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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. V.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. DCLXXVI.
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IF the map is examined, it will be found that there is not on all the route from Georgia to the Province of Maine, so circuitous a road as from the capitol of Washington city to Alexandria by the way of Georgetown; and the traveller will very rarely find so bad a piece of road, as would be excluded entirely by the bridge for which the City and Bladensburg are now indebted.
The pious man would be desirous of the bridge, that the unhappy traveller might be saved his suffering, and the condemnations hereafter, which his oaths and execrations thus excited may incur.
The lover and the husband who feel for the ladies, have recent examples to lament the dangers, alarms and troubles, which overthrows occasion.
The merchant who is compelled by business to cross the Potomac, gallops over the trembling and cracking ice, at the risk of his life, to visit this city or Baltimore, &c. to meet his engagements and to preserve his credit.
The Congress and strangers are deprived of supplies for the table, and complain of inhospitable fare; and the poor horses could they speak, would call aloud for hay to support their fatigues over hills and through mire—in short the inhabitants of the city, the resorters to it, and the travellers from north to south of both sexes cry aloud—“Oh make the crooked way straight—save us from perils by land and by water.”
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, Nov. 7.
A letter from Lisbon states, “that the insurrection near Bilboa was not the momentary resistance to any new acts of oppression on the part of the Spanish government, but the result of a deep laid plan to effect a revolution in Spain, similar to that in France. There, as every where else upon the continent, are numerous, unprincipled and ambitious men, who, seeing the success of French rebels, and encouraged by the example of the fortunate Corsican, believe themselves destined to be the BONAPARTES of their respective countries, to usurp the throne of their sovereigns, and to support, like him, their usurpations, by accomplices, by gaols, racks and scaffolds. An admiral and a general are reported to be the nominal chiefs of the revolt of the Biscayans. It was meditated so long ago as when Lucien Bonaparte was ambassador in Spain, in 1801, who then procured promotion for the former. The peace with England, which soon followed that between France and Spain with Portugal, caused it to be laid aside until a more convenient season.—The court of Madrid was well aware of a conspiracy against it, supported by France.—This was one of the principal causes of the many pecuniary and political sacrifices it has made to continue its neutrality. These would not, however, have prevented the Bourbons in Spain from already sharing the destiny of those in France, had not a family disagreement among the Bonapartes procured them a respite. It is reported that the Spanish government are in possession of the whole plan for effecting a revolution, and a change of dynasty in Spain as well as in Naples, and that Lucien Bonaparte is destined to the throne of the former, and Joseph Bonaparte to that of the latter kingdom. The Spanish conspirators had accredited agents at Paris, whom the Spanish ambassador there, admiral Gravina, has demanded to have delivered up, but who, notwithstanding the efforts and searches of the French police, have totally disappeared. Among the papers in the power of the court of Madrid, is said to be a letter from Talleyrand to the rebels, telling them, “that for several reasons, the emperor of the French desires them to postpone their efforts for the recovery of their liberty until a conquest, or a peace with Great Britain.” In Portugal and in Spain it is generally believed that Bonaparte meditates an overthrow of all thrones occupied by Bourbons, and to give them to his brothers and other relatives. The appointments of the military ambassadors, Bournonville and Lafnes, to the courts of Madrid and Lisbon, is thought not to be unconnected with this conspiracy. Copies of the discovered papers are reported to have been sent to Naples, Vienna and St. Petersburg.”
Letters received yesterday from Portsmouth, state that the Fama Spanish fri-
gate is immediately to be repaired in order to be restored. Whatever may be the ultimate fate of the Spanish frigates, we are persuaded that no circumstance has yet occurred to warrant so decided a change in the sentiments of ministers towards Spain, as that which must be expected to precede the measure in question.—Advises of the detention of these vessels are sent by our government to Madrid, via Ferrol, and by the Spanish ambassador through Holland and other channels, in each case accompanied by renewed declarations of the causes which had induced their seizure. Sufficient time has not yet elapsed for reply to these communications; neither has there been any recent arrival from Spain by which our cabinet could have become possessed of the sentiments of the court of Madrid on the occasion. The result of the meeting between the two squadrons was immediately known at Cadiz, and our previous expectations and imitations must have furnished all requisite information as to its object and consequences. We may therefore shortly expect to hear either that Spain is prepared to make those explanations and assurances which were required by government, or that she will avow her hostility.
We understand that the question, as to the propriety of the detention of these vessels, is to be strenuously discussed on the ensuing meeting of parliament, and that the opposition calculate on a considerable augmentation of their numbers on the occasion.
Letters are said to have been received from Paris, which contain some curious particulars relative to the reception of Bonaparte, on his arrival there.—After some remarks upon the discontent of the people at his return without having carried any of his threats, with respect to the invasion into effect, it is stated, that upon his entrance at the opera on the 14th, some persons employed by the police, exclaimed, “Vive l’Empereur,” while others called out “Vive Britannicus,” or “Vive le Conquerant d’Angleterre!”—This last double entendre was, it seems, taken by his majesty in its satirical sense; he immediately became agitated, and after some conversation with general Murat, the latter went into the pit accompanied by four gens d’armes, who took out two individuals. The alarm consequently became general, and all those who were not known to Bonaparte, left the house. The persons arrested prove to be M. Histris, a Corsican, who claims relationship with the emperor, and Baron Von Schultzen, who had arrived on a visit to Paris.—They were both ordered out of the empire, and left under a military guard.
LONDON, November 26.
Bonaparte has furnished another comment upon the law of Nations, in the stoppage and robbery of Mr. Wagstaff, the British messenger, on his way to Berlin, with dispatches. This act of highway robbery and felony was committed on the 13th at noon day, between Rhena and Schwerin, by six French soldiers, one of whom was of superior rank to the rest, within cannon shot of the out-posts of the French army in Hanover. They robbed Mr. Wagstaff, & a Hanoverian courier who was with him, of the dispatches, and made the strictest search lest they should have omitted any of the official papers. They dragged them both out of the carriage, and beat them most unmercifully. They tore their clothes, ransacked their pockets, and robbed them of their watches, money, and every article except their wearing apparel. They tore the insignia from Mr. Wagstaff’s breast, and then tied him and the Hanoverian to two separate trees, in an adjoining wood, after some time Mr. Wagstaff contrived to release himself and the courier, and imagining, of course, that it was perfectly unnecessary for him to proceed to Berlin without the dispatches, returned to London, where he arrived yesterday. An article from Hamburg notices the transaction in the following manner:—
HAMBURGH, Nov. 16.
“On the 13th an English courier from London, by Hulum, and a Hanoverian courier, were stopped between Schwerin and Rhena, by some unknown persons, who took from them their dispatches.”
The dispatches of which Mr. Wagstaff was the bearer, were fortunately of no great consequence—they contained merely the remonstrance of our Court upon the seizure of Sir George Rumbold.
No man will hesitate one moment in pronouncing this outrage to have been committed by the orders of Bonaparte. A private letter from Hamburg af-
firms that the misunderstanding between the Courts of Vienna and Petersburg has increased to such a degree, that the Austrian Ambassador is about to leave Petersburg. “The Emperor of Austria and the Emperor of the French have agreed on the attack and conquest of Turkey, and permission or connivance has been promised for the march of French troops through Moravia and Galicia to effect their project of ambition. The pretended cause, however, of the departure of the Austrian Ambassador from Petersburg, is the refusal on the part of the Emperor Alexander to comply with the contents of a Note or Remonstrance against the recent occupancy by the Russian forces of Corfu and other places in the Mediterranean, and the formidable reinforcements which are constantly arriving there.”
It has long been obvious to every one, that Bonaparte has been using his utmost efforts to alarm the Cabinet of Austria with respect to the intentions of Russia. We have little doubt of his efforts having been crowned with success. The plunder of Turkey has been the bait which he has been holding out—and appearances seem to justify us in supposing that it has been more relished at the Court of Vienna than the Court of Petersburg.
LIVERPOOL November 29.
We were favoured yesterday with letters from Rotterdam to the 17th inst.—They give most melancholy accounts of the miseries suffered by the inhabitants of the Batavian Republic. One of them says, “Annexed you have a copy of Emperor Napoleon’s order for confiscating all British property. It is impossible to describe the consternation this arbitrary decree has occasioned, nor can human language appreciate the distresses that are likely to follow a measure so impolitic, so pregnant with distress, and so derogatory to the interest of these once flourishing provinces. For nine years past we have borne the most enormous exactions; our wealth and our industry have furnished abundant resources to our merciless conquerors during that period, whilst commerce, which used formerly to be exercised here with unrestrained freedom, has experienced privation and restraint, under the most ridiculous pretexts. At no period of our humiliation has distress been so apparent as at the present moment: the decrees of the Directory were executed with perfect lenity compared with what we now experience; the insolence of the military is intolerable, and the misery of Holland is complete.”
No foreign mail had arrived at a late hour last night; but some particulars of interest are communicated in private accounts from the Hague, which reach to the 15th inst. An order is stated to have been issued for the further postponement of Bonaparte’s coronation to the 9th of January. The reason assigned for this new delay is the exhausted state of the public treasury; and the want of money is represented to be so great, that it has been found impossible to discharge the arrears due to the creditors of the nation, who have not received the dividends of September 1803, while the pay of the army of England has been withheld for the last quarter.—We doubt much the correctness of this intelligence.—The finances of the French Empire are unquestionably without order and method; but the revenues are very considerable, and duties and imposts are levied with great rigour. As Bonaparte possesses a supreme control over the receipts, we can scarcely suppose him in want of the sums requisite to defray the expenses of his coronation.
