Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1805-07-26 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1805.
[No. 1353.]
Vol. V.]
Public Sale.
On TUESDAY next, at 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store, RUM 10 bds. and bts. French Brandy in pipes, Gin in pipes and bts. Whiskey and Apple Brandy in bts. Sugar in bds. tierses and bts. Chocolate. White and brown Soap and } in boxes, Mould and dipt Candles Raisins in kegs, boxes and jars, Figs in kegs and frails, Queen's Ware in crates, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c. Also, A Variety of DRY GOODS, among which are Cloths, Coatings, Kersemeres, Buffs, Plains, Kersies, Negro Cottons, Serges, Elastics, blue Friczes, Calimancoes, Russels, Yarn Stockings, Chintzes and Calicoes, Linen Linens, Silesia do., Onaburgs and Ticklenburgs, Muslin and Muslin Handkerchiefs, India Muslins and Table Cloths, Battania Handkerchiefs, Coloured Threads, Hats and sundry other articles.
Philip G. Marsteller.
Dec. 26.
10 pipes well flavor'd Holland Gin, 60 casks Dutch Linseed Oil, 2 bales German Ticklenburgh 1 case Britannias, 1 do. Plaited Royal,
Just Imported from Rotterdam, In the brig Nancy, Spalding, AND FOR SALE BY
J. & T. Vowell,
WHO HAVE IN STORE,
A few pipes old Madeira Wine, fit
for immediate use,
Three bds. old Grenada Rum,
Three casks Clover Seed,
Ten pipes 4th proof Spanish Brandy.
Cash given for Otter and
Mink Skins.
April 25. d
JAMES SANDERSON
Has received, in addition to his late general sup- plies, which he will sell, by the quantity, ve- ry low, and on liberal credit;
10 pipes 4th proof Cogniac Bran-
dy.
4 puncheons second-proof Antigua Rum.
20 barrels New England ditto.
5 pipes particular Teneriffe Wines.
12 half pipes do. do. do.
25 cases claret, 2 and half dozen in each.
9 boxes best London Maltard, 15 dozen
each,
6 do. do. Double Gloucester Cheese.
20 hogheads Black Quart Bottles.
ALSO,
28 hogheads Virginia TOBAC-
CO now in store.
May 31. d
BUILDING LOTS.
HALF an acre of ground, on the corner of Washington and Duke Streets, will be laid off in lots, to suit applicants, and will be had at a moderate annual rent forever.
HEWES & MILLER.
June 19. d
This day is Published, And for Sale at ROBERT GRAY'S Book- store, and THIS OFFICE, (price TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.)
AN ABSTRACT
OF AN
A P O L O G Y,
For Renouncing the Jurisdiction
OF THE
SYNOD OF KENTUCKY.
BEING
A Compendious View of the GOSPEL,
AND A FEW REMARKS ON THE
CONFESSION OF FAITH.
By Robert Marshall, John Dunlavy, Richard
M'Nemar, Barton W. Stone, John Thompson.
May 2.
A few Copies of the American
Gardener, for sale by Robert Gray, in
King-street.
Mackarel & Whiskey.
110 barrels of MACKAREL just received, per Schooner Hiram, from Rhode-Island: ALSO, 35 barrels strong proof RYE WHISKEY— and 30 kegs manufactured James-River TOBAC- CO, warranted good. These articles will be sold low. Apply to John & Thomas Vowell.
July 16. d
JUST RECEIVED,
AND FOR SALE BY
JOHN G. LADD,
A few barrels black Varnish, do. Pitch, 100 barrels Boston Beef, 50 kegs Raisins Soap and Candles, in boxes, 100 lbs. Nutmeg and Cloves, New Rum, in hogheads and barrels, Three bales Russia brown-sheethings, A parcel of Blocks, Mast-Hoops, Pumps, &c. July 15. d
LOST,
On Wednesday, the 10th instant, between the Branch Bank of Washington and Alexandria, A BILL, drawn by Mr. John Prondfit, of Norfolk, on Mr. Butler Cocke, of Wash- ington, for 500 dollars, dated Norfolk, 25th day of June, at 60 days, in my favor; accepted 29th, an endorsed by me. Any person having found this Bill, will be pleased to deposit it at the Branch Bank, in Washington, or deliver it to the subscriber. The payment being stopt, it can be of no use to the finder. William Hodgson. Alexandria, July 13.
William Hodgson.
POTOMAC COMPANY.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Poto- mac Company, will be held according to law at the Union Tavern in George Town, on Monday the 5th day of August next, on which occasion a full meeting of the proprietors is requested, when the proceedings of the Board of Directors, toge- ther with the disbursements of the Treasurer since the last general meeting, will then be laid be- fore them for their consideration. By order of the Board, Joseph Carleton, Treasurer Potomac Company. George Town, July 9. (10) d5A
Joseph Carleton,
Treasurer Potomac Company.
George Town, July 9. (10) d5A
TO RENT,
A convenient two-story Brick-house on Wilkes street, opposite Capt. George Slacum's —For terms apply to, John C. Vowell. July 6. d
LAWRASON & FOWLE
Have just received, by the brig Harmony, Robert B. Hall, master, from Boston. 3 bales best Beerboon Gurrahs 3 do. Sewing Twine 2 chests Young Hyson } FRESH TEAS. 5 do. Imperial 20 boxes best Spanish Segars 2 pipes first quality Cognac Brandy 40 barrels N. E. Rum 5 bds. retailing Molasses 7 barrels Sperm. Oil a few boxes Sperm. Candles 40 boxes brown Soap And a quantity of Plaster Paris. July 6. d
WANTED TO PURCHASE,
About 30,000 White Oak Hoghead & Barrel Staves, Of good quality: Also, A few squared Logs of Walnut. WM. HODGSON. July 5. d
GUNPOWDER TEA.
A few boxes of the very best quality just received by Mandeville & Jameffon. May 15. d
A Servant wanted.
CASH will be given for a Servant, who can be recommended for sobriety and care- fulness, and who has been accustomed to the ma- nagement of horses. None else need apply to the Printer. June 27. col.m
FOR SALE,
On a very liberal credit for approved paper, THE SCHOONER HENRIETTA, A beautiful vessel, in complete order for sea, burthen 550 barrels. For terms apply to RICKETTS, NEWTON & Co. July 13. cozw
PUBLIC SALE.
