The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1804-10-05 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5th, 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
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 Marceilles, 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 stile of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, June 8—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, a Handsome Assortment is expected immediately.
Gentlemen at a distance, by sending a line by post, will be waited upon with all possible expedition.
T. C. will pledge himself to execute any order with a taste, expedition and moderation of charge, which shall not be excelled by any.
April 16—tf.
TO RENT,
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, absentee occupied by Mrs. Scott. Possession may be had the 1st of August next. Under said house is a good dry cellar, on the back of the lot is a stable, and near the premises a pump of most excellent water.
Enquire of Mrs. Scott, or of the subscriber High Street at Doctor John Beatty's George Town.
ABSALEOM JOY.
June 29—tf.
FOR SALE.
The following City Lots, ON A LIBERAL TIME, Upon SECURITY, viz.
LOTS—3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, in square No. 919.—Lots 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 938. Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 986. Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19, in square No. 1042. Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13, in square No. 1066.
Apply to CHARLES MINIFIE, Washington City, or to RICHARD C. JONES, at Philadelphia.
Washington, August 3—tf.
N.B. C. M. has a fine lot of other lots for sale or ground rent (on easy terms to improvers,) and in eligible situations.
DOCTOR MAGRUDER,
HAS for sale a few hogsheads 4th proof Jamaica spirits, linseed and lamp oil, spirits of turpentine, window glass, glaziers diamonds, glue, lamp black, white lead, Spanish brown, yellow ochre, chalk, Spanish whiting, Venetian red, red lead, verdigris, drop lake, flake white, patent yellow, rose and Dutch pink, king's yellow, Turkey umber, gold and silver leaf, painters and sweeping brushes, camels hair pencils, water-colours in boxes, Spanish indigo, fig blue, arnott, red wood, alkant, madder, logwood, turmeric, salt petre, alum, copperas, sweet oil, pearl barley, timothy and clover seed, tamarinds, castor oil, marble mortars, fping trusses, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace, Chings worm destroying lozenges, an assortment of paper hangings, playing cards, copy slips, ink powder, English Latin, Greek and French school books, large family bibles, and its usual complete assortment of drugs and medicine, patent medicine, surgeons instruments, &c.
George Town, July 20—tf.
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 desire to call and purchase his manufacture will be amply suited, if neatness and goodness be requisites.
JOEL BROWN
George Town Feb 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 fleshing, a SORREL HORSE with a blaze face and his off hind leg white, is about 14 1/2 hands high, and has been lately worked 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.
(BY AUTHORITY.) Scheme of a Lottery.
To build an ACADEMY in the city of Richmond. Dollars.
  1 Prize—last drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, 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 authorized 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 dollars, and 2,500 dollars 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, while the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so great, 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 3 Tickets to be had of Robert Pollard Doct. John Brockenbrough, jun. Wm. Price (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, jun. and William Prichard
AN ACT
Providing for the establishment of semi-annual Fairs.
BE it enacted by the First and Second Chambers of the City Council of Washington, That two FAIRS be held in every year within the city of Washington for the sale of all kinds of cattle, goods wares, and merchandise, on the first Wednesday's of May and November, under such regulations as the Mayor may prescribe, of which Fairs he shall make due notification.
In virtue of powers vested in me by the above act, I do hereby order and direct that the Fairs authorised thereby shall be held on the public grounds appropriated in the plan of the city of Washington for the Mall on the south side of the Tyber, extending from the Bridge at the Centre Market to the river Potomac, and that the continuance of said Fairs shall be for three days successively, viz. on the first Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in May and November.
ROBERT BRENT, Mayor.
September 14—
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 to prejudicial to manufacturing attempts in America, they think it proper to observe, that nothing is wanting in the business to enable good articles to perform their work here as well as in Europe. That they have these articles; that two of the partners were bred to the business in a factory of the best repute carried on by their father, & long afterwards by themselves. They trust that while foreign goods are received without a question, an unreasonably 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
For the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
TO THE PEOPLE.
THE DEFENCE.
No. VI.
We shall now proceed to consider the measures of the administration under the divisions flowing from the distribution of powers among the departments of finance, war, navy and state.
The control of financial operations has been seen to be an object of great importance. In modern times its consequence has greatly increased: and there is probably no nation of the civilised world to which it is more important than to the United States; as in the event of any serious external or internal danger, our reliance will be, not on large existing military establishments, but on our ability promptly to call forth the strength of the country.
On a subject of so much importance, the President, appears to have been sensible of the propriety of avowing his opinions with explicitness.
Having called to the head of the treasury a man of uncommon clearness of perception, of great industry, and of irreproachable morals, worthy of the confidence of the whole nation and eminently possessed of that of the republicans, he communicated the principles on which the Executive contemplated to act, and recommended various measures to Congress.
After a critical scrutiny into the national expenses and resources, with that confidence which flows from a conviction of accurate information, he proposed the abolition of the internal taxes, and a more rapid discharge of the public debt. To justify these steps a general retrenchment of unnecessary expenses, was recommended, to far as depended upon law, and pursued to far as depended upon the executive.
The abolition of the internal taxes has been declared an unwise measure, by the opponents of the administration and effects, the most pernicious, predicted as likely to flow from it. A large portion of these predictions, having been falsified by experience, require at present no notice. The remaining resources have proved not only equal to every existing engagement of the government, but likewise to a more rapid discharge of the public debt than that for which the national faith was pledged. The extraordinary expenses incurred by the purchase of Louisiana, and the defence of the Mediterranean trade, are not overlooked. In a subsequent part of this view, it will be made distinctly to appear, that the former is one of those vast and extraordinary events that justifies the use of extraordinary means, and that the latter is a measure likely to be of but short duration and consequently not requiring permanent revenues.
Assuming it then as an indisputable fact, that the revenue derived from the internal revenues could be spared, our enquiry, as to the expediency of their repeal, is narrowed into a consideration whether it was expedient to repeal them, or to diminish the duties on imported articles.
Every one acquainted with the history of the United States knows, that after the revolutionary war, it was a general, not to say universal impression, that the great power of taxation, vested in the general government, should be over imported commodities. This impression arose undoubtedly from the legitimate relationship between the nature of a government federal in its structure, and a tax whose equal operation could only be secured by the general government. Under this impression, and the most important intricacies of Congress, twelve states, a short time before the adoption of the Constitution, had agreed to vest Congress with the power of laying a duty of five per cent. on imported articles. Rhode Island, not then constituting more than a sixteenth part of the union, alone resisted this measure. But for her resistance, the power would have been conferred, and the new Constitution would probably have never been framed. When framed, it gave Congress absolute and exclusive power over duties on foreign commodities, thereby adding another, to the numerous existing proofs that this was considered as the appropriate resource of the general government. It gave, at the same time a concurrent power, with the states, over every other source of revenue, with the express view of enabling a government, charged with the national defence, on any great emergency to call into activity the undivided resources of the community. This was the
only reason, perhaps a fallacious one, on which this sweeping power of taxation, was conferred. Accordingly Congress, in the first instance, confined themselves to the imposition of duties on external commerce. At a subsequent period the internal taxes were reverted to, under an alleged want of revenue. The same cause gave rise to a direct tax on lands, houses and slaves. This cause ceasing, was it not proper to re-possess the states of these resources? This alone, abstracted from all other considerations, would have been a sufficient justification of the measure.
