Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1804-02-29 00:00:00

Public Sale.
On Thursday afternoon will be exposed at public sale,
The Brigantine Commerce , a substantial, good vessel, 125 tons burthen, six years old, carries near twelve hundred barrels flour. Sale to commence at four o'clock, on a credit of two, four and six months—she may be sent to sea at a small expence, and may be viewed any time previous to the sale at Vowell's wharf.
Philip G. Marsteller.
Feb. 28.
For New-York,
The Sch't SEA FLOWER , H. B. Phillips, Master: Will carry 500 barrels of Flour. For Freight or Passage apply to the master on board, or to
Daniel M'Clean.
Feb. 25.
GEORGE N. LYLES
Intending to discontinue the retail business, will dispose of at prime cost, for Cash, his Goods, consisting in part of
SUPERFINE CLOTHS,
Do. Cashmere,
 Chintzes and Calicoes,  Furniture do. do.  Satin and Marcellis Waistcoating,  Irish and German Linen,  Silk and Cotton Hosiery,  Marcellis and Cotton Counterpanes, 
With a variety of other Articles, which being laid in very low, will be well worth the attention of purchasers.
Feb. 25.
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In pursuance of the last Will and Testament of the late Robert Buchan, deceased, will be offered for Sale at the Plantation where he resided, in Stafford County, on the 20th day of March next, if fair, otherwise the next fair day.
All the Perishable Estate of the said Buchan,
CONSISTING OF
The stock of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs; the plantation utensils, household and kitchen furniture, and a considerable collection of books, on divinity and history, and essays, moral and political. For all sums over ten dollars, a credit of six months will be allowed, the purchaser giving bond with approved security; for all under cash will be required. The property not to be delivered till the terms are complied with.
And at the same time and place, will be sold on a credit of one and two years,
The landed Estate
of the said deceased, containing about 520 acres. This land lies on the main run of Potomac Creek, four miles from Falmouth, and about the same distance from Stafford Court House; it is well timbered, and a considerable proportion of the cleared land is productive low ground. A mortgage on the premises, together with good personal security will be required.
All persons having claims against said estate are earnestly requested to exhibit them as soon as possible, legally authenticated; and those indebted, to make payment to one of the subscribers.
All those who have Books borrowed of the deceased, are requested to return them as
John M. Daniell, Benjamin James, Executors.
Feb. 28.
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VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE.
Pursuant to a decree of the Honorable the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Alexandria, will be exposed to sale, at public auction, for ready Cash, on Saturday the 7th day of April next, under the direction of the underlined commissioners appointed for that purpose,
A Tract of Land,
late the property of Robert Alexander, situate upon the Potomac river, adjoining the lands of Mr. Philip Alexander, containing 545 acres, being one moiety of the Abbingdon tract, formerly the residence of Mr. Curtis, deceased: this land is bounded by two parallel lines 120 poles wide, and running back westerly 634 poles from the river to the back line, and will be laid off into squares of 50 acres each, and will be sold in large or small parcels as may accommodate purchasers; this land is situated about an equal distance between Alexandria and George Town, and commands a full view of those towns, the City, Eastern Branch and Potomac; and in point of soil is equal to any on the river. Any person desirous of purchasing will be shown the premises and the plat and survey of the same on application to Geo. Deale in Alexandria.
Thomas Swann, Edmund J. Lee, } Com'rs. Geo. Deale, }
Feb. 28.
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For the Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
A PEACE OFFERING TO AN INCENSED DEMOCRAT.
Who is this that so querulously civility preaches On a sheet grim as Erin's "poor last dying speeches?"
A smart youth observ'd, full of fun and of chat, "Tis your old friend the Salt Mountain Democrat;
"I lately perceiv'd him demure in his den, His empty head scratching and chewing his pen;
"I hop'd in embryo the bantling to nip, But it riggled away and eluded my grip:
"A Hog with a great'd tail will slip through the hand,
"And grunting resume on the dunghill his stand."
I look'd at his Bernhoffs, so clumsy and rough, And view'd my old friend's cloven foot sure enough.
O fie, Mr. Snowden!—Learn merit to cherish, Nor let it with rubbish ingloriously perish; To keep it so long too!—I'd have you to know 'Twas wrong, 'twas passing wrong.—I'll speak to't Heigh ho!
Hail Adept in writing in prose and in verse! Thy lucid epistle's so monstrous terse, No person can think the literary for To own thy friends Adison, and smooth flowing Pope;
Nay more, great Wiseacre, 'tis plain from thy drift, Thou'rt closely ally'd to his Rev'rence Dean Swift;
But it is not thy business so bluntly to tell, How they flapt thee off for a never do well.
And dost thou sometimes deal in metrical stuff, For simple amusement, as youngsters take snuff, Oh, then thy poor brains must have many sad throes,
Thou art, it is clear, at a pinch with thy prose, I'll warrant thy verses are both fine, and witty, Stole from the sweet page of many an old ditty: But pray keep they rhyme grinders tight in their gears,
For truly I have my suspicions and fears, That the demon of nonsense a crazy old story, Has rais'd a rebellion in thy upper story. What, "ten gills"! Since thou to full age didst attain,
Sobriety pure—but I think thou must mean, To years of discretion, when judgment's matur'd,
A point not yet reach'd thou mayst be assur'd. Come make a bold push to mend thy powers of thinking,
They may be improved, not lessen'd by drinking Of whiskey, or such democratical fare, Till thou art as frisky and mad's a March Hare. With plenty of "Alum" to work up the vat, Thou hardly can miss to get wonderous fat; Then when thou'rt exhausted crawl into some Still,
Where thou wilt lie as a rat in a Mill: If ever thou dare in broad day to come out, Resolved like Satan to kick up a rout, And scatter thy crude fetid forces in print, The mules have flyly imparted a hint That satire must shield their good friend common sense,
And urge that I should due chastisement dispense
With a rod which has long, in Parnassus's vault, Been steep'd in a pickle of Pepper and Salt;
Applied with judgment to thy learned breech, Might free thee perhaps from thy publishing itch. Yet still thou mayst scribble, tho' roll'd in the dust,
Ambitious of glory! If so I do trust, When laid on with vigour, some indignant splinter Will fly from thy carcass, and stick in thy Printer.
