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VOL. IX.
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CONGRESS.
IN SENATE.
EMBARGO DEBATE—CONTINUED.
NOVEMBER 22.
Mr. WHITE—I have listened with great pleasure to the gentleman from Kentucky, (Mr. Pope) who has just sat down; but although entertained with his eloquence, have not been convinced by his arguments. I shall not follow him through the New England memorials, or discuss with him the policy of a non-intercourse law, as that is not the question before the Senate; neither shall I join issue with him as to the apparent expediency of laying an embargo at the last session of Congress; but I will endeavor to show that the operation of this measure upon the country, has been such as now calls most imperiously upon this body to pass the resolution before us. The importance of this subject is admitted on all sides, and the anxiety known to exist throughout every section, and almost in every individual of the community, in relation to the decision now about to be had upon it, is the fullest evidence of the deep and unusual degree of interest universally felt throughout the country, and attaches to the vote we are to give the highest responsibility. Such a responsibility I am not willing to meet, without assigning some of the reasons that influence my opinion. And this I shall do the more cheerfully, as I know they will be in conformity with the sentiments of a vast portion of those I have the honor to represent. The embargo when laid was admitted to be a mere experiment, but one which we were admonished not to resist, as it was to do great things for the United States. It was in a few months to reduce the West Indies to a state of starvation, and to bring the two great belligerent powers of Europe to our feet. In the prophetic language of the President, it was to "keep in safety our merchandise, our vessels and our seamen, these essential resources;" and we were told on all sides, by the numerous advocates of the measure, that it would speedily bring the French and British governments to a sense of justice. But has it, or is it likely to accomplish any of these desirable objects? I grant you, it has kept our merchandise in safety, if by that was intended to lock up in our barns and store-houses all the produce of our country to rot upon our hands. And as to our dismantled ark-roofed vessels, they are indeed decaying in safety at our wharves; presenting daily to the merchant a melancholy memento of his present or approaching ruin, and forming a suitable monument to the memory of our departed commerce. But where are your seamen? Gone, sir—driven into foreign exile in search of subsistence. The very measure that was to preserve them to their country has banished them from it, and many of them forever. Even the vigilance and terrors of our gun-boat navy have not been sufficient to confine and starve them in our ports. But, sir, the most mortifying disappointment we have to sustain, is the total indifference with which this boasted measure of our administration has been treated by both the belligerents. Instead of coercing them to do us justice, we now know officially that it is neither felt or thought of in France; and the British, so far from offering us terms on the subject, will not even ask us to take it off. Here I will beg leave to read a short passage from Mr. Canning's letter to Mr. Pinkney, of the 23d of September last, showing most distinctly the sense and determination of the British government on this subject. "His majesty (says Mr. Canning) sees nothing in the embargo laid on by the President of the United States of America, which varies this original and simple state of the question. If considered as a measure of impartial hostility against both belligerents, the embargo appears to his majesty to have been manifestly unjust, as, according to every principle
of justice, that redress ought to have been first sought from the party originating the wrong; and his majesty cannot consent to buy off that hostility which America ought not to have extended to him, at the expense of a concession made, not to America, but to France."
"If, as it has been more generally represented by the government of the United States, the embargo is only to be considered as an innocent, municipal regulation, which affects none but the United States themselves, and with which no foreign state has any concern; viewed in this light, his majesty does not conceive that he has the right, or the pretension, to make any complaint of it; and he has made none. But in this light, there appears not only no reciprocity, but no assignable relation between the repeal by the United States of a measure of voluntary self-restriction, and the surrender by his majesty of his right of retaliation against his enemies." Here the embargo, as a measure of coercion or retaliation on our part, is officially treated by the British minister even with ridicule: he tauntingly admits, indeed, what is unfortunately too true, that it is a regulation which affects none but the United States themselves; and tells us that his majesty neither does nor means to complain of it. And although the gentleman from Kentucky informs us, he has not met with, yet I have seen a recent report made by a French minister to the emperor, in which the embargo is approved of, and applauded, as what it really is, a measure favorable to them, and an act of great self-denial on our part. Under all these circumstances, and every gentleman here knows the facts I state to be correct, why in the name of Heaven continue it? What beneficial end can it produce? The country is at this moment bleeding from every pore under it, without the remotest prospect or probability of ultimately deriving the least possible advantage or security from the measure. And as it is not among the least discouraging of the circumstances belonging to the present state of things, that we are able to make no calculation as to the probable time when we may see the end of the evil; for upon the same principle that the embargo is continued now, it may be continued for twenty or for forty years or at least during the war between the two great contending powers of Europe, which, I presume, no gentleman here expects will be at an end in the life of the present emperor of France, and as long as an Englishman exists with the means and courage to defend the independence of his country.
I am willing to believe, and do believe what the honorable gentleman from Kentucky has just now in substance declared, that the gentlemen who supported the embargo laws at the last session upon this floor, supposed they would be speedily productive of great and beneficial results upon our foreign relations; that they would bring the two great belligerents, and especially England, to just and reasonable terms; and that there would be no occasion for continuing them longer than till they should be known on the other side of the Atlantic. But in all this they now see and know their mistake; they now know, from the most authentic sources, that these laws have produced no alteration in the conduct of either France or England in relation to us; that in fact, they are applauded by the one, and treated with contempt and derision by the other, whilst we are ourselves the suffering and bleeding victims of the rack upon which we vainly expected to torture them.
It is the fate of humanity to err; the wisest and the best of men are liable to it. And all we ask of these honorable gentlemen now, is to come out openly and acknowledge in the face of the nation, the egregious mistake into which they fell; and unite with us in redressing the injuries, and healing the wounds they have so unnecessarily inflicted upon their devoted country. I make this appeal to them with the more confidence, because I know every gentleman here has too much character and patriotism, to be influenced, by the pride of opinion, to consistency in political error. I will submit to you, Mr. President, whether we have not before us sufficient evidence to show that the administration themselves are now convinced of the impolicy of this measure; and would willingly get rid of it, if they could do so, consistently with the character of infallibility they wish to preserve in the public opinion. I deduce this conclusion from the offer they say they have recently
made to the British government, to take off the embargo as to them, and to continue it as to France, provided they would rescind their orders of council. An offer, which, if indeed made unnumbered with other terms, is a complete acknowledgment of a conviction of error on the part of the administration; because, after they had subjected the country to all the deprivations, and ruinous effects of the embargo for more than six months, it was coming to the precise ground we were requested to take in relation to France, by the British government, a year before the embargo was laid, in the famous note of lords Holland & Auckland to Messrs. Monroe & Pinkney, accompanying the British treaty formed by those gentlemen. All they then asked of us was, that we should "not acquiesce in the palpable violation of our rights directed by the Berlin decree if attempted to be enforced;" surely they could not have contemplated more, than that if France did attempt to enforce that decree, we would interdict all intercourse with her, and continue our commerce with Great Britain; which would be the very effect of the stipulation recently proposed. This proposition from the British government, however, in December, 1806, was spurned with disdain; and now, after the country is half ruined with the experiment of a perpetual embargo, such as I believe was never before practised upon any people, we condescend to beg those very terms, and they refuse to grant them. Sir, the truth is, the administration must now be convinced that the embargo is injuring no one but ourselves, and us it must eventually ruin if persisted in. I regret too this proposition was made, because it has furnished to Mr. Canning an opportunity of offering a most sarcastic insult to the government of this country. He tells Mr. Pinkney in reply to it, that "his majesty would not hesitate to contribute in any manner in his power to restore to the commerce of the United States its wonted activity; and if it were possible to make any sacrifice for the repeal of the embargo, without appearing to deprecate it as a measure of hostility, he would gladly have facilitated its removal as a measure of inconvenient restriction upon the American people." His majesty would not hesitate to contribute in any manner in his power, to restore to the commerce of the United States its wonted activity, and if it were possible without any sacrifice, for the repeal of the embargo, would gladly facilitate its removal as a measure of inconvenient restriction upon the American people. I have no faith, Mr. President, in the sincerity of this profession; but I feel most sensibly the severity of the sarcasm, as applied to a measure of our administration that we were confidently told was to bring England to our own terms.
