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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. IV.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. DLXXXII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, JULY 2nd, 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
FOREIGN NEWS.
NEW-YORK, JUNE 25.
Foreign News —By the arrival of the Oliver Ellsworth, in 48 days from Liverpool, London papers to the 3d May are received at the office of the Morning Chronicle. These papers contain a Circular Letter of Lord Hawkesbury to the diplomatic characters at London, which may be termed a Manifesto of the British government in reply to the charge of endeavoring to procure the assassination of the First Consul. This official article will be found in our paper of this morning. We also give a brief summary of the most interesting news.
The Traveller of May 2, says "Mr. Addington's administration draws very near to its dissolution, and we understand that he has himself communicated to all his friends, both in and out of office, his determination to retire. His majesty is said to have received the information with considerable regret, and to have acceded to a new arrangement of ministers with difficulty. There is not one of Mr. Addington's principal colleagues, not even, we believe, the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Hawkesbury, who will retain his situation. Mr. Tierney has, we can state with confidence, given in his resignation. The list of the new ministers which are circulated in the public offices and the coffee-houses, are but the work of certain cabinet financiers, who can have no knowledge of what is going on, and may be considered as the mere coinages of their brain. The only thing decidedly fixed is, that Mr. Pitt is to be restored to his former supremacy in power and influence. We are inclined to think that several days will elapse before any new system of administration can be completed. The new Secretaries of State will, in all probability, be Mr. Fox for the foreign, and Lord Grenville for the home department."
We learn by the Hamburg mail, which arrived May 1d, that the Senate of Hamburg has acceded to the demand of the French minister, and, in this instance, permitted domiciliary visits to be made in that city, to discover any persons who may be obnoxious to the French government, or who may have any papers that can lead to the discovery of any plots or designs that may be formed against it. The influence of the First Consul is every where irresistible. His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany has forbidden all French emigrants to reside in any of the Austrian territories within fifty leagues of the frontiers of the French Republic."
Talleyrand is said to have denied all the charges brought against him till his twenty-second examination, when he is said to have confessed having seen Georges three different times.
The Batavian troops embarked in the Dutch flat bottomed vessels at Flushing, have been allowed to land at Ostend, where the whole Gallo Batavian flotilla is ready to put to sea at a moment's notice. The rest of the Batavian vessels at Flushing are daily expected at Ostend.
According to private letters from Munich of the 13th April, Mr. Drake, the British minister at the Bavarian court, on leaving that city, went to Salzburg, and from thence to the Austrian dominions. Previous to his departure, he is said to have insisted upon an audience of the Elector, which, however, was positively refused.
Letters from the Upper Rhine, of the 7th inst. state, that the French couriers, who lately passed through that part of the country to Munich, were bearers of peremptory dispatches from Bonaparte, to his diplomatic agent at Munich, to compel the Elector, by threats, to arrest Mr. Drake. Mr. Drake has, it is said, requested a passport to go to Vienna, which has been refused by the Imperial ministry. This circumstance occasioned a conference between the Austrian prime minister, Count Cobentzel, and the hon. Mr. Arthur Paget, who immediately sent off a courier to his court. The Bavarian courier sent to London an account of Mr. Drake's affair, passed thro' Hamburg a few days ago, on his way to Berlin.
FROM PARIS.
Accounts of April 18th, state that the Senators Consultum, which is to settle the hereditary permanence of the government, in a manner the most conducive to the welfare of France and the tranquillity of the world, is expected shortly to make its appearance. Also that Louis Bonaparte has been appoint-
ed counsellor of state, as he is the only one of the brothers of the First Consul who has male issue. This circumstance seems not irrelevant to the reports which still continue, of the establishment of an hereditary succession.
FROM VIENNA.
Accounts of April 7th, say, that in consequence of the arrest of French emigrants in the territory of Baden by French troops, the King of Sweden has caused a note to be delivered in to our court, by the Swedish envoy, Baron Armfeldt.
By letters from Vienna of the 5th April, the Archduke John was to leave that city on the 8th, on his tour to inspect the measures of defence in the Austrian harbours on the Adriatic.
FROM HUNGARY.
Letters from S. Martin, of the 28th, represent the insurrection in the Turkish province of Servia as extremely serious. The insurgent natives had taken the town of Schabats by assault, and put most of the troops composing the Turkish garrison to the sword; some of the Turkish troops retired to the citadel, from which they made a furious fire on the 23d, but were repulsed with loss. The Servian insurgents who have entered the place, amount to 5000 men: The Turks, by way of revenge, set fire to 130 houses, and murdered the Greek bishop and two very rich Christian inhabitants.
The insurgents have been joined by the Christians in Bulgaria, and their force is now near 30,000 men. They carry large magazines with them, but are still in want of artillery. They are divided into regiments; and all their booty in horses, arms, cattle, or money, is divided in common. They are commanded by Czerni George, who has invested Belgrade. They have likewise taken the town of Rudnick by assault, and cut in pieces the Turkish garrison, consisting of 300 men.
Letters from Constantinople, of the 14th March, say, Ali Pacha has been murdered on his way from Alexandria to Cairo, supposed by the Beys. The Grand Seignior and his ministers, in great consternation that their governor should have met such a fate, have appointed the Pacha of Acre, governor of Egypt, to restore tranquillity, and have sent a squadron of ships of war to support him.
A Russian frigate with transports having 900 troops, have been permitted to pass the Dardanelles for Corfu. A second squadron is expected.
CIRCULAR NOTE,
Addressed to the Foreign Ministers, resident at the Court of London.
Downing-street, April 30, 1804.
SIR, The experience which all Europe has had of the conduct of the French government, would have induced his majesty to pass over in silence, and to treat with contempt, all the accusations which that government might have made against his majesty's government, if the very extraordinary and unauthorised replies which several of the ministers of the foreign powers have thought proper to make to a recent communication from the minister of foreign affairs at Paris, had not given to the subject of that communication a greater importance than it would otherwise have possessed. His majesty has, in consequence, directed me to declare that he hopes he shall not be reduced to the necessity of repelling, with merited scorn and indignation, "the atrocious and utterly unfounded calumny that, the government of his majesty have been a party of plans of assassination." An accusation already made with equal falsehood and calumny by the same authority against the members of his majesty's government during the last war—an accusation incompatible with the honor of his majesty, and the known character of the British nation, and so completely devoid of any shadow of proof, that it may be reasonably presumed to have been brought forward at the present moment, for no other purpose than that of diverting the attention of Europe from the contemplation of the sanguinary deed which has recently been perpetrated by the direct order of the First Consul in France, in violation of the law of nations, and in contempt of the most simple laws of humanity and honor.
That his majesty's government should disregard the feelings of such of the inhabitants of France as are justly discontented with the existing government
that country—that they should refuse to listen to their designs of delivering their country from the degrading yoke of bondage under which it groans, or to give them aid and assistance, as far as those designs are fair and justifiable, would be to refuse fulfilling those duties which every wise and just government owes to itself and to the world in general, under circumstances similar to the present. Belligerent powers have an acknowledged right to avail themselves of all disadvantages that may exist in countries with which they may be at war. The exercise of that right (even if any degree doubtful) would be fully sanctioned in the present case not only by the present state of the French nation, but by the conduct of the government of that country, which, since the commencement of the present war, has constantly kept up communications with the disaffected in the territories of his majesty, particularly in Ireland, and which has assembled at this present moment on the coasts of France a corps of Irish rebels, designed to second them in their designs against that part of the United Kingdom.
Upon these circumstances, his majesty's Government would be unjustifiable, if they neglected the right they have to support, as far as is compatible with the principles of the Law of Nations, which civilized Governments have hitherto acknowledged, the efforts of such of the inhabitants of France, as are hostile to the present government. They ardently desire, as well as all Europe, to see an order of things established in that country more compatible with its own happiness, and with the security of the surrounding nations—but if that wish cannot be accomplished, they are fully authorised by the strictest principles of personal defence to endeavour to cripple the exertions, to distract the operations, and to confound the plans of a government whose system of warfare, as acknowledged by itself, is not only to distress the commerce, to diminish the power, & to abridge the dominions of its enemy, but also to carry devastation and ruin into the very heart of the British Empire.
In the application of these principles, his majesty has commanded me to declare, besides, that his government have never authorised a single act which could not stand the test of the strictest principles of Justice and usages recognised & practised in all ages. If any minister accredited by his majesty at a foreign Court has kept up correspondence with persons resident in France, with a view to obtain information upon the designs of the French government, or for any other legitimate object, he has done nothing more than what Ministers, under similar circumstances, have always been considered as having a right to do with respect to the countries with which their Sovereigns were at war; and he has done much less than that which it could be proved the Ministers and Commercial Agents of France have done towards the disaffected in different parts of his majesty's territories; thus, in carrying on such a correspondence, he would not have in any manner violated his public duty. A minister in any foreign country is obliged, by the nature of his office and the duties of his situation, to abstain from all communication with the disaffected of the country where he is accredited, as well as from every other act injurious to the interests of that country; but he is not subject to the same restraints, with respect to countries with which his sovereign is at war. His actions to them may be praiseworthy or blameable, according to the nature of the actions themselves; but they do not constitute any violation of his public character, except in as far as they militate against the country, or the security of the country, where he is accredited.
