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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. III.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CLXXXIII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1803.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
By his Excellency John Francis Mercer , Governor of the State Maryland. A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it appears unto me by an inquisition taken before Robert Moore, Esquire, one of the Coroners of Baltimore county, that a most cruel and atrocious murder and robbery were committed on the person of Adam Wable , paper-maker, a respectable and aged citizen of Anne Arundel county, by some unknown hand, on or about the thirtieth day of March last, which inquisition has been returned to me, accompanied by a memorial of sundry respectable inhabitants of the counties of Baltimore and Anne Arundel, and the city of Baltimore, praying the interposition of government: And Whereas the quiet and security of the good people of this Commonwealth depend on the vigilance of the constituted authorities in causing the laws against such enormities to be duly executed—I have therefore thought proper to issue this my proclamation; and I do by and with the advice and consent of Council, hereby offer a reward of FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS, to whoever will discover the author or perpetrators of the aforesaid murder and robbery; provided he or they, or any of them, be convicted thereof; and moreover, I do, by virtue of the authority and powers in me vested, hereby promise a full and free pardon to any person being an accomplice, who shall discover the perpetrator or perpetrators of the said murder and robbery on the aforesaid condition.
Given in council at the city of Annapolis, under the seal of the state of Maryland, this sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three.
JOHN FR. MERCER.
By his excellency's command NINIAN PICKNEY, Clerk of the Governor and Council.
In Council, Annapolis, May 16, 1803. Ordered, That the foregoing proclamation be published three times in each week for the space of three weeks; successively in the American, Telegraph, and Federal Gazette, at Baltimore; the National Intelligencer, the Maryland Gazette, at Annapolis; the Republican Advocate, Herald and Bartlett's paper, at Fredericktown; and Mr. Smith's paper at Easton.
By order, NINIAN PICKNEY, Clerk. May 20.
NOTICE.
THE legal voters in the City of Washington, are hereby informed that the Ballots for the City Council will be received as follows:
For the first division or ward, comprehending all that part of the city south, including the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, and west, including the west side, of Sixth street west, at Moria's tavern Pennsylvania avenue.
For the second division or ward, all that part of the city north, including the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, and west, including the west side, of Sixth street west, at Rhodes's Hotel.
For the third division or ward, all that part of the city east, including the east side, of Sixth street west, at Stelle's Hotel.
The Polls will be open on the first Monday in June next, precisely at 8 o'clock in the morning, and continue open until 7 o'clock in the evening.
DANIEL CARROLL , of Dud'n, CORNEL GUNNINGHAM, BENJAMIN MORE. May 30.
NOTICE.
THAT large, extensive, valuable Lot, with the Brick House and improvements in which Mr. Adam King now keeps store, will be exposed to public sale on the premises, at 1 o'clock on Wednesday the 21st day of June next—its property is situated near the centre of George-town, and on the best improved street—The house is spacious and convenient; the lot fronts 60 feet on High street, and extends 260 feet back. A clear indivisible title is vested in the subscriber as a trustee by conveyance from the Chancellor of Maryland, and will be given to the purchaser on payment of the purchase money, negotiable notes with approved indorsers for equal third parts of the purchase money, payable in 60, 90 and 120 days will be required and he given at the time of purchase, or the sale to be void, and resale take place.
PHILIP B. KEY. May 30.
IN consequence of Mr. Key's being unexpectedly detained at the General Court, the above sale is postponed until Friday the 24th of June, when the property will positively be offered for sale.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR. HAS just received by recent arrivals at Philadelphia, from England, and the East Indies, a handsome assortment of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, of the best quality, also Patent water proof Cloth's and Cassimere's, Superior NAVY BLUE and other colours; handsome NAVY & FASHIONABLE BUTTONS, &c., Gentlemen of ARMY, NAVY and FASHION served with his expedition and taste. New Jersey Avenue, seventh house from Capitol Square and Pennsylvania Avenue near the President's Square. April 23 1803.
FROM THE (BALTY.) TELEGRAPHER.
To the people of the United States.
"Supposing the present prospect of a war between France and England to be realised; what an amazing advantage will accrue from the increased demand for her commodities.—All, she will have to do, is to display a perfect impartiality, to keep faith strictly with both belligerent powers, and, in short, to study her own profit and advantage."
Thus (I presume to say) meditates and speaks the undiscerning selfish man, who wishes for the welfare of his country just so far only as it comports with his own imaginary interests.
Without making pretensions to superior wisdom, I frequently exert to the utmost, on subjects deeply interesting to my country, that faculty of thinking, which heaven has lent me. I have reflected on the war, which Americans of different descriptions look for with such different impressions; and I cannot forbear expressing to you my apprehensions that the war would be nearly as injurious to America; as if she were, from the beginning, actually engaged as a party.
I by no means conceive, that it would be an easy thing for her, with the best intentions imaginable, to remain perfectly neutral and impartial, and to afford no pretext or even just ground of quarrel to either of the warring parties. In spite of every thing she could do, she would be constantly viewed with suspicion by one, and if she could possibly act right in every respect, would inevitably offend both. It is mortifying to reflect, that it is impossible for her to comply with all the claims founded on her treaties with France and England. She cannot indeed comply with one without violating the other—I do not mean, that she intended to infringe either; my meaning is that France and England have each made constructions ; and if they are both right, it is impossible for America to keep faith with both.
It cannot be forgotten, that during their last war each of them claimed a right, and exercised the power of searching American vessels, in every part of the ocean to discover whether or not they contained what they termed contraband goods. They claimed, it seems, under treaties, and the law of nations taken together; and made up between the law and the treaties, that monstrous thing which is called constructive , or incidental power or right.
When we consider who the searchers were, and will be again, we may, in some measure judge of the injury, our commerce and the interests and rights of our merchants will sustain, in another war between France and England.
I find some of my fellow citizens advocating the right of unlimited search on the seas, with as much zeal, as if they were subjects of England, or citizens of France. Gracious heaven! How deplorable the prevalence of party spirit, and political rancor! And what dreadful consequences must result from it, in case America shall be involved in war with either France or England.
If a case analogous to that of three nations of whom two are at war, could exist between three individuals in a state of nature, and if two of them should quarrel and go to war, and each of them should claim a right of stopping the third or any of his family, or adherents, wherever they should meet for the purpose of discovering whether or not the person stopped had not about him something useful, which he might convey to the other warring party, and of seizing it when discovered;—supposing I say, such a case as this, would not the party stopped oppose the power? Would he not if robbed or rifled, demand, by what authority he is treated in this manner? Would he not too demand redress, or endeavor to obtain satisfaction by force? Most assuredly he would; provided only, that he possessed a single spark of that spirit which ought to guide a man, either in a state of civilization, or barbarism, or nature.
To form a correct opinion on any subject whatever, it is a state position, or maxim, that the mind should be wholly free from bias. This indeed, may rarely be the case with judges of any kind. But I should think much more likely to form a correct opinion of the man, who, from experience, has been taught to feel for others, than him, who is both destitute of fellow feeling, and actuated by that malignant spirit of party, which has frequently been known to offer up the fortune, liberty, and life
of a fellow citizen on the unhallowed altar of revenge.
Let those (if any such there be) who are wholly disinterested examine the question on the principles of common sense, justice and general convenience.
I confess, that I am not deeply read in books on the law of nations; and indeed, if I had a great portion of leisure, should bestow very little of it in the perusal of such books.—I am however persuaded, that the term, "contraband," has never been used by the old writers, as relative merely to the law of nations.—It is either found in treaties, or grounded on them. The mischief is, that what, for many years, has generally been stipulated for by treaties between two or more nations, comes at last to be considered as the general established law of nations. But can it reasonably be conceived, that contracts between particular nations, however great those nations may be, or however often their contracts may be repeated, shall constitute indispensable rules of action for nations, who are not parties to those contracts? The most they can be considered to do, is to afford salutary examples, and to shew mankind what is convenient to be done.—I do not believe, that the unlimited right of search has ever been conceded by a treaty, since treaties were first in fashion.
I have always understood the law of nations to be nothing more than the received, settled, concurred , opinions of wise men, judging from the light of reason; and that whatever rule they thought should prevail between man and man, in a state of nature, should be considered, so far as analogy can apply, to prevail between nation and nation. Express stipulations between man and man, in a state of nature, or between nation and nation ought unquestionably to be observed; provided only they do not violate the rights of those, who are not parties.
I will suppose A, B, and C, to be three separate independent nations, who are friendly to each other, and have been mutually benefitted by the interchange of their various commodities, without having any express regulations, compact or treaty.—Unhappily, A and B quarrel and go to war, with a determination of destroying each other. Is C, the innocent unoffending nation, to be affected, and even ruined by their quarrel? Shall A imperiously prohibit her, during the continuance of the war to trade with B at all, or at least not supply her with any articles, which may comfort or aid her in carrying on the war? And shall B too prohibit her to trade with A? And shall either of them tell her "thus far you shall trade and no further;" C, it is certain, has no right to decide which is wrong—at least they will not admit the right; although one or both must be wrong, and they would think it monstrous in C to claim the right. C wishes to side with neither, she wishes to trade with both, as she did before, but this she must not do. How extensive and ruinous may be the restriction? How repugnant to reason?
