The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1804-10-24 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. IV.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
DCXXXII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24th, 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
Household Furniture for Sale.
By order of the Orphan's Court of Washington County, will be sold at public auction on Thursday the 27th instant, at the dwelling house of the late Mrs. Mary Williams, on the Capitol Hill, all her household furniture, consisting of excellent beds, mattresses, bedsteads, many of them new, mahogany dining tables, bureaus, desks and card tables, sofas, carpets, a great variety of sets of bed and window curtains, sheets, table clothes, a good assortment of kitchen utensils, &c. &c.
Terms of sale will be cash for all purchases under 20 dollars, for all above that sum a credit of 60 days, upon notes with good endorser payable at either of the banks in the district of Columbia. Sale to begin precisely at 10 o'clock A. M.
W. CRANCH, Executor.
October 17-4t.
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 in case 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 therefor, 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 demandable 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-ep2m.
The subscriber has for sale
the following articles. Cognac Brandy, 4th proof in pipes, Peach, 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, Hyson, and Young Hyson, teas of the latest importations.
A few casks of Molasses, and a few barrels excellent herrings.
WM. BRENT.
Washington, October 3-3w
Washington Jockey Club RACES.
ON Tuesday, November 13th, 1804, will be run for over the Washington Course, a JOCKEY CLUB PURSE, the four mile heat, free for any horse, mare or gelding, according to the rules of the Club— carrying weight as follows: An aged horse, 126—five 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 heat, free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding day excepted. And a sweep- take in the evening.
THURSDAY.
An elegant Fifty guinea Silver Cup— eight subscribers.
And a handsome City and Town Purse, free as aforesaid, the winning horse 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 for- ward 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'L.
October 3-113N
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 3-1f.
N. B. C. M. has fundy other lots for sale or ground rent (on easy terms to improvers,) and in eligible situa- tions.
It is the wish of the Editor of the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER to engage an individual well qualified to REPORT THE DEBATES OF CON- GRESS. Immediate application, with the terms that will be agreeable, is re- quested.
Editors of papers are requested to insert this advertisement a few times.
MEDITERRANEAN PASSPORTS.
Notice is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport if; used to vessels of the United States; that from the eighth day of July next those of the new form will be issued as the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport of which she may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange; and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from cap- ture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use.
Department of State, 23d of May, 1804.
The printers of the laws of the Unit- ed States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Col- lectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices.
May 30-2aw6m
Lost between the Capitol
and the Branch Bank, a note in my favor, drawn by Richard Marshall, of one thousand dollars, dated the 8th day of this month, payable in sixty days, and negotiable at the Bank in the City of Washington, endorsed by myself, John Hodges of Thomas and Sa- muel Hamilton. The finder of said note will be pleased to leave it with Samuel Ha- milton, and all persons are cautioned against receiving it.
WM. B. BRANES.
October 22, 1804-3t
FALL AND WINTER GOODS.
JOHN COX, GEORGE-TOWN.
HAS received a large and general assortment of Fall and Winter Goods, which he will sell on the very best terms. Amongst which are carpets and carpeting, negro cot- tons, kerseys and plains, rose and striped blankets, superfine, second and coarse cloth, and callimeres, patent. Bennetts cord, thick- setts, velvets and fancy cords, coatings, Flushing's baizes, flannel and buckings, swansdown and molekin waistcoating, gen- tlemen's fine fur and silk molekin hats, com- mon fur and coarse wool do. children's do. men's and women's silk, cotton, worsted and yarn hose, muffs and tippets, gentlemen and ladies neck and shoulder comforts, book, jacquet, cambric and lace mullin, white and colored embossed cambric, do. silk and mullin shawls and handkerchiefs, fur and molekin do. elegant laces and edgings, silver, silk, and cotton trimmings, silver frogs and shoe roses, American manufactured bed ticken, bed lace, fith lines and sheeting, Ozanburghs, Fock- lenburghs, brown hempen and rolls, mahon- gany dressing cases with silk cushions, do. dressing glasses, tea trays and Morocco de- canter stands, ladies pic net, silk, cotton, doe skin, kid and beaver gloves and mitts, men's beaver, cotton and fuled gloves, Leghorn flats and bonnets, white and black feathers and sprays—crapes pealongs, lattins, lute- drings and farcenets, Marleilles and cotton counterpanes, elegant fans, with almost every other article of fancy and substantial goods.
October 1-tawtf
Pursuant to a decree from the Court of of Chancery I shall sell at Public Auction in the town of Piscataway on Thursday the first day of Novem- ber next—
ALL the Real estate of Thomas Clagett, Esq., late of Prince George's county deceased, containing in the whole about the quantity of eighteen hundred acres, of which that beautiful and highly improved Lot in the town of Piscataway is a part. These lands lie near the navigation of Potomac river the farthest is about three miles distant— They will be divided into parcels to make it the more convenient to purchasers. The whole is a good fertile soil, well adapted to the growth of corn, tobacco and small grain. The purchaser or purchasers of the whole or of any part thereof to give bond with approved security to the trustee for the payment of the purchase money with interest thereon in four equal annual installments from the day of sale and on the ratification of the sale by the chancellor and on the receipt of the pur- chase money (and not before) the trustee will convey the land to the purchaser and his heirs free from all claim of the heirs of the said Thomas Clagett.
THOMAS DUCKETT, Trustee.
Prince George's county,
September 26-tawtdof
National Intelligencer.
There is so much energy and justice in the following remarks, taken from the Connecticut Herald of the 16th in- stant, that we cannot refrain from afford- ing ourselves the pleasure arising from their re-publication. Nor will we dis- guise the satisfaction derived from be- holding the merited and seasonable no- tice given to a subject of the first mag- nitude. We are not unconscious that compared with the infinite importance of the subject, the sentiments conveyed in the National Intelligencer are feeble and inadequate. But they have the merit of good motives, and flow from a zeal that nothing can subdue. The truth is eternal that the liberties of a nation cannot survive the intelligence of its citizens; and no sooner shall the American nation cease to be enlight- ened, than she will cease to be free. To this awful truth they are calculated to awaken the attention of our statesmen; this once effected and our liberties will be secure for ages.
From the Connecticut Herald.
"In the letters republished in this day's paper from the National Intelli- gencer, a plan of education is suggested, which, could it be carried into effect, would lay a solid foundation of nation- al peace, prosperity and happiness; but should it be neglected, these blessings, great and important as they are, must continue to rest on a foundation ex- tremely precarious.—The God of na- ture has given to the human mind fa- culties which, if judiciously improved, would change this world from a theatre of discord and misery, into a mansion of harmony and joy. But the experience of ages tells this eternal truth, that man, every where, is unfit to answer the ob- ject of his existence, unless the qualities of the soul are called into action by edu- cation.—Where this is neglected there can be no lasting security for the en- joyment of any thing we possess; our dearest privileges and choicest blessings are held in jeopardy; revolutions, war, anarchy, and despotism are liable every moment to assail us. In a word where education is neglected, republicanism is a curse and liberty more intolerable than the plagues of Egypt. Of the truth of this, recent events in Europe furnish a forcible, a melancholy proof. The un- happy result of the French revolution teaches us, that information and virtue in the mass of the people constitute the only stable foundation of republicanism and rational liberty. It admonishes us in language peculiarly powerful and im- pressive, to improve the golden oppor- tunity placed in our hands, for the es- tablishment of national peace, prosperity and happiness on a solid basis."
Instruct and you will reform mankind, is the language of experience, philosophy, nay of inspiration itself. But how is this to be done? Can the great body of the people, even in America, be de- pended on to effect this desirable ob- ject? However anxious they are, that it should be accomplished, yet the meth- ods pursued by them for the purposes are, in many instances, very inadequate, and a large proportion of our industrious citizens, come on to the stage of life, ill qualified to discharge their respect- ive duties, either to their own best good, or to that of the state of society. It will indeed be acknowledged, that in this state, as in many common schools are respectable and well adapted to the object of their institu- tion. But when we consider the situation of many others, do we not blush for the honor of the state? When we reflect, that in such very ordinary schools, a great proportion of our citizens receive most of their education, do we not tremble for the peace and safety of the community?
