The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1804-10-26 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. IV. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
DCXXXIII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
MEDITERRANEAN PASSPORTS.
Notice is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport if; used to vessels of the United States, that from the eighth day of July next those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport of which she may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange; and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use.
Department of State, 23d of May, 1804.
The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Collectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices.
May 30—2w6m
Lost between the Capitol
and the Branch Bank, a note in my favor, drawn by Richard Marshall, of one thousand dollars, dated the 8th day of this month, payable in sixty days, and negotiable at the Bank in the City of Washington, endorsed by myself, John Hodges of Thomas and Samuel Hamilton. The finder of said note will be pleased to leave it with Samuel Hamilton, and all persons are cautioned against receiving it.
WM. B. BEANES.
October 22, 1804—3t
FALL AND WINTER GOODS.
JOHN COX,
GEORGE TOWN.
HAS received a large and general assortment of Fall and Winter Goods, which he will sell on the very best terms. Amongst which are carpets and carpeting, negro cottons, kerseys and plaids, robe and striped blankets, superfine, second and coarse cloth, and cashmeres, patent Bennett's cord, thicksetts, velvets and fancy cords, coatings, Plushing's baizes, flannel and hockings, swansdown and molekin waistcoatings, gentlemen's fine fur and silk molekin hats, common fur and coarse wool do. children's do. men's and women's silk, cotton, worsted and yarn hose, muffs and tippets, gentlemen and ladies neck and shoulder comforts, book, jacquet, cambric and lace muslin, white and colored embossed cambric, do. silk and muslin shawls and handkerchiefs, fur and molekin do. elegant laces and edgings, silver, silk, and cotton trimmings, silver brogs and shoe roses, American manufactured bed ticken, bed lace, Irish linens and sheeting, Oznaburghs, Tecklenburgh's, brown hempen and rolls, mahogany dressing cases with silk cushions, do. dressing glasses, tea trays and Morocco decanter stands, ladies pic net, silk, cotton, doe skin, kid and beaver gloves and mitts, men's beaver, cotton and felled gloves, Leghorn flats and bonnets, white and black feathers and sprays—crapes pealongs, fatins, lute-strings and farconers, Marcellies and cotton counterpanes, elegant fans, with almost every other article of fancy and substantial goods.
October 1—tawtf
Washington Jockey Club RACES.
ON Tuesday, November 13th, 1804, will be run for over the Washington Course, a JOCKEY CLUB PURSE, the four mile heats, free for any horse, mare or gelding, agreeably to the rules of the Club—carrying weight as follows: an aged horse, 126—six years old, 120—five years old, 112—four years old, 108—and three years old, 86 pounds. Also, a Match, the two mile heats for 2000 dollars.
WEDNESDAY.
A Jockey Club Purse, the three mile heats, free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding day excepted. And a sweep-stake in the evening.
THURSDAY.
An elegant Fifty guinea Silver Cup—eight subscribers.
And a handsome City and Town Purse, free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding days excepted.
The members of the Club are requested to be punctual in meeting at the club room on the evening preceding the races, in order to make proper arrangements for the same, and those who cannot attend will please to forward their dues to the subscriber.
C. M'LAUGHLIN,
Secretary and Treasurer. W. J. C.
N. B. The amount of the purses cannot at this time be ascertained: as they are in part to be raised from tolls at the gates and the rent of booths. C. M'L.
October 3—13N
Wanted Immediately,
A GOOD BLACKSMITH,
Who will meet with generous encouragement and steady employment—Enquire of the Printer, Washington Sept. 28—tf
THEATRE.
Those persons who have subscribed in PLAISTERING for the Theatre are requested without delay to work out their shares, which they have an opportunity of doing by application at the Theatre to Mr. HADFIELD.
FOR SALE.
The following City Lots, ON A LIBERAL TIME, Upon SECURITY, viz.
LOTS—3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, in square No. 919.—Lots 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 938. Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 986. Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19, in square No. 1042. Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13, in square No. 1066.
Apply to CHARLES MINIFIE, Washington City, or to RICHARD C. JONES, at Philadelphia.
Washington, August 3—tf.
N.B. C. M. hath sundry other lots for sale or ground rent (on easy terms to improvers,) and in eligible situations.
This is to give notice, that
the subscriber, of the city of Washington hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, letters testamentary on the personal estate of Mary Williams, late of the City of Washington, widow deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased; are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at or before the 10th day of May next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 6th day of October, 1804.
W. GRANCH.
Monday, October 8th, 1804—1awaw.
500 Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS on the first day of April last a Negro fellow named STROTHER and his wife named PHILLIS absconded from my plantation near Chester court house South Carolina—and as I have reason to suspect that some white person or persons has been accessory in said negroes elopement, or has feloniously carried them away—I hereby offer the above reward upon conviction of any white person concealing or carrying away said negroes.
Forty dollars with all reasonable expences will be paid for lodging said negroes in any jail and giving notice by letter to me at Chester C. H. South Carolina, for that I may get them, or twenty dollars for each; that is, if they are taken by any person after this date—any jailor or other persons giving notice to me of said negroes, that they are lodged in any jail before this date shall be very handsomely rewarded.
STROTHER is 22 or 23 years of age, little yellow complexioned, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, stout made, crooked legged, very large feet, has a low countenance, has large scars on his back occasioned by a severe whipping, by his former overseer in Virginia, for rebellion against him.
PHILLIS is 20 or 22 years old of a middle size trim made, black complexion, has a small lip when she speaks—said negroes formerly belonged to Mr. Edward Carter in Prince William county, state of Virginia where it is supposed (if they have eloped of themselves) they will try to go.
Any letters of information will be very thankfully received.
JOHN JOHNSTON.
Chester C. H. South Carolina,
July 11—1awtt
PATENT WIND-MILL.
THE subscriber having purchased Mr. John Avilhe's interest in a patent Wind-mill for the District of Columbia—Will sell rights to those desirous of erecting them in said district, an inspection of the model at the Secretary's office, will sufficiently prove the utility of this machine in manufacturing grain, plaster of Paris, paints, snuff, &c. and sawing of timber or stone. Further information may be obtained by applying to Mr. Benjamin Perkins, President's square, or near the Seven Buildings to
JOHN M'ILWEE.
September 28—1aw3m
Runaway.
THERE was committed to the jail of Frederick county, on the first instant, a negro man by the name of HARRY, but since committed confesses his name to be BEN, and says he belongs to Benjamin Berry, of Charles county, Maryland: He is about 23 years old, 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, a chunky fellow, his clothing are a striped woollen waistcoat, coarse linen shirt and trowsers, if his owner does not release him he will be sold for his jail fees agreeably to law.
GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff of
Frederick county.
October 3—1aw8t
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
TO THE PEOPLE.
THE DEFENCE.
No. XI.
A just appreciation of the measures of the administration relative to a NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT requires an accurate acquaintance with the antecedent measures of the government, and the motives that dictated them.
To the importance of this object the framers of the constitution could not be insensible. They therefore gave Congress the power to "provide and maintain a Navy." But by this investiture of power they neither determined the time when, or the degree to which it would be expedient to exercise it. These were wisely left to circumstances, according to which the power might or might not be exercised. It has by some been feebly contended that all the powers given ought immediately to be exercised. But the good sense of every sound mind has rejected this idea. It is evident that many of the powers bestowed were intended to provide for cases without the existence of which their exercise would be nugatory or pernicious. Thus the power to impose taxes of any kind to an unlimited amount, however necessary on a great emergency of affairs, was never intended to be exercised in ordinary times. The power to borrow money is of the same contingent nature; as are the powers, to declare war and grant letters of marque and reprisal, and to raise and support armies. Many of the powers conferred were likewise given with the view of averting the evils against which they provided. Thus the knowledge that the United States possessed the power of drawing forth the whole physical resources of the nation, in the shape of taxes, armies and navies, would probably be of itself, in most cases, a protection against the injustice of foreign nations to disturb our internal harmony, or our external commerce. It follows, that the coalition in conferring this power only assumes the fact that circumstances might arise that would authorise its exercise, leaving the time when, and the degree to which it should be exercised to the wisdom of Congress.
When that body first met, under the constitution, the illustrious citizen called to the chief magistracy was cautiously silent on this subject. We may thence infer that neither his own opinion, or those of the public, contemplated a navy as expedient at that time. The fate of Carthage may have been still on their memories, and the not dissimilar career of the great maritime nations of modern times, who fought to protect an extended trade by similar means, was undoubtedly plainly before them. Of these, it is sufficient to name Holland, Spain, the Hanse towns, and the Italian Republics, all of whom have lost either their wealth, their political importance, or their liberties. Nor could they have been unmindful of the awful state of Great Britain, whole vast navy, and extensive conquests, have only served to immerse her still deeper in debt and in war.
However indispensable they may have considered naval armaments to the nations of the old world, they probably contemplated in the situation of the United States a fortunate exemption from many of the causes which there gave birth to them. Possessed of a vast tract of land, which offered the means of remaining an agricultural nation for at least two centuries, they may have believed that the solid prosperity of the citizen would be better promoted by pursuing the track designated by the bountiful hand of nature, than by embarking in the uncertain and hazardous enterprises of trade. They may have perceived an intimate alliance between agriculture and liberty. They may have remarked, that the habits of industry and hardihood it requires, with the plain and regular manners it creates, cherish a love of virtue and of independence, equally indisposed to invade the rights of others, or to suffer the invasion of their own. They undoubtedly perceived that it would be the surest preservative of equality of possession.