Now supposing her to trade with each, as she did before the war, is it not plain, that it is equally advantageous for both, and that neither can be injured. If indeed C should determine to supply one of them only, and break off her trade to the manifest prejudice of the other, she might be justly charged with taking a part, and should be treated accordingly. I must question whether her stipulating by treaty to do so would violate the law of nations, and perhaps, it may well be said that no two nations can rightfully make a treaty which may eventually operate to the injury or loss of a third nation.—For instance, C stipulates with A that whenever A shall be at war with any nation (no matter whom) C shall receive her vessels, allow them to refit, sell her prizes and grant her certain other privileges, and refuse the same to the other nation—it is possible to conceive this to be right?
Says the advocate for the right of search, supposing A to blockade and besiege one of B's ports; surely C ought not to give it any kind of succour, even if she be not prohibited by an express treaty: to admit this, is going as far as reason can allow; and then we must understand the town to be so only blockaded, and not merely declared to be in blockade.
But it is said too, that by admitting this, we impliedly or of course admit also the right of these vessels to search the vessels of C in any part of the ocean; and, if warlike stores or implements, and even, in some cases, provisions, are found in those vessels, they and their cargoes are liable to seizure. Suppose an English West-India Island actually blockaded by the French; before the blockade is known in Baltimore, a vessel is sent from Baltimore, with flour, &c. for the said island. A French vessel meets and seizes her. Is such a case as this provided for by either the law of nations, so called, or by the treaty? I doubt it much. I shall not contend, that America ought to violate any part of the treaties she has made, so long as the other parties shall keep faith. I contend only against the right of search, unjustly, in opinion, claimed either under the law of nations, or by construction of treaties, or as an incidental power. Constructive inherent and incidental powers, I ever did and ever shall dislike; and it is from the arbitrary exercises of such pretended powers, that our present evils in a great measure proceed.
Admitting as I do, with reluctance, that C ought not to trade with a blockaded town, in the same way as she did before the war, is it not sufficient to allow A the right of seizing her vessels, caught in the fact of attempting to carry succours to the town, or caught in view of the town. If the town be really blockaded will not A have it in his power effectually to prevent succours from being carried into it by a merchant vessel? And will not A thereby have a sufficient advantage and profit from her prizes? In such a case, I am sure the more attempts made by C's merchants, the better would A be pleased. I suppose the government of C does not interfere, and that it is only a citizen of C that attempts the illicit trade. I admit that if the government of C either succours, or attempts to succour a blockaded town, she affords a just cause of war, even if she has not acted against an express treaty. I will admit, I say, in such a case, that the law of nations is against her.
Let us consider a particular case most likely to happen. France and England being at war, B is blockaded. An English frigate stops and searches an American vessel coming out of the Delaware Capes. There are found 2 or 3 cutlasses, 2 or 3 guns, and 2 or 3 pounds of powder and bags of bullets, belonging to passengers, and concealed amongst their other effects. On account of their warlike stores, the vessel is seized, carried off and condemned as a prize. It is poor satisfaction to the owner of the vessel to assure him, he shall be redressed on a proper representation, made by the executive of the United States. Consider only what has been done by the commissioners, who many years have been sitting on grievances in London.
Suppose whilst England blockades Brest, some port in England, or belonging to her is also blockaded or declared in blockade. The aforesaid American vessel is fortunate enough to escape English cruisers and falls into the hands of the French.
I am mistaken, if, during the late war, an island containing eight millions of inhabitants, was not declared in blockade. Every nation then according to the new law, was prohibited from lending any succours to the said island.
With no small emotion I have heard native Americans, coolly, dispassionately, and impartially, as they pretended, argue as follows: How can England be secure against America's carrying succours to a besieged town, unless she is allowed to search every vessel, which she meets on the ocean?
How much more reasonable is the question on the part of America! how insulted, degraded and injured must she be by the admission of the right! and how mortifying is it to a good citizen of America to remark, that to the convenience of England or France, many of
his countrymen are willing to sacrifice that right, which, if he had the force at this moment, ought to possess, no haughty nation under the Sun would dare to invade! alas, policy of one kind or other has confined the pinions, and cramped or crippled the talons of the noble American eagles. But on this head I choose to say no more.
I have lately heard a respectable friendly man, pertinaciously assert, that whatever is usually stipulated for, and has for 150 years been usually stipulated for by treaties between great nations, is to be held as a part of the law of nations. It was in vain for me to remark, 'if three or four years ago a treaty was made between two nations, who never had a treaty before, it is unnecessary, according to your doctrine, for the treaty to contain any agreement respecting contraband goods and search.' 'Aye!' but said he, 'it was nevertheless prudent to have the stipulation inserted, and thus the established law of nations was recognized by express compact.'
The force of the remarks on each side, I leave to the judgment of my readers.
It is perhaps seldom that men duly distinguish between power and right—The former is indeed of no imposing a nature in every respect, that generally, even in the opinion of those, that which is claimed by a strong hand, is of course rightfully claimed. I know that the philosopher Puffendorf, and Vattel after him, has given an opinion in favor of the right of nations searching vessels bound to her enemy's ports —But I do not believe, that the unlimited right of search now contended for was ever claimed merely in virtue of the law of nations; before the last five years of the luminous eighteenth century. If it existed in the time of the English Elizabeth, why did she apply to the French king for permission to search the vessels of his subjects bound for Spain? And how was the king justified in his refusal? If the right was, at that time supposed to exist; and if Elizabeth thought of precedent on account of the king's power, to ask his permission to use the right: was it not natural for her to mention it, at the time that she craved permission? but we do not perceive, that the matter of right was even hinted at by Elizabeth, although the king thought proper in his answer to mention, and assert other rights which he said would be affected by granting the permission.
It is, at another time, the right was considered as established, why was the opinion of Puffendorf applied for?—why his opinion, and that of Vattel were given in its favor I can easily account. It was considered as a rash daring assertion of Mons. G——, that the old law of nations is exploded; but there was rather too much truth in his subsequent assertion, that the old law of nations was, in many cases, nothing more than the opinions of learned men, given under the influence of crowned heads.
I positively assert, that the law of nations, or that rule, which ought to prevail amongst all the nations of the earth, independently of treaties between individual nations, does not authorise a vessel of France, or England, or any other nation, to search an American vessel, near the American coast, at the distance of thousands of miles from any port which is said to be blockaded. It is even my firm opinion, that the commerce of no neutral nation without the stipulation of a treaty, ought to be affected in any degree by the quarrel between two nations, who, before the war, were friendly to, and traded with her; provided only that she treats them both as she did before the war, takes no part with either, and sends no assistance to a blockaded port. And I even question whether a neutral nation can rightfully break off trade with one of the warring nations, to the disadvantage of the other. Let me here explain myself. What I mean is, that the government of C. shall not prohibit her citizens or subjects from carrying on trade. If the citizens or subjects, left to themselves, shall all break off trade, it is not the fault of the nation, and the cannot be answerable.
I most earnestly entreat you, my fellow citizens, to attend to this subject; than which few can be more interesting. Most ardently I wish you to cultivate a spirit of amity with every nation, with whom you have intercourse; to be impartial to all nations; to have prejudices against none; to be influenced, or intimidated by none; and on all occasions, firmly to assert your rights. Let cold prudence and timid caution, suggest what they may; I am convinced that when once a nation, for the sake of peace or economy, gives up an important right, or yields to an oppressive claim, or offers

to buy a peace, or pay for an established right, the state for nothing better, than that her other rights shall be invaded. Never since men entered into society, do I believe that a nation rendered itself secure by a mean concession.
The above remarks, my fellow citizens, I confess have been hastily made. I have not been at leisure to obtain and consult books, which are not in my possession. I have depended on my memory, and perhaps have erred with respect to facts, mentioned or alluded to. But, with regard to principles, I flatter myself, that I cannot be wrong.
"If you could not have time to be correct," it may be asked, "why did you venture to write at all?" I write because the subject has not been taken up by any other writer. I mean this address as an invitation to discussion, for those who maintain a different opinion; and a call on some of those, who think with me, and possess more leisure, to give me the assistance of superior talents. I do not here affect humility. Had they written on this subject, I would not have taken up my pen.
I have with great pleasure observed, that, of the men whom I have conversed with, and who think with me on this subject, there is scarcely one who does not enjoy a reputation for intelligence and independence of spirit. I will not deny, that the greater number with whom I have conversed, admit the right; but the most of them argue for it in precisely the same words, like school boys reciting to a master. The truth, my fellow citizens, is, that a great majority of men rely upon others. The opinions of celebrated writers, who have never or rarely been opposed, are implicitly adopted by at least nineteen or twenty of their readers. But the man of a free mind and reasoning head, although he may to certain characters pay the homage of unfeigned respect, and will never profess to ridicule or contradict opinion, which, for ages have been considered as established and sacred, will, nevertheless, scorn to subscribe to a position (no matter by whom advanced) which he has not attentively examined and approved.
It is not unreasonable to suppose, that a learned man, applied to for his opinion by a powerful prince, who can requite him well for a favorable decision, and punish him for a bad one, will be wholly free from bias. If, indeed, such a man be wholly free from undue influence, he must be a most extraordinary character; but I conceive, that a real good and independent man, would not, under such circumstances, choose to give an opinion at all. Puffendorf, I say, regarding only his reputation, and his duty to mankind, ought not to have undertaken to decide on the application which had been made to him. The keenest censure, instead of the approbation, of the enlightened Vattel, ought to have been bestowed upon him. But let Vattel and a thousand others join him, I care not. In a word, men, who pause truth only, will respect no opinion further than arguments, adduced in its support, shall entitle it to weight and consequence.
SEMPER IDEM. Annapolis, May 25, 1803.
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SAMUEL BLODGET. March 30.
Foreign Intelligence.
From a London paper, April 6.
