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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. II.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCLXXXIV.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 1802.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
FEDERAL MISREPRESENTATION.
No. XXI.
Accustomed, as we have been to the gross and numerous distortions with which certain prints teem, we cannot repress our astonishment at the enormity of the following fabrication. To those who know the quarter from which it proceeds, it will appear in no other light but as the impotent effusion of party, perhaps personal rancour. But it will be remarked that it is sent forth into the world as a real bona fide speech of Red Jacket, the organ of the principal chiefs of the Seneca, Onondaga and Cayuga Indians. It was intended, no doubt, to seize the malicious moments of the reader, and make him the victim of its falsehoods. But, like all other untruths, it will recoil upon its fabricators, by furnishing a monument of the unblushing audacity of vice.
From the Ontario Gazette of Aug. 18.
At a Council, held at the Court House, in Canandaigua, the 23rd day of Aug. 1802.
Present—The principal Chiefs and Sachems of the Seneca, Onondaga and Cayuga Indians; and a number of the principal inhabitants of the town of Canandaigua.
RED JACKET, The principal speaker of the Seneca Nation, spoke as follows:
Brothers, OPEN your ears and give your attention. This day is appointed by the Great Spirit to meet our friends at this place. During the many years we have lived together in this country, good will and harmony have subsisted among us.
Brothers —We have now come forward upon an unhappy occasion;—We cannot find words to express our feelings upon it. One of our people has murdered one of your people: So it has been ordered by the Great Spirit, who controls all events. This has been done; we cannot now help it. At first view it would seem to have the effect of putting an end to our friendship; but let us reflect, and put our minds together. Can't we point out measures whereby our peace and harmony may still be preserved? We have come forward to this place, where we have always had a Superintendent and Friend to receive us, and to make known to him such grievances as lay upon our minds; but now we have no Guardian—no Protector—no one is now authorized to receive us.
Brothers —We therefore now call upon you to take our speech in writing, and forward our ideas to the President of the United States.
Brothers —Let us look back to our former situation—While you were under the government of Great-Britain, Sir William Johnson was our Superintendent appointed by the King. He had power to settle offences of this kind among all the Indian Nations, without adverting to the laws. But under the British government you were uneasy—you wanted to change it for a better—General WASHINGTON went forward as your leader. From his exertions you gained your Independence. Immediately afterwards, a Treaty was made between the United States and the Six Nations, whereby a method was pointed out of redressing such an accident as the present. Several such accidents did happen wherein we were sufferers. We now crave the same privilege in making restitution to you that you adopted towards us in a similar situation.
Brothers —At the close of our Treaty at Philadelphia, General WASHINGTON told us that we had formed a chain of friendship which was bright; he hoped it would continue so on our part; That the United States would be equally willing to brighten it, if rusted by any means. A number of murders have been committed on our people—We shall only mention the last of them. About two years ago, a few of our warriors were amusing themselves in the woods, to the westward of Fort Pitt; Two white men coolly and deliberately, took their rifles, travelled nearly three miles, to our encampment, fired upon the Indians, killed two men and wounded two children.—We then were the party injured. What did we do? We flew to the Treaty, and thereby obtained redress, perfectly satisfactory to us, and we hope agreeable to you. This was done a short time before President ADAMS went out of office: complete peace and harmony was restored. We now want the same method of redress to be purified.
Brothers —How did the present accident take place? Did our Warriors go from home cool and sober, and commit murder on you? No, Our brother was in liquor, and a quarrel ensued, in which
the unhappy accident happened. We would not excuse him on account of his being in liquor; but such a thing was far from his intention in sober moments. We are all extremely grieved at it, and are willing to come forward and have it settled, as crimes of the same nature have been heretofore done.
Brothers —Since the accident has taken place we have been informed, that by the laws of this state if a murder is committed within it, the murderer must be tried by the laws of the state, and punished with death.
Brothers —When were such laws explained to us? Did we ever make a treaty with the state of New-York, and agree to conform to its laws? No. We are independent of the state of New-York.—It was the will of the Great Spirit to create us different in colour: We have different laws, habits and customs from the white people. We will never consent that the government of this state shall try our brother. We appeal to the government of the United States.
Brothers —Under the customs and habits of our forefathers, we were a happy people; we had laws of our own, they were dear to us. The whites came among us and introduced their customs; they were dear to us. The whites came among us and introduced their customs; they introduced liquor among us, which our forefathers always told us would prove our ruin.
Brothers —In consequence of the introduction of liquor among us, numbers of our people have been killed. A council was held to consider of a remedy, at which it was agreed by us, that no private revenge should take place for any such murder—that it was decreed by the Great Spirit, and that a council should be called to consider of redress to the friends of the deceased.
Brothers —The President of the United States is called the Great Man, possessing great power—he may do what he pleases—he may turn men out of office—men who held their offices long before he held his. If he can do these things, can he not even controul the laws of this state? Can he not appoint a commissioner to come forward to our country and settle the present difference, as we, on our part, have heretofore done to him, upon a similar occasion?
We now call upon you, Brothers , to represent these things to the President, and we trust that he will not refuse our request, of sending a commissioner to us, with powers to settle the present differences. The consequences of a refusal may be serious. We are determined that our Brother shall not be tried by the laws of the state of New-York. Their laws make no difference between a crime committed in liquor, and one committed coolly and deliberately. Our laws are different as we have before stated. If tried here, our Brother must be hanged. We cannot submit to that—Has a murder been committed on our people, when it was punished with death?
Brothers —We have now finished what we had to say upon the subject of the murder. We wish to address you upon another, and to have our ideas communicated to the President upon it also.
Brothers —It was understood at the treaty concluded by Col. Pickering, that our Superintendent should reside in the town of Canandaigua, and for very good reasons: That situation is the most central to the Six Nations; and by subsequent treaties between the state of New-York and the Indians, there are still stronger reasons why he should reside here, principally on account of the annuities being stipulated to be paid to our Superintendent at this place.—These treaties are sacred. If their Superintendent resides elsewhere, the state may object to sending their money to him at a greater distance. We would therefore with our Superintendent to reside here at all events.
Brothers —With regard to the appointment of our present Superintendent, we look upon ourselves as much neglected and injured. When general Chapin and captain Chapin were appointed, our wishes were consulted upon the occasion, and we most cordially agreed to the appointment. Captain Chapin has been turned out, however, within these few days. We are told it is because he differs from the President in his sentiments on government matters. He has always been perfectly satisfactory to us; and had we known of the intention, we should most cordially have united in a petition to the President to continue him in office. We feel ourselves injured—we have nobody to look to—nobody to listen to our complaints—none to reconcile any differences among us. We are like a young family without a father.
Brothers —We understand that the
President has appointed a Superintendent who is altogether unknown to us, and who is unacquainted with our affairs, we might have named some one residing in this country who was well known to us. Perhaps we might have agreed upon Mr. Oliver Phelps, whose politics, coinciding with those of the President, might have recommended him to the office.
Brothers —We cannot conclude without again urging you to make known all these our sentiments to the President.
Since the above speech was delivered, there have been two other meetings between the inhabitants of this place and the Indians, principally for the purpose of inducing them peaceably to deliver up the offender to goa, until the event of the application to the President shall be known—although with great reluctance, they at least consented to give him up.
At these subsequent meetings, they still continued to insist, in long speeches, upon their entire independence of the state of New-York, and declared their intention of going immediately to Albany to have a conference with the Governor, as well upon that subject, as relative to the sale of their lands on Niagara river, about which they have been in negotiation for some time past.
It is their intention to remain in Albany until a communication, which they have requested the President to make the Governor upon the subject, shall be received there; that their minds, which at present are much agitated, may be set at rest as speedily as possible.
From the Washington Federalist. TO THE EDITORS OF THE WASHINGTON FEDERALIST.
In your gazette of the twenty seventh of August, a statement is given of the reprieve of James M c Girk. It is accompanied with some reflections on the case of this unhappy man, which, though intended for another purpose, may have the effect of exciting the prejudices of the public against him and of closing the narrow opening which the humanity of the executive has left for the preservation of his life. I am concerned so much in the fate of the unfortunate sufferer, that I do not entertain a doubt, I shall obtain your indulgence for a few observations in his behalf.
The attention of humane and enlightened men has, for a considerable time past, been directed to an enquiry, both theoretical and practical, whether the condition of the human race, and the morals of society, may not be greatly ameliorated by the introduction of a penal code, milder and less sanguinary than had previously been thought prudent by governments. The first experiment was made in a country which did not promise the most ready renunciation of established tenets or the earliest relaxation of ancient maxims. In Tuscany, the government, influenced by the noble production of Beccaria, in an edict dated at Pisa, the thirtieth of November 1786, rescinded all the existing laws on the subject of crimes and punishments; and introduced a new code, so remarkable as to furnish a distinct epoch in the history of legislation, so far as it regards this subject. This grand and noble experiment was attended with the most satisfactory and complete success. It was soon imitated in other countries. Russia, into which, if the detractors of human nature were believed, not a ray of enlightened legislation, of liberal and humane policy, could have penetrated, adopted a similar measure. It was not to be expected that while in these countries such laudable experiments were making, the governments of this continent would stand cool spectators, and not imbibe a spark of the same spirit. Pennsylvania had the honor of leading in the laudable career. That state claims as her citizen the illustrious and benevolent Rush. On the ninth of March 1787, was exhibited to the society for promoting political enquiries, convened at the house of Franklin, in Philadelphia, his essay, entitled "an enquiry into the effects of public punishments upon criminals, and upon society." This able production was followed by another, under the title of "an enquiry into the consistency of the punishment of murder by death, with reason and revelation." Such masterly and judicious performances could not fail to pave a certain tho' gradual operation on public opinion. The legislature of Pennsylvania, a body which has always contended for the foremost rank where the cause of humanity was concerned, abolished the pre-existing laws on the subject of crimes and punishments; and substituted an entirely new code. The law of that state, and the establishments made under it, be-
came the admiration both of citizens and foreigners; and have served as a model for other states in the union. The state of New-York was not slow to follow the honorable example. Her institutions are an improvement on those of Pennsylvania. Of late, the state of Virginia, which has always been hard to move in objects of enterprize, but in which public opinion is both independent and benevolent, felt the duty too strong to be resisted or delayed. There is little doubt that the respective governments of this country, when their leisure and resources will permit them to bestow their attention on this subject, will invariably adopt a similar policy.
