Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1805-02-12 00:00:00

W. Carlson
Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
Vol. V.]
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1805.
[No. 1214.]
Public Sale.
On FRIDAY next, At 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store,
RUM
In hds. and bhs. French Brandy in pipes,
Gin in pipes and bhs.
Whiskey and Apple Brandy in bhs.
Sugar in hds. tiers and bhs.
Chocolate
White and brown Soap and
Mould and dip Candles
Raisins in kegs, boxes and jars,
Figs in kegs and jars,
Queen's Ware in crates.
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
&c. — Also,
A Variety of DRY GOODS,
among which are
Cloths, Coatings, Kersemere,
Dull Plains, Kerseys, Negro Cottons,
Serges, Blankets, Blue Friezes,
Cambrics, Ruffles, Yarn Stockings,
Chintzes and Calicoes,
Irish Linens, Silesia do.
Osnaburgs and Ticklenburgs,
Mousel and Muslin Handkerchiefs,
Irish Muslin and Table Clothes,
Indian Handkerchiefs,
Colored Threads, Hats and sundry other
articles.
Philip G. Marsteller.
Dec 20.
FOR SALE,
On board the ship COLUMBIA , at A. and E.
JANNEY'S WHARF;
New-England Rum, in hogheads,
tierces and barrels.
Sweet Cider, in barrels.
Potatoes.
20 barrels Boston Beef.
Few boxes Sweet Oil, in flasks,
Boxes of Shoes, &c. & &c.
Said ship is offered for sale,
freight, or charter. Apply to Captain GARDNER
on board, or to JOHN C. LADD.
January 12.
TANNERS OIL.
30 bbls. best Brown Tanners Oil,
For Sale by
LAWRASON & FOWLE
Also on hand.
A few hds. retailing Molasses,
Hogheads and tiers Malt with sugar,
Molasses, Soap No. 1 and 2,
New England Rum in inspection,
Mockbird Raisins and Ravens Duck,
Sewing Twine Sheathing Paper,
Seamless Tea, &c.
A few boxes fresh Chocolate.
Jan. 3.
COTTON & STEWART,
HAVE FOR SALE,
A few Copies of the Works of WM.
SMITH, D. D.
Late Provost of the College and Academy of Phi-
ladelphia. — Also,
THE AMERICAN GARDNER,
CONTAINING
Ample directions for working a kitchen garden
every month in the year; and complete instructions
for the cultivation of Flower Gardens, Vine-
yards, and Nurseries, Hop Yards, Green Houses,
and Hot Houses.
By Gardiner and Hepburn,
Late Gardeners to Gov. Mercer and Gen. Mason.
Feb. 1.
MISCELLANEOUS POETRY,
selected generally from the most entertaining and
instructive writings of the British poets.
(By the Rev. THOMAS DAVIES. )
In two Volumes, Octavo.
Price two and an half Dollars.
Sold by Robert Gray, & the Author.
A gentleman well known in Philadelphia, and
who is greatly respected as a clergyman and
as an excellent man of letters, has given
the following opinion of this selection:
"The two volumes of Select Poetry, form a
valuable contribution to the stock of English
literature. I really consider the work as the
best compilation now extant. The selections
and arrangements evince a taste of a correct
and polished mind, the judgment of a sound
and benevolent moralist, and that degree of
critical skill which can only be acquired by ex-
tensive reading and scholastic acquirements."
February 4. d
Freight will be taken, In the cabin of the ship OLIVE BRANCH , for ROTTER- DAM ; and two or three passen- gers may be accommodated. Expected to sail in twelve or fifteen days. Apply to the master on board, or to Ricketts, Newton & Co. January 12.
For Sale, or Charter, The SCHOONER ENTERPRIZE, Laying at Rambley's wharf; bur- then about 650 barrels, well found, and ready to take in a cargo. For terms apply to ROBERT B. JAMESSON, OR TO MANDEVILLE & JAMESSON; Who have for Sale, New-England RUM, in hogheads and barrels. Dec. 29.
For Sale or Freight, The SCHOONER BETSY; Burthen 800 barrels; a lauched well built vessel, and sails well; built in the year 1802; and now lying at Mer- chant's wharf. For terms apply to Benjamin Shreve, jun. Jan. 2. d
Benjamin Shreve, Jun. HAS FOR SALE, Twelve bales of INDIA COTTONS, CONSISTING OF 3 bales Bhawa Emery 2 do. Gomorcally Sannahs 1 do. Jalapoor do. 1 do. Seerpore Bafiah 1 do. Cotypore do. 2 do. Cogmary Coffahs 1 do. Johannah do. 1 do. Doncaster Chintz, and 3 cases Bandanna Handkerchiefs 2 cases Sago 3 chests Hyson Tea 32 pieces Ruffia Sheetings 9 do. Ravens Duck 15 bags Black Pepper 1 case Wool Hats Mess coarse and fine Shoes Women's and children's Morocco do. Sole and Upper Leather A few Casks Cordage Snuff in half barrels and kegs 3 pieces 4th proof Cogniac Brandy 2 hds. Armagnac do. 5 hds. and 12 barrels Sugar 25 bbls. Beef, Salem inspection 6 do. best brown TANNER'S OIL. January 1. d
For Sale by the Subscribers, Muscovado Sugar in hds. Green Coffee in tierces Antigua & Tobago rum in hds. Cogniac Brandy in pipes AND A FEW Barrels of Prime BEEF. Nathaniel Wailes, & Co. Jan. 24. d
WILLIAM OXLEY HAS ON HAND, Which he will dispose of on terms advantageous to the purchasers, for cash or notes. The following Articles, viz. Superfine and second cloths Kerseymeres and fandangos Beafskins and teamoughts Durants and calimancoes Bombazens and wildbores Common and boil'd camblets Silk, cotton, and worsted hosiery English extra long silk gloves Silk twill and thread Diaper and common tapes Paper and pound pins White and printed marseilles Laces, edgings and gimps Elegant black and white lace veils Patent do. do. Satin peplons and silk handkerchiefs 4-4, 8-8, and 6-4 Cambric muffs India Jacquet do. Fustians, buckram, &c. &c. ALSO, A few bales of Negro Caddies, and one trunk and cotton things. January 7. d
JAMES SANDERSON, Has just received the following articles, 12 Pipes London P. Madeira Wine, of a superior quality. Old Port Wine in hds. gr. Casks and Bottles, Burgundy in Bottles, Sherry in gr. Casks, Cogniac Brandy, Jamaica Spirits, Holland Gin, Peach Brandy, very old, Whiskey, Loaf, and Muscovado Sugars, Imperial, } TEAS Hyson, } of the latest impor- Young Hyson, } tation. Hyson Skin, Cloves, Nutmegs, Mace, Allspice, Black Pepper, Ground Ginger, Salt Peter, Soap by the box, Bridal Sail Canvas, Ruffia Duck, first quality, German Ticklenburgs, and Ostaburgs, Coarse Hats in cases, Juniper Berries in bags, Stone Ware, 5 gr. Casks English Battle Gun Powder, in pound papers sealed, 1 Large Seal Beam with Box Ends, And Scales complete of a superior quality. A few bags of first quality GREEN COFFEE. Nov. 8. d
