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(BY AUTHORITY.)
AN ACT
For licensing and regulating Auctions in the City of Washington.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the First and Second Chambers of the City Council of Washington, That no person or persons whatsoever shall after the publication of this act take upon him, her, or themselves, to sell or expose to sale by way of vendue or auction, any goods, wares or merchandise within the City of Washington, unless such person or persons reside within the said city, and first receive a license to be renewed annually by the mayor, for which he or they shall pay to the Corporation one hundred dollars, and give bond to the Mayor and Council with two good securities in the sum of five thousand dollars for his or their honest and due performance of all the duties required by this law.
Sec. 2. Be it enacted , That if any person shall be found selling or disposing of any goods, wares or merchandise, within the City of Washington, by way of vendue or auction without being licensed and giving security as aforesaid, such person or persons so offending, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay five hundred dollars to the Corporation.
Sec. 3. Be it enacted , That the auctioneer or auctioneers licensed as aforesaid, shall receive all articles which they shall be required to sell at auction, receipt for the same if required, & in ten days after any sale made, shall deliver a fair account of the sale and pay the amount of the money received, deducting therefrom the fees and commissions hereinafter allowed—That is to say, on the sale of all dry goods five per cent. unless sold in their original packages, in which case a commission of two and a half per cent. only shall be allowed—On the sale of all wet goods, groceries of every description and horses, two and a half per cent.—Upon household goods and furniture, five per cent.—Upon the amount of sales of vacant lots and vessels, the property of one or more persons jointly, two per cent. on the first two hundred dollars, and one per cent. on the next one thousand dollars; and if the amount of sales shall exceed one thousand five hundred dollars, then one fourth per cent. on such excess: And if the said auctioneer, on the same day, or by adjournment to any other day, make sale of one vacant or unimproved lot or vessel, the property of the same person or persons, it shall be considered as one entire sale, and a commission allowed thereon, agreeable to the rates before stated. When the said auctioneers shall let ground on a rent forever, they shall receive a commission on a sum equal to the amount of ten years purchase of such rent. In all cases where any article shall be actually exposed to sale, which shall not be sold by reason of their not producing the price limited, it shall be lawful for the auctioneers to demand and receive one fourth of the commission on the sum at which such articles shall have been struck off, which they would have been entitled to receive had such articles been actually sold. Every auctioneer who shall demand or receive any fees or commission where none are allowed by law, or greater fees or commission than are so allowed, shall forfeit four times the amount of the fees or commission so demanded or received, to the use of the person or persons on whom such demand shall be made, or from whom such fees or commission shall be received.
Sec. 4. Be it enacted , That no auctioneer shall receive storage for any goods, wares or merchandise, put into his or their hands for sale, except for the following articles, and at the rate herein specified: That is to say, for all wet goods and groceries, and for all pork, fish or beef in barrels or hogsheads, or coffee in hogsheads, tierces, barrels or bags, crockery or glass in hogsheads or crates, which shall remain undispersed after having been once exposed to sale; for every hogshead, pipe or crate, twenty-five cents per month; for each barrel or bag eight cents per month; and in the same proportion for any larger or smaller quantity, and for any longer or shorter time.
Sec. 5. Be it enacted , That no person or persons, licensed as aforesaid, shall receive goods for sale of any servant or minor, without the owner's certificate, and every auctioneer, before exposing of any real or personal property to public sale, shall make out in writing, and sign and publicly read the conditions of sale, and every auctioneer shall advertise the articles intended for sale, and the time and place of each sale, in one or more newspapers in the City of Washington, and shall moreover give notice of the same by a cryer and ringing of a bell.
Sec. 6. Be it enacted , That no auctioneer shall, by himself, or by any person for his use, purchase any articles sent to him or them for sale, except for his or their own use (that is not to sell again); every auctioneer shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay to the Corporation one hundred dollars: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any auctioneer from advancing money on goods deposited for sale.
Sec. 7. Be it enacted , That all auctioneers, licensed as aforesaid, shall keep a printed copy of this law in some conspicuous place in their auction room, and for each neglect shall forfeit and pay fifty dollars to the Corporation.
Sec. 8. Be it enacted , That so much of the laws passed February tenth, 1806, and March twenty-ninth, 1806, authorizing auctions in the City of Washington, as is inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
heads, or coffee in hogsheads, tierces, barrels or bags, crockery or glass in hogsheads or crates, which shall remain undispersed after having been once exposed to sale; for every hogshead, pipe or crate, twenty-five cents per month; for each barrel or bag eight cents per month; and in the same proportion for any larger or smaller quantity, and for any longer or shorter time.
Sec. 5. Be it enacted , That no person or persons, licensed as aforesaid, shall receive goods for sale of any servant or minor, without the owner's certificate, and every auctioneer, before exposing of any real or personal property to public sale, shall make out in writing, and sign and publicly read the conditions of sale, and every auctioneer shall advertise the articles intended for sale, and the time and place of each sale, in one or more newspapers in the City of Washington, and shall moreover give notice of the same by a cryer and ringing of a bell.
Sec. 6. Be it enacted , That no auctioneer shall, by himself, or by any person for his use, purchase any articles sent to him or them for sale, except for his or their own use (that is not to sell again); every auctioneer shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay to the Corporation one hundred dollars: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any auctioneer from advancing money on goods deposited for sale.
Sec. 7. Be it enacted , That all auctioneers, licensed as aforesaid, shall keep a printed copy of this law in some conspicuous place in their auction room, and for each neglect shall forfeit and pay fifty dollars to the Corporation.
Sec. 8. Be it enacted , That so much of the laws passed February tenth, 1806, and March twenty-ninth, 1806, authorizing auctions in the City of Washington, as is inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
C. W. GOLDSBOROUGH, President of the First Chamber.
RICHARD FORREST, President pro tem. of the Second Chamber.
Approved, May 23, 1809.
ROBERT BRENT, MAYOR.
The following Message was received by both Houses of Congress on Saturday last.
To the House of Representatives. I now lay before Congress the report of the Secretary of War, shewing the progress made in carrying into effect the act of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, for raising an additional military force, and the disposition of the troops.
JAMES MADISON.
May 26, 1809.
WAR DEPARTMENT, May 26, 1809.
SIR, Agreeably to your instructions, I have the honor herewith to transmit to you a general return of the army, made from the latest reports which have been received.
And am, with perfect respect, Your most obedient servant, WILLIAM EUSTIS. The President of the U. States.
A General return of the troops of the United States composing the "Military peace establishment," shewing the strength of each regiment and corps, including recruits.
   General and subordinate staff officers, 33   Corps of engineers, 45   Regiment of artillery, 1,590   First regiment of infantry, 595   Second regiment of infantry, 676   Total "military peace establishment," 2,909  
A General return of the troops of the United States composing the "additional military force," shewing the strength of each regiment, including recruits.
   General staff officers, 2   Regiment of light dragoons, 416   Regiment of light artillery, and regiment of infantry, 424   Fourth do. do. 346   Fifth do. do. 653   Sixth do. do. 692   Seventh do. do. 591   Regiment of riflemen, 203   Total "Additional military force," 466   3,793  
The troops composing the "additional military force" are doing duty at the different posts and garrisons indiscriminately with those of the "Military peace establishment."
Those of them who have been recruited South of Pennsylvania have been generally detached to New Orleans.
Those raised North of Pennsylvania are on duty in the states in which they were recruited.
INSPECTOR'S OFFICE, Washington City, May 26 1809. A. V. NICOLL, Adjutant and Inspector.
