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FROM THE SPIRIT OF SEVENTY-SIX.
The following interesting correspondence between the President of the United States and Mrs. Monroe, is published by consent of the President, at the request of Mr. Monroe.
Washington, Feb. 18, 1808.
MY DEAR SIR,
I see with infinite grief a contest arising between yourself and another who have been very dear to each other, and equally so to me. I sincerely pray that these dispositions may not be affected between you - with me I confidently trust they will not: for independently of the dictates of public duty which prescribe neutrality to me, my sincere friendship for you both will insure its sacred observance. I suffer no one to converse with me on the subject. I already perceive my friend Clinton estranging himself from me. No doubt lies are carried to him, as they will be to the other two candidates, under forms which, however false, he can scarcely question. Yet I have been equally careful as to him also never to say a word on his subject. The object of the contest is a fair and honorable one, equally open to you all, and I have no doubt the personal conduct of each will be so chaste as to offer no ground of dissatisfaction with each other, but your friends will not be so delicate. I know too well from experience the progress of political controversy, and the exacerberation of spirit into which it degenerates, not to fear for the continuance of your mutual esteem. One piquing thing said, draws on another, that a third, and always with increasing acrimony, until all restraint is thrown off, and it becomes difficult for yourselves to keep clear of the toils in which your friends will endeavor to interlace you, and to avoid the participation in their passions which they will endeavor to produce. A candid recollection of what you know of each other will be the true corrective. With respect to myself, I hope they will spare me. My longings for retirement are so strong that I with difficulty encounter the daily drudgeries of my duty. But my wish for retirement itself is not stronger than that of carrying into it the affections of all my friends. I have ever viewed Mr. Madison and yourself as two principal pillars of my happiness. Were either to be withdrawn, I should consider it as among the greatest calamities which could assail my future peace of mind. I have great confidence that the candor and high understanding of both will guard me against this misfortune, the bare possibility of which has so far weighed on my mind that I could not be easy without unburthening it. Accept my respectful salutations for yourself and Mrs. Monroe and be assured of my constant and sincere friendship. A copy. (Signed) TH: JEFFERSON.
Richmond, Feb. 27, 1808.
DEAR SIR,
My great anxiety to forward to you the account and receipt for the sum which I paid, for your mathematical instruments at London, when I should acknowledge your late kind letter, prevented my answering it sooner. To obtain them I was forced to ransack all my papers, which required much time, and in truth I did not succeed in finding them till this morning. I have now the pleasure to enclose you those papers.
I can assure you that no occurrences of my whole life, ever gave me so much concern, as some which
took place during my absence abroad, proceeding from the present administration. I allude more especially to the mission of Mr. Pinkney, with all the circumstances connected with that measure, and the manner, in which the treaty, which he and I formed, which in fact, was little more than a project, was received. I do not wish to dwell on these subjects. I resolved that they should form no motive of my public, or private conduct, and I proceeded to execute my public duty in the same manner, and to support and advance to the utmost of my power, your personal and political fame, as if they had not occurred. The latter object, has been felt by me through life, scarcely as a secondary one, for from the high respect which I have entertained for your public services, your talents and virtues, I have seen the national interest, and your advancement and fame, so intimately connected, as to constitute essentially the same cause. Besides I have never forgotten the proofs of kindness and friendship, which I received from you in early life.
When I returned to the United States, I found that heavy censure had fallen on me, in the public opinion, as I had before much reason to believe was the case, in consequence of my having signed the British treaty, and when I returned here from Washington, I was assured that that circumstance was wielded against me with great effect, in relation to a particular object - that it was relied on to impeach my character in the most delicate points. Conscious that I had served my country and the administration, in the several trusts confided to me abroad, with the utmost integrity, industry and zeal; that in some cases, I had rendered useful service, that in all, I had done the most that could be done, under existing circumstances; that my private fortune had been essentially injured by those employments, it was impossible for me to be insensible to the effects produced by those attacks. They have injured me and continue to injure me every day in the public estimation. I trust however that means may be found to do me justice, without the slightest injury to you. Be that as it may, you may be assured, that I shall never cease, to take a deep interest in your political fame and personal happiness.
I informed Mr. Madison when I was at Washington, that I should write him a letter, in reply to his of May the 20th, 1807, on the subject of the treaty, to answer some of his objections to it, and place in a just light the conduct of the American commissioners in that transaction. I informed him also, that as I wished to couch that letter in the most amicable terms, if he should find any passage in it, which failed in that respect, I should be happy to alter it, having in view only a fair vindication of my conduct. I have almost concluded the letter, and shall forward it in the course of the next week, the early part of it, if possible. My private concerns have subjected me to much interruption, or I should have finished it sooner.
In regard to the approaching election, I have been and shall continue to be an inactive spectator of the movement. Should the nation be disposed to call any citizen to that station, it would be his duty to accept. On that ground I rest. I have done nothing to draw the attention of any one to me in reference to it, nor shall I in future. No one better knows than I do the merit of Mr. Madison, and I can declare that should he be elected, he will have my best wishes, for the success of his administration, as well on account of the real interest which I take in what concerns his welfare, as in that of my country. His success will give me no personal mortification. It will not lessen my friendship for him, which is sincere and strong. I am, dear sir, yours, &c. &c.
JAMES MONROE.
Washington City, March 10th, 1808.
DEAR SIR,
From your letter of the 27th ult. I perceive that painful impressions have been made on your mind during your late mission, of which I had never entertained a suspicion. I must therefore examine the grounds, because explanations between reasonable men can never but do good. 1st. You consider the mission of Mr. Pinkney as an associate, to have been in some way injurious to you. But I
might say in its justification that it has been the regular and habitual practice of the United States to do this under every form in which their government has existed. I need not recapitulate the multiplied instances, because you will readily recollect them. I went as an adjunct to Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams, yourself as an adjunct, first to Mr. Livingston, and then to Mr. Pinkney, and I really believe there has scarcely been a great occasion which has not produced an extraordinary mission. *
2d. You complain of the manner in which the treaty was received: but what was that manner? I cannot suppose you to have given a moment's credit to the stuff which was cruded in all sorts of forms into the public papers, or to the thousand speeches they put into my mouth, not a word of which I had ever uttered. I was not insensible at the time of the views to mischief with which these lies were fabricated. But my confidence was firm that neither yourself nor the British government, equally outraged by them, would believe me capable of making the editors of newspapers the confidants of my speeches or opinions. The fact was this. The treaty was communicated to us by Mr. Erskine on the day Congress was to rise. Two of the Senators enquired of me in the evening whether it was my purpose to detain them on account of the treaty. My answer was, 'that it was not: that the treaty containing no provision against the impressment of our seamen, and being accompanied by a kind of protestation of the British ministers which would leave that government free to consider it as a treaty or no treaty, according to their own convenience, I should not give them the trouble of deliberating on it.' This was substantially, and almost verbally what I said whenever spoken to about it, and I never failed, when the occasion would admit of it, to justify yourself and Mr. Pinkney, by expressing my conviction that it was all that could be obtained from the British government; that you had told their commissioners that your government could not be pledged to ratify, because it was contrary to their instructions, of course that it should be considered but as a project; and in this light I stated it publicly in my message to Congress on the opening of this session. Not a single article of the treaty was ever made known beyond the members of the administration, nor would an article of it be known at this day but for its publication in the newspapers as communicated by somebody from beyond the water as we have always understood. But as to myself I can solemnly protest, as the most sacred of truths, that I never one instant lost sight of your reputation and favorable standing with your country, and never omitted to justify your failure to attain our wish as one which was probably unattainable. Reviewing therefore this whole subject, I cannot doubt you will become sensible that your impressions have been without just ground. I cannot indeed judge what falsehoods may have been written or told you, but if you have been made to believe that I ever did, said, or thought a thing unfriendly to your fame and feelings, you do me injury as causeless as it is affecting to me. In the present contest in which you are concerned, I feel no passion, I take no part, I express no sentiment - Which ever of my friends is called to the supreme cares of the nation, I know that they will be wisely and faithfully administered; and as far as my individual conduct can influence, they shall be cordially supported. For myself I have nothing further to ask of the world than to preserve in retirement so much of their esteem as I may have fairly earned, and to be permitted to pass in tranquility, in the bosom of my family and friends, the days which yet remain for me. Having reached the harbor myself, I shall view with anxiety (but certainly not with a wish to be in their place) those who are still buffeting the storm, uncertain of their fate. Your voyage has so far been favorable, and that it may continue with entire prosperity is the sincere prayer of that friendship which I have ever borne you, and of which I now assure you, with the tender of my high respect and affectionate salutations.
A Copy. (Signed) TH: JEFFERSON.
Richmond, March 22d, 1808.