I will now, sir, with the indulgence of the Senate, endeavor to examine as concisely and as correctly as I am capable of, the operation of the embargo upon the commerce and general prosperity of the U. States. According to the last report of the secretary of the treasury, it will be found, that the goods, wares and merchandise of foreign growth and manufacture, exported from the United States in the year prior to the first day of October, 1807, amounted to $59,643,558. All the revenue, all the national and commercial wealth that would have arisen from this very extensive trade, is completely destroyed by the embargo; it is a total loss to the country that can never be recovered. In the same report it appears, that the goods, wares and merchandise, of domestic growth and manufacture, the actual produce of our own country, exported from the U. States in the same year amounted to $48,699,593. The whole commercial profits and national wealth that would have arisen from the exportation and proceeds of this immensely valuable produce, is for the present lost to the country, and a large portion of the merchandise, the produce itself, must be forever lost if the embargo be long continued. All, or nearly all the product of the fisheries, amounting in dollars, to $2,804,000 as likewise the agricultural produce of the country, a few articles, such as tobacco, cotton, rice, &c. excepted, which I have not included in this estimate, amounting to $18,621,000, making in the whole twenty-one millions four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, that must be forever lost to the fisherman, the farmer or the merchant; because they are articles of a perishable kind, such as fish, wheat, flour, indian meal, flaxseed, beef, pork, &c. that will not admit of being kept on hand for market. So
that if the embargo be now continued the country in fact may be said already to have sustained a clear loss, in her native produce only, of more than twenty-one million of dollars by the measure: besides the duties that would have arisen from near a million and a half of tonnage now idle in our docks; and the immense expense of large detachments of militia, regular troops and a fleet of gun-boats to enforce the laws. And so obnoxious are those laws, that although to enforce their execution we have blockaded our own ports, and hung our own citizens, they are still openly resisted by force, and seriously endanger the domestic tranquility of the country. But, sir, it is to be observed, that the actual loss sustained during the embargo, is not the only evil arising from it; another more permanent is to be apprehended. It will have the effect of throwing the commerce of the world into other and different channels; of inducing foreign nations to seek in other countries what they have heretofore been in the habit of purchasing from us, and what we now deny them. In the single article of cotton, for instance, we now, or did, export more than fifteen million of dollars worth annually, and principally supplied the British manufactures with this article; but it is well known that the soil and climate of the Brazils is equally congenial to the growth of this crop with our own, and with due attention to the cultivation of it, is capable of supplying abundantly all the manufactures of England. Surely then I shall be correct in stating, that the embargo is a premium sufficient to stimulate them to this exertion, and to enable them ultimately to supplant us in the sale of this very valuable staple of some of our southern states. And the intimate connexion known, at present, to exist between the British government and the regency of that country, will greatly aid in producing this result.
Now, sir, let me inquire, during the existence of the present state of things, whence we are to derive our revenue? A consideration certainly of no small importance to a government depending entirely for her revenue upon commerce. Our commerce is now completely at an end, and of course our revenue; by the way, another loss to the nation of at least fifteen millions of dollars annually by the embargo. This I know cannot be felt during the present year, because our treasury is now overflowing with the proceeds of the last. But from what sources are you to obtain money next year, for the support of government, and the payment of the national debt? Are gentlemen ready to resort to a direct tax? No, sir, they love place and power too well. That was once done for the purpose of raising money, I believe to defend commerce, and the people of this country, on that occasion, taught their servants a lesson that I presume will not be shortly forgotten. The President I know in his late message, has given a favorable account of the present state of the treasury; and most kindly indeed expresses much concern as to the best use to be made of the surplus revenue of the next year. Sir, among all the cares and troubles of his successor, I venture to predict this will not be one of them: he will not be plagued with surplus revenue next year. Mr. Jefferson's over-weeing anxiety for the public good must have blinded him to the obvious fact, that before he can be well warm in his seat at Monticello, the revenue now bonded for will be collected, and as in consequence of the present abandonment of commerce, there will certainly be no other bonds to become due, it follows necessarily, in the course of your annual expenditures, that by the next meeting of Congress your treasury must be empty; so that instead of being troubled with surplus revenue, it will require all the fiscal talents of the next incumbent of the palace, be him whom he may, to provide the sum essential for the support of government.
The gentlemen who advocate this, I don't know what to call it, terrapin policy—I beg pardon, sir—when driven from every other hold, invariably launch into futurity, and tell us that if we dare to put out our heads in any part of this wide world, we shall get them broke, or, in other words, if we take off the embargo we shall have war. Laying out of view any comparison between the probable expense of war, and the actual loss annually sustained by the embargo, the former bearing no comparison with the latter, let us examine for a moment what foundation there is for this assertion;
and whether we might not at this time, even admitting the British orders of council to have their full operation, carry on safely a most extensive and valuable commerce with at least three fourths of the commercial world. I have before me those orders of council; the only restricting clause is in the following words:—"His majesty is therefore pleased, by and with the advice of his privy council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that all the ports and places of France, and her allies, or of any other country at war with his majesty, and all other ports or places in Europe, from which, although not at war with his majesty, the British flag is excluded, and all ports or places in the colonies belonging to his majesty's enemies, shall from henceforth be subject to the same restrictions in point of trade and navigation, with the exceptions hereinafter mentioned, as if the same were actually blockaded by his majesty's naval forces in the most strict and rigorous manner." As much as I condemn and feel disposed to resist these arbitrary regulations, they certainly do not interfere with, or in any respect embarrass our trade to Indostan, China, Java, Sweden, Gibraltar, England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Sicily, the whole extent of the Mediterranean and Atlantic coast of Africa, Arabia, the western Isles, and Madeira, Nova Scotia, Canada, the Spanish, Swedish and British West Indies, the Floridas, the Brazils, and all the rest of South America, except Cayenne, as likewise the north west coast of America. These countries too, as will appear by the last report of the secretary of the treasury, receive annually nearly four-fifths of the whole native exports of the U. S. and are certainly none of them, notwithstanding what has been said by the gentleman from Maryland (Gen. Smith) within the purview of the British orders of Council. That gentleman, when on this part of the subject, I will do him the justice to acknowledge, told us he had risen in great haste and was unprepared; and indeed, sir, it would require great haste, and great want of preparation, to justify some of the statements made by the gentleman to the Senate. Among other things equally extravagant, he told us, in the face of the British orders of council I have just read, that we were now interdicted by those orders from any trade with Spain or Portugal; and after referring to Mr. Canning's reply to the committee of merchants, viz. "That neutrals were not now excluded from the ports of Portugal and Spain by those orders;" triumphantly asked us to tell him, as lawyers, whether, if a vessel engaged in that trade was carried into a British court of admiralty, she would be tried by Mr. Canning's conversation with the merchants, or according to the law of the land? I answer the gentleman, not as a lawyer, but as a man of common sense, that she would be tried according to the law of the land. And I wonder it had not occurred to that gentleman, as a man of common sense, that according to the law of the land she must be acquitted. Sir, the express language of these orders is, "that all the ports and places of France and her allies, or of any other country at war with his majesty, and all other ports or places in Europe, from which, although not at war with his majesty, the British flag is excluded, &c." And will the gentleman undertake to say here, that Spain and Portugal are now the allies of France, or that the British flag is now excluded from their ports? No, sir. The gentleman knows they are, at this moment, waging a most exterminating war with France, in defence of their very existence; and that they derive their principal support and subsistence under the British flag. There is no man who can read and understand plain English, and shall examine these orders, but will tell you in a moment that the ports of Spain and Portugal so far from being within their spirit, are not now even within the letter of them. But independent of this, there was a special proclamation of the king, dated on the 4th of July last, notifying to the world, that the blockade no longer existed as to the ports of Spain. The advice, the gentleman has been pleased to detail to us, as received in private letters from Europe, I shall take no notice of; they are entitled to none, unless he will first submit those letters to the Senate, and then we shall give to the information they contain, that weight to which the characters of his correspondents, and their means of acquiring correct information, may entitle it.
