Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer (Alexandria [Va.]), 1802-04-29 00:00:00

Sales by Auction.
On SATURDAY next, at ten o'clock, will be Sold at the Auction Room,
 Rum in bls. | Soap in boxes,  Cherry Bounce in barrels. | Candles do.  Sugar in bls. | Chocolate do.  Rum in cases, | Hysonkin Tea in chests. 
Also, A quantity of DRY GOODS, Amongst which, are Chintzes, Bombazets, Durants, Calimancoes, German Dowlas, Russia Sheeting, Calicoes, Chintz Shawls, Flag Handkerfs. Check do. Sewing Silks, Threads & Tapes.
Likewise, 3 bales INDIA MUSLIN, a large quantity of READY MADE CLOTHES, and a number of other articles. THOMAS MOORE, Auctioneer. April 28.
Public Sale.
On FRIDAY, at ten o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store,
 Rum in hogheads and barrels.  Whiskey in barrels,  Gin in casks and barrels,  Port wine in casks,  Molasses in hhds.  Sugar in hhds and bls.  White and brown soap in boxes,  Chocolate in boxes,  Coffee in tiers and bags,  Raisins in kegs and boxes.  Queens Ware in crates, handsomely assorted! 
ALSO, A variety of DRY GOODS, -AMONG WHICH ARE- Superfine cloth and Kersimere, Narrow Cloth, and Flannels, Irish Linens, and Oznaburgs, Sail duck of different qualities, Chintzes and Calicoes, Cambric and Cotton shawls, India Mullin and Table Cloaths, Coloured threads and fowing silks, Ribbons, Hats, and A number of other articles. P. G. MARSTELLER, Vendue-Master. April 28.
For Sale, or to Rent, THE unexpired lease of a HOUSE and LOT, on Queen street, with a BAKE-HOUSE thereon; the lease has 3 years to run. The stand is good for business, and is well known, having been occupied for a length of time by a baker. For particulars apply to THOMAS SIMMS, Prince street. March 20.
Just Received, and for sale at this Office, Mr. BAYARD'S SPEECH on the Bill for repealing the late Judiciary Act.
GERMAN LINENS.
Joseph Riddle & Co. HAVE FOR SALE Best white Ticklenburg, Second qual. do. Brown do. Oznaburgs, Brown Hempen Rolls, White do. Hessian do. Brown Holland and Dowlas. ALSO ON HAND, A Quantity of Turk's Island, Isle of May, and Cadiz SALT. December 25.
FOR SALE, The Cargo of the brig Little Sally, capt. Cozens, From Rhode-Island, now landing and consisting of French Brandy, Holland Gin (entitled to drawback) Country Gin, West-India Rum, N. England do. Loaf Sugar, Castile Soap, Tanner's Oil, R. I. Cheese of an excellent quality, Soap Leather, Russia and ravens Duck and Sheetings, Cordage, 1 bale of Ticklenburgs, &c. For Sale, Freight or Charter, The said brig Little Sally, burthen about 650 barrels, an excellent vessel and well equipped. Apply to J. G. LADD. Jan. 4.
FOR SALE, A Negro Man, about 25 or 26 years of age—accustomed to house work and waiting at table—being strong and active he may be otherwise employed at the pleasure of the purchaser. Apply to the printers. March 29.
Paper Hangings. JUST RECEIVED, BY Cotton & Stewart, A large and general assortment of Paper Hangings, consisting of upwards of 40 different patterns with elegant borders. April 7.
JUST RECEIVED, And for sale by the subscriber, A QUANTITY OF Double Gloucester Cheese, FRESH FRUIT of almost every description, and a general assortment of groceries. ABEL WILLIS. April 15.
Ship General Hunter, CAPTAIN ADAMSON, Arrived yesterday from Liverpool with a cargo of excellent SALT For the Fisheries. Also, A FEW Crates of Liverpool Earthen Ware. We will sell this cargo on moderate terms for ready cash, or notes negotiable in the Bank of Alexandria at 60 days. The ship will take in freight for Liverpool. R. T. HOOE, & Co. April 8.
Dissolution of Partnership. THE term of copartnership existing under the firm of JAMES RUSSELL and Co. will expire by contract on the first day of next April: all those indebted thereto are respectfully solicited to call and pay their balances, and such as have claims against said firm will please present them for settlement. JAMES RUSSELL, JOSEPH RIDDLE & Co.
THE subscriber begs leave to inform his friends, that he purposes carrying on business, as usual, in the same place, and will be thankful for a continuance of their custom. JAMES RUSSELL. March 11.
For Sale, Antigua Rum by the hhd. Raisins by the box, Sugar by the barrel, Dates, fresh from the coast of Barbary, With a variety of other FRUITS and GROCERIES. ABEL WILLIS. Jan. 11. Printing in all its variety executed at this office.
