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than, other, than what results from the appropriations themselves, has been made, directing, or even authorizing the application of the monies appropriated, or, in other words, authorizing the expense. The only exception is that of the additional duties of 1797, in relation to which, the provision that they shall be solely appropriated for a certain object, may be considered as an injunction, to apply their amount, if it can be ascertained, to that object; and a difficulty would even arise, as to the manner in which that amount could be applied; the law of 3d March, 1795, having provided that all payments of the principal of the debt, shall be made under the direction of the commissioners of the sinking fund; and that which appropriates those additional duties, having omitted to vest their proceeds in the said commissioners.
11. Operation of the preceding provisions.
13. The effect of the four first appropriations in favour of the commissioners of the sinking fund, is at present simply, an annual payment, out of the duties on tonnage and merchandise, of a sum, which, together with the bank dividends, shall be equal to the eight per cent. annuity on the six per cent. and deferred stocks, for the discharge of the said annuity; and those provisions will continue to operate only in that manner, until after the redemption of the six per cent. stock in 1818, or, until after the whole amount of interest accruing on the principal of public debt discharged, other than the six per cent. and deferred stocks, shall exceed the amount of the eight per cent. annuity, on the six per cent. stock. From the latter date, so much of the duties on tonnage and merchandise, as shall be equal to the surplus of such interest beyond the said annuity; and after the redemption of the six per cent. stock in 1818, the whole of the interest accruing on the debt thus discharged, including therein the said six per cent. stock, shall be applicable to the discharge of any other part of the public debt, existing on the 3d March, 1795, which shall then remain unpaid. But these two events are too remote, to be now taken into consideration. The eight per cent. annuity on the deferred and six per cent. stocks, to be thus paid annually, amounts to 3,330,352 dollars and 1 cent; of which, 70,040 dollars, at the rate of 8 per cent. dividend on the bank shares, are paid out of the said dividends; and the balance of 3,260,312 dollars and 1 cent, out of the duties on tonnage and merchandise.
2d. The proceeds of the sales of lands, and of old debts recovered, the amount of which is uncertain, and has been estimated as yielding on an average of the eight succeeding years, an annual sum of 400,000 dollars, must be annually applied to the payment, or purchase of any part of the public debt, excepting only the eight per cent. stock, and must be applied to the purchase of the six per cent. stock, neither of which existed at the time of passing, or is embraced by the provisions of the law of 3d March, 1795. And under present circumstances, these proceeds will naturally be applied to the redemption of the Dutch debt, so far as they can operate towards that object; but as the instalments due on that debt, amount annually for this and the five ensuing years to a sum which varies from 920,000 to 2,220,000 dollars, and which averages, for each of the said six years, about 1,600,000 dollars a year, it is evident, that that appropriation is inadequate for that object.
From thence it results that for the faithful discharge of about three fourths of the Dutch debt, no other provision is made, exclusively of the authorities to borrow, or to sell bank shares; except that which may result from the surplus of revenue, or from the additional duties laid by the acts of 3d March, 1797, — that no provision until the Dutch debt shall have been discharged, nor after its payment, any other but the above mentioned proceeds of lands and old debts, is made for the purchase and redemption of any other of the debts existing on the 3d of March, 1795, or embraced by its provisions (and which consist of the six and half, four and half, three, and 1795 six per cent. stock,) except the above mentioned surplus of revenue — and that for the redemption of the two eight per cent. stocks, and of any six per cent. stock, no efficient provision has been made; the general appropriation of the acts authorizing the two eight per cent. stocks, being discretionary and not imperative; and that of the act of 13th May, 1800, being rendered nugatory so far as relates to the principal, by being applicable to the payment of any part of the interest of the public debt.
3d. The amount of the sums which, by virtue of the appropriation of the surplus of revenue, should vest in the commissioners of the sinking fund, has never yet been ascertained; and several difficulties occur in attempting to determine the true construction of the law, by which to fix that amount. It is uncertain whether by the law of the 3d March, 1795, the surplus of the years preceding that year are vested; whether it was intended by that law to vest in the sinking fund, the surplus of each calendar year, in which such surplus did
exist, without making any deduction for the years where the appropriations exceeded the revenue, or only the real aggregate amount of surpluses, deducting the deficiencies for those years, from the surpluses of revenue for the years where the same did exist; whether the proceeds of loans should be included in the revenue; and whether the payments on account of the principal of the debt should be charged to that revenue. It does not appear that an uniform construction has prevailed in this department in relation to the two last points. Taking however the accounts, as they now stand on the treasury books, and which, until a minute investigation shall have taken place, are the only evidence of those surpluses, it appears by the statement (A) hereto annexed, that instead of a surplus, those books exhibit a deficiency of 950,128 dollars, and 64 cents, on the aggregate revenue from the establishment of the present government, to the close of the year 1799; resulting from the appropriations charged to the revenue, having during that period, exceeded by that sum the total amount of revenue, whether collected or outstanding, as it stands entered on those books. From that very result, I am strongly inclined to suspect that some entries have been made or omitted, on erroneous principles; but it is not less evident that for the present, this appropriation of surpluses cannot be resorted to, in order to cover the deficiency stated in the preceding item.
4th. The proceeds of the additional duties laid in March, 1797, the only remaining resource for that object, not only are not by law vested in the sinking fund; but no steps whatever have yet been taken to ascertain their annual amount; and although it may be practicable, hereafter to do so, as far as they consist of specific duties, the amount of that part which consists of a two and half per cent. additional duty on certain cotton goods specified in the law, could not, without a total alteration in the manner in which duties are ascertained, by the officers of customs, be distinguished from the proceeds of the duties on other goods paying the same rate of duty ad valorem. The total amount, however, even if it could be ascertained, cannot be estimated at a greater annual sum than 500,000 dollars and this added to the proceeds of lands, and old debts, would fall far short of the sum annually wanted to pay the instalments of the Dutch debt. Those instalments have heretofore been paid out of the duties on tonnage and merchandise generally, and charged to the revenue of the year in which they were paid, without paying any attention to the complex and inefficient provision made by law. It does not require any comment to prove, that provisions which leave no option between an irregular and unauthorized mode of payment, & a failure in the public engagements, are eminently defective.
The appropriations made subsequent to the 3d of March, 1795, which are not vested in the commissioners of the sinking fund, are also liable to the general objection, that for want of that inviolability, and not being made in the nature of a contract with the creditors, they are not permanently inviolable, but like any other ordinary law, may, without a breach of faith, be repealed at the will of the legislature, and afford, therefore, no security for the eventual discharge of the debt. The appropriation of the surpluses of revenue, though vested in the commissioners of the sinking fund, is substantially liable to the same objection; for, as only the surplus of revenue, beyond all the appropriations charged to the same, is applicable to the payment of the debt, nothing more is necessary to defeat that provision, than large appropriations for other objects.
Not only are those provisions for the public debt difficult to be executed, uncertain in their amount, dependent on the will of the legislature, and at all events, inadequate to the object; but it is ultimately a matter of discretion with the secretary of the treasury, to carry them into effect, even in the case of surpluses ascertained and vested in the sinking fund.
