The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1807-08-17 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. VII.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. 1067.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM
MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1807.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
LAUDABLE.
To the Non-resident Proprietors of Lands situated in the state of Ohio!
No person possessing common feelings of humanity, can for a moment reflect upon the situation of the Lands of the non-resident proprietors in the western country (where they are subject to be sold for taxation and no hope of redemption) without pitying the miseries of the truly unfortunate or the misfortunes of a family, stripped of their dependence!!! The hungry speculator stands ready to grasp the fortunes of those unfortunate persons, and although he may seize that which does not enrich himself, he may, nevertheless place the property of the non-resident in such a situation, that the expense of the redemption would be almost as great a loss to the original proprietor, as the land would be worth—such circumstances as these call aloud for a permanent agent for the non-residents in the state of Ohio.
Having been solicited from various quarters to embark in the business of an Agent for non-residents, I had determined to offer my services last fall when the commendatory letter subscribed was signed; but from the business, which, at that period engaged my attention from other quarters, I could only be induced to transact business in that capacity for a few friends. Having disengaged myself from those concerns, I now tender my services to non-resident proprietors of lands situated in the state of Ohio; who, though they are dispersed throughout the United States, have an opportunity now afforded them, of employing an agent to attend their business, whose endeavor it will be to discharge it to their satisfaction.
Those persons who are desirous of employing me as their agent, will address letters to this place by post, designating the business required to be performed; the situation of the land, the number of the warrant, entry, and survey, in whose name the same may have been entered, surveyed or patented, or in whose name it was entered with the Auditor for taxation, and in what district or upon what water course the same may be situated, or as accurate a description as the nature of the case will permit.
Should persons with their lands redeemed from purchasers, if it belong to heirs it will be necessary to forward proper vouchers to that effect; if they with their lands sold, divided or disposed of in any manner whatever, proper authority should accompany their letters, and their business will be attended to, upon the following
CONDITIONS:
 1st. Paying taxes, taking receipts and transmitting duplicates to my employer, for every tract one dollar, and a commission of two and a half per cent, upon all monies received and paid for taxes.  2d. Selling or redeeming lands, &c. from 6 to 10 per cent, or whatever the expense and trouble attending the business may be reasonably worth.  3d. All letters addressed to me must be post-paid. Notes must be enclosed covering the amount of commission and fees, as specified, and the amount of taxes which may be nearly ascertained (if the quality of the land is known) from the following rates of taxation imposed by law, viz. first rate land 90 cents; second rate 65 cents, and third rate 40 cents, per hundred acres.  4th. All employees will please to designate their address and place of residence. 
THOMAS S. HINDE.
Chillicothe, state of Ohio, July 11th, 1807. The sale of non-residents lands will commence the first Monday in December next. Chillicothe, December 6th, 1806.
From our acquaintance with Thomas S. Hinde, and being informed that he offers his services as agent for the proprietors of lands, who are non-residents, within the state of Ohio, we feel no hesitation in recommending him to our respective friends, acquaintances and all non-resident proprietors as a proper person to be employed in that business; and from our acquaintance with him, conceive that he will discharge the duties assigned him, with fidelity, promptitude and dispatch.
Given under our hands at Chillicothe, the date above written.
James Taylor, Ch. A. Stuart, George Clark, Hen. Massie, E. Langham.
Chillicothe, July 11th 1807.
From our acquaintance with Thomas S. Hinde, we conceive him well qualified for discharging the duties of an agent for non-resident proprietors of lands in the state of Ohio.
Thomas Gibson, Auditor of accounts for the state of Ohio. Wm. M c Farland, Treasurer. A. F. Williams. Collector of non residents land tax. August 7—
Washington, Aug. 5th 1807.
NOTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to the Treasury of the United States for the renewal of Certificate No 10 766 for 300 dollars deferred Six per cent stock, standing to the credit of Francis Beauchamp on the books of the Treasury aforesaid, which certificate has been lost or destroyed.
JAMES DAVIDSON, Jr.
August 5—w6t
ELIAS B. CALDWELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAS removed his Office, to the house lately occupied by Mr. Law, on Capitol Hill, Washington, July 26—tf
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
R. C. Weightman, Printer, Bookseller, and Stationer, Pennsylvania avenue.
HAS just received from Philadelphia and New York, a Large and General Assortment of articles in his line, which he will sell on the same terms they can be had for in either of those places, among which are,
 Malthus: Population, 2 vols.  Lauderdale on Public Wealth,  Leland's Demosthenes, 2 vo.  Lay on an Irish Harp, by the author of the Wild Irish Girl,  Homer's Iliad, pocket edition, plates,  Telemachus, do.  Tele of a tub, (Swift's) do.  Devil on Two Sticks, (Le Sage) do.  Jonathan Wild, (Fielding) do.  Oil Blast, 3 v.  Marmontel's Tales, 2 v.  Sully's Memoirs, 5 v.  Museum of Wit,  Tristram Shandy, 3 v.  Voltaire's Tales, 2 v.  The above are principally Superb and cheap London editions.  Odd's European Commerce, shewing new and secure channels of trade with the continent of Europe, &c. &c. a late and very valuable publication,  Jackson's Mediterranean Commerce,  Warren's History of the American Revolution, a late important and interesting work,  Life of James Beattie, L.L.D.  Aikin's Geographical Delineations,  Playfair's Geometry,  Bergson's Lectures, 2 v. 8 vo. with plates separate in 2 to new edition 6 DOLLARS,  Dr. Mease's Geological account of the United States,  Sterne's Works, New edition, 5 v. 5 DOLLARS.  Peregrine Pickle, do 3 v. 3 DOLLARS.  Winter Evenings by Dr. V. Knox,  Wonders of Nature and Art, 14 v.  Lavoisier's Chemistry,  Black's do. 3 v.  Gibson's Surveying,  Hutton's Mensuration,  Walkington's Letters,  Simson's Conic Sections,  Euclid,  Bacon's Abridgement, 7 v.  Wilson's Works, 3 v.  Blackstone's Commentaries with Christian's Notes 4 v.  Dallas's Reports, 4th v.  Young's Latin Dictionary,  Latin Course, (Farland's)  Davidson's Exercises;  Hoyle's Games, neat pocket edition and cheap,  Leonora, a new novel by Miss Edgeworth,  Wild Irish Girl, by Miss Owenson,  Zaida, by Kotzebue,  Eloisa, by J. J. Rousseau,  Morland Vale, and a variety of other new and interesting books.  An additional assortment of Music, among which are the Basso of the Nite, Just Like Love, &c. &c.  Writing Papers of all kinds, plain and hot-pressed.  Quills, from 40 to 5 and 6 dollars per thousand.  Sealing Wax, Red Tape, office Wafers of all sizes, Pensivens, Fruit do. embossed visiting Cards, &c. &c.  A large assortment of elegant and common Pocket Books, Ladies' and Gentlemen's.  Printing Ink, patent Wall skins, &c. &c. &c.  August 12—Gleop 
MILITIA LAW.
The MILITIA LAW of the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, for sale at
R. C. WEIGHTMAN'S Book-store, Pennsylvania avenue. August 12—3t
LAND FOR SALE.
TO be sold at public sale on the premises, the first day of September next, if fair, if not the next fair day, a Tract of Land on which I now dwell, lying on Potomac river, adjoining Swan Point. This tract contains about 360 acres with a great sufficiency of timber, and fire wood. The soil is well adapted to the growth of Indian Corn, Tobacco, Wheat and Clover. This tract having two convenient dwelling houses on it, the one on the river, the other on Cuckolds Creek may be sold in two equal parts or altogether as may best suit purchasers. The adjoining waters abound with fine fish, oysters and wild fowl in their season. The terms of sale are as follows, 700 dollars paid down, the balance of the purchase money to be paid in three equal annual payments, the purchaser giving bond and approved security bearing interest from the day of sale. The sale to commence at 1 o'clock, P. M.
EDWARD DIGGES.
Cobrach, Charles county, } Md. Aug. 12—tdol }
20 DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber in August last, Negro CHARLES—he is a Straight well made black man, about 26 years of age, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high; has lost some of his fore teeth; is remarkably polite and much of a gallant. The above reward will be paid to any person who will bring him home or lodge him any jail so that I get him again.
W. B. BRANES. Upper Maribou, Jan. 9—tawtf
National Intelligencer.
The following address is from one of the most independent men in England, one who holds the proudest representative character the people of that country can constitutionally confer, and who is possessed of great wealth. When such a man draws such a character of those who administer the concerns of his country, we have some reason to fear that justice will not be the arbiter of the differences between the two nations.
To the Electors of Westminster.
GENTLEMEN, Next to the consciousness of endeavoring sincerely to serve my country, nothing can be more pleasing to my mind than the public approbation of my endeavors. Accept my grateful thanks. At the same time forgive me for feeling something like a despair of any good to the country, whilst I see the regular expenses of corruption greatly exceed all the expenses necessary for any war which we can be justified in pursuing—whilst I see attempts to delude the public mind, by comparatively petty and insignificant enquiries into what is termed peculation; whilst those enquirers themselves think it not dishonorable to seize greedily every opportunity of enriching themselves out of the public spoil, by any other means not termed by them peculation.
Such wretched notions of public honor and honesty can afford no signal benefit to the public, nor can give us any suitable redress. They appear to me to resemble the notion of chastity entertained by the prostitute, who boldly challenged any one to say, that she ever went out of the regiment. According to them, all within the regiment, all within the red book, is honorable and virtuous. And they insult us by declaring, that they have as good a title by the red book, as any of the people can have to the fruits of their industry, or to the inheritance of their ancestors; from which industry, and from which inheritance, be it remembered, and from them alone, the red book itself takes every thing it has to bestow. So that they pretend as good a right to all which they can contrive to take from us as we have to the remainder—till they can take that too.
