The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1804-08-31 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. IV.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. DCIX.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 31st, 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
Ten Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or stolen from the commons near the Capitol, the city of Washington on the 24th of last month, (July) a deep SORREL HORSE, about four feet 10 inches high, well made, lately shod all round, a blaze on his forehead, hanging mane and switch tail, trots and canters well, carries his head very low when rode; he is between six and seven years old. Whoever brings him to the subscriber, living near Mr. Gallatin's in the said city, shall receive the above reward.
NATHANIEL GREGORY.
Washington city, Capitol hill, August 10—3w
CHARLES VARDEN,
MERCHANT TAILOR.
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 callimeres, white and fancy Marcellas, colored and white Janes, India nankeens, cotton callimeres, 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 best style of fashion.
New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, June 30—tf
REMOVAL.
THOMAS CARPENTER,
TAYLOR,
Has removed to the house above Mr. Rhoads (Lat. Loyal'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 safe, expedition and moderation of charge, which shall not be excelled by any.
April 16—tf.
Doctor MAGRUDER,
HAS for sale a few hogheads 4th proof Jamaica spirits, linseed and lamp oil, spirits of turpentine, window glass, glaziers diamonds, glue, lamp black, white lead, Spanish brown, yellow ochre, chalk, Spanish whiting, Venetian red, red lead, verdigris, drop lake, flake white, patent yellow, rofe and Dutch pink, king's yellow, Turkey umber, gold and silver leaf, painters and sweepers brushes, carmine hair pencils, water colours in boxes, Spanish indigo, fig blue, ermine, red wood, alkana, madder, logwood, sumac, salt petre, alum, copperas, sweet oil, pearl barley, linseed and clover seed, tamarinds, castor oil, merle mortars, spring trusses, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace, Chings worm destroyers, lenzenges, an assortment of paper hangings, playing cards, copy slips, ink powder, English Latin, Greek and French school books, large family bibles, and his usual complete assortment of drugs and medicine, patent medicine, surgeons instruments, &c.
George Town, July 20—tf
TO RENT,
A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE in the city of Washington, situate on that beautiful ridge north east of the Seven Buildings, on a 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.
Inquiries of Mrs. Scott, or of the subscriber High Street at Doctor John Beatty's George Town.
ABSALOM JOY.
June 29—tf
To be Sold,
On Thursday the 27th day of September on the premises to the highest bidder, if not disposed of by private sale before that day.
THE tract of land whereon I now live in Fairfax Co. Virginia, on Pope Head creek, containing 55 acres, the situation is agreeable and healthy; there is on it an excellent mill seat on the above mentioned creek, with an inexhaustible quantity of grey bee stone, and an abundance of good red and white oak, poplars, and hickory timber to erect the dam and necessary buildings on the spot; there is on this creek which washes this tract, for a long two miles, a very considerable portion of the fish quality meadow land, there is a considerable quantity of fresh land, just open, and nearly half of the tract to cut; it is situated about 20 miles of George Town, Washington, Alexandria and Dumfries, it is considered the best piece of forest land in the country—thirteen years payment will be one third paid down, one third in 18 months and the other third in three years; an inalienable title will be made to the purchaser. The public is assured that the sale will take place if not privately disposed of before the day of sale, as it is determined to remove to the state of Kentucky this fall—Also on the same day and place, with the land, all my stock of every sort, plantation utensils, household and kitchen furniture and the present crop now on hand for ready cash.
THOMAS POLLARD.
August 22—tdot
For the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
To the Legislatures of the respective States.
LETTER FOURTH.
The Third great object that requires state regulation is the security of property. This, under all circumstances, has been deemed an important consideration. Its importance, however, is almost infinitely increased by the prevalent state of society in this country, and the new aspects and relations which a new order of things has created. It is one of the happiest features of our political institutions that, by inhibiting every species of monopoly and by leaving industry unfettered, the power of obtaining property is placed equally within the reach of every citizen, so far as political institutions can effect this end. The right of primo-geriture, and the principle of entails, being wisely annulled, prevent dangerous accumulations of property, and distinctions, equally dangerous, arising from accidental circumstances instead of merit.
This great end insured, it only remains to adopt wise codes of laws to secure the rights of property. As on these essentially depend its value, it will be evident that they are not inferior in importance to the attainment of property itself.
Are then the rights of property at present adequately secured? It is humbly presumed they are not. Without meaning to derogate from the wisdom of institutions many of which have existed for ages, and most of which have been tested by some experience, it may be confidently assumed that the great political revolution effected by the United States has placed the people in a situation which requires a modification, to say no more, of the principles adopted in the old world on this point.
A leading feature in the systems of the old world was to aid the accumulation of property in the hands of a few, and to maintain such accumulation undisturbed for a long succession of years. As on this result principally depended the stability of governments, means the most effectual were devised for commanding and securing it. Hence the rules of primo-geriture, entails and monopolies; so wisely done away in this country; and hence too so many provisions, by which property, once acquired, was entrenched; the effect of which was the frequent resistance of just claims made on the individual possessed of the property of another; and hence the adage that possession constitutes nine points of the law. With this view courts were multiplied; the legal code was rendered too intricate for the apprehension of the unlearned; the forms of judicial proceeding were clothed in an unintelligible phraseology, requiring a distinct order of men to interpret it; and the expenses of carrying forward suit were rendered intolerable, except to the rich. It requires no extraordinary discernment to perceive that all these circumstances concurred to make the poor dependant on the rich; and, of consequence, to fortify the vast possessions of the latter, while they undermined the pittance of the former.
If these are the effects of the existing systems of justice, as they are called, is it not manifest that they are subversive, so far as they go, of some of the great benefits expected from the change effected in our political institutions; and may it not be feared that they will operate, in an insidious manner, to undermine the whole structure.
Let us descend to particulars. One of the great ends of our governments is to secure the fruits of every man's industry. This can only be effected by a system of laws which either discourages all credit, or which provides means easily within the reach of each individual for obtaining that which of right belongs to him. In the first instance debts will be rarely incurred, and no disappointment will arise from the inadaquacy of laws to enforce their payment; while in the last instance there will exist means of recovering them, which shall be easily prompt and unexpensive. The abrogation of all laws for enforcing the payment of debts is so repugnant to the habits of our citizens, that it would be deemed the temerity of innovation to recommend it; and it is probable that whatever strength of argument might be adduced in its support would be too feeble to make any efficient opposition to the prejudices of habit and preconceived opinion. Leaving then this enquiry, let us proceed to examine whether the existing system of laws provides for the
recovery of debts means which are easy, prompt and unexpensive.
