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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. II
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCLXXXVIII.
FIVE DOLLARS, PER ANNUM.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th, 1802.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 15, 1802.
It is with pleasure we publish the following interesting attestation to American genius.]
INFORMATION.
I do hereby certify, that on the 15th July, 1802, I directed the proper officers of the customs to give a fair trial, experimentally to Mr. Dearborn's patent balance, to ascertain its correctness with the standard weights of the treasury of this state; and particularly its utility, in the facility of weighing delicate cargoes. The surveyor and weigh master of the port, have, after various experiments, and after due examination, reported to me this day, as follows:
That they tried Dearborn's patent balance with the 50, 25, 14, 7, and 4 pounds brass legal standard weights, procured from the treasury of this state, and found the patent balance critically correct.
After several comparative trials, they report—
That they weighed in the custom-house scales, 10 hogsheads of sugar in one hour, with six hands. The same 10 hogsheads of sugar were weighed in the patent balance in twenty-two minutes, with only two hands.
In the scales 34 barrels of coffee and sugar were weighed in thirty-seven minutes, with two hands. In the patent balance the same 34 barrels of coffee and sugar were weighed in twenty-two minutes, with two hands.
In the scales 15 boxes of Havana sugar were weighed in fifteen minutes, with four hands. In the patent balance, 18 boxes of the same Havana sugar were weighed in fifteen minutes, with two hands.
In weighing a hogshead of sugar in the scales, it required 3 lbs. weight to preponderate the scale. In weighing the same hogshead of sugar in the patent balance, half a pound weight would preponderate the scale.
Two drays are necessary to carry from wharf to wharf, the custom-house triangles, scales and weights, sufficient to weigh a hogshead of sugar. One dray is necessary to carry the custom-house triangle, scales and weights, to weigh smaller articles. The patent balance, with its frame and weights (consisting of only two brass 32 lb. weights, and one brass 16 lb. weights) can be moved from wharf to wharf on a hand cart, with two labourers only.
Any person who understands simple addition, can in five minutes be taught the use of the patent balance.
The patent balance occupies a less space of ground on the wharf, than the triangle and scales.
The beam, scales and weights of the custom house, were proved by this valuable patent balance, to be incorrect; and by which, as a true and just standard, the necessary adjustments are making.
The cost of the patent balance is half less than scales and weights. In all cases one third, and in heavy articles two thirds of labour is saved; and in its use in the customs, dray hire is altogether saved. Hence as respects correctness, facility in weighing, saving in the first cost, saving of labour, and from weights being always liable to injury and reduction of weight, by the removal of the lead necessary to secure the handle to the weight, (and to adjust the weight) the patent balance is rendered, in my judgment, preferable in every point of view, to the common beam scales and weights. It combines the use of the common steelyard (without its imperfection) with the common scales, but is superior to either, from the reasons given. In a word, it is my opinion, that the patent balance requires only to be known & understood, when it will be universally used, in preference to the common beam scales and weights.
At all times it would afford me pleasure to certify the meritorious discoveries of any person—but I feel a more than ordinary pleasure on the present occasion, to give publicity to the merit of a country-man, an American.
As Dearborn's patent balances are made to weigh from one pound weight and upward, as may be required, it is in the power of every person to suit himself with a balance to weigh as much as he may choose.
Not only as justice due to merit, but as an encouragement to others, I with pleasure give this certificate, and sincerely hope that Mr. Dearborn will be as generously rewarded for his important discovery, as I feel a conviction that his dis-
covery of the patent balance will be universally useful & beneficial to his country. Given under my hand, at the Custom-house of Charleston, this seventh day of August, 1802.
JAMES SIMONS. Collector of the Customs.
Prices of the Patent Balance, at the Manufactory.
   D. C.     A beam with its poizes to weigh from one pound to one hundred pounds, 4 50   Do. do. from 2 to 200 do. 10 25   Do. do. from 5 to 500 14 75   Do. do. from 5 to 800 23 75   Do. do. from 5 to 1000 27 75   Do. do. from 10 to 1500 41 50   Do. do. from 10 to 2000 54 00   Do. do. from 20 to 3000 70 50  
The above prices are for the beams and poizes only, every article of the apparatus is at a fixed price, in addition to the above, that purchasers may be suitably accommodated without paying for any article they may not want.
The following are the prices of the apparatus at the manufactory:—
A frame 7 dollars—a screw 4 dollars—a guard 1 dollar and 25 cents.
A balance weight from 2 dollars to 2 dollars and 75 cents.
A scale and scid from 8 to 12 dollars—according to the size required.
By the above general estimate, the prices of beams of any intermediate or larger size may be nearly ascertained, exclusive of the charges of transportation.
From the Aurora.
The Federalists, without any regard to truth, have unblushingly asserted that the duty on salt, tea, brown-sugar and coffee, was laid by the republicans. The fact is, that these duties were laid so early as the year 1799, 11 years before Mr. Jefferson's administration commenced. They are duties of impost , and formed no part of the internal taxes . If they were improper taxes , why did not the federalists themselves repeal them, when they had it in their power to do so. Mr. Jefferson's administration abolished the internal taxes only ; because they are burdensome to the people, oppressive in their nature, and extravagant in their collection. If the tax on Garrages had alone been retained, (as the federalists pretend to with it had been) 450 officers must have been kept in commission to collect it: The product of the tax would be about 70,000 dollars a year; and the expense of collecting it would amount to at least three or four times as much. This would be economy with a whitewash ! Instead of this, Mr. Jefferson's administration, by repealing all the internal taxes, and abolishing the officers employed in collecting them as well as other burdensome placements, has actually made a saving to the country, of 480,000 dollars a year.
No part of the customs or impost was repealed; and to this class of taxes belongs the duties on salt, teas, brown sugar, and coffee. The duties on these were mortgaged (among others) by the former administration, to pay debts by them contracted: They could not therefore be abolished, without raising a hue-and-cry of a design to destroy public credit. The duty on loaf sugar was an internal tax, in the nature of an excise ; and therefore, this duty, together with that on domestic distilled spirits and carriages , was taken off: They are all, besides, manufactures of our own country. All this is so plain, that any man of common understanding will easily comprehend it; and will not suffer himself to be deceived by the thimble and representations of designing men.
The following observations, on this subject, are quoted from a late Fredericktown paper, and are in point:
"In the year 1790, under the administration of Washington, a duty was laid on those articles: In the year 1797, the federalists increased the duty. In July, 1797, among the first acts of Adams' administration, was laying an increased duty of eight cents per bushel on salt. The expensive and extravagant measures of the federalists, in borrowing money at eight per cent, and raising a federal standing army, to make provision for their friends increased the national debt ten millions of dollars. They then, in the year 1800, laid a further increased duty on brown sugar and molasses, in feeding and clothing an useless army."
"The whole of these duties they made perpetual. They pledged them for the payment of the principal and interest of the loans they had made, and which they might make."
"After increasing these duties, from time to time, they mortgaged them for the payment of all debts contracted by the U. States. Turn to the acts of congress passed by the federalists, with Adams at their head, in the years 1797, 1799, and 1800, and it will be seen, that they pledged these identical duties for the payment of the money they had lavished in extravagance and useless expense; and yet the Tories of Fredericktown have the impudence to say that these increased duties were laid by the friends of Mr. Jefferson! O! shame! where is thy blush? But men who were not ashamed to be Tories, feel no remorse in lying and evil speaking. They are now endeavouring to do by cunning, what they could not effect by the sword."
*The raw material (brown sugar) pays an impost duty, and all imported loaf sugar does the same.
District of Virginia,
RICHMOND, Supervisor's Office June, 30, 1802.
IT being believed that considerable portions of lands in the back counties of the state of Virginia, on which the Direct Tax of the United States remains unpaid, are owned by persons residing out of the state; and the same having been advertised, in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 16th of March last, amendatory of the act entitled "An act to lay and collect a Direct Tax within the United States," as may be seen by the notification of the Supervisor of the 2d of June inst. and running in the Examiner of Richmond , that being the paper in which the laws of the state are printed, to be sold for the tax and costs, in all cases where the same shall not be paid within six months from the date of the notification, agreeably to the 2d section of the said amendatory act; it is recommended to all who own lands in the said state, whereon they do not know the tax to have been paid, to take measures for having the transcripts which have been lodged at the Supervisor's Office at Richmond, as directed by the said last-mentioned act examined, in order to the ascertaining & paying such tax where due. And as, in some instances, lands have been affected by the names of persons heretofore owning, but who have alienated them, it is further recommended that, upon sending to examine the transcripts, all names known to have been at any time connected as owner or owners with any tract or tracts in question, be sent forward, the better to guide the examination. The sale will take place generally in the month of December next, on dates which may be seen in the notification referred to above. This short sketch of the business is published in some of the papers of other states as a means of more certainly calling the attention of persons concerned, to the subject.
D. CARRINGTON, Supervisor of the District of Virginia. Aug. 16, 1802. saw3m
To be Sold,
On the premises on Tuesday October 5 1802, upon reasonable terms.
A VALUABLE tract or parcel of Land containing upwards of six hundred acres, lying and being in Prince George county, about sixteen miles from the City of Washington, eight miles from Piscataway creek which empties into Potomac river, and about eight miles from Patuxent river, both navigable waters. There is a small tenement thereon, and about 50 acres of land cleared, all the rest in wood, abounding in valuable timber of different kinds lies exceedingly level, a great quantity of which may be made into excellent meadow. It is kindly adapted to wheat, &c. An unexceptionable title will be given. A part of the purchase money will be required to be paid in hand, good bonds with approved security will be taken for the remainder.
