Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer (Alexandria [Va.]), 1802-11-19 00:00:00

Alexandria AND COMMERCIAL
Advertiser INTELLIGENCER.
VOL. II.]
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1802.
[No. 502.]
Public Sale.
On FRIDAY , at ten o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store, Rum in hogheads and barrels. Whiskey in barrels, Gin in casks and barrels, Port wine in casks, Molasses in hds. Sugar in hds and bls. White and brown soap in boxes, Chocolate in boxes, Coffee in tierces and bags, Raisins in kegs and boxes. Queens Ware in crates, handsomely assorted,
ALSO, A variety of DRY GOODS, —AMONG WHICH ARE— Superfine cloth and Kersimere, Narrow Cloth, and Flannels, Irish Linens, and Oznaburgs, Sail duck of different qualities, Chintzes and Calicoes, Cambric and Cotton shawls, India Muslin and Table Cloaths, Coloured threads and sowing silks, Ribbons, Hats, and A number of other articles.
P. G. MARSTELLER, November 19. Vendue-Master.
Public Vendue.
On Saturday next will be sold, at the Vendue Store, the corner of King and Union Streets, 2 Chimney Pieces, a number of Doors, Steps for two pair Stairs, Architraves, &c. for two Rooms complete, and about 200 Lights of 12 by 18 and 10 by 12 Window Sash.
THOMAS PATTEN.
Nov. 18.
Just Received,
And for Sale at THOMAS PATTEN'S Vendue Store, at the corner of King & Union Streets, a handsome assortment of MAHOGANY FURNITURE, consisting of 3 large handsome Sideboards, 1 small do. do. 1 Scrutoire and Book Case, 1 large sett Dining Tables, 2 pair Card Tables, 2 Ladies' Scrutoires, 2 Stand Tables, 1 Breakfast do. 8 Quarter do. 2 Wash Stands.
Nov. 18.
Public Sale.
In Pursuance of a Deed of Trust from Jesse Taylor, deceased, to the subscriber, made to secure a debt due to the Bank of Alexandria, will be exposed to sale, upon the Premises, on Saturday the 4th day of December next,
THE FOLLOWING Valuable Property.
A LOT of Ground situated at the South West corner of King and Pitt-Streets, extending on Pitt-Street seventy feet, and thirty-three feet eight inches and an half on King Street; forty-three feet of this lot on Pitt Street has a depth of sixty feet eight and one half inches, and the remainder at the corner of King and Pitt-Streets has a depth of thirty-three feet, eight inches and an half, including the House now occupied by Mr. Edmund Denny.
Terms of sale, one third of the purchase money in six months, one third in twelve months, and the residue in eighteen months.
LUDWELL LEE, Trustee.
Nov. 5.
ALMANACS for the Year 1803.
R. & J. GRAY
Have just received a supply of ALMANACS for the Year 1803; and have on hand, a large assortment of Writing Paper, Bonnet Boards, School and Family Bibles, Testaments, Speiling-Books, Inkpowder, Playing Cards, &c. &c.
Nov. 3.
FOR NEW-YORK,
The SCHOONER ENTERPRIZE. For Freight or Passage apply to Captain
MITCHEL, or
R. B. JAMESSON.
Nov. 2.
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For Freight or Charter,
The BRIGANTINE EAGLE, Burthen 176 tons, 10 months old, an excellent staunch vessel, completely equipped and sails fast.
For Sale on board said Brig, 2500 bushels Liverpool SALT, and a few chaldrons British Coals.— Apply to J. G. LADD, or to Captain Teny on board, at Prince street wharf.
Oct. 29.
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ROBERT B. JAMESSON
Has on hand, and offers for sale on the most reasonable terms, at his Store corner of King and Fairfax Streets,
100 gr. casks of best ENGLISH GUNPOWDER, VIZ:
F. F. F. Single and Double Battle.
Also,
20 Hhds. 1st quality Muscovado Sugar
10 do. 2d do. do. do.
40 Bags Green Coffee,
15 do Spinning Cotton,
8 Pipes Cogniac Brandy,
Jamaica, Grenada, and New-England
Rum,
Holland Gin, and Peach Brandy,
India Arrack, & 6 years old Irish Whiskey,
Loaf Sugar,
Madeira,
Sherry,
Port,
Lisbon,
Catalonia,
Frontiniac,
Fayal,
Teneriffe, and
Malaga
Pimento, Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace,
Cinnamon, Cassia, Cayenne & Black Pepper,
fine Chewing Tobacco, Godfroids warranted Segars, Vanilla Beans, Ground
Ginger, short Pipes in kegs and boxes,
Glauber Salts, Madder, Copperas, Dix-
son's Mustard, Capres, Anchovies, Olives,
Green Pickles, and Ketchup.
Imperial,
Hyson,
Young Hyson,
Hyson Skin, and
Souchong
Raisins in boxes and jars, Almonds,
Prunes, Mould Candles, White, Brown,
and Castile Soap, Starch, Fig Blue, Wrapping
Paper, Olive Oil in flasks and black
bottles, Noyeau, Demijohns assorted from
3 to 6 gallons, Leiper's and Hamilton's
Snuff in bladders and bottles, refined Salt
Petre, and a few bags of Pear Barley.
Oct. 25. d m
FOR SALE,
On Wednesday the 15th day of December next, if fair, if not the next fair day, at Leetown, in Fairfax County two miles from the town of Centerville,
SOME Valuable Negroes,
To discharge the debts due from the estate of George R. L. Turberville, deceased, that are at this time made known to the Administrator. Six months credit will be allowed the purchasers on their giving bond with approved security, or three per cent will be allowed to those purchasers who choose to pay ready money.
GARVIN CORBLIN TURBERVILLE,
Administrator.
Nov. 16. d6t eods
Printing in all its variety executed at this office.
WILLIAM HODGSON.
Has received by the Brutus, from Liverpool, an assortment of FALL GOODS.
He has also on hand,
A choice parcel of Grenada Rum, Liverpool fine Salt, bottled London Brown Stout, Porter in casks, 6 doz. each old, Port Wine in bottles, a ton of Sheathing Paper and a quantity of Grindstones.
Oct. 15.
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CUTHBERT POWELL,
In addition to his importations by the several vessels from Liverpool, has just received, per the Industry, from London,
Superfine Broadcloths, Caffimere, Irish Linens, scarlet Cardinals, yarn and worsted Hosiery, Manchester, ladies fashionable Kid Shoes, &c. &c. &c.
He has also received this day, from New-York,
Ticklenburgs, Hessians, German Dowlas, and Russia Diaper; all which he offers for Sale by the piece or package, at the lowest prices.
Nov. 1.
