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THE DEFENCE.
No. XVI.
(Subject of Foreign Relations, Continued.)
This treaty with France has been faithfully observed; so faithfully that even the misconstruction of party has raised but a solitary clamour, and this not so much on account of any failure of duty towards France, as from an alleged excess of it. The case alluded to is that of the Berceau, the facts relative to which are these:
On the 5th of April, Mr. Griswold offered a resolution that the secretary of state be directed to report whether the sum of 32,839 dollars and 54 cents, expended in the repairs put upon the corvette Berceau, before the delivery to the French Republic, was made to equip her for the service of the United States, or for the purpose of delivering her in good condition to the French Republic, in conformity to the stipulations of the convention with France.
As the measures of the executive on this subject have been variously represented, it may be proper concisely to state them.
On the 30th of September 1800, a convention was entered into at Paris by the commissioners of the United States and France restoring true and sincere friendship between the two nations, the third article of which directed that the public ships which had been taken on one part and the other, or which might be taken before the exchange of ratifications, should be restored. In the month of the ensuing February the Senate advised a ratification of the convention under certain terms, which it was not believed would be objected to by France. Previously to the signing of this instrument, on the 12th of October, 1800, the Berceau, a French national ship, had been captured by an American frigate, and condemned as legal prize on the 17th of November. On the 19th of December, 1800, Mr. J. Stoddert, the secretary of the navy, directed his agent at Boston to cause her to be purchased for the United States, and afterwards to have her placed where she would be secure, with just as many men on board as should be necessary to take care of her; but to make no repairs. In obedience to these instructions she was dismantled on the 30th of December; and on the 15th of January, she was bought in by the navy agent for 13,349 dollars. In March, the French commercial agent represented to the secretary of state the delicate state of the French prisoners taken on board the Berceau, no funds having been provided by France for their relief, and requested advances, reimbursable by his government. In consequence of this representation, the secretary of the navy instructed his agent to furnish each person, before his delivery, with such cheap clothing as should be sufficient, with what he had, to make him comfortable—and to pay each officer, to enable the discharge of contracted debts, two dollars a week for the whole time he had lived at his own expence.
On the 19th of March, the French Chargé des Affaires, Mr. Pichon, addressed a letter to the secretary of state, stating that the First Consul, desirous of removing the remembrance of all differences, had not waited for information whether the government of the United States would ratify the convention, before he performed those stipulations which were to have effect from the date of its signature; and that, reposing entire confidence in the United States, he had given instructions calculated not only to insure full justice for the past, in a manner conformant to the obligations of the convention, but also to prevent in future, unauthorised measures towards the commerce and navigation of the United States, either on the part of the administration, or of individuals. Mr. Pichon expresses a strong assurance that the modifications of the convention will be accepted by the First Consul, and concludes by attracting the attention of the secretary to that part of it, which relates to the restitution of national ships, among which he notices the Insurgente, a French captured frigate, intimating the probatibility of her being lost, and expressing his impression that it would appear reasonable to the President, to restore her, or an equivalent, to the Republic.
On the 20th of March, the executive, animated by the same sentiments expressed by the French government, came to a determination to restore the Berceau; and accordingly on that day
the secretary of the navy gave the following directions to his agent:—
"The French national ship the Berceau, captured by captain Little, is to be restored under the treaty.
"You will please to cause her to be delivered, with all her guns, ammunition, apparel, and every thing belonging to her, to the order of Mr. Pichon, commissary general and charge des affaires, from the French government to the government of the United States, whenever such orders shall appear.
"This business should be done as if no reluctance accompanied the restoration. We are now at peace with France, and we should act as if we returned to a state of amity with pleasure. Let there be no cause of complaint against the government or its agents."
On the 1st of April, further instructions were given by the secretary. He says:
"I have to request that you will be pleased to ascertain without delay the state of the French national ship Le Berceau was in at the time of her capture, as to her armament, stores and provisions, and to cause her to be put in the same condition before she is delivered up to the French government."
On the 24th of June the navy agent addressed the following letter to the secretary:
"On Monday the 22d, the corvette Le Berceau was delivered to the commissary of the French government, and the captain at the same time took charge of her. At the request of the commissary and captain, and from the necessity of the case, I have furnished some articles which may not have been on board at the time of the capture, such as hammocks, blankets; and if then on board, they were retained wholly or in part by the crew. The captain now wishes to be furnished with silver spoons, plated ware, china, &c. for his cabin. These I cannot provide without your special directions, as I do not suppose they were on board at the time of the capture.—The commissary is willing on the part of his government, to engage to pay for all articles supplied, that probably were not then on board the corvette."
Subsequent letters from the agent state the repairs made to have amounted to 32,833 dollars 54 cents; in one of which he says:
"I have presumed it was the meaning of the instructions, though not fully expressed, that the corvette should be restored, in all respects, to the condition she was in immediately anterior to the commencement of the action with the B. fr. I have therefore endeavoured, in directing the repairs and furnishing the supplies, to be governed as far as possible by this principle, which I made known to such of the principal workmen employed in the repairs as appeared to be expedient. But an adherence to the rule, with a few exceptions, was soon found impracticable, but every departure produced an expence to the United States; for example, the flays, shrouds, and all the cordage, were unavoidably replaced with the new for the old. The rule of course was violated, as the old was not worth more than two thirds the price of new. The corvette was in this respect therefore placed in a better condition than she was at the commencement of the action; but the United States lost by it the difference in the value of the new and the old cordage. This was also the case with her sails, with her masts, spars, tops, and caps; with the carpenters work, with the iron work, and with many other supplies too numerous to be detailed here. Her stores, &c. thus furnished, may, I presume, be estimated to be worth on an average, thirty per cent. more than the stores they have replaced."
On this topic three charges have been raised. 1. That the repairs and delivery of the Berceau were made before the definitive ratification on the part of France; 2. that the price paid for them was extravagant; and 3. That the expence was incurred without any appropriation. The first charge is not denied; but it is contended that in an affair, so important, as returning peace between the two nations, it was the duty of the government to relax, in some degree, the rigor of law, particularly when such relaxation on our part was accompanied by one equally great on the part of France. We gave up the Berceau only for an equivalent. Our vessels to a much greater value were released. So that, had the well founded expectations of the government, as to the ultimate ratification of the convention, been disappointed, we should still have been gainers.—That the price of the repairs was extravagant has never been proved. That they may have been made on a scale of liberal policy is probable. The
Instructions of the government were that they should be made in such a way as to furnish "no cause of complaint against the government or its agents." To have pursued a different course would have manifested a spirit of pusillanimous avarice, so infatuated as to sacrifice ultimate millions for present pence; and would have implied a destitution of all that knowledge that is essential to protect the great interests of nations. What was thirty two thousand dollars to the friendship of a great nation?
But it is contended that the expence was incurred without any appropriation. To this it has been satisfactorily answered that two funds existed at the disposition of the government; one for the purchase and repairs of vessels for our own navy; and another, for carrying treaties into effect. The repairs of the Berceau were made with a view to her forming part of the navy, and if so, a liberal appropriation had been made by the creation of the first fund; or they were made, with a view to her delivery to France under the stipulations of the French treaty; and if so, the second fund was appropriated to this among other purposes. But it is insisted, that in this case, the treaty not being completely ratified, the general appropriation for carrying treaties into effect did not apply. This argument, however, by attempting to prove too much, proves nothing. The truth is, that the rigid observance of forms that apply to individuals do not always hold good as to nations. It is of infinite importance to hasten the effects resulting from a state of returning amity. The propitious season should be seized, and the enthusiasm excited by such an indication should be made use of as one of the best instruments for carrying all the necessary arrangements into operation. Hence governments, mutually confiding in each other, often pursue those measures immediately after an agreement to preliminary articles, which are in strictness only required subsequent to their final ratification. In particular cases, some steps are indispensable; especially where armies have been recently engaged. When, therefore, government has full confidence in the final ratification, they have a right, as to all these purposes, to use the funds appropriated generally to carrying treaties into effect. Where is the authority that decides that preliminary articles do not constitute treaties? In some respects, they unquestionably do.
The vast importance of maintaining a good understanding with France will appear hereafter when the Louisiana treaty is considered.
The British treaty, notwithstanding the low estimation in which it was probably held by the members of the new administration, was like-wise executed with scrupulous good faith. On this topic not a murmur of discontent has been heard. We have seen that the provision of that treaty that related to the recovery of mutual claims against the two governments had been suspended during the Presidency of Mr. Adams. The conduct of the negotiation for removing the differences that gave rise to this suspension devolved on Mr. Jefferson. Had the new administration desired to extend the differences between the United States and Great Britain, they had again the fairest opportunity. The pretensions of England were arrogant; the claims of America were founded in justice; while then the latter were demanded, the former might have been rejected. But a far different course was pursued. The spirit of Mr. Jay's treaty was consulted, and it was manifested, with whatever justice, that it contemplated a liberal satisfaction of British pretensions, as a full compensation of American claims. This spirit was adhered to; the exciting train of negotiation was not disturbed; measures were even taken to accelerate it; in consequence of which the American merchant has received a satisfaction for such claims as have been allowed by the appointed tribunal; and a gross sum has been paid to the British government which has assumed the claims of its own subjects against the United States.
