The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1806-11-19 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. VII.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. 952.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1806.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
National Intelligencer.
A writer in the Gazette of the United States presents the following statements relative to the commerce and productions of Buenos Ayres.
We shall prefix to our remarks on the commercial relations of Buenos Ayres, some statistical reports of a general nature, yet having an intimate connexion with that subject. The statements of the year 1793, will probably be found to give a fairer average than those of any subsequent year. It must be premised, however, that they refer to the port of Cadiz only; those relative to the ports of Biscay and of the Mediterranean not being in our possession. It is well known that Cadiz is the staple of the Spanish commerce to America, and that the trade of its other ports to the colonies is of small comparative value. We regret this chasm in our information, because we conceive that the inferences which we shall draw from a view of that which we have, would be confirmed by a more general report.—But to proceed.
In the year 1793, there was imported into Cadiz from America, the following merchandise, laden on board of 180 ships, viz.
 3,999,235 dollars in gold and silver coin.  335,414 dollars in bullion.  36,673 dollars in wrought plate.  6,500 dollars in gold bullion.  37,924 boxes of sugar.  32,461 do. of a larger size.  317 large loaves of clayed do.  292 barrels and hides of do.  5,731 quintals of do.  39,746 fanegas (i. e. 110lb.) of cocoa.  2,968,656 lb. of do.  1,440 serons and bags do.  10,150 serons of indigo.  42 bales and barrels of do.  1,729 serons of cochineal.  361 bales of sheeps' wool.  2,332 do. of pepper (of what kind we know not.)  1,091 do. of jalap.  940 do. sarsaparilla.  3,769 bales, bags, and serons of cotton.  1,220 bales, bags and barrels of coffee.  4,031 large and small cases of Jesuits bark.  55,216 quintals of logwood.  19,992 hides.  33,560 horns.  341,918 plates and tips (of horn.)  9,524 tanned hides.  223 bags of Vigonia wool.  9,242 bars of copper.  100 pigs do.  38 jars of balsam.  140 lbs. do.  3,591 bars of tin. 
Besides a great variety of other effects of less importance, many of which will be enumerated in the following list.—Of the preceding articles there were imported from Buenos Ayres in the two last quarters of the year the following, viz.
 409,614 dollars in coin and bullion.  204 bags and bales of sheeps wool.  532,216 hides.  19,300 horns.  173,509 plates and tips of horn.  111 tanned hides.  100 bags of Vigonia (or Vicunia) wool.  221 barrels of tallow.  278 bales do.  152 barrels of salt beef.  8 dozen tongues.  6,700 lb. of bristles.  Skins of various kinds, such as those of sheep, horses, tygers, ostricks, dogs, the chinilla, seals, hares, foxes, &c. &c. &c.
As this statement is only for the imports of the last six months, it is but reasonable to suppose that those of the preceding six must have been nearly equal, and consequently it will not be unfair to presume that double the quantity cited in this last statement may have been the general average of the imports from Buenos Ayres to Cadiz in common years.
On a survey of this report we shall find that hides compose the prominent article of export from Buenos Ayres to Spain, and we shall be astonished to find, that of the flesh and tallow that was covered by upwards of 600,000 hides, only 152 barrels of the one, and 221 barrels and 278 bales of the other were exported to Spain. We know that but a small portion of either finds its way to any of the other colonies, and we must of course conclude, nay, we know, that the hide being the article of principal value, the flesh and tallow are turned to scarcely any account. It is also worthy of remark, that the hide of Buenos Ayres averages more than 34lbs. English weight, and that the average of the hides from the plains of Carraccas does not exceed 22lb. This simple fact speaks more than a volume as to the fertility of the endless plains of Buenos Ayres. We find no mention in our list of the horse hides; nor should we find faith to believe, did not ocular evidence convince us, that myriads of these generous animals, living in a wild state, are annually sacrificed to make room for black cattle which
are of more value. It was not till very lately that the hide of the horse was deemed worth the trouble of being brought to market, when it has been sold latterly for 1/4 of a dollar. The value of an ox hide is about 2 dollars. How important must it be for a manufacturing country to possess annually at the cost of 2 dollars, 600,000 hides which in their progress to consumption must arrive at the value of 8 dollars each. If Spain has been able to draw 600,000 hides from Buenos Ayres, are we to suppose that the English with their talents for commerce and their enterprise, will draw no more when the source from which they are derived is inexhaustible? Are we to suppose that the flesh and tallow will be turned to no better account than they have hitherto been? It is on all hands allowed by those who have visited this country that the beef is remarkably good and fit for salting. If this settlement remains in the hands of the English we shall soon see their colonies and their fleets in the east and west supplied with salted provisions from this immense store-house. The small grain also of Buenos Ayres, such as wheat, rye, and barley, is remarkably good, and will furnish the means of providing their colonies with the indispensable article of bread, which is now but inconveniently supplied from the mother country—and this connexion between Buenos Ayres and the West India colonies is the more advantageous, as the former, like ourselves, must bring from abroad all the tropical productions, such as rum, sugar, &c. This mutual wants will produce reciprocal benefits to the distant parts of the empire, and at the same time by new and extensive branches of commerce, enrich and strengthen the whole.
To these solid advantages which present themselves at the first view, many others may be added. The fishery, if it may be so termed, of the seal which abounds in the waters of La Plata, and of the whale which is also found in abundance on the adjacent coasts, will soon attract the attention of the vigilant trader. Great Britain may therefore promise herself great advantages, not only in the produce of the soil but from the very waters of her new territory. When to the advantages already detailed we add those which will be derived from the immense and exclusive consumption of her own manufactures, we shall not incur the imputation of extravagance in asserting that this easy acquisition bids fair to be one of the most valuable possessions of the British empire.
The following are the regulations by which the press is fettered in the East Indies. In the year 1800, they were sent officially by the secretaries of the different governments in India to editors of newspapers at the respective presidencies of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.
Regulations respecting the publication of newspapers at this presidency, viz. 1. Every printer of a newspaper to print his name at the bottom of the paper. 2. Every editor and proprietor of a paper to deliver in his name and place of abode to the secretary to government. 3. No paper to be published on Sunday. 4. No paper to be published at all until it shall have been previously inspected by the secretary to the government or by a person authorised by him for that purpose. 5. The penalty for offending against any of the above regulations to be immediate embarkation for Europe.
Rules for the guidance of the secretary to government in revising the newspapers.—1. to prevent the publication of all observations on the state of public credit, or the revenues, or finances of the company. 2. All observations respecting the embarkation of troops, stores, or specie, or respecting any naval power or military preparations whatever. 3. All intelligence respecting the destination of any ships or the expectation of any whether belonging to the company or to individuals. 4. All observations with respect to the conduct of government or any of its officers, civil or military, marine, commercial, or judicial. 5. All private scandal, or libels on individuals. 6. All statements with regard to the probability of war or peace between the company and any of the native powers. 7. All observations tending to convey information to an enemy, or to excite alarm or commotion within the enemy's territories. 8. The republication of such passages from the European news papers as may tend to affect the influence and credit of the British power with the native states.
Interesting and important experiment in the culture of wheat.
On the 8th of August, 1804, a gentleman named Millar, took a plant of wheat which had been sown in the beginning of June, and divided it into eighteen parts, and putting them into the ground, let them remain therein till the latter end of September, when he again took them up sub-dividing them in 67 parts or roots, and replanted them; they remained in this state till the end of March and the beginning of April, when the plants were a third time taken up, separated into 500 roots, and again replanted in the garden. Early in the season, Mr. Millar reaped his little harvest, and found that by this process, a single grain had produced twenty-one thousand one hundred and nine ears, containing five hundred and seventy thousand grains, measuring three peaks and three quarters, and weighing 67 lbs.
We have been requested to publish the following interesting view of the salubrity, soil and productions of the territory of Orleans. It is, doubtless, penned by a partial hand; but we have little doubt, from the information we have received from the most respectable sources, of the correctness of the outlines. What a brilliant prospective does it exhibit of the future wealth of this country, compared with which the fifteen millions, paid for its sink into insignificance!
As many erroneous ideas are entertained in the distant parts of the United States, respecting the salubrity of this country, which has been decried by ignorance and malevolence; and as the advantages which the farmers and planters possess over those of any other quarter of the world, and many other particulars respecting this new acquisition to the United States, are but little known; I have taken some pains to procure information, the result of which I communicate to you. The statements here offered, being made under the eye of those who have immediate opportunities of correcting any errors, or misrepresentations which might find place in them, will I hope carry conviction to those for whose benefit they are intended, and cause at least an impartial eye to be turned to a country which affords resources to the farmers and planters of other parts, almost too great to arrest belief.
With respect to climate and salubrity, few have given themselves the trouble of making much enquiry, but have founded their belief on the reports of seamen, boat-men, or the travellers who have passed rapidly through our country, and without a knowledge of the language, without the means, or perhaps the desire of obtaining just information, spread wherever they went, the horrid tale of sickness and death, which their distorted imaginations always presented to them. These tales related to people of more sense and information, acquired belief by reason of our southern climate, our low country and immense collection of waters, without reflecting that other causes may have combined to guard us from their ill effects. What these causes are, independent of the excellence and purity of the water, I must leave to the learned who may investigate them to determine.—I content myself with the fact, and to prove it, submit the following statements of our population, and mortality in the city and county of New Orleans, and three adjoining counties, which occupy a space of 150 miles on both sides of the river, from the Port of Plaquemine near the sea, to Manchac, at the upper end of the island of Orleans.
