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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER
VOL. VII.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. 1035.
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[We do not remember to have read an oration, delivered in this country, on any preceding occasion, more appropriate or eloquent than the following. The sentiments it expresses are noble, the principles American, the language lofty and glowing. Let the Editor of every print enrich his columns by its republication, for which he will receive the thanks of every patriot, and admirer of fine writing.]
JUBILEE ORATION, Delivered by Mr. BALDWIN, on the 13th instant, at James-Town, Virginia.
VIRGINIANS,
Glorious is the occasion upon which we are assembled—glorious for the cause of liberty, and glorious for you, fellow-citizens. Can there be a spectacle more splendid in the sight of man, or more pleasing to our great and common parent, than a republic of freemen convened around the tombs of their forefathers, to celebrate the birth-day of their country; to commemorate the era of their national existence, and, with pious gratitude, to hail the lofty spirit of their dauntless ancestors? On this day, to tread the consecrated ground, on which our forefathers first fixed their habitation, must awaken in our minds the most enthusiastic ideas; it must add new fuel to the patriotic flame which glows in the breast of every Virginian. Here, a band of heroes, headed by the gallant SMITH, and guided by the protecting hand of the all-wise and omnipotent Director of human events after braving the terrors of an unknown and boisterous ocean, unappalled by the soul-chilling war whoop of the savage native, and struggling against the complicated evils of famine and disease, first sowed the seeds of an empire, which has risen, within the short period of a few generations, to political importance, and attained a height of prosperity and glory, which has not only excited the wonder and admiration of the world, but still promises the richest harvest of human felicity. Immortal spirits of our forefathers! if ye are permitted to look down from the regions of celestial bliss, on the transactions of this sublunary world, O! deign to view with complacency the glowing ardor and deep sensibility, with which your grateful descendants celebrate this glorious day! When the unpolished monuments, erected by vanity & pride, shall be no more, the memory of this day shall survive; yes, it will live forever, because it will be forever engraven on the hearts of freemen. Fathers shall relate the soul-inspiring history to their lisping infants; children shall catch the patriotic enthusiasm from their parents; and the pure flame, fanned by each succeeding generation, shall be handed down to the latest posterity.
Thou Supreme Disposer of the destinies of nations, God of Heaven and Earth! how mysterious are thy ways, how wonderful are thy works! Two hundred years only have fled, since an infant colony, in the very cradle of political existence, oppressed by misery and despair, exposed to all the lurking revenge of the exasperated natives, here, had almost fallen "oblivion's ready prey!" Who would have thought, that from this dark horizon, the brightest star of the American constellation would arise with the most brilliant splendor? Who would have thought, that from so small, so unfructified a germ, millions would arise, on this day, to cover this extensive continent, blessed with the enjoyment of Heaven's best gifts?
The mansions of our forefathers have crumbled into dust; we seek for them in vain; scarce a vestige is found. The first settlers have been swept from the face of the earth; succeeding generations have followed them, as the rolling waves of the mighty deep. With what veneration, with what religious care, do we view the ruins of that ancient steeple, a monument of the piety of our progenitors! A pleasing melancholy steals over my soul, and my mind is hurried back, by the tide of reflection, to the early periods of our history. How do the images of the gallant Smith and the amiable Pocahontas rise to our view! Who does not venerate their virtues, and shed a tributary tear to their memories!
Virginians, the arrival of our forefathers in this country, the consequent rise and progress of the American empire, the causes which have so wonderfully accelerated that progress, together with those energies, which will long maintain the impulse first received, are certainly objects most worthy of the attention of the philosopher, the statesman, or the citizen; and, I trust, not inappropriate on this occasion. They will receive but little light, I am too well aware, from one, who now presumes to appear before you. But tho' I am not insensible to my own deficiency, I rely upon that candor and benignity, which generous minds are ever ready to extend to the youthful and unassuming orator.
Europe, just emerging from a state of
dark and gothic ignorance, had begun to acquire a spirit of enterprise, when the great and prescient genius of Columbus prompted him to encounter the dangers of the vast Atlantic, and seek for a new world in the western hemisphere. The same adventurous spirit which led to the discovery of America, instigated many Europeans to leave their native home, and in the dreary wilds of this great continent, endeavor to find that asylum, and that happiness of which they were destitute.
You well know, fellow-citizens, the almost insurmountable difficulties attending the settlement of our country. You well know that the vital spark of Virginia was nearly extinguished at her birth; but like the youthful Hercules, she rose superior to the horrors which surrounded her. Good God, what a continued series of misfortunes does the history of this colony present to our view! Imagine to yourselves, Virginians, your forefathers embarking upon the stormy Atlantic, parting from their dearest relatives and friends, their country and their homes, and with sighs and tears, bidding a last adieu to the white cliffs of Albion. Tossed on the surface of the ocean, for a long time at the mercy of the winds and waves, their hearts of the colonists are ready to sink in despair. At length the turbulent commotion of the angry billows subsides; and wafted by friendly breezes, the little Argonautic fleet arrives in the peaceful Chesapeake. I see it ascending yon majestic river; I see its white pennons waving in the favoring gale; I see its slow and cautious approach; I see the feather-tinctured chiefs, with their weapons of war falling from their hands, in silent amazement, crowding each shore, and viewing with terror and dismay a spectacle so novel, whilst our forefathers debark on the destined land of liberty.
Then they laid the foundation of a republic, whose glory shall be immortal. Yet how often were they overcome by the weight of their sufferings? How often did they look back upon their abandoned country? How often cast their eyes to Heaven, imploring protection? As often did Smith, the noble Smith, raise their drooping spirits, and cheer them with the hope of better days. The name of Smith shall be revered, as long as honor, bravery, and fortitude continue to be respected.
But the colony was destined to be bereaved of its father, its protector. The misfortunes of this great, intrepid man, and the preservation of his life by the amiable Pocahontas, will long claim the descriptive powers of genius. When surprised and surrounded by the Indians, he displayed the most heroic courage, and desperately repelled the attacks of his astonished foes, until he was obliged indignantly to yield. When condemned to death, by a council of his savage enemies, and led to the place of execution, he betrayed not the smallest emotion of fear. Already was his head placed upon the fatal block; already was the ponderous club of Powhatan raised to deal the deadly blow; when the tender Pocahontas, with streaming eyes and dishevelled hair, threw herself at the feet of her father, embraced his knees, and with agonizing sighs implored him to spare the life of the prisoner. Vain were her entreaties; the savage king was inexorable. In the distraction of grief, Pocahontas arrested the impending blow, and snatching the victim's head from the block, there placed her own—Strike, said she, in the mate, but expressive language of nature—Strike, if you thirst for blood, but spare the stranger. Even the warrior-bosom of Powhatan was melted by this affecting scene. Filial love triumphed over savage revenge. Smith was restored to new life. Such was the power of untamed nature over the female heart.
Amiable Pocahontas! thou possessed charms which would have graced the most civilized society.
"Thy form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves, unstain'd and pure, As is the lilly, or the mountain snow. The modest virtues mingled in thy eyes, Still on the ground dejected, darting all Their humid beams into the blooming flowers; Or when the mournful tale" to thee was told, Of other's woes, Thrilling in thy thought, they, like the dewy star Of evening, shone in tears."
Yes, her heart was compassionate and feeling; but when animated in the cause of humanity, she evinced a courage which feared not the hardest enterprise.
Here, in the midst of deserts, in the breast of an untutored Indian, we discover the brightest virtues that adorn human nature. Here too, did the free-born soul of the uncultivated Pocahontas nobly defend those primaeval rights, which he held from nature's charter. Oft did he say, "I was born a king; and heaven, which bade these lofty oaks lift their green shields against the fiery
sun, to fence their subject plain, did mean, that I should, with as firm an arm, protect my people against these bold invaders." Such was the language of nature; such the source of his vindictive rage; of that incessant warfare which reduced the colony to the verge of destruction.
Soon after the great Smith had been deprived of the command entrusted to him, torn by intestine dissensions, and born down by a variety of evils, our ancestors determined to abandon the scene of their misfortunes. Every thing is prepared for their departure; they embark; the sails are unfurled; without one sigh, without one tear, they leave the unhappy strand. Virginia appears lost forever—that germ of liberty which was here planted seems utterly destroyed—the prospects of a great and flourishing nation, springing up in the Western World, are now no more. But no; heaven born hope darts from beyond the cloud of despair; robed in the white ermine of celestial purity, and beaming the seraphic smiles of angelic benignity, she cries, Virginians, return to the genial soil of freedom. The time will come, when your country shall enjoy the fruits of your labors. Virginia shall read assunder the trammels of oppression, and rising to political pre-eminence among the nations of the earth, present to an admiring world, the spectacle of a great and republican people, governed by equal laws and possessing equal rights. At this eventful moment, the white canvas of Albion is seen floating in the gale; the fleet sent to the relief of the colonists appear in full view; mighty Powhatan resounds with the shouts of clamorous joy; these hills and dales re-echo the gladdening sound, and our forefathers return to these once forsaken shores.
From this period, Virginia, like yon majestic river, alternately ebb'd and flow'd; sometimes reduced to misery's lowest mark, now rising and swelling in the full tide of prosperity. Now the exasperated Indians, rendered furious by the injuries they had suffered, and maddened with the desire of revenge, rush like tigers, with horrid yells, upon their unsuspecting foes. A terrible scene of death and carnage ensues, children are murdered in the arms of their mothers; wives in the embraces of their husbands; the habitations of the colonists are reduced to ashes, and their mangled bodies strewed over "the green fields of their country." Besmeared with human gore, the savages call upon the spirits of their forefathers, to witness the sacrifice, and feast on the incense arising from the blood of their enemies. Now repelled by our valiant ancestors, again, and again they return, with redoubled fury to the attack; until overcome by superior numbers, and the omnipotent powers of a thundering artillery, they are compelled to seek a shelter in their deep forests.
