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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. III.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCCLX.
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National Intelligencer.
STATE OF OHIO.
On Thursday Mr. Randolph made the following
REPORT.
The committee to whom were referred a letter from Edward Tiffin, president of the convention of the state of Ohio, and a letter from Thomas Worthington, special agent of the said state, enclosing the constitution thereof, together with sundry propositions in addition to, and in modification of, those contained in the act, intitled, "An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory north west of the river Ohio to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes," passed the 30th day of April, 1802.
Report.
That the ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of land in the western territory, passed by Congress on the 20th day of May 1785, establishes the principle of reserving one thirty-sixth part of the lands sold, for the use of schools. That to this principle, equally liberal and wise, your committee believe it a sound policy to adhere, and to extend it wherever practicable. They are aware of the objection that the right of soil in the tract of country commonly called the Connecticut reserve, having been ceded by Congress without any valuable consideration, and no reservation having been made for the support of schools therein, the inhabitants of that portion of the state of Ohio, have not equal claims on the bounty of Congress with those, who, having purchased their lands of the United States, have contributed large sums to the public treasury. But if it be recollected that the actual settlers are not, generally, those who have been enriched by that extraordinary donation, but purchasers under them, and at prices, it is believed, not inferior to those received for the public lands, and that whilst they are burdened with their full proportion of the expense of the state government, they are cut off from an equal participation of the benefits enjoyed by their fellow-citizens; when moreover it is considered that the provision for schools embraces not the emolument of individuals, but the interests of morality and learning, the committee are of opinion that Congress will perceive the propriety of acceding to a proposition, whose tendency is to cherish and confirm our present happy political institutions and habits. This last consideration applies equally to the United States military tract, to the military reservation of Virginia, and to lands which may, hereafter, be acquired from the Indian tribes.
No objection suggests itself, why the lands which are, or may be, appropriated for the use of schools, within the state of Ohio, should not be vested in the legislature of that state, in trust for that purpose.
The appropriation offered in the third proposition of the act enabling the people within the limits of the present state of Ohio to become a co-equal member of the Union, originating in the belief that it would at once enhance the value of the public lands, and cement more strongly together the various interests of the confederacy, it is believed that these desirable objects will be equally promoted by applying a portion of the proceeds (so offered to be appropriated) to the opening and repairing roads within the state of Ohio.
The provision contained in the sixth section of the seventh article of the constitution of the state of Ohio, respecting the northern boundary of that state, depending on a fact not yet ascertained, and not being submitted in the shape of the other propositions from the convention to Congress, the committee have thought it unnecessary to take it at this time into consideration.
In relation to the grant to John Cleves Symmes and his associates of one complete township, in trust, for the use of an academy and other seminaries of learning, the committee recommend the adoption of a plan suggested by the secretary of the treasury, in a letter hereto subjoined; to which they beg leave generally to refer, and they respectfully submit the following resolutions in addition to, and in modification of the propositions contained in the Act, intitled, "An Act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory north west of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the union, on an equal footing with the original
states, and for other purposes," passed the 30th day of April, 1802.
1. Resolved, That a donation, equal to one thirty-sixth part of the amount of the lands in the United States military tract, within the state of Ohio, be made for the support of schools within that tract.
2. Resolved, That a donation, equal to one thirty-sixth part of the county of Trumbull be made, out of the lands within the United States military tract, for the support of schools, within the said county of Trumbull.
3. Resolved, That a donation, equal to one thirty-sixth part of the Virginia reservation, so far as the unlocated lands within that reservation, (after the warrants issued by that state shall have been satisfied) will supply the same, be made for the support of schools in the district contained between the Scioto and Miami rivers.
4. Resolved, That a like provision for the use of schools be made out of any lands which may hereafter be acquired from the Indian tribes.
5. Resolved, That the lands which now are, or hereafter may be appropriated to the use of schools within the state of Ohio, be vested in the legislature thereof in trust for that object.
6. Resolved, That no less than three fifths of the sum offered to be appropriated by Congress for the opening of roads from the western to the Atlantic waters, shall be appropriated under the direction of the state of Ohio, for the laying out of roads within that State.
7. Resolved, That in lieu of the township proposed to be granted for the use of an academy by the act passed the fifth of May, 1792, there be granted to the state of Ohio, for the purposes described in that act, one other entire township within the district of Cincinnati; provided that the state of Ohio shall relinquish to the United States, all their claim, under the act aforesaid, against the said John C. Symmes.
8. Resolved, That these propositions shall depend on the compliance by the state of Ohio, with the provisions of the third proposition and second section of the aforesaid act, entitled, an act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory north-west of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes, passed the 30th day of April, 1802.
Sir, The Committee to whom were referred sundry propositions submitted by the Convention of the state of Ohio, to the Congress of the United States, have instructed me to request of you, information on the following points.
 1. The gross amount of lands comprised within the United States military tract?  2. Whether through default of John Cleves Symmes, the intention of the United States to endow an academy or other public school with one entire township, hath been frustrated.  3. How far the purchasers under the aforesaid Symmes, are bound to make good the said township or the value thereof.  4. Whether the United States are bound to furnish an equivalent; and if not?  5. How far it may be a matter of policy to comply with the proposition of the convention on that subject. 
And such other information touching those propositions, generally, which the secretary of the treasury may deem expedient to lay before the committee.
With perfect consideration, I am, Sir, Yours, (Signed) JOHN RANDOLPH, jun. Chairman of the Committee. ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 12, 1803.
Sir, The gross amount of lands within the United States military tract is computed at 2,539,110 acres; one thirty-sixth part of which, if appropriated for schools in conformity to the proposition of the convention of the state of Ohio, will amount to 70,531 acres. The grants already made within that tract, amount to 1,081,270 acres, which, supposing the school appropriation to take place, will leave 1,387,309 acres therein, for the future disposition of congress.
If the modifications proposed by the convention shall be acceded to, it will
be necessary to define the manner in which the above-mentioned 70,531 acres, as well as the sections to be given for the use of schools in those fractional townships, containing less than three-fourths of an entire township, and in which the section No. 16 has been disposed of, shall be located. There are but thirty-seven such fractional townships in which that section did exist, and only twelve such sections have been sold. The mode of designating an equal number of sections in lieu thereof, is not therefore material.
The 70,531 acres in the military tract may be designated by directing that as many quarter townships, (which quarters in that tract contain 4000 acres each) as will make up the whole amount, shall be selected by lot, and the same mode may be extended to the designation of the lands which congress may assign for the use of schools in the Connecticut reserve. But if it shall be thought proper to give an agency, in the selection, to the state, it will be necessary to limit the time within which that agency shall be exercised, and to provide, in case of failure on their part, for another mode of designating the land.
As the request made by the convention for certain lands in lieu of the township granted to J. C. Symmes and his associates, for an academy, is no part of the modifications proposed to the original propositions of Congress, an immediate decision may not be necessary; and it seems proper and just that measures should, in the first place, be taken for the recovery of that township which was granted in trust to J. C. Symmes and his associates, and which, at all events, ought not to be applied to their private use, since they did not pay for it. The difficulty in this case, arises from the following circumstances.
J. C. Symmes had originally applied for two millions of acres, and it had then been contemplated to give him a township for the use of an academy. The contract was, however, made with the board of treasury (in 1787) by his attorneys, Messrs. Dayton and March, for only one million of acres, and no grant or promise of any academy or college township was inserted in it.
In 1792, Congress directed that a township for that purpose should be included in the grant of lands to be made to said Symmes and his associates; and a patent accordingly issued under date of 30th September, 1794, for a tract containing 311,682 acres, reserving five sections in each township for certain purposes; and further declaring, "that one complete township, or tract of land of six miles square, to be located with the appropriation of the governor, for the time being, of the territory north west of the river Ohio, and within the term of five years, as nearly as may be, in the centre of the tract herein granted, has been and is granted, and shall be held in trust for and for the sole and exclusive intent and purpose of erecting and establishing therein, an academy and other public schools and seminaries of learning, and endowing and supporting the same, and to and for no other use, intent or purpose whatever."
At the time when the patent was granted, there was, as Mr. Symmes states, but one entire township within its bounds; some sections having been sold in every other township, because he had not contemplated such reservation, and that one entire township remained so, only because it had been reserved by Mr. Symmes for himself, and his associates. He applied, in 1798, to governor St. Clair, in order to obtain his approbation to the location of that township, in conformity to the words of the patent. Although there does not really appear to have existed any other unford township at the time, the governor refused his assent, because that offered was, in his opinion, of inferior quality, and not in the centre of the patent, and because a part of it was claimed by Elias Boudinot, one of judge Symmes' associates. Since that time it is understood that one half of that township has been sold under judgments obtained against Mr. Symmes; the other undivided half is said to be still claimed by Mr. Boudinot, under articles of agreement, dated before the date of the contract of Mr. Symmes with the board of the treasury; and by which the last mentioned person agreed that he would, after he had received a title from the United States, convey to Mr. Boudinot, as his associate in the intended purchase, a part of the same.
As the patent is in the name of J. C. Symmes and his associates, it is not believed that the claim of any of the associates, as such, can affect the title of the public against them, as trustees; but in what manner they shall be compelled to
execute the trust, is the question to be decided.
