The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1801-08-03 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. CXVIII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, AUGUST 3d, 1801.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
Received at Philadelphia by the ship Maria, 38 days from Waterford, with papers of that place to the 20th of June, and London papers to the 13th of June. By another arrival Leyden Gazette have been received to the 13th of June.
LONDON, June 11.
Several rumours of a contradictory nature are in circulation with respect to our operations in Egypt: one is that Alexandria has surrendered. [Courier.]
It is finally determined that parliament shall be prorogued without any communication, as it was expected, from his majesty, respecting the state of negotiation between France and this country.
Egypt continues an insurmountable obstacle to the arrangement of preliminaries; and until the fate of that country shall have been decided, there is at present little probability that the basis of negotiation will be established.
Captain Ayde, of the royal artillery, immediately embarks for Egypt with a large detachment of that corps under his command. Two transports dropped down to Woolwich on Sunday last, to take in the detachment, and likewise a large supply of stores, they are expected to sail in the course of the present week.
Upon the king's return to town, an order of council will be signed for taking off the embargo laid upon the Swedish vessels in our ports.
By the appearance of some shipping off the coast about midnight, between Monday and Tuesday, a considerable alarm took place at Portsmouth, and the neighbouring country, under an apprehension that it was an enemy's fleet. The lieutenant governor of Portsmouth went out upon the fortifications at three o'clock in the morning, and all the troops were ordered to be in readiness at a moment's warning. At nine o'clock the same morning, the king's own infantry, at Winchester, received orders to march at the shortest notice. In the course of twenty minutes the corps was ready, and every man eager to march against any enemy who might dare to oppose his country. They were laying on their arms when our letter came away. Similar preparations took place in other towns; but the whole, we can assert to be only an unfounded alarm, arising from a circumstance of a much more agreeable nature, we mean the safe arrival of the East India fleet under convoy of the Argo frigate, in the channel, which has been announced by the telegraph, and was yesterday morning made known in the city.
From the circumstance of the cartel Eliza and Jane, Hemmit, not having returned to Plymouth from Morlaix, for which port the failed with prisoners the 31st ult.—Though the wind has been fair, it is conjectured she is laid under embargo, to prevent any communication to this country. This is a plan the French always adopt previously to a secret expedition taking place.
According to the latest accounts, from Switzerland, the utmost agitation still prevails in that unfortunate country particularly in the smaller cantons. Private associations are formed, which give the government considerable uneasiness, as their object is stated to be the restoration of the ancient order of things at all hazards.
June 12.
This day arrived the Hamburgh mail due on Wednesday. Its contents are of considerable importance, as the events it points at respecting Germany may lead to consequences which cannot be calculated.
The execution of the treaty of Luneville seems to meet with considerable difficulties, owing to obstacles arising out of the business of indemnifications, and the secularizations which stand connected with that intricate matter.
Other powers have, it is said, interfered to prevent the secularizations being carried to the extent proposed by France, and agreed to by Austria; and also to effect some alterations in the present state of Italy.
In these indications of a renewal of havoc and destruction among the human race, we may see explained the dryness which has been observable for some time between Prussia and France; but be this as it may, once more TROOPS OF FRANCE OCCUPY GERMAN TERRITORY—having crossed to the right side of the Rhine, and taken possession of several places, which they had lately abandoned.
Some of the letters from Germany describe this movement on the part of the French, to the displeasure with which the testimonies of joy, expressed by the inhabitants of the right bank of the Rhine at the return of their own sovereigns, had inspired them!
This account of the matter may satisfy a German burger, but for our part, we see a much more satisfactory motive in a resolution adopted by the first consul, to allow no foreign power whatever to interfere in the execution of the treaty between France and Austria.
Thus it should seem as if a new war was on the point of breaking out upon the continent; a war in which all the four military powers are likely to be engaged—Russia and Prussia against Austria and France.
Should a re-commencement of hostilities take place among any of the continental powers, to a certainty we shall not, by the 25th of March next, see peace concluded between this country and France, as Mr. Addington gave us reason to hope by his speech on Wednesday, in the house of commons.
June 13.
The only news in the mail of great importance, relates, to the dispute respecting the indemnities in Germany. The Chief Consul, acting as it should seem, in concert and co-operation with the court of Vienna, has ordered troops to re-cross the Rhine; and Cassel, Ehrenbreitstein, and Dusseldorf, are again to receive French garrisons. He has also declared, at least rumours are in circulation to that effect, that he will not admit the interference of any other power. Three strong divisions of French troops are expected to cross the Rhine immediately, to occupy the countries destined for compensations and indemnities. Bamberg and Wurtzbourg are the districts particularly alluded to. These proceedings on the part of France, which we believe have taken place, the news coming from various places in the neighbourhood of the Rhine, strongly indicate a new war on the Continent. The Paris Journals lately expressed surprise that the armies were kept up to their full force; the last Journals from Strasburg, of the 30th ult. state, that the troops which were to have evacuated the Brigaw, had received orders, and had re-occupied several towns.
The difficulties thrown in the way of the plan of indemnities was distinctly stated as the ground of this measure. Letters from Vienna say, the treaty of Luneville meets with difficulties. We know that Austria has lately been recruiting her armies; and every circumstance denotes a resolution on the part of France and the cabinet of Vienna, to maintain their projects by the sword, should they be pressed to that alternative. But the emperor Alexander is not of a warlike disposition, neither has the king of Prussia shown a bold and decided character—and it is probable the court of Berlin will submit rather than encounter such woeful odds as would be against her. Bonaparte seems to take up the subject with extraordinary eagerness and resolution. Perhaps he is desirous of having Austria for an ally, and seeks out this dispute to accomplish his wishes.
WATERFORD, June 18.
Sunday the 22d light dragoons embark at Cove, on board his majesty's ship Gorgon, and armed ship Good Design, and sailed on Tuesday evening for Egypt.
Monday morning the Guiderland, Amphilrite and Galathee sloop, Dutch ships of war, arrived at Cove, for the purpose of taking out troops.
DUBLIN, June 13.
The agreeable intelligence has reached us by letters of unquestionable authority
from London, that there is every reason to hope a permanent and honorable peace will speedily take place between Great Britain and France.
BANKS OF THE MAINE.
May 30.
We have reports here, though they certainly require confirmation, that three divisions of French troops will immediately enter the empire; that the first consul has declared, that he will admit of no co-operation of any other power in the accomplishment of the peace of the empire; and to prevent all delays, will immediately occupy the countries destined for compensations with French troops; and a strong French corps will immediately take possession of Bamberg and Wurtzbourg.
FRANKFORT, May 30.