Februray 27.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday December 7.
Debate on the Amendment to the Constitution.
(Continued.)
Mr. Rodney would detain the committee but a few moments. He said, he might be permitted to remark, that accustomed to consider subjects, on principle, and to act himself under the best impressions of his judgement, he was willing to give credit to others, and to believe that they also acted on the same motives. He agreed with his friend from Virginia on the construction proper to be put on the amendment. By attending to every part of it according to the rules of Syntax, it appeared to him that no doubt could exist on the most mature reflection, as to its proper construction. "The person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed: and if no person have such majority, then from the person having the highest numbers, not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately by ballot, the President." The committee will observe that in the previous part of the paragraph, the term number of votes is used, and that reference must be had to it in the construing the meaning of those words, through every subsequent part of it. He believed that by a simple reading of the paragraph, it would appear that three refers to numbers. To give a just construction to any sentence, we must use every part of it, and not exclude a single word if we can give it meaning. Taking this as a general rule, and giving effect as to the term highest, the argument of gentlemen is answered. They pretend to say when they find the expression highest numbers not exceeding three, that the highest on the list are to be excluded, and the choice to be confined to persons having only three votes. The house is to take the highest numbers, the three highest, whether more or less. As the constitution now stands, it says, if no person have a majority, the house shall choose by states from the five highest. A case might occur, where six of the candidates may have equal votes. What would be the consequence? The constitution gives the choice to the five highest, there would in that case be returned to the house 6 candidates equal and highest—To remedy this defect the amendment is so framed that instead of tying down the house to a choice from 5 persons, it authorises it from the 3 highest numbers. Gentlemen object to this by saying, that it allows a wide scope and permits the house to choose a person having perhaps but one vote; and is not this the case at present? Suppose the 2 highest have all the votes but 3, and that three other persons have but one vote each, the case will be precisely the same. Mr. R. confessed that it was so long since he had left school, that he was not able to repeat the rule of grammar to which he had referred, but it did appear to him when reference was had to a substantive qualified by an adjective, it was proper to take both together. No instrument was so perfect, but that if the parts were taken separately, it might not be rendered nonsense. He had learnt somewhere, that a clergyman reciting in a place of worship, the old version of the Psalms by Shernhold and Hopkins, had said,
The Lord will come, and he will not— Keep silence, but speak out—
A sailor who happened to be listening, thinking the man crazy and all who heard him, immediately left the house. So in this case the gentleman, by a similar species of ingenuity, may make this or any other resolution perfect nonsense.
Mr. Dana said it was not his purpose to enter into a grammatical disquisition; to understand correctly the meaning of particular words, it was not necessary to refer to the authority of grammarians. When they understood the principles of grammar they did not want those authorities. He was ready to observe that on the first reading of the resolution, many gentlemen entertained different ideas from those expressed by the gentlemen from Delaware and Virginia, some gentlemen considering the term highest as referring to persons, and others to members; as had been observed, the punctuation would decide in one way or other, the construction might depend on commas. On a question in which the passions are so apt to be engaged as in the election of a chief magistrate, the language ought to be plain. He did hope therefore, that where all agreed in principle, all would agree to clothe it in language that would free it from obscurity.
Mr. Elliot moved that the committee should rise.
Motion lost—Ayes 35—Noes 66.
The question was then taken on striking out and lost—Ayes 29.
Mr. Thatcher said that in the first paragraph of the resolution the following expression was used, "when ratified by three-fourths of the legislatures of the several states." It appeared to him that this expression required the ratification by three-fourths of each legislature, and not, as expressed in the constitution, of the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. To make the phraseology conform to the constitution, he moved to substitute, in the room of the former words, the following: "when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states."
Motion lost without a division. The question being then stated on the resolution generally.
Mr. Elliot said as the committee were
not disposed to hear him, and as he had quite exhausted, he should not on cool reflection, trouble them with the full remarks he intended to make, but should when the amendment came into the house, ask for a division of the question, and offer a few remarks in support of the opinions he held.
The main amendment was then agreed to—Ayes 75—Noes 26.
The committee having risen, and the chairman having reported an agreement to the resolution from the Senate without amendment, the house took the same immediately into consideration.
Mr. Chittenden said as this was an important question requiring in his opinion more time for deliberation, he would move an adjournment.
The yeas and nays being taken on the adjournment, were yeas 30, nays 77.
Mr. Dana renewed the motion made by the committee of the whole, for so altering the resolution to abolish the office of Vice-President and called for the yeas and nays on it.
The yeas and nays were accordingly taken and the motion rejected. Yeas 26, Nays 85.
