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VOL. V. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
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No. XIX.
(Subject of Foreign Relations, Continued.)
But fortunately neither the dignity of the government nor the interests of the people required, in this case, a resort to arms.
Let it be recollected that the dignity of the government was, in no small degree, propitiated by the assurance of the agents of Spain and France, that the act of the Intendant was unauthorised, and that there existed the strongest reason to expect its disavowal. Let it also be recollected that the pacific course of explanation and negotiation was already commenced. To have used force, before time had been allowed for explanation, would have been not only an abandonment of the course taken by the American government, but would have exposed her to the reproach of violated faith. It would have been said, and justly too, that the pending negotiation covered a treacherous design to attack an ally in the unguarded moments of security, which we, in commencing the negotiation virtually promised.
The dignity of the American government is founded exclusively and entirely on the promotion of the interests of the people. We shall not, therefore, draw any distinction between them, by considering them apart—They are one and the same. May they ever remain so!
Good advice, even from an enemy, should not be disregarded. The advice of Hamilton, given during the discussions arising out of the British treaty, are full of wisdom, so far as it impresses the importance of preserving peace. There is, it is true, no novelty in it. The same sentiments are to be found in the writings of every good civilian; but we prefer quoting him, in order to show that we are not swayed by party motives. If we were, we should recur to other authorities. Among a great deal, said on this occasion, he observes,
"When one nation has cause of complaint against another, the course marked out by practice, the opinion of writers, and the principles of humanity, the object being to avoid war, is to precede reprisals of any kind, by a demand of reparation. To begin with reprisals is to meet on the ground of war and put the other party in a condition not to be able to recede without humiliation."
"Few nations can have stronger inducements than the United States to cultivate peace. Their infant state in general—their want of a marine in particular—to protect their commerce, would render war in an extreme degree, a calamity. It would not only arrest our present rapid progress to strength and prosperity, but would probably throw us back into a state of debility and impoverishment, from which it would require years to emerge. Our trade, navigation, and mercantile capital would be essentially destroyed. Spain being an associate with Great Britain, a general Indian war might be expected to desolate the whole extent of our frontier—our exports obstructed, agriculture would of course languish; all other branches of industry would proportionably suffer; our public debt instead of a gradual diminution would sustain a great augmentation, and draw with it a large increase of taxes and burthens on the people."
"It was therefore in a peculiar manner the duty of the government to take all possible chances for avoiding war. The plan adopted was the only one which could claim this advantage."
"To precipitate nothing, to give time by negotiation, was to leave the country in a situation to profit by any events which might turn up tending to restrain a spirit of hostility in Great Britain, and to dispose her to reasonable accommodation."
"By taking the ground of negotiation in the attitude of preparation for war, we at the same time carried the appeal to the prudence of the British cabinet, without wounding its pride, and to the justice and interest of the British nation, without exciting feelings of resentment."
"This conduct was calculated to range the public opinion of that country on our side, to oppose it to the indulgence of hostile views in the cabinet, and in case of war, to lay the foundation of scism and dissatisfaction."
"But one of the most important advantages to be expected from the course pursued, was the securing of unanimity
among ourselves, if, after all the pains taken to avoid war, it had been forced upon us."
"As on the one hand, it was certain that dissention and discontent would have embarrassed and enfeebled our exertions in a war produced by any circumstance of intemperance in our public councils, or not endeavored to be prevented by all the milder expedients usual in similar cases. So, on the other, it was equally certain, that our having ineffectually exhausted those expedients, would cement us into a firm mass, keep us steady and persevering amidst whatever vicissitudes might happen, and nerve our efforts to the utmost extent of our resources."
"This union among ourselves, and disunion among our enemies, were incalculable effects of the moderate plan, if it had promised no other advantage."
"But is it unimportant to the real friends of republican government, that the plan pursued, was congenial with that pacific character which is ascribed to it? Would it have been more desirable that the government of our nation, out-stripping the war maxims of Europe, should, without a previous demand of reparation, have rushed into reprisals, and consequently into war?"
"However this may be, it is a well ascertained fact, that our country never appeared so august and respectable as in the position which it assumed upon this occasion. Europe was struck with the dignified moderation of our conduct, and the character of our government and nation acquired a new elevation."
"To under rate our just importance would be a degrading error. To over rate it may lead to dangerous mistakes."
"A very powerful state may frequently hazard a high and haughty tone with good policy, but a weak state can scarcely ever do it without imprudence. The last is yet our character, though we are the embryo of a great empire. It is therefore better suited to our situation to measure each step with the utmost caution, to hazard as little as possible, in the cases in which we are injured, to blend moderation with firmness, and brandish the weapons of hostility only when it is apparent that the use of them is unavoidable."
"It is not to be inferred from this that we are to crouch to any power on earth, or tamely to suffer our rights to be violated. A nation which is capable of this meanness, will quickly have no rights to protect, or honor to defend."
"But the true inference is, that we ought not lightly to seek or provoke a resort to arms; that in the differences between us and other nations we ought carefully to avoid measures which tend to widen the breach; and that we should scrupulously abstain from whatever may be construed into reprisals till after the fruitless employment of all amicable means has reduced it to a certainty that there is no alternative."
"If we can avoid war for ten or twelve years more, we shall then have acquired a maturity, which will make it no more than a common calamity, and will authorise us in our national discussions to take a higher and more imposing tone."
"This is a consideration of the greatest weight to determine us to exert all our prudence and address to keep out of war as long as it shall be possible; to defer to a state of manhood a struggle to which infancy is ill adapted. This is the most effectual way to disappoint the enemies of our welfare; to pursue a contrary conduct may be to play into their hands, and to gratify their wishes. If there be a foreign power which sees with envy or ill will our growing prosperity, that power must discern that our infancy is the time for clipping our wings. We ought to be wise enough to see, that this is not the time for trying our strength."
"Should we be able to escape the storm which at this juncture agitates Europe, our disputes with Great Britain terminated, we may hope to postpone war to a distant period. This, at least, will greatly diminish the chances of it. For then there will remain only one power with whom we have any embarrassing discussion. I allude to Spain, and the question of the Mississippi; and there is reason to hope that this question by the natural progress of things, and perseverance in an amicable course, will finally be arranged to our satisfaction without the necessity of the dernier resort."
"Citizens of the United States of America! as you value your present enviable lot, rally round your own good sense! expect from your confidence, men who have never ceased to mind life you! Discard intemperate and illiberal pas-
sions! Aspire to the glory of the greatest triumph which a people can gain, a triumph over prejudice! Be just, be prudent! Listen impartially to the unadulterated language of truth! And above all guard your peace with anxious vigilance against all the artful snares which are laid for it!"
The greater part of the principles laid down by Mr. Hamilton are general, and of course applicable to most cases. Where this is not the case, there is so close an analogy between the grounds of our difference with England, and those with Spain and France, that what is said in the one is no less applicable to the other; with this variation, that the inducements to a pacific course were much stronger in the latter than in the former case; as the injury of which we complained in the one case was trifling compared with those experienced in the other. In our controversy with England, our grounds of complaint were a most extensive depredation on our trade, the intolent impressment and indignity offered to our seamen, and the detention, by force of arms, of the western posts, seated in the midst of our country. In the last case, we complained of but one act, which, though it invaded an important right, was not so extensively injurious as the British depredations, and did not excite those strong feelings which the invasion of our soil, more than any other cause, must always kindle.
For the adjustment of our differences Mr. Monroe was specially dispatched to Europe, and particular instructions given to Mr. Livingston.
Events proved the wisdom of the pacific measures of the administration; for on the 30th day of April 1803, a treaty was formed with the French republic, not merely restoring the right of deposit, not merely giving us the sovereignty over New Orleans, but ceding for fifteen millions of dollars the whole province of Louisiana. So far as this measure tended to insure peace it was complete; and this of itself would have been an ample compensation for the purchase money. But it must not be overlooked that two serious grounds of dissatisfaction with the French government were also eradicated by this treaty—that arising from spoliation upon our trade, and that from our violated rights on the Mississippi. The continuance of either of these might have constituted the germ of war, and certainly would have disturbed a state of amity between the two nations.
It has been alleged by the envy of the opponents of the administration that for this great event we are not indebted to the wisdom of the cabinet, but to the accidental circumstance of a war between France and Great Britain. But even, allowing that this event greatly contributed to recommend to France the cession, which, however, is far from appearing, are we warranted in assuming that the administration did not reckon upon war between France and England as a probable event? Is it not extremely probable that at the time the treaty was formed, information possessed by them but not by the public, justified them in viewing it as an event almost certain? The same spirit of envy, in ascribing exclusively to Mr. Livingston, the merit of the treaty, has attempted to depreciate the services of the President and Secretary of State. But of what consequence is it to the nation whether the treaty emanated directly from the chief Executive, or from his confidential organs? Is it required by the theory of our government that the former shall himself discharge all executive duties? Is it possible? And does he not fulfil all his duties by either doing himself, or through others appointed by him, whatever the Constitution and laws require? The facts, however, are that the Mississippi navigation has steadily commanded the attention of the Executive, and that the securing it has long occupied the deliberate actions of the cabinet. By what means, it was intended to accomplish this effect, has not appeared. What were the instructions given to Mr. Poinsett, or to Messrs Livingston and Monroe, is unknown to the public. With what degree then of justice can it be said, while those circumstances are unknown, that the President deserves no credit for the treaty?
