Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1803-09-29 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
Vol. III.]
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1803.
[No. 871.
Public Vendue.
On FRIDAY , At 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store, Rum in hogheads and barrels. French Brandy in pipes, Gin in pipes and bds. Whiskey and Apple Brandy in bds. Sugar in hds. tierces and bds. Coffee in tierces and bags, Chocolate White and brown Soap } in boxes, Mould and dip'd Candles } Raisins in kegs, boxes and jars, Figs in kegs and frails, Queens Ware in crates, FURNITURE, &c.
A variety of DRY GOODS,
Among which are, Cloths, Coatings, Kerleymers, Duffils, Plains and Kerseys, Negro Cottons, Serges, Blaicks, blue Friezes, Calimancoes and Russells, Yarn Stockings, Chintzes and Calicoes, Irish Linens, Silesia do. Osnaburgs and Ticklenburgs, Muslins and Muslin Hand'ls, India Muslins and Table Cloths Bandanna Handkerchiefs, Coloured Threads, Hats, And sundry other Articles.
P. G. MARSTELLER.
September 27.
FOR SALE, Bills of Exchange on London. Wm. HODGSON.
Sales by Auction.
On SATURDAY , At 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store, the corner of King and Union Streets. Rum in hds. and barrels, Whiskey in barrels, Apple Brandy in barrels, Gin in casks, Wine in pipes and quatter casks, Molasses in hds. Sugar in hds. and barrels, White and brown Soap in boxes, Coffee in casks and bags, Raisins in kegs and boxes, Queen's Ware, and ALSO, A variety of DRY GOODS,
—AMONG WHICH ARE— Broad Cloths, Irish Linens, Cassimeres, Calicoes, Kerseys, Threads, Coatings, Chintzes, Halfticks, Bedticks, Fearnought, Osnaburgs, Blankets, Sewing Silks, Planes, Muslin and Muslin Negro Cottons, Handkerchiefs, Worsted and other India Cottons, &c. Stockings, &c.
THOS. PATTEN, Auctioneer. September 27.
Ricketts, Newton and Co.
Have received and for Sale, A few bales German Linens, 2 trunks calicoes and chintzes, 2 do. hosiery, 10 boxes wool and cotton cards, 5 tresses threads, 30 boxes dipp'd and mould candles, 10 hds. molasses, 4 do. Jamaica spirits, 6 do. sugars, 20 barrels prime pork, 50 do. herrings, 20 do. shad, 30 kegs James river tobacco, 100 tons plaster.
They are giving Cash, for wheat, flour, corn, rye, beans and tobacco.
August 1. d
Fifteen Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, about the 20th day of July last, a Negro boy called SAM, about 18 years of age, 5 feet 4 or 6 inches high, tolerably stout made, with a scar on his upper lip, not quite cured when he left home. I suspect he has obtained a pass, and will endeavor to pass for a freeman. I will give the above reward to any person who will deliver him to me, living within two miles of the Falls Church, Fairfax county, Virginia, or Ten Dollars, if secured in any jail so that I get him again.
C. F. Whiting.
Sept. 2. d
WILLIAM RAMSAY
HAS OPENED A Grocery Store in Prince Street, Next door to Dr. Dick's, Where he intends keeping a general assortment of genuine articles in that line, and now offers for sale on moderate terms, LONDON particular Madeira, } Port in casks and bottles, } WINES, Colmenar and Malaga } Old St. Julian and Medoc Claret in cases of 2 dozen each,
White Wine Vinegar, 4th proof Jamaica Rum, Do. Cogniac Brandy, Holland Gin, Loaf, lump and Muscovado Sugar, Sugar House Molasses, Imperial, Chulan, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Souchong, Pouchong Souchong, Padra Souchong, Peco Souchong, Bohea Green Coffee, Durham and Dixon's Mustard, Allspice, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace and Nut- megs,
Nantz and Bourdeaux Sallad Oil, Catechup, branded Fruits and English Pickles, Olives, Capers and Anchovies, Prunes, Raisins, and soft shell Almonds, Leiper's Snuff in bottles, Do. best Smoking Tobacco, Martin's best Spanish Segars, Basket Salt for table use, Georgia Cotton, Martinique Noyeau, Mould and dipp'd Candles, Jersey Cheese of an excellent quality, Wrapping Paper, brown and blue, Roll Brimstone, Fig Blue.
To be Rented,
And possession given immediately, the dwelling HOUSE above said store. It is now in good re- pair, and well calculated to accommodate a gen- teel family. Apply as above. June 27. d
Robert & John Gray,
King Street,
Have just received from N. York,
An additional assortment of
BOOKS,
of which the following are a part: Dr. Lettome's Hints, designed to promote Beneficence, Temperance and Medical Science, 3 vols. 8vo. boards. Feuerlist, 2 vols. 8vo. calf gilt; the same in sheep.
Dobson's Life of Petrarch, do. do. Public Characters, or Contemporary Biography, 8vo.
Public Characters, for 1802 and 1803, boards. Adventures of Telemachus, 2 vols. 8vo. calf gilt.
Thompson's Seasons, with fine plates, calf gilt.
Lady's Monthly Museum, ornamented with beautiful engravings of Fashion for every Month in the Year, 9 vols. 12mo. calf, gilt.
German Theatre, 6 vols. calf, gilt.
Young Gentleman and Lady's Magazine, 2 vols. 8vo.
Lord Kames's Sketches of the History of Man, 4 vols. 12m.
Thalaba, the Destroyer, a metrical romance, by Robert Southey, 2 vols. 12m.
Thompson's Pictures of Poetry, 12m.
The Enchanted Plants, fine plates, calf, gilt.
Pleasure and pains of Memory, do. do.
Beiles Lettres Repository for 1801, '2 and '3; fine hot pressed, ornamented with plates.
Gifford's Baviad and Maviad, 12m. boards.
Evan's Essays on the action for money had and received, on the Law of Insurances, and on the Law of Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes, 8vo.
Taylor's Reports, 8vo.
Porcupine's Works, 2 vols. 8vo.
Folio, quarto, octavo and pocket Bibles, gilt & plain; common Prayer Books, gilt and plain;
Watt's Psalms & Hymns, large and small; do. bound in Morocco.
Wallace on Diseases.
Townsend's Guide to Health.
Brown's Elements of Medicine.
John Bell's Anatomy,
And a great number of other articles too nume- rous to insert in an advertisement.
July 27. d
Cash given for clean linen
and cotton rags.
Sept. 14 d3: 22w
For Sale,
THE SLOOP Diana, a good tight vessel, carries 3000 bushels, or 1600 barrels flour.
ALSO, The Schooner Lebo, burthen Five Hundred bar-rels. Both vessels are lying at our wharf, and will be sold on low terms.
We have received by the sloop Diana, 60 hds. Guadalupe clayed Sugars, of good quality.
And have on hand, Jamaica Spirits, Windward Rum, Muscovado Sugars, first and second qualities, Pork, Whiskey, &c. &c. all which will be sold at reasonable prices.
JOHN & THOS. VOWELL.
Sept. 8. d
For Freight or Charter,
To any Port in Europe, (the Baltic and Medi- terranean excepted,) The Ship ANN,
CHAS. BRADFORD, Master; burthen 232 tons, just off her first voyage, in complete order and will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days. For terms apply to the master on board, at King Street wharf, or
Thomas Irwin.
The Owners and Consignees of merchan- dize, on board the above ship, are requested to make immediate application for the same; such as do not, may be assured they will be landed and flored for their accounts.
