The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1804-03-30 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. IV.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. DXLIII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
FRIDAY, MARCH 30th, 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
THOMAS PAINE, TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.
In casting my eye over England and America, and comparing them together, the difference is very striking. The two countries were created by the same power and peopled from the same flock, what then has caused the difference? Have those who emigrated to America improved, or those whom they left behind degenerated. There are as many degrees of difference in the political morality of the two people, as there are of longitude between the two countries.
In the science of cause and effect, every thing that enters into the composition of either must be allowed its proportion of influence. Investigating, we must take into the calculation the difference of the two systems of government, the hereditary and the representative . Under the hereditary system it is the government that forms and fashions the political character of the people: In the representative system it is the people that forms the character of the government.—Their own happiness as citizens forms the basis of their conduct and the guide of their choice. Now it is more probable that an hereditary government should become corrupt, and corrupt the people by its example, or that a whole people should become corrupt and produce a corrupt government; for the point where the corruption begins becomes the source from whence it afterwards spreads.
While men remained in Europe as subjects of some hereditary potentate, they had ideas conformable to that condition; but when they arrived in America they found themselves in possession of a new character, the character of sovereignty: and like converts to a new religion they became inspired with new principles. Elevated above their former rank, they considered government and public affairs as part of their own concern, for they were to pay the expence, and they watched them with circumspection. They soon found that government was not that complicated thing, enshrined in mystery, which church and state, to play into each other's hands, had represented it; and that to conduct it with proper effect was to conduct it justly. Common sense, common honesty, and civil manners qualify a man for government; and besides this, put man in a situation that requires new thinking and the mind will grow up to it, for like the body it improves by exercise. Man is but a learner all his lifetime.
But whatever be the cause of the difference of character between the people and government of England and those of America, the effect arising from that difference is as distinguishable as the sun from the moon. We see America flourishing in peace, cultivating friendship with all nations, and reducing her public debt and taxes, incurred by the revolution. On the contrary we see England almost perpetually in war, or war-like disputes, and her debt and taxes continually encreasing. Could we suppose a stranger, who knew nothing of the origin of the two countries, he would, from observation, conclude, that America was the old country experienced & sage, & England the new, eccentric and wild.
Scarcely had England drawn home her troops from America after the revolutionary war than she was on the point of plunging herself into a war with Holland on account of the fladholder; then with Russia; then with Spain on account of Nootka catkins, and actually with France to prevent her revolution. Scarcely had she made peace with France, and before she had fulfilled her own part of the treaty, than she declared war again to avoid fulfilling the treaty. In her treaty of peace with America she engaged to evacuate the western posts within six months, but having obtained peace she refused to fulfill the conditions and kept possession of the posts and embroiled us in an Indian war. In her treaty of peace with France they engaged to evacuate Malta within three months, but having obtained peace she refused to evacuate Malta and began a new war.
All these matters pass before the eyes of the world, who form their own opinion thereon, regardless of what English newspaper may say of France or French papers say of England. The non-fulfilment of a treaty is a case that every body can understand. They reason upon it as they would on a contract between two individuals, and in so doing they reason from a right foundation.
The affected pomp and mystification of courts make no alteration in the principle. Had France declared war to compel England to fulfill the treaty, as a man would commence a civil action to compel a delinquent party to fulfill a contract, she would have stood acquitted in the opinion of nations. But that England still holding Malta, should go to war for Malta, is a paradox not easily solved, unless it be supposed that the peace was insidious from the beginning; that it was concluded with the expectation that the military ardour of France would cool, or a new order of things arise, or a national discontent prevail, that would favour a non-execution of a treaty, and leave England arbiter of the fate of Malta.
Something like this, which was like a vision in the clouds, must have been the calculation of the British ministry; for certainly they did not expect the war would take the turn it has. Could they have foreseen, and they ought to have foreseen, that a declaration of war was the same as sending a challenge to Bonaparte to invade England and make it the seat of war, they hardly would have done it unless they were mad; for in any event such a war might produce, in a military view, it is England that would be the sufferer, unless it terminated in a wise revolution. One of the causes assigned for this declaration of war by the British ministry, was that Bonaparte had cramped their commerce. If by cramping their commerce is to be understood that of encouraging and extending the commerce of France, he had a right, and it was his duty to do it. The prerogative of monopoly belongs to no nation. But to make this one of the causes of war, considering their commerce in consequence of that declaration is now cramped ten times more, is like the case of a foolish man who after losing an eye in fighting, renews the combat to revenge the injury and loses the other eye.
Thou who never experienced an invasion by suffering it, which the English people have not, can have but little idea of it. Between the two armies the country will be desolated, wherever the armies are, and that as much by their own army as by the enemy.—The farmers on the coast will be the first sufferers, for whether their stock of cattle, corn, &c. be seized by the invading army or driven off, or burnt, by orders of their own government, the effect will be the same to them. As to the revenue, which has been collected altogether in paper, since the bank stop payment, it will go to destruction the instant an invading army lands—and as to effective government, there can be but little where two armies are contending for victory, in a country small as England is.
With respect to the general politics of Europe, the British ministry could not have committed a greater error than to make Malta the ostensible cause of the war; for though Malta is an unproductive rock, and will be an expence to any nation that possesses it, there is not a power in Europe will consent that England should have it. It is a situation capable of annoying and controlling the commerce of other nations in the Mediterranean; and the conduct of England on the seas, and in the Baltic, has shown the danger of her possessing Malta. Bonaparte by opposing her claim has all Europe with him. England by asserting it loses all. Had the English ministry studied for an object that would put them at variance with all nations from the north of Europe to the south, they could not have done it more effectually.
But what is Malta to the people of England, compared with the evils and dangers they already suffer in consequence of it. It is their own government that has brought this upon them. Were Burke now living he would be deprived of his exclamation, that "the age of chivalry is gone;" for this declaration of war is like a challenge sent from one knight of the sword to another knight of the sword to fight him on the challenger's ground, and England is staked as the prize.
But though the British ministry began this war for the sake of Malta, they are now artful enough to keep Malta out of sight. Not a word is now said about Malta in any of their parliamentary speeches and messages. The king's speech is silent upon the subject, and the invasion is put in its place, as if the invasion was the cause of the war, and not the consequence of it. This policy is easily seen through. The case is, they went to war without counting the cost, or calculating upon events, and they are now obliged to shift the scenes to conceal the disgrace.
If they were disposed to try experiments upon France, they chose for it the worst possible time as well as the worst possible object. France has now for its chief the most enterprising and fortunate man, either for deep project or daring execution, the world has known for many ages. Compared with him, there is not a man in the British government, or under its authority, has any chance with him. That he is ambitious the world knows, and he always was so; but he knew where to stop. He had reached the highest point of probable expectation; and having reduced all his enemies to peace, had set himself down to the improvement of agriculture, manufactures and commerce at home, and his conversation with the English ambassador Whitworth, shewed he wished to continue so. In this view of his situation, could any thing be worse policy than to give to satisfied ambition a new object and provoke it into action. Yet this the British ministry have done.
The plan of a descent upon England by gun-boats, began after the first peace with Austria, and the acquisition of Belgium by France. Before that acquisition France had no territory on the north sea, and it is there the descent will be carried on. Dunkirk was then her northern limit. The English coast opposite to France on the channel, from the straits between Dover and Calais to the land's end, about three hundred miles, is high, bold and rocky, to the height, in many places perpendicular, of three, four, or five hundred feet, and it is only where there are breaks in the rocks, as at Portsmouth, Plymouth, &c. that a landing can be made, and as those places could be easily protected, because England was mistress of the channel, France had no opportunity of making an invasion, unless she could first defeat the English fleet. But the union of Belgium to France makes a new order of things.
The English coast on the north sea, including the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Lincolnshire, is as level as a bowling green, and approachable in every part for more than two hundred miles. The shore is a clear firm sand, where a flat bottomed boat may row dry a ground. The country people use it as a race ground, and for other sports, when the tide is out. It is the weak and defenceless part of England, and it is impossible to make it otherwise; and besides this, there is not a port or harbor in it where ships of the line or large frigates can rendezvous for its protection. The Belgic coast and that of Holland, which joins it, is directly opposite this defenceless part, and open a new passage for invasion. The Dutch fishermen know this coast better than the English themselves, except those who live upon it; and the Dutch smugglers know every creek and corner of it.
The original plan, formed in the time of the directory (but now much more extensive) was to build one thousand boats, each sixty feet long, sixty feet broad, to draw about two feet water, to carry a twenty-four or thirty-six pounder in the head, and a field piece in the stern, to be run out as soon as they touched ground. Each boat was to carry an hundred men, making in the whole one hundred thousand, and to row with twenty or twenty-five oars on a side. Bonaparte was appointed to the command, and by an agreement between him and me, I was to accompany him, as the intention of the expedition was to give the people of England an opportunity of forming a government for themselves, and thereby bring about peace. I have no reason to suppose this part of the plan is altered, because there is nothing better Bonaparte can do. As to the clamour spread by some of the English newspapers, that he comes for plunder, it is absurd. Bonaparte is too good a general to undisciplined and dissolve his army by plundering; and too good a politician as well as much accustomed to great achievements, to make plunder his object. He goes against the government that has declared war against him.
