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TRIAL OF COL. A. BURR.
Tuesday, August 18.
WM. EATON'S EVIDENCE. (Concluded.)
Questioned by the Prosecution. Mr. Wirt. Was there any conversation between you and the prisoner, in which you spoke of the odium attached to the name of usurper? A. That conversation was excluded by the opinion of the court, as relating to the central project. Mr. Hay. Did you mean to state that the honorable indemnity proposed to you by the prisoner was to be included in this plan? A. I understood it to be included in the permanent rank and emolument to be assigned me; in his full confidence, that he should erect a government of which he was to be the chief.
Cross-questioned. Mr. Martin. Do you recollect when you arrived in Washington? A. I said that I did not recollect particularly. But the principal part of these conversations must have been between the middle of February and the latter end of March. Q. Was there any particular conduct calculated to put an end to Col. Burr's importunities? A. Yes. At some of our last interviews, I laid on his table, a paper containing this toast which I had given to the public:—The United States—Palsy to the brain that should plot to dismember, and leprosy to the hand that will not draw to defend our union. Q. Where was that toast drunk? A. I cannot say. This question was made to me from authority. It was sent with other toasts I had corrected, to a paper at Springfield. I laid this paper on Col. Burr's table, that he might see it; and I have reasons to believe that he did. Q. Was it drunk at any distant place? A. I do not recollect. I thought at first it was Philadelphia; but I had received many hospitalities throughout the union; many of my toasts were published; and in the hurry of passing and repassing, I have completely forgotten.
Mr. Burr. Do you recollect when you left Washington? A. About the 5th or 6th of April? Q. Can you not be certain where this toast was drunk? A. At Washington or at Philadelphia? A. I am certain it was not at Washington, because I gave another there when called upon. Q. Did you say, that all those conversations happened between the middle of February and the last of March. A. No: I did not say so. I said the principal part of these conversations. Q. You say that this toast was printed at Springfield? A. I did. Q. Have you in your possession a paper containing that toast? A. I have not here. Q. You mentioned something about a communication which you made to the President through the post master general. Look at that paper. Is that your signature? A. It is; and I must make a short account of that paper. Mr. E. then mentioned that the notes on the two first pages were drawn up by Mr. Granger, from conversations which had passed between Mr. G. and a Mr. Ely, on certain communications made to Mr. Ely by Mr. Eaton, respecting Col. B's plans—that he had seen Mr. Ely at Northampton, at the session of the court of common pleas, at a time when they had first heard of the building of boats on the Ohio. The notes on the last page in Mr. Granger's writing, and subscribed by himself, were from subsequent conversations between him and Mr. G.
Mr. Burr. You spoke of accounts with the government. Did you or the government demand money? A. They had no demand on me. I demanded of them. Q. Did they state in account a balance against you. A. I expended money for the service of the U. S. when employed in my agency at Tunis; an account of which being presented to the accounting officers of the treasury, they, I was told, had no legal discretion to settle it. As there was no law to authorise this adjustment, I did refer to the Congress of 1803. A committee had reported on my claims favorably as I had supposed. I repaired, however, to the coast of Barbary, and when I returned, found that new difficulties had occurred to an adjustment. Leaving out the sums which I had advanced, the government had a balance against me. The last session of Congress has provided for the payment, and the commissioners have settled it.
Mr. Martin. What balance did you receive? A. That is my concern, sir. Mr. Burr. What was the balance against you? Mr. E. (to the court) is that a proper question, sir?
Mr. Burr. My object is manifest. I wish to shew the bias which has existed on the mind of the witness. Chief Justice saw no objections to the question.
Mr. E. I cannot say to a cent or a dollar; but I have received about 10,000 dollars.
Mr. Burr. When was the money received? A. About March last.
Q. You mentioned Miranda. Where did you understand he was gone to?
A. On the benevolent project of revolutionizing the Spanish provinces.
Q. What part of them? A. Carraccas. I had some reason too to know something of that project; because I too was invited to join in that.
He too was to have been a little Emperor; he might have been troublesome to us; and of course when I asked you what was to be done with him, you observed, "hang him."
Q. Did you understand I was to do all at once; to execute the central project too as well as those in the West?
A. I have no objections to answering that; but it will be nothing in your favor. When Col. B. was speaking of a central revolution, not much was said about his revolution in the west.—Had the other been effected, I doubt much whether you would have been willing to have separated that part.
Q. You spoke of a command.
A. You stated, what I have already mentioned, that you were assured, from the arrangements which you had made, that an army would be ready to appear, when you went to the waters of the western country. I recollect particularly the name of Ephraim Kibby. You asked me about his spirit.—You asserted that his brigade was ready to join you, & that the people also in that country were ready to co-operate. You spoke of your riflemen, your infantry, your cavalry. It was with the same view, you mentioned to me that that man (pointing to Gen. Wilkinson just behind him) was to have been the first to aid you; and from the same views you have perhaps mentioned me.
Mr. Martin objected to the witness interposing his own opinions in this manner.
Mr. Hay. Some allowance is to be made for the feelings of a man of honor.
Mr. Eaton bowing apologised to the court for the warmth of his manner.
Mr. Burr. You spoke of my revolutionizing the western states.
A. Your line was to be the Alleghany mountain. You were certain about Kentucky and Tennessee; but expressed some doubts about Ohio—I well recollect that on account of the reason which you gave; that they were too much of a plodding industrious people to engage in your plans.
Q. How was this business to be effected?
A. I understood that your agents were in the western country; that the commander in chief was ready to co-operate with his army; and that these with the adventurers that would join you, would compel the states to a separation. Indeed you seemed to consider New Orleans as already yours, and that from this point you would make conquests and consolidate your empire.
Q. Was it after all this, that you recommended me to an embassy?
A. Yes; and because I thought it the only way to avert a civil war.
Q. Did you communicate your recommendation to me?
A. Yes; you seemed to assent to the proposition.
Q. What had become of your command?
A. That I had disposed of myself.
Q. Did you understand that you had given me a definitive answer?
A. No: after you had developed yourself, I determined to use you until I got every thing out of you; and on the principle that "when innocence is in danger to break faith with a bad man, is not fraud but virtue."
Q. Did you think that your proposition as to a foreign embassy which was so incompatible with my own plans, would be received by me with indifference; had I abandoned the project?
A. You seemed to me to want some distinguished place: as to the mode, you were indifferent: and you seemed to acquiesce in the plan of a foreign embassy.
Mr. Hay. You said that you received about 10,000 dollars from the government. The act of Congress did not give you a definitive sum.
A. The act of Congress gave the accounting officers the power of settling with me, under the inspection of the secretary of state, under whose department I had served, and the settlement was accordingly made.
Mr. Eaton was followed by Commodore Thomas Truxton, who was introduced to shew the intentions & the turn of mind of the prisoner, about the beginning of the winter of 1805-6.
The Messrs. Morgans were then called to carry on the regular chain of events, but one of them being absent, Peter Taylor, (Blannerhasset's gardener) was introduced; to prove the overt act on Blannerhasset's island.
On Wednesday, the examination proceeded.
Col. G. Morgan, gen. I. Morgan, and Mr. Thomas Morgan, (the father and two sons) from the neighborhood of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; were introduced also to shew the turn of mind of the prisoner, about the latter end of August, 1806; when he visited Col. Morgan's house on his way to the western country. They were followed by Jacob Albright, who had been a workman on Blannerhasset's island, and who deposed as to the overt act; and William Love, who had been H. Blannerhasset's groom.
In the course of Love's examination, the important question was suggested, how far testimony could be introduced for the purpose of proving facts without the district of Virginia; which question was reserved for a subsequent discussion. The examination on this day was closed by the testimony of
Mr. Dudley Woodbridge, who had been H. Blannerhasset's Partner in a store at Marietta (O.) and who gave a particular history of the building of the boats on the Muskingham and the laying in the provisions.
On Thursday, Mr. Burr observed, that the nature of the overt act had been seen from the evidence before the court—and that the prosecutors had even acknowledged that they should not prevent the overt act by actual hostilities and he himself was not present at the time this overt act was said to have been committed. If they were mistaken in these points; if it was shown that they had grossly mistaken the decision of the supreme court, it were better to save the time of the court, the expense and inconvenience, by arresting the progress of his prosecution. Some discussion ensued upon the propriety of taking up the argument, which was waved for the present, when
Simeon Poole, who had been on the Ohio side of the river opposite to Blannerhasset's island on the evening and night, when the boats departed; and Maurice Belmont and Edmund P. Dana, who were at the same time on the island, were respectively examined. The examination was then suspended, to make way for an argument on one of the points suggested by Mr. Burr.