Sept. 23. d7: 1/2
For FREIGHT, (Coastways)
The Schooner SEA FLOWER, ELLY DOUGHTY, Master; burthen 500 barrels, now lying at the upper side of Prince Street wharf.—
Apply to the master on board, or to Daniel M'Clean.
Who has for sale, Peach Brandy of an excellent qua- lity, soap and candles, mola and prime pork, Phi- ladelphia hoop and bar iron, nail rods and seal leather.
August 23. d
For Freight or Charter,
(To any port in the West Indies or the U. States) The Sch'r
DISPATCH, JOSHUA FREEBLE, Master, burthen 750 barrels. She is a fine launch vessel, completely found and ready to receive a cargo immediately.
Apply to the master on board at Gilpin's Wharf, or to
JOSEPH RIDDLE, & Co.
Sept. 7. d
For Freight or Charter,
The SHIP Fair American, Capt. STOVER, about two years old, burthen 217 tons. Apply to
Janney & Paton.
Who have received and for sale on board said vessel, 160 tons Plaister of Paris.
For Freight or Charter,
The Schooner RESOLUTION, Job Simmons, Master; a complete, staunch vessel, burthen 950 barrels, ready to receive a cargo. Apply to
John G. Ladd,
at his dwelling house on Prince, between Fairfax and Royal streets.
Sept. 22. d
For Sale or Charter,
The SHIP BELVIDERE, lying at Thompson's wharf, burthen 257 tons. For terms apply to
Samuel Craig.
July 21. eo
Just Received,
to cheits Bohea, } TEAS 8 do. Souchong } of late importations and excellent quality.
Apply next door below Col. Gilpin's, in King street, to
John Potts.
Sept. 14 d3: 22w
Ten Dollars Reward.
LOST on Saturday last, between Geo. Town and Mr. Wm. Fitzhugh's, of Ravensworth, a Blue Morocco Pocket Book, there were in it, as well as is remembered, Two Hundred and Sixty Dollars in bank notes, a bond for 25 pounds, and some other papers of no import to any one but the subscriber, who will on its restoration pay the above reward; or it will be paid by the Printer if delivered to him.
Burwell Bassett.
Sept. 28.
Valuable Property for Sale.
In pursuance of a Decree of the United States of the District of Columbia, at the last term, held for the county of Alexandria, will be sold at public auction, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the 24th inst. on the pre- mises,
Two unimproved Lots, or parcels of ground subject to a rent of £.13. 6: 0 per annum, fixtures, lying, and being on the west side of Water Street, and south side of Franklin Street, in the town of Alexandria.
The sale to commence at 3 o'clock in the af- ternoon.
Sam. Craig, Elisha Janney, } Com'rs. P. G. Marsteller, }
Sept. 3. 22w
The sale of the above property is postponed to Saturday October 22d, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Sept. 27.
Land for Sale.
I wish to sell from a thousand to twelve hundred acres of good Farming Land, in the county of Fairfax, on the waters of Pope's Head and Jon- nymore runs.
This land will either be sold together or in se- parate parcels, as may be agreed on. It is well situated for the disposal of produce, being within twenty miles of Alexandria, and thirteen of the Occoquan Mills.
Any person, wishing to purchase, may know the terms by applying to the subscriber near Dumfries.
John Gibson.
Sept. 13. 22w
VALUABLE LANDS
FOR SALE.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust executed by Henry Lee to the subscriber, for securing a debt due from said Henry Lee, to Wm. Lud- well Lee, deceased, the following tracts of Land will be
Sold at public Auction,
for ready money, at the times and places here- after mentioned, that is to say:
One Tract containing 2,800 acres called Hollis's Marsh, lying in the county of Westmoreland, adjoining the Stafford estate, and bordering on the Potomac river.
One other Tract containing 500 acres lying in the county of Fairfax, at the mouth of Difficult run, on the west side thereof, and bounded by the Potomac river at the Great Falls.
One other Tract containing 1600 acres, together with a moiety of a MILL, lying in Frederick county, where the said tract is called and known by the name of Buffalo Marsh.
These tracts will be sold on the respective pre- mises: The 1st on the 28th of September; the 2d on the 6th of October, and the 3d on the 13th of October next.
The above tracts will be laid off and sold in smaller parcels, if the title papers can be obtained in time to enable the subscriber to have them divided.
Bushrod Washington.
August 19 d13thO
Notice.
THE Office of the Marine Insurance Compa- ny of Alexandria is removed to the house of Jas. B. Nickolls.
By order of the Board,
J. B. NICKOLLS, Sec'y.
N. B. The hours of meeting of the Board are the same as usual, and the time of acceptance is extended to four o'clock.
Insurance Office, Sept. 15. d
Notice.
The subscriber is desirous to engage a person immediately to lay about 50 M. bricks, at his farm near town; the sooner the work is begun the better, as all materials are prepared. None need apply who are not well qualified, and will have hands to make a short job of it.
JAMES PATTON,
Clifton Lodge, near Alexandria.
Sept. 27. d35

PHILIP WANTON
Has imported, per the Ann , from Liverpool, A handsome assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery and Saddlery , which will be ready for sale in a few days. 9 Mo. 27. 23w
BENNETT and WATTS
Have imported in the ship Ann , Capt. Bradford, FALL GOODS , which will be immediately opened and offered for sale on the usual terms. Sept. 27. d3w
FOR SALE,
A handsome PIANO FORTE, warranted.— BELL and WRAY. Apply to Sept. 27. d
FLAX SEED.
The highest price given for Flax Seed. A. Smith & Son. (a 5 d)
For Sale,
A healthy, stout, young Negro Woman—En- quire of the Printer.
To Let,
THE frame Warehouse on King Street, two doors above Pitt Street, now occupied by Am- brose Vasse. Possession will be given on the 27th of this month—apply, in the absence of the subscriber, to Col. Dennis Ramsey. R. I. TAYLOR. August 15. eo
Lost at the late Fire,
A fire bucket painted red and inscribed 'Frank- lin Fire Society, Wm. Ladd, 1792.' Whoever will return it to the subscriber shall be liberally rewarded. J. G. LADD. Sept. 27.
Notice.
DURING my absence from this place, Joseph Culp is empowered to transact my business. Benjamin Shreve, jun. Sept. 10. d
The Subscriber
Respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he has opened his Store again in Union Street, where he has for sale, All kinds of GROCERIES, Rhode Island Cheese and Potatoes, Onions, Corn Meal, together with Fresh Fruits and Nuts, viz. Oranges, Lemons, Limes, tamarinds, raisins, figs, prunes, English walnuts, almonds, and shell barks. Philadelphia Bottled Cyder of the first quality, excellent fat mackerel by the barrel, and first quality chewing tobacco. Abel Willis. Sept. 28. d
R. and J. GRAY,
Have just received a large supply of Writing Paper & Quills. August 11. d
Thirty Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY last Christmas a negro man called JOE , who was hired to Mr. George W. Lind- sey, at the Occoquan Mills, for the two last years past, and was discharged at the abovementioned time and directed to come home, but I have not seen him: he is about 55 years of age, has no particular mark that I remember, his clothing I cannot describe, as I have not seen him for up- wards of two years; he stoops much in his walk, and generally carries a stick. I have lately been informed that he has been employed at a brick yard in or about Alexandria. Also,
A negro woman called JENNY , about twenty years of age, a likely, black, tall and slim made woman, went off about the first of August last. I am informed that she is harboured in Fairfax's Neck, by some free negroes who are employed there by different persons.