THE SUBSCRIBERS Are now landing and offer for sale at the store lately occupied by R. B. Jamesson 20 Bales Prime Upland Cotton, 20 Hds. Muscovado Sugar, 2 Puncheons Irish Whiskey, 15 Puncheons Old, and fine flavored Jamaica Rum, 5 Pipes Holland Gin, 20 Pipes Cogniac Brandy 30 Gr. Casks of the best Teas, assorted, from hen to Imperial, 800 Bbls. of 1st and 2d quality refined Sugar, 2 Hds. Madder, 4 Hds. Green Coperas, 6 Tiarces Roll Brimstone, 2 Hds. Allum, 1 Tierce Glauber Salts, 10 Pipes of Old London Particular Madeira, 5 Pipes of full Boiled Port, 20 Gr. Casks Sherry, 2 Pipes fine Lisbon, 8 Pipes Particular Teneriffe, 30 Gr. Casks Malaga, 30 Casks Claret, 1 Case of Nutmegs, Mace, and Cloves, 5 Bales Cafia, 500 lbs. Pepper, 100 lbs. Pimento, 800 lbs. Ground Ginger, 1000 lbs. Rice, do. 200 Boxes Godrolds, (superfine) Segars, in half boxes, 70 Boxes St. Jago, do. 3 Pipes best (French) Vinegar, 10 Bales Almonds, 1 Case Pearl Barley, 15 Hds. Bright Molasses, 15 Boxes Superfine Chocolate, 20 Boxes Mould and Dip Candles, 30 Boxes Brown and White Soaps 100 Boxes Hunters Pipes, 20 Boxes of Mustard, 1 Case Cayenne Pepper, Basket Salt, Fine Polished Starch, 100 Demijohns, assorted, 700 lbs. Refined Salt Peter, 30 gr. Casks Best English G. Gunpowder, Do. in lb. Papers, Do. in Camblers, 20 Boxes Fig Fls, 3 Secons fine Barrant Indigo, Lieber, and Hamilton's Snuff, 1 Case of Macouba, do. 1 Do. French Rappee. Mandeville & Jamesson. Nov. 30. d
For Sale, by the Subscriber, A few tierces excellent Rice. Six hds best retailing Molasses. Sixteen hds. Surinam Sugars. A few hundred bushels of coarse Salt. Dec. 17. J. G. Ladd.
WILLIAM HODGSON HAS RECEIVED, & OFFERS FOR SALE, 160 pieces twilled Sacking, and 3 cases Cotton Hosiery, well as- sorted.
TUNIS CRAVEN Has just received via Philadelphia an elegant assortment of GOODS, suited to the present season —AMONG WHICH ARE— Best London Superfine and second Clothes, Cassimeres, Fizes, Coatings, Bearskins, Plains, Lurges & Flan- nels, Male Skin, Toilett, Swindown, and Mar- seilles, Velvet, Constitution, Hunting, and Genoa, Cords, 2 & 3 Irish Linen, Shirting Cotton, long Lawn, Espaloes, Britannia White, and Brown, Petticoats, Creas, Dowlas, Tick- lenburgs, Osaburgs and Her- fams, Worsted Cotton, & Silk Hosiery, Rope, and Duffel Blankets, Chintz, Calicoes, & Colored Cambrics, do. do. Furniture, Ladies Patent Cloth Linen, N Cotton Cam- bric, Cambric, Jacquet, Mull Mull, & Book Muslin, do. Tamboured, and Sprigged, Lace Cambrics, Hemmed and Finished Shawls, Camels Hair, do. India Book Muffin, Handkerchiefs, Blank Laces, Veils, Batings, Laces Imperial, and Pic Nic Nets, Extra Long silk & Wash Linen & Gloves, Indian Silk, Cam- bric, do. Marking & Sewing Silks, Silk Cords, and Taffety, Ostrich Feathers, Artificial Flowers, and Ribbons, Tambouring Cotton, Fingered & Plain, Cotton Counterpans, Bafias, Emeryes, Gun- nahs, &c. Also—By wholesale, 2 Cases Chintzes and Calicoes At very reduced prices. Nov. 15. d
JAMES BACON, AT HIS GROCERY STORE, King near Washington street, Has just received from Philadelphia, New-York &c. an extensive selection of GROCERIE consisting of Gunpowder, Imperial, } TEAS Hyson, } Of the latest impor- Young Hyson, } tation and partic- Hyson Skin, } ularly chosen. Peko, Padre, Pouchong and Com'n Pouchong Green coffee of superior quality, Loaf, Lump and Muscovado Sugar, W India and Sugar House Molasses, Choice old Madeira, Particular Teneriffe, } WINES. Sherry, Brussels, Lisbon, Malaga and Port Claret in small cases, Cogniac and Barcelona Brandy, Old Jamaica Spirits, Antigua, St. Croix, and } RUM. St. Kitts Best Holland Gin, White Wine and Cyder Vinegar, Best Sailed Oil, Salt Peter, Annum, Madder, Coperas & Dina- flone. Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves and Cafia, Cayenne and black Pepper, Allspice, rice and ground Ginger, Fig Bloo and Polana Starch, Dixon's Mustard, Luper's and Hamilton's Snuff, Best Chewing Tobacco, Spanish Segars, Pearl Barley and Rice, Shot assorted, F and F F Gunpowder, Gun and Pistol Flints, Single and double Battle do. in papers and canisters, White and brown Soap, Mould and dip Candles, &c. &c. As he has in a great measure laid himself out for the supplying of private families and in consequence thereof taken every pains possible in the selection of his goods, he flatters himself from their superior quality, and the low prices at which he will dispose of them, to be a- ble to give satisfaction to those who will please to favor him with their custom. June 11. d
NEW-YORK LOTTERY, No. 3. A FEW TICKETS in the Third Class of the Lottery for the promotion of Literature in the State of New-York, for Sale by the printer here- of. Prizes in the Second Class will be taken in exchange. December 27.

PUBLIC SALE.
On WEDNESDAY next, will be sold, on the premises, A Lease of a Lot of Ground, Having about 7 years to run. THE lot is enclosed, and a building thereon, lately occupied as a Coach-house, situate on Union Street, between Duke and Wolf Streets. A long credit will be given for part of the purchase. Terms, &c. will be made known at the place of sale.
Philip G. Marsteller.
February 11.
PUBLIC SALE.
On WEDNESDAY, 13th February 1805, will be sold, on the premises to the highest bidder, that valuable LOT OF GROUND, situate on the corner of Duke and Union Streets, together with all the improvements thereon, consisting of a two story house, lately the property of Samuel Henson. A credit of 6 and 12 months will be given on part of the purchase money.
James Davidson, P. G. Marsteller.
Dec. 3.
2 w 2 b.
Notice.