But in addition to these there were other cogent reasons.
The internal revenues fostered a system of extensive patronage dangerous to a republican government. Five hundred officers were employed in their collection, and two hundred thousand dollars annually expended, amounting to twenty per cent; while the expense of collecting the external duties amounted to only five per cent. without producing any diminution in the aggregate expense by a decrease of duties. Here then is an annual saving of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It is not practicable to estimate with precision the public injury arising from the existence of five hundred useless officers. It is within bounds, however, to say that their labor or ingenuity, if in a small degree productive, would exceed a hundred thousand dollars.
Some respect unquestionably was due by the representatives of a free people to the established impression that an exercise is hostile to liberty. In a state of society, differing in one respect from that of all other nations, in protecting the unmolested exercise of industry in channels chosen by itself, it is certainly of importance little short of infinite to resist the establishment of a system which gives to governments the control and direction of every branch of internal manufacture; enabling them thereby to depress or elevate, according to the measure of every tax applied, the condition of every class of citizens; a power, so nearly approximated to despotism, as to have become hateful in every nation not degraded to the lowest condition.
It has been laid that the repeal of these taxes operated to the local injury of a part of the Union, and tended to oppress the poor.
To exhibit the local effects of the repeal, we have drawn out the following table. The first column exhibits the number of representatives to which each state is entitled; The second specifies the sums paid in each state in the year 1801; The third shews, without descending to fractions, the quota of the whole tax, which, for that year, each state would have paid had it been assessed in the ratio of numbers; the fourth exhibits the gain, and the last the loss of each state, on that principle, arising from the repeal.
   Representatives. Sums paid. Sums paid in ratio of numbers. Gain. Loss.   Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars.     New Hampshire 5 9,607 35,000 25,393   Massachusetts 17 172,894 119,000 63,894   Rhode Island 2 35,702 14,000 21,702   Connecticut 7 29,727 49,000 19,273   Vermont 4 3,220 28,000 24,780   New York 17 119,070 119,000 70   New Jersey 6 23,496 42,000 18,504   Pennsylvania 18 211,180 126,000 85,180   Delaware 1 7,911 7,000 911   Maryland 8 86,718 56,000 30,718   Virginia 22 144,163 154,000 9,837   Ohio 1 35,756 7,000 28,756   Tennessee 3 10,758 21,000 10,242   North Carolina 12 46,479 84,000 37,521   South Carolina 8 43,479 56,000 12,521   Georgia 4 13,489 28,000 14,511  
From this table it appears that of the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont, ordinarily denominated the New England states, two have gained, and three have lost,
Dollars. 85,596 69,446 Leaving the clear gain of the New England states. 16,150
That of the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, denominated the Middle states, four have gained 116,879 and one has lost 18,504
The clear gain of the Middle states 98,375
That of the remaining states, called the South and West, one has gained 28,756 and five have lost 84,632
The clear loss of the Southern and Western states 55,876
It further appears that the only gaining states were Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, and Rhode Island, and that Massachusetts, next to Pennsylvania, was the greatest gainer; and that the state that incurred the greatest loss was North Carolina.
It follows, from this analysis, that the repeal produced an absolute gain to the Eastern and Middle, while it produced a loss to the Southern and Western states. If, therefore, it was unequal in its operation, the latter, instead of the former states, have reason to complain.
But the intelligent reader will before this have remarked that, if the repeal really operated equally upon the different states, that inequality could only arise from the partial operation of the taxes repealed; which, if a fact, would constitute one of the strongest arguments in favor of the measure.
To this however, it is replied, that the duties on imported articles are unequal in their operation on the different states; and thence it is inferred that they are improper subjects of exclusive taxation. But any existing inequality in their operation on the different states, arising from the relative state of agricultural
ture and manufactures, will inevitably fall with peculiar weight on those states that produce the most and manufacture the least. Every one knows that the southern states are the most agricultural and consequently the least manufacturing; while the reverse, in both respects, is the case with the eastern states. The imports of a state are generally about equal to its exports. If we compare the exports of the eastern states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont, with those of the southern states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, we shall find the former amount to 11,904,803 dollars, and the latter to 18,548,943 dollars, which, compared with the population of these states, makes the average exportation of the southern states about thirty per cent. or four millions and an half of dollars. And if we estimate the imports as equal to the exports, it will follow that the four southern states above mentioned contribute annually, in the shape of duties on imported articles, above a million of dollars more than are paid by an equal population in the eastern states. These states then ought to be the last to complain, as they not only gain the annual sum of sixteen thousand dollars by the repeal of the internal taxes, but in addition thereto, the annual sum of above one hundred thousand dollars from the millions of dollars at present derived from duties on imports, paid by the southern states beyond their quota, according to their relative numbers.
These statements are not made in the least spirit of murmur on the effects of the duties on imports on the southern part of the union. It is well understood that, however harshly they may appear, in the first instance, to operate, they do in fact benefit the whole union, and that while they produce one disadvantage they induce a greater benefit. They tend to foster manufactures and navigation in those parts of the union, where those employments are more lucrative than agriculture, while agriculture is principally attended to in those states where, from the state of society, it is most desirable. Though it be highly desirable that the agricultural pursuits of our citizens should be cherished, and ex-

to their utmost limit, yet commanding considerations, connected with national prosperity, recommend the gradual cultivation of manufactures.
One serious charge remains to be repelled. It is alleged that the repeal of the internal taxes operates to the prejudice of the poor. Our road to a correct decision on this point is plain and open.
By a report of the committee of Ways and Means it appears that the permanent internal revenues were in 1801, 710,000 dollars:
Deducting from this sum the expenses of collection, amounting to 120,000 dollars, there remained 590,000 dollars revenue.
The opponents of the repeal, from affected regard to the poor, recommended, instead of that measure, the reduction of the existing taxes on coffee, brown sugar, salt, and bohea tea. Let us compare the effects of these alternatives.
To raise, by internal revenues 590,000 dollars, required taxes amounting to 720,000 dollars; while the raising 590,000 dollars by duties on imports involved no additional expense.
The family of a man in indigent circumstances would probably consume,
  15 lbs. of brown sugar, the duty on which is 0 37 1/2   10 lbs. of coffee 0 50   2 lbs. of bohea tea 0 24   2 bushels of salt 0 40 
Amounting in the whole to 1 51 1/2
The whole proceeds of duties on these four articles amounting to about 1,400,000 dollars, a reduction on the 590,000 dollars would operate on the sum of one dollar and fifty one cents, a reduction of sixty-four cents, which would constitute the amount of tax from which each poor family would be relieved.
