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Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1804.
[No. 1057.]
Public Sale.
On FRIDAY next, at 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Venue Store, RUM
Ashds. and bls. French Brandy in pipes, in pipes and bls. Riff-v and Apple Brandy in bls. Sugar in hlds. tierces and bls. Chocolate White and brown Soap and in boxes, Mould and dpt Candles Raisins in kegs, boxes and jars, Figs in kegs and frails, Queen's Ware in crates, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c Also, A Variety of DRY GOODS,
among which, are Cloths, Coatings, Kerssemeres, Duffs, Plains, Kenseys, Negro Cottons, Serges, Elastics, blue Friezes, Calimancoes, Russells, Yarn Stockings, Chinizes and Calicoes, Irish Linens, Silesia do. Osnaburgs and Ticklenburgs, Mullin and Mollin Handkerchiefs, India Mullins and Table Cloths, Bandanna Handkerchiefs, Coloured Threads, Hats, and sundry other articles.
Philip G. Marsteller.
August 7.
THE SUBSCRIBER
Intending to leave this place early next fall, offers for sale, on the most reasonable terms his STOCK on HAND, consisting of a handsome selection of
DRY GOODS
adapted to the present season. All persons having claims against him are requested to present them for settlement, and those indebted to him will be pleased to make payment.
John Horsburgh.
June 12.
PROPOSALS,
For Printing by subscription a comprehensive description of The Harbour of St. John's
The Island of Newfoundland.
With the occupation and amendments of the inhabitants; the government and trade of that important British Island; concluding with sundry observations in relation to The Court of Vice Admiralty
Established there—well worthy the attention of those merchants who are shippers to foreign markets.
By a person who resided there three months of the last Winter.
TERMS—The work shall be printed on fine paper, and on delivery, subscribers to pay £4 4s. Shillings.
Subscriptions received at this Office.
July 12.
PUBLIC SALE OF LANDS.
By virtue of a decree of the Court of the United States for the fifth circuit Virginia district, in the suit of Hepburn and Dundas against Thomas West, in chancery—will be sold on the premises to the highest bidder, at Public Auction, for ready money, on Monday the 20th of August next, at 12 o'clock A. M. if fair, if not, the next fair day at the same hour,
A TRACT OF LAND,
situate on Hunting Creek, in the County of Fairfax and Commonwealth of Virginia, within one mile of the town of Alexandria, and near to the Cameron Mills, whereon major Thomas West resides, supposed to contain from fifty to eighty acres.
ALSO,
on the same day will be offered for sale, the residue of said Thos. West's Land, lying on the north west line of the patent of Carr and Simpson, adjacent to the tract before mentioned, not disposed of by the said Thomas West at the time certain mortgages were made by him to Hepburn and Dundas.
Richard M. Scott, F. Peyton, Amos Alexander, } Comrs.
July 12.
Wanted to Hire,
A Servant Woman: For one well acquainted with Cooking, Washing and House Work generally, liberal wages will be given.
Apply to the Printer.
July 25.
JAMES BACON, AT HIS GROCERY STORE,
King near Washington Street, Has just received from Philadelphia, New-York &c. an extensive selection of GROCERIES consisting of
Gunpowder, Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Pekoe, Padra, Pouchong and Ceylon Souchong } TEAS } Of the latest Importation and particularly chosen.
Green coffee of superior quality, Loaf, Lump and Muscavado Sugar, W. India and Sugar House Molasses,
Choice old Madeira, Particular Teneriffe, Sherry, Brandy, Lisbon, Malaga and Port } WINES.
Claret in small cases, Cogniac and Barcelona Brandy, Old Jamaica Spirits, Antigua, St. Croix, and St. Kitts } RUM.
Best Holland Gin, White Wine and Cyder Vinegar, Best Sallad Oil, Salt Petre, Allum, Madder, Coperas & Brimstone.
Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves and Cassia, Cayenne and black Pepper, Allspice, race and ground Ginger, Fig Blue and Poland Starch, Dixon's Mustard, Leiper's and Hamilton's Snuff, Best Chewing Tobacco, Spanish Segars, Pearl Barley and Rice, Shot assorted, F and F Gunpowder, Single and double Battle do. in papers and canisters, Gun and Pistols Flints, White and brown Soap, Mould and dpt Candles, &c. &c.
As he has in a great measure laid out for the support of private families, and in consequence thereof taken every pains possible in the selection of his goods, he flatters himself from their superior quality, and the low prices at which he will dispose of them, to be able to give satisfaction to those who will please to favor him with their custom.
June 11. d
FOR SALE, Twenty-nine kegs of prime Richmond Manufactured Tobacco. Apply to June 18. Wm. OXLEY. d
A Tan Yard for Sale, In a good situation in the country to purchase Hides or dress of leather. Enquire of the Printer. July 16. d
BENJAMIN SHREVE, Jun. HAS FOR SALE At the corner of Prince and Union Streets, (JUST RECEIVED) 2,800 pieces NANKEENS;
165 do. Bandanna Handkerchiefs, 2 bales Sannas, 2 do. Baftas, 1 do. Emeryts, 1 do. blue Gurras's, 1 do. India Chints, 2 sacks Sago, 1 bag Hops, 94 Birch Floor Mats, 3 cases and one cask Women's Morocco and Leather Shoes, ALSO ON HAND, Fifteen bales of India Cottons, consisting of 5 bales Baftas, 5 do. Emeryts, 4 do. Sannas, 1 do. Baftas, 30 pieces Black Satin, 2 sets Tea China, Mens' coarse, and women's Morocco and leather shoes, Leiper's Snuff in half bls. and kegs, 1 case Mariner's Compasses, 10 coils Cordage, assorted, 24 bags Pepper, 40 bls. Beef No. 1. and A large quantity of red Seal Leather. June 4. d
FIFTEEN bales of India Cottons, consisting of
5 bales Baftas, 5 do. Emeryts, 4 do. Sannas, 1 do. Baftas, 30 pieces Black Satin, 2 sets Tea China, Mens' coarse, and women's Morocco and leather shoes, Leiper's Snuff in half bls. and kegs, 1 case Mariner's Compasses, 10 coils Cordage, assorted, 24 bags Pepper, 40 bls. Beef No. 1. and A large quantity of red Seal Leather. June 4. d
ROBERT B. JAMESSON,
Offers for Sale, 20,000 lbs. GREEN COFFEE,
8,000 do. Cocoa, 20 hds. Muscavado Sugar, 20 bags of Cotton, 20 puncheons fine flavored St. Croix Rum, 20 hds. Molasses, 10 pipes Holland Gin, 30 qr. chests of tea in Tiers assorted, 10 pipes London P. Madeira } WINES. 8 do. old Port 4 do. P. Teneriffe 15 qr. casks Sherry, and 4 pipes Brandy 3 hds. green Coperas, 4 hds. Roll Brimstone, 2 hds. Madder, 2 hds. Allum, and 120 boxes Spanish Segars of different qualities, with most other articles in the Grocery Line. May 29. d
350 bls. HERRINGS. For Sale by the Subscribers—350 bls. well cured Herrings; a quantity of second hand Rigging; four new fails for a Brig; a quantity of Blocks and three Anchors. 30 tierces of Rice, 50 bales Cotton, 1200 lbs. Indigo, 40 BILLS on Philadelphia and New York. Ricketts, Newton and Co. July 26. d
OLD FRUIT STORE. The Advertiser has for Sale, at his Store on Prince Street, a variety of Fruit—Nuts—Groceries, &c. VIZ.
