The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1804-10-12 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. IV.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
DCXXVII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12th, 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
TO THE PEOPLE.
THE DEFENCE.
No. VII.
Coeval with this measure (the abolition of the internal taxes) commenced a vigorous spirit of economy, in which the legislature and executive heartily united. This is the common promise of reformers; a promise, which unfortunately for the people, is rarely kept. In the present case, however, it was sacredly observed. A sum much larger than that derived from the internal revenues was saved.
Without any reduction of the navy, the annual expenditures of that department were reduced 200,000 dollars.
The military arrangements were brought down to the situation of the country, and the annual sum of 522,000 retrenched.
Other sources of expense were annihilated or reduced, by which the public service was, in some instances, promoted, and in no instance impaired.
Among these, were the suspension of two foreign embassies.
The abolition of the offices of sixteen circuit judges.
A diminution in the compensations of collectors of the customs.
With a variety of other retrenchments, the greater part of which from their minuteness forbid specification, but which in the aggregate amounted to no inconsiderable sum.
The whole of these savings, taking four successive years, may be computed at the annual sum of one million of dollars, amounting to more than a fourth of the whole disbursements of the treasury, with an exception of the sum applied to the payment of the public debt.
There is little occasion to dilate on this branch of our view. It does not require any logic to impress on the people, the inferences deducible from such a reform. It may suffice to say that while it justified the repeal of the internal taxes, it tried the sincerity of the professions of the administration in those points, it is the most rarely observed. The love of office in the United States is unfortunately too predominant. He, who is the least acquainted with the secret springs of government, perceives it with regret mingling itself with the most important measures, and asserting its claims with alternate arrogance and servility. For an administration to pursue the straight line of justice, without giving way to the wiles or menaces of men actuated by interested motives, is an arduous duty. To go farther, and to cut off the very provender on which they hope to fatten, is to risk incurring the displeasure of a class of men, whose want of regular avocations, connected with an ardent and desperate spirit, give them great power over the prejudices of the people. An administration, pursuing such reforms, can only be upheld by the affections of the people. For their support alone can be sufficiently powerful to keep under those secret cabals which the disappointed and discontented will always excite.
The measures of the administration tried their sincerity on another important point. The funding interest, with what policy we shall not pretend to say, had uniformly reproached them with hostility to the regular payment of the interest and the final discharge of the public debt. This opinion was industriously and widely disseminated; and operating, with other circumstances, produced the almost total transfer of the public stock, either to foreigners, or to a class of men the most infuriatedly hostile to the new order of things. Duped, by designing individuals, they had, by every mean of secret as well as open enmity, borne a conspicuous share in traducing the character of every distinguished republican, and in resisting the growing spirit of the times. They had, on the other hand, lent themselves as willing instruments to those who disturbed the peace, and menaced the liberties of the country, by intemperate or unconstitutional measures. This description of men monopolised the evidences of the public debt, amounting to above eighty millions.
Under these circumstances the new administration came into office. Had they listened to any voice but that of duty, they might have reasoned thus: "Our promotion has been opposed by a body of men who derive their power from the bounty of the government. However efficient, from their wealth,
their numbers are trifling. The greatest part of the debt is due to foreigners, and the residue is in the hands of men, ever ready to destroy us by enlisting in any scheme destructive of the general good. The mournful experience of England ought to teach us that this formidable interest necessarily leads to a prodigal expenditure of money, to war, and to oppression. Let us then, while we have the power, crush the monster, which has arisen in a spirit of favoritism, and in views hostile to liberty. By this means we shall destroy our greatest enemies. It is true we shall disoblige them; but this cannot make them more our enemies, while we shall make the nation our friends. We shall injure, perhaps, ten thousand men; but we shall benefit five millions. By the annihilation of a debt of eighty millions, we shall in fact do that which will be equivalent to giving every family in the United States the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars. And by destroying this infant funding system, we shall forever crush the proud hopes of an aspiring aristocracy."
Such might have been the language of the administration. It would, it is true, have been the language of unprincipled ambition, of demoniacal revenge. But alas! how general has been the dominion of these dark and atrocious passions over rulers! State policy , that damnable pretext of tyrants, has extinguished every where the lights of justice and humanity. No—the republican administration held no such language. They rose not, like lawless comets, here to deluge and there to conflagrate a world; but, revolving, in their appropriate spheres, and shining upon the bad as well as the good, they shed joy and gladness in their course. As true to the principles of justice, as the planetary system to the laws of nature, they sacredly respected her eternal mandates. A regard to national good faith obliterated every minor feeling. They loved their country too well to sacrifice its fame on the altar of revenge. The regular payment of the interest has not, for a moment, been imposed; while the ultimate discharge of the principal has been hastened beyond all precedent, towards which the annual sum of seven millions three hundred thousand dollars has been appropriated. Under the auspices of these measures, our stock has risen, and those, to whom we are indebted, are only dissatisfied with the unexpectedly speedy discharge of their claims.
This view of the fiscal operations of the government might be extensively ramified. This would, however, probably be too great a trial of the patience of the reader. We shall therefore here rest our details.
The concurring opinions of enlightened writers have imposed three great duties on the intendants of the revenues of a state; viz. to raise a revenue equal to the expenditure; to collect it in such a manner as to be the least oppressive; and to disburse it frugally. These great duties have been faithfully discharged. That the revenue raised has been steadily equal to the expenditure clearly appears from the specie balance in the treasury for 3 successive years. On the 1st of October 1801, it was 2,946,038 dols. on the 1st of October 1802, 4,539,675 dollars; and on the 1st of October 1803, 5,860,000 dollars; sums, all of which are larger than the specie balance at the time the new administration commenced, which only amounted to 1,794,044 dollars.
That they have collected the revenue in such a manner as to be the least oppressive is evinced by two considerations, the diminution of the expense of collection, and the perfect satisfaction, on this point, which is not disturbed by a single murmur of disapprobation.
That the revenue thus raised has been frugally disbursed has already appeared.
We cannot close these remarks on the prosperous state of our finances without observing that neither the President nor the Secretary of the Treasury have, in a single instance, over-rated, in their estimates, the national resources. On the contrary, the resources have invariably exceeded the estimates. Without intending an invidious comparison, it may be asked whether the same can be said of the preceding administrations? Nor is it altogether unworthy of notice, that while the estimates of Mr. Gallatin have proved uncommonly accurate, the predictions of the opposition have, in every instance, been falsified by experience. Thus, in the first session of the seventh Congress, when the internal revenues were abo-
lished, and the foundation laid for the extinguishment of the public debt, Mr. Griswold, the ablest leader and most accurate man of his party, affirmed that it was unwise and dangerous to trust to receiving for several years more than 8,350,000 dollars from duties, and 721,000 from other sources, making together 9,071,000, which, he declared, after every practicable retrenchment, would leave an annual defalcation of 929,000 dollars. Instead of this result the duties have yielded in 1801, 10,126,213 dollars; in 1802, 10,100,000, and in 1803, 10,600,000; exceeding the estimate of Mr. Griswold in the average annual sum of 1,925,000 dollars. However surprising this error may be to those who have paid but little attention to the principles of political economy, it is easily accounted for. We are not to look to the counting-house or the forum, for those enlarged views that can only be taken by minds well acquainted with history, and the principles that regulate the intercourse of nations. To fathom the future requires a knowledge of the past, united with a capacity of extracting from the heterogeneous mals that which is applicable to existing circumstances.
But no circumstance so completely demonstrates the full competency of the public resources during the whole period of the administration as the operations for the redemption of the public debt. In the month of April, 1801 Congress passed an act appropriating the annual sum of 7,300,000 dollars to the payment of the principal and interest of the debt, a larger sum than had in any antecedent year been applied. Instead, however, of barely complying with the requisitions of this act, there has been applied annually a much larger sum.
Besides the regular payment of the interest there has been discharged of the principal, from the 1st of April, 1801, to the 3d of September 1803, as appears by the report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the 24th of October 1803, the sum of
DOLLARS.
9,920,000
And in correspondence with an estimate made in the same report there will have been discharged by this time the additional amount of
3,500,000
Making together 13,420,000 discharged in three years and a half.
We shall finish these remarks with mentioning a single fact. During the whole administration of Mr. Adams, there was not a dollar of the public debt really redeemed; for the new debt created by loans considerably exceeded the amount paid of the old.
CURIUS.
We have had frequent occasion of late to expose, before the view of our readers, the attempts to industriously made in some of the Eastern states, to sow the seeds of a division fatal, should they take root, to the union of these states, and fatal likewise to their future happiness and glory. The task has been painful. Nothing short of the conviction of duty should have prevailed upon us to hold up certain men, mistakenly called federal, to the public indignation, for propagating sentiments, which, if generally received, would inevitably produce the dissolution of the union. In proportion to the pain inflicted by the discharge of this duty, is the pleasure with which we have dispelled contrary opinions; this pleasure rises on finding some of our political opponents abandoning the prejudices of party, and with the feelings of true Americans, warning their countrymen of the danger that besets them. Among these men, the Editors of the Connecticut Herald are entitled to our respect and the thanks of their country for the following just and apposite remarks:
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation.