Fellow Citizens, we might dwell with rapture on the progressive history of an infant colony thus stemming torrents of adversity, thus gradually advancing to maturity, and now resting upon a rock which no storms can shake, the affections of her people. Yes, Virginia affords an illustrious example, of what can be effected by daring enterprise and constant perseverance, though wading through a sea of dangers, of terrors, and misfortunes, before she attained her present height of prosperity. But that history we leave to abler hands; let us rather enquire, what were the mighty energies, under the blessings of Providence, which thus accelerated her progress in those high attainments?
First, fellow-citizens, although, we must feel the warmest indignation against the tyrannical rule of Great Britain, yet we have great reason to congratulate ourselves that she was our mother country; that she was the "magna virum mater."—At the time of the colonization of Virginia, scintillations of liberty, elicited by literature, began to blaze in G. Britain. They were transported to Virginia, and guarded like the vestal flame. Here, although surrounded by executive influence, they were cherished by an august and venerable association, until their ardent heat melted the chains of bondage, and threw off the scoria of tyranny. Then did the Genius of Liberty cast from those chains, a sublime Colossal Statue, sacred to equal rights, which shall bestride, sooner or later, this lower world.
In the next place, it has always been the policy of the European nations, to monopolize the trade of their colonies. Some have confined it to a single port, and others have conferred the exclusive commerce on a particular company. G. Britain, pursuing a more liberal mercantile plan, left her trade free to all her subjects. Monopolies of every kind are highly injurious and unjust; but nothing can be more completely ruinous, nothing can check the increasing prosperity of a colony more, than confining its commerce to a company of merchants, or to any particular port of the mother country; whilst the monopoly of a nation is much less
* Note.—Character.
destructive. Although Virginia was limited to the market of G. Britain, in the exportation of certain enumerated articles, yet, she was allowed freely to export all her other surplus produce, to most parts of the world.
Thirdly, another great advantage arose from the internal regulations of our state, whilst an English colony. The introduction of a legislature, chosen by the people, the inestimable institution of trial by jury, as well as the general mode of administering justice, were blessings which the establishments of other European nations in America did not enjoy. Our government, besides, was administered with sufficient economy, and few taxes were levied, until the eve of the revolution, except those which were necessary to defray the expences of the civil establishment. The Spanish colonies, on the contrary, were, and are loaded with grievous and unnecessary imposts, to support the extravagance and pompous ostentation of insolent satraps. They are oppressed by a numerous race of idle and fraudulent priests; who under the mask of charitable intentions, rob a beggared and ignorant people of their property. Whilst the progress of the Spanish colonies was checked by obstacles, which the powerful hand of liberty only can remove, Virginia, on eagle wings, was towering to the zenith of prosperity.
But still, the wealth and greatness of the American colonies was uniformly retarded, by the interference of the mother country. It is true, that the policy of Great-Britain was more liberal, than that of other European nations; yet it was never dictated by any noble or generous motives, but merely with a view to her own interest, which she has always regarded, and not the interest of her colonies.
Various other causes, besides her origin, Great Britain, and those we have mentioned, have contributed to raise Virginia to her present elevated station. The first colonists, fortunately, employed all their capitals in agriculture, the surest means of promoting national prosperity. The liberal reward of labor and the cheapness of land enabled laborers, in their turn, to become proprietors. Marriages were thus encouraged, to an extent before unknown, by the ease with which industrious people could not only live, but maintain their families in affluence. Children, when arrived at maturity, amply repaid the expences of maintenance and education; and were often the source of real wealth to their parents. Nothing accelerated the rapid progress of Virginia more, than the employment of her capital in agriculture. The policy pursued by Great Britain, of discouraging the manufactures, and monopolizing the trade of Virginia, has, in the event, proved of unbounded advantage to her: Because, where a nation has not sufficient capital for all the purposes of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, the annual value of her produce will be increased, in proportion as a greater share is applied to the first—and her capital destined for productive labour will increase in the same ratio. Let Spain boast of her Mexico and her Peru; it was not their gold, nor their silver which has enriched this rising empire. Her colonies can only boast a splendid poverty. Before the next grand centenary festival shall return, these U. S. will embrace a population, not less than that which all Europe now possesses.
These, fellow-citizens, were among the principal causes of the prosperity of our country, prior to the revolution; these happy circumstances have elevated her from the vale of obscurity, and placed her on the proud eminence of permanent felicity.
Virginians, in the undisturbed enjoyment of all the blessings of life; in the tranquil security which you now eminently possess; do not forget, that all human felicity is frail; do not forget, that the time may, come, when, perhaps, you will look back with mournful sorrow, at the peace and happiness which you have lost, whilst alas! dark and dismal prospects obscure the future. Watch then with a jealous eye your inestimable rights; guard, with Argus care the genius of republicanism. Preserve inviolate the consecrated temple of freedom; let no sacrilegious feet cross the threshold of that hallowed fane. Remember, it was for self-government, that your fathers fought and bled; remember, it was for her blessing, that so many American martyrs freely sacrificed their lives; remember, it is a trust confided to you, by the valiant heroes of our glorious revolution. O! my countrymen, I conjure ye by the liberty, which was in the holy cask of freedom, by the manes of the inveterate enemies of tyrants; by the shade of the immortal WASHINGTON, defend to the last extremity the sacred deposit.
But whilst, with suspicious vigilance, you protect the temple, do not neglect the rich treasures which it contains.
Do not neglect that great palladium, the liberty of the press, formidable only to tyrants. Whilst this is preferred, we shall be perfectly secure against all the attacks of unprincipled factions, or traitorous ambition; but when we shall be despoiled of this shield, adieu to freedom! adieu to happiness! farewell, a long farewell, to the glory of Virginia!
Let your care be particularly directed to the education of youth; instill into the minds of "the future men of Virginia," a love for virtue, for science, and their country; relate to them the brilliant achievements of their ancestors; and "when you find your little hearers hanging upon your lips," inspire them with a wish to emulate the gallant heroes of the American revolution—Remember the observation of the sage Montesquieu. "It is not the young people that degenerate, they are not spoiled, ill those of maturer ages are already sunk into corruption." The dissemination of knowledge is the firmest bulwark against despotism—it refines it ennobles the mind, it implants in man the lofty principle of independence.—The uniform policy of tyrants has been to destroy the shooting germs of knowledge. Never has the bright star of liberty appeared, until the dark clouds of ignorance & superstition were dispersed.
But, fellow-citizens, whatever may be your anxious solicitude, whatever may be your exertions, to preserve your rights, your liberties, and your happiness; remember, that it is only by uninterrupted harmony with your American brethren, and peace with foreign nations, that you can continue your present course of prosperity. Remember, that amidst the din of arms, and the horrors of bloodshed, agriculture, commerce, the arts & sciences can never flourish—America is yet in her infancy; many are the ills and wrongs, which she must patiently endure before she attains maturity. When that momentous epoch shall arrive, then let her remember the injuries which she has suffered; then let her defy the malice of her enemies; then let her convince mankind that nothing can withstand a nation of patriots. But O! long may the peaceful olive wave over our councils; long may it be cherished by genial circumstances; long may its luxuriant branches shade our happy country.
Virginians, truth omnipotent, truth, shall at length prevail; the holy fire has been kindled in your country; it is rapidly spreading throughout the continent of America. The day is not far distant, when it shall cross the Atlantic, and diffuse itself over the face of the earth. The "altars and the Gods" of despotism shall be consumed. From the flame shall arise the genius of independence; extending wide her soaring wings, she shall mount aloft, and proclaim to all the human race, "Mortals, too long have you been abused, too long have you groaned under the tyrant's sway; but tyranny is now crushed forever. Receive then my blessings, and live together in the uninterrupted enjoyment of harmonious fraternity."
In a word, here, fellow-citizens, on this soil, erect the altar of republicanism; Be ye, people of Virginia, her Priests; here instill the purity of her maxims; and when each succeeding Centenary shall arrive, may votaries be found no less ardent than those whom I have had the honor to address.
From the Columbian Gazette.
Since the meaning of the extract from the letter of Garlord Griswold is doubted by some persons, and since his oath possibly may mislead others, in their conceptions of the same, I will add the two paragraphs which precede the extract—they are as follows:—
"You do me great honor in compliments—your caution against young members speaking too much is surely just, but not applicable to me. I have been very silent as you no doubt may have seen noted by the Utica democratic paper—in that paper great was made—I was presumed not appearing in the paper."
"The federal party I part in the debates. We manage their affairs in and you may depend upon a bad enough—all we speaking and governing scold and almost fights their fighting but rage."
"The movements of the quiet of their souls—in the very centre of their souls may rest assured, my good if our friends but play to chastise these usurper for they deserve—he

their party, though for certain purposes must so appear—rely upon this as true. He is the only person who can chastise these fellows—and policy dictates our unity to give him a support—all our federal friends now in this city have the same opinion—all the judges of the supreme court are united with us in this opinion. It is a matter of great surprise among our federal friends here how Hamilton can take so imprudent a part. Report says that H— made a long speech in favor of Lansing and against Burr—all our federal friends now in this city are looking up with anxiety to the election in New York; their only hopes are founded on the success of Burr—though this should not be known to any but real friends—What have we to expect from Lansing?—he is nominated by Clinton and Spencer & their creatures—he must and will be their L. The old governor is to be vice president, and all will be united to the great mammoth of democracy by ties too strong to be broken. We can do nothing of ourselves against the mighty torrent—shall we not then rather join the enemy of our enemy than the enemy of Burr & us both? Think well of this question!!!
"G. GRISWOLD." The affidavit of Mr. Griswold upon the subject of the above extract is as follows:
"Herkimer county, ss." "Gaylord Griswold of the town and county of Herkimer, being duly sworn on the holy evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that he never had any knowledge whatsoever of any plot or plots, combination or combinations between the federalists of this state or any other state in the union, & Aaron Burr, hostile to the constitution or government of the U. S. or this state. Neither does he know, or has he at any time known of any combination or arrangement between the federalists or said Burr, for any purpose whatever."
