Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1804-04-05 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
Vol. IV.]
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1804.
[No. 950.
Public Vendue.
On FRIDAY,
At 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store,
 Rum in hogheads and barrels.  French Brandy in pipes,  Gin in pipes and bds.  Whiskey and Apple Brandy in bds.  Sugar in hds. tierces and bds.  Coffee in tierces and bags,  Chocolate  White and brown Soap } in boxes,  Mould and dip'd Candles }  Raisins in kegs, boxes and jars,  Figs in kegs and frails,  Queens Ware in crates, 
FURNITURE, &c.
ALSO, A variety of DRY GOODS,
 Among which are,  Cloths, Coatings,  Kerseymeres, Duffils,  Plains and Kerseys,  Negro Cottons, Serges,  Elasticks, blue Friezes,  Calimancoes and Ruffsels,  Yarn Stockings,  Chintzes and Calicoes,  Irish Linens, Silesia do.  Osnaburgs and Ticklenburgs,  Muslins and Muslin Hand'is,  India Muslins and Table Cloths  Bandanna Handkerchiefs,  Coloured Threads, Hats,  And sundry other Articles. 
P. G. MARSTELLER.
April 2
Sales by Auction.
On SATURDAY,
At 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store, on the corner of King and Union Streets,
 Rum in hds. and barrels,  Whiskey in barrels,  Apple Brandy in barrels,  Gin in casks  Wine in pipes and quarter casks,  Molasses in hds.  Sugar in hds. and barrels,  White and brown Soap in boxes,  Coffee in casks and bags,  Raisins in kegs and boxes,  Queens' Ware, and 
ALSO,
A variety of DRY GOODS,
 AMONG WHICH ARE-  Broad Cloths,  Cassimeres,  Kerseymeres,  Coatings,  Halticks,  Fernought,  Blankets,  Planes,  Negro Cottons,  Worsted and other Stockings,  Irish Linens,  Calicoes,  Threads,  Chintzes,  Bedticks,  Osnaburgs,  Sewing Silks,  Muslin and Muslin Handkerchiefs,  India Cottons, &c. 
THOS. PATTEN, Auctioneer.
April 4
BENJAMIN SHREVE, JUN.
Has for Sale at the corner of Union and Prince Streets,
25 bales India Cottons,
 CONSISTING OF  Gurrahs, Coffahs,  Baftahs, Emeryts,  Sannas, Blue Gilla khfs.  30 pieces black Satin,  Cotton Romal Handkerchiefs,  2 cases low priced Fans,  1 do. Mariner's Compasses,  Mens strong Shoes,  Women's Morocco do.  Leipers Snuff in half barrels and kegs,  12 coils Cordage assorted,  Few quarter casks best Malaga Wine,  40 barrels No. 1 Beef,  Bags black Pepper,  And a quantity of Red Seal Leather. 
March 22. d
FOR SALE.
A few hundred bushels of Lisbon Salt suitable for the Fisheries, will be sold low if taken away immediately.
WM. HODGSON.
JOHN G. LADD
Has for sale, on very easy terms, a quantity of
COARSE SALT,
suitable for the Fisheries; fresh R. Island Stone Lime in casks; Cordage of various sizes; a quantity of Seal Leather; 150 White Oak Posts suitable for the building.
March 16. d
RICKETTS, NEWTON & Co.
Have on hand, and to be sold on very low terms, a handsome assortment of superfine and second
BROAD CLOTHS,
 A quantity of Rose Blankets,  Twilled do.  Ticklenburgs, and German Osnaburgs,  Bedticks and Apron Checks,  Cotton Hosiery,  Fustians, Velvets and Corduroys,  Bumazetts and Wildbores,  Calicoes and Irish Linens,  Striped Jerseys and Cassimeres,  Corded Dimities and Flannels,  Twilled Coatings and Halticks,  200 pieces English Canvas,  200 reams writing Paper,  50 do. wrapping do. 
 1 trunk coloured Twists and Sewing Silks,  1 do. Umbrellas,  2 casks Sein Twine,  2 do. Fig Blue,  2 do. Rose Brimstone,  100 kegs White Lead,  6 boxes Cotton and Wool Cards,  10 hds. brown Sugar. 
2 pipes London particular Madeira Wine, And a quantity of PLAISTER OF PARIS. Feb. 3. d
WINDOW GLASS.
The Subscribers have received and offer for sale, 8 by 10, and 7 by 9, window glass, from the Baltimore Manufactory. The quality is excellent, and it will be sold at the Baltimore prices. They expect to receive very shortly, larger sizes from the same place.
R. T. HOOE, & Co. March 8. d
JANNEY and PATTON
HAVE REMOVED
To the Ware House formerly occupied by Mr. Thomas Irwin, on the same street and nearly opposite their old one, where they offer for sale as usual,
A general assortment of Groceries.
 ALSO,  20 hds. 4th proof Jamaica Rum,  80 barrels, } New England do.  39 hds. }  A large quantity of salt, and about 1000 tons  Plaster Paris,  330 barrels tar.  A quantity of Burr Stones, Paper Hanging an  French Canvas received from Havre, per brig  Dolphin, capt. Snow. 
Families may always be supplied with the choicest Flour. March 13. d
TUNIS CRAVEN,
Has just received from Philadelphia by the Harmony, Capt. Ellwood,
 Russia Sheetings,  Ticklenburgs,  Twilled Cotton Bagging,  Madras Handkerchiefs,  Ladies patent Cloths,  A small assortment, worsted and lambs wool hose, flannels, &c. Also, An Elegant Sideboard. Feb. 18. d 
WOODBIDGE TAVERN.
THE subscriber having opened a TAVERN at Woodbridge, opposite to Colchester, informs his friends and the public generally, that he is provided with the best accommodation for those gentlemen who may favor him with their custom.
Zachariah Ward. March 19.
THE SUBSCRIBER
Has for sale, at his store on Union Street, All kind of Groceries by retail:
 Sugar by the barrel,  N. England Rum,  50 bds. good Cyder,  1000 lbs. R. I. Cheese superior quality,  1000 bushels R. I. Potatoes in excellent order,  100 boxes Mufcadel and Bloom Raisins,  50 frails fresh Figs,  2000 lbs. fresh Almonds,  Excellent Jamaica Oranges,  Lemons, Prunes, English Walnuts,  Spanish Segars by the box,  Mould and Dip't Candles by the box,  Spiced Salmon in kegs,  Excellent Codfish for family use,  New Bacon and Venison Hams,  Olives in boxes of six bottles,  And a few barrels of first quality Apples. 
Abel Willis. March 19. d
Malaga Wine, Raisins, &c.
Just received, per the brig Celia, Capt. Bowen, from Malaga, 100 quarter casks Malaga Wine, 100 half do. 20 qr. casks Mountain Wine of a superior quality, 50 barrels Almonds, 100 frails Figs, 150 quarter bds. Raisins, 200 boxes Muscatel do. 200 do. Bloom do. 15 boxes Lemons, which will begin landing this day at our wharf.
J. and T. Vowell.
Who have also on Hand,
FOR SALE ON REASONABLE TERMS, Jamaica Spirit entitled to drawback, Maltavado Sugar in tierces and bds. superior old Port Wine, do. Madeira do. Turks Island Salt, mould Candles, 40 bds. prime new Beef, Ruffel Duck, white Russia Sheetings, Drillings, Raven duck, &c. &c. Jan. 20. d
Beautiful Country Seats
FOR SALE.