The account that the town of Dens, opposite Cologne, had been occupied by French troops, by an order of gen. Grenier; and that the same thing had been done at Cassel, near Mentz, at Dusseldorf, and Ehrenbreitstein, has occasioned a great sensation here. It is said, that the French have been for some time dissatisfied that the inhabitants of these places manifested so much satisfaction at their being evacuated, and so great an attachment to their former German sovereigns. The superior prefect relative to the influx of so many emigrants from Germany, the levying of the old tax upon the Jews, who yet were to be considered as French citizens; and relative to the navigation of the Rhine, and contraband commodities.
MULHEIM, May 27.
A detachment from the 4th regiment of Hussars, at Cologn, has again entered Dens, opposite Cologne. This unexpected advance of troops on the right bank of the Rhine, no person can explain.
HANAU, May 30.
Yesterday an account from Aschaffenburg, from the electoral commander at Cassel, Zweyer, stated that general Champerlac, at Mentz, had required that French troops should again occupy the almost demolished fort of Cassel. The cause of this we know not. Yesterday and to-day several orders and representations have passed between Aschaffenburg and Mentz.
PRAGUE, May 9.
Our Gazette of this day contains the following article:
"This morning an English courier from Vienna passed through this city, on his way to England. According to the account he gives he carries intelligence that the English in Egypt had again attacked the French before Alexandria, and driven them into that city. All the water by which that city is supplied, is cut off, which has compelled the French to offer a capitulation, which the English commander has refused, insisting on an unconditional surrender of the French army, as prisoners of war."
VIENNA, May 27.
Whilst we were expecting with the utmost impatience the regular Mail from Constantinople of the 10th inst. on account of the news from Egypt, a messenger arrived last night from Constantinople, at the English Ambassador's, Lord Minto, who, as it is reported, brings an account that Damietta and Rosetta were delivered up to the English on the 4th April; that Menou with 8000 men was shut up in Alexandria, and that the army of the Grand Vizier now advancing was estimated at 40,000 men. The Turks are now going to assist the English with all their power, as the Grand Vizier, as well as the English in Egypt, have received authentic accounts of the death of Paul I.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 9.
On the evening of the 7th the English ambassador Lord Elgin, received a courier who left Egypt on the 22d of April; and yesterday the following accounts were communicated to the foreign Ministers here.
After gen. Hutchinson had compelled the French to keep within their lines, on the defensive, he avoided engaging in any new action of consequence till the arrival of the reinforcement which he expected, and the army of the Grand Vizier. The Grand Vizier had proceeded on his march in the beginning of April, upon which the French evacuated Salabich and retired. Their retreat encouraged the Turks to hasten their march, and on the 22d of April they were only two days march from the advanced posts of the English.
Murad Bey had joined the English with his troops against the French.
Three important posts, among which were Damietta and Rosetta, were occupied by a strong English garrison. In all the small actions and skirmishes which had taken place during the last four weeks, the English had constantly the advantage. At the departure of the courier, the English had received a reinforcement of 5000 men.
Admiral Keith had taken a French convoy of 22 ships, escorted by a French corvette which had troops on board destined for Egypt. This convoy immediately on its appearance, was surrounded by a number of English ships.
The reinforcements which the English in Egypt have received, came from Gibaltar, Minorca and Malta.
HAGUE, June 11.
In the session of the First Chamber of the Representative Body, on Wednesday the 10th inst. Citizen HUBER, in the name of the committee of Finances, reported an extract from the records of decrees of the Second Chamber, whereby they refuse their sanction of a resolution of this chamber of the 11th May last, directing the levying of two per cent. on the income, together with the manner of redemption, as far as the same pays interest; the committee advise, that as the second chamber in their resolution of non-concurrence had given no other reasons, than what concern the redemption of that part which bears interest, it would now be proper, acquiescing in the reason of non-concurrence, to resolve on the former principle, a levy of two per cent. on property, by way of a gratuitous gift; and with respect to the interest and redemption further to direct,—
1. For the security and pledge of this levy, in so far as the same pays interest, and the principal is to be reimbursed, the yearly levy of four per cent. on the income, is to be augmented with one per cent. and further to be raised to five per cent. to begin with the year 1802; and after that the same means of paying the interest, and redemption of the principal shall be continued, or another one substituted being equally productive, as it shall be found most convenient for the interest of the inhabitants.
2. The one per cent. wherewith the aforesaid levy is to be augmented for the space of three years, and the means which shall then be fixed upon, shall be appropriated only for providing for the payment of the yearly interest of the levy now decreed, and the redemption or purchase thereof, by way of drawing lots, the beginning whereof to be made at farthest in the year 1803, and to be continued to the end thereof: the Executive power being directed to make a yearly return to the Representative body of the amount of the redemption and purchases, and likewise of the bonds which are yet out, in order that the levy on the incomes, or other means that may have been substituted in place thereof, may be taken off, as soon as a total extinction thereof shall take place.
The report was ordered to be printed. The consideration of the report of citizen Stein Porve respecting a speedy revision of the constitution being again under consideration, citizen Hubert was for rejecting that report, as it now stands, being of a different opinion, from the majority of the committee with respect to the manner of offering the said Plan. Citizen Pompe Van Neerdervoort was in favour of the report. Citizen Oeyson was against the report, as it now stands, not being sufficiently guarded against the abuse of the powers thereby granted.

In the session of the aforesaid body of which the city is to be a part. Some of the this day, Thursday, the report of citizen Swift's papers which make mention of this Scheffer, organ of the committee of finance, circumstance, intimate, that the city of Constance is to be united with the Helvetic from the executive power, requesting to be informed of the intention of the representative body concerning the sales of the national domains, which must take place yet this year, whereupon it was resolved, conformable to this report, as far as it is necessary to authorise the executive power, to regulate and direct the yearly sale of the national domains, in the same manner as it was directed by the 20th of February last; adding thereto that the Executive need not wait any farther direction on that head, but take the speediest measures for the sale, which must take place this year.
The consideration of the report of citizen Stein Porve, respecting the speedy revision of the constitution, being resumed, after considerable debate, the question was taken as follows:
In favour of the report 12 Against the report as it now stands 13 For a total rejection 37 On the question "Whether the proposal of the Executive of the 2d March last, could be submitted to further consideration, the yeas were called; there appeared in favour of the question 33, against it 29—it was consequently carried in the affirmative.
HAMBURGH, June 2.
A congress is about to be opened at Peterburgh, for the final settlement of the late disputes between Great Britain and the Northern Powers.
A closer alliance than ever is to be concluded between Russia and Prussia; in order to effect the restoration of tranquility in Europe, and the due indemnification of their respective allies, who have suffered by the treaty of Luneville.
The effective force of the Austrian army is still upwards of three hundred thousand men. None of the officers who were allowed horses in the field are permitted to sell them. On the contrary, they receive the usual ration of forage, at the expence of government.