Perhaps Congress, at the same time, that they shall direct legal measures to be taken for the recovery and due application of the land, might provide that if J. C. Symmes and his associates shall pay to the United States, the original purchase money (two-thirds of a dollar per acre) for that township, with interest from the date of the patent, they shall be released from the execution of the trust, and the township confirmed to them, for their own use; and they might also designate another entire township in the Cincinnati district, and as near to the Miami and Ohio as practicable; to be given in lieu of the other, in case either this should not be recovered, or J. C. Symmes and his associates should pay for it on the above mentioned terms.
Permit me to suggest, here, the propriety of opening a land-office for the sale of all the remaining lands in the military tract; and also to repeal those parts of the general land law, which forbid the sales of certain sections, throughout the whole extent of the lands of the United States; except so far as relates to the school sections, and to the sections reserved for religious purposes, in the lands sold prior to the law of the 18th of May, 1790. The plan of reserving some sections in each township, for the purpose of giving to the public a share in the increasing value of lands, originated at a time when lands were sold by the United States at a lower rate, and in large tracts.
The present mode of disposing of the public lands, as under it, none are sold until they have attained the value of two dollars per acre, effects the same object, and renders the reservation useless. No further precaution seems necessary, in relation to that object, than to order a public sale of those reservations, before they shall be offered on the usual terms.
The part of the military tract, which shall remain for future disposition, may be divided into sections and half sections, and a land office opened at Zaneville, for the sale, both of those lands and of those lying north of the Ohio company purchase, which now belong to the Marietta district. The sales have been so inconsiderable in that district, that little doubt remains that the place selected for the land office, was not the most proper. It is, however, suggested that the sales would be eventually promoted in that and in all the other districts, by permitting the sale of fractional sections, without being attached to the adjoining entire section.
There is another circumstance which, though of inferior importance, seems to merit some consideration.
The price at which Congress sell their lands, is advantageous to the population and prosperity of the state of Ohio. It has effectually destroyed the monopoly of lands, and throws the land exclusively in the hands of actual settlers.
Yet it is considered as high; and, on that account, the payment of fees in addition to the purchase money, is generally complained of. This objection should be removed by giving to the registers a small salary or commission, in lieu of their fees. About 500 dollars a year to each, that of Marietta excepted, would be, I believe, a sufficient compensation in addition to the half per cent. commission which they receive on monies entered.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Sir, Your obedient servant, ALBERT GALLATIN. THE HON. JOHN RANDOLPH, Esq. Chairman of the Committee to whom were referred the Constitution and sundry propositions submitted by the state of Ohio.
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RETROSPECTIVE VIEW
Of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives, more particularly stating what has been but generally, or not yet noticed.
(CONTINUED.)
JANUARY 27.
Mr. Randolph, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to whom was referred, on the twenty sixth instant, the petition of James Scott, of the state of Virginia, made a report thereon, which was read, and considered: Whereupon,
Resolved, That the prayer of the said petition ought not to be granted.
The Speaker laid before the House, a report of the Secretary of State on the petition of John Burnham, of Wethersfield, in Connecticut, referred to him, by order of the House, on the twelfth day of February last, which was read, and, together with the said petition, ordered to be committed to the Committee of Claims.
Mr. Samuel Smith from the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, to whom was referred, on the eleventh ultimo, the petition of Joseph M'Lellan and Hugh M'Lellan, John Tabor and Daniel Tabor, of the state of Massachusetts, made a report thereon.
Referred to a committee of the whole House on Monday next.
JANUARY 28.
A petition of Eliphalet Ladd, of the town of Portsmouth, in the state New-Hampshire, praying to be exonerated from the payment of the duties accruing on a certain quantity of salt which he imported some time in the month of September last, in consideration of the destruction of the said salt, together with the store-house in which it was deposited, and other property belonging to the petitioner, by a late fire in the said town of Portsmouth.
Referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
A memorial of sundry merchants and other inhabitants of Newburyport, in the state of Massachusetts, whose names are thereunto subscribed, was presented to the House, and read, praying that acts or parts of acts heretofore passed by Congress as relate to discriminating duties of imports and tonnage between the ships or vessels of the United States, and those belonging to foreign nations, may not be repealed.
A memorial of John Coles, of New London, in the state of Connecticut, merchant, was presented, praying compensation for the loss and damage which he has sustained in the case of the detention at Gibraltar and Tunis, of a ship called the Grand Turk, the property of the memorialist, which was chartered at the port of New-York some time in the month of March, one thousand eight hundred and one, by an agent of the Department of State, to sail with a cargo sent on account, and in behalf of the United States to, and intended for, the Bey and Regency of Tunis, in Africa.
Also a petition of Walter Cruise, praying that Congress will re-consider his petition, presented on the twenty-second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and the twenty-seventh of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and ultimately decide thereon in such manner as to afford relief to the petitioner in the premises.
Ordered, That the said memorial and petition be referred to the committee of Claims.
A memorial of sundry inhabitants of the counties of Albany, Green and Ulster, in the state of New-York, was presented, praying that a post road may be established from the town of Goshen through Kingston, Catskill, Loonenburgh and Coxsackie, to the city of Albany, in the said state. Referred to Post Office committee.
JANUARY 31.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, respecting the petition of Thomas Shubrick, of the state of South Carolina, referred to him, by order of the House, on the twenty-fourth ultimo, stating, that he has carefully examined all the papers in the department which have any relation to the subject, but has not been able to find any documents that would enable him to form a correct opinion,—and that to obtain such documents, would necessarily require an extensive correspondence of considerable duration with the agents at Charleston, and others."
The Speaker laid before the House a report from the Secretary of War, on the subject matter of the seventh and last clause of an address to this House from the citizens of Washington county,

in the Mississippi territory, referred to him, by order of the House, on the twenty-fifth instant, which was read, and ordered to be referred to the committee appointed on so much of the message from the President of the United States, of the fifteenth ultimo, "as relates to our concerns with the Indian tribes, and the establishment of a new settlement," that they do examine the matter thereof, and report the same, with their opinion thereupon to the House.
Mr. John Cotton Smith , from the committee of Claims, to whom was referred, on the fourteenth ultimo, the petition of Alexander Fowler, made a report thereon, which was read and considered: Whereupon,
Resolved , That the prayer of the said petition ought not to be granted.
A memorial of sundry citizens of the state of Delaware, whose names are thereunto subscribed, was presented, praying that a port of entry may be established by law, at the town of New-Castle, in the said state, for the convenience and benefit of the memorialists and others, citizens of the states of Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
Referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
A petition of John Smith, and others, of the state of New York, whose names are thereunto subscribed, was presented to the House, and read, praying that a post road may be established from the village Orvego, in the county Tioga, to the village of Aurora, in the county of Cayuga, in the said state of New York.
Referred to the Post Office committee.
Ordered , That Griffin Taylor, of the state of Virginia, who presented a petition to this House, on the nineteenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and one, have leave to withdraw his said petition, together with the documents accompanying the same.
FEBRUARY 1.
Mr. John Cotton Smith , from the committee of Claims, to whom was referred, on the seventh ultimo, the petition of John Low, of the state of Massachusetts, made a report thereon, which was read, and considered: Whereupon,
Resolved , That the prayer of the said petition ought not to be granted.
Resolved , That the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, be instructed to enquire whether any, and what alterations ought to be made in the laws establishing the compensations of the officers of the customs; and to report by bill, or otherwise.
The following resolutions were laid on the table.
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 as part of the constitution, to wit:
That the state legislatures shall, from time to time, divide each state into districts, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives from such state, in the Congress of the United States; and shall direct the mode of choosing an elector of President and Vice-President in each of the said districts, who shall be chosen by citizens having the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature, and that the districts so to be constituted, shall consist, as nearly as may be, of contiguous territory, and of equal proportion of population, except where there may be any detached portion of territory, not of itself sufficient to form a district, which then shall be annexed to some other portion nearest thereto; which districts, when so divided, shall remain unalterable until a new census of the United States shall be taken.
Referred to the committee of the whole House on the state of the Union.
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FROM THE AMERICAN MERCURY.
A Republican FESTIVAL.
In honor of the election and administration of
President JEFFERSON, Will be celebrated at New-Haven on Wednesday the 9th of March next.
The day will be opened with discharges from the Artillery.
At 11 o'Clock will be formed a procession of all who rejoice in the subject of the Festival.
An oration by PIERPONT EDWARDS, Esq. with other republican performances, will compose the exercise within the House.
Select Vocal and Instrumental Music has been engaged.
A public dinner will be provided, and there will be a Dancing Assembly in the evening.
Private houses are engaged for all the Ladies, who may honor the occasion with their company.
A general attendance is respectfully invited.
On that day We will rejoice, BECAUSE the election of President Jefferson put an end to the aristocratic influence of the advocates of a Funding System and a British Treaty, and scattered the combined forces of the enemies of our revolution. We will rejoice that a Standing Army, an expensive Navy, an odious Excise and a useless Judiciary are no more—that our houses, lands, carriages, stills, sales at auction, and domestic industry, are relieved from the grasp of an all devouring Treasury—that Presidential patronage has been diminished by the dismissal of many hundreds of officers—that economy has succeeded to systematic profusion, humanity to a thirst for national glory, and peace to perpetual alarms of foreign danger.