HEDWICH HOLLYDAY. Aug. 27, 1802. saw3t
NOTICE.
COMMITTED on the 24th of July negro JAMES, five feet six and an half inches high, about 50 years of age—says he was set free by John Wilson, of St. Mary's county.
Committed on the 4th of August REBECCA, a woman, five feet three and an half inches high, appears to be about 27 years of age, has a scar over her left eye—says she was sold by Joshua Poor (who lives near Port Tobacco) to a person going to Georgia. The above negroes, if not taken away by their owners, will be sold agreeably to law, for their jail fees.
ROBERT MCLAN, jailor. For Daniel C. Brent, Marshal Washington, Aug. 18, 1802. saw3
NOTICE.
THE creditors of Uriah Forrest, bankrupt, having appointed me the assignee of his estate and effects. All persons indebted to him, previous to the date of the commencement of bankruptcy are required to make payment, and those who hold any of his property, to deliver the same to me.
Mr. Forrest is authorised to make settlements of accounts and to attend to all business relating to his estate.
JOHN HEWITT, Assignee. Aug. 30, 1802. saw3t
Foreign Intelligence.
Extract of a letter from Paris, June 19.
"The permission for the introduction of coals from England has occasioned a great deal of discontent among the party, who holds in abhorrence all communication, even an advantageous one, with our country. They affect to foresee in this indulgence, the first step towards a general trade, and predict the downfall of their manufactures, and the ruin of those new speculations entered into, in consequence of the improvements brought by the emigrants from England, in the machines employed by our cotton and silk manufacturers. Most probably they are not mistaken; and it is only to be hoped that our trade with the continent may be again established, when our superiority will ensure us every advantage and preference."
"The champions of monarchical literature, are beyond measure ashamed at a work lately published by one of their members, named GIN—it is called a discourse upon Universal History, and was intended as a continuance of the magnificent and immortal work of Bossuet—no attempt, however, has been more ridiculous, and nothing ever written with such pretensions more heavy, more monotonous, or more dissimilar to its original.—This veteran in literature, of a certain kind, is the person whom BEAUMARCHAIS treated with so much ridicule; and he has now exposed himself to the epigrammatic wit of the founders of the modern school.—Francois de Neufchateau, Duval, Lavelle, Masson, and Chenier, will not lose so fine an opportunity of scourging with their lampoons his Gaultic discourse, and his Gothic periods."
"The palace of St. Cloud, which has been so long an object of admiration, and whose extent has been always thought sufficient for the proud multitude of the late monarchs in France, is now not only undergoing very considerable repair, but great additions are making to it, for the purpose of lodging the First Consul's household—the magnificence with which he is attended, and the prodigious number of general officers and others, always near his person, exceed infinitely what has been seen in this country."
"Monsieur Denon's splendid and interesting work, entitled Travels in Egypt , is at length published. M. Denon has waited upon the First Consul with it, and defers the delivery to his successors until the expiration of eight days. It is highly spoken of, and the engravings are particularly beautiful; an English translation is going forward."
"The celebrated Casti, the Italian poet, who succeeded Metastasio at the court of Vienna, has lately published a work of infinite merit, entitled Gli Animali Parlanti , in which he has displayed a fund of knowledge and philosophy which form a fine contrast with the elegant, playful and ingenious turn of wit, which so eminently distinguished his well known Nouvelle Galante . It is laid that a new edition of the Nouvelle , corrected by the author, with no less than thirty-two new tales, is about to be published in the most elegant style of typography by M. Griffiths, who has in his work of the Gallery of the Louvre, given a very beautiful specimen of his taste in the art of printing."
"The French government has adopted a cheap mode of conveying its civil and military servants to the colonies. By an article of the 16th inst. (June) every vessel sailing from France for any of the colonies, must reserve accommodations for government passengers, in the proportion of two to each 100 tons burthen. The sole expense to the public is their subsistence, for which rations are to be furnished, at the rate of 45 for the continent of America, and 105 for the Isles of France and Reunion, &c."
"The French are endeavouring to shew the great importance of Louisiana , which has been ceded to them by Spain; and a Memoir of the Count de VERGENNES, in which its value is rated at the highest price, has been published. The Count de VERGENNES, in his Memoir, shews likewise the importance of Canada , how connected Louisiana and Canada are together, and how much it should be the policy of France to recover it."
"The Archbishop of Paris published a Pastoral Letter on Corpus Christi day, and a delicious moreceau it is. The following are some of the most striking passages of it."
"After having expatiated on the recent troubles of the Church, which, according to the holy orator, always succeed those of the state, he thus proceeds:"
"Suddenly a man, the terror of the
Eastern Word, and the conqueror of the Western Potentates, appears—the period of chastisement is paining on—despondency is every where; when lo! all assumes a different, smiling aspect—the God, who formerly went before Cyrus, prepares all for the man of his choice—when he appears, the factions which distracted the land are overpowered, and the powerful lines which menaced our independence dispersed, routed."
"The man, chosen by the Lord, is preceded by the directing angel of God.... The Deity said, 'I shall take Cyrus by the hand, that I may submit nations to his will, that kings may fly before him, that all the gates, without exception, may be thrown open to him.'
"It is not only victory that goes before his car, it is moderation that leads it on; and God, who holds his heart in his hand, inclines the great man to peace!"
"A self-created prophetess lately started up in the Duchy of Wurtemberg. She pretended she held an epistolary correspondence with the Arch Angels; she travelled over the whole country for the comical purpose of making proselytes to her strange doctrine, and to induce the inhabitants to follow her to Jerusalem, where she intended to establish an empire, the laws of which had been handed to her by the Holy Ghost! Notwithstanding the absurdity of her predictions, she had several partisans, who disposed of their property, and entrusted her with the money for which they had sold it. With these sums she was to defray the travelling expenses of the holy group. The prophetess, pushed on by the Demon of Concupiscence, eloped with an athletic young fellow, and carried off the exchequer of the poor Pilgrims, now reduced to the last stage of wretchedness!"
"The celebrated Abbe Gregoire is said to be among the last arrivals from France."
"The Dutch Jews resident in this city have presented the Abbe Gregoire a piece of plate, said to be of the value of 200 guineas, as a testimony of the services rendered by the writings of that learned prelate in favour of their nation in Holland, at the commencement of the French Revolution. Mr. Goldmid had the conduct of this matter, he belonged to the Dutch Jewish Church, and is said to be the largest subscriber."
(From a late London paper.)
AERIAL EXCURSION,
Mr. Locker's account of the voyage of Monday.
Mr. Editor,
"Altho' the world has been already presented with an account of a late aerial excursion, I flatter myself so much interest is still entertained by the public, for the safety of Mr. Garnerin, that the following particulars of his second ascent will prove acceptable to them. The very unfavorable weather, attended with a heavy gale at South and S. W. induced Mr. Garnerin to give up his intention of ascending to display the promised experiment of the parachute. In this event it had been arranged that Mr. Snowden should once more accompany him; but some misunderstanding having taken place between those gentlemen, and having had some previous conversation on the preceding day with Mr. Garnerin on the subject, I ascended with him yesterday afternoon at ten minutes before five o'clock, according to my watch, from Lord Crickett's green. The strong assurance of my companion, added to what I had read on the science of aerostatics, and the experience of former aeronauts, had so fully persuaded me of my perfect security, that I enjoyed the wonderful and enchanting prospect which now presented itself with unmixed pleasure. Altho' the dense state of the atmosphere, here obstructed distant objects in to great a degree, that our horizon was somewhat limited, the unusual concourse of spectators, when gradually diminished to an undistinguished mass, and the view of great part of the metropolis, together with the surrounding country, studded with houses, and enlivened by the inhabitants moving in every direction afforded me an entertainment well worth the purchase of any supposed danger. After throwing out some part of our ballast we ascended very rapidly, and by the intervention of some thick clouds, (which had much the appearance of a sea of clouds beneath us, as described by Mr. Baldwin, of Chester) we entirely lost sight of the earth. We moved with much rapidity, although our motion was to me perfectly imperceptible; and at length the clouds disipating, we again saw the country, which appeared to me more like a perfect scene in a game."

when placed in a very elevated situation, than any thing to which I could compare it; I think a map, is an incorrect comparison, as the various objects are not, as in nature, delineated with sufficient minuteness to bear with a resemblance. About this time Mr. Garnerin looked at his watch, and observing we had been five minutes on the voyage, proposed to descend in about the same time. The perusal of Mr. Snowden's narrative, led me to observe, with much attention, the power of hearing noises below; neither Mr. Garnerin nor myself, could distinguish sounds above the elevation of 3 or 4000 feet, though Mr. Garnerin imagines, a very confused sound, but totally undistinguishable, may be heard considerably higher. We never attained a greater height, this day, by Mr. Garnerin's computation, than about 1,200 French toises, or 7,800 feet, as Mr. Garnerin being desirous to return the same evening to town, did not choose to lose so favorable an opportunity of descending. At length we saw at a distance, what proved afterwards to be Kipping's Fort, with a range of distant hills beyond, and observing an open champagne country, Mr. Garnerin opened the valve, and we began to descend. He directed me to call to some persons employed in a field, as we approached the ground, to take hold of the ropes, which we had thrown out for that purpose, and recommended me to hold fast by the cords, to avoid the shock on the balloon's first touching the earth. This precaution proved very necessary, as the force with which he descended was very considerable, occasioned by the force of the wind, rather than by our specific gravity, and the rebound bore us up again with velocity, to the height of 150 or 200 feet. In re-descending, we struck against a tree, the shock of which gave Mr. Garnerin a severe blow on the back, and he observed that this was the only occasion, during a period of twelve years, in which he had been in the habit of aerostation, and the 27th time he had ascended, that he ever suffered such an inconvenience.
