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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. II.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CXXI.
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JUDICIARY POWER.
The questions respecting the judicial power of the United States, which are about to engage our public mind, are of the first degree of importance. They forcibly impress upon us the spirit of Solon's law, by which each citizen was required to take some side, in the divisions of public sentiment, and to promote that decision, which was most conducive to the general harmony and welfare of the state.
Under such impressions the following reflections are offered for publication. There can be no reasonable question, that the science and practice of government, within the last thirty years, have made advancements, beyond all former examples, and that the progress of both, is in a great measure due to the disquisitions and institutions, which have arisen from the American revolution.
But still our knowledge and our practice are limited and immature, and consequently on the system of political doctrine, most prevalent in America, have been ingrained a number of errors which are eagerly cherished by many, dimly discerned by some, and faintly arraigned even by the few, to whom they are more manifest. Among the most prominent of these, seem to be our opinions and our practices, so partial to the dignity of judicial power , and the inviolability of judicial character and office.
Upon this fond and popular prepossession, professional, subtlety has erected a doctrine by which our judiciary claims to be a primitive, and independent power in the government, which when once embodied in the person of a venerable judge, forms a reciprocal and indissoluble union between them, which can never be rightfully separated by any act of the government, or any other cause except by resignation, by impeachment, or by death.
I will endeavour to examine impartially and lucidly, some of the arguments that pertain to this extraordinary position.
1. The most simple, most intelligible, and considered purely and in the abstract as government, the most natural form of government, is when all power is directed by one will . This is despotism . In the forms of government which are called free , that is, where the despotism inherent in all governments, is directed by several independent wills, it seems impossible to form clear and distinct ideas, of more than two primitive and independent classes of power. One which prescribes rules of action, and assigns the quantity of coercion and pain that is to follow the non-observance of them; this is the legislative power : another, which watches over the observance of the rules prescribed, and applies the assigned quantity of coercion and pain when they are infringed; this is the executive power . Now the courts of law, in whatever country they have existed, are in all their functions and attributes, strictly within the definition of executive power, and by the common sense of mankind, in all ages, have been considered as a branch of that power. In the monarchies of the world, there can be no question, and in other forms of government, wherever a tolerably intelligible division of power has been made, the same result is found; if there be exceptions, they are extremely rare.
2. If the judiciary be a part of the executive power, and the pretensions of our courts of law are admitted, what a strange and absurd confusion of principles, must our government exhibit! The general executive is checked and limited, with the most jealous vigilance, both in the exercise and duration of his office, while the department which administers the municipal laws, which is in most immediate contact with the individual citizens, to whose decisions their peace and safety are daily and hourly committed, must be left securely to plan its own aggrandizement, during the lives of its administrators!
3. If this power be not executive, of what nature is it? Is it as the old lawyers say it ought to be, justicia in abstracto , so pure, so wise, so unimpassioned, as fately to be placed in a situation, that in all other cases of power, has been as productive as it has been favourable to the projects of ambition? The history of juridical bodies, to go no farther than the monarchies of France and England, will furnish an answer to this question. In them we find the spirit of corps, the lust of power strongly predominating, and on many occasions, the ambitious, the venal and the vindictive
passions displayed in all their force. Has the conduct of our federal courts of law furnished proofs, on which a just claim can be founded, to extraordinary and hazardous confidence? However respectable our judicial corps may be, however dear many of its members are to those who know them best, to such proofs are not visible; they certainly cannot be looked for, in the extra-judicial rants of many of them, addressed to grand juries, on party politics, in the extreme rigour and activity, with which the odious sedition act was executed; in severe imprisonment for apparently slight contempt; in the citation of a printer before their tribunal, for a publication, that might have been uttered with safety, fifty years ago in Paris; in their persevering efforts, to strengthen the perpetuity of their own tenure of office, even at the expence of the legislative power of repeal; in their indiscriminate adhesion to the maxims of the late executive, and their open attack on the seemingly just powers of the present, by their late prodigious mandamus.
4. One of the most valuable and universal principles in our theory and practice of government, is the principle of representation. Its value consists, first in its securing to the people, a frequent exercise of their natural sovereignty, and secondly in its securing a sufficient change and rotation in the holders of delegated power: its value originates, in a moral principle equally just and equally extensive, that perpetuity in the tenure of power and emolument, is, at once, a stimulus and a cause, almost sine qua non , of the successful usurpation and abuse of both. The more universal a principle may be, in any system of human conduct, the more dangerous is a deviation from it, in the details of practice, "the smallest change in the constitution, (according to Mr. Montesquieu), is attended with the ruin of its principles." Book viii. ch. 14. It is not easy to imagine a more prevalent principle in any system, than are the principles of election and change in the several forms of government, subsisting in the United States. Yet this inestimable principle must be in part controlled, and therefore put to hazard, if the claims of our courts of law are conceded to them.
5. It is a universal maxim in legislation, that the power of repeal is co-extensive with the power of enactment. The abandonment of this reasonable and necessary principle, is another consequence of the admission of these claims.
6. Englishmen have boasted extravagantly of the independence of their judges; of their judges be it remarked, and not of the judicial power. These boasts, aided by the splendid flattery of Montesquieu, and the elaborate encomiums of De Lolme, seem to have produced with us, the heedless prepossession, in favour of judicial independence, without which, the present dangerous pretensions of our courts of law, would probably never have come forth. Now what is the boasted independence of the English judges? They have five salaries , their offices are held during good behaviour , they do not expire on the demise of the king , but they are till his courts , their power is founded in the fiction of his being virtually present in them, the judges in their appointment and promotion are the creatures of his will, and the same will can hurl them from office, on the address of both Houses of parliament. This boasted independence then, in its amount consists in the vague expression of good behaviour , which may be interpreted to mean any thing , and a sors did but imperfect independence , with respect to salary . Not a trace is to be found, of any thing like a primitive independent branch of the government.
7. In what then consists the extraordinary independence of the American courts of law? The judges, as in England, have five salaries , they hold their offices during good behaviour , there is no king (thank heaven) by whose life or death , their condition can be influenced, but still in their appointment and promotion they are creatures of executive will, and the court itself , which sustains their civil existence , which in the language of the logicians, is their subject of inference , is the creature of legislative will.
To a common observer, this counter-current of the principles and practices of governments, of general historic evidence, and of the particular mother-doctrine of England, would seem to make it, nearly as hard for the American as for the English judge , to arrive at a just title to primitive independent power.
I am not sure, that the matter does not appear in the same light, to our judges themselves, for as far as I have heard or seen the subject discussed, they
are fond of resorting to topics of popular prepossession, or to certain mysterious constructions and inferences of the words of the Constitution . I know that on the latter ground, the subject is susceptible of a great deal of verbal jargon, and metaphysical quibble; every written instrument, that attempts to give general regulations for things, that admit of endless diversity in detail, as was truly said of our present constitution by one of its founders, may be made to mean any thing. But let us quote the words of the constitution alluded to, and endeavour to come at a fair and plain exposition of their meaning.
8. Art. III. Sec. 1. "The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts, as the Congress from time to time, may ordain and establish . The judges both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation which shall not be diminished, during their continuance in office."
The first sentence of this section declares in the most general and abstract terms possible, that the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in courts. The power of creating these courts, is next given to Congress. The extent of the power given, is described by the potent words ordain and establish ; the very expression put by the convention into the mouths of the people, for creating the constitution itself; its discretion is strongly implied in the words from time to time ; the copulative and , subjects the possible supreme court and the possible inferior courts equally to the power, conferred on their constitutional creators, whenever they shall think fit to give them being.
The Congress first met on the 4th day of March 1789. The government was soon organized and put into full motion. The Western government and executive departments were established, and salaries appointed. The settlement of public accounts and the custody of public records provided for—even beacons, buoys, and piers were ordained, and many other acts performed, while the primitive, independent courts and judges, never had any visible existence, until the month of October following.
9. The Virginia convention of 1776, seem to have been under an extraordinary prejudice, in favour of judicial power; and the third article of the constitution established by them, gives much more colour to the present pretensions of our courts of law, than the analogous section of the federal constitution. Yet the assembly of Virginia has more than once changed their courts, fond encomb, as the phrase is, and with apparent advantage to the administration of the laws. The judges indeed, very naturally complained and protested, and their doings herein have been quoted by a late writer, in support of the present claims of the federal courts. Strange! That a member of a court, or even an ardent chieftain, should quote the decision of one set of men in their own cause, to prop the authority of another set of men, in a similar decision; great law authorities have declared, 1st, morally, that more an act of parliament to ordain a man to be judge in his own cause, it would be a void act ; and 2d, Especially, for it is a manifest contradiction that a man can be agent and patient in the same thing .