Mr. Goddard moved to strike out "persons having the highest number not exceeding three on" in order to insert "the highest," and called for the yeas and nays which were taken and the motion negatived. Yeas 32—Nays 85.
Mr. G. Grinswold moved to strike out "two" and insert "three," being the number of candidates for the Vice-President from whom an election shall be made by the Senate.
Lost without a division.
Mr. Elliot moved a division of the question on agreeing to the whole amendment at the word Vice-President in the second paragraph, and called for the yeas and nays his object being to record on the journal his vote in favor of the discriminating principle.
The question was accordingly taken on that part of the resolution which was agreed to, Yeas 86—Nays 30.
The remaining members of the resolution were then agreed to without a division.
The Speaker put the question on the whole resolution.
Mr. Elliot. I shall detain the house a few moments in submitting to their attention a few remarks. If the vote I shall give this night shall induce my constituents to call me back to the studious and rural life from which I was reluctantly taken, I shall have the consolation to reflect that I have done my duty. I have voted for the simple principle of discrimination, believing it the only amendment the public voice calls for, I believe the objections to that principle are founded on ideas that are erroneous and visionary; I believe it will not impair the rights and relative importance of the smaller states; I believe the constitution to be founded on elementary and federative principles, and that by the union it constitutes the most illustrious monument of human wisdom; I believe it important to all the members of the Union that the process of the election should be simple and pure, and that the President should be elected by a fair expression of the continent, that he may thereby be the correct organ of the public will, and be compared with this, it is of little consequence, whether once in 100 years he may be a citizen of Massachusetts rather than Virginia, or of Vermont, rather than Delaware. I have heard many ingenious arguments on a former occasion without being induced to believe that either the rights or relative importance of the smaller states would be impaired by this principle, but in deciding on this subject, I also believe this house ought to manifest caution and deliberation in making the alteration. I believe that all irritation and pride of party should be laid asleep. A different course from this has been pursued to day. I have no doubt with pure motives, but have some doubts whether with becoming judgement. I believe the amendment incorporated into the resolution of the Senate, to be infinitely more important than gentlemen may imagine. This can only be demonstrated by experience. I venture to prophecy this resolution will not be adopted by three-fourths of the states, I hope it never will. I believe, if adopted it will jeopardize the union of the states and open a door to intrigue and corruption which gentlemen should wish to close for ever; and I believe instead of making the constitution better than it now is, it will make it infinitely worse. We are about to increase tenfold the probability of introducing a person into the Presidency not calculated for that office, and to increase the avenues by which corruption and ambition may be advanced to supreme power. I am comforted by the assurance that I said

Let it be the only number friendly to the administration, that will give it a negative, and that this will induce gentlemen to believe that I do not vote from irritation or prejudice. Neither birth, wealth, talents, or connections, introduced me to public favour. I am induced to believe that I owe that distinction to a conviction of my personal integrity, and though I do not wish to use the language of arrogance, I expect that the vote I shall give this night, instead of lessening, will increase the favourable opinion of the republicans, and if on any future occasion the people of this country shall be under the necessity of mourning over their departed liberties, of lamenting the destruction of the constitution, the work of so much toil, labor and wisdom, by the passage of this resolution, and perceive my name recorded in the negative, they will remember the prediction I have made on this occasion.
The resolution was then agreed to, and the question was put on engrossing it for a third reading.
Mr. J. Randolph moved that it be read a third time to-day.
Mr. R. Griswold moved that it be read a third time to-morrow.
Mr. R. Griswold hoped it would be postponed till to-morrow. This was the first moment, during the progress of the resolution, in which it was in order to discuss its merits. They had been already eight hours in session. All the previous deliberations of the house had been taken up in amending the resolution, and now its merits came to be discussed, he trusted a majority would not be in favor of precipitating a vote. The merits of the amendment had not been fully discussed, and if ever it was important that any measure should be deliberately discussed, it was the one about being adopted, which went to change the radical features of our government. He concluded by moving that the Yeas and Nays should be taken on the third reading of the resolution to-morrow.
(Debate to be continued.)
BOSTON, Feb. 17.
Arrived, the ship Leonora, capt. John Williams, 45 days from Berbice, and 27 from Antigua. Sailed from Berbice, Jan. 2, in company with the schrs. Thomas, Webb, for Portland. Left there, brigs Neptune, Babbage, of Wilkesbarre; Nancy, Moody, Portland; schrs. Sufan, Tate, do. Harmony, Crabtree, do. Hiram, of Portsmouth, N. H. sloops Polly, Perkin, New London; Lucy Ann, Tracy, do. January 14, captain W. was boarded by the British schrs. Eclipse, Henry Morris, master, who took out his papers and men; put on board the Leonora 4 negroes and a prize master, and sent her into Antigua, where she was detained 5 days, and acquitted. Sailed from Antigua, Jan. 19, and left there, sloop Lion, Leonard R. Rice, to sail for Trinidad; brig Thomas, Clap, of Portland, and several other American vessels. The brig Ranger, capt. Goodwin, from Liverpool, put into Antigua in distress, after beating on the coast of America 22 days. Capt. Williams has brought the Ranger's Letter Bag. Came out of the vineyard in company with the brig John, from Lisbon for this port.
The ship Williams, from St. Domingo, for New Bedford, has been sent into Jamaica.
