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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. DCCCCVI
SEVEN DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1806.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
FROM THE AMERICAN CITIZEN.
MILITARY EXPEDITION.
Before we proceed further with the trial of col. Smith, we have deemed it proper to lay before the reader the following voluntary testimony and depositions taken in the first proceedings of the United States vs. Smith and Ogden, that he may have all the facts necessary to inform his mind respecting the expedition of Miranda, and their agency in it.
No. 1.
Voluntary examination of Mr. Ogden,
1st March, 1806. Dey st.
Samuel G. Ogden brought up this morning upon the warrant issued by me yesterday and examined as a party charged in having provided and prepared the expedition mentioned in the warrant says: He is the sole owner of the Leander; Gen. Miranda's name is Francis; he sailed in her, and she was bound to Jacquetmel. He prefers not to say what other place the Leander was to touch, or where Gen. Miranda was to land, and does not say. There were 150 persons on board, including every person. She had 17 cannon on board mounted as the complement of the ship. He declines answering any question relating to the vessel's cargo or what was in her hold.
The persons who went out in the Leander are set down in a list, a copy of which he annexes hereto.*
The persons on board were not organised as a troop to act in any military duty, other than to defend the vessel in case of attack. He does not admit he has set on foot or prepared any expedition of a hostile nature against any foreign state. He first saw Gen. Miranda the 27th or 28th of December last, then in New-York, where he remained principally till he sailed in the Leander. The General lodged at Mrs. Avery's, State street, in this city.
SAML. G. OGDEN.
Taken and subscribed before me the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six.
M. B. TALMADGE.
No. 2.
Ogden's deposition.
District of New-York, to wit:
Samuel G. Ogden, of the city of New-York, merchant sworn to make true answers touching a certain expedition fitted out and sailed from this port in the Leander deposes, that Col. Smith had no particular agency in fitting out the ship Leander or procuring the cargo—this deponent did that himself. Col. Smith and Gen. Miranda were frequently together; William Armstrong was the principal agent of this deponent in procuring certain articles of the cargo of the ship and getting the men on board. There were pikes, cannon and cutlasses for the use of the ship on board. Gen. Miranda is gone out in the ship as passenger merely; is bound to a place as he, this deponent, thinks in latitude between 10 and 15 N. and longitude between 60 and 75 W. Gen. Miranda was to land as was intended either upon an island or on the Spanish Main within that latitude and longitude. That the men on board were at liberty to act or not to act in any enterprise with Gen. Miranda as they should agree, or to land with the general or not to land, at their pleasure. Gen. Miranda was born, as he understood, in the province of Carraccas, and he thinks in the town of Carraccas, where he had a great number of friends. That Gen. Miranda showed this deponent a great number of papers in the Spanish language, the substance of which, as he told him, were assurances from his friends in Carraccas, that they would assist him in any views he might have when he arrived there; they were papers both recent and old, and some of them very recent and mostly received by General Miranda while in Europe—that general Miranda came here from London and brought with him a letter of credence on Daniel Ludlow of this city for 3000. sterling, which sum this deponent received from Mr. Ludlow for Gen. Miranda.
The engagement between this deponent and Gen. Miranda is that the Leander shall carry what she has on board to the port of destination, and the capt. of the ship is there to receive for this deponent in cash its price and the amount of the outfit; and two hundred per cent. advance on the amount of the cargo and outfit, the vessel is then to proceed to Jacquetmel, and with the cash to purchase a return cargo of coffee. This deponent has several bills on London drawn by Gen. Miranda to the amount of 2000. sterling; one on Nicholas Van Sittart and John Turnbull, the others on Trinidad to about the amount of 5000. sterling, on Joseph Lam-
bert and William Brown, merchants, which he is to give Gen. Miranda credit when paid—This deponent saith the amount of the cargo on board the ship Leander is about forty thousand dollars, the outfit he estimates at thirty thousand more. Gen. Miranda is at liberty to receive or not to receive the cargo when it arrives at the port of destination.—The estimated amount to be received there was about two hundred & seventeen thousand dollars.
This deponent farther saith, that Gen. Miranda went to Washington not long before he sailed, and as he understood was introduced to the officers of our government; and this deponent understood from Gen. Miranda that he had several interviews with the President and Mr. Madison, & conversed among other general topics with them upon the subject of the situation of South America and the oppression of its inhabitants.
That from conversations between this deponent and Gen. Miranda, this deponent understood the Leander was to land her cargo and Gen. Miranda near the town of Carraccas, in the province of Carraccas, so that the same might be conveyed to that place. That the military force of Laguna he understands is about five hundred men. This deponent understood from Gen. Miranda that he was on good terms with the British government, and that that government were disposed to promote and second his views upon the Spanish Main. The ship's cargo was furnished at the request and according to the directions of Gen. Miranda, and she is expected to return in all the month of March, and not expected to stay at the port of her destination more than about a fortnight.
Question. What arms were on board the Leander when she sailed?
Answer by this deponent. Pistols, pikes, muskets and cannon, cutlasses or sabres and bayonets; this deponent does not recollect of any other arms on board.
There were between one and three hundred pistols, bought of various persons in the city; about four or five thousand pikes; between five and six hundred muskets; between thirty and forty cannon in the hold, among which were two brass pieces, four pounders and carriages for all the cannon—not so many bayonets as muskets—the cannon were procured from Gen. Stevens's, Corp, Ellis and Shaw, Rippy, Center and co. and Bernard Hart—ten or twenty tons of balls, one half a ton of musket balls, one hundred and fifty quarter casks of powder, bought of Low and Wallace, and Jonathan Ogden; about one or two dozen saddles and bridles, blue cloth jackets and Russia sheeting trousers, such as are worn in the West Indies, made by Mr. Weyman, about one thousand or 1500 in number; the quantity of articles, arms and equipments were purchased according to the advice of Gen. Miranda—all the above articles this deponent believes were put on board before the vessel dropped down to the Narrows, and to the best of this deponent's knowledge, recollection and belief the above warlike articles were designedly omitted to be entered in their proper name—the manifest of the vessel's cargo; this deponent does suppose from his knowledge of the expedition that there was to be some arrangement among the men on board the Leander as to subordination of rank after their arrival to their destination.
Question. Did you not understand from Gen. Miranda that it was his object to heave off the yoke of the present Spanish government from the inhabitants of the country to which he was bound?
This deponent answers that he understood his object was to relieve the people from oppression, but did not understand how this was to be effected by him, and does suppose the above warlike articles were intended as auxiliaries in effecting that object. This deponent further saith that he was introduced to Gen. Miranda by Col. William S. Smith as he recollects.
SAML. G. OGDEN.
Sworn the 1st day of March, 1806, before me;
M. B. TALMADGE.
No. 3.
Voluntary examination of Col. Smith.