In the midst of the general advances it is a doubt what is to be the fate of the territory of Columbia. The central government she might naturally be expected, unlettered, to set a model for the imitation of others, rather than slowly and reluctantly to be compelled to the adoption of their improvements. Political characters were not aware of the danger of the measure, when they assumed a jurisdiction over this territory and left it to the direction of a legislative body who would not act on its concerns. The consequence has been that its progress has been rather retrograde, than either advancing or stationary. The hopes of the humane and benevolent characters in society have certainly been disappointed, so far as they have related to the administration of penal justice. Justice here, has already assumed a stern and ferocious aspect. She is surrounded with her brands, her rods, and her halters. A cruel and barbarous punishment, which ten centuries of civilization have not been sufficient to abolish in Great Britain, and which is still retained in some parts of America, has polluted the chambers of the capitol. The smoke of human flesh, an incense fragrant only to tyrants, has regaled judges who sit under the canopy of liberty. To complete the melancholy apparatus, the gallows was about to be erected, and the sight of a public infliction of death exhibited in the eyes of a people, yet merciful and uncorrupted. And for what purpose? A purpose, which if it had been carried into execution, which, if it ever shall be carried into execution, I shall not cease to think itself a judicial murder.
I deny, and I may challenge the enemies of this persecuted man, who pants the most for his blood, to contradict it, that there was exhibited a particle of evidence to prove an intention to take a way life. On the contrary, there was testimony, that when the case of the deceased was found to be dangerous, he procured physicians to assist her, and a female attendant to wait on her. Some old English cases, which, before a jury bound by the common law might have been entitled to authority, deem that a murder, where death has been undesignedly produced, if it were the effect of malignity and barbarity. This may be agreeable to the common law of England; but certainly it is not agreeable to common reason. There is a chasm which never can be filled up between depriving of life with a deliberate intention to do so ; and depriving of life without an intention to do so , however cruel the conduct may otherwise have been. To punish both alike is to insult the understanding, and to level the distinctions among crimes. This distinction was even recognized in the Mosaic code, and it would be strange indeed that at this day, and in this country, a distinction so ancient, so natural and so just, should be totally discarded, merely because it happens to be at variance, with the common law of England.
With the utmost deference to the opinions of those who think it an ascertained fact, that the death of the deceased was occasioned by the cruelty of her husband, I may still be at liberty to entertain my own opinion. The physicians who examined the body for the express purpose, could not say it manifested any marks of that violence which could have produced death. The inference therefore must be, that it was the exercise of this cruelty at the stage of pregnancy with twins, added to the hardships of her situation, which occasioned death. She was laid to be a blooming and handsome woman. It is well known however, that this bloom and beauty often attends a delicate constitution, when it would not have been the accompaniment of a robust one. How often is a delicate constitution destroyed by a degree of violence or hardship, which a more vigorous one would have sustained without any impression! There is evidently room for the intervention of many casualties. Perhaps if she had been of a more robust constitution the cruelty used towards her would not have injured her. Perhaps if she had not been in a state of pregnancy the same degree of
cruelty would not have affected her. Perhaps if she had not been pregnant with twins she would still have borne it with safety. Perhaps, if under all the existing circumstances, she had been in a situation of less hardship, supplied with more of the comforts and accommodations of life, she might still have survived. Among so many contingencies, not infringing the right of others to form their judgment, I claim a right to my own opinion, that after all the prejudice which has been excited against the man, it is still possible that his wife died a natural death. Admitting however, that she would have survived every circumstance of her situation, if the cruelty of her husband had been alone abstracted, still as the intention to destroy life was absent, it forms with me a criterion in favor of his life, which nothing can destroy.
There is a circumstance of subordinate consideration, which it is proper to remember. Even the English law is fond to multiply the chances of life to guilty offenders. The laws of Maryland are strict on the subject of the jury in criminal cases being citizens of the United States. The jury which convicted M c Girk, were not all citizens of the United States. The circumstance was not noticed until after sentence; and after judgment no new trial can be had. This fact alone, with humane and considerate men, who would never wish to behold an illegal infliction of death, will be a conclusive argument in favor of the interposition of executive mercy.
There is also a natural sentiment in favor of first offenders, and against premature severity. Will this be the first instance of the infliction of death under the authority, and subject to the control, of the President of the United States? If not, it will be the first instance which has occurred in this territory, and the first instance which has occurred under the present President. Painful as it must be to have the power to save life, to return to society a culpable but perhaps reformed member, and to be compelled to withhold that power; let it not be denied to the first instance in which the depository of this power is called to exercise it! Let it not be denied in a society, not yet distinguished for superior vice, and which would grieve to see its early annals stained with an execution, which if this occasion is passed may not, under a more regular government, be necessary for a long course of years! Above all, let it not be denied to the executive on this delicate occasion, to exercise a discretion unembarrassed by the malevolence of party spirit!
It is urged as an argument against a reprieve, that the jail is insecure, and that in the interval of two months he may escape. I shall not pretend to say that this will, or will not, be the case. But certainly it is unjust to charge the defects of our police to this miserable offender; and to make them an argument for precipitation in depriving him of his existence. It is true that the prison has been insecure, that a chance has existed for his escape, and that the prisoner was under strong temptation to recur to that resource. Owing however to very serious advice, perhaps, inadvertent, he was prevailed on not to avail himself of it. The prison is now in a better state, and from this circumstance added to the fidelity of the officers, that event need scarcely be apprehended.
I am not afraid that the President of the United States will be deterred from doing what he may conceive to be his duty by any censure or invective which those of a contrary opinion may be inclined to apply to him for the independent exercise of his judgment. I should be sorry however if any attempts to influence the public mind on the conduct of the President, which are in themselves harmless, should have the collateral but pernicious effect of influencing the popular prejudice against M c Girk. I hope those characters who favor the sentiments I have advocated will regard it as their duty, before the day of execution arrives, to manifest them by an open and manly application in his behalf. It would not be desirable that such an offender should escape punishment. But has he not been punished, and that with considerable severity? It would be even desirable that he should receive a further punishment than can legally be admitted, if his life is spared. But it is the least of two conflicting difficulties that a culpable man should receive something less than he merits, than that he should receive considerably more.
AUGUSTUS B. WOODWARD.
Washington, } Aug. 28th, 1802. }

RETRACT FROM AN ESSAY UPON THE MEANS FOR PRESERVING HEALTH.
Few persons are daily sensible of the great importance of perfect cleanliness, in their persons and clothing, for the preservation of health.
As the absorbent pores of the skin are perpetually inhaling the vapour that surrounds it, or comes in contact, it must be obvious to all who reflect upon the subject, that whatever is thus received into the system and mingled with the blood and vital principles of life, should be expelled. Hence it is, that in every part of the world the people who live on high and dry land, where air is generally pure, enjoy superior health, are long lived. To attain as near as possible, like benefits in cities, and in low situations, where the air is naturally less pure, great attention is necessary to keep persons and their clothing perfectly clean, by frequent washing in pure water. Those who cannot obtain it from a running fountain, or spring, or wholesome well water, (which is known by washing well) and are dependent on rain-water cisterns, as is common in many large towns, must have their cisterns often cleaned and all the old water thrown out. And it must be remembered that it soon becomes dead, and unwholesome even for the purposes of washing; one gallon of such stagnant water will contaminate the fresh supplies of frequent rains. Hence it is that we seldom see water in a cistern that has not a yellowish hue, which is a certain indication of its impurity; its effluvia is not sweet, and the clams washed in it have a musty smell; neither are they so white as those washed in pure water; all these circumstances are evidence of its infallibility. It has in the same degree the same effect when the face and hands are washed in it. Hence it manifests, that the pores of the skin will continually absorb the impure effluvia, contaminate the humors, and thereby generate the long train of chronic diseases and nervous complaints, and low spirits, which poison enjoyment and shorten life.
Every one will reflect, that if bad water is thus injurious, by its external application, it must be much more pernicious when employed for internal use in our food and drink, and more rapidly destroy health.
It is more especially necessary for persons of a delicate habit to pay great attention to this interesting subject; and all persons who do not labor much are rendered delicate by their mode of living. But they are too often deluded into a false security, by observing the little attention paid to those things by hard laboring people who yet enjoy health. It should be remembered that such persons keep their constitution braced and vigorous by their active labor, which produces a regular perspiration, (the great mean of health) which repels the effects of a bad effluvia, as a strong current carries off the filth that is thrown into it. But feeble habits have a languid perspiration, which is easily checked; hence it is that such persons so frequently complain of taking colds from damp clothes, or wet weather, which often cause consumptions and countless disorders.
It is necessary also to remark, that all the outside apparel and the covering of beds, usually made of wool, and seldom washed, are by degrees souled, by perspiration, and thereby contribute to the catalogue of diseases. Every thing used for covering, should be so often washed as to preserve it sweet. Exposing such clothes often in a dry wind is very beneficial. And all beds, whether of feathers, hair or straw, should be daily thus aired.