Bonaparte, according to authentic letters from Berlin, has desisted from his late pretensions upon the Electorate of Hanover, and the shutting of the navigation of the rivers Elbe and Weser. The French minister, Bourmonville, at Berlin, has also assumed a much gentler tone in his diplomatic communications with the Prussian cabinet. Under these circumstances, it is expected that the Prussian troops will soon evacuate Hanover.
According to the latest accounts from Switzerland, the utmost agitation still prevails in that unfortunate country, particularly in the smaller Cantons. Private associations are formed, which give the government considerable uneasiness, as their object is stated to be the restoration of the ancient order of things at all hazards.
LONDON, June 4.
It is said in the French papers, that the new Helvetic Constitution will consist of a federal union resembling that of the American States. There will be a general government for the whole, but inferior provincial administrations, which will be in some democratical, in some aristocratical, according to the prevailing sentiments and habits of the people.
LEYDEN, June 9.
In Italy and Switzerland they are chiefly occupied with framing and debating upon new constitutions, which are opposed and defended by the different parties with equal zeal. But more dreadful for humanity is, what the letters from the empire mention, that fresh calamities are to be expected there. Letters from Vienna say, "Since a few days, it is asserted by most respectable people, and from the best sources, that new differences exist between our court and France, as well respecting the indemnifications in the empire, as of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, which differences it will be so much more difficult to settle, as they are connected with the negotiations between France and England, without a conclusion of which, they will hardly come to an amicable settlement."
STRASBURG, May 24.
Our troops have evacuated Kehl three days ago, and are replaced by a detachment of the Margrave of Baden. The Brisgau is not yet occupied by French troops.
They write from Constance, that a rescript arrived there from the Emperor, which says—"That the city is discharged from its allegiance to the emperor, and that they must maintain the public peace therein, until it shall be known to
some of the circumstance, intimate, that the city of Constance is to be united with the Helvetic republic."
GENOA, May 6.
In consequence of an order received lately from Paris, the French garrison is to leave this city in a short time. In the Ligurian Republic, there remain no more than three demi-brigades of French troops, each consisting of two battalions. They are to be stationed at Vado, Spezzia, and Gavi. The commanding general of division is to have his head quarters at St. Pietro d'Arena, and the two brigadier generals under his command, at Spezzia and Albenga. The general of division is to receive his orders directly from the minister of war, and not from the commander in chief of the army of Italy. The artillery of Fort Savon is to be brought to Vado.
FLORENCE, March 20.
We have re-established, with great solemnity, the academy of Cimento (or Experience) first founded about the middle of the 17th century. Gen. Murat and his staff assisted at this ceremony, which does honor to the government. This general has ordered that the laws and ordinances made by the grand duke, Peter Leopold, shall be re-established, and observed with rigour. Considering that the reign of this prince was an epoch of glory for the 18th century, and the happiness of Tuscany; and that he maintained all the conditions of the social contract with his people; that having destroyed the monstrous remains of feudal barbarism and strange laws; and dictating that penal code, the model and admiration of all Europe; general Murat declared, that every year, on the 15th of April, a fete shall be consecrated to the remembrance of this philosophical prince and legislator, expressing the same sentiments of gratitude as were manifested by the sovereigns of Tuscany to the memory of Cosmo de Medicis, father of his country.
OF EGYPT.
The news from Egypt by the last Hamburg mail, do not come down later than the accounts which have been published in the Gazette. Of course, whatever is stated more than has appeared in the official details, should be received with proper caution. Lord Elgin would not have failed to mention so important a piece of news as the capture of 22 sail of French transports and their convoy, by Ld. Keith, had any such information reached him at the time he wrote. It must be observed too, that his accounts from before Alexandria, come down to the 22d April, the very date of the dispatches, which are pretended to have brought this account; as also news of a reinforcement of 5000 men having reached general Hutchinson.
Letters from Peterburgh state, that Lord St. Helens was not arrived, but was hourly expected. The minister of commerce in Russia sent to the English factory, requesting an interview, at which he told them his master wished to shew his good works to the English, and requested they would hold a meeting among themselves to determine on the best mode of receiving again the property that had been confiscated, and to make out the quantum of damage they have sustained by the embargo, which, independent of the repairing of their ships, (which would be done also at the expence of Russia) would be made good by his Russian majesty: A meeting was held, and a number of propositions drawn up and presented to the minister; but the final determination on that subject had not been given when the letters came away.
TO BE RENTED.
THE store lately in the tenure of Doctor Gailassy and Co. Its situation for business is preferable to any other in the City, being on the Pennsylvania Avenue, between the President's House and the Capitol, and within a few yards of the spot on which is to be immediately erected the market house.
JOSIAS W. KING. at the Capitol.
May 20. 1801. ept Intending to leave the city in October next, I am desirous of disposing of my Furniture, two Negro Men, one a cook, the other an officer and coachman, and a pair of very well gaited Riding Horses.
It may be a convenience to any family removing here, and taking the house I now occupy upon rent, to take the Furniture (which is but little worn) by purchase. The house, one of the six buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue, is pleasantly and conveniently situated, and the furniture, which is tolerably well fitted to it, will be reduced in price in proportion to the wear and tare, and change of fashion, shall have made right.
ENJAMIN GRAYSON ORR. July 20, 1801. ep4w
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, August 3, 1801.
OFFICIAL.
Appointments by the President of the United States.
SAMUEL OSGOOD , Supervisor for the district of New-York.
SILAS LEE , Attorney for the district of Maine, in the room of Daniel Davis, appointed a judge by the state of Massachusetts.
GEORGE BLAKE , Attorney for the district of Massachusetts.
BENJAMIN JARVIS , Collector Peabody.
MALACHI JONES , Surveyor Curri-tuck, N.C.—This office was previously vacant.
JAMES IRWIN , Collector Massac. SAMUEL DUNCAN , Collector Michillimakinac.—Massac and Michillimakinac are new ports in which no previous appointments had been made.
JACOB LEWIS , of Massachusetts, to be consul at Calcutta.
This day the SUPREME COURT of the United States met at the Capitol—Present, Justices Paterson, Washington and Moore. Chief Justice Marshall is arrived, but was prevented from attending by indisposition.
We noticed within the bar a considerable number of eminent counsel from different states, who are engaged in several cases of importance that are expected to be argued this term.
Some clamour having been excited by the recent reduction of the Marine Corps, it may not be improper to suggest, what has been already in some degree stated, that as Congress at their last session passed a law for the reduction of the navy, it is presumed the President conceived it expedient to make a correspondent reduction of the Marine Corps. Those who have questioned the authority of the President, will be pleased to take the trouble of reading the act of Congress of 1798, chap. 89. They will then find that this act not only gave to the President full power and authority to discharge those Marines, but impliedly prescribed it as a duty to be performed by him.
