The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1808-04-29 00:00:00

National Intelligencer.
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. VIII.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. 1177.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1809.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
VENDUE.
Will be sold at public vendue, on Thursday the 12th of May next, at the dwelling house of the late John Beckley, consisting of the personal property of the deceased, consisting of BEDS, Bedsteads and Furniture, Window Curtains, Tables, Chairs, Sideboard, &c. The sale to commence at 12 o'clock, and will be continued until the whole is sold. For all sums under 20 dollars cash will be required, and for all above that sum a credit will be given of 90 days—the purchasers giving bonds or notes with satisfactory security.
MARY BECKLEY, } Extra. MARY PRINCE. April 27—ep12M.
District of Columbia, County of Washington, ss.
IN the case of Alexander Kedgley, an insolvent debtor, confined in the prison of Washington county for debt, notice is hereby given to the creditors of said Alexander Kedgley, that on Monday the 24th of May next, at the Capitol, in the court room at the hour of 11 o'clock, A. M. the oath prescribed by the act of Congress entitled "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the District of Columbia," will be administered to the said Kedgley, and a trustee appointed, unless sufficient cause be then and there shown to the contrary.
Ordered, that this notice be published in the National Intelligencer twice before the said 24th day of May next.
By order of the Honorable A. B. Duckett, Esq. assistant Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia.
Wm. BRENT, Clk. April 27.—2t.
GOODS STOLEN.
WERE stolen from the store of the subscriber, in F street, 3 pieces of Haberd CRAP, tied up in one bundle; they were taken on Monday evening about dusk. A reward of FIVE DOLLARS will be given to any person who will return them, and no questions asked.
Wm. WARD, second door from Mr. Madison's.
He has just received from Baltimore, and offers for sale, a well chosen assortment of
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES,
and daily expects by the schooner Ann, Capt. Jackson, a further supply, which he offers for sale on low terms for cash.
April 27.—3t.
TO BE LET.
After the 20th June next, THAT elegant, well built two-story BRICK HOUSE, lately the property of Mr. Wm. Woodward, on Pennsylvania Avenue. The stand is well known. Solomon Myers's lease for three years, at the rate of 250 dollars per annum, will expire on that day.—For terms enquire at Robert Underwood's, directly opposite.
April 27—ep12
40 DOLLARS REWARD,
FOR apprehending and bringing home, or the one half for securing in jail so that we get them again, OLIVER & DAVID who run away from the subscriber living in Madison county, Virginia, on the 17th of Feb. last, Oliver, a milking at made fellow, near 6 feet high, about 46 years old, some few grey hairs to be seen about his temples, a little yellow complexioned. David, a large stout made fellow, about 6 feet high, 26 years old, thick lips and full face, in his a brand with the letter G on his right cheek, looks di, h, r, d, y, d, i, s, c, o, v, e, r, a, b, l, e, w, i, t, h, o, u, t, c, l, o, s, e, i, n, s, p, e, c, t, i, o, n; dark complexioned. Said negroes run away last summer, and were apprehended. One was committed to Fairfax jail, and the other was committed to Dumfries jail, and we expect they have gone that way again, aiming for Maryland, and may have provided themselves with a pass and attempt to pass as free people. We do hereby forewarn all masters of vessels and others from taking on board the vessels the said negroes or secreting them any other way under the strictest penalties of the law.
THO. GRAVES, Jun. THEOPHILUS EDDINS.
April 25.—4w
FRESH RAISINS, TEAS, &c.
Now landing from on board the schooner CITIZEN, Capt. Sturges from New York, and for sale by
W. & C. SMITH.
30 boxes fresh Muscatel raisins, 30 chests choice hyson, young hyson, hyson skin and imperial teas, 10 quarter casks Lisbon wine, 11 boxes Prussian fig blue.
Also just received,
10 puncheons well flavored Antigua rum, 10 pipes cognac brandy, 4th proof, and a small supply of excellent fresh nutmegs.
Georgetown, Jan. 15.—wtf
By the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES.
WHEREAS by the act, entitled "An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands situated between the United States Military Tract, and the Connecticut Reserve, and for other purposes," it was enacted, that for the disposal of the lands of the United States lying on the Ohio river, between the Cincinnati and Vincennes district, a Land Office should be established at Jeffersonville. And it was further enacted, that the lands aforesaid, with the exception of certain tracts, therein excepted, be offered for sale to the highest bidder at the place aforesaid, on such day or days, as shall be appointed by a public Proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose, in tracts of the same size, & on the same terms & conditions as are provided for the lands North of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river.
Wherefore, I, Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, in conformity with the provisions of the act before recited, Do hereby declare and make known, that sales shall be held at Jeffersonville in the Indiana Territory for the disposal of the above mentioned lands, to commence on the second Monday of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and continue for and during the six following weeks.
Given under my hand the nineteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and seven. (Signed) TH: JEFFERSON. December 25—wtf
War Department, April 13, 1808. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
THAT separate proposals will be received at the Office of the Secretary for the Department of war, until 12 o'clock, at noon of Monday the 20th of June next, for the supply of all rations that may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of October 1808 inclusive, to the 1st day of June 1810, within the states, territories and districts following, viz:
 1st. At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Fort Wayne, Chicago and in their immediate vicinity, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the Territory of Michigan.  2nd. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the states of Kentucky and Tennessee.  3d. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of Ohio and the Indiana and Louisiana territories, except Fort Wayne and Chicago and their immediate vicinities.  4th. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the Mississippi and Orleans territories. 
Separate proposals will also be received as aforesaid for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of January 1809 inclusive, to the 1st day of June 1810 within the several states following, viz:
 5th. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the district of Maine, and state of New Hampshire.  6th. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Vermont.  7th. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of Massachusetts, the town of Springfield excepted.  8th. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island.  9th. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of New York, Niagara and its dependencies excepted.  10th. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of New Jersey.  11th. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of Pennsylvania.  12th. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the states of Maryland and Delaware.  13th. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of Virginia.  14th. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of North Carolina.  15th. At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of South Carolina.  16th. At Ocmulgee Old Fields, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the limits of the state of Georgia.  17th. Proposals will also be received as aforesaid, for the supply of all rations which may be required by the United 
States, for the troops which are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the town of Springfield in the state of Massachusetts; and for the armorers and other persons employed in the United States Armory at that place, from the 1st day of January 1809 inclusive, to the 1st day of June 1810.
A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whiskey or brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and a half of candles, to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the ration shall be specified; but the U. States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid, as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price of the whole ration. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit and Chicago, for six months in advance; and at each of the other posts on the western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places or posts, to call for, at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper.
It is understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the deprecations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the U. S. shall be paid by the U. S. at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or more persons of credible character, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is understood to be reserved to the U. S. of requiring that none of the supplies, which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed; and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the sea coast, or Indian frontier, not exceeding three months.
H. DEARBORN, Secretary of War. April 15—taw3w
NOTICE.
THE COMMISSIONERS appointed by the act of Congress, entitled "An act authorizing the erection of a BRIDGE over the river POTOMAC, within the District of Columbia," hereby give notice that a meeting of the Stockholders, of the "Washington Bridge Company," agreeably to the directions of the said act, will be held at Stetson's Hotel in the city of Washington, on Monday the 2nd of May, between 10 A. M. and 3 P. M. for the purpose of electing five Directors, a Clerk and a Treasurer, and such other officers, agents, and servants as the said company may think fit to appoint, and for transacting any other business, in pursuance of said act, and appertaining to the nature and objects of the institution of the said Company.
By order of the Commissioners, ROBERT BRENT, Chairman.
FORM OF PROXY.
I hereby empower _____ to give as many votes in my name for the officers of the Washington Bridge Company at the ensuing election as I hold shares, & to transact, during the same, such other business as may be necessary. Given under my hand this _____ day of _____.
One witness.
April 13.
United States District of Columbia, county of Washington, to wit. IN CHANCERY, 9th OCTOBER, 1807. Benjamin Stoddert and John Mason, versus
Thomas Waters Griffith, John R. Livingston, Jonathan Burrell, Goubault & Doorey, James C. Montflore, I. I. Picaud and James Davidson.
