The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1804-06-04 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. IV.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. DLXXI.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, JUNE 4th, 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
Will be held at Public Auction if not previously disposed of to a private purchaser. On Friday the thirtieth of June at Mr. Semmes's tavern—Lot no. 57 at the corner of Fayette and First streets next to Mr. C. Lowndes' facing the Roman Chapel. There is a two story Frame House with an excellent well on the premises, and the situation cannot be excelled for health. The owner in the property will be properly relinquished and satisfactory security given that the subscribers conveyance of the property upon the purchasers fulfilment of the terms. The conditions are one half of the purchase money in cash, and the other in a note of twelve months with approved endorser negotiable in the Bank of Columbia.
EDWARD NOUN BUTLER.
June 1—tf For further particulars enquire at Mr. Lee's second brick house west of the War Office Pennsylvania avenue.
TH. W. PAIRD,
Has just received in the Schooner Hind from Philadelphia a handsome assortment of SPRING & SUMMER GOODS, amongst which are
Twilled nankeens. London hats, Plain and striped do. Handsome fans, Cambrie & India musl. Ladies veils Ins. colored and glazed do. Satin boxes, Mouselin. Lace and edging, Linen cambric, Straw bonnets, Jeans, Willow do. & sheets, Dimities, Silk corset, Mouselines, Wax beads, Cotton counterpanes, Puffs, Silks, Tandana, Madras and other handkerchiefs, Cotton thread and silk do. Ribbons, hole, Chinese and calicoes, Silk and red gloves, Writing paper, Tris Linen, Cotton and silk suspender, Dowlas and diaper, Furniture fringe, taf- Check Linen, ets and cord, Bed ticking, Umbrellas & parasols, Umbrellas & parasols, Gold & silver watches, Silk & muslin shawls, Watch chains, seals & Spanish segars, keys.
ALSO,
Two English Piano Fortes, first quality, with additional keys, violins, music, and a great variety of lungs, all of which will be sold very low, wholesale and retail.
Georgetown, 1st June.—3t.
Public Sale.
By virtue of a decree of the circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Washington sitting as a court of chancery, at the suit of William H. Dorsey, Nicholas Hoopes, George Craig and Adam Whann, against Agnes Jackson, executrix; William Jackson, executor; Jonathan Jackson, Matthew Jackson, Elizabeth Jackson and Susanna Jackson, infant heirs of Jonathan Jackson, deceased, defendants—Will be expected at public auction to the highest bidder at the premises on Thursday the 14th day of June next, at 11 o'clock A. M. all the right, title, and interest of said Jonathan Jackson, deceased, to the following lots of ground in the city of Washington—the lots numbered 21 and 22 in square numbered 75, the lot numbered 2 in square numbered 164, and part of a lot numbered 14 in square numbered 75, which said part of a lot has now on it the ruins of a brick house, burned together with a house of Mr. Hodgson's then occupied as a War Office. And all the right, title and interest of the said J. Jackson to the following lots or parcels of ground in George Town, that lot of ground on the north of Canfield street, beginning on the north of said street at the distance of 23 feet westerly from the south west of Joseph Peck's house, and running thence westerly 25 feet and running back 125 feet—Also that lot of ground on Washington street adjoining to the south side of the house now occupied by Wm. A. Rind, fronting on said street 47 feet and running back 120 feet—and also that lot of ground on the north west corner of Congress and West streets of Beall's second addition to George Town fronting on said street 40 feet. The terms of sale are one year credit from the day of sale, the purchaser or purchasers giving their bonds, with approved security for the purchase money with interest thereon.
AGNES JACKSON, WILLIAM JACKSON, } trustees.
May 18—gw
N. B. We hereby give notice to all persons having claims against the estate of the said Jonathan Jackson, deceased, either for debts due, or legacies bequeathed, to bring them into court within three weeks after the above sale.
A. J. W. J.
WANTED,
An APPRENTICE to the SADDLERY business—A boy of about 14 years of age will be taken on liberal terms.
GEORGE BLOUNT,
Pennsylvania avenue.
May 18—9t
THEATRE.
THE Theatre committee request a meeting of the subscribers and other gentlemen defrayers of promoting that object, at Mr. Rhodes's tavern on Thursday the 7th day of June next, at 6 o'clock in the evening—As matters of importance will then be laid before the meeting, it is hoped there will be a full attendance.
WILLIAM BRENT, Sec of the Theatre Co.
Washington, 30th May,
National Intelligencer.
Extracts from "The Political and Confidential correspondence of LEWIS THE SIXTEENTH, with observations on each letter." By Helen Maria Williams. In three volumes Octavo.
LETTER
TO M. DE MALESHERBES.
Versailles, April 17, 1776.
"I had no power to express to you, my dear Malesherbes, in our last interview, all the chagrin I felt at your determined resolution of resigning your place in the ministry. After having maturely reflected on this subject, I shall unfold my heart to you, and shall commit my ideas to paper, that they may not escape from my memory."
"Surrounded, as I am, by men who are interested in misleading my principles, and preventing the voice of public opinion from reaching my ear, it is of the highest importance to the prosperity of my reign, that I should sometimes be able to repose my eyes on a few pages of my own choice, whom I may call the friends of my heart, and who will warn me of my errors, before they have influenced the destiny of twenty four millions of men."
"You, together with the wife de Maurepas and the intrepid Turgot, are the men in my dominions who have the highest claim to my confidence; and you must not lead our common enemies to imagine that you are on the point of losing that confidence, at the very moment when you have most deserved it."
"When Maurepas presented your name to me as one of those who were best fitted to give weight to my plans of benevolence, I examined in silence your public and private life, and perceived that I should perhaps be happier in offering you a great place, than you in receiving it."
"Before your first presidency, my Court des Aides was a company ill organized, and corrupted by the financiers, whom we had placed under its inspection. A comptroller general never found any opposition when he presented odious fiscal edicts. You appear, my dear Malesherbes; you have driven from this corps the members which dishonored it; and it is now become, agreeably to its primitive institution, the asylum of the indigent and the oppressed."
"Nature gave you the soul of a citizen; and you have transfused it into your Court des Aides; at least it may judge by the vigorous remonstrances which you have dictated, and which I have placed, in my chosen library, between the Cassiniarians of Cicero, and the Philippics of Demosthenes. I am not indeed sure whether it be useful to throw maxims so philosophical across a monarchical constitution, which so many have an interest in shaking; but your remonstrances breathed the spirit of public good; they explained to me the disorders which my court and my ministers had conspired to hide; and I have considered them only under this point of view. Notwithstanding, therefore, they hold forth some principles to which I could not assent, I inwardly applauded your courage, and felt that you had a right to my gratitude."
"Our interviews, at which Maurepas was present to judge us both, served to increase my esteem; and I gave you that department of my house, vacant by the dismissal of La Vrilliere. You long balanced whether you should come, and breathe the air of my court, so ill in sympathy with the interesting simplicity of your manners. Turgot made you understand, that, without your aid, he could operate no durable good; he determined you; and I esteemed him the more."
"You began your ministry with a league of vigor no way contradictory to my principles, by refusing to make use of lettres de cachet, which were so much complained of, and of which your predecessors disposed at the will of his favorites. The Bastille overflowed with prisoners, who, after years of confinement, were sometimes ignorant of their crimes; and you restored to liberty all those who had only to reproach themselves with having displeased those gentlemen in power, and such of the guilty as had been too severely punished."
"You undertook useful reforms in my military establishment; but many persons conceived alarms. I had reason to apprehend that the discontent might produce troubles resembling those of the League, and the Fronde; and I was obliged to reserve for a happier period
the moment so dear to my heart, when banishing vain pomp, I shall have composed my household of men of worth, such as you, who surround me, and shall have, for guards, the hearts of the French."
"It is in this trying conjuncture, my dear Malesherbes, that you ask leave to retire? No, I will not grant your request; you are too necessary to my service; and, when you have read the whole of this letter, I know enough of your sensibility to believe that you will cease your demand. Besides, it is not at the very moment when you are obliged to yield to circumstances, that you ought to give in your resignation. The court will think you in disgrace; and that word, when it relates to a subject so respectable as yourself, ought never to pass my lips."
"I expect you to-morrow at Maurepas. Be assured of my esteem and friendship."
"LEWIS."
Observations on the fourth letter.
M. DE MALESHERBES is a character on whom we may be lavish of praise, without the censure of extravagance. This celebrated personage had occupied the place of secretary of state about nine months from the date of this letter, having succeeded the duke de la Vrilliere, the July preceding. Under Lewis the Fifteenth, he held an office unknown in civilized countries, which in France was called Directeur de la librairie , and which may be translated, Inspector of the press . This place he appears to have filled with considerable satisfaction to all those whom it was his office to persecute and impugn; and the constituted gaoler of the human mind was hailed as the friend of freedom and philosophy, and the protector of all enlightened men.
