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Vol. II.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCLXXXVII.
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From the American Review . The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esq. late President of the State of Delaware, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
[CONCLUDED.]
Through the murky exhalations from a bleeding land, a ray of hope twinkled. Soon afterwards the prospect brightened; and when the sky became clear, with transports of joy, we saw France firm at her post, and true to herself, to freedom, and to mankind.
Do we censure her for enduring the horrible despotism of the monsters, during the paroxysm of her destiny, and not give her credit, for putting, as soon as circumstances permitted, a period to them and to their abominations? That would not be fair dealing.
Her submission to them was proportioned to the foreign efforts to destroy her. These compelled her, these imposed upon her a necessity to submit. How? By a combination of almost all Europe against a single nation in a new and untried state, proclaiming threats of fire and sword, and labouring to execute those threats, by the most numerous and best disciplined armies, commanded by the most experienced and renowned generals in the world.
But who advised her to extinguish the system of terror? Any emperor, king, or prince? Any of the crowned pretenders, protectors, and protectors of morality and religion ? No. What then? Her own good sense, spirit, and humanity. This glorious act was all her own.
It was an act congenial to the feelings of Frenchmen . Universal France—the miscreants of murder and pillage are too inconceivable to be regarded—universal France rejoiced in the deed. Read the accounts written by foreigners who were witnesses of the public exultations upon the event. There one may find some traces of FRENCH MIND .
The nation revived. She flung off her enemies from her frontiers, into their own territories. Thither she pursued them, as she had a right to do. The war blazed. Her victories were brilliant. She had declared herself a republic —was evidently competent to the final establishment of her liberty—and, in that attitude, flung upon her trophies, stretched out her right hand to us, and proffered her friendship.
There is not a nation upon earth whose welfare would not give me pleasure; and, as I wish that the observations now offered to my fellow citizens may not be impeached, at a period so momentous to my country as the present, by a charge of prejudice in favour of France , or of enmity to Great Britain , I trust that, by the candid, I shall be pardoned, if with anticipation I answer to such a charge.
If to believe that the French are engaged in a just war—that their success in it will be favourable to the interests of liberty—that they are as brave, generous, and humane a people as any we know—and to wish that there may be a perpetual and most intimate friendship between them and these States, is to be prejudiced, I am prejudiced.
If to wish that Charles Fox may be the minister in Great Britain , and that she may never be conquered by France —that she may immediately, without losing an instant (a period of consequence) may be involved in an instant, make peace with her on terms mutually advantageous—that they may enjoy a participation of benefits, enhanced by the participation—and that, imitating the Beings to whom they owe their happiness, they may communicate it as fully as the utmost exertions of their united powers will enable them, to others—so that the blessings flowing from their concord may far, far exceed, in measure, number, and weight, the evils that have sprung from their discord—and that, amidst the joyous acclamations of grateful nations, they may have an inheritance in the high all human felicity, is to be an enemy to Great Britain , I am her enemy.
What real American can desire the desolation of that land, the birth-place of heroes, patriots, sages, and saints—from which we have derived the blood that circulates in our arteries and veins—from which we have received the very current of our thoughts—a land, whose meads, hills, and streams point out the spots where her gallant sons met death, face to face, for LIBERTY —a land, whose kind-hearted nobles, in every charter wrenched in attestation of their freedom from the gripe of tyranny, inserted clauses in favour of the commons; while the nobles of some other countries, after involving the people in their selfish quarrels, pretended to be leagues for public good;
left them naked to injuries, and made splendid bargains with their monarchs, for themselves. The after-reckoning soon followed. Their provoked kings broke in upon them. In dismay they cried out for help, but experienced the holy power of that eternal truth, that they who are false to others are false to themselves . There was no help.
To this difference of behaviour, the nobles of Britain , at this day, in a great measure, owe that portion of freedom in which they partake with the people, when the nobles of some other countries are—what I wish to forget. So much wiser and better is it to communicate than to monopolize those things in which all ought to share.
Another praise is due to Britain —for the purity of her tribunals in the administration of justice.
The history of mankind, as far as I am acquainted with, does not afford an instance where the stream has flowed so clear, for such a length of time. Power or faction has not been able to pollute it. The poor and the rich, the labourer and the nobleman, have equal rights to the wholesome draughts. There even peers are blameless.
Yet three evils have sprung from its bed. One—the labyrinth of roads leading towards it: another—the expenses of approaching it. The last is, that some of the agents whose duty it has been to facilitate the access, have, for their own profit, put up false directions for those who seek it. These evils must be removed. To know their title, to see but not to taste the refreshing waters, is too hard a lot for innocence in distress.
We need not recommend these volumes to the patriotic, to the curious, or to the admirers of eloquence. The connection of these papers with the public destinies of our country, and their intrinsic merit, will secure to them attention even from those who may disapprove the cause in which they are written.
FROM THE LONDON MORNING CHRONICLE OF JUNE 18.
We this day insert a document respecting the deposition of the Nabob of Arcot, which will be read with great interest. It is entitled instructions to his agents in England, and may be considered the official protest against that foul and dishonorable transaction. The time is now come when it is necessary to vindicate the character of the British name, and to consult its true policy. The vast empire we possess in the East is grown to a size, perhaps too great for real utility; and we fear like all vast possessions, it has been too rapidly, to have been very honestly acquired. It is vain for us to tax the ambition of our neighbours, when we have in so short a space gained an empire containing forty millions of people. One acquisition has been followed by another, and the resentment of one usurpation has furnished the pretence for a new attack. The circle is widening, and while the system of conquest is continued, the evil must grow worse. The system is unjust and detestable. The difference of manners, the distance of objects, our ignorance of the men, weaken our sympathy with their wrongs. The deposition of a sovereign in Germany, the usurpation of a state in Italy by France rouses all our indignation but we think nothing of the degradation of independent princes, and the annexation of whole kingdoms in the East. We declare against the influence of a French Consul, but we overlook the wanton freaks of power displayed by the Proconsuls of a set of merchants of England. There is no end to their acts of violence. While a single independent power remains in India every year will produce scenes like those which lately passed in Oude and the Carnatic. The justice, as well as the policy, of the British nation must interpose, or if these things continue, perpetual troubles must ensue, and ill-begotten dominion must be maintained by eternal war. What will be the case when European and is added to the discontent of Asia?
THE DEPOSED NABOB OF THE CARNATIC.
FROM HIS HIGHNESS THE NAWAB WA LAJAA OMMEER UL HIND TAJOOLOM RAAMMEER UL MULK MOIN UD DOWLAH MAHOMED ALLY HUSSEIN KAWN BAHADOR JUFFER JUNG, &c. &c. TO JAMES STUART HALL AND SAMUEL JOHNSON, ESQRS.
[Hall was formerly a captain in the army which he relinquished for the bar; and acquired a considerable fortune at Madras; Johnson was also a lawyer there, and both rich.]
When I look around me and perceive the many dangers which beset me, I am overwhelmed with difficulties; every object occasions new alarm; and my little experience in business, my acquaintance with the world, and my great want of friends, in a trial so serious, leaves me little able to overcome the difficulties which present themselves. Tho' a stranger in person, yet I would persuade myself, that in relation and character, I am not wholly unknown; nor will you forget the anxious solicitude with which my ever honored and lamented father recommended his only offspring to you, at your departure from these regions; a pious solicitude which seemed to anticipate the awful and melancholy moment which has ensued.
Apprised, as I am, of the esteem in which you were held by his late highness the Nabob, of your unalterable concern for his true interests, and of your friendship for his family, I naturally turn to you in this embarrassment of my affairs; and most earnestly entreat the benefit of your advice and endeavours to extricate me from surrounding perils.
I have not trusted to a stranger's aid, to make known these circumstances, which it is my first wish to be communicated to you. I will detail them to you with my own hand—I will trace the unhappy events which have happened, and the evils which they have introduced in their train. I will explain to you the sentiments to which they have given rise—the results to which they have already led, and the consequences which they may eventually occasion. These will not only direct your services (of which I consider myself secure) to proper objects, but will be the means (for I am confident in the justice of my claims) of obtaining the redress which I am seeking. A true and faithful account of my situation, to whom it may be required to be made known, will be all-sufficient to the success of my application.
In order that you may have a complete knowledge of all that has happened, it will be necessary to begin with circumstances, apparently remote, though certainly not unimportant; nor unconnected with the present situation of affairs. I shall, therefore, first acquaint you, that early in the month of June last, his highness the Nabob of the Carnatic, (the father of the writer) was seized with very dangerous symptoms, which continued, with very little variation, for the space of several days; and were sufficient to alarm his friends, for his highness's safety and life. It pleased the Almighty to allow his highness an interval of a few days of quiet and tranquillity, to arrange and settle the particulars of his house, and to provide for the succession to his dominions; and so serene and untroubled a moment of freedom from bodily pain and infirmity did his highness enjoy, that his family and servants had a most reasonable hope that he might be able to overcome the violence of the attacks. After a few days, however, the disease returned with an increase of violence, and disappointed all the expectations and prayers which had been kindly conceived and fervently offered up for his highness's recovery. Tears will not allow me to describe with exactness the scene that followed. You will learn that his highness lay on the extreme bed of sickness, awaiting the summons from an eventful life, with a dignified patience and resignation; affording a striking lesson, never to be forgotten! of the vanity of sublunary greatness; and in this painful and agonizing state he continued until the 15th of the succeeding month, when his spirit and soul forsook him, in their way to a higher glory, and more perfect happiness.