The presentation of this treaty to Congress at the ensuing session may be considered as establishing a new political era. Hitherto the Executive had claimed an entire command, in participation with the Senate, over the treaty-making power. On one memorable occasion the House of Representatives had made a stand against this claim, but the Executive, so far as depended upon him, flatly repelled it. On this occasion the Chief Magistrate unequivocally declared
to each branch of the Legislature his opinion that the full ratification of the treaty depended on the joint co-operation of both branches. When we reflect on the vast importance of this power, which from its very nature scarcely admits of constitutional restraint, we cannot too highly appreciate the republican moderation of the man who renounced what he considered dangerous to liberty.
CURIUS.
(Subject of Foreign relations to be continued.)
FROM THE ENQUIRER.
A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA.
Set forth in some Resolutions intended for the inspection of the present Delegates of the People of Virginia now in Convention.
BY THOMAS JEFFERSON.
(Continued.)
That thus have we hastened through the reigns which preceded his majesty's, during which the violation of our right were less alarming, because repeated at more distant intervals than that rapid and bold succession of injuries which is likely to distinguish the present from all other periods of American story. Scarcely have our minds been able to emerge from the astonishment into which one stroke of parliamentary thunder has involved us, before another more heavy, and more alarming, is fallen on us. Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.
That the act (a) passed in the 4th year of his majesty's reign, intitled "An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America, &c."
One other act (b) passed in the 5th year of his reign, intitled "An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties and other duties in the British colonies and plantations in America, &c."
One other act (c) passed in the 6th year of his reign, intitled "An act for the better securing the dependency of his majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain;" and one other act (d) passed in the 7th year of his reign, intitled "An act for granting duties on paper, tea, &c." form that connected chain of parliamentary usurpation, which has already been the subject of frequent applications to his majesty, and the houses of lords and commons of Great Britain; and no answers having yet been condescended to any of these, we shall not trouble his majesty with a repetition of the matters they contained.
But that one other act (e) passed in the same 7th year of his reign, having been a peculiar attempt, must ever require peculiar mention; it is intitled "An act for suspending the legislature of New York. One free and independent legislature hereby takes upon itself to suspend the powers of another, free and independent as itself; thus exhibiting a phenomenon unknown in nature, the creator and creature of its own power. Not only the principles of common sense, but the feelings of human nature, must be surrendered up before his majesty's subjects here can be persuaded to believe that they hold their political existence at the will of a British parliament. Shall these governments be dissolved, their property annihilated, and their people reduced to a state of nature, at the imperious breath of a body of men, whom they never saw, in whom they never confided, and over whom they have no power of punishment or removal, let their crimes against the American public be ever so great? Can any one reason be assigned why 160 000 electors in the island of Great Britain should give law to four millions in the states of America, every individual of whom is equal to every individual of them, in virtue, in understanding, and in bodily strength? Were this to be admitted, instead of being a free people, as we have hitherto supposed, and mean to continue ourselves, we should suddenly be found the slaves, not of one, but of 160 000 tyrants, distinguished too from all others by this singular circumstance, that they are removed from the reach of fear, the only restraining motive, which may withhold the hand of a tyrant."
That by "an act (f) to discontinue in such manner and for such time as are therein mentioned the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town and within the harbour of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America," which was passed at the last session of British parliament; a large and populous town, whose trade was their sole subsistence, was deprived of that trade, and involved in utter ruin. Let us for a while suppose the question of right suspended, in order to examine this act on principles of justice: An act of parliament had been passed imposing duties on tea, to be paid in America, against which the Americans had protested as unauthoritative. The East India company, who till that time had never sent a pound of tea to America on their own account, slept forth on that occasion the assertors of parliamentary right, and sent hither many ship loads of that obnoxious commodity. The masters of their several vessels, however, on their arrival in America, wisely attended to admonition, and returned with their cargoes. In the province of Massachusetts alone the remonstrances of the people were disregarded, and a compliance, after being many days waited for, was flatly refused. Whether in this the master of the vessel was governed by his obstinacy, or his instructions, let those who know, say. There are extraordinary situations which require extraordinary interpolation. An exasperated people, who feel that they possess power, are not easily restrained within its strictly regular. A number of them assembled in the town of Boston, threw the tea into the ocean, and dispersed without doing any other act of violence. If in this they did wrong, they were known and we are amenable to the laws of the land, against which it could not be objected that they had ever, in any instance been obstructed or diverted from their regular course in favour of popular offenders. They should therefore not have been disfranchised on this occasion. But that ill-fated colony had formerly been both in their enemies against the house of Stuart, and were now devoted to ruin by that unseen hand which governs the momentous affairs of this great empire. On the partial representations of a few worthless ministerial dependents, whose cantankerous office it has been to keep that government embroiled, and who, by their treacheries, hope to obtain the dignity of the (g) British knighthood, without asking for a party accused, without asking a proof, without attempting a distinction between the guilty and the innocent, the whole of that ancient and wealthy town is in a moment reduced from opulence to beggary. Men who had spent their lives in extending the British commerce, who had invested in that place the wealth their honest endeavours had merited, found themselves and their families thrown at once on the world for subsistence by its charities. Not the hundredth part of the inhabitants of that town had been concerned in the act complained of; many of them were in Great Britain and in other parts beyond sea; yet all were involved in one indiscriminate ruin, by a new executive power unheard of till then, that of a British parliament. A property, of the value of many millions of money, was sacrificed to revenge, not repay, the loss of a few thousands. This is administering justice with a heavy hand indeed! and when is this tempest to be arrested in its course? Two what is to be opened again when his majesty shall think proper. The residue which lined the exchequer of the bay of Boston are forever interdicted the exercise of commerce. This little exception seems to have been thrown in for no other purpose than that of setting a precedent for investing his majesty with legislative powers. If the pulse of his people shall beat calmly under this experiment, another and another will be tried, till the measure of despotism be filled up. It would be an insult on common sense to pretend that this exception was made in order to restore its commerce to that great town. The trade which cannot be received at two wharfs alone must of necessity be transferred to some other place; to which it will soon be followed by that of the two wharfs. Considered in this light, it would be an insult and cruel mockery at the annihilation of the town of Boston.