Several of the peasantry being now at hand, we were secured from any further ascent, and alighted from the car with perfect safety. We immediately enquired our situation, and found we had fallen into a field of Mr. Owens, at Chingford, in Essex, and referring to our watches, observed we had made our voyage exactly in one quarter of an hour. We dispatched a messenger to Woodford for a post chaise, and the inflammable air having evaporated, packed the balloon in the car and had it conveyed to a small inn at Chingford Green, adjoining which we had defended from whence, after a slight repast on some provision we had brought with us, we set off for London, and arrived at Mr. Garnerin's in Poland Street, a quarter after nine in the evening.
Although the mob, which surrounded us on our descent, were, as usual, both troublesome and officiously impertinent, we received great attention and assistance from Mr. Hughes, of the Stamp Office, London, and several other gentlemen who beheld our arrival. Attention would have been, however, injured to us, if necessary, by the paper put into the hands of Mr. Garnerin, signed by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Dukes of Devonshire, Lords Besborough, Cathcart, and other persons of distinction who witnessed our ascension at Lord's Cricket Ground.
I am, &c. EDWARD HAWKE LOCKER. Greenwich, July 6, 1802.
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FEDERAL MISREPRESENTATION. No. XXII.
Of all the absurdities to which federalism in its wildest paroxysms has given birth, the pamphlet, to which the following comments from the New-York Evening Post and Gazette relate, is perhaps the most extravagant. Nor do the comments themselves exhibit any superiority in this respect to the original.
We publish them for the entertainment, the derision, the contempt of the reader. They are too worthless for refutation. They are predicated upon a miserable belief that the people will swallow any thing, however gross.
Let any man read the extracts, and say whether they can be written by any one in his senses. The author must have been mad when he penned them. We thought the idea of illuminism in this country had been so completely scouted, and those who encouraged its belief been so humiliated by a conviction of their folly, that the hydra would not have raised its head for a century. But we find there is nothing too gross for faction. Should any man hesitate for a moment in pronouncing this attempt infamous, let him read the recent pamphlets published in relation to John Wood; and he will therein find that Wood is not only convicted of a total disregard of truth, but unblushingly acknowledges his violation of it. Is this the man, whom federalism sustains in his calumniating some of the best men in the community as villains, traitors, robbers, and devils! If the people of America are to have this farce of imposture acted over again, in the name of decency let the federal papers fill their columns with Robinson's and Morse's vagaries, instead of the vulgarisms of Wood.
From THE NEW-YORK EVENING POST. A full exposition of the Clintonian faction and the Society of the COLUMBIAN ILLUMINATI, &c. by JOHN WOOD.
The contents of this pamphlet are in strict conformity with the title page. Wood has redeemed the pledge he gave to the public, and fully exposed the artful machinations of ambitious men, who, in order to accomplish their inordinate projects of aggrandizement, and their designs against the freedom of the country, and to collect every ray of power, weight and influence in the state into the foul focus of their own private views, have had recourse to practices, such as in strict justice ought to disfranchise any citizen who used them, and to expedients, such as in the sense of strict honour, must forever degrade and discredit them. It appears they have not scrupled to enlist under their banners, all whom democratic fraud and artifice, all whom misrepresentation, open falsehood, calumny, and preposterous promises, operating upon unwary ignorance, could make factious, turbulent and malevolent at home, as well as all the abettors fugitives, whom murder, rape, robbery and rebellion have driven from distant countries to take sanctuary here from the dungeon or the gibbet—a herd of incendiaries whom the regular justice of the laws, and the wild justice of the mobs of Europe have concurred to chase away from her shores.
After having in a perspicuous manner, and with a spirit of fairness which does him credit, successfully elucidated those vile proceedings, Mr. Wood adverts to a subject which if duly revolved, and examined in all its bearings, its fundamental principles, its original causes, and its probable consequences, will be found of more awful import, more alarming magnitude, and more dangerous tendency, than (since the revolution) it has fallen to the share of this country to encounter:—A subject pregnant with practical mischief, and conceived in as pure unmixed abstract wickedness, vice and impiety as ever emanated from the arch spirit of Evil himself in his bitterest malignity to mankind—"The schemes of a society denominated by themselves, in a sort of courtesy Theists , by Mr. Wood, Columbian Illuminati , but by plain truth, Infidels ."
It cannot be too frequently repeated to the people of this country, that the stupendous mass of mischiefs, which under the name of Jacobinism, has within the last twelve years defolated civilized Europe, had its roots in infidelity, called (in our opinion very profanely) Deism or Theism . It set out with the denial of Christ and emboldened by impunity, it ended in the denial of GOD: Hand in hand with it went rebellion against lawful authority; which, after running its course of bloodshed, destruction of property, and the overthrow of all civil and religious establishments, at last came to its goal (according to the natural succession of cause and consequence) in the most ferocious despotism, and in the most frightful depravation of morals and manners.—Just the same game is now playing in America, and will and must come to the same end, if means are not taken to prevent it. It is vain for Americans to say that they are a free people, and cannot be so practised upon.—The animated freedom, the heroic patriotism, the universal unfeigned piety, and the pure and inflexible virtue of Switzerland, little availed her against artifices she did not suspect, against excesses to which she opposed only contemptuous toleration,
and against plots, conspiracies and conspirators, to which an over-weening confidence in her own strength, afforded impunity. Had she in due time stopped the proceedings of her Jacobin Illuminati, she would not be at this day languishing for her lost liberties, and withering under the all-consuming baleful shade of French protection . Let America profit by her example. If she does not she deserves slavery. They have not read of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, who will suspect the author of great partiality for the cause of religion, yet Mr. Gibbon in a letter to Lord Sheffield, written in the 1790, from Switzerland where he then resided, laments the frightful alteration which French intercourse had made in that country, and says, "I have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of the dead, in which Lucian , Erasmus , and Voltaire should mutually acknowledge the danger of exposing an old superstition to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude." In the same letter he says—"I subscribe my assent to Mr. Burke's creed on the revolution of France; I admire his eloquence; I approve his politics; I adore his chivalry; and can almost forgive his reverence for church establishments." Thus he who could only bring himself to almost forgive Burke's reverence for church establishments out of compliment to his general principles, disapproves because he recognizes the danger of exposing even an old superstition to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude. So much for the authority of opinion.—Having premised thus, we proceed to lay before our readers an abstract of Mr. Wood's statement.
He alleges that for three years past there has existed in New-York a secret society, grafted upon and in all shapes resembling the acts of Illuminati to which Abbe Barruel and Professor Robinson have attributed all the disorders which have befallen the nations of Europe. After mentioning the Illuminatis in Europe he proceeds:—
"The society in New-York, which I am about to describe, was in fact a society of this nature, erected in rebellion to the RELIGIOUS acts of the state. This will be proved from their constitution, and the confession of several of the members. It was a society fraught with the blackest intentions, to overturn the divine revelation, and to raise the hand of opposition against the opinion of every christian. Their scheme was not confined to the state of New-York, but following the example of the Illuminati in Europe, it will be seen from the ninth article of their printed constitution, that they had corresponding committees, to propagate their new philosophy throughout the world."
Again— "The origin of this society was, however, more systematical than either the Telets of Switzerland, or any other perhaps of the description which has been established—it arose upon the ruins of the celebrated democratic society of New-York, in the same manner as the Illuminati originated from the remarkable Lodge of the Electic Masonry at Munich, called the Theodore of good council—it was composed of the scattered dregs of those Jacobin Infidels, who covered the democratic society with disgrace, and shed a degree of odium upon the pure doctrine of republicanism, which the efforts of the virtuous patriot, will not for years wipe away—it issued from the tomb of its fallen parent, like a foul spectre, blotted with crimes, gaping with vengeance, and eager to drag the weak and unscrupulous mind into the abyss of eternal torment.—As the graceless son of a graceless family, most frequently exerts all his ingenuity to complete the infamy of a ruined reputation, so the members of the Theistical society, meditated upon every scheme to add the last reproach to their characters, already broken and despised.—The imported scum of the Edinburgh Convention, and the refuse of the banished rebels of Ireland, joined all their hearts and hands with the infidels of New-York, in planning this society.—It was in short a combination of treachery, of indigence, of frenzy, intemperance and every species of polluted baseness, for the purpose of combating religion, virtue and wisdom. Among such a motley crew, one might suppose their resolutions would be marked with folly and ignorance; but this was not the case; for although all the Devils which issued from Pandora's box, may be supposed to have had a voice in their decrees; yet it is to be remembered, that each of them had been previously exercised, for several years in similar schemes, and therefore, knew how to glos the blackest villainy under the specious veil of morality—They were no novices in this respect; they were not strangers to the art of cunning or deceit. They were well acquainted, both how to make, and lay their traps, so as to be invisible to any eye, not tinged with suspicion—Like felonious robbers, they associated with, feigned, and courted the habits of industry and religion during the day, that they might with more security in their night-caps, mangle the divine Revelation into a banquet of pleasure, and feast on the works of the Fathers, with the seeds of epicurean philosophy. All their intercourse, all their actions and dealings were infectious. They were the hidden
instruments of vice and torment; like poisonous plants, corrupting all about them."
