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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
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HISTORY Of the West Indies :
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A new & revised edition of Mr. Edwards's History of the West Indies, with a third volume, (completed by its amiable author a short time previous to his death) has lately been published in London. This third volume contains the interesting and important history, with a large Map of the island of St. Domingo, or Hispaniola, as also that of Tobago; likewise a history of the war in the West Indies from its commencement in 1733 and a tour of Mr. William Young through several of the islands. It is accompanied by a highly finished portrait of Mr. Edwards, a history of his life written by himself, and a prefatory advertisement by Sir William Young, Baronet, M. P. F. R. S. &c. under whose editorship it has been given to the public.
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PONTIUS D. STELLE.
Washington City, March 25—
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
RIVER RAISIN, (District of Erie)
14th August, 1805.
SIR,
AS a subscriber and well wisher to the National Intelligencer, and advocating the genuine republican principles so faithfully delineated by you, I have taken pleasure in transcribing the inclosed documents, which I trust will find an early insertion in your paper. Our committee having obtained Governor Hull's permission for the publication of his address to the citizens. You no doubt will feel gratified at hearing something from this distant quarter of the union.
Our district begins about twenty miles S. W. of Detroit, at the mouth of River Huron (emptying into Lake Erie,) comprehending several settlements on said Lake, which are surrounded by far the richest and most fertile part of the territory, takes in the east shore of the southerly bend of Lake Michigan, and will unquestionably attract the attention of emigrating farmers from the different states, so soon as the commissioners proceed next spring to the sale of the public lands at Detroit. The people of this territory, generally, consider themselves peculiarly fortunate in the choice made for them by the President and Senate, in the appointment of General Hull as their Governor; the urbanity, candour, and affability of that gentleman on all occasions, in attending to the different objects laid before him by them, joined to the industry of our legislature, who are building our happiness on a solid foundation, by adopting an entire new code of laws, suitable to our local situation, placing our persons and property in the most desirable security, free from every unnecessary incumbrance, so different from any thing we have hitherto been accustomed to in this country, unfolding even here the grand principles pursued by the present magnanimous administration of the general government; which cannot fail to inspire us with the utmost gratitude and devotion thereto, and thankful to the Supreme Author of all things for these great blessings.
I am respectfully,
Sir,
By request of the committee,
Your most obed't serv't,
GEO. M'DOUGALL,
Chairman thereof.
GOVERNOR HULL'S ADDRESS delivered at Detroit on the 8th July, 1805.
MY FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE TERRITORY OF MICHIGAN.
NOTWITHSTANDING the severe calamity you have recently experienced in the total destruction of your principal town; a town the most ancient, populous and respectable in the western country; notwithstanding the private distresses which must necessarily follow, from this event, yet on an occasion so interesting to you as the present, you will please to accept my most cordial congratulations.
It is sincerely to be hoped that your losses will be remunerated by the generous bounty of your fellow-citizens in the several states, by the liberal policy which will be pursued by Congress, and by the judicious and enlarged plan which will be adopted in erecting a city on the desolated ground, the sight of which is so afflicting in the present moment.
By the law of Congress which has publicly been communicated, and by the commissions which have been read, it is announced that this territory is formed into a government, and the principal officers have been appointed for its administration.
In entering on the duties of the office, to which I am appointed, I feel it a duty incumbent on me, to implore the benediction of the Supreme Ruler of human events, that the government may be commenced in wisdom, conducted with virtue, and in its operation promote the happiness and prosperity of the people.
It is a fortunate circumstance for you, my fellow-citizens, that it is a government of laws, and not of men, that the leading principles of it are established by the ordinance of Congress, and wisely calculated to ensure to the people the blessings of civil and religious liberty.
It is expressly provided, that no person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments. Here you have secured to you, the important privilege of worshipping your God, according to the dictates of your own conscience.
It is likewise provided, that the inhabitants of the territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of Habeas Corpus, and of the trial by jury. The one will guard you against the dangers of being deprived of your personal liberty,
without a sufficient cause, and the other will prevent you from receiving any injury in your persons, property or reputation, without a fair and impartial trial by your peers. All persons are entitled to bail, unless for capital offences, all fines are to be moderate, and no cruel or unusual punishment shall ever be inflicted, no man indeed can be deprived of his liberty or property; but by the judgement of his peers or of the law of the land; and should the public exigencies make it necessary for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same; and for the just preservation of your rights and property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the territory, that shall in any manner whatever, interfere with or effect private contracts, or engagements bona fide, without fraud previously formed.
It is likewise provided that, as religion, morality and knowledge are necessary to good government, and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged, that the utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians, their lands and their property shall never be taken from them without their consent, and in their property, rights and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars, authorised by Congress. But laws founded in justice and humanity, shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
These, my fellow-citizens, are the fundamental principles on which your government is founded, they are your bill of rights, the magna charta of your freedom. No power exists in the administration to deprive you of them, and laws made contrary to them, will be null and void.
They are strong barriers erected which will secure to you the rights of conscience and the rights of person and property. They will afford you a remedy against all oppression—they will enlighten the rising generation, and by the wise and humane provisions, with respect to your Indian neighbours, will continue to you the blessings of peace with them—you ought, therefore, to have them strongly impressed on your minds, and value them according to their real importance. They are indeed your most valuable inheritance.
Although it must be a source of great satisfaction to you, that the principles of your government are so wisely constructed, and so admirably calculated to aid in promoting the great object for which the government was instituted; viz, (the general happiness) yet we must consider that these principles alone cannot effect the object. The happy fruits will in a great measure depend on the conduct of those who are appointed to administer the government, and on the people themselves for whose benefit it is instituted. It will therefore be the duty of the administration to conform the laws to the principles of the ordinance of Congress, and to adopt measures calculated to secure the rights and distribute equal justice to each individual citizen.
It will likewise be essentially necessary there should be a corresponding disposition on the part of the people. It will be their duty to respect the government, and to afford all the aid in their power to those whose office it is to administer it. To consider there is no perfection in human things, and at all times to exercise candour, forbearance, and moderation in forming an opinion on the measures which may be adopted. That such may be the conduct both of the officers and the people is the sincere wish of my heart, and my earnest prayer to Almighty God. This will produce the most happy consequences, mutual confidence, harmony and satisfaction, the benevolent designs of Congress in establishing the territory will be realized, and the wise principles which characterise the government of the nation will be extended.
On the present occasion I shall not enter into a detail of the measures which the administration will probably think expedient for the general interest of the territory. I cannot however omit, in the presence of so many of my fellow-citizens, to state to them the vast importance of a well organized and disciplined militia. Considering it essentially necessary to the safety of the territory, and the preservation of the government; it will early claim my attention, I shall devote my best powers and talents to render it respectable, efficient and an example to our country.
To aid in this honorable, necessary and important duty, I shall hope for the co-operation of all my fellow citizens, and particularly to see the young men of the territory animated with a laudable military spirit, and highly ambitious of excelling in military discipline. Such a spirit, and such a conduct will be honorable to them; honorable to the government, and productive of the most happy consequences.
Our local situation, my fellow-citizens,
is fixed in the neighborhood of a colony connected with one of the most powerful and respectable nations of Europe. The U. S. and that nation are in peace and friendship; God grant it may forever continue. It will be our duty and our interest to cultivate harmony and friendship with our respectable neighbors. While I have the honor to remain in my present situation, it will be my undeviating object; and I fondly flatter myself every individual of my fellow-citizens will be animated with the same principles: should there however any outrage or improper conduct take place by any of our citizens, I shall be ready at all times to make all the satisfaction which can be required, either by the laws of nations, the duties of friendship, or the rights of civility. We have every reason to expect from the respectable officers of that government that the same liberal treatment will be reciprocated; and if at any time, any differences should arise, they will be explained and adjusted with a spirit of mutual candor and justice honorable to both governments.
The present moment, my fellow-citizens, I consider of high importance. We are now laying the foundation and proceeding to the execution of a work, which will be of immense consequence, not only to the people who now inhabit the territory, but to those who shall succeed us to the latest period of time.
The Territory possesses great natural advantages; almost entirely surrounded by navigable waters, furnished with a soil, which by cultivation will become highly productive, blessed with a temperate and healthy climate, there are few places on the face of the earth more inviting for the residence of man. Here, my fellow-citizens, were we to unveil futurity, what a delightful and animating picture might be presented! The sciences and all the arts useful in life, have long been travelling from the rising to the setting sun.
The eyes of a great part of the world and particularly of our own country, are looking with longing desires to this western hemisphere. Should the civil institutions be, in any degree, comparable to the advantages, which the God of Nature has furnished, the most sanguine imagination could form no conception of the numbers of human beings, whose happy destination will here be fixed, or of the useful and magnificent scenes, which will be here displayed.
Let us then have it deeply impressed on our minds that the principles, which are now established, and the arrangements, which are about to be made, will have a material effect on the prosperity and happiness of those who succeed us. Our situation then becomes highly responsible. We are not only answerable to the present generation, but probably to millions yet unborn.
It becomes us then to establish it as a first principle, and to inculcate it as a first duty, to feel and manifest in all our conduct a reverence, and our highest respect to that Supreme Being who created the world, who gave us the pleasant country and on whom we depend for every blessing we enjoy.
In the next place it will be our duty to establish the government on the basis of justice.
