The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1804-09-03 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. IV.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. DCX.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
Ten Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or stolen from the common near the Capitol, in the city of Washington on the 24th of last month, (July) a deep SORREL HORSE, about four feet 10 inches high, well made, lately shod all round, a blaze on his forehead, hanging mane and twitch tail, trots and canters well, carries his head very low when rode; he is between six and seven years old. Whoever brings him to the subscriber, living near Mr. Gallatin's in the said city, shall receive the above reward. NATHANIEL GREGORY. Washington city, Capitol hill, August 10—3w
CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAILOR.
Has received from Philadelphia in addition to his former stock, a handsome assortment of goods, consisting of the best London and Spanish superfine cloths and cassimeres, white and fancy Marfeilles, colored and white jerseys, India mankems, cotton cassimeres, black silk and fustian Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, June 8—tf
REMOVAL.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR.
Has removed to the house above Mr. Rhodes (LAW & LOVELL'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
DOCTOR MAGRUDER,
HAS for sale a few hogheads 4th proof Jamaica spirits, listed and lamp oil, spirits of turpentine, window glass, glaziers, diamonds, glue, lamp black, white lead, Spanish brown, yellow ochre, chalk, Spanish whiting, Venetian red, red lead, verdigris, crop lake, lake white, patent yellow, rose and Dutch pink, kings yellow, Turkey umber, gold and silver leaf, painters and tapers, graining brushes, camel hair pencils, water colours in boxes, Spanish indigo, fig blue, annatto, red wood, alkauit, madder, logwood, turmeric, salt petre, alum, copperas, sweet oil, pearl barley, annatto and clover seed, tamarinds, castor oil, marble mortars, spring truffles, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace, Chings worm destroying lozenges, an assortment of paper hangings, playing cards, copy slips, ink powder, English Latin, Greek and French school books, large family bibles, and his usual complete assortment of drugs and medicine, patent medicine, surgeons instruments, &c. George Town, July 20—tf
TO RENT,
A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE in the city of Washington, situate on that beautiful ridge north east of the seven buildings, on 1 street, Lot No. 3, square 106, at present occupied by Mrs. Scott. Possession may be had the 1st of August next. Under said house is a good dry cellar, on the back of the lot is a stable, and near the premises a pump of most excellent water. Enquire of Mrs. Scott, or of the subscriber High Street at Doctor John Beatty's George Town. ABRAHAM JOY. June 29—tf
To be Sold,
On Thursday the 27th day of September on the premises to the highest bidder, if not disposed of by private sale before that day.
THE tract of land whereon I now live in Fairfax Co. Virginia, on Pope's Head creek, containing 550 acres, the situation is agreeable and healthy; there is on it an excellent mill fast on the above mentioned creek, with an innumerable quantity of grey tree stone, and an abundance of good red and white oaks, poplars, and hickory timber to erect the dam and necessary buildings on the spot; there is on this creek, which washes this tract, for about two miles, a very considerable portion of the best quality meadow land, there is a considerable quantity of brush land, just opening, and nearly half of the tract to cut; it is situated about 20 miles of George Town, Washington, Alexandria and Dumfries, it is considered the best piece of forest land in the country; the terms of payment will be one third paid down, one third in 18 months and the other third in three years; an inalienable title will be made to the purchaser. The public is assured that the sale will take place if not privately disposed of before the day of sale, as I am determined to remove to the state of Kentucky this fall—also on the same day and place, will be sold, all my stock of every sort, plantation utensils, household and kitchen furniture and the present crop now on hand for ready cash. THOMAS POLLARD. August 22—tdof
FROM THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL.
STRICTURES
Upon the letter imputed to Mr. Jefferson, addressed to Mr. Mazzei. To the people of the United States. of America. FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN,
It is the peculiar happiness of our country, that our public agents are to be the men of our choice. The momentous power of electing our officers of government, is attended with a duty proportionally serious and important. Those who persuade you to examine and consider before you decide, must certainly be friends to reason and to you. A great occasion is approaching, when you will be called on to declare in favor of some of the candidates for the presidential chair. It is not intended to go into a discussion of the separate merits of the several persons, who are before you. A single relative circumstance, out of which great heat and prejudice were formerly attempted to be raised, is proposed, on the present occasion, to be offered to your consideration. Your candid attention is all that is requested, and it is your own concern.
A letter is again circulated, through the United States, which has been represented as one written by Mr. Jefferson to Mr. Mazzei, a native of Tuscany, who lived as a faithful citizen, many years in Virginia. He was a country neighbour of Mr. Jefferson's. Mr. Mazzei is a real whig, upon the great scale of human happiness. He loved America as a land of freedom: as the country, which had produced a Washington, a Franklin, a Greene, a Rittenhouse, and other worthies on your roll of fame. He was a man of polite literature, and extensive science. It would seem, that Mr. Jefferson had received from him, on his arrival in Italy, at least one letter of remembrance, & that Mr. Jefferson had written to him in return, as he was required by the common principles of politeness. Silence, on the receipt of a letter from an old neighbour and acquaintance, is little less indecent than personal silence, when a question or observation is addressed to us in company. Mr. Jefferson however, wrote to Mr. Mazzei in reply, it would seem, for it does not appear certain. The letter which he is said to have written, appears to have a turn to politics, with which Mr. Mazzei was well acquainted, having spent years of the revolutionary war in America, and being well known, as its ardent friend, to many public characters in this country. The letter, imputed to Mr. Jefferson, has undergone one cunning alteration by his enemies, differing nothing from a wicked and intentional forgery. He is falsely and craftily made to say, in effect, that an English monarchical aristocratic party has so far injured our system of national government, as to have rendered it the same as the British "form" of government, or the British constitution. Now these forgers have once published the letter, as they first got it, in the French language translated in Europe from Mr. Jefferson's English, if he wrote it at all. In that French translation the words are, the forms (or ceremonies) of the English government ( les formes , in the plural).—The British king's birth-day in England had been followed by the president's birth-day here. The British king's levee had been imitated by the president's levee. The queen's evening drawing room had been imitated by the same ceremonious meeting, in the drawing room of the president's and vice president's ladies, from 1789 to 1793. The house of representatives had been called " the lower house ," like the English house of commons. The senate had been called " the upper house ," like the English house of lords. The ministers of state, in England, had held levees at their houses; and levees were set up, in 1793, by our secretaries in New-York, under cover of their ladies' drawing rooms. When the government of the United States removed to Philadelphia, the independent spirit of the people of fashion there, refused a compliance with the whole of these forms , except as regarded the president's family; and thus fully confirmed the just sentiments of Mr. Jefferson.
