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National Intelligencer.
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. IX.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. 1310.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1809.
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WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, MARCH 3.
THIS day will form a bright era on the page of history. Never will it be forgotten as long as liberty is dear to man, that it was on this day that THOMAS JEFFERSON retired from the supreme magistracy amidst the blessings and regrets of millions. It ought to be forever remembered that this step was the dictate, not of necessity, but choice, and that it manifests the most illustrious homage which the mind of man can pay to principle. That man must be great whom the spontaneous will of millions calls to the supreme power; but how much greater is he, who, in the midst of active duties crowned with popularity, and with a mild unclouded or weakened, rejecting the eager suffrage that would again clothe him with the highest authority, withdraws to the retirement of private life. How many unpolished passions subdued does such an act evince! And what a damning refutation does it not manifest to the profligate calumnies that traced the actions of his administration to sinister motives!
Had Thomas Jefferson desired to retain power, there was no competitor, he would have been re-elected. President by a vast majority. His fabric of authority was neither impaired, or likely to be so. He might still have continued to exercise the almost commanding prerogatives of his station, to confer office and dispense power, receiving applause in return. If he had personal favorites, he might have gratified them to the fullest extent of his wishes. But this charge would never have been made, but through the polluted channels of defamation. His favorites have ever been those, whose virtues and talents he called into the public service, because the good of the nation demanded them. And this last splendid act of his public life proves principle to have been his polar star.
The history of mankind shows that the seedling foe to liberty has ever been the permanent deposit of power in the hands of an individual, and that it almost invariably terminates in the misery of a nation. Our constitution does not inhibit this investigation; but authorizes its continuance, provided the people every four years re-elect the same individual. There are those who think, and we profess ourselves of the number, that a rotation in the office of chief magistrate would have been a safeguard to liberty. The point, however, we admit, is extremely difficult of satisfactory solution. Such is the insatiable thirst of power, that the mournful history of almost every nation proves how feeble all constitutions are against the overwhelming torrent of ambition. If constitutions forcibly shut the door upon the retention of the supreme power by an individual of ascendant talent and ambition, it is to be feared that rather than submit, the whole system will be subverted by him. It was, perhaps, because the years of Bonaparte did not allow him to be a Director, that he overturned the republic, and seized the absolute power.
In this question, however, decided as it may, while poor human nature retains its wretched alloy, and while the constitution remains unchanged, the truly great and good man will only find, in these circumstances, stronger motives for discovering a remedy for the dreadful evil which has befallen other nations, and having found it, will resolutely apply it. This has been done by Washington and Jefferson; and who, after their example will hereafter be bold enough to violate it, except for the most substantial reasons? Proud, indeed, must be the pretensions of him, who shall dare to say, my country has greater need of my services, than it had for those of a Washington or Jefferson.
It is not our purpose—to review the administration of Mr. Jefferson. The tributary affection and unshaken confidence of the great mass of the people, even under circumstances perilous and unprecedented, are its best defence. Nothing but sterling gold could have come pure out of such a crucible. Who is there from north to south, from east to west, in the eight millions that make up our population, that stands on ground so pre-eminent? Not one; and yet we have many, very many great and good men. However party spirit, malevolent in some breasts, and highly excited in all, may, in the collisions of the day, have detracted from his merits, the time will come, and that shortly too, when every one will allow him to have been a good and great man, and when the name of Jefferson will be universally associated with those of Washington and Franklin.
There is, fellow-citizens, something inexpressibly tender and solemn in the political departure from among us of our distinguished friend and benefactor. How much has he contributed to our happiness! How various, complicated, and arduous have been the scenes through which he has passed! Forty years have been almost unceasingly spent in your service! What pos- of honor has he not filled, what grade of political duty has he not discharged! How many anxious moments has he had for your welfare! How great the debt, how profound the obligation to such a man! But vast as the debt is, let us rejoice that it has been paid!—that we have been and still are grateful for the services we have received. Let us feel a just pride in the reflection that the affection and esteem of an enlightened nation came at all obligation, and that this is bestowed to the full on Thomas Jefferson. Let us too remember that the day has at length arrived, when praise cannot be mistaken for flattery, or ascribed to impure motives. The leading elements of a nation's happiness are liberty, knowledge and wealth. Possessed of these, it is impossible for any people to be miserable. During Mr. Jefferson's administration all these have been either increased or strengthened. Liberty has submitted to no fetters, the arts and sciences have advanced with unprecedented steps, and wealth outrun every calculation. It is an indisputable axiom, that a tree is known by its fruit, here is a criterion which cannot be mistaken or withheld. It is, that on this day lights up the grandeur, awakens the regret, and calls forth the blessings of millions.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FEBRUARY 3.
Debate on raising the Embargo, and authorising Letters of Marque and Reprisal—Continued.
MR. D. R. WILLIAMS said, he hoped that the House would do him the justice to believe, for he had given many proofs of it, that, although he had talked much about war lately, he felt as strong an aversion against going to war, whilst peace can be preserved without disgrace, as any man could do. The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Milnor) cannot feel more than I do, (said Mr. W.) on the subject of foreign relations, except in one particular point of view—that submission to the edicts of Great Britain and France, seems to him less heinous, less dreadful to the National interests, than it does to me. The gentleman has read to you an amendment, which he would propose—What was it's tendency? To permit your merchants to pay the tribute armed , rather than defenceless; as if the mere permission to arm, could vary the terms or the operation of the belligerent edicts.—Were you not told by him, that he most sincerely believed that, by war or by any measure which you could adopt, G. Britain would not be induced to repeal her orders in council? And yet he attempted to persuade you, it is expedient to depend upon the very feeblest effort that can be made, as resistance, when in the same breath, he declared the whole energies of the nation exerted in open war, would be inadequate. In advocating the repeal of the embargo then he must be for submission. The gentleman shakes his head; Sir, I wish he would be so good as to tell us, if not submission, what it is he is for?
MR. MILNOR said, that he would not submit. He had endeavored to show that the course which he proposed to pursue would not be submission. If he had failed to convince the gentleman from S. C. of it, it was not his fault; but while he believed that such a measure would be more essential resistance than the embargo, he should give it preference. To satisfy the gentleman from S. C. on the subject of submission to tribute, he could observe, that he was ready to adopt any measure which the gentleman could point out, to prevent the payment of tribute.
MR. WILLIAMS said, he was much obliged to the gentleman, and would in three words tell him how to avoid paying a tribute—continue the embargo. For the gentleman and the minority to help him, who seem willing to accept, of what he could not but consider a tributary commerce, can, the embargo repealed, devise no mode of preventing the payment of the tribute by our merchants, short of war.
To my plain understanding, sir, (said Mr. W.) the amendment as proposed ends in this: That your vessels bound to England will, if they make any show of resistance, do it by quaker guns. Every gentleman, in the least acquainted with maritime phrases, understands the term; whilst on the contrary, if they do resist, it will only be to involve you in a war with France, an inducement, I believe, with many of its advocates for supporting it. We have now arrived at a period, when the sentiments of every member should be explicitly known; that moment you put the country in a situation, which subjects its commerce to tribute, I am for war with G. Britain; because any course short of war makes you tributary to her.
Some days since, I declared to the minority, it was in the sincerity of my heart I spoke, that they could save the country from its present dreadful situation. They know they have produced a state of things that must not be suffered to exist. They have reduced us to the alternative of enforcing the law by physical force, or of repealing it. That they still possess the power to put down the effervescence they have excited, I cannot doubt; for while the inhabitants of the south are forming patriotic associations to enforce the law, some in the north, so excited, are exerting themselves to prevent its execution. I called upon them then, I entreat them now, to remember what are the dearest interests of their country—to put down the opposition to the law—by silencing it—what will they do? Endear themselves to the nation—merit its thanks—save the government, without the aid of the bayonet, from the disgrace of imbecility—and in so doing, must necessarily save the character of the nation from the black stain incident to foreign taxation, and from sinking into the lowest state of degradation. This idea of tribute, of again becoming British colonies, I cannot think, much less speak of with patience—I will begin in another place—of the embargo. Upon this subject, gentlemen exert themselves, because they are interested in decrying it; for when it was originally imposed they told you that it would be ineffectual, and we all know some of them have done every thing that could be considered necessary to realize the prophecy. Passing over the original causes altogether, subsequent events shew, that the measure was wise. They wish now to induce the people to believe, that it was not wise, nor necessary, because in driving us from it, they drive us into war; and if the removal of it be followed by war, no matter in what way, gentlemen feel they must take the responsibility of it to themselves. Sir, they have told us, in substance, for the open avowal would not do, that we were the basest creatures in the world; that we have neither virtue nor energy to direct the energies of the nation, that we imposed the embargo in subservience to France, and unfounded as the accusation is, it has been the cry from one end of the country to the other. Now, sir, we approach the period when, from their excitement in the east, war may be preferable, what is the consequence? Why, sir, the very men who taxed you with base submission, with supererogation in submission, who vapoured about National honor, and the maintenance of maritime rights, now warn you not to plunge the nation into war! And in order to alarm and prevent you from defending the rights of the nation by arms, dilate upon the monstrous power of the belligerents opposed to you. The gentlemen have surely forgotten, that, when one of these very powers was mistress of the country, of course,
ablest minister it has been truly said, that with one hand he smote the Bourbon on his throne, and in the other wielded the democracy of England, we fought with, and conquered our independence from her.—Are we to be now told, if we are driven into a war, that we cannot resist her? The gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Milnor) told you, that you cannot now get rid of the orders in council even by war, when, whilst you were yet in the gristle, you conquered from G. Britain, the sovereignty of the soil we live on; and lest this observation should be in inefficient, you are conjured by others not to go to war, because the executive has been wrong. Gentlemen entertain, at least detain us, by reading the documents, hour after hour, to prove it. For God's sake, sir, supposing the executive has been wrong from first to last, is this a reason why they will not resist foreign taxation? you are taxed more heavily by G. Britain than her own colonies are, or than you are by your own government—you are in a much worse situation, as to the exportation of the produce of your own soil, under the operation of the orders in council, than the island of Jamaica, and I can prove it if gentlemen deny it. The produce of that island, it is true is necessarily constrained to be first deposited in G. Britain; but all the surplus of that produce is free to be exported thence and entitled to drawback. Is it so with yours? No sir, the great staple of the country, cotton, worth more than any two others, is coerced into England and absolutely prohibited from exportation altogether. You are to raise cotton, to carry it to the British isle and no where else. What does this amount to? Any thing short of a positive assumption of the sovereignty of the soil? I heard a gentleman before me (Mr. Randolph) with patriotism and a warmth of eloquence which fired my bosom, exclaim against the violation of our territory in 1805—touch the soil, said he, and you touch the life blood of every man on it. What is our situation now? Every square foot of cultivated land in the country is laid under contribution, and gentlemen very coolly say they will repeal the embargo and will not go to war under such circumstances until it is forced upon them—they want cause of war. Yes, sir, this is a truth, and take notice of it; that the British colonial system only requires the importation of colonial produce into the mother country. Your produce is placed in the same situation, with this addition: coerced into her ports you are prohibited from re-exporting one great article, cotton, and on other articles duties of 40 and 50 per cent. are imposed on their re-exportation—And why, sir? They tell you that you must carry your cotton there, because they want it. What does Mr. Erskine tell you is the cause of the regulation in relation to cotton? Why, sir, he told you insinuatingly that you must look to the prosperous state of the French manufactures for the cause. And yet gentlemen want cause of war; they cannot in this see any thing, distressful to the country or disgraceful to its character.