Gentlemen, by turning to the last

leman wished to say that the U. S. would not submit to abandon the ocean, thus narrowing down the mode of resistance. The conclusion to be drawn from which was that they would not submit to the embargo which resisted those decrees. Instead of saying that they would not submit to the decrees the gentleman from Connecticut wished them to say that they would not submit to abandon the ocean. Gentlemen said that the embargo is an abandonment of the ocean. The gentleman therefore wished to entrap the House into a declaration that they would not submit to the embargo.
Mr. Taylor said, it had been the desire of the select committee to present to the House a proposition which should leave out of view not only party feelings which were supposed sometimes to actuate the House and the nation, but any thing relating to the manner in which this resistance was to be made by the nation against the orders and decrees, alluding but to one object—the infraction of our neutrality by foreign nations; that the question should not be trammeled with war or no war, with embargo or no embargo; but that it should appear to the world that there was a spirit in this nation determined to oppose the orders and decrees of the belligerents. It was not necessary that he should have stated this as his determination, for he had given an instance of it and so had the House, in passing the embargo law. A proposition was now brought forward on which he must vote—what? That he would not abandon the ocean in consequence of the orders and decrees. He said that a temporary abandonment was not a total abandonment; and if by the former the House should think that they could coerce an observance of their rights, the measure would probably be resorted to. This however was a question for the decision of the House. Why then trammeled this resolution with another proposition which was not connected with it? An apology might be thought necessary for proposing a truism to the consideration of the House; but it would be recollected that during the late session of Congress a colleague of his had come forward and demanded whether there was or was not a man in the nation who would submit to the belligerent edicts? From one quarter an appropriate answer had been made; from another quarter there had been no reply. And what had been the conduct of the latter? Had there not been a proposition made (by Mr. Livermore) at the late session to make war against one (France) and enter into connection with another (G. Britain)? This had been introduced; and would it not have been the most servile submission. This sentiment was not disavowed by the gentleman (Mr. Quincy) who had given them his opinion on this resolution, and swerved out of the path of his argument to vent his spleen against other measures which were not recommended to the House by the committee who had left it wholly with the House to say what measure they would adopt. Why should the House be made to decide on a proposition like this; when they had already adopted a measure (the embargo) which showed their willingness to make any sacrifices for maintaining their right to the ocean? The complaints made by the gentleman from Massachusetts proved that the people had borne a great deal. Mr. T. said he had given a sufficient proof by his vote in favor of the embargo not to make it necessary for him now to say that he would not abandon the ocean, unless for such a time, as, by affecting the interests of the belligerents, should compel them to abandon the nefarious project of laying under contribution our lawful commerce. Notwithstanding this disposition Mr. T. said, he could not vote for the amendment offered by the gentleman from Connecticut, as its adoption would evade the question which he wished to be taken on the principle of the resolution.
Mr. J. G. Jackson hoped that the committee would not consent to permit an evasion of a decision on the great question now proposed to them, and thus enable gentlemen to creep out by the aid of the proposition of the gentleman from Connecticut. He wished the question to be solemnly decided, because he believed that there were individuals in a certain portion of this body, who were not willing to say that they would resist these aggressions; and he was induced to believe it by a late assertion that the United States had no cause of complaint against Great Britain. If the gentleman from Connecticut would bring forward a distinct proposition to the amount of his amendment, Mr. J. said he would vote with him. Retiring from the ocean for a season was not an abandonment of it; but an acquiescence in the arbitrary edicts of the belligerents would be an abandonment. What was the amount of the resolution as reported by the select committee? Let it be examined and it was this; that the United States would carry on trade notwithstanding their edicts. He wished not to afford gentlemen an opportunity of getting off the odium
which would attach to them if they voted against the plain proposition for resistance; and he hoped that the committee would not sanction the amendment, notwithstanding that he was ready to vote for a distinct proposition to the same effect as the amendment.
Mr. Livermore said that the principal question proposed to the House by the amendment was, whether it was consistent with a determination to resist, to abandon the ocean in consequence of the edicts of Great Britain and France? Would any gentleman say that it was? Would any gentleman say that it comported with honor and independence to abandon the ocean? He conceived not. The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Bacon) seemed to conceive that if the amendment were adopted, it would be contended that the embargo was an abandonment of commerce. From its intruding upon the gentleman's mind thus, Mr. L. said there must be some truth in the idea. In considering this amendment Mr. Livermore said, he wished to consider it in its full extent. He did not in general wish that in legislation any abstract proposition should be laid down. It did not appear to him to be the proper mode of doing business; though it was probable that gentlemen might, from a cursory view, think proper to give this resolution their sanction. He could not see how any gentleman could dissent from the amendment.
This declaration of non-submission must relate altogether to something to be done or suffered on the ocean; and what then? Why he should suppose that he submitted by giving up navigation in consequence of the edicts of foreign powers. It really appeared to him that in withdrawing from the ocean we did submit; that receding from the ocean was obeying the edicts. France said that we should not trade with G. Britain. G. Britain said that inasmuch as this was the case we should not go to the continent without paying her a certain duty. He granted that both were injurious. What then? The question was, should the U. States submit to them? He was not one of those to whom the gentleman who spoke last had alluded as being afraid of the odium of voting against the first resolution, though he should really vote for it. But he would much rather vote for it with the amendment of the gentleman from Connecticut. He did not know why honorable gentlemen should throw out these insinuations. The gentleman had said that those who opposed the proposition said that they would submit. He had never heard any one say so; on the contrary, he contended that it would be humiliating to submit. But they might differ as to the manner of resisting; and he should contend that withdrawing from the ocean was submitting to the decrees of France and G. Britain. He said that he would not submit to the edicts of G. Britain more than of France; at the same time that he contended that withdrawing from the ocean would be submission to both.
Some further desultory debate took place on Mr. Dana's amendment in which Messrs. Rhea, Macon, G. W. Campbell, Fisk and Taylor opposed and Messrs. Elliot, Dana and Lyon supported it.
And on the question to agree to the amendment it was negatived, Ayes 31. Mr. Livermore said he had an amendment to propose which he hoped would meet the opinion of every gentleman, since the chief argument against the amendment of the gentleman from Connecticut was that it narrowed the ground of resistance. He proposed to add to the end of the resolution the following words: "and that an abandonment of the navigation of the ocean is a relinquishment of our rights & a submission to the edicts of Great Britain and France."
Mr. Cook objected to the insertion in this resolution of any irrelevant matter, with a view to evade its object; although the amendment introduced as a separate proposition, he might vote for it.
Mr. Smith said he really could not help giving credit to the gentleman from Connecticut for the ingenuity of his amendment; but the gentleman from Massachusetts had certainly improved upon it. Accept that amendment (said he) and you condemn indirectly the very measures which this government has taken for resistance.
The amendment moved by Mr. Livermore was negatived, twenty members only rising in favor of it.
The committee then rose (half past three o'clock) reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again.
Mr. Elliot, from the committee appointed to wait on the President with a resolution calling for a copy of the proclamation issued in relation to the opposition to the embargo laws near Lake Champlain, reported, that they had performed that duty, and had received for answer from the President that he would comply with their request.
Mr. Gardiner presented a petition of the inhabitants of Southold, Suffolk county, N. York, against the embargo. He moved to dispense with the reading, and refer it to a committee.
Mr. D. B. Williams said he could not dispense with the reading.
The Clerk proceeded in the reading of the petition; but before it was concluded, a motion was made to adjourn and carried.
Tuesday, November 29. A petition from the commissioners of the land office of Detroit, praying compensation for their services, was read and referred.
Mr. Morrow offered the following resolution which was adopted:
Resolved , That the committee of public lands be instructed to enquire into the expediency of reviving, and continuing in force for a further time the authority of the board of commissioners for investigating claims for land in the Kaskaskia district and that they report by bill or otherwise.
Mr. Holmes, from the committee of Claims, to whom was referred a resolution proposed by Mr. Rhea, reported a bill authorising the payment of certain pensions by the Secretary of War at the seat of government. Twice read and referred to a committee of the whole.
FOREIGN RELATIONS. On motion of Mr. Sloan the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the report of the committee on the subject of our foreign relations, Mr. Storer in the chair.
