The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1802-11-10 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. I
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCXXII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10th, 1802.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
FOR SALE OR RENT,
THAT elegant three story BRICK HOUSE, on the corner of Falls & Frederick Street, in George Town, lately occupied by Mr. Pichon.
Likewise,
THE two well finished three story BRICK HOUSES, adjoining that occupied by Mr. SAMUEL H. SMITH, Printer, on the Pennsylvania Avenue, east of the centre Market House, City of Washington—Apply to GEORGE THOMPSON, George Town. Geo. Town, Oct. 20. tf.
Advertisement.
On Thursday the 18th day of November, if fair, if not the next fair day, will be exposed to sale on the premises, in the Town of Alexandria, the following parcels of land, late the property of JOHN FITZGERALD, deceased, sold pursuant to the directions of his will, for the payment of debts, to wit:
One parcel of land lying upon the east side of Union Street, and to the North of Wilkes Street, being a wharf or made ground upon which there is a Frame Warehouse; it will be sold altogether or laid off into convenient lots, to accommodate purchasers—the ground is subject to an annual rent of £9 17 6. One half of a Brewery, commonly called Wales's Brewery, with the necessary instruments and utensils for carrying on that business, and the ground appertaining to the Brewery; the whole of the Brewery is now under ademele at 600 dolls. per annum. A piece of ground immediately joining on the Brewery, fronting on Water Street and a twenty foot alley, extending on Water Street above forty feet, and upon the alley 150 feet. A piece of ground fronting upon Wolfe and St. Asaph Streets—this will be laid off into convenient lots. A piece of ground lying upon the South side of King Street, fronting thereon 22 feet, and extending 82 feet to a 12 foot alley, upon which is erected a two story brick house and a frame warehouse.
On the same day, if there be sufficient time after the sales of the above property, if not, on the next day will be exposed to Sale—also on the premises, a small tract of Land contiguous to the Town, containing 37 acres—this is subdivided and will be sold in small parcels, containing from one to six acres. The terms of Sale are one fourth of the purchase money in hand, one fourth in six months, one fourth in twelve months, and the remainder in eighteen months; the latter payments to be secured by a trust upon the land, which will be conveyed to the purchaser on payment of the first fourth part of the purchase money.
THOS. DIGGES, Acting executors of Jas. KEITH, } J. Fitzgerald, dec. Alexandria, Oct. 22. eptf.
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 floor; 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 a o'clock, by the public's obedient servant, JOHN LOVETT.
N. B. Rooms to let by the month or year. April 21, 1802. eptf.
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 Borrathe, English Striped Nankeens, White India Dimities, White and printed Marcellas, With a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season.
N. B. Ladys Habits, Regiments and Navy uniforms, made in the first style of fashion. July 2, 1802. tf.
L I M E.
JUST Received and for Sale by the Subscriber, a quantity of Rhode Island Lime.
M. CLEARY.
From the AMERICAN, &c.
THE DEMOCRAT, No. II.
ON DEMOCRACY.
THE almost endless variety of forms into which society has been moulded, has ever presented a serious obstacle to their just classification, and the misapplication and perversion of appropriate terms by interested and party writers have increased the confusion. Although the general sense of mankind seems to have agreed on two great generic divisions of government, sufficiently comprehensive to include all subordinate modifications,—the monarchy and the republic; yet, as Mr. Adams has truly observed, writers of authority have applied this last term to France, to Spain, Portugal, and the German states—to his favourite republic of England, and even the Ottoman Porte, as well as to governments of a popular form: (1) Perhaps on a subject so complicated with individual feeling and interest, no scientific writer could sufficiently divest himself of fear and prejudice; thus, the most amiable, if not the most enlightened among them, Montesquieu, has probably arranged despotism, as a simple and distinct form of government; instead of a species and corruption of monarchy, from a veneration and respect for his native country and monarch: (2) His subsequent division of a republic into democratic and aristocratic, is certainly more correct; (3) but perhaps that indefinite application of the term republic, so long and so generally practised, may fully justify its omission as one of the simple forms of sovereignty; in the more recent scientific works of Vattel, Burlamaqui and other approved publicists, who have all united in the division of governments into monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy; (4) the distinction doubtful, originally contemplated by Aristotle, however he may have complicated and obscured the subject by detail. They have all indeed spoken of mixed governments, or combinations of these different forms, but as that cannot be admitted as a scientific term, to which no distinct or determinate idea can be annexed, reason and authority will justify our classing under one of these separate heads, the endless varieties and mixtures of government; according as we find the leading principles of these simple forms more or less predominant. (5)
Conformably to these principles, and generic distinctions of government, it can be demonstrated, that the United States are by their confederate and separate Constitutions, democracies or democratic republics—not pure or simple, that is, administered by the people personally, but qualified or representative democracies; and that they admit no one real principle of aristocracy or monarchy whatever, although they possess all the advantages, without any of the disadvantages, of both those forms of government.
Our political terms, chiefly borrowed from the Greeks, after surviving the revolutions of two and twenty centuries, may not all retain their primitive import, but perhaps none has been subjected to less change than democracy. (Demokratia.) It originally signified, as it does now, the sovereignty of the people, and was long used as descriptive of the only legal power exercised in the Grecian republics. The authority of the rich & powerful as a distinct class grew up every where, but was sanctioned no where unless by invidious distinctions in the right of suffrage, according to some varying census; it was never gratified by any regular representative selection; producing in legal effect, that separation which calms, if it does not satisfy, the pride of the opulent: in constant contact within their confined mural limits, but never incorporating with the mass of society—this class continued to be distinguished by its hauteur, its persevering and systematic enterprize, and the invidious appellation of the oligarchy or sovereignty of the few.
It was only towards the close of the splendid portion of the Grecian history, that they became a standing power, a distinct and privileged order in government, and as such, indebted, I believe, to the prudent and courtly Aristotle; for the more specious distinction of the aristocracy, or sovereignty of the best. In Herodotus, the eloquent but verbose father of history, we have the celebrated conference of the Persian chieftains, to determine the form of government to be established on the death of Cambyses, in which Otanes proposes popular government, Megabyrus prefers the sovereignty of the few, and Darius recommends monarchy: here the term used by Megabyrus is in the original, Oligarchy,
although the Latin and modern translators have all rendered it by the term aristocracy; of a very different technical, as well as popular import (6.) And we may remark that the elegant and correct Thucydides, of the unpopular family of Miltiades, who with an immense fortune inherited from a royal ancestry, an hereditary hatred for the common people, constantly uses the term oligarchy when speaking of the aristocratic power, established on the suppression of democracy, in his own and the other states (7.) Even Aristotle himself, frequently vaunted as the eulogist of the aristocratic form, after lengthy encomiums on this fancied government of the best, which all will agree in, whenever it shall be ascertained where it is to be found, or how produced, and after bitter invectives against the simple democracy, or rather aristocracy of the Grecian cities, the justice of which will not be denied, concludes as the result of all his learning, reflection and experience, with a decided preference of a democracy, qualified by a mixture of oligarchy, (expressly and not aristocracy) as the perfection of human government: he proposes the separation of legislative, executive and judiciary powers, confiding the two last to elective and responsible magistrates; which are the leading principles of our constitution; but his legislative would be far more purely democratic than any thing yet proposed in the American world; it was to be exercised by the body of the people personally (as usual in the Grecian confined republics) only qualified by a census comprehending a great majority of citizens (8.)
In Greece, where hereditary right and regular representation were rarely acknowledged and imperfectly understood, the real and practical aristocracy, relied in the heads of the principal families, who, when successfully established from among themselves standing councils, neither derived from, nor responsible to the body of the people and with them commenced this—the distinguishing characteristic of the monarchal and aristocratic systems.—Hereditary aristocracy although mentioned by Aristotle as existing in Greece, seems to have been first fully and legally established in Rome. By the institutions of Romulus and the succeeding kings, continued for a time under the republic, the standing power of the Senate, selected from Patrician families, was neither derived from, nor responsible to the body of the people. From the political chaos produced in the Roman world, by the inundation of northern barbarians, the elements of hereditary right and popular representation, congenial to the genius and accommodated to the circumstances of a warlike and agricultural people, sprang up and soon acquired legal precision. Military obedience became the basis of their civil code, and its principles propelled to the extremities, thro' every vein of their legal institutions, produced an hereditary separation of rank and attendant power, between the different classes of mankind, only to be maintained by ignorance on one side and power on the other: a separation at which the polished inhabitants of ancient Greece would always have revolted; and which, being unnatural and absurd, all societies as they civilize, will condemn and discard.
PUBLICOLA.
(Subject to be Continued.)
(1) Adams' Defence, vol. 3, p. 159—(2) Montesquieu Esp. des loix, liv. 2, ch. 1.—(3) Ibid, ch. 2.—(4) Vattel droit des gens, liv. 1, ch. 1. sec. 3.—Burlamaqui Prin. du droit, polit part 2, ch. 1. sec. 5.—(5) See Vattel and Burlamaqui, p. 2. sec. 29.—(6) Herodotus, lib. 3, ch. 80, 81, and 82.—(7) Thucydides, lib. 3, ch. 81, and 82.—lib. 2, ch. 63.—(8) Arist. Pol. lib. 4, ch. 14. In referring to this celebrated work of the father of Science, recourse should be had to the original text—the Latin translator and all subsequent writers cite this as a treatise on Republics—it is in fact a treatise on politics—They also render his term Politicus, or perfect government, by republic, which was a word unknown to the Greeks, and for which they had no equivalent term; Politicus, would be more properly rendered by political state; it means the proper government of a city, each of which generally constituted a Grecian state.
COMMUNICATION.
TO THE PEOPLE.