The Subscriber intending to leave Alexandria, requests those who are interested to him to make payment of their accounts by the 1st of next month.
Thos. Semmes.
Feb. 11.
d.
AMERICAN GARDENER.
A FEW COPIES FOR SALE, BY ROBERT GRAY, King-street. February 9.
d.
District of Columbia—TO WIT.
WHEREAS Joseph Jarboe has, by his petition in writing, applied to the Honorable Nicholas Fitzhugh, one of the Assistant Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be admitted to the benefit of the act of Congress for the relief of insolvent debtors, within the District aforesaid, and has stated therein that he is in actual confinement in the jail of Alexandria County at the suit of George Dugan and others, and being unable to discharge the said claim with others against him has offered to deliver up to the use of his creditors all his property real, personal and mixed. Notice is therefore given to the creditors of the said Joseph Jarboe, that on Thursday the 14th of this month next, at the hours of 9 and 2 o'clock, at the Court House in Alexandria the said Joseph Jarboe will be tendered to the said creditors a true and complete account agreeable to the act of Congress, unless cause be shown and there shown to the contrary.
By order of the honorable Nicholas Fitzhugh, Assistant Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, this 11th day of February, 1805.
G. DENEALE, C. C.
djt
Runaway Negro Girl.
Ran away, from the subscriber, on Monday, the 4th of February, a Negro Girl, named ELSE; aged 13 years, about 4 feet 7 inches high—she is rather cropped in one ear—took with her the following clothes, viz. A grey coating jacket and coat joined together; also, a grey cassimere waist, the body lined with flannel, a coat and jacket of blue and white striped cotton; the said jacket and coat were joined together; also, a blue cloth petticoat, with a grey coating body, blue flockings.
Whoever shall take said Negro girl within the district, shall have a reward of EIGHT DOLLARS; if taken 10 miles from Alexandria, FIFTEEN DOLLARS; and 20 miles, THIRTY DOLLARS, if secured in any goal to that I get her again.
THOMAS RICHARDS.
February 5.
d.
N. B. It is likely said Negro may be gone to the City of Washington, as she has an aunt there, or to Mr. Bellman's plantation; she being well acquainted with his negroes.
All masters of vessels, wagoners and others, are forewarned from harboring, employing, or carrying off said slave; under no less penalty than the extent of the law made and provided in such cases.
A good BLACKSMITH wanted.
I have as good a stand for a Blacksmith that is a good workman, as any in the district of Columbia, with a good shop and set of tools; a comfortable dwelling house, and a very good garden enclosed; that I will either rent or take a farm on shares, or on wages, as may be most agreeable to the applicant.
John Ball.
Alexandria County, District of Columbia, Feb. 2, 1805. law3t
PHILADELPHIA, February 8. Pretensions, which militate against the independence and interests of the United States, whether raised by a British or French Minister, are alike inadmissible, and must ever be resisted.
WE this day place before the people of the United States, ALL the documents on which the President grounded his suggestion to the Legislature, respecting the irregularities of our armed merchant vessels, and which resulted in a bill to disarm them. These documents, on the express request of the Senate, were laid before that honorable Body.
We entreat every American, who boasts himself the citizen of an independent nation, and who knows that his nation is at this time engaged in a war, which employs every ship, and demands all the disposable resources of the United States, to peruse these papers with serious attention; and, in the sincerity of his heart, as a Freeman and Patriot, say whether they contain a single reason, to have authorized the suggestion on the part of the Executive, or that should induce to government of the United States to relinquish their rights of sovereignty, and their indispensable duty to protect the property, the liberty, and the lives of our citizens.
Under what impressions, other than those stated in their memorials, the Ministers of France and England hoped to accomplish their purposes, we pretend not to determine.
It is sufficient to say, that in these memorials they have not adduced a single argument that cannot be refuted by a reference to communications heretofore entertained with their respective predecessors; and which Mr. Jefferson should have spared the people over whom he presides, the necessity of recapitulating. Does that gentleman recollect his correspondence with Mr. Genet, and with Mr. Hammond—or, as the former Minister alleged, has he still a large official, and a language confidential?
Are we a great, a powerful, and an intelligent people, possessing, in common with all nations, the rights of self-defence, and of waging war against those, who would plunder our property, and murder, or enslave our persons? Or are we a mere herd of animals, dependant for our existence on the will of any nation that chooses to prescribe the bounds we are to observe?
Would the government of England, or of France, when engaged in war with any power whatever, permit another nation to say that they must disarm their ships, and expose their subject a defenceless prey to their enemy?—No—The Minister, to whatever nation he might belong, who should hold such language in Great Britain, or in France, would be answered with very little ceremony—It behoves the United States to be equally explicit, and to say, without reserve, to the Minister of every nation—
We are an independent people, and a belligerent power—it consists not with the honor of our nation, or the safety and interest of our citizens, to prevent the arming of our ships, or the exportation of any articles, the growth or manufacture of the United States. The risk of trading in those articles that are contraband of war, must remain with the individuals who deal in them.—But, to guard against any contingency of that nature, the United States will neither compromise their sovereignty, nor surrender the privileges of the honest merchant.
In considering these documents, the mind is lost in astonishment at the assurance which could offer, and the imbecility that could receive, the objections they contain as authority for setting aside the rights of a free people.
Mr. Merry, who is the representative of a commercial and manufacturing nation, and who is, moreover, a regularly bred diplomatist, should have known better. Will that gentleman be so good as to say, in what page of the annals of Great Britain we can find the precedent of her conformity to such a request? Will he undertake to say, that if the minister of any nation whatever had demanded from the British government the disarming of her ships, and the suspension of her manufactures of steel and iron, lest when exported in the shape of contraband, they might fall into the hands, by capture or purchase, of a belligerent power, he would not have been told, this is an interference in concerns, respecting which your commission gives no cognizance?
There is but one circumstance in the whole of this extraordinary procedure at which we cease to wonder—and that is the correct knowledge which both ministers seem to have had of their man.
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.
To the SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
According to the desire expressed in your resolution of the 28th instant, I now communicate a report of the secretary of state, with documents relative to complaints against arming the merchant ships and vessels of the United States, and the conduct of the captains and crews of such as have been armed.
Th: Jefferson.
Jan. 31st, 1805.
The secretary of state, to whom the president of the United States has been pleased to refer the resolution of the Senate, of the 28th instant, requesting that there may be laid before the Senate such documents and papers, or other information, as the president should judge proper, relative to the complaints against arming the merchant ships or vessels of the United States, or the conduct of the captains and crews of such as have been armed—has the honor to annex thereto;
1st. A copy of a letter addressed to the secretary of state, by the envoy of Great Britain, dated, on the 31st of August last.
2d. An extract of a letter to the same, from the late charge de affairs of France, dated the 6th May last, which was preceded & followed by other letters, and conversations of the same gentleman, urging the subject upon the attention of the government. It has been also urged, by the present minister of France, in his interviews with the secretary of state.
One of the inclosures alluded to in the aforesaid letter and extract the only authenticated statement relative to the conduct of American private armed vessels, which have been received at this department, is contained in the annexed letter, from Mr. George Barnewell of New-York and the document accompanying it.