Let reverence and gratitude then, to God and justice to each other, be the first and uniform principle of the government. In all our arrangements let us keep them constantly in view, and we never shall deviate from the line of our duty. Finally, my fellow-citizens, the end of government is to promote the happiness of the people. Any government therefore, which does not effect this object, does not promote the original design of its institution. That this desirable object may be promoted, and that this territory may increase in population and in all the improvements which adorn civilised society, must be the desire of all my fellow-citizens.
To direct us in the course, which will produce these happy consequences, we have before us the experience of the world from the earliest ages to the present moment. Time would not permit me to point out the causes which have afforded these blessings to mankind. In our country however they are conspicuously exemplified in the character and conduct of our illustrious President. Under his wise and patriotic administration, our country is blessed with peace; internal order and tranquility prevail; every individual is secure in the enjoyment of the rights of conscience, of person and of property; in the agriculture, manufactures, and commerce of the country, rapid improvements are making and indeed a general state of prosperity and happiness is apparent. To promote these happy consequences in this territory, it will be the dictate of sound policy to imitate his example, and to follow the wise maxims he has exhibited.
ANSWER TO GOVERNOR HULL'S COMMUNICATION OF THE 8th JULY.
SIR,
IN the name and behalf of the inhabitants of Detroit in the Territory of Michigan, we beg leave to return your
Excellency our most sincere and grateful thanks for your obliging communication delivered on the 8th inst.
We have the strongest sense of the importance of the different subjects therein contained, so consonant with our feelings and wishes; they will be to us a sure pledge of your excellency's patriotism and paternal regard for the prosperity and happiness of the people of this Territory, confided to your care.
The distressing calamity that has destroyed this the most important town in the Territory, we have reason to expect will be taken into consideration by the benevolent part of the community in the different parts of the union as well as by the general government, and the loss which has been sustained, will be, we hope in part, if not altogether, remunerated.
On the important subject of morality and education it is unnecessary for us to comment. We are flattered however with a belief that they will be among the first of your cares—The adoption of such laws as will give the means of education to all classes of people must certainly be considered one of Heaven's best blessings. We fondly anticipate the great benefits and advantages that the inhabitants of this Territory will now enjoy over those that we have heretofore been accustomed to, by the government being brought home to us, and we humbly trust, that by a natural and sincere attachment to the general principles of our government, a perfect and decent respect for its officers, and at all times and on all occasions by a faithful co-operation on our part in all things that shall be thought necessary and expedient for the public good, to prove ourselves not unworthy of those advantages.
With the best wishes for your health and happiness,
We have the honor to be,
Your most obedient, servants,
(Signed)
JAS. HENRY,
E. BRUGH,
GEO. M'DOUGALL,
CHABERT JONCAIRE,
GEORGE MELDRUM,
Detroit, July 15, 1805.
His Excellency Gen. Wm. Hull, Governor of the Michigan Territory.
GOVERNOR HULL'S ANSWER TO THE DETROIT COMMITTEE, ADDRESSED TO HIM IN BEHALF OF THE INHABITANTS.
DETROIT, 16 July 1805.
Gentlemen,
THE expressions of approbation and generous confidence contained in the address of the inhabitants of Detroit, are highly gratifying to me, and their value is increased by the polite manner in which they have been communicated by their respectable committee.
I sensibly feel for the distresses which have resulted from the destruction of their town, and I repeat to them my assurances, that every exertion shall be made, consistent with my public duty, to aid in repairing the injury.
That they may realize the great benefits and advantages which they so fondly anticipate, from the establishment of their government, is an object near to my heart; and it is particularly grateful to me to hear from them expressions of sincere attachment to its principles, assurances of respect for its officers, and declarations of a faithful co-operation in all things which shall be thought necessary and expedient for the public good. By a practical adherence to these pledges, they will be highly worthy of the advantages which they anticipate.
With the most sincere wishes for the happiness and prosperity of the inhabitants of Detroit,
I am, Gentlemen,
With the highest respect,
Your most obedient servant,
WILLIAM HULL.
To
James Henry,
Elijah Brugh,
Geo. M'Dougall,
Chabert Joncaire,
G. Meldrum, esqrs.
Committee in the name and behalf of the inhabitants of Detroit, in the territory of Michigan.
(COPY)
HIS EXCELLENCY, Gen. Wm. HULL, Governor of the Michigan territory. RIVER RAISIN, 31 July 1805.
SIR,
THE citizens of the United States, settled in the district of Erie, and Territory of Michigan, having been convened to hear read in the English and French languages, a copy of your communication to the citizens delivered at Detroit on the 6th inst. have chosen us a committee in their name and be-

half, to return you their sincere and respectful acknowledgments for ordering the same to be made known to them, and to state their sentiments in consequence.
It is with devout acknowledgments to God, that we receive the boon conferred on us, by Congress establishing the present temporary government in this Territory. The patriotic principles whereby you are pleased to acquaint us the government will be administered, call for our utmost gratitude and attachment to it, and we now solemnly pledge ourselves by a respectful and liberal conduct to support the constituted authorities of our country, in every measure which may be adopted by them for the public weal, thereby proving ourselves worthy the character of good citizens. In order to further the benevolent designs of Congress as established by the law forming this Territory, we beg leave respectfully to present the absolute necessity of adopting some law establishing English schools in each district, thereby enabling the great majority in this Territory to learn the English language, so as to conform to the laws; it being a notorious fact, that not a tenth part of the community understand a word of the English language, nor even can read or write a word of their own. We assure you, Sir, that on the cultivation of this measure ultimately depends the prosperity of our country, as the only means of enlightening our citizens to a sense of the superior advantages attending republican institutions.
We understand that your excellency, as superintendent of Indian affairs, has authority to make regulations regarding intercourse with the Indians: it is in vain that Congress attempt to civilize them, and "prevent wrongs being done to them," unless some measure is adopted to prevent them from being kept almost constantly intoxicated in the different settlements of the Territory, where they often sell the very clothes off their backs for liquor, to the great nuisance, scandal and bad example of the rising generation. Stated periods were pointed out by the French government in former times, for the Indians to come into Detroit to purchase liquor, which was not allowed to be used by them till they got to their own towns, by which means the moment the feast was over, they again returned to their hunting and usual occupations.
The establishment of this Territory at this auspicious juncture, while our beloved and illustrious President is at the head of the general government, makes us hope, that through your excellency's impartial representations of the sentiments and state of the actual settlers in this country, they will soon be confirmed in the small tracts they held, (i. e. their farms) before the U. S. took possession of this country. This settlement, particularly, we humbly trust, is entitled to the patronage of Congress; a few days before Gen. Wayne's battle with the Indians at the foot of the Rapids of the Miami, the British commander at Detroit, col. England, sent out a capt. Montgomery, to the river Raisin, with written offers and promises by a proclamation in the king's name, to grant us double the quantity of land we then held (opposite to Detroit, in the province of Canada wherever we should choose the same) and to pay us further in gold, upon a fair appraisement, if we would burn our houses and barns, and drive off our cattle and moveables to Detroit, to prevent them from falling into Gen. Wayne's hands for the support of his army. But we all, in a public meeting held for the purpose, refused to comply with the said requisition, averring to said capt. Montgomery, that we preferred living under the republican government of the U. S. never doubting but we would be at least as well used by it. Our conduct also in taking the principal Indian chiefs to the treaty of Greenville ought not to be passed over in oblivion, as it would have brought upon us inevitable ruin, had the posts not been shortly after given up, a circumstance we could then have no knowledge of, as the effects of Mr. Jay's embassy to England were not then known in this country.
We entertain full confidence in your excellency's republicanism, wisdom, and humanity, that every justice will be done us by you in the premises, as are consistent with your public duty. We are very sensible, Sir, of the advantages which will naturally accrue to this country from your personal residence among us—your general interests, we trust, will be now blended with ours. The sample we have already experienced of your philanthropy makes it our duty and interest to wish your excellency may long enjoy health and happiness among us, as to contribute to the prosperity of the good people of this Territory, and your own consequent satisfaction.
With due regard, we are, Sir, Very respectfully, Your most obedient serv'ts, (Signed) Geo. M'Dougal John Anderson Francis Navarre Jean Bt. Jeraume Committee
COPY OF GOVERNOR HULL'S REPLY TO THE RIVER RAISON COMMITTEE.
Detroit, 8th August 1805. GENTLEMEN, I have received your letter of the 31st of July, containing the address of my fellow citizens of the district of Erie; I am gratified with the sentiments it contains, and the language and manner you have been pleased to communicate them. Their devout acknowledgments of gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the universe, for the establishment of their
government; their generous approbation of the manner in which its operation has commenced, their solemn pledge to support the constituted authorities, by a respectful and liberal conduct are the best evidences, that they are worthy the character of good citizens.
I am strongly impressed with the importance of establishing schools, to enlighten the rising generation; the blessings of a free republican government can never be enjoyed without a general diffusion of knowledge; under these impressions therefore arrangements on this head will be among the first cares of the administration.
In the execution of my duty, as Superintendent of Indian Affairs, I shall make every possible exertion to carry into effect the wise provisions adopted by Congress, for regulating the intercourse with them, and the benevolent views of the President of the United States, to whom extensive powers are given on this subject.
I heartily agree with you in the opinion that your government was established at a most auspicious period: Jefferson is the friend of man, and the basis of his conduct equal justice to all.
It will be my duty and inclination to make a representation of all circumstances interesting to my fellow-citizens of the Territory and I have the fullest confidence justice will be done them.