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON.
We have the very melancholy duty of mentioning the loss of Sir Wm. Hamilton. He died at ten o'clock this morning, of what physicians call a Diarrhea, and which his physicians (and he was likely to chuse one of the best) strove in vain to subdue. But, probably, this Diarrhea was but a symptom merely: the primary cause of which was, old age, with its fad and too sure concomitant, decay!—Decay, which, day by day, had been long consuming the whole vigour of his body, till all that had been left surviving, were those unperishable faculties, which like the happiness that is to reward them, God has granted to surpass the grave itself, the virtues of an enduring temper, the powers of an incorruptible mind. He died at his house in Piccadilly.
"The chamber where the good man meets his doom Is privileged! Beyond the common walks of life."
It was the house, his admirable lady, with a generous sacrifice that cannot be too much applauded, bot for him, on an interruption of his own finances, with some jewels, a present to her by a foreign princess! who, in a letter to our own popular sovereign, praises lady Hamilton, in full gratitude of heart, "as her best friend and preserver! to whom, she was indebted certainly for life, and probably for the crown!"
The death of Sir Wm. Hamilton was without a pang, without a groan. He had not a moment's pain; but tired of the increasing trouble, the utter helplessness of languor compelled him to give to all around his dying bed, a torment to a delicate spirit; "He manfully desired his physician to forbear, if he pleased, each temporary stay there might be from wine or from other stimulants, and morris terrore carentem , let the last extremity come upon him unassisted."
"Enjoy the present hour, nor fear the last." Throughout, he discoursed, with all the clearness and composure of fortitude. "His incomparable wife!" (for so he called her) "he blessed again and again! for the constant virtue, the faithful tenderness, to which he owed the best happiness of his life." To his noble relations, who inherit his fine estate in Wales, he gave suggestions which surprised, from their experience and minuteness! He recollected every thing; and, finally of that most momentous object, which must, sooner or later, predominate in all human care, he spoke with that plenitude of serene thought, with that most enviable affluence of the uncondemning heart, which only virtue can give! but which, mere virtue alone, could not give!—no not even to Socrates himself! The reward promised to the pure heart! The hope full of immortality!
True indeed, among many excellencies, seemed to form the specific character of Sir William Hamilton!—simplicity, and purity of heart! rare in any active life; they are peculiarly rare in a life like his. For he was born in court! yet by some happy combination in his frame and destiny; these virtues were born with him, and with him they continued till he died; though all the long interval between was spent amidst the cabals, the overbearing disgust of artificial manners and pursuits, the competitions, the compliances, perhaps inseparable from politics and public men:—where such strange vicissitudes succeed without relieving each other, too often presenting nothing but alternate struggles of duties, very hard to be virtuously done; of indulgencies perhaps more hard to be innocently enjoyed!—As an ambassador, according to the airy notion of Sir Harry Wootton, 're was to lie abroad for the good of his country.' But in this instance, it was a discreet sincerity, a noble plainness, manners the most natural, which did the deed—and it may be presumed did it well by doing it so long—for he was no less than 37 years in one embassy, and that embassy was Naples! At Naples, where, somehow or other, the moral energies do not rise with the sublime beauties in the elements surrounding! where it still, perhaps, may be conceivable; why Cicero's Villa was an imputation; and why Seneca would not trust his virtue in it for a single night!
As a diplomatic man, therefore, he must be distinguished by history, with Sir Wm. Temple, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Stair, and the few others who at different times have been the representatives at all worthy of England and Englishmen! He left Naples so much less wealthy than when he entered it, that he was forced to encumber his estate with a debt of 10,000l. Such was the reward of his services, and what reward can be better than what a man thus nobly gains for himself, and what from himself nothing earthly can now take away. With a splendid affluence he kept open house at Naples, like Cardinal Bernis, at Rome, and inquisitively sought after all intelligent men! he excelled also in smaller things. Thus he scarcely ever went out without purposely providing
himself with different silver money for any casual distress in the way: and when Wilkes, pauper ex ex , indeed under the outlawry, was at Naples, Sir William, with dexterous kindness, got the Prussian minister to do what could not with decorum, be done openly by himself; and thus served poor Wilkes, with all the faculties he could want for introduction and acceptance.
As a benefactor to knowledge and the arts, and thro' them to the commerce and comfort of life, his successful efforts were still distinguished by the same simplicity. He loved to be laudably employed. He aspired to be useful and thus to the beginning (and he was no sooner at Vesuvius than he did begin) though not a chymist nor a mineralogist professed (and it is to be recollected, that then neither Lavoisier nor Werner, had shone forth.) But as a most studious observer, he saw, accurately, what he could; and he told, most honestly, what he saw; and this so well that he did what was wanting. The Campi phlegrei were explored; and the Desiderata , as to volcanic phenomena, were made known! as Birmingham and Staffordshire can witness, in the well-earned magnificence of our manufactures, Mr. Bolton, the Wedgewoods, and so many others.
This shewed power of selection shewed itself in all he said and did. Thus, when the king asked him whom he had chosen for his physician? he said, "Sir, I have called in Doctor Molesy; for I found he was the physician to four old soldiers at Chelsea, and your Majesty but too well knows I am an old soldier myself!" At the beginning his father, Lord Archibald, or his uncle, the Duke of Hamilton, had given him a commission in the guards.
His practice was very instructive for distribution of time. Besides the business of his embassy, all his amusements were regularly fixed, there was some object for every hour; and whatever was the object in the enams of Landscape, the imitative arts, the invigorating exercises, the pleasures of the table, wherever there was a point of excellence, he was sure to find it out! And communicate what he found with all the captivation of gaiety, fine manners, and anecdote illustrations.
Such is a very rapid sketch of a few scattered traits, in no order but as they came out, lighted on by fondness and esteem. For more faithfulness, perhaps they may be tolerable, as far as they go. And it is obvious they could not well go further, in a limited publication, without more preparation of circumstances, perhaps not without less emotion, certainly not without more time.
Of Sir William Hamilton, it is impossible to think, without the utmost fondness and respect. From all favouring accidents in birth, in breeding, in property, high place, distinctions of science, vast intercourse, friendships almost singularly illustrious, multiplied pursuits, and popular attainments, he becomes a public character of great consideration, and which might well fill a considerable space in the memory of man.—There are materials for an ample, instructive work; and, there is a gentleman of his family, who, by his taste and knowledge, as well as other affinity, might make it very delightful indeed! His age was seventy-three.
LONDON, APRIL 13.
A most extraordinary piece of intelligence has reached us through the medium of the Dutch mail: The town of Flushing, belonging to the Batavian Republic, has been declared in a state of siege, by order of the First Consul of France! What can be the object of this most extraordinary and unprecedented measure! Not even the most distant semblance of respect was shewn in this instance to the Batavian government. French troops march into Flushing, and a decree of the first consul of France is delivered to the commandant, by which that town is declared to be in a state of siege, under the command of the Gen. of Brigade, Monnet, who for that purpose is invested with all the necessary powers of the French government, and who is to correspond directly with the French Minister at war. Of so anomalous a measure it is not easy to speak in appropriate terms; astonishment and indignation are naturally excited in the first instance by so flagrant a violation of the rights and privileges of an independent state, and commiseration necessarily follows for the fallen and degraded republic, now becomes a mere place of arms—a military depot for the use of France, to which it is substantially annexed. That astonishment and indignation have been excited by this measure, amongst the inhabitants of the Batavian Republic, may easily be conceived; one of their towns taken possession of by foreign troops, and placed in a state of siege, by command of a foreign power, without the slightest necessity for it on their part, without even the formality of a request made to their government, without even the appearance of making that government the organ of pretending a necessity for such a measure; all this is surely enough to rouse the phlegmatic Dutchman, to make him
recal the remembrance of better times, and wring his hands in silent despair.
The magistrates of an independent city were lately forced by the French government to insert in one of its public Journals a gross and contemptible libel against this country; now a town belonging to a republic whose independence has been acknowledged by France, is taken possession of by the troops of that very power, and placed in a state of siege, without the consent or co-operation of the government of that republic. What will be the next step? Treaties may be made, and the independence or the neutrality of states solemnly guaranteed, but if they are to be violated with impunity as the will and pleasure of an individual, where is the security of Europe? There appears no doubt that the Batavian republic (if a republic it may still be called) will be made a chief point of attack against this country in the event of war. The present measure is probably a preliminary step; but whatever may be the views of the First Consul, and whatever may be the issue of the present negotiation, this country is prepared for the worst, and determined, with a fearless and undaunted spirit, to preserve her rights unimpaired, and her honor inviolate.
The city of Antwerp has determined to present to Mad. Bonaparte a diamond agrette of great value and beauty; and a fete is to be given to the First Consul on the Schelde, which will surpass in magnificence any thing ever seen in Belgium. At Malines they are now at work, in preparing a splendid robe of lace for Madame Bonaparte. Several letters from the banks of the Rhine, state that an interview will possibly take place between the king of Prussia and the First Consul at Dusseldorf.
LONDON, April 13.
BANK OF ENGLAND.
On Saturday last an unpleasing discovery was made at the Bank of England. Mr. Bish, of Cornhill, some time ago, sold to Mr. Cowell, broker for the bank, certain Exchequer bills, which had been put into his hands for sale. Those Exchequer bills were of course deposited under the care of the Cashiers, by whom money was issued for the purchase. In the end of last week, the person now in custody, holding an office in the bank, brought some Exchequer bills to Mr. Bish for sale. Upon examination, Mr. Bish found those to be the very bills which he had lately sold to the bank broker, Mr. Cowell. He was surprised at the discovery. But it occurred to him that there must be merely some mistake in the matter, on the part of the bank or its servants. He went to the bank, and communicated these particulars. An investigation was immediately instituted, the result of which discovered, that an assistant to the Cashier had actually been of late in the practice of re-selling, for his own private benefit, Exchequer bills, which, having been brought in by the bank, had been deposited under custody.