They may, on the contrary, have been of opinion, as the experience of the world taught them, that excessive commerce produces numerous vices, subverts equality of wealth, causes effeminacy of manners, and thus hastens the downfal of states.
They may have thought that agricultural pursuits would preserve the peace of the country, by cutting off all
grounds of foreign jealousy, while extensive trade, by giving rise to them, and creating numerous sources of collision, would almost necessarily produce war.
They may have been of the opinion, that however desirable an extended trade to the United States, it became her, in the infancy of her strength, to avoid uselessly exhausting resources, then unavailable, but hereafter destined under a provident management, to be equal to repelling the injustice of any nation on earth.
They may have thought that trade is its best protectress, and that those nations actually pays less for the commodities they consume, who obtain from an armed protection of trade, than those that support the most splendid and expensive establishments.
All these considerations may have induced them, as they certainly have many wise men, to think that the true policy of the United States forbade a governmental interference in commercial enterprises, thus permitting her citizens unmolestedly to pursue their own inclinations, without inviting them, by the allurements of a navy, into a situation, where but a feeble protection could be given. In confirmation that this is the deliberate sentiment entertained by many of our best citizens, we may cite the instructions given in 1800 by the legislature of Virginia to their Senators on the alarming crisis of the public affairs at that period.
"With respect to the Navy," say they, "it may be proper to remind you that whatever be the proposed object of its establishment, or whatever may be the prospect of temporary advantages resulting therefrom, it is demonstrated by the experience of all nations, who have ventured far into naval policy, that such prospect is ultimately delusive; and that a navy has ever in practice been known more as an instrument of power, a source of expense, and an occasion of collisions and wars with other nations, than as an instrument of defence, of economy, or of protection to commerce. Nor is there any nation, in the judgement of the General Assembly, to whose circumstances this remark is more applicable than to the United States."
After this expression of their opinion, the General Assembly instructed the Senators, and request the Representatives of Virginia, "to use their best efforts to prevent any augmentation of the navy, and to promote any proposition for reducing it, as circumstances will permit, within the narrowest limits compatible with the protection of the sea coasts, ports and harbors of the United States, and of consequence a proportional reduction of the taxes."
Other eminent authorities, to the same effect, might be added; but we shall prefer taking a view of the measures of the government, with the avowed grounds on which they were taken, as the clearest illustration of public opinion.
From the year 1789, when the government went into operation, to the year 1794, there was no official recommendation of a navy, or steps taken toward its establishment. So far from this being within the contemplation of the government during that period, we find strong proofs of a contrary sentiment. General Washington, in his address at the opening of the third session of the first Congress on the 8th of December 1790, lays, "The disturbed situation of Europe, and particularly the critical posture of the great maritime powers, whilst it ought to make us more thankful for the general peace and security enjoyed by the United States, reminds us at the same time of the circumspection with which it becomes us to preserve these blessings. It requires also, that we should not overlook the tendency of a war, and even of preparations for a war among the nations most concerned in active commerce with this country, to abridge the means, and thereby at least enhance the price of transporting its valuable productions to proper markets. I recommend it to your serious reflections, how far and in what mode it may be expedient to guard against embarrassments from these contingencies, by such encouragements to our navigation as will render our commerce and agriculture less dependent on foreign bottoms, which may fail us in the very moments most interesting to both of these great objects. Our fisheries, and the transportation of our own produce, offer an abundant means for guarding ourselves against this evil."
In the spirit of this recommendation, while laws were passed for encouraging
our fisheries, and for giving a decided preference to our own over foreign vessels, no law was enacted that had the most remote relation to the establishment of a naval armament.
The silence of the President, at the ensuing session, to recommend any further measures for the protection of trade and navigation, is a strong evidence that the measures already taken were adequate, and were those which, in his preceding communication, he intended to recommend. A similar silence, at the next session thereafter, strengthens still further this impression.
On the 3rd of December, 1793, the President again invites the attention of Congress to the subject. Let it be recollected that war had for some time prevailed between France and England, and other nations with whom we held intimate relations.
"I cannot," says he, "recommend to your notice measures for the fulfilment of our duties to the rest of the world, without again pressing upon you the necessity of placing ourselves in a condition of complete defence, and of exacting from them the fulfilment of their duties towards us. The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion, that, contrary to the order of human events, they will for ever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with which the history of every other nation abounds. There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for war."
The means, by which these desirable ends are to be secured, are stated in the following words, which do not, in the remotest degree, recognise as necessary a naval armament.
"The documents which will be presented to you, will shew the amount, and kinds of arms and military stores now in our magazines and arsenals; and yet an addition even to these supplies cannot with prudence be neglected; as it would leave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring warlike apparatus in the moment of public danger. Nor can such arrangements, with such objects, be exposed to the censure or jealousy of the warmest friends of republican government. They are incapable of abuse in the hands of the militia, who ought to possess a pride in being the depositary of the force of the republic, and may be trained to a degree of energy, equal to every military exigency of the United States. But it is an enquiry which cannot be too solemnly pursued, whether the act, "more effectually to provide for the national defence by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States," has organised them so as to produce their full effect; whether your own experience in the several states has not detected some imperfections in the scheme; and whether a material feature in an improvement of it ought not to be, to afford an opportunity for the study of those branches of the military art, which can scarcely ever be attained by practice alone."
In this earnest language, does our great patriot urge, on his country, as the best security for peace, the necessity of being prepared at all times for war—not by establishing a vast navy, too apt to embroil us in premature hostilities—but by training the militia "to a degree of energy, equal to every military exigency;" and by filling our magazines with arms and military stores.
[Subject to be continued.]
NOTICE.
THE subscriber intends to petition the next General Assembly for an act of insolvency to release him from debts he is unable to pay.
SAMUEL S. HARWOOD.
Montgomery county, Maryland,
October 24—3t
Valuable Land for Sale.
The executors of the last will and testament of Anthony Holmead deceased, will sell at private sale about forty acres of land adjoining the city of Washington at the northern extremity of 20th street west. This land is generally allowed to be one of the handiest situations near the city, having a beautiful prospect of nearly the whole of the city of Washington, Alexandria and George Town, and any person inclined to purchase this valuable property, will be shown the same, and know the terms by application to the subscriber near the premises.
JOHN HOLMEAD.

FOREIGN NEWS.
LONDON, August 22.
Private advices received by the French journals state, that the Russian squadron, consisting of 9 sail of the line and several frigates, had arrived in Copenhagen roads the beginning of this month and landed 10,000 troops. It is added, that another squadron, with 20 000 men, was shortly expected in the same direction: and there is reason to hope, that a considerable portion of the forces of Russia, both military and naval, will ere long be employed in the great work of restoring these ancient barriers, which Gallic perfidy and aggression have nearly laid in ruins. We view the landing of a Russian force in Denmark, however small, as a circumstance highly suspicious to the common cause, and as a prelude to a powerful confederacy, which is to rescue Europe from its present degraded state. A Russian army marched through Denmark for the north of Germany, and co-operating with the forces of that country and of Sweden, will be the signal for all other powers of the continent to assert their rights; and avenge their grievous wrongs; and from these internal efforts aided by the vigorous external impulse of Great Britain, the most happy result may not unreasonably be expected. All the powers of the continent are at length convinced, that it is not by mild or temporising expedients that the necessary bounds are likely to be set to the ambition and rapacity of France; and that the safety and independence of their several states will be soon still more endangered, if they do not, with becoming spirit, interfere to avert the evil with which they every day become more seriously threatened. Such is the intolence with which the rude usurper tyrannizes over the neighbouring states, that, according to a private letter from Hamburg, he caused to be intimated to the Elector of Baden, that the conduct of his son in law, the king of Sweden, in presuming to take notice of the murder of the Duke D'Enghien, was so displeasing to him (the Corsican) that if the Elector allowed his Swedish Majesty to remain in his territories, he might expect an immediate visit from 30,000 French troops. This fact sufficiently accounts for the suddenness of his Majesty's departure from Carlsruhe; but from the subsequent conduct of this spirited young monarch, there is every reason to hope, that his present journey will prove not unbene-ficial to the cause of Europe and human-ity. The Emperor of Russia lately paid a second visit to his fleet at Cron-stadt, when he expressed himself highly gratified with the various naval evolu-tions performed on the occasion. A plot is said to have been discovered for taking off the king of Sweden by poison in his late journey from Bohemia to Munich: but we have not yet learned the particulars. Some of our vessels called at Algiers on the 10th ult. where they were well received. The Dey not only behaved with great civility to the officers, but sent with them an envoy for England, with overtures for settling amicably the differences which have existed between the two powers ever since the dismissal of Mr. Falcon, the British consul. The news of Bonaparte's attempt to poison Louis XVIII caused such indignation at Berlin, that his minister, La Forest, had been insulted, both in the streets and in the theatre, by the public; and whilst at court, and in the casino, every member of the diplomatic corps, with the exception of the Italian and Bavarian ministers, shunned him, and avoided speaking to him. This indig-nation was augmented after the arrival of another courier with information of Bonaparte's commercial agent, Boyer's new endeavor either to bribe over with money, or to intimidate by threats, the Frenchman, Coulon, who discovered this base and atrocious plot. Private letters from Paris, of the 6th inst. that when, after the late trial of Moreau, Georges, and the other pre-tended conspirators, the Temple was emptied of its prisoners, and considerable repairs were made to lodge conveniently the prisoners of rank and consideration, whom the Parisians believed to be the kings of Naples and Spain, as being branches of the Bourbon family. Parliament is further prorogued until the 4th of October.