Pursuant to a decree of the Honorable the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Alexandria, will be exposed to sale, at public auction, for ready Cash, on Saturday the 7th day of April next, under the direction of the undersigned commissioners appointed for that purpose,
A Tract of Land,
late the property of Robert Alexander, situate upon the Potomac river, adjoining the lands of Mr. Philip Alexander, containing 545 acres, being one moiety of the Abbingdon tract, formerly the residence of Mr. Curtis, deceased: this land is bounded by two parallel lines 120 poles wide, and running back westerly 634 poles from the river to the back line, and will be laid off into squares of 50 acres each, and will be sold in large or small parcels as may accommodate purchasers; this land is situate about an equal distance between Alexandria and George Town, and commands a full view of those towns, the City, Eastern Branch and Potomac, and in point of soil is equal to any on the river. Any person desirous of purchasing will be shown the premises and the plat and survey of the same on application to Geo. Deneale in Alexandria.
 Thomas Swann, } Comrs.  Edmund J. Lee, }  Geo. Deneale, } 
Feb. 28. d30t
NOTICE.
The sale of the lands belonging to Col. Nathaniel Pendleton, adjoining the town of Alexandria will commence on Tuesday the 10th of April on the premises—the credits will be made known.
 Charles Simms, } Attorneys  George Deneale, } for  Edmund J. Lee, } N. Pendleton. 
March 30. d
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber on the 29th of October last, a negro man slave named
BOB,
about 20 years of age, five feet nine inches high straight limbed and well formed; said slave hath an impediment in his speech which prevents his readily replying to a question. He commonly wears ear-rings. He took with him a variety of good clothing, a description of which is unnecessary, as it is probable he has changed them. He has been frequently seen about town since he absconded, and in all probability is now secreted by his mother, Winney Brown, formerly the slave of Mr. John Muir, late of this town, but now said to be free. The above reward will be paid for securing said Negro BOB, in any goal, and a further reward of TEN DOLLARS for the discovery of those who have been accessory to his concealment.
Captain's of vessels, &c. are forewarned at their peril, not to take him away.
ROBERT B. JAMESSON. Nov. 15. d
Public Sale.
On Tuesday, 10th April, will be sold at the Vendue Store,
A Likely Negro Lad,
about eighteen years of age, accustomed to house work, at a credit of 3 and 6 months.
Philip G. Marsteller. March 31.
Cash given for clean linnen and cotton rags.
For Freight or Charter,
To any port in the United States or West Indies,
The Sch'r LEBOO.
For terms apply to GEORGE N. LYLES, DAVID W. SCOTT. April 4. d
For BOSTON,
The Brig HARMONY,
R. B. Hall, Master;
Will sail in a few days—for Freight or Passage apply to
John G. Ladd.
Landing from said brig & for sale, 10 hds. and 14 bds. Molasses, 70 pieces Russia Sheetings.
Also, from the Sch'r Leboo, A few tierces Rice and bales of Cotton. March 23.
To Let,
(and possession given 1st May)
The DWELLING-HOUSE occupied by Mr. James McClenahan, on Prince Street, and opposite Mr. Swann's, together with the vacant ground adjoining it.
Apply to RICKETTS, NEWTON, & Co. Who have for sale, Fresh Clover Seed.
The Ship United States
is expected here by the 10th or 15th April—part of her cargo being ready, the remainder will be taken on Freight if application is soon made. She will touch at Cork or Belfast if necessary, on her way to Liverpool. For freight or charter please apply to
Ricketts, Newton, & Co. April 2. d
FOR FREIGHT,
To Philadelphia, or to the WEST-INDIES,
The Brig
SUCCESS,
Capt. M'Farlane,
lying at Ramsay's Wharf, and will be ready to take in a cargo in two or three days. Apply to the Captain on board, or to
O. P. FINLEY. Those that have goods on board will please to apply for them. March 27.
Young Hyson & Imperial TEA,
Just received from Philadelphia, and for sale by John G. Ladd.
For Freight or Charter,
To the West Indies,
The new Sch'r UNION,
JOHN HAYNES, Master,
900 barrels burthen. She will be ready to take in a cargo in three days, and will load in all next week. For terms apply to
JOHN & THOS. VOWELL,
Who have for Sale,
 10 hds. Jamaica Spirits, received per Schooner Union, and in store 400 bds. Prok,  20,000 lbs. salt petred hams  3,000 bushels Turks Island Salt  1,000 ditto Anguila Salt  600 ditto Cadiz Salt, also  50 qr. casks superior old Port Wine  Madeira and Malaga Wines, &c. which will be sold on low terms. March 31. d 
Public Sale.
On Tuesday next April 3 at 4 o'clock P. M. will be sold on Jammieson & Anderson's wharf, Two-thirds of the fast sailing
Sch'r BETSEY,
JAMES M'KENZIE, MASTER, burthen one hundred and one tons, of eight hundred barrels, on a credit of three and six months for approved indorsed notes.
P. G. MARSTELLER March 28.
Just received and for Sale, A consignment of Twenty four bags of Georgia Upland Cotton of superior quality, by Alexander Henderson and Co. March 26.

Public Sale. On Thursday April 5, at 11 o'clock will be sold to the best bidder, that neat and well finished DWELLING HOUSE, situated on the corner of Cameron and Patrick Streets; the lot fronts on Cameron Street 45 feet 5 inches, and on Patrick Street 75 feet; on the north line of the lot there are two neat tenements, smoke house, &c. The above property was lately in the occupation of Mr. James Card. And at the same time and place will be sold a variety of good
Household & Kitchen Furniture, CONSISTING OF beds, bedsteads, desks, tables, chairs, sideboard, an elegant clock, &c. &c. and immediately after the sale of the furniture,  A Handsome Full Bred Filly, two years old. Terms of sale—CASH. P. G. MARSTELLER, v. m. March 13.
For Rent. The Brick dwelling house, corner of Prince & Pitt Streets, which I at present occupy. —ALSO— A frame house on Pitt Street. Immediate possession will be given. GEORGE CLEMENTSON, esq. March 16.
Indian Queen Tavern. The Subscriber will Sell the unexpired term of his lease of that noted and much frequented TAVERN, known by the name of The Indian Queen, corner of St. Asaph and King Streets. The situation is equal to any in Alexandria, and the business now done is equal, if not superior, to any public house in the Town.—There are six years and six months of the lease yet to run. For terms apply on the premises to John Hodgkins. March 8.
SHOES. SAMUEL CLARK Respectfully informs his Town and Country Customers that he contemplates leaving this place shortly, and will dispose of the following Shoes for cash, credit, or produce—viz: English and American colored Kid Slippers, Do. black and white, high and low heels, Black, red, green and blue Morocco Slippers, Ladies Black Morocco Jefferson's shoes. Misses' Red and Black do. 500 pair good Calf Skin Slippers. Black Stuff do. Misses' Morocco and Leather Slippers. Boys fine and coarse shoes. Children's Jefferson Shoes, and pumps. Men's fine Morocco shoes, and dancing pumps. Do. fine Morocco shoes, and coarse shoes. March 27.
