The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1802-09-20 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. II.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCC.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th, 1802.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
Foreign Intelligence.
Translated from "The Diario de Madrid."
MADRID, May 10.
The following is an extract of a letter, written from the city of Lorca,* by one of its inhabitants, to his friend in this city, in which he gives an account of the dreadful accident which befel that city from the breaking a bank or mound, which was constructed a few years ago to contain the rain water for the purpose of watering the fields in the neighbourhood of that city. The number drowned by this misfortune amounted to 6000.
"I make known to you, Sir, that on the last day of April, (which will be memorable for ages to come) at half past three o'clock in the afternoon, a youth ran into my house and gave me the lamentable information that the bank had given way; he accompanied these expressions with so many tears and such sobbing, that he could scarcely articulate or I understand him. On receiving this fatal notice, I ran with great precipitation into the street, where I found a general commotion amongst the people, who were leaving their dwellings to put themselves in a place of safety. I returned to my house, and by my cries collected my wife, children and family; they saw my trouble; we all ran precipitately to Calvario to escape the great danger which threatened us. We there found a considerable number of people filled with trouble and dread, calling upon God and begging for mercy with loud cries and lamentations. I then saw vast quantities of water descending from the hills which directed itself with the greatest fury imaginable towards San Diego, spreading itself over all the fields, having its general direction towards the olive trees. I left my family at Calvario and went to the street of De las Ceva, from thence I saw the water breaking down the Convent of Mercy; arriving at the Gate of Borreda, the market no longer appeared; I passed to the House De Miralles; they there told me that houses, families, and every thing else had been swept away from the Botica to the Quartel, on both sides. The water covered the hills and carried away the whole population on the right of the fountain. Our Corregidor was in the palace directing assistance to be given, he was surrounded by many people; the general was beat, and every thing was done for the tranquillity of the people. At this time news was received that at the Mill of Buena Vista they had found the Lord Counsellor, who had been drowned; immediately orders were given to the people to bring his body; at 12 o'clock at night it was brought to Calvario. I repaired to the Gate of St. Gines; I there saw that the keepers of the Convent of Mercy was threatened with ruin. I repaired to the Gate of Don John Antonio Albuquerque, where at the season his wife and family reside, they had fled on horseback. Monseñor was commissioned to collect the dead bodies in the Ovalo.
"At break of day the following morning, we heard nothing but lamentations; some looking for their parents, others for their children; women seeking for their husbands, and all trying to unite their families. At the gate called St. Gines, we can no longer see the sites where the houses stood; every thing is desolation from the Convent of Mercy to the Hospital of Woman; the house carried away from the barrier alone are reckoned at 400, and what are left are greatly injured as the water was in all the second stories. The sacred vessels of the Convent of Mercy were found at two leagues distance; the church of San Christoval is not much injured, though the water was up to the cornices. San Diego is abandoned; the Sañas are all removed; the same is the case with La Merced, because mud and trash are left in them two yards deep. Every thing is taken from the Tower of La Merced, as it is threatened to fall to ruin. Trenches are dug without the town, where they are going to bury the dead, without distinction of persons, and where they are now collecting them in carriages. All the fields and gardens, from the Garden the Gates to the road that passes this, have been a river. No habitations are
* Lorca is a large city of Spain in the kingdom of Murcia, situated on the river Guadalentin, about 20 miles from Carthagena. Its inhabitants are what are called Christians, being the descendants of the converted Moors. Though this city is large, it has fallen much to decay and is thinly inhabited.
left; people, animals, olive trees, gardens, all have perished and are ruined. It is fortunate the whole city did not suffer the same fate; this would have been the case if the bank had not given way where it did, and the water taken a direction to the left of San Diego. The Lord Counsellor might have been saved, as was the son of his assistant and his servant, but he confided in his mules, and perished with them and his coachman. People are sent to Velez to grind grain; we have no longer any mills; of thirteen which we had, only that of Buena-Vista remains, and that is injured; of oil mills not one is left; of the greatest part Santa Quiteria only the foundations are left. The rivulets and groves are full of timber and furniture. The books and accounts of Sultaneno and 34,000 reals belonging to him also. As yet I have neither eat nor slept; all is confusion and dismay; all are weeping over the dreadful accident. At present I can send you no farther particulars on this subject, but I will venture to say, that the damage will be much greater when the waters have passed twenty leagues, which is the distance from hence to the sea, and when they have encountered Murcia, Orihuela, and other places in their way."
LONDON, July 17.
It is with extreme regret we learn, that the English interest at Constantinople is evidently on the decline, while that of the French daily receives the most decided preference. All Frenchmen there experience the greatest marks of distinction and esteem from the captain Pacha; and different Europeans in the service of the Porte, as Swedish ship-builders, the gardener of the Seraglio, &c. have been dismissed, to make room for artificers from the Republic. This partiality is of such consequence to us in a political and commercial point of view, that to offer any reflections upon its consequences would be an insult to the understanding of our readers. When the same Noble Lord who is officially employed at the Ottoman Porte, was entrusted with the interests of this country at the Court of Berlin, they shared a similar fate!
A plaintiff and defendant once appeared to Alexander the Great. "My friends (said he), which ever way I determine, I know one of you will be displeased with me. It will be better, then, that you consult God, and your own consciences, and do what is right."
A certain Sultan hearing that a man of wit was reckoned in person like himself, was curious to see him, and sent for him to court. Upon his introduction, he said, "I remember your mother well. She was a handsome woman, and used to attend the Harem of the Sultan and nobility with rich goods and jewelry, as a brokeress, reaping much profit from her honorable calling." The wit understanding the Sultan's allusion, replied—"Not so; my mother was a secluded woman, who never left her house, and knew nothing of trade; but my father was an eminent designer, who was frequently called to the gardens of the royal and noble Harem, to lay out flowers, and plant trees." The Sultan admired his wit, and made him one of his principal courtiers. This anecdote is from the Arabic, and the elegant reader will, no doubt, compare it with the story so coarsely related by Lewis XIV.
The following curious circumstance is transmitted to us as a fact:—A farmer on Thursday attended at Penzance market, for the third time, with a bushel of potatoes, for which he could not find a purchaser. At length, his patience being exhausted, he swore, that rather than carry them back he would sell them for a pinch of snuff. A person present immediately accepted the bargain, and received the potatoes. A year since, the same measure of this root was sold for 26s.
Prince Subow has fought one of his duels at Carlstadt, with M. Giebout:—One of the parties is said to have been killed.
The Elector of Mayence is to have Ratibon for his residence. He will also have the bishoprick of that city, several small prelatures, and the Bailliage Achaffenburg, besides a million and a half of florins annually, from other states of the Empire.
A letter from Madras says, "His Highness Azemul Dowlah, the Nabob of the Carnatic, has sent home four letters, addressed to the Chairman of the East-India Company, the Prince of Wales, the Marquis Cornwallis, and Lord Hobart. His highness also shipped two boxes to the King, and one to the Prince of Wales."
Accounts from Dresden state, that the
Count of Saxe is the person who has been killed in a duel by Prince Subow.
General Richepanse has transmitted another official dispatch from Guadalupe, dated the 29th May, in which he gives an account of the complete extinction of the insurrection in that island. After recapitulating all the operations of the expedition under his command to May 25, continues his narrative, from which it appears that this victory was dearly bought on the part of the French. He enters upon a detail, of the different actions, and states as the result of the operations, that the Blacks were driven in on all sides to a plantation called Auglemont, where three hundred blew themselves up in the Mansion house, which seems to have been one of their depots, and the few that survived the explosion were put to the sword. The French troops are stated to have lost on this occasion the advanced posts of two of their columns. The General, in concluding his dispatch, observes, "This last affair has destroyed the insurrection in its source; the chiefs are dead, and the followers, disarmed, have submitted and resumed their accustomed labours. The white soldiers, who were unable to quit the island, were at the time of our arrival, collected in Fort St. Charles. The execution of the plan laid for blowing them up, and which was on the point of being carried into effect; failed, in consequence of the promptitude with which our troops pursued the enemy on the evacuation of the fort."
Some accounts last night reached town, relative to the fate of the 14th. They agree in stating that it was dull, inanimate, and scarcely worthy of notice. The parade alone was conducted with some degree of military pomp, and the number of troops was so great, that the cavalry were compelled to remain upon the Place de Carrousel, which had been cleared away for the purpose, whilst the infantry filled the space between the Palace and the iron railing which separates the Court Yard from the Palace.
The newly incorporated Mamelukes, about 150 in number, richly dressed in Turkish habits, and well mounted, made their first public appearance on the parade. Bonaparte seemed much pleased with them. Deputies from all the corps presented themselves, and to many new regiments were given new colours. They were all, however, to meet at Versailles, for the purpose of assisting at the grand dinner which the Consul intended to give them in the great gallery of the palace. Madame Bonaparte returned to Paris from Plombiers on the 12th. The theatres were all opened to the public gratis on the evening preceding the festival; and when the accounts came away, preparations were making for a general illumination, and a concert in the garden of the Thuilleries. No tickets were delivered for the gallery of the Palace.
We learn that the pirate Egee, who some time since made his escape after his capture in the Persian Gulph, has been retaken in the hill country of Keram, is about to be brought down in chains to Guzzera.
The man, who was lately bound to keep the peace for threatening to cut off his wife's head, protected that he only wished to make her a good woman!