I will give the above Reward to any person that will deliver said Runaways to me, living near Colchester, and prove the harbouring or employ- ing of them, or Five Dollars for each if secured in jail, so that I get them again. WILLIAM TRIPLETT. September 28. 26c
Twelve Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber on the 21st inst. a negro man named GEORGE , calls himself George Dart . He is about 38 years of age, five feet nine or ten inches high, slender made, very dark complexion, and shews his teeth very plain before, which are very white; he is very fond of spirituous liquors, and plays on the fiddle: had on a blue round about jacket and an old pair of cloth trowsers. He was in Alexandria on the 21st inst. on board of a Schooner bound to the West Indies, chartered by Mr. John Dunlop of George Town, if he is not gone in the said sch'r I expect he is now in that place. All masters of vessels, and others are cautioned against harbouring or carrying off the said fellow at their peril. The above reward will be given for securing him in any jail so that I get him again, or upon delivering him to the subscriber, with all reasonable charges paid. Mary Anne Fenwick. George Town, Potomac, Sept. 27. 12w 3t
For the Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
THE MORALIST.
No. VII.
"Slander, the worst of poison, ever finds An easy entrance in ignoble minds."
THE most despised are the greatest slanderers—and still more malevolent are they who are condemned to live amongst them by whom they are despised.
How often are amiable characters torn to pieces by wretches who have none to loose? How often the unfortunate stranger is blasted over a baleful dish of tea—and the bud of genius nipt over a glass of wine? How melancholy the reflection, that there are human beings so totally lost to shame, to sense, and pity, as to feast over calumny, and to entertain their hearers with the most wicked falsehoods in order to render a fellow creature—nay, perhaps, a whole family of amiable females wretched and the innocent object of scorn. The wrongs of injured innocence call aloud for redress, and the time has been long ar- rived when their calumniators, those lurking and often ungrateful serpents, should be exposed and exterminated.
The vice of slander is generated by idleness, a curse which creeps upon the mind, and which we endeavored to expose in the fourth number of the Moralist . If that part of the creation called man, which word comprises the human species, would imitate the ant, they would have little time to slander their neighbours.
Let us look, for a moment, at the passing af- ternoon of the present day.
Here we see a group of young females assem- bled, decked in the most gaudy attire, and their minds overcharged with the tales of scandal which have floated within their reach since the last tea party. The utmost stretch of ingenuity is ex- ercised in embellishments, and each is on the fidget to tell her tale of slander. On the other side of the way see another party of these fashionable fe- males who, being perhaps seated before the assem- blage of the first named party, are indulging themselves in the most severe, envious, and ill na- tured observations upon them. Yet the individu- als of both these groups, are the very best friends when they meet.
I have often heard my grand mother tell my sister that in her days, that is, when she was young, she visited, perhaps, once a month and then she always took her work bag slung over her arm. That the conversation generally turned upon the pieces of work which had been executed since their last meeting. The tapestry, screens, coverlids, chair covers, and body linen that had been made. If, perchance, a young man was named, how the blush of modesty would crimson their cheeks.—Now-a-days, continues the old lady, good luck, you dress that the men may stare at you, and you visit to scandalize your acquaintance.
"What such characters can propose to them- selves by such a mode of conduct, I am at a loss to determine—it certainly can be productive of no advantage, but on the contrary is a direct path to infamy and reproach, for, however, virtue may be crushed by their cruel and un- generous conduct; yet she cannot be totally overcome, and the time will certainly arrive when they will have reason to dread their rising power—the virtuous will then look upon them with disdain, and they will finally fall a sacrifice to their own devices."
Again, amongst the men we find them lounging at the tavern over a bottle of wine or porter can- vassing the concerns of their absent neighbours, and calculating upon their profits and expences. What a misfortune, when the mind cannot find resources within itself to fill up those hours not required in our daily avocations. Whenever I hear a man garrulous respecting domestic con- cerns, and fond of talking of his business or trade, I know I am in company with a fool or a knave.
Reputation is like a tender flower of slow growth—the toil of many years—far worse than the mid- night robber is he who attempts to rob his neigh- bour of that dear earned virtue!
"May the arrow of fell remorse leave the rankling venom in such flinty hearts—may all the pangs they have occasioned others re- turn, with double torture, to themselves, and like the sword of the 'destroying Angel,' leave nei- ther root nor branch of such a tribe of gloomy as- sassins."
FROM THE PORT FOLIO.
THE LAY PREACHER.
"And he said unto me—what seest thou?" —And I said—a basket of Summer fruit."
IN every annual revolution there are certain periods, at which men indulge ideas of association whence they may derive, either the pleasant or the profitable. Thus, the gradual approach of cheer- ful spring, the youth of the year, naturally in- duces us to speculate upon the youth of human life; the naked boughs and drooping leaf of the autumn tree, remind us of mortal decay. On the first of January, we pondered on the past, and project of the future: by the command of cus- tom, we note the anniversary of our birth, and by the command of the law, 'times to weep, and to laugh,' we observe with religious solemnities.
These periodical habits are of peculiar utility, and deserve to be studiously cherished. They beget serious reflection, and communication with one's self. They suggest, at least plans of refor- mation. 'In castle building,' as a sagacious philosopher has remarked, 'no man is a villain.' Though our intended good deeds terminate, as they began, in reverie, still it is better for our thoughts merely to hover round the temple of vir-
tue than to the utterly stagnant. Among the forcible arguments, ingeniously urged, by the pious advocate for the observance of the sacred day that is not the least impressive, which proves that by going mechanically to church, we shall at length, go religiously there.
For these, and other reasons, a sermon on the season may be useful. Whatever recalls man from low cares to extended views—whatever rouses sensibility and excites to gratitude and a love of nature, is surely meritorious. The Lay Preacher, since the commencement of his weekly labors, has seen, and attempted to moralize the natural ope- rations of January, of May, and of June. The beginnings and middle of a favored year have passed in review before him; but the rich maturity remains to be considered, and extolled. Though the curious and the dissipated of our cities boast of their expensive exhibitions; though, with rap- ture, they gather round the tutored quadrupeds of Lailson and of Rickets, still there are 'sights,' easily and cheaply to be seen, which are incom- parably more amusing and gorgeous. To the beauteous show of the season, men and brethren, you are invited, not by the advertisement of an adventure, not by a joggler's devices, but by the voice of Nature. Her tickets are inscribed on the green leaf, and the corn blade, and her spacious Amphitheatre is opened to you without a fee. All may now discern, in reality, what the Prophet saw, in the obscurity of a vision, "a basket of sum- mer fruit," ripe and plenteous, testifying the goodness of the year, and crowning it with glad- ness.
Spring and Summer are periods of expectation. The farmer beholds the corn fall into the bosom of the ground, and the young shoots rise, but all is uncertainty, till the produce is gathered in- to the garner. Many an anxious look is cast up to the varying sky, least the former and the latter rain should too scantily, or too copiously descend, least the sun should too fiercely glow, or mil- dewing vapours float on vegetation. But, when the grass is dried and secured, when the mellow fruit of the orchards is melting into his casks, and the harvest moon lights his reaper to the last wheat sheaf, then is solicitude appeased, and he exultingly exclaims, 'I have finished.'