The same family would probably consume a quantity of distilled spirits chargeable with a duty of at least
  Dolls. Cts.   And would likewise consume other articles subject to internal taxation, chargeable with a duty of 0 20   Amounting to 1 20   Deduct the above sum of 0 64 
And there remains the sum of 0 56
Which constitutes the sum from which each poor family has been relieved by the repeal of the internal taxes, beyond that from which they would have been liberated by the proposed reduction of the duties on brown sugar, coffee, salt and bohea tea.
It follows that the poor, instead of being losers, are actually gainers to this amount by the repeal.
It is impossible to form this estimate with absolute precision; but it cannot greatly deviate from the truth. It proves that the poor of America were benefitted more by the repeal of the internal taxes than they would have been by a diminution of the duties on brown sugar, bohea tea, salt and coffee. But, independently of all this reasoning, there was an insuperable obstacle to the reduction of the duties, created by those very men who the most strenuously urged it. The proceeds of those duties were solemnly pledged for the extinguishment of the public debt foreign as well as domestic. Where then was the boasted regard of these men to the public faith, which they had so often and so artfully invoked? Was it an idle dream of their fancies? Was it a talisman that required the hand of a necromancer to wield? Was it meant as a kind of charm to lull the senses of the nation into that perfect confidence and unequalled security, that always precede the loss of liberty? CURTIUS.
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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, Candles 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—wtf.
WASHINGTON CITY,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3.
ELECTIONS.
The election for Representatives in Congress, and for members of the General Assembly was held on Monday last throughout the state of Maryland. No doubt is entertained of a republican result.
N. R. Moore, and William Mac Greery, both republican, have been re-elected almost unanimously representatives in Congress for the city and county of Baltimore.
Roger Nelson is elected a representative to congress to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Daniel Heister. And for the two years commencing from the 4th March next, without opposition.
John Stephen, republican, and Andrew Ellicott, represented to be of no party, have been elected representatives of the city of Baltimore in the General Assembly; the votes given were as follows:
  General Assembly.   John Stephen, 1542   Andrew Ellicott, 1192   Thomas Dixon, 1091   Cumberland Dugan, 336 
In Baltimore county, Tobias E. Stanbury, Alexis Lemmon, Moles Brown, and George Harryman, all republican, have been elected representatives in Assembly.
Thomas, Hawkins, Daniel Clarke, Joshua Cockey and Joel Waters, are elected representatives to the general assembly of Maryland, without opposition, for Frederick county.
The republican ticket for representatives in Assembly for Calvert County has succeeded entire. The votes are as follows:
  REPUBLICAN.   Richard Mackall 342   Richard Ireland 334   William Somerville 337   B. H. Mackall 333   Federal.   R. Graham 329   T. Blake 328   J. Somerville 320   T. Bourne 318 
John Campbell, federal, was voted as a representative in Congress, without opposition.
It is generally believed that the federal ticket for representatives in Congress for New Hampshire has prevailed by a small majority.
James Elliott is re-elected a representative for Vermont.
Our accounts from Connecticut are incomplete. The Courant, a federal paper, says the new House of Representatives will consist of 132 federalists, and 63 republicans.
The MARQUIS YRUJO arrived in this city on Monday last from Monticello.
The following letter, communicated to the Secretary of State, is published at the request of the Marquis de Casa Yrujo.
SIR, Having been absent from Philadelphia for the last 12 days past and travelled far into a part of Virginia where I had no opportunity to see the late newspapers from the Northward, it is but to day on my return to Washington I have been apprised of a publication highly injurious to my character, which under the garb of sworn evidence has been made by a certain W. Jackson of Philadelphia in the paper of which he is the Editor called the Political regifter.
Had the said evidence appeared isolated, with no other weight but the name of the Editor and the circumstances of his deposition, I would have treated his malicious attack with the silence of contempt as all the facts therein related even when true would not prove I had violated the laws of this country nor the duties of my station, but a letter from the President of the United States to Jackson having been circulated along with his evidence, this circumstance alone, although the President does not express his opinion upon the subject stamps this affair with a degree of importance, it would have been otherwise divested of it.
For this reason and for the respect I owe to the President of the United States, to this government and to myself, I have thought proper in thus ad-
ressing you, to enter into the explanation of this transaction, innocent itself, consonant with the laws of the country, power in my station & which cannot be disfigured even by the artifice of insidious malignity.
In a country where the liberty of the press prevails, its use must be a shield of defence, as it is an instrument of attack. This is consonant with justice & congenial with the principle of equal rights, it is then legal to establish a defence by the press against the attacks made through the medium of the press. This sacred principle of self-defence is as inherent to political states, as it is to individuals, and when an offence is thus made against a sovereign which cannot be brought into a court of justice it is not only the right, but also, it is the duty of the representative of that sovereign or nation to repel the attack with the same weapons, which are made use of for his injury—
Were the foreign Ministers to be deprived of this right, enjoyed by every individual who breathes the air of the United States they would be reduced to the sad condition of distinguished slaves in the very centre of the land of liberty. For some time past some of the Philadelphia newspapers had published paragraphs and circulated comments about the existing differences between the king of Spain and the United States, mutilating facts, altering circumstances and drawing false conclusions highly contrary to the character of justice and generosity so often and so magnanimously proved by the king my master; I myself was pointed out as the author of some letters from Cadiz and Madrid, although I never knew of them but by the newspapers, and with the same injustice, an abusive paragraph against the President was since attributed to me; thus the public mind was poisoned with incorrect accounts and obnoxious conclusions—under such circumstances I believed then, and I believe now, it was not only my right but also my duty to check the torrent of impressions as contrary to truth as to the interest of my country. Being very well acquainted with the great influence of public opinion in a popular government as is that of the United States, with a just intention of bringing the subjects of discussion under a forcible point of view which had been carefully concealed, and presenting them to the public eye under new aspects, and apprehending that the editors who had previously espoused a party on the question would refuse to insert in their papers my intended publication, I thought that Mr. Jackson among others would not perhaps have the reluctance which I anticipated in the former. I requested him to call upon me and having acceded to my request, after a defulatory conversation about the news of the day, of Mr. Pinckney having called for his passports (my apprehensions of the rash step) and the detriment which would arise from a war between two nations invited by their reciprocal interests to the preservation of peace, I told him he could do more good to his country by advocating peace, than by the warlike principles, he was proclaiming in his paper—I dwelt a while upon this topic and finished by bringing forward the only object of our meeting and telling him that if so disposed, I could give to him for publication explanations and elucidations which could not fail to be favourable to the cause of peace, and that for his trouble he would have the acknowledgement that would be proper; those were my only words upon this head in all the course of our conversation, in this offer I had in view but the just compensation which is due to an editor of a newspaper full of advertisements as Mr. Jackson's for the room that my intended essays would have occupied in his Gazette, or a reward for his labour if he was to take upon himself to couch my ideas in a more correct language than I could do it myself. Surely the honor of a man who is in the habit of retaining the space of his paper by lines should not be hurt at a just compensation which was offered, when it was questioned of occupying some columns of it, and Mr. Jackson is less excusable in the perversion of my meaning (converting under oath a mere surmise of his into the affirmation of a fact) as I repeatedly told him, "Sir, this is not a diplomatic intrigue, it is a plain case, and if there was any thing dishonourable, in it I would be the last man to propose it, and you would be the last man to whom it would be proposed by me." Why Mr. Jackson has omitted in his affidavit these expressions of mine, so illustrative of my true meaning, is better known to himself, but if he is a man of honor I defy him to deny them; and leave to your consideration, Sir, if it had been my intention to persuade a person to an improper conduct I would have been so awkward as to bring the sentiments of the most scrupulous honor before his eyes; it is then evident that Mr. Jackson has perverted the meaning of the compensation offered, and this is the more ridiculous as the only thing which in rigour was contemplated by me was the mechanical part of his office, that is the printing of my publications; it could be apprehended that a foreign minister would risk an intrigue to bribe directly or indirectly a high officer of a Crown, depositary of the secrets of state
and director of its measurer, but to bribe Mr. Jackson, the Editor of a newspaper whose sheets are scarcely to be seen across the waters of the Schuylkill and the Delaware, without a place in the Government, without personal influence, to bribe him for the typographical publication of ideas which were not his own, by their nature perfectly harmless and legal, is a conjecture only to be suggested by a wicked heart or a miserable head. I repeat that the only apprehended refusal of the Editors who had espoused a side of the question contrary to my ideas determined me to call on the said W. Jackson; but altho' I consider him a man of some talents, he is highly deceived if he supposes I could mistake his pen for the key to the temple of Janus.