Just received and for Sale, BY  JOSIAH FAXON and Co. Thirteen bds. First quality retailing Molasses, 39 bis. New England Rum, 2 pipes Cognac Brandy, 4 pipes Gin, 40 boxes mould and dip Candles, 20 bis. Cyder, 30 do. No. 1 and 2 Boston Pork, 6 do. No. 1 Beef, 6 do. Mackerell, 20 reams Wrapping Paper, 20 do. Writing Paper, 6 kegs James River Tobacco, 300 bushels Turk's Island Salt suitable for the Fisheries, 100 tons Plaster of Paris. ALSO, A quantity of Ladies and Misses Morocco Slippers, Gentlemen and boys fine Shoes, Mens and boys coarse Shoes and Boots, Childrens Morocco and leather Shoes, Womens lined and bound leather Slippers. The above articles will be sold on very moderate terms for Cash or Country Produce. March 27. dzw
FOR SALE. A Schooner now lying at the wharf of the following dimensions, viz. 34 feet straight rabbet, 15 feet beam, and about 5 1/2 feet hold with two cabins; she carries 1200 bushels of wheat, 1050 of coal, or 185 barrels of flour. The whole of her timbers, except two, are of Mulberry, and her hull is now in excellent order, having undergone a thorough repair. With her will be sold, the timg of a Negro Man who has commanded her, and is supposed to be as well acquainted with the Chesapeake bay and the rivers making into it, as any person who navigates those waters. As a reward for his fidelity and industry his master has promised him his freedom in six years from the 1st of January last. For terms and further particulars apply to JOSHUA RIDDLE. March 20. dzw
FROM THE FREDERICKTOWN HERALD.
COL. BUTLER'S TRIAL.
THE well known and established reputation of the officer implicated—the honorable interest in his behalf unconfined even by the limits of party distinction—and a variety of independent circumstances, have all conspired to produce in an uncommon degree and to keep alive general attention and curiosity in every part of the union as to this case, of which it is at last in our power to announce to the public a complete and authentic statement. By recurring to our journal for December last, it will be found that on Monday the 21st of November, the General Court Martial ordered for the trial of Col. T. Butler assembled in this town; that the court, of which a correct list was then given, proceeded to business on the Wednesday following; that on Monday the 5th of December, the testimony having been gone through with and closed on both sides, Col. Butler's defence was delivered to the court: and on the next day, Tuesday the 6th, the court concluded their determination. The long interval of suspense for more than three months which have elapsed since the court decided, without the sentence having been made known, or the proceedings returned by Gen. Wilkinson, the arresting officer, and commander in chief, to whom they were transmitted, induced Col. Butler who has waited the intermediate while at this place and at Washington, to apply to the secretary of war on the subject, from whom he derived the information on which we are now permitted to publish. Before presenting the defence and the sentence of the court, it seems proper, however, and more agreeable, without regarding the order of time, first to offer Col. Butler's letter to the Secretary of War, which led to a knowledge of the sentence, and the correspondence which followed in immediate connection.
CITY OF WASHINGTON, February 23, 1804.
SIR, The lapse of time that has taken place since the close of my trial, at the town of Frederick, has laid me under the necessity of once more addressing you on that unpleasant subject. In your favor of the 19th of December last, you gave me to understand, that I might expect a return of the proceedings of my trial in twenty or twenty five days from the date. Sixty-five days have passed off without my having received any further information whatever. This unexpected delay in the promulgation of the proceedings, has added much to my impatience. 'Tis true, sir, my situation may excite no great degree of sympathy, yet it certainly demands attention and justice, which is all I seek for. Then permit me to request of you to state my case to the president of the United States, as I cannot suppose, that he can be in possession of the merits of my trial, and suffer such a load of injuries as have been heaped on me, to remain so long unremoved. It is now nine months since my arrest took place at Fort Adams on the Mississippi, from which post I was ordered to the state of Maryland for trial, and after having performed a journey of upwards of fifteen hundred miles in the heat of summer, my trial was put off from the 10th of September to the 20th November, which delay I bore without complaining, and I now appeal not only to your own feelings, sir, but to the feelings of every man of sense and honor, to say if the treatment which I have received since the commencement of that business has not been such as the principles of honor and the laws of my country will not sanction.
I am with respect, Your humble servant, THOMAS BUTLER, Col. 2d Regt. Inf. The Hon. Henry Dearborne, Secretary of War.
In consequence of the above letter, Major Rogers was directed by the Secretary of War to wait on Col. Butler, and know if he would dispense with the Secretary's making a statement of his case to the president until after the arrival of another mail from New-Orleans, which was assented to. Another mail having arrived without bringing any new intelligence relative to his case from Gen. Wilkinson, Col. Butler was invited to an interview with the secretary on the 4th inst. who stated that as he had before that received a letter from the General, dated the 24th Jan. announcing that he had received and approved of the sentence of the General Court Martial relative to Col. Butler, and that the sentence would be published in orders within a day or two after the said date, there could of course be
no impropriety in his (the Secretary's) letting the colonel know the nature of the sentence. (We have been thus particular, at the request of Col. Butler, who is now in Frederick, as to the language used by the secretary; because in the Colonel's appeal to the president, which follows, the ground on which the secretary of war deemed himself justifiable in making known the sentence does not appear as accurately and as fully as he might himself wish.) The secretary then related the decision of the court such as the reader will presently see it.—Whereupon Col. Butler observed, that if the Court had found him guilty of disobedience under the first specification, for not cutting off his hair agreeably to the General's order, they must have judged from the letter of the order, without taking into view whether the order was legal or not, that he could not submit to the decision without an appeal to the president of the United States, and asked if he was at liberty to use the information, which the secretary had been pleased to communicate, as the foundation for such an appeal. This was granted: and the following note was then addressed to the secretary, accompanied by the Appeal, to be delivered in form to the president.
City of Washington, March 8, 1804. SIR, I have the honor of enclosing a letter addressed to the President of the United States, which I will thank you to deliver in that form deemed by you most respectful. It is open, that you may have an opportunity to examine the first part, to see if correctly stated.
I am, sir, with respect, Your humble servant, THOMAS BUTLER. Col. 2d regt. Inf. The Hon. Henry Dearborne, Secretary of War.
His Excellency the President of the United States.
SIR, Before entering on a subject, to the merits of which I must beg leave to solicit your Excellency's attention; it will be necessary to state as a data, that on the 4th inst. the Hon. the Secretary of War, honored me with a conversation in his office, respecting my late trial. After his having expressed much surprise why the commanding General had so long withheld the promulgation of the proceedings, he observed, that as the General must have acted on those in my case before that period, he could not conceive that there was any impropriety in his informing me, that I stood acquitted by the court, of all the charges exhibited by the general, except the first specification, viz, 'Disobedience to the General order of the 30th of April, 1801, regulating the uniform of the hair.'
Taking for granted, sir, that this is the state of the case; I have reason to suppose from the decision, that the court decided on the letter of the order, without having taken into view, whether the order itself was of such a nature, and so supported by legal authority, as to render obedience indispensable. Presuming that the court had not taking into view the latter position, I feel myself impelled by self respect, to appeal to your Excellency, from the decision of the court, with a hope, that you will be pleased to re-consider the merits of that specification.