Mr. Wood then acknowledges that to this general description there are some exceptions of well-meaning men, deluded by the artful specious logic of their friends—
"But these well-meaning members were kept, as will be proved, from the ring-leaders—they were totally unacquainted with their schemes—they imagined nothing was transacted but in their presence—they had no idea that there were different grades in the society—they were ignorant of the diabolical plans which were daily forming by the directors—they knew nothing about the proceeding of secret committees—they imagined there were none superior in knowledge or rank to themselves. Like honest simpletons, they thought all which they saw and heard was for the public good. They, therefore, made no secret of communicating what they knew to their friends and acquaintances, they rather exhorted them to become members of the charitable institution, to partake of its blessings, and to be enlightened by the influence of its doctrines."
From the New-York Gazette. DESCRIPTIONS.
In the late curious, and important pamphlet of Mr. Wood, entitled, "A full exposition of the Clintonian faction, and the society of the Columbian Illuminati ," &c. he has freely indulged a strain of wit and ridicule, and some will think, of an improper resentment. Though it should be judged that in a few instances he colours too highly, and that he is under the influence of prejudice and passion, yet this will not hinder the general good tendency of his performance. Truths are still truths with whatever temper they are told. It must be confessed that he has a great felicity in sketching characters, whatever may be thought of his justice. The following will afford a specimen:—
Mr. Cheetham, he "possesses all the cunning of an artful prostitute, that under a placid countenance, masks deep design and plotting vengeance."—Mr. Denniston, "the cousin of Mr. De Witt Clinton," or, "a blood relation of the Clinton family," or simply, "cousin Denniston."—Mr. Riker, "a twittering tom-tit."—Mr. Wortman "a drooping owl."—Mr. George Clinton, junr "a tender-hearted youth with baby cheeks."—Mr. Sidell, "a taylor." Mr. Driscoll, formerly "a Romish priest, and possessed of all the jesuitical cunning of an apostate."—Mr. Jefferson, "the bountiful statelman of Monticello."—Mr. Palmer, "the Weihaupt of the order." [Illuminati.]—Mr. Walter Morton, "an huge greasy looking fellow, with large goggling eyes"—"a dirty Scotch snake scraper."—There are others whom Mr. Wood does not name, but describes; one as "the philosophic barber," who wrote "an essay on the liberty of the press," for which he received the thanks of Mr. Jefferson; and who shaved Mr. De Witt Clinton with "a many toothed iron"—another, as "a meager looking watchmaker"—and a third, as "a bald headed Caledonian."
In some of these things Mr. Wood is certainly to be condemned. It is fair enough to compare Mr. Riker to a tom-tit, and Mr. Wortman to an owl, provided the resemblance holds. Thus we call a man who is cunning, a fox; a man who is strong, a lion, &c. But to reproach a man for being bald headed, and another for being meager; unless the one has pulled his hair out through vexation at losing an election, and the other pined away in endeavouring to promote the rights of man; is altogether exceptionable. What may have been the case with respect to these two gentlemen to whom Mr. Wood refers is unknown to me, as are also their names. Until it is shown that the one lost his hair by his own fault, and that the other became lean in the manner which has been laid, or for want of something to eat, I shall blame Mr. Wood.
CRITICUS. From the American Citizen.
SPEECH OF RED JACKET.
I have with no small anxiety observed, in my absence from the county of Ontario, the publication of a talk, laid to have been delivered at Canandaigua on the 3d of August, by Red Jacket, the principal Speaker of the Seneca nation of Indians. The complexion of a part of it is so singular and so different from the Indian mode of talking, that I was led at first to suppose it a mere fabrication; but on enquiry, since my return, have been credibly informed that it is something more than a farce, created by party spirit for the purpose of alarming the public, and exciting the fears of women and children. Some evil genius who delights in mischief, and who pays no respect to the feelings of his neighbours or to the peace and security of private families, has been busily engaged in the righteous work of personal revenge. I am unwilling to suspect Mr. Chapin, late agent to the Six Nations, of so foul a piece of misconduct. But many circumstances occurred which fix upon him a suspicion which it will be difficult to remove, particularly his dis-
mission from the office of agency to the Six Nations, his irritation at that event, and his intimate acquaintance with the Indians. The opportunity was very favorable to his purpose of seeking a satisfaction for his removal, by disquieting the minds and exasperating the tempers of the Indians. They were already soured by the imprisonment of one of their number for stabbing one white man and killing another. A transition from one imaginary grievance to another, was easy and natural. Alarmed at the safety of their brother, and fore at his confinement by the white men, they were easily deceived into a belief that something was wrong in the government of the country. The artful comparison of the treatment of the Indians under the administrations of General Washington and Mr. Adams, to the danger which threatened a brother under that of Mr. Jefferson, could not have been the result of the Speaker's reflections, but was evidently suggested by some person whose heart was corroded with disappointment. That this must have been the case, will be very evident, when we consider that the Indians have been constantly complaining, that the residence of Mr. Chapin was remote from any of their principal settlements, that he could pay but very little attention to their concerns. For it is very well known in this country, that the Blacksmith employed by him on account of the United States as an accommodation to the Six Nations, lives in the immediate vicinity of Mr. Chapin. This made it necessary for them, whenever a hoe or hatchet was wanted, a gun or trap was to be mended, to travel one or two hundred miles from the place of their principal settlements. On this point little doubt will remain, when it is known, that many respectable citizens of my neighbourhood, have presented a memorial to the President of the United States, urging the necessity of Mr. Chapin's removal under a conviction that neither the United States, nor the Indians, were much benefitted by his agency. Large sums of money and other property passed through his hands, which enabled him to assume that situation in life, which his other resources were not competent to effect.
Ten or twelve thousand dollars, with the other means annually supplied by his agency for the accumulation of wealth, were not to be lost without a murmur. Here is the rub, which irritated the feelings, and dictated this curious Indian talk. Here we may perceive the reason of that singular connection in the same speech, between the imprisonment of the Speaker's brother, and the complaint of Mr. Chapin's removal. I would not, without reason, ascribe to any man improper motives; but stupidity itself will hardly believe, that the sentiments uttered by Red Jacket were the natural effusions of his own understanding, or that he would, without prompting, have considered Chapin's dismissal a grievance, when the Indians had repeatedly complained of the inutility of his agency.
A. B. Canandaigua, Aug. 15, 1802.
From the Albany Register. The Speech of Red Jacket, of August 3d 1802, in behalf of the Seneca, Onondaga and Cayuga Indians, deserves particular notice. By this speech, it will be seen that some intriguing busy body, some enemy to the peace and tranquility of the United States, has contrived to stir the minds of those aborigines against the Executive of the Union. "We understand," says the orator, "that the President has appointed a Superintendent, who is altogether unknown to us, and who is unacquainted with Indian affairs." This premature condemnation of the Executive, evinces clearly that the Indians are disposed to quarrel at all events, or else, that they have been imposed upon by some designing knave or knaves, who disgrace the American name; & that for purposes the most dishonorable, they have been led to prejudge the newly appointed agent. Who is it, that has been so officious as to investigate these people to an attempt to settle as that of dictating to the administration in the choice of its agents, and to induce them to cavil at the appointment of a Superintendent, before they have had any trial of his fitness for the employment?—Can any federalist be so flagrantly wicked as to promote an Indian War, for the sake of embarrassing the measures of Administration? Can any real American feel more regard for the interests of the Indians, than for the peace and dignity of his government? Let the manful orator of Indian Speeches and the unprincipled instigator of Red Jacket, answer these questions.
NOTICE.
ON Saturday the 11th of September next, between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at Stetler's Hotel, City of Washington, the final certificate of discharge under the bankrupt law of the United States will be granted to Uriah Forrest.
By order of William Kirby, esq chief judge of the district of Columbia.
JOHN C. DENT, Secretary to the commissioners. Aug. 23, 1802. Eawt24A

WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 15, 1802.
By an arrival at New York, Cork papers as late as the 22nd July are received. They contain no news.
Notwithstanding the unprecedented violence of federal calumny and falsehood which has raged throughout the New England states, republicanism, not only holds its ground there, but progresses with slow though certain effect.
Every friend to liberty and a virtuous administration will be impressed with admiration at the intrepid spirit which animates Rhode Island. She sent to the last Congress a republican and a moderate federalist, under the expectation that the latter would not suffer himself to be the instrument of party. The foundations of this policy may be questioned; but it cannot be questioned that it was an illustrious evidence of a desire to conciliate. This expectation was disappointed. The moderate federalist was as efficient in opposition to the soundest measures that have ever been pursued, as a stern vote could make him. Nor in the state, did federalism, disappointed in its claim to all, feel any mitigation of its violence in being allowed a part. Here, as elsewhere, it encouraged the grossest detraction, and strove to excite the most turbulent and disorganizing passions. Under these circumstances the republicans did right in making a decided stand—a stand, which by convincing their enemies of their strength, has struck dismay through their ranks. General Stanton, a firm republican and a member of the present Congress is re-elected; and Mr. Knight, also a firm republican is chosen in room of Mr. Tillinghast; both by a majority, it is said of 1,000 votes. When the smallness of the state is considered, the Majority will be seen to be immense.
The public prints furnish us only with the majorities. It is very desirable that they should furnish us also with the relative members, that the comparative strength of each side may be seen.
Thus much for the republican state of RHODE ISLAND. By exchanging a republican for a federal representative, it has added what is equivalent to two votes to the large majority in the House of Representatives.
