The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1801-10-02 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. CXLIV.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2d, 1801.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
NEW-YORK, September 28.
A French gentleman who arrived here yesterday in the ship Olive from Bordeaux informs the editors of this Gazette, that the news of Gantheaume's having landed a part of his troops near Alexandria, was contradicted—and that positive accounts of his having arrived at Toulon had been received and announced at Bordeaux.
By the ship General Mercer, from Liverpool, the Editors of the New-York Gazette were last evening favored with London papers to the sixteenth of August inclusive, which enables them to give publicity to the subsequent
Important Intelligence.
LONDON, August 13.
FALL OF CAIRO.
Though the Hamburg mail yesterday brought no intelligence of much consequence, yet government received news of the highest importance from Egypt.—One of Lord Minto's servants, Mr. Hugden, brought the following account:—That previously to his departure from Vienna, a messenger had passed through that city on his way to London from Lord Elgin, with dispatches, announcing the capture of Cairo and 6000 French prisoners, by the combined troops under general Hutchinson, the Grand Vizier, and the capt. Pacha. Yesterday afternoon the following Bulletin was circulated by government—
A messenger arrived this morning from Lord Minto, at Lord Hobart's office, by whom we are informed, that the Grand Signior had received dispatches from the Grand Vizier, containing an account of the fall of Cairo, with 6000 prisoners. The guns were fired at Constantinople on the occasion."
Though the above bulletin was issued by government, no Extraordinary Gazette was published, either last night or this morning; nor will any one be published till the messenger arrives with the official dispatches from Lord Elgin, which are hourly and anxiously expected.
The contents indeed of an overland dispatch received yesterday, by the East India Company, from Bussorah state, that the siege of Cairo had been deferred on account of the plague. The same cause, however, that induced the combined armies to defer the siege, might force the French to capitulate. It must be observed, the government Bulletin does not say that any battle or siege took place. It merely states, that Cairo had fallen with 6000 prisoners. The dispatch from Bussorah, therefore, and the bulletin, are by no means irreconcilable with each other.
The surrender of so large a portion of the French army, and the power which that event affords to the allies of concentrating their whole force against the remainder of the enemy's troops near Alexandria, justify a confident belief that the entire conquest of Egypt will be immediately effected.
Of the landing of troops by Gantheaume, government, it is said, have not received any confirmation. The overland dispatch, from Bussorah, mentions the capture of seven French transports and a xebec, off Alexandria, with troops on board. Were these troops carried out by Gantheaume? Or, is it true that he landed them at Derna or Durallo? This reinforcement, however, even if it has debarked in Egypt, will scarcely now be of any decisive benefit to the French, if the account of the surrender of Cairo and six thousand prisoners be true.
August 15.
The intelligence of the surrender of Cairo is confirmed. Two messengers arrived yesterday with dispatches from Constantinople and Vienna to government and the East India Company. The dispatches to government are from Lord Minto, who continues to congratulate his majesty's ministers on the fall of Cairo. The dispatches, however, to the East India Company, place the intelligence beyond all doubt. They are in substance as follows:
Extract of a letter from Peter Tooke esq. to W. Ramsay, esq. dated Constantinople, July 19, 1801.
"I had the honor to address you, on the 17th inst. by an express courier, in order to inform you of the reduction of the castle and city of Cairo by his majesty's and the Ottoman armies, after some severe actions, wherein the enemy had lost 2000 men in killed and wounded; and that the remainder, consisting of 4000 men had surrendered. I have only learnt since, that the enemy capitulated on honorable terms, and were to march to Rosetta, to be embarked for France, under the escort of British ships of war."
The remarks we made the other day need now only be repeated. The fall of Cairo enables us to concentrate our whole force, and to direct it against Alexandria, the last possession which the enemy have upon the Egyptian territory. Pressed by such an army on the land side, and blocked up by sea; in want of provisions and of water; it is not probable that Alexandria will long hold out. Perhaps it is not now of much consequence to enquire where Gantheaume landed his troops, or whether he landed any. If, while he was at anchor on the Egyptian coast he heard of the surrender of Cairo, it is not unlikely that, seeing of how little use such a reinforcement must be after such an event, he returned with the troops to France. If, however, he did actually land them, they will now only serve to swell the number of our prisoners, without being of any use to the enemy.
OF LORD NELSON.
Lord Nelson sailed yesterday morning from Deal in the Medusa frigate, with several gunbrigs, cutters, and bombs. Between 11 and 12 o'clock he was seen from Dover, standing from the French coast, and seemingly for Boulogne Bay, under a press of sail. Each of his Lordship's vessels has flat-bottomed boats on board. It is supposed that another attack will immediately be made upon Boulogne, at least the enemy appear to be apprehensive of one, for accounts from that town state, that on Thursday night the enemy made a movement, and moored 26 gun-vessels along shore, East and West of the harbour. A reinforcement of 17,000 troops is also said to have arrived within these few days from the interior.
Soon after this paper was put to press yesterday, we received Paris papers to the 12th, and communicated in a second edition a short account of their contents.—The intelligence is not important. A convention has been concluded with the Pope, upon matters relating to the Gallican Church. The terms have not been published, but the Moniteur says, that "The government has good reason to hope, that, in a few months, the priests, who call themselves constitutional, those who have taken the promise of fidelity, and all the others united in sentiment and opinion, will peaceably occupy themselves with the cares of their ministry, of peace, concord and union."
An article contained in a London paper some time ago, which supposed, that, under the present circumstances, the residence of M. Otto in this capital might not be secure, is noticed with proper severity in the Moniteur, which pays a merited tribute to the virtues of his majesty, and attaching to Mr. Addington the epithet of respectable, expresses a belief that he was highly displeased with the article alluded to.
GANTHEAUME'S RETURN.
Letters from Hamburg of the 4th inst. speak in the most positive and decided terms of Gantheaume's return to Toulon, after an effectual attempt to land his troops in Syria; where the natives, as they say, rose in such numbers upon the French that they were obliged to give over the attempt.—They proceed to enumerate the advantages which must result to Great Britain from this event; which insures the safety of our reinforcements sent out from England, Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, and Trieste, amounting to 9,000 men, the flower of the
British army and from these data deduce the speedy fall of Alexandria as a necessary consequence. On the other hand, the Paris papers rely on information received from Genoa, Leghorn, Messina, and Ancona, even announcing the name of general Balier who had arrived at the latter place from Corsica. From these sources they are peremptory in declaring the admiral after having taken near Candia an English vessel, which he sent for Messina, continued his course towards the coast of Barbary. By the way he fell in with the squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren, and found that he was in pursuit of him. He learned by the enemy's signals that they were preparing for an attack; but as his principal object was to carry succours to Egypt, the weather was favorable to him; a gale of wind coming on, he lost sight of the enemy, and continued his voyage.