This maxim even had it not been pronounced by our blessed Lord, would nevertheless, be an established truth—It is confirmed by the history of mankind in every age. It has been veri-
fied by the overthrow of nations in every quarter of the globe. The once mighty power of Greece, which while united made the world tremble, at the deeds of its arms and bend before the sceptre of its power, did not long survive a dissolution of its confederacy. But perhaps there is not a more striking and at the same time, a more awful manifestation of the truth of the above maxim, than in the history of God's chosen people, the Israelites. As if fixed by the fiat of heaven, that the calamities of mankind shall be proportionate to the blessings misused, the fall of that highly favored nation, was replete with calamities as unexampled and astonishing as the blessings it had perverted.—Though it had at various times walked aside from the path of duty; declined being under the government of the true God, and desired a mortal sovereign, that it might be like other nations; violated the laws of heaven, written by the finger of Jehovah; bowed the knee to the gods of the heathens, and drank of the cup of their abominations; yet none of these transgressions were immediately followed with calamities so complicated and deplorable, as those caused by a division of the nation. All the follies of its preceding kings, though terrible in the light of God, and awfully chastised by his righteous judgments, were not so fatal as that one folly of Rehoboam, which broke asunder the sacred ties of union. By this great event the glory to which the nation had risen by the wisdom of Solomon and the valour of his illustrious father was eclipsed forever.
Having descended from the same venerable parents, having long been united by the strongest ties of consanguinity, and worshipping the same God, while surrounding nations prostrated themselves before stocks and stones, it appears surprising the Children of Israel should disunite and thus expose themselves to all the calamities which awaited them. And after they became divided, it is surprising they did not perceive the obvious necessity of cultivating harmony and a spirit of conciliation. But the same corrupt propensities, the same erroneous policy, which produced the unhappy division, continued to prevail. The two divisions became the most inveterate enemies to each other, and intestine wars of the most sanguine and implacable nature, ensued. The same weapons with which they had gallantly fought in their common defence, and with which they had carried terror and victory into every region of their common enemies, were now presumptuously wielded against each other. Conscious of each other's valour and desperate spirit, they fought with the most relentless and savage fury. After repeated wars, in which each was alternately victorious and vanquished, they were exhausted, and the words of the prophet Isaiah were fulfilled. Their cities were burnt with fire; their land became desolate, as overthrown by strangers: and they were carried into captivity among their idolatrous and implacable enemies, where they drank the cup of humiliation and bitterness to its lowest dregs.
A similar fate awaits this country, should a division between the northern and southern states be effected. The first shock which shall sever the union of these states, will be a prelude to a series of calamities which will render our future history as inglorious as it has hitherto been splendid and glorious. "The fatal moment that shall witness the dissolution of the union of our nation, will, in the language of the poet, bid 'a farewell, a long farewell to all our greatness.' Mourn Columbia when that awful event shall meet thee; put off thy beautiful ornaments; hang thy harp upon the willows; gird thyself with sackcloth and sit in ashes:—for peace will have forsaken thy land and thy glory will have departed forever!" Cold must be the heart and dull the sensibility of that American who can contemplate such an event with indifference. One division would probably be succeeded by subdivisions, and the United States would resemble a den of monsters, the largest of which would aim to swallow up the rest. Formidable rivalships would soon arise. Jealousy, hatred and revenge, horrible and destructive, would render each a fiend, which one day we might behold,
"Meteor like, flaming lawless through the void, Destroying others, by itself destroy'd."
And would foreign courts behold us under such circumstances, with a propitious smile? Would the bright constellation of their virtues dispense to us
nothing but genial and salutary rays? Would it arrest our progress to the regions of darkness and destruction? By no means. History indulges us with the expectation of no such thing. So long as "man is man," it will be vain to expect it. Avaricious, haughty and imperious foreign courts, would hope to profit by our misfortune. Their machinations, their insidious influence, and the deceptive arts of their abandoned emissaries, would all conspire to fan the flame of discord, to render us more hostile to each other, and make our destruction complete.
How important is it then, that we avoid every thing which has a tendency "to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts." Whatever may be our political sentiments respecting other affairs, yet on this great national point we ought to have but one sentiment. We ought to detest every measure which has a tendency to produce a division of the states. We ought to consider every voice tending to produce this great and deplorable event, as raised against the very existence of our country as a free and independent nation—as tending to overwhelm us with all the horrors of civil war;—to reduce the great body of our independent freemen to indigence and vassalage;—to render them the miserable slaves of petty tyrants at home, or of formidable despots abroad.
It is indeed contended by some that a division between the northern and southern states, would cut up our unhappy political disputes by the roots. But this is a fallacious supposition. It would have a contrary effect. What is now maintained by argument, would then be vindicated by the sword. The field of action, not the forum, would be the place of decision. Reason and eloquence must give way to the noise of battle and the groans of the dying. And thus the real causes of all such disputes as ours, would be augmented and perpetuated. Every portion of information and discernment knows that similar disputes will ever disturb the repose of any nation in proportion as the great body of the people are destitute of sufficient information. By every war they are stripped of their property, and, of course, of their means of acquiring knowledge. Their time and attention are engrossed by its various effects. In scientific and moral improvement a chasm of many years ensues; the social virtues are subverted and half a century of peace cannot repair the loss. One principal object of a republican government is to keep the great body of the people out of that mental lethargy ever predominant where despotism reigns—to make them alive to the advancement of knowledge, and all other means tending to ameliorate the condition of man, and render him what he ought to be. But by frequent wars that object is defeated, and mankind are rendered unfit to taste the cup of liberty without intoxication, and become mere automatons, fit to act only as they are acted upon. Thus they are incapable of enjoying any other government but despotism, that chosen curse which heaven has assigned to chastise the nations which choose to lie down with the brutes in stupidity, ignorance and vice.
It is of infinite moment then, that the citizens of these states consider a dissolution of the union the greatest calamity which can befall them. Our present rival statesmen and their disputes will soon vanish; but the evils which would result from the other deprecated event, would be lasting. They would affect ages unborn.
Sketches of the life of PRESIDENT WILLARD, lately deceased.
[FROM THE BOSTON CENTINEL.]
President WILLARD was born at Scarborough, on the 29th December, 1738. His father the Rev. Samuel Willard, the minister of a parish in that town, died while his son was a minor. His attachment to a literary life commenced when very young, but during his minority his situation rendered an application to books impracticable. After he was of age, he determined to supply the deficiency of his early education under the tuition of the late venerable preceptor of Dunmer Academy, who delighted in aiding the genius and talents of his pupils, and in facilitating their advancement to literary eminence. So constant was the application of his pupil, and so judicious the employment of his time, that in eleven months he acquired a competent knowledge of the

Latin Classics, and was admitted a student of Harvard College, in 1761. While a student, he excelled in every branch of literature then taught in the university: and when he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1765, he was unquestionably the best geometrician, the best astronomer, and the best classical scholar in his class. He had read most of the poets and historians of Greece and Rome; and so familiar was his acquaintance with the language of the former, that he wrote Greek poetry with facility and correctness. Wisely distributing his time among his various studies, none were neglected; and his manuscripts, when an undergraduate, were replete with calculations, the result of his progress in the sciences of geometry and astronomy.
In 1767 he was elected a tutor of the University for the Greek department; the duties of which he discharged with uncommon ability; and on the 25th of November, 1768, he was elected a member of the corporation; of which body he was an active and useful member, until the year 1772, when he settled in the ministry at Beverly. He considered the bible as a sufficient and perfect system of theology; and he assiduously employed his great talents and profound learning in acquiring a correct knowledge of the contents of these sacred volumes. What he there learned, he faithfully and affectionately taught; and he confirmed the truth of his precepts by a life blameless and exemplary. Averse to logical refinements and metaphysical subtleties in framing a system of divinity, his discourses were evangelical and practical, not attempting to teach others the opinions of men as doctrines of the gospel. At Beverly, happy with his people, and respected and beloved by them, he continued until the year 1781, when he removed to Cambridge, and was introduced to the office of President of the University; in which dignified station he remained during his life.
His attachment to the University, and his unwearied labors in promoting its best interests are too well known to be mentioned; and his success in extending and improving the objects and principles of public instruction, will ensure him the grateful veneration of posterity. To the subordinate governors of the college he was the companion, the counsellor and the friend; and to the pupils he was endeared as their instructor, their guide and their father.
In private life he was cheerful, social, and hospitable; an affectionate husband and parent, and a faithful friend—candid and liberal to others, he was severe only to himself.
As a citizen he loved his country, and was a zealous advocate for her religious and literary institutions, as exhibiting the only rational foundation for a mild, just, and equitable administration of government.
His moral character merits unqualified praise.—Perhaps on no man did a sense of moral obligation operate with more force. What he deemed his duty was inflexibly discharged—and in competition with it, all considerations of ease, interest and health vanished.