The first resolution still under consideration.
Mr. W. Alston commenced the debate to-day in a speech of about twenty minutes on the general subject of the report.
Mr. Bacon followed in a speech of about an hour and an half, principally in reply to Mr. Quincy's speech of yesterday, and in support of the report of the select committee.
Mr. Sloan next occupied the floor for near an hour in delivering a speech against the embargo generally & the report of the committee.
Mr. Rhea spoke next for about 3 quarters of an hour in support of the resolution under consideration and the report of the committee.
When Mr. Rhea concluded, Mr. Cook moved that the committee rise and report progress—Negatived, 55 to 50.
Mr. Randolph begged leave to renew the motion that the committee now rise, report progress and ask leave to sit again. He did this from a knowledge that some gentlemen who might wish to deliver their sentiments on this subject had already left the House from indisposition, and others would soon follow their example, unless the committee would indulge them by rising.
The motion was carried, Ayes 71, and the house immediately adjourned.
TURKISH GOODS. ON MONDAY next the 5th December at 12 o'clock will be SOLD at John Travers' AUCTION ROOM, Sundry TURKISH GOODS, on Public account. They may be seen at my store any day previous to the day of sale.
JOHN COX. Georgetown, November 30—3t
I hereby forewarn all store and shopkeepers against delivering any thing to any person or persons in my name, unless by my written order; for David Dobbin's clerk has presented an account to me which is unjust, and I positively declare I will not pay it; for the goods were taken up by an unknown person to me.
JOHN ANDERSON. Navy-Yard, November 30—3t
PUBLIC SALE. By Virtue of a decree of the High Court of Chancery of Maryland, appointing the Subscriber Trustee for the sale of the Real Estate of the late Samuel Hepburn, Esq., of Prince George's county, will be offered at Public Sale to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 22d day of December next (if fair if not the first fair day thereafter) on the premises, part of the real estate of the said deceased, being part of two tracts or parcels of Land called Maiden's Dowry, and Grey Eagle enlarged, containing Three Hundred and Ninety-two Acres. This land is situated in Prince George's county directly on the mail road leading from the city of Annapolis through Queen Ann and Upper Marlboro' to the city of Washington and Alexandria, is distant about ten miles from the two latter places and about five miles from Upper Marlboro' and adjoining those two fertile and well known farms in said county called the Wood Yard and Millwood; it is well adapted to the production of Tobacco and all kinds of grain, and has a sufficient quantity of rail timber and firewood for the support of two such farms. The terms of sale are twelve months credit, the purchaser giving bond with security to be approved by the trustee, bearing interest from the day of sale, and on the ratification of the sale by the Chancellor, and on payment of the purchase money, the trustee will by a good and sufficient deed convey to the purchaser and his heirs all the right, title, and interest which the said Samuel Hepburn had in the said lands.
TRUEMAN TYLER, Trustee. N. B. The creditors of the said Samuel Hepburn are requested to lodge their claims with the vouchers thereof in the Chancery Office within two months from the day of sale.
TRUEMAN TYLER, Trustee. November 30—wts
THIS is to give Notice, that the subscriber, of Prince George's county, hath obtained from the Orphan's court of Prince George's county, in Maryland, letters of administration on the personal estate of Nathaniel C. Weems, late of said county, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, at or before the 20th day of May next, to Trueman Tyler, Esq., of Upper Marlboro', who is fully authorised to settle and adjust said administration, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 20th day of November, 1808.
VIOLETTA WEEMS, Adm'x. N. B. All those indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment. Violetta Weems, Adm'x. November 30—wts
WASHINGTON CITY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30.
The House of Delegates of Maryland have rejected the proposition of the Senate, to proceed to the choice of a Senator in the Congress of the United States and have intimated their purpose to postpone a choice until next session.
Extract of a letter dated Philadelphia, November 24th.
"This day we received the report of the Committee on Foreign Relations. It was read at the Coffee House publicly, and conceivably the effect produced. Within the scope of my federal acquaintance it has entirely effected a change in their minds; there appears but one sentiment, and that a manly indignation at our wrongs, and a disposition to support the country's cause. Indeed, were it possible to go to war, it would now be a popular measure."
Specimen of the patriotism of Tennessee. In the county of Knox, the Madison Elector 177, and the Pinckney Elector 6.
Crowded as our columns are with the important proceedings of the National Legislature, we devote one column to the following infamous production of Toryism, distributed at the dead of night through the town of Newbury Port, in Massachusetts. Exacerbated the head that dictated, withered the hand that penned it! Such a production is a blot on the fair fame of America. The wretch that produced it should be dragged from his lurking hole and hunted out of society with the stings of a thousand scorpions. If written by an American, every good man should disown him for a brother. With such a monster the charities of social life cannot subsist. But is it not the production of some foreign incendiary? Is it not likely that the emissaries of our enemies are every where busily engaged in fanning the embers of discontent into a flame, in efforts to divide, to weaken, to destroy us, Republicans, be vigilant and firm! Drag such miscreants into daylight, and, if they are no otherwise punished, let the lightning of public vengeance blast them.
"AMERICANS!
"It is time your eyes were opened, and your vengeance roused; and that you might discover and punish a herd of Jacobins, whose hellish designs have already tarnished the fair name of Americans, and shook the fabric of your Independence to the centre. A cabal exists in the heart of your nation—a set of men whose insatiable thirst for popularity has no bounds, and whose ambition is of sufficient extent to induce them to rivet on you the chains of slavery, rather than not obtain a diploma from the hands of a tyrant, and a membership in Bonaparte's legion of honor. Americans, the democrats, or jacobins, who falsely arrogate to themselves the name of republicans, we have reason to think are impostors, and would sacrifice your liberties at the shrine of tyranny, would bow the knee to the Gallic despot, and consign your inimitable constitution to the flames. The time is come, sons of Columbia, to repair to the tents of freedom, to rally round the standard of your liberties, to bear on your shoulders the ark containing your constitution, to protect it from every unhallowed touch, and sacrifice to the manes of your almost departed independence, the wretch, who, with sacrilegious hands, shall dare wrest it from you. Rise indignant at the thought of slavery; declare yourselves Freemen, maintain and defend the privileges which Heaven in mercy has committed to your trust for posterity; and never be dupes to any man, whether he sway a sceptre, and is clothed in regal glory, or like the pusillanimous Jefferson, crouches to the tyrant of France. You have reposed confidence in a coward, and leaned on a broken staff too long; delays are dangerous, every moment is big with danger which portends destruction to the only republic on earth! How can you hesitate a moment, how relish the impositions which have so long been practised upon you; the blood of the fathers of your country cries aloud from the ground in a voice of agonizing sensibility, and denounces judgment against the parricide who will not avenge the wrongs of his country, and pour vengeance on the heads of traitors. Let every Freeman make a solemn pause—and consider for a moment the situation of his devoted country; let him look back to the period when Adams surrendered his administration into the hands of Jefferson, and compare the situation of America at that time with its present wretched condition, and he must tremble with indignation at the change."