But it was not in levees alone, that the forms ( les formes ) of the British government were displayed here. The president was cut off, like an English king, from the exchange of the accustomed hospitalities and social intercourse of our country. He was drawn to meet the legislature, with the four principal officers of the government, in five coaches or chariots. He was led to make a speech like a speech of the British king from the throne. At his levees all were caused to stand! None were expected to sit! The mansion-house of the president, in the plan of the federal city, was called " The President's Palace ," until altered on the representation of Mr. Jefferson! A cabinet council control, unknown to our constitution, was erected here, in practice; and, after the manner of the English cabinet, often influenced the president to measures and modifications of measures, which, after free conferences with all the executive officers, he would not probably have pursued. Promises of the highest offices in the government were made, by the prevailing men in this cabinet, without the knowledge of the president; and engagements were also made for him, years before he could act upon them after the fashion of the British administration. The Vice president was excluded from all share in the executive councils, as carefully as if he had been the English Prince of Wales.
The fact & as hundred other facts might be mentioned in which an English monarchical aristocratic party have given the forms of the British government. But, was Mr. Jefferson right in saying, there was an English monarchical party in this country? The process are strong and numerous. Would to God he had been mistaken!—A formal and regular report was made, in the year 1791, by the lords of the British privy council, to the king of Great Britain, on the American politics, government, and trade; in which these lords expressly declare " that a party in favor of Great Britain was formed in America ." This paper was received, through certain channels, from London, and laid before General Washington, by a person, who was shortly after appointed to a respectable and confidential office by General Washington, and continued therein, till he ceased to be president. But strange as it may appear, that every person was removed from office by Mr. Adams, in some measure, as there is the best reason to believe, through the secret management of Mr. Pickering.
The correspondence of Mr. Pickering with captain Chisholm, the agent or instrument of Mr. Linton, and his and Mr. Adams's not directing a prosecution against Wm. Blount, after the power of the Senate to try him was negatived, are serious circumstances. The people should know too, that this same captain Chisholm was, afterwards one of the few licenced traders under the government of Mr. Adams to hold intercourse with those very tribes of Indians, who were to have allied in Blount's project, unlawfully to aid and abet Great Britain. The authorities for believing an English party to exist in America are abundant. This printed report of the British privy council is alone sufficient. The British recorded it forever in that secret report of council. Mr. Jefferson, as well as Mr. Adams, Mr. Hamilton, Gen. Knox, and many others in the executive, in the judiciary, and in Congress, saw the evidence of this matter at large. It was in the year 1791. These omens about a British party and influence here were not confined to Mr. Jefferson. They were entertained by Mr. Adams himself, and inculcated with more variety and activity. He was wont to suggest this influence, particularly in regard to the monied interest and operations in this country. Hence it was, as it is generally supposed, that he negatived, by his calling voice, the bill in the Senate for punishing persons, who might be guilty of the dangerous crime of counterfeiting the notes of the National Bank—the bank of the United States. But Mr. Adams is known to have even entertained the opinion, that much British influence had been used upon our government; in a respect, he appointed to that court. He certainly has gone as far or farther than Mr. Jefferson in this respect. Nor is he, nor can he be blamed for it. No doubt he had good reasons for declarations so frequent and serious. It would have been wrong to suppose or conceal his knowledge. But let not Mr. Jefferson be blamed for saying, in a letter to an old acquaintance, that we have an English party here, when Mr. Adams says, they have influenced the important business of diplomatic appointment; and when it is known, that the lords of the British privy council, acting upon the in-
formation of their agents here, formally report to their king, that, "a party in favor of Great Britain is formed in America."
People out of the way of politics, have little notion of the lengths to which persons have gone, on the subject of monarchy, in this country. It will not be denied by Mr. Pickering himself, that monarchical doctrines have been avowed by citizens holding great public trusts and employments. He knows it well. Is it possible for Mr. Jefferson, or any other faithful public officer or citizen, not to be alarmed at such facts? Is he to be accused for such prudent alarms? Have we not seen a printed declaration of Mr. Adams, in Penn's paper of the 3d July, 1798, in which Mr. Adams says, that " Republican governments may be interpreted to mean any thing ?" Is Mr. Jefferson to be utterly silent to such wanton declarations, in print, under his very nose? Did he wade through the dangers of the American revolution, to be afraid to notice so unwarrantable and monstrous a declaration, by a citizen (Mr. Adams) holding the responsible trust of President of this happy and glorious republic? But there is another important and memorable declaration of Mr. Adams, made when he was vice-president, in the very chamber of the Senate. He there declared in the presence of two of the senators from New England and Virginia, that "he hoped or expected to see the time, when one of those senators and his friend would be convinced, that the people of America could not be happy, without an hereditary chief magistrate, and a senate that should be hereditary, or for life." How rank and monstrous, then, were the weeds of monarchy here, when they grew up through the doors of the Senate chamber! How bold, how infolently bold are those monarchists, when they dare to revile the faithful Jefferson, for presuming to notice them! Well might Mr. Jefferson say to Mr. Mazzei, "our political situation is prodigiously changed, since you left us." But let it not be thought, that this declaration of Mr. Adams, is prevented and fictitious . Mr. Adams will not impute its fallacy in the smallest degree. He well knows it to be true, in every point of form and substance. If he has been opposed, in his elections by those who knew these facts, let him not blame them. He is himself the true and sole author of all their opposition, by his own printed idolatry of the British constitution (not les formes but the substance ) by his verbal declarations, and by several of his answers to the addresses of 1798. When Mr. Jefferson finds Mr. Adams declaring the British government to be all perfection , and that the people of this country cannot be happy with an hereditary chief magistrate , can Mr. Jefferson doubt, that, as the friends of these doctrines have given us the forms ( les formes ) to they will to impose on us the substance of the British government? Let us not blame Mr. Jefferson, but rather applaud that feasibility to the life and falsity of our constitution, which has thus put him and us upon our guard. It is hoped, that he has not over-rated his countrymen, when he believes, that they will break, with equal energy and resolution, " the Lilliputian ties in which an English monarchical aristocratic party have attempted to bind us ."
Fellow Citizens,
Remember the alarming attempt of a late Pennsylvania senator, James Ross, Esq. supported by too many of the senators of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and some more from New-England, and other states. In a bill to regulate the elections of the president and vice-president, those unguarded and dangerous men attempted in defiance of the constitution and of common sense, to make the chief justice and next judge of the United States, member of a grand committee of the federal legislature! Absurd and unwarrantable attempt of some of the same men, who in Mr. Jefferson contemplated. Well might Mr. Jefferson say, in his letter to Mr. Mazzei, foreseeing their courts, that they would " attempt to wrest from their countrymen that liberty which they had gained with so much toil and peril ." But, says Mr. Jefferson, (confident in the virtue and spirit of his fellow citizens) " We shall preserve that liberty; we shall break their Lilliputian ties ."