Placed by his office at the head of the clergy, his house and his heart were at all times open to them, and he was the object of their unfeigned attachment and reverence.
To distinguish and employ such uncommon worth and excellence, engaged the attention of various public societies in America and Europe. His own university conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. The Governors of Yale College honored him with the degree of Doctor of Laws. He was Vice-President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a fellow of the Royal Society of Göttingen, of the Medical Society of London, and of the American Philosophical Society. He was President of the Massachusetts Congregational Charitable Society, incorporated for the purpose of affording relief to the widows and children of deceased ministers; a member of the Society for propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America, and of the Humane Society. On these societies he reflected back the honors they had conferred on him.
From his early youth he possessed great constitutional frame, and mental vigor, which continued uninterrupted by ill health until the year 1798, when he was seized with a distressing disorder, which endangered his life. He gradually recovered his health, and was again restored to his family, his friends, the University and the public, who fondly hoped he might be spared to them for many years. But alas! how transitory are sublunary blessings! On his return from a journey to Nantucket, for the confirmation of his health, he was arrested at New-Bedford by a fatal disease, which on the 25th of September terminated his important and valuable life.
Tous lived, and thus died, the learned, the pious, and the beloved President WILLARD—
qui Pudor, et Institia amor Incurrunt Fides, nudaque Veritas Numquam ulum inveniet parem.
FROM THE AURORA, October 8.
MAYOY'S COURT. Commonwealth vs. Luke Price. On Saturday evening the trial of the person, who had robbed the Aurora office, came on before this court. The prisoner having pleaded not guilty, witnesses were called on the part of the prosecution.
Wm. J. Duane, having been sworn, informed the court, that the information he could give them was merely incidental; that he had no other knowledge of the detection of the prisoner, than by information from the person who had seized him, and who had aroused him from sleep to state the circumstances of seizure, and know what could best be pursued.
On intimating that two other witnesses could give full testimony, the court dispensed with the examination of the first witness, and called the second.
Chas. S. Kean, having been sworn, stated to the court, that of late it had been discovered by the persons employed in the Aurora office, that a great many newspapers were frequently deficient, of the actual number requisite for subscribers, particularly those in the country, that at first it had been imagined the deficiency was owing to the neglect of persons employed to print, but that the repetition excited suspicion; and it was at length determined by the persons in the employment of Wm. J. Duane to watch. That it had been found that the newspapers were missing, after they had been folded and prepared for subscribers, and consequently that the theft must have been committed in the counting house. That under this impression, different persons had watched several nights in and about the counting house; but that no discovery was made until Wednesday night, of the 3d October. That about 8 o'clock that night, the witness and Jonathan Stone, had concealed themselves in the counting house, and there remained; that about one o'clock, the witness heard a key put into the lock, from the outside and the door opened, that he looked towards the door and saw a man enter, but could not then recognise who he was; that he suffered this man to enter and take up a number of newspapers, which had been prepared for subscribers; that when the offender was about to pass out of the door, he seized him by the collar, and immediately knew him to be the prisoner at the bar, as he had been formerly in the employment of William Duane as a carrier. That on the seizure of the prisoner he had dropped the papers he had intended to steal, which were collected and kept. That the witness, with Jonathan Stone, who had assisted in watching, then secured the key, locked the door, and were proceeding to the printing office were there was a light, the men being at work at press, where they found a sort of towel spread on the ground, and in which the prisoner it was supposed, intended to carry off the papers. That having secured the prisoner, the witness proceeded to William J. Duane's room, awoke him, and after informing him of the transaction, asked what was best to be done: that it was deemed best to commit the prisoner to the watch house, and he was accordingly committed.
Jonathan Stone, having been affirmed, related to the court what had come to his knowledge: his testimony agreed with that of the last witness; but being entrusted with the care of that part of Wm. Duane's establishment, relating to the distribution of papers amongst subscribers, he added a few particulars not stated in the former part of the testimony. He said, that it was on the 26th of September last, he had first missed a great number of newspapers, that they had been taken from off a shelf, on which papers prepared for subscribers were generally put. That for several nights papers had been taken from the same place—one night in particular, the night of Sunday last—on the Saturday preceding the papers had been prepared as usual—on Sunday the office was opened, and the papers found in their places, on Monday morning these papers were not to be found.
The witness narrated the circumstances attending the detection of the thief, his seizure and confinement; and then informed the court, that on Thursday morning last he had accompanied Wm. J. Duane and C. Kean to a magistrate, who committed the prisoner at the bar to gaol. That on being questioned, the prisoner acknowledged the robbery, first said he had sent the papers to Bethlehem by the waggons, and afterwards said he had sold them in town. On being asked to whom he had sold them, he replied to Mr. Brown, tobacconist, in N. Second street, and to Mr. Bartholomew, tobacconist, N. Third street. Accordingly, inquiry was made, and the property found in the houses of those persons, who said they had paid at the rate of one quarter of a dollar, of two shillings and four pence per hundred newspapers. That at the house of a Mr. Cross, N. Second street, had been found a quantity of papers belonging to the files, which the prisoner had on one
occasion taken, and which were sold to Mr. Cross. That the key with which the prisoner opened the door had formerly belonged to the office, but had been missing since the fall of 1802.
The testimony having been closed on the part of the prosecution, the prisoner was asked if he had any questions to put to the witnesses, or any thing to say in defence—he replied he had not.
The jury shortly after returned a verdict of guilty—and the prisoner was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, to pay the amount of goods stolen, as stated in the indictment, with the costs of suit, and to stand committed until the sentence should be complied with.
From the London Gazette. August 11.
Downing street, Aug. 9. The king has been pleased to cause it to be signified by the right hon. Ld. Harrowby, his Majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, to the Ministers of neutral powers residing at this court, that the necessary measures have been taken by his Majesty's command for the blockade of the entrance of the ports of Ecamp, St. Valerie en Caux, Dieppe, Treport, the Somme, Etaples, Boulogne, Calais, Gravelines, Dunkirk, Neufport and Ostend; and that from this time, all the measures authorised by the Law of nations, and the respective treaties between his majesty and the different neutral powers, will be adopted and executed with respect to all vessels which may attempt to violate the said blockade.
LONDON, Aug. 14.
By accounts received on Saturday, from the squadron under the command of Sir R. Calder, off Rochefort, it appears that the enemy have 5 sail of the line and 2 frigates in readiness for sea. They use uncommon exertions in the equipment of the 274 gun ships which were lately launched there, and for this purpose have withdrawn the hands from all the small craft. The 100 gun ship which was laid down about 3 months since, is so forward, that it is supposed she will be launched in the course of the present year.
Aug. 15.
The Hamburg mail of the 3d inst. has brought the following articles of important intelligence, which we extract from our Private correspondence:
HAMBURG, Aug. 3.
"In consequence of the refusal made by the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lubeck, to comply with the new pecuniary exactions of the French government, Bremen has been invested for several days past by a detachment of the French army in Hanover; and no person is suffered to enter or depart from that city. They have even stopped all the supplies of provisions. As the enemy completely blockades the place it is impossible to ascertain by any direct information whether they have proceeded to levy by military execution the sums they demanded, but a rumour of this nature was in circulation this morning.
The city of Lubeck persists in its refusal to pay the contribution demanded by the French, who have not yet had recourse to any menace probably from the fear of hastening a rupture with Russia, whose fleet is now riding in the Baltic. The last letters from Petersburg state that the Emperor Alexander continues to give decided proofs of his determination to espouse the interests of Louis XVIII.
Intelligence has just been received here, that the navigation for small craft between Hamburg and Tonnigen, will from this moment be free. In confirmation of this pleasing intelligence, the following diplomatic document is circulated in every part of the city;
Copy of a letter from Lord Harrowby, his Britannic Majesty's secretary of state for the foreign department, to P. Colquhoun Graf, Esq.
Downing Street, July 18, 1804.
"SIR. "I have the honor to inform you, that I have paid due attention to the request contained in different letters of Mr. Matthieson, on the part of the city of Hamburg, 'That the lighters be permitted to navigate between the rivers Weser and Elbe.'
"Orders have accordingly been sent to his majesty's ships of the blockade to permit the passage of lighters, barges and other small craft, answering the above description, and carrying unexceptionable goods for neutral account, and to suffer the same to pass without molestation to and fro, along the Danish side of the Elbe, through the Watert, between Tonnigen and Hamburg.
"His majesty hopes that this permission will be properly attended to and not abused, and that no unfair advantages shall be taken of it, by which his majesty should see himself forced to
order the blockade to be resumed with the greatest strictness.
I have the honor to be, &c. (SIGNED) "HARROWBY."
"To A. Colquhoun Graf, Esq."
"Since the opening of the navigation between the Weser and Jade, the Danes too, have been permitted to sail with 25 of their herring smacks, up the Elbe.
"On the 30th ult. one of his Britannic majesty's sloops of war, of 18 guns, the name of which I do not however know, arrived at the new work off Cuxhaven, and sent ashore a dispatch, which was delivered to a French officer. On Wednesday the sloop still continued off her station, and it does not appear that the answer to the dispatch had been received. It is supposed that it was forwarded to the head quarters at Hanover, where the French commander in chief, Bernadotte, was at that time."