There are two very material deficien- cies in our present mode of instruction, which cannot have escaped the notice of men of discernment, viz. many instruc- tors are ill qualified for the business, & to those who are well qualified many children do not attend a sufficient time to acquire an adequate knowledge equal to them for the various pursuit of life. Thus, like the labor of the husbandman who only partly prepares the ground for the reception of whatever he designs to produce, what is expended for education, is, in many instances, so insufficient, that it is en- tirely lost. A great proportion of our youth like those of other nations, are embarked upon the tempestuous ocean of life, ill qualified to sustain its various vi-
citudes, and perform a prosperous voy- age. On this account it is no wonder that individuals, as well as nations, are so often ship-wrecked.
This state, to its immortal honor, has provided larger public funds for the sup- port of schools, and for this purpose more is otherwise contributed in proportion to its population, than in any other state in the union. But liberal as is this pub- lic and private provision for the encou- ragement of common schools, yet be- cause it is not more liberal, a great part of what is thus expended, is in a manner wasted. The human mind is of- ten compared to a field and with partial cultivation, exhibits a similar melancho- ly spectacle as does a partially cultivat- ed field. No man expects to reap where he sows on land but half prepared. No one will conduct thus injudiciously in affairs of husbandry. Why then will any partially educate their children and introduce them into the world unquali- fied for the several offices of life? Such ought not to be the case in a country blended with the most advantageous means of education. But experience demon- strates, that such will be the case with- out effectual legislative interfer- ence.
It is not sufficient that we have nu- merous colleges and academies, endowed with competent instructors, & eminently useful. Only a small proportion of our citizens can attend those institutions. The great body of the people must receive their education at common schools. It is then of infinite moment, that these be respectable. In them instructors ought to be employed who understand their business; who will faithfully dis- charge the useful and important duties assigned them; and who shall merit and receive such compensation as will induce them to continue their services beyond the contracted period of a quarter. In schools under the care of such instruc- tors, let the youth, of both sexes, at- tend until the most essential principles of science, religion and morality are well established in their minds; till the foundation of future usefulness and worth is completely laid. Then would they understand how to use this world in such a manner as to hope for a bet- ter.
To establish a system of education on such an extensive scale as to embrace all the youth in America, would confer ho- nor upon our country, and lay a perma- nent basis for our future welfare. To do this the people of the United States have such inducements and advantages as no other nation ever had.—Whether we contemplate the labors, perseverance, and sufferings of the illustrious discov- erer of this country;—of those who set- tled it; and of those who gave it inde- pendence, freedom, and a rank among the nation of the earth; or whether we consider the eventful period in which we live, and our peculiarly favorable situa- tion and advantages, the contemplative mind cannot but indulge the pleasing expectation, that America will yet ex- hibit a different character, in various respects, from that of any nation which ever before existed. To do this we have only to make a judicious improvement of the means which heaven and our ve- nerable ancestors have placed in our hands. The situation of this state, in particular, imperiously demands that we give our youth sufficient education. The flood of emigration from it being very considerable, our citizens, if well quali- fied, might be of immense usefulness to the various new countries to which they emigrated, and indeed to the whole uni- on. They might help to strengthen the ties which ought to bind the various parts of our common country in one in- soluble bond of friendship.
On the Guardians of our public weal devolves, in a peculiar manner, the high and responsible duty of devising and adopting effectual means for the perpe- tuity our civil and religious liberty—of our invaluable institutions, religion, and laws,—of our peace, prosperity and hap- piness. But what means can be so effect- ual as a general dissemination of know- ledge, by means of proper places and modes of education? The liberal provi- sion already made for these by our legis- lature, is a proof that they are not in- sensible of their intrinsic utility. But from their wisdom and patriotism fur- ther us to expect some additional provi- sion for the well ordering of our com- mon schools. Let it be remembered, that when the statesman and hero have contributed to break the chains of des- potism and establish independence and freedom, a noble field is still before them, without the due cultivation of which vain are their former achievements. It has been the misfortune of mankind, that they have
supposed republicanism and liberty need only be established to be eternal. But after the unhappy fate of so many re- publics, it becomes the citizens of these United States to take warning, and acquire that degree of information so essential to the permanent welfare of the happiest people on the globe.
The Governor of Connecticut's Speech delivered on the 11th inst.
Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Represen- tatives,
So few are the public concerns which particularly relate to this state, and which have occurred since our last ses- sion that I shall have occasion to detain you but a short time by this public com- munication.
A letter from his Excellency Gover- nor Strong, of Massachusetts, will be laid before you, conveying certain reso- lutions of the legislature of that Com- monwealth, respecting an amendment by them proposed to be made to the Constitution of the United States. This proposal from an elder sister state, will I presume, gain from you its mer- ited consideration; and will meet such decision as your wise and prudent judg- ment shall think proper.
A circular letter of the 24th Septem- ber last has been received from the Se- cretary of state for the United States, notifying to this state, that the amend- ment proposed during the last session of Congress, to the Constitution of the United States, respecting the manner of voting for the President and Vice Presi- dent of the union, has been ratified by three-fourths of the several states. This letter will be now communicated for your information.
Since the last session of the legislature, there have been forwarded for the use of this state, from the department of the United States, 455 copies of the United States' laws, passed at the sec- ond session of the seventh Congress. These copies are to be distributed by the Comptroller, to the several towns, agreeably to law.
The Legislature will recollect that a new election of a President and Vice- President of the United States, is to take place in December next. The electors for this purpose, to be appointed by this state, will be to be chosen before the close of this session.
In the course of the present year, we are arrived at the result of the French revolution—a result, such as many wise politicians and enlightened civilians have long since predicted. After twelve years ardent pursuit of liberty and re- publicanism—after destroying their ex- isting form of government, with its royal head; after framing and present- ing to the people a variety of new con- stitutions, for the security of their re- publican government and equal rights, all which have given place to each other in rapid succession, without the wished for effect; and after scenes of terrible confusion and distress, attended with a vast expense of blood and treasure, a monarchy is again restored to by that nation, with a stronger arm, and more despotic power, than the one which had been overturned. Could it be possible that another lesson of caution and pru- dence in revolutionary pursuits was ne- cessary, for the admonition of this or any other country, the people might look to this recent result in France, and learn wisdom from the awful experience and misfortunes of that great and power- ful nation.
Should any well intentioned individ- uals in our country endeavor to satisfy their minds with an idea, that similar measures may be better managed here than in France; or that a well informed people engaged in like pursuits, may say, with regard to their reforms, Thus far will we go, and no farther; and here shall the tempestuous billows of revolution be stayed"—let such per- sons recollect, that in France, and among their enlightened men, the same ideas prevailed at their first outset; and let such persons also consider, before it is too late, how miserably, in that na- tion, such ideas have been disappointed in the experiment; and pausing on this event let them seriously reflect, that like measures will probably produce like fatal misfortunes, and finally terminate in a like unhappy issue. The world has long since been taught, that despotism is the rank weed which springs from the rich soil of anarchy.
Wishing you our wonted harmony in the progress of our general business, I

offer you my hearty concurrence in such measures as may be judged most conducive to the general welfare and happiness of the people.
J. TRUMBULL. October 11, 1804.
ATTEMPT TO POISON LOUIS XVIII.
[The following official account of an attempt to poison Louis XVIII, at Warsaw, is extracted from one of our latest London papers.]
A long process verbal of the whole transaction was received by Monsieur, and transmitted immediately by him to the British government. Our readers may depend upon the accuracy of the following abridged statement of the case, which is signed by the archbishop of Rheims, the Duke de Fienne, the Duke d'Avray de Croy, the Marquis de Bonnay, the Comte de la Chapelle, the Comte de Damas, and the Abbe Edgeworth de Fermont.
