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The National Intelligencer,
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. I. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, NEW-JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL. No. XXI.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17th, 1800.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
RENNEL'S CAVE,
IN GLAMORGANSHIRE.
(From the Rev. Mr. Warner's second walk)
"Half way down hangs one who gathers Camphire."
"Though the cliff do not present to the eye so formidable a descent as the famous one at Dover, in the animated description of our great dramatic bard, yet it is sufficiently deep to excite our wonder at the hazardous practice which is very common amongst the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages, at the proper season of the year. I mean the practice of gathering the crith num maritimum , or rock camphire, which grows in great plenty along the ledges, and down the perpendicular sides of the cliff. Shakespeare, you may recollect, alludes to this mode of livelihood, and calls it as he well might, "a dreadful trade," for few avocations are attended with so much danger. The method is simply this: the camphire-gatherer takes with him a stout rope, and an iron crow-bar, and proceeds to the cliff. Fixing the latter firmly into the earth at the brow of the rock, and fastening the former with equal security to the bar, he takes the rope in his hand, and boldly drops over the head of the rock, lowering himself gradually till he reaches the crevices in which the camphire is found. Here he loads his basket or bag with the vegetable, and then ascends again to the top of the cliff, by means of the rope. Carelessness or casualty, in a calling so perilous as this, will sometimes produce terrible accidents. One was related to us which, though not terminating fatally, was so full of horror, that to use a vulgar but very expressive phrase, it made our blood run cold."
"A few years since, one of these adventurers went alone to the spot we are speaking of, to follow his accustomed trade. He fixed his crow-bar, attached the cord to it, and descended the face of the rock. In the course of a few minutes he reached a ledge, which gradually retiring inwards, afforded some feet within perpendicular, and over which the brow of the cliff beetled consequently in the same proportion. Busy in gathering camphire, and attentive only to the object of profit, the rope suddenly dropped from his hand, and after a few oscillations, but all without his reach, became stationary at the distance of four or five feet from him. Nothing could exceed the horror of his situation; above was a rock of sixty or seventy feet in height, whose projecting brow would defy every attempt of his to ascend it, and prevent every effort of others to render him assistance. Below was a perpendicular descent of an hundred feet, terminated by cragged rocks over which the surge was breaking with dreadful violence. Before him was the rope, his only hope of safety, his only means of return; but hanging at such a tantalizing distance, as baffled all expectation of his reaching it. Our adventurer was fortunately young, active, resolute; he therefore quickly determined what plan to adopt: collecting all his powers into one effort, and springing boldly from the ledge, he threw himself into the dreadful vacuum, and dashed at the suspended rope. The desperate exertion was successful; he caught the cord, and in a short time was once more at the top of the rock."
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, OCT. 18.
GREAT BRITAIN AND DENMARK.
[From the Paris papers.]
Having before alluded to the official note communicated to Count Bernstorff, by Mr. Merry, the English charge d'affaires in Denmark, relative to the Danish frigate attacked by the English in the Straights of Gibraltar, we now find that the Danish
minister made no delay in signifying his answer. Count Bernstorff re-asserts the facts which had been inaccurately represented, and overturns, by the triumphant arms of reason, and of the imprescriptible right of nations, the strange doctrine which England is now anxious to support, without being actuated by any other motive than her own convenience, and a groundless hope and confidence in her own strength and resources. The following are the leading points of the Danish reply:
Both custom and treaties have no doubt conferred on the belligerent powers the right of searching neutral vessels, not under convoy of their ships of war, &c. but as this right is not a natural one, but merely conventional, its effects cannot be arbitrarily extended beyond what is agreed to and conceded, without violence and injustice. But none of the maritime and independent powers of Europe, as far as the underlined has observed, have ever acknowledged the right of neutral ships to be searched, when escorted by one or several ships of war; and it is evident they could not do so without exposing their flag to degradation, and without forfeiting a certain essential proportion of their own rights.
Far from acquiescing in these pretensions, which at present are no longer acknowledged, most of those powers have been of opinion, since this question has been stirred, that they ought to hold out an opposite principle in all their conventions respecting objects of this nature, in conformity with a number of treaties concluded between the most respectable courts of Europe, which contain proofs of the propriety of adhering to that principle.
The distinction attempted to be established between ships with and without convoy, is moreover equally just and natural—for the former cannot be supposed to be in the same predicament as the latter.
The search insisted upon by the privateers of state ships of the belligerent powers, with respect to neutral bottoms not accompanied by convoy, is founded on the right of acknowledging their flag, and of examining their papers. The only question is to ascertain their partiality and the regularity of their infractions. When the papers of these ships are found in strict order, no further examination can be legally enforced, and it is consequently the authority of the government, in whose name these documents have been drawn up and issued, that procures for the belligerent power the required security.
But a neutral government, by escorting the armed ships of the state, the commercial ships of the subject, thereby alone holds out to the belligerent powers a more authentic and positive pledge than that which is furnished by the documents with which these ships are furnished. Nor can a neutral government, without incurring dishonor and disgrace, admit, in this respect, the least doubt or suspicion, which must be injurious to that government, as they would be unjust on the part of those who should entertain or manifest them.
And, if it were to be admitted as a principle, that the convoys granted by a sovereign does not secure ships of his subjects from being visited by the state ships or privateers of foreigners, it would follow that the most formidable squadron should not have the right of relieving from search the ships entrusted to its protection, if the search was exacted by the most pitiful privateer.
But it cannot reasonably be supposed that the English government, which has uniformly, and on the most just grounds, shewed a marked jealousy for the honor of its flag, and who in the maritime wars, in which it has taken no part, has nevertheless asserted with vigor the rights of neutrality would ever consent, should such circumstances occur, to an humiliating vexation of that nature; and the king of Denmark reposes too much confidence in the equity and loyalty of his Britannic majesty, to harbor a suspicion that it is his intention to arrogate a right which, under similar circumstances, he would not grant to any other independent power.
