The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1804-09-26 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. IV.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
DCXX.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th. 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
COMMERCIAL INTERESTING.
It has frequently been a question among the merchants of the United States, whether a discharge and certificate under the bankrupt law of the United States would be a bar to an action brought in a foreign country by a citizen of that country for a debt contracted there.
The question is deeply interesting to merchants, because those who have misfortunes have induced the necessity of their becoming bankrupts, are more frequently than any others obliged to go abroad. If, then, they are liable to be arrested with suits by their foreign creditors, when all their property is taken from them they expose themselves to great inconvenience and distress. We understand, that the general sentiment among our merchants is, that a certificate under the bankrupt law of the United States is a discharge from all debts wherever due. Ever attentive to the interests of our commercial friends, we lately proposed the question to a professional gentleman, and received from him the following answer.
"The question you propose has for a long time been considered a doubtful one, and judges as well as lawyers of eminence, have been divided upon it. The weight of opinion, however, in the United States, as far as I have been able to collect it, has been, that a certificate under the bankrupt law of one country is not a bar to an action brought in another by a subject of that other for a debt contracted there. As far as it respects the operation of the bankrupt laws of the United States, or of any of the individual states, in England the question has been long since settled by a unanimous decision of the court of king's bench. Mr. Buchanan of Baltimore, was indebted to a Mr. Smith, a subject of Great Britain. He was discharged under the then insolvent law of Maryland, and the order of discharge was analogous and equivalent to a certificate of bankruptcy, and was so considered by the court. He shortly after went to England, where a suit was commenced against him by Smith. To this suit he pleaded his discharge, &c. but the court was unanimously of opinion, that it was no bar to the action, and so clearly so, that they did not hear the plaintiff's counsel. The opinion of the judges was delivered as follows..."
LOU KENYON, C. J. It is impossible to say that a contract made in one country is to be governed by the laws of another. It might as well be contended that if the state of Maryland had enacted that no debts due from its own subjects to the subjects of England should be paid, the plaintiff would have been bound by it. This is the case of a contract lawfully made by a subject in this country, which he resorts to a court of justice to enforce—and the only answer given is that a law has been made in a foreign country to discharge these defendants from their debts on condition of their having relinquished all their property to their creditors. But how is that an answer to a subject of this country suing on a lawful contract made here? How can it be pretended that he is bound by a condition to which he has given no assent either expressly or implied? It is true that we so far give effect to foreign laws of bankruptcy as that assignees of bankrupts deriving titles under foreign ordinances are permitted to sue here for debts due to the bankrupt's estate; but that is, because the right to personal property must be governed by the laws of that country where the owner is domiciliated. That was recognized in the case of Hunter vs. Potts . The court there considered the assignment of the bankrupt's effects in another country, although in fact made in inuitum , as equivalent here to a voluntary conveyance by him. The case of Ballantine vs. Golding is very distinguishable from the present; for there the debt was contracted in Ireland where the commission issued. But in the same page of the book from whence that was quoted is to be found an opinion of Lord Talbot's directly contrary to a conclusion we are desired to draw in this case; for there he held that the commission of bankruptcy issued here attached on the bankrupt's effects in the plantations, yet his certificate would not protect him from being sued there for a debt arising therein. The same rule must then prevail here.
LAWRENCE J. If the defendants had made voluntary assignment of all their property to the use of their creditors, it is not pretended that that would have been a bar to the suit of the plaintiffs; and yet the title of the assignee would have been as valid here as under
the foreign commission; which shows that the validity of the title under such an assignment cannot make any difference in the present argument. Then it rests solely on the question whether the law of Maryland can take away the right of a subject of this country to sue upon a contract made here, and which is binding by our laws? This cannot be pretended; and therefore the plaintiffs are entitled to judgment.
GROSS & LE BLANC, Justices concurring.
Judgment for the plaintiffs. "The principles which decided this case are not affected by the circumstance of the law being a law of a particular state, and not of the United States; for the same principles which limited the operation of the one law to Maryland, would confine that of the other within the United States."
This decision must unquestionably be received as the established law of Great Britain. Too much caution, therefore, cannot be observed by those who have been discharged under the bankrupt law of the United States, in going abroad and exposing themselves to arrest and imprisonment by their foreign creditors. We would here also remind our merchants generally, that if a discharge under our law will not discharge a debt due in England, a certificate under the English statute will have no operation in the courts of the United States. (U. S. Gaz.)
THE GREAT DEVIL.
Troublesome times produces great men and great criminals. Among the latter, no one has inspired, for these last ten years, more fear in Italy than the famous brigand known by the name of "Grand Diabolo," or "Great Devil." Any person incurring his hatred was certain to perish. He has dispatched magistrates, surrounded by plunders and guards, he has murdered husbands by the side of their wives, and in the midst of their families, and he has stabbed officers in the line with their comrades and soldiers. Blood and not plunder was his principal passion. Alike generous and revengeful, humane and cruel what he took from the rich he distributed among the poor; but no sooner did he hear of an unjust and oppressive act, than the name of the oppressor was inscribed on his list of proscriptions. He was neither fond of gold, nor of women nor of wine. He had made for himself a code of right and wrong, which he followed on all occasions. He restored several times plunder, when he heard the plundered was near being ruined by his loss, and he allowed several pensions to widows and orphans, whose husbands or parents he found out to be innocent, after he put them to death—the band of brigands under his command amounted to one thousand two hundred, dispersed in the Alps and in the Appennine, but he was only personally known to twelve inferior chiefs, who under pain of death, were forced to execute his orders within 24 hours. He was convicted of having killed 176 persons, either alone, or in company with other brigands, though he denied having destroyed more than 26 individuals. His first victim was Pedro Francisco, a priest, who abused his mistress's confidence in the confessional, to debauch her; and his last was the advocate Retro, whom he suspected of having sold the liberty and independence of his country, Genoa. The one he stabbed before the altar in the Magdalen chapel; the latter he hanged in his study in the Senate House. He never murdered any females; and persons of the other sex under 20 and above 60 were always respected by him. On the 17th of May he was executed, and shewed on this trying occasion an uncommon firmness. From the prison to the place of execution, he kept the step with his escort as if he had belonged to their battalion. He would not suffer any bandage for his eyes. He called out to the gens d'armes who were to shoot him, Courage, Comrades! and he died in asking of God forgiveness for his mistaken notions, not for his crimes. His body was buried in the usual place for criminals; but it was dug up in the night and in its place was interred the body of Signor Sebastiano, who had decided as a judge for his death. These facts prove that his band has survived its chief.
THE Copartnership between Nicholas Voss and Charles Glover & Company, is this day dissolved—all those indebted to the said firm are requested to settle with Nicholas Voss, under the firm of CHARLES GLOVER, & Co.
BOSTON, September 17. By the arrival on Saturday last of the Sally, capt. Webber from Liverpool, and the Galen, captain Hinckley, from London, we have received English papers to the 11th August, which state, among other articles of local concern, the safe arrival of all the valuable fleets of merchantmen expected in the month of August, among which are the China, the Leeward Island, the Jamaica, the Newfoundland, the Lisbon, and the Baltic fleets. They also inform of the prorogation of the British Parliament, by a speech from the throne—if the election of Mr. Mainwaring for Middlesex county, in the room of Sir Francis Burdett—of the near escape of the French fleet from Brest—and of the rumour of an alliance offensive and defensive, between Great Britain and Russia.
Of continental news, Bell's Weekly Messenger observes, "If our readers expect to find any articles of interest or importance in our foreign selections, they will be disappointed. But they will find as much little-tattle in the Monitor , as in many of our fashionable Journals; Bonaparte goes to the opera and menaces war, bespeaks a play and signs a sentence, almost in the same paragraph. The French court is now becoming as splendid and gallant as in the age of Lewis XIV; and the despotism of that reign, which, contrary to all human speculation, was so favorable to the arts, is likely, under the tyranny of Bonaparte, to prove equally propitious."