TO RENT, A convenient three story brick House, on Fairfax and Gibbon Streets, with every convenience thereto belonging. Possession may be had immediately. Enquire of the printers. April 14. I have just received and offer for sale, SACKINGS and OSNABURGS in bales, and FELT HATS in boxes—also, one ton SHEATHING PAPER. W. HODGSON. April 7.
A Stray Cow. CAME to the subscriber's farm, in Fairfax county, early in January last, an old brown Cow, white under her belly, upon her rump and shoulder white spots, her right ear cropped, & a hole in her left ear. She will be delivered to the owner, upon proving property and paying charges. PHILIP R. FENDALL. April 22.
Robert T. Hooe and Co. HAVE RECEIVED, By the brig Neptune, about 1500 bushels Turk's Island Salt, and 30 puncheons Grenada Rum, of which part is old, and fit for immediate use. Also, a few hhds. Molasses. April 21.
LOTS FOR SALE. TO BE SOLD, At public Auction, on the premises, on Wednesday, the 12th of May, at twelve o'clock, An half acre Lot of Ground, situated on Fairfax and Duke streets, of which lot several divisions are made for house lots to accommodate purchasers, a plan of which will be shewn on the day of sale. One fourth of the money it is expected will be paid down, the balance in twelve months, with interest; Also, security therefor will be taken by a deed of trust on the property, and the lots so purchased will be then conveyed by good deeds, by DAVID HENLEY. April 24.
FOR SALE, At R. and J. Gray's Book Store, King street, THE GLOSSER: A Satirical Poem—by Giles Julap, of Ghotank, Virginia. Price 62 1/2 cents. Also, MR. BAYARD'S SPEECH On the Judiciary Bill. 25 cents. Clerical Candidates. Price 25 cents. And an Essay on the Mineral qualities of the Sweet Springs of Virginia. By Dr. John Baltzel. Price 25 cents. April 24.
FOR SALE, At Cotton and Stewart's Book Store, Royal street, THE GLOSSER: Satirical Poem—By Giles Julap, of Chotank, Virginia. Price 62 1/2 cents. Also, MR. BAYARD'S SPEECH On the Judiciary Bill. April 24.
Calumny Detected and Exposed! JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale at this office, price 12 1/2 cents, OBSERVATIONS AND DOCUMENTS, Relative to a Calumny circulated By JOHN BROWN, A member of the Senate of the United States, from Kentucky, To the prejudice of ELISHA I. HALL, of Frederick county, Virginia. April 24. Cash given for rags.
Mechanic Relief Society. Anniversary Meeting. THE annual meeting of the Mechanic Relief Society, will be held on Saturday next, May 1, at the Council Chamber, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Punctual attendance is requested. J. V. THOMAS, Secretary. April 27.
T. SIMMS Has just received and offers for sale, at the lower end of Prince street, 15 jars best quality Tamarinds, And a quantity of Fresh Limes and Lemons. April 27.
In obedience to a Decree of the Court of Alexandria county, on Monday the 17th day of May next, if fair, if not the next fair day, will be offered for sale on the premises, upon a Credit of 6 and 12 months, upon notes with approved indorsers, negotiable at the Bank of Alexandria,
A Lot of Ground, Containing half an acre, lying upon the east side of Alfred street and south side of Cameron street, in the town of Alexandria, extending on Alfred street 176 feet 7 inches, upon Cameron street 123 feet 5 inches. There are a convenient two story frame dwelling house, with a kitchen and other out houses upon the lot, which now rent for £. 50 per annum. The lot is subject to an annual rent of £. 15. As the lot is large it will be laid off into smaller divisions, and sold either in those divisions, or altogether, as will be most agreeable to those inclined to purchase. This sale is made to satisfy a debt due from Thomas Richards to Thompson and Veitch. JAMES KEITH, JOHN JANNEY, JOHN DUNLAP, } Com'rs. April 16.
Just Received, A parcel of pickled Herrings in bls. A quantity of seal leather and shoes, Cyder in barrels, and A few chests Young Hyson Tea, For sale by J. GARDNER LADD. March 16.
JUST RECEIVED And for sale by the subscriber, lower end of PRINCE-STREET, a quantity of the best CHINA ORANGES. THO. SIMMS. April 3.
William Hartshorne Has for Sale at his Mill, or in Alexandria, Plaister of Paris by the ton, or ready ground by the bushel, Indian Meal and Rye Meal, bolted or unbolted, Corn, or any other grain, ground for toll at the mill. At his store in town,
Hay in bundles, Corn by the bushel, Loaf and lump Sugar by the hoghead or barrel, First and second quality James River Tobacco, in kegs, A few very good Mill Spindles, Two good Scale Beams. Three boxes 8 by 10 Window Glass, A few barrels of Tar, James River Coal.