If a debt is due recourse must be had to a professional man, who is alone viewed by the law as competent to point out the legal remedy required. In most instances before his advice can be obtained, a fee must be given, seldom less than three or four dollars, and rising in proportion to the magnitude of the cause. The lawyer frequently resides at a distance of twenty or thirty miles from the party aggrieved; and consequently one or two days will be consumed in reaching him, and in afterwards returning home. Process is then to be obtained from the clerk of the court, for which a charge generally of about a dollar, is made. The Sheriff is then to be sought at probably some distance. These are the steps required for initiating the suit. The expense they involve may be fairly estimated at eight dollars, and the consumption of time at three days. None but men in easy circumstances can afford to lose so much time or money. So far, therefore, the present administration of justice operates as a barrier against the just claims of the poor man, and as an inducement to those who are unjust to incur debts in the hope of impunity. These are, however, but the first steps required by the legal code. Courts are held seldom oftener than four times, and sometimes not more than once or twice a year for the trial of causes. Such are the usual forms of procedure that it is impossible to know when a cause will come to trial, and of consequence, the parties are under the necessity of attending court for several successive terms and often years, with all their papers and witnesses, the personal concerns of whom are interferred with. It is difficult, almost impossible, to calculate the trouble and expense occasioned by these delays. The cause is at length tried and judgement pronounced. Though years shall have elapsed since the commencement of the suit, a further indulgence is allowed the debtor. Execution may be stayed; and in case he possesses real property, its sale is either prohibited, or seven years allowed for the satisfaction of his debts in case the clear proceeds of his property will redeem them within a period of seven years. Can these means, required for the recovery of debts, be, with the least color of truth, called easy? Are they not, on the contrary fraught with difficulty, with delay, and with distress? Do they not entirely sap the principle of equal rights? are they not subversive of impartial justice? Do they not necessarily create distinctions among men; between the rich and the poor? Do they not give power to the former, while they deny it to the latter? They surely have all these effects, and having them, call aloud for legislative redress.
 That the means for the recovery of debts are not prompt, has appeared from the statement of facts just made. It may, however, not be unproductive of profit, to dwell further on this point. Money is in this country of great value. It is not incorrect to say that to a man in business, and most of our citizens are in active life, it is worth from ten to fifteen per cent. A legal interest having been fixed at six per cent, the difference will be so much lost to the creditors, kept out of his just debts, and consequently as much gained by the debtor. Thus is a floating inducement held forth to injustice. The debtor, under the influence of interest, will generally protract the issue of the suit to which he is a party to the greatest period. And such is the present organization of courts that a delay of several years is easily gained by him. The practice varies in different states; in those to the East justice is administered with comparative speed, while to the South it is relatively tardy. Considering the middle states as those in which a medium exists, it will be found that, on an average, it requires at least three years to bring a contested suit to a close. This is unquestionably a great grievance; and claims a devoted attention to redress it. 
The last consideration is whether the means at present necessary for the recovery of debts are unexpensive. This is of all the features of a good administration of justice the most important. Those, from whom just debts have been detained, are generally in an impoverished condition, and cannot be supposed to possess much resource. There is so much force in this fact that it may be assumed as a truth that a good system of laws should enable every citizen to obtain without any expense the property that is withheld from him. If this be a truth, it follows that the system which the nearest approaches this
model, is the best, and that that which most recedes from it is the worst. In going into details on this point, two views may be taken; one involving the expense which is sustained by the creditor in prosecuting his rights; and the other, the expense sustained by the debtor.
We have already seen that the expense incurred in the mere initiation of an action is far from inconsiderable. This expense is greatly increased before it is brought to a close. It is difficult on a subject so much affected by the different laws of the respective states, to speak with absolute precision. But as far as we are justified by an experience of the expenses attending a law suit in several of the states, we believe we speak within bounds when we state them in contested cases at between ten and twenty dollars; and as more frequently approaching the latter than the former. The amount fixed for is on an average below an hundred dollars. The expense will be, therefore, about fifteen per cent. in addition to the loss arising from delay, from the consumption of time, and from the loss sustained by receiving only six per cent. instead of about twelve which may be considered as the real value of money. Let these losses be added together and the amount will stand thus.
For the recovery of one hundred dollars:    Three years delay producing a loss from withholding the money due, at the difference between 12 and 6 per cent.  18    Time consumed at least  10    Expense not repaid by the debtor, say  6     34  
This is a moderate estimate. From which it appears that under the present administration of justice, about one third of the debt is lost.
The necessary effect of this injustice is the depriving the rightful proprietors of property, so far as it is placed under the cognizance of the law, of one third part of it, and the vesting it in those who have no just claim to it.
Equally aggravated shall we find the evil in its operation on society. Just in proportion to the trouble, delays, and expense attending the administration of justice, will be the multiplication of courts, of lawyers, of constables, and the numerous other attendants, who find their interest intimately connected with the perpetuation and even the extension of abuses. Hence it is an incontrovertible fact that this description of citizens have invariably, and too successfully, opposed all the reforms that have been proposed. It is not meant, by this remark, to fix an unusual reproach upon any class of citizens. Their conduct has doubtless been dictated by motives common to all other men; the pursuit of individual interest ought not to be considered reprehensible, when it is not in violation of positive law, or moral duty. It is evident that in the present instance there is no violation of positive law; and it can easily be conceived that conduct, sanctioned by law and usage, however repugnant to some moral principles, will not be viewed as reprehensible, by those whose immediate interest is connected with it.
In estimating the extent of this evil, we can do no more than offer a rough statement. This shall be done under a scrupulous respect for truth; and in order to avoid its violation our statement shall be within bounds. If we take Pennsylvania as the central state of the union, and consider her as possessed of an administration intermediate between that of the Eastern and Southern states, we shall probably exhibit in the facts furnished by her on this subject the most correct view of the union generally. There is in that state,
One court of Errors and Appeals, principally composed of the Judges of inferior tribunals, and which therefore does not involve much expense, perhaps not more than one thousand dollars.
There is a supreme court of five judges whose salaries and incidental expenses may amount to 12,000 Dollars.
There are the Presidents of five circuits, whose salaries amount to 8,000 dollars.
