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The National Intelligencer,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. I. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, NEW-JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL. No. CXII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, JULY 20th, 1801.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
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 said payment is to be made, and that his disability still continues.
Signed BENJ. STODDERT.
The foregoing regulations are still in force.—By order,
AB. THOMAS, P. CLK.
Navy Department, } 31awam June 17, 1801. }
THE SUBSCRIBERS
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CELEBRATION OF JULY 4th.
A number of Republicans of Bladensburgh and its vicinity, assembled at a spring, a short distance from town, for the purpose of celebrating the anniversary of American Independence. A plentiful dinner was prepared for the occasion, and the day spent in harmony and conviviality. In the evening the company retired to their respective homes, in that sober and orderly manner which ought always to characterize Republicans. The following toasts were drank:
 1st. The day we celebrate—May it continue to be dear to the heart of every American.  2d. The memory of the illustrious Washington, and all those departed heroes who were engaged in the establishment of our independence.  3d. The People of the United States—sovereign, free, and independent.  4th. The President of the United States—Firm to the principles of Republicanism, long may he continue an ornament and blessing of his country.  5th. The Vice-President of the United States—May the late meretricious cares of the Federalists be no cause of jealousy to the Republicans.  6th. The Heads of Departments—wisely selected for patriotism, talents and industry.  7th. The Navy of the United States—May its growth be commensurate to our resources, until sufficient to protect our just rights.  8th. The State Governments—May the line of partition between them and the general government never be crossed by either.  9th. Agriculture, Commerce, and the Mechanic Arts.  10th. The Northern Confederacy—May it result in securing to neutral powers their just rights.  11th. Gabriel Duvall, the people's friend.  12th. Richard Sprigg, our representative—"whose private character is praised, even by his political enemies."  13th. Our Republican friends throughout the world.  14th. Religion—May she be cherished and respected as the mother of morality; but never again prostituted to electioneering purposes.  15th. Our approaching Elections—May attachment to Republican principles be the touchstone by which to try the pretensions of every candidate.  16th. The City of Washington—May its growth and prosperity equal the most sanguine expectation. 
FROM THE BOSTON CHRONICLE.
ON BRITISH INFLUENCE.
MANY publications have of late appeared in our papers, to prove that "British Influence" does not prevail in this country. It is rather singular, that such writings are peculiarly appropriated to those papers which deprecate the destructive tendency of foreign influence. If foreign influence is to be avoided by the United States, the question is, which of the powers of Europe have by their connections, the most immediate tendency to produce this evil—which of them possess the most means to acquire this ascendancy.
Taking this position, I would enquire of every candid reader (to such only I appeal) whether it is not apparent, that BRITAIN hitherto has had a greater controul in our political concerns, than any other nation—and whether, from habits, language, and predilection for her manufactures, the danger does not arise from this quarter? When the British Treaty was in contemplation, was not this influence predominant during the investigation of this important subject? Did not every man who was inimical to our revolution, urge its adoption? Was there one Tory throughout the United States, who did not exert himself to carry this pernicious instrument into effect? Was not every effort made to intimidate those who were opposed to it, and was accomplished by men who had a
partial attachment to Britain, in opposition to those nations which were in alliance against her? Taking the town of Boston as a datum, even after a determination in full town meeting, that the treaty was "destructive to the commercial and neutral rights of the citizens," was not a petition set on foot, in a clandestine manner, to counteract the legal proceedings of the town? Was not this petition urged with a peculiar vehemence, by every British trader, factor, agent and resident? Was it not presented to individuals, under all the rigour of threats and menaces? It is a fact, and can be proved, that some of the committee threatened not only to dismiss their workmen, but enforced their mandate, that they would do all in their power to get others to do the same. Thus, under a system of terror, this instrument was supported in the town of Boston. The evil did not end here. Circular letters were forwarded to the respective towns, to intimidate the country into a compliance with the measure. Even the day set apart by the SUPREME BEING, was considered as the proper time to act on this subject; under all the pious impressions of the Sabbath, this political question was submitted to the consideration of the yeomanry—trade and commerce was the "order of the day," to be debated after the solemn services of the sanctuary—a religious assembly was converted into a political spouting club—from a minister of the gospel, the clergyman was metamorphosed into a moderator of a town meeting. A hue and cry pervaded the whole community, and nothing was heard but the blessings to be enjoyed under the British treaty. However, I would not charge the individuals who composed this committee, as being British partisans; but it is evident they were deceived by those who took an advantage of their integrity and credulity. But, alas! how have we been disappointed. Have not the British reason to ridicule our folly? We have surrendered our neutral rights, without obtaining the least equivalent. Have the merchants received those demands they anticipated? Has our trade been protected? Have the British courts been more lenient in their decisions? Has not President Adams been obliged to arrest the decision on British claims? Has Mr. Sitgreaves received any satisfaction in his embassy? Has he not returned, and is not a childish story fabricated, that he is frustrated on account of a change of ministry? What has Mr. Gore (with all the expence attending his appointment) accomplished? As it relates to our commercial claims, he has been baffled in all the essential qualities of his mission. Is he not about to return, after expending thousands on his deceptive errand? How many thousands and tens of thousands have been appropriated by Congress to carry this degrading treaty into operation? After all our exertions and expenditures, do we not remain in the same state (if not worse) than when we adopted this imposing and injurious instrument?