District of New-York, ss. William S. Smith brought up by a warrant issued against him upon suspicion of his having been concerned in preparing the means of an expedition against a foreign state, on board of the Leander, on his examination voluntarily says, that he knows general Miranda, his christian name is Francisco—this deponent has every reason to believe that general Miranda sailed in the Leander, which vessel was bound to Jacquetmel—Gen. Miranda stated to this deponent that he had been invited by his friends at Carraccas, his native country, to return to his native place. Carraccas is a Spanish province on the Main in South America. That Gen. Miranda invited this deponent to accompany him there which this deponent declined, unless it should be by the permission of this government. That Gen. Miranda thereupon went to the city of Washington, & as he stated to this deponent commu-
nicated the object of his return to Carraccas to the President of the United States, and the Secretary of State, and if they should admit him to a second interview, he the said general Miranda was at liberty to ask of them permission for this deponent to return with the said general Miranda to his country; that while general Miranda was at Washington he wrote to this deponent, that he had had those interviews with the President and Secretary of State, and made the request in favor of this deponent aforesaid, that he was answered by the President and Secretary that it would not be correct for them to give this deponent a letter or service as it might commit our government, but that this deponent was at liberty to go if he pleased, and this deponent did thereupon relinquish the idea of accompanying him the said general Miranda; that Gen. Miranda enquired of this deponent about a vessel proper to be employed for his use in returning to his country—this deponent for the purpose of procuring a fit vessel, introduced him to a captain Lewis, who had commanded a vessel in the W. India trade, and Mr. Lewis referred him to Samuel G. Ogden, of this city, as the owner of a vessel proper for his use, and as being then in the W. India trade; that this deponent was informed that Mr. Lewis and Gen. Miranda went to Mr. Ogden's to treat with him about the engagement of the said vessel, and this deponent has been informed by the said Gen. Miranda and Lewis, that the agreement was made with Mr. Ogden, that the vessel called the Leander should go out with Gen. Miranda, bound to Jacquetmel, from thence should take him over and land him upon the Spanish Main, as near the town of Carraccas as might be, or if this could not conveniently be done, was to bring him back again to the city of New-York—that this deponent has been a long time an intimate friend of Gen. Miranda, and when this deponent was by him solicited to suffer the son of this deponent, William Stephen Smith, to accompany the said Gen. Miranda to the Spanish Main, this deponent consented and suffered his son to go with him on board the said vessel Leander, under promises from his said friend the said Gen. Miranda, that the said William Stephen Smith should be taken care of by him as a father—that Gen. Miranda represented to this deponent the distressed and oppressed situation of the people of that country to which he was bound, and that the people were generally desirous that a change should take place as to their political situation; and that the said Gen. Miranda had that object very near his heart, and it was his wish and intention to effect it if it could be done—and the said Gen. Miranda represented to this deponent that on his arrival there he should be in the bosom of his friends, whom he expected would join him in endeavoring to heave off the yoke of the present Spanish government from the people of that country—and this deponent understood from Gen. Miranda, that he was to proceed to extremities to separate that country from the Spanish government; if he found the people favorable to such an event—that Gen. Miranda told this deponent that he had freely and openly communicated his views and plans to the President of the U. S. and Mr. Madison, upon the subject of his return to his native country, and that the President and Secretary told him the said Gen. Miranda, that they were not now ready to go to war, and could not give him any public aid or countenance, but that they had no objection that any individual citizens of the U. S. should engage in such an enterprise, provided they did not thereby infringe any of the laws of the U. S.—
that on the Saturday before the said Gen. Miranda left this city on board the said Leander, he wrote two letters, one to the President of the U. S. and the other to the Secretary of State of the U. S. which this deponent saw and read, and which this deponent put himself into the post office of this city, to be forwarded, the contents of which were, that the said general Miranda had finished his business in this city in a decorous manner, and in a way he hoped that would be pleasing to them, the President and Secretary; but that the said letters did not explain what that business was, for what he the said general Miranda had done—That general Miranda informed this deponent that he was on good terms with the British government, and had been some time in England; and lately came from there to this city; and that the said British government were not favorable to the project of liberating the said Spanish country from the oppression of that government. That this deponent's son went with Miranda as a companion, who was to take care of him and provide for him for life, and it was left to Gen. Miranda, in case there was a necessity to proceed to extremities in favor of his friends, and to free his native country; to provide for this deponent's said son as he should think fit in relation to promotion and command. This deponent does not know how many men were on board the Leander, that she cleared out with one hundred and fifty men in her manifest, but this ex-
aminant understood from capt. Lewis that there were more than one hundred and fifty men on board, to wit, one hundred and eighty—that about 50 of this last number were passengers on board, and went as attendants of Gen. Miranda. That this deponent at the request of Gen. Miranda asked and engaged about fifteen or twenty men himself to accompany him—and this deponent also desired John Fink, of the Bowery lane, butcher, to engage some more men, and who thereupon did engage about 25 to go on board as part of the crew of the Leander. The ordinary crew of the vessel is about 150 men, that the monthly compensation and payment of the 150 men, who went on board as aforesaid, were to have common wages, fifteen dollars per month; but those who went as attendants on the general were not stipulated with as to their wages or compensation—that the aforesaid men who were engaged by Mr. Fink were to serve as marines on board of the ship, and obey the orders of captain Lewis, and on the land obey the orders of the general—that the name of the general was not mentioned to the said men—that subordination of rank was contemplated to be made while on board of the said vessel, and to take effect in case they should land and go into land service—that in the organization of these men, those fifteen or twenty mentioned as attendants of Gen. Miranda, were to have command as officers, and be subject to the arrangement of the general in that respect; the others who were engaged by Mr. Fink, were to attend the general on land or horseback as a body guard—that not a man of those engaged on board as aforesaid, knew where they were to go or the nature of the service; and all were engaged without any knowledge of the object of the enterprise. This deponent does not know that any of them signed any articles to go, and all except those who were particularly to attend Gen. Miranda, were engaged at ordinary seamen's wages, 15 dollars a month. This deponent is positive that there were no representations made by or authorised by him, that the engagement was for the service of the U. S. nor any false objects held out to view—the service was declared to be secret and optional—that this deponent received of S. G. Ogden aforesaid, the advance of a month's pay to all the men engaged by Mr. Fink, which he this deponent gave to Mr. Fink to pay the said men, the whole sum being about three hundred and twenty dollars, and which Mr. Fink receipted to this deponent as received from capt. Lewis, as payment of part of the crew under his command and on board the Leander—The men were told they were to have horses provided for them where they should land—This deponent was told by the captain there were arms and ammunition on board the Leander. This deponent did not make any advances to his son, except pocket money to equip or prepare him to go: he is nineteen years old—but this deponent gave him letters of credit, authorising him to draw upon this deponent in case he should wish to return, for his accommodation and expenses home. This deponent was informed of the bargain between Miranda and Ogden for the voyage of the Leander, and her cargo very soon thereafter; he thinks next day. This deponent thinks the residue of the men on board the Leander not engaged as aforesaid by himself, and Mr. Fink, were engaged by the captain thereof, and several by a capt. Armstrong, who is himself on board. This deponent knew that this expedition was going on from the time of the return of general Miranda from Washington, and supposed it was with the knowledge and consent of the President and Secretary. This deponent was informed by Gen. Miranda that he had fully communicated the views and objects of his enterprise to Rufus King, of this city, who this deponent was informed thought well of the expedition.
W. S. SMITH.
The above examination was taken and subscribed before me this first day of March, 1806.
MATTHIAS B. TALMADGE.
No. 4.
JOHN FINK'S DEPOSITION.