It seems sufficient to apply to the case in question, the natural result of these observations, in order to make it evident that
the captain of the king's frigate, by repulsing a violence which he had no right to expect, has done no more than his duty; and that it was on the part of the English frigates, that the violation of the rights of a neutral sovereign, and of a friendly power to his Britannic majesty, has been committed.
The king has hesitated to signify any formal complaint on the head, as long as he regarded it as a misconception which might have been done away by amicable explanations between the respective commanders of the naval force which the two governments kept up in the Mediterranean: but seeing himself, much to his regret, disappointed in that hope, he has only to insist on the reparation that is due to him, and which the justice and the friendship of his Britannic majesty seem justly to be called upon to secure to him.
(Signed) C. BERNSTORFF.
Hamburgh, Sep. 26.
The following is the reply of Lord Grenville to the note of the count de Vedel Jarlsbourg, his Danish majesty's minister, respecting the capture of the Freya frigate.
"The undersigned, principal secretary of state foreign affairs to his majesty, has had the honor of laying before his majesty the note which was received yesterday from the count de Vedel Jarlsbourg, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the king of Denmark.
"It was with the greatest surprise and concern that his majesty received the first intelligence of the affair to which that note relates. Sincerely desirous of maintaining those relations of friendship and alliance which have so long subsisted between Great Britain and Denmark, his majesty has during the course of his reign, given reiterated proofs of that disposition, and which he sincerely hoped to have seen reciprocally entertained by his Danish majesty; and, notwithstanding the expressions contained in the note to the count Vedel Jarlsbourg, his majesty cannot but flatter himself, that it was not really by the orders of the king of Denmark, that this state of harmony has been so suddenly interrupted, or that a Danish officer could have acted conformably to his instructions, in thus commencing hostilities, by a rash and unprovoked attack upon a British ship of war, carrying the flag of his majesty, and navigating the British seas."
"The impressions which such an event have necessarily made upon his majesty, have derived greater force by reading of a note, in which satisfaction and reparation is demanded, as due to the aggressors, from those who have sustained the insult and the injury. His majesty, duly considering the difficult situation in which neutral nations are placed, by the unexampled conduct and singular character of his enemy, has, upon many occasions during the present war, refrained from exercising his rights, and from claiming, on the part of his majesty, the impartial performance of those duties of neutrality, which he professed himself disposed to maintain. But the premeditated and open aggression which he has just sustained, cannot be passed over in the same manner. The lives of his brave sailors have been sacrificed, the honor of his flag has been insulted almost within sight of his own coasts, and this procedure has been maintained by contending the indisputable rights founded upon the most evident principles of the rights of nations, from which his majesty can never depart, and the moderate exercise of which is indispensably necessary for the maintenance of the dearest interests of his empire."
"The undersigned, in all the reports which he has laid before his majesty, has lone ample justice to the personal dispositions which the count de Vedel has evinced in order to prevent all cause of misunderstanding between the two countries. He cannot then avoid pressing him to refer to his court this affair in its true colours, to efface these false impressions, by means of which alone, a conduct so injurious to his majesty could have been authorized (if even it ever was), and to consult the interest of the two countries, but especially of Denmark, by bearing testimony to the disposition with which his majesty's go-
vernment is animated, and by recommending to his court, in that serious manner which the importance of the affair justifies and requires, the necessity of making in this critical conjuncture, a suitable return, so that a prompt and satisfactory reply may be given to the demand which his majesty has caused to be made at Copenhagen, both for reparation for that which has passed, and for security against the repetition of such injurious violence."
"In order to give effect to the representations of his majesty, upon this subject, and to furnish the means of such explanations as may prevent the necessity of resorting to extremities, which his majesty looks forward to with the greatest regret, he has charged lord Whitworth with a special mission to the court of Denmark, and a minister will immediately set sail upon his destination. That court can only see in that determination a new proof of the desire with which the king is animated to reconcile the maintenance of peace with the preservation of the fundamental rights and interests of his empire."
(Signed) "GRENVILLE."
Paris, 15 Vendemarie, 8th Oct.
"While the first Consul was at Morfontaine, at the entertainment given by Joseph Buonaparte to the American Plenipotentiaries, citizen Cambry, Prefect of the department of Oise, presented him several golden medals, which had been lately found by country people in his department. They were concealed in an earthen vessel, large enough to contain 600,000 livres worth—were perfectly well preserved, and of various epochs; some of them dated from an early period of the Roman Empire, others during the time of the republic."
"The Prefet observed to the Consul that it was difficult to procure these medals, because the people who found them, were fearful lest they might be taken from them, as according to the ancient laws of France, all treasures found in this way belonged by right to the government—At present, replied the first Consul Buonaparte, government will not contest the good fortune of a citizen.—Besides, it is necessary to use every precaution, to prevent these medals being melted down into bullion by the country people—buy up then, as many of them as you can—probably added he, after a moment's silence, it will be easy for you to procure more—I hope it will general answered the prefet. On this reply the First Consul advanced towards Mr. Davis, one of the American ministers and said to him. "These Roman Medals Sir, have just been found in France, accept and carry them with you to America, so that the monuments of the Roman Republic may become pledges of amity and union between the republics of France and the United States."
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 30.
The Russian fleet had entered the Dardanelles upon their return from the Mediterranean into the Black Sea.
BOLOGNA, Sept. 16.
We have now in the Tyrol, 55,000 soldiers 85 Companies of Rangers, and the people under military discipline.
FLORENCE, Sept. 23.
The prizes in Painting, Architecture and Sculpture were distributed with pomp. In Sculpture the exhibitions were much applauded.
