The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1801-05-20 00:00:00

The National Intelligencer,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. I. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, NEW-JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL. No. LXXXVI.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20th, 1801.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Thoughts on the policy of limiting the right of the General Government to lay taxes.
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IN the case of war, it is affirmed, that the government of the United States should possess an absolute, unlimited right of taxation. The grounds on which this doctrine is supported are these—The power which aggresse upon our rights may be so strong as to require an exertion of our whole physical strength. On this exertion, instantaneously made, may depend our liberties, our property, our national existence. It is proper, therefore, nay, it is absolutely necessary, that some power should exist able to command the whole resources of the country. If this power be suffered to exist any where, with whom can it be so safely lodged as with the general government?
This reasoning presupposes that the greatest national exertion would be made under the exclusive and undivided auspices and power of the general government. If it can be shewn, as the writer of these remarks believes it may, that the direct reverse of this effect would be produced by the concentration of power in the federal head, it will follow that the general government has no claim, derived either from necessity or policy, to an exclusive command of revenue.
It has been seen that the spirit of our political systems is a discriminating and circumspect spirit. It avoids unlimited confidence in any government. To the state governments it gives certain powers; to the general government it gives other powers. The principle which dictated this division of power, is a principle of wise jealousy; of diffidence in the infallibility of rulers. The American people, contemplating in other countries the abuses of uncontrolled power, have been sparing in bestowing it on their rulers. They know that it is the natural tendency of power to aggrandize itself; they know that it will aggrandize itself, unless it is vigilantly observed and constantly repressed.
With these convictions, have the people adopted their present systems of government. The state governments were formed and carried into effect without opposition. Their necessity was doubted by no one—In them centered the regard of the whole community—On their existence the people have uniformly believed to depend primarily their liberty, property and life.
So strong was the affection of the people for these governments, so unanimous the suffrage in their favour, that at the period of the adoption of the federal constitution, some of the most impressive arguments against it, those which excited the deepest sensibility, arose from the apprehension that the tendency of that system would be to consolidate the states into one empire, placing that empire under one system of government. This fear sprang up in a thousand forms, and whenever it was suggested, it was acknowledged by the friends of the constitution, if founded in truth, to be fatal to the ratification of it: But they contended that so far from impairing the state governments, it would in reality strengthen them; and that all alarm at the federal government swallowing the state sovereignties must be viewed as chimerical, when it was evident that the existence of the latter was essential to that of the former.
Such is certainly the fact, and in the development of this truth we have reached the point at which we aimed—the existence of the state governments as matter of primary necessity.
What is to be understood by that existence? Undoubtedly that healthful, vigorous existence, which can alone flow from the unimpaired possession of constitutional powers. Can these powers be enjoyed and exercised without a certain portion of pecuniary resource? They certainly cannot. Can this resource be found, if the general government, extending to the utmost its
power of taxation, monopolises the whole resource of the country? Certainly it cannot. Does it not follow then, that in such event, the state governments would be no more than mere paper systems, or, what might be worse, obedient puppets of the general government.
Contemplate them reduced to this degraded state, deprived of their original character, stripped of their constitutional powers, instead of forming checks on the general government, they become converted into instruments of its aggrandizement. While in all their measures they conform to its will, and execute its views, they are supported. But so soon as they attempt, even by the due exercise of their own powers, to thwart a favorite measure of the general government, that support is withheld, and they are left in a perishing condition.—Dependent on, and instruments of the general government, they become objects of public aversion and contempt. The respect and affection, which they once enjoyed, desert them. Or if this should not be the case, the people, viewing with alarm the debased condition of the states, awaken to a jealousy of the general government, considering it as the cause. In the habit of associating the protection of their rights with the independence of the state governments, in the subversion of the last, they behold the annihilation of the first. The community immediately becomes divided. On one side are to be seen the great body of the people opposed to the invasion made on the state systems, while on the other side are enlisted the adherents of the general government.
There is little reason to believe that in such a state of things, the contest would be conducted with moderation or forbearance. Certain it is, that a universal spirit of discontent would indispose the people to a great and undivided effort, even against external danger, if it did not, as it might, lead them into domestic war. For it is evident that contemplating the prostration of the state governments as the greatest of political evils, they would not hesitate to prefer any casualty to it.
Thus it appears, that at the very moment when external danger required the greatest exertion, the least would be made from the existence of internal division.
Does it not follow from this view of the subject, that, as a great effort can only be made from the cordial co-operation of all classes of citizens, the only effectual way of obtaining such co-operation is by a sacred observance of those palpable political obligations which have been created by the peculiar nature of our federal compact, of which the distinct separate sovereignties are as essential members as the federal head. (To be continued.)
BUILDERS.
WILLIAM LOVERING, of George-Town, and WILLIAM DYER, of the City of Washington, having commenced partnership in the Architectural and Carpenter line of business, which they are determined to carry on with fidelity, integrity and dispatch, hope for the patronage of their friends and the public.
Having a number of the best workmen now employed, are ready to execute any orders which they are determined shall be done in the best workman like manner for those who will please to favor them with their commands.
Orders directed to W. LOVERING, Gay Street near the Union Tavern, George Town, or to W. DYER, 1 Street, North of the new War Office, City of Washington, will be punctually attended to.
N. B. Wm. LOVERING has been in the practice of drawing for and superintending great part of the Buildings in the City of Washington and its Vicinity.
Washington, April 1. tf.
Conrad & M'Munn
HAVE opened houses of entertainment in the range of buildings formerly occupied by Mr. Law, about two hundred paces from the Capitol, in New Jersey avenue, leading from thence to the Eastern Branch. They are spacious and convenient, one of which is designed for stage passengers and travellers, the other for the accommodation of boarders. There is stable sufficient for 60 horses—They hope to merit public patronage.
City of Washington, Nov. 24, 1800. tf.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
The question whether the energy of the General Government ought to be encreased having agitated the minds and divided the sentiments of able politicians, and almost destroyed the harmony of society, I have been induced to form my own opinion by contrasting the probable consequences of augmenting the power, or of continuing it in statu quo.
Consequence of encreasing the power of the General Government.
If the power must be encreased in proportion with the multiplication of states and their augmented population, armies must be established and depots formed for ammunition—and consequently the expences of Government must be encreased and taxes to defray them, which will create discontent and endanger separation; and thus by degrees the General Government will be jealous of and ultimately at variance with the several states.
A despotic government supported by force, must augment its power in proportion with the population to be governed.
A despotic government keeps numerous Countries together by appointing influential characters and by forces at their disposal, or in other words by corruption and fear the main springs of potentates.