All payments must be made out of monies in the treasury. An appropriation authorizing and directing the annual payment of a certain sum, as in the case of the eight per cent. annuity, on the six per cent. and deferred stocks, must be satisfied each year out of those monies. An appropriation designating, for a certain object, all monies arising from a certain source, as in the case of the proceeds of the Western lands, and of old debts, is equally efficient, as those monies cannot be applied to any other object. But the other appropriations for the redemption of the public debt, are neither accompanied with an imperative clause directing their application, nor, the 1797 additional duties excepted, bot- tomed on a distinct source of revenue, solely applicable to that object; & they rest, in common with all the appropriations for the civil, military and naval expenses of government, partly on monies in the treasury, and principally on the outstanding uncollected revenue. The aggregate of all these several kinds of appropriations, uniformly exceeds the monies in the treasury, and it remains always optional with the secretary of the
treasury which of them he will satisfy; and where the law does not direct in express terms the payment of a debt, it is left to his discretion whether he shall pay it or not.
The object of the law of the 3d of March, 1795, seems to have been, to make an efficient provision for the gradual reimbursement of the 6 per cent. and deferred stocks, by payment of eight per cent. a year, and to pay the way for a future, though distant payment of the foreign debt, by giving to the sinking fund, the unascertained resources, which might be derived from the sales of lands, and from the surpluses of revenue, and, after the relative redemption of the six per cent. and deferred stocks in 1818, and 1824, a sum equal to the interest accruing on the debt thus redeemed. This last fund being too distant, and the other too uncertain, to rest, upon either, the payment of the foreign debt; the same act contemplated either its conversion into a domestic debt, redeemable at will, but not demandable at certain fixed periods, or its redemption by the proceeds of the sales of a stock of the same nature. It might have been unsafe at that time, and in the then existing situation of the revenue to have attempted more. But although the proposition for thus converting the foreign debt, was accepted for that portion which remained due to the government of France, and two millions of dollars in a domestic five and half and four and half per cent. stock, which remains unredemed, were thus substituted to an equal amount of foreign debt, the plan was rejected by the Dutch creditors; and from recent information obtained in that quarter, no expectation remains of its being accepted under any modification whatever. The appropriations made since 1795, instead of being by an investment in the sinking fund, engrafted on the plan then commenced, have been made in a detached and unconnected manner, have proven altogether inefficient, and do not seem to have produced any other effect, than that of rendering still more complex, a system in its nature sufficiently intricate. The heavy instalments of the Dutch debt, are in the mean while, becoming due, and require an immediate and efficient provision; the exorbitant interest paid on the eight per cent. loans, both of which are redeemable till the year 1809, renders it necessary that such measures should be adopted, as may at least, ensure the certainty of their reimbursement, as soon as by their terms, government may do it; and both with a view to that object, and on account of their being at all times demandable, it is of importance, that the temporary loans obtained from the bank of the United States, should be discharged as soon as the function of the treasury will permit it. Nothing seems necessary for those several objects, than to make for the debts which are intended to be discharged, as adequate a provision as is made, by the act of 3d March, 1795, for the payment of the eight per cent. annuity on the six per cent. and deferred stocks; by vesting in the commissioners of the sinking fund, in addition to the other funds already vested in them, such annual sum, to be paid out of the duties on tonnage & merchandise, as will be equal to the proposed redemption; and by directing the commissioners to apply the same to the redemption of such debts. This provision will be determinate in its amount, simple in its execution, certain in its effect; it will neither derange, nor alter a single existing appropriation or payment in relation to the sinking fund, for which the public faith is pledged; but will leave to all the other uncertain funds of that fund, and especially to the surpluses of the revenue their legitimate operation.
The annual sum of 7,300,000 dollars was designated in the report made by this department to congress, at the commencement of this session, as applicable to the payment of both principal & interest of the public debt. The interest including the eight per cent. annuity on the six per cent. & deferred stocks, amounts for the present year to 5,228,000 dollars. Which would leave something less than 2,100,000 applicable to the redemption of the principal of all the other debts.
Of this sum it may be eliminated that about 900,000 dollars are produced by the proceeds of lands and of the additional duties of 1797. The actual additional appropriation, on the principles of that report would not exceed 1,200,000 dollars.
In proposing that sum, I was guided, not by any abstract or arbitrary principles, but by the amount which was actually wanted during the present and the two ensuing years, in order to meet the payments on account of the Dutch debt.
It is necessary for those three years, to provide to that amount; and as, in the ordinary course of things, the receipts in the treasury must be affected by recent events, to a much greater extent during the two ensuing years than afterwards, it appeared, that if it was intended to make an impression on the debt, no reason could be alleged, why the provision necessary for these two arduous years, should not be extended to the full redemption of the whole debt, or at least to the reimbursement of every part, which was not effect-
tually provided for by the law of the 3d of March, 1795. The ability of the United States with their present revenues to apply annually that sum to that object, rests on the correctness of the estimates annexed to the report.
These will not be affected by the repeal of the internal taxes, provided that the retrenchments made in the expenditure shall have been equal to the annual sum of 650,000 dollars, for which credit was taken in the estimate of revenue on account of those taxes. But in order to run no risk on that ground, I would suggest the propriety of a modification in the manner of making the appropriation, which will effectually guard us, should the annual amount of the net receipts in the treasury be more affected by the restoration of peace than has been expected.
It will be recollected that, on the principles of that report, provision was made, independent of the permanent revenues, to meet the probable demands which might arise under the convention with France, or the 6th article of the treaty with Great Britain. The resources eliminated at three millions of dollars, which were suggested as sufficient for the present, to discharge those eventual demands, were the surplus of specie in the treasury, an eventual sale of the bank shares belonging to the U. States, the arrearages of the direct tax, & the proceeds of duties on the stamps. The deficiency arising from the repeal of the stamp duties will be more than balanced by the arrearages which shall remain outstanding on the internal duties on the 30th day of June, and which will not fall short of one million of dollars; and the amount of specie in the treasury was greater by 600,000 dollars on the 1st day of January last than had been estimated. For it is proper here to state that that specie which, on the 1st day of April 1801, amounted only to 1,794,044 dollars and 85 cents, had increased on the 31st December last to the sum of 3,099,751 dollars and 78 cents.
Those estimated three millions may, therefore be safely relied on, in addition to the permanent revenues; and the modification which I would suggest, consists in making the payment of the eventual demands which may become due to foreign nations, conditional on the payment of the proposed appropriation of 7,300,000 dollars for the debt, with a proviso, that both the demands and the temporary loans might be paid out of other monies if the situation of the treasury should permit it. The effect of this modification would be, eventually to draw the three millions relief, to assist the current revenue, if the bank should fall short of the estimates.
If the receipts in the treasury should be equal to the sum at which they have been rated, the effect of the appropriation would be precisely that exhibited in the report, namely, that it would be applied to the payment of the public debt, including therein the loans obtained from the bank; and that the demands which may become payable to foreign nations would be discharged out of the reserved three millions.