Shipwreck.—On Saturday the 11th inst. put in here, ship Adams, capt. Bullock of Boston, having been wrecked on the 19th ult. She sailed from Boston 3 days before, bound to Rotterdam; on the 10th inst. at 2 P. M. it blowing a very heavy gale, was struck by a sea, which threw over the camboose and struck the long boat out of the chocks; at 4 P. M. another sea struck the mainmast and quarter board overboard, and carried away the fore sail braces; at 8, cut away the fore sail yard; at 9, split the mizen stay sail; at 10, a very large sea struck in forward, and carried away the bowsprit, fore mast, main top mast, main mast head and main top, and all the stanchions on the starboard side, and drew the eye bolt of the main stay out of the bow, which caused the ship to leak very much. On 20th, at 4 o'clock A. M. a heavy sea struck the ship's head round on the other tack, and split the mizen to pieces; at 8 cleared the wreck forward and cut the fore mast and bowsprit to clear the ship and lashed the main top mast to the main boom, at 10, another sea struck off the plank shore on the larboard side, so that one pump could not keep her free. When the mast went, wounded one of the men badly. Several of the hands were frozen, it being extremely cold. The Adams had a very valuable cargo of sugar and coffee, a considerable part of which is damaged.
Gloucester, Feb. 16.
To the Editor.—As I observe you are particular in your mercantile information, I send you a list of vessels left at Havana, January 20th, viz. ship Madison, of Boston, to sail in 16 or 18 days. Ship Russell, of Boston, with flour from the southward. Vessels with horses will not gain admittance after the 15th of February. Sugars were 6 to 8 dollars. Molasses 8 cents per keg. Youts.
Cash given for clean Linen and Cotton Rags.
Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29.
The following persons have been by the council elected to superintend the elections of the respective wards:
First Ward, Election to be held at Davidson's Tavern. Archibald M c Lean, Joseph Dean, Charles Slade.
Second Ward, Election to be held at the Council Chamber. George Gilpin, Lewis Summers, Jacob Geiger.
Third Ward, Election to be held at Hodkin's Tavern. Peter Wise, jun. Abraham Faw, John M c Kinney.
Fourth Ward, Election to be held at the house of J. and T. Cook. Matthew Robinson, Amos Alexander, Stephen Moore.
A correspondent wishes to be informed how it happened that the Mayor and Commonality of Alexandria, in appointing 12 persons to superintend the next election, were under the necessity of taking one third of that number from U. States' officers—in one ward, the Judge of Orphans' Court and deputy Marshal are two of the judges, and in another a Weight-Master, and in a third the Flour Inspector, whose duty calls him every moment of the day to the discharge of it—suppose 100 wagons should be in town on that day, which is the usual number, there would be 450 horses and 100 drivers standing in waiting for this Flour Inspector, who is the only man that could be found capable of receiving ballots at a poll, and yet this circumstance happens in a town containing upwards of eight thousand inhabitants—if there is nothing unfair intended, why has this been done? Or is it intended he should try the votes with his auger.
BAHAMA ISLANDS.
An act for encouraging the importation of Corn.
Whereas, it now appears that the last crop of corn, has in general failed throughout these Islands; and it is therefore expedient to grant encouragement for the importation of that article: May it please your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by his excellency John Halkett, Esq. Captain General and Governor in Chief, the Council and Assembly of your Majesty's Bahama Islands, that all Corn or Maize, in any quantity not less than five hundred bushels, which shall be imported into these islands from ports without the limits of the same, between the 10th day of February, and 31st day of December next, shall be admitted free of the payment of any duty whatever, any thing contained in any act, passed in the present session, or in any former session of the General Assembly notwithstanding.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for any merchant or other person, at any time within the period above mentioned, to ship and export any salt, the produce of these islands, free of any duty imposed by any act passed in this present session, or any former session of the General Assembly, in any ship or vessel in which any such quantity of corn or maize shall in her then voyage have been so imported.
Passed the House of Assembly, January 10, 1804.
J. WEBSTER, Speaker.
Passed the Council, the 11th of January, 1804.
ADAM CHRYSTIE, P. Assented to the 12th of January, 1804. J. HALKERT.
COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT.
Extract of a letter from a merchant in Hamburg, dated November 1, 1803, to his correspondent in Charleston.
"When I last had the pleasure of addressing you, the face of affairs wore a gloomy aspect—yet since that time, we have seen that our fears were, for the greater part ill-founded—and although commerce is at present rather incommoded by the charge of a small extra freight for goods destined to this port, coming by the way of Tonning, Lubec or Wismar,* yet the price for them on their arrival, amply covers this additional charge of a few cents. The following are those articles that have most advanced, and are still rising in value—except those marked thus:†
Coffee—There is no more than one-half million pounds in the market, less than ever before, and as the Jamaica fleet has brought but a comparatively small supply,
* Boston in our vicinity. † Arrived in the middle of October.
the superior qualities will sell very readily at 46 cents per lb. and the inferior sorts from 36 to 45 cents. N. B. The appearance of the bean is less considered than the clean taste, which decides here the value in a great measure.
Logwood—Is actually sold per ton at 185 to 200 dollars—and very little to be bought at this enormous price.
Fustic or Yellow Wood—Is about thirty per cent. lower!—N. B. The Spanish cut logwood is paid 12 per cent. higher, than that cut by the English.
Sugars—Good Muscovadoes, very much in demand from 13 to 16 dollars per cwt.
Havannah, white, from 19 to 23 dollars per cwt.
Ditto brown, from 14 to 18 1-2 dollars per cwt.