But it appears that M. de Malesherbes not only protected philosophy and literature, but carried the heroism of his office to a still further excess, and placed the tribunal of letters on a level with justice, pretending that its decisions had the force of law. Under his administration, a formidable power called public opinion, which was destined not only to brave, but finally to overpower and crush, despotic authority. M. de Malesherbes was a disciple, or rather a professor, of the doctrine of the perfectibility of the human mind, which doctrine at that period had many illustrious votaries. It was in pursuance of this theory, that numerous reforms took place in the French government on the accession of Lewis the Sixteenth. This prince was too just, not to feel and acquiesce in the necessity of those reforms, but unfortunately had neither sufficient strength to direct, nor constancy to support them.
M. de Malesherbes, therefore, comes forward on the scene, only to make us regret his loss; but it does not appear what were the immediate motives which led him to have formed so decided a resolution as that mentioned in the opening of this letter. It was with considerable repugnance, and after many interviews with the king that he was prevailed on to accept the place of minister. He stipulated his conditions on his entering into office—conditions, not such as the interested usually bargain for in similar circumstances—conditions for himself—but stipulations of benevolence and mercy for others. Before he undertook the charge, he received the royal promise that no lettres de cachet should be signed, but such as he preferred; that his place should be held during his own pleasure, and that his retreat should not be obstructed by any royal reclamation.
M. de Malesherbes was president of the Court des Aides at the time when Lewis the Fifteenth determined to suppress the parliaments. Whatever opposition might have existed in these judiciary corporations against the royal authority, the remedy proposed by M. de Malesherbes in the convocation of the states-general, would have had little tendency to diminish. He was right in observing that courts of justice were imperfect organs of the public will; but national representation, such as that by the states-general, was still less likely to be the support of arbitrary power. How fatal to such power was this plan of M. de Malesherbes, when carried into execution twenty years afterwards, the history of the revolution has shown. In the present instance, it is his integrity as administrator, and his knowledge as financier, which the king mentions with such distinguished eulogium.
"Nature," says the king, "has given you the soul of a citizen." The expression does honor to the personage by
whom it was penned, and still more to the virtuous minister to whom it was addressed. Great credit is due to the judgment of the king, as such, in the critique which he passed on the philosophical maxims which pervaded the remonstrances in question. The knowledge of M. de Malesherbes democratic & anti-catholic principles was not disseminated by him; but he knew also how to distinguish between the real lover of his country, and the secret enemy of the altar, if not the lukewarm friend of the throne.
No part of the administration entrusted to M. de Malesherbes appears to have occupied him more than the abuses relative to lettres de cachet. In a memorial presented to the king, he states that he found more than half the number of prisoners in the Bastille, and the dungeons of Vincennes, had been confined upwards of fifteen years, and that their loss of reason rendered them unfit for the enjoyment of liberty. The horror which a benevolent mind must feel at such a discovery can be easily comprehended; but it was less the light of the victims, than the power of making such, which excited those emotions "I shuddered," exclaims this benevolent minister, "on my entering into office, when I found myself feared at my entrance, opposed to a single secretary, and absolute master of pronouncing arbitrarily, and without appeal, sentences, of so dreadful a nature."
Our limits compel us reluctantly to postpone until the publication of our next paper the high gratification our readers will find in the observations on Mr. Turgot's dismissal.
COURT MARTIAL.
Head Quarters, New Orleans,
February 1st, 1804.
GENERAL ORDERS.
A General Court Martial under the orders of the Secretary of War, was convened at Frederick town (Maryland) on the 21st of November, and continued its session until the 6th of December. This court was composed of the following officers, viz.
President.—Col. Berbeck.
Members.—Lieut. Col. Freeman, Major Mac Rea, Capt. Baill, Capt. Read, Capt. Still, Capt. Freeman, Capt. McAllen, Capt. Boote, Capt. Ball, Capt. Saunders, Lieut. Osborne.
Judge Advocate.—Lieut. Houle.
Col. THOMAS BUTLER, of the 2nd Regiment of Infantry, was assigned before this tribunal on the following charges, viz.
Disobedience of Orders and neglect of Duty.—Specifications.
1. For disobedience of the general orders of the 30th of April, 1801, regulating the uniform of the navy, as will appear from the said orders, and his (the Col's.) correspondence with the commanding general during the month of May last. 2. For disobedience of the orders of the President of the United States, communicated to him through the regular constitutional channel, the inspector of the army, on the 9th of April, 25th of May and the 8th of June, 1802, as will appear from the letters of the Colonel addressed to the Secretary of War, the 8th May, 1802, and to the commanding general, the 7th and 9th of August, 1802, and by other testimony. 3. For neglect of duty in not defending the Mississippi to take command of Fort Adams and organize the troops, agreeably to the peace establishment, but proceeding to Pittsburg with a military command on his private business and without permission, as will also appear from the correspondence before referred to, and other testimony.
To these charges the colonel pleaded not guilty, and the court having examined the testimony produced, and heard the prisoner on his defence, after mature deliberation, delivered the following sentence, viz.
"That the prisoner is guilty of disobedience of the general order of the 30th of April, 1801, and taking into consideration his long and faithful services, and his general character as an officer, do sentence him under the 5th article of the 2d section of the rules and articles of war, to be reprimanded in general orders."
"The court are also of opinion, after due investigation, that the prisoner is not guilty of the 2d and 3d specifications, and that he did according to the true intent and meaning of the orders
of the 9th of April, 25th of May, and 8th of June, 1802, faithfully perform his duty, and do therefore acquit him."
The general is induced, by his respect for this tribunal, and by considerations of expediency, in relation to the public service, to confirm the preceding sentence, and he hereby commands the prisoner to conform the cut of his hair to the order of the 30th of April, 1801, to resume his sword, and join his regiment in this city without delay.
In conforming to this sentence of the general court martial, the general would feel happy could he add his approbation of the proceedings submitted to him; but after the most patient examination, he finds this irreconcilable to his ideas of justice and of duty, and in justification of his conduct he thinks proper to assign his profession, the considerations which direct his judgment—the mitigated sympathies of the public in personal concerns particularly, are as common as false alarms, and their effects are sometimes more extensive and pernicious, in the case which gives birth to these remarks we have seen much pains taken and great art employed, to prevent the current of justice, to vindicate an act of insubordination and to exculpate a military offender, at the expence of every delicate regard for character, and even of truth itself. It is difficult to resist the torrent, of popular opinion, as it is easy to excite our sensibilities by the cry of persecution, the war-worn veteran dragged by the iron hand of despotism, while in vain he pleads his long services, his meritorious deeds, his scars, grey hairs, harsh lips and fulling, exhibits a spectacle to the eye and to the mind, which fills candid enquiry and interests the general affections of the human breast.
It would seem that this court, deluded by artifice and beguiled by the ingenious sophistry of the colonel's defence, have suffered their attention to be diverted from the true question on which they were to decide, and permit the best faculties of the mind to enlist on the side of error, and insubordination; an amiable but dangerous infirmity, which can alone account for the prisoner's acquittal from the charge of disobedience of orders and neglect of duty, or excuse the conduct of the court, as will be made manifest by the following summary examination:
On the 9th of April, 1802, the prisoner received an order to "hasten to Fort Adams with all possible expedition," in order to carry certain specific arrangements into execution; that if any unforeseen circumstance should prevent him from doing so, he ought to commit the trust to other officers to be retained at that post, whom he was to furnish with the necessary instructions for his government, and to follow with all practicable expedition.
In the mean time the colonel feeling himself indisposed to serve longer, proffers his commission to the President for as many months pay as he had lived years—this proposition was rejected, and in reply to the colonel's application for a furlough, he did receive the following order from the Secretary of War, dated the 25th of May, 1802.
"Considering your precarious state of health, the situation of your children, and your services, he (the Secretary of War) is willing to indulge you with a reasonable relaxation from duty, and he therefore consented, that to long as you have completed the organization of the troops in the Mississippi territory, and furnished the next officer in rank with the necessary information and instructions for his government, you return to the state of Pennsylvania, where you will be permitted to remain for the space of three months, after which you are to return to Fort Adams and resume the command of the post."
Here then we find three positive mandates imposed upon the colonel, by the highest authority, viz. to "follow with all practicable expedition to take the command, and to furnish the necessary information and instructions for his government."
What is the sequel? Does the colonel follow his officer with "all practicable expedition?" Does he take the command of Fort Adams and "furnish the officer next in rank with information and instructions for his government?" No. It is evident he did neither; but appalled by the metaphysical exaltations of the Mississippi, he feigns pretences for maintaining his post near Nashville, reiterates his application for a furlough, and finally, in the face of his orders, and under the consciousness that he was about to transgress them, is apparent from his correspondence with the ge-

meral he turns his back on his duty, and to the great injury of the public service, commits the most important command within the national limits to the discretion of a captain, without information, orders or instructions. He embarks for Pit sburg, on the 21st of August, 1802, and after about nine months unlicensed absence, he presents himself at Fort Adams.
