The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1807-07-29 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. VII.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. 1059.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1807.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
National Intelligencer.
REFLECTIONS on the comparative effects of a WAR on the UNITED STATES and GREAT BRITAIN.
(Continued.)
2. The next article imported is WINE , the amount of which annually consumed is about three millions of gallons. This is an article with which we can surely altogether dispense. The quantity now in the country is so considerable that, should war be of short duration, it would be sufficient for our consumption. The price would be probably considerably enhanced. But as it would be paid by one citizen to another, this would not operate in the least as a drain of our specie, or a diminution of our capital; and would not, therefore, be attended with any material injury. Independently, however, of this consideration, we should soon find among ourselves sufficient substitutes for foreign wines. Cider, of which our orchards would furnish an inexhaustible supply, and malt liquors, which could be made in any quantities, would afford a wholesome and abundant resource. Luxury might be deprived of one of its most costly enjoyments, but the mass of national comfort would not be abridged. This result, like that flowing from the manufacture of spirits, would have the two fold effect of exempting us from a dependence on foreign nations, and of consuming the products of agriculture among ourselves. Should malt liquors become the common substitute for foreign wines, and computing that the former would be consumed to an equal value, there would be an increased demand among ourselves for more than half a million bushels of grain.
Were it then the effect of war to prevent altogether the importation of ardent spirits and wines, it would be a national benefit, or at worst an equivocal evil. In some few instances it might diminish the sphere of personal enjoyment; but this would be more than balanced by rendering us as a nation more independent.
The following certain effects would ensue: Our annual imports would be diminished to the amount of eight millions of dollars.
A constant demand would exist among ourselves for grain to the extent of about four millions of bushels, being within a fraction the full amount of the surplus quantity now exported.
To this extent we should be relieved from the necessity of exporting our produce.
A large portion of the wealth, now employed in foreign trade, amounting to a seventh part of the whole commerce, would be disengaged, and be applied to the improvement of the country, and the establishment of manufactures.
So far as these objects might be promoted, a correspondent portion of the labor of the country would be withdrawn from agriculture, in proportion to which the surplus produce of agriculture would be diminished, and consequently the quantity raised be enhanced in value.
These are objects so great, and so permanently important, at all times and in all situations, and calculated to have so happy an effect on the wealth and political condition of our country, that it may be questioned whether too dear a price could be paid for them.
3. The same remarks, with very little variation, may be applied to SALT , which we have all the means of manufacturing among ourselves, and which in a period of war we should most unquestionably manufacture. The value of this article is estimated at one million and a half of dollars.
4. With regard to TEAS , our market is glutted with them. Should they be viewed from habit as an indispensable part of subsistence, the only effect, flowing from our inability to import them, would be their enhanced price among ourselves, from which there could arise no loss to the country.
5. Our consumption of sugar, coffee and molasses is estimated at about five millions of dollars, of which the first article is the most indispensable, and of greater value than both the others.
There cannot exist a doubt of our obtaining a full supply of these articles. Our vicinity to the islands in which they are raised, and the immense surplus quantity there produced beyond the European demand, would give us as complete a command of the market as we could desire. The advantages of vicinity must be obvious to every mind, and the inducement of Britain to facilitate, instead of impede, the disposition of her colonial staples, may be counted upon with absolute certainty from the immense quantity of the two most important of these articles remaining on hand in England, to the great injury of all cases, and the utter ruin in some of the West India planters and traders. The article of sugar has indeed become so great a drug, that the West India planters have recently applied to Par-
liament to take off the restrictions on the fabrication of spirits from it, and have earnestly urged the measure as the only means of averting the bankruptcy that stares them in the face.
But, although there can be no reason to doubt the disposition of Britain to supply us with these articles, there is every reason to believe that war would abridge their consumption in the United States, at the same time that it increased the quantity of sugar and molasses made in the Orleans territory. As the profit of sugar plantations in that territory incomparably surpasses the profits attending any other species of cultivation in the country, and even exceeds those derived from commerce and manufactures, it is almost certain that a large portion of the capital, now employed in trade, would, in a period of war, be transferred to the Orleans territory. In such a period it would be evidently the policy of the government to strengthen this important frontier, and no means could be so efficacious as holding our inducements to a more compact and larger population. The present profits, too, large as they are, would be increased by the increased price of the foreign commodity. At this moment the profit of a sugar plantation is twenty-five per cent. on the whole capital, in the management of which there is less trouble (for the cost of overseers is previously deducted) than in any other business of magnitude that can be carried on. When this circumstance is considered, with the fact, that the sugar lands in Orleans are abundantly competent, under a tolerable cultivation, to supply the whole demands of a population twice as large as that at present possessed by the United States, there cannot exist a doubt but that so far as relates to a full supply of sugar and molasses, we need not be in the least uneasy.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
MR. SMITH, SIR—I observed, with much satisfaction in your paper of Friday last a scheme to promote our home manufactures; at such a time as the present to have manufacturing towns in the Eastern states to consume the vast quantities of our surplus produce would be indeed a great desideratum. The home market is above all others the best, not being liable to those fluctuations which the foreign markets are, from war, local policy and other contingent circumstances which are beyond our control. The friends of a navy should lend all their aid to this business, for whilst we are rigging our merchantmen with Russian rope and canvass, importing paints, copper, anchors, nails, &c. &c. from England and Holland, how can we presume to think of supporting a navy; even the very shirts and jackets that our sailors wear at present are manufactured by our enemies; in fact we have yet towards this project but wood, and iron in the ore; but we can have every thing by setting on foot manufactures.
It would be a pleasing sight to behold the manufacturer of New England eat the bread of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and working up the cotton and wool of the southern states, and returning them manufactures in exchange for the commodities they had received, as England does at this day. Much stress has hitherto been laid on the long credits that are obtained on British goods; but when we go into the calculation of this benefit we shall find it but a paltry and rather a delusive advantage; this credit is nominally six months, but admit that it is twelve months with interest for the last six, it follows that if after an invoice is made up at Manchester it requires four months for the transporting of the goods to the United States, the credit is so much shortened in reality; but if we consider that for this credit the extra advance on the price of goods is at least 20 per cent. above cash price, and that to this is added convoy duty, &c. &c. we will be astonished how a country like New England should so long remain behind hand in these branches of business, from whence supplies of manufactured goods could be forwarded to the middle and southern states, by water, in a few days; thus counterbalancing the length of credit by the facility and frequency of supply—and when they are fully as expert in the manufacture of circulating medium, as they are in G. Britain.
It is to be regretted that our patriotic Volunteer corps had not in time thought of using the manufactures of America for their uniforms. This measure would have been worthy the spirit of the times. England has no value on the lives of her subjects, they are sacrificed like oxen in Smithfield upon every trifling occasion; but the annexes great importance to the monopoly of her manufactures. In this conflict of vitality of her commercial system, if you would draw the teeth and pierce the claws of the British lion, you must ask
him in this way, a way which serves the double purpose of strengthening ourselves, and weakening our antagonists & therefore preferable above all others.
It may also, with justice be observed, that if we suffer the British to give laws to our American merchants, that class of men will soon be annihilated, and their places supplied by British ship owners; now, we know that the ship owners in all large cities have the mechanics at their disposal when they chuse to exert their interest on any occasion. It is known that our large cities give tone to the interior country, and in this view, we shall be beyond a doubt that we have no alternative left between American trade & American merchants, on the one hand, and British trade and British merchants on the other, unless it be in the encouragement of our own domestic fabrics, whereby we can dispense with a large proportion of foreign commerce of every description; I shall in conclusion remark that if we have found so much trouble in keeping down the arrogance of British agents and vendors of tape and hardware, would not our difficulties in that respect be increased by the addition of British ship owners, factors, &c. and their followers.
WASHINGTONIAN.
To the Editor of the National Intelligencer.
SIR, I read with pleasure this day, in your paper, a proposal for the encouragement of domestic manufactures, & I shall cheerfully join in the plan if a better cannot be adopted; but it appears to me more advisable to establish new manufactures by means of a common purse, than by such means as to transport from distant sections of the union, manufactures which are not more than sufficient for the consumption of such sections. Wherever manufactures are established, the produce of them will find their way through the union, when more is produced than sufficient for the consumption of the vicinity.
There are certain manufactures of prime necessity which may be established in every town and village, and to such extent as the consumption of the place and its vicinity require. Being manufactured on the spot, the expenses of carriage & commission, and risks are avoided. Such is the case, with strong plain cotton cloths—but how are such manufactures to be established? We all wish for them, but who dare embark his capital in a new, and to us uncertain business? We know we can get cotton manufactures from England at a long credit, but we know not whether in time of peace we could manufacture without loss—Certainly in time of war the manufacture of cottons will be a profitable employment for capital now employed in commerce. It has been suspected that British influence has suppressed or destroyed various attempts made in this country to establish cotton works—Let us begin on a lower scale—Let us sow the seeds all over the country, so that British influence cannot destroy it—Let us do it now, when such influence dare not shew itself, when American patriotism is broad awake, when the probability of war points out not only the necessity for, but the profit that will arise from, domestic manufactures should war take place.
Sir, I am now an American citizen, I have been a cotton manufacturer in Britain, and I am convinced that strong plain serviceable cotton goods may be produced in this country (at all events in many parts of it) as cheap or cheaper, than goods of the same quality can be purchased at the stores. I will not say that such is the case in this city; but I am sure it is in the western country, where provisions and labor are lower, and where the consumer of English goods obtains them charged with additional commissions and carriage. However, I have no doubt but such a manufacture will be very advantageous even in this city, should we have a war with England.