These counties have always been looked on as the most unhealthy of the territory, from being the lowest and most exposed to damps and exhalations. The period I have chosen, viz: from the 1st of August, 1805, to the 1st of August, 1806; is that in which the country parts are known to be the most unhealthy, on account of the excessive and continual rains in the autumn, which caused an unusual number of fevers, and the remarkable cold and severe winter, which suddenly followed, equally caused a more than ordinary number of pleurisies, and other disorders. I therefore believe, that no one acquainted with Louisiana, will hesitate to say, that the statement would be erroneous, only in supposing, that an equal number of deaths had always occurred during a like period, or that they bore the same ratio to the births and population in the other districts of Louisiana.
To bring this matter in a clear light before the eye of strangers, I first annex the population of the parts treated of from the latest returns, premising however, that many of them are considerably underrated, that they may afterwards compare the number of deaths with it, and let them then decide whether their own or any other country, to their knowledge, has enjoyed a greater degree of health for the period mentioned.
Population of the city and county of Orleans, extending along the river from the neighborhood of Fort Plaquemine, 20 leagues below, to the German county, 6 leagues above New Orleans.
   Whites. Coloured People.     City and county of Orleans, 7,069 11,989   German county extending along the river 10 leagues higher up, 1,000 3,274   County of Acadia extending from the limits of the letter about 12 leagues further up the river, 2,728 2,356   County of Iberville extending from the limits of the county of Acadia to Manchac, on the left bank of the river, and to the end of the settled part of the county on the right bank, about 43 leagues above New Orleans, 1,587 933  
Here is then an aggregate population in these four counties in the most exposed situations on the banks of the river Mississippi.
   Whites. Coloured People.     13,284 18,754   The number of deaths in the same counties for the time before mentioned, was, viz. 285 414   In the city and county of New Orleans, from the registers of the parish churches, and returns collected from the planters on the distant plantations, viz. 161 300   Per parish registers in New Orleans, 3 5   Parish of St. Bernard 4 13   Terre aux Boeuf, 170 318   Returns collected from the planters, — —  
   In the German county, composed of the two parishes of St. Charles and St. John Baptiste. 15 28   In St. Charles, 21 26   St. John Baptiste, — —  
   In the county of Acadia, composed of the two parishes of St. James and Ascension. 36 19   In St. James, 14 6   Ascension, — —  
   In the county of Iberville, composed of the parishes of St. Gabriel and St. Bernard. 24 13   In St. Gabriel, 3 2   St. Bernard, — —  
Making a total of 699 deaths, which compared to the aggregate population, will be 1 for every 47 whites, and 45 blacks, or people of colour.
To those accustomed to examine such statements, this proportion will be so small as almost to preclude the possibility of belief; but if we add to the population quoted here, which is that of residents only, the immense number of strangers from foreign parts, from the Ohio, Mississippi territory, and the distant counties, the seamen and boatmen which croud New Orleans for 7 months in the year, exclusive of the garrison, the whole of which may be calculated at one half in addition to the whole population, this extreme degree of health and small degree of mortality, must appear really astonishing—the registers, however, are open to the eye of any persons, whose curiosity may lead them to inspect them, and conviction may be thus obtained by those who trust only to their own examination. The thing is of importance to Louisiana, as it respects the idea entertained of it by strangers, and on that account it were to be wished, particular enquiry might be made to change their present disadvantageous opinion of this country.
In the counties before mentioned, the number of births from the 1st August, 1805, to the 1st August, 1806, amounted to the following numbers, as per the registers of the parish churches, viz.
   Whites. Coloured People.     Parish & convent churches, New Orleans, 273 662   St. Bernard, Terre Aux Boeuf, 25 5   St. Charles, German county, 26 30   St. John Baptiste, do. 68 24   St. James, county of Acadia, 94 40   Ascension, do. 50 10   St. Gabriel, county of Iberville, 44 51   St. Bernard, Galveston, 11 1   591 —  
From what has been said of the salubrity of this country, it is not to be supposed emigrants or strangers are totally exempt from the danger of sickness or death—on the contrary, they
are the persons most subject to it from their habits of body, their mode of living, their want of due care and unnecessary exposure. When in this country we see a poor family descend the Ohio and Mississippi in the midst of Summer, and arrive after a fatiguing voyage, and an exposure to the sun of forty days in a flat boat, at the Natchez landing, mouth of Bayou Sarah, or elsewhere, and when instead of having a comfortable house, or the means of procuring one to lodge the family in on arrival, it is left in the boat still exposed, and living on salt and rancid provisions, without even a supply of vegetables, while the head of the family is searching for the owner of some piece of vacant land, when after a bargain is struck the wretched family removes into the unsettled country without a stock of wholesome provision, & drinks the water of a spring which scarce runs through the heap of leaves and filth which chock it up—when it is exposed to the inclemencies of the weather while the trees are felled to raise their future dwelling, and when we see what the log house is when raised, the little cleanliness observed in it, and unfortunately we may add, the too great use of spirituous liquors, when they can be obtained—what can they be expected but sickness, misery, death and complaints against the Mississippi territory and Louisiana, which would have been remedied in people of common means by a little foresight and precaution, and even in the poorest classes, by a removal at a more temperate season, when there would be time enough to provide against the danger of the summer heats and get sheltered from them.
Should an enemy of Louisiana here raise the usual hue and cry against us of yellow fever, which has been so industriously circulated and echoed from one end of the union to the other, and made its inhabitants look upon death as unavoidable when compelled to visit our shores—I would reply to him, by asking whether Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New-York or Pennsylvania have been looked on as the certain grave yards of strangers, because their capitals have been sometimes afflicted with this scourge—I shall be answered in the negative and told that a few maritime cities were alone subject to it, and at particular seasons only, that the sickness never spread itself a mile from their extremities, and that those who took the timely precaution of retiring even so little a distance into the country on the appearance of this disorder were certain of escaping from it. It is just the case here likewise, with this additional happiness, that it appears here seldom more, than in most of the ports of the United States, having been visited with it only four times since that disorder was first known amongst us—that the residents for a few years in the city are perfectly free and secure from its ravages, which are confined to strangers and new comers, whereas in the other parts of the U. States the oldest residents are equally its victims with the greatest strangers.
In the counties of Acadia, Iberville and the lower part of the county of Orleans, with very few exceptions, all the men and a very great proportion of the women and children, are at times employed in the labors of the field—in the lower part of the county of German coast, and for a few leagues above and below New Orleans, the planters being generally richer, are less occupied in the laborious part of the culture of their estates; but there are few indeed, who do not themselves overlook and attend to the labor of their slaves, and are consequently like them, exposed to every danger and inconvenience, whether arising from the heat of summer or cold of winter—and it is a lamentable tale, but it ought to be told, that of the strangers, seamen and boatmen, who find here an untimely fate, nine in ten, at least, owe their deaths to intemperance.
This will shew that our climate is neither unhealthy nor dangerous, even to the poorer class of whites who may be under the necessity of supporting themselves by their bodily labor in the field, nor can it be objected that the present inhabitants of the Mississippi being all creoles, are habituated to the climate from their birth, and consequently less liable to suffer from its effects—this is far from being the case, a full half of all the settlers on the Mississippi in these four counties are either Europeans, Americans, or Acadians from Nova Scotia, a great many of whom, especially among the latter, cut down themselves the first trees that were felled on their plantations, and with no other assistance than what they have derived from their own exertions, arrived at a state of ease if not of affluence, rarely to be met with in people in their circumstances in other countries—let the thousands of Americans who have seen their habitation and their annually increasing improvements, in their different voyages down the Miss-

Mississippi, testify to the truth of this assertion.
It may be asked by what means have they arrived at this state of ease and affluence, what magic has assisted them—it will be easily answered, by cultivating the richest lands in the world, whose productions find an immediate market at their doors, which being of a superior value to those raised in the United States, and cultivated without the expense which attends them in other countries favored with a similar climate, have enabled the Louisiana planters to lay up large sums from the produce of their crops, and thereby augment their fortunes much more rapidly than in any other part of the United States.
To prove this facility of laying up large sums, it will only be necessary to state the nature and value of the productions of the soil, and the quantity of acres which a hand can annually cultivate.
The staple productions of Louisiana are rice, cotton and sugar, and a negro can easily plant and cultivate four acres of land and get in the crop, besides being a sufficiency of provision for his own consumption, and a proportion of the necessary for the stock and family of his master.
An acre of cotton under tolerable cultivation is known to produce 1000 lb. of cotton in seed, or 250 lb. of clean cotton, which at 20 cents is 50 dollars, and the negro or other person employed in this branch of culture will gain annually.
An acre of Rice produces about the same sum, and the labor of a person for a year, employed in its cultivation will be about the same with the foregoing.
An acre in sugar cane, in lands already impoverished by 80 years successive cultivation, without a particle of manure having ever been laid on them, produces even in bad crops 1000 lb. of sugar & a proportionable quantity of molasses, valued at 1 1/2 dollars, and a negro can cultivate at least four acres equal to
To prove these statements with respect to cotton and rice, by citing any particular instances of those who have raised the quantities here mentioned, is unnecessary, as the whole country, from the German county to the extremity of the Mississippi territory, wherever they are cultivated, can bear witness to it; and the fact is already well enough established in the United States generally, by the thousands who have been eye witnesses of it, and who have either borne testimony of it verbally or communicated it in writing to their friends and acquaintances.