The intelligence from the hope market is of a disagreeable kind. The plantations in Kent are daily becoming worse; the vermin have appeared in great numbers; in several grounds the plants are turning black and in a state of decay. On Thursday bets were offered at Canterbury against 45,000l. old duty. The last prices are,—bags 5l. 5s. very fine 6l. 10s. superfine East Kents 7l. 7s.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
A few weeks since we promised to lay before our readers an abstract of the accounts transmitted from the gentlemen who were sent by government on a journey of discovery into the interior of that immense tract of country. It appears, that in every part through which they passed, in the progress of their journey to the Briequas, they met with the most friendly reception from the natives. The following is their account of their journey:
"After travelling about 300 hours from the Cape, or as we suppose about 800 English miles in the direction of N. E. or thereabouts, which would bring them within two degrees of the Tropic, they came to the capital of the Boetzuana, containing about 1,500 houses, and 7,000 inhabitants. The name of this city is Likitow. So vast an assemblage of dwellings, exceeding the number of those in Cape-Town, with a population equal, if not superior, excluding the slaves, makes it more than probable, that
the inhabitants have not only attained a very considerable pitch of civilization, but it implies also a more than ordinary degree of industry in the cultivation of the arts, and the pursuits of agriculture.
"Surrounded by a barren country, and bordering to the northward on other tribes of people, remaining in a fixed and sedentary life, and deriving little or no support from commerce, we are entirely at a loss to conceive in what manner they contrive to subsist so great a multitude. The details of their political and domestic economy must furnish new and highly interesting matter to add to the history of savage nations. It would be equally unaccountable, that in the course of 160 years, no correct information of the Boetzuana should have been obtained, if it did not occur to us, that no single discovery has been effected, nor any account of the South Angle of Africa been made public, except by occasional and foreign visitors. It may be further added, that the country within the limits of the colony has been better known, and more travelled by Europeans or settlers within the last five years, than in the whole period of its colonization prior to the time we mention. At the capture of the colony, no part of the very extensive district of Gaaff-Reyne appeared in any of their charts, except Zwart-Kop's Bay; nor were there then three men in the whole Cape who could point out with any degree of accuracy where it was situated. This dreaded journey of a long month is now become familiar, and accomplished by a British officer, with a couple or three horses, in six days."
"With regard to the Boetzuana, their names, their numbers, their situation and resources, were all falsified in the accounts given by those who pretended to a knowledge of this nation."
"The literary world will derive no small degree of gratification from the labours of the present expedition. Besides a variety, or perhaps a new species of Rhinoceros, no less than four animals of the Antelope and Bovine genus, hitherto undescribed, have been discovered, among which, one is stated to be allied to that singular animal the Gnoo, and another in some degree to the Hartbeest. And the fine arts will be enriched by the pencil of the very able artist who accompanies the expedition."
"Notwithstanding the great distance that the Boetzuana are removed from the Cape, they complained grievously of certain persons, on the frontiers of the colony committing depredations on their cattle, and ill-treating their people. They particularly mention a man by the name of Jan Blom, who with his gang had of late years very much infested them; and they concluded, naturally enough, that all the colonists were like Jan Blom: and of course they were at first guarded and distrustful of the present commission; which, however, by a residence nearly of a month, sufficiently convinced them that all christians were not of the same description as Jan Blom and his gang."
"Humanity shudders in contemplating the deplorable situation to which the bulk of the native inhabitants, and rightful owners of this country, have been reduced by the arts and machinations of such lawless miscreants as these. To such are owing the numerous hordes of Bosjesmen, who, driven by imperious want to assail the inhabitants or the flocks of the colonists, are hunted down by the latter with less remorse, (for their destruction is the cause of triumph) than the vilest or more obnoxious best of prey."
"The natural disposition of the different tribes of Hottentots is mild, peaceable, and cheerful; and by gentle usage, might be moulded in any shape. The habits of life in which they have been brought up, naturally incline them to a fondness of liberty, and render them impatient of confinement and restraint; but they are perhaps, of all the people of the world who have been accustomed to a roving life, the easiest broken into constant labour, and reconciled to a fixed abode. As a proof of this, we need only refer to the exertions of the Missionaries, whose endeavors in this country have been crowned with better success than perhaps in any other. Degraded as this people have stood in the page of history, and represented as they have generally been at the foot of the scale of rational animals, we are doubtful whether any nation or tribe of men, falling under the usual denomination of savages, are possessed with more natural endowments, or more apt to acquire those of art than the Hottentots. We could enumerate various instances in support of this opinion, were it necessary; but they are now so well and so generally known, that such details are unnecessary."
NASSAU, (N. P.) August 18.
On Monday, arrived off the Bar, the American brig Warren, captain Eddy, 5 days from Cape Francois—captain E. informed us that 8000 troops and 5 sail of men of war had arrived at the Cape on the 3d inst. that the day after their arrival the negroes, headed by Toussaint's sons, who had joined them, stormed a fort not far from the Cape, and killed every French man in it. The evening previous to captain E's sailing, an engagement took place so near the town, that the report of the guns, was distinctly heard by the people on board the vessels in the harbour. The event was not known. The French troops continued very sickly—particularly those last arrived from France.
Provisions were very low at the Cape—Flour sold so low as four dollars per barrel.
"No less than forty millions of people die of the Small Pox every century. The Europeans have carried the Small Pox over the globe. The Danes carried it to Greenland, and the Spaniards to South America, where one hundred thousand perished with it in the single province of Quito. When the annual number of births in London was sixteen thousand two hundred and ninety one, the number who died with the Small Pox was two thousand five hundred and fifty four, and still greater in some other large cities of Europe. A greater number have died of the Small Pox since the introduction of its inoculation than before it, that practice being the means of keeping it always in large cities."
Dr. Waterhouse.
From the Farmer's Register, printed at Greensburg, (Penn.)
To the Farmers, Millers, Traders, and Manufacturers of the Western Country, and all who are concerned in its prosperity and improvement.
You are not ignorant of the many disadvantages under which the Mississippi trade has laboured since its commencement, chiefly for want of competent information of the extent of the demand at the Orleans market, the means of exportation by sea, and the proper destination of our produce to export. Hence it happens that sometimes unusual profits are made by a few, and unusual losses suffered by a few, sometimes by many. To compute moderately, there cannot be less than sixty thousand dollars lost in that trade this year, in this country. This, and the consequent discouragement, must sink the value of our produce, and of course of our farms. Many embark in this trade who are unacquainted with the navigation of the river, and strangers to the climate and the inhabitants whom they go to deal with, and their government, their customs, and their language. When they arrive at Orleans they are obliged to sell for what may be offered, for want of vessels to carry their produce to another market, or knowledge of a proper market. And they cannot remain long there on account of the expense, the risk of sickness, and their anxiety to return home to attend to their families and their farms.
Would it not then be an important object to combine the interests of the inhabitants of the western country in general, that the profit and loss of this trade would be equally shared among all, and the losses of the year compensated to the same persons by the profits of the next, and to put this very interesting trade under such management, our produce could be sent at our own risk and profit, to the best market, either in America, the West-Indies, or Europe, conducted by the best information, our exports regulated by the demand, and our returns made to us in the most advantageous articles? If this could be done, our trade would no longer be fluctuating, but as steady as at sea ports, the farmer would get his just price for his grain, and be encouraged to go on with his improvements, and the trader would not be ruined, and hurt the farmer in his fall.
This can only be done by a large company on an extensive scale, and a competent capital. This company could put their affairs under the management of a few of their own body, who would have agents at New-Orleans, at Philadelphia, and at other sea ports, acquire the best information, sell and buy at the proper times, and proper places, and make the gain or loss, (if there must be loss) general, so that as it were every inhabitant would share in the prosperity or adversity of the country.
I will suppose then a company to be

formed and erected into a corporation with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, or more, divided into shares of, say one hundred dollars each, payable by installments, and some portion of it in produce; this capital, put under the direction of a president and managers, with power to appoint proper agents for information and translation of their business. Regular books will be kept, and dividends be made at stated times, yearly at least. Let any man consider what a happy and steady effect this would have in promoting the circulation of money, and ensuring the increase and sale of our produce and manufactures.
With this view I propose that those interested in those important objects will consult together in their several neighbourhoods, and as many of them as shall think proper, attend at a general meeting at Pittsburg, on Wednesday, the 29th day of September ensuing, to confer together, and consider and digest the most proper scheme for establishing a company of the nature which has been proposed.
These proposals, the result of much reflection on this interesting subject, are respectfully submitted to the consideration of all concerned.
JOHN WILKINS, jun. Pittsburg, August 31, 1802.
From the Palladium.
Extracts of a letter from the Hon. D. Humphreys, to Dr. A. Dexter, second Vice President of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society.
"The importance of meliorating the breed of sheep in our country, particularly in the article of wool, had been early and deeply impressed on my mind. In addition to the process of improvement, by bestowing more care and attention on our native flocks, in feeding them well and crossing the blood, (obviously suggested by reason and experience) two modes occurred for hastening and ensuring the attainment of that interesting object. The first to introduce and propagate an entirely new race, if a more perfect one could be obtained; the second, to meliorate our flock by producing a mixed progeny from our ordinary ewes by rams of a better breed."
But before there could be sufficiently good reason for justifying the trouble and expense of transporting an adequate number, it was the part of wisdom to ascertain, first, whether the breed be superior in intrinsic value to those which already existed? And, in that case, secondly, whether the race contemplated to be introduced is likely, when propagated there, to retain all those qualities which constituted the original superiority of value? And here I found my opinion in the affirmative of both questions, as applied to a particular kind of Spanish sheep, on the facts stated, in some instances, by respectable individuals, and in others, by official reports.