All which is respectfully submitted, James Madison. Department of State, Jan. 21st 1805.
[No. I.]
Mr. Merry, to the Secretary of State.
Philadelphia, August 31st, 1804.
SIR, I have received information respecting several vessels which have of late been armed in, and have sailed from the different ports of the United States, some loaded with articles contraband of war, (gun-powder is said to be the general article) others with cargoes of innocent goods, and others again in ballast. After the diligent enquiry which it has been my duty to make on so important a subject, I think I can have the honor of stating to you with certainty, that several vessels of the above description, which are mentioned to be schooner-rigged, have sailed lately from the port of Baltimore, whilst others of larger size, even ships of considerable burthen, and completely equipped for war, have sailed from the port of Philadelphia, bound to the possessions of his majesty's enemies in the East as well as West-Indies.
It is said, that the object of some of these equipments is to force a trade with the blacks in the Island of St. Domingo, in which attempt the public prints have said so circumstantially, as to leave no doubt on the subject; that two American vessels have been captured by French cruisers, after making resistance: but I have strong reasons to believe, that the destination of others, particularly from the port of Philadelphia, has been with cargoes of contraband articles to the enemies possessions in the East and West-Indies. Let their destinations, however, be what they may, it cannot I conceive be justly considered, that such armaments, on the part of the citizens of a neutral state, must be attended with consequences prejudicial to a belligerent power, and may therefore be deemed rightly as offensive, for which reason the law of nations has stated one of the first obligations of neutrality to be that of abstaining from all participation in warlike expeditions.
The armed vessels alluded to may become the property of the king's enemies, either by capture at sea, or by purchase in the ports to which they are destined, and are thus in readiness to be converted immediately into instruments of hostility against his majesty, whilst in another point of view, they are calculated to protect the vessels, when they are loaded with contraband articles, against the lawful search & detention of a lawfully commissioned cruiser, when the latter shall happen to be of inferior force. Indeed I conceive that it may not be giving too great an extent to the principle of the law of nations, without attending to the nature of the charge, to consider the very arms, ammunition, and other implements
of war, with which such vessels are furnished, as contraband articles, when the vessels have been thus equipped without the authority of the nation to which they belong.
I understand, sir, that the armaments in question have, in fact, taken place under no commission or authority whatever from the government of the United States. I have, therefore, thought it my duty to have the honor of making you acquainted with the information that has reached me on this subject, and, if the observations which I have taken the liberty to make upon it should happily be conformable to the sentiments of the American government, I can safely trust to their justice, as well as to their jealousy of observing the most strict neutrality in the present war, to take such measures as shall appear to them the most proper for suppressing the illegal proceedings complained of on the part of those individuals, citizens of the United States, who shall appear to be concerned in them.
I have the honor to be, with high respect and consideration, Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant, (Signed) ANT. MERRY. The Hon. James Madison, Secretary of State.
[No. II.]
Extract of a letter from the Charge des Affairs of France dated 7th May, 1804, and addressed to the Secretary of State.
[TRANSLATION.]
The undersigned is informed in a manner, which leaves him no room to doubt it, that the American merchants, who pursue this commerce [meaning the commerce with St. Domingo] publicly and in the ports of the United States, vessels which are intended to support by force a traffic contrary to the law of nations, and to repeal the efforts which the cruisers of the French Republic are authorised to make in order to prevent it. These armaments have also for their object to cover the conveyance of munitions to the revolted of that colony. The government of the United States cannot be ignorant of these facts which are public; the consequences thereof have already been manifested in the West Indies, where the public papers advise that there have been actions between the French cruisers and American vessels carrying on this commerce.
In considering the matter merely under the view of the law of nations, it is manifest that American citizens, under the very eyes of their government, carry on a private and paratieral war against a power with which the United States are at peace. The undersigned would be wanting in his duty if he did not vindicate, under such circumstances, the rights and dignity of his government which are openly injured, and if he did not call the attention of Mr. Madison to the disagreeable reflection which the French government would have a right to make if the silence of the local authorities, respecting acts of this nature should be limited by the government of the United States.
The French government certainly could not see without a profound regret, that after having given to the United States the most marked proofs of the desire to place the good understanding of the two nations upon the most immovable foundations, by abandoning national interests which might have eventually produced collisions, individual interest should now be permitted to compromise this good understanding. Its regret would be still much greater, if, when the dignity and the safety of France are openly injured in the United States, by their citizens, the American government should preserve, respecting these violations, a silence, which would appear to offer an excuse, and even a sort of encouragement, to all the excesses which cupidity may attempt. Beside that the peace of the two nations cannot but be seriously compromised by the proceedings of the individuals, and by the reprisals to which they must necessarily lead, this state of things would infallibly tend to diminish the amicable disposition, which the two governments wish to cultivate.
[No. III.]
New-York, Sept. 6th, 1804.
SIR, The sufferings of innocent individuals, induce me to the liberty I now take of submitting the following statement to your consideration.
In the month of June last, I despatched the ship Hopewell. Preserved Sisson, master, and the brig Rockland, Akers, master, with suitable cargoes, destined for Aux-Caves, in the island of Hispaniola; the former armed for defence, with twelve six pound cannons and two twelve pounders, with small arms, &c. &c.

a crew of thirty-five in number, besides passengers: the latter with eight six pounders, small arms, &c. and a crew of twenty in number, besides passengers. regularly cleared at the custom-house of this district, and sailed on their intended voyage on the 17th of June. In the prosecution of which, they were met with and captured by a privateer belonging to individuals of the island of Guadalupe, whither they were carried and their crews put into close confinement. I beg leave to refer you to the documents enclosed, for the particulars of the situation in which those unfortunate men are placed. And have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) GEO. BARNEWALL. James Madison, Esq. (COPY.) George Barnewall, Esq.
SIR, No doubt ere this you have heard of the capture of the Hopewell, and brig Rockland. Owing to S. W. and S. S. W. winds, was obliged to go to the east end of Bermuda. In lat 27, 38, long. 61, 57, on the 30th of June, at 3 A. M. saw a brig which appeared to be dogging us, and at day-light she bore down upon us, hoisted an English ensign and fired a gun to leeward. we were then under all the sail we could set; but finding she came up with us very fast, we hoisted American colors and fired a gun to leeward and shortened sail. I hoisted the Rockland, and desired captain Akers to keep on our lee bow and near us, as I wished to speak the privateer first, and know what he was, before we attempted any thing; she was then on our weather quarter. The Rockland not keeping in her station, dropping more to leeward, and nearly on our lee quarter, the privateer was then almost within hail of us, but immediately up helm and run along side the Rockland and commenced firing under English colors, which was returned from the brig: the privateer being between us and the brig prevented my firing until I got in a situation to fire clear of the Rockland which was in less than a moment, when we commenced firing to the best advantage we could. The Rockland fired only one broadside and some musketry when she was boarded, they only left three men on board: sneered off and gave us a broadside and attempted to board us, but was repulsed by our quarter gun pikes and musketry: they then kept clear of our pikes and played continually with all their men with nothing but musketry, our men seeing their shipmates falling most of the time then quit their quarters.