I feel sensible, sir, how delicate this subject is, and I, with every military man most intimately feel how unfortunate it is, that any General Order should render its discussion indispensable. Yet I hope and trust, that it never will be conceded, that any citizen entering into the military service of his country, thereby puts himself out of the protection of the laws, that his honour, his conscience, his moral principles, his private and natural rights are no longer under his own guardianship, but surrendered up to whomsoever may be his military superior. With deference, sir, I have at all times believed, that the power given to every officer by his commission, is the authority of the laws and constitution of his country, vested in him as the legitimate organ. The expression then of the superior officer's will, whilst confined to subjects over which the laws have given him authority, is the command of the law itself, and must be implicitly and promptly obeyed. But if directed to subjects over which the laws have given him no authority, but which on the contrary the laws and constitution of the United States have secured as inviolable to every citizen, whether in a civil or military capacity, then I contend, please your Excellency, that the order of the 30th of April, 1801, being unsupported by legal authority, contains not the essence of a military command. And had he court entered into an investigation of
the legal merits of that order, they could not have held it in any higher point of view than the expression of will from one individual to another, which no duty requires him to respect, and no power compels him to obey.
I would fondly hope please your Excellency, that it will not be said such principles as these are subversive of military subordination; for I flatter myself, that my character as an officer is so well established, as not to admit a doubt of my obedience to the orders of superiors in rank, and at all times to have paid implicit obedience to the laws of my country.
Experience, please your Excellency, has taught me to believe, that the proper exercise of legal authority is sufficiently comprehensive for every purpose of military duty, that the power given to superiors is large enough to embrace every possible case the public service could require. But if it were not, still the power of a general must be circumscribed by the laws, else the consequence would be, that his will alone would bound his authority, whether it directed the execution of things moral or immoral, treasonable or patriotic, honorable or base.
I presume that I am correct, sir, in observing that it is the indispensable duty of every officer placed over others in command, never to pass those limits, which the laws of good sense, sound policy, morality, religion, and of his country must give to all delegated authority. That the order of the 30th of April, 1801, supposed those limits, never was recognized with me; because the proper and constitutional authority of the U. States, has made those regulations for the government of the army, which I conceived were as imperative to the commanding general, as to the lowest in rank. These facts distinctly mark the power of the one as the duty of the other. The one becomes criminal if he exceeds his authority; the other when he performs his legal duty should have nothing to fear, but receive the ample protection of the laws of his country.—Has congress by its acts given power to any military officer, to compel an inferior in rank to any act of mutilation, to deprive himself of any private or natural right—I think I may with safety answer no—the e are no such acts: there has been no such power delegated: and when any officer, by an order, attempts to legislate on subjects not submitted to his authority, he usurps that authority which the constitution vests in congress alone.
I hope your Excellency will pardon my expressions that may appear too strong in this address and implicate them to their true cause; namely, to the feelings of a man smarting under a load of oppression; view him, sir, as ordered by his commanding General from one of the most extreme posts of the United States, to the state of Maryland for trial, upwards of fifteen hundred miles, kept near ten months in a state of suspense, and at an expense to himself for any officer to bear; and all this in direct violation of the 23d article of the Appendix to the rules and articles of war; as there we see many intermediate posts. Permit me to observe, sir, if a general can assume such authority as this, he has it completely in his power to ruin any officer in the army.
Let me hope, sir, that you will take into consideration the merits of the specification before alluded to, and by turning to my defence on that part of the charge, you will see my reasons for not conforming to that order, without troubling your excellency with any further details.
I am respectfully, your Excellency's humble servant, THOMAS BUTLER, Col. 2d Regt. Inf.
City of Washington, March 8, 1804. It may here be right to remark, the 23d Article of the Appendix to the Rules and Articles referred to in the preceding letter, as having been violated in the treatment dealt to Col. Butler, is in these words:
"Article 23.—The commanding officer of any post or detachment, in which there shall be a number of officers adequate to form a General Court Martial, shall in cases which require the cognizance of such a court, report to the commanding officer of the detachment, who shall order a court to be assembled at the nearest post or detachment, and the party accused, with the necessary witnesses to be transported to the place where the court shall be assembled."
In answer to his representation of appeal to the president, the Secy of War returned Col. Butler the following reply—
War Department, March 14, 1804. SIR,
The memorial accompanying your letter of the 10th inst. was in conformity with your request preferred to the president of the United States, who referred it to the secretary of war for his decision thereon. It has therefore become his duty to make such observations on the subject of the memorial, as the nature of the case requires. Prefacing it to have been your intention that your memorial should be considered in the nature of an appeal from the sentence of the General Court Martial to the president of the United States, which sentence had been approved by the proper officer—it will only be necessary to observe, that there exists no law, custom or usage, within the knowledge or recollection of the secretary of war, by which the president is authorized to re-organize or set aside an appeal; although

The president of the United States has by law ultimately to decide on proceedings of court martial in certain cases, it does not appear that he possesses any legal control over the sentence of any court martial duly convened by the proper officer, except by interposing the constitutional power conferred to him of pardoning offences. I am respectfully, Your humble servant, H. DEARBORNE.
Col. Thomas Butler. The president having thus declined an interference with the sentence of the court martial, the sentence remains as it was, such as we are now enabled to extract it from a copy of the minutes of the court, with which Col. Butler was furnished a few days since by the politeness of the secretary of war. It is unnecessary here to insert the charges and specifications against Col. Butler, to which the sentence applies, because they will be found precisely quoted in the opening of his defence. Nor is it necessary to report the evidence on which the sentence was founded, because the evidence was all written and is particularly detailed in the defence, and because on the specification for not cutting off his hair, the only one which affects Col. Butler in the opinion of the court, there was no evidence offered and none required as to the mere fact of his not having conformed to the General's pleasure in that particular.
Fredericktown, Dec. 6, 1803. The court after mature deliberation are of opinion that the prisoner is guilty of disobedience of the General Order of the 30th of April, 1801, and taking into consideration the long and faithful services and his general character as an officer do sentence him under the 5th article of the 2d section of the Rules and Articles of war, to be reprimanded in General Orders. The court are also of opinion, after due investigation, that the prisoner is not guilty of the second and third specifications, and that he did according to the true intent and meaning of the orders of the 9th of April, 25th May, and 8th June, 1802, faithfully perform his duty and do therefore acquit him. The court then adjourned to ten o'clock tomorrow morning.
J. BURBECK, President. JAMES HOUSE, Judge Advocate. December 11, 1803. Such is the sentence of the Court Martial, in the latter part of which we believe there will be a general sentiment of concurrence throughout the country in favor of the party acquitted. In eliminating the former part of the sentence, which is a conviction of disobedience to a certain alleged order from the Commander in Chief, it would perhaps be difficult to resort to any better standard than the very clause of the rules and articles of war, which the court have referred to. By the 5th article of the 2d section of those rules it is declared, that—
'Any officer or soldier who shall strike his superior officer, or draw or shall lift up any weapon, or offer any violence against him, being in the execution of his office, on any pretence whatever, or shall disobey any lawful command, of his superior officer, shall suffer death or such other punishment as shall, according to the nature of his offence, be inflicted upon him, by the sentence of a court martial.'
By this article it appears that, with respect to the command of a superior officer, an inferior is punishable only for disobedience to 'any LAWFUL command,' which is an express confirmation of the principles and the whole reasoning maintained in the defence on that subject. Hence it results that if the court did not take into consideration the lawfulness of the General Order for cutting off the hair, they certainly proceeded on a mistaken notion, and their sentence thereon is essentially imperfect. If they did investigate the lawfulness of the order, it now only becomes a question between them and the world whether or not their judgment was right. The effect of that sentence cannot from its nature go in the least degree to impeach the honour or tarnish the fame of Colonel Butler, who are rendered of themselves above the reach of injury or suspicion. The least favorable view of it as regards him, is that the officers on this court have deemed him wrong in not yielding submission to an instance to which it is impossible under his impressions that he should accede. What those impressions are, may already have been collected from the correspondence, and they are further displayed at large in his defence together with the motives of his whole conduct in a regular train of justification on this and every other action arranged in the copy of arrest, under which he was tried.