Sir John B. Warren having lost this opportunity, returned towards Alexandria, to which he supposed Gantheaume to be bound; but this admiral arrived at Derna, where he boldly landed 10,000 troops, who continued their march to Egypt, after taking a little repose. This intelligence is, as they say, confirmed by a merchant vessel arrived from Tripoli in 12 days, which relates this fact with the following particulars, that the natives of Barbary, so far from opposing the disembarkation, favored it as much as was necessary for the success of the expedition. Amidst this contrariety of assertion, we can only say—"Non nostrum est tantas componere lites;" and that could any thing tend to involve in more obscurity a subject already so dark, it would be the overland intelligence from the India-house of the capture of the transports: for as on the one hand it proves that Gantheaume's return to Toulon was not so precipitate but that he had reached the neighbourhood of his destination, so on the other hand, it may be asked, why these vessels were left behind had he been compelled to desert it?
Constantinople, July 30.
A French ship, with dispatches, has been taken by the English, on its way from Alexandria to France. General Menou had sent home on board it 6 French officers, and a number of private men, partly on account of illness, and partly for other reasons; on its passage, previous to its capture, the crew, for what cause is unknown, rose upon the officers, and murdered them all.
OF PEACE.
LONDON, (Sunday) August 16.
In our last number we stated, that the negotiations for peace had assumed more than usual activity and decision. We hear with pleasure, that many of the most imposing impediments to a general adjustment have been removed; that the prospect of peace becomes each day brighter, and that everything indicates a speedy termination to the war.
It has ever been the policy of Buonaparte to make overtures for peace when he was supposed to be most competent to the prosecution of war; and, as we cannot suppose him so inconsiderate and madly enthusiastic, as at any period to have purposed an invasion of this country, we are led to regard his preparations as designed only to give weight to his negotiation, and to embarrass our government, by exciting public clamour and alarm.—Thanks to the gallant and determined valour of our countrymen, the project has proved abortive—Instead of intimidation, energy, firmness, and enterprise are manifest. Where clamour and dissention were looked for, confidence and union prevail. We do not wonder then if the Chief Consul, wearied of expedients, which only tend to exhibit to Britons the greatness of their resources, and to rouse into action the dormant energies of the empire, is anxious to terminate a war in which experience has taught him to look for nothing but defeat.
To the zeal and loyalty of the Volunteer Corps, the country owes more than the honor they do her. Their patriotism has repressed alarm, inspired the loyal will
confidence, and confounded the disaffected. We trust they will not relax in their exertions, until, by peace, we are fully assured against these dangers, from which they so powerfully contributed to save us.
We have been taught by experience to respect the authority from which we have received the following articles, whatever opinion we may entertain on the subject of the first, we cannot question the writer's competence to speak with decision to the latter:
"As the Negotiation proceeds, the prospect of peace becomes brighter; and there is now little reason to doubt, notwithstanding the intrigues of the Jacobins, those enemies of the human race, that the wishes of the lovers of peace will soon be realized."
"M. Otto, with a magnanimity for which he has ever been esteemed, disdains any further proceeding against those miserable scribblers who have attempted to injure his reputation. The time perhaps is not far distant, when the authors of those calumnies which have been so justly complained of, may see reason to reproach themselves for their conduct."
Some movements in Brest harbour within these few days have induced a supposition that the Brest fleet has an intention of putting to sea. A reinforcement has been ordered from Portsmouth to join the Channel fleet off Brest immediately.
[From the Moniteur of August 7.]
Answer delivered by the First Consul to the Note presented to him by M. Katchcheff.—"The First Consul of the French Republic acknowledges the receipt of the Convention of Petersburg of the 16th of June, and takes this opportunity to assure his Imperial majesty of the lasting good disposition and sentiments of the French government towards his majesty's person and government; and assures him, that he will do every thing that may be pleasing and agreeable to the court of Russia; and that this end would have been attained sooner, if the negotiations with England, the situation of affairs in Italy and Egypt, and the war with Portugal, had not thrown certain invincible obstacles in the way of the business."
PASSWAN OGLOU'S VICTORY.
The Hamburg Mail.
A letter from Brun, dated July 25, states, "That Passwan Ogloou's retreat to Widden was a feint to induce his opponents to block him up in that fortress. He has now fought the great battle which formed part of his plan. The blockade is raised, and the troops of the Grand Signior have been either cut to pieces or dispersed. In execution of his plan, Passwan Ogloou sent over to the enemy a large number of his most devoted adherents. Soon after this, he made a sally with the rest of the garrison, and while the Grand Signior's troops advanced against him, the adherents of Passwan Ogloou took them in the rear, and placed them between two fires, in such a manner that the greatest part were killed on the spot; the rest were compelled to betake themselves to disorderly flight."
Brunn, July 25. Accounts have been received that Passwan Ogloou has obtained a decisive victory over the troops of the Grand Signior, which had endeavoured to blockade him in Widden.
The Snuff-Box—A singular attempt on Buonaparte's Life.
According to accounts from Paris, Buonaparte lately escaped an attack of poison, administered in a mode hitherto supposed to be more peculiar to the genius of Italy than France. A snuff-box, in every point, except the facility of opening the lid, corresponding with his own, was laid on his table in place of it. The Consul was proceeding to regale himself with a pinch, when the stiffness of the hinge attracted his notice to a more minute inspection of the box itself; he instantly ordered the contents to be analyzed by a physician, who, it is stated, reported, that had the dece-

tion passed unnoticed, he must have expired in half an hour.
Price of Provisions, &c.
Fine Wheats have fallen in price early 25s. per quarter during the last week, and prime Dantzic Wheats, which last week found ready sale at 130s. per quarter, are now sold at 65s to 68s.—Flour is a few shillings cheaper, but most other grains hold the prices we quoted in our last.
In several parts of the country new wheat has been already brought to market, and has occasioned the expected reduction of price.—At Lynn, the price in consequence fell 126s. to 90s. per quarter, and in most of the markets whence we are favoured with returns, there has been a depression during the week of from 10 to 20s. per quarter.