If those receipts should fall short of the estimated sum, the appropriation of 7,300,000 dollars would be applicable both to the payment of the debt, and temporary loans, and to that of the demands arising under treaties.
If the revenues should exceed the sum at which they have been rated, the 7,300,000 dollars would be applied exclusively to the payment of the debt proper; and both the temporary loans and demands payable to foreign nations might be discharged out of the surplus monies thus received in the treasury.
By adopting that mode, we would be safe under every ordinary contingency; the only difference which would result from a greater or less revenue than has been estimated, being that the ultimate redemption of the debt would be accelerated or retarded in the same proportion.
Having answered the enquiry proposed in your letter, with as much precision as the subject seems to admit, permit me to suggest some other improvements, which, though of less magnitude, are not altogether unimportant.
The inconvenience of paying the large instalments of the Dutch debt, which fall due this and the ensuing years, is much increased by the obligation of discharging them abroad, on account both of the injury arising from such considerable portion of the circulating capital of the United States being thus drawn abroad, and of the difficulty and risk which attach to the purchase of so large an amount of remittances. Although those difficulties must be met if they cannot be obviated, it seems proper to adopt every measure which may diminish them. The plan contemplated by the act of the 3d of March 1795, of converting that debt into a domestic debt, has heretofore been found impracticable, and from the latest advices, the event of peace absolutely precludes any expectation of its being carried into effect.
It is however possible, though very doubtful, that the terms of payment of a part of that debt may be extended by re-loans, so as to equalize on the eight ensuing years the payments which fall principally on this and the four succeeding years. Should that operation be effect-
ed so as to reduce the annual payments in Holland from two millions of dollars to one million, the other million might be applied with more advantage to the payment of the loans obtained from the bank or of any other part of the debt payable and held in America.
For this purpose it would be necessary to give an express authority to the commissioners of the sinking fund; and in order to enable them to transact in the most advantageous manner both that and every other business relative to that debt, it would be eligible to give them a power if they shall find it necessary to employ a special agent in Holland. The usefulness of that arrangement had been some years ago suggested by this department; and its necessity is now much increased by the increased extent of the payments and transactions in Holland relative thereto.
The difficulty and risk attaching to the purchase of remittances, which can only be obtained at a distance from the treasury department, and without any immediate control of any officer of government, may not perhaps be obviated by any means. If it shall be found practicable to treat for that object with one of the banks, making a fixed allowance for every uncertain variation in the rate of exchange, and loss in the purchase of bills, it will be considered a beneficial operation to the United States. But although this may be considered as fairly within the power of the commissioners of the sinking fund, it will be desirable to obtain a previous express authorization from Congress.
I have the honor To be respectfully, Sir, Your obedient servant, ALBERT GALLATIN. Hon. JOHN RANDOLPH, Jr. chairman of the committee of ways & means.
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, MAR 10, 1802.
On Wednesday the President of the United States left this city on a short visit to Monticello.
On the last page of our paper the reader will find the articles of agreement entered into between the United States and the State of Georgia. This amicable and honorable termination of differences will be grateful to every sincere friend to the union, as the adjustment is made on terms of reciprocity and justice. It deserves to be enumerated among the important measures of the present administration; and is a striking proof of the prompt and efficient steps taken by them in whatever regards the harmony and well-being of the union.
On the last day of the session Mr. Griswold attempted to supersede the efficiency of this convention. The effort was manfully opposed by Mr. Millidge, who in a lively energetic and intelligent convinced the house of the impracticability of the motion made by Mr. Griswold, which tended, by means hasty and inconclusive to frustrate the labours of several years of negotiation.
By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS a treaty between the United States of America and the Chickasaw nation of Indians was concluded & signed on the twenty-seventh day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, by the commissioners of both nations, fully and respectively authorized for that purpose, and was duly ratified and confirmed by the President of the United States on the thirtieth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, with the advice and consent of the Senate, which treaty is in the words following, to wit:
A treaty of Friendship, Limits and Accommodation between the United States of America and the Chickasaw nation of Indians.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, President of the United States of America, by James Wilkinson, of the state of Maryland, Brigadier-General in the army of the United States, Benjamin Hawkins, of North-Carolina, and Andrew Pickens, of South-Carolina, commissioners plenipotentiary of the United States on the one part, and the Mingos, principal men and warriors of the Chickasaw nation, representing the said nation in council assembled, on the other part, have entered into the following articles and conditions, viz:
Article I. WHEREAS the United States in Congress assembled, and by their Commissioners Plenipotentiary, Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens & Joseph Martin, at a treaty held with the chiefs and head men of the Chickasaw nation at Hopewell, on the Keowee, the third day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, gave peace to the said nation and received it into the favor and protection of the United States of America: It is agreed by the parties to these presents respectively, that the Chickasaw nation,

or such part of it as may reside within the limits of the United States, shall be and continue under the care and protection of the said States; and that the mutual confidence and friendship which are hereby acknowledged to subsist between the contracting parties shall be maintained and perpetuated.
Art. II. The Mingos, principal men and warriors of the Chactaw nation of Indians, do hereby give their free consent, that a convenient and durable wagon-way be opened, marked, opened and made under the orders and instructions of the President of the United States, through their lands, to commence at the northern extremity of the settlements of the Mississippi Territory and to be extended from thence, by such route as may be selected and surveyed under the authority of the President of the United States, until it shall strike the lands claimed by the Chickasaw nation; and the same shall be and continue for ever, a high-way for the citizens of the United States and the Chactaws; and the said Chactaws shall nominate two discreet men from their nation who may be employed as assistants, guides or pilots during the time of laying out and opening the said high-way, or so long as may be deemed expedient, under the direction of the officer charged with this duty, who shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services.
Art. III. The two contracting parties covenant and agree that the old line of demarcation heretofore established by and between the officers of his Britannic Majesty and the Chactaw nation, which runs in a parallel direction with the Mississippi river and eastward thereof, shall be retracted and plainly marked, in such way and manner as the President may direct, in the presence of two persons to be appointed by the said nation; and that the said line shall be the boundary between the settlements of the Mississippi Territory and the Chactaw nation. And the said nation does by these presents relinquish to the United States and quit claim forever, all their rights, title and pretension to the land lying between the said line and the Mississippi river, bounded south by the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and north by the Yazoo river, where the said line shall strike the same; and on the part of the commissioners it is agreed, that all persons who may be settled beyond this line shall be removed within it, on the side towards the Mississippi, together with their slaves, household furniture, tools, materials and stock, and that the cabins or houses erected by such persons shall be demolished.
Art. IV. The President of the United States may, at his discretion, proceed to execute the second article of this treaty, and the third article shall be carried into effect as soon as may be convenient to the government of the United States, and without unnecessary delay on the one part or the other, of which the President shall be the judge; the Chactaws to be reasonably advised, by order of the President of the United States, of the time when, and the place where, the re-survey and re-marking of the old line referred to in the preceding article will be commenced.