Be this as it may, it is confidently asserted that Gen. Marmont, at Amsterdam, and Gen. Roussau, at Rotterdam, have had several conferences with the principal Bankers and Merchants in those two cities. The object of these conferences has been to obtain a loan of ten millions of florins at Amsterdam, and five millions of florins at Rotterdam; for which Bonaparte engages to recall his brigade of Custom-house Officers from the Batavian Republic, and to allow the commercial intercourse with England, through the medium of neutrals, as since the beginning of the present war. For these sums amounting to nearly 1,400,000l. Bonaparte offers, as a pledge, the silver mines, the salt works, and the Electoral places, domains, and forests of Hanover; with an interest of six per cent. Schimmelpenninck was on the point of leaving the Hague for Amsterdam, in order to promote the success of the negotiation. Should it be finally agreed to, we cannot conceive how the Dutch can supply so large a sum, since we know that the deficit last year’s
budget of the Batavian Republic is not less than 33 millions of florins, about three millions sterling.
A report prevailed at Rotterdam, that the jargon of the new French calendar is to be abolished and the Gregorian system restored on the 1st of January.
WAR WITH SPAIN.
The most recent dispatches respecting this important subject are those received from Admiral Cochrane, commanding the squadron of Ferrol, announcing that Mr. Frere, our Chargé d’Affaires at the court of Madrid, had informed him by letter, “that he had obtained his passports to leave Madrid, on the 10th inst.” The answer of the court of Spain has been, of course, decidedly hostile, & although no dispatches have reached Government from Mr. Frere himself, his arrival is daily expected, as a frigate was appointed to convey him to England from the Tagus.
The conquest, or absolute submission of Portugal, is a natural consequence that arises out of our contest with Spain. As an appendage of France, Portugal must sink into absolute insignificance; he will be deprived of that commerce which has hitherto been her sole support; her merchants, who may be considered in no other light than as the intermediat- agents or factors between Great Britain and the Brazils, will be utterly ruined; the direct trade to her American settlements will devolve upon our traders; and thus the encroachments of France, and spread of her pernicious Empire, will only tend to open new sources of commerce and wealth to us, in the acquisition of a tract of fine sea coast upon the Atlantic ocean, stretching above two thousand miles from the river of Amazons to the Rio de la Plata.
A very considerable supply of grain has been bought up on the Continent for the use of this country. The harvest on the Continent has been unusually plentiful, except that in Spain, Austria, and the northern provinces of France. In Italy, Suabia, Bavaria, Russia, Prussia, Poland, Sweden, and Denmark, as well as in the southern parts of France, they have not for nine years gathered such a harvest. Even in Egypt and the Crimea, it is stated that they have housed more grain this year, than is required for the consumption of the inhabitants in four.
R. Astor, for embezzling Exchequer Bills, the property of the Governor and company of the Bank of England, is respited during his Majesty’s pleasure.
The following is a copy of the note presented by Mr. Jackson to the court of Berlin, respecting the scandalous seizure of Sir G. Rumbold. The note delivered to the different courts abroad, it appears, varied according to their respective relations with the Germanic Empire.
“His majesty has received the account of an unexampled act of violence committed at Hamburg, against the person of Sir G. Rumbold, his minister at that place; who was forcibly seized in his own house on the night of the 25th of Oct. by a detachment of French soldiers, and carried off, together with the papers belonging to his mission.”
“After the repeated proofs which the conduct of the French government has exhibited of an utter contempt and defiance of every obligation of the law of nations, his majesty can feel no surprise at the perpetration even of such an outrage as this upon the territory of a weak and defenceless state; but his majesty owes it, not only to himself and to the respectable and unfortunate city, whose rights are more immediately attacked, but to his relations with the rest of Europe, and to the dignity of every power which has still the inclination and the means of preserving its independence, to lose no time in entering his solemn protest against so atrocious an aggression.”
“If any thing could render such a proceeding more insulting and alarming, it would be the explanation which his majesty understands to have been given of it by the French resident at Hamburg; namely, that it took place in consequence of orders given by the minister of police at Paris to the commander of the French forces in Hanover.”
“His majesty trusts that there will not be found a power upon the continent which can remain insensible to the consequences of a measure, which in its principle and example, not only menaces every court which may at any time fall within the reach of the French arms, but which is subversive at once of the sacred rights of neutral territory; of the accustomed intercourse between independent states, and of the privileges of
public ministers, hitherto respected and recognized by every age and by every nation.”
“His Prussian majesty unquestionably will not only participate in the sentiments which must be common to every sovereign, but the vicinity of his dominions, and his situation, both as a director of the circle of Lower Saxony, and as a guarantee of the Germanic constitution, will induce him to feel a deep and peculiar interest in this unparalleled transaction. His majesty cannot therefore allow himself a moment’s doubt, that his Prussian majesty will second and enforce, in the most effectual manner, the representations which have been made by the senate of Hamburg, for the immediate release of his majesty’s minister, and will further see the urgent necessity of taking such measures as may be best calculated to obtain from the French government a public reparation, adequate to the heinous nature of the indignity, and may also prevent for the future, the repetition of outrages which threaten to destroy the remaining distinctions of civilized Europe.”
“November 5, 1804.”
The communications which his majesty’s ministers abroad were directed to present to the ministers of the courts at which they resided, were varied according to the circumstances of the respective relations of those courts with the Germanic empire.
Paris, Nov. 12
The American minister to England, Mr. Monroe, who had the honor of being presented to the emperor last Sunday, was received in a most gracious manner, and his majesty condescended to converse with him for a quarter of an hour. The object of this minister’s arrival in France is said to be to obtain information of the emperor’s opinion concerning the differences which subsist between America and Spain, since the former purchased Louisiana. He has already had several conferences with his excellency M. Talleyrand and intends, according to report, immediately after the arrival of the new American ambassador, general Armstrong, to set out for Madrid, should the Spanish court not subscribe to the demands of America, such as they have been approved of in France. In the present circumstances, a war upon the continent of America would exactly be what the court of St. James would desire, as it would make the United States either the direct or indirect allies of Great Britain—both France and Spain are interested to prevent such an event.
Banks of the Main, Nov. 2.
The celebrated traveller, Von Humboldt, wrote a letter to his Prussian majesty, immediately on his arrival at Paris. The following is the flattering answer he received from that monarch;
“I have seen, with the most lively interest, by your letter of the third of this month, that you have safely returned to Europe, after a voyage of such importance to the study of nature and the knowledge of foreign nations; and that, after settling your literary affairs at Paris, and visiting your brother at Rome, you propose to return to your native country, to live at Berlin, and to employ yourself with the publication of your manuscripts and drawings, relative to the countries on the American continent. I have no difficulty in granting you the permission you request, to continue in France and Italy till the next Summer; and, notwithstanding my desire to become acquainted with a man, who out of the love to the sciences, has supported for years, with unparalleled constancy, the greatest fatigues, and braved dangers, in unknown regions, and who has thereby shed new lustre on his country, yet it cannot forbear doing justice to the motives which have led you to this determination. This permission I accompany with the assurance, that on your return to your country, you shall enjoy, not only all the consideration due to merit, & distinguished as yours, but that a pension shall likewise be assigned you, that you may be enabled to devote yourself entirely to the sciences. The present which you propose to make of your collection to my cabinet, of mineralogy, demands my highest acknowledgments, not only on account of their real value, but because you merely afford a manifest proof of your love to your country. I expect with impatience, as well as satisfaction the extraordinary piece of plate, with which you intend to enrich my cabinet. I am not less obliged to you for having thought of embellishing my botanic gar-

den by means of the seeds of unknown plants.
I am, with particular esteem, your King, Signed, FREDERICK WILLIAM. Potdam, Sept. 24, 1804.
Answer of House of Representatives of Massachusetts, to the Governor's Speech.
[Presented by the committee appointed to draft the same.]
May it please your Excellency, WITH great sincerity, the House of Representatives reciprocate the assurances of satisfaction from the present meeting. We rejoice in the existing harmony, between the different branches of the government, which affords the best earnest, that the business of it will be conducted with advantage to the pub- lic, and with ease and convenience to those who are concerned in its adminis- tration.
We assure your excellency, that we will not only attend with a punctilious and diligent to the several topics of legislation, which you have particularly recommended, but that we will devote our time, to the advancement of the various interests of the commonwealth, in attending to the rights of individ- uals, and removing any just grounds of complaint, in affording suitable encourage- ment, to every species of useful in- dustry, and in supplying, as far as in us lies, whatever may be found deficient in our present system of jurisprudence. And if by an upright and conscientious discharge of our duty we shall merit, we will not doubt of receiving an ample reward, in the approbation of our fel- low-citizens.