This morning we received Dutch Journals of the 6th and 7th, and Moneitors to the 3d inst.
They furnish the most lying accounts of the late bombardment of the port of Havre, and the gallant attempt made by the boats of the Leda frigate, under the command of Lieut. Maclean, to carry a vessel in Boulogne Roads. We are assured that only an old woman and a girl were killed and a few houses damaged at Havre, and that 4 British tars were made prisoners, without any resistance, by a French Serjeant of carabiniers, a sailor and a few assistants at Boulogne. The Corsican has been for several days employed in the harbour and vicinity of the latter place, in superintending the naval armaments and reviewing the troops. He had the mortification of seeing 3 divisions of his grand flotilla, which ventured into the road, pent up by 13 of our small ships of war.
A rumour has been prevalent at the Hague, that the mediation of the court of Vienna will be exerted to restore peace between Great Britain and France. This rumour may be traced more to the eager wishes of the Dutch to have an end put to hostilities than to any authentic intelligence.
The affairs of Egypt still continue in confusion. The Bys having gained another victory, had, according to the last accounts, laid siege to Cairo.
Col. Houghton, who arrived yesterday afternoon overland from India with dispatches for Government and the company, has brought home the ratification of the treaties concluded by gen. Wellesley between the British government and Scindia and the Rajah of Berar.—The Hon. M. Elphinstone has been appointed British Resident at the court of the Rajah Berar.
The American papers say, that M. Jerome Bonaparte, enraged at not having been made a part of the family declared Imperial by M. his brother Napoleon, has determined not to revisit Europe so long as France shall continue to be governed by a Corsican. M. Jerome pretends that his brother deceits him because there is no doubt that having been born since the conquest of Corsica, he is a Frenchman by extraction. M. Jerome is therefore gone to visit the fall of Niagara, expecting in the mean time that of Napoleon.
TRANSLATED FOR THE TELEGRAPHE.
NOMINATION OF THE EMPEROR OF HAYTI, JOHN JACQUES DESSALINES.
We, Generals of the army of Hayti, Anxious to consecrate, by an authentic act, the wishes of our hearts, and the dispositions so strongly expressed by the people of Hayti.
Persuaded that the supreme power needs no division, and that the interest of the country demands that the supreme power should be entrusted to his hands who has re-united the confidence, the affection, and love of his fellow citizens:
Well convinced, by cruel experience and the history of nations, that a nation can only be suitably governed by an individual, and that he merits that distinction who has to consolidate the edifice of our independence and liberty.
Considering their long series of misfortunes and vicissitudes, they have determined to assure the guarantee and safety of their citizens in a manner immutable and unchangeable; and that the surest means of attaining this object is to decree to that chief, who is alone capable of governing and representing with dignity a nation, a title august and sacred, which concentrates in him the power of the state, and which reposes in him the pledges of internal and external tranquility.
Considering that the title of governor general hitherto conferred on citizen J. J. Dessalines, does not sufficiently fulfil the general wish—inasmuch as it supposes a secondary power, dependent on a foreign authority, to whose yoke we have always been subservient.
Without longer submitting to the frequent and obstinate refusal of citizen J. J. Dessalines, to accept a power which the people and the army have delegated to him from the first epoch of the proclamation of our independence—and since this refusal is contrary to the inter-
ests, the wishes and the prosperity of the country—we decree to the aforesaid citizen J. J. Dessalines, the title of emperor of Hayti—and the right of choosing and appointing his successor. Desirous that this free expression of our hearts already resolved on by the people, should be offered with as short delay as possible for his sanction.
Done at Port au Prince, 25th January, 1804, and first year of the independence of Hayti (Signed)
VERNET, minister of finance, CLERVEAUX } commanding the CHRISTOPHE } division of the north.
PETION, } GOBARD, } Do. Do. south. and GEFFARD. } 15 Generals of Brigade and Counsellors of State—and
200 Generals of distinguished rank, &c.
February 15, first year of the Independence of Hayti.
The governor general of Hayti, to the generals of the army, and civil and military authorities:
Citizens, If any consideration can justify in my eyes, the august title which your confidence has conferred on me, it is only my unalterable zeal in watching over the safety of the empire, and my wishes to consolidate our enterprise. Let us not efface from our minds those strong remembrances which our recent misfortunes have imprinted on our hearts. They will be powerful preservatives against the surprise of our enemy, and we will fortify ourselves against every idea of indulgence with regard to them. If the milder passions place men in mediocrity, half measures arrest the rapid march of revolutions.
Since then you have judged it the interest of the state, that I should accept the rank to which you would elevate me, by imposing on me a new burthen, I contract no new obligation towards my country. I have long since made all sacrifices—but I feel that a higher, more sacred duty unites me to her destiny—I feel, I say, that I ought rapidly to conduct our enterprise to its determined object, and by laws wise and suited to our manners, suffer every citizen to enjoy individual liberty, without injury to the rights of others, or without offending that authority, which watches over our general happiness.
In accepting this burthen, as weighty as honorable, I make myself accountable for all the evil or advantages which may result from my administration.—But remember that it is during the most stormy season, you have given me the helm of the vessel of state—I am a soldier—war was always my profession, and whenever the barbarity or avarice of your enemies shall bring them on your shores, I will justify your choice, and fighting at your head, I will prove that the title of your general shall be always honorable to me.
The illustrious rank to which you have elevated me, teaches me that I am become the father of my fellow citizens, whose defender I have been hitherto, but the father of a family of warriors should never lay down his sword, if he wishes to transmit to posterity his and their with combat:
It is to you generals and soldiers, who will ascend after me to supreme power that I address myself; happy in being enabled to transmit my authority to those who have poured out their blood for their country. I renounce, yes, I formally renounce, the unjust custom of transmitting my power to my family. I shall never respect ancestry, but when the talents requisite for a good governor are united in the subject. Frequently the head which is fired by the burning ardor of youth, contributes more effectually to the happiness of his country than the cool experience of age, which temporises at the moment when temerity alone should govern.
It is on these conditions that I am your emperor, & destruction to him, who, elevated by the gratitude of a people, shall ascend the throne with other sentiments than those of the father of his family.
DESSALINES. By the governor general. Adjutant general, BOISROND TONNERRE.
NEW SCHOOL.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs the public that he has opened SCHOOL in North Street in the room lately occupied by Mr. Coates, opposite the Little Hotel. He hopes by unremitting attention to merit the patronage of parents and guardians.
TERMS OF TUITION. English grammatically, and Writing in all the useful hands—4 dollars per quarter.
Common Arithmetic—5 dollars. Merchants accounts, Geography, Algebra, Mensuration, Surveying and Planning—6 dollars.
Navigation, Astronomy, and the other branches of the Mathematics, the principles of Mechanics—8 dollars. J. SEWELL.
Washington city, October 10—3t

WASHINGTON CITY,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12.
It is with sincere pleasure we are enabled to state that there is the best reason to believe the account of the death of Governor CLAIBORNE unfounded. Letters as late as the 1st of September have been received from him by the President of the United States, on which day the last mail left New-Orleans—These letters state that Mr. Claiborne had been very ill, but was then so far recovered as to admit of his transacting business.
The following are the most important APPOINTMENTS made by the PRESIDENT since the last session of Congress.
Philip Greene, Collector and Inspector of the Revenue for the port of Marietta.
John Brent, Collector and Inspector of Nanjemoy.
Edmund P. Gaines, Collector and Inspector of the district of Mobile.
William G. Garland, Naval officer of New-Orleans.
Robert Carter Nicholas, Surveyor and Inspector of New-Orleans.
Joshua Prentiss, Surveyor and Inspector of Marblehead.
Wilson C. Nicholas, Collector of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
William Fisher, Inspector of Revenue for South Quay.
Thomas C. Ferabee, Surveyor and Inspector for Indian Town.
Thomas Fitzpatrick, Register of the land office for sale of lands west of Pearl River.
Edward Hall, Commissioner of loans for the state of Maryland.
Isaac Newville, Commissioner of loans for South Carolina.
John Gibson, Secretary of the Indiana Territory.
Tomson J. Skinner, Commissioner of Loans for Massachusetts.
Samuel H. Hamilton, } Justices of peace for Saml. N. Smallwood, } Washington Rob. Alexander, jun. } Co. Col.
Daniel Humphreys, Attorney for the district of New Hampshire.
Thomas Rutter, Marshal of Maryland.
William Few, Commissioner of loans for state of New York.
George Hoffman, Register of the land office at Detroit.
Return J. Meigs, Daniel Smith, Commissioners for holding a treaty with the Cherokees.
John Badollet, Register of the land office at Vincennes.
Michael Jones, Register of the land office at Kaskaskia.
Ephraim Kirby, Judge of the Mississippi Territory.
David Broadie, Collector of Hampton.
Edmund Key, Surveyor of Llewellynburg.