On Monday the 5th December, (as mentioned in number seventy eight of the Herald.) Colonel Butler attended by his counsel John Norton Thomas, presented his defence, which was in part read by himself, and the remainder (owing to his indisposition from a severe cold) the court permitted to be read by his counsel, which lasted about an hour and a half. (To be continued.)
PHILADELPHIA, March, 31. DIRECTIONS To Captains of vessels bound to the Mississippi. The Mouth of the river is in lat. 29 06. Try to keep in the latitude, and bring the block to bear W. N. W. 3° N. and run for it; you may run into ten fathoms water with safety, and
anchor if necessary. The anchorage is good everywhere. When in, and bound up the river with a leading wind, run from point to point, taking care to keep out of the beads. If obliged to anchor, be careful to come to on the point.
April 2. Arrived the brig Lovely Lucy, capt. Brewer, in 15 days from St. Thomas. Captain B. informs, that it was reported at St. Thomas when he sailed that the British had given up the attack on Corracoa, and left the Island.
Alexandria Daily Advertiser. THURSDAY, APRIL 5.
ERRATA. In publishing in our paper of Tuesday last, from the Baltimore Federal Gazette, the letter preceding the memorial of Judge Chase, in the 7th and 10th lines of the first paragraph, the words ultimo was used instead of ultimè , without having reference to Judge Chase's letter being dated in March. The reader is requested to correct the mistake.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, April 4th, 1804.
Ordered, That the proprietors or occupiers of the sunken ground comprehended between Washington, King, St. Asaph and Cameron-streets, do fill up the same within twenty days from the publication of this order.
Ordered, That the proprietors or occupiers of the sunken ground comprehended between St. Asaph, King, Pitt and Cameron streets, do fill up the same within thirty days from the publication of this order.
Ordered, That the two alleys north and south of Wales's old brewery leading from Water to Union streets, be immediately surveyed by the street commissioner, and the proper level ascertained by him, and that the proprietors of the ground adjoining be furnished with such regulation, and on the receipt thereof that they do within ten days, proceed to fill up the said ground and alleys so as to correspond with the said regulation, and that the street commissioner be authorised, as soon as the same is filled up to pave the said Alley's, and charge the expence of the regulation and pavement to the persons chargeable by law with the expence thereof.
Ordered, That the clerk of the market be directed to publish weekly the assize of bread.
Ordered, That a well be sunk and a pump placed at the intersection of Prince and Alfred-streets, and that the expence thereof be charged to the southern district of the town.
Copy from the Minutes, Test, JAMES M. M'REA, C. C.
THE observations contained in the communication published in Tuesday's Courier, (see yesterday's Advertiser) must strike every one too forcibly to pass by them without making a deep impression. That the respect which the men now in power express for Washington's virtues is insincere, may be proved by a reference to the private machinations and open calumnies with which they hunted that great man and his memory; but could not, thank God, hurt either down in the public opinion. There is one thing however, which will never be forgotten, and which we beg to make a few remarks upon as decisive upon the subject.
Every man who knows any thing knows this, that in judging of things in this life we have no criterion to go by, but comparison. In all we do we are but imitators of what has been done before by others. And it is by improving from age to age, upon the labours and wisdom of those who have gone before us, that all which renders life desirable all which gives it lustre or comfort is achieved and reared from the first elementary parts up to the last perfecting of all human institutions. Government, laws, manners, customs, have thus risen from the crude indigested expedients of human necessity at first, up to firm permanent sciences, the principles of which are so firmly established by the long contest and concurrent opinion of mankind, that a deviation from them is considered as a deviation from nature—whose offspring in fact those institutions and sciences are, though moulded into convenient shapes and thrown into different directions by human management just as much as the fruits of a vine or a peach-tree are the offspring of the root—be the branches trained how they may by horticultural skill.
No one principle seems to have been more deeply engrained in the human heart, or more common to man's nature, than that of gratitude. And it will appear that the principle has burned with a stronger flame in cases of public than those of private obligation. Hence we find that the memory of those heroes, patriots, and sages, who have greatly served their country, have been transmitted to us by the noblest, the richest, and the most permanent monuments which a generous enthusiasm, regardless of expences, could bestow. In fact, men, though really acting from the most noble impulse that is to say, from a pure sense of the debt they owe their benefactors, seem to
have acted with a view to the character of their country and of themselves also; and so have dealt on those occasions as much according to their own honor, as to the debts of their great men. Hence at this time Westminster Abbey is the admiration of the whole thinking world. There the heroic actions of the warriors, sages, poets, and patriots of England, are commemorated as long as marble can last, without distinction of blood, rank, interest, or anything but merit and public services. Within those walls, sacred walls, lie embodied to the reverential regards of posterity, Kings, Peers, Statesmen, Soldiers, Statesmen, Poets, and Players; Chatham, Blake, Drake, Boscawen, Wall, Spenser, Pease, John G. Gower, Thoms, Fox, Booth, Garrick, Liddon. Thus is the grandeur of a good people exhibited, and their title to the services of their great men established. Thus are the emulation of noble minds formed. Thus are the grandest and most honorable epochs of their national history marked out and recorded as coasters are by landmarks. And thus is the blessing of the all-protecting God, successfully evinced by that best of praise in his eyes; gratitude to him exhibited in gratitude to the humble instruments of his mercy and benefit.
How d'graceful now; how indecently infamous hereafter, must that country appear which to gratify the malignant and diabolical feelings and designs of a faction, has suffered the sage, the patriot, and the hero to whom she owes her political existence, to pass down without a monument; without as much as the pile of stones which the savages of antiquity would rarely heap together, to commemorate the deeds of their benefactors. Upon this subject as it regards the character of this country as it will be held by posterity, we mean hereafter to speak much at large. The hero will not be less honored—but the people who neglected him will be tarnished, and the demagogues who caused that neglect in the people, damned to everlasting infamy. Posterity will search in the literary rubbish of the day, to find out the reason why the saviour of such an empire had no monumental mark of public respect, and when they find that this unnatural neglect was caused by the wicked and cunning machinations of a faction, they will turn with disgust, with execration, from the history, and consign to the father of all evil , the men who could for their own purposes so blacken the era in which they lived, and cast a cloud of filthy smoke, raised from the smouldering brimstone cinders of hell, upon an epoch otherwise the most glorious that stands upon human records.
Let the people compare the conduct of the faction, the purchased calumnies of Callender and other, but inferior creatures; and above all, the circumstances of Washington's not having a monument, with the vile, false, and false which they affect to bestow upon him now, and judge of their views. Next to the praise of the good, the censure of the wicked is the best testimony of honourable conduct. General Washington has now got the coupe de grace from the faction. After having procured him to be privately and publicly calumniated—after having by their baleful influence prevented the erecting of a monument to his memory, they now resort to the worst and most malignant mode of wounding his name—they praise him themselves. But all will not do—the prime butt of the idol will be covered from sight by the cobwebs of a century. But after ages shall have passed away, the naked walls of every temple in this immense empire will echo to the name of its hero; and Washington be exalted up to heaven, with the pealing hallelujahs of a great and graceful people. (Charleston Courier.)