For Sale, A number of valuable Lots in town, A small House on a lot of 28 feet front on Water Street, next door to Major Muncaster's. Also, for Sale or Rent, A valuable Brick House on King street, now in the tenure of Thomas Cruse. 3d mo. 1.

Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, April 26.
The bill repealing several acts in relation to the establishment of a mint, was read a third time, and passed.
Also a bill making appropriations for the civil government for the year 1802.
An amendment (chiefly explanatory) to the bill for the redemption of the whole of the public debt was received from the senate, and agreed to by the house. This bill therefore only requires the signature of the President to be a law.
A memorial was received from citizens of Washington, praying that the act "for incorporating the city of Washington," may be passed into a law.
The house took up said bill, read it twice, agreed to it, and ordered it to a third reading to-morrow.
A message was received from the President of the United States, stating that the commissioners appointed on the part of the United States had concurred with commissioners on the part of the state of Georgia, in certain terms of amicable adjustment of the limits of said state, &c. subject to ratification within six months.
A message was received from the senate, informing the house that they had rejected the bill for abolishing the mint; and that they had passed the bill for abolishing the board of commissioners of the city of Washington, &c. with certain amendments.
A message was received from the senate informing the house, that they had agreed to all the amendments made by the house to the bill "to amend the judicial system of the United States" excepting one, viz. that which struck out the section that transferred the nomination of commissioners of bankruptcy from the district judges to the President on which they insist.
Mr. Giles moved that the house should recede from the amendment.
This motion was supported by Messrs. Taliaferro, Elmendorf, Holland, S. Smith, and Mitchell, and opposed by Messrs. Bayard, Griswold, Goddard and Mott.
The question was taken by Yeas and Nays, and carried—Yeas 45—Nays 27.
The house took up the amendments of the senate to the bill abolishing the board of commissioners of the city of Washington, &c.
One of these amendments contained a number of distinct sections for establishing a company for cutting a canal to unite the main Potomac with the Eastern branch thereof. Committed.
Tuesday, April 27.
The bill to incorporate the city of Washington was read a third time and passed.
Mr. S. Smith presented a bill to revive and continue in force, an act to provide for the establishment of trading houses with the Indian tribes, which was read twice and ordered to a third reading to day.
Dr. Mitchell from the committee, appointed on so much of the President's message as relates to naval scires, &c. made a further report.
The report concludes as follows:
"The committee find that prior to the 4th of March 1801, the sum of one hundred and ninety nine thousand and thirty dollars, and 92 cents, have been expended in purchasing Navy Yards and making improvements upon them, without any law authorizing the purchase, or any appropriation of money, either for purchase or improvements."
The amendments of the senate to the bill for the relief of the widows and children of the officers lost in the Pickering and Insurgent, &c. were taken into consideration and agreed to.
These amendments reduce the allowance made by the bill of the house to four months pay.
In the Senate of the United States.
April 26th, 1802.
A BILL
Additional to, and amendatory of, an act entitled, "An act concerning the District of Columbia."
[Read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole house to-morrow.]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America, in Congress assembled. That the district court of the county of Washington, in the territory of Columbia, shall have power to proceed in all chancery causes which now are, or hereafter shall be instituted before it, in which either of the parties reside without the said territory, in the same way that non-residents are proceeded against in the supreme court of chancery in the state of Maryland.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the district court of the county of Alexandria, in the district of Columbia, shall have power to proceed in all chancery causes which now are, or hereafter shall be instituted before it, in which either of the parties are non-residents of said district of Columbia, in the same way, and under the same regulations observed by the high court of chancery in the state of Virginia, in proceeding against non-residents.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the courts for the counties of Alexandria and Washington shall hereafter be held at the periods following, to wit: for the county of Alexandria, on the fourth Monday of June and November, and for the county of Washington, on the fourth Monday of July and December, in each year, and the said courts are hereby invested with the same power of holding adjourned sessions that are exercised by the courts of Maryland.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That no person resident within the United States, shall be held to bail for any action brought against him in the courts of the district of Columbia, who shall not have been resident two months in the said district, unless the cause of action shall have originated therein.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That no capias ad satisfaciendum shall hereafter issue on any judgment rendered by a single magistrate, or in any case where the judgment, exclusive of costs, shall not exceed twenty dollars.
Sec. 6. This act shall commence, and be in force from and after the passing thereof.
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
AMERICAN CLAIMS.
The late convention agreed on between Lord Hawkesbury and Mr. King, on the 8th Jan. 1802, is a most important event, as it relates at once to the government and the citizens of the United States, and will ever remain a recorded proof of the pre-eminent talents, address and patriotism of the American negotiator. In this point of view, it is said, the matter has been presented by our Minister at Paris, in a private letter to a friend in this place. Without doubt Mr. King had many and very formidable "difficulties" to overcome. Had the commissioners, under the 6th article of Mr. Jay's Treaty, succeeded in carrying into effect their construction of that article, the United States would have been subject to a debt of more than a MILLION sterling: this Mr. King has, by fair negotiation, been able to reduce to the specific sum of £.600,000. On the other hand, very serious difficulties arose in regard to the execution of the 7th article—The Board of Commissioners, under this article, (a majority of whom are Americans) claimed the right of revising the decisions of the High Court of Appeals in prize causes, and of giving relief to American claimants in cases where, in their judgment, it had either been denied or partially granted by the British Court of Appeals.
