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National Intelligencer.
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER
VOL. X.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
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The great length of the documents which accompanied the President's Message, and a desire to gratify without delay the eager expectation of the public, so laudably indulged, with regard to the proceedings of Congress, have hitherto prevented our noticing many articles of interest in the newspapers, indicative of the state of public opinion. On the unwarrantable and unfriendly conduct of Mr. Jackson but one sentiment appears to prevail among the republicans; and, it gives us sincere pleasure to add, that many of the most respectable of the federal party avow the same opinion, with a determination zealously to support their government in any energetic measures that may be adopted to vindicate the rights or avenge the honor of the country. In Philadelphia, especially, this patriotism shines with the greatest lustre. There are a few prints that openly justify the conduct of Mr. Jackson, and condemn that of their government; but the tone which they assume is of itself abundant proof of a predetermined purpose to reprobate any course pursued by the administration that did not involve an absolute submission to British injustice.
In the multiplicity of matter with which the newspapers abound we have given a preference to the communications of the Chief Magistrates of the respective states at the opening of their legislatures. These, together with the replies of the legislative bodies, will serve more justly to exhibit the tone of the public mind, than a thousand anonymous essays. We have, accordingly, already presented the Messages of the Governors of the large and respectable states of Virginia, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, couched in terms, which, we have no doubt, correctly express the feelings of the people of those states.
Extracts from Governor Scott's Message to the Legislature of Kentucky, communicated on the 5th instant.
"It was once since the last session of our general assembly, fondly to be hoped that we should have been able, at this period, to have felicitated our country and each other upon the amicable adjustment of our differences with Great Britain. The solemn assurances of her minister resident, to the Executive of the United States, which appeared to fix the basis of a friendly arrangement; by which the President was induced to suspend the operation of our non-intercourse act, after the British ports to be filled with our productions; and permit our property to an immense amount to be set afloat on the ocean; have eventuated in a disavowal on the part of that government, and have afforded another striking instance, that we cannot look for safety in British faith. We seem to have also but a small prospect of the restoration of a friendly commercial intercourse with France; the obnoxious decrees of both those powers seem to have reduced our commerce to little more than a name, and there is from our sea-board scarcely a port or high sea in the world where we are not liable to be captured or despoiled by one or the other, unless we submit to terms unworthy an independent nation. We seem finally to be reduced to the necessity of retreating within ourselves, from the injuries and depredations of a warring world, until the interests of the belligerents shall teach them to respect our maritime rights; or to commit ourselves on an element where we are incapable of any effectual resistance, to be humiliated and controlled at their pleasure. One other alternative, only, presents itself, and fortunately though it has its advocates they are not numerous; that is to plunge ourselves into the vortex of those bloody conflicts which shake Europe to her centre, and cling to the skirts of one or the other of those two great powers, which for years have kept her in arms; when we do this, we bid a solemn adieu to republican institutions. We have on the other hand to give up only the luxuries of other nations for the sweets of independence and self-government. The people who could not do it with the country and resources we possess, are unworthy the divine birth-right of freedom. Our brethren of the Eastern and Atlantic states, who are exposed to feel more severely the privation of commerce, appear to have become convinced of the maxim, that one step of humiliation prepares the way for another; and that it is better to submit to what may prove only a temporary inconvenience than to lasting and disgraceful imposition. For I rejoice to inform you that amid all the difficulties which surround the administration of the general government, its friends in several states have lately increased the former great majority. And surely it cannot but be distressing to every friend to his country, to see an American citizen become the apologist of any nation who violates our plainest rights. The state of agriculture and home manufactures appears to be fast progressing in improvement throughout the union, and it is pleasing to find that our state bids fair to hold no inconsiderable rank in the scale. In several states legislative patronage, in the establishment of agricultural and manufacturing societies, has been afforded, and it were much to be desired that institutions of a similar nature could take their rise here. These may be said to generate and cherish the life's blood of a free nation. Nature in her profuse munificence has given to us the materials of our comfort and independence within ourselves, and invites us to use them. It is a consoling observation, that for the same time, perhaps no country upon the earth has exhibited, and will continue to do so, such an astonishing progress in improvements of almost every description, as this state. They are sure indications of our prosperity, and if the idle or extravagant complain of their lot, the most abundant evidence, nevertheless, exists to show we ought to be happy."
trayed into undignified and unavailing querulousness. It is too true that the press in this country is deplorably licentious; and though you were egregiously incorrect when you made this circumstance a ground of official complaint to the Executive, yet all temperate Americans must deprecate the scandalous calumnies that are daily poured forth upon your nation, mission and person. But it is not the freedom of the press that has taken with your name, that have made it odious in America. That you may not return impressed with a belief, in which it is to be lamented you came among us, that party is the only index to opinion in the U. States, or that certain violent newspapers are the organs of the sentiments of the great body of sober and reflecting people, I take the liberty of addressing you in the language that is almost universally held, relative to this controversy, by those native & genuine Americans, who, with a natural & decided preference for the English nation, are at the same time alive to the rights of their own; and always are alike indignant at all foreign aggressions whatever. It may, perhaps, notwithstanding your patriotic zeal, somewhat assuage your disappointment, to know that by this respectable class your instructions are more blamed than your conduct; and it is highly proper that you should be apprized of the independent and honorable motives which govern them in this juncture.
Your nomination created some suspicion and much clamor. Peremptorily refusing to ratify the terms proposed by one minister, after they had been accepted and effectuated on our part, recalling and disgracing that minister, and appointing another who had been used to treat with fleets at his heels, were not indications of a very friendly disposition on the part of England. Notwithstanding these omens, the mass of the American nation prepared to accredit you as one of the most distinguished members of that corps, which, in the states of Europe, is as regularly trained, formed and distributed as armies and navies—aware that you were yet reeking from the discharge of a most detestable duty at Copenhagen, but hoping that your employment on several such exigencies was rather in the course of your vocation than optional, and that the fame of such achievements preceding you here, would have the effect rather to soften than aggravate your tone—and with an honest confidence trusting that you were selected for your superior talents and veteran skill, and coming to negotiate, if not to conclude, an accommodation. The Americans are a simple, peace-loving people, little versed in diplomatic sophistry. Peace and plain dealing are emphatically their policy, inasmuch as one is the source, the other the only safeguard of their prosperity. Whatever therefore was declared by a few unimportant individuals of the insolence and bad faith upon which your embassy was grounded, the government, with a large majority of the country, were disposed to receive you with hospitality, and anxiously desirous that your terms might be tolerably amicable, and your tone tolerably decent. With such terms and such a tone there was a temper to be satisfied; and it is notorious that the belief was very general of your having entered upon discussions, which promised an arrangement. After indulging a few weeks in these flattering expectations, it was understood with amazement and regret and indignation, that you came three thousand miles, with a magnificent appointment, without authority to adjust any one point in dispute, and with orders to couch your communications in the most imperious and offensive style of the new phraseology of diplomatic correspondence. You came, as you have yourself declared to our government, expressly to do nothing; and in doing that nothing you assumed a tone of contempt and defiance. Under such circumstances you should not be surprised that it is the sense of nine-tenths of the American people, that as your mission was meant to be futile and your language unbecoming, the government consulted their dignity, and the dignity of a nation, too long patient of outrage, when it deranged you from your functions, and discarded you at its presence.
From Relf's Philadelphia Gazette.
TO FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON, ESQ. Ex-Ambassador from His Britannic Majesty to the U. S. of America.
Sir,—In the first moments of that perturbation, from which the most accomplished diplomatist cannot at all times be exempt, and into which even a person of your experience may be excused for falling, on the sudden occurrence of a crisis so unexpected and embarrassing, as your late discharge, you were indiscreet enough to allege the constitutional liberty of the press in this country, as a charge against the Executive government, which your complaint implies that department might correct. You should have recollected that when an ambassador is most disconcerted, he ought to appear the least disturbed; that by the law of the land the Executive cannot interfere with the press, and that when the First Consul of France, with whose annals you have such especial reason for being familiar, laid a similar grievance before the British ministry, he was told that the courts of justice were the only means known to the law for punishing such offences, that a Pelletier was convicted by a jury, and sentenced by my lord Ellenborough, not by Mr. Addington or the King. These things you should have known; for they would have saved you the mortification, which every man, particularly the envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary from a mighty kingdom, ought to feel, when he so far forgets himself and his station, as to be be-
trayed into undignified and unavailing querulousness. It is too true that the press in this country is deplorably licentious; and though you were egregiously incorrect when you made this circumstance a ground of official complaint to the Executive, yet all temperate Americans must deprecate the scandalous calumnies that are daily poured forth upon your nation, mission and person. But it is not the freedom of the press that has taken with your name, that have made it odious in America. That you may not return impressed with a belief, in which it is to be lamented you came among us, that party is the only index to opinion in the U. States, or that certain violent newspapers are the organs of the sentiments of the great body of sober and reflecting people, I take the liberty of addressing you in the language that is almost universally held, relative to this controversy, by those native & genuine Americans, who, with a natural & decided preference for the English nation, are at the same time alive to the rights of their own; and always are alike indignant at all foreign aggressions whatever. It may, perhaps, notwithstanding your patriotic zeal, somewhat assuage your disappointment, to know that by this respectable class your instructions are more blamed than your conduct; and it is highly proper that you should be apprized of the independent and honorable motives which govern them in this juncture.
Your nomination created some suspicion and much clamor. Peremptorily refusing to ratify the terms proposed by one minister, after they had been accepted and effectuated on our part, recalling and disgracing that minister, and appointing another who had been used to treat with fleets at his heels, were not indications of a very friendly disposition on the part of England. Notwithstanding these omens, the mass of the American nation prepared to accredit you as one of the most distinguished members of that corps, which, in the states of Europe, is as regularly trained, formed and distributed as armies and navies—aware that you were yet reeking from the discharge of a most detestable duty at Copenhagen, but hoping that your employment on several such exigencies was rather in the course of your vocation than optional, and that the fame of such achievements preceding you here, would have the effect rather to soften than aggravate your tone—and with an honest confidence trusting that you were selected for your superior talents and veteran skill, and coming to negotiate, if not to conclude, an accommodation. The Americans are a simple, peace-loving people, little versed in diplomatic sophistry. Peace and plain dealing are emphatically their policy, inasmuch as one is the source, the other the only safeguard of their prosperity. Whatever therefore was declared by a few unimportant individuals of the insolence and bad faith upon which your embassy was grounded, the government, with a large majority of the country, were disposed to receive you with hospitality, and anxiously desirous that your terms might be tolerably amicable, and your tone tolerably decent. With such terms and such a tone there was a temper to be satisfied; and it is notorious that the belief was very general of your having entered upon discussions, which promised an arrangement. After indulging a few weeks in these flattering expectations, it was understood with amazement and regret and indignation, that you came three thousand miles, with a magnificent appointment, without authority to adjust any one point in dispute, and with orders to couch your communications in the most imperious and offensive style of the new phraseology of diplomatic correspondence. You came, as you have yourself declared to our government, expressly to do nothing; and in doing that nothing you assumed a tone of contempt and defiance. Under such circumstances you should not be surprised that it is the sense of nine-tenths of the American people, that as your mission was meant to be futile and your language unbecoming, the government consulted their dignity, and the dignity of a nation, too long patient of outrage, when it deranged you from your functions, and discarded you at its presence.