An apology may be due to the public for a second intrusion on their attention. It is not desirable to be engaged in a controversy with any person, on any subject, at any time; much less with anonymous writer, under circumstances of party irritation, and on a matter of personal concern. But a disclosure of truth is always desirable, ought never to offend, and when its effects are, justice to the in-
jured, and useful information to the interested, it should be grateful, and will be so, to every fair mind. I should deem it improper to notice the many publications respecting the 1,000 Dolls. alluded to be paid by the treasury of the U. States, for attorney's fees, in the shape of Clerk hire, were there not some (as incredible as the story is) respectable for their candor, who affect to believe it; and did I not feel it a duty, to release the innocent from the unmerited abuse they have been made to suffer on my account. If the abuse and calumnious language, used in the attempt to impole this new clerk hire fabrication on the public, instead of the exploded one, was from a hope to prevent further communications, the hope was groundless. While the effect and approbation of the virtuous, and respectable, whatever may be their politics, will be valued and sought for, the censures of the violent and unprincipled, will be but little dreaded, and their aspersions, which are of course, being lost on their object, will recoil on their authors.
It had been believed, after Messrs. Hastings's, and Prentice's publications, confessing the error, and stating the misrepresentations, that prejudice itself would have been convinced, and have been silent. Mr. Hastings, in his address to the public, makes no pretensions of there being any, the least colour, in fact, for the report he had confirmed, but says he was under a mistake, and states how he thinks it must have taken place—It has not been, nor is it my object to criminate, or to decide on the motives or intentions of Mr. Hastings. But his officious friends, endeavouring to place his defence on better grounds than he had placed it himself, have placed it on much worse, and have taken from him the only possible apology, which truth could countenance. Their shields annoy him, more than can the spears of his most zealous enemies—It is thus that detected falsehood, in struggling to emerge from one perplexity, plunges into a greater. The statement now made to criminate Government, and to justify Mr. Hastings representation, is, that the Treasury, as extra fees, in the shape of Clerk hire, on account of the absence of the Attorney General, and for doing his duty, paid a thousand dollars to a Clerk, who was taken into the office for that purpose. This precise statement, being made with deliberation, after sufficient opportunity for knowing the truth, after a preceding statement had been refuted, this questioned, and its authors challenged for proof, excludes the supposition of any unintentional mistake, or of confounding the contents of Documents, with private conversation on the floor of Congress, and, if false, must indelibly fix the charge of weakness or wickedness on its authors.
It is hoped, as the eye of the public has been repeatedly drawn to this subject, and its peculiar attention been invited, by the single and double indexes of Newspaper editors, that the people are properly impressed, and willing further to attend, and, in the language of Detector , "to see and to mark how it turns out." No more of the reader's attention and candor is asked for, than he owes to himself, to his friends, and common justice. None is asked for on my own account, none on the score of politics.
No observations will be made on the illiberality of the suggestions respecting a fraud, in giving to the records of the Register, a lying appearance. If such reflections are pleasing or useful, and accord with the feelings and patriotism of those who make them, of their party, or the interest and character of their cause, they shall not be disturbed in the enjoyment of them. The particulars of the charge are stated, and facts alone shall be attended to.
The repetition of Detector's story, by others, has designated the Clerk he referred to—This circumstance will give precision and additional weight to the statement about to be made. I hope the name of some other Clerk will not be selected in future, to answer the purpose better. This candid writer suggests that the letter sent by myself to the Secretary of the treasury, invited him to dignify and alter realities, so as to conform them to the appearance which were wanted, and that, in pursuance of this abominable and daring attack, a fraud was committed by the Secretary, without the knowledge of the Register for the purpose of altering the certificate which has been already communicated; and that they withheld this letter from the public, was to conceal this fallacy. I repeat, no comments are to be made on the motive of such suggestions, or on the character of any person who is capable of believing them, or stating them to the public. Facts alone will employ our attention. A document published by order of Congress, founded on a motion of Mr.
TALMAGE of Connecticut, a federal member, read in the house, and laid on the Clerk's table, the 8th of April, 1802, contains the particulars of Clerk hire, of every individual Clerk in all the offices, for 1799, 1800, and 1801. This was immediately printed, and every member of the Legislature received a copy of it for special use and information. I have one now before me, and it is presumed Mr. Hastings possesses his, and has had it by him, ever since its publication. As this communication was called for by Congress, as necessary information, and for the members to act on if they thought proper, no one of them is to be supposed ignorant of its contents.
By the Register's letter which has been published, it appears, that my letter to the Secretary was dated June 26th, and by the document of Clerk hire, which was also prepared and certified by Mr. Nourse, the same Register, it will appear, that six months before the date of that letter, and it is believed before the fabrication of the story of the 1000 dolls. there had been two quarterly settlements of Edward Nicholls's Clerk hire, the last ending Dec. 31st, 1802, and at the rate of 403 dolls. 53 cents, for 5 months, and 21 days; the first, if not both, certainly before the existence of the report, which occasioned the writing of the letter. How then could the letter or the report produce or affect settlements, which had been entered and registered in Mr. Nourse's office before they existed?—The fact is, when it was first reported that the treasury had paid 1000 dolls. Mr. Nicholls had received only 403 dolls. 53 cents at most: and his annual salary was 900, instead of a 1000 dolls. These, however, are trifling circumstances, but they are on the face of the first page of the document.
To give to this story the air of probability, many particulars have been stated, not one of which is true, excepting that there was, in the year 1801, in the Treasury office, a clerk by the name of Nicholls. It has been said that this clerk entered the office as an attorney, on the recommendation of a member from Maryland, Mr. Nicholson. This is not only without a shadow of proof, but in a printed letter, pointedly denied by Mr. Nicholson, or that he recommended him to any office or employment of any kind—It is obvious to remark, that the actual views of the parties to this alleged practice are represented as a secret, known only to themselves; and that the transaction itself was apparently real, and yet, without any pretensions that these secret views were ever disclosed by one of the parties, they are perfectly known to every body. Thus stands the charge, without the shadow of a presumption, or a title of evidence to support it, as exhibited by those who urged it. Say reader if you believe it.
Compare, now, a true statement of facts, with the charge, and mark again, "how it turns out." It contains the clerk hire for three successive years—1799, 1800, and 1801. In the two first, Mr. Wolcot was Secretary; in the last Mr. Gallatin. No member who has been acquainted with the manner in which business was done in the last year, or with the state of the office, will pretend it was not as well done, as in either of the preceding years, nor will they say there was less done. Never were more documents prepared and communicated to Congress; perhaps not half so many. It appears by the same document, that the aggregate amount of clerk hire, in point of time, in 1799, was 6 years, 2 months and 3 days—in 1800, 6 years and 9 days, and in 1801, but 5 years, 7 months and 2 days; from which, 5 months and 21 days, the whole of Mr. Nicholls' time, ought to be deducted, for a reason which will presently appear. The aggregate of time in 1801, will then stand 5 years, 1 month and 12 days.
The amount of the monies appropriated and paid for clerk hire, appears by the same document to be in 1799 as follows; viz. appropriated dollars 5,700, expended dollars 5,732 64 cents—which is 32 dollars and 64 cents more than the appropriation—In 1800 appropriated dollars 5,839 81 cents, expended dollars 6,006 82 cents; being dollars 166 91 cents, beyond the appropriation. In 1801, the same permanent appropriations was made, with 15 per cent in addition, and expended only dollars 5,543 80 cents, 296 dollars short of the permanent, and dollars 1,171 short of the actual appropriation, considering a rateable proportion of the 15 per cent as a part of it. The whole amount of the fifteen per cent for the Treasury Department, which the Secretary was ordered to distribute as he thought proper, amounting to 6393 dollars, a rateable proportion to Mr. Gallatin's office being 276 dolls. It appears from the same document

That Robert L. Heath was a clerk in the office for the two full, and for 10 months and 5 days of the last year, at a salary of 900 dollars per year, and that Mr. Nichols was for 5 months and 21 days at the same rate of salary, and that some of the old clerks had their salaries raised by Mr. Gallatin.
There remain to be added as facts— That Mr. Heath, whose name has been mentioned, had principally under his care, that branch of business which relates to the remission of fines and forfeitures, with perhaps some transferring. At the time Mr. Nichols was taken into the office, Heath was sick, languishing, and unable to do business. Nichols succeeded to his place, was employed principally in the business of the remission of fines and forfeitures, and perhaps some transferring, and at the same salary that Heath had, and had for the two preceding years. Heath, notwithstanding he was incapacitated to do business, having been an old, faithful and useful officer, and having a family, from humanity, was continued in office, and received his salary to the day of his death. Part of these facts will appear from the records in the office; the residue from the testimony of a hundred witnesses, from the doctors, nurses, and the grave.
The result is, that there was at least as much business done, and as well done, by Mr. Gallatin, in 1801, as by his predecessor in either of the preceding years. That the aggregate of time expended, excluding the sick clerk a year, was less than in the preceding years. That less money was expended for the line of clerks, with an increase of salaries to some, and a diminution to none, than in either of the preceding years. That in 1800, the clerk hire exceeded the appropriation, and in 1801 fell short of the same appropriation, in a saving of 296 dollars: and including the proportion of the 15 per cent. (of which not a cent was expended in his own office) 1171 dollars less than what was allowed, and appropriated by the government, in the old administration, and 465 dollars less than had been expended the preceding year. Such have been the arrangements, assiduity, fidelity and saving of Mr. Gallatin, in his office, in addition to the charities of the treasury, afforded to a dying clerk. This is the extra expense to which the government has been subjected, by the unfaithfulness of its secretary and the absence of the attorney. If any doubt the correctness of the documentary parts of this statement, they may satisfy themselves, by inspecting the documents at the Post Office, where it will be deposited; or, it is presumed, by applying to Mr. Hallings, or any federal representative, or senator in the U. S. I do not know that this will be satisfactory. My endeavor has been to state facts. It is difficult to remove prejudices. Misrepresentations and slander will continue. If particular instances are destroyed, they will assume new shapes, or, like the heads of the hydra monster, more will spring up in their stead.
One word more, and I have done. Mr. Hallings asks, if I have never, under a mistake, reported, with innocent intentions, what turned out erroneous. The answer is yes; and, in turn, will Mr. Hallings permit me to ask him, whether a groundless report, injurious to the government, the secretary of the treasury and myself, which he had confirmed, having been refuted in one shape, and revived in another, and he in the possession of conclusive evidence to detect the injurious aspersion, and to prove it more than false, instead of documents to confirm it, would it not have been generosity and candor, if not justice and duty, to have interposed, and arrested the effects of misrepresentation and fostered error?
L. LINCOLN. Worcester, October 21.
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. cpr Building Materials will be taken in part payment. W. N.