On the 5th of July, about ten days previous to the melancholy event which I have last mentioned, a large body of troops, consisting of European and native infantry and cavalry, to the number of 800 men, and a proportionate number of artillery, supplied with requisite stores and field equipage of every denomination, were sent by government, [Lord Clive governor] (under the command of Col. McNeil, one of the company's officers,) to take possession of the raisen and palace of Cherpauc, [the residence of the Nawab] under the pretence of defending them against any insult or violence which the decease of his highness the Nabob might possibly produce; a measure which had been advised and adopted without any communication either with his highness or his ministers, until the very moment of its execution, when major Grant, the town-major of Fort St. George, was sent to theick chamber of his highness to acquaint him with the instant approach of the troops, and to explain to him the reasons which had determined that extraordinary act of government.
It will not be necessary for me to at-
tempt a relation of the various emotions, under the conflict and agony of contending passions, which this sudden and unfeigned communication unfortunately excited. You will be able to form some conjecture at them, if you advert to the situation and condition of his highness at that moment, and to the hand which executed the measure. Whether from this, or some other cause, I am too deeply and dearly interested to dare to form an opinion, his highness's disorder augmented daily in violence, and ended in the unfortunate way which I have been obliged to state.
The troops notwithstanding the representations and last intreaties of his highness, surrounded his highness's apartments, and the most inmost recesses of his palace, at the time of his demise; and although but one mind manifested itself amongst his highness's relations and the ministers of his affairs—although the most uninterrupted order and regularity every where appeared, and a spirit of loyalty (I am proud to say it) universally shewed itself to his highness's successor, yet the military force still kept its position, under the same instructions, and seemingly with a view to dictate the order and terms of the succession.
Under these unhappy circumstances did an old and honorable ally draw his extreme breath!—In this degrading situation did his unoffending successor begin the cares of his government and dominion.
Decent attentions had scarcely been paid to the inanimate form of his highness, to prepare it for the shroud, when Mr. Webbe (the secretary of the government) and Colonel Close (the President of Mysore) were sent to the palace, under the instructions, as they represented, of the right honorable the Governor. His highness departed this life at about a quarter past 10; and at a quarter past one o'clock of the same day I was advised of the approach of the commissioners of government. I am this circumstantial in my detail, as I cannot but conceive that it will tend to shew the features of the policy which was intended to be adopted in the beginning, and which has eventually terminated in the utter subversion of every thing like right and justice.
Though secure, from the position of the force about the Palace, of every access to it, and of the knowledge of every act which might pass within it, yet, at the sacred hour of sorrow, and into the chamber of hollowed affliction, did these cold commissioners obtrude themselves—not with the tender offices of friendship or condolence, but with airs of indignity and insult.
It would not be believed, unless solemnly asserted, and I do assure you, on the honor and faith of a prince unused to any subterfuge or compromise, that at this melancholy juncture, I was drawn by peremptory messages from the side of the great deceased, to answer to the countless interrogatories of commissioners instructed to examine me. I hope I shall not suffer in the eyes and contemplation of good men, in yielding to importunities so unworthy of myself and them, which nothing but the peace and tranquillity of my family, and the fear of pollution have led to. But they are past, I'll endeavour to be calm.
Attended by several of my principal officers, I went to the apartments where the commissioners were waiting; when I was immediately accosted by one of them, with an enquiry as to the disposition which his highness had made of his affairs. I answered with calmness, but not without a sensibility natural to my favored situation from the bounty of my royal predecessor, that such disposition was clear, short, and unequivocal, and was contained in a written paper, which had been executed in quadruplicate, the several parts of which had been sent, many days previous to his highness's demise, to their several destinations. One of them had been forwarded to his majesty the king of Great Britain, one to the court of directors, one to the governor general; and the remaining part was first delivered to his highness's chief minister, and had been by him, since the decease of his highness, delivered into my possession, where it then remained.
The commissioners requested to see the paper to which I had immediately alluded; when one of my officers, struck with the impropriety of the request at such a season, could not restrain himself from observing, that the present moment was devoted, as well by feeling as custom, to the indulgence of grief; and he trusted that they would not again advert to the paper, or to circumstances to which it had relation, but would suffer the interval, allowed to humane and religious considerations, not to be molested with worldly cares or reflections. That after
three days, his highness would be happy to produce the Will, and confide with them on the objects connected with it, so far as they related to the company. But the commissioners would not hear this considerate suggestion, but insisted, with a firmness to which I was unaided, on the immediate production of the paper.
Fearing that some possible doubt might have been entertained as to the reality of the paper, if it had not been produced at the time when demanded, I gave it to their hands, with as little reluctance as the occasion would permit; they examined it in my presence, and in the presence of my officers, with a particular and a scrupulous care; observing, when it was returned to me, "that his highness had appointed me to the entire dominion and government of the Carnatic, and (with very small exceptions) to the possession of all his property; but that in contemplation of my youth, had placed me under the guardianship of two of the nobleman or kawus about his highness's person, who were to fill the office of regents, until I should arrive at my nineteenth year." I instantly objected to them—"That I had been long sensible of this disposition of his highness's affairs, that I was well aware, and greatly thankful for the kind and order precaution of his highness in committing my inexperience into such able and worthy hands; that I well knew, and highly respected them, and was ready in all things to abide by their counsel and advice;" and concluded with remarking, that, "since his highness had so disposed of me, and had so constituted the business of the government, it were unnecessary that I should be consulted further, at a moment so inauspicious. The regents, I was sure, had not less inclination to meet and forward the desires of the company, than what I now felt, and should ever continue to feel—being the first and earliest impression I had received, and would, I hoped, be the last that would, remain with me." On this, I was preparing to depart, when the commissioners desired that I would yet remain; having something important to communicate to me, and which they begged to deliver in private, or at least in the presence only of the regents and myself. On this my officers and servants were instructed to withdraw; when the commissioners proceeded in the manner in which I shall now succinctly and clearly relate.
On the immediate departure of my principal servants, the officers of government produced a letter, represented by them to have been written by the marquis of Wellesley, and intended for his late highness the Nabob; which accused my royal grandfather, and my much revered father, of an improper and unjustifiable correspondence with the Sultan of the Mysore; and concluded with demanding an immediate surrender of all the country of the Carnatic, for an alleged breach of treaty. After the reading of the correspondence, they remarked that the territory of his highness had been forfeited to the company by the act which had been stated in the letter; and that of consequence, he had no manner of right to dispose of it by will; yet to shew that the company had every disposition to serve and protect the son, whom his highness had so favored, they were fully inclined to make a very liberal provision for him, on condition of his previous surrender of all the dominions which had been nominally willed to him. The regents being present, were as much moved as myself at the extraordinary communication which had been just made to us. And although we were fully convinced that no unauthorized correspondence had ever taken place between his late highness or his predecessor, with the Sultan of Mysore, yet we were so much agitated and affected at the serious manner in which the charge was preferred, as not to be able to afford a cool and dispassionate answer. After stating our internal impressions, that neither of the reflected passages to whom allusion had been made, could have been engaged in a clandestine communication with any foreign power in enmity with the British interest; and our great mortification at the proposal which had been offered, as founded on that supposed fact—we begged for a few days consideration of the terms which had been suggested, which was conceded to us after some discussion.
Every inquiry was made in the interval, to ascertain the correspondence, which had at that time taken place, of the nature already mentioned, when no reliance could be traced, which could throw the slightest stigma on the virtuous names which had been implicated in so unfortuante a charge.

The only correspondence which had ever occurred between the parties in question, and which could have given rise to the suspicion entertained by the company, happened at the instance of the earl Cornwallis , after the termination of the war to successfully conducted by his lordship against the late Sultan, and related to a family connection, which, from the well known circumstances never took place. This correspondence naturally produced mutual communications of courtesy on several domestic events, which concerned either of the parties personally, as occasions happened; but nothing that could affect any interests, connected with national or public considerations.
The regents, at the conference on the next evening, being confirmed in their first impressions, of the rectitude of his late highness's conduct, in the particular referred to, stating in perspicuous terms, the steps which they had pursued to investigate the truth of the accusation which had been alleged to have been contained in the letter of the Marquis of Wellesley; and that they have found, on a full investigation, that there was not the smallest foundation for the charge which had been urged; but, on the contrary, that the only correspondence which had occurred between his Highness and the Sultan, had been carried on with the knowledge and consent of the executive local government, and had been forwarded officially by them; and on proof of this assertion, referred the commissioners to their own immediate records.
The regents then expressed their concern that the matter of this accusation had not been made known and inquired into in the life of his late highness, when it might have been fairly and candidly explained and answered. This circumstance alone led them to hope that the company did not seriously believe that correspondence of such a description had in reality happened, they might have felt themselves authorized in requesting an explanation concerning it; and under this conviction, they could not but conclude that the terms proposed to them at their last conference would be given up, as they were applicable to a situation of things which did not exist.
The regents next professed themselves most ready to receive any proposals which might serve to promote a good understanding in respect to the existing engagements, or might render them more convenient to either of the subscribing parties; though they were not sensible how they could be improved; at the same time they were apprehensive that a new arrangement might give rise to difficulties which had been long set at rest by the subsisting treaty.