THE bill states that the defendant, Thomas Waters Griffith was the agent for the house of Taney and Simond to the French government. That the French government not being able to pay ready money for the said cargo, the balance due thereon from the said government was placed to the credit of the said Griffith, the agent, instead of being placed to the credit of the real owners (Taney and Simond). That the debt so due hath been liquidated under the Louisiana Convention in the said Griffith's name, for the sum of one hundred and ninety thousand, two hundred and seventy francs, French money of the value of 35,675 dollars. That the said
Thomas Waters Griffith, now residing and for several years past having resided in Baltimore city in the state of Maryland, well knowing all the circumstances mentioned in the complainants said bill, and that the debt aforesaid was liquidated in his name in Paris under the Louisiana Convention was in truth and in fact a debt due to the said complainants as the trustees of Francis Lewis, Taney, and Taney and Simond, did execute a writing transferring all the interest of said Griffith in the said debt to the said complainants as trustees aforesaid. That notwithstanding the above circumstances the said Griffith did employ James C. Montflore of Paris to receive for his own account and use the aforesaid debt, which actually belongs to the said complainants as trustees aforesaid; and the said Montflore did actually receive the bills or the ministers of the United States, or the Treasury of the United States in part payment of the said debt in four sets of bills drawn in favor of said Thomas Waters Griffith, and which bills have been fraudulently endorsed by the said Montflore, with a view as the said complainants believe, to defraud them the said complainants, and under a real or pretended power from the said Griffith and as his attorney to the said I. I. Picaud, who endorsed the same over to John R. Livingston, who has endorsed the same over to Jonathan Burrell, cashier of the Bank of Discount and Deposit at New York, who has endorsed them over to James Davidson cashier of the Branch Bank of the United States in the city of Washington who now holds the same for collection. The complainants further state that four other bills for the balance of the aforesaid claim on the French government liquidated in the name of the said Griffith, but actually belonging to said complainants as trustees as aforesaid, have been drawn in favor of Goubault and Doorey as transferees of Thomas Waters Griffith, for thirty thousand francs French money of the value of 5625 dollars, which said four bills have also been sent to the aforesaid James Davidson, and endorsed over to him for collection in the same manner as in the case of the four other bills first herein recited. That all the aforesaid eight bills of exchange drawn by the American minister at Paris on the treasury of the United States under the Louisiana Convention for the debt liquidated in the name of Thomas Waters Griffith, are actually the property of said complainants as trustees aforesaid. The object of the said bill is to save and protect the said complainants from the fraud projected against them on the part of the said Thomas Waters Griffith, and his co-adjutors, and to obtain a writ of injunction directed to all the before-mentioned defendants, &c., and particularly to the said James Davidson enjoining and commanding him from paying over to any person besides the said complainants the money that may be paid by the Treasury of the United States in virtue of the said bills of exchange, and particularly enjoining the said James Davidson from paying the said money arising from the said bills, or parting with the said bills until the further order of this court in the premises.
It is represented by the complainants that the said Thomas W. Griffith, John R. Livingston, Jonathan Burrell, Goubault and Doorey, James C. Montflore, and I. I. Picaud, defendants in this cause all reside out of the district of Columbia and are not within the reach of the process of this court. It is therefore ordered that the complainants cause a copy of this order to be inserted once each week for six months previous to the first Monday in June next in the National Intelligencer, to the intent that the said defendants may have notice of this application and of the object of this bill and to be warned to appear in this court in person or by solicitor on or before the first Monday of June next, to show cause, if any, why a decree shall not pass as prayed.
By order, Wm. BRENT, Ck. December 4—w6m
A LIST OF ACTS
PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TENTH CONGRESS.
An act making farther appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven.
An act allowing an additional compensation to the Secretaries of the Mississippi, Indiana, Louisiana & Michigan territories.
An act to change the name of the district of Biddeford and Pepperellborough, in Massachusetts, to that of Saco.
An act to appropriate money for the providing an additional number of gun-boats.
An act laying an embargo on all ships & vessels in the ports & harbors of the U. S.
An act to extend certain privileges
as therein mentioned to Anthony Boucherie.
An act extending the right of suffrage in the Mississippi territory & for other purposes.
An act supplementary to an act, intitled "An act for fortifying the ports & harbors of the U. S. and for building gun-boats."
An act supplementary to an act intitled "An act laying an embargo on all ships & vessels in the ports and harbors of the U. S."
An act supplemental to an act intitled "An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the U. S. south of the state of Tennessee."
An act to revive and continue in force for a farther time, the first section of an act, intitled "An act farther to protect the commerce & seamen of the U. S."
An act to provide for the payment of certain expenses incurred in the impeachment of Samuel Chase.
An act for the relief of Oliver Evans.
An act to continue in force, for a limited time, an act intitled, "An act continuing for a limited time the salaries of the officers of government, therein mentioned."
An act authorizing the erection of a bridge over the river Potomac, within the district of Columbia.
An act making appropriations for the support of government during the year one thousand eight hundred & eight.
An act to erect a light-house on point Judith, in the state of Rhode Island.
An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the U. S. during the year one thousand eight hundred and eight.
An act to revive and continue certain causes and proceedings in the district court of the district of Columbia.
An act making appropriations for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties.
An act to provide for the payment of certain expenses incurred in the inquiry into the conduct of John Smith, a Senator from Ohio.
An act extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana territory.
An act supplementary to the act, intitled "An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares & merchandise."
An act making farther provision for the disposal of the sections of land heretofore reserved for the future disposition of Congress.
An act making additional compensation to the marshals for the districts of North Carolina and New Jersey.
An act for the relief of Samuel Whiting.
Resolution to authorize the disposition of certain charts of the coast of North Carolina.
An act to allow the importation of old copper, salt-petre, & sulphur, free of duty.
An act making appropriations for the support of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eight.
An act for the relief of Edward Weld, Samuel Beebee, and John Davidson.
An act for extending the terms of credit on revenue bonds in certain cases, & for other purposes.
An act in further addition to an act, intitled "An act to amend the judicial system of the U. S."
An act for procuring an additional number of arms, & for the purchase of salt-petre and sulphur.
An act in addition to the act, intitled "An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States."
An act remitting the duties payable on the importation of a monument to be erected in memory of the officers of the United States navy, who fell during the attack made on the city of Tripoli, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four.
An act granting William Wells the right of pre-emption.
An act for erecting a light-house on the south point of the

Island of Sable, and for placing buoys and beacons in the shoals of the inlet leading to the town of Dartmouth, and near the entrance of Ipswich harbor near Plymouth harbor, before the harbor of Nantucket, and on the island of Tuckanuck, at, or near the entrance of Connecticut river, & near the entrance of Great Egg Harbor river.
An act extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants.
An act to amend the act, entitled "An act establishing circuit courts, and abridging the jurisdiction of the district courts for the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee & Ohio."
An act further to prolong the continuance of the mint at Philadelphia.
An act concerning the sale of the lands of the U. States, and for other purposes.
An act authorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States.
An act authorizing the sale of public arms.
An act to raise, for a limited time, an additional military force.
An act to authorize the transportation of certain documents by mail, free of postage.
An act to revive & continue in force "An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the states of Maryland & Georgia."
An act to continue in force for a further time an act entitled "An act for the more effectual preservation of peace in the ports and harbors of the U. S. & in the waters under their jurisdiction."
An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Barclay, deceased.
An act concerning public contracts.
An act for the establishment of a turnpike company in the county of Alexandria, in the district of Columbia.
An act for the relief of Matthew Smith & Darius Gates, jointly, & Darius Gates, separately.
An act to continue in force an act, entitled "An act to extend jurisdiction in certain cases to state judges & state courts."
An act to authorize the President of the U. States, under certain conditions, to suspend the operation of the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports & harbors of U. S. & the several acts supplementary thereto.
An act making provision for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States.
An act for the relief of Philip Turner.
An act to alter the time for the next meeting of Congress.
An act to establish certain post roads in the states of Georgia and Ohio.
An act concerning invalid pensioners.
An act making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in an appropriation for the support of government during the present year, & making an appropriation for defraying the expenses incident to the valuation of Houses and lands, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States.
An act making appropriations for the support of an additional military force for the year 1808.
An act to make Plymouth in North Carolina a port of entry, to change the name of the district of Nansemond to that of St. Mary's, and to make Augusta, in the district of Maine, a port of delivery.
An act for the relief of George Hunter.
An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the comptroller of the Treasury, in trust, the amount of certain bills drawn by John Armstrong, minister from the United States to the court of France, on the Treasury of the U. States.
An act to authorize and empower the President of the United States to exchange certain lands for other lands more suitable for fortification.
An act to make good a deficit in the appropriation of eighteen hundred and seven, for completing the public buildings, and for other purposes.
An act in addition to the act, entitled "An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States," and the several acts supplementary thereto, and for other purposes.
An act for the relief of Joseph Chase, Jared Gardner and others.
An act supplemental to "An act regulating the grants of lands in the territory of Michigan."