In fine, the independence of the English judges, such as it is, is confessedly a point gained in favour of the liberties of that country, though I think its importance has been greatly overrated; but it wears a different aspect in its relation to our government. The safety and propriety of incorporating this uncongenial and exotic feature of oligarchy, into our constitutions, even in its most undisturbed form, admits of question, and deserves enquiry. But when attempts are made to give farther growth and strength to this feature, when a character is claimed for the judiciary so inviolable , that the legislature cannot, of right, repeal its own act constituting a court, and so indelible that the rights and attributes of the judges, shall still survive the wrongful repeal, it is surely time for the people and their representatives to scrutinize the whole subject with the strictest attention. It seems, in law language, to be a new case , and has no parallel in past times, that I know, unless the reader should find some points of resemblance in the famous doctrine of the sacerdotal corps, relative to the indelible character impressed or imprinted by
* One Supreme Court indeed is specified: but it would be nonsense to talk of two or more Supreme Courts.
priestly ordination . The following is part of the account of this curious doctrine, as given by Dr. Campbell, in the 2d vol. of his admirable Lectures on Ecclesiastical History.
"One question is, wherein it consists; the other wherein it is imprinted. In answer to the former, relating to the quiddity of the character, as they love to express it, it has been observed, first negatively, that it cannot be an infusion of grace, as of Faith, Hope or Charity, because, say our profound disquisitors, all the seven sacraments confer Grace, whereas it is the three that cannot be repeated, the unrepeatable, which imprint a character; besides it can be neither grace nor virtue, for this other reason; both these may be lost, whereas the character is indelible. As little can it be a particular qualification, which fits a person for the discharge of the duties of the office, for a man may become totally unqualified by age and infirmities, or he may unqualify himself by vice. Besides, it has never been denied, that persons very ill qualified have been ordained, and never appeared one jot better qualified after their ordination than before. It could not be the gift of justification, because this is what the impenitent, in mortal sin, does not receive in any sacrament; and yet an impenitent in mortal sin may be ordained and receive the character."
"But to consider the thing, positively, there were who maintained, that it was a quality. Among these, there were four different opinions, according to the four sorts of qualities, distinguished in the schools. Some affirmed that it is a ritual power , others a habit or disposition , others a spiritual figure ; nor was the notion that it was a sensibile metaphysical quality , without its advocates. Some would have it to be a real relation, others a fabric of the mind; though it was by no means clear how far these considered it as removed from nothing. As to the second question, the ubi of the character, there was no less variety of sentiments than about the first, some placing it in the essence of the soul, others in the understanding; some in the will, and others more plausibly, in the imagination; others in the hands and in the tongue, but by the general voice the body was excluded. So that the whole of what they agreed in, amounted to this, that in the unrepeatable sacraments, as they call them, something, they know not what is imprinted, they know not how, on something in the soul of the recipient, they know not where, which never can be deleted."
"In regard to the indelibility all agreed, inasmuch that a bishop, priest or deacon may turn heretic or schismatic, deist or atheist , he still retains the character, and though not a christian man, he is still a christian bishop, priest or deacon; nay, though he be degraded from his office and excommunicated, he is, in respect of the character, still the same. Though he be cut off from the church, he is still a minister in the church. In such a situation to perform any of the sacred functions, would in him be deadly sin, but these would be equally valid as before; thus he may not be within the pale of the church himself, and yet be in the church a minister of Jesus Christ. He may openly and solemnly blaspheme God, and abjure the faith of Christ; he may apostatize to Judaism, Mahometism or to Paganism, he still retains the character; he may even become a priest of Jupiter or a priest of Baal, and still continue a priest of Jesus Christ. The character, say the schoolmen, is cancelled in the damned, but remains with the wicked to their greater disgrace and confusion; so that even in hell they are the ministers of Jesus Christ, and the messengers of the new covenant; nor is it cancelled in the blessed, but remains with them, for their greater glory and ornament."
JURIS-INCONSULTUS.
NOTICE.
LAST Monday George Walker paid up O'Levren Carr, in full of all demands when the lots advertised by Mr. P. T. Baker, were released with a final discharge to said Walker, and all those who had been his securities. The continuance therefore of Mr. Baker's advertisement after that day was an oversight common in such cases. Feb. 12, 1802.
The Business formerly carried on By Dr. WILLIAM ROGERS, Is continued, by Dr. WILLIAM H. GRAYHAM, Who informs the inhabitants of the District of Columbia, that his opportunities of improvement in the various branches of medicine, peculiarly entitles him to their favor. Jan. 29, 1802. cp6t
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT. February 2, 1802.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives, I now lay before you, 1. A return of ordnance, arms and military stores, the property of the United States.
2. Returns of muskets and bayonets fabricated at the armories of the United States, at Springfield and Harper's Ferry, and of the expenditures at those places; and,
3. An estimate of the expenditures which may be necessary for fortifications and barracks, for the present year.
Besides the permanent magazines established at Springfield, West-Point and Harper's Ferry, it is thought one should be established in some point convenient for the states of North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia; such a point will probably be found near the borders of the Carolinas, and some small provision by the legislature, preparatory to the establishment, will be necessary for the present year.
We find the United States in possession of certain iron mines and works, in the county of Berkeley, and state of Virginia, purchased, as is presumable, on the idea of establishing works for the fabrication of cannon and other military articles, by the public. Whether this method of supplying what may be wanted will be most advisable, or that of purchasing at market, where competition brings every thing to its proper level of price and quality, is for the legislature to decide; and if the latter alternative be preferred, it will rest for their further consideration in what way the subjects of this purchase may be best employed or disposed of. The Attorney-General's opinion on the subject of the title accompanies this.
There are, in various parts of the United States, small parcels of land which have been purchased, at different times, for cantonments and other military purposes. Several of them are in situations not likely to be accommodated to future purposes. The loss of the records prevents a detailed statement of these, until they can be supplied by enquiry; in the mean time, one of them, containing 88 acres, in the county of Essex, in N. Jersey, purchased in 1799 & sold the following year to Cornelius Venville and Andrew Codmas, though its price has been received, cannot be conveyed without authority from the legislature.
I enclose herewith a letter from the Secretary at War on the subject of the islands in the lakes and rivers of our Northern boundary, and of certain lands in the neighbourhood of some of our military posts, on which it may be expedient for the legislature to make some provisions.
TH: JEFFERSON.
February 2, 1802. Here follows, 1. A detached statement of ordnance, arms, &c. the property of the United States.
2. Return of muskets and bayonets fabricated at Springfield, from 1798, to Nov. 28, 1801, viz. 16,120 muskets, and 12,968 bayonets.
3. Expenditures of armoury at Springfield, from July 10, 1798, to Sept. 30, 1801, viz. 250,251 dollars.
4. Ditto at Harper's Ferry from Oct. 1, 1798, to June 30, 1801, viz. 75,214 dollars.
5. Muskets and bayonets fabricated at Harper's Ferry from Jan. 1, to Sept. 30, 1801, viz. 260 muskets, and 260 bayonets.
Estimate of expenditures necessary for erecting and completing Fortifications and Barracks for the year 1802. For repairs of plat forms and re-mounting cannon in Fort Constitution in Fortmouth harbour, New-Hampshire, 1,000
For completing fort Independence, and Barracks, &c. on Castle Island, in the harbour of Boston, 38,000
For completing two fortifications, of which already commenced, in and about the harbour of Newport, Rhode-Island, 1,500
For completing Fort Mifflin, near Philadelphia, 1,000
For erecting a battery and barracks near Norfolk, in Virginia, 12,000
For completing a battery near Wilmington, North-Carolina, 4,000
For completing the works in Georgia, 6,000
For a new enclosed work at Niagara, 3,000
For fundry repairs at Detroit, Michilimackinac, Chickasaw Bluffs, and Fort Massac, 4,000
Dolls. 70,500

LETTER from the ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Washington, 23th Jan. 1802.
It appears that Potts, Wilson and North, under the firm of George North and Co. have previously purchased of General Lee, on the 7th day of May, 1800, agreed with the United States to convey to them, in consideration of 22,000 dollars, two hundred and thirty acres of land, or about that quantity (describing it) with a furnace, mill, corn-mill, houses, improvement, with privileges, &c. & also the right of digging ore, which right they held under Gen. Lee, from Friend's ore bank, the United States being subject to pay the rent of 1000 dollars annually to said Lee, as a rent reserved to him. The consideration money was to be paid by the United States on their receiving a good title to the premises.
Lee, on the same day, by a similar agreement, engaged with the U. States to convey to them, by good and sufficient deeds, all his iron ore in a tract of land of about 1500 acres, and on which is a bank of iron ore called Friend's ore bank, with certain privileges of ways for carrying off the ore, &c. He also agreed to release or convey to the United States his right to the above-mentioned annual rent of 1000 dollars, which, by their agreement with North and Co. they were liable to pay to Lee. For and in consideration of this conveyance, the United States were to pay 24,000 dollars.
On the next day, May the 8th, Lee made and executed to the United States, in pursuance of the agreement above-stated, his deed of the premises, with a general warranty, to defend to the United States against all persons.
In the same year, North and Co. conveyed by a deed, regularly executed, in pursuance of their agreement, two hundred and twenty-one acres of land, more or less, with their right of digging ore from Friend's ore bank. Both these deeds, or instruments, appear to be properly made and authenticated, and sufficient to vest the premises in the United States, if the several grantors were respectively possessed and seized of the premises, free from incumbrances, at the time when the deeds were executed.
It appears by the foregoing statement, that the United States have paid for the purchase from North and Co. 42,000 dollars, in addition to an annual rent of 1000 dollars, which they were to have paid to Lee; and that for the release from paying this annual rent, and the privilege of digging ore in a described 1500 acres of land, and the accommodation of one half acre of land to build on for workmen, they have paid 24,000 dollars to General Lee.