It has been said that the present administration is hostile to the mercantile interest, and delights in their depression. Were this true, would they not, in this instance, have taken a different course? By rendering the negotiation abortive, they would have sacrificed the claims of the merchants, to the amount of near six millions of dollars, and would have avoided the payment out of the national treasury of near three millions, for which the whole nation is taxed. This would have been a severe blow against that interest, inasmuch as while it virtually inflicted on our merchants a loss of six
millions, it would have relieved the nation from three millions, which they have agreed to pay.
The effects of the scrupulous good faith with which this treaty has been observed are conspicuous. There subsists an honorable confidence between the two nations, between whom, there previously existed hostile distrust—This confidence has not only indicated itself in acts of a negative character, arising from the abstinence of England to injure the commerce of the United States, but it has been also manifested itself in acts of positive benefit.
There are strong reasons to believe that these amicable sentiments have been efficaciously improved to produce an impression on the British government of the interest of that nation, by a department of justice, to cultivate the good will of a nation at present next in mercantile importance to herself, and destined at no remote period to attain a superior rank. Hence those important relaxations of her navigation act which we have recently experienced, and the unprecedented exemption of our seamen from impressment. We say unprecedented. For notwithstanding the criminal outrages recently committed before New York, the aggregate number of impressments is greatly reduced; and if the public prints are to be relied on, an honorable disposition has already been manifested on the part of the British government to make amends for these unauthorised aggressions.
Mr. Jay's treaty has, it is true, been permitted to expire. But the very circumstances attendant on this event prove the friendly sentiments entertained by England; since without a commercial treaty, we remain in the enjoyment of all the privileges we possessed with one; so much so that the expiration of the treaty has not produced the least sensible effect on the trade between the two countries.
What part, or whether any of that treaty will be renewed, we pretend not to say. The conjecture, however, that several of its provisions, containing limitations on the commercial rights of our citizens, will be rejected, may be reasonably indulged. However ready we may be to facilitate the honest intercourse of our citizens in the promotion of their lawful concerns, we trust, and confidently believe that a wise administration considering itself charged not only with the immediate but also the eventual welfare of America, will abstain from doing any thing which shall sacrifice the one to the other.
CURIUS.
(Subject of Foreign relations to be continued.)
From a Liverpool Paper of September 12.
RUSSIA AND FRANCE.
The paper, of which the following is a translation, has been universally circulated throughout all those parts of Germany which have not yet fallen under the yoke of France. On the continent it has been considered as a kind of semi-official answer to the petulant observations which appeared in the Official Paper of the French Government, under the head of "Constantinople." The reasoning, and the important facts which it embraces, have created a very great sensation among the Northern Powers.
"There is no reason why the formation of an army of 5 or 6,000 Russians, in the Republic of the Seven Islands, should give rise to much political conjecture. Such a measure is undoubtedly, a very inferior part of that general system which Russia thinks it incumbent on her to follow at this moment. The attention of the political world should not be directed to an expedition of 6,000 men; it is the whole of the system that we are to look to."
"Twelve months are scarcely elapsed, since Alexander the First ordered that 111,000 men should be raised in his Empire, and that levy has been so effectually executed, that they are, at this day, formed into regiments, and perfectly disciplined. This levy has increased the Russian military force to upwards of 400,000 soldiers, and 60,000 seamen. Add to these, 50,000 irregular troops, which are already embodied, and 100,000 more, which may be assembled in a short time, consisting of Kalmucks, Bashkirs, and the different hordes of Tartars, every man of whom, upon the promise of being allowed to plunder, would gladly enrol himself; with such a force at its command, can it be asked, if Russia have a right to the character she assumes, in an ag-
when the power of the strongest is the only one that is respected?
"It must be acknowledged, morally speaking, that it is to France that Russia is indebted for the brilliant situation which she now occupies and which cannot be denied to be of the very first order. The period from whence this commanding and prominent position was occupied by Russia, may be dated from the commencement of that system of tyranny and injustice, which France has established; a system of invasion, of rapine, and of oppression, which has been exercised wherever its power could reach; and above all, since it became apparent, that its ambitious views were directed to no less an object than the attainment of universal Monarchy. Since that time, Russia has become the shield of the weak, and Alexander, seated on his throne has assumed the character of the Protector and arbiter of Empires. Can France compel her to lay aside this dignified character? Let her not deceive herself in imagining she can. Russia is not in the situation of an actor, who puts on the purple to play the part of a king, she is not an upstart, who appears what she really is not; the attitude of the lion besits her because she possesses both his force and his dignity; she is a Colossal power, whose eyes have been unsealed by the faults of others, and viewed in her true light, a Colossus of the most formidable description."
"Whether Russia will unite herself to Prussia or to Austria, whether she attaches herself to England, or stands alone, she must always be respectable, and among the first order of powers—respectable, as long as she shall follow a system of justice and disinterestedness, and that confident in her strength, she shall openly resist a plan of universal despotism, and lay open to the world the violation of rights the most sacred: that impious violation, which has been so well described in the strong but temperate note, which was presented at Rastibon."
"Russia, it must be admitted, can never be a considerable gainer by indulging a desire of conquest. She is extensive enough already; her boundaries are such, that she need not wish for any alteration in them: but she may be a gainer, and so may Europe, by the consequences of any war that the plain dealing and foresight of her Sovereign may induce him to declare."
"Alexander is naturally of a mild and amiable disposition, but in whatever concerns the principles of justice he is decided almost to obstinacy; and they know him but little, who imagine that the Note to the Diet of Rastibon, was suggested by Markow, and his adherents, inveterate as their hatred is supposed to be."
"What is the great danger to which a war with France would expose the Russian Empire? It does not follow that the Russian army is to march to Paris. No, nor can the French reach Peterburgh, Moscow, or the Crimea, since they are not able to detach a single ship, the whole of their navy being blockaded and confined to their ports.—As to battles and marches, brave as the French are, they are but men like others; they cannot exceed the limits which the laws of nature have placed to human efforts."
"Will it be said, that the commerce of Russia will be affected by a rupture with France? Certainly not; for with what articles does she supply that country? None directly. What does she import from thence? Articles of luxury, which are prohibited. It is true, she receives some wine from France; but with that article she is, at present, plentifully supplied? and even if she were not, she could do without it, as she did during the former rupture."
"Will it be asserted that France could do infinite mischief to Russia, by the troubles that her emissaries could excite in the interior of the country? Of all the errors in political calculation, this would be one of the greatest. The people of Russia are those which approach nearest to a state of nature, except the savages; and they are the only people in the universe who neither know how to read nor write, but still they are not barbarians. They know no government but their own, which they fear and respect. They honor their sovereign with the title of a God upon earth. They have no other civilization than the practical one which their sovereigns thought it useful and necessary to introduce, masons, carpenters and joiners, locksmiths, armurers, and artisans of all sorts, and all excellent in their kind, are to be found in Russia in abundance, and still they know not how to read or write.—The strangers who reside in Russia are regarded by the natives as a parcel of leeches who absorb their wealth. After this description, let the emissaries and

inhabitants of France attempt to excite divisions in that country, and they will find that the government, with a single blast, can eradicate them.
"It is certainly true that the population of Russia, compared with its extent, is rather small; but, this, however, admits of some explanation. In the first place, the population is not equally distributed through the empire; and again, there are parts of Russia which are absolutely uninhabitable. Besides, where is the necessity of augmenting the population of the country? It is the duty of a sovereign to make his people happy, but it is not so clear that it is his duty to increase the number of them. In a moral point of view, war is assuredly a very great calamity, but in a political consideration, it is sometimes a necessary evil, and much good results from it."
"The Russian force at this moment paid and provided, and actually under arms, is even more than sufficient to encourage their sovereign to declare war. It is said that the military strength of this country is embattled on the Persian and Tartarian frontiers; quite the contrary. On their whole line between the Caspian and the sea of Ochety, there are only seven or eight thousand men, and there is no necessity for a man more, if we look to the situation of the country, the number of forts, the immense deserts, and the disposition of contiguous countries. In time of peace, between the Caspian and the Black Sea, there may be about twelve or thirteen thousand men; but at present there are from twenty to twenty-five thousand on account of the peculiar circumstances of the hostility which is carried on in that vicinity. There are moreover, twenty-five or thirty thousand troops on the frontiers of Sweden, and not withstanding all those deductions, there are still three hundred thousand well disciplined and hardy troops between the Black Sea and the Baltic."
"One hundred thousand of such gallant and hardy men, if once landed in Italy, would not be so easily conquered as some of the French politicians are pleased to suppose. Let them only bring to their recollection the gallant achievements of a handful of Russians, who, in the last war, in one campaign, drove all Italy and Lombardy before them, and they will find that the most renowned French Generals were defeated one after the other, and that, even at Zurich, Russia gained admiration, notwithstanding the faults of her chiefs, and the backwardness of her allies."