Frederick Bates, Receiver of public monies for lands sold at Detroit.
Elijah Backus, Receiver, &c. at Kaskaskia.
Harry Toulman, Receiver, &c. at Fort Stoddert.
Walter Jones, jun. Attorney for the district of Columbia.
Joseph Chambers, Register of the land office for sale of lands east of Pearl River.
High exultation is indulged by the federal prints at the success of their candidates in the states of New Hampshire and Delaware. In the former state the federal ticket for representatives in Congress has prevailed by a majority of about eight hundred out of above twenty-one thousand votes; and in the latter by a majority of three hundred and sixty-one, out of above 8,400—In the former state, the representatives have long since been federal, and there is consequently no new ground gained; and in the latter state, the division has for a number of years been so close that the opposite parties have alternately been victorious.
At the preceding election in New Hampshire in the year 1802, the highest on the federal ticket had 6,135 votes; and the highest on the republican ticket had 4,104, leaving a federal majority of 2,031.
This year the highest on the federal ticket has 10,988 votes; and the highest on the republican ticket has 10,209; leaving a federal majority of 779.
Comparing the majority at this with that at the preceding election, we find a federal loss of 1252; although the total number of votes given at the last,
is double that received at the preceding election. The comparative loss, therefore, is really double, amounting to about 2,500.
With regard to the state of Delaware, the votes at the election of 1802, were
for Rodney 3,421
Bayard 3,426
Republican majority 15
This year the whole number of votes has increased from 6,827 to 8,481; and Mr. Bayard has a majority of 361.
The most important view which these elections present is that which indicates the state of the public opinion. In this view, taken together, they offer the following result:
Federal loss in New Hampshire 1,252
Federal gain in Delaware 361
leaving 891
which shews the loss of the federalists and the gain of the republicans.
It is but fair, in this view, to notice other changes recently made. In North Carolina and in Maryland a republican has been substituted in the room of a federal representative. So that while in Delaware, federalism has gained one member, republicanism has in the former states gained two members.
The Rev. Mr. WILMER will deliver on Sunday morning next, 11 o'clock, an appropriate discourse on DIVINE and SOCIAL LOVE, in the Baptist church, by permission.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE MAYOR.
Henry Ingle, } Peter Lenox, } George Collard, } John Woodside, } Ebenezer Nesmith, } Trustees of the Poor.
On the 28th ultimo a commencement was held at PRINCETON College (N. J.) when the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on Jacob Rush, of Pennsylvania, that of Master of Arts on twenty-one, and that of Bachelor of Arts on thirty-eight gentlemen.
On the 20th of September the annual commencement of YALE College (C.) was held; when the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on sixty-nine young gentlemen, and that of Master of Arts upon twenty-two gentlemen.
On the 5th September the annual commencement of WILLIAMS College (Mas.) was held; when the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on forty-one young gentlemen; and that of Master of Arts on five gentlemen.
OSAGE INDIANS.
The administration have evinced great foresight in the arrangements leading to the visit which these Indians have paid to the United States. It is well known that captains Clark and Lewis, with a party of 20 men, are now performing a journey into the interior of Louisiana. Their attention being directed to exploring that country as far as the western shores of the continent, and passing through numerous tribes of Indians, many of which are connected with, and in some instances tributary to the Osages, it was found policy to induce their chiefs to visit our cities. Here they may be considered as hostages for the safety of the American adventurers. Their countrymen will not in all probability attempt to surprise our party, while some of their principal chiefs are in our hands, and before their return, captains Clark and Lewis will have accomplished the object of their expedition. We have been told from good authority, that if these gentlemen find it hazardous to return by the way they proceeded, they will endeavor to procure a passage from the western coast of America to China. Several American vessels trading for sea otter skins, are known to be on the coast, and a passage to Canton will readily be procured. If this route is pursued, and they return home by the way of the Cape of Good Hope, captains Clark and Lewis, will be the first persons who have circumnavigated the globe in a similar direction. The Scotch traveller, Mr. McKenzie, only passed from Canada to the western shore; peeped at the sea, and hastily returned very much in the track he went. But he accomplished all that could be expected of him, considering that he pursued a northern passage, (for he never passed under the latitude of 45 in the first journey in 1789, and then he had
not progressed in that latitude farther than Lake Huron, and saw the ocean in lat. 52, 21, N. long. 123, 2, W. on the 22d July, 1793, while on his second journey) McKenzie wished to divert the Fur trade from the Americans, and it appeared to be of primary importance to him that the English should secure the head waters of the Mississippi, and by that channel transport their furs to the Atlantic Ocean; and how far his government has endeavored to second his views by a late convention remains to be seen. Captains Lewis and Clark will direct their passage at least 15 or 20 degrees of latitude more towards the south, where it is expected the country will afford skins and furs in as great abundance as the northern regions of Canada. The tribes of Indians in Louisiana are more numerous. They kill much game. The rivers are larger, and communicate directly with the Mississippi. The Missouri is navigable more than 1000 or 1500 miles from its junction with the Mississippi. The Arkansas river has been navigated 1000 miles by large boats, and its navigation from appearance, was good much higher. White river has been navigated 900 miles. Red river is a long, and highly important river, but its navigation is said to be in part obstructed by a considerable fall in the water, in the neighbourhood of Natchitoches. All these rivers empty their waters into the Mississippi. The tract of country about Red river is known to afford gold and silver mines, and large quantities of salt. The Buffaloes, which abound in Louisiana, as well as other animals, resort to the salt springs, and are killed by the hunters without much difficulty. It is said to be only 900 or 1000 miles from the mouth of the Ohio river, upon a due west course, to the Spanish mines of St. Fe, and the boundaries of Louisiana, on that side, are supposed to run not far from, if not across these rich mines. The public have a right to expect important discoveries from the American travellers, and we shall wait in anxious suspence for their late return.
[Salem Register.]
MAHOMETAN CREED.
A catechism has lately been printed at Constantinople, for the instruction of children, educated in the Mahometan religion. It forms a copious commentary on the tenets of Islamism. The principal articles to which the young Mussulman is required to give his assent, are comprised in the following declarations:—I believe in the books which have been delivered from Heaven to the prophets. In this manner was the Koran given to Mahomet, the Pentateuch to Moses, the Psalter to David, and the Gospel to Jesus—I believe in the Prophets, and the miracles which they performed. Adam was the first Prophet, and Mahomet the last. I believe that, for the space of fifty thousand years, the righteous shall repose under the shade of the terrestrial paradise; and that the wicked shall be exposed naked to the burning rays of the sun. I believe in the bridge Sirat, which passes over the bottomless pit of Hell. It is as fine as a hair, and as sharp as a sabre. All must pass over it, and the wicked shall be thrown off—I believe in the water pools of Paradise. Each of the Prophets has, in Paradise, a basin for his own use; the water is whiter than milk, and sweeter than honey. On the ridges of the pools are vessels to drink out of, and they are bordered with stars. I believe in Heaven and Hell. The inhabitants of the former know no want, and the Houri who attend them, are never afflicted with sickness. The floor of Paradise is musk, the stones are silver, and the cement gold. The damned are, on the contrary, tormented with fire, and by voracious and poisonous animals."
The following is the result of the details and series of proofs, collected by Citizen Biot, a member of the National Institute, who was sent into the department of Orne, by order of the minister of the Interior, to ascertain the reality of a meteor observed at Aigle, on the 6th of Floreal, (April 26) year 11, as copied from his relation of the Journey, printed by order of the Institute—It is certain that in the neighbourhood of Aigle, on Tuesday, the 6th of Floreal, year 11, towards one o'clock at noon, a violent explosion took place, which lasted during 5 or 6 minutes, with a continual peal of rolling. This explosion was heard at the distance of near 30 leagues round about. On that same day, some moments before the explosion at Aigle, there appeared in the air, a luminous globe, impressed with a rapid movement. This globe was not observed at Aigle, but was seen from many others of the neighbouring towns, very distant from one another. The explosion which took place on the 6th of Floreal, near Aigle, was posterior to the appearance of the fiery globe that was seen in the air. The reporter computes the number of the stones that fell under the above circumstances at two or three thousand. They burnt those who took them up at the moment of their fall, when they had a very sulphurous smell.
Long after Citizen Biot discovered the same smell in breaking to pieces some of the largest. The witnesses to the fall of the stones are almost all the inhabitants of 20 hamlets, scattered over an extent of more than two leagues square, and in the number of whom are found men, women, and children of all ages; sensible and ingenious farmers, curates, military men, who have passed through the wars of the revolution, and alike exempt from imposition and from fear. No testimony appears to invalidate the fact, or to vary the principal circumstances. The fiery globe moving in the atmosphere with great rapidity was seen from Caen, from Pont Audemer, and from the neighbourhood of Alençon, Falaise, and Vernuil. The explosion was heard round Aigle, in a circumference of more than 30 leagues—The heaviest of the stones that have been collected weighed 17 pounds.
PARIS, July 17.
Palace of St. Cloud, 3d Messidor, year 12.