There are three or four associate judges in each county, whose salaries may amount to about 10,000 dollars.
The aggregate of these salaries amount to 31,000 dollars.
The establishment of jails may amount to about 30,000 dollars.
The fees paid to the various clerks of courts, sheriffs, constables and criers may amount to 80,000 dollars.
The sums paid to lawyers may amount to 220,000 dollars.
All these sums amount annually to 351,000 dollars.
In addition to these items of expense, is the expenditure of time and money incurred by the parties, the witnesses and jury men in attending courts. It may be computed that there are three hundred courts held in which 100 parties, 30 jurymen and 60 witnesses attend, on an average, for six days; valuing the time lost and the expenses of travelling incurred at one dollar and a half a day, an annual expense is incurred of 85,000 dollars. Add for justices of peace 56,000 dollars.
This added to the preceding expenses amount to 500,000 dollars.
One view still more important remains to be taken on this branch of the enquiry, viz. the quantum of labor lost to the community by the number of persons engaged in the administration of justice.
This may be computed as follows:    Judges and justices  600    Jailors  60    Clerks of courts, sheriffs, constables, criers and their clerks  400    Lawyers  200    Time consumed by parties, witnesses and jurymen about  300     1,560  
Estimating the value of the time of each person at 300 dollars we have the sum of 468,000 dollars; which added to the above 500,000 dollars, amounts in the whole to 968,000 dollars; a sum but little short of a million.
Let us contrast with this vast expenditure the advantages derived from it.
It is a large estimate to state the property in controversy each year throughout the state at five million dollars; on which, therefore, it appears that there is paid a commission of about twenty per cent.
The detailed view, we have taken abundantly proves that the existing means for the recovery of debts are neither easy, prompt or unexpensive. The only enquiry, remaining to be made, is whether means more competent to secure these ends can be devised. It is confidently believed that they can.
(Subject to be continued).
Three Dollars Reward.
STRAYED from the subscriber's Farm, near Rock Creek Church, a small RED and WHITE COW, appears to be about six years old, with a white face and a remarkable short body, the left ear slit, the right branded with two letters not remembered, and a piece of her tail cut off. The above reward will be paid to any person on the delivery of the Cow at said place.
S. H. SMITH.
August 11.
50 Dollars reward,
STRAYED or stolen from the commons of Washington city, between Saturday and Monday the 7th and 9th of July, a pair of bright BAY HORSES, of the following descriptions:—One about fifteen and a half hands high over the shoulders, and about two inches lower over the hips, supposed to be eight years old, black mane and tail, mane on the right side, trots and canters, a star in the forehead, both hind ankles white, and has partly on the inner side of each, uniformly placed, about one inch above the hoof a black spot of about three quarters of an inch diameter; no other striking natural marks are recollected. This horse is supposed to be three fourths English blooded; he is when in flesh, very handsome, and moves with ease and elegance. He is now much reduced in appearance by a long journey, his back something injured by the saddle, and has old marks of similar abuse.
The other horse is about fifteen and a half hands high before, and the same behind, six years old, not so handsomely built in any respect as the other, but carries himself very well, trots hard, canters easy and racks a little, his mane and tail are likewise black; his mane thin and on the right side; left hind ankle white; has a star in the forehead, and a loop in the nose, mostly inclined to and running into the left nostril; a circular brand on the left shoulder, with a character in the center believed to be intended for an A. He is not so low in flesh as the other, the new saddle marks are worn, but he has few or no old ones, except a slight appearance of a former naval gail. They were shod all round.
If either of the above reward will be paid on conviction of the thief; if strayed and found within 20 miles of Washington city a reward of 20 dollars will be given, and if beyond that distance, 20 dollars, expenses included, on their return to Phineas Bradley, Washington city, or Renner and Bullard, George Town. August 1—rawtf

FOREIGN NEWS.
LONDON, June 19.
Extract of a letter from Paris.
Even Bonaparte's police agents are forced to admire the loyalty and firmness of captain Wright, who has resisted alike their bribes and threats. It is said at Paris, that the Grand Judge, after in vain offering him a large sum of money, with commission of an admiral in the French service, if he would betray the British government, threatened that he should be shot in 24 hours, as an accomplice with Georges, Pichegru, &c. but that his answer was, "If such a violation of the laws of war and of nations takes place, I shall recommend my soul to my Creator, and the vengeance of my king and country; but I hope that you will remember the many thousands of your own countrymen prisoners in England." Many persons in France think, however, that he will not easily escape destruction.
June 23.
GEORGES—Dommaget, the official defender of Georges, defied the public accuser to prove even the shadow of a conspiracy against Bonaparte's life. He said, one man is sufficient to kill one man, but forty seven persons are unable to change or destroy the government of a nation of 30,000,000. "You have examined (continued Dommaget) 148 witnesses. Most of them have never known the accused; the others speak from hearsay and report rumours. Four only pretend that a conspiracy was known to exist; but they acknowledge at the same time, that government has paid them handsomely to come forward and inculcate the accused. In the former case they are accomplices—in the latter, purchased spies; it is against the laws of civilized nations to condemn upon the testimony, nay, even to take the oath of persons corrupted, immoral and interested in the issue of a civil, much more to a criminal affair."
The declaration of Picot, the servant of Georges, that he was put to the torture to force him to confess, affords an additional triumph, on comparison of our judicature with that of the country which was to have dissolved the spirit of freedom over Europe!
The popularity of Gen. Moreau does not appear to have entirely abandoned him in the day of adversity; and among other marks of regard shown him by his former brethren in arms, two general officers who attended his trial, in their gala uniforms, on meeting his eyes, took off their hats in the most respectful manner. The gens d'armes also, who were upon duty, presented arms to him as he was conducted back to prison. But that mark of respect subjected them to an arrest.
Thomas Griffith, Esq. chosen a sheriff for London declined serving, and paid his fine of 600l.
It is said that the place of high Admiral of France will be reserved for Jerome Bonaparte, whose marriage is to be cancelled, as it had not obtained the emperor's consent, and his rights restored to him.
The wife of Jerome Bonaparte is a daughter of a Mr. William Patterson, a native of the county of Londonderry, who failed from the port of Belfast for America many years since, and made a large fortune in commerce in Baltimore.
Lucien Bonaparte has been wounded lately in a duel with the prince Borgnese, his brother in law, who intends settling in Germany, leaving his wife with her brother.
LONDON, June 21.