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JOHN GARDNER LADD,
Has for Sale,
Loaf and brown Sugars, Rum, Molasses, Coffee, Brandy and Geneva, Sherry, Lisbon, Malaga, and Madeira, Russia Sheetings and Duck, India Cotton, A few boxes fine and coarse hats, A great variety of shoes, Cotton and Wool Cards, Best American Playing Cards, Soap and Candles, Corle and fine Salt, Red Seal Leather, James River manufactured Tobacco, Cordage, Paper, Glass, Allum, Chee, Codfish, Shad, and Herrings, Hylon, Hylon Shulan, Souchong, and Bohea
Refined Salt Petre, Cordials in barrels, Sweet Oil in boxes, Spermaceti, ditto. Fresh Chocolate in boxes, &c. &c. Also, about 50 hds. Potomac TOBACCO.
Nov. 11.
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R. T. HOOE & CO.
Have received, by the Brig Industry, from London,
THE BALANCE OF THEIR FALL GOODS.
Nov. 1.
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JAMES WILSON,
Has received, by the Industry, from London, an extensive Assortment of FALL GOODS,
Which will be offered for Sale immediately, by the piece or package.
Also, by the above Vessel,
Seven pipes and 18 hds. genuine old Port Wine, two years in bottles.
Nov. 1.
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Just received, and for Sale by ABEL WILLIS,
A FRESH SUPPLY OF Rhode-Island CHEESE,
Apples,
Crab Cyder, by the barrel, of the first quality,
Cranberries,
Sweet Oranges,
Lemons, by the box,
Best Rhode Island Potatoes,
Mackerel, by the barrel, together with a general assortment of GROCERIES and NUTS.
Nov. 16.
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JOSEPH RIDDLE, & CO.
HAVE received a considerable addition to their assortment per the Industry, capt. M'Kenzie, from London.
Nov. 2.
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WM. HARTSHORNE
Has for Sale,
The first quality of Lisbon and ground Allum SALT.
Also, a few yards superfine Bolting Cloth, and Mels Beet, in half barrels, and 1 pair of BURR STONES.
N. B. He gives Cash for Wheat at his Mill, or in town.
11th Mo. 13.
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FOR SALE,
At Mr. Heishell's Tavern, a very extensive assortment of Jewelry, Watches and Watch Crystals, &c. &c.
Gentlemen and Ladies who wish to be supplied with good and cheap work, informed that he can insure it to be of the first quality.
ADAM STONE.
Nov. 17.
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ROBERT T. HOOE & CO.
Have just imported by the ship Felicity from Liverpool, an assortment of FALL GOODS,
Which they offer for Sale by the piece or package.—Also, 70 crates STONE WARE, and a quantity of patent LIVERPOOL SALT.
They have also received by the brig Neptune and Schooner Four Brothers.
A few hundred bushels of Lisbon Salt, Lisbon and Calcavello Wines, Fruits, Sweetmeats, &c. &c. all of which they will sell low from on board, if immediate application is made.
They have on hand, a good assortment of GERMAN LINEN.
October 9.
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Ten Dollars Reward.
STRAYED from Mount Washington, a yellow and white HOUND DOG, with a bushy Tail, named ROYAL. He had a long Chain about his neck, when he escaped. Whoever will return him to the Subscriber, at Mount Washington, 1 mile this side of George. Town ferry, shall receive the above Reward.
WILLIAM SPENCE.
Mount Washington, Nov. 4.
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THOMAS SIMMS,
Has received by the brigs Neptune and Atlas,
Fresh Oranges, by the box, Do. Lemons, do. Soft shelled Almonds, by the frail, Filberts by the frail, Sweet Oil by the bottle.
He has also for Sale, Best Derry Mustard, by the bottle, Dipt and mould Candles, by the box, Loaf and brown Sugar, Olives, Anchovies and Capers, by the bottle, English Walnuts, Best Spanish Segars, Raisins by the jar, Coffee, by the bag,
Likewise, a quantity of best NEW-ENGLAND CHEESE, a general Assortment of GROCERIES, and a few hundred Bushels of excellent POTATOES.
Nov. 1.
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William Hartshorne,
At his Store, on col. Hooe's Wharf, has for Sale,
Pennsylvania & Swedish bar Iron,
Philadelphia lump and loaf Sugar by the hhd. or barrel,
Brown Sugar of the first quality, by the barrel or hhd.
Fine Salt, in sacks,
Coarse Salt by the bushel,
Old Corn, Tar,
Plaster of Paris, by the bushel,
James River Coal,
Tobacco, in kegs,
Hay in bundles, about 200 each,
A few Lots in good situations on Fairfax, Wilks, Prince and Washington Streets,
Sale or Rent.—Also for Sale, a three story Brick-House, on King near Fairfax Street, a very good stand for business.
10th Mo. 11th, 1802.
TO LET,
A convenient Dwelling-House for a small Family; situated on Duke-Street, near the corner of Water Street. The house is completely finished; with a convenient Kitchen and other out Houses. For further particulars apply to the Subscriber at Mott's Tavern, or to Charles M'Knight, Fairfax Street.
WILLIAM MITCHELL.
Nov. 13.
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For Cows and a Market, The AMERICAN SHIP  FELICITY, Captain REED. She is expected to sail in all next month, the greater part of her cargo being engaged. From 50 to 100 bds. Tobacco will be received on Freight, if immediate application is made, and a libe- ral advance made to those who consign to THOMAS MIDDLETON & Co. of London. ROBERT T. HOOE & CO. Oct. 29. eotf
BENNET & WATTS, Have imported in the Industry, Capt. M'Kenzie, from London, Superfine Cloths and Kersey- meres, West of England Swan-downs, Yarn, worsted and Silk Hosiery, Lute-strings, Pelongs and Persians, Fancy Florentines and Sattins, Collar Velvet, Muffs and Tippets, Threads, Tapes and Bobbins, China, Sattin and Sausanette Ribbons, Mullins, Laces and Edgings, Veils, &c. Ingram Yorkshire Carpets, Furniture Fringes, Cords & Tassels, Dimities, And Irons, Tongs and Shovels, Shad, Herring and Salt Twine, Nov. 1. eotf
A Wharf, Warehouses & Dwel- ling Houses.  TO RENT,
For one or a term of years, that Wharf with all the Warehouses there- on, situated on the corner of Princess and Union-Streets, now in the occupation of Mr. Kenneth Mathison, of which posses- sion may be had the first day of January next.
That two story brick Dwelling House situated opposite the above proper- ty, to which there is a pretty large gar- den, possession of which may be had the first day of next month.
Also, that two story framed Dwelling House, near the corner of Prin- cess and Water-Streets, lately occupied by Mr. John M'Iver—of this, immediate possession may be had.