The same paper, however, contains the following article, which, if it declares not a fact, may be considered as the precursor of a measure, neither improbable, nor is it believed will be found impracticable:—"It is impossible to embody all the rumors which are abroad in the short space allowed to us. It is said with a good deal of confidence, that an offensive and defensive alliance is concluded between Russia and England, to which Austria and Prussia are invited to accede. We wish we could speak of this as a matter that admitted of no doubt. Every one acknowledges that it is the only way to liberate the continent; but every one is aware of the difficulty of organizing a confederacy of this magnitude, which is composed of such jarring materials."
LONDON, Aug 7—11. The Batavian Journals received to the 31st inst. communicate a statement generally accredited at Paris, that a note by way of ultimatum, has been delivered by the Russian Charge de Affairs, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, demanding the evacuation of Hanover; and acquainted the French government that in case of a refusal, he had been directed by his sovereign immediately to leave Paris. We are not much inclined to give credit to this statement, but it had the effect of depreciating the rubles, which are said to have fallen one per cent. in consequence of it. On the 30th ult. the French Minister at the Hague presented his new credentials, and a procession, suitable to the parade and ostentation of the Corsican's new title, took place on the occasion.
A letter from the Hague of the 28th ult. says that most of the troops in the Texel are disembarked, and the provisions, collected there for their use, are disposed of by public auction. From these occurrences it is concluded, that no expedition of any consequence will fail from that part of the Batavian Republic, at least until a landing in England is made good by the troops on board the flotilla at Flushing, Ostend, and Boulogne. The whole number of French troops at present in Holland do not, according to this letter, amount to 25,000 men, of whom 15,000 are encamped near Utrecht, and the remainder in garrison at the Helder, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hague, Breda, and Bergen Op Zoom.
A letter from Berlin, of the 28th ult. says, that "with our Russian allies on his eastern and northern frontiers, and three French armies on his western and southern, the King of Prussia has declared to the Courts of S. Petersburg and St. Cloud, that his Majesty intends to preserve the strictest neutrality, and therefore will not permit the passage of any troops, artillery or ammunition though his dominions, but regard as an enemy, any power attempting to force such passage."
It is confidently asserted, that a treaty has been concluded between this country and Russia, and that it was signed by Lord Harrowby and Count Woronzow, on Tuesday last, previous to his
majesty's going down to the house of Lords.—We are inclined to think that the article signed was rather a project of treaty than a treaty itself.
A Russian galley from Marmorizza, in the Crimea, for Petersturg, passed the Sound on the 13th of July. She came from Barcelona, and her crew were dressed after the Turkish fashion. This is the first vessel from the Black Sea which has every passed the Sound.
General Moreau was still at Barcelona in the middle of July, where he had been joined by his Lady.
THE BREST FLEET.
The dispatches received yesterday at the Admiralty from Sir Charles Cotton, state, that Gantheume's squadron was discovered on the 3d inst. at anchor in Camaret Bay, where we understand the French ships are protected by such formidable batteries, that any attack on them in their actual position would be unavailing. Were it not for the vigilant look out which the Fox cutter kept, and the continued firing of signals, Gantheume would probably have effected his escape. His squadron is now found to consist of nine sail of the line and three frigates. Every ship which can be spared will be sent off with all possible dispatch to reinforce the Grand Fleet, as the late sortie must necessarily divide the attention of our vessels, and call for increased strength and exertion.
Notwithstanding we are assured that the substance of the dispatches received from Sir Charles Cotton is such as we have stated, our Plymouth letter of this morning says that a cutter arrived at that port on Sunday, has brought intelligence of Gantheume's return, the preceding day, to his old station, in the outer road of Brest.
Although the name of Gantheume is more known than that of any French Admiral of the present day, he has never distinguished himself but by his escapes. On the very day when he passed the Gut of Gibraltar, the 18th of February 1801, in effecting his escape from Brest, Sir Robert Calder failed in pursuit of him from Torbay.
Admiral Cornwallis failed from Spithead yesterday morning in the Glory , of 98 guns to relue his command on the Brest station. Dispatches received from the Admiralty, at Portsmouth, in the course of the morning, were immediately sent after him in the Rose cutter, which overtook the Glory at St. Catherine's Point, as she was standing down Channel.
Bombardment of Havre.
Dispatches from Captain Oliver commanding our blockading squadron off Havre, were last night received at the Admiralty. They contain intelligence of the renewal of the bombardment of that town and port last Friday. The houses and shipping are stated to have been considerably damaged. During the bombardment, in the course of which a great number of shells were thrown, a division of the enemy's gun boats ventured out, for the purpose of annoying our squadron; but they were very nearly cut off by the skilful manoeuvres of our vessels, and regained, with much difficulty, the harbour. The particulars of the attack will, it is expected, appear in the Gazette of this evening.
BRITISH SQUADRON, OFF HAVRE, July 24.
Yesterday the wind being S. S. W. the Melpomene , with the squadron under her command, and four bomb vessels close in with the town of Havre. As the gun brigs and luggers were at that time all in harbor, capt. Oliver made the signal to the bomb to try a shell. At 12 they opened a fire on the town, which was returned very briskly by shells and shot, many of which went a considerable way over the squadron. At two o'clock seven or eight of the enemy's luggers came out of the harbor, and opened upon us; but the wind proving less favorable than we could have wished, the commander thought proper to discontinue the bombardment, but not until we had thrown upwards of 60 shells into the town, which no doubt did a great deal of damage. We, however, hourly expect a regular bombardment, when the wind and the tide become favorable to us.
P. S. The enemy's brigs seem just now to be taking an advantageous position to oppose us. Our squadron consists of the Melpomene , the Commodore's ship, the Truly , Magazine , Ariadne , Locust , Pluto , Medin , Favourite , Explosion , Meteor , Zebra , and
Hecla bomb, and three cutters. The Bombes and Locust were detached a week ago from the Bologne station to assist in the operations against Havre. Two days ago an East India ship was seen steering for the port of Havre as a cartel, but some suspicions being excited, she has been sent into the Downs. At present we are all at anchor close to the mouth of the Seine.
Off Boulogne, July 24.—Yesterday evening the weather being clear, and the sun shining upon the French coast, we had a very good view of the enemy, and have clearly ascertained that their loss in the gale of Friday and Saturday last has been very considerable. We distinctly counted nine wrecks on the rocks between Portel and Boulogne, and from the boldness of the coast, and the tremendous sea, when they went ashore, it is scarcely possible that any of the people on board, 500 in number at least, could have been saved—the entire coast between Boulogne and Portel was covered with wagons and soldiers, clearing away the wrecks, and an immensity of small boats were engaged in searching the bottom for different articles. In the space of fifty yards, close under Portel, there are a gun brig and four luggers completely dashed to pieces. The few brigs that succeeded in getting into Boulogne, seem to be much damaged in their masts and rigging; indeed from the amazing surf, when getting in, it is impossible it could be otherwise. Altogether the loss of the enemy on Saturday morning, has been the most severe they have met with since the commencement of the war, and it is highly probable that the soldiers will not be so sanguine for the expedition after having such convincing proofs of the danger attending it, and having seen our ships ride out gales of wind in perfect safety, when they have invariably suffered both in men and vessels.
Arrival of the China Fleet.
Notice was received at Lloyd's yesterday, of the safe arrival of the Leeward Island fleet, as well as of the Lisbon fleet, and thus in a very great degree, were the fears of the merchants dissipated for the safety of the homeward bound trade. At no period in the history of Great Britain, were so many, so valuable, and so ill protected fleets, expected to arrive at one time, as during the present week. The China fleet , the Newfoundland fleet , the Leeward Island fleet , the Jamaica fleet , the Lisbon fleet , and the Baltic fleet , were all hourly expected; while an alarm was given of a French squadron having eluded the vigilance of our blockade at Brest. The lowest estimate of the value of the homeward bound trade was between 16 and 17 millions: the bare duties to Government were about four millions. It was of course to the merchants and underwriters a most critical moment; and no language can express the satisfaction which was felt in consequence of this intelligence, not only of the safe arrival of the China and Leeward Island trade, but also of the French squadron being safely cooped up in Camaret Bay. It spread universal joy through the city. No apprehension is now entertained for the Jamaica fleet , as by the very favorable wind which has blown for some days, they may be expected in the course of a day or two.