To the mind of an English jurist, who had been accustomed to look with the highest reverence to this august Tribunal, (a tribunal that for ages has been in the practice of prescribing the rules of maritime law to Europe) it was not a pleasant circumstance to behold the decisions of the Lords Commissioners of Appeals, examined, reversed, and declared contrary to the laws of nations, by a board of gentlemen, a majority of whom were foreigners. It is a matter of no great surprize, therefore, that serious "difficulties" should have arisen on this ground, and produced the suspension of proceedings which arrested the settlement of the American claims.
Another serious obstacle which opposed the execution of the 7th article was, the amount of sterling money which the British government would probably have to refund to the American claimants, without any rational prospect of being reimbursed from the captors who had seized and squandered the American property. Engaged in a war with the most powerful nation in the world—contending not for a small district of country, or for an infringe-
ment of some inferior national right—but for her constitution, her commerce, her independence, Great Britain was compelled to strain every sinew, to avail herself of every resource, to oppose with energy and success the designs of her most inveterate enemy.
While engaged in such a contest, it was to be expected that the British Cabinet, would procrastinate the adjustment of claims which threatened their treasury with the demand of a sum then indispensably necessary for the pressing emergencies of the existing war.
Yet all these "difficulties," notwithstanding, our Minister at London, by his address, his influence (resulting from his known talents and character) and by a resolute perseverance in a line of policy, the true aim of which was his country's good, has accomplished an object, which, while it settles a national dispute—while it closes the only breach which divided us from our natural friends, (the British nation) promises to restore to our suffering merchants, property to a large amount, of which they have long—too long, been deprived.
The issue of this important business unavoidably leads our attention to the fate of our claims on the French government. In the one instance a great nation "feeling power but not forgetting right," agrees in a liberal manner to compensate us for our losses—in the other, with one dash of his pen the First Consul of France erases our just claims—refuses to reimburse our merchants for losses to a much greater amount, and sustained under circumstances infinitely more humiliating to our national character.
It is a subject of deep regret, not to the citizens of the United States alone, but to the subjects of the Northern powers, who have been neutral thro' the late war, that the course of justice in the English Courts of Admiralty should be attended with such delays and expense, as amount almost to a denial of justice—yet it is an evil that cannot be remedied, unless thro' the interposition of the British Legislature, or by special convention, as in the case with our own country. It is a matter of regret also, that in cases where a sentence of condemnation in a Vice-Admiralty court is reversed by the High Court of Appeals, and the property condemned is ordered to be restored, that the claimant cannot obtain full compensation for his loss in a British Court of Admiralty. The rule here is in such a case to award the claimant "the nett proceeds of sale, after deducting all costs and expenses"—This, in most cases, operates as a bounty to captors, and is ruin to the neutral—while with the Board of Commissioners, under the 7th article of the treaty of 1794, the rule is to give the full value of the vessel, according to a fair estimate, made by two merchants, one from each side, and the full value of the cargo, according to what it would have brought at the port of its destination, after deducting freight and expenses.
This appears to be the just and true rule of compensation to the injured claimant, whose property, contrary to the laws of nations, has been unjustly seized and condemned. And altho' Great Britain may feel some reluctance in departing from recent precedents, which operates favorably to her own subjects, yet it is to be hoped that her government, animated by that sense of justice which has been its guide in so many cases in which this country has been concerned, will conform to a rule of compensation, founded in equity, and which supported, if not by very late at least by former precedents, on the records of British Courts of justice. But however inconvenient and embarrassing it may be to sufferers by British spoliations, committed since the year 1795, to incur the expense, and be subject to the delays which are unavoidable in the British Court of Appeals; there is some consolation in reflecting that their claims are not hopeless , like those on the French government, and that, as half a loaf is better than no bread, their duty and interest enforce the propriety of prosecuting their demands for illegal captures to a final decision before the proper tribunals. To those early sufferers by British spoliations, whose losses prompted the mission of Mr. Jay to England, it is a matter of real congratulation, that notwithstanding all the untoward aspects which this business has at different periods assumed—notwithstanding the serious difficulties which have hitherto prevented the adjustment of their claims; that finally by the talents, address and perseverance of an able and patriotic minister, a foundation is laid for
procuring them "adequate compensation" for all the losses that have been unjustly sustained. It now only remains that the American claimant should in season furnish full and authentic proofs of his rights and his losses, as the ground for the commissioners to proceed on, in which case his demands will be liquidated on fair and equitable principles, and discharged with punctuality, in sterling money, at the treasury of the British government.