But of all the governments which pretend to be civilized Governments, that of France is the one which has the least right to appeal to the law of nations. With what confidence can it appeal to that law? A Government, which, from its commencement of hostilities, has never ceased to violate it! It promised protection to the British subjects resident in France, and who might be desirous of remaining there after the recall of his majesty's Ambassadors. It revoked that promise without any previous notice—it condemned those same persons to be prisoners of war: and it detains them still in that quality, in contempt of its own engagements, and of the usages universally observed by all civilized nations. It has applied that new and barbarous law, even to individuals who had the authority and
protection of the French Ambassadors and ministers at foreign courts, to travel through France on their return to their own country. It commanded the seizure of an English packet boat in one of the ports of Holland, tho' its Ambassador in that country had previously engaged to let the packet boats of the respective countries pass in perfect safety until notice should be given to the contrary. It has detained and condemned in one of the ports of France, a vessel which had been lent thither as a matter of indulgence, in order to carry to France the French governor of one of the different islands which have been conquered by his majesty's arms. Its conduct relative to the garrison of St. Lucie has not been less extraordinary; the principal fort of that island had been taken by assault, yet the garrison had been allowed all the privileges of prisoners of war, and had been permitted to return to France, with an understanding that an equal number of English prisoners should be released. Yet, notwithstanding that indulgence on the part of the British commander, to which, by the nature of the case, the French garrison could not have the slightest pretension, not a single prisoner has been restored to this country.
Such have been the proceedings of the French government towards the power with which it is at war. What has its conduct been to those powers with which it remained at peace? Is there a treaty it has not broken? Is there an adjoining territory whose independence it has not violated? It is for the powers of the continent to determine how long they will tolerate these unexampled outrages. Yet is it too much to say, that if they do suffer without control or resistance the continuance of such a course of proceedings on the part of any government whatever, they will soon see an end to that salutary system of public right, in virtue of which the societies of Europe have maintained and enforced for ages, the sacred obligations of humanity and justice.
(Signed)
HAWKESBURY.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
April 23.
DEFENCE OF THE NATION.
Mr. FOX made his promised motion on this important business.—In a very long speech he stated the insufficiency, in his opinion of our present means of defence against the enemy. He recommended the increase of the regular army, and the establishment of an armed peasantry, artisans, & the general population of the country, for, if the enemy were determined to invade us, he would continue the preparation year after year. He disapproved the conduct of Ministers, and concluded by moving "that it be referred to a committee of the whole House to revise the several bills for defence of the country, and to consider of such further measures as may be necessary to make that defence more complete and permanent."
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the Hon. Gentleman had urged one of the most extraordinary motions, that within his parliamentary experience has ever been submitted to the House. The object of it was to appoint a committee, to revise the acts that have been passed for the defence of the country, and to consider and provide means for the protection of it in future. He defended, at great length, the conduct of Ministers, and concluded by observing, that a great state necessity might justify the appointment of such a committee; but he left it to the wisdom of the House to determine, if any proofs of such necessity have been advanced in support of the present dangerous and extraordinary measure.—It is upon these grounds, he said, I oppose the motion of the Hon. Gentleman, and I hope a majority of this House will agree with me in opinion, that no found reasons have been urged to recommend it; that no necessity has been proved to justify it, and that as it has been brought forward from motives different from what are professed, it is unworthy to be entertained or adopted by the House.
Mr. PITT, in a very brilliant speech, of great length, disapproved of the conduct of the Ministers in the defence of the country, and particularly with regard to drilling the volunteer corps, which he said had by no means been sufficient to render them fit for actual military service. He did not mean to say that 400,000 volunteers, a strong military
force, and a well disciplined militia, was not adequate to the safety of the country; but what number of that force, and in what condition, he asked, could they be assembled near any of the points likely to be attacked? At the close of his speech, he recommended a system of fortification, and said I am convinced, that in no one instance, in no one branch of defence is the country in that state of security with which the House ought to be satisfied.—He concluded by giving his warmest support to Mr. Fox's motion.
Mr. TORKE defended the conduct of Ministers in strong terms. He was willing to sustain his portion of the censure if any would apply; but he contended that according to his own views the best attention had been paid to the security of the nation.
Mr. G. VANSITTART said, he considered the present motion to be an attempt to force the Ministers out of their places, and was similar to that made in the year 1784, which was repudiated by every person in the country.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL, in a very animated speech, said that if Bonaparte felt any disposition to insult and attack this country, he knew of nothing so well calculated to induce him to believe he may do it with impunity as the language held on that occasion by the Right Hon. Gentleman, (Mr. Fox.) He recapitulated several of the statements of the public force in vindication of the vigilance and activity of Ministers, which he argued were never surpassed by any Ministers of this country at any period of our history.—For the peace which was concluded, he laid every British heart acknowledged gratitude to his Majesty's present ministers, and to them is entirely owing the unanimity of the whole empire in support of the present war—an unanimity worth all the soldiers that were disbanded at the conclusion of the peace. But the hon. gentleman allows no excuse to his majesty's ministers, for recommending an unavoidable war, but charges them with involving the country in danger. He concluded by observing, that it would become the wisdom of the house to pause before they adopted the motion.
Mr. WINDHAM argued in favour of the motion; and Mr. Tierney, in reply, said he would resist his (Mr. W.) return to power, as a thing that would spread dismay through the country.
On a division of the House, there appeared, for Mr. Fox's motion 204; against it 256—Majority 52.
The House adjourned at 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning.
LONDON, MAY 3.
The Hamburg mail of the 23th ult. brings late intelligence from Paris to the 18th, and Mouchers have been received to the same date. It appears from a variety of concurring articles that the Corsican's ambition is on the point of being gratified with the title of Emperor of the Gauls.
The report of a regency is revived and accredited in the best informed circles; and the measure is said to have the full approbation of his majesty. Several days must elapse before any final arrangement of the new ministry can be formed. The rumours on this subject are too contradictory and ridiculous to be treated with any serious observations.
A morning paper says, "His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, on Monday morning, declared to Mr. Calcraft and others, his determination to throw his whole weight into the scale of opposition. This it is added, possibly may have accelerated the decision taken by ministers."
PARIS, April 17.
As the spring advances, the First Consul has changed his residence of the Thuilleries, for that of St. Cloud, where the day before yesterday the Sunday audience and presentations took place for the first time.
The discovery of the conspiracy has again rendered all persons deemed dangerous, and even all rumors, objects of the particular attention of the magistrates in the capital. The governor of Paris issued, the day before yesterday, the following address to the officers and subalterns of the garrison and national guards:
"The governor of Paris recommends to the aids-de-camp, officers and subalterns of the garrison and national guards, to enlighten the citizens, wherever they may find them, on the false reports which the disaffected endeavor to propagate. They do not lack any means,

For now they give it out, that the death of Pichegru, is not the result of suicide; now again they spread abroad, that a great many prisoners are shot every night. Let the citizens know, that military as well as civil justice, is not executed without public forms; and that not one guilty person has been condemned by the military tribunals, without his sentence having been printed and posted up immediately.
The criminal tribunal continues its proceedings with the greatest activity. Whatever is spread relative to the facts, more or less important, with which the prisoners stand charged, must be considered as false reports. The arrests which have taken place since that of general Moreau, have confirmed his guilt. Ducorps, one of the brigands, described in the list published by the Chief Judge, is just now arrested at Chartres.
To this moment proofs have been found of every thing which the Chief Judge has said, and of nothing else but what he has said.
This address closes with the following phrase:—“The opinion of all ranks is always essentially connected with the confidence and love which the First Consul has a right to expect from Frenchmen.”
On the same day, when gen. Murat's address was published, the prefect of police in the capital, took new measures of safety against suspected persons in this city and its environs. He has given orders, by an arrete, dated April 15, that all persons included in the amnesty for the civil war, who may be either at Paris, or in the rural communes of the department of Seine, in those of Sevres, Meudon and St. Cloud, or the department of Seine and Oise, must appear in three days from the publication of this order at the office of the Secretary-General of the Prefecture of Police, to get their acts of amnesty, passports, and licenses of residence examined. They are to make a declaration of their names, residences and professions, before and since the revolution; the places where their property lies; the motives which have induced them to choose their places of abode, and to continue in the same. These persons are to remain under immediate inspection, and not to change their residence without leave from the Prefect of police.
HAMBURG, April 24.