W. N. L. 40 or 50 SHARES WASHINGTON BRIDGE STOCK—for Cash. Apply to
A. LINDO, Broker. Alexandria, April 22—12dM.
WASHINGTON CITY. FRIDAY, APRIL 29. In 421 towns of the state of Massachusetts, the votes for Governor are: For Mr. Sullivan 41,921; For Mr. Gore 39,116; Present majority for Mr. Sullivan 2,805.
More provisions (says a Havana paper) have been shipped from Charleston, to St. Mary's in Georgia, and its neighborhood, since the laying of the embargo than had been for five years preceding, and there is very little doubt of the shipments from Savannah to the same quarter being proportionably equal. All the flour which arrives is immediately bought up and shipped to that quarter. Every vessel that arrives from the West Indies, brings accounts that vessels laden with provisions are daily arriving there from the U. States. St. Mary's and its vicinity have become the deposit of the extraordinary supplies, on account of its being the most convenient to smugglers, who swell the list of these daily arrivals in the West Indies.
New York paper. The schr. Citizen, captain Sturges, arrived at Charleston on the 11th inst. from the city of Washington, with 52 marines on board, under the command of lieuts. Masters and Pinckney, 16 pieces of heavy ordnance and provisions for the United States brig Hornet, capt. Dent.
THE PETITION. Of the London American merchants to Parliament. Humbly sheweth, THAT your petitioners contemplate with the greatest anxiety and apprehension the alarming consequences with which they are threatened from certain orders in council, purporting to be issued "for the protection of the trade and navigation of Great Britain;" but on which, they are induced, after mature consideration, to believe that they must be productive of the most ruinous effects. Your petitioners are duly sensible of the necessity of making every sacrifice of personal interests, to promote the strength and resources of the country in the present extraordinary crisis of public affairs; and if the total change introduced into the whole commercial system of this country, and of the world, by the orders in council, could be conducive to so desirable an object; your petitioners, great as their losses must be, would submit without a murmur; but understanding that these orders are principally, if not wholly, recommended by an opinion, that they will prove beneficial to the commercial interest of this country, they feel it to be their duty, humbly to represent their conviction, that this opinion is founded on error; & that if the prayer of their petition be granted, they shall be able to prove, that they must be productive of the most fatal consequences to the interests, not only of your petitioners, but of the commerce and manufactures of the Empire at large.
Your petitioners will abstain from enforcing, by any details, their apprehension, that these measures are likely to interrupt our peace with the United States of America; our intercourse with which, at all times valuable, is infinitely more so, since we are excluded from the Continent of Europe. To this only remaining branch of our foreign intercourse, we must now look for a demand of our manufactures for many of the most important materials for their support; & for supplies of provisions and naval stores, necessary for our subsistence and defence.
Your petitioners feel assured that they will be able to prove to the satisfaction of your honorable House, that the neutrality of America has been the means of circulating to a large amount, articles of the produce and manufactures of this country, in the dominions of our numerous enemies, to which we have no direct access.
That the annual value of British manufactures exported to the United States, exceeds ten millions sterling; and that as our consumption of the produce of that country falls for short of that amount, the only means of paying us must arise from the consumption of the produce of America in other countries, which the operation of the orders in council must interrupt, and in most instances totally destroy.
That the people of America, even if they remain at peace with us, must by a want of demand for their produce, and by the general distress our
measures must occasion, be disabled from paying their debts to this country, which may fairly be estimated to amount to the enormous sum of twelve millions sterling.
That the neutrality of America, so far from being injurious to the other commercial interests of Great Britain, has promoted materially their prosperity.
That the produce of our colonies in the West Indies, of our Empire in the East, and of our fisheries on the banks of Newfoundland has frequently found a foreign market by this means; and
That by the destruction of the neutrality of the only remaining neutral state, all possibility of intercourse with the rest of the world being removed, trade cannot possibly be benefited, but must necessarily be annihilated.
Your petitioners feeling, as they do most sensibly with their fellow subjects, the pressure of a war in which their commerce has principally been aimed at by the enemy; would scorn to plead their distress in recommendation of measures inconsistent with the honor and substantial interest of their country; but they humbly rely upon the wisdom of the Legislature that this distress shall not be increased by our own errors, and they confidently believe that if they are permitted to illustrate by evidence the facts they here state, & to explain many others which they shall here refrain from enumerating, they cannot fail to establish the conviction with which they are so strongly impressed:
That the orders in council are founded on the most mistaken opinions of the commercial interests of the Empire, and must be particularly fatal to those of your petitioners.
Your petitioners therefore pray that they may be heard by themselves or counsel at the bar of this honorable House, and be permitted to produce evidence in support of the allegations of their petition; or that this honorable House will examine into the nature and extent of their grievances in any mode which may appear advisable, with a view of affording such relief as this hon. House in its wisdom may think proper.
And your petitioners will ever pray.
ADDRESS.
A public meeting of the merchants and inhabitants of Liverpool, interested in the trade to the United States of America, was convened on the 26th of February, for the purpose of concurring in a humble petition to the legislature, praying that "A bill for more effectually carrying into execution certain orders in council, &c. and for granting certain duties of customs, &c." might not be enacted into a law, and that the petitioners might be heard by counsel in support of the allegations in their petition.
At this meeting a petition, the copy of which is annexed, was unanimously agreed to. A committee was also appointed; and, at the request of that committee, we undertook to convey the petition to our representatives in London, and to employ our efforts for the purpose of carrying into effect the wishes of the petitioners.
The petition was presented to the House of Commons on the 3d instant, by major general Gascoyne; but it was not received, in consequence of a usage of the house that no petition against a duty bill shall be received during the session in which it is brought forward. On this, a second petition, of which the copy is also annexed, was prepared; which, it was hoped, it might be consistent with the forms of the house to receive; but the remote situation of the petitioners appearing to render a communication with them impracticable, the existing stage of the bill, this petition was signed by ourselves only; and it was presented to the house on the following day, the 4th instant. We are concerned to add, that further difficulties, arising out of the forms of the house, prevented the reception of the present equally with the former petition, although they had each the support of very able and respectable members on both sides of the house.
Convinced, however, as we are, that under the peculiar circumstances in which this country is placed, a continuance of the relations of amity and commerce with the United States of America is an object of incalculable importance; and, in particular, convinced, that on the revocation or non-revocation of the late orders of council, so far as they impose new restrictions on the commerce and navigation of the United States, the continuance of those relations depends; it is our determination to persevere in our endeavors, according to the best of our abilities, to attain the object for which we were deputed, by every open, honorable and constitutional measure, which it may be deemed advisable for us to pursue.
Should the danger, which we most seriously apprehend as the effect of the orders in council, be apprehended equally by the merchants, manufacturers, and others, in different parts of the kingdom, engaged in the trade to the United States of America, and interested in its consequences; we are of opinion that an explicit, firm and respectful representation of the grounds of their apprehensions, to the legislature, will be received with attention; and as any informalities which have prevented the reception of our petitions will be of course avoided, by omitting all allusion whatever, direct or indirect, either to the bill before the house, or to any matters of revenue, duties or taxes, we have no doubt that very important and beneficial effects will result.
The bill, one of the objects of which is, to carry the orders of council more effectually into execution, is expected to be brought up for the third reading in the commons, next week. One or more additional bills for the same purpose are also intended to be introduced. Petitions may therefore be presented, to either or both houses of parliament. Public notice has been given, on the part of merchants in London engaged in the American trade, of their determination to petition; and time will admit of its being done by those of the outports and manufacturing districts.
On behalf of ourselves, and of those for whom we act, we solemnly disclaim all party views and motives whatsoever, in the conduct of this business. We are actuated solely by the conviction that our dearest interests are at stake, and that the proposed measures, so far from compensating for the ruin of individuals by any increase of the general prosperity, will only involve the rest of the country in one common fate.
WILLIAM RATHBONE. JAMES CROPPER. THOMAS MARTIN. London, 5th March, 1808.
PETITION.
PRESENTED ON THE 3d MARCH, 1808. To the honorable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.
THE PETITION of the undersigned merchants and inhabitants of Liverpool, interested in the trade to the United States of America,
HUMBLY SHEWETH, That your petitioners contemplate with great anxiety the consequences which they apprehend must result if certain clauses of the bill now before parliament "For more effectually carrying into execution certain orders of council made for the protection of the trade and navigation of Great Britain, and granting duties of customs on certain goods exported from Great Britain," should pass into a law.