In Spain, two distinct species of sheep have for ages existed, the one named Merinos , famous for their short and fine wool, peculiarly fit for carding; the other denominated Churros , distinguished for their long and coarse wool, more suitable for combing. The former is so precious as to be sought with eagerness by all who wish to meliorate the staple for the woolen manufacture in any country of Europe; while the latter, though much larger in size, are in so little estimation as never to be procured for exportation. My statements and remarks will be confined to the Merinos . The height of the male is about the same as that of the ordinary breed in this country. The head appears rather bigger and straighter. The ears are very small. The eyes remarkably bright. The horns curved in a spiral turn. The neck short. The chest broad. The members more compact and thick than those of our former breed of sheep; and the carcase is thought to have smaller bones and to be more rounded in the hinder part. The body, face and legs, are covered with a delicate fleece, which grows amazingly thick, without any mixture of coarser locks or hairs. This fleece is remarked to be much more impregnated than that of any other breed, with an oily substance, apparently exuded in perspiration. This animal is perfectly gentle, but quick, firm, and regular in all his movements. The female is considered generally as having the more characteristic of the pure blood, in proportion as she approximates to this description—yet the ewes are commonly destitute of horns."
"A few well attested facts will serve to show the value of this race. None of the superfine cloths made in England, France, and Holland, can be fabricated without the mixture of a certain portion of this wool. The price is more than twice as high per pound as it is for ordinary kinds. I shall mention, in another place, the increased weight of the fleece, when this breed has been transferred from Spain to another country, upon the testimony of those concerned in their management. That the flesh is not less succulent or less flavored than the best English or American mutton, I have had frequent opportunities to decide for myself. It is understood that the Merinos are more easily maintained and fattened than the taller and larger breed,
in"> inasmuch that there are persons acquainted with both breeds, who calculate that 200 of these small boned and short legged Sheep may be kept in tolerably good condition, where twenty of the other would suffer for want."
"To establish a strong presumption in favor of the second point, viz. that the race then contemplated to be introduced into the United States, was likely to preserve all those qualities which constituted the original superiority of value, I needed only refer to the propagation of a breed from the same flock, with fleeces augmented in quantity, and undiminished in fineness, in Great Britain, France, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. In the most northern climate to which they have been carried, they have supported the cold perfectly well, and even without suffering any injury from having been in some instances buried for a time under the snow. At the national farm of Rambouillet, in France, they are reported, on good authority, to have not only resisted the unfavorable influence of a situation naturally too low and moist, but to have preserved their wool in all its original fineness, and to have increased the weight to an astonishing degree."
MR. ADAMS' LETTER.
No. III.
IN closing our remarks on this interesting topic, after having briefly discussed the principles and opinions of the writer, it will not be foreign from the purpose to offer some conjectures as to the object and design of the publication. It will here be considered that we are at liberty to travel in the wide field of conjecture. The nature of the enquiry precludes the possibility of a certain and peremptory decision. The sentiments expressed in the letter, we are bold to say, can produce but one general impression, when the situation of the writer is considered. When the different passages are compared, when the covert expressions are explained, when his theory of government is analysed, and the practice of his administration is remembered, not a single doubt can remain, either with the friends or the enemies of Mr. Adams, of his decided attachment to monarchy, of his inveterate hostility to the Federal constitution. But the purpose of proclaiming, at this time, these sentiments to the world, is to be unravelled only by reflection and enquiry. The secret motives are hidden in the bosom of Mr. Adams and his friends. They can never be brought into light, unless by a spontaneous disclosure. While they are thus kept from the notice of the public, the Public have a right to indulge, in such opinions, as result from a limited view of the subject. To assist in forming a correct and rational decision, is the object of our present remark.
It is notorious that Mr. Adams has been accused, by his political enemies, of a secret predilection for the form of the British government. This accusation has been founded, partly on his defence of the American constitution; (in which it is agreed he has been more lavish of encomiums upon the British government than our own) partly upon the sentiments he has expressed in private conversation, but principally upon the leading and prominent acts of his administration.
It will be denied that the letter to his ancient colleague in the revolution had been shown to a few leading republicans in this quarter, and that he had tended to confirm their opinion of his political character. This disclosure of his correspondent has been severely reprobated as a treacherous violation of confidence. It is not our design, nor do we conceive it necessary, to engage in a formal vindication of this measure. This venerable, but calumniated patriot, is too firmly entrenched in his integrity, too strongly encompassed with a grateful recollection of his services in the cause of his country, to require the feeble aid of a newspaper apology, for a single act of his long, useful, but now decaying, and almost exhausted life! Without entering upon a task, from which we are excluded by the dignity of his name and the solemnity of his character, let us barely ask, where is the breach of confidence, in communicating a letter, which, it is contended, contains nothing obnoxious, nothing which ought to be secret, nothing which need retreat from the most rigid investigation.
* It will be recollected that some years ago, it was stated in the public papers, that Mr. Adams had said, in the presence of Mr. Landon of New Hampshire, and Mr. Taylor of Virginia, that "this country would never be happy until we had a Senate for life at least." Although this communication was made at the time, under the authority of these gentlemen, it was denounced as a foul and Jacobinical falsehood. Let the advocates of Mr. Adams's political opinions, read the letter under consideration, and, after attending to what he has said about "a natural and actual aristocracy among mankind," let them ask whether it is possible he could have expressed such an aristocratical opinion.
on? If the sentiments are just, if the principles are correct and can be defended, why was the letter confidential, and why should it shun the public eye? It is now published by the friends of Mr. Adams, with a laboured eulogy upon the writer and his opinions. Why then was it treacherous, why was it insidious, in his correspondent, to communicate to his friends a document, which would redound so much to the glory of the author? On the other hand, if he was convinced that the sentiments were dangerous, that the principles were subversive of the constitution and liberties of his country, there was a duty imposed on him, more solemn in its nature, than the restraints of individual friendship; paramount in its obligation, to the etiquette of private correspondence. The discharge of this duty required the publication of the letter. Mr. Adams, from his commanding and elevated station, has once controlled, in some degree, the destinies of his country. If he was secretly labouring to undermine the pillars of its prosperity, the public sentiment ought to have been awakened to a sense of the danger. If he was contriving to mutilate the fair fabric of our national glory, and to crown the Tuscan columns of the constitution, with the gorgeous "Corinthian capitals of polished society," every individual who could trace the roving hand of the architect ought to have borne witness against the dangerous and daring innovation! The subject is thus reduced, at once, to this position. If the sentiments are correct and defensible, no injury could accrue from the disclosure, to Mr. Adams or the public. It was not therefore a breach of confidence. If the opinions were dangerous, if the principles were pernicious, a public and a superior duty required its promulgation. A partial exhibition of the letter was then but a partial act of duty. Its publication would have been an act of exemplary magnanimity and firmness.
Leaving, then, the champions of the Ex-President and his letter to dangle upon "one of its horns of this dilemma," and apologising to our readers for this digression, we again resume the thread of our enquiry.
It was well known, by Mr. Adams and his party, that this letter had been seen, and had been, occasionally, the subject of conversation. Believing that it might, at some future period, find its way to the public, through a different channel, it was perhaps an object with them to anticipate the publication. By this policy they might have expected to diminish the impression it would produce upon the minds of the people. Brought into notice by the sanction of his own authority, and introduced with a comment, calculated to disguise its features, it was thought it might possibly pass off, without notice or animadversion. If no strictures had been made, if no explanation had been attempted, the views and sentiments of the writer might have been partially concealed, under the confusion and obscurity of his title. The vague and general profession of an attachment to republican forms of government might have been construed into a regard for the federal constitution. "A natural and actual aristocracy among mankind" might have been made to intend nothing more than the adventitious superiority of wealth, of talents, or of virtue. "A superior" to the NOBLES and the people, might have been found in a President, who derived a temporary superiority in power, from the suffrages of his fellow citizens. When he spoke of the Plebeians, as waging everlasting war against the common rights of man, and of "the necessity of preserving and strengthening the dykes against the ocean, its tides, and its storms," it might not have been at once perceived, that he was traducing the character of the American people, and projecting a restraints upon popular liberty.
When he compared the love of liberty in man to the ferocity of the wolf, it might not have been noticed that he was reviving human nature, and libelling the sovereignty of the people. When he spoke of instances, in which "popularity had been a wind, a tide and a whirlwind," it might not have been suspected that he was levelling an invidious reflection against the character of WASHINGTON, who had floated on the surface of popular favor, and was then successfully guiding the vessel of the state. Such might have been the impressions produced by a cursory perusal, and such might have been the motives to a publication of the letter. If it had escaped without comment, it might have passed into oblivion, without increasing or impairing the reputation of the writer, distinguished for nothing but for awkwardness of diction, and obscurity of style.
But if it was expected to become a subject of discussion, there were not wanting other motives for intruding it upon the public at this moment. The wanting of liberty in France had given an air of prophecy to some parts of the letter. It had been found that "hay, wood and stubble, were the materials of some of the new political buildings in Europe," and the usurpation of BONAPARTE had convinced us, that the revolution would give to the people of France "nothing but a change of impositions, and impostors." This cir-
cumstance, it was presumed, would render to Mr. Adams, the character of a political prophet, and would give a currency to sentiments, which might have otherwise been unpopular and obnoxious. It was believed, also, perhaps, that the public sentiment, in our own country, had been wrought up to such a degree of delusion, that the people would be ready to receive any project for a "political institution" which might keep in check the passions of the multitude. When all the devices of slander had been broken up, when all the fountains of calumny had been exhausted, for the purpose of bearing down our government, when the administration had been deluged by torrents of abuse and invective, then was the time to point to some towering Ararat, on which the political Ark might be deposited in safety!! "The finger of Heaven," which had once pointed to war, and a WASHINGTON, as the means of ransoming a nation from slavery, it would be said, now pointed to a KING and NOBILITY, as the means of arresting our career towards anarchy and ruin. This was considered as the crisis in our disorder; when the patient, debilitated by the deleterious drugs of political empirics, would be ready to receive the most nauseous and disgusting prescription, which might promise to restore the energy of the system. This, then, was the moment for forcing an aristocracy upon the people, and for "outwitting" those, who had too much strength to be resisted in any other way.
