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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. III. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCCCLXVII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 1803.
PAID IN ADVANCE
THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Under a government founded on the will of the people, and under which rulers are the guardians of their rights and interests, we cannot too frequently enquire into the effects of their measures, and the opinion entertained by the people respecting them. Those measures which tend to unite and harmonize the community must ever be wise, while those which tend to division and inflammation, must be proportionably unwise. Whatever lofty notions of abstract right or wrong may be embraced by a proud mind, it is most certain that the greatest practical happiness is to be acquired by consulting and respecting the sentiments of the people. Can they be happy unless they think themselves so? As they cannot, the only way of rendering them happy is to collect their feelings and wishes and carry them into effect.
It does not follow that a government is to yield implicit obedience to every prejudice that takes possession of the public mind. On the contrary, it is their duty to dissipate it, and to inspire the people with more correct sentiments; and in this they will seldom fail to succeed, when, actuated by honest motives, they diligently promote the public good, and liberally unfold the grounds on which they act. Men possessed of equal information generally agree on the great outlines of human conduct, when no peculiar interest or sinister motive lead them astray; and of such men the great body of the nation is composed. In this consists the merit of the present administration. What have been its effects? It has united and harmonized public sentiment with most astonishing rapidity.
To shew this, it is only necessary to contrast the relative strength of parties in the year 1800 and in the present year.
We shall first notice the change which has taken place in Congress. This will furnish two important views; the effects of the measures of the present administration on the people, and on the states.
The relative state of the members of the House of Representatives will exhibit the former.
Political complexion of the House of Representatives in the year 1800.
   Fed. Repub.    New Hampshire, 4 0  Massachusetts, 11 3  Rhode Island, 2 0  Connecticut, 7 0  Vermont, 1 1  New-York, 4 6  New-Jersey, 2 8  Pennsylvania, 4 9  Delaware, 1 0  Maryland, 4 4  Virginia, 5 13  North Carolina, 4 6  South Carolina, 5 1  Georgia, 0 2  Kentucky, 0 2  Tennessee, 0 1  34 51 51  
Political complexion of the House of Representatives in 1803.
   Fed. Repub.    New Hampshire, 5 0  Massachusetts, 10 7  Connecticut, 7 0  Rhode Island, 0 2  Vermont, 2 2  New-York, 6 11  New-Jersey, (prob.) 0 6  Pennsylvania, 0 18  Delaware, 0 1  Maryland, (probable) 3 6  Virginia, 3 19  North Carolina, 1 11  South Carolina, 2 6  Georgia, 0 4  Kentucky, 0 6  Tennessee, 0 3  Ohio, 0 1  39 103 39  
The following tables formed on the above statement will shew the change of each state, arising for a variation of numbers or alteration of political opinion.
   FEDERAL LOSS AND GAIN.   1800 1803 loss gain    New Hampshire, 4 5 0 1  Massachusetts, 11 10 1 0  Rhode Island, 2 0 2 0  Connecticut, 7 7 0 0  
   1 2 0 1    Vermont, 1 2 0 1  New-York, 4 6 0 2  New-Jersey, prob 2 0 2 0  Pennsylvania, 4 0 4 0  Delaware, 1 0 1 0  Maryland, prob 4 2 2 0  Virginia, 5 5 2 0  North Carolina, 4 1 3 0  South Carolina, 5 2 3 0  Georgia, 0 0 0 0  Kentucky, 0 0 0 0  Tennessee, 0 0 0 0  24 4  
   Republican loss and Gain.   1800 1803 loss gain    New Hampshire, 0 0 0 0  Massachusetts, 3 7 0 4  Rhode Island, 0 2 0 2  Connecticut, 0 0 0 0  Vermont, 1 2 0 1  New-York, 6 11 0 5  New-Jersey, 3 6 0 3  Pennsylvania, 9 18 0 9  Delaware, 0 1 0 1  Maryland, 4 6 0 2  Virginia, 13 19 0 6  North Carolina, 6 11 0 5  South Carolina, 1 6 0 5  Georgia, 2 4 0 2  Kentucky, 2 6 0 4  Tennessee, 1 3 0 2  0 51  
From this view it appears that federalism has lost twenty members, and gained four; but these last do not prove any growth of federalism in the states of New Hampshire and Vermont, wherein the gain is made. It arises entirely from their increase of numbers and consequent increase of representatives. On the contrary, in New Hampshire, there is a relative loss of about one-third of a representative: in Vermont there is neither a relative gain or loss: and in New-York there is a relative loss of two representatives.
It further appears that republicanism has not in any state lost a single member, or fraction of a member, while it has actually gained 51 members. It further appears that a diminution of relative federal strength has occurred in every state, not before unanimously republican.
Political complexion of the Senate in 1800.
   Fed. Repub.    New Hampshire 1 1  Massachusetts 2 0  Rhode Island 2 0  Connecticut 2 0  Vermont 2 0  New-York 1 1  New-Jersey 2 0  Pennsylvania 2 0  Delaware 2 0  Maryland 2 0  Virginia 0 2  North Carolina 0 2  South Carolina 1 1  Georgia 1 1  Kentucky 1 1  Tennessee 0 2  21 11 11  
Political complexion of the Senate in 1803.
   Fed. Rep.    New Hampshire 2 0  Massachusetts 2 0  Connecticut 2 0  Rhode Island 0 2  Vermont 0 2  New-York 0 2  New-Jersey 1 1  Pennsylvania 0 2  Delaware 2 0  Maryland 0 2  Virginia 0 2  North Carolina 0 2  South Carolina 0 2  Georgia 0 2  Kentucky 0 2  Tennessee 0 2  Ohio 0 2  9 25 9  
Republican majority 16 Federal majority 10 Political complexion of the Senate in 1803. Federal majority 3 Republican majority 64
September 12, sawt
IRISH INSURRECTION.
The following account of the late Insurrection is contained in a private letter from DUBLIN, which we copy from a late London paper.
DUBLIN, August 12:
"Various conjectures prevail here as to the system of the existing conspiracy, from which so much is still apprehended. Among the best informed political circles it is said to have commenced soon after the state prisoners had exposed the plans of the United Irishmen, in 1799. Ten of the most tried and intelligent of the disaffected formed a society, each of which afterwards formed a society of ten, and each of these ten formed a society of a similar number; each man choosing his accomplices from among those characters with which he was acquainted—selecting of course for his own security, those who had proved their fidelity to the cause during the former insurrection. The successive appointment of societies in this way, went on progressively, until it was so expanded as to embrace all the veteran insurgents. Then every possible activity was employed to make proselytes among orangemen. In this pursuit they were unfortunately too successful, in consequence of the disgust excited by the manner in which the union was accomplished by the circumstances under which it was proposed. The evidences referred to on that occasion had notoriously the effect of damaging the spirit and diminishing the number of the loyalists, while it encouraged the hopes and inflamed the resolution of the disaffected. It was considered by the one as a proof of ingratitude on the part of the British cabinet, while it was felt by the other as an additional irritation. During the discussion of this measure, therefore, the propagation of the project was accelerated, and very many of the orangemen are said to have coalesced with the ci-devant united Irishmen: among whom it is even supposed that some of them have taken a decided lead. This conspiracy is therefore understood to comprehend a description of the persons, and to be founded on such principles as to escape the odium (however their objects may be considered in other respects) which attached to the former rebellion, namely, that of being the contrivance of a mere religious sect. The unexpected and extraordinary union of the contending parties, who by their contests had so long mangled and distracted Ireland, will serve to shew you that the evils, which, previous to the union, oppressed perhaps by one party, are now severely felt by all. These evils it is unnecessary to describe; they are already known to the world and to ministers, and they are such as a set of men disposed to generosity or justice would be anxious to remove. Severely, however, as they might have operated, particularly since the union, I assure you the forensics of the public feeling was considerably aggravated by the disappointment of our expectation, that lord Moira would have been appointed to the lord lieutenantcy of this country. Had this our old, active and able advocate been sent to govern us, his presence would have afforded an ample and satisfactory guarantee that no injustice would have been tolerated—that no severity would have been even meditated. The expectation of relief and improvement which his appearance among us would excite, would have been sufficient to restrain the most violent desperado from contemplating the idea of rebellion; for the most sanguine demagogue must be aware, that if he even should, it would be impossible to persuade any material portion of the people to second his schemes. I will admit that the present government have not exposed themselves to the charge of cruelty; but merely suspension of hostilities against the people cannot produce content—the mere negative virtues of a minister cannot produce him popularity. But to return to the description with which I set out. It is said that the original society of ten constitutes the directory of the insurgents—that from them all orders issue, and are communicated to their accomplices through the same individuals by whom the originator was promoted. You will perceive from a consideration of this plan that it differs materially from that of the United Irishmen, as defined by O'Conner and Emmet before the committee of the Irish parliament. Under the former system there was a most indiscriminate mixture of all the members of the conspiracy, and it was frequently in the end—under the present it is impossible or due to give information against any considerable number of individuals, for
he has no opportunity of knowing more than the society from which he emanated, and in which he is stationed. Under those circumstances, it is difficult to procure information to any great extent. It is even suspected that yet government knows nothing very precise on the subject."
