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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
A N D WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. VII.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
N o . 1087
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1807.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
On the motion to commit Messrs. Burr, Blennerhassett, and Smith.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 19.
Examination of Jacob Dunbaugh.
Mr. Hay. Will you describe the situation of the party at the mouth of Cumberland river? Witness. Am I to be confined to the Cumberland river?
Mr. Hay. You may go down to the Chickasaw Bluffs.
Mr. Bots. Go down to the Mississippi river; and whether you are to go further, the court will instruct you. Some desultory conversation here ensued on this point, after which the witness proceeded.
On the 26th Dec. 1806, very early in the morning, a small skiff with four men and a Mr. Hopkins, arrived at Fort Massac. Some time after the arrival of this skiff, captain Bissell (commandant at the Fort) detailed me for command to go to the mouth of Cumberland river, to purchase a beef for him. Q. What were you? A. I was and am still sergeant in the army of the U. S. He told me I was to call on colonel Burr with his compliments; and if colonel Burr wanted my assistance, that I was to furnish it. Capt. Bissell told me, this Mr. Hopkins, who came in the skiff with 4 men, was going up with me. When we got half way up to the Cumberland river, we staid, and I asked Mr. Hopkins his business at Fort Massac, and he said it was to ask captain Bissell whether he would oppose colonel Burr's passing by the fort. I got to the mouth of Cumberland, about half an hour before sun set, on the 26th Dec. and landed: Col. B. was then encamped on Cumberland island. After I had crossed over to the island, I saw col. Burr and delivered capt. Bissell's message. Col. Burr said he was much obliged to him; and that captain Bissell was very good. Col. B. asked me, "Is not this my old friend?" I had seen him before. He said he believed I drank no brandy; and asked me if I would not have a glass of wine. When I drank, I said "here's success to col. Burr and his undertaking;" and Mr. Blennerhassett (this was the first time I ever saw him) stamped his foot and said "Amen." Col. Burr told me that I must take breakfast with him next morning, I replied that I would. On the 27th I saw colonel Burr and told him, I was going to the garrison. He told me to bear his compliments to Captain Bissell, and asked me if I could take a barrel of apples to him. I told him I would. Whilst they were getting the apples on board, the wind sprung up very fresh, and I was not able to start. In the course of that day, I crossed him several times over to the Kentucky shore, and several of his men. During that day, Col. Burr asked me, how I would like to go down the river with him. I replied very well, if I could obtain the consent of my general. He said that that would make no odds. He would fix it without. This was on the 27th, and on the 28th, I called on Col. B. and told him I was going to Fort Massac. He sent his compliments to captain Bissell, but said he expected he would get there before me. I told him, that he might man his barge as well as he could, I would arrive there before him. I arrived at the garrison some time in the afternoon.
Mr. Bots. There you may stop. It is impossible to progress without running into some impropriety, unless we ascertain the limits within which the witnesses are to be confined.
Mr. Hay. Observed that he did not mean to prove any acts at Fort Massac. After some conversation the examination proceeded:
Mr. Hay. Did you see any military parade? A. I saw the men drawn up at the mouth of Cumberland. Q. How many men? A. I did not count them; but I suppose there were about 100. Q. What kind of men? A. Generally young men.
Mr. Wirt. Did they look like hard laborers? A. The principal part did not. Q. How drawn up? W. They were drawn up in a line? A. No: they were drawn up in three wings. Q. What do you mean by three wings? divisions? The witness here described their position, by drawing a figure on the floor with his foot. They described three sides of a square. Col. Burr was introduced by col. Tyler, beginning at the left. The party gradually fell in and formed a circle.
Mr. Hay. How introduced? A. He went around and shook hands with every man.
Mr. Hay. Did you see some chests of arms?
Mr. Burr objected to this manner of putting the question.
Mr. Hay admitted that he had put the question inadvertently; he merely wished Mr. Dunbaugh to state what he knows of the chests of arms.
Mr. Bots. State what you know of any chests of arms within the U. S.
Witness. I did not see more than a few rifles at the mouth of Cumberland.
Mr. Hay. I think the court yesterday decided, that we were at liberty to
state any circumstances out of the U. S. which were explanatory of the acts done within the U. S.
On this topic a long and desultory discussion ensued. The Chief Justice at length decided, that if an overt act be laid at the mouth of Cumberland river; if a military assemblage was said to be there assembled, that evidence beyond the limits of the states might be produced to shew the military attitude of the party; that with respect to this particular question, if the witnesses could show that no other arms were put on board, and if certain arms were on board at a certain place, it was some presumption that these arms had been at the mouth of Cumberland river; and that he understood it was the intention of the prosecution to show that this party were in such a state at such a place, that they might be able to infer that the party were in a similar state at the mouth of Cumberland. In this point of view, he conceived that such evidence was admissible.
Mr. Hay. State then, Mr. Dunbaugh, what you know on the subject. Did you leave Fort Massac with Colonel Burr? A. I overtook him at New-Madrid on the 1st of January. Q. Did you then go down the river with him? A. Yes, in his own boat.
Mr. Wickham repeated his objections to this kind of evidence. How was the witness to know, whether arms might not have been subsequently put on board the boats? He was not always in colonel Burr's boat; nor was col. Burr's boat with the rest. Can this be good testimony?
Chief Justice. The attorney is to show that hereafter. He is to shew that there was no connection between the boats and the shore.
Mr. Wickham. But suppose that he has no testimony to that effect?
Chief Justice. Whether arms were subsequently introduced, is a matter of inference, dependent on the whole of the evidence on both sides. It depends on a variety of circumstances, such as the situation of the shore and the country, &c.
Mr. Hay. State then, Mr. Dunbaugh, what you know about the arms on board the boats. Witness. Sometime in January, we left Bayou Pierre, and descended to Petit Gulf 3 miles below on the opposite side. Col. Burr went ashore, and returned to the Petit Gulf. The boats all shoved off at once; Col. B.'s was rather behind. The night we left Petit Gulf, Col. B. and Willie came into the bow of the boat with an axe, auger and saw. They went into colonel Burr's private room and began to chop. He ordered no person to go out, but I did go out. I saw a skiff lying aside of colonel B.'s boat. After they had done chopping, a Mr. Pryor, and a Mr. Tooley got out of the window. I got on the top of the boat, and saw two bundles of arms tied up with cords, and sunk by cords going through holes at the gunwales of Col. Burr's boat. I observed to Mr. Pryor, that he must be careful to bring up the boat, or else it could not get close to shore.
Mr. Hay. How many arms were there? A. There were about 40 or 43 stands. I saw besides, pistols, swords, blunderbusses, fusées and tomahawks.
Mr. Wirt. Is not the coast opposite to New-Madrid a part of Tennessee? A. No; it is the Indiana territory. Q. Were you on board any of the other boats? A. Several. Q. Did they keep together? A. They did, when they could. Q. Did you see arms in the other boats? A. I saw several stands of arms, that is, muskets with bayonets, in Floyd's boat; and about 12 rifles. Q. Were you near enough to colonel B. at the mouth of Cumberland to hear his observations to his party? A. I was. He said there were then too many bye standers to divulge his plans. Q. Were any men obtained, after you joined them? A. One, who got aboard at New-Madrid. Q. Were you commissioned by colonel B. to obtain men? A. No; not citizens. Q. What do you mean by the word "citizens"?
Here Dunbaugh was stopped by the opposite council, and his examination proceeded no farther on this day.
MONDAY, SEPT. 21st.
Continuation of Jacob Dunbaugh's Evidence.
Mr. Hay. State what passed between Col. Burr and yourself about your getting people to join him.
Witness. I stopt before with saying, that Col. Burr had not spoken to me to engage citizens: But he had spoken to me about soldiers. On the 30th of December, after Col. Burr had obtained captain Bissell's consent for me to go with him, I went to Col. Burr, where he was encamped, about a mile or two below the garrison at Fort Massac, on the Indiana side. Col. B. asked me into his cabin (a private room he had) and asked me if I could not get ten or twelve of the best men in the garrison to go along with him. I asked him how it was to be done. He said, "get them to desert." I told him no. He asked me, if I could not steal out of the garrison, arms, such as muskets, fusées, and rifles. I told him that I would not,
if I could, for him or any other man on earth; that I had always been well treated by the officers of the army. I told him I had a rifle of my own; and he told me to bring it with me, and he would pay me for it. I started then to the garrison, and prepared myself to go; that was, after Col. B. I had obtained liberty of my captain. The counsel for the accused contended that this kind of testimony was not at all relevant to the subject. After some discussion, the examination proceeded.