Extract of a letter from Berlin, dated June 4.
FRENCH PROJECT.
"Citizen La Forest, in announcing to Baron Hardenberg, Bonaparte's Imperial dignity, presented a plan for dividing the European Continent into four grand Empires, or those of France, Austria, Russia, and Prussia; and that no other sovereign should be permitted, in future to assume the imperial title. Hanover was again offered to us, to concentrate better our possessions, and to make our population nearly as great as that of Austria, &c. The absence of our king has prevented any determination from being taken; and probably, at his Majesty's return this scheme, with a hundred others, proposed lately by France, will be declined; at least such is the common opinion here."
VERONA, June 1.
It is still said that the House of Austria will receive the Republic of Ragusa, which has hitherto been under the protection of the Ottoman Porte. By this the Austrian Monarchy will obtain a new port, which carries on a considerable trade by sea, and also the advantage of establishing a complete communication between Dalmatia and Cattard,
in Albany, ceded to the Court of Vienna by the treaty of Luneville, which communication was before interrupted by the territory of the Ragusans.
The public Journals at Milan say, that it is already determined that the First Magistrate of the Italian Republic shall be rendered hereditary in the family of Bonaparte.
RATISBON, May 7.
The following remarkable note was presented yesterday by the Russian imperial minister count M. Klupsell, to Baron Albina, and has been communicated to-day to the Diet.
NOTE.
"The event which has taken place in the dominions of his serene highness the elector of Baden, and the issue of which has been so melancholy, has filled his majesty the Emperor of all the Russias with the most lively grief. His majesty could not but see with the deepest sorrow the violation of the peace and integrity of the German Empire. His imperial majesty was the more astonished at such a proceeding, as it was impossible for him to expect, that a power which had undertaken the mediation in conjunction with himself and which had consequently bound itself to participate in his majesty's care for the welfare and tranquility of Germany could deviate in such a manner from the sacred principles of the law of nations, and from the engagements into which it had so lately entered."
It would be useless to draw the attention of the diet to the melancholy consequences to which the German empire exposes itself, if such deeds of violence of which one has seen the first and only example, be passed over in silence; the diet will perceive with its usual foresight, how much the future peace and safety of the whole empire, and of each of its ministers would be compromised, if such violence could be regarded as allowable, and take place without opposition or notice.
Induced by these considerations, and in his quality of mediator and guarantee of the constitution of the German empire, the emperor feels himself called upon to protest against an action which is so great an infringement of the peace and safety of Germany. Justly uneasy at the mournful prospect which presents itself, he has not hesitated to communicate his sentiments on this subject to the first consul, through the Russian charge d'affairs at Paris.
His majesty in taking a step which the most important considerations for the welfare of the empire has prescribed to him, is now convinced that the diet and the head of the empire will do justice to a case as disinterested as it is evidently necessary; that they will cheerfully join their own exertions to those of his majesty, and that they will not hesitate to make their just complaint to the French government, in order to induce the same to submit to all the steps and measures which their injured dignity may claim from that government, and which are necessary for the maintenance of their future security."
FRANKFORT, June 23.
The following very singular questions are stated in a paper printed on the other side of the Rhine:
"Will the imperial cities remain, or will they be added to the mass of indemnities?—Will not the Emperor of Russia, with whom England wishes to stand on so amicable a footing, declare war against France in a short time? Will the new departments of the Rhine be actually formed into three republican electorates, whose possessors shall sit and vote in the Diet? What shall become of Italy and Switzerland? Will the present Pope indeed abdicate the see of St. Peter, to make room for a more fortunate successor? Among a thousand speculative suggestions of this nature, it seems to be generally believed, that the great events which are in embryo will far exceed expectation, however highly raised."
PARIS, June 20.
The Moniteur of this day contains the following note upon a paragraph which has appeared in the English Newspapers, stating that the object of Messrs. Fox and Grey's visit to Mr. Pitt, was to communicate to him some propositions that had been made by Mr. Livingston, relative to France.
"This assertion is destitute of probability. The English government might receive from any other traveller, the information which it is pretended has been obtained from Mr. Livingston; the report which has been circulated, that this Minister was charged with any overtures, direct or indirect on the part of the French government, being utterly destitute of foundation. All Europe knows that France has always wished for peace, and that war has been made against us in order to plunder our commerce, and under pretences at once false, frivolous, and ridiculous."
A PEACE MAD GENERAL.
It was some time since stated, says a London paper, that a Maniac had been taken up at St. Cloud, where he had arrived with an account of a Peace having been concluded between France and England.—The following are the particulars of the affair:
On Monday the 21st of May, the Inspector of Artillery, General Le Vasseur, arrived at Paris, from Holland, announcing that England had signed a peace, and given up Malta. In waiting for horses at St. Cloud, he went into the Palace-Royal and the Thuilleries garden, informing the people, in crowds, of this joyful news. When he came to St. Cloud, the Emperor was gone to Malmaison, where he followed his Majesty, obtained an immediate audience, and related his peace story. Bonaparte at first spoke seriously to him, assuring him that no negotiation was carried on with England, of course no peace could be concluded. To this Le Vasseur answered, that Mr. Pitt himself had shown him the treaty. The Imperial physician, Corvisart, was in the palace, and ordered to feel Le Vasseur's pulse, whom he declared to be ill of a violent brain fever. He was then sent to the madhouse, Charenton, where he now is.
The General commanded the French Artillery in Holland, where this curious peace madness overtook him, and which country he left on the 18th, travelling night & day, with a post chaise and four, in his full regimentals, as a general proclaiming peace every where he stopped, and to every person he met on the road.
Extra couriers were dispatched by merchants from every town where he changed horses. At Senlis, a merchant procured horses before him, and had advanced a league on the way to Paris, where Le Vasseur, with pistols in his hands, forced his postillions to overtake the merchant, whom he strongly rebuked for this attempt, saying, "that he alone was charged to inform the Emperor of the peace." At Paris, as well as at St. Cloud and Malmaison, he embraced and kissed every body he met with, in congratulation for the end of the war. From Paris about forty extra couriers were sent to Bordeaux, Marseilles, Strasbourg, and even to Italy, and bargains concluded for one hundred millions of livres, on the supposition of peace. What is surprising in this peace mad general, is, the continuance of the same ideas during a journey of 400 miles in such a regular manner, that no one suspected his madness. Should Le Vasseur recover, it is not supposed that he will ever be employed again, as his Imperial majesty Napoleon who cannot forgive him being peace mad, instead of war or victory mad. Had his folly been to announce the conquest of Great Britain, he would undoubtedly have obtained the Field Marshal's staff; and the Moniteur would have pronounced it as good an omen as the discovery of Queen Matilda's tapestry.