District of New-York, to wit:
John Fink, of the city of New-York, butcher, deposes and says, that some time in the latter part of January last he was requested by Wm. S. Smith to make an enlistment of a number of men, a serjeant, and a corporal for governmental service, and as he supposed the service of the United States; that accordingly he did enlist twenty men, fifteen or seventeen of which were sent off; that the men were all enlisted for the service of America; that there being among them some uneasiness as to the kind of service; col. Smith gave a certificate that the men should not go into English or French service; that the men enlisted were spoken to by him, this deponent, and then sent to col. Smith's; that the enlistment was made by the serjeant principally; that it was often repeated by col. Smith that the men should not go out of the U. States; that they were to go on board of a ves-
sel, and finally departed on board of the Leander; that col. Smith advanced a month's pay, fifteen dollars and fifty cents to each enlisted man; that the money was delivered to this deponent by col. Smith and was paid by this deponent to each of the men enlisted; that the rendezvous was at the house of this deponent in the Bowery; that the men so enlisted were to be horsemen constituting a general's guard; that col. Smith's son was to be captain of the troop and had a commission from government as this deponent was informed by col. Smith; and that this deponent was shown a large bundle of papers which col. Smith said he had received from government; that captain Daniel R. Durning finally took command of the men when on board the Leander; that this deponent was informed that horses were prepared at the southward, and bridle and saddles were on board the Leander and that every other equipment and clothing for the men should be shown to them on board the Leander; that col. Smith told this deponent that the expedition was a secret one set on foot by government; that all the men signed an article of enlistment; that they were several times on shore after they first went on board, and this deponent was informed by the enlisted men that there were about three hundred men on board the Leander; that col. Smith told this deponent that a like expedition was to go from the other states; that the men were enlisted to serve under capt. Smith, son of col. Smith, but this deponent afterwards understood that col. Smith's son was to be an aid to the general, but what general this deponent does not know; that the young men after having come ashore refused to return on board the vessel; and that young Smith came up to this deponent's house with a paper from his father which he read to the men and told them that they should be discharged if they were unwilling to go; that finally they agreed to go and signed enlistments under capt. Daniel R. Durning on condition of receiving five dollars more of their monthly pay, which sum was paid to them by capt. Durning, and part of which was lent him by this deponent for that purpose; that capt. Durning gave this deponent an order upon col. Smith therefor, which was presented to col. Smith by this deponent and accepted by him but referred this deponent for the payment to Samuel G. Ogden; that this deponent went to Mr. Ogden and was offered his note at sixty days sight for the payment of it; that this deponent at first refused, but afterwards by the advice of col. Smith, who promised this deponent discount upon it, accepted it; that the note was for two hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-five cents; payable in sixty days from the 11th of February; that this deponent furnished at two several times, 1100 weight of beef, one sheep and a few fowls on the order of Mr. Ogden for the use of the Leander, which sum was included in the amount of the note; that this deponent was informed by col. Smith at the time of enlisting the men that he, col. Smith, was going in the spring, and was to take command of the expedition; and he this deponent farther says, that one of the original papers hereto annexed* is a list of some of the persons above mentioned who enlisted as aforesaid and is in the hand writing of John Burke, the first person named therein; that another original paper hereto annexed* is in the hand writing of col. Smith and was written by him in the presence of this deponent, and contains a statement of the terms upon which the men were to be enlisted.
JOHN FINK.
Sworn before me the first day of March, MDCCCCVI.
MATTHIAS B. TALMADGE.
*This paper shall be published in its order in the course of the testimony on the trial.
FOR SALE,
I will sell two Tracts of LAND lying and being in Allegany county in the state of Maryland; one called and known by the name of "Harvey's Meadows" patented 31st December 1805, for 347 acres, near Shellys or Scillys Little Meadows; the other "Mount Parnassus," patented 31st December 1805, for 493 acres; this tract lays on branch of Savage river about five miles below the Little Meadows. I have never seen the land, consequently know nothing of their value. Mr. Thomas Bell of Cumberland who is well acquainted with the above land informed me they were as valuable as any that part of Maryland. Daniel Clark or Robert Cowdell Stone, Esq. will inform me that from their acquaintance with the situation of the aforesaid tracts of land they will be of an excellent quality.
Any person inclined to purchase, it is preferred will view before he contracts. A great bargain may be had for cash, or good paper on short credit—a good and indisputable title will be given when the land is paid for. For particulars apply to the subscriber in Upper Marlinton, Prince Georges county.
SAMUEL J. COOLIDGE.
June 23—8v
* The list of names will be hereafter given in its regular order in the course of the testimony delivered in court at the trial.

Messrs. Smith and Ogden are acquitted of the charges preferred against them. A jury of their country has found them not guilty. The grounds on which this acquittal has taken place have not yet been laid before the public. The American Citizen has commenced an account of the trial; but the progress made in the publication is as yet too inconsiderable to throw much light on the subject. From this quarter, as well as another, we are promised a full and faithful report. Under these circumstances, it might have been expected that a spirit of animadversion would have been repressed until the only materials from which the public can form an enlightened judgment had been laid before them. It might have been expected that the triumph on the part of Col. Smith and Mr. Ogden, and their friends, would have been sufficiently great, without sullying it with the indulgence of any unworthy sentiments of resentment or party acrimony. But, however this magnanimous and temperate deportment might have been expected, we are sorry to say that it has not been realised. Party spirit, as if indignant at the fetters for a short time imposed upon it, has rushed forth from its confinement with an intimated fury, with the malignant purpose of imbruting the fairest characters in the country. Exultingly it cries, Smith and Ogden are safe! We may now, without a fear of consequences, aim our deadliest shafts at the President and Secretary of state, and the whole republican administration! For, if Smith and Ogden are innocent of the offences with which they were charged, the President and Secretary must be guilty!
This is the miserable logic which these political sophists are for palming on the people! To show that we state their denunciations fairly, we offer to our readers the following extracts from the New-York Evening Post.
THE MIRANDA TRIAL.
"This trial, whose importance, in both a moral and political point of view, will bring it hereafter more at full length before our readers, will now be touched but slightly. Various considerations, however unite to compel us to present, at this early period, some general views, which seem more particularly to be rendered necessary for the purpose of preventing artful and interested men from giving an erroneous direction to the public mind. After the report, which is in the press, shall have come forth, we shall then resume the subject.
In some remarks which we offered on "Ogden's memorial," in June, last, we declared ourselves satisfied to abide the verdict of the jury which was to pass between the accused and their country, and admitted that as "their defence would rest entirely on proving that they were encouraged by the government, the verdict must be conclusive on the point. If convicted, it must be believed that the administration were entirely innocent of knowledge of the affair; if acquitted, then must the whole guilt rest on them."
The cause has now been tried, solemnly tried, and after a full, fair and impartial hearing of the whole case, the verdicts of two intelligent and independent juries have pronounced that the defendants are not GUILTY. It may not be improper here to remind the reader that these prosecutions have been instituted against two of their fellow citizens by the immediate direction of the President of the United States; and that while the issues were pending, and the accused, by the humane construction of our laws, entitled of right to be considered innocent, and to have their cases come before the jury under that favorable impression, the President availed himself of his prerogative, and actually punished one of them (Col. Smith) by depriving him of his office & his family of support; thus prejudging the case, and thus presenting him before the jury, not as a presumptively innocent man, whose guilt was to be established by the accuser, but as a presumptively guilty man who was to take on himself the burden of proving himself innocent. A proceeding unparalleled in the legal annals of this country. An upright jury however, has stepped in between the oppressed and the oppressor.
We rejoice at this decision, because it is just, and proves that our citizens are too wise and virtuous after all, to destroy each other for party considerations, or for the purposes of promoting an insincere, treacherous and cowardly policy in the government. All the friends of humanity will rejoice at the effect which this verdict must produce in favor of our citizens who have been captured by the Spaniards. If a hasty decision has not already determined their fate, the development of the act, now no longer doubted by any one, that the expedition under gen. Miranda, was instituted with the knowledge of the American government, must arrest every rigorous proceeding by transferring the responsibility for what has occurred, from individuals who were the actors, to the administration which connived at and was originally the cause of their conduct.