To be SOLD, at Public Sale, for ready money, on MONDAY, the 12th of August, next, The House and Lot Lately occupied by Mr. Alexander Henderson, adjoining the town of Alexandria. The sale will take place on the premises, at one o'clock, P. M. July 22. dsf
SUGARS.
Seventy bds. and } MUSCOVADO SUGAR, Twenty-two bds. } Thirty one bags Cocoa, received by Sloop Sloop Diana, from Martinico—for sale on reasonable terms by John & Thos. Vowell. WHO HAVE ON HAND Holland Gin of excellent flavor in Pipes, Fourth proof Brandy, Jamaica Rum, Liverpool Pine Salt, 1000 bushels Indian Corn, 1200 do. black-eyed Peas, in good ship- ping order, July 6. d
THE SUBSCRIBER,
AT HIS GROCERY STORE, King near Washington Street, HAS JUST RECEIVED FROM PHILADELPHIA, &c. &c. —A SUPPLY OF— Fresh teas, particularly selected, 6000 lbs. green coffee, 14 bds. St. Croix and St. Martins sugar, New York and Philadelphia, loaf and lump sugars. Old 4th proof Jamaica Spirits, Do. 2d and 3d proof St. Croix rum, Cognac brandy, Holland gin, Whiskey and New England rum, Choice old Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, Teneriffe, Malaga and Port, Claret, in cases, 20 Boxes fresh muscatel raisins, Very best chocolate, Dixon's best mustard, Sallad oil, &c. With a general assortment of groce- ries as usual. The whole of which are of a superi- or quality, and will be sold on the most reasona- ble terms. JAMES BACON. May 14. d
WILLIAM OXLEY
HAS ON HAND, Which he will dispose of on terms advantageous to the purchasers, for cash or notes, The following Articles, viz. Superfine and second cloths Kerseymeres and fowndown Bearskins and fearnoughts Durants and calimancoes Bombazets and wildbores Common and boil'd camblets Silk, cotton, and worsted hosiery English extra long silk gloves Silk twist and thread Diaper and common tapes Paper and pound pins White and printed marseilles Laces, edgings and gimps Elegant black and white lace veils Patent do. do. Satin peelong and silk handkerchiefs 4-4, 9-8, and 6-4 Cambrick mufins India Jacomet do. Fustians, buckram, &c. &c. ALSO, A few bales of Negro Caddies, and one trunk silk and cotton fings. January 7. d
BEEF AND PORK.
We have just received, prime and mess Beef, in barrels and half barrels, prime Pork, in barrels and half barrels—all of excel- lent quality. Hewes & Miller. June 4. d
Mill Stones & Bowling Cloths.
We want to buy one pair of 4 or 4 and a half feet Cologne Mill Stones. We have one pair of 6 feet Burr Mill Stones for sale: Also, five hundred dollars worth of Bow- ling Cloths; which will be sold a bargain, to any body who will take the whole of them. Hewes & Miller. June 10. d
Mandeville & Jameffon.
Are now landing, and offer for Sale, 10 puncheons high proof Jamaica Rum. 10 hogheads Barbadoes Molasses. 8 hogheads St. Croix Sugars. English F and FF Gunpowder, Philadelphia Loaf Sugars. Patent Shot and Bar-Lead. May 29. d
The subscribers have just received, by
the Packet, from Norfolk, 30 barrels prime Beef, 20 do. Pork. Lawrason & Fowle. June 24. d
FOR SALE.
20 puncheons Jamaica RUM, LAST YEAR'S CROP, Just received and for Sale on reasonable terms. John & Thos. Vowell. May 9. d
TUNIS CRAVEN,
HAS JUST RECEIVED, An elegant assortment of goods, selected from the latest importations, in Phila- delphia and Baltimore. —AMONG WHICH ARE—
  Superfine cloths and  coloured cambricks;    cashmeres,  Dimities,    Cotton cashmeres,  6-4 9-8, Cambrick    White and coloured  mufins,    jeans, lankens and  India, bock, jacomet    fustians,  and mull mull, muf-    Long and short nap-  lins,    keens,  Colonade and crossbar-    Blue do.  red fringed cambrick    White and coloured  ditto,    marseilles,  Lace,    Waistcoating,  6-4, Lace shawls,    4-4 7-8, Irish lin-  Long ditto,    ens, long lawns,  Super broaded do.    4-4 7-8, Shirting cot-  English and French silk    ton,  gloves,    Irish and Elanders sheet-  Kid ditto,    ing,  Pic nic mitts,    Platillas,  English split straw bon-    Brittanias,  nets,    Silesias,  Madras and bandanna    Silk, cotton and thread  handkerchiefs,    baskery,  Bastas,    Diaper table cloths,  Mammodies,    Napkins,  Gurrahs, &c. &c.    Chintz calicoes and   
All of which he has determined to sell at the most reduced prices. May 26.
NOTICE.
All persons that have claims against the estate of Thomas M'Corwat, sometime since of Leesburg, deceased, are requested to forward them, properly authenticated, to the subscriber, in Leesburg; as he wishes to ascertain the a- mount of the same, in order that he may make arrangements for their payment. THOMAS M'COWAT, Heir at Law. July 23. 12w3t*
Adventurers in Lottery No.
3, for the Encouragement of Literature, may know the fate of their Tickets, on application to the Printer, and paying 12 and half cents for each ticket. July 15.

Latest Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, May 26.
The foreign intelligence of the week is of a trivial importance. Bonaparte is in Italy, alarmed little by the menace of Russia; indeed, his fears from that quarter are about the same tone with our hopes, which have sunk a full octave within a few weeks.
He knows there is little fear from paper proceedings, and this is the only artillery which the cabinet of St. Petersburg is likely to employ.
There is however, a compleat breach between Sweden and Prussia: the power is supposed to be spirited up by Russia, and the latter is well known to have failed in a recent negotiation with that court.
Austria is very jealous of the proceedings in Italy, and has augmented her cordon of troops to eighty thousand. ( Messenger. )
May 27.
The tone of defiance (says the Courier ) which Sweden has lately held to Prussia has appeared to most persons extraordinary.