Was it not perfectly natural in Mr. Jefferson to suppose, that it would give to Mr. Mazzei, (a real whig) a fever, were he to have mentioned the names of men " like Mr. Adams, who were changed ," as to suggest to two old soldi-
ers*, that this country cannot be happy, without an hereditary chief magistrate , and a senate, that should be hereditary , or for life? Solomons, who, though like Mr. Adams, distinguished once for administering, and manifesting wisdom, on the subject of republican institutions, had in later times, insidiously and rashly declared, that " Republican governments may be interpreted to mean any thing ."
Let it not be supposed, that this publication proceeds from a passionate and wicked enemy of Great Britain; for the writer does not think, like Mr. Adams, jun. in his Publicola , that " universal corruption has pervaded (in Britain) all ranks of the people ." He does not believe the annihilation of Great Britain is necessary to the happiness of United America, for he wishes to see her cast (in a reformed state, and with a less powerful navy it is true) to balance the other great powers of Europe. He wishes a just and friendly intercourse with all foreign nations, and union and friendship among our citizens and states, from Georgia to Maine: for the shores of the Atlantic to the most interior settlements.
GREENE.
* Colonels Langdon and Taylor.
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
Nottingham, August, 19. 1804. As trustee appointed by the hon. the Chancellor, Alex r Contee Mansel, Esq. for the benefit of the creditors of Rinaldo Johnson, an insolvent debtor, I will sell at public auction on Wednesday the 19th day of September next at Aqueduct mills in Prince George's county, a variety of merchandise, consisting of chinquins, calicoes, muslins, cambrics, stuff, silks, laces, ribbons, cutlery, hiberdasher, leather, men and women's hats and bonnets, spices, juniper berries, hosiery, tin ware, blacksmith's tools, tanner's tools, & together with a London built chariot and harness and a Winton sulky and harness. The terms of sale are ready money for all purchases not exceeding fifty dollars, four months credit on giving bond with approved security and interest from the day of sale, for all purchases above fifty and not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and where the amount of purchase shall exceed two hundred and fifty dollars, bonds with approved security as aforesaid must be given to the trustee payable within one year with legal interest from the time of sale.
ALEX r R. CONTEE. August 31—3t
Patent Machine,
For hulling Clover Seed, beardng Barley, and taking the white cap from Wheat.
The encouragement which the subscriber received last season from a number of respectable farmers, for the invention of the above machine, has induced him to spare no labor or pains in its further improvement; in those endeavours he has so far succeeded as to render it superior, it is presumed, to any machine ever before applied; as a proof of this assertion, the following instance of expedition can be attested to as a real truth, by several distinguished respectable persons, viz—Three men employed at it, have hullled in one half hour, a bushel of clover seed.
We may now make what deductions we please for the clover being well filled, for its being previously well cleared of straw, and for extra exertion, to know the extent of what the machine was capable of performing; and after these deductions it will be granted, that five bushels per day must be a very moderate average; and yet this quantity is little less than five general bushels. It will however be found more commonly to exceed the bulk of this last quantity. The machine occupies about the same room as the Corn Fan, and is equally portable; its frictional parts are new, and those composed of durable materials; in short, it is acknowledged, by those who have had experience of its utility, to be an interesting & almost indispensable implement of husbandry.
A number of them may be seen at the subscriber's shop in Foxfort, five miles from Philadelphia, in preparation for the ensuing season, where they are sold at 30 dollars. Persons who apply for permits to make them must produce recommendations of good character, and be provided with a professional machinist; such only will meet with encouragement.
Persons inclined to purchase the Machine for their private use, will please to observe, that no one is authorised to make and sell them but such as are furnished with engraved certificates, attested by the subscriber, one of which certificates is to accompany each machine and will be the purchaser's voucher to use it.
JACOB WORRELL. Foxfort, August 31—w3.

CONSPIRACY AGAINST BONAPARTE.
Second report of the Grand Judge, respecting the plots of the person named Drake, minister from England, at Munich, and of the person named Spencer Smith, minister from England, at Stuttgart, against France, and the person of the First Consul.
[Concluded.]
"Mr. Drake will be punished, when he shall know, that his bills, his gold, his correspondence, those of his colleagues, the spies at Rotterdam, Abbeville, Paris and Munich, are the sport of men, who, by approaching him and colleague at Stuttgart, by watching their steps, and by studying their character, have learned and can teach Europe, that its minister, which renders itself despicable by the choice, and by the conduct of the diplomatic agents, cannot inspire either fear or confidence in the government of the Continent; and that the intolence and corruption, which that ministry employ as weapons to intimidate or lead astray the councils of sovereigns, do now find a powerful antidote in the discovery of the meanness, the immorality and stupidity of their diplomacy."
"Concerning Mr. Spencer Smith, I have strong reasons to think that the operations entrusted to him are not confined to these plots—that he directs the events which have taken place in the Canton of Zurich; and that the disturbances, by which that miserable district is again agitated, are owing to his gold and his intrigues."
"Citizen First Consul, perhaps I transgress the bounds of my function; but I must tell you, with that truth which you love to hear, France cannot suffer a hostile power to establish on neutral territory, accredited agents, whose principal mission is to carry discord to the bosom of the republic. You are at the head of a nation great enough, strong, and brave enough, to obtain, as your right, an absolute neutrality. You have constantly commanded me not to suffer that a conspiracy be framed in any part of our immense territory, against any existing government; and already, during the short space of time elapsed since I have been entrusted with the administration of the police, I have repeatedly annulled machinations which threatened the king of Naples and the holy see; I have pursued as far as Strasbourg, the forgers of Vienna bank notes. All these facts have proved how sincere your wish is to secure established governments against every kind of propagandas and plots. Why should you not have the right to demand an entire reciprocity from the States of the Germanic empire? Why should Munich, Stuttgart, Ettlingen, and Pforzheim, have the right of remaining the centre of the conspiracies, which England never ceases to form against France and Helvetia?"
"These objects deserve your utmost solicitude, citizen First Consul; and I care to tell you so, because this privilege belongs to the chief of justice, and that the most serious attention in this respect forms part of your first duties."