The four hundred retained Marines, it is believed, are equal to all the exigencies of the government. Two hundred of them are employed in the Mediterranean Squadron. The remaining 200 can have no other employment than the guarding of the navy yard at Washington, the navy yard at Philadelphia, the several frigates laid up, and the barracks at Washington. It has been considered, we apprehend, a waste of public money to retain more Marines than are necessary to perform the aforementioned military duties.
We some time since noticed the errors, many of which appeared to us intentional, of some English Prints in the relations they give of American affairs.
We regret the necessity of being obliged to notice similar departures from truth in a Print of great respectability both for intelligence, precision and impartiality.
We mean the Leyden Gazette , the information in which is generally derived from the most authentic sources.
The following article is represented as extracted from a letter received from a correspondent in America.
Extract from the Leyden Gazette. "The first sittings of the Congress of the United States, at Washington, its new place of meeting especially since the presidency of Mr. JEFFERSON, have not preserved that modest and respectful calm, that decent and silent order, which ought to characterise true republicans in the presence of the representatives of their choice, invested with the supreme power of the country. From the great influx of strangers, especially from the extraordinary number of ladies who have been led by curiosity, the disorder in the house of Representatives, some days, has been so great, that the members have had the greatest difficulty while speaking, to preserve the train of their ideas. At one period the door-keeper and other public officers had to go through the throng of auditors to bring them to order and silence, and at other times the Speaker has declared he would have the house cleared. On the 6th March, Mr. Harper, known not to be much in the French interest, was so much interrupted by the noise of the multitude, that he declared, "He could no longer hear himself, and that at present he thought it best to be silent, in the
hope of being heard another time, as one might judge that the audience then deemed it a matter of indifference whether they heard or not." Probably this new licence will be restrained, as it certainly cannot be the offspring of that harmony , recommended by Mr. Jefferson in his inaugural speech."
Here the contents of the letter can only excite ridicule. The fact mentioned is untrue, as are all the circumstances. The very disturbance is stated to have occurred on the 6th of March, which is three days later than the last day on which the House of Representatives sat, and it is implied to have taken place after Mr. Jefferson's Inaugural Speech, whereas the Speech was delivered the day after the House rose.
The only important light in which this article can be viewed is this; that there are among us some persons who wilfully misrepresent whatever is connected with republican institutions, and who apparently take delight in diffusing erroneous statements, where there is the least chance of correcting them.
A Halifax (N. C.) paper says, the heat was extreme about the middle of July—On two successive days the mercury in Fahrenheit's thermometer stood at 96 degrees.
In the University of Cambridge, (Mass.) at a commencement held during the last month, the degree of bachelor of arts was conferred on 34 young gentlemen, the degree of master of arts upon 32 gentlemen, and the degree of doctor of laws upon Caleb Strong, governor of Massachusetts.
Much inaccuracy appears to have crept into the American prints respecting the bill brought into the English House of Commons respecting the eligibility of persons in holy orders to sit in that house—and it is generally considered as involving an exclusion of John Horne Tooke from the present parliament; whereas in fact the bill as it at present stands, and which has passed the House of Commons, is entirely prospective, and excludes no member of the present house, but prohibits a seat in future to all clergymen.
A Harrisburg (Penn.) paper states the removal by the Post-Master-General, of Gottlieb Yungman, post-master at Reading, and the appointment of John Walter in his room.
In the state of New-York an election is to be held for members of a convention to determine the true construction of that article of the constitution of that state which respects the power of nominating to office, viz. whether it resides exclusively in the governor, or in each member of the council. The convention is to meet on the second Tuesday in October.
Proposals are issued by William Livingston, at the Flat Lands, Long-Island, N. Y. for printing by subscription, Memoirs, or Biographical Sketches, of William Livingston, late governor of New-Jersey, with his literary productions, in 3 volumes 8vo.
The ship Hannah and Eliza has arrived at Boston in 30 days from Liverpool, but no papers or news have been received by her.
DIED—On the 18th ult. near Winchester, (Virginia) MATTHIAS HOWMAN , aged 100 years.
In Wilmington, (Del.) Mr. Vaneman , aged 91 years.
A respite until further orders has been sent from Government to Lifford for Napper Tandy . The time of the former respite expired this day.
Lon. Pap.
MILITARY SEMINARY. —An institution has been founded, under the immediate patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, for rearing up and educating to the profession of arms, one thousand children, the legal offspring of British Soldier. The ground is purchased of Sir W. FARQUHAR, for the appropriate erection of this national seminary, near Chelsea College. The funds for this national undertaking are to be derived from a Parliamentary Grant, and one halfpenny out of each soldier's daily pay. The whole superintendence is to be under the management of a Governor, and a Board of Visitors.
One of the largest steam engines in England, which has been erecting some time in his Majesty's Dock-yard, at Portsmouth, by Messrs. Bolton and Watts , was on Saturday completed and set to work. It will pump twenty tons of water in a minute,

with a consumption of only a bushel and a half of coals per hour.
Lon. Pap.
Mr. Hodgman, Engineer, at Folkstone, last week made an experiment with his submarine apparatus. He walked into the sea attended by a small boat, and remaining eighteen minutes under water; he traversed in various directions considerably more than a quarter of a mile, and ascended in about 18 feet water.
Philadelphia, July 25.
AN ADDRESS
From the convention of delegates from the abolition societies established in different parts of the United States.
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Friends and Fellow-Citizens,
VARIOUS societies having been formed, in different parts of the Union, for the purpose of promoting the abolition of slavery, they have several times met in convention to deliberate on the best means of furthering the humane work they have undertaken. We, the seventh association of delegates from these bodies, now convened in the city of Philadelphia, appealing to the Searcher of hearts for the rectitude of our intentions, believe it our duty to address you with a few remarks, to which we solicit your candid consideration and attention. Believing as we do, that the benevolent Author of nature has made no essential distinction in the human race, and that all the individuals of the great family of mankind have a common claim upon the general fund of natural bounties, we have never hesitated to avow the objects of our institutions, nor the honest means by which we hope for their ultimate attainment. Yet we are sensible that many of our fellow citizens have laboured under mistaken impressions on both these points, and have ascribed to us views inconsistent with the policy of our country, as with our real prospects. It is true we contemplate the deliverance from slavery of all blacks, and people of color in these states, sooner or later, by such means as your humanity and the wisdom of our rulers may suggest; and though we think the existing laws of some of the states unnecessarily severe; yet we pointedly disavow any wish to contravene them, while they remain in force, or to hazard the peace and safety of the community by the adoption of ill advised or precipitate measures.