LONDON, August 24.
Several French regiments, that had formerly served under Moreau, in Ger-many, have, under a pretence of a mu-tinous disposition, been disbanded, and the men in them sent to the colonial de-pots, or incorporated with regiments that had been in Egypt. This despotic act caused a great deal of murmuring; and when Bonaparte, the night after, went to the Theatre at Bologna, he ex-perienced proofs of the public opinion, such as he little expected, and which caused the Theatre to be shut up. The drama of Peter the Great was repre-sented; when the Emperor was an-nounced by his heralds, the pit cried out, No Emperor! No Emperor!
To this Bonaparte paid little attention; nor when, in another part, at the ar-rival of the Prince of the Blood, the pit cried out, "Vive d'Enghien! But when, in the second act, Peter the Great threatens his faithful and brave general Le Fort, with Siberia, "Vive Moreau!" resounded from every part; the Corsi-can left the theatre in a rage, and or-dered the public commissary to surround the house with soldiers, and find out who the emissaries of Pitt were, that disturbed the audience, and insulted him by their disloyal behaviour and seditious acclamations. Every person was, of course, obliged to shew his pass, or give an account of himself.
THE LATE DUKE D'ENGHIEN.
[The following letter, which was the last, we understand, the murdered prince ever wrote, we have trans-lated from that excellent publication, PELTIER'S Ambigu, of yesterday.] Letter from the Duke D'Enghien, to Mr. S. — at Vienna. Ettenheim, electorate of Baden, Feb. 15, 1804.
Sir, Having been informed by General D'Equevilly of the alacrity with which you were kind enough to communicate to your government my anxious desire to be employed during the course of the present war; and of the very particular regard which you have on this occasion testified towards me, I feel much satis-faction in acknowledging how deeply I am affected by that testimony of your kindness towards me; and I could lose no time in returning the sincere expres-sion of gratitude which it is so justly entitled to from me.
It is, therefore, with the fullest con-fidence, that I again repeat, what, no doubt, General D'Equevilly has already informed you of—the complete tor-por and state of inactivity in which I am doomed to languish, while the road to honor lies open to so many others, weighs heavier and heavier upon me every day, and becomes a burthen I am utterly unable to support. I am only anxious to afford your government due proofs of my gratitude and zeal. I presume to hope, that the English will not deem me unworthy to concur with them in combating our implacable ene-mies, and that they will allow me to share their dangers, and likewise come in for a portion of their glory.
The request I make is wholly uncon-nected with any interest growing imme-diately out of the cause of my family—and its sole object is to obtain a post in your family, or some honorable com-mission. It differs so very widely from that report which at another moment was made by those members of my fam-ily who were then resident in England, that I cannot help entertaining a well grounded hope, that it will be attended with a happier result. You will oblige me exceedingly, Sir, by your laying every possible stress upon that difference. It is unquestionably a sacred duty for us to promote to the last extremity, our cause, and to serve our lawful Sove-reign; but it is also a duty very urgent and very dear to my heart, which I feel solicitous to be permitted to perform, in serving my benefactors, and to man-ifest towards them a gratitude which is equally sincere and disinterested. This desire was long agitated my heart, and daily acquires a new degree of ardour.
Let me therefore request, Sir, you will have the goodness confidentially to point out the means by which I may yet attain my object; and you may already rest satisfied of my warmest gratitude, as well as of my very particular esteem and distinguished consideration. L. A. H. DE BOURBON, Duc D'Enghien.
[The following is also extracted from M. Peltier's Ambigu.] Article extracted from "the Bee of the North," of the 10th Aug. 1804.
WARSAW, July 30. The Count de Lisle, who was to quit this city the 26th of this month, did not set out until this day for Grodno. A business which would have astonished the city of Warsaw, if, unfortunately, it had been carried into execution, had delayed the departure of that prince. He has had complete proof that some in-dividuals who now inhabit this city, have sought not only his life, but that of his family and servants. No less than an attempt has been made to poi-son them all with arsenic. The Count de Lisle has received all the proofs, and drawn up a process verbal, and the whole has been put into the hands of justice, which will probably proceed against the offenders, if they have not already es-caped from this city. We have seen here the original protest of Louis XVIII against the thing that has been done, and is doing. With the exception of one trifling omission, it is the same as that we have read in the Moniteur.
August 28. The Russian Charge d'Affairs, M. D'Oubril, remained at Paris on the 10th ult. not having received a definitive an-swer to the ultimatum he had delivered to the Minister for foreign affairs. Im-
mediately after the receipt of the ulti-matum, M. Talleyrand went to the baths of Archambault, leaving his head clerk to transact the business of his de-partment during his absence: but this clerk has not the power of going be-yond the mere ordinary routine; of course M. D'Oubril has not been able to procure an answer from him. It is obviously the wish of the French govern-ment to delay returning the answer re-quired by Russia till the season is too far advanced for any active operations on her part.
All the Russians who had hitherto re-mained at Paris, it appears by letters from Frankfort, have left that city and were returning to their own country. August 27.
The German and Dutch Journals are so much under the influence of the agents of the French government, that they call very little light on the politics of the continent. They seem, however, to apprehend a confederacy among the Northern powers; & while they decline making any comments on the subject, they do not attempt to discredit the ru-mour. For our own part, we are of opinion, that Russia, and the other powers, who bear an hostile mind to-wards the Corsican, will not eagerly rush into the war, but wait until some disaster occurs to France, in the contest between this country and the legions of Bonaparte. If this is their feeling, it ought to be regarded as a negative sup-port; and we should therefore hope, for their own credit and the well-being of Europe, that they would manfully come forward, and by a great and glo-rious co-operation, give facility to peace, in the restoration of the repose of the world.
A private letter from Hamburg, dated Aug. 17, says—"The division of the Russian fleet, consisting of nine ships of the line, and seven frigates, cruising before Bornholm, are those that sailed out at Cronstadt; and the division of seven ships and nine frigates, in Kioge Bay, are those that sailed from Revel a month ago. Report says, that 10,000 land troops are embarked on board the former, but that there are none on board the latter, of which a part is destined to join our squadron in the German Sea, though at and near Revel 30,000 men are still assembled ready to embark."
September 1. No foreign intelligence of importance has reached town since our last. But the aspect of affairs with regard to the enemy's long looked for attempt on this country, becomes every day more inter-esting, as the demonstrations made by his armaments are daily more bold and seriously menacing. Letters from Dover, by yesterday's post, state, that since Fri-day evening last, the enemy's boats have ventured out of Boulogne: and, it is said, that no less than 350 have come out and they are stated to be full of troops. They range themselves in a line close in shore, under the protection of the land batteries.
The Gotterburgh mail received yes-terday brought the following intelli-gence: GOTTENBURG, Aug. 12.
The Prince de Conde, the Duke of Orleans, and another of the French princes, are very soon expected at Riga, where, it is said, that two English fri-gates are to convey them; they will proceed from thence to some convenient place in the Russian dominions to meet Louis the XVIII. leave having been given by the Emperor of Russia for that purpose; their avant couriers passed through Gotterburgh for Riga, on the 10th inst.
Gottenburgh, Aug. 20. A Russian fleet of three sail of the line, and three frigates, is expected immediately to cruise in the North Sea. Orders have been received here to shew them every attention and hospitality, should they at any time make this port.
Letters from Ostend mention, that Bonaparte has given orders to declare all the French ports from Ostend to Havre-de-Grace in a state of siege.
Private letter from Dublin, dated Au-gust 18.
"A most daring attempt was made early on yesterday morning, by the per-sons confined in Kilmainham goal, to break out of prison; they succeeded in destroying two of the inner doors, but on the military being called in from the guard-house opposite, and being station-ed in the galleries, commanding the goal yard, they were constrained to en-ter their several cells with some difficult-y; the principal state prisoners are confined in Kilmainham; owing to the coolness and intrepidity of the Armagh militia, who were on guard, no lives were lost."
VIENNA, July 19.
The emperor has added to his Aus-trian domains the city of Lindau, which he had purchased with a very consid-erable territory, and our government is ac-tually bargaining for Kempten. These arrangements afford room for much spe-
culation in Germany. Some say that it is contrary to the constitution of the empire that one power, by particular treaties, should derange the equilibrium of Germany; which, in thus procuring to itself particular principalities restrains neighbouring possessors from treating in their turn. It may appear too that Germany shall insensibly reduce herself to a small number of powers, and that one day she will be divided between two or three. The true sovereign of Ger-many, however, is the Germanic body. It is contrary to every principle that one power should augment or lessen the num-ber of independent parts without the concurrence of the sovereign.
Lindau is an excellent acquisition; it is situated in the middle of the lake of Constance, and will be very useful to the armed Austrians. Considering this ac-quisition under this point of view, one fears that it may, occasion inquietudes to France, which cannot but increase if, as is said, Austria be upon the point of ac-quiring other possessions, and of conclud-ing treaties to augment those which she has in Swabia. Many are disposed to think that Austria and France have equally gained in distance their recipro-cal frontiers, and that Austria was politi-cally wrong in wishing to approach them.
Moniteur.
According to the military almanac of Russia the force of the empire con-sisted, on the first of January, in the number of the following troops:
Table with 3 columns: Troop Type, Officers, Privates. Rows include Cavalry guards, Infantry, Field cavalry, Troops in garrison, Artillery, Invalids, Irregular troops.