It has been suggested, that these proceedings against Col. Smith and Mr. Ogden were necessary political compliances with the wishes of the minister of France and Spain. We spurn the idea averting public danger by the sacrifice of our fellow citizens. If injustice
has been done to Spain, let us trace the injustice to its source. It will be more safe and honorable to our country, and the separation will be more satisfactory to Spain, if we degrade and punish the DECEIVER, than by treacherously betraying the deceived.
But while we fix our intention on this interesting question, let us be just; let Mr. Jefferson have a fair trial—a fairer than it was intended the accused Smith and Ogden should have—let him produce every species of evidence legal and even informal in his favor. Let him be permitted to mitigate and extenuate what he may not be able fully to justify; but let him know that the voices of all honest men unite to concur in demanding an explicit answer to the questions—Whether he was not fully informed that Gen. Miranda came to this country for the express purpose of fitting out the expedition which has sailed for Caracas?—Whether it was not known to him that Col. Smith was employed in those identical transactions, for which he has been first punished by taking away from him a lucrative office, equal in its operation to a fine of six thousand dollars a year for life, & next prosecuted as a criminal at the bar of a court of justice? and lastly whether this same prosecution was not set on foot by his express and personal direction?
This affair cannot be smothered:—public sympathy for the victims at Derne is not yet extinguished—but every nerve in our country will be agitated if the lives of the prisoners at Caracas are sacrificed to conceal a personal error, or as the price of personal popularity—More of this hereafter—it will be to be seen if any administration can stand such conduct."
But on what are these vehement denunciations founded. No new facts are adduced to prove the participation of the administration in the schemes of Miranda. We do not know what disclosures may be made when a full account of the trial shall be published. But at present the only thing relied upon is the acquittal of Messrs. Smith and Ogden. The utmost this can prove is their innocence, and this in the strict and legal sense of the term. The jury were bound to be governed by legal evidence, and by that only; and it would seem, from their verdict that the evidence of that nature was not sufficiently strong to support the prosecution.
But does it follow that because Smith and Ogden are thus found not guilty by a jury of their country of the charges set forth against them, that the President or the Secretary of State are reprehensible? Their acquittal of any participation in Miranda's equipment surely does not convict the administration of a participation in it. Both may be innocent.
The only ground then for censure left is the institution of a prosecution, and the removal of Col. Smith from office. But let any man read the deposition in our first page, in which Ogden and Smith acknowledge the agency they both had in supplying Miranda with military stores and enlisting men, and answer whether, possessed of this information, the executive could hesitate for a moment to order prosecutions, or to remove from office a man, who thus appears, on his own acknowledgement to have had this agency, & consequently to have assisted in infringing laws of which he was constituted the legal guardian? Under this view of the subject it is altogether immaterial whether the depositions of Smith and Ogden were voluntary or extorted. However they may have been obtained, the facts they contain cannot be considered on that account the less true. What are these facts? That Ogden obtained for Miranda and caused to be taken on board of the Leander warlike stores to a great amount; that he aided him in enlisting men; that from conversation with Miranda he "understood the Leander was to land her cargo and general Miranda near the town of Caracas in the province of Caracas, so that the same might be conveyed to that place," and that he also understood "that his object was to relieve the people from oppression."
With regard to Smith, he states that Miranda informed him "that he had been invited by his friends at Caracas to his native country, to return to his native place"—that Miranda had invited him to accompany him there; that for the purpose of procuring a fit vessel he referred him to capt. Lewis, who referred him to Mr. Ogden; that he agreed that his son should accompany Miranda; "that gen. Miranda represented to him the distressed and oppressed situation of the people of that country to which he was bound, and that the people were generally desirous that a change should take place as to their political situation, and that the said gen. Miranda had that object very near his heart, and it was his wish and intention to effect it if it could be done—and the said gen. Miranda had represented to him that on his arrival there he should be in the bosom of his friends, whom he expected would join him in endeavoring to heave off the yoke of the present Spanish government from the people of that country—and he understood from gen. Miranda, that he was to proceed to extremities to separate that country from the Spanish government if he found the people favorable to such an event"—"That he, at the request of gen. Miranda, asked and engaged about 15 or 20 men himself to accompany him."
These are the acknowledgements of these men of the share they had in the enterprise of Miranda. Was not this participation, thus declared, a sufficient reason for the executive to order prosecutions to be commenced? Would they not have been considered as criminally
negligent, had they not directed such prosecutions to be instituted? Would not such remissness have justly exposed them to the imputation of being themselves concerned in the expedition? Would not this imputation have gathered strength from permitting col. Smith to remain in office after such an infraction of laws whose enforcement it was his peculiar duty to have attended to. Still further, would not a participation of the Executive have been further corroborated by the suffering these acts to pass unnoticed and by the permitting Col. Smith to continue in office, after his own deposition had declared his belief that the expedition was countenanced by the government? Surely, under such circumstances, forbearance would have been construed into conscious guilt. It would have been said, and justly too, that the administration was afraid to prosecute these men, least their own criminality should be made apparent.
Whence, then, it may be asked, the vehement denunciation of the federal prints? It can only be traced to the malign spirit of party, that seizes every occasion to traduce that virtue which it dreads as the most formidable obstacle to its personal and ambitious views.
COMMUNICATION.
There is nothing of greater importance to the United States than a just and lawful course of public conduct towards them, on the part of foreign nations. It will prove a sure preservative of a sincere and correct course of neutrality and peace on our part. For this reason, the conduct of G. Britain, as to the impressment of American, British, and other foreign seamen on board American ships and the recent acts of the British government, alleged by them to be blockades, have been recently made subjects of free, but dispassionate investigation. Whenever an individual or a description of persons unreservedly lays before the public of America and Europe facts and considerations, which relate to the interests of all the parties, he uses reason as he ought, and the freedom of the press as he justly and lawfully may. He places himself in the way of having his own errors corrected before the world, by reason and the press. If we remember that a foreign press has even been erected in this country to print the commentaries of a foreign "political censor" upon all our public acts, and to promote the views of his government, and that pamphlets are written in Europe, ship'd to this country, and republished here, and that the influence of foreign merchants, erroneously joined with that of our own and with other circumstances, occasionally produces a bar to the free vindication of the rights and interests of our own country, in this case in some of our presses, we cannot doubt that it would be highly unjust and partial in our other presses to refuse discussions of British irregularities by the pens of their correspondents.
A very few observations touching those irregularities will be offered at this time.
The case of the Hanoverians (who live on some of the blockaded rivers and their canals) will be mentioned with our own to awaken the reflection of the English and Americans. Those honest people had a right to the kindness of their electoral family before it acquired the British sceptre. The Hanoverians have claims on the affections of the King of G. Britain. They have been forced out of the British allegiance into the hands of Prussia. Yet the very family which owes its elevation in Germany and consequently in England to them, and who afterwards superadded the duties of the British crown to the duties of the Electorate of Hanover, uses the kindred navy of England illegitimately to distress them, by shutting up the three rivers on which their subsistence depends. To feel this matter properly, let Englishmen place themselves in the situation of the Hanoverians, who are cut off from exchanging products and manufactures with us—with us who are the best customer of England; and all this is done without any authority from the law of nations, or the British or Hanoverian laws. The British navy can carry in American and other neutral ships and thus destroy the occupations and subsistence of the unfortunate Germans within the Electorate of Hanover, and of many other innocent and oppressed German districts, equally well disposed. But it is affirmed, that such detentions & captures are not of a nature to justify any learned or upright judge, on oath, to award condemnation or their extravagant admiralty costs for infracting such illegitimate and pretended blockade. To admit such conduct on the part of the British government therefore is to proclaim the King of G. Britain the sole arbitrary legislator of the ocean.