STOCKS—3 per ct. Consols 60 1-4 5-8 1-2—Omnium 9 1-2.
Serious disturbances have taken place in the French army at Turin, in consequence of not receiving their pay. Gén. Jourdan and Merle had addressed a very fine speech to them, wherein they exhort them to obedience—and that they should receive their pay.
The Plague has broke out in Morocco, and prevails in the town of Safi and among the garrison of Melilla.
The following articles extracted from London Prints, give a different view of the Egyptian news.
LONDON, August 13.
Yesterday, after our paper was at press, the public were gratified with a demi-official notice of pleasing intelligence having been received from Egypt.
Mr. Hugden, a domestic of Lord Minto, brought accounts of a messenger having passed through Vienna, who was the bearer of dispatches from Constantinople, containing an account of the surrender of Cairo. Government gave full credit to the report, having received similar intelligence the preceding day from a Mr. Frotte, who had gone out with Sir Sydney Smith, and was called back to this country by some family concerns. He stated, that news of the fall of Cairo had reached Constantinople before his departure. In consequence the following notice was issued in the afternoon from the treasury:
“A messenger arrived this morning from Lord Minto, at Lord Hobart's office, by whom we are informed, that the Grand Seigneur had received dispatches from the Grand Vizier, containing an account of the fall of Cairo, with 6000 prisoners.”
The note, and the grounds on which it rests, so far as the document goes, cannot be misunderstood; but as ministers have not stated who is the person understood to have forwarded the dispatches from Constantinople, the public are left to decide in the best way they are able between two reports, each of which are asserted with equal confidence. One of these reports states, that the messenger who passed through Vienna, was the bearer of dispatches from Lord Elgin; the other, that the dispatches were from Mr. Took, at Constantinople, for the India Company. No messenger has arrived from the former: he may perhaps still come. A messenger did yesterday bring dispatches from the latter, but we do not find that he has brought any such account as has been published.
The public looked for an extraordinary gazette, to clear up all difficulties, but they looked in vain.
Our readers will be happy to learn, however, that Mr. Took communicates to the India Company a piece of intelligence which may will think of as much moment as the fall of Cairo. He states the capture of 7 sail of French transports and a xebec laden with troops, which were making for Alexandria, and off that port. It is said he has also stated, that the siege of Cairo had been postponed on account of the plague. The plague, we may observe, might force the garrison of Cairo to surrender.
If Cairo has capitulated, so large a body of the allies will be at liberty, and so flight will be the hope of the French left in Alexandria, that the city may be expected to surrender at no distant period.
[Star.]
Yesterday afternoon arrived the mail from Hamburg, which became due. The intelligence from Constantinople, through Vienna, comes down to the 7th of June, but amounts to nothing. The letter from Italy gives circumstantial accounts of the landing of Gauthume's troops in Africa, some say at Derna, some say at a place called Baria, near Alexandria. We surely cannot be much longer kept in doubt respecting his invisible fleet.
A letter from Brussels, of the 2d inst.
states, that all the armaments in the ports of Picardy and Flanders are ready to put to sea at the first notice; and that several naval officers have arrived in consequence from Brest and Toulon, to aid in a grand expedition. The number of armed vessels now ready at Boulogne and Dunkirk are said to exceed 150 sail, on board of which 25,000 troops will take their departure against Great-Britain with the first fair wind!
Many letters received from India by the ships lately arrived, agree in stating the probability of our attacking the Mauritius, and some of them speak in confident terms.
August 14.
The confidence with which the news of the surrender of Cairo was at first believed is somewhat diminished. Government have had no advice of such an event from Lord Elgin; and Lord Minto merely congratulates Lord Hawkesbury upon the intelligence which Mr. Hugden, the East-India company's messenger, would bring him of the surrender of Cairo on the 20th of June, after a battle, in which the French lost two thousand killed and wounded, and four thousand taken prisoners. Now it is certain that no such intelligence was brought by the messenger; and that the East India company's dispatch contains an account of the siege of Cairo having been deferred on account of the plague. It is probable that the allied armies in Egypt might, in consequence of the plague at Cairo, with to defer the siege; but the prevalence of so dreadful a disorder in so close and populous a city would of course induce the French either to risk a battle in order to extricate themselves from a situation in which they would be exposed to the ravages of such a scourge, or would induce them to surrender.
His majesty's ministers, we understand, are of opinion, that a battle has been fought, and that it has been followed by the surrender of Cairo. It is clear that Lord Minto believed such an event to have taken place.
The official dispatches from general Hutchinson or Lord Elgin are expected with the greatest anxiety. (Courier.)
From Brussels, August 2, we learn, that all the armaments in the ports of Picardy and Flanders are ready to put to sea at the first notice; and that several naval officers have arrived in consequence from Brest and Toulon, to aid in a grand expedition. The number of armed vessels now ready at Boulogne and Dunkirk are said to exceed 150 sail, on board of which 25,000 troops will take their departure against Great Britain with the first fair wind.
On board the seven transports taken in the Mediterranean were several hundred troops; but whether they formed part of Gantheaume's fleet is unknown.
By letters from Copenhagen, of the 4th inst. it appears, that many changes are about to take place in the Danish fleet, now estimated at 20 sail of the line and 10 frigates, fit for service, is to be increased to 30 sail of the line and 16 frigates. The additional ships are to be built at Copenhagen, Glückstadt, and Fredericksvar.
VIENNA, July 29.
This day's court gazette contains the following statement of the death of the Elector of Cologne: “In the night from the 26th to the 27th, died at Hertzendorf, to the greatest affliction to their Imperial majesties and the whole illustrious house of Austria, his royal highness the high and grand master of the Teutonic order at Mergentheim, prince and bishop of Munster, archbishop and elector of Cologne, Maximilian Francis Xaver Joseph, royal prince of Hungary and Bohemia, and archduke of Austria, in the 45th year of his age.” The body of the deceased, which was brought to town yesterday, laid in state this day, and will be entombed this evening in the family vaults of the house of Austria. The deceased has bequeathed his whole personal property, estimated at 18 millions, to the Imperial general the archduke Ferdinand, a son of the archduke Ferdinand, formerly governor of Milan.
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FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
No. IX.
THE SECOND CLASS of powers, whose constitutionality has been questioned, are those which it is agreed inhere in the government, but which, according to different constructions, are given to one or other of the several departments of government.
The first member of this class respects the treaty-making power. On one side it is contended, that this power resides exclusively in the President and Senate; while on the other hand it is alleged that it is subject to the qualified control of the whole legislature.