"This of course encreases the alarm and renders suspicion more extensive—so extensive, indeed, as completely to interrupt the frank intercourse which previously to the 23d ult. existed between man and man. Formidable as this conspiracy may appear, it must give you the most sincere pleasure to be informed that it holds out no encouragement to the ambitious views of Bonaparte on this country, to whom its members profess the most determined hostility. It was their hope to accomplish a separation without any foreign aid; and though happily disappointed in this, the conspirators who have been arrested, who venture to complain of the sufferings of their countrymen, and to justify their own conduct, will speak in terms of horror of the idea of listening to the insidious professions of the French government."
FROM A LATE LONDON PAPER.
A committee, consisting of members of both Houses of Parliament was appointed February 10, 1798, to take into consideration the state of the Coin of this kingdom; and this committee having remarked the considerable loss which the Gold Coin appeared to have sustained within certain periods, and being desirous to ascertain whether this loss was occasioned by any defect either in the quality of the standard gold, or in the figure and impression of the coins requested that Henry Cavendish, Esq. F. R. S. and Charles Hatchett, Esq. F. R. S. would examine by a series of experiments, whether any of these defects really existed.
This important enquiry was prosecuted with great assiduity by these gentlemen; and Mr. Hatchett has lately published in the transactions of the Royal Society a detailed and curious account of their examination, with the results. Mr. Hatchett's extensive knowledge as a chemist, and his celebrity for accuracy of analysis, render his communications on this subject peculiarly valuable.
Two questions were to be principally decided:
1st. Whether very soft and ductile gold, or gold made as hard as is compatible with the process of coining, suffers the most by wear, under the various circumstances of friction to which coin is subjected in the course of circulation?
2dly. Whether coin with a flat, smooth and broad surface, wears less than coin which has certain protuberant parts raised above the ground or general level of the pieces?
The experiments undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining these points were made on a large scale at his majesty's mint: in the course of which many curious facts were ascertained.
"It was proved that as the extremes of ductility and hardness were equally objectionable, gold of moderate ductility is that which is the best adapted for coin; and that, from various trials with all the alloys, it was found that nothing but silver or copper can be employed to alloy gold which is intended to be coined."
"It appears also from the experiments made, to afford a solution of the second query, that there is not any remarkable difference in the comparative wear of the three kinds of standard gold, all of which suffer abrasion slowly, and with much difficulty. For which reason, and from the consideration of every other circumstance, it must be evident, that the extraordinary loss which the gold coin of this kingdom is stated to have sustained within a certain limited time, cannot, with even a shadow of probability, be attributed to any important defect in the composition or quality of the standard gold; and all that can be said on the subject is, that some portion of this loss may have been caused by the rough impression and milled edge now in use, by which each piece of coin acts, and is acted on by the others, in the manner of a file."
"There is every reason to believe that our gold coin suffers but little friction against itself; and the chief cause of natural and fair wear probably arises from extraneous and gritty particles which may occasionally be exposed in the course of circulation. But still it must be repeated that the united effects of every species of friction during their circulation cannot produce any other wear
than that which is extremely slow and gradual, and such as will by no means account for the great and rapid diminution which has been observed in the gold coin of this country."
If the quantity of gold coined at the mint from 1777 to 1797, be only taken at thirty millions, (which is under the mark,) and compared with the quantity now in circulation, we have every reason to believe that many millions of guineas have been melted down and exported.
London, August 28:
One of the Calcutta papers which we have lately received, contains the following article:
We little expected that the revolutionary scenes which so long agitated the Western Hemisphere, would have extended their influence over so distant—and so jealous a government as the Chinese:—The principles which actuate the rebels in this quarter, will be found to be in exact accordance with those which produced the French revolution—the progress threatens to be as terrible, and if we view the character of the nation and the preposterous genius of empire, it is more than probable that the result will be the same;—the subversion of the antient government of the Chinese.
The following interesting account of this transaction, we have received from a correspondent:
There has sprung up within these few months a very numerous body of men, of a description very similar to what we have known for some years past by the name of the Illuminati. They are known to one another by particular signs—the bond of allegiance is communicated to any one who is desirous of becoming a member of the society, by drawing blood from some part of his body, and infusing a little of that of one who is already incorporated—or, a mutual interchange of blood takes place—the clans that have already appeared, are alarmingly numerous—inasmuch, that the intonite or viceroy of Canton has been long absent commanding the imperial troops in person, and has gained some signal victories—it was said, indeed at one time, that he was on the return, but by late accounts there is great probability of further commotions.
It is prophesied that some person will rise up before the year 1804, who will depose the present Tartar race of emperors, and restore that of the ancient Chinese.
The Russian messenger, who lately arrived in this country from Petersburg, came by way of Paris, having likewise been charged with dispatches to Count Maikoff, and experienced in that capital a detention of some days, highly displeasing to his court. Citizen Talleyrand, finding that he had dispatches for this country, and from some suspicion or intelligence, attaching importance to them, in order to delay them neglected to furnish the necessary passport for the messenger's departure. M. D'Oubril, the Russian charge d'affairs, immediately made a strong remonstrance on the subject to the minister, who excused himself by representing the affair as unconnected with diplomacy, and merely a matter of official arrangement. After keeping the messenger, however, in Paris for several days, a large sum was extorted from M. D'Oubril, as fees of office, before he could obtain the passport.
Translated from the American.
AN ACT OF THE GOVERNMENT.
Paris, the 1st of Messidor (June 19) Year II.
The government of the republic having seen the report of the minister of the interior, decrees as follows:
Article 1.
No colonial commodities wares or produce brought from English colonies; or any merchandise conveyed directly or indirectly from England shall be admitted into the ports of the republic.
Consequently, all wares and merchandise, being of British manufacture, or coming from her colonies, shall be confiscated.
II.
Neutral vessels clearing out for the ports of the republic, must be furnished with a certificate from the consular or agent of foreign relations of the republic, at the port of clearance, in which certificate the name of the flag, that of the captain, the quality of the cargo, the number of men comprising the crew, and the destination of the flag shall be inserted.

In that declaration, the commissary shall certify that he had been an eye-witness to the loading of the vessel, and that the merchandise were by no means of English manufacture, and that they neither came from England, nor from her colonies.
A duplicate of that declaration shall be sent to the minister of the interior, by the commissary of the republic on the same day, on which the vessel shall clear out.
III.
Every captain, by forgetting the above forms, or by change of destination, and will not be furnished with a similar declaration, shall not be admitted into the ports of the Republic but on condition of receiving French manufactures in exchange or barter of equal value with that of his cargo.
The directors of the customs shall send to the Prefect of the department, the state of the cargo, and of the goods taken in return; upon that statement, the Prefect shall grant him permission to clear out.
IV.
The ministers of the interior, and of the finances are charged with the execution of the present decree, which shall be inserted in the bulletin of the laws.
Signed by the first consul BONAPARTE, and by the secretary of state H. B. MARET.
GENERAL PICHEGRU.
In 1789, General Pichegru was only a serjeant of the artillery; but his great talents were so well known, that the royalists wished him to emigrate, and the democrats promoted him, as an encouragement to give the cause of the revolution.
General Pichegru believed, with many others, that the post of honor was the post of danger; and that the post of danger for all loyal men, was where loyalty was proscribed, and honor and virtue butchered, or sent to the scaffold; that those were his sentiments in 1787, the whole conduct of his life proves.
When other revolutionary generals, as a Jourdan, a Liebau, and an Augereau, by one step from common soldiers, by intrigues, or bloody transactions, were nominated generals, Pichegru's modesty caused him to be promoted by degrees, and seniority; and if chance had not shown the value of his abilities, and necessity and danger urged usurped power to employ them, he would have probably remained amongst the names of thousands, who have fought or died for a cause they detested.
In the autumn, 1793, general Wurmser forced the lines of Weissenburgh; a short time before, Valenciennes and Conde had surrendered to the English and Austrians, and were taken possession of in the name of the Emperor of Germany; and the promise of the Prince of Coburg to Dumourier, to establish a King of France, was laid aside; this impious conduct, determined all true & loyal Frenchmen, looner to join the cohorts of rebellion, than to suffer their country to be invaded and conquered by foreigners.
The deputies of the national convention, then at Strasburgh, were organizing an army under the command of general Hoche, to oppose general Wurmser. Hoche had then more presumption than ability; more the courage of a soldier, than the talents of a general; but he was generous enough to acknowledge, that he owed to Pichegru the organization of his army, and its success in retaking the lines of Weissenburgh, and driving the enemy to the other side of the Rhine. Some time after, Pichegru was appointed general in chief of the army at the north.
Of Pichegru's predecessors in this dangerous situation, within nine months, one had been outlawed, and deserted; one killed on the field of battle; and two were guillotined. The officers of this army were ignorant, undisciplined, without talents, and without spirit; and the soldiers worse than the officers, frequenters of clubs, denouncers, and informers against their commanders, whom, from the principles of equality, they hated; and, from experience mistrusted.
How much depends upon the choice of a superior chief is evident, when with such an army, Pichegru, in three months, took what the enemy, even assisted by traitors, had occupied upwards of twelve months in conquering; and in three months more, he added Holland to the other conquests of France.