Where is then what he so very politely is pleased to term my infamous purpose? Is it in the elucidations or explanations proposed? Surely not as he knew very little of them, and even if known they were perfectly innocent. Was it in their tendency? that is impossible when their object was by his own confession the peace and advantage of our two countries; was it in the attempt of publishing them? it is demonstrated that in such circumstances I have not only the right, but it was even my duty to do it; was it in the tender of the compensation? it is evident there was no more delicacy in this proceeding than there is in the offer or the present of a fee to a lawyer or to a physician; where is then the offence to Mr. Jackson's honor or to the rights of his country?
If Mr. Jackson has proceeded with a culpable levity and affirming under oath that he had penetrated my infamous purpose when it is evident he had completely mistaken it, he has been not less incorrect in asserting upon oath that I had mentioned to him to have myself received a letter from New Orleans, which stated there was a letter at that place in Mr. Jefferson's hand writing which declared that if the settlers between the Mississippi and the Rio Perdido would raise the American colours they should be supported. No, Sir, it is not true altho' given under oath by Mr. Jackson, that I had received such a letter. I only told him in the way of conversation, and not for any other purpose whatever, that there were in Philadelphia one or two letters from New Orleans, mentioning the above account. I never informed him I had received one, as in reality this was not the case; that such letter or letters, under the above-mentioned date, have been written from New Orleans is a fact known by some people in the city. I myself have seen one of them directed to a very respectable person in Philadelphia, and if authorised by him I would mention his name, but after the President's declaration I am convinced of the falsehood of the assertion, and persuaded that calumnies can be invented and propagated with the same facility in New Orleans as they are done in Philadelphia.
This, Sir, is the history of this transaction, ridiculously magnified by Mr. Jackson who has presented it to the public, with as much solemnity, as if he had discovered the gun-powder plot or the conspiracies of Fieffe and of Bedmar—all the heinous crime is that I wished to make use with decency and decorum of the incontestible right I possess of self defence applying it to my sovereign and to my country; the intended elucidations have since appeared in other papers under the signature of Graviola Manent, and by the perusal of those essays, you may easily judge if their contents are of a nature to bribe Mr. Jackson with any acknowledgement, as he declares in his evidence, or if there is in them to be found a single expression contrary to the respect due to the government or to this country; the use I have made of the liberty of the press cannot be disputed without attacking the constitution, as the law does not consider in its salutary restrictions the publisher but the publication, and if this does not infringe the law, it would be a criminal attempt to restrain any person in the United States from the exercise of this sacred right; this is, Sir, what was intended to be done and has since been done by me: my means have been just and legal, my object pure and benevolent, and can only give offence but to persons, who groaning under pique and disappointment establish their expiring hopes of retrieving their shattered fortunes, on the public calamities of a war, for such persons the doctrine of advocating peace cannot be but high treason.
I would have demanded from this government the punishment of the said Jackson, for the offence of converting a mere surmise of his into the affirmation of a fact, and employed under his perverted idea an infamous and defamatory language, had I not anticipated that when the particulars of this letter shall be known to the public I shall be completely avenged by the severity of his feelings.
Although the vindication of my conduct exclusively belongs to my King and government, a favorable opinion of the good people of America is far from being indifferent to me. For the reason and for the degree of interest and importance that the circulation of the P.eli-
dent's letter has impressed into this affair, I have thus condescended publicly to notice an incorrect affidavit with unjust and abominable conclusions. With sentiments of high consideration, I have the honor to be,
Sir, Your most obedient humble serv't. EL MARQUIS DE CASA YRUJO. James Madison, Esq. Washington October 2, 1804.
P. S. I have reserved to the last what Mr. Jackson has mistakenly introduced to imply that I had assumed a contemptuous style by refusing to term the administration "the government."
On this head I am particularly desirous of vindicating myself, as it is so foreign to my disposition—In truth during the debates of Congress in 1793, I learnt the difference between the two terms, and in speaking to Mr. Jackson, I mentioned the administration and added "not to say government," thereby meaning to distinguish between the administration and the three branches of the Legislature which constitute the government—Thus this apparently disrespectful language evinces only the cautious precision of a foreigner.
So many misconstructions, if they had not been given upon oath, I could not have suspected of being accidental.
** The Marquis de Casa Yrujo requests those editors, who have inserted Mr. Jackson's statement, in justice to him also to insert the above communication.
Extract of a letter from Lieut. Pratt to the Inspector of the army, dated Savannah (Geo.) Sept. 12.
SIR, "It is with regret I have to announce to you the entire destruction of Fort Greene, with the loss of thirteen lives, seven of which were soldiers.
"For several days we had very high winds, which were incessant from the East and North East, they having abated in some measure on Friday morning the 7th instant; with an absolute necessity of having water, and in order to have it brought as quick as possible; I thought it best to go myself with a boat & five men; but when we arrived high enough up the river to obtain fresh water, the wind increased, which combined with a strong flood tide, precluded all possibility of returning that evening; we of course were carried before the wind and tide to this City. On Friday evening and night the gale continued to increase, with much rain—on Saturday morning and during the whole day and night, the storm was so tremendous that it swept almost every thing before it. Finding it impossible to proceed to the Fort, & indeed being in danger in this place, I was obliged to wait till the storm had subsided sufficiently to enable me to proceed—On Sunday morning with considerable difficulty, I obtained a passage in a boat with some pilots to Tybee Island (for the fort boat was stowed all to pieces, this was the only boat left in the harbour and she had no rudder), on Monday I was enabled to get to Gaskspur, where I discovered that every thing was swept away to the Pings with a part of the Island.—So violent was the gale that we have not heard of any vessel or boat living in the river (except the United States gun boat No. 1. and a small sloop the former was drifted in a corn field seven miles from the river.)