The commissioners still stood on their high ground, and insisted in peremptory language, on the proposal which they had before made. Seeing there was no possibility of diverting them entirely from their subject, the regents considered of an expedient, which, in their expectations, might have induced the commissioners to have foregone their proposal, at least in the extent in which it had been moving. Being well aware, from an intimate knowledge of his late highness's affairs, that the preceding governors of Fort St. George had looked for protection of the Tinnevely, and some of the adjacent countries as more convenient to their affairs, and sensible that the present government, from the nature of the proposal made, had similar views, though in a more extended shape; they determined, under the peculiar circumstances in which they stood, to meet their desires as much as they could, consistent with their own honor and the interests which they had been given in charge. With this intention they proposed to deliver into the hands of the company, for their entire management and control, the whole of the Tinnevely and Madura provinces to the southward, and the Ongole and Palnadu to the north; on the condition that the Prince of the Carnatic should be allowed in his periodical Kists, [collections are made by instalments, usually after the harvest; the instalment of each harvest is called a Kist] the amount of rent of such districts, agreeable to the Schedule No. 2, annexed to the treaty of 1792, being a yearly sum equal to the full amount of the sum claimable by the company by virtue of such treaty.
To the proposal of the regents, the officers of government gave a short reply — "that it would not in any way do" — and that nothing short of the demand which had been made, could be accepted or considered. In consequence of this disposition on the part of the commissioners, the regents requested a further time to reflect, and were indulged to the next day.
I shall not trouble you with the particulars, of the next or succeeding meeting on the day following; for you will find them circumstantially related, in the journal of the regents, which I have directed to be forwarded with this. You will readily anticipate, that although the regents have been disposed to render up more of the countries (which really was the case,) on a like condition with those already tendered by them, they could not unworthily bring themselves to make an unqualified and unconditional surrender of those rights, which it was their duty to protect and guard. This meeting,
therefore, to which I have last requested your attention, passed without effect.
Seeing that the regents were inflexible in their duty, and conceiving from my want of knowledge in public concerns, that I might possibly be rendered an instrument, as I cannot but consider, to my own undoing; the commissioners at the last conference, and towards the conclusion of it, sent a note to Lord Clive, who thereupon appeared at the palace; but instead of going to the apartment where negotiations had hitherto been carried on, his lordship went to the tent of Col. M'Neil, in charge of the troops about the gardens, and immediately requested my attendance on him.
I cheerfully complied with his lordship's request, and went to the tent. His lordship then accosted me with seeming kindness, and begged — "I would well consider the company's proffered terms, which, if then neglected, would evade my acceptance for ever, that they were now offered for the last time; that a liberal allowance should be made out of the collections, (but which his lordship did not particularize) if I would listen favorably to his proposals; but that if I did not incline to them, that I should be reduced from the grandeur which awaited me, into an humble and private station." I observed to his lordship "that I was not acquainted with matters of so high concern; that I was indeed an utter stranger to business; that my royal predecessor had wisely committed me to the care and attention of others, and had recommended my conformity to their advice; that in respect to my father's will, and to the persons to whom my affairs were trusted, I could not think of answering for myself the important propositions made to me; but, from regard to his lordship's character and to the interests which he represented, I was inclined not only to give my ready attention to what his lordship communicated, but would advise the regents (if it were compatible with their honor and my own safety) to overlook any formal duty which might stand in the way of their acquiescence; for this purpose I would beg leave to acquaint them with what passed, and would appoint an early day, when his lordship should have my answer." His lordship observed that he would wait on me again the next day, at the same place — and took his leave.
In consulting with the regents and the Kawns, and Omrahs of Empire, before whom the whole of what had passed at the preceding conferences was laid, I was fully advised of the dangers to which my affairs and family might be exposed, by the acceptance of terms so disreputable and so vague; an advice which I had no reason to suspect of prejudice or infidelity, and by which, after the most mature consideration, I was determined to govern my conduct. Accordingly, when the governor came the next evening, I acquainted him ingeniously, "that I could not accede to the offer which he had yesterday the goodness to make me; that I had every personal good-will for the prosperity of the company, and for the real and substantial interest of the British nation, which I had been taught to admire from my earliest years, but that I could not sacrifice my own and my family's rights, for any supposed benefit to the company, or any provisional good which I was given to expect. Besides the mode of surrender dictated, and the ground on which it professed to be founded, was such that I could not adopt it, without rendering a credit to suggestions highly dishonorable to those whom by duty and religion I was bound to honor and revence. I had already shown an inclination to attend to the company's requisitions, in so far as they should be attended to, and was much induced by my own sentiments to extend the proposal which had been made on my behalf, even to a greater latitude, on the principle of the footing on which it had been made. My motives therefore for the non-acceptance of his lordship's offer, could admit of no doubt. That I had the highest personal consideration for his lordship, and would hope that the frank and explicit answer which I had now given him, would not occasion offence."
While I was delivering what I had to say, a number of troopers rode round the tent, with drawn swords; and an unusual guard of Sepahis, were posted at the door, who traversed constantly to and fro; and a certain degree of confusion seemed to reign around. I endeavoured, nevertheless, to preserve a coolness and consistency of demeanor, requisite for the occasion; and have to thank heaven that my reason and fortitude were not to be shaken by a circumstance calculated to move them; and which from after practices, I am sorry to add, that I cannot but imagine was contrived with that view.
After I had concluded what I had to answer, his lordship replied, "that I was extremely badly advised; that I had sacrificed my best interests to specious appearances; and that I should rue the rejection of his proposal; that it was the very last time that he should address me on the subject" — and with a few words of form, he departed the tent.
I have taken some pains to acquaint you with the foregoing circumstances, as well by myself as by the more detailed account of the regents, as they tend to shew the true grounds of the disagreement which existed between me and the
government; and which have been made the pretence of dispossessing me of my throne, to which, by personal right, as well as by the will of my royal predecessor, I was lawfully and indisputably entitled.
From the detail, of which you are in possession, you will readily perceive the policy on which the Madras government have acted; and they had an ambitious design from the beginning, of possessing themselves of the whole dominions of the Carnatic; a design which the circumstances of the times seemed peculiarly to favor. Apprehensive, however, of the opinions of the European and Asiatic world, they determined on arriving at their ends by means the least alarming and suspicious. They, therefore, first besought themselves to him, who they well knew, if he could be brought to consent, could give not only legality and effect to their unbounded views; but they soon experienced, from the wise precautions of his predecessor, that he was not left a ready instrument to their purposes, (tho' not indisposed in sentiment to accept a reasonable terms) and judging from the latter circumstances (which shewed a pliancy of character) that he might yet be made what the government desired to see him, they endeavoured by promises, allurements, and threats, to mould him to their wishes. But seeing in the event, that all their stratagems failed, while their ambition remained unabated, they resorted to other expedients which seemed to promise, if not a more honorable, at least a more successful issue. Their ambition still exhibited its original mixed character; it possessed not any of that daring, open, and dazzling quality, which leads the world to overlook the means in the splendour of the event; but a lofty and towering mind, with a diminutive and assured spirit, which affects but can never perfect a great or admirable achievement.
Disappointed in their first expectation, the government sought to accomplish their object by the instrumentality of the next immediate Prince to the Musnud [of the throne] of the Carnatic; and unmindful of the order and succession; and of the disposition of his late highness, did not scruple to open negotiations with him for filling the imperial seat. But I shall not trouble you at any length on the many subterfuges used on this occasion; or of the measures adopted, through an oblique medium, of obtaining their originally intended end.
(To be Continued.)
Army of St. Domingo.
Head Quarters at Cape Francois, 4th July, 10th year of the French Republic. The General in Chief orders.
10. There shall be levied upon the inhabitants of the colony a war contribution to amount to 13 000,000 francs of France.
2d. This contribution shall be paid, one half in year 11, and the other half in year 12.
3d. In the mean time, whilst the Administration of Domaines is preparing to lay before the General in chief, an exact list of the property in the colony, there shall be collected, on account of the above contribution, the sums annexed to the names of the following cities.
4th. The Cape 380,000 francs; Port Liberty — the Island of Tortue 100,000; Port Republic 600,000 francs; Jacmel 120,000 francs; Jeremie 100,000 francs; Les Cayes 250,000 francs; making in the whole 1,470,000 francs.
These sums shall be assessed by the Council of Notables, of each of the above communes, as soon as it is possible to get things arranged, which shall be effected with the least possible delay.
5th. The assessment in the towns of the Cape, Port Republican, and Les Cayes, shall be under the direction of the Prefects.
6th. The basis of the assessment is to be as follows: On merchants of the first class, there shall be imposed 600 dollars; on the 2d class, 400; on the 3d class, 200; on the 4th class, 100; two other classes are to be noticed, one of 50 and the other 25 dollars, for those who fell by retail.
Proprietors of Dwelling-Houses, or buildings, are to pay one 5th part their property may rent for. Notaries, Vendue Masters, Publicans, Coffee-House and Tavern Keepers, are to pay the amount of one half their rents.
7th. The collection of the above assessment shall be made at the expense of the communes; the first payment of the contribution must be completed by the 1st Vendemaire, year 11, (22d September next) and is to amount to one half the sum imposed; the remaining half must be completed by the 30th Frimaire, (the 21st of November next.)
8th. The Sub Prefect shall make use of the armed force to compel payment from those who are delinquent.
The funds accruing from this collection shall be placed in the chest of the Receiver of the Commune, free of expense; and shall afterwards be deposited in the army chest.
9th. The whole of the assessment shall be exclusively appropriated to the use of the army, and must not be made use of for any other purpose; and is to be subject to the orders of the Chief Ordinator,
who will derive his powers from the General in Chief.