Art. V. The commissioners of the United States for and in consideration of the foregoing concessions on the part of the Chactaw nation, and in full satisfaction for the same, do give and deliver to the Mingos, chiefs and warriors of the said nation, at the signing of these presents, the value of two thousand dollars in goods and merchandise, next cost of Philadelphia, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and they further engage to give these sets of blacksmith's tools to the said nation.
Art. VI. This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contracting parties, so soon as the same shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States, and the Mingos, principal men and warriors of the Chactaw nation, have hereunto subscribed their names and affixed their seals at Fort Adams, on the Mississippi, this seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, and of the independence of the United States the twenty-sixth.
 JAMES WILKINSON, (L. S.)  BENJAMIN HAWKINS, (L. S.)  ANDREW PICKENS, (L. S.)  Tuskona X Hopson, (L. S.)  Poota X Homo, (L. S.)  Mingo Homo X Maultuboy, (L. S.)  Oak X Shummo, (L. S.)  Mingo X Pootoo, (L. S.)  Buckilum X Mibby, (L. S.)  Shappa X Homo, (L. S.)  Hump X Homo, (L. S.)  Hatulla X Homo, (L. S.)  Inche X Homo, (L. S.)  Tufoma X Chaube, (L. S.)  Muchulchi X Hopson, (L. S.)  Coppatama X Thucoco, (L. S.)  Robert X McClure, (L. S.)  Poosha X Homo, (L. S.)  Dale X Lubbe, (L. S.) 
WITNESSES PRESENT: Alexander Macomb, Secretary to the commission; John M. Kee, deputy superintendent and agent to the Chactaws; Henry Gaither, lieut. col. commandant; John H. Brull,
Major 24th regiment infantry; B. Claum-burgh, Capt. 2d regiment infantry; J. Jones, assistant Q. M. General; Benjamin Wilkinson, lieut. and paymaster 3d U.S. regt.; J. B. Walbank, aide-camp to the commanding general; J. Wilson, lieut. 3d regt. infantry; Samuel Teton, lieut. 2d regt. A. and E.; John J. Carmichael, surgeon 3d regt. U. S. army. Now, therefore, to the end that the said treaty may be observed and performed with good faith on the part of the United States, I have caused the premises to be made public, and I do hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing office, civil or military, within the United States, and all others, citizens or inhabitants thereof, or being within the time, faithfully to observe and fulfil the said treaty, and every clause and article therein.
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand. Done at the City of Washington, the fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, and of the sovereignty and independence of the United States the twenty-sixth. TH: JEFFERSON. By the President. JAMES MADISON. Secretary of State.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
No. II. When the republican administration came into place, they seized the first moments of their power as the most auspicious to universal conciliation. As theirs was a triumph of principle, and not merely of men, every citizen, of whatever political character, was invited to rally round the standard of a government of which the national good should be the sole pursuit.
The President, while he avowed himself a republican in principle, and announced that he should be one also in practice, offered with unexampled magnanimity, a liberal participation of subordinate honor, emolument, and influence, to those citizens, usually denominated federal, who had been his most decided political opponents. Selecting men to preside over the departments on whose talents and congenial sentiments he could rely to counsel and assist him in the discharge of the great functions peculiarly attached to himself, he suffered to remain in the un molested enjoyment of office nine-tenths of the occupants, who were almost without exception anti-republican.
Here then was profession followed by practice; with the power of displacing more than one thousand officers, he removed less than a tenth part; and of those displaced, by far the greater number had failed to comply with the legal provisions attached to their respective offices. Can the annals of politics furnish a brighter example of forbearance, and can there be quoted the history of any vanquished party, that has been treated with equal respect? The forbearance of the chief-magistrate, while it astonished, confounded the leaders of the prostrate party. They had predicted on the prevalence of republican principles the entire dismissal of their friends. Judging of their opponents by themselves, they had proclaimed to the people, over and over again, that this would be the inevitable effect.
Overcome by the justice, and still more by the generosity of the measures of the chief-magistrate, opposition was paralized, and party spirit began rapidly to subside. Unprejudiced men, who, had stood foremost in the opposition to the election of the President, acknowledged their delusion, and united in following the merited recompense of his patriotic exertion.
Thus flooded public opinion at the meeting of the legislature. With them it related to give effect to many of the measures of the Executive, as well as to redress evils, whose cure was not within his reach. No sooner was this sacred duty commenced, than the suspended opposition of faction was roused. The minority found themselves but about a third part of the House of representatives, and the progressing change of public opinion threatened their small numbers not only with diminution, but with total annihilation. The crisis was desperate, and called for councils prompt and energetic. The leaders of the fallen party in the House of representatives were young men, it is said with the temporary possession and abuse of power, and rushing with impatient speed to the goal of ambition. In the last moments of expiring aristocracy, one had been appointed minister of war, and another minister plenipotentiary to France. Both had declined their appointments, not because they were hostile to office, but because they knew they could not retain them, and because they knew that if accepted, they would only be the vain pageants of a day, and objects of national derision instead of respect.
Who could expect wisdom or forbearance from the councils of such men, thus swayed by personal feeling? One of whom, demonstrating the ascendancy
of personal passion over political principle, to vindicate his tarnished name had violated the laws of his country in personal combat; and the other of whom had wielded the cudgel, in the presence of the representatives of the people, against an old man who had excited his ire.
I have been thus minute in my reference to these two men, because they form the mighty foundation, on which all the efforts of the opposition rest. There are facilities; but they shine with borrowed and feeble light; here you find one man who talks Greek without understanding it; and there you behold another, whose measure of intellect is so small that his voice is sure to baffle his speeches. What ambition prompts, man will pursue. It is the character of this ardent passion to behold with unconcern the convulsions of empires, so long as those convulsions minister to its gratification. Subjugated by this passion, and stung with disdain, intent, is it surprising that these men, exclaiming "the world is made for Cæsar" determined to act like Cæsar.
Like him, in his situation and with his views, they have acted. From the first day of the session to the last, they have traduced the reputation of the President, they have reviled his councillors, they have treated with contumely the majority of the legislature, they have heaped accumulated insult upon the people. Into the midst of a nation profoundly tranquil, they have carried, with the whole strength of party, the torch of "diffusion and civil war." They have laid to the representatives of a great majority of the American people, beware! Invade our exclusive rights, put down our abuses, dismiss our partisans, have millions to the nation on which our panderers not; and we will pronounce the constitution violated, and quench you with death . We will rule you, or we will dissolve the union; the bayonet shall do the pious work; and your women and children may be our victims. Gracious God! Is it possible, that men, who have sworn to support a constitution, whose object is to protect, should be the first to threaten, carnage and death; not merely upon men who may possess power to resist, but upon women and children, whom neither innocence nor weakness can save from the vengeance of disappointed ambition.
* Mr. Griswold. † Mr. Bayard. FEDERAL MISREPRESENTATION.
No. III. [From the New-York Evening Post.] To the Editor of the New-York E. Post.