As the expedition could chuse its time of setting off either after a storm, when the English fleet would be blown off, or in a calm, or in a fog; and as thirty-six hours rowing would be able to carry them over, the probability is it would arrive, and when arrived no ship of the line or large frigate could approach it on account of the shoals of the coast; and besides this the boats would form a floating battery close in with the shore of a thousand pieces of heavy artillery; and the attempt of Nelson against the gun-boats at Boulogne shews the insufficiency of ships in such situations. About two hundred
and fifty gun-boats were built when the expedition was abandoned for that of Egypt, to which the preparations had served as a feint.
The present impolitic war by the English government has now renewed the plan, and that with much greater energy than before, and with national unanimity. All France is alive to chastise the English government for recommencing the war, and all Europe stands still to behold it. The preparations for invasion have already demonstrated to France, what England ought never to have permitted her to know, which is, that she can hold the English government in terror and the whole country in alarm whenever she pleases, and as long as she pleases, and that without employing a single ship of the line, and more effectually than if she had a hundred fail. The boasted navy of England is out-done by gun-boats! It is a revolution in naval tactics! But we live in an age of revolutions.
The preparations in England for defence are also great, but they are marked with an ominous trait of character. There is something sullen on the face of affairs in England. Not an address has been presented to the king by any county, city, town or corporation since the declaration of war. The people unite for the protection of themselves and property against whatever events may happen, but they are not pleased and their silence is the expression of their discontent.
Another circumstance, curious and awkward, was the conduct of the house of commons with respect to their address to the king in consequence of the king's speech at the opening of Parliament. The address which is always an echo of the speech, was voted without opposition, and this equivocal silence passed for unanimity. The next thing was to present it, and it was made the order of the next day that the house should go up in a body to the king with the speaker at the head for that purpose. The time fixed was half after three, and it was expected the procession would be numerous; three or four hundred at least, in order to shew their zeal and their loyalty and their thanks to the king for his intention of taking the field. But when half after three arrived, only thirty members were present, and, without forty, (the number that makes a house) the address could not be presented. The sergeant was then sent out, with the authority of a press warrant, to search for the members, and by four o'clock he returned with just enough to make up forty, and the procession set off with the slowness of a funeral, for it was remarked the procession went slower than usual.
Such a circumstance in such a critical juncture of affairs, and on such an occasion, shews at least, a great indifference towards the government. It was like saying, you have brought us into a great deal of trouble and we have no personal thanks to make to you. We have voted the address as a customary matter of form, and we leave it to find its way to you as well as it can.
If the invasion succeed, I hope Bonaparte will remember that this war has not been provoked by the people. It is altogether the act of the government without their consent or knowledge; and though the late peace appears to have been insidious from the first on the part of government, it was received by the people with a sincerity of joy.
There is yet perhaps one way, if it be not too late, to put an end to this unthemsome state of things and which threatens to be worse; which is for the people, now they are embodied for their own protection, to instruct their representatives in Parliament to move for the fulfilment of the treaty of Amiens, for a treaty ought to be fulfilled. The present is an uncommon case accompanied with uncommon circumstances, and it must be got over by means suited to the occasion. What is Malta to them?—The possession of it might serve to extend the patronage and influence of the crown on the appointment to new offices, & the part that would fall to the people would be to pay the expence. The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home. This has always been the case in England.
The non-fulfilment of a treaty ruins the honor of a government, and spreads reproach over the character of a nation. But when a treaty of peace is made with the concealed design of not fulfilling it, and war is declared for the avowed purpose of avoiding it, the case is still worse. The representative system does not put it in the power of an individual to declare war of his own will. It must
be the act of the body of the representatives, for it is their constituents who are to pay the expence. The state which the people of England are now in, shews the extreme danger of trusting this power to the caprice of an individual, whatever title he may bear. In that country this power is assumed by what is called the crown, for it is not constituted by any legal authority. It is a branch from the trunk of monarchical despotism.
By this impolitic declaration of war, the government of England have put every thing to issue, and no wise general would commence an action he might avoid, where little is to be gained by gaining the battle, and every thing is to be lost by losing it. An invasion and a revolution, which consequently includes that of Ireland, stand now on the same ground. What part the people may finally take in a contest pregnant with such an issue is yet to be known.—By the experiment of ruling the country in mass, the government have put arms into the hands of men whom they would have sent to Brittany Bay but a few months before, had they found a pike in their possession. The honour of this project, which is copied from France, is claimed by Mr. Pitt; and no project of his has yet succeeded in the end, except that of raising the taxes and ruining the bank. All his schemes in the revolutionary war of France failed of success, and finished in discredit. It Bonaparte is remarkable for an unexampled series of good fortune, Mr. Pitt is remarkable for a contrary fate; and his want of popularity with the people, whom he deserted, and betrayed on the question of a reform of Parliament, sheds no beams round his projects.
If the present eventful crisis, for an eventful one it is, should end in a revolution, the people of England have, within their glance, the benefit of experience both in theory and fact. This was not the case at first. The American revolution began on untried ground. The representative system of government was then unknown in practice, and but little thought of in theory. The idea that man must be governed by effigy and shew, and that superstitious reverence was necessary to establish authority, had so benumbed the reasoning faculties of man, that some bold exertion was necessary to shock them into reflection. But the experiment has now been made. The practice of almost thirty years, the last twenty of which has been of peace, notwithstanding the wrong headed tumultuous administration of John Adams, has proved the excellence of the system, and the NEW WORLD is now the preceptor of the old. The children are become the fathers of the progenitors.
With respect to the French revolution, it was begun by good men and on good principles, and I have always believed it would have gone on, had not the provocative interference of foreign powers, of which Pitt was the principal and vindictive agent, distracted it into madnes and town jealousies among the leaders.
The people of England have now two revolutions before them. The one as an example; the other as a warning. Their own wisdom will direct them what to chuse, and what to avoid, and in every thing which regards their happiness, combined with the common good of mankind, I wish them honor and success.
THOMAS PAINE.
America, March 4, 1804.
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LIST Of Acts passed at the First Session of the EIGHTH CONGRESS.
 1. An act to enable the President of the United States to take possession of the territories ceded by France to the United States, by the treaty concluded at Paris, on the thirtieth of April last; and for the temporary government thereof. Approved 31st October, 1803.  2. An act making provision for the payment of claims of citizens of the United States on the government of France, the payment of which has been assumed by the United States, by virtue of the convention of the thirtieth April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French Republic. Approved 10th November, 1803.  3. An act authorizing the creation of a stock to the amount of eleven millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of carrying into effect the convention of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States of America and the French Republic, and making provision for the payment of the same. Approved 10th November, 1803.  4. An act making an appropriation, for carrying into effect the seventh article of the treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between the United States and his Britannic Majesty. Approved 16th November, 1803.  5. An act to repeal the act intitled, "An act to allow a drawback of duties on goods exported to New Orleans and therein to amend the act, intitled, "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." Approved 25th November, 1803.  6. An act to repeal an act, intitled "An act to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States." Approved 19th December, 1803.  7. An act for laying and collecting of duties on imports and tonnage within the territories ceded to the United States by the treaty of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French Republic, and for other purposes. Approved 24th February, 1804.  8. An act to incorporate the Directors of the Columbian Library company. Approved 31st January, 1804.  9. An act relating to the recording, registering and enrolling of ships or vessels in the district of Orleans. Approved 25th February, 1804.  10. An act for the relief of Paul Coulon. Approved 25th January, 1804.  11. An act for the relief of John Coles. Approved 14th January, 1804.  12. An act making appropriations for the support of the military establishment of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four. Approved 11th February, 1804.  13. An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States during the year one thousand eight hundred and four. Approved 31st January, 1804.  14. An act for the relief of the captors of the Moorish armed ships Mehouda and Mirboka.  15. An act further to amend the act, intitled "An act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States." Approved 3d March, 1804.  16. An act supplementary to an act, intitled "An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington, in the district of Columbia." Approved 24th February, 1804.  17. An act continuing for a limited time the salaries of the officers of government therein mentioned. Approved 20th February, 1804.  18. An act for the relief of certain military pensioners in the state of South Carolina. Approved 3d March, 1804.  19. An act for the relief of Samuel Corp. Approved 25th February, 1804.  20. An act to provide for light houses and buoys in the cases therein mentioned. Approved March 16th, 1804.  21. An act to amend the charter of Alexandria. Approved 25th February, 1804.  22. An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and four. Approved March 14th, 1804.  23. An act to allow drawbacks of duties on goods, wares and merchandise transported by land, in the cases therein mentioned. Approved 3d March, 1804.  24. An act to revive and continue in force an act, intitled "An act for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia." Approved March 16th, 1804.  25. An act declaring the assent of Congress to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, therein mentioned. Approved March 16th, 1804.  26. An act making an appropriation for carrying into effect the convention concluded between the United States and the king of Spain, on the 11th day of August, one thousand eight hundred and two. Approved March 16th, 1804.  27. An act providing for the exercise of the civil government of Louisiana. Approved March 19th, 1804.  28. An act granting further time for locating military land warrants, and for other purposes. Approved March 19th, 1804.  29. An act for the relief of the sufferers by fire in the town of Norfolk. Approved 19th March, 1804.  30. An act making an appropriation for defraying the expenses incurred in enquiring into the official conduct of Samuel Chase and Richard Peters, and in conducting the impeachment against John Pickering. Approved 19th March, 1804.  31. An act supplementary to the act, intitled "An act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States." Approved March, 1804.  32. An act altering the sessions of the district court of the United States, for the districts of Virginia, Rhode-Island, and for the district of West Tennessee. Approved March, 1804.  33. An act to ascertain the boundary of the lands reserved by the state of Virginia north-west of the river Ohio, for the satisfaction of her officers and soldiers on continental establishment; and to limit the period for locating the said lands. Approved March, 1804.  