A recent British pamphlet (by the author of War in Disguise) pretends, that G. Britain has a right to commit these irregularities against the neutrals because they submit to the irregularities of the French, and he alleges roundly, that Britain has as good a right to commit like irregularities, as she would have to march through a neutral country, which had previously suffered an enemy to march through the same territory. It is unfortunate for this writer however, that America has long seen and urged, that the British irregularities beginning with those of 1792, and 1793, had and would occasion France to plead these irregularities, in justification of similar acts. It is notorious, that Great Britain has been obliged to grant indemnity to her ministers for such acts, as being even against her own laws, and this too in her most flourishing and powerful days, when necessity could not even be pretended.
There is one light in which it really behoves the government, manufacturers, and merchants of G. Britain, to consider this unsatisfactory recurrence to improvements, pretended blockades, and other violations of neutral rights. It is certain that these things did give rise to the various commercial propositions of the last session of our legislature, and to the adoption of the law founded on Nicholson's resolutions. Similar provisions for the good of trade (internal or external) are constantly made in England, and must of necessity be repeated here on principle and in system, if we are to be impressed, harassed, spoliated and impeded in our legitimate neutral commerce abroad. Let G. Britain consider the recent admissions of Mr. Fox, that the E. India powers have sovereign rights, and let her consider also whether there is any difference in principle between the British exclusion of neutrals from the commerce with those E. India princes, and the French and Prussian restraints upon the trade in British manufactures. Let her remember well which was the first of these steps: And let her compare the interference with the manufactures of an enemy by Prussia and France, with her own interference with the manufactures of the neutral and friendly powers of India.
The U. States need not fear the argument upon this subject, but something will govern which is beyond argument. Necessity will govern in all. America cannot do her usual business with G. Britain, if that country does not abandon its shameful Admiralty impositions, its impressments, its pretended blockades, and other irregularities. We must seek remedy by enacting a number of her own laws mutatis mutandis .
COMMUNICATION.
We insert with pleasure the following ample refutation of a most scandalous and unjustifiable calumny against the character of Commodore Rodgers, which was imprudently, as we then thought, and still think, rung through the papers in the U. States, during the absence of that gentleman. As this refutation comes from captain Gale himself, it is scarcely necessary to request the printers, in whose papers the charge appeared, to insert it—they doubtless will feel pleasure in promptly publishing a contradiction of so false a calumny against this meritorious officer, of which they were unwittingly made the more extensive propagators.
TO THE PUBLIC.
I have seen with no little surprise, a piece in a New-York paper of the 1st of March last, wherein it states that I was run through the body and killed, by commodore Rodgers, for remonstrating with him on the impropriety of flogging a marine. This has been done by some scandalous person (no doubt) to injure his character, and although the effect could only be temporary, yet people in general may suppose that it originated from some misunderstanding subsisting between him and me. I can assure the public that not only myself, but every officer that served under his command, have always been on the most friendly terms with him,—and the best proof of this is, that every officer of us, will be happy to sail with him at any future period. During the time I was under his command, it is only justice to say, that he behaved towards me, with every attention and politeness due an officer.
ANTHONY GALE, Capt. M. July 16, 1806.
ON Monday last, at his plantation a few miles from this city, after a severe and afflictive illness, expired Mr. JOHN WHITE, aged 58 years, a member of an old respectable family in this vicinity. He had uniformly through life supported the character of an honest and benevolent man. It was a consolatory reflexion to his numerous friends and relations that he died in perfect resignation to the will of his Divine Creator, and apparently in full confidence of participating in the mercies extended by him to his creatures. The sacrament was administered to him a few days before his death, by the Rev. Mr. McCormick. On Tuesday at 4 o'clock P. M. a funeral sermon was preached upon the occasion, at the house of the deceased, by the Rev. Mr. Reed, who had been long and intimately acquainted with the deceased, and who took occasion to observe in his discourse that he knew him to be an affectionate husband, a tender parent, a gentle master, a kind neighbor, a warm friend, and a good & charitable member of society; and that from frequent communications with him at different times, he was persuaded that he died under the due influence of a religious spirit—faithful to the doctrines of Christ, and anticipating the mercies promised by our blessed Saviour to the penitent sinner. Mr. Reed impressively admonished his hearers that, as in the present case, all the comforts of this life cannot save the possessor from the grave, or secure his happiness beyond it—that they should not rely on them for either; that death was only a passage from a life of pain and tribulation to the stage of futurity; and that they ought to prepare themselves by their conduct and belief, for this common lot of humanity, and for a happy result in those awful scenes that must ensue. His remains, preceded by the Rev. Mr. Reed and the Rev. Mr. Brackenridge and attended by a numerous concourse of relations, neighbors & friends, were afterwards deposited in the family grave yard among those of his ancestors and relations; where Mr. Brackenridge briefly reminded his hearers of the end awaiting them, and ardently entreated them in the name of our blessed Saviour and mediator to
prepare themselves for their resurrection and that reception by him which is to secure their eternal salvation.
An advertisement in a Nashville paper of the 5th inst. states "that the works of the U. States Saline below the mouth of the Wabash, are now conducted with so much spirit and success, that the quantity of salt now is greatly superior to the demand: several thousand bushels having been accumulated in store; the price is reduced to five shillings Virginia currency, per bushel."
We understand, says a Boston paper, that a bank has been established at Detroit, in the Michigan territory; and that some of its bills, which are of the stereotype impression, have reached town.
UNITED STATES MILITARY PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
Under the auspices of that scientific officer, colonel Jonathan Williams, commanding the U. States corps of engineers at West-Point, in the state of N. York, a Military Philosophical Society has been instituted. The President of the U. S. and the Secretary at War are patrons of this association. The professed design is to collect and preserve the military science which exists among the veterans of the revolution, and among such of their fellow citizens as have gathered scientific knowledge in the course of their studies and travels. The meetings of the society are permanently held at the place where the Military Academy of the United States at West-Point assembles. Among the original members, besides col. Williams, are, Decius Wadsworth, William A. Barren, Jared Mansfield, James Wilson, Alexander Macomb, jun. Joseph G. Swift, Simon M. Levy, Walker K. Armistead, and Joseph G. Totten. And since the establishment of the society, Messrs. Mitchell, Bayard, and White, of the U. S. Senate, and many other gentlemen, have been enrolled among the members. [Medical Repository.]
Extract of a letter from a Mercantile House at Stockholm, dated May 8th 1806.
"In consequence of the war with France, the king has been pleased to suspend the operation of the navigation law. Foreign vessels therefore are allowed the same privileges as our own. The additional duty, tonnage, light-money, &c. which foreign vessels have to pay in time of peace is about 50 per cent. This new ordinance therefore must give an inducement to foreigners, and is particular to Americans to visit our ports with their produce, and to take ours in return, as this relaxation operates equally on imports as on exports. They also may be sure of obtaining good freights to Portugal, Spain, and the Mediterranean."
To the Editor of the American, from his correspondent at Norfolk, under date of July 27.
Sir, the following is an extract from a letter received yesterday by the brig St. Brides, 15 days from Tortola, from admiral Cochrane to col. Hamilton, the British consul.
Yours, &c.
Northumberland off Tortola, July 12, 1806.