Let us next turn to NEW HAMPSHIRE. This state has been for many years devoted to federal politics. strenuous efforts have lately been made by the republicans to turn the tide; but they have, as yet, proved ineffectual. According to the federal prints returns have been received from thirty nine towns, which give the republican ticket for five representatives in Congress 1290, and the federal ticket 1241 votes; while, according to a republican paper printed in Portsmouth the returns of 40 towns give the republican ticket 1635, and the federal ticket 1589 votes. As these towns form but a small part of the state they do not supply any data from which to draw conclusive inferences of the ultimate result. The federal prints, however, are confident, it will be on their side. Grant that it shall be so, they will gain no new ground; things will remain as before;—while the republican interest will have acquired by the Rhode Island election an accession of two votes in the House of Representatives.
Died, at Norristown, Penn. the Rev. Dr. John Ewing, late Provost of the University of Pennsylvania.
A St. Kitts paper of the 30th of July, received at the office of this Gazette yesterday, says, "By a gentleman from Dominique, we learn, that a division of French troops to the amount of 8000, under the command of General Boudinot, passed that Island a few days ago, in their route to their newly acquired territory of Louisiana, in Spanish America."
The St. Christopher Chronicle of the 30th of July, received at this office, contains the following article: "By a gentleman from Dominique, we learn, that a division of French troops, to the number of 8000, under the command of General Boudinot, passed that Island a few days ago, in their route to their newly acquired territory of Louisiana, in Spanish America."
Capt. Taylor, arrived at Philadelphia from Point Petre, (Gua.) which place he left the 10th ult. informs, that the day before he failed, gen. Lacroix was proclaimed general in chief of the Island of Guadalupe; and that the utmost tranquillity prevailed.
New-York, September 9.
A passenger on board the Sch. John, captain Buttsben, from St. Thomas', has politely favoured us with the following information:—"That a few days previous to his sailing from St. Thomas' he left St. Vincents, where the English troops had arrived which were stationed at Surinam, and all the other ports for-
merly in possession of the Dutch; they being evacuated on account of the arrival of the Dutch fleet with troops which have taken possession of all the stations."
ON THE DEATH OF MAJOR GENERAL HAND.
Philadelphia County, Sep. 8, 1802. By the death of this worthy man the United States has lost one of her firmest props during the revolutionary war, the old soldier one of his best friends , and his country an useful and unassuming citizen , as well as an active and zealous supporter of her rights .
In this gentleman's character were happily blended, the religious sober citizen, the intelligent brave soldier and the social virtuous man—and if we view him in a professional light, we shall find equal source of admiration and applause, being ever sedulous in his attentions to his patients, overflowing with humanity and tenderness for them in the hour of sickness and pain and in an eminent degree skillful in ministering to them relief—in the tender relations of husband and father, he was loving and beloved , while his paternal attentions and solicititudes insured, in esteem, voluntary obedience and the most sincere filial affection.
Astronomy.—The orbit of the planet Olbers has been so well calculated by citizens Bankardt, that this new planet may be considered as already known. Its revolution is made in 1708 days, or 4 years, 8 months and 3 days. That of the planet Piazzi is 4 years, 7 months, and 10 days; but their distances are different, on account of their eccentricities. The former varies from 21 to 25; the latter from 27 to 28, taking the distance of the earth from the sun at ten— Lalande .
LA FAYETTE.
La Fayette has written a letter to Bonaparte on the subject of his being Consul for life, in which he says, that "he has his vote, provided he restores to the people of France the rights of citizens and the liberty of the press." Bonaparte has sent him back a verbal message, saying "tell general La Fayette, that if I were to do that which he wishes, neither he nor I would be in France three months."
On Tuesday last, the Freemen of the State assembled in their respective Towns, for the purpose of giving in the votes for Representatives to the 8th Congress, and for members of assembly. The meetings were generally thin, and we regret that many of our Republican Friends neglected to exercise their privileges. Let them remember while they sleep, their enemies will be active. In some towns where the Republican interest has had 200 votes majority, there were but 30 this election, owing entirely to the non-attendance of the Republicans. Notwithstanding the remissness the Republican Candidates Gen. Stanton and Nehe-miah Knight, Esq. will appear to have been elected by about 1000 majority. The number of Republican members of the assembly will be greater in the next assembly than the last.
The votes in Providence stood Federal 282. Republican 81. Here too we find many of our Republican Friends were remiss in their duty.
Providence Phenix.
NEWPORT, Sept. 4, 1802.
On Tuesday last, the Citizens of this town assembled at the State house for the purpose of bestowing their suffrages. It was to the true friends of their country a day replete with anxiety.—He who witnessed them, can alone conceive the deep and lively emotions, by which each and every honest hearted Republican was agitated. All personal animosities laid aside, they were absorbed by, and united in the one great common interest; and hand in hand "like a band of brothers joined" they pressed on in solid columns to vindicate the faithful, and to sanction the principles of their fathers. Such undaunted firmness; such intrepid adherence to conscientious conviction; such brilliant manifestations of magnanimity, and patriotism, have seldom transpired. Though but small previous exertions had been made by the Republicans, still at the moment of trial, they, with very few exceptions, were found firm and united, steady, inflexible, and acquitted themselves to the interest, and glory of their country.
The following Gentlemen, (Republicans) were re-elected Deputies to the General Assembly without opposition, viz.
CONSTANT TABER, JOHN GARDINER, NATHANIEL HAZARD, THOMAS G. PITMAN, JOSEPH BOSS, Jun. and PAUL M. MUMFORD.
Accounts from different parts of the State inspire the most hopeful sentiments. Though the Town meetings in some of our towns have been rather disorderly, owing to a preponderance of federalism, still they are to be considered but as topical distempers, which a pure air will gradually remove.
STANTON and KNIGHT composed the Republican; and TILLINGHAST and PORTER the Federal ticket for mem-
bers of Congress.—We have no doubt the Republican ticket will succeed by more than a thousand majority.
The following is a statement of the majorities in the several towns from which we have heard.
Table with 4 columns: Towns, Repub., Maj., Fed., Maj. Lists majorities for various towns including Newport, Portsmouth, Middletown, Tiverton, Jamestown, New-Shoreham, Providence, Cranston, Scituate, Cumberland, South-Kingstown, North-Kingstown, Charlestown, Exeter, Richmond, Hopkinton, Westerly, East Greenwich, West Greenwich, Warwick, Bristol.
By the best information we can obtain from different parts of the state, it appears there will be considerable acquisition to the Republican interest in the next General Assembly.
This is to give Notice,
THAT the Subscribers hath obtained from the Orphans Court of Calvert County, in Maryland, letters of Administration, on the personal estate of John W. Simmons, late of said County deceased—All persons having any claims against the said deceased are here by warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof to the subscribers, at or before the twelfth day of March next—they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under our hands this tenth day of September, 1802.
BEN. WILLIAMS, Adm. SARAH SIMMONS, Adm.
All persons indebted to the said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the Subscriber.
B. W. June 15, 1802. 1aw4t.
NOTICE.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Washington County, District of Columbia, on 20th August, negro CATE 5 feet high, who says he belongs to James Koath Esq. of Alexandria.
Committed the 28th, negro DAVY, 5 feet 10-12 inches high, about 35 years of age, yellow complexion with a scar between his eye-brows occasioned by a hurt when a child, a ship-carpenter by trade, formerly the property of James Clagett of George Town—The above negroes if not taken away by their owners will be sold agreeable to law, for jail fees.
ROBERT MCLEAN, Jailor. For Daniel C. Brent, Marshal of the District of Columbia. Washington County, Sept. 2d, 1802. 1aw3t.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or STOLEN on the night of the 7th August, from the Commons of the City of Washington,
TWO HORSES,
OF the following description, viz. the one a roan horse, about 9 years old, 14 1-2 hands high, switch tail, a star in his forehead, a rough scar on his right shoulder, just below the mane, and a remarkable large belly.—The other a mare 14 hands high, a dark bay, she has a star in her forehead, long tail, and about 8 years old, on close examination, it will be discovered that one of her hips is higher than the other. The above horses were shod before. In either there is no perceptible brand or mark, whereby they might be designated, remembered.
I will give the above reward for both horses, or ten dollars for either, including all reasonable charges, if delivered to Mr. WILLIAM HOLMES, City of Washington, or to the subscriber, living near Allens Fresh, Charles County, Maryland.
LAWRENCE POSEY. Sept. 9, 1802. 1aw3t.
District of Columbia, County of Washington } By the Orphans' Court July 22, 1802.
DEBORAH STEWART having exhibited an exemplification of the last will and testament of Walter Stewart, late of Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania deceased, and applied for letters testamentary thereon; and the said Deborah Stewart being appointed executrix by said will; but Blair McClenachan, Francis West, and William Tilghman, also named executors in said will, not appearing, it is ordered, That summons issue to the said Blair McClenachan, Francis West, and William Tilghman, to show cause why letters shall not issue to the said Deborah Stewart as prayed; and also that she give notice of her application, by publishing a copy of this order in a Washington or Georgetown newspaper, to be inserted once a week four weeks successively.
JOHN HEWITT, Reg. August 9, 1802. 1aw4t.
This is to give Notice,
THAT the subscriber hath obtained from the orphan's Court of Prince George County letters testamentary on the personal estate of JOHN STAMP, late of said county, deceased. All persons having claims against said deceased, are requested to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber on or before the 10th day of January 1803; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand and seal, this tenth day of August eighteen hundred and two.
J. W. WOOD. Aug. 27, 1802. 1aw3t.
To the Public.