New Orleans, April 28. On Wednesday the 26th inst. the return of General Wilkinson to the bosom of his friends and a country that can never forget his services, was celebrated by all the respectable characters of New Orleans and its vicinity. An elegant entertainment far exceeding any thing of the kind ever witnessed here, was provided on the occasion. The spacious ball room in Mr. Tremoulet's hotel, where the dinner was given, not being sufficiently large to contain at one table the whole of the numerous company, two other large tables were placed in adjoining rooms.—At the grand table, where the General, the Governor, the Mayor, &c. &c. were entertained, Mr. Bore, one of our most ancient and respectable inhabitants, and Mr. Benjamin Morgan, presided—at the other two tables Mr. Thomas Urquhart and Mr. Labatut presided at the one, and Mr. Dubourg and Mr. L. Masse at the other. The most perfect harmony and decorum reigned throughout the whole repast, during which the following toasts were given:
 1st. General Wilkinson—the satisfaction that his arrival causes, ought to convince him of the affection that Louisianians bear towards him—9 guns.  2d. The President of the United States—9 guns.  3d. Memory of General Washington—13 guns.  4th. The Congress of the United States, may they soon fill the territory of Orleans worthy of being assigned a place in the American union.—3 guns.  5th. The Judiciary of the United States—3 guns.  6th. The Army of the United States—3 guns.  7th. The Navy of the United States—3 guns.  8th. Thomas Jefferson—The good will of his fellow citizens is a just reward for his virtue and public services—9 guns.  9th. Governor Claiborne—9 guns.  10th. The prosperity of the territory of Orleans—May the tranquility of this precious portion of the union be ever protected against the machinations of the wicked—3 guns.  11th. Julian Poydras, our delegate to Congress—3 guns.  12th. A speedy and honorable adjustment of our differences with the belligerent powers—8 guns.  13th. The memory of those who died in defence of their country—13 guns.  14th. The American fair—9 guns.  After dinner the General accompanied by the Governor and many of their friends, attended the theatre, where the General was welcomed by the warmest acclamations of applause.
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
[The following article is taken from late numbers of the Monthly Magazine. The great length of the extracts from the Columbiad given in the Magazine has obliged us to omit them.]
From the Monthly Magazine Some ACCOUNT of the COLUMBIAD, a POEM IN TEN BOOKS; by JOEL BARLOW: lately published at PHILADELPHIA.
EVERY nation that can boast of an epic poem of sufficient merit to become a classical work, has certainly a good cause for self complacency.—Such a work inspires an additional interest, when built on a national subject; when the author, who is destined to gratify his countrymen by soaring to this highest flight of human genius, can find among their own annals an action capable of supporting a strength of pinion equal to the task.
The subject of our great English epic is not national; neither is that of the Germans, the Messias of Klopstock. The most distinguished work
of that kind among the Italians, the Jerusalem of Tasso, is but partly national, though wholly Catholic, and sufficiently interesting for the age of religious chivalry in which he lived. The Portuguese Lusiad, the great poem of the Romans, and the greater of the Greeks, were all reared on patriotic ground.
I know not whether the French of the present day persist in claiming for their country the honor of an epic poem: the work that went by that name while its celebrated author lived to support it by the strength of his own character (I speak of the Henriade of Voltaire) was altogether national. To whatever cause the fact must be attributed, I believe it will not be denied that the French epic poem remains yet to be written.
Mr. Barlow has been particularly happy in respect to his subject. The discovery of America is in itself a great action; but its importance is infinitely augmented by the consequences resulting from the discovery.—These consequences comprise by far the most interesting portion of modern history; and their interest is strongly concentrated in his country it being that part of the new world which has first manifested its own importance, by giving birth to a great and civilized nation.
The settlement therefore of the British colonies, the wars and revolutions through which they rose to independent states, that vast frame of federative republican government on which they now stand, and which in the eyes of our enthusiastic bard is to extend itself over the whole of North America, and give an example to the world, composes the principal part of the active scenery of the poem. But other and far more extensive views of human affairs, drawn from other countries, and from ages past, present, and future, are likewise placed beneath our eye, and form no inconsiderable portion of this magnificent work; magnificent it certainly is beyond any thing which modern literature has to boast, except the Paradise Lost by Milton.
I will first present your readers with a general plan or analysis of the poem, and then proceed to give such extracts from it as shall offer as fair a view of its character for imagery and style, as can be comprised in a small compass.
The author in his preface makes some pertinent remarks on the nature of the subject, and the difficulties it presented as to the best mode of treating it. "The Columbiad (says he) is a patriotic poem; the subject is national and historical; thus far it must be interesting to my countrymen. But most of the events were so recent, so important, and so well known, as to render them inflexible to the hand of fiction. The poem therefore could not with propriety be modelled after that regular epic form which the more splendid works of this kind have taken, and on which their success is supposed in a great measure to depend. The attempt would have been highly injudicious; it must have diminished and debased a series of actions, which were really great in themselves, and which could not be dignified without losing their interest." So far I agree with the poet; who seems to understand the real value of the rules of his art, too well to think himself obliged in all cases to follow them.
He farther observes, "I shall enter into no discussion on the nature of the epic, nor attempt to prove, by any latitude of reasoning, that I have written an epic poem." Neither will I enter into such a discussion; but I must apply to the present work the sentiment of Addison, with regard to Paradise Lost. If it is not epic poem, it is something better.
Mr. Barlow has dealt freely with mythological and allegorical personages; several of whom take conspicuous parts in the conduct of affairs.—Hesper, as the guardian genius of the Western Continent, is made to play a great role; the continent is called after his name, Hesperia; and from the part he acts, he must be considered at least the second character in the poem. He is introduced near the beginning, and continues to the end; and there is no personage but Columbus, whose existence seems so incorporated with the body of the work. Atlas, the guardian of Africa, is the elder brother of Hesper, according to the account of this mythological family, which the author gives us in a note. Atlas appears but once in the course
of the action; and it is to present us with as sublime a set of images as we have ever met with in poetry, including in his speech a most awful denunciation of vengeance on the people of America, for the slavery of the Africans. These two brothers, with several river-gods, and the demons of War, Cruelty, Inquisition, Frost, Famine, and Pestilence, compose the celestial actors who take charge of the hyperphysical part of the machinery.
The human characters are mostly real and known, some few of them fictitious; they are I believe more numerous than those employed in any other poem, not excepting the Iliad; and they are as much varied as the subject requires.
I will now proceed in my dissection or decomposition of the work. After a proper exordium and invocation to Fecundo, a personage which the poet takes for his Muse, and promises to invoke no other, the poem opens by presenting us Columbus in prison at Valladolid, uttering a pathetic monologue on the services he had performed for the Spanish monarch, and on the ungrateful and barbarous manner in which they had been rewarded. In this situation Hesper appears to the illustrious prisoner, and announces himself as the genius of the western hemisphere, and guardian of that continent, which he says is called Hesperia, but for the future shall be Columbia; as Europe was named after its adventurous discoverer, the daughter of Agenor, who first sailed thither from Phoenicia.