That your petitioners apprehend one of these consequences will be, that although the government of this country and that of the United States of America have been bound to each other by a treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, prescribing that there shall be firm, inviolable and universal peace, and a true and sincere friendship between them; and although measures have been recently taken, with the professed view of perpetuating the good understanding and friendship happily subsisting between the two countries, and of drawing closer the ties of connection between them; yet the ships of other merchants, sailing in strict conformity with the law of nations, and with the usages upon which they have constantly acted in times of peace as well as of war are not permitted to traverse the ocean, even with the produce of their own soil, and deliver the same in the ports of other countries with which they also maintain the relations of amity and commerce; but such ships are to be compelled, on both the outward and homeward voyage, to deviate from their direct course, enter a British port, and there (as your petitioners conceive) discharge and reload their cargoes, before they are permitted to proceed to the port of their original destination.
That a further and still more distressing consequence will be, that various articles, which may form part of the cargoes thus compulsorily brought into British ports, are to be subjected to duties on the re-exportation of some of them; and the re-exportation of cotton absolutely prohibited—while, in return for these duties and restraints, the owners of such property, subjects of a neutral and independent state, receive no compensation or advantage whatsoever, but, on the contrary, their property will incur much additional risk and expense, and its arrival at the destined market will be greatly, and, in numerous instances, disadvantageously postponed.
That your petitioners apprehend
that, should the proposed measures be adopted, they will be regarded by the subjects and government of the United States of America as an aggression on their rights. That the effect will be not only to confirm and prolong a suspension of our commerce with them, but to produce in succession mutual resentment and retaliations, till at length the horrors of war, in its worst forms, may be excited between two countries, to the inhabitants of which a maintenance of the relations of amity and commerce is an object at all times highly desirable, and at the present time peculiarly important.
That your petitioners are fully impressed with a conviction that the great interests and the just rights of the British empire ought to be the paramount consideration; and that in the present momentous crisis, it is highly important that every person, and every class of persons should cheerfully surrender individual interests whenever that surrender is required by the general good. Retaining, however, the full impression of this sentiment, your petitioners cannot suppress their opinion, that one direct effect of the proposed measures will be, that almost every market beyond the limits of the British dominions will be inaccessible for the sale of our manufactures. That a further effect will be to exclude from almost every port on the continent of Europe the commerce of this country, by means of neutrals, thereby depriving the British merchant and planter of the only means of disposing of the surplus import of our colonial produce. That, during the continuance of a general embargo in America, and of the existing prohibitions to admit any vessel from Britain or her dependencies into the ports of the European continent, the proposed measures, while necessarily tending to increase irritation, must be altogether unavailing. That, hence, so far from promoting, they will counteract the objects for which they were framed; and that if persevered in, the probable consequences to our commerce, our manufactures, and our revenue, will be such as to excite the most serious apprehension and anxiety.
The apprehensions which your petitioners have stated, appear to them to derive some confirmation from the following considerations:
The annual export of British manufactures to the United States of America is estimated to exceed 10,000,000 sterling, and the demand has been for some time past rapidly increasing.
The amount now owing from individuals in the United States of America to the manufacturers and merchants of Great Britain, is estimated to exceed 12,000,000 sterling, which sum, if the intercourse between the two countries be renewed, would be gradually flowing into this country, and thereby enable the British manufacturers and merchants to discharge their own engagements, and to continue their respective concerns in trade.
If on the contrary, all commercial intercourse between the two countries shall continue suspended, that immense sum will be diverted to other purposes, and its ultimate safety be endangered. The consequent disappointment, distress and loss, must be severe, and their effects, far from being confined to manufacturers and merchants only, will fall with oppressive weight on that large portion of our population, to which this trade has hitherto furnished the chief means of employment and support.
Your petitioners trust it is unnecessary for them to detail the alarming defalcation which the loss of this valuable branch of our commerce must produce in the duties on imports and exports, on the tonnage of shipping, on insurance, on stamps, in the income or property tax, and in various other branches of the revenue.
To the preceding considerations, your petitioners are impelled to add some local information, which being intimately connected with their direct interest, they are confident, will be regarded with due attention by Parliament.
The amount of shipping of the U. States of America, which cleared out at the custom house of this port in the year 1807, was 123,525 tons.
The sums expended in port charges, repairs, provisions, and other disbursements for the ships only, amounted to upwards of 150,000.
The various charges on the outward and homeward cargoes of these ships, exclusive of all government duties, amount to a much larger sum, and the whole centers in Liverpool.
Your petitioners trust that this will justify the anxiety they feel on behalf of an intercourse so intimately connected with its commerce and prosperity.
Your petitioners, therefore, from considerations affecting both their immediate interests, and what they hum-

by conceive to be the permanent interests of the empire, pray, that the said clauses in the bill to which the objections of your petitioners apply may not be enacted into a law, and that they may be heard by counsel in support of the allegations in this petition, and your petitioners shall ever pray.
Signed by 394 persons.
MARCH 23.
Imperial Parliament.
HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 22.
Commercial policy of the orders in Council.
The order of the day was then moved and Lord Lauderdale arose to make his promised motion, respecting the result of the operation which the orders in council must have on the general commerce of the country. His lordship took a wide field in arguing this point, but insisted chiefly on the injurious tendency they must have, first and directly on America; 2dly, and indirectly, on ourselves. The orders in council must sink the value of all the articles of American export, and thus disable the U. States from paying the debts they owed to this country. By suspending or annihilating the trade of America, there would be no inlet into the continent for colonial produce. In a word, it was the object and boast of the orders in council to relieve our West India colonies, and to increase our general trade. Now, experience would prove the fact to be, that they would aggravate the embarrassment of our West India planters while they must tend to the detriment of the general commerce of the empire. Besides their operation upon France would be very different indeed from their effects upon the inhabitants of this country. In France it was well known that 16 out of 20 subsisted on agricultural pursuits, while in England 15 out of 20 depended upon their commercial and manufacturing industry. In a word the orders in council might affect the luxury of France; but they must prey upon the very subsistence of G. Britain. His lordship concluded with reading the resolutions, which generally stated the injurious effects of the orders in council, as affecting our external and internal trade, as improving the commercial resources of the enemy, and stating this experiment as highly impolitic, both as a temporary and permanent measure.
Lord Bathurst made a very comprehensive and able reply to all the statements of the noble lord, and proved, by facts, that since 1806 both our exports and the imports of America had considerably decreased, previous to the issue of the orders in council, and that since December last, they had again recovered and increased in the very articles, the demand for which according to the arguments of the noble lord, must have been diminished by the operation of these orders.
Lord King spoke in support of the resolutions of his noble friend.
Lord Grenville went over his former ground, of the ruinous consequences to our commerce, which might result from the orders in council, particularly as they affected America, and which he contended, would be the real cause of the war between the two governments, if war should ultimately prove the consequence of what was now transacting. He did not stick at saying, that the intention of such a measure as the orders in council, was the real cause of the embargo laid on by the U. States; and that such an intention was known to the American government, antecedently to laying on the embargo.
Lord Hawkesbury would not at so late an hour enter again on the repetition of arguments, which had already been adduced in this question; but would content himself with saying, that as far as his information went, the American government knew nothing of the orders in council, when the embargo was laid on in the American ports.
The question was now impatiently called for, and the house divided on the question of receiving Lord Lauderdale's resolution—
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Petitions against the Orders in Council.
On the motion of the chancellor of the Exchequer the house went into a committee, to hear evidence on those petitions, that mode of hearing evidence being most conformable to the general practice of the house; tho' the speaker stated, that it was not uncommon to hear evidence with the speaker in the chair.
On the motion of the chancellor of the Exchequer, the house went into a committee, in which the adjourned
consideration of the petitions against the orders in council was resumed.
The following witnesses were then called in and examined, Mr. Wm. Bell, Mr. Thomas Martin, Mr. Alexander Forester, and Mr. Abraham Mann.
On account of the lateness of the hour, and there being then 5 other witnesses to examine, the further consideration of the question was postponed till to-morrow, when the latter witness was again ordered to be examined.
Adjourned at 12 o'clock.
MARCH 11.