On the 22d July, the Baron de Milleville, Equerry to the Queen of France, disclosed to the Duke de St. Fienne, the plot as it had been denounced to him by a person of the name of Coulon, a Frenchman, a native of Lyons, who after having been in the service of the said Baron de Milleville, had married a Polish woman, and settled at Warsaw, where he kept a billiard table. This man stated, that on the preceding Friday, the 20th, two persons came to his billiard-room, and made many inquiries of him, relative to the King, and his own situation; that the following day they returned and made fresh enquiries respecting Louis XVIII. They wished, they said, to know whether his majesty went out often, by what number of men he was usually accompanied, and whether his attendants were armed or not? They then asked Coulon whether he himself was in debt, and whether he would not be glad to find an opportunity to obtain immediately a considerable sum of money for a particular service. Being answered in the affirmative, they observed to him, that as he was known to the persons belonging to the household of the King, he might easily obtain admission into the kitchen, and if he consented to throw, unperceived into the boiler ( la marmite ) a little parcel which would be given to him, his fortune would be made: 400 Louis d'ors would be given to him in the first instance, and one hundred more for every individual of the royal family who might die in the course of a twelve month. They added, that he was not to trouble himself about his wife, for they would take her safely to France; and when they were about to part, he heard them say in Italian, "we have no time to lose; the day is come when we ought to strike."
On the following day (Tuesday the 22d) after many visits from them, another Russian, whom Coulon had not before seen, called on him in the evening, and requested him to take a walk with him, in order that they might speak more freely on a subject of great concern, which had been mentioned to him the preceding day; in the course of their walk, they were met by one of the two who had first opened the project to Coulon. They enquired whether he had decided to perpetrate the deed?—Coulon answered, "Yes." Upon which they went to a house, where they ordered Champagne wine, and gave him additional instructions respecting the manner of executing the plot, advising him to drink with the cook, &c. Coulon insisted on receiving some money, on account of the 400 Louis d'ors which had been promised him; upon which one of the Russians who was in liquor, said:—"I don't know whether Boyer (the name of the commercial agent at Warsaw) would consent to give so large a sum." His companion condemning this indifference, replied: "why do you mention Boyer, he is not in town; he will not return these two days." At this they gave him a ducat to get some wine to drink with the cook, and made an appointment for the following night, when they were to give him a parcel which was to be thrown into the boiler. They parted at one o'clock in the morning.
The same day (Sunday) Coulon disclosed the plot to the Baron de Milleville, and the Duke de Fienne, by whom it was communicated to Count d'Avray, captain of the guards to Louis XVIII, who hastened to inform M. de Hoym, of the circumstance, and who had orders from his Prussian majesty for superintending all the concerns and safety of the French royal family.
At first, the President Hoym received the information with the most feeling emotion, and promised to mount his horse, and repair personally either to the place of rendezvous fixed by the Russians, to give the poison to Coulon, or to the spot appointed for paying him the money and setting off for France. He also promised to send persons to secure the whole gang and Coulon himself, in case he should have forged the story, in order to obtain a reward.
The sensibility of the President Hoym, was highly increased by the alarming reports which were spread every day of the plots to take away the life of the King at the eve of his departure for Russia.
The 23d of July, Coulon being ordered by the Baron de Milleville, went to the appointed spot, at a place called the New Village, situated in the middle of the lines which surrounded Warsaw; there he was joined by one of the men, and soon after by another, who was concealed in a corn field, and who actually delivered him the parcel, and a bottle of liquor for his own use. They agreed upon a signal, by which they were to know when the deed had been effected. They told him that when it was executed, he might repair to a place called Les Cinq Patences, where he would be joined by his employers, and taken to France with his wife; and in case they could not meet there, he was to go to Stockayer, where he would find them at the Postmaster's house, and that he should there receive the 400 Louis. Upon his asking some money, they gave him only six crowns, alleging that they had been already cheated more than once.
The President Hoym, however, afraid of committing his master with the French Emperor, declined either to go or send to the appointed spot, contrary to his promise. Coulon delivered the parcel and the bottle to M. de Milleville, on the 24th, in the morning. The Comte d'Avray went at 10 o'clock to M. de Hoym's, and presented him the parcel, which contained three carrots charged with arsenic. M. de Hoym from excess of fear, refused to interfere any further in the business, saying, it should be referred to the police office; and even refused to affix his seal to the parcel, which was sealed by the archbishop of Rheims, and the Comte d'Avray.
On that day Louis the XVIII. was informed of the plot. His majesty expressed the greatest and the most tender solicitude for his faithful servant, but displayed an unalterable tranquility of mind with respect to his own personal safety. He wrote to the President Hoym, who did not wait on his majesty till the following day, and then confined himself to vague assurances, that the business should be followed up with activity by the police officers.
A formal demand was made by the King, that a report should be made by an assembly of professional men, respecting the contents of the parcel, which demand being answered in an evasive manner, the King ordered that the parcel should be opened and examined before his own physician, M. Le Faure, aided by the Gagatkiewisch, the most eminent and respectable physician of Warsaw, Dr. Bergenzoni, and of Dr. Guteil, an apothecary. One of the carrots being opened, was found perfectly sound, the upper part being covered with a kind of mastic or paste, of a color similar to that of the root; the middle part was found to contain a powder, which after a chemical operation, was discovered to be a mixture of three different sorts of arsenic, one white, another yellow, and another red. The process verbal was signed by all present, and the parcel sealed again, and sent to the police office, with all the necessary documents.—Upon application being made by the King to M. de Tilley, Chief Magistrate, for a prosecution to be instituted, that officer, actuated by the same fears as M. de Hoym, declined to interfere, or even to order the suspected persons to be apprehended, observing that it did not concern the tribunal of criminal justice, and that the law of the country did not permit him to arrest any person who had not actually been convicted of a crime!
M. le Comte de la Chapelle was left at Warsaw with full powers to prosecute the business before the criminal tribunal. The King left Warsaw on the 30th, on his way to Grodno with the Duc d'Angouleme. M. de Hoym granted his majesty an escort of hussars, who had strict orders not to quit his royal person, until they had committed him to the care of a similar escort of Russians, who awaited his arrival on the frontier. The Queen and the Duchesse d'Angouleme only remain at Warsaw, until they receive instructions from his majesty to join him at Wilna, as soon as he had settled in that city.
[The London paper from which the above is extracted, gives the following on the subsequent day.]
We have as yet little to add to the very minute and accurate detail which on Monday we offered to the public of the nefarious plot formed by the secret tools of the Corsican against the life of Louis XVIII. and so many of his nearest relations, and most confidential advisers.
One circumstance appears in the second declaration of Coulon, which we believe we omitted in our account, viz. that the two sharpest came at one o'clock in the morning, and opened the great door of the house where Coulon lived, by means, as he supposed, of a picklock, and that they afterwards endeavoured to pick the lock of the door leading to the staircase, in which, however, they could not succeed, as
the key remained in the lock, and Coulon held it fast within side. He at the same time overheard a person say, "the plan has failed, we must immediately inform Boyer of it, and be off." It was observed by another, "mark! had the money been given." They continued to speak still farther, but in so low a tone as not be heard by Coulon. What their intention was may easily be conjectured. But a review of what followed the detection of the plot, and what so peculiarly marks and characterises the conduct of the magistrates and governor of Warsaw, if it gives room but to little surprise, it has, abundantly, however, in it to excite indignation and contempt. What could be more insultingly disrespectful to the dignity and the situation of Louis XVIII. than the hesitation and delay betrayed in the conduct of the President D'Hoym, in returning a proper answer to the letter of his majesty. What more snuffling and evasive than the reasons assigned for not immediately securing the persons of the conspirators, or for not appointing a commission to analyse the suspected nature of the parcel.
Letters received at Hamburg from Warsaw, on the 10th inst. confirm the accounts already received of this atrocious conspiracy, and add, that the French emissaries involved in it had effected their escape—They also mention, that President Hoym, the governor of Warsaw, and the Prussian city council, had transmitted a protest of the whole plot to the court of Berlin.
Extracts from Paris Papers.
PARIS, August 13.