Mr. Wickham opened the argument and spoke 4 hours, until 4 o'clock, when the court adjourned.
The discussion will this day be resumed.
The two following appear to be the propositions supported by the prisoner's counsel: 1. That the accused not having been present, at the time of the overt act, no evidence can be adduced to prove his connexion with that overt act. 2. That an overt act not being proved, the prosecutor entirely fails.
JUDGE MARSHALL'S OPINION.
On the routine of Evidence, delivered on Tuesday the 18th.
Although this is precisely the same question relative to the order of evidence, which was decided by this court, on the motion to commit, yet it is now presented under somewhat different circumstances, and may, therefore, not be considered as determined by the former decision. At that time, no indictment was found no pleadings existed, and there was no standard, by which the court could determine the relevancy of the testimony offered, until the fact to which it was to apply, should be disclosed. There is now an indictment specifying the charge which is to be proved, on the part of the prosecution, there is an issue made up, which presents a point to which all the testimony must apply and consequently it is in the power of the court to determine, with some accuracy, on the relevancy of the testimony which may be offered.
It is contended in support of the motion which has been made, that, according to the regular order of evidence and the usage of courts, the existence of the fact on which the charge depends, ought to be shown, before any testimony explanatory, or confirmatory of that fact can be received. Against the motion it is contended that the crime alleged in the indictment, consists of two parts: the fact and the intention, and that it is in the discretion of the attorney for the United States, first to advance the one or the other; that no instance has ever occurred of the interference of a court with that arrangement which he has thought proper to make.
As is not unfrequent, the argument on both sides appears to be, in many respects correct. It is the most usual and appears to be the natural order of testimony to show, first the existence of the fact respecting which the enquiry is to be made. It is unquestionably attended with this advantage; there is a fixed and certain object to which the mind applies with precision, all the testimony which may be received and the court can decide with less difficulty on the relevancy of all the testimony which may be offered. But this arrangement is not clearly shown, to be established by any fixed rule of evidence and no case has been ad-
duced in which it has been forced by the court, on the counsel for the prosecution.
On one side it has been contended that by requiring the exhibition of the fact in the first instance, a great deal of time may be saved since there may be a total failure of proof with respect to the fact; and this argument has been answered, by observing, that should there even be such failure, they could not interpose and arrest, the progress of the cause; but must permit the counsel for the prosecution to proceed with that testimony which is now offered.
Levying of war, is a fact, which must be decided by the jury. The court may give general instructions on this, as on every other question brought before them, but the jury must decide upon it as compounded of fact and law. Two assemblages of men not unlike in appearance, possibly may be, the one treasonable and the other innocent. If, therefore, the fact exhibited to the court and jury, should in the opinion of the court, not amount to the act of levying war, the court could not stop the prosecution—but must permit the counsel for the U. S. to proceed to show the intention of the act, in order to enable the jury to decide upon the fact, coupled with the intention.
The consumption of time would probably be nearly the same, whether the counsel for the prosecution commenced with the fact or the intention, provided those discussions, which respect the admissibility of evidence would be as much avoided in the one mode as in the other. The principal importance which viewing the question in this light, would seem to attach to its decision, is the different impressions which the fact itself might make, if exhibited at the commencement or close of the prosecution.
Although human laws punish actions, the human mind spontaneously attaches guilt to intention.—The same fact, therefore, may be viewed very differently, where the mind is prepared by a course of testimony calculated to impress it with a conviction of the criminal designs of the accused, & where the fact is stated without such preparation. The overt act may be such as to influence the opinion, on the testimony afterwards given, respecting the intention; & the testimony respecting the intention, may be such, as to influence the opinion on the testimony, which may be afterwards given respecting the overt act.
On the question of consuming time, the argument was placed in one point of view by the counsel for the defence, which excited some doubt. The case was supposed of only one witness to the overt act, and a declaration that it could be proved by no other.—The court was asked whether the counsel would be permitted then to proceed to examine the intentions of the accused, and to do worse than waste the time of the court and jury, by exposing, without a possible object, the private views and intentions of any person whatever.
Perhaps in such a case the cause might be arrested, but this does not appear to warrant the inference that it might be arrested, because the fact proved by the two witnesses did not appear to the court, to amount to the act of levying war. In the case supposed the declaration of the law is positive, and a point proper to be referred to the court occurs, which suspends the right of the jury, to consider the subject, and compels them to bring in a verdict of not guilty. In such a case, no testimony could be relevant, and all testimony ought to be excluded. Suppose the counsel for the prosecution should say that he had no testimony to prove the treasonable intention: That he believed confidently the object of the assemblage of men on Blannerhasset's island to be innocent: That it did not amount to the crime of levying war: Surely it would be a wanton and useless waste of time to proceed with the examination of the overt act. When such a case occurs, it cannot be denied that a nolle prosequi will be entered, or the jury be directed with the consent of the attorney to find a verdict of not guilty.
It has been truly stated that the crime alleged in the indictment consists of the fact and of the intention with which that fact was committed. The testimony disclosing both the fact and the intention must be relevant. The court finds no express rule stating the order in which the attorney is to advance relevant testimony, nor any case in which a court has interfered with the arrangement he has made. No alteration of that arrangement therefore will now be directed.
But it is proper to add that the intention which is considered as relevant in this stage of the enquiry is the intention which composes a part of the crime, the intention with which the overt act itself was committed—not a general evil disposition, or an intention to commit a distinct fact. This species of testimony, if admissible at all, is received as corroborative or confirmatory testimony. It does not itself prove the intention with which the act was

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Observations on the conduct of Great Britain—Continued.
IT has been asserted, and, by many, believed, "that the government of France has an indisputable title to the culpable pre-eminence of having taken the lead in the violation of neutral rights; the first instance, on the part of the British government (referring to the order of the 8th of June, 1793) being said to be nearly a month posterior to the commencement of the evil by France," (referring to the decree of the French Convention of 9th May, 1793). These are the words, in which that charge was once brought against the French government, by the writer of a series of papers in the Gazette of the United States, entitled, "The Warning," and signed "Americus." Those papers, are manifestly written by a person very minutely informed concerning the transactions of our government, and have been generally so considered. It is proposed to show, he is greatly mistaken, and that he has but slightly viewed the surface of the subject.
It is an important matter of observation, that a similar way of thinking seems to have existed even in the executive branch of the government, immediately before the publication of "The Warning," referred to above; for, in a report of the 27th Feb. 1797, page 7, it is observed, that "It may be proper to remark here, that this decree of the Convention [that of the 9th May, 1793, mentioned in the next preceding sentence] "directing the capture of neutral vessels laden with provisions and destined for enemy ports, preceded by one month the order of the British government," &c. (referring to that of June 8th, 1793). It is true, that there is no direct assertion by the reporter, that either that British act, or that French act, is the leading act of violation committed by England and France upon the neutral commerce; but the passage unavoidably carries the idea to the reader, and has occasioned some, who have not well examined the subject, to believe, that the report exhibits a proof, that "France" [in the language of Americus] "has really taken the lead in the violation of neutral rights."
Let us examine the evidences we possess, with seriousness, decency, and that candor, which the subject demands.
There is among the records of the department of state, clear and positive evidence, that England had deliberately matured and consummated the system of violating the neutral commerce above six weeks before the French decree of the 9th of May, 1793. Our late minister in London, Mr. Pinckney, communicated to our secretary of state, in his letter of the 5th July, 1793, that lord Grenville had explicitly and unreservedly avowed, that the captures of neutral vessels, as directed by the British order of the 8th June, 1793, to that end were fully understood by both Russia and G. Britain, to be within the intention of the convention between them, which was signed by those two governments at London, on the 25th day of March, 1793. From the most extraordinary nature of that convention between Russia and G. Britain, from the distance between Petersburg and London, and from the season of the year, it cannot be doubted, that this important contract, which was mutually signed on the 25th of March, 1793, must have been originated in the autumn of 1792, by the Empress and the British king. In the correspondence between our Secretary of State and Mr. Pinkney, and in the conferences and notes between the British Secretary of State and our Minister in London, we do not perceive the least suggestion of the influence of the example of the French decree of the 9th of May, 1793. Such a plea could not indeed possibly be made by lord Grenville, who knew and avowed, that G. B. had bound herself by a solemn compact with Russia, to observe the very conduct of which the neutral powers complained. Lord Grenville, and the British minister then resident here (Mr. Hammond) have, in their written communications, uniformly pretended, that it was a regular and right, under the law of nations. The British government, no doubt, gave their first orders to the commanders of their ships, as soon as the convention with Russia was signed, that is, in March 1793; and it is to be presumed, that the known detentions of neutral vessels in the British ports, so early as the autumn of 1792, and the captures of neutral vessels, which the French government assign as the justifying reasons of their act of May 1793, were made in consequence of the negotiation and completion of that convention and of those first orders. The British orders of the 8th of June are expressly called by themselves, "additional instructions." The English secretary of state made pretensions to a right to adopt such measures, in his negotiations with our envoy (Mr. Jay) and in the formation of the existing treaty with the U. States. It is not perceived, therefore, in what manner the French decree of May, 1793, can have produced this conduct at Great Britain. Certainly France acted a very un-warrantable and imprudent part to-
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author of the libel. Had he decided upon his intentions? Or upon the guilt of publishing it? No.—Did the council who appeared for him pretend to deny that it was a libel; or did they not rather voluntarily step forward for the sake of disputing the constitutionality of the law and the authority of the court under which he was arraigned? Did Mr. Randolph himself, in the House of Representatives, deny that it was a libel? And let it be recollected, that this very decision of Judge Chase was overruled in the Senate of the U. S. by a majority of 18 to 16? And yet Mr. Hay has now quoted it as law.
