprecates the appointment of a man for those very reasons which equally apply to his predecessor—For Mr. Goodrich is no merchant. He then, according to mercantile logic, must be equally unacquainted with the "system of revenue laws, and the forms of doing mercantile business."
The schooners Dolphin & Kitty , now lying at Mr. Young's Wharf will constantly take freights every three weeks from this to Annapolis or Baltimore. For terms apply to BRO. HAWN and BOYS.
Washington July 15, 1801.
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 Kiln of Bricks, and some Cord wood.
W. P.
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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LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
New-York, August 27.
By the brig Tartar, from Greenock, we have received the Glasgow Courier of the 25th, 27th and 30th June, and 2d and 4th of July; which contain a regular series of events from London papers, from the 29th June to the 1st of July inclusive.
These papers furnish us with but few articles of importance. Accounts from Lord Elgin, at Constantinople, dated the 23d of May, mention that a French corps of 2000 men, which occupied an entrenched position in Egypt near Rhamanie, was, on the 9th of May, attacked by the British and Turks, under the command of general Hutchinson and the Grand Pacha, and driven from thence. The combined forces then proceeded towards Cairo. Lord Minto, at Vienna, on the 4th June, received official advice, that the corps of British troops which sailed from Bombay, were safely landed at Suez. Another account states their number at 3000 men—There are no certain accounts of a peace having been concluded between Portugal, Spain and the French Republic. We have published several articles from the Paris papers, of the complete defeat of the English in Egypt: which the Mouiteur , Bonaparte's official paper, mentions as not being yet confirmed. The negotiations for peace between England and France, are still continued. Provisions in Great Britain had experienced a temporary rise, as also the prices of stock.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 12.
Another courier arrived from Egypt with dispatches has brought the following intelligence:
The British have blocked up all the avenues to Alexandria, both by land and sea, in such a manner that there remains but little hope to the French garrison of receiving succour either from Cairo or any other part of Egypt. Gen. Hutchinson has also caused deep trenches to be dug, and a line of circumvallation, strengthened with redoubts, to be drawn, in order to prevent any sorties which might be attempted by the besieged. On the side of the sea the port is closely blockaded by a line of vessels. Notwithstanding these menacing demonstrations, the French seem to be under no uneasiness, and wait the issue with the coolest intrepidity. They have rejected all proposals made to them for the evacuation of the place, declaring that they will defend themselves to the last extremity; they will not even receive any flags of truce, but fire upon them when they appear. The utmost exertions will be made to finish the campaign before the hot season commences. The report that the French have offered to evacuate Egypt, still requires confirmation.
VIENNA, June 3.
Letters received yesterday from Smyrna assert, that the French Admiral Gantheaume, who was sent to carry succours to general Menou in Egypt, has been defeated by the British admiral Sir John Borlase Warren.
The squadron of admiral Gantheaume having, when off Leghorn, received information of the approach of the British fleet, under Sir John Borlase Warren, made sail precipitately for Corfica, where it is blockaded up by the British.
VIENNA, June 10.
According to accounts from Constantinople of the 23d May, a French corps of 2000 men, which occupied an entrenched position in Egypt near Rhamanie, was, on the 9th of May, attacked by the British and Turks under the Captain Pacha, and driven from thence.
On this occasion 200 of the French were taken prisoners; the remainder retired to Cairo; against which the Grand Vizier, the Captain Pacha, and some divisions of the British are advancing, while Lord Keith will support the operations against that city with a number of gun boats on the Nile.
HAGUE, June 13.
On the 11th instant, the great question relative to the new constitution, was decided, and the plan proposed, as was expected, rejected. The President of the First Chamber put the following three questions to the vote, viz. 1st. Whether the report of the committee of revision, and the plan of the constitution should be accepted or not? This question was decided in the negative, by a majority of fifty votes against twelve. The second question was, Whether the message of the Directory of the 4th of March, by which it was proposed to make changes in the constitution, should be a farther object of deliberation, that is to say, whether any change should be made in the convention before the time limited by the constitution itself? This question passed in the affirmative by 38 against 29 votes. The third question was, Whether the message of the Directory as it was drawn up, should be rejected? and this was decided in the affirmative.—The party which opposed any changes in the constitution, has therefore completely triumphed; and only four votes were wanting to determine, that nothing more should be laid of any change till next year. The Directory may now bring forward the proposal of a change in the constitution in another form. We shall now see in what manner the Second Chamber will act when this decree shall be laid before them next week for their sanction.
HAGUE, June 14.
We learn that the mission of Citizen Hultman to Berlin, draws to its conclusion. The negotiations carried on between him and the Deputies of the Prince of Orange, under the mediation of France and Prussia, are on the point of being terminated to the satisfaction of all the parties. The House of Orange will be suitably indemnified for the loss of his personal properties situated in the Batavian Republic. We do not know whether this indemnity will be made in money or in lands situated within the Germanic Empire.
May 31. It is confidently asserted that the Pope has finally determined to renounce all share in the temporal Government of the Ecclesiastical States.
A letter of the above date, alluding to the design which the Pope had formed of renouncing the Government of his temporal States, and confining himself wholly to ecclesiastical affairs, contains a variety of remarks on a resolution, manifestly the most extraordinary to be found in the records of the Papal Hierarchy. It is suggested that this resolution originates from reflections on the misfortunes which were experienced by the late Head of the Church, from the degraded condition of the Pontifical power, as well as the wishes of Pius the Seventh, to abstract his mind wholly from the pursuits of worldly dominion, as inconsistent with the new situation in which he is placed; to confine himself exclusively to the duties of his sacred function, and to form those subjected to him to the cultivation of religion and virtue. After making these remarks, the letter goes on to hint a doubt whether the design will be carried into effect, and adverts to some difficulties, both in the means of securing, after such a step, the independence of the Pope, or the tranquillity of the States transferred to another Master.