A faithful and honest discharge of my public duties will be the best return I can make for the satisfaction you have expressed on my appointment as your governor, and the confidence you feel in the wisdom and justice of my administration.
I am Gentleman, with great respect, Your most obedient servant, (Signed) WILLIAM HULL.
CITY OF WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 1805.
Several persons under the impression that the public lots in this city are to be disposed of in future by public sales only, having made enquiries when the next sale will probably take place, we are requested to state that those lots may at any time be purchased at private sale of the Superintendent of the City.
Runaway Negro.
WAS committed to the jail of Frederick county, on the 25th of July last, as a runaway, a negro man named JIM, about 23 years of age, five feet four inches high; His clothing is a velvet jacket, osnaburg shirt and trousers, and a wool hat. He says he belongs to Mr. Evans, of Natchez, and that he was purchased of Rezin Hammond, of Anne-Arundel county, Maryland. His owner is desired to release him, or he will be sold for his jail fees agreeably to law.
GEORGE CRAIG, Sheriff of Frederick County. Aug. 16th - 1805 - sawgw.
Runaway Negro.
WAS committed to the jail of this county on the 18th day of August last, a negro man by the name of
RALPH about 23 or 24 years old, about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, has a scar on his throat or neck, and two of his fore teeth out; his clothing is a tow shirt and trousers, old osnaburg jacket, old wool hat, two pair striped cotton trowsers and an old linen shirt, says he belongs to James Wyatt near the Red House Prince William county state of Virginia. His owner is desired to come, prove property, pay charges and take him away, otherwise he will be sold for his prison fees according to law on the 20th day of November next. L. HILLIARY, Sheriff, Allegany county, Maryland. Cumberland, Sept. 11 - w3t
Rich Kanawha Bottom Lands FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.
THE subscriber offers for sale, or exchange for lands or other real property on the east side of Blue Ridge about 7000 acres of rich bottom land on the Great Kanawha river, and on both sides thereof, opposite and below the mouth of Poketolico creek in the state of Virginia, 25 miles from Point Pleasant, the county town of Mason county, and 12 miles from the county town of Kanawha county, and adjoining the lands of the late Gen. Washington. They were surveyed at the same time with these lands, viz. in the year 1772, and are held under the same titles, viz. old military rights which are unquestionable.
The Lands are of the very first quality, the bottoms in many places a mile wide. They have been lately resurveyed and divided into lots containing from 150 to 350 acres each, for the accommodation of purchasers, each lot fronting on the river, and extending back from thence to the hills, which afford a most extensive range for stock, which can never be interrupted. 200 acres therefore of this rich bottom with its advantages would make a good settlement. The great Virginia state road leading to the states of Ohio and Kentucky, passes by and through these lands, which being on a fine navigable river will command a ready and high price for the produce to the emigrants to the western countries both by land and water. Their situation besides gives their occupants choice of the eastern or western markets as produce or stock may be found most profitable. The climate is mild and remarkably favorable to the production of fruit. Salt works are erected on the banks of the river but a few miles above these lands, and the neighborhood furnishes abundance of iron, coal, limestone, mills and mill seats—so that there is no part of the western country which holds out more advantages to persons desirous of emigrating. A more particular description of these lands, with plots of the several lots, their situation, description and price may be had by application in Alexandria, to Mr. WM. CRAIG who attended the surveying of them, or to the subscriber.
JAMES CRAIG, Sept. 11 - sawgw
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18.
The following is an official statement of all the bills drawn by the American minister to satisfy the claims adjusted under the Louisiana convention, up to the 3d of July, 1805; after which, it is probable, a suspension of further drawing for a month will have taken place, owing to the absence of the French minister of the Treasury, who had gone to Italy.
TO WHOSE ORDER LIVRES. DATES. 1805.
Table with 3 columns: Name, Amount, Date. Lists financial transactions for various individuals including P. W. Livingston, John Townsends, Do. Transferee of Henry Sadler, Peter Torris, John Sinclair, Geo. Lynham, Henry Jackson, Francois Robert, Do. John Greenleaf, Vidal and Co., Baquenault & Co., Ducupley, Le Ray de Chaumont, Stephen Dutelle, John Blagge, Bickley and Clarke, Murray & Mumford, Smith & Ridgway, Do. Jas. C. Mountflorece, J. C. Mountflorece, J. C. Mountflorece, Felix Helie, Bartholemew Cabarrus, Peter Gilman, Joseph White and Robt. Stone, Christian Mayer, Joseph White and William Kemball, Josh. Orne, Wm. R. Lee, Jno. Holmes and Ch. Ghesquier, L. Honore Guerlain, Jas. Swan, Josh. Orne, Samuel Smith, Josh. Orne, Joseph Howard, David Tilden, Do. Moses Myers, John Marrast, Stephen Higginson, Abner Wood, Debora Stewart, E. Kendall & Jon. Ingersoll, Benjamin Wilson, William Betts, David Spear, Wm. Prestman and Abm. M. Causland, Nathaniel West, Rob. Patton, Rd. Salter & J. Sheafe, Jno. Carriere & Wm. Wyse, Geo. Frost Blount, Jon. Tilcomb, Henry Hodge, John Leamey, John Peters, Geo. Dunham, Ludwig Dupasquier, Petit and Bayard, Do. Wm. & Jos. Bell and Jos. Watson, Henry L. Waddell, Baguenault, transfee of James Swan, James Swan, Michael Owealy, Perregaux and Co., Do. Luke Callaghan, Shaller, Chaubry de la Roche, Hays, M. Owealy, James Swan, Edw. Staples, Thomas Adams, John Low, Jno. Low, Elias Rowe & Hannah Davis, Tiphalet Davis, John M. Pintard, Nathaniel Fellows, Fenwick Mason & Co., Gouverneur & Kemble, Jos. White and And. Dunlap, Anthony Butler, Do.
Table with 3 columns: Name, Amount, Date. Lists financial transactions for various individuals including Anthony Butler, Jacob Shoemaker, Paul R. Randel, Anne Burrows and Joseph Vansise, John Burrows, Dennis Laury, Dennis Laury transferee of Wm. Macreery, William Duncan, John Judicott, Nicholson Broughton, William R. Lee and William Lee, John Plankinhorn, Samuel Darby, John Johnson, James Gamble, Robert Mickle, Mary Motley adm'x of Alexander Motley, Fenwick Mason & Co., Anthony Laussat, Stephen Girard, Do. Michael Owealy, Samuel Watt, Thomas Ogier transferee of Thomas Wallace, Richard H. Wilcocks, Samuel Aborn and James Rhodes, Watson and Paul Samuel Toplif and Ebenezer Gay, Pratt and Kintzing, John Dunlap and Thomas Irwin, Tunno and Cox and Miller and Robertson, Jacob Shoemaker, Do. Jacob Shoemaker, Andrew Summers, Henry Pratt for himself and as adm'r of Frederick W. Sternman, Dicker & Co., Harper & Snowden & James King, James Ash for himself and as adm'r of James Craig, Robeson and Paul, Ann Carhart, adm'x of William Carhart, and Joseph Higbee, transfee of Pearson Hunt, William Glover, and John Tittermary & sons, James Robertson, adm'r of Timothy Gay, Eben Parsons, William Patterson, Do. Stephen Higginson and William Parsons, Daniel and Charles Jackson, William Sturtevant and Louis Marcy, adm's of Stephen Marcy, Titus Wells, transfee of John Salter, James Swan, Samuel Hatch, James Swan, transfee of John C. Jones, Lawrence Vial, James Boland, Thomas W. Francis, and Joseph Russel, William Morgan, Patrick Hogan, Wheaton and Tisdale, Do. Edward Dunant, Samuel and John Smith, Verewock Gole and Ebenezer Thayer, Joseph Young, Jr., Samuel Lewis, Gros Duvillier & Co., J. G. Clark, Joseph Fenwick, James Barry, Joshua Barney, Joseph Russel.
We understand that a mistake has been committed in the date of Commodore Barron's letter to Mr. Eaton. It should be Dec. 22, 1804, instead of March 22, 1805.
CLITUS is inadmissible—not for want of talents in the writer, or for truth in his remarks. The great evil of slavery which he deplores, and the horrid practice of separating, by mercenary traffic, husbands from wives, and children from their parents, calls aloud for legislative interposition. But, in the mean time, the subject involves so many solemn considerations, as to render in our opinion inexpedient, and even dangerous, the exhibition of the glowing portrait drawn by Clitus. It is to be recollected that such attempts to excite the feelings of freemen may awaken those of slaves, and that their effects, so far from lightening, may add to the weight of their chains.
The legislature of New-York have laid out a new county by the name of Jefferson.
COLLEGIATE HONORS.
At Cambridge, Mas. forty-seven young gentlemen received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the university of North-Carolina,
four young gentlemen have been admitted to the same degree.
In Columbia College, N. Y. the degree of Bachelor of Arts has been conferred on twenty young gentlemen, and the degree of Master of Arts on two gentlemen.
At Dartmouth College, the degree of Bachelor of Arts has been conferred on thirty young gentlemen, and the degree of Master of Arts on fourteen gentlemen. The degree of Doctor of Laws on William Paterson of New-Jersey, John Langdon of New Hampshire, and Stephen R. Bradley of Vermont.
The same degree has been conferred on Barnabas Bidwell of Massachusetts, by the college at Providence.