ROME, Sept. 26.
The free trade in Grain, which by an edict has been granted has had the most sudden and happy effect. The arrival of merchant vessels at Civitavecchia, at Fiumicino, and Rida Grande has supplied our wants and we trust has destroyed the inveterate obstinate and ill judged commercial restrictions.
BOARDING AND LODGING.
May be had for Three or Four gentlemen during the session of Congress by applying to Mr. Claxton, or at the Three Buildings 4 doors East of the Navy office, to Wm. O'NEAL. City of Washington Dec. 8, 1800. 3*

The following Extracts are from the Letters of Fabius written in 1797, by John Dickenson, author of the celebrated Farmer's Letters.
Of all national powers, that which is chiefly derived from commercial resources, seems to be the most precarious. It depends too much on extraneous support. It must be exercised not only with great wisdom, but also with great virtue; that is, it must be beneficial to others, as well as profitable to the people possessing it, or it cannot be permanent. Our creator never made individuals or nations, to be kind to themselves only. When attended with eminent success, it is apt to generate a spirit of pride, dissipation, insolence, rashness, rapaciousness, and cruelty. The eagerness for wealth, increases with amassment. It rages. It is a pestilence. Altering nations preserve scarcely a resemblance of themselves. Hardly a feature of their promising youth, remains in their debauched manhood. They, who were worthily diligent and decently frugal, become wickedly active and impudently avaricious: and, they who nobly defended their own liberty, deem it glorious to destroy the liberty of others. With them, justice is a restraint: Benevolence a weakness. To use an expression of Thucydides, "Nothing is thought dishonorable that is pleasing, nothing iniquitous that is gainful."
Let us bestow our attention for a moment, on Athens, Carthage, Venice, and Holland. Each of these states, by the force of commerce, has been predominant over considerable tracts of the world; and to each of them might many nations say, with the old Roman—"By our wretchedness thou art great." Thus commerce calculated by its nature to be an instrument for encreasing the felicity of mankind, has in many instances become a scourge.
If a conclusion may be drawn from a multitude of events delivered down to us by unprejudiced historians, the monitory result is—that the conduct just mentioned will be found ultimately to produce consequences directly the reverse of the purposes intended by the short-sighted perpetrators—and that where nations raise themselves, by proudly trampling upon others, although they may by bravery and management obtain the most conspicuous eminence, yet, by the immutable law of nature that forbids the existence of happiness without virtue, the causes of declension constantly intermingle with their criminal successes—"Grow with their growth and strength with their strength"—and at the period when their guilty glory reaches its greatest height, then precisely are they near to their fall.
Each of the republics lately mentioned was deeply guilty. Could the murdered and the miserable, the victims of their crimes, rise from their beds of death, and move in silent procession before our eyes, we recollecting the delicacies, the virtues, the tender affections, the generous sensations, that in their persons had been violated and racked into the utmost exacerbation of human woes—though conscious to ourselves that their sufferings were passed, how would our brains burn with anguish, if floods of tears should not relieve us?
For what were these crimes committed? For no better purpose than—"To drink from gems and sleep on Tyrian dyes."
ON WAR—By Wm. Paley, M. A.
The insufficient causes, or unjustifiable motives of war, are, the family alliances, the personal friendships, or the personal quarrels of princes; the internal disputes, which are carried on in other nations; the injustice of other wars; the extension of territory, or of trade; the misfortunes or accidental weakness of a neighbouring or rival nation.
There are two lessons of rational and sober policy, which if it were possible to inculcate into the councils of princes, would exclude many of the motives of war, and allay that restless ambition which is constantly stirring up one part of mankind against the other. The first of these lessons admonishes princes to "place their glory and their emulation, not in extent of territory, but in raising the greatest quantity of happiness out of a given territory." The enlargement of territory by conquest is not only not a just object of war, but, in the greater part of the instances in which it is attempted, not even desirable. It is certainly not desirable where it adds nothing to the numbers, the enjoyments, or the security of the conquerors. What commonly is gained to a nation,
by the annexing of new dependences, or the subjugation of other countries to its dominion, but a wider frontier to defend; more interfering claims to vindicate; more quarrels, more enemies, more rebellions to encounter; a greater force to keep up by sea and land; more services to provide for, and more establishments to pay; And, in order to draw from these acquisitions something that may make up for the charge of keeping them, a revenue is to be extorted, or a monopoly to be enforced and watched, at an expense which costs half their produce. Thus the provinces are oppressed, in order to pay for being ill governed; and the original state is exhausted in maintaining a feeble authority over discontented subjects. No assignable portion of country is benefited by the change: and if the sovereign appear to himself to be enriched or strengthened, when every part of his dominion is made poorer and weaker than it was, it is probable that he is deceived by appearances. Or were it true that the grandeur of the prince is magnified by those exploits; the glory which is purchased and the ambition which is gratified by the distress of one country, without adding to the happiness of the other, which at the same time enslaves the new and impoverishes the ancient part of the empire, by whatever names it may be known or flattered, ought to be an object of universal execration; and oftentimes not more so to the vanquished, than to the very people whose armies or whose treasures have achieved the victory.