Monday and yesterday the investigation was renewed, and prosecuted to greater lengths. The gentleman, who had been unfortunately betrayed into such a breach of trust, was committed to the custody of certain of the Bow-street officers; with one of these before him, one behind, and a third at his right hand, he was conducted before Broke Watson, Esq. a magistrate, and one of the directors of the bank. A long and minute examination took place. It was discovered, that this person, a man of modest, unexpensive habits, who has been brought up from a raw youth, under the immediate care and favor of Mr. Abraham Newland, has lived, for the last fifteen years, in lodgings; and with an income of about 1000l. a year, has not apparently, been in the habit of expending more than 200l. has nevertheless embezzled lately, according to report, to the amount of not less (we are assured) than 100,000l. sterling, or the property entrusted to his official care. It is not imagined that his error is to be attributed to any other cause than speculating in the funds, amid their late fluctuations, ruinous to so many of the monied interests.—He earnestly entreated to be left at liberty till Monday next. His request could not be complied with. He is, we understand, fully committed to Newgate, for trial. The punishment for his crime is by a late act, death. He was likely to have succeeded his patron, Mr. Newland, now greatly advanced in years in the office of principal cashier to the bank. No character could be higher than his for integrity and honor. Mr. Goldsmith is said to have declared that he would have advanced him 50,000l. on his word, just as ready as five farthings.
SPRING GOODS.
JOHN COX,
HAS just received an elegant and extensive assortment of Fashionable Spring Goods, which he is now selling at very reduced prices.
Also, A quantity of Spinning Cotton in bags. George-town, June 2. G.W.
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3.
SPANISH QUARANTINE.
A letter to the Secretary of State from Mr. Ysarnardy, our Consul at Cadiz, dated April 20, 1803, states that the Court of Madrid had issued orders suspending all QUARANTINE on vessels coming from the United States, furnished with certificates from a Spanish Consul;—and providing that vessels without such certificates, shall be subject to a quarantine of but a few days, at the discretion of the board of health.
Arrived in the Eastern Branch the United States frigate CHESAPEAKE.
Ticket for the ensuing Election.
Daniel Carroll of Dud'n, William Prout, William Brent, Charles Minifie, Griffith Gompes, Samuel H. Smith, John P. Van Nels, John Hewitt, James Haban, Nicholas King, Joseph Hodgson, David Peters
Capt. Joy, of the brig Thetis from Bordeaux, left that port on the 28th April; at which time, as he informs us, no circumstance had occurred by which the momentous question of peace or war could be decided. We have been letters of the 23d, from gentlemen of the first respectability in Bordeaux, which express an opinion (grounded principally on the frequent interchange of couriers, the length of the negotiation, and the little preparations for war making by the French) that the dispute between the two governments will be amicably adjusted.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
No. II.
A Refutation of the charge against the present administration that their views and measures are hostile to the Eastern States.
After this preliminary view, let us descend to the specific grounds of discontent.
It is contended from time to time, as best answers the purposes of party, that the Constitution itself gives an undue ascendancy to the Southern states. That by entitling those states which contain slaves to be represented not only in the ratio of the white population, but also in that of three fifths of their slaves, weight is given in the councils of the Union to the Southern states greatly beyond their proportion: It is unavoidable here, not to remark the inconsistency with which this imputation on the federal constitution is made by those who on other occasions, especially when they have any thing to gain by it, boast an exclusive devotion to the instrument, extol it as the proudest offspring of human wisdom, and denounce those who question its perfection. Let it be recollected too that this feature is fundamental; that it determines the basis of representation, which is the foundation on which the whole superstructure is erected.
It is not, however, our wish to retire from this discussion under these general remarks. Let the question be put, does the constitution give the Southern states an over proportion of political weight in the national councils?
The government of the United States is composed of a chief magistrate, of a Senate composed of 34 members and of a House of Representatives consisting of 140 members;—all elected in different ways.
The abstract principle will not be denied that the true, and the only just basis of representation is numbers. Property of no description should be represented distinct from the individual who holds it. Of course the representation of slaves as property, and in no other light can they be represented, having no moral political existence, is inadmissible. All freemen ought to participate equally in political rights; and the day will come when every conflicting principle will vanish from the face of the earth. The contrary principle, investing wealth with exclusive and immoderate political power, has covered the earth with slaves; this principle will people it with freemen.
Notwithstanding the truth of these remarks, property has hitherto in many of the states been constantly represented; and this too in some of the eastern states, where the chief magistrate and the senatorial branch of the legislature are elected by citizens possessing a much more considerable quantum of property than is possessed by the electors of the popular branch.
If this is fair in the state governments it is as fair in the general government;

nor should those, who approve it in the one, condemn it in the other.
But taking the numbers of whites in each state as the true basis of representation, let us see how it operates in the solution of the present question.
In the election of chief magistrate the larger states invariably lose a portion of power, inasmuch as the same addition of electors is made to the number of representatives to which each state is entitled. The larger the state is in her white population the greater the loss. Virginia must therefore incur this loss in the greatest degree.
In the election of Senators, each state is entitled to the same number, viz. two; notwithstanding the disparity of their population.
Adopt numbers as the correct principle of representation, and Virginia would be entitled to four, & North Carolina to three Senators; and the four southern states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina would be entitled to eleven Senators.
Apply the same principle to the four eastern states of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and they would be entitled to only eight Senators.
By the principle adopted to the constitution, it, therefore, appears that the four southern states lose three Senators.
Let us now examine what these same states gain in the House of Representatives by the representation of their slaves.
Maryland gains 1 Representative Virginia 6 North Carolina 2 South Carolina 2 11
Thus it appears that these states gain 11 Representatives, and lose 3 Senators, and a certain portion of political weight in the election of a President.
As observed, there are in the Senate 34 members, and in the House of Representatives 140 members; each Senator, in political weight, then, is equal to something more than four Representatives. It is, therefore, evident that these states lose in this view, independent of the others that have been taken. For the three Senators they lose they ought to acquire at least twelve Representatives; whereas they gain only eleven. Besides which there is a material loss in the election of the chief magistrate.
In addition to this are other considerations of great weight, all of which show the eastern states to be gainers. Those states have what may be called a fixed population compared to that of the southern states. To the former, the land being chiefly occupied, there is little immigration, while from them to the southern states there is a large emigration. Hence under every census, until its expiration, there is a regular comparative gain made each year by the eastern over the southern states; the representatives apportioned at each census remaining the same notwithstanding the greatest increase of numbers.
This consideration operates with augmented force on the Senate. To whatever population the larger states may attain thereafter, their representation in the Senate cannot be increased; the equality of representation in that body being immutable. All other parts of the constitution may be altered. This can never be changed.
From this view it follows that all clamour raised against the southern states, and in particular against Virginia is groundless, so far as they are reproached for availing themselves of their slaves as a basis of representation. If they have done so, it was but to counteract the operation of those principles under which the President and Senate were chosen, which manifested so wide a departure from equality in one direction, that it became necessary to check it by a correspondent departure in a contrary direction.
PUBLIUS.
Mr. S. H. Smith,
Sir,
Having seen in your last paper a list of nominations for our City Council, among whom my name appears, I think it my duty to give public notice (through the means of your paper) to my fellow-citizens, that it would be entirely out of my power to serve them, were they to honor me with their suffrages, being at this time engaged in an active public station which engages the whole of my time.
I am sincerely thankful to those gentlemen who have thought proper to notice me on this occasion, and remain with respect, your obedient, humble servant,
RICHARD FRAZER.
Washington, June 1st.
Alexandria, May 31.
Extract of a letter from Liverpool, dated 27th March, to a gentleman in Norfolk, received by the ship Indefatigable, capt. Vickery.
Our Collector had orders on Thursday last to defer from taking the Countervailing duties on American ships, and goods imported in them after the 29th instant (March) which we suppose is the sale with you.
Chillicothe, May 21.
ALARM!
This morning, about three o'clock, an express arrived in town from Old Chillicothe, with information, that yesterday afternoon Capt. Herod, while at work in his field, had been shot and scalped by the Indians, and who was not dead at the time he was discovered by his family, but was able to relate some of the circumstances and died soon after, having had two balls through his head. A body of upwards 40 Shawnees from Sandusky, had been for several days lurking between Wiltfall and that settlement and who, immediately after the murder, went to the prairie, drove the horses over the creek, and took as many as they wanted and made off. On the alarm being given, the citizens of this town immediately turned out a company of volunteers, who left this about day-light. The alarm through the country being general, we hope to give a good account of them in our next.
From a late Liverpool paper.
Under a concern for the danger of their industry and trade, from the formidable rivalry on the continent, as well as from the circumstance, that raw material is the growth chiefly of foreign colonies, the cotton manufacturers of Glasgow are preparing to petition Parliament for an abolition of the import duties on raw cotton; 54,000,000 pounds of cotton wool were imported into Great Britain in 1802; 30,000 tons of shipping and 2000 seamen were constantly employed in importing of wool, and exporting the manufactures in which it is here wrought—18,000 persons are constantly employed in Great Britain in the cotton manufactures; their wages amount to 13,000,000l. a year. The French now buy the raw material cheaper than we, and can at a less expence, make it into yarn, as good as that which we now spin. Upon these and other according facts, the gentlemen in the cotton trade are in hopes that government may be induced to favour their application to Parliament for an entire abolition of the import duty on cotton-wool.