"All this serves to prove, that a declaration of war, on the part of Russia, against France, would be sufficiently formidable to encourage the German empire, now crushed by the latter power to occupy the troops of France and by that means to afford an opportunity to Italy, to Switzerland, to Spain, to Portugal, to Holland, and to Hanover, to shake off the Gallic yoke."
"As to the project of invading England, it is an absolute chimera, a castle in the air, which can never be successful; and even were it so, it must prove destructive to the rest of the world. England is at this moment at the highest point of elevation, she can never decline if she continue where she is, for higher she cannot be. But how can England who only exists by her industry and trade, preserve her present situation, unless by upholding the balance of the world? It is then the obvious interest of Russia to assist England, who by its system, should be friendly to all nations; and to repress France, the selfish principles of whose government are inimical to the greater powers of Europe, and oppressive to the smaller."
From a London Paper.
IMPREGNABLE BATTERY.
The proposed Impregnable battery is the invention of Mr. John Gillespie, a native of Scotland. We understand that a meeting was held on Wednesday with this ingenious person, at Mr. Pitt's house, at Putney, and that it is intended immediately to carry his project into execution. The first lord of the admiralty, Sir Sidney Smith, and several other persons, met the inventor at the chancellor of the exchequer's on the occasion; and certain craft in the river were pointed out on which the machinery is to be erected. We believe this scheme is brought forward under the particular recommendation of Sir Sidney Smith.
It is very much to be regretted, that however successful our ships on the French coast have been in several important contests, the bravery of our seamen and the conduct of their officers, have often been disappointed in their efforts to attack the foe, by the insuperable obstructions the nature of the coast presented to our shipping. It is presumed that this battery is to be constructed upon vessels drawing very little water, so that our mariners, under its protection, may approach the force of the enemy, and spread that destruction which will utterly defeat the enterprise in which their councils have been so long occupied, and to which their articles have been so long destined.
The battery is so contrived as to be bomb proof; and will carry 32 pounders, or pieces of ordinance of any calibre; it moves on an axis to any point of the compass with the utmost facility; and it is provided with an optical tube by which the engineer is greatly assisted in the direction of his fire. Such we understand, are the advantages of this discovery, and we sincerely wish it may answer the representation given of it by those whose judgment we have no reason to question. While the philosopher will lament the new expedients for human destruction on which ingenuity may contrive, the politician will not neglect to avail himself of those means of defence which are offered to supply the most effectually means of public security.
Egyptian Wheat.
There are few countries from whence the patriotic and scientific traveller may not bring something to enrich or benefit his own. The peculiar qualities of the Egyptian wheat have long been unknown, even to the nations, to which Egypt was formerly the granary; but one of the officers whom the desolating spirit of Bonaparte occasioned us to send there, has brought from thence a few grains of wheat, which are likely to supersede the culture of all others, not only in Ireland, but here. The stem, which for strength and thickness resembles the strongest reed, is about six feet high, having, when nearly matured, a top or head about twice the size of an ear of our wheat, together with smaller ears, branching something in the manner of oats. But what is most important, the stem is peculiarly nutritious for horses, rendering unnecessary the use of hay and corn. It will not be a matter of surprise that all the feed which Mr. Humphries (a gentleman of Dublin, to whom it had been originally presented,) could be induced to dispose of last year, was purchased with avidity for ten guineas per stone of 14lb, nor that he had been offered, and refused eight thousand guineas, by one person, for a crop of nine acres, which is, or was recently standing.
London paper.
RUSSIAN COMMERCE.
Whilst France and England are combating for their reciprocal manufactures, and commercial industry, and exhausting their strength, and diminishing their population, for distant and unhealthy colonies, Russia, without any pretension to internal commerce, or external colonies, grows rich in proportion as its population augments; and twenty years uninterrupted peace will make that extensive empire the most flourishing and powerful in the universe. Vergennes said, "that the letters of the world were forged in the north." What would have been this Minister's opinion, had he lived to see the official report of the Russian Minister of Commerce, Count de Romanzow! This report, so interesting, though so alarming, to the freedom of the world, contains twenty one articles, in which is published the general state of the Russian trade with foreign nations, or rather the trade of foreign nations with Russia. The 11th and 19th articles are very curious, and ought to be distinguished, as they give an exact account of the benefit Russia obtained from the commerce of transit between Europe and Asia. These articles are again divided into five parts containing the particulars, concerning—1. the commerce on the Baltic—2. on the White Sea—3. on the Black Sea—4. on the Caspian Sea— and 5. on the Internal Commerce. During the year 1802, the importations from the Baltic alone amounted to 32,934,410 roubles; and the exportation amounted to 46,917,134 roubles. The clear profit was, therefore, 13,982,724 roubles, to which is to be added the sum of four millions of roubles in gold or silver, imported either in money or in bullion: in a manner that the commerce of the Baltic procures to Russia, annually, a clear gain of near eighteen millions of roubles for raw productions alone. During the same year, the importations to Archangel, and to other ports in the white sea, amount only to 549,732 roubles; whilst the exportations amount to 4,796,017 roubles, or a benefit enormous, considering the importations of the great sum of 4,245,235 roubles. The profits of Russia on the black sea, and on the Caspian sea, are equally great in proportion to its trade on those seas. Do not these facts clearly prove the immense resources of the Russian empire, and that they are as real as the danger of all other countries have to apprehend from them, should the sovereign of that empire know his true interest, and continue only for the fourth of a century in peace with all the world? During that time, the trade of Russia must necessarily improve and increase; yes, that period is sufficiently long to collect all the treasures of the universe in Russia, and to reduce England to a state of penury and beggary, which, it is to be wished, for the welfare of mankind, it had never left. The resources of Russia are real, those of England artificial; let the English government cease to pay its creditors; let the artificial credit of the English bank lose a too long possessed confidence; Great Britain is ruined without resource, while all the failures or stoppages in the world, the blowing up of the banks of London and Amsterdam, or those of Vienna and Madrid, will not make more impression upon the political, military and financial situation of Russia, than the flames of Vesuvius or the hurricanes on the coast of India. Next to Russia, France certainly possesses within herself the most real internal resources; but luxury, the consequence of the height of civilization, to which the exclusively is arrived, makes her external and artificial wants greater than those of Russia, yet only half civilized. Were not this the case, the English shop-keepers, in the midst of their magazines, crowded with the most elegant productions of India, would be starving. The time, however, when this will be the case, cannot be distant. Our government has already sounded the alarm, shown all nations their interest, and most ports in Europe are already shut against those tyrants of the seas, who support the extravagance and unnatural pretensions only by the want of spirit, honor and patriotism, in other nations— Le Memorial Anti Britanniques, by Barrere.
FEMALE FORTITUDE.
(From Carr's Stranger in France.)
"One evening a short period before the family left France, a party of those murderers, who were sent for by Robespierre, from the frontiers which divide France from Italy, and who were by that arch-fiend employed in all the butcheries and massacres of Paris, entered the peaceful village of la Reine, in search of Monsieur O——. His lady saw them advancing, and anticipating their errand, had just time to give her husband intelligence of their approach, who left his chateau by a back door, and secreted himself in the house of a neighbour. Madame O——, with perfect composure, went out to meet them, and received them in the most gracious manner. They sternly demanded, Mons. O——: she informed them that he had left the country, and after engaging them in conversation, she conducted them to her drawing room, and regaled them with her best wines, and made her servants attend upon them with unusual deference and ceremony. Their appearance was altogether horrible; they wore leather aprons, which were sprinkled all over with blood; they had large horse-pistols in their belts, and a dirk and sabre by their side. Their looks were full of ferocity, and they spoke a harsh dissonant language. Over their cups, they talked about the bloody business of that day's occupation, in the course of which they drew out their dirks, and wiped from their handles cloths of blood and hair. Madame O—— sat with them, undismayed at their frightful deportment."
After drinking several bottles of Champaign and Burgundy, these savages began to grow good-humoured, and seemed to be completely fascinated by the amiable and unembarrassed, and hospitable behaviour of their fair landlady.
After carousing till midnight, they pressed her to retire, observing, that they had been received so handsomely, that they were convinced Monsieur O. had been misrepresented, and was no enemy to the good cause; they added, that they found the wines excellent, and after drinking two or three bottles more, they would leave the house, without causing her any reason to regret their admission.
"Madame O——, with all the appearance of perfect tranquility and confidence in their promises, wished her unwelcome visitors a good night, and after visiting her children in their rooms she threw herself upon her bed, with a loaded pistol in each hand, and overwhelmed with suppressed agony and agitation, she soundly slept till she was called by her servants, two hours after these wretches had left the house."