DEAR SIR,
I had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 10th instant, the day after my return from Albemarle. It is distressing to me, to discuss with you the topics on which it treats, but in the state in which things are, it is certainly best to come to a perfect understanding on every point, and to repair on both sides any injury which may have been received. To do you an injury, or indeed any one in the administration never entered into my mind, for while I labored under a conviction not only that I had been injured, but that the friendly feeling which you had so long entertained for me, had ceased to exist, I never indulged any other sentiment in consequence of it, than that of sorrow. At present I am happy to say, that all doubt of your friendship for me, having experienced any change is completely done away, and that the only anxiety, which I feel, is to satisfy you, that the impression was not taken on slight ground, nor imputable to communications made me by persons out of the administration. The mission in itself of Mr. Pinkney, or any other person, would not have produced such an effect. It resulted from a chain of circumstances of which that measure was only a part. When I left Madrid, I communicated to Mr. Madison in aid of our public dispatches, every idea which I had formed of the state of our affairs there, in all their relations, by sending him a copy of my private journal, and adding in private letters what it did [not] contain. Although it was my earnest desire to get home, and look to my private concerns, which I proposed to do, soon after my return to London, I intimated to him, that I was willing in consideration of the existing crisis to act in any situation in which I might be useful. On my return to London, I found that the seizures which had commenced in my absence had imposed on me a new and important duty. I resisted them and not without some effect. By announcing to the British minister, my intention to return to the United States that autumn, I assumed the character for every essential purpose of a special envoy; with which Mr. Madison was made acquainted, as he was likewise, with my determination to remain there till the business was concluded. The evidence before him seemed to be satisfactory, that as nothing could be gained, of the existing ministry, but by force, any change of the attitude taken on our part, was likely to do harm, and that if the ministry retired, the danger of such an effect would be increased by a change of attitude. This latter idea was strongly urged, in a private letter to him of the 2d of February, 1806, with my earnest advice against such a mission. As the ship by which that letter was sent, arrived at Philadelphia, on the 26th of March, I concluded that he had received it by the 30th. It was written in consequence of intelligence from the United States that such a mission was decided on by the government. As I had received no answer to any of my communications from Madrid, or London, after my return, nor any acknowledgment of my services at either place, or expression of a desire, that I should come home or remain there, it seemed by the measure alluded to, as if it was considered, that I was rather in the way than of use, to the administration. Its reserve to me for so long a time, and the appointment of an associate, after the receipt of my private letter of February 2d, and a public one of nearly the same date, and after the change in the administration was known, made a deep impression on my mind to that effect. Special missions were never well received by those on the ground, and perhaps never will be, while men are governed by those useful passions, which stimulate them to virtuous actions. Such a mission reduces the resident minister, however respectable, for his talents and character to a cypher, from the moment it is known that it is contemplated, and if it does not destroy him, it is because his character is sufficiently strong to bear the shock. The footing on which I had left my country, a consciousness of the zeal and integrity of my conduct in the public service, and of my personal attachment and devotion to the administration, with a firm belief that no
change could be made to advantage, may possibly have increased my sensibility to the measure. Had such an one been contemplated I thought that I should have been the first to hear of it in a private letter from yourself or Mr. Madison, but I had to gather the intelligence from the newspapers, the correspondence of others, the hints of Lord Holland, and even of Mr. Fox. Mr. Madison's first letter to me on any important subject, which was of the 11th of March, 1806, almost ten months after I had left Madrid, and eight after my return to London, was received on the 25th of April. It seemed to be intended to announce the proposed measure, and from its stile, taken in connection with the preceding circumstances, contributed greatly to confirm the impression which they had already made. The facility which it afforded to my departure appeared to me to be the strongest feature in it.
The letter which Mr. Pinkney brought me, which was delivered to him and by him to me open, was in the same tone. It stated that I was included in the special mission, but that Mr. Pinkney had a separate commission with him, to take my place in case I chose to return home. It expressed no desire that I would remain and join in the negotiation. The joint commission seemed also to be peculiarly adapted to favor that object, as it authorised one commissioner to act singly in the absence of the other, in which it differed from those, which I had carried with me abroad, they giving that power to one, in case only of the death of the other. I could see no reason for his bringing with him a separate commission to succeed me in the ordinary mission, if my immediate return had not been contemplated, as sufficient time would have been allowed for supplying it if I remained and joined in the negotiation, before it could be concluded, or for the variance in the conditions of the joint one. All these circumstances tended to convince me that the administration had withdrawn its confidence from me, and that it really wished to get rid of me. I was struck with astonishment at the idea, and deeply affected by it, as it was utterly impossible for me to trace the cause. Had I followed the impulse of my feelings, it would have been, to have withdrawn on the arrival of Mr. Pinkney; but many considerations of great weight admonished me to pursue a different course. I had had much communication with Mr. Fox, and entertained great hopes, that thro' him our affairs might be settled to advantage. It did not seem probable, that any other person could derive the same aid from those communications that might be done, by a party to them. By remaining, I thought that I might give support to the administration at home, which I most earnestly wished to do. For these and other reasons of the same kind, I resolved to remain and unite in the negotiation with such character as might be sent, of which I gave Mr. Madison information in my letter, of the 29th of April, which was written a few days after the receipt of his of March the 11th, and in which I gave him distinctly to understand that, that measure would be no cause of disagreement between the administration and myself. I remained and acted accordingly, and did every thing in my power to accomplish the views of my government and country, and finally concluded, with Mr. Pinkney, the best treaty which it was possible to obtain of the British government. In uniting in the negotiation and signing the treaty, I committed my reputation on the result, and it is only by the course which the business afterwards took, that any unpleasant occurrence has arisen between the administration and myself.
These were the circumstances which produced the impression, which I have acknowledged in the commencement of this letter, that your friendship had been withdrawn from me. But the assurances which you now make me and the perfect knowledge which I have of your rectitude and sincerity have completely erased that impression, and restored to my mind, that entire and friendly confidence, which it had always been accustomed to cherish.
I am perfectly satisfied, that you never meant to injure me, and that a belief, that I had suffered by any acts to which you were an innocent party

would give you great pain. Still the circumstance of my having signed a treaty which was disapproved, for imputed great defects; in having exceeded our powers, in signing it, which I should not have done, but in a firm belief that I promoted thereby the best interests of my country, and of the administration, while I exposed myself to great responsibility by the measure, have given a handle to those who have wielded it, with great effect against me. You can little imagine to what extent the mischief has been carried. I could give you many details which it would be as painful for you to read, as for me to recite.
When I saw that I was repressed in a country which I had so long served with fidelity and zeal, I could not be indifferent either to the cause, or the consequences resulting from it. My sensibility was naturally increased, by the excitement of those on the ground, who, by taking part in my favor, had essentially compromised themselves. I replied to the denunciation that was circulated against me here for improper purposes to many of my friends, who called on me in decisive terms and complained earnestly of the injury done me by it. The sum of these conversations, which are always of a nature confidential, is not in my power to recollect with precision. It is possible that on some cases I may have expressed myself with too much zeal, and in others been misconceived. You may however be assured, that my sole object was to do justice to myself in a case of peculiar hardship, and that I never went beyond that limit.
I am happy that we have had this explanation with each other. It has satisfied me, that I had misconceived your feelings and disposition towards me. Nothing remains but to prevent as far as possible all further inquietude. From the period above mentioned of peculiar excitement, I have been attentive to the subject, and shall pursue it in future with still greater zeal. I estimate the acts of my friends by the intention only. Being satisfied on that point I can bear with patience any consequences which may casually result from them. I am aware that under free governments it is difficult to avoid those of the kind alluded to, for perhaps no important good was ever altogether free from some portion of alloy. I am however equally aware that the evils incident to the system if indeed there are any, even to the individual who suffers under them, are trifling when compared with the great blessings which it imparts. I am, my dear Sir, &c. &c.
JAMES MONROE.
P. S. From an expression in your letter, that you had not supposed that I had entertained any objection to the association of any one with me in the business at London, I perceive that you have not read, or if you have read, that you have forgotten my letter of February 2d, 1806. I therefore send you a copy of it, which I have to request that you will be so good as to return me after perusing it.
Washington, April 11, 1808.
Dear Sir,
An indisposition of periodical head-ache has for some time disabled me from business, and prevented my sooner acknowledging your letter of March 22, and returning that of February 2, 1806, which it inclosed. The receipt of that of March 22, has given me sincere pleasure. Conscious that I never felt a sentiment towards you that was not affectionate, it is a great relief to find that the doubts you had entertained on that subject are removed by an explanation of the circumstances which produced them. Some matters however appearing from your letter, not yet sufficiently understood, I have conceived that a more minute detail of the facts bearing on them would completely disarm them of all misconstruction.
You observe that the letters from hence containing no expression of a desire that you should come home or remain there, and the facility afforded to your departure by the commissions to Mr. Pinkney seemed to authorise an inference that you were considered as in the way of the administration. The truth however, was thus: Your letters from Madrid, in 1804-5, expressed your anxious wish and intention to come home on your return to London. My extreme wish was that you should remain there, and I hoped by not being in a hurry to answer that manifestation of your desire, time might produce a change in your mind. But as soon as it was known (during the session of 1805-6) that yourself and Mr. Madison were both contemplated as candidates for the succession to the Presidency, I became apprehensive that by declining to assent to your return, I might be suspected of a partial design to keep you out of the way. This induced the acquiescence in your
desire to come home, which then took place, and the commission to Mr. Pinkney to succeed you whenever you should determine to come; and these motives clearly shew themselves in my letter of March 16 th , which says, "I shall join Mr. Pinkney, of Maryland, as your associate for settling our differences with Great Britain. He will be authorised to take your place whenever you think yourself obliged to return. It is desirable for your own, as well as the public interest that you should join in the settlement of this business, and I am perfectly satisfied that if this can be done as to be here before the next meeting of Congress, it will be greatly for your benefit. But I do not mean by this to over-rule your own determination, (i. e. either to stay or come home) which measures to be taken here will place in perfect freedom." Here you will perceive how much I wished your aid in the joint commission, and that your longer continuance there could not but, in itself, be desirable; but that I did not ask it from an apprehension that your return before the next Congress might be important to your highest interests.
