The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1804-07-23 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. IV.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. DLXII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, JULY 23d, 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber, being legally and fully authorized, by his assignees, to adjust, and settle finally, all the concerns of his former estate, surrendered under the laws of Pennsylvania, of Maryland, and of the United States, hereby calls on all persons indebted to said estate, to make payment to him; and on all who have claims, to render him their accounts, with notice of what property is still held in pledge for securing payment. JAMES GREENLEAF. Philadelphia, April 13—wtf
NOTICE.
The subscriber having been legally authorized, by Messrs. Henry Pratt, Thomas Willing, Francis John Miller, jun. John Ashley, and Jacob Baker, trustees of a fund created from the joint and separate estates of Robert Morris, John Nicholson and James Greenleaf, and generally denominated, the "Aggregate Fund," hereby calls on all persons, having any claims or pretensions by Mortgage or otherwise, to any of the objects of the said Fund, to make the same known to him, with a view to their adjustment. And all persons disposed to purchase any of the property of the said Fund either in bulk or on terms of those creditors, are desired to make early application to JAMES GREENLEAF. Philadelphia, April 13—wtf
Philadelphia, April 13—wtf The property of the AGGREGATE FUND lying in or near the river Potomac, consists of a large number of house lots in the city of Washington. A number of handsome brick houses and a few wooden houses in do. Awharf and store on do. Lands on the Baltimore ranch, opposite do. Do. on Hunting Creek near Alexandria. Do. adjoining Fort Cumberland. Do. about 13 miles from do. The subscriber will in person receive applications on any of the objects of his agency, at Mr. Stiles' hotel, until the 10th inst. after which until further notice, he requests that all applications may be made to capt. Thomas Tingey, William Cranch, esq. or Mr. Samuel Elliot jun. JAMES GREENLEAF. Washington, June 4—3t wtf
AT a meeting of the Stockholders of the THEATRE COMPANY, at Rhodes tavern on the 7th June, 1804, pursuant to notice.
ROBERT BRENT, Esq. Mayor of the city of Washington, was called to the Chair, and STANLEY BYUS, appointed Secretary.
On motion made and seconded, the meeting came to the following resolutions:
Resolved, That a Board of Directors, consisting of five Stockholders, be chosen by ballot at the present meeting, to continue in office one year from their election.
Resolved, That the said Board of Directors have the power generally to manage the affairs of the institution during the period for which they are elected.
Resolved, That it be the duty of the said Board of Directors to proceed immediately to the raising by such means as they shall deem most eligible the necessary funds, and thenceforth apply the same to the completion of the building; and to procure a dramatic company, when the prospects respecting the completion of the building will in their opinion warrant the same.
Whereupon the meeting proceeded to the election of a Board of Directors for one year, when the following gentlemen were elected.
John P. Van Ness, Samuel Harrison Smith, Robert Brent, William Brent, and Thomas Law.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the National Intelligencer. ROBERT BRENT, Chairman. June 18—3w
Valuable Land for Sale. The executors of the last will and testament of Anthony Holmead deceased, will sell at private sale about forty acres of Land adjoining the city of Washington at the northern extremity of 20th Street west. This land is generally allowed to be one of the most beautiful situations near the city, having a beautiful prospect of nearly the whole of the city of Washington, Alexandria and George Town, and any person inclined to purchase this valuable property, will be shown the same, and know the terms by application to the subscriber near the premises. JOHN HOLMEAD.
THOMAS MEUEN, THOMAS HALE & WILLIAM DAVIDSON, who heretofore, have transacted business under the firm of Thomas Meuen & Co. will in future use that of Meuen, Hale & Davidson. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1—tw&cutt
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, March 7.
DEBATE on Georgia Claims.
In committee of the whole;
Mr. Dawson in the chair, on the bill providing for the settlement of sundry claims to public lands lying south of the state of Tennessee.
Mr. J. RANDOLPH called for the reading of sundry resolutions lately offered by him on this subject. The resolutions having been read, Mr. Randolph said when he had submitted them, it was with the view of trying the question then before the committee as he thought fair. It was no part of his intention to embarrass the operations of the friends of the bill further than to take the sense of the committee as of the House on each specific proposition embodied by the resolutions. His will, therefore, was that the sense of the committee in the first instance should be rejected the vote of rejection would be a virtual admission of the claims of 1795; & gentlemen might then modify the bill in such manner as it might best please them to do.
The Chairman said he was of opinion that the bill being first committed had the preference.
The first section of the bill was then read and no objection made to it.
The second section was read.
Mr. NICHOLSON said the bill provided for a settlement of claims to public lands south of the state of Tennessee, and the power was given to certain officers to make the settlement. Since the bill had been reported, he was induced to think that the settlement ought not to be binding without giving Congress an opportunity of considering it. He would therefore offer a section to this effect. Mr. Nicholson accordingly offered a motion directing that the report of the commissioners should be binding, unless this act be repealed within six months after the settlement shall be made; he observed that a similar provision had been made in the articles of cession between the United States and Georgia.
Mr. LUCAS opposed the amendment on the ground that it did not extend far enough; and contended for the propriety of vesting in Congress unlimited power over the subject, and moved to amend the motion of Mr. Nicholson by adding "if approved by Congress shall be binding on the United States."
Mr. NICHOLSON said he would only observe that if this amendment should be agreed to, it would leave the business in the same situation in which it now stood, commissioners having been already authorized to make a settlement, to be binding when ratified by the United States.
Mr. Lucas's amendment was then rejected Ayes 45—Noes 50.
The motion of Mr. Nicholson recurring.
Mr. BEDINGER said the foundation was so bad, that the superstructure could not be amended. It was degrading to the United States to compel Congress with six months to approve or disapprove the act of any three individuals. Suppose the settlement were made at the close of a session, it would be necessary in that case to convene Congress.
The question was then taken on Mr. Nicholson's amendment and negatived, Ayes 33—Noes 51.
Mr. J. RANDOLPH said he would move an amendment, which would try the merits of the question: to wit, to strike out the words "or pretended act" and insert an additional proviso at the end of the section as follows: "And provided that no proposition of compromise or settlement be received by the said Commissioners, from any persons claiming under any act or pretended act of the state of Georgia, alleged to be passed during the year 1795."
A division being called for, the question was first taken on striking out the words "pretended act" and passed in the negative—Ayes 44—Noes 55.
The question was then taken on inserting the additional proviso at the end of
the section, which likewise passed in the negative—Ayes 46—Noes 57.
Mr. VARNUM moved that the committee should rise and report their agreement to the bill without amendment, and that they had made some progress in considering the resolutions referred to them.
Mr. RODNEY hoped the committee would first consider the resolutions and take a question on them. To rise in this stage of the business would be to give them the go by.
Mr. ELMER. The committee have already sufficiently considered them; the amendment just moved embraces their substance. That amendment has been negatived, the other resolutions are confined to abstract points.
Mr. RODNEY. I hope the committee will not rise, but that they will consider the resolutions. It is said the principle of the resolutions is contained in the amendment offered by my friend from Virginia. I take those resolutions to contain premises from which certain inferences must flow. They contain what I believe to be the vital principles of government, and require no proof to elucidate them; like axioms in mathematics, they only require to be stated to be self-evident. It is not, therefore, my desire to go into their discussion; but it is my desire to learn whether we are agreed among ourselves. I wish to know whether the government of Georgia were at any time "invaded, with the power of alienating the right of soil possessed by the good people of that state in and to the vacant territory of the same, but in a right manner, and for the public good."—I wish to know "when the governors of any people shall have betrayed the confidence reposed in them, and shall have exercised that authority with which they have been clothed for the general welfare, to promote their own private ends, under the false motives and to the public detriment" it is not "the unalienable right of a people so circumstanced to revoke the authority thus abused, to resume the rights thus attempted to be barred and to abrogate the act thus endeavouring to betray them." I wish to proceed in the same manner, and see if the premises are not good and the inferences sound. If this shall appear to be the case, it will not be too late to adopt the amendment proposed by my friend, and express a decided opinion on the celebrated act of '95. So much has been however said on this subject, that I will not at present further trespass on the patience of the committee.
Dr. MITCHELL. These resolutions tend to involve Congress in the proceedings of the state of Georgia. I consider myself as one of those who by assenting to certain acts heretofore passed by Congress have consented to a hearing and compromise with the grantees. If this construction be correct, the committee are precluded from adopting these resolutions; nor is it proper in my opinion for Congress to go into a view of the proceedings of Georgia on this occasion. That state is sovereign to a certain extent, and this government possesses no right to interfere with her sovereignty. Attached to this sovereignty was the right of granting land belonging to her. But it is alleged that Georgia was in the year '95 in a disorderly state, and that a certain legislature in that year did a certain act, which a subsequent legislature declared to be totally unauthorized. This may be so. It is certain the second legislature declared the act of the first null under circumstances of a very extraordinary nature. I do not, however, see that it is our duty to give an opinion whether the legislature of Georgia acted wickedly or uprightly. Which ever course they may have pursued, I do not believe this body to be a constitutional board of censors. We find frequent occasions enough on which without going out of our way, our duty calls upon us to give our opinions. Believing this to be an occasion on which no opinion is required from us, and one which it is most prudent to pass by without giving such opinion, I will not vote for or against the resolutions. I am therefore for the committee's rising and reporting the bill. If this motion does not succeed, I shall be prepared to move a postponement of the whole subject till the first Monday in December. By so doing I am ready to avow that my object is to get rid of the discussion of the resolutions, and to avoid voting on them in detail.