The second rule of prudence which ought to be recommended to those who conduct the affairs of nations is, "never to pursue national honour as distinct from national interest." This rule acknowledges that it is often necessary to assert the honour of a nation for the sake of its interest. The spirit and courage of a people are supported by flattering their pride. Concessions which betray too much of fear or weakness, though they relate to points of mere ceremony, invite demands and attacks of more serious importance. Our rule allows all this, and only directs that, when points of honour become subjects of contention between sovereigns, or are likely to be made the occasions of war, they be estimated with a reference to utility, and not by themselves. "The dignity of his crown, the honour of his flag, the glory of his arms," in the mouth of a prince, are flatly and impolitic terms; but the ideas they inspire are insatiable. It may be always glorious to conquer whatever be the justice of the war, or the price of the victory. The dignity of a sovereign may not permit him to recede from claims of homage and respect, at whatever expense of national peace and happiness they are to be maintained, however unjust they may have been in their original, or in their continuance, however useless to the possessor, or mortifying and vexatious to other states. The pursuit of honour, when set loose from the admonitions of prudence, becomes in kings a wild and romantic passion; eager to engage, and gathering fury in its progress, it is checked by no difficulties, repelled by no dangers: it forgets or despises those considerations of safety, ease, wealth, and plenty, which in the eye of true public wisdom, compose the objects, to which the renown of arms, the fame of victory, are only instrumental and subordinate. The pursuit of interest, on the other hand, is a sober principle; computes costs and consequences; is cautious of entering into war; stops in time; when regulated by those universal maxims of relative justice which belong to the affairs of communities, as well as of private persons, it is the right principle for nations to proceed by; even when it trespasses upon these regulations, it is much less dangerous because much more temperate than the other.
WASHINGTON BOOK-STORE. RAPINE, CONRAD, & CO. Corner of South B. Street and New Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol. HAVE just received, and for sale at the above store, Letters from Alexander Hamilton, concerning the public conduct and character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States. Also, just opening, a choice assortment of books in History, Law, Medicine, Divinity, Arts and Sciences, Classics School books, Novels, Romances Biography, &c. &c.—With a good assortment of super royal, royal, medium, demy, and foolscap writing paper, thick and thin post, blue & common wrapping paper, best Dutch quills, wafers, sealing wax, ink powder, red and black ink, black lead pencils, parchment, playing cards, blank books, &c. &c. All which they will dispose of at the very lowest prices. Public officers and others, who will please to favour them with their custom, may rely on having the strictest attention paid to their orders. Nov. 17th, 1800.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1800.
RETURN OF VOTES,
For President and Vice-President of the United States.
   Adams. Pinckney. Jefferson. Burr. Scattering.     New-Hampshire   Massachusetts 16 16   Rhode-Island   Connecticut 9 9   Vermont   New-York 12 12   New-Jersey 7 7   Pennsylvania 7 7 8 8   Delaware 3 3   Maryland 5 5 5 5   Virginia 21 21   Kentucky   Tenn-see   North Carolina 4 4 8 8   South Carolina 8 8   Georgia 4 4   51 51 66 66  
By letters received from Louisville (Ky.) dated subsequent to the Election of President and Vice-President, we are enabled to inform the public that the votes of the state of Georgia are as follows:
For Thomas Jefferson 4 votes. Aaron Burr 4
The General Assembly of Virginia have chosen PHILIP N. NICHOLAS, Attorney General of that State.
FEDERAL MASSACHUSETTS REPRESENTATIVE.
First Eastern District. Lee. Dearborn. Scattering. 32 towns, 473 477 21
The election for Congressional Representative in the eastern district of Vermont, was on the 2d inst. We have heard from a few towns in the district, in which Gen. Morris has a very large majority.
Morris. Paine. Niles. Rockingham 103 2 0 Chester 90 1 0 Westminster 43 0 27 Grafton, about 40 1 0 Windfor, nearly all for Morris.
The law prescribing the mode of choosing electors in Virginia provided, in case of the absence of any of the electors which might be appointed by the People, that the legislature should appoint others to supply such vacancies; accordingly Edmund Pendleton, sen. of Caroline, Carter B. Harrison, and Andrew Moore being absent, Daniel Coleman of Caroline, Dr. John Shore of Petersburg, and John Bowyer, of Rockbridge, were elected.
The frigate United States is ordered to the Windward Islands. The owners and commanders of vessels, bound thither, who wish to avail themselves of the Convoy, will take notice, that the frigate sails the first fair wind.
NEW CENSUS, FOR THE COUNTY OF BENNINGTON.
   Census of 1791. Census of 1800.     Pownal, 1745 1700   Stamford, 272 280   Reedsborough, 64 230   Woodford, 50 138   Bennington, 2377 2337   Shaftsbury, 1999 1929   Glastenbury 34 52   Arlington, 991 1578   Sandgate 773 1009   Sunderland, 414 588   Manchester, 1276 1395   Winall, 155 198   Landgrove, 31 140   Bromley, 71 127   Dorset, 958 1280   Reupert, 1033 1651   12,254 14,732   12,254   Increase, 2, 478  
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, Dec. 15th, 1800.
The petition of Nicholas I. Roosevelt, and associates, praying for an act incorporating a company for the prosecution of Schuler's Coppermine was read and referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
The House went into a committee of the whole on the bill for the relief of Robert Hooper, Mr. Morris in the chair.
After being read by the chairman the bill was reported to the house without amendment, and on the question of engrossing it for a third reading, Mr. Griswold said he wished to be informed wherein the facts, on which the committee at the present session had founded a favourable report, differed from those on which the committee in 1797 founded a different report, which then stated that the loss of the petitioner had arisen from a want of care on his part.
Mr. S. Smith said he had been a member of both committees. In 1797 the petitioner supported his claim only by his own assertions; he was therefore against allowing it, the report was unfavourable, though he believed it had never been acted upon by the house. During the present session full proof had been exhibited that the loss of the petitioner did not arise from any misconduct of his, but from the inattention of the custom house officer.
Mr. Otis thought the case one of the plainest that could occur. The petitioner had imported certain specified goods; had declared his intention to export them; and had applied to the proper officer for craft wise certificates and clearances, and all other papers necessary for effecting his purpose. It was well known that the deputy collector was generally supplied with blanks which he filled up as the case required. The petitioner, after expressing his wishes, and receiving from the deputy collector certain papers, asked "Have I got all my papers" the answer was "yes"—Afterwards, when too late to retrieve the error, he found that he had not one.