But while such is the sense, and the decided and enthusiastic sense of nearly all the people of this country, it is
matter of the most painful regret with many of them, that the representative of a great and glorious empire, himself a man of talents, and a fine gentleman, should have been obliged to incur the predicament into which you have rather marched, than fallen, which, notwithstanding the challenge you received of its imminence, seems to have been as unexpected by you, as it certainly must be inauspicious to the future relations of the two countries. You find American endurance may be tried too far.
Unthinking men, who condemn in the mass, and calumniate, wherever they condemn, do not distinguish between your constituents and their instrument. They attach an odium to your name, which the more discerning know you do not deserve. When Mr. Jefferson retired, it was said the main obstacle to an accommodation was removed. But they who conceived such hopes did not know Mr. Canning. Doubtless you were ordered to hold the front you did. Those rhetorical flourishes & polished invectives, with which your letters abound, are perfect imitations of Mr. Canning's school, which has substituted such balderdash for the stately and respectable garb, in which, until this day, diplomacy, however, hostile was invariably clothed. When, besides the utter success of their enemies, the unfortunate people of England, in a short lapse of disaster, were deprived of Mr. Pitt, Fox, Nelson, Cornwallis and Thurlow, fate seemed to have declared against them, and also ever since, distraction, ignorance and malversation have possessed a cabinet heretofore filled with talents, integrity, and public spirit. One of the last struggles of the last of these administrations was to dispatch you to this country, with instructions, which, it cannot be questioned, you have rigidly conformed to. The result is what must have been desired, though perhaps was scarcely expected by the king your master, and his late ministers. And you are too high-spirited a man to blame the Americans, if, by every thing short of insult to your person, they show their detestation to such insidious and dastardly measures.
Your predecessor, Mr. Merry, an amiable and unadroit old man, to whom it was said Mr. Jefferson had been ungracious (at least Mistress Merry said so) was received in Philadelphia with a hospitality, intended to compensate for the rudeness he complained of at Washington. Mr. Liston was a great favorite, and Mr. Erskine was always welcomed with a kindness much more than merely polite. You are the first British minister from whom the hospitalities of Philadelphia have been withheld, and you are personally the best entitled to them. You must therefore ascribe the comparative isolation from society in which you are suffered to live in this metropolis, notwithstanding the elegance of your retinue and manner, to that feeling of unanimous indignation against your employers, which the disclosure of your correspondence has roused. Though you came fortified with letters of introduction and all the attractions calculated to make your company desirable, yet you cannot but applaud this repulsive nationality, however disagreeable you may find its effects. We know how to separate Mr. Jackson from his instructions:—But his representative has cast so deep a shade over his private character, that Americans of all parties, not caring to draw the distinction, are reluctant to dispense those civilities, which, but for the part it has been his due to act, they would have been proud and forward to show.
After lingering here a little longer, in a situation unworthy your rank and accomplishments, you will return to England, with the sorry satisfaction of having performed an odious service in the letter of your command. Unless you go to Algiers, Ispahan or Tombuctoo, there is now no friendly power, left in whose capital a conspicuous residence may snatch you from comparative insignificance in the environs of London. But at all events you will have the satisfaction to find Mr. George Canning, who, with no stronger claims than a petty genius and the consistency of faction, attempted to hold the reins, which Pitt could hardly manage—You will find him once more in his proper place, not at the privy council board but at the desk of the Anti Jacobin, writing per-
haps an additional canto to the Love of the Triangles . You may assure him that his mission is fulfilled; and that his artillery failed of its effect on his enemies, it answered, under your direction, at least for the purpose of driving off his few remaining friends. While Mr. Smith's share of the transaction was managed with calmness and perspicuity, you, in the full spirit of your instructions, were superb, contemptuous, confused, insulting and belligerent. The blunder you committed with respect to the oral communications, and the petulance you gave into, when you complained of the newspapers and demanded your passport, were to be sure departures from the lofty line of your orders. But they may be pardoned in consideration of your excellence upon the whole. You certainly effected your rejection in a shorter time than almost any other diplomatist could have attained that primary object. But you must tell that sophomore in politics, to whom you owe the honors of your embassy, that dictation, however it may become his haughty pen, is not adapted to conciliate a free and intelligent people, who had the hardihood to send you home in disgrace for faithfully executing your commission.
GANGANELLI.
CHARACTER OF THE NEW MINISTRY.
We have hitherto forborne to express any opinion on the composition of the new administration, because nothing is more unpleasant to us than that freedom of censure which the papers devoted to the respective parties seem to consider it as a point of duty to exercise on this occasion. Where any paper has connected itself with its peculiar patrons, it very naturally follows and maintains their fortunes with the zeal of advocacy. The public become the judges between the opposite pleadings, and considering both of them as mere pleadings, it does not apply too strict a rule to their respective statements. A paper, seeking only truth, and maintaining what it deems to be right, has a more difficult and unpleasant task—it must praise with moderation, and censure without respect of persons. It is considered as an enemy by both parties, and has no other support but with the public.
It is now well known from the published statement of Mr. Canning, that from the evident declining health of the duke of Portland, Mr. Canning was anxious to provide an equal successor to him as the head of the administration. Marquis Wellesley was accordingly proposed, but there was a strong party of the cabinet against his arrangement. Lord Liverpool, as it is stated, feared lest the activity of the marquis (for active he certainly is) might disturb, if not totally extinguish, that quiet dependence and tranquil submission, which had hitherto but too much characterised the ministry. It may not be perhaps unnecessary to add, that the original constitution of the ministry belonged, in best part, to the late and present earls of Liverpool, and that as one ministry had been dismissed for a contumacious opposition to the royal pleasure, one care was taken that such should not be the fault of its successors. The age of the duke of Portland rendered him a mere nominal head, and if the conscious talent of Mr. Canning occasionally made him troublesome, there was still strength enough in the cabinet to reduce him to discipline. We do not state these points with any purpose to offend; our object is merely to illustrate, in some small degree, the present state of the cabinet.
When Mr. Canning found, that secretly by some, and openly by others, he was thwarted in all his attempts to introduce the marquis Wellesley into the cabinet—when that part of the cabinet in opposition to him set up Mr. Perceval as their man—& when there was another secret counteraction going on forward on the parts of two noble lords, Mr. Canning resolved upon bringing things to a conclusion, and decidedly demanded, what he had certainly a right to demand, the dismissal of Lord Castlereagh, and the avowed preference of himself to Mr. Perceval. The duke of Portland, anxious only for peace and tranquility, after endeavoring to vainly dissuade Mr. Canning, and to reconcile the parties, consented to Mr. Canning's proposal; but as the notification of it to Lord Castlereagh must have necessar-

...was agreed to suspend the execution of all parliament had been proposed. Mr. Canning and the duke of Portland had still the majority in the cabinet, and therefore were enabled to carry their own measures.—Lord Liverpool, we believe, remained neutral, content if he could merely execute his own duty, and keep the cabinet together.
After the failure of the expedition to the Scheldt and the progressive growth of the dissensions in the cabinet, Mr. Canning deemed it necessary to demand the above-mentioned notification to Lord Castlereagh, and after some difficulty it was at length made. The immediate consequences are too well known to require a detail. The state papers of all the parties have been given to the public, and an unprejudiced judge cannot but condemn them both, and Mr. Canning much more than Lord Castlereagh. As to the effects of this proceeding on the cabinet, to say all in a word, the ministry fell to pieces, and it became necessary either to mend it, or to compose it anew.
Mr. Perceval, as the agent of Lord Liverpool, (we see no reason for keeping back this circumstance) was induced to attempt a measure, which was always as nugatory in reality as it is promising in appearance. This was a coalition of the two or rather three parties, the Grenvilles, the Foxes, and the remains of the broken cabinet. The Grenvilles, connected by general principles, and their former public life, with the greater part of those men, were not very averse; they obeyed the call to consultation, and however they may now chuse to disavow their condescension, it was certainly not their fault that the coalition did not succeed. Mr. Perceval did not offer enough. His brief was indorsed too humbly. Earl Grey, on the part of the Foxes, decidedly rejected all overtures, and though Earl Grey is in no great favor with us, we cannot deny that his conduct was more manly and more consistent with his principles than that of Lord Grenville. The refusal of Lord Grenville and Grey rendered it necessary for Lord Liverpool again to look around him, and it was at length determined, that Lord Wellesley should be invited into the cabinet, without Mr. Canning.—Mr. Sydneyham, the early friend and military secretary of the marquis in India, has been sent upon this errand, and, according to the statements in ministerial papers, every thing is waiting for his decision. The present composition of the cabinet is therefore only temporary.
Such is the present state of things and it remains only to suggest a few more points, as to what will be the probable event.
In the first place, as Mr. Canning in a very considerable degree sacrificed himself to the marquis we do not see how the marquis can consent to accept the offered seat at the expense and on the condition of the exclusion of Mr. Canning. It appears to us that the marquis Wellesley will be compelled by the mere point of honor to decline the proposal made to him.
If the marquis Wellesley do not join the administration, there is certainly an end of it, inasmuch as his wealth, and the connections subsequent to his former situation and patronage in the East Indies, have given him a parliamentary weight, which, added to that of the treasury, may enable the new administration to keep their ground. The marquis Wellesley, a man scarcely known twelve years since, is now nearly the first man in the kingdom—so sure is the influence of wealth, and so powerful the effect of our Indian connections. The time, perhaps, is not far distant, when England will repay India, and in the same coin, for the servitude under which we have long held her. It sometimes happens to nations as to individuals, that the servant and master change stations, and man comes to wear the livery of his butler.
Accounts, however, are stated to have been received, that the marquis has persuaded himself to accept the proposals made to him. We confess that we cannot believe it.—We have frequently expressed our opinion as to the character and talents of marquis Wellesley—that he has more activity than progress—more ostentation than solid virtue; a restless spirit of doing something, with little discrimination as to the comparative value of the cost and the acquisition.—But as a man of honour, we can entertain no doubt of him, and it really does appear to us, under all the circumstances of the case supposing the published statements to be authentic, that he cannot be honour become the head of an administration from which Mr. Canning is to be excluded.— Bull's Weekly Messenger . Nov. 5.
TREATY OF PEACE.
Napoleon, by the grace of God, and the Constitution of the Empire, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the League of the Rhine, &c.
Having seen and considered the treaty concluded, determined and signed at Vienna, on the 14th of this month, by the Sieur Nompere de Champagny, our minister for foreign affairs, in virtue of the full powers to that end given him by us, and the Prince of Liechtenstein, marshal of the armies of his majesty the Emperor of Austria, &c.
equally provided with full powers, which treaty is of the following tenor:
His majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the League of the Rhine, Mediator of the League of Switzerland, and his majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, being equally animated with the desire of putting an end to the war which has arisen between them, have resolved to negotiate forthwith a Definitive Treaty of Peace, and for that purpose have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, namely:
His majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the League of the Rhine, the Sieur Jean Baptiste Nompere, Count de Champagny, duke of Cadore, grand eagle bearer of the Legion of Honor, commander of the order of the Iron Crown, knight of the order of St. Andrew of Russia, grand dignitary of that of the two Sicilies, grand cross of the orders of the Black and Red Eagles of Prussia, of the order of St. Joseph of Wurzburg, of the order of Fidelity of Baden, of the order of Hesse Darmstadt, his said Majesty's Minister of Foreign Affairs; and his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the Sieur Prince John of Liechtenstein, knight of the order of the Golden Fleece, Grand Cross of the order of Maria Theresa, Chamberlain, Marshal of the Armies of his said Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and proprietary commander of a regiment of horse in his service.
