Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1804-04-18 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1804.
[No. 961]
Public Vendue.
On FRIDAY, 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store, Rum in hogheads and barrels. French Brandy in pipes, in pipes and bds. Whiskey and Apple Brandy in bds. Sugar in hds. tierces and bds. Rice in tierces and bags, Chocolate White and brown Soap } in boxes, Squid and dip'd Candles } Candles in kegs, boxes and jars, Raisins in kegs and frails, Wine in crates, FURNITURE, &c.
A variety of DRY GOODS.
Among which are, Cloths, Coatings, Kerseymeres, Duffels, Plains and Kerseys, Negro Cottons, Sergees, Blankets, blue Friezes, Calimancoes and Russells, Yarn Stockings, Chintzes and Calicoes, Irish Linens, Silesia do. Osnaburgs and Ticklenburgs, Mullins and Mullin Hand'ls, India Mullins and Table Cloths Bandanna Handkerchiefs, Coloured Threads, Hats, And sundry other Articles. P. G. MARSTELLER.
April 2
Sales by Auction.
On SATURDAY, 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store, on the corner of King and Union streets, Rum in hds. and barrels, Whiskey in barrels, Apple Brandy in barrels, Gin in casks Wine in pipes and quattos casks, Molasses in hds. Sugar in hds. and barrels, White and brown Soap in boxes, Coffee in casks and bags, Raisins in kegs and boxes, Queen's Ware, and ALSO, A variety of DRY GOODS.
Among which are— Broad Cloths, Irish Linens, Calimancoes, Calicoes, Kerseymeres, Threads, Coatings, Chintzes, Blankets, Bedticks, Farnought, Osnaburgs, Planes, Sewing Silks, Negro Cottons, Mullin and Mullin Woolled and other Handkerchiefs, Stockings, India Cottons, &c THOS. PATTEN, Auctioneer.
April 4
Young Hyson & Imperial TEA, received from Philadelphia, and for sale by John G. Ladd.
FOR SALE BY WILLIAM HARTSHORNE, HIS STORE ON KIRK'S WHARF, LOWER END OF WOLF STREET
Middlings and Shoulders of Bacon very low terms, Ready made Bags, Bar Iron, Philadelphia Lump Sugar, Indian Meal, Rye Meal, Starch and Bran, Superfine Flour in barrels and half barrels, Large and small vessels may be con- veniently accommodated with Wharfage on mo- derate terms.
STORES to let on the Wharf, or goods re- ceived in them on Storage. A large STORE on Hoe's Wharf to sell or let with the privilege of receiving and shipping free of wharfage. A small HOUSE, on Water Street next door to Major Mancaster's, for sale. A number of LOTS in good situations for sale on ground rent. Alex. 3th mo. 28th.
To Let, for five Years, A HOUSE near the intersection of King and Alph streets; it has three rooms, with a fire place in each, and a convenient kitchen. For terms apply to ADAM LYNN.
April 16. e3t
The Subscriber has for Sale,
At his store in Union Street, in addition to his former stock 1000 bushels excellent Lisbon SALT, suitable for the fisheries, 12 bis. high proof Whiskey, 1200 pounds Sm. field Bacon Hams, 500 do. Venison do. Excellent Jamaica and St. Kitts Oranges, Lisbon Lemons by the box or retail, Large Limes do. 300 lbs. first quality CHESHIRE CHEESE, imported in the ship U. States, A few bds. New York Rappins, 200 bunches of Onions, And a few bags Green Coffee. Abel Willis.
April 12. d
JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE,
Very nicely cured Bacon & Venison HAMS, French Brandy, Antigua and Gre- nada Rum, HOLLAND GIN—imported in the ship Ame- rica from Amsterdam, Cherry Bounce made of old Spirit, Wines, Loaf and Lump Sugar, Brown do. Green Coffee, Teas, &c. FRUIT—Apples, Jamaica Oranges, Lemons, Limes and Green Grapes. NUTS—Almonds, English Walnuts, Shell barks, &c.
ALSO, A few bds. Crab Cyder, 100 bds. R. Island do. 1000 lbs. Cheese, CODFISH of the best quality, Scots Barley, Potatoes, &c. Thomas Simms.
March 21. d
For Sale,
On the third day of May next on a long credit, A LOT OF GROUND, in fee simple, situate on Cameron and Pitt Streets containing 102 feet ten inches on Cameron Street adjoining the theatre—but may be divided into smaller lots.
To Let,
on ground rent forever, Several valuable Lots, situated on Royal, King and Union Streets. Two of these lots are situated near Ramsay's Wharf. Also, for a term of 14 years, a LOT OF GROUND on the East side of Fair- fax Street, and South of Wolf Street, containing in front on Fairfax Street 24 feet, and extending back 103 feet 5 inches to a twenty feet public alley. The above property will be shown on applica- tion to Col. Dennis Ramsay. Sarah Porter.
April 11. e20t
THE SUBSCRIBER, Intending to visit EUROPE this sum- mer, offers for Sale the HOUSE and LOT where he resides.
While it is supposed that no person will purchase without visiting the premises it may be mentioned that there are every conve- nient out house and a well of excellent water on the Lot. (one acre)
The situation proved, during last Autumn to be perfectly healthy, combining the advantages of a Town and Country residence. If wished, a field of about 18 acres adjoining the premises, now in wheat, will be leased for twelve years. Alexander Henderson.
April 9. e4w.
IONAH THOMPSON, & SON, Have received per the ship United States from Liverpool, part of their SPRING GOODS, and are in daily expectation of the remainder per the Fame, via Baltimore. April 9. e3m
PHILIP WANTON, HAS JUST RECEIVED, per the ship United States, an extensive assort- ment of Ironmongery, Cutlery and Brass WARE, Including an extensive assortment of cutlery to every description, common and plated; Spades Shovels, Sythes, Sickles &c. April 11. d3w
BENJAMIN SHREVE, JUN.
Has for Sale at the corner of Union and Prince Streets, 25 bales India Cottons, CONSISTING OF Gurrals, Coffsahs, Battahs, Emertys, Sannahs, Blue Gilla hhs. 30 pieces black Satin, Cotton Romal Handkerchiefs, 2 cases low priced Fans, 1 do. Mariner's Compases, Mens strong Shoes, Womens Morocco do. Leipers Snuff in half barrels and kegs, 12 coils Cordage assorted, Few quarter casks best Malaga Wine, 40 barrels No. 1 Beef, Bags black Pepper, And a quantity of Red Seal Leather. March 22. d
FOR SALE, BILLS ON NEW-YORK, at a short sight, And on LONDON at sixty days. JAMES PATTON. April 13. d4t
DISTRICT of COLUMBIA,
Alexandria County, ss. WHEREAS Joseph Paxton has this day, by his petition in writing, applied to me, one of the judges of the Circuit Court for the district aforesaid, to be admitted to the benefit of the act of Congress for the relief of insolvent debtors, within the District of Columbia; and has stated therein, that he is now in actual confinement in the jail bounds in the county aforesaid, at the suit of Simon Steddicorn, and that being unable to discharge the said Steddicorn's claim, with others, against him, has offered to deliver up, for the use of his creditors, all his property, real personal and mixed: Notice is therefore here- by given, to the creditors of the said Paxton, to attend at the Court House of the county aforesaid, on Saturday the 21st day of this instant, at 11 o'clock: on the forenoon of that day. Given under my hand this 14th day of April, 1804. N. Fitzhugh.