The privateer seeing this attempted the second time to board us by cutting our nettings, and overpowered us by numbers; was obliged to haul down our colours and quit the deck, otherwise be cut to pieces. —We had three badly, and two slightly wounded; the first who fell was poor Mr. Bird, he was standing near me, he received one ball through his body and one thro' his head, and never after spoke a word. I begged him some time before to go below and prepare his papers, he said they were already prepared, and would not quit the deck, in consequence of which all his papers were found. It was not my intention to engage the privateer unless I tho't we were sure of getting clear, but the Rockland commencing so quick, I could not then avoid it, but even had we suffered them to board us, they would have made a prize of us. The passengers on board were sufficient to condemn us, upwards of 100 letters were found with them, directed to different parts of St. Domingo, and among the passengers there were two noted generals, who were well known by the Frenchmen; and among Mr. Bird's papers were found instructions from Mr. Lapierre, pointing out the whole plan of the voyage; many other letters were found with Mr. Bird's papers, all of which tended to condemn the ship, which they shewed me at Point Petre, when I was examined.
When they boarded us, nothing saved our lives but they thinking we were English, and asked us how we dare engage under American colours, and did not believe we were Americans even after we arrived. After the Rockland was boarded, we engaged the privateer close on board forty minutes. When the black General, a passenger, found we were captured, he ran below with a pistol, with an intention to blow the ship up, and with much difficulty we prevented it; he set all the cartridges on fire in the cabin and steerage, which were in pouch tubs, and only my laying the magazine scuttle over saved the ship and our lives; when he found he could not blow up the ship, he put the pistol to his head and blew his own brains out. The privateer took out all the passengers, officers,
and men, except myself, carpenter, two boys, and one of our men badly wounded. The privateer continued with us until we arrived in this port, which was on the 17th July, and were immediately put all together in a most miserable prison, with nothing to eat but stinking beef and coarse bread, and very short even of that. They will not suffer me to see any Americans, nor have any communication with any body. There is a schooner called the Snake in the Grass, bought in New York, and fitted out at Salem, with 5 guns, taken and brought here a few days before; one of the mates is allowed to go out at times, and this was the only opportunity I had to write. They say that orders have gone to America that every vessel bound to St. Domingo, if taken, shall be treated as pirates. God only knows what they mean to do with us. I beg you will do all in your power to get our government to claim us, otherwise I do not know what they may do; they seem to be inveterate against the Americans, and even told me every ship and captain's names that were armed from New York.
Capt. Akers had his mare killed and one man, and several wounded, himself wounded, and died at this place on the 23d instant.
The schooner Snake in the Grass, was commanded by James Mansfield who is now in prison, with all his men; the vessel will be condemned, although they did not fire a shot. As no protest can be made here, I thought it best to let the officers sign this letter with me; several large privateers are getting ready to go down the Rite after the Americans; the privateer that took us was the brig Frebriskey, capt. Anwan, with ten long French sixes, two twelve pound cannonades, one long eighteen pounder, and a hand full of shilly men. The French seem to be very inveterate against the Americans, and insult us as they pass the prison. All that I can say more is to request you to do what you can with our government, to claim us as Americans. I hope when the manner the French privateer engaged us under English colors is considered, it will be a sufficient reason for them to claim us. All that I can say more is that your ship and property was defended with spirit until overpowered by number.
I am, sir, With respect, Your most obedient servant. (Signed) P. SISSON, MAHLON BENNET, JAMES ROSS, Jr.
Guadalupe, Point-Petre, July 26, 1804. N. B. You will please to excuse any fault in this letter, as I am so closely watched. State of New-York, United States of America, ss.
(L. S.) I William Popham, notary public, duly admitted and sworn, dwelling in the city of New-York and having power by commission under the great seal of the state of New-York, to attest deeds, wills and other writings, and also to administer oaths and grant certificates thereof, do hereby certify, declare and make known unto all persons to whom these presents shall come, or may in any wise concern, that the foregoing is a just, true, and perfect copy of an original letter, (whereof it purports to be a copy) this day handed to me by George Barnewall of the city of New-York, merchant, in order to have a notarial copy made thereof, I, the said notary having carefully compared and examined the said copy, with the said original letter, and found the same to agree therewith word for word, and figure for figure. And I, the said notary, do hereby further certify and declare, that the day of the date thereof before me personally came and appeared, Dominick Purcell, of the said city of New-York, gentleman, who being by me duly sworn, did solemnly depose and declare, that he was well acquainted with the hand writings and signatures of Preserved Sisson, the master, and Mahlon Bennet the first mate of the ship Hopewell, of this port, and that he verily believes the names "P. Sisson, and Mahlon Bennet" set and subscribed to the said original letters, are of the respective hand writing and signatures of the said Preserved Sisson, and Mahlon Bennet.
And he further deposeth and saith, that James Ross, junior, who hath also signed the said original letter, sailed from this port in the capacity of second mate of the said ship Hopewell, and further he saith not. (Signed) DOMINICK PURCELL.
Of all which I the said notary do now make this public act, that the same may serve and be of full force and value as of right shall appertain.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the said Dominick Purcell hath subscribed the foregoing deposition, and I, the said notary, have hereto subscribed my name, and affixed my seal of office at the city of New-York, the twenty first day of August, in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and four, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the twenty ninth.
(Signed) WILLIAM POPHAM, Notary Public.
Alexandria Daily Advertiser. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12.
Deceased this life, on the 31st inst., at Washington, (Md.) (Mrs. Charles) Mr. THOMAS PATTERSON, in the 73d year of his age: a man whose exemplary life rendered him dear to those who are left to lament his loss.
Extract of a letter, dated "Londonderry, Nov. 27." "We think it our duty to apprise you, that within the last few days have arrived here many Riga corn vessels, bringing 6555 barrels of flour feed, and advise that several more were taken up and loading; we cannot ascertain how many; but from all the information we have collected, we are inclined to think there may be at this port, of Riga feed, something between 12 and 14000 barrels for sale in the spring. Are forty, however, to mention a circumstance that operates more against the sale of American feed, than even the large supply we have mentioned, namely, the very short and indifferent crops of flax produced from the latter this harvest; they are universally complained of; and all most the only good crops are from the Riga feed. About 200 hds. of old feed remain on hand here."
From LLOYD'S LISTS to December 12, received at the office of the Mercantile Advertiser.