PARIS, June 17.
Citizen Le Clerc, the officer of the consular guards, who accompanied citizen Duroc, arrived this day at noon from Edinburgh, with dispatches of the date of the 30th May. The aid-du-camp Duroc, had arrived at Petersburg on the 24th May. He was presented on the morning of the 25th to count Pahlen, who presented him on the 26th to his imperial majesty. The emperor received him alone in his cabinet, and gave him the most favourable reception. He afterwards repaired to count Panin, the privy counsellor, with whom he had several conferences.
On the 27th, on the parade, he himself presented to his imperial majesty, the officers who accompanied him. In the afternoon of the same day, having taken a walk in the gardens of the palace, he met the emperor. His majesty caused him to be called in, led him into a retired valley, and entered into a long conversation with him.
Citizen Duroc speaks of the imperial guard with the greatest praise. It is kept on the best footing, and performs the manœuvres with astonishing precision.
Alexander I. is of a figure which enforces respect, and inspires confidence. Strangers flock to Petersburg to see the new emperor. He is equally dear to the people, and to the ministry.
He lately paid a visit to the fleet at Cronstadt. As he staid late in the evening, a general uneasiness took possession of all minds. The regiments of their own accord, flew to arms, and called loudly for their emperor.
The greatest union prevails in the imperial family.
PARIS, June 20.
The communication between Dover and Calais is, at this moment, more than usually free, and though great measures are in preparation, conducted with equal vigour and ability, the friends of peace expect
that the two governments will at length come to a good understanding.
[ Clef du Cabinet. ]
All the accounts we receive here from sea, says a letter from Marseilles of June 16, agree in announcing the total defeat of the British under the walls of Alexandria; and they also confirm the excellent disposition of Murad Bey, and of the Egyptians towards the French, notwithstanding all the arts of the British to debauch their principles.
A letter from Augsburg, under the date of June 13, has this passage:—
"Two British officers, (naval and military) are arrived here from Egypt; they assure us that when they took their departure from thence, there was no news in the colony, the French continuing to defend themselves in Alexandria."
[ Mouiteur. ]
ANTWERP, June 14.
The military preparations of the French coasts still continue without interruption. The expedition which is fitting out from the Garone to the mouth of the Scheidt, will, it is said, be distributed in the following manner:—
A corps of 25,000 men, all chosen troops, under the command of the republican General Hedouville, convoyed by 30 French and Spanish ships of the line, and a proportional number of frigates, will sail from Breft; a second corps of 10,000 men, under a convoy of one ship of the line and eight frigates, and a great number of smaller ships of war from the harbours of Flanders and Picardy.
LONDON, June 23.
New South Wales. —The recent accounts from this settlement are of the most gratifying nature—nothing can surpass the salubrity of the climate, or the fertility of the soil; all kind of grain, and wheat in particular, are produced in greater quantity than is necessary to the consumption of the colony, and some years, when the use of it in distillation has been prohibited, it literally has been thrown away. Indigo grows spontaneously in great abundance, and of excellent quality, and hemp grows wild about the country of uncommon luxuriance. The settlement abounds with coal, and most descriptions of wood, and Norfolk Island produces excellent lime.
A letter from the French Minister of Marine to the Maritime Prefect of the district in which Havre lies, states, that it is now expected by the government that the naval armaments at Havre will not confine themselves to mere defence, or be content with barely doing their duty; they will seize every opportunity of bringing British frigates to action, and he promises that all who distinguish themselves shall be liberally rewarded by the nation.
London Gazette Extraordinary.
Downing street, June 29.
A dispatch of which the following is a copy, has been this day received from the Earl of Elgin, by the Right Hon. Lord Hawkesbury, his majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Copy of a letter from Lord Elgin to Lord Hawkesbury, dated Constantinople, May 23, 1801.
MY LORD,
An officer is arrived from the Captain Pacha, with the intelligence that Gen. Hutchinson had marched from Rosetta on the 8th inst. with 4,000 British troops, in company with a corps of Turks of equal force under the command of the Captain Pacha, and on the 9th attacked the French near Rhamanich. The enemy were driven in, and in the course of the night they retired towards Cairo, having left a small garrison in the intrenchments of Rhamanich. On the 10th, the fort surrendered, and the combined force then proceeded towards Cairo, having concerted their movements with the Grand Vizier, who was at El Hanka, a position four leagues distant from Cairo, in a north-east direction. Our loss at Rhamanich is stated not to exceed thirty men.
The Turkish officer reports, that a reinforcement of 3,000 British troops had arrived at Aboukir, about the 9th of May.
I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) ELGIN.
Rt. hon. Lord Hawkesbury, &c.
LONDON, July 1.
The army of observation is said to have begun its march to Rome. The departure of the French ambassador from Rome, afforded us reason to expect that such a measure would be immediately adopted.
The vessel that brought these Paris papers brought also dispatches to M. Otto.—The intercourse between the two governments is extremely active, and the state of the negotiation has, it is rumoured, induced
the French minister for foreign affairs to delay his departure from Paris for a few days.