34. An act for the relief of the legal representatives of David Valenzin, deceased; and for other purposes. Approved March, 1804.  35. An act in addition to an act, intitled, "An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization; and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject." Approved March, 1804.  36. An act for the relief of the heirs of John Habersham. Approved March, 1804.  37. An act erecting Louisiana into two territories; and providing for the temporary government thereof. Approved March, 1804.  38. An act supplementary to the act, intitled "An act relative to the election of a President and Vice President of the United States; and declaring the officer who shall act as President, in case of vacancies in the offices both of President and Vice President." Approved March, 1804.  39. An act to erect a light house at the mouth of the Mississippi river; and also, a light house at or near the pitch of Cape Lookout, in the state of North Carolina; and a beacon at the north point of Sandy Hook. Approved March, 1804.  40. An act altering the time for the next meeting of Congress. Approved March, 1804.  41. An act in relation to the navy pension fund. Approved March, 1804.  42. An act to amend the act, intitled "An act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels." Approved March, 1804.  43. An act to repeal a part of the act, intitled "An act supplementary to the act concerning Consuls and Vice Consuls; and for the further protection of American Seamen." Approved March, 1804.  44. An act authorizing the payment of two thousand eight hundred dollars to Philip Sloan. Approved March, 1804.  45. An act in addition to the act, intitled "An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States." Approved March, 1804.  46. An act in addition to "An act for fixing the military peace establishment of the United States."  47. An act to authorize the adjournment of district courts by marshals, in certain cases.  48. An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory; and for other purposes.  49. An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers.  50. An act further to alter and establish certain post roads; and for other purposes.  51. An act to make further appropriations for the purpose of extinguishing the Indian Claims.  52. An act for the relief of Moses Young.  53. An act relative to the compensation of certain officers of the customs, and to provide for appointing a Surveyor in the district therein mentioned.  54. An act supplementary to the act, intitled "An act to prescribe the mode in which the public acts, records and judicial proceedings in each state shall be authenticated so as to take effect in every other state."  55. An act for imposing more specific duties on the importation of certain articles—and also for levying and collecting light money on foreign ships or vessels.  56. An act supplementary to the act, intitled "An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the public lands south of the state of Tennessee."  57. An act for the appointment of an additional Judge for the Mississippi territory, and for other purposes.  58. An act supplementary to the act, intitled "An act concerning the city of Washington."  59. An act concerning the public buildings in the city of Washington.  60. An act to provide for a more extensive distribution of the laws of the United States.  61. An act supplementary to the act, intitled "An act providing for a naval peace establishment, and for other purposes." 
(By Authority.)
AN ACT
Erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all that portion of country ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies south of the Mississippi territory, and of an east and west line to commence on the Mississippi river, at the thirty third degree of north latitude, and to extend west to the western boundary of the said Mississippi river, shall constitute a territory of the United States, under the name of the territory of Orleans; the government whereof shall be organised and administered as follows:
Sec. 2. The executive power shall be vested in a governor, who shall reside in the said territory, and hold his office during the term of three years, unless sooner removed by the President of the United States. He shall be commander in chief of the militia of the said territory; shall have power to grant pardons for offences against the said territory, and reprieves for those against the United States, until the decision of the President of the United States thereon shall be made known; and to appoint and commission all officers, civil, and of the militia, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
Sec. 3. A secretary of the territory shall also be appointed, who shall hold his office during the term of four years, unless sooner removed by the President of the United States, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the governor, to record and preserve all the papers and proceedings of the executive, and all the acts of the governor and legislative council, and transmit authentic copies of the proceedings of the governor, in his executive department, every six months, to the President of the United States. In case of the vacancy of the office of governor, the government of the said territory shall devolve on the secretary.
Sec. 4. The legislative powers shall be vested in the governor, and in thirteen of the most fit and discreet persons of the territory, to be called the legislative council, who shall be appointed annually by the President of the United States, from among those holding real estate therein, and who shall have resided one year, at least, in the said territory, and hold no office of profit under the territory, or the United States. The governor, by and with advice and consent of the said legislative council, or of a majority of them, shall have power to alter, modify, or repeal the laws which may be in force at the commencement of this act. Their legislative powers shall also extend to all the rightful subjects of legislation; but no law shall be valid, which is inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States, or which shall lay any person under restraint, burthen, or disability, on account of his religious opinion, professions or worship; in all which he shall be free to maintain his own, and not burthened for those of another. The governor shall publish throughout the said territory, all the laws which shall be made, and shall, from time to time, report the same to the President of the United States, to be laid before Congress; which if disapproved of by Congress, shall thenceforth be of no force. The governor, or legislative council, shall have no power over the primary disposal of the soil, nor to tax the lands of the United States, nor to interfere with the claims to land within the said territory. The governor shall convene and prorogue the legislative council, whenever he may deem it expedient. It shall be his duty to obtain all the information in his power, in relation to the customs, habits, and dispositions of the inhabitants of the said territory, and communicate the same, from time to time, to the President of the United States.
Sec. 5. The judicial power shall be vested in a superior court, and in such inferior courts, and justices of the peace, as the legislature of the territory may, from time to time, establish. The judges of the superior court, and the justices of the peace, shall hold their offices for the term of four years. The superior court shall consist of three judges, any one of whom shall constitute a court, they shall have jurisdiction in all criminal cases, and exclusive jurisdiction in all those which are capital; and original and appellate jurisdiction in all civil cases, of the value of one hundred dollars. Its sessions shall commence on the first Monday of every month, and continue till all the business depending before them, shall be disposed of. They shall appoint their own clerks. In all criminal prosecutions which are capital,
the trial shall be by a jury of twelve good and lawful men of the vicinage; and in all cases, criminal and civil, in the superior court, the trial shall be by a jury, if either of the parties require it. The inhabitants of the said territory shall be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus; they shall be bailable, unless for capital offences, where the proof shall be evident, or the presumption great; and no cruel and unusual punishments shall be inflicted.
Sec. 6. The governor, secretary, judges, district attorney, marshal, and all general officers of the militia, shall be appointed by the President of the United States, in the recess of the Senate, but shall be nominated at their next meeting for their advice and consent. The governor, secretary, judges, members of the legislative council, justices of the peace, all other officers, civil, and of the militia, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, shall take an oath or affirmation, to support the constitution of the United States, and for the faithful discharge of the duties of their office; the governor, before the President of the United States, or before a judge of the supreme or district court of the United States, or before such other person as the President of the United States shall authorise to administer the same; the secretary, judges, and members of the legislative council, before the governor; and all other officers, before such persons as the governor shall direct. The governor shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars; the secretary, of two thousand dollars each; and the judges, of two thousand dollars each; to be paid quarterly out of the revenues of import and tonnage, accruing within the said territory. The members of the legislative council shall receive four dollars each per day, during their attendance in council.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the following acts, that is to say:
An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States.
An act, in addition to an act, for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States.
An act to prevent citizens of the United States from privateering against nations in amity with, or against citizens of the United States.
An act for the punishment of certain crimes therein specified.
An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from service of their masters.
An act to prohibit the carrying on the slave trade from the United States to any foreign place or country.
An act to prevent the importation of certain persons into certain states, where by the laws thereof, their admission is prohibited.
An act to establish the post-office of the United States.
An act further to alter and establish certain post roads, and for the more secure carriage of the mail of the United States.
An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States.
An act, in addition to an act, entitled, an act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States.
An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose.
An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees.
An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned.
An act, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
An act providing for salvage in cases of recapture.
An act respecting alien enemies.
An act to prescribe the mode in which the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings in each state shall be authenticated, so as to take effect in every other state.
An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes.
An act for continuing in force a law, entitled, an act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes. And
An act making provision relative to rations for Indians, and to their visits to the seat of government, shall extend to, and have full force and effect in the above mentioned territories.
Sec. 8. There shall be established in the said territory a district court, to consist of one judge, who shall reside therein, and be called the district judge, and who shall hold, in the city of Orleans, four sessions annually; the first to commence on the third Monday in October next, and the three other sessions, progressively, on the third Monday of every third calendar month thereafter. He shall in all things, have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers, which
are by law given to, or may be exercised by the judge of Kentucky district; and shall be allowed an annual compensation of two thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly out of the revenues of import and tonnage accruing within the said territory. He shall appoint a clerk for the said district, who shall reside, and keep the records of the court, in the city of Orleans, and shall receive for the services performed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of Kentucky district is entitled for similar services.
There shall be appointed in the said district, a person learned in the law, to act as attorney for the United States, who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid six hundred dollars, annually, as a full compensation for all extra services. There shall also be appointed a marshal for the said district, who shall perform the same duties, be subject to the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees to which marshals in other districts are entitled for similar services; and shall moreover be paid two hundred dollars, annually, as a compensation for all extra services.