A despotic government grants partial privileges in taxation, duties, &c. to different Countries, according to their power and local circumstances, with a view to make all look to it for favor, and be jealous of each other.
A despotic government makes religion a powerful engine, to bias the judgments of its people.
A despotic government is constantly in agitation and at variance with its neighbors, either for aggrandizement or to occupy the turbulent minds of its subjects.
A despotic government too apt to be ostentatious and extravagant, must encrease its power as it encreases its demands on its subjects, till they rebel or sink in misery.
A despotic government in a small territory is often supported by a national debt, as the state creditors are all interested in preventing insurrection; but in an extensive Empire it is apt to be subverted.
Unfortunately our present Constitution has not its parallel in history; many men therefore, who have seen the independent republics of Greece overturned by anarchists, have been apprehensive of similar destruction to our Government, which is altogether dissimilar and which has not had sufficient time to evince the permanency of the principles on which it is founded; unfortunately too, the distressing scenes which France of late displayed (during the combat of old opinions with the new ones) alarmed men of property, who did not perceive that the point which stood at despotism suddenly let loose had only vibrated to anarchy; but that it would settle in medio a steady government. Hence arose the hostile terms Federal and anti-federal, Republican and Aristocrat, although the moderate and sensible men of both parties had the same object in view and only differed about the means. Happily for America, she has avoided war, and preserved a respectable independent neutrality; happily also, the effervescence of patriotism has subsided with the alarm which occasioned it, and if Mr. Jefferson adheres to his gratifying, conciliatory professions, in his address, the people will have but one mind and one heart.
Nail Manufactory,
ALL kinds of Cut Nails for Sale by Wholesale and Retail at the Factory on F Street, and at the Hardware Store of the Subscriber, where persons building and all others wishing to purchase may be supplied with any quantity at the most reasonable rates.
JOHN JACK Washington Feb. 4, 1801.
FOR SALE,
A young Negro Girl, about 15 years old—Apply at this office. April 22, 1801. tf.
FOR SALE, OR RENT.
TWO Brick dwelling houses, situated on the Pennsylvania-avenue near the President's house; each containing two handsome parlours and passage on the first floor, four lodging rooms, including garret, all private, kitchen and cellar; the whole will be completely finished in a few days: the yard's front palisaded and set with trees; the walks to the street paved or gravelled, which will render the same as comfortable a situation as any in this City for a private family, and will be sold for less than any gentleman can have the same built for. A family of negroes, will be taken in part payment, or Lots will be exchanged for Slaves. For particulars enquire on the Premises of
OWEN ROBERTS. March 11, 1801. tf.

Many of our readers will recollect the use made of a publication, entitled "Intercepted Letters of Buonaparte, and others," to exhibit the weak and reduced state of the French in Egypt, and to shew also their want of principle, as well as to the ends in view as to the means they used to accomplish them.
From a late debate in the British Parliament, we observe the authenticity of these letters questioned by Mr. Sheridan, who, to prove their falsehood, says, "They state among other things that Talien had lost one of his eyes, but that gentleman had two very good ones still remaining. [Talien was in the Gallery at the time.]
Mr. Stockdale, an eminent Bookseller of London, announces for sale, price 12 guineas, a General Map of Germany, Italy, &c. on 30 large sheets, by capt. Chauchard. The advertisement states that this grand military work has been honored with the examination and sanction of the first military characters in Europe. The Archduke Charles, and general Moreau, have declared in the second preliminary article of the late armistice, that all disputes relating to the line of demarcation shall be settled by Captain Chauchard's Maps. Both these officers had early impressions before them.
Mr. Stockdale proposes to publish by subscription, Two grand imperial topographical MAPS of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on 38 large sheets of Atlas paper, each sheet measuring two feet two inches, by two feet ten inches—price to subscribers nine guineas.
On Monday sailed from Alexandria, the sloop Hiland, captain Hand, having on board 70 French prisoners, under a guard of marines, bound to New-York, from whence they are to embark for the West-Indies.
The result anticipated in Rhode-Island has been realized. The new legislature of that state has chosen for federal Senator CHRISTOPHER ELLERY, a decided republican.
Both branches of the legislature are republican. The house of representatives consists of 48 republicans and 22 federalists. They have unanimously voted an address to the President of the U. States.
On the 9th of April flour was selling at Bristol in England for 90s. a barrel.
Napper Tandy has been lately transmitted to Lifford, where he is to have trial for accepting a commission in the French service, and landing in Ireland with a French army.
The United States ship Connecticut has been sold at New-York, for 19,300 dollars.—She was purchased by Mr. Jordan Wright of that city.
The United States ship Portsmouth has been sold at Baltimore, for thirty-one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars, the purchaser was Mr. Jeremiah Yellot, of that city.
A receipt to make an excellent American wine. Communicated to the Burlington Society for promoting Agriculture and domestic Manufactures, by Joseph Cooper, Esq. of Gloucester county, New-Jersey.
I put a quantity of the comb, from which the honey had been drained, into a tub, to which I added a barrel of cider, immediately from the press; this mixture was well stirred, and left to soak for one night. It was then strained, before a fermentation took place; and honey was added till the strength of the liquor was sufficient to bear an egg. It was then put into a barrel; and after the fermentation commenced, the cask was filled every day, for three or four days, that the filth might work out of the bung-hole. When the fermentation moderated, I put the bung in loosely, lest stopping it tight might cause the cask to burst. At the end of five or six weeks, the liquor was drawn off into a tub; and the whites of eggs, well beat up, with a pint of clean sand, were put into it: I then added a gallon of cider spirit; and after mixing the whole well together, I returned it into the cask, which was well cleaned, bunged it in a proper situation, for racking off, when fine. In the month of April following, I drew it off into kegs, for use; and found it equal, in my opinion, to almost any foreign wine: in the opinion of many judges, it was superior.
This success has induced me to repeat the experiment for three years; and I am persuaded, that, by using the clear honey, instead of comb, as above described, such an improvement might be made, as would enable the citizens of the United States to supply themselves with a truly federal and wholesome wine, which would not cost one quarter of a dollar per gallon, were all the ingredients procured at the market price; and would have the peculiar advantage every other wine, hitherto attempted in this country, that it contains no foreign mixture, but is made from ingredients, produced on our own farms.
By order of the society, WILLIAM COXE, jun. sec.
FLOATING CORN MILLS.
[The following paragraph is extracted from Jackson's journey from India towards England, in the year 1797.]
"On the river Danube below Pest, are many floating corn mills, which are admirably adapted for the purpose. The vessels on which the mills are built are always kept afloat, and at anchor, in the middle of the stream; the wheel is turned by the current; and I am of opinion, that mills built on a similar construction might be made serviceable on the river Thames, without obstructing the navigation; for we have too many instances of flour and bread advancing in price, on account of the mills in the neighbourhood not being able to raise a sufficient supply, particularly in dry seasons."