The Emperor had charged Marshal Murat, Governor of Paris, to distribute the decoration of the Legion of Honour to the Legionaries of the first military division, who were unable to receive it at the Invalids on the day of the festival of the 14th July. This distribution was made on Friday last. The troops composing the garrison of Paris, assembled in the Plains des Sablons; after several manoeuvres, they formed a square battalion, and all the members of the Legion having united in the middle, Marshal Murat addressed them in these terms:
"Brave Legionaries, his Majesty the Emperor charged me to deliver the Star of the Legion of Honour to those who have not had it from his hand. His Majesty could not confide to me a more honorable mission than that of decorating with the prize of valor, the bravest among the brave who compose the whole of the French army; officers, generals and soldiers, who have valiantly fought for your country, you are about to receive the recompence of your labors; this eagle which is going to cover you, will attest to all your fellow-citizens and to posterity, your services and your glory. I already see the young soldiers under your colors burning with impatience, in expectation of the occasion when they can merit so brilliant a distinction. What harvels of glory are we not promised by so fine an institution and so conformable to the national character! Let them tremble, those idlers, eternal enemies of the world; let them tremble, all those who declare themselves the enemies of France and of the government which she cherishes; I will now fasten upon your hearts the certain pledge of victory. May he live forever who has fixed it among us. Vive L'Empereur!"
All the troops repeated the enthusiastic Vive L'Empereur! The Legionaries took the oath and received their decorations from the hands of Marshal Murat, in the midst of cries a hundred times reiterated of Vive L'Empereur! Vive Bonaparte!
Letter from the Emperor to M. Chapatal.
M. Chapatal, Minister of the interior. I am sorry to learn your intentions to quit the ministry of the interior, in order to devote yourself entirely to the sciences. You will deliver your Portfolio to M. Portalis, Minister of Worship, who will hold it until I have definitely provided for that department. Wishing to give you a proof of my satisfaction with your services, I have nominated you Senator. In those eminent functions which leave you more time to bestow on your labor for the prosperity of our arts and the progress of our manufacturing industry, you will render useful services to the state and myself. I pray God to have you in his holy keeping.
Calais, the 18th Thermidore (August 6.) year 12. (Signed) NAPOLEON.
PARIS, —18th August.
The following is a copy of the letter wrote by the High Chancellor of the
Legion of Honour, to his eminence the Cardinal Legate:
"Monsieur de Cardinal Legate. Your eminence has received from his Imperial Majesty, in the Temple of Invalids, the day on which the members of the legion took the oath the great star of the legion. I have the honor to transmit to your eminence the letter which confirms your nomination. You are the first foreigner, Mons. le Cardinal, to whom his Imperial Majesty has given the decoration of the eagle of the legion of honor. This distinction was due to the worthy representative of the sovereign pontiff, to the illustrious prelate, to the able statesman, to the conciliatory minister whom France loves, and Europe esteems. I experience a very lively satisfaction in excelling these sentiments in the name of his Imperial Majesty, and I pray your eminence to accept the testimony of my high confidence.
(Signed) LACEPEDE.
The preparations for the coronation are, it appears, going forward without relaxation. This memorable era will be celebrated by festivals the most brilliant. It is said that the Senate will on that occasion give a grand feast at the palace of Luxembourg, and the city of Paris at the Hotel-de-Ville. In all parts the manufactories are busily employed in executing the several orders to a considerable extent either from France or foreign countries.
Prince Joseph having arrived in Paris on the 9th August, from Boulogne, whither he is expected to return by the 15th (the day fixed upon for the distribution of the decorations of the Legion of Honor, which the Emperor will make to the members of the legion belonging to the army and to the flotilla) he was immediately waited upon at his palace rue St. Honore, by a deputation from all the military corps in Paris; and the next day the high authorities of the empire, consisting of the ministers, the members of the senate, the council of state, the legislative body and the tribunal waited upon his imperial highness, when his excellency the president of the senate pronounced the following discourse:
"Prince, the members of the conservative senate hasten to offer to your imperial highness the homage of a sincere respect, and of an unbounded attachment.
"The first of the state bodies, doubtless, owed this homage both to the brother of the emperor and to the grand elector of France; but in the discharge of a duty, how pleasing it is for the members of the senate to obey in some measure only the sentiments with which every one of them has for a long time been penetrated for your imperial highness? In homage of mere etiquette, it is easy to distinguish the tribute paid to rank from that given to the person. It is well known that the authority which can command measures, cannot force the inclinations. Happily here the legitimate debt is wholly a voluntary offering. Your eyes cannot deceive you respecting it.
"Besides, we are acquainted with your love for simplicity; we know how your imperial highness appreciates grandeur and titles. In your opinion true greatness consists in being useful to mankind; and the most flattering title that of the good that can be done. Animated by such a spirit, Prince Joseph is well assured we honor him for himself.
"August and beloved prince! enjoy the impression which your presence makes upon us, I came not to address you with an harangue of flow; it is the heart of all my colleagues that speaks to you thus by my voice.
"I should never cease, were I to attempt expressing every thing they would have to say to you; but we respect the moments of your imperial highness; those he can grant us appear to us very short. Scarcely will you have made your appearance in the bosom of the senate, when your imperial highness will hasten to return to the bosom of the army. Fixed at our post we shall regret our not being able to follow you.
"In short, we feel that the interest of the state is the supreme law. Since this sacred reason calls you so soon among our brave legions, near the father of the country, the members of the senate flatter themselves your imperial highness will be the bearer to him of the expression of their hearts, and that you will repeat to him the assurance of their fidelity. Render us this new service, Prince! be our interpreter near the great NAPOLEON.
"Tell him that the wishes of all the senators for the Emperor and his family are wholly absorbed in their wishes for the welfare and glory of their country. In all our affections as well as in our thoughts, the destinies of the Bonapartes, and the fortunes of France, are henceforward inseparable."
His excellency then addressing himself to her Imperial Highness Princess Joseph, said:
"Madam, it is a glorious day for the Senate, that in which it can express its
love, its respect and its devotion to the august family of the worthy Emperor of the French.
"Madam, your imperial highness cannot but remark, by the altered voice of him who has the honor of speaking to you, the deep tenderness which has been produced in him by the admirable answer of his imperial highness Prince Joseph* to the discourse, or rather the very few words which I have been permitted just now to address to him. Your palace is in my eyes the temple of modesty. I fear to wound the goddess of it, if I presume to pick out her virtues.
"But the most affecting homage is the only one worthy of your imperial highness; it is that of our hearts, and your imperial highness is earnestly solicited to accept it."
* This inditing answer does not appear.
BOULOGNE, 15th August. The Emperor set out this morning from Ostend, and this afternoon arrived at his head-quarters at Pont-de-Brigue. The concourse of strangers, who are to attend the memorable festival which is to take place here to-morrow, is so great, that for several days past they are obliged to seek for lodgings in the neighbouring boroughs and villages.
(By Authority.)
AN ACT Making appropriation for the repairs of certain streets.
BE it enacted by the First and Second chambers of the City Council of Washington, That for the repair of streets the following sums be, and are hereby appropriated, in addition to the sum mentioned in the act entitled "An act making appropriation for certain streets," which shall be expended with such other sums as may be advanced by individuals under the direction and superintendence of residents of the streets or neighborhoods where the repairs are authorized, appointed by the mayor, to wit:
   Dollars.     1. For the repair of south L street 50   2. For the repair of south B street, between New-Jersey avenue, and 1st street east 60   3. For the repair of 1st street east between A and B streets south 40   4. For the repair of east Capitol street between 1st and 3rd streets east 40   5. For the repair of Maryland avenue 25   6. For the repair of south N street between James's creek and the Potomac 50   7. For the repairs of north E street, between 9th and 10th streets west 100   8. For the repair of 10th street west between E and F street north 25   9. For the repair of 13th street west, between F street and Pennsylvania avenue 50   10. For the repair of 14th street west between the same streets 35   And for the repair of laid street from F street to the northern extremity thereof 50   11. For the repair of north G street from 17th to 19th streets west 100   12. For the repair of do. near Lea's wharf 50   13. For the repair of 18th street west between New York avenue and Pennsylvania avenue 50   14. For the repair of Pennsylvania avenue between President's sq. and Rock Creek 25   15. For the repair of north K street, between Pennsylvania avenue and Rock Creek 50   16. For the repair of 7th street east between L streets south and Pennsylvania avenue 50   17. And for the repair of the road leading from the city to Mrs. Calhoun's 50  
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the mayor be authorised to borrow the sum of one thousand dollars in the name and for the use of the corporation for the above purposes.
SAMUEL H. SMITH, President of the first chamber of the city council of Washington. NICHOLAS KING, President of the second chamber of the city council of Washington. Approved, October 17th, 1804. ROBERT BRENT, Mayor. Test THOMAS HERTY, REG.