Upon searching the records of the general court's office at Richmond, it appears by a certificate from the clerk, that 3000 acres of land including Friend's ore bank, was mortgaged June 1794, to secure the payment of 8000 dollars, by several installments, the last of which ought to have been paid on the first day of May, 1798. This mortgage deed is not among the papers. It is said this money has not been paid; if so, and there is no reversion in the deed of this ore bank, the United States' title is incumbered to the amount of the whole mortgage money which is now due.
It is said that the title is further incumbered by a mortgage to one Wilson, or Alexandria, on which some considerable part of the money has been paid. Nothing, however, of this appears from the papers you put into my hands. I have no information respecting this purchase, excepting what has appeared on the face of the documents.
I am, Sir,
Your humble servant.
(Signed) LEVI LINCOLN.
HENRY DEARBORN, Esq.
Secretary at War.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
5th December, 1801.
Sir,
I take the liberty of suggesting for your consideration, the propriety of proposing to congress, that provision be made for designating the boundary line between the United States and the adjacent British possessions in such manner as may prevent any disputes in future from the outlet of lake Ontario to lake Superior, if not further. There are many valuable islands in the lakes and rivers, some of which are already inhabited, which are claimed on each side: it is to be presumed that the sooner the line is ascertained, the more easily all disputes will be settled.
From Mr. Tracy's report, and from information obtained from other sources, it appears that many disputes now exist respecting titles to lands at and about Detroit; as well between the United States and individuals, as between many of the citizens; and also between citizens of the United States and subjects of Great-Britain. Will it not be necessary for congress to authorize the appointment of some board or tribunal for hearing and deciding these disputes?
H. DEARBORN.
The President of the
United States.
FORTIFICATION OF HARBOURS.
The committee appointed to inquire and report whether any, and if any, what amendments are necessary in the laws respecting the fortifications of the Harbors of the United States,
Beg leave to report—
That of the several sums hitherto appropriated by law, for the purpose aforesaid, there remains unexpended the sum of one hundred and fifty three thousand dollars—and by the annexed estimate, furnished by the Secretary at War, it appears that the sum of sixty three thousand five hundred dollars will be sufficient for the expenditure of the current year.
The committee are therefore of opinion, that no amendments in the laws aforesaid are necessary.
ESTIMATE
Table with 2 columns: Description of expenditure, Amount in Dollars. Rows include: For repairs of platforms, and remounting cannon in Fort Constitution, Portsmouth harbor, N. H. 1,000; For completing Fort Independence, barracks, &c. on Castle island, Boston harbor, Mass. 38,000; For completing two fortifications of six already commenced in Newport harbor, R. I. 15,000; For completing Fort Mifflin, near Philadelphia, 1,000; For erecting a battery and barracks near Norfolk, Va. 12,000; For completing a battery near Wilmington, N. C. 4,000; For completing the works in Georgia, 6,000. Total: 63,500.
There remains unexpended of the appropriation for the fortification of ports and harbors, 153,000
In the estimate for the present year, the requisitions for the protection of the frontiers, and for the fortification of the ports and harbors, are included in the same item. It will therefore be necessary to bear in mind this circumstance when you make the appropriation for the year 1802, for this department.
War Department,
January 18th, 1802.
REPORT
On petition of John Graham, and others.
The committee of Ways and Means, to whom was referred the petition of John Graham and others praying that an additional duty may be laid on foreign coal imported into the United States.
Report,
That the object of the petitioners, as set forth in their petition, is not to enhance the price, but to encircle the consumption of native coal, thereby enabling the petitioners, who are interested in the coal pits of Virginia, by enlarging the capital in trade, and by substituting machinery for manual labor, to afford an adequate, and eventually cheaper supply to the encircling demand, within the United States, for the article in question.
The committee are of opinion, that a compliance with the prayer of the petition, granting that it should not have the effect of enhancing the price of coal at the shipping yards at Richmond, would, by discouraging the importation from Europe, and the difficulty and price of freight coalwise, tend exorbitantly to encircle the price of this necessary article in the more distant parts of the United States, and perhaps entirely to deprive some portions of the union of their accustomed supply.
The committee are likewise of opinion, that it is not consonant with the principles of a wise policy to lay duties, (not for the purpose of raising revenue to the government) but to operate as a bounty on any particular species of labor, at the expense of the community in general, on whom the tax is levied. They therefore submit the following resolution.
Resolved, That the prayer of the petition ought not to be granted.
INSURGENT AND PICKERING.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
February 3, 1802.
Sir,
In obedience to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d instant, I herewith transmit copies of the failing orders given to the commanders of the frigate Insurgent, and brigantine Pickering.
The frigate Insurgent failed from Baltimore the 22d July, and from Hampton Roads 8th August, 1800. The Pickering failed from New-Castle 20th August 1800.
Since the failing of these vessels, no information whatever has been received respecting them. It is presumed, however, that they were both lost in the equinoctial gale of September 1800.
I have the honor to be,
with great respect Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
R. SMITH.
Navy Department,
July 14, 1800.
Captain PATRICK FLETCHER,
of the Insurgent, Baltimore.
Sir,
Having already sent you your instructions for the general government of your conduct on a cruise, it only remains for me at the present, to point out the particular objects of the cruise you are about entering upon.
Considerable depredations have been lately made on our commerce between the West India Islands and our own coasts. The Guadaloupe privateers, eluding the vigilance of our vessels on that station, get between them and the United States—and not only capture the American vessels in the West India trade, but make great havoc among those of more value, employed in the European and East India trade.
You will please then proceed to sea with the Insurgent, without a moment's delay in search of those privateers. After leaving the cape, you will make an easterly course, keeping rather north of 38 north latitude, until you obtain the longitude 68, and cruise for a few weeks between longitude 68 and 66—and stretch as far south as latitude 31 or 30, after which you will pursue the suggestions of your own judgment and experience, and employ the Insurgent on such cruising ground as you may think will best effect the objects of your cruise: First—To protect between our own coasts and the West India Islands, our vessels trading to and from the West Indies, Europe and the East Indies—and secondly—the capture of the enemy's vessels to be found between the cruising grounds of our vessels in the West Indies, and our own coasts.
In eight weeks from the time of your leaving the cape, if you meet with no enemy vessels, you will return to Chesapeake Bay, and anchor off Annapolis, dispatching a messenger to me with an account of the occurrences of your cruise, and a return of articles wanted to fit you again for sea; but if you should find that the enemy vessels continue to molest our trade, within eight or ten degrees of our own coast, you will extend your cruise as long as you can employ the Insurgent to advantage, not exceeding four months.
I have the honor to be,
SIR,
Your very humble servant,
BENJAMIN STODDERT.
Navy Department,
Aug. 15, 1800.
Lt. BENJAMIN HILLIAR,
of the Pickering, New-Castle, Delaware.
Sir,
Having already furnished you with all the necessary instructions for the government of your conduct on a cruise, it only remains for me now to direct, that taking under your convoy the provision ship Florida, and such merchant vessels as may be ready to sail with you, you proceed to join our Squadron on the Guadaloupe station, rendezvouing at St. Kitts.
You will see the Florida safe to St. Kitts; her cargo is to be delivered to David M. Clarkson, Esq. our agent there, unless you should meet the commanding officer on your passage by whose orders you will then be governed.
After performing this service, you will cruise in the vicinity of Guadaloupe, until you fall in with captain Decatur, or the commanding officer of that station, under whose command you are to act until further orders.
I have the honor to be,
SIR,
Your most obedient servant,
BENJAMIN STODDERT.
TO THE MERCHANTS
Of George-Town and Alexandria.
A GENTLEMEN of experience in business intends going to the West Indies the ensuing Spring, and will have leisure to transact any commission business that may be confided to his care.
His credentials will be unexceptionable.—Any gentleman wishing further information, will be attended to by addressing a line to A. Z. and left in the care of the Editor of the National Intelligencer.
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MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
House of REPRESENTATIVES,
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1802.
Mr. Morton, after calling for the order of the day, on the subject of Addressing the President of the United States, proceeded to observe, that when he offered to the house the motion now under consideration, he did it under an expectation that it would have been found perfectly acceptable to the house, and that no material difference of opinion would have existed relative thereto. But from what had transpired in the course of debate on the subject, the principal objection to the motion in its present form appeared to arise from the general terms in which it was expressed, and from an apprehension that the objects at which it pointed were not sufficiently defined. In order to accommodate the views of the house, and to make room for a motion more explicit and definite in its object, he prayed leave to withdraw his former motion, and to lay upon the table the following, which he read in his place:—
"That a committee be raised to prepare an Address to the President of the United States—to announce to him the high sense this house entertain of his important services in the course of the American revolution, and of the ability and fidelity, with which he sustained the various subordinate duties, committed to his trust, under the government of the United States; to express to him our cordial approbation of those republican principles, which he has avowed to the world shall be made the basis of his Presidential administration; to thank him for the prompt and seasonable protection he has given to our commerce against the Barbary powers; and for those measures of retrenchment and economy, which he has begun and recommended, as the best means of supporting the public faith, and lessening the burthens of the people; to assure him of the confidence, which this house possesses, of the disposition of their constituents, to support him in all the measures of his administration which shall tend to cherish the interests of agriculture, commerce, the liberal arts, and our infant manufactures, to secure internal peace and social order, to diffuse equal justice and general information among the citizens, to maintain the public faith, to promote economy in the public expense, to preserve sacred and entire the constitution of the federal government in the purity of its principles, the rights of the respective state governments, and the union of the whole, as the ark of their safety; and to congratulate him on the restoration of peace in Europe."