It is not to be disguised that a radical change in the constitution, has been and is full contemplated, by many of its pretended friends. The nature of this change may be fairly inferred from the letter before us. This was the subject on which Mr. Adams was anxious to commune with his friend; this was the object which he readily, though covertly pursued through the whole course of his administration; which has excited all the spirit of party, and diversity of opinion, by which the country has been distracted. This is the system, the development of which led to his disgrace, and drove him into unwelcome retirement. This is the desperate cause, which has been once paralyzed by the energy of republican virtue, but which his friends are endeavouring to revive, by rendering the government unpopular, and every measure obnoxious. But political, as well as moral turpitude, when left to itself, will generally defeat the object of its pursuit. The truth of this position has been evinced in the undiscriminating rancor, with which the most meritorious acts of the administration have been impudently denounced. This intemperate abuse has given new dignity to the government, and new energy to its friends.
In the publication of this extraordinary letter, they have also overleapt the common boundaries of prudence. They have put a spear, like "a weavers beam," into the hands of their adversary, with which they may be perpetually followed and annoyed. It will remain, like the hand writing in the palace of BELSHAZZAR, a solemn record of the weakness and wickedness of his party, and an awful admonition to every ambitious projector. "He did not humble his heart, and his glory has been taken from him. God hath numbered his kingdom, and has finished it. He has been weighed in the balance and found wanting!"
—EGISS.
Charlotte Hall School.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT the Trustees, on the 4th Monday of October next, if fair, or the first fair day thereafter, will contract with any person of reputable character, who will undertake the stewardship of said School for the year 1803.
Signed by order, NEALE H. SHAW, Reg. Coal Springs, St. Mary's Co. } September 17, 1802 } 3w.
NOTICE.
Was Lost, in George Town or the City, on Monday the sixth inst. a Red Morocco pocket book, with sundry notes and papers, of no use to any person but the owner, viz. one note drawn on William Bruff in my favour for 438 dollars, cents not recollected, due on the 15th of this inst.—One ditto of 478 dollars, cents not recollected, due on the 15th of December next.—One ditto on Hrae Loring for 84 dollars 50 cents on sixty days, dated 2d of August last, with sundry other notes and papers of no use to any one but myself.—Any person finding and giving notice of the same to the subscriber, living in Bladensburg, or to Samuel McEntire in the City, shall be generously rewarded.
EBENEZER ELIASON. Sept. 13, 1802. 14w3t.
Stolen or strayed from the City of Washington, on the night of the 7th inst. a grey draught Geling, the hinder part somewhat darker than the rest of the body, strongly made, and about 15 hands high.—Whoever gives such intelligence to that he may be found, shall get, (in found in the City) two Dollars, if within eight miles of the City three dollars, and if at a greater distance shall be considered in proportion, by the proprietor living in New-Jersey Avenue.
PATRICK DONOUGHE. Sept. 13, 1802. 2t.
LITERATURE.
Extracts from the
MOST REMARKABLE YEAR
Of the life of AUGUSTUS VON KOTZEBUE—containing an account of his exile into Siberia, and other extraordinary events which happened to him in Russia, written by himself—in three volumes.
These three volumes contain the history of twelve months of Kotzebue's life; "The adventures of which, (he says) are of so extraordinary and wonderful a nature, that they would interest the reader even as a romance—how much more as a true story!" They are certainly interesting, and indeed more so than any German romance, or even a modern English one. The style is easy and energetic, and the spirit of the original seems to be well attended to by the translator. The egotism, however, is frequently displeasing to the ear, but we acknowledge, that a man in writing his own history, must now and then be an egotist. In this narrative the reader is alternately presented with characters and adventures.
The following portrait which our author draws of a Courier of Petersburg, will serve as an example of the former:
"Alexander Schulkens was about 30 years of age: a man without the least ray of cultivation, a sort of brute, but of a good kind. He had a Calmuck countenance, a round face, a turned-up nose, high cheek bones, black hair, large chest and shoulders. On his left side he wore the escutcheon of a senate-courier, and round his waist was strapped a pocket to hold dispatches. His great delight was eating and drinking; he was not very choice in his food; he eat and drank every thing that came in his way: and from the manner in which he acquitted himself it was evident that this was his principal business. When he took his soup, he threw his head back, introduced the spoon up to the handle in his mouth, and in this manner poured the contents down his throat, without allowing his palate to taste of it. During the time he looked towards the ceiling, and compressed his short forehead into a thousand little horizontal wrinkles, which set every hair in his head in motion. In like manner he devoured his meat; not chewing, but merely swallowing it down. Whenever I left a bone on my plate, he would instantly lay hold of it and gnaw it like a dog. A glass of brandy must have been uncommonly large, if he did not dispatch it at one single draught, and always in the manner his food went down, which, as I have already observed, was directly into his throat. He could drink a great quantity of spirits without being at all intoxicated, and all mixtures were alike to him; tea, coffee, brandy and punch; upon all of which, taken in the space of a quarter of an hour, I have seen him throw down two chopins of quarts." In short, he could eat and drink, and sleep at will, and at all hours of the day or night, I may add, that the Aulic Counsellor was his equal in the exercise of these fine talents, and was but little inferior to him in his taste for strong liquors.
"But rude as he was, Alexander Schulkens had the advantage of the other in a moral point of view. He often betrayed a sensibility of disposition which excited the most violent emotions; not durable, indeed, but very sudden. He had some little knowledge, but the Counsellor had none at all. I recollect one day, that seeing a cuckoo, he observed, that that bird always laid its eggs in the nest of another, and left the owner the care of hatching them. The Counsellor began to laugh; when Alexander asked me if the circumstance was not true? I replied it was; when the Counsellor called forth his nasal wrinkles, and cast a look of pity on us both. What I have to say further relative to Alexander, will be seen in the sequel. I shall only add, in order to make his office better known to the reader, that the Senate of Peterburgh has eighty such men at command, ready to carry orders to the most distant parts of the world. They are, I believe, subsaltern officers; their dress resembles that of a postman, except the badge, which, though somewhat like that of the latter, bears a different inscription."
The adventures are various; we shall, therefore, extract two, which are the plate subjects of the second and third volumes; the first volume being ornamented with the author's head:—
"We stopped to change horses at a village, and as I was sitting at the door of a cottage, breaking some bread into a bowl of milk, an old man of sixty, whose hair and beard were white as snow, threw himself on the ground, and enquired with extreme earnestness if we had brought him any letters from Revel. I fixed my eyes sedately upon him; I doubted whether I had rightly understood him; upon which a woman, who was standing by, whispered me—"This man has lost his senses; he darts from his bed every time he hears of the arrival of a stranger, and always asks the same question." "Give me a piece of paper," continued she, "and I will pacify him; otherwise you will have much trouble."

with him, for he will persist in saying here, and tire you with his lamentations." She then pretended to read a letter to him, beginning with these words: "My dear husband, I am in perfect health, as like-wise are all our children. Make yourself easy, we shall soon be with you."
"The old man appeared to listen with extreme delight; he smiled and stroked his beard; then taking the paper in his hand he pressed it to his bosom. He now related very rational that he had formerly been a soldier, and served on board the Revel fleet at Cronstadt, and at other places—he added that he was an invalid, that he had just left his wife, and that she was now with her children at Revel. The woman told us that he had left them thirty years ago; the poor man vehemently contradicted her, and then seated himself on the end of the bench, where my two gentlemen were amusing themselves in their old way, and of whom he appeared to take no notice. After this, he uttered some words which I could not well hear, then cried aloud—'My dearest, where art thou at this moment; art thou at Revel, at Riga, or at Petersburg?'—These words were so applicable to my own situation, that I had scarcely strength enough to rise from my seat, and retire to conceal my tears. This good old man, thought I, exhibits a picture of what ere long I may be. Deprived of reason, I may perhaps one day loiter about the road, and ask the passengers if they had any letters from Revel. Even now I may exclaim like him, 'My dearest, where art thou at this moment? Art thou at Petersburg, at Riga, or at Revel?' Never, O never, did I experience such a painful moment! The image of the old man is for ever engraved on my memory; it is present to me when I awake; it haunts me in my dreams, and is eternally before me."
"The carriage was ready before I had well recovered myself; my companions, who saw me lay aside the bowl of milk could not conceive what ailed me, nor did I acquaint them with the state of my feelings, which would only have incurred their ridicule. I almost blush to relate, that on leaving the poor luna, I made him a small present. The man, who for the long space of thirty-five years had never lost sight of his family, was a being of no common stamp; nor could the sufferings of his heart be relieved by money—he received what I gave him with perfect indifference and without thanks. I felt the blood rise into my cheeks, and I covered my face as I left him."
The following is a description of a Tartar Village:
"Between Jularuski and Tobolski, we drove through several villages inhabited by Tartars. This nation does not appear to me to merit the contempt with which the Russians, their conquerors, choose to treat them. An accident which befell me in one of these villages, gave me an opportunity of learning some particulars."