We yesterday had the satisfaction of announcing the long expected arrival of the China Fleet . They failed from Canton on the 5th of February, without convoy, and on the 15th fell in with Admiral Linoo, off Pulo Auro , who engaged them for half an hour, and then hauled off.
An account 9.
An official account of the engagement between Admiral Linoo's squadron and the China fleet of merchant men, is this morning published from the East India House . It is contained in a letter from the commander of the Company's ship, Earl Camden , of which the following is an extract. "On the 14th February, at day break, we saw Pulo Auro bearing W. S. W. and at 8 A. M. a signal was made from one of the fleet, for forty four strange sail in the S. W. Fair vessels were immediately sent to examine and very soon reported by signal, that they were an enemy's squadron, consisting of a line of battle ship, three frigates, and one brig. At 1 P. M. the look out ships were recalled, and a line of battle formed in close order. As soon as the enemy could fetch our wake, they put about; we kept on our course under an easy sail; at near four they were close up with our van, and I was in momentary expectation of

an attack there, and prepared to support them; but at the close of day we perceived them haul to windward. We lay to in line of battle all night, our men at their quarters; at day break on the 13th, we saw the enemy about three miles to windward, lying to. We hoisted our colours, offering him battle if he chose to come down. The enemy's four ships hoisted French colours, the line of battle ship carrying a rear Admiral's flag; the brig was under Batavian colours. At 9 A. M. finding they would not come down, we formed the order of sailing, and steered our course under an easy sail, the enemy then fired their sails, and edged towards us. At 1 P. M. finding they proposed to attack and endeavor to cut off our rear, I made the signal to attack and bear down upon him, and engage in succession; the Royal George being the leading ship, the Ganges next, and then the Earl Camden. This manoeuvre was correctly performed, and we closed with him under a press of sail: the enemy then formed in a very close line, and opened their fire on the headmost ship, which was not returned by us till we approached him nearer. The Royal George bore the brunt of the action, and got as near the enemy as he would permit him; the Ganges and Earl Camden opened their fire as soon as their guns could have effect; but before any other ships could get into action, the enemy hauled their wind, and stood away to the eastward, under all the sail they could set. At 2 P. M. I made the signal for a general chase, and we pursued them till 4 P. M. when fearing a long pursuit would carry us too far from the mouth of the Straits, and considering the immense property at stake, I made the signal to tack, and at 8 P. M. we anchored in a situation to proceed for the entrance of the Straits in the morning. As long as we could distinguish the enemy, we perceived him steering to the eastward, under a press of sail. The Royal George had one man killed and another wounded, many shot in her hull, and more in her sails; but few shot touched either the Camden or the Ganges, and the fire of the enemy seemed to be ill directed, his shot either falling short or passing over us.
August 11.
The rest of the Jamaica fleet passed Portsmouth yesterday; and thus have all our homeward bound fleets arrived without the loss of a vessel belonging to any of them. Infinite praise is due to the Captains of all the ships by which the fleets have been conveyed.
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.
The election for Middlesex county has at length terminated in the election of Mr. Mainwaring, by a majority of five votes. No electioneering contest, since the existence of the British Constitution has been conducted with more tumult, or has excited so much of the public attention and interest. Could we believe the votes polled for Sir Francis Burdett were all, or even a tenth part of them given by persons approving the designs of his faction, the result of the contest would be an object of deep regret, notwithstanding the return of Mr. Mainwaring; but knowing the apparent strength of Sir Francis has been obtained by fraudulent means, we neither despair of the public spirit, nor feel dismay at the popular clamour.
Lord Duncan. —It is with deep regret that we announce the death of this gallant officer and truly worthy man.—He expired suddenly on Saturday last. This veteran Admiral had, on various occasions, greatly distinguished himself, particularly under the late Lord Keppel, and in the memorable and splendid action with the Dutch Admiral Winter, at Camperdown, for his spirited conduct in which he received his Peerage and a suitable pension. He closed a most honorable life in his 73d year.
The Calcutta has brought an account of an insurrection in New South Wales, which had a very menacing appearance. The insurgents assembled at Castle Hill, and, after planting the tree of liberty at the government house at Paramatta, intended to proceed to Sidney. They were, however, frustrated in their designs by the activity of the government, and after being entirely routed, 300 of them were taken, ten of whom were selected to be tried by a court martial, and were sentenced to death; four of them were hanged. When the Calcutta failed, the insurrection was quelled; and the proclamation of Martial Law, which was thought a necessary measure by the government, had been revoked.
LONDON, Aug. 2.
Tuesday his Majesty went in the usual state to the House of Peers, and put an end to the present session of Parliament by the following most gracious speech from the throne;
My Lords and Gentlemen,
Before I put an end to the present session of Parliament, I am desirous of expressing my entire approbation of the zeal and assiduity with which you have
applied yourselves to the great objects of public concern which have come under your consideration.
You have wisely continued to direct your attention to the encouragement and improvement of that respectable and powerful volunteer force which the ardor and spirit of my subjects has enabled me to establish to an extent hitherto unexampled: You have at the same time endeavored to combine an additional establishment for our domestic defence, with the means of augmenting our regular army, and of maintaining it on such scale as may be proportioned to the circumstances of the times, and to the rank which this country ought ever to hold among the powers of Europe.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
You are entitled to my warmest acknowledgements for the fresh proof which you have given me of your constant and affectionate attachment to my person and family, and your regard to the honor and dignity of my crown, by the liberal provision which you have made for the payment of the debt on my civil list revenues, and for furnishing me with the additional means of defraying the increase which has unavoidably taken place in different branches of my expenditure.
I must also return you my warmest thanks for the extensive provision which you have made for the exigencies of the public service; especially for the just and prudent attention which you have shown to true economy, and to the permanent credit and welfare of the country, by the great exertions you have made for preventing, as far as possible, the accumulation of debt, and for raising so large a proportion of the expenses of the war within the year.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I have now only to recommend to you to carry into your respective counties the same zeal for the public interest which has guided all your proceedings. It will be your particular duty to inculcate on the minds of all classes of my subjects, that the preservation of all that is most dear to them requires the continuance of their unremitting exertions for the national defence.
The preparations which the enemy has long been forming for the declared purpose of invading this kingdom, are daily augmented, and the attempt appears to have been delayed only with the view of procuring additional means for carrying it into execution.
Relying on the skill, valor, and discipline of my naval and military forces, aided by the voluntary zeal and native courage of my people, I look with confidence to the issue of this great conflict—and I doubt not that it will terminate, under the blessings of Providence, not only in repelling the danger of the moment, but in establishing, in the eyes of foreign nations, the security of this country on a basis never to be shaken.
In addition to this first and great object, I entertain the animating hope that the benefit to be derived from our successful exertions, will not be confined within ourselves; but that by their example, and their consequences, they may lead to the re-establishment of such a system in Europe as may rescue it from the precarious state to which it is reduced, and may finally raise an effectual barrier against the unbounded schemes of aggrandizement and ambition which threaten every independent nation that yet remains on the Continent."
Then the Lord Chancellor, by his Majesty's command, said;
My Lords and Gentlemen,
"It is his Majesty's royal will and pleasure, that this parliament be prorogued to Tuesday, the 4th day of September next, to be then here holden; and this parliament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday, the 4th day of September next."
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For the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
TO THE PEOPLE.
THE DEFENCE.
No. V.
With regard to the amendment to the constitution it is unnecessary here to go into an extensive discussion, as this has been so recently done, that the arguments urged may be presumed to be fresh in the recollection of the reader. Its having been proposed, in the first instance, by two thirds of each branch of the legislature and afterwards approved by states containing more than four fifths of the population of the whole United States, conclusively proves the estimation in which it is held by the people. The declaration that it was a measure subversive of the rights of the small states is fully repelled by the fact that of the six small states four have approved it.
There is only one further view which it is proper, in this place, to take. It has been said that this is a measure of the President and his personal friends; and that its chief object is to secure his future election.