A famous brigand called St. Rochetto, has lately been arrested in Piedmont. He has been the chief and creator of barbers or robbers in the Alps, of whom 306 have already been executed. He never had any fixed house, but he knew perfectly well the Alps and all retreats in these mountains, and wherever he went, he had the talents to form new bands, and to inspire his followers with the most violent hatred against the French, of whom he acknowledges to have killed with his own hands upwards of 120, and that his comrades during the last war, have by ambuscades which he had prepared, destroyed upwards of 1500 republicans. The jealousy of one of his mistresses delivered him up at St. Benigno.
Memorials concerning many of his transactions were found upon him, and receipts from different priests and friars for 2,560,000 livres, which he had given to churches and convents, to have masses and prayers said, for obtaining the assistance of the Virgin Mary in his undertaking. He had besides upon him a list of thirty persons, whom he intended to have dispatched this year as soon as possible, among whom were two Bonapartes, Vice President Melzi, General Menou, Murat, St. Cyr, &c. On his way to Turin, he knocked out the brains of a gens d'arme with his handcuffs, and bit the nose of another who attempted to tie his hands on his back. He is a very strong man, and his body is covered over with hair like that of a goat.
This day is published By Rapine, Conrad & Co, CAPITOL HILL, NEW JERSEY AVENUE.
REPORTS of cases argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States in August and December terms, 1801, and February term, 1803: by William Cranch, assistant judge of the circuit court of the district of Columbia.
Also just published as above—THE BUILDERS UNIVERSAL PRICE BOOK, containing a correct list of prices to the works of the several artificers concerned in building, in dollars and cents; with observations on erecting found and permanent buildings, by John Evans—price one dollar. July 16—
CONSPIRACY
AGAINST BONAPARTE.
Second report of the Grand Judge, respecting the plots of the person named Drake, minister from England, at Munich, and of the person named Spencer Smith, minister from England, at Stuttgart, against France, and the person of the First Consul.
Paris, April 12.
"Citizen First Consul,"
"My conjectures are verified. Mr. Drake is not the only agent of England whose political mission is merely the plausible mask of a hidden ministry, of seduction and insurrection. I have the honor to lay before your eyes, papers which prove that Mr. Spencer Smith, diplomatic agent of England in the states of Wirtemberg, after the example of Mr. Drake, has occupied himself, since his arrival at his place of residence, only in prostituting his public character, his influence, and the gold of his government, to that infamous ministry."
Mr. Spencer Smith has suffered a discovery of the secret part which formed the real object of his diplomatic mission. I present to the First Consul, an enigmatical letter, which this minister has written to M. Lelievre de St. Remi, one of his agents in Holland; this agent, spy, emigrant, and who has received his pardon, was already known to the police; but before I had any one of the parts of his correspondence with Mr. Spencer Smith, I knew by other reports, that when he was about to obtain his amnesty, which he procured in Pluviôse, year 11, he quitted Suez, his place of birth, in Nivôse, the same year, in order to go to Cambray; and that on the 2d last Frimaire, he had gone to Holland, there to serve under the name Pruneau, and to follow the double direction of a Frenchman and a spy, named Le Clerc, whom the British ministry supported at Abbeville, and that of an accredited spy, named Spencer Smith, whom for the purpose of covering his designs, that same ministry had invested with a diplomatic character (See the pieces 3, 9, &c.)
I further knew by papers equally numerous, and not less instructive, seized on the spy at Abbeville, that Mr. Spencer Smith, before he quitted London, had entered into such intimate connexions with a general committee of Espionage, established by the above administration, and the direction of which was entrusted to the Abbey Ratel, that he had demanded and obtained of that committee a confidential secretary named Pericaud, who was to follow the secret correspondence, and to receive and communicate all the necessary documents to the agents in Holland, the spies on the coast, and the conspirators in Paris. The letters to Lelievre, the credit for 2000 louis d'ors given on the house of Oly at Rotterdam, the cypher, the enigmatical letter, No. 7, are of the hand writing of this Pericaud; and thus it will be seen, that Mr. Spencer Smith is gone to his residence with all the exterior of a diplomatic minister from England; that is to say, with sympathetic inks, watch words to communicate with all the spies, bills of exchange to reward their services, and the confidential intermediate agent, to follow up their proceedings, and to direct, without committing himself.
"It is necessary to recur once more to Mr. Drake. The two reports which I lay before you, citizen First Consul, will give you an account of a mission to that minister, by citizen Rosey, captain and Adjutant Major of the 9th regiment of the line in garrison at Strasbourg, whom Mr. Drake was very willing to employ as agent of a pretended general, who was to stir up four departments, to draw around him the French army, to overthrow our government, to install in its stead a democratic directory, and finally to put this phantom of power, and all France, at the discretion of the English government."
"I should hesitate to present you these monstrous absurdities, if I had not to lay before you an original letter from Mr. Drake, backed by considerable sums of gold, counted by Mr. Drake and deposited at my office by citizen Rosey. This letter serves as a proof of the accuracy of the reports of the French agent, and ought to be published, because the odious particulars which it contains, give an additional coloring to the picture of infamy which Mr. Drake has himself delineated of his incendiary diplomacy, in the first part of his correspondence."
"Mr. Drake replied to the pretended General. He acknowledges the receipt of his envoy with his credentials. He congratulates himself on the harmony subsisting between him and the committee of disorganization, over which the general presides. 'Your views,' says he, complacently, 'are quite conformable to mine, and I need not enlarge further on this point.'
"But he requires (and here follow the first vagaries of the predecessor Wickham) that provisionally they should secure, two strong places, Huningen by
all means, and Strasburg, if possible. By this means only could they depend upon a sure communication.—Then would Mr. Drake take his residence near the Rhine, "and it will not suffice to inform him immediately of the moment fixed for commencing the operations, and of the precise periods when farther assistance will be necessary, as well as of the amount of the succours required that he may have time to take measures to provide for the same, and that the operations may not fail for want of support." (See No. 5.)