Mr. W. then expatiated upon Mr. Hay's definition of an impartial juryman. The sense of the majority of any country was to be considered as the criterion of impartiality and truth. What a vast saving of trouble would result from this new principle. Instead of a student's poring over the black letter in his own closet, in search of principles and tests; he need only go about to this barbecue and that horse-race, to take the common sense of mankind. A lawyer would perhaps consult Mr. McNally, or his Reeves; but Mr. Hay would go about collecting the sense of the nation. Is there then to be an apple nominal , as there has been in France, when the French people were asked "are you for Napoleon being king of the French?" But this argument proves too much. Were a man to declare colonel Burr guilty not only of a treasonable intent, but of a treasonable act, could he be considered as an impartial juryman, because he happened to coincide with the public opinion? It is in fact impossible to know what that opinion is. Opinions are continually fluctuating: What is law under the administration of John Adams, is not so under the administration of Mr. Jefferson.
Mr. Wirt has found fault with elementary writings, and asserts that they are not always the tests of truth. It is true that they are not always so; but they are most generally so considered. Some elementary books, such as Lord Coke's, are of inestimable value. As to the variation which Mr. Wirt has pointed out between none of the elementary principles of Reeves and the court's decision in the case of Horne's Lessee, a reference to the report of that trial would clearly shew that this case had not been accurately represented to this court. Thompson, the juryman, was not in court; he had exercised the discretion of absenting himself, and it was said by way of excuse, that he had been long and intimately acquainted with the defendant. It was to this point that the judge spoke, when he said that it was no excuse. No excuse for what? Not from serving on the jury, but for not attending the court.
Mr. Wirt here interrupted Mr. W. and submitted to every candid mind which had most candidly stated the passage. Mr. Wirt then read it and commented at some length. A long and desultory conversation occurred on this point; after which Mr. Wickham observed, that he had but one more remark to offer: that he had come here to try the defendant on the law and on the fact, and not on public rumor—but that this trial would be nothing but mockery, if it were to be submitted to the decision of a prejudiced jury. Why did the framers of our constitution attempt to secure the privilege of an impartial jury? Was it not known to them, that the period would at length arrive, when some individual would be marked out as the victim of popular and political jealousy? And was it not on such a case, that the constitution had originally forbid the legislature to change the law of treason—and that a subsequent amendment was introduced, still further to fortify and to secure the privileges of the accused?
Mr. E. Randolph (at the request of the court) read Judge Chase's answer to the article of the indictment, which arraigns his decision in the case of Mr. Basset: Mr. R. then observed that he had not intended to have interfered in this discussion: because he expected that the objections which would be offered to have been made to particular individuals only; but he had since seen, that a most serious blow was meditated at the whole system of jury trial. Whether Heaven or accident had given us this illustrious boon; it was certainly our most solemn duty to preserve it pure and perfect. Vain would be all this parade, if a judge would calmly sit upon the bench, and connive at its violation. If the courts do not defend this right, could it be truly said that any man was safe in his own habitation?—Mr. R. said that some analogies had been stated between the present and other cases. Other gentlemen had introduced Burglary and Murder; and to this catalogue he should add the crime of uttering false money, knowing it to be false. If a juror should assert that he knew not whether the accused passed the money; but that he was certain he must have known it to be false; there could be no doubt of his being a biased and incompetent juryman. Mr. R. expatiated at some length upon the case of Tooke, and upon the authorities quoted from Hawkins; and attempted to shew that Hawkins had contradicted and confuted himself; that instead of advocating the pure and more liberal doctrines of his own day on the subject of juries, he had appealed to the reign of the Tudors, when not a spark of liberty existed. He concluded by solemnly conjuring the court to preserve the privileges of the jury trial free from violation; he would appeal to the volume of human nature; he would almost appeal to Mr. Hay's
clerg and the din of the battle of Culloden rung to the other confines of the country. Is this a case in which an impartial jury could have been expected? And yet the rebels were tried by British jurors; tried by jurors, who had been perhaps arrayed in battle against them. Perhaps those who fought for the monarch in the fields of Culloden, were the very men who decided on the trials for treason. Mr. Martin's rule is a good rule, when it flourishes in the mind of a good man; it is a good rule for Utopia and Arabia happy; and look to the trials of '54 in Ireland; when men who had fought at the battle of Wexford; when men at the very focus of public illumination were to sit on the trial of Archibald Hamilton Rowan. Could such men have gone into the jury box as if they had never seen the books on which these charges had been predicated: as if they had been men dropped from another planet? From the plains of Culloden and Wexford, from London and Dublin let us come back to our own thresholds. He who could peruse the public prints of North America, for the last 12 months with adamantine indifference; he who could read the depositions of Eaton and Wilkinson without some interest; cannot be a man. No man could do it that has a soul, that can grace the bosom of a man. I appeal to the bench, whether there is that base frigidity of character in the inhabitants of North America. Look at this very panel; have they taken no impressions?—Mr. Wirt embraced a variety of other points, which our limits do not permit us to detail; and in a strain of eloquence, which it is impossible for us to transcribe.
Mr. Wickham observed, that the remarks of the gentleman last up, reminded him of a Roman Epigram on a lady, who was so completely covered by the decorations which enveloped her, that she was the least part of herself. It was precisely so with the gentleman's argument. It was so perfectly enveloped in figures and graces, that the argument constituted the least part of itself; and it was only by lifting a flounce here and a farliew there, that you could catch a glimpse of it. The gentleman has hurried us to England, and to the battle of Culloden, with as much ease as if he had waved the wand of a magician. He has compared the judicial decisions in that country at the period of the rebellion with the case now agitated before this court; without having attended to the natural points of distinction between them. Every man in England could reason upon the cause of the Pretender. The basis of this decision was a chain of historical facts, recorded in books, which reason could appreciate and prejudice could not distort. Such a case would have been precisely similar to the one now before the court, had this too been founded on the annals of history or on matters of fact. Had it been established that gun boats had descended the Ohio; that Col. B. had had several engagements with Gen. Wilkinson; and had then been brought before this court for trial; the jury would have decided upon these facts, and not upon their own prepossessions. But where are the established facts in this case? The President has declared that of his guilt there can be no doubt. Yet the President is but a man and liable to deception. General Wilkinson too is a witness; but his credibility may be hereafter impeached; and the supreme court has already decided that his testimony is not relative to the charge of treason. This whole case then resolves itself into Gen. Eaton's deposition; of which though we may not be disposed to say it is untrue, we may at least assert that it is marvellous. Is this accusation then founded on historical facts? Is there a single document to support it? No—not one. How then can the gentleman pretend to institute a parallel between this case, and the case of the rebellions of England?
If it be no disqualification for one juryman to have entertained an opinion of Col. B's treasonable intentions, it can be no disqualification for 12 of them. What then would be the situation of his counsel? The jury are impanelled: their minds made up as to the treasonable designs of Col. B. With what attitude could his counsel stand before such men to vindicate his innocence—Would they pretend to operate upon marble?—They might as well at once abandon the cause of their client—These impressions too, respecting Col. B's intentions would directly contribute to influence their judgments as to the overt acts said to have been committed. These impressions do directly bear upon the overt act; because the intention is the first step towards the act itself, and renders it more probable that that act will be committed. What is most probable is soonest believed to be most likely to happen; and the man whose judgment is therefore made up as to the intentions of Col. B. cannot be said to be impartial on any one point in the cause. Let the case be supposed of six jurymen whose mind is decided as to the intentions; and six others as to the overt act. How could the counsel pretend to address them on either of those points? If they wished to argue on one of them, they must abandon it; because six of the jury are adamantly. If they turned to the other, they would meet with equal prejudice and equal resistance.—It was like the case of the Abbot and the Nun, recorded in Tristram Shandy; where it would be a sin for either of them to pronounce a certain word entire; but by spitting it into two pieces, they compactly removed all the sin of the transaction. One of them could then articulate the Bou , and the other the ger . As to Callender's case, had Mr. Basset concluded that Callender was the
performed, but it renders other testimony probable which goes to that intention. It is explanatory of or assistant to that other testimony. Now it is essentially repugnant to the usages of courts, to the declarations of the books by whose authority such testimony is received, that corroborative or confirmatory testimony should precede that which it is to corroborate or confirm. Until the introductory testimony be given, that which is merely corroborative is not relevant, and of consequence, if objected to, cannot be admitted without violating the best settled rules of evidence.