How then fellow citizens, can these things be accounted for? Why were such uncommon measures taken to ratify this treaty? Why did an Essex Juntado undermine the legal proceedings of Boston? Why were a committee closeted in a room in a certain Insurance office, and from thence issue their circular letters? Why were congress threatened in some states to be surrounded by an armed force, if they refused the appropriations? Why was every enemy to our Revolution and every British partizan, so insolent and overbearing, to drive the people into a compliance with this measure? Can we hesitate at this period of free investigation to declare, that it was a preponderance of British influence which led to the fatal decision? This preponderancy we have reason to suppose deceived the patriot WASHINGTON, as in the first stages of it, he was decidedly opposed to the adoption. The British advocates were busy in propagating alarms, and every base intrigue was practiced to injure the reputation of those who were aware of the artifices of our enemies. The venerable SAMUEL ADAMS, early prophesied the consequences of the Treaty—he told us that it was "pregnant
with evil"—he viewed it as the sword which stabbed the vital energies of our commercial privileges. This respected patriot anticipated its poison, and attempted to guard his countrymen against the malignity of its operation; but, fellow citizens, how was he abused for his honesty and discernment. Let the papers of that day witness the calumny which his integrity brought upon him. Was there any real American who could injure a character so deserving of his country?—No—his abuse arose from the partizans of Britain. Under this preponderancy, they even assailed this distinguished and aged patriot—while tottering over the grave, with all his virtues thick upon him, they had the impudence to impeach him as an "enemy to his country." Who could be susceptible of such ingratitude, but the enemies of our revolution?—We, who saw him immovable in those days of terror, when the armies of Britain and Hessian, were intersecting in hostile array, the territory of the United States—We, who knew his firmness during those conflicting periods, could not be guilty of thus wounding his sensibility. It is impossible that the friends of America could be jealous of the man, in whom all hearts united, when union was necessary for our preservation. It is impossible that the real republicans should load with opprobrious epithets the proscripted co-patriot of HANCOCK—No—a British influence assumed an arrogant deportment, and even ventured to agonize the feelings of his grateful countrymen, by insinuations the most base and infamous. They vaunted in their preponderancy of influence, and, (after deceiving the immortal WASHINGTON) under this weight, they thought themselves adequate to bear down the honorary reputation of the FATHER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Taking the British treaty as the ground work, we are justified in saying that "British influence" has prevailed in this country. This baneful instrument is the corner stone of the superstructure—it has sacrificed our neutral rights—it has involved us in an immense debt—it has deceived our merchants, and in no instance has compensated for those privileges which have been sacrificed to the haughty, domineering disposition of the English nation. The British treaty is considered by some as a worn out subject, but in my mind it is the rock which wrecks the honor and welfare of the United States. It is a surrender injurious to our commercial rights. We have been treated with every disrespect since its adoption, by the nation for whose interest we sacrificed our own. It is so connected with British influence, that whenever the subject is considered, it takes the foremost rank in the discussion. It is the root and source from whence springs this pernicious and destructive evil.
Further evidences of British influence will be considered in the next number. OLD SOUTH.
FRENCH MONUMENTS.
Three monuments are now erecting by order of General Moreau, in the name of the Army of the Rhine.
The first, which is consecrated to Gen. Dessaix, is built in an isle, situated between Kehl and Strasburg, at the place where a part of the troops destined for the defence of Kehl had encamped.
This monument, constructed on the ruins of the fortifications of Kehl, is nearly finished. The bas reliefs will form the next object of attention; the first will represent the bust of General Dessaix; the second a passage of the Rhine; the third, the conquest of Upper Egypt; the fourth, the battle of Marengo, at the instant when the General was killed.
Inscriptions, illustrative of the different objects, will be placed under the bas-reliefs.
The second monument is that of Gen. Beauharnais; it is to be raised at about a league from Neuf Brisack, near the Bridge of commerce, established on a branch of the Rhine, below the Fort Mortier.
The badness of the season has retarded the progress of these structures; the

foundations, however, are already laid, and in less than three months, if no obstacle intervene, the whole will be completed.
The bas-reliefs represent on the first front the whole length figure of General Beau-puy; on the second, the battle of Cholet, in which this General had three horses killed under him, the last of which being mortally wounded, galloped with him towards the enemy, when a chasseur ran towards him, and preserved him, by giving up his own horse. The third face represents the siege of Angers by the rebels; the troops having loudly expressed their desire that Beau-puy should command the army of defence, that General, who was not completely cured of a wound he had received a few days before, caused himself to be conveyed by four grenadiers from the hospital to the ramparts, and undertook the command to which he had been called by the troops. The fourth represents the battle of Emmendingen, in which General Beau-puy lost his life.
The third monument is that of Marshal Turenne: it has just been erected at Sasbach. The same year in which homage was paid to the memory of this great man, the afflicted army raised a monument to the memory of the brave Latour d'Auvergne, the last descendant of Marshal Turenne.
The care of these monuments is to be entrusted to three military men, who have been wounded, while serving in the army of the Rhine, during the last campaign. For this purpose, a house is constructed in the vicinity of each obelisk.
[From a late London Paper.]
MRS. METHUEN'S MASQUERADE.
One of the most magnificent houses in town, filled with a magnificent assemblage of eight hundred persons, may afford some idea of the scale on which Mrs. Methuen's Masquerade was given on Thursday night. Of the particulars of the scene, the beauty of the fancy dresses, the novelty and variety of the masks, and all the detail of ornament, dazzling the senses into confusion, no words can convey an adequate idea. The whimsical genius of Hogarth, and the pencil of a Reynolds, might give a picture of this diversified groupe, yet still that picture would be defective. The graceful dance, the sparkling wit, the powers of melody, all those charms would still be wanting. Its general character, therefore, is all that we can attempt with safety; and even of this, we shall only say, that the stile of the ornaments, variety and expence knew no limits but those which elegant taste and fancy imposed; that the life and spirit of the company encreased with the progress of the fete; and that the whole formed the most interesting, the most elegant, and the most refined entertainment of the kind, the history of the fashionable world can boast.
The following were the principal actors in this happy scene:—
Mr. Paul Methuen, a Tailor mounted on a Goose. No pantomime ever displayed a more curious and complete piece of mechanism. The goose was of the finest plumage, and the rider a flint of first-rate fire. Need we wonder that Snip, thus mounted, instead of going to Brentford, should ride to the Devil?—none but a goose would have willingly gone on such a journey; and none but a man used to run a button-hole through, could have escaped from such a visit. At sight of them his internal majesty raised his tremendous sceptre, when the gallant Colonel Minikin leapt in to his relief, and the goose took an opportunity to scamper away with all the fins of cabbage on his back. The colonel, it seems, was a Contractor, and had done as gentlemen of that description sometimes do—he had contracted his soul to the D—l; and the black Prince, considering it better prey, gladly relinquished the pursuit of the tailor.