We have already seen that it has not been officially suggested by him; and that no evidence is before the public of his having, even in his individual character, recommended it. Why then is it called his measure? It must be from the influence it will have on the ensuing election. Let us examine what this will be. At the nominations for the president and vice-president by the republican members of congress, Mr. Jefferson had every vote. In the republican prints, and at every political meeting in relation to the election of a president no other man has been named: Whence then the necessity of precautionary measures where there was no danger? Had there been a division on this point among the republicans, there might be some plausibility in the suggestion; but in a case, where perfect harmony prevails; where no man is even dreamt of but Mr. Jefferson, it is absurd to ascribe the least influence to personal attachment to him. The absurdity of such motive will more conclusively appear from the following analysis of electoral votes.
At the ensuing election it is impossible for the federalists to obtain more than 42 votes, viz. from New Hampshire 7, Connecticut 9, Massachusetts 19, Delaware 3, Maryland 3, and North Carolina 1. The probability is that they will fall short of this number at least ten. But allow them 42. The whole number of votes is 175; from which deduct 42, and there remains one hundred and thirty three, the number of the republican votes.
Suppose no amendment made to the constitution—All these votes would in such event go to Mr. Jefferson.
To prevent the individual, contemplated for vice-president, from becoming president, by receiving the federal votes, it would be necessary to withdraw from him forty-three republican votes. This would leave him ninety which, with the forty-two federal votes, would make a number less than the number of votes given to Mr. Jefferson. But, in order to guard against all unexpected contingencies, it would be perfectly safe to withhold ninety votes; as there would still remain forty three, one more than the entire number of federal votes. In this way, a republican vice-president, as well as president, would be secured, as the constitution provides that "in every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors, shall be the vice-president."
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NOTICE.
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JAMES GREENLEAF.
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The property of the AGGREGATE FUND lying in or near the river Potomac, consists of a large number of house lots in the city of Washington.
A number of handsome brick houses and a few wooden houses in do.
Awharf and store on do.
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WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26.
The people of the United States will not, we trust, be unmindful of the present conduct of the opponents of the administration. It manifests so striking a likeness to their recent deportment in relation to the suspension of deposit at New Orleans, which has received the marked reprobation of the whole nation, that we did not expect they would have at so early a day exposed themselves to the same indignation. On that occasion, they strove to plunge their country into the horrors of war, without previously resorting to the means of averting it, used by all civilized nations. On the present occasion, without information or reflection they proclaim our wrongs and call upon us, with an impetuous valor, to avenge them. While too engaged in the pious office of kindling the deadliest passions of the human breast, and urging them into immediate activity against Spain, they arrogantly undertake, to impeach the justice of the government, and thereby destroy the unanimity and zeal so necessary for asserting our rights, whenever the grossness of their violation requires an appeal to arms. In this inconsistent spirit the administration is stigmatized as pusillanimous for not assuming the highest tone, in the same breath in which the measures of the administration, which are asserted to have led to the necessity of vigorous measure, are pronounced unjust.
Our experience of the calm reflecting temper of our countrymen, convinces us that on this, as on other occasions, they will consult their true honor by pursuing their true interests. Those interests pre-eminently require peace, which has become dear to the heart of every enlightened friend of his country and of her republican institutions. Well may those who have little regard to their country, and still less to liberty, seize every occasion, of promoting their favorite ends by war and confusion. Well may the bankrupt merchant, or the dismissed officer, seek that distinction and wealth in confusion that he knows not how to earn in a period of tranquillity. Leaving these hopes and prospects of preferment to this description of men, the honest citizen is contented by the regular exercise of talent and industry to promote his interest and advance his happiness.
It does not, however, follow that he is ready to wear the chains of foreign usurpation, or to abandon to foreign violence the rights to which he is entitled. Much less does it follow, that he is prepared submissively to contemplate the degradation of his country. No. While he avows a love of peace & frowns upon all unjust means of disturbing it, he is ready on the call of justice, wisdom, and patriotism, to unsheathe his sword, and convince the world that although America loves peace, she is not, in a rightful cause, afraid of war; that although she loves peace much, she loves liberty and independence still more.
But to render such a cause rightful it is necessary not merely by words, but by actions to show our love of peace. In the spirit of this sentiment, it becomes the duty of the government to pursue the best means of preserving it. Having used these means without success, it rests with Congress to take the necessary steps. If the interests and will of the nation call for war, they, and they only are its constitutional organ.
On this point the language of party is not only violent, but absurd. It calls upon the Executive to avenge our violated rights, not by negotiation, but by war, without reflecting that the Executive has no right to go to war without the express permission of Congress. The Constitution makes it the duty of the Executive to preserve peace by all constitutional means, until the legislature changes a state of peace into a state
of war. These means consist of negotiation and explanation. These, therefore, are the only legitimate means of the Executive on the present occasion, which it appears the Executive is actually using.
But is it so clear that the conduct of Spain demands a declaration of war from the United States? To decide this question it is necessary to enquire what that conduct is. Taking the information of the newspapers (which though it may not be correct is the only information before the public, and consequently constitutes the only materials on which they can judge) it appears that Spain has refused to ratify the convention for satisfying the claims of our merchants for spoiled property, except on certain conditions. These are so absurd as to render their reality extremely doubtful. Their specification evidently seems to flow from an interested quarter, and exposes them to the suspicion of great exaggeration. But supposing them true, two alternatives follow: either the total rejection of the Convention, or a negotiation amicably terminated respecting West Florida previous to its ratification. The last alternative necessarily presupposes a continuance of peace; and will it be contended that the former necessarily implies a resort to war? The right of ratifying or rejecting the Convention was equal to each nation. If the United States possessed it, did it not also in the same extent belong to Spain? It surely did. What the ultimate consequences of a rejection by either nation may be, we do not pretend to determine. That its rejection by America would not have been a rightful cause of war on the part of Spain is most certain. This cannot be denied by the federalists who voted for rejecting it, unless they acknowledge that that vote was dictated by a wish to produce a state of war between the two nations. Will these gentlemen say that what they thought it for the interest of the United States to reject, shall, when rejected by Spain, justify, nay require a war on the part of the United States? Will they not allow to Spain the right of saying what they themselves have avowed, that their act of rejection was to defend the interests of America as well as Spain? The truth is that federalists ought on this subject to be silent; for it is entirely owing to them that the Convention was not adopted by the United States two years ago; and if it had been then adopted, the present embarrassments would not have probably existed.
Whether, we repeat it, the ultimate and unconditional rejection of the Convention by Spain will form an adequate cause of war, we pretend not with the limited information we possess, to decide. Such a decision, in the present state of things, is probably impracticable; as it must depend upon the issue of negotiations and explanations not yet closed.
In the mean time the American people, as well as their government, have high duties to perform. To the government it belongs to secure the just rights of our citizens by honorable means, and in the accomplishment of this desirable end to preserve if possible the peace of the nation. It would seem from the language of its opponents that war was the universal panacea for all evils. But fortunately this is not the opinion of the men to whom the people of the United States have confided their interests. They believe, and events have proved the truth of their creed, that peace can, in most cases, be maintained by a just government, possessed of competent means of defence, and if necessary, of offence, without sacrificing any essential rights or interests. In the present case it cannot be unknown to the power with whom the alleged differences exist, that our means are great, and that it is her true policy, by a conduct directed by scrupulous good faith, to remove all grounds on our part for aiming what may be called vital blows at her greatness.
But the people also, in such a crisis of affairs, have their duties. If they

believe the administration to be the firm, and enlightened friends of the country, if they have the strongest reason to confide in their pursuit of the best measures for maintaining its unrivalled prosperity. If they know them to be actuated by an equal regard for peace and national character, then it is their duty to support them by an avowal of their confidence, and to impress our enemies, if we have any, with the conviction that in a case of necessity the undivided energies of the nation would enlist themselves under its banners. It is their duty to frown upon every attempt to divide the people from the government, and to hold up to reprobation the man who shall, from party rancour or ignorance, impeach the just conduct of the administration.
In a late number of the National Register, we find the following animated address on the attempts made in the Eastern States, to diffuse sentiments that tend to a dissolution of the union.