The present is the very period, in which har- vest, that 'conflagration to devoured to be with- ed,' by every husbandman, takes place. Of those divines, who use themselves to preach oc- casional sermons, I perceive it is the practice to paint and to praise the benefits of that particular year, in which its eulogium is composed. But it is not the design of this discourse to speak only of the fruit basket of the present season. Our baskets are always full; ours are those regular al- terations of heat and moisture, which beget plenty to the husbandman, for we have a 'fourth land,' and 'springs of water,' we have the 'upper and the nether springs.'
At all times, America seems a privileged quar- ter of the globe. Fruit, ever abounding, and eaten in tranquility, marks our happy distinction. These topics being slightly considered, the pati- ence of the reader shall be relieved by the close of the sermon.
Whatever historical volumes, or system of ge- ography we peruse, we find that most countries are exposed either to baleful vicissitudes of climate or the capricious violence of tempest, drought or inundation. In the hallowed volume, almost every verse, allusive to the natural history of Pa- lestine, in old time, contains some memorial of the irregularity of its seasons. Agreeably to mo- dern travellers, the inhabitants of many parts of the East, still smart under the scourge of the ele- ments. In Syria rain is not witnessed for months, and who has not heard of the scorching sands of Arabia? The Nile, the grand fertilizer of Egypt, like an over fond parent, sometimes smothers the object which it cherishes. Cairo, the metropolis of nations, sometimes bemoans in dust, her scanty harvest.
"And Mecca saddens at their long delay."
If we survey regions of happier temperature, still the journals of their weather mark extreme variableness, and in many years, the 'baskets of summer fruit,' are not high pled. We can scarce- ly look at a paragraph of foreign news in our Ga- zettes, without remarking a melancholy narrative of the scarcity of corn, and of a famished popu- lace, clamoring for bread. But when, my coun- trymen, do you suffer these calamities? What year is of such Egyptian sterility, that you can be asked the question proposed to the prophet, in my text, and not answer like him! The rains do not descend, nor the floods come, in such tor- rents, as to drown our plains. The green corn is not burnt by vertical sun beams, nor over- thrown by a mighty wind. The fields regular- ly yield meat; and, in our Samaria, there is no gate, where the portress is famine.
When the harvests of America are ripe the pro- duce is without defalcation. According to Bry- done, a Sicilian grandee, engrosses what the Si- cilian peasant has sown. But here, if we do not sit under the vine and the fig tree, if the pome- granate glow not in our groves, nor the olive soothe our fickle palate, with her blandest juice yet our vales are rich in vegetable gold, and our mountains rear their fertile heads to heaven.
To close the enumeration of our blessings, we pluck our full ears, and we eat them in safety. In France the 'dogs of war' have trampled the vines of Champagne, and weeping Flanders has exchanged the tilled for the 'tented field.' Bo- naparte has desolated the Italian plains, and Eu- ropean corn has been cut, not by the sickle of the labourer, but by the soldier's faulchion. But, by the benignity of Providence, we contemplate 'baskets,' orchards, and vales of 'Summer fruit,' and through the gay perspective not a single pike
not a distant gleam of horrid steel, mars the view. Fortunate America! like Israel of old, you dwell in safety alone. Your heavens drop down dew, and your fountain is upon a land of corn!
FROM THE BALANCE.
No. VI.
A comparative view of the disadvantages and be- nefits, which would probably accrue to the United States from an enlargement of their terri- torial limits by the purchase of either
LOUISIANA OR THE FLORIDAS.
Not to prejudice the treaty, that is soon coming before the Senate of the United States; not to impeach the motives and views of the executive, or the conduct of the diplomatic agents; not to excite alarm and irritation in the public mind, has the writer undertaken these essays; his objects are to point out the injurious effects, es- pecially in a young and thinly-settled coun- try, of draining away from it vast sums of cash; and also to check the currency of misrepresentations and efface erroneous im- pressions, by proving that an acquisition of Western territory, more or less, can be con- ducive to the interests of the U. States, no farther than as it should tend to secure the free and uninterrupted navigation of the Western waters. Boundless applause has been bestowed on the wisdom of the ex- ecutive, manifested in the recent instance of the purchase of Louisiana. The cheapness of the purchase has been noticed with seem- ing wonder and astonishment. Fifteen million of dollars have been considered as a trifling sum, compared with the immense magnitude of the worth of the object for which it has been pledged. The vast ex- tent of Louisiana and the extreme fertility of its soil have been expatiated upon in lan- guage of rapture. Such representations might induce a belief in the public mind, that Louisiana, annexed to the Union, would diffuse streams of wealth throughout the whole nation. Nothing can be more erroneous than such an opinion.
It has, I conceive, been clearly shown, in the course of these essays, that the United States already possess vastly too much territory for their present interest; that the annexation and speedy settlement of Louisi- ana would tend to impoverish and weaken our nation, by dispersing its population and dissipating its capitals; and would be ex- tremely injurious, particularly to the East- ern and Middle States, drawing from them a considerable portion of their money and of their enterprising and industrious inhab- itants, who are greatly needed at home.—Hence it plainly follows, that arguments drawn from the consideration of the vast extent and supposed fertility of Louisiana, are totally inapplicable: because, on the supposition that Louisiana were as exten- sive even as all Europe, the possession of it for the mere purpose of forming settle- ments, could be no valuable object to a na- tion that has not attained to the twentieth part of a full population, within its domes- tic territory. By the government of the United States, and by the individual States, there are now owned waste lands more than enough, it is believed, to cover all the do- mestic territory of France; immense tracts of uncultivated lands, within the limits of the Union, are also owned as private pro- perty. In the name of wonder, what need is there of more land, for the purpose of cul- tivation?
Suppose the fertility of the soil of Loui- siana equals or even surpasses the florid de- scriptions which have been given of it; that it is capable of producing "sugar, coffee, cocoa, pimento, molasses, canejuice, spi- rit or rum, cotton, indigo, gums, saffron, rhubarb, and in general most of the prec- ious articles of produce, which the West- india Islands do or can yield"—what avails all this to a nation that has neither money to spare for the purchase of slaves, nor la- bourers for the cultivation of the newly ac- quired soil. "The cultivation of Louisi- siana, Mr. Livingston observes, (and his remarks are indisputably accurate, respect- ing that part of it which can be expected to yield the aforementioned articles of pro- duce), is to be carried on, as in all warm climates, by slaves." On their arrival at Louisiana, (he further says) the slaves will be employed in the barren occupations of felling the large forests with which this im- mense country is covered, a labour but lit- tle suited to slaves, for it requires being long accustomed to the ax; and force and activity are seldom found in slaves. They must be clothed, fed and maintained, dur- ing the whole year, before any profit can be derived from them?"—"who then (ex- claims Mr. Livingston) will cultivate Loui- siana with slaves? Who is the citizen wil- ling to bestow large capitals upon so pre- carious a property with the prospect of a dis- tant return?"—Be it added, will the citi- zens of the United States enter afresh into

this horrible species of speculation? Is it not enough that already there are from five to six hundred thousand African slaves in this country? My God! shall thousands and hundreds of thousand more of our fellow-creatures be robbed of their liberty—be snatched from the bosoms of their friends, and from the nameless endearments of country and of home, and be forced to the house of bondage, there to consume their miserable existence—that We , forsooth, may be furnished, at nearer markets, with "most of the precious articles of produce, which the West India islands do or can yield?"—Will republicans, who glory in their sacred regard to the rights of human nature purchase an immense wilderness for the purpose of cultivating it with the labour of slaves!—The idea is too horrible to be indulged.
(To be continued.)
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
TORBAY, August 7.