A number of our gallant countrymen, lately so honorably liberated from captivity, have arrived in this city from on board the Essex, by whom we learn that captain Bainbridge had been tried by a court martial and had been honorably acquitted. The Norfolk Public Ledger gives us the following details.
Norfolk, Sept. 11.
Yesterday arrived in Hampton Roads the United States' FRIGATE PRESIDENT, COMMODORE BARRON, Captain JAMES BARRON, in 38 days from Gibraltar. By this ship we are relieved from all anxiety upon this interesting subject, for not only does she bring the certain accounts of peace being concluded, and the release of our unfortunate countrymen, but she has brought Captain Bainbridge, his officers and part of his crew, a number of whom are now in town. We offer them our felicitations upon this happy occasion, and sincerely hope that the pleasures they will meet in their native country, and in the embraces of their friends, will compensate in a measure their past sufferings. We are sorry to understand Commodore Barron has returned in very bad health.
The particulars which we have collected are corroborative of what has been already published—General Eaton deserves great credit; to his enterprise and courage we are principally indebted for the attainment of these important objects. We understand that General Eaton reached Derne about the last of April, when he instantly attacked the Bashaw's army, and defeated it with little loss, himself being wounded in the right arm so as to render it useless. The few Americans who were in the action, displayed a courage that confounded the Turks; they were appointed to lead the attack, which service they performed in a manner that did honor to their country. We understand that at the time General Eaton attacked the army by land, that captain Hull in the Argus, captain Dent in the Nautilus, and lieutenant Evans of the Hornet bomb ketch, attacked the batteries by sea.
General Eaton's army was, we understand, composed of 1,500 men, and that of the Bashaw's of 5,000. This intrepid little band had marched 800 miles across the Sandy Deserts, through a hostile country, and had several partial actions before the decisive one at Derne. General Eaton was wounded when in the act of cutting down a Sek of the Bashaw's army.
The result of this action appears to have been an immediate proposal from the Bashaw for peace; col. Lear went immediately to Tripoli, and a treaty of peace was signed on the 3d of June, and our countrymen released the next day. The terms we cannot learn fully, but we understand that as far as we had Tripolitans they were exchanged man for man, for the balance of Americans remaining we are to pay 60,000 dollars. Some provision, but what we cannot understand, is made for the ex-Bashaw; his wife and family who were detained as hostages, are to be liberated. As the official accounts are gone on to Washington we must suspend our curiosity as to the other articles at present.
The President left Syracuse the 7th July: the following was the distribution of the American squadron at that time. The frigates Constitution, Constellation and Essex, with the brigs Syren and Vixen, and bomb-ketch Hornet were at Syracuse; the Argus had sailed for Egypt and the Nautilus for Messina. The frigates John Adams and 2 gunboats anchored the day the President sailed. Gen. Eaton sailed for the U. S. in a merchant vessel. The ex-Bashaw was at Syracuse when the President sailed. The President on her passage to Gibraltar got near the Spanish coast, was taken for a British frigate, and fired upon from the batteries.
It may be grateful to the friends of the officers who have been in captivity, to know where they now are, we have procured the following account of them. Returned to the President.
William Bainbridge, Captain. Jacob Jones, 2d Lieut. Keith Spence, Purser. Benjamin, P Read, Lieut. promoted, James Gibbon, do. do. Daniel T. Patterson, do. do. William Osborne, Lieut. Marines, James Biddle, Midshipman, Robert Gamble, do. William Cutbush, do. Wallace Wormly, do. James Renshaw, do. Nicholas Harwood, Surgeon's Mate, Jonathan Cowdry, do. William Anderson, Captain's Clerk, George Hodge, Boatswain, Joseph Douglas, Sailmaker, Richard Stevenson, Gunner. Remained in the Mediterranean.
Lieut. David Porter, Theodore Hunt, Benjamin Smith, Bernard Henry, Master. Doctor John Ridgely remains as Charge d'Affairs for the United States for Tripoli. Simon Smith, Midshipman, and William Godby, Carpenter.

DIED. At Charleston, August 30, in the 82d year of his age, the venerable and highly respected General Christopher Gadson .
DIED. On 24th of July last, on board the ship William Murdock , capt. Thom , on his passage from London to Philadelphia, John Churchman , in the 53d year of his age. About five months before he embarked, being intent on his studies through the night, until five in the morning, at his lodgings in London, he received a paralytic stroke, which deprived him of the power of speech and the use of his right hand; the best medical aid and other friendly care being administered, he in some measure recovered both; at his own desire and by the advice of his friends, his passage was taken, and about 8 days after sailing, he calmly met the fatal stroke, by which the world has lost a useful citizen, whose researches into the cause and changes of the variation of the magnetic needle, were likely to prove very beneficial to navigation. His magnetic charts for finding the longitude at sea having been brought into use by a considerable number of skillful navigators both in America and Europe, are found to be highly useful in correcting their reckonings.
N. Y. D. Adv. It is interesting to our country to know, that the publishers of Humboldt and Bonpland's Travels , have received the copy. They announce that he will publish a larger work in another form. He will introduce it with the parts which belong to natural history, and embrace in his travels what belongs more particularly to civil society. The present work will be properly an abridgement, entitled, An Abridged Relation of a Voyage to the Tropics , performed in the interior of the new continent, during the years from 1799 to 1803. The work will be published in the name of both travellers, but the parts of each will be distinguished.
Salem Register. New-York, Sept. 14. Capt. Elwell , who sailed from Lisbon Aug. 4, informs, that intelligence was received there on the 3d of the same arrival of the combined fleets at Vigo (about 100 miles S. W. of Ferrol and about 200 to the northward of Lisbon). Immediately on the receipt of this intelligence at Lisbon, a British frigate sailed for Gibraltar, to convey information to Lord Nelson. The ports of Cadiz and St. Lucar were strictly blockaded, and of course business was dull at those places. It appears probable the combined fleets put into Vigo about the 25th July, to procure fresh instructions or to learn the situation of the British blockading fleets, and to obtain information respecting their old antagonist, Nelson. Before the 25th of July, all the British fleets were apprized of the Toulon and Cadiz fleets being on their return to Europe; and the fleet off Cadiz had probably been reinforced.
Best. Pal. A letter from St. Sebastian's, dated Aug. 10, says: "The combined fleets arrived at Vigo on the 30th July, after chasing and engaging the British fleet of 16 sail of the line under the command Admiral Calder. Of the former, 2 Spanish ships were missing when the fleet entered Vigo, but they arrived there on the day following."
LONDON, July 17. The crops throughout the country are of excellent promise, and some fine weather now would render them not only more forward, but far more abundant than for some years past.
The Emperor Napoleon had arrived at Fontainebleau from Italy. His Imperial Majesty had travelled in cog , in the name of the minister of the interior. It was reported that a violent commotion had broken out at the Hague. On the 4th of July at Paris, General Armstrong, minister of the United States, gave a splendid dinner to his countrymen. All the French officers who served in the war of independence, were invited. A ball terminated the meeting.
MADRID, June 30. Mr. Bowdoin, the new minister of the United States, is arrived at Santander, in consequence of which the apprehensions we were under of an approaching rupture with America are over.
Moniteur. RUNAWAY Now in this City. RUNAWAY from the subscriber on Wednesday last, a likely mulatto girl named CELIA , about twelve or thirteen years of age, has a small impediment in her speech, and when spoken to has a candid or down look; she brought off a variety of decent clothing, and had on a green satin bonnet, long square front lined with pink. She passes herself as free under the name of NANCY ADAMS . I will give FIVE DOLLARS for securing her in jail so that I get her again, or TEN DOLLARS for delivering her to me in Alexandria.
JAS. S. SCOTT. N. B. I caution all persons against aiding or harboring her after this date.
REMOVAL. THE CITY TREASURER'S OFFICE COUNCIL HALL, is removed to the Brick House next west of the Theatre. August 23—w3t
MARYLAND—IN CHANCERY, SEPTEMBER 7th 1815. Darius Gamble, against Samuel Beck, Simon Beck, Wm. Carroll and Mary his wife, Joshua Beck, Nathan Beck and George Beck heirs of Joshua Beck.
THE object of the bill is to obtain a decree for the sale of part of the tract of Land called "Gambles Farm" lying in Kent co. for the payment of the aforesaid Joshua Beck from whom the said land descended to the defendants as his heirs at law. The bill states that some of the defendants reside out of this state, and it is on the complainant's motion ordered that by causing a copy of this order to be inserted once in each of three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer before the 10th day of October next, he give notice to such of the said defendants as reside out of this state and their guardian or guardians of the application to this court and of the substance and object of the bill and may warn them to appear here in person or by solicitor before the 10th day of February next, to show cause why a decree should not pass as prayed.
True copy, Samuel Harvey Howard, R. C. C. September 18—w3t
FOR SALE, A TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE and LOT in the city of Washington, situated on the Pennsylvania avenue near the Centre Market, and next door to Mr. Duane's book store, now leased to Mr. Solomon Myers for three years and occupied by him as a tavern. This property will be sold considerably below the first cost, and the payments made easy. For terms apply to the Subscribers next door to Mr. Way's Printing Office.
Republican Proceedings. AGREABLY to notice, a meeting of a number of respectable Republicans from the several election districts in Prince George's county, was held at Upper Marlborough in said county, on the 11th of September, for the purpose of recommending to the Republicans of said county, proper characters to represent them in the next General Assembly of Maryland.