The George Town and Annapolis STAGE. WILL commence on the first Monday in October next to run three times a week; leave Annapolis every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and return from George Town every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday—Fare and allowances as usual.
JOSEPH SEMMES, JOHN SMITH. This is intended to accommodate such gentlemen and ladies as are going to and from Frederick and Hager's Town. October 11th, 1802. tf.
From the MONTHLY MAGAZINE—1802.
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE DR. DARWIN.
Concerning this far-celebrated man, whose death we had the painful task of announcing in our last Number, we have collected the following particulars:— Erasmus Darwin, the seventh child and fourth son of Robert Darwin, Esq., was born at Elton, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, on the 12th of December, 1731; he received his early education at Chesterfield School, under the Rev. Mr. Burrows, of whom he always spoke with great respect. He was entered, with two of his elder brothers, at St. John's college, Cambridge; and, being intended for the practice of medicine, took the degree of M. D. in 1755, defending in his thesis an opinion, that the motion of the heart and arteries is produced by the immediate stimulus of the blood. During his residence at Cambridge, Mr. Darwin was elected to one of Lord Exeter's scholarships, worth about 161. per annum, which, from the meagreness of his father's income at that time, was esteemed a desirable acquisition. After having prepared himself for his future profession, by an attendance on the Lectures of Dr. Hunter, in London, and by a severe course of study at Edinburgh, he contemplated the metropolis as the proper theatre for his exertions. Derby, however, by the want of an immediate introduction, and the improbability of obtaining immediate patronage, Dr. Darwin thought it altogether more advisable to settle in the country: the first place to which he went, in the capacity of a physician, was Nottingham, where he was entirely disappointed in his hopes of practice; he removed, therefore, to Litchfield, with letters of introduction to Lady Grey and the Rev. Mr. Seward. Here his great capacity and various acquirements were more justly appreciated: he refused at Litchfield during a great number of years, in the enjoyment of a very extensive reputation, and a very profitable practice, the foundation of which is said to have been laid by his success in restoring to health a gentleman of fortune in the neighbourhood, whose recovery was despaired of by a numerous circle of friends and acquaintance.
In the year 1757 Dr. Darwin married Miss Mary Howard, daughter of Charles Howard, Esq., by his wife, Elizabeth Foley: she died in 1770. By this lady he had five children, two of whom died in their infancy: the eldest son, Charles, he educated to his own profession, but he died in the 20th year of his age, very soon after he had finished his course of studies at Edinburgh, where he gained considerable reputation, by endeavouring to furnish a criticism for distinguishing pus from mucus . The second son, Erasmus, was an attorney, and practised at Derby: about three years since (in 1799) he walked into his garden, at dead of night, threw himself into the Derwent, and was drowned. Dr. Darwin's third son, Robert, is a physician, in very extensive practice, at Shrewsbury, and married the daughter of the late Mr. Wedgewood, of Burslem.
Soon after the decease of his wife, Dr. Darwin commenced his laborious work, the Zoonomia , which, however, he did not think proper to publish till about eight years since.
In 1778 he obtained a lease of a picturesque spot of ground, about a mile from Litchfield, where a cold bath was erected by Sir John Flayer, an eminent physician in the beginning of the last century; there is a grotto, surrounded, by projecting rocks, from the edges of which trickles a perpetual shower of water. This place became his favourite retreat and amusement: here he formed a botanical garden, and began his poem on the "Loves of the Plants," the scenery of which, "as adapted to love-scenes, and being thence a proper residence for the modern Goddess of Botany," is taken from these sequenced shades:—
"And if with these some hapless maid should stray, Disastrous Love companion of her way, Oh lead her timid steps to yonder glade, Whose arching cliffs depending shades shade; There, as meek Evening wakes her temperate breeze, And moon beams glimmer through the trembling trees, The rills, that gurgle round, shall soothe her ear, The weeping rocks shall number tear for tear." &c. &c.
Canto 1, line 25. In the year 1780, Dr. Darwin was called to attend Colonel Sacheverel Pole, of Radbourne-hall, distant four miles from Derby, and a few months after the decease of the Colonel, he married his relict, Mrs. Pole, with a jointure of 6001. per annum, to which 1001. was added, by establishing the validity of a promissory note, which had been given to her by her
* Dr. Darwin edited this posthumous work of his son Charles, which was published in 1780, under the title of "Experiments establishing a Criterion between mucilaginous and pusulent Matter; and an Account of the retrograde Motions of the absorbent Vessels of Animal Bodies in some diseases."
former husband. The marriage of Dr. Darwin occasioned his immediate removal from Litchfield to Radbourne, where he resided till he could be accommodated with a house in Derby: in this last situation he remained till about three months before his death, when he removed to an old mansion, called Breadwall Priory, about 3 miles distant from Derby, which was a commodious and peaceful retirement for his old age. During the last few years Dr. Darwin was much subject to inflammation in his breast and lungs: he had a very serious attack of this disease in the course of the last spring, from which, after repeated bleedings by himself and a surgeon, he with great difficulty recovered. On the 10th of April last he was attacked with a severe shivering fit, followed by a corresponding hot one, and accompanied with symptoms of inflammation in his lungs: his surgeon, Mr. Hadley, took from him, in the course of the day, twenty-ounces of blood: the fever was removed, and in two or three days he became, to all appearance, quite well, and declared himself perfectly recovered. On Saturday, the 17th, he amused himself in his garden, with all his children, who were come home from school, probably, on account of the Easter holidays: in the evening, as he was walking with Mrs. Darwin, and a lady of about his own age, the latter remarked, that he would have sufficient employment for ten years in bringing all his plans about the place to perfection. "You, Madam (he replied) have as good a prospect as any body I know of, of your age, of living ten years, I have not." To this, Darwin remarked his good looks, spirits and strength: he said, "I always appear particularly well immediately before I become ill." He sat with his family in the evening, conversing with his usual cheerfulness, went to bed, rose at six on the following morning, and wrote some letters: he then called his servant, fell into a violent fit of passion with him on account of his horset, and was seized with a cold shivering fit, which increased, and was attended with thirst: he then sat down by the kitchen fire, and drank a considerable quantity of butter-milk, but feeling himself much indisposed, he lay down on a sofa, when becoming cold and torpid, he was raised up, and placed in an armchair, where, without pain, or any emotion, he expired, between eight and nine o'clock, in the 71st year of his age.
The death of Dr. Darwin is variously accounted for: it is supposed to have been caused by the cold fit of an inflammatory fever; Dr. Fox, of Derby, considers the disease which occasioned it to have been angina pectoris ; but Dr. Garlike, of the same place, thinks this opinion not sufficiently well founded: whatever was the disease, it is not improbable, surely, that the fatal event was hastened by the violent fit of passion with which he was seized in the morning.
Dr. Darwin has left a widow and six children by his last marriage: besides these, there are two natural daughters (Miss Parkers), whom he has established at a school at Ashbourne, and for whose instruction and assistance he published his Treatise on Female Education.
During the whole of his life Dr. Darwin was remarkable for great benevolence of disposition, and it was particularly conspicuous in the care he took even of the lowest animals. He had frequently expressed a strong desire, that the termination of his existence might be without pain, having always looked upon death as the less evil of the two. He was of a middle stature, in person gross and corpulent; his features were coarse, and his countenance heavy; if not wholly void of animation, it certainly was by no means expressive. The print of him, from a painting of Mr. Wright, is a good likeness. In his gait and dress he was rather clumsy and slovenly, and frequently walked with his tongue hanging out of his mouth.
A gentleman with whom he was many years in habits of intimacy, relates, "that in his youth Dr. Darwin was fond of sacrificing to both Bacchus and Venus: but he soon discovered that he could not continue his devotions to both these Deities without destroying his health and constitution." He therefore resolved to relinquish Bacchus, but his affection for Venus was retained to the last period of his life."
In the second vol. of Zoonomia , (Class iv. 1, 2, 15. Art. Podagra ) Dr. Darwin relates, that about five-and-forty years ago he was first seized with a fit of the gout; in consequence of which he totally abstained from all fermented liquors, not even tasting small beer, or a drop of any kind of wine; but he ate plentifully of flesh-meat, and all kinds of vegetables and fruit, using, for his drink at meals, chiefly water alone, or cream and water, with tea and coffee between them as usual. By this abstinence from fermented liquors he kept quite free from the gout for fifteen or sixteen years, and, from some
* At this period of life, when he was hesitating from which of the two favorite alars he must discontinue his sacrifices, we may suppose him to have translated, with so much spirit and effect, the following epigram of Martial: Balnea, Vina, Venus, corrumpunt corpora nostra, At faciant virum Balnea, Vina, Venus. Wise, woman, warmth, against our lives combine; But what is life without warmth, woman, wine.
ther complaints to which he had been subject: he then indulged himself occasionally with a little wine and water, cyder and water, &c. but was speedily admonished into his former temperance, by a prolixity of the gout. He was in the habit of eating a large quantity of food, and his stomach possessed a strong power of digestion: his advice frequently was, "Eat, eat, eat, as much as you can;" but he took every opportunity to impress a dread of all fermented liquors on the minds of his patients, whose diseases he was too ready to represent as originating in the frequent use of them.
In the "Botanic Garden" (Part II. Canto iv. 337, &c.) Dr. Darwin has taken an opportunity to express his strong antipathy against fermented liquors, by comparing their effects to that of the Prometheus, fire: "The ancient story of Prometheus who concealed in his bosom the fire, he had stolen, and afterwards had a vulture perpetually gnawing his liver, affords to apt an allegory for the effects of drinking spirituous liquors, that one should be induced to think the art of distillation, as well as some other chemical processes (such as calcining gold) had been known in times of great antiquity, and lost again. The swallowing diam cannot be better represented in hieroglyphic language than by taking fire into one's bosom; and certain it is, that the general effect of drinking fermented or spirituous liquors is an inflamed, scirrhous, or paralytic liver, with its various critical or consequential diseases, as leprosus eruptions on the face, gout, drop y, epilepsy, insanity."