Mr. Waln, on a former occasion, had been opposed to the claim, because proof had not been produced of landing the goods in a foreign country. Proof of this fact was now furnished. As he had no doubt of the exportation of the articles, & of their having been landed in a foreign country, which is all the law requires to entitle the exporter to drawback, he thought the claim ought to be allowed.
On the question for engrossing the bill for a third reading to-morrow, it was agreed to without a division.
On motion of Mr. Leib the House went into a committee of the whole on the report of the committee of Claims on the petition of William Nichols, late Marshal of Pennsylvania, Mr. Morris in the chair.
The Report was read, which allows the claim made by William Nichols for the expenses of the attendance of jurors and witnesses on the trial of insurgents in '95 before the circuit court of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Macon observed that the money stated by the petitioner to have been paid by him, was not warranted by any law existing at the time. The reason assigned by the petitioner for paying the sums he wished to be reimbursed was that at the time he was young in office. The sum allowed by the report, was the highest allowed in any state to jurors and witnesses, and was even higher than that paid in Pennsylvania. Under these circumstances he moved that the committee should rise, and report progress.
Mr. Waln said that the judges had sanctioned the sums allowed in the report; and though there was no law that authorised it, the measure was justified by the necessity of the case. The allowance made was to individuals in the double capacity of jurors and witnesses. It was thought equitable that they should be compensated in both characters. The sums allowed were the same as those that were allowed in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. These considerations made him friendly to the report.
The question for the committee's rising was lost. The committee then concurred in the report of the Committee of Claims, which concurrence being reported to the House, was confirmed by them, and the Committee of Claims instructed to report a Bill.
Mr. Cooper, after some prefatory remarks, moved the appointment of a committee to enquire into the expediency of repealing an act for the valuation of lands

and dwelling houses, and for the enumeration of slaves within the United States. Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. HUGER moved that when the house adjourned, it adjourn till 12 o'clock—Negatived.
TUESDAY, Dec. 16, 1800. The bill for the relief of Robert Hooper was read the third time, and passed.
An Alexandria paper says, we are informed by authority upon which we can rely, that Mr. Sitgreaves has at length negotiated an adjustment of our differences with Great-Britain which have arisen in consequence of the sixth article of our treaty of amity, commerce and navigation with that power. Government, we believe, has not yet received an official copy of the instrument, and our knowledge of it is not sufficiently extensive, to state with precision the leading features, or the nature of the claims which are barred by it in future; but we can venture to assert, that, as the basis upon which the future friendship of the two nations is to be founded, it is stipulated that a specified sum of money shall be paid by the government of the U. States to that of Great-Britain, and in consequence that certain claims of a particular nature shall not be again adduced. The commissioners will then resume the exercise of their functions.
By His Excellency THOMAS PICKTON, Esq. Governor and Commander in Chief of the Island of Trinidad, and its dependencies. &c. &c.
A PROCLAMATION.
It being made clearly to appear by the representations of the planters, inhabitants, &c. that there actually does at present exist an alarming scarcity of all the articles of provisions absolutely necessary for the support of the slaves employed in carrying on the cultivation of the Island; and that the arrival of new settlers, and the daily importation of slaves from the other Islands, operates to increase an evil which already gives cause for a serious alarm; and it appears upon strict investigation, that the quantity of Rum and Molasses manufactured in the island, is far insufficient for the payment of the necessary supplies of these essential articles. I have therefore thought fit to issue this my Proclamation, to publish and declare, that it shall be lawful for vessels, the property of the subjects of the United States of America, coming directly from the said States with provisions and lumber of all kinds, the growth and produce of that country, to take and receive in exchange, to the exact value of their respective cargoes, and no more, any other article the actual produce of this colony, except Indigo, Cotton, Lignum Vitae, and Dying Wood. And the officers of his Majesty's customs within this island, are hereby required to take due notice thereof. This is to continue in force for six months from the date hereof.
THOMAS PICTON.
Albani, formerly auditor of the Apostolical Court, has received the agreeable notice, that his Holiness has conferred upon him the honours of the Cardinalship among the first promotions. This act has been generally applauded, especially by all who know his merit, and the talents which he can very advantageously employ in the service of the Catholic Church.
Extract of a Letter from General WASHINGTON to CHARLES CARROLL, of Carrollton, dated Mount Vernon, 2d of Aug. 1798.
"Although I highly approve of the measures taken by government to place this country in a posture of defence, and even with they had been more energetic; and shall be ready to obey its call, under the reservations I have made, whenever it is made; yet I am not without hope, mad and intoxicated as the French are, that they will pause before they take the last step. That they have been deceived in their calculations on the division of the people and the powerful support they expected from their party, is reduced to a certainty; though it is something equivocal still, whether that party, who have been the curse of this country and the source of the expenses we have to encounter may not be able to continue their delusion.—What a pity it is this expense could not be taxed upon them."
A New York Paper says, Captain Van Antwerp has put into our hands a Halifax paper of the 27th ult. which contains the foreign news published in this day's Gazette—it is to the 19th, and was received there by the ship Echo, Captain Kendal, in 27 days, from Portsmouth. The most interesting events, says the editor, are a Confirmation of Ulm, Philipburgh and Ingolstadt, being delivered up to the French—and the consequent extension of the armistice for 40 days—the preparation for a congress which was immediately to assemble at Luneville, to adjust a plan of general pacification. The change of ministry at Vienna, by the appointment of Count Lehrbach, to succeed Baron Thugut, and the appointment on the part of the Emperor of Count Cobenzel to the Austrian negotiator at the congress at Luneville.