NEW-YORK, April 26.
Arrived, ship Mary, Bain, Cowes; brigs Penelope, Merry, Teneriffe; Twins, Scott, Falmouth, (Jam.) sch's Union, Lamb, do. Tryal, North-Carolina; Experiment, Dunn, Philadelphia; Victory, Wilmington, N. C. Mary, Spencer, Bermuda; sloops Cato, Darrell, do. Nancy, Thorp, Wilmington, D. Friendship, Richards, Sunbury, N. C.
Portsmouth, (Eng.) March 5.
Arrived, the America, Robinson, from America.
Falmouth, March 3.
Sailed, the American ship Fidelity, Wymys, for London.
Arrived, ship Mary, Bain, from Amsterdam, last from Cowes. The Mary put into Cowes in distress in January. On the 11th of that month the sch'r Harmony, Abraham Tower, master, arrived at New-Diep in 43 days from Boston, March 30, in lat. 42. long. 35, spoke the English ship George, out 24 days from Greenland, bound to New-York. April 9, in lat. 39, long. 53, spoke sch'r Aurora, bound from Norfolk to Amsterdam, out 14 days. Off the Hook, spoke brig Indultry, Nicholls, out 36 hours from New-York, bound to Belfast.
Schooner Victory, from Wilmington, N. C. On the 20th carried away her foremast in a gale.
Sch'r Mary, Spencer, from Bermuda. Left there, ship Durell, and a sch'r to sail next day for New-York.
Sch'r Union, Lamb, from Falmouth, Jam. April 11, spoke brig Sally, from Havana, bound to Boston, out 3 days. Left at Falmouth, the sch'r Rover, from N. Carolina, arrived the day before the Union failed.
PHILADELPHIA, April 27.
Extract of a letter received yesterday by the British Packet, in 42 days from Falmouth.
"We do assure you we never saw such a quantity of wheat in Britain at this season of the year, and sales so miserably dull in every market in the Island, and prices daily falling—no wonder that is the case when every other kind of grain is so low—oatmeal 14d to 15d per peck, and rather likely will be lower.—The granaries are prodigiously crowded with grain."
Another letter dated Falmouth, March 7, contains the following: "We have as yet but an uncertain prospect of peace—last night's papers contain votes of Parliament for the continuance of the army establishment for twelve months—and they are sitting out a great number of ships at Portsmouth and elsewhere. The mail is just closing; the capt. of the Packet puts up at the same inn and is just going off."
Arrived, sch's Polly, Norris, Cape Francois; Chance, Atkinson, do.
Cleared, ship John Bulkley, Wilkes, Cowes; brigs Sally, Barry, Gibraltar; Lack, Gildea, P. Republican; sch'r Pagon, Clouk Norfolk; Hermon, Spalding, Savannah; Morning Star, Edis, Jamaica; Liberty, Dixon, Barcelona; Two Brothers, Babcock, Richmond; sloop Mary, Smith, Nassau; Prosperity, Pintard, N. York.
Barque Patty, Snell, from hence, arrived at Belfast. Sch'r Betty, Garton, from hence, at Cowes. Ship Name, Calin of this port, from St. Domingo, arrived at the Vlie.
The G. Washington frigate, captain Shaw, 37 days from Gibraltar, and the Four Friends, Hathaway, from Antigua, with another ship, name unknown, are below.
BALTIMORE, April 27.
Extract of a letter from Cape Francis received by the Cordelia, dated 11th April.
"Tobias Lear, esquire, general commercial agent for this island from the United States, had a formal dismissal yesterday from the captain-general of this colony. He will leave this place in few days for the continent, where we should all be happy to follow him."

Alexandria Advertiser.
THURSDAY, APRIL 29.
At the close of the Poll in the county of Fairfax yesterday, for representatives in the General Assembly, the votes were   For Fitzhugh 115  West 101  Cutlis 68  Stuart 57 
THE REWARD OF PATRIOTISM.
Or the practical application of old principles.
It will be remembered what a clamor was raised by the Democrats, because Mr. Adams removed his son as ambassador from the Hague to Berlin. This was done at the particular recommendation of General Washington, who bore testimony to the worth and talents of young Mr. Adams. What a wonderful change, the possession of office and power can operate in the sentiments of some people.
Soon after Gen. Dearborn came to the seat of government, induced no doubt by parental affection, and the desire of having his family about him, he dismissed two clerks in his office for the purpose of introducing his son and son-in-law. Some time afterwards prompted it was supposed, by the desire of rewarding merit, he raised the salaries of some of the upper clerks. Not many months after the resignation of the chief clerk, left that office vacant. The son in law of the secretary, is no doubt a very worthy man, and who shall blame him for providing for his children—the son in law was accordingly preferred. The patriotism and talents of the General have been very handsomely rewarded, having as comfortable a family establishment as need be wished.