New-York, May 30.
By the ship Melpomene, capt. Lasher, we understand that advices from Gibraltar to a respectable mercantile house at Cadiz had been received, which mentioned that a French fleet, under convoy of two 74's, had passed Gibraltar, bound for Louisiana, with 5000 Polish troops on board.
Capt. Lasher also informs, that there was remaining at Cadiz upwards of 15,000 barrels of flour, for which there was no sale, all kinds of provisions very low and dull, pipe staves 120 dollars per m.
We are further informed, that the quarantine of American vessels at Cadiz, is suspended.
A report was in circulation at Bordeaux when capt. Joy left there, about the 29th April, of an embargo having taken place in the north of France, and it was supposed that it would shortly take place in all the southern ports.
Capt. Lasher, from Cadiz, informs us that the quarantine on American vessels in that port is taken off. In the bay were nearly 20 vessels, laden with not less than 15,000 barrels of flour, which could not be disposed of at 8 dollars—Markets very dull—The misunderstanding between the English and French governments formed the principal subject of conversation in Cadiz; and nothing was more dreaded than the speedy recommencement of hostilities.
From a late London paper.
A letter has been communicated to us, which having been put into a bottle on the 9th of September last, in north lat. 47, longitude 21, and there cast into the sea, was found in the bottle, on the coast of the Isle of Sky, on the 22nd of February—distance 960 miles. It was written on board the ship Iris, captain Skinner, and addressed to a gentleman in London. It was written and thus transmitted, merely in the way of experiment. The success of the experiment shows, that it may not be impossible to send information of the fate of persons at sea to their friends, in circumstances otherwise the most hopeless of such communication.
A maritime expedition is fitting out at Peterburgh in Russia, at the expence of a company of American merchants, and it is to proceed from the Cape of Good Hope to Kamtschatka. It has for its object to establish an exchange between the productions of Siberia and those of China.
The number of inhabitants in the colony of Havana, amounts to 257,000 free men, 405,000 slaves. The products for exportation are, 28,000 casks of sugar, from 4 to 500 at each; 100,000 bales of leather; 30,000 cwt. of snuff; 20,000 cwt. of tobacco in leaves; 9000 cwt. of coffee; 6000 cwt. of wax; 1500 cwt. of cotton; 500 cwt. of balsam;
60,000 hogheads of molasses, & 19,000 hogheads of rum. The royal revenue drawn from this settlement by his Catholic Majesty, amounts to not much more than five millions of piastres. In Caracas, Terra Firma, and Venezuela, the population amounts to 237,000 free men and 136,000 slaves; 135,000 Indians were subject to the Spanish government, not including the freemen in the great deficits. The produce of sugar amount to 15,000 cwt. for home consumption, and 80,000 cwt. of cocoa, for exportation: 3,000 cwt. of cotton; 700 cwt. of coffee; 25,000 cwt. of snuff; 150,000 bales of leather; 18,000 cwt. of good indigo, and 12,000 ditto of bad besides 30,000 horses.
How to vaccinate several hundred persons with the matter of a single ordinary vaccine pock.
A member of the London Vaccine Institution mixed the fluid of a single cow-pock with a drachm measure of water of about the temperature of 70 Fahrenheit. Of three subjects vaccinated with this diluted matter, two took the disease in the usual way. The remaining third was vaccinated in each arm, with one puncture with this diluted matter, and also in each arm, in like manner, with undiluted vaccine matter, but all these four punctures failed to produce the disease, the subject being an adult, and probably having had the small-pox.
The above is extracted from Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine, and is of so much importance to extend the blessings of vaccination, that the printers of newspapers, it is hoped, will generally republish this article.
Specimen of British Liberty.
On Tuesday last arrived the ship Sally, from Bristol in forty days. Captain Burger informs, that ten days before he left there a frigate arrived in the roads under a pretence of shipping volunteers, but shortly after sent a body of seamen, marines, and officers, well armed, up to town to press men: they took the evening to commit barbarous deeds. Many poor fellows were dragged from the public houses, and picked up in the streets, insulted and beat without provocation—much blood was shed on both sides. Finding themselves so strongly repulsed by the inhabitants, they were obliged to call for aid from the standing army. On Sunday at the time of service they took all the pressed men, under a strong guard, to march them down to the ships under drawn swords and fixed bayonets—in passing through the outskirts of the town, they were met, with stones, mostly women; from this spirited attack the gang and marines, being much intoxicated, fired upon the mob and killed several people—thus they got off with their men that were followed by their wives and children down to the boats. If this be liberty what is slavery?
THE CHARMS OF TOBACCO—By King James.
This Monarch had a remarkable antipathy to tobacco, and he has left us his opinion of this now popular herb—'Tobacco' he said, 'was the lively image and pattern of Hell—for that it had, by allusion, in it all the parts and vices of the world, whereby Hell may be gained, to wit: First, it was smoke—to are all the vanities of this world. Secondly, it delighteth them who take it; so do all the pleasures of the world delight the men of the world. Thirdly, it maketh men drunken, and light in the head; so do all the vanities of the world, men are drunken therewith. Fourthly, he that taketh tobacco, faith he cannot leave it, it doth bewitch him; even to the pleasures of the world make men loth to leave them—they are for the most part enchanted with them; and further, it is like hell in the very substance of it; for is it not a linking loathome thing, and so is hell.' And further, 'his majesty professed, that he would to invite the Devil to a dinner, he should have three dishes—First, a pig; secondly, a pole of ling and mustard; and thirdly, a pipe of tobacco, for digestion.'
From the Richmond Examiner.
Extract from the RECORDER of the 25th instant.
'There is good authority for saying that, at the late election for Congress, 4 or 5 federal members were chosen, a circumstance which has no precedent in the annals of Virginia. Once, and only once, that party obtained three. This was in the bragged reign of John Adams; and such an important acquisition has been obtained, although there is a republican majority in the assembly had their own free will in the parcelling out of the districts.'
The writer of the above is much mistaken in his assertions. Five federalists were in Congress from this State, in the session when the federalists produced the memorable contest between Mr. Jefferson and Col. Burr; when the friends of order had reached a crisis which had nearly brought the United States into all the horrors of a bloody and devaluated civil war. Here follows the names of these five Virginian representatives:
Evans, Henry Lee, Robert Page, John P. Parker and Levin Powell.
That the federalists might have prevented the success of three of the four federalists returned at the late election is very certain; and that they did not do it, proceeded from a spirit of concession. The popular vote on the Blue Ridge, entitled that district of country to a small fraction above five representatives; but in order to make their districts compact, and to conciliate the people, it was conceded that they should have six; hence the weight of federalism, which has always preponderated in many of the counties above the mountain, acquired more than its due influence. In the counties from which we have received returns to the state legislature, federalism has lost ground. We do not recollect a single return in their favor where republicans have formerly been elected; and in Campbell county two federalists have been succeeded by two staunch democrats. This proves that the returns for Congress form no criterion by which to judge.
We have shown that notwithstanding the clamorous joy which the late success of four federalists has excited in their expiring party, we have gained one representative since Mr. Jefferson's election; and if, as we are told it will certainly be the case, Mr. Moore ousts Mr. Lewis, we shall have gained two.
In a short time we will present a list from the different states, which will incontrovertibly prove an unhanded accession to republican principles.
THE PLEASURES OF FANCY.
FROM ALLEN'S POEMS.
SWEETEST warbler of the spray, Awhile suspend your pleasing lay; Ye gales! your gentle breathe forbear, And, hush'd in silent, soft repose, Attend a while, and your shall hear, The pleasures which the hermit knows.
When the rich mantle of the morn, Begins with splendor to unfold, I mark upon the budding thorn, The lively dew drop tip'd with gold, Forth from my cave I view the light, Rejoicing o'er the shades of night; Th' in my fond thoughts with rapture roll, In all the energy of soul.
But when the cheerful day is gone, And darksome night moves slowly on; When, with a melancholy grace, Pale Luna lifts her sober face; Then whimsical soft tone unknown power, Tis contemplation's favorite hour.
If chance the rainy torrent falls, And pasters on my cottage wall, Secure I hear the tempest roar, And howl for entrance at my door; On the bright vernal bow I gaze, Where mimic diamonds seem to blaze.
If from the north keen winter blows, His driving catarrh of snows, In darkling storms and tempests dress, Then pleasure drops her cherub wing, Reclines on April's dewy breast, And waits the symphony of spring.
When summer comes, with glory crown'd, Dispensing light and grandeur round, I seek the heav'n-ascending hill, Or wander where the murm'ring rill Rolls over fragrant beds of flowers, And there I pass the noon tide hours.
Not sooth Autumn comes in vain; Tis then I court the staidious train, Or haunt the Mules' sacred grove, Where oft my footsteps love to rove.
And when the trees stand dark and bare, No cheerful music warbling there, My breath with tender pity heaves— I read my fate in falling leaves.
NOTICE.
THE Partnership of QUINN and SIMMS is this day dissolved by mutual consent—All persons having claims against said firm, are requested to furnish their accounts for settlement—And those indebted to make payment to George Quinn.
GEO. QUINN,
THOS. SIMMS.
Washington City, May 31, 1803.