Which form a total of 493,545 indi-viduals carrying arms, not including the invalids.
August 2.
Our Court has for the second time endeavoured to learn the sentiments of the Cabinet of Petersburg, relative to ac-knowledging the title of the new Empe-ror of the French. It has not, however, as yet, received any categorical reply, on that head, in consequence of which, it appears, that considering itself dispens-ed from rendering its own deliberations subordinate to diplomatic formalities, the flyness of which might prove preju-dicial to its interests, a Courier was dis-patched from hence for Paris, a few days since, carrying with him the new credentials for our ambassador, M. le Comte de Cobentzl.
Hitherto the official gazettes of Pe-tersburgh and Vienna bear no title what-ever on the Emperor Napoleon, naming him simply Bonaparte. Fortu-nately it is a name which stands in no want of titles and epithets: and no act of contumely can result from it in the act of diplomacy.
From the Borders of the Maine, Au-gust 4.
Mr. Paget the Minister at Vienna, had, as is well known, received permis-sion from his court to return to his country: he was already preparing to set off to Holstein, where he was to have embarked, when a new courier charged, they say, with important dis-patches, brought him orders to prolong his stay at Vienna. It is remarked that since the arrival of this courier, he had frequent interviews with the Ministry of Vienna, but their object is absolutely unknown to the public.
The news of the retreat of the Count de Haugwitz, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Prussia, is certain: he is replaced by the Baron de Harden-berg.
VERONA, July 21.
His Imperial Majesty has declared the port of Venice a free port, and ex-tended to it all the privileges and immu-nities enjoyed by the harbor of Leg-horn. All trading ships, and all kinds of commodities, will be exempted from any duties, either on entering or leaving the harbor.
LEIPZIG, Aug. 14.
According to recent advices from Warsaw, the pretended poisoning story of the Count of Lisle and his family, is, on farther investigation, discovered a plan by the billiard-table keeper, Cou-lon, framed to obtain money by its dis-covery.
Charles Love, HAS for Sale at his Warehouse on Jefferson street (George Town) a general assortment of WINE & Spirits consisting of London particular Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, Tenerife, Calcabella, and Malaga. Also a large assortment of GROCERIES—All of which he will sell at a fair price and unusually long credit by the pipe or quarter casks. George Town, Oct. 26.—2w
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26.
DIED.
On Tuesday evening last, Mrs. RACHEL MORE, the wife of Benja-min MORE.
In our last paper we inserted an arti-cle, from a Norfolk print, stating that a French frigate lay at Nantz, waiting the arrival of Commissioners from Paris, appointed to repair to the United States relative to St. Domingo.
We have seen a letter dated Nantz, August 28, which states that a French frigate, destined to carry out general Thureau, the minister appointed to the United States was in that port in read-iness to sail. This last information is probably the most correct.
We learn from the following article, taken from a late Paris Paper, that Ba-ron Humboldt and M. Bonpland have lately arrived in France. It is cause of great satisfaction to the friends of science, that these distinguished travel-ers, with their invaluable collection, have thus escaped the perils of the sea.
Bordeaux, 18th Thermidor, (6 Aug.) Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland, whose death has been announced in the newspapers, are just arrived in this city from Philadelphia, after a most happy passage of 39 days. Being engaged for these five years past in an expedition, undertaken at their own expence, for the progress of the science of physics, they have travelled through Orinoco, Amazonia, the kingdom of New Gre-nada, Quito and the rest of Peru, and Mexico. Besides the geological col-lections and the cases of herbs they had already sent to Europe, they have about thirty chests of objects which must be highly interesting, as the countries they come from have been so little visited.
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
The statements received of the issue of this election are very imperfect. There appears to have been a vigorous contest sustained by the federalists in but a few of the districts; and it is probable that the new delegation to Congress will con-sist of seventeen republicans, and one fe-deral member.
Messrs. Findley, Lucas, Rhea, Hanna, Bard, and Gregg are re-elected.
Let the friends to internal improve-ment view the following statement in all its aspects, and dismiss their doubts of the individual as well as national ben-efit of good roads and bridges.
Schuylkill Permanent Bridge.
The following receipts at the Perma-nent Bridge, for the last three weeks, ending on the twenty-fifth of this month, may be relied upon as authentic—and offer the most unequivocal evidence of the increasing value of the Bridge to the Stock, viz.
Table with 3 columns: For the week ending, Dolls., Cents. Rows for October 7, 14, 21.
Including some stage tolls which are paid quarterly 860 65
In the first week the number of foot passengers amounted to 9,079, of which number 5,318 passed the Bridge on Sunday the 7th.
In the second week the number of foot passengers amounted to 9,622, of which 6,307 passed on Sunday the 14th.
In the third week the number of foot passengers amounted to 9,308, of which 6,652 passed on Sunday the 21st.
Poulson's Paper.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 18.
DIED.
On the 16th inst. JOSEPH BRIGGS Esq. Private Secretary to his Excellen-cy the Governor General of Louisiana. By the death of this young man, socie-ty has lost a worthy and useful member; he possessed an improved mind, great integrity of character, and benevolence of disposition.
The following extract of a letter from a gentleman in London to his corre-spondent in Philadelphia, is taken from a print of the former place, dated London, August 17, 1804.
"The strongest measure possible has been taken to testify the disapprobation of Government, in respect to the con-

duct of the Captain of the Cambrian frigate, by sending out Captain Beresford to supersede him; Captain B's commission is signed to day for that purpose—So that you should have every reason to be satisfied with the disposition of our government. Our officers are much mistaken in thinking that they raise their importance, and that of their country, by taking upon themselves to set the laws and neutrality of other countries at defiance."
Philadelphia, October 23.
Capt. Gardiner, who arrived at Marblehead, on the 15th inst. in 41 days from Bilboa, brings intelligence, that the inhabitants of Bilboa, from 15 to 70 years of age, and the inhabitants of Bilbay in general, were in arms, in consequence of an agreement of the Nobles to furnish 4000 troops for the King—Capt. G. informs that he left them in this situation, and that all business is suspended.
NEW YORK, October 22.
Yesterday arrived the armed ship Leander, captain Lewis, in thirty days from Port-au-Prince, with a valuable cargo of coffee.
The Leander left Port-au-Prince in company with the armed brig Dolly, Richard; having been previously cautioned, that one or two large French privateers were expected to lay in wait for them. On the third day after leaving port, a large armed vessel hove in sight, which they expected was one of those privateers, and bore down on the Leander. As it was near night fall, and captain Lewis wished to ascertain whether she was friend or enemy before dark, he fired a gun and hoisted the American colors. No signal was given in reply, but the vessel continued to approach, lighted her lamps, as it became dark, and the crew of the Leander could distinctly hear the commands given with the trumpet, as the weather was remarkably serene, and she was now within a few fathoms distance.
Her intention was supposed to board, and captain Lewis thought it prudent to put her in confusion by commencing the attack. He accordingly poured a broadside of 18 pounders into her, which shattered her bow considerably, cut away her rigging, and killed one man, the captain of the main top. Great confusion ensued, and she fell back, the Leander sided by the Dolly, kept plying her with round shot, and occasionally with grape and langrage, which did great damage to her rigging.
The next morning the came up again and proved to be the Fortuna , British frigate, captain Vanstart, of 44 guns. Her guns the preceding evening had all been in the hold in consequence of the late gale, and as she had not expected an enemy, the vessel was entirely unprepared for action.
The captain at first threatened considerably, but captain Lewis explained the circumstance, and stated to him that had he known his colors, the event would not have taken place. He impressed 26 men from the Leander and Dolly, many of whom were Americans with protections; and obliged captain Lewis to pay 500 dollars for the wife of the man killed, and 1000 dollars to repair the damages, but his conduct was very gentlemanly, considering the irritation of the circumstance.
The Leander is a fine handsome vessel; carries 12 eighteen pound carronades, and two long brass twelves—the latter transferable—She has sixty men.
JEROME BONAPARTE.—Interesting and pleasing intelligence is received by gentlemen from France, respecting Jerome Bonaparte, and his lovely bride. It is confidently reported and credited in the first circles at Paris, that the Emperor forgives his brother Jerome, and takes the youthful couple into favor. This circumstance is said to have been effected or aided by a portrait of the lady, which had been transmitted to the mother of Bonaparte, and being much celebrated for its beauty, was sent for by the Empress Josephine.
NATCHEZ, September 28.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Natchitoches, (L.) to the Editors, dated September 19, 1804.
"A Hunter lately returned from the head of Sabine, who reports, that while he was out he fell in with a party of the Panis Indians, who informed him that they had seen the bodies of three Americans, who had been recently killed, in the Prairie, between the head of Sabine and their villages, on Red River. If it was so, very little doubt is entertained but they were the bodies of three young men that went out into that part of the country, about three months ago, by the names of Knox, Anderson and House, who it is said were in search of silver mines."
"The Ogage Indians are charged with their murders; but it would seem extraordinary that while their chiefs are at Washington city, negotiating a peace with the President, that those they left behind should be committing depre-
dations on the citizens of the United States, in our own territory; but there are those who from some circumstances, are more inclined to believe they were killed by a party of Spanish soldiers, sent out for that purpose; who say, that not long after the departure of Knox, Anderson and House, from Rapids, a Spaniard was there making strict enquiry about them, relative to the object of their voyage, their route, &c. and was heard to say that there either was, or would be, a party sent out from Nagadoches, in pursuit of them."