CARLSCRONA, June 2.
The cutter Hok, which failed with the second official answer to the letter of Admiral Nelson, returned to day. Lieutenant Pattison, the commander of the cutter was received very politely by the British admiral, and brought the following answer to admiral Cronstadt:
St. George's Bay, near Rostock, May 26.
SIR,
"I have this moment the honour to receive your Excellency's letter of the 24th of May, with a copy of the proclamation of his Swedish Majesty, relative to the British merchant ships, for which I am much obliged to you. As his Excellency lord St. Helens must by this time have arrived at Petersburg, I hope the ancient friendship between our respective countries, so beneficial to the true interests of both, will in a few days again be restored, and that I shall soon have another opportunity to assure your Excellency with what respect I am
"Your most obedient servant, "NELSON & BRONTE."
CLONMELL, June 12.
It is with infinite concern we learn, that the lower orders of the people in this and the neighbouring counties, are still carrying on the wicked work of burning houses, serving notices on the industrious farmers to quit their habitations, &c. an instance of which happened on the lands of Ballin-dony, a few nights ago, where these deluded people set fire to two houses, which were consumed to ashes; and on Thursday night last, another house was set on fire and burned to the ground, on the lands of Chancellorstown, near this town. In consequence of those outrages and notices, many farmers who have been residents for a number of years back, have quitted their habitations, and are now seeking shelter in this and other adjacent towns, from the violence of these nocturnal depredations.
On Sunday night last, the house of Joseph Brown, farmer of Coogy, near Liliboa, county of Limerick, was attacked by a gang of robbers, who, after a long resistance broke into it, beat himself and wife, destroyed his furniture, and carried away out of a box, which they broke outside of the door, four promissory notes amounting to about 28l.
On the night of Sunday, the 26th ult. about twelve o'clock, the house of Patrick Wade, of Kilmurry, within three miles of Dungarven, an honest, respectable farmer, was forcibly entered into by an armed banditti, one of whom had his face blackened, who fired a shot or shots, and proceeded to the apartment of Patrick Wade—struck him with a sword on the head, dragged him from his bed to the kitchen, where he was placed upon his knees, and after demanding his money, (which they got to the amount of 400l. in specie and bank notes) they inhumanly fired a gun at him loaded with slugs, which killed him on the spot. Not content with such savage cruelty, they fired a second shot through his head. They then proceeded to the apartment where his two sons lay, whom they tied together, and discharged a musket at them, which killed his son Patrick; the other they cut and wounded severely in the head, but upon being desired by one of the banditti to spare his life, they fired a second shot at Patrick. The cause assigned for this inhuman murder was, that Patrick Wade, senior, had taken a farm in the neighbourhood. After perpetrating this horrid deed, they took three horses from the stable, which were, on the following morning, found inhumanly piked to death, at a considerable distance from the house.
Nail Manufactory,
ALL kinds of Cut Nails for Sale by Wholesale and Retail at the Factory on F Street, and at the Hardware Store of the Subscriber, where persons building and all others wishing to purchase may be supplied with any quantity at the most reasonable rates.
JOHN JACK.
Washington Feb. 4, 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 stabling sufficient for 60 horses—They hope to merit public patronage. City of Washington, Nov. 24, 1800.

WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1801.
On Friday arrived at Baltimore, the United States ship Maryland, Capt. Rogers, and Saturday evening arrived here, Mr. Purviance, the bearer of dispatches from Mr. Murray. The Maryland left Havre the 15th of July, and the date of the dispatches is July 9th.
We have, greatly to our surprise, received no papers by the Maryland. But from conversation with Mr. Purviance and Capt. Rogers, very few events of importance appear to have occurred in Europe, which were known in France, and an account of which we have not already received. It was strongly rumoured that the preliminary articles of peace between France and England had been signed, and that the ratification was to be announced at the feux of the 14th July. Until, however, better evidence of this event is exhibited, we shall continue to doubt it. We at present entirely disbelieve peace to have taken place, whatever grounds there may be to expect it. The Baltimore papers of Saturday advise the receipt of some French papers, and promise extracts from them, which will be received by this evening's mail.
A British squadron was cruising off Havre—Capt. R. dined on board one of the ships, and was informed by the Captain that the English had given up Egypt.
Thomas Paine is not a passenger on board the Maryland; nor did Capt. Rogers understand that he intended soon to embark for the United States.
The following Circular to the Agents and Consuls of the United States residing in France, Spain, &c. &c. has been written by our Consul at Tripoli.
"GENTLEMEN, "IN addition to my circular of the 11th instant, I am sorry to inform you that our flag staff was chopped down upon Thursday the 14th instant, and War was declared in form by the Basha of Tripoli against the United States of America.
"You will please to give every possible publicity to this circular, and transmit a copy thereof to the Department of State. I shall depart from Tripoli to Tunis in a few days, where I mean to wait the President's orders.
I am, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, JAMES L. GATHCART. Chancery of the U. States of America at Tripoli, in Barbary, May 15, 1801.
The Mercantile Advertiser of N. York, in stating the arrival of Capt. Rogers, from Greenock, says, "The British government (as captain Rogers informs) have offered to the French Republic the preliminaries of peace, which have been published, and which captain R. says he read in a Greenock paper, but neglected to bring out with him."
Extract of a letter from St. Pierres (Martinique) dated August 6, received by a merchant in New-York.