Who, having previously exchanged their full powers, have agreed upon the following articles:
Article I. There shall, from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty, be peace and friendship between his majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the League of the Rhine, and his majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, their heirs and successors, their states and subjects respectively for ever.
II. The present peace is also declared to be common to his majesty the King of Spain, his majesty the King of Holland, his majesty the King of Naples, his majesty the King of Bavaria, his majesty the King of Wurtemberg, his majesty the King of Saxony, and his majesty the King of Westphalia, his most eminent highness the Prince Primate, their royal highnesses the grand duke of Baden, the grand duke of Berg, the grand duke of Hesse Darmstadt, the grand duke of Wetzburg, and all the Princes & members of the League of the Rhine, the allies in the present war of his majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the League of the Rhine.
III. His majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, cedes, as well for himself, his heirs and successors, as for the Princes of his House, their heirs and respective successors, the principalities, lordships, domains, and territories, hereinbefore mentioned, and also all titles which may accrue from the possession of the same; and all properties, whether manorial or held by them under an especial title, lying within the said territories.
IV. He cedes and transfers to his majesty the Emperor of the French, to form a part of the League of the Rhine, and to be placed at his disposition for the interest of the sovereigns of the League:—
The territories of Salzburg and Berchtesgaden; that part of Upper Austria situate on the further side of a line running from the Danube, at the village of Strass, therein comprehending Weissenkirchen, Wedersdorf, Michelbach, Greist, Muckenhoften, Hietz and Jedina; thence in the direction of Schwanstadt, the town of Schwanstadt on the Alps, and thence ascending along the bank of that river and the lake of the same name, to the point where the lake touches upon the territory of Salzburg.
His majesty the Emperor of Austria shall only retain in property the Woods belonging to the Satz Cammer Go, and forming part of the manor of Mondsee, with liberty to cut and carry thence the brushwood, but without enjoying any right of sovereignty upon that territory.
2. He also cedes to his Majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, the county of Goritz, the Manor of Montefalcone, the government & city of Trieste, Carniola, with its dependencies on the Gulf of Trieste, the Circle of Villach in Carinthia, and all the territories lying on the right bank of the Saave, from the point where that river leaves Carniola along its course to where it touches the frontiers of Bosnia; namely, a part of Provincial Croatia, six districts of Military Croatia, Fiume, and the Hungarian Littoral, Austrian Istria, or the district of Cattaro, the island depending on the ceded territories, and all other territories, howsoever named, upon the right bank of the Saave—the middle stream of the said river serving as the boundary between the two states.
Lastly, the Lordships of Radons lying in the Graubunderland.
3. He cedes and makes over to his Majesty the King of Saxony, the territory of Bohemia, depending upon, and included in the territory of the kingdom of Saxony; namely, the parishes and villages Guntersdorf, Tautenhtranke, Gerlosheim, Lenkersdorf, Schurigsburg, Winkle, &c.
4. He cedes and makes over to the king of Saxony, to be united to the Duchy of Warsaw, the whole of the Western or New Galicia, a district round Cracow, on the right bank of the Vistula, to be hereafter ascertained, and the Circle of Zamose, in Eastern Galicia.
The district round Cracow upon the right bank of the Vistula, shall, in the direction of Podgorze, ve for its circumference the distance from Podgorze to Wieliczka, and to the westward touch upon Sawin, & to the eastward upon the Beck, which falls into the Vistula at Brzegy.
Wieliczka and the whole of the territory of the Salt-pits shall belong in common to the Emperor of Austria, and the King of Saxony. Justice shall be administered therein in the name of the Municipal Power; there shall be quartered there only the troops necessary for the support of the Police, and they shall consist of equal numbers of those of both nations. The Austrian salt from Wieliczka, in its conveyance over the Vistula and through the Duchy of Warsaw, shall not be subject to any toll duties. Corn of all kinds raised in Austrian Galicia, may also freely be exported across the Vistula.
His majesty the Emperor of Austria, and his majesty the King of Saxony, may form such an arrangement with regard to these boundaries, as that the Sun, from the point where it touches upon the circle of Zamose, to its confluence with the Vistula, shall serve as the line of demarcation between both states.
5. He cedes and makes over to his majesty the Emperor of Russia, in the easternmost part of Galicia, a tract of territory containing a population of 400,000 souls, the city of Brodi being, nevertheless, not therein included. This territory shall be amicably ascertained by commissioners on the part of both Empires.
IV. The Teutonic order having been abolished in the states of the league of the Rhine, his majesty the emperor of Austria, in the name of his imperial highness the archduke Anthony, abdicates the grand mastership of that order in his states, and recognises the dispositions taken with regard to the property of the order, locally situated out of the Austrian territory.—Pensions shall be assigned to those who have been on the civil establishment of the order.
V. The debts funded upon the territory of the ceded provinces, and allowed by the states of the said provinces, or accruing from expenses incurred for their administration, shall alone follow the fate of those provinces.
VI. The provinces which are to be restored to his majesty the emperor of Austria, shall be administered, for his behoof by the Austrian constituted authorities, from the day of exchanging the ratification of the present treaty; and the imperial domains, wherever situated, from the first of November next. It is nevertheless understood, that the French army in this country shall take for their use whatever articles cannot be supplied by their magazines for the subsistence of the troops and the want of the hospitals; and also whatever shall be necessary for the conveyance of their sick and the evacuation of their magazines.
An arrangement shall be made between the high contracting parties respecting all war contributions, of whatever denomination, previously imposed, on the Austrian provinces occupied by the French and allied troops; in consequence of which arrangement the levying of the said contributions shall cease from the day of the exchange of the ratifications.
VII. His majesty the emperor of the French, King of Italy, engages to give no obstruction to the importation or exportation of merchandise into and from Austria, by way of the port of Fiume; this, nevertheless, not being construed to include English goods or manufactures. The transit duties on the goods thus imported or exported, shall be lower than upon those of all other nations, the kingdom of Italy excepted.
An enquiry shall be instituted, to ascertain whether any advantages can be allowed to the Austrian trade, in the other ports ceded by this treaty.
VIII. The titles of domains, archiepiscopal, and maps of the countries, towns and fortresses ceded, shall be given up within two months after the period of the ratification.
IX. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, engages to discharge the yearly interests, arrears, and capitals, invested in securities of the government, state, bank, lottery, or other public establishments, by subjects, companies, or corporate bodies in France, the kingdom of Italy, and the Grand Duchy of Berg.
Measures shall also be taken, to completely relinquish the sum due to Mont St. Theresa, now Mont Napoleon at Milan.
X. His majesty the emperor of the French engages to procure a full and complete pardon for the inhabitants of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg, who have taken a part in the insurrection; so that they shall not be prosecuted either in person or property.
His majesty the emperor of Austria equally engages to grant a full and complete pardon to those inhabitants of the territories of Galicia of which he returns into possession, whether civil or military, public officers or private individuals, who have taken part in the levying of troops, or the formation of judicial or municipal administrations, or in any other proceeding whatever during the war, which inhabitants shall not be prosecuted in their persons or property.
They shall have permission during a period of six years, to dispose of their properties, of whatever description they may be; to sell their estates, even those who have been considered indelible, such as fidei commissi and majonats ; to leave the country, and to carry with them the produce of these sales, in specie, or the effects of any other description, without paying any duty for the same, or experiencing any difficulty or obstruction.
The same permission, and for the same period, shall be reciprocally allowed to the inhabitants and landholders in the territories ceded by the present treaty.
The inhabitants of the Duchy of Warsaw, possessing landed estate in Austrian Galicia, whether public officers or private individuals, shall enjoy the revenues thereof, without paying any duty thereon, or experiencing any obstruction.
XI. Within six weeks from the exchange of the present treaty, posts shall be erected, to make the boundaries of Cracow, upon the right bank of the Vistula. For this purpose there shall be nominated Austrian, French, and Saxon commissioners. The same measures shall be adopted within the same period upon the frontiers of upper Austria, Salzburg, Villach and Carniola, as far as the Saave. The Thalweg (stream) of the Saave shall determine what island of that river shall belong to each power. For this purpose French and Austrian commissioners shall be nominated.
XII. A military convention shall be forthwith entered into, to regulate the respective periods within which the various provinces restored to his majesty the emperor of Austria shall be evacuated. The said convention shall be adjusted on the basis, that Moravia shall be evacuated in fourteen days; that part of Galicia which remains in possession of Austria, the city and district of Vienna, in one month; Lower Austria in two months, and the remaining districts and territories not ceded by this treaty, shall be evacuated by the French troops, and those of her allies, in two months and a half, or earlier if possible, from the exchange of the ratifications.
This convention shall regulate all that relates to the evacuation of the hospitals and magazines of the French army, and the entrance of the Austrian troops into the territories evacuated by the French or their allies; and also the evacuation of that part of Croatia ceded by the present treaty to his majesty the emperor of the French.
XIII. The prisoners of war taken by France and her allies from Austria, and by Austria from France and her allies that have not yet been released, shall be given up within fourteen days after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty.
XIV. His majesty the emperor of the French, King of Italy, protector of the league of the Rhine, guarantees the inviolability of the possessions of his majesty the emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, in the state which they shall be, in consequence of the present treaty.
XV. His majesty the emperor of Austria recognizes all the alterations which have taken place, or may subsequently take place in Spain, Portugal and Italy.
XVI. His majesty the emperor of Austria desirous to co-operate in the restoration of a maritime peace, accedes to the prohibitory system with respect to England adopted by France and Russia, during the present ma-
ritime war. His imperial majesty shall break off all intercourse with Great Britain, and with respect to the English government, place himself in the situation he stood in previous to the present war.
XVII. His majesty the emperor of the French, King of Italy, and his majesty the emperor of Austria King of Hungary and Bohemia, shall observe with respect to each other, the same ceremonial in regard to rank and other points of etiquette as before the present war.
XVIII. The ratification of the present treaty shall be exchanged within six days, or sooner, if possible.
Done and signed at Vienna, October 14, 1809.
(Signed) J. B. Nompere de Champagny, John prince of Liechtenstein.
We have ratified, and hereby ratify the above treaty, in all and every of the articles therein contained; declare the same to be adopted, confirmed, and established; and engage that the same shall be maintained inviolable.
In confirmation whereof we have hereto affixed our signature, with our own hand, being countersigned and sealed with our imperial seal.
Given at our imperial camp, at Schoenbrunn, Oct. 15, 1809.
Signed) By the Emperor. CHAMPAGNY, Min. for Foreign Affairs. H. B. MARET, Minister Secretary of State. Certified by us, The Arch-Chancellor of State, EUGENE NAPOLEON.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20.
The VICE-PRESIDENT of the United States arrived here on Sunday last.
Message from the President of the United States transmitting Extracts from the correspondence of Mr. Pinkney.