Napoleon, by the grace of God, and the constitution of the republic, emperor of the French, on the report of the ministers, with the concurrence, of the council of state, decrees:
Art. I. From the day of the publication of the present decrees, the aggregation or association, known by the names of the Fathers of the Faith, the adorers of Jesus or Pacanarists at present established at Belley, Amiens, at, and in some other towns of the empire, shall be and shall remain dissolved. In like manner all aggregations or associations formed under pretext of religion, and authorised, shall be dissolved.
II. The ecclesiastics composing the said aggregations, or associations, shall retire to their diocese to live there conformably to the laws, and under the jurisdiction of the ordinary.
III. The Laws which prohibit the admission of any religious order, in which persons bind themselves by perpetual vows, shall continue to be executed according to their form and tenor.
IV. No aggregation or association of men or women can in future be formed under pretext of religion, unless it be formally authorised by an Imperial decree, on an inspection of the statutes and regulation, under which it is proposed to live in such aggregation or association.
V. Nevertheless, the aggregations known by the name of Sisters of Charity, Sisters of Hospitalers, Sisters of St. Thomas, Sisters of St. Charles, & Sisters Vatelettes, shall continue to exist in conformity to the decrees of the 1st Nivose, year 9; the 24th of Vendemaire, year 11, and the decisions of 28th Prairial, year 11, and the 22d Germinal, year 12, the said aggregations presenting within six months their statutes and regulations to be inspected and verified by the Councillor of State, charged with all the affairs relative to public worship.
VI. Our Attorneys General in courts, and our Imperial attorneys, are bound to prosecute or cause to be prosecuted, even in the extraordinary way, according to the exigence of the case, all persons of either sex, who shall directly or indirectly offend against the present decree, which shall be inserted in the Bulletin of laws.
VII. The Grand Judge, ministers of Justice and the counsellor of state charged with the affairs relative to public worship, are charged with the execution of the present decree.
(Signed) NAPOLEON. By the Emperor, Secretary of State, (Signed) H. B. MARET.
WASHINGTON BUILDING COMPANY.
NOTICE is hereby given that a special meeting of the company will be held at the House of Mr. Edward Frethy corner of F and 15th streets, on Wednesday evening next 7 o'clock on business of importance. By order, THOMAS HERTY, Sec. October 12—3t
NOTICE.
WILL be offered for sale in the town of Bladensburg on Saturday the 20th of October, sundry articles of Household Furniture, the property of the late John Scott, deceased, consisting of beds, tables, chairs, &c.—the sale to commence at 12 o'clock. All persons having claims against the estate of the said John Scott are desired to exhibit them legally authenticated; and those who are indebted to the said estate are desired to make payment to RICHARD CRAMPHIN, Exr. Bladensburg, 12th October—3t
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
On Tuesday last the General Election took place in Pennsylvania. We have only heard from the City and County of Philadelphia, and even the returns from those places are not complete. Joseph Clay and Jacob Richards are undoubtedly re-elected representatives in Congress. The only contest lay between Dr. Leib and Mr. Penrose; the votes for whom are as follows:
   Leib. Penrose.     City of Philadelphia 1,541 1,542   That part of the county heard from 1,598 815   3,139 2,357  
There remain unascertained the votes of Delaware county, and of three districts of the county of Philadelphia.
Orphan's Court of Prince George's County, October term, 1804.
ORDERED by the court that George Newman, administrator of John Murray, fell the deceased's personal estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge his just debts on a credit of six months after giving three weeks notice by public advertisement of the time and place of sale, and that he take bond with good security from the purchaser or purchasers thereof.
Test SAML. TYLER, Reg. October 12—3t
NOTICE.
THE taxable inhabitants of Washington city and others concerned, are hereby informed that the tax on real and personal property, also the tax on Slaves and Dogs for the year 1804, must be paid to the subscriber on or before the 1st day of December next.
WASHINGTON BOYD, Treasurer of Washington city.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted That every person who shall neglect to pay his tax to the Treasurer on or before the said first day of December in each year, shall in addition thereto pay five per centum, on the amount thereof, provided the same be paid within one month thereafter; and if the same be not then paid at the rate of three per centum for every month's further delay; it being understood that at the period of payment or satisfaction thereof, any shorter period than a month beyond an entire month shall be reckoned the same as a month; provided that such penalty shall not be demanded from the residents of the county of Washington, or persons having known agents therein, unless the tax on which the same may have accrued shall have been demanded according to the provisions of this act.
Oct. 3—cp2m.
The subscriber has for sale the following articles.
 Cogniac Brandy, 4th proof in pipes, French, do. 1st proof in do. of excellent flavor.  14 puncheons Jamaica Rum, 4th proof.  Madeira, Sherry, and Lisbon wines in pipes and quarter casks.  Claret in cases of excellent quality.  Imperial, Hylon, and Young Hylon, teas of the latest importations.  A few casks of Molasses, and a few barrels excellent herrings. 
WM. BRENT. Washington, October 3—3w
At a meeting of the Directors of the Theatre, on Tuesday the 2d October, 1804, the following resolution was adopted, viz.
Resolved, That 12 FREE TICKETS of admission be disposed of at the price of two hundred dollars each, one half to be paid in shares heretofore subscribed or hereafter subscribed, and the other half in cash—subject to be redeemed by the stockholders of the Theatre, or their assigns, at or after the expiration of seven years on the re-payment of two hundred dollars.
Those persons who may desire to procure the above tickets, or either of them will be pleased to give their names to any one of the Directors previous to the 15th inst. when the directors will meet.
 THOMAS LAW,  SAML. H. SMITH,  JOHN P. VAN NESS,  ROBERT BRENT,  WM. BRENT. 
REMOVAL.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Has removed to the house above Mr. RHODES (LATS LORELS) HOTEL, near the President's Square In addition to the present stock of goods, a Handsome Assortment Is expected immediately.
Gentlemen at a distance, by sending a line by post, will be waited upon with all possible expedition.
T. C will pledge himself to execute any order with a taste, expedition and moderation of charge, which shall not be excelled by any. April 16—tf.
TO RENT.
TWO or three Three story BRICK HOUSES, in the city of Washington—they are situated on the Capitol Hill, and well calculated for boarding houses, or private families, for terms apply to DANIEL CARROLL, of Duddington. October 3—3w

631 lots 2 3 4 8 11 15 in 874 lot 1 in 821 at 3 cents per square foot.
Lots 1 10 11 12 21 in 198 lot 1 in 184 lots 1 2 4 5 6 13 in 286 lots 11 13 in 288 lots 16 19 in 289 lots 6 8 in 320 lot 1 in 409 lot 1 in 455 lots 19 23 in 456 lots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 in 529 lots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 in 530 lots 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 in 534 lots 1 2 3 4 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 in 538 whole sq 565 whole sq 567 lots 1 2 3 4 5 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 in 568 lot 6 in 570 lots 5 6 in 580 lots 2 17 18 in 734 lot 13 in 799 lot 1 in 847 lot 4 in 902 lots 16 18 20 in 978 lot 1 in 994 lots 25 26 27 in 1000 lots 29 30 in 1048 at 4 cents per square foot.
Lots 20 21 in 218 lot 6 in 346 lot 6 in 409 lot 18 in 377 lots 18 22 in 490 lots 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 in 951 at 5 cents per square foot.
Lots 15 16 18 in 253 lots 6 7 in 255 lot 4 in 256 lot 7 in 223 lot 2 in 294 lot 6 in 322 lot 12 in 378 lots 2 4 14 15 31 33 in 24 lots 1 2 3 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 25 26 27 28 in 36 lots 3 4 in 323 lot 2 in 226 lots 2 3 4 in 456 lots 1 16 in 457 lots 5 6 12 13 14 17 21 in 490 lots 1 8 9 10 11 12 in 533 at 6 cents per square foot.