The report of the intended divorce of Bonaparte and his wife is renewed with greater confidence, and it is added, that Bonaparte will then espouse the Queen Regent of Etruria, to which kingdom the states of Parma and Piacenza will be immediately added, and that Madame Bonaparte will marry some other prince, who however is not named.
Letters from Ancona, say, that the first division of the Russian fleet, consisting of two ships of the line, artillery and ammunition, is arrived at Corfu, and two more divisions are expected. Admiral Nelson has received such reinforcements, that he can form two squadrons, one to blockade Toulon, and the other to pursue, as it is hoped, the Barbary states.
Letters from the Russian frontiers, of the 12th inst. state, that a treaty of alliance between Great Britain and Russia will, in all probability, soon be concluded, under the auspices of Count Markoff, who is now high in favor with his sovereign.
The Russian fleet in the Baltic is in complete readiness for sea, and the preparations in the Black Sea are continued with vigor.
STUTTGARD, April 4.
Yesterday Mr. Spencer Smith, English minister to the elector of Wirtemberg, departed suddenly. He spent several hours in burning all his papers. The Abbe Prigaud, who had been given to him at London by the Abbe Batel, to frame the conspiracy, which they planned in France, followed him in his flight.
It was reported here, that Mr. Spencer Smith had a mission relative to the troubles in the interior of France, but we should never have thought that he would have debased his character so far as to embrace it in such an infamous plot as the latter did.
A few days ago, Spencer Smith had sent many bills to Paris; he had also sent some to Zurich; which induces us to believe that he was no stranger to the riots which agitated Switzerland at present. What a public moral! Good God! What a government is that which makes use of the privileges of diplomatic inviolability to blow up every where the embers of discord and crime with impunity! What a government must that be which have the meanest plots conducted directly by ministers representing their Sovereign!
NEW-YORK, June 26.
By the Martha from London, regular files of papers to the latter end of April, and by the Diligence, from Dublin, Irish papers to the 11th May, and London to the 6th at midnight, are received at
the office of the Morning Chronicle. We lay before our readers their most interesting contents.
CHANGE OF MINISTERS.
On this event that is hourly expected, public curiosity is greatly excited. A London paper gives the following paragraphs on this subject, under date of Sunday, May 6th, 12 o'clock at night.
Although a considerable portion of our impression has been worked off, we stop the press to announce that to this moment nothing has been settled as to the formation of a new administration. His majesty has not seen Mr. Pitt.
Mr. Addington has not given in his resignation, as has been erroneously stated in some of the daily papers; and it is equally untrue that he has declared his resolution to retire from a public situation for ever. Such a declaration would be highly unbecoming a man who appears to have been ever governed by a sense of duty to his sovereign and his country, and by which sentiments the public are bound to conclude that he will continue to be actuated, whether in a public or private station.
It is whispered that Mr. Addington has formed the determination, neither to accept pension, place nor rank, on his retiring from office.
The public have been already informed that Mr. Pitt, by desire of the king, communicated to his majesty the names of those persons whom he and his friends wished to comprise in the new administration, and who united most of the talent and the influence of the country. It was even so late as yesterday evening asserted that this list had not been then returned; that his majesty did not disapprove the admission of Mr. Fox and his friends into the cabinet, but that he decidedly objected to any alteration in the existing religious establishments of any part of the United Kingdom.
The king, it is further stated, has personally objected to some members of the opposition, amongst whom are the marquis of Stafford and lord Grenville; while it is added that his majesty has expressed an inclination that the duke of Portland, lord Eldon, and lord Hawkesbury may retain their present appointments. There are a thousand other reports afloat on this interesting topic.
The report of a Regency is revived and accredited in the best informed circles; and the measure is said to have the full approbation of his majesty.
The elector of Baden has charged the Prussian minister, count Guertz, who votes for him at Ratisbon, to notify to the Diet the late violation of his territory by the French. The communication, however, is to be made individually to the ministers of the different courts, the elector being deterred from a public avowal of the injury, by an apprehension of exciting the hostility of his lawless neighbour.
Talleyrand is stated to have quoted the example at the elector of Baden, to induce the elector of Bavaria to connive at a similar violation of the law of nations in relation to some emigrants who had sought an asylum in his dominions.
The king of Sweden is stated to have been much chagrined by the answer of Bonaparte, to a note which he addressed to him from Carllsruhe on the arrest of the duke d'Enghien.
A great number of Italians have been ordered to leave Vienna, in consequence of application made by the French minister to the Austrian cabinet to that effect.
The First Consul is stated to have recently declared in a circle of private friends, that he was glad to find that Moreau is not so culpable as it was at first supposed.
It was strongly reported at Paris at the date of the last letters, that the two Polignacs, and the count de Rochefoucault have died in prison.
The secret intercourse between the First Consul and his Senate continues, although its occasion or progress has not transpired.
To countenance the shallow tale of Pichegru having been guilty of suicide, an order has been issued, that the prisoners in the Temple shall be unremittingly guarded: in the apartments of Moreau, Georges &c. five gens d'armes are stationed night and day. Thuriot, a brother in law of the infamous Danton, and a favorite agent of Robespierre, is the person to whom the examination of prisoners in the Temple is confided.
By the the Negotie, Vander May, the Vriendschap, Noordburgh, and some other vessels which yesterday arrived in the river from Holland and Flanders, we are led to believe the long meditated attack upon this empire will not be delayed much longer. Some accounts from Bruges, dated the 1st inst. express an opinion that it will be attempted about the middle of this month; and adds “all the troops, to be employed in the enterprise, are now assembled in the numerous camps between Montreuil and Blackenberg.”
FROM SPAIN:
A letter from Madrid, of the 5th April says, “By an ordinance published here this day, all individuals and fami-
lies, whether natives or foreigners, who have no certain occupation or fixed residence, unless they can give satisfactory reasons for their continuing here, must leave this city within thirty days. In any case, a time will be prescribed for their departure, and the foreign ambassadors must engage for foreigners of their nation, of whom they must give a list, if they wish to prolong their stay.
“We are now fearful that our neutrality will not continue longer, the government having given orders that British prizes shall not be sold in Spanish ports. The English envoy, Mr. Frere, and the consul general, Mr. Hunter have received explicit intimation on this subject.
Private letters from Paris assert that a message has been sent to the Senate upon the subject of declaring the sovereign power hereditary in the family of Bonaparte. Upon the demise of Bonaparte, the son of Louis will be his successor in the empire of the Gauls; and should he not be of age when that affair happens, Joseph or Louis will be declared regent. Such, at least, is the rumour contained in private letters.
The first act of the consul, after the assumption of his new dignity will, it is added, be to pardon Moreau, and to send him to pass the remainder of his life in exile at the Mauritius.
(OFFICIAL NOTE.)
General Lasues, the French ambassador at Lisbon, having thought proper to insist on the Portuguese government allowing to be inserted in the Lisbon Gazette, the scandalous calumnies respecting the British government and royal family, which appeared some time ago in the Moniteur, Lord Robert Fitzgerald immediately transmitted the following note to the viscount of Balsamao, chief secretary of state:
“Lisbon, March 16, 1804.
“The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of his Britannic majesty, has the honor to represent to his Excellency the Viscount de Balsamao, that, for the present he abstains from making his complaints in form to the government of his royal Highness the Prince Regent, respecting the article extracted and translated from the French paper, called The Moniteur, of the 18th of February, and which has been printed and published in an extraordinary supplement to No. 11, of the Lisbon Gazette, of the 12th of this month.
“The undersigned will, for the present, content himself with remarking that this infamous article, so worthy of its authors, is suited to the style and genius of the official Journal from whence it is copied; but it is altogether unworthy of a place in that, which gives the translation of it in the Portuguese language; and the undersigned infinitely regrets that this remarkable essay on the liberty of the press at Lisbon, has been distinguished by the publication of an atrocious libel, invented at pleasure by the enemy of his Britannic majesty, against the most ancient and faithful ally of Portugal.
“The undersigned reserves to himself the advantage which results from this facility of printing at Lisbon, the instant his government shall authorize him, to avail himself of it, for the purpose of inserting a formal denial of the absurd calumny in question; if that government, with its strong sense of conscious rectitude, its glory and its renown, would trouble itself so far as to answer similar accusations, and does not rather consider it to be more consistent with its own dignity, to treat with the sovereign contempt which it has always witnessed for the contemptible insinuations of the same kind, by which its enemies have so often, but vainly, attempted to blacken its reputation, since the epoch of the French revolution.
“The undersigned has the honor to renew to his Excellency, the homage of his high consideration and esteem.
Signed, “R. S. FITZGERALD.”
LONDON, May 2.