I think, sir, that, the best course which we can pursue would be to say nothing at all about the repeal of the embargo. And if gentlemen will do so we may chance to have an accommodation of all our differences, because then an opportunity will be given to the Executive which, he will not otherwise have, to attempt an accommodation. It was considered a kind of treason here the other day, when I spoke of an extra mission; but it is a very fashionable idea all over the House now. Even the worthy gentleman from Virginia before me (Mr. Randolph) has no objection to one more chance for accommodation. Now, if gentlemen will not go to war with us, and merely they talk as if they will not, let them adhere to the embargo and give a chance for negotiation. Let us have this one other chance for an honorable accommodation.
I do really believe, sir, that war is preferable to submission. I have been educated in this kind of opinion, and I cannot give it up promptly. But it is unnecessary, say gentlemen; you can gain nothing by it. Suppose you had made this calculation during the revolutionary war; suppose, Mr. Chairman, that you (Mr. Macon) had been thinking of what you could make instead of marching to South Carolina, and losing your all in the common cause—where would you have been now? Would you ever have been Speaker of the House of Representatives of the U. States? Would any of these gentlemen have the honor of seats here? And shall we abandon them now without an exertion?
We are told that we must not go to war, because of the monstrous disproportion between our revenue and that of the British government. Did not this disproportion exist in a greater degree during the revolutionary war, when we were without a government? Yes, sir; but you had that in abundance, in which I fear we are very deficient now— patriotism . You conquered the soil then without revenue—and will you stop to calculate what is the proportion of your revenue to that of G. Britain when she is bringing you to a worse state than you were in before you became free? For it is a fact that the state in which we are placed, if we trade under the orders in council, is much worse than that which you, Mr. Chairman, assisted to redeem us from. One, certainly not the least of the attributes of sovereignty, is the power to lay taxes, and consequently to repeal them—here is a tax imposed upon you without your consent—can you get it off? No, says the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Milnor). Then, sir, we should abdicate the government. You are taxed without your know-
ledge, against your consent—we cannot get it removed, says the gentleman—I do not believe it, sir; I would bury the last man in the country before I would accede to it.
A gentleman from New York (Mr. Gardenier) says he wishes the nation to grow; I too would wish it, if it could be allowed to grow in honor, in virtue, in patriotism; but if not, I would not desire it should "start a peg." Stop where you are, with honor, rather than grow in disgrace. I wish not to see the nation, to use the converse of his metaphor, like a great booby who has been told by his mother, "don't fight Billy till you grow big," and then he went fight in defence of his own person; every little fellow in the street spurns him. The gentleman says we may be a chunky , though a rickety set of little fellows. Sir, I had rather be small, than a coward; a rickety freeman, with one hand and one arm, than a slave with the handsomest appearance possible. The plain question presented for your determination is this: will you live slaves or die freemen? It is easy of solution; you can't find an American in the nation, so lost to honor, to feeling, as not to say, "I will not live a slave." And why not improve the opportunity to wipe off this stain? No says the gentleman from Maryland, (Mr. Key) there is reason to fear the commander in chief may be a dangerous, an ambitious man, and overturn the constitution. What, sir, can place us in a worse situation than we are now in? Suppose an army of 50,000 men raised, with a chief at its head, disposed to sacrifice our liberties, would you prefer that every attribute of sovereignty shall be blasted by Britain, rather than take the risk of having an ambitious general to resist her? If the constitution is made of such brittle stuff as not to stand a single war; if it is only to be preserved by submission to foreign taxation, I shall very soon lose all my solicitude for its preservation. The gentleman also talked about the dangers avoided by the development of Burr's real character, as if a foreign war was to be preferred to a domestic tyrant. If I could choose in such a case, I would rather take my chance with the latter than the former; indeed, much rather than have a sovereign from among our own native blood royal, than from the royal family of England. You know, sir, they are not apt to be overburthened with a certain commodity, considered essential to good government in this country.
Do not shackle us with war measures, let the nation grow, says the gentleman from New York, (Mr. Gardenier). I am much mistaken, sir, if the gentleman himself was not the first who declared for war. I am positive he told you months since, he was for a declaration of war against France; but now Great Britain is the subject, he cries, don't shackle us with war measures. Can he have forgot his own description of the ambition and resources of Bonaparte? Has he forgot the picture which his friend from Connecticut (Mr. Pickney) drew of the colossal power of Napoleon? The gentleman dwelt upon it so long, he really appeared towards the close, to be under an apprehension of its extension even over us. He ought certainly to remember this is the man who has truly smote the Bourbons, has humbled the proud house of Austria; has crushed the power of Prussia, and who has vanquished even the "heroic, the gallant Alexander." Declare war against France, said the gentleman yesterday; don't shackle us with war measures, to day! Sir, when the gentlemen on the other side begin to fear the power of Britain, or to tremble at the extension of Bonaparte's, they pay marked homage to the wisdom of the embargo measure, for it alone has preserved us from collisions with both these mighty nations.
Every gentleman who has spoken on the opposite side, has declared that the French edicts are in operative, are empty menaces; they have supposed, they have proven their position, by the premium of insurance; and are we, therefore, because they are in operative to declare war against her? The orders of Great Britain, but for the embargo, would be operative, would have intercepted all your commerce, and yet we must pay her! Gentlemen say we cannot come into contact with France, her decrees are in operative, therefore we must fight her; while Great Britain, who does come into collision with you, who attempts to blast your character, to sap your most vital interests, who has imposed tribute on you, must be propitiated by
money, must be paid! How does this sound, sir? Not very spirited; what is it in reality? Contemptible cowardice . My ideas of honor, of national rights and justice, revolt at this thing. The gentleman from New York, I recollect, some time since declaimed with a pathos that moved my soul, when we were about to determine the order of the day of the supplemental embargo bill, "give us but one day's liberty," said he,
"A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity of bondage."
And it is true, sir. What does he now say? Virtually that he will submit; that he will consent, for a humble commerce, circumscribed and regulated by Great Britain, to pay tribute to her. The gentleman's passions were excited; he could see nothing but slavery under the operation of a law of his own country; but when the orders in council are under consideration, he's off; and not he alone, but many of the opposers of the embargo.
The gentleman from Connecticut, a revolutionary character, (Mr. Tallmadge) called upon us the other day to repeal the embargo, and to take a stand calculated to maintain the honor and dignity of the nation, but was extremely cautious not to say what that stand is; and really, if his stand is not better calculated to maintain the rights of the nation, than his reasons are forcible for the repeal, they will be poorly maintained indeed—he offered you three, and but three reasons for the repeal. I very much doubt whether the gentleman will be willing to recognize them for his own when he hears them repeated; certainly much abler arguments are to be expected from a representative of the state of Connecticut, which having been steady in its habits, must have, by this time, if we are to believe the slang of former days, monopolize all the "virtue and talents of her neighbors". 1. Because a grand jury of Vermont had some time ago presented the proclamation of the President issued in April last. This presentment of the grand jury, if it ever had been a reason, which I deny, for repealing the embargo, has lost that character, being at least neutralized, by presentments of an opposite cast—I question whether five gentlemen in the House ever heard of it before. 2. That the militia, perhaps of Providence, (R. Island) had disobeyed the orders of the governor. I am happy to say the alarms, which had been excited in my mind, relative to the state of the public mind there, were much greater than the case authorized. As to the particular case alluded to, I am informed by authority, to my mind perfectly conclusive, that although the militia did not carry into execution the orders issued by the proper authority, it was not that kind of disobedience, if it can be termed disobedience at all, to which anything reprehensible can be attached; they were called out, but before they were paraded, the vessel which it was intended they should detain, was beyond their reach. Is this a reason, sir, for repealing the embargo? So far from its showing a spirit of resistance, it is a proof that the law even there does govern. 3. That the collectors will be thrown into jail, inasmuch as they will be required, under the operation of state laws, to give bond for damages to a large amount that sureties cannot be obtained. As to this objection, it is equally futile with the others. Let the whole machinery of state law be directed to this point, I believe Mr. Gallatin may, as it were with a single stroke of his pen, put it down completely. However large the bail required may be, if the Secretary of the Treasury orders the deposits of public money to be removed from one bank to another, that bank which secures the deposits, will furnish the collectors security. I am not to be understood that this has been done, but calculating on the sagacity and fidelity of the Secretary of the Treasury, I have no doubt it will be done, when necessary. It is not certain, far otherwise, that there will be such a necessity—but happen when it may, the same spirit which has excited so much sensation in the East—meantime cupidity —money—will furnish the remedy. Bad indeed, sir, must be that cause which can be sustained by no better arguments than these. The gentleman from Connecticut should abandon it.
My worthy friend from Virginia (Mr. Randolph) urged yesterday as a reason why you should not go to war, that you will thereby pecuniarily every shilling and the last drop of

blood in the nation, for the maintenance of maritime rights in every sea. If we go to war, certainly I should be for asserting those rights every where, but [Mr. Randolph said he had objected to adopting the resolution of the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Nicholas) as being that pledge.] That is not all which I understand by it said Mr. Williams. I consider the resolution tantamount to a declaration of war and shall vote for it, at least so much of it as relates to letters of marque and reprisal; not for the maintenance of maritime rights in every sea only, but for the preservation of sovereignty on the land. If the objection to having commerce to protect itself, by means of armed mercantile men, rested only where the gentleman has placed it, I could assent to his amendment; for merchants do not deserve more, if so much, as any other class in the community, that the whole national resources should be pledged for the maintenance of their individual benefit; but while my friend and myself are unwilling to do this, assuredly we ought not to say, they alone shall fight the nation's battles. Adopt the amendment, and you thereby declare maritime rights shall not be defended by government, and yet in the same declaration you make that very interest sustain the whole national cause—if any fighting is done, it is to be done by those very merchants whom, you resolve not to protect. Sir, I cannot consent to such a project. I wish to see the government and not the individual alone embarked in the cause—for the I never will consent to pin my safety and the rights of the people of the United States on the sleeves of the merchants only.