Should it be said, that so much attention to good water, and to cleanliness, is only necessary in the warm season, it may be asked, if there is not sickness in the cold season? Are there not invalids and numerous diseases in all seasons? These must have natural causes; among which the above mentioned are evidently some of the most powerful, and the most common.
The health and beauty of the universe, so far as we can discern, depends upon motion; this is very evidently the destiny of man from infancy to old age, when his active powers cease, he dies; when neglected, he languishes and feels anticipated decay: the rust of indolence destroys him sooner than the wear of labor; then let none regret the necessary use of means for health and happiness.
One great mean for preserving health, (often recommended, but never enough attended to) is good AIR. This element is continually passing through the lungs, (the most tender and essential part of the system) and mingling with the blood, and all the juices, and consequently must produce great effects. It is food and physic; it affords nourishment, and alters the humors; hence its importance in the preservation of health as well as the recovery of it, when impaired. They who would enjoy healthful, long life should observe what air is most congenial to their constitution, and if possible reside in it. It is well known that the inhabitants of a hilly country,
generally attain longer life and enjoy superior health, to those who live on low or plain lands, in all parts of the world. The mighty difference is effected by air and water, which are both good in hilly countries: but the air supposed to produce the greatest effect. In proof of this, yellow fevers, plagues, and pestilential diseases, never prevail in hilly countries, even in warm latitudes. Those who must reside in crowded cities, or on low grounds, and from necessity breathe bad air, should, as often as circumstances will allow, change air, by a ride or walk to the highest situations in the vicinity. But the rich, who can command their residence, know not the use of wealth, who pass their days with little change, more especially in the warmest season, in low or crowded situations. As this class of people do not brace their nerves by labour, if they neglect frequent exercise otherwise in pure air, although they will not enjoy that vigour of health which gives to life its highest relish. Their days and nights spin out a languid existence; they pine in the lap of ease and plenty; and neither feel the keen appetite or enjoy the sound sleep of high health; they are lost to good fortune, and fortune is lost upon them; as they feel not the strong pulse of enjoyment.
It must also be observed that change of air is necessary as well as change of food; frequent change or variety, is one of nature's laws; the best kind of food unvaried, will not answer all the purposes of nutrition; the same portion tires; unvaried objects however rich or beautiful, cease to please: Even to pass frequently from a pure atmosphere to one less elastic, is beneficial: the different degrees of elasticity give play to the lungs by contraction and expansion. To pass from the sea shore to the interior country, and the reverse, is often sufficient to effect the cure of invalids. This is too commonly neglected, although often the only effectual remedy.
Three reasons are assigned for the little attention to this subject, ignorance of the properties of air; the poverty of many; and the indolence of the rich, who think their fortune may procure them health where they are, without exertions of their own, or the loss of company for a day or their usual amusements in the evening. Heaven has wisely placed almost every good at some distance, that man might find his happiness in pursuit. The labor of life is up hill, and the richest fruits grow near the summit."
It is greatly to be desired that the learned philosophers and physicians of this rising nation, would inform the people by essays in our public papers of the best means for preserving health. The subject is certainly as interesting as politics; and yet we see a thousand essays on the latter, to one on the former.
To the illiterate and least observing, one fact in regard to air is known to all. In a sultry or foggy season, when a westerly breeze springs up, how suddenly, sensibly, and pleasantly our feelings are changed and our spirits rise! Does not this afford demonstration of the mighty effects of air upon the human body?—And hence it is not evident that breathing in an atmosphere sulphurous, or infatuated, will work a change in the state of health? And that this great medicine nature, should be suited to every one's constitution.
Foreign Intelligence,
From Greenock Papers to the 13th July, inclusive, received at the office of the Mercantile Advertiser, New-York, by the ship Andromache, Pierce.
LONDON, June 28.
It being the settled intention of the First Consul to use every endeavour to perpetuate the good understanding between this country and France, the commercial Treaty now on the carpet is to contain regulations entirely new, calculated to remove all subjects of future dispute. Many of the preceding Treaties of Commerce proved remarkably deficient. In the famous peace of Utrecht, the Plenipotentiaries who governed the negotiations, signed also a Commercial Treaty, in which their geographical ignorance exposed them to the derision of the world; they did not know that there was such an island as Santa Lucia, from which circumstance Great-Britain found herself saddled with a dangerous rival in the fishery of Newfoundland. On the present occasion the task is in very safe hands on both sides; our Ministers being not less distinguished for abilities, candour, and pacific disposition, than M. Otto and the French Commissioners appointed to negotiate the Treaty.
The Rev. Mr. Todd has undertaken, it seems, to write a life of Spenser the Poet. Dr. Johnson did not include the life of Spenser in his Biographical work, for want of materials; and so little is really known of that celebrated poet, that Mr. Todd will perform an acceptable service to English literature if he should be able to explore any genuine sources of intelligence.
General Massena is among the richest individuals in Europe—he has, at least, 60,000l. sterling per annum.
The famous French General, Augereau, is a native of Paris, and the son of
a fruiterer. Though he has been lately disgraced, pro forma, from the Consular Court, he possesses infinitely more of Bonaparte's confidence than any other chief of the army. It was he, who, at Lodi, pushed General Bonaparte into a ditch, while he was advancing in full gallop to encounter the enemy at the head of his troops—"Stay there, said Augereau to him, what should we do if you were killed?"
JULY 13.
It is said that at a late meeting of the National Institute of France, a Jew, a Lutheran, a Catholic, and a Calvinist, were all seated on the same bench; when a member persuaded Abdallah Menou to seat himself beside them, in order to complete the catalogue of the different Religions of Europe. This piece of humour excited much merriment in the Assembly.
A Decree of the Executive Government of France has regulated the Administration of the Island of Tobago, which is to preserve its Civil and Criminal Laws, the Constitution of its Tribunals and Legislative Bodies. In cases of appeal, the decision of the Consuls and Council of State at Paris is final. There is to be also a Captain General, and a Colonial Prefect in the Colony. The former to be invested with the whole military force, and with the provisional appointment of all officers under the rank of Colonel, and he will be authorised to propose to the Minister of the Colonies all persons of superior rank. In short, he is invested with the former authority of the ancient Governors, excepting that his decrees may be revoked by the Supreme Executive Government. The Colonial Prefect appears to be in the situation of a Councillor of State to the Captain General; he has also the sole administration of the Fiscal Department, of liberty of worship, of the use of the press, and of the state of the prisons. All the Civil Agents are at his disposal, and the Tribunals can in no degree interfere in his functions. He is ex-officio, the President of the Upper House, and has a casting vote in case of an equality of votes. In case of the Governor's death, or absence, the Prefect is to take his place, and on the death or absence of the Prefect, the next superior Officer will assume his office, pro tempore. Such are the general distribution of the Civil and Military Administration of Tobago, the result of which cannot fail to prove highly interesting to our countrymen, the great part of whom hold possessions in that island. It seems there is to be no change in the established laws and organization of the Colony, nor any alterations in the Legislative Body. The only difference which this Edict must cause, will be in the constitution of the Executive Power, which seems to be curiously balanced between the Captain General and the Colonial Prefect, each of whom, according to the present arrangement, seems distinct to act as a spy on the other. This the French call re-action or balance; but under what appellation it may be distinguished, we fear it will be business, and lead to the excitement of Party and Division.
A Jew in the neighborhood of Bonn, in Germany, has emerged from the most abject state of poverty to the most unbounded affluence. He kept a miserable public house, which was principally frequented by Jew pedlars; he had 22 children, of whom only 8 are alive; one day, in consequence of a dispute he had with one of his sons, he said to him in a passion, "Go to the land that pepper comes from." The boy understood the words literally, and immediately embarked for the Indies. He was not heard of for many years, but intelligence was lately received that he had died in the East, possessed of a fortune of near a million sterling, and had left his father heir to his whole property.
The Mayor of the twelfth district of Paris has announced by a placard, that the young bachelors and maids, who desire to be united in marriage, but who have not the means, should cause their names to be inscribed on the list at the Mayorality of that district, in order to be considered in the choice which is to be made for the marriage to be celebrated on the 14th July. The portion announced by the Government is 1000 francs.
The dividends now paying at the Bank, South Sea and India Houle, will put about four millions into circulation, and from existing circumstances, into a circulation more than usually extensive.
NEW FRENCH DYNASTY.
That some plan of great national moment is at present on the tapis in France, is most certain; and the public mind is prepared for it by the favourite official paper of Bonaparte, "Le Bulletin de Paris." We give the following curious article extracted from it, without a comment:
"Some writers have given the name of Usurper to the hero of ancient Germany; for my part, I think the expression Usurper has been often, too often, used by authors without being defined. "What is termed Usurpation always leaves impressed on the mind the idea of a general overthrow in politics, brought about by violent means. "It was an Usurper that caused the unfortunate Henry VI. to fall from the English throne; and that same Usurper placed on his own brow a crown which had been enlanguined by a civil war."
The Asiatic annals sometimes shew us an audacious slave ascending the throne of his master, whom he either butchered or immured in a perpetual prison. Such revolutions, as vile and ignoble in their origin as atrocious in the result, bear the odious stamp of Usurpation—but can a political act which far from proving destructive to society, causes harmony to take the place of confusion and anarchy—a political act which, far from being violent, brings back the social system to ideas of moderation and of justice—be degraded by the odious name of Usurpation?
"If we attach too extensive a meaning to the expression, there will not be found upon earth a solitary government, which—in its origin—was not an Usurpation. Experience compels us to own, as an historical axiom, that the best-framed constitutions are as mortal as the Legislators who combined their parts; and the Dynasties, which boast most of their antiquity, have also their decline. Should we therefore impeach the conduct of an architect, who, availing himself of an opportune occasion, should rear a new edifice on the site and ruins of an old fabric, which the hand of time had dilapidated!