From this candid exposition of facts, it follows incontrovertibly, that the colonel positively disobeyed his orders, by not following the officer ordered to the Mississippi and taking the command of Fort Adams, and that he was guilty of the most flagrant neglect of duty, by not informing and instructing the officer next of rank for his government—had the general suffered to high a transgression to pass over in silence, he would have betrayed a shameful ignorance of his profession, and merited the obloquy and abuse levelled at him for the faithful discharge of his duty.
The misapplication of mercy in military life should be cautiously avoided because it gives encouragement to vice, and occasion to cruelty, for every officer of experience must have remarked, that in armies the more certain and sudden the punishment, the fewer the offenders—but with us it has become a kind of fashion to extenuate our transgressions by bold pretensions to long service, great experience, and conspicuous merits. The artifice deserves credit on the score of its plausibility—it may excite our sympathy, but must not bias our judgment. If it be permitted to rank any intelligence to sanction error, what is to be our treatment of the youthful subaltern? How are we to conciliate the principles of subordination, and the obligations of duty? Or where are we to look for example, the foul of military institutions?
Away with such miserable shifts, such false doctrines, and let it be received and remembered as a found military maxim, that rank and responsibility go hand in hand, and that they are inseparable, that a young officer may offend ignorant and without intention, but that grey hairs imply an extent of service, which repels the same justificatory plea. We may therefore pardon the novice with safety, in cases where it would be hazardous to excuse the veteran—knowledge of service exalts the character and increases the responsibility—grey hairs, wounds, scars, and a broken constitution, present strong claims to our compassion and our bounty, but they ill apply to the vindication of military treacheries.
The general will dismiss the subject with a single remark more, to which he claims the particular attention of all ranks—the evasion of an officer is more dangerous and less excusable than a direct breach—the last may be justified, but the first is dishonorable.
(Signed) J. WILKINSON.
Inspectors office, Frederick Town } Maryland, 27th, April 1804. } The foregoing is a true copy from the original on file in this office. TH: CUSHING, Adjutant and Inspector of the army.
Translated for the Federal Gazette. ROYAL ORDINANCE OF THE KING OF SPAIN.
The king has learnt with surprise, that notwithstanding the most strict clauses by which he has been pleased to grant unto the count of Mopox the privilege for the introduction of one hundred thousand barrels of flour from the United States of America into your island, under the conditions contained in the Royal Ordinances which I communicated to you, Sir, for their performance; and although all the posterior favors were granted without being prejudicial to those of the said count, your administration has suffered and induced the council of foreign relations to delay the execution of the said privilege aforesaid; both under pretext of necessity, without proof, and pretences still more voluntary.
His majesty, however, being thoroughly informed of the whole, has condescended to declare void, annul and repeal such contracts and permissions as shall have been made and granted to natives and foreigners, for the introduction of flour from North America, prejudicial to those obtained in the first instance by the count de Mopox; and ordains in consequence, that until he has effected the privileged introduction of one hundred thousand barrels, provided this be done without interruption, and in such a manner as to keep the place and fortifications well provided, according to orders from the captain general of the island, you, Sir, will prevent and hinder any other person, although in the revenue, either any of those privileged posterior to the count, or any others of whatever class, to employ themselves with the introduction of said flour; as you, Sir, will be made answerable for the smallest transgression of this express will of the king, conformable to the said first privilege.
Of the receipt of this royal ordinance which I communicate to you, Sir, and forward a triplicate to the captain general.
ral, having sent the original by the said count de Mopox, you'll give me advice, for the government of his Majesty, and the result of this expedient. May you live many years.
Talavera de la Reina, Dec. 28, 1804. SOLER. To the Intendant of } the Havana.
London, April 14. By a neutral vessel that arrived from Holland, we learn that the French have demanded possession of 60 or 70 houses at Utrecht, which was done in a sumptuous way, by sending a note to every occupier, signifying they must quit possession immediately, leaving the furniture on the premises, of which they might take an inventory. An encampment of 40,000 men is immediately to take place at Utrecht.
The answer of the ministers of the different powers at Paris to the address of Talleyrand must excite a peculiar interest in this country, which is vilified and calumniated in a manner most undeserved and unexampled. They are all more or less suitable to the character, policy, and independence of their respective courts. The minister of Austria states generally that every member of the corps diplomatique must condemn any thing that is done by a diplomatic agent contrary to the laws of nations. The minister of Russia speaks generally to the same effect. The ministry of Prussia goes farther, and writes like a prefect of one of the United Departments: he says that M. Talleyrand can easily conceive "the whole part which the king his master will take in the entire cessation of so many subjects of alarm for the friends of France." The American minister doubts whether Mr. Drake can have been acting with the approbation of his government. M. Cetto, the Bavarian minister, expresses the utmost indignation that the territories of his master should have been selected as the rendezvous of intrigue and conspiracy against the tranquility of France. The elector of Baden's minister speaks in the same tone. M. d'Hervás, the Spanish minister, and most of the corps diplomatique, whether connected with France or not join in reprobating such transactions as those imputed to Mr. Drake. If the letters, &c. ascribed to that envoy be forged, and that they are we entertain not the smallest doubt, we think the calumny ought to be rebutted in some official way.
OFFICE OF THE POLICE. Paris, March 25.
The counsellor of state, presiding over the police, is informed, that many inhabitants of Paris are in the habit of letting furnished apartments to strangers without making the usual declarations to the commissary of police in their respective divisions. Such persons are acting directly contrary to the regulations concerning furnished houses, and shall be proceeded against for the same; for every hiring for a month, or even for a year, is to be interpreted as a hiring of a furnished house; and no proprietor or renter of a house at Paris, can let out an apartment or even a single room, furnished or unfurnished, to any person, a stranger to this capital (that is, to a person that is not domiciliated here, and who does not prove the same by his card of citizenship) without giving in, within 24 hours, his declaration to the commissary of police, under the pain of being prosecuted to the utmost rigor of the law.
(Signed,) DUBOIS. Counsellor of state, Prefect of the police.
Gen. Mancey, in his reports to the First Consul, of March 26, and April 4, mentions the arrest of the following Brigands:
In the district of Finistere—Lemercier, John Lelan, Alias Brutus, and Peter Jean, alias Cadoudal—John Louis, another brigand, escaped.
Near Pontoise, after a desperate resistance, Raoul Gairard, (of Rouen) known by the name of St. Vincent, and Armand Gaillard, his brother.
At Andilly, in the valley of Montmorency, Tamerlan, alias Tata, alias Deriville.
At Paris, Charles d'Hezier, and Victor Goucherry, the confidant and accomplice of Pichegru.
A brigand named Picot Lamorlan, alias Beaumont, one of the principal authors of the execrable attempt on the 3d Nivose, shot himself at Lagnicux, in the district of Belle.
Five Dollars Reward. STRAYED or stolen on Tuesday last, a large Pointer Dog, named PETER, lately owned by Mr. Saul of this city. He is wholly white, except a brown spot about his right eye. Upon delivering him in the city, at the treasury, or in George Town, at the store of Messrs. Ruff and Pleasonton, opposite the Union tavern, the above reward will be paid. City of Washington, June 1-3t
Replies of the member of the Diplomatic Corps to M. Talleyrand. TRANSLATED For the National Intelligencer.
SIR, I have received with the letter of your excellency, of the 3d Germinal, a copy of the report of the Chief Judge, relative to the correspondence of M. Drake, minister of his Britannic majesty at the court of Bavaria, with a list of those who have conspired in the interior of France against the government. The tender attached of his holiness for the person of the First Consul, the respect which I know he entertains for him, in consideration of the important services he has rendered to religion, and the special protection he has extended to the Church, the gratitude which, not only French catholics, but likewise those of neighbouring countries, owe him, have excited in me the most lively sorrow when I learned that his life was in danger, and the public tranquility had been so near being disturbed. I was then very far from thinking that any of the diplomatic agents could be implicated in this conspiracy; the public and sacred character with which they are clothed sheltered them from such a suspicion. I perceive with great regret, by the correspondence which your excellency has transmitted to me, that one of these agents has permitted himself to address to the enemies of the French government in the interior, instructions, means and plans. I am persuaded that his Holiness will feel as sensibly as myself this melancholy intelligence. Deign to assure the First Consul that the Sovereign Pontiff has viewed, and will always continue to view with horror whatever shall tend to disturb the interior peace of his government, on which rests the entire edifice for the re-establishment of the catholic religion in France. Every attempt against his precious life will be viewed by His Holiness as a crime as atrocious in itself, as it is fatal to the Church, and to the repose and tranquility of France. I have no doubt but that the diplomatic corps of Europe will participate with me in these sentiments, and that they will openly disavow whoever, among the members that compose it, shall abuse his character to propagate discord, and foment disturbances.