Sir W. Scott maintained the propriety of the orders of council as a general measure. The rights of nations were conventional, or resulting from the law of nature. In either case, they were reciprocal. It was contended that there was a right to attack injustice with injustice. Certainly, the principle of retaliation was a fair principle; but certainly, when the right of attacking the enemy with his own weapons was assumed, the principle of retaliation became a matter of particular discussion and observation. When the right of attacking the enemy with the same weapons he used against us was assumed, he was ready to allow, that the primary provocation to retaliate, made our injustice just. He contended, that our right of self-defence was unlimited. We were at liberty to attack the enemy with the same weapons he attacked us. He contended that the right of self-defence was unlimited. Retaliation and self-defence were the same. The right of self-defence was unlimited. The right & the duty of guarding ourselves was always paramount to all considerations of form. But though he claimed the right of exemption from general principles, when there was a general violation of every principle against us, he allowed that the exemption he claimed ought not to be lightly exercised. Between us and the enemy he allowed every principle of retaliation and hostility was very fair. But when it came to be a question how far neutrals were to be brought in, then it became a question how far neutrals rendered themselves liable by acquiescing in the enemy's decree. He allowed and maintained that this country ought not to follow any trivial deviation of form. But when questions of grave and serious necessity arise upon the assumed power of France to exclude us from all countries in the world, the acquiescence of neutrals was a most material point. With respect to the enemy we were always at liberty to exercise our right of self-defence, but when any hostile step was to be taken against neutrals, it became essential to see that there was conduct to provoke it. The acquiescence of neutrals was to be a principle or warranty to our measures of defence, so far as neutrals were to be affected. He contended that sufficient time was allowed to neutrals to resist the first steps to encroachment upon them. Exemptions to the general restriction, he contended, were bribes to induce a decision against the general principle. A general declaration of blockade against the British Isles could leave no prospect to those whose interest it was to prevent the violation of the blockade. He came now to the application of his general principles. The general principle of the blockade of the British isles was known, and so was the general prohibition of the foreign trade of Britain. The interruption of that trade would of course afford room for a general penalty. He contended that the explanation of gen. Decrees was an acquiescence. The policy of these questions was a matter of mere abstract consideration, and he hoped no exception would be made against them. He hoped they would be looked upon as steps greatly short of what might have been taken. Mr. Madison, in his paper, published an apprehension of greater advantage than was claimed, or intended to be claimed.
Dr. Lawrence did not disagree from the speech of his right hon. friend. It was true that the principle of retaliation was a fair one; but he contended it could be maintained without material sacrifices. He argued at great length against the measure, and particularly against his right hon. friend's speech.
Mr. Stephens in a most able and animated speech, which seemed to make a strong impression on the House, asserted the necessity which called for the orders in council; a necessity, in his opinion, so imperious, that it would have justified measures even of a more extensive nature.
Mr. Ponsonby argued, that the orders were absurd, and incapable of being carried into execution.
MARCH 12. ORDERS IN COUNCIL BILL. Mr. Baring argued at considerable
length against the Orders in Council, in reply to Mr. Stephens in the former night's debate. He took nearly the same view of the subject as is taken in his pamphlet so much spoken of in Parliament, and contended that the operation of these Orders would bring on a war with America, which, as the last war had terminated in its political independence, would in all probability end in the establishment of its commercial independence. The hon. gentleman went into various statements to prove the injurious tendency of the measure, and concluded by expressing a determined hostility against it.
Mr. Rose entered into an elaborate defence of the bill, in the course of which he stated, that so far from our commerce with the continent having lately decreased, during the last nine weeks the exports had exceeded by 100,000l. a week, the exports of the corresponding weeks in 1807.
Mr. Morris argued at considerable length against the bill; and Mr. Hall in favor of it.
The Solicitor General deprecated the accusations which the hon. gentlemen opposite had so lightly, but so freely, thrown out against the character of their country in this transaction; accusations in which, if well founded, they were themselves implicated. To prove this he read passages from the letter of Lord Howick to Mr. Rose, in which the same principles were asserted as those on which the orders of council proceeded. The hon. and learned gentleman then contended, that the principles now so much complained of, had been fully insisted upon by that cabinet, which contained all the morality so much boasted, which was composed of some eminent professional members, and one who had twice filled the Speaker's chair. After dwelling upon this point with great force and effect, he then entered into a detailed argument to show that the orders in council were consistent with the law of nations, and the municipal law of the country, and shewed from the documents on the table, that the late ministers had not held acquiescence on the part of a neutral necessary to retaliation.
Mr. Grattan argued against the orders in council, because many evils had been pointed out as likely to result from their operation, no one advantage, commercial, financial, or military, had been shewn to be the probable consequence. The calamitous catastrophe of a war with America he deprecated most sincerely, because the loss of either would be the loss of the other, and the loss of both would be the accumulated gain of the common enemy of this Empire, and our success, by annihilating the freedom of America, would make the British fleet waft the domination of France across the Atlantic. He was an enemy to the measure, therefore, because by leading to a war with America it would endanger ten millions of our exports, twelve millions of debt in America, and the linen trade of Ireland.
Mr. Banks felt considerable difficulty respecting the course he was to pursue. He thought this country had the right to retaliate against the enemy, but he did not think this measure the best mode of doing so. It was not his wish to give unnecessary delay to any public measure, but he thought that it would be better that this measure should not receive the sanction of the Legislature until some intelligence should be received respecting the state of our relations with America, and the effect that the intelligence of the orders in council would have in that country.
Mr. Wilberforce concurred with his honorable friend in most of the sentiments contained in his speech. From the bottom of his heart he should deplore a war with America, and yet he could not be insensible to the difficulty of the crisis. The measure before the House appeared to be the least of the evils arising out of the present situation of affairs. But the arguments used against the measure seemed to proceed upon a supposition, as if the distresses of our manufacturers would not exist in the same degree if these orders in council had not been resorted to. The measures, such as they are, were forced upon us by the enemy and rendered necessary in order to afford protection to our manufactures, whose ruin was menaced by the exclusion of their produce from the Continent. Whatever might be the effect of this measure upon America, he conjured his Majesty's ministers not to omit any opportunity of conciliating America, if the efforts of the friends to British connection in that country should make an opening. It was necessary to pass the bill now, in order to avoid the character of indecision, for if they were not to pass it, the consequence might be an impression in America, that our councils were divided, and a disposition to raise his tone towards this country.
Lord Henry Petty made a short speech against the measure, and complained of the subsidies to be given to Sweden when the country was so much inconvenienced.
Mr. Canning supported the motion in a long and most able speech, in which he not only refuted the arguments of his opponents, but turned to their refutation and confusion the very papers issued by themselves, and the arguments urged by them in support of these documents. His speech made a most deep impression on the house, and was the theme of general panegyric.
Mr. Whitbread replied, but urged no arguments that have not been repeatedly before the public.
Mr. Rose shortly explained, after which the house divided on the question of the third reading of the bill— Ayes 168—Noes 68—Majority in favor of ministers 100.
Adjourned at half past 6 o'clock this morning.
Mr. Ponsonby, as usual addressed the opposition in the lobby, exhorting them to a fresh attack on the ministers on Monday.
By captain Dony, from Falmouth, Jamaica, the editor of the Mercantile Advertiser has received a file of papers to the 30th of March. Captain D. informs, that provisions of all kinds were very high and scarce in Jamaica. Flour at Kingston, was 25 dollars per barrel.
Flour at St. Croix 40 dollars, and beef and pork very high.
Flour 32 dollars at Trinidad.
LONDON, MARCH 11. Copies of the Subsidiary Treaty with Sweden were last night laid before both Houses of Parliament. The amount of the pecuniary aid stipulated is 101,000l. monthly, making up the sum of 1,200,000l. to be paid within one year from the date of the ratification of the treaty. The contracting parties bind themselves not to make peace, or enter into negotiation with the common enemy, but with mutual consent. There is a separate article, which leaves an opening for a further arrangement, in the event of Sweden being attacked by any of her immediate neighbors.
SPRING GOODS.
THOS. W. PATRO, has just received his new supply of spring goods, which makes his assortment extensive; he has
 Superfine cloths and some cashmeres L do do  Calicoes Italian silks  Shirt and dress buttons Black Persian  Cat gut White and black  Linen and cotton checks Mantua  Capes, playing cards Sarsenets and pealings  Tortoise shell combs Sowing silks  Mock do. do. Leissars, quills  Fine tooth do. White and black kid shoes  Spinning cotton Morocco do.  Sowing do. Leather do. with & without heels  Diaper, Russia duck Men's shoes  Dimities Children's do.  Gingham Flanders sheetings  A handsome assortment of glassware Elegant pianoes  Gloves of great variety Suspenders  Superfine hats Tapes and bobbins  Bandanna handkerchiefs Cambric threads  Linen & cotton do. Gimblets  Madras do. Oil cloths  White and coloured jeans Umrellas  Irish linens Men's and ladies silks stockings  German do. a hand some assortment Cotton do.  Thread and cotton laces Pantaloons do.  Very cheap cambric Children's do.  Book muslin Stuff and durants  India do. and chambrays Coffee mills  Yellow nankeens Penknives  Blue and white do. Knives and forks  Striped do. German scythes  Best needles Garden hoes  Pins, ribbons Weeding do.  Cotton shawls Spades and shovels  Silk do. very hand- Gimblets  Also, the following groceries and liquors. Drawing knives  Madeira wine Powder and Shot  Sherry, Malaga Gun powder  Brandy by the cask or gallon Pins, violin strings  Jamaica spirits Brushes  Gin, cherry bounce Handsome waist-coating  Whisky Children's toys  Claret, porter and Caps. 