"Should we call that Great Man an Usurper, who, after recording his claims in the glorious achievements of immortality, takes the place that has been vacated by a defunct Dynasty? Is it not as honorable to be the first of one's family as the last of it?
"Arminius does not descend from a line of monarchs; but the day will come when mighty potentates will, with pride, reckon him as the first of their ancestors.
"It would be indecorous to prove, that all governments draw their origin from Usurpation; but it is an unpleasant truth, that nothing exists in nature which does not imply Revolution in its primary cause.
"We call by the name of Revolution those cadaverous horrors which precede a political re-production. There is, however, a source of consolation flowing to poor humanity from all these images of death which surrounded it—the conclusion of our mortal existence is for us the principle of our immortality—an empire decays only to make room for new cities—and history then sees with astonishment the bloom of youth succeed the decrepitude of old age. Thus has the Ottoman power sprung from the wreck of Constantine's crazy empire.
"It becomes here essentially to observe, that the periods which seem to bear the stamp of usurpation are those at which nations pass from a state of torpor and humiliation to the highest degree of power and of glory. Let us call to our recollection those celebrated men whom history (which is not unfrequently giddy in the sentences she pronounces) has branded with unfavourable appellation of usurpers, and we shall find that the greater part of them were astonishing mortals, whom nature created by intervals for the purpose of remedying some gross errors in the order of society. Compare the political circumstances which preceded them with those which their superior genius called forth, and you will perceive that their existence has been the most fortunate event for the people whose destiny they corrected.
Whoever has the presumption to arraign the memory of Dejes? The Medes, his fellow-citizens, having adopted the Republican system, had been long a prey to the assassinating rage of democracy—Dejes, who often had led them to victory, submitted to them wise and prudent laws. Rescuing them from the danger—usurpation of a liberty which they never possessed, he boldly and honestly proclaimed himself the First King of the Medes, surrounded himself with a brilliant court, and appeared to his new subjects in the midst of all the pomp of royalty!!
He knew how to give power and add splendor to his government? And he therefore became the founder of the greatest empire of Asia.
Was Hero, that vile King, an usurper? The people of Syracuse laid their tumultuous independence at his feet; they called him father; when he died, all the Sicilians became orphans, and wept over his tomb! Had he remained in the order of private citizens, Sicily, a prey to the convulsions of anarchy, would not have been, during thirty years of his reign, the happiest and the richest country upon earth."
WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
Yesterday morning about half past ten o'clock, the candidates for Westminster appeared on the hustings at Covent Garden.
Mr. Fox said, that he had long had the honor to represent the City of Westminster, and he trusted that during the whole period, he had never acted in such a manner as to shew that he and his constituents entertained different sentiments on the grand question of politics. His principles were too well known to require any explanation. His leading principle simply was, that the ultimate sovereignty resided in the people, and that the servants of the public were on all occasions bound to consult the interests of that sovereign. After a justification of his secession from Parliament, and some handsome compliments to his colleague Lord Gardner, he concluded with declaring, that, when his constituents could
find a person more willing to promote the interests of liberty where there was any prospect of success, he should willingly retire from the honorable station he so long held.
This speech was received with unbounded applause throughout.
Lord Gardner then rose to address the electors, but from the mixture of applause, and groans we could not distinctly hear what he said.
Mr. Graham then appeared on the hustings, and after the noise of shouts and hisses allowed him to proceed, he began with explaining his pretensions to offer himself as a Candidate for the City of Westminster. He said, he thought it was fair that tradesmen should have their Representatives in Parliament as well as the other ranks in society; a tradesman had proposed himself for the City of London, and he did not see why the tradesmen of Westminster should not also have their Representatives. In this quality he proposed himself for their Representative, and he trusted that he should have the support of his fellow tradesmen. With regard to his principles, he had written them down on a paper, to which he had affixed his hand and seal, and which he always wore next his heart. (Here he unbuttoned his bosom and drew out a paper, upon which the people, unaccustomed to such rhetorical figures, set up a loud laugh. The paper contained a declaration of his attachment to Parliamentary Reform, to the rights of the people &c. He concluded by declaring his intention of standing the poll to the last.
The high bailiff then put the different Candidates in nomination. Every hand was held up for Mr. Fox with the loudest applause. Lord Gardner had a large show of hands. For Mr. John Graham about ten or dozen hands held up. The high Bailiff then declared the show of hands to be in favour of Mr. Fox and Lord Gardner. A poll was demanded on the part of Mr. Graham.
Mr. Graham put it to the Electors, whether he ought to sign a paper, agreeing to pay his share of the expenses of the election. Upon an answer being returned in the affirmative he signed it.
After some conversation between the friends of the respective parties. Mr. O'Brien addressed the Electors, informing them that Mr. Graham demanded their votes in opposition to Fox.
State of the Poll this Day.
  Mr. Fox 1046   Lord Gardner 955   Mr. Graham 414 
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Whitehall, July 6, 1802.
The King has been pleased to constitute and appoint the Right Honorable Robert Stewart (commonly called viscount Castlereagh), His Grace William Henry Cavendish, Duke of Portland, Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter; the Right Honorable Robert Banks Jenkinson (commonly called Lord Hawkesbury), the Right Hon. Robert Thomas Baron Hobart, and the Right Hon. Baron Pelham, His Majesty's three Principal Secretaries of State; the Right Honorable Henry Addington, Chancellor of his Majesty's Exchequer; his Grace James Duke of Montrose, Knight of the Most ancient order of the Thistle; the Right Honorable Sylvester Baron Glenbervie, (of that part of his Majesty's United Kingdom called Ireland); the Right Honorable William Dundas; the Right Honorable Thomas Wallace; the Right Honorable Charles John Baron Arden, (of that part of his Majesty's United Kingdom called Ireland); and Edward Golding Esq. to be his Majesty's Commissioners for the management of the affairs of India.
BOSTON, August 30.
LATE FROM EUROPE.
Through the politeness of Captain Woon, arrived here on Sunday last, from Liverpool, we have been favoured with London papers to the 17th of July, which, though many days later than previously received from that quarter, furnish nothing of a very interesting nature. A few extracts are however made from them:—
The negotiation respecting the commercial regulations between France and Great-Britain, are proceeding with activity; although it is scarcely to be expected to produce a commercial treaty in the true and liberal sense of the words, as the French are very jealous of the trade and manufactures of England.
The manufactures of Great-Britain appear to have gained new activity since the peace. In a letter which appears in one of the British papers, it is observed, "that our orders flow in from every quarter of Europe, particularly Spain, Italy, &c. In the muslin line, there is a greater demand for goods than can be supplied. The American trade, however, no person chases to touch now; having scarce any other market left before the peace, it has been quite overstocked; above three millions worth of English goods, were in the city of New-York alone, when the peace took place, and they have been selling at 50 per cent less."
The parliament of England having been dissolved at the close of the last session, the election of members to form a new one has commenced. Among other

returns which have been officially reported are those of the city of London, city of Westminster and Southwark, viz— Combs, Price, Curtis and And— son, for the city of London; Fox and Gardner, for the city of Westminster; Tierney and Thornton, for Southwark.
The rapid and successful measures of Pálwan Oglou, has roused the attention of the Austrian and Russian governments; not, we presume, in tender mercy to his Sublime Majesty; but rather to get footing in European Turkey.
Bonaparte has made a tender of the mediation of France to Pálwan Oglou, for the purpose of adjusting the differences of that Pacha with the Porte. This unexpected interference of the First Consul is supposed to be the result of an application to him on the part of the Turkish government.
Hollities have broken out between the Russians and Persians, the former of whom have already penetrated into the province of Ghilan. Some violence offered to the Russians at Astrabat is mentioned as the cause of these hostilities. Persia and European Turkey open a rich prospect to the desiring eyes of Austria, Russia and France.
The difficult affair of the indemnities is at length finally arranged. A French minister is to repair to Ratisbon in July, to notify the plan, and cause it to be carried into execution, on the part of the powers interested in it. The only Ecclesiastical Electorate to be preferred is the Electorate of Mentz. Upon the subject of the indemnity to his Sardinian majesty, a specific convention has been agreed upon between Russia and France.
Importation of Cotton into England, from 13th Jan. to 6th July, 1802—viz. 40,202 packages from the United States, 38,187 do. from other parts.
The votes in continuing Bonaparte in the First Consulship for life, have been generally returned; and a great proportion of them, with the addition, that he have the privilege of naming his successor.
The First Consul is to set out for Brussels and Antwerp, very shortly; and will be accompanied by Gen. Berthier, and Adj. Gen. Duroc.
In a proclamation which Bonaparte addressed to the French people on the 15th July, he says:—“Frenchmen, you have conquered all obstacles, and your destinies are accomplished.” Most truly said.
The comparison between Bonaparte and Cromwell will fail, if he assume the title of Emperor—Cromwell would never assume that of King! he knew that Protector was a new and undefined word, that could be made to mean just what he pleased; but “every body (as he observed) had a notion of a King.”
Sir John Borlase Warren, is appointed minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Petersburg.
M. Schimmelpenninck, late ambassador from the Batavian to the French republic, is appointed to the same office at the court of St. James.
Toussaint Louverture has arrived at Brest.
Mr. Fox, is about setting out for Paris.
The French funds fluctuate very little—they are 33 3/4. British three per cent Consols, 75 1/2.
LAST NIGHT BUT THREE.
MR. BERNARD'S BENEFIT. On Tuesday September 7th, will be presented a preclude called,
The Manager in Distress. Manager, Mr. Weil—Gentlemen in the boxes, Mr. Francis—Lady in the boxes, Mrs. Perhans—Usher in the pit, Mr. Sully—Prompter, Mr. Usher.