Sec. 9. All free male white persons, who are house-keepers, and who shall have resided one year, at least, in the said territory, shall be qualified to serve as grand or petit jurors, in the courts of the said territory; and they shall, until the legislature thereof shall otherwise direct, be selected in such manner as the judges of the said courts respectively shall prescribe, so as to be most conducive to an impartial trial, and to be least burthensome to the inhabitants of the said territory.
Sec. 10. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to import or bring into the said territory, from any port or place without the limits of the United States, or cause or procure to be so imported or brought, or knowingly to aid or assist in so importing or bringing any slave or slaves. And every person so offending, and being thereof convicted before any court within said territory, having competent jurisdiction, shall forfeit and pay for each and every slave so imported or brought, the sum of three hundred dollars; one moiety for the use of the United States, and the other moiety for the use of the person or persons who shall sue for the same; and every slave so imported or brought, shall thereupon become entitled to, and receive his or her freedom. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to import or bring into the said territory, from any port or place within the limits of the United States, or to cause or procure to be so imported or brought, or knowingly to aid or assist in so importing or bringing any slave or slaves, which shall have been imported since the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, into any port or place within the limits of the United States, or which may hereafter be so imported, from any port or place without the limits of the United States; and every person so offending, and being thereof convicted before any court within said territory, having competent jurisdiction, shall forfeit and pay for each and every slave so imported or brought the sum of three hundred dollars, one moiety for the use of the United States, and the other moiety for the use of the person or persons who shall sue for the same; and no slave or slaves shall directly or indirectly be introduced into said territory, except by a citizen of the United States, removing into said territory for actual settlement, and being at the time of such removal bona fide owner of such slave or slaves; and every slave imported or brought into the said territory, contrary to the provisions of this act, shall thereupon be entitled to, and receive his or her freedom.
Sec. 11. The laws in force in the said territory, at the commencement of this act, and not inconsistent with the provisions thereof, shall continue in force, until altered, modified, or repealed by the legislature.
Sec. 12. The residue of the province of Louisiana, ceded to the United States, shall be called the District of Louisiana, the government whereof shall be organized and administered as follows:
The executive power now vested in the governor of the Indiana territory, shall extend to, and be exercised in the said District of Louisiana. The governor and judges of the Indiana territory shall have power to establish, in the said District of Louisiana, inferior courts, and prescribe the jurisdiction and duties, and to make all laws which they may deem conducive to the good government of the inhabitants thereof: Provided however , That no law shall be valid which is inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States, or which shall lay any person under restraint or disability on account of his religious opinions, profession, or worship; in all of which he shall be free to maintain his own, and not burthened for those of another: And provided also , That in all criminal prosecutions, the trial shall be by a jury of twelve good and lawful men of the vicinage, and in all civil cases of the value of one hundred dollars, the trial shall be by jury, if either of the parties require it. The judges of the Indiana territory, or any two of them, shall hold annually two courts within the said

disfrit, at such place as will be most convenient to the inhabitants thereof in general, & shall possess the same jurisdiction they now possess in the Indiana territory, and shall continue in session until all the business depending before them shall be disposed of. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the Indiana territory to record and preserve all the papers and proceedings of the governor, of an executive nature, relative to the district of Louisiana, and transmit authentic copies thereof every six months to the President of the United States. The governor shall publish throughout the said district, all the laws which may be made as aforesaid, and shall, from time to time, report the same to the President of the United States, to be laid before Congress, which, if disapproved, and by Congress, shall thenceforth cease, and be of no effect.
The said district of Louisiana shall be divided into districts by the governor, under the direction of the President, as the convenience of the settlements shall require, subject to such alterations hereafter as experience may prove more convenient. The inhabitants of each district, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five shall be formed into a militia, with proper officers, according to their numbers, to be appointed by the governor, except the commanding officer, who shall be appointed by the President, and who, whether a captain, a major, or a colonel, shall be the commanding officer of the district, and as such shall, under the governor, have command of the regular officers and troops in his district, as well as of the militia, for which he shall have a brevet commission, giving him such command, and the pay and emoluments of an officer of the same grade in the regular army; he shall be specially charged with the employment of the military and militia of his district, in cases of sudden invasion or insurrection, and until the orders of the governor can be received, and at all times with the duty of ordering a military patrol, aided by militia if necessary, to arrest unauthorised settlers in any part of his district, and to commit such offenders to jail to be dealt with according to law.
Sec. 13. The laws in force in the said district of Louisiana, at the commencement of this act, and not inconsistent with any of the provisions thereof, shall continue in force until altered, modified or repealed by the governor and judges of the Indiana territory, as aforesaid.
Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That all grants for lands within the territories ceded by the French Republic to the United States, by the treaty of the thirtieth of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three, the title whereof was, at the date of the treaty of St. Ildefonso, in the crown, government or nation of Spain, and every act and proceeding subsequent thereto, of whatsoever nature, towards the obtaining any grant, title or claim to such lands, and under whatsoever authority transacted, or pretended, be, and the same are hereby declared to be, and to have been from the beginning, null, void, and of no effect in law or equity: Provided nevertheless, That any thing in this section contained shall not be construed to make null and void any bona fide grant made agreeably to the laws, usages and customs of the Spanish government to an actual settler on the lands so granted for himself, and for his wife and family; or to make null and void any bona fide act or proceeding done by an actual settler, to obtain a grant for lands actually settled on by the person or persons claiming title thereto, if such settlement in either case was actually made prior to the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three: And provided further, That such grant shall not secure to the grantee or his assigns more than one mile square of land together with such other and further quantity as heretofore hath been allowed for the wife and family of such actual settler, agreeably to the laws, usages and customs of the Spanish government; and that if any citizen of the United States, or other person, shall make a settlement on any lands belonging to the United States, within the limits of Louisiana, or shall survey, or attempt to survey, such lands, or to delimitate boundaries by marking trees, or otherwise, such offender shall, on conviction thereof, in any court of record of the United States, or the territories of the United States, forfeit a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and suffer imprisonment not exceeding twelve months; and it shall, moreover, be lawful for the President of the United States to employ such military force as he may judge necessary to remove from lands belonging to the United States any such citizen, or other person, who shall attempt a settlement thereon.
Sec. 15. The President of the United States is hereby authorised to stipulate with any Indian tribes, owning lands on the east side of the Mississippi, and residing to that reason, for an exchange of lands, the property of the United States, on the west side of the Mississippi, in case the said tribes shall remove and settle thereon; but in such stipulation,
the said tribes shall acknowledge themselves to be under the protection of the United States, and shall agree that they will not hold any treaty with any foreign power, individual state, or with the individuals of any state or power; and that they will not sell or dispose of the said lands, or any part thereof, to any sovereign power, except the United States, nor to the subjects or citizens of any other sovereign power, nor to the citizens of the United States. And in order to maintain peace and tranquillity with the Indian tribes who reside within the limits of Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, the act of congress, passed on the thirtieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and two, entitled "An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers," is hereby extended to the territories erected and established by this act; and the sum of fifteen thousand dollars of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law, is hereby appropriated to enable the President of the United States to effect the object expressed in this section.
Sec. 16. The act, passed on the thirty first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and three, entitled "An act to enable the President of the United States, to take possession of the territories ceded by France to the United States, by the treaty concluded at Paris, on the thirtieth day of April last, and for the temporary government thereof," shall continue in force until the first day of October next, any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding; on which said first day of October, this act shall commence, and have full force, and shall continue in force for and during the term of one year, and to the end of the next session of congress which may happen thereafter.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 26, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT To make further appropriations for the purpose of extinguishing the Indian claims.
BE it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, be appropriated to defray the expense of such treaty or treaties as the President of the United States shall deem it expedient to hold with the Indians, south of the river Ohio, for the purpose of extinguishing Indian claims to any lands lying within the limits of the United States; and that the compensation to be allowed to any of the commissioners who may be appointed for negotiating such treaty or treaties shall not exceed, exclusive of travelling expenses, the rate of six dollars per day, during the time of actual service of such commissioner.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum aforesaid shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 26, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT To ascertain the boundary of the lands reserved by the state of Virginia, north west of the river Ohio, for the satisfaction of her officers and soldiers on continental establishment and to limit the period for locating the said lands.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the line, run under the direction of the surveyor general of the United States, from the source of the Little Miami, towards the source of the Scioto, and which binds on the east, the surveys of the lands of the United States, shall, together with its course continued to the Scioto river, be considered and held as the westerly boundary line, north of the source of the Little Miami, of the territory reserved by the state of Virginia between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers, for the use of the officers and soldiers of the continental line of that state: Provided, That the state of Virginia shall, within two years after the passing of this act, recognise such line as the boundary of the said territory.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the officers and soldiers, or their legal representatives, who are entitled to bounty lands within the above mentioned reserved territory, shall complete their locations within three years after the passing of this act, and every such officer and soldier, or his legal representative, whose bounty land has, or shall have been located within that part of the said territory, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, shall make return of his or their surveys, to the secretary of the department of war, within five years after the passing of this
act, and shall also exhibit, and file with the said secretary, and within the same time, the original warrant or warrants under which he claims, or a certified copy thereof, under the seal of the office where the said warrants are legally kept; which warrant, or certified copy thereof, shall be sufficient evidence that the grantee therein named; or the person under whom such grantee claims, was originally entitled to such bounty land; and every person entitled to said lands, and thus applying, shall thereupon be entitled to receive a patent in the manner prescribed by law.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That such part of the above mentioned reserved territory as shall not have been located, and those tracts of land, within that part of the said territory to which the Indian title has been extinguished, the surveys whereof shall not have been returned to the secretary of war, within the time and times prescribed by this act, shall thenceforth be released from any claim or claims for such bounty lands, and shall be disposed of in conformity with the provisions of the act, entitled, "An act in addition to, and modification of, the propositions contained in the act, entitled, "An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory, north west of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the union, on an equal footing with the original states; and for other purposes."