At the mouth of Cumberland, Walter Davidson engaged a man by the name of Casey. Q. On what terms. Witness. I do not particularly recollect. Q. How do you know that Davidson was the agent of Col. Burr? Witness. He belonged to the party and told me he was an agent for Col. Burr. The substance of the engagement was; he was to receive twelve and a half dollars per month for six months, clothes and victuals for six months, and 100 acres of land, to fight against all opponents. This Mr. Davidson, Plumb, and Andrew Wood, were sent to New Madrid to enlist more men. The witness here returned to that point in his narration at which he had been interrupted on his former examination. When I returned to Fort Massac, on the 28th December, I gave Col. Burr's compliments to capt. Bissell, and told him that Col. B. had sent him a barrel of apples. The next day, 29th, this Mr. Davidson, Plumb, and Andrew Wood, came to the garrison very early in the morning, in a skiff; this was the time when they told me that they were going to enlist more men for Col. Burr. They bought a skiff of me, that was left with me to sell by a Mr. Cutler, a surveyor, their own skiff was afterwards carried off by Col. Burr's party. That evening after sun down, a barge came down to Fort Massac with twelve men in it. Col. Tyler and Major Hill were in it, and I think also Major Smith. They went up to Captain Bissell's quarters, where they staid about 20 minutes; and I then heard col. Tyler tell the boat's crew to return to where col. Burr was encamped; with some other instructions, that I did not hear. Between 12 or 1 o'clock that night, col. Burr's boats passed by the fort, and landed about one or two miles below the garrison. (Mr. Hay. How many men were then in the garrison? A. 44 men. Q. Was that the usual complement of men? A. No—some of the troops had gone to Newport, and some to other places. Q. Was there any artillery? A. None. Q. How wide is the river at that place? A. About a mile wide.) Next morning capt. Bissell told me to get six men with the clinker boat, to take him down the river a small piece. While the men were getting ready, a Mr. Fort, (perhaps his Christian name was John) who had been lying there several days, asked me how I would like to go along. I told him I should like it very well, if I could get leave to go. He told me he had been speaking to capt. Bissell the evening before, and that capt. B. had consented to let me go. While the boat was getting ready, capt. Bissell, col. Tyler, maj. Hill, and I believe maj. Smith, came down. Capt. B. got into his own boat; the rest pushed off in the boat that had been lying there several days, and fell down in company with him to where col. Burr was encamped. Capt. B. went into col. B.'s boat, and while there, col. B. asked him to let me go with him. I heard it, because though I was not in the same room, there was a thin partition between us, and I heard him ask capt. Bissell. I did not hear capt. Bissell's answer. Capt. B. came out, got into his own boat, and after going one or two hundred yards we landed and walked up to the garrison. 30th December, while I was in the military store, a man came in, who brought two letters from col. Burr. He gave capt. Bissell one, and the other to me. Capt. Bissell went out, and after I had done in the store, he called me, took me through the Sally Port, to the back of the garrison, and asked me whether col. Burr had been speaking to me about a furlough. I told him no. H. asked me whether I wanted a furlough to go. I told him with his approbation and advice I would take one. Capt. Bissell said he would not advise me; but if I wanted one for 20 days, he would give me one. He told me, before the 20 days were out, I should see the general. He asked me if col. B. had told me any secrets, and if he had, that I must keep them to myself. I accepted of capt. B.'s offer, and he told me to get ready to go with col. Burr. I then went and saw col. Burr, and the conversation passed about the men and arms which I have already related. That evening (on the 30th D. C.) captain Bissell sent for me to his quarters, and told me he was going to advise me what I was to do; he advised me never to forsake col. Burr, that he would do something for me. He told me, that if ever col. B. got on a field of battle never to leave him on the ground. At the same time he made me a present of a silver breast plate. That evening I went to capt. Bissell's for my furlough. He gave me a furlough, with a letter to gen. Wilkinson, to be delivered by col. Burr. Col. B. had then started, and I
was to give him the letter as soon as I overtook him. On the 31st Dec. being the day for muster and inspection, I asked capt. B. if I was to shew my clothing; I said they were all picked up and on board. He told me I must borrow some for inspection, which I accordingly did, agreeably to his orders. Whilst the men were on parade, I went to his lady's quarters to take my leave, and on my return capt. Bissell having brought the men to a ground. He told me, "Dunbaugh, I wish you success, let you go where you will." I wanted to see Dr. Little before I went, and capt. B. told me, if I had no particular business, I had better go on, and if any one asked me where I was going, I was to say, I was only going a few miles down the river, and that I was coming back again. There was one of col. Burr's boats with eight hands to take me to him.
We overtook col. B. on the 1st Jan. at New Madrid. I handed him the letter for gen. Wilkinson, and he broke it open. I told him the letter was for gen. W. He asked pardon, took me into his cabin, and sealed it up. I asked him what boat I was to go in, and he said in his own; as its accommodations were better than in any other. We left New Madrid about 11 or 12 o'clock that day, (1st Jan.) Andrew Wood remained at New Madrid, and Plumb and Walter Davidson, who had been sent on to enlist men, got on board the boats and Mr. Hopkins was left in their places to enlist. After we got into the stream, a keel boat came alongside, and took col. B. into another boat some hundred yards off. I saw him on the bow of the boat, giving some instructions, but I could not hear him. Major Floyd had charge of this keel boat and crew; and I understood they were instructed to be at Natchez in four days. When we got within 45 miles of the Chickasaw Bluffs, col. Burr asked me if I would go ahead with him to C. Bluffs, in a small boat, as I was acquainted with the river. I told him I would. We got into a small boat with 12 more men, and he gave general orders to the other boats to follow on, so as to reach the Bluffs early next morning. We got there between twelve and one o'clock that night, (3d Jan.) After we landed, col. B. told me, I must go up to the garrison, and ask the commanding officer, if he could not get quarters, that night for himself and men. When I arrived at the garrison, I was conducted to lieut. Jackson's quarters. He returned his compliments, and said he would furnish them with lodgings. Col. Burr went up with some of his men and supped. The next morning col. B. asked me, if I was acquainted with the men in the garrison. I told him I was. He asked me, if I could not get 10 or 12 of the best men to desert. I told him, I would not. He then said, he would speak to them himself, and get 2 of the best men, and asked me to name them; which I did. (Upon being interrogated, the witness said, there were 19 men in the fort; few pieces of cannon; and the river about as wide as at ft. Massac.) Some time in the afternoon, I asked col. B. if he had got the men to go with him. He said he had. Sometime that evening he told me that lieut. Jackson and the other men would follow in a few days. That day col. B. employed a man, one Skinner, to run him some musket balls. He run him 600; for which col. B. paid him one dollar. He bought 3 dozen Tomahawks out of the factory, which col. B. distributed among his men; some he had helved. That day all the boats landed at the Bluff, and on the 5th they all started, except a small boat left for col. B. He soon overtook us, and got into his own boat. No one came from the garrison with him. We proceeded to a place called Palmyra, 35 miles above Bayou Pierre, on the 10th January. Col. B. again asked me, if I would go down to Bayou Pierre with him.
Mr. Wickham asked the court, whether the witness should proceed. How was this kind of testimony calculated to prove the overt act? How was it relevant to the charge? Was it not better for gentlemen to extract whatever they deemed material out of the witness by putting interrogations?
Mr. Wirt. The witness was just coming to certain declarations of the accused, which directly related to the objects of this expedition. When he has arrived at Bayou Pierre, and is about to tell something that is important, he is just.
Ch. Justice wished the attorney to put interrogatories.
Mr. Hay. Did you ever get out of col. Burr's boat to go into another? A. Never, except at Chickasaw Bluffs and Bayou Pierre, when I went with col. B. at his particular request. Q. Did you go ashore at judge Bruin's? and state what happened there. The counsel for the accused objected to this general interrogatory.
Ch. Justice. Ask him whether any thing happened there respecting this expedition.
Mr. Hay. Perhaps the witness may omit fact, because he deems them unimportant, which I may consider extremely relevant. Did any thing hap-
pen at judge Bruin's respecting a publication? and state what it was.
Witness. On Sunday 11th January, while we were 3 or 400 yards from the shore, col. Burr told me to arm myself with a rifle and conceal a bayonet under my clothes. He told me he was going to tell something I must never relate again. He then told me that gen. Wilkinson had betrayed him; that he had played the devil with him, and had proved the greatest traitor on the earth. I told him I could not believe it, and asked him how he knew it. He said he had seen published in a paper a letter, which he had some time before written to gen. Wilkinson in cyphers. He mentioned that general W. had made oath to this letter before the court or in open court, I do not recollect which. He then told me he was fearful of being injured or taken; that I must keep a good look out about judge Bruin's—Col. Burr went into judge Bruin's to breakfast; and I went into the cotton gin that was near the house. A boat came, & he told me to take a spy glass and see whether it was his boat. I could not determine—He then directed me to go down, and if it was his boat, to fire a musket. Q. Where is judge Bruin's? A. About a mile and a quarter below Bayou Pierre.
Mr. Wirt. Where did he say he had seen the paper? A. The paper had been handed by judge Bruin to col. B. the evening before. Q. What was the conversation at judge Bruin's? A. col. Burr asked him, if he had any papers; he handed him this paper; and after reading 15 or 20 minutes, he rose up and said he must go to the boats.
Mr. Hay. Did the troops from the boats land there? A. Yes. Q. With what view did the men go on shore below the mouth of Bayou Pierre? A. They landed about 2 or 3 miles below in the Louisiana territory. The opposite counsel objected to these questions; but were overruled by the court.
Mr. Hay. State what happened at the landing of the men.
Witness. Some days after the men landed (they all landed) col. B. ordered ground to be cleared for a parade ground, for the purpose of exercising the men—but I never saw the ground myself, nor the men exercising. Some of the men however are here—Dr. Mumbolland is one of those men who assisted in clearing of the ground. There was a guard of 12 men paraded at this place. Wylie for one had a rifle and sword.
Mr. Wirt. Were there any Indians at that place? A. None. Q. What produced this guard? A. They understood that the militia were coming to take col. B.—and those 12 men were placed to alarm the boats. Q. Was this before or after sinking the muskets? A. It was before. The witness, upon being further interrogated, deposed that a Mr. Lemaster had taken potatoes out of a hhd. then in Mr. B.'s boat, a barrel of potatoes, with which he said he was going to fill the box of arms, so as to make it appear like a box of potatoes; that he was asked in the presence of col. Burr to go and help to clear the ground; that col. Fitzpatrick came to take an inventory of all the goods and arms that he could see; but that he did not see col. F. search for the arms.
Mr. Burr. Where was I all this time? A. I know not; but I saw you handing 2 or 3 muskets out of the cabin window of your own boat into Mr. Blennerhassett's boat. The witness further stated, that the arms which were sunk were sunk between Petit Gulf & Coles's creek; that Burr was looked upon as the commander in chief of the expedition; that in the night his boat was distinguished by two lanterns, placed one above another, whereas the rest had but one—and that in the day time handkerchiefs were hoisted in some of the boats by way of flag.
Cross examined.
Mr. Burr. You say your furlough was for 20 days? A. It was. Q. After the expiration of this furlough, were you not advertised as a deserter? A. I was. Q. Were you taken up? A. I was not. Q. When you got to Baton Rouge, did you write to general Wilkinson? A. I did. Q. What did you write? A. That my furlough had been taken from me; and that if he would send me a furlough or a pardon, I would come on in three days. Q. Did you promise to give any information against me? A. I did not.
Mr. Wirt observed, that he was authorised by general Wilkinson to say, that he had the original furlough given to capt. Bissell.