The Venus cutter, lieutenant Delafons, is just come in from the westward, with intelligence of some importance. On the 4th instant, being about 16 leagues to the south-west of the Lizard, she boarded a Danish galliot, which informed her that the day preceding she was chased and boarded by a French national sloop of war, of 16 guns, full of troops, which on finding that she was a Dane, and not bound to an English port, let her go, and she herself stood after two very large French frigates, with which she was in company when she began to chase. By the course that the frigates were steering, the captain of the Dane said, he had no doubt but they were bound to Ireland. He was very particular in describing the uniforms and helmets of the troops on board the sloop of war, which proved that she was French, and not an English sloop chasing under French colours. In fact, she chased under English colours, and hauled them down when she came within hail of the Dane. These and other particulars were communicated to Sir John Colpoys, the commanding officer at Plymouth, who on receiving the intelligence, immediately dispatched a cutter to lord Cornwallis, cruising off Brest, and another to lord Gardner, at Cork. As the frigates were very large, and might be arme en flute , it is supposed the little squadron could contain twelve or fifteen hundred men, a force indeed, of little consequence to England, but, if landed at this important juncture, capable of doing a great deal of mischief in Ireland. It is also probable, that there may be several such squadrons bound to that country, to land where they can, and then act in concert with the rebels on some concerted plan.
DOVER, August 9.
This morning between three and four o'clock we were awakened with a heavy and continual firing, which continued until about seven o'clock, and seemed to be in the direction of Boulogne; the fire was renewed about eleven, and continued until about one, P. M. a sloop of war and cutter were dispersed from the hills, and eight or ten sail within them: no certain accounts are yet come, but it is supposed that some of our cruisers were chasing a privateer, and had got within gun shot of the batteries.
Half past five—a sailor just landed, says, the firing was between some gun brigs and French gun boats in Whitstable bay, and that our vessels were waiting the flood tide to renew the attack; we are not certain whether the gun boats have troops in or not; however, we are all ready to receive them, and expect more certain intelligence every hour; it has been nearly calm all day.
LIVERPOOL, August 12.
We do not find the anxiety which has long hung over the public mind, arising from its ignorance of the line of conduct which the northern powers will pursue in the present contest between Great Britain and France, to be in the smallest degree diminished. Great uneasiness is felt respecting our Baltic fleet now detained at Elsinore, by contrary winds.
PORTLAND, Sept. 19.
ABUSE OF NEUTRALITY.
On Thursday last capt Nathaniel Jones of the brig General Warren, of this port, arrived from Cuba, after a passage of 37 days. Soon after leaving the port, the captain who was in the cabin, was informed that there was a vessel to windward. Capt. J. came immediately upon deck, and supposing that the vessel might be in chase, hove his main top sail to the mast and kept under gentle way. The unknown pursuer, which proved to be a British armed brig of 16 guns, when first discovered, was about two miles distant soon came up with capt. Jones, and fired a musket; whereupon he settled his topgallant
sails and hove his vessel dead in the wind. Her boat was then sent along side, and the men immediately boarded the General Warren, seized the capt. with violence, tearing his cloaths from his back, forced him into the boat and carried him on board the British vessel.
The English captain then accosted him in the following language—"You damn'd rascal, why did you not heave to when you saw his majesty's colors?" Sir said captain J. I saw no colors, they must have been hidden by your sails. "But you damn'd scoundrel, did you not hear the gun?" Yes, sir, and immediately hove to. "You lie, you damn'd eternal rascal, fall upon your knees in a moment and ask my pardon." I am in a merchant vessel of a neutral nation, said captain Jones, am on the high seas, and am not conscious of having offended, for what, then, should I ask pardon? "God damn you, fall upon your knees in an instant, or you shall receive a dozen," was the answer. Captain Jones replied that he might do as he pleased—"Take this fellow, said the Englishman, to the gangway, and give him a dozen." Captain J. was accordingly dragged to the gangway and there beaten as directed by the commander of his majesty's armed brig, until at length he felt himself obliged to bow the knee, and say whatever his Britannic majesty's captain pleased to dictate. After many insults, added to stripes, he was returned on board his own vessel. The captain's little brother, a lad of about 12 years of age, was then forcibly taken from him.
On this occasion the most tender expostulations were used, till at length captain Jones's mate, Mr. Emerson (and it is with pleasure we mention his name) offered himself instead of the lad. This was refused with the most abusive language.—However the lad was at last given up, and capt. Jones permitted to proceed on his voyage, after taking two of his people from him. He was informed, by those who boarded him, that the name of the English brig was "The Hunter;" but on leaving her he observed on her stern, "The Diana of Venice (or Nevis)." She mounted 16 guns and the sailing master said his name was W. W. Bush.
NEW-YORK, September 26.
Capt. Hamilton, of the brig Gayoso, who arrived at quarantine on Saturday from Cape Francois, informs us, that Dessalines, the negro general, was rallying his forces, for the purpose of making an attack upon the Cape in three or four days; and that Rochambeau (who was determined to hold out so long as he could procure provisions) was preparing to give him a warm reception. The British blockade the port, and refuse admission to all American vessels; in consequence, provisions are very high, especially flour which is retailed in the Cape at 45 to 50 dollars per barrel.
Captain H. further informs, that the accounts from Port Republic, were extremely distressing. The French troops, it is generally imagined, would be obliged to evacuate it. This has already been done at Jeremie, and the troops and inhabitants had arrived at the Cape.
The British permit all French vessels with troops on board to pass without molestation; a conduct which it is conceived, will eventually be less injurious to the interest of Great Britain, than making them prisoners of war.
Arrived, Eng. sloop Admiral Duncan, New-sun, mounting 8 guns in 16 days from Providence. Sept. 11. off Abaco, spoke a black schr. the capt. was very deaf, from New London for New Providence, out 31 day, having lost her deck load of Stock. Sept. 20th, in lat 34, long. 75, spoke a ship from Havanna, for Boston, out 10 days, having been ordered off by the Spanish Government, without landing any of her cargo.
At Quarantine.
Brig Gayoso, Hamilton, 22 days from Cape Francois. Left at Cape Francois, schr. Chase, of and for New York; schr. Citizen, Muir, do. to sail in 5 days; brig "Sally," for do. schr. Sophia, of and Baltimore; and 3 or 4 other American vessels, names not recollected.
Arrived, ship Ceres, Moore, Liverpool; brig Gayoso, Hamilton, Cape Francois; schr. Sally, Smith, St. Mary's; sloop Admiral Duncan, Newson, New Providence.
Cleared, ship Manchester, Hall, Liverpool; brig Betsey, Howland, Cape Francois; schr. Little Tom, Bicker, Barbadoes and a market, sloop Favorite, Foster, St. Thomas.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26.
By a gentleman just returned from the westward, we are informed that the present drought is greater and more extensive than any that has been experienced there for these twenty years. Along the borders of the Susquehanna river, the Juniata and their branches, bilious fevers are remarkably fatal. In one instance a family of five persons took sick, and died in a fortnight. In Lewis town, there had been as many as fifty persons confined at one time with the dumb ague, and along the courses of rivers to the eastward of Lewis town, many persons are attacked with equal fatality by the dysentery, bilious fevers, and the dumb ague.
BALTIMORE, September 26.
Arrived, barque Amelia, Anderson, 60 days from Cadiz. Left there brig Georgia Packet, Living, of N. York. Spoke, in lat 38, long. 58, 30, the brig Jane, Rich, of Philadelphia, bound to Cayenne, out 3 days from Halifax, where he had been carried in on suspicion. Spoke the ship Harriot, Pearce, from Baltimore bound to Liverpool, Cape Henry bearing W. 130 miles.