There is not, perhaps, any article of the constitution, whose ambiguity may not, and probably will not, in the course of events, be attended with more unfortunate effects than the one which relates to the formation of treaties. At present every thing respecting treaties is wild and uncertain. It is not fixed to what extent the power may be carried; it is not fixed by whom its exercise ought to be originated; it is not fixed by whom, if abused, it may be controlled.
The extent to which the power has been constitutionally exercised, is sufficiently great to render it, if misapplied, an object of terror; and the extent to which it may be carried, if to be estimated by the arguments which have been strenuously urged on a recent occasion, opens a field of power absolutely without boundaries.
We have seen in the collisions of opinion excited by the British treaty, a national sensation produced, which in its deleterious influence upon the peace of society, has not to this day subsided. Warned by such an evil, is it not our duty to avoid the recurrence of it?
The discussions on this subject have been so recent, and their impressions on the public mind are deemed still to be so vivid, that I shall do little more than to state the varying opinions that exist, and the extent to which those opinions may be carried; persuaded that a candid view of the subject will convince every unprejudiced mind of the necessity of a more precise definition of this power.
The constitution says, “The President shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.”
It declares further, that “This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land.”
We will first state the manner in which the treaty making power has been exercised, then the manner in which, and the extent to which it may be exercised, in the opinion of those who have been friendly to giving it the greatest latitude, and lastly, the manner in which and the extent to which it may be carried in the opinion of those who are desirous of circumscribing it within prescribed limits, and rendering it in its exercise subject, in a qualified degree, to legislative control.
1. The manner in which it has been exercised is this: The President, without the advice or consent of the Senate, directs a negotiation to be entered upon, which may terminate in the formation of a treaty; after receiving the instrument agreed to by his agent and the agent of the nation treated with, he submits it, without passing any opinion upon it himself, to the Senate; the Senate agree, or disagree to it; if disagreed to, the treaty entirely falls to the ground; if agreed to, the President then takes it into his consideration, and approves or disapproves; if disapproved by him, it is null, and all further consideration is at an end; if approved by him, he proclaims it as the law of the land. But is it, in all cases, whatever may be the stipulations of the treaty, the supreme law of the land?
The friends of the British Treaty and of the former administration say that it is. In their opinion it is the supreme law of the land, whatever provisions it may contain in conflict with existing laws, and however hostile it may be to the Constitution itself. They consider the power of the President and the Senate as absolute, not only as far as relates to the repeal of laws, but even to the alteration of the Constitution. From their doctrine it follows, that new crimes may be created by treaty; money, to any extent, may be drawn from the treasury (not, it is true, without law), but the legislature must pass a law, complying with the treaty) territory every whole states, may be ceded to a foreign power; and the substance as well as the
form of the constitution may be changed; a monarchy may be established on the ruins of the republic. And, strange to tell, the public agents of the republic may be made the active instruments of the subversion of the republic itself.
The foundation on which this mighty superstructure rests is state necessity . For it is alleged that in the conflicts of nations all these acts, however unpleasant, may be required to be done to preserve our existence as a nation; that, therefore, the Constitution, viewing this last object as the most important of all, has vested power adequate to the insuring such an effect in the President and two thirds of the Senate, when it declares that all treaties made under the authority of the United States, shall be the Supreme law of the land , without saying that they shall be conformable to the Constitution, or that they shall be subject to the same restriction with laws, which to be obligatory are expressly required to be made in pursuance of the Constitution.
Those, who are desirous of circumscribing this power within prescribed limits, and of rendering it, in its exercise, subject, in a qualified degree, to legislative control, hold the following opinions:
That the Constitution has directed that the President, before he enter upon a negotiation, which may terminate in a Treaty, shall advise with the Senate, and obtain the sanction of two thirds of that body:
That when the treaty is agreed to by the Negotiators, the President shall submit it to the Senate. It does not appear, at all, to be settled, whether the President ought to form or express an opinion on the Treaty before it is submitted to the Senate, or afterwards. The Constitution may, therefore, on this point, be considered as reposing a discretion in the chief magistrate to do either.
That if agreed to by the votes of two thirds of the members present, and by the President, it becomes a Treaty, and is the supreme law of the land, so far as it does not interfere with the Constitution and the laws, or with powers, which, though not exercised, may be exercised by the legislature or other department of the government, and so far as it conforms to, or avoids to violate, constitutional powers. So far it is acknowledged to be the law of the land, and no farther.
It will, at once be seen, that it follows from this exposition, that all the great powers contended above to be involved in the treaty making power are here expressly denied. The power becomes circumscribed. If, in its exercise, it pledge the nation for the performance of any acts, which ordinarily require the sanction of the legislature, it is implied that without such sanction the treaty can be of no avail. A law, and nothing short of a law, can give effect to the treaty; and there is no moral obligation imposed on the legislature to pass such law; they may, or they may not do it, without any violation of right; if they refuse to do it, it is understood that the act of refusal results from the discretion reposed in them by the Constitution; and it is presumed that every nation that forms a treaty with us knows that without the sanction of the whole legislature, in the contemplated cases, it can be of no avail; and that if the legislature refuse such sanction, the act is simply equivalent to a refusal by the sovereign authority to ratify that part of the treaty which it respects, and, of course, ought not, to be considered as a ground of complaint, much less of war.
[Subject to be continued in our next.] SOLON.
City of Washington, July 24, 1801.
The Subscribers
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July 27.
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WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1801.
THIS DAY, in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for Washington county, the GRAND JURY returned the bill of indictment against the Editor of this Paper, charged with a LIBEL against the Judiciary of the United States, IGNO-RAMUS.
A statement of the case hereafter.
On Wednesday last the PRESIDENT of the United States arrived in this City from Monticello, in good health.
In our last paper we inserted an incorrect translation of the following letter—In this translation the error is corrected.]
Extract of a letter from General Lacrosse, at GUADALOUPE, dated the 1st of September, to a person in authority at this place.
"A report prevails in the neighbouring islands, that the Negroes and Mulattoes of this colony are in insurrection. Do not give it the smallest credit. Cultivation and trade are in an increasing state of prosperity. The only ground for that rumour may be the circumstance of three Conserits of colour, who, in a striking instance, infringed the laws of discipline, and have been condemned to the irons."
"Accept of my salutation."
"LA GROSSE."