April 15. 6t
This Day is Published BY
ROBERT & JOHN GRAY, their Book and Stationary Store, King Street, the 1st and 2d volumes of THE HOLY BIBLE, to be computed in four octavo volumes—price 2 dolls. per vol. in boards, or 2 dolls. 50 cents. bound and lettered.
Just Received,
AND FOR SALE AS ABOVE, Murray's English Reader, Grammar and Exercises; common writing paper; superfine drawing paper; superfine quarto post and vellum letter paper, and a few gross of bonnet boards. Also the following Books. Johnson's Lives of the British po- ets, Cowper's poems, Comyn's digest, East's re- ports, Boffenquet's and Ruller's reports, vol. 2ds Burrows's reports; Priestly's lectures; McNally's evidence; Peakes's evidence; Chitty on bills of Keyling's reports; Priestly's church history of Wilson's reports; Doddridge's rise and progress of Religion in the soul, Whole Duty of Man, &c. March 29. d
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber on the 29th of October last, a negro man slave named BOB, about 20 years of age, five feet nine inches high straight limbed and well formed; said slave hath an impediment in his speech which prevents his readily replying to a question. He commonly wears ear-rings. He took with him a variety of good cloathing, a description of which is unneces- sary, as it is probable he has changed them. He has been frequently seen about town since he ab- sconded, and in all probability is now secreted by his mother, Winney Brown, formerly the slave of Mr. John Muir, late of this town, but now said to be free. The above reward will be paid for securing said Negro BOB, in any goal, and a further reward of TEN DOLLARS for the dis- covery of those who have been accessory to his concealment. Captains of vessels, &c. are forewarned at their peril, not to take him away. ROBERT B. JAMESSON. Nov. 15. d
Cash given for clean linnen and cotton rags.
THE SHIP UNITED STATES, (at Harper's wharf.) A regular Trader, is now in readiness to receive Freight for Liverpool, and intended for an early Fall Ship, with Goods for this river. A part of her cargo being ready, she will pos- sibly sail by the first of May; her accom- modations are elegant. For Freight or Passage be pleased to apply to capt. O. P. Finley, or to Ricketts, Newton and Co. April 17. d
For Charter.
The SHIP FABIUS, THOMAS FARRELL, MASTER, burthen about 430 hds. of To- bacco. Apply to JAMES PATTON, or WM. WILSON, Who have for sale on board said ship a cargo of Liverpool coarse SALT, suitable for the fisheries, and an assortment of brown Stone Ware. April 9. d10t
For Freight or Charter,
To the West Indies, The new Sch'r UNION, JOHN HAYNES, Master, 900 barrels burthen. She will be ready to take in a cargo in three days, and will load in all next week. For terms apply to JOHN & THOS. VOWELL, Who have for Sale, 10 hds. Jamaica Spirits, received per Schooner Union, and in store 400 bds. Prok, 20,000 lbs. salt petred hams 3,000 bushels Turks Island Salt 1,000 ditto Anguilla Salt 600 ditto Cadiz Salt, also 50 qr. casks superior old Port Wine Madeira and Malaga Wines, &c. which will be sold on low terms. March 31. d
For Freight to New-York or Phi-
ladelphia. The Sloop PATIENT SALLY, lying at Ramsay's Wharf. Apply to M. Fisher, Master on board or JOSEPH DEAN. April 9. d
For Freight or Charter,
To any port in the United States or West Indies, The Sch'r LEBOO. For terms apply to GEORGE N. LYLES, or DAVID W. SCOTT. April 4. d
For BOSTON,
The Brig HARMONY, R. B. Hall, Master; Will sail in a few days—for Freight or Passage apply to John G. Ladd.
Landing from said brig & for sale, 10 hds. and 14 bds. Molasses, 20 pieces Russia Sheerings. Also, from the Sch'r Leboo, A few tierces Rice and bales of Cotton. March 23.
SHOES.
SAMUEL CLARK Respectfully informs his Town and Country Cus- tomers that he contemplates leaving this place shortly, and will dispose of the following above for cash, credit, or produce—viz: English and American colored Kid Slippers, Do. black and white, high and low heels, Black, red, green and blue Morocco Sup- pers, Ladies Black Morocco Jefferson's shoes, Misses' Red and Black do. 500 pair good Calf Skin Slippers, Black Stuff do., Misses' Morocco and Leather Slippers, Boys fine and coarse shoes, Children's Jefferson Shoes, and pumps, Men's fine Morocco shoes, and dancing pumps, Do. fine Morocco shoes, and coarse shoes. March 27. d
VIOLINS.
A large case just opened and for sale by the dozen or single one, by R. & J. GRAY.

PUBLIC SALE.
On FRIDAY next, will be sold at the Vendue Store, About 3000 lbs. SHEET IRON, for the benefit of the Underwriters, damaged on board the United States from Liverpool. P. G. Marsteller. April 17.
PUBLIC SALE.
Will be sold for Cash, on Friday the 20th instant, SUNDRY BOOKS, wearing apparel, one pair of elegant pistols, and other articles, the property of Bartholemew Danbridge, deceased. Philip G. Marsteller. April 16.
Public Sale.
On the 19th inst. will be sold on the premises, Union Street, A quantity of BRICK & STONE the remains of the Union Tavern, the property of the late Wm. Hunter. Philip G. Marsteller. April 11.
Public Sale.
On the 19th day of April, will be sold on the premises, A two story frame House and Lot of Ground, in fee simple, well fitted up for a grocery store, a large dry cellar. The stand is equal to any on the street, situated on the east side of Union Street, and the south side of Duke Street fronting on Union 23 feet 7 inches, and in depth 57 feet. Terms—one fourth of the purchase in hand, the balance on a credit of six, nine and twelve months. Philip G. Marsteller. April 5.
Public Sale.
On Friday the 20th inst. will be sold at the Vendue Store at a credit of 60 and 90 days, 20 crates Queens Ware, handsomely assorted, 12 crates Stone Ware, 9 boxes Window Glass, 7 by 9, 40 boxes Pipes. P. G. MARSTELLER. April 12.
PUBLIC SALE.
In pursuance of a Decree of the Honorable the United States Court of the District of Columbia for the county of Alexandria, will be sold at public sale, on the premises, for ready money, on Wednesday the 16th May next, One Lot of Ground on the east of Water Street in the town of Alexandria, containing 44 feet 1 1/2 inches on Water Street, and 72 feet deep parallel with Prince Street, and binding on Wales's alley. Also, ONE ANNUITY of 52 dollars per annum, payable half yearly, arising out of a piece of ground on Royal Street, on which there is a two story frame house, now in the occupation of Mr. James Scott. The above property is sold to satisfy a debt due from Robert Meale to the estate of Edward Deale, deceased. John C. Herbert, Jacob Hoffman, James H. Hooe, Com'rs. April 13.
Public Sale.
On the 26th inst. at 11 o'clock will be sold on the premises, A LOT OF GROUND, situate on Cameron Street near the Powder House, in front 187 feet, and in depth 176 feet, handsomely fenced. The above Lot is laid off as a garden, and in a high state of cultivation, subject to a rent of Twenty Pounds.
And at 4 o'clock in the afternoon will be sold on the premises, near Cameron Run, A handsome Country Retreat, late the residence of Thos. Richards, containing One Hundred and Twenty Five Acres. The improvements are a neat Dwelling, Kitchen, Smoke House, Barn, &c. and a well of excellent water, an orchard of choice fruit, consisting of pears, peaches, apples, cherries, &c. The above Farm commands a handsome prospect of the town of Alexandria, and river Potomac. It will be sold entire or laid off in smaller Lots to suit purchasers. Terms will be made known at the place of sale. Philip G. Marsteller. April 11.