SIR, In your paper of the 3d of this month, you published two short paragraphs respecting the college of William and Mary. But short as they were, they contained the following errors:—
 1. Instead of the college being completely broken up , it is proceeding with its usual regularity in every department; nor have the lectures been suspended for a single day.  2. Instead of all the students being concerned in the riot, which took place in consequence of the expulsion of those whom you have mentioned, not more than 5 or 6 out of 72, were concerned. A great proportion of the students, if not every student, except those who were actually engaged in the riot, viewed the transaction with indifference. Let it not be understood, that it is here intended to make the slightest apology for the misconduct which succeeded the sentence of expulsion; on the contrary, it merited, and it received the severest reprobation.  3. Instead of all the windows of the church being destroyed, and the pulpit cut down; the pulpit was not touched, and the glass of two or three windows only broken.  4. Instead of breaking all the windows of judge Tucker's house, or plying it, and of abusing him; his house was not pelted, he was not abused in the slightest degree, and only two or three panes of glass broken.  5. Instead of judge Tucker's resignation of his professorship; he is still a professor, and one of the ornaments of the college.  6. Instead of the death of the college, the visitors of it have lately passed a statute, to be seen in many of the papers of Virginia, which will, no doubt, have the happy effect of giving to the college additional life and vigour.  7. Instead of attributing any disorders, which may take place, to the Jeffersonian system of religion , the college knows no what that system is. The college of William and Mary, however, boasts of Mr. Jefferson, as one of her brightest ornaments; and will continue to boast, so long as virtue, and science, and pure republicanism, and the best interests of America, shall be cherished within her walls.  8. Instead of party-politics being the primary object of instruction in this college; not an instance, it is believed, since the establishment of the Federal government, can be produced, in which any one professor has ever attempted to influence the mind of a student, in the smallest degree, with respect to party 
politics—no, Sir, the politics which are here studied are those general principles of government which have their foundation in the immutable rights of Man, which the God of Nature has consecrated, which the revolution of America made known to the whole world, and which the people of this rising empire will never abandon.
9. Instead of the desertion of science, in the college of William and Mary; it is submitted, whether mathematics, natural philosophy, astronomy, ethics, laws of nations, politics, civil law deserve to be ranked, in the estimation of the learned editor, among the sciences.
10. Instead of that evil source , from which have flowed so many evils, there exists in the College of William and Mary, a source, from which has sprung a Jefferson, a Giles, a Randolph, a Marshall, a Breckenridge, and a thousand others, whose merits the people of America will not eliminate by the paragraph of a newspaper.
It is wonderful indeed, how such a crowd of errors could be condensed into so small a space, as that which the information, you have been pleased to give, occupies in your paper. Your candor, however, will, I trust, cause you to rejoice that I have offered you an opportunity of rectifying those errors, by publishing this letter.
I am, Sir, AN INHABITANT OF WILLIAMSBURG. April 15, 1802.
Notwithstanding the above irrefragable refutation of calumny, the editor of the Evening Post, fearful of the effects of this statement upon his readers, attempts in the same paper, a miserable invalidation of it. So true it is that a habit of inculcating error often becomes so inveterate as to defy all cure.
Why has the college of William and Mary been traduced? Because the purity of her science rejected the alloy of federalism, at the same time that it preserved itself, free from the intermixture of all other politics.
FROM THE AURORA.
The report of the committee appointed by the house of representatives of the United States, to investigate the manner in which the public money has been to unjustly applied, has been already published; and we trust has been thought worthy of attentive perusal by our readers. It has neither been animadvertised upon, nor published in any other of the papers of this city, though two days have elapsed since it appeared in this paper. An attempt by the anti-republican prints to quash this important document is in strict conformity with their uniform line of conduct; by whatever federalist it would be read, the qualm of conscience will have seized him, truth is too strong for those eyes which have been accustomed to see falsehoods only. But the importance of the report will be increased in the opinions of our readers, when they are informed that an attempt has been made in congress by the federalists to prevent the people from coming at a knowledge of the facts it contains.
On Saturday last, when the report was presented by Mr. Nicholson, the chairman of the investigating committee, Mr. Griswold, immediately rose, and moved that the report be recommitted , or in other words dropped for the present session, and as he hoped, for ever. Some reasons might naturally be expected for his motion, but what he delivered as such only served to prove the necessity of taking up the report—he could not advance a single sentiment against its correctness, he could not deny that money had been expended to an enormous amount by the late administration contrary to law, he could not deny that, to use the words of the report, "the accounts of Messrs. Jefferson, Marshall, and Madison have been settled, and no balance remains due thereon," but "the accounts of Mr. Pickering are not yet settled." He could not deny that money had been expended by the late administration for secret services , contrary both to the letter and spirit of our constitution, and contrary to the form of our government. He could not deny that his friend Tracy had been caught in his own snare—in fine, he did not attempt to dispose of a single item in the report, but yet he wished it recommitted ! the reason he advanced for his motion was that the report would make a great noise among the people , and injure the reputation of the last administration!!!
Mr. Nicholson, opposed with much spirit the recommencement, and asked if gentlemen could say the report contained any thing that was not FACT ?
Much debate ensued, and of a nature much to the dissatisfaction of the federalists—the question on recommencement was called for, late in the evening; and lost—yeas 32—nays 46.
ACCIDENTAL.
Newark, May 4. Some time since DANIEL MARSH, Esq. collector of the port of Amboy, having failed out in a skill built for the purpose of transporting balloons in the line of his official duty, to view some vessels, which lay out at Sandy Hook, or in the Narrows, and a sudden gale having taken him (as is supposed) up
his boat, by which he was immediately drowned. It is probable that no person observed the boat upset, as no rumour of the kind had been heard for upwards of a week after his absence from his family. His body was found floating on Thursday last, among the reeds on Long Island shore, near New-York, where a jury of inquest was held over his body, and after giving in their verdict, without knowing him, were about to proceed to bury him on the shore without further enquiry, had not a citizen of this town happened to be there at that time, who informed them he knew him, and who acquainted them of his character, and requested they would transport the body to his family for interment, which was accordingly complied with.
Mr. Marsh has long since been a judge of the inferior court of common pleas, a member of the legislature of this state, and in various other public capacities since our revolution, and has uniformly performed the duties of his stations with fidelity and honor—he was a faithful soldier during our revolutionary struggles, and has since been eminent for his firm adherence to republican principles. This venerable personage is a serious loss to his relatives, his friends, and society in general.
We hear that his son-in-law was in the boat with him, who was also drowned; his body has not yet been found.
Philadelphia, May 6, 1802.
By captain Bagley, arrived at Newburyport, from Alicante, copies of letters have been received from consul O'Brien, at Algiers, dated 12th and 20th February, to the American consul at Alicante, stating that four of the six Algerine corsairs which had been cruising, had returned, after capturing five Neapolitan vessels and sixty five christians, which were made slaves of. It was not known where the other two were. Those that had returned were preparing for another cruise. That on the 19th February, our ambassador arrived from the Basha of Tripoli; he came in a Swedish prize vessel, half the crew French—brought some white and black slaves as presents to the D. y and ministry, and it was said, had got permission to go to Bonna, on the Barbary coast, and load with wheat for Tripoli, where it was very scarce. It is a fact that three Tripolitan cruisers are at sea in quest of Americans and Swedes.