Mr. Addington, we understand, remains in office only till another administration is formed; a work we should suppose, of no little delicacy and difficulty. Several of our cotemporaries however, have already settled the business, and have already filled up all the various offices, to the great surprise, no doubt, of many of the persons whom they have nominated to different posts. Whether Mr. Pitt will come into power with or without Mr. Fox we know not. It is, however, we believe, certain that Mr. Pitt will be at the head of the new administration. A message from his Majesty was communicated to him on Monday, by the Lord Chancellor; and after conveying his answer to the Queen's house, his lordship had a second interview with him yesterday. It is said that he waited upon his Majesty this morning. We do not hear that Mr. Fox has been sent for: It is probable, therefore, that Mr. Pitt has the arrangement of the new ministry. But it is reasonable to expect that the new ministry will be composed of the three confederated parties. Mr. Pitt will in
all probability, be first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer, and Mr. Fox and Lord Grenville, two of the secretaries of state; Lord Loughborough perhaps will be the new chancellor. As yet, however, nothing has been arranged, nothing decisively determined upon, except the resignation of the present administration.
Pursuant to a Batavian Electoral Ordinance, such emigrants only are tolerated in those dominions, who shall produce documents attested by the French envoy at that court, proving their being comprised in the amnesty, or expecting soon to be included in the same; also those who have become residents in that Electorate, the old and infirm who cannot travel. All the others are to quit the Electoral provinces within eight days.
A private letter from Berlin, of the 16th of April, says, “The arrival of two aids-de-camps of the First Consul, and three couriers has caused several reports. In our diplomatic circles, it is said and believed, that they are come to propose that our king shall change his title to that of Emperor, and that Bonaparte, in return for this compliment, shall be acknowledged Emperor of the Gauls,” with the unanimous consent of the French nation: Our king is also to guarantee the succession to the throne to the family of Bonaparte. It is also proposed, with a promise of further advances, that our sovereign shall keep Louis XVIII. and the other Bourbons, confined within the limits of the city of Warsaw; and to permit a French agent to reside there to inspect their conduct. I have heard that our ministers have endeavored to elude a direct answer, and though pressed, have declared that our sovereign would follow the example of other sovereigns, and that our ambassadors, particularly those at Petersburg and Vienna, should be instructed to learn the opinion of those courts upon the subject.”
It is confidently stated, that Bonaparte's nephew, Napoleon, the youngest son of Louis Bonaparte, will be provisionally appointed his successor, under the guardianship of Joseph Bonaparte. The Legion of Honour is also to be declared hereditary; the Legislative body and Tribunate to be united, and their members to be divided into land holders, literati, and commercial men, and their functions to be continued for ten years.
The First Consul is said to receive every evening, at St. Cloud, a report of the examination of the conspirators. The confinement of general Moreau is rendered more irksome by the presence of a nightly guard in his prison, as it may be supposed, from the humane principle of preventing suicide.
After concluding a very beneficial loan, for the benefit of the country and the contractors, Mr. Addington yesterday opened the Budget. The burdens are as moderate as, in the present state of affairs, could have been expected. The War taxes are to be augmented in their produce one million.
This augmentation is upon wine, from 12l. to 19 guineas a ton; an augmentation which the wine merchants were told last year to expect.—The produce of this tax is estimated at
£200,000
An addition of 12 1/2 per cent on the articles under the head Consolidated Customs, excepting Wine, Tea, Cotton and Wool, and doubling the Duty on Raisins and Sweets. The estimated produce of this addition is
800,000
£1,000,000
This is the proposed augmentation of the war taxes to a million beyond their present produce.
The interest of the loan is to be provided for in another way; it amounts to between 7 and 800,000. It is proposed to consolidate the Stamp Duties, rather lessening the duty on stamps used in legal proceedings, and increasing the duty on stamps for the transfer of property. The Minister supposes the produce of this consolidation will be 800,000l. which will more than cover the interest of the loan.
The following Message from the First Consul to the Conservative Senate has been printed by order of the Senate.
St. Cloud, 28 Germinal (18 April) 12th year of the French Republic.
BONAPARTE, First Consul of the French Republic, to the Conservative Senate.
Senators, The Senator Joseph Bonaparte, grand officer of the legion of honor, has testified to me the desire of partaking in the dangers of the army encamped on the coasts of Boulogne, that he may share in its glory.
I have thought it for the good of the state, and that the Senate would per-
ceive with pleasure, that after having rendered important services to the Republic, as well by the solidity of his counsels in circumstances the most serious, as by the knowledge, ability, and wisdom he has displayed in the successive negotiations of the treaty of Morfontaine, which terminated our differences with the United States of America; in that of Luneville, which gave peace to the Continent; and more recently in that of Amiens, which had restored peace between France and England, the Senator Joseph Bonaparte should be placed in a situation to contribute to the vengeance which the French people promise themselves for the violation of the latter treaty, and that he should have the opportunity given him of acquiring a full stronger title to the esteem of the nation.
Having already served under my eyes in the first campaigns of the war, and given proofs of his courage and of his skill in the art of war in the rank of chief of battalion, I have nominated him Colonel Commandant of the fourth regiment of the line, one of the most distinguished corps of the army, and which is reckoned amongst those who, always placed in situations of the greatest peril, have never lost their colours, and have very frequently decided the victory.
I desire, therefore, that the Senate agree to the request which will be made to them by the Senator Joseph Bonaparte for the leave of absence from the Senate during the time which the occupations of the war may detain him with the army.
(Signed) BONAPARTE.
The Senate charged its Vice-President and Secretaries to express to the First Consul the sentiment which that body partake of with all France for his illustrious brother.
The gates of the city of Havre were closed on the 17th April. It was said that the search for an officer of distinction in the English navy, who had introduced himself under the disguise of a French sailor, occasioned this measure. The inhabitants have been invited to make known all strangers whom they may have in their houses.
LONDON, April 30.
A Commercial Treaty between Russia and American, on terms highly favorable to the latter, is stated to be on the eve of conclusion.
A property tax of 19 per cent has been imposed in Denmark, to aid in the measures of defence, which the conduct of France has rendered necessary.
THEATRE.
PROPOSALS will be received until Tuesday the third of July inclusive, by either of the subscribers, for finishing in a plain style the INTERIOR of the Theatre, for CASH, payable as the work progresses.
Arrangements having been made for the immediate execution of the roof, the contractors for finishing the interior will be expected to proceed without delay, and to give security to complete it for performance before the first day of November next.
JOHN P. VAN NESS, } Directors.
SAMUEL H. SMITH,
THOMAS LAW,
ROBERT BRENT,
WILLIAM BRENT.
MEDITERRANEAN PASSPORTS.
Notice is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport issued to vessels of the United States; that from the eighth day of July next, those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport of which they may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange: and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use.
Department of State, }
23d of May, 1804. }
The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Collectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices.
May 20—2 v.6m

WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, JULY 2, 1804.
GENERAL ARMSTRONG has arrived in this City.
We are desired to state that JOHN P. VAN NESS is added to the Committee of arrangements for the 4th of July.
We are desired to state that the Address agreed to be delivered by Mr. Van Ness, on the 4th instant, in commemoration of American Independence, will commence in or near the Treasury Office at 11 o'clock A. M. precisely.
Mr. Trumbull, the American Commissioner, under the British treaty, has arrived in this country.
The republican members of the legislature of Rhode Island, have nominated Gershom Taber, James Helm, James Aldrich, and Benjamin Remington, as eligible persons for Electors of President and Vice President.
They have also nominated Joseph Stanton and Nehemiah Knight for Representatives in Congress from that state.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman residing in Winchester, Virginia.
"A mountain, fifteen or twenty miles hence (from Winchester) bursted; and an area of fifty or sixty acres of earth fell into the adjacent valley, to the consternation and utter ruin of the inhabitants; the force and violence being such as to have crushed and destroyed trees, fences, houses and every thing which was in its way. The mass of earth, gravel and rocks fallen on the surface of the bottoms has not only destroyed the crops thereon growing, but has covered the soil so deep as to render it almost useless for cultivation in future."
The following Resolutions have passed both branches of the Legislature of New-Hampshire. But remain, at present, without the approval or disapprobation of the Executive.
WHEREAS, in the present prosperous state of the common country, many of the presses of the United States are daily teeming with abuse and invective against the constituted authorities of our General Government.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court convened, That they view with regret and disapprobation the disorganizing sentiments inculcated through the medium of a free press, apparently designed to alienate the affections of the people from the general government, and to abuse and vilify the President and principal officers of the United States.
Resolved, That they congratulate their fellow-citizens throughout the union, upon the happy result of those measures of the General Government, which have secured to us those rights which were lately invaded, without an appeal to arms.
Resolved, That they repose full confidence in the present administration of the general government, and rest assured that such measures will continue to be pursued as shall most effectually preserve the peace, secure the commercial rights and maintain the general interest of the union? and having the fullest confidence in the justice, benevolence and wisdom of the President of the United States, they do hereby express their unalterable determination to co-operate with the General government, in all necessary and proper measures to preserve the union, to establish justice, to ensure domestic tranquility, to provide for the common defence, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of civil liberty.
PROPOSED.