Under revolutionary governments, founded upon crime and corruption, it is as unsafe to be virtuous and incorruptible, as under regular and moral governments it is dishonorable to be vicious, and degrading to be corrupt. When Pichegru refused to share the plunder of Holland with the deputies of the National Convention, and even declined an annuity offered to him by the States General, he was suspected by the regicides Rewbel and Sieyes, as a royalist; and by the committee of rebels, called the committee of Public Safety, as an enemy to the Republic.
As tyrants are enemies of all man-
kind, so they suspect all mankind to be theirs; all tyrants are suspicious; revolutionary tyrants suspect even their own shadows: Pichegru was therefore removed in disgrace from the army of Holland.
During the first seven months in '94, Pichegru marched between victory and the guillotine; ten victories could not have saved him from perishing on the scaffold, had he met with one defeat. After the death of Robespierre, until he left the command of his victorious army, he had no other choice left, but to dishonor his victories by crimes and plunders, or to expose himself to be degraded by plunderers and criminals, Pichegru chose the latter.
The generalissimo, Jourdan, had in the summer, 1795, advanced into Germany, as a fool, and in the autumn, retreated as an ignorant coward. The Directory, which had now succeeded the Committee of Public Safety, applied again to Pichegru to assemble and organize the dispersed, defeated, and discouraged remnant of Jourdan's army. Pichegru took the command on the Rhine, but even the talents of a Pichegru could not effect impossibilities; the siege of Mentz was raised; Mannheim was captured by the Austrians, and Pichegru, some time after, finding all his labours rewarded with mistrust, ingratitude, and calumny, resigned his command in disgust, and retired to live upon a small farm near Besançon, the only fortune of the favour of his country, and the conqueror of Brabant, Flanders and Holland.
In 1797, Pichegru was chosen one of the representatives of the people of the Council of Five Hundred, and was by his comrades called to the chair as its first President; his abilities were envied by one part of the Directory, and his moderation suspected by another; his modesty was called a secret ambition, his prudence a concealed vanity; his loyalty, hypocrisy, and his popularity conspiracy; and after these liberal suppositions, he was, on the 4th of September, 1797, condemned, without a trial, to be transported to Cayenne.
In 1796, when Bonaparte was promoted to the command of the army of the Alps; this army, as well as the army commanded by Moreau on the Rhine, consisted chiefly of officers instructed, and soldiers disciplined by Pichegru; that such an army, accustomed to success and elevated by victory, should defeat the dispirited, divided and betrayed Austrians and Sardinians, was not surprising; but that the general, to whom all those advantages might be ascribed, should experience from the base jealousy of the base mind of the base Bonaparte, envy, hatred, and persecution, instead of praise, amity and gratitude, is surprising in the abominable annals of the French rebellion. Bonaparte's extorted addresses from this very army, and his forged accusations against Pichegru were the only motives the infamous Barras and his accomplices condescended to publish in vindication of this their revolutionary crime; Bonaparte's forgery was intended as a justification of Barras's guilt in sending his rival Pichegru to exile and death, from which he escaped, as is well known, in a most miraculous manner.
Notwithstanding what Bonaparte has done to injure Pichegru and to undermine his reputation, he is yet regretted and beloved by the French army, and praised and esteemed by the French nation as the only republican general who has not sullied his victories either with rapine or murder, by plunder or proscription. These are unpardonable crimes in the opinion of the guilty Cæsar, who fears the unfortunate Pichegru in exile, more than the fortunate Moreau in affluence, and in the neighbourhood of his usurped throne; because Bonaparte knows, that esteem founded on merit, is more to be apprehended than fortune founded upon change; he knows that the pure Moreau has once dishonored himself by falsely denouncing his friend and benefactor Pichegru, to whom he is indebted for his first military instruction and promotion.
Whilst in 1794, Pichegru commanded the army of the north, the national convention ordered no quarter to be given to Englishmen: at the risk of his own life, Pichegru spared the lives of Britons; the murder of the Turkish prisoners at Jaffa, in 1799, tells the world how Bonaparte would have acted with Englishmen in 1794.
All the conquests of Pichegru did not cost the lives of so many Frenchmen as Bonaparte's two battles of Lodi and of Acole. Pichegru was the father and friend of his soldiers; Bonaparte is their oppressor, destroyer and prisoner; Pichegru was more careful of the life of a soldier than of his own; Bonaparte willingly sacrifices all the soldiers of France to advance his outrageous ambition: Pichegru served his countrymen, from the love of country; the Corsican Bonaparte has served France to be enabled to enslave Frenchmen; Pichegru owed his promotion to his merit; Bonaparte to his own crimes and to the intrigues of Barras; to the victories of Pichegru France is indebted for Brabant, Flanders and the New Provinces on this side of the Rhine; to Bonaparte,
or rather to his intrigues and breach of treaties, France owes Piedmont and nothing but Piedmont; poverty and proscription are the rewards of the Great Nation for Pichegru's virtue and services; with an usurped throne and an unlimited power has Bonaparte recompensed himself, his plotters and crimes, at the expence of the honor and freedom of the Great Nation; to all good and virtuous men, however, the honorable exile of Pichegru is preferable to the guilty usurpation of Bonaparte. In few words, between Pichegru and Bonaparte every thing is opposite; nothing is common between them; the distance is as great as between virtue and vice.
Bonaparte accuses Pichegru of having carried arms against his own country; when Pichegru has not even carried arms against the foreigner tyrannizing over his countrymen; Bonaparte says, Pichegru is a royalist; Pichegru loves his country and mankind; and will therefore rather for a monarchy under a legal sovereign, than a monarchical Republic, and republican tyranny under a Corsican Usurper.
MORE OF IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Aug. 19.—Mr. Long, the merchant, who was taken into custody on Saturday last, underwent an examination yesterday, by the privy council, and was brought up to day again and examined at great length. After his examination he was remanded to prison. Attempts continue to be made, or alarmists propagate the reports, almost every night on the out posts of our yeomanry. On Wednesday night five shots, quickly after each other, were fired at the centinel on the canal bridge, Drumcondra. The circumstance excited considerable alarm in that neighbourhood, and the yeomanry, inhabitants, &c. thinking an attack was made on the post, flew to arms, repaired to the place, and scoured the road for a considerable distance, in a direction from which the shots were fired. A man named Duignan, who kept a chophouse called the Straggler, in Cook-street, or near it, has been taken at Clara, in the Queen's county. A Frenchman, supposed an emissary, was taken up yesterday.
August 20.
Captain Hephzibah, of Sydmount, and some of his corps, apprehended, a few nights ago, a fellow of desperate designs, as a leader of insurgents. On Tuesday last two men from Harold's-Cross, were committed to the prevoost, by Mr. Justice Bell, charged with wilfully the Tree of Liberty to be planted at the Castle gate, the magazine to be blown up, and many other expressions of the most inflammatory and treasonable nature. A few nights ago Mr. Wilson also took into custody four persons in a public house in Milk-street, in the Liberty, whom he heard toasting "the boys of Prosperous, Rathangan, &c." These boys, it will be observed, were the rebels who committed atrocities in those places during the late rebellion. Tuesday night last, Mr. Wilson apprehended Mary Ennes and Michael Daly; charged with having carried away gun-powder from the rebel manufactory of it in Patrick-street; and on Wednesday night, the same very active officer took into custody Thomas Maguaran, and Daniel Finn, charged with being employed in that manufactory and concealing fire arms which were in that place. The division of the city of Dublin into districts is completed, according to the plan recommended by government. The districts are 50 in number, and it will be necessary, allowing ten to each, to have 500 persons as inspectors. Every stranger coming in and going out will be known by this plan. The old market-house in Thomas street is formed into a barracks, and a place of great strength, for a certain portion of the military. We believe there will be some pieces of cannon in it, to command the avenue of Thomas-street, westward and others in opposite directions. The windows all around will be so contrived, that those inside can fire outwards at all points, and not in the least be exposed to danger themselves. A barrier is erected on the Upper Coombe, in the Liberty, at the end of Skinner's-alley, where a centinel is placed; another is put at the Lower Coombe, and at the corner of Francis-street. They are formed of wood, like those which are upon the canal bridges. On Wednesday night last, about half past nine o'clock, a ruffian rapped violently at the door of Mr. James Butler, of Thomas-street, a most respectable man, and demanded entrance, rushed in, and ordered the servant to shut the door immediately; on refusal he threatened to knock her down, and affecting official business and authority, he proceeded to Mr. Butler's bed-room, and desired that he should take the arms from under his bed. Mr. Butler immediately removed his bed to shew him he had not any thing concealed, and suspecting the villain's intention was to rob his house, seized him, and, assisted by a gentleman of the Rotunda corps, conducted him to the watch-house, from whence he was brought before Alderman Rose the next morning, and, on examination, ordered on board the Tender.
At the Wexford Affizes, David Doyle was indicted for seditious words. On
the trial, had before the hon. Baron Smith, it was clearly proved that he had, in the presence and hearing of many persons, damned the king, the Duke of York, and all the royal family—also, that he said damnation to Geo. Guolph, (distinguishing his majesty by that name) and making a motion with his fist, as if he was mowing, declared he would cut down all loyal men as he would grass. The prisoner called no witnesses, but some of the evidence offered on the part of the crown having excited a slighturmise of his derangement, the court took great pains to investigate the matter—and his lordship charged the jury that if a reasonable doubt of the man's insanity could be entertained, they should acquit him. After some deliberation, they, however, found him guilty. In pronouncing judgment, Baron Smith observed, that whether he was disloyal or insane, it must be alike inexpedient to let him loose upon the public; he therefore sentenced him to six months imprisonment. The affizes of Wexford having proved a maiden one, Baron Smith was, according to ancient usage, presented with a pair of white gloves, fringed with gold. Saturday last the affizes for the city of Limerick ended, which we are happy to say, not only proved maiden, but that a single person was not convicted of any offence.