DECEMBER 6. At Clyde, Eastfirth, Miner, from Virginia. The Two Generals, Bifton, from Liverpool for Virginia, is returned to Liverpool, having been in there. The Rebecca, Frazee, from Norfolk, is arrived at Cadiz in a very disabled state, having sprung a leak four days after leaving the port, and was obliged to throw a part of her cargo overboard. The Morning Star is stuck on the Spit of the North Bull; crew saved. The Hamburg Packet, Steamman; and the General Wayne, Corklin, were on shore in the Eydor, 38th ult. but expected to be got off. 8th—At Yarmouth, Louisiana, Edes, Leghorn. At Lisbon, Hawke, Bacon, Baltimore; Venus, Bunce, New York. At Cadiz, Silvia, Richard n. Norfolk; Betty, Richards, do. William, Crowe, Philadelphia. At London, Flora, Sterling, New York; to Gull 15th; Proteus, Everet, Norfolk, 3d. At Bristol, American, Essex, New York. 15th, Concord, Roe 12, Virginia 9th. At Liverpool, Flora, Bethnal, Norfolk; 7th. At Greenock, Francis, Mathews, New York 5th; Mary Ann, Ingalls, Charleston, 10th. At Cork, Diana, Holbrook, Amsterdam.
December 14th. At London, Everett, Virginia. Sailed from Liverpool Johan Collins, Dutton, New York; Intrepid, Elstead, Savannah. The American ship Venus Cunningham, from Baltimore struck on the Harks of the Texel in the night between the 17th and 18th ult. but by the assistance of boats, after unloading a part of the cargo, has been got off and brought into the River Deep.
The Amphion, Welsh from New York to Amsterdam, struck on the Harks at the Texel on the night between the 17th and 18th ult. and after some part of the cargo had been taken out, filled with water and went to pieces; crew saved. The American ship Polly, Bowd, of Baltimore, has put back to the Texel, but will sail again the first opportunity.
December 12. At Lisbon, Ohio, Hall, New York; Romulus, Nicholson, Philadelphia. At Falmouth, Lady Arabella Packet, Fergusson, New York.
Cows, December 9. Arrived, brig Little James, Hutchings, from Boston, for orders.
Deal December 10. Arrived, and sailed again for the River, the ship London Packet, M'Dougal, in 27 days from Philadelphia.
We learn, say the Eliots of the New-York Gazette, by the schooner Nancy, from Norfolk, that the French frigate Le President, has failed from Hampton Roads. It will be recollected, that this is the frigate that has so long been blockaded up in the Chesapeake by a British man of war of equal force.
From a late Colonel's Journal. "Run away last night, my wife, Bridget Coole; she is a tight neat body, and has lost one leg; she was seen riding be-
hind the Priest of the parish through Farnoy, and as we were never married I will pay no debt she does not contract; she lips with one tooth, and is always talking about failures, and is of no use but to the owner. PRELIM COOLE."
A Gentleman of good character, and qualified to instruct an English School, may get an advantageous situation by application to the teacher of the Academy in this town. February 12. 2770
PUBLIC SALE. By virtue of two several deeds of trust to the undersigned, will be exposed to sale, at the courthouse, in the town of Alexandria, on Wednesday, the 20th day of this present month, for ready money, one equal undivided fifteenth part of a tract of land in the county of Spotsylvania, containing 18000 acres; commonly called the MINE TRACT: And immediately thereafter, upon the premises, several Lots of Ground, in the town of Alexandria; being upon Union, Water, Fairfax, and Queen Streets. James Keith. February 12. 2831
VALUABLE PROPERTY. FOR SALE, A House and Lot on Water-street, between W. side and Walker's street; 40 feet front on Water street, running back 85 feet to a 12 feet alley: Also, A Lot, on Duke-street, between Water and Union streets; 25 and an half feet front on Duke street, running back 76 feet to an alley. This property will be sold on a short credit, for good negotiable paper, and a title clear of all encumbrance will be made, when the purchase money is paid. Apply to Mr. ELIAS PRICE, who will show the property and make known the terms. William Jackson. Nonjemoy, (Maryland) Feb. 7. 294
Now or Never! MUSEUM OF WAX-WORK. Those who wish to gratify their curiosity, by viewing the WAX WORK, and the INVISIBLE LADY, (now exhibiting at Mr. MOTT's, King street,) must improve the opportunity; as the proprietor is now on the eve of leaving this city. He has reduced the price to 50 cents. February 12. d
MR. PIC respectfully informs the Ladies and public in general that he has just received, in addition to his former assortment, some boxes of Artificial Flowers in branches and wreaths, and an assortment of Murry Shoes, with and without heels, embroidered and plain; and also an assortment of men's Hats, which he offers to the public at the most reduced prices. February 12. 131
FOR HIRE, A FEW Negro BOYS AND GIRLS, Apply to the Printer. February 12. 295
PUBLIC SALE. On THURSDAY next, the 14th inst., at 10 o'clock, will be sold, at the late dwelling-house of William Bowling, near the four mile run, All the personal Estate of the deceased; Consisting of two negro men; horses, cows, and hogs; a waggon and gears, and a variety of household and kitchen furniture. A credit will be given on bond and good security. James Anderson, Adm'r. February 12. d
Alexandria Library Company. The members of the Alexandria Library Company, will please to take notice, That, on Monday 18th inst. an election will be held, at the Council Chamber, for a President and eleven Directors, for the ensuing year; between the hours of nine and six, in the afternoon. James Kennedy, sen. Sec'y. February 4. 7 mo & 1/2
Notice is hereby given, To those holders of Stock in the Eastern Branch Bridge Company, who have not paid up their several installments, that, unless immediate payment is made to the Treasurer of said Company, their shares will be proceeded against as the law directs. By order of the Directors, WILLIAM BRENT, Treasurer. Washington, January 18, 1805. 1396W
Cash given for Rags.

ROBERT GRAY, Bookseller and Stationer, King-Street, Alexandria,
EXPECTS SHORTLY TO RECEIVE, "Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir WILLIAM JONES, by John Shore, (now Lord Teignmouth)," well known by his valuable researches in Asiatic Li- terature. The work will be comprised in one volume, octavo, and embellished with an elegant Portrait of Sir William Jones and a Fac Simile of his hand writing. Price 275 cents, bound and lettered.
Extract from the Port Folio of Novem- ber 3d, 1804.
"Messrs. Pynsell, & Co. of this city propose to put to press immediately, Lord Teignmouth's Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspon- dence of Sir WILLIAM JONES. This delightful Biography of a most learned scholar, not more remarkable for the wonderful extent and variety of his talents, than for the consummate diligence with which he exercised, and the noble use to which he applied them, will, we venture to pre- dict, be perused with greater interest, than any work of the class, since the publication of Bos- well's Johnson. We have studied it with the most eager curiosity, and with continued satis- faction, and it is our duty to recommend it to every polite scholar, who is willing to be incited and encouraged in the race for literary renown, by the glorious example of Sir WILLIAM JONES, who, in the well balanced works of his elegant Biographer, was equally qualified to explore the Beauties of Nature, the works of art, the dif- minations of character, and the productions of science."
LATELY PUBLISHED.
At the "Classic Press,"
By WILLIAM POYNTELL and Co.
Virgil, } Horace, } in usum Delphini. Cæsar, } and Sallust, }
THE above mentioned books are all well printed, more correct and more beautifully printed than the London editions, as will appear from the annexed certificates. Ovid in usum Delphi- ni, Murphy's Lucian, Hutchinson's Xenophon, Loutken's Greek & Latin Testament, & Clarke's Homer, are now in progress.