With respect to the sugar cane, there have been less opportunities of acquiring or communicating information; its introduction has been of a late date, the first experiments, though successful beyond the expectations of those who ventured on them, were still in the opinions of the planters at large, attended with great risk, because they attributed to the seasons and the culture itself, the faults and losses arising from their own want of timely preparation, of pecuniary means, and of a due degree of experience. Convinced at last, by the immense fortunes rapidly acquired by those who persevered in their undertakings, and who were not alarmed by unfounded fears and clamors, they learned to lay at their own doors, the faults they had before committed, and by recommencing a culture too easily abandoned after an inadequate trial, have finally shown the triumph of fact and experience over uncertainty and vague theory and misrepresentation. The cultivation of the sugar cane, the mode and season of cutting, the process of boiling and curing being now understood, and the thousand facts by which its success is forever established here, being generally known to the planter, have inspired a confidence, industry, and a desire to undertake this branch of agriculture, which bid fair to raise it in a few years to the highest pitch to which it is capable of being carried in this country. Its success will free the people of the United States from a dependence on foreign nations for an article now become indispensable, and in return for the money laid out amongst us for it, we shall contribute to their prosperity, by the consumption of their produce and manufactures, by the employment of their shipping and seamen, and by the payment of an immense sum in duties to the national treasury, which will be in proportion to our revenues and resources, and certainly will be in a tenfold rate to any other part of the union, possessed of only an equal population.
The following statement of the crops of sugar made last year by the undersigned persons and with the number of negroes stated to be employed by each individual, will exemplify in the strongest manner what has been before advanced, of the superior advantages enjoyed by the planters established on the Mississippi, over those of any other part of the union, or perhaps of any other country. These persons are amongst the first characters, and of those they know among us—their residence is within a few miles of the city on either hand; they frequently visit it, and if a court should be entertained on the truth of the statements, it can easily be dispel-
led by the trouble of an enquiry of the parties.
Mons. La Ronde has 40 working hands in all, of whom 4 were employed to attend his cattle and garden, the produce of which amounted to
Dollars. 1500 He had 135 acres of cane, 20 of which were ratoons or canes, which had been cut once or twice before. The sold 12 acres of canes to a neighbor for Dollars. 960 Dollars. 2400
And with the remainder made 180,000 lbs. of Sugar, which he sold and delivered to Messrs. Poulton & Brown, at 8 1-2 dollars per Cwt amounting to Dollars. 15300
He sold besides 122 hhd. of Molasses to M. Castillon, of 50 gallons each, at 10 dollars Dollars. 1220
Making the sum of 16520 dollars earned in a year by a gang of 40 negroes. M. Lisle Sarpy on the estate now owned by the mayor of the city, had last year 28 working hands and cultivated 80 acres of cane, twenty of which were ratoons, that had been cut once before, he sold 140,000 lbs. sugar at 8 1-2 dollars per cwt. Dollars. 11575
100 hhd. Molasses of 50 gals. each Dollars. 1600 Dollars. 13175
The negroes on this estate towards the end of the season, being unable to cut the cane in time, there were employed two successive Sundays, 30 negroes hired from the neighbouring estates.
M. Alexander La Branche has 60 working hands, he sold 230,000 lbs. Sugar at 8 dollars per cwt. Dollars. 18400 165 hhd. of Molasses at 17 dolls. 2805 Dollars. 21205
M. Louis Habine has 47 working hands, he sold 185,000 lbs. Sugars at 8 1-2 dolls. 15725 136 hhd. Molasses of 50 gallons 2312 Dollars. 18037
Messrs. D. & L. La Branche had 44 working hands, they sold 190,000 lbs. sugar at 8 1-2 dollars per cwt. Dollars. 16150 128 hhd Molasses at 17 dolls. 2176 Dollars. 18326
M. Manuel Andry had 40 working hands, he sold 156,000 lbs Sugar at 8 1-2 dolls. per cwt. Dollars. 12870 112 hhd. Molasses at 17 dolls. 1904 Dollars. 14774
M. Jacques Fortier had 40 working hands and hired during the time of grinding ten more, he sold 255,000 lbs. of Sugar at 8 dollars per cwt. Dollars. 18800 150 hhd. Molasses at 17 dolls. 2550 Dollars. 21350
M. Eugene Fortier had 45 working hands, he sold 173,000 lbs. of Sugar, at 8 dollars per cwt. Dollars. 14240 150 hhd. Molasses at 17 dolls. 2550 Dollars. 16790
M. Norbert Fortier had 42 working hands, he sold 158,000 lb. Sugar at 8 dolls per cwt. Dollars. 12540 130 hhd. Molasses at 16 dolls. 2080 Dollars. 14720
M. Adeland Fortier had 48 working hands, he sold 180,000 lb. Sugar at 8 dollars per cwt. Dollars. 14400 142 hhd. Molasses at 17 dolls. 2414 Dollars. 16814
M. Pifer has 45 working hands, he sold to Gavelier and Sons 220,000 lb. Sugar at 8 dollars per Cwt. Dollars. 17600 160 casks Molasses 2560 Dollars. 20160
M. Destrehan had 40 working hands, and when his cane was ready to cut he bought 10 new negroes, he sold to Mr John Morgan 222,190 lb. Sugar. Dollars. 17775 160 casks molasses 2560 Dollars. 20335
And it is well known that he has made an equal crop for four or five successive years.
The quantity of sugar above mentioned, is that which was sold by the planters independent of which each of them retained a sufficiency for family purposes, and for the use of their negroes.
It will not I presume be objected that many other planters who have as many slaves, have not done quite as much; it answers my object, to point out what can be effected by attention, and a knowledge of one's business. I could cite some instances of planters, who, with fewer hands have proportionally done much more, but as they are few in number, I think it would be as improper to found a calculation on their
extraordinary exertions of the remissness, supineness or ignorance of those whose success has not answered the general expectation.
As a convincing proof, with what ease the cultivation of the cane, and process of sugar making is followed in Louisiana, I shall mention a circumstance, that will I know, never be believed by any Jamaica or St. Domingo planter, who has not seen it, which is—that the cultivation of the cane, and process of sugar making, has been attended with extraordinary success, by many persons not possessed of more than 20 negroes, and in some cases not more than 12. This will excite a smile of ridicule on the faces of those who hold it to be impossible to manage a sugar plantation, with less than 150 working hands.—There is not a sugar planter in Louisiana possessed of 150 slaves, of all ages and sizes, yet they make as much with their small gangs, as the nabobs of the islands, with four times their number; and were they certain as in the islands of having time sufficient to cut their cane, in the interval between the first white frosts which ripen, and the hard ones which destroy them, their revenue would be doubled, as they can plant and cultivate more than they can afterwards cut and secure. This is owing to the facility of ploughing their lands and not being under the necessity of digging trenches to plant their cane in, as in Jamaica, and elsewhere. The same number of negroes required to plant, tend and boil the produce of two hundred acres of land in cane would scarce be sufficient in a year to dig the holes to plant it in Jamaica.
AN AMERICAN. (To be continued)
By his excellency ROBERT BOWIE Governor of Maryland. A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it has been stated to me, by the petition of number of respectable persons, inhabitants of Prince George's county, that a MURDER hath been committed on the person of CHARLES NEVITT, junior, late of Prince George's county—by a certain negro man, (slave of Basil Soper,) called WALL, who hath since absconded and fled from justice. And whereas, it is the duty of the Executive to guard as much as may be against the commission of such enormities, and to bring such offenders against the laws and peace of society to justice. I have therefore thought proper to issue this my Proclamation, and do, by and with the advice and consent of the Council, offer a reward of One Hundred Dollars to any person or persons who shall apprehend and secure the said negro WALL, in any jail in the United States, so that he be brought to justice.
Given in Council, at the city of Annapolis, under the Seal of the state of Maryland, this sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and six.
ROBERT BOWIE, By his Excellency's command. NINIAN PINKNEY, Clerk of the Council.
Ordered, That the foregoing Proclamation be published once in each week until countermanded, in the Maryland Gazette, at Annapolis; the Federal Gazette and Evening Post, at Baltimore; the Frederick-town Advocate, and in the National Intelligencer, at the City of Washington.
By order, NINIAN PINKNEY, Clerk of the Council. Sept. 22—w3f.
AMSTERDAM GIN. JUST received by the ship WILLIAM MURDOCH direct from Amsterdam. 10 PIPES of the best HOLLAND GIN, for sale by W. & C. SMITH. Georgetown, Nov. 17—taw3w
NOTICE.
IN pursuance of an order from the Orphans Court of Prince George's co. the subscriber will offer for sale, on the 8th day of December at the dwelling place of John Hughes late of said county deceased, (near Magruder's ferry) all the personal estate of the said deceased, consisting of Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Household Furniture, and Plantation Utensils.—The Terms of sale will be a credit of six months, the purchaser, or purchasers giving bond with approved security. Sale to commence at 11 o'clock. The subscriber moreover gives notice to all persons having claims against the estate of said Hughes, to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof: And all persons interested to the said estate are requested to make immediate payment to WILLIAM WEEMS, Administrator of John Hughes. November 17—w3t
AMERICAN HOTEL, WASHINGTON CITY.
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WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19.
We have the satisfaction of confirming the information of the Spanish forces having crossed the Sabine. Advises, dated October the 5th, have been received from General Wilkinson, who was then stationed on this side of the Sabine. Previously to leaving Natchitoches he had informed Governor Cordero, that in compliance with his duty, he should be obliged to attack the Spanish troops, unless they retired beyond that river. Not having received a satisfactory answer from the Governor, the American army was advanced about twenty miles beyond Natchitoches, when the Spanish forces crossed the Sabine. Propositions of accommodation, founded on the agreement of the American and Spanish commandants to abstain from occupying a district of country to be designated, were made by Gen. Wilkinson to Gov. Cordero; to which the latter had replied that he did not consider himself authorised to enter into such a convention without instructions from the Governor General of Mexico, to whom he promised to write immediately. From the distance of this province an answer can scarcely be expected in less than a month.