Mr. Martin. Did he send you a pardon? A. General Wilkinson wrote to me to come down. Q. Have you that letter? A. No. It was taken from me at Baton Rouge. Governor Fols has it at this moment. Q. Did you write to captain Bissell? A. I did. I mentioned to captain Bissell, that as both of us might be injured by this transaction, if he would say that he had sent me a spy, it would clear both him and myself. Q. When were you discharged from the army? A. I was not discharged in 1805, when I travelled with you. Q. Why were you discharged? Show your hand to the court. A. There is my hand (one of the fingers appeared to

have been injured.) I can shew my discharge. I procured a substitute, and many have liberty to procure them. Mr. Hay. Hand me the discharge; the witness accordingly presented it. Q. Did you come round with general Wilkinson? A. I did. Q. Were you subpoenaed? A. I did not know I was. Q. Who requested you to come round from New Orleans? A. I came by request of general Wilkinson. Q. Did he say for what? A. He said as a witness. Q. You gave a deposition in New Orleans? A. Yes. Q. At whose request? A. At general W's. Q. When I came down the Mississippi in 1805, by whose orders did I have the men? A. I thought, by Gen. W's. Q. Had they arms? A. I think not. Q. Had they colours? A. They had, and they were flying every day. Q. Did you not tell me, you expected your discharge? A. Yes. Q. Do you not know that the soldiers at Chickasaw Bluffs wanted to go with me; and I refused them. A. I recollect that you wanted me to get them to go, but I refused. Q. Did you not tell me that some of them wanted to go? A. I mentioned 1 or 2. Q. Did any go? A. No. Q. Why? A. You told me that the lieutenant, and all would follow in a few days.
Mr. West. This previous voyage you took the year before—were they not troops of the U. States? A. They were. Q. These soldiers; were they going where their company was? A. The whole company were going to New Orleans and this barge with ten men, was sent on ahead. Q. And this flag belonged to them? A. It did.
Mr. Wickham. Were they regimental colors? A. They were colors made for the barge.
Chief Justice. Did you tell captain Bissell, that col. Burr had applied to you to get the men to desert? I did not.
Mr. West. Did you not reject the proposition? A. I did. At the request of the Chief Justice the witness here described the particular manner in which the arms were sunk. He said that they were so deep in the water, as to prevent the boat from going within 30 yards of the shore. He also related his visit to Judge Bruns, where col. Burr got the newspaper. He also stated at the request of the court the contents of his letter to general Wilkinson; that if he would send him the forlorn which lieut. Roney had taken from him or a pardon, that he would be there in three days. General Wilkinson informed him, that he had behaved very wrong in leaving the man he was going down with; but if he would come down he should not be molested.
Mr. West. Where did the party break up? A. A few miles below Coles's creek. Q. How far is Coles's Creek from Bayou Pierre? A. About 25 miles. Q. When was it that this party speech was made at Coles's Creek? A. About 6th or 7th of February.
* The discharge states, that "having served three years and 6 months, and being permitted to procure a substitute in his place (J. B.) is hereby discharged."
STATE PAPER.
[FROM THE GERMAN.]
Note of Mr. Canning, English Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to Prince Stahremberg, the Austrian ambassador at London.
LONDON, APRIL 25, 1807.
The undersigned, his majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, has laid before the King the note delivered to him by prince Stahremberg, ambassador extraordinary, and minister plenipotentiary of his majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, in which his Imperial Majesty offers himself as a mediator for a general peace.
The undersigned has received it in command from the king his sovereign, to communicate to prince Stahremberg the inclosed official answer to the note of his Imperial Majesty. The King does complete justice to the motives that have induced his Imperial Majesty to propose a mode of negotiation which, by embracing the interests of all parties, can alone lead to the restoration of a lasting peace, and the permanent tranquillity of Europe; and his Majesty, therefore, accepts the offer of his Imperial Majesty's mediation, so far as he is concerned; but with this provision, that it shall also be accepted by all the other powers involved in the present war.
NOTE.
His majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, has received with due regard the communication of his majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and also justly appreciates the motives which have upon this occasion, determined his majesty to become the mediator of a general peace.
The King, who has never ceased to look to a secure and lasting peace as the only object of the war in which he is engaged, and who has never refused to listen to any proposal which offered the least probability of attaining his proposed object, cannot, for a moment, hesitate to give his full assent to the declared opinion of his majesty the Emperor and King, and that such a peace is only to be obtained by a general negotiation on the part of all the powers engaged in the present war.
The King will have no difficulty in entering upon such a negotiation, as soon as the consent of the other powers interested therein shall have been received.
His majesty will, without delay make the necessary communications in this respect to those powers with which he is more especially united by the ties of friendship and confidence, in order to ascertain their views, and in the event of their being favorable to the proposition of his Imperial Majesty, to consult with them as to the mode in which the negotiation shall commence, and agreeably to his Imperial Majesty's proposition, to come to an understanding as to the principles which should equally form the ground and basis of discussion and of a general arrangement.
As to what concerns the choice of a place to become the seat of negotiation, any place will be equally acceptable to his majesty, provided (exclusive of the indispensable condition which is also expressed in the note of his Imperial Majesty, that it shall be free from all immediate influence of the events of the war) that it affords to his Britannic Majesty, in the same degree as to the other powers, the means of a speedy and uninterrupted communication with the plenipotentiaries whom his Majesty should send to this Congress.
DUKE OF MECKLENBURG.
[From a German Journal.]
No German state has, in our days, experienced so sudden a change or fortune as Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Its relations with Prussia produced its misfortune and its felicity. The fate of Mecklenburg was strangely made to depend upon that of the two Turkish provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia. The governing family was compelled to emigrate. They took up their residence at Altona. It was here that, on the 5th of July, they were rejoiced by the arrival of a courier from the frontiers of East Prussia, announcing the sudden change of their fortune.
The following is the letter sent by the emperor of Russia to his brother-in-law, the hereditary prince of Mecklenburg:
"TILSIT, June 27, 1807."
"My dear Brother,"
"On the happy approximation which has taken place between the emperor of the French and myself, it was one of my first concerns to provide for the interests of your family. My wishes have been crowned with success, and I hasten to send duplicates of the orders addressed to the French commanders in Mecklenburg. Be pleased to communicate them to the duke your father, that they may be forwarded by him. I rejoice that it has been in my power to be useful to you, and to give you this new proof of the sincere friendship which I personally bear you."
"ALEXANDER."
So far from the German Journal—Though the command sent by marshal Berthier to general Laval, to remstate the duke immediately in his dominions, considering him "as a sovereign for whom the emperor especially interested himself;" tho' the military intendants, &c. were ordered to suspend their functions, yet no immediate relief followed. Even after the duke had reappeared in his capital, no change took place, save that, instead of authoritatively commanding requisitions of every kind, the derivative form of a polite request was employed. Independently of the enormous expense of nourishing the soldiers quartered on the inhabitants, the costs in requisitions alone amounted to ten thousand dollars daily; and this had not ceased at the time of the departure of the Mecklenburg court from Holstein on the 28th of July.
ENGLISH HOUSE OF LORDS.
August 13.
DIFFERENCE WITH AMERICA.
On the order of the day being read, to consider the motion of which Earl Stanhope had given notice, and for which the House had been summoned.
Earl Stanhope rose and lamented the absence of his majesty's minister, (not one of whom except the chancellor was present, and the house was very thin;) this looked worse if they wanted to avoid any discussion upon the subject. He thought this conduct was disrespectful to the house, after the notice given, and the summons issued for members to attend. As for himself, individually, he paid but little regard to this inattention—he remembered the time when he was out one in four who voted for the abolition of the slave trade, although this measure had afterwards been carried through the house by a large majority. He should, therefore, at all events, proceed to the discharge of his duty. The subject to which he wished to call their lordships attention was of great importance, and it rested upon certain general principles. Every one knew that a late unfortunate event had caused disaffection among the Americans, as to the conduct of our naval commanders upon that station; but no one knew whether any, or what instructions had been issued from this country to have occasioned this dispute. If there were any man to be found who wished for the decline of our commerce, and the increase of our taxes, and to promote the objects of Bonaparte, to the detriment of this country; such a man would certainly wish for war to take place between this country and America; but if on the contrary, he were a man of virtue and benevolence, and a sincere patriot, who wished well to this country, such an one would lament, as one of the greatest misfortunes which could have be-
fallen it, a dispute with the Americans, which went, at the same time, to involve all our relations with foreign powers.
The subject in question, however, was one which ought to be settled upon general principles, independent of this particular occurrence, and whether individual nations were more or less powerful. By the law of nations all were equal. It was this principle which alone ought to direct and lay the foundation for any principle of general policy. On this subject he must observe, that there were circumstances which rendered it peculiarly unfortunate that a breach between this country and America should have taken place at the present juncture, when the ports of Europe were likely to be shut against this country; when probably the greatest difficulty would occur in obtaining naval stores from countries which would probably be in a state of warfare with us; above forty millions went annually from this country for the purchase of corn and naval stores; and now, our supplies from Poland, Prussia and Russia, could not be obtained; and if similar supplies from America were also cut off, how were provisions to be obtained, or our arsenals replenished? It was perhaps not sufficiently known, that at this very moment exertions were making to carry into effect in America, a plan, for the disclosure of which an individual has a few years ago demanded of our government the sum of 15,000l. but had been refused. He alluded to a plan for the invisible destruction of shipping, and particularly of men of war. The inventor of this scheme was now in America, and it was ascertained that it would not upon an average, cost 20l. to destroy any ship whatever. Another subject connected with the present, was the great difficulty there would be to make a peace with the various powers of Europe, but upon the principles of justice being administered, in the present instance, to America, and on the footing of perfect reciprocity amongst nations. His lordship concluded with moving—"that the principle of equality and complete reciprocity ought to be the invariable rule and conduct of government, with respect to all independent nations, at peace with this country."
The Lord Chancellor rose, and said, he trusted he should not be considered disrespectful to the Noble Earl, if he deprecated the agitation of this question, and all discussion at present upon this subject. The circumstances referred to by the Noble Earl were undoubtedly unfortunate, but it would, in his opinion, be as undoubtedly wrong to attempt an undirected investigation of them, for it was, in the first place, absolutely necessary that the House should have authentic information of all the circumstances; and whilst they were deprived of that, he could not but think it wrong to agitate such a question. He could assure the Noble Earl and the House, that ministers had been most cautious and anxious with respect to this country's governing itself towards others, according to the law of nations; for it could never be for the dignity of the greatest nation in the world to govern itself upon any other principles—He should only add, that at present he should think it by far the more prudent way to postpone all further discussion on the subject.