LIEPBURN & DUNDAS, Who want to purchase or hire two or three good plantation NEGROES. Nov. 16. eotf
LAND FOR SALE. THAT well known Tract called WEST-POINT, situated in the low- er end of King William County, and bounded by York, Mattaponi and Pa- munkey Rivers, containing nearly 3000 acres.
To be minute in delineating the many and great natural advantages attached to this land, would be superfluous, as stran- gers would view it before they purchase; & those who are acquainted with it, want no further information. It may not how- ever be improper to say, that as to fertili- ty of soil, benefit of navigation, and the advantage of fish, oysters and wild fowl, it is not exceeded by any tract of land in Virginia. This land will be disposed of by Public Sale, at West Point, on Wed- nesday, the first day of December next, in lots, of from three to four hundred acres, on the following terms, to wit: One third of the purchase money paid down, one third in eighteen months, and the balance in one year after the expiration of the said eighteen months; and the payments to be secured by bond and a deed of trust on the land, with interest from the day of sale.
A clear and indefeasible title will be made to the purchasers by the subscribers, who have authorized Mr. Patrick Hen- den to attend the sale and make convey- ances.
WILLIAM FITZHUGH, Alexandria. CHARLES CARTER, Skelton. Oct. 18 (Nov. 2) eotf.
NEW MUSIC.  COTTON & STEWART, BOOKSELLERS, ROYAL STREET, Have just received a large collection of NEW MUSIC and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
Consisting of B. & C. Clarinets, Ger- man Flutes, Oboes, Horns and Flutes, &c. all of which they offer for sale on reasona- ble terms. Nov. 2. d
FROM THE PALLADIUM.
LESSONS FROM HISTORY.
IT is of the very nature and essence of despotism to make use of the rabble, and to depress the middling class of citizens. In old Rome, Marius, for the first time on the annals of that Republic, enlisted his soldiers from the sixth class, or those who had nothing. Whereas, until that time, the armies of Rome were composed of those who paid taxes. The honor of bear- ing arms was confined to the freemen , as they would be called in Connecticut.— They alone held the political power, and the right of voting—For, although the rabble or sixth class was not wholly exclud- ed from suffrage, yet those who take the pains to read Livy or Dionisius of Hali- carnassus, will perceive that the exercise of their right was very effectually guarded from abuse.
As ambition advanced, the rabble were courted. Marius admitted citizens from the cities of Italy, in familiar phrase, he naturalized every body that would come to Rome and vote armies and provinces to him. Accordingly, the eternal city , as Roman vanity denominated it, the con- queror and sovereign of nations, was herself subdued by a crowd of strangers .— They were naturalized in troops, and rushed in to make the native Romans strangers and servants in Rome itself!—  This very work is going on in America .— Every ship from Ireland brings to Phila- delphia more citizens than wharf-rats, and a pest as hard to endure or to get rid of.
The ruin of Rome followed. Liberty fell first, for strangers came in to betray it. Then Roman glory faded, for the armies were composed of rabble who were too base to feel the inspiration of patriotism, and they had too much power in making Emperors, for discipline to have any pow- er over them. Too corrupt for freedom, a mongrel race too democratic for arms, at length they could neither sustain the weight of their own glory, nor even of their chains. The Goths, and other bar- barians, extirpated the descendants of the Scipios as too cowardly and base even for slavery. They peopled Europe anew with the swarms of hardy savages of the north, who loved liberty because it was glory, and despised arts and letters because they were Roman.
Much might be added to this short history to prove that the lowest class in Rome was always made the dupe of the arts of demagogues, in order to be their convenient instrument. But never was the good of this rabble the object or the effect of the harangues and intrigues of their flatterers. It would lengthen this paragraph too much, to pursue the course of these remarks any further. Perhaps it it may be attempted hereafter.
In Paris we have seen the rabble af- sembled, the Roman and French dema- gogues gave or pretended to give them political power—really gave them bread, sometimes arms, and often feasts and sports. For almost five hundred years, the Em- perors distributed daily three pound of bread each, to a lazy crew who loitered from morning to night in the circus or amphitheatre. This kept idleness in a state of dependence on the prince, but it in- creased the number of the idle. At the same time, it augmented the burdens that the industrious middling class of citizens had to bear. These at length became so heavy, and the military government while it was obliged to court the base, needy and vicious multitude, was so discourag- ing to the holders of property that the Empire fell into a consumption. The people diminished, the lands became va- cant, and the found population perished. Its place was supplied by the Barbarians, who settled by tens of thousands and at length subverted the Empire: A fate which we are doing our utmost to inflict on our country.
In like manner the French revolution leaders flattered assembled and paid the half naked mob of Paris. The burdens on property were immense in their amount, and arbitrary in their principles. The change of the landed property of that country was greater in five years of the revolution than was made of old by At- tila, who was called the scourge of God. Nothing ever equalled it in Roman or modern history.
Why is this uniform alliance of dema- gogues with mobs, and why is it that usurpers are so sure to depress if not to ex- terminate the middling class of citizens; The class that holds, in every nation, a large part of the property? The answer is easy. The indigent rabble is every where tur-
bulent. Having nothing to lose, a ty- rant does not look to them for spoil. But their numbers and restlessness of spirit make them formidable to him. He na- turally, therefore, snatches something from those who have property, to keep the rab- ble quiet, by giving them small gratuities and extravagant hopes .
It is easy to see that a tyrant will squeeze the middling classes excessively. Their property tempts his desires and those of his soldiers, while the care of it ensures their tameness. Like the sea otters, their fat prevents their flight, and they are knocked in the head to save pow- der and shot. Octavius and Anthony gave one third of the lands of Italy to their soldiers, and turned the farmers out.
Hence it is that revolution is forever fatal to property. The very stimulus to revolution is the hope that property will be seized.
Power, it is said, follows property; and as those who hold it will desire protection which confusion and violence will not give, and could not ensue—their weight and influence will ever be anti-revolution- ary. The revolutions, therefore, will spring up among the destitute who want spoil, and the daring ambitious, who seek dominion. The success of these latter puts all property at their mercy, and their own security demands that it should shift hands, in order that the power it confers may be taken from enemies and placed in the hands of associates.
What has all this dry discourse to do with our affairs? says Dives, the great farmer, who has many thousand dollars lent on mortgage. The answer is, it has a great deal to do with them. The Wor- cester "Farmer" lays, very fairly, "Li- berty must be ransomed a second time from the hands of the opulent." The public funds and banks are openly threatened in the jacobin newspapers.—A whisky mob would borrow very freely from the vaults.
