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National Intelligencer.
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. IX.
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[BY AUTHORITY.]
AN ACT,
To open and improve Streets.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the First and Second Chambers of the City Council of Washington, That the sums hereinafter mentioned be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the purpose of improving and gravelling the Pennsylvania Avenue, from First street to Ninth street east, the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars. For gravelling and regulating Seventh street east from the Navy Yard wall to the Pennsylvania Avenue, the sum of two hundred dollars—and for opening and improving M street from Seventh to Tenth streets east, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 2. Be it enacted , That the sum of three hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for opening and improving Sixth street west from Maryland avenue to N street south.
Sec. 3. Be it enacted , That the sum of thirty dollars be appropriated for the repair of Seventh street west from E street north to the Washington Infantry.
Sec. 4. And be it enacted , That there shall be appointed by the Mayor or two inhabitants, residents in the neighborhood of said streets, whose duty it shall be to contract for and superintend the expenditure of the said appropriations.
CH: W. GOLDSBOROUGH, President of the First Chamber.
JOS. STRETCH, President of the Second Chamber, pro tem.
Approved, Oct. 29th, 1808.
ROBT. BRENT, Mayor.
D. RAPINE,
On Capitol Hill has just Received and is now opening a large Assortment of BOOKS AND STATIONERY
Which added to his former supply, makes his assortment more complete than usual; and as he purchased for cash, he is enabled to sell at the established prices in Philadelphia amongst which are—
East's Reports, 8 vols. and either of the vols. separate
Espina's Reports, 5 vols. the 5th volume separate
Nov's Maxims of the English laws
Montagu's law of Set-off
Pennington's Reports in the Supreme Court of New Jersey
Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for promoting agriculture, vol. 1.
Fox's History of James the Second
The Register of Arts, or a compendious view of some of the most useful modern discoveries and inventions
Columbian Mecenæce, being the speeches of the most celebrated American Orators in the Trial of Samuel Chase, esq. 3 vols.
Salvo's Travels in the year 1806, from Italy to England, through the Tyrol, Styria, Bohemia, Gallicia, Poland and Livonia
The seasons of England—descriptive Poems
The Warrior's Return—by Mrs. Opie
Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, by Walter Scott author of the Minstrelsy, &c. 2 volumes
Ellith; or the Exiles of Siberia, a Tale founded on facts
The Cutter in five lectures upon the art and practice of cutting friends, acquaintances, and relations
The Lawyer; or man as he ought not to be, a Tale
The Pleasures of human life
The History of Netterville, a Novel
The Ladies Vocal Companion
The British Theatre, 18 vols. calf gilt, pocket edition
Shakespeare's works, 9 vols. do.
Sampson's Memoirs
Souhey's Letters from England, 2 vols.
A large supp. of Writing & Letter Paper
New Music and Music Pens
Fowling Pieces—Paper Hangings
A small invoice of assorted Cordials of superior quality
do. superior Germantown Stockings
French, English & American Playing Cards
of superior manufacture, by the dozen or single pack.
November 7—
[We insert the following communication from the impression that it presents views and facts peculiarly worthy of consideration at this time, not from an entire coincidence of opinion with the author on all the topics discussed.]
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
REFLECTIONS
On the present situation of our foreign and domestic affairs.
However persons may disagree respecting the causes of our present situation, certain it is that we have not yet seen the moment when a judicious and upright man could pronounce "our commerce to be safe." If the two great branches of our government should agree, that it will be safe on the meeting of the legislature, or if it shall be thought expedient to allay discontents or from any other cause, to try the experiment of trading in the present situation of the world, it will be well to do so with the utmost consideration and reflexion. If we raise the embargo, we should consider what will be the consequences to our property and seamen, if our trade should be unarrested: what the consequence, if our guns, and our seamen in increased numbers on board of armed vessels, are placed within the power of the British navy, strengthened by that of Spain, by the Cadiz squadron of the French and the Lisbon squadron of the Russians. We should examine whether any coffee, sugar, cocoa, cotton or other goods foreign to England will be allowed to go to Spain, Sweden, or Portugal from this country. We should remember, that "Orders in Council" and "Decrees" are made in an hour on slight pretexts and from political and commercial motives, and that as Spain is accessible by land, great fluctuations in the character of her ports in relation to their being in the British order language "under the influence of France," may ere long occur. A power that imposes new and increased duties on our produce, in its own ports, while it obstructs its entry into all others must be expected to govern itself by mere considerations of revenue, commerce and power. If they consume our goods, because we cannot go to continental Europe, and if they afterwards send their manufactures, made of our goods so duties, into Spain and Portugal and even to ourselves, they in fact collect an excise or consumption duty from the people of America, Spain and Portugal upon our goods. The extent to which the wanton hand of power may be thus stretched requires our serious anticipation and reflexion. Our cotton now pays them fifty per ct. duty, our staves 150 per ct.
The prospects in regard to revenues and supplies are equally unsatisfactory, as those respecting the foreign sales of our produce and of goods imported by us from the East and West Indies. England has always thought, and has too often heard, that we could not obtain revenue without importations from her. She relies, it is well understood, upon our being coerced by the want of revenue or forced into revenue measures, which we have avoided or declined. She has believed, that the embargo would affect our most important elections. She will think so in relation to a new direct tax. She will be convinced that a resort to the excise system will produce that effect. England is really playing the whole game with us. She refrains from nothing that will operate upon our temper, our dispositions, our prosperity, our institutions. Other powers are as little positively friendly as she, but there is no evil disposition of England towards us, but what seems, now at least, "to take the name of action."
It is not expedient, however, that we should be passionate or rash. A total non-intercourse is th[is] night of by some.
It should not be adopted unless much cool reflexion approves it: nor unless a fitter course does not occur in our most elaborate researches.
It is believed, that the sober adoption of some well devised statutes, permanently favorable to navigation, commerce, manufactures and revenue, will operate and wear better at home, produce more respect abroad, and awaken more reasonable and serious apprehensions in the minds of honest and enlightened Englishmen there and here.
For myself, an anxious and attentive observer of the subject of neu-
tral spoliations and illegitimate restrictions from their real origin in 1792 to the present hour, I am free, firm, and in conscience bound to declare, that origination is the sin of England: that when her enemies have been necessitated or irritated into imitations, she has increased the original sin by new or greater offences of the same kind; and that she has therefore brought this nation to that most unsatisfactory pass, that we are "independent" only at home. On the ocean we surely are not independent. In the ports of England we are not independent. Her executive power has despotically imposed "ship money" upon the American descendants of those persons, who for the same offence deprived one of his predecessors of his head, suspended the crown at a distance from that of another, and wrested it from himself. We behold in sad perspective the iron despotism of France, we see it grind the neighboring states, but we feel in every movement beyond our own limits, the increasing depredations and extortions of England.
Let us make one further effort, to cause her to feel by our rightful and provoked legislation.
Let us recite in the preambles of our statutes her known original aggressions and other injuries in calm, true and decent language.
Let us state with truth the injuries of her enemies towards us, and proclaim in a dignified manner our convictions that England has early, often and long provoked them.
Let us manifest our consequent convictions that we are warranted and bound to take measures of avowed remedy.
Let us then proceed on the ground that our citizens are every where deprived by England of the benefits of trade, and therefore (to give some chance of revenue) enact that so subject of Great Britain here shall henceforth sell, or procure or cause to be sold any goods, wares or merchandise, foreign or domestic, till he shall have first paid or secured a tax of (five) per centum on the amount of the same to the United States: and let this provision be framed, as if it were intended to be fixed and permanent. By this measure the whole active corps of English agents here and their employers at home, would be converted from advocates and aggrators of spoliation and restriction into solicitors of their government to be reasonable, just and conciliating.
Let us proceed to adopt the principles of a permanent navigation act, with this difference, that instead of prohibitions, which yield no revenue, duties on prohibited branches of trade be accepted until a peace in Europe. For example; let the British be prohibited from bringing cargoes from other foreign countries, with an allowance to pay extra duties of (twenty-five) per cent. during the present war.
Let us consider commerce, justly, as the business of purchases and sales, and that it is the same to purchase the sugars of foreign colonies to refine or to re-ship. Let us keep this branch of buying to manufacture at home and to sell at home, on a footing as respectable as the other form or branch of commerce. Let us encourage it by new duties on British goods. Let us impose a round duty for example of (twenty-five) per centum to remain forever, and (forty) per cent. in lieu thereof, on all goods not requisite for the cheap supply of first necessities, during the continuance of the practice of "Orders in Council" derogating from the law of nations."
Let every alien be exempted from the duties imposed on such, so far as he operates as a manufacturer, in order to attract and encourage artisans.
Let the drawback system be extended to manufactures, by allowing the duty on the foreign raw material to be re-drawn on exportation.
Though the permanent duty should be on a medium, (25 per cent.) there might be some variation in the details or classes: so of the 40 per cent. temporary duty.
Some prominent and efficient instrument or some effectual means, rendered notorious to the foreign world, and particularly to England, for the collection, concoction and diffusion of commercial and manufacturing knowledge, might be adopted.
That this country is highly qualified for manufactures will appear from many facts.
1st. Our manufacturers already buy for their uses a greater value of American produce than the merchants purchase for exportation.
2dly. The whole weight of the cotton wool produced in the United States, is greater than the whole weight of the British woollens, which that nation exports to Europe, Asia, Africa and America; though we yet cultivate but 480,000 acres in cotton, computing 200 lb. of clean cotton to the acre. That is to say our power to produce cotton, since the improvement of the gins, is unlimited in reference to the soil and climate.