"However, the most important point is not the taking of places, and securing stages for the late arrival of subsidies. First of all, we must disorganize the army. Mr. Drake complains of being left uninformed "of the progress which the agents of the committee may have made to gain over some among them; but he trusts to their zeal. "He supposes," with confidence, "that the attempts tried with this view have completely succeeded, and that they are certain of a powerful diversion from that quarter; without this aid, (he solemnly declares,) your operations will be confined to cause three or four departments to raise, which can never succeed upon the long run, on the supposition that the First Consul retains a power over his troops sufficient to make them march against you."
"This disquietude it will be easily believed, is the prevailing idea of Mr. Drake; it seizes him, it occupies him continually; however he has found an admirable expedient to recover his courage. "You should, (says he,) offer the soldiers a small increase of pay beyond what they receive of the present government."
"Worthy discovery of a corrupt minister, of a government which weighs with gold every action and every affection! Nothing, according to them, can resist this gold, which is above every thing; and the French army, making honor its idol, attached to it by the glory of a thousand battles, and of ten years victories; this army, which spurns seduction, because the seducers and seduced are the greatest cowards: this army, I say, yielding to the attraction of a wretched increase of pay shall sacrifice whatever is most dear to it, all its most honorable recollections; in short its government, its liberty, to the irreconcilable enemy of their country! What horror! what madness!"
"I shall not be more prolix on these disgusting details; besides, to insist long on the indignation which the political and military projects of Mr. Drake inspires, is to do them too much honor—they are both ridiculous and absurd in an eminent degree; and I think it is a very appropriate punishment for him, to give up to the contempt and ridicule of the public the enterprises of this minister, still more credulous, more awkward, and more weak than wicked."
"An English minister, such as Mr. Drake, cannot be punished by obloquy. This can only mortify men who feel the price of virtue, and know that of honor; but Mr. Drake is proud and vain. The profits of his secret missions must have made him wealthy and covetous. He will be punished, when he shall know that the revolt of the four departments, the capture of Huningen, the seduction of the army, the liberation of Pichegru, Moreau, of Georges, and his confederates; the existence of the diplomatic committee; in short, the talents, the credit and projects of this demagogue general, by nature endowed with a sublime eloquence, an imposing figure, and who is quite disposed to effect, at his call the overthrow of France, are chimeras, with which the prefect of Strasbourg has liked to feed his simple credulity."
"He will be punished, when he learns that all his bulletins, which were sent to London by extraordinary messengers, communicated to every court, hawked about by the English ministers as far as Constantinople, and of which traces are found even in the discussions of parliament, were fabrications, and containing nothing either true or probable; that before they were transmitted to him, they had been communicated to the agents of the police at Paris, who blushed on reading them; and could not recover from their surprize, on seeing that fables, framed with so little care and trouble, could charm Mr. Drake, and serve as a basis for the operations and calculations of the cabinet."
To be continued
Runaway Negro.
WAS committed to the goal of Frederick county, on the 25th July last, negro
JOE,
about 28 years old, five feet 8 inches high, yellowish complexion, has scars on each of his hands, with burns, particularly on the left hand; His clothes are town linen shirts and trowsers, a blue great coat, &c. He says he belongs to col. WILLIAM WINN, of Harford county, North Carolina, and that he has been absent from his master about two years. His OWNER does not release him he will be sold for his GOAL FEES agreeably to law.
GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick county. Aug. 22—law8.

WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, August 31.
Extract of a letter from Cadiz, dated July 12, 1804.
"The crops of grain in this country have been the most miserable ever experienced, and it is in want of immense supplies of wheat, flour and rice. I hope that the American merchants will avail of this favorable juncture to forward to this country the supplies we are so much in want of. Letters from Naples of the 2d ult. mention that the crop in Sicily was so very short, that the exportation was prohibited; the want of supplies from that quarter will be severely felt in this country."
DIED.
On the 28th inst. Mr. FRANCIS MCCLURE, (Printer) after a short but severe illness. His remains were interred yesterday in the public burial ground East of the city.
The procession was formed, and left the House of Mr. Orlando Cook, in the following order.
1. Masonic Society, preceded by a band of music.
2. Rev. Mr. McCormick.
3. The CORPS in a carriage.
4. The WASHINGTON TYPOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, as mourners.
5. Capt. SPRIGG's Light Infantry Company with drums and files.
6. Citizens.
On their arrival at the place of interment, Masonic and military rights were performed.
NEW-YORK, August 23.
The repeated aggressions on our commerce are continued in the usual manner, by the British ships at the Hook. Yesterday morning about six o'clock, we are informed, the ship Rebecca of this port, after a voyage of two years, was fired at and brought to by the Cambrian frigate, and six men impressed from her not more than 2 leagues from the Hook, and the ship detained about two hours.
At about 11, A. M. a schooner hove in sight close under the highlands. The Cambrian made a signal to the Leander which was answered, they both hauled their wind and fired three guns, when the Leander came to anchor. At this time a squall arose which obliged her to stand off, and the Leander weighed anchor and got safe into the hook. What was the fate of the other vessel we are not able to state. It is said as that as many as sixty of the Leander's people are sick. The ships stand off and on all night, and take their stations in the mouth of the harbour every morning, for the purpose of overhauling every vessel bound in and out.
It is worthy of remark that the Cambrian is the Commodore's ship, and capt. Skene is of course, under the immediate orders of capt. Bradley, the same gentleman who some time since ordered the impressment of the Pitt's people at the quarantined.
We are informed that letters have been received from capt. ——, of the Swift, of this port, which failed a short time since from Amboy for Amsterdam.
The letter states that she was boarded by the British ship Leander, the capt. of which indorted her register, ordering her from Amsterdam, as that port is in a state of blockade. She has accordingly changed her destination to Embden.
August 25.
The schr. Emmeline, capt. Moran, from Bourdeaux was boarded on Thursday by an officer from the British ship of war LEANDER, and Valentine Gibbs, a native of Washington, N. C. impressed therefrom. Gibbs's protection had accidentally and unfortunately been left at Bordeaux; as he has however a fitter residing in this city, immediate measures will, it is presumed, be adopted to identify his citizenship, and obtain a speedy releasement.
NEW-YORK, August 27.
It is reported that Col. Smith, the President of the New-York State Society of Cincinnati, has received an answer to a letter addressed by said Society to Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pickney, the Vice-President General of the Society. Mr. Pinckney, it is said, condemns in the strongest manner the practice of duelling, and proposes that the society at a general meeting, or at their different state meetings, should enter into a resolution neither to give nor to except a challenge. Such a letter coming from a gentleman of high character, and of great bravery, is very important. The letter ought not to be withheld from the public.