There are official accounts in town of the French having landed 400 men in Dominique, from Guadalupe. They have met with a repulse from the Militia, and it is expected they will all be taken prisoners.
The French have imposed a contribution of thirty millions of crowns on the estates of the Pope, for the support of the French army.
In Spain, a contribution has been recently levied on the clergy, of five millions of piastres.
The King of England has appointed Arthur Whetham, Governor of Curacoa.
Up to the 10th of June last, fifty-two thousand three hundred and seventy-nine women have been delivered since the first institution of the Lying in Hospital in London, in the year 1752, and the humane purposes of it are now extended to the infant poor two years after birth, and to the distressed widows and wives of soldiers and sailors in their country's service.
Extract from the Log-Book of the schooner Republican, Isaac Marsh, commander, from New-York to Nassau.
July 28, in lat. 27, 00, N. long. 73, 16, W. at 2 P. M. was brought to by the Spanish privateer ship La Prosperina, of 18 guns and 110 men, from La Vera Cruz and Havannah. The first lieutenant and
boat's crew came on board and sent the captain with his papers on board the privateer. During his absence, the boat's crew broke open the hatches, ran-sacked and overhauled the schooner in every part—shortly after the boat came again and took out the two passengers. On their arrival on board the privateer, they were sent below, and separately examined by the captain, who, after he had done, told them they were prisoners—as such they remained for five hours. They then took out all the crew, and putting a prize-master and seven men into her, and a copy of the commission, ordered her for Porto-Rico. During the time she was in their possession the boat made frequent trips backwards and forwards, always bringing on board some plunder from the schooner. On the return of the first lieutenant of the privateer, a conversation took place between him and the captain, after which our papers were returned, and all hands sent on board, with permission to proceed to Nassau, the vessel not being considered a prize. After the privateer had quit the schooner, we proceeded to examine her and found many things missing, particularly our small stock, cabin stores, and many articles of wearing apparel belonging to the passengers. The captain of the privateer said he was bound to La Guira, and had taken a British letter of marque of 14 guns, commanded by captain Lelevre, after an action of four and an half hours. We were detained seven hours by the privateer.
TO THE PUBLIC.
MANY enquiries have lately been made respecting the Washington Association and United States Insurance Company, and some observations have escaped from persons of respectability, which, proceeding from erroneous impressions, have rather tended to mislead than give real information with regard to the objects of the institution, and the principles on which the establishment is founded. The design of this paper is to inform the virtuous part of the community, and to guard them against crediting the malevolent insinuations of men, who, through jealousy, may endeavor to lessen the public confidence in a company, whose objects must be deemed praiseworthy by every well-wisher to this city, and at least, not censurable by any well-wisher to his country.
It becomes not the association to descend to personality, and to expose the individuals whose malign dispositions would have given just cause of complaint, had the operations of the company been in any respect interrupted; but the persons interested are not insensible to calumny, from even the meanest sources, and it becomes my duty to clear from aspersion the characters of the members, by making known the objects of the association, and the basis of its establishment.
The objects have been set forth in the public prints, as supposed to tend generally to the interest of the United States, and to the territory of Columbia particularly. It would be superfluous to point out the utility of promoting a security against losses, to which every one is liable, and by which many now wander in misery without homes. Mutual insurance companies are useful; but the returns not being direct, are too remote to induce subscriptions. Many other insurance companies are established, which have very justly commanded great confidence, and the advantages reaped by the community have not undeservedly made very great returns to the stockholders; but still the extent of insurance has not equalled the demand for insuring; and no office having yet been established in the metropolis of the United States, it has been thought an object not unworthy of notice and extensive patronage.
The funds of insurance companies in general, have been either in fluctuating stock, or mutual bonds, or both. The society of Pennsylvania for supporting the hospital, have, to make their fund less liable to fluctuation, purchased lots, which they have by degrees let out on ground rent, than which nothing can be more permanent and safe. The Washington Association have therefore resolved to establish their fund in lots in the city of Washington, to the extent of one half their capital, and the other half is to be paid in cash—the whole 2,000,000 dollars, payable in five annual instalments—the shares 10 dollars each. The lots are taken at such a medium price, that those who possess lots complain of the injury they sustain by the low rate at which they are valued and admitted by the company; while those who possess none, complain of their being over-rated. The property subscribed is of various prices, but none exceeds ten cents per square foot. Some of it has already been let on ground-rent, producing above 13 per cent. per annum on the price of admission. Though
no individual will sell property at a less rate in similar situations, on a reasonable credit, than the property has been received at, yet the society, to prevent any possible risk, made it a rule that every original subscriber in lots should be held responsible for any deficiency, if through accident by fire, or any very extensive loss, any of the property he subscribed should, by a forced sale, be sold to a disadvantage; and, as a collateral security, no person subscribing property should be permitted to take out more than half his stock, though he would receive dividends on the whole, until his property should actually be let at the interest of the admitted price, or should command, by sale, the principal: and in addition, as much stock should be released, from time to time, as the principal by sale, or on ground-rent, would exceed the original stock valuation, till all the shares be released—but no stock can be delivered till the company are convinced of the validity of the titles to the lots, or have them well guaranteed.
The company have been animadverted upon for receiving some property of Mr. Blodget, said to be twice mortgaged. It is so nominally, as originally stated to the company by him, and the person who published the observation knew the circumstances rendering it nominal; for, the first lotteries has long been paid, and only one claim now in dispute, is made, for which ample security is given. Of the tickets of the second lottery, one fourth only were sold, and these are so nearly redeemed by payment of the prizes and recalling the undrawn tickets, that few remain to be cancelled. These, the only lien on the property deeded to the company by Mr. Blodget, being deposited in their hands, render the titles unexceptionable, to the amount of these tickets; and entitle him to their value in stock; subject nevertheless to the rule for securing the original price of the lots, as already mentioned.