10th. The sub-prefects are held responsible for the collection of the contributions; and in places where their powers do not extend, the commandant of such place shall be made responsible.
11th. The present article to be printed and published.
12th. The Colonial Prefect will be held personally responsible for its execution, and shall report to the General in Chief on the 30th Mellidor, (9th July) the progress made by the Sub-Prefects at that time.
(Signed) LE CLERC. A certified copy. JAVIN.
MR. ADAM'S LETTER.
No. II.
MR. ADAM'S theory of government is evidently predicated on a fixed and settled belief, that from "ignorance, error and vice," the people in all ages, and in all countries, are incapable of governing themselves.
Although, therefore, he would consent that, for the sake of keeping them quiet, they should have a share in the sovereignty, yet it is obvious from the general tenor of this letter, that he wished the more efficient and energetic powers of the government should be placed beyond their controul. These powers were to be delegated to a class of men who were to be set apart from the multitude, but who were to be "watched by the people on one side, and by a superior to them all on the other." If they were to be watched by the people on one side, it is evident they were to be invested with powers, interests, distinctions and privileges, totally independent of the people; that they were to have an authority in the state, for which they should be indebted to their birth, fortune, or hereditary talents, and not to the voice of the "swinish multitude." They were not to be part of the people; they were to compose a superior order of society; and yet there was to be one individual superior to them all. — This was not to be a President selected from among the People, for he, being one of the People, would, therefore, be inferior to the Nobles. He was to be superior in birth, superior in dignity, and superior in power. If he was selected from among the Nobles, he was to be elevated above them, and was thus to be "Primus inter Pares." His natural rank was to give him pre-eminence in society; and chance, fortune, popularity, or usurpation, were eventually to make him a King. When the supreme executive power should be thus fixed in an individual, facilis descensus est in Avernum! It would easily travel down to the heirs of his body; and our government would be thus sublimated at once into the spirit and essence of King, Lords and Commons. Here is Mr. ADAM'S model of a perfect Republic!
Every sentence of this extraordinary letter is indicative of these opinions. We select the following passage as affording the most substantial and unequivocal evidence.
"I think with you, that knowledge and benevolence ought to be promoted, as much as possible; but despairing of ever seeing them sufficiently general for the security of society, I am for seeking institutions, which may supply, in some degree the defect." What was to be the nature of the institutions, which were to supply the want of "knowledge and benevolence" in the multitude, we may infer from the subsequent remarks. "The love of liberty, you say, is interwoven with the soul of man. — So it is, according to LA FONTAINE, in that of the wolf; and I doubt, whether it be much more rational, general or social, in one than the other, until in man it is enlightened by experience, reflection, education, and civil and political institutions; which are FIRST PRODUCED, AND CONSTANTLY SUPPORTED BY A FEW, THAT IS, THE NOBILITY!!" Until therefore the love of liberty, in man, is regulated by such political institutions, as are only to be produced and supported by a NOBILITY, he is neither more rational, generous or social, than the WOLF, the LION, or the TYGER! He is to be considered as a beast of prey, prowling at large in the forest, sharpening his fangs against all the blamements of life, and the refinements of civil society. A company of NOBILITY is to be embodied for the purpose of hunting him down; and by the force of their "political institutions," he is to be subdued into reason and reflection. — When the beast is thus tamed, for the sake of keeping him quiet and submissive, he is to be entitled with "some share of the sovereignty." In other words, he is to be permitted to crawl round his cage, or to run to the full length of his chain. — While he moves within the circle assigned to him by the "political institutions" of his keeper, the sacred persons of the NOBILITY will not be exposed to his rudeness, or endangered by his ferocity. When irritated by wanton annoyance, he may vent his rage by growling at the aggressor; when left to the enjoyment of his repose, he may be amused by rattling his chain, or sporting with the bars of his prison. He is to have the privilege of standing up, or lying down at his pleasure; of eating and drinking when he is furnished with
his food, and as an acknowledgment of his dependence, he will be occasionally permitted to lick the hand of his master. This is a faithful picture of that ignoble animal — MAN; when his natural love of liberty is restrained by such "political institutions" as are usually devised by his NOBLE Masters. For the purpose of keeping him in subjection. This too is a correct and faithful picture of that miserable state of subordination, in which the multitude are to be placed, by the predominance of a powerful and aspiring aristocracy. This is a just description of that wretched state of vassalage, to which the people, in all ages and countries, have been reduced by the ascendancy of a distinct and privileged class of NOBLES. This was precisely the situation of the HELOTS among the Grecians, the Plebeians among the Romans, of the CERRS among the ancient Germans, the VAS-SALS of the Norman Barons, and the VILLAINS of the Saxon Chiefs. This has ever been, and still continues to be, the degrading condition of the common people in Russia, in Turkey, in Spain, in England, in Ireland, and under every other government on the face of the earth, which is founded in the idea of "a natural and effectual aristocracy among mankind." Had Mr. ADAM'S doctrine prevailed, if his project of a republican constitution had been adopted, this would have been the gloomy and humble situation, of more than FIVE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, who were born to the free inheritance of the fairest portion of the Globe! The face of our Country would have been deformed by the ravages of a horde of rapacious tyrants; the very air would have been polluted by the foul breath of a bloated aristocracy; and instead of "hay, wood and stubble," the more solid and substantial materials of "iron, of brass, and of clay," would have composed our political Bastille, and established a perpetual Empire! Such were the theoretical opinions with which Mr. ADAM'S undertook to administer the government of the United States. Such were the opinions often expressed in private conversation, covertly advocated in his defence of the American constitution, and openly avowed in his letter to his venerable friend! — With these impressions of the frail and imperfect nature of every popular institution, with this decided attachment to a government independent of the people, it was not to be rationally expected, that his administration would conform to the spirit and genius of our constitution. We accordingly find him abandoning, in every successive instance, the principles upon which it had been founded; and adopting a system, which obviously resulted from a belief, that it would be of short and uncertain duration. The creation of unnecessary offices, and the consequent extension of executive patronage; the wanton and profligate expenditure of public money and an in calculable accumulation of the public debt; heavy and oppressive taxes, to support an idle and dissolute army, or to encroach a Navy beyond the necessary purposes of defence; secret service money, to aid the dark and mysterious operations of the Cabinet; appropriations in every department, enveloped in unsearchable secrecy; restraints upon the press to check the force of investigation; an unweildy Judiciary, and Judges, by construction, claiming their offices for life; an adherence to our natural enemies, and a servile imitation, in the style of our government, of their corrupt and profligate example: these were among the more prominent symptoms of our rapid approach to a revolutionary crisis; — these were the harbingers of a change in the "political institutions" of our Country. The Eugenies were already designated. — The Welgeborenen were clothed with the investiture of office — the "beloved families" were set apart for hereditary distinction, and we had our HOWARDS, our SOMERSETS, and our BURLEIGHS, in Boston, in New York, and in Philadelphia!
Such were Mr. Adams's practical experiments upon his favorite theory of government; such were the efforts of his political friends to prepare the way for the prostration of our republic, and the gradual erection of a kingdom! — A subject so fruitful is not easily exhausted. We shall offer some conjectures on the probable design of his friends, in the publication of this letter, and its expected tendency, at this crisis in our national affairs. — Legis.
District of Columbia, } County of Washington }
By the Orphans' Court July 22, 1802.
DEBORAH STEWART having exhibited an exemplification of the last will and testament of Walter Stewart, late of Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania deceased, and applied for letters testamentary thereon; and the said Deborah Stewart being appointed executrix by said will; but Blair McClenachan, Francis West, and William Tilghman, also named executors in said will, not appearing, it is ordered, That summons issue to the said Blair McClenachan, Francis West, and William Tilghman, to show cause why letters shall not issue to the said Deborah Stewart as prayed; and also that the give notice of her application, by publishing a copy of this order in a Washington or Georgetown newspaper, to be inserted once a week four weeks successively.
Test. JOHN DEWITT, Reg. August 9, 1802. LAW43

WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, Sept. 10, 1802.
Owing to circumstances not in the power of the Editor to control, the National Intelligencer has been suspended a few days beyond the period assigned.
We invite the particular attention of our readers to the Prose of the deposed Nabob of the Carnatic. Though long, it will amply reward the time bestowed upon it. It illustrates most forcibly the injustice and inhumanity that accompany conquest. Must it not shock every feeling heart, to behold forty millions of human beings converted by one fraudulent act into the slaves of a company of merchants? These acts should be impressed upon the American people, that by shunning the vices of other nations they may avoid their destiny.
Another Duel is announced by the Southern papers to have been fought at Savannah, between William Hunter, and David B. Mitchell, both of that place. The agreement was to stand at ten paces distance, and advance two paces at each shot. Mitchell's first shot entirely missed; Hunter's struck Mitchell fairly in the side, but for some unaccountable reason, the ball did not penetrate, but stopped in a fold of the shirt; Hunter's second struck Mitchell full in the thigh, but again failed to penetrate; Mitchell's ball, however, took a fatal effect in Hunter's side; it is supposed it went directly through his heart. He died on the spot.
[The Philadelphia Gazette of the 6th instant contains the following letter from a considerable number of the merchants of Philadelphia to George Latimer, late collector of that port, with his answer.]
It will be noticed, to the honor of the merchants of Philadelphia, that their letter is free from all party reproach. While it bears attestation to the fidelity of Mr. Latimer, it abstains from the least censure of the government.