When the natural advantages of the United States are considered there is no subject that strikes with more force than our inland navigation. Various attempts have been made to accelerate it by mechanical means of transportation, and great merit is due to the projectors, yet they have unfortunately too generally failed. I now come forward to offer an invention of my own for propelling boats and vessels of any size according to the force that may be applied, totally new and different from any others that have been produced. I will remark that I have produced it, I have experimented it, and it remains with the public to carry it into execution. I refer to the President of the United States, to the Secretary of State, to the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Superintendent of the Navy, and to many of our respectable citizens, who have seen its effects, and who will give their opinions: I refer to the thing itself, where experiments, by manual labour, will convince ocular observation, and obviate useless verbal or written descriptions. It is proper, however, to give some account of its qualities. They consist in its simplicity, in its convenience, its durability, its adaption to manual, horse or steam powers, and in the double, or successive stroke. This double or successive stroke is worthy the attention of the mechanic and of the navigator, for by a constant effort is kept up. It exceeds the common oar by the single stroke only, and of course must gain rapidly when the successive stroke is applied. It can be used either vertically or horizontally, and at the stem, stern or sides of the vessel, and is constructed and operated of direct lines instead of rotary lines. Its chief importance consists in its obviating manual labour, being, with the greatest convenience, adapted to the steam engine, whose force is durable, competent, and equal; and this equal force it is that gives uniform power to the successive stroke. It can be used in all cases where rowing can be done, and may be extended to Bays, Lakes and short coasting trade. Whenever there is a want of wind, there lies a principal advantage in the invention. In instances of long rivers, such as the Mississippi, Ohio, &c. it is intended that the machine-boat shall be designated to tow other boats; but larger vessels will justify separate engines. Fuel may be deposited along the shores of rivers at convenient distances to be taken in occasionally by itself, so as not to impede the progress of the machine. To the steam engine I would recommend the attention of the public, but machines may be modified for any power, either manual or horse. Besides encouraging this invention for common utility, individuals will be benefited in proportion to the early applications they shall make for privileges, my patent being dated the 22nd day of February 1802. In case of applications, I promise to direct the manufacturing of machines, and will give every instruction and aid in my power to accelerate the business. Steam engines can be had made in some of the principal seaport towns, particularly Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore—and other parts of the United States.
R. CLAIBORNE. Aug. 27, 1802.
The editors of Newspapers will do a patriotic act by promulgating the above.
New Invention.
The IMPROVED SAW-MILL, for which the subscriber has obtained a Patent.
THIS improvement saves the sawyer much labour, and the work is also much more expeditions. The log being flabb'd, turned down, and the saw started, the whole operation proceeds without further manual aid; for, the instant the cut is finished, the log moves back, and at the same time is guaged to the utmost exactness by the machine, ready for another cut in two thirds of a minute. The saw resumes its action in the log, and thus moves in alternate succession until the whole be cut up in any given dimensions, at which time the mill shuts up if required, or at any number of cuts for which the sawyer prepares, for his attendance is unnecessary. Any person or persons inclining to purchase the privilege of erecting this valuable and simple machine, or of adding the improvement, which may readily be affixed to any Saw Mill already in use, will please to apply to the subscriber at West Brandywine Bridge, on the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road, Pennsylvania; or by application to Dr. Thornton, City of Washington, who is complete operating model may be seen which laws in the most exact manner, and performs all the various movements of a large saw mill. He will also furnish the drawings and description.
In consequence of numerous applications from persons whose saw-mills are not in constant operation, and to render the benefit more extensive, I have thought it proper to reduce the price of the privilege to eighty dollars; and I will return twenty dollars to every person who has already purchased the improvement at one hundred, that no distinction may be made. The improvement may cost about twenty dollars. The castings may be had already executed, at the City of Washington, at prima cost .
MOSES COATES. August 2, 1802. 1awtf
IMPORTED
In the Robert from Liverpool, and now opening for Sale at the Subscriber's Store, New-Jersey Avenue, Capitol Hill, City of Washington—
A general assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Sadlery and Brass Wares.—Spades and Shovels, Sheet Iron, Tin in Boxes, Brass Kettles, Corn Hoes, Nails, Glue; Locks, Hinges and Screws, Carpenters planes, Saws, Braces and Bits, Screw drivers, &c. Knives and Forks, Cruit Stands, Iron Wire, Bruisers Smiths Hammers, Files, Vices, Screw plates, &c. Razors, Penknives, Spoons. Japanned Tea Trays, Waiters and Bread Baskets, a few sets of gentleman's tools in chests, and a variety of articles too tedious to particularize. Also, a cases of Ketland's fowling guns, which will be sold very low for cash or approved notes.
H. INGL. June 28, 1802. 1aw3w 1wtf
WHEREAS, by a law of Congress passed on the 26th day of April 1802, it was enacted, "That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to receive claims to lands for military services, and claims for duplicates of warrants issued from his office, or from the land office of Virginia, or of plats and certificates of surveys founded on such warrants, suggested to have been lost or destroyed; until the first day of January next, and no longer; and immediately thereafter to report the same to Congress, designating the number of claims of each description, with his opinion thereon."
Notice is hereby given, To all persons claiming lands for military services, that they must lodge in this office, prior to the first day of January next, documents to prove the validity of their claims.
Commissioned officers, surgeons and surgeon's mates; or their legal representatives must produce evidence to prove that they served in the army of the United States to the end of the war, or that they were deranged by a resolution of Congress, which did not bar their claim to military bounty lands. It will also be necessary for the representatives of officers &c. killed in the service to produce evidence to prove that the person was "slain by the enemy."
Non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, or their legal representatives must produce evidence to prove, that they enlisted to serve in the army of the United States during the war, and that they actually served until the end of said war. It will also be necessary for the representatives of non-commissioned officers, &c. who were enlisted during the war and were killed in the service, to produce evidence to prove that they were "slain by the enemy."
H. DEARBORN.
War Department, Aug. 16, 1802. 1aw3t.
Proposals
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For reprinting by subscription, that scarce and valuable work, the
DEBATES
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TO THE PUBLIC.
The above publication was procrastinated on account of the copy-right being vested in Mr. Davis, who has now agreed to print the book, in conjunction with the subscriber. The public are therefore respectfully informed, that the work will be put to press, so soon as a sufficiency of subscribers are obtained to indemnify the expense of paper. Upon an accurate calculation, the price mentioned in the former proposal was found too small; the subscriber has thought proper to enhance it, and he hopes that those who first intended to patronize the undertaking, will not on that account withhold their support, for so trivial an alteration.
JOHN DIXON.
** Subscriptions will be received at the office of the National Intelligencer
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Lands, Houses and Lots, for Sale.
OFFER for sale the valuable tract of land called Prospect, containing 167 1-2 acres, bordering on the city of Washington, and nearly north of the capitol—On this property are four beautiful eminences, commanding a view of the city, Georgetown, Alexandria, Potomac river, Eastern branch, and the adjacent country—To accommodate purchasers, this tract, if desired, will be divided into four Lots, each having its eminence. Also, a tract of 493 acres, called the Vale, lying on the waters of Rock creek, a small distance above Mr. Isaac Pierce's mill, the greater part in wood. I likewise offer for sale, from 2 to 6 cents the square foot, 80 Lots in Beatty and Hawkins's addition to Georgetown. I will also sell a number of water lots, fronting the town, and on the causeway, that connects the town with the city of Washington—and the two large brick dwellings on the water side, at present occupied by Charles Beatty, and his son C. A. Beatty.
As no person will buy, without viewing the premises, I think it unnecessary to give a description of these properties.
Apply to CHARLES BEATTY, George-town, June 23, 1802. 1127w

TO THE PUBLIC.
The Proprietors of the Charter for opening the Navigation of the Catawba and Wateree Rivers, having at length been, with much satisfaction, the completion of the Santee Canal, propose to recommence their operations for opening the Catawba and Wateree Rivers during the present year, as soon as the state of the said Rivers will permit.
In the mean while they have determined to double the number of their shares for the purpose of admitting such persons as may choose to become subscribers. The expenses which have been already incurred by the Company amount to one hundred dollars on each share of the present number, which, when doubled according to the present determination, will reduce it to fifty dollars a share.
The Charter of South-Carolina is in perpetuity, and these shares are forever exempted from any rate, tax, duty, assessment or imposition whatever. The Act of North Carolina, authorizes the Company to fix and establish a toll on all goods and merchandise, for 99 years, and exempt their shares from any tax, duty, assessment or imposition whatever, for the same period of time.
The present proprietors think it a duty incumbent on them, to inform the public, that a very considerable sum is expected to be raised from the sale of vacant lands, (which extend two miles on each side of the Catawba river, the whole length thereof from the North Carolina line down to Camden Ferry, a distance of not less than 120 miles, and in which are supposed to be reserved to the company, not less than 58,000 or 60,000 acres.) and left they should be deferred from engaging in the present navigation, by a reference to the enormous expense of the Santee Canal, the stockholders think it but just that they should declare their opinion of the improbability of the subscribers being called upon for more than 16 dollars on each share per annum, as it would be impossible for the works to be carried on longer than for about four months in the year, since the labourers will be chiefly employed in the water.