We will rejoice,
That we are redeemed from a hole of Nobles, guarded by a superior—that Federalism at length wears its own character in its front, and deals out its falsehoods without the imposing aids of probability or power, and that, in opposition to all its former professions, it now consists of hostility against the President, the heads of departments, the Congress and its measures, the decided voice of more than three fourths of our people, and the Union of the States. We will rejoice that the spirit of the revolution now animates fourteen of the States and that the same spirit is advancing in the other States as fast as the measures of the pall, and of the present administration are known and compared—and that in this State, where hosts of our citizens are excluded from the rank of freemen, our electoral votes have risen rapidly from 69 to 4680, and that the approaching election promises a powerful addition. We will rejoice that the measures adopted by our State Legislature to abridge the right of suffrage, and to retain, in their seats, men whose sole recommendation is their hatred of republicanism, have met a reception wholly opposite to their expectations—that the season is arriving, when the industrious poor of the State will be made free, and when through their aid we shall gain a name & a legitimate existence in a republican nation.
Twenty years have elapsed since we rejoiced in the distinguished victory, which terminated in glory a tedious, distressing, and expensive war. Since that time the spirit of the revolution has had to contend against hosts of its privileged enemies armed with power—against plans of Monarchy in Convention and in Senate—against an unprecedented instance of national injustice and ingratitude towards its faithful defenders—against the insulting projects of the infatuate leaders of soldier's earnings—against repeated attempts to re-unite us to the enemy of Nations—against the extravagance and duplicity of those tinselled millionaires, whom we lend abroad to teach the nations of the earth to despise us—against foreign gold and intrigue—against the parade of drawing rooms, the mean apishness of foreign tyrants, the aulation of a court and the corruption of useless officers—against the waste of public treasure for public ruin—against navies and armies—against an enormous and accumulating debt, and against the awful combination of military despotism, in the person of a foreigner, with foreign principles, in the hearts of Americans. Republicanism had to contend, in its infancy with more enemies than the manhood of monarchy could overpower. It has triumphed gloriously. It has overthrown the horde and his rider, and we will rejoice in its energies.
The four years, which preceded the election of President Jefferson, were like the darkness, which precedes the morning.—They formed a reign of terror, proscription and violence, and the very name of Republican was odious to every man in power. In the dark train of public measures was a provision to reduce to the condition of a Standing Army 80,000 militia—to import the instruments of death—to increase the impost on articles of first necessity—to build and man ships of war—and millions of dollars were spent on these wild projects as freely as if the men in power had known the
earning of money. Enormous sums were lent abroad at vast exence in order to lay the foundation of dissensions at home, and by magic of alhambra to conjure up the necessity of a Standing Army. The President was empowered to build or procure frigates at any price—to borrow money at 6 per cent.—more millions of money were appropriated, kingly power given to the President—slaves subjected to his will—jails made the portion of those seditionous subjects, who dared to question his supremacy—the odious Stamp Act was passed—our houses and lands apportioned and our windows counted—our fleets infested with the uniformed refuse of creation, embodied to give iron force to the reign of order I and through all these measures that miracle of human invention the British government, 'dragging its slow length along,' in the decent form of a 'Defence of the American Constitutions.'
We will never forget that all these terrific measures were to humble the friends of the revolution—nor will we forget that its enemies rejoiced in and aided these measures; but that all their arts to irritate foreign nations were unsuccessful. We will remember that the object was to raise up privileged orders, to sublimate stars and ribbons in place of merit, and to overwhelm in the magnitude of public debt the bane of its origin and all hope of its extinction. We will remember that from the President to the humblest officer, contempt for republican government was a conspicuous characteristic of political merit, and that some of our own neighbours were first among the foremost to dispose of the labours of a betrayed soldiery, and to sacrifice to a succession of jibes the rights of millions, and to take to themselves the honors and profits, resulting from an ingenious uniformity of political wrongs. We rejoice that of the talents, integrity, wisdom, and consistency of such men no proof remains, but their own solitary testimony, in opposition to record evidence of all their measures and to the conclusive decision of all the rest of the union. We rejoice that from the meditated destruction of our rights we were redeemed by the exertions of our Southern brethren. In the midst of imaginary triumphs our enemies were overwhelmed by a sure and sudden destruction and we will rejoice that the places, which once knew them, will know them no more for ever.
We will rejoice,
That President Jefferson gained his high office by a triumph of principle over faction—that he entered on its duties, professing the purest of republican principles—that he offered the olive-branch to his enemies—that he retained most of them in office, till their own conduct convinced the public of their demerits—that he has shown himself capable of viewing the whole ground and of administering on principles, far elevated above local prejudices or vindictive animosities—that his measures have confuted the calumny of the enemies of liberty, and that against their falsehoods his character has stood as a rock against the waves—that he has filled the high offices of government with men of unquestionable talents and integrity—that he has been gaining upon the affections of the people—that both houses of Congress second his measures—and that the minorities in those houses are standing monuments of the safety, with which error and even obstinacy may stand, where reason is left free to combat them.
We will rejoice,
That the present administration has not sacrificed our interests to foreign nations—that it has not controlled men's religious opinions, nor warped to its views the religious professions of any class of men—that it has offered no violence to the altar—that it has not availed itself of tub-plots, or ocean massacres, of sedition acts or false alarms—that it has deliberately advanced in relieving the public burthens—in diffusing a knowledge of its measures, and has reposed itself on the confidence and intelligence of a free people—that it has yielded equal and exact justice to all men—has cultivated peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, and has avoided entangling alliances—has preserved the State Governments in all their rights, and the General Government in its whole Constitutional vigor—has respected the elective franchise—has honored the militia as our best reliance in peace—has preserved the supremacy of the civil over the military authority—has practised a conspicuous economy—has faithfully complied with every public engagement, and advanced in estimation the national faith—that it has encouraged the industry of our people, and has respected the freedom of religion, the freedom of the press, and the rights of man—that none of the evils with which our enemies threatened the people, under the present administration, have arrived, and that far more blessings have been enjoyed, than were promised or expected.
We will rejoice,
In the reduction of public expenditures—in the facilities granted to foreigners settling here, in our state of peace and prosperity, and in the full success of every experiment made on Republican principles.—We will rejoice that the amount of our external revenue, in the past year, has been 12,280,000 dollars, which is
more, by two millions, than has been collected in any one year, from the same source; and more, by 1,200,000 than the whole amount of the external and internal revenue for any year—and that in the past year, the principal of our national debt has been diminished 5,12 millions of dollars and that 4,12 millions more are in a train for a further reduction.
With such occasions of joy, we will meet to celebrate the festival, and to give our public testimony in favor of a President and administration, whose principles and measures have uniformly presented sure pledges of confidence to republicans, and insuperable arguments against the cavils and misrepresentations of the enemies of our revolution.
Reported in behalf of the managers.
Samuel Bishop, Pierpont Edwards, John Heyler, John R. Throop, Lewis Ives, Peter Johnson, Obadiah Hotchkiss, jun. Elijah Minton.
Unanimously approved for publication, and signed by order, WILLIAM POWELL, Director. Republican meeting, New-Haven, } January 17, 1803. }
National Intelligencer.
Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, Feb. 7, 1803.
The Speaker laid before the House a Report from the commissioners of the Sinking Fund, stating the operations of the board for the last year.
Mr. Smilie presented a petition from a number of Aliens, residing in Chester county, in the state of Pennsylvania, praying a more early admission to the rights of citizenship.
Mr. Smilie moved a reference of the petition to a select committee.
Mr. Davis observed that this description of persons had of late become extremely troublesome to the House. He was tired of their never ending petitions. He had thought, that during the last session they had obtained what they wanted. As he was persuaded their admission to citizenship was now as easy as it ought to be, he hoped the house would turn a deaf ear to their requests; and in this way protect themselves from being further troubled. He was therefore opposed to referring the petition: and the more so, as it was impossible from the press of other business, and the late period of the session, to pay it any effectual attention.
Mr. Smilie did not know whether there would be time conclusively to attend to the petition presented; but he considered it as of sufficient importance to refer it to a select committee. He believed this was only the beginning of many petitions that would be presented from the states of Pennsylvania & New-York.
Mr. Griswold called for the reading of the first part of the petition, which, if he heard correctly, contained expressions extremely disrespectful.
[The first part of the petition was read, which comments with severity on the principles and measures of the late administration.]
Mr. Bayard perfectly agreed with the gentleman from Kentucky ( Mr. Davis ), that it would be treating the petition with sufficient attention during the present session to suffer it to lie on the table. He did not know that referring it to a select committee would be treating it with respect; if it were, he did not know that he would be disposed to vote for it. It was allowed that it was impossible to attend to it this session. During the last session the alien law had been revised by the friends of the petitioners, or by those, at least, who called themselves their friends. Their admission to citizenship had been facilitated by requiring a residence of only five years. What more do they wish? Do they wish to enjoy full political rights before they can even read the constitution? By going too far in making them citizens, we should take care lest we uncitizenize ourselves. Already they enjoy the rights of property and every personal security, and the only and ulterior right remaining is the right of election. Mr. Bayard said he had no objection to extending this right after a certain period. But it was certainly false policy before they knew the principles of our government and laws to amalgamate them to the mass of society. To do this would be to introduce principles unfriendly to true republicanism. He hoped, therefore, the petition would be suffered to rest on the table.