In the very brief and hasty memoir which we are now compiling, it is not to be expected that we should dissent on the genius and writings of Dr. Darwin; the various productions of his fanciful and philosophical pen have long since been exposed to public criticism, and received an ample share, as well of obloquy as applause. Still however, in the biographical sketch of a man, the incidents of whose private life are intrinsically unimportant, and acquire an interest only from the literary lustrre which adorns his character, it may not be irrelevant to rise a few remarks on the nature of those claims from which his celebrity is derived.
There are three points of view in which the literary character of Dr. Darwin most obviously presents itself:—First, as a medical philosopher—Secondly, as a philosophical Agricultor—And Thirdly, as a Poet.
1. The presentations of Dr. Darwin to high rank as a medical philosopher, will of course, bottom themselves in the merits, numerous and solid as they are, of the great work which he gave to the world in the year 1794. In whichever point of view the Zoonomia shall be considered, whether as a mere repository of curious natural and medical facts, or as a scheme and system of pathological and physiological disquisition, is probably matter of trifling import, so far as the reputation of its author is concerned. By either mode of appreciation it is unquestionably a noble effort of human labor or of human wit.
To a work, indeed, so varied, so complicated, so extensive, it is an easy task, and requiring no extraordinary powers of perception, to discover many lapses in the design and execution: but when we call to mind the vastness of the whole fabric, the bold originality of the plan upon which it is constructed, the curious nature and beautiful arrangement of the materials which compose it, the elegance of all its ornaments, and the solidity of very many of its useful parts, we cannot hesitate to assign to its contriver the merit of uncommon taste, uncommon perseverance, and uncommon skill.
To justify the panegyric which we have now ventured to pronounce, it may seem reasonable to expect that we should present to our readers an analysis of the system invented by Dr. Darwin, in order "to reduce the facts belonging to animal life into classes, orders, genera, and species; and by comparing them with each other, to unravel the theory of disease." Such, however, is the extent of, and so diversified are the topics embraced by his plan, that barely to enumerate the respective titles of the several sections into which it is broken, would be greatly to exceed the comparatively scanty limits within which, by the nature of our arrangement, we are of necessity confined. To the work itself we must and do appeal for our justification, confident, that although its illustrious author may have sometimes erred from excess of ingenuity, that however he may have been occasionally blinded by too great a love of system, the Zoonomia will ever be considered as a production of transcendant merit.
Thy work is done! Nor folly's active rage Nor Envy's self, shall blot the golden page; Time shall admire—his mellowing touch employ, And mend the immortal tablet—not destroy
(To be Continued)
* It is with mingled emotions of pride and pleasure that we observe one of the most important and much questioned of our great philosopher's theories established by Mr. Home's recent discovery and demonstration of the nobility of the nervous fibre.
Foreign Intelligence.
PARIS, August 21. Mandate of the Archbishop of Paris, relative to the observance of the Feast of Assumption.
Jean-Baptiste Debellay, by the divine mercy and the favour of the Holy Apostolic See, archbishop of Paris, to the clergy and the faithful of our diocese, health and benediction in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our most dearly beloved brethren, the most affecting recollections of religion have awakened in our bosom, and filled it with a holy joy, at the approach of that grand solemnity, which is so dear to the Catholic world, and so singularly memorable for the church of France. Every thing august, consistory, and sacred in Christianity, intermingles itself with that distinguished homage which the church pays to the mother of its divine Saviour. The feast dedicated to her at this season of the year, reminds us of the adorable mysteries of our faith: all the abundance of the divine mercies, the restoration of human nature, and the blessed immortality which is promised to us. God became man, and man was able, by the practice of the most humble virtues, to associate himself with the Godhead. God became man, and, triumphing over death, he all oiated in his triumph that pure and unpolluted Virgin whom he had chosen for his mother. For her the heavens open, and virtue, consoled on earth, conceives exhaustless hopes. With what fervour, most dearly beloved brethren, should we, on this sacred day, surround the altars of the Lord our God!
"Come," we will say to you, "give unto the Lord glory and strength; give unto the Lord the glory due to his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." It is the sanctification of the feast which principally forms distinguished manifestation of the worship which we pay to God—They are signs and pledges of the covenant between God and his people. The constant avocations of life would dissipate religious sentiments, did not stated holy & sacred days renovate the spirit of religion. "I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them."
But how much more sacred should this holy solemnity be held by us, who are the children of that chosen land which is placed under the powerful protection of the blessed Mary! And at what more propitious season could we successfully invoke this celestial patroness of France? At what epoch, has her intercession been more powerfully manifested? The incomprehensible ways of Providence are unfolded to our view in an adorable manner. In the first place, he whom the Lord destined to rebuild his temple, and to bring together the dispersed tribes, was born on the very day fixed in the decrees of God, to be, as it were, the day of a new covenant.
On the same day, the Sovereign Pontiff, in the midst of the eternal city, 2nd in the interior of the first and most venerable of her churches, proclaimed the re-establishment of religious peace in France, the restoration of the law, the worship, and the doctrine of the gospel of the Son of God, and the abundance of the divine mercies. He proclaimed it on the day of the triumph of Mary—of Mary, the protectress of Frenchmen, the star of the seas, the consolation of the afflicted, the refuge and asylum of sinners!
Yet, our most dearly beloved brethren, all was not accomplished. In first restoring to us the things that belong to eternity, the Lord God wished us to feel that these are the first of all things, and that the fruits of the tree which has its roots in Heaven, will be permanent as his word, immutable as his essence, and infallible as his promises. Human society should be an image of the blessed society of God's elect; and it is through its merits that the Lord lays the foundations of his work; for justice has no support but in the stability of governments and submission to the laws. By the authority of those who govern, in union maintained among men; and by the effect of the command of the laws and the supreme power, is produced the unity of the people. "Each individual, renouncing his own will, transfers and unites it to that of the magistrates." "And all Israel," saith the Scripture, "came out with one consent." Therefore it is, that we incessantly lifted up our hands towards Heaven, and supplicated in our most fervent prayers—"Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out and bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd."
Our prayers have been granted, and the supplications of the people have been heard. Again it is on the day of Mary's triumph that France, in the possession of peace, receives the laws and magistrates of her choice. On the same day does she receive the greatest of all temporal blessings, after having received from it the high fit of all gifts that belong to humanity. She proclaims the perpetuity of a chief whom she cherishes, and receives

laws founded in justice. The chief of a nation belongs, from his office, to each individual, and good laws are "more to be desired than gold, and sweeter also than honey." Abundance and repose flow from them as their source. Justice is the foundation of peace, and nothing can be more gratifying than, according to the language of the prophet, to see men "dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places."
Therefore it is, most dear beloved brethren, that we most earnestly call you to the foot of the altar; there to offer to the Almighty due thanksgivings for such signal blessings. We call you thither to join in ardent prayers for preserving the precious life of our First Consul; exclaiming, in the presence of the Holy of Holies, with the Hebrews of old, 'God save king Solomon!' and to pray most fervently, according to the injunction of St. Paul, "for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in godliness and honesty." We call you thither, in order to place under the powerful sanction of the God of our fathers, the laws which guarantee the stability of the Republic, and secure the happiness of Frenchmen; for men pass away, but the laws are immortal; the state subsists forever, and the merit of those who have served it is as immortal as the laws themselves. We call you thither to give thanks to the Everlasting, for having preserved for us "an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, and a great rock," under the shadow of which we may repose "in a weary land."
It is with a pleasing satisfaction, our most dear beloved brethren that we call you, on a solemn and solemn occasion, to a church dedicated to that Holy Virgin, under whose beneficent auspices we have received such distinguished favours of Heaven; and that we say to you with David, "This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt-offering for Israel." "But," let us add, with Solomon, "will God dwell on the earth? Behold the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee! how much less this house that I have built? Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God! to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayed before thee to-day: that thine eyes may be open towards this house night and day, even towards the place of which thou hast said my name shall be there; and thou wilt hearken unto the prayers which thy servants and thy people shall offer up in this holy place."
For these causes, agreeably to the desire of Government, as expressed in a letter of the 7th inst. from the counsellor of state, charged with every thing relative to the effects of religion, we ordain that there shall be chanted a solemn Te Deum in our Metropolitan Church, in all the parishes and churches of Paris, and in those of the whole diocese, on Sunday next, being the 15th of August, and the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin; on which day are to be proclaimed the Sonatus Consultus , which guarantee the stability of the Republic, and the happiness of the greatest and best of people. Given at Paris, Monday, the 9th of August.
JEAN BAPTISTE, Archbishop.
Thomas Carpenter, TAYLOR,
HAS just received an elegant and fashionable assortment of summer goods, consisting of London superfine cloths and cambrics; India, Manchester, and silk striped nankeens; cotton cashmeres, begloon, Bengal elegant white chintz for parasols, white and coloured marcelles, janes and satin croisés, 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. eptf
ADVERTISEMENT.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust from OWNERS ROKERS to the Subscriber, will be exposed to Sale, for ready money, on the Premises, on Wednesday the 18th day of November, if fair, if not, then the next fair day. ONE half of that LOT OF GROUND in the city of Washington, lying in square No. 256, and designated in that square by the No. 10: the moiety intended to be of fronts upon the open area on the Pennsylvania Avenue, and joins upon the lot No. 11 in that square, has a front of 24 feet 2 inches and an half, and 95 feet 5 inches deep; upon it is erected a frame Dwelling House. JAMES KEITH, Trustee. O.G. 15. ept8N.
Now Landing.
FOR SALE, On Messrs. R. & G. Barry's Wharf, TEN Hds. Molasses, twenty barrels brown Sugar, two thousand pounds of the green Coffee, fifteen hundred pounds of Carroll's best Petersburg chewing Tobacco, in small kegs, and a few excellent Cheeses. Also, soap and a few casks of low priced Tea. Apply to the Subscriber near the 20 Building. RD. FRAZER. ept4w.
WASHINGTON CITY. WEDNESDAY, November 10, 1802.
THOMAS PAINE has arrived in this city, and has received a cordial reception from the whigs of seventy-five, and the republicans of 1800, who have the independence to feel and avow a sentiment of gratitude for his eminent revolutionary services.
APPOINTMENTS by the Mayor. Trustees of the Poor. Joseph Hodgson John Kearney Griffith Coombes. Benjamin Burch, overseer of the poor. Wood Corders. Middleton Belt Nathaniel Breleers John Doyme Zacharia Gatten John Howard.