Those who admired the spirit of his Swedish Majesty were compelled to doubt his prudence: and every person was prepared to expect that the wily councils of the court of Berlin would find in his Majesty's avowing hostilities and for sending an army into Pomerania, which Prussia has so long looked upon with an eye of desire. But there is a report in circulation which would explain why Prussia has yet abstained from making any hostile demonstrations against Pomerania. It is said that his Swedish Majesty, hopeless of being able to preserve much longer that province from the hands of Prussia, backed and supported by France, has surrendered it for a valuable pecuniary consideration, which we hardly think, or whether his Swedish Majesty has exchanged it for Russian territories to the north eastern part of his Swedish Dominions, we know not.
The placing of Pomerania in the hands of Russia would of course be highly disagreeable to Prussia. But any speculations upon the probable consequences of such a measure would be premature, before we have ascertained whether rumor be well founded or not.
It is certainly not confirmed by the following articles brought by the Hamburg mail which arrived yesterday:
Stockholm, May 13.
It is reported, that the Prussian Minister has left this Court, and that a note has been published by the cabinet of Berlin, declaring all communication between it and that of Stockholm at an end for the present. It is thought that the King of Sweden, having returned the Order of the Prussian Eagle, has given rise to this coolness between the two courts.
The Leipzig Gazette of the 4th May, contains the following article:
"His majesty the king of Prussia persists, for an essential, in the declaration which he has made relative to Swedish Pomerania, without at all disputing the rights of the king of Sweden to the sovereignty. The arguments which he has used, the motives which he declared, are laid down in so friendly a manner, that they cannot fail to make an impression upon the cabinet of St. Petersburg. In the said answer his Prussian majesty gives an assurance that he never had an idea of attacking the rights of sovereignty of the king of Sweden; but it declares at the same time, that from the local position and the relations of Swedish Pomerania, and according to the principles adopted by the court of Stockholm, maintained by general Arnsfeldt at Berlin in October, 1804; there neither ought, nor can arise, from this little country, any provocation what
ever, and it is to that which the note of the cabinet of Berlin of the 24th of January last, refers. The court of Prussia has given at the same time a formal assurance that in the present state of things it has no hostile views upon Swedish Pomerania. M. de Brinkman, the Swedish chargé des affaires, has received no other answer to his note of the 19th February, except a verbal declaration, importing, that seeing the close union which exists between Russia and Sweden, they should adhere to the correspondence which had been carried on with the former of these cabinets."
The complete cessation of diplomatic intercourse between the courts of Berlin and Stockholm, which has taken place, may be considered more as a misunderstanding between individuals than nations. It can have little effect upon the general interest of Europe. To the report that Russia has purchased the sovereignty of Swedish Pomerania, we cannot annex any credit. ( Traveller. )
Newfoundland fleet—TAKEN.
May 21.
It is with extreme regret we have to inform our readers of the capture of the greater part of the outward bound convoy bound for Newfoundland. The particulars of this event are given in the following letter which was received in town yesterday.
"CORK, May 21.
"I am concerned to inform you that the Newfoundland fleet, which failed hence the 9th instant, with convoy, being met by a French frigate were all either burnt or captured; two of them were taken by the Topaze & Rosaria, off the N. W. coast of Ireland. A Spanish corvette of 20 guns, has been taken by the Topaze. She had captured the Young William of London from Cork to Waterford with spirits and porter."
May 29.
A letter from Cork yesterday states, that that city had been thrown into some alarm, in consequence of an express having arrived there with orders for every armed vessel to put to sea with the greatest expedition, and sail to the westward; from which it had been inferred that the enemy had been seen in considerable force in that quarter.
May 30.
The channel fleet were left all well on Sunday last. Lord Gardiner has divided it into two detachments, one of which cruizes as the inshore squadron, and the other as the out.
The two sail of the line which we announced some time ago as having slipped out of Rochefort, are gone to the West Indies. They had about 13 thousand troops on board.
It has been conjectured in consequence of a letter received yesterday from Malaga, that Lord Nelson had passed the Straits and blockaded Cadiz.
The notification mentioned in this letter was, we have every reason to believe in consequence of the official notice in our Gazette. We have intelligence from Cadiz of the 30th ult. which takes not the least notice of any squadron being off that port, and we have not heard that any official intelligence has been received of Lord Nelson's having passed the Straits.
NEW YORK. July 23.
The following interesting Article has been obligingly furnished to us at our request, by a gentleman lately from Havanna, whose sources and accuracy of information are unquestionable.
"Since the transaction respecting Mr. Gray, the late acting Consul at Havanna, (the accounts of which appear to have been already before the public) nothing definitive as to the delivery of his public papers has yet been done; the matter being, ostensibly,
reserved for the Judgment and Decision of the court of Spain. As to Mr. G's personal liberty, and eventual clearance, to his honor, not the smallest fears or doubts were entertained: that gentleman was pursuing his private business as usual, unmolested, and doubtless will continue so.
In the whole prosecution of the late disgraceful measure against him, it would be difficult to give a clear and rational pretext either for its origin, or the subsequent operations; the contrary and distracting councils and measures, of the different officers of Government, defeating every attempt towards such an investigation.
At one time, the views of the subordinate officers would appear to have been confined chiefly to implicate the Governor in the charge of having acknowledged & protected foreign agents, contrary to the Laws of Spain and thereby to injure him with his government and to effect his removal.
It is a fact however, pretty generally known, and which will no doubt be hereafter fully established, that the correspondence on this point between the Governor and the Intendant General, has been exculpatory of and honorable to Mr. Gray; the Governor (whilst he denied having ever formally acknowledged either Mr. G. or his predecessor Mr. Morton) having also declared that both those gentlemen, so far from opposing the laws of the country themselves, or encouraging such conduct in others had comported themselves, during the whole of their residence, with much discretion: and had done every thing, in their power, to preserve the rights, peace and harmony of the two countries.
At other times, and on more recent occasions, it would appear as if the whole measures had been concerted to give a colorable pretext for the entire prevention of the residence of any public agent whomsoever: for the proclamations and messages of the governor on that subject, have been repeated oftener, and in a more peremptory manner, than the mere support of his first assertions rendered absolutely necessary.
The gentleman lately appointed by Mr. Jefferson to that island, has already been the object of this jealous spirit of the government; and to such a degree that, if persisted in (of which there was every appearance) it will not only frustrate the execution of a great part of his official duties, and subject our commerce to still greater injuries and interruptions, but lead eventually to an entire abandonment of his office.