T. W. PATRO expects with the first packet from Baltimore, Port wine and Lisbon of the first quality, raisins, filberts, an assortment of nails and augers, all of which he will sell cheap for cash, or to his punctilious customers.
April 29—3t.
COLUMBIA DRAGOONS.
WILL meet on the ground near the jail on Sunday next, precisely at 4 o'clock; punctual attendance is expected. By order,
ALEX. COCHRAN, JUN. Sec. of the Columbia Dragoons. April 29—
A RUNAWAY.
COMMITTED to my custody, a negro man, called LENN, who says he belongs to Ralph Bowman, of Charles County—he appears to be about 22 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, slender made, his clothing is very indifferent—the owner is desired to take him away, or he will be sold for his expenses agreeable to law.
JOHN FLEMING, Sheriff of Montgomery County, Md. April 29—3t.
TO RENT.
AND possession given the 13th June next, that house on Pennsylvania Avenue, the property of the Washington Building Company, at present occupied by Mr. Solomon Myers—it being so well known, it is not deemed necessary to give a peculiar description of it, suffice it to say, it is calculated for an extensive tavern and boarding house—for terms, apply to
Mr. THOMAS HERTY. Sec. to said Company. April 29—3t.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
WHEREAS by the act, entitled, "An act to make provision for the disposal of the Public Lands, situated between the United States Military Tract, and the Connecticut reserve, and for other purposes," it was enacted that for the disposal of the Lands of the United States, situated between the United States Military Tract, and the Connecticut Reserve, a Land Office should be established at such place, as the President of the United States might direct; And it was further enacted, that the lands after said will, the exception of certain tracts therein excepted, be offered for sale to the highest bidder at the place aforesaid, on such day or days, as shall be a public proclamation of the President of the United States be designated for that purpose, in tracts of the same size, and on the same terms and conditions as are provided for the lands North of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river.
Wherefore, J. Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, in conformity with the provisions of the act before recited, Do hereby declare and make known, that sales shall be held at Canton in the state of Ohio, for the disposal of the above mentioned lands, to commence on the second Monday of May, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and continue for and during the six following weeks.
Given under my hand the nineteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight. (Signed) TH: JEFFERSON. December 25—WM
THIS is to give Notice, that the subscriber, of St. Mary's county, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of St. Mary's county, in Maryland, letters testamentary on the personal estate of Mary Jenkins, late of the county aforesaid, 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 25th day of September next, they may otherwise be law excluded from all benefit of the said estate.
Given under my hand this 20th day of March, 1808. ATHANASUS FENWICK, Executor. w6t
CAUTION.
THE subscriber having some time since purchased from Walter Wilcoxen Summers, then of Prince George's, now of Montgomery county, Maryland, a Negro Girl slave, named BECK, for which he paid 200 dollars. Said Summers not being of age at the time his uncle, Thomas Wilcoxen, entered into bond of indemnity, and that his nephew would confirm said sale on his attaining age. Said Summers being now of age, refuses confirming said sale, unless he extorts more money, nay, he offers her for sale, with other Negroes, under false and fraudulent pretences, although he admitted, in the presence of several witnesses, to have received full consideration: This is therefore to caution all those to whom he may apply, to be guarded as to any offers which he may make respecting said slave, being now out of his control. ORLANDO COOK. April 27—3t
RUNAWAY.
WAS committed to the jail of Washington county, district of Columbia, as a runaway on the 11th inst. a black man who calls himself STEPHEN, and says he belongs to Letty Claxton of Montgomery county, Md. and he is about 24 years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, stout made; had on when committed, an old black hat, white kersey jacket, striped kersey pantaloons, coarse linen shirt, old shoes, and no other clothes with him, limbs very much in his right leg. His owner is desired to come and prove him and take him away, or he will be sold for his jail and other expenses as the law directs.
C. TIPPET, Keeper of the jail for Washington Boyd marshal. April 27—w3t

40 DOLLARS REWARD. FOR apprehending and delivering Negro HARRY to the subscriber in the city of Washington, or twenty five dollars for securing said slave so that I get him again. Harry ran off on the 11th day of March 1808, he is about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, well-made, thick lips, light black color, has the wool shaved off the back of the head the size of a dollar, and a scar on the same, and a small wen on the breast; had on when he went off a blue cloth coat, drab color bear skin round jacket (as a speaker) Harry was purchased of Mr. George Cole of Poplar Hill, Saint Mary's county. N. B. Having reason to believe that he was persuaded and aided in his elopement, I offer 50 dollars reward to any person who will prove to conviction in a court of justice the person guilty of such a crime. PETER LENOX. April 16—lawf.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE— THAT the subscriber of St. Mary's hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of Saint Mary's county in Maryland, Letters Testamentary on the personal estate of Wilfred Neale, late of Saint Mary's county, 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 25th day of September next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 20th day of March 1808. HENRY NEALE, Ex'r. March 25—6w
JUST RECEIVED. And for Sale, at J. March's Book-Store, High-street, Geo. Town, An extensive assortment of Johnson's CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Among which are the following: Pity's Gift, price 37 1/2 cents. Sequel to Pity's Gift 37 1/2 Way to Wealth 25 Moral Fables 25 Simple Stories 25 Select Rhymes 37 1/2 Daisy 18 3/4 Prize 2 vols. 50 Chimney Sweeper 18 3/4 Little Family 18 3/4 Letters from London 37 1/2 Toy Shop 12 1/2 Children in the Wood 37 1/2 Anecdotes of the Dog 62 1/2 Medley 12 1/2 ** All the above Books are fine editions, ornamented with fine plates. April 20—3t
ROSS AND WHITTY, HAVE for sale at their store George Town, the following articles just received from Philadelphia, by the schooner Carolina, capt. FLAND, jun. viz. 50 kegs butter; 20 barrels, New Town, Pippin Apples, 10—do. buck wheat flour, 10—do. Cranberries, and 10—do. shell bark hickory nuts. Also a small assignment of very elegant Looking Glasses, Waiters, Trays, polished steel Novel and Tongs, with copper and brass heads, &c. &c. January 9—tf
BURNS AND BEALL. WOOLLEN drapers, men's merchants, and tailors, New-Jersey Avenue, opposite the Secretary of the Navy's, respectfully inform the public that they have commenced business in the above line, where they will endeavor to give satisfaction—they have on hand a fresh supply of the most fashionable goods, suitable for the approaching season, all fresh and of the very best quality. N. B. Regimentals and naval uniforms made in the most elegant and fashionable style with neatness and dispatch. October 22—2w
CHARLES H. VANDER MEERCHT TAYLOR. RESPECTFULLY informs the gentlemen of the district of Columbia and public in general, that he has just received by a late arrival from Philadelphia, a CHOICE ASSORTMENT Of superior Cloths, Cassimeres, single and double milled, superfine Coating, black silk Florentines. Likewise an elegant assortment of Spinettes and rich silk Mol skins for waistcoats with a variety of other articles suitable for the season. Regimentals and Navy Uniforms made in the most elegant and uniform style of fashion. Richard Horwell's celebrated patent parallel suspenders far superior to any hitherto in use can be had on the same terms as at his manufactory. November 27—tf
NOTICE. THE Subscriber being anxious to settle all his business, has sold his entire stock of goods to John Peter; he therefore requests all those indebted to him to call and pay their accounts, (particularly such as are of long standing, as further indulgence cannot be given them). His Books are removed to the counting house of Baker, Rigg, and Co. where all his accounts will be ready for settlement by his assistant Mr. Samuel C. Offut, or ELISHA RIGGS. George Town, March 16—tf
FOR SALE. THE Two story Brick HOUSE, situated on square number 936 in the city of Washington now occupied by Mr. Tunis Craven, as a retail store. The eligibility of this stand for the retail business is excelled by none in this city; being situated on the principal street to the Navy Yard, and very near the Navy Yard Gate. Any person desirous of purchasing the above property may be shown it by applying to the subscriber, who will also make known the terms of sale. H. M. BRENT. Washington city, Dec. 18—wtf
NOTICE. To the Stockholders of the Washington Bridge Company. IN pursuance to an act of Congress, you are called on by the late Commissioners to attend in person or by proxy at Washington the 2d of May next, to elect five Directors, a Treasurer, and Clerk. I take the liberty through this medium to offer myself a candidate as your Clerk. The advantage to the Alexandrians of the clerk residing in Alexandria, as the office is to be kept in Washington, is obvious, and no injury can possibly arise from this arrangement to the Stockholders in the City. It will render unnecessary, in case of transfer, that the persons conveying or receiving the conveyance should repair to the Clerk's Office in the City to have the needful done—true it is, that it may be done by power of Attorney; but the trouble attendant thereon is an inconvenience, independent of the necessity of an agent to effect the transfer; whereas the clerk residing in Alexandria, might be the means of saving that expense and trouble by keeping a transfer book there. I shall be content to receive whatever emolument the service may be deemed worthy of, or as low as any competitor that may be presented for your suffrage. A. LINDO. Alexandria, April 18—tm