It will be probably asked, what brought the D—l to this innocent and festive scene? He mistook it perhaps for Paradise. In how many faces might he not have seen all the loveliness of Eve? In how many fruits and flowers, and shrubs, the vegetable sweets of Eden! The D—l, we are told, basks in the path of pleasure, and lives in the midst of temptations. He was therefore quite at home, but his roar was not terrible, nor did he grin horribly a ghastly smile. He was a dumb D—l, but admirably dressed in horns and hoofs by lord Mountjoy.
That Mr. Drax Grovesnor, as a Sailor, miss Laura Vanlittart, the two miss Irehys, and Mr. T. De Grey, as Quakers, should face his Infernal Majesty without dread is not surprizing, for what has innocence to fear, and what could daunt the courage of a Sailor? But that Mr. North as a Quack colonel Swaine, as a haughty
gallant, gay Lothario, should dare to approach him, may well excite our wonder. Lady Austin, a Scolding Wife, supported her character most admirably. A rehearsal of ten years wedlock could not have made her more perfect in the part. All the threats of justice Midas could not awe her into silence, or the terror of the Kingston bath retard the velocity of that little organ before which heroes have turned pale, and philosophers have lost their temper.
Lord Pomfret unsexed himself in the character of Crazy Jane, in the same mad vein with Lord Scarborough, who was a Calista, but neither "warm, tender, or full of wishes." The lovely Mrs. Otley was a Haymaker, sweet as the breath of morn; Miss Manton, a Strawberry-girl, and Lady Walsingham, and Miss De Grey, Flower-girls. Innocent, simple characters, they might have followed their pursuers without interruption, had not chance thrown in their way Mr. Paul Methuen, in the character of Doctor Ollipod; but who could resist this Lieutenant of the Galen Head volunteer Cavalry, with his scarlet coat and rhubarb facings? They stopped to admire him, and off flew a bottle of foaming cyder, which he had brought instead of a bottle of diet drink for Lady Mary. The Countess of Mansfield acquitted herself in a capital style as a Gypsey. This was only what might be expected, as her ladyship had an opportunity of studying among her neighbours of Hampstead. It was this circumstance, probably, that decided her choice.
Mr. Richard Penn, in the character of a Match-woman, having addressed a Parrot by its familiar name, roused all the jealousy of Mr. Porter, in the character of Barnaby Brittle, who was crying out "Pol-ly, my dear;" but Miss Ord, as a Fruit-girl, soon drew off their attention; and Miss De Grey, junior, as a Gingerbread-girl, completed the conquest by giving the Match-woman a glass of gin, and Barnaby Brittle a piece from her basket.
Some of the best theatrical critics admired Mr. R. Walpole's Lord Foppington, and Mr. Wood's Dickey Gossip; but the whole company were in ecstacy with Colonel Armstrong, in the character of a Country Bumpkin; Mr. Penn's, of Stoke Park, Ballad Singer; and Mrs. Smith's Lady Mary Duncan.
But the very focus of interest and anxiety was Mr. Champness, as a Courier Horn-boy, with great news, by express, from Sir Ralph Abercrombie; Lady Roufs, Mrs. Gooch, and Mrs. Hampden Williams, three Circassian Beauties, inquired whether it came by Constantinople, and for all their friends in the Seraglio? Mr. Vanneck, a Father Confessor, talked something of French atheists having met their doom. Mr. Penn, a Brave Baron of antient Times, viewed him with a contemptuous smile.
Next to the D—l in frightful appearance was Captain Bishopp as Nobody. He was dressed to resemble the limbs of a wild man of the woods, brought together by high pantaloons, and a huge face covering the whole head and body. The next of kin in the room was a Bear, by Mr. Colquhoun. This animal shewed uncommon instinct, or perhaps he had benefited by the instructions of his Leader, captain Towers, as he was perceived to single out the handsomest woman in the room, and hug them most mercifully. Fortunately he was muzzled, and the ladies received no injury.
Mr. Adam's French Barber, the Hon. Paul Irehys's Waggoner, the Hon. Mr. Lambe's Sir John Falstaff, the blazing countenance of Mr. Walpole's Bardolph, the prim and demure looks of Lord, Lady, and Miss Walpole's Quakers, the neatness of Mrs. Dawkins, and Miss Moore as House-maids, the clumsiness of Captain Joddrell's Clown, and Miss Smith's and Gardner's Witches, were also subjects of praise, and supported with great spirit. The lovely Marchioness of Donegal was a Hay-maker; her rake was the subject of wit and observation, as well pointed as the pitchfork wielded by some of her companions.
Miss May was a Collegian, but whether an Oxonian or a Cantab, no Soph in the place could discover.
Numerous as this list of characters appears, it might be taken from the assemblage, and still leave hundreds equally entitled to ecium on which we could dwell with pleasure. The fable hue which generally predominates on such occasions, gave way to the most brilliant eclat, all black dominoes being excluded; the characters were uncommonly numerous, the fancy-dresses most splendid, and the display of jewellery rich beyond example. The company began to assemble at nine o'clock. A simple and elegant Sandwich supper was laid out in the lower apartments at once. About two the dancing recommenced, and
continued till after five, when the company all departed.