Mr. J. RANDOLPH. I had hoped that when these resolutions were sent from the House to the committee they
would have received the respectful attention to which every such reference is entitled; and that the committee would at least have deemed them worthy of some expression of opinion on them; that they would have designed to say whether the reasoning or facts contained in them are or are not erroneous and unfounded. The gentleman from New York tells the committee that by an act passed at a previous session of Congress, a pledge has been given to a certain description of claimants under the act of 1795 to do something in relation to their claims. It is, this is a reason for not acting on the resolutions? No, it is a reason for taking them up and rejecting them. One of those resolutions says, and I am prepared to prove it true, and I call on gentlemen to shew its falsehood, that the claims of persons derived under the act of the 1st of January 1795, are recognized neither by any compact between the United States and the state of Georgia, nor by any act of the Federal government; I deny that they are so recognized. If they are, what can be easier than for the learned gentleman to refer to the compact under which they are recognized. This he cannot shew, and hence his unwillingness to express an opinion. At an antecedent session we passed a law on this subject. The gentleman may have given his vote for this law under the impression he states, but it does not follow that the legislature acted under the same impression; on the contrary, I know several gentlemen who voted for it, though hostile to the claims under the act of 1795, because it contained a general provision for claims, and did not particularly recognize those arising under the act of 1795, and now because Congress have passed an act of a general nature, when it was notorious there are a variety of claims besides those under the act of 1795, and none of which are mentioned either in the compact or treaty with the state of Georgia, it is said we have given a pledge, and we are called upon to fulfil it. And this language is held by gentlemen, who in the same breath have expressed a disposition to reject another description of claims. Can anybody speak a stronger language? A general appropriation has been made by Congress for claims. The claims preferred are of two classes; those under the acts of 1789 and 1795. There might have been claims of an hundred other descriptions, for all these Congress have made a general appropriation, and yet we are told by gentlemen hostile to the claims of 1795, that we are pledged to provide for those of 1795. If we are pledged to satisfy one description, are we not equally pledged to the other? But the truth is we have given no pledge. If we have, nothing is so easy as to refer to the statute book, and to point it out. No such pledge is recognized by our compact with Georgia. While I am up permit me to say, if the compact with Georgia be continued according to its letter, the appropriation of 5,000,000 ought to be considered as not embracing claims under the act of 1795—for the best reason in the world; the statute book of Georgia shews the reason. But, say gentlemen, we possess the power to satisfy these claims, though such satisfaction may not have been contemplated by our compact with Georgia. There must, say they, have been an understanding between the commissioners of Georgia and our commissioners in favor of compromising them, and therefore it is inferred, that we ought to be government more by the quo animo with which the compact was formed than by its strict letter; it is accordingly attempted to be proved, that there was an understanding between our commissioners and those of Georgia, that relief should be extended to claimants under the act of 1795. I am authorized by the commissioners to say that this was not the case. Whether, therefore, we are governed by the strict letter of the contract, or by the quo animo , we cannot discover the grounds for this opinion. I have been told in a way which removes all doubts by the commissioners on both sides, at least by a commissioner of the United States having a great participation in the business, and by the Georgia Commissioners, that the stipulation in the compact was not inferred at the instance of Georgia, but reluctantly inserted by them at the instance of the commissioners of the United States.
When I rose it was no part of my intention to make this reply to the remarks of the gentleman from New York, who considers us as precluded by a former vote from putting aside all claims under the act of 1795. If this is the case why not take up the resolu-
tions and negative them? When under consideration he can assert his reasons against them, and if he is of opinion they go to violate the rights of an independent state, that is a reason which no gentleman need be ashamed to avow. I trust, therefore, if the resolutions are false either in principle or in fact, the committee will lay it on the table, and pass over in silence by the committee, I think certainly move them again to the House. I ask gentlemen, therefore, to say how their difficulty will be got over; unless we are told, that being in possession of the committee, the House will be precluded from acting upon them. If this is the course intended to be pursued, I hope gentlemen will avow it. No doubt that can be pursued still prevent me from bringing out the sense of the House. Whether the question on these resolutions shall be attempted to be got rid of by the previous question, or by a postponement, I will have the sense of the House expressed to the public; for this is one of those cases which, once being engaged in, I can never desist or relinquish, till I shall have excited every energy of mind, and faculty of body I possess, in relating so nefarious a project.
Mr. ELLIOT said he hoped that the committee would not be intimidated by the threats of individual members, or induced by any means whatever to swerve from the correct course of proceedings. He hoped they would act with independence and with dignity. In regard to the manner of performing the business of legislation, no member can claim the right of exercising dictatorial powers. Yet we are told that we shall at all events pass a particular course of conduct, and shall be compelled to give a negative vote upon every member of a connected series of abstract propositions, although we may be of opinion that the whole are improper to be acted on at all. Are we to be governed by violence? Are we to resort on this occasion to revolutionary principles? Shall the ipse dixit of the honorable mover prevent our proceeding, in such manner as we may deem proper, a discussion which we may consider as impolitic and unfeeling? It will not be denied that the right, and the only possible right, of the whole chain of resolutions before us, has been negatived by a majority of the committee, in the form of an amendment to the bill upon your table. I believe it to be a maxim as well established as any of those which have this day been asserted as incontrovertible, that a majority should govern in a republican government. Mr. E. hoped the committee would carry this correct theory into practice on the present occasion.
The observations of the gentleman from New York (Dr. Mitchell) appear to me, said Mr. Elliot, peculiarly unpreceptive. But I have other objections to the resolutions, still stronger than those urged by that gentleman. I believe them repugnant to the spirit, if not to the express letter of the constitution of the United States. By that great national compact, all those rights and powers, appertaining to the states, and not expressly yielded to the general government, are referred to the states respectively, or to the people. The legislative powers of the state of Georgia, alluded to in these resolutions, belong to the class which has never been given up to the union. We have no power therefore to make any decision upon their validity or invalidity, or to delineate the sphere or extent of their operation. It would be an act of usurpation. Whatever idea may be entertained of inquisitorial and censorial powers, in relation to other subjects, there can be no doubt that this would be an assumption, on the part of Congress, of inquisitorial and censorial powers over the state governments.
I hope the committee will rise, and that an unnecessary and dangerous discussion will be closed as soon as possible. I regretted that the mover of the resolution announced his determination to compel us to record our votes upon a variety of propositions, however inconsistent with our own ideas of propriety and policy. I regretted that we were under the necessity of demolishing this blooming and wide spreading tree of resolutions, by single branches. I am gratified that the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Varnum) has laid the axe to its root, and that we are enabled to prostrate it in the dust in a moment, "with all its blooming honors thick upon it."
Mr. EUSTIS said in seconding the motion of his colleague, it was his desire

that the bill should be reported, and the resolutions virtually dismissed from further consideration. Should the committee, therefor, agree to rise, he should vote against their having leave to be again on the resolutions. In forming this opinion he had been governed by the object of the resolutions. At this time he had expressed no opinion respecting them. Whether they contained some political axioms, or not, and such as the House ought to adopt, he would not say. He took it for granted they were offered to produce an effect on the conduct of the House in their legislative capacity. Such was their avowed object. They all tended to one point, to the result embraced by the last resolution. When the mover of them offered the amendment just considered and rejected, he considered it as containing the substance; and he believed that as a decision had been made on the conclusion, all necessity for a decision on the premises would be superseded. He did consider the determination of the committee not to entertain the amendment on the bill as a final decision on the resolution. He would submit it to the judgment of the gentlemen from Virginia whether a decision of the committee on a resolution, which contained the essence of the whole, was not conclusive. After such a decision he was almost led to enquire whether it was in order to consider the rest. The committee were not convinced that the gentleman from Virginia was deeply interested in the issue of the discussion. He had expressed himself with warmth. He wished to have the discussion again opened. But it does not follow, that because any member makes a particular motion, that there is an obligation on the legislature to consider it. The legislature may have doubts of the propriety of considering it. The same right is common to all. And if one gentleman after the rejection of a motion, is indulged with the privilege of renewing it, other gentlemen being entitled to the same privilege, it will be impossible to proceed with the public business. It is no imputation on any gentleman that a majority differs from him. The indisposition of a majority to consider a proposition is not a denial of its truth. (To be continued.)
Valuable Lands for Sale.
By order of the court of Calvert county, will be exposed to Public Sale the following lands, the property of the heirs of captain Walter Smith, deceased.