3dly. We already manufacture all our hides and skins, iron, copper, flax, hemp, wool, rye, barley, hops, tallow, and rags; and cotton is sold for household manufactures in every retail country store in the United States.
4thly. It is affirmed by persons of the best opportunities to judge, that upon a comparative view of the iron made at all our furnaces and forges, and that imported and exported, it appears that we manufacture a quantity of foreign iron double that of our own production: or, in other words, two thirds of the iron we manufacture is imported from foreign countries, and these we know are at an immense distance.
5thly. We manufacture 10,000,000 of gallons of grain, fruit and molasses spirit; and all our beer, ale and porter; all our shoes, boots, slippers, saddlery, harness, working and pleasure carriages, chocolate, types, ships, boats, cordage, loaf sugar, hair powder, starch, wafers, sheet lead, stills, pewter worms, rifles, candles, bricks, gold and silver wares, cabinet wares, snuff and chewing and smoking tobacco (except some segars) gunpowder, tin wares, coopers' wares, upholstery goods, and linens, woollens, cottons, hosiery, hats, gloves, & other articles in families and work-shops to a vast amount. Fifty millions of dollars are the least estimate of the annual value of the manufactures of the United States; and our whole exports of American produce have never amounted to that sum. It is to be observed too, that much of those exports were manufactured.
Every observation made upon the actual state & course of things proves that we already extensively, variously and successfully manufacture. Every reflection proves that we must manufacture, or agriculture will be arrested and decline. Every consideration of the state of Britain proves that our manufactures must be industriously used to make her more wise. Every day's experience proves that, in this mad hour of man, our cities, towns and villages require manufacturing employment. We cannot defend ourselves without manufacturing military supplies; for Europe denies them; the British either confiscate all supplies in their passage towards us or carry them into their ports, by force and arms, to make them pay contributions, to carry on their war with their enemies and with neutral trade: nay with the fair commerce of their rivals.
We ought openly, avowedly and firmly to take the ground, that the aggressions of England upon us as neutrals and rivals and the provocations, temptations, influences, coercions, and examples by which she has operated upon other neutrals, upon her allies and upon our adversaries, are the real and known causes of our present evils; and that we will henceforth legislate in respect to her with all that freedom with which she has for sixteen years acted towards us without law, justice, or feeling. We did not excite her to make war on France by her proclamation of November, 1792, nor her other acts to the end of the following January.
Those and other acts of the same character brought upon her the war of France—upon us the retaliations of France. She has just advanced her duties upon the cottons of our southern states to fifty per centum (eight cents per pound) on its full value in our ports, and the duties upon our lumber to more than double that rate; affecting the right to permit our forty-five millions of produce to go to their consumers on the continent of Europe, only after they shall have thus paid from fifty to one hundred and fifty per cent on their value to her as anti-neutral and anti-rival revenues! Shall we hesitate then to reciprocate her duties, to reciprocate
her navigation act, and to reciprocate her restraints upon the profession of commerce within our own dominions?
[For the American Newspapers of all Parties.]
FACTORY HALL.
It is believed that our Executive Government has made a distinct and manly offer to each of the belligerent powers in Europe, declaring to England, that, if they would rescind their Orders of Council, &c. the United States would raise the Embargo, &c. as to England and her allies, and keep it up against France, unless France would rescind her Decrees. And so as to France and her allies; that, if she would rescind her Decrees, we would raise our Embargo, &c. as to her and her allies, and keep it up against England. There is no doubt that this proposition has been explicitly made to England, and declined by England. There is British authority for this. It is highly probable, therefore, that our government has made precisely the same offer to France, and as we have a report through England, of some new French measures towards us, of an unsatisfactory nature, (even amounting by rumor to a kind of war) it is probable we shall learn, that France has also declined our proposition. It is plain then, that Embargo or no Embargo, we shall have a very restricted export trade for the foreign sales of our produce, and a very restricted import trade for our military, agricultural, and general supplies.—MANUFACTURES, therefore, which at present unquestionably employ as much of the natural and cultivated productions of our lands, as foreign commerce, ought to receive an increased care, aid and protection. To this important end, Pennsylvania might first offer a simple, easy and effectual measure of utility, by the immediate establishment of
A Factory Hall for the State of Pennsylvania, and our united Sisters of the whole Columbian Family.
It is affectionately and respectfully submitted to the consideration of the followers and friends of American Manufactures in the city and county of Philadelphia, whether a committee of those friends ought not forthwith to be appointed to procure and present to the legislature, a representation of the present state of our foreign and domestic business, the real, consequent and urgent necessity of measures to extend manufactures, as one of the surest aids to agriculture and the landed interest, and the high expediency of a legislative permission to fit and occupy the great western chamber of the ground floor of the central or main building of the State house, as
THE FACTORY HALL,
Of the State of Pennsylvania.
It is proposed that the Hall, when obtained, be kept open from sun-rise till ten o'clock at night, that it be regularly attended from noon till one o'clock, and from dusk till nine in the evening, as the proper and high exchange hours of the practical manufacturers, their agents, customers and friends; that it be lighted, warmed, (when the season may require) fitted with a double row (ground and gallery) of open boxes, (with tables and seats) one to be allotted to each branch, such as
Saddlers and Harness-makers branch. Flaxen } branch. and Hempen } Woolen branch. Cordwainers. Tanners, Curriers and Leather Dressers. Iron and Steel branch. Braziers, Copper-smiths, Pewterers and Plumbers. Paper-makers, Parchment-makers & Stationers. Gold and Silver-smiths and Jewelers. Hatters. Fishery branch. Hosiers. Cotton branch. Brewers and Distillers. Cutlers and Gun-smiths. Button-makers. Potters. Coopers, Wood-turners, Cabinet-makers, &c. and other workers in wood. Musical Instrument-makers, &c. &c. Also, A Customer's, or purchasers Box—and

A Box for the Factory Committee.
Each box might be properly marked with the branch or branches, for which it might be set apart. A list of the master workmen in each might be kept in a neat bound book, always to lie on the proper branch table, mentioning the names, residences, wards, post town, or other directions, goods manufactured, &c. By means of these books, by conversations in exchange hours, and by hand-bills posted in "The Factory Hall," merchants and public officers, who might have demands for manufactures, or raw materials to sell, would be able to do much business, in an easy and prompt manner with the manufacturers and their agents. A great deal of useful knowledge would be concentrated, exchanged and diffused. The farmers, planters, miners, millers in all branches, merchants, public officers, and political economists, would be able to turn such a permanent Factory Hall, to the best account for themselves, their respective branches, the city, the state and the union. The branches of manufactures have numerous and important relations to one another. The exhibition of new patents, improvements, drawings and specimens, would be easily, effectually, and promptly accomplished in such a Hall. Journeymen would find employers, and master workmen would find journeymen and apprentices. Every auxiliary operation or institution, would be suggested, considered and easily promoted in such a place of meeting, before and after exchange hours. In short the benefits of such an institution would certainly be very considerable.
It is time, that we consider the perseverance of foreign powers in their measures for the annihilation of our commerce, as loud and urgent invitations to extend our great and increasing manufactures.
LEGISLATURE OF VERMONT.
Rutland, (Verm.) Oct 24. —A correspondent at Montpelier, has obligingly favored us with the following information from the Vermont Legislature:
On Monday last his excellency Governor Tichenor, met both houses of the Legislature, and delivered the following
SPEECH:
Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives—
With diffidence and solicitude, I accept the invitation of the citizens of Vermont, again to assume the office of their First Magistrate: the experience which I have had of its relations and difficulties, and the perplexed and critical situation of our public affairs, cannot but suggest considerations of caution and anxiety, in entering upon the duties and assuming the responsibility, unavoidably attached to so important a station. Believing, at the same time, that every power, which a man possesses, ought to be devoted to the interests of his country, I shall enter upon a service, from which experience has shown that no man can hope to retire, wholly free from censure.
The business, which our constitution has constitutionally assigned to their general assembly, the civil and political interests of the state, are the great objects which will necessarily engage your attention. It cannot be concealed, but that these have been considerably affected by a late law of the U.S. and the measures pursued to enforce it. Among a people accustomed to honest industry, and under a government which has ever permitted them freely to dispose of the fruits of their labor, as a natural and unalienable right, it was to be feared, there might exist a strong disposition to evade its restrictions. Nothing but an appeal to their patriotism, and a strong conviction of the utility of the measure, would enforce obedience to a law, which, in its operation, blighted the best hopes of the laborer, and destroyed every incentive to useful and honorable enterprise. While, therefore, we regret the stain upon the character of a respectable portion of our citizens, in consequence of the conduct of a few who had violated a law of the general government, suspending our commerce, by an embargo, without limitation; we sincerely regret, that the law was not accompanied with that evidence of national necessity or utility, which at once would have commanded obedience and respect. We also may as sincerely deplore, that instead of an application in the first instance to the civil authority, it was deemed necessary to have recourse to military aid; and feeling, in common with my fellow citizens, the evils which result from that law, I cannot but hope, that the wisdom of the national legislature will induce an early repeal of the same. If however this should not be deemed wise or expedient, I
must strongly enjoin the necessity of a quiet submission to the privations and inconveniences that may be experienced, until we are relieved in a constitutional way. Nothing could be more erroneous, dangerous and inconsistent with republican principles, than an avowed or hostile opposition to the law. Our duty and our interest, as citizens, are undoubtedly, to obey the laws of our country, and to avoid and discountenance every measure, that tends to impair the majesty of the laws, the authority of the government, or the sacred regard which is due to our federal constitution.