Fresh LEMONS —imported in the brig Neptune direct from Lisbon; Limes, Oranges, Figs, Raisins, preserved Prunes, &c. &c.
Soft shell'd Almonds, English Walnuts, &c.
Holland Gin of a superior quality, Cogniac Brandy, W. I. and country Rum, Madeira and Teneriffe Wine, Loaf, Lump and brown Sugar, Molasses, best Green Coffee, Teas of different qualities, &c.
Smithfield Bacon Hams, Venison, Shad and Herrings, (intended for family use, and put up with particular attention,) Codfish, Mackerel, &c. &c. Thomas Simms. July 9. d
FRUIT, GROCERIES, &c. FOR SALE, At the subscriber's Store on Union Street, Forty boxes
LISBON LEMONS, equal to any ever at this market—West India and New England Rum by the hhd. or barrel; French Brandy in pipes; Sugar in bls. nice Spanish Segars by the box; Salad Oil by the box or bottle; good English Cheese; Olives, soft shell'd Almonds by the bale; English Walnuts, Raisins by the box, Prunes, Figs, fresh Limes, Nice Smithfield Bacon Hams, of a small size, &c. Abel Willis. July 5. d
FRESH FRUIT Of a superior quality.
JOHN A. BURFORD, (Late Joseph Dyson's store, Prince street.) Has this day received, per the brig Neptune, from Lisbon, LEMONS by the box or smaller quantity, 800 lbs. soft shell'd Almonds, 500 lbs. English Walnuts, 10 boxes of preserved Prunes, And some Sweet Meats, All which are in excellent order, and the Best ever brought to this port.
Just received, per the brig Joanna, from Newburyport, a few tierces first quality SPED POTATOES. July 5. d
To be Rented, THE HOUSE formerly occupied by the subscriber on Wolfe Street, having every convenience for a genteel family, with a large productive garden; the situation healthy and the house remarkably cool in the summer season. For particulars apply to John C. Vowell. June 23. d
For Freight or Charter, The Sloop Columbia, Burthen 400 bls. Thos. R. Gardner, Master:
Apply to J. G. LADD. Who has for Sale, received per said Sloop, Fifteen puncheons High flavoured Jamaica Spirits. July 16. d
For Freight or Charter, To any Port in the United States or the West-Indies, The Sch'r BETSEY, Tholeuah Berry, Master.
Will be ready to take in a cargo in a few days. Apply to the master on board, or to M'Clean and Winterberry, Who have for sale, at their store on Union Street, 24 puncheons 4th proof Jamaica Rum, 15 hds. St. Croix Sugar, 15 bls. Phila. Loaf, 10 do. Lump } SUGARS, Imperial Tea by the q. chest, Molasses and prime Pork by the barrel, Do. Beef, 50 bags black Pepper, 10 bls 4th proof Peach Brandy, 10 pipes, 7 half pipes at 5 quarter casks Madeira Wine, Salt in sacks, Porter in bls. Ravens Duck, Spanish Segars, &c. July 19. d
For NEW-YORK, The fast sailing Sloop LITTLE JIM, Thomas V. Buler, Master
burthen about 400 bls. For Freight or Passage apply to the captain on board at Merchant's Wharf, or Daniel Murgatroyd, King Street.
Who has for Sale, Berbon Gurrahs, Nimpofakie Coffas, Chittabully Battas, Champore Coffas, Janrally Mamoodys, Johanna Lawns, Table Cloths, 4th proof Jamaica Rum, Country Gin, and A few bls. N. York Cargo Pork. July 25. d
Wanted to Hire, A Negro Woman competent to the household business of a small family. As considerable trust will necessarily be reposed in her, liberal wages will be given to one of good character, and none else need apply. Enquire of the Printer. July 16. d
JUST RECEIVED, And for Sale by the subscriber, 100 pieces brown Russia Sheeting; 50 do. white do, 100 do. bread Diapers, 12 do. narrow do, 71 do. broad Russia Linens, 100 bolts Russia Duck, 50 do. Ravens do, 2000 pieces Nankeens, 10 chests fresh Hyson Tea, 2 tons Cordage assorted. John G. Ladd. August 2. d
Robert and John Gray Have just received, A SUPPLY of Super Royal, Royal, Medium, Demy, Folio and Quarto Post And Foolscap } WRITING PAPER. July 18. d
JUST RECEIVED, And for Sale by Rob. and John Gray MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE of Dr. DARWIN. By Anna Seward. Price in boards, 1 vol. 75 cts. Bound in Sheep, 2 — 00. Call, gilt, 2 — 50. July 20. d
For Sale, An Elegant Saddle HORSE. Enquire of the Printer. July 11. d

Public Sale.
To Morrow Afternoon, at half past four o'clock, will be sold on Col. Ramsay's wharf, Thirty hds. Molasses and 23 casks of Rice, on a Credit of 60 days. Twenty barrels Brown Sugar, for Cash—and Twenty boxes of Sugar, at 60 days, entitled to drawback. Philip G. Marsteller. Aug. 7.
MAYOR'S OFFICE,
August 6, 1804.
SOME of the proprietors of the ground in the square comprehended between St. Asaph, King, Put and Cameron streets, having neglected to fill up the same, agreeably to an order of the Common Council passed the 4th day of April last, the Superintendent of Police is hereby required to have that duty performed, at the expence of the Corporation, and afterwards proceed to recover the amount thereof from the defaulters respectively, in the manner prescribed for the recovery of other public claims.
Elisha C. Dick, Mayor of Alexandria.
Postponement.
ON account of the extraordinary pressure of business, the Sale of the Property advertised by me to take place on the 8th and 9th instant, will be postponed until further notice. John Potts. d3t
August 7.
TUNIS CRAVEN HAS JUST RECEIVED,
A handsome assortment of Ribands, Cambric Dimities, Cotton Counterpanes.
ALSO ON HAND,
A complete assortment of GOODS, suitable to the season. August 6. d12t
FASHIONABLE JEWELRY.
WILLIAM F. GIRD,
Clock & Watch Maker,
HAS just received a handsome assortment of JEWELRY, consisting of Ear Rings, Necklaces, Lockets, Breast Pins, Rings, fine Gold Chain, a variety of Beads, with a number of
FANCY ARTICLES
of which he intends keeping a constant supply. ORDERS for any particular Device will be received and carefully executed. Alexandria, King Street, August 3. d
JUST PUBLISHED.
By ROBERT and JOHN GRAY, King Street,
AN ELEGANT EDITION OF
THE HOLY BIBLE.
In four handsome Octavo Volumes—Price, well bound, Ten Dollars.
This edition is now offered to the public as a specimen of American paper and printing, which will not suffer by a comparison with any book printed in this country.