Men of Massachusetts! It is for you to determine, whether you will give this constructive assent [the choice of anti-republican Electors] to the schemes of ambitious conspirators! It is for you to say, whether you will continue to regard your fellow-citizens of the sister states, with the averted eyes of jealousy and hatred. Will you, by giving your suffrages to men, who would accomplish a measure replete with evil to their native state and native country, from motive of personal ambition; "strengthen their hands, and encourage their hearts?" Reflect! Act with deliberation, with coolness; but above all, act with independence! Discard the little, paltry prejudices and passions, which enthral your minds. Think and vote—not as Federalists or Republicans ; not as Citizens of the North or the South ; but as Americans! Look forward to the natural and necessary result of the successful spread of these destructive doctrines, which are so industriously raised. Their immediate effect is a termination of the Federal Union ; their ultimate issue is— Civil War! Realise, then, if you can, your feelings, should these nefarious plots reach their consummation;—and by your agency! Think—what must be your remarks, should Massachusetts, separated from her sister states, weak and languishing, feel the want of that strength, which nothing but Union can impart! And, should the blood of civil conflicts begin to deluge our land, should the hand of an American be lifted against his American brother; let each of you suppose his children should enquire "how came these things to pass?"—How would you grieve to answer? Once peace and plenty pervaded this land, and harmony and friendship gladdened every portion of its inhabitants; union bound together the various parts of the country; and mutual concession and reciprocal kindness strengthened the ties of friendship. But profligate and ambitious men, for private aggrandizement, successfully strove to break the bonds of federation and fellowship. Disunion introduced dispute; and dissension followed division! And how would you blush to add?—I was a dupe to the plans of the profligate traitor—I assisted in elevating them to offices of power and trust—I supported them—I gave them my suffrage—and all this I did, when warned of their designs, and apprised of their intentions—I did it from motives of party passion, private prejudice and headstrong obstinacy!!
"Citizens of Massachusetts! If you would blush to make confessions like these—prevent the necessity! Carefully guard, against indulging a spirit of disunion! Then should the treasonable attempts to divide our country succeed; with conscious virtue you may exclaim like the Roman Patriot:
"Heaven and Earth can witness; If Rome must fall, that we are innocent!"
New York, September 19.
By DE WITT CLINTON, Mayor of the city of New York.
WHEREAS, I have received information that a malignant or pestilential fever prevails in the city of Charleston, in the state of South Carolina, I do therefore direct the masters and commanders of all vessels arriving in this port, from the said city of Charleston, to come to anchor with their said vessels at the quarantine ground, there to remain until they shall be duly authorised to approach nearer to the city of New York.
IN witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Mayorality of said city to be affixed, the 18th day of September 1804. DE WITT CLINTON.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20.
Arrived this morning at the Lazaretto, the Snow Philadelphia, captain Kennedy, in 40 days from Bourdeaux. Sailed from thence the 5th of August, to which date papers are received. Translations shall be given hereafter.
The verbal news by this arrival consists merely of the hackneyed story of the forwardness of the preparations for invading England. Indeed they now assure us, that every thing was in complete readiness; waiting only for a suitable season, and the orders of the Emperor. Bonaparte, accompanied by the Minister of Marine, and several officers of the Empire, had left Paris for Boulogne, where it was said, he would remain until the expedition failed. This circumstance, which can be relied on, evinces pretty clearly, that this long threatened and long wished event is not very remote.
Philadelphia, Sept. 19.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman on Tombigbee river, to his friend in Frederick Town (M.) dated July 6. 1804.
"A Spanish alcade told me at Mobile, that he saw a letter of a recent date from the governor of Cuba, to the governor of Pensacola, mentioning, that their were five thousand troops, ordnance, military stores, &c. at that place, which would embark in a few days for the defence of the Floridas."
William Henry Harrison, Esq. Governor of the Indiana Territory, has published a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, by which it appears,
1st. That the land granted by the Government and which has been laid off under their direction, is not to be resurveyed at the expence of the proprietors.
2d. That no other title paper is to be recorded when the claim has been confirmed but the patent or other evidence of the confirmation.—And
3d. That all the grants made by the Government, are to be recognised, excepting such only, as may have been "ferreptitiously and fraudulently obtained, through the false representations of the party."
Extract of a letter from Gibraltar, dated July 23d received at New Bedford.
"We have sold our flour at 18 dollars per barrel, the general failure of the crops in Spain has caused this sudden rise in the price; and the Barbary powers have prohibited the exportation of this article. Fish are at 5 to 6 dollars, and dull; Rice 7 to 8 dollars, pipe flaves 160 dollars per M. Indian corn none at market."
CHARLESTON, September 8.
TREMENDOUS STORM!!!
Last night, about ten o'clock, a violent storm commenced in this city, similar in its approach and progress to the dreadful and destructive one experienced in October, 1800. The wind blew from the N. E. accompanied with heavy showers of rain, which continued throughout the night; about six o'clock in the morning, the fury of the wind, (still in the same point) was greatly increased; and the tide rose several feet above its usual height. At this moment, (1 o'clock) the storm rages with unabated fury, and threatens destruction to the New East Bay-street, and very considerable injury to all the wharves on East-Bay. On South-Bay the damage and consternation are immense. The house of Mr. Veitch, nearly opposite the end of King-street, is already blown down, and washed away; by which, we understand, one man is drowned, and another badly wounded—the tide is several feet on South-Bay, and is extended up to, or above Lamboll street. The whole extent of Water-street is under water.—Much injury is already done to the shipping in the harbour. In the present situation of the storm we are unable to give further particulars—We must of necessity reserve the details of this melancholy event to a future number.
LETTERS OF JUNIUS.
From the Virginia Gazette.
Mr Davis, Sir, A gentleman now living in America, and who has moved in a large circle in the prime of life, whose neck has been adorned in the city of London with the golden chain, who was the correspondent of the great lord Chatham, and who has been employed by the Cabinet and ambassadors of America on various occasions, has done me the favor to make to me the following communication.—Supposing Gerrard Hamilton to be still living, (who has been dead some years) he says—"I feel some delicacy in declaring the grounds on which I have many years known him to be the 'author of Junius.' This has been found-
ed on the declaration of Thomas Pitt afterwards lord Camelford, who by covenant always returned Hamilton for old Sarum at the price of 4000 guineas for each seven years. Mr. Pitt kept his cash at my bank, and put great confidence in my honor and good faith—he had repeatedly told me, that Hamilton wrote Junius."
"Edmund Burke, who called more than once on the secretary of state on my behalf, when confined in the tower, has frequently assured me that he knew Mr. Hamilton's language and sentiment too well to have a doubt, and that no other man in Great Britain could write them—they were educated at the same school."
"But I have still better ground for my belief from a conversation with the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood in Sept. 1775, having been there on a shooting party for a fortnight; Lord George Lennox was present, I believe, when the duke stated the circumstance, or was at least made acquainted with it. It must be observed, that this was at a time when the duke opposed the American war, and that we were nearly allied in our efforts to prevent it. Mr. Hamilton called on the duke in London on morning to breakfast. The newspapers were on the table. The printer had announced Junius the day before for that day's paper. Hamilton said, "my lord Duke, have you read Junius to day?"—The Duke replied, "I have just received the papers, but have not read them: what is the subject of the letter?" Hamilton then repeated the purport of the whole letter.—Well, said the Duke, I always knew your abilities, but had no proof as to the honor these letters do you—here, read—you will see that Mr. Woodfall has postponed your letter (which he had just repeated) 'till to morrow—I wish you joy and will not betray you. The next morning, when the letter appeared, it was precisely the same that Mr. Hamilton had repeated the day before." From the above authority, I leave it to any candid man to say, whether a doubt remain, now, who was the author of these celebrated letters, and whether any one can, after this, ascribe them to the pen of Gen. Lee. I had heard this anecdote myself many years ago, and that it happened at the Duke of Richmond's; but I never knew it, before I obtained the paper I have just transcribed.
You may remember a letter written by R. W. to Mr. Rodney last March twelve-month, which you published; let any one read that, and the authority of Gen. Lee himself that Hamilton was the author, and I am sure it will settle the public mind on this fact.