Among the valuable communications, which have adorned the columns of the Washington Federalist, the one subjoined, of a late date, brings such high matter to view in a manner partaking so much of the pungency, the fertility and neatness of Junius, that the Editor but discharges his duty by giving it all the currency it can obtain through the medium of this paper. (Fred. Her.)
From the Washington Federalist.
"You all did see that at the LUTRECAL, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse—was this ambition?—Ambition should be made of stoutest stuff."
To THOMAS JEFFERSON,
President of the United States, Emperor of Louisiana, Lord High Admiral of the Navy, &c. &c.
MY LORD,
I am told that such is your philosophy, and such too your political morality, that you can read any investigation of your conduct with perfect composure—Relying upon that innocence of heart, which an eternal smile of complacency presages, no scrutiny can draw a sigh from the one, or disturb the equanimity of the other. Give me leave then, my lord, to address you in that spirit of freedom which republicanism emphatically calls her own, and of that candor which is the prerogative of a freeman.
I have but this moment received the information; that you have resolved by and with the "unanimous" [a] consent of the democrats in Congress, to be the president of America for four years more.
The shameless inconsistency which has uniformly marked your political life, ought to exclude the possibility of surprise at anything you do—seeing, as we all have, your satyr feet in every measure of your ministry, no calculation of indecency could be too extravagant.
I confess indeed my lord, that I had indulged the fallacy, that all your wanton tricks were played, and that you were preparing to retire at a distance to review that scene of desolation you had caused, with renovated pleasure. It seems however, that the appetite of your ambition is not yet sated. The "bloody arena" of federal execution is not to be closed as yet, for you are to hold the lictor's fasces for four years more.
Whatever of malevolence, conjoined with hypocrisy, characterised the Mazzei letter; whatever of ambition, and the lowest grade of it, my lord, could bribe and flatter Callender; whatever of duplicity pervades each sentence of the inaugural essay; in short, my lord, whatever of all these could pen the answer to New Haven, your present resolution gives a magnitude to all—you seem indeed to have refined upon yourself—Nothing can surpass the flagrance of your present imposition, but the impudence with which it is incurred—Nothing can surpass the deception of your sentiments, but that credulity of the nation, which could believe in their sincerity.
When was it, my Lord High Admiral of the Navy, that you first abandoned that political article of belief, that there should be a "a rotation in office in every instance, AND MOST PARTICULARLY IN THE CASE OF THE [b] PRESIDENT?" Is it, that you have a memory as treacherous as your heart, which buries in oblivion your opinions in former seasons, or is it, that your heart alone is treacherous to every honest sentiment which might then pervade it? Is it, that you have had the rare obliquity of head, never to have conceived a truth on government, or is it, that you have had that rare turpitude of heart, never to have practised one.
Review you, my lord, from those times which stamped America a "Nation of the Earth," to these thine own improsperous days, and you present a life of that kind of potent, [c] chequered transformation, which poets fancy only had conceived, until you
[a] See the National Intelligencer of the 29th of February, which says, "that Thomas Jefferson was unanimously nominated for the next president."
[b] See certain letters of Mr. Jefferson, written in 1788 and '89, on the subject of the constitution. These letters were published by a friend of Mr. Jefferson's to prove him a Federalist in 1792. Extracts of these letters may be seen in a pamphlet said to be written by W. Smith of S. Carolina, entitled the pretensions of Jefferson, and the charges against Adams examined.
[c] Smith himself owns, in his stupid eulogium on his master in his paper of the second instant that Jefferson's life has been "chequered."
exemplified it. You seem to have had the singular fatality of sometimes thinking justly, to exhibit in your conduct, the converse of the sentiment, and of sometimes acting wisely to inculcate an opposite deportment. You published once, indeed, my lord you did, and your [d] Notes on Virginia will evince it, some soft and flowing sentences to prove the danger of admitting aliens to participate in government; but since that time you have spoken softer [e] touches to the soul to invite them to its profits—since that time you have initiated foreigners into the secrets of our cabinet, opened wide your arms of embrace towards them, and placed the [f] purse-strings of the nation in their hands. Wherefore these opposite opinions? Are they to be found in the honest feelings of virtuous recantation, or in those of a vile and sinister apostasy?—To acknowledge and retract our errors, and more especially political, requires magnanimity. Magnanimity, my lord, is a greatness of soul—it deals not in low and secret stratagem—I entreat your lordship not to think of Washington and Mazzei, of Callender and Adams, and then to deduce the inference.
To follow you through all the windings of your conduct, to array before the public each opinion you have published with its present contrast, would be an undertaking as unnecessary as it is indefinite. The world has seen the most of them already, and the thinking part of it I trust has stored them in indelible record. I shall leave you then to your own arrangement of the subject, and to that self-operation of the mind, which cannot fail to bring them in review. Before however, I tender you my "homage" of adieu, suffer me to ask, my Lord, have you any recollection of certain letters which you wrote from Paris in the year 1788 and 1789, upon the subject of the constitution; and that a friend of yours less fortunate than zealous, published partial extracts from them in '92, to vindicate your federalism. I shall not stop here to enquire of your lordship, whether it was the officious act of friendship which proved you what you never were, or whether you have since discerned, that to be a federalist is to be a tory. Whether you ever were a federalist and have abjured the appellation, or whether you were then what I now think you, both an [g] "impostor and an apostate."
The extracts to which I allude are now before me, and give me leave to solicit your attention to the following quotation. Speaking of the constitution, you say, "the 2d [a] feature which I dislike and greatly dislike is the abandonment in every instance of the necessity of rotation in office, AND MOST PARTICULARLY IN THE CASE OF THE PRESIDENT?" Here, my Lord, let us pause together. In that day of danger and uncertainty, when the people of America were tossed upon the tempestuous sea of liberty without an anchor—without a rudder to their bark, you raised your voice of dissent to the only measure which at that time could secure both their liberties and their safety. I say, my Lord, you objected to the constitution, because there was no provision in the instrument establishing rotation in the presidential office. It is not my object to examine the propriety of such a principle. It might be however but common charity to think, that your objection flowed from the purest principle of the love of country. The chains of America's political thralldom had just been rent asunder, and in the re-eligibility of the President you saw too much of presi-
[d] See notes on Virginia; last edition pages 90, 91, 92.
[e] See the m-fage to congress in December 1801
[f] Albert Gallatin, a Genevese, is the Secretary of the Treasury. The same Albert who was Secretary at Bradock's defeat to the meeting which occasioned the western insurrection, and on that account, no doubt the dearest to Mr. T.
[g] The miscreant Tom Paine applied these epithets to General Washington, see his letter to that illustrious man; Mr. J. then will not find fault with their indecency. Tom is the apple of his eye, the darling of his soul, the man for whom he prays "may you live long to continue your labors!" This very letter was one of his labors! Gracious God! When will the people see the rotundities of this mammoth's heart?
[h] Hah, though gentle putting, murmuring stream, the feature you dislike is the no feature? Mr. Jefferson knows about as much of the properties of speech as he does of government. He is a sager inuendoing twindler in both. His style is very gentle and captivating; to are his manners, and indeed are his political doctrines; but he always had either a natural or an artificial unmeaningness about it, full of laticidens, gullificims and idiosims; he can make a fence-dance to all the forms of an elegy, but then, 'tis but a mournful song at last, and has just about as much life or sincerity in it as the ear of a hired mourner or a Crocodile.
dential power, and in that power, the opening germ of danger to her liberties—was it, peradventure, that your opposition emanated from a different source? Did you not foresee, my Lord, that the victorious general of our armies would become the President of our councils? That that man who had bared his breast to every danger, who knew not the slumbers of forgetfulness, nor the safety of a mountain cave in the day of his country's peril, must stand pre-eminent—"First in battle, first in his country's love." Who could compare with him in times of peace? I entreat your Lordship to examine well the secret feelings of your bosom at that time, sift the sister ambition of your soul and say, what hopes you had from the principle of "rotation," what fears from the "abandonment" of it?