A GOLD MEDAL was given to Robert Carr, the Printer of this Bible, by the American Company of Booksellers, as the best specimen of Printing exhibited at their annual meeting, at New York last June. July 31. d
JUST RECEIVED
AND FOR SALE,
1000 lbs. excellent Rhode Island
CHEESE,
Fresh Tamarinds, and an assortment of Glass Wares. A. WILLIS. July 30. d
To Rent,
And possession given immediately, a comfortable DWELLING HOUSE, situated in a pleasant part of the town. For particulars enquire of Ricketts, Newton and Co. July 27. d
JUST PUBLISHED,
And for Sale by ROBERT and JOHN GRAY, King Street,
REPORTS
Of Cases argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, in August and December Terms, 1801, and February Term, 1803. By William Cranch,
Assistant Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia. July 14. d
DANIEL M'DOUGALL
Will commence the business of SAIL MAKING in the Loft over the store of Mr. Thomas Irwin, at the corner of King and Union streets, on or before the 20th of August next. July 24. e07t
Printing in all its various branches executed at this office with neatness, accuracy, and dispatch.
WE deem it of the first importance that this community should be possessed of a correct knowledge of the causes which produced the late national catastrophe; and as we are religiously of opinion that they are to be traced to a political conspiracy formed by Mr. Burr and his adherents, and conducted upon a systematic determination to take the life of General Hamilton, we feel it a duty that we owe to the memory of the deceased, and to the public, to state the grounds of our belief. For this purpose we have thought proper to go into an examination of the subject at some length, and we hope not without producing that conviction on the minds of others which had impressed itself on our own. A recapitulation of the principal facts, with some additional circumstances, so as to present the whole at one view, will close our remarks for the present.
It appears that about the middle of last February, at a meeting of federal gentlemen at Albany for the purpose of exchanging sentiments on the point, whether it would be expedient to throw the weight of the federal interest into the scale of Mr. Burr, in opposition to Chancellor Lansing, General Hamilton openly took the negative of the question. This opinion of General Hamilton, accompanied however with considerable misrepresentations, was communicated to the Editor of the morning Chronicle by some friend of Mr. Burr, who had contrived to be present. It was immediately published in that paper and animadverted upon in terms of unbecoming severity: threats were, at the same time, thrown out that the "Little Band" would enforce the observance of such conduct from those opposed to them as they should think was proper. About the same period General Hamilton in a conversation at which Dr. Cooper was present, expressed his sentiments in relation to the approaching election, and disapproved of supporting Mr. Burr, in such a manner, that the Doctor in a private letter, afterwards written to a friend, told him that General Hamilton's opinion respecting Mr. Burr, was, in substance, that he considered him a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of government. This letter however found its way into the federal paper at Albany, then disposed to favor Mr. Burr's election; and was immediately answered by General Schuyler, General Hamilton's father-in-law, who said that since the nomination of Mr. Lewis in place of Mr. Lansing, who had declined, General Hamilton was determined to remain perfectly neutral between the candidates, and, therefore, that under these circumstances it was not proper to throw the weight of his character into the scale against Mr. Burr. In reply to this Dr. Cooper insisted on the correctness of the first statement; and added that he "could detail a still more despicable opinion that general Hamilton had expressed of Mr. Burr." These letters were published in April last, and no notice was taken of them by Mr. Burr or any of his friends, at that time though his defeat was known soon after their appearance.
And what do we next discover of his conduct? He begins to practice with a pistol at a mark in his garden; for one of his intimates has publicly declared that for three months past, he has been in this habit, and that he had at length become a "dead shot." Accordingly on the 17th of June having brought his skill to the necessary perfection, he sends for Mr. Van Ness and informs him, that he had for some time felt the necessity of calling to an account, or in other words, of challenging General Hamilton; that the difficulty however, had always been to lay hold of any thing that would justify the measure; but that some one had now put into his hands the above letter of Dr. Cooper, which he thought "demanded immediate investigation," and that this was "the evident opinion of his friends;" he therefore desired Mr. Van Ness to act as his friend on the occasion, and to become the bearer of a note which he had written to General Hamilton, to open to him the fatal business. In this letter he chooses to consider himself as having received an affront from General Hamilton because Dr. Cooper has made use of an offensive, and as it appears from the letter itself, an improper epithet; without taking the trouble of making the least enquiry or explanation of Dr. Cooper himself: Indeed he said "of General Hamilton only will Col. Burr enquire." The replies of General Hamilton, notwithstanding the gross rudeness of Mr. Burr, obliged him to abandon the ground he had first taken; but impatient to accomplish his purpose he instantly, forsaking all sense of justice, propriety and decorum, made a demand entirely new, & peremptorily insisted
that General Hamilton should account to him for all he might ever have said of him, even in confidential conversations with his friends; during the whole course of his life: he had the unparallelled impudence to declare that he would be satisfied with "no denial or declaration, unless it be general, so as wholly to exclude the idea that rumours derogatory to Col. Burr's honor, have originated with General Hamilton or have been fairly inferred from any thing that he has said."
Not only does he decline to specify any particular conversation or charge, but he places it on the most vague basis it is possible for the imagination to conceive: he demands that General Hamilton should say that no "rumours derogatory to Mr. Burr's honor" have originated with him. And what man in the community can even conjecture what Mr. Burr really considers "derogatory to his honor?" It is very certain that his notions of honor, as well as of justice and humanity, differ very widely from those of many truly respectable men on these subjects. Yet is Gen. Hamilton called upon, not only to decide what Mr. B. would or would not consider an imputation on the purity of his honor; not only is he called upon to make a formal declaration as to every thing he may at any time have said unfavorable to Mr. Burr: but he is also to account for whatever he had uttered, from whence rumours injurious to Mr. Burr may have originated, or even inferences prejudicial to him have been drawn. A demand so indefinite, so intrinsically unsuscceptible of answer or explanation, Mr. Burr well knew could not be complied with; it was, therefore strenuously repeated and persisted in by him. Its rejection was what he had anticipated, and now, prepared for the event by three months previous practice which had enabled him to direct his ball with unerring certainty, he seizes the opportunity which by his own confession, he had been long seeking, to challenge a man whose gallant, romantically gallant, spirit could not refuse such a call, however, exceptionable the grounds of it: too well did he calculate upon his knowledge of him whose destruction he had plotted.
Nothing now remained but to restrain the skill he had already acquired in the use of his pistol, and we record it as a fact that will damn him to everlasting infamy, that he continued shooting at a card, after the challenge was given and accepted, and till the time of the fatal interview. In vain has been the quick sighted vigilance of some of his adherents to discover every one who could give evidence on this point and either to send them out of the way, or prepare them for any enquiries that should be made of them. We repeat that it is a fact susceptible of the most satisfactory proof; while on the part of his generous antagonist, there was neither practice nor skill at any time of his life. Such was his delicate sense of honor, we may say, even to fastidiousness, that when the pistols which he was to use, were shewn to him previously to going out, and he was desired to examine them, and raise them merely to feel their weight, he declined even doing this, considering it to be unwarrantable; and it was not without some persuasion and even raillery, that he at length took one into his hand, and after barely looking at it laid it down.