Indeed what is there beside to tempt our needy Patriots to so much exertion? Sure- ly more citizens come over in every ship than we can elect consuls for life. They expect humbler and more accessible re- wards. A few great Democrats may ex- pect office; but the only lure for a rest- less destitute multitude is plunder; and those who have been used to it in St. Do- mingo and in Europe, are coming here to set up their trade.
Let the real people, the house-holders and possessors of small property, rest assur- ed, on the evidence of dreadful and invari- able experience, that the revolutionists of this country, the avowed admirers of the French revolution, are no friends to the people. They may, indeed, form a league with the vicious and destitute of our ci- ties, but they try to deceive and will cer- tainly betray, oppress and enslave the mid- dling class. Let them then mark the Ja- cobins as the people's enemies, the enemies of virtue and of true liberty.
FROM THE PHILADELPHIA GAZETTE.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the Illinois country (Indian Territory) to his friend in this city, dated in Sep- tember 1802.
"Some observations on the progress of settlement—the quality of land—its pro- duction, and trade of the country, &c.— may probably be acceptable. The popu- lation of the territory when the census was taken in July 1800 was 5,641— and from the best information I believe I am justified in saying that since that pe- riod the number has increased about one fourth, and this season affords the most flattering prospect of a greater increase by emigration than any other since the first American settlements on this part of the world. This more than usual emi- gration is in some degree owing to an im- pression that Louisiana and the Floridas are ceded to France. Many families were in motion from different parts of the U- nited States destined for Louisiana, but, on understanding it to be highly proba- ble that that country is already ceded to France, have settled down among us; and we are told, there are many more now on their way who intend following their ex- ample. For my own part I am unwilling to believe that France will ever get posses- sion of that most luxuriant and beautiful country. The true policy of our govern- ment most certainly requires the exertion of every fair and honorable means to pre- vent it. If by the influence of friendly mea- sures it can be avoided, we ought never to suffer that nation to take a position which must at no very distant period so
completely enable them to retard, and an- noy at their pleasure, our progress to that state of greatness to which we appear by nature, aided by a wise policy, destined to attain. That the possession of it should be an object of primary importance to France requires but little ingenuity or reflection to conceive. They will know that giv- ing them the control of the navigation of the Mississippi (which it certainly would do) is putting them in possession of the key of the western world. The Spani- ards are good neighbors at present, and should they be disposed to be otherwise, they are neither very formidable nor en- terprising—they have the specie and we have the articles which suit them in ex- change for it—with respect to France we have reasons sufficiently ample I think to satisfy us that she is not only very pow- erful but also very ambitious and enter- prizing, and that it will be her policy to curtail as much as possible our power and perhaps our territory—While in Spain we discover no evidence of such views, but on the contrary she meliorates our condition more from her sources of wealth than if her mines were completely at the disposal of our government—as she stimulates us to industry (the great source of happiness) by giving us her Gold in exchange for our surplus produce.
"The soil of the country is extremely fertile; it is a black mould, incorporat- ed with sand; all its productions are ex- tremely luxurious. With the usual culti- vation, it yields in general from 50 to 60 Bushels of corn per acre, and I have been informed by persons of unquestionable in- tegrity, that upwards of 100 bushels of corn has been raised from an acre in one season. I believe I am very safe in say- ing, that 30 bushels of wheat or rye per acre, is a very moderate computation for the land generally. Barley and oats, I have not the least doubt, may be produced in great abundance; the experiment as yet has not been fairly made; and cotton, hemp and tobacco, I have no doubt may also be cultivated here to very great ad- vantage; these indeed, together with flour and the various kinds of grain, must ere long be the staple commodities of the coun- try. The peltry trade begins fast to lan- guish, and must soon cease to be an object of importance with the merchant. This last circumstance is, perhaps, the least proof I can give you of the growing state of the country. The land is so extremely rich, that every person can have a garden or a meadow almost where he pleases, without the aid of either water or manure. Here nature has been prodigal in her gifts, but art has been slow in improving them. The price of lands is from 50 to 150 cents per acre; where the titles are indis- putable the prices are in a great measure governed by the local situation of the land.
"The village of Kaskaskias, near the mouth of the river of that name, assumes, at present, a more pleasing aspect than for many years past, it contains about 500 inhabitants, some new houses building, and some of the old ones repairing. The society here is tolerable.
"As commerce is the handmaid of agriculture, the great hinge, on which the wealth, the strength, and the pros- perity of a country in a great measure de- pends, many persons in the United States, I know, conceive the remoteness of our situation very unfavorable in this respect, that our communication with the ocean is by the waters of the Ohio, and from thence by land to the sea port of the United States, &c. That in consequence of the great difficulties and expence at- tending this route to the ocean, there is no market for the surplus produce of the country; and that the articles brought from abroad, will ever be dear and very difficult to obtain. These erro- neous ideas were in some degree entertain- ed by myself, previous to my visiting the country, but have long since been aban- doned, as founded on a total ignorance of its real interests, and its commerce car- ried on thro' the waters of the Mississippi. Those acquainted with the interests of the Western country, well know that the wa- ters of the Ohio and Mississippi are the channels which unite us with the com- merce of the world—these are the great water courses, formed by nature, for the transportation of our surplus productions to a market, and bringing to us the conveni- ences and luxuries of life.
"Our situation is indeed in this parti- cular peculiarly favorable, for it is when the navigation of the Ohio is impeded by low water, or ice, our produce always commands the best price at market, and

we can at all times descend the Mississippi with great convenience, and profit by the high water in the spring to return—in this respect the navigation of the Mississippi is perhaps rather singular—it is very winding in its course, and in seasons of high water, eddies, or counter currents, are formed in the different lands, near the banks, which are very favorable to ascending it—this circumstance, together with the heat which generally prevails in the spring of the year, (which is not generally the case in the heat of summer) enables sixteen men to return from New Orleans to this place, (say 1,200 miles) in about 65 days with a boat of 20 tons burden, loaded."
NEW YORK, November 12.
Entered, Ships Ohio, Hall, Dublin; George and Mary, Layton, St. Peter'sburgh; Phebe-Ann, Gardner, Philadelphia; brigs Hound, Carlen, Curracoa; Eliza, Haff, Malaga; Bell, Seymour, Turks Island; Rising Sun, Dockray; schr. Lark, Hunt, St. Croix; sloop Caton, Turks Island.
Cleared, ship Two Friends, Vose, London; brigs Dove, Totten, Jamaica; Timothy Phelps, Discovery, Coombs, do. Accomplished Quaker, Burken, St. Christopher; Harmony, Hunt, Bermuda; Barbara, Hitchcock, Charleston, Joseph Otis; Charleston Packet, Ingham, do. Enterprize, Tombs, do. schrs. Lioness, Smith, do. Fair Lady, do.
Arrived since our last.