NEW-YORK, May 16.
Advices from London, under date of the 11th April, received by the Atalanta from Bristol, state, that Couriers were continually passing between London and Paris; and that it was probable a minister would be appointed on the part of England to treat for Peace; although it is thought much will depend on the event of the expedition against Egypt.—The Danes have taken possession of Hamburg, and the Prussians of Hanover.—The fleet under Sir Hyde Parker had not entered the Sound when they were last heard from.—Riots on account of the scarcity of provisions had taken place in several manufacturing towns in England, but had been quelled by the military.
A letter is said to be received in town from a gentleman of high authority in London, dated the 9th April, which mentions "that the Danes have taken possession of Hamburg, and put all English property there in a state of sequestration; that Prussia has seized the electorate of Hanover; and that the British fleet had not passed the Sound, but were preparing to make the attempt, on the day subsequent to that on which the last advices were dispatched." The letter alluded to was brought by the Atlantic, arrived on Thursday in 29 days from Bristol.
BOSTON, May 6.
FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN. A Spanish gentleman of respectability who arrived here on Friday last, in the Catherine from Corunna, informs that previous to his leaving that place he read, in a Madrid paper of the latter end of March, an account of the Port of Mahon, (in the island of Minorca) having been taken by a French squadron consisting of 6 ships of the line, and two frigates, supposed to be Gentiume's division of the Brest fleet. He further informs, that an army of 35000 French had entered Spain by Pampalona, and were on their march to Badajoz, where they were to be joined by 30 battalions of Spanish infantry, and 20 of horse, who were to repair through Galicia; immediately after forming this junction they were to enter Portugal and commence the sanguinary trade of war.
LONDON & PHILADELPHIA
Bottled Porter of an excellent quality, for sale by the Subscriber, at the cellar under the house occupied by Mrs. Sweeney, and near to Mr. Rhodes's City Tavern.
HENRY LEWIS.
May 20.
PROPOSALS
WILL be received by the subscriber until Monday the 25th instant, to contract for the building the MARINE BARRACKS in the City of Washington, agreeably to a plan, which may be seen at the Navy Office. The proposals may be made for the whole, or for the Brick and joiners work separate.
Wm. MARBURY.
May 12, 1809.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, April 1—3.
On Monday morning two written handbills, of a very inflammatory tendency, signed Alpha, were stuck up in the corn and butter markets at Plymouth, which occasioned a great mob. By order of the Mayor, the constables pulled them down.—About ten o'clock, a large mob, mostly consisting of women, assembled in the potatoe-market and asked the price? The Farmer said 17s per gallon, on which he was hustled out of his cart, but regaining it, he asked them their price? They offered him one shilling per gallon, and the whole was disposed of at that price. Other farmers sold at 9d. per gallon, and butter fell from 1s. 10d. to 1s. per lb. 18 ounces. When the corn market opened at twelve at noon, the women had increased in great numbers; wheat was put up at from 46s. to 42s. per bushel, double Winchester, and barley in proportion, on which much clamour ensued; but some gentlemen addressing the farmers and the populace, the farmers sold out their wheat at from 36s. to 30s. and barley fell in proportion. Shambles meat, which had been at 10d. fell to 6d. per lb. Two large carts full of potatoes, were stopped in the town, and retailed to the poor at 6d. per gallon. The populace behaved with great temper. A fellow in the height of the business, attempted to carry off a bag of potatoes; but the women soon brought him back, and made him restore it to the farmer, and then turned the fellow out of the market. The tumult had completely subsided by five in the afternoon.
LONDON, April 2.
In contradiction to the many unfounded rumors of misfortune which are always disseminated at a moment of anxiety and expectation, we have the satisfaction to announce, that advices were yesterday received by government of the British fleet under Sir Hyde Parker having passed the Sound, with very little interruption from the batteries at Cronenberg and Helsingberg, which guard the entrance of it. Mr. Vanittart and Mr. Drummond have been conveyed on board the admiral's ship; and when the difference was set off, our fleet was near to Copenhagen, preparing to enforce the just rights and privileges of this country by the mouth of the cannon, every attempt to negotiate and detach Denmark from the confederacy having failed. Times.
The independence of the city of Hamburg is likely to suffer in the convulsions of the continent. On the 24th ult. an edict arrived at Hamburg from the Syndic de Sienen, at Berlin, who is there as deputy from Hamburg, containing official advice that Prussia found it necessary, in the actual situation of affairs, to send troops to occupy the territories of Hamburg and Bremen (the occupation of these cities is not mentioned). The Senate immediately assembled to debate upon this violence on its neutrality. It is added, that the Senate would be invited in a few days to take such other measures as the circumstances of the case might require.
No humors in a state can be so dangerous and acrid, as those which arise from the fermentation of superstition, mixed with disaffection. A new illuminated sect has appeared in Lancashire, under the name of Ezekielites. Whether they are mostly composed of dupes or hypocrites, we are not able to pronounce, though the leaders are undoubtedly artful & seditious wretches practising on the weakness of the others.
We last night received Paris Journals to the 29th ult. inclusive. The only article of importance we observe in them, which may probably be erroneous, is that the Prussian troops, under general Reichel, have orders to enter Hanover.
The first chamber of the Dutch representative body have, by a considerable majority, agreed to the report of their commission, by which a revision of the constitution is proposed. The primary assemblies will be speedily convoked, to decide whether they wish for a revision; if they do, a plan of a new constitution will immediately afterwards be submitted to them.
The French army destined to co-operate with the Spaniards in the invasion of Portugal has commenced its march. It is to enter the Spanish territory by the way of Bayonne.
LONDON, April 3.
The Dey of Algiers, as we have already stated, appears to be not only friendly to England, but also to have declared war against her enemy the French Republic. The following is an extract of a letter from Mr. John Falcon, the British Con-
sul, to his brother Mr. Michael Falcon, of Workington.
Algiers Feb. 1, 1801.
"I cannot help communicating to you my successes, because I know you will participate in my joy. I did not think that the happiest moments of my life would be passed at Algiers, but I leave you to judge what must have been my feelings, seeing myself surrounded by two hundred and sixty-six persons, who attribute to me their return to the world, to their wives and children, and to all that was dear to them. Yes, my dear brother, heaven has made me the instrument of releasing from slavery 266 persons whom even hope had almost abandoned. I have had hard fighting; but I have succeeded, and without its costing Government one farthing.