"One evening, near sun-set the axle-tree of my carriage broke down, when two or three Tartars immediately ran to my assistance. One of them was a sort of carpenter. I stopped before his door, and learning that the repairs would take up three hours, I desired my servant to make some tea. The inside of the Tartar houses being very dirty, I preferred passing the evening, which was exceedingly fine, before the door; and having procured a table and a chair, I began to open my travelling trunk to take out what was necessary to make my tea. Curiosity had drawn all the inhabitants of the village about me, who seemed to be totally ignorant of the use of utensils of luxury. An old felt bed-gown, that my wife had often wished me to throw aside, attracted their attention and admiration to such a degree, that every one of them was desirous to handle it."
"But what delighted them to ecstacy was the looking-glass that lined the lid of my travelling box. They fat cowering in groups before it, laughed aloud at the sight of their own faces, and explained to one another, by droll gesticulations, their astonishment at seeing before them the country that lay behind them. I took the glass from the lid, and presented it to the carpenter's wife, who at first cast a look of stealth upon it, then by degrees grew more familiar with it, and at last admired herself with no small satisfaction, for she was very pretty. It appeared to me that the female Tartar peasants were not so scrupulous as the women of Calcutta in hiding their faces; at least all I saw here were without veils."
"Tea being ready, I lighted my pipe, and sat myself down upon a pile of timber which stood just opposite my carpenter's house. It was a picturesque nocturnal scene. A score of Tartars were seated about me, upon the rude steps formed by the beams of timber; at my feet a little fire was kindled, at which the carpenter was working; and across the way, close to the house, stood several women, girls, and children, who were too bashful to approach nearer."
"By degrees a very singular conversation took place between me and the surrounding groups. The moment they had discovered I was not a Russian, they took courage—I gained their confidence they overwhelmed me with inquiries:
Who was I? Where was I going? What countryman was I? How did people live in my country? The crowd and myself were alike interested in the Russian tongue, and we had infinite trouble to understand each other. Having told them I was a Saxon, they conversed for some time in the Tartar language together, and then asked me if Saxony was not situated upon the Caspian Sea. I knew not how to give them an idea of the geographical position of that country. They were ignorant of all Germany, except Prussia, and of that they had but very confused ideas. They had never heard of the name of France, or its revolution, nor its wars!
"A young woman, whom the looking-glass had attracted so much, having in the mean while drawn nearer to us to profit by the conversation, I took an opportunity of asking her if polygamy was common among them; and it appeared, that in all the village, there were but two men who had more than one wife, and my carpenter was one of these. I was asked if I did not think it very agreeable to have several helpmates and several companions. Each by-stander strove to prove the advantages of polygamy. 'When a man's wife grows old,' said one of them, 'she is associated with a younger woman.' 'When the old one is sad,' added another, 'the young one may smile and be merry.'
"Very well," said I, "but does this arrangement please your family?" On saying this, I cast my eyes upon my pretty hostess. The by-standers explained what I said, as she scarcely understood a word of Russian; and when she had comprehended the question, she shook her head, as if she would say, "you are right to doubt it." After this she turned her eyes in a timid manner towards the door of her own house, where a woman of about forty, and of a scabbed look, probably her companion, was sitting. My eyes followed her's, and I was convinced that I had discovered a family secret.
I had evidently gained the good will of this young woman, by the part I had taken in favour of the sex, for she soon after brought a pot filled with eggs, though I had not asked for any thing of the kind, which being placed upon the fire that was burning before me, she squatted down in such a manner that the flames reddened her countenance to a high degree; having boiled the eggs, she presented them to me upon a wooden dish.
"I had never before had an opportunity of being convinced of the inveterate hatred which the Tartars bear the Russians. My dragoon had fallen asleep; my servant and myself were strangers, and they could venture to explain themselves with freedom, which they soon began to do without the least reserve."
"As far as I have been able to observe the Tartar nation, I have found them frank, ambitious, quick in perception, of strong feelings, and much addicted to revenge. The men are in general tall, stout, and hardy. With such inherent dispositions, it is impossible that the conduct of the Russians, towards them should produce any other effects than hatred. The Tartars are considered as the reprobate descendants of certain Finlandish colonies. The name of Tartar in this part of the world is an expression injurious as that of Tschoo, which is bestowed on the wretched inhabitants of the north of the Baltic. They are used in the most cruel and ignominious manner. When any accident happens a Russian on the road, he claims, as the bounden duty of a slave, the assistance of the first Tartar he meets, without condescending either to pay or thank him for his service. They even ridicule his prophet during the very time the man is at work for them, and while they themselves remain idle lookers-on. I have been present at a scene of this kind, in which Alexander Schulkens behaved with great indecency, and I could observe, that when he began to speak prophetically of the prophet, the Tartar grew pale with anger, and was scarcely able to restrain his indignation."
"I afforded this injured people some consolation, by informing them, that several of their mirzas were treated with great respect at Petersburg. I named Berlschawin in particular, a man equally celebrated as a poet and a statesman; advising them at the same time to make application to him whenever they stood in need of redress."
"If my conversation seemed to afford them much delight, their frank and unreserved behaviour gave me no less pleasure, except that they pressed too closely about me."
"As soon as the carriage was repaired, I prepared to depart. The carpenter received a trifle for his labour, but refused to take any thing for his hospitality; and though this accident was far from being agreeable, as it impeded my journey, yet I cannot help congratulating myself on having employed the period of the delay in a very satisfactory manner."
* Lest the printer should be innocently accused of a blunder, the translator begs to inform his countrymen, that the Germans frequently take a pipe at their tea and coffee.
† The true name of the Finlanders, but which is now degenerated into a term of reproach.
Valuable property for Sale.
On Monday the 23d day of August next, WILL be sold at public sale at Mr. Semmes's tavern, Georgetown. A will, Millfeet and 42 1/2 acres of land adjoining, lying on Rock Creek, and within a mile and an half of Georgetown and the City of Washington; and at the same time and place will be offered for sale, 500 acres of valuable land, lying about 7 miles from Georgetown, on the Fredrick road; there are on the premises, two tenements with the necessary buildings in tolerable repair; a number of bearing fruit trees, 10 or 12 acres of meadow, and binding on the river upwards of two miles. This land is immensely heavily timbered, a great proportion remains in wood, the clear land is rich and highly productive; this land is laid off into 5 lots, with a house on each lot, which answer for temporary accommodations. Mr. Brown, who lives on the premises, will show the lines of the different lots. The whole of the above property will be sold on a credit of one, two, and three years with interest. And, at the same time, and place, the sale to continue, from day to day till all is sold—about thirty valuable negroes, men, women and children, work horses, cattle and hogs, plantation utensils and the crop on the ground, on a credit of twelve months, bonds on interest, with approved security will be required of the purchasers. Any persons desirous of purchasing the above property, or any part thereof at private sale, will please to apply to Col. Francis Deakins, or Philip B. Key, Esq. Georgetown, or the Subscriber.
WALTER MACKALL. Benedict, July 14, 1802. 1w3t.
LOST. ON Monday the 29th August, between the Washington Branch Bank and the Twenty Buildings, a red morocco POCKET BOOK, containing eighty dollars in Bank Notes, of the Alexandria Bank; and a note of hand for two hundred dollars, together with some small papers, &c. Whoever returns the same with the contents, shall receive ten dollars Reward from the subscriber, living at Mr. Jones's 20 Buildings. JOHN ATKIN, Sept. 1, 1802. ep3t.
Proposals BY A. DAVIS & J. DIXON, For reprinting by subscription, that scarce and valuable work, the DEBATES And other proceedings of the Convention of Virginia.—To which will be annexed, a copious index. CONDITIONS: I. This work shall be printed with a neat type, on good paper, in one large octavo volume, and contain upwards of 600 pages. II. It will be bound in boards, and delivered to subscribers at the moderate price of three dollars and a half. III. To those who with to have their copies elegantly bound gilt and lettered the price will be four dollars. IV. As this is a work of great magnitude, and as much expense will be necessarily incurred, two dollars from each subscriber will be required in advance. V. The price will be considerably enhanced to non-subscribers.
TO THE PUBLIC. The above publication was procrastinated on account of the copy-right being vested in Mr. Davis, who has now agreed to print the book, in conjunction with the subscriber. The public are therefore respectfully informed, that the work will be put to press, so soon as a sufficiency of subscribers are obtained to indemnify the expense of paper. Upon an accurate calculation, the price mentioned in the former proposals was found too small; the subscriber has thought proper to enhance it, and he hopes that those who first intended to patronize the undertaking, will not on that account withhold their support, for so trivial an alteration.
JOHN DIXON. Subscriptions will be received at the office of the National Intelligencer.
This is to give Notice,
THAT the Subscribers hath obtained from the Orphans Court of Calvert County, in Maryland, letters of Administration on the personal estate of John W. Simmons, late of said County deceased—All persons having any claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof to the subscribers, at or before the twelfth day of March next—they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under our hands this tenth day of September, 1802. BEN. WILLIAMS, Adm. SARAH SIMMONS, Adm. All persons indebted to the said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the Subscriber. B. W. Sept. 15, 1802. 1w4t.