The Vermont Election for Governor, as stated in one of our late papers on the authority of a Vermont gazette, is not yet decided. The statement alluded to is erroneous, as the republicans in many, if not in all parts of the state, have made a vigorous stand against the re-election of Mr. TICHENOR. Their candidate is ISRAEL SMITH.
In the counties of Bennington, Rutland, Addison, Chittenden, Franklin and Windham, the votes stand thus:
For Smith, 3,173 Tichenor, 2,514
Republican majority 659
Several of the Eastern Prints have been lately replete with high-toned charges against the Executive, for a wanton expenditure of public money and a disregard of public property, acquired at great expence, in removing the public arms from Springfield to the southward.
Read, citizens, the following performance, and judge of the motives, that dictate the unceasing calumny that is actively circulated through the union. We are convinced that there is not an honest federalist that will not blush at those numerous detections of which this is one.
From the FEDERAL SPY.
Messrs. Printers,
In your paper of the 15th inst. I observed the following paragraph:
"The President of the United States has ordered a removal of the arms from Springfield to the southward. Who were more active in the defence of our country than the plain men of New-England; and are they to be disarmed?"
As this information appears to me calculated to excite the passions and give unnecessary alarm to the well disposed people of New-England—I think it my duty, publicly to state, that it is a fabrication without the least shadow of truth. Since the election of Mr. Jefferson, I have not received an order to send away a single musket.
JOSEPH WILLIAMS, Military Storekeeper, at Springfield, (Mas.)
DIED—In this City, on the 27th ult. Mrs. SWANKS, aged 24 years. The life of this amiable lady was adorned with many eminent virtues. She was particularly distinguished for industry and economy; her mind was open and candid; her heart was tender and benevolent. She has left behind her an only daughter, an amiable child, with a tender and affectionate husband, sincerely to lament a loss, which he must severely feel. The Rev. Mr. Foxall, at the place of interment, delivered an eloquent oration, adapted to the occasion.
At Lancaster, Penns. Colonel Frederick Antes. Col. Antes was a man of private worth and political integrity; and was in all times a uniform whig and a decided republican.
At Lancaster, Mr. John Hoofnagle, at the very advanced age of ninety-two years, six months and three days.
[The following piece is from a Charleston Paper, which shews that some apprehension is entertained of an uncommon Equinoctial Hurricane.]
Messrs. M C IVER & WILLIAMS,
Gentlemen—In the autumn of 1697, a dreadful hurricane happened at Charlestown, (this new city) which did great damage, and threatened the total destruction of the town. The swelling sea rushed in with amazing impetuosity, and obliged the inhabitants to fly for shelter to the second stories of their houses. Part of the peninsula was washed away, as may be seen by the bank of sand between Ashley and Cooper rivers. In little more than half a century, say in the year 1752, a second hurricane happened, which made a further encroachment on the peninsula and part of South-Bay, and probably Sullivan's Island, for the writer knows a quantity of dollars were found about the year 1758, on that island, at low-water-mark, supposed to be part of a chest of dollars which had been deposited by the pirates, who rendezvoused on that island in the early settlement of this state, and, I should suppose, was high land when the deposit of the money was made. About a week before the hurricane of the year 1752, the weather was variable, often changing in twenty-four hours, as is now the case. From the devaluation then made of the wharves, and the threatening destruction of East-Bay, the legislature passed an act forbidding any vessels mooring to wharves for above ten days before and after the equinox. We having lived in a state of security now near fifty years, that act expired and has never since been revived, I would suggest to the wharf holders, and to the owners of ships or vessels, whether at this threatening appearance, prudence should not dictate taking some steps for their lives and property. A word of advice, I think, will not be ill-timed to our citizens on Sullivan's Island, as the whole of that island was under water in the hurricane in the year 1732.
LOUISVILLE, (K.) August 15.
Aggregate of produce entered for Exportation, at the Custom House of the port of Louisville, in the district of Kentucky, together with its value, as estimated by the owners and superintendants thereof, commencing May 7th and ending August 13th, 1801.
   Numbers. Species of Produce Value: dol. cts.     2,161 Barrels of flour 613 7   418 ditto kilndried Ind. meal 1470 50   8337 Gallons whisky 4216 50   621 ditto peach brandy 475 75   33 ditto cider 6   3108 ditto beer 970   98 Vinegar 7 50   180 Hhds. tobacco 9807 25   17,140 pounds pork 781   7852 ditto bacon 682 83   2700 ditto hog's lard 225 93   51,997 ditto cordage 5869 4   800 ditto cheese 100 66   10,000 ditto nails 2500   600 ditto beef 26   625 ditto gun powder 312 33   121 Yards country linen 57   20,038 Feet cherry & walnut plank 348 86   4500 Pipes staves 35   Tin ware, stone ware, earthern ware, &c. 65   Bar Iron, castings, axes, &c. 1643 8   Bureaus, tables, desks, &c. 50   80 copper kettles 375   Merchandize 62596 94   Total, 153351 25  
MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS FROM LATE LONDON PRINTS.
COUP D'OEIL OF PARIS.
Much activity, many carriages, horses and jockies, thousands of beggars, a great number of foreigners, and of course kept women; young men who are pursuing the road to ruin, and old men who are already ruined; gaming houses that prosper, and commercial houses that languish; little money, much expence; fortunate men who are still complaining, unfortunate who do not complain at all; women drowning themselves, men shooting themselves; fools laughing, and wise men grieving.
Public places continue to be frequented. The Marchandes de Modes have all the trade of the capital.
The number of men of abilities diminishes, and as a necessary consequence, the number of works increases.
Luxury is like a torrent which threatens to inundate the capital. Those who have seized the time by the forelock to make their fortune, have done well, for the harvest appears to be over; and the men who
are poor this year, will not in all probability be rich the next.
Want of faith makes great progress and often triumphs; probity maintains an equal contest: actions multiply; attorneys get rich.
Property is respected; some individuals grieve at it, but they dare not complain. The police is active; public crimes are rare; and, if morality could ensue society against the secret crimes and vices that ravage it, men would forget the past, enjoy the present and fear not the future; but when we reflect that bad morals have successively destroyed the hardest people, and overthrown the strongest empires; one is afraid to walk so near a precipice which the French nation does not perceive, because it is dazzled by the brilliancy of its glory.