After which a celebrated Play called,
THE POINT OF HONOR, OR A
SCHOOL FOR SOLDIERS.
With a grand Military Procession and the regular order of leading a defender to execution.
After which an Olio, consisting of
SONG, DANCE, RECITATION, &c.
Part 1st. A gentleman for his amusement will recite the secrets of every body—discovered by somebody—in the character of nobody.
Part 2nd. Hunting Song, Mrs. Green.
Part 3rd. Dissertation on hobby horses, Mr. Bernard.
Part 4th. Song, The day of Marriage, Mrs. Hopkins.
Part 5th. Recitation, in the character of a barbers boy—by a gentleman for his amusement.
To conclude with a triple Hornpipe by Messrs. Frances, Sully and Master Harris. The whole to conclude with a new musical entertainment, called
THE RIVAL SOLDIERS, Or Sprigs of Laurel.
Nipperkin, Mr. Bernard, in which Character (by desire) will be introduced the song of FOUR AND TWENTY FIDDLERS ALL OF A ROW.
Lennox, Mr. Sully—Sincere, Mr. Hopkins—Captain Cruiser, Mr. Usher—Mary Tactic, Mrs. Hopkins.
Tennessee Company.
THOSE interested in the Company, and who have not signed the deed of trust, are hereby notified, that the subscriber will attend at the city of Washington on the 20th of December next, to give them an opportunity of complying with this regulation of the company.
JAMES STRAWBRIDGE, May 26, 1802. amv29D
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, Sept. 6, 1802.
Mr. FULTON, an American, known in this country, by his improved canal-locks, and by a book on canals, pretends lately to have discovered a method of navigating vessels at any depth under water, and of enabling the person who navigates them, to continue immersed for even hours, without the access of fresh air. He intends, it is seriously asserted, to apply this invention to the purposes of warfare, and, from his ability to approach them unseen, in a state of security, he proposes to blow men of war to atoms! The experiment has not been repeated in this country; but the invention itself was made the subject of a very formal notice to the House of Peers, without, however, producing a very grave effect upon that assembly. Should any further particulars of this curious business transpire worthy of notice, we shall not omit to lay them before our readers.— Lon. Mag. June.
Extract of a letter from the Post-Master General, to T. W. Bacon, esq. Post-Master of this city.
General Post-Office, August 7, 1802. SIR—An Agent from this department in the month of October next, will visit the four Southern States, with a view to ascertain the practicability, or impracticability of completing the lines of Stages through the Atlantic States, as well as to ascertain the state of the department, and particularly the state of the road between Charleston and Camden. “It appears proper, that the gentlemen of your part of the country should have an opportunity of advertising in this undertaking. I therefore wish that this letter might be made public. With esteem.
“GIDEON GRANGER.”
Of the late Lord CHESTERFIELD.
The late Lord Radner, with many good qualities and no inconsiderable share of learning had a strong desire of being thought skilled in medicine, and was expert at bleeding. Lord Chesterfield knew his foible, and on an emergent occasion, wanting his vote, went to him; and, after having conversed upon indifferent matters, complained greatly of the headache, and desired his Lordship to feel his pulse. Lord Radner immediately advised him to let blood; on which his Lordship took occasion to compliment him on his chirogical skill, and begged him to try his lancet upon him. “Appropos,” says Lord Chesterfield after the operation, “do you go to the house to day?” Lord Radner answered, I did not intend to go, not being sufficiently informed of the question that is to be debated; but you who have considered it, which side will you be of? The Earl, who had gained his confidence by this manoeuvre, easily directed his judgment: He carried him to the House, and got him to vote as he pleased. The Earl used afterwards to say, that none of his friends had done as much as he, having, literally, lost his blood for the good of his country.
In a late account of the Cinnamon trade at Ceylon, the following is the quantity according to the account from the East India Company: For 1775, 76 and 77, each year 400,000 lb. for 1778, 350,000; for 1779 and 1781, each year 300,000, and for 1780 at 250,000. Half of this was for Amsterdam, and the other half for Middleburg, Delft, Rotterdam, Hoorn and Enkhuizen. The highest price at 165 flivers banco, and the lowest 90. The whole value of Demerara and Berbice to the Dutch, by an English account, was 10 million pounds sterling.
A letter from Paris, received at London, states, that a treaty between the Ottoman Porte and the French Republic is concluded. The condition of the treaty, are, it is said, very advantageous to the Ottoman Porte, and appear very irreconcilable with the opinion which has been entertained by the public, that a project is in agitation to dismember the Turkish Empire, and divide it among the different powers of Europe.
Mr. Taylor (England) in his experiment for making a Perpetual Lamp, found that oil and salt boiled together, in a certain proportion formed a fluid, which when phosphorus was immersed in it, both preserved and increased its splendor.
Extract of a letter from a friend in Virginia to his correspondent in this City.
“Accounts from various parts of the state, mention Mr. DAWSON as our next Governor. He will be supported by the Republicans, and of course elected.”
HAMBURG;
According to the official report, has 180,000 inhabitants—has become the depot of European commerce since the decline of Amsterdam. In the year 1799, of the article of coffee alone, there were not less than forty-five millions of pounds, viz. from Liverpool 10,073,000; from London, 4,568,000; from New-York, 4,181,000; from Philadelphia, 3,779,000; from Baltimore, 3,963,000; and from the Island of St. Thomas, 4,162,000 pounds; the importation of sugar amounted to 98 millions of pounds, which also came chiefly from the English and Americans. The number of vessels which entered the port of Hamburg was 2148; of which, 3 only came from Cadiz; 117 from Amsterdam; 198 from London; 80 from Newcastle; 51 from Bordeaux; 71 from Russia; two from China; and 249 from the United States of America.
It is rare, perhaps singular, to find three large towns so close to each other as Hamburg, Altona and Wandsbeck; they are not merely contiguous but actually touch each other. Altona is a spacious town carries on a considerable commerce, has a theatre, &c. Many distinguished characters, particularly literati, have chosen that city for their abode; and several persons reside there who have acted a very conspicuous part in the French revolution.
MARIETTA, August 10.
At a meeting of a county convention
of the county of Washington, called in pursuance of a recommendation of the grand jury of the last June term, assembled at Marietta on the 4th day of August 1802. Present Paul Fearing, and R. J. Meigs Esq. for the town or Marietta, Isaac Pierce, esq. and col. Nathaniel Cushing for the township of Belleprie, Simeon Deming for the township of Waterford, John Roberfon esq. and Mr. Bureau for the township of Gallipolis, Col. Alexander Oliver and capt. Abel Mathews for the township of Adams, Mr. Ephraim True and Mr. Allen Putman, for the township of Salem, Maj. Jonathan Cals and Mr. John McIntire for the township of Newton, Philip Whitten esq. and Mr. Luther Dana for the township of Newport, and Mr. George Ewing and Josiah True for the township of Ames.
The Convention proceeded to elect a chairman and counting the ballots Isaac Pierce esq. was elected and Mr. Luther Dana was appointed clerk—on motion Mr. Fearing, Major Cals, and Mr. McIntire were appointed a committee to prepare and bring in an address to the citizens of the said County, to advise the measures proper to be pursued relative to an act of congress on the subject of the admission of the citizens of the Northwestern territory into a state government.—The convention then adjourned until the 5th inst. when the same members present as before Mr. Fearing reported the following address which was accepted by the convention (having filled up the blank with names of characters whom they put in nomination for delegates to their territorial convention) which is as follows.—
For the report we must refer our readers to the address of the convention to the citizens of the county. On motion resolved that the said address be signed by the chairman and certified by the clerk, and that the clerk be requested to have the same published in the Ohio Gazette.—On motion resolved that it be the duty of the members of this convention to deliver a copy of the address of this convention to the judges of the election in their several election districts—on the 2d Tuesday of October next—and the convention having fulfilled the business for which they had assembled adjourned without day.
I. PIERCE { Chairman of the County Convention LUTHER DANA { Clerk.
Marietta, August 5th, 1802. To the Citizens of the County of Washington.
GENTLEMEN,
You are called on by an act of our general government to choose four delegates to represent your county in a convention, to be held at Chillicothe in November next, to form a constitution and state government, in case they may deem it expedient. Whenever Congress had constitutionally a right to call such a convention, and cloath them with such authority, we do not at present undertake to say, but beg leave to suggest to you our opinion of the expediency of assuming a state government, in the manner and under the conditions proposed. By the second section of the law, the county of Wayne is to be cut off from this state, and in fact it is yet doubtful if a part of the county of Trumbull will not also be cut off, by the proposed lines; in which case our state will be greatly injured as well as the inhabitants of that district. The 4th sec. apportioning the number of delegates to each county, and that in proportion to their numbers which was taken eighteen or twenty months ago, which from the great increase of population, in some of our counties, must render the representation very unequal.—Congress, by the 7th sec. propose to make a new compact with our convention.—They offer, first, to let us have sec. No. 10 in each township in the proposed state for the support of schools. Here we cannot but observe to you that this very sec. has been reserved for the support of schools in every township of this territory ever since the 20th May 1785 and we conceive we made a consideration for such sec. when we moved
to and purchased lands in this territory; and that our claim now to such sections is as good as it would be, should we accept the propositions made by congress.—In the next place, they offer three salt springs, with the lands they contain them; this property, although it might be of considerable value to an individual, yet would be of no importance to the state; for the territory or state can raise as much money now from those salt springs by a tax as they could obtain from a rent did we own them. And in the last place they offer to lay out on the road from the navigable waters of the Atlantic to the Ohio and to go through the proposed state—the one twentieth part of the nett proceeds of the sales of their lands within the said state which shall be sold after June. This money will be applied by congress and will be as much for the benefit of the citizens of the United States west of the Allegany mountains as for us, and much more for Pennsylvania and Virginia. They ask as a compensation for the above grants that the proposed state relinquish their right to tax the lands that may be sold by the United States after June last for five years after the day of sale. Here it may be noticed that such a relinquishment would be making a great sacrifice, as within the proposed state congress have nearly eighteen million acres of land on which the tax for five years would amount to three hundred and sixty thousand dollars, even should the tax be laid no higher than is laid on the second rate lands at present. Such a measure would operate particularly hard on the county of Washington as the lands therein are generally owned by individuals.—Congress contemplate that such an exemption would increase the demand for their lands, and in fact raise their value. And it may be observed that in the same degree that the exemption raises the demand and value of the lands of the United States, in a like degree will it lessen the value of, and the demand for lands which are now owned by individuals: Therefore we are most fully convinced that we ought neither to go into a state government in the mode proposed by the said act of congress nor accede to the propositions therein contained. Our population by this time being at least sixty thousand—if our citizens are desirous to go into a state government we think it advisable to go into that government under the ordinance (so called) where the people of the territory (as they ought to do) can authorize their delegates to form for them a constitution and they will be able to have such delegates equally apportioned among the several counties of the territory.