Brig Eliza, Haff, 47 days from Malaga. Sailed in co. brig Wealthy-Ann, and Schooner Alert, for N. York, and schr. Hopewell, for Salem. Left, brig Sally, Howland; ship Elizabeth, Wilcox; schr. Factor, Maxfield; brig Anna, Truman; and schr. Cutter, Tucker, all of New York.
Brig Bell, Seymour, 25 days from Turk's Island, Nov. 8th spoke brig Rover, Cooper, from Baltimore under jury masts; did not learn where she was bound.
Ship Phebe Ann, Gardner, of Philadelphia; 14 days, bound to Antwerp put into this port on account of having too heavy a cargo, and experiencing a very severe gale of wind. Captain Gardner, proceeded on his voyage as far as the long. of 67. The ship being very deep and heavy laden, thought it unsafe to continue his voyage, and was afraid the ship would founder. Nov. 4th, spoke brig Alliance from St. Croix bound to Boston.
Ship Ohio, Hall, in 47 days from Dublin. Left no American vessels there.
Schooner Lark, Hunt, 28 days from St. Croix. In lat. 23, 30, long. 67. spoke brig Greenwich, Remington, for Philadelphia. Nov. 12th, spoke ship Experiment, Barnum, for Lisbon, out 24 hours, from this port all well. Left at St. Croix, schr. Lion, Clark, to sail in 7 days for this port; and brig Venus, Crocker, of New-York.
MARKETS
At St. Croix—Very low—Flour from 7 to 8 dollars per barrel.
Brig Rising Sun, Dockray, 68 days from Rotterdam (belonging to George Champlin of Rhode Island, and the captain; bound to Rhode Island, but put in here on account of contrary winds) with 150 pipes gin, to E. Burrill. Nov. 3d, in lat. 39, 30, long. 69, spoke ship Sally, Gallop, out 43 days from Bristol, bound to this port. In lat. 33, 30, long. 65, 30, spoke ship Delaware, Beebe, bound from this to Grenock out 2 days. Off Nantucket saw 2 ships and a brig, all in distress, one of the ships entirely dismasted.
The ship Commerce, Rockwell, from Liverpool for this port, out 56 days, with a cargo of salt and crates to Elisha and William Coit, is ashore at the north-east point of Sandy-Hook. She met with this accident between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday evening. The necessary assistance has been sent to her; and should the weather prove favorable, it is expected she will be got off without much damage.
From the Bridge-Town (Barbadoes) Mercury, received at the office of this Gazette, by the Schooner Maryet.
BRIDGE-TOWN, Oct. 9.
The Schooner Porcupine, with the remainder of government stores, arrived on Thursday from Martinique. We understand that the colonial system of French laws of 1789, which has been declared to be in full force there, has already been adopted with respect to the coloured inhabitants, none of whom, whether free or slaves, are allowed to wear shoes or stockings, and by a proclamation of the Commander in Chief, are restricted in their dress to linen shirts, short jacket and pan-
taloons. The only duty yet laid upon commerce is imposed upon the Americans, who are confined in their importations to the articles of flour, fish and lumber, on which they pay a duty of 2 1/2 per cent. & 5 on exports, being compelled to receive a proportion of produce in payment, and are allowed only two hours to lay off the harbours without coming to. Slaves have been imported in French vessels, and an English Guineaman, called the Mersey, has been permitted to sell her cargo under the national flag. The English who are still there, receive every attention from the French officers, but they are very rigid towards the native inhabitants; the troops, who are represented to be sale cochons , are very unhealthy, and die four or five daily, and the garrison is already much decreased.
At St. Lucia, we learn, an insurrection has broke out among the negroes, instigated by a party of miscreants who have long been concealed in the woods, & who have already burnt several estates, and by their approaches menace the Caranage.
Governor Johnston, of Dominico arrived here on Thursday in the Army brig, and this day paid his respects to His excellency Lord Seaforth , who received him under a discharge of Pilgrim Ordinance .
The commemoration of the dreadful hurricane of 1780 was this day observed throughout the Island, with the most religious solemnity.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 16.
Sunday arrived the brig Hiram, capt. Dove, from Point Petre (Guadalupe) which place he left October 16th. A few days previous to capt. D's sailing a disturbance took place in the district of St. Anne, in consequence of which every individual was under arms. The following are the circumstances as they have been communicated by capt. Dove.
About 30 or 40 negroes, with 2 white men at their head (Miles la Girander, and Barfes) wantonly murdered 18 men and women in the country, and after plundering their houses, proceeded in a hostile manner, against the town of St. Anne, intending to effect their escape from the island by the seizure of some of the vessels lying in the harbor. They were however repulsed with great effect by the inhabitants. Those of the negroes who were not killed retreated to the woods and concealed themselves. A considerable force from Point Petre was dispatched in pursuit of them. The expedition was unsuccessful; excepting the capture of Miles la Girander, one of the chiefs, and Jean Barbai, accused of being an accomplice. These occurrences had excited great apprehensions throughout the island.
On the 15th October several executions took place at Point Petre; among these was a white man, named Cheigneaux, who was hanged for having corresponded with the chief of the brigands.
A great mortality prevailed among the white troops in the island—A reinforcement from France was daily expected.
The following is a list of the unfortunate victims who were murdered at the affair of St. Anne:
Messrs. Bourgoins, father and son, Delair and son, Lias and wife, Kerives, Oufraim, La Lieur, Valadier, Arseause, and two brothers, Ducre, Audibert, Mad. Cornealle, jun. Verges, father and son, Mad. Testue, Rocheret, and two mulatto women.
By the existing laws of the colony of Guadalupe, the duties on articles permitted to be imported, are as follows:
Beef 6 livres tourn. (111 cents) per 102 lb. Pork the same duty, Codfish do. In addition to the general duty of two per cent.
Flour, lumber, cattle, rice and all other articles permitted to pay a general duty of 1 per cent. ad valorem.
On molasses and rum, 5 1/2 per cent.
No foreign vessels are permitted to take off more produce than is equal to the amount of their inward cargo.
On Monday last capt. Vicary picked at sea one of the crew of the brig Huntress, capt. Prince, from Charleston bound to this port, out five days, which had foundered the preceding day in a gale of wind off the capes of Virginia. He had been floating on a spar 36 hours, when discovered by the Missuri. From this perilous situation he was rescued by the humane exertions of the ship's crew. By his information, it appears, that besides the crew of the Huntress there were four gentlemen passengers, one of whom was a captain belonging to this port lately arrived at Charleston from Cape
Francois, where he had sold his vessel, all of whom must have perished.
By a Charleston paper it appears that the above brig failed from thence on the 30th ult. and was commanded by capt. Roper, not capt. Prince.