August 21.
The government which, previous to the 23d ult. was so remarkable for indolence and incredulity, which could not be persuaded to believe that any conspiracy existed, is now still more remarkable for such exertion as appears in many respects unnecessary. Their conduct, of course, betrays more of their fears and their weakness, than of their resolution and wisdom. The city is divided into ten districts, over each of which an officer is appointed to preside; and under him are ten other officers, whose business it is to visit every day the several houses within their departments, in order to ascertain the number of inhabitants in each. Their return is transmitted every evening to the office of the superintendent magistrate, and from it government is able to know what number of persons arrive at and depart from the city every day. The utility of this arrangement I shall not question; but I am firmly persuaded, that the inconvenience, vexation, and perplexity which the inhabitants are compelled to endure from it, will be a greater drawback from its advantages. A domiciliary visit, at any hour of the night that the whim or prejudice of a police officer may urge him to make it, cannot, you may easily imagine, be very pleasant. As to fortifications, they are multiplied to such an extreme, as to supress the intelligent and alarm the timid. The market-house in Thomas-street, an old tottering fabric, which had been pronounced useless some years since, and which has actually been considered so since the erection of a market-house at the Canal Harbour, has been lately fitted up with a view to impede the progress of an enemy from the west end of the town, and to command the different avenues in that quarter. The 93d regiment has been appointed to garrison this tower of strength. The arches of this tower are filled up, and a balcony is constructed on the first floor, upon which the soldiers can draw up and from which they can fire with certainly the best effect. The Liberty being considered the principal rendezvous of the rebels, barriers are about to be erected at the entrance into Francis-street, Meath-street, James-street, &c. The whole city is surrounded by an oak paling of considerable height; and at every avenue into town there is a gate of the height, at which a centinel is posted. It is intended to surround the Castle with a strong wall, and for the purpose several houses in Castle-street, Dame-street and Ship-street, have been purchased. The new buildings in St. George's-lane have been bought up for barracks, which are to have communication with the Lower Castle-yard. The royal exchange has also been purchased by government for the purpose of barracks; and it is intended to place some cannon on that part of it which fronts Parliament-street, Essex-bridge and Capel-street, and also on that which is opposite to Castle-street. By these means, the principal approaches to the Castle will be commanded. The adjacent Parliament House, and the celebrated academy in Grafton-street, are converted into barracks. The city is literally crowded with soldiery: two regiments have arrived since the 23d ultimo. It appears that the county of Meath has been proclaimed in a state of insurrection, or in danger of being so.
August 21.
The Lord Mayor has issued this day a proclamation enjoining, under the penalties of the Insurrection Act, all the inhabitants to be at their homes after nine o'clock every evening, military persons, yeomanry excepted, and for all house-keepers to put on their door lists of their inmates. The counties of Kildare and Meath are placed out of the King's peace, and subjected to martial law. Nightly drills of pikemen are certainly taking place through some parts of the country. The carter of a Mr. Elmore of the county of Kildare, re-
turning home at a late hour, a few nights ago, saw three or four hundred persons in a field exercising, and having reported the circumstance to his master, the field was visited next morning, when it clearly appeared that it was a body of cavalry which have been exercising. A curious circumstance is said to have been discovered to-day: in some of the lumber or turf boats on the canal, several men being engaged in the insurrection of the 23 July, were discovered between decks wounded. As the period approaches for trying the prisoners now in custody on rebellious charges, the police of the city is assuming a more vigilant complexion. Arrests continue, and many persons for seditious conversation, have been put on board prison ships. A person named Lynch, residing in Lucan, and who was implicated in the rebellion of 1798; was arrested on Saturday, charged with renewing his treasons. The county of Meath has been proclaimed. A militia man, it is said, has been taken up in Kilkenny, found in the fact of drilling rebels. It is said that in various parts of the country there is too much reason to suppose that nocturnal meetings of the rebels take place for the practice of the pike exercise.
Philadelphia, October 13.
VALUABLE DONATION, To the Library Company of Philadelphia.
At Chevering, England, at a very advanced age, died the Rev. S. PRAYSON, many years rector of that parish. The property which he has left behind him is, with the exception of a few trifling legacies, bequeathed to charitable institutions.
To the College * of Philadelphia he has given his valuable Library and some money in the American Funds, to be applied to keeping the books, engravings, &c. in good order.
* The London Editor is erroneous in his statement:—The noble bequest, here mentioned, is to "the Library company of Philadelphia," and not to the "College."
[The above article is extracted from a late English publication, as is also the following history and character of the Doctor, for the particular appropriation of whose property the Library Company of Philadelphia is most probably indebted to a citizen of Philadelphia, who, during his travels in Europe, was fortunate enough to become intimately acquainted with him and used his influence for the advancement of science in his native Country.]
This gentleman who was educated at Oxford, had, at an early period, a favorable opportunity of visiting the continent of Europe, with a respectable family. During his residence in Italy, he cultivated a naturally good taste for the fine arts, he selected a small but valuable collection of books on this subject, and returned to his native country graced and improved. In a short time after he was presented with a small living in Hertfordshire, in which he resided, till he was presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury with the rector of Chevering. During the American war, he was a zealous friend to Liberty; and in the year 1790 attached himself to the Kenilworth committee who, in conjunction with the Yorkshire and other committees, were at that time endeavouring to obtain a radical reform in the commons house of Parliament; and to diminish the public expenditure of the country. He saw, with cordial approbation, the revolution of France of 1789, and was so much interested in that event, as to collect several valuable things connected with it, particularly the engraved likenesses of all the members of the National Assembly. With the subsequent proceedings of the French Revolutionists he became disgusted, and after the death of Louis XVI, and the demolishing of the French Church, he could no longer endure to speak upon the subject. In the year 1792, he became an alarmist, and was from that period to his death an enemy to all innovation, and a zealous friend of Mr. Pitt's administration. Mr. Preston was kind and truly benevolent, the duties of his office he performed with assiduity and zeal. With the fine arts and modern polite literature, he was very conversant, and in his study he could always find amusement and was ever ready to communicate knowledge to the young. He excelled in the art of improving and laying out ground in the best taste, and was frequently applied to by his opulent neighbours for advice on this subject. He never loved aney but for the purpose of rendering himself useful, and tho' he had lived 50 years at Chevering, yet he had not raised his tythes—His income was exceedingly moderate, but he knew how to relieve the distresses of the poor, and when his infirmities rendered him less capable of discovering where his bounty might be best bestowed, he without ostentation, and even with studious privacy, made a respectable friend his almoner to the poor of the parish. He was sincere and ardent in his friendships, but humanum est errare in his resentments, and could perhaps never cordially regard those who differed materially from him

in religion or politics—among a large circle of friends, and of those some of the highest respectability and rank, his name will be long remembered, and his death deeply regretted. To the grave he was followed by several of his neighbors who knew his worth and how to value it, and who were desirous of bearing an honorable testimony to his virtues.
Extract from a pamphlet just published, entitled Reflections on the cession of Louisiana to the United States.
"We now shall have it in our power to propose to the Indian nations now settled within the United States an exchange of lands beyond the Mississippi, for those which they now hold*; by this means we shall be able to dispose of all the lands on this side of the Mississippi to those who will cultivate them, who are already civilized, who speak the same language with us, and who will be ready and willing to harmonize and become one people with us, if they be not so already. The lands which we may acquire in this manner will probably be amply sufficient to pay for ten times the purchase of Louisiana, and this remote treasure, so dangerous to be touched whilst it remains at a distance, may be brought with safety to our doors, and used as occasion shall require, without fear of the consequences.
Such an exchange, if it can be effected, of which I presume there can be little doubt, will strengthen and cement our union beyond any other event of which I am able to form an idea. Our whole country, except the ports on the Atlantic, and at the mouth of the Mississippi, will consist of an extensive and numerous agricultural people, detached from all the other civilized nations of the globe, forming one general and powerful confederacy of republican states, nursed in the lap of liberty, sprung from one common stock, cherishing the same fraternal sentiments towards each other, and the same devotion to their common country, liberty and happiness. The demon of discord is the only enemy from whose effects or malignity the United States could have just cause of apprehension; and he might be chained for centuries, beyond the Mississippi, if the policy which is here recommended be adopted.
Of the same nature, though of less practical aspect, is another Utopian idea, which I presume to suggest to the genuine friends of freedom, yet, I confess, without any sanguine hope, that it will receive countenance. The southern parts of Louisiana bordering upon the gulf of Mexico lie under a climate more favorable to the African constitution than any part of the United States. Thither, if under the auspices of a divine Providence, the great work of the abolition of slavery should be accomplished in Virginia, or other southern states, we may colonize those unhappy people, whom our ancestors have brought in chains from their native country, and we continue to hold in bondage. Would to God, that I could flatter myself that this was not a mere visionary project!—I rather, at least, it may be advisable to notice those to remove who have already, or may hereafter obtain their freedom, through the benevolence of their masters, and a relaxation of their rigid laws, which have heretofore existed to prevent emancipation. Thither, all, delinquents, whose lives may be forfeited to the considerations of self-preservation, may be banished for attempts to regain their native freedom. The distance of that part of Louisiana from the United States might recommend it as a place of exile, also for other criminals.—There they might form settlements, and perhaps repent, and become useful members of society among each other; but I am not more sanguine upon this subject, than the former. Time and experiment may enable us to judge better.