Mr. Smilie said there was one part of the prayer of the petition which, he trusted, would be granted. He alluded to the prayer of those aliens, who were obliged to signify their intention of becoming citizens two years before they could vote. He thought this ought to be re-
lieved. He hoped, therefore, the petition would be referred. And if there should not be time to act upon this session, it might lay before the committee. Mr. Smilie did not think this a proper stage of the business to go into a discussion of the merits of the petition, or in to the policy of complying with their request. The gentleman from Delaware appeared to have serious apprehensions respecting aliens. For his part he had none. He believed that in the state in which he resided there was as great a proportion of aliens as any other; and yet no inconvenience or evil had been experienced. The gentleman may, perhaps, think the politics of his own state not found from the admission of aliens.
Mr. Smilie concluded by observing that though he thought it probable the legislature would not shorten the probationary period for citizenship, yet he thought it would be best to refer the petition.
The question was then taken on referring it to a select committee, and lost—Ayes 32—Nots 49.
Mr. Helms reported from the committee to whom a similar bill had been recommitted, a bill to make provision for persons who have received known wounds in the revolutionary war.
An engrossed bill to prevent the importation of certain persons whose admission is prohibited into certain states was read a third time;—as follows:
"Be it enacted , By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of April next, no master or captain of any ship or vessel, or any other person, shall import or bring, or cause to be imported or brought, any negro, mulatto, or other person of color, into any port or place of the United States, which port or place shall be situated in any state which by law has prohibited or shall prohibit the admission or importation of such negro, mulatto, or other person of color, under the penalty of one thousand dollars for each and every negro, mulatto, or other person of color aforesaid, imported or brought into the United States as aforesaid, to be sued for and recovered by action of debt in any court of the United States, one half thereof to the use of the United States, and the other half to the use of any person prosecuting for the same, and in any action brought for the penalty aforesaid, the person or persons sued shall be held to special bail.
SECT. 2. And be it further enacted , That no ship or vessels arriving in any of the said ports of the United States situated as aforesaid, and having on board any negro, mulatto, or other person of color, contrary to the meaning and intention of this act, or of the laws of the respective states prohibiting the admission or importation of such negro, mulatto, or other person of color, shall be admitted to an entry. And if any such negro, mulatto, or other person of color shall be landed from on board any such ship or vessel in any of the ports aforesaid, or on the coasts of any state prohibiting the admission or importation as aforesaid, the said ship or vessel, together with her tackle, apparel and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States; one half of the nett proceeds of the sales, on such forfeiture, to accrue and be paid over to such person or persons on whose information the seizure shall be made.
SECT. 3. And be it further enacted , That it shall be the duty of the collectors and other officers of the customs, and all other officers of the revenue of the United States in the several ports situated as aforesaid, to notice and be governed by the provisions of the laws of the several states now existing, prohibiting the admission or importation of any negro, mulatto, or other persons of color, and they are hereby required and enjoined vigilantly to carry into effect the said laws of said state, conformably to the provisions of this act, any law of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding."
When Mr. Bacon called the yeas and nays, and spoke against the passage of the bill, which he considered as unconstitutional and impolitic.
Mr. Mott considered it as unconstitutional and should therefore vote against it.
Mr. Mitchell moved the recommittal of the bill in order to obtain its obtain its amendment.
This motion was supported by Messrs. Mitchell, Nicholson, Elmer, Smilie, Gregg, and S. Smith ; and opposed by Messrs. Davis, Hill, Early, and Randolph .
Those who supported the motion to re-commit, urged it upon different grounds; some no the ground that the bill was unconstitutional, in destroying and abridging the rights of free negroes and persons of colour, who were citizens of one state, by prohibiting under the severe penalty of 1,000 dollars, and the forfeiture of the vessel carrying them, their importation into certain states; others on the ground, that though this and other provisions of the bill were not unconstitutional, yet they would operate upon particular descriptions of persons with great and unjust severity. All allowed the propriety of the general government exacting every legitimate an-

thereby it is intended to enforce the State laws, and to avert the evil apprehended from the introduction of brigands from the West India Islands.
The opponents of the commitment insisted on the passage of the bill as it stood. They acknowledged that its penalties were rigorous; but they were only such as the imminent danger of the Southern States called for. They vindicated the constitutionality of the law by observing that it only prevented the importation of negroes and persons of color into those States which had already prohibited their admission.
When the question was taken on recommitting the bill to a committee of the whole and lost—Ayes 42—Nays 46.
Mr. Nicholson moved to recommit it to a select committee.
Carried—Ayes 47—Nays 42.
Mr. S. Smith moved that the House should resolve itself into a committee of the whole on the bill for the granting of clearances to the ships or vessels of the United States, lying in the river Mississippi, south of the southern boundary of the United States, and therein to amend an act, intitled an act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, and for other purposes.
Mr. Bayard said he would make a motion that would supersede that of Mr. S. Smith, viz. that the House should resolve itself into a committee of the whole on the state of the union, in order to take up the proposition of amendment to the constitution respecting the election of a President and Vice-President, laid some time since on the table.
Messrs. Leib and Huger supported, and Messrs. Jones and Davis opposed this motion, which was lost—Ayes 34—Nays 54.
Mr. Bayard gave notice that he would renew his motion to-morrow.
The House then resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the bill above stated—Mr. Varnum in the Chair.
Sundry amendments being made the committee rose and reported the bill. The House concurred in the amendments, and ordered the bill to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
Mr. Varnum from the committee appointed on so much of the President's Message as relates to the Militia, made a report, with an accompanying bill.
The report states the system adopted by the act of 1792, to be, in the opinion of the committee, founded on a correct construction of the constitution, and well adapted to the circumstances of the United States; and concludes with a resolution requesting the President of the United States to address a letter to the Executives of the several states urging a more vigorous execution of the law.
The accompanying bill provides for some deficient details in the law of 1792.
Referred to the committee of the whole to-morrow.
TUESDAY, Feb. 8, 1803. Mr. Leib presented a petition from sundry aliens inhabitants of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, of a similar tenor with the petition presented yesterday from aliens residing in Chester county, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Leib moved to refer the petition to a select committee.
This motion occasioned a debate, and was supported by Messrs. Jones and Swale, and opposed by Messrs. Nicholson, Claiborne, Randolph, Dennis and Bacon.
Mr. Leib called the Yeas and Nays, which were taken, and were on the reference of the petition Yeas 23—Nays 61—Lost.
A petition was presented from sundry inhabitants of Alexandria, praying a reduction of the legal fees paid to several officers of court.
Referred to the committee formed on memorials from citizens of Washington and Alexandria.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Governor of the Indiana territory, enclosing certain propositions made by a convention of the Indiana territory for suspending for ten years the operation of some of the articles of the ordinance of that territory.
Mr. Randolph presented a petition from a number of citizens of the time territory on the same and other subjects.
Both communications were ordered to be printed.
Mr. Southard, from the Post-Office committee, reported a bill further to alter and establish certain post roads, and for other purposes.
Which was read twice and referred to a committee of the whole on Friday.
An engrossed bill "for the granting of clearances to ships or vessels of the United States, lying in the river Mississippi, south of the southern boundary of the United States, and therein to amend an act, intitled an act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, and for other purposes," was read a third time and passed.
A bill, from the Senate, to provide for the execution of the laws of the United States, in the state of Ohio, was read twice and referred to a select committee of five.
The bill, for the relief of sufferers by fire in the town of Portsmouth, was received from the Senate with amendments.
Mr. Bacon called for the taking up his
resolutions respecting the reception of the district of Columbia to the states of Maryland and Virginia.
Mr. Bayard moved the order of the day for going into a committee of the whole on the state of the union, for the purpose of taking up the proposition of amendment to the Constitution respecting the mode of electing a President and Vice President.
This motion, according to the rules of the House, superseded Mr. Bacon's.
It was supported in a spirited debate by Messrs. Bayard, Huger, Griswold, Lowndes and Morris; and opposed by Messrs. S. Smith, Bacon, Gregg, Nicholson, Smilie and Davis.
When the question was taken by Yeas and Nays, and lost—Yeas 37—Nays 61.
Debate hereafter. The House then took up Mr. Bacon's resolutions to recede the district of Columbia, and went into a committee of the whole—Mr. John C. Smith in the Chair.
Messrs. Bacon and Smilie spoke in favor, and Messrs. Huger, and Dennis against agreeing to them, when on motion of Mr. Randolph, the committee rose, reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again.
(Debate hereafter.)
MEMORIAL of Sundry Gun Manufacturers of the Borough of Lancaster, in the State of Pennsylvania, presented to the House of Representatives on 4th Instant.