Earl Stanhope rose for the purpose of thanking the Noble & learned Lord for the handsome manner in which he had treated the motion. It would have given him great pain if he had said a word against it; he should have been truly sorry if it had gone out into the country & to foreign parts, that there was a disposition on the part of the government of this country to withstand enquiry respecting the causes of the present breach of friendship between the two powers. But the motion he had offered to the House had been on general principles, without relation to any particular circumstances.
Earl Morton remarked, that the Noble Earl's motion was so generally worded as to contain a mere abstract proposition, and upon this ground it was that he objected to it, because he believed it to be very unparliamentary, as well as very imprudent for either House of Parliament to discuss and adopt general propositions.
The Noble Earle (Stanhope) seemed to nod assent. The question upon his motion was then put and negatived.
THE WASHINGTON JOCKEY CLUB RACES.
Commence on Tuesday the 27th October next.
 First day's purse, 4 mile heats 600 dolls.  Second day's purse, 3 miles 350 do.  Third day's purse, 2 mile heats, (free only for colts) 300 do.  On the first day will also be run for a Colt Sweepstake of 500 dollars, for subscribers. All races are to be run agreeably to the rules of the Club.
The members of the Club are to meet at the Union Tavern, Georgetown on the Monday evening immediately preceding the first day's race, agreeably to a standing rule of the Club in that respect made.
SAMUEL BOOTS, Sec'y. Sept. 28—tk.
TAMMANY SOCIETY.
A STATED meeting of the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, will be held on Friday evening the 2d day of the month of Travelling, (October 21.) at the Council Fire of their great Wigwam, precisely at the going down of the Sun.
By order of the Society, B. SMITH, Sec'y. Month of Corn, 28th } Year of Discovery 815. }
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
MR. SMITH, SIR,
As the late transactions at Richmond have given rise to much serious thought and reflection on the different proceedings of courts of law—technical phrases and forms—I have thought proper to send you for insertion the following statement:—It is taken from the life of that great and good man, Mr. Wesley, published by G. Dobbins and Murphy, Baltimore, and certainly merits the serious consideration of every man.
In the beginning of July, 1761, says Mr. Wesley, I was desired to call on a poor prisoner in the castle of York, (England).—I had formerly occasion to take notice of an hideous monster, called a Chancery Bill—I now saw the fellow to it called a Declaration. The plain fact was this: Some time since, a man who lived near Yarm, assisted others in running some brandy; his share was worth nearly four pounds. After he had wholly left off that work, and was following his own business, that of a weaver, he was arrested, and sent to York goal. And not long after came down a Declaration, that Jack, who had landed a vessel laden with brandy and Geneva, at the port of London, and sold them there, whereby he was indebted to his Sovereign Lord the King, in the sum of 577l. and upwards. And to tell this worthy story, the lawyer takes up 13 or 14 sheets of treble stamp paper.
O England! Will this reproach never be rolled away from thee! Is there any thing like this to be found, either among Turks or Heathens? In the name of justice, mercy, and common sense, I ask, 1st. Why do men lie for lying sake? Is it only to keep their hands in? What need else of saying it was the port of London? When every one knew the brandy was landed 300 miles thence.
What a monstrous contempt of truth does this shew, or rather hatred to it? 2l. Where is the justice of swelling 4l. into 577l.? 3l. Where is the common sense of taking up 14 sheets to tell a story? That may be told in ten lines? 4th. Where is the mercy, of thus grinding the face of the poor beggared prisoner? Would not this be excusable villainy, if the paper and writing together, were only 6d. a sheet, when they have strip him already of his little all, and has not left him 14 groats in the world?
It is certain that nothing can be said in defence of our law proceedings. They are often absurd, highly oppressive to the subject, and disgraceful to a civilised nation. In criminal cases, how often does the indictment magnify and exaggerate both the crime and every circumstance connected with it, beyond all the bounds of truth and probability. Hence it becomes extremely difficult for juries to discharge their duty with a good conscience. And we seldom see punishments duly proportioned to the crimes committed. What shall we say in other cases where the tautology and circumlocution peculiar to the language of our law, the delay of judgment in the courts, and the tergiversation permitted through the whole proceedings, render it almost impossible for an honest man in midling life to obtain his right against a villain, without the utmost danger of being ruined? A man who robs on the highway is hanged—but a villain who robs by means of the chicanery, delay and expence of the law, escapes with impunity, and is applauded.
Observations on the conduct of Great Britain—Continued.
No. VI.
It may be well for the U. States calmly and closely to enquire and to consider what would have been the state of things between them and G. Britain, if the treaty of December had been perfectly satisfactory in all its articles, and if it had been mutually ratified without the attempted British rider.
From the state of things in the month of December 1806, immediately before its date, and from the course and condition of things since and at present, we could not have expected, that it would have made any difference in the conduct of G. Britain, beyond the strict dictates of its component articles and provisions. In all those important, numerous and diversified cases and circumstances, which the treaty did not contemplate and which no treaty can embrace or effectually provide for, in all those cases resting merely upon the universal law of nations, we should remain subject to English operations founded on grounds like her stipulations of 1793 with Russia, covered by her act of the 17th June 1793 and its continuance in 1803, and exemplified in her orders of council from June 1793 to January 1807, with the fluctuating principles of her admiralty judges, and the habitual extortions of the other officers of those tribunals. If an effectual remedy for the aberrations of Britain from public law, could not be secured, a treaty, which would have left us open to a discretionary repetition of them, in virtue of the despotic pretension of the English crown, to make rules for the government of their country in the condemnation of our property, would have subjected us to the most serious evils. We should have been bound even in our own courts, by the law of nations and the ratified treaty, while an order of their King and Council would direct British captures and ensure British condemnations of our ships and cargoes.
The repetition of the orders of June 1793, at the first moment in 1795, that it was supposed Mr. Jay's treaty was ratified, and the attempt in December last to release themselves from the obligations of the new formed treaty in the very act of signing it, too plainly instruct us what what could and what would be done . Unpleasing indeed is it to believe, that the general order of things in any foreign country is such as to forbid the hope—as to bar the possibility of a satisfactory arrangement with her. Yet such it is sincerely believed will be found to be the factitious state of things, which the several administrations and legislatures of G. Britain have created there, since the year 1791. This serious idea is not suggested as an attack upon her, but as an important reflection upon those historical truths, which have been submitted in these papers.
What then is to be done. It is easier for humble individuals, and even for able and responsible public men to see immense evils than to devise a cure. Yet the present case seems to call for one. The simple though vast evil of our situation is, that the laws, which governed the republic of independent states before 1792 have been, since that period, in an uninterrupted course of infraction and suspension by the nation with whom our differences depend . To bring things back to that sound and right state, which our mutual honor, and interests require and admit,—the restoration of the universal law of nations to its proper sanctity , is all that is necessary. All without this will be nugatory for us and will issue in sure disappointment and new vexations, embarrassments and injuries. It is vain to hope for either peace or honor, or profit, while any foreign government undertakes to legislate for neutral states by a sole unauthorised executive order. The commercial spirit of England has been pampered with an inordinate quantity of the richest food. " The single company of merchants of England ," for example, " trading beyond the Cape of Good Hope ," have excelled all nations of the civilized world from the Peninsula of India, and have laid at the feet of its own stupendous trading monopoly eighty millions of the enslaved natives! England has annihilated the commerce of its European enemies in every sea, and turned its streams all upon itself. It has for several years fixed its eyes upon the trade of America, the merited reward of the political morality of our civil institutions and of our love of peace. We have lately seen or now examined the system, which England has devised to subject our persons, our ships and our cargoes to seizure and confiscation. The insufferable outrage on the frigate Chesapeake is but a single item in the list of British injuries. We desire not to inflame, but we should deprecate half cures for ancient inveterate and multilocated sores. Let not either England or America deceive herself with the hope of a real or permanent harmony, without a remedy, which will reach the whole disease.
If England shall not return to the ground of friendship and justice, under the law of nations, what is to be done? It may be wise calmly and thoroughly to consider the nature of our present intercourse and to discontinue such parts of it as may produce good effects on her without injuring ourselves. We may find it wise to prohibit the entry of all their ships both public and private—of all their rum—of all their East India cottons and silks—of all their woollen manufactures—hair leather goods— their grain liquors—their silks and linens—their fine glass—and such other goods as careful reflection may suggest. We may forbid their subjects to trade—perhaps remain here—and in such manner mark our just dissatisfaction at their deportment to us.
We heat, upon every occasion of such suggestions, declarations that England will make war for such treatment. She shuts us out of every port she chuses, refuses all our manufactures, and much of our produce, presses our seamen, mulets our lawful trade in her courts, violates our flag, and incessantly commits a long list of other wrongs, and if we adopt measures to shew our just displeasure or remedy the damage, she threatens war. She injures—often—much—deeply—variously, and will make war if you take measures of remedy! If England or any other country will so make war, we ought undauntedly to meet the conflict. But her government ought to take good care. Unjust and unprofitable wars bring public discontent. All the neutral states, all the impartial world must be against England, on this occasion, and with America. Her whole injury to us will be the plunder and suspension of our trade. We shall soon feed on hers in our turn. We shall take from her, with certainty, much of her present manufacturing system. We shall do much better than in the revolutionary war. Our country will be more comfortable and prosperous than any other, and we cannot help the loss of that honest and beloved place which England will, once more, have taken from us. Our operations against the dependencies of England will, if we are not mistaken, greatly surprize her in more than one quarter, and on more than one occasion.
In case of a war, thus brought on against law, justice and reason by Great Britain, she will fall into the deepest, and most settled odium in this country. Ancient prejudices will be renewed. Former wounds will be again opened. New hatreds will arise. Never will true reconciliation grow again, in the lives of the present generation. The name of Great Britain has gone forth with much sensation to many nations. Peals of indignant resentment have reverberated from the coasts of the

Atlantic to the side of the Danish Sound. These have been again driven to the shores of the Marmora, and the coasts of Egypt. Violent discontent against England has spread in many directions, and if she forces this reluctant country into such a war, the world will be convinced that the subversion of her commerce, the source of her perverted navy, is necessary to the peace of the earth.