To the Editor of the Menteur .
New-Orleans, September 12, 1804.
SIR,
The following memorial was addressed by the Ursuline Nuns of this city to the President of the United States. As the memorial itself, together with the President's very friendly and encouraging answer may afford pleasure to the inhabitants of Louisiana, all of whom, doubtless, take a deep interest in the prosperity of this religious establishment, I request you to insert them in your next number both in French and English.
I am, Sir, Your humble serv't. PATRICK WALCH, Vicar General.
To THOMAS JEFFERSON, President of the United States of America.
SIR,
Emboldened by the favorable mention you have been pleased to make of their Order, the Nuns of Ursula at New-Orleans take the liberty of addressing you on a subject highly interesting to their institution. They believe that without any direct application, the treaty of cession and the sense of justice which marks the character of the United States, would have secured to them the property they now possess; but considering it a sacred deposit, they would fail in a duty they deem essential, were they to omit requesting that it may be formally confirmed to them and their successors, and that you may be pleased to communicate this request to the Congress of the United States in such a manner as you may deem proper.
Our request is dictated by no wish of personal gratification or private aggrandizement. Secluded from the world, its luxuries and vanities, wealth, and the enjoyments it brings, would to them have no attraction;—devoted to religious duties, temporal advantages are not the objects of their pursuits; but bound by a solemn obligation to employ their revenue in charitable uses, and their time in the education of youth they cannot but be anxious to know that the property which is to enable them to fulfil the duties will be secured to them.—It is not, therefore, their own cause, but that of the public which they plead. It is the cause of the orphan, of the helpless child, of want, of the many who may be snatched from the paths of vice and infamy under their guidance, and be trained up in the habits of virtue and religion to be happy and useful; of society which will be the burthen of indigent and the depredations of vice; of their country itself, which cannot but acquire honor in fostering and protecting such beneficent purposes.
These considerations they know, Sir, will have weight with you. They anticipate your support, because they deserve it; and they conclude with their ardent wishes for your personal happiness and the prosperity of the country whose affairs you direct.
We have the honor to be with the highest respect, Sir, Your most obedient servants. New-Orleans, June 1804.
To the Soeur Therese de St. Xavier Farjon Superior, and the Nuns of the Order of St. Ursula, at New-Orleans.
I have received, holy sisters, the letter you have written me, wherein you express anxiety for the property vested in your institution by the former governments of Louisiana. The principles of the Constitution and Government of the United States are a sure guarantee to you that it will be preserved to you sacred and inviolate, and that your institution will be permitted to govern itself according to its own voluntary rules without interference from the civil authority. Whatever diversity of shade may appear in the religious opinions of our fellow-citizens, the charitable objects of your institutions cannot be indifferent to any, and its furtherance of the wholesome purposes of society, by training up its younger members in the way they should go, cannot fail to ensure the patronage of the government it is under; be assured it will meet all the protection which my office can give it.
I salute you, holy sisters, with friendship and respect. (Signed) TH. JEFFERSON.
For NORFOLK, The fast sailing Schooner HARRIOT, burthen 70 tons JOHN SUTTON master, will sail in a few days, she has excellent accommodation. For freight or passage apply to the captain on board, at Dunlap and Ervin's wharf in Alexandria. October 26—3t
STRAYED
From the Subscriber living near the Navy Yard, a MILCH COW. Her color is partly a red and black brindle, and in part red and white spotted—She has no horns—has a lump like a wen on the right side of her neck and a slit in her left ear. Whoever will inform me where the said cow is, so that I get her again, I will pay two dollars reward. JOHN MYERS. October 26—3t
In the case of CHARLES NEVITT, an insolvent debtor.
SIX months from and after the first day of November next, is limited, and appointed for the creditors to bring in, and exhibit to the trustee their claims.—It is ordered that notice be published in the National Intelligencer once a month during the said term. By order of the hon. Wm. Cranch, one of the assistant judges of the circuit court of the district of Columbia. URIAH FORREST, Clk.
Agreeable to the above order, the creditors are notified to exhibit their claims to the subscriber. WILLIAM PROUT. Washington, Oct 26—ram6m
Journey-men Shoemakers wanted immediately. TO whom constant employment and liberal wages will be given. For further particulars, enquire at the store of ALEX. MCCORMICK, Capitol-Hill, Washington. October 26—3t
TO RENT,
A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE in the city of Washington, situate on that beautiful ridge north east of the Seven Buildings, on I Street, Lot No. 3, square 106. Under said house is a good dry cellar, on the back of the lot is a stable, and near the premises a pump of most excellent water. Possession given immediately. Enquire of John Little at the Treasury Department or of the subscriber, at Doctor John Beatty's Water Street George Town. Also to rent the House occupied by John P. Van Ness. ABSALOM JOY. October 10—tf
REMOVAL.
The subscriber has removed his store to the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Pic, (a few doors above the Union Tavern) where he has just opened a considerable part of his fall goods, consisting of coarse woollens, and many other substantial and fancy articles. Also by the Ship SALLY just arrived at Baltimore from Liverpool, a quantity of hardware and fine cutlery, ALL of which will be sold at a small advance, for cash, by ELISHA RIGGS.
TO RENT,
The dwelling part of the house, with nine rooms well furnished to accommodate a family, any person keeping a good boarding house, would meet encouragement, for terms apply as above. Georgetown, Oct. 10—ep2w.
FOR SALE.
A Tract or parcel of land, containing one hundred thousand acres, surveyed in tracts of one thousand acres each, lying on the great Satilla and St. Mary's rivers in the counties of Wayne and Telfair in the State of Georgia, distant about 40 miles from the town of St. Mary's and the sea. This land is an undivided moiety of two adjoining tracts containing each 100,000 acres, and is remarkable for its extensive forests of large and valuable yellow pine, and the luxuriant growth of natural grass, affording an inexhaustible range of pasturage for cattle. It is also favorable for the culture of cotton, and lies in a very healthy district of country. A great bargain may be had to a purchaser of the whole undivided moiety; for terms of sale apply to JOHN BECKLEY. City of Washington. Sept. 12—tf.
American Printed goods. Calicoes, Shawls, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. manufactured by the subscribers near Baltimore, and sold at No. 13 Calvert street.
To remove that distrust often felt respecting new undertakings, and so prejudicial to manufacturing attempts in America, they think it proper to observe, that nothing is wanting in the business to enable good artists to perform their work here as well as in Europe. That they have these artists; that two of the partners were bred to the business in a factory of the best repute carried on by their father, & long afterwards by themselves. They trust that while foreign goods are received without a question, an unreasonable suspicion will not prevent their countrymen from giving that trial to their goods, which only can prove their value. Besides a natural doubt, they know that certain interests, national as well as individual, will suggest objections to their undertaking. They have no difficulty in saying, that work of the like kind shall be as well executed here, as in other countries. The colors capable of being fixed, will be found as permanent; the cloths perhaps better substance, and the prices lower than of the imported cottons. M'CULLOCH & LUNNUNY, Baltimore, No. 13 Calvert Street. Sept. 17—tf
Geo. Town, 6 October, 1804.
A NUMBER OF PROPRIETORS in the city of Washington, with views to convert their property into immediate money, have formed the following PLAN of a TONTINE, and have appointed the subscriber their agent for carrying the same into execution.
A list of the lots embarked in this enterprise precedes the plan of the institution. Plats of the city on which these lots will be designated, will be lodged at the several taverns in Washington and George Town, for public inspection; and books will be opened in the city for receiving subscriptions of shares, on the 18th day of December ensuing. Should books be opened elsewhere, due notice will be given thereof. Payment must be made for the shares at the time of subscribing, but if contrary to reasonable expectation, a sufficient number of shares should not be subscribed for the execution of the scheme, the money shall be faithfully returned to the subscribers, and without unnecessary delay.
The Constitution of the Tontine is too plain to need explanatory remarks. The basis of the institution being a rising property rated on a very low scale, the advantages must be greater than could result from a mere money institution. It seems indeed more than probable, that each stockholder who survives the dissolution of the Company, will find the value of his stock augmented twenty fold, or more. If any think that this favours of extravagance, let them advert to the increased value of unimproved property in any of our large towns, during the last 20 years. Let them compare with the prices of the Tontine lots, those of the most indifferent property in any of these towns, now. It will not be contended that any town in the United States had, 20 years ago, fairer prospects of rapid increase, than Washington has at this day. The fact will not be disputed, that the Tontine Lots are generally amongst the most valuable in Washington.
The seat of government for such a country as the United States, cannot long remain an inconsiderable city.—but Washington has an advantage more important than even this. It is the nearest seaport to that country, which may be justly denominated the granary of America.
A plan of this kind formed 20 years ago on the basis of unimproved property in Baltimore or even in Georgetown would have yielded to the surviving adventurers of this day, a profit of forty if not an hundred fold.
In May 1800, Washington contained 3200 inhabitants.—In May 1803, 4350.—The number now exceeds 5000. In the same ratio of progressive increase, the population in 1807 will be 6600—in 1810, 8800—in 1813, 11800—in 1816, 15800—in 1819, 21000—in 1822, 28000—and in 1825, 33000.—Men of sense, who examine the situation of the Tontine lots, will perceive that the whole of them must be in demand for improvement before the population rises to 20,000. From the time, happen when it will, that our commerce shall principally depend upon our own productions, and our own consumption; the increase of the city will be infinitely more rapid. The resources of the country attached to it by nature, are now equal to the maintenance of 60,000 souls in the city. These resources, diverted at this time into many different channels, will be confined almost exclusively to Washington, when Europe shall be at peace, and each maritime nation can carry for itself.