"In addition to the above, I have been so fortunate as to procure the freedom of Le Bailly de la Tour St. Quintin, Chevalier of the Grand Cross of Mal.a, whom the Dey had purchased with money out of his private purse; and for whose ransom he demanded 60,000 chequins, nearly 30,000l sterling.—The Chevalier had no claim on his Majesty's protection, nor could I claim him in my official character, but he was particularly recommended to me by his grace the Duke of Portland. Of course, I used every exertion, employed all my influence, and succeeded in obtaining his freedom; I was honoured with a letter from the captain Pacha, who carried his confidence in me so far as to declare (and also to the Dey and Regency) that he would not believe any answer, or report from Algiers, without its being authenticated and confirmed by me.
"War has once more been declared against France, and the French Consul, as also all of his nation is sent out of the country.
M. Spina, Envoy from the Pope, has of late had several conferences with the First Consul. It is understood, that our government have agreed, that his Holiness shall have all his territories restored to him, except three Legations, which had been disposed of by the treaty of Campo Formio, upon conditions, however, that the Court of Rome shall provide 4000 troops for its own defence, and to garrison the two towns of Civita Vecchia and Ancona.
At Mantua, the Tree of Liberty has been solemnly replanted, and several persons, inimical to the existing order of things, have lately been arrested in that town.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 14.
Admiral Keith's squadron is an anchor in the Bay of Macri. The troops are encamped on a desert coast, and keep their night watch among snows.
Obligated to have frequent communications with the Turks, and with the Grand Vizier's Camp, they are always afraid of being infected by the plague. They have been in this disagreeable situation for more than two months. It is not known what they will do.
The captain Pacha cannot sail before the end of April; a few of his frigates only are ready: instead of being able to embark land troops, the Turks will scarcely be able to find enough of hands to man these vessels.
The army of the Grand Vizier is destroyed by famine and desertion. Five-sixths of the household of the Grand Vizier, and all the Europeans who were in his camp, have died of the plague. The deaths are so numerous that all the trenches which Gen. Bonaparte made at the siege of Acre are used as graves for the Turkish army. The constructing of fortifications has entirely ceased, and the 7 or 8000 men which still remain with the Grand Vizier, are divided into nine corps, some of which have been sent to Damascus.
The natives of Egypt abhor the Osmanlies. The English therefore cannot adopt a more certain mode of procuring for themselves an unfavorable reception, than that of marching under the standard of Mahomet. It is therefore given out by their agents here, that Abercrombie is sufficiently strong to act by himself; that he will take possession of Alexandria, and will then wait for the arrival of a new English army.
IRELAND.
Our letters from Ireland by yesterday's Mail represent that kingdom to be quiet, but infinitely distressed. Manufacturers of almost every kind have been discontinued, and the numerous persons heretofore employed in them added to the multitude, who, from the total want of parochial aid, were literally perishing, or who barely existed upon precarious bounty.—In numerous pla-

ces the peasants and others ineffectually offered their labor for their food.
We do not mean to advocate the entire repeal of our Poor Laws; but the adoption of the corrected system in Ireland would be most fortunate for the famishing many in that country.
The proposed relief of the Roman Catholics, and the circumstances which have attended the agitation of the question, have not occasioned the dreaded explosion; but the volcano is not less to be apprehended because it long labours before it bursts.
Persons professing other forms of faith will not readily admit that the Romish inculcates with peculiar success more than patient forbearance under ills, or a total want of solicitude to be admissible to situations to which other sects are legally competent. The assertion that the Catholics are more than indifferent respecting the emancipation of their body is in some degree correct. The whole Republican Phalanx, whose number appears to be lamentably augmented by the Union, desire the continuance of political disabilities which displease the public mind, and consequently minister to their wishes.
Catholic emancipation, so long rendered the source of national calamity, always proposed that property should be represented; and as nineteen 20ths of the property of Ireland has been and continues to be in the hands of the Protestants, so much have been the representation, even if the Union had not taken place; but that event, whatever may be its consequences in other respects, having by almost equalizing the number of Protestants in the united kingdoms with property they possess; the dread of Popish preponderance in the Senate ceases to be an argument, and habit appears the least censurable cause of continued hostility.
Some of the opponents to an extension of privilege to the Catholics observe, that they already possess every solid advantage, and that emancipation is merely a term used by the seditious to incite to rapine and carnage.—If these positions are correct, why reduce ourselves to the level of idiots by contending for a shadow; and why furnish the enemies of our quiet, our prosperity, our existence, with the most ready and effectual means for the destruction of them all?
Lord Cornwallis has already begun to pack, preparatory to his departure from Ireland; a circumstance which, in the present state of that country, affords the liveliest regret to all description of persons interested in its tranquility. Many of the forgiven Rebels who, to evince the warmth of their political regeneration, would suspect the loyalty of and devote to slaughter every man who had a better house than themselves; and the still more numerous Rebels whose sanguinary zeal against the persons even of the suffering delinquents they had armed, prevented their expiating their greater offences upon the scaffold; require the purchased experience, the integrity, and the firmness of the present Viceroy to prevent the renewal of persecution till blood and plunder were exhausted.
PROPOSALS
For carrying the MAILS of the United States on the following routes, will be received at the General Post-Office in Washington City, until the 15th day of July next inclusive.
IN RHODE-ISLAND.
47 From Providence by Warren and Bristol to Newport, three times a week.
May 1 to November 1—Leave Providence every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 7 A M, and arrive at Newport by 4 P M—Leave Newport every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 8 A M, and arrive at Providence by 4 P M.
November 1 to May 1—Leave Providence Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 8 A M, and arrive at Newport by 4 P M—Leave Newport every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 8 A M, and arrive at Providence by 4 P M.
48 From Providence by East Greenwich and Little Rest, to South Kingston, once a week—Leave Providence every Friday at 4 A M, and arrive at South Kingston by noon—Leave South Kingston every Friday at 2 P M, and arrive at Providence on Saturday by 10 A M.
49 From Newport by South Kingston, Carleton, Westerly, Stonington, C. and Gotion, to New London, C. once a week—Leave New London every Thursday at 1 P M, and arrive at South Kingston on Friday at 1 P M, and arrive at Newport by 3 P M. Returning—Leave Newport every Saturday at 6 A M, and arrive at New London the next Monday by 10 A M.
IN CONNECTICUT.
50 From Hartford by Lebanon and Windham, to Norwich, once a week—Leave Hartford every Tuesday at 6 A M, and arrive at Norwich by 6 P M—Leave Norwich every Monday at 6 A M, and arrive at Hartford by 6 P M.