Tobacco—Maryland, fine bright is scarce, would readily sell at 27 cents per lb. say kitefoot, other qualities from 11 to 22 1-2 dollars per 100 lbs; there are about 570 hhds. in the market. Virginia is not so much in request, except it be of the superior qualities, prices may be noted at from 9 to 20 1-2 dollars per 100 lbs. Quantity in store, 900 to 1000 hogsheads.
Cotton—Georgia and N. Orleans, there are about 1600 bales of (about two cwt. each) offered for sale, at from 27 to 33 cents per lb.; but rather dull.
Cochineal—Is paid with 7 1-4 dollars per lb. 200 ceroons are in the market; and as it appears by letters from Spain, received last mail, has risen there to a degree, that it cannot with any profit, be drawn by us from that quarter, nor even Holland.—Should a war with Spain take place, it must rise to 10 or 11 dollars.
Rum—Is a little more in favor than some months ago; but I cannot advise to consignments of this article, as the ports of the Baltic are at present supplied by Copenhagen, where 4,500 hhds. remain unsold.
Tea—Dull. Bohea from 20 to 24 1-2 cents per lb.
Table with 4 columns: Item, Price, Price, Price. Rows include: Congo 76 84 do., Souchong 77 93 do., Chin 79 94 do., f. Hyson, from 160 162 cts. do., Pecco 225 240 do., Tchy 220 260 do. The finer sorts in proportion higher and rising.
Rice—There are 2600 tierces of about 500 lbs. in store and as little is expected will answer well, prices from 9 1/2 to 10 1/2 dollars. 100 lb.
Pepper. Very dull, and almost unsaleable.
Hides. Very dull, and almost unsaleable. Flour. Very dull, and almost unsaleable, the harvest turned out uncommonly abundant.
Cocoa. From 20 to 24 dollars. per 100 lb.
Indigo. Flor. per lb. from 2 dollars. 90 cts. to 3 1/4 dollars. Sobresalient per lb. from 2 dollars. 28 cts. to 2 dollars. 56 cts.—Cortes per lb. from 2 dollars. to 3 dollars. 24 cts. East India per lb. from 2 dollars. 87 cts. to 2 dollars 95 cts.
Nankeens—7 yards. 1 dol. 66 cts. India muslins will not answer at present, several cargoes being unsold yet.
Tobacco should be always shipped as leaf tobacco, without mentioning the weight in the bills of lading in order to avoid a heavy duty at State.
It is certain that the merchants of the United States enjoy at this moment (and probably without any intermissions next year) so fair a field for well planned speculations to this country, as perhaps ever before, if not superior, and it may be reasonably supposed, that if prices do not advance too high in America, such enterprises must yield handsome profits to the shippers."
Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, February 24.
The house went through the Post-Office bill, and after making several amendments thereto, ordered it to a third reading on Monday.
The house went into a committee of the whole on the bill declaring the assent of Congress to an act of the state of North-Carolina.
Having considered the bill the committee reported it, and the house ordered it to a third reading to-morrow.
Mr. Findley, from the committee of elections, to whom was referred a memorial of Andrew Moore, respecting the election of Thomas Lewis, a sitting member, made a report, which, after stating the bad votes given for each of the candidates, concludes with the opinion that Thomas Lewis is not, and that Andrew Moore is entitled to a seat in the house.
Report made the order for Wednesday.
FOR SALE.
A HANDSOME GIG, with plated Harness. Also, an excellent Gig HORSE. Apply to the Printer. Feb. 24.
Corn, Rye, and Staves Wanted.
The Subscriber will purchase any quantity of Corn, Rye, and White Oak pipe and hoghead Staves, for which cash will be given at the Eastern Branch, in the City of Washington, by
James Barry.
Feb. 29.
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S. CLARK,
Has this morning opened a cafe of Ladies Beautiful Pearl Caskets, at his store on Fairfax Street.
Also.—A large assortment of Shoes, at his usual reduced prices. Feb. 28. drw
Notice.
The subscriber being duly appointed assignee of the estate and effects of James Smith, of Dumfries, a Bankrupt, GIVES NOTICE, to all those indebted to him, or who may have any of his estate or effects in their possession, to pay or deliver the same to the assignee without delay, and no other person, but such as may be authorized by him. Those indebted, who find it inconvenient to make immediate payment, that will on or before the first day of March next, come forward and give bonds for the balances due said estate, will be indulged until September next, by making the same secure, but those who do not avail themselves of this opportunity, or making payment, may expect prosecutions will be commenced without reserve. Timothy Brundige, Assignee.
Timothy Brundige, Assignee.
Further Notice.
ON Monday the 5th day of March next will commence the sale of the property of James Smith, at the store lately occupied by him in Dumfries, consisting of a
Variety of GOODS,
the remains of his Store, Household and Kitchen Furniture, Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Farming Utensils, River and Bay Craft, Scows, Boats, &c. &c.
Also.—TWELVE NEGROES, if not disposed of at private sale.
Likewise the Lands, Houses, Lots, &c. of said Smith's, viz.
A Tract of Land near Dumfries on the tide waters of Powell's Creek, called Cedar Grove, containing about 600 acres, with Houses and other improvements.
One moiety of a Tract of Land on Chappawamsic Creek, with Houses, Quarries, and Free-stone thereon, &c.
A House and Lot in Newport, (Pocomoke) No. 13.
Two Lots with Storehouse, Sheds, Wharf, &c. in the same place, No. 15 & 16.
One of two undivided Lots in the Town of Geneva, State of New-York.
Two Lots in the City of Washington, No. — and — in Square —.
And the Houses and Lots in Dumfries now occupied by said Smith.