The numerous and atrocious depredations committed upon our vessels in those seas, by French & Spanish renegades, who find a shelter in all the ports of Cuba, furnish too frequent occasions for the interference and remonstrances of a public agent, to render him acceptable to a government, which, by taking no effectual means to prevent, in a manner countenances the outrages of which such a resident would complain. He has been already indicted from appearing before the governor on cases of such emergency; his excellency restricting the unfortunate applicants to the medium of his secretaries and notaries who, even if they were not to record or interpret the barest carb of truth, and with that reservation in which they should appear.
The future prospects for redress in that quarter may then be easily estimated. Those whose claims remain unsatisfied will probably abandon them in despair; and the new cases still likely to arise, will not be considered hereafter as worth being presented for a hearing at all!
It is from those circumstances, the belief strongly arises that the measures against Mr. Gray had a further view than was declared; and it will also, in
consequence, be more readily perceived that his inextinguishable firmness and integrity, had alone made him an unsuitable character for the present time, in that hemisphere."
Captain Hallowell, of the brig Eliza , from Leghorn, via Gibraltar, brings dispatches from captain Decatur in the Mediterranean, to our government. It is expected that war will immediately take place between the Emperor of Morocco and the United States. Two frigates are said to be cruising for American vessels, and the brig Syren has taken her station between Cape Spartel and Mogadore to intercept any prize that they may make. Captain Hallowell, was chased and fired at by a Tripolitan Zebeck of seventeen guns but escaped by superior sailing. A Portuguese squadron of two seventy-fours, were cruising in the gut. The Algerines had likewise a fleet at sea cruising for Neapolitans and Genoese.
Arrived, brig Peggy , from Isle of May. Left British ship Maria , Hedges, of London bound to Newfoundland; brig Rebecca , of Boston; ship Alexandria , Roach, of London, both to sail in a few days. July 8th, lat. 33, 23, long. 54, spoke brig Richmond , from New Haven bound to Barbadoes, out 11 days; while laying at Isle of May, the British ship of war Eugene , having under convoy the sloop William , Pitt, Guineaman, and a transport brig, had arrived there, and sent her boat with men on board the Peggy ; after overhauling the men, and finding them to have regular protections, they notwithstanding insisted on having the men belonging to the Peggy , twenty in number, and those of the sloop of war, which the former were successful in driving a latter to their boat, and in about an hour afterwards they returned with two boats loaded with men, the crew of the Peggy went ashore to assist them and next morning got out to sea.
Brig Eliza , from Leghorn, via Gibraltar. Left ship Abeona , Clark, of Providence; brig Dispatch , of Boston; ship Good Friends , of Philadelphia, and ship Nancy , of Baltimore, bound to India. Left at Gibraltar, ship Ann of Baltimore, bound to Syracuse, & brig Duke , Wilson, for Alexandria, in 4 days. July 7th, lat. 25, long. 61, spoke brig Sally , Same, 1 day from Portland for St. Lucie. On Saturday 45 leagues from the Hook, spoke schooner Ranger , 24 hours from New York for Barbadoes, and on Sunday, spoke brig Minerva , from New York for Bordeaux.
Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
FRIDAY, JULY 26.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Havanna, dated July 6, 1805.
"Advices have this moment been received here that the government of New Providence have passed a decree granting liberty to privateers, &c. to defend in for adjudication all American and other vessels which shall have for their return cargoes, produce of the outports in this island, unless proofs can be exhibited that such ports are ports of entry in the time of peace. You will please to make public this circumstance for the information and government of our friends advertising this way."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Savannah to his friend in Charleston, dated the 17th instant.
"The Cambrian British frigate chased into the river St. Mary's, the privateer that took the Two Friends, captain M c Neil; and afterwards sent in her boats and captured her, and with the privateer took possession of the two English prizes lying in the river, and carried them all off together."
Dispatches respecting the combined fleet was sent from Martinique to the city of St. Domingo. They were conveyed by a lady, and escaped discovery by a British officer (who boarded the vessel) by being concealed in her Stockings.
An embargo was laid at Jamaica on the 27th of May.
Yesterday morning the ship Dart , captain Tinker, arrived at Hellgate, in 45 days from Cadiz.

In coming through Hellgate, the Dart got ashore on the mill-rock, & has bilged. The cargo consisting of wine, and some staves, (that she carried out, but was not suffered to land at Cadiz) will be saved.
The ship went on the rocks about six o'clock in the morning, in a thick fog.
When the Dark left Cadiz, the port was blockaded by three British frigates and four brigs.
Markets were very dull, flour 10 dollars, tobacco on the decline. The Dart arrived at Cadiz from Gibraltar on the 21st May, and lay there until the 8th June.
(N. Y. Mer. Adv.)
We learn from New Haven, that six or eight persons died there last week of a bilious fever, one of whom was a Custom house officer, who had attended a brig recently arrived from Porto Rico. Some called his case the yellow fever. One young lady who lived near a pond of stagnant water, died on Saturday last.
The following article occurs in the constitution of Hayti, lately published.
"At the first firing of the alarm-gun the cities will disappear and the nation will."
The meaning of this language is not very obvious: a friend has given us an explanation of it, which he had from a gentleman who lately arrived here from St. Domingo, and who is well acquainted with the situation of the island.
When the enemy appears off a Haytian port in such force as seems adequate to the reduction of the place, an alarm gun is to be fired, and the blacks are instantly to envelope the city in flames and retreat to the mountains, which in certain places are so fortified by nature and art as to bid defiance to the strongest force. Defended by artillery numerous and weighty, and supplied with ammunition calculated to serve for eighteen months; the gentleman considers these interior fortresses impregnable, is of opinion that the negroes can never be subdued, and that any force sent against them would inevitably perish piecemeal, by the climate and the enemy.
The Hon. Robert Dundas Saunders, son of viscount Melville, says a London paper of May 29, gave notice yesterday in the house of Commons of his intention to move on the day when the impeachment should be proposed by Mr. Whitbread, that leave be given to viscount Melville to appear in that house to defend himself. This notice is no doubt given by his lordships particular request, that he may avail himself of the only opportunity which may be presented of making his defence. Mr. Dundas Saunders's motion, there is every reason to believe, will be agreed to by the house of commons. It is an extraordinary circumstance, and consequently worthy of particular attention. Many years have elapsed since a similar motion was made.