ON Monday the 20th day of August next, will be sold on the premises the plantation on which the said Capt. Walter Smith formerly resided, containing by actual survey, 1225 1.8 acres of land lying adjoining Patuxent river, bounded on the south west by the said river, on the east by a creek navigable creek, called Saint Leonard's creek, so that one and a half miles of lowing will include the whole land—The soil of this land is equal if not superior to any on Patuxent, either for farming, planting or grazing, and in their season the greatest plenty of fine fish and oysters may be had either from the river or creek—A great part of the above land is covered with Red cedar, fit for posts or fencing.
On Tuesday the 21st on the premises, will be sold one other plantation in the Forest at about two miles distance from the former containing by survey 627 and one half acres of land, the greatest part of which is covered with hickory, chesnut and oak wood, and a great proportion of swamp land, which at a trifling expense might be converted into valuable meadow, belongs to this land.
On Thursday the 23rd on the premises, will be sold one other plantation lying adjoining on Chesapeake Bay, bounded on the north east by the said bay, on the north by a creek called Parkers creek, containing by survey 336 1.2 acres of land, on this land there are a good proportion marsh and meadow land and a great abundance of fine timber.
It is thought needless to give a fuller description of the above lands, as it is presumed that those who wish to purchase will view the lands previous to the day of sale—and on application to Mr. John Turner who resides near the two first mentioned tracts; they may see the plans of the different tracts of land; and will show the lands contiguous to him; and Mr. Richard Hance who resides on the last mentioned tract will show the outlines of the same to any person willing to view it.
The above lands will be sold either in the whole, or be divided into parcels as may appear most advantageous for the heirs. The purchasers to give bonds with approved securities for the purchase money, to be paid in three annual payments, the interest to be paid yearly, and on the ratification of the sale by the court, and a full payment of the purchase money and interest thereon a deed of conveyance will be executed to the purchaser agreeable to an act of Assembly in such case made and provided, by
J. WILKINSON, JAMES HUGHES, } Commissioners, JOHN TURNER, } Calvert county, June 8—1820-10-20.
This day is published By Rapine, Conrad, & Co, CAPITOL HILL, NEW JERSEY
REPORTS of cases argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States in August and December terms, 1821, and February term, 1823; by William Cranch, assistant judge of the circuit court of the district of Columbia. Also just published as above—The BUILDERS UNIVERSAL PRICE BOOK, containing a correct list of prices to the works of the several artificers concerned in building, in dollars and cents; with observations on erecting found and permanent buildings, by John Evans—price one dollar. July 16—
From the New-York Evening Post.
The following is the correspondence that passed between GENERAL HAMILTON and COLONEL BURR, together with an explanation of the conduct, motives and views of General Hamilton, written with his own hand the evening before the meeting took place, and only to have been seen in the deplorable event that followed.
No. 1. New-York, June 18, 1804. SIR, I read for your perusal a letter signed Charles D. Cooper, which, though apparently published some time ago, has but very recently come to my knowledge. Mr. Van Ness who does me the favor to deliver this, will point out to you that clause of the letter to which I particularly request your attention. You must perceive, Sir, the necessity of a prompt and unqualified acknowledgement or denial of the use of any expression which would warrant the assertions of Dr. Cooper. I have the honor to be, Your obedient servant, A. BURR. General Hamilton.
No. 2. New-York, June 20th, 1804. SIR, I have maturely reflected on the subject of your letter of the 18th inst. and the more I have reflected, the more I have become convinced that I could not without manifest impropriety make the avowal or disavowal which you seem to think necessary. The clause pointed out by Mr. Van Ness is in these terms, "I could detail to you a still more despicable opinion which Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr." To endeavor to discover the meaning of this declaration, I was obliged to look in the antecedent part of this letter for the opinion to which it referred, as having been already disclosed: I found it in these words—"General Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared in substance, that they looked upon Mr. Burr to be a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of government."
The language of Doctor Cooper plainly implies, that he considered this opinion of yours, which he attributes to me, as a despicable one, but he affirms that I have expressed some other, still more despicable; without however, mentioning to whom, when, or where. 'Tis evident that the phrase "still more despicable" admits of infinite shades from very light to very dark. How am I to judge of the degree intended? or how shall I annex any precise idea to language so indefinite?
Between Gentleman, despicable and more despicable, are not worth the pains of a distinction: when therefore you do not interrogate me, as to the opinion which is specifically ascribed to me, I must conclude, that you view it as within the limits to which the animadversions of political opponents upon each other may justifiably extend, and consequently as not warranting the idea of it which Doctor Cooper appears to entertain. If so, what precise inference could you draw, as a guide for your conduct, were I to acknowledge that I had expressed an opinion of you still more despicable than the one which is particularized? How could you be sure that even this opinion had exceeded the bounds which you would yourself deem admissible between political opponents?
But I forbear further comment on the embarrassment, to which the requisition you have made naturally leads. The occasion forbids a more ample illustration, though nothing could be more easy than to pursue it.
Repeating that I cannot reconcile it with propriety to make the acknowledgement or denial you desire, I will add that I deem it inadmissible on principle, to consent to be interrogated as to the justness of the inferences which may be drawn by others from whatever I may have said of a political opponent in the course of a fifteen years competition. If there were no other objection to it this is sufficient, that it would tend to expose my sincerity and delicacy to injurious imputations from every person who may at any time have conceived the import of my expressions, differently from what I may then have intended or may afterwards recollect. I stand ready to avow or disavow promptly and explicitly any precise or definite opinion which I may be charged with having declared of any Gentleman. More than this cannot justly be expected from me; and especially it cannot be reasonably expected that I shall enter into an explanation upon a basis so vague as that which you have adopted. I trust on more reflection you will see the matter in the same light with me. If not, I can only regret the circumstance and must abide the consequences. The publication of Doctor Cooper was never seen by me till after the receipt of your letter.
I have the honor to be, &c. A. HAMILTON. Col. Burr.
No. 3. New-York, 21st June, 1804. SIR, Your letter of the 20th instant has been this day received. Having considered it attentively I regret to find in it nothing of that sincerity and delicacy which you profess to value.
Political opposition can never absolve gentlemen from the necessity of a rigid adherence to the laws of honor, and the rules of decorum. I neither claim such privilege nor indulge it in others.
The common sense of mankind affixes to the epithet adopted by Dr. Cooper, the idea of dishonor. It has been publicly applied to me under the sanction of your name. The question is not, whether he has understood the meaning of the word, or has used it according to syntax, and with grammatical accuracy; but, whether you have authorized this application, either directly or by uttering expressions or opinions derogatory to my honor. The time "when" is in your own knowledge, but no way material to me, as the calumny has now first been disclosed, so as to become the subject of my notice, and as the effect is present and palpable.
Your letter has furnished me with new reasons for requiring a definite reply. I have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient, A. BURR. General Hamilton.
On Saturday the 22d of June, General Hamilton, for the first time, called on Mr. P. and communicated to him the preceding correspondence. He informed him that in a conversation with Mr. V. N. at the time of receiving the last letter, he told Mr. V. N. that he considered that letter as rude and offensive, and that it was not possible for him to give it any other answer than that Mr. Burr must take such steps as he might think proper. He said farther, that Mr. V. N. requested him to take time to deliberate, and then return an answer, when he might possibly entertain a different opinion, and that he would call on him to receive it. That his reply to Mr. V. N. was, that he did not perceive it possible for him to give any other answer than that he had mentioned, unless Mr. Burr would take back his last letter, and write one which would admit of a different reply. He then gave Mr. P. the letter he after mentioned of the 22d of June, to be delivered to Mr. V. N. when he should call on Mr. P. for an answer, and went to his country house.
The next day General Hamilton received, while there, the following letter.
No. 4. June 23, 1804. SIR, In the afternoon of yesterday, I reported to Col. Burr the result of my last interview with you, and appointed the evening to receive his further instructions. Some private engagements, however, prevented me from calling on him till this morning. On my return to the city I found upon enquiry, both at your office and house, that you had returned to your residence in the country. Least an interview there might be less agreeable to you than elsewhere, I have taken the liberty of addressing you this note to enquire when and where it will be most convenient to you to receive a communication. Your most obedient and very humble servant, W. P. VAN NESS. General Hamilton.
Mr. P.—understood from General Hamilton that he immediately answered, that if the communication was pressing he would receive it at his country house that day, if not, he would be at his house in town the next morning at nine o'clock. But he did not give Mr. P. any copy of this note.
No. 5. New York, June 22, 1804. SIR, Your first letter, in a style too peremptory, made a demand, in my opinion, unprecedented and unwarrantable. My answer, pointing out the embarrassment, gave you an opportunity to take a less exceptional course. You have not chosen to do it, but by your last letter received this day, containing expressions indecorous and improper, you have increased the difficulties to explanation intrinsically incident to the nature of your application. If by a "definite reply," you mean the direct avowal or disavowal required in your first letter, I have no other answer to give, than that which has already been given. If you mean anything different, admitting of greater latitude, it is requisite you should explain.