The approach of Hesper is attended with the splendor and éclat suitable to the occasion; light bursts into the dungeon; the prison walls tremble, and disappear; and after a short address to Columbus, announcing his quality, and the object of his visit (which is no less than to lay before him the immense importance of his labours in the long train of consequences, to shew him what fame he is to acquire, and to recal to his broken spirit the great moral principle, that the knowledge of the good, we do is the only reward that can satisfy a benevolent mind for the sacrifices that great actions require) he conducts the hero to the mount of vision, which is reared in mid-sky over the western coast of Europe. Here Spain with its dungeons, Europe with all its kingdoms, Alps, and Pyrenees, sink far behind and beneath their feet; while the Atlantic Ocean spreads before them, and the continents of America draw majestically into view. The rest of the first book is occupied in describing the great features of the twin continents of that hemisphere, south and north. It may now be said that the mountains and rivers of the new world have been better sung than those of the old. In describing the three great rivers, Maragnon, Lawrence, and Mississippi, on each of which I find fifty or sixty lines, there is a remarkable variety of scenery and sentiment, no recurrence to the same ideas, no confusion of character in their majestic streams. They are all animated, but their several portraits are kept as distinct as those of Achilles, Hector, and Ulysses; no part of any one of which would suit either of the others. Maragnon is presented in the act of overflowing his banks; after collecting from a vast range of continent the number of powerful rivers, who soon proud of becoming tributary to so great a fluvial sovereign, he thus continues his progress:—
[Here follows the extract.]
The river St. Lawrence affords a noble opportunity for depicting the breaking up of winter in a northern latitude, and Mr. Barlow has made the most of it. The tremendous struggle of the ice crushed gulph in the conflict between the legions of frost and the tides of ocean, exhibits an awful picture; and then the islands of ice accumulating into floating mountains as they drive out to sea, and move to southern latitudes, supplying thirsty ships with fresh water, or crushing and sinking them in the deep, shew that the poetic images of nature had not been exhausted by preceding bards. Here he takes occasion to deplore the loss of an American officer, whose ship was supposed to have perished in the ice.
The Mississippi is described with circumstances more interesting, tho' not more majestic, than the other great rivers. As it runs through a vast and fertile country, and shed its

author's country, of which he takes many occasions to predict the future importance and felicity, he dwells much on these ideas in marking the great features of that river.
(To be Continued.)
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Friday, May 26.
DEBATE.
On Mr. Randolph's motion for approving the late conduct of the President of the U. States.—Continued.
Mr. RANDOLPH said that as an in- definite postponement was considered as tantamount to a rejection—for it prevents a renewal of the subject dur- ing the session, and a rejection does nothing more, as the House had heretofore had a woful experience in the case of certain very pernicious peti- tions; and, as he was afraid, they would again have from a certain body of petitioners who, he presumed had not entirely given up their hopes of quartering themselves on the public property—an indefinite postponement then being equivalent to a rejection, he certainly was opposed to the re- jection of his own motion. He could not have believed that his motion would have been rejected by the House; though he said he had certainly calcu- lated on its being opposed by those who condemned the promptitude and frankness with which the President had proceeded to restore, as far as de- pended on him, the intercourse be- tween the two nations. It is this part of the conduct of the President of the United States (said Mr. R.) on which I mean to give an opinion. "By the President of the United States a pro- clamation"—and in that proclamation, in my opinion, he has deserved well of his country. I ask the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Findley) if it is near enough to hear me on this vest- room, when I have proposed bringing in review the whole measures of for- mer administrations—when have I proposed an answer to an address to the two Houses? I have proposed no such thing, sir—although my motion is nearly tantamount to it; because it so happens that the only act of which we have any knowledge, except the laying up the gun-boats in dry dock, which I also most cordially approve, is this very thing. Now, I have not the slightest objection, if the gentle- man chooses, that the hon. and worthy gentleman from Massachusetts should insist on a censure on the conduct of any former President of the United States—but I beg myself to be excused from serving on it. As an unqualified juror I choose to except to myself—for, real- ly, as to one of those Presidents, his career does not seem yet to be finish- ed—it would seem as if he yet medi- tated another batch of midnight judges and another midnight retreat from the capitol. I do therefore except to myself as a juror as to him or any o- ther President. De mortuis nil nisi bonum —agreed, sir. Let the good that men do live after them and the evil be interred in their graves. But I would ask the gentleman from Con- necticut and the gentleman from Pen- nsylvania also, if this be one of their abstract propositions? How abstract, I pray you? Or if it be one of those unmeaning propositions, the discus- sion of which can answer no good to this House? It would be idle in us now to be trying Mr. Adams on the merits of the sedition law, the 8 per cent. loans, or any other such act; it would answer no purpose—and it would be equally idle and futile to pass any opinion on the merits or demerits of the first four or last four years of the late administration, for this plain rea- son—the question bolts upon you— cid bono ? What earthly good can re- sult from it? But is that the case in relation to the Executive on whose future dispositions rest the best inter- ests of this nation? Is that a mere idle discussion? And is it come to this?—Is this House so sunk in the Executive opinion—I trust not, sir; I abhor the idea—that its approbation of a great course of national policy is to pass for nothing, is to have no influ- ence on the conduct of the Executive of the United States? This, sir, is taking higher doctrine than was ever advanced by those who wished to see the President open Parliament by a speech from the throne, and to see the faithful commons return a loyal and humble address in reply to the graci- ous speech from the throne. It is taking higher ground than the minister of that country from which the prece- dent was derived. The weight of the House of Commons is felt too sensibly there for their inclinations not to be sounded by motions from their chan- cellor of the exchequer and their mem- bers of opposition in relation to a great course of foreign affairs. And, sir, shall we now be told that it is a mere matter of moonshine—a thing of no moment, whether this House really does approve the conduct of the administration of the government of the United States or disapprove it? Praise, in my opinion, properly and not prodigally bestowed, is one of the best resources of a nation. Why is this House called upon, and I am sor- ry to say it is, too often, and too light- ly, to give its sanction to the conduct of individuals in the public service, or
its approbation is estimated so triv- ally? No, sir; this is a great ques- tion which I have presented to you—and gentlemen may hamper it with as many amendments as they please; they cannot keep the question out of sight. Some may be against it be- cause they are for it; some because it does harm, and some because it does good. The question cannot be kept out of sight; it has been presented to the American people and they have decided it, decide you how you may. With respect to the gentleman's amendment I need not tell him, I pre- sume, that I shall vote most pointedly against it, because, in my opinion, it does not contain the truth. The gen- tleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Bac- con) will be among the last of the members of this House to attribute to me an improper sentiment in regard to him when I say that it does not contain the truth. If the gentleman from Massachusetts chooses, in imitation of another Eastern nation, not those who tired their kings after they were en- throned, but those who consigned to one common grave the living and the dead—if he be willing to attach the sound healthy body of the present ad- ministration—healthy so far, and, I trust, fortifying itself against contagi- ous—to the dead corpse of the last, let him. He shall not have my assis- tance in doing it; nor have I the least desire to draw a marked distinction between the two administrations—the gentleman will hardly suspect that I am seeking favor at court. My object is plain—it is to say to the President that in issuing that proclamation he has acted wisely and we approve of it. I know, sir, that there are men who condemn the conduct of the President in issuing the proclamation—and why? They say he was precipitate—where was the necessity they will tell you of declaring that the orders in council will have been withdrawn? This is the language of objection. There is a difference of opinion subsisting in this country on these two points. There are men who condemn this pro- clamation, and men who condemn the construction given by the Executive to the