At the time our forces advanced, the militia had joined them, in greater numbers than had been expected, and even beyond the requisitions made; thus affording the most unequivocal demonstration of their fidelity to the United States.
At the latest dates General Wilkinson had dismissed all the militia, except about one hundred and fifty cavalry, which, with the regular troops, were stationed on the Sabine; the Spaniards being stationed on the further bank.
BARNABAS BIDWELL is re-elected a representative in the ensuing Congress.
It ought to be known to persons able to furnish a supply of WOOD, that it commands at present an unusually high price in this city. Oak is between six and seven, and Hickory from seven to eight dollars a cord.
Protection of Ports & Harbors.—Among the unfounded charges urged against the administration, perhaps, the most absurd, considering the grounds on which it is maintained, is the censure so prodigally bestowed for the omission more effectually to fortify our ports and harbours. We are well aware that on the abstract question of fortification there is a great and honest diversity of opinion. Many eminent republicans are in favor of carrying this species of defence to a considerable extent; while no small portion of the federalists are contented with the extent to which it is at present carried. It is not, therefore, so much with regard to the thing, as to the style in which it is urged, that we have reason to complain.
It is contended that it is a question in which the Eastern section of the union is the most deeply interested; that their interest is in a considerable degree exclusive; that the southern country is, on the contrary, interested in withholding the means of protection; and that above all the large towns are, in the highest degree, interested. By this species of reasoning the question is made a local one; the towns are marshalled against the country; and the south arrayed against the north.
These are the opinions which we denominate unfounded, which we pronounce absurd; which are bottomed in ignorance or a spirit of misrepresentation.
How can the eastern section of the country be more deeply interested in the protection of our ports and harbors than the southern country? To prove the existence of this greater interest, it is necessary to show that the eastern people are more dependent on commerce than the southern. Now the reverse is true. The southern people have nothing else to depend on. It is exclusively on the sale of their staple articles that they rely, wherewith to purchase, not only a great portion of the necessary clothes they wear which are drawn from Europe, together with a long train of luxuries; but likewise many important articles either raised or fabricated in the eastern states. On the other hand, the eastern country is comparatively independent. They supply among themselves, in a greater degree, their own wants, and have consequently a less necessity to resort to Europe for her fabrics, and a necessity still more confined to resort to the southern states for their productions. In this aspect then of the subject, the southern people are unquestionably the most interested in the protection of our ports and harbors. When to this, it is added, that the southern states relatively to their numbers export to a greater value, there can be no doubt that this is the fact. Who does not see, at the first glance of the subject, that the interest of the ratio of the products of the earth is greater than that of the mere factor ? In the same degree must the interest of the southern planter rise beyond the interest of the eastern merchant.
It follows most conclusively that the interest of the Eastern people on this point is not exclusive, and that the southern people have consequently no interest in withholding the necessary means of protecting the ports and harbors.
Let us now examine whether the large towns are, in the highest degree, interested in this species of protection? Because the towns of Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Charleston, command the greatest portion of the
trade of the United States, it is inferred that they are most deeply interested. But we have just seen that so far as relates to the advantages drawn from commerce the factor, so far from having an exclusive or deeper interest, has not in fact an equal interest with the planter or the manufacturer. If the commodities of the latter remained unsold they would perish on their hands, and they would lose not only the profit they calculated on from their industry and capital, but likewise the whole product of their industry and no inconsiderable portion of their capital. They might not be reduced to a state of starvation, but they would be despoiled of all their comforts; and the inducement to the cultivation of their fields, or the fabrication of their manufactures, being withdrawn, the former would go to ruin, and the latter be suspended. A wide spread ruin would ensue. Sterile and uncultivated fields would directly blast the interest of the cultivator, and eventually ruin the merchant. Hence it is impossible for the merchant individually, or for the body of merchants collectively, to have so deep an interest, under the present circumstances of the country, in the protection of commerce, as the body of planters, and farmers.
Thus far there appears to be a common interest between the planter and the merchant in the due protection of commerce, with this only difference that the degree is greater to the planter than the merchant.
The subject is susceptible of another view, from which it will appear that while the planter is always interested in this protection, the interest of the merchant is sometimes either not at all promoted, or injuriously affected by it. The class of merchants are an intelligent body of men, whose profession naturally leads them to calculate the perils to which their concerns are exposed, and to providing the means of disarming them of any injurious effects. When a merchant buys a barrel of flour or a bale of cotton for exportation, he fixes the price which he gives by calculating not only the common expenses of transporting it abroad, but all the risques attending such transportation, and the state of the foreign market. The two latter, he is perfectly aware, depend on the season, and the disposition and situation of foreign nations. The tables are entirely in his own hands, and he never purchases without the expectation of a profit. The same thing takes place in the importation and sale of foreign commodities. Here too he fixes the price of the goods sold to the farmer. War, together with its effects, direct or indirect, are always dispassionately weighed by him. He never fails to charge the consumer with an indemnity to himself for all these risques—he goes farther; he consolidates them with his capital, and charges a profit on them likewise. It is owing to this, among other circumstances, that war, with all its hazards, is more profitable to the mercantile world than peace.
Further, the tendency of these perils superadded to the ordinary hazards of trade, connected with the enterprising disposition of our merchants and their universal ambition to amass rapid wealth, produces numerous bankruptcies among them, which give birth to an immense accumulation of debts. These consist in sums due by the bankrupts in general to their fellow merchants. A superficial mind would imagine, and such is the logic of merchants, that the creditor merchants actually incurred a loss equal to the amount of debts thus due to them. But nothing is so distant from the truth. Every well informed merchant, in setting his profit on the goods he sells, or determining the price of those he buys, calculates a certain per centage for bad debts, which fully exonerates him from all loss on this head. The loss, falling, as it must somewhere, must fall on the farmer and the consumer of foreign commodities, ordinarily united in the same person, who on this account actually receives less for the products he sells and gives more for those he purchases.
Go the whole round of cause and effect, examine the merchant in all the windings and intricacies of his traffic, and you will find him, in the general, rarely, if ever the loser; in coins unco, perhaps, except where the whole interests of the community, of which he forms a part, are shaken to dissolution. Amidst the ordinary convulsions of society, he often riots on the distresses of others, and sometimes forges his golden cup out of their miseries.
The inference, irresistibly deducible from this view of the subject, is that the protection of trade and the fortification of our ports and harbors, is a universal concern, and that the nation, which refuses to lavish its treasures for this purpose, must be impressed with the conviction that such a disbursement would, on the whole, produce more injury than benefit. In forming this opinion, whether correct or not, and we pretend not to decide this question, it is unjust, it is foolish to ascribe to the nation, or those who represent it, motives either local, or sinister. The reasons we have assigned demonstrate that, however they may be mistaken, they must be sincere.
On Sunday the 12th ult. departed this life at his residence in Baltimore county, in the 73d year of his age, Mr. Benjamin Bancker, a black man, and immediately descendant of an African father. He was well known in this neighborhood for his quiet and peaceable demeanor, and among scientific men as an astronomer and mathematician. In early life he was instructed in the most common rules of arithmetic, and thereafter, with the assistance of different authors, he acquired a perfect knowledge of all the higher branches of learning. Mr. B. was the calculator

of several almanacs which were published in this, as well as some of the neighboring states, and although of late years none of his almanacs were published, yet he never failed to calculate one every year, and left them among his papers, preferring solitude to mixing with society, and devoted the greatest part of his time in reading and contemplation, and to no books was he more attached than the scriptures. At his decease he bequeathed all his astronomical and philosophical books and papers to a friend.
Mr. Bunacker, is a prominent instance to prove that a descendant of Africa is as susceptible of great mental improvement and deep knowledge into the mysteries of nature as that of any other nation.
Natches, October 7.
A detachment of 250 dragoons and mounted infantry, under command of Major Ferdinand L. Claiborne, crossed the Mississippi at this city on Sunday last, on their march to Natchitoches, to assist General Wilkinson in repulsing the Spanish troops from within our limits.
Officers commanding the several companies:
 Captains Benjamin Farrar,  George Poindexter,  Alexander Bisland,  Basel Abrams,  William T. Voss,  Ralph Reagan. 
A company of dragoons from Jefferson county, under command of Captain Thomas Hinds, will march in a few days to join the Battalion at Natchitoches—likewise a company of mounted infantry from Wilkinson county.
October 14.
The detachment of troops from this Territory, destined to Natchitoches, all except Capt. Farrar's company of dragoons, are on their return—having received orders from Gen. Wilkinson to that effect—the Spanish troops having all retired beyond the Sabine.
EASTON AND WILKESBARRE TURNPIKE ROAD.
In addition to the interesting and agreeable subject of the preceding communication, we are enabled to congratulate the country on the completion of the most difficult and important part of the Easton and Wilkesbarre Turnpike road. Twenty-four miles of this road, commencing at the town of Wilkesbarre and ending at the Tunkhanna river, and covering the whole of the distance which passes over the heretofore impracticable district, emphatically called "The Swamp," are finished; and, as we understand from the report of the managers who have recently returned from a journey of inspection, the work is executed in a manner quite satisfactory, and such as to assure an excellent and permanent road through a wilderness which until very lately has been deemed almost impassable. Here too, the effects of the public spirited enterprise of the projectors are visible; valuable improvements are already begun at different stations on the road, and the traveller will soon be as well accommodated on this dreary route as in the most populous parts of the country. We are informed that commissioners have been appointed by the governor to view and examine the portion of the road which has been completed; and when their report, which cannot be otherwise than favorable, shall have been made, the citizens who have advanced their money as stockholders in this very useful undertaking, will, we trust, be rewarded, by abundant toils, for their public spirit. It is proper to add, that the ascent of the Pokono Mountain is nearly finished in a most masterly manner, and that much work has been done on the broad mountain in the interval distance. The whole road, as far as Monaca's, in Chesnut Hill Township, will, without doubt, be completed the ensuing summer. From accurate information of the great increase of intercourse on this road, since the improvements thereon were commenced by the Turnpike company, we are able confidently to anticipate that the stock of the company will be very valuable to the holders.