Several of Mr. Burr's intimate friends and advisers so well knew General Hamilton's total unskillfulness in the use of the pistol, that some of them have been heard to say that they thought there was but little danger in being exposed to his fire, allowing that he should seriously intend it to take effect. But it is also well known to numbers of his friends, and indeed to many others, for Hamilton never concealed anything, that it had long been his fixed determination, if he received a challenge which he could not in his own judgment avoid accepting, to throw away his fire, till he should be absolutely compelled to use it in self defence, against persevering malice.
How immense then the difference between these two men when met on the field! The one, without skill in the management of his weapon and had he even possessed any, restrained by religious and moral considerations from using it; the other expert to an extraordinary degree; his accurate knowledge acquired under the most suspicious circumstances, and maintained by unfair and dishonorable practice after the meeting had been agreed upon: the one resolved to throw away his fire! The other resolutely determined upon taking the life of his adversary. But how does a contemplation of their relative situations in life increase this difference? Hamilton, whose heart throbbed with the tenderest affections of the human bosom; alive to all those emotions that do honor to our nature and spread a charm over social life; could re-
ver for a moment divest him of the recollection that he was connected by the closest ties, to a beloved wife, darling children, to many near relations and to a numerous friends, consisting of the worth men in the community, who loved most to idolatry—awake to all sensibilities, what powerful sensations have assailed him, when he appeared retired and gloomy spot of death, pliance with the stern mandates of and against his solemn conviction after judgment? What, I ask, must have been his feelings, and, through Br Cæsar's self, how distant must have been from that coldness which in such a case is almost essential to success, had he not been his object? On the other hand, by his adversary; without a wife, without children, with scarcely a tie of kindred with a few adherents indeed, but men feeling themselves bound to him by far out sentiments than those which constitute the alliance between a Hamilton and the man who loved him—an isolated being, whose heart never palpitated with any passion but what springs from systematic selfishness, dead to all pleasure and all enjoyment but what is connected with the wish of personal aggrandizement; a man whose bosom was never moved by pity, at the cries of distress, nor enlivened by participating in the pleasures of the innocently happy; whose affections are all concentrated in an unprincipled ambition; whose exquisite hypocrisy can assume all forms and affect every virtue; whose glossy duplicity can impose equally on the unsusppecting and on the incredulous: who has long since, as it were, substituted an artificial self, in place of that which nature made; so that neither compassion nor remorse were ever permitted to usurp, even a momentary sway in his breast that should turn him from his settled purposes.
Such is the slight but faithful portrait of the man who was to level the weapon of death against the unfortunate Hamilton. With this picture before our eyes it is not apparent that the fatal event was hardly more certain in his own mind, when he shot the murdered Hamilton receive the bullet in his bosom, and apparently, expire on the spot, than it had been for days and weeks before?
We have seen what was his behaviour after the "deed of dreadful note" was over. Not even the sigh of "unfelt sorrow"—not one look upon the dying; a glance towards him indeed, as if to see if the business was done, a gesture of the hands, and a shrug of the shoulders! The cowardly contrition of a Macbeth, not the for his guilt thus broke forth—
"I am afraid to think of what I've done, Look on it again I dare not."
"How's it with me when every noise upsets me? What hands are here? Ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?"
"To know my deed—'twere best not know myself."
"Come sealing night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand, Cancel and tear to pieces, that great bond, Which keeps me pale!"
All this bespeaks violent emotion; strong sensation of remorse and fear. But if we pursue Aaron Burr home from the fatal scene, we find in him only a cheerfulness, a gaiety of feeling that makes one shudder. And after the last sad scene was over, and Hamilton slept in his grave, we find him who sent him there, appearing in one of our public prints, shamelessly talking about a gentleman's protecting his honor by his own arm, and giving the world "the most satisfactory assurances, that when a full and candid statement should be laid before the public, his conduct would be justified by every disinterested and unprejudiced man." But in the expectations then formed as to the feelings and disposition of the community, we fancy that both Mr. Burr and his adherents have before this time discovered how egregiously they have been mistaken. The flush of their fever of expectation has ere now been succeeded by the shivering ague of woeful disappointment.
The features of this atrocious transaction are now before the public, and we think they will not hesitate in believing us that the sad event, an event which shall never cease to lament and deplore whilst we have life, has been produced by a cruel revenge, which early laid its plans of hostility on a calculation of the political advantages to be gained by the shedding

blood. The more we have examined this affair, and the more we consider it in all its aspects, the more convinced we are in the conclusion, which we have since formed of it, that, apart from legal considerations applicable generally, this before us is a clear case of malicious murder. Before we do not scruple to pronounce, ALEXANDER HAMILTON was wilfully and maliciously MURDERED by the hand of BURR, Vice President of the United States. He is now an exile from this state; never he flies, unless he can escape himself, the voice of a brother's blood cry aloud to the Almighty from the ground.
From the BALANCE.
TO THE EDITOR.
MUCH has been said by the advocates of the present administration, when in opposition, of the monarchical and aristocratic views of the Federalists. Of wishes to concentrate all power in a few individuals, and of their intentions to elevate themselves on the ruins of popular government. The declamations of aspiring demagogues, on these grounds, have contributed not a little to the success of the ruling party. But, sir, if the conduct of the Federalists was incompatible with the principles of our government, the conduct of the present administration, with the pernicious example before them, is highly inexcusable. We have seen almost unlimited powers delegated to the president, in the legislative provisions for the government of the Louisiana Territory . We have seen an arbitrary system of removal adopted by the president, which has not only deprived capable and meritorious officers of bread, but has raised to consideration the most unprincipled characters. The power of removal, which the president has exercised with so much rigour, depends upon the construction of an ambiguous clause in the constitution. Many of the most enlightened members of the first Congress, contended that the constitution did not warrant a construction that vested the president with the power of removal. Mr. Madison, the Republican Secretary of State, under the Republican Thomas Jefferson, warmly advocated the construction that sanctioned this power. "Though (says he in the debate on that subject) the prerogative of the British King is great, and his resources of influence extensive and commanding, there have been examples of its being exercised by the division of one branch of the legislature. If this be the case with a hereditary Monarch, possessed of such high prerogatives, and furnished with such means of influence, can we suppose that the President of the United States, elected for four years only, dependent on the popular voice, impeachable by the legislature, and perhaps not distinguished in point of wealth or talents from the head of the department himself, can we suppose, I say, that in defiance of these considerations, he will presume wantonly to dismiss a meritorious officer from his service? I own it is an abuse of power which exceeds my imagination, and of which I can form no rational conception. Vest the power in the president (says he) and the claim of dependence is this—the officer of the highest grade, the officer of the middle grade, and the officer of the lowest grade, will be dependent on the president, and he on the people." The scope of his argument is to shew, that the power of removal is better entrusted with one, than with a number of persons. In the same debate, speaking of the senate, he describes it as a body that possesses that portion of aristocratic power , which the constitution has wisely established. Let the tools of faction now be silent, and no longer charge the Federalists with designs unfavorable to our political liberty. I ask whether it is more wicked in a federalist to say that the president has the power of removal, than in secretary Madison to maintain that the same power is better entrusted with one than with twenty six persons? Is it more culpable in a federalist to advocate stability in a government, than in one who professes republicanism, to commend our constitution for having wisely established in our senate a portion of aristocratic power ? Is a federalist to be more blamed for wishing to possess the executive department with sufficient energy, than an officer under the present administration, to justify the delegation of a high power to a single individual, by an analogy to a monarchical government ? If our constitution warrants a construction that gives the power of removal to the president, it was intended by the same constitution that this power should
only be exercised in cases of imperative necessity. It was not given as an engine of persecution; but for the purpose of sound, moderate and rational exercise. How far the President has, in this instance, conformed to the constitution, let the calm and unprejudiced judgment of the people determine.