The motion being seconded, Mr. Morton briefly assigned the reasons which had influenced him in bringing the subject before the house at the present time.
He was followed by Messrs. Jarvis, Austin, Bartlett, Chandler, Sprague and Weston, in support of the motion, and Messrs. Leonard, Bigelow, Ives and Pickman against it. It was urged by those in the negative, that the voice of Massachusetts having been against Mr. Jefferson in the late election of President, it would betray an inconsistency in the legislature to manifest any sense of joy at his election, or approbation of his systems of policy, at so recent a period after his elevation to the Presidency. That he was probably an enemy to the systems of Washington and Adams, which had been pursued with success for the last twelve years. It was conceded that the principles contained in his inaugural address, were the true principles of the constitution and the dictates of wisdom and experience; but it was contended that these principles had not been faithfully pursued or conscientiously executed in the subsequent measures of his administration. A number of these measures, which have been the topics of newspaper censure, were particularised as subjects which were sufficient to induce us to withhold our confidence from the President. The principal which we recollect, were, the withholding the commission of Ray Green as district judge for Rhode-island district, which was represented as unconstitutional; the appointment of Mr. Gallatin as secretary of the treasury, in preference to a native American; the repair of the Bureau, upon which a large sum of money had been expended by his order without legislative authority; his recommendation for the abolition of internal taxes, which was represented as operating unequally upon the northern states, and for the revision of the judiciary and naturalization laws, &c. These, together with professions of a general repugnance to the principle of addresses to public men in general, were the principal grounds of objection to the motion.
In answer to these objections it was observed, that as the promotion of our national union and the invigoration of our federal government are the great objects contemplated by addresses of this nature, these objects would be more effectually accomplished, and the subject
of the address, more particularly grateful to the chief magistrate as coming from a State where he had not a single vote in effecting his election. That the cause, however, of this circumstance should be touched lightly by gentlemen on the other side of the question, seeing that the mode in which they effected this was by taking the right of suffrage from the people in their election districts, and assuming it by the legislature, to themselves. A measure which convulsed the State to its centre, and which, if ever again adopted, would bring down more than the silent indignation of the citizens upon its advocates. That having heretofore been in the habit of addressing the chief magistrate, as the father of the nation and object of our respect and veneration, it would betray a spirit unworthy the legislature of Massachusetts to refuse this customary tribute of respect to Mr. Jefferson, merely because he was not elected by our votes, and such a conduct would betray a total desertion of those principles of federalism, of which they had heretofore boasted, and would convince the world that it was not the principle, but the name by which we were governed. That to pretend to oppose the name and the principle of Washington to that of Jefferson, was unauthorised by facts and unjustifiable in practice. It was noticed that from the first instant of both upon the stage of public life, their views had generally been uniform and harmonious, and their friendship sacred and inviolable. That upon the elevation of general Washington to the Presidency, the first object of his choice for the first office of trust and confidence was Mr. Jefferson. That he continued to discharge the duties of his office, during a period difficult and embarrassing to the high satisfaction of gen. W. and that when he retired therefrom, it was with the unqualified applause of his employer, and unfeigned tribute of his regret.
That with respect to the different systems which had been adopted by Mr. Adams, and those which might be adopted by Mr. Jefferson, it would be foreign to the present subject to enter into a discussion of the merits or demerits of either; especially as they were disposed to tread lightly upon the ashes of the deed. That the principles contained in the inaugural address, being conceded on all hands to be as perfect a delineation of the principles of our constitution, and of the rights and duties of social life as had ever been exhibited by the human mind, one of the principal objects at which the proposed address was directed, was thereby acknowledged to be a matter of truth and justice, as it respected the character of the President. Why then (it was asked) are gentlemen unwilling to make this public declaration of their opinions, especially when it is considered that such declarations, going from this house, will have a very salutary tendency to restrain those torrents of slander, misrepresentation and obloquy with which the character of the Chief Magistrate has been deluged, since his accession to the chair? We ask not (said the advocates for the motion) for the proffer of praise in advance of services which have not yet been rendered, nor do we wish to see this house pledge themselves to Mr. Jefferson for the blind support of measures, which he may see fit in every future exigence to adopt; or to bind themselves and their constituents to a state of vassalage to his views.—We leave those with whose taste addresses of this kind accord, to exhaust them as they have done in the ears of Mr. Jefferson's predecessors; we leave them to our predecessors in this house, who saw fit on a recent occasion to mortgage to the executive of the union, the united energies of themselves and their constituents, for the support of "every measure" which the executive might see fit to adopt.
We ask, said they, no confidence of this sort. We ask only your approbation of those plain, unadulterated sentiments which he has unfolded as his, those principles of republicanism which have been the early boast of New-England, those principles of economy which are coeval with our civil establishments, and that attention to the rights of our commerce which he has so promptly and efficaciously afforded—things which were all plain, uncontradicted and acknowledged from every quarter in this house.
With respect to the charges of late misconduct in office which had been preferred by members on the other side against Mr. Jefferson, and which were the mere gleaming of slander from the files of ill-informed gazettes, it was confidently answered, that nothing but the most deplorable misrepresentation of his official acts could induce any honest citizen, much less an enlightened legislator, to harbour distrusts founded upon suggestions to groundless, and transactions so cruelly and wilfully distorted. In the case of Ray Green it was stated, and offered to be proved by documents on the floor, that the appointment of Mr. Green had been made under circumstances which the constitution did not admit, and was therefore void.
The idea that Mr. Gallatin was a foreigner and therefore not entitled to the confidence of the executive, was repelled with spirit, and a degree of indignation. It was remarked that being a

citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of the constitution, he thereby became, in common with us, a member of the social compact, and as such entitled by solemn contract, to all the rights and immunities flowing therefrom. His general character was abundantly defended from the suggestions which were thrown out to his prejudice, and the peculiar propriety of his conducting an office to which he had devoted the studies and labour of his life were strongly enforced.
The repairs of the Bercéau were explained upon principles which have been often stated, and which have appeared satisfactory, and highly honorable to the character of administration. The abolition of the internal taxes, upon the conditions recommended by the President, was justified as a measure of policy and justice; and as an actual saving of some thousands of dollars to the United States, which accrued upon the collection, and the perquisites of the numerous officers by whom it is collected.
The repeal of the late judiciary system, as recommended by the President, and passed in the Senate of the United States, it was observed could by no means be charged upon Mr. Jefferson, as an innovation upon the established systems of our government; it was in fact the doing away an innovation which had been lately engrafted upon our former system, and which appeared as yet to have answered no valuable purpose, but that of providing convenient seats of retirement to its authors and their friends.
Upon these grounds, the opposers of the motion were called upon to answer why they refused to lend their public approbation to the principles of the address, which they all affected to approve; or to assure the Chief Magistrate, that while his conduct commanded with the sentiments which he avowed, he should receive our cordial support.
In the course of debate, several observations were made by those in opposition to the motion, which indicated a desire to avoid a direct vote on the question—and which was finally effected by a motion of Mr. Filber, that the question under consideration should be postponed to the next session of the legislature.
The question was then taken upon Mr. Filber's motion by yeas and nays, as follows:—Yeas, 142—Nays, 92.
District of Columbia. Washington County, to wit: THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, THAT the subscribers of Washington county, in the District of Columbia, have obtained from the Orphan's Court of Washington County, in the said district, Letters of administration on the personal estate of Jasper De Carnap, late of Washington county deceased; all persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof to the subscribers, at or before the 15th day of August next; they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under our hands this 12th day of February 1802.
ELIZABETH DE CARNAP, Administratrix. HENRY INGLE, Administrator, Of Jasper De Carnap, deceased. Feb. 15, 1802. taw2M
IN COUNCIL, Annapolis, January 20, 1802. ORDERED, That the resolution of the last session of the assembly respecting the debtors of the state, be published in the Maryland Gazette, at Annapolis; the Federal Gazette, the American, and the Telegraph, at Baltimore; the Museum, at George Town; the National Intelligencer; Bergey's Gazette, Hager's Town, and the paper at Easton, three times in each week for the space of three weeks successively for information; and all claimant debtors are notified, that unless they make satisfactory payments to the treasurer of the Western or Eastern shore (as the case may be) on or before the tenth day of March next, suits will be commenced against them indiscriminately.
By order, NIANIAN PINKNEY, Clerk.
BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES: December 31, 1801. Resolved, That the Governor be and he is hereby authorised, by and with the advice and consent of the council, to direct suits to be commenced against such of the debtors to the state as he may think proper, and appoint an attorney or attorneys to any particular suit or suits so directed to be brought: Provided, That all debts due to the state shall be paid to the treasurer of the Western or Eastern shore, and to no other person or persons whatsoever. Resolved, That on the application of the governor to the treasurer of the Western shore, it shall be the duty of the said treasurer, and he is hereby required, to furnish the governor with correct statements of the debts due to the state.