I have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient servant, ALEX. HAMILTON. Aaron Burr, Esq. This letter, although dated on the 23d June, remained in Mr. P's possession until the 25th, within which period
he had several conversations with Mr. V. N. In these conversations Mr. P. endeavored to illustrate and enforce the propriety of the ground General Hamilton had taken. Mr. P. mentioned to Mr. V. N. as the result, that if Col. Burr would write a letter, requesting to know in substance whether in the conversation to which Dr. Cooper alluded, any particular instance of dishonorable conduct was imputed to Col. Burr, or whether there was any impeachment of his private character, G. Hamilton would declare to the best of his recollection what passed in that conversation: and Mr. P. read to Mr. V. N. a paper containing the substance of what Gen. H. would say on that subject, which is as follows—
No. 6. "General Hamilton says he cannot imagine to what Dr. Cooper may have alluded, unless it were to a conversation at Mr. Taylor's, in Albany, last winter (at which Mr. Taylor, he, and General H. were present) G. Hamilton cannot recollect distinctly the particulars of that conversation so as to undertake to repeat them, without running the risk of varying, or omitting what might be deemed important circumstances. The expressions are entirely forgotten, and the specific ideas imperfectly remembered; but to the best of his recollection it consisted of comments on the political principles and views of Col. Burr, and the results that might be expected from them in the event of his election as Governor, without reference to any particular instance of past conduct, or to private character."
After the delivery of the letter of the 22d, as above mentioned: in another interview with Mr. V. N. he desired Mr. P. to give him in writing the substance of what he had propounded on the part of General Hamilton, which Mr. P. did in the words following—
No. 7. "In answer to a letter properly adapted to obtain from General Hamilton a declaration whether he had charged Col. Burr with any particular instance of dishonorable conduct, or had impeached his private character, either in the conversation alluded to by Dr. Cooper, or in any other particular instance to be specified."
He would be able to answer consistently with his honor, and the truth in substance, that the conversation to which Dr. Cooper alluded, turned wholly on political topics, and did not attribute to Col. Burr any instance of dishonorable conduct, nor relate to his private character; and in relation to any other language or conversation of Gen. H. which col. Burr will specify, a prompt and frank avowal or denial will be given.
On the 26th June Mr. P. received the following letter.
No. 8. SIR, The letter which you yesterday delivered me and your subsequent communication, in col. Burr's opinion evince no disposition on the part of gen. Hamilton to come to a satisfactory accommodation. The injury complained of and the reparation expected, are so definitely expressed in col. Burr's letter of the 21st inst. that there is not perceived a necessity for further explanation on his part. The difficulty that would result from confining the enquiry to any particular times and occasions must be manifest. The denial of a specified conversation only, would leave strong implications that on other occasions improper language had been used—When and where injurious opinions and expressions have been uttered by gen. Hamilton must be best known to him, and of him only will col. Burr enquire. No denial or declaration will be satisfactory, unless it be general, so as wholly to exclude the idea that rumours derogatory to col. Burr's honor have originated with gen. Hamilton or have been fairly inferred from anything he has said. A definite reply to a requisition of this nature was demanded by col. Burr's letter of the 21st instant. This being refused invites the alternative alluded to in gen. Hamilton's letter of the 20th.
It was required by the position in which the controversy was placed by gen. Hamilton on Friday last, and I was immediately furnished with a communication demanding a personal interview. The necessity of this measure has not in the opinion of col. Burr been diminished by the general's last letter or any communication which has since been received. I am consequently again instructed to deliver you a message, as soon as it may be convenient for you to receive it. I beg therefore you will be so good as to inform me at what hour I can have the pleasure of seeing you.
Your most obedient, and very humble servant. W. P. VAN NESS. Nathaniel Pendleton, esq. June 26th.
No. 9. 26th June, 1804.
SIR, I have communicated the letter which you did me the honor to write to me of this date to gen. Hamilton. The expectations now disclosed on the part of col. Burr appear to him to have greatly extended the original ground of enquiry, and instead of presenting a particular and definite case for explanation from him to aim at nothing less than an inquisition into his most confidential conversations, as well as others, through the whole period of his acquaintance with col. Burr.
While he was prepared to meet the particular case fairly and fully, he thinks it inadmissible that he should be expected to answer at large as to every thing that he may possibly have said, in relation to the character of col. Burr, at any time or upon any occasion. Though he is not conscious that any charges which are in circulation to the prejudice of col. Burr have originated with him, except one which may have been so considered, and which has long since been fully explained between col. Burr and himself—yet he cannot consent to be questioned generally as to any rumours which may be afloat derogatory to the character of col. Burr without specification of the several rumours, many of them probably unknown to him. He does not however mean to authorise any conclusion as to the real nature of his conduct in relation to col. Burr, by his declining to loose and vague a basis of explanation, and he disavows an unwillingness to come to a satisfactory, provided it be an honorable, accommodation. His objection is, the very indefinite ground which col. Burr has assumed, in which he is sorry to be able to discern nothing short of predetermined hostility. Presuming therefore that it will be adhered to, he has instructed me to receive the message which you have in charge to deliver. For this purpose I shall be at home and at your command to-morrow morning from 8 to 10 o'clock.
I have the honor to be respectfully your obedient servant, NATHL. PENDLETON. William P. Van Ness, esq.
No. 10.
SIR, The letter which I had the honor to receive from you, under date of yesterday states among other things, that in general Hamilton's opinion, col. Burr has taken a very indefinite ground, in which he evinces nothing short of predetermined hostility, and that general Hamilton thinks it inadmissible that the enquiry should extend to his confidential as well as other conversations. In this col. Burr can only reply, that secret whispers traducing his fame, and impeaching his honor, are, at least, equally injurious with slander publicly uttered; That gen. H. had, at no time, and in no place, a right to use any such injurious expressions; and that the partial negative he is disposed to give, with the reservations he wishes to make, are proofs that he has done the injury specified.
Col. Burr's request was in the first instance, proposed in a form the most simple, in order that gen. Hamilton might give to the affair that course to which he might be induced by his temper and his knowledge of facts. Col. Burr trusted with confidence, that from the frankness of a soldier and the candor of a gentleman, he might expect an ingenuous declaration. That if as he had reason to believe, gen. H. had used expressions derogatory to his honor, he would have had the magnanimity to retract them; and that if, from his language, injurious inferences had been improperly drawn, he would have perceived the propriety of correcting errors, which might thus have been widely diffused. With these impressions, col. Burr was greatly surprised at receiving a letter which he considered as evasive, and which in manner he deemed not altogether decorous. In one expectation, however, he was not wholly deceived, for the close of gen. Hamilton's letter contained an intimation that if col. Burr should dislike his refusal to acknowledge or deny, he was ready to meet the consequences. This col. Burr deemed a sort of defiance, and would have felt justified in making it the basis of an immediate message. But as the communication contained something concerning the indefiniteness of the request; as he believed it rather the offspring of false pride than of reflection, and as he felt the utmost reluctance to proceed to extremities, while any other hope remained, his request was repeated in terms more explicit. The replies and propositions on the part of gen. Hamilton have in col. Burr's opinion been constantly in substance the same.
Col. Burr disavows all motives of predetermined hostility, a charge by which he thinks insult added to injury—He feels as a gentleman should feel when his honor is impeached or assailed, and without sensations of hostility or wishes of revenge, he is determined to vindicate that honor at such hazard as the nature of the case demands.

The length to which this correspondence has extended, only tending to prove that the satisfactory redress, earnestly desired, cannot be obtained, he deems it useless to offer any proposition except the simple message which I shall now have the honor to deliver.
I have the honor to be, With great respect, Your obedient and very humble servant, W. P. VANNESS. Wednesday Morning, June 27th, 1804. With this letter, a message was received, such as was to be expected, containing an invitation, which was accepted, and Mr. P. informed Mr. V. N. he should hear from him the next day as to further particulars.
This letter was delivered to general H. on the same evening, and a very short conversation ensued between him and Mr. P. who was to call on him early the next morning for further conference. When he did so, gen. Hamilton said he had not understood whether the message and answer was definitely concluded, or whether another meeting was to take place for that purpose between Mr. P. and Mr. V. N. Under the latter impression, and as the last letter contained matter that naturally led to animadversion, he gave Mr. P. a paper of remarks in his own hand writing, to be communicated to Mr. V. N. if the state of the affair rendered it proper.
In the further interview with Mr. V. N. that day, after explaining the causes which had induced gen. Hamilton to suppose that the state of the affair did not render it improper, he offered this paper to Mr. V. N.—but he declined receiving it, alleging, that he considered the correspondence as closed by the acceptance of the message that he had delivered.
Mr. P. informed Mr. V. N. of the inducements mentioned by gen. Hamilton in those remarks, for the postponing the meeting until the close of the circuit; and as this was uncertain, Mr. P. was to let him know when it would be convenient.
On Friday the 6th of July, the circuit being closed, Mr. P. gave this information, and that gen. Hamilton would be ready at any time after the Sunday following. On Monday the particulars were arranged, and the public are but too well acquainted with the sad result.