Dolls. Henry Dearborn, Secretary, at war 4500 Joshua Wingate (his son in law) first clerk 1840 Geo. R. Dearborn (his son) 'more or less' 1200 Giving a family salary of 7540 dollars, 'more or less.'
We will not pretend that the General has talents sufficient to be secretary at war, but every person must acknowledge, that there is considerable home bred cunning and domestic management in this. But the family affection be it 'more or less' of the worthy secretary, did not stop here. He has procured an appointment of post-master, for one of his relations "all along the coast of Maine." One cannot but admire the warmth of affection which characterizes these family arrangements; it glows with a steadiness and brightness which no distance can diminish, no length of time can tarnish. If we cannot address the secretary in the glowing language of Thompson, " 'tis Heaven to be near thee," we may say, it is a very comfortable thing to be nearly related to thee. Wash. Fed.
FRAUD is frequently more successful than force; inasmuch that many a fortress has been taken by stratagem, which it would have been impossible to have taken by storm. The federal constitution, which might prove impregnable to the most violent assaults of open and avowed hostility, is exposed to destruction by insidious efforts to undermine and abolish some of the pillars upon which it rests. This may be effectually done by the encroachments of one branch of the government upon the prerogatives and powers of the other branches.
WASHINGTON forefaw the danger of fatal attempts of this kind, and, in his farewell address, he gave to the people of the United States, the following premonition.
"It is important, (said that venerable man) that the habits of thinking in a free country, should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism."
Too well we now perceive the occasion and the necessity of such a monitorial lesson. The late doings of the majority of Congress in abolishing a part of the Judiciary, are a melancholy comment on the foregoing paragraph. The federal government consists of three branches or distinct departments—the legislative, the executive and the judicial. The legislative branch has power over the purse, pos-
sessing the exclusive right of money appropriations. The executive branch has the power of the sword. The judiciary has the power neither of the purse nor of the sword: it can neither raise nor appropriate even so much as a single cent of money; it can neither make nor enforce a single law. Therefore, in order to preserve this equally important, but weaker branch, from the destructive encroachments of the stronger branches, and to secure it from such dependence on them as would tend to warp it and to lead to a perversion of judgment, the federal constitution wisely enacts, "That the judges both of the Supreme and Inferior Courts shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office." Unhappily for our country, this constitutional barrier is broken down.—The forebodings of WASHINGTON, on this point, are already realized. Without impeachment—without accusation, or even suspicion of misbehaviour, the office and the salaries of judges have been wrested from them, by a daring encroachment of the legislature. A fatal precedent is thereby established, according to which, the federal judges will be dependant on and controulable by the senate and house of representatives in congress: in the mean time, the constitution has received a deadly wound, that, as there is cause to fear, will never be healed.
One of the Washington "set." Balance.
From the London Morning Chronicle of March 12.
Three per cent. Cons. March 12, 67, 5-8 falling.
On Wednesday an interview took place between Lord Hawkesbury and M. Otto.
It is said that Lord Nelson is to have the chief command of our fleets in the West-Indies. the Medusa frigate, Capt. Gore, is preparing at Portsmouth to take out his Lordship, who will proceed to his destination with all possible dispatch. Several more ships of the line and frigates, have been ordered to be fitted out for immediate service and to join the Channel fleet.
The critical state of the negotiation still continues to occupy the attention of every one. Nothing further, however has transpired on the subject, no doubt is entertained that ministers have authorized Marquis Cornwallis to bring the matter to a speedy issue, so that peace or war will very soon be announced. In the mean time the activity of preparation in all of our ports is unremitted. Although matters are thus suspended, there seems in general to be a considerable confidence that a definitive treaty will be concluded.
The delay of the Definitive Treaty excites a considerable degree of alarm. The liberality of concession in the preliminary Treaty, seems in some measure to take the blame from our ministers; and it is hoped that though inferior arrangements may require time, both parties are too deeply engaged to their respective countries to embroil them again in War, without some very extraordinary cause.
We have received the Paris Journals to the 3d inclusive. They are quite barren of intelligence. They contain no particulars of the plot to which the letters of our correspondent from Paris alludes though the article in the Monitor of the 1st, in our paper in Saturday, shews that some intrigue had been supposed to be going on. Buonaparte will have some trouble to manage the different parties of the Royalists and Jacobins and nothing but his popularity with the bulk of the people, who sigh for tranquility and peace, can support him.
He will likewise find it extremely difficult to prevent the army, while it remains inactive at home, from being tampered with, either by the Royalists or the Jacobins. These circumstances give him no small uneasiness. But, nevertheless, his reputation is now so much associated with the hope of peace, that to deprive the people of that would be to risk his only acknowledged title to power, and expose himself to dangers as real as any that can arise from the claims of discontented generals, or the levity of mercenary legions.