I consider it now as a great misfortune that my letter of March 16, did not go on to you. It would, I trust, have corrected the inferences of a change in my affections towards you, drawn from a combination of circumstances, which circumstances were produced from very different causes, and some of them from the strength of those very affections of which you thought that they noted a diminution, a desire to conform your movements in point of time, to what I deemed your best interests. I have gone thus minutely into these details from a desire to eradicate from your mind every fibre of doubt as to my sentiments towards you; and I am persuaded they will satisfactorily solve every circumstance which might at any time have occasioned doubt. I have done it too, the more cordially, because I perceive from your letter that disposition to a correct view of the subject which I knew to be inherent in your mind. What I have hitherto said has been confined to my own part only of these transactions. Yet it would be a criminal suppression of truth were I not to add that in the whole course of them Mr. Madison has appeared to be governed by the most cordial friendship for you, has manifested on every occasion the most attentive concern for whatever might befal you in fame or fortune, and been as much alive to whatever regarded you, as a brother could have been.
I salute you with great and unchanged affections. A Copy. (Signed) TH: JEFFERSON.
Richmond, April 18, 1808.
Dear Sir,
I had the pleasure to receive some days past your favor of the 11th and that of the 13th to day. Being perfectly satisfied by the explanations and assurances which you had given me in your preceding letters, that I had taken an improper idea of your disposition towards me, the details contained in your last one were not necessary in that view. I receive them however, with great interest, because, in giving them, you afford me a new proof of your friendship.
I am, dear Sir, With great respect, Very sincerely, your friend, JAMES MONROE.
* This letter was sent to Col. Newton at Norfolk, to be forwarded to Col. Monroe by a particular vessel; but the opportunity being lost, it was sometime afterwards returned to the President.
** For Acts of Incorporation see last page.
MERINO SHEEP. A Few half-blood Merino Ram Lambs for Sale, at the farm of the Subscriber, near Philadelphia. JAMES MEASZ. November 4-4t
STAYED away from the city of Washington, on Monday the 24th ult. a brindle COW, with face and fore legs white, and crooked horns. Any person bringing her home to Mrs. Lardner, near the new Jail, shall receive a reward of Two Dollars, if taken up at any distance from the city. November 4-3t
District of Columbia, Washington County, to wit: I hereby certify that William Warren, of said county, brought before me as a stray, trespassing on his enclosure, a dark bay Horse, bordering on black, about 15 years old, 13 hands high, a star on his forehead, shod on all fours, with a switch tail. Given under my hand this 3d day of November, 1808. SAM. H. SMITH.
IN THE SIX BUILDINGS, HAS one House with a handsome Drawing Room for the accommodation of Ladies and Gentlemen, with Coach House and Stables, and Lodges for Servants. October 28-4t
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4.
The Vice President of the U. States has arrived in this City. Messrs. Desha, Humphreys, Elliott, Chittenden, and Whitehill, of the House of Representatives, have also arrived.
Nothing can be more absurd than the charge so incessantly rung by the federalists, of the hostility of the administration, and particularly of the President to commerce. How is this charge supported?
By the constant endeavors of the administration to guard its interests, and by a steady refusal to abandon the great neutral principles on which alone it can prosper. Thus the very measures, which have been pursued to maintain the interests of trade, and which have in fact until a very late period maintained them successfully, and under which trade has been most astonishingly extended, are made the grounds of the bitterest calumnies. Can any thing be more absurd? Had the impressment of our seamen been allowed, had the denial of the colonial trade been acquiesced in, and had the wide spread system of blockades and confiscations been submitted to without a murmur, we might have expected that a government, instituted for the express purpose of protecting its citizens in their personal pursuits, which thus shamefully neglected its duty, would have received the condemnation of the people. They certainly would most richly have deserved it. But that they should be reprobated in the most audacious terms for a vigilant discharge of duty by those whose interests were the special cause of their exertions can only be accounted for by the inference that those who denounce them have a real object altogether foreign from that which they avow. This impression derives additional strength from the fact, that all the great commercial towns in the union, except one, are decidedly friendly to the measures of government, as is conclusively proved, either by their positive declarations, or by the result of the recent elections.
But there is another ground on which this denunciation rests. This is the language of the President in favor of an extension of our manufactures. Because, in his replies to some of the addresses lately offered him, he has expressed his satisfaction at the prospect of our gradually becoming more independent of foreign powers by acquiring the ability to supply ourselves with articles essential to our comfort, it is absurdly inferred that he is hostile to our commerce, as if the interests of trade and manufactures were at variance with each other, or as if any trade can be desirable, or profitable, except in commodities which can be obtained cheaper from others than if they were made by ourselves. Why do we import foreign goods at all, but because it is our interest to import them? If so, is it not absurd to dream of our continuing to import them, after it ceases to be our interest? And what is it that makes it our interest to import them? The ability of foreigners to fabricate them for less than we can, and our ability to obtain them from them by a free and equal exchange of our own raw materials. If such a change of circumstances has occurred, owing to the increase of our numbers or of our capital, or the improvements in machinery, as to enable us to manufacture many things cheaper than we can import them, is it not the dictate of wisdom to foster such manufactures, especially when the injustice of foreign governments has either totally deprived us of commerce, or has, at least, exposed it to so many perils, restrictions and oppressions, as greatly to enhance the price of foreign goods and depress that of our own productions? Can any man merit the name of a statesman, or a patriot that does not under such circumstances take delight in the progressive growth of arts, which give a wider scope to the industry of our citizens, renders the reward of that industry less dependent on the fluctuations of Europe, and by diminishing our connections with her, makes us as a nation politically more independent. If this is the language of a correct theory, what is that of facts? Are not the New England and middle states most rapidly advancing in manufactures? Is not the manufacture of cotton already enriching thousands? Have not some of the richest eastern merchants, from an experience of several years, found the profits of manufactures greater than those of trade? If so, is it not the most preposterous thing imaginable, to reprobate the sentiments of a Chief Magistrate, who expresses his unfeigned pleasure in this mark of the prosperity of his
country? Does not every American in principle feel the same pleasure? The language then, to which we have alluded, must be that of men who are not Americans in principle, but who are Englishmen at heart; of men, who, so far from delighting in the prosperity of this country, reprobate whatever conduces to it, and actually mourn over it. Why? Because, just as we render ourselves independent of foreign goods, our dependence on Britain is diminished, and just as this is diminished, their dreams of elevation and power dissolve.
We are warranted, on unquestionable authority, in stating that Mr. Madison will have every electoral vote in Tennessee and South Carolina. In the latter state, in consequence of Gen. Pinckney having been held up for the Presidency, the republicans have come out at the late elections in greater strength than at any antecedent period, and their majority in both branches of the legislature, who choose electors, will be greater than it has ever before been known to be. No other character than Mr. Madison is thought of for President by the Republicans.
We have been favored with the perusal of another letter recently received from Wm. Murdoch, Esq. of London, to George Magruder, Esq. of George Town, from which we extract for our readers the following parts. They manifest the same comprehensive ideas and intrepid exercise of opinion with the previous letters received from the same gentleman.
"I have not had the smallest reason to alter my opinion with regard to the propriety of the continuance of your embargo until the French decrees and British orders are annulled. On the contrary, the experience of every day adds weight to that opinion. In short, if your government should be weak enough to take off the embargo before the restrictions in Europe are relaxed or cancelled, your country will be ruined and disgraced forever. You will thereby be degraded to a condition worse than you would be as colonies without any of the advantages of that situation. The tobacco market is languid & little doing, because nearly all the continental ports are shut against this country by the French, and likely to remain so.
"With regard to tobacco being an article favorable to speculation at four dollars per cent. on your side—I do not think it so under any view of the case. If the embargo should be taken off and the British orders and French decrees remain in force, you would lose by shipping it even if the planters were to make you a present of it, for it would not sell for as much as would pay the freight and other charges of importation.
"Suppose, however, the British orders and French decrees and the embargo were all to be removed at the same time, in that case, the immense glut of tobacco that would immediately be pressed on the European markets would be so great as to depress prices excessively, and they would probably fall very low indeed.
"I understand your embargo hath been shamefully abused and evaded. I have been well informed that not less, and probably much more than 150,000 barrels of flour hath escaped since the commencement of the embargo through Canada, or by fraudulent clearances coast ways, and by such abuses the measure hath been deprived of its effect, thereby one part of the community hath been enriched by the distresses of the other. Unless the embargo measure is made completely operative, it must be regarded as a weak, foolish thing, and is a nullity or something worse, and ought never to have been adopted. If it had been strictly maintained from the beginning I believe your grievances would have been redressed before now by both of the belligerents.
"I am astonished that the people of the U. States should be disposed tamely to submit to the orders of council without regarding the pernicious consequences they evidently involve. By these orders all your produce must come here, and one very important article (I mean cotton) is to be subject to a direct tax of 9d. per lb. to be paid into the British treasury. If the principle is in one instance admitted, it may by the same rule, and with the same propriety be extended to every other. If then America consents to pay to G. Britain a duty on her exports, I see no difference between the collection of it here or in America, for in substance it is exactly the same thing, and if assented to on the part of the U. States, the best way will be to have officers from this country, to be stationed at all your different custom houses, for the purpose of collecting the duties for account of the British government.
"If a more favorable construction can be put on the orders of council
as they respect the interests and independence of the U. States, I confess I cannot see it, & should be happy to be enlightened on the subject by any citizen of America.
"I repeat that if the present European system should be submitted to by the American government it will be tacitly acknowledging the right of G. Britain to lay any tax she pleases on the produce of the U. States, and I challenge any one of either party in your country to deny it.