 The men who were lost are, Reuben Armstrong, Corporal. William Crafts, Musician. Daniel Lacy, Thomas Moore, Joseph Whitaker, John Glynn, Samuel M c Williams. } Privates. 
And with pain I have to mention the loss of Capt. Nicoll's son who was on a visit to me—he died with Lacy who was trying to save his life. Three women and two children belonging to the Fort were likewise lost.
The men who escaped are so much bruised and wounded that several of them will not be fit for duty for some time—The account they give of the storm and their situation is, that the water was over the Fort at ten o'clock A. M. and as it began to rise in the hour they ascended, and finally with much difficulty got on the roof which was carried off about one o'clock P. M. they however continued on it until it parted, after which they lost sight of each other, and the survivors saved themselves on plank and scantling which was afloat from a vessel that had previously gone to pieces (landed with lumber) lying below them. From the force of the wind the wood they held on to, was sometimes raised out of the water and carried some distance. They finally drifted on Wilmington Island from ten to fifteen miles above the Fort, and one man was lodged in the top of a tree.
The water was supposed to have been from 15 to 20 feet above the level of the Fort, for in this city it was at least twelve feet higher than ordinary spring.

Tides —From the winds carrying plank for some distance, and indeed from what some of the men witnessed, they suppose that one or two of their comrades were lost by blows received by planks falling on them, who might have saved themselves in the water. From the situation of the men and the state of the roads (for they are impassable with carriages) I have thought it most advisable to obtain a house for them a few miles from the city, to serve as a hospital and barracks—they are now very comfortably fixed about two miles from town (for I could procure no place at a greater distance) where a physician will pay them every attention which may be necessary."
PHILADELPHIA, October 1. Extract of a letter from Charleston, dated Sept. 16, received at New-York. "Business is nearly at an end since the dreadful hurricane upon the 7th inst. which has destroyed all the hopes of the planter and merchant—it is said, and I believe it, that what the caterpillar had left of cotton is totally ruined by the gale—such has been the effect, that the leaves of the live oak and evergreen are blighted and turning yellow—trees and shrubs, more tender, appear as if a fire had been kindled under them. The cotton being tender, is beaten down, all the pods bruised and of course will rot. The wharves are washed away to low water mark; ships, &c. drove upon and up into the heads of docks, where they lay shattered and must be dug out. I never witnessed such a scene. At Savannah they have suffered more in proportion, as the river being narrow, the water ran higher by 8 or 10 feet than the usual high tides."
At a meeting of the Directors of the Theatre, on Tuesday the 2d October, 1804, the following resolution was adopted, viz.
Resolved That 12 FREE TICKETS of admission be disposed of at the price of two hundred dollars each, one half to be paid in shares heretofore subscribed or hereafter subscribed, and the other half in cash—subject to be redeemed by the stockholders of the Theatre, or their assigns, at or after the expiration of seven years on the repayment of two hundred dollars. Those persons who may desire to procure the above tickets, or either of them will be pleased to give their names to any one of the Directors previous to the 15th inst. when the directors will meet.
THOMAS LAW, SAMUEL H. SMITH, JOHN P. VAN NESS, ROBERT BRENT, WM. BRENT.
Charlotte Hall School, AGREEMENT 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 ecstasy 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. Vot. Erasmus, Gorderius, 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 sickness.
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—
SECOND FIRE WARD. BY order of the President of the Union Fire Company, (pursuant to a resolution of the 8th of September) a general meeting of the company will be held at the Council Chamber on Monday the 8th inst. at 6 o'clock in the evening—punctilious attendance is requested. J. H. KEARNEY, Sec. October 5—2t
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 McIntosh 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—tt.
NOTICE. The subscriber intending on the 7th inst. to leave the city of Washington until February next; requests all persons having claims against him of any kind whatever, to exhibit them by that day, to himself, or afterwards to Mr. John M'Clelland, opposite the Theatre, who is empowered to settle them, and to receive all debts due unto me. TIMOTHY CALDWELL. Washington city. October 5—3t By JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State of the United States.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of the Act of Congress passed on the 26th March last, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act relative to the election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, and declaring the officer who shall act as President, in case of vacancies in the offices both of President and Vice-President." That the amendment proposed, during the last session of Congress, to the Constitution of the United States, respecting the manner of voting for President and Vice-President of the United States, has been ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, to wit: by those of Vermont, Rhode-Island, New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia, and has thereby become valid as part of the Constitution of the United States. Given under my hand at the City of Washington, this twenty fifth day of September, 1804. (Signed) JAMES MADISON.
The Printers of the laws of the United States are requested to publish the above notification and the annexed law, three times in their Gazettes.
AN ACT Supplementary to the act, entitled "An act relative to the election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, and declaring the officer who shall act as President, in case of vacancies in the offices both of President and Vice-President." Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That whenever the amendment proposed during the present session of Congress to the constitution of the United States, respecting the manner of voting for President and Vice-President of the United States, shall have been ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, the secretary of state shall forthwith cause a notification thereof to be made to the executive of every state, and shall also cause the same to be published, in at least one of the newspapers printed in each state, in which the laws of the United States are annually published.—The executive authority of each state shall cause a transcript of the said notification to be delivered to the electors appointed for that purpose, who shall first thereafter meet in such state, for the election of a President and Vice-President of the United States: and whenever the said electors shall have received the said transcript of notification, or whenever they shall meet more than five days subsequent to the publication of the ratification of the above mentioned amendment, in one of the newspapers of the state, by the secretary of state, they shall vote for President and Vice-President of the United States, respectively, in the manner directed by the above mentioned amendment, and having made and signed three certificates of all the votes given by them, each of which certificates shall contain two distinct lists, one, of the votes given for President, and the other, of the votes given for Vice President: they shall seal up the said certificates, certifying on each, that lists of
all the votes of such state given for President, and of all the votes given for Vice President, is contained therein, and shall cause the said certificates to be transmitted and disposed of, and in every other respect as in conformity with the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement. And every other provision of the act to which this is a supplement, and which is not virtually repealed by this act, shall extend and apply to every election of a President and Vice President of the United States, made in conformity to the above mentioned amendment to the constitution of the United States.