The public curiosity in this country is now wholly directed to the state of the negotiation, and from the great activity in naval equipments, some people are inclined to think that its success is extremely doubtful. It is certain that the utmost
exertion is employed instantly to send a prodigious fleet to sea. A vigorous press has been exerted—a great force has been ordered to rendezvous at Portsmouth. Nothing less was to be expected with Lord St. Vincent at the head of the Admiralty;—and if it should be necessary to act, there is not the least doubt that even the ruins of the enemy's navy would be annihilated.
Ministers being the best judges of what is proper to be done in consequence of the late state of the negotiation, known accurately to them only, it may be supposed that these preparations have not been thus ostentatiously displayed till circumstances demanded. Reasoning generally, indeed, it would not be wrong to say that this imposing attitude ought never to be abandoned pending a negotiation. Perhaps indeed it may be said, that it would have been as well, uniformly throughout the negotiation at Amiens, to have spoken a language which all this force was ready to support, because it would have been better that the impression on the enemy should have been uniform than that it should spring from a sudden exertion, that looks more like passion than firmness. It is wiser for a nation to maintain its interests and to attain its objects by producing a general belief of its superiority, than by any abrupt and violent effort to produce a momentary impression. A passionate effort may give rise to an opposite passion, whereas it is a general opinion of strength and force that begets respect.
All this preparation, therefore, would have been highly proper at former periods of the negotiation. It may be necessary now, when perhaps the French government may have started, or contrived to urge, pretensions inconsistent with the spirit of the preliminaries. It is said that the government of this country refuses to recognize Buonaparte as self-elected president of the Italian republic, and we think very properly refuses. If Buonaparte thinks his subjects will espouse his personal quarrel on this occasion, he may be induced to carry things high. It is more probable, however, that the main question will be evaded. Perhaps it is the best way to treat the thing at present, for we believe all good politicians are far from thinking that the present peace on the continent (of important consideration,) can put things in a stable and permanent situation.
It will, however, be for the nations of the continent to decide in the first instance what they will do respecting the Franco-Italian Republic. These things must take their course. With respect to the immediate interest of this country, it is right that an end should be put to that destructive naval armistice which has subsisted since the preliminaries; and that a treaty of peace should be concluded, which will, as far as possible, render its blessings reciprocal. Ministers, it is understood, have demanded a decisive answer from the French government within a short period; and, as Buonaparte cannot place the war on any principle which the French nation would now justify, it is probable he will agree to bring the treaty to a conclusion. To renew the war, that is, to evade a declaration after so much delay, would be to expose the French fleet at sea, while the French would gain none of those possessions which were to be ceded.—If the French government practise evasion, they ought to be treated as they treated the Austrians in the armistices in Germany; that is, we should be right in availing ourselves of the means we possess to reduce them to other sentiments.
It is not just that the treaty should be suspended till the French hear of their success in St. Domingo—till Spain brings home to Cadiz the treasure that has been accumulated in America since the war. These frauds are not to be endured, and the British nation would applaud acts of true vigour, if it should appear that the enemy have been attempting, under the colour of negotiation, to obtain undue advantages.
INGENIOUS DISCOVERY.
St. Aubin, a man of letters at Paris, and member of the tribunal, gives in the Journal of commerce, of the 20th January the following account of bateau plongeur , a diving boat lately discovered by Mr. Fulton, an American:—
"I have, says he, just been to inspect the plan and section of a nautilus , or diving boat, invented by Mr. Fulton similar to that with which he lately made his curious and interesting experiments at Havre and Brest.
"The diving boat in the construction of which he is now employed, will be capacious enough to contain eight men, and provisions enough for twenty days, and will be of sufficient strength and power to enable him to plunge 100 feet under water, if necessary. He has contrived a reservoir for air, which will enable eight men to remain under water for eight hours. When the boat is above water, it has two sails, and looks just like a common boat. When she is to dive, the masts and sails are struck."
"In making his experiments at Havre, Mr. Fulton not only remained a whole hour under water with three of his companions, but held his boat parallel to the horizon at any given depth. He proved that the compass points as correctly under water as on the surface, and that while under water the boat made way at the rate of half a league an hour, by means contrived for that purpose."
"It is not twenty years since all Europe was astonished at the first ascension of men in balloons; perhaps in a few years they will not be less surprized to see a flotilla of diving boats, which on a given signal, shall, to avoid the pursuit of an enemy, plunge under water, and raise again several leagues from the place where they descended!"
"The inventions of balloons has hitherto been of no advantage, because no means have been found to direct their course. But if such means could be discovered, what would become of camps, cannon, fortresses, and the whole art of war?"
