The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1803-09-30 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. III.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCGI IX.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th, 1803.
PAID IN ADVANCE
For the National Intelligencer.
Purchase of Louisiana. Is there good reason for considering the Executive uninformed of the true interests of the country?
If ever there has been an administration in this country fully competent to the discharge of public duty, it is the present. No derogation is intended from the integrity and talents of the Washington administration; but with all the respect merited by that administration, it is but justice to say that with regard to foreign relations, the present combines higher talents. Washington was a good and great man; but his warmest eulogists do not ascribe to him an intimate knowledge of the external relations of the country, or of the manner in which foreign intercourse should be conducted. It is well understood that this is a peculiar science, and that to excel in it requires both experience and uncommon powers of mind. However strong the native energies of his understanding, it is no reproach to say that, wanting experience, which he had no opportunity of acquiring, he could not be so well qualified as an individual who to the powers of mind requisite for such duties adds a knowledge derived from the long discharge of diplomatic functions. Such are the qualifications of our present chief magistrate: And so sensible was general Washington himself of his competency to these duties that he called him to their discharge, and devolved upon him the first office in his gift. To the discharge of these duties he was called from that country with which the late negotiations were carried on. We know that he fully enjoyed the confidence of the court of Versailles; it is, therefore, fair to infer that he became intimately acquainted with the prevailing politics of the French cabinet. A great change, it is true, has since that period taken place in the aspect of those politics. Still in many respects they have remained unaltered during all the vicissitudes of the revolution; and in none more than in the maxims that govern their foreign relations. Of those changes, which have occurred, no one has probably been a more attentive observer. From these considerations, it may be affirmed that with respect to our foreign relations, and particularly with France, no man is more qualified to conduct them with success.
According to the distribution of duties, it devolves on the Secretary of State to be the organ of foreign correspondence. All measures relating to foreign nations come therefore under his cognizance. He is so far the special adviser of the President. Both are considered as responsible for them. The outlines are agreed upon by both. The Secretary is entirely responsible for all the subordinate duties attached to their execution. And on the faithful and enlightened discharge of these often depends the success of negotiations. This Secretary is Mr. Madison. Need I draw his character. Is there a citizen among us whose character is better understood, whose talents are more universally allowed, or whose virtues are more undoubted? Party malice, with all its malignity, has scarcely dared to whisper reproach against him. Of the ability of such an administration there can be no question. That they are well informed of the interests of the country admits not of doubt.
These facts do not prove the purchase of Louisiana a wise measure. But they are presumptive proof, until it shall be otherwise shown, that it is such.
(To be continued.)
FRANKLIN.
TO be rented on moderate terms, either separately or together. Three two story brick dwelling HOUSES, in the city of Washington, on north E Street, between 9th and 10th streets west. They are well calculated for private families; and the whole taken together, will answer extremely well for the accommodation of boarders, on a large and excellent plan.
Also a large frame building back of the above. Persons wishing to rent, will make early application to
T. H. GILLISS At the Navy Office.
August 27.
WAS committed to the jail of Baltimore county as a run away, on the 3d inst a negro man by the name of GEORGE FAIRFAX—he is about 37 years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, dark complexion, bow legged, has a scar over his right eye, and has lost two of his upper foreteeth; he has on a country made cotton shirt and nankeen trowsers—he says he belongs to Mr. Priestly Wright, living in Westmoreland county Virginia, near Cole Carter's mill. His owner does not release him he will be sold for his goal fees, according to law.
James Wilson, Sheriff. September 12.
The following PAPER has been published by the British Government, and sent, by its direction to every parish in the kingdom.
CIRCULAR.
To the Officiating Ministers of the several Parishes in England and Wales.
It having been thought necessary, that at this momentous crisis, his majesty's subjects, in every part of the kingdom, and of every rank and degree, should be fully apprized of the danger, with which their property and their lives, their liberties, and their religion are threatened, in order that their energy may be called forth, and that, under God's Providence the safety of the realm may thereby be provided for, and its ancient honor maintained. It having been also thought, that THE CHURCH is the most safe, regular, and certain channel of circulation, as well as the best suited to the importance of the subject. It appears advisable to adopt that mode of communication, more especially as, in the execution of this great national purpose, such material aid may be expected from the wisdom and zeal of the Clergy.—In consequence whereof you will herewith receive certain copies of a printed paper, intitled, "Important Considerations for the People of this Kingdom." It is requested, that you will be pleased to cause part of them to be deposited in the pews, and part to be distributed in the aisles, amongst the poor, on the Sunday following the day on which you shall receive them. There are also inclosed certain copies calculated for posting; one of which is intended to be placed on the church door, and another in some such public part of the parish, as you may deem best fitted for making it known among the parishioners.
IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE PEOPLE OF THIS KINGDOM.
At a moment when we are entering on a scene deeply interesting, not only to this nation, but to the whole civilized world; at a moment, when we all, without distinction of rank or degree, are called upon to rally round, and to range ourselves beneath the banner of that Sovereign, under whose long, mild, and fostering reign, the far greater part of us, capable of bearing arms have been born and reared up to manhood; at a moment, when we are, by his truly royal and paternal example, incited to make every sacrifice and every exertion in a war, the event of which is to decide, whether we are still to enjoy, and to bequeath to our children, the possessions, the comforts, the liberties, and the national honors, handed down to us from generation to generation, by our gallant forefathers; or whether we are, at once, to fall from this favored and honorable station, and to become the miserable crouching slaves, the hewers of wood and the drawers of water, of those very Frenchmen, whom the valour of our fleets and armies has hitherto taught us to despise; at such a moment, it behoves us, calmly and without dismay, to examine our situation, to consider what are the grounds of the awful contest in which we are engaged; what are the wishes, the designs, and the pretensions of our enemies; what would be the consequences, if those enemies were to triumph over us; what are our means, and what ought to be our motives, not only for frustrating their malicious intentions, but for inflicting just and memorable chastisement on their infolent and guilty heads.
The grounds of the war are, by no means, as our enemies pretend, to be sought for in a desire entertained by his majesty to keep the island of Malta, contrary to the Treaty of Peace, or to leave unfulfilled any other part of his sacred engagements. They are to be sought for in the ambition of the First Consul of France, and in his implacable hatred of Britain, because, in the power and valour of Britain alone, he finds a check to that ambition, which aims at nothing short of the conquest of the world. His majesty, ever anxious to procure for his people prosperity and ease, eagerly seized the first opportunity that offered itself for the restoration of peace; but not without remembering at the same time that their safety, for which it was his peculiar duty to provide, was not to be sacrificed to any other consideration. This peace he concluded with the most sincere desire, that it might be durable, and the conduct of France would be such as to authorize him to execute, with scrupulous punctuality, every one of the stipulations of the treaty. But scarcely was that compact concluded, when the First Consul, at the
very time that his majesty was surrendering to France and Holland, the great and numerous conquests he had made from them during the war, began a new sort of hostility upon the weak and defenceless states on the continent of Europe: Piedmont, a country equal to all Scotland, was added to France; Holland, which had, at the making of the peace, been recognized as an independent nation, became, more than ever, the object of French rapacity and despotism; was compelled to furnish ships and stores for French expeditions, and to feed and clothe French armies; the only use of which was to keep her in a state of servile subjection, and to render her shores an object of serious alarm and real danger to Great Britain; Switzerland was invaded by a French army, which compelled the people of that once free and happy country, to submit to a government framed at Paris, the members of which government were chiefly composed of men, who had betrayed the liberties of their country, and who were nominated by the Consul himself. Notwithstanding, however, all these and several other acts of aggression and tyranny, some of which were highly injurious to Great Britain, and were shameful violations of the treaty of peace, still his majesty earnestly endeavored to avoid a recurrence to arms; but the Consul, emboldened by our forbearance, and imputing to a dread of his power, that which he ought to have imputed solely to our desire to live at peace, manifested his perfidious intentions, again to take possession of Egypt, whence we had driven him in disgrace; again to open a road to our possessions in India, there to destroy one of the principal sources of our wealth and our greatness.
Not contented with thus preparing for our destruction from without, endeavoring to cut off our intercourse with the rest of the world, shutting, as far as he was able, all the ports of other countries against us; gradually destroying our navigation, commerce and trade; hemming us up in our own island, and exposing our manufacturers, artisans, and labourers, to the danger of starving for want of employment; not contented with these malignant endeavours, and seeming to regard us as already within his grasp, he audaciously interfered in the management of our domestic concerns; required us to violate our laws by banishing those subjects of the French Monarch, who had fled hither for shelter from his unjust and tyrannical government; demanded of us the suppression of the Liberty of Speech and of the Press, and, in a word, clearly demonstrated his resolution not to leave us a moment's tranquility, until we had surrendered our constitution, until we had laid all our liberties at his feet, and until, like the Dutch, the Italians, and the Swiss, we had submitted to be governed by decrees sent us from France.
Besides the motives of ambition, the desire to domineer over, and to trample upon all the rest of mankind, the First Consul has a reason, peculiar to himself, for wishing to reduce us to a state of poverty, weakness, submission, and silence; which reason will be at once evident, when we consider the origin of his authority, and the nature of his government. Having succeeded, through a long course of perfidious and bloody deeds, in usurping the throne of his lawful Sovereign; having, under the name of Equality, established in his own person and family, a government the most pompous and expensive, while the people are pining with hunger, and in rags; having, with the word Liberty, continually on his lips, erected a despotism the most oppressive, the most capricious, and the most cruel that the Almighty, in his wrath, ever suffered to exist; having by such means, obtained such an end, he feared, that while there remained upon the earth, and especially within a few leagues of France, a people enjoying, under a mild and legitimate Sovereign, all the blessings of freedom; while there remained such a people, so situated, he dreaded, and not without reason, that their sentiments and their example would, by degrees, penetrate through his forest of bayonets, his myriads of spies, and would, first or last, shake the foundation of his ill-gotten power. He could not, indeed, impute either to our Sovereign or to his subjects, any design, much less any attempt, to disturb him in the exercise of his usurped authority. We never have interfered, nor have we ever shown any desire to interfere in the concerns of the Consul or his Republic; and his majesty, even after all the acts of provocation, all the injuries and insult committed against himself and his people, has now solemnly renewed his declaration, that his object
is not to destroy or change any thing in the internal state of other countries, but solely to preserve, in his own dominions, every thing dear to himself and his subjects.