But my friend stated another objection to the embargo which he says is not applicable to his plan—viz. that he was tired of new experiments—that he liked a project the better for being old and well sifted; so do I; but I should be very glad to know if his proposition be not a brand new one. I profess to be as little read in maritime or national, or indeed any other law as any man, and therefore it may not be surprising if I am mistaken in the matter of fact, but certainly I never heard of such a system of warfare before; nor do I believe such an one ever has existed. No sir; I never have heard of the permission being granted to merchants to resist seizures without the right of reprisal. But the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Key) has carried this doctrine to a much more refined distinction. He would allow the merchants to resist co-extensive with the orders of council only in defence of their lawful trade; but the dispute must not be widened, and therefore they must only resist such attacks as are made under the orders and edicts. Under this system a corps of lawyers will become as necessary to a merchantman as their cannon to anchors. I understood the gentleman to take great pains to satisfy us that we ought not to broach any new subject of dispute, we should not widen the breach, and therefore, we should authorise no resistance to the exercise of power, claimed by the belligerent, though in contravention to those orders and decrees—and this sir, is the kind of resistance we are to make against the iniquitous search; for the recovery of indemnity for spoliated commerce insured tarnished honor! Sir, it is time we should come to the point, that we should assume, if it is not in our natures, nerve enough to decide whether we will go to war or submit—if you do submit, for one, I declare I had much rather do it without arming your merchantmen with wooden swords and quaker guns, when destined to be the prey of either Great Britain or France. Let the people understand—they do from the Delaware South and West—that the tax is not on our maritime rights alone, but that it affects deeply the agricultural products of the southern nation; that there is not a square foot of this country but is in some measure laid under contribution; that the soil is violated, and depend upon it, this now puny kind of war will not be approved by them.
The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Milnor) did that which is very common in the House, attempted to follow suit to my friend from Virginia. He would congratulate the nation on the prospect before it. I do with sincerity join the gentleman from Virginia, in congratulations, that during these times of oscillation the character of the nation is not yet compromised—I hope we may be able to do so, with as much truth, as a man hence. This congratulation was worthy of the gentleman, but that of (Mr. Milnor) was of a very different kind. He would congratulate the nation on the prospect of reviving the embargo. Depend upon it, if the embargo is repealed and you take no better means of asserting the rights of the nation than this amendment, it will be no cause of satisfaction to any of us—it will be a just cause for bitter lamentations to the nation—nati-on, did I say? It will be out of the ques-
tion to talk about the nation—you are about to become a no-nation—you may keep up all this gaudy paraphernalia of sovereignty; this solemn mockery of independence—but if you do not give this torpedo embarking, chance to explode in the heart of Great Britain and will not go to war, you are ruined—you may talk of liberty, but what is it, when incumbered and borne down by foreign taxation! No sir, we are again becoming British provinces and therefore, it is that I choose war rather than this proposition so inadequate, so illy calculated to sustain the pressure of the times.
(Debate to be continued.)
[BY AUTHORITY.]
An ACT extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the citizens of the Indiana territory, entitled to vote for representatives to the general assembly thereof, shall, at the time of electing their representatives to the said general assembly, also elect one delegate from the said territory to the Congress of the United States, who shall possess the same powers heretofore granted to the delegates from the several territories of the United States: any thing in the ordinance for the government of the said territory to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sheriffs of the several counties which now are, or may hereafter be established in the said territory respectively, shall, within forty days next after an election for a delegate to Congress, transmit to the secretary of the territory a certified copy of the returns from the several townships in their counties respectively. And it shall be the duty of the governor, for the time being, to give to the person having the greatest number of votes, a certificate of his election.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the governor of the said territory shall divide the same into five districts, the citizens thereof, entitled to vote for representatives to the said general assembly, shall, in each of the said districts, elect one member of the legislative council, who shall possess the same powers heretofore granted to the legislative council in the said territory, and shall hold their offices four years, and no longer; any thing in the ordinance for the government of the said territory to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the general assembly of the said territory, shall have power to apportion the representatives of the several counties therein, or which may hereafter be established therein, according to the number of free white male inhabitants, above the age of twenty-one years, in such counties: Provided, That there be not more than twelve, nor less than nine, of the whole number of representatives; any act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding, until there shall be six thousand free male white inhabitants, above the age of twenty-one years, in said territory; after which time the number of representatives shall be regulated agreeably to the ordinance for the government thereof.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. N. MILLEDGE, President of the Senate pro tempore. February 27, 1809. APPROVED. TH: JEFFERSON.
An ACT freeing from postage all letters and packets to Thomas Jefferson.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all letters and packets to Thomas Jefferson, now President of the United States, after the expiration of his term of office and during his life, shall be carried by the mail, free of postage.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. N. MILLEDGE, President of the Senate pro tempore. February 28, 1809. APPROVED. TH: JEFFERSON.
INAUGURATION BALL. A DANCING ASSEMBLY will be held on the 4th inst. at Mr. Long's Hotel—Tickets to be obtained at the bar, on application to a Manager. Thomas Tinsley, John P. Van Ness, Franklin Wharton, Daniel Carroll, John Tayloe, James H. Blake, William Brent, John Graham, A. Henderson, James Eakin, John Law, Isaac A. Coles. N. B. The Dancing will commence at 7 o'clock precisely. March 1—2t
TANNANY SOCIETY. A stated meeting of the Tannany Society, will be held at the Council Fire of their Great Wigwam (Lindsay's Hotel) on Friday evening the 3rd day of the present "month of Winds," precisely at the going down of the sun. By order of the Society. B. SMITH, Sec. Month of Winds, the 1st. year of discovery 317th, (March 1, 1809.) March 1—2t
FOR SALE. THE two-story BRICK HOUSE, situate on square No. 959, in the city of Washington, now occupied by Mr. Tams Craven, as a retail store. The eligibility of this stand for the retail business is excelled by none in this city; being situated on the principal street to the Navy Yard, and very near the Navy Yard Gate. Any person desirous of purchasing the above property may be shown it, by applying to the sub-scriber, who will also make known the terms of sale. WM. BRENT.
RUNAWAY. WAS committed to the jail of Washington county in the district of Columbia on the 17th inst. a black man, who calls himself JOHN and says he belongs to Ignatius Dennis, of York county, Virginia; he is about 29 or 30 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high—had on when committed, an old brown great coat, kersey trousers, old black hat, old shoes and stockings; his owner is desired to come and release him, or he will be sold for his jail fees and other expenses as the law directs. C. TIPPETT, Keeper of the jail for Washington Boyd, marshal. March 1—3t
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, MARCH 3.
The President of the United States on the 1st. inst. approved and signed the "Act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies; and for other purposes."
SENATE, MARCH 1.
The Senate took into consideration the bill from the House of Representatives, making appropriations for the support of the military establishment and of the navy of the U. States for the year 1809.
On motion to strike out the following words in the 6th section—For the fortifications of ports and harbors, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, one million of dollars."
It was determined in the affirmative—Yeas 23, Nays 6, as follows—
YEAS—Messrs. Anderson, Bayard, Bradley, Coad, Franklin, Goodrich, Gregg, Hillhouse, Howland, Kitchell, Leib, Lloyd, Matthews, Moore, Parker, Pickering, Pope, Smith of Ten. Sumter, Thruston, Tiffin, Turner, and White.
NAYS—Messrs. Crawford, Milledge, Mitchell, Robinson, Smith of Md. and Smith of N. York.
MARCH 2.
The bill from the House of Representatives for imposing additional duties was rejected—Yeas 5—Nays 24.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1.
The following is the resolution laid on the table yesterday by Mr. Dana.
Resolved, That it is proper to make provision by law to allow merchant vessels of the United States to be armed for defence in voyages to ports of Europe or the West Indies or Atlantic coast of America, and accordingly to furnish the documentary evidence which may be proper in any such case to manifest the defensive character of the armament allowed; and at the same time by law to require securities for the vessels respectively, that they will not proceed to any port known to be actually blockaded, nor carry articles contraband of war to the dominions of a belligerent power, nor violate the laws or treaties of the United States or the rules of public law by them acknowledged, but will observe the instructions which may be given by the President of the United States for preventing all such violations, and that due satisfaction shall be made for all damages and injuries if any should be committed contrary to the tenor thereof.
A bill from the Senate making further provision for the corps of engineers; was twice read and referred to a committee of the whole.
INDIAN TRADE.
On motion of Mr. Newton, the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, 54 to 17, on the bill supplementary to the act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes—Mr. W. ALSTON in the chair. The bill being gone through was reported to the House, and ordered to a third reading.
COURTS OF THE U. STATES
On motion of Mr. Marion, the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, 40 to 31, Mr. W. ALSTON in the chair, on the bill supplementary to an act for establishing the courts of the U. S. [The bill proposes an alteration in the time or manner of holding the courts of S. Carolina.]
Mr. Love proposed an amendment to the bill, declaring that the laws of the several states shall be the rules of proceeding in all judicial proceedings in the courts of the U. S. provided that it shall not affect any process on behalf of the U. S.
Messrs. Taylor and Kelly objected to the introduction of a general provision, embracing such an important principle, into a law for a special purpose—a principle too the propriety of which was at least questionable.
Mr. Love advocated his motion. He adverted to the laws passed in different states for suspending executions for a time. He did not express an opinion on the principle of suspension; but whatever might be his opinion of the principle, he wished it to be extended to the federal courts in those states, for the sake of equality and consistency in judicial proceedings.
Mr. Love's motion was negatived by a considerable majority. The committee rose and reported the bill.
Mr. Love renewed the motion which he made in committee.
Mr. Gholson advocated the motion at some length, and went into an examination of the laws of the United States on the subject of judicial process and of the decisions under them, particularly of a late decision of the Chief Justice that the law of a state (Virginia) for suspending executions should not be the rule of proceeding for a federal court, whilst
all other state laws not contravening the laws or constitution of the United States were binding on it.
Mr. Dana moved to strike out the provision excepting from the operation of the amendment all process in behalf of the U. S.—Ayes 30, Noes 50.
Mr. M. Clay conceived the decision of the judge mentioned by Mr. Gholson to have been erroneous; and all that was asked was that the decision should be reversed by an explanation of the meaning of the law of the United States; that a judge should not have it in his power to put up the law with one hand and put it down with the other. Under this decision, a merchant to whom money was due in the state in which he resided, had nothing to do but to assign the debts to some one in a neighboring state, and there bring suit on it, and evade the law of the state. The foreigner too had advantages over the citizen of the state, as he could recover debts and obtain execution on the judgment, when the citizen was denied the right.