JURISCOLA.
No. VII.
Among the earliest violations of American neutrality by the British navy, was their practice of forcing our citizens into their belligerent marine service. It merits a place therefore, and not a small one, among the numerous supports of the high charge we have made. It will be remembered, that Mr. Jay labored, and that he labored in vain, so early as the year 1794, to place this matter upon satisfactory ground. Great Britain, combined with other powers, as she professed in her manifesto of October 1793, to restore monarchy in France, compelled every impressed American to fight against the vital principles of our constitutions, during the existence of the French republic. Washington in January 1796 avowed to the world, that he was attached to the principles and struggles of the French revolution, because they were similar to our own. These impressions subjected us to the hatred, the contempt, the retaliations of the French. They once meditated the execution of men whom we should so suffer to be used against their country.
The safety, the respectability and the political morality of the U. S. require of us an intelligent and faithful adherence to the law of nations in our foreign relations. The prudence of this country and the candor of Great Britain should concur in asserting and admitting the truth and the importance of this position. The belligerents have respectively a right to keep the neutrals in the course of this universal public law; and the neutrals have an equal right to keep the belligerents in the same course.
We have no right, as neutrals, to permit, or to cause, our citizens to enter the belligerent armies or navies. The belligerents have no right to force those citizens into their battalions or their ships of war. In doing so they would grossly violate and endanger our neutrality. They would render us at once odious and contemptible. An unfounded claim of the British parliament cost us our peace in 1775. We say unfounded, because it was against the constitutional law of that day, and has been deliberately and explicitly abandoned in the case of Ireland, by the repeal of the British statute respecting that kingdom called "the declaratory act," which asserted the right of the British parliament to bind Ireland, in all cases whatsoever. The same illegitimate principle, & a similar declaratory act produced the war of the American revolution and all its immense expenses. It is well known, that in the course of that war monstrous expenditures were made by this country and that besides all she could pay she labored long under a debt of seventy millions of dollars. We repeat it.—An unfounded claim of G. Britain cost America the war of 1775 and the immense losses and expenses of the revolution. This is not mentioned to produce irritation, but to nourish, to excite considerations of justice, and an honorable prudence in G. Britain. She again prefers an unfounded claim upon this country. She does not declare by law, but she intelligibly declares by practice, that she has a right to enter the ships of America for the purpose of impressing seamen. We say after our government, with a confidence, calm and sincere, that no nation has such a right against our ships. We ask without heat, the British public officers and subjects here, or their government and counsellors in Europe, to point out a single clause or section of the law of nations which countenances, or even contemplates such a right. We affirm that no treaty; no British writer on the law of nations, ever sanctioned this unfounded claim. We assert that "the right of search," under the law of nations, is extended by no treaty, no war, beyond goods contraband of war, goods of belligerents and military enemies. We calmly challenge the ablest and the most learned Englishman, here or in Europe, to show that any treaty or any writer on the law of nations, of any country, has ever mentioned a right of a belligerent to enter a neutral ship to search;
1. For enemies, not military; 2. For the subjects of the searching power; 3. For passengers of any nation; or 4. For seamen of any nation in the service of the neutral power, or of its merchants.
The law of nations authorises not the entry of neutral ships for such purposes. The law of nations must govern. It is inadmissible for one power to say they will not ever give up practices, for which they can show no law. It is justly offensive. It is deeply immoral. It is even a cause of war. It is destructive of the neutrality of nations. It is public despotism. It is to trample on the law of nations and tread the rights of neutrals under foot. It is injury to adversary belligerents. It is a breach of neutrality in nations at peace to suffer it from one party. It produces disgusts, resentments, violence and war. It is in vain to plead, that Americans and Englishmen appear alike and speak the same language, because the indisputable principle of law is, that no belligerent has a right to enter a neutral ship to search for persons, who are not really military enemies. Let not violent assertions and determinations be
resorted to. Let not the alleged necessities of belligerents be pleaded to the exclusion of the greater necessities of neutrals. It is far more necessary for the U. S. not to give just cause of war to the continent of Europe, than it is for Great Britain to press unlawfully passengers and seamen to man ten or fifteen sail of sloops of war and frigates.
It will not be fair to say that these papers are partial to France, or against England, we contend only for the laws of neutrality and of sacred peace. We mourn over the wounds of mangled humanity. Our faithful government exerts its parental care to save us from those evils. It is for this, among many other causes, dear to our hearts. We approve its conduct with all our minds—with all our souls. Let not our fellow men of England any longer persevere in error. They have not a shadow of public law for impressment in our ships. It is not the interest of England to render it necessary for America to become a belligerent for unlawful reasons. Our government has shown temperate and just dispositions towards Great Britain. Its members are bound by the inviolable restraints of written constitutions, to do right and to avoid doing wrong—We have no power or influence here to assure the passage of acts of indemnity, as in other countries: The laws reign here over the heads of our public agents. Fiat Lex—Fiat Cœlum the constitutional motto of the chief American functionary. He may yield himself to no considerations unknown to the laws. He cannot, nor is he, we confidently and affectionately trust, in anywise disposed to surrender the liberties, the comforts, the neutrality of our faithful and intrepid mariners to the illegitimate claims of foreign nations—He well knows, that all our oppressions, in this form, since the year 1793, have proceeded from Great Britain. No other nation has done to us this pernicious and humiliating wrong; this illegitimate, this vast injury. Great Britain does this insulting wrong to no other nation. She never enters Danish or Swedish, or German, or Russian ships to impress her subjects in them; though she well knows many of those subjects are on board of those vessels, and they are easily distinguishable there. The pretence of difficulty to distinguish Americans from Britons sinks to nought before this single fact, for England does not abuse the right of search by attempting to impress in other neutral vessels. These insults and injuries are all for us alone. This remark is not intended to aggravate—if there be in it ought of aggravation, it consists in its truth.
The object of these papers is to bring affairs between Great Britain and America to the only just, firm and satisfactory ground on which they can be rested—the ground of indisputable public law. It is the law of nations only, which prevents a foreign ship of war from impressing sailors and passengers out of unarmed vessels in the bay and rivers of neutral countries. It is the same Law of Nations, which protects the neutral vessel from being boarded for impressment on the high seas. Annual or violate that law on the ocean, and you may witness its violation in our narrow seas, our bays, our rivers, and our ports. Certain and known law is necessary to the peace and harmony of nations.
Great Britain prides herself in her courts of Common Law. If those courts or her admiralty courts would not give remedy to the owners and masters of a violated neutral ship, lost by impressment of its seamen, that cause of honest pride must lamentably fail. There is no instruction of the crown; no order of the king and council, those arbitrary substitutes for legitimate statutes, to warrant "the detention" of passengers and seamen and carrying them in for legal adjudication or impressment. American citizens, fathers of families, are torn from their peaceful and lawful occupations in contempt of the law of nations—because they may be Englishmen!—Reason is reversed.—An English sailor might well remain free from impressment because an English navy officer could not distinguish him from an American. But it is preposterous to say you may lawfully take an American, because you cannot distinguish him from an Englishman. 'Tis to subject out independent nation to a British general warrant. Can the American officers enter English ships and impress their seamen because they look like Americans? It is believed, that the English sea captains, mates and sailors would, in such a case, do those things which were proposed in the recent bill of a late Senator of Maryland. The government, people, merchants and seamen of England would be transported with resentment were the navy officers of the United States to impress the crews of English merchantmen on the coast of England.
This business has reached a stage, as it regards the rights of the belligerents and the rights and duties of neutral America, which requires the calm advancement and firm maintenance of the whole truth. It is of no consequence to this argument, that our laws do not warrant the impressment of seamen, for if they are exempted here by "common law" principles, they are equally exempted thereby in England, and we had hoped that this consideration would have secured us justice on the subject of our mariners, when the wing names of Fox and Grey were found among the negotiators. But it is not the least of the mortifications of the day, that the
whigs of England have been, at least, the involuntary framers of a treaty, which leaves the seamen of this single neutral state exposed to the despotic operation of British impressment. If there be any thing righteous in law or sacred in justice; if there be any meaning; any sincerity, in the allusion to a community of language, blood, morals and religion, we will yet hope that an arbitrary power over the bodies of unarmed men, committing themselves to the protection of our neutral flag, will be quickly and completely abandoned by Great Britain. Yet, however, the actual aggression of British impressment remains among the earliest and most injurious evidences of the high charge we have ventured to make.
JURISCOLA.
The reader will perceive under the New York head an article which announces a new pamphlet on the subject of the lately rejected treaty. The following are said to be the leading points which it embraces. It may fairly be presumed that, if its provisions are properly represented, the author of the publication must have procured the copy of the instrument from the British government or some of its agents; and that the intention is, in truth, to appeal from the government of this country to the people. From such an appeal, however, although it demonstrates the daring insolence of the British ministry, the executive of the United States can have nothing to fear for the character of his understanding, or the duration of his fame.
American.
In the House of Commons, August 10, Mr. Secretary Canning said, "The next question was, as to our relations with respect to America; and first, he must premise, that whatever might at present be the situation of this country with America, it in no degree arose from the conduct of his Majesty's present ministers. Finding, when they came into office, a treaty had been negotiated by the late ministers, and sent to America for ratification, it became the determination of the present ministers not to do any thing which might tend in any degree to disturb and interfere with that treaty. Instructions were sent to our minister there to that effect, and others of a similar nature to our naval commander on that station. If the treaty was ratified, they had determined to put it in force and act on it the same as if it had been a treaty negotiated by themselves. If it was rejected, it was their intention to act towards America, as to evince, on their part, the most unequivocal desire and wish to maintain with that country the relations of peace and amity. Up to the present moment our government had not received any information or communication from thence till Saturday, and that was only a copy of the proclamation cut out of an American newspaper, and transmitted by our minister there. He had however this day applied to the American minister to know if he had any official communication to make, who had returned for answer that he had received no official instructions as yet."
The Panharmonicon, a new instrument, lately invented at Naples, excites general interest in Italy. It unites all wind instruments in itself, and performs the most difficult symphonies with an astonishing precision and purity. If report speaks true, it is expected that it will supersede the attendance of musicians playing on wind instruments in theatrical orchestras.