Your excellency will please to accept on this occasion the assurance of my high consideration. J. B. Cardinal Caprara, legate of the Sovereign Pontiff. Paris, March 26th, 1804.
Citizen Minister, I offer my thanks to your excellency for the communication you have been pleased to make to me of the report of the chief judge, a copy of which I have forwarded to Vienna for the information of my court. The opinion which the First Consul entertains of the sentiments and character of the diplomatic corps which has the honor of being accredited near his person, evinces that he renders justice to all the members which compose it. And surely he does not deceive himself by entertaining the opinion that there is no one amongst us who will not strongly condemn whatever a diplomatic agent or his government allow themselves to do contrary to the laws of nations and the principles of justice generally adopted among civilized nations. Accept, citizen Minister, the assurance of my high consideration. LE COMTE COBENZEL, Embassador of the Emperor, &c. Paris, 25th March, 1804.
Citizen Minister, I have hastened to transmit to my court, by a courier, the letter which your excellency did me the honor to write to me on the 3d Germinal, and a copy of the report of the grand judge on the conspiracy fortunately discovered by the vigilance of the police.
You know, citizen minister, the lively interest which the king, my master, has always felt for the life and welfare of the First Consul, as well as for the maintenance of order and tranquility in the state, of which he is the worthy chief. You may then imagine the effect of this communication on the mind of his Prussian majesty, whoever may be the authors and agents of the conspiracy, and your excellency will easily conceive the interest which the king will take in the cessation of those alarms which have disturbed the friends of France. In acquitting myself of the commission which has been given me, I have conceived it my duty to assure his majesty of the perfect union which reigns between the august chief of the Republic and all the servants of the state, between the whole nation, its representatives and defenders.
It is by such details that I shall always endeavor to reconcile with the sacred function, with which I am invested, the confidence and esteem of the government to which the king my master has deigned to send me.
Receive, citizen minister, the expression of my high consideration. At Paris, the 26 March, 1804. [6 germinal year 12] MARQUIS DE LUCCHESINI, Envoy extraordinary from his Majesty the king of Prussia.
The ambassador of the Batavian Republic, to the minister of Foreign Affairs.
Citizen Minister, The ambassador, who while at London, saw the vessels of his nation, brought into English ports, during the time of peace, had reason to expect that a war preceded by such a flagrant violation of the common principles of justice, and of the rights of nations, would be carried on with little delicacy as to the choice of means. It is with governments, as with individuals, when once the barriers of justice have been broken down, power is the only guide, and neither know where to stop their career. Although the history of every nation attested this melancholy truth, it was still difficult to conceive the possibility of an event, such as is detailed in the communication of your excellency, and it has been reserved for the present age to furnish so fatal and daring an attempt. If the facts developed in this correspondence inspire the deepest affliction in the breast of every individual, capable of calculating the fatal consequences arising from the abuse of one of the most sacred and respectable of characters, how poignant must be the sensations of one who is invested with this character and who has endeavoured by an adherence to his own duties, to acquire a right to that respect, protection and inviolability which the laws of nations assure him?
The Batavian ambassador, the minister of a nation renowned in all ages for its justice and incorruptibility, to whom loyalty has become habitual, and which observes a religious respect for the laws of nations, must, in the present case, feel a double portion of the general indignation.
Will you, citizen minister, be the interpreter of the sentiments to the First Consul, and accept the assurance of my high respect.
Signed, J. R. SCHIMMELPENNINCK.
Citizen Minister, I have the honor to announce to your excellency the receipt of the communication which has been made to me by order of the First Consul, of the report which has been presented by the grand judge on the conspiracy, contrived in France by Mr. Drake, his Britannic majesty's minister, at the court of Munich. I have made it my duty speedily to transmit this communication to my court.
The reading of the letters and authentic papers emanating from Mr. Drake, which are printed at the end of the grand judge's report, the originals of which your excellency informed me have been sent to his serene highness the elector of Bavaria, will deeply affect all the members of the diplomatic corps. It is afflicting to discover that a public minister should descend to practice intrigues which should be abhorrent to the honorable character with which he is invested, and to the dignity of his functions. Every foreign minister will regret with me that a public man exposes himself to an accusation for such conduct; and I do not doubt but all the members of the diplomatic corps, accredited by the First Consul, will share, in respect to the conduct of Mr. Drake, my sentiments and my opinion.
Accept, citizen minister, the assurance of my high consideration. DREYER. Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of his majesty the king of Denmark. Paris, 25 March, 1804.
SIR, I have just received the communication which your excellency had been pleased to make to me of the report of the Grand Judge to the First Consul, and the annexed papers, on a conspiracy directed against France.
The justice which the First Consul rendered to the sentiments of the diplomatic corps who have the honor of being accredited by him, excites the gratitude and corresponds fully with the sensation of profound sorrow with which it has beheld the sanctity and dignity of a public character protanated, whose functions are consecrated by honor and fidelity.
I cannot conceal from your excellency the extreme pain with which I read the papers which contain this communication, and which I have made it my duty to transmit immediately to my court. The sentiments of his majesty, the king my master, for the person of the First Consul and for the interior tranquility of a respected nation, whose situation has such influence on surrounding nations, are too well known to the First Consul to render it necessary for me to remind your excellency of them on this occasion.
I have the honor to be with sentiments of the highest consideration, Your excellency's Most obedient and most Humble servant, The Marquis DE GALLO, ambassador extraordinary of his majesty the king of Naples, and of the two Sicilies. Paris 26th March, 1804.
CITIZEN MINISTER,
I have received the letter in which you have communicated the report of the Grand Judge on the shameful and criminal plots of Mr. Drake, minister of his Britannic Majesty at my court. I do not hesitate to assure your excellency, that the Elector will manifest by measures the most severe, the most effectual, and the most conformable to his personal friendship for the First Consul, the grief and indignation which this Prince will feel at any one having dared to meditate and pursue in his states, under the mask of a sacred character, designs the most wicked and perverse.
I should vainly endeavor to express to you, citizen minister, how greatly I deplore the violence offered by such conduct to the respectable functions with which I am invested. I am fully sensible of the value of your attention in making known to me the justice rendered by the First Consul to the sentiments of all those who have the honor of being accredited by him. I shall be always ambitious of his approbation, as a flattering recompense of my zeal, and as the most honorable means of meriting the favor of my sovereign.
I pray your excellency to accept the homage of my respectful consideration.
Paris 26 March, 1804. (5 Germinal, year 12.) CETTO, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the elector of Bavaria.
CITIZEN MINISTER,
I have received the note which your Excellency did me the honor to address to me, of the date of 3d Germinal, with a copy of the report which has been presented to the First Consul by the Grand Judge on the conspiracy formed by Mr. Drake, Minister of his Britannic Majesty, at the court of Munich; also the printed copies of letters and other authentic papers of the said Mr. Drake, and I have hastened to transmit the whole to my court. There is no one, Citizen Minister, who will not learn with grief that Mr. Drake, invested with the most honorable public character, should descend to such a profanation of it.
I pray your Excellency to receive the homage of my respectful consideration, Paris, 4th Germinal, year 12.
COUNT DE BUNAU, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Elector of Saxony.
To his Excellency M. Talleyrand Perigord, Minister of Foreign Relations of the French Republic.
CITIZEN MINISTER,
The undersigned Minister Plenipotentiary of his Highness the Elector Arch Chancellor of the Germanic Empire, having received with respectful acknowledgment the letter which your Excellency had been pleased to address to him, of the date of the 3d inst. in which is enclosed a copy of the report presented to the First Consul on the conspiracy formed in France by Mr. Drake, Minister of his Britannic Majesty at the Court of Munich, he has hastened to send the above pieces to his Highness the Elector. The more necessary fidelity, honor, and probity are in the actions of a man to whom has been entrusted the honorable function of diplomacy the deeper is the sorrow which must be felt at the contemplation of this perfidious plot.
The unbounded sentiments of attachment, and the high consideration which the Elector Arch Chancellor has expressed for the First Consul, are so well known that the indignation which he will feel at this news may be easily conceived.
The undersigned, who by the express order of his Highness the Elector his Master, has already had the honour of expressing these sentiments himself at the last Diplomatic Audience, begs of your Excellency to repeat to the First Consul an assurance of the warm interest and sincere wishes for his preservation entertained by his Highness the Elector.
CHARLES COMTE DE BOEUST, Minister to Arch Chancellor of Empire.
The Baron of Pappenheim, Minister Plenipotentiary of his Serene Highness, Landgrave of Hesse, Darmstadt, near the First Consul of the French Republic, to the Minister of Foreign Relations.
CITIZEN MINISTER, I have hastened to transmit to my Court the letter with which your Excellency has honored me, and a copy of the report of the Grand Judge, with the printed letters and authentic papers of the Minister of his Britannic Majesty at Munich.