For further particulars concerning said Lands, &c. enquire of said Smith, or the subscriber, who will shew the terms and which will be publicly made known at the time and place of sale.
A credit of six months will be given on all sums over Twenty Dollars, by giving bond with approved security for the amount, with interest from the date, if not punctually paid.
The Sale will continue from day to day until all the aforesaid property is disposed of.
Timothy Brundige.
Dumfries, Jan. 25.
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TUNIS CRAVEN,
Has just received from Philadelphia by the Harmony, Capt. Ellwood,
Russia Sheetings,
Ticklenburgs, Twilled Cotton Bagging, Madras Handkerchiefs, Ladies patent Cloths,
A small assortment, worsted and lambs wool hose, flannels, &c. Also,
An Elegant Sideboard.
Feb. 18.
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FOR SALE,
A TRACT OF LAND
formerly the property of Itham Keith, lying in the county of Fauquier, adjoining the merchant mill lately purchased of Nathan Mathew by Henry D. Hooe, containing by deed 386 acres, about eight miles from the Court House, and is tho't by good judges, in point of fertility, inferior to no land in the country; it is well watered, abounds in fine low grounds; has on it a tolerable dwelling house, a small orchard, a sufficiency of timber and lays well.
Also, one other Tract, about ten miles above the Court House, containing about 600 acres; lying upon Carter's Run, near the main road leading to Winchester. This land is well watered, has many advantages attached to it; such as country mills, &c.—about one half in woods, and is considered as excellent for cropping, being fine for either wheat, corn or tobacco.
L. Ashton.
Fauquier Court House,
Feb. 21.
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Mr. Snowden, Sir,
A publication in your paper of the 23d instant, signed Henry Rose, compels me to appear again in the public prints; not for the purpose of calling Doctor Rose "a false, malicious and scandalous traducer," (epithets which may nevertheless eventually recoil on their author) but with an honest view of giving to my fellow citizens, as well as the public at large, such a statement of facts as may enable them to judge with what force these approbrious terms apply to me, on the score of the transaction in question, and how far my exertions to enable the Doctor to extricate himself from his recent difficulties have merited such abuse.
On Saturday the 18th instant, Doctor Rose called on me with a paper of which the following is a copy, purporting to be a communication from Mr. George Wise, and demanded whether or not, I had stated what was therein contained.
No. I.
Mr. George Wise states, that Mr. Hoffman, in a conversation with him, and some others, observed that Dr. Rose, in company with Col. Peyton, had called upon him (Mr. Hoffman) to get the letter which he had obtained from the Doctor some time before, respecting the misunderstanding about a bill, then pending before Congress, relating to the Corporation, that (Mr. Hoffman) in reply, told the Dr. he acted not upon his own account alone, but on behalf of the committee, and did not give the letter, that the Doctor then asked him, if he had acted entirely for himself, whether he would have returned the letter, that Mr. Hoffman replied, that he should do with the letter what he (Mr. Hoffman) thought proper—upon this, that the Doctor had used approbrious language, and that Mr. Hoffman informed him, that his house was always an asylum, but that notwithstanding, he should not use (meaning the Doctor) any improper language in his house, upon which the Doctor begged Mr. Hoffman's pardon.
After perusing the paper, I replied, that substantially I had, but not in the express terms there used. He then demanded that I should give him in writing an account of what passed between us at my house at the time, and on the occasion alluded to, or at least of so much of it as had obtained any degree of publicity. I assented to this application, on condition that he would previously put me in possession of the paper presented, or a copy thereof. After some hesitation he agreed to do so, and I soon after in compliance made him the following communication.
No. II.
Alexandria, 13th Feb. 1804.
Doctor Henry Rose,
Sir,
IN conformity with my promise, I here send you a statement of what passed in my house the evening you and Colonel Peyton were there, for the purpose of getting back the letter you had given the Committee, relative to the misunderstanding about the bill then pending before Congress, relating to the Corporation of Alexandria, and which is what I stated to sundry gentlemen the following day.
That on my refusing to give up the letter on behalf of the Committee, you became irritable, and made use of an approbrious term; on which I remarked, my house protected any gentleman that came into it, and that I had not been accustomed to receive such language; that I was sorry Doctor Rose had no more respect for my lady. On which I stated Doctor Rose had made a very proper apology. As it respects my answer to your appeal to me what I would do with the letter, if I acted altogether on my own behalf, believe my answer to have been "that Mr. Eppes had stated on the floor of Congress, that which I thought incorrect, and in which I was implicated, and that I should take the shortest mode of correcting the error."
No. III.
I further state at the request of Dr. Rose, that he made a most very proper apology to Mrs. Hoffman.
JACOB HOFFMAN.
We then parted, and I have not been since favoured with another personal interview. The correctness of the statement I gave to him, and with which he was dissatisfied will appear from the following representation.
No. IV.
ONE evening lately I happened to call at Mr. Hoffman's, and on entering the room found Dr. Rose and Col. Peyton there; on which I apologized for interrupting their business, and was answered that it was no interruption, and requested to take a seat, which I did. Soon after Doctor Rose demanded of Mr. Hoffman the delivery of a letter he had given him; and I think, said his reason for demanding it was, that he could substantiate the information he gave Mr. Eppes respecting the Bill sent by the Mayor and Council of Alexandria to Congress. Mr. Hoffman refused to deliver it, saying that as there were more persons implicated in the charge that Dr. Rose had made to a member of Congress, and that as the letter went to refute, or contradict said charge it was common property, and he would not deliver it without their consent. The Doctor then told Mr. Hoffman, that if he was not in his own house he would tell him that his conduct was very base—on which Mr. Hoffman very coolly observed to the Doctor, that his house at all times afforded protection to gentlemen that came into it—he also told Doctor Rose, that he was not used to hear such language, and that he thought the Doctor would have treated his lady with more respect. Doctor Rose then observed that he was warm and irritated, and had made use of improper language—he also made a very polite and gentlemanlike apology to Mrs. Hoffman.