From the Virginia Argus.
The numerous but shapeless rumors, which have reached us from so many parts of the continent, respecting the transactions of Colonel Burr and others, in the Western country, are calculated to excite much curiosity and interest. As the evidence so far as it respects the criminality of the individuals implicated in the reports, is too vague and uncertain to become even the subject of a newspaper essay, we shall confine our remarks to the dangers which the situation of that quarter of our continent seems to give most cause to apprehend.
While the population of the Western country bears so small a proportion to her territory, her extensive, fertile and unappropriated soil, must long continue to hold out to the view of avarice and ambition, a tempting object of plunder and speculation. Although the schemes of, which that country has hitherto been the theatre, have only had in view the aggrandizement of speculators by the appropriation of the soil, yet these speculations have been conducted on so immense a scale, as to be nearly allied to schemes of political dismemberment. The means employed by these men to effect their purposes, have not always been confined to those of a fraudulent nature, they have also had recourse to plans of violence and rebellion. Such plans have as yet, it is true, been shallow in their organization, have probably emanated from men of desperate fortunes, of strong passions and weak intellects. The Yazoo speculation has become sufficiently notorious, and bears the stamp of a grasping insatiable avarice.
But a transaction of less notoriety, which threatened to effect by violence what the former attempted by fraud, was one which had for its author a Z. Cox. It was proposed by this association, and men were formally enlisted for the purpose, to take forcible possession of a valuable part of the U. S. territory in possession of the Indians, and a portion of the soil was offered to each person enlisted as a reward for his treason.
With the experience of these former facts before our eyes, when we consider too, what an immense additional temptation, the purchase of Louisiana, has afforded to the cupidity of designing disappointed and factious men, we cannot but apprehend that the wilds of America, will still continue to be the theatre of anti-patriotic machinations, and that an association may be formed viewing Louisiana as its prey, which may call for all the vigilance of our government, and a display of all the intelligence and virtue, which the American people so amply possess.
From many and obvious considerations the writer of this article is convinced that nothing is so dangerous to the community as to be apprehended from any violent attempts on the Western country, it is one of the last countries in the world where the materials of an insurrection could be found, many might be disposed to become leaders, but they could find no followers. But ought not the federal government to adopt some permanent regulations to prevent the injurious monopoly of her newly acquired territory? Such regulations constituted a part of the colonial policy of all the states, when there was much less occasion for them than at present.
COLOGNE, Sept. 17.
We are informed that the system of the Grant of navigation of the Rhine is about to be established in all its parts, on the lower Rhine, and exercised conformably to the 32d article of the recess of the empire. France and Germany owe to the genius of Napoleon the happy idea of having subjected, as far as respects navigation, the most beautiful and important river of Europe to a general police uniform, and confined to a single authority.—By that he will have delivered it from the arbitrary and variable measures which for so many ages desolated its commerce and navigation. M. Eichoff, director general pro tempore, has already set out for Düsseldorf, Wesel and Immerich, furnished with full powers from his Majesty the Emperor and King and the Prince Primate.
HAMBURGH, Sept. 17.
The latest accounts from Berlin continue to speak of nothing but preparations for war. Notwithstanding this, there are in Prussia, men who pretend to believe that war will not take place and that France will succeed in maintaining the peace of the continent. It is stated besides, that the Swedish delegates stationed before Prussian ports, have received orders to keep their respective positions notwithstanding the taking off of the blockade.
Lieutenant General Count de Watersleben has been appointed Commander in Chief of the Prussian Corps, composed of twelve battalions of infantry, twenty squadrons of cavalry, and two batteries of cannon, which will be stationed on the banks of the River Saal.
It is reported, and we repeat the news without vouching for its truth, that six days ago, a declaration of the Russian court had issued from the Press, but which had not yet been made public.
CASSEL, Sept. 13.
A treaty has been concluded at Berlin, between the Baron de Voiss, in the name of the Elector of Hesse Cassel, and M. Haugwitz the Prussian Minister.—This treaty has not been ratified by our sovereign. Who could have believed that Prussia, had carried her pretensions so far? She wants nothing less than to place Hesse and Saxony in a state of vassalage to her. It was said in that convention that two circles would be formed, a circle of Saxony and one of Hesse, and that the King of Prussia would possess the same rights that the Emperor of Germany did, to wit, the Sovereignty, the Aulic Court, the Tribunals of the Empire, &c.
From that moment, Saxony and Hesse would have been effaced from the list of Powers. Thus in a word, Prussia wanted to acquire ten millions of population. The exercise of the rights of the Emperor of Germany was restrained by the actual strength of a great number of powerful princes who composed the Germanic Empire, and by the greatest powers in Europe; hence in reality the sovereignty of the Emperor was but trifling. But that of Prussia, over her next neighbor, would be in truth, a complete and absolute destruction of the independence of these two states. Our government does not wish to ratify it, but the Prussian troops have advanced, and are marching to Göttingen.
DR. MAGRUDER HAS FOR SALE
TWENTY Hoppkinds of good Brown Sugar which he will sell at a low price a few casks of the best winter strained Lamp Oil, Window Glass of different sizes, Japan, Copal & other varnishes, glaziers Diamonds, Russian Gun, Salt Petre, Paper hanging, Taylors patent liquid Shoe Blacking in jugs at 25 cents each, and his usual extensive assortment of DRUGS & MEDICINES, patent Medicines, Surgeons Instruments, Oil and Paints, Die stuff, Spices, &c. all of which have been purchased for cash, he can therefore sell many articles uncommonly cheap by the quantity. November 19—taw13t
NOTICE.
A meeting of the gentlemen of the CITY is requested at Mr. STELLE's hotel on Thursday evening next, Six o'clock, to make arrangements for Dancing Assemblies for the Season. November 19.
FIRE WOOD.
I wish to purchase 2000 CORDS of Wood on the Potomac river, or its branches, convenient to navigable water.—Persons having 50 Cords and upwards for sale will please give a particular description of the harbor and landing from whence it must be taken; the distance the wood now stands from the Landing; the distance it must be boated from the landing to a vessel drawing six feet water, and the distance of the Landing from some well known place on the river as for instance, Croney Island, Wicwasic Creek, Cedar Point, Blackstones Island, &c. See letters by the mail, paid, informing the lowest price that will be taken for OAK and HICKORY, either standing or delivered at a Landing, will be immediately attended to, and the postage of Letters in answer thereto will be paid by me. RICHARD WILLSON, Treasury Department, Washington City, November 19—cop3t
A TEACHER WANTED.
A MAN who can come well recommended, competent to teach the English Language grammatically, the mathematics, and Geography; by application to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Harrison of Prince William county, Virginia, or to Mr. David Boyle, merchant of Dumfries, may secure a salary for the next year, of Two hundred and fifty dollars, and his board. Letters directed to Mr. Boyle, post paid, will be duly attended to. November 19—3w.
ELISHA RIGGS,
Has Imported by the latest arrivals from London & Liverpool, FIFTY-EIGHT PACKAGES SEASONABLE GOODS, Which are direct from the best manufacturers, and will be sold lower by the wholesale or retail than can be afforded by any other house here. (being the only importer of Dav Goods)—among them are: 3 bales of fine cloths, calimeres and cords, 12 do second cloths, cossings, ladies cloths, napp'd, frize, Plains and Ken-dal cottons, 2 bales rose and dr blankets and rugs, 4 cases Manchester Bottons cords, ointments, furnitures and common shirts, 6 cases fine hats and umbrellas, 6 trunks, silk, cotton, and worsted hosiery, 1 trunk upholsters, and hatters trimmings, 2 cases knives and forks, razors, fine cutlery, saddlery and fashionable buttons, 3 bales flannels,uffs, fergas and balacs, 1300 lb London fine twine, 2 bales carpets and carpeting, 3 cases Irish linens, sheulings, lot of lawn, table cloths, &c. Cheap. Silks, muslins, chinizes and calicoes, Pelices, pelice, velvet, lace shades, & shawls, Spider net, and pick net, lace sleeves and gloves, Fancy muslin dresses, drapery, gauze and flowers, And many other articles, which will be sold low, for cash, or to punctilious persons only. George Town, Nov. 19—2aw2m
FOR SALE,
A healthy negro woman under 30 years of age, with two healthy children. For particulars apply to the printer. 1st Nov. 1806—ptf
JUST PUBLISHED, And for Sale at D. RAPINZ's Book Store, Capitol Hill,
Original Anecdotes of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, and of his family, his court, his ministers, his academies, and his literary friends—collected during a familiar intercourse of twenty years with that prince; translated from the French of D. THIBAULT, Professor of Belles Lettres in the royal academy of Berlin—in a volume price A DOLLAR. Few works have been presented to the public to justly claim in Europe and America as this. The author has delineated the character of this great man in a manner so ingenious that no person can read it without feeling a gratification which few works are calculated to produce in a similar degree.
Also just Received, The life and pontificate of Leo. 10th—4 vols. Charnock's memoirs of Lord Nelson. Moore's Epistles, odes, and other poems. Scott's Lay of the last Minstrel, a poem. D. R. Has always on hand an extensive assortment of books in every class of literature and science, which he will sell at reasonable prices. Monday 17—3w
FOR SALE,
ON the first day of December will be offered for sale at the late dwelling house of Richard Sprigg deceased near Upper Marlborough in Prince Georges county, a number of valuable Slaves, Men, Women and Children. The sale will commence at 11 o'clock in the forenoon if fair, if not the next fair day and to continue from day to day until the number contemplated is sold. The terms of sale are nine months credit on the purchaser's giving bond with approved security bearing interest from the date.