RINALDO JOHNSON, Esq. was called to the chair, and Mr. FIELDER RIDGWAY appointed Secretary of this meeting. On motion, Resolved that this meeting now proceed to ballot for four candidates to be recommended to the citizens of Prince George's county as delegates to the next General Assembly and that this meeting will support by their votes at the ensuing election such gentlemen as shall have a majority of ballots in their favor. The meeting then proceeded to the balloting, and upon casting up the votes it appeared that Alexander Contee, Osborn Sprigg, Samuel Tyler, Sen and Thomas Woodward, Esquires had a majority of votes.
Whereupon, Resolved, That this meeting recommend to the Republican Citizens of Prince George's county, Alexander Contee, Osborn Sprigg, Samuel Tyler, Sen. and Thomas Woodward, Esquires as proper characters to serve in the ensuing General Assembly. Resolved, That the foregoing proceedings be signed by the Chairman and Secretary of this meeting, and published in the National Intelligencer.
RINALDO JOHNSON, Chairman, FIELDER RIDGWAY, Secretary. Sept. 18—tuct 7
Sale at Auction OF FURNITURE. ON Wednesday the 25th September will be sold at public auction, in the city of Washington, near the West Market and opposite to Mr. Lingan's house, a variety of furniture, consisting of beds, bedsteads and bedding, carpets, chairs, large mahogany dining tables and card tables, queens ware, china and glass, shovels, tongs, and andirons, looking glasses, candlesticks, &c. several small pine tables and all kinds of kitchen furniture; also a milch cow. The terms of sale will be, for all sums not exceeding 20 DOLLARS cash, and for all sums above, a credit of ninety days, the purchaser giving negotiable notes on interest with approved security. The sale to begin at 10 A. M. and if the weather should be unfavorable, to take place the succeeding day.
Runaway Negro. CAMPBELL , about 32 or 33 years of age, five feet 9 inches high, yellow complexioned, has a scar between his eye brows, and 3 or 4 remarkable ones on his breast, besides several on his shoulders, apparently occasioned by the whip—has with him a blue cloth coat with a black cape, a pair of blue pantaloons, and several other articles of clothing less notable—has for some time past been in the city as a free man; but latterly confesses that he is the property of Wm. Smith of Fauquier county, Virginia, to whom he was sold by George Robinson—was committed to the jail of Washington county, in the district of Columbia, on the first instant.
REMOVAL. THE CITY TREASURER'S OFFICE COUNCIL HALL, is removed to the Brick House next west of the Theatre. August 23—w3t
POSTSCRIPT. Philadelphia, Sept. 16. By the ship London Packet , M c Dougal, arrived at this port on Saturday evening last, in 30 days from London.
VICTORY OVER THE COMBINED FLEET. PLYMOUTH July 31.
It now is conjectured that the fleet seen by the Prussians which spoke the Caroline, Lieutenant Denby, in the Bay, about fourteen days since, was the combined fleet laying to for intelligence to push for Rochefort or Ferrol. Admiral Cornwallis expecting their return to Europe from all the information he received, detached, by orders from the admiralty, the Rochefort squadron on Friday the 19th inst. to reinforce Calder's squadron off Ferrol. This addition made him 15 sail of the line, 2 frigates, a sloop of war, and 2 cutters. He fell in with and chased the enemy all Sunday the 21st, and Monday the 22d inst. till 4 P. M. when Villeneuve's fleet kept the weather gage, to avoid close action, in the old French style; but their centre and rear being pressed hard an action commenced, as the British in two divisions, attempted to close with them, and became general at half past 4 with our van; the Windsor Castle, capt. Boyles, an 80 gun ship, the Barfleur, 96, and a 74 gun ship. The brunt of the battle, four hours close fighting, was between the above ships & 6 sail of Spaniards, when Villeneuve, finding our fire too hot, and having the wind hauled off, and left them to their fate. The San Raphael, of 34, La Firme, of 74, and two other Spanish ships, were near four hours on the Windsor Castle, 96, whose fire was dreadfully tremendous on both sides, as well as the Barfleur, of 96, and other ships engaged; but they had five at one time of the enemy's van and centre upon them. At the close of the action, the La Firme and San Raphael, not having a stick standing except the stump of the foremast, struck to the Windsor Castle, of 96, the Malta opening again her fire. The two Spanish ships have, in killed and wounded, 600 men; the crew of each consisting of 950 men, seamen and soldiers. The loss of the Windsor Castle, of 96, capt. Boyles, is as follows; lieut. Carey, navy; lieut. Rose, Royal Marines; Mr. Forster, midshipman, and 7 men killed. Lieut. Molineaux, navy, and 46 men wounded. Of the other ships no account has yet been received. The action happened off Cape Finisterre, July 22, which bore S. E. and by E. 43 leagues. Admiral Calder with 14 sail of the line, was left pursuing the enemy, which were seen the Wednesday morning the 24th early, having two disabled ships in tow, and every rational hope may be entertained that Villeneuve's fleet may still be defeated by Calder, or Collingwood, who is off Cadiz, and Nelson near hand; so if they escape, it must be into Lisbon, for Cornwallis with 28 sail of the line, is cruising from Rochefort to Ushant, in extended order to keep both ports in check. The Spanish prizes, Windsor Castle, Africaine, and Sirius, which were dispatched on the 24th to take care of the prizes, are put under strict quarantine in Hamaoze, and many persons who went on board to see their friends, are obliged to remain there for the 40 days quarantine. A signal is now up, 2 P. M. at Maker for 5 sail to the westward.
ANOTHER LETTER SAME DATE. The two Spanish ships, La Firme and San Raphael, came up the harbor last evening, and were safely moored in the Hamaoze, amidst the loud plaudits and cheers of a vast concourse of spectators, who assembled on the shores of the Hoe, Mount Wise, and the Stonehouse Hills, to witness this pleasing scene; the weather was extremely fine, which enhanced the beauty of the sight. Another ship of the line (supposed to be the Pluto of 80 guns) struck to the Windsor Castle and Malta, but was immediately afterwards towed off by a frigate and escaped.
The arrivals to the Eastward bring London dates to the 10th of August, which state that Mr. Bowdoin had arrived at London on the 30th July. The Russian minister, M. Novozilzoff, appointed to negotiate with France, having been recalled in consequence of the aggrandizement of Bonaparte in Italy, had returned his passports to the King of Prussia, and had left Berlin. Great preparations for war were making throughout the Austrian dominions, and more than usual bustle prevailed on the coasts of the channel.
Letters from Ad. Calder's fleet state, that he was blockading Ferrol on the 2d August. Accounts were received in London, that Lord Nelson was off Cape St. Vincent on the 28th July. His lordship was joined by Ad. Collingwood off Cadiz, but considering his 11 sail of the line to be a full match for the combined fleet, he dispatched Ad. C. to resume his station off Cadiz.
London, Aug. 5. The arrival of the Malta, of 80 guns, at Plymouth, on Saturday, with dispatches from Sir R. Calder, has put an end to the sanguine hopes so generally entertained, that our squadron would have succeeded in bringing the combined fleet once more into action. It now appears that from the evening of the 25th ult. none of the enemy's vessels were to be seen.
A London article of the 9th of August says hopes were still entertained of Lord Nelson's falling in with the combined fleet.
Negroes for Sale. ON Thursday the 3d day of October next, at Semmes's tavern in George town, I shall offer at public SALE for cash, TWELVE likely NEGROES, consisting of Boys from 8 to 18 years of age, and women and children. JOSEPH BREWER. Sept. 6—lawtdof.
LOST, IN George Town District of Columbia on the evening of the 31st ultimo; one SILVER WATCH, double cased, marked R. S. on the outside, and R. B. in small letters on the lid—maker's name Killicoat, London. Whoever will give the said watch, & person having it and give notice to the printer hereof, shall receive FIVE DOLLARS reward. Sept. 4—w3t
Ten Dollars Reward. WAS missed on Sunday, the 5th of May a double cased silver Watch, maker's name Crosthwaite, Dublin, and in the outer case was a watch paper with Mr. Parker's name of Philadelphi. Whoever will bring the said watch to the office of the National Intelligencer, shall receive the above a reward, and no questions will be asked. May 10—cf
ELIAS B. CALDWELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAS removed his Office, to the house lately occupied by Mr. LAW, on Capitol Hill. Washington, July 26—cf
Council, Annapolis, May 16, 1805. ORDERED, That the act to provide for the trial of facts in the several counties of this state, and to alter, change and abolish, all such parts of the constitution and form of government as relate to the general court and court of appeals, be published twice in each week for the space of three months in the Maryland Gazette at Annapolis; the American, Telegraph and the Federal Gazette at Baltimore; the National Intelligencer; the Republican Advocate and Bartgis's paper at Frederick; Town; Greeve's paper at Hagerstown, and in Smith's and Cowan's paper at Nation. By order, NINIAN PINKNEY, Clerk.
AN ACT To provide for the trial of facts in the several counties of this state, and to alter, change and abolish, all such parts of the constitution and forms of government as relate to the general court and court of appeals.