A Valuable Farm for Sale,
In King George County & State of Virginia. THIS Farm contains five hundred and thirty-five acres—about three hundred and fifty of which are cleared and divided into three fields with good inclosures—it is situated on Potomac river, and bounded on the South East side for a mile and half by Rozier's creek, which affords a great abundance of fine fish and wild fowl, crabs, oysters, &c.—thirty miles from Fredericksburg, forty four from Alexandria, and fifty from Washington City. On this land are very extensive Bell banks, exclusive of the advantages to be derived from these banks by the lime business, they are very favourable to the production of corn and wheat, and the soil inexhaustible; there are about sixty or seventy acres of this kind of land, and the balance of it is cleared of an excellent quality, and a great number of springs of fine water; it can with certainty be classed among the most healthy situations below the falls of Potomac—indeed, the natural advantages attending this place are innumerable. The improvements are a two story framed dwelling house, sixty-four feet long, commanding a beautiful view of the creek and river; one other house intended for an office, twenty-six feet by eighteen with three rooms and a cellar in good repair; a large house, including a stable for eight horses, a corn house, carriage house, saddle and harness room, and a commodious granary above, and other convenient buildings on the Farm—a small orchard of well chosen apples and peach trees—the yard and garden inclosed this spring, with pales and railing—The whole plantation in good repair, and the land in a great state of improvement. The terms of Sale will be made known by Mr. Francis Whiting who in a short time will be a resident of Berkeley county, or by the subscriber on the premises. WILLIAM P. FLOOD. July 9, 1802. 1w3t.
NOTICE.
ON Saturday the 11th of September next, between the hours of 10 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon, at Stille's Hotel, City of Washington, the final certificate of discharge under the bankrupt law of the United States will be granted to Uriah Forrest.
By order of William Kirby Esq. chief judge of the district of Columbia. JOHN C. DENT, Secretary to the commissioners, Aug. 23, 1802. 1w4t.
To be Sold,
On the premises on Tuesday October 5 1802, upon reasonable terms. A VALUABLE tract or parcel of Land containing upwards of six hundred acres, lying and being in Prince George county, about sixteen miles from the City of Washington, eight miles from Piscataway creek which empties into Potomac river, and about eight miles from Patuxent river, both navigable waters. There is a small tenement thereon, and about 50 acres of land cleared, all the rest in wood, abounding in valuable timber of different kinds lies exceedingly level, a great quantity of which may be made into excellent meadow. It is kindly adapted to wheat, &c. An antexceptionable title will be given. A part of the purchase money will be required to be paid in hand, good bonds with approved security will be taken for the remainder. HEDWICH HOLLTDAY. Aug. 27, 1802. 1w3t.
NOTICE.
COMMITTED on the 24th of July negro JAMES, five feet six and an half inches high, about 50 years of age—says he was free by John Wilson, of St. Mary's county. Committed on the 4th of August REBECCA, a woman, five feet three and an half inches high, appears to be about 27 years of age, has a scar over her left eye—says she was sold by Joshua Poor (who lives near Port Tobacco) to a person going to Georgia. The above negroes, if not taken away by their owners, will be sold agreeably to law, for their jail fees. ROBERT MCLEAN, jailor. For Daniel C. Brent, Martha Washington, Aug. 18 1802. 1w3.
William Kennedy, HAIR DRESSER & CUTTER,
(From Europe) RESPECTFULLY informs the ladies and gentlemen of George-Town and the City of Washington, that he cuts and dresses hair, and makes the newest fashioned head dresses. Having pursued his avocation for ten years in Philadelphia, seven years in Baltimore, and residing for these two years past in France, he flatters himself he cannot be excelled in the business he professes to follow. Any commands left at Mr. Benj. McKey's, opposite the Olio Printing-Office, will be punctually attended to. Aug. 16, 1802. ep6t.
TO BE RENTED,
Two or three large three story brick Houses. SITUATED on the Capitol Hill, convenient to the Capitol—to prevent trouble it is wished that no one would apply who will not pay half the rent in advance, or who can give good security for the payment of the rent—possession to be had the first of November, application to be made to DANL. CARROLL of Duval. Sept. 8, 1802. ep11N.
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber intends to petition the Washington County Court, at their next meeting, for License to keep the ferry from George-Town to Virginia, known by the name of Beatty's Ferry. JOHN KENNEDY. Sept. 23, 1802. 31w4t.
NOTICE.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Washington County, District of Columbia, on 20th August, negro CHIT 5 feet high, who says he belongs to James Keith Esq. of Alexandria. Committed the 28th, negro DAVY, 5 feet 10 1/2 inches high, about 35 years of age, yellow complexion with a scar between his eye-brows occasioned by a hurt when a child, a thin-carpenter by trade, formerly the property of James Clavett of George-Town. The above negroes if not taken away by their owners will be sold agreeably to law, for jail fees. ROBERT MCLEAN, jailor. For Daniel C. Brent, Martha of Columbia. Washington Connly, Sept. 2d, 1802. 1w3t.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And for sale by the Publishers, at his Conveyancing office President's Square, City of Washington. Vol. 2d of his Digest of the Laws of the U. States. Price 11-2 dollars, or 2 dollars full bound and lettered.
District of Columbia to wit. BE it remembered that on the eleventh day of September eighteen hundred and two, in the 27th year of the Independence of the United States of America. THOS. HERLY of the said District has deposited in this office the title of a Book the right whereof he claims as author in the word following to wit: "A Digest of the law of the United States of America, being a complete system alphabetically arranged of all the public acts of Congress now in force from the commencement of the Federal Government, to the end of the first session of the Seventh Congress which terminated in May 1802, inclusive. By THOMAS HERLY of Washington City, Conveyancer. Vol. II. "in conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and books to the authors, and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office the eleventh day of Sept 1802 URIAH FORREST, Clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia held for the county of Washington. Sept. 13, 1802. 1w4t.
FOR SALE.
The subscriber intending to move to the state of Kentucky, has and now offers for sale, the following lands, to wit: A TRACT in the county of Frederick (Virginia) on Buck marsh, within 12 miles of Winchester, and 5 of Shenandoah river, containing four hundred and six acres under good repair, there is on the plantation between fifty and sixty acres of meadow land of the first quality, with a stream of water running through it, which can at no considerable expense and trouble, be watered if required; there is a dwelling house, kitchen, barn, blacksmith's shop, and several out houses, a number of large and never-failing springs, several of which being quite convenient to the dwelling house, there is a valuable apple orchard, together with a number of other fruit trees, of the most choice kind. A tract adjoining on said marsh, containing twenty-seven and two thirds acres, with a dwelling house, kitchen, a large commodious distillery with four stills, tubs, and other requisites sufficient, and in complete order for carrying on the distilling business. There is on this tract, ten acres of meadow land, which can be watered; and is an excellent stand for a store. One other tract lying on the head of said marsh, and within half a mile of the last mentioned tract, and containing the same number of acres; a proportion of which is cleared, and under good inclosure, a convenient dwelling house, kitchen, and barn, with a well of water near the house, and a large spring at no great distance. Also the tract which the last mentioned lies, in four separate parcels, six hundred and twelve acres, lying within seventeen miles of Winchester, on the main road leading to Staunton; and on both sides of a large creek that divides the two countries, Frederick and Shenandoah. A proportion of these tracts, consist of rich low ground, on both sides of said creek; about twenty acres of handsome meadow, a dwelling house, kitchen, a large shadecaded barn, with a number of other convenient and necessary out-houses, a good garden, a small apple, and pear or hard, and a number of young and thriving cherry trees; there are also small, but good, springs, one of which is to create convenient to the house. The above lands are entire, and well calculated for raising corn and small grain of every description, and are particularly calculated for grazing farms, as they afford great quantities of the best grass. Any further description is thought unnecessary, as it is expected that all those wishing to purchase, would with first to view the land, which will be shown, and the terms of payment made known by the subscriber living on the last-mentioned premises, in Shenandoah county, Virginia. WILLIAM A. BOOTH. Aug. 23, 1802. ep4t.
IMPORTED
In the Robert from Liverpool, and now opening for Sale at the Subscriber's Store, New-Jersey Avenue, Capitol Hill, City of Washington. A general assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Sadlery and Brass Wares.—Spades and Shovels, Sheet Iron, Tin in Boxes, Brass Kettles, Corn Hoes, Nail, Glue, Locks, Hinges and Screws, Carpenters planes, Saws, Braces and Bits, Screw drivers, &c. Knives and Forks, Croit Stands, Iron Wire, Brothers Smiths Hammers, Files, Vices, Screw plates, &c. Razors, Penknives, Spoons, Japanned Tea Trays, Wafers and Bread Boxes, a few sets of gentleman's tools in chests, and a variety of articles too tedious to particularize. Also, 2 cases of Keenan's towing guns, which will be sold very low for cash or approved notes. H. INGLIS. June 28, 1802. 31w5w1w1.

TO THE PUBLIC.
The Proprietors of the Charter for opening the Navigation of the Catawba and Wateree Rivers, having at length been, with much satisfaction, the completion of the Santee Canal, propose to recommence their operations for opening the Catawba and Wateree Rivers during the present year, as soon as the state of the said Rivers will permit.
In the mean while they have determined to double the number of their shares for the purpose of admitting such persons as may choose to become subscribers. The expenses which have been already incurred by the Company amount to one hundred dollars on each share of the present number, which, when doubled according to the present determination, will reduce it to fifty dollars a share.
The Charter of South Carolina is in perpetuity, and these shares are forever exempted from any rate, tax, duty, assessment or imposition whatever. The Act of North Carolina, authorises the Company to fix and establish a toll on all goods and merchandise, for 99 years, and exempt their shares from any rate, tax, duty, assessment or imposition whatever, for the same period of time.