By order, WM. HARWOOD, Clerk.
BY THE SENATE. December 31, 1801. Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
By order, JOHN B. DUCKETT, Clerk.
BY THE SENATE. December 31, 1801. Read the second time and ordered to lie on the table.
By order, JOHN B. DUCKETT, Clerk. Feb. 12, 1802. ep3w
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1802.
LATEST FROM FRANCE.
New-York, Feb. 9. The Editors of the New-York Gazette were yesterday favored by Mr. Dupont, who came passenger in the ship Benjamin Franklin, with Paris papers to the 9th and Bordeaux to the 14th of December. They afford but few articles of an interesting nature.
On the 8th December, the minister of exterior relations at Paris, presented to the First Consul, Mr. Livingston, the envoy extraordinary of the United States of America to the French Republic—also Mr. Smith, late American minister at the Court of Lisbon.
The papers mention, that Gen. Massena was nominated ambassador to Constantinople, and that he would immediately depart for his place of destination. At Riga (Russia) on the 4th November, they experienced a most violent storm—Twenty-eight vessels perished; amongst which was an English vessel with 11 seamen, all of whom, with the cargo, went to the bottom.
An article under the Constantinople head of the 26th of Oct. mentions, that since the restitution of Egypt, the price of rice and coffee fell considerably. The administration of Egypt is henceforth no more to be confided to Bays, but to Pashas, whose authority would be much limited. The Pacha of Cairo was already appointed. Othman Effendi and Cheriff Effendi were charged with the new organization of the country. Lord Elgin, the English ambassador, was shortly to depart for Egypt in a frigate. Some attributed his voyage to political interests, and some merely to a voyage of curiosity. This article also mentions, that according to the latest news from Egypt, General Menou had not yet embarked with the 4500 French troops that were to accompany him. Disease had retarded the embarkation.
An article from Brett mentions, that the squadron for St. Domingo, had made an attempt to sail the 30th Nov. but were still detained by contrary wind.
The papers make no mention of the Congress at Amiens, or of the signing of the Definitive treaty.
Paris, December 8. LEGISLATIVE BODY, Dec. 6.
The order of the day was the discussion of the contemplated law relative to the Convention concluded between the French republic and the United States. The tribunes, Adet, Legonidec, and Felix Beaujour, developed the motives which induced the Tribune to adopt it. The Orator of the government, not requesting permission to speak, the discussion was terminated, and the project was decreed:
New-York, Feb. 9. Capt. White, of the ship Oliver Ellsworth, in 46 days from Amsterdam, came up last evening in a pilot boat. He informs us that he was on shore at Dover the 2d of January, and was assured that no intelligence had then been received of the signing of the Definitive treaty of peace. He brings no English newspapers.
An arrival at Portland brings Irish papers to the 21st of December, which, however, contain no news.
Capt. Willon has arrived at New-York from Lisbon, which place he left on the 1st of January. He states, that a British packet had arrived there with news of the signing of the definitive treaty between Great Britain and France.
A letter from Paris, dated Dec. 5, received at New-York, states, that the Spanish government is fitting out a squadron, destined to take possession of the Spanish part of St. Domingo.
On the 19th ult. colonel Wade Hampton's flat, navigated by four black men, safely arrived in Charleston, after having passed through the Santee Canal, laden with one hundred and twenty four bales of cotton, averaging 244 lbs. each. Twenty four men, twelve waggons and forty eight horses, would have been barely sufficient, for the waggonage of this quantity of cotton to market; and the price of its conveyance, by that mode, would have been from a dollar and a half to 2 dollars per hundred—whereas, by water, the proportion of toll paid to the canal is less than four pence per hundred. If to this four pence we add eight pence, a very large allowance for a 3000th part of the expenses of the flat and four hands; or of the loss sustained by the sale of the flat, we find, that one shilling would cover all expense for bringing one hundred weight of cotton from Congaree to Charleston, through the canal.
Governor Wentworth has issued a proclamation, continuing the usual commercial intercourse between the United States and Nova-Scotia, until the first of April next.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U. S.
FRIDAY, Feb. 13, 1802.
A Bill to amend an act entitled an act to lay and collect a direct tax in the U. States, was read a third time and passed.
Mr. Nicholson, from the committee to whom had been referred the message of the President of the 11th ult. and a resolution of the House of the 5th inst. made a report, which concludes with resolutions to the following effect:
That from the 1st of March next, the offices of two of the commissioners of the city of Washington ought to be abolished, and all the duties of the commission be thereafter vested in one commissioner.
That the accounts of the commission be settled with the accounting officer of the treasury before the 1st of March.
That such portion of city lots pledged for the repayment of loans made of Maryland, be annually sold as to meet accruing instalments, unless in the opinion of the President too great a sacrifice would thereby be made, in which case he is authorised to advance the needed sum from the public treasury.
Referred to committee of the whole on Monday next.
On motion of Mr. Elmore, the Speaker was requested to address a letter to the Executive of Maryland, stating the resignation of Richard Sprigg, a member of the House.
The House took up the report of a select committee on the petition of M c Calhoun and others, which involves the controversy respecting land granted to John C. Symmes.
Mr. Davis made a brief statement of the facts attending the business; when on motion of Mr. Nicholson, the report of the select committee was referred to a committee of the whole House on Monday week, in order to give time to the members to examine documents, and in other respects, to make themselves acquainted with the case.
Mr. Thomas called up his motion respecting State Balances, which is as follows:
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of extinguishing the claims of the United States, for certain balances, which by the commissioners appointed to settle the accounts between the United States and the individual states, were reported to be due from several of the states to the United States, and that the said committee have leave to report by bill, or otherwise.
Mr. Tillinghast moved to insert in the 9th line, after the words United States , the words "and certain balances reported to be due from the United States to the individual states."
Mr. Griswold observed that there were no such balances in existence; they had all been extinguished, by being paid.
This amendment was lost without a division.
On the original motion a debate then ensued, in which Messrs. Bayard, Nicholson, and Mitchell, spoke in favour; and Messrs. Southard and Elmer against it.
When Mr. S. Smith, in order to bring the main question before the committee, moved to amend the resolution, as to make it read, "Resolved, that it is expedient to extinguish the claims," &c.
On this amendment a debate took place, which lasted till 4 o'clock.
The amendment was advocated by Messrs. Smith, Hill, Holland, R. Williams, T. Morris, Macon, S. Smith, and Bayard; and opposed by Messrs. Lowndes, Rutledge, Dan, Dennis, Bacon, and Griswold.
When the question was taken, and the amendment lost—Ayes 41—Nays 46.
The original resolution, for a reference to a select committee was then carried—Ayes 54.
And a committee of five accordingly appointed.
The measures of the Legislature of Maryland, on the successive modifications of her judiciary, having been misrepresented, we think it an act of justice to state the remarks made by Mr. Wright, on this point, in the Senate.
Mr. Wright observed—By the constitution of Maryland the judges of the supreme courts hold their commissions during good behaviour; the justices of the peace, who hold their county courts, were subject to an annual appointment, but it being found impracticable to procure law characters to act as justices of the peace, and that none other were qualified to decide questions of law, it became necessary to change the system, and in 1793, a law was passed dividing the state into five districts, with a law character at the head of each district to ride the circuit, who with two associates for each county composed the county courts instead of the justices under the old system. These new judges were appointed by the law during good behaviour; but this law being like all new laws, a measure of experiment, was limited to a short duration, and has been from time to time continued. At the last session many important amendments being contemplat-
ed, the law was repealed, and a new law passed embracing the proposed amendments. I have heard but of two judges being appointed under the new law; both of them were judges under the old law, both federalists.
Mr. Ridgely, formerly a republican, latterly a federalist; Mr. Tilghman, always a federalist, who, although he supported his own opinions with firmness, always treated the opinions of others with respect and politeness, whose amiable private character, and judicial integrity had been to generally satisfactory, that not a member of either branch of the legislature intimated his removal. From this view it must appear, that our government which is truly republican, was not impelled by the unworthy motives that have been ascribed to her, and that federalists of merit where they can be found are treated there with respect.
Now let me call your attention to a case in Maryland when the government was federal, and in doing that, if I should in any respect misstate it, I hope my colleague, who I believe at that time was a member of the State senate, will correct me. In 1791, it was found necessary to establish a criminal court for Baltimore town, and a law passed authorizing the appointment of a judge with a salary, and four associates, (whose commissions were during good behaviour,) to hold that court. This law was also limited to a short period; Mr. Chase, then judge of the general court, then a republican, was appointed the judge of the criminal court. At the next session of the legislature, there was an attempt to impeach him on the ground, that the offices were constitutionally incompatible; this however failed; the legislature then, to get rid of Mr. Chase, repealed the law, and renewed it "totidem verbis." The executive however, renewed Mr. Chase's commission, but at the next session so fixed were the federalists on their purpose, that they repealed that section of the law that related to the judges and amended it, that "the district judge should be the judge of the criminal court," and thus dismissed Mr. Chase, the obnoxious judge. But during all this business, in neither case was the constitutional right to repeal these laws ever questioned, although, the judges' commissions were during good behaviour; which must shew the legislative opinion, that a commission during good behaviour could not be beyond the law that created it, and must furnish strong evidence to the point before us, at two different periods in the politics of Maryland; that will suit each side of the house, and form a contrast in which I think the republicans will not suffer.