This however, is not sufficient to satisfy the Consul of France; it is not sufficient that we abstain, both by actions and by words, from exciting discontent amongst those who have the misfortune to be subjects to his sway; we must not afford them an example, we must not remain free, unless they should learn lessons of Freedom; we must destroy our ancient and venerable monarchy, lest they should sigh for a lawful and merciful king; we must not be happy, lest they should covet happiness; we must not speak, lest our voice should disturb the peace of Bonaparte; we must not breathe, we must cease to exist, because our existence gives umbrage to a man, who, from the walls of Acre, fled, in shame and disgrace, before a handful of Britons.
Such being the grounds of the war, such the wishes and designs, such, the preposterous and insolent pretensions of the enemy, it next behoves us to consider, what will be the consequence to ourselves, what will be our wretched lot, if that enemy should succeed in the invasion and subjugation of our country. Of what the French would, in such case, do here, we may form some judgment, from what they have done in all those countries, where the remissness of the government together with the pusillanimity of the people, have given them the predominance. There is no country, into which they have been able to enter, where their footsteps have not been marked with blood; where they have spared either high or low, rich or poor, sex or age; where terror has not been their forerunner, and where desolation and misery have not marched in their rear. In the long and black catalogue of French cruelties towards the people of other countries, those of the First Consul, and of the generals and soldiers immediately under his command, first present themselves to our attention. In 1796, Bonaparte, at the head of a numerous French army, invaded Italy, declaring to the people, that he came as their friend and their brother, to deliver them from taxes and slavery, and promising them safety for their persons, security for their property, respect for their laws, and reverence for their religion. They listened, they believed; they threw open their gates, they laid down their arms, they received the Gallic serpent to their bosom, and fatal indeed were the effects of their credulity! His reverence for their religion he displayed by giving up all their places of worship to indiscriminate plunder and by desiling them with every species of sacrilege; his respect for their laws was evinced, not only by the abrogation of those laws, but by the arbitrary enforcement of an unconditional submission to the mandates of himself and his generals; the security which he promised to their property was exhibited in enormous contributions, in the seizure of all the public funds, as well as those of every charitable foundation, not excepting schools, hospitals, or any other resource for the support of the poor, the aged, and the helpless; and as to the persons of the unfortunate people, he provided for their safety by laying the whole country under the severest military execution, by giving up the towns and villages to fire and sword, and by exposing the inhabitants to be pillaged and murdered by his rapacious and inhuman soldiers, whom he authorized and even ordered to shoot every man that attempted to resist them, whatever might be the crimes in which they were engaged.
On his return from Italy, which he left in a state of beggary and irretrievable ruin, he prepared for the invasion of Egypt, a country which was at peace with France, and against the people, or the government of which, France had no cause of complaint; but the conquest of this country was necessary in order to open a road to the Indian possessions of Great-Britain.—In pursuit of this object, Bonaparte invaded Egypt, where he repeated his promises to respect religion, property, and persons, and where, the more effectually to disguise his purposes, he issued a proclamation, declaring himself and his army to be true Mahometans; and boasting of having made way upon the christians, and destroyed their religion. One of his full deeds after this act of apostasy, was to massacre almost all the inhabitants of the populous city of Alexandria. "The people," says one of his generals, "be take themselves to their prophet, and fill their mosques; but men and women, old and young, and even babes at the
breast, ALL are massacred!" Some time after this sanguinary transaction, Bonaparte, having made prisoners of three thousand eight hundred Turks, in the fortress of Jaffa, and wishing to relieve himself from the trouble and expense of guarding and supporting them, ordered them to be marched to an open place, where part of his army fired on them with musketry and grape shot, slaying and cutting to death the few who escaped the fire, while he himself looked on, and rejoiced at the horrid scene. Nor were his cruelties while in Egypt, confined to those whom he called his enemies; for finding his hospitals at Jaffa crowded with sick soldiers, and desiring to disencumber himself of them, he ordered one of his physicians to destroy them by poison. The physician refused to obey; but an apothecary was found, willing to perpetrate the deed; opium was mixed with the food; and thus, five hundred and eighty Frenchmen perished by the order of the general, under whose flag they had fought; by the order of that very man, to whose despotic sway, the whole French nation now patiently submits! Let them so submit, but let us not think of such shameful, such degrading submission. Let us recollect, that this impious and ferocious invader was stopped in his career of rapine and blood, by a mere handful of Britons; and was finally induced to desert his troops, and to flee from the land he had invaded, at the approach of that gallant British army, by which Egypt was delivered from the most odious and most destructive of all its plagues. This it is for us to recollect; and to recollect, shame and disgrace upon our heads, if we do not resist, if we do not overcome, if we do not chastise this rapacious, this bloody minded tyrant, who has now marked out our country for subjugation, our fields for desolation, our houses for pillage; and who in the insolence of his ambition, has held us forth to the world, as a meek, a feeble, and cowardly race, destined to grace his triumphal car, and to augment the number of his slaves.
Not, however, to the deeds of Bonaparte alone, must our recollection be confined. Not only Egypt and Italy, but Holland, Switzerland, and Germany, and, indeed, almost every country in Europe have been the scenes of French rapine, insult, and cruelty. Holland, formerly the seat of freedom, commerce, industry, and affluence, pretends at this moment, the sad spectacle of a country divided against itself, torn to pieces by factions, contending, not for the suffrages of the people, but for the favour of France; a country governed by the haughty mandates of a foreign power; awed by foreign arms; holding the remains of its wealth, together with the residue of its military and naval means, in constant readiness to be disposed of in the service of another nation, and that nation its ancient and implacable enemy, and in its inexorable oppressor.—When the French armies entered the territories of Holland, their motto was, "War to the palace, but peace to the cottage." They came to deliver the people from their rulers, and from the burthens which those rulers imposed. The Dutch, like the Italians, lent an ear to these artful and perfidious declarations, believing that their cottages would be spared, and careless of the fate of the palace. But, Alas! they soon found, that French rapacity, like the hail and the thunder, fell alike on the thatched roof, and the gilded dome. The palaces once seized on, the cottages soon followed; while all those who were found in the intermediate space, the merchant, the manufacturer, the farmer, and the tradesman, were sunk in one common ruin; happy, if, by the loss of their property, they had the good fortune to preserve their lives. Bonaparte is, indeed, now, not only the Sovereign of the country, not only does he exercise the powers of dominion, but he is, as to every practical effect, the master and the owner of all the property, and of all the people in Holland. These miserable beings possess nothing of their own; they can acquire nothing with the hope of enjoying, or bequeathing it; they can make no provision for the weakness of disease, the feebleness of old age, or the helplessness of infancy; they are the mere drudges of a hard-hearted tyrant, who suffers them to live, only while their labours administer to his projects of ambition, and who, when his purposes demand it, puts an end at once to their toils and their existence.
In Switzerland, where high rank and great riches were unknown, where men were nearer upon an equality than in any other country, in the world; in a country having no commerce, scarcely

any manufactures, and possessing few of the sources of wealth and distinction; a country of shepherds and laborers; a country which might be truly said to contain a nation of poor men; in such a country to cry "War to palaces" seemed idle and absurd. Yet did the French find a pretext for war with this poor and harmless race, and for invading and laying waste their territory. The Swiss, from their anxiety to preserve peace, consented to every sacrifice demanded of them by France, they exposed themselves to the hostility of other nations by finding away the ambassadors of those nations; they broke off their connection with some of their most powerful allies; they banished the loyal subjects of their ancient protector the king of France, men whom the ties of gratitude and the laws of hospitality bound them to cherish; and when they had thus exhausted the source of conciliation, when they could grant no more, because France could find nothing more to demand; when they had humbled themselves in the dust, and degraded the character of their country in the eyes of all Europe; when they had thus done and suffered, rather than let their country the scene of war, then did the French invade their territory; then did these selfish disturbers of the world march an army into the heart of Switzerland, in order to compel the people to change the nature and the form of their government, and to commit it to the hands of traitors, who had been chosen by France, and by the assistance of whose treachery the French invasion had been effected.
After having by means of an armistice, joined to the most solemn promise or respect for persons and property, lulled the people into a state of imaginary security, the armistice was broken, & the French pushed on their forces, when those of the Swiss were dispersed. Resistance on the part of the latter, whose numbers did not amount to a tenth of those of their flagitious enemy, now became hopeless: and though the little army was brave, though the people were faithful and active, though the last battle was long, obstinate, and bloody; though the Swiss achieved wonders, & though the women fought by the sides of their husbands, inciting them to victory or death, all was in vain; hundreds and thousands perished by the labors of the French, and while the earth was strewed with their dead bodies, and while the flames ascended from the once happy dwellings of this valiant and innocent people, the hard earned and long preserved liberties of Switzerland expired.