In common with the rest of our fellow citizens, we sincerely deplore the late attempts at insurrection by some of the slaves of the southern states, and participate in the dreadful sensations the inhabitants in their vicinity must have felt on so awful an occasion. It is fervently to be hoped that the evil may induce a weighty consideration of the justice of the evil, and of the best means of its future prevention. We are convinced, that so long as a relation subsists between cause and effect, and the present policy of those states is pursued, the deprecating calamity is to be dreaded; and while we all revolt with horror from the anticipation of an organization on the part of the slaves, we conceive there is a certain state of degradation and misery to which they may be reduced, a certain point of desperation to which the human mind may be brought, and beyond which it cannot be driven. If then the first premonitory signs of this crisis have appeared, if a recurrence of the desperate feelings which gave birth to the design is to be so awfully dreaded, ought not the attention of every humane mind to be exerted in devising adequate means for averting so enormous a danger? We advance with confidence our firm belief, a belief founded on mature reflection, that to be effectual they must be in many respects different from those which have heretofore been adopted. An amelioration of the present situation of the slaves, and the adoption of a system of gradual emancipation, while it would tend to remove the charge of inconsistency between the constitutional declaration, and the legal provisions of some of the states; would also be an effectual security against revolt. If the severity of their treatment were lessened, and the hope of freedom for them or their posterity were held forth as the reward of good behavior, the slaves would be bound by personal interest to be civil, orderly, and industrious. It has been argued, that they are not qualified to enjoy the blessings of freedom, even under a gradual emancipation; but are they not rational creatures, and why will not the same methods which have civilized others, in the course of time also civilize them? A principal means of effecting this purpose, would be to instruct them in the duties and obligations of religion,
morality, and social justice. We find that the cultivated inhabitants of different countries and even the individuals of the same country, have very different ideas on these subjects. Is it therefore to be wondered at that the poor illiterate blacks, who are so little instructed in the principles of Christianity, and strangers to the refined sentiments which result from education; is it, we ask, to be wondered at, that they are susceptible of error and delusion?
Fellow citizens of the southern states! we invite your calm and dispassionate attention to the subject; and, with the aid of that Being to whom we must look for instruction in this, as in all our other undertakings, we firmly trust that you will be enabled to devise such measures as may terminate in your own peace, and security, and the benefit of that unfortunate race whose miseries excite our sympathy, and the improvement of whose situation is the object of our anxious solicitude and care.
Another subject that requires general attention, is the inhuman crime of kidnapping, which, in some parts of our country, has recently increased to an alarming degree. The friends of liberty view with horror the perpetuation of this abominable practice, and the holders of slaves have no security for them, as property, during its continuance. There is therefore a common interest in the removal of the grievance; and we confidently look for the assistance of the humane of all descriptions in detecting and bringing to punishment, these shameful violations of the rights of their fellow-men.
It is also a lamentable fact, that notwithstanding the general repugnance of all disposed citizens to any further importation of Africans into this country; or concern in the infamous commerce in the persons of our fellow creatures, notwithstanding the prohibitions of the laws of most of the states on this subject, and the strict instructions of those of the general government, upwards of two hundred vessels, belonging to our own citizens, are employed in the purchase and transportation of slaves from Africa to the West Indies, and the southern parts of this country.
The rage for this traffic is so far extended, by avarice, that many persons have risked their all in its pursuit, and it seems that nothing can stop the cruel and disastrous enormities which are thus committed, in violation of the dictates of humanity, and the laws and policy of our country; but a more general activity and exertion on the part of good citizens, in the discovery and prosecution of the offenders. So large a number of vessels are fitted out for this trade, and sent to the coast of Africa from the eastern states, that we are induced earnestly to call on our brethren in those parts, to aid in its suppression; and surely as they have done away with personal slavery among themselves, they cannot want inducements to let them at defiance, by pursuing a prohibited commerce, as shocking to the feelings of every benevolent mind, as it is offensive in the eyes of the Almighty Ruler of the Universe.
Finally, fellow citizens, as you value your own peace and that of your families; the quiet and security of our country; the obligations of our holy religion, and the favor of an over-ruling Providence; let us entreat you to enter into the consideration of the subjects now submitted to you. Alleviate the list in mitigating the present ills of personal slavery, by an amelioration of the situation of slaves; lay the foundation for an eventual extinction of the mighty evil throughout our land; commence a determined opposition to the wicked infractions of justice and the laws of our country; and may the Divine blessing attend you in every attempt you may be encouraged to make, for the good of your fellow men.
Signed by order of the Convention.
RICHARD HARTSHORN, President.
Philadelphia, June 6th, 1801.
OTHNIEL ALSOP, Secretary.
VACCINE INOCULATION.
MR. RUSSEL
There is an important fact not generally known to those who practise the Vaccine Inoculation worthy a place in your paper. It relates to the preservation of the Kine-pox matter or virus on thread, for the purpose of Inoculation. It has been sufficiently proved that in a temperature of the atmosphere, when the mercury ranges between 40, and 70 degrees of Fahrenheit. Thermometer the vaccine matter has retained its activity for three months and even longer; but I have lately found that perfectly active virus, taken from calves every way satisfactory
will lose its virtue when exposed for six or eight hours to 96 degrees of Fahrenheit's scale. In such a temperature the virus, or vaccine aura, is evaporated, by the heat. I have inoculated more or less almost every day since the middle of March and have not experienced a single failure when I took the matter from patient to patient, and but very few instances when the thread, was used; but during our late very hot, and very dry weather, I have found the thread to fail in many instances. For three weeks past the Mercury has risen almost every day above 90, frequently 95, 96, and some days 97, in the shade, and this great heat has been accompanied with an extraordinary degree of dryness in the atmosphere, as our hay-makers can testify. During this state of the atmosphere, when there was scarcely any appearance of dew before sun-rise, I placed the phials containing the infected thread in a vessel of cold water, and expect I shall find the advantage of it.
Those to whom matter has been lately sent in the country, will not attribute more uncertainty to this business than actually belongs to it, should the thread obtained at this very hot and very dry season fail them. If a thread, for example, dipped in the oil of lavender loses its fragrance by an exposure for several hours to the degree of heat above described, can we wonder that the more subtle AURA vaccine should in like manner, evaporate, and thereby become effete? Having noticed very lately some failures in the use of the thread, I was led to investigate the cause of it, and am satisfied that they arose from the extraordinary heat and dryness which have reigned for three weeks past. What has tended to confirm me in this opinion is a passage in a letter lately received from the celebrated Doctor Jenner. It is this: "I shall just say a word in proof of the extreme delicacy of the nature of the vaccine fluid, to shew how easily it may be disorganized. In the early part of my practice, I used frequently to evaporate the fluid by the fire upon thread, glass, or landets; yet with much caution respecting the degree of heat, but experience has taught me, that even this procedure frequently occasioned, an unnatural deviation from its perfect state, and a failure in communicating the disease."