The present proprietors think it a duty incumbent on them, to inform the public, that a very considerable sum is expected to be raised from the sale of vacant lands, (which extend two miles on each side of the Catawba river, the whole length thereof from the North Carolina line down to Camden Ferry, a distance of not less than 120 miles, and in which is supposed are reserved to the company, not less than 58,000 or 60,000 acres) and left they should be deferred from engaging in the present navigation, by a reference to the enormous expense of the Santee Canal, the stockholders think it but just that they should declare their opinion of the improbability of the subscribers being called upon for more than 16 dollars on each share per annum, as it would be impossible for the works to be carried on longer than for about four months in the year, since the labourers will be chiefly employed in the water.
It is further to be remarked, that the Catawba river is looked upon as the most proper site for the establishment of a magazine, foundary and arsenal, for the three Southern states, viz. North and South Carolina and Georgia; that surveys have been made, and a statement thereof forwarded on this subject some years ago, to the Secretary at war; that the State of South Carolina passed an act, authorizing a purchase by the United States, of a certain quantity of land within this state; and the Catawba company have offered to release to the United States, any of their lands on said river, for such purpose, on a fair valuation. The hour now seems to approach for such an establishment; not only because it is a time of almost profound peace throughout the world, but that the idea is revived by the President of the United States, in his message of the 23d of February, 1802, to Congress, wherein he observes, "besides the permanent magazines established at Springfield, West Point, and Harper's Ferry, it is thought one should be established at some point convenient for the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, such a point will be found near the borders of the Carolinas; and some small provision by the legislature, preparatory to the establishment, will be necessary for the present year." And nature indeed has pointed out this river as the most proper place for such a magazine, from the vast quantities of ore which have been discovered on the Catawba and its two branches, and there can be no doubt but that such an abundance of metal must attract the attention of the engineer, who may be authorised to examine and determine on a proper site for this establishment, particularly as there are already several furnaces and forges on the abovementioned rivers, at some of which six pound guns have been cast and bored, equal to any ever imported or made to the northward.
The company intend for the present season, to confine their operations to the removal of the obstructions from Rocky Mount to Camden Ferry, to the opening of a road for a carrying place, and the transportation of goods, from above the Falls at Rocky Mount, down to the Old Ferry landing; to the erection of a bridge across the Rocky Creek, and to the building a boat, and establishing the Ferry, which is allowed them by law.
At a meeting of the Catawba Company, the 4th of March, 1802, two-thirds of them being present,
On motion, resolved, That the six hundred shares in the Company of the Catawba and Wateree Rivers, be subdivided into twelve hundred.
That the present proprietors be entitled to hold double the number of their present shares; and that they have besides a preference to extend the number of their shares to one for every ten to which they shall be entitled after such subdivision.
To every new subscriber who shall pay 50 dollars, shall be entitled not only to the advantages to be derived from the opening of said river; but also to a proportionate interest in the lands vested in the Company by the legislature of this state.
Resolved, That 100 shares be referred to be offered to the state of South Carolina, and that an equal number of shares be referred to be tendered to the state of North Carolina.
At an anniversary meeting of the Catawba Company, on Tuesday the 10th instant, the following resolves were entered into:—
"That an advertisement be published, inviting persons to contract for the opening of Graves's Ford and Love's Ford to deep and wide as to admit boats drawing 2 feet 9 inches water, and 12 feet wide; also, for opening a road and carrying place, from above Rocky Mount, to the Ferry landing below, and for constructing a bridge across Rocky Creek; also, for building a Ferry Boat to ply across the river, at or near the present landing at Rocky Mount, also for surveying the vacant lands, which have been already granted them by the legislature. Such undertakers to give approved security for the faithful fulfilment of their respective contracts, and to direct their applications to the President, Judge Grimké, during the sitting of the constitutional court at Columbia, from the 19th to the 24th of April next, or to Charles Tew, the secretary, in Charleston, on or before the 15th day of May next ensuing."
"That the President do establish a correspondence with some mercantile house in Cambridge, and endeavour to obtain permission to lodge with them the monies of the Company, and that they would disburse the same, according to the directions of the Company."
"That one hundred shares be offered to the citizens of North Carolina, and that they have to the first day of January next ensuing, to subscribe for such shares; and that General Davie be authorised to appoint some person or persons in that state to receive such subscriptions on the part of the Company, payable as in the following resolution:
"That col. Senf, col. Hill, and John Simpson, esq. clerk of Lancaster court, be authorised to receive subscriptions from such persons as are inclined to become proprietors, and who reside within the limits of this state, and that they take notes, payable to the President and Directors of the Company for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree Rivers on the first day of March 1803, and they be authorised to deliver receipts for the same in the nature of scrip, in such form as the President and Directors shall appoint."
"That these resolutions, with the late publication in the papers of this city, as far as the President and Directors shall deem necessary and proper, be inserted in Cox and Shepard's Gazette of this city, and in the one which is printed in Raleigh, North Carolina, by Joseph Gales, once a month until the 1st of October next."
"That the solicitor of the company be instructed to adopt the most immediate measures for the recovery of such balances as appear to be due by such proprietors as have paid none of the requisitions for the last 18 months past, and that the secretary do furnish him with a list of the names of such defaulters."
"That the following mode be adopted as the uniform rule of transferring the shares of the company: "I. A. B. do transfer my right to share No. forty, (the number must be in letters and not numerals) in the company for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree rivers, unto C. D. for value received. Signed A. B. Witnessed by E. F. G. H. Proved on oath, before me, L. M.—J. P."
"That the sum of one shilling and two pence be paid on each share, on the requisition which shall become due, on the third Tuesday of September next ensuing, and the same sum on the third Tuesday of March thereafter."
"South Carolina, 1802. Received of a note payable to the President and Directors of the Company, for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree rivers, for fifty dollars, which, when paid, will entitle him to be a stockholder in the said company."
FOR SALE, LOOKING-GLASSES & FURNITURE.
The subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has just received from New-York various kinds of Looking-Glasses, from 5 to 70 dollars each.—Also card tables, bureaus, &c. of an elegant and fashionable make. He continues to manufacture and sell all kinds of ornaments for chimney-pieces, door caps, frontispiece pieces, metal salvers, &c. &c.
GEORGE ANDREWS. April 14, 1802.
NOTICE.
THE creditors of Uriah Forrester, bankrupt, having appointed me the assignee of his estate and effects. All persons indebted to him, previous to the date of the commission of bankruptcy are required to make payment, and those who hold any of his property, to deliver the same to me.
Mr. Forrester is authorised to make settlements of accounts and to attend to all business relating to his estate. JOHN HEWITT, Assignee. Aug. 30, 1802.
INFORMATION.
I do hereby certify, that on the 15th July, 1802, I directed the proper officers of the customs to give a fair trial, experimentally to Mr. Dearborn's patent balance, to ascertain its correctness with the standard weights of the treasury of this state; and particularly its utility, in the facility of weighing dutiable cargoes. The surveyor and weigh master of the port, have, after various experiments, and after due examination, reported to me this day, as follows:
That they tried Dearborn's patent balance with the 50, 25, 14, 7, and 4 pounds brass legal standard weights, procured from the treasury of this state, and found the patent balance critically correct.
After several comparative trials, they report:—
That they weighed in the custom-house scales, 10 hogheads of sugar in one hour, with six hands. The same 10 hogheads of sugar were weighed in their patent balance in twenty-two minutes, with only two hands.
In the scales 34 barrels of coffee and sugar were weighed in thirty-seven minutes, with two hands. In the patent balance the same 34 barrels of coffee and sugar were weighed in twenty-two minutes, with two hands.
In the scales 15 boxes of Havana sugar were weighed in fifteen minutes, with four hands. In the patent balance, 18 boxes of the same Havana sugar were weighed in fifteen minutes, with two hands.
In weighing a hoghead of sugar in the scales, it required 3lbs. weight to preponderate the scale. In weighing the same hoghead of sugar in the patent balance, half a pound weight would preponderate the scale.
Two drays are necessary to carry from wharf to wharf, the custom-house triangle, scales and weights, sufficient to weigh a hoghead of sugar. One dray is necessary to carry the custom-house triangle, scales and weights, to weigh smaller articles. The patent balance, with its frame and weights (consisting of only two brass 32 lb. weights, and one brass 16 lb. weight) can be moved from wharf to wharf on a hand cart, with two labourers only.
Any person who understands simple addition, can in five minutes be taught the use of the patent balance.
The patent balance occupies a less space of ground on the wharf, than the triangle and scales.
The beam, scales and weights of the custom house, were proved by this valuable patent balance, to be incorrect: and by which, as a true and just standard, the necessary adjustments are making.
The cost of the patent balance is half less than scales and weights. In all cases one third, and in heavy articles two thirds of labour is saved: and in its use in the customs, dray hire is altogether saved. Hence as respects correctness, facility in weighing, saving in the first cost, saving of labour, and from weights being always liable to injury and reduction of weight, by the removal of the lead necessary to secure the handle to the weight, (and to adjust the weight) the patent balance is rendered, in my judgement, preferable in every point of view, to the common beam scales and weights. It combines the use of the common steelyard (without its imperfection) with the common scales, but is superior to either, from the reasons given. In a word, it is my opinion, that the patent balance requires only to be known & understood, when it will be universally used, in preference to the common beam scales and weights.