"About the same period two of the children of Mons. O—— were in Paris at school. A rumour had reached him, that the teachers of the seminary in which they were placed, had offended the government, and were likely to be butchered, and that the carnage which was expected to take place, might, in its undistinguished fury, extend to the pupils. Immediately upon receiving this intelligence, Mons. O—— ordered his carriage, for the purpose of proceeding to town. Madame O—— implored of him to permit her to accompany him; in vain did he beseech her to remain at home; the picture of danger which he painted, only rendered her more determined. She mounted the carriage, and seated herself by the side of her husband. When they reached Paris, they were stopped in the middle of the street St. Horie, by the massacre of a large number of prisoners, who had just been taken out of a church which had been converted into a prison. Their ears were pierced with screams. Many of the miserable victims were cut down, clinging to the windows of their carriage. During the dreadful delays which they suffered in passing through this street, Madame O—— discovered no sensations of alarm, but steadily fixed her eyes upon the back of the coach box, to avoid as much as possible, observing the butcheries which were perpetrating on each side of her."
Had she been observed to close her eyes or sit back in the carriage, she would have excited a suspicion, which, no doubt, would have proved fatal to her. At length, she reached the school which contained her children, where she found the rumour which they had received was without foundation; she calmly conducted them to the carriage, and during their gloomy return through Paris, betrayed no emotion; but as soon as they had passed the barrier, and were once more in safety upon the road to their peaceful chateau, the exulting mother, in an agony of joy, pressed her children to her bosom, and in a state of mind wrought up to frenzy, arrived at her own house in convulsions of ghastly laughter."
"Monsieur O——" (from whom Mr. Carr received these relations, at the chateau of the former) "never spoke of this charming woman without exhibiting the strongest emotions of regard. He said, that in sickness she suffered no one to attend upon him but herself; that in all his afflictions she had supported him, and that she mitigated the deep melancholy which the sufferings of his country and his own privations had fixed upon him, by the well-timed sallies of her elegant fancy, or by the charms of her various accomplishments."
"I found myself," (adds Mr. Carr, with a compliment that seems very justly due) "a gainer in the article of delight, by leaving the gayest metropolis that Europe can present to a traveller, for the sake of visiting such a family."
(from the same.)
A little anecdote is related of Bonaparte, which unfolded the bold, and daring character of this extraordinary man in early life; when he was about sixteen years of age, and a cadet in the military school at Paris—by the by, the small distance between this seminary and his present palace, and the (witnesses of his elevation, afford a curious coincidence—in the vast plain of the Champ de Mars, the court, and the Parisians were assembled to witness the ascent of a balloon. Bonaparte made his way through the crowd, and unperceived, entered the inner fence, which contained the apparatus for inflating the silken globe. It was then very nearly filled, and restrained from its flight by the 1st aeronaut to permit him to mount the car with him; which request was immediately refused, from an apprehension that the feelings of the boy might embarrass the experiment. Bonaparte is reported to have exclaimed, "I am young, it is true, but I neither fear the power of earth, or of air," and sternly added, "will you let me ascend?" The aeronaut, sharply replied, "No, Sir, "I will not; I beg that you will retire." Upon which the little enraged officer drew a small sabre, which he wore with his uniform, instantly cut the balloon in several places, and destroyed the cruises apparatus, which the aeronaut had constructed, with infinite labour and ingenuity, for the purpose of trying the possibility of aerial navigation.
Paris was almost unpeopled this day to view the spectacle. The disappointment of the populace, which was said to have exceeded seven hundred thousand persons, became violent and universal. The king sent to know the reason of the tumult, when the story was related to him, the good humoured monarch laughed heartily, and said, "Upon my word "that impetuous boy, will make a brave officer."—The devoted king little thought that he was speaking of his successor.—The young offender was put under arrest, and confined for four days.
This man is certainly the phenomenon of the present times. It is a circumstance worthy of remark, that the artillery has furnished France with most of its present distinguished heroes, who have also been bred up in the same military school with Bonaparte. A short time before my arrival at Paris, this great genius, who displays a perfect knowledge of mankind, and particularly of the people over whom he rules, discovered that the Parisians, from a familiarity with his person, and from his lady and his family having occasionally joined in the purport of amusement, began to lose that degree of awe and respect for him, which he so well knows how to appreciate, as well as to inspire. In consequence of this, he gradually retired from every circle of fashion and was at this period, almost as inaccessible as a Chinese emperor. The same line of conduct was also adopted by the principal officers of government. He resided almost wholly at Malmaison, except on state days, when only those strangers were permitted to be introduced to him, who had satisfied the ambassadors of their respective nations, that they had been previously presented at their own courts.
[We have been favoured, through the courtesy of a gentleman in this town, with the following extract of a letter from the late General Hamilton, dated New York, 1799, to a relation of his here who had requested to know some particulars of his life. We have no doubt but that it will be perused at the present moment with lively interest.]
"I came to this country at about the age of 16, and having always had a strong propensity to literary pursuits, by a course of steady and laborious exertions, I was able at the age of 19 to qualify myself for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in the college of New York, and to lay a foundation by preparatory study for the future profession of the law.—The American revolution supervened.—My principles led me to take part in it. At 19 I entered into the American army as captain of artillery, and shortly after I became by his invitation aid-de-camp to General Washington;—in which station I served till the commencement of that campaign, which ended with the siege of York Town, Virginia, and the capture of Lord Cornwallis's army. This campaign I made at the head of a corps of light infantry, with which I was present at the siege of York, and engaged in some interesting operations. At the period of the peace with Great Britain, I found myself a member of congress by appointment of the Legislature of this state. After the peace I settled in the city of New York, in the practice of the law, and was in a very lucrative course of practice, when the derangement of our public affairs, by the feebleness of the general confederation drew me again reluctantly into public life. I became a member of the convention which framed the present constitution of the United States, and having taken part in this measure, I conceived myself to be under an obligation to lend my aid towards putting the machine in motion.—Hence I did not hesitate to accept the offer of President Washington, to undertake the office of Secretary of the treasury. In that office I met with many intrinsic difficulties, and many artificial ones proceeding from passions not very worthy but common to human nature, and which act with peculiar force in republics. The object, however, was effectual of establishing public credit and introducing order into the finances."
"Public office in this country has few attractions. The pecuniary emolument is so inconsiderable as to amount to a sacrifice to any man who can employ his time with advantage in any liberal profession. The opportunity of doing good, from the jealousy of power and the spirit of faction, is too small in any station to warrant a long continuance of private sacrifices. The enterprises of party had so far succeeded, as materially to weaken the necessary influence and energy of the executive authority, and so far diminished the power of doing good in that department, as greatly to take away the motives which a virtuous man might have for making such sacrifices. The prospect was even bad, for gratifying in future the love of fame, if that passion was to be the spring of action. The union of these motives, with the reflections of prudence, in relation to a growing family, determined me as soon as my plan had attained a certain maturity to withdraw from office. This I did in the year 1795, by resignation, when I resumed the profession of the law, (as counsellor) in New-York, under every advantage I could desire. It is a pleasing reflection to me, that since the commencement of my connection with General Washington to the present time, I have possessed a flattering share of his confidence and friendship. In the year 1780, I married the second daughter of Gen. Schuyler, a gentleman of one of the best families of this country, of large fortune, and of no less personal and public consequence. It is impossible to be happier than I am in a wife, and I have eight children, the eldest a son, somewhat past seventeen, who all promise well as far as their years permit, and promise me much satisfaction.—Though I have been too much in a public life to be wealthy, my situation is extremely comfortable, and leaves me nothing to wish but a continuance of health. With this blessing, the profits of my profession, and other prospects, authorize an expectation of such a addition to my resources as will render the eve of life easy and agreeable, so far as may depend on this consideration."
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.

Congressional Register.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
NOVEMBER 5th, 1804.
Being the day appointed by law for the meeting of Congress, a quorum was formed; the members present were 84. Three of whom are new members; viz.
Christopher Clark of the state of Virginia, in a room of John Trigg deceased.
Samuel Riker of the state of New York, in the room of John Smith appointed a Senator of the United States, and Simon Larned of the state of Massachusetts in the room of Tompson J. Skinner, resigned.
These were severally sworn to support the constitution of the United States, and thereupon they took their seats.
On motion of Mr. J. Randolph it was ordered that the Clerk (Mr. John Beckley) notify the Senate that a quorum of the House was formed and ready to proceed to business.
Mr. Beckley mentioned to the Speaker that the members of the Senate had adjourned half an hour ago, but had not formed a quorum.
Letters from the Governors of Virginia and Massachusetts were received by the Speaker and laid on the table without being read, as was also another in the German Language.
Pursuant to the standing rules and orders of the House; the following committees were appointed; viz.
A Committee of Elections, consisting of Messrs. Findley, Varnum, Livingston, Kennedy, Eppes, Clagett and Elmer.
A Committee of Ways and Means, consisting of Messrs. J. Randolph, Joseph Clay, G. Griswold, Boyle, Davenport, N. R. Moore, and Meriwether.
One of Commerce and Manufactures, consisting of Messrs. S. L. Mitchell, Crowningfield, McCreery, Leib, Newton, Early and Chittenden.
Another of Claims, consisting of Messrs. J. C. Smith, Holmes, Chamberlain, Stanford, Plater, Bedinger, and Stanford.