And whereas, the above mentioned amendment may be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, and thereupon become immediately valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the constitution, on a day so near the day fixed by law for the meeting of the electors in the several states, that the electors shall not in every state be apprised of the said ratification, and may vote in a manner no longer conformable with the constitution, as amended, whereby several states might be deprived of their vote in the election of a President and Vice President; for remedy whereof,
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the electors who shall be appointed in each state for the election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, shall at every such election, unless they shall have received a transcript of the notification of the ratification of the above mentioned amendment to the constitution, or unless they shall meet more than five days subsequent to the publication of the said ratification by the Secretary of State, in one of the newspapers of the state, vote for President and Vice-President of the United States, in the following manner, that is to say: they shall vote for two persons as President and Vice-President, in conformity with the first section of the second article of the constitution. And in other respects act in conformity with the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement; and they shall likewise vote for one person as President, and for one person as Vice-President, in conformity with the above mentioned amendment of the Constitution; and in other respects act in conformity with the provisions of the first section of this act. But those certificates only, of votes given for President and Vice-President of the United States, shall be opened by the President of the Senate, for the purpose of being counted which shall contain the list or lists of votes given in conformity with the Constitution, as in force on the day fixed by law for the meeting of the electors, by whom the said votes shall have been given.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever, by the provisions of the second section of this act, it shall be the duty of the electors for any state, to vote in conformity, both with the constitution, and of the proposed amendment thereto, the executive authority of such state shall cause six lists of the names of the electors of the state to be made and certified, and to be delivered to the said electors on or before the day fixed by law for them to meet and vote for President and Vice-President, and the said electors shall enclose one of the said lists in each of the certificates by them made and sealed, in conformity to the provisions of this act, and of the act to which this is a supplement. NATH. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate, pro tempore. March 26, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
It is the wish of the Editor of the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER to engage an individual well qualified to REPORT THE DEBATES OF CONGRESS. Immediate application, with the terms that will be agreeable, is requested. Editors of papers are requested to insert this advertisement a few times.
NOTICE. BY VIRTUE of a decree of the high court of chancery of the state of Maryland will be sold at public auction at Caton's tavern in the city of Annapolis at twelve o'clock on Saturday the twenty ninth day of the present month, the lot of ground now in the occupation of Wm. Brown of the city of Annapolis. This lot begins at the intersection of North East Street and Scotch Street, and bounds on Scotch Street one hundred and seventy five and an half feet, then with a line parallel with North East Street to the Severn River, then bounding on and with the river to North East Street and then with N. East Street to the beginning. The improvements are a large convenient brick dwelling house beautifully situated on the river, kitchen and out houses of different kinds and a pump of excellent water. Any further description is thought unnecessary as persons who are disposed to purchase, will probably make themselves acquainted with the property previous to the day of sale. The terms of sale are that the purchaser shall give bond with security to be approved by the trustees for paying the purchase money with interest within six months from the day of sale. NICHOLS BREWER, Trustee. September 10—w3t
WAS committed to the goal of Frederick county, on the 25th July last, negro JOE , about 28 years old, five feet 8 inches high, yellowish complexion, has scars on each of his hands, with burns particularly on the left hand: His clothes are tow linen shirts and trowsers, a blue great coat, &c. He says he belongs to col. WILLIAM WINN, of Harford county, North Carolina, and that he has been absent from his master about two years. This OWNER does not release Him he will be sold for his GOAL FEES agreeably to law. GEORGE GREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick county. Aug. 22—law8t.
PATENT WIND-MILL. THE subscriber having purchased Mr. John Avilhe'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's square, or near the Seven Buildings to JOHN M'LELLAN. September 28—law3m
Pursuant to a decree from the Court of Chancery I shall sell at Public Auction in the town of Piscataway on Thursday the first day of November 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 purchase 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—lawtdof
This is to give notice, THAT the subscriber, of Calvert County, in the State of Maryland, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of said County, letters of Administration on the personal estate of Nathan Smith, late of the county aforesaid, 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 tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and five—they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this eighteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and four. THEODORE HODGKIN, Adm'r. September 19—law3t
IN CHANCERY September 17th, 1804. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, against Aquila Beal and Grace his wife, Elizabeth Holliday and Margaret Holliday, which Grace, Elizabeth and Margaret are the only children and co-heiresses of Leonard Holliday the younger, late of Prince George's county deceased.
THE object of this bill is to obtain a sale of the real estate of the said Leonard Holliday, for the payment of a debt due to the complainant upon the ground, that the personal estate has proved insufficient. The bill states, that the said Leonard Holliday in his life time, and at the time of his death was indebted to the complainant, on bond bearing date, October 25, 1783, with condition for the payment of 1491. 5s. 3d. current money, with interest from the date; that judgment was obtained on the said bond, in the General Court for the Western Shore of Maryland, at May term, 1797, to be released on the payment of the above sum, with interest and costs—That on January 25th, 1804, there was due on the said judgment, for principal, interest, and costs, after giving credit for all payments, the sum of 2581. 12s. 10d. current money. no part of which has been paid, that the said Leonard Holliday departed this life intestate, leaving a considerable Real Estate, and the defendants, Grace, Elizabeth, and Margaret his only children and co-heiresses, that the personal estate of the said Leonard is so far exhausted, as to be insufficient for the payment of the complainant's debt; that the defendant Aquila, hath intermarried with the defendant Grace, and that all the defendants reside in George Town in the District of Columbia. It is thereupon, and on the complainant's motion ordered, that he cause a copy of this order to be inserted in the National Intelligencer once at least in each of three successive weeks, before the end of October next, to the intent, that the defendants may have notice of his application to this court, and of the substance and object of his bill, and may be warned to appear here in person or by a solicitor, before the last day of February next, to show cause wherefore a decree should not pass as prayed. True copy, Test SAMUEL H. HOWARD, R. C. C. September 28—w3t
Bank of Columbia. THE Board of Directors having declared a Dividend for the half year, ending this day, at the rate of 8 per cent per annum, the same will be paid to the stockholders or their representatives. WM: WHANN, Cash'r. September 21, 1804—4w
Wanted Immediately, A GOOD BLACKSMITH, Who will meet with generous encouragement and ready employment—Enquire of the Printer. Washington Sept. 28— 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 suppose that some white person or persons has been accessory in said negroes elopement, 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 jail 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, stout made, crooked legged, very large feet, has a scar countenance, has large scars on his back occasioned by a severe whipping, by his former owner 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—law6t
PROPOSAL. For printing by Subscription, Miscellaneous Poems, BY MRS. ALLEN, Consort to the Rev. Mr. Allen of Harford county, Written before her marriage.
CONDITIONS. THE book to be printed with a clear type, and fine paper, in a duodecimo volume, and delivered to the subscribers neatly bound, price Three quarters of a Dollar, half to be paid on subscribing, and the residue on delivery of the book—which will be put to press as soon as three hundred copies shall be subscribed for.
Subscriptions received by Mr. Matthew Carey, Philadelphia—by Messrs. Warner and Hanna, Baltimore, and by the principal booksellers in those cities; also by Mr. Samuel Harrison Smith, Washington city.
Dr. Jacob Hall, of Harford county, of known literary character, to whose inspection these Poems were submitted, in a letter to the author, expresses his opinion of them, as follows: MADAM,
I have been honored and gratified with the perusal of your manuscript copy of Poems. In my opinion it is a work of considerable merit, and displays true piety and poetic genius. The pastoral dialogues are commendable for their novelty, simplicity and beauty. The elegies, epistles, and especially the "Man of Misfortune," a Moral Tale, are interesting and pathetic. The Odes and Fugitive Pieces are sprightly and amusing. And the whole composition seems to breathe such a spirit of philanthropy and benevolence as cannot fail to elevate the affections, and to mend the heart—And it is to be regretted, that the author's modesty has hitherto denied the community to refined an entertainment.