"I have just a moment to tell you that we followed the French fleet to the west end of the Tortola passage, they going off before the wind. Their force was two 84's and four 74's—my force three 74's and one 64; had they kept their course, I meant to have paid them a visit after dark, but they made sail to the northward, and I saw three more ships join. I then returned to Tortola, which island, with the convoy, was to have been destroyed the day I appeared. I hope to be reinforced and get to see them to good purpose."
Charleston, July 18.
We are informed, and we communicate the intelligence with sorrow, that gun-boat No. 7, commanded by lieut. Ogilvie, which sailed from the port of New-York for the Mediterranean, returned to that port with the loss of her mast, and sailed a second time for her place of destination, has never since been heard of, and there is every reason to believe she is lost, with all her crew.
New-York, July 30.
We learn by captain Wood, of the brig Mary, from Trinidad, that General Miranda, in the ship Leander, the Lily sloop of war in company, arrived there on the 22d of June. He brought with him about two hundred men, and had enlisted about three hundred more at Trinidad, among whom were some persons of the first respectability. Several of the inhabitants of Caracas had fled to his standard. The Leander was under British colours, and commanded by captain Johnson. The colours intended to be hoisted, on effecting a landing on the Main are red, yellow, and blue. The prospect of success was in the highest degree flattering.
Letters from Trinidad, by the Mary, contain the following information:
"We have this day received such intelligence as places things in so favourable a point of view, that hardly a doubt of success remains. We shall certainly leave this in a few days and as certainly effect a landing, from whence I shall immediately write you."
"We are making every preparation for the point in view, and shall leave this in six days, and in ten more the fate of the country will be decided. Our

force is respectable, of which I would give you a correct statement, but for a reason which has prevented my writing as fully as I wish, that is, lest my letters should fall into improper hands on their passage.
Reports from the Main state that the government is tremblingly alive, and they treat the prisoners, our friends, with a degree of lenity which was not generally expected.
On the 28th June, General Miranda issued the following proclamation.
FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN,
The glorious opportunity now presents itself of relieving from oppression and arbitrary government, a people who are worthy of a better fate who ought to enjoy the blessings of the finest country in the universe which bountiful Providence has given them, but who are shackled by a despotism, too cruel for human nature longer to endure. Groaning under their present afflictions, they hail with extended arms the Noble Cause of Freedom and independence, & call upon you to share with them in the god-like action of relieving your distressed fellow creatures. Hasten then to join the standard of ONE WHO HAS the happiness to call himself your countryman, and is determined to rescue his country and to shed the last drop of his blood in promoting its happiness, an object of which he has never lost sight, for a moment of his life.
There will be made a liberal distribution of land at the expiration of a twelve month according to rank, and private, from the instant of enrollment, will be entitled to Provisions and Clothing with a quarter dollar per day as pay, not subject to any deduction.
And you, brave volunteers of the island, who have coolly come forward to partake with us our honors, & to share with us our prosperity, hasten to follow those officers under whose care you have already been trained, and who are impatient to lead you on to victory and wealth.
The gulph that Columbus first discovered and honored with his presence, will now witness the illustrious result of your gallant efforts.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
MAY 13.
Lord Henry Petty moved the order of the day for taking into consideration his Majesty's most gracious message.
The house having resolved itself into a committee for the purpose (Lord Grey de Warwick in the chair), and the said message having been read.
Lord Henry Petty said, the object of what he had to propose, was in the first instance, that an annuity of 5000l. should be voted to Earl Nelson, and his heirs, from the consolidated fund; and a grant of 120,000l. for maintaining the dignity of the family of the late Baron Nelson, the larger part of which to be applied to the erection of a house, and the remainder vested in the funds, for the use of the said family. Although he felt that nothing was necessary to insure the concurrence of the house in this grant, it was not possible for any one to feel for in the situation that he then stood in, as to be able to abstain from saying a few words, and expressing how highly gratifying was the task of making such a proposition. There was no saving, however large, in the national expenditure that he could, with more complete satisfaction, have had to announce, than he now experienced in proposing this grant as out of it might be expected the fairest results, arising from the influence of perpetuated example, and the solid marks of national gratitude. It could not be expected that he should descend on the merits of the illustrious person who had deserved so much of his country; but he was sure that history did not furnish such a claim to the grateful affection of a nation. If he could look to his early life, and the splendor of his latter actions did not dazzle the prospective, even there was sufficient for unceasing admiration. But however brilliant were his achievements in the beginning of the last war, they were eclipsed by those which marked the close of that war, and the commencement of the present. As his glory increased his call for public service was extended. Almost immediately after the war with Spain commenced, we find that the valiant Nelson took a decided part in the action off Cape St. Vincent. It will be remembered, that soon after when in furtherance of the ambitious views of the French government a powerful fleet sailed against the east, he held the hopes of France in that quarter by its complete destruction. Soon after his return, the combination of the northern powers called again for his exertions, and under the walls of Copenhagen he put an end to a war that was levelled at the maritime consequence of his country. When the combined remains of the fleets of our enemies threatened the safety of our West India possessions, he drove them hence, secured our colonies, and, when the enemy dared to show themselves off Crete, confounded that splendid and decisive victory, which gave him death
and immortality. Such a victory was worthy such a death! Tu felix Agricola! non tantum vita, sed etiam opportunitate mortis. It was not an attempt to discharge the immeasureable debt of gratitude for which this grant was proposed, but for the sake of handing down to posterity an example, and in the family of the noble lord, a living testimony, that no difficulties, no increase of burthens, can extinguish the liberality of this nation, when called upon by such merits. He flattered himself, the committee would have no difficulty in acceding to the grant, and concluded by moving, "that the same should commence from the 21st of October, 1805."
Mr. Rose, said he by no means wished to interrupt the unanimity with which the motion would pass; but he wished to know, how the 120,000l. would be apportioned?
Lord Henry Petty, replied that 20,000l. would be expended in the house and estate, and the remaining 100,000l. made applicable to the exigencies of the present Earl. Independently of these sums, it would be proposed to allow 20,000l. to the two sisters of the late Lord Nelson; and a provision would be made for the widow of Mr. Scott, the Secretary of Lord Nelson, who fell in the action off Trafalgar, and to whom his Lordship was extremely attached.
Mr. Francis, said he was fully convinced of the value of Lord Nelson's services, but, in the present times, he thought we should apportion our rewards to circumstances. He could not help thinking that this grant was more than enough; not if the noble Lord had been himself alive to enjoy it, or if he had left issue; but under the circumstances that did exist, he must consider it excessive.
Mr. Wilberforce thought that no degree of acknowledgment, or reward, for the services of Lord Nelson, could be considered excessive, and Lord Henry Petty had stopped even where he had; nothing was too affluent, or too illustrious for the family. He could not help expressing a desire, that the estate and house should be in some conspicuous situation; Portsmouth, or somewhere near Plymouth would be eligible, that our fleets might see the splendid mansion, and every British sailor's heart be animated to emulation by the sight. Such an advantage would be cheaply purchased at any rate; its effect would be permanent, and every body wished for it.
After a few words in a low tone of voice, by Lord Henry Petty, the question was unanimously agreed to, and the report was received.