FOR RENT, The House I now occupy, on Square No. 142, near the President's house, for six months from the first of August next. Possession will be given at that time. NICHOLAS KING. July 20, 1801. ep2w
A SCOW. To be Sold, if applied for immediately, An excellent SCOW, 38 feet long, by 11 feet wide, lined throughout with 1 1/4 inch plank, and is now in thorough repair, and well calculated for carrying grain or sand, or six cords wood per load. It may be seen at Dyer's ferry, Eastern Branch, where the terms may be known by applying to JOHN L. NAYLOR, or to BENJ. MORRIS, in the New-Jersey venue. July 20, 1801. d3t
Intending to leave the city in October next, I am desirous of disposing of my Furniture, two Negro Men, one a cook, the other an officer and coachman, and a pair of very well gaited Riding Horses. It may be a convenience to any family removing here, and taking the house I now occupy up on rent, to take the Furniture (which is but little worn) by purchase. The house, one of the six buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue, is pleasantly and conveniently situated, and the furniture, which is tolerably well fitted to it, will be reduced in price in proportion to the wear and tare, and change of fashion, shall have made right. ENJ. MIN GR. YSON ORR. July 20, 1801. ep4w
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 July 20, 1801. faw6w
Washington, July 15, 1801. At a meeting this day at Mr. Rhodes's Hotel, of several of the subscribers to a MARKET, to be built on Pennsylvania Avenue, agreeably to advertisement, the following resolutions were adopted, viz. 1st. That Edward Eno be authorised to collect the subscriptions. 2d. That William Brent be appointed Treasurer. 3d. That James Hoban and Clotworthy Stephenson be appointed a committee to engage Contractors to carry into execution the building according to a specification and plan left at the Commissioners Office. W. THORNTON, In behalf and at the request of the subscribers
NOTICE. THE following Slaves have been committed to the prison of Washington county, as runaways. WILL, who says he is the property of Jesse Robinet, has on light cot on cloaths, appears to be about 26 years of age, well made, of light complexion, and is about five feet five or six inches high. DEBBY WILLIAMS, alias PARKER, who says she belongs to Mrs. Pinckney, Old Town, Baltimore, about 22 years of age, of light complexion, and five feet 3 or 4 inches high; had on when committed an old dark calico gown. The owners of the above slaves are requested to take them away, or they will be sold according to law, to pay their prison fees. DANIEL CARROLL BRENT, Marshal of the District of Columbia. July 17. w.t.f.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD. DESERTED from this rendezvous the following soldiers belonging to the 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers; ISAAC DAVIS, about nineteen years old, five feet seven inches high, dark blue eyes, black hair, ruddy complexion, a farmer, born in this county and state. JAMES NELSON, twenty two years of age, five feet six inches high, grey eyes, dark hair, fair complexion, by occupation a farmer; he is also a native of this state and county. JAMES HENNING, twenty one years old, five feet nine and three quarter inches high, blue eyes, light hair, sallow complexion, by occupation a house carpenter, born in Berkeley county this state. They all deserted in their uniform. Any person apprehending the above deserters, shall receive thirty dollars upon delivering them to me, or any officer commanding in the service of the United States, or ten dollars for either of them. RICHARD S. BLACKBURN, Captain 1st Regt. artillerists and engineers, commanding. Dumfries, Prince William county, } Virginia, May 19, 1801. } 6w
Latest from Europe.
Philadelphia, July 17. Last evening arrived the ship Perseverance, capt. Williamson, after a passage of 46 days from Bristol, (Eng.)—By this arrival London papers to the 30th May have been received, which we have been politely favored with.
By these papers it appears that large reinforcements had gone to the British in Egypt, and that the Indian army had certainly arrived in the Red Sea. In consequence of which general Hutchinson had sent a detachment of his troops to meet those under genl. Baird, in order to facilitate their march and effect a junction.
Sir John B. Warren has Blockaded Gantheaume in the port of Leghorn.
The news from the Northern Powers looks favorable. Lord St. Helens left Copenhagen the 17th for Petersburg, and Lord Nelson was cruising off Bornholm on the 19th. The Danes have evacuated Hamburg.
The British are apprehensive that the preparations on the coast of France are intended for an invasion of Ireland, in consequence of which admiral Cornwallis resumed his station off Brest.
LONDON, May 18. It is asserted, that General La Fayette is appointed minister plenipotentiary from France to America, and will set out for that country as soon as the ratifications of the treaty are concluded.
May 26. The Leda and Active frigates, which have just sailed from Portsmouth, with a detachment of the guards for Egypt, have taken with them five tons of dollars.
A paper has lately been handed about, purporting to be a treaty of alliance and friendship between the late Emperor Paul and the French Consulate, in which among other matters, it is stipulated, that France and Russia are to make common cause against the several interests of Great Britain; and "that the forces of Russia shall enable France to secure the possession of Egypt; and Constantine, the second son of Paul, shall be proclaimed Emperor of Turkey, and rendered independent of Russia." May 28.
By yesterday's Hamburg mail, we learn, that Lord Minto had, on the 10th inst. received dispatches from the Earl of Elgin, stating, that our army in Egypt having made themselves masters of an important height which commanded a part of the city of Alexandria, Gen. Hutchinson entertained confident hopes of carrying that fortress by storm. We know not how to reconcile this intelligence with the situation of the hostile armies near Alexandria. The only heights which prevented our troops from acting directly against Alexandria, were, according to the most recent accounts, those occupied by the French forces under the command of Menou, situated near Pompey's Pillar, to the north-east of Alexandria. As they were admitted in our official intelligence to have their main body strongly entrenched upon these heights, it follows that they must have been dislodged from that advantageous position in consequence of an action fought since the 21st of March, or that despairing of making an effectual resistance, they have either retired into the interior of the country, or thrown themselves into the fortress of Alexandria.
Our private correspondence states, on the authority of letters received from Italy, that Gantheaume's squadron was blockaded on the 3d inst. in the port of Leghorn, by Sir J. B. Warren's squadron.
We learn with great satisfaction, that reinforcements have been dispatched from Malta to Egypt, and there is no doubt that detachments from the garrisons of Gibraltar and Minorca, which are better enabled to spare them, have been also sent to gen. Hutchinson.
We understand, that dispatches received at a late hour last night by government from Lord Elgin, state the arrival in the Red Sea, of the troops from the East-Indies, destined to co-operate with gen. Hutchinson against the French in Egypt. They consist of 1200 men from the Cape of Good-Hope, 2,000 from the Presidency of Bombay, and 800 from Ceylon. The naval force was commanded by Sir H. Popham, and the military by gen. Baird.
A detachment of our troops had been sent up the country by gen. Hutchinson, who had received information of the approach of the India army, in order to facilitate the march of these succours, and effect a junction with them.
In consequence of the disputes between England and the Northern powers, the

king of Sweden, by a proclamation, dated Carlscrona, 22d of April, has declared all vessels neutral but the English, for the importation of Swedish products until further notice, upon payment of the usual duties.