Gentlemen, figure to yourselves a gang of robbers, combined to plunder the peaceable and industrious inhabitants of several surrounding parishes, and agreeing amongst themselves to share the booty in such different proportions as the leader of the gang shall appoint to each. From time to time, it will happen, that some thief or other amongst them will purloin a part of the booty, and clandestinely appropriate to himself more than his appointed share. The purloner is detected; and the gang, with open mouths, exclaim against the atrocity of cheating—the regiment: the only crime of the kind which they acknowledge to be so—Would it not be ridiculous in these plundered parishes to take any part in such a dispute, and to divide themselves into strong parties, for the accusers or the accused? As long as the thieves in common take all they can seize, what is it to the plundered people who share the booty; how they share it;—and in what proportions? Ought they not rather to destroy the gang and abolish the combination?
Such is my conception of the different corrupt ministers we have seen & their corrupt adherents; and, unless the public, with an united voice, shall loudly pronounce the abolition of the whole of the present system of corruption, I must still continue to despair of my country.
You, gentlemen, by this unparalleled election, have loudly pronounced your sentiments—may your voice be echoed through the land.
In the mean time, though an individual is almost as nothing in the scale, I will carry with me your sentiments into the House of Commons. And I assure you that no national endeavors of mine shall be omitted, to restore to my countrymen the undisturbed enjoyment of the fair fruits of their industry—to tear out the accursed leaves of that scandalous red book—and to bring back men's minds to the almost forgotten notions of the sacredness of private property—which ought no longer to be transferred from the legitimate possessors, by the corrupt votes of venal and mercenary combinations.
I will continue, gentlemen, disinterestedly faithful to the interests of my country—and endeavor to prove myself your zealous representative. FRANCIS BURDETT.
Further extracts from Mr. MADISON'S SPEECH, delivered in the House of Representatives in the year 1794.
In answer to the 2d position of Mr. Ames, he denied that permanent supplies of provisions and lumber could be derived from any other part of the world
than the U. S.; not from the northern parts of Europe, which either did not produce, or were too remote to send them; not from the southern parts of Europe, which depended themselves on the northern parts and on America; not from G. Britain, which imported bread, for her own use, amounting one year with another according to the report of the committee of the privy council, to the sum of near three hundred thousand pounds sterling, and was certainly not an exporter of lumber; not from Ireland, which could not pretend to rival the U. S. in any article but that of salt provisions; and this was so much dearer that a prohibition alone of ours, could gain a market for hers. The gentleman had relied on the capacity of Ireland to extend her cultivation of wheat, so as spare supplies of this article also. Such a revolution in her interior state was not very probable. But he ought at least to have remembered, that as the pasture lands of Ireland should be turned into wheat fields, her export of beef would decrease, in proportion as she might export bread.
It was a waste of time, Mr. Madison said, to disprove by minute enquiries, the possibility of supplying the British W. Indies from the old continent, on terms that would not be worse than abandoning them altogether. The truth was, that the gentleman (Mr. Ames) had, in this particular, gone beyond the most sanguine advocates of the British policy, Mr. Knox and lord Sheffield themselves, who limited their ultimate hopes of supporting the W. Indies without the aid of the U. S. to the remaining possessions of G. Britain on this continent. He would proceed, he said, to shew what foundation there was for the opinion of these gentlemen, and the gentleman from Massachusetts, in favor of this resource. And he was able to give the most full and decisive evidence in the case, by recurring to an authentic document of our own, from which it appeared, that the continental colonies of G. Britain, instead of being able to furnish the W. India colonies, were themselves dependant for the very articles wanted there, on the supplies of the U. States.
In the official statement of our exports for the year as late as 1791, most of the articles sent to the British continental colonies were of a sort and an amount so directly to the point, that he hoped the committee would excuse him for repeating them in detail.
He stated them as follows:
   Bread Stuffs and Roots.     Wheat bushels 3,150   Rye 2,201   Barley 32   Indian Corn 20,734   Oats 314   Buckwheat 26   Peas and Beans 1,418   Rice tierces 84   Flour barrels 27,197   Ship stuff 2,513   Rye meal 1,774   Indian meal 2,396   Buckwheat meal 353   Bread 29,290   Crackers, kegs 364   Potatoes bushels 20   Onion 525   Meats, &c.   Beef barrels 284   Pork 351   Bacon pounds 881   Fresh Pork 29,334   — Beef 92,269   Mutton carcases 561   Tongues barrels 30   Butter firkins 33   Lard pounds 5,720   Cheese 1,826   Live Stock.   Horned Cattle 312   Horses 39   Sheep 1,517   Hogs 178   Poultry dozen 361   Wood.   Shingles 43,000   Staves and Heading 128,000   Handspikes 2   Hoops 3,000   Laths 3,000   Blocks 100   Oar Rafter 857   Trunnels 1,500   Oak Planks and Boards 14,267   Pine, do. 27,000   Maple and Beach, do. 7,500  
The total of the exports, including a few articles under other heads, amounted to two hundred seventy thousand two hundred fifty and nine dollars.
Here then, it is seen, that not only in the bread stuffs and meats of every sort, but in the articles of lumber and live stock, for which, by universal acknowledgment, the W. Indies must depend either on the U. States, or the British continental colonies; the latter so far from being a rival to us, or a resource to the W. Indies, that they continue at this day, to supply their own deficiencies from our market.
Mr. Madison said, that he should not have employed so much of the time of the committee on this head, if the gentleman (Mr. Ames) had not attempted to revive the arguments with respect to Canada and Nova Scotia, which had misled G. Britain in her political calculations and her present views. He had heard the language of the gentleman on
this subject, with astonishment. That Mr. Knox, and lord Sheffield, British subjects, viewing the prospect with British eyes, at the distance of 3000 miles, in the year 1783, when little enquiry and no experiment could assist them, should have run into the error, was perhaps not so marvellous. But that an enlightened citizen of America, seeing with American eyes, living in the neighborhood, as it were, of the scene, in a state whose wharves afford proofs of the daily dependence of the British continent on colonies for the necessaries of life, on the market of the U. States, should in the year 1794 adopt the opinion that those colonies could supply the islands, after a trial of nine years had probably forced the authors of the opinion, Knox and Sheffield themselves, to abandon it, could not be heard without some surprise; and must be considered at least as the fullest proof, that the gentleman had not given sufficient attention to the present subject, to claim that weight which was in general due to his observations.
From the American.
The foreign news last received, affords much reason to believe that a peace will speedily take place among the belligerent powers of continental Europe; and there is even some faint prospect that Great Britain herself may partake of the benefits of a general pacification. In such an event, there may be minds that will perceive disaster flowing to the U. States of America from the conclusion of war in that quarter, whilst our own affairs remain in a situation so extremely critical. A little reflection, however, will demonstrate, that a peace in Europe, in which G. Britain can be included, will be quite as effectual in settling the dispute between that power and this country, as the continuance of a war the most unfortunate and bloody to England.
It must be evident to any person who has paid suitable attention to passing events, and who have properly reflected on the surprising efforts of Great Britain to lessen the influence and power of France, and the amazing success which Bonaparte has experienced in overcoming all the schemes and coalitions formed against him, that any agreement between the British government and the chief of the French empire, must be founded on the basis of a general admission of the principles that Bonaparte may deem it proper for him to dictate. In order to ascertain what those principles are to be, we have only to recur to the official declarations made by the emperor of the French during his present war with the Prussians and Russians. As these declarations have been made in the face of the whole world, & as Bonaparte is no gasconader, it is out reasonable to presume that he will do what he has said.
In a report which Talleyrand made to the French emperor on the 15th of November, 1806, he says, speaking of the British and their allies,
"With such enemies, whose hatred your majesty's moderation has been unable to disarm, and who notwithstanding your victories, still march to their object, listening only to their passions, and respecting no right, your majesty is not free to follow the emotions of your generosity. The very inclination which leads you to wish for peace, makes it a law for you to relinquish none of your conquests before the entire and absolute independence of the Ottoman empire, an independence which is the first interest of France, be acknowledged and guaranteed—before the Spanish, Dutch and French colonies, the loss of which has been solely occasioned by the diversion effected by the four coalitions, be restored, and a general code be adopted, conformably to the dignity of all crowns, and capable of securing the rights of all nations on the high seas."
The message which Bonaparte transmitted to the French senate, bearing date at Berlin the 21st of the same month and year, recognizes the same principle of the freedom of the seas as one of the indispensable conditions of a peace. After stating the rapacity of the English in their attempts to usurp absolute supremacy on the ocean, he says,
"We are ready to make peace with England—we are ready to make it with Russia, and Prussia; but it can only be concluded upon such basis as that it may not permit any power whatever to arrogate to herself any right of supremacy over us, that it shall restore the colonies to their mother country, and that it shall secure to our trade and industry the prosperity which they ought to attain."
From these explicit and unequivocal declarations of Bonaparte, we may at once conclude that no peace will be made with G. Britain unless the freedom of commerce be guaranteed to all nations; unless, in truth, the flag of every nation shall protect whatever sails under it.
This being the very principle contended for by the American government, a peace between France and G. Britain on such terms would naturally

embrace the U. S. also, for once the rule in question be conceded this country has no further dispute, in case satisfaction be given for past injury and insult.
What, then, have we to fear from a general peace in Europe? Our object would be as readily attained in that way as by the continuance of a war.
But if G. Britain, from a perverse and wicked policy, should resolve to have a war with us, with whatever success that war may be carried on, its final result must be an admission of the maritime doctrine for which we contend, provided she yield the same to France—for the U. S. will never submit to a restriction from which other nations are exonerated; especially where commerce is concerned.