60 DOLLARS REWARD.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber living in Prince George's county on Sunday the 29th inst. the three following slaves - a mulatto young man who calls himself BILL STEWART, he was born at Montgomery court house, whence the property of Monroes Martin, was purchased of him by the late Rich. Contee who sold him to me; he is a likely well made fellow about 21 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, 160 pounds and feet are large; the evening before he absconded he had his hair cut close; he had with him a variety of clothing, viz. a blue coat and overalls, one light colored beaver coat and overalls, a twandown waistcoats, 3 blue fresh linen shirts and some coarse shirts, three small neckcloths, a fine hat, price 7 dollars, he took away a prayer book, in the first page of which is written Mary Duckat.
J. B. who calls himself J. B. Grimes, alias Graham, and HARRY, both young negro men about 21 years of age - the marking of these cannot be described. J. B. has one of his arms broken near the wrist, which makes it longer than the other; when he is spoken to he speaks but as if his tongue was too large for his mouth. Harry, I am informed, has several large scars on his body and one of his thighs occasioned by burns when he was young.
The above reward will be paid for confining the three in jail, or 50 dollars for confining Bill in jail so that I get him again. WALTER BOWIE. July 7 - 2awtf
District of Columbia, Washington County, ss. Orphan's court, 12th July, 1806.
ON the application of Michael McCormick for letters of administration on the personal estate of WILLIAM GOUGE late of the navy of the United States, seaman deceased, claiming the same as a creditor. Ordered, by the court, that he give notice of his said application, by advertisement in the National Intelligencer, inserted once a week for four weeks. JOHN HEWITT, Reg. O. C. July 30 - wat
District of Columbia, Washington county, to wit:
I hereby certify that Benjamin Hawley brought before me 24 a trepassing Gray, a Bay HORSE about 14 hands high, 8 years old, rigged main, branded on the off buttock with letters J. C.
Given under my hand this 14th day of July 1806. SAMUEL HAMILTON. July 23 - it
TO RENT,
THE COMMODOIOUS BRICK STORE near the CAPITOL, now in the occupation of Messrs. P. HEALY & Co. Possession to be given on the 1st of May. Enquire of Frederick May. March 28 - if
AT a meeting of REPUBLICAN DELEGATES from that part of Frederick county, which by law is attached to the 3d Congressional district, held at the house of Mr. David Levy in Frederick town, on Friday the 4th of July 1806, the propriety of making measures to insure success to the Republican Candidate for Congress was reflected upon, where it was
Resolved unanimously, that the conduct of PATRICK MAGRUDER, as been such at the bar of session of Congress, as to command the respect and confidence of the Republicans of the third Congressional district - therefore
Resolved unanimously, That PATRICK MAGRUDER, be recommended to the republican voters of said district, to be by them supported at the Congressional election in October next.
Resolved unanimously, That these resolutions be published in the republican papers of Frederick town, and in the National Intelligencer.
A true copy from the minutes of the meeting. JOHN B. COLVIN, Sec. July 18 - 4w
FOR SALE,
AT Bath (Berkeley Springs) Virginia, a HOUSE & LOT thereunto belonging (late the property of Thomas Palmer, deceased.) The premises are calculated for a genteel family, or would make an excellent Boarding house, having thereon a fine house, coach house and stables, with a garden laid out with much taste and inclosed with a good board fence.
Also near the town, are for sale, SEVEN Acres of LAND, inclosed with a stone wall. The whole will be sold very low, or exchanged for property in or near any of the large towns or cities. Apply to John Davidson, Washington city, or to Wm. Alexander, Esq. Bath, aforesaid.
Note - if not sold, it will be let for the season. April 16 - if
THE SUBSCRIBER
HAS just supplied his shop in F Street with a complete assortment of fresh Medicines & Drugs, among which are Specerian & Linseed oils - also Paints of every description. THOMAS PATTERSON. Washington city, June 23 - if
CHARLES H. VARDEN,
Merchant Taylor New Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol. RESPECTFULLY informs the gentlemen of the district of Columbia, that he has received by late arrivals at Philadelphia from London, a fresh supply of the best superfine cloths, cambrics, &c. with a choice assortment of plain hankies, cotton calicoes, India nankeens, blue and yellow, fashionable Trafalgar white and fancy Merilies, with a variety of other articles suitable for the summer. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. Richard Hawley's new invented patent elastic suspenders, which are far superior to any heretofore in use, can be had on the same terms as at his manufactory. June 23 - if
On a liberal credit.
THE subscriber will dispose of at private sale, his estate called Chichester, lying on the eastern branch, immediately opposite the city of Washington. This tract of land containing 697 acres is laid out in lots from 83 to 144 acres for the convenience of purchasers. Plats of the estate and the terms of sale are in the hands of colonel Manion at the navy yard, and Charles Wayman of George Town. The lots will be shown by Mr. Wedden, living on the premises, near the Eastern Branch bridge. ANTHONY ADDISON. Barbary, 12th June 1805 - if
DANIEL RAPINE,
BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, On CAPITOL HILL, HAS just received from PHILADELPHIA, and now opening, a choice collection of BOOKS & STATIONARY, and as he has been at great pains to make the selection, he flatters himself that it is the most complete assortment that has ever been offered for sale in the District of Columbia. His Law, Miscellaneous and Poetical collection, is as complete as any one bookseller's on the continent.
He has also opened an excellent assortment of PAPER HANGINGS; and the most useful kinds of MEDICINES, such as Peruvian Bark, Castor Oil, British Oil, Glauber Salts, Liquorite Ball, &c. &c. all which he offers for sale on reasonable terms. Account and other Books bound in the neatest manner, on short notice, and according to any given pattern. July 23 - cpw
WASHINGTON CITY
THE Subscriber takes this method to inform the public, that he has enlarged hisavern considerably for the accommodation of Travellers and Boarders; his stand being on F street opposite the Bank and very near the public offices. He flatters himself from the advantage of his situation and the reasonableness of his charges, with the first attention to business, to give general satisfaction. THOMAS BROPE, June 20 - wtf
TO RENT.
THE WHARE & WAREHOUSE late in the occupation of Mr. Griffith Coombe in this city. The Warehoue is large, and convenient for the storage of Tobacco, Flour, or any other articles. The Whare is admirably calculated for a Lumber Yard, being convenient to every part of the city, and at which ships or other vessels may moor to discharge or take in their cargoes. Immediate possession will be given. ROBERT BRENT. July 26 - wtf
STELLE'S HOTEL & CITY TAVERN.
A THE Subscriber takes this method of thanking his friends and the public for their favors while on the Capitol Square and begs leave to acquaint them that he has taken the Shucones Hotel lately erected by Mr. Carroll, near the Capitol. The hotel being above one hundred feet in front, and containing fifty rooms enables the subscriber to offer every accommodation to members of Congress and travellers which can be expected in a public house. PONTIUS D. STELLE. Washington City, March 25 - if
N. B. - P. D. S. will rent the house lately occupied by him on the adjoining square
SALES BY AUCTION.
WILL be sold to the highest bidder on Tuesday 29th inst at two o'clock P.M. WILLING House on 13th Street, joining the store of Mr. Hughes and opposite the Branch Bank, the house is subject to ground rent; for the one half of the purchase money a negotiable note at 60 days will be required on either the City or George Town Bank, with a sufficient indorser, the other half payable in nine months from the day of sale with equal installments. Also will be sold at the same time and place a variety of articles too tedious to mention. Sale to commence at 11 o'clock. JOHN STEPHEN, Auct. July 12 - 2awtf
FOR SALE,
A Handsome two story BRICK HOUSE, 23 feet front by 34 feet back, with a kitchen table and carriage house, its situation for a public or private dwelling is superior to any in use near the Navy Yard, it commands a perfect view of the Yard and shipping, and is now rented for 300 dollars per annum. I will also sell a valuable unimproved Lot near the premises in sq. 231 - young negroes will be taken in part payment. For terms apply to the subscriber living near the Navy Yard, or to Mr. Samuel McIntire. NICHOLAS VOSS. Washington Feb 14 - wtf
A BARGAIN.