IN obedience to the decree of the high Court of Chancery of Maryland, will be sold to the highest bidder, at the premises on the 4th day of May next at 3 o'clock, P. M. all that right, title, and interest of Thomas Clark, deceased, in and to part of a Tract of LAND, called Brock Hall , supposed to contain about one hundred and twenty acres, and part of a Tract of LAND called Beall's Hunting Quarters , supposed to contain about seventy acres, lying in Prince George's county Maryland. The purchaser to give bond with satisfactory security for the payment of the purchase money with interest thereon from the day of sale, payable in fifteen months after said day of sale. All persons having claims against the said Thomas Clark, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same to the Register of the court of Chancery within the vouchers to support them within three months from the said day of sale. JAMES S. MORSELL, Trustee. April 13—3w
A GREAT BARGAIN. JOSEPH WHEATON Broker and Commission Merchant, has put into his hands for sale, at his office in F street near the Bank, a valuable property in the city of Washington, consisting of 645,453 square feet of city LOTS advantageously situated on the most prominent and valuable streets, and near the Navy Yard and Bridge, and to be had on the most reasonable terms of payment. This great bargain is recommended to gentlemen desirous of securing an early fortune, in this truly growing and flourishing city; the permanent residence and seat of the government of the United States. Other city property to be had—Houses and Lots—Enquire as above. All kinds of STOCKS bought and sold. Wanted to Purchase a few MILITARY LAND WARRANTS. Washington city, Dec. 11—tf
NOTICE. PURSUANT to an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at November session, 1806, entitled "An act authorizing the collection of certain ground rents due on lots in the Town of Cumberland, in Allegany county," and a supplement thereto, passed at November session, 1807, Public Notice is hereby given to all persons holding unimproved lots in said town, on which ground rents are now due, that unless the said rents are paid on or before the first day of December next, the said lots will on that day be offered at public sale to the highest bidder, on a credit of 60 days. The sale to be held at Mr. J. Rine's tavern in said town, to commence at ten o'clock, A. M. and continue from day to day, until the whole are sold. THOMAS BEALL, of Saml. March 21—epids
LINDSAY'S NOTICE. THE Subscriber has taken that well calculated house on the Capitol Hill. Late occupied by Mr. Frost formerly by Mr. Steele—Where he intends to open a Tavern on the 24th October. Those gentlemen who may favor him with their Custom may rely on every attention in the Power of the Public's devoted Servant. GEO. W. LINDSAY. N. B.—EIGHT or TEN BOARDERS may be conveniently accommodated. October 12—tf
FAMILY PHYSICIAN. A new and greatly improved Family Physician, entitled "The Planter's and Mariner's Companion." FOR SALE AT R. C. WEIGHTMAN'S Book-store, Washington city. J. MILLIGAN'S George-Town, And KID & Thomas's, Market street Baltimore. March 28—3w
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the subscriber of St. Mary's county, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of St. Mary's county in Maryland Letters Testamentary on the personal estate of of Comund Plowden late of the county aforesaid deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with vouchers thereof to the subscriber, at or before the 25th day of September next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 18th day of March, eighteen hundred & eight. HENRY NEALE, Ex'r. March 25—6w
TUNIS CRAVEN HAS removed his entire stock of DRY GOODS from Alexandria to Washington, and is now opening, at his new Store, between the Marine Garrison and Navy Yard Gate, an assortment equal to any in the District;—among which are, Wood's best London cloths, Do. double milled & plain cassimeres, Bennett's cords and velvets, Constitution Gerrow, hunting, Trafalgar, and silver cords, Velvets, Imperial, Brunswick waistcoating, Silk moleskins do. Toilnets, swansdown do. Plain and figured Marseilles do. Bearskin coatings, Plains, kepers, halfthicks, Rose and duffi blankets, flannels, Superfine green cloth table covers, Calicoes, colored cambrics, Gingham, silk and cotton chambrays, Furniture Chintz, Cambric and jaconet muslins, India and British book do. India mull-mull figured and plain, Plain and figured lenoes, Laced cambrics, Elegant tambooured mulls, Grecian robes and Pelisse dresses, 84 damask and raw silk shawls, Damaske scarfs, Camel's hair and swansdown do. Down scarfs, Long and short lace sleeves, spider & nett sleeves, Extra long and habit kid gloves, Do. do. silk do. Do. do. raw silk do. Cross-barred and plain Mantuas and lute strings, Persians and Medes, Thread and cotton laces, Lace caps and handkerchiefs, Book muslin and leno cap patterns, 44-7-8 Irish linens, Long lawns, linen cambrics, Trish diapers, table-cloths, napkins, Cotton counterpanes, Cambric Dimities, Common do. Furniture do. Ladies' and gentlemen's silk, thread, cotton, worsted, lamb's wool & Angora hose, Gentlemen's pantaloons do. Silk cords and buttons, Ribbons, loss threads, Scarlet and other colored bombazets, Hearth rugs, Russia sheeting, ticklingburg, Osnaburgs, baftas, gurrahs, &c. &c. ALSO, Imperial and young hyson tea of a superior quality in small boxes, to suit families, or by the pound—Also genuine Havana segars. T. C. is determined to sell on the lowest terms. February 3—tf
ENGLISH GOODS. By the Messrs. ADAMS and ST. JOHN from Liverpool. APPLETON & CO. 16, Calvert street, Baltimore, HAVE received their regular supply of Goods, calculated for the present and approaching season: Cambric and common Calicoes, Plain and striped Dimities, Printed Marseilles Vesting, White Jeans, Furniture Chintz, Do. Dimities, London Superfine Broad Cloths, Do. do. Cassimeres, Yorkshire fine cloths and Cassimeres, Patent Nankeens, Grandurells, Cotton Cassimeres, 6-4 and 4-4 Cambric Muslins, Japan, Harlecord and Check, do. Plain and figured Mull do. Leno, Victory, Riddle, &c. do. C. Lored do. do. do. 44 plain book do. Gingham, Silk do. Fattins, Persians and Sarsenets, Bonnet Silks, Silk Gloves, Silk Handkerchiefs, Fancy Shawls, Cotton Umbrellas, Do. Bracees, Do. Laces and Footings, Do. Quiltings, English Kid Gloves, Cotton Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Fringes and Red Lace, Cotton and Linen Checks, Buttons, Birmingham Ware, &c. IN STORE, A few dozen Gentlemen's best BEAVER Hats from Marseilles. These Goods will be sold low for cash or undoubted paper at 60 days. April 8—10t
NOTICE. I AM desirous of Renting the WHARF and WARE-HOUSE, lately occupied by Mr. Griffith Coombe. The wharf is advantageously situated for the reception and sale of Lumber, and the Warehouse well calculated for storage of flour, or any kind of country produce, as well as West India produce. The terms will be reasonable and immediate possession given. Vessels drawing 13 feet water can come to the wharf. ROBERT BRENT. April 18—3w
NOTICE. SUCH of the creditors of the late General Uriah Forrest, deceased, as have claims against his estate prior to the issuing of the commission of Bankruptcy against him, are hereby notified that the Commissioners of Bankruptcy will meet to make a dividend, at Rhode's tavern in the city of Washington, on Monday the 30th day of May next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. when and where they will please to attend in person or by Attorney. JOHN HEWITT, Assignee. City Washington, April 15—wtn
NOTICE. THE Subscriber having recently received a supply of European Garden Seeds, &c. which added to the various sorts sowed by him the last summer, makes his assortment extensive and which are for sale at his Nursery Garden, Eastern Branch and at Dr. Ott's Medicine Store, George town. THEO: HOLT Washington city, Jan. 11—taw
MR. JOSHUA B. BOND'S celebrated running Horse FIRST CONSUL, WILL stand this season, at the subscriber's farm in Prince Georges county, Maryland, about seven miles from Queen Anne, ten from Bladensburg, the same distance from Upper Marlborough, and about sixteen miles from the city of Washington; at Twenty-Five dollars the season, and one dollar to the groom; but Twenty-One dollars will be received in full if sent with the MARES; if the money is not sent with the mares it is requested that notes of hand will be sent at that time, given for Twenty-Six dollars, payable at the expiration of the season, which will commence immediately and end the 1st of August. Good pasture will be furnished gratis, as soon as the grass is good, and in the mean time, hay and corn furnished at the common prices, for the mares according to orders. The utmost care will be taken of the mares, but I will not be answerable for accidents or escapes. Consul is of fine figure, beautiful bright bay, with a small blaze in his face, and his hind ankles white; full 15 and 1-2 hands high. It is expected that the stock from Consul and well bred mares, will not be surpassed by the stock from any horse (scarcely) in America, for the turf, carriage, or saddle; or even from Consul and good looking mares, which have none of the running blood; their colts cannot be other than elegant in a carriage or under the saddle. Such mares as have little, or not any of what is supposed to be running blood in them, may be put to Consul at half price, the money sent with the mares. If it should be preferred by gentlemen living beyond Bladensburg and Upper Marlborough, who wish to breed from Consul, by giving notice to the subscriber, he can be sent one day in each week to each place, from the first day of April, while there will be any mares to send to him from either of those directions; say Bladensburg on Tuesday, and Upper Marlborough on Saturday. ISAAC DUCKETT. March 12, 1808.