We cherish a belief, that there are few, or none of the people of this commonwealth, who would not consider a separation of the United States, as a misfortune greatly to be deprecated. The evil resulting to any portion of the na- tion, from a continuance of the union, must not only be manifest, but oppressive before a dissolution of it, ought to be admitted, even in contemplation. Still more firmly do we trust, that the great body of our fellow-citizens, are yet wise enough and will continue to prefer a republican form of government, in its purest, as the most preservative of in- dividual rights. Equally and deeply interested as we all are, to support those fine and happy constitutions, under which our country has flourished in peace and wealth, for so considerable a period, it must be a duty we owe, no less to ourselves, than to our posterity, to observe with a jealous eye every ap- proach of danger; and to be equally so- licitous to repel the encroachments of arbitrary power, whether proceeding from internal disorder or foreign invasion. It is a melancholy truth, that of all other republican governments, which have ever existed—we can only say—they were. Not one of them is now to be found— and notwithstanding it is a just subject of exultation, that our nation forms an exception, though a solitary exception to the general remark, yet it highly concerns us, attentively to consider the causes which have occasioned the sub- version of all former governments bear- ing any resemblance to our own. We surely cannot indulge a hope, that if sim- ilar causes should operate among our- selves, they would fail of a similar effect. Differences of age, climate, or position, have not hitherto been known to pro- duce any difference in the catastrophe. Unless then the authority of history be distrusted, or the experience of our own eventful times be rejected, it must be admitted that the loss of liberty has al- ways been preceded by a corruption of the public morals. Where virtuous ha- bits, simple manners, and civil harmony have prevailed in communities, civil li- berty has been found to flourish, and the force of mighty empires has been unequal to the subjugation even of small states. While on the contrary, internal discord, vice and licentiousness, a gene- ral want of innovation, and more espe- cially a distrust of the most able and vir- tuous citizens, and a disposition to transfer the public confidence, from those whose fidelity and ability, have been tested by long and faithful services, to those who with less experience and of doubtful integrity, are more clamorous in their professions of zeal for the public welfare, have never failed to ter- minate in submission to the authority of a domestic usurper, unless invited by the prevailing distractions, that event has been anticipated, by a foreign invader.
If any of all the evils herein enum- erated should be in actual operation among us, and if moreover it should be found, that we are fast declining from that purity in matters of religion, which formed a peculiar ornament in the cha- racter, and was the surest safeguard of the political institutions of our ancestors; if a sentiment should prevail, that pub- lic virtue and private vice are compat- ible qualities, in the same character, that licentiousness and profligacy are no ob- jections in candidates for public offices; if the usual means of political informa- tion should degenerate into vehicles of slander and abuse of characters and inli-
tuitions, entitled to the highest confidence and respect; if restless and aspiring men should practice with success, those in- dious and deceptive arts, to which the wise and good would fain add to the there would be too much reason to fear, that the same of our own country would soon be added to the melancholy catalogue of departed republics. Should this last hope of freedom fail, this only republican government remaining on the face of the earth be subverted, there is little probability, the experiment would ever be repeated. We cannot however forbear, cherishing a fond hope, that the impressive lessons which are be- fore us in the history of our race, will prove a salutary warning, to the en- lightened people of these states; and that by avoiding the errors of others, they will escape their misfortunes. May Heaven long preserve them, free, pro- sperous and happy.
Congressional Register.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10.
Debate on motion to concur with the committee of the whole, in their dis- agreement to the first resolution, for the reception of a part of the dis- trict of Columbia.
[Continued.]
Mr. HOLLAND. Mr. Speaker, I rise, Sir, to exonerate myself from the charges so liberally cast upon me by the friends of the resolutions, & upon the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Dan- ias.) That gentleman is not contented to find himself in a majority but he has indulged himself in regenerating the mo- tives of the minority; he has charged them not only with an attempt to violate the constitution, but also of having a design in a tyrannical manner to take a- way the sacred rights of all the people of the U. States, as well as the rights of the people of this territory; but the gentlemen has failed to demonstrate these charges by showing in what man- ner the constitution would be violated or the rights of the people impaired— notwithstanding the severity of his dis- cussions he has not specified any rights that could in the least be affected except the value of a small portion of private property that might undergo a temporary depreciation from an apprehension that the measure was a prelude or step- ping stone, as it has been called, to the removal of the government from this city. But, Sir, apprehension of this kind on the enhancement or depreciation of a small portion of private property is of little consideration when it comes in col- lision with the public convenience; it being a political axiom that private em- olument or expectations of pecuniary interest must give place to public good— and I also admit that all the ar- guments in favor of a partial cession would apply with equal force to a ces- sion of the whole, and was it not for the apprehensions that a cession of the whole would excite, I should prefer it, and so soon as the people are convinced that a removal is not the object, I should cheer- fully cede the whole territory. For the present it will be sufficient to cede all without the city. But I am of an opinion, that the measure will have but little ef- fect upon the private property of this place, so soon as it is known that a re- moval is not intended all private property will regain its intrinsic worth. But I would ask what bearing can the mak- ing municipal regulations for the peo- ple within the ten miles square have upon the removal of the government from this place. To my mind the con- tinuance here will be prolonged by the measure proposed. So long as you con- tinue to legislate for these people you will be placed in a disagreeable situation; to legislate for a people whose interests and localities you are unacquainted with, and to whom you are not respon- sible, is to me an unpleasant task—And has a tendency to lower the minds of the members, and as it will be attended with considerable expense, and prolong your sessions, it ultimately will produce a general disgust unfavorable to this city. The measure proposed is to re- lieve all future Congresses from a diffi- culty, the continuance of which will in- crease the evil, without any possible good under the sun—let it be remem- bered that the transfer of the jurisdic- tion does not transfer any of the valu- able and real property that the go- vernment has secured at this place. It will still continue to be the property of the union. It is not the power that we have of making laws for this territory that will be any inducement to the con- tinuance of the seat of government here. Its permanency rests upon other princi- ples—This is a central position suited to the convenience of a large majority of the people and the government hav- ing acquired much valuable property and comfortable accommodations here is the cause of our sitting here. But so soon as this is changed, when the pe- riod arrives that it will be more for the interest and convenience of a large ma- jority of the good people of the United States to remove, they will remove and
they ought to remove to a place better suited to their convenience—Nor do I consider that there is any thing in the constitution that will prevent the remo- val at any time when the general senti- ment shall dictate the measure which in my opinion will not be in a short period; not until the population of the new ac- quired territories very much changes the state of things. But has the gentleman demonstrated in what manner the rights of the people of the United States are involved in this question? He has said it, and has left it to conjecture in what way a cession can affect their rights— And for myself, I cannot conceive of what consequence it is to the people of the union whether the people of Co- lumbia enact their own laws or whether they are made in conjunction with the states of Maryland and Virginia, or made by the congress of the United States—they can be affected in no other way, than in a pecuniary point of view; and a cession would exempt them from this. In every other respect the munici- pal regulations of the people of this dis- trict to the people of the United States is a thing of no consideration. It might afford an agreeable sensation to see the governed as freemen, enjoying the rights of other citizens. And I am not a little surprised at an opinion given by a gen- tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Lucas.) That gentleman seems to think that the people of this territory at present enjoy as much freedom as the citizens of Vir- ginia, and was he to choose his residence, he would make choice of this territory as being the place of the most political freedom. I think if the gentleman would reflect he would find himself in- correct; when we consider a people in their collective or national capacity, in- dividual political disfranchisement is not to be noticed—then in a national point of view what is the comparison? Virginia has the sole power to make and execute her own laws either by the citizens collectively or in a representa- tive capacity, she forms every regulation necessary to their state government and she has long been in the possession of a right and has exercised it, of being ably represented in both Houses of the Con- gress of the United States. Let me ask the gentleman from Pennsylvania if these are not high important political rights—rights peculiar to a free gov- ernment, such rights as are not enjoyed by the people of Columbia. I admit with the gentleman that these people have ci- vil rights, they are secured in their per- sons and property, they can sue and be sued; so far as aliens; but these people like them have no political rights, they may be said to be politically dead, and to re- turn them to the states from whence they were taken, would restore them to the rights of citizens; yet it is said to be an act of tyranny to revest them with these rights that have been and I hope ever will be considered as sacred to freemen. The gentleman from Mary- land has said that by the constitution, Congress is commanded to exercise ex- clusive legislation over this district, and that this injunction extends to all suc- ceeding Congresses. But in reading the constitution, I am unable to discover any such command. By the constitu- tion, Congress is invested with exclusive legislative power over this district, and over any other portions of territory that may be ceded by any of the states for the purpose of arsenals, &c. but this in- vestment of power like many other pow- ers that are given by the constitution, is not obliged to be exercised. The ex- ercise of these powers must be a matter of sound discretion, and ought to be exercised only when the public good requires it. Does the gentleman see to what extent their doctrine goes. After Congress has exercised a jurisdiction, if they are unable to decline that jurisdic- tion, but must continue to exercise it over all the cessions that may be made by the states; the consequence will be that by a strange kind of inability in the ge- neral government; she will become a monster, and eventually swallow up all the state jurisdictions—the extent to which this principle goes, demonstrates its absurdity. The constitution has vested Congress with exclusive legisla- tion over this territory; or in other words, with sovereign legislative jurisdic- tion; (exclusive and sovereign as it applies to the powers of Congress rela- tive to this territory, meaning the same thing;) it follows that Congress has sovereign legislative power over the peo- ple of this territory. This being the case, the power of Congress is unlimited; bound by no law, but their own will—the will of the sovereign, is the law of the sovereign. Congress there- fore has nothing more to do on this oc- casion, than to consult its own will, and in doing this Congress should exercise a sound discretion; and if upon mature deliberation it shall be found inconven- ient for them to continue the exercise of this power, they may lay it at what time, and in what manner, and to whom they will transfer it? There is nothing that has given importance to this question but the mere circumstance of this territo- ry being the seat of government—divest it from this and consider it in the abstract, and it will be found that the constitution does not limit the transfer of their pow- ers over any other territory, over which they have exercised a jurisdiction. In-
deed the gentleman from Maryland gave up the ground of cession; that gentle- man admitted that Congress had a con- stitutional right to give to the people of this district a territorial government. That is, that Congress could rightfully cede to the people of this district a part of their legislative powers. This being admitted, does it not then follow that they may cede the whole of their legis- lative powers to the people of this dis- trict? and if they can to the people of this district, cannot they also cede it to the people of this district, as being con- nected with the states of Maryland and Virginia? This to my mind would be the most natural kind of cession. For what purpose would you cede to the peo- ple of this district, the powers of a ter- ritorial government? Would such a gov- ernment be consistent with the general interest, or give satisfaction to the peo- ple of the territory? So far as we have experienced the operation of territorial governments they have been unfavorable; and they have been obnoxious to the people. The people of those gov- ernments soon becomes hostile to their rulers, and press forward to obtain the rights of freemen. It is not in the nature of man to be contented with half freedom. If you give them a territori- al government, they will be discontent- ed under it; and you cannot take from them the privilege you have given. You must progress. You cannot disfranchise them. The next step will be a request to be admitted as a member of the uni- on, and if you pursue the practice rela- tive to territories, you must so soon as their numbers will authorize it, admit them into the union. Is it proper or politic to foster an arrangement, that will lead to this? Is it politic to add to the influence of the people of the seat of government, by giving a representation in the Senate equal to the greatest state in the union; in my conception it would be unjust and impolitic. And to avoid this and other evils I shall vote against the report of the committee of the whole and in favour of the original resolutions.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16.