I will not however torture you with questions. It is unimportant to my present expedition, whether in the first instance, you advocate principles of "rotation" in virtuous or dishonest motives, from disinterested or selfish views; I am content to know that you have abandoned principles which you once professed to love, and that you have abandoned them too, in your personal promotion of fortune, and retention of power. The gross voice of charity beseeches, these things you have done; but the enquiring years have enough erecated wisdom with them, and you have been the errors of your meridian days: I am no stranger to your recent equivocation, nor to that impudent way which you can deceive. They have proved the practical instruments by which you have seized the presidency, and by which you have held it; but, my Lord, what new policy will you now advance to deny your success in '92? What new hardness of front to gain an impudent? In '93 you clamoured for rotation, in every progressive step of subsequent administrations, until you, my Lord, became the paramount mobile of government, the diapason was continued no chord of popular delusion was left untouched to rouse the nation's jealousy. 'Twas said that the republic of America was fast verging to a monarchy; the constitutional "feature"—the want of rotation in the presidency had rendered the incumbent of the office a tyrant, a monster, and overwhelming torrent, which was sweeping from our land all vestige of its freedom. So anxious were you for the security of "rotation" and for justice at the want of it, that you aimed at introducing it in the Senate, and all the offices of government. So zealous were your party for the introduction of this principle, that I have known it to have been, with many, the highest expected blessing from your ministry. Nay, my Lord, you cannot have forgotten how pretty that favorite [i] child of yours enlarged upon this principle, when he followed the passage of the Gles' district. Has he forgotten too the sentiments he uttered? My Lord I hope not. The cream colored minister to your Lordship has informed us that you were selected to be the President again by an "unanimous" approbation. An "unanimous" approbation? I fear that you have stolen to this young man's couch, and have poured the lethal potion into the speeches of his ear. That you, who have fed the nation to believe in your super-or-virtue, greatness and illumination, should find no difficulty in carving what you please upon the feelings of your kindred, is easily supposable. There are among us all, certain kindred prepossessions, which dance around our hearts in such fantastic mazes as to impede the optics of the mind: They can find "Helen's beauty in a brow of Elysium" and see the vermilion of a rose in the pureness of a carbuncle—The feeble shimmering of a genius becomes, by them, the brightest luminary of science, and but an ordinary influence of benevolence receives the homage of every virtue. I am told indeed, my lord, that your acquirements in the mind's eye of your relations, to others of this world, are in the ratio of your dwelling to the surrounding country; open but your eye and your vision is obstructed only by the boundless extent of the scene.
Tom h but a science, and your ken compares with space; you are indeed the very mountain of a man, and the inhabitants of every village round you, are but the Lilliputians to a Gulliver: In short, my lord, you was made for your mountain, and your mountain was made for you. The owner, and the owner's als. in Sterne, were never better suited. The wonder is, how your Lordship can bear a separation from it for four years more!!
I feel then no excitement of surprise, that in your change, your son in law should follow your example: Will not, my lord, the satellite revolve
[i] Mr. Eppes, who married the daughter, and who is the nephew of the president. This gentleman, when he offered to represent the district from which Giles had come stated three fundamental grounds upon which he wished to be elected, and which he promised, if effected, to adhere to; one was the subjection of the judiciary to the legislative branch of the government; another, the alteration of the legislature in this way; that the Senate should be elected in the same way, and for the same time that the house of representatives; a third was that no man should be re-eligible to the presidency for two successive terms. This gentleman however is one of the hundred & ten members of Congress, who unanimously nominated Jefferson again. No doubt he will have some hole to creep out at. See Mr. Eppes's address to the voters of his district.

and the planet? Will not the parasite pursue the mighty of this world? But in their scribblings—do you not believe that your kinsman, when he proclaimed the sentiments before, recited, supposed them grateful to your heart, and accorded with the choicest feelings of democracy? Or to state the interrogatory differently; could he have supposed, that you, so far from feeling a concordant sentiment, were ready in your individual person, to damn his theories, to prove him ignorant in his school of politics, to be the president again?  You, my Lord, you who had taught in him, the young idea how to shoot, had shown him the laboratories of federal mischief, in the federal principle of successive re-election to the presidency? You, who had analysed the subtle poison; who had seen its dangerous property in embryo; and who had pursued it with unrelenting clamor from that time to the present. Could he have supposed, I say, that you, my Lord, would seize upon that principle to rivet and establish your personal aggrandizement and promotion? Let it be remembered, that I have brought into this inquiry, the opinions of your son in law, but for the purpose of evincing, that he your friend, your kinsman, your advocate in politics, clamor, as lately, as you had done in '88, for rotation in the presidency ; we all have heard the same cry re-echoed from the pestilential lungs of every democrat, until you, my Lord, became the President! It now is lost in the cannon's roar for the Louisiana Jubilee: Under the cover of this fort, you modestly present yourself again for presidential power—and in all duty, does your son in law observe to you, and pray— as he forever should do .
My Lord, I have not as yet concluded my remarks. You shall hear from me again as soon as I have leisure, upon this same subject.  My Lord, your Lordship's Most obed't and most humble serv't, "SALUTATIONS"
Alexandria Daily Advertiser. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18. THE FRIGATE PHILADELPHIA.
Letter from an American gentleman in the Mediterranean, to his friend in Charles-ton—Syracuse, Dec. 1, 1803.  Capt. Bainbridge was sent off Tripoli, to cruise for a short time; and for that purpose left Malta in the middle of October—he remained several days without meeting with any success, until the 31st October, when he gave chase to a xebecque that hoisted Tripoline colours. The xebecque ran so near the land that capt. B. gave up the chase, and was standing off shore under easy sail, when the Philadelphia, when he least expected it, ran aground on a bank about 4 or 5 miles to the east of Tripoli, and found himself in 12 feet water forward and 17 aft. He endeavoured a long time, to no purpose, to get her off; he threw overboard his anchors, guns, and provisions, and, as a last resource, cut away his foremast. The gun-boats no sooner perceived his situation than they got under his stern & kept up a continual fire for four hours, when captain B. perceiving that it would be impossible to get the ship off, hauled down his colours. They were instantly made prisoners, and carried on shore, and he, with his officers, were confined in the house formerly occupied by the American Consul; the windows opening to the sea are closed up, and Capt. B. is not allowed to go on the terrace. The allowance of provisions for the officers is eight ounces of bread and a little oil per day. How different was the treatment of those prisoners we had in our power, every one of whom was liberated; and they, to reward our goodness, have written to their friends at Tripoli, that they were shamefully abused. The rest of the crew of the Philadelphia, are coupled by a chain, and kept at hard labor. The whole number of prisoners amounts to 307 souls. The constitution will sail shortly for Tripoli, to endeavor to mitigate in some measure the situation of our unfortunate officers and men. It will cost government an immense sum to ransom them."