THE CLERK'S OFFICE
For the County of Washington is removed to the Seven Buildings, Pennsylvania Avenue. May 10, 1802.
TO BE SOLD
or LET, on the 1st of July next, A HANDSOME and well finished three story Brick house, with a brick kitchen adjoining the same, and an excellent pump of water in front of the house, situated on E street, a few doors east of the back—For further particulars, apply to the subscriber on Pennsylvania Avenue, near the market, or to Mr. Wehler on the premises. ROBERT BROWN. Washington City, May 10, 1802.
Commissioners Office, Washington, May 6, 1802. Public Auction.
To be sold at Public Auction at Threlde's Tavern on the eighteenth inst., at ten o'clock for ready money.
All the wood n building on the President's square, erected by order of the Commissioners for the accommodation of workmen; which to avoid as much as possible any inconveniences to the present occupants, will be permitted to stand, if required, till the 1st day of September next, but no longer. At the time of sale will be offered the following articles for cash, if not previously disposed of, viz: 23 chimney pieces, 12 barrels nails, a quantity of ironmongery of superior quality, one large beam, weights, &c. A quantity of cordage, one iron kettle, two pair small cart wheels, 16 barrels tar, one barrel lime, 12 window sills, two grindstones, one pair flywheels, and 7 iron blocks. By order. THOMAS MUNROE, Clerk Com. May 10, 1802.
FOR SALE, LOOKING-GLASSES & FURNITURE.
The subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has just received from New-York various kinds of Looking-Glasses, from 5 to 70 dollars each—Also card tables, bureaus, &c. of an elegant and fashionable make. He continues to manufacture and sell all kinds of ornaments for chimney-pieces, door caps, frontispiece pieces, metal fiddles, &c. &c. GEORGE ANDREWS. April 14, 1802.
FOR SALE,
An excellent Blacksmith, together with his wife and three likely children, to wit, two boys, 10 and 8 years of age, and a girl four. The woman has been employed altogether in washing and ironing. An examination of the blacksmith's work will be his best recommendation. To save unnecessary applications the price of the family is 1,000 dollars. V. PETTON. Stamford, March 3, 1802.

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
MESSAGE
From the President of the United States.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives.
In pursuance of the act, intitled "An act supplemental to the act, intitled an act for an amicable settlement of limits with the State of Georgia, and authorizing the establishment of a government in the Mississippi territory," James Madison, Secretary of State, Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, and Levi Lincoln, Attorney General of the United States, were appointed commissioners to treat with commissioners appointed by the State of Georgia, the claims and cession to which the said act has relation.
Articles of agreement and cession have accordingly been entered into and signed by the said commissioners of the United States and of Georgia, which, as they leave a right to congress to act upon them legislatively at any time within six months after their date, I have thought it my duty immediately to communicate to the legislature.
TIL: JEFFERSON, April 26th, 1802.
SIR,
We have the honor to enclose a copy of an agreement entered into between the commissioners of the United States, and those of Georgia, in pursuance of the act, intitled "An act supplemental to the act, intitled "An act for an amicable settlement of limits with the State of Georgia; and authorizing the establishment of a government in the Mississippi territory."
The nature and importance of the transaction have induced the insertion of a clause which renders it necessary that the subject should be communicated to congress, during their present session.
We have the honor to be, Very respectfully, SIR,
Your obedient servants, (Signed) JAMES MADISON, ALBERT GALLATIN, LEVI LINCOLN.
City of Washington, April 26th, 1802. The President of the United States.
ARTICLES of AGREEMENT and CESSION entered into on the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, between the commissioners appointed on the part of the United States, by virtue of an act intitled "An act for an amicable settlement of limits with the State of Georgia, and authorizing the establishment of a government in the Mississippi territory," and of the act supplemental to the last mentioned act, on the one part; and the commissioners appointed on the part of the State of Georgia, by virtue of an act intitled "An act to carry the twenty-third section of the act, intitled an act to amend the last mentioned act, on the other part.
ARTICLE I.
The State of Georgia cedes to the United States all the rights, title and claim which the said State has to the jurisdiction and soil of the lands situated within the boundaries of the United States south of the State of Tennessee, and west of a line beginning on the western bank of the Chattahoochee river, where the same crosses the boundary line between the United States and Spain; running thence up the said river Chattahoochee, and along the western bank thereof to the great bend thereof, next above the place where a certain creek or river called "Uchee" (being the first considerable stream on the western side, above the Cullas and Coosa towns) empties into the said Chattahoochee river; thence in a direct line to Nickajack, on the Tennessee river; then crossing the said Chattahoochee river, and thence running up the said Tennessee river, and along the western bank thereof, to the southwestern boundary line of the State of Tennessee; upon the following express conditions, and subject thereto, that is to say:
First—That out of the first net proceeds of the sales of the lands thus ceded, which net proceeds shall be estimated by deducting from the gross amount of sales the expenses incurred in surveying and incident to the sale, the United States shall pay, at their discretion, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the State of Georgia, as a consideration for the expenses incurred by the said State in relation to the said territory; and that, for the better securing as prompt a payment of the said sum as is practicable, a land office for the disposition of the vacant lands thus ceded, to which the Indian title has been, or may hereafter be extinguished, shall be opened within a twelve-month after the assent of the State of Georgia to this agreement, as hereafter stated, shall have been declared.
Secondly—That all persons who, on
the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, were actual settlers within the territory thus ceded, shall be confirmed in all the grants legally and fully executed prior to that day, by the former British government of West Florida, or by the government of Spain, and in the claims which may be derived from any actual survey or settlement made under the act of the State of Georgia, intitled "An act for laying out a district of land situated on the river Mississippi, and within the bounds of this State, into a county, to be called Bourbon," passed the seventh day of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.
Thirdly—That all the lands ceded by this agreement to the United States, shall, after satisfying the above-mentioned payment of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the State of Georgia, and the grants recognized by the preceding condition, be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of the United States, Georgia included, and shall be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever; provided, however, that the United States, for the period and until the end of one year after the assent of Georgia to the boundary established by this agreement shall have been declared, may, in such manner as not to interfere with the above-mentioned payment to the State of Georgia, nor with the grants hereinbefore recognized, dispose of, or appropriate a portion of the said lands, not exceeding five millions of acres, or the proceeds of the said five millions of acres, or of any part thereof, for the purpose of satisfying, quieting, or compensating for any claims, other than those hereinbefore recognized, which may be made to the said lands, or to any part thereof. It being fully understood, that if an act of congress making such disposition or appropriation shall not be passed into a law within the above-mentioned period of one year, the United States shall not be at liberty thereafter to cede any part of the said lands on account of claims which may be laid to the same, other than those recognized by the preceding condition, nor to compensate for the same; and in case of any such cession or compensation, the present cession of Georgia to the right of soil over the lands thus ceded or compensated for, shall be considered as null and void, and the lands thus ceded or compensated for, shall revert to the State of Georgia.