Debate on the bill making an appro- priation for the support of govern- ment, for the year 1805.
Mr. J. Randolph moved to fill the blank, in the clause providing for the ex- pence of intercourse with the Barbary powers, with 63,500 dollars, instead of the sum of 113,000, stated in the esti- mate for the current year. The differ- ence (50,000 dollars) would make a part of additional appropriations, for which he should move a distinct clause.
Motion carried.
Mr. R. then moved to add the fol- lowing words "for the contingent ex- pences of intercourse with the Barbary powers dollars." He said, that he should be obliged to ask 150,000 dollars, in addition to the sum reserved out of the preceding appropriation, and of course to fill the blank with the words 200,000. This was rendered ne- cessary because the Mediterranean fund, heretofore liable to this charge, had been subjected, on the motion of a gentleman from Connecticut, to the whole expense of the support of the Navy. He supposed that no difference of opinion could exist on the subject of enabling the executive to make peace with Tripoli. He had no objection to any restriction which might be thought necessary to limit the application of the additional sum of 150,000 which he re- quired, to the object for which it was intended. But as the words ransom, or tribute, had never been introduced into our statutes, heretofore, he hoped they would not be admitted on this occasion.
Mr. R. Griswold had no objection to making the appropriation required, or even a larger sum; for he was well con- vinced, that the President ought to have funds as well as authority to accom- plish any object connected with the pre- sent subject, which he might wish to accomplish.
The motion he had made for the ap- propriation of the Mediterranean fund, to the naval establishment, he had con- ceived to be a proper course of proceed- ing, and his motion for that purpose had the honor of being seconded by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. J. Ran- dolph.)
Mr. J. Randolph declared the gen- tleman to be mistaken.
Mr. R. Griswold did not charge his memory perhaps with precision, as to his having actually seconded the motion, but he would venture to assert that the gentleman had laid upon the sugges- tion that the motion would be a proper one, that if he (Mr. R. G.) would make the motion, he (Mr. J. R.) would se- cond it.—He admitted that the app- propriations, heretofore made, but not ex- pended, were now locked up and confin- ed to the one object which had been mentioned.
Mr. J. Randolph said that nothing was more disagreeable to him, and it cost him nothing to believe that it was equally so to the gentleman from Con- necticut, than to enter into any thing like verbal altercation; but the obser- vations which the committee had just heard, required some notice from him. The gentleman is so far correct, when
he states that I agreed to second the mo- tion if he would make it, and I can as- sure him, that however reluctant I should have been to give my word, if I had not been anticipated by the arro- gance of his friends, whose alacrity and promptitude in seconding the motions of that gentleman it is not easy to emu- late and impossible to excel. It will be recollected that when the act laying the duties, the proceeds of which were to constitute "the Mediterranean fund," was under consideration, it was opposed by the gentleman from Connecticut on the ground that it was a subterfuge to raise money to cover a pre-existing defi- cit of revenue; that the loss of the Philadelphia was a mere pretext for rais- ing supplies to defray the ordinary ex- pence of the Navy, which, otherwise, we had not funds to defray,—and that whilst the avowed object of the bill was to provide for an extraordinary ex- penditure, for a vigorous exertion which our recent loss demanded, it was in re- ality a mere fetch to throw the whole weight of the naval cit with next on this fund. Provision was then offered to be made that the ordinary expense of the navy, estimated at 650,000 dollars, should continue to be defrayed out of the ordinary revenue, and that the application of "the Mediterranean fund," to the objects for which it was avowedly raised should be inviolably secured. It was accordingly provided in the app- ropriation bill for the current year, that of the 1,240,000 dollars voted for the naval service, not more than 590,000 should be charged on the Mediterranean fund, leaving the ordinary expense still chargeable on the ordinary revenue. When, therefore, I offered to second the motion, if that gentleman would make it, to strike out the proviso, it was done under the same ideal security as if we had been on the nose-to-nose, and I had offered if he would jump down first, to jump down after him. I did the gentleman the injustice to believe that he had too great a respect for his own consistency to bring forward a motion to effect the very object, the design to bring about which he charged upon us at the last session as highly repre- hensible. For this act of injustice to his character I sincerely ask his pardon. Hereafter I shall be better informed and there is no danger that the offence will be repeated. The gentleman's motion prevailed and the whole expense of the navy was thrown on the Mediterranean fund. The appropriation now asked was for an object, for which that fund was intended to provide. The words of the act of last session (after providing for the armament) are, "and for the purpose also of defraying any other ex- pences incidental to the intercourse with the Barbary powers, a duty of two and a half per cent. &c. shall be laid." This fund having been diverted to another purpose, the appropriation now required must be charged on the ordinary reve- nue. To the public it was a matter of little consequence out of which it should be paid.
Mr. R. Griswold finding him- self charged with inconsistency in having moved to appropriate a fund raised at the last session to the very object he had then said it was raised to meet, did not wonder at such a charge being made, from the reports of the debates, because he had frequently been made to appear in the newspapers as inconsistent, but he hoped he should now be heard and clear- ly understood. He had said at the last session, that the two and an half per cent additional impost was raised to cov- er the expense of the navy—And this session he had moved that it might be fairly appropriated to that object—Now, where is the inconsistency attributed to him. He said then, that under the pre- text of a temporary Mediterranean fund Congress were laying a tax to cov- er its permanent expenditure. Con- gress did so, and the money has been raised, and what has now been done? Why truly, he had moved and the House had agreed to appropriate it without disguise to the object he had foretold it was to cover. In all this he was at a loss to discover his inconsisten- cy.
He did not see what difference it could make on the present occasion, out of what fund the money came, whether the temporary 2 1/2 per cent, or the general fund. In either case the money would be equally good, as there is no difference in the value of the coin sup- plied by either.
He always thought it a better way to go direct and in a plain path to his ob- ject, without masking or maneuvring, or covering bills with plausible titles.— He would last year have declared plain- ly that the money was wanting in the treasury, and not have given given their tax bill any captivating ti- tle.—But to conclude, he expressed his willingness to give the 150,000 dollars for the object required, or more; he hoped Congress would grant enough for every purpose connected with the pre- sent war; so that our ships may not again be so long in fitting out; but that they may reach the point of destination before the season has elapsed for naval operations.
Mr. J. RANDOLPH congratulated the gentleman from Connecticut, and all who had been conversant with him in public life, on the reform which he

had just announced in his political character. That day was to form a new era in the life of that gentleman. Hereafter he was to exhibit himself as a plain, unadorned, unadulterated man, unadorned in his views, who would frankly disclose his object and march up to it in a direct line. But indeed it seems he has always had a bias towards this open and manly mode of proceeding. The gentleman has always had an abhorrence against bills with specious titles, tending, as far as a mere title could do it, to deceive the public as to the real object in view. It would be a matter of amusement if the clerk should be called upon to read some of these bills passed under the gentleman's auspices, whose specious titles and specious defenders were unable to blind the public eye as to their real object; "An act in addition to an act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," in homely phrase, called the section act—and some others.