"It may be objected, I know, that England, as a friendly power, has a right to send ministers to the electors of Bavaria, Baden, and Wittenberg. But English diplomacy is composed of two sorts of agents, whom all the continent well knows how to distinguish. Such ministers as Cornwallis and Warren, are never accredited but for honorable missions, to maintain a good understanding between nations, and to regulate the grand interest of policy or of commerce; whilst the Wickhams, the Drakes, and the Spencer Smiths, are known throughout Europe as the artificers of crimes, whose cowardice is protected by a sacred character. I will say no more, the presence of these contemptible agents is very mortifying to the Prince in friendship with France; and the courts of Munich and Stuttgart cannot support, without disgust, Drake and Spencer Smith, whom numberless reasons render suspected of a very different mission from that which is announced in their official title. In consequence of the demand that you have made them, the Electors of Bavaria and Wittenberg have driven from their states the impure remains of French, who are enemies to their country, and whose hatred has survived the calamities of civil war, and the pardon which you have granted them. Let them equally drive away these artifices of conspiracy, whose mission has no other object but to reanimate the intestine divisions of France, and to sow a fresh discord on the continent. Ought not our neighbors to suffer an equal alarm with ourselves at the return of the political troubles, and of all those horrors of war, which can be profitable only to that nation, which is the enemy of every other? I demand, in the most earnest manner, and every duty which I owe to you, citizen First Consul, impels me to make the request, that the cabinet may take such effectual means, that the Wickhams, the Drakes, and the
Spencer Smiths, may not be received by any power in friendship with France, whatever may be their title or character: men who preach up assassination, and foment domestic troubles; the agents of corruption, the missionaries of revolt against all established governments, are the enemies of all states, and of all governments. The law of nations does not exist for them. I have fulfilled my duty, citizen First Consul, in exposing to your view, the facts which prove, that Drake and Spencer Smith exercise upon the continent, the same mission with which Wickham was charged during the last war. Your supreme wisdom will do the rest.
(Signed)
"REGNIER."
Valuable Property FOR SALE.
THE subscriber will sell his Plantation adjoining the town of Upper Marlboro' in Prince Georges county, containing eight hundred acres. This plantation is considered amongst the best in the neighbourhood, it is well adapted to the growth of wheat, Indian corn and fine tobacco, and has a great sufficiency of wood for its support. The improvements are a large and commodious dwelling house, with every other necessary buildings for the accommodation of a large and genteel family, all in good repair—There are also on the premises several large tobacco houses, corn house, stables, &c. most of which are almost new—As it is presumed that those who are desirous to purchase would wish to view the premises, it is thought unnecessary to be more minute.—A liberal credit will be given. For further particulars apply to Nathaniel Cranford residing within eight miles of Washington or to the subscriber.
DAVID CRAUFORD.
Upper Marlboro' July 23—1804 The purchaser may be accommodated with negroes, farming utensils, and stock of every kind. W. C.
To be Rented.
THE subscriber has two or three small Farms to let from two to three hundred acres in each, in Prince George's county about six miles from the city of Washington and two from Bladensburg; he will let them on a moderate rent, to industrious farmers who will keep them in good repair, and use the Plaster and Clover, for terms apply to the subscriber near Bladensburg.
LEONARD M. DEAKINS.
August 3—5tw
Valuable Land for Sale.
THE executors of the last will and testament of Anthony Holmes deceased, will sell at private sale about forty acres of land adjoining the city of Washington at the northern extremity of 20th Street west. This land is generally allowed to be one of the handsomest situations near the city, having a beautiful prospect of nearly the whole of the city of Washington, Alexandria and George Town, and any person inclined to purchase this valuable property, will be shown the same, and know the terms by application to the subscriber near the premises.
JOHN HOLMEAD.
MEDITERRANEAN PASSPORTS.
Notice is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport if used to vessels of the United States, that from the eighth day of July next those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport, of which she may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange; and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use.
Department of State, 23d of May, 1804.
The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Collectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices.
May 30—2aw6m
A GARDENER
Who understands ALL the branches of His Business, is SOBER, HONEST and INDUSTRIOUS, and no other need apply. Will meet with a GOOD place by applying to the printer. If he will also engage to manage well a small farm his wages will be INCREASED.
Three Dollars Reward.
STRAYED from the subscriber's Farm, near Rock Creek Church, a small RED and WHITE COW, appears to be about six years old, with a white face and a remarkable short body, the left ear slit, the right branded with two letters not remembered, and a piece of her tail cut off. The above reward will be paid to any person on the delivery of the Cow at said place.
S. H. SMITH.
August. IX.
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3.
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION, For members of Congress.
Mr. Holland, D. N. Alexander, William Blackledge, and Thomas Wynns, are elected without opposition.
Mr. Thomas Blount is elected by a majority of 99 over Mr. Kennedy.
Mr. Winston by a majority of 6 or 700 over Mr. Franklin.
M. D. Williams and Mr. Gillespie, are re-elected
It is with lively satisfaction that we present our readers with the following View of the fiscal concerns of Connecticut, for which we are indebted to the Courant.
A View of the Fiscal Concerns of Connecticut.
Capital funds of the civil list.
   Dolls. Cts.     Funded 6 per cent stock, (real capital) 209 273 83   Deferred do. do. 148 632 83   Funded 3 per cent do. 50 038 11   Bank stock 44 725   452 669 77  
School Funds.
   Bonds collaterally secured 1,020,543 27   New lands received in payment of school bonds, price at which received, 194,000   Funded 6 per cent stock, (real capital) 14,048   Deferred do. do. 5,455 7   Funded 3 per cent do. 4,571 95   1,238,617 29  
Annual expense of Government. VIZ.
   Salaries of executive officer, 2,630   Debentures and contingent expenses of the legislature for two sessions, 17,100   Debenture of the supreme court of errors 550   Judicial expenses, 6,100   Expense of Newgate prison, 4,000   Charges of paupers and vagrants, 4,500   Allowance of 2 dollars on the 1000 of the list being a drawback from the state tax 12,000   Contingent expenses comprising all other charges of government 6,200   59,080  
Means for defraying the annual expense of the civil list.
   Viz.   Annual interest on the above mentioned stock appertaining to the civil list funds 26,553 54   Duties on civil processes 5,700   Annual tax of 7 mills on the dollar, neat amount, 35,700   67,953 54  
N. B. One eighth part of all the state taxes and one tenth part of all rateable polls are abated for the relief of the indigent. The yearly interest of the whole school funds would be
   Deduct the interest on that part which lies in lands, and also on those bonds whereon interest has not yet commenced, amount to 7,324 12   N. B. Several bonds draw interest the present year, which were not on interest the last year.   And the whole present annual interest will be 66,855 76   Add to this the allowance of two dolls. on the 1000 of the list, 12,000   Total annual amount payable for schools, 78,855 76  
Drawable from the state treasury annually, by the people in their capacity of school societies.