This position may be illustrated by a direct application to the testimony of Gen. Eaton. So far as his testimony relates to the fact charged in the indictment, so far as it relates to levying war on Blennerhassett's island, so far as it relates to a design to seize on New Orleans, or to separate by force the Western from the Atlantic states, it is deemed relevant and is now admissible.—So far as it respects other plans to be executed in the city of Washington or elsewhere, if it indicates a treasonable design, it is a design to commit a distinct act of treason, and is therefore not relevant to the present indictment. It can only by showing a general evil intention render it more probable that the intention in the particular case was evil; it is merely additional or corroborative testimony, and therefore if admissible at any time, is only admissible according to rules and principles which the court must respect, after hearing that which it is to confirm.
The counsel will perceive how many questions respecting the relevancy of testimony, the arrangement proposed on the part of the prosecution will most probably produce. He is, however, at liberty to proceed according to his own judgment, and the court feel itself bound to exclude such testimony only, as at the time of its being offered, does not appear to be relevant.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13. Sketch of the arguments on the qualifications of an impartial jury (concluded.)
Mr. Wirt said, it were to be wished that in this case, a jury could be got of such pure materials as Mr. Martin desired—whose minds were as pure as the unsoiled snow on Diana's lap. But does experience justify such a hope?—The case does not exist, and the law does not require it. Mr. Martin's authorities are elementary; they are abstract, and not precisely applicable to points of practice. They are general phrases; they deal only in generals—but were these books even to be trusted—and did not their generality exclude them from familiar use; you will find that when they specify, they express a particular reference to the person of the accused. To show that these elementary principles are not completely paraded in the English courts, he would refer to Tooke's case, p. 9. Any equality, and familiarity, is in Reeves a sufficient cause for rejection; but in Tooke's trial, Mr. Thompson's intimacy with Mr. T. for 34 years was said by the judge to be no good ground of exception. But let us select another case in our own country. It is important that the rules of law should not be continually shifting on the waves of uncertainty, in order that a man may know how to steer his course. Well, now what says the case of Callender in a particular point? When Mr. John Basset had objected to himself, because he had already made up his mind on the point of libel, he was overruled. But turn to the English laws of libel and what is the principal point there? Is it who is the author? Is it on that point that the brightest beams of elquence are shed? No. But it is on the question whether it is a libel or not. Then in the language of Mr. Botes, was not Callender cut off from more than half his defence? Let us draw an analogy between the two cases. These jurymen might have said, that the a semblage of men on Blennerhassett's island was a high treason; but they know not whether Col. B. was there. Here this case and that of Callender would be strikingly parallel. In both cases, the great facts would be fixed in the mind of the juror—and the only thing that would remain, would be to trace them up to the individual accused. But the present case falls far short of that. These jurymen say, that from newspaper publications they have taken up some impression, as to Burr's treasonable intentions; but not one of them says, that the meeting on Blennerhassett's island was an act of treason. In another point Callender's case was a stronger one than this. It was ridiculous for J. T. Clendenning to have attempted to counteract the conviction, that lay against his crime. Mr. Basset's opinion was formed upon the book itself—and there was no other evidence to produce. But in this case, jurymen have seen nothing but the evidence in the newspapers; and they say there is conflicting evidence as to the fact of treason. If then you would strip Col. B. of half of his defence because a juryman has made up half of his mind—how much more was J. T. Callender stripped of it! The kind of jury that Mr. Martin contends for, is impossible to be obtained from the very nature of things. Necessity has often given the law in other cases; and perhaps it must in this—This is not the only case, where a purely impartial juryman must have drawn from Heaven or from some of the planets. Look at the English rebellion of 1715 and of 1745—when the question of the Pretender and his house of Hanover was so warmly agitated.—The arguments were filled with it; and yet a juryman must have been impartial; and not only that, but sought for it; and that in a kingdom, that the very

wants us and the other neutrals, in her decree of May, 1793. But, having an immense population to support, and with a prodigious land of sailors & soldiers to feed, almost completely shut in on the land side by the hostile Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Spain, expecting no grain from the swarming hive of Switzerland, and closely watched by the inimical fleets of Russia, Sweden, Holland, England, Spain, Portugal, and the Italian states, her just and founded apprehensions of a ruinous and distracting famine , appear to have been quickened by the instances of capture, some of which are particularised, and others of which are expressly though generally noticed, in the decree of the convention. Although these circumstances are absolutely insufficient to justify France , they afford a degree & kind of extenuation for her following the empress of Russia and England, which these powers cannot plead for their prior and leading acts, and for the captures and detentions prior to and during the pre-existence of their convention. That we considered the conduct of Great Britain at the time, as under all circumstances, by much the most exceptionable, must admit certain from our sending a special envoy to London in 1794, and not returning to Paris. This observation appears the more natural, and reasonable, because we had resident ministers, in 1793, and 1794, at both places; Mr. G. Morris in France, and Mr. Pinckney in London. The object of this paper is not at all to justify the operations committed by France, nor is it wished even to extenuate them in the smallest degree. That any comparative ideas have been admitted into this investigation, is merely because they unavoidably arise in a free discussion of the subject. To ascertain that any particular measure is not of a certain alleged nature, it may be useful & necessary to determine of what nature it really is. If fears of famine, and of a concurrent to produce it, both which now appear to have been well grounded; and if the influence of English and Russian examples, have led France to adopt a culpable & unjust measure towards us; still it appears true, and it is important in this investigation, that there really is a most serious and premeditated instance of the will on the part of Great Britain, prior to the French decree of May, 1793. The contracting parties, England and Russia, bound themselves "to use all possible means with the neutral states to prevent their accustomed and lawful commercial intercourse with France;" from which, among other things, that republic drew many of the essentials and necessities of life, and the neutrals drew just and fair advantages. It is of the utmost importance that we have the explicit declaration of Lord Grenville, that it was in execution and fulfilment of this convention of March, 1793, that the British additional orders of the 6th of June, 1793, were issued. The English secretary of state did not allege, or even intimate, that the French order of the 9th of May was the cause. He knew Great Britain had previously committed detentions of vessels with grain, and had commenced clorations on neutrals, in the manner set forth in the French declaration of war, and in the decree of the convention of the 9th May, 1793—and he therefore plainly assigns the British concert with Russia, and pretended authority from the law of nations, as the true and only cause; and it is upon this British and Russian practice that the provision article of our treaty proceeded on the part of the English. It seems particularly worthy of remembrance, that Lord Grenville also alleged, that Spain would act as England had done, in regard to the neutrals—and we know that Spain did act accordingly, in the course of the year 1793. We therefore clearly owe our spoliation by Spain, to the support, influence, and persuasions of England and the empress of Russia, in pursuance of the extraordinary convention entered into by them, in March, 1793. A convention, which is not only violated by its dreadful example and malicious tendencies, to bring down upon France and all future belligerent nations unprecedented and awful miseries, but to inflict upon all neutrals, however peaceful and equitable, the suspension of their ordinary and rightful navigation, the prevention of the sales of their most valuable commodities, the interruption of their supplies of foreign comforts and necessaries, and the dependent revenues from exports and imports. It is also calculated to embroil neutrals with France. If Portugal should be involved in the present war, England and her allies acting upon this principle, would suspend the accustomed and lawful commerce of the U. S. with nearly all the civilised world; and France, invited by the example, and prompted by notions of interest and necessity, would suspend our rightful commerce with all the rest. In these views, the convention of 1793 between Russia and Great Britain, as unreservedly and clearly explained by Lord Grenville to Mr. Pinckney, is a matter of the most serious importance to the U. S. To acquiesce in the doctrines and principles which are its avowed basis, must go far to destroy the merchant, the fisherman, and the mariner, and must deeply wound the manufacturer, the planter, and the farmer. Upon the whole, we cannot fail to recognize the British, as the real devisers and originators of this grand scheme of rural sacrifices. The writer of this paper will only add, that it is not to aggravate the public mind against Great Britain, that this publication is now made, but to promote a prudent endeavor, by all parties in America, to terminate British irregularities.