The gentleman declares his readiness to vote money in sufficient quantity to prevent the delay in our future equipments, if which he complains in a recent instance. It was one of which I cited the nation might also complain, but which neither money nor diligence in the navy department could remedy. It arose out of a circumstance with which the present administration had nothing to do. It was the result of a defect of placing the capital of the United States in a desert, and the principal navy yard of the union in a wilderness. The consequence was that the workmen, the materials, the ship's stores, in short, the supplies of every kind, were to be brought from a distance (sometimes in carriages) at an immense expense of time and money. With some of the fairest cities in the world & with more good ports than all Europe, perhaps could boast, the United States had chosen for their metropolis and naval arsenal such a spot as Peter the Great had been driven to fix upon by necessity—a morass at the head of a long and tedious navigation, where ships are liable to be frozen up two or three months in the year. With this additional disadvantage, however, that a vessel of any considerable draft of water cannot proceed to sea, without the delay of being attended by lighters to carry her guns, which she must take in below. What was the situation of the ships now in the Eastern Branch? Suppose them ready for sea, and that circumstances required a small squadron to be dispatched, only to protect the entrance of the Chesapeake. They must wait for a thaw. The evils therefore of which the gentleman complains are in some sort of his own creation. They cannot be remedied, until Washington shall become a great commercial city and the rigors of the climate shall be softened by the benevolence of nature.
Mr. DENNIS did not think it necessary to connect the city of Washington as the capitol of the United States, with the navy yard on the Eastern Branch. The one might be the most fit for its purpose of any which human wisdom could point out, whilst the other might be liable to some objections which had been urged against it; and he did not deny but there were other places equally as commodious for all the purposes of equipping vessels of war. But he considered the arrangement of the navy yard at this place a measure of sound policy.
The question was taken on filling up the blank without a division, and carried in the affirmative.
MONDAY, Feb. 4. Mr. J. Clay made a report in favor of authorizing the erection of a bridge over the Potomac, which was referred to a committee of the whole.
Resolved, that during the trial of the impeachment now depending before the Senate, this House will attend at 10 o'clock, A. M. and proceed on the legislative business before the House, until the hour at which the Senate shall appoint, each day, to proceed on the trial; and that the House resolve itself into a committee of the whole, and attend the said trial.
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Otis, their secretary. Mr. Speaker. I am directed to inform this House, that the Senate is ready to proceed upon the impeachment of Samuel Chase, one of the associate justices of the Supreme Court, in the Senate Chamber, which Chamber is prepared with accommodations for the reception of the House of Representatives: And then he withdrew.
The House then, in pursuance of a resolution agreed to, this day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole House, and proceeded in that capacity to the Senate Chamber, to attend the trial by the Senate, of the impeachment against Samuel Chase, one of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and after some time spent therein, the committee returned into the Chamber of the House, and Mr. Speaker having resumed the chair.
Mr. Varnum, from the said committee of the whole House, reported, that the committee had according to order, attended the trial by the Senate of the said impeachment, and that some proceedings had been made therein.
The several orders of the day were further postponed until to-morrow. And then the House adjourned until to-morrow morning, ten o'clock.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5.
The bill from the Senate making further provision for wounded soldiers and pensioners was read twice and referred to the committee of the whole for to-morrow.
A message received from the President enclosing the application from the agent of Denmark for compensation in the case of the brig Henrich, was referred, with the accompanying documents, to the committee of Claims, to whom was also referred all the papers presented at the last session on the same subject.
Mr. Newton presented a petition of the agent from Upper Louisiana praying the establishment of a post road thro' that territory.
On the call of Mr. Nicholson, the bill for the more effectual preservation of peace in the ports and harbors of the U. States, and in the waters under their jurisdiction, was taken up in committee of the whole, when after a short debate, the following amendment, previously offered by Mr. Nicholson, in lieu of the second section, and an amendment in lieu of the 5th section, were agreed to. The bill to amended was reported and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
First amendment in lieu of the second section.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever after the passage of this act any felony, misprision of felony, misdemeanor, or breach of peace, shall be committed within the body of a county in any one of the United States, & any process of law shall be issued under the authority of the state, for the purpose of arresting the offender; if the said offender shall be on board of any foreign armed vessel, in any port or harbor of the United States, and within the jurisdiction of the state, in which the offence was committed, it shall be lawful for the Governor, or other supreme executive officer of the state, in which the said offence shall have been committed, upon due proof thereof, and upon his being satisfied that the ordinary posse comitatus is insufficient to ensure the execution of the said process, to issue his order directed to any officer having command of regular troops, or armed vessel of the United States in the vicinity, requiring him to aid the officer charged with the execution of the process, with all the force under his command or such part thereof as may be necessary, in arresting the offender and all those giving him aid and countenance in resisting the civil authority. And if the said offender shall flee to any place beyond the jurisdiction of the state, and within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, the officer charged with the execution of the said process, shall be and he is hereby authorized to pursue the said offender into such place, taking with him if necessary the said armed force and there arrest him, in virtue of the said process. And if the said offender shall flee to and be on board of any foreign armed vessel being in any place beyond the jurisdiction of the state, and within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States; the officer charged with the execution of the said process shall first demand the delivery of the said offender, of and from the person or persons having charge and command of the said foreign armed vessel, declaring the authority and cause for which the demand is made; and if the said offender be not delivered according to the said demand, or if the officer charged with the execution of the process, be obstructed in attempting to make the demand, then he shall use all the means in his power by force and arms, to enter on board of the said foreign armed vessel, there to search for and arrest the said offender, and all those who are with him giving him aid & countenance, in preventing and resisting the execution of the said process, and the officer charged with the execution of the said process, shall convey the said offender and deliver him over to the civil authority of the state, to be dealt with according to law; and all those arrested for being concerned in resisting the execution of the process shall be delivered over to the civil authority of the United States, and shall be punished in the same manner as if they had been concerned in knowingly and wilfully obstructing, resisting, or opposing any officer of the United States, interfering or attempting to serve any warrant or other legal or judicial writ issued under the authority of the United States. But if any of those concerned in making the arrest be killed in a place within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, those engaged in resisting the civil authority shall be punished as in case of felonious homicide; and if the person charged with the offence, or any of those concerned with him in resisting, be killed, in a place under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, it shall be justified.
Amendment in lieu of the 5th section.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted That whenever any officer of an armed vessel commissioned by any foreign power, shall on the high seas or else
where, commit any trespass on any citizen or vessel of the United States, or any violation of the property of any such citizen, or any vexation of trading vessels actually coming to or going from the United States, it shall be lawful for the President of the U. States, on satisfactory proof of the facts, by proclamation forever to interdict the entrance of the said officer, and of any armed vessel by him commanded within the limits of the U. States, and if at any time after such proclamation made, he shall be found within the limits of the U. States, he shall be liable therefor, to be arrested, indicted and punished by fine and imprisonment, in any court of the U. States having competent jurisdiction, and it shall be a part of the sentence that he shall within such time after the payment of his fine, and the expiration of his term of imprisonment, as the court shall direct, leave the United States, never to return. And if he shall return within the limits of the United States after the passing of such sentence, or be found therein, after the period limited by the court as aforesaid, he shall again be liable to be indicted fined and imprisoned at the discretion of the court. Provided always, That if the said officer, shall also have committed any other offence made punishable by this act, he shall be liable to prosecution and punishment, the provisions of this section, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Mr. Dana from the committee of Claims, presented a bill providing for the settlement of sundry claims to lands within the Mississippi territory. The bill was read a first time.
Mr. J. Clay moved that it be rejected.
After a short conversation, the question was taken by yeas and nays—Yeas 52—Nays 58.
The question was then taken on reading the bill a second time at this time, and carried, Ayes 59.
It was then referred to a committee of the whole.
On the enquiry of the Speaker for what day it should be made the order, Mr. Dana moved that it be made the order for to-morrow.
M. Leib moved Monday week, in which motion he was supported by Messrs. J. Clay, and Clark.
The question was first put upon Monday week, and pass in the negative—Ayes 53—Nays 59.
This day week was then named, and disagreed to—Ayes 55—Nays 56.
Monday next was then named, and disagreed to—Ayes 55—Nays 56.
Saturday was then named, and disagreed to—Ayes 52—Nays 61.
Friday was then proposed and agreed to—Ayes 61—Nays 51.
Mr. Clark moved the following resolution, which was agreed to—Ayes 59—Nays 56.
Resolved, That the Secretary of State be directed to lay before this House an abstract of all the evidences of titles to land claimed under any act or pretended act of the state of Georgia passed or pretended to be passed, in the year 1789, & 1795, recorded in his office, not on the dates of the instruments, the names of the parties, the quantity of land, with the species of warrantee, and any proviso or condition that may be annexed.
The bill for extinguishing certain debts due by the United States was considered in committee of the whole.
Mr. VARNUM in the chair. After some time spent in considering the same, the committee rose and reported the bill; but were refused leave to sit again.
On motion of Mr. R. Gaild the bill was referred to a select committee of five, to report. During this transaction Mr. Eppes had read a new bill in his place, which went to make immediate provision for the debts still due to our revolutionary soldiers, and invalid pensioners, which it was intended should go before the committee just appointed. The Speaker said the committee had full power to consider the same.