Payable by the people into the state treasury
annually in taxes (including duties on civil processes) only the sum of
41,400
Balance drawn out beyond what is paid in by taxes and duties,
37,455 76
'From the foregoing view of their financial arrangements, it appears that the people of Connecticut not only enjoy the blessings of civil government free from expense, but even receive from the public treasury yearly, the sum of 37 455 dollars 76 cents more than they contribute to it in taxes, &c.'
This view exhibits a picture of political economy, which reflects the highest honor on the people of Connecticut. It supplies arguments in favor of republican institutions that outweigh volumes of detraction. Let it be recollected that Connecticut is, in the structure of her government, the most republican state in the union. Her population according to the last census was: 251,000—and may be at present estimated at 280,000.—This large population enjoys the blessings of government for the sum of 59 080 dollars, of which 26,553 is derived from permanent funds, leaving a tax of but 41,400 dollars, which is no more than 15 cents for each person.
But the most admirable feature of this picture is the liberal allowance made for the support of schools, which amounts to the annual sum of 78,855 dollars; and exceeds the whole amount of the civil list the sum of above 10,000 dollars, and that of the taxes raised the sum of 34,000 dollars. This bright example should be constantly held forth as worthy of the imitation of every state in the union. Nor should it be forgotten that the most economical state in the union has the most liberally endowed institutions for the education of youth; and thereby established the truth that even a rigid economy is not inconsistent with a large expenditure on this interesting object. Let the southern states look to this object! Their state of society is rapidly changing, and unless they soon pay a greater attention to the education of youth, we predict that their relative weight in the union will decline. A republic can only exist among an enlightened people, and such a people will forever be governed by talents.
Norfolk, August 25.
Captain Riddick informs, that the United States squadron were all off Tripoli, together with the gun boats fitted out at Naples and Malta. The apprehensions of a war with Tunis had entirely subsided—all misunderstanding between the United States and Tunis having been amicably adjusted by Mr. O'Brien, who went to Tunis for that purpose.
Captain Riddick heard no talk of a Spanish war when at Gibraltar, which he left the 19th July.
The history of Ireland is a chequered narration of oppression, revolution and ruin. The gallant sons of Erin have alternately struggled in attempts at liberty, and in the agonies of execution for treasons. Unfeeling, and miserably degraded must that mind be, which can view without shuddering, valor, genius, and honor, prostrate before the omnipotence of power. In this devoted country, anarchy is the rule of order—penury and persecution the reward of virtue. The laborer goes forth to his work, and returns to a starving family, the mournful messenger of accumulated want. The mechanic and the manufacturer seek in their ingenuity the comforts of competence, while extortion deprives them of the necessaries of life. Humanity weeps over the distresses of Ireland. There does despotism sway unlimited her iron sceptre. There does innocence languish in dunge-on, and the gallows marks patriotism for its peculiar victim. But faint, and feeble, and unmeaning, must be censure, compared with the animated and glowing picture portrayed by the matchless genius of CURRAN. The pencil of Curran can alone do justice to the interesting scenes on which it is employed. Well may he be impressive, for deeply has he drunk in the cup of his country's sorrows. The execution of thousands of his fellow countrymen—the sacrifice of an intended son-in-law—the amiable, the accomplished, the intelligent and patriotic EMMET—the consequent disappointment, and distraction of a daughter, would have roused his feelings from the most torpid
indifference. But the sensibility of Curran needed not such incitements. Liberty had chosen her for his own, and in the destruction of this idol of his hopes, every sentiment of his soul seems agitated.
In presenting to our readers the subsequent display of splendid, independent, and dignified eloquence, from this unrivalled orator, we forbear to comment on the causes which produced it. Upon such subjects language must indeed lag behind the rapidity of feeling. Let it be remembered, however, that a government, which could authorise, and a judicature, which could sanction these savage proceedings, impiously assumes the attribute of justice, and boasts of mercy in its administration! This imitable effusion of glowing and splendid eloquence was produced in defence of Mr. FINERTY. FINERTY was printer of the celebrated paper called the "Press," the only one who dared to speak for the people, and to denounce their oppressors. He was persecuted for "bringing the government into contempt," by publishing a faithful statement of the trial of Wm. ORR who was sentenced to the scaffold upon the evidence of a perjured common informer. CURRAN did not expect to take any part in the trial; nor did he receive licence, till the jury were sworn.
National Register.
"Few men see at once, that they cannot be hurt so much as they think by the mere battery of a newspaper. They do not reflect that every character has a natural station from which it cannot be effectually degraded, and beyond which it cannot be raised by the bawling of a news-hawker. If it is wantonly aspersed, it is but for a season, and that a short one, and it emerges like the moon from a passing cloud to whatever original brightness it possessed. It is right however, that it is law, and that you should hold the frigid hand over this kind of animadversion, that forces humility and innocence from their retreat into the glare of public view; that wounds and terrifies; that destroys the cordiality and the peace of domestic life; and that without eradicating a single vice, a single folly, plants a thousand thorns in the human heart."
"The learned counsel has been pleased to say, that he comes forward in his prosecution as the real advocate for the liberty of the press, and to protect a mild and merciful government from its licentiousness; and he has been pleased to add, that the constitution can never be lost, while its freedom remains, and that its licentiousness alone can destroy that freedom. As to that, gentlemen, he might as well have said, that there is only one disease of which a man can die; and when he comes forward to extinguish this paper in the ruin of the printer by a state prosecution, in order to prevent its dying of licentiousness, you must judge how candidly he is treating you, both in the fact and in the reasoning. Is it in Ireland, gentlemen, that we are told licentiousness is the only disease that can be mortal to the press? Has he heard of nothing else that has been fatal to the freedom of publication? I know not whether the printer of the Northern Star may have heard of such things in his captivity, but I know that his wife and his children are well apprised that a press may be destroyed in the open day, not by its own licentiousness, but by the licentiousness of a military force. As to the sincerity of the declaration that the state has prosecuted in order to assert the freedom of the press, it starts a train of thought, melancholy retrospection and direful prospect, to which I did not think the learned counsel would have wished to commit your minds. It leads you naturally to reflect at what times, from what motives, and with what consequences the government has displayed its patriotism by these sorts of prosecutions. As to the motives; does history give you a single instance, in which the state has been provoked to these conflicts, except by the fear of truth, and by the love of vengeance? Have you ever seen the rulers of any country bring forward a prosecution from motives of filial piety, for libels upon their departed ancestors? Did you read that Elizabeth directed any one of those state prosecutions, against the libels which the divines of her times had written against her catholicity, or against the other libels which the same gentlemen had written against her protestant father?—No gentlemen, we read of no such thing; but we know she did bring forward a prosecution from motives of personal resentment, we know that a jury was found time serving and mean enough, to give a verdict which she was ashamed to carry into effect. I said that the learned counsel drew you back to the times that have been marked by these miserable conflicts. I see you in your thoughts to those pages of government abandonment, of popular degradation, of expiring liberty, of merciless and sanguinary persecution, to that miserable period, in which the fallen and abject state of man, might have been almost an argument in the mouth of an atheist and the blasphemer, against the existence of an all just and an all wise first cause, if the glorious

From the Official Journal, the Moniteur.