Germany, which clides this awful lesson, was invaded by the French in 1796, and 1798. These invasions were attended with crimes too atrocious to be recited, were they not proved by indubitable evidence, and did they not accord with the general practice of the inhuman wretches by whom they were committed. In adverting to these detestable acts of oppression and cruelty, we must recollect, that they were perpetrated upon a people, who had made no resistance of any sort against the invaders, and who in every instance had entered into an agreement with the French generals, to pay them great sums of money, in order to preserve their country from plunder. In consequence of the ransom thus wrung from the people, the invaders declared, by public proclamation, that the persons and property of the inhabitants should be strictly respected; and that their rights, usages, laws, and religion should remain inviolate and undisturbed. On these assurances, thus solemnly made, the credulous people all implicitly relied, while some of the poorer classes regarded the French, not as enemies, but as their deliverers from taxes and labour. No sooner, however, had the invasion taken place, no sooner had the French become masters of the country, than they spread themselves over it like beaks of prey, devouring and destroying every thing before them. They spared neither cities, nor towns, nor villages nor hamlets, nor solitary houses; from the church to the cell, from the castle to the cottage; no state of life, however lofty or however humble, escaped their rapacious assaults; no sanctity excited their veneration; no grandeur their respect; no misery their forbearance or their pity. After having plundered the houses of the gentry, the clergy, and the tradesmen; after having pillaged the shops, warehouses, and manufactories, they proceeded to the farm houses, and cottages; they rifled the pockets and chests of the inhabitants, cut open their beds, tore up the floors of their rooms, dug up their cellars, searched the newly made graves, and broke open the coffins in houses of finding secreted treasure. They sometimes threatened people with immediate death, sometimes put them to the torture, sometimes lacerated and crippled them, in order to wring from them a discovery of their little pittance of ready money. The deepest and most apparent poverty was no protection against their rapacity; grey hairs and liping infancy; the sick, the dying, women in child-bed, were alike exposed to the most barbarous treatment; dragged from their beds, kicked, wounded, and frequently killed, under pretence that they were the keepers of concealed wealth. The
teams and flocks, cattle of every kind, the marauders drove off, cut to pieces on the spot, or left in a state of mutilation; corn, hay, and straw, they wasted or burnt; they demolished the household furniture, destroyed the utensils of the dairies, the barns, and the stables; tore down the gates, levelled the fences. In many places they stripped the clothes from the backs of the people, set their liquor flowing in the cellars, burnt their provisions to ashes. The churches, whether Romish or Protestant, they rendered a scene of indiscriminate robbery, of sacrilege and blasphemy, too shocking to describe. Towards women of all ages and all conditions, they were guilty of brutality never before heard of: Neither extreme youth nor extreme age; neither weakness nor deformity; nor the most loathsome disease; neither the pangs of labor, nor the agonies of death could restrain them; cries, tears, supplications were of no avail; and where fathers, husbands, or brothers interfered, murder seldom failed to close the horrible scene. To spread nakedness and hunger, to introduce misery and disease among all ranks, seem to have been their uniform desire; but the lower orders of the people, the artisans and the labourers, were the objects of their direct malignity; against them was directed the sharpened bayonets; for their bodies the choicest torment, for their minds the keenest anguish was reserved; from one end of the country to the other, we trace the merchants suffocated through a scene of conflagration and blood; frequently we see them butchering whole families, and retiring by the light of their blazing habitations; but amongst the poor alone, do we find them deferring the murder of the parents for the purpose of compelling them to hear their children shriek amidst the flames!
Such are the barbarities which have been inflicted on other nations. The recollection of them will never be effaced; the melancholy story will be handed down from generation to generation, to the everlasting infamy of the republicans of France & as an awful warning to all those nations whom they may hereafter attempt to invade. We are one of those nations; we are the people whom they are now preparing to invade: awful, indeed, is the warning, and it will be despised, if, tremendous will be the judgment. The same generals, the same commanders, the same officers, the same soldiers, the very same rapacious and sanguinary host, that now hold Holland and Switzerland in chains, that desolated Egypt, Italy and Germany, are, at this moment, preparing to make England, Ireland, and Scotland, the scenes of their atrocities. For some time past, they have had little opportunity to plunder: Peace for a while, suspended their devastations, and now, like gaunt and hungry wolves, they are looking towards the rich pastures of Britain: Already we hear their threatening howl; and if, like sheep, we stand bleating for mercy, neither our innocence nor our timidity will save us from being torn to pieces and devoured. The robberies, the brutalities they have committed in other countries, though, at the thought of them, the heart sinks and the blood runs cold, will be mere trifles to what they will commit here, if we suffer them to triumph over us. The Swiss and the Suabians were never objects of their envy; they were never the rivals of Frenchmen, either on the land or on the sea; they had never discontented or checked their ambitious projects, never humbled their pride, never defeated either their armies or their fleets: We have been, and we have done all this. They have long entertained against us a hatred engendered by the mixture of envy and of fear, and they are now about to make a great and deliberate effort to gratify this furious, this unquenchable, this deadly hatred. What, then, can we expect at their hands? What but torments, even surpassing those which they have inflicted on other nations. They remained but three months in Germany; here they would remain forever; there, their extortions and their atrocities were, for want of time, confined to a part of the people; here they would be universal: No sort, no part, no particle of property would remain unseized; no man, woman or child would escape violence of some kind or other. Such of our manufactories as are moveable, they would transport to France, together with the most ingenious of the manufacturers, whose wives and children would be left to starve. Our ships would follow the same course, with all the commerce and commercial means of the kingdom. Having stripped us of every thing, even to the flouret of our sons, and the most beautiful of our daughters, over all that remained they would establish and exercise a tyranny, such as the world never before witnessed. All the estates, all the farms, all the mines, all the land and the houses, all the shops and magazines, all the remaining manufactories, and the workshops, of every kind & description, from the greatest to the smallest; all these they would bring over Frenchmen to possess; making us their servants and their labourers. To prevent us from uniting and rising against them, they would crowd every town and village with their brutal soldiers, who would devour all the
best part of the produce of the earth leaving us not half a sufficiency of bread. They would besides, introduce their own bloody laws, with additional favorites. They would divide us into separate classes; hem us up in districts; cut off all communication between friends and relations, parents and children, which latter they would breed up in their blasphemous principles; they would affix badges upon us, mark us in the cheek, slave our heads split our ears, or clothe us in the habit of slaves!—And shall we submit to misery and degradation like this, rather than encounter the expenses of war; rather than meet the honorable dangers of military combat; rather than make a generous use of the means which Providence has so bountifully placed in our hands; The sun, in his whole course around the globe, shines not on a spot so blessed as this great, and now united Kingdom: gay and productive fields and gardens, lofty and extensive woods, innumerable flocks and herds, rich and inexhaustible mines, a mild and wholesome climate, giving health, activity, and vigour to fourteen millions of people: and shall we, who are thus favoured and endowed; shall we, who are abundantly supplied with iron and steel, powder and lead; shall we, who have a fleet superior to the maritime force of all the world, and who are able to bring two millions of fighting men into the field; shall we yield up this dear and happy land, together with all the liberties and honours, to preserve which our fathers so often dyed the land and the sea with their blood; shall we, thus at once dishonour their graves, and stamp disgrace and infamy on the brows of our children; and shall we, too, make this bale and distasteful surrender to an enemy, whom within three twelve years, our countrymen have defeated in every quarter of the world? No; we are not so miserably fallen; we cannot, in so short a space of time have become so detestably degenerated: We have the strength and the will to repel the hostility, to chastise the influence of the foe. Mighty indeed must be our efforts, but mighty also is the need. Singly engaged against the tyrants of the earth, Britain now attracts the eyes and the hearts of mankind; groaning nations look to her for deliverance; justice, liberty, and religion are inscribed on her banners; her success will be hailed with the shouts of the universe, while tears of admiration and gratitude will bedew the heads of her sons who fall in the glorious contest.
S. CLARK, HAS just opened in the City of Washington, an extensive assortment of shoes, viz. Ladies elegant white satin and white colored fashionable kid with and without heels—handsome Spanish kid slippers—Black, red, plush, yellow, red, blue and green Morocco of good quality, with and without heels—beck plain and variegated English kid do. with fashionable ornaments—leather and buff slippers, with and without heels—ladies good black Morocco boots, well made—misses kid slippers, Morocco do. black, blue green, red and yellow—Misses leather slippers—black Morocco pumps large sizes—leather do. from 12 to 6 inches long, very neat—Brunswick slippers, handsome—children's red and blue Morocco and leather pumps—men's fashionable and coarse shoes from 2 dollars to 1 dollar—About 80 pair smaller size of coarse shoes, 56 cents—boys fine and coarse shoes afforded. All sizes of trunks. Also, nankeens, blue and white silk stockings, cotton do. a few umbrellas, a few pieces of furniture, Spanish Segars, &c. The whole of the above will be bartered or sold low by wholesale or retail for cash.
JOHN WILSON, Pennsylvania Avenue. September 28.
S. Clark is in daily expectation of more shoes of every description, and purposes continuing his stock of shoes in Alexandria.
Treasury of the United States,
Washington August 15, 1803.
WHEREAS by an act of Congress dated May the 8th, 1792, entitled "An act to provide for a Copper Coinage," in the second section thereof, it is enacted,
"That after the expiration of six calendar months from the time when there shall have been paid into the Treasury by the said Director (of the Mint) in cents and half cents, a sum not less than fifty thousand Dollars, which time shall forthwith be announced by the Treasurer in at least two gazettes or newspapers, published at the seat of government of the United States for the time being, no copper coins or pieces whatsoever, except the said cents and half cents, shall pass current as money, or shall be paid or offered to be paid or received in payment for any debt, demand, claim, matter or thing whatsoever; and all, copper coins or pieces, except the said cents and half cents, which shall be paid or offered to be paid or received in payment contrary to the prohibition aforesaid, shall be forfeited, and every person by whom any of them shall have been so paid or offered to be paid or received in payment, shall also forfeit the sum of ten dollars, and the said forfeiture and penalty shall and may be recovered with costs of suit for the benefit of any person or persons by whom information of the incurring thereof shall have been given."
And whereas it appears by the books of this office, that more than fifty thousand dollars in cents and half cents have been so paid into the Treasury. I now therefore, in obedience to the said act, do hereby give public notice of the same.
T. T. TUCKER, Treasurer United States. August 15. tawzm
WASHINGTON CITY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30.
MALIGNANT FEVER.
The board of health of Alexandria , report two deaths for the 24 hours preceding 10 o'clock on the 28th inst.
The board of health of Philadelphia , report 3 new cases, and 27 deaths, for the 48 hours preceding the 26th inst.