THE Subscribers beg leave to inform their friends and the public, that they have commenced business under the firm of Quinn and Fitzgerald, and have just received a fresh supply of Wines, Spirits, Teas, Sugars, Coffee, Bacon, Smoked Beef, Cheese, Shad, Herring, James's River Tobacco, Spanish Sugars, Spermaceti and Tallow Candles, Strong Beer and Porter on draught and in bottles, &c. &c.
QUINN and FITZGERALD.
June 3.
Conveyancer's Office.
THOMAS HERTY,
Grateful for past favors, informs his friends and the public, that he continues to prepare CONVEYANCES OF LAND, and every other species of DEED or INSTRUMENT in the line of his profession, with legal precision, and on moderate terms, Titles investigated, &c.
'A choice selection of lots on the Pennsylvania avenue and in other desirable situations in the City to lease or sell.'
N. B. Herty's Abridgment of the laws of Maryland in 1 vol. and Herty's Digest of the laws of the United States in 2 vol. for sale at the above office.
City of Washington, April 12 1803.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, to wit:
BE IT remembered, that on the ninth day of November, eighteen hundred and two, in the twenty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
"HISTORY of the LAST SESSION of CONGRESS, which commenced on the seventh of December, 1801—taken from the National Intelligencer"—in conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of my office the thirteenth day of November, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and two.
UNAH FORREST, Clerk Of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the County of Washington.
Ten Dollars Reward.
LOST on Wednesday last, between Rhodes's Tavern and the Barracks, a Red Morocco Pocket-book, containing Bank Notes of different Branches, to the amount of seventy-five or eighty dollars (the precise sum not known,) and sundry papers which cannot be of any utility to any person but the owner—Whoever may have found the same, and shall return it to MR. GEO. BOYD, at the office Difcourt & Depu't, Washington, shall receive ten dollars reward.
June 3.
The delinquents on the late company and battalion musters of the first battalion of the militia of this district may, by enquiring of their respective captains, be informed whether, and to what amount, they are fined by the late battalion court of enquiry, and thus be enabled to determine as to an appeal to the legislative court to be held on the 2d instant, at Rhodes's Hotel.
JOHN P. VANNESS.
Pref. Batt. court of enquiry.
June 3.
JOHN GOULDING, BROKER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
HATH LATELY RECEIVED FROM BALTIMORE & PHILADELPHIA,
AND FOR SALE,
Cogniac Brandy, Old Spirit, Claret, Red Port, Madeira, & } Wines of good quality & fit for immediate use. Sherry, Hire's Philadelphia Porter, Fresh Teas, &c. &c. to be sold Cheap for Cash.
He wants to purchase, One hundred Shares of Columbia Bank Stock for cash.
George-town, May 18.
FOR SALE,
For a term of 5 years, A LIKELY young and healthy NEGRO MAN, about 23 years of age for sale by ROBERT M'CLAN. Washington May 25.
FOR SALE.
Bricks, Wharf logs and tiles, Scantling of a large size. Apply to JAMES O'BRIEN. Carrollburg, May 15, 1803.
FRANCIS DONNELLY, Schoolmaster,
LATE OF PHILADELPHIA,
PURPOSED to open School on Monday next, near the West-Market, in the commodious building lately occupied by Isaac Loring as an auction store:
Where will be taught Spelling, Reading, Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Book-keeping, History, and Geography; together with the use of Maps Globes, &c.
The utmost attention will be paid to the manners and morals of the pupils committed to his care. Washington City, May 27.
FOR SALE OR RENT,
THAT elegant three story Brick House on the corner of Falls & Frederick street in George Town, lately occupied by Mr. Pichon.
Likewise,
THE two well finished three story BRICK HOUSES, adjoining that occupied by Mr. Samuel H. Smith, Printer, on the Pennsylvania Avenue, east of the centre Market House, City of Washington—Apply to GEORGE THOMPSON, George Town.
Geo. Town, Oct. 20.
TO LET,
And be entered upon immediately, three well finished Brick Houses,
NEARLY opposite Morn's Tavern, on Twelfth street very near Pennsylvania Avenue, built for the WASHINGTON BUILDING COMPANY.
The Houses will be rented on very reasonable terms.
Apply to THOMAS CARPENTER near the President's Square.
Dec. 27.
Lots for sale.
IN eligible situations, and upon very advantageous terms—A plan of the several squares in which they are contained may be seen and terms thereon by applying to, ROBERT W. PEACOCK.
Attorney at law and conveyancer.

PROPOSALS
FOR CARRYING THE Mails of the United States
On the following Post Roads, Will be received at the General Post- Office in Washington City, until the 1st day of July next, (1803) in- clusive.
IN MAINE.
1. From Scoddy by Dennysville, Ma- riana, Jones, Addis, Harrington, Steu- han, Gouldsboro, Sullivan and Trenton, on Plantation No. 6 on the West side of St. John's River once a week.—Leave Scoddy on Wednesday at 6 a m, and arrive Plantation No. 6 on Saturday by 10 a m.—Leave Plantation No. 6 every Sat- urday at 2 p m, and arrive at Scoddy on Tuesday by 6 p m.
2. From Dennysville to Eastport once a week.—Leave Dennysville every Tuesday at 8 p m, and arrive at Eastport by 5 p m.—Leave Eastport every Wed- nesday at 6 a m, and arrive at Dennys- ville by 9 a m.
3. From Plantation No. 6 by Blue- hill, Celine, Penobscot, Oland, Buck- town, Prospect, Bath, Northport, Duck- trap, Cushing, Thomaston, Warren, Waltham, Newbern and New Castle on Wednesday once a week.—Leave Planta- tion No. 6 every Saturday at 2 p m, and arrive at Wiscasset on Tuesday by 6 p m.—Leave Wiscasset every Wed- nesday at 6 a m, and arrive at Plantation No. 6 on Saturday by 10 a m.
4. From Bucktown by Frankfort, Hampden, Bangor, Edington and Or- rington to Bucktown once a week.— Leave Bucktown every Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at Edington by 2 p m. Leave Edington at 4 p m, and arrive at Bucktown on Monday by 2 p m.
5. From Wiscasset by New Milford, Dalen, Patten, Hallowell, Augusta, Winthrop, Monmouth, Green, Lew- iston, New Glensboro, Gray and Fal- mouth to Portland once a week.—Leave Wiscasset every Wednesday at 8 a m, and arrive at Hallowell by 3 p m. Leave Hallowell at 4 p m, and arrive at Port- land on Saturday by noon.—Returning.— Leave Portland every Saturday at 8 p m, and arrive at Hallowell on Tuesday by 8 a m.—Leave Hallowell at 9 a m, and arrive at Wiscasset by 5 p m.
6. From Wiscasset by Bath, Brun- swick, Freeport, North Yarmouth and Falmouth to Portland three times a week.—Leave Wiscasset every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 a m, and arrive at Portland by 6 p m.—Leave Port- land every Tuesday, Thursday and Sa- turday at 4 a m, and arrive at Wiscasset by 6 p m.
7. From Hallowell by Augusta, by Vassalboro, Winthrop, Fairfield and Ca- nann to Norridgewock once a week.— Leave Hallowell every Wednesday at 8 p m, and arrive at Norridgewock on Thursday by 3 p m.—Leave Norridgew- ock every Tuesday at noon, and arrive at Hallowell on Wednesday by noon.
8. From Hallowell by Augusta, Reed- field, Mount Vernon, Chester, Farming- ton, New Sharon, Belgrade and Aro- ostook to Hallowell once a week.—Leave Hallowell every Wednesday at 3 p m, and arrive at Farmington on Thursday by 3 p m.—Leave Farmington every Tuesday at noon, and arrive at Hallow- ell on Wednesday by noon.
9. From Portland by Windham, Bridge- ton, Waterville, Paris, Buckfield, Tur- ner, Norway and Poland to Portland once a week.—Leave Portland every Tues- day at 8 a m, and arrive at Turner on Wednesday by noon, and at Portland the next Monday by 5 p m.
10. From Portland by Saccarappa, Gorham, Standish, Flushing, Hiram and Brownfield to Fryeburg once a week.— Leave Portland every Monday at 6 a m, and arrive at Fryeburg on Tuesday by 10 a m.—Leave Fryeburg every Tues- day at 2 p m, and arrive at Portland on Wednesday by 6 p m.
11. From Portland by Gorham, Buxton, Limington, Limerick, Parsonsfield, New- field, Shapleigh, Lebanon, Doughtysfalls, Berwick, Sanford, Alfred and Water- bury to Portland once a week.—Leave Port- land every Monday at 1 p m, and arrive at Berwick on Wednesday by 6 p m. Leave Berwick every Thursday at 6 a m, and arrive at Portland on Monday by 9 a m.
12. From Portland by Scarboro, Bid- deford, Kennebunk, Doughtysfalls, Ber- wick and Dover to Portland three times a week.
May 1st to November 1st.
Leave Portland every Monday, Wed- nesday and Friday at 3 a m, and arrive at Portland by 3 p m.—Leave Port- mouth every Tuesday, Thursday and Sa- turday at 7 1-2 a m, and arrive at Port- land by 8 1-2 p m.
November 1st to May 1st.
Leave Portland every Monday, Wed- nesday and Friday 1 1-2 p m, and arrive at Portland the next days by 1 p m. Leave Portland every Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturday at 12 1-2 noon, and arrive at Portland the next days by 11 1-2 a m.
13. From Portland by Scarboro, Bid- deford, Kennebunk, Wells and York to Portland three times a week.
May 1st to November 1st.