To the House of Representatives of the United States.
Agreeably to the request expressed in the resolution of the 13th inst. I lay before the House extracts from the correspondence of the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at London.
JAMES MADISON.
December 16, 1809.
Brief account of an unofficial conversation between Mr. CANNING and Mr. PINKNEY, on the 18th of January, 1809, continued on the 22d of the same month. [Transmitted by Mr. Pinkney to the Secretary of State]
I dined at Mr. Canning's with the corps diplomatique, on the 18th January. Before dinner he came up to me, and entering into conversation, adverted to a report which he said had reached him that the American ministers, (here and in France) were about to be recalled. I replied, that I was not aware that such a step had been resolved upon. He then took me aside, and observed that, according to his view of the late proceedings of Congress, the resolutions of the House of Representatives, in committee of the whole, appeared to be calculated, if passed into a law, to remove the impediments to arrangement with the United States, on the subjects of the orders in council and the Chesapeake, by taking away the discrimination between Great Britain and France in the exclusion of vessels of war from American ports. He added that it was another favorable circumstance that the non-importation system, which seemed to be in contemplation, was to be applied equally to both parties, instead of affecting as heretofore Great Britain alone.
I proposed to Mr. Canning, that I should call on him in the course of a day or two for the purpose of a free communication upon what he had suggested. To this he readily assented; and it was settled that I should see him on the Sunday following (the 22d) at 12 o'clock, at his own house.
In the interview of the 22d, Mr. Canning's impressions appeared to be in all respects the same with those which he had mentioned on the 18th; and I said every thing which I thought consistent with candor and discretion to confirm him in his disposition to seek the re-establishment of good understanding with us, and especially to see in the expected act of Congress, (if it should pass) an opening for reconciliation.
It was of some importance to turn their attention here, without loss of time, to the manner of any proceeding that might be in their contemplation. It seemed that the resolutions of the House of Representatives, if enacted into a law, might render it proper, if not indispensable, that the affair of the Chesapeake should be settled at the same time with the business of the orders and embargo, and this I understood to be Mr. Canning's opinion and wish. It followed that the whole matter ought to be settled at Washington, and, as this was moreover desirable on various other grounds, I suggested that it would be well (in case a special mission did not meet their approbation) that the necessary powers should be sent to Mr. Erskine.
In the course of the conversation, Mr. Canning proposed several questions relative to our late proposal: the principal were the two following:
1. In case they should wish either through me or through Mr. Erskine, to meet us upon the basis of our late overture, in what way was the effectual operation of our embargo as to France, &c. after it should be taken off as to Great Britain, to be secured? It was evident, he said, that if we should do
no more than refuse clearances for the ports of France, &c. or prohibit under penalties voyages to such ports, the effect which my letter of the 23d of August, and my published instructions, proposed to have in view, would not be produced; for that vessels although cleared for British ports, might when once out go to France instead of coming here; that this would in fact be so, (whatever the penalties which the American laws might denounce against offenders) could not, he imagined be doubted; and he therefore presumed that the government of the United States would not, after it had itself declared a commerce with France, &c. illegal, and its citizens, who should engage in it, delinquents, and after having given to Great Britain by compact an interest in the strict observation of the prohibition, complain if the naval force of this country should assist in preventing such a commerce.
2. He asked whether there would be any objection to making the repeal of the British orders and the American embargo cotemporaneous? He seemed to consider this as indispensable. Nothing could be less admissible, he said, than that Great Britain, after rescinding her orders, should for any time, however short, be left subject to the embargo in common with France, whose decrees were subsisting, with a view to an experiment upon France, or with any other view. The United States could not upon their own principles apply the embargo to this country one moment after its orders were removed, or decline after that event to apply it exclusively to France, and the powers connected with her in system.
I took occasion towards the close of our conversation to mention the recent appointment of admiral Berkeley to the Lisbon station. Mr. Canning said, that whatever might be their inclination to consult the feelings of the American government on that subject, it was impossible for the admiralty to resist the claim of that officer to be employed (no other objection existing against him) after such a lapse of time since his return from Halifax, without bringing him to a court martial. The usage of the navy was in this respect different from that of the army. But I understood Mr. Canning to say that he might still be brought to a court martial; although I did not understand him to say that this would be the case. He said that admiral Berkeley, in what he had done, had acted wholly without authority. I did not propose to enter into any discussion upon the subject, and therefore contented myself with speaking of the appointment as unfortunate.
In both of these conversations, Mr. Canning's language and manner were in the highest degree conciliatory.
Extract of a letter from William Pinkney, Esq. minister plenipotentiary of the United States in London, to the Secretary of State dated London, May 28, 1809.
"In the interview which took place (on May 25) Mr. Canning said, that the British minister had acted in his late negotiations and engagements with you not only without authority, but in direct opposition to the most precise instructions; that the instructions actually given to him had been found on his own letters received here in January, in which were set forth the particulars of several conversations that had passed between him and Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin and yourself, but especially the two last; that it appeared from these conversations, that, in the opinion of the persons with whom they were held, the government of the United States would be willing that Great Britain should consider the measures then contemplated by Congress, relative to non-intercourse, & the indiscriminate exclusion of belligerent vessels from our waters, as presenting an opening for the renewal of amicable discussions with this country; that it would be disposed, in the case of the Chesapeake, to receive as sufficient reparation, in addition to the prompt disavowal and recall of Ad. Berkeley, the restoration of the seamen forcibly taken out of that vessel; that, on the subject of the orders in council, it would have no objection in case they were revoked as regarded the U. S. to repeal the embargo and non-intercourse laws as to Great Britain, and to continue them as to France and Holland and such other countries as should have in force maritime edicts similar to those of France, so long as those edict remained; that it would allow it to be understood that the British cruisers might capture American vessels attempting to violate the embargo and non-intercourse laws so modified; that it would even agree to abandon during the present war, all trade with enemies' colonies from which we were excluded in peace; that it was prepared to regulate by treaty, the commercial relations of the two countries, upon the basis of the most favored nation, or upon that of reciprocal equality; and, in a word, that it was extremely desirous of re-establishing the most perfect good understanding and the most friendly connection with Great Britain.
Mr. Canning proceeded to inform me that in consequence of these representations, some parts of which he said I had myself confirmed in two conversations in January, he had traced and transmitted to Mr. Erskine, two sets of instructions, dated the 23d of that month, but not forwarded till some time afterwards, the first of which related to the business of the Chesapeake, and the second to the orders in council, and the proposed commercial arrangements. These instructions, together with the passages in Mr. Erskine's letter, written I believe in December last, which contained the above mentioned representations and some other details which I ought not to repeat, Mr. Canning read to me.
"Although Mr. Canning made me acquainted with Mr. Erskine's instructions, he did not in any degree apprise me of the explanations, transmitted by that minister, of the grounds and motives of his proceedings; and I could not be sure, from any thing which Mr. Canning had stated to me, that I had been made to understand the exact nature and character of the transaction I believed, therefore, that it behoved me to

particularly, careful how I received what Mr. Canning thought fit to disclose to me. In looking back upon the past I discovered no inducements to a less cautious course. I remembered that Mr. Canning had not told me in our conversations in January (one of which occurred the day before the date of his letter to Mr. Erskine) that he intended to confide to him such powers as he must then have been in the act of preparing, or indeed any powers at all. That in our conferences in April, after the arrival of the Chesapeake , the same reserve was practiced. That in the last of those conferences Mr. Canning admitted only (and that too upon being pressed by me) that in the business of the Chesapeake , he "had written to Mr. Erskine, in compliance with what he understood to be my wish, that the settlement of that affair should be transferred to Washington," that even then the time when he had done so was not mentioned; & that as to the orders in council, I was suffered to suppose that negotiation in America had not been authorized. It occurred to me, moreover, that, as it had already been decided that Mr. Erskine was to be dismissed, and as that decision had been made public through the board of trade, I could not hope to prevent that disclosure, and that with my imperfect knowledge of facts, it might be worse than useless to labor a discussion to attempt it.
"With these impressions I could do little more than manifest my concern that conciliatory arrangements between the American secretary of state and his majesty's accredited minister at Washington, acting in consequence and professing to act in pursuance of orders from his court, were not likely to have that effect which was naturally to be expected from them."
"I undertook, however, to declare with confidence that the American government had met Mr. Erskine's proposals in a just and friendly spirit, and with a sincere desire that, while its own honor and essential interests were firmly consulted and maintained, a liberal respect should be shown for those of Great Britain."
Extract of a letter from Mr. Pinkney to the Secretary of State, dated London, June 6, 1809.
Mr. Canning tells me that the conversation detailed in Mr. Erskine's letters did not, as I had supposed, suggest that the government of the United States would allow it to be understood that British cruisers might stop American vessels attempting to violate the embargo and non-intercourse, continuing as to France, &c. after they should be withdrawn as to Great Britain. They suggested that the United States would side with the power revoking its edicts against the power persevering. This Mr. Canning says he considered (although he did not so insist upon it in the recapitulation contained in his instructions to Mr. Erskine) as comprehending what I thought he had represented the actual suggestion to be, and what he supposed I had said to him in an informal conversation, at his house in Britton street, on the 22nd of January, in an answer to one of his inquiries.
"It will, I am sure, occur to you, as the fact is, that the little which I may have thrown out upon that occasion did not look to the admission of Mr. Canning's object into any stipulation between the two countries, and that I viewed it only as a consequence that might, and would, if France persisted in her unjust decrees, grow out of arrangements similar to those offered by us in August last."
"Having no longer any authority (as Mr. Canning knew) to speak officially upon that or any other point connected with the orders in council, and being desirous that this government should propose negotiation at Washington, as well concerning the orders as the affair of the Chesapeake , I avoided as much as possible explanations upon details which would be best managed at home by the department of state, and endeavored to speak upon what Mr. Canning proposed to me, in such a manner as that without justifying unsuitable expectations on his part, or forgetting what was due to the honor of my own government, I might contribute to produce an effort here towards friendly adjustment."
Extract of a letter from Mr. Pinkney to Mr. Smith, dated London, June 9, 1809.
"Mr. Erskine's instructions concerning the orders in council having been laid before the House of Commons, are now printed. You will find them in the newspaper inclosed."
"It is not improbable that when Mr. Canning read these instructions to me, I inferred from the manner in which the three points stated in the 5th, 6th and 7th paragraphs, are introduced and connected, that they were all considered as suggested by Mr. Erskine's 'report of his conversations with Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Smith,' whether I was led by any other cause into the mistake of supposing that the liber (as well as the first and second) was so suggested. I am not sure; and it is not very material."
"Mr. Canning's misconception of some informal observations from me in January last, has been in part mentioned in my letter of the 6th inst. But the published instructions show, what I had not collected from hearing them read, that he understood me to have stated that the American government was itself aware that without an enforcement, by the naval power of Great Britain, of the regulations of America with respect to France, those regulations must be altogether nugatory. It cannot be necessary to inform you that in this, as in the other particulars alluded to in my last letter, I have been misapprehended."
"I ought to mention that the strong and direct charge against the American government, of 'manifest partiality' to France, introduced, without any qualification or management of expression, into a paper which Mr. Erskine was authorized to communicate en secret to you, did not strike me when that paper was read to me by Mr. Canning."