Every honest man must be deeply afflicted on discovering that Mr. Drake has so far forgotten what he owed to the dignity of his public character and to himself, as to become the author of the vile conspiracy against the French Republic and its august chief.
I am persuaded that the opinion of the First Consul relative to the diplomatic corps will be fully justified by each of its members, and I hope in regard to myself that after a residence of many years, the respectful attachment which

I have always entertained for the person of the First Consul so well known to your Excellency, that you need no assurances to be convinced of the sentiments of indignation and horror with which the dishonorable conduct of Mr. Drake has inspired me.
I venture to intreat your Excellency to make known these my sentiments to the First Consul, and to accept at the same time the assurance of my high consideration.
Puis, the 5th Germinal, year 12th, [26th March, 1804.]
AUGUSTUS DE PAPPENHEIM.
Sir, I hasten to inform your Excellency that I have received your letter of the 31 Germinal, with a copy of the report of the Grand Judge, relative to the conspiracy designed by Mr. Drake, Minister of his Britannic Majesty at the Court of Munich. I shall immediately transmit this communication to his Highness the Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem: His attachment, his profound devotion, as well as that of the Order over which he presides, to the interests of France, and to the august person of the First Consul, are such, that he will feel the greatest horror and indignation when he hears of this odious plot.
Accept, Sir, the homage of my most high consideration, with which I have the honor to be, your most obedient humble servant,
THE BAILIFF OF FERRETTE, Minister Plenipotentiary of his Highness the Grand Master of Malta.
CITIZEN MINISTER,
I have just received the letter which your excellency did me the honor to address to me together with the printed letter and authentic papers of Mr. Drake, Minister of his Britannic Majesty at Munich, relative to a conspiracy planned under his direction.
The impression which a knowledge of these details must make upon every man who respects the rights of nations and the general interests of humanity, cannot but be of the most painful nature. Such at least will be the feelings of the magistrates of the free towns of the Empire. This sentiment will be the stronger, as the conspiracy was principally directed against the person of the First Consul, whom all the inhabitants of the free towns of the Empire regard as the generous protector, who has preserved their independence, and for whom they feel the highest veneration and the most perfect attachment.
The discovery of this plot has nowhere produced so strong and general sensation of sorrow as among the inhabitants of these towns. The letters which I received on their hearing the news of this conspiracy discovered, how great was the consternation among all classes of the citizens, and subsequent ones testify the general interest on hearing that this plot has been completely crushed.
Deign to accept, citizen Minister, the assurance of the highest consideration, with which I have the honor to be your
Excellency's most obedient and humble servant, ABEL, RESIDENT MINISTER OF THE FREE CITIES OF THE EMPIRE.
WASHINGTON CITY,
MONDAY, JUNE 4.
For the accommodation of these citizens who are desirous of paying their taxes previous to the election of the City Council, I will attend on Monday the 4th inst. at my office until 1 o'clock, and at Mr. Stelle's on the Capitol Hill, from 2 o'clock until the evenings.
WASHINGTON BOYD, Treasurer.
COMMUNICATION.
The prospect of a recommencement of our operations at the theatre will be generally gratifying. As the title to the ground on which it is erecting has been for some time conveyed according to contract: As the object is certainly an important one to us, and as the means necessary to the speedy accomplishment of the work are comparatively trifling, it is presumed that the same spirit which a few days since manifested itself upon this subject among a number of gentlemen at the city council room will pervade the community at large; and that the meeting notified for Tuesday next, will be generally attended.
It may be further stated that the obstacle to the execution of the Canal which has for some time been apprehended, is only a supposel one; and that there is a probability of a perfect harmony and understanding with the parties immediately interested.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
First Chamber. Cornelius Covington. George Blagden, Samuel H. Smith, Joseph Bromley, Henry Herford,
Thomas Carpenter, Daniel Rapine, Robert Alexander, Samuel McIntire. Second Chamber. Nicholas King, William Brent, Alexander McCormick, William Woodward, Charles Jones, John Sinclair, George Andrews, James C. King, Charles Minnie,
SIR,
Lieut. Decatur is an officer of too much value to be neglected. The important service he has rendered in destroying an enemy's frigate of 40 guns, and the gallant manner in which he performed it in a small vessel of only 60 tons and 4 guns under the enemy's batteries, and surrounded by their corsairs and armed boats, the crews of which stood appalled at his intrepidity would in any navy in Europe insure him instantaneous promotion to the rank of post captain. I wish as a stimulus, it could be done in this instance, it would eventually be of real service to our navy. I beg you most earnestly to recommend him to the President that he may be rewarded according to his merit.
With the highest respect, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, EDWARD PREBLE. Honorable Secretary Navy. Feb. 19th, 1804.
The piece under the signature of "A REPUBLICAN ELECTOR," is alone inferred from motives of impartiality. But for such motives, it would have been considered as inadmissible on account of the reproaches cast upon particular descriptions of citizens; it being the firm purpose of the Editor to exclude from his columns personal reflections, whether true or false. The same regard to impartiality has imposed upon him the duty of making known the general contents without an exhibition of the piece to those who had previously offered the Republican Ticket and Addels that they might have an opportunity of making a fair reply in time to be of any avail; this step being rendered necessary by the piece not appearing before the day of election. The citizens who offered the ticket and address have in consequence desired the insertion of the following remarks:
"Several respectable meeting of republican citizens, as well for their numbers as the personal characters of those who composed them, have been held, open to the admission of every genuine republican, and to which the republicans have generally, though not universally, been invited. At these meetings the greatest harmony has prevailed and a common sentiment to sacrifice all local and personal interests to the general good. Men of fair private characters and of public spirit were selected to compose the tickets; and as far as public opinion has been ascertained, it appears to have expressed itself strongly in favor of the nominations. As no peculiar credit can be expected to be given to the assertions of an anonymous writer no further refutation is conceived to be necessary."
Mr. Smith, In your last paper I observe a nomination for members of the City Council, very gravely said to have been made "at a numerous and respectable meeting of republicans, convened for the purpose of nominating fit characters to be supported at the next election of City Council." A number of the gentlemen there nominated I highly esteem as valuable citizens, and very proper to sit in our council; and they will of course receive my vote, as a republican and a friend to the City:—Others again I view in a different light, and of course I shall oppose them.—At the foot of this nomination I find something with the same sombre gravity called an "ADDRESS," and directed to our citizens. The author hoping to escape particular observation, attempts to give the whole air of a solemn and authentic act of a public meeting—to make an impression that it is the result of a deliberate and fair discussion by a meeting of republicans, fairly and publicly convened.—Now, Sir, any individual has a right to propose any measure;—but he ought to do this candidly and not pretend to an authority to which he is not entitled.—I am a republican, and as neither myself or any of my neighbours of similar sentiments, I find, have ever heard of the meeting whose proceedings are pompously offered to us; I must conclude that this is one of those little, low intrigues which distinguish a little faction in this place, whose members I need not now designate, which having, intrinsically, neither any individual or collective importance, derive their whole consequence from the divisions and subdivisions of our citizens. Owing to the want of co-operation in other, their votes and petty influence they flatter themselves will be efficient and successful;—and, indeed, perhaps their calculation is a sound one. Unless, therefore, such of our fellow citi-
zens as have the real interest of the place at heart, come forward openly and actively on Monday next and discountenance this attempt, they may not only be imposed upon in this instance by the introduction of some improper characters into our City Council; but they will encourage future attempts, not perhaps more fraudulent, but more dangerous to the community.—By what authority, in what manner—when and where was this celebrated meeting convened? Was any notice given to the citizens or the republicans, generally? By what authority was the Address drawn or sanctioned?—Why are all those things so studiously kept out of view?—Was there a chairman—a secretary or a committee?—If so are they ashamed of their names?—This is a subject that will admit of much remark. I shall only now express my confidence that we are not to be gulled by such shallow artifices;—and add the description of characters of which I think our Council ought to be composed, viz. a decided majority of republicans in order to produce a cordial co-operation and harmony between the general government and ourselves, at the same time an intermixture of those of different political sentiments—men of understanding—fair private characters—who are firmly attached by a well established business or family connections to the City—and lastly men of property.—I know, Sir, that a strong prejudice exists in the minds of some against this latter class of citizens;—this prejudice, however, is extremely weak; and were it not followed and encouraged from ambitious and improper views by a few designing intriguing and unprincipled individuals among us, reflection would easily subdue it. It must be evident that all men of property have a strong interest in promoting the immediate object we have in view, the prosperity of the city. It is that prosperity only which can raise and appreciate their property. If they have no other claims, therefore, and are not otherwise particularly qualified, their interest is an infallible security we have upon them. Can we who have a less pecuniary interest, suppose ourselves more anxious for measures of a beneficial tendency than those who have a much greater? All laws must be general.—The high and the low, the rich, the poor and the middling classes of society must be proportionately affected by them. And could we even possibly suspect the disposition of men of large property, on this head, there is no danger of their acquiring in point of numbers an ascendancy in the council.—Let us not believe in the ridiculous pretext that the rich will injure their own property for the sake of injuring others. They generally, as all others, like their own interest too well to be guilty of such an absurd act.