Of the malignant effects of political enthusiasm upon the morals of mankind, every month passes off as proof not less deplorable than numerous. What is that vice however detestable it may be, however criminal in the eye of God, and odious to the heart of man, which is not made to receive fashion? Since the first week of the party now in power; since the first poking and poking of their feathers, and shaking of their wings to take a short flight from the nest in which the revolution left them paddling, up to this day, on which the geese have reached the flight of the Eagle's pinion, and looking down on the mighty bird, quack and gabble in the air, we have heard nothing but the dull, monotonous gibberish of party. One of the worst vipers of the human family; the very decrepitude of the heart; the canker worm of all virtues and noble sensibility, has long been the order of the day. Avarice, avarice, avarice, as
if there were not already a too great proclivity to it in the infirmity of man, has been nourished, fostered, encouraged, as if they wanted improvement in that unworthy passion, have been disciplined into fondness for a farthing. The facility of superficial statesmen, who like courtiers, know no avenues to the human heart but those which lead through depravity, directs them to effluence the ruin of its people's morals; and a toilsome under which all nations labor more or less, but which the very necessities of this country from its first institutions, have engrained in the people, we mean love of property , is pressed into the service of faction, and made the instrument of general deception, and of public wrong. To such a length is this carried, and so powerful are its effects, that even with men, who naturally feel no bounds to generosity, are induced by political party enthusiasm, to make their pecuniary assets with their practice, to speak the phrase of party in the very teeth of their feelings; and for the first time to present to the world the monstrous exhibition of Hibernian egotizing avarice. This indeed is a blunder. It is worse; it is a mischief.
The time however is now come, when a much more of no common force will be applied to the hearts of the Americans; a test whether they love economy from true public spirit or from their avarice. And after that shall be decided, they shall have a calculation to make whether the purposes of avarice, supposing it to be a wife and virtuous passion, have been answered or frustrated by the conduct of the party in power. We remember to have heard of a shrewd economist in Virginia, who could not be prevailed upon by the most warm remonstrances and earnest request of his friends, to go to the expense of a conductor, to save his house from lightning. "Let it alone my faith in God is great!" But one unlucky day a misadventurous flash of lightning came, burnt his house to the ground, and at once put him to an expense equal to 500 conductors, not to mention that of the one which he wisely put up when he rebuilt the house. Thus it fares at this moment with our state economists. Their unprosperous prudence have blasted the expected harvest of their penny, and what is infinitely worse consigned to misery against which no pecuniary consideration can be put in balance, a number of our gallant fellow citizens.
It will be readily understood, that in these observations we have an eye to the loss of "The Philadelphia Frigate." A loss which may or may not be considered, just as moral feeling may happen to be a match for political filth, a dread full, a horrible calamity. The economist will estimate the extent of the evil by the balance of dollars lost or gained by crippling our navy. The moralist and man of feeling, will estimate it by the groans, the tears, the miseries of his captive countrymen. But we hope that there are but few even of those who have been joined into wasteful economies by the crawling beggary of the cabinet, who would hesitate to say they would rather pay a dollar more taxes in three hundred and sixty five days, than have even one fellow citizen undergo the horrors of Tripolitan slavery. Americans shed their blood to be relieved from speculative slavery, but they walk deliberately into practical slavery; into actual iron chains, to save a dollar. Such is the policy of the man of the people. God forgive us if we wrong them, but we fear there are some whose love of a dollar is greater than our hatred of slavery, or our pity for fellow citizens enslaved. It shall be known however, this is the test, this is the touchstone now to be applied to the American heart, and we shall soon see whether it be gold or dross.
We have often taken occasion to lead the public mind to a just consideration of the misconduct of those who merely to fix the imputation of prodigality on the federal administration, and emblazon their own spurious pretensions to economy, though to the injury of the state, to injure their opponents, not to serve the public, divested the country of its best and safest defence, a navy. Who to make a sixpenny saving, committed the honor and security of the Union to the care of chance, and subjected its people and their commerce to insult, plunder and impiety. Hitherto the evil has been light, compared with what it is at present. The captures and confiscations of French, Spanish and English though enough to have deterred administration from dismantling the country of its defence, were nothing when compared with the evil which that misconduct has now occasioned. Our commerce was squeezed and our people maltreated, but our brave fellow citizens were not reduced to the state of gally slaves to barbarians, or presented as the Algerines present all their captives with chains about their necks, in the public bazaar or market places, for sale. That is probably the case at this moment with our unhappy countrymen, captain Bainbridge, his officers and sailors, who are now in chains, doomed to hard labour, with little more than half food, and that of the most unwholesome kind—namely, very bad bread moistened with rancid oil.
When European nations at war with those barbarians, send their ships to cruise on that coast, they never suffer them to cruise but in squadrons; so that in case of distress one may relieve the other. Had there been in the present case two or more vessels together, our ship might have been got off; but at all events the officers and crew would have been saved from the barbarians; that however, would have been too much. "I can't afford it, Sir," said the rich miser to a friend who told him that if he did not call in a physician he must certainly die. Thus we cheat ourselves of our national
life, honor and security, for the sake of a small sum, annually taken from the pockets of a population of no less than six millions of people. Oh shame! oh folly! oh madness! Where is the wisdom that should direct our councils? where the proud and lofty sense of a natural glory, that should animate them? where the manhood that should invigorate the descendants of the old tough Britons? Why, thrust into the bottom of a Lovelace's purse, and smothered under selfish dross, by the glitter of which the eye of gaping ignorance is deceived, while the voice of a nation's honor is drowned in the chink of it.
Let any American, any, no matter how mean in soul, so that he is not destitute of humanity, lay his hand upon his heart and ask himself what sum he would willingly forego from his store to redeem his fellow citizens from such infamies as now await them. To that sum let him add the loss of national honor, and the loss of the vessel, (if Mr. Gallatin will allow it to be a loss) and consider whether it would not be much better to have paid half that sum as a tax to prevent the happening. But then let him not lay the flattering unction to his soul that the expense is avoided. For unless our fellow citizens are left to work at the galleys of the barbarians, or in the gardens of their seraglio, (a thing which we should be loath to swear will not happen) their ransom, exclusive of the vessel, will amount in all likelihood to one or two millions of dollars. So much for our President's economies in the purse.
There is but one thing left—at once to redeem our captive fellow citizens, and at the same time to redeem the national honor. Take our ransoming vessels out of the mud of the Potomac; equip, and man them and more, and with a squadron of gun boats properly armed, lay every city on that accursed coast in ashes. Nothing less should satisfy true republican honor. But alas, we fear all our present pretensions to republican honor wholly consists in economies.
It may however be worth the while of Mr. Jefferson to send an humble ambassador to the barbarians, to remind them of his good nature in returning our captives ransom free; to bid them do likewise, like good christians, as he and they are; and if they should refuse to do so, to tell them that "they are not the persons he took them to."
In one respect the thing may be considered by our cabinet as fortunate. As a ruinous church was said to be good enough for one born in a stable, a Mahomedan Seraglio will be good enough for paltry christians. There they will have ample room for effecting of freed subject, and if ever they return to their native country, they may bring over with them some happy improvements in our religion and morals, to turnish an embellishment to the next Presidential Message to Congress.
(Charleston Courier.)
AGRICULTURAL.
Extracts from a very valuable French book, little known in America, entitled, "The Agronome, or the Farmer's Pocket Dictionary."
TO MULTIPLY THE INCREASE OF CORN OF ANY KIND.
Take of the dung of the cow, goat, sheep or pigeon, and of salt-petre, each, one pound, put them all into two or three gallons of water, and let them stand covered for several days; strain the liquid through a sieve or coarse cloth, and let your seed corn moisten therein for eight hours; take it out and put it in a convenient corner of your granary; stir it well and often during several hours after. This receipt is adapted to 160 pounds weight of corn.