Of the Minority, against the above Resolutions.
From these resolutions we feel ourselves bound, by the conviction of our mind, the duty we owe our constituents, to enter our dissent for the following reasons, viz.—1st. In the present state of the public mind, it is, in our view the wisest tendency of the above resolutions to increase the flame of party contention which already threaten the destruction of our happy country. 2d. It is our decided opinion that the acquisition of New-Orleans, which appears to be referred to in the above resolutions, might have been obtained without the probable expense of blood, but without that profusion of treasure which has been expended in its purchase; and at the same time we consider the unwieldy and undefined territory, thereby annexed to the United States as deranging the relation of this state to the general Body, and thus threatening in its final operation one of the most fearful calamities, a total dissolution of that confederation, on which we conceive our strength and safety essentially depend, and also as opening a door by its extension and unguarded frontier to every invading foe. 3d. Although we feel ready to exert whatever of influence we possess, against
that perversion of a free press by which the General or state governments, or any particular member of the same are unduly stigmatized; and scruple not to declare our unalterable determination to co-operate in all measures which appear conducive to the public good, yet we are sorry to be compelled to say that many measures of the General government will not permit us to repose that entire confidence in its justice, benevolence or wisdom which these resolutions express.
New-Hampshire Legislature.
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
On Saturday, the 16th June, governor Gilman met the two branches of the legislature, and delivered the following speech:
Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Senate,
Mr. Speaker, and gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
On this annual meeting, designated by our constitution of Government, for the purpose of transacting such business as the public good may require, it must afford much satisfaction to the representatives of a free people, that health and private felicity are so generally enjoyed throughout this state; and while with grateful hearts, we acknowledge the kindness of Divine Providence in these blessings, may it be our pleasure, as it has become our duty, by the solemn obligations which we have taken upon ourselves, to use all the constitutional means in our power for promoting and preserving the civil and religious welfare of our fellow-citizens.
A letter from the President of the United States, with an act of Congress proposing an alteration, as it respects the choosing of a President and Vice President, was laid before the legislature, at their last session, and the consideration thereof postponed to the present. The system of government was framed and adopted after much solemn deliberation, provision was wisely made for alterations, as time and experience might point out the necessity therefor—but the reasons for a change ought to be clear and strong; less, while endeavouring to avoid some apparent inconvenience, greater unforeseen advantages are produced: and by one change after another the constitution be essentially altered, and the harmony of the system destroyed.
In the course of the present year electors are to be appointed for the purpose of voting for President and Vice President of the United States. The act of the legislature respecting electors, passed in June, 1800, being temporary; it will be necessary that another act should be passed in the present session.
The frequent escapes of criminals and others, from our common prisons, seems to require the attention of the legislature to the subject. When the hope of impunity is great, one mean of preventing crimes is wanting. If some plan could be devised, and carried into execution, for confining criminals to labor, it might have a tendency to reform them; or at least those who were able to labor, might earn their living without expense to the public.
A box, containing copies of laws of the United States, was received in April last; they have been brought to this place to be disposed of, as you may think proper to direct. They are those passed at the first session of the seventh congress, which finished in May, 1802. The laws since that time have not been received.
It will afford me much satisfaction to co-operate with you, Gentlemen, in such measures as are calculated to promote and secure the lasting welfare of our fellow citizens.
JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN.
June 14, 1804.
ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
May it please your Excellency,
Agreeably to the suffrages of our fellow citizens, we have assembled for transacting such business, as the public good may require; yet, while we contemplate with grateful hearts the kindness of Divine Providence, in the distribution of health and private felicity, so generally enjoyed throughout this state, we frankly acknowledge our unworthiness, and feel sensible of our inability to discharge all those important duties, which the solemn obligations we have taken upon ourselves demand, and the public welfare require; and no constitutional means in our power, for promoting and preserving the welfare of our fellow citizens in their civil and religious liberties, shall fail for want of our support and honest exertions to put them in operation.
The proposed amendment of our Federal Constitution, respecting the designation in the office of President & Vice-President of the United States, will, without doubt, be decided the present session. We coincide with your Excellency, that the system of our federal government was framed and adopted after much solemn deliberation by the collected wisdom and talents of our nation, and that provision was wisely made for
alteration, as time and experience might point out necessity therefor: We shall therefore give it that due consideration which its importance demands.
We are alarmed, and view with concern the frequent escapes from our common prisons, and the increase of convicts in our courts of justice; and we feel more and more convinced that the present code of our criminal laws are deficient, and require our immediate attention. The only effectual method, we humbly presume, will be to erect a state prison, under proper regulations, where convicts may be confined to labor, and prevent that waste of public money, yearly expended under the existing laws, without having any tendency to reform or reform the vicious and unprincipled part of mankind, which have been so multiplied in the community of this state.
Accept, Sir, our congratulations on your re-election to the office of first magistrate in our state government; your experience, united with talents worthy the station in which your Excellency presides, affords us assurance that you will cheerfully unite with us, in such measures as will tend to secure the lasting welfare of our fellow citizens; and with pleasure, we assure your Excellency, that we shall pay the strictest attention to any measures you shall please to communicate to us, as well as to those you have already communicated.
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.
May it please your Excellency,
The House of Representatives cordially join with your Excellency in the sentiment, that it affords cause of congratulation that health and private felicity are so generally enjoyed throughout this state, and acknowledge with gratitude the kindness of that Divine Providence, which hath conferred upon us so great a share of public and private prosperity. We hope and trust, that in the respective situations in which the sufferings of our fellow citizens have placed us, we shall faithfully discharge the duties devolved upon us, and use all the constitutional means in our power to promote and preserve the civil and religious rights and privileges of our fellow citizens.
The act of Congress, proposing an alteration in the mode of electing a President and Vice-President of the United States, will receive that early and attentive consideration which its importance demands. The constitution of the United States was formed and adopted upon the most wise and mature deliberation, and is happily calculated to attain its object—the liberty and happiness of the citizens: But as in all other human systems, time and experience point out alterations which would be productive of general utility; the constitution has therefore wisely provided the means by which they might be effected. Such alterations ought to be made only upon due consideration, after the fullest view of the subject, and upon tracing the operation to its remotest consequences, lest whilst endeavouring to avoid apparent inconveniences more serious evils might be produced. We are urged by the most powerful considerations to guard against effectually altering or impairing that system which guards our dearest rights, and which under a wise and patriotic administration, affords so great a share of national respectability and private happiness.
The state of our common prisons and the devising some mode of punishing particular species of crimes, by confinement to labor, are subjects deserving legislative consideration. Some plan for this purpose, which would take from criminals all reasonable expectation of escaping with impunity, and which would have the greatest tendency to reform them, and to lessen or defray the expenses incident to their conviction, must be wished for by all who feel an interest in the public security and happiness.
The subjects to which our attention has been or may be called, shall receive our consideration. And, in all such measures as are calculated to promote the best interests of our constituents, we shall with pleasure co-operate with your Excellency.
Moston, June 21.
The Senate on Tuesday and yesterday were occupied by the motion of Mr. Ely. A postponement of the subject was moved by Gen. Hull, which was rejected, 22 to 13. An amendment was then offered by Mr. Bidwell, which was also rejected by a like majority. He then made a motion to strike out the whole of the preamble of Mr. Ely's motion; on which an animated and spirited discussion of the principles and fatal tendency of the resolve proposed, took place. Mr. Bidwell's motion was advocated by the Mover, gen. Hull, Dr. Hill, gen. Chandler, Mr. Bartlett and Mr. Howe; and opposed by Messrs. Quincy, Phillips, jun. Phillips, Prescott, Derby, Ruff and Hooker,—the motion was lost, 21 to 14. The final question was then called for, put and carried by a like majority.
NEW-YORK, June 25.
Captain Bennett, of the ship Oliver Ellsworth, informs, that an additional dock duty on all American vessels was in forwardness at Liverpool when he failed, for the purpose of raising 7 millions for the benefit of the corporation of that place—and though it was opposed by the merchants, it was believed the measure would carry.
June 25.
Captain Taylor, of the Columbia, in 53 days from Lisbon, informs us that Lord Nelson is certainly dead; and that the vessels in the harbour of Lisbon wore their colours half mast, as mourning for that event, two days previous to his sailing.
He also states a report current, on the change at that place, that the king of Naples and the royal family had been arrested by order of the First Consul. A gentleman who came passenger in the Columbia, had received the above information from the German Consul.
June 27.
FURTHER IMPRESSMENTS.
We are informed, that the ship Young Factor, from Galway, just arrived, was boarded by the Driver's crew of war at sea, the day before yesterday, who took from her a native black man of Rhode Island, named Robert Brown, and three Passengers named Pendergraff, Clens & Gerlga, that they treated Capt. Gardner very abusively and detained him three hours.