PEDIGREE OF FIRST CONSUL. HE was foaled in Philadelphia county, June 1798, got by the noted running horse Flag of Truce, his dam by the imported horse Slender, his granddam from the imported mare Diana, Diana was got by Old Eclipse, Slender was got by King Herod, who produced more runners than any other horse in England, as may be seen by the Racing Calendar, therefore it may in truth be said on the dam side of First Consul, the two great grand sires were the best horses England ever produced. Flag of Truce was bred by colonel Good of Virginia and was esteemed the best turf horse in his day and was the sire to colonel Taylor's famous running horse Leviathan. First Consul has won either 20 or 22 purses from 100l. and 100g. and never started against a horse he did not outrun until the fall he was eight years old—the spring following he won three purses and distanced the field the first day at New Market on Long Island. JOSHUA B. BOND, Philadelphia. March 18—eptM&wtf
OSCAR, By Gabriel, the sire of Poot-Boy. THE beautiful thorough bred running Horse, OSCAR, will stand the present season at Christopher's, adjoining Belle-Air, the seat of Benjamin Ogle, jun. Esq. in Prince George's county, 18 miles from Washington City, on the road leading from thence to Annapolis, at the reduced price of Twenty Dollars a mare, and fifty cents to the Groom, which may be discharged, if paid within the season, by the payment of fifteen dollars, and fifty cents to the Groom. The season will commence on the 15th March, and close on the 20th July. Pasturage for mares gratis. Those who wish their mares fed with grain will send the money for its purchase at the market price. Great care will be taken of the mares; but there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Oscar is a bright bay, a horse of superior style, and of elegant form—beautifully marked, and of uncommonly fine bone and sinew. He is rising eight years old, 15 hands 3 inches high, and now in high health and vigour. His blood is equal to that of any horse in the world—and his performances on the turf not perhaps surpassed by any horse on the continent. He was the first horse that ever beat Mr. Bond's celebrated First Consul. A particular account of that race, and of his performances generally, is published in hand bills, which, with Oscar's pedigree, may be seen with the Groom. Apply to the Manager, at Christopher's. April 20—4t
EDWARD GRAHAM HANDY, CABINET & CHAIR-MAKER. RESPECTFULLY informs his friend and the public in general, that he has commenced business in North G street, next door west of D. Elzey's, and respectfully solicits a portion of their patronage. One or two Apprentices, wanted to the above business. April 15—w3t
FRESH GARDEN SEEDS, &c. THE Subscriber having recently received a supply of European Garden Seeds, &c. which added to the various sorts sowed by him the last summer, makes his assortment extensive and which are for sale at his Nursery Garden, Eastern Branch and at Dr. Ott's Medicine Store, George town. THEO: HOLT Washington city, Jan. 11—taw
30 DOLLARS REWARD, FOR apprehending and safe keeping, black MOSES, about 5 feet 10 inches high, about 25 years old; has lost an upper fore tooth, has a rupture near his groin; when sharply spoken to shows submission, his voice is soft and low, his gestures is such as has enabled him to deceive those who are acquainted with him. I have had him twice since the 30th of July last; once he broke from the stocks; once from five men on the 26th December last. On the day after he broke Wm. Lee's house, and took therefrom all said Lee's wearing apparel, also a saddle and bridle, and a horse from my stable. The horse, saddle and bridle I have recovered, which was taken from him by Mr. Rison who keeps ferry near Dumfries. The principal part of clothing he had with him when he was lodged in Dumfries jail, on 30th December last, consisted of home made cloth, which he took with him on the 1st of January last when he broke jail and cleared himself. I suppose he is lurking about George Town or Alexandria. He called himself a freeman, and passed by the name of John Lucas Roulle. It is likely he will take some other. The above reward and all reasonable charges I will pay to any person who will lodge him in any jail, or deliver him to me in Orange county. JOHN PAYNE, Black Walnut Run. March 18—10
CHEAP SPRING & SUMMER GOODS. THE Subscriber has just received from Baltimore a very handsome assortment of Spring, Summer and Fancy Goods, among which are as follows; viz. A large quantity of handsome calico, 4-4th and 6-4th, and striped cambric muslin, silk shawls, cotton lace, ribbons, white and black saracenet, ladies and gentlemen's silk and cotton hose, kid, beaver and leather gloves, bobbin, tape, thread, silk, needles, pins, fans, Italian crape, elegant crape handkerchiefs, veils and shawls, worked and plain mull, Japan and book muslin, linen cambric, yellow and white canvas, 4-4th and 6-4th gingham, Irish linen, shirting cotton, white and drab jeans, bombazet and bombazine, linen and cotton bed tick, Irish and German sheeting, dimities and furniture dimity, white and brown platillas, diaper, nankeens, cotton and silk umbrellas, kid, spangled and Morocco shoes, &c. &c. Which will be sold very cheap for cash or on credit to his punctilious customers, and no others. P. MAURO, at the corner west of the Seven Buildings. April 18—6t
PUBLIC NOTICE. BY order of the Orphan's Court of Prince George's county, will be sold on Thursday the 21st day of April next, at his late dwelling in Prince George's county, all the personal estate of John Rustin, late of said county, deceased, consisting of Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Plantation Utensils and a variety of other articles too numerous to mention. The terms of sale are six months credit, for all sums above ten dollars; the purchaser giving bond with two good securities bearing interest from the day of sale; for all sums to the amount of ten dollars and under, the cash must be paid. The sale to commence at 12 o'clock. JOHN H. HALL, Adm'r. March 25—3w
PORT WINE. Of very good quality in casks, each one inclosed in a dry case for security against any adulteration, with a small parcel of other excellent Wines in casks and in bottles; among which are Red & White Claret, Dry Lisbon, and very old Brazil Madeira Wine, just received and for sale, by JOHN GOULDING Who has on hand as usual an assortment of choice LIQUORS of most kinds used here. Georgetown, March 25—
BY order of the Orphan's Court of Prince George's county, will be exposed to public sale, on Monday the 9th day of May, in the town of Piscataway, all the Personal property of Electus Edelen, deceased, consisting of Horses, Dry Goods and Groceries, as &c. which will be sold on a credit of nine months, with interest from the day of sale, the purchaser or purchasers giving bond with approved security. The sale to commence at 10 o'clock and continue from day to day till sold. W. EDELEN, Exr. All persons indebted to the above estate are solicited to make immediate payment to the subscriber. W. EDELEN, Exr. April 18—3
District of Columbia, Washington county, to wit: IN CHANCERY, Circuit Court, December term 1807. John Roberts and Samuel G. Griffith, complainants, against Benjamin Bryan—defendant. The report of Jno. G. McDonald the trustee herefore appointed in this cause under the decree of the 16th January last, having been returned, sworn to and filed, and the proceedings thereon approved: It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed, this 15th day of April, 1808, that the said report be ratified and confirmed, unless cause be shown to the contrary on, or before the first Monday of June next; Provided a copy of this order be published in the National Intelligencer, once a week for three successive weeks before said first Monday of June next. The report states that the mortgaged property therein mentioned, was sold for the sum of four hundred and five dollars. By order, WM. BRENT, Clk.