Fourthly—That the United States shall, at their own expense, extinguish for the use of Georgia, as early as the same can be peaceably obtained on reasonable terms, the Indian title to the country of Tal-lieco, to the lands left out by the line drawn with the Creek in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, which had been previously granted by the State of Georgia, but which trade had formerly been yielded by the Indians; and to the lands within the limits of Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers; for which several objects the President of the United States has directed that a treaty should be immediately held with the Creek; and that the United States shall, in the same manner, extinguish with the Indian title to all the other lands within the State of Georgia.
Fifthly—That the territory thus ceded shall form a State, and be admitted as such into the Union, as soon as it shall contain sixty thousand free inhabitants, or at an earlier period if Congress shall think it expedient, on the same conditions and restrictions, with the same privileges, and in the same manner as is provided in the ordinance of congress of the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, for the government of the Western Territory of the United States; which ordinance shall, in all its parts, extend to the territory contained in the present act of cession, as far as can be applied without conflict with the Indian title.
ARTICLE II.
The United States accept the cession abovenamed, and on the conditions therein expressed; and they cede to the State of Georgia whatever claim, right, or title they may have to the jurisdiction or soil of any lands lying within the United States, and out of the proper boundaries of any other State, and situated south of the southern boundaries of the State of Tennessee, North-Carolina, and South Carolina and east of the boundary line heretofore described, as the eastern boundary of the territory ceded by Georgia to the United States.
ARTICLE III.
The present act of cession and agreement shall be in full force as soon as the legislature of Georgia shall have given its assent to the boundaries of this cession; provided that the said assent shall be given, within six months after the date of these presents, and provided that congress shall not, during the same period of six months, repeal so much of any former law as authorizes this agreement, and renders it binding and conclusive on the United States; but if either the assent of Georgia shall not be thus given, or if the law of the United States shall be thus repealed within the said period of six months, the act in either case, these presents shall become null and void.
IN FAITH WHEREOF the respective Commissioners have signed these presents, and affixed hereunto their seals. Done at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, this twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two. Commissioners on the part of the United States. James Madison, [Seal] Albert Gallatin, [Seal] Levi Lincoln, [Seal] Commissioners on the part of the State of Georgia. James Jackson, [Seal] Abraham Baldwin, [Seal] John Mitchell, [Seal] Witnesses. J. Prantlin, Senator of the United States for North-Carolina. Samuel A. Otis, Secretary of the Senate of the United States. John Beckley, Clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States.
FOR SALE.
A NEGRO WOMAN about 27 years old who is a good Cook, and a complete house servant in every other respect—Also a large well furnished house, that goes well in a carriage, and pleasant under the eadie—Enquire at this office. March 5, 1802. ptf
FOR SALE.
A Quantity of STILL LIME, on the most reduced terms.—Apply to Enochson & Byers, Young's wharf. April 16, 1802. ap3w
Lots for Sale.
Or to Let on Ground RENT.
THE Subscriber offers to sell or to lease one hundred Lots, advantageously situated; four in the vicinity of the Capitol, and others near the Navy Yard; for cash, credit or wet or dry goods. WILLIAM PROUT. Washington City, April 5, 1802. ap3w
HATS.
THE Subscriber has received per the General Hunter from Liverpool, an elegant assortment of men's, boys', and children's Hats, which he will sell very cheap for cash. ALEX. MCCORNICK. April 27, 1802. eptf
NOTICE.
WAS committed to the jail of Washington county, District of Columbia, a negro Man by the name of JACKSON, who brings to Perusa Way of Georgia; is five feet eight inches high, has a scar on each side of his face, and his back much scarred. The owner of the above, if he desires to come, prove property, pay charges, and take him away; or he will be sold for his fees agreeable to law. DANIEL C. BRENT, Marshal of the District of Columbia. April 24, 1802. ap3w
JUST RECEIVED
And for Sale by the Subscriber, 180 cases Rhode Island Lime. Meas and prime best in barrels and half barrels. Prime Pork, in barrels and half do. Butter in Pithas, of an excellent quality. Mould and dip candles, in boxes. A few thousand weight best cheese, and a quantity of dried cod fish. MICHAEL CLEARY. Georgetown, May 5, 1802. ap3w
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR,
SOLICITS a continuation of that generous encouragement which he has experienced from the Ladies and Gentlemen of this City and its vicinity. Having procured an elegant assortment of cloths, calimerees, twilled wines, &c., and engaged workmen of superior talents. His unremitting attention shall be given to merit patronage.
Capitol Hill, next house east of Mrs. Finch's boarding house, and Pennsylvania Avenue between the President's square and Seven Buildings. Dec. 7, 1801. eptf
Looking Glasses.
J. COOK
Wishes to inform his friends and the public that he has a large and elegant assortment of Looking Glasses and Prints,
FOR SALE, At J. March's Store, High-Street, George-Town.
THE subjects of the Prints are very interesting, and in superbly gilt frames; and the glasses are of the first qualities, in the most modern and elegant frames, and of any size.
They are marked at the lowest cash Prices. March 15, 1802. eptf
CHARLES VARDEN,
Merchant Taylor, from Philadelphia, CRAZILY acknowledges the favors conferred on him by the gentlemen of this City, and flatters himself that the general reliance on him has already given will merit a continuation of the same. He has also received a handsome assortment of goods from Philadelphia, consisting of,
But supposing cloths, Calimerees, Swansdown, Toylenettes, Volverettes, Fancy Cords, Cordings, Flannels, &c.
N.B. Regiments, Naval Uniforms, and Ladies' Habits, made to the newest and most fashionable manner, and at the shortest notice.—Washington City, New-Jersey Avenue, next to Mr. Rapine's book store. Dec. 16, 1801. eptf
For Sale, Or to Let on Ground Rent for every FIFTY LOTS. SITUATE between the President's House and Capitol.—The titles to which is indisputable. ISAAC TOLOOCK. Dec. 16. eptf
FOR SALE.
For Sale, cheap, and on easy terms of payment, together or separate. TWO adjoining building lots in the neighborhood of the executive offices west of the Pennsylvania Avenue, on the north side of G Street, square No. 14, part of Lots No. 6 & 7, each lot is 33 feet 6 inches x 125 feet, each lot containing 4133 square feet. The title is indisputable. Apply to James Lynn, living near the premises. ap3w
Notice is hereby given, that all persons having claims against Mr. LEONARD LEE YOUNG deceased, render them properly attested to Mr. Robert Brent, in the City of Washington, and all those indebted to him are requested to make payment. BENJ. YOUNG, NICHOLAS YOUNG, } execrs. ROBERT BRENT, } April 19, 1802. eptf
TO RENT.