The paper above alluded to is as follows:— No. 11. Remarks on the letter of June 27, 1804.
Whether the observations on this letter are designed merely to justify the result which is indicated in the close of the letter, or may be intended to give an opening for rendering any thing explicit which may have been deemed vague heretofore, can only be judged of by the sequel. At any rate it appears to me necessary not to be misunderstood. Mr. Pendleton is therefore authorised to say that in the course of the present discussion, written or verbal, there has been no intention to evade, defy or insult, but a sincere desire disposition to avoid extremities if it could be done with propriety. With this view, G. H. has been ready to enter into a frank and free explanation on any and every object of a specific nature; but not to answer a general and abstract enquiry, embracing a period too long for any accurate recollection, and exposing him to unpleasant criticisms from or unpleasant discussions with any and every person, who may have understood him in an unfavorable sense. This (admitting that he could answer in a manner the most satisfactory to col. Burr) he should deem inadmissible, in principle and precedent, and humiliating in practice. To this therefore he can never submit. Frequent allusion has been made to slanders said to be in circulation. Whether they are openly or in whispers they have a form and shape, and might be specified.
If the alternative alluded to in the close of the letter is definitely tendered, it must be accepted; the time place and manner to be afterwards regulated. I should not think it right in the middle of a circuit court to withdraw my services from those who may have confided important interests to me, and expose them to the embarrassment of seeking other counsel, who may not have time to be sufficiently instructed in their cause. I shall also want a little time to make some arrangements respecting my own affairs.
To be continued. Philadelphia, July 20.
Capt. Clark, of the schooner Sukey and Polly, arrived at the Lazaretto, brings information of the defeat of the Haytian army, near St. Domingo, by the French and Spaniards, with the loss of 2000 men.
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, JULY 23, 1804.
NEW SERIES OF FEDERAL MISREPRESENTATIONS. No. XV.
Sick of the unceasing falsehoods and misrepresentations, with which the federal papers swarm, we determined to abandon, at least for a time, the detection of what we hoped had been disarmed of its capacity of doing injury. In this purpose we probably should have persisted but for the daring effrontery of the following libel on a citizen, whom the high station he holds, no less than the dignity of his mind, forbid to notice the low falsehoods by which his reputation is assailed.
From the Evening Post, of July 6.
Those who affect to feel such an enthusiastic admiration for every paragraph, sentence, line and comma, in the Declaration of Independence, and who lose no opportunity to extol the prodigious talents and courage of the Immortal Jefferson, as being the penman, are invited to peruse the following extract from an address to the "King of Great Britain," drawn up by the same Immortal Jefferson, only ten months before he, with that singular consistency which has always so happily characterized him and his writings, drew up the Declaration of Independence.
"Attached to your majesty's person, family and government, with all the devotion that principle and affection can inspire, connected with Great Britain by the strongest ties that can unite societies, and deploying every event that tends in any degree to weaken them, we solemnly assure your majesty that we not only most ardently desire the former harmony between her and the Colonies may be restored, but that a concord may be established between them upon so firm a basis as to perpetuate its blessings uninterrupted by any future dissensions to succeeding generations in both countries; and TRANSMIT YOUR MAJESTY'S NAME TO POSTERITY, ADORNED WITH THAT SIGNAL AND LASTING GLORY THAT HAS ATTENDED THE MEMO- RY OF THOSE ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES WHOSE VIRTUES AND ABILITIES HAVE EXTRI- GATED STATES FROM DANGEROUS CONVULSIONS, AND BY SECURING HAPPINESS TO OTHERS, HAVE ERECTED THE MOST NOBLE AND DURABLE MONUMENT TO THEIR OWN FAME.
"We beg leave further to assure your Majesty, that notwithstanding the sufferings of your loyal Colonies during the course of the present controversy, our breasts retain too tender a regard for the kingdom from which we derive our origin, to request such a reconciliation as might in any manner be inconsistent with her dignity or her welfare. These, related as we are to her, honor and duty, as well as inclination, induce us to support, and advance; and the apprehensions that now oppress our hearts with unspeakable grief being once removed, your Majesty will find your FAITHFUL SUBJECTS, on this continent, ready and willing, at all times, as they have ever been, with their lives and fortunes to assert and maintain the rights and interests of your Majesty and our Mother country."
"We have ventured to say that the address from which the above extract is taken was penned by Mr. Jefferson; this, however, is only strong conjecture; we believe his title to it is at least as good as that to the Declaration. But to place it on the proper footing we may with strict truth assert that this address was, at any rate, signed by Thomas Jefferson, in his own hand writing; it is preserved on the public records of the country, where it will ever remain incapable of being altered or misrepresented. Should it be thought proper at the next anniversary to begin with the Declaration of Independence, we recommend to finish with the above address; so that the audience may have as well the reverse as the face of the medal."
It is on the authority of a friend of Mr. Jefferson, who has long enjoyed his confidence, & acted with him in many of the important scenes of the revolution, that we are enabled to declare.
That it is false that Mr. Jefferson ever DREW such a paper as is there ascribed to him.
And that it is likewise false that he ever SIGNED such a paper drawn by another.
Let the Editor of the Evening Post resort to the public records of the country—Let him produce them and prove his assertions, or acknowledge their falsehood. Unless he does one or the other he will stand arraigned before the public as the base traducer of character, as the propagator of falsehoods.
We will not forego this opportunity of remarking that there is a kind of infuriated malice, with which, on all occasions, the character of Mr. Jefferson is attacked by this Print, that looks more like personal hatred than party violence. There is not a feature of that character allowed to be fair. Candor is stigmatized as hypocrisy, decision rashness, and learning pedantry. Because Mr. Jefferson drew the Declaration of Independence, the merits of that splendid composition are denied, and no occasion is passed of denouncing it. It is even denied that Mr. Jefferson penned it. It stands on record that he was Chairman of the committee appointed to draw it.—Yet it is contended that his part was but a subordinate one.
To satisfy our own curiosity we lately had access to the original draft of this eloquent instrument; and to put down forever the falsehoods propagated on this subject, we shall state the result of the examination we then made. We viewed attentively the original draft, presented to Congress, and found it to be in the hand writing of Mr. Jefferson. We perceived that it was, in the first instance, drawn by Mr. Jefferson; and that it was revised by his coadjutors on the committee, and sundry alterations suggested by them, Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams, approved. We saw these alterations, interlined, and in the hand writing of those gentlemen. They are not more than eight or ten; they do not materially vary the original composition; and, in every instance, they soften the spirit of the first draft. The report afterwards underwent a very slight alteration in Congress.
Thus do the ungenerous calumnies of the enemies of our Chief Magistrate recoil upon themselves. In attempting to derogate from his merit, they only prove the impotence of their own malice. The part he took in asserting the independence of his country—the foundation of all her greatness—is dear to his fellow-citizens, and to the friends of liberty throughout the world. It has covered his brow with a laurel which can never fade, so long as Americans enjoy freedom, and are sensible of its blessings.
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
Philadelphia.
We are authorised to say, that Messrs. Conrad and Co. of Philadelphia, are about to publish a new periodical work, to be named "The Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal."—A full prospectus of the work, which is to be edited by Dr. BARTON, will be published in due time. In the mean while, it is thought proper to observe, that the general plan of the work is intended to be similar to that of the "Medical Repository of New York."—The London Medical and Physical Journal." The Edinburgh "Annals of Medicine." &c.—That the Journal will be published every three or six months, as may be found most convenient to the Editor, or most agreeable to the encouragement of the work; and that the first number or part is already nearly prepared for the press.
Thomas Campbell, author of the Pleasures of Hope, is writing at London an Allegorical Poem, illustrative of a series of designs, by one of the Princesses. The subject is Cupid turned Volunteer.
Roseve has commenced printing his life of Leo X. It is said that it will make four volumes quarto.
Southey is engaged on a History of Portugal.
Walter Scott, editor of the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, and writer of several spirited Poems, is about to publish a Poetical Romance, called "The Lady of the Minstrel."
Brigade Major Lambton, in the British East-India Company's service, has completed the measurement, in the East Indies, of an acre of the meridian of the earth, so essential, by a comparison with
familiar measurements now carrying on in England and Spain and lately executed in Lapland, for determining the exact dimensions of the globe. It appears that, by means of a series of triangles, whose angles were determined by a large and very accurate theodolite, lately made by Cary, he found the distance of two stations, north and south of each other, to be 108,777 English miles, and by careful and repeated observation of the stars, at each of the stations, with a zenith sector, made by the late justly celebrated Ramsden, he found their difference of latitude to be 1,582,342 degrees from which he concludes that one degree on the meridian, or line from north to south, whose middle point is in 12 degrees 32 min. north latitude, is equal to 60,495 English fathoms, or 56,762.8 French toises. From a series of triangles at the same place, in a direction east and west, he finds the length of a degree perpendicular to the meridian, or east and west, to be 61,061 English fathoms, or 57,223.9 French toise.