Arrived schooner two Sisters, Williams, from Washington, N. C.
The Norfolk packet Eliza, arrived this morning, and reports another barque and brig in the bay.
Falmouth, August 5.
Arrived, the American ship William and Mary, Dickson, 32 days from Norfolk; and brig Triton, Nichols, from Norfolk, via Cowes, for orders. The American ship Alexander Hodgson, Thorndike, from Batavia to Maritimes, has been sent into Plymouth by an English cruiser.
RALEIGH, September 19.
In the storm which took place off our coast on the last day of August, five vessels were cast away in Edenton Sound; and none of the crews saved—six dead bodies have been taken up and the hulls of the vessels were seen floating when this account was communicated. It was supposed other vessels had suffered at the bar. Several warehouses at Newbern were entirely swept away with their contents, and a number of vessels ran ashore. It is supposed the water rose nine feet perpendicular.
Later accounts say that 25 or 30 vessels were at anchor in Walhaze's channel during the storm, only four of them rode it out. Eleven were driven on shore, the rest dispersed. Among the eleven were four from Newbern, Widow's Son, Eagle, Telemachus and Columbia; the two former were got off, and since came up much damaged, the two latter entirely lost. Most of the Columbia's cargo saved. We understand most of the vessels in Beaufort and Swansborough were upset and much damaged. There were five vessels cast away to the northward of Cape Hatteras, one of which was the Wilmington Packet, from New York, homeward bound; another was a schooner belonging to Newport, (R. I.) the other three not known. There were three vessels cast away to the northward of Cape Look Out, a sloop, a sch'r, the other not known. The brig or schooner Coquette, of Baltimore, in ballast, from Cape Francois, bound to N. York, with 16 French passengers, were driven upon the beach of Portsmouth, and much damaged, lost several passengers, among others the husband and three children of an unfortunate French lady who is left in the greatest distress to survive them. Three vessels were cast away near Beaufort. A brig belonging to Boston, from Jamaica, with rum, landed the whole, 150 puncheons. A schooner with mahogany and coffee, the other not known.
In the country immense destruction everywhere took place. The crops of corn very much injured. Mills and bridges carried away.
Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29.
HEALTH OFFICE.
SEPTEMBER 23.
The Committee of Health report four deaths for the 24 hours ending this morning at 10 o'clock.
They acknowledge with gratitude, the receipt of 15 dollars from William Hatley, 10 dollars from an absent citizen, and 25 dollars from another, as a donation for the use of the poor.
S. SNOWDEN, Sec'y.
Extract of a letter from the British Consul at Norfolk, to a gentleman in this town.
"His Britannic Majesty's ship Leander arrived at Lyn Haven Bay on the night of the 13th inst. The captain having received proofs from the Consul General at Philadelphia that Gitchell who was lately pressed out of the sloop Hland capt. Hand, of your port, was an American citizen, sent him up to me in a pilot boat, and the Hland fortunately being here he went immediately on board and has proceeded in her as usual."
Extract of a letter from Spain, dated July 12, received at Marblehead.
"There are at Bayonne & the neighborhood, upwards of 8000 troops, who are to be followed by other troops, to form an army of 30,000 which it is thou't is designed against Portugal. In the northern department there are also very considerable encampments forming; but whether they will attempt a decent on England or not, is a problem which I am not politician enough to construe; however, it is certain that in all the seaports of the Republic, they are working very strenuously at the formation of gun boats; even, I have been assured, that in Paris itself, they are constructing and sending them down the Seine to Nantz on rafts. But you will ask me, what they will do with their gun boats without a fleet? Time will shew."
"The English seem to have a system widely different from the last war; of all the vessels they capture, they liberate their crews! What their motive can be for not making prisoners is beyond my comprehension; they perhaps think, that in case of an invasion, from thirty to forty thousand able French seamen (the number of prisoners they had during the last war) would be too dangerous neighbours; and that considering the present state of the French navy they are glad to be rid of this cause of apprehension."
"There is a good deal of talk about Spain and Portugal remaining neutral; but
I can hardly think that can long be the case as the moment the French forces entered the Spanish territory on the way to Portugal, I dare say the English will declare war."
Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, to a respectable commercial house in Newburyport, dated July 27.
"Produce have varied very little since my last; we must, however, expect them higher towards fall, if no peaceable prospects should occur. Coffee, in particular, will be much demanded, as our stock is but small and all the importations of England stopped; we shall therefore have to look out for supplies from your Continent; but then it will be necessary, if you send your vessels to our port in future during the war, that you take a certificate of the Dutch Consul of the port from whence the ship comes, or in case no Consul resides there, of the civil Magistrate of said place mentioning the ship's and master's name, the number of men there are on board, with their names the quality and quantity of the cargo, and that the ship was loaded at a port which is not in enmity with our republic, nor had any goods on board coming from the English colonies; for without such a certificate no vessel will be admitted in our port."
The several Democratic ruptures which have taken place in New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, with the late petty quarrel between Colonels Taylor and New of Caroline county, Virginia, have given an alarm to the democratic leaders in the OLD DOMINION; and we hear that there either now is, or is to be a great Caucus at Monticello for the purpose of insuring future unanimity. We have it from very good authority that many of the Virginia Demos are disgusted with the gestion of public affairs: and that if the elections, instead of being already determined, were now to be entered upon the great addition to the number of Federalists already chosen, would evince the rapid return of the people of that state to their proper reason.
Married in the City of Washington, On Sunday evening the 25th inst. by the Rev. Mr. McCrnick, Mr. TUNIS CRAVEN, merchant of Alexandria, to Miss HANNAH TINGEY, daughter of Capt. Thomas Tingey of that city.
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA.
ARRIVED, Ship United States, Finley, Liverpool. Brig George, Taylor, Cape Nicholas Mole. Schr. Adventure, Pritchard, Barbadoes. Young Lion, Luckett, do. Sloop Little Poll, Roberts, New Providence.
The Sale
of the property advertised on the 18th of August last by us, in pursuance of the decree of the circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Alexandria, at the last June term of the said court, and in pursuance of the last will and settlement of Isaac Hopkins deceased, to take place on this day, as the house of Francis Daniel, at the Little Falls of the Potomac, is unavoidably postponed until Thursday the 10th day of November next, at which place and on which day, if fair, if not the next fair day, will positively be sold by us, at public auction, to the highest bidder for ready money.
The following Property, viz.
One undivided third part of 207 acres of Land, in the said district, near the said Little Falls, upon which are Merchant Mills, with three pair of French burr mill stones, and every necessity and convenient machinery for manufacturing flour to the best advantage; also a brewery and distillery, miller's house, a brewer and distiller's house and sundry other improvements. This property will be shewn to any person who may incline to purchase it, by the said Francis Daniel, at any time before the sale.
A tract of Land in Fairfax county, about three miles from the said Little Falls, containing 207 acres, upon which is a dwelling house, in which Mrs. Susan Wren lives, and sundry other improvements; about two thirds of this land are cleared, and the remainder in wood; it is good farming land. Mr. William Waters, who lives near it, will shew this land to any person or persons who may incline to purchase it, at any time previous to the sale.
Mrs. Susan Wren, who was the widow of the said Lewis Hopkins, has a right of dower in the aforesaid property. The sale will commence at twelve o'clock.