On motion of Mr. Thomas the House went into committee of the whole on the bill authorizing the erection of a Bridge across a mill-pond and marsh in the navy yard on Long-Island leading from Brooklyn to Bulhwick.
Mr. TENNY in the chair.
The committee rose and reported the bill with amendment, which being concurred in by the House the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
Mr. J. Clay presented the petition of Nicklin and Griffith respecting the ship America, purchased some years since of the house of Anthony and Co. as American property, but which has recently been discovered to have been fraudulently covered by that house, praying that they may now be allowed a sea letter as the present owners were entirely ignorant of the fraud. Referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
On motion of Mr. M'Gree the bill declaring the assent of Congress to the act of Maryland for the establishment of an Health Officer at Baltimore went before a committee of the whole and was agreed to with an amendment limiting its duration to nine years, and until the end of the next session of Congress thereafter. The amendment was concurred in by the House, and the bill ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
Adjourned.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6.
TRIAL OF JUDGE CHASE.
On Monday the trial of Judge Chase commenced before the High Court of Impeachments.
About a quarter before one o'clock, the Senate took their seats, every member of the body being present. Immediately after the Managers, viz. Messrs. J. Randolph, Nicholson, Rodney, Boyle, Early, G. W. Campbell, and Clark, appointed to conduct the impeachment, entered, accompanied by the Speaker and members of the House of Representatives, to whom seats were assigned. As soon as they were seated, Samuel Chase, being called upon to appear, entered, attended by his counsel, Messrs. Martin, Harper, and Hopkinson, to whom seats were likewise assigned on the left of the Chair, the Managers being accommodated with seats on the right of the chair in the same line.
The President (Mr. Burr) after stating to Mr. Chase the indulgence of time which had been allowed, enquired if he were prepared to give in his answer.
Judge Chase said he had prepared, as well as circumstances would permit, his answer, which he begged permission to read by himself or counsel; this being granted, he commenced the reading of his answer about one o'clock, in which he was relieved by Messrs. Harper and Hopkinson, and which occupied the court till half after four.
Mr. J. Randolph, in behalf of the Managers, requested time to consult the House of Representatives, and likewise to be furnished with a copy of the answer of Judge Chase, for the purpose of making a replication thereto.
The President said the Senate would take the request into consideration, and make known to the House of Representatives the order taken thereon.
Whereupon the Senate retired, at the suggestion of the President, to their legislative apartment.
Yesterday the SUPREME COURT of the United States was opened—Present, Chief Justice Marshall, and justices Cushing, Paterson, Chase, and Washington.
THE Senate have, we understand, rejected the treaty for extinguishing the Indian title to certain lands within the limits of the state of Georgia; twelve votes being given in its favor, and nine, teen against it. The treaty provided for extinguishing the Indian title to a tract of land not exceeding two millions of acres, and for the payment by the United States, of two hundred thousand dollars, by the creation of an irredeemable stock to that amount, and the payment of a perpetual interest thereon of twelve thousand dollars.
A Dublin paper of the 7th December, has been received at Norfolk. It however contains no new important intelligence.
On Thursday the twenty-fourth ult. the Legislature of the state of Delaware, appointed JAMES A. BAYARD, a Senator, to represent that state, in the Senate of the United States, for the term of six years, commencing on the fourth day of March next.
Mr. Perkins has obtained leave to introduce into the legislature of Delaware, a bill for the gradual abolition of slavery within that state, which provides, that all children born after the passing of the act shall be free, but to remain the servant of the owner of the mother until twenty-one years of age. It provides also for the registering by the recorder of each county of all such children, and for all slaves now in the state, and declares that all not registered within six months shall be deemed free. It also provides against the separation of a husband and wife, or child, under 4 years of age, from a parent, it has passed the committee of the whole House, and its friends hope its final passage.
London papers have been received at New-York to the 6th of December, and British advices to the 10th. No articles of great magnitude are contained in them.
The Pope had arrived at Paris. M. Pierre had left Madrid.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Gottenburg, Nov. 2.
Yesterday morning about 2 o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out here, which continued to burn with unremitting fury until ten, during which time (the houses being chiefly of wood) it consumed the whole fourth-wall part of the city; the large new barracks which were built with brick, and cost 40 000l. sterling, the two royal magazines of grain, the post-office, and the episcopal house, the free-masons charity school, together with about two thousand houses were entirely destroyed; the distress of the sufferers, particularly of the poor, at this inclement season, is very great, but every means is taken to alleviate it; the rich and patriotic merchant, Mr. John Hall, has, with a humane zeal which always distinguishes him, opened his spacious house and premises for as many as it will contain, and has given up his private theatre for the use of the free-masons charity children: several others have followed his example. It is ascertained that the fire has dislodged more than 7,000 people and has laid desolate one of the handsomest cities in the north of Europe.
ENGLISH MERCHANDIZE.
The General of brigade Alexander Ruffeau, charged with the command and superintendence of the coast and ports of the Meuse.
To the Lords of the Magistrate, forming the government of the city of Rotterdam. Head quarters, Rotterdam, 24th Brumaire, Nov. 15, 1804.
Gentlemen, I have the honor to inform you, that the General in Chief having received fresh orders from his Majesty the Emperor relative to Commerce, and the extraordinary measures to be adopted against England, has charged me to acquaint the Merchants, that ships known to have come from England, or the Captain of which shall declare on oath that they come from English ports, shall be seized.
The moderation of the general in Chief made him exclude from this measure all colonial produce, and apply the seizure only to prohibited merchandise; but he has received orders to seize the whole cargoes of the ships, if there be any English merchandise on board.
Such seizure is to take place, and to be effected without any exception or modification.
Yet such is his affection, that he has charged me in his letter of 21 Brumaire (12th November,) to inform the trade, that he will not put this measure into execution till after the expiration of 14 days, in order to give the merchants time to make the necessary dispositions for the arrival of the ships consigned to them from Embden or neutral ports.
I request you, therefore, gentlemen, to inform the trade of the same immediately, and in the official way, and to acknowledge the receipt hereof.—I salute you with particular esteem. (Signed)
ROUSSEAU.
The Managers of the WASHINGTON DANCING ASSEMBLIES inform the subscribers that an ASSEMBLY will be held at the Theatre on THURSDAY Evening.
Should there be any LADIES, to whom tickets of admission have not been sent, they are requested to send for them.
The MYSTERY.
THE Proprietor wishing to give the citizens of Washington an opportunity of viewing one of the greatest phenomena that has appeared in the New World; has removed that celebrated machine to the city, where it will be exhibited in the house of Mr. GEORGE BLOUNT, Opposite Rhoads's Tavern, Pennsylvania Avenue till Saturday next. Those therefore, who wish to visit this astonishing machine will take the present opportunity; another may never offer, as the proprietor positively leaves the city on Saturday evening. February 6—3t
A Family of Negroes FOR SALE.
THE subscribers will dispose of by private sale (pursuant to the will of Ann Digges deceased) the following negroes without dividing any one of the family from the other, viz. GEORGE, aged about 47 or 48 years, stout and healthy, a very handy negro for every part of field work and a good mower, reaper and stacker of grain, &c.—GRACE his wife, aged about 37 years, brought up in a regular family as a house servant, to which she is fully equal, and is a remarkable good seamstress, laundress, and a tolerable cook. Also their two children, one a girl about three years old, and an infant at the breast.
Application to be made to THOS. DIGGES of Warburton near Piscataway, or WM. CARROLL, Rock creek, Montgomery county, Executive. Jan. 30—w3t

A Stray Cow.
ABOUT the fifteenth of December last, was taken up by the subscriber, living in the south end of the Twenty Buildings, city of Washington, a small Red Cow—her marks are a crop in each ear, about six years old. The owner is desired to come prove property, pay charges and take her away. JOSEPH CLARK. February 4—3t
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Drawings of the simple and cheap, new form of engine suitable for producing and containing such great power in the least space, and with the least weight, to fit them for various purposes, for which no others would answer.
Tables of the size and proportions of engine of the different powers, from the power of one man to that of one hundred horses, to suit different purposes; with the assistance of a professional English steam engineer of long experience and great abilities, capable of communicating many secrets in the engineers art, that will render the work highly useful, and which are not to be found in any other work.
The author hopes to be able to show, and demonstrate principles (part of which he has already in use) by the application of which, he can make engines at half the price of those heretofore used; not exceeding one fifth, or perhaps one tenth part of the weight to produce equal power, and which will not require more than one third, or one fourth part of the fuel and which will serve the great purposes of raising water to water our cities, of sawing ship timber, mahogany and marble stone, grinding meal, paints, chocolate, plaster and turning lathes, &c. in cities—sawing timber on or near navigable waters; grinding grain, draining mines, working forges and furnaces, where water can not be obtained—propelling boats against the stream, on all our rivers where hand oars are now used, and transporting heavy burdens on turnpike roads, with great advantages over the means by which these things have hitherto been done. He may also touch on several other mechanical and philosophical subjects which may lead to useful discoveries.
CONDITIONS.
The work shall be printed on good paper and neatly bound. But as it will be original and the subject abstruse, and will be extended no farther than the author may be enabled to proceed in, no estimate can be made of the expense of the engravings, nor of the price of the book. He can only say that it will be delivered to subscribers on the lowest terms that can be afforded; and should it exceed Four Dollars a copy, they shall be at liberty to refuse the work.