And also one of revival and unfinished business, consisting of Messrs. Tenney, Dickson and Earle.
The Clerk was then directed to supply the members with the usual number of such newspapers as they might severally direct. After which it was
Resolved, That the daily hour to which the House shall stand adjourned during the present session be eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
Adjourned.
Tuesday, November 6, 1804.
Mr. J. Randolph moved for the appointment of a committee on the part of the house to join a committee of the Senate to wait on the President and inform him that quorums of both houses are formed and ready to receive his communications.
Mr. Dana enquired if a quorum of the Senate was formed; that circumstance he thought ought to be ascertained before the house adopted the gentleman's resolution.
Mr. Randolph did not know whether or no the Senate had formed a quorum, but he saw no objection that account to proceeding with their own business. He, however, had understood that the Senate would form a quorum this day.
The resolution was carried, and Messrs. J. Randolph and R. Griswold appointed the committee.
Roger Nelson, a member from Maryland elected in the room of Daniel Heister, deceased, appeared and took his seat, after being sworn according to law to support the constitution of the United States.
On motion of Doctor Leib, the petition of Margaret Ralston, praying for the wages of her husband, presented at the last session, was referred to the committee of Claims.
Doctor Mitchell presented the petition of Samuel Bebee, praying to be allowed to loan a fragment of 8 per cent. scrip, the residue being lost, so that he might receive interest on the same. Referred to the committee of Ways and Means.
On motion of Mr. Newton a committee of seven on post offices and post roads was appointed.
Mr. John Cotton Smith requested the house to excuse him from serving on the committee of Claims; he had been on that committee for four years past, and he knew that the members of that committee particularly, ought to remain at the seat of government during the whole session, he unfortunately would be obliged to ask for leave of absence in January at farthest.
He was hereupon excused, and Mr. Dana was appointed in his place.
Mr. J. Randolph requested information from the chair as to the situation in which the articles of impeachment against Samuel Chase, one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the United States, were left at the last session. The house would recollect that they were then merely reported and ordered to be printed. If that business was to be prosecuted, he conceived it of importance that the party should have all the time to prepare for his defence that their political existence would allow him. Was it the opinion of the Speaker that this subject was before the committee of revival and unfinished business, or should it be referred to a special committee to prepare articles de novo.
The Speaker judged that it was before the Committee of Revival and Unfinished business as a matter of course.
Doctor Mitchell presented a petition from Daniel Cotton, praying compensation for the injury he sustained in having his ship the Ann Maria, whilst in the service of the United States, pressed by the Bey of Tunis to carry goods, &c. into Marseilles.
Referred to the Committee of Claims.
Gen. Varnum moved for the appointment of chaplains to Congress for the present session, one by each House to interchange weekly.
Mr. Smilie thought that a chaplain when once appointed by the House should remain as an officer of the House during its constitutional existence in like manner as their Speaker, Clerk and other officers.
Gen. Varnum turned the gentleman to the journal, in which it would be found that chaplains were expressly appointed for a session.
Mr. Speaker declared the practice had always been to appoint them every session.
Mr. Griswold observed, that were the chaplain an officer of that house only, the gentleman's (Mr. S.) idea would be correct; but he would recollect that the Senate had a concurrent vote on this subject.
The resolution was hereupon adopted.
On motion of Mr. J. Randolph, a select committee, to consist of 5 members, was ordered to report on the articles of impeachment against S. Chase, one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the U. S.
The petition of Moses White and Chauncy Hazen, the legal representatives of Gen. Hazen, praying to be indemnified for the losses sustained by Gen. Hazen, during the revolutionary war, under a resolution of the old congress of 1776, was referred to the committee of claims.
Adjourned.
SENATE.
Monday, Nov. 5. Thirteen members present—No quorum. The Vice-President was in the Chair.
Tuesday, Nov. 6. Seventeen members present—No quorum.
The Editor of the National Intelligencer returns his thanks to the Printers who have published his advertisement for a Stenographer. Having obtained the services of a gentleman eminently qualified to report the Debates, he requests a discontinuance of the advertisement.
Doctor Priestley's death having occasioned a vacancy in the National Institute of France, M. Klafort, of Berlin, has been elected a member.
At a meeting of the representatives of the people of Upper Louisiana (elected by the freemen of their respective districts) held on the 14th ult. in the town of St. Louis, present, twelve members, being a majority of the whole number (seventeen) expected to meet, after taking the oath of allegiance to the United States, and making a few observations on his appointment and the reasons which called them together, the president, C. Gratiot, says,
"According to this invitation, we have now met here, under the auspices of a free government, of which we are proud to call Louisiana an integral part, in conformity with the constitution of the United States, under which we feel happy to live. Nay in more strict compliance with the duties imposed on us as citizens, by the same constitution, we for the first time have formed ourselves into a deliberative body, we for the first time are exercising the rights of freemen, to petition to the government for the redress of grievances. Would to God our first communication to Congress, instead of being an application for redress, had been an expression of thanks, although from the known justice of congress I am confident we shall ultimately have thanks to return them."
Let, then, gentlemen, our first steps in this new career be as dignified as the occasion which induced us to assemble together, is solemn and important.
Congress at the time of enacting the bill alluded to, were not in possession of
sufficient information with respect to this country, to venture to give us such a form of government as we are conscious we are entitled to, and as I hope they will not find us unworthy to live under. We are calumniated in congress. [The speaker has allusion to the speech of Mr. Lucas, a member from Pennsylvania, in which he says "the people of Louisiana have not been consulted in the act of cession, but have been transferred by a bargain made over their heads. It was a proof, continued Mr. L. this act had not been received with approbation by them;—that when they saw the American flag hoisted in the room of the French, they shed tears. This was a proof that they were not on as friendly terms with our government as some gentlemen imagine."] On the very floor of congress our gratitude to a government absolute in principle it is true, but whose truly paternal benevolence we had uniformly experienced, and which as virtues go hand in hand, should have been confirmed rather as a certain pledge of our attachment to the principles of a free government, was tortured into a satisfactory proof of our not being yet ripe to enjoy the benefits of a free government. Rumours very injurious to our general character, representing us a set of covetous, rapacious land-jobbers, who, by false, anti-distd, counterfeit deeds, had monopolized the greatest quantity of the vacant lands of the district of Louisiana, were at the same time artfully circulated through all parts of the United States. Not an inhabitant of this district was on the spot at the time to contradict those confounded accusations. Is it then to be wondered at, that congress under those circumstances, should have acted with respect to us with unprecedented severity? But congress may have it now in their power to be truly informed of the real state of things, not only from the representations of the generality of the inhabitants of the district of Louisiana, but likewise from their different officers in this country since the taking of possession by the United States.
Before I conclude, gentlemen, give me leave to observe to you, that involved as we all are with the confidence of the inhabitants of the district of Louisiana, it will be more particularly incumbent upon us, both in the course of the discussion which is to take place, and likewise after our separation, and when we shall have returned to our respective districts, to enforce among all descriptions of inhabitants, by our examples, and our advice, a due respect not only to the laws of the United States in general, but more particularly still to the very law; the repeal of which we now propose soliciting from congress. It is probable that his excellency William Henry Harrison, and the honorable the judges of the Indiana territory, will arrive here during the session of this assembly, and I am sure that you will all join me in the propriety of receiving them with that cordiality and respect which are due to the high authority that sends them, and to their own well-deserved reputation, and that by affording them every information in your power, should they condescend to consult you on the subject, you will facilitate by every possible means the introduction of the laws of the union, in this territory, and thereby deserve the eternal gratitude of its inhabitants."
Mr. Isaac Briggs was at Franklin Court House, a few days past, on his way to New-Orleans, taking the Latitude and Longitude of various places, in order to ascertain the most direct route from the city of Washington to the city of New-Orleans; by observation, he found Franklin court house to be in Latitude N. 34. 10. and Clarkborough to be on N. 33. 53. From the latter place he passed on to the Indian Nation.
Augusta Herald.
NEW-ORLEANS, Oct. 4.
On Tuesday the 2nd instant William C. C. Claiborne, Governor of the Territory of Orleans, took the oaths of office, which were administered in the Hall of the Municipality, by James Pitot, Esq., Mayor of this city, in presence of the officers civil and military, the Clergy, and of a large concourse of respectable citizens: Previous to taking the oaths the Governor delivered the following address, which was afterwards read in French by Mr. Derbigney:
FELLOW-CITIZENS,
The President of the United States having been pleased to appoint me Governor of that part of Louisiana, which is constituted "The Territory of Orleans," I have attended in this Hall, fellow-citizens, to take in your presence the Oaths of office required by law. In this additional and distinguished proof of confidence from the chief magistrate of our common country, I find the strongest inducements to merit by my conduct, a continuance of his approbation; to deserve yours also, fellow-citizens, is my sincere desire, and shall be the fondest object of my cares.