I will again relate the anecdote. One morning Gen. Lee called on lord Thanet and rode out with him in Hyde Park. "Lee," says he, Hamilton is the author of Junius, I am sure—the other day, when with me, he made use of this marked expression: "My lord, take it from me, that honor and honesty are no longer tickets of admission at the court of St. James's." In a few days afterwards, in the famous letter to lord Mansfield on the baitment of Byre, I read the very words almost—"A man of honor has no ticket of admission at St. James's." I was convinced (added lord Thanet) from that circumstance, and that period, that no other person than Hamilton was the author of these letters." Gen. Lee, when he repeated to me this conversation, was under the same conviction with Lord Thanet.
* Goodwood is his Grace's seat in Sussex.
RONDEAU.
BY THOMAS MOORE, ESQ.
Good night! good night! and is it so, And must I from my Rosa go? O! Rosa, say "good night" once more, And I'll repeat it o'er and o'er, Till the first glancing of dawning light, Shall find us saying still "good night!"
And still "good night!" my Rosa say— But whisper still "a minute stay," And I will stay, and every minute Shall have an age of rapture in it. We'll kiss and kiss in quick delight, And murmur while we kiss "good night!"
Good night! you'll murmur with a sigh, And tell me it is time to fly; And I will vow to kiss no more, Yet kiss you closer than before, Till slumber seal our weary sight, And then my love, my foul, "good night!"
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
LOST on Monday the 24th inst. a RED MOROCCO POCKET BOOK, between the Washington Bank and George Town—It contained 30 dollars in notes, seven half Eagles and a Diamond Ring—Any person finding and depositing it at the Bank shall receive the above reward.
JAMES WALLIS.
Sept. 26.—3t.
In pursuance of an act of the corporation of Washington city, entitled "An act to establish fire wards and fire companies in said city," the inhabitants of the fourth ward having been convened at Stell's hotel by previous notice, gave, the following resolutions were adopted, viz.
Resolved, That a committee consisting of three persons be appointed to draft rules and regulations for the government of said company:
Whereupon the following persons were duly elected, viz.
JOHN COYLE, HENRY INGLE, and DANIEL RAPINE.
Resolved, That as soon as the committee shall have agreed upon rules, &c. as aforesaid, they shall report the same to the direct or, whose duty it will be to advertise a meeting of the inhabitants of said ward, to consider and determine upon the same.
Wednesday Sept. 26.
Pursuant to a decree from the Court of Chancery I shall sell at Public Auction in the town of Piscataway on Thursday the first day of November next:
ALL the Real estate of Thomas Clagett, Esq. late of Prince George's county deceased, containing in the whole about the quantity of eighteen hundred acres, of which that beautiful and highly improved Lot in the town of Piscataway is a part. These lands lie near the navigation of Potomac river, the farthest is about three miles distant.—They will be divided into parcels to make it the more convenient to purchasers. The whole is a good fertile soil, well adapted to the growth of corn, tobacco and small grain. The purchaser or purchasers of the whole or of any part thereof to give bond with approved security to the trustee for the payment of the purchase money with interest thereon in four equal annual instalments from the day of sale and on the ratification of the sale by the chancellor or on the receipt of the purchase money (and not before) the trustee will convey the land to the purchaser and his heirs free from all claim of the heirs of the said Thomas Clagett.
THOMAS DUCKETT, Trustee.
Prince George's county, September 26.—rawdof
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber, being legally and fully authorised, by his assignees, to adjust, and settle finally, all the concerns of his former estate, surrendered under the laws of Pennsylvania, of Maryland, and of the United States, hereby calls on all persons indebted to said estate, to make payment to him; and on all who have claims, to render him their accounts, with notice of what property still held in pledge for securing payment.
JAMES GREENLEAF.
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MADAM, I have been honored and gratified with the perusal of your manuscript copy of Poems. In my opinion it is a work of considerable merit, and displays true piety and poetic genius. The pastoral dialogues are commendable for their novelty, simplicity and beauty. The elegies, epistles, and especially the "Man of Misfortune," a Moral Tale, are interesting and pathetic. The Odes and Fugitive Pieces are sprightly and amusing.—And the whole composition seems to breathe such a spirit of philanthropy and benevolence as cannot fail to elevate the affections, and to mend the heart.—And it is to be regretted, that the author's modesty has hitherto denied the community so refined & elegant an entertainment.
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September 7.—NIT&ATUG
ON the petition of John Aiken an insolvent debtor confined in the prison of Washington county for debt, notice is hereby given to the creditors of the said John Aiken that on the 17th day of September inst. at 9 o'clock A.M. at the court room in the Capitol, the oath prescribed by the act of Congress for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia, will be administered to the said John Aiken and a trustee appointed unless sufficient cause then and there be shown to the contrary.
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CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAILOR. Has received from Philadelphia in addition to his former stock, a hand- some assortment of goods, consisting of the best London and Spanish superfine cloths and cashmeres, white and fancy Marseilles, colored and white Janes, India nankeens, cotton cashmeres, black silk and satin Florentines. With a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the best style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, June 8—
REMOVAL. THOMAS CARPENTER, TAILOR, Has removed to the house above Mr. Rhodes (Late Lovel's) Hotel, near the President's Square. In addition to the present stock of goods, a Handsome Assortment is expected immediately. Gentlemen at a distance, by sending a line by post, will be waited upon with all possible expedition. T. C. will pledge himself to execute any order with a neat, expeditious and moderate charge, which shall not be excelled by any. April 16—
TO RENT, A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE in the city of Washington, situate on that beautiful ridge north east of the Seven Buildings, on 1 street, Lot No. 3, square 106, at present occupied by Mrs. Scott. Possession may be had the 1st of August next. Under said house is a good dry cellar, on the back of the lot is a stable, and near the premises a pump of most excellent water. Enquire of Mrs. Scott, or of the subscriber! High street at Doctor John Beatty's George Town. ABSALOM JAY. June 29—
FOR SALE. The following City Lots, ON A LIBERAL TIME, Upon SECURITY, viz. LOTS—3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, in square No. 919. — Lts. 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, in sq. No. 938. Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 936. Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19, in square No. 1042. Lots 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13, in square No. 1065. Apply to CHARLES MINISIE, Washington City, or to RICHARD G. JONES, at Philadelphia. Washington, August 3—
DOCTOR MACRUDER, HAS for sale a few hogs, 4th proof Jamaica spirits, linseed and lamp oil, spirits of turpentine, window glass, glaziers diamonds, glue, lamp black, white lead, Spanish brown, yellow ochre, chalk, Spanish whiting, Venetian red, red lead, verdigris, drop lake, flake white, patent yellow, rose and Dutch pink, kings yellow, Turkey umber, gold and silver leaf, painters and sweepers brushes, camels hair pencils, water colours in boxes, Spanish indigo, fir blue, arnott, red wood, alkanet, madder, logwood, turmeric, salt petre, alum, copperas, sweet oil, pearl barley, timothy and clover seed, tamarinds, castor oil, marble mortars, spring truffles, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace, Chings worm destroying lozenges, an assortment of paper hangings, playing cards, copy slips, ink powder, English Latin, Greek and French school books, large family bibles, and his usual complete assortment of drugs and medicine, patent medicine, surgeons instruments, &c. George Town, July 20—
HAT MANUFACTURY. The subscriber informs his customers and the public generally that he has discontinued business in the city of Washington, and has opened a shop on Bridge street near the Union Tavern—he solicits the continuance of former customers, and hopes that all others who may chance to call at his purchase his manufacture will be simply suited, if neatness and goodness be required. JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—
TRAVELLERS HALL. THE subscriber has lately been induced from the rapid increase of his custom to purchase a lot of ground adjoining that on which he lives for the purpose of building a dining room and assembly room, each 34 feet by 92 feet 10 inches with six additional lodging rooms, and intends to finish them before the ensuing winter; which together with his tavern and house will occupy a front of near one hundred feet in the most agreeable part of the town and in the centre of business being on the highest part of the public square. He has considerably increased the furniture &c. of his house and stables. His domestics and servants are of the most faithful dispositions and properly qualified for the departments to which they are assigned. He has a constant supply of the best stable forage: imported and country provisions, imported liquors, &c. of the first quality, foreign newspapers, &c. And his ice will most probably last through the hot weather. The distinguished preference which the first characters have already given him, fills him with gratitude. He offers his sincere thanks to all his good friends and begs leave to assure them that neither his time nor his purse shall be spared in attempting to render the Travellers Hall a house of entertainment, for GENERAL GUESTS ONLY, equal to any in America. P. BRADLEY. Lexington, Kentucky, June 12, 1804. A Stage runs from the Travellers Hall to the Olympic Springs in the summer and to Frankfort during the sessions of Assembly. June 29—
TO BE SOLD By private contract, an estate called Chichester, lying on the banks of the Eastern Branch, immediately opposite the city of Washington. This estate extends from near the foot of the Bridge to a little below the Navy Yard, and contains 695 acres of land. It is laid off in lots of from 83 to 117 acres. Dyers Ferry is on it. The price and conditions of sale may be known on application to captain Marbury of Blue Plains opposite Alexandria, to colonel Hanson, of the Navy-yard, or to the subscriber. Captain Marbury who has a plat of the estate, may be spoken with on any Thursday at the Bank of Columbia. ANTHONY ADDISON: Barnaby, Prince Georges County. September 12—
NOTICE. THE subscriber intends to petition the next General Assembly for an act of indemnity to release him from debts he is unable to pay. SAMUEL S. HARNOOD. Montgomery County, Maryland. September 21—
AN ACT Providing for the establishment of semi-annual Fairs. BE it enacted by the First and Second Chambers of the City Council of Washington, That two Fairs be held in every year within the city of Washington for the sale of all kinds of cattle, goods, wares, and merchandise, on the first Wednesday's of May and November, under such regulations as the Mayor may prescribe, of which Fairs he shall make due notification. In virtue of powers vested in me by the above act, I do hereby order and direct that the Fairs authorized thereby shall be held on the public grounds appropriated in the plan of the city of Washington for the Mall on the south side of the Tiber, extending from the Bridge at the Centre Market to the river Potomac, and that the continuance of said Fairs shall be for three days successively, viz. on the first Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in May and November. ROBERT BRENT, Mayor. September 14—
JUST PUBLISHED. HERIY'S DIGEST Of the Laws of Maryland, VOL. II. PRICE 2 DOLLARS 25 CENTS, In blue paper.