51 From Hartford by Middletown, East Haddam and Colchester, to New London, once a week—Leave Hartford every Tuesday at 1 P M, and arrive at New London on Wednesday by 7 P M—Leave New London every Thursday at 11 A M, and arrive at Hartford on Friday by 7 P M.
52 From Hartford by Simsbury, New Hartford, Winchester, Norfolk, Canaan, Sheffield, Hillsdale and Claverack, to Hudson, once a week—Leave Hartford every Wednesday at 8 A M, and arrive at Hudson on Friday 10 A M—Leave Hudson every Friday at 2 P M, and arrive at Hartford the next Monday by 3 P M.
53 From Hartford by Farmington, Farmington, Litchfield, Washington, New Milford, Danbury, Ridgefield, Salem N Y and Bedford, N Y, to Stamford, C. once a week.
May 1 to November 1—Leave Hartford every Tuesday at 2 P M, arrive at Litchfield on Wednesday at 10 A M, at New Milford by 3 P M, and at Stamford on Thursday by 7 P M. Returning—Leave Stamford every Saturday at 1 P M, arrive at New Milford on Monday by 10 A M, at Litchfield by 3 P M, and at Hartford on Tuesday by 10 A M.
November 1 to May 1—Leave Hartford every Tuesday at 8 A M, arrive at Litchfield by 3 P M, at New Milford on Wednesday by 10 A M, and at Stamford on Thursday by 3 P M. Returning—Leave Stamford every Saturday at 10 A M, arrive at New Milford on Sunday by 2 P M, at Litchfield Monday by 10 A M, and at Hartford on Monday by 5 P M.
54 From New Haven by Derby, Southbury, Woodbury, Bethlehem, Litchfield, Goshen and Canaan, to Sheffield, Ms. once a week—Leave New Haven every Tuesday noon, arrive at Litchfield on Wednesday 2 P M—Leave Litchfield at 11 A M, and arrive at Sheffield by 7 P M. Returning—Leave Sheffield every Monday at 5 A M, arrive at Litchfield by 3 P M, and at New Haven on Tuesday by 10 A M.
55 From Litchfield by Cornwall and Sharon, to Poughkeepsie, once a week—Leave Litchfield every Wednesday at 2 P M, arrive at Sharon by 6 P M, and at Poughkeepsie on Thursday by 1 P M. Returning—Leave Poughkeepsie on Thursday at 4 P M, arrive at Sharon on Friday by noon, and at Litchfield by 7 P M.
IN NEW YORK.
56. From New Rochelle by White Plains, North Castle, Bedford, Salem, South East, Dover, Kent C. Sharon C. Salisbury C. Sheffield Ms. Great Barrington Ms. Stockbridge Ms. and Lenox Ms. to Pittsfield Ms. once a week. Leave New Rochelle every Monday at 5 A M, and arrive at Bedford by noon. Leave Bedford at 1 P M, arrive at Sharon on Tuesday at 4 P M, leave Sharon at 5 P M, arrive at Sheffield on Wednesday at 10 A M, at Stockbridge at 2 P M, and at Pittsfield by 7 P M. Returning, Leave Pittsfield every Thursday at 6 A M, arrive at Stockbridge by 10 A M, at Sheffield by 2 P M, at Sharon on Friday at 9 A M, at Bedford on Saturday noon, and at New Rochelle by 7 P M.
57. From New York by Jamaica, Queens C. H. Jericho, Huntington, Dixhills, Winnacomac, Brookhaven, Suffolk C. H. Southampton and Bridgehampton to Sag Harbor once a week. Leave New York every Thursday at 10 A M, and arrive at Sag Harbor the next Saturday by 6 P M. Leave Sag Harbor every Monday at 8 A M, and arrive at New York the next Wednesday by 3 P M.
58. From Albany by Duanesburg and Durlock to Cherry valley once a week. Leave Cherry valley every Wednesday at 6 A M, and arrive at Albany on Thursday by 10 A M. Leave Albany every Thursday at 2 P M, and arrive at Cherry valley on Friday by 6 P M.
59. From New York by Bergen N. J. Hackinack, N. J. Pyramus N. J. New Antrim N. Y. Chester, Goshen, Wardsbridge, Shawangunk and Newpaltz to Kingston once a week. Leave New York every Friday at 6 A M, arrive at Goshen the next day by 6 P M. Leave Goshen on Saturday at 5 A M & arrive at Kingston by 7 P M. Returning, Leave Kingston on Monday at 6 A M, and arrive at Goshen by 7 P M. Leave Goshen every Tuesday at 6 A M, and arrive at New York the next Wednesday by 6 P M.
60. From New York by Kingsbridge, Yonkers, Peekskill, Mount Pleasant, Fishkill, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Redhook, Clermont, Hudson and Kinderhook to Al-
bany three times a week. Leave New York every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2 P M, arrive at Tarrytown by 8 P M. Leave Tarrytown every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 4 A M, and arrive at Poughkeepsie by 7 P M. Leave Poughkeepsie every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday at 4 A M, and arrive at Kinderhook by 7 P M. Leave Kinderhook every Thursday, Saturday, and Monday at 4 A M, and arrive at Albany by 8 A M. Returning, Leave Albany every Monday, Thursday and Saturday at 2 P M, arrive at Kinderhook by 7 P M. Leave Kinderhook every Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday at 4 A M, and arrive at Poughkeepsie by 7 P M. Leave Poughkeepsie every Wednesday, Saturday, and Monday at 4 A M, and arrive at Tarrytown by 7 P M. Leave Tarrytown every Thursday, Sunday, and Tuesday at 4 A M, and arrive at New York by 11 A M.
61. From Albany by Schenectady, Fort Hunter, Conajoharry, Herkimer, German Flats, Utica and Whitestown to Rome twice a week. Leave Albany every Monday, and Thursday at 2 P M, arrive at Schenectady by 6 P M. Leave Schenectady every Tuesday, and Friday at 6 A M, arrive at Conajoharry by 6 P M. Leave Conajoharry every Wednesday, and Saturday at 6 A M, arrive at Utica, by 6 P M. Leave Utica every Thursday, and Sunday at 6 A M, and arrive at Rome by 11 A M. Returning, Leave Rome every Sunday, and Saturday at 2 P M, arrive at Utica by 6 P M. Leave Utica every Tuesday, and Friday at 6 A M, arrive at Conajoharry by 6 P M. Leave Conajoharry every Wednesday, and Saturday at 6 A M, and arrive at Schenectady by 6 P M. Leave Schenectady every Monday, and Thursday at 5 A M, arrive at Albany by noon.