JURISCOLA.
* They were undoubtedly general A. Hamilton's.
The French minister, M. Chauvelin, in London, strongly remonstrated, in November 1792, against the detention of neutral vessels in the British ports, laden with grain, contrary to the law of nations, and to the existing treaty of 1786; nay, even as contrary to the laws of England; the ministry actually applied for an indemnity to parliament. These facts, followed by the captures of neutral vessels, after the French minister was ordered from London (24th Jan. 1793) and prior both to the Russian convention (March 25, 1793) and to the French decree (of May 1793) with the avowed design and meaning of the convention between England and Russia, manifest and establish a system, on the part of G. Britain, long premeditated, deliberately begun and continued, and ultimately confirmed by a solemn engagement with the powerful court of Russia, all prior to the French decree of May 1793. The French minister in London, openly remonstrated against the earliest of these measures of the British government, as calculated to produce a famine, and the disordering apprehensions of a famine, on the 7th January, 1793 (state papers, page 253). It is very important to remark, that M. Talleyrand (the Prince of Benevento), who is now the minister of foreign affairs in France, was then in London, as the authorised and confidential director of M. Chauvelin. He was also in this country, when the late president Washington made his earnest demurs to the provision article in the British treaty.
The last king of Sweden was very unfortuately to the revolution in France, till his death. It has been already noticed, that M. Chauvelin, the French minister, particularly grounded a part of his remonstrances to Lord Grenville, upon the tendency of the British measures to produce famine or the fear of it in France. The memoir of the English minister, Lord Auckland, to the Dutch government (April 5, 1793) holds up famine as a calamity about to afflict France, he knowing that the Russian convention had been signed in London 11 days before—and the empress of Russia, in July, 1793, informed the court of Sweden, that, in consequence of an arrangement made with his Britannic majesty, she had given harsh instructions to the commander of her fleet, "to stop and compel all neutral ships, bound to or freighted for France, either to sail back or enter some neutral harbor." Now, it is certain, that the convention of the 25th March was the only arrangement, that was executed between Russia and England between that day and July 30, 1793. A treaty was made by Great Britain with Spain, in the very terms of the Russian and British convention:—Also with Austria, Prussia, &c. This doctrine, so injurious to the trade of the neutral powers, has, therefore, by the pronouncement of Great Britain, been extended throughout the councils of Europe. France, even in her most helpless moments, has certainly been less active in reciprocating it; for, with all her influence over the Dutch and Spanish councils, we do not find that the stopping of neutral vessels bound to England, has been committed by either Holland or Spain. Even the decree of November, 1806, is short of the monstrous British convention of 1793.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Having seen in the 9th No. of the Atlantic World printed at Washington by John Wood and Jehiel Crofford a publication headed "Gens' Conspiracy" wherein it is stated that "It is not a fortnight since Mr. Meriwether Lewis in the presence of Mr. Jefferson, advised a man by the name of Frazier from St. Louis, one of those adventurers who accompanied him and Captain Clark to the Pacific Ocean, from subscribing to the Atlantic World," I am impelled for the sake of truth to declare their statement incorrect. No person of the name of Frazier having accompanied Captains Lewis and Clark, on their tour of discovery except myself, it is obvious that I am the person alluded to, and I much regret that I have been called upon by a wanton attack upon the characters of Mr. Jefferson & Mr. Lewis to correct the errors of Messrs. Wood and Crofford.
ROBERT FRAZER. St. Lewis, Louisiana Territory, 25th May, 1807.
New-York, August 20. To the Editor of the American Citizen.
SIR, I arrived this afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the steam boat, from Albany. As the success of my experiment gives me great hope that such boats may be rendered of much importance to my country, to prevent erroneous opinions, and give some satisfaction to the friends of useful improvement you will have the goodness to publish the following statements of facts.
I left New-York on Monday at 1 o'clock, and arrived at Clermont, the seat of Chancellor Livingston, at 1 o'clock on Tuesday, time 24 hours, distance 100 miles; on Wednesday I departed from the Chancellor's at 9 in the morning, and at arrived at Albany at 5 in the afternoon, distance 40 miles, time 8 hours: the sum of this
is 150 miles in 32 hours, equal near 5 miles an hour. On Thursday, at 9 o'clock in the morning, I left Albany, and arrived at the Chancellor's at 6 in the evening; I started from thence at 7, and arrived at New-York on Friday at 4 in the afternoon; time 30 hours, space run through 150 miles, equal 5 miles an hour. Throughout the whole way my going and returning the wind was ahead; no advantage could be drawn from my sails—the whole has, therefore, been performed by the power of the steam-engine.
I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, ROBERT FULTON.
LONDON, JULY 2. In the House of Commons June 27th, Mr. Role gave notice of a motion for renewing the American trade act of 1794, now near expiring. Lord Hawick made several calls for papers and returns, connected with the late dissolution of parliament. In the house of lords, June 29th, Lord Hawkesbury presented an order of council for continuing the trade with America, on the footing of the act, which expired this month; and intimating the intention of the ministers to prolong the former act; & a clause of indemnity relative to the order alluded to.
Lord Auckland hoped that ministers would pause before they renewed their act of last year, for one year longer. Therefor for the proceeding at a former period was, that a treaty was then pending, and it was hoped that it would be brought to a conclusion satisfactory to both countries, long before the expiration of the act advertised to. This was not the time for entering into all the particulars of this transaction: he hoped that the additional articles agreed upon, though not yet signed, would remove every source of misunderstanding between the two nations who had to many bonds of union and harmony. But in all those matters he was one of those who felt that there was something due to national dignity. The former act was passed on an agreement, that there should be no prohibitions on the other side of the Atlantic, inconsistent with the treaty of 1794; and before it was re-executed, a regard to sound policy required that some inquiry should be made into the present state of the case.
Some debate ensued on the subject of the levying of money, after the expiration of the act which authorized it; on which subject Lord Bathurst said, "that the effect of the order in council was not to levy money not authorized by parliament, but in many instances to forego the duties, which under the general revenue laws, would attach to the traffic with America. The treaty with that country had according to strict interpretation, expired in the year 1803, and yet, down to the passing of the late act the duties continued to be levied as before, without any law upon the subject, on the understanding that the U. S. was to be treated as a most favored nation."
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THE Subscriber, late a Professor of St. John's College, Maryland, having obtained as his assistant Mr. SYLVESTER CANTWELL, a gentleman of respectable character and abilities; being encouraged by many respectable Gentlemen of Washington and Georgetown cities; also a number of his pupils, from his late residence in Prince George's county, Maryland, begs leave to inform the public generally that his ACADEMY is now open for the reception of Pupils, who will be instructed in the Greek and Latin Languages, the different branches of Mathematics, Book-keeping, Geography, English Grammar, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, &c. He hopes an experience of 23 years teaching in Maryland, of which he caught in St. John's College, will procure him a share of public confidence and patronage. Terms of Tuition—the Greek and Latin Languages, Mathematics, Geography, Book-keeping, &c. 40 dollars per annum. English, Grammar, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, 24 dollars paid quarterly—He will receive a few more Boarders in his family, at 120 dollars per annum, paid quarterly in advance. Boarders must find their Bed and bedding.
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Washington, Aug. 5th 1807.
NOTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made at the Treasury of the United States for the renewal of Certificate No. 10766 for $200 dollars deferred Six per cent stock, pending to the credit of Francis Beaufchamp on the books of the Treasury afore-said, which certificate has been lost or destroyed.
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LIGHT INFANTRY.
COMPANY ORDERS, August 27, 1807.
The Light Infantry commanded by capt. Davidson will meet in company on the parade, North of the President's House, every Saturday evening, at 5 o'clock, in complete uniform. To obviate, as far as possible, the inconvenience arising from the dispersed residence of the members, and to secure a punctilious attendance at the Drill meetings, the company is divided into three Sections—The right Section, under charge of Ensign Murray, consists of the members residing west of the President's Square; the left Section, under the charge of Lieut. Boyd, consists of those residing east of Elber creek; & the center Section, under the charge of the Captain, of those residing between the President's Square and Elber creek. The squads will meet for the Drill, without uniform, twice a week, at such times and places as the officers having charge of them, shall respectively from time to time direct. The commissioned and non-commissioned officers will meet in squads for the Drill every Thursday, on the parade, north of the President's House, at 5 o'clock in the evening, without uniform.
The importance of the Drill or Squad meetings must be obvious to every one, and it is confidently expected that the useful and elementary lessons in the art of war will be regularly attended by all not otherwise particularly engaged.