Mr. Gardener offered an amendment to Mr. Love's motion, to this effect: that no citizen of one state which had passed no law for suspending executions should be prevented from obtaining money in a state where such laws had been passed. For it would be unjust to enable the citizens of one state (as Virginia) to refuse payment to their neighbors in another state, whilst the citizens of another state (as Massachusetts) were compelled to make payment.
Mr. Rowan opposed Mr. Love's amendment, as going to approve the different laws on the subject of suspension of 6 or 7 different states. He thought there was no occasion for the amendment; for by it the House would sweep from the judicial code the laws already existing on this subject—and he deprecated all innovations of the judicial system, where the necessity for amendment was not decidedly apparent.
Mr. Gardener's motion was negatived by a large majority.
Mr. Love's motion was then negatived by Yeas and Nays, 67 to 25. The Yeas were, Messrs. W. Alston, Bassett, Blackledge, Blount, Burwell, Butler, Clay, Deane, Eppes, Gannett, Gholson, Goodwin, Holmes, J. G. Jackson, Jones, Lewis, Love, J. Montgomery, Jno. Morrow, Newton, Nicholas, J. K. Smith, Southard, Stanford, A. Wilson.
The bill was then ordered to a third reading. And it was accordingly read a third time and PASSED nem. con.
The bill supplementary to the act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes, was read a third time and PASSED. nem. con.
PUBLIC LANDS.
The bill for extending the time for making payment for the public lands of the United States, was read a third time and PASSED. 48 to 25. (Remainder of this day's proceedings in our next.)
Thursday, March 2.
The bill to prevent any person from taking foreign licence to navigate to any part of the world, was ordered to a third reading. Much other business was done, of minor importance. A detail of it in our next.
AN ANSWER
From THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esquire, President of the U. States, to the resolution adopted by a meeting of the Republican citizens of Annapolis and Anne-Arundel County, on the 4th of Feb. 1809.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, '09. Sir,
I have duly received the resolutions of the republican citizens of Annapolis and Anne-Arundel county of the 4th inst. which you were so kind as to forward to me. That the aggressions and injuries of the belligerent nations have been the real obstructions which have interrupted our commerce, and now threaten our peace, and that the embargo laws were salutary and indispensable to meet those obstructions, are truths as evident to every candid man, as it is worthy of every good citizen to declare his reprobation of that system of opposition which goes to an avowed and practie resistance of these laws. To such a resistance I trust that the patriotism of our faithful citizens in no section of the union will give any countenance. Where the law or the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends, the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.
I receive with particular pleasure and thankfulness the testimony of the republican citizens of Annapolis and Anne-Arundel in favor of the course of proceedings during my administration of the public affairs. And I can truly say, in their words, that they have been conducted with the purest regard and devotion to the interests of the people, and the national safety and honor: and I pray you, with my acknowledgments for these favorable sentiments, to accept the assurances of my high respect and consideration.
TH: JEFFERSON. JOHN GASSAWAY, Esq.
FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN. [With pleasure we introduce the following correction from so respectable a man as Dr. Brown.]
Mr. WAGNER, On looking over the North American of this evening, among the several queries to General Samuel Smith, transcribed into your paper from the New York Evening Post, I was forcibly struck with the following [the 17th] query.
"Did you or did you not send out your chief clerk to London in the De-
cember Packet, about the time when the non-intercourse project was launched, with orders for goods to an immense amount, which goods were all to be shipped before the 20th of May, the time with which the break with the non-intercourse has been fixed) thus saving your own property out of its operation, and thus again securing to yourself almost a monopoly of the American market."
Sir, The person alluded to in the above query, as an agent for the house of Smith and Buchanan, is my son. With the objects of his business in London or elsewhere, neither Gen. Smith nor the house of Smith and Buchanan, have any concern whatever either directly or indirectly. I have therefore, sir, to request of you to place this fact in its true light, and you will oblige
Your obedient servant, GEORGE BROWN. Gay street, Monday evening, 27th February, 1809.
To the Editor of the New York Evening Post.
In answer to your 7th interrogatory, addressed to general Smith, I hereby state, that I sailed from London in the British ship Boyd, for Hayti, during the suspension of intercourse between this country and that island; that neither the house of S. Smith and Buchanan, nor any other person or persons in the United States, had any share or interest in the outfit or result of the said voyage, except myself, who then belonged to the house of Williams and Miercken of Cape Francois; and that the author of any insinuation to the contrary, is a liar.
JAMES WILLIAMS.
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 28.
REPORT Of a Committee of the House of Representatives, respecting certain Military Orders issued by the hon. Levi Lincoln, lieut. governor and commander in chief of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The Committee appointed "to enquire what military orders have been issued by his honor the lieut. governor of this commonwealth, or by the Adjutant General, for the purpose of calling on the militia of this Commonwealth to enforce the embargo laws; and the manner in which said orders have been issued and executed," with orders "to proceed on said business, and report on the subject at large to this House, as soon as possible," have attended to that service, and ask leave to report—
That on the first day of February, instant, military orders were issued through the Adjutant General's office, by his honor Levi Lincoln, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of this Commonwealth; a copy of which orders accompanies this report.
They find by the statement of the Adjutant General, that these orders were directed and sent to the following officers severally, viz. Thomas Badger, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant; Charles Turner, Lieutenant Colonel; Ebenezer Lord, Brigadier General; David Nye, Lieutenant Colonel; Baker Loring, Ebenezer Bowditch; and Thomas Williams, Captains; James Brier, Major General; Charles Beek, Simon Nowell, and Moses Bradbury, Captains; James Merrill, and Charles Thomas, Lieutenant Colonels; Joshua Danforth, Captain; Samuel Reed, Lieutenant Colonel; and John Cooper, Brigadier General; with the exception that the following words were not inserted in the orders sent to Colonel Badger; which he Adjutant General states to have been omitted by mistake, viz—"Recollecting that in the happy government established by the American people, the character of the citizen is not lost in that of the soldier, and that coolness, firmness, prompt obedience, and a sacred regard to the rights of society, and individuals are essential to both; you will duly appreciate this opportunity of serving your country, and of even increasing the confidence she has placed in you."
Your committee find that the officers above named were designated and appointed as "the militia officers" near several ports of entry within this commonwealth, "to whom the collector of the district is to apply, if it shall be necessary, to accomplish the "purposes of the national government," as "specified" in the orders. They are required to "be prepared and hold themselves in readiness with those under their command, armed and equipped, at the call of the collector, and subject to his discretion, to aid him with their whole force, or such part thereof as may be sufficient to enable him within his district to discharge his duties, prevent disorders and opposition to the authority of government, and carry the aforesaid laws into execution;" and to "make correct muster and pay rolls of such militia as shall be employed in actual service,

and transmit the same to the war department of the United States."
The places of abode of the officers, and the ports of entry comprised within their several commands, are stated in a schedule from the Adjutant General's office accompanying this report.
Your committee find, according to the statement of the Adjutant General, that an officer has not been appointed "in or near each port of entry within this state." No officer has been appointed, according to his statement, whose command appears to extend to either of the ports of Castine, Frenchman's Bay, Nantucket, Dighton, or Gloucester, unless the name of Gloucester ought to be added in the schedule to the names of Newburyport and Ipswich, opposite to the name of General James Brickett, of Haverhill; which the Adjutant General "believes" ought to be the case, and which he says was accidentally omitted.
It will be seen by the said schedule, that Machias, Passamaquoddy, and Moose Island, are all placed opposite the name of brigadier-general John Cooper of Machias. By the same document it appears, that the number of infantry, rank and file, of the entire command of the general and field officers, afore-named, amounts to fifteen thousand, two hundred, and sixty-nine. The Adjutant General does not state whether there are troops of any other description under their command. Your committee could not ascertain the number of men under the command of the seven captains, thus appointed, because the returns of companies never appear in the Adjutant General's office.
Contrary to military custom and the uniform usage in this commonwealth, the orders of the brigadier generals, lieutenant-colonels and captains were sent directly to them respectively, without passing through the hands of their superior officers, without consulting them, or giving them any notice of the same.
The Adjutant General informed your committee, that he had seen a letter from the Secretary at War to his honor the lieutenant-governor, upon the subject of these appointments, but that he had no copy of the same; & that he believed it had always been the practice with other governors of this commonwealth to retain any communications to them from the Secretary at War of the U. S.
Your committee did not think it expedient to apply to his honor for any communications which he might have received from the President or the Secretary at War.
Your committee, under the injunction to report as soon as possible, have confined their enquiries respecting the manner in which the orders of his honor have been executed, to the district of Boston and Charleston. They find that colonel Badger received the orders of the commander in chief on the second or third of February instant; that by an order dated the seventh instant he directed the commissioned officers under his command to meet on the following evening on military business; that the officers having accordingly convened, the orders of the commander in chief were read to them, and they were required to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's warning, with the men under their respective commands, for the purpose of enforcing the embargo laws, agreeably to the said orders.
Your committee find that some of the officers so convened, belonged to a detachment consisting of five companies, with a suitable proportion of officers, which had lately been detached from said colonel Badger's command, and put under the command of colonel Barnes, of Roxbury; and that they form a part of the 100,000 men lately drafted for the service of the United States. Application was made to colonel Badger, by some of his officers, at the time of said meeting and afterwards for a copy of said orders, but they could not obtain them. Application was also made to the Adjutant General for a copy of the orders, but without success. It was stated to your committee, both by the Adjutant General and colonel Badger, that doubts having been entertained respecting the authority of the naval officer of the district of Boston and Charleston, he had not been informed of these orders, and it was intimated that this circumstance had prevented the circulation of the orders in the usual mode.
Your committee find, that by the constitution of the United States, Congress is authorised "to provide for the calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions;" and that the President is the "Commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states when called into the actual service of the United States."
Your committee also find, that by a law of the United States, passed February 28, 1795, entitled, "An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the
union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions, & to repeal the act now in force for those purposes" it is enacted, "that whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshal by this act, it shall be lawful for the President of the U. S. to call forth the militia of such state, or of any other state or states, as may be necessary to suppress such combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed; & the use of the militia so to be called forth may be continued, if necessary, until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the next session of Congress." "Provided always, that whenever it may be necessary in the judgement of the President to use the military force thereby directed to be called forth, the President shall forthwith, by proclamation, command such insurgents, to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time."