Public Sale.
On the 19th day of April, will be sold on the premises, A two story frame House and Lot of Ground, in fee simple, well fitted up for a grocery store, a large dry cellar. The shop is equal to any on the street, situated on the east side of Union Street, and the fourth side of the lot fronting on Union 23 feet 7 inches, and in depth 57 feet. Terms—one fourth of the purchase in hand, the balance on a credit of six, nine and twelve months. Philip G. Marsteller.
April 5. A FEW TIERCES FRESH CLOVER SEED, FOR SALE, and to be had by the cask or bushel at Kirk's Wharf or at my mill. Wm. Hartshorne.
April 5. Notice. Those persons entitled to vote in the second ward of the town of Alexandria, for members of the Common Council, are hereby notified, that an election will be held at the court house on Friday the 13th day of the present month, for the purpose of electing three representatives in the Common Council for the said ward to fill vacancies occasioned by letting aside the former election. James M. M'Rea, C. C.
April 5. Cash given for clean linen and cotton rags.
Public Sale.
On Saturday next at 5 o'clock will be sold on Ramsay's wharf, for the benefit of those concerned, Part of the cargo of the schooner FEDERALIST, damaged on her voyage from St. Bartholomew, consisting of—about 17000 lbs. of Coffee 9200 lbs. Cocoa, 19 hds. 10 bbls. Clayed Sugar. P. G. MARSTELLER.
April 4. McLean & Winterberry, Have commenced business in the Ware House on Union Street, lately occupied by Messrs. Jamey & Pa—, where they intend keeping a constant supply of GROCERIES. They have now on hand a few pipes and quarter casks of London particular Madeira Wine, a few pipes of old Cognac Brandy, Philadelphia Soap, Leather, Bar Iron, &c. Goods will be taken in on Storage. April 2.
JANNEY & PATON Have just received, per Sloop Eliza, Capt. Harkness, 15 pipes Amsterdam GIN, Also, per Schoon. Debby, 144 tons PLASTER PARIS, And 20000 Cypress Shingles. The Sloop will take part Freight of Flour for any Eastern Port. March 27.
NOTICE.
The Circuit Court of the District of Columbia having at the March session hitherto in the county of Alexandria, Ordered and Directed, in the suite of Wyllie, Langley and others, complainants against Robert Alexander, his Trustees and other defendants depending on the Chancery side of the said court, that the subscriber make up, adjust, settle and report to the said court the accounts and claims of the said plaintiffs, stated in their bill; and of other judgment creditors of the said Robert Alexander, anterior to the deed of trust mentioned in the said bill, which deed bears date the 26th day of December 1799. The several persons coming under the direct order made in the aforesaid suite, are hereby informed, that I shall attend at my office in the town of Alexandria, from this day until the 6th of April next on which day I shall make up my report, to carry into effect the said order, at which time and place the several parties interested are requested to attend with the necessary documents, to enable me to execute the order. George Deneale. March 27.
Notice.
The time of settling the accounts between Catharine Brown, Executrix, of Wm. Brown, deceased, complainant, and Eliz. Brown, defendant, in chancery, is, at the request of one of the parties, postponed until Thursday the 12th day of this inst. when the parties will attend at the place heretofore notified, &c. R. Ratcliffe. April 3.
Notice.
The sale of the lands of Robert Alexander advertised by the subscribers to take place on Saturday the 7th day of April next, for ready cash, will on that day commence on the premises near the Mansion House at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and sundry parts thereof will be offered for sale on three, six and nine months credit, for negotiable notes, drawn and endorsed to the satisfaction of a majority of the Commissioners. Thomas Swan, George Deneale, Edmund J. Lee, Com'rs. March 29.
Ten Dollars Reward.
Ran-away from the subscriber living in Fairfax County, on Friday night the 16th inst., a negro man slave, named DENNIS, about twenty one years of age, supposed to be about five feet, seven or eight inches high, of a dark complexion, a little squint eyed, on one of his feet not recollected which, a large knot on the joint of his great toe; occasioned by a sprain; when he went away had on a round jacket and pantaloons of white plains, a country made hat about half worn, no other clothing recollected. I expect he calls himself Dennis Ramsey, if he does not change his name. James Deneale, sen. March 26.
TO BE SOLD.
FIFTY-TWO ACRES LAND, with a dwelling house thereon, near Capt. Geo. Shacum's farm, about three miles from town. There is an excellent garden of fruit trees, fl-wers, &c. &c. and about ten acres of meadow under fence, the remainder in wood. It will either be sold for cash or short payments, or bartered for dry goods. THOS. PATTEN. March 28.

REANIMATION.
WHEN the most important functions of life are suspended, and those who are invalids by imprudence, inheritance, accident or disease, are tottering upon the brink of the grave, it is not in despair that relief is to be found: There is a medicine which has restored thousands from infirmity and misery to health and happiness, which is
THE AROMATIC LOZENGES OF STEEL.
Since this excellent medicine was first discovered by Dr. Bardwell, several thousand families have experienced its salutary effects; many of whom had been reduced to the brink of the grave, having used every remedy recommended as specific in their complaints, and had made every application to the faculty that could be obtained. The following recent case is selected from a numerous list.
From Mrs. Eleanor Wadsworth, Providence, (R. I.)
WE received yours and with much pleasure comply with your request, as my daughter has certainly received very great benefit from Dr. Bardwell's Aromatic Lozenges of Steel.
In the winter of 1802 my daughter, who is in her 27th year caught a very severe cold, which with the violent fever which accompanied it, confined her to her room upwards of four months; during this period we paid for Doctors bills and consultations 150 dollars. The fever left her in the most deplorable, and debilitated state with hardly any use of her limbs, so that we were obliged to carry her from the bed to the chair. Being strongly persuaded by the Doctor we went to Ball's Town Springs and stayed the season and thought she gained considerable strength by the use of the waters; but by the fatigue of the passage (having very rough weather) she became as weak and her cough much worse than before. During the last winter her whole nervous system has been so irritable, and her spirits so low and depressed, that death to her was desirable. In the latter end of January we saw an Advertisement recommending the Lozenges of Steel for similar complaints, we immediately purchased a packet of them, and before the whole of them were taken, they evidently produced a change in her system, which no medicine before had been able to effect; we sent for two more packets. It is now fourteen days since she began to mend; she has had a slight cough, has been twice on horse back, and if the weather should prove favourable we intend coming to Peeks-kil early in April to stop until we go to Ball's-Town Springs; from there we will send on our address, where with pleasure we will satisfy any inquiries.
Price one Dollar per Packet.
Particular directions for their use are sealed up with each but as the great benefit to be derived from them can only be secured by having them genuine, the public are requested to observe that the name of Thomas Stokes & Co are affixed to each packet, without which mark of authenticity they are not genuine.
The Lozenges of Steel,
are only to be had, in Alexandria, of Messrs. R. & J. GRAY.
WHO HAVE ALSO ON HAND,
A SUPPLY OF Family & Patent Medicines,
—CONSISTING OF—
Chambaud's Antasthmatic Lozenges; Ague and Fever Drops; Antibilious Pills; Annodyne Essence for Head Aches; Reanimating Solar Tincture; Dr. Bardwell's genuine Eye Water; Atkinson's Essence of Mustard; Scotch Ointment for the Itch; Tooth Ach Drops; Aromatic Lozenges; Essence of the Woods, &c. &c.