The French garrison of Malta, consisting of 6000 men, had arrived at Marseilles. All the British forces which could be spared after leaving the necessary garrison in Malta, had failed under Sir A. Berceromy for Egypt. The Russian troops had once more disappeared, and were on their return to Russia.—Formidable preparations were making in Spain for the attack of Portugal. A large French army was again assembling on the coast, to excite if possible, an alarm in England; but the vigilance of our fleets and armies was such as to remove all apprehension from their parading galleons.
NEW-YORK, December, 10.
Capt. Bell, from Currao, informs us, that all the American vessels that were at Currao, when the English took that place, are to pay a salvage of 25 per cent—and that all property purchased by Americans, either from the French, Spanish, or Dutch, after the 10th of September last, is to be repaid for.
He further informs, that a very destructive fever raged at Currao among the English soldiery—though the natives remained perfectly healthy. Capt. B. lost one man with the fever on his passage.
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
The appearance of the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER has been protracted to this day, by the unavoidable, though unanticipated embarrassments attending the removal of a Printing Office. The vessel, which contained the greater part of the materials, failed from Philadelphia on the 20th of September; but did not arrive in this City till the 25th ult. owing to her having been driven on shore by the violence of the late storm. This information is given to remove any censure that may have been thrown upon the Editor for his unex-ected delay.
The Editor, at the commencement of his duties, considers it as not improper to state the nature of the plan, which he intends to pursue, and concisely to notice the principles by which he proposes to regulate his own conduct, as well as those by which it is expected that Correspondents will regulate theirs.
Various political opinions divide the civilized world. These opinions in some cases are diffused by the press; in others by the sword. Amidst this collision of hostile sentiments no safer safeguard of human happiness exists, than the liberty of the press.
There is truth in the declaration the venerable CONGRESS of 1774, who in their address to the Inhabitants of Quebec, speaking of the freedom of the press, say "The importance of this concession, besides the advancement of truth, science, morality, and the arts in general, in its diffusion on of liberal sentiments on the administration of government, its ready communication of thoughts between subjects, and its consequent a PROMOTION OF UNION AMONG THEM, whereby oppressive officers are shamed or intimidated into more honorable and just modes of conducting affairs."
But while the Editor clings with our dearest rights the Liberty of the Press, he is decidedly inimical to its licentiousness.
As on the one hand, the conduct of public men and the tendency of public measures will be freely examined, so, on the other, private character will remain inviolable, nor shall indecent ideas or expressions be admitted, however disguised by satire or enlivened by wit.
No sentiments whatever, on the prevalence of which the general good depends, will be excluded from enquiry and discussion. Guided by this principle, the editor need not caution the public against ascribing to him, a belief in all the opinions which may occasionally be supported, or a disbelief of those which may be opposed. For as he means not to surrender his own sentiments, so he does not expect that those who write for the National Intelligencer will surrender theirs.
In the admission of compiled as well as original articles, it will be his object to be impartial, and to exhibit as they exist, the varying opinions and actions of men. Let it, however, be considered, that impartiality does not consist in the ACTUAL ADMISSION of as much political matter on one side as the other; but in a readiness to insert articles of merit on either side.
Aware of the equivocal character of PROPOSITIONS, and convinced that the public judgment will be formed, as it ought to be, from the manner in which the National Intelligencer shall be conducted, the Editor will add only one remark.
His Paper will be REALLY AMERICAN . It will be his effort to promote the true interests of his own Country, uninfluenced either by foreign attachments or enmities.
The following are the TERMS on which the National Intelligencer will be published, subscribed to which is the address which accompanied the Proposal Papers.
1st. The NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER shall be printed three times a week on good paper, and with a new type.
2d. The annual subscription shall be FIVE DOLLARS paid constantly in advance by all subscribers not residing in the City of Washington and Six DOLLARS paid by those who reside in the City; in which case the payment shall be half yearly. It being understood that subscribers, residing at a distance from the City of Washington, are invariably to pay for a year in advance, and in every such case the transmission of the Paper will cease as soon as the period shall expire for which payment shall have been made. No paper will be forwarded in any instance until the money is actually paid.
3d. All Letters to be post paid.
The Editor of the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, impressed with the great importance of the present crisis, and with the strong necessity of having conducted, at the seat of the General Government, a newspaper, that may claim the reputation of being useful, by diffusing unperverted facts, and correct political ideas, has determined to enter upon the arduous duties which such an object involves. He is well apprised of the expense and exertion which such an establishment requires. But he confides in the prompt and energetic co-operation of the friends of truth and of their country in the different parts of the Union. As it is his firm determination, that nothing shall be admitted into the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER which shall wound national or calumniate private character, so it is his unalterable purpose freely to insert, and earnestly to invite, whatever shall promote the general welfare. This, and this only, shall be the motive by which his professional deportment shall be guided.
Hitherto, in the management of the UNIVERSAL GAZETTE, the Editor has confined himself, agreeably to the original plan, to recording events as they occurred, with but little animadversion on their causes or effects; and as far as opinions were involved, to relating those of others rather than his own. The Universal Gazette will still be continued on the same plan; the only change that takes place, will arise from its being printed at the seat of government at Washington, instead of Philadelphia; whereby its value will be appreciated rather than impaired.
With respect to the National Intelligencer, another plan will be pursued. Over a faithful and comprehensive detail of facts will preside a spirit of investigation, a desire to enlighten, not only by fact, but by reason. The tendency of public measures, and the conduct of public men, will be examined with candour and truth.
In addition to the mass of information, formed by domestic and foreign events, and especially by a detailed statement of the debates and proceedings of Congress, as much original matter will be furnished as the exertions of the Editor shall be able to command. And if he be not deceived he can promise the readers of the National Intelligencer, an organ, which shall communicate the language of truth with accuracy, with dignity and with spirit.
October 31st, 1800.
Kid, Eliot & Co.