Lord Nelson continued, on the 19th with his squadron of Bornholm, and Lord St. Helen's left Copenhagen for Petersburg on the 17th.
CORK, May 26.
By the concurring testimony of various persons lately returned from Paris, the health of the Chief Consul, is at present in a very precarious state.
Some physicians have even limited the utmost probable duration of his existence to six months. The pale cadaverous look that he has lately assumed is not the only symptom from whence these forbodings are drawn; nor are our victories in Egypt at all likely to act as a restorative. It must be admitted that neither the habit of his mind nor of his body is a subject of envy.
PARIS, May 13.
A letter from Smyrna, of the 2d April, says, "A vessel has just arrived here from Jaffa, which brings news that on the 26th March, a battle was fought near Alexandria, between the French and English; in which the latter lost 1400 men; and had re-embarked the remainder."
May 21.
It is said that Mr. Murray the ambassador from the United States to the Batavian Republic, and one of those who signed the treaty of peace between France and America, is to repair to Paris, in order to remove some trifling difficulties which stand in the way of the complete and full ratification of this treaty.
May 25.
General Moreau arrived here yesterday. It was reported at Semlin on the 2d of May, that the Grand Seignior was dead.
OF HAMBURGH.
We have the pleasure to announce, that Mr. Parish, late of Hamburg, has received letters from Hamburg, officially, from the Senate, by the mail which arrived last night, stating the agreeable intelligence, that the Danish garrison which had occupied that town since the 20th of March, were to evacuate the city on the 23d of May, the day after the mail came away.
FRENCH NEWS FROM EGYPT.
From the London Courier.
We received this morning by express, the Paris Papers to the 28th instant. The Moniteur has at length broken the silence it has so long preserved with respect to the affairs of Egypt. On the 15th of May a flag of truce arrived at Marfeilles with the garrison of Aboukir, and some other French prisoners. One of them a chef d'escadron, who was taken in the battle of the 21st of March, has made a deposition, which the Moniteur has published. This officer states, that the amount of the French troops engaged in the battle, did not exceed 7,000 men including 600 cavalry; that the English force was 13,000 men, who occupied the ancient lines of the camp of the Romans, having their left flanked by the Lake Madieh, and their right by the sea. Of the battle itself he gives no details; but adds that the loss was great on both sides. Both parties preserved their respective positions after the battle. The remainder of the French army is waiting for the Grand Vizier at the outlines of the Desert. The garrison of Alexandria is said to be capable of making a vigorous defence, and to be well supplied with necessaries. The fort of Aboukir made but a feeble resistance, and its surrender, after so short a siege, is stated by the French officer, to have produced a considerable sensation in the French army. The natives are affirmed to be well disposed to the French, and Murad Bey has resisted all the offers made by the grand Vizier, declaring it to be his intention to co-operate heartily with General Menou. The fide of Syria is defended by 5000 Coptes, commanded by a French General.
The vessel in which this officer came sailed from Aboukir on the 30th of March, leaving in the harbour between 6 and 7000 Turkish troops. On the 23d of April she arrived at Malta, where she remained some days. During her stay there, two 64 gun ships, and twelve transports, with one thousand troops on board, sailed for Egypt, to reinforce the British army.
It was, as we said some days ago, Gantheaume's squadron that appeared off Leghorn. It made scarcely any stay there, but proceeded on its destination. It consists of seven ships and 8 frigates.
The French papers contain no other news of importance. The new King of Tuscan-ny arrived at Paris on the 27th, and in the afternoon arrived at Malmaison accompanied by the Spanish Ambassador, who introduced him to the Chief Consul.
The Batavian Constitution is speedily to undergo another revision.
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, JULY 20, 1801.
Extract of a letter received by the America, from Liverpool, to a respectable mercantile house in Philadelphia.
London May 12, 1801.
JAMES MURRAY, Esq. American Consul.
I have this day, received a letter from James H. Cathcart, Esq. our consul at Tripoli dated March 18th, informing that all hopes of an accommodation with the Bashaw of that Regency, had subsided and that he was convinced hostilities would commence against the United States, within 60 days from that date, you will be pleased to communicate this information to our countrymen in your district.
I am truly yours, (Signed) S. WILLIAMS.
At Augusta (Geo.) the mercury in Fahrenheit's thermometer on the 6th of June stood at the extraordinary height of 101 degrees, and on the following day at 100 degrees.
RICHARD CUTTS, the republican candidate, is unquestionably elected a representative in Congress for the third Eastern district of Massachusetts.
According to letters from Vienna, the Austrian army is to be recruited to 300,000 men; a fact which excites much astonishment and speculation, and gives rise to fears that the present continental peace will be but a short truce.
LONGEVITY.
Died some time in April last, in Stephen-Town, in the mayor of Courtland, John Hempstead, aged 106 years. He was a native of New-York; was a robust hearty man until a few years since. He retained his senses and recollection until the last.
DIED—On Sunday the 8d may, at Edinburgh in consequence of a fall from his horse, Mr. H. Mackenzie, Comptroller-General of Taxes for Scotland, better known to the world as the author of "The Man of Feeling," "The Mirror," and other ingenious performances.
Humboldt, at Caracas, in South-America, has made some interesting observations on the motion of the barometer near the equator. "I have read," says he, "in the Transactions of the Bengal Society, that the barometer rises and falls there regularly every 24 hours. Here, in South-America, its motion is more astonishing. There are four atmospherical tides every 24 hours, which depend only on the attraction of the sun. The mercury falls from 9 o'clock in the morning till 4 o'clock in the evening. It rises from 4 till 11 o'clock; it falls from 11 o'clock till half past 4 in the morning; it rises again from that time till 9 o'clock: neither winds, storms, nor earthquakes, have any influence on this motion." This fact goes a great way towards proving the general truth of Mr. Howard's theory, given in the Philosophical Magazine, Vol. VII.