Arrived, brig Scammel (dismasted) put in here in distress. She was bound from Baltimore to Guadalupe.
Sloop James, capt. Medler from North Carolina, but lost in 5 days from Norfolk, where he was obliged to put in by stress of weather, arrived here on Sunday.
Capt. Medler informs that a sloop with a load of wheat from Alexandria for this port, after being in sight of our Capes, was blown off, and about the 8th of Oct. was drove ashore at Baldhead, Cape Fear, the vessel bilged, the crew and part of cargo saved.
Capt. M. further informs that on the first of this month he had very heavy gale of wind, after which he put into Norfolk, as the weather was very boisterous and wind a head, that on Saturday the 6th inst. and two days following they had at Norfolk the highest tides known in that place for these 15 or 16 years, the town was nearly covered with water, and most of the stores near the harbour were filled with water and great quantities of Sugar, Rice, &c. damaged.
Sunday arrived schr. Hannah, captain Phippen, from Salem, 14 days. Captain Phippen, passed an English copper-bottomed brig in the bay, dismasted.
Same day arrived, brig Nancy, captain Watt, from St. John's, N. B.—Lat. 41, 35, long. 66, 49, met with a severe gale of wind which continued two days, during which time their main top and fore top masts were carried away. Oct. 30, spoke brig Rouana, bound to Rhode Island; it blowing fresh, we could not learn where she was from. Nov. 1, spoke a small Schooner from Norfolk bound to Halifax. Capt. W. off the Capes of Delaware, saw two ships, four brigs, and four Schooners, apparently bound in.
Same day arrived schr. William, capt. Earnest, from Lunenburgh, N. S. Spoke a brig from Gottenburg bound to Rhode Island, out 60 days who lost a man out of her main mast top, on the 7th inst. in a gale of wind overboard.
Sunday arrived at this port, the ship Missouri, captain Vickary, after a two years voyage, in 6 months from Canton. The Missouri, touched at the Isle of France, and left there on 31st of July the following American vessels:
Ship Petapasco, Reves, of Baltimore, to fail in 2 days.
Snow George, Spriggs, do for Europe, in 2 days.
Ship Fox of Charleston, S. C. last from Batavia, captain dead, and the ship want of repairs, bound to Europe.
Ship American, Lelar, of Philadelphia, from Batavia, captain very sick on shore of the Batavia fever ready to sail for Europe.
William Forrest, of Philadelphia, bound on further.
Perseverance, Ingersoll, of Boston; brig Juno, Waine, do. John, Cogshall, of Salem.
Off the Cape of Good Hope saw two American ships—could not speak them.
The news of peace had reached Canton, by the route of Acapulco. Its effect is not stated.
Alexandria Advertiser.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19.
The situation of Tom Paine is no less novel to himself as a writer, than unfortunate to his affectionate friend and patron, the president of the United States. From the day Paine first took the pen in hand to figure away in the world, to his late entertainment at Washington, the defence of a regular government* never once entered his besotted brain. He had ever been the champion of the minority, and where it groaned under the oppression of a wrong headed government and ignorant ministers, (as before our revolution was the case with this country) the subject, more than his boasted talents, gave his writings a celebrity almost equal to the vanity of the creature. He now believes that he can support, as well as destroy, a corrupt and tottering executive. We give the cabinet much joy for the great and necessary acquisition, and shall, undismayed, and confident of the issue, await "the end of these things;" for if any thing were wanting to raise the administration to the acme of infamy, it was the support of this man.
the Age of Reason —the base calumniator of Washington.
That the invitation of the executive was given to this hireling to return to our shores, was to answer a favorite personal view, is now pretty well confirmed by the early and decisive language held forth by Paine in the government paper of the 15th inst. Full of himself, strong in the affection and protection of Mr. Jefferson, so far from making the least apology for the infamously irreligious work he addressed to the citizens of this country, or for his villainous philippics against the good and sainted Washington, he shews all the insolence & bloated vanity of a sansculotte. In the first 30 lines of his "letter the first," the words I and my occur no less than 19 different times. This letter is written as well as published under the nose of Mr. Jefferson, and in it the author declares, that "I now know from information I obtain upon the spot." Washington and Adams had grasped the young Hercules of liberty in his cradle, and were proceeding to strangle him. This "information obtained upon the spot," comes no doubt from his affectionate friend and correspondent—who may be looked upon as the true author or cause of the letter to Washington, and of all that cowardly abuse of his administration, which the public may expect to receive at the hands of Paine. Thus then may be accounted for that strange and otherwise unaccountable change in the pursuits and writings of the author of Common Sense , the Crisis , and the Rights of Man . The man who, all his life, had boasted of the title of wbig , has, even without the excuse of dotage, renounced all religious and political sentiments of his own, and, according to the definition of Mr. Jefferson, has become a tory and the champion of tories ! But this is all consistent enough, & promotive of the great object of the Philosopher . In the field of politics he has reaped a harvest commensurate with his vanity. He has made kings tremble and bleed upon their thrones; and he can desire nothing more to render him worthy of "the thankfulness of nations," than to drive the Most High from his throne in the hearts of men. It is in this he can receive assistance of a President, that President will in turn meet with support from him, and on this ground may be satisfactorily accounted for, the second attempt Paine has ever made to support the authority of "the powers that be;" the first was to uphold the villainous and tyrannical and momentary government in France, which decreed "there was no God!" [Balt. Fed. Gaz.]
* He was the champion of that mob at Paris, which declared there was no God, if it could be called a government.
Sale by Auction.
On SATURDAY.
At 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store, the corner of King and Union Streets.
Rum in hhds. and barrels, Whisky in barrels, Apple Brandy in barrels, Gin in casks, Wine in pipes and quarter casks, Molasses in hhds. Sugar in hhds. and barrels, White and brown Soap in boxes, Coffee in casks and bags, Raisins in kegs and boxes, Queens' Ware, and
ALSO A variety of DRY GOODS. —AMONG WHICH ARE—
Broad Cloths, Irish Linens, Cassimeres, Calicoes, Kerseys, Threads, Coatings, Chintzes, Halfthicks, Bedticks, Fearnough, Oznaburgs, Blankets, Sewing Silks, Planes, Muslin and Muslin Negro Cottons, Handkerchiefs, Worsted and other India Cottons, &c Stockings, &c.
THOS. PATTEN, Auctioneer. November 19.
Public Sale.
On Tuesday next will peremptorily be sold at the Vendue Store, 10 crates of Queen's Ware, handsomely assorted, 2 casks Virginia Hoes, 8 dozen Shovels and Spades, 13 dozen frying pans, and a large assortment of Hinges, &c.
PHILIP G. MARSTELLER.