62. From Utica by Whitestown, Oneida, Manlius Onondagua, Marcellus, Aurelius, Cayuga bridge, and Geneva to Canandorque once a week. Leave Utica every Thursday at 6 A M, and arrive at Manlius by 7 P M. Leave Manlius on Friday at 6 A M, arrive at Cayuga on Saturday by 9 A M, and at Canandorque by 6 P M. Returning, Leave Canandorque every Monday at 6 A M, and arrive at Utica on Wednesday, by 5 P M.
63. From Canandorque by Hartford to Niagara once a week. Leave Canandorque every Monday at 6 A M, and arrive at Niagara on Wednesday by 3 P M. Leave Niagara every Thursday at 9 A M, and arrive at Canandorque on Saturday by 6 P M.
64. From Cayuga to Scipio once a week. Leave Cayuga every Saturday by noon and arrive at Scipio by two P M. Leave Scipio at 5 P M, and arrive at Cayuga by 7 P M.
65. From Manlius to Cazenovia once a week. Leave Manlius every Friday at 6 A M, arrive at Cazenovia by 8 A M. Leave Cazenovia by 11 A M, arrive at Manlius by 1 P M same day.
66 From Conajoharry by Cherry valley, Cooperstown, Butternuts and Oxford, to Union once a week. Leave Conajoharry every Wednesday at 6 A M, arrive at Cooperstown by 3 P M, Leave Cooperstown on Thursday by 6 A M and arrive at Union on Saturday by 10 A M. Returning, Leave Union on Sunday by 6 A M, arrive at Cooperstown on Tuesday by 10 A M and at Conajoharry by 6 P M.
67. From Fort Hunter to Johnson twice a week. Leave Fort Hunter every Tuesday and Friday at 3 P M and arrive at Johnson by 4 P M. Leave Johnson every Tuesday and Friday by 6 P M and arrive at Fort Hunter by 7 P M.
68. From Schenectady by Balltown springs, Saratoga springs, and Glenbridge to Sandyhill once a week. Leave Schenectady every Tuesday at 6 A M and arrive at Sandyhill by 7 P M. Leave Sandyhill every Wednesday at 5 A M, arrive at Schenectady by 7 P M.
69. From Albany by Troy to Lansingsburg 6 times a week. Leave Lansingsburg every day, Sunday excepted, at 8 A M and arrive at Albany by 10 A M. Returning, Leave Albany every day, Sunday excepted, at 2 P M and arrive at Lansingsburg by 4 P M.
70. From Lansingsburg by Yates, Cambridge, Salem, Hebron, Granville, Hampton and Pultney Vt. to Fairhaven Vt. once a week. Leave Lansingsburg every Saturday at 6 A M and arrive at Salem by 3 P M. Leave Salem on Sunday by 3 P M and arrive at Fairhaven on Monday by 10 A M. Returning, Leave Fairhaven every Monday at 2 P M and arrive at Salem on Tuesday by 10 A M. Leave Salem on Friday by 6 A M and arrive at Lansingsburg by 4 P M.
71. From Lansingsburg by Waterford, Stillwater, Westfield, Fort Miller, Fort Edward, Sandyhill, Kingsbury, Fort Ann, and Whitehall to Fairhaven once a week.
Leave Lansingsburg every Saturday at 8 A M, arrive at Sandyhill on Sunday by 8 A M and arrive at Fairhaven the next Monday by 10 A M. Returning, Leave Fairhaven on Thursday at 6 A M, arrive at Sandyhill by 4 P M and at Lansingsburg on Friday by 6 P M.
72. From Vergennes Vt by Charlotte Vt Willsboro, Peru, and Plattsburg to Champlain once a week. Leave Vergennes on Wednesday at 6 A M, arrive at Champlain on Thursday by 7 P M. Leave Champlain on Monday by 6 A M and arrive at Vergennes on Tuesday by 6 P M.
73. From Rhinebeck to Kingston twice a week. Leave Kingston every Wednesday and Friday at 8 A M and arrive at Rhinebeck by 10 A M. Leave Rhinebeck same days by 11 A M and arrive at Kingston by 1 P M.
74. From Newburg to Fishkill twice a week. Leave Newburg every Tuesday and Saturday at 3 P M, and arrive at Fishkill by 4 P M. Leave Fishkill in half an hour and arrive at Newburg by 6 P M.
75. From Newburg by New Windsor, Goshen, Warwick, Hamburg N. J. Newtown N. J. Johnsonburg N. J. Hope N. J. Belvidere N. J. and Easton Penn. to Bethlehem P. once a week. Leave Newburg every Tuesday at 6 A M, arrive at Newtown on Wednesday by noon, arrive at Easton on Thursday 6 P M. Leave Easton Friday 6 A M and arrive at Bethlehem by 8 A M. Returning, Leave Bethlehem at 11 A M on Friday, arrive at Easton by 1 P M at Newtown N. J. on Saturday by 1 P M. Leave Newtown at 2 P M and arrive at Goshen on Monday at 6 A M and at Newburg by noon.
FOR SALE, THREE BRICK HOUSES,
Opposite the Navy Office—They are three stories high, with two parlours on the first floor. Immediate possession may be given. Enquire of WILLIAM DYER, either at the above-mentioned buildings, or at his house on I street, north of the new War Office.
April 17, 1801.
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Port Wine, first quality, just received and for sale at the store of the subscriber near the President's square, next Mr. Rhodes's Tavern.
ROBERT ELLIS, Washington City.
Also a general assortment of Liquors, Teas, Groceries, Spanish and East India Segars, and a trunk of Ladies' Kid morocco and leather shoes, &c.
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FOR SALE,
The complete frames for two buildings, ONE 44 feet by 24 feet, two stories, the other 28 by 16, both of best white oak and prepared in the best manner, being intended for the use of the owner. Poplar feather-edged plank, sufficient to complete, may be had with them. Enquire of the printer.
April 10.
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FOR SALE OR RENT,
Two elegant brick Houses, 40 by 20 feet, SITUATED on King and Columbia streets Alexandria, as well calculated for the grocery and flour business as any in the city; also two large stores adjoining the above houses, 25 feet front, by 36 feet deep, and I will likewise lease or sell, 7 or 8 valuable lots on King and Patrick streets, subject to a small ground rent. Possession will be given of one of the houses immediately, and the other in 30 days. Any person wishing to purchase, one fourth of the purchase money will be required in hand, one fourth in 3 months, and the balance in 12 months, by paying interest and giving a security on the property.
I will also sell,
Six or eight thousand acres valuable Kentucky land. The terms of payment will be required as above-mentioned.
The subscriber intends carrying on the brick-laying and plastering business extensively, and will keep a constant supply of bricks and lime for sale, he will also undertake to furnish all materials to any person disposed to build in the City, on the most reasonable terms for cash. Application to be made to Francis Peyton, Esq. for the property in Alexandria, or to
N. VOSS.
City of Washington, April 8, 1801.