Lots 21 23 24 in square 5 lots 7 8 in 6 lots 1 3 in 7 lots 1 2 4 5 6 7 17 18 in square 8 half of square 3 lots 3 12 13 14 15 16 in 17 lots 4 5 6 7 8 in 20 lots 1 2 25 26 in 33 lot 4 in 32 lot 1 2 3 in 29 lots 1 2 6 in 30 lots 1 2 8 10 14 15 in 31 lots 3 4 5 6 7 in 37 lots 3 4 5 14 15 16 in 41 lots 1 2 7 3 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 in 42 lots 2 3 4 5 in 43 lots 2 3 5 7 8 in 44 lots 1 2 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 in 55 lots 3 4 6 7 8 in 54 lots 1 2 5 6 7 12 in 56 lots 5 6 in 57 lot 4 in 59 lot 1 in 60 lots 4 5 7 in 61 lots 5 7 8 9 10 in 62 lots 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 25 24 in 77 lots 14 15 16 28 in 78 lots 13 14 15 16 in 79 lots 3 4 10 12 in 80 lots 1 2 21 in 81 lots 6 7 in 84 lots 14 15 20 in 86 lots 3 4 5 in sq. east of 87 lots 10 11 15 in 88 lot 15 in sq. east of 83 lots 7 8 9 15 19 in 102 lots 3 4 in 103 lot 1 in 104 lots 1 5 6 in sq. south of 104 lot 1 in 105 lot 6 in 119 lots 6 7 in 120 lots 1 10 in 122 lots 3 7 in 124 whole square 125 whole sq. north of 123 lots 19 20 in 141 lots 1 2 15 in 142 lot 6 in 144 lots 20 23 in 166 lots 3 4 5 in 170 lots 13 22 23 in 172 lot 2 in 200 lots 2 3 4 in 252 lot 6 in 254 lot 4 in 292 and lot 1 in 459—at 8 cents per square foot;—
Table with 2 columns: Amounting in the whole to, and cost per square foot. Rows include 288,354 sq. ft. at 2 cents = 5,767; 345,830 at 3 cents = 25,359; 744,625 at 4 cents = 29,785; 83,998 at 5 cents = 4,199; 343,863 at 6 cents = 20,631; 102,560 at 7 cents = 7,174; 1,402,141 at 8 cents = 112,171. Totals: 3,810,970 sq. ft. for 205,091 dollars.
pay 205,000 Dollars. Upwards of 1200 lots equal to 25 feet by 120.
WASHINGTON TONTINE.
ART. 1. The capital of the company shall be two hundred and five thousand dollars, divided into shares of fifty dollars each—and the same shall be invested in three millions eight hundred and ten thousand, eight hundred and seventy square feet of ground in the city of Washington, including privilege of alleys; to consist of the lots, a particular list of which is hereto annexed, and which their owners have covenanted shall be conveyed by sufficient deeds of general warranty and free from all encumbrances unto David Peter and James Morrell, esqrs. of the district of Columbia, and to the survivor of them, and to the executors and administrators of such survivor, to be held by them in trust until disposed of as hereafter directed, for the use and benefit of the company. The titles of every proprietor are to be investigated and approved of, by John T. Mason, and Philip B. Key, esqrs. before passing the deeds.
ART. 2. Every subscriber may at the time of subscribing, or at any time before the first day of July in the year 1805, nominate a person, or persons with whole life or lives, the shares taken by him shall be commensurate. And any person, desirous of making provision beyond the reach of common accident, for persons of tender age, may subscribe in the names of such persons. Subscriptions may also be made by proxy. But until the nomination shall be made as aforesaid, the existence of the shares shall depend upon the lives of the persons, in whose names they shall have been subscribed. All nominations on which the shares are to depend, must include a description of the age, and place of residence, of the persons nominated—and nominations not made at the time of subscribing, may be sent to the directors who shall be first elected to manage the concerns of the company, any time before the first day of July as aforesaid.
ART. 3. Upon the death of any person, with whose life a share or shares, shall have been made commensurate, such share or shares, shall thereupon be extinguished—and all the interest of the owner thereof, in the property of the company, dependent upon such shares, shall cease and determine, and the same shall become the property of the owners of the surviving shares: meaning the shares dependent upon the lives of persons, continuing to survive.
A NUMBER OF PROPRIETORS in the city of Washington, with views to convert their property into immediate money, have formed the following PLAN of a TONTINE; and have appointed the subscriber their agent for carrying the same into execution.
A list of the lots embarked in this enterprise precedes the plan of the institution. Plats of the city on which these lots will be delineated, will be lodged at the several taverns in Washington and George Town, for public inspection; and books will be opened in the city for receiving subscriptions of shares, on the 1st day of December ensuing. Should books be opened elsewhere, due notice will be given thereof. Payment must be made for the shares at the time of subscribing, but if contrary to reasonable expectation, a sufficient number of shares should not be subscribed for the execution of the scheme, the money shall be faithfully returned to the subscribers, and without unnecessary delay.
The Constitution of the Tontine is too plain to need explanatory remarks. The basis of the institution being a rising property rated on a very low scale, the advantages must be greater than could result from a mere monied institution. It seems indeed more than probable, that each stockholder who survives the dissolution of the Company, will find the value of his stock augmented twenty fold, or more. If any think that this favours of extravagance, let them advert to the increased value of unimproved property in any of our large towns, during the last 20 years. Let them compare with the prices of the Tontine lots, those of the most indifferent property in any of these towns, now. It will not be contended that any town in the United States had, 20 years ago, fairer prospects of rapid increase, than Washington has at this day. The fact will not be disputed, that the Tontine Lots are generally amongst the most valuable in Washington.
The feat of government for such a country as the United States, cannot long remain an inconsiderable city.—But Washington has an advantage more important than even this. It is the nearest seaport to that country, which may be justly denominated the granary of America.
A plan of this kind formed 20 years ago on the basis of unimproved property in Baltimore or even in Georgetown would have yielded to the surviving adventurers of this day, a profit of forty if not an hundred fold.
In May 1800, Washington contained 3200 inhabitants.—In May 1803, 4350.—The number now exceeds 5000. In the same ratio of progressive increase, the population in 1807 will be 6500—in 1810, 8800—in 1813, 11800—in 1816, 15800—in 1819, 21000—in 1822, 28000—and in 1825, 33000.—Men of sense, who examine the situation of the Tontine lots, will perceive that the whole of them must be in demand for improvement before the population rises to 20,000. From the time, happen when it will, that our commerce shall principally depend upon our own productions, and our own consumption; the increase of the city will be infinitely more rapid. The resources of the country attached to it by nature, are now equal to the maintenance of 60,000 souls in the city. These resources, diverted at this time into many different channels, will be confined almost exclusively to Washington, when Europe shall be at peace, and each maritime nation can carry for itself.
The usual mode of selling lots in our large towns is by the front foot—in Washington the mode is by the square foot. At the highest price in this plan, a lot of 25 feet by 120 will be 240 dollars.—the lowest price, 60 dollars.—in squares where there are alleys, a trifle more.
The whole property leased out at 3s per front foot, would pay more than 6 per cent. interest on the capital.
BEN. STODDERT.
The following lots in the city of Washington are those engaged for the Washington Tontine.
Lots number 1 2 in sq 47 lots 1 6 in 48 lots 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 16 17 18 in 67 lots 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 in 68 lots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 in 517 at 2 cents per square foot. Lots 6 19 in 70 lots 15 19 in 85 lots 21 22 1 107 lots 3 4 5 15 in 247 lots 2 3 19 20 21 in 263 lots 5 9 10 11 in 264 lots 21 22 in 231 lots 2 7 9 10 12 13 14 in 317 lots 1 2 8 11 in 318 lots 1 2 7 8 in 319 lots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 in 343 lots 2 3 4 5 6 in 344 lots 15 16 17 18 19 20 in 374 lots 1 4 5 8 9 12 in 403 lots 3 4 5 6 7 in 404 lot 14 in 405 lots 7 10 11 in 427 lots 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 in 453 lots 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 in 454 lots 11 13 22 in 455 lots 2 6 8 in 518 lots 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 37 38 39 40 43 44 in 569 lot 2 in 629 lot 8 in
ART. 4. The affairs of the company shall be managed under the superintendence and direction of five directors, who shall be stock-holders to be chosen in each year by ballot, by the stock-holders attending in person, or by proxy, each to have as many votes as shares. The first election shall be held at Stelle's Hotel in the city of Washington, on the first Monday in February, 1805, under the direction of Robert Brent, John P. Van Nels, David Peter, Walter S. Chandler, and John Davidson, esqrs. or any two of them—and each succeeding election shall be held on the first Monday in every January thereafter, under the superintendence of at least two of the directors for the year preceding; at such place in the said city, as they shall appoint, giving due notice thereof in one or more newspapers, published in the city of Washington.
ART. 5. The directors shall have full power to sell in fee simple, or to lease on ground rent, renewable forever, the property belonging to the company; and to manage all the other concerns of the company; but they shall not dispose of more than one sixth part of the lots in any one year, prior to the year 1810: nor sell the same at less than 25 per cent advance on the original cost; nor shall they lease them at a less rate than 12 and an half cents per front foot, for every cent cost to the company per square foot. But though the limits are thus fixed, below which the property cannot be disposed of; it is not meant that it is to be sold as fast as these rates can be obtained: On the contrary, the directors are at all times to exercise a sound discretion for the best interests of the company; and to keep in view, the certainty of rise in the value of the property, from the increasing population of the city.
ART. 6. All money arising from the sales of lots, shall be invested in the stock of the United States, in the name of the company—the interest arising from which, as well as all money arising from ground rents, shall also be invested in like stock, until the last day of December in the year 1807—after which, all interest arising from stock, or sales of lots on time—and all monies arising from ground rents, and all other profits, shall be divided semi-annually on the 15th day of January, & the 15th day of July in each year among all the share owners, in proportion to the interest of each, whose shares existed by the continuance of the lives with which they were made commensurate, on the first day of that year.
ART. 7. The dividends shall be paid at the office of the company in Washington, to the owners of the shares in person, to their power of attorney, or to their written order; but before any dividend shall be paid, satisfaction must be afforded to the directors, for the time being, that the person, on whose life the shares in question depend, was living on the first day of January in that year.