OFFICIAL. His Catholic Majesty's Consul General, Chevalier de Ferand, received, a few days ago, official information from the governor of St. Augustine, that the port in that province are closed against all neutral vessels—at the same time permitting the Citizens of the United States to trade in Spanish bottoms, agreeable to the Royal Order of the 9th June, 1793. HOGARTH'S LAST PAINTING. A few months before this ingenious artist was seized with the malady which deprived society of one of its most distinguished ornaments, he proposed for his matchless pencil, the work he has entitled the TAIL PIECE; the first idea of which is laid to have been started in company while the convivial glass was circulating round his own table. "My next undertaking," said Hogarth, "shall be the end of all things." "If that be the case," replied one of his friends, "your business will be finished, for there will be an end of the painter." "There will be so!" answered Hogarth, sighing heavily; "and, therefore, the sooner my work is done the better." Accordingly he began the next day, and continued his design with a diligence that seemed to indicate an apprehension he should not live till he had completed it. This, however, he did in the most ingenious manner; by grouping every thing which could denote the end of all things: A broken bottle—an old broom worn to the stump—the but end of an old musket—a cracked bell—a bow unstrung—a crown tumbled in pieces—towers in ruins—the sign post of a tavern called the World's End, tumbling—the moon in her wane—the map of the globe burning—a gibbet falling, the body gone, and the chains which held it dropping down—Phoebus and horses dead in the clouds—a vessel wrecked—Time with his hour glass and scythe broken, and a tobacco pipe in his mouth, the last whiff of smoke going out—a play book opened, with Exeunt Omnes stamped in the corner—an empty purse—and a statue of bank-note taken out against Nature. "So far, so good," cried Hogarth; "nothing remains but this," taking his pencil in a sort of prophetic fury, and dashing off the Simulacra of a painter's pallet broken. "FINIS!" exclaimed Hogarth; "the deed is done! all is over!" It is remarkable, and little known, perhaps, that he died in about a month after finishing this TAIL PIECE, having never again taken the pallet in his hand.
Annapolis, November 4. Monday last being the day appointed for the annual meeting of the legislature of this state, several of the members of the house of delegates attended, but not having a sufficient number, adjourned from day to day until this morning, when they met, and made choice of Charles Fraizer, Esquire, for their speaker, Mr. William Harwood clerk, and Mr. George Howard assistant clerk.
Cincinnati, October 20. ABSTRACT from the returns of the election in Hamilton county, on Tuesday the 12th inst. for 10 delegates to the convention and seven representatives to the assembly.
CONVENTION. F. Dunlavy 1635 John Paul 1630 J. Morrow 1556 C. W. Byrd 1538 John Wilson 1381 J. Kitchell 1472 W. Gotherth 1128 J. W. Brown 1066 John Smith 964 John Retly 924 W. James 901 Thomas Smith 887 S. Wood 795 W. C. Schenck 683 W. M'Millan 621 Jacob Burnet 541 John Bigger 500 John Ludlow 571 James M'Clure 458 James Baret 425 W. Ward 315 Jacob White 251 B. Veneys 240 David G. Wade 165
Abner Gerrard 150 J. Corbley 121 Note—Ninety-nine names were voted for the convention, and one hundred and sixteen for the assembly; we have selected the names of those who had 50 votes and upwards. Supposing then those who had less than the number could not have been generally considered as candidates, we forbear inserting their names. The first ten are chosen.
ALEXANDRIA, November 5. Amount of Flour inspected at this Port for the last three months ending the 30th October, 44,673 whole barrels, 2637 half do. D. DOUGLASS, Flour Inspector. Raleigh, November 1. We learn that Colonel Thomas Wynns has been elected a Representative to Congress, by a very large majority, for the Edenton District, in this State, in the place of Charles Johnson, deceased. Mr. Bradley (brother of the Assistant Postmaster-General) Agent from the General Post Office Department, passed through this city a few days ago, on his way to Savannah, for the purpose of viewing the roads, and determining on the practicability of forming an establishment of Mail Stages from Petersburg to Savannah, agreeably to the plan heretofore mentioned. We are informed there is little doubt of the project being carried into effect.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY of VERMONT. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Friday, Oct. 15, 1802.
WORTHY OF IMITATION. Mr. Uney Hay introduced, with a lengthy preamble, the following resolution respecting the "act to repeal the internal taxes," passed in the Congress of the United States on the 6th of April, 1802. Resolved, that a committee be appointed for the purpose of rendering as particular a statement to this house, as they upon enquiry can, of the internal articles which were taxed, at the time the act above alluded to was passed, with the sum which had arose from the tax of each of those articles separately, and the amount per cent. which has generally attended the collection of the said tax, and the whole sum collected, giving their opinions, (with their reasons for such opinion,) how many of the said articles, (if any) are now proper objects for taxation in this state, and stating, at the same time, the amount per cent. on the sum collected, which those articles when thus taxed, will cost in collection. Ordered to lie on the table till Wednesday morning. On motion of Mr. Hay, Resolved that a committee of eleven be appointed to enquire and report whether any, and if any, what alterations ought to be made in the Judiciary system.
BERNE, August 1. A person named Philip, Berthinger, formerly a monk of Einsiedlen, and now Curate of St. Gerold, in the Voralbergs, has formed a New Sect, under the title of "Adorers of the Heart of Jesus." He persuades the people the Devil is at present very busy with mankind; that a greater number are possessed by him; and that, to escape from the power of Satan, it is necessary to be baptized, and anointed with holy water, which he distributes. A number of the inhabitants of Sonthis have become converts to this doctrine, and have undertaken a pilgrimage to St. Gerold. The Bishop of Constance has thought it necessary to appoint a commissioner to examine their doctrines; and the Helvetic government have given orders to the Prefect to endeavour to check this fanaticism, and to prohibit all their nocturnal meetings, because they believe that it is chiefly in the night that the Devil plays his tricks. It is said, that on hearing the measures which were about to be taken against him, he did not think proper to await the result but fled to the country.
For Sale or Hire in this City.
A NEGRO MAN, about 30 years of age, a good writer, accustomed to House work and the care of Horses—If sold a Negro woman acquainted with House work and care of Children would be taken at a valuation in part payment—Enquire at this Office. Nov. 10. 3t.
Public Sale. By order of the Orphans' Court of Prince George's county, Maryland, will be sold to the highest bidder, at the dwelling house of MARY COOKE, in F street in the city of Washington, on Saturday the 4th of December next, at 11 o'clock A. M.
All the remaining personal Estate of JOSEPH COOKE, deceased, consisting of a Mare and Colt, household furniture, and a number of other articles—said property to be sold on a credit of six months—purchasers to give bond with good security for the payment of the money. MARY COOKE, ROBERT BROWN, THOMAS, WILSON, } Administrators. Nov. 10. 1aw2w
FOR SALE. THREE NEGROES. On a liberal credit—6, 9 & 12 months. ONE an old woman, a good cook, washer and ironer—A Negro boy fifteen years of age, well grown, healthy and strong—the other a likely Negro girl, seven years old, equally healthy.—Apply to the subscriber near the Navy yard. JOSIAS M. SPEARE. Nov. 10. 1t.
PUBLIC SALE. IN Pursuance of a second order of the Orphans Court for the County of Washington, in the District of Columbia, will be exposed to public Sale, on Thursday the 25th day of November, at ten o'clock in the morning, at the corner of South E Street and New-Jersey Avenue, in the City of Washington. ALL the personal property of JASPER DE CARNAP, late of the City of Washington, deceased, which remained unsold at the sale in June last—Consisting principally of Household Furniture—Also, one Negro Girl about 13 years of age, who has been accustomed to House work. Terms of Sale Cash. HENRY INGLE, Adm'r. ELIZABETH DE CARNAP, Adm'r. Nov. 3. ept25N.
Public Sale. By order of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, in the District of Columbia, will be sold to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 23d of November next, at the dwelling house of the subscriber, on New-Jersey Avenue, in Washington, at 11 o'clock P. M.
The Personal Property of John Townes, deceased, consisting of a variety of Store Goods, Household Furniture, and other articles. Terms of sale—All purchases under thirty dollars, Cash; on all purchases above that sum, a credit of six months will be given, the purchasers giving bond, with good security, for payment, with interest from the day of sale. SARAH TOWNES, Administratrix. Washington, Oct. 20. 1aw3w.
This is to give Notice,
THAT the Subscriber of the city of Washington, has obtained from the Orphans Court of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, letters testamentary on the personal estate of JOHN FOWNES, late of the said City and District, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof to the subscriber, at or before the tenth day of May next—they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 29th day of October, 1802. SARAH TOWNES, Adm't. Oct. 29. 1aw3t.
FOR SALE, A FEW PUNCHES excellent Antique Rum, of 3d and 4th proof. Apply to the subscriber. WM. BRENT. Sept. 29, 1802. cf.
TO LET.
A TWO STORY FRAME HOUSE, near the Bank, the tenant will have the advantage of a well cultivated Garden. Enquire of Mr. Joseph Seal, at the office of District Court and Deposit, Washington. Sept. 27, 1802. tf.
FOR RENT,
SEVERAL Houses in New Jersey Avenue, well calculated for Boarding Houses and private families. WM. BRENT, Atty. for Thomas Law, Esq. Sept. 29, 1802. eptf10.
FOR SALE.
Stack and Common Bricks, Sandling, Firewood, Slate, Coals. Apply to JAMES O'BRIEN, Carrollsburg. Oct. 29. eptam.
HENRY INGLE.
Has imported in the Ships Franklin and Brutus, from Liverpool, and now offers for Sale at his Store, on New-Jersey Avenue, Capitol Hill, City of Washington.
Ironmongery, Cutlery, Brass Wares, & Liverpool Earthen ware in crates, A few Phantheon, Rumford & Forrest coal grates of neat patterns—Also, coal hods, bras and wire tenders, hand irons, shovel and tongs, cinder filters, knife, and forks, iron and brass chaffing dishes, cruet stands, japanned ware, brushes, spades and shovels, frying pans, mill, pit and cross cut saws, carpenter's tools, smith's tools, stone cutters chisels, materials for bell hangers, locks, hinges, screws, nails and racks of various qualities, and a variety of other articles. Oct. 22d. 2aw1J.