non-intercourse law. I approve both. I wish the President of the U. States to have the approving sentiment of this House, and to have that appro- bation as a guide to his future conduct—and I put it to the gentleman from Massachusetts whether it be fair to mingle it with the old, stale, refuse stuff of the embargo. No, sir; let him not put his new wine into old bot- tles. There is a difference of opinion in this country. The President of the United States stands condemned by men in this nation, and, as I believe, in this House, for having issued that proclamation and put that construction on the non-intercourse law. I wish to see by how many he is thus condemn- ed. I do not wish to see the question shirked, to see it blinked. If there be a majority of the House, as I believe there is, in favor of the conduct of the President, I wish him to have that approbation expressed, as a guide to his future and a support to his present conduct. It is due to him. Sir, have I moved you a nascent sick- ening resolution stuffed with adulation? Nothing like it; but a resolution that the promptitude and frankness with which the President of the United States has met the overtures of the British government towards a restora- tion of the ancient state of things be- tween the two countries—the state prior to the memorable non-importa- tion act of 1806—meets the approba- tion of this House. Either it does or it does not. If it does, let us say so. If it does not, let us say so. If gen- tlemen think this House never ought to express an opinion, but leave the President to grope in the dark as to our views or get them through unofficial channels, I presume the previous question will be taken or a motion made that the resolution lie on the table. The gentleman from Penn- sylvania says, shall we go back and ap- prove of what he conceives to be simi- lar conduct of the late President of the United States in relation to the embargo. I hope not, sir. But if a majority of this House chuse to do so, let them. I shall say no. But why mingle two subjects together, on which there does exist, and I am afraid it will leak out on this very vote of indefi- nite postponement, so very material a difference of opinion in different parts of the House? For example: I do not think of the offer about the embargo as the gentlemen from Mas- sachusetts and Pennsylvania think; and I think it probable that those two gentlemen do not think of this pro- clamation and the construction given to the non-intercourse law as I think. And why should we make a sort of hotch-potch of two subjects on which we do not think alike, for the purpose of getting us all united against both? It is an old adage and a very homely one, perhaps too much so for the delicate ears of this assem- bly, that if you put one added egg in- to a pudding, you may add fresh ones ad infinitum, but you can never sweeten it. And, sir, I defy the gentleman from Massachusetts with all his politi- cal cookery, by pouring out of the jar of our present situation into the old mess to sweeten it. I am here prepared to meet, as I conceive
at the con- duct of the two administrations has been radically, essentially and vitally different; that owing to this difference is the change which we now experi- ence in the state of our foreign affairs; that there is no sort of analogy be- tween the offer to suspend the em- bargo as it respected Great Britain, and the situation in which we put ourselves in relation to France and G. Britain by the suspension of the non- intercourse act towards the latter.— And to the promptitude and frank- ness with which the President met the overtures of the British ministry do we chiefly owe the difference in the situation of the country. For, might not the President of the U. States, instead of proclaiming that the orders in council will have been with- drawn, have proclaimed that when they shall be withdrawn, a renewal of intercourse shall take place? And here too comes the construction given to the non-intercourse act. On the question whether the renewal of in- tercourse on the 10th day of June applied to a vessel, clearing out hence or to her arrival in England, our gov- ernment, (and I am obliged to them for it) decided that it applied to the time when the vessel should arrive in England. Then, sir, if we take the time which will be required for a voy- age hence to Europe, it is tunc clarius that the non-intercourse will never have been in force at all as to trade of ex- port. Is that nothing? And, lest the gentleman from Pennsylvania or any other gentleman in this House may get alarmed at my approbation of the administration of the government of the United States, I will state to them—I do not wish to terrify them out of their opinions—I wish them to judge the administration upon its mer- its, without reference to persons, as I have judged of the proclamation with- out reference to the parties concerned in the manufacture of it—Lest they should be too much alarmed at that approbation, I will state that my idea is that the President of the United States has but done his duty; and that the minister of Great Britain has no cause to put on sack cloth and ashes for any concessions which he may have unwarily made to our govern- ment. If my strength will hold me out, sir, I will state why. In the year 1806 we passed that miserable old non-importation act which last session we repealed—and really, sir, we got rid of it with an adroitness which pleased me exceedingly. Nev- er was an obnoxious measure more handsomely smothered by its avowed friends. Gentlemen said it was merg- ed in the non-intercourse act, and therefore as a matter of indifference they would repeal it; and when the non-intercourse act shall expire by its own limitation at the end of this ses- sion or be suspended by the President's proclamation, as it is in relation to G. Britain, there is an end of both; and thus the old measure, the old original sin to which we owed our first diffi- culties, was as much gotten rid of as if a majority of this House had de- clared it an unwise measure and there- fore repealed it. I do recollect to have heard one gentleman (Mr. Eppes) say that unless the section repealing this law were stricken out he should be compelled to vote against the non- intercourse bill. He conjured the House to cling to the old non-importation act as the last vestige and symbol of resistance to British oppression—but the House was deaf to his call, and the non-importation act was plung- ed beneath the wave, never (I trust) to rise again. When, therefore, the late President of the United States made an offer to G. Britain to suspend the embargo as to her, provided she would withdraw her orders in council, I will suppose that she had accepted that offer. In what situation would she have stood in relation to the U. States? Her fine cloths, her leather, her watches, her this and her that would have been prohibited admittance into this country under the old non-im- portation act of 1806, which would have been in force. That act in point of fact had no operation on her ad- versary. Her ships would have been prohibited the use of our waters whilst the ships of war of her enemy were admitted. Did that make no differ- ence? That, sir, would have been the situation of the two countries, provided she had accepted the offer to suspend the embargo as to herself—the old non- importation act in operation, her ships of war excluded & her rivals admitted. I pray you, was not that the condition of the country when Mr. Ros arrived? Was there not some difficulty, under the proclamation, in the admis- sion of the Statira frigate bearing that minister into our waters? And were not French ships of war there, and have they not since been riding quietly at Annapolis, Norfolk and elsewhere? Has not in fact the gallant Captain Decatur taken our own seamen out of one of them? And yet, sir, the offer at that time made by us has been identi- fied with the negotiation between Mr. Secretary Smith and Mr. Erskine.— What then was her situation? The non importation act in force, her ships excluded and those of France admitted—and nothing in force in relation to France except the embargo. What is now the situation of affairs? Trade with her is restored to the same situation in point of fact, in which it stood when
Congress met here in 1806—the memorable first session of the ninth Congress which generated the old non-importation act of 1806: Her ships of war are admitted into our waters, her trade is freed from em- barrassment, while the ships of her ad- versary are excluded, and the trade between us and her adversary forbid- den by law. While, therefore, I am ready and willing to approve the con- duct of the present administration, it is not because I conceive that they have effected any thing so very diffi- cult, that they have obtained any such mighty concession, but because they have done their duty. Yes, sir—we all recollect the objections made to the treaty negotiated by col. Monroe and Mr. Pinkney on two great leading accounts—1st, that it contained no ex- press provision against the impress- ment of seamen. Is there any pro- vision now made? No sir. The next objection to the treaty was the note at- tached to it by Lords Holland and Auckland. What, sir, did gentlemen on this floor say was the purport of this note? That its object was to put us in a state of amity in respect to G. Britain at the expence of the risk of collision with France. On account of this note the treaty and treaty-makers have been politically damned.