Another object of the association, is to establish a bank, as soon as the building, now in forwardness is ready, in this city, which it is conceived will facilitate its progress, and consequently add to the convenience of the officers of government, the Congress, and the public.
WILLIAM THORNTON, President.
FOR SALE.
A good and convenient Lot and House, BEAUTIFULLY situated on the South-East corner of Square No. 973, in the vicinity of the Navy-Yard, commanding an extensive view of some miles down the Potomack. The house is two story high, fronting 42 feet on 11th street east, and 42 feet on South G street, adjoining the south front is a commodious kitchen, with oven and other conveniences. A large frame stable, carriage-house, with a hay-loft 50 feet by 25, and a pump of fine water near the back of the kitchen. The lot will extend ninety one feet on 11th Street East, and 139 on South G street. The purchaser may have a preference of the fourth half of the Square.
Also, a number of LOTS, eligibly situated in various parts of the City. The titles to the whole are indisputably free of every encumbrance, the terms moderate and convenient, which may be known by application to the subscriber, occupying the premises first mentioned, possession of which may be given within 30 days after purchase.
THOMAS TINGEY,
Who will also sell one whole and four half pipes, London particular Madeira wine, of excellent quality. Washington, 20. April 1801. eF.f
CONVEYANCERS OFFICE, AND
OFFICE FOR SALE OF CITY LOTS, On the Pennsylvania Avenue fronting the President's Square, near Rhodes's tavern, City of Washington.
THOMAS HERTY has connected with the business of drawing Conveyances of Land, Wills, Mortgages, Leases, Bonds, Assignments powers of Attorney, petitions, and every other species of deed or contract in the profession; that of buying, selling and leasing lots and houses in the City, negotiating loans, &c.
His long experience as a draftsman, and knowledge of the laws relative thereto—the knowledge which he has acquired by residence of the situation of City Lots, and how their titles have been acquired, or are liable to be affected; together with his impartial and strict regard to the interest of those who may be pleased to employ him, will, he hopes, secure to him a continuance of public patronage.
Titles to real property investigated, and opinions given thereon when required. For sale a great variety of Lots, in desirable situations in the City.
N. B. At the above office may be had, his Abridgement of the Laws of Maryland, price 6 dollars. Also his Digest of the Laws of the United States, price 3 dollars. As the Laws of Maryland are in full force on this side the Potomack, it behoves letters to avail themselves of that information which affects their lives, liberties, and property. He who is without a knowledge of his "rule of conduct" is like a stranger in his native land. May 4. zaw4w. iawa
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 Safes, &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 of book.
May 8, 1801
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BOTTLED PORTER.
THE subscriber wishing to establish himself in the bottling of Porter informs the public in general that he at present has by him for sale at his bottling cellar, corner of Bridge street, opposite the Post Office,
fine Philadelphia Porter, in excellent order—Also,
TAUNTON ALE of the first quality; and CIDER in bottles.
The public may depend upon always finding a constant supply at the cellar as above—and he is thankful for favours received.
R. C. STANLEY.
George-Town, August 6. 1801.
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NOTICE.
THE following slaves have been committed to the gaol of Washington county, viz.
SOLOMON JOHNSTON—Five feet 10 inches high, 33 years of age, has on a pair of nankeen trowsers and a coarse shirt; says he belongs to captain Johnston of the city of Baltimore.
JOHN PAINE—Five feet 8 or 9 inches high, 26 or 27 years of age, has on a blue coat much worn, a pair of light coloured corduroy breeches, and an old hat, says he belongs to col. Martin Pickett of Fauquier Court House, Virginia.
MARK, alias THOMAS GORDON—Five feet 9 inches high, 40 years of age, has on a pair of old trowsers, and an old shirt and a new felt hat; says he belongs to David Allison of Falmouth Virginia.
BEN COLE—Five feet 8 or 9 inches high, 22 years of age, has on a striped gingham coat, overalls of the same, and white dimity jacket; says he is a free man, and that he came from Fells Point in the city of Baltimore, where he resides.
The owners of the above Runaways are desired to come and take them away, otherwise they will be sold as the law directs, to discharge their prison expences.
DANIEL C. BRENT.
Marshal of the District of Columbia. Washington, August 14. 1801. rawti
NAVY DEPARTMENT, JUNE 7th, 1800.
Regulations for ascertaining and fixing the Pensioners, and payment of pensions on the Navy establishment of the United States.
To obtain a pension the party must produce to the Secretary of the Navy a certificate from the commander of the ship or vessel on board of which he sustained the injury, which incapacitates him; or in the case of a marine, from the commanding officer of the marine corps, or commander of a detachment as the case may require; in the latter case however, if the injury happened on board a vessel of war, the certificate of the surgeon will also be required; if on shore, that of some respectable medical character of the place, that the same was received while he was acting in the line of his duty, specifying the nature and amount of the disability, the capacity or station in which he acted, and the monthly pay to which he was entitled at the time of sustaining the injury. On such certificate being produced, and it being ascertained to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy, that the disability still exists and is likely to continue, he will at once direct the applicant to be placed on the books of the Loan Office of the state in which he resides, and the loan officer will make the payments half yearly, viz. On the 1st of January, and 1st of July, to the party in person or his legal attorney during his life or the continuance of his disability. But if the pension is to be paid on a power of attorney, the loan officer must have it ascertained by the certificate of a Justice of the peace of the county where the pensioner resides, that he was living, and that his disability continued, in the month next preceding that in which payment is to be made every year, and must transmit the same to the Accountant of the Navy with the necessary receipts as vouchers for his payments.