The Memorial of the Subscribers, Gun-Manufacturers, in the borough of Lancaster, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,—
Respectfully Sheweth—
THAT your memorialists have seen with deep and affecting concern, a resolution to exempt from import duties, arms manufactured in foreign countries, in the house of representatives of the United States. To extend the hand of power and crush the manufactures of our common country in their most infant state, your memorialists would, in times more pressing than the present, consider impolitic: But when, in the full enjoyment of order and peace, the various resources of our country excite improvement and accumulate wealth, the manufacture of arms by ourselves and for our own use, instead of receiving the fostering protection of our government, is defeated after a successful experiment of its utility—your memorialists can behold no point of improvement upon which they can rest with stability,—no manufacture that promises to be permanent,—no experiment that will flatter them with patronage and encouragement.
Encouraged by the government of the state in which your memorialists live, they have at very great expense established manufactures of arms, and in conjunction with others in the state, have nearly completed twenty thousand stand for the use of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Allured by this encouragement they have increased their establishments, taken in and instructed apprentices, and excited by their undertakings a competition—a spirit of enterprise among their fellow citizens in this manufacture, so essential to national safety, national independence, and national reputation. If the independence and liberty of a nation depend upon the correspondence of its resources to its wants; then is there no want so imminent now which should be more necessarily supplied from the resources of our own country, than the manufacturing of arms. But by giving a loose to the facility of importing arms, the government of the United States will crush this manufacture in its infant establishment which your memorialists hoped to see cherished,—if not for the maintenance of the artist, at least for the safety of the country. Arms may be imported, but who will keep them in repair, after the dispersion of our journeymen and apprentices, who must engage in other pursuits, when the one they have been trained up in will cease to afford them subsistence. Will the day of importation last forever? or will there never be a day when the manufacture of arms will be thought useful and merit the protection of government. A given stock of arms will be exhaustible in war, should it happen, and from whence will it be supplied, if arms are to be procured in another country, when the very cause of the consumption will preclude the possibility of their importation; but the encouragement of such a domestic manufacture will establish an inexhaustible stock of arms in time of need,—artillery will be numerous and manufactures convenient; the means will be easy, and their attainment certain. At considerable expense have your memorialists undertaken, and with some difficulty progressed in the establishment of this manufacture. Mills for the making of gun-barrels have been erected—gun-locks and every other article in a gun have been made in the best manner, and of the most substantial kind. The workmen, the execution, the machinery, and the demand have all progressed apace with each other. A few years more protection from govern-
ment, and this manufacture in this country, we believe, will be too firmly established to be destroyed by the importation of foreign arms—break up by the resolution you have adopted and it will not revive for ages; for no security can afterwards be given to its re-establishment, in which a prudent man will confide. But your memorialists do not consider the manufacture of arms exclusively affected by this resolution which passed your honorable body; they humbly conceive the principle of that resolution strikes deep at all our domestic manufactures, for which this example before them, few manufacturers will be disposed to place reliance on the improvement and permanency of any manufacture. Your memorialists beg leave further to represent, that the manufacture of arms in this state is not merely circumscribed within the limits of the county of Lancaster; it is diffused over the state, equally progressing in extent and improvement throughout,—and they confidently assert that twenty thousand stand of arms can be annually manufactured in this state.
Your memorialists beg leave to call the attention of your honorable body to this extensive manufacture in this state, and they would, with deference, ask if it be prudent or politic to reduce it by a single decision,—to destroy it with one blow. If our sister states to the southward have not established, nor can now practically establish, such extensive manufactures of arms, they can here be supplied on the same terms we have supplied our own government: and though they may purchase arms cheaper in Europe than they can from the American manufacturer, yet as they will suffer no grievance when supplied on the same terms with other states, they should obtain no preference by being supplied by importation, and that, too, at the expence of destroying a useful domestic manufacture.
If these considerations can command the attention of the honorable the congress of the United States, we trust and pray that the import duty on arms will not be taken off,—and that the encouragement of manufacturing them among ourselves will be considered not only expedient, but necessary.
And your memorialists as in duty bound will ever pray.
Jacob Dickert, Peter Conter, Atram Henry, John Graeff, Henry Dehuff, Jacob & John Hueffer, Benjamin Hatz, Abraham Pieper, Christopher Gumpf,
January 28th, 1803.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, February 9, 1803.
We are authorized to state that a letter, published in some of the eastern papers, relating to a conversation at Gen. Dearborn's, is positively disavowed by the gentleman to whom it is ascribed.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
In your paper of Feb. 7, I observe the letter of Governor Morris, a Senator from the state of New York, to the Speaker of the House of Assembly of that state, informing him that he had voted in Congress directly contrary to the directions the assembly had given him, which were, "That in all future elections for President, and Vice President, the persons voted for should be particularly designated by declaring which is voted for as President, and which as Vice President."
This case does not come within the limits of the general question, whether a representative is bound to follow the advice or instructions of his constituents? It is a special case, distinct in its character from every other that can come before congress.
The right of making amendments to the constitution appertains exclusively to the states, as states. Governor Morris had the vote of his state in his pocket and refused to present it.—Query, Is not Governor Morris, as a Senator from the state of New York in congress, guilty of a breach of the fifth article of the constitution which expressly reserves this right to the states as states.
Suppose, agreeably to the fifth article, that two thirds of the state legislatures had given similar directions to their representatives; In that case the representative became the organ of the legislature of his state and had no personal vote in the matter.
The constitution therefore decides that Governor Morris is guilty, before congress, of a breach of the constitution; and accountable to the legislature of his state for disobedience of orders in a matter of right reserved to it expressly by the constitution.
COMMON SENSE.
Know all men by these presents, That
GUADALOUPE INSURGENTS.
The following documents were laid before the Executive Council of this Commonwealth a few days since, who, we understand, have directed them to be forwarded to the Senators of this State in Congress, to be submitted to the Government of the United States.
Boston, 15th Jan. 1803.
SIR, I HAVE the honor to inclose to your Excellency a representation of the Chairman of the Selectmen of Boston, in regard to three black men, aliens and foreigners, who have been sent here from the West-Indies.
The passports of two of them were shown to me by the Selectmen, about 15 days ago. By those documents it appears, that these have been engaged, claiming the rank of GENERAL OFFICERS, in the parties hostile to each other in Guadaloupe; the third is in the character of a servant. By this, and other circumstances of a similar nature, it appears, that the authority on the French Islands in the West-Indies, have adopted the plan of transporting to the United States, black people, who in the government there consider as having been engaged in a rebellion, whom they are afraid to retain there, and whom they do not incline to execute.
The plan is in itself derogatory to the general and particular governments of our nation, and dangerous to the safety of the country. I conceive, that the right of rejecting and expelling aliens and foreigners, is, upon the principles of National Laws, necessarily incident to every free independent State. Impressed with these ideas, and with a view to deter others from coming here, on the application of the Selectmen, I concluded to cause these persons to be committed, until the Supreme Executive should be in session. To avoid this, they have continued on board the vessel which brought them, with a view to land when the governor and council should be assembled.
I am, with great respect, Your Excellency's most humble servant, JAMES SULLIVAN. His Excellency Governor STRONG.
Boston, Jan. 13, 1803.
SIR, I take the liberty to ask your attention, as Attorney General, to a subject which may, in its issue, involve serious consequences to the town of Boston and the Commonwealth at large. The brig Argo, captain Cushing, owned by a merchant of this town, arrived a few since from the Island of Guadaloupe. The captain immediately made a representation to me, that he had on board three blackmen, who had been forcibly put in his vessel at sea, by a French National Cutter. Two of these men have been General Officers among the blacks in that island, and the other has been servant to one of them. Captain Cushing was fearful he should incur some blame or penalty by introducing such characters here, and wished to deliver them to the civil power. I accordingly consulted several of the Magistrates and the town attorney, and requested your opinion what should be done with them; after some consideration, it was thought best to keep them on board the vessel until the governor and council should be together.
Captain Cushing informs me, he is ready to produce them when demanded, and will submit, with his sailors to any examination, respecting the manner of their being put on board. These blacks are furnished with passports, or orders, to repair to the American Continent, from Gen. La Crose, the French Commandant of the Island.
I am, Sir, respectfully, Your most obedient servant, CHARLES BULFINCH. Hon. James Sullivan, Esq.
P. S. Since writing the above, I am informed, that the Schooner Nancy, Captain Colesworth, has arrived this day with one black passenger—put on board by force.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Suffolk, ss. } Boston, }
BE IT KNOWN, That on the 13th day of January, A. D. 1803, before me, WILLIAM HARRIS, Notary Public and Justice of the Peace, within and for the county of Suffolk, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, dwelling and practising in Boston, personally came Capt. Benjamin Cushing, late master of the brig Argo, and made solemn oath to the truth of the annexed declaration, by him subscribed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of my office, at Boston, aforesaid, the day, month and year first above mentioned.
WM. HARRIS.