I hope not to be misunderstood—I can never desire more perfectly satisfactory cases of kine-pox, than have occurred at this season, but they have been produced by the recent fluid transferred from a patient; whereas thread ever so well soaked in these satisfactory cases, and kept for a week or ten days has lost its virtue, being as I conceived exsiccated, or evaporated, by an unusual series of hot and dry days. It is recorded that when the Harmattan blows, (which is a very hot, and a very dry wind in Africa, when the backs of books crack open, and cabinet furniture fly to pieces) the small-pox could not be communicated by inoculation. It is probable that the failure arose from the cause just mentioned. Should similar facts have occurred to other practitioners, they would do well to communicate them to the public, for the more we know of the laws of this newly discovered infection, the more easily and effectually shall we diffuse the blessings of this invaluable inoculation.
BENJ. WATERHOUSE.
Cambridge, July 12, 1801.
Conrad & M c Munn
HAVE opened houses of entertainment in the range of buildings formerly occupied by Mr. Law, about two hundred paces from the Capitol, in New Jersey avenue, leading from thence to the Eastern Branch. They are spacious and convenient, one of which is designed for stage passengers and travellers, the other for the accommodation of boarders. There is stabling sufficient for 60 horses. They hope to merit public patronage.
City of Washington, Nov. 24, 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 PROUF.
City of Washington. December 12, 1800. N. B. A few Tons of good Meadow Hay, one Kilo of Bricks, and some Cord wood.
W. P.
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.
BROHAWN AND BOYS,
BEG leave to inform the citizens of Washington, that they have taken Mr. N. Young's wharf, very conveniently situated to the Capitol and President's Square; where they have opened a LUMBER YARD, and expect to go pretty largely in that line of business; and in about two or three weeks will have a general assortment of the first quality of groceries that can be procured in Baltimore.
Washington June 24, 1801.
N. B. Any gentleman wishing to apply for bills of scantling of any size or dimensions, may obtain them at the shortest notice by applying as above.
VARDEN & CARPENTER, TAYLORS,
Gratefully acknowledge the favors of the public, whilst carrying on business opposite Mr. Stille's Tavern, and inform, that they have removed to the next house east of Mr. Tunnicliff's Hotel, where gentlemen and ladies will be served in a style of fashion and elegance which it has ever been, and ever will be, their study to execute, and they presume, equal to the most populous cities in the Union.
Regimental and Ladies Habits made in the neatest manner.
May 15, 1801.
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NOTICE.
THE following Slaves have been committed to the prison of Washington county, as runaways. WILL, who says he is the property of Jesse Robinet, has on light cotton cloths, appears to be about 26 years of age, well made, of light complexion, and is about five feet five or six inches high.
DEBBY WILLIAMS, alias PARKER, who says she belongs to Mrs. Pinckney, Old Town, Baltimore, about 22 years of age, of light complexion, and five feet 3 or 4 inches high; had on when committed an old dark calico gown.
The owners of the above slaves are requested to take them away, or they will be sold according to law, to pay their prison fees.
DANIEL CARROLL BRENT,
Marshal of the District of Columbia;
July 17.
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For Sale and to Rent,
TWO elegant two story Brick DWELLING HOUSES, situate on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue, a little to the west of the President's Square. Each house contains two parlours and passage on first floor; on second, two rooms with fire-places, and well finished garrets, cellars and kitchens. In the front of the buildings extending to the avenue, is a neat yard planted with trees, palisadoed, &c. The situation, in point of health and contiguity to the public buildings, is equal to any in the city, and is well adapted for private families, or to accommodate genteel Boarders. The title is indisputable. The terms will be moderate for part cash or slaves. For particulars inquire of OWEN ROBERTS, on the premises, or of
THOMAS HERTY, Conveyancer City of Washington, May 25, 1801.
Land for Sale.
On the 28th day of September next, will be sold at Public Auction, at Mr. Stille's Hotel, in the City of Washington, (if not sold before at private sale)
Two Tracts of Land, lying on the Eastern Branch of Potomac river, and within the district of Columbia—containing together ninety-two acres. On each of these tracts is a quantity of good ash wood, within a few yards of the river, and the greater part, if not the whole, of said land, at a moderate expense, may be made excellent meadow. There is on one of the tracts an eligible situation for a dwelling-house, with about four acres of excellent upland suitable for a garden. Sale to commence at three o'clock, when the conditions will be made known. Information may be had from the subscriber at the Navy-yard.
GEORGE FRANK,
On the premises, or of THOMAS HERTY, Conveyancer City of Washington. July 20, 1801.
CONVEYANCERS OFFICE,
AND
OFFICE FOR SALE OF CITY LOTS,
On the Pennsylvania Avenue fronting the President's Square, near Rhodes's tavern, City of Washington,
THOMAS HERTY has connected with the business of drawing Conveyances of Land, Wills, Mortgages, Leases, Bonds, Assignments powers of Attorney, petitions, and every other species of deed or contract in the profession; that of buying, selling and leasing lots and houses in the City, negotiating loans, &c.
His long experience as a draftsman, and knowledge of the laws relative thereto—the knowledge which he has acquired by residence of the situation of City Lots, and how their titles have been acquired, or are liable to be affected; together with his impartial and strict regard to the interest of those who may be pleased to employ him, will, he hopes, secure to him a continuance of public patronage.
Titles to real property investigated, and opinions given thereon when required.
For sale a great variety of Lots, in desirable situations in the City.
N. B. At the above office may be had, his Abridgement of the Laws of Maryland, price 6 dollars. Also, his Digest of the Laws of the United States, price 3 dollars. As the Laws of Maryland are in full force on this side the Potomac, it behoves settlers to avail themselves of that information which affects their lives, liberties and property. He who is without a knowledge of his "rule of conduct" is like a stranger in his native land.
May 4.
May 4. 2000

THERE are periods in the affairs of nations, in which it is not only the dictate of policy, but the command of duty, to review past events, to enquire into the error of particular measures, to trace them to their causes, and to endeavour to suggest remedies for them.
It is confidently believed that the present is such a period. The recent agitation of feeling which disturbed the harmony of public life, and the peace of private life, is fast subsiding into a state of tranquility and security. No longer at war with any foreign power, but on terms of amity with all nations, and in the enjoyment of domestic happiness, the mind may be considered as free to pursue the useful deductions of reason, uninfluenced by passion and unalarmed by fear.
On the improvement of such periods, it is not rash to affirm, depend the permanent happiness of individuals and the stable respectability of states. Every thing announces an imperfection in the temporary policy that governs nations, as well as in the great political institutions by which they are guided. No man of candor and intelligence, whatever share he may have taken in past events, will, on reviewing them, say they have been dictated by the most perfect sagacity of reason. He will have the magnanimity to acknowledge, whatever portion of comparative merit he may claim, that either his own acts have been in some cases mistaken, or the constitutional or legal rules of action whereby he has been controlled, have been imperfect or erroneous. It is only in the mad paroxysms of party violence, in which the fury of assault demands equal vigor of resistance, that man, forgetting that he is a being of limited powers, proudly says, "I am perfect. Question not the wisdom of my measures. They admit not of improvement." In such periods, man, boasting infallibility, is a madman; invested with power, he is an object of terror, but he inspires not respect. We look back, after such eras, with gloomy humility, at beholding the noblest powers of the mind, not merely lost, but employed in ignoble purposes.