Do not, however, these considerations rather tend to prove there will be no peace at present between France and G. Britain? If the latter yields to Bonaparte's requisitions, she plainly declares to the world her inability to cope with the emperor of the French, even with regard to commercial law. Will the pride of her rulers permit her to assent to such a public confession of her impotency? And yet if she does not, what will be the consequence? Supposing the continent of Europe at peace under the influence of Bonaparte, and England suffering from his rigorous exclusion of her manufactures from every port over which he has control, will the government of G. Britain be mad enough to encounter the enmity of the U. S. also? The answers to these questions furnish strong grounds for a reasonable hope that we may obtain from the fear of Britain what we cannot procure from her justice, in case she remains at war with France. In either event, however, we have nothing to dread—for in either event we shall be successful as to the object in pursuit.
A HOUSE & LOT for Sale.
Will be offered at public sale on Thursday the 27th inst. at 12 o'clock on the premises on a credit of 90 days, a Two Story BRICK HOUSE with two rooms and a passage on each floor, a cellar and dry well therein—this house is situated on Lot No. 10 in square 728 on Matt. Ca. St. three, or it may be the Capital. Negotiable paper, bearing interest from the date with approved endorser will be required of the purchaser, and when paid a good title will be made by
SAMA. TYLER, Executor of Saml. Tyler deceased.
August 17—t604
Treasury Department, Register's Office, June 5th, 1807. Notice is hereby given,
THAT, in conformity with the provisions of the act supplementary to the act, entitled "an act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," books will be opened at the Treasury on the first day of July next, to continue open until the seventeenth day of March, 1808, mutually, the fourteen last days of each quarter excepted, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions for such parts of the old six per cent. deferred six per cent. and three per cent. stock, as may, on the day of subscription stand on the books of the treasury.
Those proprietors of the old six per cent. and deferred stock, who may subscribe, will receive in lieu thereof a new six per cent. stock, equal to the unredemed amount of the stock surrendered, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, under a proviso however, that no reimbursement shall be made except for the whole amount of any such new certificate of stock, nor till after six months previous notice; and the proprietors of the three per cent. stock who may subscribe, will receive in lieu thereof, a six per cent. stock, equal to sixty-five per cent. of the amount of three per cent. surrendered, redeemable in the same manner as the new six per cent. above-mentioned, but not redeemable however, without the assent of the holders, until after the whole of the new six per cent. (given in exchange for old six or deferred as above-mentioned) as well as the whole of the eight per cent. stock of the United States, shall have been reimbursed. It is also provided that in every reimbursement which may take place, a preference will be given to those creditors who may notify their wish to be reimbursed; and that if the applications to that effect shall at any time either exceed or fall short of the sum then applicable to that purpose, the priority of payment shall, so far as may be necessary, be determined by lot.
The present stockholders who reside in any part of Europe and may assent to that modification, may, at their option, receive the interest accruing on the new stock, either in the United States as heretofore, or in London, or Amsterdam, at par; in which last case, the interest will be paid there by the bankers of the United States, six months subsequent to the day on which the same would be payable in the United States and subject to no variation; nor to any other deduction than a commission to the bankers, of one half per cent. on the interest thus paid.
JOSEPH NOURSE, Reg. of the Treasury
  NOTE—Proprietors of 1000 dollars nominal six per cent. stock, subscribed before the 1st October, 1807, will be entitled to receive 649 62 of new six.   If subscribed between the 1st Oct. and 31st Dec. 1807, 644 37   Between the 1st Jan. and 1st March 1808 619 03   Proprietors of 1000 dollars nominal deferred, subscribed before the 1st Oct. 1807, will be entitled to receive, 855 78   If subscribed between the 1st Oct. and 31st Dec. 1807, 853 62   Between the 1st Jan. and 17th March 1808, 831 42 
Being the unredemed amount of the old stock on the 1st July, and October 1807, and 1st January 1808, respectively.
Proprietors of 1000 dollars three per cent. stock, will be entitled to receive 650 dollars of new six.
June 8—w.m
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, JUNE 20.
We have received through a private channel, intelligence, on which we place the most perfect reliance, from the French Head-quarters, of as late a date as the 3d inst.; at that time no action had been fought—but from the movements which had taken place, it was supposed that a general battle could not long be deferred, unless the negotiation should take a favorable turn. From the same source of information we are enabled to state, that the king of Sweden has refused to agree to the prolongation of the armistice with the French for one month, so that it now continues upon the terms on which it was originally concluded, viz. that ten days notice is to be given previous to the commencement of hostilities. In consequence of this refusal, on the part of his Swedish majesty, Mortier has received orders to advance with the whole of his division towards Stralsund; his force is estimated at between 50 & 60,000 men.
The Dutch papers which we have lately received, mention the departure of King Louis as being merely occasioned by the state of his health, and are perfectly silent with respect to any political changes which are expected in that unfortunate country. But private accounts assign very different motives for the journey of the new king. Although the people of Holland could not but feel great repugnance at having their constitution changed from a republic to a monarchy, and having a foreigner placed over them as a king; yet the mild and conciliatory conduct of Louis Bonaparte had made considerable impression upon them. He appeared to feel very acutely for the misery to which his new subjects had been reduced by the total destruction of their trade, in consequence of the violent edict issued by Bonaparte, prohibiting all kinds of commercial intercourse between Holland and this country. He endeavored, but in vain, to obtain some mitigation of them; and it is stated, that he has incurred the serious displeasure of the French ruler by not enforcing those commercial regulations with due severity. For this offence, an opinion prevails in Holland that he is to be deprived of his Crown, and the regret which they feel at losing the mild Louis, is considerably increased by the apprehension that he is to be succeeded by Murat, who certainly will not incur the displeasure of his master, by executing his orders with too much lenity.
Extract of the copy of a letter from Major General A. M. Fraser, to the Right Hon. William Windham, dated Alexandria, April 6. 1807, transmitted to him by gen. Fox, the original not having been received. SIR,
My letter of the 27th ultimo has already informed you, that in consequence of the strong representation of Major Misset, his Majesty's resident here, (a copy of which I then transmitted) stating the risk the inhabitants of Alexandria run of being starved, unless Rosetta and Rahmanié were taken possession of by his Majesty's troops, I had, with the concurrence of rear-admiral Sir John Duckworth, detached the 31st regiment, and Chasseurs Britanniques, under Major General Wauchope and Brigadier General Meade, for that purpose.
I am now under the disagreeable necessity of acquainting you that contrary to all expectation, this measure did not succeed. Our troops took possession of the heights of Abourmender (which commands the town) without any loss; but from circumstances as yet unexplained, the General, instead of keeping his post there, unfortunately was tempted to go into the town with his whole force, without any previous examination of it, when the troops were so severely handled from the windows & tops of the houses, without ever seeing their enemy, that it was thought expedient to retire; more especially as Major General Wauchope was unfortunately killed, and the second in command, Brigadier General Meade, severely wounded.
The troops, I understand, although certainly placed in a most trying and perilous situation, behaved extremely well; and after having suffered I am sorry to say, very materially in killed and wounded, retired to Aboukir, in good order, without molestation, from whence I directed them to return to Alexandria.
This certainly has been a very heavy and unexpected stroke upon us, more especially as every information led me to conclude, that the opposition, if any, would be trifling; & every precaution was recommended that prudence could suggest.
Finishing, however, by the renewed representation of major Misset, corroborated by the personal application of the Sorbagi, or chief magistrate, in the name of the people at large, that a time would be the certain and immediate consequence of our remaining at Alex-
andria, without the occupation of Rosetta, I have, with the concurrence, advice and co-operation of rear admiral Sir Thomas Louis, (who commands the squadron here since the departure of Sir John Duckworth) detached another corps, under the command of the hon. brigadier gen. Stuart and col. Oswald (as per margin*) to effect this purpose, without which it appears impossible that the measure proposed by his majesty's ministers, of keeping possession of Alexandria, can be accomplished.
* Detachment of royal artillery, detachment of the 20th light dragoons, detachment of seamen, light infantry battalion of 35th regiment, 2d battalion of 79th regiment, regiment de roll, amounting in the whole to about 2500 men.
FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 19.
Doubts having arisen whether the notification of the 11th of March 1807, of the blockade at the entrance of the rivers Ems, Wefer, & Elbe, was intended to include, & did include, all rivers, ports, and places on the coast between the said rivers Elbe, Wefer, and Ems, the right hon. George Canning his Majesty's principal secretary of state for Foreign Affairs, has notified to the Ministers of friendly and neutral powers, resident at this Court, that the said blockade was intended to include all rivers, ports, and places between the said rivers; and that it will be maintained and enforced with respect to the whole coast from the Elbe to the Ems.
JUNE 20.
The King —For the last six weeks, or two months, his Majesty's light has been in a state of gradual decay. The most eminent of the faculty have had frequent consultations upon the subject of performing an operation; it was not determined on until the last week. The operation of couching will take place on the right eye, and the greatest hopes are entertained of its success.
The eye in its present state, is eclipsed about three-fourths. The operation takes place in about a fortnight. If every thing succeeds agreeably to the present sanguine expectations of the medical attendants, the king will soon after depart for Weymouth. In every other respect we have the heartfelt satisfaction to state, his Majesty never was in better health and spirits; his appetite is excellent, and his complexion florid & good.
We are concerned to learn, that the indisposition of Sidney Smith, is supposed to proceed from a blow, which he received from an Arab horse, when riding in the neighborhood of Alexandria in company with some Arabs. The animal on which Sir Sidney was riding was attacked by another horse, which had broken loose, and which according to the practice of these animals when fighting, reared up, and struck Sir Sidney with one of his fore feet; Sir Sidney's horse having reared to return the attack, he was compelled to dismount immediately, and thus avoided further danger.
JUNE 22.
The rumour of Baron Hardenberg and Count Novosilow having arrived at the French head quarters is unfounded. But we are still inclined to think that a negotiation is going on through the mediation of the court of Vienna. The Austrian General Vincent has returned to the French head quarters—Attempts, however, are said to have been recently made by Russia to draw Austria into an alliance with her—but the latter replied, that she would not depart from her system of neutrality.