The board of health of New-York , report 39 new cases, and 21 deaths for the 48 hours preceding the 25th inst.
Deaths & Cases. —The whole number of cases of fever reported by the board of health of New-York, from the commencement of the epidemic to the evening of Saturday, September 24th, including those sent to Bellevue and the marine hospital, is 939. The whole number of deaths to the same period, also including those at Bellevue and the marine hospital, is 386.
The Star of the 10th of August mentions information from Italy, stating that the French were raising an army of 80,000 men in that country, which it was supposed was intended for the reconquest of Egypt.
From Cape Francois. —Capt. Hamilton, of the brig Gayoso, arrived at Quarantine in 22 days from Cape Francois, informs that the Black General Dillalines was making preparations for attacking the Cape in 4 or 5 days after he failed, and Gen. Rochambeau was adopting the strongest defensive measures. The French troops and inhabitants from Jeremie had arrived at the Cape, having entirely evacuated that place to the brigands.—The British blockading squadron off the Cape permitted the troops to enter the harbor without molestation. The most distressing accounts were received from Port Republican, the inhabitants were entirely destitute of provisions, and closely hemmed in by the blacks, into whose hands they must shortly fall, and become a sacrifice to their vengeance, if they did not speedily abandon the place.—The troops from thence were daily looked for at the Cape. Provisions were very high, particularly flour, which was retailing at 45 and 50 dollars per barrel.
Capt. Newton , of the English armed sloop Admiral Duncan, from New Providence, informs that the Spanish ships recently detained by the British cruisers, and sent in there, have been released.—It was understood that a judge had been appointed by the British Government, who was shortly expected from England, when a court of Vice-Admiralty would be established at New-Providence.
The following is a statement of the Imports of Great Britain, for 60 years, divided into two parts:
Imports from 1742 to 1771, both inclusive—a period of 30 years.
Imports 274,527,004
Exports 416,396,843
Gained by England, 141,869,839
For the next 30 years, from 1772 to 1801, both inclusive.
Imports 547,995,871
Exports 633,234
Gained by England, 85,238,548 less than the first 30 years, by
56,631,291 altho' the returns 1-3 more.
PORTLAND, September 19.
On Thursday last Captain Nathaniel Jones of the brig General Warren, of this port, arrived from Cuba, after a passage of 37 days. Soon after leaving the port the captain, who was in the cabin, was informed that there was a vessel to the windward. Captain Jones came immediately upon the deck, and supposing that the vessel might be in chase, hove his main top sail to the mast and kept under gentle way. The unknown pursuer, which proved to be a British armed brig of 16 guns, when first discovered, was about two miles distant, soon came up with captain Jones and fired a musket—whereupon he settled his topgallant sails & hove his vessel dead in the wind. Her boat was then sent alongside, and the men immediately boarded the General Warren, seized the captain with violence, tearing his clothes from his back, forced him into the boat and carried him on board the British vessel. The English captain then accused him in the following language—"You damn'd rascal why did you not heave too when you saw his majesty's colours?" Sir, said captain Jones, I saw no colours, they must have been hidden by your sails. "But you damn'd scoundrel, did you not hear the gun?" Yes Sir, said immediately hove to. "You vile, you damn'd rascal, fall upon your knees in a moment and ask my pardon." I am in a merchant vessel of a neutral nation, said captain Jones, am on the high seas, am not conscious of having offended, for what then should I ask pardon? "God damn you, fall upon your knees in an instant or you shall receive a dozen," was the answer. Capt Jones
replied that he might do as he pleased—"Take this fellow, said the Englishman, to the gangway and give him a dose."
Captain Jones was accordingly dragged to the gangway and there beaten as directed by the commander of his majesty's armed brig, until at length, he felt himself obliged to bow the knee, and lay whatever his Britannic majesty's captain pleased to dictate. After many insults, added to stripes, he was returned on board his own vessel. The captain's little brother, a lad of about twelve years of age, was then forcibly taken from him. On this occasion the most tender expostulations were used, till at length, captain Jones's mate, Mr. Emerfon, (and it is with pleasure we mention his name) offered himself instead of the lad. This was refused with the most abusive language. However the lad was at last given up, and captain Jones permitted to proceed on his voyage, after taking two of his people from him. He was informed, by those who boarded him that the name of the English brig was "The Hunter," but on leaving her he observed on her stern, "The Diana, of Venice" (or Nevis.) She mounted 16 guns, and the sailing master said his name was W. W. Bulh.
TORBAY, August 7.
The Venus cutter, lieutenant Delafous, is just come in from the wellward, with intelligence of some importance. On the 4th instant, being about 16 leagues to the south-west of the Lizard, she boarded a Danish galliot, which informed her that the day preceding she was chased and boarded by a French national sloop of war, of 16 guns, full of troops, which, on finding that she was a Dane, and not bound to any English port, let her go, and the herself stood after two very large French frigates with which she was in company when she began to chase. By the course that the frigates were steering, the Captain of the Dane said, that he had no doubt they were bound to Ireland. He was very particular in describing the uniforms and helmets of the troops on board the sloop of war, which proved that she was not an English sloop chasing under French colors. In fact, she chased under English colors, and hauled them down when she came within hail of the Dane. These and other particulars were communicated to Sir John Colpoys, the commanding officer at Plymouth, who, on receiving the intelligence, immediately dispatched a cutter to Lord Cornwallis, cruising off Brest, and another to Lord Gardner at Cork. As the frigates were very large, and might be armed in flute, it is supposed this little squadron could contain twelve or fifteen hundred men, a force, indeed, of little consequence to England, but, if landed at this important juncture, capable of doing a great deal of mischief in Ireland. It is also probable, that there may be several such squadrons bound to that country, to land where they can, and then act in concert with the rebels on some preconceived plan.
Dover, August 9.
This morning between three and four o'clock we were awakened with a heavy and continued firing, which continued until about seven o'clock, and seemed to be in the direction of Boulogne; the firing was renewed about 11 and continued until about 1 P. M. a sloop of war and cutter were discerned from the hills, and 8 or 10 sail within them; no certain accounts are yet come, but it is supposed that some of our cruisers were chasing a privateer, and had got within gun shot of the batteries.
Half past five. —A sailor just landed, says the firing was between some gun-boats and French gun-boats in Whitland bay, and that our vessels were waiting the flood tide to renew the attack; we are not certain whether the gun-boats have troops in or not; however, we are all ready to receive them, and expect more certain intelligence every hour; it has been nearly calm all day.
Liverpool, August 12.
We do not find the anxiety which has long hung over the public mind, arising from its ignorance of the line of conduct which the northern powers will pursue, in the present contest between Great Britain and France, to be in the smallest degree diminished. Great uneasiness is felt respecting our Baltic fleet now detained at Elsinore, by contrary winds.
NOTICE.
THE Council of Washington having passed a law requiring a new assessment to be made this year, on all real and personal property in the city and also an enumeration of the inhabitants thereof. The subscribers earnestly requests the inhabitants in their leisure time to make out correct lists of their property, and also the number of persons in their respective families designating their age and sex as follows—wants males from 1 to 15 years old, from 16 to 18, from 18 to 30, from 30 to 45, from 45 to 60 and upwards of 60, with their profession or occupation. White females in like manner, and slaves males and females in like manner. From the the little time and trouble required to comply with this request it is hoped it will be promptly attended to. The lists may be left at their dwellings or if convenient at the office of the subscriber. WASHINGTON BOYD, Treasurer of Washington City. September 30. ep3w

TO the Voters of St. Mary's County.
FELLOW CITIZENS,
In the exercise of a privilege so valuable as that of nominating persons competent to perform the important duties of a representative, the integrity and ability of the respective candidates are the most weighty considerations which should direct you in your choice. No one will attempt to deny that the operation of political animosity has frequently substituted the illiterate and ignoble, for the virtuous and wise, in places of power and trust; but it must be equally certain that such instances are both shameful and prejudicial. Where no other consideration, but that of an attachment to a particular party, is sufficient to procure or deprive a candidate of the favor of a vote; you must seldom expect to be represented by persons, either honorable or useful to their constituents. If, there be a man eminent for his abilities, or conspicuous for his integrity, who is found willing to take a part in the honor, and arduous task of administration, to such a character ought your patronage to be extended. The man of probity will never intentionally violate a trust the most solemn; and the man of science is the better enabled to foresee any encroachments upon the liberties of those, whose interest it is his duty to protect. Where there has an uniform adherence to the measures of a political sect, ever existed, it would appear reasonable to suppose that such proceeding had at least their foundation in justice. But, fellow citizens, in the factions which have threatened to convulse the basis of our government, and burst asunder those bands of union, which are the envy and admiration of the world; you have hitherto sided, with one, the principles of which, are least calculated to protect you. The application of republican has been, with you, a term too infamous, whereby to designate the man of merit; and the friends of the opposition have needed no other recommendation but an acknowledgment of an attachment to the much beloved tenets of federalism. By a preference so decided, you must really believe the existence of a radical difference between the motives of the contending parties. You, no doubt, suppose that that which you attempt to support, has in view the liberty, prosperity, and happiness of society; while you imagine, the direct tendency of the party which you oppose, to be, the introduction of anarchy, and the subversion of all peace, harmony, and good government. How far your opinion of the merits of the one, and injurious consequences of the other, can be said to be just, experience hath sufficiently shown. Yes, fellow citizens, there is a difference in the motives and principles of the existing parties; but the measures of the one which you continue to patronize, by no means merit the preference. Numerous are the acts which may be added to the catalogue of federal enormities, and many the crimes, which must heap unceasing reproaches upon their memory. Arguments of expediency have been given as an apology for every violation of duty; and the veil of hypocrisy assumed for the purpose of concealing those intentions, which had well nigh terminated in the fall of American greatness. The imposition of taxes, oppressive and unnecessary, the enacting of laws, tyrannical and unjust, and the violations of the constitution, alarming and unprecedented, were the leading features which characterized the Adams administration. Standing armies have been raised, under the pretext of repelling foreign invasion, when there was nothing more remote from probability, than the supposition that their assistance would ever be needed; and immense treasures exhausted to defray the expenses of this hair-brained project. The fruits of honest industry have been wrested from the hands of the needy labourer, in time of peace; and the subsistence of wretched families diminished to supply those demands, which the exigencies of government never required. They advanced with rapid strides towards the summit of usurpation: but in their arduous endeavors to erect the temple of despotism, they have furnished a lasting monument to their disgrace.