"GAYLORD GRISWOLD." Sworn the 25th day of April, 1807, before me,
WALTER FISH, Justice of the Peace.
Here, fellow citizens, you have fully in view two productions of Gaylord Griswold—judge of their competency and inconsistency—read the letter, and then read the oath. If Gaylord Griswold was vile enough, while he was the representative of a free people, to write such a letter, whether the contents of it were true or false he certainly would be vile enough to swear to the contents of his affidavit! Then let the world judge whether his affidavit helps him, yea or not. Let the world then judge between him and me—whether he was more guilty in writing the letter, or I in publishing the same?
As to the letter I wrote to him, it was in answer to one he had first written to me; which, however was little more than a cover to his maiden speech in Congress. I then considered it, on his part as fishing for a compliment—civility demanded that I should return the compliment, which I did accordingly, as in my letter which he has published. I was then a federalist, and can say as Paul said, "I was zealous towards God as ye are all this day, I persecuted this way," &c. until the receipt of this letter—I then halted—it contained, to my understanding, piths, too gross to be countenanced.
I frankly acknowledge, from having read for the most part federal newspapers, I had entertained very unfavorable sentiments towards governor Clinton, and also toward judge Spencer. But upon a close investigation into the charges brought by the federalists against those two gentlemen, I found them to be without foundation and entirely false. I now have an exalted, a reverential opinion of gov. Clinton, and view him justly entitled to the high station he now fills. Judge Spencer is, not only in my opinion, but in the opinion of every man who speaks of him, a most able judge; he acquits himself with honor equal to any judge who has graced the bench of our supreme court—he not only merits my esteem but has it in a superlative degree.
As to Mr. Ford's affidavit, I wholly deny the truth of it: and will venture to affirm that there is not the solitary instance of another man in the world, who will say that I ever advocated the election of Burr. My nearest neighbors and acquaintance bear me witness, that I never advocated his election; if ever I mentioned such a thing it has totally escaped my recollection. By Mr. Ford's affidavit, it would appear I had been the first projector of the whole plot!! This is swearing too much. No man will believe that this commotion originated with me. To plot a scheme like this, requires the cunning of a Burr; and to propagate and prosecute it, requires the depravity of a Griswold.
J. HATHEWAY. Rome, May 2, 1807.
ON THE HAYTI GAZETTE. for the Philadelphia Gazette.
THE SENATE. from the Register of the Senate, and of the 9th March, 1807, Independence.
assembled to the number prescribed by the 6th article of the constitution.
He observed that since the election of Henry Christophe, nominated President of Hayti, by the constitution, in the sitting of the 28th March, the presidency was vested in the public welfare.
new President, conformably to the 106th and 108th article of the constitution.
Having duly deliberated on the subject, it was unanimously resolved to proceed to the election of a new President, and that no delay could be admitted.
The votes being collected, it appeared that, out of 16 members general Pétion, Senator, had 13 votes. Generals Gerin, Magloire-Ambroissa, and Gayou, senators, obtained each one vote.
General Pétion was consequently proclaimed President of Hayti.
Signed, Barlatier, President, Charles Danguilhe, and J. L. Depa-Medina, Secretaries.
Extract from the Registers of the Deliberations of the Senate, and of the sitting of the 10th of March, 1807, year 4.
The Senate assembled to the number prescribed by the 6th article of the constitution:—
Ordered, the reading of the business of the last session; which was adopted.
The President announced to the Senate that general Pétion, senator, nominated, in the sitting of the 9th of March, President of Hayti, was about to enter the hall of assembly to take the oaths prescribed by the constitution.
At the same instant a salvo of artillery was heard, and the President of Hayti was announced, the Senate decreed that its members should receive him sitting, and covered. The President of Hayti appeared, preceded by the secretary of state, generals Bazelais and Wagnac, and a great number of civil and military officers. Mr. Lewis, an officer in the American navy, was in the suite.
The President of Hayti traversed the hall to the sound of musical instruments, and appeared at the bar, where a chair was prepared to receive him. The President of the Senate, also ordered suitable places for the secretary of state, generals Bazelais and Wagnac, and Mr. Lewis. He then addressed the President of Hayti in the following words:
Citizen General, The Senate being aware of the necessity of organizing the government, has proceeded, in its sitting of yesterday, to the nomination of the President of Hayti. The votes of its members have been in your favor; and you have been proclaimed President of the Haytian republic.
The Senate, in elevating you to be first magistrate of the state, conceive they have rendered public homage to your virtues and to the republican sentiments, which have hitherto characterized you. Entrusted with the execution of the laws and the direction of the armed force, you will become an object of emulation to all those of your fellow citizens, who follow you in your career. Your attachment to the republic, your submission to the laws, and your zeal in executing them, are the powerful motives which have determined the legislative corps, to place you at the head of the government and of the armed force. May the Gods preserve in you that happy character with which you are gifted by nature, and ever render you the object of public admiration.
Bear ever in mind, President, that the welfare of the republic depends on the harmony which ought to subsist between the executive power and the legislative body. To destroy it would be dangerous to the state by exposing it to divisions. When the government is organized, the political crisis must cease.
The President of Hayti, standing and uncovered, answered to the following effect:—
"Raised by your choice to be first magistrate of the state; become, in some sort, the depositary of the happiness and of the destiny of our country, I have the honor of declaring to you that I should be alarmed at the extent of the obligations you impose on me, if I were not certain of finding in your enlightened minds, in your wisdom, and in your energy all the resources of which I stand in need. This I say, Senators, is sufficient for me; and, accepting with confidence the new mission with which you honor me, my heart will pronounce in the Senate the oath which the constitution prescribes to the President of Hayti:—"
"I swear to fulfil faithfully the office of President of Hayti, and to maintain, with all my might, the constitution."
May the arms confided to the people for the defence of liberty be directed against my breast, if ever I conceive the audacious and impious project of attempting to violate their rights; if ever I forget, that, after having given my aid to the destruction of a tyrant whose existence was a reproach to nature, and after having assisted to proscribe another, who by his blind ambition lighted up among us the flames of civil war, that I have been elevated to the Presidency of Hayti."
The President of the Senate then invited the President of Hayti to take his place on the right, which was done. The music then struck up, On frut-on etre mieux qu'au sein de sa famille? A great number of citizens, amongst whom were remarked several foreign merchants, occupied the galleries.—Joy was visible on every countenance.
A member proposed that the speech of the President of the Senate, as well as that of the President of Hayti should be entered on the minutes of the sitting, and printed, which was unanimously agreed to.
Another member proposed, that, in consideration of the bad state of health of the President of Hayti, the sitting
should be broken up. This proposition being adopted, the President adjourned the session.
Signed, J. L. BARLATIER, President. CH. DAGUILHE, J. L. DEPA MEDINA, Secretaries. Port au-Prince, March 10, 1807.
Extract from the sitting of the Senate, of the 12th of March, 1807.
The Senate, on the proposition of its members, declare that there are matters of urgency, and decree as follows:
To the President alone belongs the right of presenting to the Senate, persons to be employed in civil and military capacities.
Act of the Senate, in the sitting of the 21st of March.
The Senate, on the proposition of one of its members, decrees as follows:
Art. I. The right of transacting political foreign affairs, and carrying on negotiations, is temporarily vested in the President of Hayti.
Art. II. The President of Hayti may make, sign, or cause to be signed, with foreign powers, any treaty of alliance or commerce, and generally any agreement that he shall judge necessary to the welfare of the state.
These treaties or agreements are negotiated in the name of the republic of Hayti, by agents named by the President of Hayti, and charged with his instructions.
Art. III. In case any secret articles should enter into a treaty, they shall not set aside the principal ones.
Art. IV. No treaty is effective, unless examined and ratified by the Senate.
Signed as above.
PUBLIC SALE.
ON the 6th day of June next, will be sold for cash all the right and interest of John Coles in that valuable property known on the city of Washington, called Lots No. 3 and 4 in square No. 9, with a large stone Warehouse, and Wharf and a large brick Dwelling House, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy a writ of scire facias issued out of the circuit court at the suit of John Clay against John Coles—said to the Union tavern in Georgetown at 4 P. M. DANA BUSSARD, for D. C. BRENT, marshal. May 14—tdf
This is to give notice, that the subscriber of the city of Washington in the district of Columbia, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of Prince George's county in the state of Maryland, letters of administration on the personal estate of Thomas Duckett, late of said county deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber on or before the first day of October next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Those indebted to the deceased are desired to make immediate payment. ALLEN B. DUCKETT, Adm. City of Washington, March 18—tf
All claims forwarded by mail must be paid.
SALE AT AUCTION.
WILL be sold at the house lately occupied by FRANK and QUIN on Capitol Hill, at 11 o'clock A. M. on Monday, the 8th day of June, sundry articles of Household & Kitchen Furniture, consisting of Bedsteads, Beds and Bedding, several handsome Carpets, Mahogany and Winton Chairs, Mahogany and fine dining and other Tables, Gilt and Mahogany frame Looking Glasses, Silver Table & Tea Spoons; with a variety of other articles, too tedious to enumerate. The terms made known on the day of sale. SAMUEL SNEAKE, Auc'tr. June 1—3t
The thoroughbred Horse MONTICELLO, NOW IN HIGH ORDER.
WILL be let to Mares the ensuing season, to commence the first of April, at my lease, near Georgetown, at FIFTEEN DOLLARS per Mare, for which a note must be sent payable the first of September, and one dollar to the groom; or in lieu thereof, ELEVEN DOLLARS in money.
Good and extensive pasture, we enclosed, at 50 cents per week, and the mare led, if required, at the market price, for which the money must be sent. The greatest care taken to prevent accidents or escapes, but will not be responsible for either. JOHN THRELKELD. March 23—tf
LITERARY NOTICE.