ART. 8. In cases where the dividends are not claimed for six months after the same shall become due, and there is reason to doubt whether the person on whose life the shares depend on which such dividends arise, continues to survive, the directors shall invest such dividends in stock of the United States, as if the same belonged to the capital of the company: but if the same shall thereafter be rightfully claimed, payment shall be made therefor, out of any funds of the company, not invested in stock.
ART. 9. The shares shall be transferable, and all transfers shall be made on the books of the company, by the owners in person, or by power of attorney, according to the form used for transferring stock of the United States. But in cases where certificates have been issued by the directors to the owner of the shares, such certificate must be returned, and cancelled, before a transfer of the shares expressed therein shall be made.
ART. 10. Every record of a transfer of shares; and every certificate issued for shares, shall designate the lives on which such shares depend.
ART. 11. No change can be made of the person or persons on whose life or lives the shares shall depend. The life first nominated must forever remain the life on which the existence of the shares shall depend.
ART. 12. The directors shall cause proper books to be kept of all their proceedings, accessible at all times to the stock-holders; and shall particularly cause to be carefully recorded, the nomination of the lives on which the shares depend—and also the deaths of such persons when the same shall be clearly ascertained: and may transfer from time to time, the active duties of their trust, to one of their own body, or to any other agent, and may make to such agent, a reasonable compensation for his services; but the directors themselves shall receive no compensation, unless it be in the case of a director who may be the agent as aforesaid.
ART. 13. On the the first Monday in January in the year 1825, the Washington Tontine Company shall be dissolved—and the whole stock of the company in whatever consisting, shall thereupon be divided amongst all the owners of the then existing shares, and in proportion to the number held by each. We the subscribers approving of the plan of the Washington Tontine, and agreeing to each and to the whole of the 13 preceding articles, do each of us agree to become members thereof, for the number of shares annexed to our respective names. Oct. 10—3ip&wtf.
TO RENT, A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE in the city of Washington, situate on that beautiful ridge north east of the Seven Buildings, on 1 street, Lot No. 3, square 106. Under said house is a good dry cellar, on the back of the lot is a stable, and near the premises a pump of most excellent water. Possession given immediately. Enquire of John Little at the Treasury Department or of the subscriber, at Doctor John Beatty's Water street George Town. Also to rent the House occupied by John P. Van Nels. ABSALOM JOY. October 10—tf
NOTICE. This is to give notice, that the subscriber of the city of Washington hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of Washington county, in the district of Columbia, letters of administration on the personal estate of Irnee's McClure , late of the said city of Washington, deceased; all persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at or before the fifteenth day of April next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand, this ninth day of October, 1804.
ORLANDO COOK. District of Columbia, Washington county, to wit: On the petition of Mary Duffee, an insolvent debtor confined in the prison of Washington county for debt, it is ordered that notice be given to the creditors of the said Mary Duffee; that on the 15th day of October inst. at 10 o'clock, A. M. at the court room in the Capitol, the oath of an insolvent debtor will be administered to the said Mary Duffee; and a trustee appointed agreeably to the act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia, unless sufficient cause be then and there shown to the contrary. It is also ordered that this notice be published in the the National Intelligencer three times prior to said day. By order of the hon. W. Cranch one of the assistant judges of the Circuit court of the district of Columbia.
URIAH FORREST, Clk. Oct 10—3t.
FOR SALE, TEN ACRES OF LAND, Upon the upper road to Alexandria, with a commodious dwelling house, and out houses; within one mile from the bridge over the Eastern Branch, the whole is under a post and rail fence. If the purchaser should with more land, he can be accommodated with an adjoining tract of 25 or 30 acres. Further description is thought unnecessary, as any person desirous of purchase will doubtless view the premises. For terms apply to HUGH DINSLLEY, City of Washington, or M. NEWMAN, on the premises. Oct. 10—3t.
REMOVAL. The subscriber has removed his store to the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Pic, (a few doors above the Union Tavern) where he has just opened a considerable part of his fall goods, consisting of coarse woollens, and many other substantial and fancy articles,—Also by the Ship SALLY just arrived at Baltimore from Liverpool, a quantity of hardware and fine cutlery, ALL of which will be sold at a small advance, for cash, by ELISHA RIGGS.
TO RENT. The dwelling part of the house, with nine rooms well finished to accommodate a family, any person keeping a good boarding house, would meet encouragement, for terms apply as above. Georgetown, Oct. 10—ep2w.
BARLEY. I will give one dollar per bushel for all good well cleaned barley delivered at my Brew House in Alexandria till the 1st of December 1804. THOMAS CRUSE. Oct. 10—1m.
Journey-men Shoemakers wanted, TO whom constant employment will be given, and liberal wages. For further particulars, enquire at the store of ALEX. MCCORMICK, Capitol Hill, Washington. October 18, 1804—tf
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—tf.
TO BE RENTED For one year from the 1st of Nov. next, the dwelling house lately occupied by Mrs. Williams as a boarding house, in New Jersey Avenue, on the Capitol Hill. It has ten good lodging rooms, with a fire place in each, besides a parlour and dining room, and is in every respect well calculated for a boarding house. For terms apply to Doctor May, or to the subscriber, W. CRANCH. October 6, 1804—ep1Nov.
HAT MANUFACTURY. The subscriber informs his customers and the public generally that he has discontinued business in the city of Washington, and has opened shop on Bridge street near the Union Tavern—he solicits the continuance of former customers, and hopes that all others who may chuse to call and purchase his manufacture will be amply suited, if neatness and gooduffs be requisites. JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—tf
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 artists to perform their work here as well as in Europe. That they have these artists; 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. MCCULLOCH & LUNNUNY, Baltimore, No. 13 Calvert Street. Sept. 17—tf
City of Washington, Sept. 28, 1804. TAKEN this day from a person who calls himself John Clark Peacock, and who has been committed to jail for horse stealing, a SORREL HORSE with a blaze face and his off hind leg white, is about 14 1/2 hands high, and has been lately rowelled on both shoulders, also a bay blooded colt of 2 years old last spring, about 11 1/2 hands high and of a handsome shape. CORN. CONINGHAM. October 1, 1804.
N. B. The above described horse and colt are now in the keeping of Robert Sutton, of said city. The owners, if any, are required to come within ten days from this date, prove property, pay charges, and take them away—otherwise they will be sold to pay expenses. 30t
DOCTOR MAGRUDER, HAS for sale a few hogheads 4th proof Jamaica spirits, linseed and lamp oil, spirits of turpentine, window glass, glaziers diamonds, glue, lamp black, white lead, Spanish whiting, Venetian red, red lead, verdigris, drop lake, flake white, patent yellow, rose and Dutch pink, king's yellow, Turkey amber, gold and silver leaf, painters and sweeping brushes, camels hair pencils, water colours in boxes, Spanish indigo, fig blue, arnot, red wood, alkanet, madder, logwood, turmeric, salt petre, alum, copperas, sweet oil, pearl barley, timothy and clover seed, tamarinds, caltor oil, marble mortars, spring truffles, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace, Chings worm destroying lozenges, an assortment of paper hangings, playing cards, copy slips, ink powder, English Latin, Greek and French school books, large family bibles, and his usual complete assortment of drugs and medicine, patent medicine, surgeons instruments, &c. George Town, July 20—tf
FOR SALE. The following City Lots, ON A LIBERAL TIME, Upon SECURITY, viz. LOTS—3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, in square No. 919.—Lots 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 938. Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 986. Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19, in square No. 1042. Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13, in square No. 1066. Apply to CHARLES MINIFIE, Washington City, or to RICHARD C. JONES, at Philadelphia. Washington, August 3—tf. N.B. C. M. hatsundry other lots for sale or ground rent (on easy terms to improvers,) and in eligible situations.
Washington Jockey Club RACES.
ON Tuesday, November 13th, 1804, 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—carrying weight as follows: an aged horse, 126—six years old, 120—five years old, 112—four years old, 100—and three years old, 86 pounds. Also, a Match, the two mile heats for 2000 dollars.
WEDNESDAY. A Jockey Club Purse, the three mile heats, free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding day excepted. And a sweepstake in the evening.
THURSDAY. An elegant Fifty guinea Silver Cup—eight subscribers. And a handsome City and Town Purse, free as aforesaid, the winning horses of the preceding days excepted. The members of the Club are requested to be punctual in meeting at the club room on the evening preceding the races, in order to make proper arrangements for the same, and those who cannot attend will please to forward their dues to the subscriber. C. M'LAUGHLIN, Secretary and Treasurer. W. J. C. N. B. The amount of the purses cannot at this time be ascertained: as they are in part to be raised from tolls at the gates and the rent of booths. C. M'LAUGHLIN. October 3—183M
Bank of Columbia. THE Board of Directors having declared a Dividend for the half year, ending this day, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, the same will be paid to the Stockholders or their representatives. WM. WHITMAN, Cashr. September 21, 1804—4w