Your Friend, &c. J. HALL. Christopher's Camp, March 24.
JUST PUBLISHED. HERTY'S DIGEST Of the Laws of Maryland, VOL. II. PRICE 2 DOLLARS 25 CENTS, In blue paper.
District of Columbia, to wit: BE it remembered that on this twenty-fifth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four, Thomas Herty, Esq. of the said district, Conveyancer and Notary Public, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit: "A Digest of the Laws of Maryland, being a complete system alphabetically arranged of all the public acts of assembly, now in force and of general use, from the first settlement of the state, to the end of November session 1803, inclusive—to which is added, the acts of Congress for the district of Columbia, from the assumption of jurisdiction to the end of the session, which terminated in April 1804, inclusive—Also a variety of precedents, (adapted to the several acts) for the use of justices of the peace; and also a table explanatory of ordinary technical Law terms, Volume 2nd In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned." G. DENNISTON, Clerk of the said District of Columbia. The above may be had at the publisher's office for the present. September 5—law4t

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 thereof, any shorter period than a month beyond an entire month shall be reckoned the same as a month; provided that such penalty shall not be demanded from the residents of the county of Washington, or persons having known agents therein, unless the tax on which the same may have accrued shall have been demanded according to the provisions of this act. Oct. 3—ep2m.
The subscriber has for sale the following articles. Cognac Brandy, 4th proof in pipes, French, do. 1st proof in do. of excellent flavor. 24 puncheons Jamaica Rum, 4th proof. Madeira, Sherry, and Lisbon wines in pipes and quarter casks. Claret in cases of excellent quality. Imperial, Hylon, and Young Hylon, teas of the latest importations. A few casks of Molasses, and a few barrels excellent herrings. WM. BRENT. Washington, October 3—3w
Washington Jockey Club RACES. ON Tuesday, November 13th, 1804, will be run for over the Washington Course, a JOCKEY CLUB PURSE, the four mile heats, free for any horse, mare or gelding, agreeably to the rules of the Club—carrying weight as follows: An aged horse, 126—six years old, 120—five years old, 112—four years old, 100—and three years old, 86 pounds. Also, a Match, the two mile heats for 2000 dollars. WEDNESDAY. A Jockey Club Purse, the three mile heats, free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding day excepted. And a sweep-stake 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 day excepted. The members of the Club are requested to be punctual in meeting at the club room on the evening preceding the races, in order to make proper arrangements for the same, and those who cannot attend will please to forward their dues to the subscriber. C. M'LAUGHLIN, Secretary and Treasurer. W. J. C. N. B. The amount of the purses cannot at this time be ascertained: as they are in part to be raised from tolls at the gates and the rent of booths. C. M'L. October 3—113N
District of Columbia, Washington County, to wit: On the petition of GEORGE WALKER, an insolvent debtor confined in the prison of Washington county for debt, notice is hereby given to the creditors of the said George Walker that, on Monday the 22nd day of October, at 10 o'clock A. M. at the court room in the Capitol, the oath of an insolvent debtor will be administered to the said Walker, agreeably to an act of Congress now in force respecting insolvent debtors in the district of Columbia, and a trustee appointed unless sufficient cause then and there be shown to the contrary. It is ordered that this notice be published three times in the National Intelligencer and Washington Federalist, and three times in a paper published in New York, and in a Philadelphia and Baltimore paper prior to that day. By order of the hon. Wm. Cranch, one of the assistant judges of the circuit court of the district of Columbia. URIAH FORREST CLK. October 3—3t
O RENT. TWO or three Three story BRICK HOUSES, in the city of Washington—they are situated on the Capitol Hill, and well calculated for boarding houses, or private families, for terms apply to DANIEL CARROLL, of Duddington. October 3—3w
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, that 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 land 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
BY AUCTION, A House near the War Office. ON Saturday the 6th inst. (October) at 2 o'clock P. M. I will sell by auction my house on Pennsylvania avenue; the fourth west of President's square. It is two stories high, 36 feet front, 33 feet deep, has four rooms on each floor, and a flat roof which by throwing a roof over it will give four additional rooms. There is an alley of six feet wide adjoining, and the house can at a trifling expence be made two houses of six rooms each. Its public situation makes it eligible for business, and its vicinity to the public offices, ensures a purchaser a good tenant if he wants one. Terms of sale, between three and four hundred dollars cash, the remainder in one, two, and three years, bearing interest, and secured by mortgage on the property. JOHN GARDINER. October 3—2t
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, 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 east of 125 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—3t&wtf
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—1aw8t
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
NOTICE. The subscriber having been legally authorised, by Messrs Henry Pratt Thomas Willing, Francis John Miller, John Thomas Ashley, and Jacob Baker, trustees of a fund created from the joint and separate estates of Robert Morris, John Nicholson and James Greenleaf, and generally denominated, 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 disposed to purchase any of the property of the said Fund either for cash, or on terms of short credit, are desired to make early application to JAMES GREENLEAF. 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. A wharf and store on 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. Stites hotel, until the 10th inst. after which until farther notice, he requests that all applications may be made to capt. Thomas Tingey, William Cranch, esq or Mr. Samuel Elliot. jun. JAMES GREENLEAF. Washington, June 4—3t twtf
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, new to cotton, kerseys and plains, rose and striped blankets, superfine, second and coarse cloth, and cashmere, patent Bennett cord, thicksets, velvets, and fancy cords, coatings, plushing's hosen, flannel and bookings, swandown and mouselkin waistcoatings, gentlemen's fine fur and silk mouselkin hats, common fur and coarse wool do. children's do. men's and women's silk, cotton, worsted and yarn hosiery, muffs and tippets gentlemen and ladies neck and shoulder comforts, hook, jaconet, cambric and lace mouselkin, white and colored embossed cambric, do. silk and mouselkin shawls and handkerchiefs, fur and mouselkin do. elegant laces and edgings, silver, silk, and cotton trimmings, silver frogs and shoe rosettes, American manufactured bed ticks, bed face, Irish linens and sheeting, Ozambrugs, Tecklenburgh's brown hempen and rolls, mahogany dressing cases with silk cushions, do. dressing glasses, tea trays and Morocco de-canter stands, ladies pic nic, silk, cotton, dog skin, kid and beaver gloves and mitts, men's beaver, cotton and felled gloves, Leghorn hats and bonnets, white and black feathers and sprays—crapes pealongs, fatins, lutestrings and farcenes, Marceilles and cotton counterpanes, elegant fans, with almost every other article of fancy and substantial goods. October 1—tawtf
Journey-men Shoemakers wanted, TO whom constant employment will be given, and liberal wages. For further particulars, enquire at the store of ALEX. M'CORMICK, Capitol Hill, Washington. October 23, 1804—tf
LOTTERY No. III. For the encouragement of Literature.     SCHEME.     1 Prize of 25,000 dolls. 25,000   1 5,000   1 2,000   1 1,000   18 500   60 200   120 100   200 50   500 20   9000 10   1 first drawn no. 1st day 500   1 5th   1 10th   1 15th   1 20th   1 25th   1 30th   1 35th   1 40th   1 45th   1 50th    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 Watervliet, and for other purposes." DAVID GELSTON, THOMAS STORM, DANIEL HALE, PHILIP TEN EYCK, S. SOUTHWICK, Managers. June 6—*
PROPOSALS BY JOHN DIXON, For Printing by Subscription, a Periodical Work, to be entitled the VIRGINIA MAGAZINE, Or, Monthly Miscellany.