A REPUBLICAN ELECTOR.
For the National Intelligencer.
The limited powers of the Corporation of this City in regard to taxation, and some disagreement between the two Chambers concerning the extent of their authority, are understood to have hitherto prevented the Council from making any pecuniary allowance to the Mayor. A late law of Congress having entirely removed the last mentioned obstacle, and given the Corporation command of abundant resources for the purpose, it would be but an act of Justice in the Council, upon the point of being elected, to make a prompt and an adequate provision for that magistrate. He received his appointment more than two years ago, and has exercised the duties of the officer since, without deriving from it one cent, in any shape whatever; whilst, it is presumed, it must have subjected him to some expense, much trouble, and, not unfrequently, a good deal of responsibility. In addition to these considerations it is believed, that there is not a citizen of Washington, who would unwillingly contribute his proportion, towards a decent and reasonable allowance for this first municipal officer of the place.
NEW SERIES OF FEDERAL MISREPRESENTATIONS.
No. XI.
We are indebted to a friend for the following statement of facts in refutation of certain falsehoods contained in a late number of the Washington Federalist. Our insertion of this statement evinces our entire reliance on its accuracy, on which the public may place implicit reliance. With our correspondent we coincide in opinion that "we owe it to the public to detect such gross misrepresentations;" and with him we consider them "wicked, because the persons who make them generally know them to be untrue."
"In the 635th No. of the Washington Federalist published May 30th 1804, a person under the signature of "A Correspondent" has stated that "It is confidently maintained by the bell-ringer of the district that about one million of dollars has been wasted by the present administration in the most shameful manner. In the navy department particularly, the most extravagant waste-
fulness has been committed. Nothing has been heard of to exceed the temptation under which they place the Purser of the navy, to squander the public money, and the improper use and application of the wood prepared, when Mr. Jefferson came into office to build the frigates—that the Purser are furnished with about twelve or 15 thousand dollars as an outfit, and left, when they return, to account for the application of that money in the best manner they are able."
Having the highest confidence in the gentleman, who has for more than two years past conducted the business of the Navy department, greatly to his own honor and to the satisfaction of all parties, I was convinced in my own mind, before I made any enquiry into the subject, that "Correspondent's" statements were incorrect—and having made the necessary enquiries, I can now state that the circumstances are simply these.
Under the administration of Mr. Adams, it was customary to provide at public expence, certain articles of clothing for the crew of each ship put into commission—this clothing was issued by the Purser of the ship to the crews under the direction of the Commanders, and charged to the individuals to whom it was issued, and the amount deducted from their wages on an ultimate settlement of their accounts.
In no case, however, was all the clothing thus provided, issued—and on the return of the vessels to the United States it was uniformly found that the clothing which remained on hand was injured and unfit for further use—it was consequently sold, and considerable loss was sustained on every piece sold. As Mr. "Correspondent" is a clerk in the Treasury Department [if I am correctly informed] he may satisfy himself of the truth of this statement by referring to the original accounts in the possession of that department. With the view then to guard the public from such heavy losses, and to economize in this instance as far as the nature of the service will permit, it has been judged expedient to advance to the purser of each ship a sum of money to enable him to purchase clothing for the crew on his own account—and to allow him to charge the persons to whom, under the direction of his commanding officer, he may issue clothing a reasonable compensation for his trouble and risk. This compensation is fixed by the department. The purser on their return to the United States exhibit their accounts, to the proper accounting officer of the government—they produce to him accounts supported by vouchers, of all the articles of clothing issued by them during the cruise—the accounting officer examines their accounts, and finding them correct, and that no injustice has been done to the crews, passes them to their credit. The public cannot lose by this arrangement one solitary cent.—The sums of money advanced to the purser are in reality advances to the crews on account of their pay.—Under the arrangement made under the former administration, it may be stated with confidence that the public sustained a loss of from 30 to 50,000 dollars from the sales of clothing provided at the public expence, for the use of the crews.
As to "the improper use and application of the wood prepared, when Mr. Jefferson came into office, to build the frigates," Mr. Correspondent has demonstrated by the observation that he did not understand his subject—here was no "wood," prepared to build frigates when Mr. Jefferson came into office.
EXAMINED
JAMES GREENLEAF.
Philadelphia April 13—wif The property of the AGGREGATE FUND lying in or near the river Potomac, consists of a large number of house lots in the city of Washington. A number of handsome brick houses and a few wooden houses in do. Awharf and store on do. Lands on the Eastern Branch, opp site do. Do. on Hunting Creek near Alexandria. Do. adjoining Fort Cumberland. Do. about 12 miles from do. The subscriber will in person receive application on any of the objects of his agency, at Mr. Stolle's hotel, until the 10th inst. after which until further notice, he requests that all applications may be made to capt. Thomas Tingey, William Cranch, esq or Mr. Samuel Eliot, jun.
JAMES GREENLEAF. Washington, June 4—gt rwif
TO be rented and possession given on 15th August, that commodious three story brick Dwelling House now in the occupation of George Quinn, west good out-house on the North side North F street—for particulars enquire of William Lovell near the premises. Washington, June 1—1246w
AN ACT Supplementary to an act, intitled "An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington, in the district of Columbia."
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act intitled "An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington, in the district of Columbia," except so much of the same as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby continued in force for and during the term of fifteen years from the end of the next session of congress.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the council of the city of Washington, from and after the period for which the members of the present council have been elected, shall consist of two chambers, each of which shall be composed of nine members, to be chosen by distinct ballots, according to the directions of the act to which this is a supplement; a majority of each chamber shall constitute a quorum to do business; In case vacancies shall occur in the council, the chamber in which the same may happen shall supply the same by an election, by ballot from the three persons next highest on the list, to those elected at the preceding election; and a majority of the whole number of the chamber in which such vacancy may happen, shall be necessary to make an election.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the council shall have power to establish and regulate the inspection of flour, tobacco and salted provisions, the guaging of casks and liquors, the storage of gunpowder, and all naval and military stores, not the property of the United States, to regulate the weight and quality of bread; to tax and licence hawkers and pedlars, to restrain or prohibit tipping houses, lotteries, and all kinds of gaming; to superintend the health of the city; to preserve the navigation of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers, adjoining the city; to erect, repair and regulate public wharves, and to deepen docks and basins; to provide for the establishment and superintendence of public schools; to licence and regulate, exclusively, huckney coaches, ordinary keepers, retailers and ferries; to provide for the appointment of inspectors, constables, and such other officers as may be necessary to execute the laws of the corporation; and to give such compensation to the mayor or of the city as they may deem fit.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the levy account of the county of Washington shall not hereafter possess the power of imposing any tax on the inhabitants of the city of Washington.
NATHL MACON. Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN BROWN, President of the Senate pro tempore. February 24, 1804. APPROVED. THOMAS JEFFERSON.
NOTICE. THE voters in the city of Washington are hereby informed that an election will be held on the first Monday in June next, at such place in each ward as the judges of the election may prescribe, for the purpose of electing members for the next City Council—the council to consist of two chambers, the First Chamber composed of 9 members, and the Second Chamber composed of 9 members, to be chosen by distinct ballots, according to the directions of the foregoing act, and of the act to which it is a supplement.
By order of the Mayor, THOMAS HERTY, Rapt. of the city of Washington. May 18—June
NOTICE. THE legal voters in the city of Washington are hereby informed that the ballots for the City Council will be received as follows: For the first division or ward, comprehending all that part of the city south, including the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, and west, including the west side of Sixth street west, at Morin's tavern Pennsylvania avenue.
For the second division or ward, all that part of the city north, including the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, and west, including the west side of Sixth street west, at Rhoades's Hotel.
For the third division or ward, all that part of the city east, including the east side, of Sixth street west, at Steele's Hotel.
The polls will be open on the first Monday in June next, precisely at 8 o'clock in the morning, and continue open until 7 o'clock in the evening.
DANIEL CARROLL, of Dud'n. CORNEL. CUNNINGHAM, BENJAMIN MORE. May 18—
Cheap Goods. JOHN COX HAS received a large and handsome assortment of Spring and Summer goods, and is happy in having it in his power to sell them unusually low. George Town, May 14—open
NOTICE. THE Subscriber, being legally and fully authorised, by his assignees, to adjust, and settle finally, all the concerns of his former estate, surrendered under the laws of Pennsylvania, of Maryland, and of the United States, hereby calls on all persons indebted to said estate, to make payment to him; and on all who have claims, to render him their accounts, with notice of what property is still held in pledge for securing payment. JAMES GREENLEAF. Philadelphia, April 13—wif

PROPOSALS.
For carrying the Mails of the United States on the following Post roads, will be received at the General Post Office in Washington, until the 15th day of June next, inclusive.