— And yet we are now, in point of fact, in that very situation in relation to the two nations, in which it was said that the British commissioners by the note aimed to place us—& which was a suffi- cient reason, according to the arguments of gentlemen, for rejecting the treaty. The note was a sort of lien, gen- tlemen said, that would put us in a state of hostility with regard to France and amity with regard to England. We refused to give our bond, for such it was represented (however unjustly) to be, to be sure, sir—but we have paid the money. We have done the very thing which gentlemen say the note aimed to induced us to do. We have put our- selves in a situation endanger- ing collision with France and almost ensuring amity with England. We have destroyed the old non-importa- tion act; the non-intercourse act is suspended as to her; trade is again free—there is nothing now to prohib- it her ships, whether for commerce or war, from coming into our waters, whilst our trade with France is completely cut off, and her ships excluded from our waters. I cannot too often call the attention of the House to this fact on which I am compelled to dwell and to dilate, to get rid of this merciless motion, which kills while it professes to cure. When Mr. Rose came into this country, French ships of war were freely admitted. English ships were excluded. As "the physician, in spite of him- self," says in one of Moliere's best comedies, on a change tout cela —the thing is wholly reversed. We are likely to be on good terms with Eng- land, maugre the best exertions of some of our politicians. Trade with Great Britain is unshackled—her ships are admitted—trade with France is forbidden; and French ships excluded, as far as it can be done by paper. Now, in the name of common sense, what more could Mr. Canning himself want, than to produce this very strik- ing and sudden change in the relations between the two countries? For a long time previous, it was the ships of England that were excluded, while those of her adversaries were admit- ted. And we know that we could not have touched her in a more jealous point than in her navy. Things are now reversed—we have dextrously shuffled the non-importation act out of the pack, renewed trade with her, admitted her ships, and excluded those of France. And what, I ask this House, has the British minister given us in requital for this change of our po- sition in relation to him and his rival belligerent? The revocation of the orders in council—this is the mighty boon. For, with respect to his offer in relation to satisfaction for the at- tack on the Chesapeake, he made that offer to Mr. Monroe spontaneously, on the spur of the occasion, and there is not a doubt in my mind but that we had nothing to do but receive it at that time, provided the instructions of our minister had permitted him to receive it—but perchance, sir, if he had re- ceived it, we might have been at this day discussing his message, and not the message of another President.— All that Mr. Canning has given this country is a reiteration of his offer to make reparation for the affair of the Chesapeake, and his withdrawal of the orders in council—and to what did that amount? So soon as you, by your own law, cut off your trade with France, he agrees to revoke the or- ders interfering with it. Mr. Can- ning might as well have withdrawn blank paper. They had nothing left to operate upon. The body upon which they were to operate was de- stroyed by our own act, to wit, the trade of France. And, sir, while I compliment the present state of things, and the conduct on the part of our gov- ernment which has led to it, I cannot say that we have greatly over-reached Mr. Canning in this bargain, in mak- ing an exchange of the old non-impor- tation act with the admission of Eng- lish, and exclusion of French ships and trade, for the orders in council. Mr. Canning obtained as good a bar-
pect to obtain—and those gentle- men who speak of his having heretofore had it in his power to have done the same, did not take into calculation the material difference between the situation in which we now stand, and the situation in which we before stood—to say nothing at all of Great Bri- tain's having taken a stand against the embargo, having declared that she had nothing to offer in exchange for it; that we might keep it as long as we pleased. If she had accepted our of- fer, as I before stated, the old non- importation law would have been in operation, her ships of war would have been excluded, whilst those of France were admitted. Now, the non-impor- tation act is not in force, her ships are permitted to enter our waters, and those of France excluded. And what has this sarcastic minister of Great Britain given us in exchange? The orders in council, which had complete- ly ceased to operate by the cutting off of the trade between us and France. Let me state this argument in a shape most favorable to ourselves, and least so to the British government. I speak as to argument; for, as to friendship between nations, there is no friend- ship in trade. We ought to get the best bargain out of them that we could, and it was the duty of their minister to get the best out of us. Let us throw out of view the exclusion of French ships and French commerce. Is the removal of the non-importation act, and the admission of British vessels, nothing? What has Mr. Canning gi- ven you in return? The orders in council—and what were they worth to him? Not a straw. If, sir, we are not to have a full dis- cussion of the conduct of the present administration, and it is to be blended and identified with the conduct of the last—which I very much deprecate, because I see nothing but a most strik- ing difference between the two—we must take into view the situation of the two countries, Great Britain and A- merica, at the time the first session of the 9th Congress commenced, in the beginning of the winter of 1805, that unhappy year of schism. Were those orders then in force which Mr. Can- ning has withdrawn? No, sir. What was then the language of gentlemen in this House? That something must be done—and that unhappy opinion that something must be done, that some medicine must be taken, has de- stroyed many a patient, political as well as individual—that something turned out to be the old non-importation act. After that, the disease instead of yield- ing to the remedy, only became exas- perated by it. Something more must be done. What was that, sir? The embargo. When that was laid, was the existence of the British orders in council known? It was not—and I take the opportunity of saying so here, because I see it has been asserted in the British Parliament, by a gentle- man of the first respectability for ta- lents and character, that they were known here. They were not, as was in my opinion unequivocally demon- strated on Saturday night the 17th and Sunday the 18th December last—al- though that debate has been suppress- ed. I say they were not. The em- bargo was laid on the receipt of the documents expressing the determina- tion of the French government to en- force the Berlin decree and the copy of the proclamation of the king of England, which last was cut out of a newspaper. I again repeat what I said and repeated that night, unknow- ing whether it will go to the public or not, that in my opinion the President of the United States acted with perfect propriety in sending us that newspa- per information; that though it was unofficial, it was proper to have been laid before this House as a guide to its decision—and it is an irrefragable proof, the President having sent us that paper, that he did not possess in- formation official or unofficial on the subject of the orders in council when he recommended and we received the proposition of the embargo. It can- not be gotten over, unless gentlemen are willing to admit, which I, totis viribus , deny, that the President of the United States was deficient in his duty, or that the newspapers of this place have earlier and more correct in- formation on the subject of our for- eign relations than our government. I say that by a recurrence to that mes- sage of the President of the United States it will be found that there was no knowledge in the cabinet of the ex- istence of these orders in council—for, although we received the British pro- clamation, we did not receive any in- formation of those orders in council, though I presume that something might have been apprehended without distinctly knowing what it was. The non-importation act was passed pre- vious to the orders in council, and con- sequently did not grow out of them; and the embargo, though posterior, was recommended and received by this House before they were known either to the President or to this House, as the journal and a comparison of that file of the National Intelligencer brought into this House on a former occasion will show. The non-impor- tation and embargo acts were passed. They no longer exist—the one no longer exists at all; the other no longer exists as to Great Britain—and

FAMILY SOCIETY.
A stated meeting of the Society will be held at the Council fire of their great wigwam (Lindsay's Hotel) on Friday the second day of the month of heats, precisely at the going down of the sun. The Council of Sachems will assemble at 6 o'clock P. M. on that day, at the same place. By order of the Society, WM. LAMBERT, Secretary. City of Washington, 30th May 31—2 Month of Flowers, 317. Members elect will please to attend at an early hour for the purpose of initiation.
BOOT MAKING.
JOHN MINCHIN, BOOT-MAKER, New Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol, has on hand and manufactures, BOOTS of the first quality, of the best materials and workmanship, and equal in neatness and durability to any in the United States—he can employ FIFTY MEN more to make strong shoes, to whom constant employment and good wages will be given. May 24—1m CHARLES J. NOURSE Offers for sale—Chateaux Margaux Claret in boxes of 1 dozen. Genuine Old London Particular wine in half pipes and quarter casks. Best Sallad Oil in baskets of 6 bottles each, &c. &c. &c. George Town, May 24—1f.
WHEEL-WRIGHTS WANTED.