BE it enacted by the general assembly of Maryland, That this state shall be divided into six judicial districts in manner and form following to wit: St. Mary's, Charles and Prince George's counties, shall be the first district; Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot counties, shall be the second district; Calvert, Anne Arundel and Montgomery counties shall be the third district; Caroline, Dorchester, Somerset and Worcester counties, shall be the fourth district; Frederick, Washington and Allegany counties shall be the fifth district; Baltimore and Harford counties shall be the sixth district; and there shall be appointed, for each of the said judicial districts, three persons of integrity and sound legal knowledge, residents of the state of Maryland, who shall previously to and during their acting as judges, reside in the district for which they shall respectively be appointed, one of whom shall be styled in the commission chief judge, and the other two associate judges, of the district for which they shall be appointed; and the chief judge, together with the two associate judges, shall compose the county courts in each respective district; and each judge shall hold his commission during good behavior, removable for misbehavior on conviction in a court of law, or shall be removed by the governor, upon the address of the general assembly, provided that two thirds of all the members of each house concur in such address; and the county courts, so as aforesaid established, shall have, hold and exercise, in the several counties of this state, all and every the powers authorities and jurisdictions, which the county courts of this state now have, use and exercise, and which shall be hereafter prescribed by law; and the said county courts established by this act shall respectively hold their sessions in the several counties at such times and places as the legislature shall direct and appoint, and the salaries of the said judges shall not be diminished during the period of their continuance in office.
II. And be it enacted, That in any suit or action at law hereafter to be commenced or instituted in any county court of this state, the judges thereof, upon suggestion in writing by either of the parties thereto, supported by affidavit or other proper evidence, that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in the county court of the county where such suit or action is depending, shall and may order and direct the record of their proceedings in such suit or action to be transmitted to the judges of any county court within the district for trial, and the judges of such county court, to whom the said record shall be transmitted, shall hear and determine the same in like manner as if such suit or action had been originally instituted therein; provided, nevertheless, that such suggestion shall be made as aforesaid before or during the term in which the issue or issues may be joined in the said suit or action; and provided also, that such further remedy may be provided by law, in the premises, as the legislature shall from time to time direct and enact.
III. And be it enacted, That if any party presented or indicted in any of the county courts of this state, shall suggest in writing to the court in which such prosecution is depending, that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in such court, it shall and may be lawful for the said court to order and direct the record of their proceedings in the said prosecution to be transmitted to the judges of any adjoining county court for trial, and the judges of such adjoining county court shall hear and determine the same in the same manner as if such prosecution had been originally instituted therein; provided that such further and other remedy may be provided by law in the premises as the legislature may direct and enact.
IV. And be it enacted, That if the attorney general, or the prosecutor for the state, shall
suggest in writing to any county court, before whom an indictment is or may be depending, that the state cannot have a fair and impartial trial in such court, it shall and may be lawful for the said court, in their discretion, to order and direct the record of their proceedings in the said prosecution to be transmitted to the judges of any adjoining county court for trial, and the judges of such county court shall hear and determine the same as if such prosecution had been originally instituted therein.
V. And be it enacted, That there shall be a court of appeals, and the same shall be composed of the chief judges of the several judicial districts of the state, which said court of appeals shall hold, use and exercise, all and every the powers, authorities and jurisdictions, heretofore held, used and exercised, by the court of appeals of this state, and also the appellate jurisdiction heretofore used and exercised by the general court; and the said court of appeals hereby established, shall sit on the western and eastern shores for transacting and determining the business of the respective shores, at such times and places as the future legislature of this state shall direct and appoint, and any three of the said judges of the court of appeals shall form a quorum to hear and decide in all cases pending in said court and the judge who has given a decision in any case in the county court, shall withdraw from the bench upon the decision of the same case before the court of appeals; and the judges of the court of appeals may appoint the clerks of said court for the western and eastern shores, respectively, who shall hold their appointments during good behavior, removable only for misbehavior on conviction in a court of law; and in case of death, resignation, disqualification or removal out of the state, or from their respective shores, of either of the said clerks in the vacation of the said court, the governor, with the advice of the council, may appoint and commission a fit and proper person to such vacant office to hold the same until the next meeting of the said court; and all laws passed after this act shall take effect, shall be recorded in the office of the court of appeals of the western shore.
VI. And be it enacted, That all and every part of the constitution and form of government which relates to the court of appeals and the general court, or the judges thereof, or that is in any manner repugnant to, or inconsistent with, the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed, abrogated and annulled upon the confirmation hereof; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as to authorize the removal of the clerks of the respective county courts being in commission at the time of the passing of this act, in any other mode or manner than that prescribed by the constitution and form of government.
VII. And be it enacted, That if this act shall be confirmed by the general assembly, after the next election of delegates, in the first session after such new election, as the constitution and form of government directs, that in such case this act, and the alterations and amendments of the constitution and form of government therein contained, shall be taken and considered, and shall constitute and be valid, as a part of the said constitution and form of government, to all intents and purposes, any thing in the said constitution and form of government to the contrary, notwithstanding. May 31—w3t
RAGS. The highest price, in Cash or Books will be given for any quantity of clean Linen and Cotton RAGS, by Rapine Conrad and Co. Capitol Hill. June 24—
ISAIAH BALDERSTON, & SON, AT the sign of the Fan and Screen, No 52 Front street, Old town, and 1 Hanover street (nearly opposite Evans's Tavern) Baltimore, Manufacture and sell the following articles, viz—Fans for cleaning wheat, Wire Sifters of the most approved kinds, Rolling & Standing Screens (for merchant mills, and flaxseed Rolling Screens may be had on the common construction, or on Isaiah Balderston's improved plan, which is found to be superior to any heretofore in use for separating garlic from wheat) Riddles and Sieves for corn, coal, ore, barley, rye, oats, flax and clover feeds, wheat, cockle, lime, sand, snuff, flaxseed, and brick dust. Woven Wire for milk houses and cellar windows, together with all kinds of wire work, of which they constantly keep a complete and extensive assortment. Orders for any of the above articles left with Wm Morgan, George Town, or forwarded to them will be executed with punctuality and despatch on moderate terms. 8th Mo. 23—
District of Columbia, Washington county, ss. BE it remembered that on the 10th day of September, 1805, Stephen Osbourne, residing near Rock creek church, brought before me the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, a black mare taken up as stray about 6 years old, 14 hands high, a long blaze down her forehead, with a remarkable scar on the right buttock. Given under my hand the day and year above written.
SAML. N. SMALLWOOD. The owner of said mare is requested to prove property, pay charges and take her away. STEPHEN OSBOURNE, Sept. 11—3t

WASHINGTON RACES.
ON Tuesday the 29th of October next, will be run for over the Washington course, a JOCKEY CLUB PURSE , the four mile heats, free for any horse, mare or gelding, agreeably to the rules of the club.
WEDNESDAY, A JOCKEY CLUB PURSE the three mile heats, free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding day excepted.
THURSDAY, An Elegant Fifty Guinea silver cup. Ten subscribers—single four miles, and a handsome City and Town Purse. The two mile heats free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding day excepted.
Weight as follows.   Aged Horses 126 lb.  6 years old 120  5 do. 112  4 do. 100  3 do. 86   Mares and Geldings allowed 3 lb.
The members of the Club will meet at the Club Room on the evening before the Races, in order to make proper arrangements for the same. Those who cannot attend are particularly requested to forward their dues to the subscriber.
CH. McLAUGHLIN, Sec. & Treasurer, W. J. Club. N. B. The amount of the Purse cannot at this time be ascertained, as they are in part to be raised from 10% at the gates and rent of booths. C. M. L. Sept. 6, 1805—epf.
NOTICE to Delinquent Subscribers to the THEATRE.
ALL Subscribers to the Theatre, who have not made full payments on their shares, or contributed the materials and work promised, are hereby notified that unless the same be done on or before the first day of December next, their shares will be forfeited; after which day certificates of stock will be issued to those subscribers who have complied with the terms of subscription on application to the Directors.
ROBERT BRENT, WILLIAM BRENT, SAMUEL H. SMITH, } Directors. Sept. 4—tf
For Sale
IN the county of Prince William, Virginia, Meabie Furnace and its appendages, with four or five thousand acres of land adjoining, near the town of Dumfries, and within four or five miles of the Potomac—the soil is generally adapted to small grain, and if too considerable for one purchaser, will be laid off in Lots suitable for small farms—a description of the land is thought unnecessary—as those willing to purchase will no doubt first view it: the payments required will be one third cash, and the other two thirds in annual instalments, to be secured by a mortgage on the land; and no deed given until the last payment is made; any person wishing to purchase, may know the terms by applying to Mr. Thomas T. Page, living near the premises, who is fully authorised by me to sell the whole or any part. JOHN TAYLOR. August 16—3m.
N. B. A valuable mine bank in Maryland may be had with the furnace if required. J. T.
A Brewery for Sale.