District of Columbia, to wit: BE it remembered, that on this twenty-fifth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and four, Thomas Heriy, Esq. of the said district, Conveyancer and Notary Public, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit: "A Digest of the Laws of Maryland, being a complete system alphabetically arranged of all the public acts of assembly, now in force and of general use, from the first settlement of the state, to the end of November session 1803, inclusive—to which is added, the acts of Congress for the district of Columbia, from the assumption of jurisdiction to the end of the session, which terminated in April 1804, inclusive—Also a variety of precedents, (adapted to the several acts) for the use of officers of the peace; and also a full explanatory glossary of the Law terms, Volume 2nd. In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." G. DENEALE, Clerk of the district of Columbia. The above may be had at the publisher's office for the present. September 3—
THOMAS W. PAIRO, RESPECTFULLY informs the ladies and gentlemen, and the public of the city and vicinity, that he has opened store at the west corner of the Seven Buildings, where he intends to keep always a full assortment of dry and fancy goods. He imports his broad cloth and other woolens, &c. &c. himself, and buys the rest at Philadelphia, chiefly for cash—he therefore is able to sell as low as any merchant, and hopes that his reasonable terms will induce the citizens of Washington to encourage him. City of Washington, 19th Sept. 1804—
American Printed goods. Calicoes, Shawls, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. manufactured by the subscribers near Baltimore, and sold at No. 13 Colvert street. To remove that distrust often felt respecting new undertakings, and so prejudicial to manufacturing attempts in America, they think it proper to observe, that nothing is wanting in the business to enable good artists to perform their work here as well as in Europe. That they have these artists; that two of the partners were bred to the business in a factory of the best repute carried on by their father, & long afterwards by themselves. They trust that while foreign goods are received without a question, an unreasonable suspicion will not prevent their countrymen from giving that trial to their goods, which only can prove their value. Besides a natural doubt, they know that certain interests, national as well as individual, will suggest objections to their undertaking. They have no difficulty in saying, that work of the like kind shall be as well executed here, as in other countries. The colors capable of being fixed, will be found as permanent; the cloths perhaps better subsistence, and the prices lower than of the imported cottons. M'CULLOCH & LUNNUN, Baltimore, No. 13 Calvert Street. Sept. 17—
500 Dollars Reward. WHEREAS on the first day of April last a Negro fellow named STROTHER and his wife named PHILLIS absconded from my plantation near Chester, court house South Carolina—and as I have reason to suspect that some white person or persons have been accessory in said negroes elopement, or has feloniously carried them away—I hereby offer the above reward upon conviction of any white person concealing or carrying away said negroes. Forty dollars with all reasonable expenses will be paid for lodging said negroes in any jail and giving notice by letter to me at Chester C. H. South Carolina, so that I may get them, or twenty dollars for each; that is, if they are taken by any person after this date—any jail or other persons giving notice to me of said negroes, that they are lodged in any jail before this date shall be very handsomely rewarded. STROTHER is 22 or 23 years of age, little yellow complexion, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, stout made, crooked legged, very large feet, has a four countenance, has large scars on his back occasioned by a severe whipping, by his former overseer in Virginia for rebelling against him. PHILLIS is 20 or 22 years old, of a middle size, trim made, black complexion, has a small hump when she speaks—said negroes formerly belonged to Mr. Edward Carter, in Prince William county, state of Virginia, where it is supposed if they have escaped themselves they will try to go. Any letters of information will be very thankfully received. JOHN JOHNSTON. Chester C. H. South Carolina, July 11—
A TEN THOUSAND Dollar Prize, Now to be had for the small sum of SIX dollars! SCHEME OF A Lottery for the use of THE GERMAN TRINITY CHURCH, IN SIXTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Which will positively commence drawing at the State House in this city the fourth Monday of November next, prizes will be received in payment for such tickets as may remain for sale during the drawing, or the cash advanced for them, on allowing a small discount. From the great proportion already sold, it is expected that the tickets will soon be raised to six dollars and an half.
   Dollars.     1 Prize of 10 thousand dolls. 10,000   1 Three thousand 3,000   1 Two thousand 2,000   1 One thousand 1,000   4 Five hundred 2,000   10 Three hundred 3,000   20 Two hundred 4,000   35 One hundred 3,500   90 Fifty 4,500   100 Twenty 2,000   600 Seven 42,000   1st drawn No. on the 10th day 500   1 15th 500   1 20th 500   1 25th 500   1 30th 500   1 35th 500   1 40th 1,000   1 45th 1,000   1 50th 1,000   1 55th 1,000   1st drawn No. on the last day when there shall be only 600 tickets in the wheel, 6,000  
6274 Prizes. Dollars,—90,000 Considerably less than two blanks to a prize. The prizes to be paid 30 days after the close of the drawing—Subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. Tickets for sale by. GEORGE TAYLOR, Jun. No. 85, South Second Street, or MATTHEW MCCONNELL, No. 82, Chestnut Street. ADAM PREMR, No. 134, fourth floor R. ANTHY. HOOKLEY, No. Corner of Green and third streets, CHARLES BOWMAN, No. 16 Budd Street. Whole tickets—6 dollars Half tickets—3 25 Quarter tickets, 1 75 Prizes in other lotteries received in payment. Letters addressed to either of whom, post-paid and inclosing the cash, will be duly attended to. Aug. 27th—2aw 15N.