PATENT WIND-MILL.
THE subscriber having purchased Mr. John A. Vail's interest in a patent Wind-mill for the District of Columbia—Will sell rights to those desirous of erecting them in said district; an inspection of the model at the Secretary's office, will sufficiently prove the utility of this machine in manufacturing grain, plaster of Paris, paints, snuff, &c. and sawing of timber or stone. Further information may be obtained by applying to Mr. Benjamin Perkins, President, square, or near the Seven Buildings to
JOHN MELWEB. September 28—1804

WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24.
Extract of a letter from a correspondent, dated Trenton, October 17.
"Our Election has terminated highly in favour of republicanism. Of our Council, consisting of 13 members, but four are federal—of our Assembly consisting of 40 members, but twelve are federal—and in Joint-meeting, where all the important appointments of the state are made, the Republicans have a majority of twenty-one."
On recurring to our files for the last year we find the majority in joint meeting was then fourteen. The difference, therefore, between fourteen and twenty-one, marks the republican gain during the past year.
The Governor of Connecticut has availed himself, as will be seen by a perusal of his speech, of the new dynasty established in France to denounce that spirit of reform that dares, with sacrilegious hand, to touch the ark of our fathers. After noticing, with singular abruptness, the successive and fruitless attempts of the people of France to establish a republican government on the ruins of the monarchy, and after pronouncing with that prudence he so strongly recommends to the legislature, the present government more despotic than that which has been overturned, he warns us against that spirit of reform which may induce a well informed people to say "thus far will we go and no farther; and here shall the tempestuous billows of revolution be stayed;" and cautions them by the example of France, that "like measures will probably produce like fatal misfortunes, and finally terminate in a like unhappy issue."
Let us analyse the meaning of this admonitory language, and put it into plain English. It would be an act of injustice to the understanding of the Governor to ascribe to him the mere avowal of certain abstract propositions inapplicable to any existing circumstances—To some existing circumstances then these propositions must be considered as intended to be applied—These circumstances can only be found in the politics of the general or state governments, to one or the other, or to both of which the remarks are applied. Viewing the politics of the general government for the past four years we perceive a vigorous spirit of reform in actual exercise; we behold a reform in the taxes, in the expenses, and in the foreign relations, by the two first of which many millions have been saved, and by the last of which the peace of the nation has been preserved, and her prosperity increased.
Is it this spirit that is so vehemently denounced? Are peace and plenty, light taxes and moderate expenses considered "fatal misfortunes," in Connecticut, because they are dispensed in equal measures by the patriots of the south as well as those of the north, and of the east as well as of the west? No! No! Surely this cannot be. The pride of our meanest citizen will not condescend to compare our lot with that of the Empires of the old world; much less will that of a Governor, who ought to concentrate and even to refine the feelings of his constituents-humiliate himself and his country by the confession.
He must refer them to the internal politics of Connecticut. There too we behold a spirit of reform, which hitherto has done little, but which promises hereafter to do much. What? To uphold by measures, exempt from local prejudice, the great interests of the nation, and to substitute a well defined Constitution in the room of a system of vague and equivocal character. These, then, are the monsters which it is feared this spirit of reform will create; in other words, it is feared that the popular mandate, if admitted to a fair expression, will put the ins out, and the out in.
It is to these motives that we are to ascribe this denunciation of that sacred spirit, to whose vigorous exercise we owe our rights and our happiness. And shall he who struggled in the revolutionary storm, who threw his life upon its waves to avoid the chains with which a tyrant threatened to manacle him, shall he, after having reaped the fruits of his patriotism, be among the first to curse the arm that saved him?
Where would this doctrine carry us? The moral, as well as the physical world, is in perpetual motion. Such is nature's decree; a spirit of reform moves it one way; a spirit of abuse moves it the other. One way or the other it must go. And yet, in defiance of this immutable truth, we are cautioned against indulging a spirit of reform, as if it were our deadliest foe.
The ship active, from London, has arrived at Philadelphia. She left the Downs the 10th of September, but brings London papers only to the 29th of August, the contents of which, as far as they have reached us, are altogether unimportant.
DIED on the 11th of July, at Clowesville, near Mount Holly, N. Jersey, Mrs. Juliana Hazlehurst, wife of Isaac Hazlehurst, Esq. of Philadelphia. In recording her death, we announce to numbers throughout the union, who in visiting Philadelphia, have experienced the hospitality of her house—the loss of a woman, seldom equalled in the kindness of her disposition, the strength of her understanding, and the charm of her manners.
NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
We this day hand to our readers the promised statement of votes for Representatives to Congress, from which they will be enabled to form a correct idea of the politics of this State. Neither Federalists nor Republicans have as present much to boast of; the majorities, which ever way they turn, are small, and if we may be permitted to hazard our opinion, need but the exertions of a few influential men, to become more decided.—It is to be hoped that the citizens of New-Hampshire will be guided in their final choice, by a due regard to their individual and collective happiness and safety, and that they will be careful how they surrender their dearest rights; zealously shunning to commit them to mercenary or ambitious men—who, in due time, will become tyrants and a bane to their country.
Table with 3 columns: Candidate, Fed., Rep. Rows include: Dury returned, 10,978, 10,175; Dury, Esq. not returned, 45, 63; Bartlett do. do. 0, 75; Landall, returned too late 17, 38; Atkinson not certified, 8, 57; Eaton, do. do. 0, 71; Derryfield, not counted, 22, 30; Sutton, do. do. 6, 102. Totals: 11,076, 10,111. Scattering: 83. Total: 21,760.
Various accounts from different parts of the state, present us with very different tidings relative to the crops of corn, and the prospects generally of our farmers.—While from the lower part of the state we learn that their crops are indifferent, and worse than they have been for several years past, we are told, on the other hand, that in the counties of Brunswick, Greenville, Lunenburg, &c. the labour of the husbandman has been rewarded by abundant harvest. In North Carolina, too, it seems they have been equally fortunate.
The difference in the crops in the several districts of the state, has been owing in a great measure to the changes of the season.—In some counties, the falls of rain have been regular, and as plentiful as could be wished, while in others the ground has been parched by the dryness of the weather. Corn still commands a high price in our market, and there seems little probability of a diminution.
[Petersburg Int.]
COMMUNICATION.
Improvement in Building.
Mr. S. W. Johnson, of New-Brunswick, New-Jersey, has just finished a building twenty-seven feet long, nineteen wide and fifteen high, with chamber and loft floors in it, capable of bearing great weights, and tiled roof. The walls (excepting the foundation) are entirely of the commonest full, and cost not more than 4d. per superficial square foot. They have the apparent solidity of stone, and lie in solid blocks, some of eleven and a half feet long, three high and eighteen inches thick, and others seven and a half feet long, same height and thickness; the joints are broke and the blocks layed at the corners as headers would be of hewn stone, and coated on the outside with lime, and sand, which gives it a handsome appearance. Buildings of this kind have been known to stand in a remote part of Europe one hundred and sixty years, and the proprietor has no doubt of their durability here. He states, he could have carried it with safety two stories higher, but for the purpose it is intended, it has altitude enough. He also states, that when these walls are perfectly dry, grain may at any time afterwards be laid against them with safety, they being impervious to atmospheric moisture. Had these walls been of brick, the masons wages would have amounted to more than the whole expence, independent of bricks, lime and sand, and would not have been so healthful.
We are further gratified to find Mr. Johnson means to publish a full account of it with plates. Also, of the English mode of mud walling, and some hints upon turnpike roads, with scales of elevations and depressions, for concave as well as convex roads, which being either the result of his own experience or what he has been an eye witness to as practically useful for years, will make a volume intrinsically valuable in this country, where improvements though rapidly going on, are still in their infancy.
Evening Post. New-York, October 18.
By the arrival of Capt. Collison, at Philadelphia, from St. Thomas, we hear that a British letter of marque or sloop of war boarded the Sch. Generous Friends, of this port, and after dining with the captain, robbed him of every thing. The Schooner afterwards in attempting to get into the west end of St. Croix, failed, with the loss of four men washed overboard, and had to bear away for Jamaica, with only the captain, mate, boy and one hand.