That the people cannot err, I know, sir, is triumphantly adopted by the ruling party, as a first principle in political reasoning. I am persuaded that the intentions of the people are generally right; but experience will inform us, that the people, with the most upright intentions, have erred in the pursuit of the most noble objects. We have known them to be led astray by the mere empty shadow of liberty, and at last bow to the substantial yoke of despotism .—What will be the fate of this country, I will not pretend to foretell. The conduct of the prevailing party in this state, is certainly inauspicious to rational liberty. The persecution of an individual, dictated by party motives, though it may not immediately affect the collective body of the people, yet, in its consequences, is extremely alarming. As long as we possess the bold spirit of freemen, it will be in vain for government to tell us that we are exempted from taxation, when the sacred right of expressing freely our sentiments is violated. Under these circumstances, we may boast of a full treasury—it may give a momentary vigor to our government; but sir, it is like a consumptive glow which presages a speedy dissolution.
A FEDERALIST.
RATISBON, May 18.
Count Gortz, the Minister for the Electorate of Brandenburg, and the Electorate of Baden, &c. has made here the following verbal declaration: "The Electoral Legation has not failed to transmit to the Court of Baden and their other principals, the Imperial Russian Note; but have not received, nor indeed could they as yet receive any commands on the subject. They conceive, however, that they may declare, that his Majesty the King, and the other Courts whom they represent, entertain a well founded hope that the First Consul will of himself be inclined (according to the sentiment of the Bohemian and Austrian Minister) to give a full and satisfactory explanation on the subject that has occasioned anxiety, and such as may entirely correspond to the expectation of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia."
Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8.
FAMILY QUARREL. —A letter from Paris, dated May 22, says—"Besides the known disagreements in our Imperial Family, between his Majesty Napoleon and his brother citizen Lucien Bonaparte, his Imperial Highness Prince Louis Bonaparte has narrowly escaped an affair of honor with citizen Beauharnois, brother to her Imperial Highness, the Princess Fanny de Beauharnois, who, though his mother was saluted an Empress, his father decreed an Emperor, his sister made a Princess, and his brother-in-law an Imperial Prince, and a Constable of the Empire in the same day—he received neither rank nor promotion, but simply an annuity of 100,000 livres, (4000l.) in the month, until he can be better provided for. In the challenge to Prince Louis, citizen Beauharnois said, that he was a Viscount, when his Imperial Highness was only a SANS CULOTTE; and that he possessed property to the amount of 60,000 livres in the year, while the whole Imperial Bonaparte Family together did not possess an acre of land or a cottage. "Cit. Flahault, son to the guillotined Count de Flahault, aid de camp to his Imperial Highness Prince Louis, carried this letter to his Majesty, the Emperor Napoleon, who ordered the Field Marshal, citizen Murat, to put citizen Beauharnois under arrest; who, notwithstanding the interference of her Imperial Majesty, Josephine, his mother, he has been exiled, as some say, to the army on the coast, or, as others pretend, to join the remainder of the disgraced Bonapartes at Rome." LON. PAP.
We understand that the Rev. B. Allison of Bordenton, New Jersey, and Mr. Richard French of that neighbourhood, have invented a machine for making nails upon a plan entirely new, and very simple in its construction.
It is said that this machine cuts the nail, places it in a die, closes a vice on it, heads it by the action of hammers, and discharges it by means of machinery. It is also further added that a boy can make, with this engine, from thirty to fifty pounds of nails per hour.
We are informed that this machine is now actually at work near Bordenton.
"Like wit much talk'd of, not be defn'd, "He that pretends to most, too, has least share in't. "Tis a ragged virtue.—Honesty!—No more on't!"
SUCH is the opinion which the bold muse of Otway put into the mouth of one of his most brilliant characters respecting that notion Honesty . And such in truth is the opinion which every wise man will entertain, at least 99 times in a 100, of the real value of the word Patriotism , as it is now used in the world. It is the mask of the subtle perfidious courtier; the bait of the candidate for court favour; the hackneyed theme of the demagogue; the stock in trade of the trading politician; the supposition to unlimited power; the straight road to despotism; the cash and office trap of every pretender; the thin skin which floats upon and films over political corruption, and affords temporary concealment to the canker worm of states. We talk of the word not of the thing. The one we meet with every day—the other rarely; and when we do meet it have such just cause of suspicion that we cannot, if we have no more faith than reason, put trust in its sincerity. In fact there is so much said of it, and so little done as times now go, that we cannot but look upon the recitals of antient patriotism which historians have transmitted, rather as the effervescence of overheated imagination than things that have passed in real life.
If we sum up the number of conspicuous instances of patriotism which history has treasured up and consecrated to fame among the monuments of human virtue, we shall be astonished at the paucity, and not at all flattered at the nature of them.—The eye of true philosophy will consider them, from the comparative shortness of the catalogue, rather as so many extraordinary exceptions to the natural selfishness of man, or else as so many mortifying proofs of the extravagant lengths to which ambition will occasionally incite human infirmity, than as the workings of any passion common to the heart of man, and generally inherent in his nature.
If we compare the number of real patriots with that of perfidious, pretended ones, and contemplate the reiterated success of the latter, we shall have cause to be astonished at the overweening credulity of the world, and its aptitude to yield to deceit and to be duped by imposture. History supplies us with a hundred false for one true patriot. Cataline was called a patriot; Marius was called a patriot; Julius Cæsar was called a great patriot. Yet one conspired to destroy his country, and cut off the senate; another massacred in cold blood hundreds of his fellow citizens; and a third, with his patriotism cheated the people out of a republic into an absolute monarchy. Marc Antony was called a patriot, on the very day on which he joined Octavius and Lepidus in proscribing and murdering all the patriots on the opposite side of the question. In short they were all patriots, all sanguinary plunderers— all federalists, all republicans .