By the act for the suppression of riots and tumults in the town of Boston, passed also in the last session of parliament, a murder committed there is, if the governor pleases, to be tried in the court of King's Bench, in the island of Great Britain, by a jury of Middlesex. The witnesses, too, on receipt of such a sum as the governor shall think

reasonable for them to expect, are to enter into recognition to appear at the trial. This is, in other words, taxing them to the amount of their recognition, and that amount may be whatever a governor pleases; for who does his majesty think can be prevailed on to cross the Atlantic for the sole purpose of bearing evidence to a fact? His expenses are to be borne, indeed, as they shall be estimated by a governor; but who are to feed the wife and children whom he leaves behind, and who have had no other subsistence but his daily labor? Those epidemical disorders, too, so terrible in a foreign climate, is the cure of them to be eliminated among the articles of expense, and their danger to be ward off by the almighty power of parliament? And the wretched criminal, if he happen to have offended on the American side, stripped of his privilege of trial by peers of his vicinage, removed from the place where alone full evidence could be obtained, without money, without counsel, without friends, without explanatory proof, is tried before judges predetermined to condemn. The coward who would suffer a countryman to be torn from the bosoms of their society, in order to be thus offered a sacrifice to parliamentary tyranny, would merit that everlasting infamy now fixed on the authors of the act! A clause (i) for a similar purpose had been introduced into an act, passed in the 12th year of his majesty's reign, intitled "An act for the better securing and preserving his majesty's do kya ds, magazines, ships, ammunition, and stores;" against which, as meriting the same censure, the several colonies have already protested. That these are the acts of power, assumed by a body of men, foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws, against which we do, on behalf of the inhabitants of British America, enter this our solemn and determined protest; and we do earnestly entreat his majesty, as yet the only mediatory power between the several states of the British empire, to recommend to his parliament of Great Britain the total revocation of these acts, which, however nugatory they be, may yet prove the cause of further discontent and jealousies among us. That we next proceed to consider the conduct of his majesty, as holding the executive powers of the laws of these states, and mark out his deviations from the line of duty. By the constitution of Great Britain, as well as of the several American states, his majesty possesses the power of refusing to pass into a law any bill which has already passed the other two branches of legislature. His majesty, however, and his ancestors, conscious of the impropriety of opposing their single opinion to the united wisdom of two houses of parliament, while their proceedings were unbiased by interested principles, for several ages past have modestly declined the exercise of this power in that part of his empire called Great Britain. But by change of circumstances, other principles than those of justice simply have obtained an influence on their determinations; the addition of new states to the British empire has produced an addition of new, and sometimes opposite interests. It is now, therefore, the great office of his majesty, to resume the exercise of his negative power, and to prevent the passage of laws by any one legislature of the empire, which might bear injuriously on the rights and interests of another. Yet this will not excuse the wanton exercise of this power which we have seen his majesty practise on the laws of the American legislatures. For the most trifling reasons, and sometimes for no conceivable reason at all, his majesty has rejected laws of the most salutary tendency. The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa; yet our repeated attempts to effect this by prohibitions, and by imposing duties which might amount to a prohibition, have been hitherto defeated by his majesty's negative. Thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests of the American states, and to the rights of human nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice. Nay, the single interposition of an interested individual against a law was fearfully ever known to fail of success, though in the opposite scale were placed the interests of a whole country. That this is so shameful an abuse of a power trusted with his majesty for other purposes, as if not reformed, would call for some legal restrictions. With equal attention to the necessities of his people here has his majesty permitted our laws to lie neglected in England for years, neither confirming them by his assent, nor annulling them by his negative; so that such of them as have no suspending clause we hold on the most precarious of all tenures, his majesty's will, and such of them as suspending themselves till his majesty's assent be obtained, we have feared, might be called into existence at some future and distant period, when time, and change of circumstances, shall have rendered
them destitute to his people here. And to render this grievance still more oppressive, his majesty by his instructions has laid his governors under such restrictions that they can pass no law of any moment unless it have such suspending clause; so that, however immediate may be the call for legislative interposition, the law cannot be executed till it has twice crossed the Atlantic, by which time the evil may have spent its whole force. (a) 4. G. 3. c. 15. (b) 5. G. 3. c. 12. (c) 6. G. 3. c. 12. (d) 7. G. 3. (e) 7. G. 3. c. 59. (f) 14. G. 3. (g) Alluding to the knighting of Francis Bernard. (h) 14. G. 3. (i) 12. G. 3. c. 24. (To be continued.) NEW-ORLEANS. The Governor has addressed a letter, of which the following is a copy to each member of the Council. New Orleans, October 5th, 1804. SIR, I have the pleasure to inform you, that you are appointed by the President of the United States, a member of the Legislative Council for the Territory of Orleans. Your commission is in my possession, and will be delivered whenever it may be agreeable to you to attend and take before me the oaths of office required by law. I flatter myself you will afford to your fellow citizens, the benefit of your services in the council, and request that you would inform me of your determination as early as may be convenient. I am, Sir, Very respectfully, Your humble serv't, WILLIAM C. C. CLAIBORNE. On the 9th instant the following letter from the Governor was addressed to each member of the Council. New Orleans, October 9th, 1804. SIR, I have the honor to enclose you a proclamation convoking the Legislative Council; the interest of the Territory rendered this call necessary, and I rely with confidence on your punctual attendance. I am, Sir, Very respectfully, Your humble serv't, WILLIAM C. C. CLAIBORNE. By his Excellency WILLIAM C. C. CLAIBORNE, Gov. of the Territory of Orleans. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas the interest of the Territory would in my opinion be promoted by an early session of the legislature thereof, I have thought proper to issue this my Proclamation, hereby requiring each and every member of the legislative council, to meet in council at the Hotel de Ville in the city of New Orleans, on Monday the 12th of November next. Given at New Orleans, this 9th day of October, one thousand eight hundred and four, and of the Independence of the United States, the 29th. In testimony whereof, I have under-figured my name and caused (L. s.) the public seal to be hereunto affixed. Wm C. C. CLAIBORNE. To the Editor of the Telegraph. SIR, As I find my motives for declining to accept a place in the Legislative council, have been misrepresented, be pleased to insert the following letter from governor Claiborne to me, and my answer, in your next Gazette, in order to let the matter in its true point of light. I am, Your humble servant, E. JONES. [Here follows a copy of the circular letter of the Governor to the members elect of the legislative council.] New Orleans, 8th October, 1804. SIR, I did not receive till within this hour, the letter you did me the honour to write me on the 5th inst. from which I learn that the President of the United States, has been pleased to appoint me a member of the legislative council, for the territory of Orleans; and that my commission is in your hands, &c. As I have not the honour of being personally known to the President, I cannot well imagine to whom I am indebted for the favorable idea that some body must have surely given him of me. 'Such a mark of his good opinion is extremely flattering to me—and under other circumstances might be extremely acceptable; but in my present situation I do not feel myself at liberty to accept of the appointment. Conjointly with almost all the inhabitants of Lower Louisiana, I have signed a memorial to Congress, respectfully remonstrating against the act made for
our government; and humbly praying for a repeal thereof. I cannot therefore with any degree of consistency, accept of an office under a law, of which I have from the beginning so openly expressed my disapprobation; and which for the happiness of my fellow citizens (and forgive me if I add) for the honor of my native country, I so ardently wished to see annulled! When calm reflection shall have taken the place of passion and of party spirit, I flatter myself that my conduct on the present occasion will be approved—I was born an American—I glory in that name—In defence of that happy land which gave me birth, my life and my fortune shall always be staked; but, I cannot consent, for any consideration, to do an act, which I think subversive of the rights and liberties of my fellow-citizens! With great respect, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellency's Most obedient and Most humble servant, EVAN JONES. His Excellency Governor Claiborne. New York, Nov. 12. The brig Rolla, which arrived at this port yesterday, left Bordeaux on the 1st of October. Her Paris papers are to the 20th of September, inclusive, a file of which is received at the office of the Mercantile Advertiser. Our verbal accounts are, that on the 11th Oct. in lat. 45, long. 16, the Rolla spoke the ship Balthur, Douglas, at that time out eight days from Greenock for Demerara, who failed with the ship Pitt, and a new ship name not recollected, for this port; and was informed that the Spanish minister left London on the 26th of September. War having been declared between England and Spain, and letters of marque and reprisal issued by the former against the latter. Intelligence had reached Bordeaux, and obtained general credit, that a formal declaration of war against France on the part of Russia was on the eve of being made. A British fleet of nine sail of the line were at anchor off Rochelle. No further progress made in the preparations for invasion. Passengers in the Rolla, Mr. Emmett (the celebrated Irish counsellor and patriot) and his family, Mr. Roque, Mr. Labat, and Mr. Baudon. Our Paris papers are as dull, as uninteresting, and as silly as usual. The following are the only articles entitled to notice: "The greater part of the Russian forces are concentrated upon the frontiers of the Turkish empire; from which circumstance it is generally believed that the cabinet of Petersburg are about some serious undertaking against the Ottoman Porte, who would find it difficult at present to make any effectual resistance. It is generally believed in Germany that the king of Prussia will shortly cause himself to be proclaimed Emperor of Brandenburg. The court of Vienna has received from most of the principal powers of Europe the act recognising the hereditary imperial dignity in the House of Austria. The ceremony of the coronation of the hereditary Emperor of Austria is fixed for the month of October, when he will assume the title of Francis I.—The annals of the world afford few examples of two imperial crowns uniting on the head of one sovereign. The crown is preparing, and will be of the value of several millions. The government of the Batavian Republic are occupied upon objects of the greatest importance, if we may judge by the frequency of the extraordinary sittings of the members which take place daily, and of the couriers who are dispatched to Aix-la-Chapelle to M. Schimmelpennink, the ambassador, who is at that place. M. d'Onbril, charge d'affaires from Russia near the French government, has arrived at Mayence, where he waits the arrival of the Emperor Napoleon. The French general commanding in Naples has ordered the seizure of all vessels suspected of having on board provisions destined for Malta or for the English squadron. The ministers of Russia and England, at their own request were to have a particular audience of the king of Prussia on the 2d September. The departure of the Pope from Rome for France is fixed for the 16th Oct. General Lauriston, aid-de-camp to the Emperor of France, arrived at Vienna early in Sept. on his way to Constantinople with a mission. The count de Lisle left Grodno the 22d of August on his way to Mittau, his former residence, in the Russian dominion. The regiments from St. Domingo are completing in the 11th military division at Bordeaux. The officers who arrived from that colony, and who are at Paris, have, in consequence, received orders to depart immediately for Bordeaux." We learn by the brig Philanthropist from Nantz, that gen. Thuriot, the im-