CONDITIONS.  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.  The work to be printed on good paper, and with a neat type.  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.  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 taste 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 science is regarded, 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 complexion, 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 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.
PROPOSAL, For printing by Subscription, Miscellaneous Poems, BY MRS. ALLEN, Consort to the Rev. Mr. Allen of Harford county, Written before her marriage.
—CONDITIONS— THE book to be printed with a cle type, and fine paper, in a duodecimo volume, and delivered to the subscribers neatly bound, price Three quarters of a Dollar, half to be paid on subscribing, and the residue on delivery of the book—which will be put to press as soon as three hundred copies shall be subscribed. Subscriptions received by Mr. Matthew Carey, Philadelphia—by Messrs. Warner and Hanna, Baltimore, and by the principal booksellers in those cities, also by Mr. Samuel Harrison Smith, Washington city. Dr. Jacob Hall, of Harford county, of known literary character, to whose inspection these Poems were submitted, in a letter to the author, expresses his opinion of them, as follows: MADAM, I have been honored and gratified with the perusal of your manuscript copy of Poems. In my opinion it is a work of considerable merit, and displays true piety and poetic genius. The pastoral dialogues are commendable for their novelty, simplicity and beauty. The elegies, epistles, and especially the "Man of Misfortune," a Moral Tale, are interesting and pathetic. The Odes and Fugitive Pieces are sprightly and amusing—and the whole composition seems to breathe a spirit of philanthropy and benevolence as cannot fail to elevate the affections, and to mend the heart—And it is to be regretted, that the author's modesty has hitherto denied the community so refined & elegant an entertainment. Your Friend, &c. J. HALL. Christopher's Camp, March 24.
JUST PUBLISHED. HERIY'S DIGEST Of the Laws of Maryland, VOL. II. PRICE 2 DOLLARS 25 CENTS, In blue paper.
District of Columbia, to wit: BE it remembered, that on this twenty-fifth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and four, Thomas Heriy, Esq. of the said district, Conveyancer and Notary Public, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit: "A Digest of the Laws of Maryland, being a complete system alphabetically arranged of all the public acts of assembly, now in force and of general use, from the first settlement of the state, to the end of November session 1803, inclusive—to which is added, the acts of Congress for the district of Columbia, from the assumption of jurisdiction to the end of the session, which terminated in April 1804, inclusive—Also a variety of precedents, (adapted to the several acts) for the use of justices of the peace; and also a table explanatory of sundry technical Law terms, Volume 2nd In conformity to the act of "Congress of the United States, intitled, "An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." G. DENEALE, Clerk of the district of Columbia. The above may be had at the publisher's office for the present. September 5—taw4t
TO BE SOLD
By private contract, an estate called Chichester, lying on the banks of the Eastern Branch, immediately opposite the city of Washington. This estate extends from near the foot of the Bridge to a little below the Navy-Yard, and contains 695 acres of land. It is laid off in lots of from 83 to 117 acres. Dyers Ferry is on it. The price and conditions of sale may be known on application to captain Marbury of Blue Plains opposite Alexandria; to colonel Hanlon, of the Navy-yard, or to the publisher. Captain Marbury who has a plat of the estate, may be spoken with on any Thursday at the Bank of Columbia. ANTHONY ADDISON. Barnaby Prince Georges County. September 13—2aw3w
MEDITERRANEAN PASSPORTS
Notice is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport issued 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 capture 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 United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Collectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices. May 30—2aw6m
A TEN THOUSAND Dollar Prize, Now 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 as the state house 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 the cash 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   1 Two thousand   1 One thousand   4 Five hundred   10 Three hundred   20 Two hundred   35 One hundred   90 Fifty   100 Twenty   6000 Seven   1st drawn No. on the 10th day 500   1 15th   1 20th   1 25th   1 30th   1 35th   1 40th   1 45th   1 50th   1 55th   1st drawn No. on the last day 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 the drawing—subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. Tickets for sale by. GEORGE TAYLOR, Jun. No. 85, South Second street, or MATTHEW M'CONNELL, No. 82 Chestnut street. ADAM PREMIR, No. 134, fourth sixth fl. } Commissioners. ANTHY. HOOKLEY, No. Corner of Green and third streets, CHARLES BOWMAN, No. 16 Budd street. Whole tickets—6 dollars Half tickets—3 25 Quarter tickets, 1 75 Prizes in other lotteries received in payment. Letters addressed to either of whom, post-paid and inclosing the cash, will be duly attended to. Aug. 27th—2aw t15N.
50 Dollars reward, STRAYED or stolen from the commons of Washington city, between Saturday and Monday the 7th and 9th of July, init. a pair of bright BAY HORSES, of the following descriptions:—One about fifteen and a half hands high over the shoulders, and about two inches lower over the hips, supposed to be eight years old, black mane and tail, mane on the right side, trots and canters, a star in the forehead, both hind ancles white, and has partly on the inner side of each, uniformly placed, about one inch above the hoof of black spot of about three quarters of an inch diameter; no other striking natural marks are recollected. This horse is supposed to be three fourths English blooded; he is when in flesh very handsome, and moves with ease and elegance. He is now much reduced in appearance by a long journey, his back something injured by the saddle, and has old marks of similar abuse. The other horse is about fifteen and a half hands high before, and the same behind, six years old, not so handsomely built in any respect as the other, but carries himself very well, trots hard, canters easy and racks a little, his mane and tail are likewise black; his mane thin and on the right side; left hind ancle white; has a star in the forehead, and a nip in the nose, mostly inclined to and running into the left nostril; a circular brand on the left shoulder, with a character in the center believed to be intended for an A. He is not so low in flesh as the other, the new saddle marks are worse, but he has few or no old ones, except a slight appearance of a former naval gall. They were shod all round. If stolen the above reward will be paid on conviction of the thief; if strayed and found within 20 miles of Washington city a reward of 40 dollars will be given, and if beyond that distance, 40 dolls. expenses included, on their return to Phineas Bradley, Washington city, or Renner and Buffard, George Town. August 1—tawtf
ENTERTAINMENT FOR MAN AND HORSE.
THE Subscriber takes this method to inform the public, and particularly those, whose business, calls them to the city of Washington, that he has opened a house, opposite the Bank for the accommodation of travellers, where he has provided himself with good stabling, and other requisites for that purpose, and on reasonable terms. THOMAS THORPE. September 28—3t
Valuable Land for Sale.
The executors of the last will and testament of Anthony Holmead deceased, will sell at private sale forty acres of Land adjoining the city of Washington on 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 inclined to purchase this valuable property, will be shown the same, and know the terms by application to the subscriber near the premises. JOHN HOLMEAD.