"If your embargo should be taken off and the French decrees and orders of council suffered to remain in force, the U. States will lose annually four millions sterling by those instruments of destruction as below, and what is worse than all, your independence will be lost with your property. If the tax on cotton is submitted to, then tobacco, rice and flour will be made subjects of taxation, and it matters not whether the tribute is paid here or in America; it is to come out of the pockets of the people of the U. States.
"Your tobacco exports amount annually to 90,000 blds. and is worth equal to two millions sterling, but under the decrees and orders will be literally worth nothing.
"Your rice is equal to one million per annum, and by the above restrictions will be worth nothing.
"Your cotton will be greatly reduced in value by these restrictions, and will lose at least one million.
L. 4,000,000
"Your flour and other exports amount to about two or three millions sterling, and will not be so much affected by the orders and decrees, provided Spain and Portugal remain open, which by the bye is doubtful, notwithstanding their present situation."
The following interesting article, from the Essex Register, proves a great increase of republican strength in the important town of Salem, next in importance among the commercial towns of New England, to Boston. The majority is greater than has been known for several years.
Pursuant to warrants issued by the Selectmen, at the request of Benjamin Pickman, jun. esq. and others, the inhabitants of Salem were convened in Town Meeting on Wednesday last, "for the purpose of petitioning Congress to repeal the several acts laying an Embargo." The meeting was opened at 9 o'clock, and Col. WILLIAM R. LEE, chosen Moderator.
Dudley L. Pickman, after stating what he conceived to be the grounds and object of the petition, laid on the table a motion that it be accepted, signed by the Selectmen, and transmitted to Congress.
Mr. Story observed, that if the town acted on the subject at this time they would act without intelligence, as there were undoubtedly many documents in the Cabinet which would be communicated to Congress early in the ensuing session, and which were necessary in forming an opinion of the expediency of raising the Embargo; and therefore moved that this petition be dismissed. Mr. Story's motion took precedence, notwithstanding the opinion of Major Hovey that it ought not to.
The Hon. Mr. Gray was opposed to petitioning, and in a strain of conclusive reasoning, from undeniable facts, with pathetic eloquence, proved the inexpediency and impropriety of the measure. His remarks do him great honor, and justly entitle him to the esteem and confidence of every friend to his country. Mr. Gray said:—
"That we have a constitutional right to assemble in legal Town Meeting and petition the General Government I am not disposed to deny. But as we have delegated the power to our Senators and Representatives in Congress, I am for leaving the power with them, where the constitution has placed it—their voice will no doubt be given for the removal of the Embargo, as soon as the general interest of the nation will admit of it. The Representatives and Senators of this Commonwealth, are the men of our own choice, and in them we ought to confide. The interference of this town with the general government will proclaim to the enemies of our commerce, that we are a divided people, and will encourage them to continue their Orders and Decrees until we become half-conquered by internal dissensions. Will not this conduct if pursued tend to the destruction of all order and government? Can we in this meeting form as correct an opinion, when the Embargo ought to be removed, as our Representatives can when Congress are convened, as they will have the President's communications, and all other necessary information."

nation from our ministers abroad! If Congress should grant our request and a war proves the inevitable consequence, will our sufferings be removed? There is, I think, no doubt but the powers whose unjust Orders and Decrees imposed the necessity of the Embargo, will take every advantage of our situation to harass and distress us—but if we would unanimously resolve to support our independence, and confide in our rulers, while they make the constitution their guide, we may bid defiance to every usurping power under Heaven. Nor would any foreign power dare to insult us if we were firmly united. These reflections induce me to oppose any application for the removal of the Embargo, as I firmly believe it will be removed as soon as it can be, consistent with our national honor and interest."
Mr. Gray then observed, that he thought the distresses of the people had been exaggerated—that cases of real distress and suffering for the necessaries of life, on account of the Embargo, were rarely to be found—that he heard no complaint that our taxes and minister's salaries were not paid as well as usual—that it gave him great pleasure to look round and see so many of his fellow townsmen handsomely and comfortably clothed, and he believed comfortably fed—that in general the people could find something to do, and that provisions though plenty were but little reduced in their prices—that the voice of complaint and distress was rarely, if ever, heard in our streets, and never, he believed, without immediate relief—that the high tide of our unexampled prosperity and accumulation of wealth were checked, he readily acknowledged; but added that this was of small consequence when compared with the calamities of war, and was in no degree attributable to the Embargo—that the lives of many of our seafaring brethren must be sacrificed in battle, and their health destroyed by pestilential guard ships—that he remembered in the last war the distresses of our country to which he had been an eye witness.
He adverted to the patience of the people of Marblehead under their sufferings. They leave their homes in March for the Fishing Banks, draw their fish frequently through 60 fathoms of water, return, cure them, take in a cargo of dry fish, and sail for some port of the continent of Europe, get within sight of the port, where their fish is wanted, and where they might receive gold for it, they are spoken with by a British cruiser, ordered home on pain of capture and condemnation—they return, put their fish into the warehouses, take in their salt, and again sail for their fishing ground without hating a murmur or complaint against their own government. [Wonderful people.]
We had better (said he) endure all the embarrassments and inconveniences we suffer on account of the embargo for three years longer, than the unavoidable evils of war. This wise measure of the government was eminently calculated to save our property and our seamen from this dreadful calamity. Where could we go, if the embargo were off? I have a permission to send a vessel to Russia for property I have left there, where the prospect is good for making a great voyage—but I dare not, while the decrees and orders of council exist, risk even an empty vessel—and I know of no port where I could send a cargo with the prospect of a profitable voyage. And I sincerely believe that if we had submitted to the embargo with unanimity and cheerfulness, and borne the inconveniences of it with patience, and had placed a just confidence in the government of our own choice, and not by our divisions encouraged the belligerents to believe that we were a divided people, that before this day the orders of council and decrees would have been removed, and we should have enjoyed a free commerce.
Mr. Beckford, one of the overseers of the poor, said, that he thought himself implicated by Mr. Gray's remarks respecting the distresses of the poor—and said that the overseers had expended 700 dollars for their relief, and if they were not proper objects of distress, the overseers had been guilty of squandering the town's property.
Mr. Gray declared he had no such intention as the gentleman had ascribed to him—that he was glad to hear the overseers had made these disbursements—said that the gentlemen overseers and selectmen would do him the justice to acknowledge, that when the embargo was first laid he had desired them to let no family want the necessaries of life; and if means were wanting to procure them, he was ready to the extent of his ability to furnish them. I am, sir, (said Mr. G.) so far from complaining of the expending 700 extra on account of the pressure of the times, that the gentleman has my hearty thanks, and I think the town under obligations to
the gentleman for his long and faithful services in the important office of an overseer—but the expenditure of 700 dollars extraordinary in 10 months, was certainly no conclusive evidence of the extreme distress, and to the extent that had been represented, and that one of the board of overseers had acknowledged that even part of that sum had been applied, by misrepresentation, where it had not been wanted or was not useful.
I have no partiality for the French (said Mr. G.) nor for the English—I love my native country, and in support of its independence and its rights, my whole property shall be expended, if required. [Mr. G. here went into an able and accurate investigation of the situation of our commerce and neutral rights, and the manner and extent to which they had been injured by the decrees of the belligerents.—He showed conclusively that if the embargo were removed no trade could be carried on beneficially to the country, and that all our present evils resulted from the belligerent decrees. We are sorry that we cannot follow him in his various and luminous examinations on this head. They obtained for him the undissembled gratitude of the town, and proved that he was deeply read in every study connected with our maritime and neutral rights. Never was an effect more electrical than that produced by his decisive statements. It convinced even where it did not convert.]
We are happy to recognize the remarks of capt. Joseph White on this occasion. When merchants of sound understanding and respectability appear in the defence of their country's rights, and in support of its government, it is an encouragement to men of sound principles, but of less note, to persevere in the way of well-doing, and a terror to those who do evil. Capt. White observed that he had but seldom attended town meetings—but on this occasion he thought it his duty to attend and to oppose the petition—that our rulers would soon be assembled in Congress—that they would carry with them the sentiments, views, and feelings of the people relative to the embargo, and he had no doubt would do that which should appear to them most for the general good—that they would be under better advantages to judge what was proper to be done, after they had heard the result of our foreign negotiations and the contents of the dispatches which the Executive had received, than the town could be at present—that he thought it most proper and safe to leave the subject to Congress, and with their determination he should be entirely satisfied.
Col. Pickman spoke in favor of petitioning, at considerable length—and was followed by Mr. Story, with a speech nearly three hours long, which it will be impossible for us to give at length, or a sketch and do him justice. We will however in our next endeavor to give some of the leading ideas which he advanced and enforced with more eloquence than we recollect of ever hearing before.
At sun-set the question was taken, whether the petition should be presented or not—the result of which was,
570 were against petitioning, & 490 in favor of it.
Baltimore, October 28.
Gen. James Wilkinson, the commander in chief of the army, to capt. R. G. Harper, commanding a company of Volunteer Artillery.
Capt. Harper under the veil of patriotism having secretly assailed the general's honor, and by wiles and fictions unprincipled and inhuman, endeavored to destroy his military fortune and his fame: Gen. W. conceives that injuries of such uncommon atrocity, without a ray of provocation to extenuate them, give him an uncontested claim to commensurate reparation; he therefore waves the privileges of rank and demands from capt. Harper the only admissible atonement.
Major Bissell of the army will deliver this note, and is authorized to adjust time, place and manner.
Baltimore, Wednesday noon, October 26th, 1808.