perial ambassador to America, has taken passage in the ship Shepherds, captain Goodfellow, bound to New-York; and would sail from thence in a few days after the Philanthropist. Captain Henry, of the Nancy from Liverpool, on Monday last about 10 o'clock in the forenoon, saw the French frigates Didon and La Cybelle, 60 miles from Montevideo, standing S. S. E. with a fresh breeze. WASHINGTON CITY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. The document, accompanying the Message, for establishing a collection district in the Mobile, manifests unequivocally the course pursued by the administration, and furnishes abundant materials for an estimate of their motives. The act of Congress of the last session authorized the President, whenever he should deem it expedient "to erect the shores, waters and inlets of the bay and river Mobile, and of the other rivers, creeks, inlets, and bays emptying into the gulph of Mexico, east of the said river Mobile, and west thereof" of to the Pascagoula, into a separate district." In virtue of this authority, the President on the 30th day of May established a collection district, embracing "all the above mentioned shores, waters, inlets, creeks and rivers, lying within the boundaries of the United States;" and designated Fort Stoddert, the port of entry and departure. It has been alleged that the government of the United States, in the first instance by a legislative act, and afterwards by an executive construction, decided West Florida to be a part of the cession of Louisiana, and that they had taken measures to possess themselves of it. But the document, we have quoted, shews this allegation to be entirely untrue. The act of Congress gives a general power to the executive to establish a collection district on certain waters, without saying whether in the United States or not. These words were unnecessary, as they would have been altogether superfluous. The legislature of the United States can legislate for the United States alone; and they do, in fact, legislate for the United States, in nine acts out of ten without using the term "United States." When, however, the executive came to carry this general authority into effect, aware, probably of a collision of claims between the United States and Spain, it became him, as the legitimate organ of foreign relations, to guard against disturbing our amicable sentiments with that nation. And lest those sentiments should be disturbed by what might have been construed into a premature construction of the treaty of cession, it is expressly declared, in an official act, that only "the abovementioned shores, waters, inlets, creeks and rivers, lying within the boundaries of the United States," shall be formed into a collection district, and a port of entry and delivery actually designated, which is allowed on all hands to be within the United States. Some exception has been taken to the terms of the act of Congress defining the district. But an attention to the geography of the country, to which the United States have an undisputed title, will shew that without equivalent expressions they could not have secured a strict execution of their revenue laws. "With the nations of Europe in general," says the President, "our friendship and intercourse are undisturbed: and from the governments of the belligerent powers especially, we continue to receive those friendly manifestations which are justly due to an honest neutrality, and to such good offices consistent with that, as we have opportunities of rendering." There cannot be a stronger evidence of the ability of any administration than the preservation of good terms with the great powers of Europe, who are at this very moment engaged in one of the most awful wars that have ever been waged. To maintain terms of amity with France and England for a period of four years is a fortune so rare, as never before to have existed since our country became independent. Our relations with the Barbary powers are next adverted to, on which it is not important further to animadvert than by observing that the spirited measures, adopted by Congress at their last session, have been carried into execution with promptness and fidelity. Ere this it is extremely probable that the faithless pirate is overwhelmed with ruin. The organization of our new territory is a subject peculiarly delicate and interesting. With regard to a zealous promotion of the interests of our new brethren there is but one wish in America, and whatever differences there may be respecting the best elements of the government in the first instance bestowed upon them, there can be no doubt that they will ultimately, and at no distant day, enjoy the political rights we so highly prize. This important point
the President submits to the consideration of Congress. There is not a human being, whose heart is softened by the feelings of humanity, nor an American, impressed as every American ought to be, with the infinite importance of acquiring for his country the character of justice, that will not rejoice at the unprecedented respect which is paid to the rights, the feelings, and the comfort of the natives of our soil. Other nations, in the deadly spirit of conquest and despotism have exterminated or enslaved the aborigines of the regions they discovered. For us has been reserved, the proud distinction of protecting them from injustice, and of leading them, with a rapidity beyond the expectations of enthusiasm, to the arts and habits of civilized life. Such have been the wise measures of the government, as, notwithstanding the extension of our frontier, to have superadded the augmentation of our "military force." "I read," says the President, "of an augmentation of military force, proportioned to our extension of frontier. I propose a moderate enlargement of the capital employed in that [Indian] commerce as a more effectual, economical and humane instrument for preserving peace and good neighborhood with them." Honorable proposition! equally worthy of the heart from which it flows, and the body to whom it is addressed! Congressional Register. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WEDNESDAY, November 14. The Speaker laid before the House a letter from Duncan McFarland, relating to the contested election of Mr. Purniance from N. Carolina, referred to the Committee of Elections. The Speaker also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Navy enveloping a report on the navy pension fund, which was ordered to be printed. Dr. Mitchell presented a memorial from Wm. Dunbar of the Mississippi territory on the subject of his claim to a certain tract of land at Natchez, referred to the committee appointed on the same subject during the present session. Mr. Cummings presented the petition of Simeon Noyes, an old revolutionary soldier and non-commissioned officer, who was disabled in the service by wounds and sickness, who also admitted on the pension list by the judgment in 1792 has never received any allowance from the United States, and praying a pension may be allowed him to enable him to support himself, his wife and eight children. On motion this petition was referred to a select committee of three, but on the suggestion of Mr. J. C. Smith, the motion was reconsidered, and it was referred to the committee of Claims. Gen. Varnum moved that the committee be instructed to consider at large the subject relative to invalid pensions, and the situation of all persons who were wounded or disabled in the service of the United States, during our revolutionary war with Great-Britain, and what further measures are necessary to render them full ample remuneration as justice may require. Ordered, that the committee be instructed accordingly. Gen. Varnum presented a petition from Paul Noyes, praying for the payment of a balance due to him, for military equipments furnished the army during the years 1778, 9, 80 and 81—referred to the committee of Claims. Mr. Eyles presented a petition from a number of the inhabitants of Alexandria in the territory of Columbia, praying for an alteration in their charter—Referred to a committee of three. Dr. Leib mentioned to the House the condition in which the public buildings (the arsenal at Philadelphia) the property of the United States were: one of the sections was raised to the first floor, and some other parts were left unfinished, indeed all the uncovered parts of the buildings were more or less suffering delapidation or going to decay; he thought it would be found prudent to finish them in order to preserve them. He therefore moved that a committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of making provision by law for the completion of the public building, to be ongoing to the United States, near Philadelphia. Referred to a select committee of three members. Mr. Lucas presented the petition of Susanna Taylor on the behalf of the children of her late husband Mr. Fulton, a lieutenant in the 11th Pennsylvania regiment praying that a warrant for 300 acres of land, the donation of the old Congress to officers of his rank, might issue. An enquiry had been made at the War Office into this subject; but it was rendered incomplete by the burning of the papers, however it did appear that a warrant had already issued on the account, but inasmuch as it had never reached those whose property it was; upon the issue of a second, Mrs. Taylor offers to indemnify the United States against the same, if it should ever appear. Referred to the committee of Claims. Mr. Rodney presented a petition from John Crawford, an old soldier of 1776

in the Delaware regiment, and afterwards engaged in the sea service, who was twice wounded, and three times taken prisoner, twice he was confined on board the prison ships at New-York, and once at Halifax. Mr. R. wished some general regulation could be speedily made for the small remnant of this brave and meritorious, tho' neglected and suffering class of our fellow citizens. The petition was referred to the committee of Claims.
Mr. G. W. Campbell moved to instruct the committee appointed on that part of the President's Message which relates to an enlargement of the capital employed in commerce with the Indian tribes, to enquire into what alterations and amendments are necessary to the laws regulating trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and preserving peace on the frontiers, with leave to report by bill or otherwise. Agreed to. Adjourned.
THURSDAY, November 15, 1804. Mr. M. Clay presented the petition of the flock-holders of the Alexandria Marine Insurance Company, praying to be authorised to make insurance on houses, &c. from loss by fire; referred to a select committee of three.
Mr. J. Randolph presented a petition from J. Seth Jackson and Charles Spencer, executors of Doctor William Carter, stating that he was entitled by his services, during our revolutionary war in the hospital department to certain lands; but legislative aid being necessary to enable them to obtain the same, they pray Congress to consider the case, and do what justice requires. Referred to the committee of Claims.
Mr. J. Randolph moved the order of the day on the bill making farther appropriation for carrying into execution the treaty between the United States and Great Britain.
Mr. J. C. SMITH in the chair. The blank was filled with 70,000 dollars, the committee then rose and reported the bill.
The House agreed to the same as reported, and ordered it to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
A message from the President of the United States was received, accompanied by the report of the Secretary of the Navy communicating the documents requested by the House relative to the affair of the Intrepid Ketch under the command of captain Decatur, who it was announced had been promoted to the rank of captain in the navy of the United States. Ordered to be printed.
Mr. Sloan presented a petition from a number of the inhabitants of the townships of Weymouth, Galloway and Egg harbour in New-Jersey, praying the establishment of a post road through the same. Referred to the committee on post offices and roads.