The usual mode of selling lots in our large towns is by the front foot—in Washington the mode is by the square foot. At the highest price in this plan, a lot of 25 feet by 120 will be 240 dollars,—the lowest price, 60 dollars,—in squares where there are alleys, a trifle more.
The whole property leased out at 3s per front foot, would pay more than 6 per cent. interest on the capital. BEN. STODDERT.
The following lots in the city of Washington are those engaged for the Washington Tontine.
Lots number 1 2 in sq 47 lots 1 6 in 43 lots 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 16 17 18 in 67 lots 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 in 68 lots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 in 517 at 2 cents per square foot. Lots 6 19 in 70 lots 15 19 in 85 lots 21 22 in 107 lots 3 4 5 15 in 247 lots 2 3 19 20 21 in 263, lots 6 9 10 11 in 264 lots 21 22 in 231 lots 2 7 9 10 12 13 14 in 317 lots 1 2 8 11 in 318 lots 1 2 7 8 in 319 lots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 in 343 lots 2 3 4 5 6 in 344 lots 15 16 17 18 19 20 in 374 lots 1 4 5 8 9 12 in 403 lots 3 4 5 6 7 in 404 lot 14 in 405 lots 7 10 11 in 427 lots 2 3 4 5 6 in 428 lots 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 in 453 lots 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 in 454 lots 11 13 22 in 455 lots 2 6 8 in 518 lots 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 37 38 39 40 43 44 in 569 lot 2 in 629 lot 8 in
6 31 lots 1 2 3 4 8 11 15 in 874 lot 1 in 821 at 3 cents per square foot. Lots 1 10 11 12 21 in 198 lot 1 in 184 lots 1 2 4 5 6 13 in 286 lots 11 13 in 288 lots 16 19 in 289 lots 6 8 in 320 lot 1 in 409 lot 1 in 455 lots 19 23 in 456 lots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 in 529 lots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 in 530 lots 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 in 534 lots 1 2 3 4 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 in 538 whole sq 555 whole sq 567 lots 1 2 3 4 5 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 in 568 lot 6 in 570 lots 5 6 in 580 lots 2 17 18 in 734 lot 13 in 799 lot 1 in 847 lot 4 in 902 lots 16 18 20 in 978 lot 1 in 994 lots 25 26 27 in 1000 lots 29 30 in 1048 at 4 cents per square foot. Lots 20 21 in 218 lot 6 in 346 lot 6 in 409 lot 18 in 377 lots 18 22 in 490 lots 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 in 951 at 5 cents per square foot. Lots 15 16 18 in 253 lots 6 7 in 255 lot 4 in 256 lot 7 in 223 lot 2 in 294 lot 6 in 322 lot 12 in 378 lots 2 4 14 15 31 33 in 24 lots 1 2 3 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 25 26 27 28 in 36 lots 3 4 in 323 lot 2 in 226 lots 2 3 4 in 456 lots 1 16 in 457 lots 5 6 12 13 14 17 21 in 490 lots 1 8 9 10 11 12 in 533 at 6 cents per square foot. Lots 2 23 24 in 223 lot 1 in 226 lot 11 in 254 lots 8 9 10 11 12 in 252 lot 1 in 257 lots 10 11 in 291 lot 1 in 378 lots 13 14 in 406 lots 10 11 in 407 lots 6 10 in 431 at 7 cents per square foot. Lots 21 23 24 in square 5 lots 7 8 in 6 lots 1 3 in 7 lots 1 2 4 5 6 7 17 18 in square 8 half of square 3 lots 3 12 13 14 15 16 in 17 lots 4 5 6 7 8 in 20 lots 1 2 25 26 in 33 lot 4 in 32 lot 1 2 3 in 29 lots 1 2 6 in 30 lots 1 2 8 10 14 15 in 31 lots 3 4 5 6 7 in 37 lots 3 4 5 14 15 16 in 41 lots 1 2 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 in 42 lots 2 3 4 5 in 43 lots 2 3 6 7 8 in 44 lot 1 2 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 in 55 lots 3 4 9 7 8 in 541 lots 1 2 5 6 7 12 in 56 lots 3 6 in 57 lot 4 in 59 lot 1 in 60 lots 4 5 7 in 61 lots 5 7 8 9 10 in 62 lots 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 25 24 in 77 lots 14 15 16 28 in 78 lots 13 14 15 16 in 79 lots 3 4 10 12 in 80 lots 1 2 21 in 81 lots 6 7 in 84 lots 14 15 20 in 86 lots 3 4 5 in sq. east of 87 lots 10 11 15 in 88 lot 15 in sq. east of 88 lots 7 8 9 15 19 in 102 lots 3 4 in 103 lot 1 in 104 lots 1 5 6 in sq. fourth of 104 lot 3 in 105 lot 6 in 119 lots 6 7 in 120 lots 1 10 in 122 lots 3 7 in 124 whole square 125 whole sq. north of 128 lots 19 20 in 141 lots 1 2 15 in 142 lot 6 in 144 lots 20 23 in 166 lots 3 4 5 in 170 lots 15 22 23 in 172 lot 2 in 200 lots 2 3 4 in 252 lot 6 in 254 lot 4 in 292 and lot 1 in 459—at 8 cents per square foot;
amounting in the whole to 288,354 sq. ft. at 3 cents 5,767 845,330 3 25,359 744,625 4 29,785 83,998 5 4,199 343,862 6 20,631 102,560 7 7,174 1,402,141 8 112,171 3,810,370 205,091 pay 205 000 Dollars.
Upwards of 1200 lots equal to 25 feet by 120. (To be continued.)
NEW Store.
BY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. The subscriber informs the public that he has commenced business in the house formerly occupied by MR. QUINN, F. Street; And has on hand, a general assortment of dry goods, Groceries, wines and spirituous liquors. Porter, Hardware and Cutlery, Queenware, China and Glass, Flour, Corn, and Corn-meal, Oats, and Chopped rye, Candles and Soap by the box, Country whiskey by the barrel, and a few casks of genuine old Irish whiskey, All of which he will sell low for cash or country produce. The HIGHEST prices, given for country produce, CASH FRANCIS CLARK. Aug. 29—wtf.
The Subscriber, being legally and fully authorized, by his assignees, to adjust, and settle finally, all the concerns of his former estate, surrendered under the laws of Pennsylvania, of Maryland, and of the United States, hereby calls on all persons indebted to said estate, to make payment to him; and on all who have claims, to render him their accounts, with notice of what property is still held in pledge for securing payment. JAMES GREENLEAF.
Philadelphia, April 13—wtf Philadelphia April 13—wtf The property of the AUGREGATE FUND lying in or near the river Potomac, consists of a large number of house lots in the city of Washington. A number of handsome brick houses and a few wooden houses in do. Awharf and store on do. Lands on the Eastern Branch, opposite do. Do. on Hunting Creek near Alexandria Do. adjoining Fort Cumberland. Do. about 12 miles from do. The subscriber will in person receive applications on any of the objects of his agency, at Mr. Stetson's hotel, until the 10th inst. after which until further notice, he requests that all applications may be made to capt. Thomas Tingey, William Cranch, esq. or Mr. Samuel Elliott, jun. JAMES GREENLEAF. Washington, June 4—3t wtf

TO RENT, A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE in the city of Washington, situate on that beautiful ridge north east of the Seven Buildings, on I street, Lot No. 3, square 106. Under said house is a good dry cellar, on the back of the lot is a stable, and near the premises a pump of most excellent water. Possession given immediately. Enquire of John Little at the Treasury Department or of the subscriber, at Doctor John Scatry's Water Street George Town. Also to rent the House occupied by John P. Van Nels.  ABSALOM JOY. October 10—tf.
REMOVAL. The subscriber has removed his store to the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Pic, (a few doors above the Union Tavern) where he has just opened a considerable part of his fall goods, consisting of coarse woollens, and many other substantial and fancy articles.—Also by ship SALLY just arrived at Baltimore from Liverpool, a quantity of hardware and fine cutlery, all of which will be sold at a small advance, for cash, by  ELISHA RIGGS.
TO RENT, The dwelling part of the house, with nine rooms well furnished to accommodate a family, any person keeping a good boarding house, would meet encouragement, for terms apply as above. Georgetown, Oct. 10—cp2w.
FOR SALE. A Tract or parcel of land, containing one hundred thousand acres, surveyed in tracts of one thousand acres each, lying on the great Satilla and St. Mary's rivers in the counties of Wayne and Tallahassee in the state of Georgia, distant about 40 miles from the town of St. Mary's and the sea. This land is an undivided moiety of two adjoining tracts containing each 100,000 acres, and is remarkable for its extensive forests of large and valuable yellow pine, and the luxuriant growth of natural grass, affording an inexhaustible range of pasture for cattle. It is also favorable for the culture of cotton, and lies in a very healthy district of country. A great bargain may be had to a purchaser of the whole undivided moiety; for terms of sale apply to  JOHN BECKLEY. City of Washington. Sept. 12—tf.
American Printed goods. Calicoes, Shawls, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. manufactured by the subscribers near Baltimore, and sold at No. 13 Calvert Street.