From the Boston Centinel.
REPEAL OF THE JUDICIARY.
On this subject, we have devoted a large portion of this day's Centinel , to the insertion of the speech of Gen. Mason, of Virginia , intire. We are pleased, that we have an opportunity, with truth and sincerity, to return the compliment paid by the " National Intelligencer ," to the speech of Mr. Morris; and, without taking into consideration the merits of the specific question under debate, to say of Gen. Mason's speech, that for elegance of style, and energy of expression, it stands pre-eminent amongst the best specimens of eloquence we ever remember to have been recorded.—As to the cogency of its arguments, we too will say nothing.—The people who read can and will decide. For ourselves, we are happy that our National Councils contain men of such talents: Whatever may be their political prejudices or delusions, their abilities do honor to our country.
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WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, Feb. 15, 1802.
The resolution, passed in the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, instructing the Senators of that state, to use their utmost endeavors to procure a repeal of the last Judiciary Law of the United States, was on Monday last concurred in by the Senate.
On passing the resolution in the House of Representatives, the vote was—Yeas 67—Nays 12.
And in Senate—Yeas 15—Nays 6.
In the House of Representatives of the same state, the act declaring "the holding or exercising of Offices or Appointments under that state incompatible with the holding or exercising Offices under the United States," to which the governor had refused his assent, has been reconsidered by that House, in which it originated, and upon the question "shall this bill pass?" the Yeas and Nays were: Yeas 76—Nays 4.
LEGISLATURE OF NEW-YORK.
The Answer of the Assembly to the Speech of his Excellency the Governor, at the opening of the session.
SIR, At this first opportunity presented us since your recent election to the chief magistracy of this state, to the unball'd suffrages of a free people, who have gratefully recollected your former distinguished and important services, we cannot hesitate to declare, that it is with heartfelt satisfaction we reciprocate congratulations upon the flourishing condition of the United States; more especially when we reflect that however improved and flourishing that condition be, it is not only susceptible of, but will, we doubt not, receive full further amendment, both in foreign and domestic concerns, under a wise and virtuous administration, which extensively possesses and highly merits the public confidence.—And while we are participating with our sister states in the general prosperity, we trust that we shall not diminish our exertions in cultivating those peculiar advantages with which we are favoured by the supreme dispenser of all good. In obedience to this presidential dictate, we shall yield that candid and deliberate attention to the several subjects recommended to our notice which their variety and importance demand. The encouragement of common schools is a subject of such great importance to the improvement of morals, religion, liberty and good government, that it cannot escape the fostering care of the legislature. We unite with your Excellency in acknowledging with humble gratitude, the benign dispensations of Divine Providence, in granting to the people of these United States a free representative government, and deem it the principal source of the distinguished blessing we enjoy.
From a conviction that it is our duty, it will be our care to cherish and support the principles of a government which produces so much good; to guard against every encroachment or deviation, and to unite in every effort to render it perpetual.
By order of the Assembly, THOMAS STORM, Speaker. Assembly-Cham. Jan. 30, 1802.
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SAMUEL SPEAKE. Washington, Jan. 20, 1802. w3t

Michael Roberts, Has just received from Europe and Philadelphia, and now offers for sale at his Store, High-Street, George Town, a large supply of best STATIONARY, And other articles in his line, among which are: PAPER, Atlas, Imperial, Superroyal, Medium, Demy, Folio, post, Fool's Cap, and hot pressed wove, and plain 4to post of a superior quality. Blank books, parchment, printers ink, quills, ready made pens, sealing wax, and wafers. Fowling pieces and pistols. Swords, sword knots, epaulets and military articles of every description. Plated ware and fine cutlery. Perfumery and dressing apparatus. Monocle skins, bend and cork tools. Bucks skin pants, loons and breeches. Coach lamps, gig springs, and plated harness. Drum battle doors, back gammon tables, cribbage boxes, billiard balls, dice, playing cards and chessmen, whips and canes. Beaver hats, umbrellas, traveling trunks, and an assortment of hard ware, upholsterers wire, &c. &c. Also for sale at the above store, by Edgar Patterson, Madeira and Sherry wines, bed French brandy, and Cherry Bounce; Imperial and Tylon Teas, lost jars, casks, liquor cases demijohns &c. &c. Feb. 12, 1802. ept6
Public Auction. By virtue of a decree from the honorable the high court of Chancery, the subscriber will sell on Tuesday the 23d February next, at the mansion of the late major Richard Chew, ALL the real estate of the said Richard Chew—Consisting of about 1220 acres of land in one body, situate in Ann Arundel County, lying on the Chesapeake Bay, and forms the mouth of Herring Bay, twenty miles from Annapolis, fifty from Baltimore, and thirty-five from the City of Washington. This land is as rich and fertile as any on the Chesapeake, affords the most luxurious pasture, has a large proportion of meadow land, and the greatest abundance of fire wood and timber; and for ship building the best timber on the Chesapeake may be had on this land; the situation is healthy, and a beautiful prospect as any on the Bay; a good harbour, and the waters lying around the land afford the greatest abundance of excellent fish, crabs, oysters, and wild fowl. The improvements are valuable, consisting of a large two story brick dwelling house, with four rooms and a commodious passage on each floor, with excellent cellars under the whole house, a large and elegant garden laid off with walks, a good kitchen, and almost every other necessary outhouse. The very convenient situation of this land must be obvious to every person willing to purchase, as the wood, timber, and the whole product of this land, can be removed from thence by water, and that in a few hours, to the markets of Annapolis and Baltimore. A more minute description of this valuable property is thought unnecessary, as any person willing to purchase, can view the same by applying to Doctor Richard Chew, who resides thereon, or to Mr. Philip L. Chew, living within a few miles of it. The terms of sale are, that the purchasers, shall either pay down one sixth part of the purchase money on the day of sale, or give bond with security for the payment of the same, on the chancery's ratification, which will be in four weeks after return of the sale is to him made by the Trustee. For the residue a bond or bonds are to be given with security on interest, to be approved of by the chancellor, payable in two equal annual payments; and on the receipt of the whole of the purchase money, the subscriber, by a good deed, indented, will give, grant, bargain, sell and confirm to the purchaser, or purchasers, his, her or their heirs, the land sold to them; and all the rights, title, interest, and estate, therein and thereto, of the said Richard Chew, or his heirs, or any person claiming by, from, or under them. It is further ordered by the chancellor that the creditors of the said deceased, who have not yet exhibited their claims, shall file the same in the chancery court, with the vouchers thereof, before the first day of June next. J. WILKINSON, Trustee. Feb. 1, 1802. twis
FOR SALE. THE subscriber is authorized to sell a tract of land containing four hundred acres, lying in Prince George county, on Oxen Run, adjoining the district of Columbia, and about two miles from the City of Washington, with a good road to that part of the Eastern Branch over which a bridge is to be built. This land is healthy and abounds with springs of excellent water. There are between twenty and thirty acres of meadow ground, with a fine stream through it, which may be prepared for timothy at a small expense, and at least two hundred acres in wood and timber. The wood itself will more than pay for the land. The cleared land, except a small part indeed, is of an excellent quality, and has on it a large tobacco house, and several houses suitable for the accommodation of labourers. This land has on it some elegant situations for country seats, commanding a view of the river and the city. If this land be not sold at private sale, before the 10th day of March next (and if it be, timely notice will be given) it will on that day, if fair, if not, the first fair day thereafter be sold to the highest bidder on the premises. The greater part of the purchase money will be required down; a credit of three months will be given on the balance, the purchaser securing the punctilious payment of the balance at the expiration of that time. Persons disposed to make a private purchase, may know the terms by application to Wm. Cooke, of Baltimore Town, or Mr. James F. Lisle of Manchester, Virginia, Mr. John Addison at Gaesborough, near the City of Washington, or to the subscriber in the city of Washington. PHILIP T. BAKER, Attorney for J. Addison. Jan. 18, 1802. ept5
BOLTING CLOTHS. A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF BOLTING CLOTHS Of the best qualities and latest importations, are kept for sale by OLIVER EVANS, at the corner of Market and Ninth Streets, Philadelphia, and By OLIVER & EVAN EVANS, With BOHN and SINGLUFF, at the corner of Market and Howard Streets, Baltimore, Also, with DEAN & GARDNER, Union Street, Alexandria. The book entitled the YOUNG MILL-WRIGHT and MILLER'S GUIDE, may also be had at the above places. Jan. 29, 1802. ept6 & ept4w
To Rent, And possession given immediately, A TWO-STORY BRICK HOUSE, North front of the President's House, CONTAINING TWO Parlours and four Bed-rooms, with Garden, &c. It is convenient to the Public offices, and may be had furnished or unfurnished, with or without board, on reasonable terms, to an agreeable tenant. Enquire of the Printer, or on the premises. Also, Wanted Employment, For a YOUNG MAN, who would engage as an assistant in a store, having kept one of his own, of course accustomed to it. Would act as Steward and superintend a plantation, or the like—would make himself useful in any situation.—Enquire of the Printer hereof. November 25. stwtf