Charlotte Hall School.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT the Trustees on the 4th Monday of October next, if fair, or the first fair day thereafter, will contract with any person of reputable character, who will undertake the stewardship of said School for the year 1803. Signed by order, NEALE H. SHAW, Reg. Cool Springs, St. Mary's Co. September 17, 1802. 3w.
New Books from London.
RAPINE, CONRAD & Co. New-Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol, have received an extensive collection of New and Valuable Books, Amongst which are the following: Soulavie's memoirs of Louis 16th, 6 vols. 8vo. Lord Shelburne's private Letters and correspondence. 4 vols. Melmoth's translation of Cicero's Letters, 3 vols. Beloe's Herodotus, 4 vols. Barthelemy's (author of Anacharsis travels) Letters from Italy. Ferguson's history of the Roman Republic, 5 vols. Mickie's translation of Comoen's Luciad, 2 vols. A new edition of Peter Pindar's work, 5 vols. & 8vo. Brown's travels in Africa, 4to. Gilie's, Aristotle's Ethics and Politics, 2 vols. 4to. Jacob's Law Dictionary, 2 vols. 4to. Walker's Dictionary, 4to. 1.00.00. Bellamy's memoirs of George 3rd and 6th. Thomson's Chemistry, 4 vols. Bartram's voyage to the East Indies. Lee's Canterbury Tales. vol. 4th. Jubilee, a new Novel, 4 vols. Henson of Glenrois, 4 vols. Belinda, by Miss Edgeworth, 2 vols. Bower Boy. Mysterious friendship, 2 vol. Knight and Mason, 4 vols. Man of Fortitude, 3 vols. Trevanion, 2 vols. Pollicia of fashion, 3 vols. Acconting Spirit, 4 vols. Belmour, 2 vols. Voyage in search of La Perouse, 2 vols. with elegant cuts. Mackenzies voyages through North America, to the frozen and Pacific Oceans. Sullivan on land titles. Wilkes' Reports. and a variety of School books & Stationary articles, all which they will sell at their usual low prices. A few bags of Maxwell's first quality of printing Ink. Oct. 29. tf.
170,038 Acres of Land.
THIS body of land, in one entire and inclusive survey, is offered for sale to any individual or company, who may incline to purchase for the purposes of settlement and emigration. It is situated in the State of Virginia, on the Great Kenawha River, Montgomery county, and is distinguished by the name of "The Great Bend of the Kenawha," being intersected by the Piney river, Great and Little Bluebone rivers, Coal river, and Guy, not river, as also by numerous other creeks and waters, running into said rivers. Numerous mill-sites, inexhaustible bodies of coal, and great appearances of ores, metals, salt springs and salt licks, are to be found on this tract, besides which, there may be made thereon to any amount, the sugar tree abounding in almost every part. For fertility of soil, growth of timber, fitness for cultivation, salubrity of climate, and natural advantages, this body of land stands unrivaled by any tract of equal quantity in Western America; it will be submitted for sale to an entire purchaser, until the first day of June next, on very advantageous terms; after which, it cannot be disposed of at any price, the present proprietor being compelled to a division thereof. An indispensible title will be given, and for further particulars, as to terms of sale and payment, enquire of JOHN ECKLEY, Esq. Clerk to the House of Representatives of the United States, at the city of Washington. November 1, 1802. tf.
MARSHAL'S SALE.
By virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, issued out of the circuit court of the district of Columbia, for the county of Washington, to me directed, will be exposed to Public Sale.
ALL the right, title, and interest of URIAH FORRESTER, either in law or equity, to the following described property, viz.—Lots No. 11, 12, 13, 29, and 30, in square No. 105, lot No. 8, 9, and 10, in square No. 119, in the city of Washington—one square of lot of land in Georgetown, 330 feet front on Fayette Street, running back on the fourth 245 feet, and on the north 160 feet, also, one square of lot of land in said Town 254 feet front, on eighth Street, and 204 feet on Fayette Street.
ALSO, a Chariot with plated harness, two Carriage Horses, one Saddle Horse, one elegant French clock—together with a variety of Household Furniture, consisting of chairs, tables, side-boards, desks, book cases, &c. &c. taken as the property of said Uriah Forrester, and sold to satisfy debt and costs due William Thornton, Alexander White and William Tolson—The sale of the city lots will take at the seven buildings in the city of Washington, on Monday the 15th day of next month, at 10 o'clock, A. M. these in Georgetown at Flat's Tavern, on the north side of George Town, on the 16th, at 10 o'clock A. M.—and the personal property at the dwelling house of General Forrester, about a mile and a half above Georgetown, at 4 o'clock P. M. Terms of sale cash. DANIEL C. BRENT, Marshal of the district of Columbia, Marshall's Office, Washington, Oct. 11th, 1802.
ON the 16th of same month, at 3 o'clock P. M. at Mr. Forrester's dwelling house will be sold, to the highest bidder, a great variety of Household and Kitchen furniture, Plantation Utensils, some sheep, Hogs, a Horse and a Cow, a Negro woman, Negro girl and child, and a number of Books. Six months credit will be given for all sums above twenty dollars, the purchaser giving bond with security, for payment, with interest from the day of sale, for all sums under twenty dollars cash. JOHN HAWTHORN, Attorney for the estate of Uriah Forrester. 23d October, 1802. dtf.
Tennessee Company.
THOSE interested in the Company, and who have not signed the act 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 B. RAWBRIDGE.

PROPOSALS
FOR CARRYING
Mails of the United States
On the following Post-Roads, Will be received at the GENERAL POST OFFICE at WASHINGTON, until the 18th day of January, inclusive.
IN DELAWARE.
1. From Wilmington by New-Castle, St. George's-town, Cantwell's bridge, Duck Creek, Dover, Frederica, Milford, Georgetown, Trap, Snowhill, Houghton, Drummond and Northampton c. h. to the Ferry Landing, three times a week.
April 1st to November 15th.
Leave Wilmington every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 11 a. m. arrive at Dover same days by 9 p. m.—Leave Dover every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 4 a. m. and arrive at Drummond the next day on Wednesday, Friday and Monday, by 8 p. m. and arrive at the Ferry Landing on Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday, by noon.—Returning—Leave the Ferry Landing every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at noon. Leave Drummond every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 6 a. m. arrive at Dover the next day on Wednesday, Friday and Monday, by 8 p. m. Leave Dover every Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday, at 4 a. m. and arrive at Wilmington the same days by 2 p. m.—
November 15th to April 1st.
Leave Wilmington every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 6 a. m. arrive at Dover same days by 6 p. m. Leave Dover every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 3 a. m. and arrive at Drummond on Wednesday, Friday and Monday, by 6 p. m. and arrive at the Ferry Landing on Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday, by noon.—Returning—Leave the Ferry Landing every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 10 a. m. and arrive at Dover the next Wednesday, Saturday and Monday, by 8 p. m. Leave Dover every Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday, at 6 a. m. and arrive at Wilmington same days by 6 p. m.
2. From Frederica by Berry-town and Whitelysburg to Greenboro', in Maryland, once a week. Leave Frederica every Friday at 4 a. m. and arrive at Greenboro' by 11 a. m. Leave Greenboro' every Friday at 1 p. m. and arrive at Frederica by 8 p. m.
3. From Lewis-town by Broadkill Landing, George-town, Bridge Branch, North W. F. Bridge and New-Market, Md. to Cambridge, Md. once a week. Leave Lewis-town every Tuesday at 6 a. m. arrive at George-town by noon. Leave George-town every Tuesday at 1 p. m. arrive at Cambridge on Wednesday by 6 p. m. Returning—Leave Cambridge every Thursday at noon, and arrive at Lewis-town on Friday by 8 p. m.
4. From George-town by Concord and Laurel to Salisbury, Md. once a week. Leave George-town every Friday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Salisbury by 6 p. m. Leave Salisbury every Saturday at 6 a. m. and arrive at George-town by 6 p. m.
IN MARYLAND.
5. From Elkton by Warwick, Sassafras-town, Mays-town, Bridge-town, Sadlers, Bear-town, Greenboro', Denton and Hillboro', to Euston, once a week. Leave Elkton every Tuesday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Euston on Thursday by 10 a. m. Returning—Leave Euston every Thursday at 2 p. m. arrive at Greenboro' by 3 p. m. and arrive at Elkton on Saturday by 6 p. m.
6. From Wilmington, De. by Christiana, Middletown, Warwick, Georgetown, Chester-town, Church-hill, Centreville, Queens-town, Shark-town and Kent Island, to Annapolis, twice a week. Leave Wilmington every Tuesday and Friday at 5 a. m. and arrive at Chester-town by 8 p. m. Leave Chester-town every Wednesday and Saturday at 4 a. m. and arrive at Centreville by 10 a. m. and at Annapolis by 8 p. m. Leave Annapolis every Friday and Tuesday at 4 a. m. arrive at Centreville at 2 p. m. Leave Centreville at 3 p. m. arrive at Chester-town by 8 p. m. Leave Chester-town every Saturday and Wednesday at 5 a. m. and arrive at Wilmington by 6 p. m.
7. From Centreville to Euston twice a week. Leave Centreville every Wednesday and Saturday at noon, and arrive at Euston by 6 p. m.—Returning—Leave Euston every Tuesday and Friday at 7 a. m. arrive at Centreville by 1 p. m. Leave same at 2 p. m. and arrive at Chester-town by 8 p. m.
8. From Annapolis by Queen Ann's and Lower Marlboro' to Washington city, once a week. Leave Annapolis every Monday and Thursday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Washington by 6 p. m. Leave Washington every Monday and Thursday at 6 a. m. arrive at Annapolis by 6 p. m.
9. From Euston by Cambridge, Vienna, Salisbury, Snowhill, Princess Ann, Vienna, Salisbury and Cambridge, to Euston, once a week. Leave Euston every Thursday at 5 a. m. arrive at Cambridge by 11 a. m. and arrive at Snowhill on Friday at half past 8 p. m. Leave Snowhill every Saturday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Euston on Monday by 6 p. m.