The striking instances of patriotism which we meet in walking back through the histories of the world, are not only few, but for the most part of a kind which rather repress hope, than excite emulation. They are in many instances prodigies which so far from many attempting to imitate, all contemplate with astonishment; and few can bring themselves to credit. Of this kind are the stories of Regulus, of Mutius Scaevola, and of the family of the Fabii, of Rome; and that of Eustace St. Pierre and his family, at the siege of Catris , by Edward the 3d of England. Thus the few accounts we have of true patriotism concur with the boundless details of the false, to make rational men distrust the professions of those who appear extremely zealous for the reputation of ardent patriots. Any man can pretend to possess, but few are competent to the exercise of that virtue.—It is a task too hard for the luxurious, too important for the feeble, too intricate for the unwise and ignorant, too glorious for the mean, too great for the little, too generous and honorable for the base and sordid, too virtuous for the wicked, and too honest for the knavish. If then, all the luxurious, the feeble, the unwise and ignorant, the mean, the little, the base and sordid, the wicked and the knavish be deducted from mankind, the number that remain fit for the offices of patriotism we fear will be scanty. Of that number, how few are there to whom fortune affords the opportunity of exercising their virtues: and how much fewer still are those who can force their way through the malignity of a contentious, envious world; or who when cast on the tempestuous ocean of public life, can buffet the billows of opposition, and at the same time carry their virtues and their honours dry in their teeth.
"Zeal for the public, says Mr. Addison, is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take place of pleasures, profits, and all other private gratifications. Whosoever wants this motive, is an open enemy or an inglorious neuter to mankind, in proportion to the misapplied advantages with which nature and fortune has blessed him." But alas how few do we see even at the call of God and for the salvation of their most precious parts, their souls capable of declining their pleasures, their profits, or their private gratifications. How much less then can we hope to find them sacrificed to the public good. It behoves a people therefore not sullenly to disbelieve the existence of the virtue, or spurn those who profess to exercise it; but to be assured that though patriotism exists it is a very scarce commodity, and though believing the man who calls himself a patriot may possibly be so, not to give him implicit credit for it, until he has demonstrated his sincerity by some greater sacrifices of private gratification than the acceptance of office emolument, rank and power & some more unequivocal testimony of disinterestedness and attachment to the public good, than the prolonging of popularity by shabby arts and indirect means, & cajoling the people of their confidence, to abuse and turn it against themselves.
If in contemplating the character of a patriot we suffer our imaginations to wander for materials into the regions of romance we deceive ourselves and shall assuredly be disappointed. At this day the virtues of chivalry have disappeared with its absurdities, and we must take up with that which circumstances allow us. The best tests of a man being fit to be trusted by his country are his private virtues. Fortitude, moderation, justice, and good sense—Scrupulous strictness in discharging his duty to God—and implicit obedience to the laws of his country, are the best pledges of an untried patriot. Such were the virtues of Washington, whose unostentatious greatness takes him out of the ordinary rank of those called patriots, and places him upon a foray peculiarly his own: unless we call Alfred the Great from the remote history of Britain, and perhaps the prince of Orange, (William the Third of England) to sit on either side of him. And such are not the virtues of any one man we see this day in authority in the wide world.
(Chas. Courier)
JAMES SANDERSON,
At his store the corner of King and Fairfax streets,
OFFERS FOR SALE,
The following articles of the best quality:
London P. Madeira Wine in
pipes and quarter casks, Old Sherry in quarter casks, Dry Lubb n do. Old Port in bottles, Cognac Brandy, Jamaica Spirit, Holland Gin, Whiskey, Loaf Sugar, British Sail Canvas, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, Russia do. first quality, Juniper Berries in bags, Coarse Hats in cases, Pickles and Preserving Pots, Jugs, &c. Aug. 8.
FOR SALE,
A very likely NEGRO WOMAN, about 28 years of age, with her male Child one year old. She has been accustomed to all kinds of housework, is a tolerable seamstress, and is well acquainted with the nursing and attending of children. For terms
Apply to the Printer.
Aug. 8.
23. 2 w
For Sale, or to Let,
THAT be useful seat whereon the subscriber now lives, about half a mile from the town of Alexandria. The Lot contains four acres, on which are erected a handsome dwelling, with piazzas round the first and second stories, a stable and carriage house, beside other out buildings, there are also pertaining to the premises, an ice house, two springs of good water, and a summer and winter Fishery. The ground is under good fencing, and the greater part set in clover, and about 40 bearing cherry and peach trees thereon. For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises, or at the corner of the Diagonal street.
John Duff.
July 24.
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For Sale,
A two story frame HOUSE and LOT, on the north side of Prince street, between Pitt and Royal streets, at present occupied by Thomas Williams, for terms apply to
Samuel Craig.
June 8.
23 w
CASH given for clean Linen and Cotton Rag.

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF The Bank of Potomac.
To all whom these presents shall come, or in anywise concern:
BE IT KNOWN, And it is hereby proclaimed, that we the subscribers, associating together have formed a company or limited partnership, and do mutually agree with each other, and hereby bind ourselves to conduct the business of the company, under the name and title of "The President and Directors of the Bank of Potomac," and conformably to the rules and regulations herein after specified. And by these our fundamental articles of association, we do covenant and agree, with each other, that we, and all persons, who at any time hereafter, may transact business with said company shall be bound and concluded.
ART. 1. The copartnership shall be, and continue for the term of twenty one years, from and after the opening of the subscription, unless a charter is sooner obtained; but the proprietors of two thirds of the Capital Stock of the Company, may by their concurrent votes at a general meeting, be called for that express purpose, dissolve the same at any prior period: Provided, That notice of such meeting and its object, shall be published in one or more of the Alexandria newspapers for six months previous thereto; and if the President and Directors at their first meeting after the election in the last year of the aforesaid term, or two thirds of that body, shall concur in the opinion, that it will be proper and expedient to continue the copartnership for a further limited term not exceeding twenty one years, they shall have power to decide on the same, and shall immediately make known their decision by publication in the several Alexandria newspapers. And the President and Directors are hereby authorized at any time to apply for, and accept, such charter as may be agreed upon with the concurrence of nine members of that body.
Art. 2. The capital stock of the company shall consist of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, money of the United States; to be divided into shares of One Hundred Dollars each, and to be paid in the manner following, that is to say; twenty dollars on each share to be paid at the time of subscribing, thirty dollars in ninety days after the opening of the subscription, twenty five dollars in one hundred and fifty days thereafter, and the remaining twenty five dollars in two hundred & ten days; and a failure to make punctually any payment after the first, shall incur a forfeiture of all that shall have been previously paid on such share.
Art. 3. The copartnership shall transact its business in the Town of Alexandria; or in Virginia within one mile therefrom, provided, a charter should at any time be obtained from the state of Virginia; and shall commence its operations as soon after the payment of the second installment as circumstances will permit.