Know all men by these presents, That
I, BENJAMIN CUSHING, late master of brig Argo, from the port of Baff terre, in the Island of Guadaloupe, do declare, that on the twenty-seventh day of November last, being nearly ready for sea, with a cargo of sugar, (received in return for a part of my outward cargo) bound to Boston, I was informed by the captain of the port, that he was ordered by Gen. La Crose to embark six negroes on the first American vessel; and on enquiry he apprised me they were brigand chiefs, promising to put on board sufficient provisions for their passage, remaining for some time totally silent in regard to paying any passage money. To this execution of the General's order, I promptly objected, declaring that I would not violate the laws of the United States, to which I should be amenable, and possibly at the expence of personal imprisonment, were I to permit the negroes, on board, also, that I was bound to the most northern of the United States, in the winter season, and that the negroes would freeze to death. This the captain of the port obviated, by recommending my drowning them. Finally, I declared, that if he insisted on putting the negroes on board, I should abandon the vessel, protest against their illegal proceedings, and leave the island.—After this the captain of the port concurred, that he would inform General La Crose of my determination, and what had passed between us.
On the evening of the same day (November 27th) I was again applied to by the captain of the port, who informed me, that Gen. La Crose had ordered him to put only three (out of the six negroes) on board my vessel. I replied, that I deemed the crime as great for three, or one, as a dozen, and that I would not receive them on any condition whatever. On which he solicited very hard, saying it would be very easy tipping them overboard , after getting clear of the land, and that this was the General's wish.
On the morning of the twenty-eighth of November, the captain of the port informed me that I had General La Crose's permission to proceed to sea without any of the negroes. When I proceeded to clear out my vessel; as the duties announced to considerable, I had suspended this, thinking it prudent that all should be settled first respecting the negroes, having put little confidence in the servants of government.
On the evening of the 29th, I put my pass on board the Commodore's ship, who gave permission to proceed; accordingly I weighed anchor, and while making sail, the man-of-war's boat came alongside, with orders not to proceed to sea, till morning. The next morning early I weighed anchor and proceeded to sea, at which time the National Schooner Mofambique, captain Lucas, also weighed anchor and stood after me. This was on Monday, and she continued chasing us until Wednesday morning, December the first, at eight o'clock, A. M.—Dogg's-Island then bearing north, three leagues distance, when the Schooner hoisted a broad national pendant, and fired a gun to leeward, which I took no notice of; knowing that he could not suppose us a stranger—soon after he fired a shot near to us, when I hove to; he then ran up along side and ordered me to send my boat on board with my papers. Being unwell myself, at that time, I sent my mate with the vessel's papers, with orders not to receive any negroes, being suspicious that this was intended: Immediately on the mate's getting on board the Mofambique, he was taken below by captain Lucas, under pretence of looking at the papers, where he remained probably ten minutes, when he was ordered to return on board my vessel; but on going into his boat, he found three negroes in her. He then told captain Lucas, it was against his orders to take any negroes on board the Argo, and requested the use of a trumpet to speak with me, which captain Lucas refused him, making use of the most abusive language, and bidding him go on board and make sail immediately, and proceed directly on his course; threatening, if he found the brig again among the islands, to sink us; which orders I was compelled to obey.
The Negroes brought on board sufficient provisions for six or seven days, and said they were told by captain Lucas, (who is said to be nephew to General La Crose,) that the best of provisions and wine were previously put on board my vessel for their use.
One of the Negroes, from what I could learn, was a Principal Chief of the Brigands who capitulated with General La Crose about ten days previous to my sailing, and is a Man of great activity and intrigue: one of the other two is said to have been Commandant at Bassetterre, where the Negroes first rose on the Whites, and a third appears to be a Servant to the two.
After receiving the Negroes on Board I made the best of my way for Boston, my destined Port, where I arrived the twenty-ninth of Dec. in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two—And the negroes took their liberty and quitted the Brig Argo, under my command.
BENJAMIN CUSHING.
Boston, Jan. 12, 1803.

TO THE PUBLIC.
THE Subscribers, Trustees of the Aggregate Fund created by James Greenleaf, Edward Fox, Robert Morris, and John Nicholson, do hereby announce to the Public, that they have received, annulled and determined all letters of Attorney at any time heretofore executed by them to Joshua B. Bond of the City of Philadelphia, merchant, and in particular two letters of attorney, one dated the 9th day of February, A. D. 1801, and the other dated the 10th day of February, A. D. 1801, empowering the said Joshua B. Bond to settle and adjust the claims of the subscribers on the estate of Georgia and individuals, arising from purchases of land made by the said James Greenleaf. The said Joshua B. Bond being no longer authorized to act for the subscribers on any subject whatsoever.
Henry Pratt, Thomas W. Francis, John Miller, jun. John Ashley, Jacob Baker,
Trustees of the Aggregate Fund. October 29.
OPINION.
We have perused, and attentively considered, 1st. A copy of an agreement made on the 9th Feb. 1801, between Henry Pratt, Thomas W. Francis, John Miller, jun. John Ashley, and Jacob Baker, Trustees of the Aggregate Fund, &c. and Joshua B. Bond.
2. A copy of a letter from Henry Pratt and others, to J. B. Bond, dated 10th Feb. 1801, in explanation of the foregoing.
3. A copy of a power of attorney from Henry Pratt and others to J. B. Bond, dated 9th February, 1801.
4. A copy of a power of attorney from Henry Pratt and others, to J. B. Bond, dated 10th Feb. 1801.
5. A letter from J. B. Bond to Henry Pratt and others, dated 9th June, 1802.
6. A copy of a Power of attorney from J. B. Bond, to Benjamin Hichborn and William Hull, dated 3d of May, 1802.
7. A copy of articles of agreement between J. B. Bond and Benjamin Hichborn, and William Hull, dated 3d of May, 1802.
8. A letter from J. B. Bond to John Miller, jun. including No. 6, dated 17th July, 1802.
From all which we are decidedly of opinion that J. B. Bond had not on the 17th July last made a sale to Messrs Hichborn and Hull of the lands mentioned in the Power from H. Pratt and others to him. The Power of Attorney of the 3d of May, 1802, from J. B. Bond to Messrs. Hichborn and Hull respected land which the state of Georgia granted to James Gunn and others, and which J. B. Bond then possessed by a regular title from the state. It could on no legal construction extend to lands he did not possess by regular title, and regarding which he had only a power of attorney from the rightful owners, authorizing him to dispose of them, revocable in its essence at nature, which power he did not recite, or even most distinctly allude to.
But supposing J. B. Bond and Messrs. Hichborn and Hull to have intended, that the power should have extended to the lands mentioned in the power from Pratt and others to J. B. Bond, there is not in the articles of agreement between J. B. Bond and Hichborn and Hull of the 3d of May, 1802, or in any other of the documents produced any thing that can on the most strained construction be deemed a sale.
Those articles after reciting the powers from J. B. Bond to Messrs. Hichborn and Hull, recite that J. B. Bond did so authorize and empower them, to the end that the said Hichborn and Hull should sell and dispose of the said 3,700,000 acres of land, &c. state an agreement between Bond, and Hichborn and Hull, not that J. B. Bond had sold to Hichborn and Hull, but that Hichborn and Hull should, with all convenient speed, use their best exertions to sell and dispose of the said land, "and when the same is disposed of," there follows an agreement how the purchase money should be appropriated; J. B. Bond covenanting that he will, when thereunto required, produce all the title deeds, &c. "and that he will make, do and execute, or cause to be done and executed, all acts, deeds, conveyances and assurances in the law for the absolutely and effectually conveying and assuring the said lands in as full and ample a manner as the same have been conveyed by the state of Georgia to James Gunn and others, and lastly the said J. B. Bond doth covenant to promise and agree that as well the said letter of attorney as these presents shall be irrevocable and of full force and effect for eighteen months from the day of the date hereof." Hence it is clear beyond all possibility of doubt, that at the execution of this instrument, on the 3d of May, 1802, J. B. Bond had not sold to Hichborn and Hull, that they were only authorized to sell, and that J. B. Bond intended their authority should be irrevocable for 18 months, which last (his own authority being liable to revocation at any time) was as against Pratt and others utterly void. We are also most clearly of opinion, that Joshua B. Bond as attorney to H. Pratt and others, was bound to give them the fullest information, of every thing done or step taken by him in his agency, whenever by them required.
Philadelphia, Jan. 25th 1803. Edward Tilghman, W. Lewis.
THE substance of the above opinion was communicated to us in November by Mr. Tilghman; Mr. Lewis not having been then applied to; by Mr. Tilghman's advice and direction we wrote to J. B. Bond on the 27th Nov. the following letter which was delivered to him shortly after its date. "Your counsel have said. "We are of opinion upon the statements and exhibition of paper made by Mr. Bond that he had full authority to make a sale, and that he hath made an absolute sale," being confident that the same counsel would, under the communication made by you to us, have been of opinion that you had not made a sale, we call upon you to lay before us a full and complete statement of every thing you have transacted by virtue of our powers of attorney to you of the 9th and 10th February, 1801. We expect to receive from you the statement required on or before Saturday the 4th day of December ensuing."
From Mr. Bond we received no answer till the 24th December—by one of his Counsel we had been assured that an answer should be given in the course of the then next week, the note from that gentleman was not dated, and the time of receiving it was not marked. On the 24th December, T. W. Francis received a letter from J. B. Bond, without date, being that before mentioned, in which he says, "In answer to your letter of the 27th ult. I have to say that you are already in possession of the substance of the agreement made with Messrs Hichborn and Hull, under the contract I made with you, and the power of attorney I received from you." On the same 24th December, at 3 o'clock, P. M. we received a letter from Mr. Hull, dated 22nd December, Philadelphia, (not specifying in what street or house) in which he mentioned that he had called on J. B. Bond for "Titles to certain lands, &c. agreeably to a contract and power of attorney, both of which were made on the 3d of May, 1802, between Mr. Bond, on the one part, and Mr. Hichborn and myself on the other part."