THE subscribers will give encouragement to two or three good WHEEL-WRIGHTS, such as are acquainted with the making of Coach Wheels, &c. STEADY men may expect continual employment and liberal wages. THORPE and HUNT. May 17—1f.
FOR SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
On the Premises on the 15th day of June next, at 10 o'clock in the afternoon, LOT No. 3, in Sq. No. 161 in the city of Washington together with a Dwelling House and Slaughtering-House thereon. Said property is well situated for a butcher. A fine run of water passes near it. It was formerly owned by Daniel Guyer. Terms of payment, one fourth cash in hand, one fourth payable in six months from the sale with interest, one fourth payable at the end of 12 months with interest, and the remainder payable at the end of 18 months with interest. Said payments are to be secured by good notes negotiable at the Bank and a mortgage on the property. April 17—1ds
FRESH LEMONS.
New landing from the schooner Elizabeth at Alexandria, AND FOR SALE, BY FAXON, METCALF, and Co. 80 Casks and 3 Lemons, only 39 days 20 Boxes } from Lisbon. They have on hand— Muscavado Sugars, Holland Gin, French Brandy, Soap and Candles, Writing and Wrapping Papers, various qualities; Teas, Mackerel, Chocolate from Baker's Manufactory, and a general assortment of shoes. May 29—3t.
WILLIAM S. NICHOLLS,
Has just received from Philadelphia, AND OPENED FOR SALE, At his Store, opposite the Coffee House, an extensive assortment OF SPRING & SUMMER GOODS, Which being purchased on the very lowest terms—principally for cash—he will sell them as low as any person in this place. His assortment has generally been very complete; but he can assure his friends that it is better this spring than usual. He has many goods which he will sell by the piece lower than can be had in this place. Purchasers who wish to buy to sell again, will find it to their advantage to call on him. George Town, May 29—3w.
TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION
For cash, on Saturday the 3d of June, at the front door of the South Wing of the Capitol, ABOUT EIGHTY ACRES OF LAND, situate near Mrs. Casinave's, and not more than a mile and a half from the Centre Market. On the premises is a small tenement, etc. The land lies well, and being so convenient to the market, may be cultivated to great advantage. SAM. SPEAKE, Auct. May 29—3t.
CITY AUCTIONEERS.
THE subscribers beg leave to inform their friends and the public, that having obtained the security required by law, they obtained a license to sell goods, wares and merchandise at vendue in this city. To accommodate those who may be pleased to employ them, they have taken a commodious house in the street directly opposite the Marine Barracks, and from their close attention to business, they flatter themselves that they will give general satisfaction. NICHOLAS L. QUEEN, HENRY M. QUEEN. May 29—1f.
JAMES PATTERSON,
On the south side of the Pennsylvania Avenue opposite the Seven Buildings, HAVING received a large supply of Prime Materials in his Line, has it in his power to supply BOOTS on as good terms and as faithfully made, as any of his Profession in this District. He will always acknowledge with gratitude the kindness of those who may favor him with their custom, and from a sense of duty engages that nothing on his part shall cause them to regret any confidence reposed on his skill and punctuality. N. B. He has for sale SOAL and UPPER LEATHER, English BEND SOLES, with every article in the finding line, and some very nice Skating for Saddles. May 21—9t.
NOTICE.
THE purchasers of property at the public sale of Mrs. REBECCA MOCKALL'S personal estate, in Calvert County, in November last, are respectfully reminded, that their obligations became due on the 25th of the present month, and their being in absolute necessity for an immediate and final settlement of that estate, no indulgence can be given. For the greater convenience of the obligors, their notes are lodged with Alexander Contee Magruder, Esq., at Annapolis, for collection. WM. POTTS, Administrator de bonis non of Rebecca Mockall. Frederick County, May 29—3t.
WASHINGTON BRIDGE COMPANY.
—NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN— TO THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Washington Bridge Company, that the FIFTH INSTALLMENT of TEN dollars on each share is hereby called for, which must be paid on or before the 15th of June next, agreeably to the act of Congress, entitled, "An act authorizing the erection of a Bridge over the river Potomac, within the District of Columbia." By order of the Directors, DANL. CARROLL of Dud. President. May 26—dtlshuh.
District of Columbia, Washington County,
to wit: ON the petition of JOHN EVANS, an insolvent debtor, confined in the prison of Washington County aforesaid for debt—Notice is hereby given to the creditors of the said John Evans, that on the 5th day of June next, at the hour of 9 o'clock A. M. at the Court Room at Long's Tavern, in the City of Washington, the oath prescribed by the act of Congress, entitled "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the District of Columbia," will be administered to the said John Evans, and a trustee appointed, unless sufficient cause be then and there shown to the contrary. Ordered, That this notice be published three times in the Washington Federalist, the National Intelligencer, and the Alexandria Advertiser before that day. By order of the hon. Wm. Cranch, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia. W.M. BRENT, Clk. May 29—3t.
DR. ROBERT FRENCH
RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he has commenced the practice of PHYSIC and SURGERY in Georgetown and its vicinity. He keeps his shop in the House lately occupied by Dr. John Weems, deceased. May 3—1f.
WEISKOPFF and KELLER,
CONFECTIONERS, High Street, George-Town, BEG leave to inform the ladies and gentlemen of the city of Washington, that they will be daily supplied with ICE CREAMS, to be served up either at their store or privately by giving a previous notice thereof. They will constantly be supplied with the various articles of confectionary, preserves, and cordials of an exquisite taste. Ladies and gentlemen who will please to favor them, will meet with an anxious desire to give general satisfaction. May 26—12t.
PUBLIC SALE.
VALUABLE UNIMPROVED LOTS In the city of Washington, for sale at Auction on the 10th June, 1809, AT RHODES' HOTEL, at 3 o'clock. 5 Lots in sq. 219, Nos. 3, 4, 6, 10 and 11; the two first are situated on an eminence in direct view of the President's House with a beautiful prospect of the river Potomac; they are in a very salubrious situation, and excellent water can be procured at a small expence. For a gentleman's dwelling house, there is not a superior spot in the whole city. 3 Lots in sq. 168, Nos. 9, 10 & 11; the situation of these lots is valuable for business. They lie in the neighborhood of Dr. Elizey, Caleb Swann, John Tryloe and many others; No. 9 is a corner lot, well situated for a store, it being in the thickest settled part of the city and near to the War Office; the adjoining lots are built on. 3 Lots in sq. 458, Nos. 1, 2, 3, these lots are situated back of Mr. Weightman's book store and Lindsay's hotel and are contiguous to the public market.
SAM. SPEAKE, Auct.
N. B. The above property will be shown to persons inclined to purchase, on application to Samuel Speake, previous to the day of sale. May 19—
BLACK RIVER LOTTERY, No. 2.
Now drawing in New-York. High Prizes yet in the Wheel. 1 Prize 20,000 dollars, 2 10,000 do. 1 5,000 do. 1 2,000 do. 2 1,000 do. 8 500 do. A great number of 200 dollars, 100 dolls. 50 dolls. each. Tickets and parts warranted undrawn, sold by Joseph Milligan, George-town—Where a regular check book of the drawing is kept for the inspection of Tickets gratis. Distant adventurers by enclosing bank notes shall have their orders punctually attended to and be early advised of their success. Present price of Tickets 10 dollars. May 24—eop3t.