Norfolk, October 18.
We stop the press to mention the arrival in Hampton Roads, of the ship Monticello, captain Geary, 49 days from Nantz. Paris papers to the 22d August, have been received, from which extracts will be given in our next. Capt. G. informs, that a frigate of 50 guns was laying at Nantz, ready for sea, and was waiting the embarkation of Commissioners to the government of the United States, on business relative to the island of St. Domingo.
WANTED.
ONE good PRESSMAN, and one good COMPOSITOR at the office of the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Musick & Language Teacher.
THE Subscriber, lately arrived at Mr. Semmes's tavern No. 6 in Georgetown, informs the lovers of musick, that he intends teaching to play on the Pianino Forte, and the Flute, and having finished his studies in Europe under the tuition of the most eminent masters in this art, he flatters himself that he shall render complete satisfaction to those ladies and gentlemen who may favor him with their employment. He also intends to teach the German, French, and Italian languages, where it may here be necessary to inform the public that he has alternately lived in Germany, in France, and in Italy where he had time and opportunity to acquire those languages perfectly.
P. MAURO, at Mr. Semmes's tavern No. 6 in Georgetown. October 24—3t
Centre Houle Inn.
SOLOMON MEYER has opened the above tavern in 9th Street, in the city of Washington, about 30 yards north of Pennsylvania avenue, nearly opposite Messrs. Hertel's distillery, and about halfway between the Capitol and the President's house, as also between the Theatre and Centre Market; for which he respectfully solicits a share of the public patronage; his charges will be moderate, corresponding with Pennsylvania tavern rates, as to victualing, lodging, liquors, &c. and horse feed as markets will permit—he deems it unnecessary to exaggerate as is usual on such occasions, or to file his house by the usual epithets of large, best, commodious, &c. as probably no occupation has more ready means of recommending and advertising its own convenience than that of tavern-keeping; he must however inform such of his friends, who wish to take boarding for a time, and have their lodging rooms retired or distant from the tavern, that he has rented the house opposite his own buildings, lately built by Mr. Young, which is suitable for that purpose. Washington city, Oct. 24—
NOTICE.
THE subscriber intends to petition the next General Assembly for an act of insolvency to release him from debts he is unable to pay. SAMUEL S. HARWOOD. Montgomery county, Maryland, October 24—5t
New Shoe Store, OPPOSITE MR. COCHRANE'S.
SAMUEL CLARK, respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Georgetown that he has removed from Alexandria to this place, with his large stock of shoes; consisting of Ladies kid and Morocco slippers all colours, from 1 Dollar to 2 1/4. Womens leather slippers, 5s 7 1/2 d. to 6s. Gentlemens fine shoes and Morocco pumps 15s. 3d. to 15s. Mens common bound and unbound shoes. Boys fine and coarse shoes, and children's Morocco boots. A variety of other shoes too numerous to mention, also, 200 reams wrapping paper, a quantity of suspenders, plated candlesticks, hair combs, trunks, &c. Georgetown, October 24—taw6w
THEATRE.
Those persons who have subscribed in PLAISTERING for the Theatre are requested without delay to work out their shares, which they have an opportunity of doing by application at the Theatre to MR. HADFIELD.
ELISHA RIGGS
Has removed his store to the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Pic, a few doors above the Union Tavern, where he has just received a large supply of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which being bought on the best terms, will be sold unusually low for cash, viz. Carpets and carpeting, constitution and beavers, corls, velveteens and corduroys, best London cloths and moleskins, London hats and bonnet plush, frize coatings and baizes, milled and shirting flannels, blankets, silk rugs and counterpanes, Irish linens and shirting mouselins, bed ticking and sheetings, furniture calicoes and dimities, chintzes, laceings and fatins, umbrellas and neck comforts, white and black laces, veils and shawls, shoulder comforts, and elegant mouselin shawls, India book, mouselin and cambric mouselins, plaid silks and picknutt, gloves and mitts, ladies shoes, rich silk and cotton hose, and gloves, spang ed fans, white satin and farianett, lace cambricks, and Italian crapes, large camel hair and silk shawls, cords and tassels, and china by the box, lambswool and black worsted hose, outsize silk and cotton ditto ladies exter flammy and kid gloves, and many other articles. Georgetown, Oct. 24th—Ms & F—8w
NEW STORE.
BY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. The subscriber informs the public that he has commenced business in the house formerly occupied by
MR. QUINN, F. Street; And has on hand, a general assortment of dry goods, Groceries, wines and spirituous liquors.
Porter, Hardware and Cutlery, Queenware, China and Glass, Flour, Corn, and Corn-meal, Oats, and Chopped rye, Cards and Soap by the box, Country whiskey by the barrel, and a few casks of genuine old Irish whiskey, All of which he will sell low for cash, or country produce. The HIGHEST prices, given for country produce, CASH FRANCIS CLARK. Aug. 29—w.t.f.
PUBLIC SALE.
By virtue of the powers vested in me by the last will and testament of JOHN EMERY deceased, I will sell at public auction, at Rhodes's hotel in the city of Washington on Monday the 5th day of November next, at 11 o'clock in the morning, the following lots. Lots no. 5 and 15 in square 431—on lot 15 is erected a small one story frame house and workshop; one half of lot no. 2 in square 431 of 1025 laying on the Eastern Branch and improved by a wharf and a one story frame house—part of a lot no. 2 in square 731, lying on Pennsylvania avenue near the Capitol, and lots no. 1 and 22 in square 218. The said lots will be sold on a credit of 12 months, bond with good security being given for payment with interest from the day of sale. GEORGE BLADEN. October 1, 1804—3t&tawtf
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber, being legally and fully authorised, by his assignees, to adjust, and settle finally, all the concerns of his former estate, surrendered under the laws of Pennsylvania, of Maryland, and of the United States, hereby calls on all persons indebted to said estate, to make payment to him; and on all who have claims, to render him their accounts, with notice of what property is still held in pledge for securing payment. JAMES GREENLEAF. Philadelphia, April 13—wtf Philadelphia April 13—wtf
The property of the AGGREGATE FUND lying in or near the river Potomac, consists of a large number of house lots in the city of Washington.
A number of handsome brick houses and a few wooden houses in do. Awharf and Rose in do. Lands on the Eastern Branch, opposite do. Do. on Hunting Creek near Alexandria. Do. adjoining Fort Cumberland. Do. about 12 miles from do. The subscriber will in person receive applications on any of the objects of his agency at Mr. Stelles hotel, until the 10th inst. after which until further notice, he requests that all applications may be made to capt. Thomas Tingey, William Cranch, Esq. or Mr. Samuel Elliott, jun. JAMES GREENLEAF. Washington, June 4—3t wtf
ALIST
Of letters remaining in the Post Office at Washington City, on the 1st day of October 1804.