To be Sold, On Thursday the 27th day of September on the premises to the highest bidder, if not disposed of by private sale before that day. THE tract of land whereon I now live in Fairfax Co. Virginia, on Pope's Head creek, containing 553 acres, the situation is agreeable and healthy; there is on it an excellent mill seat on the above mentioned creek, with an inexhaustible quantity of grey free stone, and an abundance of good red and white oak, poplars, and hickory timber to erect the dam and necessary buildings on the spot; there is on this creek which washes this tract, for about two miles, a very considerable portion of the first quality meadow land, there is a considerable quantity of fresh water, just opened and nearly half of the tract to cut; it is situated about 20 miles of George Town, Washington, Alexandria and Dumfries. It is considered the best piece of forest land in the county—the terms of payment will be one third paid down, one third in 18 months and the other third in three years; an indisputable title will be made to the purchaser. The public is assured that the sale will take place if not privately disposed of before the day of sale, as I am determined to remove to the state of Kentucky this fall—Also on the same day and place, will be sold, all my stock of every sort, plantation utensils, household and kitchen furniture and the present crop now on hand for ready cash. THOMAS POLLARD. August 22—
Valuable Land for Sale. The executors of the last will and testament of Anthony Holmead deceased, will sell at private sale about forty acres of Land adjoining the city of Washington at the northern extremity of 20th street west. This land is generally allowed to be one of the most beautiful situations near the city, having a beautiful prospect of nearly the whole of the city of Washington, Alexandria and George Town, and any person inclined to purchase this valuable property will be shown the same, and know the terms by application to the subscriber near the premises. JOHN HOLMEAD. July 11—
FOR SALE. A Tract or parcel of land, containing one hundred thousand acres, surveyed in tracts of one thousand acres each, lying on the great and little Satilla rivers in the counties of Wayne and Tattnall in the state of Georgia, distant about 40 miles from the town of St. Mary's and the sea. This land is an undivided moiety of two adjoining tracts containing each 100,000 acres, and is remarkable for its extensive forests of large and valuable yellow pine, and the luxuriant growth of natural grass, affording an inexhaustible range of pasture for cattle. A great bargain may be had to a purchaser of the whole undivided moiety; for terms of sale apply to JOHN BECKLEY. City of Washington. Sept. 12—
(BY AUTHORITY.) Scheme of a Lottery. To build an Academy in the city of Richmond. Dollars. 1 Prize—1st drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, 20,000 1 do. 10,000 1 do. 5,000 1 do. 2,000 1 do. 1,000 1 do. 500 1 do. 250 1 do. 100 1 do. 50 1 do. 25 1 do. 10 1 do. 5 1 do. 2 1 do. 1 1st drawn ticket after 1,000 having a blank to its number, 250 1 do. after 2,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 3,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 4,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 5,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 6,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 8,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 10,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 12,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 13,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 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 subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. This lottery has been authorized by the legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purposes of erecting a seminary of learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view, it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dolls. and 2,500 dolls. in addition, for defraying the expenses attendant on drawing the lottery. Citizens of the first respectability have been selected as trustees, and they have pledged themselves to use their utmost exertions to carry it into effect. The scheme has the advantage of giving to each adventurer a chance for some very large prizes, while the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so great, as to invite the friends of the intended institution to partake in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The treasurer of the state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay the amount of the prizes to the fortunate adventurers. It is believed that the above considerations will induce rapid sales 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, March 2— Tickets to be had of Robert Pollard Esq. John Brockenbrough, jun. Wm. Price (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, jun. and William Prichard.
WAS committed to the goal of Frederick county, on the 25th July last, a negro man, about 28 years old, 5 feet 8 inches high, a yellowish complexion, has scars on each of his hands, with burns, particularly on the left hand: His clothes are tow linen shirts and trousers, a blue great coat, &c. He says he belongs to col. WILLIAM WINN, of Harford county, North Carolina, and that he has been absent from his master about two years. If his OWNER does not release him he will be sold for his GOAL FEES agreeably to law. GEORGE GREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick county. Aug. 22—1aw8t.
NEW Store. BY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. The subscriber informs the public that he has commenced business in the house formerly occupied by MR. QUINN, T. Street; And has on hand, a general assortment of dry goods, Groceries, wines and spirituous liquors. Porter, Hardware and Cutlery, Quincunx, China and Glass, Flour, Corn, and Corn-meal, Oats, and Chopped rye, Candles and Soap by the box, Country whiskey by the barrel, and a few casks of genuine old Irish whiskey, All of which he will sell low for cash or country produce. The HIGHEST prices, given for country produce, CASH. FRANCIS CLARK. Aug. 29—wtf.
Ten Dollars Reward. RAN Away from the subscriber on Tuesday, the first inst. a negro Wench called RAQUEL, about twenty years of age, no perceptible mark—She is stout made, has a bold look when spoken to, speaks quick, apparently far advanced in pregnancy. Her clothing cannot be described as she took with her several articles belonging to her mistress. I will give the above reward if she is lodged in any jail in the state, and all reasonable charges it brought home. FRANCIS CLARK. Aug. 29—wtf.
50 Dollars reward, STRAYED or stolen from the commons of Washington city, between Saturday and Monday the 7th and 9th of July, inst. a pair of bright BAY HORSES, of the following descriptions:—One about fifteen, and a half hands high over the shoulders, and about two inches lower over the hips, supposed to be eight years old, black mane and tail, mane on the right side, trots and canters, a star in the forehead, both hind angles white, and has partly on the inner side of each, uniformly placed, about one inch above the hoof of black spot of about three quarters of an inch diameter; no other striking natural marks are recollected. This horse is supposed to be three fourths English blooded; he is when in flesh very handsome, and moves with ease and elegance. He is now much reduced in appearance by a long journey, his back something injured by the saddle, and has old marks of similar abuse. The other horse is about fifteen and a half hands high before, and the same behind, six years old, not so handsomely built in any respect as the other, but carries himself very well, trots hard, canters easy and racks a little, his mane and tail are likewise black; his mane thin and on the right side; left hind angle white; has a star in the forehead, and a snip in the nose, mostly inclined to and running into the left nostril; a circular brand on the left shoulder, with a character in the center believed to be intended for an A. He is not so low in flesh as the other, the new saddle marks are worn, but he has few or no old ones, except a slight appearance of a former naval gall. They were shod all round. If stolen the above reward will be paid on conviction of the thief; if strayed and found within 20 miles of Washington city a reward of 20 dollars will be given, and if beyond that distance, 40 dollars, expenses included, on their return to Phineas Bradley, Washington city, or Renner and Buffard, George Town. August 1—tawtf
MEDITERRANEAN PASSPORTS Notice is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport issued to vessels of the United States, that from the eighth day of July next a whole of the new form will be issued to the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport of which they may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange; and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use. Department of State, 23d of May, 1804. The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Collectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices. May 30—2aw6m
This is to give notice, THAT the subscriber, of Calvert County, in the State of Maryland, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of said County, letters of Administration on the personal estate of Nathan Smith, late of the county aforesaid, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at or before the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and five—they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this eighteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and four. THEODORE HODGKIN, Adm'r. September 19—1aw3t
NOTICE. BY Virtue of a decree of the high court of chancery of the state of Maryland will be sold at public auction at Caton's tavern in the city of Annapolis at twelve o'clock on Saturday the twenty ninth day of the present month, the lot of ground now in the occupation of Wm. Brown of the city of Annapolis. This lot begins at the intersection of North East street and Scotch street, and bounds on Scotch street one hundred and seventy-five and an half feet, then with a line parallel with North East street to the Severn river, then bounding on end with the river to North East street, and then with N. East street to the beginning. The improvements are a large convenient brick dwelling house beautifully situated on the river, kitchen and out houses of different kinds and a pump or excellent water. Any further description is thought unnecessary as persons who are disposed to purchase, will probably make themselves acquainted with the property previous to the day of sale. The terms of sale are that the purchaser shall give bond with security to be approved by the trustee for paying the purchase money with interest within six months from the day of sale. NICHOLS BREWER, Trustee. September 10—wtf
Valuable Land for Sale. The executors of the last will and testament of Anthony Holmead deceased, will sell at private sale about forty acres of Land adjoining the city of Washington at the northern extremity of 20th street west. This land is generally allowed to be one of the most beautiful situations near the city, having a beautiful prospect of nearly the whole of the city of Washington, Alexandria and George Town, and any person inclined to purchase this valuable property will be shown the same, and know the terms by application to the subscriber near the premises. JOHN HOLMEAD. July 11—