It is further to be remarked, that the Catawba river is looked upon as the most proper site for the establishment of a magazine, foundry and arsenal, for the three Southern states, viz. North and South Carolina and Georgia; that surveys have been made, and a statement thereof forwarded on this subject some years ago, to the Secretary at War; that the State of South Carolina passed an act, authorizing a purchase by the United States of a certain quantity of land within this state; and the Catawba company have offered to release to the United States, any of their lands on said river, for such purpose, on a fair valuation. The hour now seems to approach for such an establishment; not only because it is a time of almost profound peace throughout the world, but that the idea is revived by the President of the United States, in his message of the 2d of February, 1802, to Congress, wherein he says, "besides the permanent magazines established at Springfield, Wat Point, and Harper's Ferry, it is thought one should be established at some point convenient for the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, such a point will be found near the borders of the Carolinas; and some small provision by the legislature, preparatory to the establishment, will be necessary for the present year." And nature indeed has pointed out this river as the most proper place for such a magazine, from the vast quantities of ore which have been discovered on the Catawba and its two branches, and there can be no doubt but that such an abundance of metal must attract the attention of the engineer, who may be authorized to examine and determine on a proper site for this establishment, particularly as there are already several furnaces and forges on the abovementioned rivers, at some of which six pound guns have been cast and bored, equal to any ever imported or made to the northward.
The company intend for the present season, to confine their operations to the removal of the obstructions from Rocky Mount to Camden Ferry, to the opening of a road for a carrying place, and the transportation of goods, from above the Falls at Rocky Mount, down to the Old Ferry landing; to the erection of a bridge across the Rocky Creek, and to the building a boat, and establishing the Ferry, which is allowed them by law.
At a meeting of the Catawba Company, the 4th of March, 1802, two-thirds of them being present,
On motion, resolved, That the six hundred shares in the Company of the Catawba and Wateree Rivers, be subdivided into twelve hundred.
That the present proprietors be entitled to hold double the number of their present shares; and that they have besides a preference to extend the number of their shares to one for every ten to which they shall be entitled after such subdivision.
To every new subscriber who shall pay 50 dollars, shall be entitled not only to the advantages to be derived from the opening of said river; but also to a proportionate interest in the lands vested in the Company by the legislature of this state.
Resolved, That 100 shares be referred to be offered to the state of South Carolina, and that an equal number of shares be referred to be tendered to the state of North Carolina.
At an anniversary meeting of the Catawba Company, on Tuesday the 10th instant, the following resolves were entered into:—
"That an advertisement be published, inviting persons to contract for the opening of Graves's Ford and Love's Ford to deep and wide as to admit boats drawing 2 feet 9 inches water, and 12 feet wide; also, for opening a road and carrying place, from above Rocky Mount, to the Ferry landing below, and for constructing a bridge across Rocky Creek; also, for building a Ferry Boat to ply across the river, at or near the present landing at Rocky Mount, also for surveying the vacant lands, which have been already granted them by the legislature. Such undertakers to give approved security for the faithful fulfilment of their respective contracts, and to direct their applications to the President, Judge Grimké, during the sitting of the constitutional court at Columbia, from the 19th to the 24th of April next, or to Charles Tew, the Secretary, in Charleston, on or before the 15th day of May next ensuing."
"That the President do establish a correspondence with some mercantile house in Cambridge, and endeavour to obtain permission to lodge with them the monies of the Company, and that they would disburse the same, according to the directions of the Company."
"That one hundred shares be offered to the citizens of North Carolina, and that they have to the first day of January next ensuing, to subscribe for such shares; and that General Davie be authorised to appoint some person or persons in that state to receive such subscriptions on the part of the Company, payable as in the following resolution:"
"That Col. Senf, Col. Hill, and John Simpion, esq. clerk of Lancaster court, be authorised to receive subscriptions from such persons as are inclined to become proprietors, and who reside within the limits of this state, and that they take notes, payable to the President and Directors of the Company for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree Rivers on the first day of March 1803, and they be authorised to deliver receipts for the same in the nature of scrip, in such form as the President and Directors shall appoint."
"That these resolutions, with the late publication in the papers of this city, as far as the President and Directors shall deem necessary and proper, be inserted in Cox and Shepard's Gazette of this city, and in the one which is printed in Raleigh, North Carolina, by Joseph Gales, once a month until the 1st of October next."
"That the solicitor of the company be instructed to adopt the most immediate measures for the recovery of such balances as appear to be due by such proprietors as have paid none of the requisitions for the last 18 months past, and that the secretary do furnish him with a list of the names of such defaulters."
"That the following mode be adopted as the uniform rule of transferring the shares of the company: "I A. B. do transfer my right to share No. forty, (the number must be in letters and not numerals) in the company for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree rivers, unto G. D. for value received. Signed A. B. Witnessed by E. F. G. H. Proved on oath, before me, L. M.—J. P."
"That the sum of one shilling and two pence be paid on each share, on the requisition which shall become due, on the third Tuesday of September next ensuing, and the same due on the third Tuesday of March thereafter."
"South Carolina, 1802. Received of a note payable to the President and Directors of the Company, for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree rivers, for fifty dollars, which, when paid, will entitle him to be a stockholder in the said company."
LOST.
ON Monday the 24th August, between the Washington Branch Bank and the Twenty Buildings, a red morocco POCKET BOOK, containing eighty dollars in Bank Notes, of the Alexandria Bank; and a note of hand for 200 hundred dollars, together with some small papers, &c. Whoever returns the same with the contents, shall receive ten dollars Reward from the Subscriber, living at Mr. Jones's 20 Buildings.
JOHN ATKIN, Sept. 1, 1802. ept3t
FOR SALE,
LOOKING-GLASSES & FURNITURE.
The subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has just received from New-York various kinds of Looking-Glasses, from 5 to 70 dollars each.—Also card tables, bureaus, &c. of an elegant and fashionable make. He continues to manufacture and sell all kinds of ornaments for chimney-pieces, door caps, frontispiece pieces, metal fishes, &c. &c.
GEORGE ANDREWS. April 14, 1802. ept1
William Kennedy, HAIR DRESSER & CUTTER, (From Europe)
RESPECTFULLY informs the ladies and gentlemen of George-Town and the City of Washington, that he cuts and dresses hair and makes the newest fashioned head dresses.
Having pursued his avocation for ten years in Philadelphia, seven years in Baltimore, and residing for these two years past in France, he flatters himself he cannot be excelled in the business he professes to follow.
Any commands left at Mr. Benj. M'Key's, opposite the Ohio Printing-Office, will be punctiliously attended to. Aug 16, 1802. ept6
Thomas Carpenter, TAYLOR.
HAS just received an elegant and fashionable assortment of summer goods, consisting of London superfine cloths and cassimeres; India, Manchester, and silk striped nankeens; cotton cassimeres, beagle-pet, Bengal elegant white chord for pantaloons, white and coloured marcelles, janes and satin croisés, silk ginghams, black and other coloured striped satins, &c.—All which he will make up on the most reasonable terms, and in the most neat and fashionable manner.—Pennsylvania Avenue, west of the President's square. May 24, 1802. eptf
CHARLES VARDEN,
MERCHANT TAYLOR from Philadelphia, Capitol Hill, New-Jersey Avenue.
HAS received an assortment of summer goods consisting of the best superfine Cloths.
Cassimeres, Silk Borraches, English Striped Nankeens, White India Dimities, White and printed Marcellas, With a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season.
N. B. Ladies Habits, Regimentals and Navy uniforms, made in the first style of fashion. July 2, 1802. tf
AGREABLY to a Deed of Trust from Anthony Addison to the Subscriber, will be offered
For Sale,
TO the highest bidder, by Public Auction, at Sell's Hotel, in the City of Washington, on Monday the 9th day of August next, all that tract of land lying and being on the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, opposite to said City called "Chichester, with addition re-surveyed," containing three hundred acres.
On the above-mentioned tract of land, is the Ferry Landing, so well known by the name of "Dyer's Ferry," now in the occupation of Capt. Naylor.
The Sale to commence at 11 o'clock in the forenoon—Terms of sale cash.
Wm. BRENT. June 30, 1802. ts
A Valuable Farm for Sale, In King George County & State of Virginia.
THIS Farm contains five hundred and thirty-five acres—about three hundred and fifty of which are cleared and divided into three fields with good inclosures;—it is situated on Potomac river, and bounded on the South East side for a mile and half by Rozier's creek, which affords a great abundance of fine fish and wild fowl, crabs, oysters, &c.—thirty miles from Fredericksburg, forty four from Alexandria, and fifty from Washington City.
On this land are very extensive shell banks, exclusive of the advantages to be derived from these banks by the lime business, they are very favourable to the production of corn and wheat, and the soil inexhaustible; there are about sixty or seventy acres of this kind of land, and the balance that is cleared of an excellent quality, and a great number of springs of fine water; it can with certainty be classed among the most healthy situations below the falls of Potomac—indeed, the natural advantages attending this place are innumerable.
The improvements are a two story framed dwelling house, sixty-four feet long, commanding a beautiful view of the creek and river; one other house intended for an office, twenty-six feet by eighteen with three rooms and a cellar in good repair; a large house, including a stable for eight horses, a corn-house, carriage-house, saddle and harness room, and a commodious granary above, and other convenient buildings on the Farm—a small orchard of well chosen apples and peach-trees—the yard and garden inclosed this spring, with pales and railing—The whole plantation in good repair, and the land in a great state of improvement.
The terms of Sale will be made known by Mr. Frances Whiting, who in a short time will be a resident of Berkeley county, or by the subscriber on the premises.
WILLIAM F. FLOOD. July 9, 1802. tf
TO RENT,
And possession given immediately, A TWO STORY brick house on F Street near the War Office, containing two parlors, six bed rooms, and a kitchen, with an excellent garden, coach house, stable, &c.—The house is newly painted and papered; it was formerly occupied by Mr. Dexter, and lately by Mr. John Brown. Enquire of Clement Dorsey, Esq. George-Town; or of the subscriber, who has for sale a well finished three story brick house opposite the Six Buildings, and a variety of City Lots in the most eligible situations. The above House will be sold for less than any gentleman could build it. The payments will be made easy on the whole of the above property.