Art. 4. The subscription shall be opened in Alexandria, on Wednesday the fifth day of September next, for the whole stock of the company, under the direction of
Elisha Farney, Cuthbert Powell, William Fitzhugh, William Hartshorne, Thomas Swann, Thomas Worrell, Charles Lee, Jacob Hoffman, Joseph Riddle, James H. Hooe, William Hodgson, Robert Young, Phineas Farney, James Keith, Jun. James Patton.
or a majority of them. And the commissioners aforesaid, shall open the subscription books at ten o'clock, A. M. and they shall continue open until four o'clock, P. M. and shall remain open between those hours for one day at least, and for the term of three days unless sooner filled: And if it should happen that more than the stipulated number of shares should be subscribed on the first day, then the Commissioners aforesaid are to apportion them among the subscribers, by deducting from the highest subscriptions, until they are reduced to the proper number, or if more persons subscribe than there are shares, the Commissioners are to cast lots to decide to whom they shall belong. But no person or persons, bodies corporate or otherwise, shall be permitted to subscribe on the first day of opening the books, for more than twenty shares; and if the stock be not all taken the first day, the books shall remain open on the second day, on the same terms as on the first; but if the subscription be not filled on the second day, then the Commissioners may permit any person or persons, bodies corporate or otherwise, to subscribe for any number of shares, until the whole number is complete. The Commissioners after having decided to whom the shares may belong, will issue receipts to the different Stockholders for the monies received of them at the time of subscribing, which receipt
with the original subscription, shall be deemed good evidence of the quantity of stock to which each subscriber shall be entitled in this company.
Art. 5. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by Twelve Directors, and a President, whose place if chosen from among their number, shall be supplied by that body; and six of the Directors with the President shall form a board or quorum, for transacting all the business of the company; ordinary discounts may be done by the President, and any five of the Directors. In case of his sickness or necessary absence, his place may be supplied by any Director, whom he, by writing under his hand may nominate for that purpose, or in case of his not making such nomination, the majority of the board may appoint a President to act during his absence; and the Directors who may be appointed at the first election, shall hold their seats until the second Monday in November, one thousand eight hundred and five, and the Directors from and after that period shall be elected for one year, by the Stockholders for the time being, and each Director shall be a Stockholder at the time of his election, and shall cease to be a Director, if he should cease to be a Stockholder, and no Director of any other Bank, shall at the same time be a Director of this Bank. And the number of votes to which each Stockholder shall be entitled, shall be in proportion to the stock he may hold, as follows: For one share and not exceeding two shares one vote each, for every two shares, above two and not exceeding ten, one vote; for every four shares above ten and not exceeding thirty, one vote; for every six shares above thirty and not exceeding sixty, one vote; for every eight shares above sixty and not exceeding one hundred, one vote; and for every ten shares above that number one vote: But no person or persons, bodies corporate or otherwise, shall be entitled to more than fifty votes, and no Stockholder shall be permitted to vote (except at the first election), who has not held his Stock for thirty days prior to the election; and all Stockholders shall vote at elections by ballot, in person or by proxy, which proxy, in all elections after the first, shall be made in such form as the board of Directors shall appoint.
Art. 6. A general meeting of the Stockholders of the Company shall be held on the second Monday in November in every year, (except the present) at such place as the Board of Directors shall appoint, by giving four weeks notice in one or more of the newspapers of Alexandria, for the purpose of electing Directors for the ensuing year, who shall take their seats at the board the succeeding day, and immediately proceed to elect the President: But for the present year, for the more immediate organization of the business of the company, the election shall be held on the second Wednesday in September next, under the direction of the Commissioners appointed to receive subscriptions.
Art. 7. The board of directors are hereby fully empowered to make, revise, alter, or annul all such rules, orders, bye laws and regulations for the government of the company, and that of their officers, servants and affairs, as they, or a majority of them, shall, from time to time, think expedient, not inconsistent with law or these articles of association, and to use, employ, and dispose of the joint stock, funds or property of the said company (subject only to the restrictions herein after mentioned) as to them, or a majority of them, may seem expedient.
Art. 8. All bills, bonds, notes and every contract and engagement on behalf of the company for the payment of money, shall be signed by the President and countersigned or attested by the Cashier of the Company; and the funds of the company shall in no case be held responsible for any contract or engagement whatever unless the same shall be so signed and countersigned or attested as aforesaid.
Art. 9. The books, papers, correspondence and funds of the company shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the Directors.
Art. 10. The said Board of Directors shall have power to appoint a Cashier and all other officers and servants for executing the business of the company, and to establish the compensation to be paid to the President and all other officers and servants of the company respectively, and which, together with all other necessary expenses, shall be defrayed out of the funds of the company.
Art. 11. A majority of the Directors shall have power to call a general meeting of the Stockholders for the purposes relative to the concerns of the company, giving at least 6 weeks notice in one or more of the newspapers of the town, specifying in such notice the object or objects of such meeting.
Art. 12. The shares of capital stock at any time owned by any individual Stockholder shall be transferable on the books of the company according to such rules as may conformably to law, be established in that behalf by the Board of Directors; but all debts actually due and payable to the company (days of grace for payment being paid) by a Stockholder requesting a transfer, must be paid before such a transfer shall be made, unless the Board of Directors shall direct to the contrary.
Art. 13. No transfer of stock in this company shall be considered as binding upon the company, unless made in a book or books to be kept for that purpose by the company, and it is further expressly agreed and declared that any Stockholder who shall transfer in manner aforesaid, all his stock or shares in this company to any other person or persons whatever, shall thereupon cease to be a member of this company; and that any person or persons whatever who shall accept a transfer or any stock or share in this company shall thereupon become and be a member of this company, according to these articles of association.
Art. 14. It is hereby expressly and explicitly declared to be the object and intention of the persons who associate under the name or firm of "The President and Directors of the Bank of Potomac" that the joint stock or property of the said company (exclusive of dividends to be made in the manner herein after mentioned) shall alone be responsible for the debts and engagements of the said company; and that no person who shall or may deal with this company, or to whom there shall or may become in any wise indebted, shall on any pretence whatever have
recourse against the separate property of any present or future member of this company, or against their persons, excepting the officers and servants of said company in regard to the faithful discharge of their respective duties in the conduct of the affairs and administration of the funds of said company; but all persons accepting any bond, bill, or note, or other contract of this company, signed by the President and countersigned by the Cashier of the company for the time being, or dealing with it in any other manner whatever, thereby respectively give credit to the said joint stock or property of the said company, and thereby respectively disavow having recourse on any present or future member of this company, (excepting as before mentioned)—And all suits to be brought against this company (if any shall be) shall be brought against the President for the time being, and in case of his death or removal from office, pending any such suit against him, measures shall be taken at the expense of the company for substituting his Successor in office as a defendant, to that persons having demands upon the company may not be prejudiced or delayed by that event; or if the person suing shall, on against the person first named as defendant (notwithstanding his death or removal from office) this company shall take no advantage, by writ or error or otherwise, of such proceeding on that account; and all recovery had, in manner aforesaid, shall be conclusive upon the Company, so far as to render the Company's said joint stock or property liable thereby, and no further; and the Company shall immediately pay the amount of such recovery out of their joint stock, but not otherwise. And in case of any suit at law, the President shall sign his appearance upon the writ, or his common bail thereto; it being expressly understood and declared, that all persons dealing with said Company, agree to these terms and are bound thereby.
Art. 15. Dividends of the profits of the Company, or so much of said profits as shall be deemed expedient and proper, shall be declared half yearly in the first week in May and November, in each year; the amount of said dividend shall, from time to time, be determined by the Board of Directors, at a meeting held for that purpose, and shall in no case exceed the amount of the net profits actually acquired by the Company, so that the capital stock of the said Company shall never be impaired by dividends; but the Directors shall be at liberty to retain at least one per cent upon the capital as a fund for future contingencies.