A. George Adams 3, Philip Allen, Amos D. Allen, Rev. Walter D. Addison, Jafrey Amous. B. Henry Brown, Esq. George B. Beyer, Doctor Thomas Barnett, Joseph Beyer, Abel Blackly, Henry Bradley 2, Joseph Bevon, Lieut. John B. Barnes, Mr. Barry, late of Ambrose Moriarty, Henry Ballard 2, Burwell Byllett Esq. Daniel Bishop, Daniel T. Brooks, Gardner Boorman, Lieut. Richard Buck 2, Michael Byrne, Richard B. Brandt. C. Joseph Clay, Esq. 2, Mr. H. Caritat, Nicholas Collins, Captain Cross 2, Timothy Crowley, Jolawh Clark, George Candler, Robert Cannon, Abner Cloud, Sarah Glennons, William Coleiton, William T. Coleiton, William Groaten, William T. Cook. D. Henry Dubs, Mr. Donials, care of Mr. Lovell, Patrick Deery, Robert Dockwert, John Deaver, James Dougherty, George Downs, Monheur L. Dupuy, Mr. John Dempsey 2, Samuel Douglass. E. Leonard Edelin, Margaret Edelin, George Eberle, William Erwin 2. F. Robert Fields, Esq. Mrs. Charity Foraging care of Major Forrester. G. John Grant, Capt. Peter Gallagher, Joseph Grant 2, Mr. M. Grantland, Miss Sarah Grant, Jacob Gaughave, Agnes Gacon, Col. Henry Gaither, 3. H. Hon. Benjamin Huger, Henry Hoff, John Henderson, Bat. G. Hopkins, Lewis Harvey, Andrew Hunter, Ephraim J. Hoyt, Thomas H. Hanion, Esq. James Henderson, care of Mr. M. Cannon Midshipman, Lewis Hunt, Jacob Hoyle. J. John Ives, John Jacques, Francis Johnson, Ambes J. Han, William Jenkins, William Johnson, S. Thomas Jenkins, Samuel Irms. K. Major John King, Joseph Kimball, Daniel King, Mrs. Kalender, Robert Kennedy, Moore Kennedy, William King. L. Benjamin H. Latrobe, Esq. 8, Mr. J. N. Longley, Thomas Lynch 2, Misses Law and Barry 2. M. James Mc. Kee, Notley Maddox, William Mook William McDonough, William M'Mullen, Mans. M'Henry, James Maddin, Samuel M'Carland, care of Mrs. Thomas Peters, James M'Lead, Mrs. Barbara Marshall, Mrs. McGrath, William McFatt, David B. Mintz, Joseph Morton. O. James O'Eryan, Oliver O'Emby, Esq. Alexander Osborn, Obadian Owens, Lieut. P. S. Ogilvie. P. William Pigman, Esq. Monsieur Plumard, Enoch Pelson, Oliver Pollock, Doctor Benjamin Prather, John Patton, William Prime, Ralph Pendry, care of Jacob T. Towson, Charles Peacock, Esq. Lawson Pearson, James Palmer. Q. George Quinn 4, Michael Quigley. R. Monsieur Raffineque, James M'Robertson, Gregory Reilly, Mrs. A. C. Ramsey, Charles Reilly, Daniel K. Richardson, Mary Russell. S. John H. Swoope 2, Mr. Smith in the Navy Office, Charles Smallwood, Walter B. Smallwood. T. John Tayloe Esq. 2, Benjamin Turner, Charles Thomas 2, Percifer Taylor, Littleton D. Teale. V. Joseph Varden, care of Walter Smallwood. W. Col. Laurence Washington, Thomas Webb, Melanchton T. Woolsey, Henry Withoff, James D. Weicott, John Withoff, Leonard Wheeler, George Washington, David Walker, John Withers, Charles Williams, Thomas L. Washington, Esq. William Augustine Washington, Esq. John Wise, Paulemon C. Wedderbrandt. Y. Moses Young, Esq. The subscriber having been legally authorized, by Mrs. Henry Pratt Thomas Wilning Francis, John Miller, John Athley, and Jacob Baker, trustees of a fund created from the joint and separate estates of Robert Morris, John Nicholson, and James Greenleaf, and generally a nominator of the "Aggregate Fund," hereby calls on all persons, having any claims or pretensions by Mortgage or otherwise, to any of the objects of the said Fund, to make the same known to him, with a view to their adjustment, and all persons desirous to purchase any of the property of the said Fund either in cash, or on terms of short credit, are desired to make early application to JAMES GREENLEAF.

The subscriber will lease to the highest bidder, on the premises on Saturday the 20th day of October next, for the term of ten years, the plantation late the property of Major John C. Jones, at lower Cedar Point; about 200 acres of the land is arable, and as fertile as any in Charles county. This property is conveniently situated for a retail store, especially in the grocery line, as most of the shipping passing up and down the Potomac are frequently obliged to make harbor at the Point. One half the money bid for the lease, must be paid on the day of sale, and the balance in five annual installments; a deed will be prepared for the inspection of those who may lease the premises, and possession given on the 1st day of January 1805.
The subscriber will be thankful to the creditors of Major Jones if they will, on or before the above mentioned day, exhibit to her, their respective claims against the deceased.
DOROTHY H. JONES.
October 3—3w
TO RENT,
A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE in the city of Washington, situate on that beautiful ridge north east of the Seven Buildings, on I Street, Lot No. 3, square 106. Under laid 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 Beaty's Water Street George Town.
Also to rent the House occupied by John P. Van Nels.
ABSALOM JOY.
October 10—tf
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.
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 Tattnall 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.
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.
M'CULLOCH & 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.
TO RENT.
TWO For 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
(BY AUTHORITY.)
Scheme of a Lottery.
To build an ACADEMY in the city of Richmond.
   Prize—last drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, Dollars.    1 do. 20,000  1 do. 10,000  1 do. 5,000  5 do. of 1,000 make 5,000  6 do. — 500 — 3,000  10 do. — 200 — 2,000  20 do. — 100 — 2,000  100 do. — 50 — 5,000  250 do. — 30 — 7,500  420 do. — 25 — 10,500  1,500 do. — 20 — 30,000  3,000 do. — 15 — 45,000  1 first drawn ticket after 1,000 having a blank to its number, 250  1 do. after 2,000 do. 250  1 do. do. 3,000 do. 250  1 do. do. 4,000 do. 250  1 do. do. 5,000 do. 500  1 do. do. 6,000 do. 500  1 do. do. 8,000 do. 500  1 do. do. 10,000 do. 500  1 do. do. 12,000 do. 500  1 do. do. 13,000 do. 500  1 do. do. 14,000 do. 1,000  
5,325 prizes, 150,000 9,675 blanks, not two to a prize. 15,000 tickets at 10 dollars each, 150,000 N. B. Prizes subject to a deduction of 15 per cent.
This lottery has been authorised by the legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purposes of erecting a seminary of learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view, it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dolls. and 2,500 dolls. in addition, for defraying the expenses attendant on drawing the lottery. Citizens of the first respectability have been selected as trustees, and they have pledged themselves to use their utmost exertions to carry it into effect. The scheme has the advantage of giving to each adventurer a chance for some very large prizes, whilst the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so far as to invite the friends of the intended institution to partake in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The treasurer of the state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay the amount of the prizes to the fortunate adventurers. It is believed that the above considerations will induce rapid sale of tickets, and the drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number shall be sold to authorise it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next.
Richmond, March 2—tf Tickets to be had of Robert Pollard Esq. John Brockenbrough, jun. Wm. Price (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, jun. and William Prichard.
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 goodness be requisites.
JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—tf
REMOVAL.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Has removed to the house above Mr. RHODES (LATE LOVEL'S) HOTEL, near the President's Square. In addition to the present stock of goods, an 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
100 Dollars Reward.
Ran away from the subscriber, a NEGRO man, named JOE, about eighteen years old about five feet ten inches high, well made, he is a mulatto, has straight black hair, which he wears over the forehead, agreeable to the present fashion and generally turned up behind with a comb—he has a long mark on one of his cheeks, which appears more black than his skin—one of his toes next to the great toe, appears to have lost a joint, or part of a joint, by being cut or some other accident, he has been accustomed to wait in the house, is an artful fellow, and will endeavor to pass as a free man, he has a variety of clothes, and had a watch, which it is probable he will be offering for sale. He went off with a fustian round jacket and pantalettes of fustian or osnaburghs, a new felt hat.—I will give the above reward if taken out of the state of Maryland, or district of Columbia, twenty dollars if within the state of Maryland, and ten dollars if in the district of Columbia, and confined in any jail so that I can get him, and all reasonable charges if brought home. It is known he applied to get a passage in the stage to Baltimore. DANIEL CARROLL of Duq'tn. Washington, Oct. 15—tm.
CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR.
Has received from Philadelphia in addition to his former stock, a handsome assortment of goods, consisting of the best London and Spanish superfine cloths and cassimeres, white and fancy Marfeilles, colored and white Janes, India nankeens, cotton cassimeres, black silk and satin Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season.
N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, June 8—tf
Charlotte Hall School.
AGREEABLY to public notice, the Trustees of this institution held their annual examination of the pupils on the 4th, 5th, and 6th of September: John A. Stuart, Esq. of Fairhaven, Virginia, at the particular request of the Board presided during this examination and, at the close, in a most elegant and appropriate address, expressed "his highest approbation, his most unbounded astonishment and applause." How grateful to the feelings of the Trustees were the loud plaudits of a numerous assemblage of the parents and guardians of children committed to their care! During the orations there appeared an efflacy of joy! and, the calm satisfaction which was exhibited in the examination of the different classes in Homer, Lucian, Greek Testament, Cicero, Terence, Virgil, Cæsar, Ovid, Cornelius Nepos, Set. Vet. Erasmus, Corderius, and every part of Grammar, gave equal pleasure to the Trustees and to an attentive audience.