Experiments made by Dr. Miguel Cabaellas, one of the physicians employed by the court of Spain during the dreadful epidemic at Seville.*
"Being desirous of proving, by some direct experiment, the property the mineral acids possess of destroying contagion, I placed some putrid meat in three apartments, which were immediately filled with a most putrid stench. I made fumigations with the acid in three different apartments; in the first I used the nitric acid, in the second the sulphuric, and in the third the muriatic acid gas. These fumigations were frequently repeated during sixteen days, and the faetor was completely destroyed in all three rooms;
and during the continuance of this experiment I inhabited the apartment where the nitric fumigation was employed, without any inconvenience from the smell or suffering any bad consequence whatever.
"Dr. Sarrais was seized with the fever the day of his arrival at Seville, and died the day following.
"Not, however, satisfied with this proof of the efficacy of the mineral acids in destroying contagion, I determined to make a further experiment on myself—With this intention I took the riding coat which Dr. Sarrais wore during his dreadful illness, in which he was wrapt up, in which he had sweated, vomited, and in short, in which he had expired. Having placed this in a small room or closet, I burnt under it an ounce of sulphur, having first shut the door; next morning I exposed the great coat to a second fumigation, made with the nitric acid.—The riding coat, thus purified, was spread on my bed, and having lain down under it, I slept from eleven at night until half an hour after six the next morning; I then got up, putting on no other clothes but the riding coat, which remained in constant contact with my body until eight o'clock, that I dressed myself. I then went out with the riding coat above my other clothes; I walked through the city during the morning, and for some time very quickly in the sun, until I was in a profuse sweat. I then sat down and remained quiet, wrapped up in my riding coat, until one o'clock, when I returned home. Looking upon this experiment made upon myself as complete, I thought myself at liberty to make another, by giving this riding coat to a beggar who had not been infected with the contagion. The man took the coat without the smallest apprehension or hesitation, having seen me wear it, and knowing that I was an officer of health; from this moment he wore it constantly in the day, and made use of it as a covering to his bed at night; for twelve days following neither he nor I caught the contagion, nor suffered the slightest alteration in our health.
(Signed)
"MIGUEL CABAELLAS."
* It stands upon the water of Cryse, not far from Moffat.
STATE PAPER.
Note delivered by the Swedish charge d'affairs, Baron Brinkham, to the Prussian cabinet.
"The undersigned charge d'affairs, from the king of Sweden, has just received instructions from the court, relative to Baron Hardenberg's note, of the 24th of December, eighteen hundred and four. By the express command of his majesty, the undersigned returns the following answer: His excellency the minister of the cabinet will please to recollect, that immediately on the receipt of the said note, the king declared that the affair being of a nature of equal concern to Sweden and Russia, both closely united by treaties, by mutual friendship, and by the ties of consanguinity, his majesty has resolved to consult with the Emperor of Russia on the overture made, to him, and to give his answer at the same time with that which his majesty might think proper to transmit to Berlin. The last accounts from St. Petersburg have fully supported the conviction which the king entertained relative to the sentiments of the Emperor of Russia on the subject; & as his imperial majesty soon after resolved to take some steps, the thing would no longer delay an answer, such as the Emperor of Russia has also found adapted to the present case. True to the principles of that dignity which ought to characterise every sovereign
of an independent state, the king cannot permit his general political system, the system of his alliances, and the engagement perhaps which may spring from it, ever to become the object of discussion. His Prussian majesty has himself declared, that it is his principle to regard this indisputable right of every sovereign; he cannot therefore but acknowledge it in his application. If then he will consider that no means of the king ever furnished the slightest grounds for suspecting it being directed against the particular interest of Prussia, the right of demanding further explanations upon the measures (the nature of which sufficiently indicated their object) is consequently not afforded. The king cannot as yet persuade himself that his Prussian majesty will persist in his intention to modify the general policy of Sweden, by the influence of his system of neutrality, which influence would be the more inadmissible, since the said system (on which the king does not permit himself to judge, with respect to the states of his Prussian majesty, and the neighboring states, which have formally recognised it) cannot possibly extend its effects so far as to confine the general dispositions of a sovereign, (as such) does not recognise any persons' supremacy, as a member of the Germanic Empire, only that of the empire of the Romans. The king therefore has no other explanations to give than these, that he will invariably prove true to his principles, the justice and dignity of which must constantly be the best guarantees of his intentions. His majesty readily believes that the king of Prussia will acknowledge the justice of the following remarks; and that he will not avail himself of some erroneous and exaggerated assertions to attempt an unjust conquest. Of this the king must be doubly convinced on considering that those assertions (even by the avowal of the cabinet of Berlin itself) are made by a government, the whole sentiments of which, toward his majesty's person, are known to all Europe.—Should it nevertheless be possible in spite of the king's conviction in this respect, that an actual attack be made on Pomerania, his majesty declares that he will not be wanting in allies, who will too clearly see the justice of his cause not to support it. This declaration nevertheless, is not in any sense to be considered as a challenge, as it presupposes the case of an attack; and the king would the less omit making this remark as he would with pleasure see the interest of both states united for the general welfare, and the connexions between himself and his Prussian majesty maintained forever by reciprocal confidence and friendship.
"VON BRINKMANN."
HEROISM.
Captain Nelham, who is lately appointed acting Captain of the Foudroyant, was in France during the fury of the Revolution, and while the popular rage was vented on the unfortunate bakers. Passing through one of the streets, he perceived a baker in the hands of the mob, who were hurrying him away a la lanterne . With all the inconsiderate bravery of a generous tar, thoughtless of his own danger, he rushed among the sanguinary multitude, and throwing himself round the half dead wretch, declared, that "if they destroyed one innocent man, they should the other." The extraordinary generosity of this heroic action was not lost on the surrounding multitude; and those very people, who but for him would have exulted in the destruction of their victim, now carried him and his deliverer before the National Convention. With loud shouts of applause he was welcomed, as having saved the life of a citizen; was presented with a national sword, dedicated to such purposes, and a civic crown placed on his head.
The appropriate phrases, in the ensuing song, the practical philosophy of a British Tar, his frankness, his simplicity, his glee, and his very stubbornness, are finely calculated, by the genius of DUNN, to divert every reader.