Mr. BORDEMUNS has lately published at Copenhagen a work on the right of search, and on the use of convoys. He has annexed to the treaties a detailed plan for the exempting vessels from search, and for discontinuing the use of convoys by means of an universal convention. Many of the ideas of the author, who is at once a civilian and a philosopher, will be of great importance in guiding statesmen respecting the measures proper to be adopted for coming to a fixed result on this branch of the law hitherto so much the subject of variation and dispute.
The epidemic distemper which raged so violently in several provinces of Spain has entirely ceased, and the very principle of the contagion is said to be extinguished. The French physicians have returned to France after having tranquillised the apprehensions of the Spanish Government, and fulfilled the mission with which they were entrusted.
LEMURRE, sworn interpreter of the Prize Courts, and BROFFILARD, Ex-Commissary of the Tribunals of Paris, lately proposed the establishment of a new institution under the title of an office of external Legislation. Their object was, that the members constituting this body should be employed in translating laws of the different nations of Europe into the French language, and in classifying them under the various branches into which they are subdivided. They submitted their plan to the Minister of Justice, by whom it was laid before the Consuls, who approved of it, and entered fully into the views of the institution. The measure will therefore be immediately carried into effect.
Sheriff's Sale.
By virtue of a writ of Venditioni Exponas to me directed, from the General Court for the Western Shore of the state of Maryland, returnable to October Term 1800, will be sold at Public Sale, or ready money, on the twenty-fifth day of October inst.
ALL that part of square numbered seventy four in the general plan of the City of Washington, which is included within the following lines, that is to say, Beginning on Pennsylvania Avenue, at the center of the party wall between the third and fourth three story brick houses from the westernmost of the buildings now erected on the said square, and running thence by a line running northwardly through the middle of the said party wall one hundred and twenty six feet, through the center of the wall between the third and fourth stable from the westernmost house of the said buildings built at the back part thereof, and stopping at the center of the north wall of the said stable, then easterly parallel with the lines of Pennsylvania Avenue, through the middle of the north wall of the said back Buildings and stable, so far as a line drawn from Pennsylvania Avenue, through the middle of the partition wall of the fourth and fifth houses, from the most westernmost house built on the said square, one hundred and twenty six feet, forming a right angle with the said avenue; will strike and intersect the same, and thence with the said line through the said partition wall southerly to Pennsylvania Avenue, and thence westerly with the said Avenue to the beginning, together with an elegant three story brick dwelling house, handsomely finished, and all necessary out houses upon the said lot being.
Will be also sold on the same day and by the same authority, Lots numbered seven, eight and nine, on square numbered thirty eight in the general plan of the said city of Washington; each of the said last mentioned three lots having thereon a two story brick house. Also, one dozen mahogany chairs, 3 mahogany tables, 2 mahogany bedsteads, 2 mahogany tea tables, 2 mahogany card tables, 1 mahogany book case, 2 pair of looking glasses, 8 framed prints, 3 carpets, 4 feather beds complete, 2 sets of china, 2 pair of brass andirons, lenders, shovels and tongs, some kitchen furniture, and one Negro boy slave named Butler, about fifteen years of age. The above property is taken as the property of Isaac Pollock, to satisfy a judgment of Abraham Vanioghen against him.
The sale will commence at eleven o'clock on the day, and continue until all is sold—The lots and houses will be sold on the premises respectively, and the personal property upon square thirty-eight in the City of Washington.
NOTLEY MADDOX, late Sheriff of Prince George's County.
October 2.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
THE period is approaching when, according to the original and indispensable terms of The NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, each subscriber will be required to pay Five Dollars in advance for his second year. As the chief support of the paper depends upon subscriptions, it is confidently hoped that subscribers will be punctual in their remittances, which may be made in any Bank Paper, or in Gold, the postage being paid.
A considerable number of subscribers of respectability, as far as the Editor is acquainted with their characters, have requested papers, which have been accordingly forwarded, under the unequivocal engagement to render immediate payment. This, in many cases, has not been done. Unless payment be soon made, a discontinuance of their papers will be unavoidable.
In order that each Subscriber may be informed in time due to make remittance, the period of payment and the sum required to be paid will be stated on his Paper, in general some time before hand. After such notice, immediate payment will be expected, nor will any subscriber, it is hoped, take offence at a discontinuance of his paper in case payment is not made, as the heavy expences attending a Newspaper cannot be defrayed without the regular remittances of subscriptions.
FOR SALE.
In pursuance of an order of the Orphans Court for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, will be exposed to sale on Friday the 23d of October Inst. at 10 o'clock, A. M. at Rock-hill, late the residence of GUSTAVUS SCOTT, Esq. deceased.
A number of Negroes, household and kitchen Furniture, Horses, Cows, and a variety of other articles. The terms of sale will be as follows:—Where the property sold to any purchaser shall not exceed twenty dollars, cash; but where the property sold to any one purchaser shall amount to more than that sum, a credit of six months will be given, on the purchaser's passing bond, with good security, for the payment thereof, with interest from the day of sale.
And on Tuesday following, being the 27th day of October, at 10 o'clock A. M. will be exposed at public sale, at the farm called Strawberry-Valley, situated in Virginia about nine miles from George-town.
A number of Negroes, Horses, Mules, Cows, Calves, and Farming Utensils, belonging to the estate of the said GUSTAVUS SCOTT. The terms of sale the same as above.
On the day of sale at Rock-hill, will likewise be sold at public vendue, one moiety of a GRIST-MILL, standing on Rock-Creek. Likewise a number of well situated Lots in the City of Washington. Also, a number of Potomac and Potomac Bridge Shares, belonging to said estate. The terms will be made known on the day of sale.
ELIAS B. CALDWELL, Adm r .
Washington, Oct. 1 st 1801.
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Billiard Table, &c. for sale.
A FINE Mahogany Billiard Table, nicely inlaid with flowers, of the best size, with sets of Cloths, Cues, Maces, Balls, Patent Lamps, and every thing necessary to set it up immediately.
Also, a Ten Plate STOVE, as good as new, with an iron Stand, Pipes, &c. Inquire of the subscriber, near the Printing Office.
JASPER DE CARNAP, New-Jersey Avenue. September 30. 31
LOTS FOR SALE in the City of Washington.
By virtue of a power of Attorney, the Subscriber will sell 3 valuable Lots, No. 12, 13, 14 in square No. 407 on the plat of the said City; advantageously situated, being nearly opposite the Great Hotel—on one of the Lots is a frame Building in the tenure of Mr. JOHN ARKIN, who will pay the premiums.