There is a report in circulation, that Denmark has protested against the employment of a British fleet in the Baltic; and declared that she shall consider the appearance of a British line of battle ships in the Sound, as a declaration of war. We do not believe the rumour. The Danish Government hardly wishes to see a British fleet before Copenhagen a second time.
The Hazard sloop of war has arrived at Malta, with dispatches from Egypt; copies of which, with other dispatches for the Colonial office, have been received in London.
The dispatches to the governor of Malta are stated to have required the immediate departure from Malta of all the victuallers and storeships which might be lying there, as the garrison at Alexandria were in a state little short of absolute famine. The Albanians had not advanced upon Alexandria at the date of these dispatches, but they had neglected no measures which could distress the British troops.
The passage of the Nile was wholly intercepted, and nothing could reach Alexandria from any part of the country. The distress of the British was consequently very great; but general Fraser had received the most positive orders from Messina not to abandon his position as long as he could possibly retain it.
MUNICH, JUNE 2.
The German states, who are allied to France, are solely occupied at this moment in supporting, with all their energy, the vast designs of the Emperor Napoleon. They spare neither pains nor expense in procuring for this na-
rch the means of sustaining with honor the contest in which he is engaged, and of restoring peace to suffering humanity. To attain this object, all the members of the Confederation of the Rhine have resolved to double their contingent. The King of Bavaria has ordered the assembling of a fresh corps of the army in the environs of Bamberg, which is to form a junction with the army of observation, commanded by marshal Brune. The Saxon troops which form a part of the Grand Army, are to be augmented to 20,000 men. The King of Wurtemberg has ordered three new regiments to march towards Silesia. The Grand Duke of Baden sends 15,000 men to Madgeburg. The contingent of the Grand Duke of Wurtemberg has already set out for Stetten. In short, the other Princes and States, lately entered into the confederation, are eager to furnish their respective contingents.
ROME, MAY 16.
By virtue of an order of His Holiness the Pope, several persons have been lately arrested here, and sent to the Bastille. Among them is the count Camille Borgia, the nephew of the celebrated Cardinal Borgia, and a Knight of the order of Malta.
PARIS, JUNE 10.
Letter from the Emperor to the Archbishops of France.
"After the memorable battle of Eylau, which terminated the last campaign, the enemy driven 40 leagues from the Vistula, was no longer able to support Dantzic. Notwithstanding the rigors of the season, we commenced the siege; and 40 days after the trenches were opened, this important place has fallen to the power of our arms. The efforts of the enemy to succor it were defeated, and victory constantly followed our banner. Immense magazines of provisions and of artillery, and the reduction of one of the richest cities in the world to our power, are the debut of the campaign. We cannot but ascribe this success, so rapid and so signal, to that especial protection of which Divine Providence has given us so many proofs. It is our pleasure that, on the receipt of this, you assemble our people, and offer solemn thanksgivings to the God of Armies, praying that he will continue to favor our arms, and to watch over the happiness of our country; that they may also pray, that the cabinet which persecutes our holy religion, as much as it is the eternal enemy of our nation, may no longer influence the cabinets of the continent, to the end that a solid and glorious peace, worthy of the Great nation, shall console humanity, and enable us to realize our intentions for the good of religion and the prosperity of our people. This letter is only to that end, and we pray God to have you in his holy keeping."
(Signed) "NAPOLEON."
"In our camp in Finkenstein, 28th May, 1807."
Te Deum was ordered to be performed in all the churches in Paris, on the 14th for the taking of Dantzic.
The marquis De Lucchesini is reported to have died suddenly at Lucca.
The Queen of Etruria has ordered a levy of 20,000 men for the defence of her coast.
COPENHAGEN, JUNE 9.
According to letter from Koningsberg of the 1st inst. gen. Kemenskoi is returned from Fahrwasser to Pillau. The greatest activity is now used in putting the fortifications of Koningsberg in a strong state of defence. A particular corp of 12,000 men is collected in and near that city. The report of a general armistice is not yet confirmed. Great difficulties still obstruct all our hopes of peace.
The emperor of Russia and the king of Prussia were at Bartenstein, on the 28th ult.—gen. Kalkreuth arrived at Koningsberg on the 3d, and the garrison of Dantzic was expected at Pillau on the 4th and 5th.—Hamburg Correspondent of June 13.
VIENNA, JUNE 3.
The Court Gazette of this day contains the following article, under the head of Turkey:
"The fleet of the Russian vice-admiral Sima-Vin continues to hold the canal of Constantinople strongly blockaded.—Several attempts to retake Tenedos have failed; that island still continues in the hands of the Russians. The Grand Vizier is still at Adrianople."
"The Servian insurgents have taken the fortress of Nissa, and made themselves masters of the important island of Ostrof, above the mouth of the Timok, in the Danube, by which they are in possession of the shortest line of communication with Little Wallachia, in which there are 11,000 Russians. The communication between Widdin and Orzona, is on the other hand, cut off to the Turks."
"The position of the army of general Michelson, which is from time to time receiving various reinforcements, as well in Moldavia as Wallachia, is essentially the same. The camp near Varkorest has indeed been reinforced with some regiments and a division of Russian cavalry have surprised the Turks who were in the vicinity of Krajowa; about 70 were cut to pieces. The attack of the Russians on Kahres, a frontier fortress of Great Armenia, has failed."
"According to the latest letters from Turkey, the grand signior, as a proof of his esteem & friendship for the French ambassador, gen. Sebastiani, has presented him with the estate Yaspia, belonging to prince Yesilanti."
Bank of the Elbe, June 12.
Extract of a letter. "Napoleon, it is said, is about to transfer the throne of Holland to Murat,
the Jonathan of this David. King Louis is accused of not showing himself sufficiently obsequious to his brother and emperor; he is charged with favoring the English, and insidiously intriguing for popularity among his own subjects."
"Hostilities are expected to recommence every day on the frontiers of Pomerania. The combined force of Sweden and Prussia is said to amount to upwards of 30,000 men. Were your expedition to arrive at this time with about an equal strength, there really would be a fair opportunity of displaying, or at least of trying, your military prowess.—The Army of Observation would be able, it is true, to bring a somewhat more numerous body against you, but this army is not composed of the elite of the enemy's soldiery, but of Spaniards, Dutch, Germans, and French; and no small portion of these disaffected! You have a sure place of retreat in the fortress of Stralsund. And you have, in case of a victory or promising advantages, incalculable resources from deserters and fugitives from every part of the North of Germany. The Danish government does not suffer persons to cross Holstein without a pass. Hence there have been great numbers of fugitives from Germany, who have been here in the hope of going by water to Konigsberg or Stralsund; but they have been refused a passage, and have been reduced to the necessity of returning to their sad homes, where their cruel oppressor is master. The French threaten to punish with death all who attempt to go into Pomerania from Mecklenburg. But in case the allies should have any success in their operations, we all know how inefficient severe laws of that kind are."
"In the meanwhile General Blucher has issued the following proclamation addressed to the Prussians:—"
PROCLAMATION OF GEN. BLUCHER.
"His Majesty, the King of Prussia, my sovereign, has entrusted me with the command of a corps of Prussian troops, which united to the Swedish forces, is about to commence its operations against the enemies of our country, under the command in chief of the King of Sweden."
"It, on the one hand, the just cause of the King, our Sovereign, is courageously supported by great and powerful allies: so, on the other hand, the cries of our oppressed and suffering country summon every Prussian to its defence."
"The moment of undertaking this is at length arrived; and I therefore now call upon all patriotic Prussians who are capable of military service, whether residing in Prussia, or in foreign countries, and armed or unarmed, as circumstances may permit, to repair to the corps under my command, where every one will be duly received, maintained, and advanced, and there co-operate in attaining the great and sublime end before us."
"Inhabitants of the Prussian monarchy! Recollect the state of your country, when not one, but many enemies, made war against it, during seven long years. Be mindful of the glory of your ancestors, who were its brave and victorious defenders; shew yourselves worthy of them; and learn like them, to conquer or die!"
"BLUCHER. Stralsund, 1st June, 1807."
New & Valuable BOOKS.
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Dr. Rees' Cyclopaedia, Vol. 5th, Part 1st, or the 9th half volume, is just received and ready for delivery, those who have not had the preceding vols. will oblige by sending for them.
Aug. 7 tf.

The Boston Repository has for some weeks past teemed with animadversions on the measures and motives of the administration relative to the recent outrage of the Leopard. These animadversions are characterised by that hardness of assertion and malignity that has invariably marked this print. The Editor dares to ascribe to the executive the deliberate purpose of embroiling the United States and England, and of using the late outrage as a pretext for war. No American, whose feelings are not totally alienated from a sense of duty, can read these libels without being inspired with indignation and contempt. The present case is so extremely plain, that it needs no reasoning to elucidate it. The universal sensation it has excited shows that there is but one opinion respecting it among the nation. We have, therefore, considered it altogether unnecessary to enter the field of controversy with the Repository and Palladium and Gazette, which are just as much entitled to attention as the windmills of Don Quixote. But when we see in the last Repository an expression of sorrow that the account lately given in the National Intelligencer "so materially contradicts the position in the President's proclamation, which affirms that the assault on the Chesapeake for the recovery of the men was made, after it had been ascertained that they were native Americans"—we cannot repress an expression of feeling stronger than contempt for the audacity of such a declaration. The account, so far from contradicting the position in the proclamation, in the strongest manner corroborates it. The facts as therein stated are:—that the Secretary of the Navy directed an enquiry to be made relative to the citizenship of the men claimed by Mr. Erskine;—that the enquiry was made by Capt. Barron;—and that, as the result of this enquiry, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Navy "had sufficient reason for believing that the seamen in question were native citizens of the United States." Now, the sagacious Editor of the Repository undertakes to say that they had not sufficient reason for this belief, and that it was consequently not ascertained that they were native Americans. For if they had sufficient reason for the belief, the President must have likewise had the same reason when he issued his proclamation. The expressions of "having sufficient reason to believe them native citizens"—and the having ascertained them to be such, are perfectly equivalent. So much for this specimen of critical acumen.