By virtue of an authority given to the subscriber will be sold upon the premises to the highest bidder, on Monday the 22d day of October next at the hour of twelve, Lot numbered 10 in square east of square numbered 83 in the city of Washington; upon this lot are a malt house and kiln, a dwelling house of four rooms, to which is attached the brew house, containing a copper of 600 gallons and another of 200 gallons, a mashing tun, at present down, a working tun and a number of hogheads; also a small granary with cellar room for fifty rum hogheads—the standing works are convenient and the whole may be put in complete repair for 500 dollars. Annexed to the brewery is a good horse mill. A wharf may be extended from it at a small expence, to receive wood and grain, and beer may be conveyed from it by water to all the more populous parts of the city and George Town. The above property is extremely desirable in all respects to a person wishing to go into the brewing line. The terms of sale are, the purchase money to be paid one half in six and the other in nine months. For which payments security will be expected. Any person wishing to view the premises will please apply to Dr. Coningham residing thereon. MARSHAM WARING. Sept. 2—tdof
1500 DOLLARS REWARD.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
YESTERDAY about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, Mr. JOHN PETER, an Officer of the BANK OF COLUMBIA, was stopped on horseback on the road between this town and Alexandria, and within about 2 miles of the latter place, by some unknown villain, shot through the body with a pistol, and robbed of a sum of money in his possession belonging to this Institution which he was taking to Alexandria, for the purpose of exchanging with the banks there. The whole sum taken amounted Eighteen Thousand One hundred and Fourteen Dollars and Sixty Five Cents, made up in several packages, among which were,
 1 post note of the Bank of Virginia, Dol. C.  for 800  1 do. of the same, for 500  1 do. of the same, for 500  1 do. of the same, for 450  1 do. of the Bank of Potomac in favor of Joseph Riddle by him endorsed to Washington Bowie, dated 6 July, 1805. No 117 £49 6s 
A check of the Union Bank, on the Bank of Alexandria, drawn by R. Higginbotham, cashier, in favor of Greatham and Doyerau, by them endorsed and by Benj. Stoddert, and C. Smith, Teller. There were also a parcel of post notes of the Bank of Alexandria for 100 dollars, and for 50 dollars each. The remainder was in current notes, principally of the banks of Alexandria and Potomac, and some few of the Bank of Virginia of different sizes and denominations. As the attack was sudden, and the wound received of a nature to deprive Mr. Peter instantly of his senses, (although it is now hoped he will recover) the description obtained may not be very accurate—As far as we are informed—the man who perpetrated the act, is of middle stature, good countenance, and had a genteel appearance. He had on a dark blue or black coat, nankeen pantalettes, shoes, and a black hat, he was on foot and alone at the time, but may have had accomplices concealed, and will probably change his clothes.
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS will be given to any person or persons, who will detect and bring to conviction the robber; and ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS additional for the recovery of the whole of the money, or in proportion for any smaller sum recovered—should there be accomplices, and one of them make a discovery, so that it leads to the conviction of the robber, or to the recovery of the money he shall receive the above reward, and interest will be made to obtain his pardon. WILLIAM WHANN, Cashier of the Bank of Columbia. George Town, July 31—
On a liberal credit.
THE subscriber will dispose of at private sale, his estate called Chichester, lying on the eastern branch, immediately on the city of Washington. This tract of land containing 697 acres is laid off in lots from 33 to 144 acres for the convenience of purchasers. Plats of the estate and the terms of sale are in the hands of colonel Hanlon at the navy yard, and Charles Wayman of George Town. The lots will be shown by Mr. Weddon, living on the premises, near the Eastern Branch bridge. ANTHONY ADDISON. Barnaby, 12th June 1805—tf
FOR RENT,
THAT valuable property adjoining the Bank of Columbia, in George Town which is now occupied by Mr. Joseph Semme, as the Indian King Tavern. This property is in the centre of George Town; the house is large and commodious, with every convenience necessary for a tavern, adjoining thereto is a kitchen, stables and necessary out house. There is attached to said property an excellent dwelling house for a family that will be rented with it. Possession will be given immediately. Apply to the subscriber living on Capitol Hill, city of Washington. Sept. 16—tf WM. O. SPRIGG.
Alleghany.
The subscriber having determined to reside in Alleghany Co. Maryland, offers for sale 20,000 acres of land there and in Hardy County, Virginia, which is separated from Alleghany county, only by the North branch of Potomac. The land to be laid off in small or large quantity as to suit purchasers. He will remain here till 5th October, and be in Western Potomac at the mouth of Georges creek, 25 miles above Cumberland on 12th of October, for the express purpose of showing, selling, and laying out lands for those who wish to purchase. The terms of sale will be very reasonable, and a long time allowed for a large proportion of the payments, and produce or stock of any kind will be taken from year to year, at the Cumberland prices, and as he will want land opened, labor will also be taken in payment. A small payment will be expected at the time of purchase, say one Eighth part, which may be made in cash, good notes, bonds or slaves. He also offers a number of good lots at the west end of the city of Washington, and his dwelling house, out houses, garden &c. in George Town, now under the occupation of Washington Bowie, Esq. The lots will be sold for cash or on a long credit, or leased on ground rents. The place in George Town is one of the handiest in the world, is well calculated for a man of business, and particularly well for a gentleman with a family of Children to educate, it being situated in the midst of excellent seminaries for male and female, and good society, with fine water and excellent health. For further particulars respecting the city and George Town property, apply to Mr. CHARLES WAYMAN in George Town. The country at the head of the Potomac, where the subscriber offers his lands for sale, has perhaps important advantages over all other new countries, though in general it is mountainous, yet there are large bodies of land sufficiently level, and fertile in a high degree. No country is more healthy, none better adapted to farming and grazing. The crops of Indian corn are from 5 to 8 barrels the acre, in the common mode of cultivation, and there is no country superior for wheat, rye and oats, but its greatest advantage over most new countries, is its convenience to market, being not more than 150 miles from the seat of government of the United States; to which the produce can be brought by water. Those who may wish for further particulars, may see me in George Town any time between this and 5th of October. JOHN TEMPLEMAN. Sept. 4—w8w.
A Valuable Tract of Land FOR SALE,
LAYING on the main road, leading from Charlottesville to Washington city, containing 268 acres; six miles from Culpepper Court House, Virginia, convenient to a number of fine merchant and saw mills. The situation pleasant and remarkably healthy, the land level, fertile and well adapted to the production of Indian corn, tobacco, wheat and other small grain, and is remarkably well watered, having the north fork of Cedar Run passing through the center of it, and sixteen bold and never failing springs on it; 120 acres of timothy meadow land on it, all of which may be put in good repair at a very small expence and a superabundance of large and lofty timber on it. The improvements are a dwelling house, three large barns two stories high and other out houses sufficient, and which are strong and well built—2200 bearing fruit trees, principally apple trees, together with all kinds of seed and stone fruits. It is so situated as to admit of being divided into two convenient and profitable farms. I will sell it entire or divide it as may be found most convenient and give immediate possession—there is a good chance to seed a large crop of grain on it this fall. I will take negroes to the full amount of the above land or any part thereof for the accommodation of a purchaser; if the above land is not sold before the 20th of October, it will be sold on that day to the highest bidder; the sale to take place on the premises. MORTON PANNELL, Culpepper county, Virginia. August 21—wtt
To be Sold,
Or exchanged for other property in the City, or its vicinity.
TWO valuable and contiguous TRACTS of LAND in the state of Kentucky, the one containing 6880 acres, and the other 6252 acres, by late survey. They are under old and indisputable titles of more than twenty years, and situate in a populous county, adjoining flourishing settlements. All taxes thereon have been duly paid. Apply to the subscriber, JOHN BECKLEY, City of Washington, July 17—cp2m
FOR SALE.
THAT valuable Tract of Land where I now live called Brookfield, containing 418 acres and 3-4 of an acre; the soil is peculiarly good; there are a great number of well bearing apple, pear, and peach trees. It abounds with yellow Locusts, and has a sufficiency of oak for every necessary use. There is a large dwelling newly finished with four brick chimneys, two piazzas, four commodious rooms and a passage on each floor, and a large convenient kitchen adjoining it, a spring milk house, meat house, stables, carriage house, and an overseer's house with a brick chimney, four tobacco houses, a large new quarter, corn houses, and granaries; a great proportion of swamp land very rich and well secured from freshes—like wide 120 or 30 acres of wood land about three miles and a half distant from the aforesaid tract, a level public road leading to it. The dwelling plantation is about 3 1/2 miles distant from the port of Nottingham, 7 1/2 from Upper Marlboro', 18 from Alexandria ferry, and about the same distance from the Federal city. Any person wishing to purchase will apply to the subscriber. THOS. BROOKE. Brookfield, Sept. 4—w3t
I will sell upon a liberal credit, the following valuable property.
MY plantation on St. Charles's branch containing 800 acres, about three miles from Upper Marlboro', and not more than one from Patuxent River. Few plantations in Prince George's County combine greater advantages, or flatter an industrious man with better prospects of profit. The situation of the dwelling house is elevated, pleasant and remarkably healthy.—The spring water, fine and abundant.—The arable land, extremely favorable to the growth of Tobacco, Corn and all kinds of small grain. The meadows, sure to remunerate, are extensive, and with proper management will produce two hundred tons of Hay annually.—This plantation abounds with fire wood, rails, and fine timber, so distributed that little labor is required in making the necessary repairs, and much can be spared in the vicinity of a good market towards refunding the purchaser his money. In 1803 it produced 23,000 lb. of tobacco, with only 11 hands, the product would have been greater the next year, but for the succession of uncommon frosts. The dwelling, out houses, four tobacco houses and four quarters, are in good repair, and the plantation abounds with fruit trees. The purchaser may be furnished with the negroes on it, about 20 in number, twelve of whom are working hands and of them eleven are men. Mules, horses, about sixty head of cattle, a waggon, a cart, and every necessary for carrying on said plantation. Strawberry Hill, containing 180 acres with two miles of Upper Marlboro', on the post road leading from thence to the City of Washington. The soil is remarkably fertile and nearly one third may be made good meadow. The buildings are sufficient for a small family, who, with care and industry, would be sure to reap, on land, so congenial to the growth of tobacco, corn, small grain and grass the full benefit of their labor. Its situation renders it a pleasing retreat to a gentleman of fortune, disposed to take the advantages it promises to health, and amuse himself with the cultivation of a small rich plantation, in a genteel neighborhood, at the distance of about 12 miles from the seat of the general government, to which the road is very level, and nearly equal to a turnpike. Four hundred acres of land about 2 miles from Hancock in Washington County Maryland. About 40 acres of this land is cleared, and a small house on it; the balance heavily timbered, well watered and level, the post road from Hancock to Alleghany passes through it; near the road about the centre of the land is a fine spring, well calculated to turn a saw mill, or to carry on a Distillery; timber may be easily taken from this land to Hancock, and from thence floated to the city of Washington, where it always commands a handsome price. 1 Lot in the City of Washington, sq. 652. No 12 fronting 173 feet 7 inches on South North Street, and 55 feet 3 inches on half Street West. WM. B. BEANS. Upper Marlboro' July 10—10tw.