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 23, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Altering the time of the next meeting of Congress.
BE it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That after the expiration of the present session, the next meeting of congress shall be on the first Monday of November next.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 26, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Authorising the payment of two thousand eight hundred dollars to Philip Sloan.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to Philip Sloan, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury of the United States, the sum of two thousand and eight hundred dollars, to indemnify him for his ransom from captivity among the Algerines, and as a full compensation for his services as interpreter to the Algerine mission.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 26, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT In addition to "An act for fixing the military peace establishment of the United States."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be appointed, in addition to the surgeon's mates provided for by the "act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States" as many surgeons mates, not exceeding six, as the President of the United States may judge necessary, to be attached to garrisons or posts, agreeably to the provision of the said act.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That an equivalent in malt liquor or low wines, may be supplied the troops of the United States, instead of the rum, whisky or brandy which, by the said act, is made a component part of a ration, at such posts and garrisons, and at such seasons of the year, as, in the opinion of the President of the United States, may be necessary for the preservation of their health.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 26, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT For the relief of the legal representatives of David Valenzin, deceased, and for other purposes.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Navy to restore to the legal representatives of David Valenzin,
deceased, the value of the property captured from him, in the Mediterranean, by the American squadron, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three; a sum not exceeding two thousand six hundred and sixty five dollars and seventy cents, be, and the same hereby is appropriated out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the value of the said property shall be first duly ascertained by the proper accounting officers: And provided also, That the person or persons applying therefor, shall exhibit due proof of his or their being the true legal representative or representatives of the said David Valenzin.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the navy be, and he hereby is authorised and directed to cause to be liquidated and paid the claims of those individuals who contributed to the maintenance and support of the said David Valenzin, during his imprisonment, and who have defrayed the expenses of his interment; and that for this purpose a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 26th, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
WASHINGTON CITY, FRIDAY, March 23.
A Boston paper states the returns of votes in sixty towns in New-Hampshire, in which Gov. GILMAN had 5348 votes, Mr. LANGDON 4725.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of respectability, dated Malaga, November 30, 1803.
"On the 8 inst. I had last the honor of addressing you, through Nerrick and Philadelphia, with advice of the yellow fever having broke out, among the shipping in this port, and from thence communicated to our suburbs, a few days afterwards, it began to extend its ravages in the city, and has since visited almost every street, carrying off daily from 60 to 114 souls, notwithstanding that an immense number of the inhabitants have from the beginning of October, taken refuge in the country, not less it is thought than 40,000. The physicians say, two distinct contagious disorders prevail, the yellow fever, imported from the Havana, or Vera Cruz, and a species of putrid fever, known in Europe under the denomination of jail fever, introduced, as is reported, by some French transports, which arrived in April last from Marseilles, after losing a number of troops on the passage, were kept in quarantine for a considerable time, and admitted to practice towards the end of August, with sick still on board—Though the epidemic has abated somewhat in its malignancy, the mortality has been little reduced, as you will observe by the enclosed statement of last month; now so advanced in the season, it is to be hoped its baneful effects may soon cease; they have not spread out of the city, no symptoms having appeared at any of the neighbouring villages, although some few instances have occurred, of people carrying it from Malaga, dying in the country without propagating the epidemic to those that attended them."
"On the 14th Oct. the port was ordered to be shut, and all communication cut off with the shipping. It was again opened three days afterwards, and on the 21st all the foreign consuls were notified by our governor, as President of the board of health, that such vessels as had sick on board, or in which any had died of the reigning sickness, should immediately leave the port, and proceed to one of the Lazarettos in Europe to perform a rigorous quarantine. This disposition, however, in the course of two or three days was also revoked, but early in this month, an order came from Madrid, that no vessel should be allowed to load, or leave the port, which has been rigidly observed."
Enclosed in the above letter is A statement of the deaths in Malaga from 30 Oct. to 29 Nov. 1803.
   30 October, 79   31 do. 88   1 November, 91   2 do. 97   3 do. 102   4 do. 79   5 do. 60   6 do. 87   7 do. 62   8 do. 76   9 do. 77   10 do. 83   11 do. 80   12 do. 73   13 do. 72   14 do. 47   15 do. 50   16 do. 62   17 do. 69   18 do. 71   19 do. 114   20 do. 93   21 do. 95  
   22 do. 82   23 do. 93   24 do. 72   25 do. 72   26 do. 76   27 do. 63   28 do. 76   29 do. 80   2424  
Walpole, (N. H.) March 17.
THE ELECTION. Tuesday last was the day of the annual election throughout this state. The freemen of this town assembled at the usual hour, to the number of about three hundred, and transacted the business of the day with a decorum which did them much honor. We have rarely witnessed in any part of the United States so large an assemblage of people conducting with as great decency and order. Each one appeared to feel the just importance of the right of suffrage, and the weight of duty devolved with that right. It was a pleasing spectacle to behold freemen attending, with earnest solicitude to their political interests and making a serious business of their elections.
The following were the results of the votes given for the candidates to fill the respective offices prefixed to their names, viz.
REPUBLICAN. Governor, J. LANGDON, 165 Councillor, Nathaniel Parker, 155 Senator, Amasa Allen, 151
FEDERAL. Governor, J. T. GILMAN, 126 Councillor, Samuel Stevens, 101 Senator, Amos Shepard, 109 Representative, Thomas C. Drew, republican.
VOTES FOR GOVERNOR. The columns at the right hand shew the votes for the same candidates the last year, as copied from the Farmers' Miscellany.
   1804. 1803.   Langdon. Gilman. Langdon. Gilman.     Walpole 165 126 77 161   Wellmoreland 124 121 46 153   Aeworth 48 66 49 60   Ailead 56 174 17 172   393 487 189 546  
In 4 towns } Republican increase 204 Federal decrease 59
For the following we have no other vouchers than the hasty reports of federal editors.
   Keene 41 180 5 148   Marlboro' 10 141 143   Sullivan 67 75   Packersfield 19 120 2 111   Rindge 27 129 36 139   Jaffrey 8 168 9 135   Dublin 41 88 27 75   Fitzwilliam 11 142 9 103   Swanzey 87 44 46 45   Langdon 50 32 17 45   Hanover 42 182 24 178   Lebanon 59 173 34 137   Lime 27 147 174   Plainfield 103 66 113 68   Springfield 39 32 34 50   584 1721 356 1536  
In 15 towns } Republican increase 208 Federal increase 85
In Portsmouth the following votes have been given.
   Langdon, republican, 639   Gilman, federalist, 227   Majority 412  
To be Sold at Auction,
On Tuesday the 31 of April. A QUANTITY of household Furniture, consisting of Beds and Bedsteads, Chairs, Tables, Sideboards and Looking glasses, 2 Milch Cows one Hack and one set of Harness, one bay Horse and sundry articles too tedious to mention. Terms of sale; all sums under 30 Dollars are cash or adjusted accounts; all above are six months credit with notes and approved indorsers.
The above Goods will be sold at Wm. Lovell's Hotel, who is receiving business in favor of Mr. Wm. Rhodes, Washington City. Sales to commence at 10 o'clock, A. M. W.M. LOVELL.
March 30—22 ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
Run away on the first of April last my servant HARRY. He is about twenty-one years of age five feet five inches high, a straight well proportioned active man, black complexion a round full visage, and comely face but much carabund, and stern countenance. He speaks good English with a rough voice, and can read and write a little, and plays on the fiddle. Harry is a native of this state but is well acquainted in the states of North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee where he has travelled as my watering man.
The above reward of one hundred dollars will be paid for lodging him in any jail of the United States so that I may get him, or it delivered to me in Charleston or on my plantation near Parker's Ferry all reasonable charges will be paid in addition to the above reward.