Being very desirous to see gen. Hull, we made diligent enquiry for him on the afternoon and evening of the 24th without success, on the 25th we found he had left town early in the morning of that day. We most solemnly declare we know nothing of any sale or contract respecting these lands other than the agreement of the 3d May, 1802, we have information of none other, we verily believe that no other exists—As to it, we confidently rely on the opinions we have published, and will with the greatest cheerfulness submit them or the documents, independently of Mr. Bond's information to the respect his gentlemen whose opinions Mr. Bond has published.
As Mr. Bond in his letter of the 9th of June, 1802, said "I have already informed you verbally that under your power of attorney of the 3d of May last, I concluded a contract with colonel Hichborn and gen. Hull of Boston, for the sale of 2,500,000 acres more or less, part of the large tract conveyed by the State of Georgia to Gunn and others, by them to James Greenleaf, and now the property of the Aggregate Fund, &c." whereby we were induced to think there had been an actual sale, and as by his letters of the 10th and 17th July last, and a variety of other circumstances, it plainly appeared to us that we had been misinformed by Mr. Bond, and that no sale had been made, we deemed it our duty to revoke his powers and have revoked them accordingly.
Philadelphia, January 25, 1803. Henry Pratt, Thomas W. Francis, John Miller, jun. John Ashley, Jacob Baker. Trustees of the Aggregate Fund. Feb. 2, 1803.
To Rent on moderate terms. A TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE ON South Capitol Street—in front is a large forecourt completely fitted up for the wet and dry goods business, with a Parlor adjoining, which may be used separate from the House, and leave sufficient room for the accommodation of a private family—a kitchen with servants room over—with a small smoke House adjoining—three stall stable and inclosed garden. Enquire of Mr. CHARLES VARDEN, New Jersey Avenue, or on the premises, of THOMAS JONES Nov. 25.
Thomas Carpenter, TAYLOR. HAS received a very handsome assortment of goods, consisting of superfine cloths, cassimere and coatings of all colours. Patent water proof Cloths, Silk and woolen Molekins, Tsinnettes, velveteens, &c. of superior quality. From which, and an acquisition of the newest fashions and the best workmen, he can assure whatever commanded. Pennsylvania Avenue, near the President's Square, and New Jersey Avenue, about eight houses from Capitol square. Dec. 1, 1802.
A few hundred weight of Baltimore manufactured loaf Sugar, and a parcel of Seine Twine, of a very superior quality, just received and for sale by STUART & BEALL. N. B. They have on hand, French, Peach, and Apple Brandy, Whiskey, Tar and Flour by the barrel, a large supply of Salt and Pepper of Paris and Shad. Jan. 17, 1803.
In Chancery, January 22, 1803. Patrick Murdock, varius.
Thomas Beall of Samuel, Peter Deviceman and Joseph Forrest, and Joseph Forrest, THE object of the bill filed in this cause is to obtain a conveyance of part of the Tract of Land called "Walnut Bottom," lying in Allegany county, which Thomas Beall of Samuel, contracted for with Peter Deviceman, on the 26th day of February 1795, by an article of agreement of that date, the interest in which Land hath come by assentment to the complainant. The bill states that the Defendants, Joseph Forrest and Peter Deviceman, resides out of the state of Maryland.
It is thereupon on the motion of the complainant ordered, adjudged and decreed, that he cause a copy of this order to be inserted at least once in each of three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer before the 25th day of February next, to the intent that the absent Defendant may have notice of the present application, and the object of the bill filed, and may be warned to appear in this court, or by solicitor on or before the twenty fifth day of June next, or else cause if any he hath, why a decree should not pass as prayed. True Copy, Ick, SAML. H. HOWARD, Reg. Cur. Can Feb. 2. taw3w.
NOTICE. HOLDERS of subscription papers for the work entitled, "A Direction, or Preparation to the study of the Law," will particularly oblige the author by advising him of the number of subscribers obtained before the first day of March. ROBERT W. PEACOCK, Atty. at Law City of Washington, Jan. 28, 1803. taw3w
City Hotel, BROADWAY NEW-YORK. THE Subscriber most respectfully informs his friends and the public, that the above Hotel will be opened on the first of May ensuing, when their patronage is earnestly solicited. He avails himself of this opportunity to return his sincere and grateful thanks to those societies, parties, and gentlemen, who have given him their support, and assures them that a continuance of their favors will be a stimulus to future exertions to please; and that the utmost attention shall be given for their comfort and accommodation. Boarding may be had by the day, week, month, or year. Families travelling, may be elegantly accommodated with lodging and sitting rooms; and, if preferred, have dinner &c. in their apartments. The Hotel being so well known, it is almost useless to say, that it is situated in one of the most healthy and pleasant parts of the city; commanding an extensive view in every direction, not only of the city itself, but also of the Narrows, the North and East Rivers, the state of New-Jersey, York and Long-Island &c. &c. A handsome coffee-room will be fitted up in the principal story; where gentlemen may have tea, coffee, chocolate, soups, and refreshments in general, at the shortest notice. All the leading newspapers in the union, will be regularly taken in. Public dinners and suppers in a plain or elegant style either for large or small parties. Also, beef steaks, oysters, &c. regularly furnished. An ordinary every day at half past 2 o'clock, by the public's obedient servant, JOHN LOVETT. N. B. Rooms to let by the month or year April 21, 1803. eptf.
FOR SALE OR RENT, THAT elegant three story BRICK HOUSE, on the corner of Falls & Frederick Street in George Town, lately occupied by Mr. PICHON.
Likewise, THE two well finished three story BRICK HOUSES, adjoining that occupied by Mr. SAMUEL H. SMITH, Printer, on the Pennsylvania Avenue, east of the centre Market House, City of Washington—Apply to GEORGE THOMPSON, George Town. Geo. Town, Oct. 20. tf.
Members of Congress, Travellers, and those gentlemen whose business calls them to the City of Washington, are respectfully informed that the subscriber has established the UNION TAVERN & WASHINGTON HOTEL, On Pennsylvania Avenue, first house east of the President's, and one mile from the Capitol. THERE is a pavement all the way, and the accommodations are equal to any in the United States, having thirty rooms fitted up in an elegant manner. Also, a large Coffee Room, 34 feet by 22—and a room over the same, now finishing, convenient for the reception of any public meeting, with a pleasant view of the Potomac and the surrounding country. All the principal newspapers in the Union are taken and regularly filed. WILLIAM LOVELL. N. B.—To Let, a coach and single horse CHAIR. Nov. 26. 3m.
170,038 Acres of Land. THIS body of land, in one entire and inclusive survey, is offered for sale to any individual or company, who may incline to purchase for the purposes of settlement and emigration. It is situated in the state of Virginia, on the Great Kenawha River, Montgomery county, and is distinguished by the name of "The Great Bend of the Kenawha," being intersected by the Piney river, Great and Little Bluecone rivers, Coal river, and uyandot river, as also by numerous other creeks and waters, running into said rivers. Numerous mill-sites, inexhaustible bodies of coal, and great appearances of ores, metals, salt springs and salt licks, are to be found on this tract, besides which, sugar may be made thereon to any amount, the sugar-cane bud in almost every part. For fertility of soil, growth of timber, fitness for cultivation, salubrity of climate, and natural advantages, this body of land stands unrivalled by any tract of equal quantity in Western America; it will be submitted for sale to an entire purchaser, until the first day of June next, on very advantageous terms; after which, it cannot be disposed of at any price the present proprietor being compelled to a division thereof. An indispensible title will be given, and for further particulars, as to terms of sale and payment, enquire of JOHN BECKLEY, Esq. Clerk to the House of Representatives of the United States, at the city of Washington. November 1, 1802. tf.
CHARLES VARDEN, TAYLOR, FROM PHILADELPHIA. HAS received from Philadelphia an elegant assortment of the best quality Superfine Cloths, Cassimere, Silk florantine, Black and fancy silk molekin velvet, white & figured Marcellus, Swandown, Tsinnettes, 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 first style of fashion. New-Jersey Avenue, the second House from the Capitol Square. December 8, 1802. tf.
I will sell on very reasonable terms, the following squares in the City of Washington, or either of them, viz no. 253, 437, 438, 439 and 440. The titles will be such as to give entire satisfaction to the purchaser. By an examination of the plan of the city, the foregoing squares will be found most advantageously situated, both as to their configuration to navigation and their central situation. Application to be made to ROBERT BRENT in the city of Washington, or to the Subscriber near Piquay. Dec. 31. NICOLAS YOUNG. eptm.