THE proprietors of the Classic Press, having submitted to our inspection such of their editions of the Classics as they have already published, viz. Virgil, Horace, Cæsar, and Sallust; we, having examined them as far as our avocations would permit, in the few days since their publi- cation, do not hesitate to recommend them as preferable to any foreign editions intended for the use of Schools, which have fallen under our notice.
John Andrews, D. D. Vice Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. James Davidson, Professor of Huma- nity in the University of Pennsylvania. James Abercrombie, A. M. one of the Assistant Ministers of Christ Church and St. Peter's, and Principal of the Philadelphia Academy. Abel Green, D. D. Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Phila- delphia. Benjamin Smith Barton, M. D. Matthew Carey. Thomas Dobson. William P. Ferrand.
Princeton, December 25, 1804.
THIS is to certify, that the Faculty of the College of New Jersey; having examined, of the Classics published by Messrs. William Poyntell and Co. the works of Horace, Virgil, Cæsar, and Sallust, have found them much more elegant in the typographical execution, and more correct than the London editions usually vend in the United States, and particularly than the editions of 1799 with which, principally, they have been compared. And the Faculty, happy at seeing such a neat, and accurate specimen of A- merican art, do cheerfully recommend Messrs. Poyntell and Co's edition of the Classics above- mentioned, to the colleges and schools in the U- nited States.
Samuel S. Smith, President and Pro- fessor of Belles Lettres and Moral Philosophy. John Maclean, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. William Thomson, Professor of Langua- ges. Henry Kollock, Professor of Theology. Andrew Hunter, Professor of Mathe- matics and Astronomy. William Neill, } Tutors. Alfred Ely, }
Certificate from the Right Rev. Doctor Moore, Bishop of the Episcopal Churches of the State of New-York, and President of Columbia College.
An edition of the works of Virgil, Horace, and Sallust, together with Cæsar's Commenta- ries on the Gallic War, printed by Messrs. Poyntell and Co. in Philadelphia, having been submitted
to the inspection of the Faculty of Columbia College in New York,
Resolved, That in the opinion of this board, the above- mentioned books are neatly & accurately printed, and are hereby recommended accordingly.
By order of the Board.
BENJAMIN MOORE, President.
New-York, Jan. 2. 1805.
R. GRAY
Has already received from the Classic Press, Virgil, Cæsar, and Sallust, in usum Delphini, and will be regularly supplied with a part of all its productions, which will be sold by him at the Philadelphia prices, and a li- beral discount to those who purchase to sell again.
R. G. has on hand an extensive as- sortment of BOOKS and STATIONARY, blank books of every description bound in the most elegant manner. Feb. 6. d
Alexandria Dancing Assemblies.
THE first Assembly will be held at Gadsby's, on Tuesday next, the 12th instant. February 6.
NOTICE.
THOSE citizens who have not paid their Corporation Taxes, are earnestly request- ed to pay the same to the subscriber, on or be- fore the 25th day of this month; otherwise their names will appear on the public delinquent list.
George Drinker, Collector.
February 8. d.
NOTICE.
THE Sale of the property of James Doug- las, Fairfax county, near the Great Falls of Potomac, whereon his mill lately stood, ad- vertised by me under a decree of the Chancery court of said county to take place on the 20th day of last December, having been unavoidably postponed on account of the inclemency of the weather, I therefore hereby give notice that I shall proceed to sell the same on Friday the 29th day of March next, at 12 o'clock, if fair, if not, the next fair day. The terms will be one third of the purchase money in hand, one third in 12, and one third in 18 months, from the day of sale, and on the completion of the last pay- ment a title will be made to the purchaser, under the decree above mentioned.
JOHN POTTS, Commissioner.
February 7. eos
The printers of the Washington Federal- ist and Frederick Town Herald are requested to publish the above once a week until the day of sale, and forward their accounts to this office for payment.
For Sale, or Rent for a term of years, or exchange for good well improved property in the town of Alexandria.
THE ESTATE on which the subscriber at present resides; it contains 850 acres of LAND, part of which is in high cultivation, situate on the new turnpike road, distant 6 miles from Alexandria, about 30 acres of Meadow, abundance of clover to the haythe, a quantity of choice fruit, well watered and has a considerable proportion of wood land. The improvements (which are mostly new) consist of a good conven- ient Dwelling House and all the necessary out- houses, a Barn 85 by 42 1.2 feet, the outside of which is brick, covered with cypress shingles; stables for 20 horses and 40 cows. Also, a good GRIST MILL, about 150 yards from the door. For particulars apply to
AUG. J. SMITH.
December 28. eo
Young Ladies Boarding and Day SCHOOL.
The inhabitants of Alexandria, are respectfully informed that sudden illness has pre- vented the commencement of Mrs. O'Riley's In- dies Academy, in this city—but being now in a state of convalescence, as soon as her health permits open her proposed academy, (of which due notice will be given,) where will be taught French and English grammatically; Writ- ing and Arithmetic; History, Geography and the use of the Globes; Music, Drawing and all kinds of work, viz. Embroidery in chenilles, gold silver, silks, &c. Containing figures, histo- rical and ornamental, landscapes, flowers, fruit- buds, &c. maps wrought in silks, chenilles, girdles &c. print work in figures or landscapes; cloths work in fruit, birds, flowers &c. filagree and varnishing in vases, pyramids, baskets, tea tades, epergnes, &c. grotto and shell work, ar- tificial flowers, tambour and Dresden, cross stitch, rent stitch, tapestry, &c. bugle and pearl work, painting on velvet, gauze, silk, vellum, &c. with many other accomplishments to numerous to mention.
Parents and guardians desirous to have an op- portunity of an early and accomplished female education, shall meet the completion of their wishes by patronizing the proprietors, the great- est attention will be paid to the morals and edu- cation of the young ladies entrusted to their care.
Nov 20. saw
DENEAL'S Patent Threshing Machine.
THE subscriber having invented a machine, (for which he has obtained a patent) for threshing all kinds of grain, particularly wheat and those kinds of grain most difficult to be sepe- rated from straw, stem, or chaff, takes the liberty of recommending the same to his fellow citizens as worthy their attention. The subscriber is well aware that the public attention has often been solicited to inventions for threshing wheat, and it has been lamented that those inventions have often fallen short of the desired effect, but from an actual experiment which has been made on the one now offered to the public, the inventor is emboldened to recommend it in terms of con- fidence and a well grounded expectation of its becoming of great profit and utility both to the farmer and manufacturer. This machine is con- structed upon entire new principles, its operation is by flails, enclosed by a cylinder, moved by friction wheels, and can with ease be regulated so that no straw shall pass off before the grain is entirely threshed out of it. It is worked by two horses, and so geared that their speed will not exceed the rate of three miles per hour and the draught moderate nor does it require more than two persons to attend it. The straw is dif- ferently screened and laid ready for market; the threshed wheat, cockles, &c. are deposited by themselves, and the chaff also, so that no mix- ture takes place. This machine will thresh at the rate of from fifteen to twenty bushels per hour, is not subject, if properly built, to get out of repair, and is kept under cover with little man- agement. The wheat prepared for market by this machine is worth to the manufacturer considerably more than that got out in the usual mode of threshing, and the cost of the machine will not exceed from one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars.