A deduction will be made on the day of sale for cash. November 3—wtd
To Rent,
AND possession given on the 19th November next, to a good and responsible person, a House on the corner of 4th and 11th streets, at present occupied by Mr. Andrew Way. Also a two story brick dwelling house in a central situation, of which possession may be had immediately. For terms apply to THOS. MERTY. Oct. 17—3t & wtd
AT THE THEATRE.
MR MANFREDI,
On WEDNESDAY EVENING, Nov. 19th, AT THE WASHINGTON THEATRE.
The Performance will commence, With a SPANISH DANCE by the Little American.
Dancing on the Tight Rope.
A dance in character, with the balance pole by Miss C. UISA.
Miss CATHERINE will dance a Hornpipe on the rope—after which a serious dance. A grotesque dance, by Madame MANFREDI—the moving board—the will dance without putting her feet on the rope, with the balance pole, and play a handsome air on the Mandoline, on the rope, without it.
After which the combat of the two Hags, by Mr. and Mrs. MANFREDI on the rope. The comic dance. Mr. Manfredi will dance with two baskets tied to his feet—after which with two boys in the same manner, without the balance pole. He will beat the drum, perform the curious feat of the clock, play the French horn, and jump backward and forward over a handkerchief.
TUMBLING AGILITY
OF THE CHILDREN,
Who will perform several Feats on the Carpet in the Italian style. Extraordinary Feats of the Tumblers, who will throw Somersets, backward and forward over tables and chairs,—Ground tumbling, with English and Spanish dances.
The Egyptian PYRAMIDS.
Mr. Manfredi will balance several persons on his arms, legs, &c. showing several perspectives in the Roman style. He will dance a Spanish FANDANGO over several eggs.
Miss Catherine will dance a HORNIPIPE. The whole to conclude with a PANTOMIME, CALLED
MALADE IMAGINAIRE,
OR
HARLEQUIN DEAD AND ALIVE.
 Harlequin, Miss Catherine.  Clown, Mr. Manfredi.  Old man, Miss Louisa.  Columbine, Mrs. Manfredi.  Little Devil, The Little American.  Magician, Mr. Menet. 
In the course of the performance Harlequin will make a great variety of changes in his dress with great facility.
PERFORMANCES ON MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. The doors to be opened at 7 1/2, and performance to begin at Half past 8. Admittance—BOX ONE DOLLAR—PIT SEVEN AND 1/2 CENTS.
The place will be made comfortable by stoves. No Segars to be smoked during the performance. Nov. 18—1t.
JAMES S. STEVENSON, DRUGGIST, &c.
Having purchased of Dr. John Bulins his Medical establishment, and having just received an extensive supply of articles in the Drug line. Now offers for sale at the Drug store near the Navy Yard (lately occupied by Dr. John Bulins) a complete assortment of every article usually kept in a drug store, which he warrants to be of the first quality, and pledges himself to supply both city and country customers, on as reasonable terms as any other person in the district will do. His stock consists of,
 Drugs, Spring Lencore,  Medicines, Chumb dy,  Shop furniture, Elastic Red tressus,  Patent medicines, Silver mounted lancet cases,  Dye stuffs, Surgeons needes,  Perfumery, Splines for broken limbs,  Pains of every kind, Glass, for bathing in-flamed eyes,  Ground and dry, Marble mortars and pestles,  Flax seed oil, Reeve's water colors,  Window glass, Hair powder,  Paint brushes, Copal varnish,  Sash tools, Maccabo snuff,  Spices of all kinds, Segars by the box,  Surgeons instruments, Gold leaf,  among which are, Fine rose and orange flower water, in pint bottles,  Amputating, Soyou cordial,  Trepanning, Camel hair pencils,  Cupping, India ink, &c. &c.  Dr. King. 
Orders from country Physicians and Druggists, will receive particular and immediate attention. Physicians prescriptions carefully prepared. Washington, November 3—eMtd
NOTICE.
BY virtue of a decree of the High Court of Chancery, will be sold at Public Auction, on the premises, at 12 o'clock, on the third day of December next, if fair, if not, on the first fair day thereafter, the Dwelling Plantation of the late RICHARD WILLIAMS deceased situate in Prince George's county, about 14 or 15 miles from the city of Washington, and about 25 from the city of Annapolis; this plantation contains about 300 acres, well calculated for farming or planting, with a sufficient quantity of woodland for its support. The improvements are inconsiderable, consisting of an old log dwelling house and a tobacco house. It is presumed any person inclined to purchase will view the property previous to the sale. The terms of sale are, that the purchaser shall give bond, with approved security, for paying one third part of the purchase money, with interest, on the first day of March, one third with interest within two years, and the residue with interest within three years from the time of sale; and on the ratification of the sale, and on payment of the purchase money, the trustee will convey to the purchaser. RICHARD ISAAC, Trustee. November 14—w3t
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, TO the creditors of RICHARD WILLIAMS deceased, to exhibit their claims, with vouchers thereof, to the Chancellor, on or before the first day March next. RICHARD ISAAC, Trustee. November 14—w3t
Valuable Property For Sale.
THE Subscriber offers for sale a number of valuable heights convenient to the city of Washington about 2 or 3 miles from the President's House and near the same distance from the Capitol, and command a handsome view of the City, river Potomac, and Alexandria. Lot No. 1. contains 60 acres, No. 2. contains 42 acres. No. 3 contains 102 acres. No. 4 contains 19 acres; Likewise a lot lying between John Taylor, and Dr. Worthington containing from 80 to 100 acres. These lots will be sold together or apart as may suit purchasers. Terms may be known by applying to James White or Rev. John Breckenridge near the property. Jan 24 wtd
A BARGAIN.
THE subscriber offers for sale the farm he now occupies, containing near 500 acres with or without the stock thereon. It is distant from the cities of Georgetown and Washington, about five miles, and well known as a healthy situation. There is much fine fruit orchard, and abounds with springs, affording as good water as in the United States, a considerable proportion of the land has been in clover, and from thirty to forty acres fit for the scythe the ensuing summer. It is now in a very improving state, being altogether clear of broom fledge, and from 40 to 50 acres ploughed and prepared for a spring crop, and from 30 to 40 acres well set with wheat and rye—some part of the land is calculated for tobacco, and plaster of paris answers well with it all. The dwelling house and other improvements may with small repairs, be rendered very comfortable—convenience to two growing cities, many advantages result in supplying the markets. A purchaser may calculate on a good bargain particularly if an early application be made. Some part of the purchase money will be required in cash or approved negotiable paper the remainder rendered early—or negroes received in payment. The publisher or William Scott residing on the farm will show it when required, and the terms made known by application to Mr. John Thompson, George Town, or Dr. Wm. Tuckerton Washington. Isaac Pollock,
Fruit Hill.
Some Lands calculated for the culture of cotton, Indian corn and small grain, situated on a navigable river in the Heathfield part of the state of Georgia, will also be sold on reasonable terms or exchanged for negroes. Jan. 29—sing rtf

THE SUBSCRIBER HAS just supplied his shop in F street with a complete assortment of fresh Medicines & Drugs, among which are Spermaceti & Linseed oils— also Paints of every description. THOMAS PATTERSON, Washington city, June 22—tf
LOTTERY OF ST. PAUL'S PARISH, BALTIMORE. The Managers of this Lottery intend to commence the drawing on the first Tuesday in December, and to draw 1000 tickets every week, till it be completed. Tickets may be had, till the drawing com- mences, at the original price of Five Dollars, of either of the Managers, and other persons in Baltimore authorised to sell, and of prizes in the Precincts Market House Lottery of Baltimore will be received in payment.
C H E M E.     DOLLS.     1 Prize of 10 000   1 3 000   2 2 000   3 1 000   8 500   15 300   30 100   60 50   120 20   700 10   5 100 6   6420 Prizes. 75 000   21960 Blanks. Sum raised including expenses, 15 000   10000 Tickets at five dollars each 50 000  
There are not two blanks to a prize. The prizes will be paid, without deduction, at the end of sixty days from the completion of the drawing; and such as may not be demanded within twelve months after, will be considered as generous donations to the objects of the Lottery, the chief of which is the creation of a new parsonage house.
The first drawn ticket will be entitled to 500 dollars, and the last to 2000 dollars, be- sides which there are several other stationary prizes.  John Merryman, Mark Pringle, James Carroll, William Lorman, George Grundy, Isaac Philips, George Hoffman, Covert Haskins, Baltimore, Nov. 12—2awf
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 Phila- delphia,
A choice assortment Of Extra Superior cloths, Bennetts, Velvets, and Cords, Cashmere, single and double milled Satin cloths, fashionable Spanish Orleans and Tobaccos, rich silk Molekin velvets, silk and fatin Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the season. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. Richard Harwell celebrated patent paral- lel suspenders, can be had on the same terms as at his manufactory. November 12—tf
It is by consent of parties ordered by the court that the Auditor state the accounts of Eliza B. Caldwell, trustee for the sale of the real estate of Gulliana Scott, deceased, as also the accounts against the said estate, and apportion the assets in hand amongst the different claimants in proportion to their re- spective claims, or among such of them as shall exhibit their claims on or before the 15th day of December next. It is further ordered, That the aforesaid trustees cause to be published a copy of this order, at least twice a week for three successive weeks before the 1st day of December next, in the Na- tional Intelligencer, Washington Federalist and some of the Baltimore newspapers. By Order, WM. BRENT, CLK.