To enact wise and just laws, and to elect able and faithful magistrates, are among the most important articles of the business that will demand your attention: wherever Justice is duly administered and the laws faithfully executed, the public opinion will receive its proper direction, and the public mind and feeling will be composed. In addition to the customary appointment of civil officers, for the ensuing year, it will be your duty to elect a Senator to represent this state in the Congress of the U. States; and, to appoint electors of a President and Vice-President of the U. S. There can be times, in which the appointment of civil officers is not a matter of the highest consequence and of sacred importance; but, if there ever was a period, that demanded the united wisdom and virtue of the legislature, that period is come. Your duty to yourselves and to your country, now call you to lay aside every party considerations, and exert all your virtue, in the discharge of this duty. Under these impressions, I trust, you will, with the most impartial and serious solicitude, enquire for the greatest abilities and virtue, and endeavor to establish and place them in office. The most likely way to benefit and serve your country, is, to give to wisdom and virtue the pre-eminence and direction, in your civil councils and public offices.
It was the sentiment and doctrine of the Father of our country, that the best way to preserve peace, was always to be prepared for war. The advice of the venerable Washington, respecting the constant arrangement of the militia, has received additional weight in this state, from the calls that have been made on this class of our citizens, to appear in support of the civil law and power. The promptitude, fidelity and discretion, with which they discharged their duty, was honorable to themselves, and reputable to the state. At a time, when all our foreign relations are marked with uncertainty and danger, can we do better than to review this subject, and to make it a matter of impartial inquiry, what further measures may be of use, to improve the state of the militia of this commonwealth? Human wisdom has not discovered any way to avoid the expense and danger of a standing army, but by giving discipline, activity, and legal direction to the militia of a country.
Among the advantages and virtues of a republican government, economy has always been considered as one of the most useful. You are fully sensible, that this should extend to all the branches and articles of revenue and expenditure; and the more critical and minute your attention shall be on the subject, the better will you discharge your duty to your constituents. Besides the annual income and expenses of the state, it may be of use to enquire into the advantages and emoluments, that have accrued to the state, from the several banks that have been established by the legislature.—When the policy, the operations, and the benefits attending these institutions, are fully understood, you will be able to determine with more certainty whether they require any, and what alterations or encouragements.
The state prison, ordered to be erected by the late general assembly, is a matter of much importance to the state. It will, probably, be a benefit to this institution, and to the government, to enquire into the state of the buildings; the proceedings of the committee, and to the expenditures of money appropriated to that object.
In addition to the ordinary business that may come before you, it may be expedient to revise our criminal code of laws; especially an act entitled "an act for the punishment of high crimes and misdemeanors," and so to vary the modes & degrees of punishment of certain crimes and misdemeanors, as to carry into complete effect, the humane and benevolent intentions of the legislature, in establishing the state prison.
It has been considered the duty of the executive to lay before the legislature at their annual session, all communications from the general and state governments, which affect us with regard to our internal economy or our relative connection with the Federal Union. Such communications, at this eventual crisis, might, per-
haps, be expected, not only as important in themselves, but as necessary to aid you in your legislative deliberations. But the absence of my predecessor in office, and the circumstance of having received no documents from him, must be my apology for silence on this subject.
I shall cordially co-operate with you, gentlemen, in all councils and measures which can, in any way, be promotive of the true interests of our country; and humbly rely upon a superintending Providence, that all our honest endeavors for the public good may be crowned with success.
ISAAC TICHENOR.
From the Baltimore Evening Post.
We are happy to announce, the reception in this city of a quantity of American Patent Shot , from the manufactory of Bishop, & Co. Philadelphia, equal, if not superior to any imported, and selling at a more reasonable rate.
"Out of evil good cometh." The violations of right committed on the commerce of America by the nations of Europe, have induced the monied men of our country to ascertain and apply our natural resources. The manufacture of the single article of shot will save to the U. States at least 200,000 dollars annually, while we shall be furnished with it at a lower rate than we have been accustomed to pay for it. Thus economy is combined with independence.
The lead is from our own mines—the manufacture is by our own people—the very bags in which it is put up is the product of our own industry—all is American—all is excellent .
This manufactory has been established at a vast expense. The tower, in which the shot falls, is 142 feet high, 26 feet in diameter at the base, and 14 feet at the top.—By means of a well beneath it, the whole fall the shot receives is 161 feet! Thus the largest kind has time enough to cool and become solid before it comes in contact with anything to destroy its roundness. We have seen specimens of this patent shot which for beauty and excellence has, perhaps, never been excelled. Mr. Wessels, we are informed, will supply orders to any amount.
SHOWER OF STONES IN ITALY.
Scientific—Extract from a Communication of D. B. Warden, Esq. at Paris, to Dr. Mitchell, dated
PARIS, July 30, 1808.
"Mr. Guidotti, Professor of Chemistry and Natural History in the University of Parma, has published the result of his researches concerning the aerolithos, or stones that have descended from the atmosphere. The following is an abstract of his memoir on the last air-stones which fell in the department of Faro, within the limits of the ancient states of Parma.
"On the 19th of April, 1808, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the sky being serene, excepting a few ash-colored clouds, the inhabitants of the villages of Cella, Pieve and Varano, heard in the air two loud reports like those of cannon, which were followed by other reports very near each other, very much resembling the thumping of boxes. This noise lasted longer than a minute, and was then succeeded by a dull sound, during the continuance of which, stones fell to the surface of the earth, into which they penetrated to the depth of several decimetres.
"This rapid fall of stones produced a whistling sound, such as would be effected by any other stone whirled from a sling. They were burning hot.
"The physical characters and component parts of one of these stones picked up at Pieve, were as follows: to wit—its figure approached an oblong square, with its angles rounded off; its surface was uneven and cavernous; its outer coat was of a blackish brown, vitrified, continued over the whole stone, and striking fire with steel; its fracture was irregular and grained; the fragments of an indeterminate figure and almost scaly; the inside was of an ash-color bestrewn with small points almost black, and with small metallic spots; of the latter, some were lamellar, of a whitish yellow, and others globular, compact, and of tin-color; this globular substance has a decided action upon the magnetic needle; in like manner the whole stone in mass attracts the magnet; its interior parts are not very compact, for it may be easily scratched with any iron tool; it adheres to the tongue; its absolute weight was about two pounds Piedmont. Its specific gravity was between 3.39 and 3.46, water being the unit.
The chemical analysis made by Professor Guidotti, of this meteoric stone, proves that it is composed of silicious earth 50 parts, oxyd of iron 28, magnesia 19, oxyd of nickel 2-50, oxyd of manganese, 1-50, oxyd
of chrome 1, and of sulphur 4, making in the whole 106.—This small augmentation of weight in the aggregate of the materials in this analysis is owing to the addition of oxygen to the iron during the operation; for it naturally exists in the aerolith, in a state more or less metallic.
"Mr. Guidotti is of opinion that these productions are formed in the atmosphere, from the earthly and metallic substances which are incessantly floating there. They may, he thinks, be partly conveyed there by the fluids with which we are acquainted, and partly in all probability by others, whose discovery is reserved for future generations."
New-York, Oct. 28.
We learn by a passenger in the Hope that Gen. Dupont had arrived at Paris from Cadiz.
It is stated in one of our latest London papers, that General Junot sailed from Lisbon for France in the frigate L'Amiable, Lord George Stuart, immediately after the Convention was signed.
Extract of a letter from Copenhagen, dated Aug. 20.
"No vessel can leave this port without a special permit from the king, which, with great difficulty and some interest was obtained for the Gålen, to depart for America. The Margaret, Clark; the Meridian, Lord; the Live Oak, Terrol; the Jemima and Fanny, Sherburn; and the Sarah, Coffin, are all condemned in the lower court & waiting the decision of the high court of Admiralty. The ship Pennsylvania, and the Susannah, Folger, are not yet come to trial in the lower court."
THE POPE vs BONAPARTE.
The following letter was circulated at Rome in the month of September. We copy it from a late London paper, whose editor, however, does not vouch for its authenticity. To our dear son Napoleon, Emperor of the French.
"The time, when by the decrees of Providence, notwithstanding our unworthiness, we were invested with the Sovereign Pontificate, you have been a witness of our wishes for the peace of the Catholic church; you have been a witness of our wishes for the spiritual peace of the French people, and of our paternal condescension; you have been a witness of the benefits which we have conferred on the Gallician church, yourself, and your subjects; you have been a witness, that under all circumstances, we have lent ourselves, as far as lay in our power, to all the concessions & concordats with the French Empire and kingdom of Italy; in short you have been a witness of the immense sacrifices which we have made, to the detriment of our people, for the benefit and the repose of the French and Italian nations, and which are such, that our subjects, already in misery, are unable to procure the means of subsistence.
"You, however, in return for so many favors have not ceased to fill our hearts with bitterness, to reduce us to the greatest extremities, under false pretences, and to harass our conscience. In return for the Ecclesiastical Concordat you have not ceased to seek to destroy it, by separate laws called Organic; you have made to us propositions calculated to that effect, and irreconcilable with the morality of the gospel, and with the unalterable maxims of the universal Catholic church.