Mr. Alston moved to refer the act of N. Carolina authorising the state of Tennessee to perfect titles to lands reserved to that state by the cession act to a select committee of five, with leave to report by bill or otherwise. Agreed.
Dr. Mitchell made a report from the committee of Commerce and Manufactures on the petition of the State Companies of New-York and Dutchess counties, concluding that any additional duty on imported state at this time will be inexpedient. The general principle upon which this report was based, being of considerable importance, and likely to excite discussion, he moved to refer it to a committee of the whole, and that it be made the order for Tuesday next: agreed, and in the mean time ordered to be printed.
Mr. Newton stated a fact relative to a citizen of Georgia, who had been sued in that state; but the creditor finding the citizen was coming to Washington, dismissed his suit there, and procured his arrest here; The debtor as a stranger for want of bail must have gone to prison, but through the humanity of the marshal who accompanied him to several places in the territory in search of a friend, the debtor was fortunate enough to procure the requisite security, and thereby avoided the hardships of imprisonment. To prevent in future this species of oppression to which strangers are liable, he moved that a select committee of five be appointed to enquire whether any, and if any, what alterations are necessary to be made in the laws of the district of Columbia relative to holding persons to bail, and that they be authorised to report by bill or otherwise. A committee of five was appointed accordingly.
On motion of General Stenton, the petition of a number of inhabitants of Westerly in the county of Washington, Rhode-Island, praying that a light-house may be erected on Watch-hill point; and another from Stonington, in connection for a similar purpose, was referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures with leave to report by bill or otherwise. Adjourned.
Massachusetts Election. No election in this state has ever been contested with so much spirit as the present. For a long time past the federalists have teemed with lan-
guage of the utmost acrimony and violence. They have not disguised their purpose to make a vigorous effort to put down forever the friends of the administration, by their example to bring back the deluded people of Rhode Island and New Hampshire, and to convince the world that the proud spirit of New-England will not submit to the ignominious chains of republicanism! Hence their efforts have been great. On the other hand, however, we rejoice to say, that the republicans have risen in the majesty of truth, and, sacrificing with a few exceptions, local and personal feelings, to the good of their country, have advanced in a solid column to defend their rights, and to maintain the unity of their government. And we are mistaken if events will not make federalism rue the suggestion that dictated a course of measures, pointing towards a dissolution of the union, which has roused the spirit of seventy-five, and called forth the true sense of the state. We do not venture to predict the result; although every mail brings us intelligence that strengthens the preceding assurances of success.
Under these circumstances, we offer no apology for the details we give.
Northampton, (Mass.) Nov. 6. For Representatives to Congress W. Ely, Esq. 264—Samuel Fowler, Esq. 81—In the election of Representatives to the General Court last Spring, the democratic candidate had thirty more and the federal one hundred less than were given in for electors.
LIST OF VOTES, For Electors of President and Vice President.
   Federal Repub.    Northampton, 281 76  Belcher, 123 26  Easthampton, 93 5  Deerfield, 208 0  South Hadley, 74 22  Buckland, 88 53  Glen, 75 13  Williamsburgh, 91 44  Chesterfield, 103 53  Hadley, 96 7  Westhampton, 97 6  Hatfield, 60 58  Westfield, 93 104  Montague, 75 9  Wilbraham, 97 89  Shelburn, 111 22  Granville, 131 84  Ludlow, 8 42  Longmeadow, 73 29  West Springfield, 87 228  Montgomery, 30 27  Southampton, 150 13  Sunderland, 67 5  New-Salem, 100 66  Summersbury, 78 1  Cheshire, 73 77  Norwich, 60 17  Amherst, 123 20  Worthington, 121 31  Conway, 132 101  Greenfield, 87 58  Barnstable, 50 57  Springfield, 137 85  Brimfield, 120 11  Palmer, 63 3  Alfield, 114 46  Monson, 91 55  Northfield, 69 75  Middlefield, 57 29  Blandford, 95 44  Whately, 58 42  Granby, 74 22  
* In this town last spring a democratic representative was chosen to the general court.
The votes for representative to Congress, in the above towns so nearly correspond with the above list that we do not think it necessary to publish them.
   Fed. Rep.    Boston, 2277 1568  Charlestown, 161 342  Malden, 26 114  Medford, 101 32  Chelsea, 21 17  Hingham, 69 114  Braintree, 78 74  Roxbury, 113 313  Watertown, 33 83  Framingham, 61 106  Abington, 89 150  Weymouth, 25 55  Randolph, 21 120  Easton, 24 121  Canton, 20 111  Lancaster, 96 37  Leicester, 92 63  Worcester, 100 175  Shrewsbury, 105 51  Northboro', 70 10  Marlboro' 26 150  Berlin, 100 0  East-Sudbury, 24 60  Andover, 195 215  Newbury-Port, 398 240  Newbury, 173 184  Salem, 43 83  Billerica, 107 39  Salem, 483 608  Marblehead, 30 363  Danvers, 179 137  Beverly, 181 99  Lynnfield, 26 15  Lynn, 173 287  Wenham, 39 21  Gloucester, 127 241  Manchester, 81 1  Middleton, 28 61  
  Amherst, 55 181  Taunton, 164 180  Raynham, 44 75  Reading, 155 137  Wellesley, 97 38  Newton, 87 29  Cambridge, 138 228  Quincy, 88 25  Dorchester, 98 180  Milton, 48 91  Franklin, 94 49  Waltham, 41 77  Needham, 29 74  Dedham, 55 204  Stoughton, 12 124  Brooklyn, 26 34  7 227 8,198  
Suffolk District entire.
   QUINCY. EUSTIS.    Boston, 1920 1567  Charlestown, 152 341  Malden, 26 114  Medford, 100 31  Chelsea, 18 19  Hingham, 67 112  2283 2184  
Majority for QUINCY, 99.
NORFOLK.—Candidates—THOMAS B. ADAMS, and EBENEZER SEAYER.
   ADAMS. SEAYER.    Roxbury, 120 276  Braintree, 78 74  Newton, 83 29  Quincy, 88 25  Dorchester, 98 180  Milton, 46 91  Dedham, 54 198  Franklin, 94 49  Needham, 29 74  690 996  
MIDDLESEX DISTRICT—Candidates—TIMOTHY BIGLOW, federal; and JOSEPH B. VARNUM, repub.
   BIGLOW. VARNUM.    Wellesley, 98 37  Cambridge, 133 220  Framingham, 60 105  Billerica, 95 50  386 412  
We have received the returns of eleven towns in the district re-referent to Mr. Bishop, which give the following result:
   Ticket of Electors.    Republican, 1,367  Federal, 672  Majority 695   Representative.  Mr. Bishop, rep. 1,238  Mr. Tillinghast, fed. 604  Majority 634  
Besides these votes 164 scattering votes were given. Four towns are wanting to complete the returns of this district, which will unquestionably give republican majorities—Mr. Bishop is therefore re-chosen by a large majority.
Jacob Crowningshield, republican, is re-elected, we understand, by a majority of 680; which exceeds by four hundred his majority at the last election.
The Boston Chronicle of the 8th inst. whose exertions have been distinguished by the most ardent zeal, furnishes us with the latest information, from which it appears that one hundred and six towns have given the following votes.
   For Electors.    Republican 12,779  Federal 10,422  Repub. majority 2,357  
The votes given in April for governor by the same towns were For Strong 10,717 Sullivan 8,806
Fed. majority 1,911 Making a difference of 4,268 votes.
The Legislature of Rhode Island have chosen Benjamin Howland, Senator of the United States, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of Samuel J. Potter, deceased; and James Fenner, Senator for the term of six years from the 4th of March next. Both these gentlemen are decided republicans.
The republican ticket for Electors in Vermont was chosen by a majority varying from forty to seventy. The difference of the votes given arose from the federalists supporting republicans not on the successful ticket.
The legislature of New-Jersey have rejected the amendment proposed by Massachusetts to the constitution of the United States.
The General Assembly of Vermont have made choice of the following gentlemen as Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States: JOSIAH WRIGHT, SAMUEL SHAW, EZRA BUTLER, NATHAN L. NILES, WM. HUNTER, JOHN NOYS, All Republicans.
Electors chosen by the Legislature of the State of New-York, on the 9th of November.
Sylvester Dering, James Faislie, Cornelius Bergen, John Haring, Ezra Thompson, Major John Wood, Conrad I. Elmendorf, Stephen Miller, Col. Henry Quackenbush, Albert Pawling, Isaac Sargent, John Cramer, Thomas Brook, Mathias B. Hildreth, William Floyd, Jonas Earl, Joseph Ellicot, Adam Comstock, Abraham Banker.