They will be sold for 1-3rd Cash; 1-3rd in 6 months, and the residue in 12 months for Notes with approved security. A good title will be given on payment of the whole purchase money—if the above Lots are not disposed of at private Sale before the 8th day of October next, they will be sold at Public Auction on that day at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at Mr. THOS. YATES Vendue store in this City.
SAMUEL VINCENT, No. 44 North Gay Street, Baltimore 25th Sept. 1801.
P. S. For further particulars enquire of Mr. Alexander McCormick, Merchant, near the Capitol, or of S. V. ept8Q.
Ten Cents Reward.
WILL be paid for apprehending my apprentice boy GEORGE W. BROWN, who having gone from home on Sunday the 6th inst. with my permission, has overstayed the time allowed him, and has not yet returned; Therefore, I do hereby caution all persons from harbouring said Brown, also masters of vessels and others, from carrying him away; or I will prosecute them according to law. He is about 17 years of age, very tall and well built, pale complexion and small village. I will pay the above reward and no charges, for taking him up.
JOHN MINCHIN, New Jersey Avenue. Washington, Sept. 23, 1801. 31

BRITISH REVIEW.
Financial Facts of the Eighteenth Century, or a Cursory View, with Comparative Statements of the Revenue, Expenditure, Debts, Manufactures, and Commerce, of Great Britain.
While the Croakers of opposition, and while even many well-disposed men are abandoning themselves to despondent views of our financial situation, the Author of the work now before us has undertaken to show that there is little foundation for their fears, and that the situation of England in 1800, compared with what the gloomy class to whom we allude admit to have been its situation in 1700, is relatively improved: that the weight of Taxes is compensated by the increased means of the people to support them: and that if the pressure appears enormous, it must appear so only to those who are ignorant of the progress of our Commerce and Manufactures. The labours of writers on Financial subjects, like those of the historian, cannot, from the nature of the subject, be original, and it is no inconsiderable praise to the Author of Financial Facts , that the facts which he advances rest on the authority either of official papers, or the most approved works on political economy. The combination and the arrangement of materials have however such original merit, that most readers will give him credit for having furnished them with new ideas upon the subject. We do not remember to have seen the following tables, so well contrasted in any former publication:
"The following is an abstract of the receipts and payments for one year, from Michaelmas 1700 to Michaelmas 1701:
  PAID INTO THE EXCHEQUER.   For Customs £. 1,539,100   Excise 986,004   Health-money and Post office, &c. 130,399   Land Tax, 2s. in the pound 835,405   Poll Taxes, 14,814   Promiscuous Taxes 249,737   Sundry other receipts 13,916   Total Revenue the first year of the Eighteenth Century 3,769,375   The estimated, permanent, and temporary Revenue for the last year 1800 36,728,000 
Total additional Revenue in 100 years £. 32,958,625 "The following is an abstract of the sums issued or paid from Michaelmas 1700 to Michaelmas 1701:
  Sea-Service £. 1,046,397   Land service 423,998   Ordnance for Sea and Land Services 704,339   Miscellaneous Services 1,411,912   Total issued £. 3,588,586   At the close of King William's reign, the annual value of Exports amounted to £. 3,525,906   And the value imports to 3,482,580   The Balance in our favour amounted to £. 43,326 
"The total value of Exports and Imports therefore, amounted to little more than Seven Millions, The total value of the Exports of Great Britain for the year ending 5th January, 1800, including no less than the value of more than 24 Millions in British Manufactures, amounted to
  £. 35,990,000   Total value of Imports into Great Britain for the year ending 5th of January, 1800 
  Amount of Exports and Imports 65,935,808   The balance in our favour £. 6,044,192 
The proprietors of East India Stock will be gratified at seeing the increase of Commerce which a century has produced in their individual concerns.
"These facts are obvious, since we find that our exports now, compared with those in the beginning of the eighteenth century, have, from the most accurate computation, increased nearly in a twelvelfold proportion: that the aggregate amount of Exports and Imports has increased in a tenfold proportion; and that the apparent balance of Trade in our favour at this pe-
riod compared with a century ago, is augmented in the incredible proportion of one hundred and forty fold. It is to be observed, that the annual public sales of Teas by the East India Company, did not in the beginning of the 18th century, much exceed 50,000 pounds weight:— the Company's annual sales now approach to 20 millions of pounds weight, being an increase of four hundred fold in one hundred years. It is also worthy of remark, that the late Tax on Imports and Exports alone, is estimated to produce for 1800, no less a sum than 1,250,000l. which is nearly one half the amount of public revenue in the year 1700."
We should not do justice either to the author or to our readers, did we not extract a passage which, though our limits compel us to make it short, is sufficient to show that the credit and resources of England have no weak advocate in the gentleman who has here taken up their cause:
"From every consideration of all the propitious circumstances; have we not, therefore, cause for exultation rather than despondency? In thus having the sources developed whence such immense revenue is drawn, it must convey conviction to the most sceptical mind, of the increasing wealth and prosperity of the country: at the same time it will exhibit to our enemies the increased energy excited in the nation from a continuance of the contest in which we are now, from dire necessity, engaged; and will tend to impress our accumulated foes with a proper idea of our extensive power, resulting from the wonderful resources of the kingdom, fairly brought into action."
"Another criterion of the wealth and prosperity of a nation is, the lowness of interest and augmented value of land. In France, at the present moment (1801,) money produces from 11 to 12 per cent and landed property is only valued from fourteen to fifteen years purchase. In this country, about an hundred years ago, interest was from 8 to 9 per cent. and landed property from fifteen to eighteen years purchase. But now, as exemplified by the Loan of last year, Government may raise money under 5 per cent. and landed property is increased from twenty-eight to thirty years purchase. Lowness of interest, as Mr. Hume observes, proceeds from three circumstances, viz. the small demand for borrowing, great riches to supply that demand, and small profits, arising from commerce. And these circumstances are all connected together, and proceed from the increase of Industry and trade, not of gold and silver. Lowness of interest, therefore, we find raises the value of land, and the contrary in an inverse ratio."
"The value of land has progressively increased in consequence of improvements in Agriculture, as well as lowness of interest, and the increased consumption of the produce of the land. Before England became a trading nation, we find the general price of land to have been twelve years purchase; and we see it is little more at the present day in France, since their trade has been almost annihilated. In the beginning of the Seventeenth century, land sold in England from fourteen to sixteen years purchase, and at the commencement of the eighteenth century it had advanced to about eighteen years purchase; in half a century more it rose to about twenty four years purchase; and at present, as we have already observed, it is generally valued from twenty eight to thirty years purchase."