A list of the subscribers will be annexed. Subscribers for six copies shall receive the seventh gratis.
TO PRINTERS.
THE subscriber takes Order for Type from the well known Foundery of William Caslin, Jun. and Co. London—Specimens and list of London prices to be seen at Mr. Geo. W. Riggs, Georgetown.
CHARLES WIRGMAN, No. 315, Market-Street, Baltimore. Jan. 15. tf.
NOTICE is hereby given to ROBERT BOYES and JAMES BOYES, who now living, children of Robert Boyes, who was the son of the late Esq. Boyes, of London, in the county of Rockingham and state of New Hampshire, deceased; which said Robert the elder left Londonderry aforesaid upwards of thirty years ago, married in Baltimore in the state of Maryland, and removed to Virginia and there died; that, if they will apply to Silas Betton of Salem in the state of New Hampshire now in the city of Washington, or to Alexander Boyes of Londonderry aforesaid, may hear of some property worth their attention. The several printers of Virginia and Maryland will serve the cause of humanity by republishing the above. Jun. 9
Runaway,
Some time in April last a bright MULATTO WOMAN named FANNY, she is nearly 6 feet high and stout in proportion, thick lips, middling large eyes, very large breasts, bends forward when she stands or walks, quick in speech, and has very large feet, her apparel is not remembered, took with her a large bundle thereof, and it is probable often changes them. I have been informed that she is in the service of a Mr. Thompson in Georgetown, whoever secures her in Washington city jail so that her mistress, Mrs. Sarah Brooks gets her again or will deliver her to the subscriber in Upper Marlboro shall receive Ten dollars and all reasonable expenses paid by SAML. J. COOLIDGE. December 3—3t
A FEW Hundred bushels of white, well burnt SHELL LIME, will be sold for cash, at 16 DOLLARS the 100 bushels, if applied for immediately, a less quantity than 100 bushels will not be sold at this price. Apply to CON. CONNINGHAM. November Cash will be given for WELL cleaned BARLEY.
STONE CUTTERS.
WANTED at the City of Washington, a number of STONE CUTTERS, to whom liberal encouragement is offered, and what is more desirable to young men of aspiring genius, as well as gratifying to those experienced; the work to be done this season is of a kind, superior to any yet done in the United States. Apply to GEORGE BLAGDEN, at the Capitol. January 30.—6t.
Portrait of the President.
THOSE gentlemen who are desirous of obtaining copies of the Portrait of the President, just finished, by REMBRANDT PEALE, are requested to call at his Painting Room at Miss Dashiell's, Pennsylvania Avenue, where the picture can be seen for a few days, during which R. Peale will remain in this city. January 31.
IN virtue of an order from the Orphan's Court of Calvert county [state of Maryland] I shall offer for sale on a credit of six months on bond with approved security, at the late dwelling of Benjamin Ward late of said county deceased. Two negro men, horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, with all the household and kitchen furniture, plantation utensils, and also corn, fodder, wheat, and the crop of tobacco now in the house. The sale of the above property will take place on Tuesday the 30th day of January 1805, (if fair or the first fair day thereafter) and commence at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. All persons having claims against the estate of the said Benjamin Ward, are requested to exhibit the same on the day of sale, or they will be excluded in a distribution; and all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to ZACHARIAH WARD Ad'mr. Calvert Co. Jan. 9—3w
To be Sold by Auction.
ON Wednesday the 6th day of February next, in virtue of my power I will expose to Sale at Mr. Stelle's hotel near the Capitol, the hour of sale twelve o'clock A. M. the Lot No. 1. in square No. 377 and also a capital three story house the property of John Crocker together with all the improvements thereon for cash—the premises may be seen on the spot, and for any further particulars enquire of me THOMAS LAW. Washington Jan. 9—2aw1m
I DISCOVERED a few days since (in the Telegraph) a challenge by Samuel Norwood, Esq. Bonaparte against Democrat—
At Annapolis this fall, I proposed running Democrat against Bonaparte, carrying from 110 lbs to 140 at the discretion of Mr. Norwood; which was rejected. As Mr. Norwood refused the proposition made by me at that time, I am not bound to run the race proposed by him in the Telegraph—Democrat will run Bonaparte over the Annapolis race course, on the third Tuesday in May next, four miles and repeat, for 1000 pot. LAR; pay or pay, carrying 126 lbs. each; which is the weight they are to carry by the rules of racing, both being seven years last spring—Should Mr. Norwood decline this offer, Democrat will cover mares next spring at the subscribers farm, from the first day of March until the first day of August, at Sixteen dollars each and Fifty cents for the groom. Democrat's pedigree is equal to the pedigree of any horse to be produced, having in him the blood of Medley, Eclipse, Figure, Bove, Godolphin, Arabian, and Mr. Taskin's Silia.
If this proposition is approved of by Mr. Norwood, notice will be given in the Maryland Gazette within forty days from the date hereof. ISAAC TUCKETT. December 21—tawtApr 30
FOR SALE.
A Tract or parcel of land, containing one hundred thousand acres, surveyed in tracts of one thousand acres each, lying on the great Satilla and St. Mary's rivers in the counties of Wayne and Taliaferro in the state of Georgia, distant about 40 miles from the town of St. Mary's and the sea. This land is an undivided moiety of two adjoining tracts containing each 100,000 acres, and is remarkable for its extensive forests of large and valuable yellow pine, and the luxuriant growth of natural grass, affording an inexhaustible range of pasture for cattle. It is also favorable for the culture of cotton, and lies in a very healthy district of country. A great bargain may be had to a purchaser of the whole undivided moiety; for terms of sale apply to JOHN BECKLEY. City of Washington. Sept. 12—1t.
ROBERT CHERRY.
HAS removed his store, to the house of Mr. George Blagden New Jersey Avenue on the Eastern Branch, where he has just received (in addition to his former stock) by the Schooner Island from Philadelphia a general assortment of groceries and liquors of superior quality, with a few boxes India China of the best quality eighty pieces to the set; all of which he will sell wholesale and retail at the most reduced prices for cash, or in exchange for country produce—All orders in his line will be executed with punctuality and dispatch; he flatters himself from the quality of his articles he will be able to render ample satisfaction to his friends and all those who may be pleased to favor him with their custom. All kinds of commission business will be attended to with the utmost attention. Washington city Dec. 12—tf
ADAM KING, & Co.
AT their wine Store in High Street George Town, have in addition to their stock of old wines, laid in a large and general assortment of all kinds of Liquors and Groceries suitable to the present season; where bills of any description, in their line, will constantly be filled up from the shortest notice and they flatter themselves, from the quality of their wines, &c. they will be able to give general satisfaction to all those who may think proper to favor them with a call—where all kind of commission business as usual, will be attended to with the utmost attention, George Town, November 5—tf
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE proprietor wishes to SELL or RENT, on moderate terms, a neat two story framed house, eligibly constructed for the accommodation of a private family. Situated on 11th near F Street, about 150 yards from the Bank and nearly the same distance from the Theatre. Persons wishing to purchase or rent, will please to apply to Mr. William Woodward, Pennsylvania Avenue, or to the subscriber. Possession may be had on the 21st day of April next. MARK STOCKWELL. 29th Jan.—2awtf
American Printed goods.
Calicoes, Shawls, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. manufactured by the subscribers near Baltimore, and sold at No. 13 Calvert Street.
TO remove that distrust often felt respecting new undertakings, and so prejudicial to manufacturing attempts in America, they think it proper to observe, that nothing is wanting in the business to enable good articles to perform their work here as well as in Europe. That they have these articles; that two of the partners were bred to the business in a factory of the best repute carried on by their father, long afterwards by themselves. They trust that while foreign goods are received without a question, an unreasonable suspicion will not prevent their countrymen from giving that trial to their goods, which only can prove their value. Besides a natural doubt, they know that certain interests, national as well as individual, will suggest objections to their undertaking. They have no difficulty in saying, that work of the like kind shall be as well executed here, as in other countries. The colors capable of being fixed, will be found as permanent; the cloths perhaps better substance, and the prices lower than of the imported cottons. M'CULLOCH & LUNNUY, Baltimore, No. 13 Calvert Street. Sept. 17—tf
CHARLES H. VARDEN,
MERCHANT TAYLOR. Has received from Philadelphia a handsome assortment of FALL goods, consisting of the best London and French superfine cloths, cassimeres, patent Beaver's cord, toilettes, fancy and white Marcellies black and figured silk, moleskins, fancy silk, Marcellies, constitution cords, velvets, Genoa cord, silk and satin Floreatens, superfine coating, knapped cloths, with a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey Avenue near the Capitol, December 10—tf
For Sale,
141 ACRES OF LAND, THE property of Richard Mitchell, laying in Prince George county Maryland, about 5 miles from Piscataway, 13 miles from Upper Marlboro, 8 from Nottingham and 17 from the city of Washington adjoining the land of the Rev. George Ralph, Thomas Mudd, and John Robertson. The terms of sale made known by application to the subscriber legally authorized, who is now at M c Laughlin's George town, and will remain there till about the 12th or 15th of February. MATTHEW WALTON, P. S. If the above land is not disposed of at private sale before the 9th of February, it will on that day be sold on the premises to the highest bidder. M. W. January 30—3t
THE subscribers have opened a GROCERY STORE in the house near the Capitol, lately occupied by Mr. JAMES D. BARABY—where they have for sale, low, for cash or in exchange for country produce, Genuine Cogniac brandy, Superior French do. Old Jamaica Spirits, Madeira, } Wines, by the quarter cask Sherry, } and case, or smaller quantity. Lisbon, } Claret, Brown Sugar, 1st and 2d quality Loaf and Lump, do. Molasses, Fixin Butter, Mould Candles, Sweet Oil, Spices of different kinds, Fig Blue, Starch, Almonds, Anchovies, } In bottles. Capers, Powder and Shot, Excellent Wine Vinegar, Gin, Whiskey, Ryon, Imperial, } Tens, fresh, and of superior quality. Young Hylon, Salt Herrings in Barrels. PETER HEALY, & Co. Washington October 31—tf
100 DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY, two months ago, about the middle of November, a Negro Man, named TOM DANIEL, five feet ten inches high, black complexion, has lost some of his jaw teeth, very knock kneed, about 45 years of age. It is supposed that he has made to the northward, and has a free pass. He took with him a grey mare, and is very fond of driving a cart—Apply to RALPH LANE, Centreville, Fairfax county, Virginia. wtf
New Book-Store,
No. 61, St. Patrick's Row, Baltimore, under the firm of
American Book Store of
Levrault, Schoell & Co.