I called on capt. Harper with the note of which the above is a copy, yesterday at half after one o'clock, and not finding him at home I returned again at half past two o'clock, but without meeting him. At 7 o'clock, P. M. the visit was repeated and the note delivered—Capt. Harper opened and perused it, and then observed that from what he had heard the general should have said, he had calculated on receiving a note of the import; and that he had prepared or had determined on an answer, which he would deliver me this day, & which I promised to call for. I then requested to know from capt. Harper whether he would meet the general or not, to which, al-
ter some pause he replied in the negative—I immediately reported the result of my interview to gen. W. who had observed, that as capt. Harper had declined meeting him, he could hold no further communication with him, but should post him, and would signify his purpose by a note to capt. Harper, which he requested me to deliver.
I accordingly have this morning left with capt. Harper a note of which the following is a copy.
Gen. Wilkinson to capt. Harper. Major Bissell having reported to the gen. capt. Harper's determination not to meet him, agreeably to his invitation of yesterday, the gen. can hold no further communication with the captain; but having descended to the captain's level, he regrets he should be compelled to bear testimony to his cowardice, and put him out of the ranks of honor.
Baltimore, Oct. 27th, 1808. Morning.
DANL. BISSELL. To those who know capt. R. G. Harper, it is unnecessary to say he is a swindler and an alien to honor, but to the whole world it may be necessary to proclaim him for a coward because he has been a bully; and thus to place him below the consideration of every man, who values the character of a gentleman.
JAS. WILKINSON.
Baltimore, Oct. 27th, 1808.
Sir, Being directed by gen. Wilkinson to open all letters which might be left for him, and to return any one from you, which did not import a design to meet him, on the ground of his invitation of yesterday, I think proper to return you the enclosed.
And am, sir, your most obedient servant, DANL. BISSELL.
Capt. R. G. Harper. N. B. I give you my honor gen. Wilkinson has not seen your letter, nor does he understand the contents of it. D. B.
Note. The letter which I alluded to in the above, to capt. Harper was that which has appeared in the North American, under the designation No. II. DANL. BISSELL.
The following is the letter alluded to. Gen. Wilkinson must excuse me from accepting his invitation. It supposes an equality, which, situated as he is, in the public opinion and in my own, I cannot admit.
Neither can I admit that for advising Mr. Clark to lay before Congress the documents in his possession, tending to prove the existence and nature of gen. Wilkinson's connection with the Spanish government, which advice appears from his note of yesterday, to be the offence whereon his challenge is founded, I am personally responsible to him. It was my right and my duty to give that advice. To admit that I am responsible to Gen. Wilkinson for having given it, would be to admit a principle leading directly to the suppression of evidence, and the impunity of offences.
(Signed)
ROBERT G. HARPER.
Baltimore, Oct. 27, 1808. (Addressed) gen. J. WILKINSON, Commander in Chief, &c.
Albany, October 13.
AMERICAN BROAD-CLOTH.
A sample of elegant blue superfine broadcloth, may be seen at this office, made at Pittsfield in Berkshire. The wool was furnished from the flock of Elkanah Watson, esq. of said place, and the cloth manufactured under his direction in his vicinity. We sincerely congratulate the public on this result of private enterprise, and ardently hope such laudable examples will extend and multiply in every part of the U. States.
New York, October 31.
Advices from Guadalupe. In consequence of numerous arrivals from France with flour, that article is, said in some accounts to have fallen to 18 dollars per barrel; but in letters which we have seen it is said to be as high as 30; pork 37, beef 30, butter in small firkins 28 cents, hams 25 cents, Muscovado sugar 3 a 3 1-2 dollars, clayed sugar 5 a 6 3-4, molasses 5 1-2 a 6 for 60 gallons, and coffee 18 cents per lb.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber, living in Montgomery county, Maryland, near the Great Falls of Potomac, on the 16th ult. a Negro Man, named JACK; he is about 5 feet 8 inches high, well made in proportion, and is a very artful fellow, about 40 years of age, an African by birth, speaks bad English, stammers very much; he has a remarkable large mouth and teeth, very thick lips, a dull countenance when spoken to, & speaks quick; he has lost both his little toes. It is needless to describe his clothing, as he took away with him several suits, and no doubt will change his dress, and it is highly probable he may have a pistol.
Whoever will take up said fellow, and secure him in any jail, so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward, if taken 120 miles from home, and in proportion if nearer. MARGARET OFFUTT.
November 4—w6t.
COLUMBIAN DRAGOONS.
THE Troop of Columbian Dragoons will parade on the usual ground on Saturday the 5th inst. at 5 o'clock. Punctual attendance is requested. The members will appear completely equipped. By order of the captain. ALEXR. MCCORMICK, Sec'y.
November 4—It
SALE AT AUCTION.
Will be sold by Auction, this day, at twelve o'clock, at the shop of the subscribers, near the Navy Yard.
ALL his Stock, consisting of Liquors, Groceries, and every other article necessary for shop-keeping. Also sundry articles of household furniture. Terms of sale cash. SHAIL LITTLE, Auct.
November 4—It
PROPOSALS for carrying Mails of the United States, on the following post roads, will be received at the General Post-Office in Washington, until the 16th day of January next inclusive.
1. IN Delaware.—From Wilmington by Newcastle, St. Georges, Dover, Lewes, Rehoboth, and Milford to Georgetown three times a week.
April 15 to November 15.
Leave Wilmington every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11 A. M. arrive at Dover by 9 P. M. Leave Dover every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Georgetown by 7 P. M. Leave Georgetown every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 A. M. arrive at Dover by 8 P. M. Leave Dover on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Wilmington by 2 P. M.
November 15 to April 15.—Leave Wilmington every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 A. M. arrive at Dover by 6 P. M. and at Milford on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by 10 A. M. and at Georgetown by 6 P. M.—Returning. Leave Georgetown every Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 6 A. M. and Milford at 2 P. M. Arrive at Dover by 8 P. M. and at Wilmington on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by 6 P. M.
2. From Georgetown and Broadkill to Lewistown once a week. Leave Georgetown every Sunday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Lewistown by 10 A. M.—Returning. Leave Lewistown every Sunday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Georgetown by 8 P. M.
3. From Georgetown by Bridge Branch, N. W. Fork bridge and New Market to Cambridge once a week. Leave Georgetown every Monday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Cambridge on Tuesday by 11 A. M. Leave Cambridge at 1 P. M. and arrive at Georgetown on Wednesday by 7 P. M.
4. From Georgetown by Concord to Laurel, once a week. Leave Georgetown every Saturday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Laurel by 8 P. M. and arrive at Salisbury by 6 P. M. Leave Laurel every Saturday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Georgetown by 11 A. M.
5. From Georgetown by Dagsboro, Trappe, Snowhill, Horntown and Accomac c. h. to Northampton c. h. once a week. Leave Georgetown, every Sunday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Northampton c. h. the next Wednesday by 10 A. M. Leave Northampton c. h. every Wednesday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Georgetown on Saturday by 8 P. M.
6. From Wilmington by Christiana, Middletown, Warwick, Sassafras and Georgetown Cross Roads to Chestertown, three times a week. Leave Wilmington every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Chestertown by 8 P. M. Leave Chestertown every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Wilmington by 8 P. M.
7. IN Maryland.—7. From Easton by Hillsboro', Denton, Greensboro' and Whitehaven to Fredericks, once a week. Leave Easton every Tuesday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Fredericks on Wednesday by 11 A. M. Leave Fredericks every Wednesday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Easton on Thursday by 6 P. M.
8. From Chestertown by Rockhill, to Annapolis twice a week. Leave Chestertown every Monday and Friday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Annapolis by 8 P. M. Leave Annapolis every Tuesday and Saturday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Chestertown by 5 P. M.
9. From Chestertown by Churchhill and Centerville to Easton, twice a week. Leave Chestertown every Monday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Centerville by 10 A. M. and at Easton by 5 P. M.—Returning. Leave Easton every Tuesday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Chestertown by 6 P. M.
10. From Baltimore by Ellicott's Lower mills, Poplarturn and New Market to Fredericksburg, three times a week. Leave Fredericksburg every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Baltimore by 4 P. M. Returning. Leave Baltimore Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Fredericksburg by 6 P. M.
11. From Fredericksburg by Middletown, Hagerstown, and Greencastle to Chambersburg, three times a week. Leave Fredericksburg every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and at Chambersburg by 8 P. M. Returning. Leave Chambersburg every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Fredericksburg by 8 P. M.
12. From Fredericksburg by Woodboro', Taneytown, Petersberg, Hanover, York and Columbia to Lancaster, twice a week. Leave Fredericksburg every Tuesday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Lancaster the next day by 6 P. M. Leave Lancaster every Sunday and Thursday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Fredericksburg by 6 P. M. the next day.
13. From Hagerstown by Hancock, Berkeley Springs, Oldtown, Cumberland, Cresap'sburg, Frankfort, and Springfield to Romney, once a week. Leave Hagerstown every Thursday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Romney on Sunday by 6 P. M. Leave Romney every Monday at 3 A. M. and arrive at Hagerstown on Thursday by 10 A. M.
14. From Baltimore by Ellicott's lower mills, Brookville, Montgomery c. h. and Charlesburg to Leesburg, once a week. Leave Baltimore every Friday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Leesburg on Saturday by 6 P. M. Leave Leesburg every Thursday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Baltimore on Friday by 10 A. M.
15. From Fredericksburg to Leesburg once a week. Leave Leesburg every Tuesday at 11 A. M. and arrive at Fredericksburg by 11 A. M. Returning. Leave Fredericksburg every Tuesday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Leesburg by 8 P. M.