These were the meek ministers of justice, who had the boldness to declare, that words spoken in derogation of the majesty of Congress, or the President, should be an offence of so deep a dye, as to subject the unhappy transgressor to the penalty of a fine the most exorbitant, added to the accumulated horrors of loathsome imprisonment. Here justice, honor and humanity, were all combined to forbid the execution of a measure, at which every virtuous mind must shudder, and which, the hardened heart of the most relentless tyrant, assuaged by the apprehension of human misery, must have yielded to the faint dictates of a rational impulse, and declared to be improper. But no dread of detection could deter, no principle of humanity could influence the attempts of those political apostates. In vain did the sacred letter of the constitution stand as a shield of protection; the envenomed darts of ambition, transfixed the stout substance of
the Buckler, deeply wounded the vitals of our liberty. In the general search for authority, every sense of duty was lost; and in the plenitude of exultation they exclaim to the people "This is our pleasure, and we will be obeyed. Know, therefore, that you shall no longer murmur at oppression; nor shall you speak the sentiments of your breast, when your natural privileges are invaded." The continuance of the unfortunate alien, (who flying from the oppression of his native clime, hopes to find a place of security in this land, so famed for the enjoyment of liberty,) has been ordered to depend entirely upon the capricious whim of the President.
Thus deprived of an impartial hearing, and for an imaginary offence, the devoted victim of absolute power might be wafted from the conveniences of a temperate clime, to the rigorous atmosphere of some remote corner of the world; or confined in the dreary recesses of a dungeon, there by the prolonging of a wretched existence, to suffer the torments of a thousand deaths. An expensive judiciary system hath been created, with a view, rather permanently to provide for particular favorites, than with an intention to benefit the interest of the community.
Excises, stamp duties &c. followed in succession, and were levied without mercy, all tending to enrich the dependents upon government; and impoverish the mass of the people. These were the actions in which the federal administration delighted—such were the deeds for which they are applauded—these are the glorious achievements of which they triumphantly boast, sufficient to transmit their memory to the latest posterity. In this conjecture they cannot be mistaken. 'Tis impossible they should ever be forgotten. Yes. The magnitude of their crimes must preserve their perishable names, and make them immortal. Thus before the reign of terror ceased, and patriots of experience and integrity, were directed to take charge of the government. The people of the United States were reduced to a situation the most lamentable and distressing. The people taxed almost beyond their ability to pay, yet the national debt, daily increasing; the country swarming with herds of officers, yet the people in want of substantial justice; the state of affairs laid to be in a prosperous condition, while the people were destitute of the inestimable privileges of freemen. The full acts of a vile and equitable administration were to loosen those fetters and remove those burthens, under which citizens of every class so heavily groaned. Accordingly the obnoxious and oppressive alien and sedition laws were repealed: The judiciary system, which was entirely calculated to perpetuate the declining influence, of an expiring faction, has been abolished. The national debt is rapidly decreasing, and the whole operation of government, promises a lasting continuance of peace, liberty and happiness.
I very well know, fellow citizens, that endeavors have been made to impress you with a belief of the dishonest motives of the republican party; and that you have been led to view it in the hideous form of a destructive hydra, ready to taint with its baneful influence the youthful flame of American liberty. Mr. Jefferson has been decried as an enemy of morality, censured as the friend of truth; and represented as an insolent scoff of the agonizing sufferings of the Prince of Peace. From his election you feared the introduction of anarchy; yet energy still continues—you dreaded the consequences of deism and immorality; yet virtuous excellence subsists, and the benign power of revelation still extends its propitious blessings. The actions of the man, alone can discover the rectitude of his heart. If, fellow citizens you had rather give evidence to the malicious inuendos of prejudiced persons, than be convinced of their falsehood by daily example, you can never form a just opinion of the merits of the present administration; for it is represented by the friends of the opposition, devoid of integrity, honor or ability; but a single glance upon its measures clearly proves that there is no foundation for such a conclusion. Distrust the man who would insinuate that the government is defective and stands in need of the energy of the late administration to make it compact. By a comparison of the proceedings of each, you cannot be at a loss to know which is better entitled to your approbation—you cannot but perceive that the republicans have the interest of the people, and the honor of the nation in view; and that they have been exerting themselves in a cause at least equally meritorious with their competitors; setting aside former prejudices, the candid will, therefore, concerning the candidate will be, "Is he capable? Is he honest? Is he a friend to the constitution?"
JUVENIS.
NOTICE.
FOR Sale One hundred and fifty acres of land, One hundred acres of which is in wood—it is situated within six miles of the Eastern Branch ferry. For terms apply to MICHAEL LOWE, Prince George county, July 22.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Subscribers, either in arrears, or whose subscriptions soon become due, are respectfully requested to forward the sums due, should no earlier opportunity occur, by the representatives to Congress who will agree to undertake the agency. It will be understood that a year's payment in advance is always required; and that papers not paid for will be discontinued.
This notice is given to prevent the unpleasant necessity of discontinuing papers at the present interesting period, when a Session of Congress, of perhaps, unprecedented importance, is about commencing.
WAS committed to the jail of Baltimore county as a runaway, on the 15th inst. a negro woman who calls herself RACHEL MAY; she is about twenty-four years of age, five feet two inches high, dark complexion, much pock-fretted—she has on a blue spotted calico gown and striped gingham petticoat. She says she was raised by col. Ezekiel Ekes of Dorchester county, on the Eastern shore. If she is not released, the will be sold for her jail fees, according to law.
James Wilson, Sheriff. September 23.
LOST
Between George Town and the subscriber's shop—A small red leather POCKET BOOK, containing two notes of Bank of Columbia, of 20 dollars each, and a note of five Dollars, bank not known. The finder on delivering it to the subscriber will be generously rewarded.
CHARLES JONES, Pennsylvania Avenue. September 30.
(By Authority.)
AN ACT
Concerning Nuisances, and creating a Superintendent of Police.
BE it enacted by the first and second chambers of the City Council of Washington, That the Superintendant of Police, be vested in an Officer to be styled the Superintendant of Police, who shall perform the duties hereby required, and previous to the execution thereof, give security therefor, in the sum of five hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person shall make an excavation in the street, open areas, or public appropriations, and suffer the same to remain twenty-four hours, or shall remove any earth, sand, or gravel from, or otherwise injure the same, he shall pay five dollars for every offence, and where any such excavation, exists, the Superintendant shall give written notice thereof to the person causing the same, who on failure to fill the same, within ten days thereafter, shall pay ten dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That every possessor of a lot, whereon there shall during the months of June, July, August, or September, be an artificial excavation, containing stagnant water more than twenty-four hours, shall fill up or drain the same, under a penalty of ten dollars, to be incurred, in case of failing to do the same, after notice as aforesaid. The Superintendant of Police, may, at the expense of the city, cause to be filled up or drained any excavation, provided that the sum expended on the property of non-residents be chargeable to, and reimbursable, by them. And, in case of the failure of the possessor of a lot to fill up or drain any such excavation thereon, the duty shall devolve on the said Superintendant, who may expend thereon the amount of the penalty recoverable, and such part as he may see fit of the sum hereby appropriated: Provided that excavations be allowed for making bricks, under such regulations as the Superintendant may prescribe.
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That in case any area heretofore dug, or which may hereafter be dug in front of a dwelling house in the city, be not sufficiently fenced in, within three months after the house is finished or occupied, the person to whom it belongs, shall fill in, or put a sufficient fence round such area within thirty days after receiving notice thereof, under the penalty of twenty dollars; which notice shall be given by the Superintendant of Police. And in case the same be not done at the expiration of that period, it shall be done by the corporation at the expense of the owner of such house, which shall in the first place be defrayed by the corporation; Provided, that no greater expense be incurred than the amount of the penalty recoverable.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That all filth or other offensive substances or nuisances or obstructions, shall be removed by the person exposing or causing the same, who shall incur a penalty of one dollar for each offence, and on failing to remove which within twenty-four hours after notification in writing by the Superintendant, left at the residence of such person, if resident within the city, shall incur a further penalty of ten dollars for each offence.
Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That every person obstructing a bridge shall incur a penalty of one dollar, and on failing to
remove the obstruction within six hours after receiving notice thereof from the Superintendent, shall incur a further penalty of ten dollars.
Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That after the first day of November next, every driver of a carriage shall keep his carriage while driving the same, on the side of the street or bridge on his right hand in the pealing direction, under the penalty of one dollar for each offence.
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That after the first day of November next, all slaughter-houses, brick and lime kilns shall be licensed by the Superintendant of Police, who shall have full power to disallow or allow them, under such regulations as to the time, place, and manner of conducting them, as he may see fit; provided that if any person feel aggrieved by the decision of the Superintendent, he may appeal to the Mayor, whose determination shall be obligatory on the said Superintendent. And any person who shall without such licence erect or use a slaughter-house, brick or lime kiln, shall incur a penalty of one hundred dollars.
Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That in all cases of nuisances, or obstructions, whose removal is not otherwise provided for, they shall be removed by the Superintendant of Police, at an expense not exceeding the penalty recoverable from the persons causing the same.
Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Superintendant of Police, to visit every part of the city at least once a month, and any particular part thereof at any other time when required by a householder: and to give information to some magistrate of, and prosecute for, all breaches of this law, and of other existing laws.
Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That the Superintendant of Police shall receive two hundred dollars per annum, in addition to the forfeitures that may accrue to him as informer, which shall be one half of the penalties actually received in the cases where he may inform.
Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That the penalties directed as aforesaid to be applied to the several purposes of this act, be limited to the sums recoverable after deducting therefrom the part accruing to the informers.
Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That in the case of all informations of breaches of this act, one half of the penalties shall go to the informer.
Sec. 14. And be it enacted, That two hundred dollars be hereby appropriated for the salary of said Superintendant, and the further sum of two hundred dollars for the other purposes of this act; and the treasurer is hereby authorised to pay the drafts of the Superintendant, when countersigned by the Mayor, for all expenses incurred under this act, not exceeding the sum hereby appropriated.
JOHN P. VAN NESS, President of the first chamber of the city council of Washington. BENJN. MOORE, President pro tempore of the second chamber of the city council of Washington. Approved, September 20th, 1803. ROBERT BRENT, Mayor. Copy from the original deposited in my office, THOMAS HERTY, R.G. of the city of Washington.
LOOKING GLASS AND PRINT STORE.
S. THOMEE, takes the liberty of informing the ladies and gentlemen of George town and the City, that he has opened a store next door to Mr. Bowles in High street, opposite Mr. March's book store; where any orders will be executed with punctuality.
N.B. Looking glass and picture frames regit and needle work framed and gazed in a handsome manner. September 30.
A CARD
H. O. HEBERT (from Philadelphia) to lictis the attention of the citizens of Baltimore general, and invalids in particular, to his "Air Pump Vapour Bath," a machine constructed on true philosophical principles, the efficacy of which in gout, rheumatism, palsy, contractions and enlargements of the joints, withered and enlarged limbs, cutaneous and many other diseases, both chronic and acute, can be testified by many respectable persons who have had recourse to it.
This machine comprehends, and combines the application of fumigation and the cupping glass, two of the most powerful external applications for the removal of disease, and that on a plan more extensive than was ever before known.
As many persons who have never seen the apparatus might be deterred from using it, either from the reports of prejudiced persons, or fear, they are respectfully assured that its application is not attended with either pain or inconvenience. It possesses all the good effects of warm bathing, without its attendant consequences, debility and relaxation; on the contrary, it invigorates and strengthens the whole system, but particularly the part to which the machine is applied. Persons desirous of further information respecting the nature and effects of this machine, will please to apply to the proprietor, at No. 3, East street, near the assembly room.
N.B. "The Air Pump Vapour Bath" is particularly adapted for the removal of all obstructions occasioned by violent colds, which are the forerunners of consumptions, &c.
Complaints peculiarly incident to females, which too generally baffle the remedies hitherto applied, and to which they frequently fall victims in the prime of life, are readily and effectually removed by the application of this machine. May 21.
ORDINANCE
Of his Danish Majesty, defining what is to be observed by foreign vessels in regard to quarantine regulations.
HIS Majesty the King most graciously ordered by his mandate of the 12th of October last, that whenever any accounts are received of the existence of the yellow fever in the United States of America, or when no particular advice is received to the contrary from the minister resident there, all American vessels which are not provided with health certificates from the beginning of the month of July until the end of the year are to submit to certain quarantine regulations, and even if they are provided with such certificates, these vessels are still prohibited from communicating with the shore, before they have been visited by the appointed health physician, and if he has the least suspicion, then the vessel must be dealt with accordingly, in conformity to which, no American vessel during such a time shall be piloted, except having hoisted the green flag.
Which gracious command is hereby published for the regulation of all concerned. Given at the Danish Royal Chancery, on the 5th of November, 1802.
Extract of an ordinance concerning quarantine regulations, and rules, to be observed by navigators who touch at the ports or coasts of the royal Danish dominions, dated at Copenhagen, the 14th November, 1800.
1. Every vessel belonging to our dominions shall have a green flag on board, to be used as prescribed hereafter.
2. Whenever a vessel arrives from a place where there has been contagion, and in all other cases of suspicion, such as having been visited by any vessel from the Barbary coast, having bales of merchandise on board from suspected places, and having not undergone a quarantine since in any other place, or having had any violent sickness on board during the voyage, then the green flag shall be hoisted at the head of the mainmast, before any communication is had with any person whatever from the shore, and before anchor is cast.
3. The commander of any vessel offending against these orders, shall pay a fine of 500 rix dollars, (400 dollars) in no dangerous consequences ensue from his misconduct; but if other wise he shall be punished with 12 years labor in the fortification—and should any malicious intent be proved upon him, he shall labor in irons during his life. Any vessel having had communication with another vessel that is suspicious, shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions.
7. Should such a vessel be under the necessity of immediate communication with the shore, she must hoist her own national colors from the foretop, or under the green flag if she has no foremast.
8. After hoisting the color on the fore top, the signal for a pilot, the pilot shall immediately go on board, but not leave the ship board until the health physician has visited her—and for every day that the pilot is detained, he shall receive one rix dollar.
9. To prevent unnecessary delays to such vessels, as are arrived from places that might be suspected, (such as the Mediterranean or the West Indies) but still are secure and free from contagion, not having been at infectious places, nor having any infected merchandise on board, and not having had communication with a vessel which could be suspected, we do order that for such cases all pilot shall be provided with blanks as hereafter written, which the captain and mate of such vessel shall sign, viz.
Underwritten N. commander of the ship, N. arrived from N. and N. W. mate of the said vessel, declare to their certain knowledge that neither any of the ships crew, or any other person, or any merchandise or thing of whatever kind on board the said vessel is infected with contagion or dangerous disease; and the said vessel has not been visited by any cruizers from the African coast or the Levant, and had none dead or sick with an infectious fever during the voyage, to help us God and his holy word; and if this deposition be found false, we subject ourselves to the laws of the land.
10. Blanks of this deposition will be printed in different languages, for the use of foreign vessels that may be subject to the quarantine regulations. As foreign vessels may not always be provided with a green flag, the pilots are bound to have one continually in readiness to be hoisted in aforementioned cases. If the green flag has been used longer than for one day, the pilot shall receive two rix dollars for the same, but the vessel may then keep it.
Any vessel failing from the port of New York for his majesty's dominions from the 1st of July to the last of December, must be provided with (besides the usual bill of health) a certificate from the Danish vice-consul, Mr. Hammerstrom resident at No. 78, Pearl street where attendance will be given.
New York, July 29.
IT is ordered that Walter
Story Chandler, Trustee of the estate of Israel Loring, an insolvent debtor, sell at public auction and convey the property of the said debtor on the third Monday of October next for the best price that can be got for the same, for cash, as to all sums less than one hundred dollars, and a six months credit on bond with good security and interest from the day of sale, as to all sums amounting to, or above two hundred dollars. Giving notice by public advertisement in the Washington Federalist and National Intelligencer, once a week for four weeks previous to the day of sale. By order of William Cranch, esq. assistant judge of the circuit court of the district of Columbia.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is truly taken from the original filed and recorded in my office.
URIAN FORREST, Clk.
Agreeably to the above order, I shall offer at public sale on the premises, on Monday the 17th of October next, at 12 o'clock, part of two lots in the city of Washington, numbered 6 and 7, in sq. 78 the property of said Loring. On which is a good brick dwelling house a stone house and stable, all new and in good repair. This property will be sold at six months credit on bond with approved security; and the time made on payment of the purchase money.
W. S. CHNDLER, Trustee. Sept 23.

LOST CERTIFICATE.
NOTICE is hereby given that application is made at the Treasury of the United States, for a new certificate in the lieu of No. 14,307 for 3,856 Dollars, 85 Cents, of three per cent. stock, standing in the books of the Treasury U. S. in the name of Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland, which certificate was forwarded by the Lady Hobart, British packet in June last, and lost in the mail. JOHN COLES. New London, Sept. 14, 1803. 6w.
NOTICE.
The Subscriber at the request of a number of the Lumber merchants in the city of Washington, has taken upon himself the duties of a sworn measurer, takes the liberty of acquainting the public that he has taken the oath of qualification for the faithful performance of the above duties. WILSON BRYAN. September 26. 3t
MILITARY LANDS FOR SALE.
By virtue of a power delegated to his executors, by the last will and testament of John Rose, esq. deceased, late of the county of Westmoreland, we the subscribers, having taken upon ourselves the execution of his said will, and qualified thereto according to law, now offer for sale, the following tracts of land, viz. One tract of fifteen hundred acres, by patent, bearing date 7th of day of January, 1796, lying on Cumberland river, in the state of Kentucky. One of 1500 acres by patent, bearing date the 30th day of August, 1797, on the waters of Paint Creek, between the Miami and Scioto rivers. One of 1500 acres by patent, bearing date the 23th day of April, 1800, lying on the banks of the Scioto river. Two other small lots of one and two hundred acres, on the waters of Lees creek a branch of the Rattle Snake Fork of Paint creek. One other small tract, of 360 acres, in the same neighborhood—and lastly, One other tract of 1500 acres, surveyed and patented for Burgess Bell, lying, on a branch of Gaps river, adjoining the upper corner of George Washington's survey, and the Line having been sold and conveyed by the said Bell to the said Rose. Proposals for a purchase of the whole or any part of the said lands will be received verbally or by letter, addressed to any of the subscribers. The taxes on these lands have been regularly paid, and a clear and indisputable title will be made the purchaser, by HENRY ROSE, Alexandria, } Executors. WM. ROBINSON, Leesburg, LAU. BERRY, Port Royal, } September 26. 2m
25 Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber living in Gosh and county, on the 3rd Sept. 1803. A very likely negro man named SAM, who calls himself Samuel Commer—about 24 or 25 years old, of a yellowish complexion, low but stout made; one of his upper fore teeth cut, his dress chiefly of Virginia cloth with a plain durants shirt coat—he is very sensible, can read and write so as to be understood. The said Sam was taken up with a negro belonging to Mr. James, in Cumberland county, near Centreville, about 20 miles above Fredericksburg, and made his escape from the men. Sam had wore puffs for both of them, and as the negro that was brought home said they were coming for George Town, from where to Pennsylvania; he was at the whip saw and is a very good house servant—he will endeavor to pass for a free man—he is guilty of forgery—he signed the puffs, John Goodal, Henrico. I do desire all persons to endeavor to apprehend the said negro, as he may be very injurious to the country if not taken and punished for his behaviour. All reasonable expenses paid for delivering him to me at home, or the above reward for confining him in jail so that I get him again. EDWARD COX. September 23. ep3w
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.