Extract of a letter from Mr. Pinkney to the Secretary of State, dated June 23, 1809.
"I had an interview yesterday with Mr. Canning."
"In conversing upon the first of the conditions, upon the obtaining of which Mr. Erskine was to promise the repeal of the British orders in council, and a special mission, I collected from what was said by Mr. Canning, that the exemption of Holland from the effect of our embargo and non-intercourse would not have been much objected to by the British government, if the government of the United States had been willing to concede the first condition, subject to that exemption. Mr. Canning observed that the expedient of an actual blockade of Holland had occurred to them as being capable of meeting that exemption; but that Mr. Erskine had obtained no pledge, express or implied, or in any form, that we would enforce our non-intercourse system against France and her dependencies; that our actual system would, if not re-enacted or continued as to France, ter-
minate with the present session of Congress; that for aught that appeared to the contrary in your correspondence with Mr. Erskine, or in the President's proclamation, the embargo and non-intercourse laws might be suffered without any breach of faith to expire, or might even be repealed immediately, notwithstanding the perseverance of France in her Berlin and other edicts; and that Mr. Erskine had in truth secured nothing more, as the consideration of the recall of the orders in council, than the renewal of American intercourse with Great Britain."
"Upon the second of the conditions mentioned in Mr. Erskine's instructions I made several remarks. I stated that it had no necessary connection with the principal subject; that it had lost its importance to Great Britain by the reduction of almost all the colonies of her enemies; that Batavia was understood not to be affected by it; that it could not apply to Guadalupe (the only other unconquered colony) since it was admitted that we were not excluded from a trade with Guadalupe in peace; that I did not know what the government of the U. States would upon sufficient inducements, consent to do upon this point; but that it could scarcely be expected to give the implied sanction, which this condition called upon it to give, to the rule of the war of 1756, without any equivalent or reciprocal stipulation whatsoever. Mr. Canning admitted that the second condition had no necessary connection with the orders in council, and he intimated that they would have been content to leave the subject of it to future discussion and arrangement. He added that this condition was inserted in Mr. Erskine's instructions, because it had appeared from his own report of conversations with official persons at Washington that there would be no difficulty in agreeing to it."
"Upon the third condition I said a very few words. Re-stated what I had thrown out upon the matter of it in an informal conversation in January, and expressed my regret that it should have been misapprehended. Mr. Canning immediately said that he was himself of opinion that the idea upon which that condition turns could not well find its way into a stipulation; that he had nevertheless, believed it proper to propose the condition to the United States; that he should have been satisfied with the rejection of it; and that the consequence would have been that they should have intercepted the commerce to which it referred, if any such commerce should be attempted."
CONGRESS.
IN SENATE—DECEMBER 13. Mr. Smith of New York appeared and took his seat.
The bill from the House of Representatives to revive the act for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia; was read a first time and passed to a second reading.
Mr. Smith of Md. agreeably to notice introduced a bill for the relief of Joseph Summer, Simon Phillips, William Hamon, Archibald McCall, and Isaac Clason, which was read and passed to a second reading.
The motion submitted by Mr. Bradley on Friday last was taken up and agreed to.
Mr. Giles, from the committee to whom was re-committed the bill to prevent the abuse of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by foreign ministers within the United States, reported the same with amendments; which were read and ordered to lie on the table.
A letter was received from Buckner Thruston, notifying the Senate of his resignation of his seat in that body as a Senator from the state of Kentucky.
DECEMBER 19.
The Vice President attended and took the chair of the Senate.
A message was received from the President of the U. S. enclosing the correspondence between him and the governor of Pennsylvania relative to the case of Gideon Olmshead, which was ordered to be printed.
The bill to prevent the abuse of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by foreign ministers within the United States was read and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
Mr. Brent presented the petition of the Stockholders of the Bank of Washington, praying for an act of incorporation; which was referred to Messrs. Brent, Gregg, Pope, Smith, and Bradley with directions to report thereon by bill or otherwise.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, December 18.
Mr. Kitchelbaucher appeared and took his seat.
Mr. Goldsborough and Mr. Key obtained leave of absence for two weeks.
A report was received from the Secretary of the Treasury in obedience to a resolution of the House of the 1st inst. respecting the settlers in Madison county, Mississippi Territory—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. Pointdexter reported a bill for the relief of Josiah H. Webb (disabled by a wound received whilst carrying the mail of the U. States). The bill was twice read and committed.
Mr. M'Kim's propositions to instruct the committee of Commerce and Manufactures to enquire into the propriety of passing counteracting commercial regulations, were taken up and agreed to.
INTRUDERS ON PUBLIC LANDS.
Mr. Pointdexter observed that a resolution had been laid on the table some time ago by a gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Miller) proposing the repeal of the law authorizing the President of the United States to expel intruders from the Public Lands. Mr. M'Kim said that he was averse to the repeal of the law, but thought some parts of it arbitrary and unconstitutional, and therefore wished it modified. Without designating the parts to which he objected, he said the following resolution would show his object in rising at present:
"Resolved, That the committee of Public Lands be instructed to enquire whether any, and if any, what alterations are necessary to be made in the act entitled 'An act to prohibit settlements being made on the Public Lands until authorised by law,' and that the committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise."
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Fish reported a bill providing for the third census or enumeration of the population of the United States—Twice read and committed.
YAZOO CLAIM.
Mr. Troup called for the consideration of the motion made by him on Friday last for printing for the use of the House certain papers relative to the Yazoo claim.
Mr. Bacon moved to amend it so as to include the following papers: the act of the legislature of Georgia passed on the 7th day of January, 1795, granting to sundry companies and individuals certain lands therein described; the message of the President of the United States communicated to this House on the 17th day of February, 1795; an act of Congress, passed the 7th day of April, 1798, for an amicable settlement of limits with the state of Georgia, and authorising the establishment of a government in the Mississippi Territory, and an act supplemental to the last mentioned act, passed the 10th day of May, 1800; and the report of the committee of claims on the memorial of sundry citizens of the state of Massachusetts and others, purchasers under the Georgia and Mississippi company, made to this House on the 18th day of January, 1805.
Mr. Troup had no objection to include in his motion all the papers mentioned by the gentleman from Massachusetts but the first. The House could not get at the act there alluded to, because the virtue of the people of Georgia had induced them solemnly to consign it to the flames, and nothing of it remained but its ashes, from which it could not, Phoenix like, revive. It had been committed to the flames because it was an unconstitutional act, an unconstitutional legislature; a legislature unconstitutional because corrupted, an act unconstitutional because resulting from and originating in fraud. He asked the House whether they would sanction the corrupt act of the legislature of Georgia, when in the most solemn manner the people of Georgia had consigned it to oblivion? Unless for the purpose of insult to the state of Georgia, the House would not in any manner sanction such an act. It would be in effect to legislate for the state of Georgia, which this House had no right to do.
Mr. Bacon said that the fraud of the transaction had been alleged against the petition referred last week, as a reason why it should not be considered. It was impossible to get at a correct understanding of the circumstances attending the grant, unless the House had the act in its possession. How would it be made to appear that the legislature had acted correctly, except its act, and the names of the members concurring in it were produced? He knew not how the gentleman would prove the corruption which he had pledged himself to prove without that act—and Mr. Bacon said he was desirous of finding every convenience to the gentleman in the task he had undertaken. As to the act having been burnt, Mr. Bacon said he was much mistaken or he had seen copies of it in the primed documents in the Clerk's Library. The House, by ordering it to be printed, would not express any opinion on the validity of the act.
Mr. Troup observed that as much of the act of 1795 as was necessary for the purpose alluded to by the gentleman from Massachusetts, was recorded in the act of 1796, and so much he had no objection to have printed, as it was a matter of record. As to the names of the corrupt members they were also on record.
Mr. Bacon replied that as much of the act of 1795 as was necessary for the purpose of the rescinding legislature had been published in the act of 1796; it was not to be supposed, without imputing to that legislature any improper motive, that any more of it would have been published in the act. But he was desirous of seeing the whole of the act.
Mr. Hill remarked, to show that this act was not on record, that a year or two after the passage of the rescinding act, certain gentlemen had been appointed to publish a digest of the laws of the state of Georgia. They happened to be in favor of the Yazoo claim, and insisted upon inserting in the work the act of 1795. The people of Georgia would not permit it, and the book in which this act was inserted was declared by the legislature not to be a digest of the laws of Georgia.
Mr. Livermore made some further observations of the same tenor as those of Mr. Bacon, and Mr. Troup replied.
When the question was taken on including the paper objected to by Mr. Troup, it was negatived 55 to 46.
And Mr. Troup accepting the other papers as a part of his motion, the whole was agreed to, 57 to 23.
Mr. Pointdexter offered the following resolution, as connected with this subject:
"Resolved, That the Secretary of State be requested to lay before this House an abstract of all British patents, warrants or orders of survey filed in his office, agreeably to the several acts of Congress regulating the grants of land and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the state of Tennessee."
Mr. P. said that a gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Bacon) had the other day contended that the reservation of five millions of acres in one of the above acts had in view the claim of the Yazoo purchasers. This construction had been denied on this floor as well as in the legislature of Georgia. But Mr. P. said his present object was to see whether the claims already made on this land did not exceed five millions of acres. If so, the residue left for the Yazoo claimants would amount to just nothing; and this House would be wholly precluded from acting on the subject of their petition.
The motion was agreed to without a division.
BANK OF WASHINGTON.
Mr. Love presented the petition of the President and Directors of the Bank of Washington, praying for an act of incorporation—Referred to the committee on the District of Columbia.
On motion of Mr. Potter, Resolved , That the committee of Commerce and Manufactures be instructed to enquire into the expediency of extending the benefit of drawbacks on the duties upon exportation of all goods, wares and merchandise subject hereto that may be transported by land from the district of New Jersey into Rhode Island, and from Boston, in Massachusetts, and from said Boston to said Newport.
Mr. Findley from the committee to whom was referred the bill extending certain privileges to Joseph Joshua Dyer, reported the same with amendments; which were referred to a committee of the whole House.
BATTLE AT NEW-ORLEANS.
On motion of Mr. Sheffield, the House resumed the consideration of the resolutions submitted by him on the subject of the Battle, and also on motion of Mr. Sheffield, they were referred to a committee of the whole, 64 to 33, and made the order of the day for Friday next, 54 to 53.
RUPTURE WITH MR. JACKSON.
On motion of Mr. Rhea, the House re-
sumed itself into a committee of the whole, 61 to 48, Mr. Bassett in the Chair, on the resolution from the Senate expressive of the approbation of the conduct of the Executive in refusing to hold any further communication with Mr. Jackson.
Mr. Rhea moved that the committee rise and report their report thereon to the resolution.
Mr. Gold moved that the committee rise and report progress.
The reasons assigned in favor of the latter motion by Messrs Gold, Gardenier, Duna, Pickett and Wheaton were, that in so important a case the House should proceed with deliberation, and not without all the information on it that it was practicable to obtain; that the House with that view had called upon the President for certain information which had not yet been communicated; and that it would be improper to proceed in the consideration of the subject till it was received.
Messrs Newton and Bacon supported the motion with a hope of avoiding, by waiting for the information, all collateral discussion or evasion of the question on the resolution from the Senate, and from a desire of obtaining a direct decision on its merits.