Each person to be placed on the pension list, must receive at the Navy Office a certificate in the following form,
A. B. Seaman, &c. having been disabled in the service of the United States, on board of the ship of war while acting in the line of his duty, is entitled to receive dollars per month, from the loan officer of the state of _____ payable half yearly, on the 1st of January and 1st of July in every year during his life or continuance of such disability, to commence from the day of _____
The same will be paid to him in person or on his legal power of attorney. But no money will be paid on a power of attorney, unless the said A. B. shall send to the loan officer of said state, the certificate of a Justice of peace of the county wherein he resides, that he the said A. B. appeared before the said justice in the month preceding that in which the ill continued to be made and that his disability at payment is
Signed
BENJ. STODDERT.
The foregoing regulations are still in force. By order,
AB. THOMAS, P. Clk.
Navy Department, June 17, 1801. } STANLEY

Extract from a Charge of Judge Rush, of Pennsylvania, to a Grand Jury, on DRUNKENNESS.
Having prescribed to myself the task of explaining the act for the prevention of vice and immorality, with a view to recommend obedience to every part of it, as the surest means of preserving the liberty and happiness of our country; and having, in former addresses to Grand Juries, gone through the first and second sections, I now proceed to make some observations on the third, which is expressed in the following terms.
"And be it further enacted, That if any person shall intoxicate him or herself by excessive drinking of spirits, vinous, or other strong liquors, and shall be convicted thereof, he or she shall forfeit and pay the sum of 67 cents, for every such offence—or, if such person shall refuse or neglect to satisfy the said forfeiture, or, goods and chattels cannot be found whereof to levy the same by distress, he or she shall be committed to the house of correction on the proper county, not exceeding 24 hours, there to be fed on bread and water only, and to be kept at hard labour."
Intoxication is a term of such familiar use, and instances of it are so frequently to be seen, that it may be deemed unnecessary to define it. It is an expression of very vague and indefinite meaning, but in our law books it is always represented as an artificial and voluntary madness, the effects of vicious indulgence; and therefore affording not the slightest palliation for any violation of the laws of the land. Being the author himself of his own insanity, he is called voluntarius demon, a voluntary madman; and having committed one crime, he shall not be allowed to urge it as a plea, to justify another. In such abhorrence is this voluntary renunciation of reason held by the laws of our country, and in order more effectually to discourage it, that even a bond executed during this disordered state of mind, is deemed obligatory; unless it appear, the drunkenness was the effect of management and contrivance in the person for whose use the bond is given.
Like every other vice, it may be committed in a less, or greater degree, and under circumstances of less, or greater aggravation. Viewed merely in the light of an offence against the laws of the land, it is discriminated from all others by one circumstance—namely, that there seems to be only a certain degree of it, that is punishable. Every degree of felony, it is well known, is punishable. So is every degree of murder, robbery, and adultery. But unless the offence of intoxication rises to a certain height, and passes certain bounds, however obvious it may be, that the party has deviated from the strict rules of temperance and propriety, yet he is not amenable at the bar of an earthly tribunal. The true legal notion of intoxication, implies such an excessive drinking (to use the words of the law on this subject) as to disorder the reason and understanding, and which is evidenced by speech or behaviour—nor will a less degree of it authorize a conviction under our law, however indecent it may be, or incompatible with a prudent regard to health or the dictates of christian morality. If it could be supposed the laws were otherwise, and that a degree of intoxication, less than that which produces a species of mental absurdity and disorder, was comprehended in the act of the legislature, it might be the means of proscribing innocent mirth and cheerfulness. The penalty of the law might be inflicted were nothing else could be discovered but the effusions of joy and festivity. A distinction of this kind, as to the degree of intoxication, in the light of an offence against human laws, appear to be wise and reasonable; especially when we consider the habits and manners of the present day. While it exposes brutal excess to the just correction of the law, it leaves hilarity and good humour to their full enjoyment.
For very good reasons, all civilized countries have agreed to punish drunkenness, as a crime against social order and the public good. I believe it may be asserted with truth, that from this source originate almost all the enormities, that produce disorders in private families, and the most destructive outrages on the public peace. It is this vice, that makes so many helpless widows and distressed orphans—that fills our streets with wandering beggars, that crowds the sheriff's dockets with executions, and is productive of innumerable quarrels, assaults, batteries, riots and slaughters. "Who hath woe? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixt wine." I de-
clare in this public manner, and with the most solemn regard to truth, that I do not recollect an instance, since my being concerned in the administration of justice, of a single person being put on his trial for manslaughter, which did not originate in drunkenness; and but few instances of trials for murder, where the crime did not spring from the same unhappy cause. A moment's consideration will be sufficient to convince you, gentlemen, that the various breaches of the peace that are daily brought before the courts, are all derived in a greater or less degree, from this infamous and mischievous vice. It is impossible therefore to withhold our warmest approbation of a law, that has any tendency to check it. And indeed when we coolly reflect upon its infinitely pernicious effects on the peace, order and moral happiness of the world, it is natural to express our surprise, that governments have not gone further—laid the axe to the root of the evil, and exterminated it at once by a strong and vigorous arm.