London paper.
Richmond, September 26.
The court have been principally occupied by the examination of evidence. On Wednesday Mr. Hay read the deposition of David Fisk.
Mr. Alexander Henderson was then called on the part of the U. S. to explain the views of the party, when the counsel for the accused made an elaborate effort to exclude such testimony on the ground that an overt act ought first to be proved, and that such testimony could only be considered as collateral. The Chief Justice overruled the objection on the grounds represented in our last paper. Some conversation then ensued upon the question, how far the evidence about to be adduced (principally consisting of acts and conversations of Blannerhasset) would affect Mr. Burr. The Chief Justice seemed disposed to think that it did not affect him. Mr. Hay contended that when a connexion and conspiracy were proven, the act and declarations of one accomplice are good against the rest. The Chief Justice was willing to hear an argument upon the point. Mr. Burr then said that as he understood he was not affected, he would not interfere.
The examination of the evidence then proceeded, Mr. Alexander Henderson was examined, and partly cross examined.
On Thursday the cross examination of Mr. A. Henderson was completed. He was followed by his brother John G. Henderson; Mr. Richard Neale; and John Graham, Esq. The examination of Mr. Charles Duvall also commenced.
On Friday Mr. Duvall's examination was completed. He was followed by Dr. David C. Wallace; his brother Robert Wallace; Mr. Edmund B. Dana; and David Gilmore. In the course of these proceedings Judge Mays was called up, sworn and afterwards discharged. The particulars hereafter.
Mr. Hay then observed, that he had only two witnesses more to produce—General Eaton, whose evidence had not been completed on the former examination; and General Wilkinson, whom he
would introduce to-morrow (Saturday.) The Chief Justice enquired, whether he could form any idea of the length of General Wilkinson's evidence. Mr. Hay, as far as it relates to us, not 20 minutes; but the cross examination may not perhaps be completed in 20 times 20 minutes.
The following letter is given in the Philadelphia Register as a letter received at New-York from Mr. Merry, late British minister to this country.
Clarges-Street, (London) Aug. 11.
I have been favored with your letter, to which I have deferred replying, in the daily expectation, that some official accounts from America would have enabled his majesty's government to have determined upon the line of conduct that it may ultimately appear expedient to pursue in the critical state of our relations with that country.
For a definition of the manner in which the question stands at this moment, and will remain until official information be received, respecting the pretensions of the American government towards an adjustment of the complaint on their part, occasioned by the affair between his majesty's ship Leopard and the Chesapeake Frigate, I cannot do better than refer you to the explanation, given last night by Mr. Canning in the House of Commons. To that statement, however, it may be satisfactory I should add, that, as government have, in their explanations with the American minister here, disavowed the principle upon which Admiral Berkeley has acted, and recalled him in consequence of the orders he issued, there is great room to hope that this affair will be settled in an amicable manner.
W AS Committed to my custody a Runaway on the 13th inst. a negro woman who calls herself BEATTY; says she belongs to Frederick Slate, living in the Dutch settlement, Loudon county Virginia. She is about 35 years of age, about 4 feet 10 inches high, has on a coarse linen jacket and linsy petticoat. Her owner is desired to take her out and pay charges or she will be sold agreeably to law.
JOHN FLEMING, Sheriff, of Montgomery county, Md.
October 2—3t
Pursuant to the directions of the last Will and Testament of George Lee, esq. late of the city of Washington, deceased, will be offered at public sale for cash at the house where he lived near Dr. ELLIS'S, on Thursday the 15th day of this month, if fair, if not the first fair day after, a part of the Personal Property of the deceased, consisting of a Carriage, a Saddle Horse, Saddle and Bridle, three Cart Horses, and a number of articles of Household Furniture of the best quality, among which are several excellent Beds, Bedsteads and Furniture and a considerable quantity of Bed and Table Linen. The sale to commence at 11 o'clock. Also to be sold at private sale a number of Negroes of every description, a part for life and the rest for a term of years.
NICHOLAS LINCOLN, JOHN REAG MACRUDER, Jr. Executors.
Georgetown, October 2—7t
Taken up as a Stray about the 20th of August on the plantation of Enoch Spalding a bright Bay HORSE, about 4 years old 13 1/2 hands high, has a star on his forehead, a white mark on his nose, the off hind foot white. The owner of the above horse is requested to prove property pay charges and take him away.
ENOCH SPALDING.
September 30—3t
MILITARY EXERCISE.
Just Published, and for Sale
By J. SESSFORD,
Pennsylvania avenue, two doors west of the Theatre.
PRICE 12 1/2 CENTS.
THIS work is taken from STEUBEN'S Treatise, and comprises the following, viz.
Objects with which the officers and non-commissioned officers should be acquainted.
The formation of a Company.
The formation of a Regiment.
The instruction of recruits, without and with arms, with the explanation of the Priming and Loading as performed in the Firings.
The Exercise of a Company.
The Exercise of a Battalion and the Firings by Division or Platoon.
The above may also be had at the book-store of R. C. Weightman, and at D. Rafine's, Washington; at the book-store of R. Davis Georgetown. September 30—
NOTICE.
This is to give notice that the Subscriber of Washington city, has obtained from the Orphan's Court of Washington in the district of Columbia, letters of administration on the personal estate of SAMUEL KIRKPATRICK, late of the city, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber at or before the 31st day of March next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this 26th day of September in the year 1807.
GEORGE KIRKPATRICK, Administrator.
Sept. 28—wgt.
PROPOSALS,
By CONRAD, LUCAS & Co. (late M. & Y. Conrad and Co.) No. 138, Market street,
FOR PUBLISHING LEWIS AND CLARK'S
TOUR TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA,
Performed by order of the government of the United States, during the years 1804, 1805, and 1806.
THIS work will be prepared by captain MERIWETHER LEWIS, and will be divided into two parts, the whole comprising three volumes octavo, the first containing at least 700 pages, the second and third from four to five hundred each, printed on good paper, and a 12mo. Pica type. The several volumes in succession will be put to press as early periods as the avocations of the author will permit him to prepare them for publication.
VOLUME FIRST.
Will contain a narrative of the voyage, with a description of some of the most remarkable places in those hitherto unknown wilds of America, accompanied by a map of good size, a large chart of the entrance of the Columbia river, embracing the adjacent country, coast and harbors, and embellished with views of two beautiful cataracts of the Missouri; the plan, on a large scale, of the connected falls of that river, as also of those of the falls, narrows and great rapids of the Columbia; with their several portages. For the information of future voyagers, there will be added in the sequel of this volume, some observations and remarks on the navigation of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, pointing out the precautions which must necessarily be taken, in order to ensure success, together with an itinerary of the most direct and practicable route across the continent of North America, from the confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi rivers to the discharge of the Columbia into the Pacific Ocean.
VOLUME SECOND.
Whatever properly appertains to geography, embracing a description of the rivers, mountains, climate, soil and face of the country; a view of the Indian nations distributed over that vast region, showing their traditions, habits, manners, customs, national characters, stature, complexions, dress, dwellings, arms, and domestic utensils, with many others interesting particulars in relation to them; also, observations and reflections on the subjects of civilization, governing and maintaining a friendly intercourse with those nations. A view of the fur trade of North America setting forth a plan for its extension, and showing the immense advantages which would accrue to the mercantile interests of the United States, by combining the same with a direct trade to the East Indies, through the continent of North America. This volume will be embellished with twenty plates illustrative of the dress and general appearance of such Indian nations as differ materially from each other; of their habitation; their weapons and habiliments used in war; their hunting and fishing apparatus; domestic utensils, &c. In an appendix there will also be given a diary of the weather kept with great attention throughout the whole of the voyage, showing also the daily rise and fall of the principal water courses which were navigated in the course of the fame.
PART THE SECOND—IN ONE VOLUME.
This part of the work will be confined exclusively to scientific research, and principally to the natural history of those hitherto unknown regions. It will contain a full illustration on such subjects as may have arisen within the notice of the author, and which may properly be distributed under the heads of Botany, Mineralogy, and Zoology, together with some Archaeology, on the origin of Princes, the cause of the mudness of the Missouri, or volcanic appearances, and other natural phenomena which were met with in the course of this interesting tour. This volume will also contain a comparative view of twenty three vocabularies of distinct Indian languages, procured by captains Lewis and Clark, on the voyage, and will be ornamented and embellished with a much greater number of plates than will be bestowed on the first part of the work as is intended that every subject of natural history which is entirely new, and of which there are a considerable number, shall be accompanied by an appropriate engraving illustrative of it.
This distribution of the work has been made with a view to the accommodation of every description of readers, and is here offered to the patronage of the public in such shape, that all persons wishing to become subscribers, may accommodate themselves with either of the parts, or the entire work, as it shall be most convenient to themselves.
Detached from this work, there will be published
LEWIS AND CLARK'S
MAP OF NORTH AMERICA,
From Lon. 0 deg. west, to the Pacific Ocean, and between 36 deg. and 52 deg. north Lat. with extensive marginal notes—dimensions 5 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 10 inches.
Embracing all their late discoveries, and that part of the continent heretofore the least known. This map will be compiled from the best maps now extant, as well published as in manuscript, from the collective information of the best informed travellers through the various portions of that region, and corrected by a series of several hundred celestial observations, made by captain Lewis during his late tour.
For the convenience of subscribers, these several works will be delivered at the most respectable commercial towns, and at the seats of government of the respective states and territories within the Union; no advance is required, nor will payment be demanded until such delivery is made.
The price of part the first in two vols. will be Ten DOLLARS, and that of part the second in one volume, Eleven DOLLARS, delivered in boards. Price of the Map, Ten DOLLARS.
Any person who may have subscribed for these works, to lists which contain no stipulated prices for the same, and who may be dissatisfied with the terms now proposed, are at liberty to withdraw their names from such lists, at any time prior to the 1st day of December next.
M. LEWIS.
July 27.

NOTICE.
Several persons having trespassed upon my farm by pulling down my fences and riding through it, I take this method to caution and forewarn all persons against committing trespasses on it in future; and I will adopt legal measures to obtain redress in case they shall be repeated.