It formed no part of my plan in this essay to consider what temporary arrangements it might be necessary to adopt on this truly important occasion: many will no doubt be necessary.—But if what I have offered against the settlement of Louisiana be worthy of attention, I would beg leave to hint, that a measure intimately connected with those already mentioned, would be to invite those, who are now settled in Louisiana, to remove into the United States, by proposing to them an advantageous exchange of lands. Thus should we make them a full recompence for whatever they might abandon on the other side of the Mississippi, and gain an accession of population in the United States, by proposing to them an advantageous exchange of lands. Thus should we make them a full recompence for whatever they might abandon on the other side of the Mississippi, and gain an accession of population in the United States, and at the same time relieve ourselves from any expense necessary for the preservation of civil government among them. This, if it can be effected, will be happy counterpart of the proposed exchange with the Indian tribes.
The island of New Orleans will no doubt claim the immediate attention of Congress. If we can obtain from Spain
a cession of that part of West Florida which lies to the west of the Mobile, or even of the Pearl river, or of the river Amite, it might be worthy of an amendment of the constitution to incorporate that territory, together with the territory of New Orleans, with the present United States government upon the Mississippi; and admit the whole into the Union as a new state, as soon as the population of it may entitle it to such admission. Such an arrangement would probably immediately conciliate the affections of the people of the ceded territory, and prove an additional motive to those beyond the Mississippi to remove to this side, where they might at once experience all the benefits of civil government, and the participation of the freest and happiest constitution upon the face of the globe.
Homer tells us that Ulysses on his return from Troy paid a visit to Eolus, the God of the winds; who, out of his great favor to that illustrious chief presented him with a bag, in which all the adverse winds and storms, which might retard or endanger his passage to his native kingdom, were tied up; his companions, fancying that this bag contained some precious treasure, took the first opportunity, whilst the Ithacan sage was asleep, to open it;—upon which, the winds and storms instantly making their escape, the ship with all his indolent companions was immediately swallowed up in the ocean.
May no imprudent use of our late successful negotiation with France induce the application of this fable to the people of the United States!
* There are probably two hundred millions of acres of land in the United States to which the Indian title has not yet been extinguished.
LOST, A small RED MOROCCO CASE, containing some money, and other articles—whoever will return the same to this Office shall be rewarded.
J. DAWSON.
UPON the petition of Luke Shannon, an insolvent debtor confined in jail in the county of Washington in the District of Columbia; praying relief under the act of Congress entitled "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the District of Columbia." It is ordered that notice of his application be published in the National Intelligencer twice before Saturday the 22d day of October instant requiring the attendance of the creditors of the said Luke Shannon on that day at the Capitol at 10 o'clock, A. M. at which time the oath prescribed by the aforesaid act will be administered to the said Luke Shannon and a trustee appointed.
By order of William Cranch, esq. assistant judge of the District of Columbia. URIAH FORREST, Clk. Oct. 18, 1803. 2t
NOTICE.
This is to give notice that the subscriber of Washington city hath obtained from the Orphans court of Washington county in the District of Columbia, letters of administration on the personal estate of Alexander Willson late of said city and county deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof to the subscriber, at or before the 25th day of April next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate, and all those indebted to the same to make immediate payment. Given under my hand this 19th day of October, 1803.
ELIZABETH WILSON, admx. October 19. 3t
To be Lett
AND entered upon immediately No. 9 F street north. A complete well finished two story DWELLING HOUSE, containing on the lower floor a passage and two parlors with complete closets, three chambers, garret, good cellar and kitchen—garden lot and stable. For terms apply to Mr. War, at his Printing Office adjoining the premises, or to JOHN BARNES, George Town. October 19. 3t
TO RENT
AND immediate possession given, a two story frame HOUSE in the city of Washington, on sq. 224, opposite to Robert Peacock's recently occupied by doctor Tabbs. Containing 3 rooms and a large pantry on the 1st floor, two on the 2d floor with garret rooms—Piazza and balcony to the fourth room, cellar and dry well, with an excellent garden—kitchen stable and carriage house, with every other convenience fit for the reception of a genteel family—for further particulars, enquire at the store of Mr. Xoupi a few doors east of Rhodes's tavern, north F street. October 19. tf
A Valuable Purchase.
To be sold by private contract, on an unusual long credit, a part of the valuable estate, belonging to ANTHONY ADDISON, esq. called Chesapeake with addition, lying on the Waters of the Eastern Branch, immediately opposite the city of Washington. It extends from below the Navy Yard up to within a few yards of the fort of the brinje, and has on it the ferry over the Branch, commonly called Nailors, or Dyer's Ferry. The estate is divided into lots for the accommodation of purchasers, a correct plat of which is in the hands of capt. Marbury of Blue plains opposite Alexandria. Capt. Marbury may be spoken with at the bank of Columbia on every Thursday. October 19. ep4w
WASHINGTON CITY
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19.
Too much commendation cannot be bestowed on the early and full attendance of the members of the Senate and House of Representatives. This circumstance evinces the patriotic sympathy that exists between the people and their representatives. Both feel the expected measures of the ensuing session as deeply important. The zeal of the members of the legislature to come to prompt results, has not surpassed the disposition of the Executive to afford them the means of immediate deliberation. Not an hour has been lost. We believe communications from the Executive on the first day of the session are unprecedented.
The Message of the President, delivered on Monday, speaks for itself, and requires in truth no commentary. Yet called upon, as the Editor of a public print is to rejoice in the prosperity and sympathize in the miseries of his country, he would no do justice to his own feeling, if he too did not exult in the general gladness. If ever there was a nation pre-eminently marked as the favorite of Heaven, and worthy of the high favor, it is the American nation. Her prosperity is the reward of the virtue of the citizen and the wisdom of the rulers. On this it is becoming to dwell. The elevation of national character which such habitual reflections inspire, make men more virtuous by shewing them that virtue is the only true road to glory or happiness.
Every topic of the Message is deeply interesting. The information it imparts is, in every feature of it, an evidence of national prosperity.
Louisiana is acquired. War is averted. A large Indian cession of land is obtained.
The improvement of the Aborigines in agriculture and manufactures is progressive.
Effectual arrangements for the amicable settlement of boundaries with the British nation are made.
The receipts of the Treasury are beyond calculation and equal to the wants of the government.
Eight millions and a half of dollars of the debt are paid.
Six millions remain in the treasury. These are facts that speak to the hearts of Americans; and that would link deep into them, even without the aid of the eloquent language in which they are conveyed.
But no part of the Message is more calculated to excite the affection of our citizens, and the admiration of the European world than the magnanimous and virtuous sentiments of the President on the embroiled state of Europe, and his solicitude to preserve his own country in the dignified attitude of neutrality.
"Confident, fellow citizens," says he, "that you will duly estimate the importance of neutral dispositions, towards the observance of neutral conduct, that you will be sensible how much it is our duty to look on the bloody Arena spread before us, with commiseration indeed, but with no other wish than to see it closed, I am persuaded you will cordially cherish these dispositions, in all discussions among yourselves, and in all communications with your constituents."
Through their representatives, he virtually addresses the people, and affectionately appeals to them, to cherish the sentiments and manifest those dispositions, that shall preserve to them the blessings of peace.
But we forbear from further comment. It is sufficient to say, that the opening of every session of Congress, is a proud day to those who now administer the concerns of their country. It is then that a frank and full exposure of their measures and sentiments dispels the clouds of calumny so disgracefully cast upon them.
We learn that capt. J. Rodgers of the John Adams, has taken the ship Maiandra going into Tripoli and also lately destroyed the largest cruiser belonging to Tripoli.
By information received from PENNSYLVANIA we learn that the triumph of republicans is probably as complete this year as the last. It is ascertained that the republican ticket has succeeded, either without opposition, or by large majorities in several counties; and it does not yet appear that the republican ticket has failed in a single county.
A letter from New Brunswick, dated the 14th inst. addressed to the editors of the gazette of the United States,
says, "I improve a moment, before the mail closes, to inform you of the fate of the election in the county of Middlesex. After a severe struggle, and the utmost exertion on the part of the democrats, we have carried the federal by a majority of 286."
[The county of Middlesex sends one member to the council, and three to the assembly.] Poulton's paper.
GEORGIA ELECTION.
State of the votes in Chatham county, at the general election, October 3d, 1803.
  CONGRESS.   Joseph Byan, 169   Matthew M'Allister, 69   State Senate.   Edward Harden,* 196   Edward Telfair,   House of Representatives.   George M. Troup,* 211   Joseph Wellsche,* 176   Thomas U. P. Charlton,* 141   James E. Houstoun, 53   John Love, 13 
The legislature of Tennessee; which convened on the 19th ult. has passed an act instructing their representation in Congress to aid in procuring the proposed amendment to the constitution of the United States, directing in future elections of President and Vice President a delignation of the candidates.