This was, however, not acceptable to the perverted taste of editorial prejudice. Hence the letters are prefaced by animadversions full of invective against the President, full of falsehoods, which, having been repeatedly refuted, it is totally unnecessary here to notice otherwise than by remarking that they are feebly conceived and awkwardly expressed.]
Philadelphia, August 10, 1802.
GEORGE LATIMER, Esq. late Collector of the Customs for the District of Philadelphia.
SIR,
Under the sense which we entertain of your diligent, faithful and able conduct, as Collector of the Customs for the district of Philadelphia, we owe it no less to ourselves than to you, to declare that your official duty was performed with an obliging affability to individuals, and an unremitted zeal for the public service; and that in all our intercourse with the department we experienced every attention, facility, and dispatch, which consisted with an accurate and impartial discharge of your trust.
While we regret the loss of an officer whose capacity and disposition were thus eminently adapted to the Nation which you lately held under the United States, we have sincere pleasure in bearing this testimony of our respect and approbation to your character and services.
To which they received the following ANSWER.
Philadelphia, Sept. 4th, 1802.
GENTLEMEN,
The approbation which my fellow-citizens have been pleased to express of my official conduct while Collector of the Customs of the district of Philadelphia, I shall ever consider as the most grateful circumstance of my life, and one which calls for my most unfeigned acknowledgments.
To the United States I owed an unremitted zeal for the public service, and I owed it no less to myself than to the individuals who had business at the office, that they should have every attention, facility and dispatch, which consisted with an accurate and impartial discharge of the trust committed to me. The regularity observed by the Merchants in all their business at the custom-house, greatly facilitated its operations; and their strict punctuality in the payment of their duties, enables me to say, that during my Collectorate the United States have not lost one dollar of the duties collectable in this district.
For this honorable and unsolicited testimony of your favourable opinion of my character and services, I pray you, gentlemen, to accept my sincere thanks. You have been partial to my talents, and have done ample justice to my intentions.
With the most grateful sense of the favourable opinion expressed by the Mer-
chants and traders of the district of Philadelphia.
I shall ever remain, Your faithful Servant, and much obliged Fellow-Citizen, GEORGE LATIMER.
To John Clement Stocker, Abijah Daves, and Daniel Smith, Esqrs. a committee of the merchants and traders of the city of Philadelphia.
Bon Mot of Lord North. We cannot forbear being pleased with the following bon-mot, at a period when his influence in the political world was no more, and when blindness and other infirmities of age might be supposed to aggravate the chagrin of a disappointed statesman. His old and violent antagonist Colonel Barré, who had also sustained the loss of light, chanced one day to be placed by him in the House of Commons, when he happened in the course of the debate, to make some observations on his former political controversies. "But I trust (continued Lord North) that notwithstanding the violence of my opponents in public, my conduct has procured me few private enemies. There is, for example, my old and strenuous antagonist Col. Barré, he and I have had many tough political disputes, and yet I am confident that, at this moment, no two persons in the nation would be happier to see one another."
FORT OF WILMINGTON (Del.)
Health Office, (Sunday) Sept. 5, 1802.
Whereas this Board hath received information that the contagious or infectious disease, now prevalent in the City of Philadelphia, has assumed a more alarming aspect, and whereas some cases of a malignant disease have appeared in this Borough, which there is reason to believe have been introduced from the city aforesaid—
Resolved, That the resolutions of this Board mitigating the proclamation of the Burgess and Assistants of the 5th ultimo, be rescinded, and that such part of the said proclamation as relates to the city of Philadelphia, be and continue in full force and virtue.
Extract from the Minutes, THOMAS SMYTH, Sec'y. (Here follows the proclamation of the Burgess and Assistants, dated the 5th August last, restricting the intercourse with Philadelphia.)
Alexandria Theatre.
POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGHT BUT ONE.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. AND MRS. GREEN.
On Saturday evening will be presented, (by particular desire,)
THE PLAY CALLED
The Mountaineers.
Osavian, - - - Mr. Green, Sadi, - - - Mr. Bernard, Agnes, - - - Mrs. Green, Zoraida, - - - Mrs. West, Junr. In the course of the play a Fandango, by Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Francis and Mrs. Rowlen.
At the end of the Play, (for that night only) Mr. Sully will perform his unparalled Feats, in
Ground & Lofty Tumbling.
Song—The Earthling Rushlight—Mr. Hopkins—Monieur Tonson or the London art of quizzing, by Mr. Green.
To conclude with the Farce of the JEW & DOCTOR, The Jew by Mr. Bernard.
By permission of Col. Burrows, the Marine Band will join the music of the Theatre.
Looking-Glasses & Prints.
R. ATKINS, (From London) CARVER & GILDER, ALEXANDRIA.
Respectfully informs the public, that she has for sale a large assortment of Looking-Glasses in Burnished gold frames. Dressing-Glasses, elegant and plain. Variety of Prints in elegant burnished gold frames.
Which she will sell on low terms for cash. Mrs. A. repairs & re-gilds Looking-Glasses, and framed Prints, in elegant burnished gold or plain, on reasonable terms. She likewise varnishes burnished Gold Frames to prevent injury from flies.
September 6. 6c
Superintendent's Office,
Washington, 4th September, 1802.
Public Sale of LOTS which commenced on the 30th ult. and has been continued by adjournment from day to day until this day, is adjourned until Monday the 13th instant. Persons disposed to become interested as purchasers of lots in the City, are respectfully invited to attend this sale, it being improbable that so favourable an opportunity will ever occur again.
THOMAS MUNROE, Superintendent.
PROCLAMATION. The Consuls of the Republic to the French people.
"People of France, "The 14th of July commenced in 1789 the new destinies of France. After thirteen years of labour, the 14th of July returns more dear to you, more august to posterity. You have conquered all obstacles and your destinies are accomplished. Within, not a head that does not bow to the empire of equality; without, not an enemy to menace your safety and your independence; not a French colony that is not subjected to the laws, without which no colony can exist. From the bosom of your ports, commerce summons your industry, and offers you the world; in the interior, the genius of the Republic fertilizes all the seeds of prosperity.
"People of France, that this epoch may be for us and for our children, the epoch of a permanent good; and peace may be embellished by the union of virtue, of knowledge, and of arts; that institutions adapted to our character may surround our laws with an impenetrable rampart; that our youth eager for instructions may go to our Lycea to learn their duties and their rights; that the history of miseries may guarantee them from past errors, and that they may preserve, in the midst of wisdom and discord, this edifice of grandeur which has been erected by the courage of the citizens.
"Such are the wish and the hope of the French government; second their efforts, and the happiness of France will be immortal as her glory.
The First Consul. (Signed,) BONAPARTE."
From French Papers.
PARIS, July 7.
The First Consul of France has not till lately shown a disposition to partake of any pleasures. Much pains have been taken to induce him to enter into some amusements; and the Minister (Talleyrand) has been heard to say, that if they could not find out a method of employing him for six hours a day, France would be undone.
In uniformity with the above principle, he has at length been brought to pursue the sports of the field; that is, forty boars, a few hares, and three stags, have been transplanted into the forest of Marli for his diversion. But a circumstance exciting considerable sensation at Paris, is, that the celebrated manuscript, which contained the different regulations of the royal chase for Louis XVI. and from which a leaf had been torn, had been actually replaced within the last fortnight.
From the (London) Morning Herald.
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
Paris, June 11. 1802.
"The news from St. Domingo has produced a strong sensation here, in an increased proportion as they were completely unexpected.
"There is in the members of government here a great deal of sourness and discontent, respecting the conduct of the United States with regard to the rebels of St. Domingo. The aid lent to the latter by America is considered, and perhaps not improperly, as ungrateful for the share which France, under the circumstance of the former war, contributed to American independence. The minister of foreign affairs, Talleyrand, is certainly irritated against America, in consequence of certain pecuniary disappointments. You would fain to hear the speeches of the Parisian politicians on the subject. Some of them go so far as to say, that a convention is on the tapis with England, to repair the constitution of the United States, and to put them, as before, a colony under the protection of Great Britain.—Risum teneas!—There is, however, something to be said for this extravagant speculation. If America maintains her political progress, there must, of course, be an end in a short term of years to all the European colonies in the West-Indies.—Some of our orators of the Carreau (the only political coffee-house now left) compare the power of America with the Colossus mentioned in Scripture, whose head being of gold, and its feet of clay, it may by one stroke be levelled with the dust. Others more figurative compare America to an inert caterpillar, which being swelled into a butterfly, has singed its wings at the French candle? They say, that if Louvain had been as successful as Washington, the West-Indies had been inevitably lost. In this I agree; but I shall not for the present enter further into idle rumours and abstract speculation."
From the New-York Evening Post.