ANNE SOPER,
Prince George's County, Sept. 25—3t
Twenty Dollars Reward.
STOLEN or Strayed from the Commons of the city of Washington on or about the 6th day of the present month, a Black or rather Brownish HORSE between 7 and 8 years old and about 15 hands high; he has a star on his forehead, one of his hind feet white to the hock; he is a large bodied horse and has a remarkable small neck and large head for a horse of his size; he was marked on the breast from the collar and marked on the flounder from the ear to the side. He was shod all round—he is a very uneasy saddle horse, but an excellent draught horse. The above reward will be paid by the subscriber on conviction of the thief or Five Dollars a reasonable charges will be paid by me on delivery of the horse.
THADY HOGAN,
Washington city, North St. near St. Patrick's church Sept. 30—7t
GENERAL NOTICE.
The BOARD OF CITY COMMISSIONERS , appointed in pursuance of an act of the City Council passed the 30th of May last, having entered on the duties of their office, hereby inform all whom it may concern, that as the superintendence of the execution of all the laws of the Council has been assigned to them, they are determined to obtain from every source of information a knowledge of every instance of non-compliance thereof, and infractions of them; and where a strict compliance is not made, or infractions discontinued, after this notice, to prosecute for the same. The Commissioners recommend an attentive perusal of the following laws of the City Council.
First Council.
 "An act to establish and regulate markets," passed October 6th, 1802.  "An act for laying a tax on hackney carriages, theatrical and other public amusements," passed 28th October, 1802.  "An act to regulate weights and measures," passed 19th November, 1802.  "An act to provide for the prevention and extinction of fires," passed 10th January, 1803.  "An act for the preservation of foot ways and trees on the streets and avenues in the city," passed March 25th, 1803.  "An act requiring annual licences to be taken out by pedlars and ordinary keepers, and for the keeping of carriages and billiard tables," passed the 28th May, 1803. 
Second Council.
 "An act supplementary to the act to establish and regulate markets," passed 12th September, 1803.  "An act concerning nuisances, and creating a superintendent of police," passed 20th September, 1803.  Section 9 of "An act, imposing certain taxes and providing for their collection," passed 12th September, 1803.  "An act supplementary to an act for laying a tax on hackney carriages, theatrical and other public amusements," passed 26th November, 1803. 
Third Council.
 "An act requiring annual licences to be taken out by ordinary or tavern keepers, retailers and hawkers or pedlars," passed 19th July, 1804.  The 3 and 4 sections of "An act making an appropriation for sinking wells, the erection and repair of pumps, and for the preservation thereof," passed 13th May, 1805.  "An act for the better collection of the tax on private and hackney carriages," passed 10th December, 1804.  "An act amendatory to an act concerning nuisances, and creating a superintendent of police," passed 2d May, 1806. 
Fourth Council.
 "An act for licencing and regulating auctions in the city of Washington," passed 10th February, 1806.  "An act concerning markets," passed March 29th, 1806.  "An act supplementary to the acts licencing hackney carriages within the city of Washington," passed April 17, 1806.  "An act regulating the weight and quality of bread," passed the 17th April, 1806. 
Fifth Council.
 "An act supplementary to the act to regulate weights and measures," passed 2d November, 1806.  "An act to establish a market at the market house on the market square at the Eastern Branch, and for other purposes," passed 28th November, 1806.  "An act to establish the size of brick moulds in the city of Washington," passed 19th March, 1807. 
MICHAEL NOURSE, THOS. H. GILLISS, DANL. RAPIKE, GEORGE COLLAND, City Commissioners.
PLATING MANUFACTORY.
GEORGE SHARP, No. 19, North street Baltimore,
Where COACH and HARNESS FURNITURE may be had at reduced prices for cash; any person inclining to purchase can be furnished with a list of prices of each article, separate or in sets complete for Gigs and Coach Harness, by forwarding a line as above.
N. B. A few pair handsome Coach Handles, and Door, do. at Six dollars for the Coach, and Four for the Door, do. Baltimore, Sept. 28—4t
EDITORIAL ADDRESS.
In the early part of June the Editor intimated his purpose to retire from the establishment of the National Intelligencer, and invited the offers of individuals disposed to enter on its superintendence. His principal inducement, for taking this step, was a regard to the general state of his health, which had been, in no small degree, affected by the incessant occupation required by his situation. At the time this purpose was avowed, it was accompanied by a determination not to suffer the establishment, on any account whatever, to pass into hands, either unfriendly to the great political principles uniformly advocated by the National Intelligencer, or incompetent to its management. For although the period was, almost without a precedent, peaceful and prosperous, it was obvious that, as all nations are exposed to vicissitudes, a profound calm might be succeeded in the political world, as it frequently is in the physical world, by a storm that would call for the exercise of all the talents and virtues of the friends of principles, which seem to be exclusively confided to the safe keeping of the United States. In advocating these principles, and defending those who have been the most distinguished in supporting them, the Editor lays no claim to merit on the score of talent. He does, however, lay claim to the virtue of fidelity; to a sincere belief both in the superiority and feasibility of republican government, and in a firm determination to contribute whatever is in his power towards its maintenance. However weakly, therefore, he may defend, it is impossible for him to betray this great cause.
But a short time elapsed, from the time of his making known his purpose, before a totally unlooked for aggression on the national rights occurred, which threatened to disturb the peace of the country, and seemed not unlikely to be the prelude of times in which the sincerity of principle would be exposed to an unusually severe ordeal, and which would claim from every citizen the best exertion of his faculties. This invigorated the resolution, originally formed, not to surrender the establishment into hands on whom the fullest reliance could not be placed.
A considerable time has since passed without any offer being made, which has been considered satisfactory on this ground. The Editor, has, therefore, determined to continue to superintend the National Intelligencer. In communicating this intention to the public, he has only to observe that the same principles, which have hitherto guided the discharge of his Editorial duties, remain unshaken, and from which it is his pride never to have swerved. Every conviction of his understanding has increased his attachment to them; and his purpose to defend those measures which are the best calculated to preserve them inviolate. He conscientiously believes the existing administration uses uprightly and wisely discharged their duties. He is, therefore, the friend of that administration, and whatever new dangers may environ them, from the injustice of foreign powers, or from internal machinations, he shall view in the light of new motives to exertion.
Looking forward to the ensuing session of Congress as probably one of the most interesting since the era of the present government, he has exerted himself in making arrangements, which he trusts will render the National Intelligencer the full and faithful organ, as well of the proceedings of the government as of the public sentiment. With this view, and to relieve himself from a burthen peculiarly oppressive when united with other duties, he has engaged the services of Mr. JOSEPH GALES, JUN. an able Stenographer, who, with the additional aid contemplated to be furnished by one of the first Stenographers in America, will, it is expected, be fully competent to presenting a comprehensive and faithful statement of the Debates. This arrangement will leave the Editor more at time, than would otherwise be at his disposition, for conducting the other departments of the paper, and particularly for the notice of such points as may during the session require elucidation or comment.
More regard will likewise be paid to the mechanical management of the paper. For some time past, the Editor has had to regret the necessary use of an inferior paper, and of a press somewhat out of repair, from his inability immediately to retrieve at the City of Washington the disappointment experienced in these respects. He has, however, entered into a new contract for the supply of a better paper, and there are already on the water on their way from Philadelphia, a New Press and fount of letter. He thus flatters himself with being able to make the National Intelligencer before the sitting of Congress, not only worthy of the patronage which it now enjoys, but likewise of an extended subscription.
The great additional expenses which will be incurred render it indispensable that Subscribers should be punctual in their payments. It is, therefore, expected that every new Subscriber advance five dollars, the price for a year, at the period of subscription, and that the existing subscribers pay off their arrears and make the necessary advance before the opening of the session. Should this circumstance not be attended to, the transmission of the papers must be discontinued. Subscribers will recollect that subscriptions cannot be received for less than a year, and that the postage of letters must be paid.
20 DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber in August last, Negro CHARLES —he is a straight well made black man, about 26 years of age 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high; has lost some of his fore teeth; is remarkably polite and much of a gallant. The above reward will be paid to any person who will bring him home or lodge him any jail so that I get him again.
WM. B. BEANES,
Upper Marlbo', Jan 9—tawtf
FOR SALE OR RENT.
THE subscriber will SELL or RENT the HOTEL , situated on the Capitol Hill and near to the Capitol, at present occupied by Mr. P. D. STELLE . As this house is well known, it is useless to say more than that it is calculated for a large establishment, and is the first situation a hotel on a large scale in this city. Possession can be had the first day of October next. Some other houses for sale or Rent on the Hill near the Capitol. For terms, apply to
DANL. CARROLL of Dud'n Washington, August 5—2awtfO
FOR SALE.
A valuable tract of land called Westbury , containing 1404 acres, situated in Anne Arundel County, state of Maryland, at the head of West river 12 miles from Annapolis, and 42 from Baltimore. This land is well calculated to produce wheat, tobacco and corn, has a large quantity of timber suitable for ship building, and most excellent meadow. The timber lies near the river which is navigable for large vessels into the Chesapeake, six miles from the landing. It is divided into two handsome farms, the one containing 746 acres, and the other 718 acres, each having a good landing on the river, and will be sold together or separately. A further description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed no person will purchase without first viewing the property which will be shown by Mr. John Shew residing thereon.
For terms apply to William Cooke, Esq. Baltimore, or John Galloway, Esq. West river, or to Henry L. Waddell, Philadelphia. N. B. It not sold at private sale before the 1st of November next, it will then be sold at auction on the premises, either separately or together to suit purchasers. Sep. 14—tawtfN.
PROPOSALS
For carrying mails of the United States on the following routes will be received at the General Post Office until the 15th of October next.
1st. From Petersburg by Harrisville, Goldsboro, Drummondsburg, Warrenton, Lewisburg, Raleigh, and acrossboro, to Fayetteville three times a week. Leave Petersburg every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a m, arrive at Warrenton same days by 8 p m. Leave Warrenton every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3 a m, arrive at Raleigh same days by 6 p m. Leave Raleigh, Wednesday Friday and Monday at 3 a m, arrive at Fayetteville same days by 5 p m.