First Session of the Eighth Congress.
SENATE.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1803.
Twenty nine members appeared and took their seats.
After reading the Message of the President, a confidential communication, accompanied by the Louisiana Treaty , and sundry documents, was received from the President.
On this important subject the Senate are now engaged with closed doors.
House of Representatives.
MONDAY, October 17th, 1803.
Between the hours of 11 & 12, A. M., one hundred and ten members appeared on the floor.
The House proceeded by ballot to the choice of a Speaker; and upon examining the ballots, a majority was found for NATHANIEL MACON, of North Carolina.
  Mr. Macon, 76 ballots.   Mr. Varnum, 30   Mr. Dawson, 1 
Mr. Macon was, thereupon, conducted to the Chair by Messrs. Varnum and Nicholson.
The Speaker made his acknowledgments to the House as follows: Gentlemen,
Accept my unfeigned thanks for the honor which you have conferred on me. The task which you have assigned me will be undertaken with great diffidence, but my utmost endeavors shall be exerted to discharge the duties of the chair with fidelity; in executing the rules and orders of the House, I shall rely with confidence on the liberal and candid support of the House.
The House then proceeded to the election of a Clerk, when JOHN BECKLEY was elected by nearly an unanimous vote.
The oath to support the Constitution of the United States was then administered to the Speaker, and by him to the respective members.
A Message was sent to the Senate, informing them that the House had made a quorum, and chosen Nathaniel Macon, Speaker.
A Message was received from the Senate, informing the House that a quorum of the Senate was assembled, had, in the absence of the Vice-President, elected JOHN BROWN, President pro tempore, and were ready to proceed to business.
On motion of Mr. J. Randolph, resolved that a committee be appointed on the part of this House, jointly with such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States, and inform him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled, and ready to receive any communications he may be pleased to make to them.
Messrs J. Randolph, R. Griswold and Nicholson, were appointed on the part of the House.
A committee, consisting of Messrs. Eustis, New, and Huger, were appointed to prepare standing rules.
The following standing committees were appointed.
Of Elections—Messrs Findley, Goddard, M. Clay, Hunt, Varnum, Livingston, and Kennedy.
Of Claims. Messrs John C. Smith, Gregg, Plater, Holmes, T. Moore, Chamberlain, and Bedinger.
Of Commerce and Manufactures. Messrs S. L. Mitchell, Dana, M'Creery, Newton, Crowninshield, Leib, and Wynns.
Of Revision and Unfinished business. Messrs. Tenny, Byle, and Dickson.
Of Ways and Means. Messrs. J. Randolph, Nicholson, Hallings, R. Griswold, J. Clay, Rodney, and Sands.
Joseph Wheaton was elected Sergeant at Arms.
Votes for Mr. Wheaton 83
Mr Moore 21
Thomas Claxton was appointed door-keeper, and Thomas Dunn, assistant. Each member was ordered to be supplied with three newspapers.
Mr. Dawson after a few preliminary observations, offered to the House the following resolution.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of the said legislatures, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution, viz:
That in all future elections of President and Vice-President, the persons shall be particularly designated, by declaring which is voted for as President, and which as Vice-President.
Which being read, was taken into consideration, and on the motion of Mr. Dawson referred to the committee of the whole on the state of the Union.
The Speaker laid before the House sundry papers transmitted to him from Kenhawa county, in the state of Virginia, respecting the election of Thomas Lewis.
Referred to the Committee of Elections.
Mr. J. Randolph from the committee, appointed to wait on the President, reported that they had waited on the President, and that he had signified to them that he would make a communication to that House, to day, in writing.
In a short time, the Message was received by Mr. Harvie, his Secretary—which was read.
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of the whole House on the state of the union.
Adjourned.
TUESDAY, October 18, 1803.
The House resolved itself into a Committee of the whole on the state of the union—Mr. Varnum in the chair.
The President's Message having been read, Resolutions were offered by Mr. J. Randolph and Mr. Dawson, on the several parts of the communication, and reported to the House, which immediately took them up, and agreed to them as follows:
Mr. Randolph's Resolutions; Resolved, that so much of the President's Message, as relates to the regulations proper to be observed by foreign armed vessels within the jurisdiction of the United States;
To the retaining of our citizens from entering into the service of any of the belligerent powers of Europe;
And to the exacting from all nations the observance, towards our vessels and citizens, of those principles and practices which all civilized people acknowledge;—be referred to a select committee.
Referred to Messrs. Randolph, N. R. Moore, G. Griswold, Crowninshield, Blackledge, Rodney, and Rhea of Tennessee.
Resolved, That so much of the President's Message, as relates to the adopting of measures for preventing the flag of the United States from being used by vessels not really American, be referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
Referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
Mr. Dawson's resolution.
Resolved, As the opinion of this Committee, that so much of the Message of the President of the United States as relates to our finances ought to be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
On motion of Mr. Thomas,
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire whether any and what amendments are necessary to be made in the acts establishing a post office and post roads within the United States; and that the said committee have power to report by bill or otherwise.
Referred to Messrs. Thomas, Walton, Hanna, Wadsworth, and Alexander.
On motion of Mr. Nicholson,
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire and report by bill or otherwise, whether any further provisions are necessary for the more effectual protection of American seamen.
Referred to Messrs. Nicholson, Eustis, Sands, Hampton, Baldwin, Eppes, and J. S. Clay.
A memorial was received from Saml. J. Cobell, representing that he intended to contest the election of Thomas M. Randolph as a member of the House, with accompanying documents.
Referred to the Committee of Elections.
Several petitions were presented, which will hereafter be noticed.

THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR.
HAS just received an handsome supply of fall goods which he is determined to sell and make upon the most reasonable terms, and in the best and most fashionable manner, and greatest expedition.
Pennsylvania Avenue, near the President's Square and Capitol Hill, seventh house from the Capitol.
BISCUIT BAKE HOUSE, Near the Sugar House New-Jersey Avenue.
THE subscriber has commenced the above business in its various branches; where merchants or owners of vessels may be supplied on reasonable terms; also private families with the best of Crackers.
PETER MILLER. Washington August 19.
An Evening School.
JOHN GARDINER teaches English, Writing, Arithmetic, and Book-Keeping in the evening, at his house on Pennsylvania Avenue, near President's Square.
Oct. 14th.
NOTICE.
THIS is to give notice that the subscriber of Washington city and county in the District of Columbia, hath obtained from the O. H. A. court of said county, letters of administration with the will annexed, on the estate of James R. Dermott late of said city deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at or before the fifteenth day of present month, they may otherwise be excluded from benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 3rd day of October, 1803.
ELIE DERMOTT, Administrator, cum test annex. October 3.
NEW BOOKS.
 Just imported in the ship Active, from London, via Philadelphia, and for sale by RAPINE, CONRAD & CO. New Jersey Avenue, near the capitol, a choice collection of new and valuable books— amongst which are  Burk's works, 8 vols. 8vo.  Pratt's Gleanings, 5 vols. 8vo. elegant.  Percy's Voyage 2 vols. 8vo.  Mickle's Luciad, 2 vols. 8vo.  Link's Travels, 8vo.—Clavigero's Mexico, 2 vols. 4to.  Faucho's Lectures, 8vo.  Memoirs of Pius the 6th, 2 vols. 8vo.  Segur's Frederic William 2nd, 3 vols. 8vo.  Soulaime's Memoirs of Louis 16th, 6 vols. 8vo.  Spallanzani's Travels, 4 vols. 8vo.  Watson's Philip 2nd and 3rd, 5 vols. 8vo.  Reign Maria Williams' Sketches, 2 vols. 8vo.  Gibbon's Roman Empire 12 vols. 8vo.  Grandjean's Voyage in the Indian Ocean 2 vols.  Memoirs of Politianus, 8vo.  Rynier's State of Egypt, 8vo.  Cavallo's Natural and Experimental Philosophy, a new and valuable work. 4 vols. 8vo.  Bertham's Moral Philosophy, 1, 2, 8vo.  Payley's (Dr.) Natural Theology, 8vo.  Adams on the Microscope, with plates.  Brown's Travels into Africa, 4to.  Herrmann's do.  Grant's Life of France.  De Pange 6 vols. 12mo.  War Office 3 vols. 12mo.  Microcosm 5 vols. 12mo.  The Benevolent Jew, 2 vols. by Geo. Walker.  Infinite Father, 3 vols. 12mo.  Monk of Madrid 4 vols. 12mo.  Morison 2 vols. 12mo.—Rome 5 vols. 12mo.  Romance of the Pyrenees 4 vols. 12mo.  The Savage of Aveyron, 12mo.  Tales of Superstition 12mo.  Bread Grains, by G. Coleman.  Boisewain's Poems, 12mo.  Ata—Glover's Athenaid, 3 vols. 8vo. 
In addition to the above they have always on hand a collection of well assorted books on education, science, and amusement, which they will sell at such prices as cannot fail of giving general satisfaction.
WASHINGTON Jockey Club Races,
WILL commence on the second Tuesday in November next, over an excellent course, well prepared and inclosed with a post and rail fence.
First day—A sweepstake of 1600 dolls.