Art. 16. If the said Directors shall at any time wilfully and knowingly, make or declare any dividend which shall impair the said capital stock, all the Directors present at the making, or declaring, of said dividend and consenting thereto, shall be liable in their individual capacities to the Company, for the amount or proportion of said capital stock, so divided by the said Directors; and each Director who shall be present at the making or declaring such dividend, shall be deemed to have consented thereto, unless he shall immediately enter in writing his dissent on the minutes of the proceedings of the board, and give public notice to the stockholders, that such dividend has been declared.
Art. 17. These articles of agreement shall be published in two newspapers in the Town of Alexandria, for one month; and for the further information of all persons who may transact business with, or in any manner give credit to said Company, every bond, bill, note, or other instrument or contract, by the effect or terms of which the Company may be charged, or held liable for the payment of money, shall specially declare, in such form as the Board of Directors shall prescribe, that payment shall be made out of the joint funds of the Bank of Potomac according to the present articles of association, and not otherwise: A copy of the 14th article of this association shall be inserted in the Bank Book of every person depositing money, or other valuable property with the Company for safe keeping, or a printed copy shall be delivered to every such person, before any such deposit shall be received from him. And it is hereby expressly declared, that no engagement can legally be made in the name of said Company, unless it contain a limitation or restriction to the effect above recited; and the Company hereby expressly disavow all responsibility for any debt or engagement, which may be made in their name, not containing a limitation or restriction to the effect aforesaid.
Art. 18. The Company shall in no case be owners of any ships or vessels, or directly or indirectly, be concerned in trade, or the transportation or exportation, purchase or sale of any goods, wares, or merchandise whatsoever, (bills of exchange and bullion only excepted) and except such bills, vessels, goods, wares, or merchandise, as shall be really pledged to them by way of security for debts due, owing or growing due to the said Company, or purchased by them to secure such debts due to the said Company.
Art. 19. If any vacancy shall at any time happen among the Directors by death, resignation, or otherwise, the residue of the Directors for the time being, shall elect a Director to fill the vacancy.
Art. 20. The Company shall not purchase or hold any lands, tenements, or other real estate, other than what may be necessary for the convenient transaction of its business, unless such lands, tenements, and real estate, shall have been bona fide, mortgaged to the Company, by way of security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in the course of dealings, or purchased to secure debts contracted with or due to the said Company, and in every instance in which the Company may become owners or claimants of lands, tenements, or real estate, the Board of Directors are empowered to sell or dispose of the same, in such manner as they may deem beneficial for the Company.
Art. 21. Any number of Stockholders, not less than forty, who together shall be proprietors of five hundred shares, may, for any purpose relative to the information, at any time, apply to the President and Directors to call a general meeting of the Stockholders; and if by them refused, the said number of Stockholders, proprietors of not less than the number of shares aforesaid, shall have power to call a general meeting of the Stockholders, giving at least 60 days notice in one or more of the public newspapers of the town of Alexandria, specifying in such notice the object or objects of such call.
Art. 22. Immediately on the dissolution of this association, prompt and effectual measures shall be taken by the Directors then existing, for closing all the concerns of the Company, and for dividing the capital and profits which may remain among the Stockholders, in proportion to their respective interests.
In witness whereof—
Notice.—THE Commissioners above named will open the Subscription Books
at the Court House in the town of Alexandria on the 5th of September next, agreeable to the foregoing articles of association.
The payments will be received either on the notes of the Bank of the United States, or in the notes of the several Banks, from New York to North Carolina.
July 30.
WILLIAM LOVE, ARCHITECT And Builder in general, from the City of Washington and George Town. PEGS leave to inform the citizens of Alexandria and vicinity in general, that he is on the north side of Prince Street, adjoining Mr. Booker's new building, in which he will be on his premises. Where he will crown and make Estimates of all manner of work.
ALSO, MEASURES & VALUATIONS all the different work connected with building; and is ready to contract, and complete the same, from cottage, which will be executed in Sir, truly and economic style. He hopes his long experience and knowledge of business will merit the patronage of a generous public. May 1806
Twenty Five Dollars Reward RAN AWAY from the subscription county of Alexandria, district a Mulatto man called NATT COLE, height, between 35 and 40 years of age, hair which he wears tied, a lock of red hair on the front of his head, a little to the left of the center; by trade; he has several scars on his wrists, a scar on his back occasioned by a whip; he is of drink and gambling; he took with him a quantity of clothes and some cooper's tools, crossed the Potomac at Georgetown a few since, and will probably make for Baltimore, he has been very anxious for some time past to go to sea. I will give the above reward for securing said fellow in any jail, so that I get him again, or thirty dollars, with reasonable charges if brought home. All masters of vessels and others are forewarned harbouring, employing or caring off said fellow at their peril. C. F. Whiting.
July 11. ROBERT and JOHN GRAY HAVE JUST RECEIVED, From New York and Philadelphia, A NEW Assortment of Books & Stationary, among which are the following:
Motherby's Medical Dictionary, Lady's Museum, Dabrown's Life of Patten, Dictionary of Natural History, Furgason's Astronomy, Tooke's Pantheon, Young's Latin Dictionary, Scratton's Lexicon, St. Pierre's Studies of Nature, Medical Dictionary with plates, Documentation of Boccaci, Botta's Practice, Botta's Roman History, Linn. Hooker's Anecdotes, Simpson's Ecclesiastical History, man's Egypt, quarto, octavo and pocket Bibles, gilt and plain, Morocco Prayer Books, Billings' Surgery, Edinburgh New Dispensatory, Bailey's Johnson's, Walker's and Perry's Dictionaries, An elegant assortment of
Paper Hangings, a few choice Violets, Violets, Swans and Bows, a complete assortment of German Flutes and Flageolets, and a great variety of other articles which will be advertised in a few days. July 24.
ROBERT & JOHN GRAY HAVE JUST RECEIVED A large supply of Dr. Stoughton's GENUINE BITTERS,
THE happy effects, and superior efficacy of these bitters, can be testified by hundreds in Alexandria and its neighbourhood, during the prevailing sickly summer. We believe that every person, who then persevered in regularly taking them, resisted the attacks of the fever. They brace the constitution, create appetite, assist digestion, and relieve the cholic; in short, in all complaints of the stomach and bowels they have been proved to be eminently efficacious. Hence, they resist malignant fevers, and are a preventive to the ague. A course of these bitters, begun now, may prove highly beneficial, as they will gradually prepare the system to undergo the danger of a sickly summer.
There are many counterfeits. Purchasers will please to observe, that the genuine Stoughton's Bitters are sealed with the S. & letter of the Doctor's surname, and full directions passed on each bottle. Tavern-keepers and liquor stores, will find it to their advantage to use them, as from superior strength alone they may be considered to cost no more than the trash so often imposed upon them. They are also sold by Rapine, Conrad and Co. Capitol Hill, City of Washington; Mr. March, George Town, and Mr. A. Buck, Frederickburg. Also just received,
ESSENCE OF SPRUCE. Beer made with this article, is well known to be the most wholesome and least expensive mixed beverage for the summer season. April 25.
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