The Editor proceeds. "It is humiliating to find that when this assertion was made in these unequivocal terms, government, though it pretended to have gone into the enquiry, had merely asked the men for their story, and had received whatever they chose to advance, without any other proofs, and on this information, grounded an official declaration, that the point of their citizenship was ascertained."
But the closing words of the account are seized, and it is inferred from them that, inasmuch as the report of Capt. Barron is said to be in a train of formal verification in every material circumstance, the only information yet received consists in the mere declarations of the seamen themselves. No deduction can, however, be more strained. The President, and Secretaries of State and Navy may have already sufficient reason to satisfy themselves, but it does not follow that the grounds of their belief could be equally satisfactory to foreign governments; and, in case of a war with England, it may be an object of some importance to establish the fact by the most indisputable evidence, which shall be satisfactory not merely to ourselves, but the whole world.
We most then consider the remarks of the Repository as flowing, not from a sense of truth or regard to justice, but from a spirit of party detraction, ignoble at all times, and particularly so at this time.
COMMUNICATION.
We are informed that Joseph Winner, Esq. collector of the customs for the port of Great Egg Harbor, and Thomas Doughty, colonel of the third regiment of Gloucester brigade, have aroused the inhabitants of that place to pursue patriotic measures, and to come to a determination, agreeably to an invitation of those two spirited gentlemen, to convene themselves together, for the purpose of declaring their resentment at the late outrage committed by the British on our coast, and in our own waters.
Departed this life on Tuesday 11th inst. in the 57th year of her age, Mrs. J. MARCH, of George-Town, relict of the late Mr. J. March, stationer, of that place.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
A HINT.
It is earnestly recommended to the Executive, that every company, or at least, every battalion of troops, which may hereafter be called into service, including those to be raised under the late requisition from the President of the United States should be accompanied by a Stenographer, and furnished with a printing press, under the direction of a skillful Typhographer. The advantages of such an arrangement will be evident, as well from a consideration of the experience of former ages, as from circumstances of a more recent date.
It is well known to every classical reader that Julius Caesar, under the title of commentaries, kept a journal of his military operations; to which we are indebted for the knowledge we have, not only of those operations, but of the character of the ancient inhabitants of Gaul and Britain; of the actual state of those countries at that remote period, and the progress they had then made in the arts of civil and social life. This instance is sufficient to show the utility and importance of such journals. No doubt that Hannibal and other generals among the ancients kept the like; and it is a matter of infinite regret that they have been unfortunately lost. But, if we have derived so much light and benefit from the register of events kept by one single individual, how much more might have been expected if every soldier, or at least every officer, in the armies of Caesar, and of Hannibal, had done the same, and their works, by a piece of good fortune, similar to that which has attended the commentaries of Caesar, had been handed down to posterity with his? We have now only such details as Caesar thought it might be for his own glory to furnish. The commentaries of his officers might have thrown a thousand new lights upon his campaigns; and might have detected a thousand errors in his proceedings, or in his relation of them. A commander in chief, or other officer having a separate command, is deeply interested in representing his own conduct in the most favourable light; in magnifying his difficulties, vanishing over his errors, and in diminishing, or concealing, any aid, or advantage, which he may derive from the advice or hints of his subordinate officers and soldiers. Hence it is, that the credit of all splendid achievements is always given to the leader alone, without reflecting that neither Alexander, nor Julius Caesar, nor even the Emperor of the French, could beat an army of an hundred thousand well trained, and well disciplined troops, by his own prowess alone. Don Quixote is thought to be the only warrior of eminence who has entertained such an opinion; and his sentiments upon this subject are now as little thought of as the Prussian exercise in the French army, or the precepts of Steuben in our own. Besides; it is not to be supposed that the general, or commanding officer, is the only person in the army that has eyes, or possesses any skill in military tactics. Many a subaltern officer is blessed with the Coup d'oeil militaire, (so highly appreciated by the late General Charles Lee) in a far superior degree to his commander in chief; and has read more upon tactics before he has learned to form a platoon, than the oldest colonel in the army. Yet such is the absurd practice in armies that officers of that grade are never summoned to a council of war, nor even consulted, elsewhere, upon those operations in which their own fate, and that of the brave men under their command, are equally at stake. Now, if we have Stenographers, and printing presses in every company, the commanding officer may receive regular reports of the opinions and advice of the officers and soldiers under his command, at every step, without the trouble or formality of a council of war, or other ordinary methods of consultation. Suppose, for example, there are three different roads from the place of encampment to the place of destination; the stenographer should take down every man's opinion, and send it to the press, from whence the general may be supplied with it daily, or oftener, as occasion may require. In the same manner every man's opinion on the best order of march, on the best mode, or point of attack, or of retreat, may be communicated without difficulty. In this manner, also, the general may be duly informed of the sentiments of his army, with respect to himself: as whether they have confidence in him or not; whether they will execute one particular manoeuvre, or refuse to execute another; whether they are impatient for a discharge or not; whether disposed to mutiny for being kept an hour or two extraordinary on parade, waiting his arrival from a different quarter; or for want of victuals ready baked, roasted and boiled, instead of raw rations; or because the whole army have not received the same hospitality from individuals, that a few officers have. These, and a thousand other communications, equally momentous, may be constantly made to the general, and serve to direct his conduct on the most important occasions. In this way, too, the friends and relations of the soldiers may by a daily bulletin be made acquainted with the hardships, or accommodations of each preceding day. As whether they were lodged in a cabin, a palace, or in the "tented field;" eating roots, like the Roman General, or like Hannibal, feasted with the "luxuries of Cagius;"—marching at their
ease, or with blistered feet, like pilgrims with shoes filled with unboiled peas.
But, what I consider as the most important and desirable consequence of such an arrangement, will be the prevention of that abominable and detestable practice, most pertinaciously followed up by the British generals during our revolutionary war, of sending SPIES into our camps. It is well known that several, among whom was the gallant major Andre, were detected in that character in our army, and hanged. But if my recommendation should succeed, there can be no ground to apprehend a repetition of such conduct, in future. For, what general would hazard the life of a valuable officer, or what officer would hazard his own life, to obtain, at such a risque, what he may be furnished with gratis, day by day, and without hazard! The army, for example, occupies such a position—the typographer describes it geographically, with mathematical precision; the stenographer gives the opinion of every man in camp, both as to its advantages and disadvantages; on which side strongest, and where weakest; what precautions are, or ought to be taken to secure the approaches, and what are neglected; how many men are stationed in the several parts, for its defence; by whom commanded; what are the talents of the officer, and the character of his men: whether they may be expected to defend it to the last extremity, or, like Hannibal, think it better, "to live to fight another day." How many troops we have in camp; whether they are alert, and in good health and spirits, or sickly, and dispirited, on account of the season, the climate, bad weather, or insufficient accommodation; whether they are well armed, or without arms or ammunition; when their times of service will expire; whether they are impatient for their discharge, or indignant at being detained a day or too, because the general, in his discretion, may think it necessary for the public service; whether they are likely to mutiny, or to be disbanded for any of these causes, or for the want of regular supplies of provisions, &c. and finally, whether they have such confidence in their general, and officers, as to fight under them cheerfully, or hold them in contempt, as unworthy of command. Now, when such minute and particular information can be had, daily, without any risque whatsoever, will the enemy ever think it worth the trouble, (to say nothing of the hazard) of sending a spy into our camp? It is ridiculous to suppose it; unless the general, like another David, wanted to get rid of some Uriah that had a pretty wife. But the example of Sir William Howe and Major Loring, in the last war, proves that modern generals do not have recourse to such odious practices, where the same ends may be obtained by different means.
I have considered this subject very maturely for several days and nights, and the only objection that has ever occurred to my proposal is, that our NEWSPAPERS, as they have been lately conducted, will probably answer all the beneficial purposes of it, AND MORE ESPECIALLY THE LAST, since there can be no doubt, that our ENEMIES are as regularly furnished with ALL the information they contain, as ourselves.* G. W.
* The following paragraph (among a number of others in the Norfolk, Richmond and Petersburg papers) may show to what mischievous lengths the admission of every petulant squib into the public newspapers may be carried in time of war.
"From the number of squibs thrown into our office last night, we shall publish but the following."
"The volunteer troops from Richmond and Petersburg arrived at Portsmouth on Sunday evening. Sorry, very sorry, are we to learn that no other than the common preparation of rations and barracks, had been made to receive them!—Common mercenary soldiers would have been treated with as much respect. NO REFRESHMENT! NO HOSPITALITY! (except for a few) and no appearance of attention, further than the raw flour, and the unboiled pork! Yesterday, we were told, they were ordered under arms, to receive the general, and be reviewed at eleven o'clock—instead of eleven they were kept till near two. A finer body of men was never BROILED uselessly, in the hot sun for three hours, nor was ever military patience more SEVERELY TRIED. The JUNIORS also, and the whole of the militia were marched over to Portsmouth, and remained in the field without nourishment or refreshment of any kind from SIX until near TWO O'CLOCK, in as hot a day as ever was felt, and the consequence has been that MANY FAINTED. "From such proceedings, good Lord "deliver us!" [Norfolk Herald.]
CIRCULAR.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
August 3, 1807.
His Excellency the Governor of the state of Maryland.
SIR, I am directed by the President of the United States to urge on the governors of the respective states, the importance of encouraging, by all means they possess, such volunteer associations as are contemplated and authorised by the act of Congress passed the 24th February last, and when organized to be received as a part of the quota of militia recently required to be held in readiness at the shortest notice.