It has long been agreed that the finest trout in the world are to be taken in the Lake of Geneva; but the fish are so delicate that it is impossible to remove them any distance without essential injury. Bonaparte, who had formerly eaten them, expressed his regret one day that a Genevan trout could not be had
in perfection, short of travelling more than three hundred miles; a thing in the present state of affairs, not to be thought of. Cambacérès, the second Consul, and a man of wonderful culinary talents, took upon himself to obviate every difficulty, and to ease the longing of his royal master, by furnishing him with trout from the Lake of Geneva in perfection, at his own table. Bonaparte smiled at the proposal, and thought of it no more. Cambacérès, however, set himself to work in earnest to accomplish it. He ordered a regular chain of posts to be established all the way from Paris to Geneva, and at each an excellent French cook, with every thing in readiness, to receive the precious morreau, and his part towards it, and send it on. The trout was taken, instantly dressed and clapped over the fire at Geneva—it was hardly warmed through when it was taken off the fire and delivered, in a dish prepared for it, to a horseman, who went off with it in full speed till he came to the first post; there a French cook received it, placed it, not yet cold, again over the fire and advanced a little further in process; it was then delivered to a second horseman, who carried it in like manner for the like purpose to a second post, where it underwent a like process in the hands of another excellent French cook, and thus continued till it came hot to Bonaparte's table, perfectly done, all ready for eating.—The First Consul smiled a second time—the courtiers all cried bravo—and decreed applause to Cambacérès, who was highly delighted at the success of his contrivance.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
STRAYED OR STOLEN on the night of the 7th August, from the Commons of the City of Washington,
TWO HORSES,
OF the following description, viz. the one a roan horse, about 9 years old, 14 1-2 hands high, switch tail, a star in his forehead, a rough hair on his right shoulder, just below the mane, and a remarkable large belly.—The other a mare 14 hands high, a dark bay, she has a star in her forehead, long tail, and about 8 years old, on close examination, it will be discovered that one of her hips is higher than the other. The above horses were shod before. In either there is no perceptible brand or mark, whereby they might be designated, remembered.
I will give the above reward for both horses, or ten dollars for either, including all reasonable charges, if delivered to Mr. WILLIAM HOLMES, City of Washington, or to the subscriber, living near Allens Creek, Charles County, Maryland. LAWRENCE POSEY. Sept. 9, 1802. 12W31.
TO BE RENTED,
Two or three large three story brick Houses.
SITUATED on the Capitol Hill, convenient to the Capitol—to prevent trouble it is wished that no one would apply who will not pay half the rent in advance, or who can give good security for the payment of the rent—possession to be had the first of November, application to be made to
DANL. CARROLL of Dudd. Sept. 8, 1802. cptsN.
NOTICE.
A MEETING of the subscribers to the Little River Road Company, is called at the house of Mrs. M'Cable in Leesburg, on the fourth Wednesday in September next, being the 22d of the month, in pursuance of the law, requiring that the commissioners or any four of them, shall as soon as two hundred shares are subscribed, call a meeting of the subscribers for the purpose of electing by a majority of votes, delivered in person or by proxy, one president, four directors, one treasurer, and such other officers as they shall think necessary, for well ordering and conducting the affairs of the said Company.—The commissioners having obtained the necessary number of shares, avail themselves of the earliest opportunity of calling together the subscribers in conformity to the law; they recommend a personal attendance if practicable, as it may be necessary to pass some bye laws and regulations for conducting the company's affairs, where that is too inconvenient it will be proper to appoint a proxy in writing, attested by one witness at least.
WM. HARTSHORNE, JOHN T. RICKETTS, ISRAEL LACEY, BURR POWELL. Aug. 25, 1802. ept22S.
NOTICE.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Washington County, District of Columbia, on 20th August, negro CAPE 5 feet high, who says he belongs to James Koeth Esq. of Alexandria.
Committed the 23th, negro DAVY, 5 feet 10 1-2 inches high, about 35 years of age, yellow complexion with a scar between his eye brows occasioned by a hurt when a child, a ship-carpenter by trade, formerly the property of James Clagett of George Town.—The above negroes if not taken away by their owners will be sold agreeable to law, for jail fees.
ROBERT MCLEAN, Jailor. For Daniel C. Brent, Marshal of the District of Columbia. Washington County. Sept. 2d, 1802. 12W31.
Valuable property for Sale.
Will be Sold at Mr. Dougherty's Tavern, in the town of Bladensburg, on Saturday the ninth day of October, to the highest bidder, the following property, viz.
1st. That well improved lot of ground lately occupied by Mr. Horatio Ross—the improvements are a large convenient and well finished brick house, two stories high, having in the first floor, four handsome rooms, with five places in each, and on the second a large and complete nursery, two bed rooms with a fire place in each, and two well finished store-rooms. This lot with the garden contains about three acres of ground, and has on it also all the necessary out houses—a new and complete chestnut paling in front of the house, and a new oak and chestnut post and rail fence (the garden) annexed to this lot will be sold if required about two acres of timothy meadow, from whence a stream of water from a never failing spring may be conducted over any part of the garden or lot, so as to supply an extensive fish-pond or dairy, either of which may be constructed at a small expence; the ground being elegantly situated.
2d. That well improved lot late the property of Maj. David Ross—the improvements are a large and well finished stone house, rough casted, three handsome rooms, and a complete store room, with a fire place in each, and an entry on the first floor, three bed rooms with a fire place in each—two other small bed rooms and a complete store room, and entry on the second floor—the out houses are an excellent stable and carriage house, and corn house—an excellent stone meat house, an extensive wall house with lodging rooms for the servants, and a complete stone house and dairy, with a never failing spring of water, an excellent garden abounding with a variety of fruit and fruit trees—a near yard in front and about three acres of meadow ground, behind are annexed to this lot, as far as about half an acre of high ground, from whence the meadow may be watered the whole year round. In short both of these lots are well improved, and for their many local advantages might at a small expence be rendered as elegant as any property in the state—There will also be sold several unimproved lots in the most central parts of the town, so divided as to accommodate purchasers.
When it is considered this property is within five miles of the capitol of the United States, that the spring waters at Bladensburg which have been for some time highly esteemed, will shortly render it perhaps the most considerable watering place on the continent, every person must at once be impressed with the probable appreciation of property situated as this is. Terms of sale one and two years credit, for bonds upon interests from date of sale approved security. WM. STEUART. Sept. 8, 1802. cptsO.
Proposals
By A. DAVIS & J. DIXON, For reprinting by subscription, that scarce and valuable work, the
DEBATES
And other proceedings of the Convention of Virginia.—To which will be annexed, a copious index.
CONDITIONS.
I. This work shall be printed with a neat type, on good paper, in one large octavo volume, and contain upwards of 600 pages. II. It will be bound in boards, and delivered to subscribers at the moderate price of three dollars and a half. III. To those who wish to have their copies elegantly bound gilt and lettered, the price will be four dollars. IV. As this is a work of great magnitude, and as much expense will be necessarily incurred, two dollars from each subscriber will be required in advance. V. The price will be considerably enhanced to non-subscribers.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The above publication was procrastinated on account of the copy-right being vested in Mr. Davis, who has now agreed to print the book in conjunction with the subscriber. The public are therefore respectfully informed, that the work will be put to press, so soon as a sufficiency of subscribers are obtained to indemnify the expense of paper. Upon an accurate calculation, the price mentioned in the former proposals was found too small; the subscriber has thought proper to enhance it, and he hopes that those who first intended to patronize the undertaking, will not on that account withhold their support, for so trivial an alteration.
JOHN DIXON.
Subscriptions will be received at the office of the National Intelligencer.
Tennessee Company.
THOSE interested in the Company, and who have not signed the deed of trust, are hereby notified, that the subscriber will attend at the City of Washington on the 20th of December next, to give them an opportunity of complying with this regulation of the company.
JAMES STRAWBRIDGE. May 26, 1802. 12W31D.
NOTICE.
ON Saturday the 11th of September next, between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at Stolle's Hotel, City of Washington, the final certificate of discharge under the bankrupt law of the United States will be granted to Ulrich Forreft.
By order of William Kilty, Esq. chief judge of the district of Columbia.
JOHN C. DENT, Secretary to the commissioners, Aug. 22, 1802. 12W12A.

TO THE PUBLIC.
The Proprietors of the Charter for opening the Navigation of the Catawba and Wateree Rivers, having at length been, with much satisfaction, the completion of the Santee Canal, propose to recommence their operations for opening the Catawba and Wateree Rivers during the present year, as soon as the state of the said Rivers will permit.
In the mean while they have determined to double the number of their shares for the purpose of admitting such persons as may choose to become subscribers. The expenses which have been already incurred by the Company amount to one hundred dollars on each share of the present number, which, when doubled according to the present determination, will reduce it to fifty dollars a share.
The Charter of South-Carolina is in perpetuity, and these shares are forever exempted from any rate, tax, duty, assessment or imposition whatever. The Act of No. 30, North Carolina, authorizes the Company to tax and establish a toll on all goods and merchandise, for 99 years, and exempt their shares from any rate, tax, duty, assessment or imposition whatever, for the same period of time.
The present proprietors think it a duty incumbent on them, to inform the public, that a very considerable sum is expected to be raised from the sale of vacant lands, (which extend two miles on each side of the Catawba river, the whole length thereof from the North Carolina line down to Camden Ferry, a distance of not less than 120 miles, and in which it is supposed are reserved to the company, not less than 58,000 or 60,000 acres) and left they should be deferred from engaging in the present navigation, by a reference to the enormous expense of the Santee Canal, the stockholders think it just that they should declare their opinion of the improbability of the subscribers being called upon for more than 16 dollars on each share per annum, as it would be impossible for the works to be carried on longer than for about four months in the year, since the labourers will be chiefly employed in the winter.