Your committee find that when there was an insurrection in the Western parts of Pennsylvania, in the year 1794, and the insurgents finally perpetrated acts which amounted to treason, being overt acts of levying war against the United States, President Washington then proceeded most scrupulously, in conformity to the act of Congress then in force, "to provide for calling forth the militia, to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions;" and troops were called forth from several states at the request of the President, by the governors of the same, in the usual manner, according to law and custom. The committee presume, however, that it will be readily perceived that nothing in the constitution or laws of the United States authorizes the President, under existing circumstances, to call forth the militia of this state, or any part thereof.
By the 10th section of an act of Congress passed January 9th, 1809, it is provided, "That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such other person as he shall have empowered for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces, or militia of the United States or the territories thereof, as may be judged necessary, in conformity with the provisions of this and other acts respecting the embargo, for the purpose of preventing the illegal departure of any ship or vessel, or of detaining, taking possession of and keeping in custody & guarding any specie or articles of domestic growth, produce, or manufacture; and also for the purpose of preventing and suppressing any armed or riotous assemblage of persons, resisting the custom house officers in the execution of the laws laying an embargo; or otherwise violating, or assisting and abetting violations of the same."
The present legislature of this commonwealth, have "Resolved, that the said act of Congress, passed on the 9th day of January, in the present year, for enforcing the act laying an embargo, and the several acts supplementary thereto, is, in the opinion of the legislature, in many respects unjust, oppressive and unconstitutional, and not legally binding on the citizens of this state."
But even if this act were admitted to be constitutional, your committee do not find that by the said act, Congress have provided any new mode of calling forth the militia; and they conceive that the militia cannot legally be "employed" by the President of the United States, or by any person empowered by him, till they have been called forth in the mode which Congress had previously prescribed.
Your committee find that by the constitution of this commonwealth, chap. 2, sec. 1, art. 7, the governor is "entrusted" with all the "powers incident to the offices of Captain-General and Commander in Chief and Admiral, to be exercised agreeably to the rules and regulations of the Constitution and the laws of the land and not otherwise."
The same constitution, bill of rights, art. 17, declares that "the military power shall always be held in exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it." This great principle is repeatedly recognised by our laws, and was respected even amidst the horrors of a rebellion. By a law passed Feb. 20th, 1787, the preamble to which states that an unnatural and dangerous rebellion actually existed at that time in this commonwealth, it is declared that "In a free government, where the people have a right to bear arms for the common defence, the military power is held in subordination to the civil authority."
In the 32d section of the militia law of this commonwealth, passed June 23d, 1793, which provides for calling out the militia "in case of threatened or actual invasion, insurrection, or other public danger or emergency," it is enacted that whenever a detachment is made in any such case "the officers, non-commissioned officers & privates, being able of body, shall be
detailed from the rosters or rolls which shall be kept for that purpose." A. your committee do not find that the commander in chief of this commonwealth is authorised, in calling out the militia, to select and designate particular officers and particular corps of men, without regard "to the rosters or rolls which shall be kept for that purpose."
Wherefore Resolved, That in the opinion of this house, the said military orders of the first of Feb. issued by his honor Levi Lincoln, Lieutenant Governor and commander in chief of this commonwealth, are irregular, illegal and inconsistent with the principles of the constitution; tending to the destruction of military discipline, an infringement of the rights, and derogatory to the honour of both officers and soldiers; subversive of the militia system, and highly dangerous to the liberties of the people.
All which is respectfully submitted ISAAC MALTBY, per order. The above report was accepted last evening--172 yeas, 104 nays.
New York, Feb. 27, noon. IMPORTANT FROM SPAIN.
The following we have just received--It comes by the ship Monk, arrived at Boston
Extract of a letter from Richard S. Hackney, dated St. Lucas, December 5, 1808, to a gentleman in this City.
"Whilst writing, I have received a letter from Mr. Erving, informing me of a decided victory obtained by the Spanish over the French armies. He had only a moment to inform me of the event, without particulars."
THE friends of the present administration are requested to meet at Mr. Semmes' Tavern, on next Monday evening, at 6 o'clock, to take into consideration the propriety of addressing Mr. JEFFERSON before he leaves the District. Georgetown, March 1.
JUST PUBLISHED, And to be had at R. C. WEIGHTMAN'S Book-Store, A FOURTH part of Virginia, in the summer of 1808, in a series of letters, including an account of Harper's ferry, the natural bridge, the new discovery called Weir's Cave, Monocleto, and the different Medical Springs, hot and cold Baths visited by the author. Price 37 1-2 cents. March 3--3t
MILL WRIGHTS WANTED.
SIX good JOURNEYMEN will meet with employment by applying to the subscriber at Ocean View before the 20th March, and after at Elliott's Lower Mills, 8 miles from Baltimore. ROBERT WELSH. March 3--3t
Solomon Holland } In Chancery, vs. } February 1809. Hezekiah M. Ford
The object of the bill, is to have a deed recorded, granted from Hezekiah M. Ford to said Holland, bearing date the 6th of August, 1809, for a lot or parcel of land called "Exchange and New Exchange Enlarged," being part of lot number two in the town of Williamsburg, in Montgomery county. The bill also states, that the said Hezekiah M. Ford has removed out of this state to the state of Kentucky.
It is thereupon ordered, that the complainant, by causing a copy of this order to be inserted three weeks successively in the National Intelligencer before the 22d day of March next, give notice to the defendant to appear in this court on or before the 22d day of July next, to show cause, (if any he has) why a decree should not pass as prayed. True copy--Test, NICHOLAS BREWER, Reg. Cur. Can. Feb. 22--w3t.
SEAL STATIONERY, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NEAR THE CENTRE MARKET.
GRATEFULLY sensible of the past favors of both his Friends and the Public at large, takes the liberty to offer in addition to his lately Advertised Stock of DRY GOODS, a new supply of--
 Common Broad Cloth,  Percale do.  Tappay Velvet,  Silk do. and Flannels of almost any description at the most reduced prices,  as also every other article in the Dry Good line, at the most reasonable accommodations a favoring public can expect.  He has also newly received by the schr. Hope, capt. James Keeth, and offers for Sale by Wholesale,  5000 lbs. best Green Coffee,  500 lbs. well tanned Soal Leather of first rate slaughter Hides,  1 pipe Holland Gin,  1 bale Almonds in shells,  9 boxes Tin,  A quantity of best Sheet Iron, single, double and treble,  1 box London imported Hats,  A few pieces Oil Cloth,  Spanish segars by the box,  Linen Checks,  Apron do.  Cotton Velvets,  Black Cambrics,  Do. silk Velvets,  Plain Velvet Binding of all numbers,  1 trunk elegant Calicoes,  Silk Shawls,  Pelice Cloth,  Dressing Looking-Glasses,  Black Worsted Stockings,  Cotton Stripes,  Linen do.  1 trunk tanned Buck skins suitable for gloves and pantaloons making,  5000 best Clarified Candles,  All of which he intends to dispose of on the most pleasing terms for cash or approved notes. December 28--3t&w1f
Prince George's county courts, September Term, 1808.
ON the application by petition in writing, of ROBERT M'Koy, of Prince George's county, to this court, for the benefit of the act of Assembly passed at November session eight hundred and five, entitled, "An act for the benefit of sundry insolvent debtors" and the several supplements thereto, a schedule of his property and a list of his creditors on oath as far as he can ascertain them being annexed to his said petition, and the court being satisfied by competent testimony that the said petitioner is a citizen of the state of Maryland, and that he has resided therein the two last years preceding his application, and being also satisfied that the said Robert M'Koy, is now in actual confinement for debt, and the said petitioner having entered into bond with security for his appearance in this court on the first Monday in April next to answer such interrogatories as his creditors may propose to him. It is thereupon ordered and adjudged that the said Robert M'Koy be discharged from his imprisonment, and the said first Monday in April next appointed for the said petitioner to deliver up his property and to have a trustee appointed for the benefit of his creditors; and it is ordered that the said Robert M'Koy, by causing a copy of the foregoing to be published once a week for three months successively in the National Intelligencer, before the said first Monday in April next, give notice to his creditors to be and appear before this court on the said day to recommend a trustee for their benefit.
Test JOHN READ MAGRUDER, Jr. December 26--w3m Ck. P. G. C. C
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD, RAN AWAY from the subscriber, in Pinecateray, Prince George's county Maryland, on the 31st of May last, two Negro Men, viz. POMPEY, a very black man, upwards of 50 years old, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, rather slender made, with a small head and face; his forehead projects considerably over his eyes, and it is believed he has lost an under foretooth; he is much addicted to liquor, and when drunk disposed to talk a great deal; he has been accustomed to driving a carriage and waggon; he had on when he went away a deep blue short jacket of coarse cloth, oz-bagging shirt and trowsers.
BASIL, a dark mulatto, about 22 or 30 years old, 5 feet 6 or 9 inches high, rather stout made; has thick lips and large mouth, the forefinger of his right hand is still and smaller than the other; he had ulcers on his legs, and if healed the scars may be discovered. Basil was a house servant, and at the time he went off his apparel was the same as Pompey's, but they had each a variety of cloths. They may endeavor to pass as freemen, and it is probable that Basil is in Alexandria or Baltimore, as his father is living in the former place, and he has a brother and sister in the latter. It is conjectured that a black man in the district of Columbia called Jack Neal, has contrived to get them away, as the subscriber has been informed that the said Neal about two years ago carried a negro woman of his on board of a vessel at Alexandria, at which time she was a runaway. The above reward (including what the law allows) will be given for securing Pompey and Basil in any jail, so that the subscriber shall get them again, or Fifty Dollars for either, and all reasonable expenses if brought home. All persons are forewarned against harbouring them. JACOB DUCKETT. February 1--w5t
CHEAP GOODS. BAKER & RIGGS, (SIGN OF THE PLOUGH), HAVE removed to the Store, lately occupied by Romulus Rogers, and have bought his entire Stock of GOODS, (very low) which added to their former supply, with some fresh Goods, just received from Philadelphia, makes their assortment very extensive, they being bought principally for cash, previous to any material rise in the markets, enables them to sell lower than the present prices.
amongst their Stock are Irish Linens, Shirting & Cambric Muslins, Linen Cambrics, Cambric Handkerchiefs, Furniture Dimities & Chintzes, Pine Mu Mi Leno & Ceded Muslins, Muslin Shawls, Mantles & Robes, Super addressed shirting Muslins, very fine Cambric Muslin for Cravats, veils, laces, shades, silks, crapes, Silk Shawls, Elastic India Crape, Ladies Beaver and Straw Bonnets, Silk, Cotton & Worsted Hosiery and Gloves, Bleached country Linen for sheeting, Cloths, Cords, Blankets, Waistcoats, Carpeting, and many other Fancy and substantial articles, which will be sold low for Cash, and a liberal discount to persons who sell again. They also expect to receive in a few days, a quantity of best Ingraine, English, and Venetian Carpeting with other articles. Georgetown, February 6--2w6w
ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQ. Governor of Maryland A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the Executive of the state of Delaware, hath lately demanded of the Executive of Maryland, a certain PURNEL CARTY, as a fugitive from justice, alleged to be at large in Talbot county, and hath transmitted an affidavit, dated the 24th day of November, eighteen hundred and eight, charging said Purnel Carty with felony, in kidnapping a certain Hester Craig and her two children. I have therefore issued this my proclamation, authorizing and enjoining it on all civil officers, and others, citizens of this state, to arrest and commit said Purnel Carty, to the jail of the county in which he may be found, & to give notice thereof to the Executive of Maryland, that the Executive of Delaware may be duly notified thereof, that he may be brought to trial agreeably to the act of Congress in such case provided. Given under my hand and the seal of the state of Maryland, at the city of Annapolis, this ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirty-third. ROBERT WRIGHT, By his excellency's command, NINIAN PINKNEY, Clerk of the Council.