Dr. Hunter's genuine Antibilious Pills, For the prevention and cure of Yellow, Bilious and Putrid Fevers.
Every experienced physician knows what dangerous disorders arise from a redundancy of bile in the habit; however salutary a due secretion of this fluid may be, yet a diffusion of it in the circulation is known, from its putrefact qualities, to bring on sudden and fatal fevers. The unparalleled success of Dr. Hunter's Antibilious Pills, in curing, and particularly in preventing this dreadful disease, is universally known in the islands, and has induced the proprietor to appoint agents in all the mercantile towns in the United States, for the accommodation of the public. The Antibilious Pills are therefore, in an especial manner, recommended as a preventative, deserving the notice of all persons going to the West Indies, or any of those places infected with these fevers. Dr. Hunter has every possible reason, that can result from long and extensive experience, for believing that a dose of these pills, taken once every fourteen days, during the prevalence of our fall fevers, will prove an infallible preventative, and that, if taken in the early stages of these fevers, their use will very generally succeed in restoring health, and frequently in cases esteemed desperate and beyond the power of common remedies.
The operation of these pills is perfectly mild, may be used with safety by persons in every situation and of every age.
In sickly times and places a dose should be taken once a fortnight, and if there is reason to apprehend personal danger, once a week.
Observe that the signatures of Messrs. Thos. Stokes and Co. are affixed to each box, without which mark of authenticity they are not genuine.
Dr. Atkinson's genuine Essence of Mustard.
Rheumatism in every stage, instantly submits to its penetrating powers, which has succeeded in curing the most desperate cases of rheumatism, gout, lumbago, sciatica, numbness, palsy and complaints of the stomach, after sprits medicines have proved ineffectual. It is prepared in pills, and also in a fluid state. The pills are particularly serviceable in flatulences and indigestion, and by their salutary operation, promote perspiration, and gradually undermine the most obstinate rheumatism; and, at the same time, invigorate the debilitated constitution. The fluid essence is a remarkable active embrocation, necessarily used with the pills, and as generally excites a tingling sensation; it removes the causes of pain, by bringing on a circulation in the area affected; by this means, frozen limbs, the severest sprains and bruises, old strains and luxations, are generally cured by a few applications. The genuine is distinguished from counterfeits, by the signature of Thomas Stokes and Co. being affixed to each bottle; without which mark of authenticity, none are genuine.
The genuine Scotch Ointment. The only medicine that cures this disagreeable disease, by one application, so many hundreds having experienced its efficacy; it is unnecessary to add any more arguments in its favor, but to caution the public that the name Thomas Stokes and Co. is affixed to each box, without this mark of authenticity, none are genuine.
The genuine Scotch Ointment.
Dr. Bardwell's genuine Eye Water. A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eyes; speedily removes inflammation, dimness, itching, and stings; it never fails to cure these infirmities which frequently succeed the measles, small pox, and fever; and is an unparalleled strengthener of a weak sight.
Dr. Hunter's genuine Antibilious Pills.
An agreeable and certain preventive of the predisposition to inflammatory and malignant fever, which prevails at particular seasons of the year. The rapid and increasing demand from every part of the United States, and the West India islands, is the best evidence of their superior excellence.
CHAMBAUD'S Antasthmatic Lozenges.
A radical cure for coughs, colds, asthma and consumptions, difficulty of breathing, &c. &c.
Mr. CHAMBAUD, the sole proprietor of this medicine, has the satisfaction to announce that they have been the means of relieving many persons in a most precarious state of health. In common colds this medicine produces so salutary a perspiration that they generally are eradicated in a few hours. Coughing, being prolonged by that continual severe symptom termed the tickling in the throat, it shortens its duration by promoting sleep and strengthening the constitution. Pulmonary complaints, affecting the breath and lungs; those affected with them experience an almost immediate relief. Asthma and confined consumptions have repeatedly been eradicated by them. Infants in the hooping cough, and women during pregnancy, may take them without the least fear of danger, and with the greatest expectation of relief, nor can it be administered at an improper season.
Dr. BARDWELL'S
Annodyne Essence, for all kinds of Head Aches.
THE renowned virtues of the Annodyne essence, is now so generally known, that it is no presumption in the Proprietor, to say, that Head Aches, arising from whatever cause, or however violent, instantly submit to its penetrating powers. This invaluable Annodyne, has frequently succeeded after the best advice, and every other remedy had failed; by its salutary operation, it insensibly promotes circulation and perspiration, and thereby prevents the return of the most obstinate periodical head aches.
SPRING PHYSIC.
DR. HUNTER'S Anti-Bilious Pills are unquestionably proved by ample experience to be the most effectual remedy, at the same time the most innocent, pleasant, and convenient medicine for the cure of scurvy, scrofulous eruptions, leprosy, and other disorders originating from a corruptive state of the blood. The remarkable cure of Mr. Ellison, of Albany, who had been twelve years tormented with a most distressing scrofulous complaint, as also that of Thomas Johnson, a labouring man, in the service of Mr. Van Rensselaer, who was afflicted with a most horrid leprosy, must have convinced every one who has read the particulars of these cases, besides which, a variety of proofs of their efficacy, authenticated by persons of character and respectability are open to the examination of every inquirer. These must naturally be supposed to have their due weight, and supersede the necessity of any further comment from the Proprietor, yet, he presumes to assert, that the real merits of this vegetable preparation will, on a fair trial, plead more forcible its own recommendation than any thing which can be said of it.
Where also may be had,
Atkinson's Worm destroying Lozenges.—These Lozenges not only destroy worms where they exist, but effectually prevent their return. These families who have followed Dr. Atkinson's advice, and used them in the Spring and Fall among their children, as their common physic, have now the happiness to find those children, which appeared sickly and consumptive, in the bloom of health, being entirely delivered from those dreadful vermin.
Sparta, Mount Pleasant, March 27, 1803.
We hereby certify, that our daughter, about 4 years of age, has been very unwell and in a bad state of health for these last two years. We always suspected that she had worms, and had given her several worm medicines, without any good effect, so that we despaired of raising her till of late. Hearing of some surprising cures being performed by Atkinson's worm destroying Lozenges, we purchased a packet of them, and administered them according to the directions. The first dose brought away only one worm, and with it a quantity of slimy, offensive matter; the second brought away four monstrous thick worms nearly half a yard in length; and the third dose, a large quantity of a slimy, offensive matter. The vomiting and purging, with which she was frequently troubled have ceased—her appetite has become regular, and has over since enjoyed a perfect state of health, for which we are entirely indebted to this excellent medicine.
Dr. BARDWELL'S
Re-animating Solar Tincture, or Pabulum of Life. Of the cure of Consumption and Asthma, Disorders in the Stomach and Bowels, Convulsions, Cholic and Diabetes.
Cautious investigation, and attentive enquiry into the nature and laws of the animal economy, having long confirmed an opinion in the mind of the inventor, that all the maladies above-mentioned, derive their origin from the same cause, indirect debility, or consequent weakness, the analogy of their source, by a natural inference suggested the idea of their removal by the same means; the result was the discovery of the Re-animating Solar Tincture, which after having been employed in thousands of instances, with the most unexampled and astonishing success, has obtained the warmest approbation of characters of the first respectability, both in and out of the profession; the proprietors can confidently recommend as one of the most certain, efficacious, and pleasant remedies ever discovered by man or offered to the world.