Port Eclat.
WE tars are all for fun and glee, A hornpipe was my notion; Time was I'd dance with any he, That sails the salt sea ocean;
I'd tip the roll, the slide, the reel, Back, forward, in the middle, And roast the pig, and toe, and heel, All going with the fiddle.
But one day, told a shot to ram, To chase the foe advancing, A spinter queer'd my larboard gam, And, damme, spoil'd my dancing.
Well, I'm, says I, no churchish elf, We messmates be all brothers: Though I can't have no fun myself, I may make fun for others.
A fiddle soon I made my own, That girls and boys might caper; Learnt Rule Britannia, Bobbing Joan, And grow'd a decent scraper.
But, just as I'd the knack on't got, And did it pretty middling, I lost my elbow by a shot, And damme, spoil'd my fiddling.
So sometimes, as I turn'd my quid, I got a knack of thinking; As I should be an invalid, And then I took to drinking.
One day, call'd down my gun to mar, To tip it with the gray; I gave three cheers, and took the can To drink the British navy;
Before a single drop I sip't, Or got it to my muzzle, A landgidge off my daddle whipt, And, damme, spoil'd the guzzle.
So then I took to taking snuff, 'Cause how my sorrows doubled, And pretty pastime 'twas enough, D'ye see, when I was troubled.
But fortune, that mischievous elf, Still at some fun or other; *Not that I mind it for myself, But just for Poll and Mother.
One day, while laying on a tack To keep two spanking foes off: A broadside comes, capizes Jack. And damme, knocks my nose off.
So, in misfortune's school grown tough, In this same sort of knowledge; Thinking, mayhap, I'd not enough, They sent me here to college.
And here we tell old tales and smoke, And laugh while we are drinking, Sailors, you know, will have their joke, Even though the ship was sinking.
For I, while I get grog to drink My wife, or friend, or king in, 'Twill be no easy thing, I think, Damme, to spoil my singing.
* In song writing, I know no passage more faithful to character than this. Indeed the whole ballad is an accurate picture of a Greenwich pensioner, too confident of the future, or too careless of the present, to grieve, while there's a single shot in the locker.
MARRIED, last evening, by the Reverend Mr. Moore, Captain JAMES CAMPBELL, to Miss CATHARINE CAHALL—both of this town.
CHARLES F. WEBB, Upholsterer & Paper-Hanger;
RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF ALEXANDRIA,
THAT he means to do work in the above business, and hopes that from the experience he received in Philadelphia, together with assiduity and attention, to merit the patronage of a generous public.
CURTAINS made in and altered to the most modern European fashions.
MATRASSES made and repaired. Orders left at Mr. John Muir's cabinet shop, in Royal street, will be thankfully received and executed with neatness and dispatch.
July 25.
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PUBLIC SALE.
On SATURDAY next, at eleven o'clock, will be sold, on the premises, on a credit,
The Ground-Rent of One Hundred Dollars, on a House and Lot of Ground, on Duke Street, occupied by Mr. James Smith.
Philip G. Marsteller.
July 24.
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The Subscriber, Anxious to close all his outstanding concerns, WILL OFFER FOR SALE, On the premises, on Wednesday the 31st instant, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, on very liberal terms, which will then be made known, Twelve valuable Building Lots, In the town of Alexandria, adjoin- ing the ground of Messrs. Herbert, Thompson & Wilson, near the river, and between Queen and Cameron streets. And on the following day, at 11 o'clock, at the Coffee House, The DWELLING HOUSE in which the subscriber lives, which is large, com- modious, well finished, and in as good a situation for business as any in town.
Also —One sixteenth part of a Tract of LAND of upwards of eighteen thousand acres, on the Rappahannock, near Fredericksburg, which contains an inexhaustible body of iron ore of ex- cellent quality, and a company is now formed to prosecute the iron business extensively on it, which will, in all probability, render it a very productive estate.
Also —About Nine Thousand Acres of LAND on the south fork of Kentucky river, and on which it is said a Salt Spring has lately been discovered.
As the subscriber is very desirous of selling, to enable him to prosecute with more at- tention an object he is engaged in near Philadel- phia, he will take much less than the real value for the whole or any part of this property, or if applied to, will treat privately for any part of it. JOHN POTTS. eods
Alexandria, July 19
PUBLIC SALE.
To be Sold, at Public Auction, FOR READY MONEY.
On the 12th day of AUGUST next, between the hours of eleven and two of that day, at the door of the Coffee House in the city of Alexandria—
Four Acres and seven-eighths of an Acre of Ground, contiguous to the town of Alex- andria, formerly conveyed to JAMES WILSON, merchant, lately deceased—or so much thereof as will be sufficient to answer the purpose of pay- ing the charges of such sale, and also the sum of fourteen hundred and seventy six dollars and six- ty-eight cents, the amount of two promissory notes, due to Nathaniel Pendleton, from the said Wilson, and also such interest as may be then due thereon; pursuant to a deed of trust to us the subscribers for that purpose, recorded in the office of the circuit court for the district of Co- lumbia, in the county of Alexandria, 16th July, 1805.
CHARLES SIMMS, GEORGE DENEALE, JEDMUND I. LEE.
July 19: zawtdf
Notice is hereby Given,
That in pursuance of an act of Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Virginia, establish- ing a Town at the Court-house of this County, on the lands of Richard Ratcliffe, by the name of Providence. We the subscribers, trustees therein named, will proceed to sell a PUBLIC AUCTION , on Monday the 19th day of August next, (being the first day of August court) the several LOTS in the said town, as laid out, con- demned, and directed to be sold by the said act— A plan of which will be shown, and the terms made known on the day of sale.
Charles Little, W. Payne, Richard Fitzhugh, Daniel McChescheer, Francis Coffer, Richard Bland Lee, John C. Hunter, William Middleton.
Fairfax County the 2d day of July, 1805. (s) eod19A.
TO BE LET,
The HOUSE on Fairfax street now occupied by Mr. James H. Hoge. Possession will be given on the first of July. Apply to Mr. JOHN TUCKER, of Alexandria. The va- cant LOTS on King, Columbus, and Washing- ton Streets; the LOTS on the Mill, lately ad- verted for sale; or any other Lots belonging to the subscriber, for sale by him, on reasonable terms. STEPHEN COOKE. Lexburg, May 22. raw
Just Published, And for Sale by Cotton & Stewart, A Key to Mystery of Iniquity OR AN Address to Men of Candor and lovers of Truth. By JOHN WEST, Of Fairfax County.