HAVE received by late arrivals, a general assortment of Hard ware and Ironmongery, which they offer for Sale at their Store opposite the Great Hotel.
They have also on hand
Madeira. Sherry & } Wines. 1. foon Cognac Brandy. Jamaica Spirits, Holland Gin, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Tea, Coffee, &c. &c.
Washington, Dec 18. tf.
JUST IMPORTED,
IN the ship Missouri, via Philadelphia, and now opening for sale at the Subscriber's store on New Jersey Avenue Capital Hill, Square 690. A General Assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Sadlery, Brass Wares and Building Materials.
Among which are the following Articles. Iron pots, frying pans, chafing dishes, Brass kettles and Japan Candlesticks, patent metal tea kettles and sauce pans; japanned tea trays, waiters and Bread baskets, sad irons, wind up Jacks, sweeping, scrubbing, hearth and shoe brushes; Mathematical instruments, mahogany knife cases, filled with ivory handled knives and forks, Cruet stands, ladies dressing cases; mill, pith and crook cut Saws, 56, 28 and 14lb Iron weights. Also scale beams to weigh from 5 to 10 cwt. at an end. HENRY INGLE
November 24th, 1800.
LOTS FOR SALE,
In the City of Washington.
THE SUBSCRIBER offers for Sale a number of valuable Lots beautifully situated between the Capitol and the Eastern Branch. Also a few Lots to be let on lease for ninety nine years in the vicinity of the Navy yard.
WILLIAM PROUT.
City of Washington. December 12, 1800. N. B. A few Tons of good Meadow Hay, one Kilm of Bricks, and some Cord Wood.
W. P.
LOST
ON Sunday evening last, between the Capitol and Mr. Smith's Printing office, a red Morocco pocket book, with a broken clasp, containing several papers and one ten dollar note—Whoever has found, and will deliver it at Mr. Smith's Printing office—New-Jersey Avenue, shall receive a liberal reward.
THOMAS TOWN.
Dec. 12th 1800.
INFORMATION WANTED.
ALEXANDER INNES, a Hatter by trade, was sometime ago on board the Constellation frigate and was in 1798 in Norfolk, Virginia. He has not since been heard off. His friends would be thankful if any persons who know anything of his situation or residence, would communicate it by letter, per post, addressed to Robert Innes, jun. merchant Easton Pennsylvania.
P. S. Printers to the Southward of Pennsylvania are requested to give the above a place for a few times.
November 28, 1800.
CONVEYANCER'S OFFICE.
THOMAS HERTY has opened an office a few yards from the CAPITOL, on the New Jersey Avenue, where he will attend daily till 3 o'clock during the sitting of Congress, and in the afternoon, at his office opposite the LITTLE HOTEL—Conveyances of land, wills, mortgages, leases, assignments, or partnership deeds and dissolutions, marriage settlements and separations, letters of licence and composition, bills of sale of vessels, slaves, and other chattels, bonds of conveyance, and other bonds, powers of attorney, awards, manumissions, partitions, exchanges, petitions, annuities, post obits, seamen's wills and powers, and all other instruments in the above line, are drawn according to the legal import of the same respectively, with the utmost punctuality, accuracy, secrecy, and dispatch, and on moderate terms.
Titles investigated, and opinions given where necessary. N. B. Herty's Abridgment of the laws of Maryland, approved and sanctioned by the Attorney General and Legislature of Maryland, may be had at the above office, price Six Dollars neatly bound and lettered; also Herty's Digest of the Laws of the United States, price Three Dollars, neatly bound and lettered.
December 5, 1800. twtf.
JOHN MINCHIN, BOOT MAKER
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
RESPECTFULLY acquaints his FRIENDS, CUSTOMERS and the PUBLIC, that he has removed his BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORY from near the Eastern Branch, to New Jersey Avenue, on the hill near the Capitol, where he makes Gentlemen's Boots, Boots, Shoes and Unders. Shoes on the shortest notice, in the neatest manner, and of the best materials.
December 3d. 3tw.
TO JOURNEYMEN SHOEMAKERS.
WANTED, a number of Journeyman Shoemakers, to whom constant employment and good wages will be given.
JOHN BARNES, FROM PHILADELPHIA,
Has just opened for sale the following articles at his store opposite Mr. Semmes's tavern, in Georgetown, a general assortment of Fresh Teas of the first quality. viz.
Imperial, Large Hyson, Young Hyson, Hysonskin, Souchong and Pohea.
SPICES.
Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, Cinnamon, Four bags fresh Almonds.
LIQUORS.
Madeira, six years old, Dry Sherry & Port. Brandy, 4th proof Jamaica Spirits, and Holland Gin.
COFFEE.
Pennington's best refined sugars. With a handsome assortment of gentlemen's fashionable London EATS and trimmings. He has likewise for sale, ten cases well assorted STATIONARY, consisting of writing paper of different qualities, Quills, Wafers, and Ink powder, in packages from 50 to 180 do. lars on the most reasonable terms for cash or approved notes.
English and American playing cards, Pasteboard per gross, V. rapping paper per ream, A case of 7-8 and yard wide India Linen per piece.
Nov. 14th, 1800.
NOTICE.
The 27th. instant being the anniversary of St. John the Evangelist, the members of Federal Lodge No. 15 are requested to meet the master and wardens of the said lodge at their lodge room in the dwelling house of Mr. Cunningham in the New-Jersey Avenue, from whence they will walk in procession to the Church of the Rev'd Brother Andrew Thomas McCormick, who will deliver a discourse Suitable to the day.
By order of the Lodge ALEXANDER COCHRAN Sec'y. City of Washington, 8th December, 1800. N. B. all master Masons are invited to attend.

S P E E C H
Of the Governor of New Hampshire.
Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Senate.
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives.