With what rapture did every spectator anticipate the future benefits which may result to society from the growing success of this rising establishment—with what delight did all behold 128 pupils in perfect health! and not a single child, accidentally detained, was absent from the scene.
The Trustees hope, that this public approbation of the performance of the pupils will stimulate them to persevere in the race of glory and will rivet to their youthful minds this important truth, that education will render them useful citizens and good men.
The classes will open on the 6th day of October next under the following arrangement.
GEORGE RALPH, A. M. Principal. OWEN F. MAGRATH, A. M. Vice Principal. JAMES TOOMY, Assistant in the classical school. NEALE H. SHAW, English master. M. DESMANGLES, Professor of the French language. By order of the Board of Trustees, WM. THOMAS, Chairman. October 5—
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—ep1 Nov.
LOTTERY No. III.
For the encouragement of Literature. SCHEME.
  1 Prize of 25,000 dolls. 25,000  1 5,000 5,000  1 2,000 2,000  1 1,000 1,000  18 500 9,000  60 200 12,000  120 100 12,000  200 50 10,000  500 20 10,000  9000 10 90,000  1 first drawn no. 1st day 500  1 5th 1,000  1 10th 1,000  1 15th 1,500  1 20th 1,500  1 25th 2,000  1 30th 2,000  1 35th 2,000  1 40th 1,000  1 45th 1,000  1 50th 500  
9,913 prizes Dols. 198,000 23,087 blanks.
33,000 tickets at 6 dollars is 198,000 Less than 2 1-2 blanks to a prize. Subject to a deduction of 15 per cent.
The drawing of the above lottery will certainly commence in the city of New York, on the first Tuesday in December next, and will be continued at the rate of 600 tickets each day until completed.
The managers having disposed of twenty thousand tickets, to a company of contractors in the city of New York, the remainder will be sold for cash only, by the respective managers, until the first Tuesday in October next. This is the third of five lotteries, directed by an act of the Legislature, passed the 3d of April, 1801, entitled an "act for the encouragement of Literature" and "an act making further provision for improving the navigation between the villages of Troy and Watertown, and for other purposes."
DAVID GELSTON, } Managers. THOMAS STORM, } DANIEL HALE, } PHILIP TEN EYCK, } S. SOUTHWICK, }
June 6—*
Valuable Land for Sale.
The executors of the last will and testament of Anthony Holmead deceased, will sell at private sale about forty acres of Land adjoining the city of Washington at the northern extremity of 20th street west. This land is generally allowed to be one of the handsomest situations near the city, having a beautiful prospect of nearly the whole of the city of Washington, Alexandria and George Town, and any person inclining to purchase this valuable property, will be shown the same, and know the terms by application to the subscriber near the premises. JOHN HOLMEAD.
PROPOSALS
BY JOHN DIXON,
For Printing by Subscription, a Periodical Work, to be entitled the
VIRGINIA MAGAZINE,
OR, Monthly Miscellany.
CONDITIONS.
I. The work to contain 68 pages (Octavo) monthly, of selected miscellaneous prose, and of original prose also, whenever the exertions of the Editor, and his Assistant, and the communications of correspondents can supply it.
Of improvements and experiments in Agriculture, with which the Editor hopes to be furnished by the Farmers, &c. of this and other states, or to select himself.
Of Debates in Congress.
Of Foreign and Domestic Intelligence.
Of Selected Poetry, and Original too, whenever good can be procured and not otherwise.
Marriages and Deaths.
Of Prices Current.
II. The work to be printed on good paper, and with a neat type.
III. The price to Subscribers, to be Five Dollars per annum, one half to be paid on the delivery of the first number, and the balance at the expiration of six months after.
IV. The work to be put to press as soon as 300 Subscribers are obtained.
PROSPECTUS.
THE utility and rational amusement derivable from well conducted Magazines, probably will not be controverted. They afford an asylum for many fugitive essays, that might otherwise meet with a more rigorous fate than they merit. The brevity of their articles and their longer duration of existence than that of some other periodical publications, hold out an inducement to that indolence, too frequently the attendant of genius, and to those pressed by the cares of business, to devote an hour or two to their own entertainment, and the pleasure and instruction of the community, while the greater variety of subjects they comprise, gives them a decided superiority over several other works. For they contain something to suit the palate of every one, and may be particularly pleasing and instructive to those who have not the inclination or the leisure to peruse more prolix writings. There are few countries, where a love of reading prevails and is encouraged, in which Magazines are not numerous and well received. And yet the Subscriber thinks he is correct in saying that not one is published in the respectable state of Virginia. He designs to publish one, principally of a Literary compilation, provided he obtains adequate support, in which case he flatters himself, that his exertions will prove fully satisfactory to his patrons. For any reluctance to subscribe, arising from a non-compliance of any persons who may have issued proposals, similar to the foregoing, the subscriber has it only in his power to say that he pledges his honor to comply with his engagement if supported by the public.
September 7. J. DIXON.
Runaway.
THERE was committed to the jail of Frederick county, on the first instant, a negro man by the name of HARRY, but since committed confesses his name to be BEN, and says he belongs to Benjamin Berry, of Charles county, Maryland: He is about 23 years old, 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, a chunky fellow, his clothing are a striped woollen waistcoat, coarse linen shirt and trowsers. If his owner does not release him he will be sold for his jail fees agreeably to law.
GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick county. October 3—raw8t
500 Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS on the first day of April last a Negro fellow named STROTHER and his wife named PHILLIS absconded from my plantation near Chester court house South Carolina—and as I have reason to suspect that one white person or persons has been accessory in said negroes clopement, or has feloniously carried them away—I hereby offer the above reward upon conviction of any white person concealing or carrying away said negroes.
Forty dollars with all reasonable expenses will be paid for lodging said negroes in any jail and giving notice by letter to me at Chester C. H. South Carolina, so that I may get them, or twenty dollars for each; that is, if they are taken by any person after this date—any jailor or other persons giving notice to me of said negroes, that they are lodged in any jail before this date shall be very handsomely rewarded.
STROTHER is 22 or 23 years of age, little yellow complexioned, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, flout made, crooked legged, very large feet, has a four countenance, has large scars on his back occasioned by a severe whipping, by his former overseer in Virginia for rebelling against him.
PHILLIS is 20 or 22 years old, of a middle size, trim made, black complexion, has a small lip when she speaks—said negroes formerly belonged to Mr. Edward Carter, in Prince William county, state of Virginia, where it is supposed (if they have eloped of themselves) they will try to go.
Any letters of information will be very thankfully received
JOHN JOHNSTON.
Chester C. H. South Carolina, July 11—rawtf
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.
A TEN THOUSAND
Dollar Prize,
New to be had for the small sum of
SIX dollars!
SCHEME OF A
Lottery
for the use of THE GERMAN TRINITY CHURCH,
In SIXTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Which will positively commence drawing at the first hour in this city the fourth Monday of November next, prizes will be received in payment for such tickets as may remain for sale during the drawing, or be advanced for them, on allowing a small discount. From the great proportion already sold, it is expected that the tickets will soon be raised to six dollars and an half.
  Dollars.    1 Prize of 10 thousand dolls. 10,000  1 Three thousand 3,000  1 Two thousand 2,000  1 One thousand 1,000  4 Five hundred 2,000  10 Three hundred 3,000  20 Two hundred 4,000  35 One hundred 3,500  90 Fifty 4,500  100 Twenty 2,000  6000 Seven 42,000  1st drawn No. on the 10th day 500  1 15th 500  1 20th 500  1 25th 500  1 30th 500  1 35th 500  1 40th 1,000  1 45th 1,000  1 50th 1,000  1 55th 1,000  1 First drawn No. on the last day when there shall be only 600 tickets in the wheel, 6,000  
6274 Prizes. Dollars, 90,000 Considerably less than two blanks to a prize. The prizes to be paid 30 days after the close of