All the felicity which a recent domestic calamity has left for me to seek
or enjoy, is in contributing to the happiness of those over whom I am called to preside. The importance of the trust committed, and the high responsibility attached thereto, are forcibly impressed upon my mind, and have excited the most anxious solicitude. On entering however upon my arduous duties, I anticipate with pleasure the powerful aid which I shall receive from the judicial and legislative authorities, and the kind indulgence and support which a generous people always extend to the honest efforts of a public officer. Past events, fellow citizens, guarantee the fulfilment of these expectations. In the course of my late administration, which from a variety of circumstances, was accompanied with peculiar difficulties, I received from the officers, civil and military, a zealous and able co-operation in all measures for the public good, and from the people in general an indulgence and support which encouraged harmony, and insured the supremacy of the law.
I am now ready to take & subscribe the oaths of office required: and I pray Almighty God to visit with his favor the magistrates and legislators of this territory; to enable them to preserve to her citizens and their posterity, the blessings of peace, liberty, laws; and thus to soften those evils which a wise Providence has annexed in this world to the condition of man.
WM. C. C. CLAIBORNE. New-Orleans, Oct. 2nd, 1804.
* On the 26th ult. death deprived the governor of his wife and only child. The affecting manner in which this calamity was introduced drew tears from many of the audience.
New-York, November 3.
FRENCH FRIGATES.
The French Frigates, Didon and Cybele, that have so long adorned our harbour, got under weigh yesterday morning about 1 o'clock, and proceeded up the East river, bound out through the Sound—At half past 2, the British ships Leander and Cambrian, were seen beating out to sea; a report was likewise in circulation, that a French ship of the line had arrived at New-London, but there seems little ground for believing it correct.
A London paper of September 8th says, "One hundred Shipwrights from Brest have arrived at Antwerp, where there is 1500 now assembled. Their number is to be increased to 5000. The keels of 7 Ships of the line have been laid down there, which will increase the number of Ships of the line on the stocks to 120. Great quantities of timber and other materials are arriving at Antwerp, from Bussels and Holland. They also expect 800 flaves, who will be employed in the works carrying on in that port."
House of Representatives
OF
CONNECTICUT.
Thursday, October 18.
After the roll was called this morning, the speaker requested Mr. Samuel Hart, jun. to rise in his place, that the object of the resolution past last evening, might be carried into effect.
Mr. Hart did not rise. The speaker a second time requested him to rise in his place. Mr. Hart observed that he did not know of any rule of the house, which compelled him to rise; if there were any such rule, he wished to know it. The speaker then declared that in his opinion the rules of the house required that Mr. Hart should rise to receive the reprimand, but if he was wrong in his opinion, the house would correct him.
Mr. Daggett then remarked, that if there were no specific rule of the house which compelled a member to rise when particularly addressed by the speaker, common decency and propriety required it. There was no law which compelled a man to rise in a court of justice when addressed by the court. It is a thing so plain and so commonly understood, that there is no necessity of making a rule—the common understanding of mankind dictates what is proper and decent in such cases, &c.
He was followed by some other gentlemen to the same effect.
Mr. Huntington (of Suffield) then observed that though it was proper enough that Mr. Hart should rise to receive the reprimand, yet he knew of no rule of the house upon the subject;—and moved that the sense of the house be taken on the question.
Mr. Judson followed him to the same effect.
Mr. Cleveland then remarked that if there were no rule of the house which compelled him to rise, he trusted the house could make a rule to get him out of it, and would do it pretty soon, &c.
The sense of the house was then taken on the question, and they approved of the decision made by the speaker.
Mr. Hart then rose and the speaker proceeded to reprimand him. No acknowledgement was made by Mr. Hart.
To Subscribers.
The terms of the National Intelligencer requiring the annual advance of five dollars, the papers of subscribers, who shall not have complied with this term on the FIRST day of DECEMBER, will be discontinued.
LIVERY STABLE.
South East corner of the CAPITOL SQUARE.
JOHN WORSLEY begs leave to inform the public that he has opened a convenient stable, where he would be happy to accommodate Members of Congress and other gentlemen on the most moderate terms, and every attention paid to their horses, having engaged an experienced and truly Hoster. Nov. 5—tawt
FOR SALE.
WILL be offered at public sale on the premises, precisely at 12 o'clock, on Saturday the 17th inst. that very handsome, well finished and commodious dwelling house and lot situated at the corner of Gay and Congress Streets in George Town—The lot has a front of 180 feet, and there is on it a good smoke house, dairy, carriage house and stable—This property is at present in the occupation of Edward Jones, Esq. One third of the purchase money will be required in hand or in sixty days, and the payments for the balance will be made cash—Should this property not be sold, it will be to rent, and possession given the first day of December.
The subscriber has for sale a small but valuable farm in the neighborhood of George Town, and also 320 acres of wood land, two miles from this place, on navigable water. JAMES H. BLAKE. C. L. B. flr, Nov. 7—4t
NOTICE.
IN the case of JAMES KNIGHT an insolvent debtor confined in the prison of Washington county for debt. Notice is hereby given to the creditors of the said James Knight that on Monday the 12th day of November instant, at 10 o'clock, A. M. at the court room, in the Capitol, the oath of an insolvent debtor will be administered to the said Knight, agreeably to the act of Congress now in force respecting insolvent debtors in the district of Columbia, and a trustee appointed unless sufficient cause then and there be shown to the contrary.
It is ordered that this notice be published twice in the Baltimore Telegraph, and National Intelligencer three days before the said 12th of November, and twice in the Washington Federalist prior to that day.
By order of the hon. Wm. Cranch assistant judge of the circuit court of the district of Columbia.
URIAH FORREST, CL. November 7—3t
TO RENT.
THE house occupied by J. P. VAN NESS. Enquire of John Little at the Treasury Department or of the subscriber, at Doctor John Beatty's George Town. Possession given on the 1st December. A. SALOMON JOY. November 7—tf
LOST
BY the subscriber, the 18th Oct. last on the road from Baltimore to the city of Washington—a black MORROCCO POCKET BOOK pretty much worn. Containing four five Dollar bank bills, a receipt from the bank of Alexandria for a note of Mr. Robert Young's for 92 dollars 55 cents, due 15th October last—Mr. R. Young's note at 60 days, dated the 21st September last, for 100 dollars, 95 cents—Mr. Samuel Speake's note for 35 dollars, with a credit of 25 dollars on it—Mr. Theophilus Bowie's note for 27 dollars with a credit on it of 14 dollars some odd cents—Mr. Lund Washington's note given to Wals Belt, for 40 dollars, with a variety of other papers, useful to no person but myself; and as I have stopped the payment of the above notes, the holder cannot be benefitted by them—Whoever has found said book and papers, and will deliver them to the subscriber in city of Washington, shall be entitled to the Twenty dollars that was in said book besides a further generous reward paid by JEREMIAH BOOTH. Washington city, Nov. 7—3t
NOTICE.
IS hereby given that the sale of all those Lands and Lots (heretofore advertised in the Washington Federalist, the National Intelligencer and the altimore Federal Gazette on the 20th day of August last, for a tax due the county of Washington in the territory of Columbia) will commence on Monday the 10th day of December next at Rhodes's tavern in the city of Washington, at 11 o'clock, A. M. and continue from day to day until all are sold or so much thereof as will satisfy the tax and other charges thereon, unless the said tax and charges be paid previous to the day of sale. By order of the commissioners of the Levy court.
WASHINGTON BOYD, Collector of Washington county. November 7—3w
SUWARROW BOOTS.
BOOT & SHOE WAREHOUSE.
JOHN MINCWYN Boot-Maker from Philadelphia, respectfully acquaints his friends former customers and the public that he has now opened an elegant assortment of gentlemen's fashionable Suwarrows boots, plain boots, bootees, dress and strong shoes. Washington, New Jersey avenue near the Capitol—November 7—tf

EZRA VARDEN, TAYLOR & WOOLLEN DRAPER. IN F STREET 3 DOORS FROM THE BANK.
Has just received from Philadelphia a handsome assortment of FALL GOODS—consisting of the best London Superfine, Coatings, Knaps, Molekins, Beavers for Sur-touts, Silk Molekins, Toilenets, Marceilles and Swardowns, with a good assortment of Manchester goods and patent Bennetts cord, &c. &c. which he will make up in the most fashionable style and good workmanship for any gentleman who may favor him with their orders and will also sell to those gentlemen who may think proper to employ others to make.
November 5—1m In the case of SAMUEL M'PHERSON an insolvent debtor. District of Columbia, Washington County, to wit:
On the petition of Sam. M'Pherson an insolvent debtor confined in the prison of Washington county for debt, notice is hereby given to the creditors of the said Samuel M'Pherson that on Monday the 12th day of November inst. at 10 o'clock, A. M. at the court room in the Capitol, the oath of an insolvent debtor will be administered to the said Samuel M'Pherson agreeably to an act of Congress now in force respecting insolvent debtors in the district of Columbia, and a trustee appointed unless sufficient cause be then and here shown to the contrary.