Many months ago I was invited to view a machine in the patent office, department of state (invented by a Kentuckian) for carding and spinning cotton, and a more complete machine for the purpose I never saw in England! It produces from the wool (as it comes from the pole) good yarn suitable for making drudges, flannels, &c. Such a machine, as that in the patent office is a model of, with a few fly shuttles to it, erected in this city, will be a fair experiment of what price plain serviceable cottons can be made here. The experiment will be in view of all the union, and will spread over the face of the country. I presume a thousand dollars will be sufficient to make the experiment—If it will pay the subscribers, let it continue, if peace continues. Should we have a war, I have no doubt that such a machine will be such an inducement to extend the business, and that we shall have our full supply of cotton goods from our own manufactory—I therefore take leave to
suggest as an improvement to the plan of your correspondent:
1st. That when the subscription is full, a committee be appointed (to act gratis) to enquire into the costs of machinery for spinning and carding cotton to the amount of 30 spindles, and of fly shuttle looms, sufficient to weave the yarn produced by said machinery.
2d. That the committee report the result of their enquiry to the subscribers, who shall determine whether they will have their capital invested in a cotton manufactory in this city, or otherwise employed for the encouragement of domestic manufactures.
I have no doubt that a manufactory so established, an advertisement would procure abundance of applications from skilful artists, who would work the machinery and looms, and pay the subscribers a satisfactory annual rent therefor. Until such a person appeared, and gave good security for such rent, and for keeping the machinery in repair, and at work, the writer hereof would have no objection to be one of a committee of managers, and devote some hour daily to the instruction of work people gratis—He is employed in the service of the U. States, could spare some time, and feels it his duty to contribute his mite to the perfect independence of his adopted country.
Let me suppose the project carried into execution, and view the probable consequences. A machine is bought, a laborer works it, and an industrious intelligent girl attends it—weighs out to the different weavers (who may be women, and have their looms at their own habitations) yarn sufficient to make a web—receives their web when finished, weighs it, pays them, and delivers the web to the managers.
A member of Congress sees the manufacture in operation, enquires into the expense, engages a young man to get instructed, orders a machine to his own neighborhood, and sets it to work for his neighbors, it accommodates them with yarn cheap, reimburses him, and sets the farmers to work at looms in severe winter weather, and their wives to knitting stockings, and thus they get cloth, with cotton raised on their own farms.
HOMESPUN
WASHINGTON CITY,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29.
In case the government of Great Britain shall refuse to make us that reparation which shall be demanded, and to adjust not only existing differences, but likewise to remove the sources of future ones, it is but too likely that it will be necessary for this nation, in the steps it shall take, to adopt that system of measures which shall make her most sensible of the power we possess of injuring her. Nothing could, perhaps, more decisively manifest this power, than a refusal to hold any commercial intercourse with her until she acceded to those principles of justice and reciprocity to which we are in every respect entitled; and should war be the result of the existing differences, it might be sound policy at its commencement, to adopt a system of total prohibition of her manufactures, or of other commercial restriction, intended to go into effect at the end of the war, and to continue for a certain number of years, or until a full settlement of every source of difference between the two nations. The right of a subsequent legislature to repeal such a system would still exist; but it is reasonable to presume that the pledge thus given to our manufacturers would be so far respected as to prevent their incurring any considerable loss from a change in national measures.
Among the several points which the existing state of relations between the two nations is calculated to call into view, this is one of primary interest, and on which it is highly important that the public mind should be enlightened. Our readers have not forgotten the animated debate which took place in the House of Representatives in the year 1794, on certain resolutions offered by MR. MADISON, the object of which was to bring Britain to a sense of justice by retorting upon her some of the principles of commercial restriction set up by herself. It was the fate of those resolutions, to meet with vehement opposition, and to call their mover forward in their defence. We have recently come across the celebrated speech, delivered by MR. MADISON on that occasion; and finding it replete with valuable information and unanswerable arguments, we have thought no season could be more propitious for offering a large portion of its contents to the public. One of the 69 pages of close print, its original length will prevent its entire reproduction. But we shall endeavor to present all that part of it which is calculated to throw light on the present state of the two countries. A sketch of this speech was published about two years ago in the Intelligencer ; but as a more complete copy of the speech is now in our possession, we have thought it proper to republish it in full. All the views taken by the speaker will be found deeply interesting, and the
facts, from his acknowledged precision, may be safely assumed as correct.
MR. MADISON'S speech.
He began by observing, that he had expected, from what was intimated yesterday, the sequel of what was then said against the resolutions before the committee; but as there was a silence in that quarter, and no other member had risen on either side of the question, he himself would request the attention of the committee.
It had been much pressed, that in the discussion of this subject, it should be viewed in its commercial relations only. He was perfectly willing to meet every objection that could be urged on that ground; But as he conceived it impossible to do full justice to the interests of the U. States, without taking some collateral considerations into view; he should be obliged, in the course of his remarks, to point at the political disposition and conduct of some of the nations of Europe towards this country.
The propositions immediately before the committee, turned on the question, whether any thing ought to be done at this time, in the way of commercial regulations, towards vindicating and advancing our national interest. Perhaps it might be made a question with some, whether, in any case, legislative regulations of commerce were consistent with its nature and prosperity.
He professed himself to be a friend to the theory which gives to industry a free course, under the impulse of individual interest, and the guidance of individual sagacity. He was persuaded, that it would be happy for all nations, if the barriers erected by prejudice, by avarice, and by despotism, were broken down, and a free intercourse established among them. Yet to this, as to all other general rules, there might be exceptions; and the rule itself required, what did not exist, that it should be general.
To illustrate this observation, he referred to the navigation act of Great Britain, which, not being counterbalanced by any similar acts on the part of rival nations, had secured to Great Britain no less than eleven-twelfths of the shipping and seamanship employed in her trade. It is stated, that in 1660, when the British act passed, the foreign tonnage was to the British as one to four: in 1700, as one to six: in 1725, as one to nineteen: in 1750, as one to twelve: in 1774, nearly the same. At the commencement of the period, the tonnage was but 95,266 tons; at the end of it, 1,156,142.
As another illustration, he mentioned the case where two countries happened to be in such a relation to each other, that the one, by discouraging the manufactures of the other, might not only invigorate its own, but transplant the manufacturers themselves. Here the gain would be a clear one; and the effect evidently consistent with the principle of the theory.
To allow trade to regulate itself, is not, therefore, to be admitted as a maxim universally sound. Our own experience has taught us, that, in certain cases, it is the same thing with allowing one nation to regulate it for another. Were the U. S. in fact, in commercial intercourse with one nation only, and to oppose no restrictions whatever to a system of foreign restrictions, they would, of necessity, be deprived of all share in the carriage, although their vessels might be able to do it cheapest; as well as of the only resources for defence on that side, where they must always be most exposed to attack. A small burden only in foreign ports on American vessels, and a perfect equality of foreign vessels with our own in our ports, would gradually banish the latter altogether.
This subject, as had been remarked on a former occasion, was not a novel one; it was coeval with our political birth, and has at all times exercised the thoughts of reflecting citizens. As early as the year succeeding the peace, the effect of the foreign policy, which began to be felt in our trade and navigation, excited universal attention and inquietude. The first effort, in right of, was an application of Congress to the states for a grant of power, for a limited time, to regulate our foreign commerce; with a view to control the influence of unfavorable regulations in some cases, and to conciliate an extension of favorable ones in others. From some circumstances then incident to our situation, and particularly from a radical vice in the then political system of the U. S. the experiment did not take effect.
The states next endeavored to effect their purpose by separate, but concurrent, regulations. Massachusetts opened a correspondence with Virginia and other states, in order to bring about the plan. Here again the effort was abortive.
Out of this experience, grew the measures which terminated in the establishment of a general convention to the regulation of our commercial interests, and the conduct of our commercial rights.
As these were the first objects of the people in the steps taken for establishing the present government, they were universally expected to be among the

first fruits of its operation. In this expectation, the public were disappointed. An attempt was made in different forms, and received the repeated sanction of this branch of the legislature, but they expired in the Senate; not, indeed, as was alleged, from a dislike to the attempt altogether, but the modification given to it. It has not appeared, however, that it was ever renewed in a different form in that house; and for some time it has been allowed to sleep in both.
If the reasons which originally prevailed against measures, such as those now proposed, had weight in them, they can no longer furnish a pretext for opposition.
When the subject was discussed in the first Congress at New York, it was said, that we ought to try the effect of a generous policy towards G. Britain; that we ought to give time for negotiating a treaty of commerce; that we ought to await the close of negotiations for explaining and executing the treaty of peace. We have now waited a term of more than four years. The treaty of peace remains unexecuted on her part; though all pretext for delay has been removed by the steps taken on ours. No treaty of commerce is either in train, or in prospect. Instead of relaxations in former articles complained of, we suffer new and aggravated violations of our rights.
In the view which he took of the subject, he called the attention of the committee particularly to the subject of navigation, of manufactures, and of the discrimination proposed in the motion between some nations and others.
On the subject of navigation, he observed, that we were prohibited by the British laws from carrying to Great Britain the produce of other countries from their ports, or our own produce from the ports of other countries, or the produce of other countries from our own ports; or to send our own produce from our own or other ports in the vessels of other countries. This last restriction was, he observed, felt by the U. S. at the present moment. It was, indeed, the practice of Great Britain sometimes to relax her navigation act so far, in time of war, as to permit to neutral vessels a circuitous carriage; but as yet the act was in full force against the use of them for transporting the produce of the U. S.
On the other hand, the laws of the U. S. allowed G. Britain to bring into their ports, anything she might please, from her own or from other ports; and in her own or in other vessels.
In the trade between the U. S. and the British West Indies, the vessels of the former were under an absolute prohibition; whilst British vessels in the West Indies enjoyed all the privileges granted to other, even the most favored nations in their trade with us. The inequality in this case was the more striking, as it was evident, that the West Indies were dependent on the U. S. for the supplies essential to them, and that the circumstances which secured to the U. S. this advantage, enabled their vessels to transport the supplies on far better terms than could be done by British vessels.