WILLIAM Dyer. April 7, 1802. eptf Building Materials will be taken in part payment. W.D.
FOR SALE.
The subscriber intending to move to the state of Kentucky, has and now offers for sale, the following lands, to wit:
A TRACT in the county of Frederick (Virginia) on Buck marsh, within 12 miles of Winchester, and 5 of Shenandoah river, containing four hundred and six acres under good repair, there is on the plantation between fifty and sixty acres of meadow land of the first quality, with a stream of water running through it, which can at no considerable expense and trouble, be watered if required; there is a dwelling house, kitchen, barn, blacksmith's shop, and several out houses, a number of large and never failing springs, several of which being quite convenient to the dwelling house, there is a valuable apple orchard, together with a number of other fruit trees, of the most choice kind.
A Tract adjoining on said marsh, containing seventy-seven and two thirds acres, with a dwelling house, kitchen, a large commodious distillery with four stills, tubs, and other requisites sufficient, and in complete order for carrying on the distilling business. There is on this tract, ten acres of meadow land, which can be watered; and is an excellent Rand for a store.
One other tract lying on the head of said marsh, and within half a mile of the last mentioned tract, and containing the same number of acres; a proportion of which is cleared, and under good inclosure, a convenient dwelling house, kitchen, and barn, with a well of water near the house, and a large spring at no great distance.
Also the tract whereon the subscriber lives, in four separate surveys, six hundred and twelve acres, lying within seventeen miles of Winchester, on the main road leading to Strasburg; and on both sides of a large creek that divides the two counties, Frederick and Shenandoah. A proportion of these tracts, consist of rich low ground, on both sides of said creek; about twenty acres of handsome meadow, a dwelling house, kitchen, a large sheaded barn, with a number of other convenient and necessary out-houses, a good garden, a small apple, and pear orchard, and a number of young and thriving cherry trees; there are three small, but good, springs, one of which is tolerable convenient to the house—The above lands are fertile, and well calculated for raising corn, and small grain of every description, and are particularly calculated for grazing farms, as they afford great quantities of the best grass. Any further description is thought unnecessary, as it is expected that all those wishing to purchase, would with first to view the land, which will be shown, and the terms of payment made known by the subscriber living on the last-mentioned premises, in Shenandoah county, Virginia.
WILLIAM A. BOOTH. Aug. 23, 1802. eptf
City Hotel, BROADWAY NEW-YORK.
THE Subscriber most respectfully informs his friends and the public, that the above Hotel will be opened on the first of May ensuing, when their patronage is earnestly solicited. He avails himself of this opportunity to return his sincere and grateful thanks to those societies, parties, and gentlemen, who have given him their support, and assures them that a continuance of their favors will be a stimulus to future exertions to please; and that the utmost attention shall be given for their comfort and accommodation.
Boarding may be had by the day, week, month, or year. Families travelling, may be elegantly accommodated with lodging and sitting rooms; and, if preferred, have dinners &c. at their apartments.
The Hotel being so well known, is almost useless to say, that it is situated in one of the most healthy and pleasant parts of the city; commanding an extensive view in every direction, not only of the city itself, but also of the Narrows, the North and East Rivers, the state of New-Jersey, York and Long-Island, &c. &c.
A handsome coffee-room will be fitted up in the principal story; where gentlemen may have tea, coffee, chocolate, soups, and refreshments in general, at the shortest notice. All the leading newspapers in the union, will be regularly taken in.
Public dinners and suppers in a plain or elegant style either for large or small parties. Also, beef steaks, oysters, &c. regularly furnished. An ordinary every day at half past 2 o'clock, by the public's obedient servant, JOHN LOVETT.
N. B. Rooms to let by the month or year. April 21, 1802. eptf
TO BE RENTED,
Two or three large three story brick Houses.
SITUATED on the Capitol Hill, convenient to the Capitol—to prevent trouble it is wished that no one would apply who will not pay half the rent in advance, or who can give good security for the payment of the rent—possession to be had the first of November, application to be made to DANL. CARROLL of Dudd. Sept. 2, 1802. ept1n.
Stolen or strayed from the
City of Washington, on the night of the 7th inst. a grey draught Gel ing, the hinder part somewhat darker than the rest of the body, strongly marked, and about 15 hands high.—Whoever gives such intelligence to that he may be found, shall get, (if found in the City) two dollars, if within eight miles of the City three dollars, and it at a greater distance shall be considered in proportion, by the proprietor living in New-Jersey Avenue. PATRICK DONOUGHUE. Sept. 13, 1802. 3t.
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber intends to petition the Washington County Court, at their next meeting, for License to keep the ferry from George Town to Virginia, known by the name of Beatty's Ferry.
JOHN KENNEDY. Sept. 13, 1802. 3ts12awf.
Valuable property for Sale.
Will be Sold at Mr. Dougherty's Tavern, in the town of Bladensburg, on Saturday the ninth day of October, to the highest bidder, the following property, viz.
1st. That well improved lot of ground lately occupied by Mr. Eustace Ross—the improvements are a large convenient and well finished brick house, two stories high, having on the first floor, four handsome rooms, with fire places in each, and on the second a large and complete nursery, two bed rooms with a fire place in each, and two well finished fore rooms. This lot with the garden contains about three acres of ground, and has on it also all the necessary out houses—a new and complete elegant paling inclose the front, (and a new oak and chestnut post and rail fence the garden,) annexed to this lot will be sold if required about two acres of prime hay meadow, from whence a stream of water from a never failing spring may be conducted over any part of the garden or lot, so as to supply an extensive fish pond or dairy, either of which may be constructed at a small expense; the ground being elegantly situated.
2d. That well improved lot late the property of Maj. David Ross—the improvements are a large and well finished stone house, rough casted, three handsome rooms, and a complete store room, with a fire place in each, and an entry on the first floor, three bed rooms with a fire place in each—two other small bed rooms and a complete store room and entry on the second floor—these out houses are an excellent stable and carriage house, and corn house—an excellent stone meat house, an extensive wash house with lodging rooms for the servants, and a complete store house and dairy, with a never failing spring of water, an excellent garden abounding with a variety of fruit and strawberries—a neat yard in front and about three acres of meadow ground behind are annexed to this lot, as also about half an acre of high ground, from whence the meadow may be watered the whole year round. In short both of these lots are well improved, and for their size in local advantages might at a small expense be rendered as elegant as any property in the state—There will also be sold several unimproved lots in the most central parts of the town, so divided as to accommodate purchasers.
When it is considered this property is within five miles of the capitol of the United States, that the paw waters at Bladensburg which have been for some time highly esteemed, will shortly render it perhaps the most considerable watering place on the continent, every person must at once be impressed with the probable appreciation of property situated as this is. Terms of sale one and two years credit, for bonds upon interests from date of sale approved security. Sept. 3, 1802. WM. STEUART. ept90i
NOTICE.
A MEETING of the subscribers to the Little River Road Company, is called at the house of Mrs. M'Call in Georgetown, on the 10th Wednesday, in September next, being the 22d of the month, in pursuance of the law, requiring that the commissioners or any four of them, shall as soon as two hundred shares are subscribed, call a meeting of the subscribers for the purpose of electing by a majority of votes, delivered in person or by proxy, one president, four directors, one treasurer, and such other officers as they shall think necessary, for well ordering and conducting the affairs of the said Company—The commissioners having obtained the necessary number of shares, avail themselves of the earliest opportunity of calling together the subscribers in conformity to the law; they recommend a personal attendance if practicable, as it may be necessary to pass some bye laws and regulations for conducting the company's affairs, where that is too inconvenient it will be proper to appoint a proxy in writing, attested by one witness at least.
WM. HARTSHORNE, JOHN T. RICKETTS, ISRAEL LACEY, BURR POWELL. Aug. 25, 1802. ept22d.
NOTICE.
Was Lost, in George Town or the City, on Monday the 6th inst. a Red Morocco pocket book, with money notes and papers, of no use to any person but the owner, viz. one note drawn on William Bruff in my favour for 438 dollars, cents not recollected, due on the 15th of this inst.—One ditto of 438 dollars, cents not recollected, due on the 15th of December next.—One ditto on Israel Loring for 34 dollars 50 cents on 60 days, dated 2d of August last, with sundry other notes and papers of no use to any one but myself.—Any person finding and giving notice of the same to the subscriber, living in Bladensburg, or to Samuel McIntire in the City, shall be generously rewarded. EBENEZER ELIASON. Sept. 13, 1802. raw3t.
Looking-Glasses & Prints.
R. ATKINS, (From London) CARVER & GILDER, ALEXANDRIA.
Respectfully informs the public, that he has for sale a large assortment of Looking-Glasses in Burnished gold frames, Dressing-Glasses, elegant and plain. Variety of Prints in elegant burnished gold frames.
Which he will sell on low terms for cash. Mrs. A. repairs & re-gilds Looking-Glasses, and framed Prints, in elegant burnished gold or plain, on reasonable terms. She likewise varnishes burnished Gold Frames to prevent injury from flies. September 6. 6t
FOR SALE.
TWO large superb Looking-glasses just imported from London. One Plate measuring 303 by 50 inches, the other, 34 by 40 do. with suitable ornaments—apply to Wm. HODGSON. Alexandria, June 30, 1802. 13t