ASSEMBLED at this time as the Representatives of a Free People, for the purpose of transacting such business as the public good may require, it must afford great satisfaction to observe the general prosperity of our Fellow-Citizens, and the good order and tranquility which prevail throughout the State.
The Constitution is given as our general rule, and a frequent recurrence to it is a duty; in this, it is declared to be the duty of Legislators and Magistrates, to cherish the interests of Literature and the Sciences, and all Seminaries and public Schools—to encourage private and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of Agriculture, Arts, Sciences, Commerce, Trades, Manufactures and Natural History of the Country—countenance and inculcate the principles of Humanity and general Benevolence, public and private Charity, Industry and Economy, Honesty and Punctuality, Sincerity and all social affections and generous sentiments, among the People.
In a free Government, those duties are highly important at all times; and some of them are peculiarly so in the present times. When a revolutionizing spirit not only in systems of Government, but in manners and morals, has been so prevalent in some foreign Countries; and when it is touch to be feared, that our Country is in danger from the infection: If so, how important is it that Legislators & Magistrates should seriously and deliberately contemplate the precepts they may give, and be equally careful to set a good Example to all around them!
The present session of the Legislature is peculiarly interesting, from the consideration that they have to name Electors on the part of this State, for choosing a President and Vice President of the United States—No doubt can be entertained of your giving to this subject all that consideration which its high importance demands, and that such men will be selected as the public may safely confide in; men who have given unequivocal proofs of their attachment to our National Government.
If we look back to the circumstances of our Common Country previous to the adoption of this system, and contrast them with the present, is not such a view sufficient to determine the wise and virtuous in a strict adherence to the Laws and Government under which we have had so much peace and prosperity, while many other nations have been afflicted with wars, internal commotions, and slaughter unparalleled!
The arts and intrigues of Foreign Nations, undoubtedly have been, and will continue to be, exerted in our Country; and we ought to be constantly on our guard against them.
The repeated evidence given by our Fellow-Citizens throughout this State, and by the successive Legislators of their strong attachment to the National Government are sources from whence I have the highest satisfaction.
The state of the Treasury will be laid before you, from which an opinion may be formed respecting the Revenue, and whether further supplies are necessary.
It has been suggested, that the Act "to regulate the exportation of Beef and Pork," does not fully answer the purpose intended; a revision of this act may perhaps be useful.
Whatever measures you may judge necessary for promoting the welfare of our Fellow Citizens, will, so far as depends on me be attended to with much pleasure.—May the Supreme Governor of the universe guide us all in the way of peace and happiness.
JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN.
State of New-Hampshire, Nov. 21, 1800.
Message of Lieut. John Drayton, Governor of South Carolina.
To the honorable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives.
GENTLEMEN,
Agreeably to the constitution of this state, its authorities are now met at the seat of government, for the dispatch of public business; but the gentleman who filled the executive office at the close of your last session, is gone. RUTLEDGE is no more!
In consequence of this unexpected calamity, the duties which he was entrusted to execute, constitutionally vested in me; and I was immediately notified by the Secretary of State, to enter on the same.
Here I found that the illness of the governor had unavoidably retarded public affairs, particularly as relating to the appointment and commissioning of all public officers throughout the state: one sheriff only of the new election was in commission; and all the other officers connected with the judiciary department, required to be without delay placed in their respective stations, or otherwise, the first sitting of the courts under the late judiciary laws, could not have taken place.
Upon the whole, however, I felicitate you on this first commencement under the new judiciary system; and I earnestly hope, that with your support, it will be the means of justice being better administered, and of its being brought nearer the homes of the citizens of this state, than has heretofore been done.
While these beneficial consequences result from our present judiciary system, other advantages arising therefrom are already perceived, as enabling the people the better to know and to support governmental authority, with all those advantages of civilization and information connected therewith.
its shafts of corruption with unavailing tendency, and when strangers shall boast of the advantages or perfections of distant countries, and shall recommend alteration in our laws and customs conformably thereto, a laudable jealousy will be excited which will lead to cautious investigation, and will serve to bind us to our country the more.
It is a matter of national joy to find that so valuable a staple as cotton is now added to the produce of this state.
With great pleasure I have also to inform you, that not only this state, but the United States, at present enjoy an interval of possible foreign interruption, than has been experienced for several years past;
But although these blessings at present attend us, yet ought we not by any means to be rendered thereby inattentive to those duties, which a prudent regard to our general tranquility obviously suggest;
By the report of the comptroller of the revenue and finances of this state, which I shall have the honour of transmitting to you, you will find your expectations have been well realized, as respecting the benefits of which would be derived from the establishment of that office.
When such are the advantages which you this day possess, I cannot but draw your attention to the officer who is the head of that department, whose industry in the duties of his station have to my knowledge been indefatigable and unceasing, though great, has always been guarded by that prudence and discretion, which never led him to overstep the boundaries of law, or to swerve from what he imagined the true interests of his country.
With the means and opportunities you now possess, much may be done for the public service; much to relieve the local inconveniences under which many citizens labor at present.
Intimately connected with this are the establishment of manufactures, which, according to the objects of their institution, may either promote the growth of articles around, which for want of a demand are now raised only in small quantities, or they may encourage the growth of new articles, direct to a better husbandry, and thus afford better opportunities of comfort to the people.
These, and many other blessings, may be derived from your exertions, if the opportunities you have, be industriously pursued.
JOHN DRAYTON. South Carolina, Nov. 24th, 1800.
BOMBAY, March 3. Colonel Malcolm's Embassy to the court of Persia. Yesterday afternoon anchored in the harbour, the Hon. Company's frigate the Bombay, capt. Selby, last from Abu Sheher. The frigate had a tolerable good passage to Muscat, at which place she arrived on the 8th of January, the Imam was not present, having proceeded on a military expedition to Ormus.