ANDREW BURNET, collector district South Carolina. Feb. 2—W8orrow

S. THOMEE. Begs leave to inform his friends that he has removed his store from George Town to King-Street Alexandria, where orders in his line will be executed with punctuality and dispatch. Orders left at Mr. March's Book-Store will be duly attended to. BUILDING AND ENAMELLING ON GLASS, A few doors above the Washington Tavern—Looking-glass and picture frames made and reg'd. NEEDLE WORK Framed in the handsomest manner, and names done on glass. S. THOMEE, as a stranger being determined to establish in the line of his profession, solicits that encouragement alone which he trusts the reasonableness of his charges and his assiduity to business may entitle him to. Window cornices handsomely gilt, and every thing in his line done to please the fancy of the owner equal to any imported. N. B. He has some glasses and prints for sale on low terms. Feb. Jan. 9—cp3m
(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 10 do. of 500 make 5,000 20 do. of 200 make 4,000 50 do. of 100 make 5,000 100 do. of 50 make 5,000 250 do. of 20 make 5,000 420 do. of 10 make 4,200 1,500 do. of 5 make 7,500 3,000 do. of 1 make 3,000 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. 14,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 16,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 18,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 20,000 do. 500 5,325 prizes, 230,000 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 a rapid sale of tickets, and the drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number shall be sold to authorize it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next. Richmond, March 2—tf
PUBLIC SALE. By virtue of a decree of the circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Washington, in the suit of the United States against Samuel Jackson, William Shannon, Philip Fitzhugh, Joshua B. Bond and Frederick Shaffer, defendants, in chancery; will be sold at the premises to the highest bidder at public auction on Friday the 4th May next; all that piece or parcel of land situated in the second addition of George Town, made by Thomas Beall of George, being part of a tract of land called the Rock of Dunbarton and bounded as is described and set forth in the said decree and containing four acres and one eighth part of an acre of land with all and singular the buildings, improvements and appurtenances thereon or thereunto belonging or appertaining. The improvements are on a high, dry, and handsome situation, and consist of a large two story brick house with a passage through the center. Four rooms on a floor and good cellars. The front rooms are about 17 by 18 feet—the back rooms are semicircular and are about 22 by 17 feet—the passage 9 feet wide and 38 feet long—two brick offices 12 by 17 feet high 17 feet 6 inches square and are connected with the House by covered ways. The said premises are the same property possessed by the said Samuel Jackson and by him expensively improved. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock. The terms ready money or money to be paid immediately on the courts ratifying the same, the time of which ratification will be notified in the same papers in which the sale is advertised, within one month after the report of the said sale shall be made to the court, which report will not be made until the fourth Monday in July, when the court commence their next sitting for the county of Washington. DANIEL C. BRENT, Trustee. March 23—tdof
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 chuse to call and purchase his manufacture will be amply suited, if nearest and goodness be required. JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—tf
A HOUSE FOR SALE. FOR SALE a neat two story Frame House situated on New Jersey Avenue near the Capitol, it is suitable for a Taylor, or Shoemaker being established and occupied by both; it contains six rooms (including a front shop with a large bow window) and two closets; it is as good a stand for either of the above named, or any kind of business as there is in the city. For terms apply on the premises to JOHN MINCHIN. March 16—tw3w
Ten Dollars Reward. Ran away from the subscriber on the 12th inst. an apprentice lad (a mulatto) named RALEIGH LEISTER, about 19 years of age, six feet high, slender made, dark eyes and long visage, has a fierce countenance when questioned, has a small mark on the right ear supposed from a cut in his infancy, his hair is cut short. He took away two blue short jackets, a swansdown waistcoat, a new fur hat and cape, a pair of broad toed shoes 6 1/2 yards blue narrow striped Virginia cloth and a faddle in a white flannel case. Masters of vessels and others are forewarned harboring him at their peril. Whoever takes up said lad and returns him to the subscriber, shall have the above reward and reasonable charges defrayed. N. B. His mother lives near Peary's Tavern, Westmoreland county Virginia. His black father lives with the Rev. Mr. Davis, Alexandria. WILLIAM TOXON, Plaintiff. Washington March 21—7t
Twenty Dollars Reward. ABSCONDED from the subscriber, residing near Port Tobacco, Maryland, on the 15th inst. a Negro man named ADAM, aged 23 year, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches in height. He has a large mouth rather thick lips, and a scar near the mouth, speaks loud and hoarse, snoops, and walks awkwardly. He had on a blue kersey jacket and overalls, an old hat, and pair of yarn gloves. The above reward will be paid to any person securing him in goal, if taken out of this county, or ten dollars if taken within it. ALEXANDER SCOTT. March 24—tf
Bank of Columbia. THE Board of Directors having this day declared a dividend for the half year ending the 20th inst. at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum. The same will be paid to the Stockholders or their representatives on or after Tuesday the 20th inst. WILLIAM WHANN, Cashier. March 19—ep6w
Valuable Lands for Sale. PURSUANT to a decree of the honorable the Circuit court of the district of Columbia, for the county of Alexandria, will be exposed to sale, at public auction, for ready cash, on Saturday the 7th of April next, under the direction of the undersigned commissioners appointed for that purpose. A TRACT OF LAND, late the property of Robert Alexander, situated upon the Potomac river, adjoining the lands of Mr. Philip Alexander, containing 345 acres, being one moiety of the Abbingdon tract, formerly the residence of Mr. Cuthbert, deceased; this land is bounded by two parallel lines 120 poles wide, and running back westerly 634 poles from the river to the back line, and will be laid off into squares of 50 acres each, and will be sold in large or small parcels as may accommodate purchasers; this land is situated about an equal distance between Alexandria and George Town, and commands a full view of those towns, the city, Eastern Branch and Potomac, and in point of soil is equal to any on the river. Any person desirous of purchasing will be shown the premises and the plat and survey of the same on application to George Deneale in Alexandria.
TO RENT, And immediate Possession given, A Two-story Frame House, in the City of Washington, situated on N. F Street, square 224—containing 4 rooms beside two garret rooms, piazza and pantry, kitchen, store room, &c. with a good garden—lately occupied by Mrs. Lee, adjoining to Mr. Xaupie's store—Also that convenient two-story frame on same square, late in possession of Dr. Tabb, opposite to which Robert Peacock, Esq. lately resided—consisting of 6 rooms, and two garret rooms, piazza and balcony to south front, cellar with dry well, kitchen, carriage house, stable, an excellent garden, with every convenience for the reception of a genteel family. For particulars enquire at Mr. Rhode's tavern, Mr. Xaupie's store, or to the subscriber REDMUND PURCHL. January 13, 1804—tf
WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION The office of the Washington Association and United States Insurance company is removed to the corner of square No. 226 fronting on the President's square and Pennsylvania Avenue. THOMAS HERTY, Sec'y P. T. Jan. 18—tf
CLIFDEN. WILL stand the ensuing season at the City of Washington, at THIRTY DOLLARS the season, which will commence on the 1st of March, and end on the 10th of August, but TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS will be received in full if paid within the season, and a dollar to the groom. Good pasturage at fifty-cents a week, and the utmost attention will be paid to the mares, but there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Notes of hand will be expected at Mr. Rhodes's tavern, city of Washington, and at M'Laughlin's, George-Town. Clifden's half brother Tickle Toby, just imported from England, stands in Virginia at ten guineas a mare. Clifden is a horse of uncommonly fine form, above fifteen and an half hands high, of a beautiful deep blood bay, and perhaps the strongest made thorough blooded horse on the continent. Large and powerful horses produce the only real good turf-horses. March 23—tdof
PEDIGREE. I Certify, that Clifden was gotten by Alfred out of an own sister to the duke of Queensbury's bay horse, Mulberry, which was gotten by Florizel out of Sir James Pennycuick's famous Matchem mare. Clifden was bred by the earl of Derby, and sold untried for 500 guineas. ISAAC PICKERING. Foxlease, Hampshire, 18, 1799. A similar pedigree is given to Dr. Thornton by Sir John Lade, who states that his royal highness the Prince of Wales presented Clifden to him: that he was a good sound horse, and won him some thousands on the turf. ALLIANCE. Alfred was gotten by Matchem. Rockingham's dam, Purity, by Matchem; Pumpkin, Maiden, Conundrum, Ranthos, Riddle, &c. by Matchem. Alfred's dam by Snap. Old Medley's dam by Snap; Snapdragon (dam of Old Selima's) dam by Snap; Old Shark's dam by Snap, &c. Clifden's dam by Florizel. Old Diomed (imported from England and now standing at sixty dollars a mare in Virginia) by Florizel. Florizel by Old King Herod. High Flyer by Old King Herod; Woodpecker (sire of