The present situation of our country calls loudly for the patriotic exertions
of its citizens, in the prompt adoption of such measures as will most effectually enable us to meet the result of a late event, which appears to menace its peace; under such circumstances it must be presumed, that with due encouragement, the whole number of volunteers contemplated by the above mentioned act, may be induced to tender their services to their country; and your excellency will readily perceive the importance of such a body of men, at the actual commencement of war, whose tour of service will afford ample time for raising and organizing a regular force for taking the field, in place of such of the mass as may not be inclined to become a part of the regular army.
As it must be highly probable, that such volunteer corps will be composed of our most active, intelligent, patriotic and spirited young citizens; they will undoubtedly, in the event of a war, stand on high ground as candidates for offices in the regular army, whenever such an army shall be considered necessary. And from the well known military service which pervades all parts of our country, there can be no doubt of the readiness of a sufficient number of our spirited citizens to offer their services to their country at the present time.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your excellency's obed't serv't, (Signed) H. DEARBORN.
TRIAL OF A. BURR
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1807.
Present, the chief justice of the U. States, and Cyrus Griffin, judge of the district of Virginia.
The witnesses were again called over, and several, who had not been present before, appeared, and were recognized to attend until discharged by the court.
The counsel for the U. S. however not being as well prepared to go into the trial as they expected to be on Monday many of their witnesses being still absent, the trial was farther postponed, & the court adjourned until Monday next, 12 o'clock.
In the course of this day, a difficulty was suggested by major Scott, the marshal of the Virginia district, as arising out of the order of the court, by virtue of which col. Burr had been removed from the penitentiary house to his present lodgings. He stated that he had been informed from good authority, that the secretary of the treasury had declared he would not allow his charge of seven dollars per day, for the guards employed for the safe keeping of the prisoner; and therefore he might lose that sum, which he had hitherto been advancing out of his own pocket.
The chief justice declared the firm conviction of the court that the order heretofore made was legal and proper; that the payments made in pursuance thereof would be sanctioned by the court, and ought to be allowed by the secretary of the treasury. He could not believe that the secretary would finally disallow those items in the marshal's account. But as the officer of the court ought not to be subjected to any risk in obeying its directions; and, if the secretary should refuse to allow him a credit for the money paid, the court had no power to compel him to do so; and the situation of the marshal was such that he dared not to enter into a controversy with the secretary; the court was disposed to rescind the order, unless some arrangement could be made by col. Burr and his counsel for the indemnification of the marshal.
Col Burr declared that an offer had already been made on his part to indemnify the marshal; and that he was still ready and willing to give him satisfactory security that the money should be paid him, in case the secretary of the treasury should refuse to allow the credit.
After some desultory conversation, nothing positive was agreed upon; but it appeared to be understood that security was to be given to major Scott; and that col. Burr was to remain in his apartment near the Swan Tavern.
One Hundred Dollars Reward, If taken in this state, or ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY if taken out of this state and brought here—
OLIVER, HARRY, LINA, & SARAH, who ran away from the subscribers living in Madison county, on the 15th of June last; Oliver, is a flour made fellow about 45 years old, about 6 feet high, a little yellow complexioned, round shouldered and a little knock kneed, some few grey hairs to be seen about his temples, has a hoarse voice the appearance of a cold—Harry is a very small fellow but well made to his height, supposed to be about 30 years old, black complexioned, a naylor by trade—Lina, a small yellow complexioned wench about 22 years old, the said Lina and Harry were purchased out of the estate of Mr. Benjamin Grimes of Prince George county in the year 1800—Sarah, a dark complexioned girl about 15 years old; I think it useless to mention their clothing as I have reason to believe they have changed their clothing since they left home; I do not doubt but they are provided with a pass and may attempt to pass as free people, but examining the pass and not finding the county seal to it, it will prove to be a counterfeit one, and may attempt to get into Maryland or Pennsylvania, or to Norfolk, or to some of the western states, or possibly they may have been conducted off by some white person to some distant port who may make sale of them. I hereby give a caution to all and forewarn all owners and masters of vessels from taking on board or secreting said negroes under the strictest penalty of the law, or the sum half of the 150 dollars will be given if secured in jail out of the state and 50 dollars if secured in jail in this state so that we get them again.
THOMAS GR. VAS. THOMAS GRAVES, JUN. Virginia, Madison county. August 17—8t
Our information from Richmond has been greatly impeded by the late heavy falls of rain, which have swept away a number of bridges and obstructed the progress of the mail. We have, however, yesterday received information down to Saturday last.
The whole of the proceedings of Monday consist in calling over the venire and interrogating its members. Of the whole venire attending, twenty-six were put aside as unfit jurors from the influence of prejudice on their minds, nine were suspended for further examination, and four only were elected and sworn. The examination of those suspended was to be resumed the next day.
On Tuesday the court was occupied in examining the cases of the jurors yesterday suspended for further examination, two of whom were excused, and the remaining seven set aside. Mr. Hay then moved the court to award a new venire, which was done, and the venire ordered to consist of forty-eight, when the court adjourned to Thursday.
On Thursday the court met, but adjourned without transacting any business, to Saturday, at the instance of Mr. Burr, who alleged that the copy of the panel with which he had been served was deficient in not having the places of residence affixed to the names of the jurors.
New York, August 15.
The Paris papers by the brig Stephen from Bordeaux are to the 23th of June, at which time nothing later than our former accounts has been received from the Grand Army; nor do the papers contain any news of importance.
Letters from Berlin mention that the answer of the British government to the propositions made to it to open negotiations for peace had arrived at the Russian head quarters, and had been transmitted from thence to the Emperor Napoleon. In this answer the court of London expresses its readiness to enter upon negotiations in concert with its allies, and relinquishes the manner of opening them entirely to the pleasure of the Emperor of Russia. A correspondence relative to this important object was said to be established between Talleyrand and the Russian minister for foreign affairs who was at Koningsberg. What augurs favourably, is, the frequency of the direct communication between the head quarters of the two armies, French and Russian aides-de-camp daily passing from one to the other with dispatches.
The situation of affairs has not undergone the smallest change since the reduction of Danzick; the emperor continued there at the date of our last advices; and the different corps of the army remained quiet in their cantonments.
Cardinal Fesch (Prince Primate of the confederation of the Rhine) has ceded Ratisbon to the King of Bavaria, and is to be indemnified by an extent of territory in some other part of Germany.
It was reported at Bordeaux, on the day capt. Skiddy left it, that the King of Prussia had made a separate peace with France. Letters received at Warsaw on the 8th of June from the French head-quarters mention this circumstance so far as to state that the preliminaries were signed at Oliva, near Danzick on the first days of that month.
One of our late Paris papers contains the following article:
"At the same time that the news of the expulsion of the English from Egypt gains credit, it is asserted that a corps of 4000 troops of the same nation, landed in Calabria has been cut to pieces by Gen. Regnier."
Under date of Naples, 31 May, it is said, "The English landed about the end of this month 5000 troops in Calabria. Gen. Regnier has completely defeated them. 600 remained on the field of battle; the remainder were made prisoners. A conspiracy formed at Palermo, and which was to break out at Naples on Corpus Christi day, has been discovered. The five principal conspirators were condemned to death, and executed within 24 hours."
To be Sold at Auction.
ON Monday 24th day of August, at one o'clock, at the late residence of Samuel Baker, deceased, on Greenier's Point, all the personal property of Samuel Baker, deceased, consisting of Beds, Bedsteads, Chairs, Tables, Mahogany Sufi, Looking Glasses, prints, luxury Kitchen utensils, Horse and Cart, Milch Cow, &c. &c.
Terms of sale made known on the day of sale. HENRY BURFORD, attorney for Jane Baker, executrix. August 17.—3t
RUN-AWAY.
WAS committed to the jail of Washington county, in the district of Columbia, July last as a runaway, a negro man calling himself JOHN, but has since confessed his name is JOSHUA and says he belongs to John Barnes of Fairfax county Virginia, near the New Court House; he appears to be about 20 years of age, yellow complexion, stout made, is five feet ten inches high; has on a pair of blue-gray trousers, and shirt of the same sort of linen, no other clothes with him.
The owner of said slave is desired to receive him, or he will be sold for his jail fees, &c. other expenses as the law directs.
CAR WRIGHT I PATT, keeper of the prison in Washington county, district of Columbia, for Dan. C. Atene, marshal. August 3—3t

PROPOSALS, By CONRAD, LUCAS & Co. (late M. and J. Conrad and Co.) No. 138, Market street, FOR PUBLISHING LEWIS AND CLARK'S TOUR TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, Performed by order of the government of the United States, during the years 1804, 1805, and 1806.
THIS work will be prepared by captain MERIWETHER LEWIS, and will be divided into two parts, the whole comprised in three volumes octavo, the first containing at least 700 pages, the second and third from four to five hundred each, printed on good paper, and a fair Pica type. The several volumes in succession will be put to press as early periods as the avocations of the author will permit him to prepare them for publication.
PART THE FIRST—IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME FIRST.
Will contain a narrative of the voyage, with a description of the most remarkable places in those hitherto unknown wilds of America, accompanied by a map of good size, a large chart of the entrance of the Columbia river, embracing the adjacent country, coast and harbors, and embellished with views of two beautiful cataracts of the Missouri; the plan, on a large scale, of the connected falls of that river, as also, of those of the falls, narrows and great rapids of the Columbia, with their several portages. For the information of future voyagers, there will be added in the sequel of this volume, some observations and remarks on the navigation of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, pointing out the precautions which must necessarily be taken, in order to ensure success, together with an itinerary of the most direct and practicable route across the continent of North America, from the confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi rivers to the discharge of the Columbia into the Pacific Ocean.
VOLUME SECOND.