ANOTHER. Put twenty pounds of lime into a barrel, and pour on it ten gallons of rain or river water. Then put one hundred and twenty pounds of corn into a basket, and let it remain eight hours. Take it out, plunge it into another vessel, in which there is a quantity of water in which you have previously dissolved three pounds of common salt or salt-petre.
ANOTHER. Take as much of the water of your richest dunghill as you choose. Soak your seed in it 24 hours. dry it in the shade, and then (when dry) sow it.
TO PREVENT THE SMUT IN WHEAT. Moisten it well with a liquor composed of lime water, in which ashes, common salt and pigeon dung have been infused several hours. A light solution of alum and verdigree has also been used for this purpose.
TO PREPARE SEED TO BE SOWN ON POOR AND SANDY LANDS.
Take twelve or thirteen pounds of sheep dung, which you will boil, dregs and all, in a good deal of water. Dissolve three or four pounds of salt-petre, and infuse in this pickle for eight hours a bushel of new wheat, &c. Dry it in an airy place, not much exposed to the sun. Repeat this operation several times, and sow your grain thinly.
The author of the book from which these receipts are extracted, asserts:—
"That from experience it is known, that every grain of the prepared feed produces seven or eight stalks, and each of the stalks produces ears of more than fifty grains of corn in each." He also informs, "that more than sixty stalks have been counted in one shoot. He continues:
 "1. Grain thus prepared starts sooner than when sown in the usual methods.  "2. The birds are not so fond of feeding on it.  "3. It grows thick and large, but ought to be sown thinner than usual. Grain produced from feed thus prepared is not liable to blight to smut, or mildew, as unprepared corn." 
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, London, February 9, 1803. NEWMAN v. WALTERS.
This very important case this day received the decision of the court. The plaintiff, Captain Newman, was a passenger on board the ship Batley, bound for the West Indies in the month of April, 1802; and by his exertions, brought her into port when deserted by the captain. The case having come to be tried before lord Alvanley, and a special jury of merchants, at Guild Hall, in the sittings after Trinity term, the jury found, that after she had been deserted by the captain, the plaintiff had, at the request of the passengers and crew, taken on himself the management of the vessel; and that by his skill, industry and exertions, she had been conveyed safe into Ramsgate; and on this finding, gave a verdict for the plaintiff 400l. damages.
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA, ARRIVED.    Schr. Patience, Blund. S. vanna   Columbia, Howland, Baltimore   Harriet, Barney, Baltimore   Sloop Back fish, Frambery, Norfolk   Ebenezer Smith, Charleston   CLEARED—Since the fourteenth of April    Snow Deoby, Foster, Corunna   Schr. William, Dade, Jamaica   Bessy, Baldwin, Barbadoes   Schr. Harmony, Bell, jun. Barbadoes   Sloop Unity, Hill, Philadelphia 
NOTICE.
AN election for thirteen TRUSTEES of the Alexandria Academy will be held on Monday the 23d inst. at 11 o'clock, at the Academy, at which time and place those who are legally qualified to vote, are requested to attend.
April 18. Jacob Hoffman.
SPRING GOODS.
JOSEPH RIDDLE and Co. HAVE RECEIVED, Per the ship Morison, from London, part of their SPRING GOODS, among which are Mussins, Dimities, and printed Cottons, subject to drawback. They will be sold remarkably cheap for Cash, or on a short credit.
SPRING GOODS.
BENNETT and WATTS HAVE RECEIVED per the United States, capt. Long, a part of their SPRING GOODS, and expect the remainder per the first arrival.
NOW LANDING
And for Sale by the subscriber, HOUSE FRAMES OF THE FOLLOWING SIZES.
  1 20 by 16 1 1/2 Stories,   1 18 by 14 1 1/2 do.   2 16 by 12 1 1/2 do.   2 14 by 12 1 1/2 do.   2 18 by 12 1 do.   7 16 by 12 1 do.   2 12 by 10 1 do.   1 10 by 10 1 do. 
Also, 60,000 feet 4-4 plank, most of it square edged, and of a good quality, 50,000 green cypress Shingles, a quantity of long white oak Sills, a cargo of excellent 5-4 Plank, and a good assortment of small Scantling, Rafter and Joists, N. E. 4-4 and 8-4 Plank, 1/2 inch poplar do. bedstead stuff, large poplar Plank, 3 to 4 thick by 20 inches wide, 3 or 400 Cedar Posts.
On hand, as usual, Nails, nails, sprigs, bolts, locks and hinges, &c. &c.
Thomas Preston.
JOHN B. TAYLOR, CABINET MAKER,
King Street, second door above the Printing Office of the Advertiser.
HAS RECEIVED Some elegant pieces of Furniture, Consisting of breakfast and dining tables, card tables, sofas, bedsteads, secretaries and book cases, which he offers for sale low. ORDERS will be thankfully received and nearly executed.
April 13. Cath given for clean linen and cotton rags.

REANIMATION.
WHEN the most important functions of life are suspended, and those who are invalids by imprudence, inheritance, accident or disease, are tottering upon the brink of the grave, it is not in despair that relief is to be found. There is a medicine which has restored thousands from infirmity and misery to health and happiness, which is
THE AROMATIC LOZENGES OF STEEL.
Since this excellent medicine was first discovered by Dr. Bardwell, several thousand females have experienced its salutary effects; many of whom had been reduced to the brink of the grave having used every remedy recommended as specific in those complaints, and had made every application to the faculty that could be obtained. The following recent case is selected from a numerous list.
From Mrs. Eleanor Wadsworth, Providence, (R. I.)
Sir, We received yours and with much pleasure comply with your request, as my daughter has certainly received very great benefit from Dr. Bardwell's Aromatic Lozenges of Steel.
In the winter of 1802 my daughter, who is in her 17th year caught a very severe cold, which with the violent fever which accompanied it, confined her to her room upwards of four months; during this period we paid for Doctors bills and consultations 150 dollars. The fever left her in the most deplorable, and debilitated state with hardly any use of her limbs, so that we were obliged to carry her from the bed to the chair. Being strongly persuaded by the Doctor we went to Ball's Town Springs, and stayed the season, and thought she gained considerable strength by the use of the waters; but by the fatigue of the passage (having very rough weather) she became as weak and her cough much worse than before. During the last winter her whole nervous system has been so irritable, and her spirits so low and depressed, that death to her was desirable. In the latter end of January we saw an Advertisement recommending the Lozenges of Steel for similar complaints, we immediately purchased a packet of them, and before the whole of them were taken, they evidently produced a change in her system, which no medicine before had been able to effect; we sent for two more packets. It is now fourteen days since she began to mend; she has laid aside her crutches, has been twice on horse back, and if the weather should prove favorable we intend coming to Peeks-kil early in April to stop until we go to Ball's Town Springs; from there we will send you our address, where with pleasure we will satisfy any enquiries.
Price one Dollar per Packet.
Particular directions for their use are sealed up with each box as the great benefit to be derived from them can only be secured by having them genuine, the public are requested to observe that the name of Thomas Stokes & Co. are affixed to each packet, without which mark of authenticity they are not genuine.
The Lozenges of Steel,
are only to be had, in Alexandria, of Messrs. R. & J. GRAY, WHO HAVE ALSO ON HAND, A SUPPLY OF Family & Patent Medicines, consisting of-
 Chambaud's Antasthmatic Lozenges;  Ague and Fever Drops;  Antibilious Pills;  Anodyne Essence for Head Aches;  Reanimating Solar Tincture;  Dr. Bardwell's genuine Eye Water;  Atkinson's Essence of Mustard;  Scotch Ointment for the Itch;  Tooth Ach Drops;  Aromatic Lozenges;  Essence of the Woods, &c. &c. 