JOHN DAVIDSON, Capt.
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Notice is hereby Given,
By order of the Orphan's Court of Prince George's county will be offered at public sale at the Dwellling house of Ann Greenwell on Friday the 25th of September if fair, if not the next fair day, Household and Kitchen Furniture, a two wheel chair, some valuable Negroes, Horses, Cows, Cattle, and a variety of other articles too tedious to mention. A credit of six months will be given by the purchaser giving bond with approved security. Prince George's county, August 27—w3t
Burr's Trial. Nothing was done on Saturday, the 22nd. H. Böhmer-hallet was brought into court for the purpose of his arraignment, which was deferred until the decision of the court on the pending disquisition. On Monday Mr. M'Rae commenced the argument on the part of the U. S. on the points already stated, and spoke till half past 4 o'clock, when the court adjourned to meet again at 9 o'clock. On Tuesday Mr. Wirt spoke till half past 2. He was followed by Mr. Bots on behalf of the prisoner.
New-York, August 24. Captain Howell of the brig Achilles, who arrived this morning in 19 days from St. Johns, Porto Rico, informs us that four days before he failed, a Spanish schooner came in from Porto Cavello, with information that an express from Buenos Ayres had arrived, announcing the re-capture of Monte Video by the Spaniards, & the massacre of the British garrison.
Baltimore, August 25. Captain Rich informs that on Sunday last he came to anchor in Patuxent in company with the ship Othello, Glover, from Liverpool, bound to Baltimore. Shortly after a small pilot boat built schooner came in and anchored between him and the ship, a man came on board his schooner, apparently a Frenchman, told him his vessel was from Baltimore, bound to Saint Domingo, and made a great deal of enquiry about the ship. The next morning (Saturday) got under way together with the schooner, and found the schooner's deck was as full of men as could be; she had a French flag flying at her main-topsail head, and boats were constantly going between the two.
August 26. We have been unable to obtain any information to confirm the supposed capture (or flight) of the Othello. We are informed that two vessels, full of men, and provided with sweeps, proceeded last night in pursuit of the Othello. TH: YOUNG, and Company. August 27 1807.
NOTICE,
FINDING it indispensably necessary to close our business, we take this public method to apprise those indebted to us—that in all next month this must be effected—we trust this hint will be sufficient to urge an immediate settlement either by cash or note. We will be happy in the interim to continue our usual mode of doing business to our punctilious Customers—Also those who have claims against the Company are desired to bring them in for settlement.
TAMMANY SOCIETY.
AN Adjourned meeting of the TAMMANY SOCIETY FOR COLUMBIAN ORDER, will be held on FRIDAY evening the 28th day of the present month of FISHES, at the Council Fire of their great Wicwam, precisely at the going down of the Sun. By order of the Society. B. SMITH, Sec. Month of Fishes 28th, year of Discovery, 315th, (August 24th 1807.)
NOTICE.
IT Has been represented to the Secretary of State, that Richard Weaver, David Johnston, Jeremiah Culver, Samuel C. Bond, Henry Wright, Aaron Young, John Twelves, John Green, Enos Dickson, Ebenezer Berry, Joshua Maviner, John Morris, John Cap-pit, John Marks, Joseph Jones, Samuel Brown, John Clark, John Hirt, William Goold, John Marshall, Charles Coffin, Isaac Iunis, James Forrest, and Dennis Perry, who call themselves citizens of the United States, have been impressed into the British service, and are now detained for want of documents to prove their citizenship. The friends of these men are therefore notified, that on their transmitting, to the Secretary of State, proof of their citizenship, together with a description of the persons of the above named seamen, measures will be taken to obtain their discharge. Department of State, August 17th, 1807.
The Editor of the National Intelligencer, and the Editors who publish the Laws of the Union, in the Seaforth, are requested to insert the above three times in their respective Gazettes. August 19—3t
This is to give Notice,
THAT the subscriber of Saint Mary's county, hath obtained from the Orphan's court of Saint Mary's county, in Maryland, letters of administration on the personal estate of the Rev. Charles Basset, late of St. 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 5th day of February next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand, this 5th day of August 1807. JAS. EVERSON, Administrator. August 27—U. G. 6w

NOTICE.
It has been represented to the Secretary of State, that George Brown, James Carr, John Bolton, John Johnson, James Johnston, John Davis, Thomas Bravo, Matthew Myles, John Gray, Thomas Rea, Levy Brown, George Roberts, George or Joseph Nicholls, John Blackwood, John Chapman, Dennis Megavey, Benjn. Dennings, John Veil, John Lindsay, Martin Powers, Isaac Hunter, William Simmons, William Mockhall, Nathaniel M. Warren and William Cammanile, who call themselves Citizens of the United States, have been impressed into the British service, and are now detained for want of documents to prove their Citizenship. The friends of these men are therefore notified that on their transmitting to the Secretary of State, proof of the Citizenship together with a description of the persons of the above named Seamen, measures will be taken to obtain their discharge.
Department of State August 21st, 1807
The Editor of the National Intelligencer and the Editors who publish the laws of the Union in the Seafarer are requested to insert the above three times in their respective Gazettes.
50 Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY on the morning of the 8th inst. from the subscriber a negro man Named Richard Brown , He is about 25 years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, wavy hair, rather light colored, something forbidding in his countenance, and is a very artful fellow; had on when he went away a coarse white shirt, nankeen pantaloons, and an old great coat. He has been seen since in the district with a black coat, nankeen pantaloons and coat on. The above reward will be paid to any person who will bring him to me, or lodge him in jail in the district of Columbia, with reasons. his charges.
JOHN CASSIN. M. B. He had on one of his ankles a horse lock, which it is supposed he cannot get off.
July 30. epf
LAND FOR SALE.
To be sold at public sale on the premises, the first day of September next, if fair, if not the next fair day, a Tract of Land on which I now dwell, lying on Potomac river, adjoining Swan Point. This tract contains about 360 acres with a great sufficiency of timber, and fire wood. The soil is well adapted to the growth of Indian Corn, Tobacco, Wheat and Clover. This tract having two convenient dwelling houses on it, the one on the river, the other on Cuckoo Creek may be sold in two equal parts or altogether as may best suit purchasers. The adjoining waters abound with fine fish, oysters and wild fowl in their season. The terms of sale are as follows, 700 dollars paid down, the balance of the purchase money to be paid in three equal annual payments, the purchasers giving bond and approved security bearing interest from the day of sale. The sale to commence at 2 o'clock, P. M.
EDWARD DIGGES. Cobrach, Charles county, } Md. Aug. 12-tdof
Post-Office, Washington, City. THE Post-Master requests all those indebted to him for postage on letters and newspapers, to make immediate payment, in order to enable him to settle his accounts with the General Post-Office. August 13. 2w
A HOUSE & LOT for Sale.
WILL be offered at public sale on Thursday the 27th inst. at 12 o'clock on the premises on a credit of 90 days, a Two Story BRICK HOUSE with two rooms and a passage on each floor, a cellar and dry well therein—this house is situated on Lot No. 10 in square 728 on East Capital street, fronting the Capital. Negotiable paper bearing interest from the date with approved endorser will be required of the purchaser, and when paid a good title will be made by
BAME: TYLER, Executor of Saml. Tyler deceased. August 17—tdof
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
The subscriber wishes to sell at private sale, that valuable property which he now occupies in the town of Biederburg, Maryland, 6 miles from the Capital of the United States, and promises to be one of the best watering places in the union. The lot contains about one and three quarters of an acre, on which is erected a commodious Frame Dwelling Building , 37 by 30 feet, two stories high, built of the best materials, nearly new and finished in the best manner, 6 rooms on the first floor, and 9 bed chambers, 4 of which if necessary might be partitioned to make 8, also a good Kitchen and Bake Oven, Wash house, Smoke house, stable for 30 horses and a house that will cover 6 carriages and a granary for oats.
The Lot borders on the Eastern Branch which is navigable and where fish may be caught in abundance in their season. This valuable property is in fee simple, and clear of all encumbrances and will be disposed of in the following manner, one half of the purchase to be paid in Land in the state of Ohio near some settled part thereof, one fourth in cash, on the residue 12 months credit will be given. Possession may be taken on the first Monday in September if required, if not I would lease it for one year. Should the purchaser incline to buy the furniture, I can spare 16 prime feather beds, a handsome mahogany side board, tables, chairs and all the residue of the household and kitchen furniture.
He wishes to return his grateful thanks to his friends in particular and the public generally for their patronage, and hopes to merit a continuance of it.
His house is well provided for the accommodation of those who may wish to visit the Spa this season.