The East India company have liberally determined to have the triangles extended through seven or eight degrees of latitude for the still more accurate determination of the lengths of degrees in those latitudes; and this is intended to form the basis of a survey of the country, similar to the grand survey of England, carrying on under Major Mudge.
(By Authority.)
AN ACT
Requiring annual licences to be taken out by Ordinary or Tavern Keepers, Retailers, and Hawkers or Pedlars.
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the First and Second chambers of the City Council of Washington, That no tavern or ordinary shall be kept in the city of Washington without an annual licence therefor be first obtained; to continue in force for one year from the date of the same, and to be annually thereafter renewed, for which licence the person obtaining it, shall pay the sum of fifteen dollars for the use of the city.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That every person applying for a Tavern or Ordinary Licence, shall produce to the Mayor good and satisfactory testimonial that he or she hath suitable and proper accommodations for travellers or guests, with at least four good feather beds and bedding, and good stabling for four horses, over and above what is necessary for his or her own use, or the use of his or her own family. And before the licence be granted the Mayor shall require and receive from the person so applying his or her bond with two citizens approved of by the Mayor as sureties in the penal sum of two hundred and fifty dollars each, conditioned for the keeping of such accommodations bedding and stabling for persons travelling or guests, and for keeping an orderly, quiet and peaceable house.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That all retailers of wines or spirituous liquors, other than tavern keepers, who shall sell the same in smaller quantities than ten gallons, shall take out an annual licence therefor, and for which licence they shall pay for the use of the city the sum of eight dollars, which licence shall authorise the selling of any such quantity not less than one pint, and provided the same is not drunk in the house or store of the person having such licence.
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That every person so obtaining a retail licence, shall give bond with two citizens approved of by the Mayor, as sureties, each in the penal sum of one hundred dollars conditioned for not selling wine or spirituous liquors in less quantities than one pint or suffering the same to be drunk in the house where sold.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That for selling liquors in any house other than a Tavern, in smaller quantities than a pint, there shall be an annual licence first obtained and for which there shall be paid twenty dollars for the use of the City, and the person so applying for licence, shall produce to the Mayor the certificate of at least six inhabitants, householders of the same ward, of the good character of the person so applying, and that they have known him or her at least six months preceding such application, on which a licence shall be granted for one year, and the person to whom such licence shall be granted shall give bond with two citizens approved by the Mayor as sureties in the penal sum of fifty dollars each conditioned for the quiet orderly and peaceable keeping of such house, and that the keeper thereof will not during the time for which such licence shall be granted, suffer any person or persons to play any game of cards, dice, or other hazard for money therein, and that he or she will not suffer any apprentice or slave to purchase and drink any wine or spirituous liquors in his or her house, and that the person keeping such house shall not on Sunday sell or suffer to be drunk in his or her house any wine or spirituous liquors.
Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Register on the direction of the Mayor, to make out and record such licences and affix the city
seal thereto, and whenever he receives the bond hereby required and a certificate from the Treasurer, that the money is paid, he shall sign the licence and deliver it to the person; for which duties he shall be entitled to receive from the person to whom the licence is granted a fee of fifty six cents.
Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That no person shall be required to take out any licence under this act, who may already have obtained one until such licence shall have expired.
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That for every infraction of the provisions of this act there be paid by the person committing the same, or his sureties, the sum of twenty dollars.
Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That persons usually denominated hawkers and pedlars carrying goods, wares, and merchandise from place to place in the city, shall take out annual licence therefor, for which shall be paid thirty five dollars each licence; and the said hawkers and pedlars shall be bound to exhibit to any officer of the corporation at all times when thereto required or demanded the licence obtained as aforesaid.
Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That in case of the absence of the Mayor from the city, or in case of his indisposition, it shall be the duty of the Register to grant licences upon applications being made, and the requisites of this act being complied with by the persons applying.
Sec. 11. And be it enacted That all such former acts as come within the purview of this act shall be and the same is hereby repealed.
SAMUEL H. SMITH, President of the first chamber of the city council of Washington. NICHOLAS KING President of the second chamber of the city council of Washington. Approved, July 19 h, 1804. ROBERT BRENT, Mayor. Test THOMAS HERTY, Reg.
Valuable Property FOR SALE.
THE subscriber will sell his Plantation adjoining the town of Upper Marlboro' in Prince Georges county, containing eight hundred acres. This plantation is considered amongst the best in the neighbourhood it is well adapted to the growth of wheat, Indian corn and fine tobacco, and has a great sufficiency of wood for its support. The improvements are a large and commodious dwelling house, with every other necessary building for the accommodation of a large and genteel family, all in good repair—There are also on the premises several large tobacco houses, corn house, stables, &c. most of which are almost new—as it is presumed that those who are desirous to purchase would wish to view the premises, it is thought unnecessary to be more minute.—A liberal credit will be given. For further particulars apply to Michael Crawford residing within eight miles of Washington or to the subscriber. DAVID CRAUFURD. Upper Marlboro' July 23—rawt
THE purchaser may be accommodated with negroes, farming utensils, and stock of every kind W. G.
NOTICE.
THE Pews in the Gallery of the Protestant Episcopal Church, will be offered at Public Sale, at the church on Tuesday the 31st inst. at 5 o'clock P. M.—Payment to be made within 30 days. A plan of the Pews may be seen by applying to Mr. Clement Smith the treasurer at the Bank of Columbia.
Charles Worthington, William H. Dorsey, Thomas G. Reora, Walter S. Chandler, Walter Smith, George Town, July 23—4t
Maryland,—IN CHANCERY, July 3, 1804. Alexander Contee, versus.
Thomas Johnson, John Mason, Williams Kilty, and Rinaldo Johnson.
THE object of the bill is to obtain a conveyance of certain property conveyed by Rinaldo Johnson to the other defendants on the 13th day of September eighteen hundred and one in trust for the payment of his debts or to vacate the said deed, and that they may account for the profits since the execution of the said deed.
The bill states that the defendant Rinaldo Johnson has become insolvent and that the complainant has been appointed trustee for the benefit of his creditors—The bill further states that the defendants John Mason & William Kilty reside out of the state of Maryland.
It is thereupon adjudged and ordered that the complainant by causing a copy of this order to be inserted once in each of three successive weeks in some newspaper within the territory of Columbia before the 18th day of August next, give notice to the absent defendants of this application and of the substance and object of the bill, that they may be warned to appear here in person or by a solicitor of this court, on or before the 18th day of December next, to show cause if any they have, wherefore a decree may not be passed as prayed.
True copy—Test SAMUEL H. HOWARD, R. C. G. July 20—w3c.

GEORGE TOWN COLLEGE In the district of Columbia, United States of America, under the direction of the Incorporated Catholic Clergy of the State of Maryland.
1. The annual pension of this establishment is two hundred and twenty dollars; but for children under twelve years of age, only two hundred dollars will be required. Those students who continue their education through the course of Philosophy shall, on account of extraordinary expenses, and some particular indulgencies allowed them, pay two hundred and fifty dollars per annum.
The pension is to be paid half yearly in advance. A deduction of fifty dollars per annum will be allowed to those parents who may choose to charge themselves with the dress of their children. The college will furnish washing, and mending; but will not keep particular accounts, or become answerable for clothing provided by parents.
It is in lieu of bed linen, table service, school books, and other articles usually required on entering establishments of this kind, each student shall pay ten dollars entrance money.
1. The Sunday or holiday dress is uniform, and consists of a plain coat of blue cloth, with yellow buttons, red cloth or kerseymere waistcoats. The use of silk is not permitted—every student shall bring with him his uniform dress, besides a suit for daily wear, six shirts, six neck handkerchiefs, six pocket handkerchiefs, six pair of stockings, and three pair of shoes, all new. Any deficiency in the above will be charged to the parents.
IV. On the above terms the students are furnished with clothes, linen, washing, mending, lodging, board, fire, candle, table, school books, pen, ink, paper, amusements, and school rewards; so that nothing will remain to the charge of the parents, but medical attendance and medicines, postage, and such extra lessons as drawing, dancing, music, &c. which they may choose to order for their children.
V. The religion, uniformly practiced by the students living in the college, is the Roman Catholic; but for students of other religious persuasions, there are boarding houses, convenient to the college, where they will be subject to the same rules (religion excepted) and enjoy the same advantages for their improvement in science as the persons of the college.
VI. The boarders must be furnished by their parents with the uniform of the college, and pay annually for tuition, fire, candle, school books, pen, ink, paper, amusements, school rewards, &c. fifty dollars, always half yearly in advance.
VII. The students are taught English, Latin, Greek, and all the branches of Classical Education, Sacred and profane History, Geography, the use of the Globe, Arithmetic, and when sufficiently advanced, Algebra and Geometry, with all the other parts of the Mathematics in the respective classes. Particular care is taken, that they learn to read well, and write a good hand, and that they speak and write French with accuracy. Four times a year the students are called to a public examination of what they have been taught before Parents and the Friends of Literature. Those who have made extraordinary progress are honored and rewarded. The title, for punishment, are confined in the vacation to certain extraordinary hours of study during play time, in order to repair what they have neglected to learn in school; therefore, if they are found deficient in the fall and most important examination of the year, before the August vacation, they will not be allowed to go home during that time.