Philip R. Fendall, } Ex'ors. Robert Young, } William Waters, }
Sept. 29.
Arcanum Tincture.
JUST RECEIVED & FOR SALE By R. and J. GRAY,
THE Tincura, purpureo folio aspero, OF DR. WITHERING, Or, The consumptive patient's infallible restorative.
September 1.

NEW PUBLICATIONS,
FOR SALE BY
ROBERT & JOHN GRAY,
Booksellers & Stationers,
KING STREET.
The Friend of Women: translated from the French of Bourdier de Villemert, by Alexander Morice, price one dollar.
The Marriage Promise: a Comedy in five acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, by John Till Allingham, 25 cents.
Domestic Encyclopedia, vol. 2nd, price to subscribers 2 dols. 50 cents per vol. in boards.
Public Characters, or Contemporary Biography: containing Memoirs of thirty six of the most conspicuous characters of the present age. Price 2 dols. 25 cents in boards, 2 dols. 50 cents bound.
Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, during the campaigns of Gen. Bonaparte, in that country, and published under his immediate patronage, by Vivant Denon, translated from the French - to which is prefixed an historical account of the invasion of Egypt by the French, by Arthur Akin, embellished with numerous engravings, 2 vols. 8vo. Price 4 dols. 50 cents in boards, or 5 dols. bound.
Rolfe's Life of Lorenzo de Medici, 3 vols. boards. Price 6 dols. 75 cents.
John Bull or an Englishman's Fire Side, a new and celebrated Comedy, in five acts, by George Colman, the younger. Price 25 cents.
August 12. co
For Sale,
A handsome FARM,
Three miles from Alexandria, partly lying on the main road that leads to Colchester, containing one hundred and twenty five acres, handsomely improved, and pleasantly situated; on the premises are a neat dwelling house, a kitchen adjoining, dairy, an excellent well of water, and a barn 60 feet long, together with a general collection of choice fruit trees. The situation as a country seat is well adapted for the residence of any person who may buy it, and will be sold on moderate terms by the proprietor.
THOS. RICHARDS.
Sept. 3. d
JUST PUBLISHED,
And for sale by
Robert and John Gray,
At their Book Store, King Street, Alexandria,
HISTORY
OF THE
British Expedition to Egypt.
TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED,
A sketch of the present state of that country and its means of defence. Illustrated with maps, and a portrait of Sir RALPH ABERCROMBIE.
BY ROBERT T. WILSON, Lieutenant Colonel of Cavalry, in his Britannic Majesty's service, and Knight of the Imperial Military Order of Maria Theresa.
September 21. d
Public Sale,
On Wednesday the 12th of October, 1803, if fair, if not the next fair day, will be sold at public sale, to the highest bidder, at Raspberry Plain, the dwelling of the late Stephens T. Mason, Esq.
SUNDRY SLAVES.
consisting of likely and valuable Men, Women and Children, sundry Horses, Cattle, Mules and Asses. The terms of sale will be; for all sums over ten dollars nine months credit will be given upon the Purchaser's giving bond and approved security: for all sums under ten dollars, in the whole by one purchaser the cash must be paid. Any claim against the late S. T. Mason previously shown to and admitted by the Executor as just, will be received in payment for articles to bid for and in the things purchased a proper discount made from the sum bid to make the payment equal to Cash.
JOHN T. MASON, Executor of S. T. MASON.
ALL persons having any claims against the late Stephens T. Mason, Esq. are desired to bring them in to the subscriber living in George Town, to Major Armstead Long, living in Leesburg, to Armstead T. Mason the son of the deceased, residing at his late dwelling, or to Abraham B. T. Mason, living in Loudoun County, properly and legally authenticated, that measures may be taken for the adjustment thereof.
The subscriber will sell one thousand acres of land situate near Little River in Loudoun County, it being the land lately purchased by the deceased S. T. Mason of James Mercer's representatives; the land is of good quality, more than two thirds of it uncultivated and heavily timbered. The terms will be made to suit purchasers, and claims against the deceased's property authenticated and admitted to be just will be received in payment by
JOHN T. MASON, Ex. of S. T. Mason.
Sept. 5. co4w
Hay Market Races.
THE Hay Market Jockey Club will commence on the 3d day of October, being the first Monday in said month, and will continue three days: the first day four mile heats, the second day three mile heats, and the third two mile heats, free for any horse, mare or gelding, agreeable to the rules of the Frederickburg Jockey Club.
W. I. WASHINGTON.
Sept. 9. 1aw3w1 Sec'ty.
MUSCOVADO SUGAR.
THE subscribers have received, per the sch'r
Leboe, and offer for sale on reasonable terms,
5 blds.
19 tierses.
79 bds.
First quality
Guadalupe Sugar.
They have also on hand,
20 puncheons 4th proof Jamaica Spirits,
12 do. do. St. Kitts Rum,
Whiskey in tierses and bds.
And a parcel of St. Martins Salt.
J. and T. Vowell.
August 26. d
BELL & WRAY,
Respectfully inform the citizens of Alexandria, and the public in general, that they have received, and offer for Sale, at the house lately occupied by Dr. Hall, opposite Mr. Randolph Mott's Tavern, (formerly Mr. Heiskell's) a neat assortment of
DRY GOODS,
Suitable to the season, consisting of Cloths, Cashmeres, Marceilles, King and Queens Cords, Irish Linens, Piatillas, Ticklenburgs, Hessians, Osanburgs, Chintzes, Calicoes, Dimities, coloured and white Cambric, tamboured and lappet Mullins, Kid and Morocco Shoes, Court, York and High Heels, with a variety of other articles, too tedious to enumerate, which they are enabled to sell at the most reduced prices for cash or country produce.
Sept. 9. 2aw3m
Cotton & Stewart,
Have received a considerable addition to their former stock of
BOOKS & STATIONARY.
ALSO, 500 pieces of PAPER HANGINGS of the most modern patterns - now opening and for sale at their Book Store, Royal Street, Alexandria; where country merchants and others may be supplied with every article in their line on the most moderate terms.
August 19. d
District of Columbia,
County of Alexandria, ff.
JUNE TERM, 1803.
George Deneale, administrator of Edward Deneale, dec'd, complainant,
against,
John Mease, brother and heir at law of Robert Mease, deceased,
Nathaniel Durkee and Catharine his wife, Rebecca Allison,
James M. M'Rea, William M'Rea, Margaret M'Rea, Jno. M'Rea,
Robert M'Rea, Nancy Allison M'Rea, Henry L. M'Rea,
and Allison M'Rea, heirs and devisees of Robert M'Rea, deceased,
and Agnes M'Rea and Robert M'Rea, surviving executors of R. M'Rea,
deceased, defendants,
The defendants John Mease, Nathaniel Durkee and Catharine his wife Rebecca Allison, Wm. M'Rea, Margaret M'Rea, Robert M'Rea, Nancy Allison M'Rea, Henry Lyles M'Rea, and Allison M'Rea, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this district, on motion of said complainant, by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of November term next, and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the public newspapers published in this county, for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the door of the court house of the said county.
A copy - Test,
(S8 1aw2m)
G. DENEALE,
Clerk.
District of Columbia,
County of Alexandria, ff.
JUNE TERM, 1803.