IN THE PRESS, And will be Published on the 1st day of August next, at the Bookstores of J. MARCH, Georgetown, and R. C. WEIGHTMAN, (late Duane's) city of Washington,
"SIMPLE TALES," By MRS. OPIE, 2 vols. 12 mo. May 29—3t
Fifty Dollars Reward.
FOR apprehending RICHARD GOTIER, who broke jail last night. He was committed on his confession of passing counterfeit checks; he is about 5 feet 7 inches high, fair complexion, light hair, grey eyes, very much pitted with the small-pox, and pretty much round shouldered. He was a tailor in the United States' service, had a blue tailor jacket and trowsers, a long blue coat, several white linen shirts, a pair of shoes and a very good black hat. The above reward will be given for apprehending and securing this Gotier in any jail and giving me information thereof. DANL. C. BRENT, Marshal of the district of Columbia. December 8—22*4
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3.
At an Election held on Monday for members of the City Council, the following gentlemen were elected:
For the First Chamber.
Jeremiah Booth, John Dempsey, Gustavus Engden, Frederick May, E. B. Caldwell, James S. Stephenson, John M'Gowen, Phineas Bradley, C. W. G. Hassborough.
Second Chamber.
Samuel Elliott, Alexander M'Williams, Henry Ingle, Alexander M'Cormick, Matthew Wright, Charles Minnie, Joseph Bromly, Peter Lenox, Richard Forrest.
The votes given shall be inserted in our next.
We have been requested, by sundry inhabitants of Bladensburg, to contradict the statement in the Washington Federalist, relative to the prevalence of the small pox in that place. Our informants assure us that there has not been a solitary case of that malady in the natural way since the spring of 1793.
The official return of votes received for governor of the state of New York, give Mr. Tompkins a majority of 3921 over Mr. Lewis.
Quantity of flour inspected at Georgetown, in the district of Columbia, from the 1st March to the 31st May, 1807, inclusive.
Whole barrels, 37,326 Half do. 668
By the statements of the Secretary of the Treasury, it appears that sugar, tea, coffee and molasses to the following amounts were in the year 1805 imported into the United States, and actually paid duties, viz.
Dollars. Duties. Sugar 68,046,865 pounds 1,746,979 Tea 3,354,381 pounds 669,190 Coffee 4,816,274 pounds 240,813 Molasses 9,226,446 gallons 461,322 Yielding duties amounting to 3,118,304
This statement enables us to estimate with tolerable correctness the consumption of these articles in the U. States, whose use is so intimately connected with comfortable living. It does not follow that the quantity imported in any given year must have been consumed in that year; but as the articles enumerated are in constant demand, and three out of the four subject to injury by being kept, we may safely compute the annual consumption as equal to the importation.
It will then follow, estimating our numbers at six millions, that each soul in the United States consumes per annum about
Eleven pounds of sugar, Near one pound of coffee, About two thirds of a pound of tea, And one gallon and a half of molasses,
Exclusive of the sugar and molasses made of domestic materials.
If we class individuals in families, each family will consume
Ninety pounds of sugar, Six pounds of coffee, Five pounds of tea, and Twelve gallons of molasses.
Is there any other people on the face of the earth who live so well?
Of these articles two are already produced in great quantities among ourselves. Independently of the products of the mable tree, which of itself, properly cultivated, is perhaps capable of supplying our full demand, the sugar lands of Orleans, on a moderate computation, will, when under cultivation, produce at least sixty thousand hogsheads; and such are the profits of this species of cultivation, that there is no doubt but that in a few years it will be greatly extended. No lands in America yield so large a profit. A great capitalist, without any extraordinary trouble, reaps an annual profit of 25 per cent. on his capital. Sixty thousand hogsheads are equal to sixty millions of pounds, which, valued at ten cents a pound, amount to six millions. To this we are to add the value of the molasses. The territory of Orleans then, under good management, is nearly capable of supplying our full demand for this important necessary of good living, and by this supply insures an independence of foreign powers to the amount of seven millions, which make about one sixth of our whole annual imports. Let those who still clamor at the acquisition of Louisiana shew us the evil that counteracts this benefit.
The people of this country will be gratified in having recalled to their recollection, by the following letter, the circumstances which gave rise to it. They will recollect that it was eminently owing to the disinterested kindness of Mr. Nissen, that our captive citizens were enabled to bear up against the
rigors to which they were exposed by a barbarous power.
The Lazaretto, at Leghorn, January 13th, 1807.
DEAR SIR, At my arrival at Leghorn I found a dispatch from his Majesty's department for Barbary affairs, including the letter dated Gibraltar, July 27th, 1805, which was sent by you to his majesty's minister at London, accompanied by a silver Ura as a present to me from you & the officers of the U. S. late frigate Philadelphia.
Accept yourself, dear sir, my most sincere acknowledgments, and please in my name to thank the officers for this distinguished mark of your and their friendship. I know nothing that could have given me a greater pleasure than this present; not for the nominal value; the materials were indifferent to me, I don't doubt but that you are persuaded thereof; but I consider it as a constant recollection of friend. I respect, who probably never again all will meet together with me at one place or at one time, and who collectively have given me this pledge of their friendship as a remembrance; and so it shall be to me.
I can only repeat here, what I often as well verbally as in writing have declared; that you and your officers have over-valued the few services I have been so happy as to render you during your captivity at Tripoli, and for which I have been fully paid by the satisfaction my endeavors to serve you always gave me; but the very limited power I had was the cause that I could not follow in every circumstance the dictates of my heart or my desires in this respect.
Finding at Leghorn Capt. D. Porter, I have thought it incumbent upon me to avail myself of the opportunity to deliver this letter to him, he will transmit it to you, and at the same time he has accepted my verbal thanks for his share in the above mentioned present, as one of those friends whose recollection shall be dear to me, and whose constant health and happiness my inviolable wish.
With these sentiments and with the greatest respect I have the honor to remain,
Dear sir, Your most obedient, Humble servant. (Signed) N. NISSEN.
Wm. Bainbridge, Esq. Captain in the Navy of the U. S. of America.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Our fellow citizens behold with regret the aboriginal aspect of our country; we vent our complaints against the tyrants of the ocean for blockading our harbors and way-laying our merchant men; but let us for a moment turn our attention to our internal affairs and we will see our honest farmers in a state of blockade from the badness of the roads and the inefficiency of internal navigation; at the heads of rivers, he often loses a year's crop for want of sufficient water to carry him over the rocks and shoals; our traders harassed by innumerable inconveniences, in the prosecution of an inland traffic, transfer their funds and their enterprise to the seas, and by doing so place the wealth of the United States at the mercy of the freebooters of Europe; or accumulated within the precincts of large cities, evaporate in the unsubstantial offspring of a gaudy vanity, more prejudicial to the real interests of the nation than promotive of its welfare.
The resources of the country no longer lavished in the efforts of military Quixotism, are now demanded for purposes of a very different nature; to make us a compact and solid nation, instead of a scattered horde of migratory adventurers, the delegated fathers of the people are called upon to mark the outlines for their willing and vigorous children: the head must plan before the hands can execute; the national will may excite, but it is the national wisdom that must direct the operation of this important business; let us seize the moment when the superabundance we enjoy from the present state of Europe affords the means of giving value to our possessions, and stability to our domestic establishments; the low and arid tracts we possess along the Atlantic coasts may be irrigated by the waters of the West, and made to rival the most fertile prairies of Louisiana: we shall find it easier to vanquish the impediments to our inland navigation than those that impede our commerce on the high seas, and the advantage resulting will be infinitely superior—if the cost of a 74 be 328,888 dollars,—think for a moment how far this would go in clearing a river or forming a canal—legislators, open your eyes to your true interests not engage in sanguinary conflicts for distant objects, devoting the precious blood of America to premature and impolitic waste, whilst you have the empire of your own rivers & forests yet to subdue; let the poll of blockheads of Europe, seek "the bubble reputation, even in the cannon's mouth;" let it be yours to enjoy it in cultivating the arts of peace; these in vain are destroying each other fast enough without our interference; yet a little longer, and perhaps the American flag will be as welcome in the ports of England as in those of Hayti, when a more enlightened policy dictates both to America and the rest of Europe, to seek within their own territory for what they now receive at the hands of G. B. Bann.
The more extensive these improvements are made in the general the more advantageous will they prove in the particular instances; it is easy to comprehend that one hundred miles of turnpike

will pay more than ten times as much as ten miles at the same rates of toll, for intercourse being promoted by facility, the farther you ramify, and the more you multiply your diverging points, the more access you afford, and the more toll you will obtain.
May the dignity of the nation no longer be burlesqued, by harangues the most eloquent, on occasions the most frivolous. May the labors of the Legislature crown the wishes of their constituents, by advancing the business here recommended by the
CANAL PARTY.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
MR. SMITH,
SIR, I beg leave to lay before your learned brethren of the philosophical world, through your medium, the following facts and observations:
The ink-stand which I use is of what is called the fountain kind of glass, the centre is an inverted cone, hollow, the bottom of which is perforated, through which the ink rises, for the pen, there is one other hole through which the ink is poured into the stand, and this shut close by a ground glass stopper.
Having one morning in summer, nearly filled up my stand, and corked it afterwards, I found a few hours after, as the day grew hot, that the ink rose up and overflowed my stand, this surprised me much, and I reflected what might be the cause of this TIDE in my ink-stand, the stand was filled about two-thirds with ink, the remaining one third was vacant, when corked it was air-tight from without and within, the hole at the bottom of the cone being immersed some lines in the fluid, could not give any vent to the air, though it could to the liquid, the increase of heat produced an expansion in the confined air, which, pressing on the fluid below, raised it up in the cone to overflowing.
The attraction of the moon as a cause of tides, had always appeared to me a very unsatisfactory mode of accounting for this phenomenon, tho' the calculations upon that theory gave the strongest assurance of its truth; it must, however, be admitted that these calculations were made upon consequences which had reference to time rather than upon the operation of an effecting cause: and because the tides were in unison with the moon, the movement was attributed to her agency, and after this assertion, the manner of this operation must also be explained to make discovery appear complete.