It is further to be remarked, that the Catawba river is looked upon as the most proper site for the establishment of a magazine, foundry and arsenal, for the three Southern States, viz. North and South Carolina and Georgia; that surveys have been made, and a statement thereof forwarded on this subject some years ago, to the Secretary at War; that the State of South Carolina passed an Act, authorizing a purchase by the United States, of a certain quantity of land within this State; and the Catawba company have offered to release to the United States, any of their lands on said river, for such purpose, on a fair valuation. The hour now seems to approach for such an establishment; not only because it is a time of almost profound peace throughout the world, but that the idea is revived by the President of the United States, in his message of the 2d of February, 1802, to Congress, wherein he says, "Besides the permanent magazines established at Springfield, West Point, and Harper's Ferry, it is thought one should be established at some point convenient to the States of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Such a point will be found near the borders of the Carolinas, and some small provision by the Legislature, preparatory to the establishment, will be necessary for the present year." And nature indeed has pointed out this river as the most proper place for such a magazine, from the vast quantities of ore which have been discovered on the Catawba and its two branches, and there can be no doubt but that such an abundance of metal must attract the attention of the engineer, who may be authorized to examine and determine on a proper site for this establishment, particularly as there are already several furnaces and forges on the abovenamed rivers, at some of which six pound guns have been cast and bored, equal to any ever imported or made to the northward.
The company intend for the present season, to confine their operations to the removal of the obstructions from Rocky Mount to Camden Ferry, to the opening of a road for a carrying place, and the transportation of goods, from above the Falls at Rocky Mount, down to the Old Ferry landing, to the erection of a bridge across the Rocky Creek, and to the building a boat, and establishing the Ferry, which is allowed them by law.
At a meeting of the Catawba Company, the 4th of March, 1802, two-thirds of them being present.
On motion, resolved, That the six hundred shares in the Company of the Catawba and Wateree Rivers, be subdivided into twelve hundred.
That the present proprietors be entitled to hold double the number of their present shares; and that they have besides a preference to extend the number of their shares to one for every ten to which they shall be entitled after such subdivision.
To every new subscriber who shall pay 50 dollars, shall be entitled not only to the advantages to be derived from the opening of said river; but also to a proportionate interest in the lands vested in the Company by the legislature of this State.
Resolved, That 100 shares be referred to be offered to the State of South Carolina, and that an equal number of shares be referred to be tendered to the State of North Carolina.
At an anniversary meeting of the Catawba Company, on Tuesday the 10th instant, the following resolves were entered into:—
"That an advertisement be published, inviting persons to contract for the opening of Graves's Ford and Love's Ford to deep and wide as to admit boats drawing 2 feet 9 inches water, and 12 feet wide; also, for opening a road and carrying place, from above Rocky Mount, to the Ferry landing below, and for constructing a bridge across Rocky Creek; also, for building a Ferry Boat to ply across the river, at or near the present landing at Rocky Mount, also for surveying the vacant lands, which have been already granted them by the legislature. Such undertakers to give approved security for the faithful fulfilment of their respective contracts, and to direct their applications to the President, Judge Grubbs, during the sitting of the constitutional court at Columbia, from the 19th to the 24th of April next, or to Charles Tew, the Secretary, in Charleston, on or before the 15th day of May next ensuing."
"That the President do establish a correspondence with some mercantile house in Cambridge, and endeavour to obtain permission to lodge with them the monies of the Company, and that they would disburse the same, according to the directions of the Company."
"That one hundred shares be offered to the citizens of North Carolina, and that they have to the first day of January next ensuing, to subscribe for such shares; and that General Davis be authorized to appoint some person or persons in that State to receive such subscriptions on the part of the Company, payable as in the following resolution:—
"That col. Scott, col. Hill, and John Simpson, esq. clerk of Lancaster court, be authorized to receive subscriptions from such persons as are inclined to become proprietors, and who reside within the limits of this State, and that they take notes, payable to the President and Directors of the Company for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree Rivers on the first day of March 1802, and they be authorized to deliver receipts for the same in the nature of scrip, in such form as the President and Directors shall appoint."
"That these resolutions, with the late publication in the papers of this city, as far as the President and Directors shall deem necessary and proper, be inserted in Cox and Shepard's Gazette of this city, and in the one which is printed in Raleigh, North Carolina, by Joseph Gale, once a month until the 1st of October next."
"That the solicitor of the company be instructed to adopt the most immediate measures for the recovery of such balances as appear to be due by such proprietors as have paid none of the requisitions for the last 18 months past, and that the secretary do furnish him with a list of the names of such defaulters."
"That the following mode be adopted as the uniform rule of transferring the shares of the company: "I. A. B. do transfer my right to share No. forty, (the number must be in letters and not numerals) in the company for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree rivers, unto C. D. for value received. Signed A. B. Witnessed by E. F. G. H. Proved on oath, before me, L. M.—J. P."
"That the sum of one shilling and two pence be paid on each share, on the requisition which shall become due, on the third Tuesday of September next ensuing, and the same sum on the third Tuesday of March thereafter."
"South Carolina, 1802. Received of a note payable to the President and Directors of the Company, for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree rivers, for fifty dollars, which, when paid, will entitle him to be a stockholder in the said company."
JOHN ATKIN, Sept. 1, 1802. ept
FOR SALE, LOOKING-GLASSES & FURNITURE.
The subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has just received from New-York various kinds of Looking-Glasses, from 10 to 70 dollars each.—Also card tables, bureaus, &c. of an elegant and fashionable make. He continues to manufacture and sell all kinds of ornaments for chimney-pieces, door caps, frontispiece pieces, metal tables, &c. &c.
GEORGE ANDREWS. April 14, 1802. ept
FOR SALE.
The subscriber intending to move to the state of Kentucky, has and now offers for sale, the following lands, to wit:
A TRACT in the county of Frederick (Virginia) on Buck marsh, within 12 miles of Winchester, and 5 of Shenandoah river, containing four hundred and six acres under good repair, there is on the plantation between fifty and sixty acres of meadow land of the first quality, with a stream of water running through it, which can at no considerable expense with four hills, road, and other requisites sufficient, and in complete order for carrying on the distilling business. There is on this tract, ten acres of meadow land, which can be watered; and is an excellent stand for a store.
One other tract lying on the head of said marsh, and within half a mile of the last mentioned tract, and containing the same number of acres; a proportion of which is cleared, and under good inclosure, a convenient dwelling house, kitchen, and barn, with a well of water near the house, and a large spring at no great distance.
Also the tract whereon the subscriber lives, in four separate surveys, six hundred and twelve acres, lying within seventeen miles of Winchester, on the main road leading to Staunton; and on both sides of a large creek that divides the two counties, Frederick and Shenandoah. A proportion of these tracts, consist of rich low ground, on both sides of said creek; about twenty acres of handsome meadow, a dwelling house, kitchen, a large fleaded barn, with a number of other convenient and necessary outbuildings, a good garden, a small apple, and pear orchard, and a number of young and thriving cherry trees; there are three small, but good, springs, one of which is tolerable convenient to the house—The above lands are fertile, and well calculated for raising corn, and small grain of every description, and are particularly calculated for grazing farms, as they afford great quantities of the best grass. Any further description is thought unnecessary, as it is expected that all those wishing to purchase, would with first to view the land, which will be shown, and the terms of payment made known by the subscriber living on the last-mentioned premises, in Shenandoah county, Virginia.
WILLIAM A. BOOTH. Aug. 23, 1802. ept
PROPOSALS BY THOMAS HERTY, For publishing by subscription an ABSTRACT of his Digest of the Laws of the United States.
IT will contain all the public acts of the two preceding and present session of Congress, that is, the acts of the first and second sessions of the Sixth, and the first session of the Seventh Congress. It will be printed in the same order of arrangement, and have reference to such parts of the aforesaid work, as shall be repeated, is suffered to expire, or which may otherwise undergo alterations subjoined to which, will be given, a correct table of the duties on imports and tonnage, and a neat index; this, connected with the foregoing, will embrace the whole law in force.
CONDITIONS.
It will be put to press immediately after the close of the present session of Congress, (provided a sufficient number offer to defray the expense of the work) and be ready for delivery in about two months thereafter. The price to subscribers will be one dollar and fifty cents in boards, to be paid for on delivery. It shall be neatly printed on good paper. Subscriptions received by the Editor, at his Conveyancing Office, near the Treasury Department, City of Washington; and by those in whose hands proposals are left. March 12, 1802. xawtf
New Invention.
The IMPROVED SAW-MILL, for which the subscriber has obtained a Patent.
THIS improvement saves the sawyer much labour, and the work is also much more expedited. The log being flanked, turned down, and the saw started, the whole operation proceeds without further manual aid; for, the instant the cut is finished, the log moves back, and at the same time is guaged to the utmost exactness by the machine, ready for another cut in two thirds of a minute. The saw resumes its action in the log, and thus moves in alternate succession until the whole be cut up in any given dimension, at which time the mill shuts up if required, or at any number of cuts for which the sawyer prepares, for his attendance is unnecessary.
Any person or persons inclining to purchase the privilege of erecting this valuable and simple machine, or of adding the improvement, which may readily be affixed to any Saw Mill already in use, will please to apply to the subscriber at West Brandywine Bridge, on the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road, Pennsylvania; or by application to Dr. Thornton, City of Washington, who is complete operating in aid, may be seen which saws in the most exact manner, and performs all the various movements of a large saw mill. He will also furnish the drawings and description.
In consequence of numerous applications from persons whose saw-mills are not in constant operation, and to render the benefit more extensive, I have thought it proper to reduce the price of the privilege to eighty dollars; and I will return twenty dollars to every person who has already purchased the improvement at one hundred, that no distinction may be made. The improvement may cost about twenty dollars. The castings may be had already executed, at the City of Washington, at prime cost.