Leave Portland every Tuesday, Thurs-
day and Saturday at 3 a m, and arrive at Portland by 3 p m.—Leave same eve- ry Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 1-2 a m, and arrive at Portland by 8 1-2 p m.
November 1st to May 1st.
Leave Portland Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 1 1-2 p m, and arrive at Portland the next days by 1 p m. Leave Portland every Monday, Wed- nesday and Friday at 12 1-2 noon, and arrive at Portland the next days by 11 1-2 a m.
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
14. From Portsmouth by Dover, Ro- chester, Middletown, Ollippee, Mont- pelier, Centre Harcourt, Plymouth, New Hampton, Meredith, Gilmanstown, Not- tingham & Durham to Portsmouth once a week, and by the contrary route the next week, so as to carry the mail alter- nately.—Leave Portsmouth every Tues- day at 2 p m, and arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 p m.—Leave Plymouth eve- ry Friday at 6 a m, and arrive at Port- mouth the next Tuesday by 9 a m.
15. From Portsmouth N. H. by Ex- eter, Kingston, Haverhill, Andover, Wilmington, Weoburn and Medford to Boston three times a week.—Leave Portsmouth every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a m, and arrive at Bos- ton by 7 p m.—Leave Boston every Tues- day, Thursday and Saturday at 3 a m, and arrive at Portsmouth by 7 p m.
16. From Exeter by Chester, Lon- donberry, Amherst, Peterboro, Marlbo- ro and Keen to Walpole once a week.— Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 9 a m, arrive at Amherst on Wednesday by 7 p m.—Leave Amherst on Thursday at 5 a m, and arrive at Keene by 7 p m. Leave Keene Friday at 6 a m, and arrive at Walpole on Friday by 10 a m.— Returning.—Leave Walpole every Fri- day at 2 p m, arrive at Keene by 7 p m. Leave Keene on Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at Amherst by 6 p m.—Leave Amherst at 7 p m, and arrive at Exeter on Monday by 3 p m.
17. From Exeter by Nottingham, Concord, Salisbury, Grafton, Canaan and Lebanon to Hanover once a week.— Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 9 a m, arrive at Concord on Wednesday by 10 a m.—Leave Concord at 11 a m, and arrive at Hanover on Friday by 9 a m.— Returning.—Leave Hanover every Friday at 1 p m, and arrive at Exeter on Monday by 3 p m.
18. From Haverhill Ms. by Chester, Pembroke, Bolston, Salisbury, Ply- mouth, Romney and Haverhill to New- bury, Ms. once a week.—Leave Hav- erhill every Tuesday at 2 p m, arrive at Chester by 5 p m, at Concord on Wed- nesday by 10 a m. Leave Concord at 4 p m, arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 p m, and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 p m.—Leave Haverhill at 5 1-2 p m, and arrive at Newbury by 7 p m.— Returning.—Leave Newbury every Sa- turday at 6 a m on Monday by 10 a m. Leave Concord at 11 a m, and arrive at Haverhill Ms. on Tuesday by 10 a m.
19. From Hanover by Orford to Hav- erhill once a week.—Leave Hanover every Friday at 6 a m, and arrive at Hav- erhill by 5 p m.—Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at Han- over by 6 p m.
20. From Haverhill by Bath, Little- ton and Dalton to Lancaster once a week.—Leave Lancaster every Thurs- day at 3 p m, and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 p m.—Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at Lancaster on Monday by 8 a m.
21. From Groton, Ms. by Townsend, Ashby, New Ipswich, Jaffrey, Marlboro, Keene and Chesterfield to Brattleboro once a week.—Leave Groton every Thursday at 5 a m, and arrive at Brat- tleboro on Friday by 10 a m.—Leave Brattleboro every Friday at 2 p m, and arrive at Groton on Sunday by 8 p m.
IN VERMONT.
22. From Exeter by New Market and Durham to Dover once a week.—Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 5 a m, and arrive at Dover by 10 a m.—Leave Do- ver at noon, and arrive at Exeter by 4 p m.
23. From Rutland by Clarendon, Tin- mouth, Danby, Dorset, Manchester, Ar- lington, Shalbury, Bennington, Lan- donburg and Troy to Albany twice a week.—Leave Rutland every Monday and Thursday at 8 a m, and arrive at Bennington on Tuesday and Friday by 8 p m.—Leave Bennington every Thurs- day and Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at Albany by 4 p m.—Returning.—Leave Albany every Monday and Thursday at 9 a m, and arrive at Bennington by 7 p m.—Leave Bennington every Tuesday and Friday at 6 a m, and arrive at Rutland on Wednesday and Saturday by 3 p m.
24. From Rutland by Pitsford, Bran- don, Leicester, Salisbury, Middlebury, New Haven, Vergennes, Ferrisburg, Charlotte, Shelburne, Burlington, Col- chester, Milton, Georgia, St. Albans and Swanton to Highgate once a week.— Leave Rutland every Monday at 5 a m, and arrive at Charlotte on Tuesday by 10 a m.—Leave Charlotte at 11 a m, and arrive at Highgate on Thursday by 7 p m.—Returning.—Leave Highgate every Friday at 6 a m, and arrive at Char- lotte on Friday at 1 p m.—Leave Char- lotte at 2 p m, and arrive at Rutland on Saturday by 7 p m.
25. From Rutland by Shrewsbury, Salt Asa and Reading to Windsor once
a week.—Leave Rutland every Monday at 6 a m, and arrive at Windsor on Tuesday by 10 a m.—Leave Windsor every Tuesday at 2 p m, and arrive at Rutland on Wednesday by 6 p m.
26. From Burlington by Jericho, Montpelier, Williamstown, Randolph, Royalton and Woodstock to Windsor once a week.—Leave Burlington every Wednesday at 5 a m, and arrive at Montpelier on Thursday by 10 a m.— Leave Montpelier on Thursday by 11 a m, and arrive at Windsor on Friday by 7 p m.—Returning.—Leave Windsor eve- ry Saturday at 2 p m, and arrive at Montpelier on Monday by 5 p m.—Leave Montpelier on Monday at 4 p m, and arrive at Burlington on Tuesday by 3 p m.
27. From Montpelier by Barre, Wash- ington, Coriath, Bedford, Newbury, Ryegate, Barre, Peacham and Danville to St. Johnsbury once a week.—Leave Montpelier every Thursday at noon, and arrive at Newbury on Friday by 7 p m. Leave Newbury on Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at St. Johnsbury by 5 p m.— Returning.—Leave St. Johnsbury eve- ry Tuesday at 6 a m, and arrive at Mont- pelier on Thursday by 11 a m.
28. From Middlebury by New Hav- en, Moneton, Hinesburg, Williston, Jericho, Essex, Westport, Fairfax, Fair- field and Sheldon to Hunsburg, and from thence by Berkshire, Ennismore, Ba- kersfield, Cambridge, Underhill, Jeri- cho, Richmond, Huntington, Starksboro, and Bristol to Middlebury once a week.— Leave Middlebury every Wednesday at 6 a m, and arrive at Hunsburg on Friday by 11 a m.—Leave Hunsburg at 2 p m, and arrive at Middlebury the next Monday by 7 p m.
29. From Rutland by Castleton, Fair- haven, Bennington, Orwell, Shoreham and Addison to Vergennes once a week.— Leave Rutland every Monday at 6 a m, and arrive at Fairhaven by 10 a m. Leave Fairhaven at noon, and arrive at Vergennes on Tuesday at 2 p m.—Re- turning.—Leave Vergennes every Tues- day at 4 p m, arrive at Fairhaven on Wednesday by 6 p m, and at Rutland on Thursday by noon.
30. From Bennington by Marlboro, Wilmington and Woodford to Brattle- boro once a week.—Leave Bennington every Thursday at 9 p m, and arrive at Brattleboro on Friday by 11 a m.—Leave Brattleboro every Friday at 2 p m, and arrive at Bennington on Saturday by 4 p m.
31. From Rutland by Cavendish, Chester, Rockingham, and Bellowsfalls to Walpole, N. H. once a week.—Leave Rutland every Wednesday at 2 p m, and arrive at Walpole on Thursday by 6 p m. Leave Walpole every Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at Rutland on Sunday by 10 a m.
IN MASSACHUSETTS.
32. From Newburyport by Ames- bury to Haverhill once a week.—Leave Haverhill every Monday at 5 a m, and arrive at Newburyport by 11 a m. Leave Newburyport same day at 1 p m, and arrive at Haverhill by 3 p m.
33. From Salem by Danvers, Tops- field, Boxfield and Bradford to Hav- erhill once a week.—Leave Salem every Friday at 5 a m, and arrive at Haverhill by 11 a m.—Leave Haverhill at 1 p m, and arrive at Salem by 7 p m the same day.
34. From Boston by Salem to Glou- cester three times a week.—Leave Bos- ton every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 a m, and arrive at Glou- cester by 6 p m.—Returning.—Leave Glou- cester every Tuesday, Thursday and Sa- turday at 9 a m, and arrive at Boston by 6 p m.
35. From Salem to Marblehead six times a week.—Leave Salem every day, Sunday excepted, at noon, and arrive at Marblehead by 1 p m.—Leave Mar- blehead at past 2 o'clock p m, and arrive at Salem by 4 p m.
36. From Boston by Billerica, Chelms- ford, Tyngsboro', Dunstable, Amherst, N. H. Framingham, Washington and Concord to Concord, Ms. once a week.— Leave Boston every Wednesday at 5 a m, and arrive at Amherst by 8 p m. Leave Amherst on Thursday at 6 a m, and arrive at Concord on Friday by 10 a m.—Returning.—Leave Concord every Friday at 2 p m, and arrive at Amherst on Saturday by 8 p m.—Leave Amherst on Monday at 5 a m, and arrive at Boston by 8 p m.