BOSTON, August 21.
Brig Camillus. Captain Kennard, in fifty two days from Guadalupe, informs that he sailed on the 16th of January, & on the 24th, at midnight, was brought too by his majesty's armed schooner Le Clare, Lieut. Sutton, who ordered capt. K. to get out his boat and come on board & make haste, or he would be fired upon. Capt. K. answered that his boat was very leaky; but was answered that he must come in her and bring all his papers. When capt. K. got on board he was deprived of his papers, and a prize master and crew were sent on board his brig. The next day the captain was returned on board his vessel, the mate and seamen taken out, and the brig ordered for Tortola, because the freight on board, On board of the cruiser the crew of the Camillus were asked by Lieut. Sutton whether they would fight, if they fell in with a French privateer. They replied they were Americans and prisoners, and would not fight under a foreign flag. The Lieut. ordered one of the men to do duty, objected whereupon he was ordered to the gangway, stripped, and the boat was desired to give 3 dozen and to start the skin. This cruel and infamous punishment was inflicted with shocking severity!!! After keeping the Camillus in charge three days, finding they could not fetch Tortola, she was given up, and the crew put on board. Particular care was requisite for several days to recover the poor fellow who had been so BARBAROUSLY TREATED!!! His name is Thomas Carpenter, and he was born at Falmouth, [Maine.]
Notice to Subscribers.
SUBSCRIBERS to the National Intelligencer in arrears are requested to make immediate payment. It may be proper to remind subscribers, that the indispensable term of the Paper is the annual payment of Five Dollars in advance; and that unless the term be complied with, their papers will be discontinued.
Patent Machine,
For hulling Clover Seed, bearing Barley, and taking the white cap from Wheat.
The encouragement which the subscriber received last season from a number of respectable farmers, for the invention of the above machine, has induced him to spare no labor or pains in its further improvement; in those endeavours he has so far succeeded as to render it superior, it is presumed, to any machine ever before applied; as a proof of this assertion, the following instance of expedition can be attested to as a real truth, by several disinterested reputable persons, viz.—Three men employed at it, have hulled in one half hour, a bushel of clover seed.
We may now make what deductions we please for the clover being well filled, for its being previously well cleared of straw, and for extra exertions, to know the extent of what the machine was capable of performing; and after those deductions it will be granted, that five bushels per day must be a very moderate average; and yet this quantity is sufficient to give general satisfaction—it will however be found more commonly to exceed than fall short of this last quantity. The machine occupies about the same room as the Corn Fan, and is equally portable; its frictional parts are few, and those composed of durable materials; in short, it is acknowledged, by those who have had experience of its utility, to be an interesting & almost indispensable implement of husbandry.
A number of them may be seen at the subscriber's shop in Frankfort, five miles from Philadelphia, in preparation for the ensuing season, where they are sold at 30 dollars. Persons who apply for permits to make them must produce recommendations of good character, and be professional machinists; such only will meet with encouragement.
Persons inclined to purchase the Machine for their private use, will please to observe, that no one is authorised to make and sell them, but such as are furnished with engraved plate certificates, attested by the subscriber, one of which certificates is to accompany each machine, and will be the purchaser's voucher to use it.
JACOB WORRELL. Frankfort, August 31.—w3t
To be Sold
At Vendue on the premises—On Thursday the 7th September, at 11 o'clock, A. M. a two story FRAMED HOUSE, situated near the Twenty Buildings on square No. 700. Terms made known at the time of sale.
JAMES THOMPSON. August 31—3t
THIS is to give notice, that the subscriber of Prince George's county, hath obtained from the Orphans court of Calvert county in Maryland, letters testamentary on the personal estate of Sarah Weems Allein late of Calvert county deceased—All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof on or before the 30th day of February 1805, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate.
Given under my hand this 29th day of August, 1804. JAS. G. WOOD, Ex'r.
NOTICE.
The Committee of Conference appointed on the part of PRINCE GEORGE's county to advise with a similar committee of ANNE ARUNDEL, relative to the selection of a proper character to represent the Republican interest of the district in Congress, beg leave to signify Thursday the 6th day of September for a meeting at Queen Ann—The necessity of punctilious attention on the part of Anne Arundel will doubtless be acknowledged; and it is assured to be a circumstance that would be truly indulgent to their political associates of this county; an interchange of sentiment is the only possible and laudable mode of ascertaining the will of the district, and at once promises security to unanimity and success. August 31—
ANCHOR TAVERN, AND OYSTER HOUSE.
G. PITTS, impressed with every sense of duty, he owes to his friends and fell; craves their attention to the following remarks.
1st. The duty to his friends is by keeping every necessary accommodation suitable for a tavern, such as good beds, wholesome diet; the choicest of liquors; and the best of attendance.
2d. The duty to himself is to take care of No. 1, to see that no body pays twice, as once is sufficient, to collect every dollar he can that is owing to him, and trust no more; for trusting is the ruin of many an honest man; and will be, if he goes on, the ruin of him.
As therefore the Oyster Season is nearly approaching, and cash with him very scarce, he earnestly entreats those who stand indebted to him, prior and subsequent to his opening the above tavern will pay their respective balances on or before the 15th day of September next, which will enable him to render that reception different to the last season, and treat them in that elegant and accommodating style which it is his pride to support, and his ardent wish to maintain. Georgetown, August 31—3t
Nottingham, August, 19, 1804. As trustee appointed by the hon. the Chancellor, Alex. Contee Hanson, Esq. for the benefit of the creditors of Rinaldo Johnson, an insolvent debtor, I will sell at public auction on Wednesday the 19th day of September next at Aquasco mills in Prince George's county, a variety of merchandise, consisting of chintzes, calicoes, muslins, cambrics, stuffs, silks, laces, ribbons, cutlery, haberdashery, leather, men and womens hats and bonnets, spices, juniper berries, hosiery, tin ware, blacksmith's tools, tanner's tools, &c. together with a London built chariot and harness, and a Windsor tilbury and harness. The property of sale are ready money for all purchases not exceeding fifty dollars, four months credit on giving bond with approved security and interest from the day of sale, for all purchases above fifty and not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and where the amount of purchase shall exceed two hundred and fifty dollars, bonds with approved security as aforesaid must be given to the trustee payable within one year with legal interest from the time of sale. ALEX'R. CONTEE. August 31—3t
Charlotte Hall School.