Returning—Leave Fayetteville every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 4 a m, arrive at Raleigh same days by 6 p m. Leave Raleigh every Wednesday, Friday, and Monday at 3 a m, arrive at Warrenton same days by 6 p m. Leave Warrenton every Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday 1 a m, arrive at Petersburg same days by 8 p m.
2nd. From Fayetteville by Lumberton, Barefords Mills, Porters ferry, Gaules and Georgetown to Charleston three times a week. Leave Fayetteville every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 4 a m, arrive at Porters ferry on Wednesday, Friday and Monday by 6 p m. Leave Georgetown every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 2 a m, arrive at Charleston same days by 4 p m.
Returning—Leave Charleston every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 5 1-2 a m, arrive at Georgetown same days by 6 p m. Leave Georgetown every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 2 a m, arrive at Porters ferry on Wednesday, Friday and Monday by 6 p m.
NOTES.
 The Post master general may expedite the mails, & alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contracts, he stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby.  Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time is specified.  For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the time prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continues until the departure of any succeeding mail, whereby the mails destined for such departing mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred.  Newspapers, as well as letters, to be sent in the mail; and if any person making proposals, desires to carry newspapers, other than those conveyed in the mail, for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals for what sum he will carry with the emolument, and for what sum without that emolument.  Should any person making proposals desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals the alteration desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of the contract.  Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly in the months of August, November, February, and May, in one month after the expiration of each quarter.  No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail.  Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals.  The Post master general reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end, whenever one failure happens which amounts to the loss of a trip.  The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of January next, & to continue in force until the 31st day of March 1810.  GIDEON GRANGER, Post master general. General Post-Office Washington city, July 31—tOct 13
PUBLIC NOTICE.
PURSUANT to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States, of the 3d day of March last, directing the clerk of the said House to advertise for and receive separate proposals for supplying the said House during the next Congress, with the necessary Stationery, Printing, and Fuel wanted; separate contracts have been duly made and entered into, to wit: With Edgar Patterson, of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, for the supply of Stationery—with Andrew and George Way, of the city of Washington in the said district of Columbia, for the Printing—and with George Gil, of the city and district aforesaid, for the Fuel, at the following prices, to wit:
FOR THE STATIONERY.
   D. C.     Very best superfine English letter paper, hot pressed v.ium 6 50   Best plain letter paper, not hot pressed 3 50   Best wove do. do. 4 00   Best plain folio post, cut complete 7 50   Best wove do. do. 8 00   Best medium for engrossing 12 00   Best superfine foolscap 4 50   Best ready made pens 1 75   Quills, from 1 50 to 3 00   Best superfine red wax 1 75   Best superfine black, do. 1 50   Best quality red wafers, from 1 50 to 1 75   Best quality black, do. 1 50   Common black sand in papers 0 03   Tin water boxes per dozen 0 75   Pouch boxes, from 25 cents each to 1 00   Ink and sand glasses to suit tables, from 50 cents to 1 50 per pair,   Half pint phials with corks, 75 cents per dozen.   Low priced folders, 2 Ds. per dozen.   Best polished ivory folders, 6 Ds. per dozen.   Black lead pencils, from 1 50 to 1 75 per dozen.   Red tape in pieces, from 12 1-2 to 25 cents per piece.   Best quality black ink per gallon from 1 25 to 1 50.   India rubbers 37 1-2 Cts.   Best quality English parchment in skins cut dressed and pounced fit for use, 28 by 32 inches 10 00   Best quality American do. 7 00   Office penknives, from each 37 1-2 cents to 1 00   Braiding knives, 37 1-2 Cts.  
FOR THE PRINTING.
   For plain work, octavo per sheet of 300 impressions 14   — rule work, do. do. do. 14   — rule and figure work do. do. 20   — table work, med. um. broad. side do. 20   — plain work, foolscap folio, per sheet of 300 impressions 10   — figure work, do. do. do. 10   — rule and figure work do. do. 17   — table work, do. broadside do. 14   — bills per sheet, foolscap, 300 impressions 7 75   — folding each half sheet, octavo or folio per hundred 6 1-4   — stitching per hundred, not exceeding 3-half sheets 12 1-2   — do. do. from 3 half sheets to 6 18 3-4   — do. do. from 6 do. to 10 25   — do. do. from 10 do. to 20 31 1-4   — folding whole sheet medium tables into octavo per 100 12 1-2   — half binding and lettering an octavo volume from 300 to 500 pages 37 1-2   — do. do. above 500 pages 45   — full binding do. do. in sheep from 300 to 500 pages, 33 1-3   — do. do. do. in sheep above 500 pages 45   — do. do. do. in calf from 300 to 500 pages 75   — do. do. do. in calf above 500 pages 87 1-2   — half binding and lettering foolscap folio, per volume 70   — full binding do. do. in sheep per volume 90   — do. do. do. in calf do. 1 50  
FOR THE FUEL.
Good found Hickory Wood, delivered in the cellar at the Capitol at Nine Dollars and Seventy-five Cents per Cord. Published by order of the House of Representatives of the United States. N. B. VAN ZANDT. P. Ck. H. R. U. S. September 1, 1807—3w
Fifty Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from the subscriber residing in the District of Columbia, on the first of August, 1807, a black man Named MOSER , about five feet 8 or 9 inches high, 25 years of age, has been a carpenter and is an excellent workman, he has a remarkable scar on the top of one of his feet something like the scar from a burn, believed to be on his right foot—he was dressed in an osnaburgh jacket and pantalettes, but may change both his name and dress. Ten dollars will be paid if found in this District, and the above Reward if out of the District and confined in any Jail so that I get him again.
ROBERT ALEXANDER. Washington, August 19, 1807. tf.
LITERARY NOTICE.
WM. DUANE , of Philadelphia, will thank such Book sellers, Printers, and others, as may have had the goodness to collect subscribers, for the LIFE & WORKS OF DR. FRANKLIN , about to be published by Wm. Duane, to forward to him lists of the subscribers, obtained, with particular directions relative to their residence, &c. Printers of newspapers, who have published the proposals for this extensive work, will add to the favors already conferred, by publishing the above in their respective papers, as often as convenient. WM. DUANE will also thank those, who have collected subscribers, for "POLITICS FOR FARMERS and MECHANICS," to inform him of their names and place of residence without delay. July 13—
CAPITOL of the UNITED STATES.
NO Person whatever can be admitted into the south Wing of the Capitol, excepting those actually engaged in the work.
It is hoped that the citizens will see the necessity of this restriction being general. The injury done already by improper Visitors has been very considerable, and in the present state of the building, which is about to be furnished, the interruption occasioned by the admission of strangers might defeat all endeavors to get the house ready at the time required.
B. H. LATROBE, Surveyor of the Public Building of the U. S. September 11—tf
BANK OF COLUMBIA, Sept. 17th, 1807.
The President and Directors having this day declared a Dividend on the Capital Stock of the Bank for the half year ending the 30th inst. at the rate of Eight per cent. per annum. The same will be paid to the Stockholders or their representatives on Monday the 21st inst. or at any time thereafter.
WILLIAM WHANN, Cashier. Sept. 18—6w
Charlotte Hall School.
THE Trustees of said School will receive applications for an appointment of an Assistant Master in the Latin language on Thursday the 1st of October next.
The Salary attached to that appointment is 135 pounds per annum.
It is required of applicants, that they produce testimonials of their capacity, and moral character.
Signed by Order,
NEALE H. SHAW, Reg. C. H. S. Cool Springs, September 14—3w.
CHARLES H. VARDEN,
Merchant Tailor
New Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol  RESPECTFULLY informs the gentlemen of the district of Columbia, he has imported by ship ELIZA ANN lately arrived at Philad. A choice assortment
Of Extra Superfine cloths, Bennetts, Velvets, and Cords, Cassimeres, single and double milled Sattin cloths, fashionable Spanish Orleans and Toilets, rich silk Molekin velvets, silk and satin Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the season.
N. B. Ladies habits, regiments and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion.
Richard Harwells celebrated patent parallel suspenders, can be had on the same terms as at his manufactory. November 12—tf
New & Valuable BOOKS.
JUST received, and now opening, at DR. RAPIKE'S Book Store on Capitol Hill, a Choice and Valuable Collection of BOOKS and STATIONERY , which he will be happy to dispose of to his friends and customers on the most reasonable terms—amongst which are:
 The Novice of St. Dominick, by Miss Owens.  Son, author of the Wild Irish Girl, Saint Clair, or the Heiress of Dermond, by the same author.  Warren's History of the American revolution, 3 vols.  Montgomery's Poems, Roberts on Frauds, Sugden's Law of Venders, Bail's Reports, vol. 7th, Peter's (judge) Maritime Law, Henning and Mumford's Virginia Reports, Domestic Cookery, Sidney on Government, Atkin's Geography, Workman's do. Geographical questions, Sporting Anecdotes, Nautical Almanacs for 1808—9, German Theatre, 6 vols. Jeil's Surveying, Sacred Classics, 9 vols. Sevingne's Letters, 7 vols. Sully's Memoirs, 5 vols. Pope's Homer, 4 vols. Gray's Italian Dictionary. Young's Centaur. Lady's elegant tortoise-shell combs, ornaments and plain. Spectacles and Morocco cases. Watch seals and keys. Fashionable paper hangings and borders. Reeves' water colors. Mathematical Instruments, Chamber Lamps and wicks. Japaned Ink. Durable do. A large assortment of writing & letter paper—hot pressed and plain. Quills, sealing-wax, wafers, pen knives, &c. &c. 
Dr. Rees' Cyclopaedia,
Vol. 5th, Part 1st, or the 9th half volume is just received and ready for delivery, those who have not had ALL the preceding vols. will oblige by sending for them. Aug. 7 tf.
DRY GOODS.
Just received and for sale at prime cost,
A Consignment of fresh imported fall goods—consisting of superfine Bro. d. Cloths—black and violet colored silk velvets—Jefferson's cord—Calicoes. Apply to H. A. BORN, 14th Street. Sept. 26—3t.
TENNESSEE COMPANY.
A MEETING of the Stockholders is requested on the first day of November next, at MECHANIC'S HALL in the city of New York. A punctual attendance is requested by all the Stockholders in person, or by attorney, on the first importance to the Company.
B. F. KES Surviving Trustee. September 23—tOct 6