The Publiciste, in one of its late numbers, announces to Europe that great changes are about to take place in lower Italy; that the States of the Pope are about being dismembered; and that Cardinal Fesch is to take an active part in these events.
If France were to interfere in such changes, it is most likely it would be to dismember the territory of the Pope.
But who has made the Publiciste a confident of these great plans? A journalist of Augsburg; & from whom has that journalist received information? from an agent in the pay of England; and what is the aim of England? to alarm the Continent; to terrify the Holy Father, to cause Europe to believe that it rests upon a volcano, and that France wishes to overturn every thing in order to invade her. The English Agent performs his task; and the journalist of Augsburg gains money; but how comes it that the Publiciste, whose editor is a man of sense, and whose proprietors are praiseworthy men, lends a hand to that political stock-jobbing? It is because the Editor trusts to an under clerk, and that the proprietors give themselves no trouble in reading the political articles that are inserted in their journal.
The same paper has also just apprised Europe that the King of Naples is about going to Sicily, and that Mr. Acton, whom that Prince enlightened upon the interests of government, and removed from office, is on the point of re-entering into his former functions with the support of a great power.
Who has made the Publiciste a confident? a convenient bulletin edited at Frankfort: and who has furnished that piece of news to the author of the Bulletin? an English agent; and what is the interest of that agent? It is to create a belief that France will get hold of Naples; to create a supposition that Europe concerns itself for that great minister who has sacrificed the good of the country he governed, to the advantage of England; for that minister who, a Frenchman borne, is the most inveterate enemy of France; who sat at variance the court of Naples with that of Versailles; who was the reproach and has become the abhorrence of the people of the two Sicilies, and who would get into favor again in order only to bring the king of Naples to fall again into the same errors he committed in the years 5 and 6. But that government has levied neither soldiers nor subsidies. Of what importance is it to Mr. Acton whose money is placed in the funds at London, what imports it the editor of the Bulletin which is written at Frankfort, provided that by disquieting Europe they serve England!
The Publiciste announced also several months ago that a treaty had been just entered into by which the Porte had ceded the Morea to France. From whence did the Journalist get this information? He had it from a Bulletin-maker at Hamburg or Brussels, who had it from an English agent.
Such puerile rhapsodies do not at first fix the attention, but their aim is, however, soon understood by the effects they produce. This is what has happened. The French papers were carefully laid before the eyes of the Porte, and gen. Brune had cause to be much surprised when the reis effendi showed them to him, and told him that upon its being mentioned that the Morea had been ceded to France, it had been naturally concluded that France intended to take the Morea!
If persons interested in the conduct of journals with them not to the echo of English turbulence, they ought to pay a daily attention to the political department of their respective papers. If, on their part, the editors fear being suspected of something more than neglect, they ought to abstain themselves from taking French news out of the Augsburg Gazette, and out of the bulletins of convenience of Frankfort, Hamburg and Brussels. This is what we have endeavoured to prove by this article.
Official Journal.
THE KING OF MISERS.
Much has been said of the penurious disposition of Mr. Elwes; but a gentleman who died some few years since, leaves him at an immense distance. Daniel Dancer, esq. late of Pinner, Middlesex, was a man not more remarkable for his worldly riches, than for his having lived in an apparent state of extreme poverty. Such was the eccentricity of his character, that, though scarcely allowing himself the common necessaries of life, he left property to the amount of 3000l. a year to Lady Tempest and Captain Holmes. So perfectly penurious was he in his disposition, that rather than expend a penny, he frequently had recourse to the pot-liquor of Lady Tempest's kitchen; of which he would swirl so enormously as to be obliged to roll himself on the floor to sleep. He generally had his body girt by a hay-band to keep together his tattered garments; and the stockings he usually wore had
“Gentlemen, I am not unconscious that the learned counsel for the crown seemed to address you with the confidence of a very different kind; he seemed to expect a kind of respectful sympathy from you with the feelings of the castle, and the griefs of childbed authority. Perhaps, gentlemen, he may know you better than I do; if he does he has spoken as he ought; he has been right in telling you, that if the reprobation of this writer is weak, it is because his genius could not make it stronger; he has been right in telling you that his language has not been braided and fetooned as elegant as it might; that he has not picked the miserable plants of his phraseology, nor placed his patches and feathers with that correctness of millenary, which become so exalted a person. If you agree with him, gentlemen of the jury, if you think that the man who at the hazard of his own life, to rescue from the deep the drowned honor of his country, must not presume upon the great familiarity, of plucking it up by the locks, I have no more to say; do a courteous thing. Upright and honest jurors, find a civil and obliging verdict against the printer! and when you have done so, march through the ranks of your fellow citizens to your own homes, and bear their looks as you pass along; retire to the bosom of your families and your children, and when you are presiding over the morality of the parental board, tell those infants who are to be the future men of Ireland, the history of this day. Form their young minds by these precepts, and confirm these precepts by your own example; teach them how discreetly allegiance may be perjured on the table,* or loyalty be foreworn in the jury box; and when you have done so, tell them the story of Orr; tell them of his captivity, of his children, of his crimes, of his hopes, of his disappointment, of his courage, and of his death; and when you find your little hearers hanging from your lips, when you see their eyes overflowing with sympathy and sorrow, and their young hearts bursting with the pangs of anticipated orphanage, tell them that you had the boldest and justice to stigmatize the monster—who had dared to publish the translation.
“Merciful God! what is the state of Ireland, and where shall you find the wretched inhabitant of this land? You may find him perhaps in a jail, the only place of security; I had almost said of habitation; you may see him flying from the flames of his own dwelling; or you may find his bones bleaching on the green fields of his country; or he may be found tossing upon the ocean, and mingling his groans with those tempests let's savage than his persecutors, that drift him to a returnless distance from his family and his home. And yet with these facts ringing in the ear and glaring in the face of the prosecutor, you are called upon to say, on your oaths, that these facts do not exist. You are called upon in defiance of shame, or truth, or honor, to deny the sufferings under which they groan, and to flatter the persecutor that tramples you under foot.