To illustrate the policy requisite in our commercial intercourse with other nations, he presented a comparative view of the American and foreign tonnage employed in the respective branches of it, from which it appeared, that the foreign stood to the American as follows:
Spain, 1 to 5 Portugal, 1 to 6 The United Netherlands, 1 to 15 Denmark, 1 to 12 Russia, — France, 1 to 5 G. Britain, 5 to 1
It results from these facts, that in proportion as the trade might be diminished with Great Britain, and increased with other nations, would be the probable increase of the American tonnage. It appeared, for example, that as the trade might pass from British channels into those of France, it would augment our tonnage at the rate of ten to one.
The above calculation, he said, had been made out on the documents of 1796, and on the amount of the tonnage entered in the several ports. A document, stating the amounts of the actual tonnage in the American trade, had been just reported to that house. If this, which was liable to some remarks that might hereafter be made, was to be substituted, it afforded another calculation, diminishing the excess in favor of G. Britain, but augmenting it in favor of the U. S. in most of the other instances.
According to this calculation, the foreign to the American tonnage might be state as follows:
Spain 1 to 16 Portugal 1 to 17 U. Netherlands 1 to 26 Denmark 1 to 15 Russia 1 to 14 France 1 to between 4 & 5 Great Britain, 3 to 1 nearly as
Such a disproportion, taking even the reduced one, in the navigation of G. Britain, was the more mortifying, when the nature and amount of our exports are considered. Our exports are not only for the most part, either immediately necessaries of life, or ultimately as necessaries to manufactures, necessaries of employment and life to manufactures, and must thence command a sure market wherever they are received at all: But the peculiar bulkiness of them furnishes an advantage over the exports of every other country; and particularly over those of G. B. If such an advantage belonged to that nation, the policy that governs her navigation laws, would probably have given the exclusive carriage to her own bottoms. It is equally in our
power, if so selfish a principle should be forced upon us, to secure to our bottoms the same monopoly; leaving to other nations with which we trade, the exclusive carriage of their exports. The regulation would, to be sure, be mutually inconvenient; and, by forcing the vessels of each party to return empty from foreign markets, be so far a tax on the intercourse. This effect, however, did not disprove the power in general which the character of our exports gave us, over the carriage of them, nor lessen the argument drawn from it. Examine it in relation to G. Britain. The bulk of her exports to us, compared with that of ours to her, is as nothing. An inconsiderable quantity of shipping would suffice for hers, whilst ours could load about 222,000 tons: Including the articles she exports from the W. Indies to this country, they bear no proportion to ours. Yet in the entire trade between the U. S. and the British dominions, her tonnage is to that of the U. S. a 156,000 employing 9360 seamen, to 66,000 employing 3,690 seamen. Were a rigid exertion of our right to take place, it would extend our tonnage to 222,000, and leave to G. Britain employment for much less than the actual share now enjoyed by the U. S. It could not be wished to push matters to this extremity. It showed, however, the very unequal and unfavorable footing on which the carrying trade, the great resource of our safety and respectability, was placed by foreign regulations, and the reasonableness of peaceable attempts to ameliorate it. We might at least, in availing ourselves of the merit of our exports, contend for such regulations as would reverse the proportion, and give the U. S. the 156,000 tonnage, and 9,360 seamen, instead of the 66,000 tonnage and 3,690 seamen.
He here adverted to the discount of 10 per cent. on the duties paid by goods imported in American bottoms; remarking, that it was not founded on the true policy of encouraging our shipping. It was not the imports, but exports, that regulated the quantity of tonnage. What was imported in American vessels, which would otherwise return empty, was, no doubt, a benefit to the American merchant, but could slightly only, if at all, increase the mass of our tonnage. The way to effect this, was to cure exportations to American bottoms.
(To be continued.)
New-York, July 22. Fulton's Experiment. —Yesterday at half past two, according to a notice given in the public prints, Mr. Fulton commenced his experiment for the purpose of blowing up a brig of 200 tons. Public curiosity had been much excited, and the battery, with the adjacent wharves and windows, were crowded with curious spectators. At 2 o'clock Mr. Fulton passed near the battery with his two galleys; himself in one containing a torpedo and the necessary apparatus; the other with another torpedo was placed under the direction of Mr. Robert Stephens. At 20 minutes past two, the signal gun being fired at Fort J. Y., the galleys advanced upon the brig; the torpedoes were then thrown upon the tide, and as they were drawn along with the current, they fastened to the bottom of the vessel, near her keel—but from a defect in arrangement and an error, which was afterwards corrected, the explosion did not take place at the first attack. The second experiment, however, was made about 7 o'clock at the flood tide with the most complete success. The brig was torn to atoms, and in 20 seconds after the explosion, she sunk to the bottom.
This affair will be best understood by the description given in the subjoined letter of Mr. Fulton, addressed "To the Governor, Mayor, and members of the Corporation of New York."
GENTLEMEN, "Y"esterday my desire to satisfy public curiosity at the stated minute was as great as my never ceasing anxiety to see our harbors and coast placed beyond the power of foreign insults; and I lament exceedingly that numbers were disappointed by the explosion not taking place on the first attack. But it has given me much additional confidence to my engine, and I hope it will be some satisfaction to you and the public to know that the failure of the first attack was occasioned by the trifling circumstance of the lock being placed under the torpedo, so that when it struck, the powder fell out of the pan and did not take fire. On taking the torpedoes out of water where they had been for two hours, I found the locks and powder perfectly dry, and I immediately discovered the cause of the failure which I corrected by placing a piece of quick match in the charge which the lock contained. Thus arranged, the fire was communicated to the 70 pounds of powder in the body of the torpedo. An explosion took place and the brig was decomposed.
You have now seen the effect of the explosion of powder under the bottom of a vessel, and this I believe is the best and most simple mode of using it with the greatest effect in marine wars; for a right application of one torpedo will annihilate a ship of the line, nor leave a man to relate the dreadful catastrophe. Thus should a ship of the line containing 500 men contend with 10 good row boats each, with a torpedo and 10 men, she would risk total annihilation, while the boats under the cover of the night and quick movements would risk only a few men out of 100!
When two ships of equal force engage, it may be doubtful which will gain the victory; if equally one hundred men are killed on each side, as many wounded, and the ships much injured; but even the vanquished vessel will admit of being repaired, and thus the
number of ships of war are not diminished, but continue to increase, and tyranny over the rights of neutrals and peaceable nations. Having now clearly demonstrated the great effect of explosion under water, it is easy to conceive that by organization and practice, the application of the torpedoes will, like every other art, progress to perfection. Little difficulties and errors will occur in the commencement, as has been the case in all new inventions, but where there is so little expence, so little risk, and so much to be gained, it is worthy of consideration, whether this system should not have a fair trial. Gunpowder within the last 300 years, has totally changed the art of war, and all my reflections have led me to believe that this application of it will in a few years put a stop to maritime war, and give that liberty on the seas which has been long and anxiously desired by every good man, and secure to America that liberty of commerce, tranquility and independence, which will enable her citizens to apply their mental and corporal faculties to useful and humane pursuits, to the improvement of our country, and the happiness of the whole people.
GENTLEMEN, With deference I submit this view of the subject to you and every thinking American.
I have the honor to be, With profound respect, Your most obedient, and Very humble servant, ROBT. FULTON.
Extract of a letter from the American Consul at Canton, to a gentleman in New York, dated
Canton, March 22. "I mentioned in my last, that soon after your leaving here, the gentlemen of the English ships fired a small Mandarin house in front of the imperial factory. This affair was, however, soon settled; but about the same time, the crew of the company's ship Neptune were at town on liberty, who outrageously beat the Chinese—one of them has since deceased, which has caused a great ferment—This government demanded one of the crew to be given up, which has been refused—the company have been stopped from sending on board their ships for the last ten days. This restriction will probably continue until a man is obtained, or the ships will go without their cargoes.
"The Chinese have been mustering their forces at the Boca-Tigris, and, it is said, in large numbers, with a heavy train of artillery—the viceroy of this province set off yesterday for that encampment. Whether the Chinese intend preventing the company's ships from passing the Boca, is not known. It is very doubtful how this affair will end, but I think the government will have a man, or the trade of the company will be suspended for a time."
FRENCH GRAND ARMY. SEVENTY FOURTH BULLETIN. Finkenstein 16th May. 1807.
Prince Jerome, conceiving that the 3 advanced works from Neiss, along the Pilau, were an obstruction to the operations of the siege, ordered gen. Vandamme to destroy them. This general, at the head of the Wurtemburg troops, carried off these works in the night of the 30th April and 1st of May; put to the sword the enemy's troops that defended them, made 120 prisoners, and took 9 pieces of cannon: The captains due Genie Deponthon and Prost, marched at the heads of the columns and gave proofs of great bravery. Lieutenants Hohendorff, Cawer and Mulles, have particularly distinguished themselves. On the second May, lieut. gen. Camer took the command of the Wurtemburg division.
It appears that since the arrival of the Emperor Alexander at the army a grand council of war has been held at Bartenstein, at which the king of Prussia and the grand duke Constantine have assisted—that the dangers to which Dantzick was exposed have been the object of the deliberations of that council; that it has been acknowledged that two ways only remained by which Dantzick might be saved. The first in attacking the French army, by crossing the Passarge, and running the chance of a general battle; the issue of which, should it prove successful, would be to oblige the French army to uncover Dantzick. The other by relieving the place by sea. The first operation appears to have been deemed impracticable, without exposing themselves to ruin and total defeat; and the plan for succouring Dantzick by sea was adopted.
Accordingly, lieutenant general Kaminski, son of the field-marshal, with two Russian divisions, forming eleven regiments, and several Prussian regiments, were embarked at Pillau. On the 12th, 68 transports, escorted by three frigates, landed the troops at the mouth of the Vistula, at the port of Weichselmunde.