16. From Fredericksburg by Newtown, Trappe, Harper's Ferry, Charlesstown and Bath to Winchester, once a week. Leave Fredericksburg every Monday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Charlesstown by 2 P. M. Leave Charlesstown at 3 P. M. and arrive at Winchester on Tuesday by 8 A. M. Returning. Leave Winchester every Saturday at 4 P. M. and arrive at Fredericksburg on Sunday by 6 P. M.
17. From Hartford to Del-Air once a week. Leave Del-Air every Tuesday by 7 A. M. and arrive at Hartford by 9 A. M. Leave
Hartford at 11 A. M. and arrive at Del-Air by 1 P. M.
18. From Baltimore to Annapolis, twice a week. Leave Baltimore every Monday and Friday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Annapolis same day by 5 P. M.—Returning. Leave Annapolis every Tuesday and Saturday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Baltimore by 5 P. M.
19. From Annapolis by Queen Anne's, Dig Point, Tracey's Landing, Friendship, Lower Marlboro', Huntingdon, and Calvert c. h. to St. Leonard's, once a week. Leave Annapolis every Saturday at 6 A. M. and arrive at St. Leonard's on Monday by noon. Leave St. Leonard's every Monday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Annapolis on Friday by 3 P. M.
20. From Annapolis by Haddaway's, St. Michael's, Easton, Cambridge, Vienna, Salisbury, Quantico, Princess Ann and Snowhill to Salisbury, once a week. Leave Annapolis every Saturday at 4 P. M. and arrive at Salisbury by 7 P. M. Leave Salisbury on Sunday by 6 A. M. and arrive at Annapolis by noon, and arrive at Snowhill on Tuesday by 4 P. M.—Returning. Leave Snowhill every Tuesday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Salisbury on Thursday by 10 A. M. Leave Salisbury at 2 P. M. and arrive at Annapolis on Friday by 8 P. M.
21. From Washington to Frederick, once a week. Leave Washington every Wednesday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Frederick by 11 A. M. Leave Frederick every Wednesday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Washington by 8 P. M.
22. From Washington city by Georgetown, Montgomery c. h. and Charlesburg to Fredericktown, three times a week. Leave Washington city every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Fredericktown same day by 7 P. M. Leave Fredericktown every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Washington city same day by 4 P. M.
23. From Washington city, by Piscataway, Port Tobacco, Allens Fresh, Newport, Chaptico, Leonardtown, Great All and St. Inigoes, to the Ridge. Leave Washington every Friday at 3 P. M. and arrive at Port Tobacco by 2 P. M. on Saturday and arrive at the Ridge, on Sunday by 7 P. M.—Returning. Leave the Ridge on Monday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Washington on Wednesday morning by 5 o'clock.
24. From Port Tobacco by Hilton to Nanjemoy, once a week. Leave Port Tobacco every Saturday at 3 P. M. and arrive at Nanjemoy by 8 P. M. Leave Nanjemoy every Sunday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Port Tobacco by noon.
25. From Washington city by Upper Marlboro' and Queen Anne's to Annapolis, twice a week. Leave Washington every Monday and Friday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Annapolis by 6 P. M. Leave Annapolis every Tuesday and Saturday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Washington by 4 P. M.
26. From Upper Marlboro' by Nottingham, Aquasco, Benedict and Charlotte Hall to Chaptico, once a week. Leave Upper Marlboro' every Friday noon, and arrive at Chaptico on Saturday by 5 P. M. Leave Chaptico every Saturday at 4 P. M. & arrive at Upper Marlboro' on Monday by noon.
27. From Martinsburg by Williamsport to Hagerstown, once a week. Leave Martinsburg every Saturday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Hagerstown by 10 A. M. Leave Hagerstown at 2 P. M. and arrive at Martinsburg by 7 P. M.
28. From Winchester by Stevensburg or Newtown, Strasburg, Woodstock, Newmarket and Harrisonburg to Staunton, once a week. Leave Winchester every Tuesday at 10 A. M. and arrive at Staunton on Thursday by 11 A. M. Leave Staunton every Thursday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Winchester on Saturday by 3 P. M.
29. From Washington city by Prospect Hill, Laneaville, Leesburg, Waterford, Hillsboro', Charlesburg, Shepherdstown, Martinsburg and Middleway to Winchester, once a week. Leave Washington city every Tuesday at 7 A. M. and arrive at Martinsburg on Wednesday by 5 P. M. Leave Martinsburg at 6 P. M. and arrive at Winchester on Thursday by 4 P. M.—Returning. Leave Winchester every Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Washington city on Sunday by 2 P. M.
30. From Washington city by Fairfax c. h., Centerville, Middlebury, Goshen, Millwood, Paris, Winchester, Romney, Westover, Green Glades, and Gaudy, to Clarksburg, twice a week. Leave Washington every Monday and Friday at 3 P. M. and arrive at Fairfax c. h. by 6 P. M. Leave Fairfax c. h. at 6 1-2 P. M. and arrive at Clarksburg on Thursday and Monday by 8 P. M.—Returning. Leave Clarksburg every Tuesday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Fairfax c. h. on Friday and Monday by 6 1-2 A. M. and at Washington by 9 A. M.
31. From Clarksburg by Marsh's, Marietta, Athens, Chillicothe, Williams Roads, New Market, Williamsburg and Columbus to Cincinnati, twice a week. Leave Clarksburg every Tuesday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Cincinnati on Friday and Monday by 10 A. M.—Returning. Leave Cincinnati every Monday and Friday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Clarksburg the next Thursday and Monday by 7 P. M.
32. From Romney by Moorfields to Pendleton c. h. once a week. Leave Romney every Monday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Pendleton c. h. on Tuesday by 4 P. M. Returning. Leave Pendleton c. h. on Wednesday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Romney on Thursday by 6 P. M.
33. From Marietta by Bel Air to Wood c. h. once a week. Leave Marietta every Thursday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Wood c. h. by 10 A. M. Leave Wood c. h. at 2 P. M. and arrive at Marietta by 6 P. M.
34. From Clarksburg by Buckhannon & Randolph c. h. to Pendleton c. h. once in two weeks. Leave Clarksburg every other Tuesday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Pendleton c. h. the next Friday by 10 A. M. Leave Pendleton c. h. every other Friday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Clarksburg the next Monday by 6 P. M.
ADVERTISEMENT.
New Store, near the Centre Market. THE subscribers, thankful for past favors from a generous public, are determined to sell at the lowest rate all kinds of goods commonly in demand, viz. all sorts of Barrels, broadcloths and coamings, Pressed Linens, &c. &c. &c. Groceries, all kinds of Cigars, Cognac brandy, Holland gin, Jamaica spirits, old peach brandy, Goshen cheese and Smithfield bacon and flour.
As cash is always employed in the purchase, the subscriber expects the same in return, and particularly in these repulsive times, hates long standing accounts. Instructions to trade, and rather than to embargo his goods than sell them on credit, except to punctilious customers. All persons in arrears will please to settle their accounts. P. A. WAGNER.
N. B. Forte pianos tuned, and lessons in music—also at London Piano for sale. November 4—3. sue. 130w.

[23] AUTHORITY.
AN ACT,
To amend an act, entitled, "An act to establish and endow a Permanent Institution for the education of youth in the city of Washington."
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the First and Second Chambers of the City Council of Washington, That the sum of eight hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the support of the establishment endowing a permanent institution for the education of youth in the City of Washington, to be distributed in equal proportions between the several wards in the city. Provided , That no part of this appropriation shall be drawn from the Treasury until the Trustees shall have satisfied the Mayor that the money previously drawn by the trustees has been actually expended.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted , That it shall hereafter be the duty of the Trustees, whenever monies are drawn from the Treasury for the support of the Institution, to exhibit to the Mayor or for his inspection and approbation, a statement of the number of children educated, stationary and books supplied them, and the amount of money expended during each quarter drawn for after the following form:
   School from to Date of Duty Name of Scholar Name of Parent or Guardian Date of leaving school or time made up to Rate per quarter Amount of Tuition Amount of Books & Stationery Total                                                                                                                  
Which list shall be deposited with the treasurer, whose duty it shall be to make an annual return of the same to the Council.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , that the second section of the act passed by this Council, on the 5th day of December, 1804, entitled, An act to establish and endow a permanent institution for the education of youth in the city of Washington, and all parts of the said act inconsistent with the present act be, and the same are hereby repealed.
CH: W. GOLDSBOROUGH, President of the First Chamber. JOSEPH STRETCH, President of the Second Chamber, pro tem.
Approved, Oct. 29th, 1808. ROBERT BRENT, Mayor.
AN ACT,
To compensate Henry Johnson and William Hewitt.
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the First and Second Chambers of the City Council of Washington, That the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated for the following purposes, viz:—
To Henry Johnson, for his services as Secretary to the Board of Appeals from the 19th to the 30th of December, 1805, the sum of fourteen dollars.
To William Hewitt, for his services as Secretary to the Board of Appeals from the 14th to the 24th June, 1808, the sum of twenty dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That the Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorised to pay the above sums out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, Oct. 29th, 1808.
NOTICE. ON THURSDAY the 17th day of November inst. the subscriber will offer to Public Sale , one NEGRO MAN and two Negro Women, likewise six Horses, and three Feather Beds, and furniture, formerly the property of Jacob Etelen of Prince Georges county. At the same time the subscriber will sell all the property which the above mentioned Jacob Etelen is entitled to by virtue of the last Will and Testament of Joseph Etelen, consisting of Negroes, Stock, Farming Utensils and Kitchen and Household Furniture, which property will be shown to purchasers on the day of sale. The sale will be held at the dwelling house of the said Jacob Etelen, near Piscataway and the terms will be cash.