We are told, that when the seamen were lately impressed from the Pitt, in this harbour, the boarding officer ran his sword into the grates of glass and earthen ware to discover if there were not men concealed in them, and that considerable breakage was thus occasioned. The two seamen who were pressed a day or two after the impressment, were a Genoese and an American, which being made evident, procured their release.
Morn. Chron.
Ran away from the United States frigate, United States—An Englishman named THOMAS BURTON, about five feet six inches high, tin visage, dark complexion, marked with the small pox. Whoever will apprehend and return him to the Navy Yard in this city, shall receive TEN DOLLARS reward, and all reasonable expenses.
JOHN CASSIN, Superintendent. Washington, July 2—3t
NOTICE.
By virtue of three writs of venditioni exponas issued from the circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Washington, to me directed, one at the suit of Summers and Coates, against Samuel Blodget, one at the suit of Edward Pentington, against Samuel Blodget, and one at the suit of John Mullay, against John Duhay, will be exposed to public sale for ready cash on the 28th inst at Wm. Rhodes's Tavern in the city of Washington, all the right, title, claim and interest of the said Samuel Blodget and John Duhay in and to the following property, viz. Lot No. 23 in square 107, Lot No. 13 in square 278, Lot No. 2 in square 533, Lot No. 5 in square 54, Lot No. 12 in square 320, Lot No. 2 in square 218, Lot No. 12 in square 286, Lot No. 22 in square 263, Lot No. 23 in square 263, Lot No. 24 in square 263, Lot No. 7 in square 264, Lot No. 8 in square 264, Lot No. 7 in square 409, Lot No. 8 in square 409, Lot No. 17 in square 253, Lot No. 7 in square 253 with a three story brick dwelling house thereon, late the property of the said Blodget, and Lot No. 5 in square 607, late the property of the said Duhay—the sale will commence precisely at 4 o'clock.
DANIEL C. BRENT, Marshal. July 2—12at4t
Office of Discount and Deposit, Washington, June 27, 1804.
ALL notes offered for discount must in future be left in the office before 3 o'clock P. M. on Tuesday.
Those for Wednesday the 4th July (being an holiday) must be in on Monday the 2nd before 3 o'clock P. M.
JAMES DAVIDSON, Jun. Cashier.
June 29—2t
NOTICE.
THERE was committed to the jail of Frederick county, as runaways, a negro man who calls himself JIM, and a Mulatto woman who calls herself MIMA, and says they belong to Mr. Peter Larkins of Farquhar county Virginia; said Jim is about thirty four or five years of age, five feet five or six inches high, a stout well made fellow, his clothing are a blue coat and waistcoat, tow linen shirt and trowsers, he has also a fear on his breast—Mima is about twenty five years of age, five feet one or two inches high, stout and well made, her clothing are a blue short gown, white linsy petticoat and a tow linen shift. If their owner does not release them from jail they will be sold for their jail fees agreeably to law.
GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff, Frederick county.
June 25—
Public Sale.
By virtue of a decree of the circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Washington sitting as a court of chancery, at the suit of William H. Dorsey, Nicholas Heeges, George Craig and Adam Whann, against Agnes Jackson, executrix; William Jackson, executor; Jonathan Jackson, Matthew Jackson, Elizabeth Jackson and Susanna Jackson, infant heirs of Jonathan Jackson, deceased, defendants—Will be exposed at public auction on the 10th of July to highest bidder on the premises all the right, title, and interest of said Jonathan Jackson, deceased, to the following lots of ground in the city of Washington; the lots numbered 21 and 22 in square numbered 75, and the lot numbered 2 in square numbered 164.
The terms of sale are one year's credit from the day of sale, the purchaser or purchasers giving their bonds, with approved security for the purchase money, with interest thereon.
AGNES JACKSON, } executrix. WILLIAM JACKSON, } trustees. June 18—12at3w
N. B. We hereby give notice to all persons having claims against the estate of the said Jonathan Jackson, deceased, either for debts due, or legacies bequeathed, to bring them into court within three weeks after the above sale.
A. J. W. J.
PROPOSALS
By THOMAS HERTY, Of the City of Washington, Conveyancer, for publishing by Subscription
The Second Volume of his DIGEST OF THE Laws of Maryland.
It will contain all the public acts of assembly passed since the publication of the first volume to the present time, which have not been repealed—that is, the acts of the sessions of 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 and 1803. It will be printed of the same size, in the same order of arrangement and have reference to such parts of the first volume as are repealed, expired or which may otherwise undergo alterations, with a neat index: subjoined to which, will be given by way of Appendix, a variety of precedents adopted to the law, for the use of judges of the peace, &c. &c.
CONDITIONS.
1. It will be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers is procured to defray the expense of the work, and finished immediately thereafter as soon as a strict attention to neatness and accuracy will admit. 2. Price to subscribers 2 Dollars stitched, to be paid for on delivery; to non-subscribers the price will be enhanced. 3. Those procuring 9 subscribers, and accountable for the money, will be entitled to an additional copy.
Subscriptions received by the Editor at his office near the Treasury Department, by the Booksellers in Maryland, and by those in whose hands subscription papers are left.
Printers of Newspapers in Maryland giving the above due publicity will be entitled to a copy.
N. B. He has in forwardness and will issue proposals as soon as ready for A System of Cneocyancing calculated for each state in the union; to the precedents of each species, will be prefixed observations on their nature and use, the law on the subject of alienation by deed of each particular state, shall be exhibited, and how such deed shall be authenticated when executed as well by residents as by non-residents, or, as well in the state as out of the state; together with other interesting particulars.
March 19—wtf.
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber, being legally and fully authorized, by his assignee, to adjust, and settle finally, all the concerns of his former estate, surrendered under the laws of Pennsylvania, of Maryland, and of the United States, hereby calls on all persons indebted to said estate, to make payment to him; and on all who have claims, to render him their accounts, with notice of what property is still held in pledge for securing payment.
JAMES GREENLEAF. Philadelphia, April 13—wtf
NOTICE.
The subscriber having been legally authorized, by Messrs Henry Pratt Thomas Willing Francis, John Miller, jun. John Ashley, and Jacob Baker, trustees of a fund created from the joint and separate estates of Robert Morris, John Nicholson and James Greenleaf, and generally denominated, the "Aggregate Fund" hereby calls on all persons, having any claims or pretensions by Mortgage or otherwise, to any of the objects of the said Fund, to make the same known to him, with a view to their adjustment. And all persons disposed to purchase any of the property of the said Fund either for cash, or on terms of short credit, are desired to make early application to JAMES GREENLEAF. Philadelphia April 13—wtf
The property of the AGGREGATE FUND lying in or near the river Potomac, consists of a large number of house lots in the city of Washington.
A number of handsome brick houses and a few wooden houses in do.
Awharf and store on do.
Lands on the Eastern ranch, opposite do.
Do. on Hunting Creek near Alexandria.
Do. adjoining Fort Cumberland.
Do. about 12 miles from do.
The subscriber will in person receive applications on any of the objects of his agency, at Mr. Stelles hotel, until the 10th inst. after which until further notice, he requests that all applications may be made to capt. Thomas Tingey, William Cranch, esq or Mr. Samuel Elliot. jun.
JAMES GREENLEAF. Washington, June 4—3t twtf

Prince George's County, Upper Marlboro, June 12, 1804.
At a respectable meeting of republican citizens of Prince George's County, pursuant to the recommendations of a former meeting, HUMPHREY BELT, Esquire, having been appointed Chairman, and TRUEMAN TYLER, Secretary, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That William Lyles, Alexander Covington, Alexander Contee and William W. Beery, Esquires be recommended to the people of this County as Delegates to the next General Assembly of Maryland.
Resolved, That Isaac Duckett, Humphrey Belt, James G. Wood, Thomas Hewitt and George F. Hawkins, Esqs. be a committee to confer with a similar committee on the part of Anne Arundel County, on a proper character to represent this district in Congress, in the place of Walter Bowie, Esq. who declines being a candidate.
Resolved, That Richard Sprigg, Thomas Rogers and Trueman Tyler, Esqs. be a committee to confer with Calvert County, and that part of Montgomery County composing the electoral District, on a proper character as an elector of President and Vice-President; and that it is the sense of this meeting that the said corresponding committee recommend General Joseph Wilkinson, as a proper character to fill that appointment.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the National Intelligencer and Maryland Gazette. HUMPHREY BELT, Chairman. TRUEMAN TYLER, Secretary. June 18—ep3w.
In pursuance of an Act of Congress passed the 1st day of May 1802, entitled, "An act to abolish the board of Commissioners of the city of Washington, and for other purposes."
WE the undersigned have opened a book at Rhodes's tavern Pennsylvania avenue, for receiving subscriptions for opening the CANAL, to communicate from the Potomac river to the Eastern Branch thereof.
The Report and Plans of Mr. L'Enfant, on the subject, are deposited at Mr. Rhodes's for the inspection of those inclined to promote this useful and beneficial work.