Ricketts, Newton & Co.  Have received and for Sale, 220 pieces Bandanna Handkerchiefs, 50 do. Russia Sheeting, 20 bales Cotton, 40 barrels and 10 hhds. Muscovado Sugars, 50 boxes brown Soap, 50 do. Castile do. 50 do. Candles, 30 do. Chocolate, 2 hhds. Loaf Sugars, 7 hhds. Antigua Rum, 1 hhd. clean Flax, 1 ton Rhode-Island Cheese, 7 boxes Wool and Cotton Cards, A few pipes and half pipes of Vidona Wines, of superior quality, Hyson, Young Hyson, Imperial and Hyson Skin Teas, 100 reams Wrapping Paper, 206 do. Writing Paper, A handsome assortment of Prints and Irish Linens—a large quantity of Bed-Cords and Plough Lines. They have to RENT, The WARE HOUSE lately occupied by Mr. John Janney, adjoining their Brick Store, and a comfortable Dwelling House on Prince Street, lately occupied by Mr. Thomas Mathews. For particulars enquire as above. October 15.
B E E F. A few barrels of good BEEF (lately packed) just received and for sale by  BENJAMIN SHREVE, jun. October 14 d
COTTON & STEWART  Have just received a large and general assortment of  BOOKS In the different branches of Literature. Also,  ALMANACS For 1803, With a general assortment of  Dr. Church's Patent Medicines, Which they offer wholesale or retail to the public at very reduced prices. October 12. d
JANNEY & PATON,  Have just received by the Sch'r Harmony, capt. Crabtree, from Porto Rico, 20 hhds. & 250 barrels first quality Muscovado Sugars, Also, on Hand, Molasses, in hhds. Grenada and Jamaica Rum, in hhds. and barrels, Catalonia Wine, N. England Rum, in hhds. & barrels, Souchong Tea, of a superior quality, Brown and Castile Soap, Mould and dipt Candles, Cogniac Brandy, Fine and coarse Salt, Men and women's Shoes, Queens Ware in crates, assorted, With a complete assortment of N. England and Russia CORDAGE; East-India and Russia Goods.  A L S O, 20 Hhds. Berbice Coffee, 40 do. 2d quality Sugar. Oct. 30. d
Just Received, And for sale by the Subscriber, at his store corner of Prince and Union streets, 15 Pipes Madeira Wine, 10 do. 4th proof Brandy, 5 do. New England Rum, 2 do. Holland Gin, 3 Quarter casks Catalonia red Wine, 3 Kegs Anniseed Cordial, 14 Boxes dipt Candles, Sugar in hhds. and barrels, Coffee and Pepper in bags, Hysonkin and Souchong Tea, Jamaica Rum and Malaga Wine, Raisins in kegs and boxes, Leiper's Snuff in half barrels and kegs, Men's coarse and fine Shoes, Women's Morocco and fancy kid do. And eight Bales of INDIA GOODS, consisting of Mamoodies, Emerties, Guzzinabs, Mohanas, Gungies, Checks and Calicoes, and a few pieces China and Lunge Hankerchiefs, and Ravens Duck. A large quantity of RED SOAL-LEATHER, and a few barrels Tanner's best brown OIL.  BENJ. SHREVE, jun. Oct. 27. eo
POCKET-BOOKS.  COTTON & STEWART,  Have just received a handsome assortment of Ladies Pocket-Books & Thread Cales, Gentlemen's Pocket-Books and Asses skin Tablets Just received, A few boxes fresh LEMONS, LIMES and sweet ORANGES.  A L S O, Filberts, English Walnuts and Almonds, of an excellent quality.  JOSEPH DYSON.
The Executors of the late Gen. Geo. Washington, offer for sale, the following  TRACTS OF LAND, viz. A tract in Loudoun county on Difficult Run, containing 300 acres. The soil well adapted for farming and a considerable proportion of it might easily be improved into meadow. There is a valuable mill-seat on the premises. It lies on the great road from the City of Washington, Alexandria and George Town to Leesburg and Winchester, nineteen miles from Alexandria, less from the City and George Town and not more than three from the Great Falls of Potomac.
One tract containing 2,481 acres lying in the counties of Loudoun and Fauquier, called Ashby's Bent. The soil is that which is said to be most favorable to Plaster of Paris, well watered by several never failing streams issuing from the mountain—part of this land is cleared and tenanted for lives.
One tract lying part in each of the above counties, containing 885 acres. Chattem's run passes through this tract and gives several valuable mill-seats. The soil is similar to the above tract and equally favorable to Plaster of Paris.
A tract on the South Fork of Bullkin, containing 1600 acres—One alo, Head of Evans's Mill, containing 453 acres, and one on Wormley's line, containing 183 acres. These several tracts are in Jefferson (late Berkeley county)—the soil very similar in quality, and particularly adapted to the culture of Tobacco, Hemp, Wheat and Indian Corn, situated twelve miles from Harper's Ferry.
One tract containing 571 acres in Frederick county, this land is in the vicinity of the last mentioned tracts and equally valuable.
One tract in Hampshire county containing 240 acres—this tract, tho' small is extremely valuable. It lies on Potomac river, about 12 miles above the town of Bath (or Warm Springs) and is in the shape of a horse-shoe, the river running almost round it; two hundred acres of it are rich low grounds, with a great abundance of the largest Walnut and other trees, which with the produce of the soil, might (by means of the improved navigation of the Potomac) be brought to a shipping port with more ease and at a smaller expense, than that which is transported only 30 miles by land.
One third part of 1119 acres in Nansemond county near Suffolk, lying on the road from Suffolk to Norfolk and on Nansemond river—this land is considered extremely valuable by those who are acquainted with it.
One tract in Charles county, Maryland, containing 600 acres—it is very level and lies near the river Potomac.
One tract in Montgomery county, Maryland, containing 519 acres—This land lies about 30 miles above the City of Washington, not far from Kettoc-tan and is good farming land.
One tract in Pennsylvania, containing 234 acres—This land affords an exceeding good stand on Braddock's road from Fort Cumberland to Pittsburg, and a large quantity of natural meadow fit for the scythe. It is distinguished by the appellation of the Great Meadows, where the first action with the French, in the year 1754, was fought.
One other tract on the Mohawk river, State of New-York, containing 1000 acres.
In North West Territory. Three tracts lying on Little Miami, containing 3051 acres.
In Kentucky. On Rough Creek, one tract containing 3000 acres, ditto adjoining 2000 acres. Indisputable titles can be given for the above lands. Lots in the City of Washington.
Two improved lots near the Capitol square 634. The improvements are, on each an elegant three story brick house.
Four other unimproved lots on the Eastern Branch, No. 5, 12, 13 and 14, in square 667. These lots are advantageous by situat'd on the water.