37. From Billerica by Patucket Bridge, Dracut, Pelham and Windham to Lon- donberry once a week.—Leave Billerica every Monday at 5 a m, and arrive at Londonberry by 11 a m.—Leave Lon- donberry at 1 p m, and arrive at Billerica by 8 p m.
38. From Boston by Concord and Lit- tleton to Groton once a week, and from Boston by Concord and Westford to Groton once a week.—Leave Boston every Wednesday and Saturday at 5 a m, and arrive at Concord by 11 a m.—Leave Concord at noon, and arrive at Groton by 5 p m.—Returning.—Leave Groton every Monday and Thursday at 5 a m, arrive at Concord by 11 a m.—Leave Concord at 1 p m, and arrive at Boston by 7 p m.
WANTED, One or two Boys to learn the BOOT and SHOE-MAKING Business.— Apply to JOHN CROOKSHANK. George-Town, Jan. 19, 1803. ef.
RAN AWAY,
FROM the Subscriber, living in Calvert county, some time in February, a NE- GRO MAN called John, about 27 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, and stout made, has a large scar on one of his cheeks, and some marks of a scald head which may be discovered on examination. Stammers when spoken to, and plays a little on the violin. Whoever takes up said Negro and secures him in any jail to that I get him again, shall receive 50 dollars reward if out of the county, or 5 dollars if in the county, and all reason- able charges paid if brought home.
JOSEPH GRIFFISS.
June 1. 3t
Strayed or Stolen,
On the 24th May, FROM the Eastern Branch Ferry, a brindle milk COW, gives a large quantity of milk—her hind feet are white up to her hams, a small star in her face, and her left horn broken off about half way, and tied up with a cord. A reward of 3 dollars will be given to any person for bringing her home; and if stolen 5 dollars for the cow and thief.
SARAH COLLINS, Living at the Navy Yard.
June 1. 3t
NOTICE.
PROPOSALS will be received till the 10th instant by Major Van Nels, on behalf of the Theatre Com- mittee, both for Materials (the walls to consist of salt stone or brick) and for the workmanship necessary to complete the building.
Washington, June 1. 2t
NOTICE.
THIS is to give notice, that the subscribers of Washington county, have obtained from the Orphan's Court of Washington county, in the district of Columbia, Letters Testamentary on the personal estate of ANTHONY HOLMEAD, late of said county deceased.—All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby required to ex- hibit the same, with the vouchers thereof to the subscribers, on or before the twenty-fifth day of November next, they may otherwise by law, be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under our hands this 23d day of May, 1803.
SUSANNA HOLMEAD, Executrix. JOHN HOLMEAD, } Ex'rs. ANTHONY HOLMEAD, } May 25. 3t
Boarding & Day Schools.
PRESIDENT'S SQUARE. J. GARDINER instructs Youth in Arith- metic, Book-keeping, Writing, and English Grammar. Mrs. GARDINER teaches Needle-Work, Tambouring, &c. Young Ladies who desire to do so, can divide their time betwixt the two schools. Boys from the country accommodated with Board and Lodging on reasonable terms. June 1. 2mo
In the case of William Bayly a Bank- rupt.
Whereas the said WILLIAM BAYLY has been declared a Bankrupt by the Com- missioners acting under a Commission issued against him, and has by his Petition in writing represented to the Judge who issued the Com- mission against him, that he cannot obtain the certificate of the Commissioners of his being intitled to a discharge by reason that one of the said Commissioners has resigned his office and removed from the District, and another of the said Commissioners has refused to sign the same, whereby the said Certificate is un- reasonably denied by the Commissioners, and has prayed the said Judge, to grant him there- upon a Certificate of discharge and that he may have the benefit of the act to establish an uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States, the proceedings of the Commis- sioners being returned to the said Judge for his determination thereon.
It is directed that notice be given by adver- tisement in the National Intelligencer and the Washington Federalist that the Judge will attend at the Clerks office in Washington county on Monday the 13th day of June next between the hours of 10 and 12 o'clock when and where the Creditors of the said William Bayly or any of them may appear and show cause if any they have why the petition of the said William Bayly should not be granted, and on hearing such Creditors if they should appear, and on examining the proceedings of the Commissioners, and the laws relative thereto, the Judge will determine on the said petition by granting or rejecting the prayer thereof. By Order URIAS FORREST Clerk.
of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Washington. May 25.
MILITIA OF COLUMBIA.
LEGIONARY ORDERS—FIRST LEGION
A LEGIONARY Court of Enquiry will convene at Rhodes's Hotel, in the City of Washington, on Wednesday the 8th of June next at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the trial of officers for neglect of duty; for the remission, on good cause shown, of fines imposed by the first and second battalion court of enquiry, and for other duties prescribed by the late Militia Law.— The commanding officers of battalions and companies, and those who may wish to offer excuses for the remission of their fines, are requested to pay due attention to this order. By order of the Lieut. Col. Commandant. W. D. BEALL, Adjutant. May 30.
The subscriber having oc- casion to be frequently absent from this place, declines offering to serve as a member of the City Council. JAMES BARRY. Washington, May 27. ept7J
Valuable Ware House
FOR SALE. WILL be exposed to public sale on the premises on Friday the 10th day of June next at 12 o'clock, the Ware Houses and Wharf, now occupied by Messrs. Stewart and Beall. This property is situated at the corner of Frederick and Key's street, in the centre of that part of Georgetown where the flour and shipping business is done. There are two ware houses connected in such manner, (the one opening on one and the other on the other street) as to be used in separate or joint tenements, that are strongly and well built of stone and brick, three stories high, beside an extensive sail loft, are well divided for stor- ing, and very capacious; they front about 70 feet on the street next the water, and about 50 feet on the other. The wharf is only di- vided from them by the street, and extends, in water sufficient for large ships, the whole width of the wharf front, the whole is in good repair.
This sale will be made under a deed of Mortgage, and power of attorney to sell, to reimburse the subscriber a sum of money due from the late Francis Lewis Taney. The re- sidue, if any, to be divided among said Taney's creditors.—The title will be explained on the day of sale.—I will be given to the pur- chaser on the payment of the purchase money.
Approved negotiable notes for the purchase money, payable the one half at six months, the other half at nine months, will be requir- ed, and must be given at the time of purchase, or the sale will be void and a resale take place.
J. MASON.
George Town, May 17.—e p. till June 10d
Would wish to engage in some healthy Country situation.
A person who has practiced teaching an English-School fifteen years, and can pro- duce Certificates expressing the approbation of those parents who have favoured him with the tuition of their Children—He professes teaching Spelling, Reading and writing with propriety, Mercantile, Vulgar and Decimal Arithmetic, Book-keeping, Mensuration Ge- ography &c. In all which, he will engage to give satisfaction to whoever may employ him —some healthy part of Virginia will be pre- ferred, and a line directed (post paid) to the Editor of this paper will be duly attended to.
LEBOO
WILL cover the ensuing season, to com- mence the first day of April, and end on the last day of June, on Mondays and Tuesdays at Queen Anne's; Wednesdays and Thursdays at the farm of the subscriber, and Fridays and Saturdays at Bladenburg; at the rate of 16 dollars per Mare, cash, and half a dollar to the groom; the money to the groom to be sent with the mare, and a note for the balance, with the assumption of Messrs. Clag- get or Hodges, of Queen Anne, or Messrs. Lowndes or Bruce, of Bladenburg, payable on the first day of December next, will be re- quired.
Leboo is eight years old, a fine bright bay, 15 hands three inches high, a star and two white feet. He has proven himself both a sire and good foal-getter, having covered at four years old 25 mares, all of whom proved with foal; the costs are equal in size and beauty to any in this part of the country, and except in two instances, they were alike as to colour. At four years old Leboo won the colts' purse at Annapolis; on the next day he won the City purse, and on the third day he won a purse in Prince George's county, immediately after having travelled upwards of 30 miles. The next spring, at 5 years old, he won the first day's purse at Canton; the fall after he raced against Mr. Taylor's Leviathan at Alexan- dria, one heat, won lame and drawn; a few days after he won the first day's purse at Go- van's town. At 6 years old he won the first day's purse at Canton; the fall after he won the purse again at Canton, the jockey club purse at Govan's town, the purses at Frederick town, and the city of Washington; running nine miles, by milts, at the last mentioned place, beating Mr. Taylor's Leviathan. At seven years old he received a forfeit of 500 dollars at Havre-de-Grace, proceeded on to German town, won the first heat, afterwards fell lame, and was beat by Gen. Ridgely's Hamlet, whom he had beaten three times be- fore.
Leboo was got by High Flyer, his blood an figure equal to that of any other horse, and his pedigree may be seen by applying to the subscriber.
OSBORN SPRIGG.
Prince George's County, March 28.
The Subscriber will furnish good pasture, at half a dollar per week, but will not be answerable for accidents or escapes.
LOTS FOR SALE.
On ground rent between the President's house and the Navy-Yard, the price moderate and payments easy—Apply to W. M. DUNCANSON.
CHARLES VARDEN, TAYLOR, FROM PHILADELPHIA.
HAS received from Philadelphia an ele- gant assortment of the best quality Super- fine Cloths, Cassimeres, Silk Boringtime, Black and fancy silk mole-skin velvet, white & figured Marblets, Swandowns, Tollietettes, Velvet- teens, Fancy cords, Coatings, &c. With a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season.