The theory of the Abbe St. Pierre, on this subject, is no way satisfactory.
If the atmosphere around our earth is warmer than the circumambient region, as has been proved more particularly by the experience of aeronauts, and that this exterior envelope is composed of condensed vapors and clouds, capable of resisting the expanding air, heated by the sun in its diurnal course, and that this powerful expansion, now ascertained by its force in steam, taking a course according with the angle of the sun's rays, propels the water of the ocean from that part under the action of the rays, to the adjoining sides; in this way is produced by the flux and reflux, by the expression of an expanded atmosphere, all the movements of our tides, and from a principle the very reverse of attraction. The moon will be allowed to have a secondary influence in producing the same effect in the same way; thus reconciling the mathematical calculations with the actual cause of the phenomenon.
I shall say nothing in this place of the great number of difficulties, hitherto unsolved, that may be accounted for by the application of this theory, contenting myself at this time with laying this sketch under consideration.
I am, sir,
Yours, with esteem, T.
DIED—In North Carolina, Mr. SAMUEL DALTON, aged one hundred and fifteen years. He had never lost his appetite by indolition a single hour. He was but once married, and there are now living, six hundred of his offspring.—The dysentery terminated his life suddenly.
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, with a liberality which does them great honor have expended the sum of twenty thousand dollars, upon an elegant, spacious, and commodious building, for the accommodation of the Medical professors and students of physic, who this winter amounted to two hundred and sixty, an increase of fifty, since the last season.
Near one hundred thousand dollars are annually brought into our city, by the medical gentlemen from various parts of the U. States.
Phila. Pub.
Extract of a letter from Bordeaux, dated March 25, received at Norfolk.
The late order of council in England, prohibiting the trading from one enemies port to another is rigorously executed, and by a strained interpretation has been made to extend to ships in ballast. The papers of the Lovely Lass, coming from Nantz to this port, were endorsed by the squadron cruising off Rochefort, and obliged to return. Several other vessels in similar situations have experienced similar treatment. This has been productive of great embarrassment to those who had sent their shipments to the northern ports, with a view of coming to Bordeaux to take in return cargoes, or seek freights to America."
We are authorised to state, that capt. Davis, of the brig Mercury, who arrived at this port on the 22d inst. from Bordeaux, experienced the most humiliating and mortifying treatment, from the commander of his Britannic majesty's frigate Melampus; and that the collector of the customs has transmitted a formal account thereof to the department of state.
The following is a brief and accurate recital of the circumstances:
Capt. Davis had shipped a pilot, and having the wind ahead, and a strong current setting against him, his brig was brought to an anchor on the 17th inst. in 7 and an half fathom water, about 25 or 30 miles to the southward of the Cape and within 2 miles of the coast. In this situation the Mercury was boarded by an officer from the Melampus, who having examined her papers, requested captain Davis to accompany him on board the frigate, which was refused with an observation from capt. Davis, (assented to by the officer) that he was not more than two miles from the shore, and of course within the maritime jurisdiction of the United States.
The officer then went on board his own ship, but immediately returned and informed capt. Davis, that he had orders to take him, his papers and letter bag, on board the frigate. As resistance would have been unavailing capt. D. went.—When he went on board the frigate, his papers and letter bag were carried into the cabin, and he himself prevented from accompanying them. After a detention of about one hour they were restored to him, and he returned to his own vessel, where he immediately opened the letter bag, in presence of his officers and passengers, and found that the seals of a considerable number of the letters had been broken, and their various inclosures, consisting of invoices, accounts, sales, and other mercantile writings thrown promiscuously into the bag as if with design to create confusion, and make their arrangement as difficult as possible.
This however capt. D. did not attempt, but delivered them to the Post Master, in the order they had been placed by the capt. of the Melampus. Had this been a solitary instance of British insolence, we should have been disposed to attribute it to the folly of some marine brute: but the frequency of such conduct, warrants the belief that it is authorised on the part of the English government.
Post.
A kind of ecclesiastical manifesto against Bonaparte has been read in all the churches throughout Russia. In this paper he is denounced as an enemy to the religion of Christ, and to all legitimate sovereigns and civilized states. The following is one of the grounds of denunciation:—
"And now to complete the outrages with which he has overwhelmed the church, he has called into France the Synagogue; he has ordered public honors to be shewn to the Jewish Rabbies—hath established the grand Hebrew Sanhedrim, that infamous tribunal which in ancient times dared condemn to the agony of the cross our Saviour Jesus Christ; he now strives to reunite the Jews, whom the wrath of God has dispersed over the face of the earth, to arm their rage against the Christian Church; and, to fill up the measure of his iniquities, (by an impiety which surpasses all others) to get himself acknowledged as the Messiah expected by this proscribed people."
Louisville, (Geor.) April 24. FIRES—The cotton gin, two grist mills, two saw mills, a house, and near 200,000 cwt. of seed cotton, have just been destroyed by fire in this place. Mr. Shillman has lost about 20,000 dollars—many other persons are also losers. A few days before a saw mill belonging to W. Fleming, esq. with a quantity of lumber, was destroyed by fire. At Sparta, on the 9th inst. Mr. R. Undreer, lost property to the amount of 15,000 dollars by fire. Mr. Sandford was also a sufferer.
Louisville, April 20. SHIPWRECKS AT THE RAPIDS OF OHIO.
A spectacle so distressing to the generous heart, was never presented in the western country as that of this day, in front of Louisville. On Saturday 4 large ships, all new, and bound for N. Orleans, lay in a line in the basin above the rapids, waiting the rise of water, which was then on the swell; and promised a safe passage over the obstructions, so that all calculated on passing on Sunday—Sunday was a boisterous day, which prevented a possibility of managing a ship in so straight a passage—The water at a stand during the day began to fall in the evening. Monday the water had fallen 2 or 3 inches, and very little hope obtained of its swelling to that height again during the year. The owners of the ships, who were present, felt the consequence too sensibly to remain idle a moment if a possibility existed of passing—soundings were made and hope revived. Colonel Lord, owner of the ship John Atkinson, bore down for the head grand shoal, & passed handsomely by rubbing the rocks two or three times, and anchored below. By this time the wind had increased a little, in a direction somewhat unfavorable, but not sufficiently to prevent the attempt by the Tuscarora, who got under weigh, and the Rufus King followed her wake. At this moment the shores, terraces, and windows were filled with anxious spectators, enjoying a doubtful pleasure, but in a few minutes their suspense was decided with the fate of the ships, which lay wrecks upon the rocks! until they filled with water, which was in a short time after they struck. The apparent perilous situation of the crews and gentlemen on board was dreadful; in ships without rudders or keels, tumbling from rock to rock and rolling from side to side, in a current which rates twelve or fourteen miles an hour, without a possibility of being relieved from the shore. Fortunately for the lives on board, the ships filled on the rocks without going to pieces.
The Rufus King endeavoured by casting her anchors after the Tuscarora struck, to avoid the like blow, but the strength of the current was too powerful, she struck near the same place, and, drawing a few inches less water bounded past the bow, and carried away the head of the Tuscarora, and part of her railing, lodged about her length below.
Col. Lord had returned from his ship with the pilot, and was on board the Rufus King during this time, his ship which had passed without damage, dragged her anchor or parted with it, and in spite of the exertions of the hands on board, stranded on Sunday island shoal, which will be perfectly dry in a few days, if the water continues to fall at the present rate—'tis presumed she may be got off the next rise of the water without sustaining any material damage. These three ships drew nearly the same depth of water, the Penrose, which draws more, made no attempt to pass, and now lies safely in the basin, where she has already weathered out one year.
To close the misfortune up to this evening of those gentlemen whose enterprise entitles them to the extreme reverse of what has befallen them, and to the best wishes of their countrymen—a large covered boat (a lighter) belonging to the owner of the Rufus King, and lying in the basin, laden with tobacco and cordage, took fire and was destroyed. The flame spread so rapidly that the only alternative was to extinguish it by sinking her. What part of the cargo was not entirely lost is very much damaged. The place was crowded with small crafts, some of which received injury.
One solitary consolation is, that no lives have been lost. A man of the Rufus King was severely bruised with the tiller, perhaps mortally.
Norfolk, May 27.
By the ship Sheffield, capt. Davis, arrived in Hampton Roads, from Liverpool, bound to City Point, we have received files of London papers to the twelfth of April. These papers do not contain any accounts of a grand battle, that was expected had been fought about the last of March, and which was perhaps avoided by the French having retreated across the Vistula, as will be seen by this day's paper. From the 7th to the 11th of April various rumours had been in circulation in London, that a great battle had been fought and that it had terminated in favor of the French, which, as the accounts were from Holland and France, was natural, but a Prussian officer arrived on the 12th, as will be noticed in this paper, who brought accounts that no battle of any consequence had been fought, and that the French had retreated. We remark in the extracts made into the English papers, from the continental journals, a considerable buzz of peace, and repeated in so many shapes, that we incline to think, whatever may be the result, that negotiations are on foot. These negotiations meet much opposition in England, from whence a large military expedition is preparing for the continent; but expeditions from England to the continent have so often ended in fumo, that we do not calculate much from that now proposed though there was certainly never a more favorable moment, as France is evidently more embarrassed than at any former period.
In England the new administration have not only stood their ground, but in a most animated and lengthy debate in the House of Commons, on the 9th of April, (which we shall notice hereafter) gained a complete victory over the late administration and their friends, by a majority of 32, present 484 members. The question which occasioned this warm debate, and trial of strength, was on the following motion from a friend to the late administration:
"Resolved, That it is subversive of the principles of the constitution, for his majesty's ministers to reassert themselves by any pledge to withhold at any time from his majesty any advice which they shall in their consciences believe to be conducive to the security of his realms, the honor of his crown, and the well being of his subjects"
From the resolution itself, but which the debate fully explains, it would appear that the present administration have pledged themselves not to advise the king upon some certain measures, particularly the Catholic question. To get rid of the resolution, and at the same time to try their strength, the ministerialists moved for "the order of the day," on which the House divided, For the resolution in favor of the order of the day, 258 For the original resolution, 226 Majority, 32
A trial of strength would be made in the house of lords a few days afterwards, the result of which will prove whether the present administration can maintain themselves with the present parliament or not.