At all times it would afford me pleasure to certify the meritorious discoveries of any person—but I feel a more than ordinary pleasure on the present occasion, to give publicity to the merit of a country-man, an American. As Dearborn's patent balances are made to weigh from one pound weight and upward, as may be required, it is in the power of every person to suit himself with a balance to weigh as much as he may choose. Not only as justice due to merit, but as an encouragement to others, I with pleasure give this certificate, and sincerely hope that Mr. Dearborn will be as generously rewarded for his important discovery, as I feel a conviction that his discovery of the patent balance will be universally useful & beneficial to his country. Given under my hand, at the Custom-House of Charleston, this seventh day of August, 1802. JAMES SIMONS. Collector of the Customs.
Prices of the Patent Balance, at the Manufactory.
Table with 3 columns: Beam weight, Price, and additional weight/price. Rows include: A beam with its poises to weigh from one pound to one hundred pounds, 4 50; Do. do. from 2 to 200 do. 10 25; Do. do. from 5 to 500 14 75; Do. do. from 5 to 800 23 75; Do. do. from 5 to 1000 27 75; Do. do. from 10 to 1500 41 50; Do. do. from 10 to 2000 54 00; Do. do. from 20 to 3000 70 50.
The above prices are for the beams and poises only, every article of the apparatus is at a fixed price, in addition to the above, that purchasers may be suitably accommodated without paying for any article they may not want. The following are the prices of the apparatus at the manufactory:— A frame 7 dollars—a screw 4 dollars—a guard 1 dollar and 25 cents. A balance weight from 2 dollars to 2 dollars and 75 cents. A scale and skid from 8 to 12 dollars—according to the size required. By the above general estimate, the prices of beams of any intermediate or larger size may be nearly ascertained, exclusive of the charges of transportation.
Thomas Carpenter, TAYLOR.
HAS just received an elegant and fashionable assortment of summer goods, consisting of London superfine cloths and cambrics; India, Manchester, and silk striped nankeens; cotton cambrics, boileepoor, Bengal elegant white chord for pantaloons, white and coloured marcelles, janes and satin croquers, silk ginghams, black and other coloured striped satins, &c. All which he will make up on the most reasonable terms, and in the most neat and fashionable manner—Pennsylvania Avenue, west of the President's square. May 24, 1802.
CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR from Philadelphia.
HAS received an assortment of summer goods consisting of the best superfine Cloths. Calfmeres, Silk Borratthes, English Striped Nankeens, White India Dimities, White and printed Marcellas, With a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season. N. B. Ladys Habits, Regimentals and Navy uniforms, made in the first style of fashion. July 2, 1802.
City Hotel, BROADWAY NEW-YORK.
THE Subscriber most respectfully informs his friends and the public, that the above Hotel will be opened on the first of May ensuing, when their patronage is earnestly solicited. He avails himself of this opportunity to return his sincere and grateful thanks to those societies, parties, and gentlemen, who have given him their support, and assures them that a continuance of their favors will be a stimulus to future exertions to please; and that the utmost attention shall be given for their comfort and accommodation.
Boarding may be had by the day, week, month, or year. Families travelling, may be elegantly accommodated with lodging and sitting rooms; and, if preferred, have dinners &c. in their apartments. The Hotel being so well known, it is almost useless to say, that it is situated in one of the most healthy and pleasant parts of the city; commanding an extensive view in every direction, not only of the city itself, but also of the Narrows, the North and East Rivers, the state of New-Jersey, York and Long-Island, &c. &c.
A handsome coffee-room will be fitted up in the principal story; where gentlemen may have tea, coffee, chocolate, soups, and refreshments in general, at the shortest notice. All the leading newspapers in the union, will be regularly taken in.
Public dinners and suppers in a plain or elegant style either for large or small parties. Also, beef steaks, oysters, &c. regularly furnished. An ordinary every day at half past 2 o'clock, by the public's obedient servant, JOHN LOVEITT. N. B. Rooms to let by the month or year. April 21, 1802.
AGREABLY to a Deed of Trust from Anthony Addison to the Subscriber, will be offered
For Sale,
TO the highest bidder, by Public Auction, at Scoll's Hotel, in the City of Washington, on Monday the 9th day of August next, all that tract of land lying and being on the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, opposite to said City called "Chichester, with addition resurveyed," containing three hundred acres. On the above-mentioned tract of land, is the Ferry Landing, so well known by the name of "Dyer's Ferry," now in the occupation of Capt. Naylor. The Sale to commence at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.—Terms of sale cash.
Wm. BRENT. June 30, 1802. The above sale is postponed till Saturday the 9th day of October next. Aug. 16, 1802.
TO RENT,
And possession given immediately, A TWO STORY brick house on R street near the War Office, containing two parlors, six bed rooms, and a kitchen, with an excellent garden, each house, stable, &c.—The house is newly painted and papered; it was formerly occupied by Mr. Dexter, and lately by Mr. John Brown. Enquire of Clement Dorsey, Esq. George-Town; or of the subscriber, who has for sale a well finished three story brick house opposite the Six Buildings, and a variety of City Lots in the most eligible situations. The above House will be sold for less than any gentleman could build it. The payments will be made easy on the whole of the above property. WILLIAM DYER. April 7, 1802. Building Materials will be taken in part payment. W. D.
Valuable property for Sale
Will be Sold at Mr. Dougherty's Tavern, in the town of Bloomsburg, on Saturday the ninth day of October, to the highest bidder, the following property, viz.
1st. That well improved lot of ground lately occupied by Mr. Horatio Rees—the improvements are a large convenient and well finished brick house, two stories high, having on the first floor, four handsome rooms, with fire places in each, and on the second a large and complete nursery, two bed rooms with a fire place in each, and two well finished store rooms. This lot with the garden contains about three acres of ground, and has on it also all the necessary out houses—a new and complete chestnut paling incloses the front, (and a new oak and chestnut post and rail fence the garden,) annexed to this lot will be sold if required about two acres of timothy meadow, from which a stream of water from a never failing spring may be conducted over any part of the garden or lot, so as to supply an extensive fish pond or dairy, either of which may be constructed at a small expense; the ground being elegantly finished.
2d. That well improved lot late the property of Maj. David Ross—the improvements are a large and well finished stone house, rough casted, three handsome rooms, and a complete store room, with a fire place in each, and an entry on the first floor, three bed rooms with a fire place in each—two other small bed rooms and a complete store room and entry on the second floor—the out houses are an excellent stable and carriage house, and corn house—an excellent stone meat house, an extensive wash house with lodging rooms for the servants, and a complete store house and dairy, with a never failing spring of water, an excellent garden abounding with a variety of fruit and shrubbery—a neat yard in front and about three acres of meadow ground behind are annexed to this lot, so as to about half an acre of high ground, from whence the meadow may be watered the whole year round. In short both of these lots are well improved, and for their many local advantages might at a small expense be rendered as elegant as any property in the state—There will also be sold several unimproved lots in the most central parts of the town, to be divided as to accommodate purchasers.
When it is considered this property is within five miles of the capital of the United States, that the spa waters at Bladensburg which have been for some time highly esteemed, will shortly render it perhaps the most considerable watering place on the continent, every person must at once be impressed with the probable appreciation of property situated as this is. Terms of sale one and two years credit, for bonds upon interests from date of the approved security. Sept. 8, 1802. WM. STEUART. ept901
NOTICE.
A MEETING of the subscribers to the Little River Road Company, is called at the house of Mrs. M'Cabe in Leesburg, on the fourth Wednesday in September next, being the 24th of the month, in pursuance of the law, requiring that the commissioners or any four of them, shall as soon as two hundred shares are subscribed, call a meeting of the subscribers for the purpose of electing by proxy, one president, four directors, one treasurer, and such other officers as they shall think necessary, for well ordering and conducting the affairs of the said Company.—The commissioners having obtained the necessary number of shares, avail themselves of the earliest opportunity of calling together the subscribers in conformity to the law; they recommend a personal attendance if practicable, as it may be necessary to pass some bye laws and regulations for conducting the company's affairs, where that is too inconvenient it will be proper to appoint a proxy in writing, attested by one witness at least.
WM. HARTSHORNE, JOHN T. RICKETTS, ISRAEL LACEY, BURR POWELL. Aug. 25, 1802. ept228.
MARSHAL'S SALE.
By virtue of a writ of fieri facias, issued out of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for Washington County, to me directed, I have signed and taken, and shall proceed to sell at M c LAUGHLIN's Tavern George town, on Saturday the 23d of October next, at 10 o'clock P. M.
THAT valuable house and lot in George Town, situate lying and being at the intersection of falls and water streets, being part of the lot or parcel of ground known and distinguished as No. 30, in the plan of said Town, at present occupied by Jeremiah Conner, Esq.
ALSO, Two tracts or parcels of land adjoining each other, situate, lying and being in the County of Washington, between Bloomsburg and the City of Washington, known and called by the names of Scotland and Barbadoes, containing about 206 acres, at present in the occupancy of Mr. Henry Smith. The above property will be sold to satisfy debt and costs, due the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of Columbia, by George M c Gruder. DANL. C. BRENT, Marshal Dist. Columbia. Sept. 17, 1802.
Looking-Glasses & Prints.
R. ATKINS, (From London) CARVER & GILDER, ALEXANDRIA.
Respectfully informs the public, that she has for sale a large assortment of looking-Glasses in Burnished gold frames. Dressing-Glasses, elegant and plain. Variety of Prints in elegant burnished gold frames. Which she will sell on low terms for cash. Mrs. A. repairs and re-gilds looking-Glasses, and framed Prints, in elegant burnished gold or plain, on reasonable terms. She likewise re-gilds and re-frames burnished Gold Frames to prevent injury from flies. September 6.