Whatever properly appertains to geography, embracing a description of the rivers, mountains, climate, soil and face of the country; a view of the Indian nations distributed over that vast region, showing their traditions, habits, manners, customs, national characters, stature, complexions, dress, dwellings, arms, and domestic utensils, with many others interesting particulars in relation to them; also, observations and reflections on the subjects of civilization, governing and maintaining a friendly intercourse with those nations. A view of the fur trade of North America, setting forth a plan for its extension, and showing the immense advantages which would accrue to the mercantile interests of the United States, by combining the furs with a direct trade to the East Indies, through the continent of North America. This volume will be embellished with twenty plates illustrative of the dress and general appearance of such Indian nations as differ materially from each other; of their habitations; their weapons and habiliments used in war; their hunting and fishing apparatus; domestic utensils, &c. In an appendix there will also be given a diary of the weather kept with great attention throughout the whole of the voyage, showing also the daily rise and fall of the principal water courses which were navigated in the course of the same.
PART THE SECOND—IN ONE VOLUME.
This part of the work will be confined exclusively to scientific research, and principally to the natural history of those hitherto unknown regions. It will contain a full description on such subjects as may have fallen within the notice of the author, and which may properly be distributed under the heads of Botany, Mineralogy, and Zoology, together with some illustrations on the origin of Plains, the cause of the mudflats of the Missouri, of volcanic appearance, and other natural phenomena which were met with in the course of this interesting tour. This volume will also contain a comparative view of twenty three vocabularies of different Indian languages, procured by captains Lewis and Clark, on the voyage, and will be ornamented and embellished with a much greater number of plates than will be bestowed on the first part of the work as is intended that every subject of natural history which is entirely new, and of which there are a considerable number, shall be accompanied by an appropriate engraving illustrative of it.
This distribution of the work has been made with a view to the accommodation of every description of readers, and is here offered to the patronage of the public in such shape, that all persons wishing to become subscribers, may accommodate themselves with either of the parts, or the entire work, as it shall be most convenient to themselves.
Detached from this work, there will be published
LEWIS & CLARK'S MAP OF NORTH AMERICA,
From Lon. 0 deg. west, to the Pacific Ocean, and between 36 deg. and 32 deg. north Lat. with extensive marginal notes—dimensions 5 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 10 inches.
Embracing all their late discoveries, and that part of the continent heretofore the least known. This map will be compiled from the best maps now extant, as well published as in manuscript, from the collective information of the best informed travellers through the various portions of that region, and corrected by a series of several hundred celestial observations, made by captain Lewis during his late tour.
For the convenience of subscribers, these several works will be delivered at the most respectable commercial towns, and at the seats of government of the respective states and territories within the Union; no advance is required, nor will payment be demanded until such delivery is made.
The price of part the first in two vols. will be Ten DOLLARS, and that of part the second in one volume, Eleven DOLLARS, delivered in boards. Price of the Map, Ten DOLLARS.
Any persons who may have subscribed for these works, to lists which contain no stipulated prices for the same, and who may be dissatisfied with the terms now proposed, are at liberty to withdraw their names from such lists, at any time prior to the 1st day of December next.
M. LEWIS.
July 27.
NEW INVENTED OVEN.
I HAVE obtained from the general government an exclusive privilege in an Oven I have invented on entire new principles, for baking all kinds of bread, the advantages of my plan over those hitherto used in the usual mode. The oven is first heated, the fire scraped out and the dough put in to bake, when the oven is hottest and as the bread bakes the oven gradually cools, it will surely be conceded that bread is first put into an oven it is most tender and least capable of bearing heat—on my plan the bread is put into the oven at the extreme end, or where the heat is least, and as it bakes it regularly progresses into a keener heat until baked. Again, it is acknowledged the thinner bread is baked the better it is and the longer it will keep; in the usual mode of baking the thinner the bread the smaller quantity the oven will bake per day; on my plan as the oven is constantly in blast, the thinner the bread the more the oven will bake; add to this the labor of splitting wood is saved—the heating, cleaning and setting an oven also. An oven on my plan if well built, is much more durable, takes up less room to do the same business, costs much less money to build it, requires less fuel to bake the same quantity of bread, fewer hands can do the same business, in fact, a mind (superior to prejudices often attendant on customs long established) will be satisfied on a view of my oven in operation. I have narrated facts only for those who have not an opportunity of seeing the oven in operation.
I subjoin the certificates of gentlemen whose respectability will not be questioned. For an oven of 40 feet length and 3 feet 6 inches width, or the privilege of using it, my price is 500 dollars, and in proportion for a larger or smaller one. I will dispose of my privilege for states, counties or towns, on liberal terms, letters addressed to me post paid, Dumfries, Virginia will be duly attended to.
JAMES DENEALE.
Dumfries, July 20.
We, Richard and Stephen Winchester, residing in the town of Fredericksburg and commonwealth of Virginia, do certify, we have built an oven under the immediate direction of James Deneale of Dumfries and commonwealth of Virginia aforesaid on a plan entirely different from the ovens in common use, and we believe invented by the said Deneale. It requires much less fuel than the common oven and may be used without splitting the wood, of course there is great saving of labor; we have baked every kind of biscuit and can say truly that it bakes well. We consider it as a invaluable improvement and well worthy the attention of bakers.
R. & S. WINCHESTER.
Fredericksburg, Jan. 23, 1806.
These are to certify to all whom it may concern, that I, Andrew Jamieson, biscuit baker, in the town of Alexandria, and district of Columbia, was in the town of Fredericksburg, in the state of Virginia, some time since the middle of last January, and there did attend great part of one day to see the operation of biscuit baking in the new invented oven in the possession of Messrs. Richard & Stephen Winchester, of Fredericksburg, which oven I have every reason to believe is the sole invention of Mr. James Deneale, of Dumfries, in the state of Virginia, and hereby declare and aver, that I saw said New invented or Perpetual Oven bake large and small biscuits in as short a time and as regular a manner as any oven I have seen there forty years I have been at the baking business. Given under my hand this 6th day of February, (in Alexandria and district of Columbia) in the year one thousand eight hundred and six.
Andrew Jamieson.
N. B. Not having sufficient experience at said oven abovementioned, I cannot ascertain what may be saved in wood or labor, only that cord wood will do without the labor of chopping and splitting, as is necessary with old fashioned ovens.
A. J.
New-York, December 1, 1806.
This is to certify that I have been using the patent oven, invented by James Deneale, esq., of Dumfries, Virginia, since April last, to considerable advantage in this city, I have no doubt of its possessing considerable advantages over the old method, such as a saving of fuel and labor, in consequence of which the proprietor is enabled to make the bread much thinner and consequently more proper for long voyages on a hot climate.
Again, as a part of the operation requiring most skill and practice is abridged by this method; more of the work may be done by boys or men little experienced in the business.
Not being acquainted myself with the old method, I will not attempt to state the differences between them, but that it is generally in favor of Deneale's method, must be evident to the most superficial observer.
ROBERT HARTSHORNE.
Iron Works for Sale.
THE Subscriber is duly empowered to contract for the sale of a handsome Site for Iron Works and eight thousand acres of Land, adjoining, lying on the river Rappahannock, about 9 miles above Fredericksburg. This tract abounds with inexhaustible mines of the richest iron ore, and an ample supply of wood for coal. The site for the works are advantageous in the extreme, commanding the whole course of the Rappahannock by a natural canal, into which the whole force of the river may be turned at a small expense. There has been a furnace and other works formerly erected here, and the ore found on trial abundant and good. When it is considered that this property is within 9 miles of tide water, and that the navigation from the site of the works to tide water may at a small expense be rendered practicable to transport every heavy article to market—when it is considered from the contiguity of these works to the seat of government, no iron establishment can supply cannon and shot on so good terms (competent judges having pronounced the ore on this tract of superior quality or cannon) a doubt cannot be entertained of the great value of this property. The title is indisputable, and a great bargain may be had. The subscriber will at any time attend those inclined to view the premises, and can show an accurate survey of the tract, on application to him at Dumfries, Virginia.
JAMES DENEALE.
July 31. 3t&w6t
Strayed or stolen from the commences of this city about the 1st of June last, a dark bay horse, about 14 hands high, a white star in his forehead, and branded on the near shoulder, as well as recollected, with the figure of a heart. When rode he is sometimes accustomed to pant, having been broken winded by going in the chaise. A reward of eight dollars will be given to any person who will return the aforesaid horse to me in this city.
ROBERT BRENT.
Washington, July 18th, 1807—9t
50 Dollars Reward.
RAN-AWAY on the morning of the 8th inst. from the subscriber a negro man
Named Richard Brown,
He is about 23 years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, well set, rather light colored, something forbidding in his countenance, and is a very artful fellow; had on when he went away a coarse white shirt, mankeen pantalettes, and an old great coat. He has been seen since in the district with a black coat, nankkeen pantalettes and coat on. The above reward will be paid to any person who will bring him to me, or lodge him in jail in the district of Columbia, with reasonable charges.
JOHN CASSIN.
N. B. He had on one of his ankles a horse lock, which it is supposed he cannot get off.
July 30. eptf
PROPOSALS
For carrying mails of the United States on the following routes will be received at the General Post Office until the 15th of October next.
1st. From Petersburg by Harrisville, Goldsboro, Drummondburg, Warrenton, Lewistown, Raleigh, and Averysboro, to Fayetteville, three times a week.
Leave Petersburg every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m., arrive at Warrenton same days by 8 p.m. Leave Warrenton every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3 a.m., arrive at Raleigh same days by 6 p.m. Leave Raleigh, Wednesday, Friday and Monday at 3 a.m., arrive at Fayetteville same days by 5 p.m.
Returning—Leave Fayetteville every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 4 a.m., arrive at Raleigh same days by 6 p.m. Leave Raleigh every Wednesday, Friday, and Monday at 3 a.m., arrive at Warrenton same days by 6 p.m. Leave Warrenton, every Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday 12 a.m., arrive at Petersburg same days by 8 p.m.