No account had reached England of the reception of the treaty in this country, which is in England thought to be
so favorable to the United States, that not a doubt is entertained of its ratification.
Mr. Monroe, we are assured from a source which we can rely on, will leave London for the U. S. in all April, or as soon as he can find a suitable vessel for himself and his family.
New-York, May 23.
Mr. Samuel Nightingale, jun. supercargo of the ship Nancy, arrived at Providence from Alicante & Gibraltar, gives the following information:— "Previous to leaving Alicante, the Governor had declared that all neutral vessels from an English port, with a cargo, should be seized, and if arriving with a cargo, they should be turned out of port. He had ordered the captain of a Danish ship to leave the harbor, but he refused, alleging that his ship was in tow. Mr. Montgomery, the American Consul, had protested against the measure, as contrary to the treaty between the United States and Spain. The Spanish government had ordered a new tonnage duty on foreign vessels, which was to take place in a few days. The duty was to be the same on each foreign vessel, as the ships of Spain pay on entering the ports from which such vessels came, & this duty to increase or diminish with that of other nations. A party had ordered a large body of troops from Spain, and 500 men, drawn from among the inhabitants of Alicante, had left that place to join his armies. It was reported that the French had sent 60,000 troops to the assistance of the Turks & that they had got as far as Dalmatia.
Bonaparte's decree, declaring the ports of Great Britain in a state of blockade, was published at Algesiras the 18th March, and had rendered the pirates fitted from that place and Tariff more daring and insolent than ever; seldom meeting with a defenceless neutral but they plundered him of something, if they did not send him in.—An English sloop of 8 sail of the line had passed Constantinople, to join the Russians in the Black Sea.
By the Swedish schooner Ann, arrived at Wilmington, in 11 days from Port-au-Prince, we learn that Petion had declared all the ports under the authority of Christophe, in a state of blockade!—Petion had strongly fortified Port-au-Prince—Markets were overstocked with English goods.
DECLARATION.
Of the English Ambassador, Mr. Arbuthnot, in conference at Constantinople, Feb. 25.
"The Sublime Porte which has never ceased to manifest partiality for the French, has more particularly since the arrival of the French Ambassador, General Sebastiani, in this capital, changed its principle & system towards its own allies.
"The said Ambassador some days after his arrival having given in a note containing certain threats, the Sublime Porte ought to have returned the note, & sent away the author; the Sublime Porte, on the contrary, received the note favorably, and signified to Russia, that the ships of war would not be suffered to pass the canal of the Black sea.
"On the occasion of the establishment of the hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia, which took place in consequence of preceding circumstances, the Porte ought immediately to have consented, but the delay of that consent which was not given till three weeks afterwards, when the Russian Ambassador had formally demanded it, was a proof of the overbearing influence which the French court had acquired. The Russian and English court therefore agreed that the former should send land forces into the Turkish territory, and the latter a fleet to the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Should the Porte proceed to renew its alliance with Russia and England on the ancient footing, and dismiss the said French Ambassador from the capital, the war will immediately cease; but if this be not done, breach of the friendship with England will be unavoidable.
"To carry this plan into execution, England will send a well-appointed fleet, besides the squadron now stationed off the island of Tenedos. The Russian fleet will join it in the same seas, in order to pass together the strait of the Dardanelles.
"Should the Porte be inclined to give a negative answer to the present proposal, the Ambassador will send back to their country all the English merchants in the Ottoman states, and remain himself here to renew the same proposal, and enter into conferences on the subject, when the said combined maritime force shall have formed a conjunction in the vicinity of this capital."
New York, May 30.
Captain Lovett, of the ship Connecticut, from Surinam, informs us that the English ship Duke of Kent, Ricketts, arrived there on the 3rd of May, in 30 days from Rio-de-la-Plata, with intelligence that since the reduction of Montevideo on sail of American vessels in the harbor (amongst them the American Eagle of New York) were condemned for having Spanish property on board.
A GOOD STAND.
TO LET, the House next west of Rhoads's Hotel, where Mr. McLaughlin carries on the boot and shoemaking.
ALSO,
A House for a genteel private family. To let the House adjoining Josiah W. King's, Esq. on F Street.
Enquire of JAMES HOBAN. May 29.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3.
We received last night at a late hour the Richmond Enquirer, containing the proceedings of the Circuit Court in the case of Aaron Burr, which occupy twelve columns of small print. They are extremely interesting, but defy abridgement. We shall therefore in this number take but a very concise notice of what was done, reserving details for our next. On Wednesday last the counsel on the part of the U. States opened the evidence on the motion to commit Aaron Burr on the charge of High Treason, Mr. Hay having previously observed that all hope of arrangement with Col. Burr's counsel to secure his person was at an end.
Mr. Hay first offered Gen. Wilkinson's affidavit. The Chief Justice said the most proper course was first to adduce evidence of the overt act.
Mr. Hay then called Peter Taylor & Abright, the first Blannerhasset's gardener, and the other a workman on the island. A letter in cypher to a person in New Orleans was then offered. Mr. Hay then offered the affidavit of Dubas, a sergeant in the army, which he represented as being of the greatest importance. Col. Burr's counsel objected to its admissibility, on which a long argument ensued. On Thursday the Court pronounced an elaborate opinion, and decided the affidavit not admissible.
Mr. Hay then gave notice that unless the defending examination was finished that day, he should move that Col. Burr should be bound to appear in court tomorrow, to answer the charge of treason. On this proposition considerable argument ensued. The Chief Justice gave an opinion, in which he said the court felt much embarrassment in fixing the sum in which Mr. Burr should be recognised, lest it might implicate an opinion on the charge of treason, and intimated a strong wish that arrangements might be made between the counsel on each side. Arrangements were accordingly made in consequence of which Col. Burr gave bail, inclusive of the first recognizance, in the sum of 40,000 dollars.
The Grand Jury were adjourned till Saturday; and it was understood that the attorney for the U. S. would not lay his indictments before the Grand Jury previously to the arrival of Gen. Wilkinson.
TO BE LET,
The two-story HOUSE in F Street, near the Bank of the United States, & opposite Mr. Thorp's, at present in the occupation of Mr. George Collard. It is unquestionably one of the best stands in the city of Washington for any kind of business, as well as one of the most pleasant situations for a family residence. Possession will be given on the first of next month.
WALTER HELLEN
June 3, 1807.
NOTICE.
HAVING contracted with J. B. HAIGH of the city of Washington, to undertake the SWEEPING of CHIMNEYS in said city agreeably to an act of the corporation, entitled, "An act respecting the sweeping of chimneys in the city of Washington."—I do hereby give this public notice to the inhabitants of the city as required by said act, that they may be governed accordingly.
ROBERT BRENT, Mayor, of the city of Washington.
Mr. Haigh will commence on the 10th of June, inst.
June 3—3t
NOTICE.
It is requested that all debts due to the late establishment of WILLIAM DUANE may be discharged within the period of one month from this date. All claims against the said establishment will be paid on demand, by application to
R. C. WEIGHTMAN, Pennsylvania Avenue.
June 3—3t
R. C. WEIGHTMAN, PRINTER, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE,
HAVING purchased the Extensive and Valuable establishment of WM. DUANE consisting of Books, Stationery, Binding implements, and Printing materials. Offers for sale at the lowest Philadelphia rates, Books and Stationery of all kinds;—Music and Musical Instruments—Printing Ink of the first quality, and Patent Ball inks.
Printing in all its various branches, will be executed to order, with taste and on the shortest notice.
Blank Mortgages, Deeds, Leases, Bills of Lading, Powers of Attorney, Apprentices' Indentures, Warrants, &c. kept constant for sale, by the quire or single sheet. Lawyers & others, by taking a quantity will be allowed a liberal discount.
R. C. W. solicits the attention of his friends, and hopes by unremitted assiduity to his business, to merit a share of public patronage.
May 27—ti
ICE.
HONORE JULIEN respectfully informs the public that he has for sale a large quantity of ICE, which he will sell at the rate of 50 Cents per bushel or 12 1/2 cts per peck.
Any person wanting ICE ORB M may be furnished any time this Season by speaking them. (This store is between the Bank and the Treasury Office, F Street.)