THE annual examination of the pupils will take place on the 4th, 5th, and 6th of September. The first day will be appropriated to English recitation: the two succeeding days to an examination of the different classes in the Greek, Latin and English languages, in composition, mathematics and geography. The parents and guardians of those children, who are under the protection of this establishment, are respectfully invited to attend. By order of the board of trustees. GEORGE RALPH, Principal. Charlottesville Cool Springs, August 20, 1804.
Vacation will commence on Thursday the 6th of September: and the classes will again open the 6th day of October.
CHARLOTTE HALL SCHOOL. Wanted immediately, a gentleman of respectable character and talents as professor of the French language, and who will also, be expected to assist in the lower department of the Latin school. Salary 400 dollars per annum, and an addition of fifty shillings per annum for every French pupil. Application may be made in person, or by letter, to GEORGE RALPH, Principal. Charlottesville Cool Springs, August 20, 1804. August 31—3t
Ten Dollars Reward.
RAN Away from the subscriber on Friday, the first inst. a negro Wench called RACHEL, about twenty years of age, no perceptible mark—She is stout made, has a bashful look when spoken to, speaks quick, apparently far advanced in pregnancy. Her clothing cannot be described, as the took with her several articles belonging to her mistress. I will give the above reward if she is lodged in any jail in the state, and all reasonable charges it brought home. FRANCIS CLARK. Aug. 29—wtf.
HAT MANUFACTURY.
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—1. 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. GEORGE TOWN, Feb. 17—tf
RUNAWAY.
WAS committed to the jail of Washington county, in the state of Maryland, on the 24th inst. a negro man named ANTHONY, about 28 years old, has on a country linen shirt and checked linen trowsers; he says he belongs to a person of the name of Dorsey, who bought him of a certain Lewis Spence of this county, and that he run away from the said Dorsey, near Winchester in Virginia, who he supposed was taking him to the state of Georgia. If his owner does not release him, he will be sold for his jail fees agreeably to law. N. ROCHESTER, Sheriff of Washington county. August 13—w3t
Valuable Property FOR SALE.
THE subscriber will sell his Plantation adjoining the town of Upper Marlboro' in Prince Georges county, containing eight hundred acres. This plantation is considered amongst the best in the neighbourhood, it is well adapted to the growth of wheat, Indian corn and fine tobacco, and has a great sufficiency of wood for its support. The improvements are a large and commodious dwelling house, with every other necessary buildings for the accommodation of a large and genteel family, all in good repair—There are also on the premises several large tobacco houses, corn house, stables, &c. most of which are almost new—As it is presumed that those who are desirous to purchase would wish to view the premises, it is thought unnecessary to be more minute.—A liberal credit will be given. For further particulars apply to Nathaniel Craufurd residing within eight miles of Washington or to the subscriber. DAVID CRAUFURD. Upper Marlboro July 23—rawtf
The purchaser may be accommodated with negroes, farming utensils, and flock of every kind. W. C.
To be Rented.
THE subscriber has two or three small Farms to let from two to three hundred acres in each, in Prince George's county about six miles from the city of Washington and two from Bladensburg; he will let them on a moderate rent, to industrious farmers who will keep them in good repair, and use the Plaiter and Clover, for terms apply to the subscriber near Bladensburg. LEONARD M. DEAKINS. August 3—5tw
Valuable Land for Sale.
The executors of the last will and testament of Anthony Holmead deceased, will sell at private sale about forty acres of Land adjoining the city of Washington at the northern extremity of 20th street west. This land is generally allowed to be one of the most beautiful situations near the city, having a beautiful prospect of nearly the whole of the city of Washington, Alexandria and George Town, and any person inclined to purchase this valuable property, will be shown the same, and know the terms by application to the subscriber near the premises. JOHN HOLMEAD.
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 she 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 30—2aw6m
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 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 25 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—
LOTTERY No. III.
Table with 3 columns: Prize amount, Number of prizes, Total amount. Includes prizes of 25,000, 5,000, 2,000, 1,000, 500, 200, 100, 50, 20, 10 dollars.
9,913 prizes Dolls. 198,000
23,087 blanks.
33,000 tickets at 6 dollars is 198,000
Less than 2 1-2 blanks to a prize.
Subject to a deduction of 15 per cent.
The drawing of the above lottery will certainly commence in the city of New York, on the first Tuesday in December next, and will be continued at the rate of 600 tickets each day until completed. The managers having disposed of twenty thousand tickets, to a company of contractors in the city of New York, the remainder will be sold for cash only, by the respective managers, until the first Tuesday in October next. This is the third of five lotteries, directed by an act of the Legislature, passed the 3d of April, 1801, entitled an "act for the encouragement of Literature"—and "an act making further provision for improving the navigation between the villages of Troy and Waterford, and for other purposes."
DAVID GELSTON, THOMAS STORM, DANIEL HALE, PHILIP TEN EYCK, S. SOUTHWICK, Managers. June 6—*
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 Epiodes 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. HALE.
Christopher's Camp, March 24.
500 Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS on the first day of April last a Negro fellow named STROTHER and his wife named PHILLIS absconded from my plantation near Chester court house South Carolina—and as I have reason to suspect that some white person or persons has been accessory in said negroes elopement, or has feloniously carried them away—I hereby offer the above reward upon conviction of any white person concealing or carrying away said negroes.
Forty dollars with all reasonable expences will be paid for lodging said negroes in any jail and giving notice by letter to me at Chester C. H. South Carolina, so that I may get them, or twenty dollars for each; that is, if they are taken by any person after this date—any jailor or other persons giving notice to me of said negroes, that they are lodged in any jail before this date shall be very handsomely rewarded.
STROTHER is 22 or 23 years of age, little yellow complexioned, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, stout made, crooked legged, very large feet, has a four countenance, has large scars on his back occasioned by a severe whipping, by his former overseer in Virginia for rebelling against him.
PHILLIS is 20 or 22 years old of a middle size, trim made, black complexion, has a small lip when she speaks—said negroes formerly belonged to Mr. Edward Carter, in Prince William county, state of Virginia, where it is supposed (if they have cloped of themselves) they will try to go.
Any letters of information will be very thankfully received. JOHN JOHNSTON, Chester C. H. South Carolina, July 11—1awtf