"There is a time for every thing—the time for impositions has been occupied in its fullest extent. Now, Americans, is the time for sincerity; and I beseech you, if the spirit of independence, which was conceived in the womb of adversity, and welcomed into existence with the dying groans of heroes, is worth cherishing, cherish and defend it while a drop of blood circulates in your veins. Give ear no longer to the syren voice of Democracy and Jeffersonian Liberty; it is a cursed delusion, adopted by traitors, and recommended by sycophants, to ensure their own aggrandizement, and smooth the sea of popularity that their corrupted carcasses may swim without danger. The crisis is now at hand, and the Goddess of Liberty, like Noah's dove, will find no resting place, if the fate of your country is left to the unskilful hand of Jefferson—a man, fellow-citizens, who with the dagger of popular cowardice, first gave the stab to your liberties, by purchasing a tract of land so extensive that his judgment could set no bounds, nor his philosophy divine a use. A land productive of nothing but crocodiles, salt mountains, prairie dogs, and extraordinary whims; fit for nothing but to lumber the museum, or confuse the brains of some mighty philosopher—and purchased, fellow-citizens, on the avowed principles of securing to America what was guaranteed to her before by the Spanish treaty, viz. the free navigation of the river Mississippi, and the right of deposit in Orleans. A man who hired, and paid a notorious detractor to vilify & calumniate Washington & Adams; and after he (Callender) was prosecuted and a fine recovered for his infamous and libelous falsehoods, made, if possible, the United States an accessory, by remunerating the delinquent from the treasury. A man, fellow citizens, who exalted himself to the utmost, to prevent Wilkinson, a traitor to his country, and notorious for being deficient in every qualification which constitutes an honest man, and possessing every one that is possible to make a man a consummate villain, from being tried in a legal and correct manner, and forfeiting his treasonous head to the just laws of his injured country. A man who extended the hand of friendship across the Atlantic to the judicious Tom Paine, requesting him to come to America, to accept the assurances of his high respect and regard, to be rewarded for assisting that hell-bound Robespierre, in perpetrating murders, that would put common midnight assassins to the blush. A man, who, in connection with other notorious jacobins, and under the responsibility of the most solemn oath that can be imagined, did annul the judiciary established by the constitution, and put the judges out of office on the principle of their being honest federalists, in direct opposition to and violation of that constitution which he had sworn to support, notwithstanding such conduct is considered by the people of information and common sense, to be the most direct and flagrant perjury. A man who has been appointed a member of Bonaparte's Legion of Honor, and which is expressly forbidden by the constitution, did not think fit to signify his non-acceptance to his tyrannic majesty. A man who cherishes so great an antipathy and hatred against England, as to prevent honorable negotiation between the two countries, to the great detriment of America. A man whose predilection in favor of France and Bonaparte, is of such extent, as to lay the prosperity of America at his feet; or in other words, to sacrifice it and her independence, either to obtain his favor or avoid his frowns; for it is a stubborn fact, however disgraceful, that French vessels have liberty to load with provisions in America, and sail from thence with the good wishes of Jefferson for France, while American citizens are interdicted by their father and protector Jefferson, from conveying provisions from one port to another."
"The man, fellow-citizens, who is adding insult to injury, and whose mad career cannot be stopped, but by the indignation of Freemen. If one spark of fire exists in your breasts which renovated the drooping spirits of your ancestors when the hands of Tyrants strove to enslave them, fan it with the breath of patriotism into a flame, whose radiance shall raise the heroes of America from their slumbers, and shake the Temple of Democracy, Anarchy, and Confusion to the centre!"
"The day of political probation is fast verging to a close; when the fate of America will be decided, and the laurels, bought with the price of freemen's blood, will grace the brows of the Gallic tyrant. Let every man who holds the name of American dear to him, stretch forth his hand, and put this accursed thing, this EMBARGO from him. Be resolute, act like the sons of Freedom, stand firm in the cause of Liberty, of God, and your country; nerve your arm with vengeance against the Despot who would wrest the inestimable gem of your independence from you—and you shall be CONQUERORS!!—And all the People shall say AMEN. AN ENEMY TO TYRANTS."
A CURE FOR THE WHOOPING COUGH.
Dissolve a scruple of Salt of Tartar and ten grains of Cochineal finely powdered, in a gill of water, sweeten it with loaf Sugar—Give to an infant one fourth of a table spoonful four times a day; to a child of 3 or 4 years old, half a spoonful, and above that age a table spoonful may be given four times a day. The relief is immediate, and the cure within four or five days.
The vile resolutions of John Hanson Thomas, in the House of Delegates of this state, was taken up on Thursday last, on which warm and animated debates took place. Messrs. Spencer, Randall, and Stansbury took a conspicuous part on the republican side in the debate. J. H. Thomas, as might be expected, was the bell weather of the opposition. The final question was taken about 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon—it passed 41 for, and 50 against the resolves. Two republicans were absent, viz. Mr. Muir (sick) and Mr. David Carr. Such conduct is in accordance with men who are intent, by every mean in their power, to embarrass the measures of government.
Balt. American.
ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY. The Anniversary of St. Andrew's Day will be celebrated by the Society, THIS DAY, at the hour of THREE P. M. at Lindsay's Hotel, Pennsylvania avenue, where the Members are requested to attend. November 30—
TAMMANY SOCIETY. A Stated Meeting of the Society will be held at the Council Fire of its Great Wigwam, on Friday Evening next, precisely at the going down of the Sun. By order of the Society, B: SMITH, Sec. Month of Beaver the 29th } year of Discovery 317th, } (Nov. 29th 1808.) }
RUNAWAY. COMMITTED to my custody as a runaway, a dark Mulatto Man, who calls himself by the name of DICK, who says he belongs to William Dent, of Charles county, near Port Tobacco. He is about 25 years old, five feet eight inches high. Had on when committed an old white hat, a drab roundabout, and corduroy pantaloons. His owner is desired to take him away, or he will be sold for his prison fees. JOHN FLEMING, Sheriff of Montgomery county. November 30—3t
In Chancery, November 9th, 1808. ORDERED that the sale made by Roger Perry, trustee for the sale of the real estate of Gustavus Scott, deceased, shall be ratified and confirmed unless cause to the contrary be shown before the first day of February next, provided that a copy of this order be inserted in the National Intelligencer once in each of three successive weeks before the first day of January next. The report states that sundry tracts of land in Alleghany county were sold to the amount of $4,459 15 cts. True copy. Test NICH. BREWER, Reg. Cur. Can. November 16—wbt
THIS is to give notice that the subscriber of Prince George's county, hath obtained from the Orphans Court of Prince George's county in Maryland, Letters of Administration on the personal estate of John Rusty late of said county 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 7th day of May next, they may otherwise be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 7th day of November 1808. JOHN H. HALL, Adm'r. November 48—wgt
PRINTING INK. SUMNER, WATSON, and Co. the Prop'rs of Book Printing INK, for sale in the store of Mr. THOMAS W. PATON, adjoining the Green Buildings, & W. Mr. JAMES M. SMITH, New Jersey avenue, near the Canal. October 10—Spencer

THE Secretary of the Navy will receive PROPOSALS until the first day of February next, for furnishing all or any of the following articles of Domestic Materials and Domestic Manufactures.
 3000 yards of 6-4 coarse Blue Cloth, or 6000 yards of 3-4.  240 yards of 6-4 scarlet do. or 480 3-4.  1500 yards of 6-4 Blue for lining, any color excepted, or 3000 yards of 3-4 flannel.  7000 yards of Brown Linen 3-4 wide.  220 pieces of Sheeting, such as Russia, 240 lbs. of white or brown Thread, 10 lb. of red Thread, 100 lbs. of blue Thread, 20 lbs. of yellow Thread.  3500 yards of 5-4 grey mixed coating, or 3100 yards of 6-4 wide.  100 gross of Button Moulds—small coat, 2000 3 point Blankets.  10000 yards of yellow binding, called qualities.  2000 yards of colour Plains, for watch coats, any color excepting red.  20 gross of large Metal Buttons, plain.  The articles to be delivered to the Navy Agent, residing nearest the place at which they may be manufactured. November 23—
30,000 DOLLARS, FOR 500 CENTS!
NEW YORK STATE LOTTERY. For opening and improving certain great Roads to the Black River—positively to commence drawing on the 12th of April next, 600 tickets to be drawn each day until the whole is concluded. Prizes payable thirty days after the drawing, and the payment guaranteed by the State Legislature.
The Capital Prizes are:—  30,000 dollars  20,000 dollars  10,000 dollars  5,000 dollars  2,000 dollars  Besides several of 1,000, 500, 200, 100, &c. &c.
Less than two blanks to a prize. The scheme of this Lottery is universally acknowledged to be the best ever yet offered to the American public, and the price of tickets at present no higher than Eight Dollars each.
Tickets—Halves, Quarters, & Eighths, are to be had at G. & H. WAITE'S true Fortune Lottery Offices, No. 54, Maiden-Lane, & No. 38, Maiden-Lane, New York, where were sold in the last New York Lottery, the three capital prizes of 25,000 Dollars. No. 20,231. 10,000 ——— No. 25,403. 5,000 ——— No. 20,799.