Mr. Rhea opposed the motion on the ground that the House had already too long delayed the discussion of the great concerns of the nation.
At this stage of the debate, a message was received from the President of the U. States by Mr. Graham.
The committee immediately rose, reported progress and obtained leave to sit again.
After the message and documents were read, they were ordered to be printed.
Mr. Smilie observed that the objection to discussion was now removed, and moved that the House again resolve itself into a committee of the whole—Motion negatived, 57 to 40.
And the House adjourned.
DECEMBER 19.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Mr. Mason, from the committee on so much of the Message of the President of the United States as relates to our Foreign Relations, reported a bill respecting the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France; and for other purposes.
The 1st section prohibits all public vessels belonging to G. Britain or France from entering the harbors of the U. States; subject to certain specified exceptions.
The 2nd section prescribes the punishment of those who shall aid the infraction of this provision.
The 3rd section prohibits all vessels sailing under the flag of Great Britain or France, or owned in whole or in part by any citizen of either, from entering the harbors of the United States.
The 4th section prohibits the importation into the United States of goods from Great Britain or Ireland, and France, and their colonies; or of goods from any foreign port which are the growth, produce or manufacture of G. Britain or France; unless in vessels owned wholly by citizens of the United States.
The above provisions to take immediate effect.
The 5th section prohibits after the 15th of April next the importation of goods from Great Britain and France and their colonies unless imported directly therefrom.
The 6th, 7th and 8th sections affix penalties to the infraction of these provisions.
The 9th section authorises the President in case either France or Great Britain shall so revoke or modify her edicts, as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States to declare the same by proclamation, after which the prohibitions of this act on the commerce of the nation so doing shall cease.
The 11th section repeals the act to amend and continue in force certain parts of the act entitled an act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies and for other purposes.
The 12th section limits this act to the end of the next session of Congress.
The bill was read a second time, referred to a committee of the whole, and made the order of the day for Friday next.
Mr. Mason, from the committee appointed to prepare and report rules and orders for the government of the House, reported the same. Referred to the committee of the whole House to which was referred Mr. Bacon's motion on the subject of order.
FOREIGN LICENCES TO TRADE.
Mr. Newton, from the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, reported a bill to deprive in certain cases vessels of their American character, and to prevent, under certain disabilities, any citizen of the U. S. taking a license to navigate the ocean or trade with any foreign or independent power. Twice read and committed to a committee of the whole.
Mr. Newton, from the committee of C. & M. reported a bill authorising the issuing debentures, in certain cases (viz. in cases of accidental failure to comply with the terms of the law necessary to obtain them.) Twice read and referred to a committee of the whole.
Mr. Love presented the petition of sundry inhabitants of the district of Columbia praying the establishment of certain roads. Referred to the committee on the district of Columbia.
The House, on motion of Mr. Johnson, resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Helle in the chair, on the bill for the relief of Wm. and Elias Rector. The committee rose and reported the bill, which was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
RUPTURE WITH MR. JACKSON.
On motion of Mr. Rhea (C) the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Bassett in the chair, on the resolution from the Senate, approving the conduct of the Executive in refusing to hold further communication with Mr. Jackson. Mr. Rhea (T) spoke a short time in favor of a resolution.
Mr. Potter spoke half an hour against it; and Mr. Duna occupied about an hour and half on the same side of the question.
When, on motion of Mr. Whitman, the committee rose, reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again.
(Debate in our next.)
Mr. Moise reported a bill concerning claims to land in the Mississippi territory, granted by the British government of West Florida. Twice read and referred to a committee of the whole.
On motion of Mr. Montgomery, five thousand copies of the message and documents yesterday received from the President of the U. S. were ordered to be printed for the use of the House.
An arrival at New-York brings London news to the 11th November, which, with the exception of the Treaty, adds very little to our previous stock of intelligence. New York, 16.
The United States ship of war John Adams, capt. Evans, sailed from this port
on a cruise with several other vessels.
The King of England has issued a proclamation, under date of October 18, pardoning all seamen and mariners who have deserted, or surrendered themselves; and another proclamation of the 22nd of October, offering a pardon to all deserters in the land service, who may surrender themselves.
The English prints are crowded with splendid accounts of the Jubilee, which was on the 25th of October, when the king of England entered the 50th year of his reign.
Boston, December 11.
On Saturday last arrived at this port, the schooner Ledyard , captain Wavant , in 64 days from Lake , via Halifax . Among the passengers is captain Worthington , of the brig American of Baltimore, whose vessel as well as the ship Susquehanna , of the same place, were condemned at Halifax , for being bound to Tangiers , and having certificates of origin on board. It is said orders were given to detain all American vessels bound to Tangiers , considering that peace as in a state of blockade; and that two frigates and a sloop of war had sailed for the purpose of intercepting our vessels.
A LEGISLARY COURT.
FOR the 1st Legion of the Militia of the District of Columbia will be held on Wednesday the 20th inst. at 5 o'clock P. M. precisely, at the house of William Rives in this city. Dec. 20—1.
A SCHOOL MISTRESS WANTED.
WANTED, a school-Mistress, who is willing to go in the country and reside in a private family, and who is qualified to teach Female Reading, Writing, Geography and Needle-work. To such one liberal compensation will be given. Application may be made to Dr. Galt, in Washington. December 20—3t.
MRS. SWEENEY.
MOST RESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies of Washington, that she has engaged in commenced the MILLINERY and MANTUA-MAKING business in their various branches. She has engaged a Young Lady of experience from Baltimore to assist her in the above line, and she solicits the patronage of her former friends, as also of those Ladies whom she has not had the honor of being acquainted with. Her present establishment consists of Bonnets, Silver Trimmings, Fancy do. Silver Bows and Cords, Silk and Cotton Cords and Tassels, Silk Purse, Fancy Gauze, Ribbons, Gloves of different kinds, Figured and Plain Leno, Silks for Dresses, Handkerchiefs, Cap-Patterns, Straw and Willow Bonnets with a variety of other articles in the Fancy and Millinery line . She has also Worsteds and Silk Hose, Silk and Bandanna Handkerchiefs, and other articles suitable for gentlemen. Mrs. S. is encouraged by the hope, that by a strict attention to punctuality and neatness in her business, she will receive a full share of public patronage. December 20—3t.
PUBLIC SALE.
By order of the Orphan's Court of Prince George's County , THE subscriber will sell on the 4th day of January next, part of the Personal property of Christopher Hyatt , deceased, consisting of Negroes, Stock, Household and Kitchen Furniture, Plantation Utensils, &c. Terms of sale are, six months credit for all sums above $20, the purchaser giving bond with approved security—all sums under $20 the cash to be paid on the day of sale. Those may claim are required to bring them in for settlement, and those indebted, to make immediate payment to SARAH HYATT , Adminx. December 20—3t.
LEWIS DEBLOIS.
Has for Sale at his Store, near the Mary Yard , a general assortment of GOODS , which he will sell low for cash. Gun-powder, Imperial, 2 Teas of the Young Hyson and Hyson Skin, 5 latest Imps. Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Cassia, Allspice, Black Pepper, &c. London Mustard by the pound or bottle, Best Boston Chocolate, Welsh's snuff, No. 1 Common (do. Good Green Coffee per bag or retail, Muscatel and Bloom Raisins in boxes, Fresh Keg (do. Figs and Currants, Spermaceti Candles, Mould and Dip Tallow do. Winter Strained Spermaceti Oil, Pickled Salmon in kegs and barrels, Shad, Herrings, Neats Tongues in half Boxes, Best Pickled Flour for family use, Corn, Corn Meal, Bran, Rice, Barley, Butter, Cheese, Madeira, Lisbon and Port Wines, French Brandy, Old Jamaica Spirits, Old Holland Gin, Peach Brandy, New-England Rum, Whiskey, Sugar House Molasses, West India do. Loaf and Brown Sugars, Lemmons, Jameson's Crackers, A large quantity of Good Cider Vinegar. December 20—7w.
MRS. WALKER.
MRS. WALKER acquaints the Ladies of the city of Washington and its vicinity, that on Monday morning the 11th inst. near the Centre Market, Pennsylvania avenue, she opened and off for Sale on reasonable terms, a FRESH and FINE ASSORTMENT of Fashionable Silks, Linens, Satin, Silk and split-skin Bonnets, and straw Hats, dress Caps & Turbans, artificial Flowers, and Peaches, Peasants, Gros de laine, and Dresses of every description made up at the shortest notice and in the most fashionable manner. Should Mrs. WALKER receive that encouragement which she hopes the moderation of her terms, her punctuality and attention to please, will entitle her, from the known liberality of the Ladies of Washington, she will be able a permanent resident of the City. She also offers for Sale an elegant assortment of Chairs and Settees , a sample of which will be exhibited. December 19—4t.

SAMUEL STETTINIUS, Pennsylvania Avenue, Near the Centre Market. I beg leave to refer to his last advertisement for dry goods, and to inform his friends and the public at large that he has added to them a few days ago another extensive stock, which completing his stock of all goods, will enable him to accommodate every kind call with which he might be favored. He has also received from Philadelphia per Schooner Edmon , Capt. Wm. Howard, 10 Hds. New Orleans Sugar 13 Bhs. do. do. 2 Pipes 4th proof French Brandy 1 Hhd. Jamaica Spirits, 4th proof 2 Casks first quality Young Hyson Tea 2 do. do. do. 1 do. do. do. 15 Boxes Tin Plates 1 Bhl. Corks 4 Gross empty bottles 200 pounds of Black Pepper 300 do. do. 500 do. do. 3 Bhs. Spain Sweet Oil 4 Kgs of Copperas and Allum 6 Boxes Mustard 3 Quarter casks first quality Lisbon Wine 2 do. do. do. do. 1 Bhl. Superior Barley Currants, Mace, Almonds Saltpetre and Flask Oil 1 Box Fig Cakes, best quality 1 Quarter Cask Sherry Wine 150 lbs. Allspice, and 30 Dozen clarified Sweet Cider in bottles. —ALSO— A most extensive assortment of hollow glass, consisting of flowered and gilt decanters, cut and flowered ditto, quart, pint and half pint tumblers, wine glasses, with a number of other articles. Those of his friends who wish to buy by the wholesale as well as those buying by retail, may rest assured that he will endeavor to deserve their respective satisfactions, by selling them at pleasing terms and very low.
December 3—4r. TAKE NOTICE. The Subscriber respectfully informs the Public, that he has opened an ELEGANT HOTEL, in the House lately occupied by the Hon. R. Smith , Capitol Hill city of Washington, where he is enabled, (if proper encouragement shall be offered,) to afford the best and most splendid accommodations. The House is prepared so as to admit a display of Elegance and Taste in the arrangements of the SEASON BALLS, not to be excelled in the United States, and he hopes from long experience he has had in that line the Ladies and Gentlemen of Washington will enable him by their encouragement to excel in that particular. The Subscriber tender his acknowledgements to his Friends and the Public, for the marks of preference they have heretofore bestowed upon him, and hopes by his renewed exertions to please to deserve and receive a continuance of their favors. A few Members of Congress can be accommodated with Board. Boarders will be taken by the day, week, month or year. Wm. CATON.