ENTERTAINMENT
FOR Man and Horse.
THE subscriber takes this method to inform the public, and particularly those travelling to the City of Washington, that he has opened a house of entertainment opposite the Branch Bank of the United States, where travellers shall be well accommodated on the most reasonable terms. THOMAS THORPE. July 3—1awtf.
IN CHANCERY, MARYLAND,
August 5, 1805.
Hezekiah Berry, vs. Samuel Smallwood, Amastatia Smith & Cornelius Smith her husband and others.
The object of the bill in this cause filed is to obtain a decree to foreclose a mortgage executed by Henry Smallwood on first day of July seventeen hundred and ninety nine for conveying to the complainant sundry tracts of land in Charles county. The bill states that Samuel Smallwood, Amastatia Smith and Cornelius Smith her husband reside out of the state of Maryland. It is thereupon adjudged and ordered that the complainant by causing a copy of this order to be inserted three successive weeks in a newspaper in the city of Washington, before the 25th day of October next, give notice to the defendants of this application and of the substance and object of the bill, that they may be warned to appear here in person or by a solicitor of this court before the twenty fifth day of February next, to show cause if any they have wherefore a decree should not pass as prayed Test SAMUEL HARVEY HOWARD, Reg. Cur. Can. Sept. 11—w3t
SULLIVAN'S LECTURES, PROPOSALS
By THOMAS B. WAIT & Co. FOR PRINTING, BY SUBSCRIPTION, AN HISTORICAL TREATISE ON THE FEUDAL LAW, AND THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF ENGLAND; With a Commentary on Magna Charta, and Illustrations of many of the English Statutes. BY THE LATE FRANCIS STOUGHTON SULLIVAN, L.L.D. Royal Professor of Common Law in the University of Dublin.
To which authorities are added, and a Discourse is prefixed, concerning the Laws and Government of England, BY GILBERT STUART, L.L.D.
THE Lectures of Professor Sullivan, delivered to the students in the University of Dublin, are in very high repute among all Lawyers of eminence, and have been uniformly recommended as an elementary book to those young gentlemen who begin the study of Law with a view to render themselves respectable in the profession.
However obsolete the feudal policy may now seem to be, it having gradually disappeared as mankind grew more civilized and became better acquainted with their natural and inalienable rights and privileges; yet a research into the history of the government of jurisprudence of the nations of Europe, will satisfy any one, that many consequences of that system still exist and influence the opinions and decisions of the highest and most enlightened tribunals of justice. Every author who has undertaken to give a regular and systematic account of the rise and progress of modern nations, has felt himself obliged to resort to the history of feuds and feudal rights, as the fundamental principle from which all existing civil and political institutions have taken their rise; and every jurist who has employed himself in explaining the constitution and laws of his country, has gone to the same source for the correct materials of his essays and dissertations. Robertson, in his history of the Emperor Charles V. has with great beauty and perspicuity illustrated so much of the feudal policy as was necessary to enable the scientific reader to understand that valuable book; and Sir Wm. Blackstone has in the course of his commentaries, led the student to a contemplation of the ancient tenures, many of which depend upon the doctrine of feuds, as established in England by the Norman conqueror.
But in both those invaluable productions, the feudal policy was adverted to, only as incidental to the principal object of the authors, and therefore cannot be supposed to furnish so complete and satisfactory an account, as would be given by so distinguished a lawyer as professor Sullivan, who declares the great purpose of his lectures to be the full discussion of the subject, which was of necessity but partially considered by the other writers.
This work has become so scarce in this country, as to be seldom seen, even on the shelves of a practising lawyer; a fact to be accounted for only by the difficulty of obtaining the book: for it cannot well be supposed that any one of the profession, who has higher views than the mere pecuniary advantages of the practice, would willingly neglect an enquiry into those ancient institutions, upon which, notwithstanding the lapse of ages, most modern improvements are founded. But it is not to the profession alone, that this book may be considered useful. In this rising empire, where political knowledge to a certain degree is claimed by all, and actually possessed by many; a book which so lucidly and so perspicuously brings to view the laws, institutions, manners and customs of those nations from which our English ancestors descended, must be peculiarly useful as it will enable young politicians to trace all our civil regulations to their source, and thence to account methodically and scientifically for many modern usages and practices, of which their knowledge is extremely superficial. In this book they will see how our ancestors struggled for the establishment of those privileges which artful monarchs and a proud nobility were continually attempting to destroy; and they will also learn that the perseverance, industry of the people, aided by the wealth which their skill and enterprise brought into the country, finally obtained a complete victory in the establishment of principles and customs, which, transplanted into America by our progenitors, terminated in those glorious constitutions which distinguish the people of America, for liberty and happiness, from every other people on the earth.
CONDITIONS.
The work shall be elegantly printed, in two octavo volumes, on fine wove paper, with a new and beautiful type. It will be delivered to Subscribers, bound in calf, at Five Dollars; and in boards, at Four Dollars—To non-subscribers the price will be enhanced. No money will be required till the delivery of the work. Those who subscribe for ten sets shall have one gratis. To booksellers the usual allowance will be made. Portland, June 23—
The above work will be printed from a correct London Edition—The few copies of an 11th Edition now circulating in this country are considered by the first law character as extremely incorrect, and not to be relied on by historical authority.
The subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public generally, that he has moved from the Navy Yard to the Capitol Hill, in the hotel lately occupied by Mr. P. D. Stelle, where he hopes to be favoured with a part of their patronage. It being a desirable situation, and the conveniences of the hotel excelled by none in the city. He therefore hopes to please those that call upon him in every instance. WILLIAM R. KING. August 20—tf.
NOTICE.
THE Subscribers having obtained letters of administration from the Orphan's Court of Prince George's county upon the personal estate of JOHN FRANCIS HARDY , deceased; they therefore give notice to all those indebted to the estate of the said John Francis Hardy to settle their respective debts. Those who have claims upon the estate are requested to exhibit them legally authenticated. ELIZABETH HARDY, } Adm'rs. RICHARD B. GARDNER, } Mayguder's Ferry, Prince George's county, Sept. 13—3w
SALE at AUCTION.
ON the 7th of October at 11 o'clock in the forenoon will be sold at public auction (at the COLUMBIAN INN in GEORGE TOWN. ) a handsome assortment of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE , consisting of beds, bedsteads and Furniture, mahogany dining tables, fide board, walnut tables, looking glasses, carpets, chairs, brass andirons, fenders, shovels and tongs, &c. &c. and a great variety of other articles—a liberal credit will be given for all sums above one hundred dollars. JOHN TRAVES, Auctioneer. Aug. 21—2awtf
To be Sold,
ON the 10th of October next, if fair, if not the next fair day, by order of the Orphan's Court of Prince George's county, at the plantation of WILLIAM HUTCHINSON near Upper Marlboro', to the highest bidder on 9 month's credit, all the personal estate of JOHN F. WILLETT , late of Prince George's county, deceased, viz. seven negroes, consisting of women, boys and girls, horses, cows and hogs, some household furniture—the purchaser to give bond with approved security bearing interest from the date, the sale to commence at 12 o'clock. NINIAN T. WILLETT, Adm'r. Sept. 13—taw3w
PUBLIC SALE,
Of Houses, Lots, and lands, situated in Fredericktown, and in the county of Frederick and state of Maryland.
ON the 23d of October next, at Mrs. Kimbolls in said town, will be sold at auction for the benefit of creditors, viz. in Fredericktown a large, handsome and commodious three story brick dwelling & storehouse, in a central situation for business—Also an extensive range of building, forming a very eligible family residence, in an airy situation with every needful improvement, and an out lot of 21 acres, enclosed with a post and rail fence, now in clover—453 acres of good farming land, in two tenements well apportioned, with meadow, upland, improvements and timber, distant about 12 miles. The terms, one twelfth in hand, one fourth in one month, the residue in two equal annual instalments with interest, on bond and security. JOHN RITCHIE, Trustee. Frederick town, Sept. 11—
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 Rosner's cord, toilettes, fancy and white Marceilles, black and figured silk, moleskins, fancy silk, Marceilles, constitution cords, velvets, Genoa cord, silk and satin Florentine, superfine coxing, knapped cloths, with a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season. N. B. Ladies white, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, December 10—tf
Preparing for the Press,
AND will be published early in the Spring, in one closely printed volume, The spirit of the Public Journals; Being an impartial selection of the best original Poetry, Essays, &c. which have appeared in the newspapers of the United States during the year 1805.
The Editors of Newspapers who exchange with the BALTIMORE Evening Post , are requested to give the above advertisement a few insertions in their papers. When published, a copy of the work will be sent to each office. Sept. 9—