Dr. Hunter's genuine Antibilious Pills,
For the prevention and cure of Yellow, Bilious and Putrid Fevers.
Every experienced physician knows what dangerous disorders arise from a redundancy of bile in the habit; however salutary a due secretion of this fluid may be, yet a diffusion of it in the circulation is known, from its putrescent qualities, to bring on sudden and fatal fevers. The unparalleled success of Dr. Hunter's Antibilious Pills, in curing, and particularly in preventing this dreadful disease, is universally known in the islands, and has induced the proprietor to appoint agents in all the mercantile towns in the United States, for the accommodation of the public. The Antibilious Pills are therefore, in an especial manner, recommended as a preventative, deserving the notice of all persons going to the West Indies, or any of those places infected with these fevers. Dr. Hunter has every possible reason, that can result from long and extensive experience, for believing that a dose of these pills, taken once every fourteen days, during the prevalence of our fall fevers, will prove an infallible preventative, and that, if taken in the early stages of these fevers, their use will very generally succeed in restoring health, and frequently in cases esteemed desperate and beyond the power of common remedies.
The operation of these pills is perfectly mild, may be used with safety by persons in every situation and at every age.
In sickly times and places a dose should be taken once a fortnight, and if there is reason to apprehend personal danger, once a week.
Observe that the signatures of Messrs. Thos. Stokes and Co. is affixed to each box, without which mark of authenticity they are not genuine.
Dr. Atkinson's genuine Essence of Mustard.
Rheumatism in every stage, instantly submits to its penetrating powers, which has succeeded in curing the most desperate cases of rheumatism, gout, lumbago, sciatica, numbness, palsy and complaints of the stomach, after previous medicines have proved ineffectual. It is prepared in pills, and also in a fluid state. The pills are particularly serviceable in flatulencies and indigestion, and by their salutary operation, promote perspiration, and gradually undermine the most obstinate rheumatism; and, at the same time, invigorate the debilitated constitution. The fluid essence is a remarkable active embrocation, necessarily used with the pills, and as generally excites a tingling sensation; it removes the causes of pain, by bringing on a circulation in the area affected; by this means, frozen limbs, the feverish sprains and bruises, old strains and luxations, are generally cured by a few applications. The genuine is distinguished from counterfeits, by the signature of Thomas Stokes and Co. being affixed to each bottle; without which mark of authenticity, none are genuine.
The genuine Scotch Itch Ointment. The only medicine that cures this disagreeable disease, by one application, to many thousands having experienced its efficacy; it is unnecessary to add any more arguments in its favor, but to caution the public that the name Thomas Stokes and Co. is affixed to each box, without this mark of authenticity, none are genuine.
Dr. Bardwell's genuine Eye Water.
A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the Eyes; speedily removes inflammations, dimness, itching, and flimsy it never fails to cure those maladies which frequently succeed the measles, small-pox, and fever; and is an unparalleled strengthener of a weak sight.
Dr. Hunter's genuine Antibilious Pills.
An agreeable and certain preventative of the predisposition to inflammatory and malignant fever, which prevails at particular seasons of the year. The rapid and increasing demand from every part of the United States, and the West India islands, is the best evidence of their superior excellence.
CHAMBAUD'S Antasthmatic Lozenges.
A radical cure for coughs, colds, asthma and consumptions, difficulty of breathing, &c. &c.
Mr. CHAMBAUD, the sole proprietor of this medicine, has the satisfaction to announce that they have been the means of relieving many persons in a most precarious state of health. In common colds this medicine produces so salutary a perspiration that they generally are eradicated in a few hours. Coughing, being prolonged by that convulsive symptom termed the tickling in the throat, it shortens its duration by promoting sleep and strengthening the constitution. Pulmonary complaints, affecting the breast and lungs; those affected with them experience an almost immediate relief. Asthma and confined consumptions have repeatedly been eradicated by them. Infants in the hooping-cough, and women during pregnancy, may take them without the least fear of danger, and with the greatest expectation of relief, nor can it be administered at an improper season.
Dr. BARDWELL'S
Anodyne Essence, for all kinds of Head Aches.
THE renowned virtues of the Anodyne essence, is now so generally known, that it is no presumption in the Proprietor, to say, that Head Aches, arising from whatever cause, or however violent, instantly submit to its penetrating powers. This invaluable Anodyne, has frequently succeeded after the best advice, and every other remedy had failed; by its salutary operation, it insensibly promotes circulation and perspiration, and thereby prevents the return of the most obstinate periodical head aches.
SPRING PHYSIC.
DR. HUNTER'S Ant-Bilious Pills are unquestionably proved by ample experience to be the most effectual remedy, at the same time the most innocent, pleasant, and convenient medicine for the cure of scurvy, scorbutic eruptions, leprosy, and other disorders originating from a corruptive state of the blood. The remarkable cure of Mr. Elinton, of Albany, who had been twelve years tormented with a most distressing scorbutic complaint, as also that of Thomas Johnson, a labouring man, in the service of Mr. Van Rensselaer, who was afflicted with a most horrid leprosy, must have convinced every one who has read the particulars of these cases, besides which, a variety of proofs of their efficacy, authenticated by persons of character and respectability are open to the examination of every inquirer. These must naturally be supposed to have their due weight, and supercede the necessity of any further comment from the Proprietor, yet, he presumes to assert, that the real merits of this vegetable preparation will, on a fair trial, plead more forcible its own recommendation than any thing which can be said of it.
Where also may be had,
Atkinson's Worm destroying Lozenges. These Lozenges not only destroy worms where they exist, but effectually prevent their return. These families who have followed Dr. Atkinson's advice, and used them in the spring and fall among their children, as their common physic, have now the happiness to find those children, which appeared sickly and consumptive, in the bloom of health, being entirely delivered from those dreadful vermin.
Sparta, Mount Pleasant, March 27, 1803.
We hereby certify, that our daughter, about 4 years of age, has been very unwell and in a bad state of health for the last two years. We always suspected that she had worms, and had given her several worm medicines, without any good effect, so that we despaired raising her till of late. Hearing of some surprising cures being performed by Atkinson's worm destroying Lozenges, we purchased a packet of them, and administered them according to the directions. The first dose brought away only one worm, and with it a quantity of slimy, offensive matter; the second brought away four monstrous thick worms nearly half a yard in length; and the third dose, a large quantity of a slimy, offensive matter. The vomiting and purging, with which she was frequently troubled have ceased—her appetite has become regular, and has over since enjoyed a perfect state of health, for which we are entirely indebted to this excellent medicine.
DR. BARDWELL'S
Re-animating Solar Tincture, or Pabulum of Life. Of the cure of Consumption and Asthma, Disorders in the Stomach and Bowels, Convulsions, Cholic and Di-sentery.
Cautious in investigation, and attentive enquiry into the nature and laws of the animal economy, having long confirmed an opinion in the mind of the inventor, that all the maladies abovementioned, derive their origin from the same cause, indirect debility, or consequent weakness, the analogy of their source, by a natural inference suggested the idea of their removal by the same means; the result was the discovery of the Re-animating Solar Tincture, which after having been employed in thousands of instances, with the most unexampled and astonishing success, has obtained the warmest approbation of characters of the first respectability, both in and out of the profession; the proprietors can confidently recommend as one of the most certain, efficacious, and pleasant remedies ever discovered by man or offered to the world.