This work contains a compendium ecclesiastical history, accompanied with the author's resolutions; giving modern episcopacy to be spu- rious, and human legislation in the Church to be unscriptural, &c. &c. May 3.
PUBLIC SALE.
Will be Sold, at Public Sale, On the first day of AUGUST, (if not disposed of at private sale, previous to that time) All my PROPERTY in the town of Alexandria,
Situated on KING STREET—Consisting of A new two-story Brick House, two Framed Houses, and the Warehouse at present occupied by myself—Also,
One unimproved Lot, on Fayette- street. The above property is subject to a ground-rent of twenty dollars, eighty-four cents. For terms apply to the subscriber, John Violett. dow 11t Aug.
February 21.
HUGH SMITH, HAS JUST RECEIVED, BY THE
William from Liverpool,
A supply of Queens Ware, with the stock before on hand, received by the United States and the Medway, will enable him to sup- ply his customers, with a complete assortment of
Queens Ware, Glass and China. FOR SALE, On board the William, 6000 bushels Liverpool Coarse and fine SALT. June 10. W T F. & raw 2m.
FOR SALE,
The FARM on which I live, CONTAINING between 5 and 600 acres of level Land, well adapted in general to receive the Plaiter of Paris as a manure—on the post-road from the City of Washington to Port Tobacco, and about 8 miles below Piscataway. On it is every necessary building, plenty of ex- cellent spring water and a pump at the door— fruit trees in abundance and great variety, an excellent kitchen garden, several clover lots, some valuable low meadow ground, and wood and timber to last many years. Persons wishing to purchase, it is presumed will view the prem- ises previous to any contract, and therefore a fur- ther description is unnecessary. If I sell the land, it shall be given up to the purchaser 1st January next—And previous to that time, I will sell
All my moveable Property & Crop made, with some few exceptions. Being extremely infirm and unable to manage a farm, my object is to retire to some town or city and spend the remnant of my life. The terms of sale will be—One third of the purchase money in hand, one third at the end of 12 months from the day of sale, and the remain- ing one third at the end of two years, with legal interest thereon. Bonds with security, and a lien on the land, will be required. George Lee. Charles County, May 4. oawtf
NOTICE.
CONCERT-HALL, Boston, May, 1805.
The Subscriber respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, and those Gen- tlemen of the Southern States who may visit this part of the Continent during the Summer season, that the House known by the name of Concert- Hall , situate in a very central and pleasant part of the town, (corner of Court and Hanover streets) has been fitted up at a very great ex- pence with the genteel accommodation.
Those Gentlemen who may wish for Boarding and Lodging , it is presumed cannot find a more eligible and convenient House, or a more grate- ful reception than from the present occupant of Concert-Hall , whose assiduity to serve them shall exceed the liberality of their patronage. T. WHITCOMB. raw 3m.
STOLEN,
ABOUT a fortnight ago, TWO SILVER DESERT SPOONS, London make; the letter H engraved on the handles. Whoever can give information by which the Spoons can be recovered, shall receive a reasonable reward, and the full value paid for the detection of the thief. Apply to the Prisoner. July 17.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
Ran away from the subscribers, near Alexandria, on Friday the 19th in- stant, a Negro Woman named
NELLY;
ABOUT 25 years of age, 5 feet 3 or 4 inch- es high, dark complexion—She had on when she escaped, a calico jacket and white yarn petticoat—She was formerly the property of Tho- mas Claiborne, of Maryland, Prince George's county, near Piscataway, and purchased by the subscribers.
Any person apprehending said runaway, and securing her in any jail in this State or Maryland, shall be entitled to the above reward, and all rea- sonable expenses paid. THOMAS HUGHES. JOHN WILSON. July 20. zowtf
VALUABLE FAMILY MEDICINES.
Just received direct from the Patentees, and FOR SALE BY JAMES KENNEDY, JUN. DRUGGIST;
The following Valuable Medicines: Dr. Rawson's Anti-Bilious and Stomachel Bitters. PREPARED BY THOMAS H. RAWSON, Member of the Connecticut Medical Society.
THESE Bitters have undoubtedly had the most rapid sale of any Patent Medicine e- ver before discovered, and are justly appreciated for their singular and uncommon virtues for re- storing weak and decayed constitutions; and all that train of complicated complaints so common in the spring and fall seasons, such as intermittant Fevers and Agues, long Autumnal Fevers, Dy- senteries, &c. They are also a very pleasant bit- ter for common use, and where they are known they have taken the place and superceded the use of all other bitters in public houses as well as in private families.—Price 50 cents a box.
Dr. Lee's (Windham) Biliious Pills. THE great sale and increasing demand for these valuable pills for these twelve years past, be- speak their intrinsic worth. They have proved singularly efficacious in Bilious and Yellow fe- vers, Jaundice, Head Aches, Dysenteries, Biliious Cholic, Colicwrench, Female complaints, &c. The very great demand and high esteem in which these pills are held throughout the United States and the West Indies, has induced many to counterfeit them; the purchaser is requested to observe that the name of Samuel Lee, jun. (the patentee) is affixed to each bill of directions, in his own hand writing, or they will not be genu- ine. Price 50 cents a box.
Dr. Rawson's Itch Ointment.
A certain and safe application for that disa- greeable complaint called the ITCH . Price 42 cents a box.
Dr. Rawson's Anti Biliious Pills, or, Family Physic.
The extraordinary celebrity these pills have gained, the universal demand for them and esteem in which they are held by medical men of the first eminence, are sufficient testimonials of their in- trinsic worth. In great colics and sudden attacks of disorders, an early use of these pills often pro- duces the happiest effects, and taken once in eight or ten days in cases of indigestion, headaches, diz- ziness, pains in the stomach and bowels, dysen- teries, diarrheas, dropsies, &c. and a liberal use of my anti bilious bitters in the intermediate time has relieved patients almost to a miracle.— price 25 cents a box.
Thompson's Aromatic Tooth Paste.