And possession given immediately. A TWO STORY brick house on P Street near the War Office, containing two parlors, six bed rooms, and a kitchen with an excellent garden, water house, flues, &c.—The house is in a way painted and papered; it was formerly occupied by Mr. Dexter, and lately by Mr. Jean Groux. Enquire of Clement Delfey, Esq. George-Town; or of the subscriber, who has for sale a well finished three story brick house on 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 DUTY. April 7, 1802. eptf
Building Materials will be taken in part payment. W.D.
Great Bargains may be had.
THE Subscriber offers for cash, stock of Columbia, or any other bank, or approved note at 60 days, from 50 to 100 in the city of Washington, situated on squares 144, 173, 226, 227, 254, 256, 270, 288, 289, 291, 293, 323, 328, 329, 377, 378, 424, 429, 430, 431 to 433. and above if he be not disposed of previously to Wednesday the 19th of May, they will be offered at public sale, on that day at 11 o'clock, at public sale. It is unnecessary to make comment as to the situations of this property. It being generally considered among the best in the city, and with respect to title, no dispute whatever can arise. ISAAC TOLOOCK. April 20, 1801.
Several houses in this city and other valuable property near it, will be sold at very low rates for payment as above, and part of which will be exchanged for a few negroes. ap3w
LAND FOR SALE.
LYING in West-land county, in an agreeable neighborhood, containing two hundred and twenty-five acres, and lying on the mouth of Yacomoco river. The soil is well adapted to the culture of small grain, corn and tobacco. About one hundred acres is in excellent pine timber, and a raw mill within four miles, and the timber may be rafted up to the mill. On the land is a dwelling house, with four rooms on the first floor, two above, and three free places below, and convenient out houses, with a sufficiency of oak for a saw-mill. No place can surpass it for the convenience of ferry officers, having a deep water close making from the Yacomoco river up to the foot of the garden. A further description is thought unnecessary, as it is presumed any person wishing to purchase will first view the premises. Two terms apply to. PETER RUST. Richmond county, April 18th, 1802. ap3w
Now Landing AND FOR SALE.
By the subscriber at his store in Jefferson Street, at very reduced prices, by wholesale and retail, for cash, country produce, or approved notes at 60 and 90 days.
Loaf, lump and brown Pepper, Sugar, Molasses, Mace, Raisins of different kinds, Holland gin, Cherry bounce, Madeira, cherry, Lisbon, and Malaga wines, Cloves in boxes—of superior quality, French Liquors, Hylon, Young Hylon, Imperial and Souchong teas, Coffee, Chocolate, Almonds, Raisins, Prunes, Fresh Tucca oil, Capers, Anchovies, Olives, Lemons, Brown and white soap, Mould and dipped candles, Ginger, Mustard, Nutmegs, Cloves, Madder, Indigo, Fig Blue, Scotch snuff in bottles, Real Havana cigars, First quality chewing tobacco, Coarthen and fine salt, Stout and herrings in barrels, Ham, Shoulders, and haddocks of bacon, Georgia Cotton, Highland purchase, China Bows, Glass ware assorted sets of tea China, Port wine in quarter or bottles, Patent circles, Porter in bottles, Powder, shot, & bar lead, Reissa Glue, Allum.
And a few dozen very cheap long and short bed and fancy gloves. April 20, 1802. eptf
FOR SALE.
A NEGRO WOMAN about 28 years of age; she is an excellent Cook, and good washer. For terms apply to the Author. April 5, 1802. eptf
Dancing Academy.
FRANCIS MAURICE, Professor of the French Language, Music and Dancing, respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of the City of Washington, that he proposes to open his Dancing Academy, through the Summer at Mr. Villet's Spring Garden; where the best consequence may be had for the scholars and companions.
CONDITIONS—The School will be kept twice a week, every Monday and Friday, in the afternoon from 3 o'clock to 6 o'clock for the smaller class; and from 6 to 10 in the evening for the larger class—Fifteen dollars only each scholar per quarter—five dollars to be paid at entrance and the remainder at the end of the quarter. Twenty subscribers at least, and the school will begin immediately.
Subscriptions received at Mr. Villard's, Route Washington City, and at the Union Tavern, George-Town. May 3, 1802. eptf
The MAIL PILOT.
Will, during the Summer Season, LEAVE the Columbian Inn, Georgetown at 3 o'clock a.m. and Mr. William Lunn's, City of Washington, at 6 o'clock, every day; for Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New-York; arrive at Baltimore about three o'clock, leave Baltimore next morning and arrive at Philadelphia next day to breakfast—Return—Leave Philadelphia at 7 o'clock A.M. and arrive at Baltimore the next day to dinner. Leave Baltimore at 6 o'clock A.M. and arrive at Washington at 3 o'clock P.M. Fare and allowance of baggage as usual—All bags to be at the risk of the owners. J. H. BARNEY. April 11, 1802. eptf
N. B. Passengers coming in this line will be sent on to Alexandria if required, the same evening; and to accommodate my customers a private boat will be sent to Baltimore or Alexandria at short notice. J. H. B.
WANTED.
A DASH and BOOK-KEEPER. A young man, who can come well recommended for the above business, will meet with employment at the Columbian Inn; and generous wages, by J. H. BARNEY. April 16, 1802. ap3w
City Hotel,
BROADWAY NEW-YORK.
THE Subscriber most respectfully informs the Gentlemen and the public, that the above Hotel will be opened on the 1st of May ensuing, when the best of service is actually offered. He avails himself of this opportunity to return his sincere and grateful thanks to those gentlemen, 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 camers &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, soup, 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 LOVITT.
N. B. Rooms to let by the month or year. April 21, 1802. eptf
New Invention.
The IMPROVED SAW-MILL, for which the subscriber has obtained a Patent.
THIS improvement saves the Sawyer much labour, and the work is also much more expeditious. The log being flanked, turned down, and the saw started, the whole operation proceeds without further manual aid; for, the instant the cut is finished, the log moves back, and at the same time is guaged to the utmost exactness by the machine, ready for another cut in two thirds of a minute. The saw resumes its action in the log, and thus moves in alternate successions until the whole be cut up in any given dimensions, at which time the mill stops of itself, or at any number of cuts for which the Sawyer prepares, for the attendance is unnecessary.
Any person or persons inclining to purchase the privilege of erecting this valuable and simple machine, or of adding the improvement, which may readily be added to any saw Mill already in use, will please to apply to the Inventor at West-Brandywine Bridge, on the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road, Pennsylvania; or to Dr. Thornton, canal miller, City of Washington. MOSES COATES. Washington, April 5, 1802. ap3w
We the Subscribers, inhabitants of Chester county in Pennsylvania, having been called upon by Moses Coates, to give our new invented plan of Sawing, were eye witnesses to the following facts:—
First, that his co-adjutor of hands placing on a rag iron attached to the common rag wheel, the saw a receiver, meant to log.
Secondly, that by the action of said receiver, the log is moved the required distance for the next cut, and that the saw is kept in motion after the log is flanked and turned down, until the log is cut up, this kind of an order applied. The work of the above is accomplished by the new invented plan exclusive of manual labour.
Francis V. Rhea, John Fleming, Esq. Hans Coover, Thomas C. V. Rhea. William Dury.