Such being our opinion of the law and measures necessary to be pursued, and having been requested by you to nominate suitable persons to represent the county of Washington in the convention which is to meet at Chillicothe in November next. We therefore beg leave to nominate the hon. Rufus Putman, Ben. Ives Gilman, Ephraim Cutler, and John McIntire Esq. as suitable characters—being fully confident that if elected they will reject every proposition that will tend either to degrade us as a people, or that may operate to lessen the right that our government now have of equally taxing property of our citizens; and who (if it be thought expedient) will be able to devise such a mode for calling a convention as will be consistent with the dignity of a free people and compatible with their liberties.
J. PEIRCE { Chairman of the Convention LUTHER DANA { Clerk.
Looking-Glasses & Prints.
R. ATKINS, (From London)
CARVER & GILDER, ALEXANDRIA.
Respectfully informs the public, that she has for sale a large assortment of Looking-Glasses in Burnished gold frames. Dressing-Glasses, elegant and plain. Variety of Prints in elegant burnished gold frames.
Which she will sell on low terms for cash, Mrs. A. repairs & re-gilds Looking-Glasses, and framed Prints, in elegant burnished gold or plain, on reasonable terms. She likewise varnishes burnished Gold Frames to prevent injury from flies.
September 6. 6t
NOTICE.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Washington County, District of Columbia, on 20th August, negro CATO 5 feet high, who says he belongs to James Koeth Esq. of Alexandria.
Committed the 28th, negro DAVY, 5 feet 10 1-2 inches high, about 35 years of age, yellow complexion with a kine between his eye brows occasioned by a hurt when a child, a ship-carpenter by trade, formerly the property of James Clagett of George Town.
The above negroes if not taken away by their owners will be sold agreeable to law, for jail fees.
ROBERT MCLEAN, Jailor.
For Daniel C. Brent, Marshal of the District of Columbia.
Washington County, 2 September 2, 1802. 2aw3t.
To the Public.
When the natural advantages of the United States are considered there is no subject that strikes with more force than cut inland navigation. Various attempts have been made to accelerate it by mechanical means of transportation, and great merit is due to the projectors, yet they have unfortunately too generally failed. I now come forward to offer an invention of my own for propelling boats and vessels of any size according to the force that may be applied, totally new and different from any others that have been produced. I will remark that I have produced it, I have experimented it, and it remains with the public to carry it into execution. I refer to the President of the United States, to the Secretary of State, to the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Superintendent of the Navy, and to many of our respectable citizens, who have seen its effects and who will give their opinions. I refer to the thing itself, where experiments by manual labour, will convinceocular observation, and obviate all less verbal or written descriptions. It is proper, however, to give some account of its qualities. They consist in its simplicity, in its convenience, its durability, its adaptation to manual, horse or steam powers, and in the double or successive broke. This double or successive stroke is worthy the attention of the mechanic and of the navigator, for by it a constant effect is kept up. It exceeds the common oar by the single stroke only, and of course must gain rapidly when the successive stroke is applied. It can be used either vertically or horizontally, and at the stem, stern or sides of the vessel, and is constructed and operated on direct lines instead of rotary lines. Its chief importance consists in its obviating manual labour, being, with the greatest convenience, adapted to the steam engine, whose force is durable, competent, and equal; and this equal force it is that gives uniform power to the successive broke. It can be used in all cases where rowing can be done, and may be extended to Bay, Lakes and short coasting trade. Whenever there is want of wind, there lies a principal advantage in the invention. In instances of long rivers, such as the Mississippi, Ohio, &c. it is intended that the machine-boat shall be designated to tow other boats; but larger vessels will justify separate engines. Fuel may be deposited along the shores of rivers at convenient distances to be taken in occasionally by skiffs, so as not to impede the progress of the machine. To the steam engine I would recommend the attention of the public, but machines may be modified for any power, either manual or horse. Besides encouraging this invention for common utility, individuals will be benefited in proportion to the early applications they shall make for privileges, my patent being dated the 22d day of February 1802. In case of applications, I promise to direct the manufacturing of machines, and will give every instruction and aid in my power to accelerate the business. Steam engines can be had made in some of the principal seaport towns, particularly Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, Baltimore—and other parts of the United States.
R. CLAIRBORNE. Aug. 27, 1802.
The editors of Newspapers will do a patriotic act by promulgating the above.
Superintendent's Office, Washington, 4th September, 1802.
THE Sale of LOTS which commenced on the 30th ult. and has been continued by adjournment from day to day until this day, is adjourned until Monday the 13th inst.—Persons disposed to become interested as proprietors of lots in the City, are respectfully invited to attend this sale, it being improbable that so favourable an opportunity will ever again occur.
THOMAS MUNROE, Superintendent.
NOTICE.
A MEETING of the subscribers to the Little River Road Company, is called at the house of Mrs. McCabe in Leesburg, on the fourth Wednesday in September next, being the 22d of the month, in pursuance of the law, requiring that the commissioners or any four of them, shall as soon as two hundred shares are subscribed, call a meeting of the subscribers for the purpose of electing by a majority of votes, delivered in person or by proxy, one president, four directors, one treasurer, and such other officers as they shall think necessary, for well ordering and conducting the affairs of the said Company.—The commissioners having obtained the necessary number of shares, avail themselves of the earliest opportunity of calling together the subscribers in conformity to the law; they recommend a personal attendance if practicable, as it may be necessary to pass some bye laws and regulations for conducting the company's affairs, where that is too inconvenient it will be proper to appoint a proxy in writing, attested by one witness at least.
WM. HARTSHORNE, JOHN T. RICKETTS, ISRAEL LACEY, BURR POWELL. Aug. 25 th 1802. ept228.
IMPORTED
In the Robert from Liverpool, and now opening for Sale at the Subscriber's Store, New-Jersey Avenue, Capitol Hill, City of Washington—
A general assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Sadlery and Brass Wares—Spades and Shovels, Sheet-Iron, Tin in Boxes, Brass Kettles, Corn Hoes, Nails, Glue; Locks, Hinges and Screws, Carpenters planes, Saws, Braces and Bits, Screw drivers, &c. Knives and Forks, Cruit Strands, Iron Wire, Brushes, Smiths Hammers, Files, Vices, Screw plates, &c. Razors, Penknives, Spoons, Japanned Tea Trays, Waiters and Bread Baskets, a few sets of gentlemen's tools in chests, and a variety of articles too tedious to particularize. Also, 2 cases of Kirtland's fowling guns, which will be sold very low for cash or approved notes.
H. INGEL. June 28, 1802. 31w3w1w1

TO THE PUBLIC.
The Proprietors of the Charter for opening the Navigation of the Catawba and Wateree Rivers, having at length been, with much satisfaction, the completion of the Santee Canal, propose to recommence their operations for opening the Catawba and Wateree Rivers during the present year, as soon as the state of the said Rivers will permit.
In the mean while they have determined to double the number of their shares for the purpose of admitting such persons as may choose to become subscribers. The expenses which have been already incurred by the Company amount to one hundred dollars on each share of the present number, which, when doubled according to the present determination, will reduce it to fifty dollars a share.
The Charter of South-Carolina is in perpetuity, and these shares are forever exempted from any rate, tax, duty, assessment or imposition whatever. The Act of North Carolina, authorises the Company to fix and establish a toll on all goods and merchandise, for 99 years, and exempt their shares from any rate, tax, duty, assessment or imposition whatever, for the same period of time.
The present proprietors think it a duty incumbent on them, to inform the public, that a very considerable sum is expected to be raised from the sale of vacant lands, (which extend two miles on each side of the Catawba river, the whole length thereof from the North Carolina line down to Camden Ferry, a distance of not less than 120 miles, and in which are supposed are reserved to the company, not less than 58,000 or 60,000 acres) and left they should be deferred from engaging in the present navigation, by a reference to the enormous expense of the Santee Canal, the stockholders think it but just that they should declare their opinion of the improbability of the subscribers being called upon for more than 15 dollars on each share per annum, as it would be impossible for the works to be carried on longer than for about four months in the year, since the labourers will be chiefly employed in the water.