For the scurvy in the teeth and gums, and for whitening and preserving the teeth. It likewise takes off all disagreeable smells from the breath, which generally arises from scorbatic gums and bad teeth. This paste is much in use, and high- ly esteemed by all those who value the preservati- on of their teeth, it may be applied at all times with the greatest safety. It is neatly put up in pewter boxes with paper directions. Price 50 cents a box.
Dr. Rawson's Worm Powders.
A medicine which for efficacy and safety in its operation stands unrivalled. The most authen- ticated proofs and respectable authorities of its astonishing virtues, and surprising effects, in ex- treme and alarming cases of worms, may be seen at the place of sale. Price 50 cents a packet.
Dr. Cooley's Vegetable Elixir; Or Cough Drops,
For Coughs, Colds, Asthmas, spitting of blood, and all diseases of the lungs. Its merits stand unrivalled. Price 50 cents a bottle.
Dr. Cooley's Rheumatic Pills.
Price 50 cents a box.
Hinkley's Infallible remedy for the Piles.
Price 50 Cents a Box. Very particular directions accompanying each of these valuable medicines.
He has likewise for Sale,
A general assortment of Drugs, Patent Me- dicines, Shop furniture and Vials; a few hand some Hall Lamps; Indian Shades; proof vials; Essence of Spruce; Patent Blacking; Madeira and Sherry wine; black bottles in hogsheads; Paints ground in oil; and a few barrels Fla- xseed Oil, which he will sell on reasonable terms for cash, or to punctual customers on a short credit.
A generous allowance will be made to those who purchase the above Medicines by the dozen. March 27. zow
PUBLIC SALE.
AGREEABLE to an order of the Wash- ing- ton County Court of Fairfax county, made March term, 1805, we the subscribers will offer for sale, on the 31 day of August next, the house of William Jacobs , in said county, our likely Virginia born slaves for cash; belong- ing to the estate of John Hampton jun. deceased for the purpose of making a division among the heirs of the deceased.
THOMAS POLLARD, jun. } Comrs. RICHARD SIMPSON, } WILLIAM SIMPSON, } June 15.
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 1, 1805.
Polygraphick Painting.
THIS art, so long kept a secret and exclusively prac- tised by the Polygraphick Society in London, is now in the possession of a Citizen of the United States lately arrived from Europe; who proposes to execute, by subscription, two hundred copies from an original Allegorical Painting in the Shakespeare Gallery, New- York, by permission of the Proprietor, being
A PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON,
Supported by LIBERTY, VIRTUE, and JUSTICE. VIRTUE is holding the emblem of the reward home- sprung. In the right of the piece, AMERICA, char- ter-tied as an Ab-original, is seated in a pensive posture lamenting her loss. In the left is PAINTING turned to HISTORY, for a subject worthy of her art, which supposed to answer,
"There is none more worthy than Washington."
The whole forming a more emblematical tribute to the memory of that great man, than has yet been offered to the public.
To those who esteem his public services and his private worth, and to the patrons of improvements in the fine arts, this work is dedicated. Such as are already fur- nished with different engravings on this subject, will, it is hoped, still find room for the present undertaking, when they consider, that it will be a PAINTING, and the design new, executed by a pencil, which renders it more durable than oil paintings—that it requires glass—that while their prints contain, perhaps a less resemblance only, this work affords a correct likeness, with the addition of six beautiful allegorical figures. The price also is reduced to as to leave, compara- tively, no object.
Subscriptions, at Eight Dollars each, payable on de- livery, (which is little more than the price of an en- graving of the same size) are received by Conrad & Co. Bookellers, Philadelphia; Robert Gray, Alexandria; Rapine, Conrad and Co. Capitol Hill City of Wash- ington; and generally by Bookellers throughout the Union; who will please to return their Subscription- pers to Conrad and Co. Philadelphia, previous to the first of November next, when the work will be ready for delivery.
Frames will be procured, of any pattern, if required on the most moderate terms.
IT IS ALSO PROPOSED TO EXECUTE PORTRAITS
Of Mr. and Mrs. Washington. On a smaller scale, 15 inches by 12; executed by the same process, and will be ready for delivery at the same time, on subscriptions of Four Dollars and Fifty Cents each, including a Gilt Frame. It is a principal aim of this work, to produce the most correct likenesses of the amiable couple.
One of the Paintings is now to be seen at Mr. Gads- by's Hotel, for a few days, who will receive visiting persons. As this copy is ordered to be sent to Richmon- d, another will be forwarded, if subscribers prefer Robert Gray, King Street Alexandria, with whom subscribers may also enter their names.
The Artist presumes that the secret art of Poly- graphick Painting is known only to himself in the U- States, having travelled from the Carolinas to Vir- ginia without finding a master of it. By this art, original paintings may be multiplied, so as to render difficult to point out the difference. The Polygraphick picture, of the two, when compared together, is the most brilliant, and the nature of the process cannot render it more durable. In fine the whole is a most act and beautiful a copy, that the mind is lost in admi- ration as to the method in which it is executed. July 3.
Union Cheap Bread Manufactory.
Opposite the Market, Adjoining James S. Scott's Royal Street— ALEXANDRIA—
By WILLIAM LOVELL,
Who begs leave to inform the Ladies, Gentle- men, and the Public in general, in this town, that on Wednesday, the first of May, he will commence baking; where they may be sup- plied with BREAD of the first quality and found-baked, on such terms never before ob- fered in this place; as follows:
THE eighteen penny loaf for 20 cents, nine penny loaf for 10 cents, four pence half penny loaf for 5 cents; and, for the convenience of those whose family or circumstances will not admit of LARGE BREAD, he will make the three penny loaf two ounces heavier than the weight fixed by the Clerk of the Market, as di- rected by the Corporation; so that the labouring man will be served on as good terms as the mer- chant. The BEST SUPERFINE FLOUR for house keeping at seven cents per pound, or fifteen pounds for a dollar. These Ladies and Gentle- men who wish to be regularly supplied at their own houses, will be obliging enough to send a line as above, which will be attended to. Great allowance to sellers of Bread. To prevent any misunderstanding the above terms are CASH, un- less where stated credits are agreed on, and those are expected to be regularly paid—the profits being small.
N. B. To Taverns, Boarding-houses, and large families, there will be an additional saving of ten per cent. in buying LARGE LOAVES in preference to SMALL.
April 30.
PRINTED DAILY, BY S. S. SNOWDEN.