December 6— REGENT SPRING HOTEL, State between Washington and Alexandria. The Subscriber respectfully returns his thanks to the public, especially to those Members of Congress who frequented his house, for the encouragement he has received and flatters himself that by his continued exertions to merit an additional support. He takes the liberty of informing the Ladies and Gentlemen of the vicinity and from a distance, that he will always endeavor to keep supplied with the dainties of the season. Dinner parties, Tea parties, (with or without Music) &c. &c. can be furnished at a short time. Rooms will be reserved for select companies who may engage weekly entertainments. White Breads and Venison (when to be procured) will always be ready for amateurs. A. LINDO. November 15—1m SERVANTS WANTED. I will give the highest wages and encouragement for a smart Female House Servant, a Female Cook, a Girl capable of nursing children, a Laborer and a good Waiter. A. LINDO. The different Post-Masters of the United States are, by Wm. II. DORSEY, Merchant in Baltimore, respectfully solicited to examine their Boxes for a Letter of consequence, to him addressed, which was lodged for transmission at the Post-Office in Washington City, on 10th August last, and said as never by him been received, it is supposed must have taken a wrong direction from thence. If found they will particularly oblige him by forwarding it either to him or to the General Post-Office in Washington. Baltimore, Nov. 20—1m TAPER HANGINGS. SAMUEL FITZHUGH, High Street, George Town, Two doors above J. Milligan's Book Store, An elegant assortment of the most fashionable Paper Hangings from the manufactory of Thomas and Caldwell. He is just opening an assortment of SEASONABLE DRY GOODS Together with a neat and well selected supply of CUTLERY JAPAN WARE, &c. N. B. S. F. having employed a paper hanger, will engage to paper rooms with neatness and dispatch. Georgetown, December 6—5w. CATHARINE FLISSET, Mantua Maker, HAS the honor to inform the ladies of Washington City and Georgetown, that she has left Mrs. Mary Ann Pic, and is now working for her own account, at her lodgings, in the house formerly occupied by Mr. W. Hohmes, between the War Department and the Seven buildings. She begs the ladies of Washington city and Georgetown, to favor her with their patronage, which she will try to deserve by good work and punctilious attendance. N. B. An APPRENTICE for Mantua-Making will receive good encouragement. December 15—5t. DRUGS & MEDICINES. A fresh Supply just received from New York, at H. CATLETT'S Drug Store, F Street Also, PAINTS, OILS, &c. October 18—1f
PROPOSALS For Carrying the Mails of the United States on the following routes will be received at the General Post Office until the first day of February, 1810. 1. From Petersburg by Harris's, Percival's, Drummondsburg, Warrenton and Louisa to Raleigh three times a week. Leave Petersburg every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Raleigh on Wednesday Friday and Monday by 7 A. M. in 42 hours. Leave Raleigh every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5 P. M. and arrive at Petersburg the next Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday by 11 A. M. in 42 hours. 2. From Raleigh by Avery'sboro' to Fayetteville three times a week. Leave Raleigh every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Fayetteville by 10 P. M. Leave Fayetteville every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 2 A. M. and arrive at Raleigh by 4 P. M. 3. From Fayetteville by Lumberton and Barfields Mills to Porters Ferry on Pee Dee three times. Leave Fayetteville every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 2 A. M. and arrive at Porters Ferry by 10 P. M. in 20 hours. Leave Porters Ferry every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2 A. M. and arrive at Fayetteville by 10 P. M. in 20 hours. 4. From Porters Ferry by Gages, Georgetown and Tidwin to Charleston three times a week. Leave Porters Ferry every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Tidwin by 8 P. M. Leave Tidwin every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday at 3 A. M. and arrive at Charleston by 10 A. M. Leave Charleston every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2 P. M. arrive at Tidwin by 8 P. M. and arrive at Porters Ferry on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by 6 P. M. Leave Athens every Saturday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Pascagoula River the next Saturday by 10 A. M. Leave Pascagoula every Saturday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Athens the next Saturday by 10 A. M. 6. From Pascagoula River to Mr. Spell's at the mouth of Casten Creek on Lake Pont Chartrain. Leave Pascagoula River every Saturday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Mr. Spell's on Monday by 8 P. M. Leave Mr. Spell's every Thursday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Pascagoula on Saturday by 10 A. M. 7. From Mr. Spell's on Lake Pont Chartrain to New Orleans once a week. Leave Mr. Spell's on Lake Pont Chartrain on Tuesday at 3 A. M. and arrive at New Orleans by 3 P. M. Leave New Orleans on Wednesday by 10 A. M. and arrive at Mr. Spell's by 10 P. M. —Proposals for this route will be received by the Postmaster at New Orleans. NOTE. The contracts are to commence on the 1st day of April next, and are to continue in force for one year, and the customary penalties for failures and delays will be stipulated in the contract and executed. GIDEON GRANGER, Post-Master-General. GENERAL POST OFFICE, December 9, 1809. Dec. 13—4r. BY virtue of an order from the Orphan's Court of Prince George's county, will be exposed to public sale on Tuesday the 26th of December, at the late dwelling of Thomas Woodward, deceased, on a credit of twelve months, the purchasers giving bond with two good securities, with legal interest from the day of sale, all the personal estate of said Woodward, consisting of thirteen or fourteen valuable negroes, horses, hogs, sheep and cattle, household and kitchen furniture, plantation utensils, &c.—Likewise the crop of corn and fodder and tobacco hanging in the house. The sale to commence at 11 o'clock. All persons that have claims against said estate are requested to bring them forward legally proved, and those indebted are requested to make immediate payment to ABRAHAM B. WOODWARD & WM. R. WOODWARD, Admrs. December 4—1aw3w STATE OF MARYLAND—IN CHANCERY, November 27th, 1809. Frederick Kemp, John Kemp, Philip Kemp, Sarah Kemp, George Kemp, Adam Mayne and Catharine his wife, against Mary, Elizabeth, Michael, Catharine, George, Nicholas, Susannah, Margaret, Whitmore, children and heirs of Michael Whitmore. THE object of this bill is to obtain a decree for conveyance to the complainant of two Tracts of Land situate in Frederick county. The bill states that on the twentieth day of January 1798 the said Michael Whitmore father of the defendants sold to a certain Henry Kemp, father of the complainants, two Tracts of Land situate in Frederick county, the one called "The Resurvey on Rocky Hill," the other called "Puzzlesome Corrected," and on same day executed his bond for conveyance of the same, that the whole of the purchase money has been paid but no conveyance has been made. The bill further states that the said Henry Kemp died, leaving the complainants his heirs at law, and that the said Michael Whitmore is also dead, leaving the defendants his heirs at law and that all the defendants reside in Loudoun county, commonwealth of Virginia. It is thereupon on motion of the complainants adjudged and ordered that a copy of this order be inserted in the National Intelligencer at least once in each of three successive weeks before the first day of January eighteen hundred and ten to the end that the said defendants may have notice of this application and the object of it and to appear in this court on or before the first day of May 1810, to show cause, if any they have, wherefore a decree should not pass as prayed. True copy, Test: NICH. BREWER, Keg. Cur. Cen. December 4—w3t TO RENT, A LARGE FRONT ROOM In the Subscriber's Dwelling, opposite to Rhodes's Hotel, and the President's Square; well calculated for a Store or Public Office. Possession may be had immediately. For particulars apply to THOMAS HERTY.
REILLY'S STORE, On Pennsylvania Avenue, IS now supplied with a fresh assortment of LIQUORS & GROCERIES, viz. Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, Malaga and Teneriffe Wines, French Brandy, Holland Gin, Jamaica Spirit, Whiskey, Rum, and Whiskey Bounce, Molasses, Imperial, Hyson and Young Hyson Teas, Loaf and Lump Sugar, Muscovado do. Coffee, Chocolate, Mustard, Pepper, Allspice, Ground Ginger, Nutmegs, Cloves, Salt and Saltpetre, Spermaceti and Sallet Oil, Mould, Dips & Spermaceti Candles, Shaving and Brown Soap first quality, Chewing Tobacco, Spanish and Country Segars, Men and Women's coarse and fine Shoes, Youth's and Children's do. best quality Goshen Cheese, Bloom, Muscaded and Keg Raisins, Sweet Oranges, Lemons and Fresh Cranberries, a few barrels of Apples, Salmon in barrels and kegs, Codfish, Shad and Herrings, Firkin Butter, Irish Potatoes, and as usual best quality Superfine Flour, carefully selected at Alexandria for family use, Jamieson's water crackers—Also corn, oats, chopt rye, shorts, bran, out straw. Dec. 13, 1809.—9t. ROSS & GETTY Have just received from New-York and Philadelphia, the following GROCERIES & LIQUORS, viz. 12 Hds. Prime Jamaica Sugars. 8 do. Second Quality. 6 do. Molasses. 4 do. Jamaica Spirits. 300 Baskets Salt. 60 Boxes Mould and Dipped Candles. A few pips Holland and New-York Anchor Gin. Cognac Brandy, Mace, Pepper, Cloves, &c. &c. —IN STORE— Gun Powder Tea in canisters of 2 pounds each. Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, & Suchong, } Teas all of this year's importation, and of the best quality. 3000 pounds prime Green Coffee. 3 Pipes genuine old Madeira Wine. 5 do. Sicily Madeira. 4 do. Lisbon Wine. Port Wine in pipes, qr. casks and bottles Claret in Boxes. Brushes of all kinds. Powder and Shot. Cordials, &c. together with a large variety of articles in their line, which renders their assortment complete. Also, just received on commission, a small invoice of handsome looking glasses. And-rons. Brass mounted Fenders, Shovels and Tongs, Tea Trays, waiters, coal hods, &c. &c. All of which will be sold cheap, on early application to them at their store, corner of Washington and Bridge Street, opposite the Union Tavern, George Town. November 8—tf LANDS IN THE STATES OF OHIO AND KENTUCKY FOR SALE. BY Virtue of the Last Will and Testament of Robert Means, deceased, the subscriber offers for sale, all the Lands of the testator in the states of Ohio & Kentucky. As there is a large quantity of these Lands, and the quality in general good, they are well worth the attention of all persons desirous of purchasing Lands in those parts of the country. The tracts are of various sizes, and consequently calculated to suit purchasers of all descriptions. Further information respecting the said Lands may be obtained from Mr. Walter Dun, residing in, or near the town of Chillicothe in the State of Ohio. DANIEL CALL, Executor of the last will & testament of Robert Means, dec'd. Richmond, July 19—tf This day is Published By J. MILLIGAN, GEORGETOWN, THE PARENT'S ASSISTANT, By MARIA EDGEWORTH: Author of Practical Education, Letters of Literary Ladies, etc. In Three Vols. 18mo.—Price $2 50, bound. The above work may also be had of R. C. Weightman, Pennsylvania avenue, and of D. Rapine, Capitol Hill, Washington. J. M. has also in considerable forwardness—"Tales of Fashionable Life"—by the same author, in 2 Vols. 12mo. For a critique of the above work, see a critique from the Edinburgh Review; in No. 12 of Select Reviews or Spirit of the Foreign Magazines—by E. Bronson and others. December 18—3t TEN DOLLARS REWARD. THIS is to notify the public that I purchased of Benjamin Oden, a Negro Woman named JUDY, and two Children, JOHN and MARY—the Woman and her daughter Mary has been harbored by a yellow man, by the name of John Herber, who has the woman for a wife. I forewarn any person from hiring or harboring the said Negroes as I am determined to put the law in force against them. I will give TEN Dollars Reward for the Woman and Girl, if brought home to me at Little Monococy in Montgomery county and all reasonable expenses paid by JAMES WHITE. December 18—3t MOROCCO LEATHER Manufactured and for Sale by MATTHEWS & LAURENCE, Near the lower Bridge on Rock Creek, Washington city, district of Columbia. 50 dozen black Roans 30 do. yellow do. 30 do. green do. 6 do. purple do. 4 do. red do. 20 do. black, real Morocco 10 do. yellow do. do. 10 do. green do. do. 3 do. red do. do. And also 50 dozen white Leather December 18—3t GEORGE BOYD, INFORMS his friends and acquaintances in Georgetown and the city of Washington that he has opened STORE at the House formerly occupied by Mr. JOHN PETER, where he solicits a portion of their custom. He has within a few days received a handsome supply of GOODS from Baltimore, which together with the Stock had of Mr. Peter renders his Assortment very complete. Georgetown, December 18—3w LOST, on Monday last, a POINTER DOG, white with light liver marks and a long tail. Whoever will find and return him to Mrs. Dowson's, Capitol Hill, will be handsomely rewarded. G. DENEALE, President. Dec. 13—td