He asked Mr. Hoffman on what footing they should leave the business, to which Mr. Hoffman replied, that he thought himself injured, together with the gentlemen of the Committee, and that he should take the shortest mode of redressing the injury and make use of the means in his power.
JOSEPH RIDDLE.
Alex. 24th Feb. 1804.
No. V.
I certify that I was present at the conversation, to which Mr. Riddle refers, and that it is substantially correct; but that Mr. Hoffman's letter to Doctor Rose, states some parts of it more minutely.
JNO. B. PATON.
Alexandria, February 24.
To prove that I made no other representation of this transaction than that what actually took place, I adduce the following certificates.
No. VI.
Being present on Friday last, when Mr. Hoffman was asked, if there had not been a demand made of a paper given him by Dr. Rose, Mr. Hoffman, replied in the affirmative, and began to relate the conversation, which took place at the interview, in substance as follows:
After refusing the paper, Doctor Rose, made use of approbrious terms, which Mr. H. said he could not suffer from any gentleman, that his house was however an asylum for every gentleman, when Dr. Rose begged pardon, or apologized and acknowledged he was warm. The manner in which Mr. Hoffman gave the statement, impressed on me, that Mr. H. was pleased with the reparation the Doctor made, it may be proper to remark that Mr. H. did not relate it in a style of exultation.
GEORGE WISE.
Alexandria, February 24.
No. VII.
On the 19th of February Mr. Hoffman, read to me a copy of a letter addressed to Dr. Rose, containing as nearly as I can recollect the conversation which took place on Friday the 17th inst. between Mr. Jacob Hoffman, John A. Stewart, George Wise, and myself.
PETER WISE, Jun.
No. VIII.
On Sunday the 19th of February, Mr. Hoffman read to me a letter addressed to Doctor Rose, a copy of which he told me he had given him. The letter contained Mr. Hoffman's conversation with Dr. Wise, Mr. George Wise, and myself as early as I can recollect.
JOHN A. STEWART.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, the 21st, Doctor Augustine J. Smith came into my store, and wished to know if I were at leisure, I informed him I was and waited on him into the street, where he informed me that he had called on me, at the request of his friend Doctor Rose, holding a paper in his hand, which he said contained what he and his friend Rose thought was proper for me to sign. After reading it to me, I replied that I would not, as I consistently could not, sign a paper of that description, but if he would leave it with me, I would give him a written answer, stating my objections to his request. To this he objected unless I would acknowledge that I had not made up my mind, whether I would or would not sign it. To this I peremptorily refused my assent, having at the first moment determined negatively as to the proposition. After this, much conversation passed between us, as many of my neighbours can testify. Being unwilling that Henry Rose or any other man, should have any cause of complaint against me, I proposed to Dr. Smith to submit the affair wholly to three gentlemen. Doctor Rose to choose one, I another, and Doctor Smith to make the
third—that to whatever they should prescribe as my duty, I would cheerfully conform; or, that Doctor Rose should be at liberty to publish my letter of the 18th containing the facts, with such remarks as he might consider advantageous to him to make; or, if any gentleman would say, that he understood more from me, or differently from what that letter contains, I would correct the error, and satisfy the public fully on that score, and I requested Dr. Smith to communicate to Dr. Rose, my reasons for refusing to sign the paper, together with these several propositions for an accommodation. To all which he objected, stating that he merely felt himself bound to acquaint Dr. Rose with my refusal to sign the paper in question, and that I should hear from Dr. Rose through him in the morning, adding that he hoped or supposed I was willing it should be kept a secret—whether the Doctor was really serious as to this injunction, under all the circumstances of publicity on the part of his friend, which will presently appear, I cannot pretend to ascertain. At 11 o'clock the following morning, Doctor Smith called at my house, and presented me with the following CHALLENGE.
No. IX.
Sir,
As reports injurious to my reputation have prevailed for some days past, which reports have been traced to you, as the author, and as you have refused to amicable adjustment to give me the redress that the nature of the thing required, I hereby demand of you that satisfaction which the feelings of an injured gentleman require.
My friend Dr. Smith will, on my part, make the necessary arrangements.
Your obt. servt.
HENRY ROSE.
Alex. Feb. 22. Mr. Jacob Hoffman, Alexandria.
In reply to this attestation of fashionable valour, I answered verbally to Dr. Smith, (he refusing to take it in writing, viewing it as an improper answer) that being unconscious of having done any thing that could justify such a demand, I should decline giving Dr. Rose any further satisfaction of any kind, until I had cause to believe I had done him an injury, especially as I had taken so much pains the evening before, through him (Dr. Smith) to do his friend every justice which could be reasonably demanded.