RICHARD BECK
Has just received from New York & Philadelphia a Large and Handsome Assortment of Seasonable GOODS which are all of the latest importations, consisting of IMPERIAL Cords, Grandulus, Cotton Cassimere, white Jeans, colored do. superfine Cloths and Cassimere, Marseilles & Imperial Wristecating, Patent Nankeen, Silk Hosiery, Red Tickling, Seersuckers, Bandanna Handkerchiefs, Dimities, Apron Checks, Netting Cottons, Sewing Silks, Silk and Cambric Buttons, plain India Moll Muslins, figured do. seeded do. Jacamet and book do. veined and japanned do. book & jacamet Handkerchiefs, plain & figured Lenoce, Italian Mantuas, Simshaws and Lute strings, Ribbands, Threads, brick Cambrics, Kid and Silk Gloves, Umbrellas and Parasoles, Damask and other silk Shawls Flush bordered do. Yoke Tan and Beaver Gloves, Suspenders, fashionable Buttons, Boss Thread, Yellow, White, and Blue Nankeens. 1 case German Linens, 1 case 7-8 Cotton Shirting, 1 do. 4-4 do. 1 trunk 9-8 Cambrics, 2 do. 6-4 do. 3 trunks Calicos and Chintzes, 1 trunk Ginghams, 1 case Irish Linens, 1 case Cotton Hosiery, 1 trunk Adelpia Cottons, 6 bales Gurras, Batias, Emeries, Mamodies, Cassias, and Mow Lawns, etc. etc. All of which being well selected, and on the best terms, enables him to sell them at the most reduced prices, by the piece or retail for cash or approved notes. Georgetown, May 21—31w—21w—wtf
UNITED STATES—DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
to wit: In Chancery, December Term 1808. Benjamin Studdert and John Mason, versus Thomas Waters Griffith, John R. Livingston, Jonathan Burrell, Goubaut and Dodrey, James C. Montflorece, J. I. Picard, James Davidson, Robert R. Livingston and Daniel Parker. THE bill states that the defendant Thomas Waters Griffith was the agent of the house of Taney and Simmond for the delivery of a cargo of flour belonging to the said Taney and Simmond to the French government—that the French government not being able to pay ready money for the said cargo the balance due thereon from the said government was placed to the credit of the said Griffith the agent, instead of being placed to the credit of the real owners Taney and Simmond; that the debt so due hath been liquidated under the Louisiana Convention in the said Griffith's name, for the sum of one hundred and ninety thousand two hundred and seventy francs French money of the value of $5,675 dollars; that the said Thomas Waters Griffith, now residing and for several years past having resided in Baltimore city in the state of Maryland, well knowing all the circumstances mentioned in the complaints said bill, and that the debt aforesaid was liquidated in his name in Paris, under the Louisiana Convention, was in truth and in fact a debt due to the said complainants, as the trustees of Francis Lewis Taney, and Taney and Simmond, did execute a writing transferring all the interest of said Griffith in the said debt due to the complainants as trustees aforesaid; that notwithstanding the above circumstances the said Griffith did employ James C. Montflorece of Paris to receive for his own account and use the aforesaid debt which actually belongs to the said complainants as trustees aforesaid; & the said Montflorece did actually receive the bills of the Minister of the United States on the Treasury of the United States in part payment of the said debt in four sets of bills drawn in favor of said Thomas Waters Griffith, and which bills have been fraudulently endorsed by the said Montflorece with a view as the said complainants believe to defraud them the said complainants, and under a real or pretended power from the said Griffith, & as his attorney to the said J. I. Picard, who endorsed the same over to John R. Livingston who has endorsed the same over to Jonathan Burrell, cashier of the Bank of Discount and Deposit at New York, who has endorsed them over to James Davidson, cashier of the Branch Bank of the United States in the city of Washington, who now holds the same for collection. The complainants further state that four other bills, for the balance of the aforesaid claim on the French Government liquidated in the name of the said Griffith, but actually belonging to said complainants as trustees aforesaid, have been drawn in favor of Goubaut and Dodrey as transferees of Thomas Waters Griffith for thirty-thousand francs French Money of the value of $5,625 dollars, which said four bills have also been sent to the aforesaid James Davidson and endorsed over to him for collection, in the same manner as in the case of the four other bills first herein recited. That all the aforesaid eight bills of exchange drawn by the American Minister at Paris on the Treasury of the United States under the Louisiana Convention for the debt liquidated in the name of Thomas Waters Griffith, are actually the property of said complainants as trustees aforesaid.
THE object of the bill is to save and protect the said complainants from the fraud projected against them on the part of said Thomas Waters Griffith and his coadjutors, and to obtain a writ of injunction, directed to all the before-mentioned defendants, &c. and particularly to the said James Davidson enjoining him & commanding him, from paying over to any person besides the said complainants, the money that may be paid by the Treasury of the United States, in virtue of the said bills of exchange, and particularly enjoining the said James Davidson from paying the said money arising from the said bills or parting with the said bills, until the further order of this Court in the premises.
It is represented by the complainants that the said Thomas W. Griffith, John R. Livingston, Jonathan Burrell, Goubaut and Dodrey, James C. Montflorece and J. I. Picard, defendants in this cause, all reside out of the District of Columbia, and are not within the reach of the process of this Court. And whereas further, in the supplemental bill filed in this cause, in which bill the said Robert R. Livingston and Daniel Parker are made defendants, reciting the substance of the said original bill, further states that Daniel Parker, a non-resident of the District of Columbia who resides in Paris in France was concerned in the fraudulent assignment of the bills of exchange mentioned in the said original bill, that the said Parker at the time he procured the assignment of said bills knew that the claim for which the same were drawn as liquidated in the name of Thomas W. Griffith was the bona fide property of the complainants, and had been properly before transferred and assigned to them, and also that the said Robert R. Livingston is not a resident of the said District of Columbia, but resides in the state of New York, and is the person really claiming the proceeds of the said bills, and prays that he may be made a party to said bill and compelled to answer to the facts stated in the original bill—Also that said Parker may state the circumstances, attending the pretended transaction between Picard and Montflorece the defendants, whether he paid any consideration and what to Picard & Montflorece, and whether he did not know, or whether he had not received notice of the complainants claim and right at the time of or before the said transfer. The object of the bill is to obtain a decree in favor of the complainants, ordering and decreeing the monies for which said bills are drawn, now in the hands of James Davidson, to be paid over to the said complainants as the assignees of Taney and Simmond, and to enjoin the defendants and each of them from paying over or receiving the same until the decision of the court in the premises.
It is therefore ordered that the complainants cause a copy of this order to be inscribed in the National Intelligencer, printed in the city of Washington, six weeks successively previous to the fourth Monday in December next, to the intent that the said defendants may have notice of this application, and of the object of this bill, and to be warned to appear in this court in person or by solicitor on or before the said fourth Monday of December next, to show cause, if any, why a decree should not pass as prayed.
By order WM. BRENT, Clk. May 5—1f
FOR SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
On the Premises on the 15th day of June next, at 10 o'clock in the afternoon, LOTS No. 16 and 17, in Sq. 101, in the city of Washington, together with the buildings thereon standing. Said property is directly opposite Mr. Wm. O'Neel's houses near the West Market, and is most advantageously situated, it being the estate formerly owned by Mr. Samuel Wilson, deceased. The terms of payment are one fourth cash in hand, the remainder divided into three equal annual payments with interest annually on these three payments which are to be secured by good notes negotiable at the Bank and a mortgage on the property. Also at the same time and place, TWO SHARES in the Theatre. April 17—1ds
FOR SALE.