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR WAS just received an handsome supply of fall goods, which he is determined to sell and make upon the most reasonable terms, and in the best and most fashionable manner, and greatest expedition. Pennsylvania Avenue, near the President's Square and Capitol Hill, seventh house from the Capitol. Oct. 14
A GREAT BARGAIN. THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS will be taken and payment made easy, to the purchaser, for the following valuable property free from any incumbrance whatever. A SET of saw mills working two saws—a grist mill with two tubs of stones and bolting machine, also a cotton and rice machine complete all worked by water, also one saw mill about 200 yards from the former and on the same dam, now about finishing that will work from two to fourteen saws under the same roof—this mill is insured for three years after being completed—they now going in good repair and the whole in a progressive way of improvement, with about Ten thousand acres of land all adjoining and immediately contiguous to the mills, on which are several valuable farms. The timber for mill site are inexhaustible and unexceptionable good—they are situated on the waters of Drowning Creek ninety seven miles from George Town South Carolina, to which place the lumber is carried being rafted at the mills without the trouble of hauling, a valuable convenience. The stream is equal if not superior to any in the states of North or South Carolina—the grist mills command a custom at times of 30 or 40 miles around them. The situation at the mills is high, pleasant and very healthy, on which is a good two story house with piazza, a good kitchen, stables, carriage and harness houses and other necessary out buildings with a new store house completely finished, it being an excellent stand for a country store. Application to be made to the Subscriber at Millville near Lumberton in North Carolina, or for any information respecting the premises, to Samuel D. Furniss at the city of Washington. WM. NORMENT. Millville N. C. Dec. 12. N. B. Any part of the above property will be sold as may best suit a purchaser. Dec. 23—tf
PUBLIC SALE. BY virtue of a decree of the Circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Washington in the suit of Thomas Law against James Piercy, jun. James Ray, Samuel Trest, and James Piercy, sen. defendants, in Chancery, will be sold at the premises to the highest bidder at public auction on Saturday the 5th day of May next, the lot of ground mentioned in the complainant's bill, situated in the city of Washington, and known and distinguished in the general plan of the said city by lot numbered one, in square numbered seven hundred and forty-four, it being the fourth half part of said square and containing sixty-three thousand four hundred and forty square feet of ground, with the Sugar House, and all the other buildings and improvements thereon or thereunto belonging. The Sugar house is large and extensive and is said to be extremely well calculated for sugar refining—the other buildings consist of several wooden houses sufficient with some repairs for those conducting the business to live in. The sale will commence at 11 o'clock A. M. The terms ready money or money to be paid immediately on the courts ratifying the same, the time of which ratification will be notified in the same papers in which the sale is advertised, within one month after the report of the said sale shall be made to the court, which report will not be made until the fourth Monday in July, when the court commence their next sitting for the county of Washington. DANIEL C. BRENT, Trustee. March 23—tdof
The Celebrated ENGLISH Running HORSE CLIFDEN. WILL stand the ensuing season at the City of Washington, at THIRTY DOLLARS the season, which will commence on the 1st of March, and end on the 10th of August, but TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS will be received in full if paid within the season, and a dollar to the groom. Good pasturage at fifty-cents a week, and the utmost attention will be paid to the mares, but there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Notes of hand will be expected at Mr. Rhodes's tavern, city of Washington, and at M'Laughlin's, George-Town. Clifden's half brother Tickle Toby, just imported from England, stands in Virginia at ten guineas a mare. Clifden is a horse of uncommonly fine form, above fifteen and an half hands high, of a beautiful deep blood bay, and perhaps the strongest made thorough blooded horse on the continent. Large and powerful horses produce the only real good turf-horses. March 23—tdof
CONCERNING THE DRAGON (Sire of Dare Devil.) The famous running mare Mufe, by King Herod. Clifden's grand dam by Matchem: so that he possesses double close crosses of Old Matchem, which covered at 50 guineas a mare, for the nine last years of his life, twenty five mares by subscription, and died at 33 years of age! He was by Old Cade the best son of the Godolphin Arabian. Thus Clifden descends immediately from the very best stock on earth, & his pedigree cannot be exceeded, indeed, scarcely equalled. PERFORMANCES. In the year 1792, at five years old, he won ten times out of his twelve first races, as may be seen by the racing calendar, and was unqualified for eight years, except by Buzzard. 1. In 1792, Thursday, Aug. 2d, a sweepstakes made for Lewes, but run at Brightelmston. wt. 12 st. 3 lb. 4 miles. Mr. O'Kelly's b. m. Miss Windmill, by High Flyer, rode by himself, 1 Mr. Chichester's g. m. by King Fergus, rode by Lord Barrymore, 2 Sir John Lade's, b. h. Clifden, by Alfred rode by himself, 3 2. Lewes, Aug. 9th, a match for one hundred guineas, 12 st. each. Sir John Lade's b. h. Clifden rode by Lord Barrymore, 1 2 1 Mr. Chichester's g. m. by King Fergus, rode by Mr. O'Kelly, 2 1 2 3. Newmarket, first October meeting, same year, Sir John Lade's b. h. Clifden, by Alfred, 5 years old, walked over the Beacon course, on Friday the 5th, and received the 70 gs. Purse. 4. Second October meeting, same year, Monday 15th. Clifden carrying 9 st. 12 lb. beat Sir Charles Bunbury's Playfellow, 4 years old, carrying 7 st. 8 lb. D. I. 50 gs. 2 to 1 on Clifden. 5. Same day he received 10 gs. from Mr. Chichester's Minister, 12 st. each, D. I. 25 gs. 6. On the 17th Clifden carrying 9 st. beat Mr. O'Kelly's Big Ben (imported by the name of Traveller into Virginia) by Eclipse, carrying 3 st. 3 lb. both 5 years old. 50 gs. 7. On the 19th Clifden beat the duke of Grafton's Prunella in a sweepstakes of 25 gs. each, 10 gs. ft. and received forfeit from H. R. H. the duke of York's Fire; Sir Charles Bunbury's Amelia; Lord Clermont's Heroine; Mr. Golding's Nameless. 8. On the 20th he beat Mr. O'Kelly's Black across the Flat, 50 gs. 7 to 4 and 2 to 1 on Clifden. 9. On the third October, or Houghton, meeting, Monday 29th, he received 40 gs. from Sir Charles Bunbury's Amelia, 100 gs. h. ft. 10. Same day he received 25 gs. from H. R. H. the duke of York's Pyramon. 100 gs. h. ft. 11. Next day, 30th October, Mr. Montagu's Halkin, by Jupiter, beat Sir John Lade's Clifden 100 gs. 12. November 1st. Clifden, 5 years old, carrying 8 st. 8 lb. beat Mr. O'Kelly's Excelsior, by Sweetbriar, aged, carrying 8 st. 4 lb. 50 gs. The last race Clifden ran in 1792 was against the duke of Bedford's large horse Dragon, by Woodpecker. This was an astonishing race, each horse was rode by his owner, and carried 15 st. or 210 lb. over the Beacon course 4 miles and nearly a quarter for 300 gs. Clifden was beat, but the duke of Bedford rode fifteen stone, and Sir John Lade was obliged to carry about 5 stone dead weight, enough to kill even a good horse. Dragon never ran another successful race. Clifden, owned by the honorable Mr. Bowes; ran the next year, & beat Mr. O'Kelly's b. g. carrying above 12 st. each, rode by the owners, over the new course, Lewes, for 100 gs. 5 to 4 on Clifden. The duke of Queensbury's Mulberry, full brother to Clifden's dam, beat the following horses at Newmarket: Lord Darby's Sir Peter Teazle, over the Beacon course, for 500 gs. and his lordship has since refused six thousand guineas for Sir Peter, as stated in a letter to Dr. Thornton in 1800. Mulberry also beat Lord Clermont's Collector, over the six mile course, for 300 gs.; likewise the Yellow mare, for 300 gs. B. C.; also Lord Clermont's Woodcock, D. I. for 200 gs. A sweepstakes of 50 gs. each D. I. he beat Lord Clermont's Woodcock 2d and Mr. Fox's Braganza 3d. In a sweepstakes of 300 gs. each, across the flat, he beat Mr. Bullock's grey Pumpkin 2d, and Lord Clermont's Olney 3d. And in a sweepstakes of 100 gs. each, he beat the duke of Grafton's Oberon 2d, Lord Clermont's Woodcock 3d, and Mr. Vernon's Multi 4th. Thus Clifden, besides being a capital runner himself, is altogether from the first rate running stock.
A TEN Thousand Dollar PRIZE. Scheme of a Lottery For the use of the GERMAN TRINITY CHURCH, In Sixth Street, Philadelphia. N. B. This Lottery is expected to commence drawing immediately after the conclusion of the St. Augustine church, & Lehigh navigation Lotteries; and from the great demand for the tickets in different parts of the Union, there is reason to believe that the price will be raised, considerably before that period. Dollars. 1 Prize of 10,000 dolls. 10,000 1 3,000 3,000 1 2,000 2,000 1 1,000 1,000 4 500 2,000 10 300 3,000 20 200 4,000 35 100 3,500 90 50 4,500 100 20 2,000 6000 7 42,000 1 1st drawn No. on the 10th day } 500 1 15 500 1 20 500 1 25 500 1 30 500 1 35 500 1 40 1,000 1 45 1,000 1 50 1,000 1 55 1,000 1 First drawn No. on the last day, when there shall be only 600 tickets in the wheel. } 6000 6274 Prizes. Dollars....90,000 11726 Blanks. Considerably less than two blanks to a prize. The prizes to be paid 30 days after the close of the drawing—Subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. ADAM PREMIR, ANTHONY HOOCKEY. } Com'rs. CHARLES BOWMAN, } Tickets for sale by the subscribers, at 6 Dollars. Half tickets 3 25 Quarter tickets 1 75 Prizes in other lotteries received in payment. GEORGE Taylor, jun. No. 85, South Second street. MATTHEW M'CONNELL, No. 82 Chestnut street. Letters addressed to either of whom paid and inclosing the cash, will be duly attended to. March 12—tw1M.