VIII. The age of admission is from eight to fourteen. When children are not sufficiently advanced to begin a regular course of classical education, they are placed in an elementary class, attended by a particular teacher, from whom they learn to spell, read, and write.
IX. If the children sent to this College have been before at any other house of education, an attestation of their morals and docility is required.
X. The greatest care is taken to instruct the children in the duties of Religion and Morality, and they are constantly under the eye of one or more of the Professors, who see that those duties are practiced, and that the rules of civility are not violated.
XI. Cleanliness and exercise, and every thing which contributes to health, are attended to with particular care.
XII. All the pensioners dine and sup with their professors, and have the same table which they have. No distinctions are allowed in diet or clothing.
XIII. As long experience has convinced the directors, that a provision of pocket money is very prejudicial not only to good order, but even to study and application, they therefore request that parents will not be forward in indulging their children in more than fifty cents at most per month, for this purpose.
XIV. No allowance is made for absence during the vacation, which begins on the 15th of August and ends the 15th of September. To these terms the parents are desired to be particularly attentive, in case they choose to call their children home, as the advance of a few weeks at the opening of school is seldom repaired without very great difficulty. Absence from school at any other time will be permitted. It is indeed the most serious and ardent desire of the Directors, that the children should never be called home during the course of their education, as they have found by experience, that such vacations have often proved prejudicial, not only to study and application, but even to content and happiness. Those children who may be received into the college upon other terms, either totally or partially, than those provided by their parents or guardians, will not be allowed to go home or absent themselves from the college during the full course of their education, unless particular circumstances in the judgment of the President should require permission for a time.
XV. When children are removed from the College whatever new linen or clothes are furnished them on that occasion, will be charged to their parents. After entering on a new quarter no deduction will be made for the remaining part thereof.
The College is a large building, capable of lodging two hundred persons conveniently. The garden and court adjoining, where the young gentlemen play, are very airy and spacious. The situation is very pleasant and healthy.
It will contribute much to the advantage of the children, if parents on sending them will inform the President how long they propose to leave them at the College, and for what employments in life they are designed. The regular course of education is properly classified; but such as are destined for the commercial line, have a lesson of Arithmetic and Book-Keeping, under a particular Professor appointed for that purpose.
N. B. The above Regulations and Conditions will take place from the 15th day of August, 1804, for all such as enter at, or after that period; but for others, they will only commence at the expiration of the six months, for which the advance payment has been made prior to that term.
Right Rev. LEONARD NEALE, President. Georgetown, June 22—1m.
(BY AUTHORITY.) Scheme of a Lottery.
To build an Academy in the city of Richmond.
  1 Prize—last drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, 20,000   1 do. 2 do. 5 do. 10 do. 20 do. 100 do. 250 do. 400 do. 1,500 do. 2,000 do. 10,000 5,000 5,000 3,000 2,000 2,000 5,000 7,500 10,500 30,000 45,000   1 first drawn ticket after 1,000 having a blank to its number, 250   1 do. after 2,000 do. 250   1 do. do. 3,000 do. 250   1 do. do. 4,000 do. 250   1 do. do. 5,000 do. 500   1> 1 do. do. 6,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 8,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 10,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 12,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 13,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 14,000 do. 1,000 
5,325 prizes, 9,675 blanks, not two to a prize, 150,000 15,000 tickets at 10 dollars each, 150,000 N. B. Prizes subject to a deduction of 15 per cent.
This lottery has been authorized by the Legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purposes of erecting a seminary of learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view, it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dollars, and 2,500 dollars in addition, for defraying the expenses attendant on drawing the lottery. Citizens of the first respectability have been selected as trustees, and they have pledged themselves to use their utmost exertions to carry it into effect. The scheme has the advantage of giving to each adventurer, a chance for some very large prizes, whilst the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so great as to invite the friends of the intended institution to partake in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The resurvey of the state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay the amount of the prizes to the fortunate adventurers. It is believed that the above considerations will induce a rapid sale of tickets, and the drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number shall be sold to authorize it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next.
Richmond, March 2—1f Tickets to be had of Robert Pollard Esq. John Brockenbrough, jun. Wm. Price (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants jun. and William Pritchard
WANTED At the NAVY YARD—Washington
A quantity of the following materials, viz: 5 inch Oak Plank } 4 1-2 inch do. } 3 inch do. } 2 inch do. } Lengths, from 3 inch Yellow Pine } 50 feet upwards. 2 1-2 inch do. } 2 inch do. } Locust Trimmings, of 18 and 24 inches long.
Locust Timber, in the log Cedar do do Bams of yellow Pine and Oak knees of various sizes.
Proposals for supplying the whole or any part of the Materials, specifying the particular parts and the lowest price, will be received by the Subscriber until the first of August next.
Navy-Yard, Washington, July 6 1804. THOMAS TINSLEY.
N. B. All further information which may be required, can be obtained, on application being made at the Contractor's office.
HAT MANUFACTURY.
The subscriber informs his customers and the public generally that he has discontinued business to the city of Washington, and has opened shop on Bridge street near the Union Tavern—he solicits the continuance of former customers, and hopes that all others who may choose to call and purchase his manufacture will be amply suited, if neatness and good work be requisites.
JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb 17—1f
COLUMBIAN LIBRARY.
An Appendix to the Catalogue is this day published and may be had at the Library Room. In the course of the last year, the Directors have been incorporated by an act of Congress, and above 250 vols. have been added to the books, making in the whole upwards of 800 vols. New Shares may be had on application to the Librarian—Books are let out on hire to those who are not shareholders, and are to be taken out and returned in the afternoons of Wednesdays and Saturdays.
George Town, June 5—
HERT'S LAWS of MARYLAND. Volume II.
Those holding subscription papers to the above, are requested to forward a list of the subscribers and their residence, to the Editor in the city of Washington, before the 4th August next, in order that they be interested, agreeably to the proposal. The work will be ready for delivery a few days thereafter.
The Editors of papers in Maryland who published the proposal, are requested to give publicity to the above.
July 13—op
30 Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber living in St. Mary's county Maryland, near Point Look Out, on the 5th inst. a negro man named CHARLES about forty years of age, about five feet eight or ten inches in height, of a robust turn; had on when he went of a striped cotton coat and trowsers, and is fond of liquor, in all probability he has since changed his dress; he has been used to the water business and may probably try to get a birth to the West Indies or along the coast. Masters of vessels are forewarned from shipping said fellow as the law in that case will be strictly put in force—any person that will secure said fellow in jail so that the owner can him again shall receive fifteen dollars, and if brought to hand the above reward.
JAMES KIRK. July 13—7t
Travellers Hall.
THE subscriber has lately been induced to the rapid increase of his custom to purchase a lot of ground adjoining that on which he lives for the purpose of building a dining room and assembly room, each 24 feet by 32 feet 10 inches with six additional lodging rooms, and intend to finish them before the ensuing winter; which together with his tavern and house will occupy a front of near one hundred feet in the most agreeable part of the town and in the center of business being on the highest part of the public square. He has considerably increased the furniture &c. of his house and stables. His domestics and servants are of the most faithful dispositions and properly qualified for the departments to which they are assigned. He has a constant supply of the best stable forage; imported and country provisions, imported liquors, &c. of the first quality, foreign newspapers, &c. And his tea will most probably last through the hot weather.
The distinguished preference which the first characters have already given him, fills him with gratitude. He offers his sincere thanks to all his good friends and begs leave to assure them that neither his time nor his purse shall be spared in attempting to render the Travellers Hall a house of entertainment, for CENTRAL GUESTS ONLY, equal to any in America.
P. BRADLEY. Lexington, Kentucky, June 13, 1804. A stage runs from the Travellers Hall to the Olympic Springs in the summer, and to Frankfort during the sessions of Assembly. June 29—3m
For the information of the Freeholders of the state of Virginia.
THE following correct list of the persons who compose the REPUBLICAN TICKET of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, is published. The election for the choice of Electors will be held in each county and corporation on the first Monday in November next.
PHILIP N. NICHOLAS, Chairman. JOHN H. FOUSHER, Sec'y. Richmond, May 25, 1804.
Republican Ticket.
Richard E. Lee, of Norfolk borough. John Goodrich, — Isle of Wight. Edward Pegram, — Dinwiddie. Dr. Richard Field, — Brunswick. Thomas Read, — Charlotte. Creed Taylor, — Cumberland. William H. Cabell, — Amherst. George Penn, — Patrick. George Wythe, — City of Richmond. John Taylor, — Caroline. Larkin Smith, — King and Queen. John Minor, — Spotsylvania. William Elzey, — Loudoun. William Dudley, — Warwick. Mann Page, — Gloucester. John Taliaferro, jr. — King George. Richard Brent, — Prince William. Hugh Holmes, — Frederick. James Dailey, — Hampshire. James Allen, — Shenandoah. Archibald Stuart, — Augusta. James M'Farlane, — Russel. Gen. John Preston, — Montgomery. William M'Kinley, — Ohio. June 27—4w
20 Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or stolen from the commons of the city of Washington, near the Seven Buildings, about 8 weeks since, a Sorrel HORSE 14 1-2 hands high, three white feet, a small blaze in his face, trots and gallops, and carries his head and tail very handsomely, one small saddle spot on the right side, both his fore hoofs cracked up to the hair, between eight or ten years old. Whoever takes up said horse and delivers him to the subscriber shall receive Five Dollars and all reasonable charges, and fifteen for the thief.