THOMAS TINGEY, DANIEL CARROLL, of D.D. THOMAS LAW, DANIEL C. BRENT. Washington 11th June, 1804.
COLUMBIAN LIBRARY.
An Appendix to the Catalogue is this day published and may be had at the Library Room. In the course of the last year, the Directors have been incorporated by an act of Congress, and above 150 vols. have been added to the books, making in the whole upwards of 800 vols. New Shares may be had on application to the Librarian—Books are let out on hire to those who are not shareholders, and are to be taken out and returned on the afternoons of Wednesdays and Saturdays.
George Town, June 5—
HAT MANUFACTORY.
The subscriber informs his customers and the public generally that he has discontinued business in the city of Washington, and has opened shop on Bridge street near the Union Tavern—he solicits the continuance of former customers, and hopes that all others who may chuse to call and purchase his manufacture will be amply suited, if neatness and goodness be requisites.
JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—tf
GEORGE TOWN COLLEGE.
In the district of Columbia, United States of America, under the direction of the Incorporated Catholic Clergy of the state of Maryland.
1. The annual pension of this establishment is two hundred and twenty dollars; but for children under twelve years of age, only two hundred dollars will be required. Those students who continue their education through the class of Philosophy shall, on account of extraordinary expenses and some particular indulgencies allowed them, pay two hundred and fifty dollars per annum.
The pension is to be paid half yearly in advance. A deduction of fifty dollars per annum will be allowed to those parents who may choose to charge themselves with the detail of clothing their children. The college will furnish washing and mending; but will not keep particular accounts, or become answerable for clothing provided by parents.
II. In lieu of bed linen, table service, school books, and other articles usually required on entering establishments of this kind, each student shall pay ten dollars entrance money.
III. The Sunday or holiday dress is uniform, and consists of a plain coat of blue cloth, with yellow buttons, red cloth or kerseymere waistcoats. The use of silk is not permitted—Every student shall bring with him his uniform dress, besides a suit for daily wear, six shirts, six neck handkerchiefs, six pocket handkerchiefs, six pair of stockings, and three pair of shoes, all new. Any deficiency in the above will be charged to the parents.
IV. On the above terms the students are furnished with clothes, linen, washing, mending, lodging, board, fire, candle, table, school books, pen, ink, paper, amusements, and school rewards; so that nothing will remain to the charge of the parents, but
medical attendance and medicines, postage, and such extra lessons of drawing, dancing, music, &c. which they may choose to order for their children.
V. The religion, uniformly practiced by the students living in the college, is the Roman Catholic; but for students of other religious persuasions, there are boarding houses, convenient to the college, where they will be subject to the same rules (religion excepted) and enjoy the same advantages for their improvement in science as the pensioners of the college.
VI. Out Boarders must be furnished by their parents with the uniform of the college, and pay annually for tuition, fire, candle, school books, pen, ink, paper, amusements, school rewards, &c. fifty dollars, always half yearly in advance.
VII. The students are taught English, Latin, Greek, and all the branches of Classical Education, Sacred and profane History, Geography, the use of the Globes, Arithmetic, and when sufficiently advanced Algebra and Geometry, with all the other parts of the Mathematics, in the respective classes. Particular care is taken that they learn to read well, and write a good hand, and that they speak and write French with accuracy. Four times a year the students are called to a public examination of what they have been taught before Parents and the Friends of Literature. Those who have made extraordinary progress are honored and rewarded. The idle, for punishment, are confined in the vacation to certain extraordinary hours of study during playtime, in order to repair what they have neglected to learn in school; therefore, if they are found defective in the last and most important examination of the year, before the August vacation, they will not be allowed to go home during that time.
VIII. The age of admission is from eight to fourteen. When children are not sufficiently advanced to begin a regular course of classical education, they are placed in an elementary class, attended by a particular teacher, from whom they learn to spell, read, and write.
IX. If the children sent to this College have been before at any other house of education, an attestation of their morals and docility is required.
X. The greatest care is taken to instruct the children in the duties of Religion and Morality, and they are constantly under the eye of one or more of the Professors, who see that those duties are practiced, and that the rules of civility are not violated.
XI. Cleanliness and exercise, and every thing which contributes to health, are attended to with particular care.
XII. All the pensioners dine and sup with their professors, and have the same table which they have. No distinctions are allowed in diet or clothing.
XIII. As long experience has convinced the directors, that a profusion of pocket money is very prejudicial, not only to good order, but even to study and application, they therefore request that parents will not be forward in indulging their children in more than fifty cents at most per month, for this purpose.
XIV. No allowance is made for absence during the vacation, which begins on the 15th August, and ends the 15th of September. To these terms the parents are desired to be particularly attentive, in case they choose to call their children home, as the absence of a few weeks at the opening of school is seldom repaired without very great difficulty. Absence from school at any other time will be permitted. It is indeed the most serious and earnest desire of the Directors, that the children should never be called home during the course of their education, as they have found by experience, that such avocations have often proved prejudicial, not only to study and application, but even to content and happiness. Those children who may be received into the college upon other funds, either totally or partially, then those provided by their parents or guardians, will not be allowed to go home or absent themselves from the college during the full course of their education, unless particular circumstances in the judgment of the President should require permission of absence for a time.
XV. When children are removed from the College, whatever new linen or clothes are furnished them on that occasion, will be charged to their parents. After entering on a new quarter no deduction will be made for the remaining part thereof.
The College is a large building, capable of lodging two hundred persons conveniently. The garden and court adjoining, where the young gentlemen play, are very airy and spacious. The situation is very pleasant and healthy.
It will contribute much to the advantage of the children, if parents on sending them will inform the President how long they propose to leave them at the College, and for what employments in life they are designed. The regular course of education is properly classical; but such as are destined for the commercial line, have a lesson of Arithmetic and Book-Keeping, under a particular Professor appointed for that purpose.
N. B. The above Regulations and Conditions will take place from the 15th day of August, 1804, for all such as enter at, or after that period; but for others, they will only commence at the expiration of the six months, for which the advance payment had become due prior to that term.
Right Rev. LEONARD NEALE, President. Georgetown, June 22—1m.
MECHANIC'S HALL.
Is to let for a term of three years. The subscriber being proprietor of the above premises and having latterly met very unexpectedly with troubles of a domestic nature which has greatly disconcerted him and consequently injured his business.
The public in general, and his friends in particular are notified that he gratefully acknowledges the liberal support they have given him since he commenced the tavern line, and begs they will not forsake him, as he has a larger and better assortment of liquors than he ever had before, and in addition thereto he has ice and fruit, also a variety of newspapers. He pledges himself to double (if possible) his exertions to please and accommodate all who may call on him, until a suitable tenant can be had.
A description of the property is thought needful as it is known and presumed that no one will rent without viewing the premises.
ANDREW McDONALD. George Town, June 20—3taw2w
(BY AUTHORITY.) Scheme of a Lottery.
To build an ACADEMY in the city of Richmond.
Table with 2 columns: Prize, Dollars. Includes 1st Prize (20,000), 1st do. (10,000), 1st do. (5,000), 5 do. of 1,000 (5,000), 6 do. of 500 (3,000), 10 do. of 200 (2,000), 20 do. of 100 (2,000), 100 do. of 50 (5,000), 250 do. of 30 (7,500), 420 do. of 25 (10,500), 1,500 do. of 20 (30,000), 3,000 do. of 15 (45,000).
15,000 tickets at 10 dollars each, 150,000 N. B. Prizes subject to a deduction of 15 per cent.
This Lottery has been authorised by the legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purposes of erecting a seminary of learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view, it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dolls. and 2,500 dolls. in addition, for defraying the expenses, attendant on drawing the lottery. Citizens of the first respectability have been selected as trustees, and they have pledged themselves to use their utmost exertions to carry it into effect. The scheme has the advantage of giving to each adventurer, a chance for some very large prizes, whilst the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so great as to invite the friends of the intended institution to partake in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The treasurer of the state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay the amount of the prizes to the fortunate adventurers. It is believed that the above considerations will induce a rapid sale of tickets, and the drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number shall be sold to authorise it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next.
Richmond, March 2—tf Tickets to be had of Robert Pollard Esq. John Brockenbrough, jun. Wm. Price (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, jun. and William Prichard. AT a meeting of the Stockholders of the THEATRE COMPANY, at Rhodes tavern on the 7th June, 1804, pursuant to notice.
ROBERT BRENT, Esq. Mayor of the city of Washington, was called to the Chair, and STANLEY BYUS, appointed Secretary.
On motion made and seconded, the meeting came to the following resolutions:
Resolved, That a Board of Directors, consisting of five Stockholders, be chosen by ballot at the present meeting, to continue in office one year from their election.
Resolved, That the said Board of Directors have the power generally to manage the affairs of the institution during the period for which they are elected.