To remove that distrust often felt respecting new undertakings, and so prejudicial to manufacturing attempts in America, they think it proper to observe, that nothing is wanting in the business to enable good artists to perform their work here as well as in Europe. That they have these artists; that two of the partners were bred to the business in a factory of the best repute carried on by their father, & long afterwards by themselves. They trust that while foreign goods are received without a question, an unreasonable suspicion will not prevent their countrymen from giving that trial to their goods, which only can prove their value. Besides a natural doubt, they know that certain interests, national as well as individual, will suggest objections to their undertaking. They have no difficulty in saying, that work of the like kind shall be as well executed here, as in other countries. The colors capable of being fixed, will be found as permanent; the cloths perhaps better substance, and the prices lower than of the imported cottons.  M'COLLOCH & LUNNUNY, Baltimore, No. 13 Calvert Street. Sept. 17—tf.
City of Washington, Sept. 28, 1804. TAKEN this day from a person who calls himself John Clark Peacock, and who has been committed to jail for horse stealing, a SORREL HORSE with a blaze face and his off hind leg white, is about 14 1-2 hands high, and has been lately worked on both shoulders, also a bay blooded colt of 2 years old last spring, about 11 1-2 hands high and of a handsome shape.  CORN. CONINGHAM. October 1, 1804.
N. B. The above described horse and colt are now in the keeping of Robert Sutton, of said city. The owners, if any, are required to come within ten days from this date, prove property, pay charges, and take them away—otherwise they will be sold to pay expenses. 30t
BARLEY. I will give one dollar per bushel for all good well cleaned barley delivered at my Brew House in Alexandria till the 1st of December 1804.  THOMAS CRUSE. Oct. 10—1m.
Centre House Inn. SOLOMON MEYER has opened the above tavern in 9th street, in the city of Washington, about 30 yards north of Pennsylvania avenue, nearly opposite Messrs. Herford's distillery, and about half way between the Capitol and the President's house, as also between the Theatre and Centre Market; for which he respectfully solicits a share of the public patronage; his charges will be moderate, corresponding with Pennsylvania tavern rates, as to victualing, lodging, liquors, &c. and horse feed as markets will permit—he deems it unnecessary to exaggerate as is usual on such occasions, or to tattle his house by the usual epithets of, large, best, commodious, &c. as probably no occupation has more ready means of recommending and advertising its own convenience than that of tavern-keeping: he must however inform some of his friends, who wish to take boarding for a time, and have their lodging rooms retired or distant from the tavern, that he has rented the house opposite his own buildings, lately built by Mr. Young, which is suitable for that purpose. Washington city, Oct. 24—
(BY AUTHORITY.)  Scheme of a Lottery. To build an ACADEMY in the city of Richmond. Dollars. 1 Prize—first drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, 20,000 1 do. 10,000 1 do. 5,000 5 do. of 1,000 make 5,000 6 do. — 500 — 3,000 10 do. — 200 — 2,000 20 do. — 100 — 2,000 100 do. — 50 — 5,000 250 do. — 30 — 7,500 420 do. — 25 — 10,500 1,500 do. — 20 — 30,000 3,000 do. — 15 — 45,000 1 first drawn ticket after 1,000 having a blank to its number, 250 1 do. after 2,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 3,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 4,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 5,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 6,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 8,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 10,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 12,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 13,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 14,000 do. 1,000 5,325 prizes, 150,000 9,675 blanks, not two to a prize, 15,000 tickets at 10 dollars each, 150,000 N. B. Prizes subject to a deduction of 15 per cent.
This lottery has been authorised by the legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purposes of erecting a seminary of learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view, it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dollars, and 2,500 dollars, in addition, for defraying the expenses attendant on drawing the lottery. Citizens of the first respectability have been selected as trustees, and they have pledged themselves to use their utmost exertions to carry it into effect. The scheme has the advantage of giving to each adventurer a chance for some very large prizes, whilst the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so great as to invite the friends of the intended institution to partake in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The treasurer of the state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay the amount of the prizes to the fortunate adventurers. It is believed that the above considerations will induce rapid sale of tickets, and the drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number shall be sold to authorise it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next. Richmond, March 2—tf Tickets to be had of Robert Pollard Esq. John Brockenbrough, jun. Wm. Price (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, jun. and William Prichard.
HAT MANUFACTURY. The subscriber informs his customers and the public generally that he has discontinued business in the city of Washington, and has opened shop on Bridge street near the Union Tavern—he solicits the continuance of former customers, and hopes that all others who may chuse to call and purchase his manufacture will be amply suited, if neatness and goodness be requisites.  JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—tf
REMOVAL.  THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Has removed to the house above Mr. Rhodes (LATE LOVEL'S) HOTEL, near the President's Square. In addition to the present stock of goods, an Handsome Assortment Is expected immediately. Gentlemen at a distance, by sending a line by post, will be waited upon with all possible expedition. T. C. will pledge himself to execute any order with a taste, expedition and moderation of charge, which shall not be excelled by any. April 16—tf.
100 Dollars Reward. Ran away from the subscriber, a NEGRO man, named JOE, about eighteen years old about five feet ten inches high, well made, he is a mulatto, has straight black hair, which he wears over the forehead, agreeable to the present fashion and generally turned up behind with a comb—he has a long mark on one of his cheeks, which appears more black than his skin—one of his toes next to the great toe, appears to have lost a joint, or part of a joint, by being cut or some other accident, he has been accustomed to wait in the house, is an artful fellow, and will endeavor to pass as a free man, he has a variety of clothes, and had a watch, which it is probable he will be offering for sale.—He went off with a fustian round jacket and pantaloons of fustian or osnabrugs, a new felt hat.—I will give the above reward if taken out of the state of Maryland, or district of Columbia, twenty dollars if within the state of Maryland, and ten dollars if in the district of Columbia, and confined in any jail so that I can get him, and all reasonable charges if brought home. It is known he applied to get a passage in the stage to Baltimore.  DANIEL CARROLL of Dud'tn. Washington, Oct. 15—rm.
CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR. Has received from Philadelphia in addition to his former stock, a handsome assortment of goods, consisting of the best London and Spanish superfine cloths and cassimeres, white and fancy Marfeilles, colored and white James, India nankeens, cotton cassimeres, black silk and satin Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season. N. B. Ladies habits, regiments, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, June 8—tf
WILLIAM WATERS. HAS for sale Wines, Spirituous Liquors, fresh Teas, Particular Green Coffee, first and second quality Sugars, with a variety of other articles in the grocery line—  A L S O, A quantity of Cabinet Ware lately made, among which are several beautiful Side Boards large and Small, Northumberland Dining Tables in sets, oval and plain Card and Tea Tables, Desks, Drawers, and Bedsteads, &c. which will be sold at very moderate prices for cash. George Town, Oct. 27—w2t
Charlotte Hall School. AGREEABLY to public notice, the Trustees of this institution held their annual examination of the pupils on the 4th, 5th, and 6th of September: John A. Stuart, Esq. of Fairhaven, Virginia, at the particular request of the Board presided during this examination and, at the close, in a most elegant and appropriate address, expressed "his highest approbation, his most unbounded astonishment and applause." How grateful to the feelings of the Trustees were the loud plaudits of a numerous assemblage of the parents and guardians of children committed to their care! During the orations there appeared an ecstasy of joy! and, the calm satisfaction which was exhibited in the examination of the different classes in Homer, Lucian, Greek Testament, Cicero, Terence, Virgil, Cæsar, Ovid, Cornelius Nepos, Set. V. Erasmus, Gorderius, and every part of Grammar, gave equal pleasure to the Trustees and to an attentive audience. With what rapture did every spectator anticipate the future benefits which may result to society from the growing success of this rising establishment—with what delight did all behold 128 pupils in perfect health! and not a single child, accidentally detained, was absent from sickness. The Trustees hope, that this public approbation of the performance of the pupils will stimulate them to persevere in the race of glory and will rivet to their youthful minds this important truth, that education will render them useful citizens and good men. The classes will open on the 6th day of October next under the following arrangement,  GEORGE RALPH, A. M. Principal.  OWEN F. MAGRATH. A. M. Vice Principal.  JAMES TOOMY, Assistant in the classical school.  NEALE H. SHAW, English master.  M. DESMANGLES, Professor of the French language. By order of the Board of Trustees,  WM. THOMAS, Chairman. October 5—
TO BE RENTED For one year from the 1st of Nov. next, the dwelling house lately occupied by Mrs. Williams as a boarding house, in New Jersey Avenue, on the Capitol Hill. It has ten good lodging rooms, with a fire place in each, besides a parlour and dining room, and is in every respect well calculated for a boarding house. For terms apply to Doctor May, or to the subscriber,  W. CRANCH. October 6, 1804—cp1 Nov.
LOTTERY No. 111. For the encouragement of Literature.  SCHEME.
  1 Prize of 25,000 dolls. 25,000   1 5,000 5,000   1 2,000 2,000   1 1,000 1,000   18 500 9,000   60 200 12,000   120 100 12,000   200 50 10,000   500 20 10,000   9000 10 90,000   1 first drawn no. 1st day 500   1 5th 1,000   1 10th 1,000   1 15th 1,500   1 20th 1,500   1 25th 2,000   1 30th 2,000   1 35th 2,000   1 40th 1,000   1 45th 1,000   1 50th 500 
9,913 prizes Dolls. 198,000 23,087 blanks. 33,000 tickets at 6 dollars is 198,000 Less than 2 1-2 blanks to a prize. Subject to a deduction of 15 per cent.