“I speak of what your own eyes have seen day after day, during the course of his commission from the box where you are now sitting; the number of horrid miscreants who avowed upon their oaths that they had come from the very seat of government—from the castle, where they had been worked upon by the fear of death and the hopes of compensation to give the evidence against their fellows, that the mild and wholesome councils of this government are holden over catacombs of living death, where the wretch that is buried, a man lies, till his heart has time to fester and dissolve, and is then dug up as a witness.
“Is this fancy or is it fact? Have you not seen him after his resurrection from that tomb, make his appearance upon the table,* the living image of life and death, and the supreme arbiter of both? Have you not marked when he entered, how the stormy wave of the multitude retired at his approach? Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power, in the undissembled homage of deferential horror? How his glance, like the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of woe and death; a death which no innocence can escape, no art elude, no force resist, no antidote prevent; there was an antidote—a juror's oath—but even that adamant chain that bound the integrity of man to the throne of eternal justice, is soiled and melted in the breath that issues from the informer's mouth; conscience swings from her mooring, and the appalled and affrighted juror, consults his own safety, in the surrender of the victim.
Et quæ sibi quisque timebat, Unius in miseri exitium conversa tulere.” * In the Irish courts of justice, the witnesses stand on the table.
era of the revolution that followed it, had not refused the impious inference, by showing that if man descends, it is not in his own proper motion; that it is with labor and with pain, and that he can continue to sink only, until by the force and pressure of the descent, the spring of his immortal faculties acculates that recuperative energy and effort that hurries him as many miles aloft. It is at that period, that the state seeks for shelter in the destruction of the press; it is in a period like that, that the tyrant prepares for the attack upon the people, by destroying the liberty of the press; by taking away that shield of wisdom and of virtue, behind which the people are invulnerable; in whose pure and polished convex are the lifted blow has fallen, he beholds his image, and is turned into stone. It is at those periods that the honest man dares not speak, because truth is too dreadful to be told. It is then the proud man seems to speak, but like a physician boiled by the wayward excesses of a dying patient, retires indignantly from the bed of an unhappy wretch whose ears are too addled to bear the sound of wholesome advice, whose palate is too debauched to bear the salutary bitter of the medicine that might redeem him, and therefore leaves him to the felonious piety of the slaves, that talk to him of life, and strip him before he is cold.
“Let me suppose that you had known the charge upon which Mr. Orr was apprehended, the charge of abjuring that bigotry which had torn and disgraced his country, of pledging himself to restore the people of his country to their place in the constitution; and of binding himself never to be the betrayer of his fellow-labourers in that enterprize; that you had seen him upon that charge removed from his industry, and confined in a goal, that through the slow and lizgering progress of twelve tedious months you had seen him confined in a dungeon, shut out from the common use of air and of his own hands; that day after day you had marked the unhappy captive, cheered by no sound but the cries of his family, or the clinking of chains; that you had seen him at last brought to trial; that you had seen the vile and perjured informer deposing against his life; that you had seen the drunken, and worn out, and terrified jury give in a verdict of death, that you had seen the same jury, when their returning sobriety had brought back their consciences, prostrate themselves before the humanity of the bench, and pray that the mercy of the crown might save their characters from the reproach of an involuntary crime, their consciences from the torture of eternal self-condemnation, and their souls from the indelible stain of innocent blood. Let me suppose that you had seen the respite given, and that contrite and honest recommendation transmitted to the seat, where mercy was presumed to dwell; that new, and before unheard of crimes, are discovered against the informer, that the royal mercy seems to relent, and that a new respite is sent to the prisoner, that time is taken as the learned counsel for the crown has expressed it, to see whether mercy could be extended or not! that after that period of lingering deliberation is passed, a third reprieve is transmitted; that the unhappy captive himself feels the cheering hope of being restored to a family that he adored, to a character that he had never stained, and to a country that he had ever loved; that you had seen his wife and children upon their knees, giving those tears to gratitude, which their locked and frozen hearts could not give to anguish and despair, and imploring the blessings of eternal providence upon his head, who had graciously spared the father, and restored him to his children. “Alas! no wife, nor children more shall be behold, no friends nor sacred home!” No seraph mercy unbars his dungeon and leads him forth to life and light, but the minister of death hurries him to the scene of suffering and of shame; where, unmoved by the hostile array of artillery and armed men collected together, either to secure or insult, or disturb him, he dies with a solemn declaration of his innocence, and utters his last breath in a prayer for the liberty of his country. Let me now ask you, if any of you had addressed the public ear upon so foul and monstrous a subject, in what language would you have conveyed the feelings of horror and indignation? Would you have stooped to the meanness of qualified complaint? Would you have been mean enough? But I entreat your forgiveness. I do not think meanly of you; had I thought meanly of you I could not suffer my mind to commune with you as it has done; had I thought you that base and vile instrument, attuned by hope and by fear into discord and falsehood, from whose vulgar string no groan of suffering could vibrate, no voice of integrity or honor could speak, let me honestly tell you, I should have scorned to sling my hand across it; I should have left it to fester murrains; if I do not therefore grossly err in my opinion of you, I could use no language upon such a subject as this, but must not lag behind the rapidity of your feelings, and that would not disgrace those feelings, if it attempted to describe them.