It is further to be remarked, that the Catawba river is looked upon as the most proper site for the establishment of a magazine, foundary and arsenal, for the three southern states, viz. North and South Carolina and Georgia; that surveys have been made, and a statement thereof forwarded on this subject some years ago, to the Secretary at war; that the state of South Carolina passed an act, authorising a purchase by the United States, of a certain quantity of land within this state; and the Catawba company have offered to release to the United States, any of their lands on said river, for such purpose, on a fair valuation. The hour now seems to approach for such an establishment; not only because it is a time of almost profound peace throughout the world, but that the idea is revived by the President of the United States, in his message of the 2d of February, 1802, to Congress, wherein he says, "besides the permanent magazines established at Springfield, West Point, and Harper's Ferry, it is thought one should be established at some point convenient for the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, such a point will be found near the borders of the Carolinas; and some small provision by the legislature, preparatory to the establishment, will be necessary for the present year." And nature indeed has pointed out this river as the most proper place for such a magazine, from the vast quantities of ore which have been discovered on the Catawba and its two branches, and there can be no doubt but that such an abundance of metal must attract the attention of the engineer, who may be authorised to examine and determine on a proper site for this establishment, particularly as there are already several furnaces and forges on the abovementioned rivers, at some of which six pound guns have been cast and bored, equal to any ever imported or made to the northward.
The company intend for the present season, to confine their operations to the removal of the obstructions from Rocky Mount to Camden Ferry, to the opening of a road for a carrying place, and the transportation of goods, from above the Falls at Rocky Mount, down to the Old Ferry landing; to the erection of a bridge across the Rocky Creek, and to the building a boat, and establishing the Ferry, which is allowed them by law.
A meeting of the Catawba Company, the 4th of March, 1802, two-thirds of them being present,
On motion, resolved, That the six hundred shares in the Company of the Catawba and Wateree Rivers, be subdivided into twelve hundred.
That the present proprietors be entitled to hold double the number of their present shares; and that they have besides a preference to extend the number of their shares to one for every ten to which they shall be entitled after such subdivision.
To every new subscriber who shall pay 50 dollars, shall be entitled not only to the advantages to be derived from the opening of said river; but also to a proportionate interest in the lands vested in the Company by the legislature of this state.
Resolved, That 100 shares be reserved to be offered to the state of South Carolina, and that an equal number of shares be reserved to be tendered to the state of North Carolina.
At an anniversary meeting of the Catawba Company, on Tuesday the 10th instant, the following resolves were entered into:—
"That an advertisement be published, inviting persons to contract for the opening of Graves's Ford and Love's Ford to deep and wide as to admit boats drawing 2 feet 9 inches water, and 12 feet wide; also, for opening a road and carrying place, from above Rocky Mount, to the Ferry landing below, and for constructing a bridge across Rocky Creek; also, for building a Ferry Boat to ply across the river, at or near the present landing at Rocky Mount, also for surveying the vacant lands, which have been already granted them by the legislature. Such undertakers to give approved security for the faithful fulfilment of their respective contracts, and to direct their applications to the President, Judge Grimké, during the sitting of the constitutional court at Columbia, from the 19th to the 24th of April next, or to Charles Tew, the secretary, in Charleston, on or before the 15th day of May next ensuing.
"That the President do establish a correspondence with some mercantile house in Cambridge, and endeavour to obtain permission to lodge with them the monies of the Company, and that they would disburse the same, according to the directions of the Company.
"That one hundred shares be offered to the citizens of North Carolina, and that they have to the first day of January next ensuing, to subscribe for such shares; and that General Davie be authorised to appoint some person or persons in that state to receive such subscriptions on the part of the Company, payable as in the following resolution:
"That col. Scuf, col. Hill, and John Simpion, esq. clerk of Lancaster court, be authorised to receive subscriptions from such persons as are inclined to become proprietors, and who reside within the limits of this state, and that they take notes, payable to the President and Directors of the Company for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree Rivers on the first day of March 1803, and they be authorised to deliver receipts for the same in the nature of scrip, in such form as the President and Directors shall appoint.
"That these resolutions, with the late publication in the papers of this city, as far as the President and Directors shall deem necessary and proper, be inserted in Cox and Shepard's Gazette of this city, and in the one which is printed in Raleigh, North Carolina, by Joseph Gales, once a month until the 1st of October next.
"That the solicitor of the company be instructed to adopt the most immediate measures for the recovery of such balances as appear to be due by such proprietors as have paid none of the requisitions for the last 18 months past, and that the secretary do furnish him with a list of the names of such defaulters.
"That the following mode be adopted as the uniform rule of transferring the shares of the company. "I. A. B. do transfer my right to share No. forty, (the number must be in letters and not numerals) in the company for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree rivers, unto C. D. for value received. Signed A. B. Witnessed by E. F. G. H. Proved on oath, before me, L. M.—J. P."
"That the sum of one shilling and two pence be paid on each share, on the requisition which shall become due, on the third Tuesday of September next ensuing, and the same sum on the third Tuesday of March thereafter.
"South Carolina, 1802. Received of a note payable to the President and Directors of the Company, for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree rivers, for fifty dollars, which, when paid, will entitle him to be a stockholder in the said company."
LOST,
ON Monday the 29th August, between the Washington Branch Bank and the Twenty Buildings, a red morocco POCKET BOOK, containing eighty dollars in Bank Notes, of the Alexandria Bank; and a note of hand for 200 hundred dollars, together with some small papers, &c. Whoever returns the same with the contents, shall receive ten dollars Reward from the subscriber, living at Mr. Jones's 20 Buildings.
JOHN AITKIN, Sept. 1, 1802. ep3t
FOR SALE,
LOOKING-GLASSES & FURNITURE.
The subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has just received from New-York various kinds of Looking-Glasses, from 5 to 70 dollars each.—Also card tables, bureaus, &c. of an elegant and fashionable make. He continues to manufacture and sell all kinds of ornaments for chimney-pieces, door caps, frontispieces, metal fishes, &c. &c.
GEORGE ANDREWS. April 14, 1802. ep3t
William Kennedy, HAIR DRESSER & CUTTER, (From Europe)
RESPECTFULLY informs the ladies and gentlemen of George-Town and the City of Washington, that he cuts and dresses hair, and makes the newest fashioned head dresses.
Having pursued his avocation for ten years in Philadelphia, seven years in Baltimore, and residing for these two years past in France, he flatters himself he cannot be excelled in the business he professes to follow.
Any commands left at Mr. Benj. McKee's, opposite the Old Printing-Office, will be punctually attended to.
Aug. 16, 1802. ep6t
Thomas Carpenter, TAYLOR,
HAS just received an elegant and fashionable assortment of summer goods, consisting of London superfine cloths and cassimeres; India, Manchester, and silk striped nankeens; cotton cassimeres, boglepoor, Bengal elegant white chintz for pantaloons, white and coloured mantillas, janes and satin croissavers, silk ginghams, black and other coloured striped satins, &c.—All which he will make up on the most reasonable terms, and in the most neat and fashionable manner—Pennsylvania Avenue, west of the President's square.
May 24, 1802. ep3t
CHARLES VARDEN,
MERCHANT TAYLOR from Philadelphia, Capitol Hill, New-Jersey Avenue.
HAS received an assortment of summer goods consisting of the best superfine Cloths.
Cassimeres, Silk Barrathea, English Striped Nankeens, White India Dimities, White and printed Marcellas, With a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season.
N. B. Ladies' Habits, Regimentals and Navy uniforms, made in the first style of fashion. July 2, 1802. tf
Burnet and Rigden, JEWELLERS & WATCH-MAKERS,
RESPECTFULLY inform the public, that they have just received, and for sale, a handsome assortment of
Gold and Silver Watches, Gold, gilt and steel chains, seals and keys, A variety of the most fashionable jewelry knife cases and fine knives, Plated casters of various kinds, Silver and steel mounted spectacles, Ladies and gentlemen's pocket-knives, A quantity of the most fashionable prints, superbly framed and glazed.
And constantly keep an assortment of silver plate of their own manufacture, with a variety of fancy articles: all of which they are enabled to sell on the most reasonable terms. July 14, 1802. ep3t
AGREEABLY to a Deed of Trust from Anthony Addison to the Subscriber, will be offered
For Sale,
TO the highest bidder, by Public Auction, at Stoll's Hotel, in the City of Washington, on Monday the 9th day of August next, all that tract of land lying and being on the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, opposite to said City called "Chichester, with addition resurveyed," containing three hundred acres.
On the above-mentioned tract of land, is the Ferry Landing, so well known by the name of "Dyer's Ferry," now in the occupation of Capt. Naylor.
The Sale to commence at 11 o'clock in the forenoon—Terms of sale cash.
Wm. BRENT. 19thA
The above sale is postponed till Saturday the 9th day of October next. Aug. 16, 1802. ts
A Valuable Farm for Sale, In King George County & State of Virginia.
THIS Farm contains five hundred and thirty-five acres—about three hundred and fifty of which are cleared and divided into three fields with good inclosures; it is situated on Potomac river, and bounded on the South East side for a mile and half by Rozier's creek, which affords a great abundance of fine fish and wild fowl, crabs, oysters, &c.—thirty miles from Fredericksburg, forty four from Alexandria, and fifty from Washington City.
On this land are very extensive shell banks, exclusive of the advantages to be derived from these banks by the lime business, they are very favourable to the production of corn and wheat, and the soil inexhaustible; there are about sixty or seventy acres of this kind of land, and the balance that is cleared of an excellent quality, and a great number of springs of fine water; it can with certainty be classed among the most healthy situations below the falls of Potomac—indeed, the natural advantages attending this place are innumerable.
The improvements are a two story framed dwelling house, sixty-four feet long, commanding a beautiful view of the creek and river; one other house intended for an office, twenty-six feet by eighteen with three rooms and a cellar in good repair; a large house, including a stable for eight horses, a corn-house, carriage house, saddle and harness room, and a commodious granary above, and other convenient buildings on the Farm—a small orchard of well chosen apples and peaches—The yard and garden inclosed this spring, with palis and railing—The whole plantation in good repair, and the land in a great state of improvement.