The emperor immediately gave orders to the marshal commanding the corps of reserve of the grand army to march from Marienburg, where his head quarters were, with the division of general Oudinot, in order to reinforce the army of Marshal Lefebvre. He arrived by a single march at the same moment that the enemy's army was disembarking. The 13th and 14th the enemy made preparations for an attack. He was separated from the city by a space short of a league, but occupied by the French troops.
On the 15th, he defied from the Fort in three columns. His project was
to penetrate by the right of the Vistula. General of Brigade, Schramm, was at the advanced posts with the 2d regiment of light infantry, and a battalion of Saxons and Poles, received the first fire of the enemy, and kept them at cannon shot from Weichselmunde.
Marshal Lefebvre had directed his march to the bridge situated below the Vistula, and caused the 12th regiment of light infantry and some Saxons to cross over to the assistance of general Schramm. General Gardanne, charged with the defence of the right of the Vistula, had likewise supported it with the remainder of his corps. The enemy was superior & the engagement was maintained on both sides with equal obstinacy.
Marshal Lannes, with Oudinot's reserve, was placed on the left of the Vistula, by which it was expected the enemy would defile, as appeared by their disposition the preceding evening; but observing the movements of the enemy unmasked, marshal Lannes passed the Vistula with four battalions of Oudinot's reserve. The whole line, and the reserve of the enemy, were routed and pursued as far as the Prasiladoes; and at 9 in the morning the enemy was blockaded in the fort of Weichselmunde. The field of battle was covered with dead bodies. Our loss amounts to 25 men killed and 200 wounded; that of the enemy is 180 killed, 1500 wounded; and 20 prisoners. In the evening a great number of wounded were perceived, being put on board the shipping which successively sheered to return to Koningsburg. During that action the place made no sally, and contented itself with supporting the Russians by a brisk cannonade.
The enemy has witnessed this affair from the top of its tattered and half demolished ramparts. He has been dismayed at seeing the hope of relief vanish away. Gen. Oudinot has killed three Russians with his own hand. Several of his staff officers have been wounded. The 12th and the 2d regiments of infantry have distinguished themselves.
The particulars of this engagement have not yet been received at head quarters.
The journal of the siege of Dantzick will show that the works are going on with equal activity—that the covered way is completed, and that they are busy in making preparations for the passage of the ditch.
As soon as the enemy heard that his maritime expedition had arrived before Dantzick, his light troops began to observe and harass the whole line from the position occupied by marshal Soult, along the Passarge, to the division of gen. Morand on the Alle. They were received within musket shot by the voltigeurs; they lost a great number of men, and retired faster than they came.
The Russians made also their appearance at Malga, in front of gen. Zayonchek, commanding the Polish corps of observation, and carried a Polish post. General Fischer marched and overthrew them, killed 60 men, 1 col. and 2 captains. They likewise presented themselves before the 5th corps, and insulted the advanced posts of gen. Gazan at Willemberg. This general pursued them for several leagues. They attacked in greater earnest the tete du pont L'Omuw of Duenzewo. The gen. of brigade Girard marched up to them with the 88th, and overturned them into the Narew.
General of division, Suchet, came up, pursued the Russians at the point of the sword, and overthrew them at Ostrolenka, killed about 60 men, and took 60 horses. The captain of the 642, Lawrin, who commanded the grand guard, surrounded on all sides by the Cossacks, remained firm, and deserved being distinguished. Marshal Massena, who had mounted on horseback with a brigade of Bavarians, had occasion to be pleased with the zeal and deportment of his troops.
The same day, 15th, the enemy attacked general Lemarrois at the mouth of the Bug. That general had crossed that river on the 10th with a Bavarian brigade and a Polish regiment, had in 3 days caused tete de pont to be constructed, and had bent his march towards Wilkowo, with the intention of burning the rafts on which the enemy had been busy these 6 weeks.
His expedition succeeded perfectly—the whole has been burnt; and in an instant, this ridiculous work of 6 weeks was annihilated.
On the 13th, at 9 in the morning 6000 Russians from Nur attacked gen. Lemarrois in his intrenched camp. They were received with musket fire and grape shot, 300 Russians remained on the field of battle; and when general Demarrois saw the enemy, who had arrived at the edge of the ditch, repulsed, he pursued them sword in hand. The col. of the Bavarians 4th of the line, a brave soldier, has been killed—his death is generally lamented. The Bavarians had twenty men killed, and fifty wounded.
The foliage begins to shoot forth.—The season is like the month of April in France.
The whole army is encamped by divisions in square battalions & in wholesome positions.
These events of advanced posts have occasioned no quiet of movements in the army. All is kind at head quarters.—This general attack on all our advanced posts, on the 13th, seems to have had for its object to direct the attention of
the French army in order to prevent its reinforcing the besiegers of Dantzick. This hope of relieving Dantzick by a military expedition will appear very extraordinary to every considerate military man, who knows the ground and the position occupied by the French army.
MADRID, APRIL 22. It is announced that the prince of Peace has delegated his powers of admiral general to eight officers of the navy, of whom he has formed a supreme council of admiralty. It is added that they have been convoked at the palace of the Prince, who upon this occasion strongly enforced to them the necessity of using all their efforts to augment the maritime strength of the empire.
AN ACT Authorising a detachment from the militia of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorised, at such time as he shall deem necessary, to require of the executives of the several states, to take effectual measures to organize, arm and equip according to law, and hold in readiness to march at a moment's warning, their respective proportions of one hundred thousand militia, officers included: to be apportioned by the President of the United States, by the militia returns of the last year, in cases where such returns were made, and in cases where such returns were not made the last year, by such other data as he shall judge equitable.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President may, if he shall judge it expedient, authorise the executives of the several states, to accept, as part of the said detachment, any corps of volunteers, who shall engage to continue in service six months after they arrive at the place of rendezvous.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the detachment of militia and volunteers aforesaid, shall be officered out of the present militia officers, or others, at the option & direction of the constitutional authority in each state, respectively; the President of the U. States apportioning the general officers among the respective states as he may deem proper.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said detachment shall not be compelled to serve a longer time than six months after they arrive at the place of rendezvous; and that during the time of their service, they shall be entitled to the same pay, rations and allowance for clothing, that are established by law, as the pay, rations and allowance for clothing of the army of the U. S.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be and he is hereby authorised to call into actual service any part, or the whole of the said detachment, when he shall judge the exigencies of the United States require it; if a part of the said detachment only shall be called into actual service, they shall be taken from such part thereof, as the President in his discretion shall deem most proper.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That two millions of dollars be, and are hereby appropriated, out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the pay and subsistence of such part of the said detachment as may be called into service.
SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That an act entitled "An act directing a detachment from the militia of the United States, and for erecting certain arsenals," approved the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and three, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue, and be in force for the term of two years from the passing thereof, and no longer.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate pro-tempore. April 18, 1806. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
FOR SALE,
A VALUABLE tract of LAND containing 217 acres, situated in Montgomery county and state of Maryland, about 7 miles above Georgetown, on the river road and within a mile of the navigation of Potomac river—This land is very valuable, not only on account of its eligible situation, but also for the quantity of meadow land, and timber thereon. A great bargain may be had in this property, and a credit given till the 40th of November next for two thirds of the purchase money, and a very long credit for the residue, the payments being properly secured, and upon the first payment's being made an incontestable title will be given, agreeably to the decision of the Chancellor of Maryland.
Also for Sale,
A LOT with the improvements thereon in Washington city, fronting on F. street a new door east of the Branch Bank, on which are two comfortable framed buildings, one two stories high, with a piazza to the street, the other a single story. This property will be sold either for cash or on a credit, as may best suit the purchaser.
JAMES BLAKE. Alexandria, June 19—1806

WASHINGTON CITY,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29.
Much error having appeared in the accounts circulated, of what passed between the government and Mr. Erskine, in the case of the seamen, to obtain whom the Leopard made the late attack on the Chesapeake, we are induced to state, that, as we understand, on application by Mr. Erskine, for their surrender, he was informed that it could not be done, and was referred to the written answer given by the Secretary of State, on a previous application in another case, for the principles on which the surrender of British deserters was refused. It was remarked to Mr. Erskine, at the same time, both by the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of State, that although the government could not deliver up deserters, it was so far from countenancing desertion, that general orders had been issued to our naval commanders not to permit any British deserters to be recruited for the American service. They also informed Mr. Erskine a few days after, that they had sufficient reason for believing that the seamen in question were native citizens of the United States; this being the result of an enquiry made by Captain Barron, in pursuance of orders from the Secretary of the Navy. On this point Mr. Erskine expressed no opinion. This was not asked, because his opinion could form no part of the ground on which the government proceeded; and it was not offered, because it appears to have been his practice, and to have been held as his duty also, to do no more than to transmit without remarks, whatever documents or information relative to facts, he might judge proper to be forwarded to the British Admirals on different stations. In this case, he, accordingly, merely stated for the information of the British naval commander, that the result of an enquiry made by Captain Barron had satisfied our government that the seamen, for whose surrender he had applied, were citizens and natives of the United States.
* This answer was written Jan. 7, 1807. It was produced by an application for the surrender to their allegiance, of certain British seamen, who having united with American seamen left on board a vessel ordered to Halifax as a prize, brought her into the United States, and were charged with mutiny, piracy, and an attempt to murder their officers. The answer stated that not only no prerogative for the purpose in question is vested in the executive of the United States; but that neither the law nor the practice of nations imposes on them an obligation to provide for the surrender of fugitives from the jurisdiction of other powers. The obligation can result only from special and mutual stipulations; which do not exist between the United States and Great Britain; and which, indeed, as limited in the expired articles of the Treaty of 1794, do not comprehend any other offences than those of actual murder and forgery.