Second day—A purse of 400 dolls.—4 mile heats
Third day—A purse of 200 dolls.—3 mile heats
Fourth day—A 50 guinea silver cup—10 horses.
Fifth day—A handsome City and Town Purse—two mile heats.
All horses, mares and geldings, to be entered and run agreeably to the rules of the club, and to carry the following weight:
An aged horse, 126—a six years old 120—a five year old 112—a four years old 100, and a three year old 90 pounds. Three pounds being allowed to fillies, mares and geldings.
The following sums to be paid at the gate to the clerk of the course, M. C. Bailey, or any person authorized by him to receive the same.
Four wheel carriages, 1 Doll. each. Two wheel do 50 Cents. do. Every man and horse, 25 Cents.
Roots will be left on application to the subscriber.
It is probable that the 2d & 3d days purses will be increased—as the surplus of the first after deducting the expenses, &c. will be added to them.
H. LAUGHLIN, Sec. & Tr. The club will meet at the Union Tavern on the evening preceding the first day's race.
September 24.
LIVERY STABLE.
SOUTH East of the Capital on the Pennsylvania Avenue.—Horses will be taken in, and the driver a retainer paid to them at Twelve dollars per month by the subscriber,
SIMPSON & WORSLEY. N. B. Saddle Horses for hire.
October 12. S. & W. 3t
LOOKING GLASSES.
CONVEX Mirrors, girandoles, toilet glasses, elegant prints, prints and window glass, lampblack, cabinet ware. Printing Ink of a superior quality, &c. &c. for sale on reasonable terms for cash or approved paper at Mr. William Worthington's Pennsylvania Avenue, near the West Market by JOHN M'ALLWEE.
October 10. tawm
FOR SALE,
For a term of 5 years, A LIKELY young and healthy NEGRO MAN, about 23 years of age for sale by— ROBERT M'CLAN. Washington May 25. tf.
FOR SALE.
THE Plantation on which I live, containing about 600 acres of valuable and. The improvements are, an exceeding good dwelling house two stories high 42 feet long, by 36 feet wide, with a passage through the middle, three rooms below, and four above, with five places in all but one, and a dry sweet cellar, the size of the house, in which is a capital w. with two rooms, and above is a fine airy pantry. A kitchen 36 by 18, two stories high, with a kitchen and lan. dry below and lodging rooms for servants above. A washing house meat house and dairy and in short every necessary improvement for the accommodation of a family, and a very fine collection of grafted and budded peach trees of the most approved kind, chiefly from Princess nursery on Long Island, which are just beginning to bear. The property is situated in a healthy genteel neighborhood, about four miles from the city of Washington five from Alexandria. Nearly one half is in wood and timber, and the residue arable and meadow land, of the latter, there are about 50 or 60 acres under the fence and more may be easily laid down. Perhaps no tract of the same size, abounds more in fine springs, there being a never failing stream in every field, besides a number one which runs through the meadow and from which the greatest part of it may be watered. For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises.
OVERTON CARR. September 19. eptf
Lots for sale.
IN eligible situations, and upon very advantageous terms—A plan of the several squares in which they are contained may be seen and terms thereon by applying to, ROBERT W. PEACOCK. Attorney at law and conveyancer.
LOST CERTIFICATE.
NOTICE is hereby given that application is made at the Treasury of the United States, for a new certificate in the lieu of No 14 307 for 3856 Dolls. 85 Cents, of three per cent. stock, bearing in the books of the Treasury U. S. in the name of Hugh Percy Duke of No. 14 307, which certificate was forwarded by the Lady Hobart, British packet in June last, and lost in the mail. JOHN COLES. New London, Sept. 14, 1803 6w.
MILITARY LANDS FOR SALE.
By virtue of a power delegated to his executors, by the last will and testament of John Rose, esq. deceased, late of the country of Westmoreland, we the subscribers, having taken upon ourselves the execution of his said will, and qualified thereto according to law, now offer for sale, the following tracts of land, viz.
One tract of fifteen hundred acres, by patent, bearing date 7th of day of January, 1796, lying on Cumber and river, in the State of Kentucky.
One of 1500 acres by patent, bearing date the 30th day of August, 1797, on the waters of Paint Creek, between the Miami and Sciota rivers.
One of 1500 acres by patent, bearing date the 25th of April, 1800, also on the waters of Paint Creek.
One of 1200 acres by patent, bearing date the 23th day of April, 1800, lying on the banks of the Sciota river.
Two other small lots of one and two hundred acres, on the waters of Lees creek a branch of the Rattle Snake Fork of Paint creek.
One other small tract, of 360 acres, in the same neighborhood—and lastly,
One other tract of 1500 acres, surveyed and patented for Margaret Bell, lying on a branch of Gaspars river adjoining the upper corner of George Washington's survey, and the same having been sold and conveyed by the said Bell to the said Rose. Proposals for a purchase of the whole or any part of the said lands will be received verbally or by letter, addressed to any of the subscribers. The taxes on these lands have been regularly paid, and a clear and indisputable title will be made the purchaser, by
HENRY ROSE, Alexandria, } Executors. WM ROBINSON, 1st exors. LAU. BERRY, Port Royal, } September 26.
GENFEEL Boarding and Lodging for Members of Congress on Thirteenth Street,
within fifty or sixty yards of the Pennsylvania Avenue, where ten or twelve Gentlemen may be accommodated on moderate terms by the Subscriber
SAM. SPEAKE. Oct. 14. 2w
All persons having claims or
demands of any nature against the subscriber are requested to exhibit their accounts, without delay, to JOHN NEWIT or R. HARD FORRESTER, Esqrs. of the city of Washington, who are authorized, in my name, to adjust and settle the same and all persons indebted to me are requested to make payment to either of the gentlemen above named. SAMUEL BLODGET. March 30. tf
I WILL sell five hundred and fifty acres of Land whereon I live, in Fairfax county, within five miles of the court house, and within twenty of the City of Washington, Alexandria, Dumfries, and twelve of the Occaquan mills, it is a healthy situation, the land fertile, and has about two hundred acres of wood to cut, there is a great proportion of white and red oak, popular and hickory timber—There is nearly one hundred acres of prime land for meadow, I will give six months credit for one fourth of the purchase money—twelve months for the other quarter, eighteen for the third, and two years for the last payment, a purchaser will find me on the premises. THOS. POLLARD. Feb 21st. ep
JUST PUBLISHED,
AND FOR SALE, BY RAPINE CONRAD & Co. New Jersey Avenue near the Capitol. (Price 2 dolls. 25 cents in boards, or 2 dolls. 50 cents b. u. d.)
History of the British Expedition to Egypt. To which is subjoined, A sketch of that country and its means of defence. Illustrated with maps and a portrait of Sir Ralph Abercrombie.
By ROBERT T. WILSON, Lieutenant colonel of cavalry in his Britannic Majesty's service, & Knight of the Imperial military order of Maria Theresa. September 28.
COLUMBIAN INN.
GEORE. OWN. THE Subscriber begs leave to solicit the patronage of his former friends and customers, and in on its them he still continues at the Columbian Inn—where he will be happy to have it in his power to accommodate them as usual. JOHN H. BARNEY. September 21. eptf
CHARLES VARDEN,
TAYLOR, FROM PHILADELPHIA. HAS received from Philadelphia an elegant assortment of the best quality Superfine Cloths, Cashmeres, Silk Flouettes, Black and fancy silk molekin velvet, white & figured Martelles, Swandowns, Toiletttes, Velveteens, Fancy cords, Coating, &c.
With a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season. N. B. Ladies Habits, Regimentals and Navy uniforms made in the best style of fashion. New-Jersey Avenue, the second House from the Capitol Square. December 8, 1803.
BY AUTHORITY.
SCHEME OF A LOTTERY, To build a Catholic Cathedral Church in the City of Baltimore.
   Dollars.     1 prize of 20,000   1 ditto 10,000   2 do 5000 10,000   5 do 1000 5,000   10 do 500 5,000   15 do 200 3,000   200 do 100 20,000   200 do 50 10,000   200 do 25 5,000   250 do 20 5,000   4000 do 15 60,000   1 first drawn ticket after 2000, having a blank to its number, 500   1 do after 4000 do 1,500   1 do after 6000 do 500   1 do after 8000 do 500   1 do after 10,000 do 500   1 do after 12,000 do 500   1 do after 14,000 do 500   1 do after 16,000 do 500   1 do after 18,000 do 500   1 do after 20,000 do 2,000   1 last drawn ticket, which may have a blank to its number, 4,000   7154 Prizes, 210,000   13,856 Blanks—Not two to a prize.   21,000 tickets, at 10 dollars each, 210,000  
The laudable purpose of this lottery—the many very valuable prizes offered, and there not being two blanks to a prize, are considerations which give the managers reason to hope for a rapid sale of the tickets. The drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number of tickets shall be sold to authorize it; and thirty days after the completion of the drawing, the prizes will be paid to the fortunate adventurers; subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent. Such prizes as shall not be demanded within twelve months after the drawing is finished, shall be considered as relinquished for the benefit of the church. For the satisfaction of those at a distance, it may be necessary to mention, that the managers have given bond to the mayor and city council in the sum of 120,000 dollars, for the due payment of the prizes which may be drawn.
Tickets to be had of the managers, or of such persons as may be appointed by them. Managers.