It is ordered that this notice be published twice in the National Intelligencer before that day. By order of the hon. W. Cranch one of the assistant judges of the Circuit court of the district of Columbia. URIAH FORREST, Ck. November 5—2t
ADAM KING, & Co. At their wine store in High Street George Town, have in addition to their stock of old wines, laid in a large and general assortment of all kinds of Liquors and Groceries suitable to the present season; where bills of any description, in their line, will constantly be filled up on the shortest notice and they flatter themselves, from the quality of their wines, &c. they will be able to give general satisfaction to all those who may think proper to favor them with a call—where all kind of commission business as usual, will be attended to with the utmost attention. George Town, November 5—tf
A FEW Hundred bushels of white, well burnt SHELL LIME, will be sold for cash, at 16 DOLLARS the 100 bushels, if applied for immediately, a less quantity than 100 bushels will not be sold at this price. Apply to GON. CONNINGHAM. November 5—tf Cash will be given for WELL cleaned BARLEY.
In pursuance of an order of the Orphan's Court for the county of Prince George's, in the State of Maryland, will be sold at public sale, on Saturday the 17th of November next, at the dwelling house of the late Dr. ALEXANDER MITCHELL in Bladensburg, all the personal estate of the said Alexander Mitchell; consisting of household and kitchen furniture, a carriage, horse, and a variety of other articles. The sale to commence at 10 o'clock A. M. ALL sums under 20 dollars cash. For sums under that amount, a credit of 9 months will be allowed upon the purchaser's giving bond with good security. Elias B. Caldwell, Ad. Georgetown, November 5—tdof
SALE OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Consisting of every kind of useful Furniture, all of which will be sold at public sale on Wednesday the 14th inst.—the sale to begin precisely at 10 o'clock at the dwelling house of the late James Paxton a little south of the St. Building. ALL persons purchasing to an amount above twenty-seven dollars to be entitled to a credit of six months, giving bond with approved security bearing interest, under that sum cash. SAMUEL BROOK, administrator on the estate of James Paxton. Washington, Nov. 5—5t
Furnished Lodgings. TWO families or SIX members of Congress can be comfortably accommodated with furnished Rooms with or without board &c. on moderate terms—enquire of the printer. November 5—3t
AN elderly man without a family who can be well recommended for sobriety and honesty, will meet a comfortable situation near this city, to attend a Saw Mill and small Grist Mill—application to be made to ROBERT BRENT. City of Washington, Nov. 5—3w
TEN CENTS REWARD. RAN away from the subscriber, an apprentice boy named BENEDICT RAY , aged 16 years last May, about five feet high, good complexion, regular featured, dressed in a blue round about cloth jacket and trousers, apprenticed to the shoe making business. I hereby forewarn any person or persons harboring or employing said boy at their peril—The above reward and reasonable charges will be paid for securing him. SARAH JORDON, Widow of Hugh Jordan, deceased. Washington city, November 5—3t
Charles Love, HAS for Sale at his Warehouse on Jefferson Street (George Town) a general assortment of WINE & SPIRITS consisting of London particular Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, Teneriffe, Calacabell, and Malaga. Also a large assortment of GROCERIES—All of which he will sell at a fair price and unusually long credit by the pipe or quarter cask. George Town, Oct. 26—2w
VENDUE. Being about to leave this State I shall offer for sale on Thursday the 8th of November, at 10 o'clock A. M. at the 2nd house in Lovell's Row, (about half way between the Bank and Treasury Department) all my household Furniture of every description, any person wishing to purchase any part previous to that time may be accommodated. JOSEPH SAUL. Oct. 2d—3t.
(BY AUTHORITY.)
Scheme of a Lottery. To build an ACADEMY in the city of Richmond. Dollars.   1 Prize—last drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, 20,000  1 do. 10,000  1 do. 5,000  5 do. of 1,000 make 5,000  6 do. — 500 — 3,000  10 do. — 200 — 2,000  20 do. — 100 — 2,000  100 do. — 50 — 5,000  250 do. — 30 — 7,500  420 do. — 25 — 10,500  1,500 do. — 20 — 30,000  3,000 do. — 15 — 45,000   1 first 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 dols. and 2,500 dols. in addition, for defraying the expenses attendant on drawing the lottery. Citizens of the first respectability have been selected as trustees, and they have pledged themselves to use their utmost exertions to carry it into effect. The scheme has the advantage of giving to each adventurer a chance for some very large prizes, whilst the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so great as to invite the friends of the intended institution to partake in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The treasurer of the state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay the amount of the prizes to the fortunate adventurers. It is believed that the above considerations will induce rapid sale of tickets, and the drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number shall be sold to authorize it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next. Richmond, March 2—tf 33 Tickets to be had of Robert Pollard Esq. John Brockenbrough, jun. Wm. Price (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, jun. and William Prichard.
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 Satilla and St. Mary's rivers in the counties of Wayne and Telfair 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. It is also favorable for the culture of cotton, and lies in a very healthy district of country. 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—tf
CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR. Has received from Philadelphia in addition to his former stock, a handsome assortment of goods, consisting of the best London and Spanish superfine cloths and cassimeres, white and fancy Marceilles, colored and white Janes, india nankeens, cotton cassimeres, black silk and satin Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, June 8—tf
NOTICE.
THE taxable inhabitants of Washington city and others concerned, are hereby informed that the tax on real and personal property, also the tax on Slaves and Dogs for the year 1804, must be paid to the subscriber on or before the 1st day of December next. WASHINGTON BOYD, Treasurer of Washington city.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That every person who shall neglect to pay his tax to the Treasurer on or before the said first day of December in each year, shall in addition thereto pay five per centum, on the amount thereof, provided the same be paid within one month thereafter, and in case the same be not then paid at the rate of three per centum for every month's further delay; it being understood that at the period of payment or satisfaction therefor, any shorter period than a month beyond an entire month shall be reckoned the same as a month; provided that such penalty shall not be demandable from the residents of the county of Washington, or persons having known agent therein, unless the tax on which the fine may have accrued shall have been demanded according to the provisions of this act. Oct. 3—cp2m.
American Printed goods. Calicoes, Shawls, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. manufactured by the subscribers near Baltimore, and sold at No. 13 Calvert 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 their 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 substance, and the prices lower than of the imported cottons. M'CULLOCH & LUNNUN, Baltimore, No. 13 Calvert Street. Sept. 17—tf
SAMUEL MC INTIRE BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has moved his store to Pennsylvania avenue opposite to Mr. Duane's Book store, where he has to dispose of Wines Brandy, Groceries, &c. of the first quality—Flour of the best quality constantly for sale by the barrel. Washington City, Nov. 2—tf N. B. S. Mc Intire will accommodate SIX members of Congress, with boarding and lodging.
BARLEY.
I will give one dollar per bushel for all good well cleaned barley delivered at my Brew-House in Alexandria till the 10th of December 1804. THOMAS CRUSE. I have commenced Brewing and will have a steady supply of BEER through the season at the usual prices. T. C. Oct. 10—1m.
Washington Jockey Club RACES.
ON Tuesday, November 13th, 1804, will be run for over the Washington Course, a JOCKEY CLUB PURSE, the four mile heats, free for any horse, mare or gelding, agreeably to the rules of the Club—carrying weight as follows: an aged horse, 126—six years old, 120—five years old, 112—four years old, 100—and three years old, 86 pounds. Also, a Match, the two mile heats for 2000 dollars. WEDNESDAY.
A Jockey Club Purse, the three mile heats, free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding day excepted. And a sweepstake in the evening.
THURSDAY.
An elegant Fifty guinea Silver Cup—eight subscribers. And a handsome City and Town Purse, free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding days excepted. The members of the Club are requested to be punctual in meeting at the club room on the evening preceding the races, in order to make proper arrangements for the same, and those who cannot attend will please to forward their dues to the subscriber. C. M'LAUGHLIN, Secretary and Treasurer, W. J. C. N. B. The amount of the purses cannot at this time be ascertained: as they are part to be raised from tolls at the gates an the rent of booths. C. M'L. October 3—13N
Any gentleman desirous of purchasing STUD HORSES of the first description of good performances, and well attested pedigrees, can be accommodated by applying to THOMAS LARKIN (Mr. Tayloe's training groom) at the Washington jockey club races, the thirteenth November next. N. B. Any of the above horses remaining unsold, will be farmed out the ensuing season on liberal terms. Oct. 31—tf.
Music & Language Teacher.
THE Subscriber, lately arrived at Mr. Semmes's tavern No. 6 in Georgetown, informs the lovers of music, that he intends teaching to play on the Pianna Forte, and the Flute, and having finished his studies in Europe under the tuition of the most eminent masters in this art, he flatters himself that he shall render complete satisfaction to those ladies and gentlemen who may favor him with their employment. He also intends to teach the German, French, and Italian languages, where it may here be necessary to inform the public that he has alternately lived in Germany, in France, and in Italy where he had time and opportunity to acquire those languages perfectly. P. MAURO, at Mr. Semmes's tavern No. 6 in Georgetown. October 24—3t
Runaway.