ALEXANDRIA. A few valuable lots in Alexandria, corner of Pitt and Prince-streets, three or four of which are let on ground rent at 3 dollars per foot.
WINCHESTER. One lot in Town of half an acre, adjoining Doctor Makay's, enclosed with a good post and rail fence, and a no-
ther in the commons of about six acres.  Bath, or Warm Springs. Two well situated lots, on one of them has small building large enough to accommodate one family. The terms of sale will be made known by application to either of the subscribers. SAMUEL WASHINGTON, Culpepper county. GEORGE S. WASHINGTON, Jefferson, do. WILLIAM A. WASHINGTON, Westmoreland, do. GEORGE W. P. CUSTIS, Mount Washington, Fairfax, do. BUSHROD WASHINGTON, M. Vernon, do. LAWRENCE LEWIS, Wood Lawn, do. August 30. 2aw
NOTICE.
In pursuance of a Decree of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for Alexandria County, will be exposed to sale for cash, on Saturday the 4th day of December next.
A Lot of Ground on the west side of Fairfax Street, and to the south of Franklin Street adjoining a Lot of Joshua Riddle on the South. This lot is twenty one feet in front, in depth, seventy three feet, and is subject to a ground rent of seventeen dollars and an half per annum.
Also, another Lot of Ground beginning on Fairfax Street 259 feet 10 inches south from Franklin Street, extending in front on Fairfax Street twenty feet, in depth 123 feet 5 inches; on the Lot is a small well finished DWELLING HOUSE. This Lot is subject to an annual rent of five shillings.
THOS. IRWIN, JOHN DUNLAP, PETER WISE, } Comm'rs. November 2. eo 13t
FOR SALE, Two Hundred and Fifty Hhds. of  TOBACCO, Of which nearly 100 are Maryland, the residue Upper South Potomac; liberal credit will be given on approved paper. A. HENDERSON & CO. Nov. 5. 13t eo
WAS FOUND, A SADDLE with a pair of Saddle-Bags, containing sundry Articles, supposed to belong to a person suspected of Horse Stealing. The owner may have them again by applying to the Subscriber, in Fairfax County, near Col. Wren's Tavern. GEORGE GORDON. Nov. 12. eo 3t
TO LET, A THREE-STORY  BRICK HOUSE, On Prince, between Fairfax and Union Streets, adjoining the Store of William Hodgson. Apply to JOHN HARPER. October 6. eo
CARVING, GILDING, and VARNISHING.
Mrs. RACHEL ATKINS, (From Philadelphia) In Prince-Street, between Fairfax and Water-Streets, next door to Dr. Dick's in the house lately occupied by GROVE WRIGHT:
Respectfully informs the citizens of Alexandria that she intends residing here for a few months, and will be happy in executing any orders in the above branches of business. She regilds and varnishes old frames so as to make them appear like new—and likewise varnishes them with a particular kind of varnish that will bear washing.
She has on hand, A large and elegant assortment of Prints, Looking-Glasses, & GIRANDOLES.
of every description, which will be sold on the lowest terms for cash. Orders from a distance will be punctually attended. Nov. 15. eo
SAMUEL BISHOP Has received a large supply of  Hot Pressed
AND OTHER  PLAYING CARDS, of various qualities: which he offers by the quantity or retail, at very moderate prices. October 11. eo
A PROPOSAL BY SAMUEL BISHOP For publishing by Subscription, LETTERS ON THE Elementary Principles OF EDUCATION. By Elizabeth Hamilton, Author of the "Memors of Modern Philosophers," &c.
ON this interesting and highly important branch of science, several valuable works have, within a few years, been presented to the public, among which the above, as it is the most recent, is pre-eminently useful. Led by her subject into an inquiry concerning the nature of the active powers, and intellectual faculties of the human mind, Mrs. Hamilton has developed those powers and faculties with a perspicuity and ability which, while it arrests the attention of those who have most successfully studied those subjects, must render a competent knowledge of them familiar to the most ordinary capacity. The superficiality and frivolity of character engendered by the modern system of education, have been long, and justly, a subject of complaint; but the particular causes by which these serious evils have been produced, were hitherto but imperfectly known, or little attended to. To trace these evils to their source, and to point out the proper remedy, is the ultimate object to which the meritorious efforts of this Author have been directed; and in these efforts she has, it is believed, succeeded beyond the most sanguine expectations. Such indeed, is the importance of the inquiries which form the subject of this work, and so great the success with which these inquiries have been pursued, that the happiest consequences to society may reasonably be expected to result from the present publication. To all it is interesting in a very high degree, but to mothers of families, and others engaged in the formation of the minds of children and youth, it will prove an acquisition truly invaluable.
The rapid sale of two impressions of this work in England, sufficiently evinces the high estimation in which it is there held: An American edition—equal to, and at little more than half the price of the British edition—is now offered to the patronage of the American public; by whom its merits will, doubtless, be justly appreciated. [An Extract from the above Work.] "From most of the writers on education it would appear, that it is only to people of rank and fortune that education is a matter of any importance. By such alone can the systems that are generally proposed, be adopted. To such, therefore, must we believe them to be exclusively addressed. To make fine ladies and finished gentlemen forms no part of my plan, which has for its object the subjection of the passions, the direction of the affections, and the cultivation of the faculties that are common to the whole human race." The price of the British edition, is fifteen shillings, Sterling, in boards.
CONDITIONS.
I. The Work shall be comprised in two Duodecimo volumes, of about 450 pages each, & shall be printed in the best manner, on a fine Paper, and new Type. II. The price will be one Dollar per volume in boards, payable on delivery. * A very considerable number of Copies being already subscribed for, the work shall be put to Press, and finished without delay. Subscriptions received by the Publisher. Sept. 1.
In the matter of Isaac Kell, a BANKRUPT.
ALL persons indebted to the said Bankrupt or who have any of his effects in their possession, are hereby required to pay and deliver the same forthwith to the subscriber, who has been duly appointed Assignee of the said Bankrupt's Estate. JOHN M'IVER, Assignee. Nov. 2. 2aw 1m
On the 1st day of December next will be sold to the highest bidder on three months credit at the Dwelling House of the late Nathaniel Fitzhugh of Fairfax County, all his
Household Furniture,
AND STOCK, OF HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, & HOGS and so many of the SLAVES as shall be necessary to pay the debts due from his estate.
All persons having claims against the said estate are requested to bring them in for adjustment on or before the day of sale—and those who are indebted to the same, to make payment to
WILLIAM LANE, Administrator, With the will annexed of NATHANIEL FITZHUGH, deceased October 5. 1aw 6t
Printing in all its variety, executed at this office with neatness and dispatch.
Clean linen and cotton rags bought at this office.