"In return for these benefits, the states of the Holy See have had to support the enormous burthen of your troops, in such a way, that since the year 1801 up to the present time, they have wasted five millions of Roman crowns, without keeping the solemn promise of reimbursement by the kingdom of Italy: in return for these sacrifices, you have despoiled us of the Duchies of Benevento and of Ponte Corvo, under promises of indemnifying the Holy See in the most generous manner.
"In return for our condescension, you have demanded our sanction to articles contrary to the law of nations, to the unity, and to the Canons of the Church, to the good of the Catholics of other kingdoms, and destruction of our independence and of the liberty of the church.
"To accomplish your designs you have invaded as an enemy not our states only, but the states given to the Apostolic See by the pity and generosity of Sovereigns, for the most part French; states consecrated to the independence and to the liberty of the successors of St. Peter, and confirmed to the common Father of all the faithful by all the Catholic Princes, during eleven centuries of possession, in order that the common Father might enjoy, in the midst of his children, complete liberty and independence.
"In short, you have invaded as an
enemy, the capital itself; you have caused the military to revolt; you have occupied with an armed force the Post-office and the Printing-houses; you have torn from our bosom both our counsellors, who aided us in conducting the affairs of the Catholic church, and the ministers of justice; you have even kept us prisoner in our Apostolic residence, while our people were trod upon by your soldiers.
"We even appeal to yourself to pronounce upon your own conduct, marked by a contempt of all the rights of nations, of your sacred duties, and your people. We appeal even to you as to a son whom we have consecrated, and who had sworn to repair the losses, and to maintain the rights of the church and the justice of the Most High. Notwithstanding you abuse your power, trample under foot the most sacred duties, chiefly to the detriment of the church; take care, however, lest if you do not stop short, we should exercise, though in all humility of heart, that authority which Almighty God has placed in our hands; take care, lest you add new motives to make known to the world the justice of our cause; for then all the misfortunes which shall follow our conduct, must be placed to your personal responsibility."
The following is a list of the Deputies appointed for the Supreme Government of Spain:—
DIVISIONS AND DEPUTIES.
Old Castile. —Don Francisco Xavier Castanos, and Don Lorenzo Bonifaz.
Leon. —His Excellency Señor Don B. Valdes, and Viscount Quintanilla.
Aragon. —His Excellency Count Sastago, Brigadier Don Francisco Palafox y Meizi, and El Int Don Lorenzo Calvo.
Andalusia. —Count De Tilly, and Asst. Don Vicente Ore.
Gallicia. —Count De Ximarde, and Don Manuel M. Atalle.
Asturias. —His Excellency Don Casper de Jovallanos, and Marquis de Campo Sagrado.
Valencia. —His Excellency Prince Pio, and his Excellency Count of Contaminia.
Murcia. —His Excellency Count of Florida Blanca, and the Marquis of Villar.
Estremadura. —Señor Don Otalde, and—
Grenada. —Don Louis Gines De Funes, and Regent of the Audience, Riquelme.
Catalonia. —Marquis De Vilci, and Baron De Sabasona.
By the latest accounts, it appears, the Supreme Government will be assembled in Ciudad Real, in La Mancha. The Deputies of the Provinces of New Castile, Navarre and Biscay, are not appointed; but those of the former, it is supposed, will be soon nominated, and of the two latter when the capitals of those countries shall be liberated from the invaders.
Extract of a letter from Captain Robert Colfax, junr. of the ship Octavia, from Charleston, bound to London, to his father in the state of New Jersey, dated London, July 26th, 1808.
"We were captured the 27th of January last, off Dover, at 11 o'clock at night, and at 2 o'clock next morning were landed in Calais Prison, where we remained a number of days before we were released; the ship and cargo are detained under the imperial decrees; we were kept five months on prisoners allowance, and not a cent to help ourselves with, having been robbed by the privateer's men of all our money, clothes, and in fact every article they could lay their rapacious hands on—I made every possible exertion for relief for myself and people, but all in vain.—Myself, however, and a number more ship-masters difficulty made a journey to Paris, where we represented our situation to our minister, Mr. Armstrong; he informed me it was a government affair, therefore he could not interfere at present, as all such cases would come under a government claim. I took that for a definitive answer and returned to Calais with the rest of my unfortunate companions, where we remained confined to small quarters for five months, at the end of which we were marched through France and Flanders into Holland, many without shoes to their feet, and otherwise in a very distressed situation. Unfortunately for me I had not a shoe to my feet for more than two months until we arrived at a place called Ghent, in the interior of Flanders, where we were supplied with French soldiers' shoes; this was a comfortable thing to us, having marched many miles barefooted. We arrived, after an intolerable tedious journey, at Amsterdam, where we remained until we were put on board American vessels, permitted to sail by the Dutch government. To one of them I obtained

ed a passage to the Downs, from whence I took up my line of march on foot to London, in the greatest distress with a small "handkerchief which contained all the treasure I had," and not a penny in my pocket, which I never knew the want of before. On my arrival I found friends and money—since which I am very comfortable. On a review of the subject I think my fortune rather hard; when I left home I took with me upwards of four thousand dollars in cash and produce, of all which I have been literally robbed, kept five months confined on prisoners allowance, marched several hundred miles barefooted through an unfriendly country, and seemingly to augment our sufferings by the orders of a government who pretend to be our friends."
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7.
There is scarcely a doubt of a quorum being formed to-day of both Houses of Congress.
Congress have rarely commenced a session under a higher interest than that excited by the present momentous crisis of affairs. The Executive having discharged the duties, either constitutionally vested in them, or delegated by law, and having, probably, exhausted negotiation, without obtaining from foreign powers a respect for our undisputed rights, it rests with Congress to decide what further measures shall be taken. What these measures may be, it would be idle to anticipate, as they will undoubtedly depend upon the disclosures made by the President.
One thing, however, may be anticipated with confidence. A death blow will be given to that spirit of detraction, which has not scrupled to propagate and persist in the greatest untruths, to ascribe sentiments and measures to the Executive never entertained or taken by them, and to deny those measures which they actually have taken. A rigid impartiality, and scrupulous fidelity will be made manifest, and the administration, to the confusion of their enemies, will appear to have pursued, in many important respects, the course, advocated by their opponents, and for not pursuing which they have been bitterly denounced. Whether on the part of their adversaries we shall have the gratification of beholding the magnanimity that knows how to retract error and to acknowledge that it has wronged an enemy, is a question which will soon be decided. For the honor of human nature, as well as for the advancement of the great interests of the nation, we hope for a display of that harmony which will most effectually either extort justice from our enemies from the perception that their arts cannot divide us, or which will enable us, in a final resort, to demonstrate to them, that just in proportion as they menace us with violence from without we shall be united among ourselves, and that the same spirit which has so often rallied us around our rights as a band of brothers, will again unite us in a like cause.
There can scarcely be a doubt, but that the earliest topics that occupy the deliberation of Congress will implicate the raising of the Embargo, a question well fitted for a display of the highest intelligence and eloquence. Such a discussion will necessarily open the widest views of national interest, and present a picture as well of our internal condition as of our foreign relations. The feelings and interests of every section of the union will be developed, and we shall thus at length be qualified to form a correct estimate of the real sentiments of the people. There is one circumstance which will be eminently conducive to harmony. It cannot be denied that for some time past the question of the Presidential Election has mingled itself with almost every measure proposed or adopted. This question may now be considered as settled. From the complexion of the elections whose result is ascertained there can be little expectation of the final choice of a President being devolved on the House of Representatives. And as most of the elections for electors have either already taken place, or will be held before any effect could be produced upon them by the measures of Congress, this great election may be considered as settled. In the states of N. Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania & Ohio the election of electors is over; in the states of Virginia and Tennessee it is held to day; and in the states of Maryland, North Carolina and Kentucky it will take place at so early a day, as to remove every expectation of influence from future events. These states choose a majority of the whole Electors. Besides these, most of the other states will go into the election at an early period. The die, therefore, may be
considered as cast, without leaving a doubt of the result, and Mr. Madison's election viewed as certain.
Amidst the difficulties that cross our way there is one great consolation. The period is close at hand, when the government will, in its legislative and executive organs, unequivocally and undeniably represent the interests, the feelings and the wishes of the constituent body. At no period since its organization has there been a more active contest of parties. Federalism, it must be universally allowed, has made its mightiest effort, an effort which has developed all its strength. No circumstances could have been more favorable to its triumph; none could have excited more exertion than those of which it has availed itself. Having failed under such circumstances, it may be rationally hoped that the battle will be admitted to have been fairly won, or, at any rate, that a conflict so unequal will not prove the case, the ascendant republican majorities in both branches of the legislature, with the great majority of electoral votes given to the new President, will place the prominent measures of the government upon a ground that cannot be shaken. And should these measures, although honestly pursued with a view to peace, issue in a contrary result, another consolation will be found in the unprecedented fulness of a treasury that will enable the government vigorously to assert the rights of the nation, without imposing upon it new and oppressive burthens. So much for the foresight and frugality of the administration.
For the information of our readers we present the following table, exhibiting a statement of the number of Electors of President and Vice President chosen by the respective states, with the mode and time of election in each state.
   STATES. Number of Electors. How chosen. When chosen.     New Hampshire 7 p. g. t. Nov. 4   Rhode Island 4 p. g. t.   Massachusetts, a 19 Leg. Nov. 4   Connecticut 9 Leg.   Vermont 6 Leg.   New York 19 Leg.   New Jersey b 8   Pennsylvania 20 p. g. t. Nov. 4   Delaware 3 Leg.   Maryland 11 p. d. Nov. 14   Virginia 24 p. g. t. Nov. 7   North Carolina 14 p. d. Nov. 11   South Carolina 10 Leg. Dec. 6   Georgia 6 Leg.   Kentucky, c 8 p. d. Nov. 14   Tennessee 5 p. d. Nov. 7   Ohio 3 p. d. Nov. 4  
n. g. t. stand for, the people in a general ticket.