Also, No. 20,310, a prize of 2000 dollars, besides several others of 2000, 1000, 500 dollars, &c. and in former New York Lotteries were sold at the above offices:—
 17129 25,000 dolls. 11736 2000 dolls.  3929 20,000 dolls. 28973 2000 dolls.  3639 10,000 dolls. 13904 2000 dolls.  26135 5,000 dolls. 16617 2000 dolls.  30356 5,000 dolls. 23596 2000 dolls.  15298 3,000 dolls. 20835 2000 dolls.  And at their Lottery Office in Baltimore, corner of Charles and Market streets, were sold nearly all the capital prizes in the late St. Mary's College Lottery, among them were the following, viz.  6071 30,000 dolls. 19894 1500 dolls.  13564 15,000 dolls. 1788 1500 dolls.  7001 10,000 dolls. 1525 1500 dolls.  6977 5,000 dolls. 7440 1500 dolls.  14425 1500 dolls. 
Distant adventurers, by enclosing Bank Notes in letters post paid, directed to Waite's Office, in Baltimore, New York, or Albany, may have Tickets and Shares returned by post, to any part of the Union, with the utmost punctuality, and the earliest advice sent of their success. Schemes at large, gratis, and cash advanced for prizes as soon as drawn. A weekly printed prize list will be forwarded to the printer of this paper, and at the conclusion of the drawing, the Managers Official List of prizes as soon as printed, where any gentleman can examine his own number. Prizes in former Lotteries taken in payment for tickets in this.
The Baltimore Trinity Church Lottery commenced drawing on the 1st of November, and will continue to draw 2,000 tickets per week till finished. Price of Tickets, Six Dollars, which may be had at any of Waite's offices, warranted undrawn. November 23—6w
50 DOLLARS REWARD.  R ANAWAY from the subscriber, on Sunday 11th day of September, a negro lad, named JOHN, aged 19 years, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high. He is of a dark complexion, and slow of expression. His clothing when he went off, was a dark brown broad cloth coat, old blue waistcoat, and corduroy pantaloons—has other clothing with him which is unknown. Said fellow has been seen since he went off, in the city of Washington, from thence I suspect he has removed to the neighborhood of Mr. William Carroll's in Montgomery county; as he has acquaintances there. Whoever secures said fellow, so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid if brought home, including what the law allows.
NATHAN SOPER. More than probable, said fellow has made for the state of Pennsylvania or for the state of Virginia, and may have a pass given him by some free person of color, who can write. N. S. Prince George's county, Nov. 23—2awtf
(BY SPECIAL PERMISSION.) The fine new ship MISSOURI, Robert Hunt, Master.
WILL sail from Baltimore for NEW ORLEANS, about the 1st of December. Her accommodations and elegance of accommodation for passengers are not exceeded by any ship belonging to the United States, and the master is thoroughly acquainted and experienced in that navigation. For freight or passage apply in Baltimore to Captain on board, or
REVIN D. SHEPHERD. November 21—1D
LUKE KENT, CLOCK & WATCH MAKER (FROM PHILADELPHIA)
STREET between the Bank & Treasury. Informs his friends and the public, that he continues to repair Clocks and Watches of every description in the best manner with his usual punctuality. Washington city, Nov. 14—6w
INFORMATION FOR THE PUBLIC. This subscriber is improved by Judge PAYLER, the inventor of the Chain Bridge, to superintend and build those Bridges, and is also constituted sole agent, to sell Patent rights throughout the United States. Those who may inure to benefit by this new and invaluable sort of bridge, may obtain information on the subject, by addressing letters to the subscriber in Georgetown, in the territory of Columbia, who will, either superintend the construction of those bridges, or build them on contract. JOHN TEMPLEMAN. October 30—ep1m
JOHN COX OF GEORGETOWN, Offers for Sale, the following valuable TRACTS OF LAND:
 2038 acres in Shenandoah county, state of Virginia, between the north and south forks of Shenandoah river, within one and a half miles of said river, and not more than seven-five miles from the seat of government of the United States.  Also the following well known and valuable tracts in Allegany county, state of Maryland:—  Governor's Neglect, 1081 acres.  Grimes's Attention, 684  Chestnut Grove, 461  Hard Struggle, 1534  Western Connexion, 1037  Lot No. 2437, 50  These lands lay principally between the town of Cumberland and Simkin's tavern. A part is heavily timbered, and skirted by glades; and is perhaps the best grazing land in the world. The tract "Chestnut Grove" is about 10 or 12 miles from the town of Cumberland, is well situated, having the great road running through it; this road connects the waters of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. November 14—2awtfw
ALL PORTER & BEER. The Subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has on hand Albany Ale , Philadelphia Porter and Ale by the Hogshead or Dozen, Philadelphia Beer by the barrel of a superior quality, being supplied from the first breweries on the continent, he hopes to give general satisfaction.
N. B. A constant supply of GROCERIES. JOHN DOBBYN. Washington city, near the Navy Yard, Nov. 16—75
INFORMATION WANTED. IF JOHN BATELY DOBBINS who came from England some years ago, and resided at Washington (it is not certain in what state) for some time, will call on, or write to the subscriber, he will hear something much to his advantage. Any information that will enable me to ascertain whether the said John Bately Dobbins is alive or not, will be thankfully received.
SAMUEL SPACKMAN, No. 1, Bank Alley, Philadelphia. 10th month, 11, 1808—2m
TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION, On Wednesday the 30th of November next on a credit of Six and Twelve months. THAT well known HOUSE on Pennsylvania avenue, occupied by Mr. Wm. Rhodes as a hotel, together with all the buildings attached thereto, comprising every thing necessary for a Tavern, with a private Dwelling House. The situation of these premises give them some advantages over any other tavern in the city, being near to the Public Offices, and also to the street that will lead across the Tiber, to the bridge now erecting over the Potomac, and which is rapidly progressing, with a Turnpike road to Alexandria, which will add much to the value of this stand as a house of entertainment. Those inclined to purchase the above very extensive and valuable premises, are invited to call and view them. A few fixtures to be taken by the purchaser at a fair appraisement. Sale to be on the premises, and to commence at 1 o'clock P. M. SAMUEL SPEAK, Auc. Washington city, October 31—tdos
MRS. LEE, begs leave to acquaint the Ladies & Gentlemen of Washington and its vicinity, that in addition to the Masters of MUSIC, DANCING and DRAWING, who attend her ACADEMY. She has engaged a Gentleman of known ability to attend to instruct in ARITHMETIC and GEOGRAPHY with the GLOBES, MAPS, & CHARTS. Mrs. LEE flatters herself with a continuance of that patronage, she has ever experienced; and hopes still to merit by an unremitted attention to the duties of the trust reposed in her. Mrs. Lee wishes to form a Class for Arithmetic, and Geography, by 28th inst. Washington, October 20—2m
THE COMMERCIAL COMPANY OF WASHINGTON. Now landing from on board the schr. Maria, capt. Fitzhugh, and for SALE, at low prices,
 Jamaica Spirit,  Antigua and New England Rum,  Muscavado Sugars,  Molasses,  Coffee,  Muscate and bloom Raisins,  Holland and country Gin,  Spermacei Candles,  Spermacei Oil,  Spanish Segars,  Corks,  Powder and shot of the best quality,  White Lead in oil,  A few crates of Stone Ware.  They have also on hand, and for Sale, Madeira, Wine by the cask. Catalonia, Claret in boxes of 1 dozen each, Cogniac and Brandy 4th proof, Bordeaux, Hyson and Young Hyson, Tea, Best Sallid Oil, Mould and Dipt Candles, Soap, Whiskey, and a few Logs of Mahogany. JOSEPH FORREST, Pres. August 22—
NOTICE. This is to give notice that the subscriber of Georgetown, Washington county, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of Prince Georges county, Maryland, letters of administration on the personal estate of John Lovejoy of said county, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof to the subscriber on or before the 19th day of May next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 11th day of November 1808. WILLIAM NEVITT.