The above are all decidedly republican. On a concurrent ballot for Senator in the room of General Armstrong the votes stood, for Samuel L. Mitchell 75 Rufus King 14 David Thomas 1 Samuel L. Mitchell was consequently elected.
Richmond, Nov. 10. Monday last an election for Electors of a President and Vice President of the United States, was held throughout this commonwealth. There cannot be the least doubt as to the result, no federal ticket having been formed, or the smallest appearance of opposition to those nominated as republican electors. This will account for the few votes given at the different polls. In Prince George the Republican ticket had Dinwiddie, 57 Chesterfield, 81 Suffolk, 130 216
IN COMMON COUNCIL. Alexandria, November 10, 1804.
A communication was laid before Council from the Mayor of the City of Washington recommending the appointment of delegates to meet at the city of Washington, on business relative to the district of Columbia: Whereupon, it is resolved, That the present state of the town of Alexandria, and the objects interesting to their welfare to which the attention of Congress may be solicited are not so numerous nor of such a nature as to render it expedient or necessary at present to send delegates to the Convention proposed by the City Council of Washington. But should any such objects occur, this council will be always ready to concur in any such application as far as they conceive themselves authorised so to do.
Resolved, That the Mayor be requested to communicate the aforesaid resolution to the Mayor of Washington. Tell, JAMES M'REA, C. C.
TURNPIKE.
At the last session of the legislature of New-Jersey, a bill was introduced for incorporating a company to form a turnpike road from Trenton to Paulus Hook—from some unaccountable circumstance, the measure did not receive the approbation of that body. At the present session we find that the friends to this necessary improvement, have renewed their exertions, a bill has been introduced, and there is a great probability of its passage through both houses.
At present the intercourse between Philadelphia and New-York is very excellently preserved, in consequence of a competition between the proprietors of the different lines of stages—but as soon as winter shall arrive, neither good horses nor good stages can overcome the difficulties attendant on roads almost impassable. To persons at a distance it will undoubtedly appear somewhat marvellous, that there should be such a road in such states, and it really is so; there are some parts of the road to New-York, which road too is more used than any other in the union, so intolerably bad that we are astonished at the great safety which has so long attended those who have travelled in that direction in the winter. Pennsylvania has performed her part, in directing a turnpike road to be formed on the thirty miles of her territory, about twelve of which are already nearly completed. With New Jersey will remain the necessary undertaking of extending the turnpike through her territory—the most shameful blindness to her interest not to enter into the measure with cheerfulness and energy—wealth, industry and the benefits resulting from both, will be increased throughout the whole extent of the country adjoining the road, and above all in the numerous and handsome towns on the route. Aurora.
(By Authority.) Washington THEATRE. The public are respectfully informed that the performances advertised for Wednesday evening, were unavoidably postponed owing to the inclemency of the weather, but will be exhibited on FRIDAY evening, 16th inst.—Seats in the BOXES may be taken on the days of performance. N. B. The different Lobbies are well provided with stoves—The different performances will be accompanied by the ITALIAN BAND.
The public are respectfully informed that the WASHINGTON THEATRE will open on Friday evening Nov. 16, 1804, with a GRAND MEDLEY of entertainments by the celebrated Mr. MAGINNIS, from London, who has performed in the most capital cities of Europe, and America.
This exhibition is brought to its present perfection, after 20 years study, together with an expence of 5000 dollars. No person can form a just idea of the richness of its merits, without becoming a spectator.
The Public having been so frequently imposed upon by exaggerated Puffs, the proprietor will only mention a few of his experiments.
The performance for the Evening will open with a Celebrated ODE to FREEDOM. 2d. New Comic Song—Saure upon all Trades 3d. The Wonderful Magic Goblets. 4th. Comic Song—Nathan's description of Boston. 5th. CONFEDERATE COUNTERS. This is one of Don Diego's astonishing Experiments—Three persons, in company are presented with a Ring, Scaland Snuff Box, which they make choice of, one a piece, secretly; the Performer possesses the power of telling which persons have got the different articles. 6th. PATRIOTIC SONG—Hobbies. 7th. A Variety of Deceptions with Cards. 8th. The Wonderful Piece of Puzzle Vit. 9th. Description of an American Tar, with the favourite song America, Commerce and Freedom.
AFTER WHICH, WILL BE PRESENTED A PLEASING MEDLEY OF ENTERTAINMENTS. COMPRISING THE RICH PRODUCTION OF ART AND INGENUITY.
By the Wonderful Group of Artificial Comedians, three feet and a half high, will be presented the much admired Piece of PATRICK'S RETURN: OR, THE MERRY HUMOURS OF DARBY. TO WHICH WILL BE ADDED, A COLLECTION OF RICH AND COMIC FIGURES.
The evening's entertainments will conclude by an ingenious piece of Machinery, displaying a Splendid Representation of A Sea Engagement.
On the Front an exact movement of the Sea—two Fleets drawn up in line of Battle, commencing with Cannonading—Ships sinking, and others blowing up. Previous to the engagement will be displayed A rich Spectacle of the Different Animals that inhabit the Dreary Deep viz. The Whale, or Leviathan, Sea Lion, Bear, Horse, Crocodile, Orion on the Dolphin's Back, attended by the rest of the finny tribe: also the various Fowles that reside on the Ocean, in all their richness of variegated plumage, gliding gently through the waves.
To conclude with NEPTUNE, GOD OF THE OCEAN, AND HIS QUEEN, Drawn in their Shell'd Car by Sea Horses, attended by the Beautiful Mermaids.
Doors to be opened at Six, and the performance to commence at Seven o'clock ADMITTANCE—Box one dollar. Pit 75 cents.
Tickets to be had at Mr. Smith's Office, Mr. Duane's Store, and at the Theatre. Seats taken for the Boxes on the day of performance.
N. B. The above performance will be accompanied by the Italian band of Music.

FOR SALE. A Tract or parcel of land, containing one hundred thousand acres, surveyed in tracts of one thousand acres each, lying on the great Satilla and St. Mary's rivers in the counties of Wayne and Telfair in the State of Georgia, distant about 40 miles from the town of St. Mary's and the sea. This land is an undivided moiety of two adjoining tracts containing each 100,000 acres, and is remarkable for its extensive forests of large and valuable yellow pine, and the luxuriant growth of natural grass, affording an inexhaustible range of pasture for cattle. It is also favorable for the culture of cotton, and lies in a very healthy district of country. A great bargain may be had to a purchaser of the whole undivided moiety; for terms of sale apply to JOHN BECKLEY. City of Washington. Sept. 12—tf.
NOTICE. THE taxable inhabitants of Washington city and others concerned, are hereby informed that the tax on real and personal property, also the tax on Slaves and Dogs for the year 1804, must be paid to the subscriber on or before the 1st day of December next. WASHINGTON BOYD, Treasurer of Washington city.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That every person who shall neglect to pay his tax to the Treasurer on or before the said first day of December in each year, shall in addition thereto pay five per centum, on the amount thereof, provided the same be paid within one month thereafter, and in case the same be not then paid at the rate of three per centum for every month's further delay it being understood that at the period of payment or satisfaction thereof, any shorter period than a month beyond an entire month shall be reckoned the same as a month; provided that such penalty shall not be demanded from the residents of the county of Washington, or persons having known agents therein, unless the tax on which the same may have accrued shall have been demanded according to the provisions of this act. Oct. 3—ep2m.