The importation of West-India produce has not borne proportion to our increase of territory. The following is an abstract from the list of imports of sugar and rum into London, between the years 1750 and 1800:
   Cwt. of Sugar. Galls. of Rum.     1750 630,340 607,074   1760 1,047,796 669,358   1770 1,377,139 997,136   1780 1,176,371 1,236,579   1790 1,266,647 1,521,051   1792 1,343,559 1,631,020   1793 1,469,469 2,209,722   1794 1,809,908 1,911,646   1795 1,409,284 1,087,685   1796 1,581,565 1,935,347   1797 1,393,952 925,457   1798 1,737,932 2,392,015  
Sugar imported into all ports of England: From 1700 to 1715, aver. each year, 33,332 hds. 1715 to 1730 — 60,459 1731 to 1742 — 62,428 1743 to 1757 — 76,336 1758 to 1770 — 145,669 1770 to 1799 — 192,449
[Lond. pub.]
At the Sale of NON RESIDENTS LAND FOR TAXES,
Agreeably to an Act of the Kentucky Assembly, we purchased, at Frankfort in November last, for a Company, the following described Tracts.
   In whose name listed. quantity Acres. For whom entered, &c. County and water Course. Quantity purchased     Philips and Young, 100000 Philips & Young, Scott & Franklin Eagle crk. the whole   James Steele, 30000 Wm. Pollard, Hardin, Green river, do.   Samuel Sackett 3000 A. Barbour, Bourbon Licking, do.   Richard Johnson, 2000 R. Johnson, Jefferson, Floyd's Fork, do.   Samuel Pearl, 500 S. Pearl, Mason, Farrows creek, do.   Andrew Byrn, 500 Mason, do.   Alexander Stewart, 500 Campbell, do.   Dubartis Shepherd, 3000 D. Shepherd, Clarke, Kentucky river, 2900 acr.   John Archer, 2000 J. Archer, Harrison, Williams river, the whole   John Donnell, 1400 Donnell & Barr, Licking, do.   same, 2000 Dozier & Barr, Clarke, 1999 acr.   same, 2644 3-4 J. Donnell, Mason, 2600 acr.   Lawrence Slaughter, 1231 Dozier and Barr, Mason, 650 acr.   Adam Banks. 3750 L. Slaughter, Mason, 3500 acr.   Richard Johnson, 100 A. Banks, Mason, 40 acr.   Elizabeth James, 200 R. Johnson, Mason, 150 acr.   R. Ridgely, & S. Nathans, 1000 W. Robison & Co. Mason, 150 acr.   J. P. Harrison. 3000 Ridgely & Ship, Franklin, 2900 acr.   663 J. P. Harrison. Shelby, 39 acr.  
As we are desirous that the original owners of these lands should know who has become the purchasers, and are willing to give them up to the proper claimants on receiving an adequate compensation; we have thought proper to give notice, that applications from any person interested, made before the 1st of September next, will be attended to; after that time we will not consider ourselves bound to give the former a proprietor preference, but will proceed to do the best we can with our purchases. Letters addressed to either of the subscribers in Lexington, postage paid, will be answered.
C. BANK, THOMAS BODLEY, } Agents for the Company,
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 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. iawa
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 fourth 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.
Davies's phyologia; 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,
Take Notice—The gentlemen
composing the company of militia formerly commanded by captain Lewis Williamson, are requested to return the arms and accoutrements that have been delivered them, belonging to the state of Maryland, to the subscriber at the Navy Yard.
By order of the brigadier general, SAMUEL N. SMALLWOOD. First Lieutenant
May 29, 1801. epim
Received by the Lucinda from
Bristol, via Philadelphia, three cases Ketland's fowling guns, tin in boxes, brass kettles, frying pans, &c.
Also on hand, Nails in basks, and a general assortment of ironmongery, Cutlery, saddlery, and brass wares, which will be sold by the quantity or otherwise, on reasonable terms at the subscriber's store on Jersey Avenue Capitol Hill.
HENRY INGLE. May 22, 1801. ep4w
FOR SALE,
A young Negro Girl,
About 15 years old—Apply at this office. April 22, 1801. tf
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 south 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 incumbrance, 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, 10, April 1801. cf. tf
TO BE RENTED,
THE store lately in the tenure of Doctor Galt Tasspy and Co. Its situation for business is preferable to any other in the City, being on the Pennsylvania Avenue, between the President's House and the Capitol, and within a few yards of the spot on which is to be immediately erected the market house.
JOSIAS W. KING.
At the Capitol.
May 29, 1801. 31d3
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 stableage sufficient for 60 horses—They hope to merit public patronage.
City of Washington, Nov. 24, 1800. tf
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 PROUF.
City of Washington. December 12, 1800. tf
N. B. A few Tons of good Meadow Hay, a Kiln of Bricks, and some Cord wood.
W. P.
TO BE SOLD.
NINE Lots on square 693, on each of which is one two story brick house, six fronting on New-Jersey Avenue, and three on E Street south.
Also,
One lot on square 802, fronting on 3d street, on this lot there is a cellar dug and walled up, and the first floor of Joists laid, designed for a house 25 feet 7 inches front, by 36 feet deep—An indisputable title will be given. Terms of payment one fourth part cash on the day of sale, the remainder in three equal annual payments with interest. For farther particulars enquire of.
MOFFAT & NESMITH.
New-Jersey Avenue, June 12, 1801.
2aw N. L. & J. W.

A REVIEW
Of the improvements, progress and state of Medicine in the eighteenth Century; read on the first day of the nineteenth Century before the Medical Society of South-Carolina, in pursuance of their vote, and published at their request.—By DAVID RAMRAY, M. D. 8vo. pp. 47. Charleston. Young, 1801.
THE author of this pamphlet affords an instructive example of extent and versatility of talents, and of the efficacy of diligence and enterprize. At one time we behold him immersed in the toil and anxiety of an arduous profession; and, at another, assisting and presiding in the public councils of his country. Lately we found him recording the eventful Story of our revolution and of the infancy of our national independence; now he recurs to his stores of medical learning; and instructs us by a retrospective view of the progress, improvements and state of medicine in the course of the eighteenth century. In all these departments of exertion he has obtained much commendation. The city in which he resides will gratefully attest the value of his services as a physician, for a series of years—the United States, and particularly the state of South-Carolina, will long remember his patriotic labours; the suffrage of the public, both in Europe and America, combines to rank him amongst the best of our historians; and the pamphlet now under consideration will be found fully to maintain that distinction which the author has hitherto held among American writers.