It is an observation of Sir Wm. Temple, that a multiplicity of taverns, is an evil inseparably attendant on republican governments. From which the inference does not seem forced or unnatural that in proportion as they abound the vice of drunkenness may be expected to prevail among the people. Pennsylvania, it is acknowledged on all hands, affords the most striking evidence to justify the observation of the philosophical patriot; and every day exhibits to our view the most painful proofs that the consequences are such as might reasonably be apprehended. The legislature of the state have indeed candidly admitted, the inference from their number, to be perfectly correct, by stating, as they do in express terms, in the 11th section of the law now under consideration, "That a great abundance of taverns and public houses for vending spirituous liquors, has been found to promote habits of idleness and debauchery." These, we are taught by daily experience, are the rank soil, in which the vice of drunkenness shoots up with such fatal luxuriance. These are the polluted fountains that send forth constant streams, to corrupt and demoralise our people. Here our youth, the growing hopes of their country, are initiated in all the mysteries of iniquity and lay the foundation of those destructive habits, that never forsake them. Here they are taught to practise the dialect of infernal spirits and to rival the very demons, in the use of profane and blasphemous expressions.
Although taverns are unquestionably fruitful sources of vice, yet I am not so visionary a law-giver, as to suppose it practicable in government to have them conducted with the same regularity and decorum that prevail in private families. This, I well know, is impossible. At the same time it affords me much satisfaction to say, that some of them are kept in the most decent and unexceptionable manner, the nature of things will admit, considering the depravity and prodigious licentiousness of modern manners. There are others, however, who abuse the trust reposed in them by government; and instead of keeping houses of refreshment for the traveller and for the accommodation of persons meeting on business, which was the design of their institution, convert them into places of frolic, drinking and gambling, on all hours of the night and every day of the week, Sunday itself not excepted. It is much to be regretted that taverns of this description cannot be broken up. The laws on this subject, are sufficiently strict, and I do not see how they can with propriety be rendered more so. Heavy penalties are imposed on those who keep disorderly houses; and in any shape, countenance horse-racing, cock-fighting and any kind of gaming whatever. Nothing is wanting but a faithful execution of these laws, which would soon operate an entire reformation. But alas, gentlemen! the age of dissipation is such, among all ages and classes, as to render any hope of this sort, baleless as a dream, or the fleeting shadow.
But if abuses in taverns cannot be corrected—if they have become so inveterate as to be incapable of cure; perhaps something may be done, towards lessening the evil, by drying up in some degree, its sources. This, gentlemen, can only be done by laying our young people under greater restraints.
From the (LONDON) ORACLE. JUNE 22.
PROBABILITIES OF PEACE.
The present moment certainly presents very flattering hopes of a speedy reconciliation between France and Great Britain. It is evident that Bonaparte, contrary to the peculiarity of his character, has for
some time used a tone of moderation, when speaking of the English, which indicates a wish to close hostilities between the two countries. The language of the Moniteur , the official paper of the First Consul, has lately exhibited a disposition of the most pacific nature. The professions of Mr. Addington in favour of peace—the renewed interviews between Lord Hawkesbury and M. Otto—the frequent communications on the part of the latter with the cabinet of the Thuilleries —the distinguished and amicable reception of Lord St. Helens at Petersburg—the fortunate adjustment of the differences with the powers of the Baltic—all promise the speedy accomplishment of this great and desirable object. When contemplating, therefore, a reconciliation of differences between two great rival nations, after nine years obstinate and sanguinary war—a war of giants, when compared with any of those which preceded it—the mind of man, wearied by the exhibition of so many disastrous and bloody scenes, dwells with delight on the consoling idea of returning peace and unclouded days.
But how much the illusion of that idea is lost when we quit this general view, in order to examine the different obstacles that will occur in the negotiations to frustrate the laudable intentions of our new ministry! It is at the very moment when France proclaims its moderation, the only basis of a suitable peace, that its ambitious projects are more and more developed. After having declared in 1792 that it wished not to make conquests, and that it only fought for liberty, we saw it soon afterwards invade all the countries situated to the west between its ancient frontiers and the Rhine, and to the east and south as far as the Alps. After having since declared that it required no other limits but those which that river and the mountains had fixed for France, we see the Consular Republic seeking to enrich itself at the expense of Switzerland, and demanding of the latter a cession of the important country of the Valais, in order that it might be united with Piedmont, finally designed to be incorporated with the mother republic. Thus, by establishing itself beyond the two great chains of the Alps, it will be enabled to rule with despotic sway over the rest of Italy, and subject that important country to its empire.
If we may believe the reports in circulation, Spain is to pay for the establishment of the duke of Parma in Tuscany, and its intended union with Portugal, by ceding the provinces of Catalonia and Biscay to France, and thus give the latter the same influence in Spain which it possesses in Italy, by the acquisition of Piedmont. Who can therefore calculate on the immeasurable extent of the consular ambition? On what conquests will suffice to gratify its devouring avidity.
But sufficient attention seems not to have been paid to the seeds of eternal wars, the elements of political dissolution, which the first consul has spread over the whole surface of the continent. The imagination is lost in contemplating the ravages which the system of the indemnities will produce in Germany; and the petty states, inflamed, perhaps, by Prussia and Russia, may be the means of a new contest, equally fierce and bloody at the last. It is well known, that the king of Prussia views with jealousy and alarm these transactions, and that in ratifying the treaty of Berlin he has reserved to himself the personal influence and intermediate interference in the execution of the partitions.