† The information reported by capt. Barron was as follows:
WILLIAM WARE, pressed from on board the Brig Neptune, Captain Crafts, by the British frigate Melampus, in the Bay of Biscay, and has served on board the said frigate 15 months. William Ware is a native American, born on Pipe Creek, Frederick county, state of Maryland, at Bruce's Mills, and served his time at said mills. He also lived at Ellicott's mills, near Baltimore, and drove a waggon several years between Hager's Town and Baltimore. He also served 18 months on board the U. S. Frigate Chesapeake, under the command of commodore Morris and Captain James Barron—He is an Indian looking man.
DANIEL MARTIN was pressed at the same time and place. He is a native of West Port, in Massachusetts, about 30 miles to the E. ward of New Port, Rhode Island—served his time out of New York with captain Marroway, in the Caledonia, refers to Mr. Benjamin Davis, Merchant, and Mr. Benjamin Core, of West Port. He is a colored man.
JOHN STRACHN, born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Queen Anne's County, between Centreville and Queen's Town—refers to Mr. John Price and Pratt, esq. on Kent Island, who knew his relations—Strachn sailed in the brig Martha Bland, captain Wevill, from Norfolk to Dublin, and from thence to Liverpool. He there left the brig and shipped on board an English Gunneaman. He was pressed on board of the Melampus off Cape Finister, to better his situation he consented to enter, being determined to make his escape when opportunity offered. He served on board the frigate two years. He is a white man, about 5 feet 7 inches high.
William Ware and John Strachn have protections—Daniel Martin says he lost his after leaving the frigate.
JOHN LITTLE, alias FRANCIS, and AMBROSE WATTS, escaped from the Melampus at the same time, known to the above persons to be American, but have not been entered by my recruiting officer.
William Ware, Daniel Martin, and John Strachn state that some time in February last, there was an entertainment on board the Melampus, lying then in Hampton Roads—that while the officers, &c. were engaged, and all the ship's boats except the captain's gig, being hoisted in—Themselves and the two other men mentioned, availed themselves of a moment to seize the gig and row off—that as soon as they had got into the boat they were hailed to
know what they were going to do—They replied, they were going ashore—a brisk fire of musketry instantly commenced from the ship—that in defiance of balls and the hazard of their lives, they continued to pull, and finally effected their escape to land, namely, Sewall's Point—that they then carefully hauled up the boat on the beach, rolled up the coat, and placed that and the oars in the boat, gave three cheers, and moved up the country.
This report is in a train, we learn, to be formally verified in every material circumstance, by a recurrence to the sources of evidence pointed out by the seamen respectively.
Since the publication of our last paper, we have received accounts of the following PUBLIC MEETINGS, at all of which were expressed the same feeling of abhorrence at the recent outrage of Britain, the same purpose to defend our national rights at the risque of life and fortune, and to support the government in the measures they may adopt.
 James City county, Va. July 11.  Fluvanna county, Va. July 13.  Tammany Society, N. Y. July 13.  Brunswick, V. July 18.  Dinwiddie county, Va. July 20.  Leesburg, Va. July 18.  Campbell county, Va. July 13.  Portsmouth, N. H. July 13.  Bent Creek, Va. July 11.  King William county, Va. July 13.  Greensville, N. C. July 13.  Chestertown, Md. July 18.  Fairfield, N. J. July 4.  Woodstown, N. J. July 4.  Westmoreland county, Va. July 8.  Richmond county, Va. July 6.  Amelia county, Va. July 11.  King & Queen's county, Va. July 4.  Port Royal, Va. July 8.  Bennington, Vt. July 11.  George Town, S. C. July 9.  Wilmington, N. C. July 8.  Edenton, N. C. July 8.  Lynchburg, Va. July 7.  Cumberland county, Va. July 14.  Providence, R. I. July 14.  Berkes county, Penn. July 11.  Buckingham county, Va. July 13.  Middlesex county, Va. July 4.  Charlestown, Mas. July 20.  Staunton, Va. July 16.  Harrisburg, Penn. July 6.  Newport, R. I. July 9.  Lewis Town, Penn. July 10.  Hudson, N. Y. July 8.  Louisa county, Va. July 13.  Students of Richmond Academy, Va. July 16.  Orange county, Va. July 16. 
Extract of a letter from New Orleans, dated June 18.
"I am happy to inform you that his excellency governor Claiborne is fast recovering, and is now able to walk about his house on crutches."
The following animated composition is from the pen of EDWARD RUSHTON of Liverpool, England, the author of Mary Le More, by whom it was written during the last year.
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCY.
YE men of Columbia! hail! hail the great day, Which nerv'd your gigantic domain, Which taught the oppress'd how to spurn lawless sway, And gave the vast world a new reign. Yes, hail the blest moment when awfully grand, Your Congress pronounced the decree, Which told ancient realms that your line cover'd land, Tho' coer'd was resolv'd to be free.
Those warriors who fell in your soul-cheering cause, To the true sons of freedom are dear, Their worth the unbora shall rehearse with applause, And bedew their cold turf with a tear. O cherish their names, let their sufferings and deeds, Go forth on the wings of the wind, And as man, prostrate man, your high destiny reads, May he learn his own chains to unbind.
As he tills your rich glebe, the old peasant shall tell, While his bosom with energy glows, How your Warren expir'd—how Montgomery fell, And how Washington baffled your foes. With transport his offspring shall catch the glad sound, And as freedom illumines each breast, Their country's defenders with praise shall be crown'd, While her spoilers they learn to detest.
By those fields that were ravaged, those towns that were fired, By those wrongs that your females endured, By those blood sprinkled graves, where your warriors expired, O preserve what their prowess procured. And reflect that your rights are the rights of mankind, That to all they were bounteously given, And that he who in chains would his fellow-man bind, Uplifts his proud arm against heaven.
We are informed, by a gentleman who arrived in the stage last night, from Norfolk, that the seizure of the officers and seamen by our cavalry, had greatly incensed the British commanders—that they had in return taken five American citizens out of a coasting vessel, and that the commander of the squadron declared he would capture
every American vessel going in or out, until the British prisoners were restored.
Gen. Mathews had conceived it prudent, from the aspect of affairs, not to discharge the militia, agreeably to the orders of the executive—but intended to retain them until a messenger could be dispatched to Richmond.
Petersburg Repub.
FROM ST. THOMAS. Mr. Samuel Goolhue, of the brig Three Brothers, who left St. Thomas the 3d July, informs, that a vessel arrived there from Lagura, which brought information that the Spanish government had confiscated all the English manufactured goods found in any of the ports on the main—there was likewise a large number of gun-boats fitted out to take all vessels whatever that have any species of English goods on board. How far this information is correct, our informant is not able to say, but it was generally believed at St. Thomas, and if true, would very considerably affect many houses there. The English cruisers are taking all vessels they fall in with, from the city of St. Domingo, loaded with wools, under pretence that they are trading from one enemies' port to another, as they have to load on the coast. Several Americans and Danes have already been condemned at Tortola.
Newburyport Gaz.
The following are the names of Passengers PASSED from the ship Martha, by the Squirrel sloop of war:
 Robert Lytle,  Hugh Watson,  John Douglass,  John Thompson,  Francis Kenan,  James McKittrick,  William Hall,  John Luck,  Thomas Cummings,  James Cummings,  Joseph Colwell,  William Levy,  Hugh Kerr. 
New York, July 24.
Some time since it was mentioned, that two men belonging to Yarmouth, Cape Cod, were impressed on board of the British ship Leopard. They were put on board a Boston vessel soon afterwards, and have returned to their friends.
The Gazette of Genoa states that Portugal has been summoned by England to declare for one of the belligerents as her neutrality could be no longer tolerated.
Translation of an order of his Imperial majesty Melly Soliman, emperor of Morocco, given at Mogadore, 9th May, 1807.
To all Merchants in Mogadore, Moors, Jews & Christians. At this time I have found this place destitute of goods and such merchandise as is wanting in the country; and I observe the reason is, because you do not bring goods which pay duty, but you only bring hard cash, which is no profit to me, and ballast which is an incumbrance.
I wish you to bring such goods as are necessary for the country, and also benefit and fill the port. For my own part God has not made them needful to me; for which reason, Ben Absede that whoever does not import goods to the benefit of the country and employment of the port, brings only ballast and empty ships not to suffer such empty ships to remain in the harbor, but to send them away.
And he will allow them sufficient time to convey this order to their friends. And peace be with you. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the translation sent by Mr. James Renshaw my agent at Mogadore.
(Signed) JAMES SIMPSON. Tangier, 11th June, 1807.
Palermo, 25th May, 1807.
Sir, I have the honor to enclose you herewith for your government, copy of an official notification sent by H. E. the Marquis de Circolo, his Sicilian majesty's minister for foreign affairs, whereby all the ports of the kingdom of Naples occupied by his majesty's enemies, are declared in a state of blockade.
You will of course do what is needful with the same for the information of the American flag.
I am Sir, Your obedient servant. Signed, ABRAHAM GIBBS. John Gavino, esq U. S. Consul, Gibraltar.
July 25.
At a late hour last night, the ship Walker, Clarke, arrived at this port in 11 days from Halifax, and Capt. C. obligingly furnished the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser with a Halifax paper of the 7th inst. containing several interesting articles relative to the late affair with the U. S. frigate Chesapeake, and the following order of admiral Berkeley.
BY THE HONORABLE GEORGE CRANFIELD BERKELEY, Vice Admiral of the White, and Commander in Chief of his majesty's ships and vessels employed in the river St. Lawrence, along the coast of Nova Scotia, the Islands of St. John and Cape Breton, the Bay of Fundy, and at, and about, the Island of Bermuda, or Somers' Islands.