IN CONNECTICUT.
33. From Hartford by Grenby and Granville to Blandford in Massachusetts once a week.
Leave Hartford every Thursday at 8 a.m. and arrive Blandford by 6 p.m.
Leave Blandford every Wednesday at 8 a.m. and arrive at Hartford by 6 p.m.
34. From New-Haven by Hamden, Cheshire and Southington to Farmington once a week.
Leave New-Haven every Tuesday at 8 a.m. & arrive at Farmington by 6 p.m.
Leave Farmington every Monday at 8 a.m. & arrive at New-Haven by 6 p.m.
35. From Hartford by Glastenbury and Colchester to New London once a week.
Leave Hartford every Thursday at 8 a.m. & arrive at New London by 6 p.m.
Leave New London every Friday at 8 a.m. & arrive at Hartford by 6 p.m.
IN NEW YORK.
36. From Kingston by Catskill, Lnenburg and Coxsackie to Albany once a week.
Leave Kingston every Monday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Albany on Tuesday by 10 a.m.
Leave Albany every Saturday at noon and arrive at Kingston on Sunday by 6 p.m.
37. From Lansingburg by Scaticook, Esopus, Ayle and Hartford to Whitehall once in two weeks.
Leave Lansingburg every Wednesday by 2 p.m. & arrive at Whitehall on Thursday by 6 p.m.
Leave Whitehall every Tuesday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Lansingburg on Wednesday by 10 a.m.
38. From Oswego by Dyden and Milton to Sciope once a fortnight.
Leave Oswego every other Thursday at 2 p.m. & arrive at Sciope on Friday by 6 p.m.
Leave Sciope every other Saturday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Oswego on Monday by 8 a.m.
39. From the Little Falls to Fairfield once a week.
Leave the Little Falls every Tuesday at 1 p.m. & arrive at Fairfield by 3 p.m.
Leave Fairfield at 4 p.m. & arrive at the Little Falls by 6 p.m.
40. From Kingston by Woodstock & Middletown to Delhi once a week.
Leave Kingston every Monday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Delhi on Tuesday at 11 a.m.
Leave Delhi every Tuesday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Kingston on Wednesday by 6 p.m.
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
41. From Williamsport by Crooked Creek and Lindsleytown to Painted Post once a week.
Leave Williamsport every Monday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Painted Post on Tuesday by 6 p.m.
Leave Painted Post every Saturday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Williamsport on Sunday by 6 p.m.
42. From Chambersburg by Strasburg and Fannettsburg to Huntingdon once a week.
Leave Chambersburg every Friday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Huntingdon on Saturday by 10 a.m.
Leave Huntingdon every Saturday by 2 p.m. & arrive at Chambersburg on Sunday by 6 p.m.
43. From Alexandria by Hollidays, Beaula and Armagh to Greensburg once in two weeks.
Leave Alexandria every other Saturday at 3 p.m. & arrive at Greensburg on Monday by 6 p.m.
Leave Greensburg every other Tuesday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Alexandria on Thursday by 10 a.m.
IN VIRGINIA.
44. From Clarkburg by Buckan Settlement to Randolph ch. once in two weeks.
Leave Clarkburg every other Monday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Randolph ch. by 6 p.m.
Leave Randolph ch. every other Tuesday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Clarkburg by 6 p.m.
45. From Kenhawa ch. by Point Pleasant, Gallipolis and the Sal. Springs to Chillicothe once in two weeks.
Leave Kenhawa ch. every other Friday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Chillicothe on Monday by 10 a.m.
Leave Chillicothe every other Monday by 2 p.m. & arrive at Kenhawa ch. on Thursday by 6 p.m.
46. From Marietta, Ohio, to Wood ch. once a week.
Leave Marietta every Tuesday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Wood ch. by 6 p.m.
Leave Wood ch. every Wednesday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Marietta by 6 p.m.
47. From Lancaster ch. to Kilmarnock once a week.
Leave Lancaster ch. every Monday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Kilmarnock by 11 a.m.
Leave Kilmarnock every Monday at 7 a.m.
48. From Prince Edward ch. by Letters Store, Wheeler's Springs and Cam-bell ch. to New London once in two weeks.
Leave Prince Edward ch. every other Saturday at 6 a.m. & arrive at New London on Sunday by 6 p.m.
Leave New London every other Monday at 8 a.m. & arrive at Prince Edward on Tuesday by 6 p.m.
IN NORTH-CAROLINA.
49. From Danville Va. to Lenox-Calle N.C. once a week.
Leave Danville every Monday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Lenox-Calle by 6 p.m.
Leave Lenox-Calle on Tuesday by 6 a.m. & arrive at Danville by 6 p.m.
50. From Scotland Neck by Greensburg & Roads to Windsor once a week.
Leave Scotland Neck every Thursday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Windsor by 7 p.m.
Leave Windsor every Friday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Scotland Neck by 6 p.m.
51. From Newbern to Beaufort once in two weeks.
Leave Newbern every other Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Beaufort by 6 p.m.
Leave Beaufort every other Saturday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Newbern by 6 p.m.
52. From Halifax to Enfield once a week.
Leave Halifax every Thursday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Enfield by 11 a.m.
Leave Enfield every Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Halifax by 6 p.m.
53. From Neillson's ferry by Orangeburg, Barnwell ch. b. Treadways and Town Creek to Campbells town once a week.
Leave Neillson's ferry every Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Campbells town on Friday by 10 a.m.
Leave Campbells town every Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Neillson's ferry on Monday by 6 p.m.
54. From Statesburg to Columbia once a week.
Leave Statesburg every Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Columbia by 6 p.m.
Leave Columbia every Saturday by 8 a.m. and arrive at Statesburg by 7 p.m.
IN OHIO.
55. From Warren by Cleveland, fort Miami and Raisin river to Detroit once in two weeks.
Leave Warren every other Saturday at 10 p.m. and arrive at Detroit the next Saturday by 3 p.m.
Leave Detroit every other Saturday at 10 p.m. and arrive at Warren the next Saturday by 3 p.m.
56. From Chillicothe to Alexandria once a week.
Leave Chillicothe every Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Alexandria by 11 a.m.
Leave Alexandria every Tuesday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Chillicothe by 7 p.m.
57. From Steubenville to New Lisbon once in two weeks.
Leave Steubenville every other Monday at 6 a.m. and arrive at New Lisbon by 6 p.m.
Leave New Lisbon every other Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Steubenville by 6 p.m.
58. From Chillicothe to Franklin once in two weeks.
Leave Chillicothe every other Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Franklin on Thursday by 6 p.m.
Leave Franklin every other Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Chillicothe on Sunday by 6 p.m.
59. From Zanesville by Tuscarora to Gnadenhütten once in two weeks.
Leave Zanesville every other Monday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Gnadenhütten by 6 p.m.
Leave Gnadenhütten every other Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Zanesville by 6 p.m.
60. From Cincinnati by Hamilton, Franklin, Dayton, Staunton, Wainefville, Deerfield and Charleston, to Cincinnati once a week.
Leave Cincinnati every Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Staunton on Wednesday by 4 p.m.
Leave Staunton every Wednesday at 6 p.m. and arrive at Cincinnati on Friday by 6 p.m.
IN INDIANA.
61. From Massac by Girardeau in Louisiana to New Madrid once in two weeks.
Leave Massac every other Thursday at 2 p.m. arrive at Cape Girardeau on Friday by 6 p.m. Leave Girardeau the next Saturday at 6 a.m. arrive at New Madrid on Sunday by 4 p.m.
Returning.—Leave New Madrid every other Monday at 8 a.m. and arrive at Girardeau on Tuesday by 6 p.m. Leave Girardeau on Wednesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Massac the next Thursday by 10 a.m.
62. From Kaskaskias by Geneva to Girardeau once in two weeks.
Leave Kaskaskias every other Friday at noon and arrive at Girardeau on Saturday by 6 p.m.
Leave Girardeau every other Sunday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Kaskaskias on Monday by 2 p.m.
63. From Cahokia to St. Louis once in two weeks.
Leave Cahokia every other Monday at 4 a.m. and arrive at St. Louis at 10 a.m.
Leave St. Louis every other Monday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Cahokia by 8 p.m.
IN KENTUCKY.
4. From Springfield by Green 6 ch vduer ch. Cumberland ch. and Jack-son ch. T. to Blackburns Springs, T. once in two weeks.
Leave Springfield every other Monday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Blackburns Springs on Thursday by 10 a.m.
Leave Blackburns Springs every other Thursday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Springfield the next Sunday by 6 p.m.
65. From Washington to Augusta once a week.
Leave Washington every Wednesday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Augusta by 6 p.m.
Leave Augusta every Thursday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Washington by 6 p.m.
66. From Frankfort to Henry ch. once a week.
Leave Frankfort every Tuesday at 4 a.m. and arrive at Henry ch. by 11 a.m.