WILLIAM ROSS. Biederburg, July 2—aw8w
PROPOSALS
For carrying mails of the United States on the following routes will be received at the General Post Office until the 15th of October next.
1st. From Petersburg by Harrisville, Goldsboro, Drummondsburg, Warrenton, Lewiston, Raleigh, and Averysboro, to Fayetteville, three times a week.
Leave Petersburg every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 a m, arrive at Warrenton, same days by 8 p m. Leave Warrenton every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3 a m, arrive at Raleigh same days by 6 p m. Leave Raleigh, Wednesday, Friday and Monday at 3 a m, arrive at Fayetteville same days by 5 p m.
Returning—Leave Fayetteville every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 4 a m, arrive at Raleigh same days by 6 p m. Leave Raleigh every Wednesday, Friday, and Monday at 3 a m, arrive at Warrenton same days by 6 p m. Leave Warrenton, every Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday 1 a m, arrive at Petersburg same days by 8 p m.
2nd. From Fayetteville by Lumberton, Barefields Mills, Port Royal, Oquapco and Georgetown to Charleston three times a week.
Leave Fayetteville every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 4 a m, arrive at Port Royal on Wednesday, Friday and Monday by 6 p m. Leave Georgetown every Thursday, Saturday, and Tuesday at 2 a m, arrive at Charleston same days by 4 p m.
Returning—Leave Charleston every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 5 1/2 a m, arrive at Georgetown same days by 6 p m. Leave Georgetown every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 2 a m, arrive at Port Royal on Wednesday, Friday and Monday by 6 p m.
NOTES.
1. The Post master general may expedite the mails, & alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contracts, he stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expence that may be occasioned thereby.
2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time is specified.
3. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the time prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continues until the departure of any succeeding mail, whereby the mails defined for each succeeding mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred.
4. Newspapers, as well as letters, to be sent in the mail; and if any person making proposals, desires to carry newspapers, other than those conveyed in the mail, for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals for what sum he will carry with the emolument, and for what sum without that emolument.
5. Should any person making proposals desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals the alteration desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of the contract.
6. Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly, in the months of August, November, February, and May, in one month after the expiration of each quarter.
7. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail.
8. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals.
9. The Post master general reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end, whenever one failure happens which amounts to the loss of a trip.
10. The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of January next, & to continue in force until the 31st day of March 1810.
GIDEON GRANGER, Post master-general. General Post-Office Washington } city, July 31—tdof 15
District of Columbia, to wit:
BE it remembered that on the 15th day of August in the thirty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, WILLIAM CRANCH of the said district hath deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "Reports of Cases argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, in the years 1805 and 1806, Vol. III.—By WILLIAM CRANCH , Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia."
In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."
G. DENEALE, Clerk of the district of Columbia: SEAL of the district court for the district of Columbia. August 21—4w
LITERARY NOTICE.
WM. DUANE of Philadelphia, will thank such Book-sellers, Printers, and others, as may have had the goodness to collect subscribers, for the LIFE & WORKS OF DR. FRANKLIN , about to be published by Wm. Duane, to forward to him lists of the subscribers, obtained, with particular directions relative to their residence, &c.
Printers of newspapers, who have published the proposals for this extensive work, will add to the favors already conferred, by publishing the above in their respective papers, as often as convenient.
WM. DUANE will also thank those, who have collected subscribers, for " POLITICS FOR FARMERS AND MECHANICS ," to inform him of their names and places of residence, without delay. July 13—
FOR SALE OR RENT.
THE Subscriber will SELL or RENT the HOTEL , situated on the Capitol Hill and near to the Capitol, at present occupied by Mr. P. D. SEELLE . As this house is well known, it is useless to say more than that it is calculated for a large establishment, and is the first situation as a hotel on a large scale in this city. Possession can be had the first day of October next. Some other houses for Sale or Rent on the Hill near the Capitol. For terms, apply to
DANL. CARROLL of Dudn. Washington, August 5—2awto
Fifty Dollars Reward
RANAWAY from the subscriber residing in the District of Columbia, on the first of August, 1807, a black man NAMED MOSES , about five feet 8 or 9 inches high, 25 years of age, has been a carpenter and is an excellent workman, he has a remarkable scar on the top of one of his feet something like the scar from a burn, believed to be on his right foot—he was dressed in an ozenburgh jacket and pantaloons, but may change both his name and dress.
Ten dollars will be paid if found in this District, and the above reward if out of the District and confined in any jail so that I get him again.
ROBERT ALEXANDER. Washington, August 19, 1807. tf.
One Hundred Dollars Reward, If taken in this state, or ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY if taken out of this state and brought home—
OLIVER, HARRY, LINA, & SARAH , who ran away from the subscribers living in Madison county, on the 15th of June last; Oliver, is a stout made fellow about 45 years old, about 6 feet high, a little yellow complexioned, round shouldered and a little knock-kneed, some few grey hairs to be seen about his temples, has a hoarse voice the appearance of a cold—Harry is a very small fellow, but well made to his height, supposed to be about 30 years old, black complexioned, a tailor by trade—Lina, a small yellow complexioned wench about 22 years old, the said Lina and Harry were purchased out of the estate of Mr. Benjamin Grimes, of Prince George county in the year 1800—Sarah, a dark complexioned girl about 15 years old; I think it useless to mention their clothing as I have reason to believe they have changed their clothing since they left home; I do not doubt but they are provided with a pass and may attempt to pass as free people, but examining the pass and not finding the county seal to it, it will prove to be a counterfeit one, and may attempt to get into Maryland or Pennsylvania, or to Norfolk, or to some of the western states, or possibly they may have been conducted off by some white person to some distant part who may make sale of them. I hereby give a caution to all and forewarn all owners and masters of vessels from taking on board or secreting said negroes under the strictest penalty of the law, or the one half of the 150 dollars will be given if secured in jail out of the state and 50 dollars if secured in jail in this state to that we get them again.
THOMAS GR. VEE. THOMAS GRAVES, Jun. Virginia, Madison county, August 17—8t
LAND FOR SALE.
PURSUANT to an order of the court of Calvert county, the subscribers will sell by public auction at the Court House in said county on Monday the 28th day of September next, if fair, if not the next fair day, all the real estate of the late Mr. James Weems, consisting of the following tracts of Land. The tract on which the said James Weems resided, lying about two miles from Patuxent river, and containing 640 acres. The soil of this land is well calculated for the growth of corn, wheat and tobacco; there is about 30 acres of excellent meadow ground upon it not now in an improved state, but can be put so with very little labor or expence; a considerable part of this land is very heavily covered with wood, among which there is a great quantity of superior timber; there is also upon this tract a large two story Brick Dwelling-house, containing 4 rooms and a passage on the 1st floor and 6 rooms and a passage in the 2nd floor, also a cellar under the house divided into 5 apartments, one of which is intended for a kitchen and most conveniently fixed as such; there is also a barn, stable, corn house and other convenient out-buildings. One other tract of Land lying near the Court House containing 450 1/2 acres; upon this tract there is a small but very convenient framed dwelling-house with a kitchen and other necessary out buildings. This land produces extremely well; there is some excellent meadow land upon it and an ample quantity of wood for fencing and fire wood. This tract is now in the possession of Mrs. Weems (the widow of the aforesaid James Weems) to whom it was laid off by the commissioners as her portion of the land, and it will be sold encumbered with her life estate. Two other tracts of Land lying very near the last mentioned tract, one containing 100 acres; the other 262 acres. Upon the first of these two tracts there is a small wooden dwelling-house, also a quantity of excellent wood and timber. On the other tract, there are several small wooden dwelling houses and one tobacco-house, also a sufficiency of wood for fencing and fire-wood. It is thought needless to give a more full description of these lands, as it is presumed no one will purchase without first viewing them, and on application to Dr. Nathaniel T. Weems, who lives adjacent to the first mentioned tract, he will show all the different tracts.
These different tracts of land will be sold in a body or in parcels as may best suit those who wish to purchase. The purchasers to give bond with approved security for the purchase money, to be paid in three equal annual payments; the whole interest to be paid yearly, and on the ratification of the sale by the court and a full payment of the purchase money, a deed of conveyance will be executed to the purchasers agreeable to an act of Assembly in such case made and provided.
FREDERICK SKINNER, } Commit. JAMES DUKES, } PARKER BOWEN, } Esq. July 10—wam
PROPOSALS.
By CONRAD, LUCAS & Co. (late M. and J. Conrad and Co. ) No. 138, Market street,
FOR PUBLISHING LEWIS and CLARK'S
TOUR TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN,
THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, Performed by order of the government of the United States, during the years 1804, 1805, and 1806.