ALEXIS BOONE. November 2—tdos
I RECEIVED in a conditional negotiation last May, Benjamin Contee's Note, negotiable in the Bank of Columbia, for $500, payable to Ludwell Lee; which note was never endorsed and now cannot be found to be returned to said Contee, the negotiation intended, having been cancelled. This is therefore to certify that the said note, if found by any person, must be returned to said Contee, it being cancelled by Ludwell Lee and myself.
H. LEE. The said Note was dated (I believe) on the 10th May. November 2—3t
A NURSERY FOR HEDGE PLANTS. WANTED on a lease of years, at the City of Washington or its near neighbourhood, TEN ACRES of LAND, more or less according as circumstances may render it convenient. The Soil must be good, some part of it at least adapted for a Nursery—The situation favorable for the exhibition of examples of Hedges. Any communication respecting the above will meet with all due attention from the subscriber, who has now for sale at his Nursery near the Little Falls of Potomac, several thousand PLANTS of the American Hedge Thorn, and a few hundreds of Pyracantha or Evergreen Thorn.
THOMAS MAIN. November 2—3t
HORSES. FIFTEEN or TWENTY Horses may be wintered at the subscriber's Farm, Two and a half miles from Georgetown. He is provided with the best of Oats, Hay, Oats, corn & corn blades, & a sober and capable hostler. Horses will be kept or fattened as the owners may request. Apply to Mr. Dunn, sergeant at arms to the House of Representatives, or the subscriber in George Town.
NATHAN LUFFBOROUGH. November 2—2w
District of Columbia, Washington County, to wit: ON the petition of Anastatius Dial, an insolvent debtor, confined in the prison of Washington county for debt—Notice is hereby given to the creditors of the said Anastatius Dial, that on the seventh day of November instant, at the court room, in Lindsay's Hotel, in the city of Washington, at the hour of ten o'clock A. M. the oath prescribed by the act of Congress, entitled "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia," will be administered to the said Dial, and a trustee appointed unless sufficient cause be then and there shown to the contrary. —Ordered, that this notice be published in the National Intelligencer and Washington Federalist twice before said day.
By order of the honorable Wm. Cranch, esq. chief judge of the circuit court of the district of Columbia. WM. BRENT, CLERK. November 2d, 1808—3t
TO LET DURING THE SESSION. A PARLOR & KITCHEN on the First Floor, two Chambers on the second, and a Garret—the premises are elegantly situated, and may suit a Small Family or a couple of single gentlemen. Enquire of the Printer, November 2—3t
INFORMATION FOR THE PUBLIC. THE Subscriber is empowered by Judge FINDLEY, the inventor of the Chain Bridge, to superintend and build those Bridges, and he is also constituted sole agent, to sell Patent rights throughout the United States. Those who may incline to benefit by this new and invaluable sort of bridge, may obtain information on the subject, by addressing letters to the subscriber in Georgetown, in the territory of Columbia, who will either superintend the construction of those bridges, or build them on contract.
JOHN TEMPLEMAN. October 30—ep1m
To be sold at PUBLIC AUCTION, On Wednesday the 30th of November next on a credit of Six and Twelve months. THAT well known HOUSE on Pennsylvania avenue, occupied by Mr. M. Rhoades as a hotel, together with all the buildings attached thereunto, comprising every thing necessary for a Tavern, with a private Dwelling House. The situation of these premises give them some advantages over any other tavern in the city, being near to the Public Offices, and also to the street that will lead across the Potomac, to the bridge now erecting over the Potomac, and which is rapidly progressing, with a Turnpike road to Alexandria, which will add much to the value of this stand as a house of entertainment. Those inclined to purchase the above very extensive and valuable premises, are invited to call and view them. A few fixtures to be taken by the purchaser at a fair appraisement.
Sale to be on the premises, and to commence at 1 o'clock P. M. SAMUEL SPEAK, Auc. Washington city, October 31—tdos
MRS. LEE, begs leave to acquaint the Ladies & Gentlemen of Washington and its Vicinity, that in addition to the Masters of Music, DANCING and DRAWING, who attend her ACADEMY, she has engaged a Gentleman of known ability to attend to instruct in ARITHMETIC and GEOGRAPHY with the Globes.
Mrs. LEE flatters herself with a continuance of that patronage, she has ever experienced; and hopes still to merit by an unremitted attention to the duties of the trust reposed in her. Mrs. Lee wishes to form a Class for Arithmetic, and Geography, by 25th inst. Washington, October 20—2m
A NEW STORE, OPPOSITE THE CENTRE MARKET. THE Subscribers inform their Friends and the Public in general, that they have opened STORE opposite the Centre Market, late Thomas Thorpe's—where they intend keeping a good assortment of GROCERIES, and CROCKERY WARE, &c. &c. Also HORSE FEED, and WHISKEY and FLOUR by the BARREL.
BACON & MOORE. October 31—
NEW GOODS. The Subscriber has lately received an extensive and Complete assortment of SEASONABLE GOODS, CONSISTING OF Extra superfine London Cloths, Cassimeres, Stainettes, Manchester, Tollenets, Swansdowns, Ladies Pelice Cloths, Silk and lacy Velvets, Damask, raw silk, and Camels hair Shawls, Down Scarfs, Lace Caps, silk Buttons and Cords, Oystich Feathers, Artificial Flowers, Fancy Muslins, Linen and cotton Cambrics, Irish Linens and Sheetings, Shirting Cottons, Lace Sleeves and Gloves, Silks of every description, Hosiery, Ginghams, Chambrays, Calicoes, London Hats, Second Cloths, Coatings, Plains, Kersies, Half Blucks, Rose and Dunfield Blankets, Heath Linens, Dowlass, Ticklenburgs, Osanburgs, Baftas, Mamoodies, Lawns, Gurrah, &c. Which will be sold at the most reduced prices.
TUNIS CRAVEN. Next the Navy Yard. October 21—1m
CHARLES H. VIRDEN, MERCHANT TAILOR. RESPECTFULLY informs the gentlemen of the district of Columbia and Public in general, that he has received by a late arrival from Philadelphia, a Choice Assortment of superfine Cloths, Cassimeres, single and double milled, superfine Coatings, black silk Florentines. Likewise an elegant assortment of Spencers & rich silk Molekins for Waistcoats with a variety of other articles suitable for the season. Regimentals and Navy Uniforms made in the most elegant and uniform style of fashion. Richard Barwell's celebrated PATENT PARALLEL SUSPENDERS far superior to any hitherto in use can be had on the same terms retail, as at his Manufactory. November 27—4t
JOHN PETER Has just received from Philadelphia, a large & complete Assortment of DRY Goods, viz: Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, Ladies Pelice Cloths, Silk Velvets, Irish Linen & Sheetings, do. India & British shirting cottons, Hosiery of every description, Silks of all kinds, Bed Tickens, Furniture Chintzes & Dimities, Coarse India Muslins, Best London Hats, Elegant Brussels, Ingrain, Scotch, and Venetian Carpetings, &c. &c. &c. Together with a general supply of coarse Woolens—any of which he will sell at the most reduced prices. Persons who purchase to put on again shall find their interest to price the goods. They were purchased for cash, and will be sold for small profits. October 31—4w
E. OLIVER, HAS just received and is now opening for sale at her Store, in the House next above Mr. Burner's Jewellery Store, a new and very elegant assortment of MILLINERY & FANCY GOODS, CONSISTING OF Laced Silks, velvet Bonnets plain & figured, Tias, gold and Silver Flowers, Garniture for trimming dresses, Gold and Silver Cord, Do. do. Cords and Tassels, Do. do. Spangles and Thread, Do. do. Bullion, Artificial Flowers and Feathers, Silk Cord, and Silk Cords and Tassels of all colors, Silk Buttons of new patterns, Black jet, marble and amber Buttons, Beaver Hats and Bonnets, Do. do. do. for Children, Necklaces and Ear Rings, Chip, Leghorn, and Vulture Straw of new patterns, Silk and velvet Pelices, Pelice Coatings, Pelice Velvet and Levant Silks, Angola and Cashmere Shawls, Silver Belt and other Muffs and Tippets, Morocco Jockey Caps—a very general assortment of working Chenille, Spider net Sleeves, hair and beaded Caps and bands, Velvet Ribbons of different colors, Silks and Sarsnets of different colors, Crapes of all colors, Perfumery and sweet Soaps, a very large assortment of Thread and Cotton, soft Satin, and a new assortment of fashionable Ribbons, Madras, Ginghams—Silk and Cotton Umbrellas, a very general assortment of Ladies and Gentlemen's Gloves, best Playing and Message Cards, Wadding, Murray's Shoes, best Portoise Shell Combs, mounted and plain, &c. &c. with a general assortment of DRY GOODS. Georgetown, October 26—3w
NOTICE.
PURSUANT to an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at November session, 1806, entitled "An act authorizing the collection of certain ground rents due on lots in the town of Cumberland, in Allegany county" and a supplement thereto, passed at November session, 1807, Public Notice is hereby given to all persons holding unimproved lots in said town, on which ground rents are now due, that unless the said rents are paid on or before the first day of December next, the said lots will on that day be offered at public sale to the highest bidder, on a credit of 60 days. The sale to be held at Mr. J. Hine's tavern, in said town—to commence at ten o'clock A. M. and continue from day to day, until the whole are sold.