THE subscriber offers for sale the farm he now occupies, containing near 300 acres with or without the stock thereon. This distant from the cities of Georgetown and Washington, about five miles, and well known as a healthy situation. There is much fine fruit thereon, and abounds with springs, affording as good water as in the United States, a considerable proportion of the land has been in clover, and from thirty to forty acres fit for the scythe the ensuing summer. It is now in a very improving state, being altogether clear of broom sedge, and from 40 to 50 acres ploughed and prepared for a spring crop, and from 30 to 40 acres well set with wheat and rye - some part of the land is calculated for tobacco; and plaster of paris answers well with it all. The dwelling house and other improvements may with small repairs, be rendered very comfortable - room in vicinity to two growing cities many advantages result in supplying the markets. A purchaser may calculate on a good bargain, particularly in an early application be made. Some part of the purchase money will be required in cash or approved negotiable paper; the remainder rendered easy - or negroes received in payment. The subscriber or William Seary residing on the farm will show it when required, and the terms made known by application to Mr. John Thompson, George Town, or Dr. Wm. Thornton Washington. Isaac Polock, I. P. Jan. 29 - 1m2wtf
Treasury Department of the United States, June 21, 1806.
WHEREAS the commissioners of the Sinking fund, at a meeting held on the 28th day of April, 1806, did resolve, that the sum remaining to complete the expenditure of the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars, should among other purposes be applied to the reimbursement of the navy six per cent. stock, created in pursuance of an act of Congress passed on the 30th day June, 1798 and to the reimbursement of the five and half per cent. stock, created in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 3d day of March, 1795. This is therefore to give notice, that the principal of the said navy six per cent. stock, with the interest due thereon, will on surrender of the certificates, be paid on the 1st day of October next; ensuing the date hereof, to the respective stockholders or their lawful representatives or attorneys duly constituted and authorized, either at the Treasury, or at the Loan office, as the case may be, where credits have been given for the amount of stock, respectively held by them; and that the principal of the five and half per cent. stock, with the interest due thereon, will in like manner, and at the same place, be paid on the 1st day of January, 1807, to the respective stockholders, or their lawful representatives or attorneys duly constituted and authorized. It is further made known, for the information of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the navy six per cent. stock, either from or to the books of the treasury, or from or to the books of a Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the 1st day of September ensuing, nor of the five and half per cent. stock, after the 1st day of December ensuing. And the interest on all certificates of said stock, which shall not have been surrendered, in pursuance of this notification, will cease and determine, on the day preceding the date hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof. ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury. June 28 - if
Twenty Dollars Reward.
WILL be given for apprehending and securing in jail a young Muzatto man named ANDREW. He was hired by me last year to Mr. Joseph Thomas, who gave him the ride ferry to Alexandria, and since had from that place about the latter end of August last. He is about 24 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, sandy and well made, has short curly hair, and is frequently subject to have several large pimples on his face. He is reckoned to be a useful fellow - of an easy agreeable address for a man in his low sphere of life. As he has not been heard of by me since his employment, I suspect he has had the address to ship himself as a freeman on board some vessel either at Alexandria or Baltimore. Whoever takes him up and secures him in jail shall receive from me the above reward, or as soon due information thereof is given to me or to Dr. N. P. Causin at Port Tobacco. G. A. CAUSIN. Maryland Charles County, January 29 - wtf
TO RENT.
THE STORE & DWELLING HOUSE now occupied Dr. Patterson, next door to James Madison's, Esq. Possession given the first day of April next - I will also rent the Wharf formerly belonging to Mr. Lewis Debbins on the Eastern Branch, one square above the Navy Yard. Its situation for a Lumber, Coal, and Wood yard, is equal to any in the city of Washington - for terms apply to John Stewart, Esq. or to the subscriber near the Navy Yard. NICHOLAS VOSS. City of Washington, March 14 - 2awtf
By Princes George's county court, April term 1806.
WHEREAS the commissioners appointed on the petition of Sarah Adams and Anne Adams praying that a commission might issue to ascertain whether the real estate of George W. Gibson, late of Prince George's county deceased would admit of division without injury or loss to the parties concerned, having made a return, stating that on examination of the premises a division would be prejudicial to the parties. And whereas all the representatives of the said Gibson having been summoned to appear in the county court aforesaid to show cause why the return aforesaid should not be confirmed except Jofias K. Dwell son of Leonard, who as it is represented resides out of the State, to wit, in the commonwealth of Virginia. It is thereupon ordered, that the said Jofias Kidwell appear before the said county court to be held at the town of Upper Marlborough in the county aforesaid on the first Monday in September next to show cause if any he hath why the aforesaid return should not be confirmed, and that notice be given to the said Jofias K. Dwell by a publication of this order in the National Intelligencer once in each week for four weeks successively before the first Monday in August next. JOHN READ MAGRUDER, JR. Ck. July 18 - wat
FOR SALE.
THAT extensive and valuable estate formerly owned by Francis Thornton, Esq. and late the property of Sharp Delany, Esq. deceased, situated in Northumberland county, Virginia, three miles from the Court House, and lying on the Potomac nearly opposite to Point Look Out. The property consists of about 2500 acres, 1700 of which is fertile low grounds, well adapted to the growth of Indian corn, tobacco and all kind of small grain, and highly important for grazing - these lands naturally rich and little are capable of the highest improvement, having inexhaustible sources of sea weed call upon the shores easily obtained; large quantities of oyster shells on the shores, and in indian banks on different parts of the lands; some valuable marlin easily reclaimed may be adapted to grass or culture. There is on the premises a substantial built brick dwelling house two stories high, upwards of eighty feet front, well finished, two well built brick houses forming a square with the dwelling house & used as offices. Upwards of 30 or 40 acres in good repair; a brickable with walls for 24 houses and a large coach house in the middle; a brick dairy and a brick still house, also an extensive frame barn. There is a large proportion of wood lands included in the 1700 acres, heavily covered with white oak, hickory, and chestnut, and a considerable quantity of thriving locust, red cedar and wild cherry. The high land consisting of 800 or more acres is of a good quality, level and affords a good opportunity of improvement. This property will be sold together or divided into convenient farms, to suit purchasers, and possession will be immediately given. Any further description is thought unnecessary as persons inclined to purchase will no doubt view the lands. Application to be made to John Murphy of Wicwomac county, or James Moore on the premises, who are duly authorised to make conditional contracts for the same. June 4 - w2m
20 DOLLARS REWARD.
RUNAWAY from the Subscriber living near Bryantown, Charles county, Maryland, a likely yellowish complexioned negro lad named RAGG about 20 years of age, and about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high - he has a year under one of his eyes and a long under lip, also a large cut on the top of one of his feet, which is not very thick made. He had on and took with him a black broad cloth coat, country cotton over jacket striped with yellow and blue, striped twandown under jacket, a pair of blue striped country cotton pants, and yellow striped country cotton trousers yellow and blue, two country cotton shirts, one with a striped shirt, country cotton shirt and trousers and a white country cloth over jacket double weave, and a black wool hat. It is supposed that he will change his name and endeavor to pass for a free man. Whoever secures the said negro in any jail so that I get him again will be entitled to the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid if brought home, by BENEDICT BOARMAN. June 28 - wtf