Ordered that the foregoing proclamation be published twice a week for six weeks in the American & Federal Gazette at Baltimore, the Maryland Gazette at Annapolis, the National Intelligencer, the Republican Advocate at Fredericktown, the Maryland Herald at Hagerstown, and in Mr. Smith's paper at Eastern. January 27--2aw6w
ON application by petition in writing, of GEORGE W. WILLETT, of Prince George's county, to me the subscriber, an associate judge of the first judicial district of Maryland, composed of Saint Mary's, Charles and Prince George's counties, for the benefit of the act of Assembly passed at November session, 1805, entitled, "An act for the benefit of sundry insolvent debtors," and the several supplements thereto, a schedule of his property and a list of his creditors, as far as he can ascertain them on oath, being annexed to his said petition, and being satisfied by competent testimony, that the said petitioner is a citizen of the state of Maryland, and that he has resided therein the two last preceding years; and being also satisfied, that the said George W. Willett is now in actual confinement for debt, and for no other cause, and the said petitioner having entered into a bond with security for his appearance in Prince George's county court on the first Monday of April next, to answer such interrogatories as his creditors may propose to him. It is thereupon ordered and adjudged, that the said George W. Willett be discharged from his imprisonment, and the said first Monday of April next, appointed for the said petitioner to deliver up his property, and to have a trustee appointed for the benefit of his creditors; and the said petitioner, by causing a copy of this order to be inserted in the National Intelligencer, once a week for three months successively, before the said first Monday of April next, give notice to his creditors to be and appear before the Judges of Prince George's county court on the day aforesaid, to recommend a trustee for their benefit. Given under my hand, this eighteenth day of June, 1805. DANIEL CLARKE. True Copy, Test, JOHN READ MAGRUDER, Jr. C P G Cy Ct December 19--w13t.
State of Maryland, in Chancery, February 4, 1809. ORDERED, That the sale of certain lots, in the city of Washington, made and reported by Edward S. Bond as trustee in suit in this court by the executors of M. Lewis and Edward Burd, against Morris, Nicholson and others, be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary be shown on or before the 15th March next, provided a copy of this order be inserted three successive weeks before that time in the National Intelligencer. The report states that the said lots which are therein particularly described, were sold for thirteen thousand dollars. True copy--Test, NICHOLAS BREWER, Reg. Cur. Can. Feb. 22--w3t.
IN COUNCIL--ANNAPOLIS, FEB. 8, 1809. Ordered, That the resolution of the Legislature, passed at the last session, requesting the Governor and Council to procure information as to the probable expenses of erecting and furnishing a building of sufficient dimensions for the manufacturing annually one thousand stand of arms complete, and the usual wages for such workmen, and as to the most eligible site for the erection of such buildings, the machinery of which, if necessary, to be worked by water, steam, or otherwise; and that by publication of this resolution, they give notice that they will receive description of and proposal for the sale of such site. And that they procure if practicable, the annual report of the different establishments of the same kind in the United States. February 17--1aw4w
BY order, NINIAN PINKNEY, CLk.
Resolved, That the Governor and Council be requested to procure, and submit to this House, at their next meeting, information as to the probable expenses of erecting and furnishing a building of sufficient dimensions for the manufacturing, annually, one thousand stand of arms complete, fifty brace of horsemen's pistols, one hundred horsemen's swords, and one hundred swords suitable for artillerymen, and the practicability of procuring workmen sufficient for the same, and the usual wages for such workmen, and as to the most eligible site for the erection of such buildings, the machinery of which, if necessary, to be worked by water, steam, or otherwise; and that by publication of this resolution, they give notice that they will receive description of and proposal for the sale of such site. And that they procure if practicable, the annual report of the different establishments of the same kind in the United States. February 17--1aw4w
MR. MADISON'S PORTRAIT.
An elegant engraved Portrait of JAMES MADISON, Executed by the celebrated Delesda of Philadelphia, from an original painting by Stewart, is just received and for Sale at the Book-store of R. C. WEIGHTMAN, Pennsylvania avenue. PRICE 2 DOLLARS. Published by C. Doyle, Baltimore. February 13--6t
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE.
THAT the subscriber hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of St. Mary's county and state of Md. letters of administration on the Person & Estate of RICHARD BOND, late of the aforesaid county and state, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby required to exhibit the same, for adjustment, with the proper vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, living in St. Mary's county and state of Md. at or before the 13th day of July next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from a benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 13th day of Janu'y 1809. REBECCA WHITE BOND, Executrix January 20--6mUG
Capt. John Rust, Sr.
Your not being an inhabitant of the state of Virginia, I take this public method of giving you notice, that I shall proceed to take the depositions of Messrs. Daniel Lawson, sen. and William Palmer, jun. at Richmond court house, on the sixteenth day of March next, in the tavern occupied by John Rowe, the taking of whose deposition will be continued from day to day, until the 19th of the said month of March, unless sooner ended. I shall also commence taking the depositions of Mr. Thomas Spence and others, in his tavern at Westmoreland court house on the 20th of said month, in his tavern at the aforesaid place, to continue from day to day, till the 26th, and the deposition of George Moore in the court house in Urbanna, Middlesex county, on the 27th of the aforesaid month of March, to continue from day to day until the 30th of said month, and again the deposition of Colonel Alexander Parker in the Eagle tavern, in Norfolk Borough, on the 31st, to be continued from day to day until the 6th of the month of April, unless sooner ended. Yours, &c. PETER RUST. Richmond County, state of Virginia. Feb. 22--3wUG.

A NEW WORK! The private life of WASHINGTON, With a great number of original anecdotes, BY M. L. WEELES, Clerk-deputy of the Court of Claims, and, for fifteen years, the intimate of the grey-haired veterans of the last century, who were the neighbors and companions of Washington. Criticism by Judge Brackenridge, dated Carlisle, Jan. 19th, 1809.
Dear Sir, I have read and read again your publication; the life of Washington; and you will not understand me as acknowledging it to be without defects when I take notice only of its excellencies. These indeed are very great. You have combined, with great felicity, the useful and the pleasant ; historical information and amusing anecdote. You have drawn from both urns, of tears and of mirth. With a sudden transition we have the pathetic and the comic, and both irresistible. Your style is always perspicuous, and occasionally noble; in flights of imagery and richness of expression, rising to the sublime. But the great excellence of your book is the morality of the sentiment. I do not know a better to be put into the hands of young persons to raise the mind to political and moral virtue. It ought to be introduced into all schools; and to be in every family. With regard to biographical merit, the delineation is such as to give a view of character, not on a parade day, but as independent of command or station. This is the painting which interests. It is that alone which makes a likeness; for a mere outline wanting the expression, gives no physiognomy.
I am, with much esteem, your's, H. H. BRACKENRIDGE. For sale at Messrs. Milligan's, Weightman's, and Rapine's Book-Stores, and Mr. Tunis Craven, near the Navy Yard—a handsome pocket volume, and a fine portrait of Washington—price 87 1-2 cents. March 1—3t.
ASTONISHING FEMALE ARTIST! Miss Rogers' performance is entirely different from the young lady's who was in this city about a year since. The inhabitants of Washington city & its vicinity are respectfully informed, that a more singular and surprising instance of the wonderful production of nature was perhaps never so apparently demonstrated, as in the case of Miss SARAH ROGERS, a young lady who has just arrived in the city, at Mr. Underwood's, next door to Mrs. Doyne's boarding house, Pennsylvania Avenue.
Miss Rogers is a native of New Hampshire. She was born without the use of any of her limbs, but the amends made in the exercise of her other faculties, surpasses all human belief. With her mouth only, she will paint elegant flowers and landscapes, mix colors, write, thread a needle, cut paper, &c. &c.
The curious, who are desirous of seeing the displays of genius exhibited by this young lady, and one of the fine arts explored in a most extraordinary manner, without the natural use of the hands and arms, and with the mouth only, are invited to improve the present and perhaps the only opportunity they ever will have of partaking of this delightful and rational amusement. Hours of admission every day and evening, from 9 o'clock in the morning until 9 in the evening. Price of admittance 25 cents. March 1—3t.
WANTED, ON hire the present year, an able bodied NEGRO FELLOW, as a Laborer. For particulars, apply to the Editor of this paper. March 1—2t.
CARPENTERS, LABORERS, & TIMBER, wanted at the Washington Bridge. Enquire of Mr. Mills or Mr. Nottage at the Bridge. March 1—10t.
BY Order of the Orphan's Court, will be sold at Public Vendue, on Saturday the 4th inst. at the Dwelling-house of David Somerville, Pennsylvania Avenue, one Silver Watch, Wearing Apparel and Tools, of the late Andrew M'Lean, Stone-Cutter, deceased. Sale to commence at 9 o'clock, A. M. Terms cash. JAMES LAURIE, DAVID SOMERVILLE, Executors. SAM'L SPEARE, Auct. March 1—2t.
NOTICE. The partnership of Spiden and Cook, Stone-cutters of this city, is dissolved by mutual consent. All persons having claims against the partnership are requested to call on Orlando Cook for payment, and those in arrears will please pay their respective accounts, so as to enable him to discharge the debts due by the firm. ROBERT SPIDEN, ORLANDO COOK. N. B. The business will in future be carried on by Orlando Cook in all its various branches. March 1—3t.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. LOST, a SILVER WATCH with hands telling the day of the month on the face of her, and capped-Mott, maker, New York. Whoever will return the Watch to this office, shall receive the above sum, and no question asked. Wednesday, March 1, 1809—
ADVERTISEMENT. ON the 24th day of March will be offered for Sale at Public Auction (if fair, if not the next fair day) on the Plantation where the subscriber now lives: Horses, Waggon, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Farming Utensils; Household and Kitchen Furniture on a credit of six months, giving bond with approved security with interest from the day of sale; all sums under twenty dollars must be paid in cash. JOSEPH L. SCHOLFIELD. March 1—3t.