June 3—3t

PROPOSALS
For carrying the MAILS of the United States , on the following Post Roads, will be received at the General Post Office in Washington, until the 1st day of July next, inclusive
 IN MAINE.   1. From Scodic falls by Scodic, Denneville, Machias, Jones, Addison, Harrington, Steuben and Gouldsboro', to Sullivan, once a week. May 1 to November 1.  2. From Dennysville to Eastport once a week. Leave Dennysville every Wednesday at 7 a.m., and arrive at Eastport at 9 a.m. Leave Eastport at noon, & arrive at Dennysville by 2 p.m.  3. From Sullivan, by Trenton, Bluehill, Castine, Bucksport, Prospect, Belfast and Ducktrap, to Camden, once a week. November 1 to May 1.  4. From Bucksport, by Frankfort, Hampden, Bangor, Eddington and Orrington, to Bucksport, once a week. Leave Bucksport every Friday at 8 a.m., and arrive at Eddington by 4 p.m. Leave Eddington every Saturday at 4 a.m. and arrive at Bucksport on Monday by 2 p.m.  5. From Camden, by Thomaston, Warren, Weldoboro', Nobleboro' and Newcastle, to Wiscasset, twice a week. May 1 to November 1.  6. From Wiscasset every Wednesday and Friday at 2 p.m., and arrive at Camden on Thursday and Saturday by 11 a.m. Leave Camden every Tuesday and Thursday at 1 p.m., & arrive at Wiscasset on Wednesday and Friday by 11 a.m. November 1 to May 1.  7. From Camden every Monday and Thursday at 6 a.m., and arrive at Wiscasset every Thursday and Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Camden by 5 p.m.  8. From Wiscasset by New Milford, Gardner and Hallowell, to Augusta, once a week. May 1 to November 1.  9. From Wiscasset every Saturday at 4 a.m., & arrive at Augusta by 7 p.m. Leave Augusta every Thursday at 4 a.m., and arrive at Wiscasset by 7 p.m.  10. From Portland, by Falmouth, Gray, New Gloucester, Lewiston, Green, Monmouth and Winthrop, to Augusta, once a week. Leave Portland every Monday at 8 a.m., & arrive at Augusta on Tuesday by 6 p.m. Leave Augusta every Saturday at 6 a.m., and arrive at Portland on Sunday by 6 p.m. November 1 to May 1.  11. From Hallowell by Augusta, Mount Vernon, Unity, Sharon, Farmington, Chester, Readfield and Augusta to Hallowell once a week. Leave Hallowell every Monday at 6 a.m., & arrive at Farmington on Friday by noon. Leave Farmington every Saturday noon, & arrive at Hallowell on Sunday by 6 p.m.  12. From Wiscasset by Bath, Brunswick, North Yarmouth and Falmouth, to Portland, three times a week. May 1 to November 1.  13. From Wiscasset every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 1 p.m., and arrive at Portland the next days by 11 a.m. Leave Portland every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 1 p.m., and arrive at Wiscasset the next days by 11 a.m. November 1 to May 1.  14. From New Milford by Bath, Bangor, Palermo and Davisboro', to Belfast, once a week. Leave New Milford every Saturday at noon, & arrive at Belfast on Sunday by 6 p.m. Leave Belfast every Monday at 6 a.m., and arrive at New Milford on Tuesday by 6 p.m.  15. From Brunswick, by Bangor, Litchfield and Hallowell, to Augusta, once a week. May 1 to November 1.  16. Leave Brunswick every Monday at 2 a.m., & arrive at Augusta by 11 a.m. Leave Augusta at 1 p.m., & arrive at Brunswick by 9 p.m. November 1 to May 1.  17. Leave Brunswick every Monday at 6 a.m., and arrive at Hallowell by 6 p.m. Leave Hallowell every Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Brunswick by 6 p.m.  18. From Portland by Windham, Bridgetown, Waterford, Paris, Buckfield, Livermore, Turner, Norway, and Poland, to Portland, once a week. Leave Portland every Tuesday at 8 a.m., & arrive at Turner on Thursday by 10 a.m. Leave Turner every Saturday at 6 p.m., and arrive at Portland the next Monday by 4 p.m.  19. From Portland by Sacarapage, Gorham, Standish, Falmouth, Hiram and Brownfield, to Friburg, once a week. Leave Portland every Monday at 6 a.m., and arrive at Friburg by 10 a.m. Returning. —Leave Friburg every Tuesday at 2 p.m., and arrive at Portland on Wednesday by 6 p.m.  20. From Portland by Gorham, Buckston, Limerick, Limington, Parsonsfield, Newfield, Shapleigh, Lebanon, D'Arty's falls, Sanford, Alfred and Waterboro', to Portland, once a week. Leave Portland every Monday at 11 a.m. & arrive at D'Arty's falls on Wednesday by 6 p.m. Leave D'Arty's falls on Thursday at 6 a.m., and arrive at Portland the next Monday by 8 a.m.  21. From Portland by Scarboro', Biddeford, Kennebunk, D'Arty's falls, Berwick and Dover, N. H. to Portsmouth, three times a week. May 1 to November 1.  22. Leave Portland every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at half past 1 p.m. & arrive at Portsmouth the next days by 11 a.m. Returning. —Leave Portsmouth every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8 p.m., and arrive at Portland the next days by 11 a.m. November 1 to May 1.  23. Leave Portland every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Portsmouth by 6 p.m. Leave Portsmouth every Monday, Wednesday and Friday by 6 a.m. & arrive at Portland by 6 p.m.  24. From Wiscasset to Booth-Bay once a week. Leave Booth-Bay every Wednesday at 7 a.m., and arrive at Wiscasset by 11 a.m. Leave Wiscasset at 1 p.m., and arrive at Booth-Bay by 5 p.m.    IN NEW-HAMPSHIRE.   25. From Portsmouth by Dover, Rochester, Middletown, Ossipee, Moenitownboro', Center Harbor and Plymouth to Haverhill and Newbury, Vt. and from Newbury by Haverhill, Plymouth, New-Hampton, Meredith, Gilmanstown, Nottingham and Durham to Portsmouth once a week. Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday at 2 p.m., and arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 p.m. Leave Plymouth on Friday at 6 a.m., and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 p.m., and at Newbury by 7 p.m. Returning. —Leave Newbury every Saturday at 5 a.m., and arrive at Plymouth by 6 p.m. Leave Plymouth at 7 p.m., and arrive at Portsmouth on Tuesday by 10 a.m.  26. From Fryberg in Maine, by Coos, Bartlett, Rosebrooks and Jefferson to Lancaster once in two weeks. Leave Fryberg every other Tuesday at 1 p.m., and arrive at Lancaster on Wednesday by 6 p.m. Leave Lancaster every other Monday at 6 a.m., and arrive at Fryberg on Tuesday by 10 a.m.  27. From Exeter by Epping, Nottingham, Exeter, Pembroke, Concord, Salisbury, Grafton, Lebanon and Pelham to Hanover once a week. Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 9 a.m., and arrive at Concord by 10 a.m. on Wednesday. Leave Concord at 11 a.m., and arrive at Salisbury by 9 p.m. Leave Salisbury at 4 p.m., and arrive at Hanover on Friday by 8 a.m. Returning. —Leave Hanover every Friday at 1 p.m., and arrive at Concord on Saturday by 2 p.m. Leave Concord at 3 p.m., and arrive at Exeter on Monday by 3 p.m.  28. From Exeter by Newmarket and   
 Durham to Dover once a week. Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 6 a.m., & arrive at Dover by 11 a.m. Leave Dover at 1 p.m., & arrive at Exeter by 7 p.m. the same day.  29. From Haverhill, Ms. by Chester and Pembroke to Concord once a week. Leave Concord every Tuesday at 5 a.m., and arrive at Haverhill by 11 a.m. Leave Haverhill every Tuesday at 1 p.m., and arrive at Concord by 8 p.m.  30. From Portsmouth by Exeter, Kingston, Haverhill, Andover, Wilmington, Woburn, Medford & Charlestown to Boston three times a week.—Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3 a.m., and arrive at Exeter by half past 7 a.m. Leave Exeter at 8 a.m., and arrive at Boston by 7 p.m. Returning. —Leave Boston every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m., and arrive at Exeter by half past 3 p.m. Leave Exeter at 4 p.m., and arrive at Portsmouth by 7 p.m.  31. From Exeter by Chester, Londonderry, Merrimack, Amherst, Peterboro', Marlboro', Keene and Chesterfield to Brattleboro' once a week.—Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 8 a.m., arrive at Amherst on Wednesday evening, and at Keene on Thursday by 3 p.m. Leave Keene at 4 p.m., and arrive at Brattleboro' on Friday by 10 a.m. Returning. —Leave Brattleboro' every Friday at 2 p.m., and arrive at Keene on Saturday by 9 a.m. Leave Keene at 10 a.m., and arrive at Exeter the next Monday by 3 p.m.  32. From Salisbury by Andover, New Chester and Bridgewater to Plymouth, and thence by Holderness, New Hampton and Sanborntown to Salisbury once a week, and the reverse the next week. Leave Salisbury every Thursday at 6 a.m., and arrive at Plymouth by 6 p.m. Leave Plymouth Friday 6 a.m., and arrive at Salisbury by 6 p.m.  33. From Haverhill, Bath, Littleton, Dalton, Lancaster, Guildhall, Lunenburg and Concord to Littleton—thence by Bath to Haverhill once a week. Leave Haverhill on Saturday at 5 a.m. & arrive at Guildhall on Tuesday by 4 p.m. Leave Guildhall on Tuesday by 5 p.m., and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 p.m.  34. From Haverhill, Ms. by Salem to Windham once a week. Leave Windham every Monday at 6 a.m., and arrive at Newburyport by 1 p.m. Leave Newburyport every Monday at 4 p.m., and arrive at Windham on Tuesday by noon.  35. From Hanover by Oxford to Haverhill once a week. Leave Hanover every Friday at 9 a.m., and arrive at Haverhill by 6 p.m. Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 8 a.m., and arrive at Hanover by 6 p.m. (To be continued.) 
Treasury Department, May 1st, 1807.