Behold, citizens of America, in this picture, the delineation, not of any particular period, but of the mischievous effects of the violence of passion and the subjugation of reason.
The object of these remarks is to shew the necessity of viewing and examining with coolness and with candor, but with truth also, past errors. Consider not, fellow-citizens, such attention and enquiry as tending to amuse the fancy, or to employ unproductively the powers of the mind in trains of abstract reasoning. No. This were not only useless, but worse than useless. The objects of such an enquiry are deeply momentous. Their effect will be, if properly improved, the introduction of cures for those evils which have heretofore distracted our councils and agitated the nation. The people, I affirm, with our patriotic President, are all republicans, all federalists. They are all in pursuit of happiness. Their great interests are the same. They have every wish that early education inspires, and every reason that experience develops, to cement and confirm their union. They know, that united they stand, and that divided they fall.
With these feelings, with these views, what more do they require to be in fact united, than a correct knowledge of their true interests, and a vigilant protection of them?
To infuse this knowledge, and to inspire this sentiment is my ambition. Happy if I can eradicate one error from their minds, and implant in its room one useful truth. I shall feel in the consciously of doing good, the highest retribution that can be conferred.
One of the greatest sources of division among our citizens has arisen from the different, and in some cases, the opposite constructions given to the federal constitution. Each side has declared the other to be in error; and accordingly as different systems of national policy have been pursued, have different constructions and applications of delegated powers been transferred into the acts of the government.
Much, probably by far the greater portion of this difference, has sprung from error. For it is sincerely believed that most of our rulers had at heart the public welfare, though from a partiality to preconceived ideas on dissimilar systems of government, they have too frequently lost sight of it.
That a division exists among many of our citizens as to the meaning of several of the most important members of the constitution, a division too which future
events will probably rather widen than diminish; can be doubted by no one.
From what has this division arisen?
In part, it has certainly arisen from the ambiguity of the constitution, and from its not having anticipated all the cases which have occurred under it.
Is not this ambiguity susceptible of removal? That it is susceptible of removal, partial at least, if not entire, cannot, in my mind, admit of question.
A review of past events will expose the cases in which a diversity of opinion has existed. In these cases either certain powers, denied by the opponents of the government, have been exercised by it; or certain powers, declared by the opponents of the government to exist and to require exercise, have been neglected by the government, and have remained in operation. In both cases a more precise enumeration of powers, affirmatively or negatively stated, would lessen the existing obscurity.
In my next number, in order to attract the attention of the public to the subject I shall shew that the greatest evil under which a people can labour, is the existence of a constitution which confers, upon the government created by it, powers not properly circumscribed and defined.
SOLON.
[CIRCULAR.]
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 15, 1801.
CIRCULAR—
TO COLLECTORS OF THE CUSTOMS.
SIR,
THE quarantine laws of some European nations have proven so oppressive to our commerce, that it has become necessary to adopt every measure which may induce a reasonable relaxation.
In order to produce that desirable effect, it seems requisite to impress a conviction, that the most strict adherence to truth always characterizes the certificates of health which may be granted to our ships; and to attach to those certificates the forms which are most usual in other countries, and such attestations as may give them the highest degree of authenticity.
It cannot be too strongly impressed, that no temporary cause should, at any time, induce a concealment of any circumstance whatever, however unpleasant an acknowledgment of any contagious disease may be to the officer obliged to certify it. Nor should any speculative opinion, however plausible or perhaps well founded, be indulged on the question of what is or is not a contagious disease; but bills of health being operative only abroad, those diseases, which, in other countries, have heretofore usually been considered as contagious, should be stated in the bill, whenever they do exist in the port or its vicinity.
The annexed form of a bill of health, in which are specified, the name of the vessel and captain, the number of persons composing the crew, and of passengers respectively, the species of merchandise, of which the cargo does consist, and the destination of the vessel, and which applies also to the state of health of the port and of the adjoining country, seems from information received, to be the most eligible, and it is recommended that the same should be uniformly adopted. If there is no prevailing sickness at the time of the vessel's sailing, the blank between the words that and in is to be filled up as follows: No plague or other contagious or dangerous disease at present exists. But if the contrary should be the case, the blank is then to be filled up in such way, as to clearly and unequivocally express the nature of the existing disorder.
The practice of other countries renders it desirable that bills of health, so far as they relate to the health of the port itself and its vicinity, should be attested by other authority besides that of the custom-house officers. Those which, it is believed, will inspire most confidence, are the board of health, or any similar institution, whenever such one does exist, and the municipal authority of the proper city, borough, or town—it is not doubted that these will cooperate with you in granting such certificates, as may be requisite. You are, therefore, requested to confer with them, and to adopt, for the present, such forms as will appear most eligible.
But, as uniformity in all the sea-ports, so far as the variety of state regulations will permit, is desirable, you will be pleased to report the result to this department, in order to enable me to propose hereafter such practicable alterations as a general view of the subject may suggest. In the mean while it is perhaps superfluous to observe, that, in order to prevent any injury which might arise from the want of such attestation, it will be proper that the mu-
nicipal authority should certify the non-existence of a board of health, whenever no such institution exists in the port, and that when they (the town or city officers or corporation) are ex-officio health officers, they should certify the same.
Whenever it can be done, it will be useful to obtain a certification of the facts stated in the bill of health, by the consul or agent of the country to which the vessel may be bound, and from a late public notification, this caution seems particularly necessary in respect to vessels destined for Spain. This attestation it will be the interest of the owners of vessels to procure. But in those ports where the distance from the place of residence of the proper consul may prevent its being obtained, you may, on application of the party, certify that there is not within the district, county or state, as the case may be, any consul or agent for that country to which the vessel is bound.
As you must be sensible that there is no law by which to compel the masters of vessels to take certificates of health, the probability is, that in times of sickness they will refuse to receive them. In such case it becomes your duty to inform them that the regulation has been adopted solely for the benefit of commerce, and that their arrival in foreign parts without those certificates, will be regarded as presumptive evidence of the existence of infectious or contagious disorders in the ports from whence they cleared out.
The President, by whose directions I have addressed you on this subject, entertains no doubt of your cheerfulness in carrying into effect regulations, which may, in many instances, relieve our vessels from very injurious and useless detentions.
I am, with consideration, Sir, your obedient servant, ALBERT G. LLATIN.
The Schooners Dolphin & Kitty, now lying at Mr. Young's Wharf will constantly take freights every three weeks from this to Annapolis or Baltimore. For terms apply to BROWN and BOYS. Washington July 15, 1801.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, June 7th, 1800.