OF PARIS,
Where will be kept a complete assortment of
ENGLISH, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin and Greek Books, bound in the handsomest style; Maps, Engravings, Pictures and Music, and of every article relating to arts and sciences—The whole of which will be sold at the Paris and Leipzig prices, without any charges, except the indispensable expenses.
To Book-sellers, who wish to purchase English, Latin and Greek classics a generous allowance and uncommonly liberal terms are offered.
Printers may be supplied with all kinds of Types; the samples of which may be viewed or bought at the store.
Commission business in this line will be promptly and punctiliously attended to.
Lovers of arts and sciences may be supplied with catalogues, which have already appeared and will appear at the time of new importations, either by personal application or by letter, post paid. January 11—2aw3w—UG3t.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
WHEREAS by the first article of the terms and conditions declared by the President of the United States on the 17th day of October, 1791, for regulating the materials and manner of buildings and improvements on the Lots in the City of Washington, it is provided "that the outer and party walls of all houses in the said city shall be built of brick or stone." And by the third article of the same terms and conditions it is declared "that the wall of no house shall be higher than forty feet to the roof in any part of the city, nor shall any be lower than thirty five feet on any of the Avenues." And whereas the above recited articles were found to impede the settlement in the city, of mechanics and others, whose circumstances did not admit of erecting houses authorized by the said regulations, for which cause the operation of the said articles has been suspended by several acts of the President of the United States, from the fifth day of June, in the year 1796, to the first day of January next—and beneficial effects arising from such suspensions having been experienced, it is deemed proper to revive the same with the exception hereafter mentioned.
Wherefore I THOMAS JEFFERSON, President of the United States, do declare that the first and third articles above recited shall be, and the same are hereby suspended until the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, and that all houses which shall be erected in the said city of Washington previous to the said first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, conformable in other respects to the regulations aforesaid, shall be considered as lawfully erected, except that no wooden house covering more than three hundred and twenty square feet, or higher than twelve feet from the sill to the eve shall be erected, nor shall such house be placed within twenty-four feet of any brick or stone house. Given under my hand the twentieth day of December, 1804. TH: JEFFERSON. Dec. 24—12awtA
FOR SALE,
By virtue of a deed of trust, executed by Robert Ware Peacock, to the subscriber, for the purposes therein mentioned, will be exposed for sale, at Rhodes's tavern in the city of Washington, on Saturday the 2nd day of March next, at 4 o'clock P. M. for ready money, to the highest bidder, all the right and estate vested in me by virtue of a deed of trust from Robert Ware Peacock, bearing date the 22nd day of June 1804, to part of lot numbered one, in square number one hundred and ninety one in the plan of the city of Washington, with the Houses and improvements thereon. Possession to be given on or before the first day of April next ensuing. JOHN DAVIDSON, Trustee. Washington city, Feb. 1—wtf
This day is published by
SAMUEL H. SMITH,
—price 50 cents—
A DEFENCE
of the
MEASURES OF THE ADMINISTRATION
of
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
BY CURIUS.
Taken from the National Intelligencer. THE VIRGINIA WESTERN LINE OF STAGES.
THE owners of the line of stages now ply- ing between Fredericksburg and Char- lottesville, return their thanks to the public for their patronage—they beg leave to assure them that no attention shall be wanting to merit a continuation of it, and that that line, will continue to ply through the winter as it has hitherto done through the summer. January 18—w4t
FALL GOODS.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Presi- dent's Square. HAS just received a very handsome assort- ment of Fall Goods. Orders executed with the greatest dispatch and fashion, and on the most moderate terms. Oct. 31—tf
A Grand Concert
OF
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
P. Mauro,
Professor of Music,
RESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Washington, George-town and its vicinity, that he intends holding a Grand Concert of Instrumental Music (provided sufficient encouragement offers) in the Ball-Room of Mr. M c Laughlin, on the evening of Monday the 11th of February next, when the following pieces of Music will be performed, to the full satisfaction of the audience:
 Act I. 1st. A Grand Symphony—Mozart, with full orchestra.  2d. The Battle of Prague, on the Piano, by a young Lady, pupil to Mr. Mauro.  3d. A Grand Concerto—Korch, on the Piano, by Mr. Mauro, accompanied by the other instruments.  4th. A Grand Concerto—Steibelt, on the violin, by Mr. Hopfield, accompanied by other instruments.  5th. Sonata Pleyel, on the Piano, by Mr. Mauro, accompanied by violin and violoncello.  Act II. 1st. A Grand Symphony—Widerkehr, executed by Mr. Mauro, on the Piano, and by Mr. Mafie, on the clarinet, accompanied with full orchestra.  2d. Life let us cherish, with variations, on the Piano, by a young Lady of 3 years old, pupil to Mr. Mauro.  3d. Grand Concerto on the clarinet, by a new performer lately from Europe, accompanied with the other instruments.  4th. Grand Sonata—Walter, on the Piano, by Mr. Mauro, accompanied by violin and violoncello.  5th. Quartetto—with two violins, a viol and violoncello—to conclude with a Military Piece by all the instruments.  As P. Mauro does not commence this undertaking from particular views of emolument, but principally for the purpose of affording an agreeable entertainment to the inhabitants of Washington and George Town, he respectfully solicits the amateurs of music, &c. to subscribe their names, on papers left for that purpose, at the bars of Messrs. Steele's Hotel, on Capitol Hill, Rhodes's, near the Treasury Department, and M c Laughlin's George Town, as early as possible, thereby to enable him to judge if sufficient encouragement offers to defray the incurring expense of procuring performers from Baltimore, to assist at the entertainment.
Subscribers to pay one dollar each, on the delivery of Tickets of admission, some days previous to the Concert. January 18—3taw
LOST.
On 8 per cent. stock of the United States, Certificate No. 812, dated 20th October 1803, for 400 dollars—One do. No. 1115, and one 1116 for 100 dollars each, issued by Joseph Nourse register, in favor of James Paton of Alexandria, district of Columbia. Notice is therefore given that application is intended to be made at the Treasury of the United States for a renewal of the same. February 4—6 tw
NEW Store.
BY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
The subscriber informs the public that he has commenced business in the house formerly occupied by
MR. QUINN, F. Street; And has on hand, a general assortment dry goods, Groceries, wines and spirituous liquors.
Porter, Hardware and Cutlery, Queenware, China and Glass, Flour, Corn, and Corn-meal, Oats, and Chopped rye, Candles and Soap by the box, Country whiskey by the barrel, and a few cases of genuine old Irish whiskey All of which he will sell low for cash or country produce. The HIGHEST prices, given for country produce, CASH. FRANCIS CLARK. Aug. 29—wtf.
In the case of JAMES KNIGHT, an insolvent debtor.
ORDERED that six months from and after the first day of December next is limited and appointed for the creditors to bring in and exhibit their claims to the trustee. It is also ordered that this notice be published in the National Intelligencer once a month during said term.
By order of the hon. Wm. Cranch one of the assistant judges of the circuit court of the district of Columbia. URIAH FORREST, Clk. Nov. 12—
Being appointed trustee in the above case of James Knight, I request all persons having claims to exhibit them without delay to Mr. John Moffett of George town, and all persons indebted to make immediate payment to him, or to the subscriber, or suits will be commenced. MATTHEW STEENE. November 28—12aw1m
IN the case of WILLIAM SHEPHERD, an insolvent debtor.
ORDERED that six months from and after the first day of December next, is limited and appointed for the creditors to bring in and exhibit their claims to the trustee. It is also ordered that this notice be published in the National Intelligencer once a month prior to said day.
By order of the hon. Wm. Cranch one of the assistant judges of the circuit court of the district of Columbia. URIAH FORREST, Clk. Nov. 23.
Having been appointed trustee in the above case, the creditors are required to exhibit their claims, within the limited period at my office. ROBERT W. PEACOCK, November 28—12aw1m.