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LOTS.
IN different eligible situations in the City for Sale or Lease on ground rent.—Likewise,
100 Casks inspected Rhode Island LIME.
A number of Quarter and half and Casks of MADEIRA WINE, of a superior quality, by JOHN SICKNEY
At his building opposite Rhodes Tavern President's Square. Washington, March 2, 1801. eod ef

Notice is hereby given,
PARIS, MARCH 24.
The Moniteur of the 23d Germinal (March 24) announces the arrival of citizen Colla from Egypt, in the St. Philip aviso, which put into Frejus on the 24th Ventose (March 16.) He failed from Alexandria on the 15th Pluviose (Feb. 4.)
Up to the 15th Pluviose there had been no plague in Egypt, though it raged in the Grand Vizier's camp in Syria. Thus, the plague has not appeared for two successive years in Egypt, which proves that it is not endemic in that country.
Extract of a letter from general Menou, to the First Consul.
"Head Quarters, Cairo, Jan. 25. CITIZEN CONSUL, "Were it possible for my zeal for the service, and my attachment to the person of its first magistrate, to receive any additional ardor, the marks of satisfaction and regard which you have signified to me through the medium of the ministers, would have produced that effect.
"Rest assured that every physical and moral faculty which I possess shall be exerted in executing your views for the preservation of the conquest which you have made. No force shall wrest it from the army of the East. Its bayonets are prepared to receive and defeat any enemy that may present himself. Those who have been tutored in the art of war by Buonaparte, can have no other resolution than that of conquering or perishing.
"The news of our astonishing success in Europe has fired with enthusiasm the troops whom I have the honor to command. They fondly hope that the hostile powers will at length endeavour to conclude a peace which you hold out to them with such marked candor and moderation.
"The troops have read with sentiments of gratitude, the account of the negotiations entered into with England, for the purpose of concluding an armistice, and are convinced of what importance Egypt is in the political balance. They have held the interest which you have taken in their situation, and charged me to offer to you the tribute of their gratitude. It is here, citizen consul, that I am called upon to represent to you the indignation felt by the army on hearing of the attempt made upon your life by villains; but it directs me to say that you are bound in such circumstances to forget your customary principles of generosity. Your days are not your own; they are the property of the republic, and of all the French who love their country.
"The Ottoman army is reduced to the most deplorable condition, and is daily destroyed by the plague, by famine, and desertion. I often send detachments to cut off their convoys, and the dromedaries would even have taken El-Arish, were they not apprehensive of the plague.
"The English have resumed their station off our ports.
"The commerce of the Red Sea has been resumed with activity, and seven vessels laden with coffee, have entered the port of Suez. I have circulated and diffused proclamations that have penetrated to Maskat and towards the Persian Gulf. Others find their way into Darfurth, and the adjacent countries.
I shall execute your orders, citizen consul, respecting the barbarian Mids; they shall be employed and paid according to your desire. The peace concluded with the regencies of Tunis and Algiers will be productive of infinite advantages. I cannot pay too high compliments to citizens Du-bois, Thanville, and Devoile, commercial commissioners at the governments of those powers.
"The interior of Egypt enjoys the most perfect tranquility. The inhabitants begin to repose confidence in us. By governing them at the same time with firmness, justice and moderation, we shall ultimately succeed in winning their most cordial attachment.
The army is in the best possible state; well fed, well disciplined, well clothed, and well paid; they expect to acquire new glory in combating our irreconcilable enemies, the English.
The works carrying on by the engineers
and the artillery men are forwarded with the greatest activity; every praise is due to the officers of every rank belonging to these corps.
Our cloth manufactures are thriving most prosperously: This success is to be ascribed to the talents and patriotism of Citizen Gonte.
The Geographical engineers and those belonging to the department of bridges and highways, are busily employed. I have ordered new roads and canals to be marked out, and bridges to be repaired.
Very extensive communications are forming in the interior of Cairo. Some plantations of coffee have succeeded extremely well. The National Botanical Garden, superintended by Citizens Champy and Delile, is also much improved.
Several manufactories have been set on foot with great success. The journey to Mount Sinai has completely succeeded, and you shall soon, Citizen Consul, receive a complete account of it.
Several experiments on a large scale are going to be made on the Natron lakes.
Citizen Peyre and Contele are charged with the researches making at the Pyramids at Sakata.
The voyage to the Great Oases is going to be entered on. Mourad Bey, who conducts himself extremely well, will give every assistance to our travellers. General Friant has completely reconnoitered the tower of the Arabs, and of the Lake Mareotis.
A trading ship which failed from Citah on the 6th Nivose, entered Alexandria on the 14th of the same month; it was but nine days on its passage; this dispatch is almost incredible. I relieved it from all the duties of customs, as being the first trading ship that arrived from the metropolis; it will clear at least 300 per cent.
Her returning cargo will be productive of as much more if it arrives safe in France. I shall continue to exert my best endeavours to protect and make commerce flourish. I hope that the ships to which I have given permission to sail for France, laden with articles from Egypt, will arrive there safe.
Health and respect, (Signed) AB. J. MENOU.
BALTIMORE, May 11.
Letter to the Editor of the Baltimore American.
Quarantine ground, May 6, 1801. DEAR SIR,
A residence of some weeks among our good friends the British, in Jamaica, enables me to communicate to you several interesting facts, which I feel confident you are not yet so far lost to the honor and interests of your own country, and not so strictly devoted to British interest as many of your brother editors in the United States, as to refuse their publicity. They are all facts which may be relied on, and are of importance to every citizen of this (to use John Adams's part) "great, free, powerful, and independent nation."
The British capture almost every vessel they fall in with; that is not bound to or from an English port; and even some who are, and when they get once to Jamaica, they are there obliged in reality condemned, for the very few who are so fortunate as to obtain in the face of an acquittal in court, are uniformly appealed for by the agent of the captors and the property still detained, so that an acquittal is of no other service to owners but to sum them into a heavy additional expense. The Schooner Moncrieff, is the only captured vessel that to my knowledge has been suffered to depart, and this was owing to her having been taken by a tender belonging to admiral Seymour; who on examination of her papers when she came in, finding she could not be detained without a direct violation of the law of nations as well as our treaties, would not suffer her to be delivered up into the agents hands; otherwise she would have been liquidated, and most assuredly detained whether the court had acquitted or condemned her.