Mrs. PICK, Takes the liberty to inform the ladies of George-Town and City of Washington, and its vicinity, that she has this day opened at Mr. Kirtz's, opposite the Union Tavern, an elegant assortment of MILLINERY, consisting of, Velvet bonnets, caps, shawls, embroidery, dressies, handkerchiefs, artificial flowers, plumes, trimmings both gold and silver, bugle spangles, sacks, muffs, belts and tassels, straw bonnets, calimere shawls and bonnets, gold and silver thread, wigs and frizzettes, perfume of all kinds, &c. &c. and other articles too numerous to mention; which she will sell on moderate terms. Dec. 23 eptf
CHARLES VARDEN, Merchant Taylor, from Philadelphia, GRATEFULLY acknowledges the favors conferred on him by the gentlemen of this City, and flatters himself that the general satisfaction he has already given will merit a continuation of the same. He has also received a handsome assortment of goods from Philadelphia, consisting of, Best superfine cloths, Cashmeres, Swansdown, Toylenets, Velverettes, fancy Cords, Costings, Flannels, &c. N.B. Regimentals, Naval Uniforms, and Ladies Habits, made in the neatest and most fashionable manner, and at the shortest notice.—Washington City, New-Jersey Avenue, next to Mr. Rapine's book store. Dec. 16, 1801. eptf
Marshal's Sale. By virtue of two writs of Venditioni Exponas issued out of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Washington, to me directed, will be sold at Rhodes's Tavern on Tuesday the 23d of this month, ALL the right, title, and interest of William King, to a brick house and appurtenances on Lot No. 13, in sq. No. 104, in the City of Washington, to satisfy debts due Thomas K. Beale, adm'r. of Joseph Clarke, for the use of Stephen Wilson's administrators. The sale to commence at 11 o'clock, P. M. Terms of sale ready money. DANIEL C. BRENT, Marshal of the District of Columbia. Feb. 1, 1802. ept5
NOTICE. ALL persons having claims against the estate of JASPER DE CARNAP, late of the City of Washington, deceased, are desired to exhibit their accounts for settlement, and those who are indebted are earnestly requested to discharge the same without delay. ELIZABETH DE CARNAP, Administratrix. HENRY INGLE, Administrator Dec. 11, 1801. ept8w
The Subscriber RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he has removed from George-Town to the Fountain Inn, near Rhodes's City Tavern. Where he is furnished with a good hobbler, carriage horse, and fitting for eighteen horses, and every thing in his line to render the accommodation of travellers agreeable. The strictest attention will be paid by CHARLES ROGERS. N.B. Ten or fifteen gentlemen can get board and lodging on moderate terms. Dec. 23. eptf
Fifty Dollars Reward. RANAWAY on Saturday night the 26th of last month, a Mulatto named CYRUS, about 21 or 22 years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, with dark bushy hair. He has served an apprenticeship with a millwright, and is a good workman. He stole from Popes Creek, the estate of Daniel McCarty, Esq. in the county of Westmoreland, a small forrel horse, a neat light saddle, not much worn, made by James Smock, Fredericksburg, and a snaffle bridle, with a variety of wearing apparel. He has for wife a maid belonging to general Lee of Stratford, and it is conjectured he will endeavor to secret himself in the neighbourhood of the City of Washington, in expectation of meeting with his wife. Whoever will apprehend the said slave and deliver him to me, shall receive the sum of fifty dollars; and I will also give a farther reward of ten dollars to any one who may restore the horse and saddle. JOHN ROSE. Virga. Leeds, Jan. 11, 1802. w4t
NOTICE. THE Copartnership of MCCORMICK and COCHRAN, being by mutual consent dissolved, those indebted to them are requested to pay their accounts without delay to Alexander McCormick, who will pay any demands due by the said firm. ALEX. MCCORMICK, ALEX. COCHRAN. Feb. 10, 1802. ept
NOTICE. The Business will be carried on by Alexander McCormick. NOTICE. MY wife Eleanor Dunlavy, having of her own accord, and without any cause or provocation, left my bed and board, I hereby warn any person giving her credit on my account, as they cannot expect being paid by me, being now confined within the prison of Washington county for debts which I am unable to pay. CHARLES DUNLAVY, Washington, Feb. 10, 1802. ept
A BREWER. AN English Brewer wants a situation as Manager of a Brewery in any healthy part of America. He understands distilling also.—Letters post paid, addressed to A. B. at the printer's of this paper will be attended to. N. B. He would accept a situation as book-keeper for school master. Feb. 2, 1802. ept
FOR SALE. A superb Carriole with plated Harness ALSO a pair of young, handsome and fleet PONIES, and a capital saddle horse, who never was in harness. Enquire of the Printer. Dec. 12. eptf
NOTICE. COMMITTED to the Jail of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, as a Runaway, a Negro Woman named CHARLOTTE, about nineteen years of age, five feet four or five inches high. She says she is the property of Lewis St. John, near Battle Town, Frederick county, Virginia. The owner is requested to come and pay Charges and take her away. DANIEL C. BRENT, Marshal of the District of Columbia. Feb. 5, 1802.
Partnership Dissolved. DOUGHTY & KING have this day by mutual consent, dissolved their partnership. It is therefore requested that all persons indebted to the said FIRM will make payment to William Doughty, who is appointed to settle their accounts, and that those having any claim will make application as above. N. B. James C. King continues the Lumber business on his wharf near the Rock Creek Bridge. Feb. 3. eptf
THOMAS GARDEN, TAYLOR, SOLICITS a continuation of that generous encouragement which he has experienced from the Ladies and Gentlemen of this City and its vicinity. Having procured an elegant assortment of cloths, cashmeres, frowndies, &c. &c. and engaged workmen of superior talents. His unremitting attention shall be given to merit patronage. Capitol Hill, next house east of Mrs. Finch's boarding house, and Pennsylvania Avenue between the President's Square and Seven Buildings. Dec. 7, 1801. eptf
For Sale, Or to To LET, on Ground Rent for ever, FIFTY LOTS, SITUATE between the President's House and Capitol.—The titles to which is indisputable. ISAAC POLOCK. Dec. 16. eptf
Valuable property for Sale. ON Tuesday the 23d of February next, will be offered to sale to the highest bidder, at Tannecliff's Tavern at 4 o'clock in the evening, a two story BRICK HOUSE, with 2 rooms and a passage on each floor; situate on Lot No. 10, in square 728, in the City of Washington, on East Capitol Street. The terms will be made known on the day of sale, by SAMUEL TYLER. Jan. 25, 1801. 12w4t
For Sale 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.
ROBERT CHERRY, Near the Sugar House, New-Jersey Avenue, has just received (in addition to his former stock) per the Sloop Harmony, captain Elwood, from Philadelphia. A GENERAL assortment of groceries and liquors, viz. Pennington's loaf and lump sugar, Havannah white, Jamaica and St. Croix brown do. hyson, young hyson, hyson skin, souchong, and bohea teas, coffee, pepper, allspice, nutmegs, and cloves; hair powder, plain and scented, box and keg rasins, mould and dip candles, white and brown soap, Daxon's best mustard, shad, mackerel, and herring in barrels, dried codfish, &c. Cognac brandy, Holland gin, Jamaica and Antigua rum, Madeira and Lisbon wine, with other articles, all of a good quality. Also a trunk of Swanston, glass in boxes, 12 by 10 and 8 by 6, which he will sell low for cash, or barter for first quality tobacco.—The above articles have been laid in at a falling market, and shall sell the same at very reduced prices for cash. He returns his sincere thanks to his friends and the public, for the encouragement he has already met with since his residence here; and hopes for a continuance of their favours, which will be thankfully acknowledged. January 9, 1802. eptf
NOTICE. WHEREAS it is found from experience that from the delinquency of the parents and guardians of children hitherto sent to Charlotte Hall School, that it becomes necessary to employ a collector to whom a commission of 10 per cent. is paid; and whereas it is unreasonable that the Trustees should be burdened with this additional expense of collection when the tuition money as stipulated should be paid in advance.—Therefore, Notice is hereby given, That the tuition from after the first day of January 1802, be five and an half dollars per quarter, but five dollars per quarter paid in advance, will be received in lieu thereof. Signed by order, NEALE H. SHAW, Reg. N. B. A special meeting of the Trustees is requested on the second Monday in March, to take into consideration a Law of the last session of Assembly, respecting said school. N. H. S. Reg. Feb. 8, 1802. w4t
FOR 6666 dolls. & 66 cts. AT EASY PAYMENTS. The subscriber offers for sale a Tract of land on Acquia Creek, in the county of Stafford, containing about 500 acres, two fifths of which is woodland, lying chiefly on the water. This tract possesses the following improvements, and advantages.—A two story framed dwelling house and the usual out-houses; orchards of apples, peaches, pears, cherries &c. a falling garden neatly laid out; several springs of excellent water, and a well at the door. The dwelling house is situated on an eminence commanding a most delightful and extensive prospect of the Potomac (from whence it is distant about two miles) for thirty or forty miles; and of the Aquia from its confluence with that river to the head of tide water at Woodstock—a prospect perhaps equalled by few in the U. States. The tract abounds with valuable quarries of free stone of every quality. Some of them contiguous to deep water, and nearer the Potomac than any that are now in operation no said Creek. For one acre, containing a free stone quarry three miles further from the Potomac, the proprietor has refused 3000 guineas, and eleven acres adjoining the said acre, were sold for 6000 dollars. There are also two valuable marbles, several fishing shores for rock, shad and herring, and plenty of wild fowl in season. It is believed by good judges, that the timber on the land, and fire wood, if cut ready for market, would command a greater sum than is asked for the whole premises. Wood may be conveyed to the City of Washington with a fair wind, in two tides, the distance being, not more than 40 or 45 miles. This land, supposing the timber to be entirely taken off, would in the course of seven or eight years flare up thick with cedar, locust and pine. It would be a great acquisition to a grazier, the soil being admirably adapted to the culture of grass.—Apply to the subscriber near Acquia. V. PEYTON. Jan. 18, 1802. 12w2m
COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE, Washington, Jan. 26, 1802 ORDERED, By the Board that the following Proclamation be published thrice a week for three weeks successively, in the City and George Town newspapers. THOMAS MUNROE, Clerk. Com.