Whereas many seamen, subjects of his Britannic majesty and serving in his majesty's ships and vessels, as per margin,* while at anchor in the Chesapeake, deserted and entered on board the U. S. frigate the Chesapeake, and openly paraded the streets of Norfolk, in sight of their officers under the American flag, protected by the magistrates of the town, and the recruiting officers belonging to the above mentioned American frigate; which magistrates and naval officer, refused giving them up, although demanded by his Britannic majesty's consul, as well as the captains of the ships from which the said men had deserted; the captains and commanders of his majesty's ships and vessels under my command, are therefore, hereby required and directed, in case of meeting with the American frigate, Chesapeake, at sea, and without the limits of the U. S. to shew to the captain of her, this order, and to require to search his ship for the deserter, and if found and search for the same—If a similar demand should be made by the Americans, he is permitted to search for deserters from their service, according to the customs and usage of civilized nations, on terms of peace and amity with each other.
Given under my hand, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1st day of June, 1807. Signed, G. C. BERKELEY.
To The respective captains and commanders of his majesty's ships and vessels on the North American station.
* Belleisle, Bellona, Triumph, Chester, Halifax, Zenobia, (Cutter.)
July 25. The Bald Eagle Pilot boat has been chartered by government and sailed from this port with sealed orders. It is reported she is bound to the Mediterranean, to recall the American squadron there.
A report was current at Albany on Saturday that the British government of Canada had interdicted all communication with the U. States, but it could not be traced to any authentic source.
Baltimore, July 27.
Extract of a letter received at Augusta, dated Athens, July 5, 1807.
"President Meigs has returned from North Carolina. The commissioners have amicably adjusted the boundary line, between this state and North Carolina.
"Col. Hammond from St. Louis, U. S. T. was here yesterday. I am sorry to learn from the col. that Lieut. Pike & company are killed by the Ausage Indians, near the head waters of Red River, which they were exploring—It is understood that they were killed thro' the influence of the Spaniards."
A decisive victory was gained by the forces of Algiers over the troops of the Bey of Tunis about the 15th of May, in the neighborhood of Constantine—the news of which occasioned great rejoicings at Algiers.
Sidi Soliman Mili Mili was at Gibraltar, & part of his business appeared to be the purchasing of military stores for his master, one cargo of which he had sent for Tunis.
All the Portuguese squadron that was situated at Gibraltar, with the exception of a sloop of war, one brig and a schooner, had gone off Algiers, probably with a view of co-operation with Tunis.
An embargo was laid on all vessels at Halifax for two days, on the arrival of the British Packet from New York.
LONDON, MAY 18.
The report which was spread yesterday of an order which it was pretended had been given by the Admiralty to seize all the American vessels which were in our ports, was without foundation. But we believe that instructions have been given to our cruisers to detain hereafter such American vessels as shall not be destined for England, or for the ports of which the British government has not expressly interdicted, the entry to these vessels by these instructions.
Further, the government of the U. States appears to yield at this moment, and to show amicable rather than hostile dispositions. President Jefferson has lately issued a proclamation, prolonging the importation of British goods, to the second Monday in December next. The treaty concluded between Great Britain and the United States, has been sent back by the American government, to be revised, and submitted to a new discussion; and there is great appearance that the difficulties will be amicably adjusted between the two countries.
To be Sold at Auction.
ON Tuesday 4th day of August at one o'clock at the residence of Samuel Baker deceased on Green's Point all the personal property of Samuel Baker deceased, consisting of Beds, Bedstead, Chairs, Tables, Mahogany So. Looking Glass, plates, Lundy Kitchen utensils, Horses and Carts, Mire, Cow, &c. &c.
Terms of sale made known, on the day of sale. HENRY BURFORD, adm'r. for Jane Ea ex executrix. July 29—3t
A meeting of the new Troop of Cavalry of this city is requested this evening, 6 o'clock, at Stelie's Hotel, on business of importance. THE OFFICERS. July 29-h.
Strayed or stolen from the commode of this city about the 1st of June inst. a dark bay horse about 14 hands high, a white star in his forehead, and he had on the near shoulder, as well as recollection, with the figure of a heart. When rode he is sometimes accustomed to pant, having been broken winded by going in the chaps. A reward of eight dollars will be given to any person who will return the aforesaid horse to me in this city. ROBERT BRENT. Washington, July 28th. 1807—9t
Female Biography.
In the Press, and will speedily be published. By R. C. Weightman, AT HIS BOOK-STORE (late Daune's) CITY OF WASHINGTON, FEMALE BIOGRAPHY, Or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women of all ages and countries, in three volumes 8 vo.
By MARY HAYS. Price to subscribers SIX DOLLARS in boards or SEVEN DOLLARS FIFTY CENTS, handsomely bound and lettered. Subscriptions for this interesting and important work received at Weightman's Bookstore. July 29—3t
Taken up as a Stray, A Brindle COW and CALF, the calf is about four weeks old, the Cow has two white hind legs and a white spot upon her rump; appears to give milk out of but three teats. The owner may have her by applying to the subscriber living at the upper end of F street near Lear's wharf, on proving property, and paying the charges. THOMAS SANDIFORD. July 29—3t
SALE AT AUCTION, AT THE NAVY YARD.
AT the Auction Room on Saturday 1st of August next, 1 P. M. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, consisting of Beds, Bedstead, Tables, 2 barrels Wine, a few hundred weight of Cheele, 1 barrel 4th proof Brandy, 3 do. 1st do 1 1/2 hhd. Jamaica Spirits, 1 1/2 pipe Holland gin, 1 doz. flask bottles sweet oil, 5 dozen best London mustard, one and a half dozen bottles Snuff, one barrel country Rum, 1 do brown Sugar, a few bushels fine salt also, a quantity of ready made clothes, 1 dozen fine hats, and 6 dozen volumes of Books, amongst which are 8 vol. of Medical Books—undry other articles too tedious to mention. S. SPEAKE, Auct. July 29—3t
By the Orphan's Court of Saint Mary's county, June Term, eighteen hundred and seven.
ORDERED that William Mills, Executor of Joseph Hargis late of St. Mary's county deceased, give the notice required by law for creditors to exhibit their claims against the estate of the said deceased, and that the same be published once a week for six weeks in the Washington Federalist and National Intelligencer. In testimony whereof, I have set my hand this ninth day of June, anno domini one thousand eight hundred and seven. JAMES FORRESTER, Reg. Wills for St. Mary's county.
This is to give Notice
That the subscriber of St. Mary's county hath obtained from the Orphans Court of St. Mary's county, in Maryland, letters testamentary on the personal estate of Joseph Hargis late of St. Mary's county deceased, deceased—a person having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber or before the 9th day of December next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit to the said estate. Given under my hand this 9th day of June, eighteen hundred and seven. WILLIAM MILLS, Exr. June 29—w6t
Valuable Seats for Iron Works.
THE subscriber offers for sale between Five and Six Thousand acres of Land bounded on one side by James River, including big and little Owen's Creek, and situate in Amherst county in the state of Virginia. This land is in the midst of a well and thick settled country, about 100 miles above the city of Richmond. There are not more than 30 acres of it cleared. The remainder is heavily timbered—consisting of large pines, white oaks, poplar, black walnut and chesnut. On Big Owens creek, and within 600 yards of James river, which is navigable for boats at all seasons of the year—there is an excellent site for any kind of water works. The stream is rapid and constant, and about three miles from the seat are, as it is believed inexhaustible banks of iron ore, which the subscriber has secured and which will be sold with the land. This ore has been tried and proved to be of a very superior kind. The land adjoining the seat is of excellent quality. Two hundred acres of timothy meadow might be made on the creek. The upland although hilly in places is well adapted to small grain, and a great proportion of it suitable to the raising of tobacco. Immediately around the site for water works are inexhaustible LIMESTONE Quarries, together with great quantities of the best building stone. In short there are many advantages combined to render this a most eligible spot for the creation of iron works, or any other kind of water works. It is deemed unnecessary to say more concerning this property than to request those who intend to purchase to view it. It will be shown by captain Henry Halloway in the neighborhood. The price will be moderate, terms of sale, which will be made very easy, will be made known on application to the proprietor residing on Georgetown district of Columbia. NATHAN LUFBOROUGH. Georgetown, February 16—w6t

PROPOSALS. BY LONKIN, LUCAS & Co. (State M. and J. Conrad and Co.) No. 182, Market street, FOR PUBLISHING  LEWIS AND CLARK'S  TOUR TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF THE CONTI- NENT OF NORTH AMERICA, Performed by order of the government of the United States, during the years 1804, 1805, and 1806.
THIS work will be prepared by captain MERIWETHER LEWIS, and will be divided into two parts, the whole comprised in three volumes octavo, the first containing at least 300 pages, the second and third from four to five hundred each, printed on good paper and a fair Pica type. The several volumes in succession will be put to press as early peri- ods as the avocations of the author will permit him to prepare them for publication.  PART THE FIRST—IN TWO VOLUMES.  VOLUME FIRST. Will contain a narrative of the voyage, with a description of some of the most remark- able places in those hitherto unknown wilds of America, accompanied by a map of good size, a large chart of the entrance of the Columbia river, embracing the adjacent country, coasts and harbors and embellished with views of two beautiful examples of the Missouri; the plan, on a large scale, of the connected falls at that river, as also of those of the falls, narrows and great rapids of the Columbia, with their several portages. For the infor- mation of future voyagers, there will be added, in the sequel of this volume, some observations and remarks on the navigation of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, pointing out the precautions which must necessarily be taken in order to ensure success, together with an itinerary of the most direct and practicable route across the continent of North America, from the confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi rivers to the discharge of the Columbia into the Pacific Ocean.