PROPOSALS
WILL be received at the Treasury till the 10th of June next inclusive, for building a light house on an island situate at the mouth of the River Mississippi, according to the designs and description prepared by B. H. Latrobe. The light house to be a circular tower forming a truncated cone 27 feet diameter at the top of the basement, 12 feet diameter at the top of the platform, which forms the floor of the lantern, and 81 feet 7 inches high from the natural surface of the ground to the said platform. The foundation to be sunk 8 feet 6 inches below the surface of the ground, and 28 feet 6 inches in diameter, is to rest on piles driven 20 feet into the earth, and to consist of a reversed Cupola of brick of 25 feet external diameter, 7 feet 6 inches in depth, and bedded in a work of solid masonry, one foot thick above the piles, and which must fill the whole space dug for the foundation and not occupied by the said Cupola. A circular basement wall 3 feet 6 inches high, and 2 feet 3 inches wide to be built of well bonded broad rough stones upon the rim of the reversed Cupola, and upon the solid wall in which it is bedded. The exterior wall of the tower from the top of the basement is to be two feet thick, built of wrought free stones perfectly jointed and bedded, in no part less than two feet thick on the bed of each stone going quite through the wall, the exterior to be chiselled fair; the interior rough pointed. Six equidistant interior brick walls, two bricks and a half thick each, must be bonded with the external wall and extend within the tower, their interior end forming the well of the stair case which is 12 feet wide at the surface of the ground. Those buttress walls (which must be founded upon sprayed arches turned on a brick wall, erected on the rim of a smaller inverted Cupola turned within the larger one) to be united together at each revolution of the stairs, by brick splayed arches forming the well of the staircase and extending to the external wall of the tower; and on the crown of those splayed arches, reversed arches must be turned, the reversed feet of which support the buttresses above. Those arches forming a succession of recesses rising with the spiral line of steps will continue to the elevation of fifty feet; and thence upwards the interior lining of bricks is to be built solidly and well bonded with the external wall to the top of the tower, the three upper courses of free stones excepted, which are to go through the whole wall in single blocks. The spiral stair case 12 feet diameter at the surface of
the ground, and 8 feet diameter at the top of the tower is to consist of 133 steps of Pennsylvania marble with a 9 inches newell supported on a capped free-stone pillar, resting on the centre of the foundation Cupola; the other ends of the steps to be supported by, and to go six inches into the brick buttresses and arches above described. A marble platform to cover that part of the Cupola which is not occupied by the first stairs; and the platform which forms the floor of the lantern to consist of ten slabs of marble well jointed together and projecting three inches beyond the upper course of free stone. The entrance into the lantern to be through a sheet iron door sliding on rollers. The lantern 8 feet 6 inches diameter, and 9 feet 6 inches high, is to be fixed in its place by 12 strong iron bars, worked solidly six feet six inches into the wall and secured at the lower end by strong cross bolts one foot in length, with a screw six inches long above the stone work. The twelve corner posts of the lantern to be also iron bars, turned with a flat foot through which the screws of the anchor bars must pass and be strongly fastened to the nuts; their upper ends being morticed into a strong circular iron ring, upon which the iron rafters are rivetted. The rafters to be also framed into an iron hoop with a copper funnel and a large copper ventilator above turned by a vane. The space between the corner posts to be occupied by strong iron sashes glazed with 10 by 12 glass of the first quality, and one of the sashes to be hung on hinges for a door to go out on the platform which is to be surrounded by iron balustrades 3 feet high with a rail and a strong wire netting carried from the rail to the eaves of the lantern. The necessary lamp or lamps, either suspended by iron chains or supported on iron feet; and a close stove be placed in the lantern.
The building to be painted black, to be provided with two complete electrical rods with gilt points; and to have one door, and at each revolution of stairs two opposite windows 2 feet by 9 inches.
The keeper's dwelling house to be erected round the basis of the tower forming a concentric circular building entirely of brick, and of 60 feet external diameter, including that of the tower. The foundation sunk 4 feet, to rest on piles driven 20 feet into the earth, and to be 2 and a half bricks thick, continuing of that thickness 3 feet 6 inches above the ground. The wall to rise 10 feet higher 2 bricks thick, to be connected with the external wall of the light house by nine partition brick walls and to have internal brick piers from which at the elevation of six feet above the base wall spring arches against the body of the light house; and on the top of these carriage arches segment arches must be turned all round the building. The house to be furnished with two stacks of chimnies, and to have twelve external doors or windows, and also internal doors communicating from one room to another; and the internal walls and ceilings to be plastered.
A circular piazza ten feet wide, to be erected round the dwelling house, resting on a foundation brick wall of one and a half brick thick, sunk five feet below the ground rising three feet above the same and coped with free stone; into which 24 cast iron pillars 8 feet 8 inches high are to be fixed. The piazza to have two porches formed by arched brick walls connecting it with the dwelling house.
On the top o the pillars, plates are to be laid tramed together and supporting a ceiling floor. A framed roof covered with cypress shingles, to cover both the dwelling house and piazza. The interval between the walls of the piazza of the dwelling house and of the light house, to be filled with the rubbish, sand or earth, as high as the top of the base wall; and both the piazza and dwelling house to be paved with brick.
All the bricks to be sound Philadelphia bricks. A more particular written description and drawings of the building may be seen by applying at the Treasury in Washington, or to Mr. Latrobe at Philadelphia.
Separate proposals will also be received for the freight of not more than 800 tons of stone, either from the Delaware and Potomac, and of not more than 250,000 bricks from Philadelphia to the mouth of the Mississippi. The stones and bricks to be delivered within the bar will be received on board of lighters. May 11—ep1m
LAND FOR SALE.
The Subscriber offers for sale 780 acres of land on Bullskin run in Jefferson county Virginia about 10 miles from Harper's Ferry and 8 miles from the Shenandoah river 400 acres of this land is cleared, the rest in woods, on it there is a valuable Mill seat with 22 feet fall, the stream affording a sufficiency of water to turn two pair of stones, 25 acres of watered meadow which produces abundant crops of Hay, and as much more may be made at a trifling expense—the cleared land may be laid off into fields of 30 acres and each field have running water in it; there is generally sown on this farm 120 acres in wheat which has not for some years past, produced less than 2500 bushels per annum—the improvements are a stone Dwelling House and kitchen, a stone Dairy with a large never failing spring near the dwelling, a barn with Arches underneath for 30 horse, an apple orchard of 200 trees of choice fruit, and a variety of other fruit trees; on another part of this farm there is a small frame Dwelling House, Kitchen and Dairy, Smoke house, Barn and stables—this property will be shown and its terms made known on application to the subscriber on the premises. JOHN GANTT, Sen. April 29—e2m
ELIAS B. CALDWELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAS removed his Office, to the house lately occupied by Mr. Law, on Capital Hill. Washington, July 26—tf
WILLIAM DOUGHTY, RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he has just received his SPRING GOODS from Philadelphia, as also a supply of PRASH TEAS, of superior quality, viz. Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, & Hyson Skin, with which he will be happy to serve his friends and customers. Georgetown, May 20—6t.
CHARLES H. VARDEN, Merchant Taylor New Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol RESPECTFULLY informs the gentlemen of the district of Columbia, he has imported by ship Eliza ANN lately arrived at Philada. A choice assortment Of Extra Superfine cloths, Bennets, Velvets, and Cords, Cashmere, single and double milled Sattin cloths, fashionable Spanish Orleans and Toilets, rich silk Molekin velvets, silk and sattin Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the season. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. Richard Harwell's celebrated patent parallel Suspenders, can be had on the same terms as at his manufactory. November 12—tf
Post Office, Washington, May 9th, 1807. SUMMER ESTABLISHMENT, to commence on Monday the 11th May 1807. THE Mails for the main Southern route, are to be closed at 6 o'clock, P. M. and are to arrive at half past 5 P. M. The Eastern mail to be closed at half past 6 P. M. and arrive at half past 5 P. M. The Annapolis and Eastern Shore route closes on Tuesdays and Fridays at 6 P. M. and arrive Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 o'clock P. M. The Clarkburg and Chilicothe route, via Fairfax c. h. Winchester, &c. closes Fridays at 11 o'clock A. M. and arrive Thursdays at noon. The Leesburg mail, via Prospect Hill, &c. will close on Mondays at 1 o'clock P. M. and arrive same day at 11 A. M. The general Western mail, via Fredericktown, Md. will be closed on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays 6 o'clock P. M. and arrive at 5 P. M. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. The mail for Brookville, Md. will be closed every Wednesday at 6 P. M. & arrive Thursday 6 P. M. The New Orleans mail, via Athens, Georgia, will be closed every Saturday, 6 P. M. and arrive same day at 8 A. M. Do to Tennessee, Mississippi Territory, &c. will be closed every Monday 6 P. M. & arrive same day 5 P. M. The mail to Ridge, Md. via Piscataway, Port Tobacco, St. Inigoes, &c. will close every Thursday at 6 P. M. and arrive every Tuesday at 6 P. M. May 13—3w
Notice is hereby given, THAT the subscriber hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of Washington county, in the district of Columbia, letters of administration on the personal estate of WILLIAM SWINTON , late of the city of Washington, deceased. All persons having claims against said estate, are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, on or before the 15th day of October next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 15th day of May, 1807 GEORGE BLAGDEN. May 20—110
TRIAL of Col. JARON BURR, WESCOTT & CO. Eleventh street near Pennsylvania avenue, Washington city,
INFORM the public, that they have engaged Mr. THOMAS CARPENTER , one of the most able and correct Steenographers in the United States, to attend the Circuit Court to commence its session in Richmond, on the 22nd of this month; and if the trial comes on, to publish a speedily as possible, a full and complete account of it, accompanied by all the documents relative to this memorable and important decision. May 18—tf
WILLIAM MARBURY HAS just received, via Philadelphia and Baltimore, and now for sale at his store, next door above Mr. Elisha Riggs, Bridge street, an elegant assortment of Fancy & Spring Goods, viz. 4 4th and 7 8th Irish Thull net, do. Linens silk and cotton hosiery 5 4th Irish fleecing Figured Florence Linen cambricks, Do. craps Thread and cotton lace Plaid and plain Mantua Fancy ginghams Do. gauze muffs White and coloured Seeded mull do. kid gloves Tamboured do. Parrasols, plated Fancy tamboured mull mounted manties Ladies, miffes and children morocco slippers Leno do. do. Leno long shawls Do. tamboured veils, Blue, plain and coloured 8 8th and 6 4th cambricks brick muffs Cotton cashmere 4 4th silk chambrays Marceilles waistcoating Cotton do. India and cambric di. 7 4th satin damask miffes shawls London hats, &c. &c. Georgetown, May 15—twam
20 DOLLARS REWARD. ANY one who from the subscriber in August last, Negro Charles—he is a straight well made black man, about 26 years of age, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high; he lost some of his teeth; it is remarkable that he lost some of his teeth; he is a gallant man. The above reward will be paid to any person who will bring him home or lodge him any jail so that I get him again. WM. A. BRAMBEE. Upper Marlboro', Jan 9—tawtf