Price a dollar, and a dollar 50 cents per bottle. The large bottle contains nearly two of the small. Copious directions for their use are sealed up with each bottle.
Dr. Stoughton's Cordial Bitters, faithfully prepared at the original warehouse, London.
This incomparable medicine has stood the test of universal approbation in Europe for near an hundred years, in the cure and prevention of,
Loss of appetite, bad digestion, windy cholic, urticis, hysteric vapours, faintness and trembling, ague and fever, depressed spirits, foul breath, worms in children, scurvy, obstructions or stoppages, bilious fevers, sick fits, &c. &c.
These Bitters being now generally used in taverns and public places, and universally acknowledged by all who have tried their effects, to be far superior to the compositions formerly imposed in imitation thereof; the proprietor hath reduced the price to those who purchase largely above fifty per cent. Directions will be pasted on the Bottles, and which will be also sealed, in order to detect counterfeits and upstart pretenders, who will all tell you, they make the genuine Stoughton's Bitters; and in order to impose their trash on the public, they sometimes copy a part of the true advertisement and directions.
Specific Drops for Deafness.
FOR many years have these drops been used with amazing success, in DEAFNESS & HARDNESS OF HEARING. Those who are unacquainted with the great relief afforded by this valuable medicine, are earnestly recommended to a trial. Few are the cases in which it has not been of great service, and very often perfected a complete cure.
Copious directions for the use of the Specific Drops for Deafness are sealed up with each bottle. Price one dollar.
June 13. 13W
MAHOGANY FURNITURE. JOHN B. TAYLOR, Cabinet Maker,
King-Street, next door but one to the Printing Office of the Advertiser,
Has received from the manufactory of Coleman & Taylor, Baltimore, PLAIN AND ELEGANT FURNITURE, consisting of—
Celleret side boards, side board tables with marble tops, secretaries, book cases, bureaus, work tables, candle stands, card tables, dining and breakfast tables, which he offers for sale low.
He respectfully offers his service to the public generally. All orders shall be punctually attended to. Jan. 21. d6t eo
BY AUTHORITY.
Scheme of a Lottery.
To build an Academy in the City of Richmond. Dols.
  1 Prize last drawn ticket having a blank to its number, 20,000   1 do. 10,000 10,000   1 do. 5,000 5,000   5 do. of 1,000 make 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 20 7,500   420 do. of 10 10,500   1,500 do. of 5 30,000   3,000 do. of 1 45,000   1 last drawn ticket after 1,000 having a blank to its number, 250   1 do. after 2,000 do. 250   1 do. after 3,000 do. 250   1 do. after 4,000 do. 250   1 do. after 5,000 do. 500   1 do. after 6,000 do. 500   1 do. after 7,000 do. 500   1 do. after 8,000 do. 500   1 do. after 9,000 do. 500   1 do. after 10,000 do. 500   1 do. after 12,000 do. 500   1 do. after 13,000 do. 500   1 do. after 14,000 do. 1,000   5,325 prizes 150,000   9,675 blanks—not two to a prize.   15,000 tickets at 10 dollars each, 150,000   N. B. Prizes subjected to a deduction of fifteen per cent. 
This lottery has been authorised by the legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purpose of erecting a seminary of learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dollars, and 2,500 dollars 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 participate in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The treasurer of this state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay them 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 authorize it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next.
Richmond, January 31, 1804. eo
** TICKETS to be had of Robert Pollard, Dr. J. Breckenbrough, jun. Wm. Price, (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, jun. and Wm. Pritchard.
FOR RENT
THE FISHERIES belonging to Mrs. Rozier, on the Maryland Shore, nearly opposite Alexandria. For term apply to
Thos. L. Washington, on the premises. Feb. 21. eo
TICKETS,
In the Baltimore Cathedral Lottery for sale by
James Bacon. March 9. cu
SALES.
To be sold on a credit of six months, at Public Auction, on Monday the 16th day of April next, before the front door of George William's Tavern, in the town of Dumfries, the following property, viz.
A Tract of Land
near Dumfries, on the tide water of Powell's creek, called Cedar Grove, containing about 600 acres, with houses and other improvements.
One moiety of a Tract of LAND on Chappawamie creek, with houses, quarries and free stone, &c. thereon.
A House and Lot in Newport, (Potomac) No. 12. Two Lots with a Store House, Sheds, Wharf, &c. in the same place, Nos. 15 and 16.
One of two undivided Lots in the town of Geneva, state of New York.
And the Houses and Lots in Dumfries, now occupied by James Smith, and by applying to whom any further particulars will be made known respecting the above-mentioned property; which will be sold under the superintendence and direction of Timothy Brundige.
This sale is to be made in pursuance of an order of the Commissioners of Bankruptcy sitting on the case of James Smith, a Bankrupt, in consequence of a mortgage entered into by the said James Smith on the 6th day of January, 1803, to the subscribers, to secure the payment of the sum of money, in the mortgage deed mentioned.
Bond and security is to be taken for the purchase money, and the legal title is to remain in the said Bethune and Smith, until the same purchase money be fully paid.
DIVIE BETHUNE, by his Attorney Jos. Jos. Magrum. ANDREW SMITH, by his Attorney Jos. Jos. Magrum.
The foregoing advertisement is approved of by me
TIMOTHY BRUNDIGE, Assignee of the Creditors in the case of James Smith, a Bankrupt. Dumfries, March 15. ends
For Ground Rent,
SUNDRY LOTS near the Presbyterian Church, lying on the south side of Wolfe and east side of Fairfax Street. Also, one LOT on the east side of Water Street, fronting thereon 61 feet by 30 on Ramly's alley. This lot will be either sold or ground rented. For particulars apply to
James M. Stewart, at Mr. Wm. I. Hall's counting room Merchants' Wharf. March 22. eo
TO BE SOLD,
At public Sale, on the premises, (if not previously disposed of) on the 15th day of March,
A House and Lot,
Situated on the south side of Cameron Street, between St. Asaph and Washington Streets, now in the occupation of Edward Martin. The lot is 28 feet front. The terms will be made known at the time and place of sale, on an application to
Jacob Hoffman. Feb. 21. eo
For Sale,
A likely NEGRO MAN, twenty six years of age, an excellent Brick Maker by trade, capable of performing in all its branches, digging, moulding, setting and burning; he is capable of managing a brickyard well and teaching others the business. The cause of his being sold is to gratify a will of his own. For further information enquire at this office. March 3. eo3w
For Sale or Rent.
A convenient two story brick house, completely finished, situated on Water Street, between King and Prince Streets—immediate possession will be given. Apply to
JOSEPH RIDDLE. Nov. 30. eo
Notice.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust from Thomas Dempsey and Nancy his wife, to the subscriber, on Saturday the 14th day of April next, will be exposed to public sale on the premises
A Lot of Ground
on the west side of Water Street, 100 feet to the south of Wolfe Street, extending in front on Water Street 76 feet, depth 80 feet. R. I. Taylor ends
March 22. eo
15 shares of Alexandria Bank Stock, for sale by
William Hartshorne. March 23. d
FOR SALE,
A HANDSOME GIG, with plated Harness. Also, an excellent Old HORSE. Apply to the Printer. Feb. 24. d
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