FOR SALE.
THE Plantation on which I live, containing about 600 acres of valuable and good. The improvements are, an exceeding good dwelling house two stories high, 42 feet long, by 36 feet wide, with a passage through the middle, three rooms below, and four above stairs, with fire places in all but one, and a dry sweet cellar, the size of the house, in which is a capital vault with two rooms, and above is a fine airy pantry. A kitchen 36 by 18, two floors high, with a kitchen and laundry below, and lodging rooms for servants above. A washing house, meat house and dairy and in short every necessary improvement for the accommodation of a family, and a very fine collection of grafted and budded peach trees of the most approved kinds, chiefly from Princes nursery on Long Island, which are just beginning to bear. This property is situated in a healthy genteel neighborhood, about four miles from the city of Washington, five from Alexandria. Nearly one half is in wood and timber, and the residue arable and meadow land, of the latter, there are about 50 or 60 acres under the fyche and more may be easily laid down. Perhaps no tract of the same size, abounds more in fine springs, there being a never failing stream in every field, besides an abundant one which runs through the meadow and from which the greatest part of it may be watered. For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises. OVERTON CARR. September 18. cp4
BY AUTHORITY.
SCHEME OF A LOTTERY, To build a Catholic Cathedral Church in the City of Baltimore.
   Dollars.     1 prize of 20,000   1 ditto 10,000   2 do 5000 is 10,000   5 do 1000 5,000   10 do 500 5,000   15 do 200 3,000   200 do 100 20,000   200 do 50 10,000   200 do 25 5,000   250 do 20 5,000   400 do 15 6,000   1 first drawn ticket after 2000, having a blank to its number, 500   1 do after 4000 500   1 do after 6000 500   1 do after 8000 500   1 do after 10,000 500   1 do after 12,000 500   1 do after 15,000 500   1 do after 18,000 500   1 do after 20,000 2,000   1 last drawn ticket, which may have a blank to its number, 4,000   7152 Prizes, 13,856 Blanks—Not two to a prize. 210,000  
The laudable purpose of this lottery—the many very valuable prizes offered, and there not being two blanks to a prize, are considerations which give the managers reason to hope for a rapid sale of the tickets. The drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number of tickets shall be sold to authorize it; and thirty days after the completion of the drawing, the prizes will be paid to the fortunate adventurers; subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent. Such prizes as shall not be demanded within twelve months after the drawing is finished, shall be considered as relinquished for the benefit of the church. For the satisfaction of those at a distance, it may be necessary to mention, that the managers have given bond to the mayor and city council in the sum of 120,000 dollars, for the due payment of the prizes which may be drawn. Tickets to be had of the managers, or of such persons as may be appointed by them. Managers. Right Rev. Bishop Carroll, Rev. Francis Beccan, Messrs. David Williamson, Robert Wallis, Charles Ghequiere, Patrick Bennett, Arnold Liviers, Luke Tiernan, Francis L. Mitchell. cop4
July 13, 1803. The managers have lodged a number of tickets in the above lottery in the hands of Wm. Brent and James D. Barry for sale. CHARLES VARDEN, TAYLOR, From PHILADELPHIA. HAS received from Philadelphia an elegant assortment of the best quality Superfine Cloths, Cashmeres, Silk Florantine, Black and fancy silk mouselin velvet, white & figured Marcellas, Swandowns, Toilsnettes, Velveteens, Fancy cords, Coatings, &c. With a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season. M. R. Ladies Habits, Regimentals and Navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey Avenue, the second House from the Capitol Square. December 8, 1802.
I WILL sell five hundred and fifty acres of Land whereon I live, in Fairfax county, within five miles of the court house, and within twenty of the City of Washington, Alexandria, Dumfries, and twelve of the Occoquan mills, it is a healthy situation, the land fertile, and has about two hundred acres of wood to cut, there is a great proportion of white and red oak, popular and hickory timber—There is nearly one hundred acres of prime lead for meadow, I will give six months credit for one fourth of the purchase money—twelve months for the other quarter, eighteen for the third, and two years for the last payment, a purchaser will find me on the premises. THOS. FOLLARD. Feb. 21st. ep
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR HAS just received by recent arrival 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 & Cashmere's, Superior Navy Blue and other colours; handsome Navy & Fashionable Buttons, &c., Gentlemen of ARMY, NAVY and FASHION served with expedition and taste. New Jersey Avenue, seventh house from Capitol Square and Pennsylvania Avenue near the President's Square. April 13, 1803. tf
BISCUIT BAKE HOUSE, Near the Sugar-House New Jersey Avenue. THE subscriber has commenced the above business in all its various branches; where merchants or owners of vessels may be supplied on reasonable terms; also private families with the best of Crackers. PETER MILLER. Washington August 19. tf
All persons having claims or demands of any nature against the subscriber are requested to exhibit their accounts, without delay, to JOHN HEWIT or RICHARD FORREST, Esqrs. of the city of Washington, who are authorized, in my name, to adjust and settle the same; and all persons indebted to me are requested to make payment to either of the gentlemen above named. SAMUEL BLODGET. March 30. tf
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 c CLAN. Washington May 25. tf
RAPINE, CONRAD & Co.
NEW JERSEY AVENUE. Have just received the following
NEW BOOKS.
THE life of Lorenzo De' Medici, 3 vol. Denon's travels in Upper and Lower Egypt during the campaigns of gen. Bonaparte in that country, 2 vol. Willich's Domestic Encyclopedia; or Dictionary of arts and useful knowledge, vol. I. & II. for which the subscription is still open—the price will be enhanced to nonsubscribers. The Marriage Promise, a new comedy. Public characters, or contemporary biography, containing the memoirs of the most celebrated personages of this country and Europe. John Bull, or an Englishman's fire side, a new comedy. Sale of mystery—ditto. Friend of Women, translated from the French. Bosquet's Select Sermons, &c. &c. N. R. & C. & Co. Have always on hand, at moderate prices, writing letter and wrapping papers, quills, wafers, sealing-wax, ink power, ink and sand stands, pocket books, playing cards, parchment, blank and account books, copper plate copies, &c. &c.
FIRST LEGION.
ATTENTION! At a Legionary Court of Enquiry, held on the 13th day of March last, in obedience to a law passed at the last session of Congress, entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the organization of the Militia of the District of Columbia," ordered that the following be the Uniform to be worn by all non-commissioned officers and privates belonging to the battalion companies of the first Legion while on duty, viz. A DARK BLUE COAT of ordinary length, WHITE VEIT WHITE BREECHES and WHITE STOCKINGS, or WHITE PANTALOONS and WHITE STOCKINGS, or WHITE OVERALLS, with SHOES and ROUND BLACK HATS; which Uniform having been approved by the Brigadier General, is now published by order of the said court. WM. D. BEALL, Clerk of L. C. C. Sec. 27. And be it further enacted, That all non-commissioned officers and privates, belonging to battalion companies, shall appear while on duty, uniformly clothed, the color and fashion of which uniforms to be determined on for the respective legions, by the first legionary courts of enquiry which shall be held, and to be approved of by the Brigadier General; provided the expense of the same, additional to that of usual, ordinary, and camp clothing, does not exceed five dollars for each person, and every such non-commissioned officer, or drummer, or fifer, or private, appearing, at any muster held after three months from the time that such uniform shall have been determined on, and the order relative thereto shall have been published, in some newspaper within the legionary district and not wearing the same, shall be fined five dollars for each offence, unless he can make it appear to the satisfaction of the court of enquiry of the battalion to which he may belong, that he was unable to equip himself.
LOTTERY.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS THE PRIZE. GERMAN ROMAN CATHOLIC HOLT TRINITY CHURCH In the City of Philadelphia. 1 Prize of ten thousand dollars 10,000 1 six thousand 6,000 1 three thousand 3,000 1 two thousand 2,000 5 one thousand 5,000 10 five hundred 5,000 20 three hundred 6,000 20 two hundred 4,000 35 one hundred 3,500 90 fifty 4,500 100 twenty 2,000 6000 seven 42,000 6274 prizes, dolls. 90,000 11726 blanks, less than two to a prize. 18000 The prizes will be paid thirty days after the conclusion of the drawing, subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent. The first drawn numbers on the 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th, and 35th days of drawing, will be entitled to a prize of 500 dollars each. The first drawn numbers on the 40th, 45th, 50th, and 55th, will be entitled to a prize of 1000 dollars each. The first drawn number on the last day of drawing, when only 600 tickets shall be in the wheel, will be entitled to a prize of 6000 dollars. From the extraordinary demand for these tickets, from every part of the Union, it is expected that the drawing will commence at a much earlier day than was at first contemplated, and that the tickets will be raised considerably before that period. They may be had at SIX dollars of GEORGE TAYLOR, jun. No. 67, Chestnut Street. MATTHEW M c CONNEL, 82, } D. C.
Whole tickets 6 Quarter tickets, 1 75 Half, 3 25 Eighth, 95 Letters post paid, including the cash, shall be duly attended to, and St. Augustine and New York lottery prizes received in payment. July 20. epim
JUST PUBLISHED,
AND FOR SALE,
BY RAPINE, CONRAD & Co.
New Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol.
(Price 2 dolls. 25 cents in boards, or 2 dolls. 50 cents bound.)
History of the British Expedition to Egypt.
To which is subjoined, A sketch of that country and its means of defence. Illustrated with maps and a portrait of Sir Ralph Abercrombie.
By ROBERT T. WILSON, Lieutenant colonel of cavalry in his Britannic Majesty's service, & Knight of the Imperial military order of Maria Theresa.