ALL or any part of the Estate of the Subscriber, lying on the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, between the two Bridges, and immediately opposite the city of Washington; a considerable part of the Estate is heavily wooded, and the whole is divided into convenient Farms, each containing a proper proportion of wood and arable land. On payment of one fourth part of the purchase money, indisputable titles will be made, and reasonable credit on the residue, secured by bond and mortgage. Also for sale, The whole, or any part of the Estates of the "North American Land Company" and "Agricultural Fund," consisting of divers large bodies of Land variously situated, in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky; and of House & House Lots in the City of Washington. On the sale of which, indisputable title and very liberal terms, both as to price and periods of payment, will be granted to all persons, particularly settlers disposed to purchase. For further information, and terms, apply to the subscriber, at present in Philadelphia, or at Washington from the 1st to the 15th June next. JAMES GREENLEAF. Philadelphia, April 12—ep10wug
HANDSOME TEETH.
The greatest personal ornament of the human physiognomy. R. C. SKINNER, SURGEON DENTIST, etc. etc. RESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of the city of Washington, that having concerns that require his continuance near the seat of government until the 5th of June, proposes (during its leisure hours) to attend to his professional business; those persons who have been so unfortunate as to lose their front teeth, have therefore a favorable opportunity of having them replaced in a very superior style, (in most cases without the least pain) and in a manner that cannot be excelled in beauty and natural appearance, by art, or even nature herself. Those persons whose teeth are carious, or partially decayed, may (by early application) have the decay arrested, the teeth plugged with gold (prepared for that purpose) the pain of extracting them or pain, and thereby preserved free from pain, permanently useful. R. C. S. having served a regular apprenticeship with one of the most eminent dentists in London, had near 20 years extensive practice in New York, and possessing the highest recommendations from a number of the most exalted characters in that state, presumes he may be entitled to the confidence of those persons that require his professional assistance. He may be consulted any hour at Long's Hotel, Capitol Hill. Ladies will be attended at their own houses if desired. May 31—3t.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT the subscriber, of Calvert county, hath obtained from the Orphans Court of Calvert county, in Maryland, letters of administration on the personal estate of GILBERT SMITH, late of the said county, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at or before the first day of December next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from any benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand, this tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and nine. MORDECAI SMITH, Administrator of GILBERT SMITH. May 31—3t.
MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
THE STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified, that the 4th installment will be due on the 1st Monday of June next. As the election for members of the City Council takes place on that day, the treasurer will, for the accommodation of the stockholders, attend in person or by deputy, at each of the polls in the respective wards, to receive the installments due. A set of Machinery is expected from Philadelphia by the first vessel. Punctuality in the payment of installments due, will enable the directors to commence manufacturing immediately. Those who have omitted to pay their 2d and 3d installments, may be excluded if they are not punctual on the day above stated. May 31—
A CARD.
M. DUPONT respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Georgetown and Washington, that he is just arrived from New-York, and will on Thursday next, first of June, open his DANCING SCHOOL. For further particulars enquire at J. Milligan's Book store, where the subscription is let. May 31—3t.
BOARDING HOUSE.
MRS. DOYNE will be able to accommodate a few gentlemen with boarding and lodging during the ensuing session. May 29—3t.
RESPECTFULLY informs the gentlemen of the district of Columbia & Public in general, that he has received by a late arrival from Philadelphia, a Choice Assortment of superior Cloths, Cassimere, single and double milled, superfine Coating, black silk Florentines. Likewise an elegant assortment of pocketknives & pocket watches for Waistcoats with a variety of other articles suitable for the season. Regimentals and Navy Uniforms made in the most elegant and uniform style of fashion.
Richard Norwell's celebrated PATENT PARALLEL SUSPENDERS, far superior to any hitherto in use can be had on the same terms retail, as at his Manufactory. November 27—1f.
SEBASTIAN SPRING.
SITUATED near the new turnpike road between Washington and Alexandria, about three quarters of a mile from the Washington Bridge. The Subscriber has opened a House of Entertainment for the accommodation of travellers, the citizens of both places and their vicinity—Public Dinners and Tea Parties, &c. &c. will be furnished on a short notice in the style required. He will always keep supplied with the best of Madeira, Port, Claret and Champagne—and will endeavor generally to keep the dainties of the season. A private room will be kept for the accommodation of Ladies. Ladies can be supplied with Syllabub under the Cow every morning until six, and every evening until seven o'clock. He flatters himself that the encouragement he may receive, will enable him to extend his present plans. A. LINDO. N. B. Just received from New-York, a fresh supply of Champaign, Burgundy and Old Hocks. Strawberries and Cream, while in season, every afternoon. If for a large party a day's notice is requested. ** Liberal wages for one or two smart boys. May 24—1f.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And for sale by J. MILLIGAN, George-Town. PRICE 3-1-2 Dollars. WORKS OF FISHER JAMES. Compiled by a number of his friends. To which are prefixed notices of his life and character.—As above may be had T. B. Ward's and Co. correct edition of Blackstone's Commentaries, and a variety of new books, plays, and pamphlets. May 24—6t.
BY HIS EXCELLE'S EXCELLENCY
JAMES BUTCHER, Governor of Maryland. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is provided by the thirty-second article of the Constitution and Form of Government, "that upon the death, resignation, or removal out of this state, of the Governor, the first named of the Council for the time being shall act as Governor, and qualify in the same manner, and shall immediately call a meeting of the General Assembly, giving not less than fourteen days notice of the meeting, at which meeting a governor shall be appointed in manner aforesaid for the residue of the year." And whereas his Excellency ROBERT WRIGHT, Esq., late Governor of this state, resigned the said office on Saturday, the sixth inst. I have therefore, in virtue of the above power and directions, appointed Monday the fifth day of June next, for the meeting and holding of the General Assembly of this state, of which the several Sheriffs are hereby enjoined to give public and due notice. Given at the City of Annapolis, under the seal of the State of Maryland, this eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nine. By his excellency's command, NATHAN PINKNEY, Clk. of the Council. May 12—Jun3.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber living in Montgomery County, Maryland, near the Court House, on Saturday 21st inst a likely young NEGRO MAN named JACOB, who calls himself JACOB SWALLS, but there is no doubt of his changing his name, as he will persist in a lie to the last extremity. He is about 25 year old—five feet eight or ten inches high, well made, very dark complexion, and full round face; has a scar above the eye and on the great toe, occasioned by a burn. As Jacob is a very artful fellow, and can read and write, it is possible he will, by forging a pass, attempt to pass for a freeman. Whoever apprehends said negro, and delivers him to me, or secures him in jail so that I get him, shall receive the above reward if taken out of the state; if within the state, 25 dollars and all reasonable charges will be paid by WM. FOLKS. All masters of vessels and others are warned not to harbor said slave at their peril. May 29—3t.
District of Columbia, Washington County,
to wit: ON the petition of EDWARD LANGLEY, an insolvent debtor confined in the prison of Washington County aforesaid for debt—Notice is hereby given to the creditors of the said Edward Langley, that on the 5th day of June next, at the court room, in Long's Tavern, in the city of Washington, at the hour of 9 o'clock A. M. the oath prescribed by the act of Congress, entitled "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia," will be administered to the said Edward Langley, and a trustee appointed unless sufficient cause be then and there shown to the contrary. Ordered, That this notice be published in the Alexandria Daily Advertiser, in the Washington Federalist, and in the National Intelligencer, three times in each paper before that day. By order of the hon. Wm. Cranch, Esq. Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia. WM. BRENT, Clk. May 29—3t.