THERE was committed to the jail of Frederick county, on the first instant, a negro man by the name of HARRY , but since committed confesses his name to be BEN , and says he belongs to Benjamin Berry, of Charles county, Maryland: He is about 23 years old, 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, a chunky fellow, his clothing are a striped woollen waistcoat, coarse linen shirt and trousers. If his owner does not release him he will be sold for his jail fees agreeably to law. GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick county. October 3—1aw3t
FALL GOODS.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Pennsylvania Avenue, near the President's Square.
Has just received a very handsome assortment of Fall Goods. Orders executed with the greatest dispatch and fashion, and on the most moderate terms. Oct. 31—tf
New Boarding House,
NEXT DOOR TO THE BRANCH BANK, By WM. LOVELL. Fitted in genteel style for Twelve members of Congress, well calculated for a family, in this pleasant and most healthy part of the city. N. B. Good stabling. Washington. Oct. 31—6t
THE subscribers have opened a GROCERY STORE in the house near the Capitol, lately occupied by Mr. JAMES D. BARRY —where they have for sale, low, for cash or in exchange for country produce.
Genuine Cogniac brandy, Inferior French do. Old Jamaica spirits, Madeira, Sherry, } Wines, by the quarter cask Lisbon, } and case, or smaller quantity. Claret, Brown Sugar, 1st and 2d quality, Loaf and Lump, do. Molasses, Firkin Butter, Mould Candles, Sweet Oil, Spices of different kinds, Fig Blue, Starch, Almonds; Anchovies, } In bottles. Capers, } Powder and Shot, Excellent Wine Vinegar, Gin, Whiskey, Hyson, } Teas, fresh, and of superior quality. Imperial, } Young Hyson, } Salt Herrings in Barrels. PETER HEALY, & Co. Washington October 31—tf
100 Dollars Reward.
Ran away from the subscriber, a NEGRO man, named JOE , about eighteen years old about five feet ten inches high, well made, he is a mulatto, has straight black hair, which he wears over the forehead, agreeable to the present fashion and generally turned up behind with a comb—he has a long mark on one of his cheeks, which appears more black than his skin—one of his toes next to the great toe, appears to have lost a joint, or part of a joint, by being cut or some other accident, he has been accustomed to wait in the house, is an artful fellow, and will endeavor to pass as a free man, he has a variety of clothes, and had a watch, which it is probable he will be offering for sale—He went off with a fustian round jacket and pantaloon of fustian or olinabrigs, a new felt hat.—I will give the above reward if taken out of the state of Maryland, or district of Columbia, twenty dollars if within the state of Maryland, and ten dollars if in the district of Columbia, and confined in any jail so that I can get him, and all reasonable charges if brought home. It is known he applied to get a passage in the stage to Baltimore. DANIEL CARROLL of Dud'tn. Washington, Oct. 15—1m.
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.—Lot 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. 986. Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19, in square No. 1042. Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13, in square No. 1066. Apply to CHARLES MINIFIE, Washington City, or to RICHARD C. JONES, at Philadelphia. Washington, August 3—tf.
N.B. C. M. hath sundry other lots for sale or ground rent (on easy terms to improvers,) and in eligible situations.
TO BE SOLD
AT Public sale, by virtue of an order from the Orphan's Court of Washington County, on Monday, the 26th of November next, at the farm of the late NOBLE YOUNG , esq. adjoining the city of Washington, a number of VALUABLE SLAVES , late the property of the deceased, on a credit of four and six months, on giving notes with approved indorsers, negotiable at the banks, and bearing interest. BENJAMIN YOUNG, NICHOLAS YOUNG, ROBERT BRENT, Executors. Nov. 1—1N26.
The executors being extremely desirous to close the affairs of the deceased, solicit payment from all those indebted to the estate.
Runaway Negro
WAS Committed to the jail of Frederick county, on the 22nd of September last, negro ELIJAH , who says he is about 22 years old, very black; a bold, impudent fellow, 4 feet 10 inches high, has three suits of clothes, and says that he belongs to one James Fishback, living in Culpepper county, State of Virginia. If his owner does not release him, he will be sold for his jail fees agreeably to law. GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick County. Oct. 29—1aw3t
Centre House Inn.
SOLOMON MYER has opened the above tavern in 6th street, in the city of Washington, about 30 yards north of Pennsylvania avenue, nearly opposite Messrs. Herford's distillery and about halfway between the Capitol and the President's house, as also between the Theatre and Centre Market; for which he respectfully solicits a share of the public patronage; his charges will be moderate, corresponding with Pennsylvania tavern rates, as to victualing, lodging, liquors, &c. and horse feed as markets will permit—he deems it unnecessary to exaggerate as is usual on such occasions, or to title his house by the usual epithets of, large, best, commodious, &c. as probably no occupation has more ready means of recommending and advertising its own convenience than that of tavern-keeping: he must however inform such of his friends, who with to take boarding for a time, and have their lodging rooms retired or distant from the tavern, that he has rented the house opposite his own buildings lately built by Mr. Young, which is suitable for that purpose. Washington city, Oct. 24—
HAT MANUFACTURY.
The subscriber informs his customers and the public generally that he has discontinued business in the city of Washington, and has opened shop on Bridge street near the Union Tavern—he solicits the continuance of former customers, and hopes that all others who may choose to call and purchase his manufactures will be amply suited, if neatness and good dress be requisites. JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—tf
TO RENT,
On very moderate terms, FOUR two story brick dwelling houses ON north H street, square No 77, directly south of the Six Buildings. For terms apply to T. H. GILLISS At the Navy-Office. Washington City, Nov. 2d, 1804—M&Ff.
NEW BOOKS.
Rapine, Conrad, & Co. NEW JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL.
Have just received a most elegant assortment of new and valuable books—among which are:
 THE Anti-Gallican,  Barthelemy's Travels in Italy,  Naval Chronicle 10 Vols.  King of Prussia's works, 13 vols.  Wittman's Travels in Egypt,  Memoirs of Geddes,  Gardiner's Essays Literary, Political and Economical, 2 vols.  Minstrelsy or the Scottish Robber, 3 vols.  Rousseau's Original Correspondence, 2 vols.  Dufres's nature displayed, 2 vols.  Medical Extracts, 5 vols.  Burdin's medical studies, 3 vols.  Thompson's chemistry, 3 vols.  Murray's materia medica 2 vols.  Chemistry, 2 vols.  Leslie on heat,  Commerical dictionary, 3 vols.  Elements of seamanship, 5 vols.  Morrice on Brewing,  Dr. Smith's (of Philadelphia) works, 2 vols.  Dictionary of polite Literature, 2 vols.  Bailey's poems,  German theatre, 6 vols.  Terrible trado, action,  Gessner's works, 3 vols.  Cowper's Life and posthumous writings, 2 vols.  Southey's poetical works, 6 vols.  Little's poems. Hunter's poems,  Blaine on diseases of horses and dogs,  Poetical register for 1801—2, 2 vols.  Flowers of Literature, 2 vols.  Literary Leisure, 2 vols.  New Novels,  Augustus and Mary,  Ameia Mansfield, 4 vols.  Amafinia, or the American founding 2 vols.  Catastrophe—Chances, 3 vols.  Depraved husband, 2 vols.  Teiodora, 3 vols.  Grubthorpe family, 3 vols.  Picture from life, 2 vols.  Life of a lover, 6 vols.  Zoflora 2 vols.  Woman of feeling, 4 vols.  Village anecdotes, 3 vols.  Unexpcted Legacy 2 vols.  Edgeworth's popular tales, 3 vols.  Modern faults, 2 vols.  Duchess of La Vallure, 2 vols.  Murray House, 3 vols.  Confessions in Elysium, 3 vols.  Margaret of Stranford, 5 vols.  St. Clair of the Isles, 3 vols. &c. &c.  The above books will be sold on the most moderate terms; and a very general assortment in every department of science and literature is constantly kept up. Account and other books bound in the neatest manner and to any given pattern. November 2—
ELISHA RIGGS
Has removed his store to the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Pic. a few doors above the Union Tavern, where he has just received a large supply of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which being bought on the best terms, will be sold unusually low for cash, viz: Carpets and carpeting, constitution and Bennetts cords, velvets and corduroys, best London cloths and molekins, London hats and bonnet stuff, friz coatings and baizes, muled and shirting flannels, blankets, silk rugs and counterpans, Irish linens and flanking muslins, bed ticking and sheetings, furniture calicoes and dimities, chintzes, lace fringes and satins, umbrellas and neck cloths, white and black laces, veils and shades, shoulder comforts, and elegant Mullin shawls, India book, muslin and cambric muslins, plaid shawls and picknick gloves and mints, ladies shoes, rich silk and cotton hose, and gloves, spanged fans, white satin and sarannet, lace cambricks, and Italian crapes, large camel hair and silk shawls, cords and tassels, and china by the box. Lambwool and black worsted hose, outsize silk and cotton hose, ladies execr shammy and kid gloves, and many other articles. Georgetown, Oct. 24th—Ms&Ff—8w