ADAM KING & CO. At their wine Store in High Street George Town, have in addition to their stock of old wines, laid in a large and general assortment of all kinds of Liquors and Groceries suitable to the present season; where bills of any description, in their line, will constantly be filled up on the shortest notice and they flatter themselves, from the quality of their wines, &c. they will be able to give general satisfaction to all those who may think proper to favor them with a call—where all kind of commission business as usual, will be attended to with the utmost attention, George Town, November 5—tf
EZRA VARDEN, TAYLOR & WOOLLEN DRAPER. IN F STREET 3 DOORS FROM THE BANK. HAS just received from Philadelphia a handsome assortment of FALL GOODS—consisting of the best London Superfines, Coatings, Knaps, Molekins, Beavers for Sur-touts, Silk Molekins, Toiletens, Marcellines and Swandowns, with a good assortment of Manchester goods and patent Bennetts cord, &c. &c. which he will make up in the most fashionable style and good workmanship for any gentleman who may favor him with their orders and will also sell to those gentlemen who may think proper to employ others to make. November 5—1m
In pursuance of an order of the Orphan's court for the county of Prince George's, in the State of Maryland, will be sold at public sale, on Saturday the 17th of November next, at the dwelling house of the late Dr. ALEXANDER MITCHELL in Bladensburg, all the personal estate of the said Alexander Mitchell; consisting of household and kitchen furniture, a carriage, horse, and a variety of other articles. The sale to commence at 10 o'clock A. M. ALL sums under 20 dollars cash. For sums over that amount, a credit of 9 months will be allowed upon the purchaser's giving bond with good security. Elias B. Caldwell, Ad. Georgetown, November 5—tdof
SALE OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS. CONSISTING of every kind of useful Furniture, all of which will be sold at public vendue on Wednesday the 14 inst.—the sale to begin precisely at 10 o'clock in the dwelling house of the late James Paxton a little south of the Six Buildings.—ALL persons purchasing to an amount above twenty-seven dollars to be entitled to a credit of six months, giving bond with approved security bearing interest, under that sum cash. SAMUEL BROOK, administrator on the estate of James Paxton. Washington, Nov. 5—st
A FEW hundred bushels of white, well burnt STONE LIME, will be sold for cash, at 16 Dollars the 100 bushels; if applied for immediately, a less quantity than 100 bushels will not be sold at this price. Apply to CON. CONNINGHAM. November 5—tf
FALL GOODS. THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Pennsylvania Avenue, near the President's Square. HAS just received a very handsome assortment of Fall Goods. On very moderate terms with the greatest dispatch and fashion, and on the most moderate terms. Oct. 31—tf
TO RENT, THE house occupied by J. P. VAN NESS. Enquire of John Little at the Treasury Department or of the subscriber, at Doctor John Beatty's, George Town. Possession given on the 1st December. ABSALOM JOY. November 7—tf
FOR SALE. The following City Lots, ON A LIBERAL TIME, Upon Security, viz. LOTS—3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, in square No. 919.—Lots 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 938. Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 986. Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19, in square No. 1042. Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13, in square No. 1066. Apply to CHARLES MINIFIE, Washington City, or to RICHARD C. JONES, at Philadelphia. Washington, August 3—tf. N.B. G. M. has sundry other lots for sale or ground rent (on easy terms to improvers,) and in eligible situations.
TO BE SOLD At Public sale, by virtue of an order from the Orphan's Court of Washington County, on Monday, the 26th of November next, at the farm of the late NOTLEY YOUNG, esq. adjoining the city of Washington, a number of VALUABLE SLAVES, late the property of the deceased, on a credit of four and six months, on giving notes with approved indorsers, negotiable at the banks, and bearing interest. BENJAMIN YOUNG, NICHOLAS YOUNG, ROBERT BRENT, Executors. Nov. 1—N26.
The executors being extremely desirous to close the affairs of the deceased, solicit payment from all those indebted to the estate. CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR.
Has received from Philadelphia in addition to his former stock, a handsome assortment of goods, consisting of the best London and Spanish superfine cloths and cassimeres, white and fancy Marcellines, colored and white Janes, India nankeens, cotton cassimeres, black silk and satin Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, June 8—tf
(BY AUTHORITY.) Scheme of a Lottery. To build an Academy in the city of Richmond. Dollars.    1 Prize—last drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, 20,000   1 do. 10,000   1 do. 5,000   5 do. of 1,000 make 5,000   6 do. — 500 — 3,000   10 do. — 200 — 2,000   20 do. — 100 — 2,000   100 do. — 50 — 5,000   250 do. — 30 — 7,500   420 do. — 25 — 10,500   1,500 do. — 20 — 30,000   3,000 do. — 15 — 45,000   1 first drawn ticket after 1,000 having a blank to its number, 250   1 do. after 2,000 do. 250   1 do. do. 3,000 do. 250   1 do. do. 4,000 do. 250   1 do. do. 5,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 6,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 7,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 8,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 9,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 10,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 12,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 13,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 14,000 do. 1,000   5,325 prizes, 150,000   9,675 blanks, not two to a prize.   15,000 tickets at 10 dollars each, 150,000   N. B. Prizes subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. This lottery has been authorised by the legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purposes of erecting a seminary of learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view, it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dolls. and 2,500 dolls. in addition, for defraying the expenses attendant on drawing the lottery. Citizens of the first respectability have been selected as trustees, and they have pledged themselves to use their utmost exertions to carry it into effect. The scheme has the advantage of giving to each adventurer a chance for some very large prizes, whilst the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so great, as to invite the friends of the intended institution to partake in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The treasurer of the state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay the amount of the prizes to the fortunate adventurers. It is believed that the above considerations will induce rapid sale of tickets, and the drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number shall be sold to authorise it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next. Richmond, March 2—tf
Richmond, March 2—tf 27 Tickets to be had of Robert Pollard Book, John Brockenbrough, jun. Wm. Price (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, jun. and William Prichard.
TO RENT, On very moderate terms, FOUR two story brick dwelling houses ON north H street, square No. 77, directly south of the Six Buildings. For terms apply to T. H. GILLISS At the Navy-Office. Washington City, Nov. 2d. 1804—M&F.
SUWALLOW BOOTS. BOOT & SHOE WAREHOUSE. JOHN MINCHIN Boot-Maker from Philadelphia, respectfully acquaints his friends former customers and the public that he has now opened an elegant assortment of gentlemen's fashionable Suallow boots, plain boots, bootees, dress and strong shoes. Washington, New Jersey avenue near the Capitol—November 7—tf
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 neatness and goodness be requisites. JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—tf
NOTICE. IS hereby given that the sale of all those Lands and Lots (heretofore advertised in the Washington Federalist, the National Intelligencer and the Baltimore Federal Gazette on the 20th day of August last, for a tax due the county of Washington in the territory of Columbia) will commence on Monday the 10th day of December next at Rhodes's tavern in the city of Washington, at 11 o'clock, A. M. and continue from day to day until all are sold or so much thereof as will satisfy the tax and other charges thereon, unless the said tax and charges be paid previous to the day of sale. By order of the commissioners of the Levy court. WASHINGTON BOYD, Collector of Washington county. November 7—3w
American Printed goods. Calicoes, Shawls, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. manufactured by the subscribers near Baltimore, and sold at No. 13 Calvert street.
To remove that distrust often felt respecting new undertakings, and so prejudicial to manufacturing attempts in America, they think it proper to observe, that nothing is wanting in the business to enable good artists to perform their work here as well as in Europe. That they have these artists; that two of the partners were bred to the business in a factory of the best repute carried on by their father, & long afterwards by themselves. They trust that while foreign goods are received without a question, an unreasonable suspicion will not prevent their countrymen from giving that trial to their goods, which only can prove their value. Besides a natural doubt, they know that certain interests, national as well as individual, will suggest objections to their undertaking. They have no difficulty in saying, that work of the like kind shall be as well executed here, as in other countries. The colors capable of being fixed, will be found as permanent; the cloths perhaps better substance, and the prices lower than of the imported cottons. M'CULLOCH & LUNNUY, Baltimore, No. 13 Calvert Street. Sept. 17—tf
SAMUEL MC INTIRE BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has moved his store to Pennsylvania avenue opposite to Mr. Dusse's Book Store, where he has to dispose of Wines, Brandy, Groceries, &c. of the first quality—Flour of the best quality constantly for sale by the barrel. Washington City, Nov. 2—tf N. B. S. Mc Intire will accommodate SIX members of Congress, with boarding and lodging.
Any gentleman desirous of purchasing STUD HORSES of the first description of good performances, and well attested pedigrees, can be accommodated by applying to THOMAS LAR-KIN (Mr. Taylor's training groom) at the Washington jockey club races, the thirteenth November next. N. B. Any of the above horses remaining unsold, will be farmed out the ensuing season on liberal terms. Oct. 31—tf.
MRS. PIC. Respectfully informs the Ladies as she hopes to merit a continuance of their favors, that she has procured an elegant assortment of Fashionable New Millinery. which she will receive in a few days and will open on Saturday the tenth instant, Consisting of the military hat The simplicity bonnet The capricious bonnet, &c. Ladies and gentlemen's silk pelices Ladies spencers and spencer cloaks Gold and silver cords and tassels Silk do. of all sorts Silk gloves and flockings Raw silk ditto Neck comforts, shawls, and head handkerchiefs Gold and silver trimmings, feathers, flowers, &c. Muffs, tippets, socks and furr'd shoes Gentlemen's winter gloves All kinds of fashionable ribbons, Black and white satin fits for dresses Coloured lute strings and monton for do. Crapes, velvets, plush, and gauzes of all sorts Black lace and mode And many other articles suitable for the season. George-town, Nov. 12—3t.