The terms of Sale will be made known by Mr. Francis Whiting, who in a short time will be a resident of Berkeley county, or by the subscriber on the premises.
WILLIAM P. FLOOD. July 9, 1802. tf
City Hotel, BROADWAY NEW-YORK.
THE Subscriber most respectfully informs his friends and the public, that the above Hotel will be opened on the first of May ensuing, when their patronage is earnestly solicited. He avails himself of this opportunity to return his sincere and grateful thanks to those societies, parties, and gentlemen, who have given him their support, and assures them that a continuance of their favors will be a stimulus to future exertions to please; and that the utmost attention shall be given for their comfort and accommodation.
Boarding may be had by the day, week, month, or year. Families travelling, may be elegantly accommodated with lodging and sitting rooms; and, if preferred, have dinners &c. in their apartments.
The Hotel being so well known, it is almost useless to say, that it is situated in one of the most healthy and pleasant parts of the city; commanding an extensive view in every direction, not only of the city itself, but also of the Narrows, the North and East Rivers, the state of New-Jersey, York and Long-Island, &c. &c.
A handsome coffee-room will be fitted up in the principal story; where gentlemen may have tea, coffee, chocolate, soups, and refreshments in general, at the shortest notice. All the leading newspapers in the union, will be regularly taken in.
Public dinners and suppers in a plain or elegant style either for large or small parties. Also, beef steaks, oysters, &c. regularly furnished. An ordinary every day at half past 2 o'clock, by the public's obedient servant, JOHN LOVETT.
N. B. Rooms to let by the month or year. April 21, 1802. ep3t
TO RENT,
And possession given immediately, A TWO STORY brick house on F street near the War Office, containing two parlors, six bed rooms, and a kitchen, with an excellent garden, coach house, stable, &c.—The house is newly painted and papered; it was formerly occupied by Mr. Dexter, and lately by Mr. John Brown. Enquire of Clement Dorsey, Esq. George-Town; or of the subscriber, who has for sale a well finished three story brick house opposite the Six Buildings, and a variety of City Lots in the most eligible situations. The above House will be sold for less than any gentleman could build it. The payments will be made easy on the whole of the above property.
WILLIAM Dyer. April 7, 1802. ep3t Building Materials will be taken in part payment. W.D.
NOTICE.
ON Saturday the 11th of September next, between the hours of 10 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon, at Stoll's Hotel, City of Washington, the final certificate of discharge under the bankrupt law of the United States will be granted to Uriah Forrest.
By order of William Kilty, esq. chief judge of the district of Columbia.
JOHN C. DENT, Secretary to the commissioners, Aug. 23, 1802. law8.11
WHEREAS, by a law of Congress passed on the 26th day of April 1802, it was enacted, "That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to receive claims to lands for military services, and claims for duplicates of warrants issued from his office, or from the land office of Virginia, or of plats and certificates of surveys founded on such warrants, suggested to have been lost or destroyed; until the first day of January next, and no longer; and immediately thereafter to report the same to Congress, designating the number of claims of each description, with his opinion thereon."
Notice is hereby given, To all persons claiming lands for military services, that they must lodge in this office, prior to the first day of January next, documents to prove the validity of their claims.
Commissioned officers, sergeants and sergeants' mates, or their legal representatives must produce evidence to prove that they served in the army of the United States to the end of the war, or that they were deranged by a resolution of Congress, which did not bar their claim to military bounty lands. It will also be necessary for the representatives of officers &c. killed in the service to produce evidence to prove that the person was "slain by the enemy."
Non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, or their legal representatives must produce evidence to prove, that they enlisted to serve in the army of the United States during the war, and that they actually served until the end of said war. It will also be necessary for the representatives of non-commissioned officers, &c. who were killed during the war and were killed in the service, to produce evidence to prove that they were "slain by the enemy."
H. DEARBORN. War Department, Aug. 16, 1802. law3t
This is to give Notice,
THAT the subscriber hath obtained from the orphan's Court of Prince George County letters testamentary on the personal estate of JOHN STAMP, late of said county, deceased. All persons having claims against said deceased, are requested to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereto, to the subscriber on or before the 10th day of January 1802; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand and seal, this tenth day of August eighteen hundred and two. J. W. WOOD. Aug. 27, 1802. law3t
State of Maryland, IN CHANCERY, Aug. 12th, 1802.
Alexander Clagett and Richard Henderson, vs. Charles Vance & Mary his wife, & Mary Beall.
THE object of the bill is to obtain the sale of two tracts of land called "Azadia" and "Gleaning" for the payment of a debt due from Isaac Beall deceased, to Samuel Beall, deceased, or so much thereof as will be sufficient for the payment of that debt.
The bill states that Isaac Beall was indebted to David Ross, Richard Henderson, and said Samuel Beall, to secure the payment whereof, he on the ninth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy five, executed a bond to them for the conveyance of the aforesaid land, with an indorsement on the bond, that it was intended merely to secure the debt. That said Isaac Beall, died without paying the debt, and by his will devised the said land to his children, Ann, Alexander, and Mary Beall, in tail as tenants in common after the death of Mary her wife, that Ann and Alexander have since died intestate, under age, and without issue, that Mary married the said Charles Vance, and that they reside in the state of Virginia. The bill further states, that said Samuel Beall has also died intestate, and that the complainant Alexander Clagett, administered on his estate, that the debt due as aforesaid was at the instance of Isaac Beall and his heirs paid by your complainant, Clagett, out of the estate of said Samuel Beall.
It is thereupon on the motion of the complainant ordered, That he cause a copy of this order to be inserted at least once in each of three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer, before the end of September next, to the end that the said Vance and wife may have notice of the complainant's application to court, and of the subject and object of their bill, and may be warned to appear in this court in person or by a solicitor, on or before the first day of February next, to show cause wherefore a decree should not pass as prayed.
(True Copy) TELL. SAMUEL H. HOWARD, Reg. Cur. Can. Aug. 20, 1802. law3t
State of Maryland, IN CHANCERY, August 7, 1802.
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Nicholas Carroll, Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, William Smith, Abraham Vanbibber, and Isaac Vanbibber.
versus Anne Ogle, Rebecca Dulaney, John Tasker Carter, Robert Mitchell, Priscilla Mitchell, Spencer Ball, Betty Landers Ball, John James Maund, Harriot Lucy Maund, John Chenn, Sarah Fairfax Chenn, Harriot Peck, John Carter Peck, Emanuel Peck, Hugh Quinlan, Tasker Carter Quinlan, Thomas Jones, Frances Tasker Jones, Thomas Jones the younger, Sarah Jackall Jones, Elizabeth Jones, Jane Jones, Sophia Carter, Julia Carter, Ann Lowndes, Francis Lowndes, Benjamin Stoddert, Benjamin Stoddert the younger, Elizabeth, Ann, Harriot, Richard, William, Rebecca, and Christopher Stoddert, Charles Lowndes, Levi Gant, Harriot Gant, and Benjamin Lowndes.
THE object of this bill is to obtain the recording of an Indenture of bargain and sale from Benjamin Tasker, deceased, the ancestor of the defendant, whose heirs at law they are fated to be, to Daniel Dulaney and Company, for a tract of land called "Piney Groves," which Indenture bears date July 2, 1751, and was duly acknowledged on the ninth of the same month, but hath not yet been recorded, the omission to record not having proceeded from a fraudulent design or intention in any person whatever.
The bill states that the said conveyance was for the use of the said Daniel Dulaney, Charles Carroll, son of Daniel, Doctor Charles Carroll, of Annapolis, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, and Benjamin Tasker, Jun. and their heirs, in equal fifth parts, as tenants in common and not as joint tenants; that their interest and estate under the said Indenture hath passed by sundry deaths and meime conveyance, to the complainants in fee simple, as tenants in common, who are now seized and possessed of the said land; that the said Benjamin Tasker the bargainer died intestate, leaving four daughters his only children as co-heiresses at law, of whom Anne Ogle and Rebecca Dulaney the defendants, are two; that Frances Carter and Elizabeth Lowndes, the other two of the said daughters, are dead, and that the other defendants are, by marriage or descent, their representatives and heirs at law.
The bill further states, that the defendant Rebecca Dulaney resides in the state of Rhode Island; the defendants John Tasker Carter, George Carter, Robert Mitchell, Priscilla Mitchell, Spencer Ball, Betty Landers Ball, John James Maund, Harriot Lucy Maund, John Chenn, Sarah Fairfax Chenn, Harriot Peck, John Carter Peck, Emanuel Peck, Hugh Quinlan, Tasker Carter Quinlan, Thomas Jones, Frances Tasker Jones, Thomas Jones the younger, Sarah Jackall Jones, and Elizabeth Jones, reside in the state of Virginia; and that the defendants Charles Lowndes, Francis Lowndes, Benjamin Stoddert, Benjamin Stoddert the younger, Elizabeth, Ann, Harriot, Richard, William, Rebecca, and Christopher Stoddert, reside in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.
It is on the complainant's motion ordered, That they procure a copy of this order, to be inserted at least once in each of three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer, and in the Maryland Gazette, before the fifteenth day of September next, to the intent that the aforesaid defendants, and all other persons (if any there be) who are heirs of the said Benjamin Tasker, deceased, may have notice of the complainants' application, and of the substance and object of their bill, and that each of the said heirs may be warned to appear here in person or by a solicitor, on or before the second Tuesday in December next, to show cause why a decree should not pass as prayed.
T.ELL. SAMUEL H. HOWARD, Reg. Cur. Can. Aug. 18, 1802. law3t