Resolved, That it be the duty of the said Board of Directors to proceed immediately to the raising by such means as they shall deem most eligible the necessary funds, and thenceforth apply the same to the completion of the building; and to procure a dramatic company, when the prospects respecting the completion of the building will in their opinion warrant the same.
Whereupon the meeting proceeded to the election of a Board of Directors for one year, when the following gentlemen were elected.
John P. Van Ness, Samuel Harrison Smith, Robert Brent, William Brent, and Thomas Law.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the National Intelligencer.
ROBERT BRENT, Chairman. June 18—3w
CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR.
Has received from Philadelphia in addition to his former stock, a handsome assortment of goods, consisting of the best London and Spanish superfine cloths and cassimeres, white and fancy Marcellas, colored and white Janes, India nankeens, cotton cassimeres, black silk and satin Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season.
N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol. June 8—tf
30 Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from the Subscriber, living near Dumfries in Virginia, on the 11th inst. A Negro or dark Mulatto named PRINCE, about 22 years of age, about five feet nine inches high, bow legs, has a mark on his face occasioned by a fall from a horse and a scar on one of his wrists, from a cut with a broken glass bottle. I will give thirty dollars reward for apprehending and bringing said negro home.
ROBERT GRAHAM. May 23—tf
REMOVAL.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Has removed to the house above Mr. RUODES (LATE LOVEL'S) HOTEL, near the President's Square.
In addition to the present stock of goods, an Handsome Assortment is expected immediately.
Gentlemen at a distance, by sending a line by post, will be waited upon with all possible expedition.
T. C. will pledge himself to execute any order with a taste, expedition and moderation of charge, which shall not be excelled by any.
April 16—tf.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of DAVID VALENZIN for maintaining and supporting him during his imprisonment, or for defraying the expenses of his interment, will be pleased to transmit their accounts duly authenticated to the Secretary of the Navy, on or before the 10th day of July next.
A HOUSE TO LET,
Upon square No. 728 Capitol Hill is a small convenient DWELLING HOUSE calculated for a store or for a tradesman's shop, and suitable for a small family with the lot newly fenced in for a garden—Immediate possession may be had by applying at Mr. Stells hotel to GEORGE WALKER. Washington June 27—3t
For the information of the Freeholders of the state of Virginia.
THE following correct list of the persons who compose the REPUBLICAN TICKET of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, is published. The election for the choice of Electors will be holden in each county and corporation on the first Monday in November next.
PHILIP N. NICHOLAS, Chairman. JOHN H. FOUSHEE, Sec'y. Richmond, May 25, 1804.
Republican Ticket.
Richard E. Lee, of Norfolk borough. John Goodrich, — Isle of Wight. Edward Pegram, — Dinwiddie. Dr. Richard Field, — Brunswick. Thomas Read, — Charlotte. Creed Taylor, — Cumberland. William H. Cabell, — Amherst. George Penn, — Patrick. George Wythe, — City of Richmond. John Taylor, — Caroline. Larkin Smith, — King and Queen. John Minor, — Spotsylvania. William Ellzey, — Loudoun. William Dudley, — Warwick. Mann Page, — Gloucester. John Taliaferro, jr. — King George. Richard Bent, — Prince William. Hugh Holmes, — Frederick. James Dailey, — Hampshire. James Allen, — Shenandoah. Archibald Stuart, — Augusta. James M'Farlane, — Russel. Gen. John Preston, — Montgomery. William M'Kinley, — Ohio. June 27—4w
NOTICE.
APPLICATION is intended to be made at the Treasury of the United States, for the renewal of the following lost certificates; No. 352, 363, 364, 365, and 366, dated the 5th April 1804, for 2000 dollars each, Louisiana 6 per cent stock, in favor of John Coles of New London, signed by Joseph Nourse, Reg.
JOHN M'GOWAN. June 13, 1804—ep6w
Travellers Hall.
THE subscriber has lately been induced from the rapid increase of his custom to purchase a lot of ground adjoining that on which he lives for the purpose of building a dining room and assembly room, each 54 feet by 32 feet to inches with six additional lodging rooms, and intends to finish them before the ensuing winter; which together with his tavern and house will occupy a front of near one hundred feet in the most agreeable part of the town and in the center of business being on the highest part of the public square.
He has considerably increased the furniture &c. of his houses and stables. His domestics and servants are of the most faithful dispositions and properly qualified for the departments to which they are assigned. He has a constant supply of the best stable forage; imported and country provisions, imported liquors, &c. of the first quality, foreign newspapers, &c. And his ice will most probably last through the hot weather.
The distinguished preference which the first characters have already given him, fills him with gratitude. He offers his sincere thanks to all his good friends and begs leave to assure them that neither his time nor his purse shall be spared in attempting to render the Travellers Hall a house of entertainment, for GENTLE GUESTS ONLY, equal to any in America.
P. BRADLEY. Lexington, Kentucky, June 12, 1804. A Stage runs from the Travellers Hall to the Olympic Springs in the summer, and to Frankfort during the sessions of Assembly. June 29—3m
PROPOSAL,
For printing by Subscription, Miscellaneous Poems,
BY MRS. ALLEN, Consort to the Rev. Mr. Allen of Harford county, Written before her marriage.
—CONDITIONS—
THE book to be printed with a clear type, and fine paper, in a duodecimo volume, and delivered to the subscribers neatly bound; price Three quarters of a Dollar, half to be paid on subscribing, and the residue on delivery of the book—which will be put to press as soon as three hundred copies shall be subscribed for.
Subscriptions received by Mr. Matthew Carey, Philadelphia—by Messrs. Warner and Hanna, Baltimore, and by the principal booksellers in those cities; also by Mr. Samuel Harrison Smith, Washington city.
Dr. Jacob Hall, of Harford county, of known literary character, to whose inspection these Poems were submitted, in a letter to the author, expresses his opinion of them, as follows:
MADAM, I have been honored and gratified with the perusal of your manuscript copy of Poems. In my opinion it is a work of considerable merit, and displays true piety and poetic genius. The pastoral dialogues are commendable for their novelty, simplicity and beauty. The elegies, epistles, and especially the "Man of Misfortune," a Moral Tale, are interesting and pathetic. The Odes and Fugitive Pieces are sprightly and amusing—And the whole composition seems to breathe such a spirit of philanthropy and benevolence as cannot fail to elevate the affections, and to mend the heart—And it is to be regretted, that the author's modesty has hitherto denied the community so refined & elegant an entertainment. Your Friend, &c. J. HALL. Christopher's Camp, March 24.
JUST PUBLISHED
By Rapine, Conrad & Co. NEW JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL,
MAJOR's Universal History, Ancient and Modern, from the earliest records of time, to the general peace of 1801. Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7—This work will be comprised in 25 volumes, at one DOLLAR each to subscribers in boards. Those who have already favored the publishers with their names are requested to send for their copies, and those who are desirous of possessing this valuable work are informed that the subscription is still open. Also just published and for sale as above.
The works of WILLIAM SMITH, D. D. late provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, vols. 1st and 2nd. This work will be comprised in 4 volumes at 250 cents per volume in boards. R. C. & Co. Have on hand a most valuable collection of new books, received by the late arrivals from Europe, which they will dispose of on the most reasonable terms. June 29—
TO RENT,
A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE in the city of Washington, situate on that beautiful ridge north east of the Seven Buildings, on I street, lot No. 3, square 106, at present occupied by Mrs. Scott. Possession may be had the 1st of August next. Under said house is a good dry cellar, on the back of the lot is a stable, and near the premises a pump of most excellent water.
Enquire of Mrs. Scott, or of the subscriber, High street at Doctor John Beatty's George Town. ABSALOM JOY. June 29—tf
WILL be sold at Public Auction if not previously disposed of to a private purchaser.
On Friday the thirtieth of June at Mr. Semmes's tavern—Lot no 57 at the corner of Fayette and First streets next to Mr. C. Lowndes' facing the Roman Chapel. There is a two story Frame House with an excellent well on the premises, and the situation cannot be exceeded for health. The owner in the property will be properly relinquished and satisfactory security given that the subscribers conveyance of the property upon the purchasers fulfilment of the terms. The conditions are one half of the purchase money in cash, and the other in a note of twelve months with approved endorsers negotiable in the Bank of Columbia. EDWARD M. BUTLER. June 1—tf
For further particular enquire at Mr. Lee's second brick house west of the War Office Pennsylvania avenue.
The above sale is postponed until Monday the 9th of July. E. B.
Cheap Goods.
JOHN COX
HAS received a large and handsome assortment of Spring and Summer goods, and is happy in having it in his power to sell them unusually low. George Town, May 14—ep2m
THOMAS M'EUN, THOMAS HALE & WILLIAM DAVIDSON, who heretofore, have transacted business under the firm of Thomas M'Eun & Co. will in future use that of M'EUN, HALE & DAVIDSON. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1—tw&ugtf