NOTICE. ALL who are indebted to the estate of John Crookshank deceased are requested to make immediate payment to, CHARLES GLOVER, Adm. George Town, Nov. 25—tf
Twenty Dollars Reward. LOST on Friday last a plain repeating GOLD WATCH with a gold chain and a cornelian seal, having a coat of arms handsomely engraved upon it; also a small oval gold key—there is a small gold handle, of a former key, attached to the chain, any person who has found the above and will return it to Mr. Harrison Smith the printer hereof, shall receive the above reward, and no questions will be asked. ** Watch Makers and others are requested to stop the above if offered for sale. Washington, March 28—3
CHARLES VARDEN, TAYLOR. FROM PHILADELPHIA. HAS received from Philadelphia an elegant assortment of the best quality Superfine Cloths, Cassimeres, Silk florintine, black and fancy silk molestin velvet, white & figure Maritelles, Swandowns, Toilingneers, Velvets, Fanny cords, Coating, &c. With a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season. N. B. Ladies Habits, Regimentals and Navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey Avenue, the second House from the Capitol square. November 8, 1803.
CLOVER SEED. BERNARD M'MAHON—SKEDSMAN, No. 129, Chestnut Street....Philadelphia, has now for sale. Red Clover English Field White Dutch Turnip, Clover, English Field Yellow Clover or Peas, Trefoil. Durham Flour of Timothy Mustard. Tares or Vetches Early peas, beans and cabbage seeds, with all kinds of garden and flour seeds, suitable for the American gardens, or the West-Indies, Hemp, rape, canary, maw and millet seeds; all new and of very superior quality. He has also for sale garden tools of every kind; the most approved agricultural, botanical and gardening books. Forest and fruit trees, flowering shrubs and green-house plants vine plants and cuttings, hot bed-glass, mats and lights, &c. &c. By the first arrival from London, either in this city or New-York, he expects a large supply of Lucerne, sainfoin, ray grass and burnet seeds. ** Gardeners to be heard of as above. March 16 saw—2w
PATENT MACHINE For boring Holes in Rocks under water or in any situation and blasting them. THE subscriber having purchased the patent right from Jean Baptiste Aveille, the original inventor, for the counties of Frederick, Shenandoah, Jefferson, Berkeley, Augusta, Rockingham, Hampshire, Hardy and Botetourt in the state of Virginia, will dispose of it to any person or company for any particular object. The model may be seen at any time, and terms made known by A. LINDO, Fred. Co. Vir. Winchester Jan. 18—wtf
CLIFDEN. WILL stand the ensuing season at the City of Washington, at THIRTY DOLLARS the season, which will commence on the 1st of March, and end on the 10th of August, but TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS will be received in full if paid within the season, and a dollar to the groom. Good pasturage at fifty-cents a week, and the utmost attention will be paid to the mares, but there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Notes of hand will be expected at Mr. Rhodes's tavern, city of Washington, and at M'Laughlin's, George-Town. Clifden's half brother Tickle Toby, just imported from England, stands in Virginia at ten guineas a mare. Clifden is a horse of uncommonly fine form, above fifteen and an half hands high, of a beautiful deep blood bay, and perhaps the strongest made thorough blooded horse on the continent. Large and powerful horses produce the only real good turf-horses. March 23—tdof
PEDIGREE. I Certify, that Clifden was gotten by Alfred out of an own sister to the duke of Queensbury's bay horse, Mulberry, which was gotten by Florizel out of Sir James Pennycuick's famous Matchem mare. Clifden was bred by the earl of Derby, and sold untried for 500 guineas. ISAAC PICKERING. Foxlease, Hampshire, 18, 1799. A similar pedigree is given to Dr. Thornton by Sir John Lade, who states that his royal highness the Prince of Wales presented Clifden to him: that he was a good sound horse, and won him some thousands on the turf. ALLIANCE. Alfred was gotten by Matchem. Rockingham's dam, Purity, by Matchem; Pumpkin, Maiden, Conundrum, Ranthos, Riddle, &c. by Matchem. Alfred's dam by Snap. Old Medley's dam by Snap; Snapdragon (dam of Old Selima's) dam by Snap; Old Shark's dam by Snap, &c. Clifden's dam by Florizel. Old Diomed (imported from England and now standing at sixty dollars a mare in Virginia) by Florizel. Florizel by Old King Herod. High Flyer by Old King Herod; Woodpecker (sire of
CLIFDEN. WILL stand the ensuing season at the City of Washington, at THIRTY DOLLARS the season, which will commence on the 1st of March, and end on the 10th of August, but TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS will be received in full if paid within the season, and a dollar to the groom. Good pasturage at fifty-cents a week, and the utmost attention will be paid to the mares, but there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Notes of hand will be expected at Mr. Rhodes's tavern, city of Washington, and at M'Laughlin's, George-Town. Clifden's half brother Tickle Toby, just imported from England, stands in Virginia at ten guineas a mare. Clifden is a horse of uncommonly fine form, above fifteen and an half hands high, of a beautiful deep blood bay, and perhaps the strongest made thorough blooded horse on the continent. Large and powerful horses produce the only real good turf-horses. March 23—tdof
CLIFDEN. WILL stand the ensuing season at the City of Washington, at THIRTY DOLLARS the season, which will commence on the 1st of March, and end on the 10th of August, but TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS will be received in full if paid within the season, and a dollar to the groom. Good pasturage at fifty-cents a week, and the utmost attention will be paid to the mares, but there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Notes of hand will be expected at Mr. Rhodes's tavern, city of Washington, and at M'Laughlin's, George-Town. Clifden's half brother Tickle Toby, just imported from England, stands in Virginia at ten guineas a mare. Clifden is a horse of uncommonly fine form, above fifteen and an half hands high, of a beautiful deep blood bay, and perhaps the strongest made thorough blooded horse on the continent. Large and powerful horses produce the only real good turf-horses. March 23—tdof
CLIFDEN. WILL stand the ensuing season at the City of Washington, at THIRTY DOLLARS the season, which will commence on the 1st of March, and end on the 10th of August, but TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS will be received in full if paid within the season, and a dollar to the groom. Good pasturage at fifty-cents a week, and the utmost attention will be paid to the mares, but there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Notes of hand will be expected at Mr. Rhodes's tavern, city of Washington, and at M'Laughlin's, George-Town. Clifden's half brother Tickle Toby, just imported from England, stands in Virginia at ten guineas a mare. Clifden is a horse of uncommonly fine form, above fifteen and an half hands high, of a beautiful deep blood bay, and perhaps the strongest made thorough blooded horse on the continent. Large and powerful horses produce the only real good turf-horses. March 23—tdof
CLIFDEN. WILL stand the ensuing season at the City of Washington, at THIRTY DOLLARS the season, which will commence on the 1st of March, and end on the 10th of August, but TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS will be received in full if paid within the season, and a dollar to the groom. Good pasturage at fifty-cents a week, and the utmost attention will be paid to the mares, but there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Notes of hand will be expected at Mr. Rhodes's tavern, city of Washington, and at M'Laughlin's, George-Town. Clifden's half brother Tickle Toby, just imported from England, stands in Virginia at ten guineas a mare. Clifden is a horse of uncommonly fine form, above fifteen and an half hands high, of a beautiful deep blood bay, and perhaps the strongest made thorough blooded horse on the continent. Large and powerful horses produce the only real good turf-horses. March 23—tdof
CLIFDEN. WILL stand the ensuing season at the City of Washington, at THIRTY DOLLARS the season, which will commence on the 1st of March, and end on the 10th of August, but TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS will be received in full if paid within the season, and a dollar to the groom. Good pasturage at fifty-cents a week, and the utmost attention will be paid to the mares, but there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Notes of hand will be expected at Mr. Rhodes's tavern, city of Washington, and at M'Laughlin's, George-Town. Clifden's half brother Tickle Toby, just imported from England, stands in Virginia at ten guineas a mare. Clifden is a horse of uncommonly fine form, above fifteen and an half hands high, of a beautiful deep blood bay, and perhaps the strongest made thorough blooded horse on the continent. Large and powerful horses produce the only real good turf-horses. March 23—tdof
CLIFDEN. WILL stand the ensuing season at the City of Washington, at THIRTY DOLLARS the season, which will commence on the 1st of March, and end on the 10th of August, but TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS will be received in full if paid within the season, and a dollar to the groom. Good pasturage at fifty-cents a week, and the utmost attention will be paid to the mares, but there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Notes of hand will be expected at Mr. Rhodes's tavern, city of Washington, and at M'Laughlin's, George-Town. Clifden's half brother Tickle Toby, just imported from England, stands in Virginia at ten guineas a mare. Clifden is a horse of uncommonly fine form, above fifteen and an half hands high, of a beautiful deep blood bay, and perhaps the strongest made thorough blooded horse on the continent. Large and powerful horses produce the only real good turf-horses. March 23—tdof
CLIFDEN. WILL stand the ensuing season at the City of Washington, at THIRTY DOLLARS the season, which will commence on the 1st of March, and end on the 10th of August, but TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS will be received in full if paid within the season, and a dollar to the groom. Good pasturage at fifty-cents a week, and the utmost attention will be paid to the mares, but there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Notes of hand will be expected at Mr. Rhodes's tavern, city of Washington, and at M'Laughlin's, George-Town. Clifden's half brother Tickle Toby, just imported from England, stands in Virginia at ten guineas a mare. Clifden is a horse of uncommonly fine form, above fifteen and an half hands high, of a beautiful deep blood bay, and perhaps the strongest made thorough blooded horse on the continent. Large and powerful horses produce the only real good turf-horses. March 23—tdof