November 16—9w
CHARLES H. VARDEN, MERCHANT TAILOR. RESPECTFULLY informs the gentlemen of the District of Columbia and Public in general, that he has received by a late arrival from Philadelphia, a Choice Assortment of superfine Cloths, Cassimeres, single and double milled, superfine Coating, black silk Florentines. Like-wise an elegant assortment of Sponclets & rich silk Molekins for Waistcoats with a variety of other articles suitable for the season. Regimentals and Navy Uniforms made in the most elegant and uniform style of fashion.
Richard Norwell's celebrated PATENT PARALLEL SUSPENDERS far superior to any hitherto in use can be had on the same terms retail, as at his Manufactory. November 27—1f
CASH Given for any quantity of clean combed HOGS BRISTLES, At the subscribers store, Bridge street, Georgetown. W. S. NICHOLLS. November 18—3w
Washington and Alexandria Turnpike Company. THE Stockholders of the Washington & Alexandria Turnpike Company are hereby notified that the Fourth Instalment of TEN Dollars on each share is called for by the President and Directors of the said company, and is required to be paid to Charles Page, Treasurer, in Alexandria, on or before the 14th day of December next, agreeable to an act of Congress, entitled "An act for the establishment of a Turnpike Company in the county of Alexandria, in the district of Columbia."
By order of the Directors, G. DENEALE, President. November 18—13t
REICHARD BECK, HAS just received from Philadelphia a Large and Handsome Assortment of Seasonable and Fashionable GOODS, among which are— Superfine cloths and cassimeres, Second do. do. Molekins and silk waistcoating Bennets cord and Spanish marcelis, do. Constitution cords and velveteens, Coating, frizes and kerseys Rose and striped blankets Worsted, cotton and silk hosiery Flannel and baizes Navy blue cloths Checks, calicoes and Chintzes White and colored cambrics Dimities, brown Holland and dowlases Bandanas and Madrass handkerchiefs Durants and calimancoes Tapes and bobbins Silk and cotton chambray 4-4th and 7-8th Irish linens 4-4th and 7-8th cotton shirring London and other hats Plain India mul muslins Seeded do. do. Diagonal and Trafalgar do. Plain and figured lenoes Linen cambrics Damask, silk and serge shawls Tabby velvets for pelices Italian Mantua Bombazets and bombazene Elegent assortment thread and cotton laces Handsome assortment ribbons Kid and silk gloves Picket silk mitts and glovee Diaper and diaper table cloths Kid and Morocco shoes A few heels India muslins assorted Ticklenburgs and osnaburgs, &c. &c. All of which being bought on the best terms will be sold by the piece or retail very low for cash or approved notes. Georgetown, Nov. 11—1f
FOR SALE, AN ELEGANT CHARIOT, full Silver mounted and double lined, with or without silver mounted Harness for four or two Horses, it is of first rate materials and workmanship, has scarcely ever been used, and never out of the limits of this city and Georgetown. Inquire of the Editor of this paper.
NOTICE. PURSUANT to an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at November session, 1806, entitled "An act authorizing the collection of certain ground rents due on lots in the town of Cumberland, in Allegany county," and a supplement thereto, passed at November session, 1807, Public Notice is hereby given to all persons holding unimproved lots in said town, on which ground rents are now due, that unless the said rents are paid on or before the first day of December next, the said lots will on that day be offered at public sale to the highest bidder, on a credit of 60 days. The sale to be held at Mr. J. Rine's tavern, in said town—to commence at ten o'clock, A. M. and continue from day to day, until the whole are sold. THOMAS BEALL, of Saml. March 21—ep1ts
WILLIAM O'NEALE'S BOARDING HOUSE, Near the West Market House, Washington city. FIVE or SIX gentlemen can be accommodated with Genteel Boarding and Lodging, the rooms well furnished, good and faithful servants, stabling for 10 or 12 horses; two good coaches to attend the members of both Houses of Congress free of expence to the Boarders to and from Congress Hall.
COAL & WOOD May be had, by applying to the subscriber at his house, on the shortest notice, who keeps a Coal Yard, and has on hand 6,000 bushels of the best Sally Pitts Coal for Sale. WM. O'NEALE. Washington, Nov. 16—1f
SEBASTIAN SPRING, ON THE NEW TURNPIKE ROAD BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA & WASHINGTON CITY. AT the above Spring, situated about half a mile from Washington Bridge, the subscriber has lately opened a house of entertainment for the accommodation of the citizens of both places and travellers. Parties can be furnished, on a short notice, with every species of refreshment they may wish, in a style to their satisfaction, and public dinners can be had suitable to any occasion. He is determined to keep the best liquors the district will afford, and a genuine glass of Madeira may always be relied on. A. LINDO. N. B. A Hack and Gigg will be kept for the convenience of gentlemen crossing the Potomac river wishing to proceed to Alexandria. Two good Waiters and a Cook Wanted. Nov. 25—9t
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT application will be made, at the Treasury of the United States, for the renewal of Certificate No. 12,329, issued by Joseph Nourse, Esq. Register, on the 16th June, 1798; in favor of William Holland, of London, for five thousand dollars, three per cent. stock. JOHN DAVIDSON. Nov. 25—6w.
FALL GOODS. BAKER, RIGGS, & Co. Sign of the Plough, have just received from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia—37 Packages of English, India, and French GOODS—consisting of a general assortment of FANCY AND SUBSTANTIAL Articles, which being selected at the best markets, principally for Cash, enables them to sell lower than their usual prices. A liberal deduction will be made to retailers and large buyers, for cash or negotiable notes. Georgetown, October 31—tawtfw
W. & C. SMITH HAVE removed to their New Warehouse corner of Keys and WATER streets, near the FERRY, where they have lately received from New York, a large additional supply of GOODS in their line. They now have in Store and offer for sale on reasonable terms Madeira Wine in pipes, half pipes, and quarter casks, Sherry, Lisbon and Teneriffe Wine, in quarter casks, Old Port and Catalonia Wine in pipes and quarter casks, Claret in Boxes, 1 dozen each, Old Cogniac Brandy, superior quality, Bordeaux and Marseilles do. Genuine Holland and New York anchor Gin, Old Jamaica and Antigua Spirits, 4th Proof Whiskey, very old and fine, 1st Proof do. Loaf and lump Sugars in hogsheads and barrels, Muscavado Sugars, superior quality in hogsheads and barrels, Do. 2d quality do. do. Imperial, TEAS, fresh and of approved qualities in chests, boxes and lead canisters, Young Hyson, Coffee, Nutmegs, Pepper and Allspice, Mustard, Chocolate and Sweet Oil, Almonds, soft shelled, and Currants, Segars, Ginger and Basket Salt, Soap, mould and dipped Candles in boxes Spanish Indigo, Demijohns, Gin Cases, Liverpool Blown and Ground Alum Salt, &c. &c. &c. Georgetown, October 26—2awtfw