JAMES MOORE. July 18—3t
FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS.
A HORSE, a few days from the country, about 14 3-4 hands high, three years old, and accustomed to most kinds of work. Enquire at
HOLTZMAN'S Tavern in High Street, sign of Gen. Washington. George Town, July 20—3t
CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAILOR.
Has received from Philadelphia in addition to his former stock, a handsome assortment of goods, consisting of the best London and Spanish superfine cloths and cashmeres, and fancy Marcellas, colored and white James, India nankeen, cotton cashmeres, black silk and satin Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season.
N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey Avenue near the Capitol, June 8—1f
NOTICE.
APPLICATION is intended to be made at the Treasury of the United States, for the renewal of the following lost certificates; No. 362, 363, 364, 365, and 366, dated the 5th April 1804, for 2000 dollars each, Louisiana 6 per cent stock, in favor of John Coles of New London, signed by Joseph Nourse, Reg.
JOHN M'GOWAN. June 13, 1804—ep6w
REMOVAL.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Has removed to the house above Mr. RHODES (LATE LOVELY'S) HOTEL, near the President's Square. In addition to the present stock of goods, on Hand some Assortment is expected immediately.
Gentlemen at a distance, by sending a line by post, will be waited upon with all possible expedition. C. will pledge himself to execute any order with a taste, expedition and moderation of charge, which shall not be excelled by any.
April 16—1f.
NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may concern that JOHN EDWARDS is appointed by the Legislative court of the First Legion of Militia of the district of Columbia to collect all fines put into his hands—by order of said court.
WM. D. BEALL, CLK. June 22—6w
District of Columbia, to wit:
BE it remembered, That on this twenty fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and four, and in the twenty eighth year of American Independence, William Cranch, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "Reports of Cases, argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, in August and December terms, 1801, and February term 1803." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned"
G. DENBALE, CLK. of the district of columbia. July 4—w5t
Was Committed to the jail
of Baltimore county as a Runaway on the 24th February last, a Negro woman who calls herself MILLY THOMAS—she is about 38 or 40 years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, and of a brown complexion. She says she did belong to Mr. William Briscoe of Charles county in the State of Maryland. If her owner does not release her, she will be sold for her jail fees, according to law.
THOMAS BAILEY, Sheriff of Balt. County. Baltimore May 21—w8t
500 Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS on the first day of April last a Negro fellow named STROTHER and his wife named PHILLIS absconded from my plantation near Chester court house South Carolina—and as I have reason to suspect that some white person or persons has been accessary in said negroes elopement, or has feloniously carried them away—I hereby offer the above reward upon conviction of any white person concealing or carrying away said negroes.
Forty dollars with all reasonable expenses will be paid for lodging said negroes in any jail and giving notice by letter to me at Chester C. H. South Carolina, so that I may get them, or twenty dollars for each; that is, if they are taken by any person after this date—any jailor or other persons giving notice to me of said negroes, that they are lodged in any jail before this date shall be very handsomely rewarded.
STROTHER is 22 or 23 years of age, a little yellow complexioned, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, stout made, crooked legged, very large feet, has a four countenance, has large scars on his back occasioned by a severe whipping, by his former overseer in Virginia for rebelling against him.
PHILLIS is 20 or 22 years old, of a middle size, trim made, black complexion, has a small lip when she speaks—said negroes formerly belonged to Mr. Edward Carter, in Prince William county, state of Virginia, where it is supposed (if they have eloped of themselves) they will try to go.
Any letters of information will be very thankfully received.
JOHN JOHNSTON. Chester C. H. South Carolina, July 11—1awtf
RUNAWAY NEGRO.
WAS committed to the jail of Frederick county as a runaway on the 28th February last, a negro man who calls himself JOHN RUSHER. He is about 28 or 30 years old, five feet five or six inches high; a stout well made fellow; his clothing are a grey coat, a striped waistcoat and corduroy trowsers. If his owner does not release him he will be sold for his jail fees according to law.
GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff, Frederick county. June 25—
NOTICE
By virtue of three writs of venditioni ex postea issued from the circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Washington, to me directed, one at the suit of Summers and Coates, against Samuel Blodget, one at the suit of Edward Pennington, against Samuel Blodget, and one at the suit of John Mullay, against John Tuhy, will be exposed to public sale for ready cash on the 28th inst at Wm. Rhodes's Tavern in the city of Washington, all the right, title, claim and interest of the said Samuel Blodget and John Tuhy in and to the following property, viz: Lot No. 22 in square 107, Lot No. 13 in square 378, Lot No. 2 in square 333, Lot No. 5 in square 34, Lot No. 12 in square 320, Lot No. 2 in square 218, Lot No. 12 in square 286, Lot No. 22 in square 263, Lot No. 23 in square 263, Lot No. 24 in square 263, Lot No. 7 in square 204, Lot No. 8 in square 204, Lot No. 7 in square 209, Lot No. 8 in square 209, Lot No. 17 in square 253, Lot No. 7 in square 253 with a three story brick dwelling house thereon, late the property of the said Blodget, and Lot No. 5 in square 607, late the property of the said Tuhy—the sale will commence precisely at 4 o'clock.
DANIEL C. BRENT, Marshal. July 2—1awtf
NOTICE.
THERE was committed as a runaway to the jail of Frederick county, a negro man who calls himself GEORGE LANGSTON, and says he belongs to Mr. Isaac Langston of Hertford county North Carolina; he is about 37 years of age, five feet seven inches high, a stout well made fellow—his clothing are a grey woolen coat with a blue cape, cotton striped waistcoat and trowsers and a row linen shirt, he also has four scars on the back of his neck. If his master does not release him he will be sold for the jail fees agreeably to law.
GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff, of Frederick county. June 25—
JUST PUBLISHED
By Rapine, Conrad & Co.
NEW JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL.
MAJOR'S Universal History, Ancient and Modern, from the earliest records of time, to the general peace of 1801. Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7—This work will be comprised in 25 volumes, at one DOLLAR each to subscribers in boards. Those who have already favored the publishers with their names are requested to send for their copies, and those who are desirous of possessing this valuable work are informed that the subscription is still open. Also just published and for sale as above.
The works of WILLIAM SMITH, D. D. late provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, vols. 1st and 2nd. This work will be comprised in 4 volumes at 250 cents per volume in boards.
R. G. & Co. Have on hand a most valuable collection of new books, received by the late arrivals from Europe, which they will dispose of on the most reasonable terms. June 29—
Ten Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the office of the WESTERN STAR, on the night between the 4th and 5th inst. an intended apprentice to the Printing business, named WILLIAM JOHNSON, between 18 and 19 years of age, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high; rather slender make, short black hair and dark complexion, had on and took with him a brown coat with pearl buttons, nankeen pantaloons, white waistcoat, and a good hat; he had also with him a French made watch, with a twisted gold wire chain. The above reward will be given for securing him in any jail, so that I may get him again, or reasonable charges if brought home.
A to all persons are hereby cautioned against harbouring or trusting said boy, and all captains or masters of vessels are warned at their peril against carrying away said apprentice.
EDWARD COLE. Leesburg, Pennsylvania, July 9—
TO RENT,
A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE in the city of Washington, situate on that beautiful street north east of the seven buildings, on I Street, Lot No. 3, square 106, at present occupied by Mrs. Scott. Possession may be had the 1st of August next. Under said house is a good dry cellar, on the back of the lot is a stable, and near the premises a pump of most excellent water. Enquire at Mrs. Scott, or of the subscriber, High Street at Doctor John Beatty's George Town.
ABRAHAM JOY. June 29—1f
LAND FOR SALE.
The subscriber wishing to remove to the westward offers for sale a small tract of land lying in Montgomery county, state of Maryland, about two miles from Conrad Myers Ferry, lying on the road leading from the same to the Federal city, about thirty five miles from the latter—this tract contains about two hundred and thirty acres well watered and under good repair, with a sufficient quantity of wood to support the same; on this tract there is about 10 or 15 acres of good meadow land, which might be put in Timothy with little expense; it has a good apple orchard, peach and cherry also, and well improved with a good store house which is an excellent stand for selling goods, which is occupied by J. B. Phillips—at present it produces equal to any in the neighborhood, and will be offered to public sale on the first day of August next, if not sold before at private sale. Any person wishing to purchase prior to that date may view the same and know the terms by applying to the subscriber living on the premises.
RICHARD JONES, of Ed. July 12—w2t