Doctor FENDALL. Having just arrived in the City of Washington, takes the liberty to intimate to the inhabitants of the City of Washington, George-Town, and their vicinage, that he means to exercise his skill in the line of his profession, for a few weeks, and may be spoke with at Mr. Stella's Hotel. The Doctor's knowledge of the natural history of the human teeth—their adjacent parts, and the disorders to which they are subject, acquired by assiduous attention, unremitted study, and experience of an extensive and successful practice for upwards of twenty eight years, will, he hopes, entitle him to the confidence of all those who will employ him—He fondly flatters himself he has it happily in his power to appeal without fear to such as have been his patients in the states of Maryland, Virginia, &c. for that degree of reputation which his conduct as a dentist has merited, and given him just claim to.—The doctor hopes at least, he is considered as entitled to the highest grade among those of his profession in this country. The Doctor entreats leave to offer to the public his Columbian anti-scorbutic Dentifrice for preserving the teeth, gums, sockets, &c. a dentifrice infinitely superior (he thinks) both in elegance and efficacy, to anything hitherto used for the teeth and gums. It renders the breath sweet and agreeable, is a powerful anti-scorbutic, and free from any corrosive quality whatever.—No family, and especially where there are children, should be without this excellent and valuable preparation, which doctor FENDALL avers to be productive not only of those effects and consequences as a sovereign Dentifrice and remedy for the disorders of the teeth and gums, but will also prevent them. This admirable dentifrice is still sold (only by Doctor FENDALL) at the moderate price of one dollar a pot with directions. Jan. 12. tf.
NOTICE. In the matter of JOHN JACK, Bankrupt. THE subscriber being appointed Assignee of the Estate and effects of JOHN JACK Bankrupt. All persons indebted to the said Bankrupt, are requested to make immediate payment otherwise legal steps will be indiscriminately taken to compel them. RICHARD FORREST, Assignee. Jan. 24. tf.
IRON WORKS. THE subscriber would rent a set of works, situated within twenty miles of the boatable waters of James River; consisting of Furnace, Forge, Mill, saw-mill, and every necessary appendage, all new and finished in the completest manner of any in America; having abundance of water, wood, and ore of the best quality, and lying in a healthy country where provisions are so abundant and cheap. Fifteen or twenty able negroes may be rented with the works, if speedily applied for. FERDINANDO FAIRFAX. Shann. Hill, near Charleston, Virginia. N. B. Applications by letter must be post-paid. January 28. taw6w
FOR SALE. HE following valuable Tracts of land which will be disposed of on reasonable terms, for either cash, property in the city of Washington, good security, or a certain number of negroes, as may best suit the purchaser. A tract of 300 acres on Second street, near the Natchez. 150 acres on the river Amite. 400 acres on the river Tangipah, opposite to New Orleans. This tract is particularly valuable, on account of its eligible situation, fertility of soil, and abundant supply of fish, which abound in the river, and the neighbouring lake. A post road passes this tract from New Orleans to the Natchez—The above three tracts are within the line of the United States. A tract of 200 acres on the river Mississippi, Baton rouge settlement. 500 acres back land do. do. 300 acres do. do. 1000 acres do. do. 500 acres do. do. Those Lands are adjoining aten Rouge, being the first high ground that commands the river, where the British established a Fort and a strong garrison, which was conquered by Don Gayvez and the garrison made prisoners of war, in the year 1779, and this settlement is now one of the most promising on the river, within the Spanish Boundary. A tract of 500 acres near point Couper, a flourishing settlement. This Property is also within the Spanish boundary. A tract of 7000 acres in edford county, on the branches of Otter river, the branches of Reed and Hunting Creeks, branches of James river. A tract of 4000 acres in Pittsylvania, on Staunton river. Those two tracts just mentioned are in the state of Virginia. Two tracts of 1200 acres each, in Fayette, near Benton county, district of Kentucky, on the waters of Main Licking. Two valuable lots in the town of Portsmouth. Those tracts are adjoining the ground now occupied by government as a navy yard; they are a growing property, worthy attention. All the tracts on or near the Mississippi are well calculated for the raising of cotton, indigo, hemp, flax, indian corn, oats, &c. the quality being generally strong, and highly productive. Their range for horned cattle, horses, hogs, &c. in all seasons, is equal to any on the continent. Those who wish to purchase may gain further information by applying to James Duncan, Esq. Carlisle, Pennsylvania; to Dr. Robinson at the city of Washington, or to the Subscriber in the city of Philadelphia—Letters, post paid, will be attended to. OLIVER POLLOCK. Washington, Dec. 27. 1802. taw2m
TO RENT. The Subscriber will Rent on reasonable terms a two story BRICK DWELLING House and lot—SITUATED near the Capitol of the United States, in square 759,—Possession may be had immediately by. SAMUEL N. SMALLWOOD. N. B. I will exchange the above property in part for land in or near the District of Columbia. Feb. 7. taw3w.
TO BE LET, And immediate possession given. Two new two story BRICK HOUSES, completely finished, with extensive back-buildings, situated at the intersection of E and thirteenth streets, immediately in the neighbourhood of the Bank, and within a short distance of Pennsylvania Avenue, in the city of Washington. For terms, which will be very moderate, apply to Mr. JENKIN PATTERSON, near the Union Tavern, George-town, or in Baltimore to D WILLIAMSON. George-town, 26 Jan. 1803. 19t.
TO LET, And be entered upon immediately, three well finished BRICK HOUSES, NEARLY opposite Mosen's Tavern, on Twelfth street very near Pennsylvania Avenue, built for the WASHINGTON BUILDING COMPANY. The Houses will be rented on very reasonable terms. Apply to THOMAS CARPENTER near the President's Square. Dec. 18. eptf.
Public Sale. By virtue of a deed of trust from OWEN ROBERTS to the subscriber, on the third Monday in February next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, will be exposed to sale, for ready money, on the premises.
One Moiety of that Lot of GROUND in the city of Washington, described in the plan of the city by the number eighteen, in the square number one hundred and sixty-eight, fronting fifty-nine feet upon the Pennsylvania avenue, and extending back one hundred and seven feet seven inches—Upon the premises is erected a two story brick Dwelling, and the lot is under a mortgage to secure the payment of fifteen hundred dollars, subject to which it will be sold—Also, one moiety of that Lot of Ground in the said city, described in the plan by number ten, in square number two hundred and fifty-six, fronting forty eight feet five inches upon the open area on the Pennsylvania avenue, upon which there is an unfinished Frame Dwelling-House. JAMES KEITH. Alexandria, Jan. 17, 1803. eptf.
United States, district of Columbia, County of Washington, to wit:
In Chancery, January, 1803. Thomas Law, Complainant, versus, James Pierce, Juror, James Ray, Samuel Treat, James Piercy, Senr. & Amariah Frost. Defendants. THE Bill states that the defendant James Pierce, Juror, being indebted to the Complainant in a large sum of money, in said Bill, specified in order to secure the repayment thereof mortgaged certain property specified in said Bill to the complainant, and that afterwards the complainant at the request of the said defendant, James Pierce, Juror advanced to him another large sum of money also specified in the bill, to secure the repayment thereof; and also for other purposes the said defendant James Pierce, Juror mortgaged certain other property likewise specified in said Bill to the complainant, one James Ray and a certain Daniel Carroll; That the said Daniel Carroll hath no interest in the property in the said last mentioned deed designated, he having been paid the amount that was to be secured by the said Deed. That the complainant relying upon the security contained in the said mortgages became security for the said Pierce for large amounts, for which the said complainants were sued, and had to pay, and that he also lent, advanced and paid away for the said Defendant James Pierce, Juror, other large sums of money under the impression of his being secured by the said mortgages. That the said Pierce, Juror in order to defraud the complainant charged, the said property designated in the said mortgages before mentioned, by mortgages to the said Defendants James Ray, Samuel Treat, James Pierce, Senr. and Amariah Frost. The bill further states that all the defendants named in this reside out of the District of Columbia and out of the Jurisdiction of this Court. The object of this bill is to foreclose the equity of redemption of the said property reeking in the said defendant James Pierce, Juror, or in the other defendants or any of them, or any other person. The bill states that the said James Pierce, Juror, in order to defraud his creditors, ran away from the county of Washington, and now resides in Portsmouth, Virginia, that Samuel Treat resides there also, that James Ray resides in the city of Annapolis, in the state of Maryland, probably in jail, that James Pierce, Senr. resides, and always has resided in the kingdom of Great Britain, and that Amariah Frost resides in the city of Washington. It is on the complainant's motion ordered that he procure a copy of this order to be inserted once a week in each of three successive weeks, in the National Intelligencer, and Washington Federalist, before the first day of March next ensuing, to the end that the said James Pierce, Juror, James Ray, Samuel Treat, and James Pierce, Senr. four of the defendants above named, and all other persons (if any there be) interested in the premises, may have notice of the complainant's application, and of the object of his said bill, and that the said defendants may be warned to appear in person, or by solicitor, on or before the fourth Monday in July next ensuing, to show cause (if any they can) why a decree as prayed for in and by the said bill, should not be made. By order, URIAN FORREST, Clerk.
16 Dollars Reward. STOLEN from the Subscriber, living near the head of Swanson's Creek, on Saturday night last, a Bay HORSE, about 14 hands high, well made, a small blaze down his face, rubbed by the geers, particularly on the right, one hind foot white, branded with a P, but scarcely perceptible, a small white seam on his back, occasioned by the saddle. The above reward will be paid for the horse and thief, or six dollars for the horse alone. WISON RAWLINGS. Feb 4. 3t