In order to exhibit a clearer view of what has been done in the course of the eighteenth century, Dr. R. carries back his inquiries to the effects of the new mode of philosophizing, by the method of induction, proposed by Lord Bacon. This recalled men's minds from the pursuit of speculation, and directed their attention to facts and experiments. Under the influence of this improvement, Newton formed his system of the world, and Sydenham gained a deeper insight into the nature and treatment of diseases. To these preparatory steps in the seventeenth century, he adds the discovery of the circulation of the blood by Harvey, of the lacteals by Asellius, and of the thoracic duct by Pecquet.
Entering at length, on that which properly belongs to the eighteenth century, Dr. R. holds up to view the great systematic writers who have chiefly succeeded in attracting distinction. Among these he ranks Boerhaave, Hoffman, Cullen, Brown and Darwin. Dr. R. omits to place in this group the name of Stahl, probably under the impression that his fanciful system is now too far exploded to deserve commemoration. But when we recollect the talents of that professor, the popularity of his doctrines, the number and ardour of his followers, the prevalence of his system in Germany, and the tincture which his principles still give to modern opinions, the propriety of the omission may, perhaps, deserve to be questioned. In the list of the systematic writers of the eighteenth century, we find likewise our eminent countryman Professor Rush.
Dr. R. next proceeds more particularly to enumerate the principal discoveries and improvements of the eighteenth century in anatomy, surgery, midwifery, materia medica, and the theory and practice of physic. Our limits do not permit us to exhibit even an outline of the variety of subjects mentioned under these heads. Full justice is also done to the period under review in respect of the multiplication of societies or associations of learned men for literary and scientific purposes, and especially for the improvement of medicine and the auxiliary branches of philosophy. Nor does our author forget to render homage to the charity and benevolence of the century just elapsed, manifested in the institution and endowment of hospitals and infirmaries, far beyond what had been known in former ages.
The progress of natural history, and especially of botany, in the eighteenth century, receives from Dr. R. a proper degree of attention. The manner in which medicine has been enriched from this source is known to every body. The laudable beginning of a collection towards an American Materia Medica, made by Professor Barton, of Philadelphia, is justly considered by our author, as, indeed, it must be by every judicious person, as an attempt of the highest importance, and in every respect entitled to the patronage of the public.
Dr. R. dwells with great pleasure on the progress and improvements of chemistry in the course of the late century. He chiefly considers it in its relations to the practice of physic. In this view of the subject he
takes notice of the enlargement of the materia medica which chemistry has procured, of the analysis of vegetable and animal substances and of the atmosphere, and of the prospect of advantage from pneumatic medicine.
As a specimen of Dr. R.'s mode of treating his subject, we extract the following paragraphs.
"In estimating the benefits that have resulted to mankind from the labours of physicians in the eighteenth century, we must extend our views far beyond the administration of medicines. In that enlightened period, the air we breathe, the aliment we consume, the clothes we wear, the passions and habits in which we indulge, the peculiarities incidental to our profession, age, and situation; and, in short, every circumstance connected with health or disease, has been the object of medical investigation. The great triumphs obtained over the small-pox and scurvy, have not been so much from medicine, as from the application of medical principles. Who can tell the extent of the benefits that have resulted from the pointed recommendation of medical men in favour of cleanliness? Attention to this matter, we are informed by Buchan, has nearly exterminated cutaneous diseases from all decent families in Britain. It has also extinguished the germ of infection, and often prevented the ravages of pestilence. The writings of this useful popular writer have, within the last forty years, been read by thousands, and enlightened them in the great art of preserving health.
"In addition to several improved systems of medicine, and to the treatises already mentioned on the diseases of seamen, and of armies, the physicians of the eighteenth century have obliged the world with valuable publications on the diseases of literary persons, of tradesmen, of pregnant and puerperal women, of children, on fevers of almost every species, on the plague, on melancholy and mental derangement, on the follies of youth, and the infirmities of age. They have treated largely of aliment, and minutely of the medical police of cities, and on the means of obviating infection and contagion. They have lighted up a blaze of medical knowledge, by which a few diseases have been nearly consumed; some destroyed in their embryo state; others entirely prevented; and all, more or less, mitigated. They have also seconded and enforced the claims of our holy religion; for they have demonstrated, from acknowledged laws of the animal economy, that the cheerful hopes which the doctrines of the Christian religion inspire, and the restraints which it imposes (particularly its divine precepts enjoining the forgiveness of injuries) have a direct and positive influence in promoting the health of the body, as well as the purity of the mind. On the whole, medical philosophy, in its late wide ranges, has effected a revolution in the habits of men, and in the nature and treatment of their diseases, which has eminently conducted to the lessening of human misery.
"In support of this assertion, I observe, that the plague, pestilential fevers, putrid scurvy and dysenteries, have much abated in the eighteenth century. This is true, in the great scale of enlightened nations, though the general prevalence of the yellow fever, in the sea ports of the United States, for the last eleven years, seems to form a local exception. Platerus, a physician at Basil, who lived in the seventeenth century, gives an account of seven different pestilential fevers, or plagues, which afflicted that city within seventy years. Bartholine mentions five that raged in Denmark in the same period. In the city of London in the fourteenth century there were five; in the fifteenth, two; in the sixteenth, seven; and in the seventeenth, there were four. The first of these began in 1603, and continued, more or less every year, till 1611; the second in 1625; the third in 1636, and continued for thirteen years; and the fourth in 1665. In these four visitations of the plague in the seventeenth century, the city of London lost 133,985 persons. In York, 11,000 died of an epidemic fever in 1691. In the eighteenth century, nothing of the kind has taken place in any part of England, and only one (and that 80 years ago) in Marseilles, which, in former centuries, used to be the head-quarters of the plague.
"That this abatement of the plague has, at least, in part, been effected by the smiles of Providence on the modern improvements, suggested by members of our profession, may be inferred from this circumstance—that Constantinople, Aleppo, Grand Cairo, and other places, on which the sun of medical philosophy has never shone, do now, and throughout the eighteenth century, have suffered as much from the ravages of this disease, as they had ever done before.