SAMUEL STETTINIUS, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NEAR THE CENTRE MARKET. HAS just received and is now opening an Extensive Assortment of FALL GOODS, consisting in a variety of Broad Cloths, Coating, sheeting Muslin, Blues, Blue and drab Looking Glasses of colored Bear Skin, of all sizes and some of great elegance, Tortoise shell Combs, Flannels of almost every description, most fashionable ornamented Combs, Irish and German Linens, Bed Tickings, Black Crape, white Calicoes, Furniture do. silk Velvets of different colors, silk Calicoes, Camel hair plush Bonnets, Laces, and cotton Shawls, silk, kid, cotton and worsted Gloves long and short, Silk Shawls, White, black & colored Black worsted and cotton Cambrics, and cotton Hose for ladies and shirring do. Durant, gentlemen, silk Calimancoes, Bombazet do. Muffs and Tips of best Furs, Wildboar, Silk and cotton Umbrellas, Sword Canes, Fur Hats, Ladies Morocco and Leather Velvets, Cordroy & worsted Cord, Benets Cord, Swansdown, blue, black and nankene colored Cassimeres, Table Cloths in Skains, Cotton and cotton in ready made, Russia Table and tea Spoons, Turkey, bed spreads, Ticklenburgs, Osanburg and Hessian Linens, velvet Bindings, Lute-rings of different colors, Razors and Razor Strops, Scissars of the best quality, Penknives & Pocket do. Gold and silver Spangles, Linen and cotton Checks, Baftas and Knives and Forks, Currahs, shirring and Ivory & horn Combs And a variety of other DRY GOODS, too tedious to enumerate. S. STETTINIUS begs leave to pay hereby to his friends and the public in general, his warmest thanks for the encouragement they were pleased to give him, since his establishment in this city, and solicits their kind remembrance in the above branch of business, where it will always be his first duty to accommodate to his utmost endeavours and in all respects. He has also received by the Schooner Sally, Capt. Puffin, and offers for SALE BY WHOLESALE, 5 Hogsheads of prime New Orleans Sugar, 2 Pipes of genuine Holland Gin, with a certificate of importation from the custom house of New York, 2000 lb. green Coffee, 20 barrels Whiskey, of a good flavor, 12 boxes Window Glass, 12 by 10 and 10 by 8. 50 Pieces tanned Buck Skins, suitable for Glove-makers and fit for Pantaloons, Plain velvet Ribbons, from No. 12 to 50. Figured do. from No. 18 to 50, Suspenders, Linen Checks, No. 3. Apron do. L. B. 42 inches, Do do. C. 40 do. Cotton stripes, Linen do. Red Tapes, No. 25, Ladies long Florent Gloves, Mens cotton do. Silk Shawls, No. 8, Black silk Velvet, Mens over Shoes, Womens do. do. Black Cambric, One trunk Calicoes, Cotton Velvets, 5000 best Quills, Ladies Morocco Slippers. Any admirer of CANARY BIRDS may be accommodated with Bird and Cage, at a moderate price when calling on me. Washington city, Oct. 26 3&wtf
FOR SALE, Cotton, Tea, Sugars, Mustard, &c. W. & C. SMITH, Have just received by the Ceres, Captain Weeks, from New-York— 30 Bales prime upland cotton 10 Boxes Mustard 10 do. Fresh Olives 10 Kgs ground Ginger 2 Bags Race Ginger 10 Bags Pepper and Pimento 20 Chests and boxes Fresh Imperial and Young Hyson Teas 10 Cases Florence Oil 10 Barrels Prime Sugars 10 Boxes Chocolate. 200 lbs. Best Spanish Indigo. Geo. Town, November 21—tawtfw
ADVERTISEMENT. New Store, near the Centre Market. THE subscriber, thankful for past favors from a generous public, is determined to sell at the lowest rate all kinds of Goods commonly in demand, viz. all sorts of flannels, broadcloths and coatings, President's and royal cords, cambric and Irish linens, &c. &c. &c. Groceries, all kinds of liquors, Cogniac brandy, Holland gin, Jamaica spirits, old peach brandy, Cochen cheese and Smithfield bacon and flour. As cash is always employed in the purchase, the subscriber expects the same in return, and particularly in these republican times, bates long standing accounts as injuries to trade, and rather inclines to embargo his goods than sell them on credit, except to punctual customers. All persons in arrears will please to settle their accounts. F. A. WAGLER. N. B. Forte pianos tuned, and lessons in music—also a London Piano for sale. November 4—3t suc. &3ty
Prince George's county court, September term, 1808. ON the application by petition in writing of Dennis M. Burgess of Prince Georges county to this court, for the benefit of the act of Assembly passed at November session, eighteen hundred and five, entitled "An act for the benefit of sundry insolvent debtors" and the several acts supplementary thereto, a schedule of his property and a list of his creditors on oath as far as he can ascertain them being annexed to the said petition, and the court being satisfied, by competent testimony, that the said petitioner is a citizen of the state of Maryland, and that he had resided therein the two last years preceding his application, & being also satisfied that the said Dennis M. Burgess is now in actual confinement for debt, and the said petitioner having entered into bond with security for his appearance in this court on the first Monday in April next, to answer such interrogatories as his creditors may propose to him. It is thereupon ordered and adjudged that the said Dennis M. Burgess be discharged from imprisonment, and the said first Monday in April next is appointed for the said petitioner to deliver up his property and to have a trustee appointed for the benefit of his creditors; and it is ordered that a copy of the foregoing to be published once a week for three months successively in the National Intelligencer before the said first Monday in April next, give notice to his creditors to be and appear before this court on the said day to recommend a trustee for their benefit. TEST JOHN READ MAGRUDER, JR. C. November 8—w3m
THOMAS W. PAIRO HAS removed next door to his former store, where he has received from Philadelphia and Baltimore a new supply of goods, which make his assortment very considerable—he has London and French Cloths, Cassimeres and Coatings, Fancy Waistcoatings, Silk and Cotton Velvets, Cords and Thicksets, Rose Blankets, Scarlet Flannels and others, green, blue and brown bucking baze, Bandannos, Madras Handkerchiefs, India Muslins, Cambrics, Book Muslin, Leno Handkerchiefs, Chambrays, Tappi Velvet, Black Silk do. Parisian Shawls, Silk and Camels Hair, do. Shirting Muslin, Crapes and Fancy Trimmings, Silk Stockings, and a large assortment of cotton and worsted hosiery, Ladies and Men's Gloves, Ladies and Men's Shoes, Childrens do. Irish and German Linens, Irish and Flanders Sheeting, Knitting and Sewing Cotton, Spinning do. Silk Spencers, Linen and cotton Checks, Hats, Ribbons, Lace, Cotton and Thread, Sarsanets and Peelings, Plaid Silks, Tortois Shell Combs, Mock do. do. Silk Cords, Suspenders, Razors, Penknives and Scissars, Spun Buttons, Gilt and Plated do. Playing Cards, Ink Powder, Quills, Pencils, Slates, Oil Cloth, Powder and Shot, Nails and Augurs, An assortment of Glass Ware, also, The following Liquors and Groceries. Madeira, Lisbon, L. P. Teneriffe, Malaga, Port Wine, Claret, French Brandy, old Jamaica Rum, Gin, Whiskey, Cherry Bounce, Coffee and Tea, Chocolate, Loaf & Brown Sugar, Raisins, Filberts, Rice, Soap, and Candles, Spanish Segars, and Philadelphia Porter and Ale. All of which will be sold on low terms for Cash or to punctual customers.
AMERICAN PLAYING CARDS, Of the very best quality just received from the Manufacturer, which will be sold wholesale & retail, cheap for cash; also, Macabba SNUFF. The Members of Congress are respectfully informed that T. W. Païro will be happy to furnish them with any of his choice Liquors, and find himself cases for them. Washington, October 24—3&wtf
FOR SALE, THREE Two Story BRICK HOUSES, well finished, with back Kitchens and good Cellars, in a very healthy situation on a street near the Great Hotel, and contiguous to the invaluable Hotel Spring—they are all under rent, and will be sold on very accommodating terms; in order to close the estate to which they belong. A good title will be given to the houses and lots. A huge Back Building adjoining the above property and under rent is likewise offered for sale. For further particulars apply to PHINEAS BRADLEY. November 7—w6t
FOR RENT, A DWELLING HOUSE, WARE HOUSE & WHARF on the Eastern Branch, lately occupied by Mrs. BARRY—immediate possession can be given—terms apply to the subscriber. GARRETT BARRY. Nov. 28—3t.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
TO BE SOLD, At public auction, at the Union Tavern, in George Town, at 12 o'clock on Monday the 15th day of January next, if not previously disposed of by private contract—that Valuable property situated on the Potomac River, in Washington City, contiguous to George Town, formerly the property of Messrs. Leas, & Co. The Lot is 128 feet front, by 105 feet deep, on which is erected a substantial Warehouse, built of stone, 83 feet by 43, together with the large commodious Wharf adjoining. Also—SIX LOTS in Holmeside, adjoining to George Town, bounded on Bridge Street and Rock Creek, in George Town. For terms and other particulars, apply to JOHN DAVIDSON, or WALTER HELLEN. Nov. 28—13t.
ADVERTISEMENT. A FEMALE, of Good Character, that understands Needle Work and would assist occasionally in house work and the care of Children may meet with a situation in the country. Apply to the Editor. Nov. 25—3t.