 Right rev. Bishop Carroll,  Rev. Francis Becciton,  Messrs. David Williamson,  Robert Waith,  Charles Ghequiere,  Patrick Bennet,  Arnold Liviers,  Inke Tiernan,  Frances I. Mitchell. 
July 23, 1803. The managers have lodged a number of tickets in the above lottery in the hands of Wm. Brent and James D. Barry for sale.
FIRST LEGION.
ATTENTION!
AT a Legionary Court of Enquiry, held on the 15th day of March last, in obedience to a law passed at the last session of Congress, intituled, "An act more effectually to provide for the organization of the Militia of the District of Columbia," ordered that the following be the Uniform to be worn by all non-commissioned officers and privates belonging to the battalion companies of the first Legion while on duty, viz. A DARK BLUE COAT of ordinary length, WHITE VEST, WHITE RECHES and WHITE STOCKINGS, or WHITE PANTALOONS and WHITE STOCKINGS, or WHITE OVERALLS, with SHIRTS and ROUND BLACK HATS: which Uniform having been approved by the Brigadier General, is now published by order of the said court. WM. D. BEALL, Clerk of L. c. R.
Sec. 27. And be it further enacted, That all non-commissioned officers and privates, belonging to battalion companies, shall appear while on duty, uniformly clothed the color and fashion of which uniforms to be determined on for the respective legions, by the first legionary courts of enquiry which shall be held, and to be approved of by the Brigadier General; provided the expense of the same, additional to that of usual, ordinary, and dress clothing, does not exceed five dollars for each person, and every such non-commissioned officer, or drummer, or fifer, or private, appearing at any muster held after three months from the time that such uniform shall have been determined on, and the order relative thereto shall have been published, in some new paper within the legionary district and not wearing the same, shall be fined five dollars for each offence, unless he can make it appear to the satisfaction of the court of enquiry of the battalion to which he may belong, that he was unable to equip himself.
RAPINE, CONRAD & Co.
NEW JERSEY AVENUE.
Have just received the following NEW BOOKS.
 THE life of Lorenzo De' Medici, 3 vol.  Denon's travels in Upper and Lower Egypt during the campaigns of genl. Bonaparte in that country, 2 vol.  Willich's Domestic Encyclopedia; or Dictionary of facts and useful knowledge. vol. I. & II. for which the subscription is first open—the price will be enhanced to non-subscribers.  The Marriage Promise, a new comedy.  Public characters, or cotemporary biography, containing the memoirs of the most celebrated personages of this country and Europe.  John Bull, or an Englishman's fire side, a new comedy.  Tale of Mystery—ditto,  Friend of Women, translated from the French.  Bouffet's Select Sermons, &c. &c.  N. B.—R. & C. & Co. have always on hand, at moderate prices, writing letter and wrapping papers, quills, waters, sealing-wax, ink powder, ink and sand flasks, pocket books, playing cards, piquet, blank and account books, copper plate copies, &c. &c.
TO be rented on moderate
terms, either separately or together. Three two story brick dwelling HOUSES, in the city of Washington, on north B Street, between 9th and 10th streets west. They are well calculated for private families; and the whole taken together, will answer extremely well for the accommodation of boarders, on a large and excellent plan. Also a large frame building, back of the above. Persons wishing to rent, will make early application to T. H. GILLISS At the Navy Office. August 22. wtN.
TO RENT.
A Handsome furnished three story BRICK HOUSE, Situate on North E Street and Fourteenth Street West near Rhodes's Tavern. For further information enquire of the Editor. Also a convenient store and cellar with fireplaces in the same neighborhood enquire as above. October 12. gt
Treasury of the United States,
Washington August 15, 1803. WHEREAS by an act of Congress dated May the 8th, 1792, intituled "An act to provide for a Copper Coinage," in the second section thereof, it is enacted,
"That after the expiration of six calendar months from the time when there shall have been paid into the Treasury by the said Director (of the Mint) in coins and half cents, a sum not less than fifty thousand Dollars, which time shall forthwith be announced by the Treasurer, that at least two gazettes or newspapers, published at the seat of government of the United States for the time being, no copper coins or pieces whatever, except the said cents and half cents, shall pass current as money, or shall be paid or offered to be paid or received in payment for any debt, demand, claim, matter or thing whatsoever; and all copper coins or pieces, except the said cents and half cents, which shall be paid or offered to be paid or received in payment contrary to the prohibition aforesaid, shall be forfeited, and every person by whom any of them shall have been so paid or offered to be paid or received in payment, shall also forfeit the sum of ten dollars, and the said forfeiture and penalty shall and may be recovered with costs of suit for the benefit of any person or persons by whom information of the incurring thereof shall have been given."
And whereas it appears by the books of this office, that more than fifty thousand dollars in cents and half cents, have been paid into the Treasury. I now therefore, in obedience to the said act, do hereby give public notice of the same.
TH. T. TUCKER. Treasurer United States. August 15. tawgm
NOTICE.
THE Council of Washington having passed a law requiring a new assessment to be made this year, on all real and personal property in the city and also an enumeration of the inhabitants thereof. The subscriber earnestly requests the inhabitants in their leisure time to make out correct lists of their property, and also the number of persons in their respective families designating their age and sex as follows:—white males from 1 to 10 years old, from 10 to 18, from 18 to 30, from 30 to 45, from 45 to 60 and upwards of 60, with their profession or occupation. White females in like manner, and slaves males and females in like manner. From the little time and trouble required to comply with this request it is hoped it will be promptly attended to. The lists may be left at their dwellings or if convenient at the office of the subscriber. WASHINGTON BOYD, Treasurer of Washington City. September 30. ep3w
NOTICE.
FOR Sale One hundred and fifty acres of land. One hundred acres of which is in wood—it is situated within six miles of the Eastern Branch ferry. For terms apply to MICHAEL LOWE, Prince George county, July 22. 3taww
Ten Dollars Reward.
ELOPED from my service on the night of the 3d inst. JAMES STONE an apprentice to the house carpenter business, by birth an Irishman, 19 years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high or upwards, of a very yellow complexion, short black hair, chews tobacco—Had on and to with him, one white nankeen waistcoat with fleeces, striped, do one pair buckskin trowsers, one pair of kulla sheeting, do one pair of thicket breeches, new flours lined and bound, a real beaver hat about half worn—He is stout made and walks very upright—Any person that will secure said apprentice in any jail so that I get him again shall receive five dollars if within the District, and ten if without. I disclaim any person harboring or employing said apprentice and all masters and skippers or vessels from taking said apprentice away, as I am determined to prosecute any person that will act contrary to law. PETER LENOX. tawf. September 9.
WAS committed to the jail of Baltimore county as a runaway, on the 15th inst. a negro woman who calls herself RACHEL M. Y.; she is about twenty four years of age, five feet two inches high, dark complexion, much pock-fretted—she has on a blue spotted calico gown and striped ginghams petticoat; she says she was raised by col. Ezekiel Peck of Dorchester county, on the Eastern Shore. If she is not released, she will be sold for her jail fees, according to law. James Wilson, Sheriff. tawtf. September 18.
FOR SALE
By LEWIS CLEPHAN East of the Branch bank on E. street City of Washington.
 PAINTERS COLORS OF ALL SORTS.  White Lead in kegs Red Lead, and dry, Spruce Ochre,  Stone Ochre of superior Parent Yellow, quality, Gold Litage,  Turkey Umber, Prussian blue, 1st and quality,  Vermilion, Kings Yellow,  Belt Armenian drop black,  Painters Brushes of all Lined oil and spirits forte, of turpentine,  Window glass 10 by 12—8 by 10, and 7 by 9  Gold and Silver leaf by the pack or book,  Large sheet glass cut to any size  Gentlemen sending their Sashes will have them neatly glazed and on moderate terms. All orders from the country will be carefully attended to. August 3. tawtf
Conveyancer's Office.
THOMAS HERTY, Grateful for past favors, informs his friends and the public, that he continues to prepare CONVEYANCES OF LAND, and every other species of DEED or INSTRUMENT in the line of his profession, with legal precision, and on moderate terms, titles investigated, &c. A choice selection of lots on the Pennsylvania avenue and in other desirable situations in the City to lease or sell. N. B. Herty's Abridgement of the laws of Maryland in 1 vol. and Herty's Digest of the laws of the United States in 2 vol. for sale at the above office. City of Washington, April 18 1803. tawt
ESCAPED from Washington city jail, difference of Columbia 29th inst. a negro man the property of col. Thomas Parker near the Blue Ridge, state of Virginia. He is about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high. He had on when he went away two blue jackets sewed together, three pair of trowsers the outside one blue, a pair of old hdk boots; he appears to be 26 years old very dark complexion, appears also to have all his front teeth but two. He goes by the following names to wit, James Parker, John Grant and Abraham Shorter, I will give 10 dollars reward if taken within the district and 15 dollars out of the district and all reasonable charges paid by ROBERT M'LEAN, Junior, for DANL. C. BRENT, Marshal of the district of Columbia, Co. Washington. October 3. tawgt
It is the wish of the Editor of the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER to engage an individual well qualified to REPORT THE DEBATES OF CONGRESS. Immediate application, with the terms that will be agreeable, is requested.
The Editors of papers who publish Debates from the National Intelligencer are requested to insert this advertisement in their papers a few times.