LOST, The following Certificates of United States Debts: No. 2708 for 244 dolls. 45 cts. 6 per cents. 3922 for 88 dolls. 3 per cents. 3339 for 122 dolls. 23 cts. deferred 6 per cents. Issued by the Register of the Treasury, Joseph Nourse, Esqr. The 6 per cts. on the 2d September, 1791—the per cts. on the 25 January, 1792, and the deferred 6 per cents on the 27 January, 1793, in favour of William Wilson, of Alexandria. For the renewal of which application will be made at the Treasury of the United States. WM. HODGSON. October 11th, 1806—6wp
ELIAS B. CALDWELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAS removed his Office, to the house lately occupied by Mr. Law, on Capitol Hill, Washington, July 26—tf
CHEAP GOODS. T. W. PAIRO, Seven Buildings, has re- ceived from Philadelphia and Baltimore, a Large Assortment of DRY GOODS, which he will sell at a low price. Also London PIANO FORTES. Liquors and Groceries of a superior quality. November 7—tMar.3
TO RENT, On very low terms, FOUR com- venient Town story brick Dwelling Houses adjoining south of the Six Buildings. Apply to T. H. GILLISS. Washington city, Aug. 15—wtf
WILL BE SOLD, At Public Auction, on Saturday the 22nd of November inst. at 12 o'clock, at the house next to Mr. Rapine's dwelling, on East Capitol Street, a quantity of Household & Kitchen Furniture, A credit of three months will be given on all purchases above 20 Dollars, under that sum cash—notes with security will be required. N. L. QUEEN, Auctioneer. Nov. 14—4t.
JOHN COX Has received a large General assortment of FALL GOODS, Which he will sell by wholesale and retail very cheap. No one shall sell lower than he will. George Town, October 13—cpNUG—5w
50 Dollars Reward. RANAWAY from the subscriber, on the 20th ult. mulatto JOE. Joe is a stout well made dark mulatto fellow, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, about 30 years of age—has seve- ral large scars on his hands & body, lips a little. Had on and took with him, a tow linen shirt & trowers, one pair of nankeen trowers, also one old tartan coat and old hat that much worn. Joe can write a tolerable good hand, & has run away before, when he was taken up & put in the Frederick town jail & sold out by George Creager in 1805. Any person tak- ing up said fellow, and securing him in any jail to that I get him again, shall receive if taken within the county, 20 dollars, and if out of the state the above reward. If brought home all reasonable charges will be paid by the subscriber living in Frederick county, Md. near New Market. SINGELTON BURGE.
N. B. I forewarn all persons from harboring or carrying off said fellow at their peril. P. S. Joe ran off in company with a fellow named Adam, and they were both lately ad- vertised together; since which Adam has been taken and secured in the jail of York, (Pa.) Joe went in the same direction, and with prob- ability make for Philadelphia, and endeavor to get on board some vessel and go to sea. Sept. 12—cpN
On a liberal credit. THE subscriber will dispose of at private sale, his estate called Cliffield, lying on the eastern branch, immediately opposite the city of Washington. This tract of land containing 697 acres is laid off in lots from 83 to 144 acres for the convenience of pur- chasers. Plats of the estate and the terms of sale are in the hands of colonel Manion at the navy yard, and Charles Wayman of George Town. The lots will be shown by Mr. Wedden, living on the premises, near the Eastern Branch bridge. ANTHONY ADDISON. Barnaby, 12th June 1805—tf
STELLE'S HOTEL & CITY TAVERN. THE Subscriber takes this method of thanking his friends and the public for their favours whilst on the Capitol Square and begs leave to acquaint them that he has taken the Spacious Hotel lately erected by Mr. Carroll, near the Capitol. The hotel being above one hundred feet in front, and containing fifty rooms enables the subscriber to offer every accommodation to members of Congress and travellers which can be expected in a public house. PONTIUS D. STELLE. Washington City, March 25—tf N. B.—P. D. S. will rent the house lately occupied by him on the adjoining square.
GEORGE-TOWN, WASHINGTON AND BALTIMORE MAIL STAGES. THE PUBLIC ARE RESPECTFULLY INFORMED THAT MYER'S NEW LINE WILL START FROM Mr. SEMMES'S Tavern, George-Town, and call for passengers at RHODES', MYER'S and FROST'S Hotels, city of Washington. FARE THREE DOLLARS AND A HALF. October 1—tf
WILLIAM MARBURY, HAS received from Philadelphia and Bal- timore, and for sale by MR. BREWER, next door above Mr. Eliza Riggs Store on Bridge Street, A General assortment of Fall & Fancy Goods of the latest importations, and will receive a further supply in a few days, all of which have been purchased on the best terms for cash, and will be sold very low. George Town, October 15—tawam
P. MAURO'S NEW GROCERY AND CROCKERY WARE STORE. THE Subscriber respectfully informs the Inhabitants of the city of Washington that he has lately received from New York and Philadelphia, a large & complete assortment of Grocery, Liquors, Fruits, and Crockery ware,—that he expects with the first arrivals from Baltimore, a supply of the above arti- cles, and that he has opened Store opposite the SEVEN BUILDINGS, where he flatters himself that he will be able to accommodate his customers not only with the best and choic- est kind of goods, especially fresh Teas, and Liquors, but on as low terms as elsewhere in this vicinity. P. MAURO.
P. MAURO, Professor of Music, begs the inhabitants of Washington and George Town to accept of his hearty thanks for the encou- ragement he has been favoured with, inform- ing them that he does not intend to decline his profession, but that he shall continue as formerly to instruct on the Piano Forte, German Flute, and Guitar Washington city, November 10—tf
ATTENTION!!! Those persons that wish to purchase the GENUINE PATENT & FAMILY MEDICINES OF RICHARD LEE & SON MUST APPLY TO Mr. Daniel Rapine, Capitol Hill, Wash- ington, & Dr. N. Magruder, George Town.
"An ounce of prevention is worth pounds of cure." For the prevention and cure of Billious and Malignant Fevers, is recommended Lee's Anti-Billious Pills, Prepared by Richard Lee & Son, Baltimore.
THIS medicine has, for eight years past been attended with a degree of success highly grateful to the inventor's feelings, in several parts of the West Indies, and the southern part of the U. States, particularly in Bal- timore, Petersburg, Richmond, Norfolk, Eden- ton, Wilmington, Charleston and Savannah. The testimony of a number of persons in each of these places has been adduced, who have reason to believe that a timely use of this salutary remedy has, under Providence, pre- served their lives when in the most alarming circumstances.
Facts of this conclusive nature, speak more in favor of a medicine than columns of pomp- ous eulogy, founded on mere assertion. It is not indeed presumptuously proposed as an infallible cure, but the inventor has every possible reason that can result from extensive experience, for believing that a dose of these pills taken once every two weeks, during the prevalence of malignant fevers, will prove an infallible preventative: & further, that in the early stages of those disorders, their use will very generally succeed in restoring health, and frequently in cases deemed desperate, and beyond the power of common remedies.
The operation of these pills is perfectly mild, so as to be used with safety by persons in every situation, and of every age. They are excellently adapted to carry off superfluous bile, and prevent its morbid secre- tion—to restore and amend the appetite—to produce a free perspiration, and thereby pre- vent colds, which are often of fatal conse- quences; a dose never fails to remove a cold, if taken on its first appearance. They are cele- brated for removing habitual costiveness— sickness at the stomach and severe head aches and ought to be taken by all persons on a change of climate. They have been found remarkably efficacious in preventing and curing disorders attend- ant on long voyages, and should be procur- ed and carefully preserved for use by every seaman.
Lee's Infallible Fever and Ague Drops, For the cure of Agues, Remittent and Intermittent fevers.
Thousands can testify of their being cured by these drops, after the bark and every other medicine have proved ineffectual. Not one in a hundred has had occasion to take more than one, and numbers not half a bottle. These drops are particularly recommended to the inhabitants of low, marshy countries, where the worst sort of agues generally pre- vail; which, unless early attended to, and speedily removed, injure the constitution ex- ceedingly, bring on dropsies, putrid fevers, and a variety of complaints of the most dan- gerous and alarming nature. Many other medicines are daily offered to the public for the cure of this disorder, which, upon trial, have been found either dangerous or useless. The bark is the usual remedy made use of but being a very nauseous medicine, and sel- dom taken in sufficient quantity, it very often fails; children and those who have weak stomachs, are frequently lost for want of a more easy and pleasant remedy.
Sovereign Ointment for the Itch. A preparation which for pleasantness, ease, safety, and expedition, gives place to no ap- plication whatever; free from mercury, or any pernicious ingredient.
Lee's Worm Destroying Lozenges: which have within seven years past cured up- wards of one hundred thousand persons of both sexes, of every age and in every situation, of various dangerous complaints arising from worms and from obstructions or foulness in the stomach and bowels—they are perfectly safe and pleasant, and may be given to the youngest infant or the most delicate pregnant lady with propriety.
Lee's Genuine Eye Water. A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eyes, whether the effect of natural weakness or of accident.
Tooth Ache Drops. The only remedy yet discovered which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe instances.
Genuine Persian Lotion. So celebrated among the fashionable throughout Europe, as an invaluable cosmetic, perfectly innocent and free from corrosive and repellent minerals, (the basis of other lotions) and unparalleled efficacy in preventing and removing blemishes of every kind, particular- ly freckles, pimples, inflammatory redness, scurf, tatters, ring worms, sun-burns, prickly heat, premature wrinkles, &c.
Lee's Genuine Essence and Extract of Mustard. A safe and effectual remedy for Acute Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Palsy, Lumbago, Numbedness, White swellings, Chibleins Sprains, Bruises, Pains in the face and neck &c.