(h. d.) by the people in districts. (a) In Massachusetts no mode is yet prescribed. The legislature meets on the 10th of November.
(b) In New Jersey the 1st and 2nd of November have been fixed for an election by the people; but as these days are not within the legal period, other provision is expected to be made by the legislature now in session.
(c) In Kentucky there are two districts, each of which chooses four Electors.
From information, derived from the most respectable sources, principally from members of Congress arrived from the respective states, we are justified in stating the following results of electoral votes as certain:
   For Mr. Madison.     Tennessee 5   Kentucky 8   Ohio 3   Georgia 6   South Carolina 10   Virginia 24   Pennsylvania 20   New Jersey 8   Vermont 6   Total 90  
Being a majority of the whole number, and of themselves sufficient to insure Mr. Madison's election. In addition, it is certain that Mr. Madison will have the following votes:
   In North Carolina 10   In Maryland 6  
Making 106. And there is every probability of his having three more votes in North Carolina, and three in Maryland.
Strong hopes are likewise entertained of his having in
   Rhode Island 4   New Hampshire 7   New York 19  
From all of which it follows that Mr. Madison will certainly have 106 votes; and it is probable that he will have 142. While it is probable that the federal votes will not exceed thirty-four, viz.
   In Massachusetts 19   Connecticut 9   Delaware 3   Maryland 2   North Carolina 1   Total 34  
The triumphs of federalism at the several Congressional Elections, which have taken place since the embargo, having been greatly magnified, we offer the following comprehensive statement, by which it will be perceived that the cause of Republicanism has nothing to fear.
   Rep. Fed.     In Rhode Island 0   New Hampshire 0  
   Connecticut 0 7   Vermont 1 1   New York 11 6   New Jersey 6 0   Pennsylvania 18 0   Maryland 6 3   Delaware 0 1   North Carolina 9 3   South Carolina 8 0   Georgia 4 0   Kentucky 6 0   Ohio 1 0   Total 70 28  
The following states have not yet elected Representatives. The following however will not vary materially from the result:
   Massachusetts 9 8   Virginia 21 1   Tennessee 3 0   Two Repts. in Vermont 1 1  
104 38
The following is a complete list of the Representatives for the next Congress elected in Pennsylvania:
 Benjamin Say,  John Porter,  William Anderson,  Matthias Richards,  William Milnor,  John Ross,  Robert Brown,  Robert Jenkins,  Daniel Heister,  John Smilie,  Wm. Findley,  John Rea,  Robert Whitehill,  David Bard,  Aaron Lyle,  Samuel Smith,  David Crawford,  George Smith. 
Those in Italic are new members. Thirty-five counties in Pennsylvania give Mr. Snyder a majority of 27,427. Seven counties remain to be heard from.
In the Legislature parties stand thus: In the Senate 19 members republican and 10 federal. In the House of Representatives 74 republican and 21 federal.
Georgia. Messrs. Troup, Bibb, Cobb, & Smeal are re-elected representatives in Congress.
South Carolina. Messrs. Marion, Alston, Taylor, and Calhoun are re-elected representatives in Congress.
Ohio. There is scarcely a doubt that Mr. Morrow is re-elected a representative in Congress by a great majority.
Mr. Huntingdon is said to be elected Governor.
Extract of a letter, dated Trenton, N. J. Nov. 1, from a member of the N. J. Legislature. After musing on the validity of the choice of Electors, he proceeds:
"The federal party are very industrious in propagating reports as to the insufficiency of our law. Their object is to paralyze the exertions of their opponents, by inducing a belief that their votes will be lost, whilst at the same time they will themselves strain every nerve, and try to carry their ticket, both for electors and representatives in Congress. We are however determined to convince them by a sweeping majority, that they are feeble in comparison with the united strength of the Republicans in the state; and in order to place the electoral votes of N. Jersey out of the possibility of danger, our legislature in joint meeting convened will confirm the choice of the people, & clothe them with double power. You need not fear, my friend—New Jersey is firmly and decidedly Republican, and there is no risk in trusting the event of the election."
"I omitted sending this immediately after writing it, and can now inform you of the re-appointment of Gov. Bloomfield unanimously."
The following article is destined to run through the Federal prints of the Union. We reprint it to show the means pursued of wilfully vilifying the administration—
TRANSLATED FOR THE N. YORK GAZETTE.
From the Havana Gazette Extra, of the 6th October, received by the Havana Packet. A friend of ours has favored us with the following MS. of an article extracted from the London Royal Gazette of the 11th Aug.
"On the 9th arrived the dispatches which were going to the United States of America in the French pilot boat Ecureuil , captain Guideau, which was carried into Falmouth by the armed brigantine of war Gnat , captain Swell, of whose capture, &c. we published an account in our Gazette of the 2d; among which it is worthy of notice, is the letter written by Talleyrand to the President of the United States, dated the 18th July, as follows:
"Now you will know, Citizen President, if the measures taken to suspend all communication with the Spanish colonies, reducing them to the extreme of necessity and misery, will promote your future interest. Already has Spain fallen into the power of the great Napoleon; and his august brother Joseph Napoleon is on the road to occupy this throne, for whom the Spaniards wait with anxiety and rejoicing. Of consequence the Spanish American colonies are shaking off the yoke of an infatuated government, who does not distinguish its proper interests, neither knows the means to make it prosper. Two powerful empires, linked together with invincible chains, will govern the Americas; that of the Gr. Napoleon & that which the Anglo Americans formerly created by their virtue and heroism, and now aggrandize. The emperor and king hopes, as soon as that government receives the first notice of his emissaries to the different provinces; your neighbors—you will afford your successors by opening at a reciprocal time, your ports, as will be done in Europe, where will cease this feigned embargo, which has been the best of all the adopted means for the plan concerted and now completed."
This and other documents, which will be published, discover the infamous secret agreements which have been made between these two nations.
[On this production, it is proper in us to remark, that we never saw in the London papers any thing more than an account of the capture of the Dispatch boat mentioned in the above.—N. Y. Gaz.]
[In consequence of this publication at the Havana, a number of American citizens residing there presented an address to the governor, in which they pronounced the letter a base forgery, and infamous calumny on the motives and actions of the American government. This address is noticed in the
Havana Aurora as having been kindly received by the government.—N. I.]
From the Enquirer of November 1.
TRIMMING! Apostasy from Richmond federal Principles! CIRCULAR.
We the corresponding Committee, for the county of Augusta, encouraged by our own ideas of consistency, and by communications from different parts of the state of Virginia, have formed the annexed Federal ticket:—
This ticket would have made its appearance in Mr. Davis's paper of the 18th inst. published in Richmond, if it had not been arrested by a committee of Federalists in that place, to us unknown, through the whole progress of our proceedings; and which really seems to have been brought to existence by the arrival at that place of the ticket made by us.
We presume not to dictate for that committee, not for any portion of our federal brethren, but we mean to act consistently with ourselves, and to vote for those men and those only whom we wish should succeed and to give to our federal brethren throughout the state the same opportunity. We deprecate the idea of voting otherwise, and we have no hesitation in saying, that the course recommended by the committee at Richmond, is calculated to insult the feelings of the man they advocate, inasmuch as the avowed object is, not that he should succeed, but that his name should be made use of to defeat the election of his opponent, in this state. We are not disposed to injure the feelings of that gentleman, or any other, but we have a desire to adhere to the principle we set out with, and therefore, altho' the time previous to the election is too short to promise much, we nevertheless, submit to our brethren the following ticket:
 Robert Porte-field,  William Boyd,  Carter Beverley,  Alexander Nelson,  Alexander St. Clair,  Samuel Clarke. 
Staunton, October 22, 1809.
   Names of Electors. County or City.     John Nevison, Norfolk Borough,   George K. Taylor, Prince George,   Richard F. Taylor, Petersburg,   Major John Nelson, Mecklenburg,   Paul Carrington, Sen. esq. Charlotte,   William Berkeley, Esq. Poquoson,   William Cabell, Amherst,   Col. John Watts, Bedford,   Col. Edward Carrington, City Richmond,   Charles Dabney, Hanover,   Gen. Henry Young, King and Queen,   Gen. Edward Stephens Chesapeake,   Leven Powell, London,   Dr. Corbin Griffin, York,   John D. Watkins, New Kent,   John Campbell, Westmoreland,   Baily Washington, Stafford,   Robert Page, Frederick,   Col. Elisha Boyd, Berkley,   Robert Gratton Rockingham,   Gen. Robert Porterfield, Augusta,   Gen. William Tate, Washington,   Col. John Stuart, Greenbrier,   Philip Doddridge, Brooke.  
We should be much gratified if the gentlemen who are engaged in publishing the present correspondence, between Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Monroe, would also be so good as to publish the correspondence between Mr. Monroe and Mr. Madison.
Richmond Argus.
DIED, at Philadelphia, in the 75th year of his age, LEWIS HALLAM, the father of the American Theatre.