The drawing of the above lottery will certainly commence in the city of New York, on the first Tuesday in December next, and will be continued at the rate of 600 tickets each day until completed. The managers having disposed of twenty thousand tickets, to a company of contractors in the city of New York, the remainder will be sold for cash only, by the respective managers, until the first Tuesday in October next. This is the third of five lotteries, directed by an act of the Legislature, passed the 3d of April, 1801, entitled an "act for the encouragement of Literature"—and "an act making further provision for improving the navigation between the villages of Troy and Waterford, and for other purposes."  DAVID GELSTON,  THOMAS STORM,  DANIEL HALE,  PHILIP TEN EYCK,  S. SOUTHWICK, Managers. June 6—*
WILLIAM WATERS. HAS for sale Wines, Spirituous Liquors, fresh Teas, Particular Green Coffee, first and second quality Sugars, with a variety of other articles in the grocery line—  A L S O, A quantity of Cabinet Ware lately made, among which are several beautiful Side Boards large and Small, Northumberland Dining Tables in sets, oval and plain Card and Tea Tables, Desks, Drawers, and Bedsteads, &c. which will be sold at very moderate prices for cash. George Town, Oct. 27—w2t
PROPOSALS BY JOHN DIXON, - For Printing by Subscription, a Periodical Work, to be entitled the  VIRGINIA MAGAZINE, O R, Monthly Miscellany.  CONDITIONS. I. The work to contain 68 pages (Octavo) monthly, of selected miscellaneous prose, and of original prose also, whenever the exertions of the Editor, and his Assistant and the communications of correspondents can supply it. Of improvements and experiments in Agriculture, with which the Editor hopes to be furnished by the Farmers, &c. of this and other states, or to select himself. Of Debates in Congress. Of Foreign and Domestic Intelligence. Of Selected Poetry, and Original too, whenever good can be procured and not other Owise. Marriages and Deaths. Of Prices Current. II. The work to be printed on good paper, and with a neat type. III. The price to Subscribers, to be Five Dollars per annum, one half to be paid on the delivery of the first number, and the balance at the expiration of six months after. IV. The work to be put to press as soon as 300 Subscribers are obtained.  PROSPECTUS. THE utility and rational amusement derivable from well conducted Magazines, probably will not be controverted. They afford an asylum for many fugitive essays, that might otherwise meet with a more rigorous fate than they merit. The brevity of their articles and their longer duration of existence than that of some other periodical publications, hold out an inducement to that indolence, too frequently the attendant of genius, and to those pressed by the cares of business, to devote an hour or two to their own entertainment, and the pleasure and instruction of the community, while the greater variety of subjects they comprise, gives them a decided superiority over several other works, —For they contain something to suit the palate of every one, and may be particularly pleasing and instructive to those who have not the inclination or the leisure to perceive more prolix writings. There are few countries, where a love of reading prevails and science is regarded, in which Magazines are not numerous and well received. And yet the Subscriber thinks he is correct in saying that not one is published in the respectable state of Virginia. He designs to publish one, principally of a Literary complexion, provided he obtains adequate support, in which case he flatters himself, that his exertions will prove fully satisfactory to his patrons. For any reluctance to subscribe, arising from a non-compliance of any persons who may have issued proposals, similar to the foregoing, the subscriber has it only in his power to say that he pledges his honor to comply with his engagement, if supported by the public. September 7.  J. DIXON.
A TEN THOUSAND Dollar Prize, New to be had for the small sum of SIX dollars!  SCHEME OF A Lottery for the use of  THE GERMAN TRINITY CHURCH, IN SIXTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, which will positively commence drawing at the state house in this city the fourth Monday of November next, prizes will be received in payment for such tickets as may remain for sale during the drawing, or the cash advanced for them, on allowing a small discount. From the great proportion already sold, it is expected that the tickets will soon be raised to six dollars and an half.  Dollars.
  1 Prize of 10 thousand dolls. 10,000   1 Three thousand 3,000   1 Two thousand 2,000   1 One thousand 1,000   4 Five hundred 2,000   10 Three hundred 3,000   20 Two hundred 4,000   35 One hundred 3,500   90 Fifty 4,500   100 Twenty 2,000   6000 Seven 42,000   1 1st drawn No. on the 10th day 500   1 15th 500   1 20th 500   1 25th 500   1 30th 500   1 35th 500   1 40th 1,000   1 45th 1,000   1 50th 1,000   1 55th 1,000 
1 First drawn No. on the last day when there shall be only 600 tickets in the wheel, 6,009 6274 Prizes. Dollars, —90,000 Considerably less than two blanks to a prize. The prizes to be paid 30 days after the close of the drawing—Subject to a deduction of 15 per cent.
Tickets for sale by.  GEORGE TAYLOR, Jun. No. 85, South Second Street, or  MATTHEW M'CONNELL, No. 82, Chestnut Street.  ADAM PREMIER, No. 134, South Sixth St.  ANTHY. HOOKLEY, No. Corner of Green and third Streets,  CHARLES BOWMAN, No. 16 Budd Street. Whole tickets—6 dollars Half tickets—3 25 Quarter tickets, 1 75 Prizes in other lotteries received in payment. Letter addressed to either of whom, post-paid and inclosing the cash, will be duly attended to. Aug. 27th—2aw t15N. N. B. Tickets to be had of Edgar Patterson, John March, and John Barnes—at George Town.
MUSIC & Language Teacher. THE Subscriber, lately arrived at Mr. Semmes's tavern No. 6 in Georgetown, informs the lovers of music, that he intends teaching to play on the Pianna Forte, and the Flute, and having finished his studies in Europe under the tuition of the most eminent masters in this art, he flatters himself that he shall render complete satisfaction to those ladies and gentlemen who may favor him with their employment. He also intends to teach the German, French, and Italian languages, where it may here be necessary to inform the public that he has alternately lived in Germany, in France, and in Italy where he had time and opportunity to acquire those languages perfectly. P. MAURO, at Mr. Semmes's tavern No. 6 in Georgetown. October 24—3t
ELISHA RIGGS Has removed his store to the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Pic, a few doors above the Union Tavern, where he has just received a large supply of  SEASONABLE GOODS, which being bought on the best terms, will be sold unusually low for cash, viz. Carpets and carpeting, constitution and bennets corls, velveteens and corduroys, best London cloths and moleskins, London hats and bonnet plush, Prize coatings and baizes, milled and fluting flannels, blankets silk rugs and counterpans, Irish linens and shirting muslins, bed ticking and sheeting, furniture calicoes and dimities, shintzes, huteerings and satins, umbrellas and neck comforts, white and black laces, veils and shades, shoulder comforts, and elegant muslin shawls, India book, mulmul and cambric muslins, plaid silks and picknutt, gloves and mitts, ladies shoes, rich silk and cotton hose, and gloves, spangled fans, white satin and faranett, lace cambricks, and Italian crapes, large camel hair and silk shawls, cords and tassels, and china by the box, lambwool and black worsted hose, ontize silk and cotton ditto, ladies exeter shamy and kid gloves, and many other articles. Georgetown, Oct. 24th—Ms & Fs—8w.
New Shoe Store, OPPOSITE MR. COCHRANE'S.  SAMUEL CLARK, respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Georgetown that he has removed from Alexandria to this place, with his large stock of shoes; consisting of Ladies kid and Morocco slippers all colours, from 1 Dollar to 2 1-4. Womens leather slippers, 53 3/4 to 66 Gentlemens fine shoes and Morocco pumps 11s. 3d. to 15s. Mens common board and unbound shoes. Boys fine and coarse shoes, and children's Morocco bootees. A variety of other shoes too numerous to mention, also, 200 reams wrapping paper, a quantity of suspenders, plated candlesticks, hair combs, trunks, &c. Georgetown, October 24—taw6w
AN ACT Providing for the establishment of semi-annual Fairs. BE it enacted by the First and Second Chambers of the City Council of Washington, That two FAIRS be held in every year within the city of Washington for the sale of all kinds of cattle, goods wares, and merchandise, on the first Wednesday's of May and November, under such regulations as the Mayor may prescribe, of which Fairs he shall make due notification. In virtue of powers vested in me by the above act, I do hereby order and direct that the Fairs authorised thereby shall be held on the public grounds appropriated in the plan of the city of Washington for the Mall on the south side of the Tyber, extending from the Bridge at the Centre Market to the river Potomac, and that the continuance of said Fairs shall be for three days successively, viz. on the first Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in May and November.  ROBERT BRENT, Mayor. September 14—
NOTICE. THE taxable inhabitants of Washington city and others concerned, are hereby informed that the tax on real and personal property, also the tax on Slaves and Dogs for the year 1804, must be paid to the subscriber on or before the 1st day of December next.  WASHINGTON BOYD, Treasurer of Washington city.
Sec. 3: And be it enacted, That every person who shall neglect to pay his tax to the Treasurer on or before the said first day of December in each year, shall in addition thereto pay five per centum, on the amount thereof, provided the same be paid within one month thereafter, and in case the same be not then paid at the rate of three per centum for every month's further delay; it being understood that at the period of payment or satisfaction thereof, any shorter period than a month beyond an entire month shall be reckoned the same as a month; provided that such penalty shall not be demandable from the residents of the county of Washington, or persons having known agents therein, unless the tax on which the same may have accrued shall have been demanded according to the provisions of this act. Oct. 3—cp2m.
TO RENT. TWO or three Three story BRICK HOUSES, in the city of Washington—they are situated on the Capitol Hill, and well calculated for boarding houses, or private families, for terms apply to  DANIEL CARROLL, of Duddington. October 3—3w