been so frequently darned and patched, that hardly any of the original could be seen. In cold and dirty weather, however, they were thickly covered with ropes of hay, which served as substitutes for boots. His whole garb, indeed, resembled that of a miserable mendicant. He had an old horse, but never would allow more than two shillings for his horsefeed, deeming those for his hind feet an unnecessary expense. M c Dancer would never take snuff, conceiving such an indulgence to be extravagant, but always carried a snuff-box. This he would probably fill in the course of a month, by pinches obtained from others. When the box was full, he would barter the contents for a farthing-candle which served him till he had time to fill the box again, as he never suffered any light in his house, except while he was going to bed. He seldom washed his face and hands; but when the sun shone forth he would repair to a neighbouring pool, and substitute sand for soap. When he had performed the operation of washing, he would lie on his back & dry himself with the solar beams; as he never used a towel because it would wear out, and when dirty, the washing would be expensive. Having come to London one day, for the purpose of investing 2000l. in the funds, a gentleman near the Royal Exchange observed him, and took him for a wretched beggar, humbly slipped a penny into his hands; which the old man received with a degree of surprise; but instantly recollecting that “every little helps,” he pocketed the affront, and walked off. This parsimonious man never had more than one shirt at a time, which, being purchased at an old cloaks shop, seldom exceeded half-a-crown in price; nor did it ever, after falling into his possession, undergo the operation of either washing or mending, but was doomed to perpetual slavery, till it literally dropt in pieces from his back. Hence, it may naturally be supposed, that though Mr. Dancer seldom associated with his neighbours, he was at all times attended by a numerous company, whose personal attachment rendered mankind extremely cautious of approaching him. In the purchase of an old shirt, he once supposed himself cheated by a woman of the vast sum of three-pence; in consequence of which, he commenced a suit against her in the court of conscience, and the poor old man was, however, unsuited; and, besides the original debt of three-pence, he expended on the road from Pinner to London, and back again, three half-pence more. Lady Tempest was the only person who had the least influence on this unfortunate miser; and, though she knew that she should share the bulk of his fortune with Captain Holmes, she endeavoured to persuade him to enjoy the good things of this life, but in vain. Once, indeed, she prevailed upon him to purchase an old hat (having worn his own for thirteen years) from a Jew for a shilling; but to her great astonishment, when she called the next day, she beheld the old chapeau on his head. On enquiry, it appeared, that he had prevailed on old Griffiths, his servant to purchase the hat of him, at the advanced price of eighteen-pence, & congratulated himself on his dexterity in clearing six pence by the transaction. One day, Lady Tempest sent him a present of trout stewed in claret, of which he was extremely fond. It was frosty weather, and the whole, from being kept all night, was frozen almost into ice. Being much afflicted with tooth-ach, he could not touch it, and to light a fire he thought expensive; therefore, as he generally lay in bed to keep himself warm in cold weather, he caused the fish and sauce to be put between two pewter plates, on which he sat till the rich repast was tolerably warm. Of lawyers and physicians, he entertained a very unfavorable opinion. Sooner than have any connection with a lawyer, he said, he would deal with the devil, and to use his own expression, ‘all the gentlemen of the faculty are medical tinkers, who, in endeavouring to patch up one blemish in the human frame, never fail to make ten.’ He seemed to have had something of the leaven of predilection in his composition; for while his sister lay upon her death-bed, being importuned to call in medical assistance, he sternly replied, “why should I waste my money in wickedly endeavouring to counteract the will of Providence?” Perhaps, the dread of expence operated more powerfully upon him than his religious tenets. During his last illness, Lady Tempest accidentally called upon him, and finding him lying up to the neck in an old sack, without even a shirt remonstrated against the impropriety of such a situation; when he replied, that “having come into the world without a shirt, he was determined to go out of it in the same manner.” She then requested him to have a pillow to raise his head, when he immediately ordered his old servant Griffiths, to bring him a truss of hay for that purpose. Mr. Dancer's house, which is now in the possession of Captain Holmes, is a most miserable building, and has not been repaired for half a century; though poor in external appearance, it has, however, been recently discovered to be very rich within; Captain Holmes having, at different times, found large bowls filled with guineas and half guineas, and par-
rels of banknotes stuffed under the covers of old chairs. This singular man died in October 1794. Since his death, large sums of dollars and shillings have been found in the house. At the dead of night he has been known to go to his place, but for what purpose even old Griffiths could not tell. It now appears however, that he used to rob one jury to add to the bowl, which was since his death, found buried in the kitchen.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
A Communication has been received, under the signature of N. P. the principal object of which is to prove that every stockholder in an unincorporated Bank is answerable, to the whole extent of his property, for demands on it. The avowed purpose of the writer is to repress false opinions on the Potomack Bank. Welcome time since admitted a communication from the same writer on the same subject, under an impression of its importance, and confidence that if the facts or reasoning of the piece were erroneous, a full discussion would expose them, and consequently a correct opinion be embraced by the public. As the subscriptions to the proposed Bank are to be opened on Wednesday next, it is evident that this last communication, if published, whatever errors it may contain, would not, in point of time, admit of an answer. This is our reason for declining its insertion at present. But as the writer appears to conduct the discussion with temperance and talent, it shall appear when this reason shall have ceased to exist.
We have received a request to republish from the Alexandria Advertiser, a piece signed Mercator . The paper, containing this article, having been removed and destroyed before the request reached us, prevents our complying with it.
(By Authority.)
An act providing for the establishment of semi-annual fairs.
BE it enacted by the First and Second Chambers of the City Council of Washington, That two fairs be held in every year within the city of Washington for the sale of all kinds of cattle, goods, wares and merchandise; on the first Wednesdays of May and November, under such regulations as the mayor may prescribe, of which fairs he shall make due notification.
SAMUEL H. SMITH, President of the first chamber of the city council of Washington. NICHOLAS KING, President of the second chamber of the city council of Washington.
Approved, Aug. 25th, 1804. ROBERT BRENT, Mayor. Test THOMAS HERTY, Reg.
In the Case of Elizabeth Lewis an Insolvent debtor.
District of Columbia, Washington County, to wit:
ON the petition of Elizabeth Lewis an insolvent debtor confined in the prison of Washington county for debt it is ordered that notice be given to the creditors of the said Elizabeth Lewis that on the sixth day of September next at 9 o'clock A. M. at the court room in the Capitol the oath of an insolvent debtor will be administered to the said Elizabeth Lewis and a trustee appointed agreeably to the act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia unless sufficient cause be then and there shown to the contrary.
It is also ordered that this notice be published in the National Intelligencer and Washington Federalist twice before that day.
By order of the hon: Wm. Cranch assistant Judge of the circuit court of the district of columbia. URIAH FORREST, Clk. Sep. 3—2*.
Notice to Subscribers.
SUBSCRIBERS to the National Intelligencer in arrears are requested to make immediate payment. It may be proper to remind subscribers that the indispensable term of the Paper is the annual payment of Five Dollars in advance; and that unless the term be complied with, their papers will be discontinued.
ANCHOR TAVERN, AND OYSTER HOUSE.
G. PITTS, impressed with every sense of duty, owes to his friends and felt; craves their attention to the following remarks. 1st. The duty to his friends is by keeping every necessary accommodation suitable for a tavern, such as good beds, wholesome diet; the choicest of liquors; and the best of attendance. 2d. The duty to himself is to take care of No. 1, to see that no body pays twice, as once is sufficient, to collect every dollar he can that is owing to him, and trust no more; for trusting is the ruin of many an honest man; and will be, if he goes on, the ruin of him. As therefore the Oyster Season is nearly approaching, and cash with him very scarce, he earnestly entreats those who stand indebted to him, prior and subsequent to his opening, the above tavern will pay their respective balances on or before the 15th day of September next, which will enable him to render that reception different to the last season, and treat them in that elegant and accommodating style which is his pride to support, and his ardent wish to maintain. Georgetown, August 31—31

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