"From a review of all that has been said, we have reason to congratulate ourselves, that we were born in this enlightened pe-
riod—the age of investigation, of philosophy, and of medicine.
"While we bid adieu to the eighteenth century, we cannot but recollect its many triumphs. In it the human race have been more safely ushered into life, and in the passage through it, many of their unavoidable sufferings have been considerably lessened. In every branch of medical knowledge has been carried to an amazing extent. Every department of the healing art has been improved. The chances for health and life have been enlarged. The avenues to death have been contracted. The deal have been taught to understand, the blind to see, and the apparently dead have been raised to life. We may reasonably indulge an honest pride for having been bred to so useful a profession, and for being members of so respectable a fraternity. Among the practitioners of medicine, in the eighteenth century, are to be numbered, several of the greatest, wisest, and best of men, who have been the ornaments of human nature, and the benefactors of mankind. In support of this assertion I need only call your attention to the names of Beerhave, Ruytch, Haller, Monro, Chestelden, Hoffman, Heister, Mead, Pettit, Sloane, Morgagni, Pringle, Cullen, Gregory, Hunter, Fothergill, Trenchin, Port, Warren, and many others who were the lights of the world, and men of the most extensive erudition, and unbounded philanthropy; who spent their lives in acquiring and diffusing a knowledge of the means of prolonging life, preserving health and lessening human misery.
"In our own state, what ancient inhabitant of Carolina who has not heard the names of Lining, Moultrie, Chalmers and Garden, mentioned with the greatest respect, as gentlemen and physicians of the first character, for usefulness and respectability. Since the establishment of our society we have been witnesses of the great personal merit, and the high place in the hearts of our citizens, which was held by Turnbull and Fayloux; and of the high expectations which were formed from the youthful merit of Bantram and Lehre."
"We are pleased to observe the respect and justice which Dr. R. thus renders to the eminent medical characters of South-Carolina. Every citizen of that state must exult in recollecting how signally it has been distinguished by a number of physicians, whose services will long be remembered with gratitude, and whose abilities will be revered by posterity. We hope such examples will be contemplated with veneration in every part of America, and that other states of the Union, in which medical science, from whatever cause, may have been less successful, will become envious of the reputation and fame of South-Carolina."
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.
ROBERT WARE PEACOCK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND CONVEYANCER.
HATH removed his office to north F street, on square 290; where conveyances of every kind are drawn with accuracy and dispatch; business transacted on commission; titles to City Lots investigated. His practice of the Law will be confined to the courts of Washington and Alexandria Counties, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
City of Washington, July 8, 1801. 3tawf
BROHAWN AND BOYS,
BEG leave to inform the citizens of Washington, that they have taken Mr. N. Young's wharf, very conveniently situated to the Capitol and President's Square; where they have opened a LUMBER YARD, and expect to go pretty largely in that line of business; and in about two or three weeks will have a general assortment of the first quality of groceries that can be procured in Baltimore.
Washington June 24, 1801.
N. B. Any gentleman wishing to apply for bills of scantling of any size or dimensions, may obtain it at the shortest notice by applying as above. tf
The Schooner 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 BROHAWN and BOYS.
Washington July 15, 1801.
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 style 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.
wtf
For Sale and to Rent,
TWO elegant two story Brick DWELLING HOUSES, situate on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue, a little to the west of the President's Square. Each house contains two parlours and passage on first floor; on second, two rooms with fire-places, and well finished garrets, cellars and kitchens. In the front of the buildings extending to the avenue, is a neat yard planted with trees, palisadoed, &c. The situation, in point of health and contiguity to the public buildings, is equal to any in the city, and is well adapted for private families, or to accommodate genteel Boarders. The title is indisputable. The terms will be moderate for part cash or slaves. For particulars inquire of OWEN ROBERTS, on the premises, or of
THOMAS HERTY, Conveyancer, City of Washington, May 25, 1801. xy
NOTICE.
THE following negroes have been committed to the gaol of Washington County, District of Columbia. Their owners are requested to come and release them, otherwise they will be sold as the law directs, to pay prison expences.
ROBERT—The property of Richard Sanford, of Orange county, Virginia; five feet six inches high, about 24 years of age, has on a white negro cotton jacket and trowsers, considerably worn.
JOHN BUTLER—(Who says he is a free man) about five feet ten inches high, 25 years of age, has on an old blue cloth coat, and drab trowsers.
ANDREW—Five feet four inches high, 33 or 34 years of age, has on an old blue coat and a pair of old negro cotton breeches; says he is the property of Mr. Edward Gantt, of Berkeley county, Virginia.
JOHN PETERS—The property of Mrs. Rormdell, of Calvert county, Maryland; about five feet six inches high, 53 years old, has on a white negro cotton jacket and trowsers.
DANIEL C. BRENT, Marshal of the district of Columbia. April 27. lawtf
NAVY DEPARTMENT, JULY 6, 1801.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT PROPOSALS will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Navy until the 31st inst. inclusively, for the supply of all Rations which may be required for the Marine Corps, from the 1st day of October next, to the 30th day of September 1802, at the City of Washington, at Baltimore, at Norfolk, or any other place or places, where marines may be recruited, marched or stationed, within the states of Maryland or Virginia:—The Ration to consist of eighteen ounces of bread or flour, or where neither can be obtained, of one quart of rice or one and an half pound of sifted or bolted Indian meal, one and a quarter pound of fresh beef, one pound salted beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted pork, and when fresh meat is issued, salt at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations; one half gill of rum, whiskey or other ardent spirits; soap at the rate of four pounds candles at the rate of one and an half pound, and vinegar at the rate of two quarts, for every hundred rations. The price of the several component parts of the ration, as well as substitutes and alternatives must be specified.
H. DEARBORN, Acting Secretary of Navy. eptA
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. WILN's store, Market street, Baltimore.
GEORGE ANDREWS.
Who wishes to let a BRICK HOUSE, the west side of the President's house. May 8, 1801. 17