FRESH GARDEN-SEEDS FOR SALE. The subscriber has a large assortment of GARDEN SEEDS of the following kind, viz: CABBAGE—Early York, early Dwarf, late Battersee, Yellow Savoy, Green ditto. PEAS—Early Charlton, Marrowfat, Green Roncival, Spanish Dwarf Marrowfat. BEANS—Early Dwarf, assorted; Windsor beans, Lima ditto. RADISH—The scarlet or salmon, short-top, turnip-rooted radish. Celery, endive, spinach, parsley, cresses, pepper-grass, red beet, parsnip, carrot, cucumber, early long-green—ONION—White and red—lettuce, early Silesia, royal cabbage, ice ditto, squash, sassafras, & a variety of grafted fruit trees, and ornamental shrubs, flower roots, greenhouse plants, &c. Apply at his Nursery, lower end of Pitt street, Alexandria. PETER BILLY. March 1—2t.
THE COMMERCIAL COMPANY OF WASHINGTON, Have received by the Schooner Citizen , capt. Sturges, from New York, in addition to their supply of GOODS, and now offer for Sale, 20 bds. Muscovado Sugar, 6 Pipes Holland Gin, 9 bds. Rum, 3 pipes Cognac Brandy, 6 pipes L. P. Madeira, 2 pipes Marsalla, 5 qr. casks Lisbon, 5 qr. casks Sherry, 15 qr. casks Catalonia, 80 boxes Claret, 17 chests, Imperial, Hyson and Young Hyson, Tea, 25 barrels Loaf Sugar, 16 boxes Spermaceti, 24 do. Mould 8 casks Ginger, 2 do. Salt Petre, 2 do. Pimento, 5 do. Pepper, 12 boxes Mustard, 3 bales Cassia, 6 do. soft shelled Almonds, 20 boxes Raisins, 8 do. Olives, 10 do. long and short Pipes, 10 barrels Mackerel, 3 do. Cranberries, 2 do. Fig Blue, 50 boxes Spanish Segars, 50 bags Corks. They have also for Sale, Mace, Cloves, Cinnamon, Sallad Oil, Sperm Oil, Butter, Whiskey, Soap, Sheet Iron, Powder, Shot, Stone Ware in crates, &c. &c. JOSEPH FORREST, Pres. December 5—
10,000 DOLLARS, MAY BE GAINED FOR 1-2 DOLLARS!! In the Third Class of the Lottery authorised by law for removing obstructions in the RIVER LEHIGH, IN PENNSYLVANIA.
SCHEME. 2 prizes of $10,000 each 20,000 2 do. 5,000 10,000 2 do. 2,500 5,000 3 do. 1,000 3,000 6 do. 500 3,000 15 do. 200 3,000 30 do. 100 3,000 60 do. 50 3,000 150 do. 20 3,000 300 do. 10 3,000 13,800 do. 5 69,000 35,630 not 2 1-2 blanks to a prize. 50,000 tickets at 2 1-2 dollars, $125,000
To draw 300 tickets each day at the State House in Philadelphia, and the prizes to be paid by Thomas Albion, esq. the treasurer of that city, 30 days after the conclusion of the drawing, subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. Prizes not demanded in twelve months after the close of the drawing, to be considered as relinquished to the Lottery. Part of the above prizes determinable as follows:
The 1st drawn ticket on the 1st, 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th, 35th, 40th, 45th, 50th, and 55th, days. $200 each. do. on the 60th, 65th, 70th & 75th do. 500 do. do. on the 80th and 85th do. 1000 do. do. 90th do. 2500 do. do. 95th do. 5000 do. do. 100th do. 10000 do.
The two $10,000 prizes to receive each in part payment 25 shares of the Lehigh Stock, at 100 dollars each. The two 5000 dollars 10 shares The two 2500 do. 5 do.
Societies, associations, and individuals purchasing not less than 50 tickets will be allowed to pay for them by instalments much to their interest. Letters post paid, and enclosing the cash, will be duly attended to, and prizes of Lotteries in the cities of Philadelphia, and New York, will be received in payment, by GEORGE TAYLOR, Jun. No. 83, South Second street, Philadelphia, and JOHN DAVIDSON, Washington city. December 12—wtf
Price George's County, to wit: ON application to me the subscriber (in the recess of the court) an associate judge of the first judicial district, in the state of Maryland, by petition in writing, of NATHANIEL HAGAN, of Prince George's County, praying for the benefit of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors," and the several supplements thereto, on the terms mentioned in the said act, and its supplements, a schedule of his property and a list of his creditors on oath as far as he can ascertain them being annexed to his petition, and the said Nathaniel Hagan, having satisfied me by competent testimony, that he has resided in the state of Maryland, two years immediately preceding the time of his application—and the said Nathaniel Hagan, having also stated in his petition, that he is now in actual confinement, for debt, and not on account of any breach of the peace, or for the non-payment of any fine or penalty for the breach of the laws of this state, or of the United States, and having produced to me the certificate of the Sheriff of Prince George's county to that effect, and having prayed to be discharged from confinement, on the terms prescribed in the said act and its supplements, and having given security for his personal appearance at the next county court, to be held in and for Prince George's County aforesaid, on the first Monday in April next, to answer any allegations that may be made against him by his creditors. I do also order and adjudge, that the said Nathaniel Hagan be discharged from his imprisonment, and by causing a copy of this order to be inserted in the National Intelligencer for three months successively before the first Monday in April next, to give notice to his creditors to appear before the County Court, at the Court House of said County, on the said first Monday in April next, for the purpose of recommending a trustee for their benefit, on the said Nathaniel Hagan, then and there taking the oath by the said act prescribed, for the delivering up his property, and to show cause if any they have, why the said Nathaniel Hagan should not have the benefit of the several acts of assembly for the relief of insolvent debtors. Given under my hand this thirtieth day of November, eighteen hundred and eight. DANIEL CLARKE. December 30—w3m.
FOR SALE OR TO RENT, The Two Story FRAME HOUSE & LOT On 13th street west, belonging and now in the occupation of the Subscriber. The house is convenient; the situation is healthy and pleasant. Possession may be had the first of Fourth month. For further particulars enquire on the premises. V. M. YEATES, Jr. 17t. 2d 12th month—w3t
CHARLES J. HOUSE Offers for sale 100 boxes of fresh, Musca-del Raisins of superior quality. He has also received per brig Orazimbo from Liverpool, 15 Bales of Plains, assorted 10 do. Rose Blankets 2 do. 6-4 Cloths 7 do. Negro Cottons 5 do. Flannels 4 do. Carpeting 2 do. Bocking Baise 3 Cases of 4-4 and 6-4 Cambric muslins 3 do. Dimities 4 do. Velvets and Cords 2 do. Shirting Muslins which will be sold by the package or piece on reasonable terms—He has on hand 4th proof Cognac Brandy, Holland Gin, New-York do. L. P. Madeira Wine, N. Y. Market do. Sherry do. Teneriffe do. Port (old) do. Catalonia do. Buccellas do. Malaga do. TEAS—Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Bohea.—Best soft shelled Almonds, Flotont Indigo, Muscovado Loaf and Lump Sugars, Bourbon & W. India Coffee, Molasses, & Rice. Mould, Dipt, and Spermaceti Candles, Castile, White and Brown Soap, London Mustard, Hare's best Philadelphia Porter in barrels of 3 doz. each, Pickles assorted, Martinique Cordials, best Havana Segars, Table oil in bottles and flasks, Chocolate, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, Cinnamon, Pepper, Pimento, Turk's Island, Isle of May and Liverpool salt. Geo. Town, Feb. 3—2awtf.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, THAT I intend to petition to the next County Court of Charles, for the benefit of an act of insolvency. GEORGE BOARMAN Charles County, Jan. 6—2awm3.
NOTICE BY Virtue of a decree of the hon. the High Court of Chancery of Maryland, the subscribers will offer at PUBLIC SALE, on the Premises on TUESDAY the 7th day of March next, the following Tracts of LAND, to wit: "The Ramble," "Hounslow," and the "Strand," lying and being in St. Mary's county, and adjoining each other, supposed to contain more than 1000 acres, and formerly occupied by Dr. William Lansdale, deceased. The above estate is situated in a healthy and genteel neighborhood, about two miles from Leonardtown. The improvements consist of a large and convenient Brick Dwelling-house 4 rooms below and 4 above stairs, with a Kitchen adjoining, Meat House, Corn House, Stables and Granary, and a young thriving Apple Orchard. The Dwelling House stands on an eminence, commanding a view of the whole of the flat land on said estate which is esteemed to be of the first quality in the county and is well adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn, small grain, clover, &c. and is deemed the finest grazing land in the county. There is a fine stream of water that runs through this estate, on which has been heretofore a valuable Mill. On the same day, by virtue of the above decree, the Subscribers will also sell on the premises, Three other Tracts of LAND, called "Newcastle," "Hearts Delight," and "Buck-Acre," containing in the whole about 500 acres adjoining the above described estate—they were lately owned and occupied by Dr. John Reeder, deceased. The improvements on these lands are extremely valuable, consisting of a new Two story Dwelling House, Kitchen, Corn House, Granary, Co. Houses and Stables; there is likewise on this estate a valuable Mill in complete repair. This estate is rendered very valuable on account of the great quantity of Wood and Timber on it, and of the flat land which is adapted to meadow.
A further description is deemed unnecessary as persons who are inclined to purchase can view the premises; the title of which together with a plat of the whole may be seen on application to Mr. Enoch J. Milford of Leonard Town. This property will be sold entire or in parcels as may be deemed advantageous.
The terms of sale are that the purchaser of the whole or any part thereof shall give bond with approved security for the payment of the purchase money within eighteen months from the day of sale. CLEMENT BROOKE, GUSTAVUS A. CLAGETT, Trustees. February 10—widos
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
WHEREAS by the first article of the terms and conditions declared by the President of the United States on the 17th day of October 1791, for regulating the materials and manner of building and improvements on the Lots in the city of Washington, it is provided "that the outer and party walls of all houses in the said city shall be built of brick or stone," and by the third article of the same terms and conditions, it is declared "that the wall of no house shall be higher than forty feet to the roof in any part of the city, nor shall any be lower than thirty-five feet on any of the avenues." And whereas the above recited articles were found to impede the settlement in the city of mechanics and others whose circumstances did not admit of erecting houses authorised by the said regulations, for which cause the operation of the said articles has been suspended by several acts of the President of the United States, from the fifth day of June 1796 to this day, and beneficial effects arising from such suspensions being experienced, it is deemed proper to revive and continue the same with the exception hereafter mentioned.