If we turn our attention to the East, it offers to us similar results. The interests of the new French government, as well as of the old, are essentially linked with the preservation of the Turkish empire in Europe. It is through the apathy of that government, that France has always been able to maintain a preponderance in the Archipelago and the Levant. The wish of exciting against us an enemy in the Emperor of Russia, has induced the First Consul to propose to him the execution of the old project of Catharine II. for the invasion of European Turkey; but that proposition, always opposed, or eluded by the ancient French government, is only employed by the present as a Machiavelian trick. It must perceive that the Russians, when masters of that interesting country, would carry on the trade themselves, and rule in the Mediterranean. By the secret articles of the treaty of Luneville, the Emperor of Germany, it is said, is to be partner in the division of European Turkey, to recompense him for the sacrifices he has already made to France. Sooner or later, we shall perhaps see the two Emperors engaged in a fierce conflict for this bone of contention; and while they are fighting to decide who shall have the greater share, it is then that the consular government, re-
covered from the shocks of the revolution, will seek to profit by their division and their weakness, to assert that ascendancy which France has always expected in the Mediterranean. Such is the first view in which the pacific system of Bonaparte presents itself—a system organising perpetual wars—a system conceived for revolutionizing all Europe—if some exterminating power should not arrest the hero, or some benignant genius dissipate these destructive elements.
VARDEN & CARPENTER, TAYLORS,
Gratefully acknowledge the favours of the public, whilst carrying on business opposite Mr. Stille's Tavern, and inform, that they have removed to the next house east of Mr. Tunnicliff's Hotel, where gentlemen and ladies will be served in a stile of fashion and elegance which it has ever been, and ever will be, their study to execute, and they presume, equal to the most populous cities in the Union. Regimental and Ladies Habits made in the neatest manner. May 15, 1801. wwf
Land for Sale.
On the 28th day of September next, will be sold at Public Auction, at Mr. Stille's Hotel, in the City of Washington, (if not sold before at private sale)
Two Tracts of Land, lying on the Eastern Branch of Potomac river, and within the district of Columbia—containing together ninety-two acres. On each of these tracts is a quantity of good ash wood, within a few yards of the river, and the greater part, if not the whole, of said land, at a moderate expence, may be made excellent meadow. There is on one of the tracts an eligible situation for a dwelling-house, with about four acres of excellent upland suitable for a garden. Sale to commence at three o'clock, when the conditions will be made known. Information may be had from the subscriber at the Navy-yard.
GEORGE FRANK, On the premises, or of THOMAS HERTY, Conveyancer City of Washington. July 20, 1801. law 6w
NEW BOOKS.
JUST received by the sloop Highland , capt. Hand, from Philadelphia, and now opening at the store of Rapine, Conrad and Co. corner of South B Street and New Jersey Avenue; a very handsome assortment of books, amongst which are, De Valcourt , by Mrs. Bennett, author of Welch Heiress , Beggar Girl , &c. &c. Nocturnal Visit , 2 vols. by Maria Regina Roche, author of the Children of the Abbey , &c. The Girl of the Mountains , 2 vols. by Mrs. Parsons, author of "Women as they are." Rash Vows ; or the effects of enthusiasm, by Madame de Genlis. The Farmer's Boy , a rural poem, by Robert Broomfield. The life of Catharine the Second, Empress of Russia , 3 vols. Dawin's physiologia ; or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening. Also a general assortment of law books; and miscellaneous history, stationery, writing and wrapping paper, &c. &c. all which they will dispose of on the most reasonable terms. N. B. Bookbinding in all its branches, with neatness and dispatch. Washington, May 15,
A GREAT BARGAIN.
I WILL sell or lease for ten years, a valuable Farm, in the county of Culpepper, and state of Virginia, on Flat Run, containing 750 acres the land is extremely fertile, and yields abundantly in the production of corn, wheat, and tobacco; there are about 100 acres of meadow land, 50 or 60 of which are cleared, and 15 acres well set in Timothy, about 350 acres of the tract are cleared and well inclosed. This land is distant from Fredericksburg about 28 miles, and 55 miles from Alexandria and the City of Washington. There are several valuable merchant mills; in the vicinity, one within the distance of a mile, where the Fredericksburg prices are given for all kinds of grain.
I will also sell the Reversion of 250 acres of land adjoining the above, on which are erected a number of valuable buildings, among them a large dwelling house of 60 feet by 40, with four rooms on a floor, with fireplaces, and every necessary out houses—A valuable peach and apple orchard.
A further description is deemed unnecessary, as any persons desirous of purchasing or leasing, will doubtless wish to view the premises. For terms apply to Robert Brooke Voss, Esq. who lives adjoining the premises, or to the subscriber.
I will also Sell or Rent,
Two three story brick houses in Alexandria, completely finished, on King and Columbia Street, with sundry valuable property near the same, possession whereof may be had immediately. The situation for the flour and grocery business is equal to any in Alexandria. For terms apply to Henry Thomas Moore, Alexandria, or to the subscriber.
NICHOLAS VOSS.
City of Washington, July 13, 1801. N. B. I wish to hire by the month, or until the 1st day of November, ten or twelve labourers, for whom liberal wages will be given. Apply to N. Voss, on F Street, or W. T. Voss, at the Navy-Yard. aawtf