At the late election in Connecticut the aggregate votes given were—
   Federal, 12,737   Republican, 7,235  
The English Governor of Trinidad has given publicity by proclamation to the following order:
"In the city of Caracas, the first day of September, 1808. His Excellency Don de Cassas, &c. declares—That always attentive to promote by every possible means the prosperity of the country, as well with respect to the extension of its commerce, in the manner most profitable and analogous to its constitution, as to cement the friendship and good intelligence that reigns with the British nation, which has united with our provinces of Europe, and made a common cause to exterminate the enemy of our government the perfidious Napoleon, and having recently received an authentic document which expressly declares the good will of his Britannic majesty in favor of Spain, as communicated to Parliament assembled by the Lords Commissioners in the following gracious speech: (Here is inserted in full length, his majesty's speech of the 4th July, as delivered by the Lords Commissioners to both houses of Parliament, beginning with "the recent transactions in Spain and Italy, and then concludes as follows:)"
"Wherefore I have thought proper to declare and do hereby declare, that the commerce with the island of Caracas, by an act of the 30th July last, shall and is hereby extended to all the colonies of his Britannic majesty, and also to his dominions in Europe, in honor of the friendship and alliance which his majesty professes for preserving the integrity of the Spanish monarchy, and for the prosperity and happiness of all the faithful subjects of our lord and king Ferdinand the VII."
"And thus his excellency, with the advice of the hon. Don Juan Jurado of his majesty's council, Honorary Oidor of the Royal Audience, Lieut. Governor, Auditor de Guerra, and Assessor General of this government, and Captain Generalship, ordered,
commanded, and signed, which I the Scrivenir attest.
JUAN DE CASAS, JUAN JURADO.
Before me, PABLO CASTRILLO, Sen. Public Scrivenir Government."
LITERARY NOTICE.—We understand that in a few days, will be published, a celebrated pamphlet, which has arrested a considerable degree of public attention in Great Britain. It is entitled Hints to both Parties , and is said to contain the sentiments of the British cabinet respecting the Orders of Council, and the rights of neutrals. It is said to be written by one of the leading members in Parliament, and the production itself, contains internal evidence that it comes from the hand of a master. We shall take an opportunity to furnish our readers with a review of the production as soon as it appears.
Daily Adv.
POSTSCRIPT.
We have received the opening proceedings of the Legislature of New York. They met at Albany on Tuesday last, when the House of Representatives made choice of James W. Wilkins, esq. republican, for Speaker, who had 69 votes, and Mr. S. Van Rensselaer 45. We have also received Gov. Tompkins's speech, which does equal honor to his head and heart, holding the firm language called for by the crisis. It commences as follows:
"At the commencement of the last session I had the honor of expressing to the Legislature my opinion respecting the measures adopted by the national councils, to prevent our being involved in the desolating wars of Europe. Nothing has since occurred to produce a change of that opinion or to impair my confidence in their exertions and zeal to avert, as far as is consistent with the welfare and independence of our country, the calamities of war. I am, however compelled with regret to inform you that I am not apprised of any material alteration in the state of our foreign relations since that period. The embarrassments to commerce and agriculture, incident to the existence of the embargo, are still experienced and should they continue, they must be ascribed to the perseverance of the belligerents in their illegal and unjust aggressions upon the commerce of the U. States. This consideration affords additional motives, for enduring from patience the privations resulting from the counteracting measures of our own rulers, and for yielding a warm, unanimous and decided support to their prudent and incessant efforts to maintain, without an appeal to arms, the honor of our country, and the rights and tranquility of its citizens. Should our hopes of an amicable accommodation of existing differences be frustrated by an obstinate adherence of the belligerents to their unprincipled and arbitrary restraints upon neutral commerce, and a resort to the sword become inevitable, we can meet the event with a consciousness of the rectitude of our cause; with a firm dependence on the patriotism and bravery of freemen and with a humble reliance on the protection of that Providence who has hitherto favored us."
After the mention of various local concerns, it concludes with a handsome acknowledgment of the measures of the general Government towards fortifying the harbor of New-York, and an earnest exhortation to patriotism and harmony, which shall be given in our next.
A vessel has arrived at Norfolk, which brings London prints to the 25th Sept. inclusive, one day later than was previously received. The only article of news in them follows:—

ON THURSDAY the 17th day of November inst. the subscriber will offer to Public Sale , one Negro Man and two Negro Women , likewise six Horses , and three Feather Beds , and Furniture, formerly the property of Jacob Edelen of Prince Georges county. At the same time the subscriber will sell all the property which the above mentioned Jacob Edelen is entitled to by virtue of the last Will and Testament of Joseph Edelen, consisting of Negroes, Stock, Farming Utensils and Kitchen and Household Furniture, which property will be shown to purchasers on the day of sale. The sale will be held at the dwelling house of the said Jacob Edelen, near Piscataway and the terms will be cash.
ALEXIUS BOONE.
November 2—tdos
I RECEIVED in a condition negotiation last May, Benjamin Contee's Note , negotiable in the Bank of Columbia, for $4,500, payable to Ludwell Lee ; which note was never endorsed and now cannot be found to be returned to said Contee, the negotiation intended, having been annulled. This is therefore to certify that the said note, if found by any person, must be returned to said Contee, it being cancelled by Ludwell Lee and myself.
H. LEE.
CT The said Note was dated (I believe) on the 16th May.
November 2—3t
A NURSERY FOR HEDGE PLANTS. WANTED on a lease of years, at the City of Washington or its near neighborhood, TEN ACRES OF LAND , more or less according as circumstances may render it convenient. The Soil must be good, some part of it at least adapted for a Nursery .—The situation favorable for the exhibition of examples of Hedging . Any communication respecting the above will meet with all due attention from the subscriber, who has now for sale at his Nursery near the Little Falls of Potomac, several thousand PLANTS of the American Hedge Thorn , and a few hundreds of Pyracantha or Evergreen Thorn .
THOMAS MAIN.
November 2—3t
HORSES.  ELEVEN or TWENTY Horses may be wintered at the subscriber's Farm, Two and a half miles from Georgetown. He is provided with the best of Stabling , hay, oats, corn & corn blades, & a sober and capable horse-keeper. Horses will be kept or fattened as the owners may require. Apply to Mr. Dunn, serjeant at arms to the House of Representatives, or the subscriber in George Town.
NATHAN LUTHEROUGH.
November 2—2v
TO LET DURING THE SESSION. A PARLOR & KITCHEN on the First Floor, two Chambers on the second, and a Garet —the premises are eligibly situated, and may suit a Small Family or a couple of single gentlemen. Enquire of the Printer. November 2—3t
INFORMATION FOR THE PUBLIC. The Subscriber is empowered by Judge FIDLER , the inventor of the Chain Bridge , to superintend and build those Bridges, and he is also constituted sole agent, to sell Patent rights throughout the United States. Those who may incline 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—epim
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 thereunto, 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 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
H. OLIVER, HAS just received and is now opening for sale at her Store, in the House next above Mr. Burnet's Jewelry Store , a new and very elegant assortment of MILLINERY & FANCY GOODS, consisting of Laced Caps, velvet Bonnets plain & figured, Tiaras, gold and Silver flowers, Garniture for trimming dresses, Gold and Silver Cord, Do. do. Cords and Tassels, Do. do. Spangles and Thread, Do. do. Bullion, Artificial Flowers and Feathers, Silk Cord, and Silk Cords and Tassels of all colors, Silk Buttons of new patterns, Black jet, marble and amber Buttons, Beaver Hats and Bonnets, Do. do. for Children, Necklaces and Ear Rings, Chip, Leghorn, and Vulture Straw of new patterns, Silk and velvet Pelices, Pelice Coating, Pelice Velvet and Levant Silks; Angola and Cashmere Shawls, Silver Bear and other Muffs and Tippets, Morocco Jockey Caps—a very general assortment of working Chenille, Spider net Sleeves, hair and beaded Caps and bands, Velvet Ribbons of different colors, Silks and Sarsnets of different colors, Crapes of all colors, Perfumery and sweet Soaps, a very large assortment of Thread and Cotton, soft Satin, and a new assortment of fashionable Ribbons, Madras Ginghams—Silk and Cotton Umbrellas, a very general assortment of Ladies and Gentlemen's Gloves, best Flaving and Message Cards, Wedding, Kuray's Slices, best Tortoise Shell Combs, mounted and plain, &c. &c. with a general assortment of DRY GOODS. Georgetown, October 26—3w
CHARLES H. FARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR, 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. Likewise an elegant assortment of Spencelets & rich silk Moleskins 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—4f
JOHN PETER Has just received from Philadelphia, a large & complete Assortment of DRY GOODS, viz.
Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, Ladies Pelice Cloths, Silk Velvets, Irish Linen & Sheeting, do. India & British Shirting cottons, Hosiery of every description, Silks of all kinds, Bed Tickens, Furniture Chintzes & Dimities, Coarse India Muslins, Best London Hats, Elegant Brussels, Ingrain Scotch, and Venetian Carpetings, &c. &c. &c. Together with a general supply of coarse Woolens—any of which he will sell at the most reduced prices. Persons who purchase to put off again shall find their interest in price the goods. They were purchased for cash, and will be sold for small profits. October 21—4w
NEW GOODS. The Subscriber has lately received an extensive and complete assortment of SEASONABLE GOODS, consisting of Extra superfine London Cloths, Cassimeres, Sadinets, Manchester, Tolliens, Swansdowns, Ladies Pelice Cloths, Silk and taffy Velvets, Damask, raw silk, and Camels hair Shawls, Down Scarfs, Lace Caps, silk Buttons and Cords, Ostrich Feathers, Artificial Flowers, Fancy Muslins, Linen and cotton Cambrics, Irish Linens and Sheeting, Shirting Cottons, Lace Sleeves and Gloves, Silks of every description, Hosiery, Ginghams, Chambrays, Calicoes, London Hats, Second Cloths, Coatings, Plains, Kersseys, Half Thick, Rose and Duffel Blankets, Hearth Rugs, Dowlas, Ticklenburgs, Osaburgs, Bafta's, Mamoodies, Lawns, Guirahs, &c. Which will be sold at the most reduced prices.