2nd. From Fayetteville by Lumberton, Barefield Mills, Porters Ferry, Osceola and Georgetown to Charleston three times a week.
Leave Fayetteville every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 4 a.m., arrive at Porters Ferry on _____, arrive at Georgetown on Wednesday, Friday and Monday by 6 p.m. Leave Georgetown every Thursday, Saturday, and Tuesday at 2 a.m., arrive at Charleston same days by 4 p.m.
Returning—Leave Charleston every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 5 1/2 a.m., arrive at Georgetown same days by 6 p.m. Leave Georgetown every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 2 a.m., arrive at Porters Ferry on _____, arrive at Fayetteville on Wednesday, Friday and Monday by 6 p.m.
NOTES.
1. The Post master general may expedite the mails, & alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contracts, he stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby.
2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time is specified.
3. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the time prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continues until the departure of any succeeding mail, whereby the mails destined for each succeeding mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred.
4. Newspapers, as well as letters, to be sent in the mail; and if any person making proposals, desires to carry newspapers, other than those conveyed in the mail, for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals for what sum he will carry with the emolument, and for what sum without that emolument.
5. Should any person making proposals desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals the alteration desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of the contract.
6. Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly, in the months of August, November, February, and May, in one month after the expiration of each quarter.
7. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail.
8. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals.
9. The Post master general reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end, whenever one failure happens which amounts to the loss of a trip.
10. The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of January next, & to continue in force until the 31st day of March 1810.
GIDEON GRANGER, Post master general. General Post-Office Washington } city, July 31—tOct 15 }
FOR SALE OR RENT.
THE Subscriber will SELL or RENT the HOTEL, situated on the Capitol Hill and near to the Capitol, at present occupied by Mr. P. D. SHELLE. As this house is well known, it is useless to say more than that it is calculated for a large establishment, and is the first situation as a hotel on a large scale in this city. Possession can be had the first day of October next. Some other houses for sale or Rent on the Hill near the Capitol. For terms, apply to
DANL. CARROLL of Dud'n.
Washington, August 5—2awtO
Treasury Department of the United States, April 2d, 1807.
Whereas the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, at a meeting held on the 23d day of March 1807, did resolve, that the sum remaining to complete the expenditure of the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars, should among other purposes be applied to the reimbursement of the NEW AND HALF PER CENT. STOCK, created in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 3rd day of March 1795.
This is therefore to give notice, that the principal of the said Four and half per cent. Stock, will on surrender of the certificates be paid on the 1st day of October next ensuing the date hereof to the respective Stockholders or their lawful Representatives or Attorneys duly constituted and authorized, either at the Treasury or at the Loan Office as the case may be, where credits have been given for the amount of stock respectively held by them; & that the interest which may then be due on said stock, will also be paid to the respective Stockholders or their lawful Representatives or Attorneys duly constituted and authorized.
It is further made known for the information of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the said Four and half per cent. Stock, either from, or to the books of the Treasury, or from or to the books of a Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the first day of September ensuing. And the interest on all certificates of said stock, which shall not have been surrendered in pursuance of this Notification will cease and determine on the day preceding the day, hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof.
ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury. April 6—w1830
This is to give notice, that the subscriber of the city of Washington in the district of Columbia, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of Prince George's county in the state of Maryland, letters of administration on the personal estate of Thomas Duckett, late of said county deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber on or before the first day of October next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Those indebted to the deceased are desired to make immediate payment.
ALLEN E. DUCKETT, Adm. City of Washington, March 13—tf All claims forwarded by mail must be post paid.
LITERARY NOTICE.
WM. DUANE, of Philadelphia, will thank such Book sellers, Printers, and others, as may have had the goodness to collect subscribers, for the
LIFE & WORKS OF DR. FRANKLIN, about to be published by Wm. Duane, to forward to him lists of the subscribers, obtained, with particular directions relative to their residence, &c.
Printers of newspapers, who have published the proposals for this extensive work, will add to the favors already conferred, by publishing the above in their respective papers, as often as convenient.
WM. DUANE will also thank those, who have collected subscribers, for
"POLITICS FOR FARMERS and MECHANICS,"
to inform him of their names and places of residence, without delay.
July 13—
CHARLES H. VARDEN,
Merchant Taylor
New Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol.
RESPECTFULLY informs the gentlemen of the district of Columbia, he has imported by Miss ELIZA ANN lately arrived at Philad.
A choice assortment
Of Extra Superfine cloths, Bennets, Velvets, and Cordes, Cassimere, single and double milled Satin cloths, fashionable Spanish Orleans and Toilets, rich silk Moleskin velvets, silk and satin Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the season.
N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion.
Richard Harwell celebrated patent parallel Suspenders, can be had on the same terms as at his manufactory.
November 12—tf
RAMSAY'S LIFE OF WASHINGTON.
IN the press, and in a few weeks will be published by E. S. THOMAS, of Providence, R. Island, late of Charleston, S. C. and for sale at J. March's book store, George Town.
The Life of GEORGE WASHINGTON, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the U. S. during the war which established their Independence, and first President of the United States.
BY DAVID RAMSAY, M. D. AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
This work will be published on the following conditions:
1st. It will be comprised in one volume, octavo, of about 400 pages, on a fine wove paper.
2d. It shall be ornamented with an elegant engraved Head of Washington.
3d. The price to Subscribers, in boards, will be two dollars and fifty cents; to non-subscribers, three dollars.
4o. No money will be required until the books are ready for delivery.
On the merits of a work, coming from an author so celebrated in the annals of literature as Ramsay, suffice it to say, that the manuscript has been read by several gentlemen of great literary acquirements, and pronounced to be "a piece of elegant classic Biography."
Subscriptions received at J. March's book store, High street, George Town.
Where are just received a new collection of books in every department of literature.
July 15.
By the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS great and weighty matters claiming the consideration of the Congress of the United States torn an extraordinary occasion for convening them, I do by these presents appoint Monday the twenty-sixth day of October next, for their meeting at the city of Washington; hereby requiring the respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive such communications as may then be made to them, and to consult and determine on such measures as in their wisdom may be deemed meet for the welfare of the United States.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States (SEAL) to be hereunto affixed, and signed the same with my hand.
Done at the city of Washington, the thirtieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven; and in the thirty second year of the Independence of the United States.
TH: JEFFERSON By the President JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
The subscriber wishes to sell at private sale, that valuable property which he now occupies in the town of Bladensburg, Maryland, 6 miles from the Capital of the United States, and promises to be one of the best watering places in the union. The lot contains about one and three quarters of an acre, on which is erected a commodious DWELLING BUILDING, 37 by 30 feet, two stories high, built of the best materials, nearly new and finished in the best manner, 6 rooms on the first floor, and 9 bed chambers, 4 of which if necessary might be partitioned to make 8, also a good Kitchen and Bake Oven, Wash house, Smoke house, stable for 30 horses and a house that will cover 6 carriages and a granary for oats.
The Lot borders on the Eastern Branch which is navigable and where fish may be caught in abundance in their season. This valuable property is in fee simple, and clear of all encumbrances and will be disposed of in the following manner, one half of the purchase to be paid in Land in the state of Ohio near some settled part thereof, one fourth in cash, on the residue 12 months credit will be given. Possession may be taken on the first Monday in September if required, if not I would lease it for one year. Should the purchaser incline to buy the furniture, I can spare 10 prime feather beds, a handsome mahogany side board, tables, chairs and all the residue of the household and kitchen furniture.
He wishes to return his grateful thanks to his friends in particular and the public generally for their patronage, and hopes to merit a continuance of it.
His house is well provided for the accommodation of those who may wish to visit the Spa this season.
WILLIAM ROSS. Bladensburg, July 8—taw8w
SALE AT AUCTION.
WILL be sold to the highest bidder on Wednesday the 19th inst. at 10 o'clock—Very valuable property—one two story BRICK HOUSE on F street, well finished and known to be the best stand for a store in Washington—one LOT and improvements at the spring (also a very good place for business) several other improvements in the neighborhood of the Bank, with a very excellent parcel of Household and Kitchen Furniture, consisting of Beds, Bedsteads, Tables, Chairs, &c. together with many articles in the Dry Good line. A credit will be given to the purchasers by giving bond with good endorser, for all sums above twenty dollars.
There will at the same time be offered for sale an excellent pair of Horses and Hack.
THOMAS THORPE. August 7—3t
Valuable Seats for Iron Works.
THE subscriber offers for sale between Five and Six Thousand acres of Land bounded on one side by James River, including big and little Owen's Creek, and situate in amherst county in the state of Virginia. This land is in the midst of a well and thick settled country; about 100 miles above the city of Richmond. There are not more than 30 acres of it cleared. The remainder is heavily timbered—consisting of large pines, white oaks, poplar, black walnut and chestnut. On Big Owens creek, and within 60 yards of James river, which is navigable for boats at all seasons of the year—there is an excellent site for any kind of water works. The stream is rapid and constant, and about three miles from the seat are, as it is believed inexhaustible banks of iron ore, which the subscriber has secured and which will be sold with the land. This ore has been tried and proved to be of a very superior kind. The land adjoining the seat is of excellent quality. Two hundred acres of timothy meadow might be made on the creek. The upland although hilly in places is well adapted to small grain, and a great proportion of it suitable to the raising of tobacco. Immediately around the site for water works are inexhaustible LIMESTONE Quarries, together with great quantities of the best building stone. In short there are many advantages combined to render this a most eligible spot for the erection of iron works, or any other kind of water works. It is deemed unnecessary to say more concerning this property than to request those who incline to purchase to view it. It will be shown by captain Henry Helloway in the neighborhood. The price will be moderate, terms of sale, which will be made, very easy, will be made known on application to the proprietor residing in Georgetown district of Columbia.
NATHAN LUFBOROUGH. Georgetown, February 16—wif