Thus have I given a brief but faithful relation of the facts on which is founded Dr. Rose's accusation of false, malicious, and scandalous traducer. He has indeed avoided to specify any particular calumny, but as he professes to have received his information through a respectable channel, and as the paper first presented for my consideration, contains all that is said to have been received, he is left to support his charge from some part of that document. Has not the substance of that paper been fully and satisfactorily proven to be true? I feel secure in submitting the question to the public even on this ground, although it will be observed that the statement made under the signature of Mr. George Wise, does not exactly correspond with that, said to have contained information coming from him, which paper or its original I am authorised by Mr. Wise himself to state he never saw, and that the certificate now published contains the substance of the conversation he communicated, a copy of which he had given Dr. Rose. Let the public compare that which is now given under his signature, supported by Dr. Wise and Mr. Stewart, with the certificates of Mr. Riddle and Mr. Paton, and determine whether there be aught of falsehood or apparent malice in my representations. The Doctor cannot be otherwise than aware that these are serious and injurious charges, and cannot be unmindful of the consequences of being unable to substantiate them in a court of justice.
But I am also charged with cowardice, and if to have declined an acceptance of the Doctor's challenge supports that charge, then I am convicted. Although I have no ambition to shine in the annals of modern chivalry, yet I am not willing to subscribe to the Doctor's accuracy, when on this head a respectable proportion of the community I am persuaded will not give him credit for the correctness of his premises, and that the other part especially such as know me or my character, will not readily admit that he will acquire much eclat by this exertion of his prowess. It is possible however that the Doctor may yet add to his laurels by extending his defiance to Mrs. Hoffman, and this supposition seems in some measure warranted, by a consideration of the time, place and manner, which he selected for communicating his hostile intentions towards me. The time was on a sabbath morning, when the solemn sound of the bell, was summoning the peaceful inhabi-
tants to worship—the place, my own residence, surrounded by my wife and children, with one of my fellow-citizens who is a justice of the peace for the county of Alexandria—the manner was such as to induce this gentleman to require assurances of me that the Doctor's threats should terminate in nothing sanguinary or serious, and as I wish to accompany all my statements with correspondent testimony as far as the nature of the several facts will admit of it, I have prevailed on Mr. Dundas to furnish me with the following certificate.
No. X.
On Sunday morning the 19th inst. on my way to Church, I fell in with Mr. Hoffman near the corner of King and Royal Streets, and from thence walked with him on my way, when I got to his house he asked me to step in with him a few minutes, and he would go with me part of the way, I did so, and a few minutes after we were seated, a servant came into the room and said Dr. Rose was at the door and wished to see Mr. Hoffman; the servant was desired to ask the Doctor to walk up, which he immediately did, when a conversation commenced between the Doctor and Mr. Hoffman on the subject of an apology the Doctor had made the evening before, and Col. Peyton were at Mr. Hoffman's house, and from what I understood the Doctor wished Mr. Hoffman to state that the apology was intended for Mrs. Hoffman only, to which Mr. Hoffman would not consent, observing that it would be incorrect, but agreed to add to the letter that the Doctor had also made an apology to Mrs. Hoffman, who at this time, on a little bell, came into the room (where she continued until the Doctor went away.) The Doctor made some hesitation in accepting this addition, but at length agreed that it should be stated, which Mr. H. mandated, and gave it to him, at the same time asked him if it was satisfactory, he said it was not, and asked Mr. Hoffman if he would give him nothing more, he said he would not; upon which the Doctor left the room, saying as he went out that Mr. Hoffman should hear from him in another way. Mrs. Hoffman at this time also left the room, on which I wished to know if Mr. Hoffman if his lady would not be alarmed at the Doctor's threats, to which he replied that I need not have any fears on that score, that Mrs. Hoffman was not easily alarmed, and that the Doctor's threats should eventuate in nothing serious, which assurance was to me satisfactory, and I said no more to him on that subject.
JOHN DUNDAS.
February 25, 1804.
I must now take my leave of the public prints as a vehicle of communication to Doctor Henry Rose, and it cannot be expected of me to think, to notice any thing further coming from the same quarter, containing injurious charges, if they are unsupported by evidence.
JACOB HOFFMAN.
February 25, 1804.
FOR RENT,
THE FISHERIES
belonging to Mrs. Rozier, on the Maryland Shore, nearly opposite Alexandria. For particulars apply to
Thos. L. Washington, on the premises.
Feb. 21.
FOR SALE,
A FORTE PIANO,
Apply to
BELL & WRAY.
February 13.
Exchange on London.
A GOVERNMENT BILL for Twelve Hundred pounds sterling at 60 days sight. For sale by J. and Thos. Vowell.
Jan. 31.
CHEAP BARGAIN.
I wish to sell 52 1/2 acres of LAND, about 3 miles from Alexandria, lying on the Falls Church Road, a little above Col. Peyton's and Captain Stuart's. The improvements are a small framed House, with about 40 acres of rich, low ground inclosed, with cedar posts and chestnut rails, and laid down in timothy and clover, about 120 of them will be in full bearing this summer, if the spring permits; the whole of the rest in wood. It adjoins the lands of Captain Richard Conway and Benjamin Dalany, Esq. If not sold at private sale, before Saturday the 10th day of March, it will be on that day set up to the highest bidder, at the Coffee House in Alexandria, between the hours of one and two o'clock. The survey and title papers may be seen and the land shown to any person desirous of purchasing, by application to the subscriber.
B. DADE.
Feb. 22.
For Sale,
Ten acres of LAND in Fee Simple, on the hill near Col. Peyton's—also a small house and lot on Washington street, between King and Prince streets.
THO'S PATTEN.
January 3, 1804.
PRINTED DAILY BY S. SNOWDEN.