TUNIS GRAVEN.
Near the Navy Yard. October 24—1m
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 instruction in ARITHMETICAL GEOGRAPHY with the GLOBES . 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
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—epids
THE COMMERCIAL COMPANY OF WASHINGTON. Now landing from on board the ship Maria , capt. Fitzhugh, and for SALE , at low prices, Jamaica Spirit, Antigua and New England Rum, Muscavado Sugars, Molasses, Coffee, Muscatel and bloom Raisins, Holland and country Gin, Spermaceti Candles, Spermaceti 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, Marsala, and Wine by the cask. Catalonia, Claret in boxes of 1 dozen each, Cognac 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—
PLAYING CARDS of the First Quality, Just received, and for SALE By the Gross, Dozen or Pack, at Dr. MAGRUDER'S Drug & Medical Store, George Town. October 21—11
MERINO SHEEP. A Few half-blood Merino Ram Lambs for Sale, at the farm of the Subscriber, near Philadelphia. JAMES MEASE. November 4—4t
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
JOHN GOULDING is now landing from on board the Polly from Baltimore, a few barrels of West India COFFEE and New Orleans SUGAR , Bottles in hampers, Red and White Champagne Wine in boxes, Fresh Tea, &c. On hand, as usual, most kinds of choice old Wines in bottles and in casks; best Albany Ale; Philadelphia Porter and Ale; Spermaceti Candles, Train Oil; Castile Soap in boxes, with sundry articles in his line, to be sold for Cash, and as usual, cheap to his punctual customers. Georgetown, September 16—2m
JUST RECEIVED, & FOR SALE. By the Subscriber, A FEW HALF PIPES of MADEIRA WINE, Four years OLD, neat as imported. TOPPAN WEBSTER. Washington, October 30—3w
STRAYED away from the city of Washington, on Monday the 24th ult. a brindle COW, with face and fore legs white, and crooked horns. Any person bringing her home to Mrs. Lardner, near the new Jail, shall receive a reward of Two Dollars, if taken up at any distance from the city. November 4—3t
Distress of Columbia, Washington County, to wit: I hereby certify that William Warren, of said county, brought before me as a stray, trespassing on his enclosure, a dark bay Horse, bordering on black, about 15 years old, 15 hands high, a star on his forehead, shod on all fours, with a switch tail. Given under my hand this 3d day of November, 1808. SAM. H. SMITH
MRS. THOMPSON, IN THE SIX BUILDINGS, HAS one House with a handsome Drawing Room for the accommodation of Ladies and Gentlemen, with Coach House and Stables, and Lodges for Servants. October 28—4f
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, Cognac brandy, Holland gin, Jamaica spirits, old peach brandy, Gochen 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, hates long standing accounts as injurious 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. &3w
COLUMBIAN DRAGOONS. THE Troop of Columbian Dragoons will parade on the usual ground on Saturday the 5th inst. at 3 o'clock. Punctual attendance is requested. The members will appear completely equipped. By order of the captain. ALEX. M'CORMICK, Sec'y. November 4—1t
PROPOSALS for carrying Mails of the United States , on the following post roads, will be received at the General Post Office in Washington , until the 16th day of January next inclusive. 1. Delaware —From Wilmington by Newcastle, St. Georgetown, Cantwell's Bridge, Duck Creek, Dover, Frederica and Milford to Georgetown three times a week. April 15 to November 15. Leave Wilmington every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11 A. M. arrive at Dover by 9 P. M. Leave Dover every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Georgetown by 7 P. M. Leave Georgetown every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 A. M. arrive at Dover by 8 P. M. Leave Dover on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Wilmington by 2 P. M. November 15 to April 15—Leave Wilmington every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 A. M. Arrive at Dover by 6 P. M. and at Milford on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by 10 A. M. and at Georgetown by 6 P. M.—Returning. Leave Georgetown every Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 6 A. M. and Milford at 2 P. M. Arrive at Dover by 8 P. M. and at Wilmington on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by 6 P. M.
2. From Georgetown and Broadkill to Lewistown once a week. Leave Georgetown every Sunday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Lewistown by 10 A. M.—Returning. Leave Lewistown every Sunday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Georgetown by 8 P. M.
3. From Georgetown by Bridge Branch, N. W. Fork bridge and New Market to Cambridge once a week. Leave Georgetown every Monday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Cambridge on Tuesday by 11 A. M. Leave Cambridge on Tuesday by 1 P. M. and arrive at Georgetown on Wednesday by 7 P. M.
4. From Georgetown by Concord to Laurel, once a week. Leave Georgetown every Saturday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Laurel by 8 P. M. and arrive at Salisbury by 6 P. M. Leave Laurel every Saturday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Georgetown by 11 A. M.
5. From Georgetown by Dagsboro, Trap, Snowhill, Horntown and Accomac c. h. to Northampton, c. h., once a week. Leave Georgetown, every Sunday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Northampton c. h. the next Wednesday by 10 A. M. Leave Northampton c. h. every Wednesday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Georgetown on Saturday by 8 P. M.
6. From Wilmington, by Christiana, Middletown, Warwick, Sassafras and Georgetown. Roads to Chestertown, three times a week. Leave Wilmington every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Chestertown by 8 P. M. Leave Chestertown every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Wilmington by 8 P. M. In Maryland—7. From Easton by Hillsboro', Denton, Greensboro' and Whiteley to Frederica, once a week. Leave Easton every Tuesday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Frederica on Wednesday by 11 A. M. Leave Frederica every Wednesday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Easton on Thursday by 6 P. M. 8. From Chestertown by Rockhall, to Annapolis twice a week. Leave Chestertown every Monday and Friday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Annapolis by 8 P. M. Leave Annapolis every Tuesday and Saturday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Chestertown by 8 P. M. 9. From Chestertown by Churchhill and Centerville to Easton, twice a week. Leave Chestertown every Monday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Centerville by 10 A. M. and at Easton by 5 P. M.—Returning. Leave Easton every Tuesday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Chestertown by 6 P. M. 10. From Baltimore by Ellicott's Lower mills, Poplarstown and New Market to Fredericktown, three times a week. Leave Fredericktown every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Baltimore by 4 P. M.—Returning. Leave Baltimore Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Fredericktown by 6 P. M. 11. From Fredericktown by Middletown, Hagerstown, and Greencastle to Chambersburg, three times a week. Leave Fredericktown every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Chambersburg by 8 P. M.—Returning. Leave Chambersburg every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Fredericktown by 8 P. M. 12. From Fredericktown by Woodbury, Taneytown, Petersville, Hanover, York and Columbia to Lancaster, twice a week. Leave Fredericktown every Tuesday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Lancaster the next days by 6 P. M. Leave Lancaster every Sunday and Thursday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Fredericktown by 6 P. M. the next days. 13. From Hagerstown by Hancock, Berkeley Springs, Oldtown, Cumberland, Cresapsburg, Frankfort, and Springfield to Romney, once a week. Leave Hagerstown every Thursday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Romney on Sunday by 6 P. M. Leave Romney every Monday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Hagerstown on Thursday by 10 A. M. 14. From Baltimore by Ellicott's lower Mills, Brookville, Montgomery c. h. and Charlesburg to Leesburg, once a week. Leave Baltimore every Friday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Leesburg on Saturday by 6 P. M. Leave Leesburg every Thursday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Baltimore on Friday by 10 A. M. 15. From Fredericktown to Leesburg once a week. Leave Leesburg every Tuesday by 3 A. M. and arrive at Fredericktown by 11 A. M.—Returning. Leave Fredericktown every Tuesday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Leesburg by 8 P. M. 16. From Fredericktown by Newtown, Trap, Harper's Ferry, Charlestown and Batletown to Winchester, once a week. Leave Fredericktown every Monday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Charlestown by 2 P. M. Leave Charlestown at 3 P. M. and arrive at Winchester on Tuesday by 8 A. M.—Returning. Leave Winchester every Saturday at 4 P. M. and arrive at Fredericktown on Sunday by 6 P. M. 17. From Hartford to Bel-Air once a week. Leave Bel-Air every Tuesday by 7 A. M. and arrive at Hartford by 9 A. M. Leave Hartford at 11 A. M. and arrive at Bel-Air by 1 P. M. 18. From Baltimore to Annapolis, twice a week. Leave Baltimore every Monday and Friday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Annapolis same days by 5 P. M.—Returning. Leave Annapolis every Tuesday and Saturday at 3 A. M. and arrive at Baltimore by 5 P. M. 19. From Annapolis by Queen Ann's, Pig Point, Tracy's Landing, Friendship, Lower Marlboro', Huntingdon and Calvert c. h. to St. Leonard's, once a week. Leave Annapolis every Saturday at 6 A. M. and arrive at St. Leonard's on Monday by noon. Leave St. Leonard's every Monday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Annapolis on Friday by 3 P. M. 20. From Annapolis by Haddaway's, St. Michael's, Easton, Cambridge, Vienna, Salisbury, Quantico, Princess Ann and Snowhill to Salisbury, once a week. Leave Annapolis every Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Easton by 7 P. M. Leave Easton on Sunday by 6 A. M. and arrive at Cambridge by noon, and arrive at Snowhill on Tuesday by 1 P. M.—Returning. Leave Snowhill every Tuesday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Easton on Thursday by 10 A. M. Leave Easton at 2 P. M. and arrive at Annapolis on Friday by 8 P. M. 21. From Washington to Brookville, once a week. Leave Washington every Wednesday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Brookville by 11 A. M. Leave Brookville every Wednesday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Washington by 8 P. M. 22. From Washington city by Georgetown, Montgomery c. h. and Clarkersburg to Fredericktown, three times a week. Leave Washington city every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Fredericktown same days by 7 P. M. Leave Fredericktown every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Washington city same days by 4 P. M. 23. From Washington city, by Piscataway, Port Tobacco, Aliens Fresh, Newport, Chaptico, Leonardtown, Great Mill and St. Inigoes, to the Ridge. Leave Washington every Friday at 3 P. M. and arrive at Port Tobacco by 2 P. M. on Saturday, and arrive at the Ridge, on Sunday by 7 P. M.—Returning. Leave the Ridge on Monday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Washington on Wednesday morning by 5 o'clock. 24. From Port Tobacco by Hilltop to Nanjemoy, once a week. Leave Port Tobacco every Saturday at 3 P. M. and arrive at Nanjemoy by 8 P. M. Leave Nanjemoy every Sunday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Port Tobacco by noon. 25. From Washington city by Upper Marlboro' and Queen Ann's to Annapolis, twice a week. Leave Washington every Monday and Friday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Annapolis by 6 P. M. Leave Annapolis every Tuesday and Saturday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Washington by 4 P. M. 26. From Upper Marlboro' by Nottingham, Aquasco, Benedict and Charlotte Hall to Chaptico, once a week. Leave Upper Marlboro' every Friday noon, and arrive at Chaptico on Saturday by 3 P. M. Leave Chaptico every Saturday at 4 P. M. and arrive at Upper Marlboro' on Monday by noon. In Virginia—27. From Martinsburg by Williamsport to Hagerstown, once a week. Leave Martinsburg every Saturday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Hagerstown by 10 A. M. Leave Hagerstown at 2 P. M. and arrive at Martinsburg by 7 P. M.