10. From Hartford to Bell-Air once a week. Leave Bell-Air every Tuesday
at 8 a. m. arrive at Hartford by 11 a. m. Leave Hartford at 11 a. m. and arrive at Bell-Air at 1 p. m.
11. From Baltimore by Liberty-town to Frederick-town, and from thence by New-Market to Baltimore, twice a week. Leave Baltimore every Thursday and Saturday at 6 a. m. arrive at Frederick-town by 6 p. m. Leave Frederick-town every Friday and Sunday at 6 a. m. arrive at Baltimore by 7 p. m.
12. From Baltimore by Ellicott's Lower Mills, Brookville, Montgomery c. h. and Charlesburg, to Leesburg, Va. once a week. Leave Leesburg every Thursday at 6 a. m. arrive at Baltimore on Friday at 10 a. m. Leave Baltimore every Friday at 2 p. m. and arrive at Leesburg on Saturday by 6 p. m.
13. From Baltimore to Annapolis three times a week. Leave Baltimore every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 8 a. m. and arrive at Annapolis same days by 5 p. m.—Returning—Leave Annapolis every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 3 a. m. and arrive at Baltimore same days by 5 p. m.
14. From Annapolis by Tracey's Landing, Lower Marlboro', Huntingdon and Calvert c. h. to St. Leonard's, once a week. Leave Annapolis every Tuesday at 6 a. m. arrive at St. Leonard's on Wednesday by 10 a. m. Leave St. Leonard's every Wednesday at 2 p. m. arrive at Lower Marlboro' on Thursday. Leave Lower Marlboro' every Monday at 8 a. m. and arrive at Annapolis by 5 p. m.
15. From Washington city by Unity-town, Hobb-town, Brookville, Howard, Pulcy's mill and Wright's mill, to Taneyton, once a week. Leave Washington every Wednesday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Taneyton by 6 p. m. on Thursday. Leave Taneyton every Friday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Washington on Saturday by 6 p. m.
16. From Washington city by Georgetown, Montgomery c. h. and Clarkstown to Frederick-town, three times a week. Leave Washington every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 4 a. m. arrive at Frederick-town same days by 6 p. m. Returning—Leave Frederick-town every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 4 a. m. and arrive at Washington same days by 6 p. m.
17. From Frederick-town by Woodboro', Taneyton, Peterham, Pa. and Hanover to York, Pa. once a week. Leave Frederick-town every Monday at 6 a. m. arrive at York by 6 p. m. Returning—Leave York every Tuesday at 6 a. m. arrive at Frederick-town same day by 6 p. m.
18. From Frederick-town by Middle-town, Boonesboro', Hagerstown and Green-Castle, to Chambersburg, Pa. twice a week. Leave Frederick-town every Sunday and Friday at 4 a. m. arrive at Hagerstown by 11 a. m. Leave Hagerstown at half past 11, and arrive at Chambersburg same days by 7 p. m.—Returning—Leave Chambersburg every Monday and Friday at 11 p. m. arrive at Hagerstown on Tuesday and Saturday at half past 12 p. m. Leave Hagerstown at 1 p. m. and arrive at Frederick-town same days by 8 p. m.
19. From Hagerstown by Hancock, Beckley Springs, and Old-town, to Cumberland, once a week. Leave Hagerstown every Tuesday at 2 p. m. arrive at Cumberland on Thursday by 2 p. m.—Leave Cumberland every Saturday at 8 p. m. arrive at Hagerstown on Tuesday at 10 a. m.
20. From Frederick-town by New-town, Harper's ferry, Charles-town and Shepherd's-town, to Martinsburg, Va. once a week. Leave Frederick-town every Wednesday at 8 a. m. arrive at Charles-town by 5 p. m. Leave Charles-town every Wednesday at 6 p. m. arrive at Martinsburg on Thursday at 9 a. m. Leave Martinsburg every Thursday at noon, arrive at Harper's ferry by 8 p. m. Leave Harper's ferry on Tuesday at 9 a. m. arrive at Frederick-town by 6 p. m.
21. From Frederick-town to Leesburg once a week. Leave Frederick-town every Friday at noon, arrive at Leesburg by 8 p. m. Leave Leesburg every Thursday at 8 p. m. arrive at Frederick-town on Friday by 11 a. m.
22. From Washington city by Piscataway, Port-Tobacco, Allen's Fresh, Newport, Chaptico, Leonard-town, Great Mill and St. Inigoes, to the Ridge.—Leave Washington every Monday and Friday at 7 a. m. and arrive at Port-Tobacco by 5 p. m. Leave Port-Tobacco every Tuesday at 4 a. m. arrive at Leonard-town by 4 p. m. Leave Leonard-town at half past 4 p. m. and arrive at the Ridge on Wednesday by 4 p. m.—Returning—Leave the Ridge on Thursday at 6 a. m. arrive at Port-Tobacco Friday by 6 p. m. Leave Port-Tobacco on Saturday at 4 a. m. arrive at Washington by 4 p. m.
23. From Piscataway to Alexandria once a week. Leave Piscataway every Saturday at 6 a. m. arrive at Alexandria by 10 a. m. Leave Alexandria every Saturday at 2 p. m. and arrive at Piscataway by 6 p. m.
24. From Washington by Upper Marlboro', Nottingham, Lower Marlboro', Aquasco, Benedict and Charlotte Hall, to Chaptico, once a week. Leave Washington every Saturday at 5 a. m. and arrive at Chaptico on Sunday by 6 p. m. Leave Chaptico every Monday at 8 a. m. and arrive at Washington on Wednesday by 3 p. m.
IN VIRGINIA.
25. From Hagerstown, Md. by Williamsport, Martinsburg, Winchester, Stevensburg or Newtown, Strasburg, Woodstock, New Market & Harrisonburg to Staunton once a week. Leave Hagerstown every Tuesday at 2 p. m. arrive at Winchester on Wednesday by 10 a. m. Leave Winchester at 11 a. m. arrive at Staunton on Friday by a. m.—Returning—Leave Staunton every Friday at 2 p. m. and arrive at Hagerstown the next Monday at 10 a. m.
26. From Washington City by George town to Prospect-hill once a week.—Leave Washington every Tuesday at 9 a. m. and arrive at Prospect-hill by 3 p. m.—Returning—Leave Prospect-hill every Monday at 10 a. m. and arrive at Washington by 5 p. m.
27. From Alexandria by Prospect-hill, Hillboro', Leesburg, Waterford, Charles-town and Battletown to Winchester once a week. Leave Alexandria every Tuesday at 10 a. m. arrive at Prospect-hill by 3 p. m. Leave Prospect-hill at half past 3 p. m. and arrive at Charles-town on Wednesday at 5 p. m. Leave Charles-town at 6 p. m. arrive at Winchester on Thursday by noon. Returning—Leave Winchester on Saturday 11 a. m. arrive at Charles-town by 6 p. m. Leave Charles-town at 7 p. m. arrive at Prospect-hill on Monday by 9 a. m. and at Alexandria by 4 p. m.
28. From Washington City by Fairfax c. h. Centerville, Middleburg, Goosey, Millwood, Paris, Winchester, Romney and Western-port to Green Glades, once a week 172 miles. Leave Washington City every Friday at 2 p. m. arrive at Fairfax c. h. by 5 p. m. Leave Fairfax c. h. at half past 5 p. m. arrive at Winchester on Sunday by 8 a. m. arrive at Romney on Monday at 7 a. m. and at Green Glades by 8 p. m. Returning—Leave Green Glades on Tuesday at 4 a. m. arrive at Romney at 5 p. m. arrive at Winchester on Wednesday by 5 p. m. at Fairfax c. h. on Friday by 5 and a half a. m. Leave Fairfax c. h. at 6 a. m. and arrive at Washington by 9 a. m.
29. From the Green Glades by Clarkburg to Marietta once a week, 168 miles. Leave the Green Glades every Tuesday at 4 a. m. arrive at Marietta on Friday by 10 a. m. Leave Marietta every Friday at 2 p. m. arrive at the Green Glades the next Monday by 8 p. m.
30. From Romney by Springfield, Frankfort and Cresapburg to Cumberland once a week. Leave Romney every Monday at 9 a. m. arrive at Cumberland by 6 p. m. Leave Cumberland every Tuesday at 6 a. m. arrive at Romney at 6 p. m.
31. From Romney to Moorfields once a week, and from thence by Frankfort to Bath c. h. once in two weeks. Leave Romney every Monday at 9 a. m. arrive at Moorfields by 4 p. m. Leave Moorfields every other Monday at 4 p. m. arrive at Bath c. h. on Wednesday by 7 p. m. Leave Bath c. h. every other Thursday at 6 a. m. arrive at Moorfields on Saturday by 9 a. m. Leave Moorfields every other Saturday and every other Tuesday at 9 a. m. arrive at Romney by 7 p. m.
32. From Alexandria by Fairfax c. h. Centerville, Hay-Market, Buckland, Fauquier c. h. and Jeffersonon to Culpeper c. h. once a week. Leave Alexandria every Friday at 2 p. m. arrive at Fairfax c. h. by 5 p. m. Leave Fairfax c. h. at half past 5 p. m. arrive at Culpeper the next Monday at 10 a. m. Returning—Leave Culpeper c. h. every Monday at 2 p. m. arrive at Fairfax c. h. the next Friday by 5 and half a. m. Leave Fairfax c. h. at 6 a. m. arrive at Alexandria by 9 a. m.
33. From Centerville to Leesburg once a week. Leave Centerville every Saturday at 6 a. m. arrive at Leesburg by 11 a. m.—Returning—Leave Leesburg every Saturday at 1 p. m. arrive at Centerville.
34. From Fredericksburg by Stevensburg and Culpeper c. h. to Madison c. h. Orange c. h. Culpeper and Stevensburg to Fredericksburg once a week. Leave Fredericksburg every Tuesday at 10 a. m. arrive at Culpeper c. h. on Wednesday by 11 a. m. Leave Culpeper c. h. at noon, arrive at Madison c. h. by 2 p. m.—Returning—Leave Madison c. h. every Sunday at 3 p. m. arrive at Fredericksburg on Tuesday by 6 a. m.