VOLUME SECOND. Whatever properly appears to geography, embracing a description of the rivers, moun- tains, climate, soil and face of the country; a view of the Indian nations distributed over that vast region, showing their traditions, habits, manners, customs, national characters, nature, complexions, dress, dwellings, arms, and domestic utensils, with many others in- teresting particulars in relation to them; all observations and reflections on the subjects of civilization, government and maintaining a friend- ly intercourse with those nations. A view of the fur trade of North America, setting forth a plan for its extension, and showing the im- mense advantages which would accrue to the mercantile interests of the United States, by combining the trade with a direct trade to the East Indies, through the continent of North America. This volume will be embellished with twenty plates illustrative of the dress and general appearance of such Indian nations as differ materially from each other; of their habitations; their weapons and habiliments used in war; their hunting and fishing ap- paratus; domestic utensils, &c. In an appendix there will be given a diary of the weather kept with great attention throughout the whole of the voyage, showing also the daily rise and fall of the principal water courses which were navigated in the course of the same.
PART THE SECOND—IN ONE VOLUME. This part of the work will be confined ex- clusively to scientific research, and principally to the natural history of those hitherto un- known regions. It will contain a full descrip- tion of the animals, birds, fishes, insects, &c. within the notice of the author, who will very pro- bably be assisted by the heads of botany, mineralogy and zoology, to give her whole drawings on the origin of species, the cause of the mudflats of the Missouri, of volcanic appearances, and other natural phenomena which were met with in the course of this interesting tour. This volume will also contain a comparative view of twenty three languages of different Indian languages, pro- nounced by captain Lewis and Clark, on the voyage, and will be ornamented and em- bellished with a much greater number of pic- tures than will be bestowed on the first part of the work as is intended that every subject of natural history which is entirely new, and of which there are a considerable number, shall be accompanied by an appropriate engraving illustrative of it.
This distribution of the work has been made with a view to the accommodation of every description of readers, and is here offered to the patronage of the public in such shape that all persons wishing to become subscribers may accommodate themselves with either of the parts, or the entire work, as it shall be most convenient to themselves.  Detached from this work, there will be published  LEWIS & CLARK'S  MAP OF NORTH AMERICA, From Lon 9 deg. west, to the Pacific Ocean, and between 36 deg. and 52 deg. north lat. with extensive margins, not less than 55 by 8 inches by 3 feet 10 inches. Embracing all its late discoveries, and that part of the continent heretofore the least known. This map will be compiled from the best maps now extant, as well published as in manuscript from the collective information of the best informed travellers through the vari- ous portions of that region, and corrected by a series of several hundred celestial observa- tions, made by captain Lewis during his late tour.  For the convenience of subscribers these several works will be delivered at the most respectable commercial towns and at the seat of government of the respective states and territories within the Union; no advance is required, nor will payment be demanded until such delivery is made.  The price of part the first in two vols will be Ten dollars, and of part the second in one volume, eleven dollars, delivered in boards. Price of the Map on boards $10. Any persons who may have subscribed for these works, to those which contain no ill- lustrated plates for the same, and who may be dissatisfied with the terms now proposed, are at liberty to withdraw their names from such lists, at any time prior to the 1st day of De- cember next.  M. LEWIS. July 27.
ELIAS B. CALDWELL,  ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAS removed his Office, to the house lately occupied by Mr. Law, on Capitol Hill, Washington, July 26—31
A LONG BOAT. TAKEN up adrift in the Eastern Branch with two steering oars in her. Any Person may have her by proving their property and paying charges, by applying to William Purse, near Peter Miller's, Jersey avenue. July 24—31
Just received & for sale,  At R. C. WEIGHTMAN'S Book-store, Pennsylvania Avenue, (Just Published)—The Novice of St. Dom- ingo, 2 vols. by the author of the Wild Irish Girl. Cumberland's Memoirs, 1 vol. 12mo. Biography of Lord Nelson, 1 vol. 12mo. price 1 dollar Carr's Stranger in Ireland, 1 vol. 12mo. price 1 dollar  R. C. W. will have by Philadelphia and New York, a large and general assortment of every article in his line.  A few prints of Mr. Jefferson, from the painting of the celebrated S. Hunt—this is without exception the best print of Mr. J. that has yet appeared. A handsome assortment of Spectacles to suit all ages, green and white glass. July 24—31.
NOTICE. THE Subscribers will offer for sale at pub- lic Vendue, on Wednesday the 29th of July at the house of Wm. Newton and R. Roy, and to continue selling every Wednesday until the next fair day, at 12 o'clock, a Variety of WET and DRY GOODS, amongst which are    Rum,  Leading lines,    Whiskey,  Jacket patterns,    Gin,  Fine and common Hats,    Molasses,  Fine and coarse shoes,    Sugar,  Crockery ware,    Tea,  Gloves,    Soap,  Linen gills,    Candles,  Hour glasses,    Clothes,  Novelty Herringbone,    India Cottons,  in boxes,    also  Pork,    Muslin handkerchiefs,  in barrels,    Shirts,  Railroads,    Stockings,  Fig blue,    Gloves,  Chesee,    Hankies,  Straw Bonnets for La-    Lineons,  dies,    Bed Cords,  Rice,    Traces,  Suspenders,    And a number of other articles. The terms will be made known on the day of sale.
ISRAEL LITT, Le. Auc. Navy Yard, July 24—31
CHARLES H. VARDEN,  Merchant Taylor New Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol RESPECTFULLY informs the gentlemen of the district of Columbia, he has imported by ship Eliza ANN lately arrived at Philad- a choice assortment Of Extra Superfine cloths, Bennetts, Velvets and Cordes, Cashmeres, Single and double milled Batavia cloths, fashionable Spanish Orleans and Follers, rich silk Mouselin velvets, silk satin Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the season.
RAMSAY'S LIFE OF  WASHINGTON. IN the press, and in a few weeks will be pub- lished by E. S. THOMAS, of Providence, R. Island, late of Charleston, S. C. and for sale at J. March's book store, George town. The Life of  GEORGE WASHINGTON, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the U. States of America, throughout the war which established their In- dependence, and first President of the United States. BY DAVID RAMSAY, M. D. AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.  This work will be published on the fol- lowing conditions 1st. It will be comprised in one volume, octavo, of about 400 pages, on a fine wove paper. 2d. It shall be ornamented with an elegant engraved Head of Washington. 3d. The price to Subscribers, in boards, will be two dollars and fifty cents; to non- subscribers, three dollars. 4th. No money will be required until the books are ready for delivery. On the merits of a work, coming from an author so celebrated in the annals of literature as Ramsay, suffice it to say that the manu- script has been read by several gentlemen of great literary acquirements, and pronounced to be "a piece of elegant classic biography." Subscriptions received at J. March's book store, High street, George town. Where are just received a new collection of books in every department of literature. July 13
This is to give notice, that the subscriber of the city of Washington in the district of Columbia, has obtained from the Orphan's Court of Prince George's county in the state of Maryland, letters of administra- tion on the personal estate of Thomas Duckett, late of said county deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber on or be- fore the first day of October next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Those indebted to the deceased are desired to make immediate pay- ment.
ALLEN B. DUCKETT, Adm. City of Washington, March 18—11  All claims forwarded by mail must be post paid.
In Chancery, July 2, 1807.  ORDERED that the sale made by Rus- sell Washington, Trustee for the sale of the real estate of George Washington, deceased, shall be ratified and confirmed unless cause to the contrary be shown on or before the 15th day of September next: provided a copy of this order be inserted in the National In- telligencer before the 24th day of August next.  The report that the 319 acres of land in Montgomery county, was sold for 6446 dol- lar 37 cents, and 311 acres in Charles county for 5 dollars 50 cents per acre. True copy. Test. NICH B. BREWER, Reg. Cur. Can. July 8—opt24
R. C. WEIGHTMAN,  PRINTER, BOOKSELLER,  AND STATIONER, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.  HAVING purchased the Extensive and Valuable establishment of Wm. DUANE, consisting of Books, Stationery, Binding im- plements, and Printing materials offers for sale at the lowest Philadelphia rates, books and Stationery of all kinds; Music and Mu- sical Instruments; Printing, Ink of the first quality, and Patent Ball skins.  Printing in all its various branches, will be executed to order, with taste and on the shortest notice.  Rank Mortgages, Deeds, Leases, Bills of Lading, Powers of Attorney, Patents, Indentures, Warrants, &c. kept constantly for sale, by the quire or single sheet. Lawyers & others by taking a quantity will be allowed a liberal discount.  R. C. W. solicits the attention of his friends, and hopes by unremitted study to be enabled, to merit a share of public patro- nage. May 27—copy
LITERARY NOTICE.
WM. DUANE, of Philadelphia, will thank such Book sellers, Printers, and others, as may have had the goodness to collect sub- scribers, for the  WORKS OF DR FRANKLIN, about to be published by Wm. Duane, to forward to him lists of the subscribers, if re- quired, with particular directions relative to their residence, &c.  Printers of newspapers, who have published the proposals for this extensive work, will add to the favors already conferred, by publishing the above in their respective papers, as often as convenient.
WM. DUANE will also thank those, who have received subscribers, for  "POLITICS FOR FARMERS and  SEAL FANCIES," to inform him of their names and places of residence, without delay. July 13
Treasury Department of the United  States April 24, 1807.  Whereas the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, at a meeting held on the 24th day of March 1807, did resolve, that the unexpended balance of the appropriation of eight millions of dollars, should among other purposes be ap- plied to the reimbursement of the FOUR AND HALF PER CENT stock, created in pursu- ance of an act of Congress, passed on the 3rd day of March 1795.  This is to give notice, that the principal of the said Four and half per cent. stock will be surrendered by the certificate be- ing paid on the 1st day of October next ensuing the date hereof to the respective stockholders or their lawful Representatives or Attorneys duly constituted and authorized, either at the Treasury or at the Loan Office as the case may be, where credits have been given for the amount of the respective stock held by them, & that interest which may have been due on said stock will also be paid to the respective stock- holders or their lawful Representatives or Attorneys duly constituted and authorized. It is further made known, for the informa- tion of the public concerned that no transfer of the said Four and half per cent. stock, either from, or to the book of the Treasury, or from, or to the books of a Commissioner of Loan, will be allowed after the 1st day of September ensuing. And the interest on all certificates of said stock which shall not have been surrendered in pursuance of this Notifi- cation will cease and determine on the day preceding, the day hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof.  LIBERT GALLISON, Secretary of the Treasury April 6—w1430
Treasury Department, Register's  Office, June 5th, 1807.  Notice is hereby given, THAT, in conformity with the provisions of the act supplementary to the act, enti- tuled "An act making provision for the re- demption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," books will be opened at the Treasury on the first day of July next, to continue open until the seventeenth day of March, 1808, inclusively, the fourteen last days of each quarter excepted, for the pur- pose of receiving subscriptions for such parts of the old six per cent. deferred six per cent. and three per cent. stock, as may, on the day of subscription stand on the books of the treasury.