THIS work will be prepared by captain MERIWETHER LEWIS , and will be divided into two parts, the whole comprised in three volumes octavo, the first containing at least 700 pages, the second and third from four to five hundred each, printed on good paper, and a fair Pica type. The several volumes in succession will be put to press at as early periods as the avocations of the author will permit him to prepare them for publication.
PART THE FIRST—IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME FIRST.
Will contain a narrative of the voyage, with a description of some of the most remarkable places in those hitherto unknown wilds of America, accompanied by a map of good size, a large chart of the entrance of the Columbia river, embracing the adjacent country, coast and harbors, and embellished with views of two beautiful cataracts of the Missouri; the plan, on a large scale, of the connected falls of that river, as also, of those of the falls, narrows and great rapids of the Columbia, with their several portages. For the information of future voyagers, there will be added in the sequel of this volume, some observations and remarks on the navigation of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, pointing out the precautions which must necessarily be taken, in order to ensure success, together with an itinerary of the most direct and practicable route across the continent of North America, from the confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi rivers to the discharge of the Columbia into the Pacific Ocean.
VOLUME SECOND.
Whatever properly appertains to geography, embracing a description of the rivers, mountains, climate, soil and face of the country; a view of the Indian nations distributed over that vast region, showing their traditions, habits, manners, customs, national characters, stature, complexions, dress, dwellings, arms, and domestic utensils, with many others interesting particulars in relation to them: also, observations and reflections on the subjects of civilizing, governing and maintaining a friendly intercourse with those nations. A view of the fur trade of North America, setting forth a plan for its extension, and showing the immense advantages which would accrue to the mercantile interests of the United States, by combining the same with a dir. ct trade to the East Indies, through the continent of North America. This volume will be embellished with twenty plates illustrative of the dress and general appearance of such Indian nations as differ materially from each other; of their habitations; their weapons and habiliments used in war; their hunting and fishing apparatus; domestic utensils, &c. In an appendix there will also be given a diary of the weather kept with great attention throughout the whole of the voyage, showing also the daily rise and fall of the principal water courses which were navigated in the course of the same.
PART THE SECOND—IN ONE VOLUME.
This part of the work will be confined exclusively to scientific research, and principally to the natural history of those hitherto unknown regions. It will contain a full dissertation on such subjects as may have fallen within the notice of the author, and which may properly be distributed under the heads of Botany, Mineralogy, and Zoology, together with some sketches on the origin of Prairies, the cause of the mudiness of the Missouri, of volcanic appearances, and other natural phenomena which were met with in the course of this interesting tour. This volume will also contain a comparative view of twenty-three vocabularies of distinct Indian languages, procured by captains Lewis and Clark, on the voyage, and will be ornamented and embellished with a much greater number of plates than will be bestowed on the first part of the work as is intended that every subject of natural history which is entirely new, and of which there are a considerable number, shall be accompanied by an appropriate engraving illustrative of it.
This distribution of the work has been made with a view to the accommodation of every description of readers, and is here offered to the patronage of the public in such shape, that all persons wishing to become subscribers, may accommodate themselves with either of the parts, or the entire work, as it shall be most convenient to themselves.
Detached from this work, there will be published
LEWIS & CLARK'S MAP OF NORTH AMERICA,
From Lon. 0 deg. west, to the Pacific Ocean, and between 36 deg. and 52 deg. north Lat. with extensive marginal notes—dimensions 5 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 10 inches.
Embracing all their late discoveries, and that part of the continent heretofore the least known. This map will be compiled from the best maps now extant, as well published as in manuscript, from the collective information of the best informed travellers through the various portions of that region, and corrected by a series of several hundred celestial observations, made by captain Lewis during his late tour.
For the convenience of subscribers, these several works will be delivered at the most respectable commercial towns, and at the seat of government of the respective states and territories within the Union; no advance is required, nor will payment be demanded until such delivery is made.
The price of part the first in two vols. will be Ten DOLLARS, and that of part the second in one vol. Eleven DOLLARS, delivered in boards. Price of the Map, Ten DOLLARS.
Any persons who may have subscribed for these works, to lists which contain no stipulated price for the same, and who may be dissatisfied with the terms now proposed, are at liberty to withdraw their names from such lists, at any time prior to the 1st day of December next.
M. LEWIS. July 27.
Pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of Maryland passed at November session 1806, notice is hereby given to all persons holding Lots in the town of Cumberland, Allegany county, and on which ground rents are now due, that unless they come forward and discharge the same, on or before the 1st day of January next, the said lots to standing charged with ground rent, and remaining unpaid on that day, will then on the said 1st day of January be put up at Public Sale, and sold to the highest bidder, upon a credit of 60 days, as by the said act of Assembly, entitled "An act authorising the collection of certain ground rents due on lots in the town of Cumberland, in Allegany county" is directed. The sale to be held at John Ryne's tavern in said town, and to commence at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
THOMAS BEALL, of Saml. April 29—3&cm7t
Treasury Department of the United States, April 2d, 1807.
Whereas the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, at a meeting held on the 23d day of March 1807, did resolve, that the sum remaining to complete the expenditure of the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars, should among other purposes be applied to the reimbursement of the FOUR AND HALF PER CENT. STOCK, created in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 3rd day of March 1795.
This is therefore to give notice, that the principal of the said Four and half per cent. stock, will on surrender of the certificates be paid on the 1st day of October next ensuing the date hereof to the respective stockholders or their lawful Representatives or Attorneys duly constituted and authorised, either at the Treasury or at the Loan Office as the case may be, where credits have been given for the amount of stock respectively held by them; & that the interest which may then be due on said stock, will also be paid to the respective stockholders or their lawful Representatives or Attorneys duly constituted and authorised.
It is further made known for the information of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the said Four and half per cent. Stock, either from, or to the books of the Treasury, or from or to the books of a Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the first day of September ensuing. And the interest on all certificates of said stock, which shall not have been surrendered in pursuance of this Notification will cease and determine on the day preceding the day, hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof.
ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury. April 6—w330
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
R. C. Weightman, Printer, Bookseller, and Stationer, Pennsylvania avenue.
HAS just received from Philadelphia and New York, a Large and General assortment of articles in his line, which he will sell on the same terms they can be had for in either of those places, among which are,
Malthus on Population, 2 vols. Lauderdale on Public Wealth, Leland's Demosthenes, a vo. Lay on an Irish Harp, by the author of the Wild Irish Girl, Homer's Iliad, pocket edition, plates, Odyssey do. Telemachus, do. Tale of a Tub, (Swift's) do. Devil on Two Sticks, (Le Sage) do. Jonathan Wild, (Fielding) do. Oil Bisc, 3 v. do. Marmontel's Tales, 3 v. do. Sully's Memoirs, 5 v. Museum of Wit, Tristram Shandy, 3 v. Voltaire's Tales, 2 v. The above are principally Superb and cheap London editions.
Giddy's European Commerce, showing new and secure channels of trade with the continent of Europe, &c. &c. a late and very valuable publication,
Jackson's Mediterranean Commerce, Warren's History of the American Revolution, a late important and interesting work,
Life of James Beattie, L. L. D. Aikin's Geographical Delineations, Playfair's Geometry,
Ferguson's Lectures, 2 v. 8 vo. with plates separate in 4 to. new edition 6 DOLLARS, Dr. Mease's Geological account of the United States,
Sterne's Works, New edition, 5 v. 5 DOLLARS.
Peregrine Pickle, do 3 v. 3 DOLLARS.
Winter Evenings by Dr. V. Knox, Wonders of Nature and Art, 14 v.
Lavoisier's Chemistry, Black's do. 3 v.
Gibson's Surveying, Hutton's Mensuration,
Watkington's Letters, Simson's Conic Sections,
Euclid, Bacon's Abridgement, 7 v.
Wilton's Works, 3 v. Blackstone's Commentaries with Christian's Notes 4 v.
Dallas's Reports, 4th v. Young's Latin Dictionary,
Latin Courses, (Farrand's) Davidson's Exercises,
Hoyle's Games, neat pocket edition and cheap,
Leonora, a new novel by Miss Edgeworth, Wild Irish Girl, by Miss Owenson,
Zaida, by Kotzebue, Kloifa, by J. J. Rousseau,
Morland Vale, and a variety of other new and interesting books.
An additional assortment of Music, among which are the Battle of the Nile, Just Like Love, &c. &c.
Writing Papers of all kinds, plain and hot-pressed.
Quills, from 40 to 5 and 6 dollars per thousand.
Sealing Wax, Red Tape, office Wafers of all sizes, Penknives, Fruit do. embossed visiting Cards, &c. &c.
A large assortment of elegant and common Pocket Books, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Printing Ink, patent Ball skins, &c. &c. &c.
August 12—6tcop