THOMAS BEALL, of Saml. March 21—ep1ds
PLAYING CARDS Of the First Quality, Just received, and FOR SALE By the Gross, Dozen or Pack, at Dr. MAGRUDEE'S Drug & Medical Store, George Town. October 21—11t
THE COMMERCIAL COMPANY OF WASHINGTON. New landing from on board the schr. Maria, capt. Fitzhugh, and for SALE, at low prices, Jamaica Spirit, Antigua and New England Rum, Muscavado Sugars, Molasses, Coffee, Muscated and bloom Raisins, Holland and country Gin, Spermaceti Candles, Spermaceti Oil, Spanish Segars, Corks, Powder and shot of the best quality, White Lead in oil, A few crates of Stone Ware. They have also on hand, and for Sale, Madeira, } Wine by the cask. Marsala, } Catalonia, } Claret in boxes of 1 dozen each, Cognac, } Brandy 4th proof. Bordeaux, } Hyson and Young Hyson, Tea, Best Safford Oil, Mould and Dpt Candles, Soap, Whiskey, and A few Logs of Mahogany. JOSEPH FORREST, Pres. August 22—
INFORMATION WANTED. IF JOHN BATEBY DOBBINS who came from England some years ago, and resided at Washington (it is not certain in what state) for some time, will call on, or write to the subscriber, he will hear something much to his advantage. Any information that will enable me to ascertain whether the said John Bateby Dobbins is alive or not, will be thankfully received. SAMUEL SPACKMAN, No. 1, Bank Alley, Philadelphia. 10th month, 11, 1808—2m
BANK OF COLUMBIA. THE President and Directors having this day declared a Dividend for the half year ending the 30th inst. at the rate of eight per cent. per annum. The same will be paid to the Stockholders or their representatives on or after Tuesday the 20th inst. WM. WHANN, Cashr. September 19—6w
JOHN GOULDING Is now landing from on board the Polly from Baltimore, a few barrels of West India COFFEE and New Orleans SUGAR, Bottles in hampers, Red and White Champagne Wine in boxes, Fresh Tea, &c. On hand, as usual, most kinds of choice old Wines in bottles and in casks; best Albany Ale; Philadelphia Porter and Ale; Spermaceti Candles, Train Oil; Castile Soap in boxes, with sundry articles in his line, to be sold for Cash, and as usual, cheap to his punctual customers. Georgetown, September 16—2m
FORTUNE will turn round her wheel on Tuesday the first day of November, to distribute the prizes of Trinity Church Lottery. Now is the lucky moment, any of the following prizes may be had for the small sum of five dollars and an half by immediate application to J. Milligan, at J. March's Book Store, George Town. 1 Prize of 3,000 Dollars. 1 Do. 3,000 2 Do. 2,000 2 Do. 1,500 3 Do. 1,000 6 Do. 500 Besides other good prizes—The whole lottery consists of 18,000 tickets; less than two blanks to a prize. It is worthy of remark that the drawing of this lottery will be completed in nine weeks from the first of November. * The prizes in this lottery are paid without deduction. Oct. 31—3t
JUST RECEIVED, & FOR SALE. By the Subscriber, A FEW HALF BIPS OF MADEIRA WINE, Four years Old, neat as imported. TOPPAN WEBSTER. Washington, October 20—3w
UNITED STATES PATENT FOR THE IMPROVED LIFE BUOY OR SEAMAN'S FRIEND. A PATENT having been granted by the President of the U. States of America, for the "Improved Life Buoy or Seaman's Friend," the public are respectfully informed that they may be accommodated with this highly useful machine at the shortest notice and very reasonable. Their utility must be generally allowed, and it is hoped now that they may be had in this city, American Manufactured . The lives of many may be saved, which for want of such precaution are unhappily launched into eternity, to be lamented by their families and friends. Their power is so great that it is impossible for the wearer to sink, and it is in danger of their vessel being wrecked a man may have it on and not be hindered from working at any thing. The subscriber flatters himself that their utility is too well known to all those who are any way connected with the waters to need any commencing on. Orders from any part of the United States, (post paid) will meet with punctilious attendance by WILLIAM FLOWER, General Commission Agent, No. 53, Walnut street Philadelphia. October 12—
WILL GOODS. BAKER, HIGGS, & Co. Sign of the Plough, have just received from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia—37 Pa. kags of English, India, and French GOODS—consisting of a general assortment of FANCY AND SUBSTANTIAL Articles, which being selected at the best markets, principally for Cash, enables them to sell lower than their usual prices. A liberal deduction will be made to retailers and large buyers, for cash or negotiable notes. Georgetown, October 31—taw & New 4w
TO BE SOLD. A very smart and active NEGRO BOY, who has eight years to serve from first next January, or will be exchanged for a girl about 7 or 8 years old, who must serve until 21—for terms apply to ROBERT ELLIOTT, Capitol Hill. Oct. 26—3t
WASHINGTON BRIDGE COMPANY. THE Stockholders of the Washington Bridge Company, are hereby notified that the third instalment of ten dollars on each share is called for by the directors, and must be paid on or before the 1st day of November next, agreeably to the act of Congress, entitled "An act authorising the erection of a Bridge over the river Potomac within the district of Columbia." By order of the directors. DANL. CARHOL of Dud. President. Get. 18—opN1.
AMERICAN HEMP. THE Secretary of the Navy will receive until the 1st November next, proposals for furnishing water rotted Hemp of the growth of the United States, to be delivered either at Portsmouth, N. H.; Boston; New-London; New-York; Philadelphia; Newcastle; Baltimore; Norfolk; Wilmington, N. C.; Charleston, S. C.; Savannah, Georgia, or New-Orleans. For well water rotted and well cleaned American Hemp, the Secretary of the Navy is disposed to allow a liberal price beyond the usual price of such Hemp when dew rotted. Navy Department, May 3—wtn
THIS DAY! Published by Joseph Miller, George-Town, Price $1.75 cents, ADELINE MOWBRAY, OR THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, A TALE, IN 2 VOLUMES, By Mrs. Opie.
The above work has passed the ordeal of criticism in Europe and America with uncommon success, and from the flattering reception which the Simple Tales (by the same author) has met with, the publisher of Adeline Mowbray has no doubt, but the few copies which he has on hand, will soon be purchased by a discerning public, who are always inclined to encourage merit. ** The above work may be had of the publisher, in George-Town, and of R. C. Weightman, or Daniel Rapine, Washington, & of the principal booksellers throughout the United States. October 10—6t
MANHATTAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG GENTLEMEN. MR. DAPONTÉ informs his friends and the public, that he has opened his Academy nearly adjoining the Manhattan Bank, on Broadway road, where he will instruct Young Gentlemen in the French, Latin, & Italian Languages. Every attention will be paid to the morals of those entrusted to his care. N. B. Mr. Daponté begs to say he has, at the request of several parents engaged a very able person to teach, not only Writing and Cyphering in his Academy, but also the English Grammar, Geography, and other Juvenile rudiments. October 3—
BY HIS EXCELLENCY ROBERT WRIGHT, Esq. GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND. A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, the General Assembly of Maryland, did, by an act passed at November session, eighteen hundred and five, entitled "an act to reduce into one several acts of Assembly, respecting elections, and to regulate said elections," direct that the Governor and Council after having received the returns of elections of the members to represent this state in the Congress of the United States, should enumerate and ascertain the number of votes given for each, and every person voted for as a member for Congress aforesaid respectively, and shall thereupon declare, by proclamation, signed by the Governor, the name of the person or persons duly elected in each respective district: We in pursuance of the directions of the said act, do by this our proclamation, declare that by the returns made to us, it appears that John Campbell, esq. was elected for the first district; Archibald Van Horn, esq. was elected for the second district; Philip Barton Key, esq. was elected for the third district; Roger Nelson, esq. was elected for the fourth district; Nicholas Rawlings Moore, and Alexander D'Kim, esqs. were elected for the fifth district; John Montgomery, esq. was elected for the sixth district; John Brown of Nathan, esq. was elected for the seventh district; and Charles Goldsborough, esq. was elected for the eighth district. Given in Council at the city of Annapolis, under the great seal of the state of Maryland, this twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirty-third.
ROBERT WRIGHT. By the Governor, NINIAN PINKNEY, Clerk of the Council.
Ordered, That the foregoing proclamation be published twice in each week, for the space of four weeks, in the American and Federal Gazette, at Baltimore; the Maryland Gazette, at Annapolis; the National Intelligencer; the Republican Advocate, at Fredericktown; the Maryland Herald, at Hagerstown; and in Mr. Smith's papers at Easton. October 28—2w4w
PUBLIC SALE. By order of the Orphan's Court of Montgomery county, will be offered at Public Sale, to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 1st. day of December next, if not (or not on the next fair day) all the DIVIDEND VALUATION of John Rostad, deceased. Twelve months credit will be given, the purchaser, a note with approved security, bearing interest from the day of sale. The sale to commence at 10 o'clock, A. M. DARCUS H. FITCHALL, Adm. Of John Rostad deceased. October 31—w8t
A FUGITIVE. WAS committed to the jail of Washington county in the state of Maryland, on the 9th inst. as a vagrant, a negro man, who calls himself JERRY, says he belongs to Elijah Edwards of Orange county, Virginia, he is about 6 feet 7 inches high, about 30 years of age, and on whom a circumcised, an old great coat, tow trousers, and an old tow shirt. His owner is desired to take him away, or he will be sold for his jail fees, &c. according to law. ISAAC S. WHITE, Sheriff. October 28—w3t