When an American vessel is carried into Jamaica for adjudication, the expence of prosecuting a claim for restoration is never less than 1500 dollars, and most commonly amounts to 2000, for the payment of which good substantial surety must be produced, before a claim can be filed; and the default of such claim is deemed sufficient cause for condemnation, and there is no instance, where the court have cleared a vessel, of these costs or any other damages being awarded by the claimants. Thus they will not even rob us without being well paid for it.
The case of the brig Washington, capt. Barton, is one among many instances of the
frivolous pretexts on which our vessels are condemned. The court publicly and unequivocally acknowledged that, vessel and cargo were clearly proved to be American property, that she was perfectly in a legal trade, that no objection could be raised against her, but that her having endeavored to fly from his Britannic majesty's ships, was tantamount to a resistance, and for this reason, and no other, condemned her, and her cargo.
The judge in his infinite mercy condescended to acquit some small private adventures, belonging to the captain and crew;
The sloop Elizabeth, captain Jones, of New York, is an instance of the merciless and indiscriminate rapacity and contempt of common justice, and of the laws of nations, in the agent: the vessel and a small part of the cargo, belonging to the captain and constituted his whole property; the remainder belonging to inhabitants of New York, and New Providence; she was bound from New Providence to Natches; was captured by the ship Thunderer, who after running foul of her, staving in her quarter and otherwise damaging her, so as to render her entirely unfit for sea, sent her into Jamaica for adjudication—Where, although captain Jones, for the want of money, and consequently of friends, was unable to make a regular defence—yet his vessel and cargo were so clearly unobjectionable or (which was a much more favourable circumstance) was of so little value, that even a judge of the admiralty in Jamaica, thought it necessary to acquit her. Yet regardless of all this, the agents appealed for, and detained her so that the poor owner for the heinous offence of being an American, was stripped at once of everything, for which he had toiled out all the flower of life, through the hardships and dangers of the sea, and turned out penniless into the world at the age of fifty or sixty years, to begin again his fruitless labor.
In case of capture of American vessels, the crews are generally kept and forced to serve on board men of war, what few are released are commonly set on shore on some desolate place, either to find their way home, or starve as it may happen; of this fact, several instances have occurred within a few weeks, and there is scarcely a ship on the West-India station that is not nearly a quarter part manned with native Americans.
Thus to the eternal disgrace of the American character, whilst our citizens are continually pillaged, insulted, and enslaved, by a set of lawless freebooters, many of our printers as well as others, are endeavouring to varnish over their conduct, and persuade the people they are our best friends; though an impartial statement of facts would prove, that however they may sometimes find it convenient to sooth us with professions of friendship, they are, and, on every occasion since our first struggle for freedom have been our most implacable irreconcilable enemies. Many of the British officers, as well as others in Jamaica, do not scruple publicly to boast that they have experienced so many instances of the pugnacious conduct of the United States, that there is no longer any danger in carrying their depredations as they find it convenient; for if they should happen to excite a momentary resentment in the people, a promise of an alteration in the ministry; in the judges of Courts, or in anything, or in almost nothing, will immediately silence every murmur—I believe there are few Americans, who have been lately in Jamaica who have not heard it—and oh! shameful confession—have blushed at the inward consciousness of the truth of the assertion. Nay I do not doubt but that the ridiculous story now in circulation of a reform in the courts of admiralty in the United States, will answer all the purpose for which it was intended—to lull the vengeance of the country for a few months longer, till they have plundered of a million more—by which time they will be ready to come forward with some other, as plausible as that—and so continue on ad infinitum, as long as we have any property to lose, or any seamen to be impressed and enslaved.
I am Sir, Your's &c. A passenger in the Schooner Moncrieff.
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 Kiln of Bricks, and some Cord Wood. W. P.
THAT separate PROPOSALS will be received at the office of the Secretary for the Department of War, until the expiration of the 30th day of June next ensuing, for the supply of all RATIONS, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of October 1801, until the thirtieth day of September 1802, both days inclusive, at the following places, viz.
FIRST. At Pittsburg; at Fort Franklin; at Le Boeuf, at Presquille; at Niagara; at Oswego; at Detroit; at Fort Wayne; at Michilimackinac; at the Falls of St. Mary's; and at the Grand Portage on Lake Superior.
SECOND. At Forts Washington, Vincennes, and Massac; at the Cantonment near the mouth of the Ohio, and at any post or place on the east side of the Mississippi River, between the mouths of the Ohio and Illinois Rivers; and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Kentucky.
THIRD. At Knoxville, Tellico, South West Point, and any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Tennessee; at Bear Creek on the Tennessee River, and at any place in the Chickasaw or Choctaw country between Bear Creek and Natchez; at the Chickasaw Bluffs; at Natchez; at Fort Adams and its dependencies, and thence to the Mobile River.
Separate PROPOSALS will also be received as aforesaid for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States from the 1st day of January 1802, until the 31st day of December in the same year, both days inclusive, within the several states herein after mentioned, viz.
FOURTH. At Point Peter; at Fort Greene; at Fort Wilkinson; at Fort Pinckney; at Fort Johnston; at Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbor; at Fort Johnson, Cape Fear, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Georgia, South-Carolina, and North-Carolina.
FIFTH. At Fort Norfolk; at Harper's Ferry; at Fort M'Henry; at the City of Washington, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Virginia and Maryland.
SIXTH. At Wilmington; at Fort Mifflin; at the Laboratory near Philadelphia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania, excepting Pittsburg, Fort Franklin, Le Boeuf, and Presquille, in the state of Pennsylvania.
SEVENTH. At Trenton; at Fort Jay; at West Point, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of New-Jersey, and New-York, excepting Oswego and Niagara in the state of New-York.
EIGHTH. At Newport; at New-London, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Rhode-Island and Connecticut.
NINTH. At Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, at Salem, at Marblehead, at Portland, at Portsmouth, at Bennington, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Massachusetts, New-Hampshire and Vermont.
A ration is to consist of eighteen ounces of bread or flour, or when neither can be obtained, of one quart of rice, or one and a half pound of sifted or bolted Indian meal, one pound and a quarter of fresh beef, or one pound of salted beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted pork; and when fresh meat is issued, salt at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations; soap at the rate of four pounds, and candles at the rate of a pound and a half, for every hundred rations—The proposals will extend to the supply of rum, whiskey, or other ardent spirits, at the rate of half a gill per ration and vinegar at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations. The price of the several component parts of the ration, as well as of substitutes and alternatives, must be specified.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contracts, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara, and Oswego, for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the Western waters for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places, or of posts, to call for at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in the case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper. It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or by the means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for by the United States, at the price of the article captured or destroyed, on the depositions of two or more persons of creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is to be understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued until the supplies which have been, or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the sea-board or Indian frontiers, not exceeding three months.
HENRY DEARBORN, Secretary of War.
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