The Anodyne Elixir, For the cure of every kind of Head-Ache.
Lee's Peppermint Lip Salve, is recommended (particularly to the Ladies) as an elegant and pleasant preparation for chapped and sore lips, and every blemish and inconvenience occasioned by colds, fevers, &c speedily restoring a beautiful rosy color and delicate softness to the lips. Restorative Powder for the Teeth and Gums.
Lee's genuine Corn Plaster. An infallible remedy for speedily removing Corns, Root and Branch, without giving pain. Indian Vegetable Specific, For the cure of Venereal Complaints. It will be prudent in all who estimate the value of health, to observe that each of the above articles have the signature of Richard Lee & Son, on the outside wrappers, with- out which none are genuine. Letters directed for Richard Lee & Son, No. 17, Market Street, Baltimore, will be punctually attended to. October 10—6w
The Subscribers take this method of requesting DAVID DUNCAN late Collector of the port of Machine, to remit them on or before the month of March next the amount of their bond given to the United States, as judgment hath been obtained against them on said bond. ROBERT AEBOT, JNO. DODEMEAD. Detroit November 10—1m
BY HIS EXCELLENCY ROBERT BOWIE, Governor of Maryland, A PROCLAMATION,
WHEREAS the General Assembly of Maryland did, by an act, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and five, entitled "An act to reduce into one the several acts of assembly, respecting elections, and to regulate said elections, direct that the governor and council after having received the returns of elections of members to represent this state in the Congress of the United States, should enumerate and ascertain the number of votes given for each and every person voted for as a member to Congress aforesaid respectively, and shall thereupon declare, by proclamation, signed by the governor, the name of the per- son or persons duly elected in each respective district: We, in pursuance of the directions of the said act, do, by this our proclamation, declare, that by the returns made to us it ap- pears that JOHN CAMPBELL, esq. was elected for the first district, JACOB VAN HORN, esq. was elected for the second district, I- LIT BARNES KEY, esq. was elected for the third district, ROGER NELSON, esq. was elected for the fourth district; NICHOLAS RUXTON MOORE, esq. and WILLIAM M'CRE- RY, esquires, were elected for the fifth district, JOHN MONTGOMERY, esquire, was elected for the sixth district; ED- WARD LLOYD, esq. was elected for the se- venth district, and CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, esq. was elected for the eighth district. Given in council, at the city of Annapo- lis, under the seal of the state of Ma- ryland, this twenty-fifth day of Octo- ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, ROBERT BOWIE.
By the Governor, NINIAN PINKNEY, Clerk of the council. ORDERED, That the foregoing proclamation be published twice in each week, for the space of three weeks successively, in the Mary- land Gazette, at Annapolis; the Federal Gazette, Telegraph, Evening Post, and the Ameri- can, at Baltimore; the Republican Advocate, at Frederick town; Mr. Smith's paper, at Baltimore; Mr. Grice's paper, at Hager's Town, and the National Intelligencer, at the city of Washington. By order, NINIAN PINKNEY, Clerk of the Council. November 7—tawam
60 DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber living in Prince George's county on Sunday the 29th inst. the three following slaves—a mulatto young man who calls himself BILL STEW- ART, he was born at Montgomery court house, was once the property of Honore Martin, was purchased of him by the late Rich. Contee who sold him to me; he is a likely well made fellow about 21 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, his hands and feet are large; the evening before he absconded he had his hair cut close; he had with him a variety of clothing, viz. 1 blue coat and overalls, one light colored beaver skin coat and overalls, 2 swansdown waistcoats, 3 fine Irish linen shirts and some coarse shirts, three muslin neckcloths, a fine hat, price 7 dollars; he took away a prayer book, in the first page of which is written Mary Duckett.
JOE who calls himself Joe Grimes, alias Graham, and HARRY, both young negro men about 21 years of age—the clothing of these cannot be described. Joe has one of his arms broken near the wrist, which makes it longer than the other; when he is spoken to he speaks fast as if his tongue was too large for his mouth. Harry, I am informed, has seve- ral large scars on his body and one of his thighs occasioned by burns when he was young. The above reward will be paid for confining the three in jail, or 50 dollars for confining Bill in jail so that I get him again. WALTER BOWIE. July 7—2awtf
This is to give notice that the subscriber has obtained from the Orphan's court of Prince George's county in Maryland, letters of administration on the personal estate of Peter Wood, jun. late of said county de- ceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the sub- scriber at or before the first day of June next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from any benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this third day of November 1806 JOHN T. WOOD, Administrator. November 7—wtf
JAMES S. STEVENSON, Has for Sale at his Drug Store near the Navy Yard. 20 boxes window glass, 8 by 10, and 10 by 12. 12 boxes first quality Spanish Segars, 10 boxes do. American do. peraceti and linseed oil, and a general assortment of Drugs and Paints, etc. Washington, Nov. 5—gw
Twenty Dollars Reward. WILL be given for apprehending and securing in jail a young Mulatto man name named ANDREW. He was hired by me last year to Mr. Joseph Thomas who keeps the middle ferry to Alexandria, and absconded from that place about the latter end of August last. He is about 23 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, lanky and well made, has short curly hair, and is frequently subject to have several large pimples on his face. He is reck- oned to be a sensible fellow of an easy agree- able address for a man in his low sphere of life. As he has not been heard of by me since his employment, I suspect he has had the audacity to slip himself as a freeman on board some vessel either at Alexandria or Baltimore. Whoever takes him up and secures him in jail shall receive from me the above reward, or as soon due information thereof is given to me or to Dr. N. P. Cuffin at Port Tobacco. G. B. CAUSIN. Maryland Charles County, January 29—wtf
Durham Parish, Charles county 20th Septem- ber, 1806.
The Vestry and Church War- dens of Durham Parish, Charles county, Ma- ryland, hereby give notice that their parish is, and has been for some time vacant and that they wish to employ a CLERGYMAN of the protestant episcopal church, of a fair character to officiate in said Parish. The average amount of subscriptions for the last four years was, about 400 dollars per annum, besides a Glebe that rents for 1900 lbs crop tobacco per an- num. By order of the vestry. WM. BRAWNER, Reg. October 24—wtf
NOTICE. THE creditors of Uriah Forrest late de- ceased, whose claims have arisen since his bankruptcy, are requested to meet at ten o'clock on the first Monday in December next at Mr. Key's office in George Town, at which time a payment of the assets in hand will take place, amongst the claims legally authenticated—those who do not attend, or who have not exhibited their claims, will be excluded. PHILIP B. KEY, Attorney for the Executrix. November 3—tawam
TEAS, WINES, BRANDY, GINS, SUGAR, &c. &c. Now landing from on board the Schooner Dispatch, captain Smith from New York. 40 chests of fresh hylon, young hylon, and hyson tea, warranted good, im- ported in August last, 1 chest and 13 small boxes fine imperial tea, 1 chest gunpowder tea, in small leaden cannisters, 10 small boxes hylon Chulan tea, 1 pipe, 2 hds. and 4 quarter casks Sicily wine, 7 pipes genuine London particular Madeira wine, 4, 5, and 9 years old, 30 quarter casks old sherry wine, 12 do. Colomevar do, 10 do. Catalonia do, 1 pipe 3 hds. and 12 quarter casks, Lon- don particular Teneriffe, do. 1 pipe and 10 quarter casks Lisbon do. 12 pipes high old proof cognac brandy, some of it very old, 10 pipes Pierponts New York anchor gin, 12 hds. prime St. Croix sugars, 75 hds. tierces and barrels, Trinidad sugars calculated for retailing, the greater part entitled to drawback, 30 barrels loose and lump sugars, 70 boxes mould candles, 14 do. spermaceti do. 6 bags pepper, 12 boxes London mustard, 20 boxes Florence oil in flasks, 15 baskets Marceia do. in bottles, 30 boxes olives, capers and anchovies, 70 whole and half boxes best Mavanna segars, 4 hds. sugar house molasses 300 baskets fine table salt. 100 small sacks Liverpool floured salt, 32 crates Liverpool ware, 300 jug boiled Holland linseed oil, 100 demijohns, 13 bales India piece goods, consisting of durahs, raitas, mamoodies, tamahs, &c. 1 bale very fine and wide Russis sheeting, 1200lb. Coffee. Fresh Zante currants, Smyrna figs, nutmegs, English walnuts, filberts, &c. 1000 butts and 120 barrels excellent pota- toes. The above goods have been carefully se- lected in the New York market, and pu- chased on the best terms. They will be sold by the subscribers at their ware house opposite Lowndes wharf, at a moderate advance. WALTER & CLEMENT SMITH.
WHO HAVE ALSO IN STORE, Old Port and Lisbon Wines, Holland Gin, Forsdike Brandy and a few chests Souchong Tea. George Town, October 29—wtf
RUNAWAY NEGRO. Committed to the jail of Washington county, Maryland, a run- away, Charles Bowman, alias Charles Bader, about 25 years old, five feet 5 or 6 inches high, his complexion a dark mulatto, his clothes which he wears, are a striped cotton front coat, checked cotton trowers, and a coarse brown linen shirt. He has other clothes with him, and has a dark spot on his nose. His owner is desired to release him or he will be sold for his jail fees agreeably to law. N. ROCHESTER, Sheriff of Wash- ington County. November 7, 1806—3w
NEGROES. FOR SALE, for a term of years se- veral likely young Women, among them is a very good cook. To hire by the year, two good laborers and a boy—they all have good characters. Also to rent an orchard house, square 122, a two story FRAME HOUSE with two rooms on a floor and a piazza. Enquire of the Printer, October 15—wtf