Price 1 dollar, and 1 dollar 50 cents per bottle. The large bottle contains nearly two of the small. Copious Directions for their use are sealed up with each bottle.
Dr. Stoughton's Cordial Bitters, faithfully prepared at the original warehouse, London.
This incomparable medicine has stood the test of universal approbation in Europe for near an hundred years, in the cure and prevention of,
 Loss of appetite, bad digestion, windy cholic, urisets, hysterical vapours, faintness and trembling, ague and fever, depressed spirits, foul breath, worms in children, scurvy, obstructions or stoppages, bilious fevers, sick seas, &c. &c. 
These Bitters being now generally used in taverns and public places, and universally acknowledged by all who have tried their effects, to be far superior to the compositions formerly imposed in imitation thereof; the proprietor has reduced the price to those who purchase largely above fifty per cent. Directions will be pasted on the Bottles, and which will be also sealed, in order to detect counterfeits and upstart pretenders, who will all tell you, they make the genuine Stoughton's Bitters; and in order to impose their trash on the public, they sometimes copy a part of the true advertisement and directions.
Specific Drops for Deafness.
FOR many years these drops have been used with amazing success, in DEAFNESS & HARDNESS of HEARING. Those who are unacquainted with the great relief afforded by this valuable medicine, are earnestly recommended to a trial. Few are the cases in which it has not been of great service, and very often produced a complete cure.
Copious directions for the use of the Specific Drops for Deafness are sealed up with each bottle. Price one dollar.
To be Rented,
(and possession given immediately) The Dwelling House adjoining my Dwelling, and nearly opposite Wm. Newton's, last occupied by Capt. Waites.
Also,
The House opposite James Lawra-son's in St. Asaph Street, largely occupied by Wm. De Rose. Apply to
Philip Wanton. 4th mo. 7th.
Just Published
By T. & J. SWORDS, of New York, and for Sale by JAMES KENNEDY, Sen. at the Alexandria Library. Price in Boards, One Dollar seventy-five cents.
The Temple of Nature,
OR, ORIGIN OF SOCIETY, A Poem, with Philosophical Notes, by Erasmus Darwin, M. D. F. R. S. Author of the Botanic Garden, Zoonomia, Phytologia, &c.
The patrons of taste are respectfully informed, that the Temple of Nature is printed in the same style of neatness, and to correspond in size with Swords's edition of the Botanic Garden, and they hope as to correctness and elegance it will not suffer by comparison with any work that has issued from the American press.
Also for Sale as above.
Swords's new editions of Hayley's life of Cowper, and of the Common Prayer in plain and elegant binding.
The Domestic Encyclopedia complete, in five volumes.
Blackstone's Commentaries with notes, by Tucker.
The Medical Repository.
Subscriptions to Birch & Small's edition of Gibbon's History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire; and Maxwell's elegant edition of the works of Shakespeare, both in the press are now taking in as above. These two works are fully expected to be more complete than any former editions, and in point of typographical execution to fully equal any thing ever attempted in the United States.
April 10.
I will sell by PRIVATE SALE,
the STORE and WAREHOUSE at present occupied by Allison and Geiger, situated on the corner of Prince and Fairfax Streets, 55 feet on Fairfax and 68 feet on Prince street; one water LOT on Water street, 42 on water street and extending 290 feet back to Union street, with the liberty of wharfage. The lot on Prince and Fairfax streets, is at present rented to Allison and Geiger for one year from the 1st. Oct. next. 15 feet of the lot on Water street is let to Samuel Harper, for eight years from the 15th of October next. If the above mentioned property is not sold by private bargain, it will be sold on the premises on the 10th day of May, next when the terms will be made known. Please apply to GEORGE M'MUNN. March 26.
Cut Nail Manufactory.
SAMUEL H. DAVIS,
At the Cut Nail manufactory near the lower end of King Street, formerly carried on by Smith and Davis, still continues to Manufacture Cut and Wrought Nails, Flooring Brads, Sprigs, and Saddlers Tacks of every size, and of a superior quality, which he offers to sell as low as can possibly be afforded in this Town. He has likewise on hand Bar Iron and Nail Rods, which he will sell very low.
N. B. All orders from Town and Country Merchants will be duly attended to. March 27.
Just Published, AND FOR SALE BY ROBERT & JOHN GRAY, DON RAPHAEL,
A ROMANCE, By GEORGE WALKER—author of Theodore Cyprian, Vagabond, Three Spaniards, &c. &c. 2 vols. 12 mo. price 2 dollars bound and letter.
And the following new Plays,
 Maid of Bristol, by Jas. Boaden, 25  Chains of the Heart, or the Slave by Choice, by Prince Hoare, 31 1/4  A House to be Sold, by Jas. Cobb, 16 3/4  The Review, or, the Wags of Windsor by George Coleman, author of John Bull, Poor Gentleman, &c. 12 1/2  Mrs. Wiggins, by John Tilllingham, author of the Marriage Promis, Fortune Teller, &c. 12 1/2 
Indian Queen Tavern.
The Subscriber will Sell the unexpired term of his lease of that noted and much frequented TAVERN, known by the name of The Indian Queen, corner of St. Asaph and King Streets. The situation is equal to any in Alexandria, and the business now done is equal, if not superior, to any public house in the Town. There are six years and six months of the lease yet to run. For terms apply on the premises to John Hodgkins. March 2.
WILLIAM OXLEY
Intending to discontinue the retail business will dispose of his stock, consisting of
A Choice Assortment of Goods
laid in upon uncommon low terms. The credit will be made liberal on good security being giving for payment. April 11.
To Let,
(and possession given 1st May) The DWELLING HOUSE occupied by Mr. James McClenaghan, on Prince Street, and opposite Mr. Swann's, together with the vacant ground adjoining it. Apply to
RICKETTS, NEWTON, & Co. Who have for sale, Fresh Clover Seed. April 2.
For Sale or Rent.
A convenient two story brick house, completely finished, situated on Water street, between King and Prince Streets—immediate possession will be given. Apply to JOSEPH RIDDLE. Nov. 30.
LAND FOR SALE.
In pursuance of the last will and testament of Wm. Evans deceased, will be offered for sale to the highest bidder, on the premises, on Friday the 20th of April,
The Plantation whereon he resided,
lying on Little River in Loudoun County, containing about two hundred acres, a proportion of which is well timbered. The cleared land is well watered, and the soil is good. This place affords one of the best situations for a manufactory in the county, it being at the Ford of Little River, where the paved Turnpike Road is to terminate, and which passes nearly through the center of the land. It will be sold subject to the Widow's dower. One fourth of the Purchase money will be required in hand, the balance in three annual payments. Persons desirous of purchasing will be shown the premises on application to
ISRAEL LACEY,
Executor of William Evans, deceased. N. B. At the same time and place will be sold a likely young NEGRO WOMAN and CHILD, on a credit of six months. April 6.
Just received and for Sale
By William Cath, King Street, 44 barrels best brown
TANNERS' OIL.
ALSO, 50 bls. of Mackerel of the first quality. Jan. 26.
PHYSIOGNOTRACE.
I. TODD
Respectfully informs the ladies and gentlemen of Alexandria that he has erected his machine for tracing the outlines of the face, in the Ball Room at the Eagle Tavern, corner of King and Royal Streets, where those who will honor him with their attention may have four correct profiles for 25 cents. Note—Gilt and black Frames may be had at the room. Please to come in at the paved alley leading to Royal Street Jan. 9.
PRINTED DAILY BY
S. SNOWDEN.