35. From Fredericksburg by Orange c. h. and Milton to Charlottesville twice a week. Leave Fredericksburg every Wednesday and Saturday at 6 p. m. arrive at Charlottesville on Friday and Monday by 10 a. m.—Returning—Leave Charlottesville every Monday and Friday at 2 p. m. arrive at Fredericksburg on Tuesday and Saturday by 9 p. m.
36. From Charlottesville by New-York, Staunton, Middlebrook, Brownburg, Lexington, Natural Bridge, Fincastle, Montgomery c. h. and New-Dublin to Wythe c. h. once a week. Leave Charlottesville every Friday by 2 p. m. arrive at Wythe c. h. the next Monday 8 p. m. Leave Wythe c. h. every Tuesday at 4 a. m. and arrive at Charlottesville next Friday by 10 a. m.
37. From Wythe c. h. by Abingdon, Sullivan c. h. Roselle, Hawkins c. h. Orvillville and Rutledge to Knoxville once a week. Leave Wythe c. h. every Tuesday at 4 a. m. arrive at Knoxville next Friday by 10 a. m. Leave Knoxville every Friday at 2 p. m. arrive at Wythe c. h. the next Monday by 8 p. m.
38. From Staunton by Kinkead's, Warm Springs or Bath c. h. Morris's, Callaghan's and Sulphur Springs to Lewisburg and from thence by Union-town & the Sweet Springs, Callaghan's, and the same route from thence to Staunton once a week. Leave Staunton every Saturday at 11 a. m. arrive at Lewisburg on Monday by 10 p. m. Leave Lewisburg every Tuesday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Staunton the next Saturday at 8 a. m.
39. From Lewisburg by Bowyers, Huffs and Morris's to Kanawha c. h. once in two weeks. Leave Lewisburg every other Tuesday at 6 a. m. arrive at Kanawha c. h. on Thursday at 4 p. m. Leave Kanawha c. h. every other Friday at 6 a. m. arrive at Lewisburg next Monday by 6 p. m.
40. From Fredericksburg by Thornburg, Chaleburg, Chesterfield c. h. Oxford, Crewthers, Goochland c. h. Columbia, Yanceyville, Louisa c. h. Hyde's old Store, and Spottsylvania c. h. to Fredericksburg once a week, to pass from Fredericksburg alternately by Spottsylvania c. h. and by Thornburg. Leave Fredericksburg every Tuesday at 11 a. m. and arrive at Goochland c. h. on Thursday by 6 p. m. Leave Goochland c. h. every Friday at 6 a. m. arrive at Fredericksburg the next Tuesday by 7 a. m.
41. From Fredericksburg by Port-Royal, Layton's, Lloyd's, Tappahannock, Urbanna, Shackelford's and Gloucester c. h. to York-town once a week. Leave Fredericksburg every Wednesday at 2 p. m. arrive at Tappahannock on Thursday at 6 p. m. Leave Tappahannock at 7 p. m. arrive at York-town on Saturday by 6 p. m.—Returning—Leave York-town every Saturday at 6 p. m. arrive at Tappahannock on Monday by 7 p. m. Leave Tappahannock at 8 p. m. arrive at Fredericksburg on Wednesday by 10 a. m.
42. From Fredericksburg by King George c. h. Broadfield, Mattox Bridge, Lees-town, Templeman's Cross Roads, Richmond c. h. Farnham, Kinsale, and Northumberland c. h. to Lancaster c. h. once a week. Leave Fredericksburg every Wednesday at 2 p. m. arrive at Lancaster c. h. the next Saturday by 6 p. m.—Returning—Leave Lancaster c. h. every Saturday at 10 p. m. and arrive at Fredericksburg the next Wednesday by 10 a. m.
43. From Richmond by Goochland c. h. and Columbia to Charlottesville once a week. Leave Richmond every Wednesday noon and arrive at Charlottesville on Friday by 10 a. m. Leave Charlottesville every Friday at 2 p. m. arrive at Richmond on Monday at 6 a. m.
44. From Charlottesville by Warren, Warrington, New-Market, New-Glasgow and Madison to Lynchburg once a week. Leave Charlottesville every Friday at 2 p. m. arrive at Lynchburg on Monday by 5 p. m. Leave Lynchburg every Wednesday noon, arrive at Charlottesville on Friday by 10 a. m.
45. From Richmond by Hopkins' Powhatan c. h. Carterville, New-Canton, Buckingham c. h. Bent Creek, Lynchburg, New-London and Liberty to Fincastle once a week. Leave Richmond every Wednesday at noon, arrive at Powhatan c. h. on Thursday at 9 a. m. arrive at Fincastle the next Saturday by 6 a. m.—Returning—Leave Fincastle every Saturday at 10 p. m. arrive at Powhatan c. h. the next Tuesday by 3 p. m. Leave Powhatan c. h. at 4 p. m. and arrive at Richmond on Wednesday by 10 a. m.
46. From Liberty by Rocky Mount to Henry c. h. once a week. Leave Liberty every Saturday at 1 p. m. arrive at Henry c. h. on Sunday by 6 p. m. Leave Henry c. h. every Friday at 6 a. m. arrive at Liberty on Saturday by 11 a. m.
47. From Powhatan c. h. by Cumberland c. h. Ga. Ira, Farmville, Prince Edward c. h. and Charlotte c. h. to Halifax c. h. once a week. Leave Powhatan c. h. every Thursday at 10 a. m. arrive at Halifax c. h. on Saturday by 4 p. m. Leave Halifax c. h. every Saturday at 10 p. m. arrive at Powhatan the next Tuesday by 1 p. m.
48. From Halifax c. h. by Halifax old town, Pittsylvania c. h. Peytonsburg, Henry c. h. Patrick c. h. Bishop's Furnace, N. C. to Germanton, N. C. once a week. Leave Halifax c. h. every Saturday at 10 p. m. arrive at Germanton the next Wednesday by 10 a. m. Leave Germanton every Wednesday at 2 p. m. arrive at Halifax the next Saturday by 8 p. m.
49. From Halifax c. h. to Danville once a week. Leave Danville every Saturday at 6 a. m. arrive at Halifax c. h. by 4 p. m. Leave Halifax c. h. every Saturday at 8 p. m. arrive at Danville on Sunday by 6 p. m.
50. From Richmond by Coleسفيل, Genito bridge, Amelia c. h. Perkinsoffville, Paineville, Ligon-town and James-town to Farmville once a week. Leave Richmond every Wednesday at 8 a. m. arrive at Farmville on Thursday by 8 p. m. Leave Farmville on Friday at 8 a. m. arrive at Richmond on Saturday by 8 p. m.
51. From Petersburg by Namezeen-bridge, Nottaway c. h. Hungary-town, Double-bridge, Hayleysburg Brooking, to, Wilksville, Bibb-ferry, and Scottsburg to Halifax c. h. once a week. Leave Petersburg every Wednesday at 2 p. m. arrive at Wilksville on Saturday at 9 a. m. arrive at Halifax c. h. by 3 p. m.—Returning—Leave Halifax c. h. every Saturday at 9 p. m. arrive at Wilksville on Sunday by 2 p. m. at Petersburg the next Wednesday by 10 a. m.
52. From Harrisville by Field's-mill, Qualville, M'Farland's, Lunenburg c. h. Christianville, Marshallville, Mecklenburg c. h. St. Tammany's, Gessbridge, Edmundson and Fields-mill to Harrisville once a week. Leave Harrisville every Tuesday at 6 a. m. arrive at Marshallville on Wednesday at 5 p. m. Leave Marshallville on Thursday at 6 a. m. arrive at Harrisville on Friday by 6 p. m.
53. From Harrisville by Belfield and Alexander to Halifax twice a week. Leave Harrisville every Wednesday and Saturday at 5 a. m. arrive at Halifax by 6 p. m.—Returning—Leave Halifax every Thursday and Sunday at 6 a. m. arrive at Belfield by noon. Leave Belfield every Tuesday and Friday at 1 p. m. arrive at Harrisville by 6 p. m.
54. From Petersburg by Suffex c. h. Jenniflem and Cross-roads to Musfreesboro, N. C. once a week. Leave Petersburg every Friday at 9 a. m. arrive at Musfreesboro, N. C. on Saturday by 8 p. m. Leave Musfreesboro every Wednesday at 4 a. m. arrive at Petersburg on Thursday by 4 p. m.
NOTES.
1. The Post-master General may expedite the mails and alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contracts, he previously stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby.
2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mail at all offices where no particular time is specified.
3. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continue until the departure of any depending mail, whereby the mails destined for such depending mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred.
4. Newspapers as well as letters are to be sent in the mail; and if any person, making proposals, desires to carry newspapers other than those conveyed in the mail, for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals, for what sum he will carry it with that emolument, and for what sum without that emolument.
5. Should any person, making proposals, desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals, the alterations desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of his contract.
6. Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly in the months of February, May, August and November, one month after the expiration of each quarter.
7. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail.
8. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals.
9. The Post-master General reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end whenever three failures happen which amount to the loss of a trip each.
10. The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of April next; and are to continue in force for one year from that time.
GIDEON GRANGER, Post-master General. General Post-Office, Washington City, Nov. 5, 1802.
NOTICE.
THE Inhabitants of Washington are particularly requested to give in to the Treasurer correct lists of their property, real and personal, on or before the 15th of the present month. To those who were assessed in August and September, 1801, it will only be necessary to list such additional property acquired since that time, and such property as may have been transferred. To render as little trouble and inconvenience as possible to the inhabitants, those living in the eastern part of the city may leave their lists in the letter-box at the Marshal's office; those of the western part, at the post office. Others, and all, if they chuse, will be thanked for leaving their lists at my lodgings, at Mrs. Johnson's, on F street, near the Bank. By recurrence to the corporation law, authorizing the levying and collection of a tax, they may see what property is liable to be taxed. It will be necessary for all the lists left at the places described, to be signed by the proprietor, and directed to me. It is earnestly hoped the inhabitants will comply with the above requests, as the short time allowed by law for completing the assessment cannot be complied with without these measures. WASHINGTON BOYD, Treasurer of Washington City. November 5.
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber intends to petition the Washington County Court, at their next meeting, for License to keep the ferry from George Town to Virginia, known by the name of Beatty's Ferry. JOHN KENNEDY. Sept. 13, 1802.