Regulations for ascertaining and fixing the Pensioners, and payment of pensions on the Navy establishment of the United States.
To obtain a pension the party must produce to the Secretary of the Navy a certificate from the commander of the ship or vessel on board of which he sustained the injury, which incapacitates him; or in the case of a marine, from the commanding officer of the marine corps or commander of a detachment as the case may require; in the latter case however, if the injury happened on board a vessel of war, the certificate of the surgeon will also be required, if on shore, that of some respectable medical character of the place, that the same was received while he was acting in the line of his duty, specifying the nature and amount of the disability, the capacity or station in which he acted, and the monthly pay to which he was entitled at the time of sustaining the injury. On such certificate being produced, and it being ascertained to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy, that the disability still exists and is likely to continue, he will at once direct the applicant to be placed on the books of the Loan Office of the state in which he resides, and the loan officer will make the payments half yearly, viz. On the 1st of January, and 1st of July, to the party in person or his legal attorney during his life or the continuance of his disability. But if the pension is to be paid on a power of attorney, the loan officer must have it ascertained by the certificate of a Justice of the peace of the county where the pensioner resides, that he was living, and that his disability continued, in the month next preceding that in which payment is to be made every year, and must transmit the same to the Accountant of the Navy with the necessary receipts as vouchers for his payments.
Each person to be placed on the pension list, must receive at the Navy Office a certificate in the following form.
A. B. Seaman, &c. having been disabled in the service of the United States, on board of the ship of war while acting in the line of his duty, is entitled to receive dollars per month, from the loan officer of the state of payable half yearly, on the 1st of January and 1st of July in every year during his life or continuance of such disability, to commence from the day of The same will be paid to him in person or on his legal power of attorney. But no money will be paid on a power of attorney, unless the said A. B. shall send to the loan officer of said state the certificate of a Justice of peace of the county wherein he resides, that he the said A. B. appeared before the said Justice in the month preceding that in which the ill continued to be made and that his disability at payment is
Signed BENJ. STODDERT. The foregoing regulations are still in force. By order, AB. THOMAS, P. Clk. Navy Department, June 17, 1801.
The subscriber respectfully acquaints the public, that he has removed to the corner of Ninth and L streets, where he continues to manufacture and sell all kinds of Ornaments for Chimney pieces, Door Caps, Frontispieces, Metal Safes, &c. which may also be had at his store No. 51, Barclay Street, New-York, and at Mr. Wild's store, Market Street, Baltimore.
GEORGE ANDREWS.
Who has gold leaf for sale by the package or book
May 8, 1801
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City of Washington, July 24, 1801.
The subscribers
HAVING on hand a number of house frames of different dimensions, also, a large quantity of the various kinds of lumber requisite for building, and having made such arrangements as will ensure a constant supply thereof, and enable them to sell the same on very advantageous and moderate terms to the purchasers, hereby give notice, that on application, accompanied by a memorandum or bill of the frames or lumber wanted, they will cause the same to be delivered as soon as may be, at any of the wharves in the city of Washington, George-Town or Alexandria. The circumstances under which the subscribers enter into this business, authorize an assurance that the strictest punctuality in their engagements may be relied on. They are therefore induced to believe, that many persons who are engaged in building, or who may intend to build, will find a great convenience and advantage in making timely application, and being thus supplied with the whole of the lumber necessary for their buildings by the time it may be wanted for use.
JOHN CONNER, Somerset County, near Princess Ann, Maryland. THOMAS MUNROE, City of Washington. July 27.
A GREAT BARGAIN.
I WILL sell or lease for ten years, a valuable Farm, in the county of Culpepper, and state of Virginia, on Flat Run, containing 750 acres the land is extremely fertile, and yields abundantly in the production of corn, wheat, and tobacco, there are about 100 acres of meadow land, 50 or 60 of which are cleared, and 15 acres well set in Timothy, about 350 acres of the tract are cleared and well inclosed. This land is distant from Fredericksburg about 28 miles, and 55 miles from Alexandria and the City of Washington. There are several valuable merchant mills, in the vicinity, one within the distance of a mile, where the Fredericksburg prices are given for all kinds of grain.
I will also sell the Reversion of 250 acres of land adjoining the above, on which are erected a number of valuable buildings, among them a large dwelling house of 60 feet by 40, with four rooms on a floor, with fireplaces, and every necessary out houses—A valuable peach and apple orchard.
A further description is deemed unnecessary, as any persons desirous of purchasing or leasing, will doubtless wish to view the premises. For terms apply to Robert Brooke Voss, Esq. who lives adjoining the premises, or to the subscriber.
I will also Sell or Rent.
Two three story brick houses in Alexandria, completely finished, on King and Columbia Street, with sundry valuable property near the same, possession whereof may be had immediately. The situation for the flour and grocery business is equal to any in Alexandria.
For terms apply to Henry Thomas Moore, Alexandria, or to the subscriber.
NICHOLAS VOSS.
City of Washington, July 13, 1801.
N. B. I wish to hire by the month, or until the 1st day of November, ten or twelve labourers, for whom liberal wages will be given. Apply to N. Voss, on F Street, or W. Voss, at the Navy Yard.
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THE SUBSCRIBERS
HAVE just received from Baltimore and Philadelphia, a handsome assortment of Spring and Fall goods, which they are now opening adjoining Dr. Thornton's upon F Street, & which they offer for sale upon the most reasonable terms either for cash or country produce, viz.
  Printed and plain mar. Tambouring silk, teilles,  Ladies gloves, long and Dimities of various kinds, short Counterpanes,  Stuff and Morocco shotts, Balapoor handkerchiefs, Bandanna and plaited handkerchiefs,  A handsome assortment of mullins, Indiamints, Brown camlet,  White sheeting, Rattineis, tannys and Brown Holland, durants,  Irish linens, Moreans and Jones, Humhums and ginghams, Cloths and cashmeres,  Platillas, creas &c. Swan-down,  James, &c. &c. Lace and edging,  Mullivets, fans, &c. Men's Ladies' and boys' Ivory combs, thread and cotton hose,  Shirt buttons, button Buttons assorted,  mols, tassels, Persians, Sen shawls and fattins,  Elastic suspender, Black mode,  Stationary of various kinds, Ribbons well assorted,  Hyson tea, Shoe-binding first quality,  Muscovado and loaf su, read of every kind,  gar, Curtain cord,  Coffee, old spirits, gin, Dutch lace,  & pepper, Silk and twiss,  Osabrigs, dowlas, French chintz,  Carpeting, &c.  
The best James River chewing tobacco, with a variety of other useful articles too tedious to mention.
ROBERT CAMP, & Co.
Who offer their services to the public in the Auction and Commission business. City of Washington, July 19, 1801. 2aw3w