United States—District of Columbia, Washington county, to wit. Circuit Court, June term, 1809. IN CHANCERY. Solomon Davis—Complainant, against Abiel Jenners and Deborah his wife, and Ferdinand Fairfax—Defendants. THE report of Samuel Eliot, jun. the trustee formerly appointed in this cause under the decree of the 12th day of April last, having been sworn to, returned and filed, and the proceedings thereon approved: It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed this sixth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, that the said report be ratified and confirmed unless cause be shown to the contrary on or before the fourth Monday of December next; Provided, a copy of this order be published for three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer before the said fourth Monday of December next. The report states, that the mortgaged premises mentioned in the bill, were sold for the sum of five hundred sixty-one dollars and fifty cents. By order, Wm. BRENT, Ck. True copy, Wm. BRENT, Ck. November 13—epD25in. FOR SALE ON Monday the first day of January next, at the Plantation of the late Robert Peter in the SUGAR LANDS, within one mile of the Seneca Mills, about FIFTY VALUABLE SLAVES: Consisting of Men, Women, Boys & Girls; Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs; Plantation Utensils, and a quantity of Indian Corn. The Sale will commence at 11 o'clock, A. M. and continue till all are Sold—Terms of Sale six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with such security as will be approved of, bonds bearing interest from day of Sale. THOMAS PETER, Executor. Dec. 11—tds. GRAND LOTTERY, THREE PRIZES of 25,000 DOLLARS EACH. State of New York, UNION COLLEGE LOTTERY, No. 1. MANAGERS. William W. Gilbert, Benjamin Dewitt, George Merchant, Isaac Dennison, and Stephen Thorne. JUDAH and LAZARUS, (late N. Judah) No. 84, Maiden Lane, New York; having purchased one half of the Tickets in the present Lottery, offer the same for sale, at their Lucky Lottery Office (where the highest Prize of $30,000 in the last Lottery, and most of the capital Prizes in former Lotteries were sold) in Whole, Half, and Quarter Tickets, for which most of the Bank Notes of other states, Prize Tickets in former Lotteries, and approved promissory notes will be taken in payment. Distant adventurers, by enclosing cash (post paid) shall receive immediate attention, and the earliest advice given of their success. Owing to the great demand for Tickets in this Lottery (being one of the best Schemes we ever had, as one Ticket may draw $140,000) they will soon advance from the present price of EIGHT DOLLARS. SCHEME. 3 Prizes of $25,000 is $75,000 1 — 10,000 — 10,000 1 — 5,000 — 5,000 4 — 250 tickets each, 7,000 2 — 2,000 — 4,000 5 — 1,000 — 5,000 28 — 500 — 14,000 30 — 200 — 6,000 50 — 100 — 5,000 100 — 50 — 5,000 200 — 20 — 4,000 10,500 — 10 — 105,000 10,924 Prizes, 245,000 24,076 Blanks, 35,000 Tickets at 7 dollars, is 245,000 Part of the Capital Prizes will be determined as follows: 1st drawn No. 10th day, blank or prize $1000 (Excepting the reserved tickets) 250 tickets, from No. 1 to No. 250 inclusive. 1st do. 15th (Excepting the reserved) 250 tickets, from No. 251 to No. 500 inclusive. 1st do. 20th (Excepting the reserved) 250 tickets, from No. 501 to No. 750 inclusive. 1st do. 25th (Excepting the reserved) 250 tickets, from No. 751 to No. 1000 inclusive. 1st do. 30th (Excepting the reserved) 250 tickets, from No. 1001 to No. 1250 inclusive. 1st do. 35th — — — $23,000 1st do. 40th — — — 1,000 1st do. 45th — — — 25,000 The first 4,000 blanks will be entitled to TEN Dollars each. Less than Two and a 1/4 blanks to a Prize. Subject to a deduction of 15 per cent.—Prizes payable thirty days after the conclusion of the drawing. The drawing will commence in the city of New York, on the Third Tuesday in April next, and will continue to draw 600 Tickets each day (excepting the last day, when there will remain 300 tickets to be drawn) until finished. Tickets purchased at this office, examined gratis—A correct Check Book, kept for the examination of tickets, and the highest price in cash, given for prizes as soon as drawn. New York, December 4—2m PUBLIC SALE. BY order of the Orphan's Court of Prince George's county will be exposed to Public Sale on Friday the 22nd day of December next if fair, if not the next fair day thereafter, at the late Dwelling of Isaac Langdale, deceased, the following property, viz. a number of valuable Negroes, consisting of Men, Women and Children, Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Household & Kitchen Furniture, Plantation Utensils and a variety of articles too tedious to enumerate. The Terms of Sale are 12 months credit for all sums above 20 dollars, the purchaser giving bond with approved security; all sums under 20 dollars the money must be paid on the day of sale. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock. CLEMENT BROOKE, DENNIS BOYD, Admrs. December 4—3w NOTICE. AN Annual meeting of the Stockholders in the Washington and Alexandria Turnpike Company will be held at the City Tavern, in the town of Alexandria on the first Monday in January next. By order of the Directors. G. DENEALE, President. Dec. 13—td
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. RAN AWAY from the Subscriber living near Nottingham, Prince Georges county, state of Maryland, on the 19th of November, a Negro man named CHARLES, sometimes calls himself CHARLES ODEN, about 23 years old, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, has a dark complexion, when spoken to has a down look, one of his upper fore teeth is out, has several scars about his face occasioned by a scald when young, he is rather slender made, brisk and active about any thing, particularly cooking and waiting, he took with him two homespun cotton shirts, India cotton shirts, and brown round about jacket, sundry waistcoats, one pair corduroy pantaloons, home made yarn stockings and shoes, one furred hat and wool hat. He has a variety of clothing unknown, but being an artful, cunning fellow he may change them for others, it is very likely that he is got a forged pass, as a free man, we expect he is making towards Pennsylvania. If taken within ten miles, ten dollars; if twenty miles, twenty dollars; if thirty miles, thirty dollars; if taken without the state the above reward will be given to any person or persons securing him in any jail, so that we get him again. All persons are required to harbor, employ, or carry said negro out of this state. LEONARD P. HARVEY, WILLIAM HARVEY. Dec. 4—4w 100 DOLLARS REWARD. A LETTER covering the two following BANK NOTES, viz. United States Bank , K No. 5004, dated 28th April 1807 for $100. Do. do. do. O No. 5032, dated 28th April 1807 for $100. directed to the Subscriber in Baltimore, was forwarded from the Post-office in Jonesborough, Tennessee, the 9th of September last, and as the said Letter has not come to hand, it is supposed to have been pilfered from the Post, on the way—We therefore offer a reward of One Hundred Dollars to any one who will give information as will lead to a discovery of the money and the conviction of the Robber. T. JONES & H. YOUNG, Baltimore, Nov. 24—3t WM. S. NICHOLLS, Being determined to close and settle up all his business in Georgetown, takes this method of informing his friends and the public that he will sell off his entire stock of Goods, which is very extensive & complete, at Cost and Charges for cash only—and invites all persons who wish to buy Cheap Goods to call on him, as his goods will go at very low prices. He has it in contemplation to leave Georgetown in the course of the ensuing summer & requests all those who are indebted to him to make immediate payment, as longer indulgence cannot be given. Nov. 29—3w RICHARD BECK Has just received per the late arrival, a large and handsome assortment of SEASONABLE GOODS, Among which are— Superfine cloths and casimers, Second do. do. Coatings, Kersey Moleskins, Cords and Velverets, Moleskin & Swansdown Waistcoating, Silk Florentines, Rose and Stripe Blankets, Plains and Kerseys, Double Milled Devonshire Kersey, Flannels, Bockings and Baizes, Carpeting and Hearth Rugs, Apron Checks, Cotton Stripes, Brown Hollands, Fashionable Buttons, Bed Tickings, India Mantuas, India Lute strings, Bombazets and Wildbores, Ginghams, Fancy Shawls and Muslins, Damask and large Silk Shawls, Laces and Ribbons, Worsted, Cotton and Silk Hosiery, Silk Velverets, Furniture Dimity, Chintzes and Cambrics, Pelice Velverets, Chambrays, Madras Handkerchiefs, Bandanna do. 3 Trunks Calicoes, 1 Do. Furnitures, 1 Do. Cambric Muslins, 1 Do. Shirting Cottons, &c. &c. 4 Bales German Linens, 6 Bales India Muslins, 1 Case Irish Linens. All of which being well selected and on the best terms, enables him to sell them at wholesale or retail, at the most reduced prices for cash, or approved notes. He flatters himself that from his regular mode of dealing, that all those who favor him with a call will meet with such bargains as will please—and will on his part leave nothing undone to render general satisfaction. December 15—3w&wt. PUBLIC SALE. PURSUANT to an order of the Orphans Court of Prince Georges county will be offered for sale, on Monday the 8th of January next, if fair, if not, the first fair day thereafter, at the late Dwelling of Mary Meek Duckett, deceased, (within 7 miles of Upper Marlboro, and near Mr. Dennis Macgruder) the PERSONAL PROPERTY of said deceased, consisting of Negroes, Beds, Furniture, Cattle, etc. etc. A credit of nine months will be given, the purchasers giving bond with approved security. The sale to commence at 9 o'clock, A. M. and to continue from day to day until the whole Personal Estate ordered to be sold, shall be disposed of. JACOB DUCKETT, U. BRUCE, Esqrs. It is desired that all claims against the above Estate, may be presented to the Executors by the day of sale. Prince Georges county, Dec. 11—10t GRAND PIANO FORTE. HENRY SHULTZE, High-street George-town has for Sale an Elegant GRAND PIANO FORTE, which he will sell low for cash. December 15—3t FOR RENT, A TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE, of moderate size and well finished, near the War Office, opposite Mr. Nicholas King's. Possession may be had immediately. Enquire of THOS W. PATRO, F street. December 15—43t