Leave Henry ch. every Tuesday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Frankfort by 8 p.m.
IN TENNESSEE.
67. From Dicks Springs by Lebanon ch. and Rutherford ch. to Nashville, once in two weeks.
Leave Dicks Springs every other Monday, at 6 a.m. and arrive at Nashville on Tuesday by 10 a.m.
Leave Nashville every other Tuesday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Dicks Springs on Wednesday by 6 p.m.
68. From Natchez to Fort St. d'art once in two weeks.
Leave Natchez every other Friday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Fort Stoddart the next Thursday by noon.
Leave Fort Stoddart every other Friday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Natchez the next Thursday by noon.
IN N. ORLEANS TERRITORY.
69. From Loftus's heights by Pinckneyville, Little Sarah Creek, Big Sarah Creek, Thompson's Creek, Butler's Plains, Baton Rouge, Iberville or Manshot Church, Abbeville, La Force, Cantrills German and Red Churches to New Orleans once a week.
Leave Loftus's heights every Friday at 2 p.m. & arrive at New Orleans the next Monday by 5 p.m.
Leave New Orleans every Tuesday at 7 a.m. & arrive at Fort Adams the next Friday by 10 a.m.
The contracts for the routes numbered from 27 to 43 inclusive and from 55 to 69 inclusive, are to be in operation on the 1st day of October next, and continue in force until the 31st day of March, 1805.
NOTES.
1. The Postmaster-general may expedite the mails and alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contracts, he stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense 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 depending mail whereby the mails delivered for such pending mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred.
4. Newspapers as well as letters are 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.
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 Postmaster-general reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end whenever three failures happen which amount to the loss of a trip each.
10. The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of October next, and are to continue in force for two years.
GIDEON GRANGER, Postmaster-General. General Post-Office, Washington City February 25, 1804. Feb. 27—2awt15Ju.
United States, District of Columbia and county of Washington.
In CHANCERY, 9th October, 1802. George King, John Davidson and John B. Evans, complainants.
against
Anne Young, the widow and Samuel W. Young, Elizabeth Young, Susanna Young, Richard Young, John Young and Charles Young the children and heirs of Abraham Young, deceased, and William King and Adam King all of the city of Washington in the district of Columbia, and John Ball, Henry Pratt, John Ashley, Thomas Wiling, Francis John Miller, jun. and Jacob Beker of the city of Philadelphia, defendants.
THE bill states that Abraham Young, deceased, late of the city of Washington aforesaid, did in his life time, to wit: on or about the 16th Sept. 1792, contract for and fell to the said William King above named, and one William Prout in equal and undivided moieties, parts of three tracts of land situate in the city of Washington aforesaid called Chancery, Hoppen enlarged, and Knock, by specified marks and boundaries containing in the whole one hundred acres, and an half acre.
That William King, afterwards on or about the 20th July, 1794, contracted for and sold his moiety of the said property to a certain John Nicholson late of Philadelphia, but now deceased. That the said John Nicholson to secure to him the said King the purchase money for the said moiety of the land or such part thereof as he did not actually pay, passed to the said King his the said Nicholson's note bearing date on the 20th September 1794, for 2665 dolls. 66 cent. payable 3 months after date, which the said William King afterwards for a valuable consideration assigned to the complainant George King and which hath never yet been paid or any part thereof: That he also gave to the said William King his three several bonds each dated on the 20th Sept. 1794, and each conditioned for the payment of 2501. current money of Maryland, with interest at the rate of three per centum per annum from their date aforesaid, until they should respectively become due and payable, the first whereof was payable the 1st day of January 1795, the second the first day of January 1796 and the third the 1st day of January 1797, neither of which or any part thereof has ever been paid, the two first were for a valuable consideration assigned by the said William King to the complainant John Davidson, the last to the complainant John B. Evans. That Abraham Young in his life time by indenture bearing date the 25th October 1794, conveyed the said moiety to the said William King, and that William King by indenture dated the 31st October 1794, conveyed to the said John Nicholson the said moiety, but that neither of the said deeds last mentioned were recorded as the law directs and therefore are wholly inoperative in law. That Abraham Young having died the legal estate in the said property has descended to and become vested in his children and heirs the defendants before named.
The object of the bill is to have the said property sold or so much thereof as will produce a sufficient sum to pay to the complainants the debts respectively due to them as aforesaid.
And it being now, to wit: this fourth day of May 1804, after publication made as to the other defendants stated by the complainants that Samuel W. Young and Charles Young two of the defendants in the said bill mentioned have since the filing thereof removed from the district of Columbia and from without the reach of the process of this court. It is therefore on the complainant's petition ordered that they procure a copy of this notice to be published at least once in three successive weeks in the two papers printed in the county of Washington before the first day of July next to the intent that the said Samuel W. Young and Charles Young may have notice of the said application and of the objects of the bill and that they be warned to appear here in person or by solicitor on or before the fourth Monday in July next to show cause if any they can why a decree should not pass as prayed in and by the said bill.
By order of the hon. William Kirby chief judge of the circuit of the district of Columbia.
Copy test. U. FORREST, CL. May 16 W3t
PROFILES.
I. TODD last from Alexandria, has erected his patent Physiognorace for taking LIKENESSES IN PROFILE, in the convenient room, lately occupied by Mr. Puchierat, dancing master, formerly Semmes's tavern, in High street a few doors above Pridge street, where those who may favor him with their attention may have four correct profiles for 25 cents.
N. B. Gilt and Black frames, may be had at the room. George Town, May 30—tf
The subscribers inform the Public that they have opened a store on the corner of Bridge and Washington streets next door to the Union tavern, George town, where they offer for sale an extensive and select assortment of groceries.
ROSS & PLEASANTON. Georgetown—May 30—tf
REMOVAL.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR,
Has removed to the house above
Mr. RHODES (LATE LOVELY'S) HOTEL,
near the President's Square.
In addition to the present stock of goods, an
Handsome Assortment
is expected immediately.
Gentlemen at a distance, by sending a line by post, will be waited upon with all possible expedition.
T. C. will pledge himself to execute any order with a taste, expedition and moderation of charge, which shall not be excelled by any.
April 16—tf.
HAT MANUFACTURY.
The subscriber informs his customers and the public generally that he has discontinued business in the city of Washington, and has opened a shop on Bridge street near the Union Tavern—he solicits the continuance of former customers, and hopes that all others who may chuse to call and purchase his manufacture will be amply suited, if neatness and goodness be requisites.
JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—tf
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE Subscriber has for sale a likely well grown healthy strong NEGRO lad about sixteen years of age; although his conduct has been such as oblige me to part with him, I believe he will make a valuable slave to any man who lives in the country and who will keep him closely, and constantly at work. Apply at the house of the subscriber in George Town where in his absence his brother will treat for him.
JOHN T. MASON. April 30—tf
NOTICE.
BY virtue of a decree of the circuit court of the district of Columbia in the suit of Valentine Peyton, against Mary Cook & Alexander Stedman and Julia his wife, Joseph Wilson and Robert Brown defendants, in chancery, will be sold at the premises to the highest bidder at public sale on the 14th day of June next, all that piece or parcel of land known and distinguished by lot, No. 5 in square No. 253 in the city of Washington, together with the houses and appurtenances according to the terms of the said decree, which are as follows, to wit: one third of the purchase money within six months from the time of the sale with interest thereon until the same shall be paid, one other third in twelve months from the time of the said sale with interest thereon as aforesaid, and the residue in eighteen months from the time of the said sale with interest thereon as aforesaid; and if the purchaser or purchasers of the said premises should fail to make his payments or either of them at the periods before mentioned it shall and may be lawful for the said marshal, and he is hereby ordered upon giving ten days notice of the time and place of the said sale to sell again the said premises upon the following terms of payment, that is to say, for as much cash as may be necessary to discharge the sum which may be due at the time of such sale, and the residue at such time or times as were upon the first sale appointed for the payment thereof. And if the said premises upon the said second sale, should not sell for as much as upon the first, the purchaser or purchasers, at the said first sale shall be accountable and liable for the deficiency It is further decreed and ordered that the marshal be entitled to the money arising from the sale of the said premises from time to time as the same shall be received, to be subject to such distribution as the court shall from time to time direct and appoint; & the said marshal is further decreed and ordered to report to this court his proceedings herein, in order that a final decree be made and the title of the purchaser be confirmed, until which said final decree the said premises shall remain bound to the payment of the purchase money. The improvements are a small framed Dwelling House with a shed and a small stable, the sale will commence precisely at 12 o'clock.
DANL. C. BRENT, Marshal. May 14—114 Jun.
(BY AUTHORITY.)
Scheme of a Lottery.
To build an ACADEMY in the city of Richmond.
Dollars.
1 Prize—last drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, 20,000
1 do. do. 10,000
1 do. do. 5,000
5 do. of 1,000 make 5,000