LIKENESS'S ENGRAVED. THE Subscriber has the honor of informing the Ladies and Gentlemen of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, that he has again returned to his former lodgings in Washington, for the purpose of taking likenesses. In order that those who are desirous of fitting, may not be disappointed, he takes the liberty of suggesting that his stay in this city will be very short. ST. MEMIN. Washington, 8th Nov. 1804. 3 t
LIVERY STABLE. South East corner of the CAPITOL SQUARE. JOHN WORSLEY begs leave to inform the public that he has opened a convenient stable, where he would be happy to accommodate Members of Congress and other gentlemen on the most moderate terms, and every attention paid to their horses, having engaged an experienced and trusty Hostler. Nov. 5—tawtf
ALEX. MCCORMICK. AT his store on East Capitol street four doors from the capitol square, has received and offers for sale a general assortment of liquors and groceries which he will sell low and warrant of as good a quality as any sold in the district of Columbia—He has 20 pieces fine Irish Linen, with sundry other articles in the dry good and hardware line. November 12—tf
Assortment of FALL and Fashionable GOODS, JUST OPENED. WILLIAM DOUGHTY, respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has just received from Philadelphia by the Sloop Harmony, a general and extensive assortment of WINTER GOODS among which are many elegant and fashionable articles, all of which having been purchased upon the best terms, will be sold at the most reduced prices. November 12—4t AN elderly man without a family who can be well recommended for sobriety and honesty, will meet a comfortable situation near this city, to attend a Saw Mill and small Grist Mill—application to be made to ROBERT BRENT. City of Washington, Nov. 5—3w
THE subscribers have opened a GROCERY STORE in the house near the Capitol, lately occupied by Mr. JAMES D. BARRY—where they have for sale, low, for cash or in exchange for country produce. Genuine Cogniac brandy, Inferior French do. Old Jamaica spirits, Madeira, Sherry, } Wines, by the quarter cask Lisbon, } and case, or smaller quantity. Claret, Brown Sugar, rft and 2d quality, Loaf and Lump, do. Molasses, Firkin Butter, Mould Candles, Sweet Oil, Spices of different kinds, Fig Blue, Starch, Almonds, Anchovies, } In bottles. Capers, } Powder and Shot, Excellent Wine Vinegar, Gin, Whiskey, Hyson, } Teas, fresh, and of superior quality. Imperial, } Young Hyson. } Salt Herrings in Barrels. PETER HEALY, & Co. Washington October 31—tf
M. JONES, LATE OF PHILADELPHIA. RESPPECTFULLY informs the Ladies of Washington, Georgetown and their vicinities that she has removed her fine goods and MILLINERY store to Bridge street, opposite Jefferson street Georgetown, and is now exposing for sale (at Philadelphia prices) the following articles—Fine thread laces and edgings, patent do. and cloaks, white and black lace veils, lace and pic nic gloves, fine silk velvets of every fashionable color, rich farinets, white and black floss Mantua's, chequer'd and damask silk shawls, cambric muslin and camels hair do. neck and shoulder comforts, fancy handkerchiefs, ribbons of every description, a large collection of cotton, bead and silk trimmings, mull mull, colomade, lace and cambric muslins, elegant lineau, do. and shawls, linen cambrics, chintzes and cottons, a large assortment of habit, extra and common length gloves, flowers and feathers, gold and silver ornaments, fans &c. &c. Also velvet, split straw, and dunstable millinery, with a variety of other fancy goods. Georgetown, November 14—3t&tawtf
NEW STORE, SEVEN BUILDINGS, CITY OF WASHINGTON. THE Subscriber, who lately opened store at the west corner of the Seven Buildings, has just received by captain Elwood, from Philadelphia, an extensive assortment of dry goods, amongst which are a variety of fancy articles, viz.
London superfine and second cloths, cassimeres, nappys, coatings, forest cloths, bockings, London hats, lannels, bays, blankets, counterpanes, dimities, fluffs and durants, London best letter paper, common writing do. sealing wax, wafers, quills, pencils & paste board, fancy waistcoating, linens, Irish and German, Russia sheeting, dia. per, bed ticking, velvets, cords and thickets, patent bennetts cord, Barcelona handkerchiefs, bandannos, one bale coarse muslin, checkes, shirting muslin, best Spanish fegars, chandeliers, goblets, decanters and salt cellars. Piano fortes, violens, violen strings, music, fresh hyson tea, &c. The subscriber has imported his London superfine cloth, hats and part of his other woollens himself and can therefore sell them unusually low by wholesale and retail. THOMAS W. PAIRO. Nov. 9—3t&twt
THORNS for HEDGES. FOR sale by the subscriber, at his Nursery near the Little Falls of Potomac, seedling and transplanted plants of the American white Thorn. THOMAS MAIN. Nov. 14—3t
STATIONARY & FANCY STORE. GEORGE TOWN. THE Subscriber has just received from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, a large and general supply of STATIONARY &c.—Amongst which are the following articles, viz.
 Atlases imperial, super royal, royal, medium and demy English papers,  Extra large thick folio do. do.  Do. do. thin do. hotpressed do.  Small, plain and wove folio do. do.  Plain and wove foolscap do.  Hotpressed, gilt, mourning, wove and plain letter do.  Folio and quarto copying do.  Super Royal cartridge do.  Medium, demy and foolscap French marble do.  Demy blotting do.  Pathe and bo-net boards, ]  Single and double ruled ledgers, journals, and waste books  Medium, demy and foolscap blank books suitable for public offices  Best Holland quills and ready made pens  Black and red ink and ink powders  Japan and durable ink  Printing ink for book and newspaper use  Red and black sealing wax  Red and black wafers  Large red and white wafers for office use  Wax tapers and taper stands  Counting house feals  Pink and blue silk tape  Broad and narrow red tape  Ball and hank twine  Cases of mathematical instruments  Reading glasses in horn and tortoise shell frames  Gold leaf  Parchment squared and pounced  Scuttle fish bone and pounces  Ivory and bone pounce boxes  Black lead, crayon and camels hair pencils. Do. with silver cases  Reeves colours in boxes  Brasing knives and paper scissors  Counting house and pocket pen knives Do. with ivory scale and rule handles]  Ivory and bone paper folders  Round and flat rulers  Gum Tragacanth and Gum Arabic  Slates and slate pencils  Plated glass, wedgewood, pewter, & pocket inkstands  Sand boxes and sand glasses  Black sand, and steel filings  Messuage and visiting cards  Geographical and genealogical pastimes, and arithmetical games with totums  Portable writing desks with apartments for dressing apparatus  Mahogany, japanned and Morocco shaving cases  Shaving boxes with soap and brushes  Razors of a superior quality  Ladies and gentlemen's japanned dressing cases  Playing cards and ivory boxes with counters  Cribbage boxes and boards  Backgammon tables and dice boxes  Ivory chessmen and chess boards  Billiard balls and dice  Drum battle doors and shuttles  Violins, flutes and fife  Violin strings and bows  Fowling pieces, shot pouches, and powder  Horsmens and pocket pistols [flasks]  Silver and gilt mounted small swords, dirks and hangers  Go'd and silver epaulets and sword knots Do. do. shoulder straps and crescents  Military fishes, lace, cords, &c.  Officers travelling canteens with cooking utensils &c. complete  Gold and silver bullion, spangles and thread  An elegant assortment of gold, silver and gilt mounted combs  Gold and silver hair slides  Wreaths and bunches of artificial flowers  Ostrich feathers, fancy plumes, &c.  Tortoise shell and superfine ivory combs  Coquillo and jet necklaces  Gentlemen's doe skin and dress gloves  Boots, shoes and pumps  Morocco skins, and bend soles  Bailey's and Morley's patent blacking  Hair powder and pomatum  Powder bags and powder puffs  Tortoise shell and horn dressing combs  Curling tongs and crumpling irons  Wash ball and wash ball boxes  Tooth powder and shaving powder  Essence of musk, lavender, burgamot and am-segar boxes and snuff boxes [bergreafe]  Tooth brushes and tooth picks  Clothe brushes and bat brushes  Sweeping, dusting, scrubbing, shoe and furniture brushes  Switch, chair and carriage whips  Walking sticks and sword canes  Silk and morocco elastic braces  Green wire fenders with brass tops ornamented  Fashionable brass antirons  Coal beds, cinder sifters and pokers  An elegant assortment of japanned tea trays  Satin wood and mahogany knife cases  Green and white ivory tables and defer knives and forks in sets  Elegant plated tea and coffee urns  Plated tea and coffee pots  Do. bread baskets and toast stands  Do. candlesticks and branches  Do. snuffers and snuffer trays  Do. castors, double flint cut glasses  Do. fits with do. do.  Do. mugs, tumblers and bottle stands  Gold, pebble and glass watch seals  Do. watch chains and keys  Do. rings, broaches and breast pins  Plated and common coach and gig lamps  Do. furniture for harness double and single horse  Do. mouldings for carriages  Do. gig springs, and hubb bands  Do. chaic, duke and snaffle bridle bits  Do. horn, bridoons and carbos  Do. patent and common spurs  Japanned lamps and hand lanthorns  Lamp wick and lamp glasses  Worsted Webb and faddle cloths  Mill and croft cut faws  Gentlemen's tool chests  Travelling trunks, &c. 
ALSO—FOR SALE, An Invoice of Hardware which will be sold low at a credit of six months. EDGAR PATTERSON, Nov. 12—tf.