28. From Winchester by Stevensburg at Newtown, Strasburg, Woodstock, Newmarket and Harrisonburg to Staunton, once a week. Leave Winchester every Tuesday at 10 A. M. and arrive at Staunton on Thursday by 11 A. M. Leave Staunton every Thursday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Winchester on Saturday by 3 P. M. 29. From Washington city by Prospect Hill, Leesburg, Waterford, Hillsboro', Charlestown, Shepherdstown, Martinsburg and Middleway to Winchester, once a week. Leave Washington city every Tuesday at 7 A. M. and arrive at Martinsburg on Wednesday by 5 P. M. Leave Martinsburg at 6 P. M. and arrive at Winchester on Thursday by 4 P. M.—Returning. Leave Winchester every Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Washington city on Sunday by 2 P. M. 30. From Washington city by Fairfax c. h., Centerville, Middlebury, Goshen, Millwood, Paris, Winchester, Romney, Westover, Green Glades, and Gandy, to Clarkersburg, twice a week. Leave Washington every Monday and Friday at 3 P. M. and arrive at Fairfax c. h. by 6 P. M. Leave Fairfax c. h. at 6 P. M. and arrive at Clarkersburg on Thursday and Monday by 8 P. M.—Returning. Leave Clarkersburg every Tuesday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Fairfax c. h. on Friday and Monday by 5 P. M. and at Washington by 9 A. M. 31. From Clarkersburg by Marsh, Marietta, Athens, Chillicothe, Willis Roads, New Market, Williamsburg and Columbia to Cincinnati, twice a week. Leave Clarkersburg every Tuesday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Cincinnati on Friday and Monday by 10 A. M.—Returning. Leave Cincinnati every Monday and Friday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Clarkersburg the next Thursday and Monday by 7 P. M. 32. From Romney, by Moorfields to Pendleton c. h. once a week. Leave Romney every Monday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Pendleton c. h. on Tuesday by 4 P. M.—Returning. Leave Pendleton c. h. on Wednesday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Romney on Thursday by 6 P. M. 33. From Marietta by Bel Air to Wood c. h. once a week. Leave Marietta every Thursday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Wood c. h. by 10 A. M. Leave Wood c. h. at 2 P. M. and arrive at Marietta by 6 P. M. 34. From Clarkersburg by Buchanan & Randolph c. h. to Pendleton c. h. once in two weeks. Leave Clarkersburg every other Tuesday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Pendleton c. h. the next Friday by 10 A. M. Leave Pendleton c. h. every other Friday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Clarkersburg the next Monday by 6 P. M. November 7—wJan16
October 17—4f
PUBLIC SALE OF LOTS
IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. BY virtue of a decree of the High Court of Chancery of the state of Maryland, passed in October, 1806, in a suit instituted therein, (prior to the separation of the district of Columbia from the said state) by the Executors of Mordacai Lewis , and by Edward Bard , against Morris, Nicholson and others , the subscribers, Trustees, appointed under the said decree, will, on the 28th day of November next, offer at Public Sale, at Rhodes's Hotel , in the city of Washington, Seven hundred and thirty-nine Lots , in the said city, which, with a division among the original proprietors, were allotted to the public, and are contained in the following Squares, viz. in square No. 777 seven lots, in sq. 778 twelve lots, in sq. 779 nine lots, in sq. 780 twelve lots, in sq. 781 one lot, in sq. 809 five lots, in sq. 810 ten lots, in sq. 811 seven lots, in sq. 812 eight lots, in sq. 813 two lots, in sq. 833 one lot, in sq. 834 ten lots, in sq. 835 seven lots, in sq. 836 eight lots, in sq. 837 two lots, in sq. 839 eleven lots, in sq. 840 thirty-two lots, in sq. 854 four lots, in sq. 895 eight lots, in sq. 917 nine lots, in sq. 938 eight lots, in sq. 939 ten lots, in sq. 940 three lots, in sq. 963 eight lots, in sq. 964 ten lots, in sq. 965 eight lots, in sq. 966 nine lots, in sq. 967 eleven lots, in sq. 1009 nine lots, in sq. 1010 nine lots, in sq. 1011 four lots, in sq. 1012 one lot, in sq. 1031 five lots, in sq. 1032 two lots, in sq. 1033 seven lots, in sq. 1034 five lots, in sq. 1035 ten lots, in sq. 1036 nine lots, in sq. 1056 thirteen lots, in sq. 1057 ten lots, in sq. 1058 ten lots, in sq. 1059 eight lots, in sq. 1063 one lot, in sq. 1069 nine lots, in sq. 1070 eight lots, in sq. 1071 eight lots, in sq. 1072 nine lots, in sq. 1082 five lots, in sq. 1083 nine lots, in sq. 1084 eight lots, in sq. 1085 eight lots, in sq. 1086 nine lots, in sq. 1087 four lots, in sq. 1093 twelve lots, in sq. 1094 ten lots, in sq. 1095 ten lots, in sq. 1096 nine lots, in sq. 1097 eleven lots, in sq. 1098 eleven lots, in sq. 1107 twelve lots, in sq. 1108 ten lots, in sq. 1109 ten lots, in sq. 1110 ten lots, in sq. 1111 ten lots, in sq. 1112 thirteen lots, in sq. 1113 eight lots, in sq. 1119 seven lots, in sq. 1120 six lots, in sq. 1121 six lots, in sq. 1122 seven lots, in sq. 1125 eight lots, in sq. 1126 seven lots, in sq. 1127 six lots, in sq. 1128 six lots, in sq. 1129 seven lots, in sq. 1132 eight lots, in sq. 1133 seven lots, in sq. 1134 six lots, in sq. 1135 six lots, in sq. 1136 seven lots, in sq. 1137 eight lots, in sq. 1138 seven lots, in sq. 1159 six lots, in sq. 1140 six lots, in sq. 1141 eight lots, in sq. 1142 seven lots, in sq. 1143 six lots, in sq. 1144 eight lots, in sq. 1145 seven lots, and in sq. 1146 six lots. The sales of the said property will be made in squares, or lots, or parts of lots, as may be determined and declared before the commencement thereof; and a plan of the city, and particular lists of the squares, and of the lots which they respectively contain, will be then exhibited, so that persons desiring to purchase may be enabled to ascertain the exact situation of the property, which they may also do in the meantime by application to either of the Trustees. The terms of sale are that each purchaser of a square or lot or part of a lot is to pay into the chancery court of the state of Maryland the full amount of the purchase money thereof immediately at the ratification of the sale, which ratification if it takes place, will, according to the stipulation of the decree aforesaid, be passed within five weeks from the time of the report to be made by the Trustees; and, on the approbation and ratification, by the Chancellor, of any sales made, and on the payment of the purchase money into the chancery court, the Trustees will by good and sufficient deeds convey to the purchasers and their heirs the property so by them respectively purchased; that is to say, all the rights, title, and interest therein at any and all the parties to the said suit. The sale to commence on Monday the 28th of November aforesaid, at 11 o'clock A. M. and to be continued till 3 o'clock, P. M. and held during the same hours on every succeeding day until completed. JOHN KEITH, } Trustees. JOSIAS W. KING, } October 17—4f