Those proprietors of the old six per cent. and deferred stock, who may subscribe, will receive in lieu thereof a new six per cent. stock, equal to the unredemed amount of the stock surrendered, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, under a proviso however, that no reimbursement shall be made except for the whole amount of any such new certificate of stock, nor till after six months previous notice; and the proprietors of the three per cent. stock who may subscribe, will receive in lieu thereof, a six per cent. stock, equal to sixty-five per cent. of the amount of three per cent. surrendered, redeemable in the same manner as the new six per cent. above- mentioned, but not redeemable however, without the assent of the holders, until after the whole of the new six per cent. (given in exchange for old six or deferred as above- mentioned) as well as the whole of the eight per cent. stock of the United States, shall have been reimbursed. It is also provided that in every reimbursement which may take place, a preference will be given to those creditors who may notify their will to be reimbursed, and that it the applications to that effect shall at any time either exceed or fall short of the sum then applicable to that purpose, the priority of payment shall, so far as may be necessary, be determined by lot.
The present stockholders who reside in any part of Europe and may assent to that modifi- cation, may, at their option, receive the interest accruing on the new stock, either in the United States as heretofore, or in London or Amsterdam, at par; in which last case the interest will be paid there by the banker of the United States, six months subsequent to the day on which the same would be payable in the United States and subject to no varia- tion; nor to any other condition than that commission to the bankers, of one half per cent. on the interest thus paid.
JOSEPH NOURSE, Reg. of the Treasury.  NOTE—Proprietors of 1000 dollars nomi- nal six per cent. stock, subscribed before the 1st October, 1807, will be entitled to re- ceive, 649 62 of new 6 per cent. stock. If subscribed between the 1st Oct. and 31st Dec. 1807, 644 37 between the 1st Jan and 1st March 1808 639 03 Proprietor of 1000 dollars nominal deferred, sub- scribed before the 1st Oct. 1807 will be enti- tled to receive, 855 78 If subscribed between the 1st Oct. and 31st Dec 1807 853 62 Between the 1st Jan. and 1st March 1808, 831 42 Being the unredemed amount of the old stock on the 1st July, and October 1807, and 1st January 1808, respectively.  Proprietors of 1000 dollars three per cent. stock, will be entitled to receive 650 dollars of new 6 per cent. stock. June 28—wpm
WILLIAM MARBURY HAS just received, via Philadelphia and Baltimore, and now for sale at his store, next door above Mr. Eliza Riggs, Bridge street, an elegant assortment of  Fancy & Spring Goods, viz.    4th, and 7th Irish Flannel net, do,  do,    do,  do,    5 4th Irish sheeting  Figured Florence    Linen do,  do,    Thread and cotton lacefield and plain Man-  do,    Fancy gingham  do,    Do. orange mouselin  White and coloured    Seeded mouselin do,  kid gloves    Tamboured do,  Parasols, plated    Fancy tamboured mouselin  mounted    mantles  Ladies, misses and chil-    Leno do. do,  drens morocco dip-    1 and long shawls  pers    Do. tamboured veils, Blue, plain and coloured.  do,    8 8th and 6 4th cambricks  do,    brick mouselin  Cotton cashmeres    4 4th silk chambrays  Marcelles waistcoating    Cotton do,  India and cambric di-    4 4th satin damask  mities    shawls  London hats, &c. &c.    Georgetown, May 15—taw2m
PUBLIC SALE.
By virtue of a decree of the hon. the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, sitting as a court of Chancery for the county of Washington, will be sold, at public sale, on the premises, the 31st day of August next, at 12 o'clock, that valuable land situated in Georgetown, in the district of Columbia, and known by the name of
THE UNION TAVERN, now in the occupancy of Wm. Crawford, and late the property of Charles M'Laughlin, de- ceased; together with the Lots, Houses, Sta- bles and improvements belonging to, and on which the said tavern is erected, and also the Lot on which the same is erected, late the property of James S. Morrell, etc.  The terms of sale are the purchaser to give bonds, with approved security, for the pay- ment of the purchase money, with interest from the day of sale, in three equal annual payments.  DANIEL BURNARD, Trustee.  The creditors of the said Charles M'Laughlin are hereby notified to bring into the said court, their claims, against the said Charles M'Laughlin, within two months from the day of sale above mentioned.  D. MEL. RUSSER, trustee. May 6—w22t
VALUABLE PROPERTY  FOR SALE. The subscriber wishes to sell at private sale, that valuable property which he now occupies in the town of Bladensburg, Maryland, 6 miles from the Capital of the United States, and promises to be one of the best watering places in the union. The lot contains about one and three quarters of an acre, on which is erected a commodious frame DWELLING BUILDING, 57 by 30 feet, two stories high, built of the best materials, nearly new and finished in the best manner, 6 rooms on the first floor, and 9 bed chambers, 4 of which if necessary might be partitioned to make 8, also a good Kitchen and Bake Oven, Wax house, Smoke house, flottage for 30 horses and a house that will cover 6 carriages and a granary for oats.  The Lot borders on the Eastern Branch which is navigable and where fish may be caught in abundance in their season. This valuable property is in fee simple, and clear of all encumbrances and will be disposed of in the following manner, one half of the pur- chase to be paid in Land in the state of Ohio near some settled part thereof, one fourth in cash, on the residue 12 months credit will be given. Possession may be taken on the first Monday in September if required, if not I would lease it for one year. Should the pur- chaser incline to buy the furniture, I can spare 16 prime leather beds, a handsome mahogany side board, tables, chairs and all the residue of the household and kitchen Furniture.  He wishes to return his grateful thanks to his friends in particular and the public ge- nerally for their patronage, and offers to merit a continuance of it.  His house is well provided for the accom- modation of those who may wish to visit the Spa this season.  WILLIAM ROSS. Bladensburg, July 8—taw2w
TEAS, SUGARS, BRANDY,  RICE, &c.  WALTER & CLEMENT SMITH, have just received by the Schooner Citizen, captain Burgess, and Providence captain Tra- vers, from New York, and offer for sale at their Warehouse opposite Lowndes's wharf— 50 chests fresh Hyson, Young Hyson, and Hyson skin teas of fine quality. 100 boxes of 7 1/2 superior and fresh Hyson, and 12 1/2 each Imperial and Gunpowder 200 loads alb. tea, put up in Canton for each 4 chests single Hyson, 7 pipes high old proof and well flavored Bordeaux Brandy, 20 boxes Rice, 15 mds. best Surinam Molasses, 40 bds. 3 Prime St. Croix and Trinidad 30 barrels Sugars, 15 bds. Martinique clawed Sugars, entitled to drawback and certificate, 40 boxes Claret and Frontignac wines, one dozen each, 30 cases Olives and Capers, 10 hdkts best refined sweet Oil, 6 bottles each, 10 boxes London Mustard, 6 hdkts spermaceti and Whale Oil, 100 demijohns, Pimento, Ginger, Nutmegs, Cloves, Fruits, &c.
And in Store, Old Cognac Brandy, very fine, Holland and country Gin, Whiskey, Peach and Apple brandy, Sherry, Lisbon, Tenerife, Port, Catalonia, and old Madeira Wines, old Jamaica spirits, West India Rum, Segars, Lemons in boxes, Loaf and Lump Sugars, coarse Lisbon Salt, &c. Georgetown, May 27—2awtf
Treasury Department, United  States, April 28, 1807.
WHEREAS the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund at a meeting held on the 24th day of March 1807, did among other things resolve, that the Eight per cent. Stock created in pursuance of the several acts of Congress passed on the 10th day of July 1798, and 7th day of May 1800, should be re- deemed on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and nine.  This is therefore to give notice that the prin- cipal of the said Eight per cent. stock will, on surrender of the certificates, be paid on the first day of January 1809, to the respective stockholders or their lawful representatives or attorneys duly constituted and authorized, either at the Treasury or at the Loan Office, as the case may be, where credits have been given for the amount of stock respectively held by them.  It is further made known for the informa- tion of the parties concerned, that no transfer of the said Eight per cent. stock either from or to the books of the Treasury, or from or to the books of a Commissioner of Loans will be allowed after the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight. And the interest on all certificates of said stock, which shall not have been surrendered in pursuance of this notification, will cease and determine on the day preceding the day hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof.  And whereas the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund at their meeting held on the 24th day of March as aforesaid, did also re- solve, that the sum which after making the current payments for the years 1807 and 1808, and after reimbursing the Four and a half per cent. stock, might remain to com- plete the annual appropriation of Eight Mil- lions of dollars, for those two years should, among other purposes, be ap- plied to the purchase of the Eight per cent. stock at private sale, and that such of the Officers of the Bank of the United States, and of its office of Discount and Reserves as the Secretary of the Treasury shall designate, be the agents under his su- perintendence, for making the said pur- chases. Notice is hereby accordingly given, that James Madison, just officer of the of- fice of Discount and Reserves at Washington, has been appointed agent for that purpose in Washington, to whom such of the proprie- tors of Eight per cent. stock as may be willing to sell the same within the prices li- mited by law, are requested to apply.  ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury. W.