BY THE PRESIDENT, OF THE UNITED STATES. WHEREAS by the first article of the terms and conditions declared by the President of the United States on the 17th October 1791, for regulating the materials, manner of buildings, and improvements on the lots in the City of Washington, it is provided, That the outer and party walls of all houses in the said City, shall be built of brick or stone; and by the third article of the same terms and conditions, it is declared that the wall of no house shall be higher than forty feet to the roof in any part of the city, nor shall any be lower than thirty-five feet on any of the Avenues: And whereas the above recited articles were found to impede the settlement in the city, of mechanics and others whose circumstances did not admit of erecting houses authorised by the said regulations, for which cause the operation of the said articles has been suspended by several acts of the Presidents of the United States from the 5th day of June 1796, to the 1st January 1802, and the beneficial effects arising from such suspensions having been experienced; it is deemed proper to revive the same with the exception hereafter mentioned—WHEREFORE, I, THOMAS JEFFERSON, President of the United States, Do declare that the first and third articles above recited shall be, and the same are, hereby suspended until the first day of January 1803, and that all houses which shall be erected in the said City of Washington previous to the said 1st day of January 1803, conformable in other respects to the regulations aforesaid, shall be considered as lawfully erected; except that no wooden house covering more than three hundred and twenty square feet, or higher than twelve feet from the sill to the eve, shall be erected, nor shall such house be placed within twenty-four feet of any brick or stone house. GIVEN under my hand this twenty-third day of January, in the year 1802. TH. JEFFERSON. Jan. 29, 1802. ept3w
FOR SALE. A TRACT of land containing 2,500 acres lying immediately on the river Potomac, in the county of Northumberland, Virginia, late the residence of PRESLEY THORN ON, Esq. Seventeen hundred acres of which are of the most valuable kind of low grounds on the river; between three and four hundred acres heavily timbered, the remainder is wavy high land extremely productive. The soil of this tract is equal to any in the state for cultivation of corn, wheat, tobacco, timothy, and small grain of all kinds. On this tract are a large commodious two story brick mansion house and two offices, a large brick stable, a valuable barn, cow house and many other out-houses, all in good repair. The orchards and garden contain a variety of valuable fruit trees, and the waters abound with excellent fish and oysters. It is situated about a day's sail from Alexandria, Baltimore or Norfolk—There are two good mill sites for grist, or saw-mills on this estate, and plenty of cedar and chestnut timber, exclusive of the heavy timber, which if sawed up into scantling will command a price in the City of Washington, nearly equal to the value of the land. The terms will be made easy to the purchaser, for or purchasers, and the tract will be divided into two or more plantations if necessary.—Apply to RICHARD PETERS, junr. No. 35, Walnut-Street Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Nov. 11. eptf
The subscriber respectfully acquaints the public, that he has removed to the corner of Ninth and B 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 to Mr. Wm's Store, Market Street, Baltimore. GEORGE ANDREWS. Who has gold leaf for sale by the package or book. May 8, 1801.
NEW STORE. THE Subscribers most respectfully inform the Public in general, and the public in particular, that they have just opened some assortment of Dry Goods, SUITABLE FOR THE SEASON. On the Pennsylvania Avenue, between President's Square and the Seven Buildings which they purpose to sell low. ALSO, A few casks of Cut SHARPLESS & SMITH. November 25. ept3
COALS, hickory and oak wood, all of a superior quality, to be sold low for cash, at Redmond and Garrett Barry's new wharf. Also 12 cases of hollow glass, and 14 liquor travelling cases. Jan. 27, 1802. eptm
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE. FOR sale about 4500 acres of land belonging to the estate of Judge Mercer, deceased, and situated in the county of Loudoun, on the waters of Goose Creek, about 40 miles from Alexandria and the Federal City. A large portion of this tract is meadow ground, of good quality, and the soil of the high land is well adapted to every species of produce usually cultivated on land similarly situated in the upper country. Such portion of it as remains uncleared, affords an extensive and excellent range for flock of every kind. On one part of this land is one of the most valuable mill sites in the state. The supply of water is inexhaustible, and the mill could be erected immediately on the site of the public road leading from Winchester to Alexandria. It is computed that the number of waggons almost constantly travelling along this road, amount to at least 5 or 600. So that a ready market might always be had here, for a very considerable quantity of grain and hay. It is deemed unnecessary to describe more particularly the many advantages of this tract of Land, as it is expected that all persons disposed to purchase, will first view the premises. To accommodate purchasers the whole tract will be divided into lots of 4 or 500 acres each, with as much wood and meadow land as every lot as circumstances will admit. And it is believed that the whole 4500 acres may be sold off into farms of the above-mentioned size, as to leave in each as much wood and meadow land as would be desired. The price and time of payment will be made known by the subscribers. Letters directed to John T. Brooke, Fredericksburg, or to James M. Garnett, Laytons, will be answered without delay. JOHN T. BROOKE, JAMES M. GARNETT, } Adm'rs Feb. 8, 1802. eptf
For sale, or to be rented. A House and lot on the Capitol Hill—the lot is 20 feet 2 inches on Delaware Avenue, and about 170 feet deep extending back to a 30 feet Alley. The House is a handsome well finished convenient three story brick house, containing 2 sealed garrets, 5 chambers, 2 parlours—kitchen with a pantry and cellar. It is directly opposite to the Buildings of WASHINGTON, occupied by Gen. Desborough, near adjoining to a number of houses belonging to Mr. Carroll, rented to Mr. Dalton and others from its vicinity to the Capitol, it is well calculated for a private family; or a person attached to the offices of the Federal Legislature.—Adjoining is a lot of about 40 feet front on same Avenue, and running same depth back, (the whole under a good post and rail fence) which, if required would be sold at same time. If rented, the Tenant may have the use of the whole of the lot, which would make an excellent garden, having a South and Eastern exposure, as long as convenient to the proprietor. This property would be a good Bargain for satisfactory payments, or well situated property in Philadelphia would be in exchange. Apply to Benjamin Burch, New Jersey Avenue or to the Editor of the National Intelligencer—or to Karrick and Percival, Philadelphia. Nov. 21. tf
FOR SALE. A TRACT of land containing 2,500 acres lying immediately on the river Potomac, in the county of Northumberland, Virginia, late the residence of PRESLEY THORN ON, Esq. Seventeen hundred acres of which are of the most valuable kind of low grounds on the river; between three and four hundred acres heavily timbered, the remainder is wavy high land extremely productive. The soil of this tract is equal to any in the state for cultivation of corn, wheat, tobacco, timothy, and small grain of all kinds. On this tract are a large commodious two story brick mansion house and two offices, a large brick stable, a valuable barn, cow house and many other out-houses, all in good repair. The orchards and garden contain a variety of valuable fruit trees, and the waters abound with excellent fish and oysters. It is situated about a day's sail from Alexandria, Baltimore or Norfolk—There are two good mill sites for grist, or saw-mills on this estate, and plenty of cedar and chestnut timber, exclusive of the heavy timber, which if sawed up into scantling will command a price in the City of Washington, nearly equal to the value of the land. The terms will be made easy to the purchaser, for or purchasers, and the tract will be divided into two or more plantations if necessary.—Apply to RICHARD PETERS, junr. No. 35, Walnut-Street Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Nov. 11. eptf
The subscriber respectfully acquaints the public, that he has removed to the corner of Ninth and B 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 to Mr. Wm's Store, Market Street, Baltimore. GEORGE ANDREWS. Who has gold leaf for sale by the package or book. May 8, 1801.
NEW STORE. THE Subscribers most respectfully inform the Public in general, and the public in particular, that they have just opened some assortment of Dry Goods, SUITABLE FOR THE SEASON. On the Pennsylvania Avenue, between President's Square and the Seven Buildings which they purpose to sell low. ALSO, A few casks of Cut SHARPLESS & SMITH. November 25. ept3