"This increase of the number of years purchase of land, is the best and most obvious proof of its augmented value, and is the effect of lowness of interest and the increased consumption of its produce, combined with the general trade of the nation."
"The progressive influx of wealth into Great Britain, bears a proportion still much greater than the most sanguine calculator could expect; since, according to Sir Wm. Petty's computation in the year 1664, the total wealth of the nation, consisting of land, houses, shipping, gold and silver coin, wares merchandise, plate, furniture, &c. amounted only to two hundred and fifty millions, and the whole annual profit be computed at fifteen millions: Mr. Hook computed the whole value of real and personal property about fifty years ago, at two thousand one hundred millions sterling. Sir Wm. Petty, in about thirty years after, valued the landed and personal property at two thousand millions. The total amount of the wealth of Great Britain, consisting of the value of articles above enumerated, is at present computed (and we have reason to believe with sufficient correctness) to be no less than the enormous sum of two thousand seven hundred millions; and its whole annual produce may be fair-
ly estimated at four hundred and five millions sterling, since the annual interest of one of this accumulated wealth will amount to one hundred and thirty five millions. Hence it appears, that in less than 150 years the national wealth of Great Britain has increased in the immense sum of two thousand five hundred and fifty millions: and the annual interest of the said increase of wealth amounts to upwards of one hundred and twenty seven millions five hundred thousand sterling. If, therefore, we allow 13 per cent. for the annual profits or produce of such increase of wealth it will amount to upwards of three hundred and eighty two millions five hundred thousand sterling, additional income, in less than 150 years, being an increase at the rate of two millions five hundred and fifty pounds sterling per annum of general income."
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 Potomac, it behoves settlers 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. 2aw4w. tawa
Was committed on the 20th September, as a runaway, to the jail of Washington county, District of Columbia, a Negro who calls himself DAVID BULER, about 20 or 35 years old, of bright complexion, rather high forehead, and high cheek bones, about 5 feet 10 inches high, one of his under foreteeth out, and a small space between two of his upper foreteeth; he says he is a free man—his clothes are a swansdown waistcoat, double breasted, with yellow buttons, a spotted Marseilles ditto, with white and yellow stripes, a white Marseilles ditto, down shirt, and brown linen country ditto, a pair of osnaburg trowsers, and a kersey upper jacket.—The owner, if any, is desired to come forward, prove his property, pay his charges, and take him away.
DANIEL C. BRENT, Marshal of the District of Columbia. Sept. 28. 2awtt80
This day is Published BY RAPINE, CONRAD & Co. Corner of south B street and New-Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol.
SELECT NOVELS, vol. 2d & 3d. EXECUTED in a superior style, and each volume containing two handsome engravings—Price to Subscribers, one dollar per vol.
Nocturnal Visit—A tale in 2 vols. by Maria Regina Roche, author of the Children of the Abbey, &c. &c.
Acts passed at the second session of the sixtieth Congress, began and held at the city of Washington, on Monday the 17th of November 1800
Also just received, A very handsome assortment of NEW NOVELS, of the first merit, with a good collection of LAW and miscellaneous HISTORY, and a very elegant assortment of Ladies' and gentlemen's POCKET Books, of various prices and qualities
R. C. & Co. Have always on hand a general assortment of Stationary, such as writing and letter paper, quills, wafers, sealing wax, ink-powder, pen knives, flutes, parchment, playing cards, blank and account books, inkstands, black lead pencils, &c. &c. All which they will sell at the most moderate prices. Almanacs for the year 1802, just published. Sept 16, 1801 tf
To be Rented. THE subscriber will rent by the year, or during the session of Congress, four large, convenient three-story BRICK HOUSES—they are well calculated for Boarding Houses, being all situate on the Capitol Hill, and the nearest houses to the Capitol; two of them adjoin the well known Tavern occupied by Mr. Stille the other two are situate equally convenient to the Capitol. Any person qualified to keep such house may know the terms by applying to
DANIEL CARROL, of Dud'n. Sept. 28. cprt
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 60,000w. 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 expence 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 needlessly 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. D. Grinnan, of Fredericksburg, or my son, living with Mr. Stone, of Fredericksburg.
R. SLAUGHTER, jun. Culpeper, Virg. August 21. e
Whereas a commission of Bankruptcy has been awarded and issued against ISAAC SMITH, of Haverwich, resident in Boston, in the District of Massachusetts, trader; and the said Isaac Smith has been declared a bankrupt; he is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in the said commission named, or to the major part of them, on the 5th day of September next, on the 24th day of said September, and on the 9th day of October next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of each of said days, at the office of Nathan Goodale, Esq. in Tremont-Street, Boston, and make a full disclosure and discovery of his estate and effects.—When and where his Creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts; and at the second meeting to choose an assignee or assignees, and at the last meeting, said bankrupt is required to finish his examination. And at said last meeting, any of the creditors of said bankrupt may be heard before said commissioners, against the making or allowing of a certificate to the judge of said district, to entitle the said bankrupt to a certificate of discharge.—All persons indebted to the said bankrupt are to make payment, and those who have any of his effects are to deliver the same to such persons only as the commissioners shall appoint.
By order of the Commissioners, JOHN HEARD, Sec'y. Dated August 28, 1801.
The subscriber respectfully acquaints the public, that he has removed to the corner of Ninth and E streets, where he continues to manufacture and sell all kinds of Ornaments for Chimney pieces, Door Caps, Frontispieces Metal Sashes, &c. which may also be had at his store No. 51, Barclay Street, New-York, and at Mr. Wild's store, Market Street, Baltimore.
GEORGE ANDREWS. Who has gold leaf for sale by the package or book. May 8, 1801 ty
Bag of Feathers mislaid.
IN December last JAMES MITCHELL received from Messrs. McCulloch and Birkhead, at Baltimore, a Bag of Feathers, directed to Samuel H. Smith, Washington, which he engaged to deliver to Mr. English, George-Town. Mr. Mitchell did not deliver the Feathers according to the direction, owing, as is supposed, to the obstruction of ice. In the spring he was at Baltimore, when he stated that he still had the Feathers.
The Feathers belong to the subscriber, who requests Mr. Mitchell to forward them to him, or to Mr. English, George-Town.
The subscriber will feel grateful for any information respecting the residence of Mr. Mitchell. SAMUEL H. SMITH, City of Washington. September 25.