The subscriber will grant permits to use his threshing machine and furnish a drawing or writ- ten description by which it can be executed for fifty dollars each, or any person can view the same as erected at his mill near Dumfries, Virginia, so as to enable them to erect one from the furnished certificates being from gentle- men whose good understandings and steady ha- bits entitle them to respect, and some of whom being persons of scientific knowledge, he hopes will be sufficient to recommend his machine to public use: he will also contract for the privilege of using his machine in any particular place.
Leaves post paid directed to him at Dumfries, Virginia, will be duly attended to.
JAMES DENEALE, Jun.
Dumfries, Dec. 3. 1804.
Dumfries, 30th Oct. 1804.
We, the underwritten, inhabitants of the town of Dumfries and its vicinity, having frequently attended experiments made with a machine invented by Mr. James Deneale, of the Quantico Mills, near this place, for the purpose of threshing out wheat, have no hesitation in giving our united testimony in support of the use- fulness which will result to the community from this excellent invention. As Mr. Deneale is about to apply to the proper authority for a pa- tent when the construction will be generally dis- closed, we deem it unnecessary to add more on the subject.
Jno. Macrae, David Boyle, James Read, Bernard Gallager, Hector Alexander, William Smith, Jno. Gibson, William Parrow, George Smith, Joseph Gilbert, Alex. Henderson, Thomas Chapman, Luke Cannon, A. Sowden.
Occoquan, 30th Oct. 1804.
Being called on by James Deneale of Dumfries, in the State of Virginia to view a threshing Machine of his invention and executed by himself, for which he is about to obtain a patent, I waited on him, but went with preju- dice against all threshing machines heretofore in- vented, having never been on horse of one that answered a good purpose, and hardly thought it likely that this should be much superior to those which had preceded it; but contrary to my ex- pectation it did its work perfectly leaving not a grain of wheat in the heads, nor even any chaff on the grain, it made no difference whether the wheat (on the straw) was put into the machine in a straight or in a tangled state, it delivered the straw well, and did not appear difficult to manage nor so complicated as to be hard to keep in re- pair; it threshed, while I stood by, nine dozen sheaves of wheat, (such as two dozen in common cradles would have made a bushel) in sixteen mi- nutes, so that I have no doubt it will thresh fif- teen to eighteen bushels an hour with two horses to draw it, and two hands to attend it with much ease to the hands and horses with the assistance of a common Dutch fan placed under the machine, which would be turned with and by the machine, the wheat might be rendered nearly fit for mar- ket, with only the expense of two hands and two horses working at leisure at the rate above men- tioned of fifteen to eighteen bushels an hour, clear from dirt or chaff of any kind. And as most Millers would find it to their interest to give 3d to 6d per bushel more for wheat got out in this way than that got out in the ridiculous mode of reading with horses on the dist; I can with confidence and on the principle of dying to others as should wish others to do to me, recommend
this machine to all considerable farmers as wor- thy their most serious attention and adoption. Seeing the farmers generally in this state do not get for their wheat within 6d, to 1s. per bushel of what the northern farmers get at mar- ket, I attribute the cause to the difference in management only.
N. ELLICOTT.
Dec. 10.
IN COMMON COUNCIL,
5th February, 1805.
ORDERED,
That public notice be given, that proposals will be received from persons desirous of undertaking the superintendence of the NEW FOUR HORSE; the proposals to be lodged with the Clerk of the Council previous to the first Tuesday in March next.
Ordered, That John Thompson, Thomas Iwin and John Janney, be a committee to examine and settle the public ac- counts for the present year.
Ordered, That the following persons be ap- pointed commissioners for superintending the e- lections to be held in the several wards of the town, on Tuesday, the 5th day of March next, for the choice of members of the Common Coun- cil, for the ensuing year, viz.
Samuel Harper, } for the first ward. John Hunter, and George Slacum, } John C. Berber, } for the second ward. Joseph Biddle, and James McGuire, } John Dunlop, } for the third ward. William Kelly, and John M'Kinney, } Able Janney, } for the fourth ward. Isaac Gibson, and Thomas Cook, }
The election for the first ward to be held at James Davidson's tavern, on Prince Street.
For the second ward, at the court house.
For the third ward, at John Hodgkin's ta- vern, on King Street.
For the fourth ward, at Mr. May's house, opposite Thomas Cook's, on Prince Street.
Tett. JAMES M. MCREA, C. C. 31st March.
JAMES KENNEDY, SEN.
At the Alexandria Library—King-Street, Expect to receive by the first air val. from Phi- ladelphia,
Memoirs of the Life, Writings and cor- respondence of the late Sir William Jones, of Calcutta,
justly celebrated for his valuable researches in Asiatic Literature, the extent of his genius, and for every amiable quality which can adorn the character of the Scholar and polite Gen- tleman—
By Sir John Shore, now Lord Teign- mouth.
I will form one Octavo Volume of five hun- dred pages of fine new medium paper, and will be ornamented with an elegant Portrait of Sir William Jones, and a Fac Simile of his hand writing.
Price 275 Cents, neatly bound.
For a character of the above interesting work, by a judicious critic, see the Port-Folio of 3d November last.
Expected also from the Classic Press of Messrs. Poyntell & Co.
Virgil, Horace, Cæsar and Sallust, in usum Delphini.
Just Published,
AND FOR SALE AS ABOVE, The AMERICAN GARDENER, CONTAINING
Ample directions for working a Kitchen Gar- den every month in the year, and copious instruc- tions for the cultivation of the Flower Garden, Vine Yard, Nursery, Hop Yard, Green House, and Hot House.
By John Gardiner & David Hepburn, Late Gardeners for General Mason and Ge- neral Mercer.
Feb 7. eos
LAND FOR SALE.
I WISH to sell sixty or seventy acres of LAND, lying on the main turnpike road, about two miles from the Alexandria market house: on which place there is a square log ca- bin. This place in point of situation, is inferior to none on said road; it has also an excellent never failing spring of water. For further par- ticulars please apply to the subscriber living near the Cameron mills.
William Turner.
January 2. eo
FOR SALE—A Bargain.
THAT most pleasantly situated HOUSE and LOT, lately occupied by Mr. Alexander Henderson, Jun. There is on the premises, an excellent garden, a new stable, in short every convenience for the residence of a genteel family. For terms apply to the subscriber or the present proprietor Mr. James Ross, of Frederickburg.
JAMES PATTON.
Nov. 22. eo
The Subscriber intends soon to sail from Alexandria in the brig Rebecca, captain Mark Battis, for the West Indies.
George Walker.
Washington City, Jan. 31, 1805. d