MOSES COATES. August 2, 1802. xawtf
William Kennedy, HAIR DRESSER & CUTTER, (From Europe)
RESPECTFULLY informs the ladies and gentlemen of George-Town and the City of Washington, that he cuts and dresses hair, and makes the newest fashioned head dresses.
Having pursued his avocation for ten years in Philadelphia, seven years in Baltimore, and residing for the two years past in France, he flatters himself he cannot be excelled in the business he professes to follow.
Any commands left at Mr. Benj. M'Key's, opposite the Ohio Printing-Office, will be punctually attended to. Aug. 16, 1802. ept
Thomas Carpenter, TAYLOR,
HAS just received an elegant and fashionable assortment of summer goods, consisting of London superfine cloths and calfmere; India, Manchester, and silk striped nankeens; cotton calfmere, boglepore, Bengal elegant white cloth for paucaloons, white and coloured mouselines, janes and satin cravats, silk gingham, black and other coloured striped satins, &c.—All which he will make up on the most reasonable terms, and in the most neat and fashionable manner.—Pennsylvania Avenue, west of the President's square. May 24, 1802. ept
CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR from Philadelphia,
HAS received an assortment of summer goods consisting of the best superfine Cloths. Calfmieres, Silk Boratashes, English Striped Nankeens, White India Dimities, White and printed Marcellas. With a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season. N. B. Ladies Habits, Regimentals and Navy uniforms, made in the first style of fashion. July 2, 1802. tf
Burnet and Rigden, JEWELLERS & WATCH-MAKERS.
RESPECTFULLY inform the public, that they have just received, and for sale, a handsome assortment of Gold and Silver Watches, Gold, gilt and steel chains, seals and keys, A variety of the most fashionable jewelry knife cases and fine knives, Plated caskets of various kinds, Silver and steel mounted spectacles, Ladies and gentlemen's pocket-knives. A quantity of the most fashionable primus, superbly framed and glazed. And constantly keep an assortment of silver plate of their own manufacture, with a variety of fancy articles; all of which they are enabled to sell on the most reasonable terms. July 14, 1802. ept
AGREABLY to a Deed of Trust from Anthony Addison to the Subscriber, will be offered
For Sale,
TO the highest bidder, by Public Auction, at Stell's Hotel, in the City of Washington, on Monday the 9th day of August next, all that tract of land lying and being on the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, opposite to said City, called "Chichester," with addition as surveyed, containing three hundred acres.
On the above-mentioned tract of land, is the Ferry Landing, so well known by the name of "Dyer's Ferry," now in the occupation of Capt. Naylor. The Sale to commence at 11 o'clock in the forenoon—Terms of sale cash. Wm. BRENT. June 30, 1802. ept
The above sale is postponed till Saturday the 9th day of October next. Aug. 16, 1802. ts
A Valuable Farm for Sale, In King George County & State of Virginia.
THIS Farm contains five hundred and thirty five acres—about three hundred and fifty of which are cleared and divided into three fields with good inclosures;—it is situated on Potomac river, and bounded on the South East side for a mile and half by Rozier's creek, which affords a great abundance of fine fish and wild fowl, crabs, oysters, &c.—thirty miles from Fredericksburg, forty four from Alexandria, and fifty from Washington City.
On this land are very extensive shell banks, exclusive of the advantages to be derived from these banks by the lime business, they are very favourable to the production of corn and wheat, and the soil inexhaustible; there are about fifty or sixty acres of this kind of land, and the balance that is cleared of an excellent quality, and a great number of springs of fine water; it can with certainty be classed among the most healthy situations below the falls of Potomac—indeed, the natural advantages attending this place are innumerable.
The improvements are a two story framed dwelling house, sixty-four feet long, commanding a beautiful view of the creek and river; one other house intended for an office, twenty-six feet by eighteen with three rooms and a cellar in good repair; a large house, including a stable for eight horses, a corn-house, carriage house, saddle and harness room, and a commodious granary above, and other convenient buildings on the Farm—a small orchard of well chosen apples and peach-trees. The yard and garden inclosed this spring, with pales and railing—The whole plantation in good repair, and the land in a great state of improvement.
The terms of Sale will be made known by Mr. Frances Whiting, who in a short time will be a resident of Berkley county, or by the subscriber on the premises. WILLIAM P. FLOOD. July 9, 1802. tf
City Hotel, BROADWAY NEW-YORK.
THE Subscriber most respectfully informs his friends and the public, that the above Hotel will be opened on the first of May ensuing, when their patronage is earnestly solicited. He avails himself of this opportunity to return his sincere and grateful thanks to those societies, parties, and gentlemen, who have given him their support, and assures them that a continuance of their favours will be a stimulus to future exertions to please; and that the utmost attention shall be given for their comfort and accommodation.
Boarding may be had by the day, week, month, or year. Families travelling, may be elegantly accommodated with lodging and sitting rooms; and if preferred, have dinners &c. in their apartments.
The Hotel being so well known, it is almost useless to say, that it is situated in one of the most healthy and pleasant parts of the city; commanding an extensive view in every direction, not only of the city itself, but also of the Narrows, the North and East Rivers, the State of New-Jersey, York and Long-Island, &c. &c.
A handsome coffee-room will be fitted up in the principal story; where gentlemen may have tea, coffee, chocolate, soups, and refreshments in general, at the shortest notice. All the leading newspapers in the union, will be regularly taken in.
Public dinners and suppers in a plain or elegant style either for large or small parties. Also, beef steaks, oysters, &c. regularly furnished. An ordinary every day at half past a o'clock, by the public's obedient servant, JOHN LOVETT. N. B. Rooms to let by the month or year, April 21, 1802. ept
TO RENT,
And possession given immediately, A TWO STORY brick house on E Street near the War Office, containing two parlors, six bed rooms, and a kitchen, with an excellent garden, coach house, stable, &c.—The house is newly painted and papered; it was formerly occupied by Mr. Dexter, and lately by Mr. John Brown. Enquire of Clement Dorsey, Esq. George-Town; or of the subscriber, who has for sale a well finished three story brick house opposite the Six Buildings, and a variety of City Lots in the most eligible situations. The above House will be sold for less than any gentleman could build it. The payments will be made cash on the whole of the above property. WILLIAM DYER. April 7, 1802. ept
Building Materials will be taken in part payment. W.D.
Valuable property for Sale.
On Monday the 23d day of August next, WILL be sold at public sale at Mr. Semmes's tavern, Georgetown. A mill, Millseat and 42 1/2 acres of land adjoining, lying on Rock Creek, and within a mile and an half of Georgetown and the City of Washington; and at the same time and place will be offered for sale, 500 acres of valuable land, lying about 7 miles from Georgetown, on the Great Falls road; there are on the premises, two tenements with the necessary buildings in tolerable repair, a number of bearing fruit trees, 10 or 12 acres of meadow, and fifty more may be made at a small expence, there is a sufficiency of timber and wood for the use of the plantation.
And on Wednesday the 25th at the house of Benjamin Ray, on the premises 560 acres of land, about 16 miles from Georgetown, and 4 miles from Montgomery court house; there are several fine orchards on this tract; it will be sold together or in lots, as shall be found most advisable.
And on Monday the 30th, at the house of Barton Brown, on the premises, 350 acres of rich limestone land, of the first quality, lying in Washington county, on the Potomac river, about 3 miles above Williamsport, and landing on the river upwards of two miles. This land is immensely heavily timbered, a great proportion remains in wood, the clear land is fresh and highly productive; this land is laid off into 5 lots, with a house on each lot, which answer for temporary accommodations. Mr. Brown, who lives on the premises, will show the lines of the different lots. The whole of the above property will be sold on a credit of one, two, and three years with interest. And at the same time and place, the sale to continue from day to day till all is sold—about thirty valuable negroes, men, women and children, work horses, cattle and hogs, plantation utensils and the crop on the ground, on a credit of twelve months, bonds on interest, with approved security will be required of the purchasers. Any persons desirous of purchasing the above property, or any part thereof at private sale, will please to apply to Col. Francis Deakins, or Philip B. Key, Esq. Georgetown, or the Subscriber. WALTER MACKALL. Benedict, July 14, 1802. xawtf
IMPORTED
In the Robert from Liverpool, and now opening for Sale at the Subscriber's Store, New-Jersey Avenue, Capitol Hill, City of Washington—
A general assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Sadlery and Brass Wares—Spades and Shovels, Sheet Iron, Tin in Boxes, Brass Kettles, Corn Hoes, Nails, Glue; Locks, Hinges and screws, Carpenters planes, Saws, Braces and Bits, Screw drivers, &c. Knives and Forks, Crude Strands, Iron Wire, Brushes, Smiths Hammers, Files, Vices, Screw plates, &c. Razors, Penknives, Spoons, Japanned Tea Trays, Wafers and Bread Baskets—a few sets of gentlemen's tools in chests, and a variety of articles too tedious to particularize. Also, 2 cases of Kirtland's fowling guns, which will be sold very low for cash or approved notes. H. INGL. June 28, 1802. xawtf
FOR SALE.
Two large superb Locking glasses just imported from London.
One Plate measuring 10 3/4 by 40 inches, The other, 8 3/4 by 40 do. with suitable ornaments—apply to Wm. HODGSON. Alexandria, June 30, 1802. xat