Robert Dicky and John Tom, complainants,
against,
Jacob Harman and Saml. Davis,
bankrupts, late merchants and partners, under the firm of Harman and Davis,
Wm. Harthorne, jun. Rob. B. Jameffon,
and _____, executor of Wm. Mitchell,
Elkanah Doolittle, Amos Allison,
surviving partner of Alexander & Allison,
_____ Scott and Co. and Joseph Sackett,
defendants,
The defendants Jacob Harman, Samuel Davis, William Harthorne, jun. Elkanah Doolittle, Scott and Co. and Joseph Sackett, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this district, on motion of the said complainants, by their counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of November court next, and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the public newspapers published in this county, for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of the said county.
A copy - Test,
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G. DENEALE,
Clerk.
Wheat Fan & Woven Wire MANUFACTORY,
No. 7, BRIDGE STREET, BALTIMORE,
The subscribers return sincere thanks to their friends and customers for past favors, and inform them and the public, that they continue to make and have on hand, a general assortment of the various articles in their trade: among which are wheat fans, on the most improved construction; mill screens, rolling and standing; shakes for Indian meal, riddles and sieves for coal, corn, barley, wheat, rye, oats, meal, gunpowder, flax, clover and timothy seeds; wire safes, woven wire for cellar and spring house windows, &c. Orders for the above will be thankfully received and duly attended to by
West and Smith.
N. B. For the convenience of customers, Joseph and John Trimble, No. 18, Cheapside, are authorised to receive and execute orders for
W. and S.
Sept. 19.
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District of Columbia,
County of Alexandria, ff.
JUNE TERM, 1803.
Richard Prime,
plaintiff,
against,
Nathaniel Durkee and Catharine
his wife, Rebecca Allison, Jas.
M. M'Rea, William M'Rea,
Margaret M'Rea, Jno. M'Rea,
Rob. M'Rea, Nancy Allison
M'Rea, Henry Lyles M'Rea,
and Allison M'Rea, heirs and
devisees of Robert M'Rea, de-
ceased, and Agnes M'Rea,
and Robert M'Rea, surviv-
ing executors of Rob. M'Rea,
deceased, and Samuel Crandle,
Samuel Nicholls, administra-
tors of Michael Thorn, dec'd,
defendants,
The defendants Nathan. Durkee and Catharine his wife, Rebecca Allison, William M'Rea, Margaret M'Rea, Robert M'Rea, Nancy Allison M'Rea, Henry Lyles M'Rea, Allison M'Rea and Agnes M'Rea, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this district, on motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of November next, and answer the plaintiff's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the public newspapers published in the county, for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of the said county.
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G. DENEALE,
Clerk.
District of Columbia,
County of Alexandria, ff.
JUNE TERM, 1803.
John Potts,
Complainant,
AGAINST
Robert Finley, John Bannatyne,
Andrew Buchanan, Jas. Hob-
kirk and Robt. Buchanan Dun-
lop, merchants and partners un-
der the firm of Findley, Ban-
natyne & Co. and Wm. Wilson,
Defendants,
The defendants, Robert Finley, Jno. Bannatyne, Andrew Buchanan, Jas. Hobkirk and Robt. Buchanan Dunlop, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, upon affidavit, that the said Robert Finley, John Bannatyne, Andrew Buchanan, James Hobkirk, and Robert Buchanan Dunlop are not inhabitants of this district, on motion of the said complainant, by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendants, Robert Finley, John Bannatyne, Andrew Buchanan, James Hobkirk, and Robert Buchanan Dunlop do appear here on the first day of November court next, and enter their appearance or that fail and give security for performing the decree of the court; and that the other defendant Wm. Wilson, do not pay away, convey or secrete the debts by him owing to, or the estate or effects in his hands belonging to the said absent defendants, Robert Finley, John Bannatyne, Andrew Buchanan, James Hobkirk and Robert Buchanan Dunlop until the further order or decree of this court; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published for two months successively, in one of the public newspapers published in this county, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of the said county.
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G. DENEALE,
Clerk.
Just Published,
And for Sale at this office - price 50 cents,
A TREATISE
On Practical Farming:
Embracing particularly the following subjects, viz.
The use of Plaister of Paris, with Directions for using it; and general Observations on the use of other Manures.
On deep Ploughing; thick Sowing of Grain & method of preventing Fruit Trees from Decaying, and
Farming in General.
By John A. Binn,
Of Loudoun County, Virginia, Farmer.
May 31.
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ALEX. SMITH and SON
HAVE JUST RECEIVED,
Per the brig RACHEL, from IRELAND, 5 boxes well laid in
IRISH LINEN,
Some excellent Irish PORK in hds. and bds. a few hds.
IRISH OAT MEAL,
and 30 dozen THREAD HOSE, which they will sell low for Cash.
July 28. eo
Little River Turnpike Company.
THE Stockholders are called upon to make another payment of Ten per cent. upon each share by them held. Some of the subscribers having been remiss in making their payments, renders this call at present necessary - measures will be immediately taken to compel those who are now in arrear, to pay up their balances. Payments are to be made to the subscriber, at this place, who is authorised to receive the same.
By order of the President and Directors. William Harthorne, Treasurer, Alexandria, 9th Mo. 3d. eo1m
Merchant's Attend!
THE subscriber will sell, on low terms and easy payments, a LOT of GROUND in the town of Port Tobacco, on which there are a small dwelling house and kitchen, a large two story store house and a convenient granary and stable in one of the best stands for the retail wet and dry goods business. If not sold by the 15th of October next, it will be exposed to public sale on that day. Mr. John E. Ford will contract for and show the premises, on application, at any time previous to the day of sale. An indisputable title will be made by
John M'Clenachan.
Mount Air, Sept. 20.
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Fifty Dollars Reward.
Strayed or was Stolen from the subscriber's waggon, near the Thorough Fair Mill, P. W. county, on the 12th inst. a bright bay Mare, 14 1/2 hands high, with a small blaze in her face, both hind feet white, long hair in her mane and tail, and supposed to be with foal, ten years old last spring. The above reward will be given for the mare and thief, if he be convicted, or five dollars for the mare.
John M'Clenachan.
Mount Air, Sept. 20.
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Frederick Kemelmmyer,
LIMNER,
Respectfully informs the public that he has opened a Drawing School next door to Colonel Hooe's, (Water street,) where he will instruct young Ladies and Gentlemen in drawing and painting in Water Colours and Crayons every day in the week, except Saturday. Hours of attendance for young Ladies from twelve to one, and gentlemen from 6 to 7 o'clock in the forenoon.
He also,
Professes Portrait Painting in Oil and Crayons, and all other branches belonging to the art of painting except house painting.
Likewise,
Guilds looking glasses and picture frames in the best and neatest manner possible.
August 31.
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Five Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber on the 1st of July last, a negro woman named
BECK,
about 20 years of age, pretty lusty, of a yellowish complexion; supposed to be secreted by Henry Peake's negro man Ben, who has a numerous acquaintance in Alexandria, and may have conveyed her there.
Whoever takes up said negro and delivers her to me, (living on Occoquan, Davis's Road, Prince Wm. County,) shall receive the above reward, or, if out of the county, reasonable expenses for bringing her home. It is supposed she is with child.
William Davis.
August 27.
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To be Rented,
For a term of years or forever,
TWENTY FIVE LOTS of FIVE ACRES
each, situated within a mile and an half of the town of Alexandria, and five from the City of Washington. The situation of the ground is elevated, the soil good and susceptible of high cultivation, the air salubrious, and the prospect of three rising cities, of the river Potomac, and the adjacent country in the highest degree beautiful and picturesque.
ALSO,
A few handsome situations on the Leesburg road.
Particulars will be made known