Wherefore, I, THOMAS JEFFERSON, President of the United States, do declare, That the first and third articles above recited, shall be and the same are hereby suspended until the first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, and that all houses which shall be erected in the said city of Washington, previous to the said first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, conformable in other respects to the regulations aforesaid, shall be considered as lawfully erected; except that no wooden house covering more than three hundred and twenty square feet, or higher than twelve feet from the sill to the eves shall be erected, nor shall any such house be placed within twenty-four feet of a brick or stone house.
Given under my hand the first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine. TH: JEFFERSON.
February 8—w6t MALTHUS ON POPULATION. This day is Published and for Sale by R. C. WEIGHTMAN Pennsylvania Avenue, and by J. MILLIGAN, Georgetown, MALTHUS ON POPULATION , 2 Vols. handsome, 8 vo.—Price in Boards to non-subscribers, Five Dollars. February 27—2t
I PROPOSE opening a STORE in an eligible situation in the city of Washington for the Sale of AMERICAN MANUFACTURES of every description on commission, on moderate terms. Good security can be given. The demand here for Domestic Articles cannot fail to merit the attention of Manufacturers. Communications (post paid) will be attended to with promptitude. THOMAS CARPENTER. City of Washington, Feb. 27—3t
WANTED TO PURCHASE, A SERVANT, accustomed to wait on a single gentleman, who is sensible and likely, and has a good character; for whom liberal price will be given. Feb. 27—3t
FOR SALE, A very likely healthy MULATTO GIRL, About 12 years of age—apply at this office. February 27—tf
ANY LADY or GENTLEMAN Properly qualified to Teach the PIANO-FORTE, May probably hear something that may tend to their advantage by applying to the Printer hereof. None need apply who cannot be well recommended. January 3—3t
LUKE KENT, CLOCK & WATCH-MAKER. (FROM PHILADELPHIA) F. Street between the Bank & Treasurer. Informs his friends and the public, that he continues to repair Clocks and Watches of every description in the best manner with his usual punctuality. Washington Jan. 20—
A TAN YARD to be RENTED, For a term of years, from the 2nd day of April next—
THE premises consist of a good Dwelling House and Stable, with two Gardens; the Yard contains about 24 Sinks, a large Bark and Mill House, a Warehouse, Currying Shop, &c. Situate near the Capitol and Navy Yard, in the city of Washington. The present tenant will treat with any person who may rent this property, for the Stock of Leather, Hides, and Bark, which he may then have on hand. For further particulars enquire of ROBT. UNDERWOOD on the Pennsylvania Avenue, who will shew the premises. January 17—4t
THE stockholders of the Commercial Company of Washington are hereby notified that an Instalment of Two Dollars & Fifty Cents on each share is required to be paid at the office of the Company, on Monday the 20th of March next, agreeably to the Articles of Association. Those who neglect to pay will not be entitled to Dividend. JOSEPH FORREST, Pr. January 18—
FOR SALE, Avaluable Family of NEGROES, consisting of a Man, who is a carpenter, his wife and seven children; all young and healthy BENJ. ODEN. Prince Georges county, Dec. 16—
NOTICE. THE partnership of SPIDEN & COOK, Stone-Cutters of this city, is dissolved. All persons having claims against the partnership are requested to call on the subscriber for payment, and every person who is in arrears with the partnership, will please to pay to ORLANDO COOK. N. B. The business will in future be carried on by Orlando Cook, in all its various branches. Feb. 24—3t.
WANTED TO HIRE. A WOMAN SERVANT, of good character, one that is acquainted with plain cooking, washing and ironing, and house work generally, to such a person liberal wages will be given—Apply to TOPPAN WEBSTER, Near to the Six Buildings. Feb 24—4t.
D. RAPINE Has just received from New York, a Pamphlet, entitled, Analysis of the late Correspondence between our Administration and Great Britain and France. With an attempt to shew what are the real causes of the failure of the negotiation—price 50 cents. D. R. Has also just received, "Romantic Tales," 2 vols. by M. G. Lewis. The Lovers of La Vendee, or Revolutionary Tyranny, 2 vols. from the French, by M. Gosse. And a variety of other new publications. February 27—3t
By order of the Orphans Court of Prince George's County, The subscriber will sell, at public sale, to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 15th day of March next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at the late residence of Joseph Ramsey Hodges, sen. deceased, near Baldwin's Tavern, in Prince George's county, all the personal estate of the said deceased, belonging to his dwelling plantation, consisting of a number of valuable negroes, amongst which are many young men, women, boys and girls, household furniture, horses, hogs, cattle, sheep and plantation utensils. And on Tuesday, the 21st day of March next, the subscriber will sell at public sale, to the highest bidder, at the residence of Joseph Ramsey Hodges, jun. near the Brick Church, in Prince George's county, all the personal estate of the said deceased, belonging to said plantation, consisting of a number of valuable negroes, amongst which are many young men, women, boys, and girls, household furniture, horses, hogs, cattle, and plantation utensils. The terms of sale are, twelve months credit for all sums above twenty dollars, the purchaser giving bond, with approved security—for all sums of twenty dollars, or less, cash will be demanded. Sale to commence at each place at 11 o'clock, and all the property will be sold without reserve. BENJAMIN HODGES, Adm. Feb. 24—cpts.
FRESH GARDEN SEEDS. THE Subscriber has an assortment of Garden Seeds, and mostly of his own saving last summer, for Sale at his Nursery Garden, Eastern Branch, and at Dr. Ott's Medicine Store, Georgetown. THEO: HOLT. Washington city, January 18—2aw2m
NOTICE. THE cautions given to many trespassing on my plantation not being attended to I therefore give this Public Notice, to prevent all persons from HUNTING, with either dog or gun, or in any manner trespassing thereon, as I am determined to put the law in force against all such offenders. BENJAMIN HARWOOD. Prince George's County, Dec. 19—w3t.
CHARLES H. VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR, RESPECTFULLY informs the gentlemen of the district of Columbia and Public in general, that he has received by a late arrival from Philadelphia, a Choice Assortment of superfine Cloths, Cassimeres, single and double milled, superfine Coating, black silk Florentines. Likewise an elegant assortment of Sponceltes & rich silk Mole skins for Waistcoats with a variety of other articles suitable for the season. Regimentals and Navy Uniforms made in the most elegant and uniform style of fashion. Richard Harwell's celebrated PATENT PARALLEL SUSPENDERS far superior to any hitherto in use can be had on the same terms retail, as at his Manufactory. November 27—tf
PROPOSALS By THOMAS J. ROGERS & OTHERS, (Of Easton, Pennsylvania.) For publishing by subscription, a new and valuable work, to be entitled THE AMERICAN SENATOR, Or Select DEBATES in the Congress of the United States.
TO THE PUBLIC. IN offering this work to the American people, the Editors deem little need be said in its praise. It is to perpetuate as well the names as the talents of the sons of America, and to rescue from oblivion the eloquences of the American Senate. It has long been a source of regret to the lovers of oratory, that hitherto the debates in the Congress of the United States have been suffered to pass into oblivion, or preserved only in the ephemeral productions of the day. Orations, which would have done honor to a Cicero or a Demosthenes, to a Chatham or a Curran, have been suffered to expire for the want of the fostering hand of a kind parent. No attempt has ever been made to give them a substance capable of enduring forages to come. The Editors, proud of their country, and anxious to transmit to posterity monuments of her fame and her glory, are determined to publish in volumes the speeches that may be delivered by the Representatives of the people of the United States. These they are not ashamed to put in competition with the most eloquent of antiquity. If Rome had her Cicero, and Greece her Demosthenes, America had her Ames. If Great Britain boasts of her Burkes, her Foxes, and her Chathams, why may not America boast of her Madisons and her Dickersons, her Giles's and her Bayards, her Pinckneys and her Livingstons?
In reading this work, the patriot may rejoice that his country has yet her defenders, and liberty her advocates. The student may contemplate with pleasure and delight the manly eloquence displayed by his countrymen, while the statesman may here study the true interests of his country. All ranks and all classes will be interested in a work, that has for its object, to preserve and perpetuate the talents and eloquence of our enlightened statesmen.
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The Editors had intended to have commenced their publication with the next Presidency; but as the debates during the present session of Congress have been extremely interesting to men of all parties, the editors have thought it most proper to commence with them, as in all probability the debates during the ensuing legislature, will have a strong relation to the acts and proceedings of the present one.
CONDITIONS. I. The work shall be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are obtained to defray the expenses of printing. II. The debates of each Session will be comprised in a large Octavo volume, to contain about 400 pages. III. The work shall be handsomely printed, on a good paper, with a new Small Pica Type, and delivered to subscribers at Two Dollars the volume in Boards. To non-subscribers the work will be enhanced. IV. A list of Subscribers' names will be given at the end of the work. Orders from Booksellers and others will be promptly attended to. Easton, February 27.
AT a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Company of Washington, held on the first Monday of February 1809, it was—
Resolved, That Messrs. Smallwood, Keer, and Lindsay, be a committee to enquire into the propriety of fixing upon some place on the Eastern Branch for the permanent establishment of this company, and that they report to next meeting, to wit: on the third Monday of March next. JOSEPH FORREST, Pr.
IN pursuance of the above resolution, PROPOSALS will be received at the Compting-house of S. N. Smallwood on Barry's wharf until the 16th of March next, from those persons who have and may wish to dispose of water property on the Eastern Branch, between 12th and South Capitol streets. SAM'L N. SMALLWOOD, ALEX. KEER, ADAM LINDSAY. February 27—
ATTENTION. THE Subscriber has sold out his entire Stock of Goods to Messrs. Dabey and Riggs, and has left Georgetown for several months; he therefore requests all those indebted to him to call and pay their accounts, as farther indulgence cannot be given, it being necessary to close the business as quick as possible. Tobacco will be received in payment at the market price. ROMULUS RIGGS. N. B. The Books & Accounts are ready for settlement at the Store of Baker & Riggs. February 6—2aw6w
TO RENT, THE BRICK HOUSE, on Virginia Avenue, near the Navy Yard, lately occupied by Mr. Josiah Fox. Enquire of FREDERICK MAY. March 2—3t.