September 23. tawf.
WASHINGTON
Jockey Club Races,
WILL commence on the second Tuesday in November next, over an excellent course, well prepared and enclosed with a post and rail fence. First day—A sweepstake of 1,600 dolls. Second day—A purse of 400 dolls.—4 mile heats. Third day—A purse of 200 dolls.—3 mile heats. Fourth day—A 50 guinea silver cup—10 horses. Fifth day—A handsome City and Town Purse—Two mile heats. All horses, mares and geldings, to be entered and run agreeably to the rules of the club, and to carry the following weight: An aged horse, 126—A six years old 120—a five years old 112—a four years old 100, and a three years old 90 pounds. Three pounds being allowed to fillies, mares and geldings. The following tolls to be paid at the gate to the clerk of the course, M. C. Bailey, or any person authorised by him to receive the same. Four wheel carriages, 1 Doll. each. Two wheel do. 50 Cents. do. Every man and horse, 25 Cents. Booths will be let on application to the subscriber. It is probable that the 2d & 3rd days purses will be increased—as the surplus of the tolls after defraying the expenses, &c. will be added to them. CH. M c LAUGHLIN, Sec. & Tr. The club will meet at the Union Tavern on the evening preceding the first day's race. September 14. ept
PATENT GUN LOCK.
The subscriber offers for sale the right of making and using Edward West's improvement in Gun Locks, which is considered by judges of the utmost importance to every person using fire arms, and more particularly to the army and militia of the United States. There are two very great advantages resulting from this improvement, the first is, that no accident can possibly happen by a gun going off at half cock as it has in that situation no connection with the dog, consequently not with the trigger or any other external part of the lock. It cannot possibly catch at half cock as there is no notch that the dog can catch on, and the counter dog is so placed in the act of cocking, as not to be reformed but by the cock first falling or being let down. The great security in this improvement ought certainly to recommend it to general use, to avoid the innumerable accidents that has and must unavoidably happen from the present plan, in guns going off at half cock, &c. Application made to Mr. Rhodes, city of Washington, will be communicated and attended to, where I shall attend at the sitting of Congress. THOMAS WEST. August 29. tawm
DANCING.
MR. NUGENT, heretofore a principal dancer at the Theatres of Philadelphia and Charleston, respectfully informs the public that he intends to teach the art of dancing in the city of Washington and George Town. He was regularly bred to that art in France, and has been assistant to Mr. Second the most eminent dancing master in the city of Paris. He is recommended by Mr. Francis, ballet master of the Philadelphia Theatre and dancing master, and by Mr. Queinet, dancing master in Philadelphia. He thinks it necessary to insist on his qualifications, from having been in various parts of these states men pretend to reach dancing who, he believes, never received a lesson from a dancing master. He will commence school in George Town, on Monday the 12th inst. at Mr. Ritchie's in High street, where further particulars may be known. Commands from the city of Washington directed to him at Mr. Ritchie's George Town, will be punctually attended to. Mr. Nugent wishes to hire a room convenient for a Dancing School, in the city of Washington. Sept. 9. 3t—taw4t
10 DOLLARS REWARD.
ESCAPED from Prince George County gaol, on the 21st inst. two
NEGRO MEN.
JACK committed as a runaway, a black fellow about twenty-two years of age, five feet five inches high, has a scar on his left cheek near his nose, and some grey hairs on his head, his clothing when committed, was an Osnabrig shirt and trowers, says he was sold not long since by Joseph Griffiths of Calvert county Maryland, to a person living in one of the southern states, from whence he made his escape.
PHILIP SULLIVAN a mulatto man, committed on suspicion of felony—he is about twenty eight years of age, five feet ten inches high, wears his hair bushed—a stout made fellow, his clothing an Osnabrig shirt a pair of brown thickset overalls, a swindown waistcoat, an old brown cloth coat, and felt hat. Philip did reside in or near Bladensburg where he has a wife.—The above reward will be paid for delivering the said fellows at the goal from whence they escaped, or five dollars for either. THOMAS MACGILL, Sheriff, Prince George county. September 2. 3taw
Ten Dollars Reward.
ELOPED from my service on the night of the 3d inst. JAMES STONE an apprentice to the house carpenter business, by birth an Irishman, 19 years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high or upwards, of a very yellow complexion, short black hair, chews tobacco—Had on and took with him, one white nankeen waistcoat with sleeves, striped, do. one pair buckskin trowers, one pair of Russia sheeting, do. one pair of thickset breeches, new shoes lined and bound, a real beaver hat about half worn—He is stout made and walks very upright—Any person that will secure said apprentice in any jail so that I get him again shall receive five dollars if within the District, and ten if without. I forewarn any person harboring or employing said apprentice, and all masters and skippers of vessels from taking said apprentice away, as I am determined to prosecute any person that will act contrary to law. PETER LENOX. september. tawf.
COLUMBIAN INN.
GEORGE TOWN.
THE Subscriber begs leave to solicit the patronage of his former friends and customers, and informs them he will continue at the Columbian Inn—where he will be happy to have it in his power to accommodate them as usual. JOHN H. BARNEY. September 21. eptj
United States of America.
Fifth circuit, Virginia district, May term, 1803.
Under a decree of the said court, We the commissioners will expose for public sale, on the premises, at 12 o'clock on Friday the 30th day of September next, that valuable and extensive
F A R M,
CALLED Mount Salus, alias Middlehope, lying in Fairfax county, on Difficult, Wolf Trap runs, containing by deed 520 acres, and by survey 673 acres. The mansion house is on a high healthy and agreeable situation, convenient to which are springs of good water—The house is 40 by 18 feet, two rooms on a floor, with a nine feet passage and stair case, two brick chimneys, with a five place to each room, a piazza the whole length of the front, a cellar 40 by 18 walled with stone and divided into two apartments. There are several small buildings near the mansion house and garden. There are also a valuable merchant and grist mill, saw mill, distillery, miller's house and overseer's house. The mill house is 40 by 30, two stories high, half the lower story of stone, the other part framed work, and covered with shingles. There are one pair of Burr, and one pair of Coignie stones, three bolting cloths almost new, and one fern, all now in use in manufacturing wheat and grinding grist. The mill house 40 by 30, one story high, walls of stone and shingled roof, the floors plank, the upper laid for malting grain, and troughs fixed round the whole house, constructed to carry water to every vessel which may need it. Three fills and one boiler can be worked to advantage in said house. The waters of Wolf Trap, on which the mill and saw mill stand, are constant streams. The situation for country custom, or purchasing wheat is exceeded by none in the county or neighborhood, not being more than 17 miles from Alexandria and 13 from George Town, where there are excellent markets for country produce of every description; and about 14 miles from the city of Washington. The land is fertile and productive, and the soil well adapted to received improvement from the use of plaster of Paris. There are upwards of 3000 pannels of fence on the land, about 100 or 170 acres of well timbered land belonging to the tract. There have been nearly 20 acres of timothy made, lying on Wolf Trap and Difficult runs, 50 acres more may be made at a small expense. This farm enjoys many natural advantages, which are unnecessary for us to mention, it being taken for granted that any person wishing to buy such property will avail themselves of the opportunity of viewing the premises previous to the day of sale.
The terms of which are, one third of the money to be paid on the day of sale, (at which time deeds will be made to the purchaser) one third in six months, and the other third in 12 months, with the interest accruing on the two last payments from the day of sale. A deed of trust will be expected to secure the last payments. Some informality in the decree prevented the sale agreeably to the former notice. This defect being obviated by the parties, the property will most certainly be sold as now noticed. Captain James Wilby, residing near the land, will show the premises, and also a plan of the survey, which is left with him for the information of those concerned. The title papers will be exhibited on the day of sale. CHARLES LITTLE, JAMES WILEY, JAMES DOUGLASS: August 30. ep
NEW BOOKS.
Just imported in the ship Active, from London, via Philadelphia, and for sale by RAPINE, CONRAD & CO. New Jersey Avenue, near the capitol, a choice collection of new and valuable books—amongst which are Burk's works, 8 vols. 8vo. Pratt's Gleanings, 3 vols. 8vo. elegant. Percy's Voyage, 2 vols. 8vo. Mickel's Luciad, 2 vols. 8vo. Lisk's Travels, 8vo.—Clavigero's Mexico, 2 vols. 4to. Sancho's Letters, 8vo. Memoirs of Pius the 6th, 1 vols. 8vo. Segur's Frederic William and, 3 vols. 8vo. Soulavie's Memoirs of Louis 16th, 6 vols. 8vo Spallanzani's Travels, 4 vols. 8vo. Watson's Philip and 3rd, 5 vols. 8vo. Heien Maria Williams' Sketches, 2 vols. 8vo. Gibbon's Roman Empire 12 vols. 8vo. Grandpre's Voyage in the Indian Ocean 2 vols. Memoirs of Politianus, 8vo. Reynier's state of Egypt, 8vo. Cavallo's Natural and Experimental Philosophy, a new and valuable work, 4 vols. 8vo. Beckham's Moral Philosophy, 8vo. Payley's (Dr.) Natural Theology, 8vo. Acutus on the Microscope, with plates. Brown's Travels into Africa, 4to. Horniman's do. Grant's Isle of France. Delphine 6 vols. 12mo. War Office 3 vols. 12mo. Microcosm 5 vols. 12mo. The Benevolent Jew, 2 vols. by Geo. Walker. Infidel Father, 3 vols. 12mo. Monk of Madrid 4 vols. 12mo. Lorimon 2 vols. 12mo.—Home 5 vols. 12m Romance of the Pyrenees, 4 vols. 12mo. 12m The Savage of Aveyron, 12mo. Tales of Superstition 12mo. Bread Gains, by G. Coleman, Boisewain's Poems, 12mo. Atala—Glover's Athenaid, 3 vols. &c. In addition to the above they have always on hand a collection of well assorted books on education, science, and amusement, which they will sell at such prices as cannot fail of giving general satisfaction.