"But if we have not succeeded in steering the balloon, and even were it possible to attain that object, the case is different with the diving boat, which can be conducted under water in the same manner as upon the surface. It has the advantage of sailing like a common boat, and also of diving when it is pursued. With these qualities it is fit for carrying secret orders; to succor a blokkaded port, and to examine the force and position of an enemy in their own harbors. These are sure evident benefits which the diving boat at present promises."
"But who can see all the consequences of this discovery, for the improvements of which it is susceptible? Mr. Fulton has already added to his boat a machine, by means of which he blew up a large boat in the port of Brest; and if by future experiments the same effect could be produced on frigates or ships of the line what will become of maritime wars and will sailors be found to man ships of war when it is a physical certainty, that they may every moment be blown into the air by means of a diving boat against which no human foresight can guard them."
Exorbitant Salaries! This was the weapon which the Knights of Economy so successfully wielded against the federal administration. The many piteous soliloquies pronounced by them over lost cents and mills, gained some credit for sincerity among honest men. When they came into office, therefore, they stood pledged to the country to set about this goodly work of reducing salaries. They had professed to make new and different principles the ground of their administration, and talked as seriously about extravagance and prodigality as a Spartan would over his bowl of black broth. Under their reign we were taught to expect a display of the stern virtues of an honest republican, who loved his country better than money, who like CINCINATUS, or ADAMS, or PICKERING, might be found at the plough. But while their tongues droop manna, all is false and hollow within. Mark that they raise salaries in the first year of their Republic:
"Then be the judgling fiends no more believed That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope."
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Public Notice.
THE Justices of the Peace for the county of Alexandria, are requested to meet at the court house, at ten o'clock in the morning, on Eriday the 7th day of May; and every person who may have claims, which are to be adjusted by the Levy Court, are requested to attend on that day. The accounts are to be stated for such charges as did become due up to the first day of May only.
April 29.
Printing in all its variety, executed at this office, with neatness and dispatch.

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And for sale by the subscriber, a few beautiful PRINTS, ornamented with very handsome gilt frames.—The subject is, GEN. WASHINGTON , raised from the tomb, by the poetical and historical genius, assisted by immortality—At his feet America weeping over his armour; on the opposite side an Indian crouched in surly sorrow; in the third ground, elemental virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity.—The likeness is particularly striking.
A. C. CAZENOVE.
April 27.
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ALEXANDER SMITH AND SON,
Have just received from Philadelphia, —A quantity of—
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They have also on hand,
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April 20.
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Sanctioned by the Mayor and Commonality.
THE subscriber having commenced numbering the houses, and designating the streets in Alexandria, a work previously necessary to the compilation of his Directory, which, as he doubts not but that adequate encouragement will be given by a liberal public, shall contain as great variety of useful subject-matter as any publication of the kind, in any seaport of equal magnitude in the union. In order to effect his plan, and render the work worthy the notice of its patrons, the editor will spare no pains or on his part.
CHAS. H. SIMMONS.
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Wanted,
ABOUT 200 WHARF LOGS, delivered at the Eastern Branch Ferry—For which a generous price will be given, if delivered agreeably to a contract to be entered into. Apply to
JAMES O'BRIEN.
City of Washington.
THE THOROUGH BRED HORSE,
MONTALTA,
WILL stand at my stable and be let to mares the present season, at Sixteen Dollars, or Eight Dollars the leap, and Twenty Four Dollars to ensure a mare with foal, and Half a Dollar, in each instance, to the groom. The money for the leap must be sent with the mares—notes for the season must be sent with the mares also, which may be discharged by the payment of twelve dollars on or before the last day of July, at which time the season will expire. The season commences on the first day of April. Mares will be fed with grain, if required, at the market price. Good and extensive pasture gratis. All possible care will be used to guard against accidents and escape, tho' I will not be answerable for either.
MONTALTA was got by Colonel Homes's imported horse Bedford, whose character and pedigree stands so high, both in England and America, as to need no comment from me. His dam, as certified by Daniel Carroll Brent, Esq. of Richland, who bred her, was got by Lindlay's Arabian, her dam was young Selima, her grand dam Mr. William Brent's Ebony, her great grand dam Colonel Taskoe's imported Selima. Ebony's sire was Col. Tayloe's imported Othello.—Young Selima's sire was Col. Baylor's imported Fearnought. This blood is also so well known to, and in such high estimation with gentlemen who have been and are now on the turf, that I shall only add, that Montalta's colour, high form, marks, &c. are admired by all who have seen him. He is full 15 1/2 hands high, and will be five years old next May.
THOS. LEE, sen.
Prince William County,
March 8.
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WANTED to employ immediately, for the benefit of the 60th Regiment of Virginia Militia, two MUSICIANS; one to teach the different beats of the drum, the other, the music of the fife. Such persons as are well qualified for the above tuition, and will engage to instruct the learners which will consist of sixteen boys for each branch, shall receive a liberal compensation from the subscriber, who is authorized by law to employ tutors; and by the Court of Enquiry, to pay them for their services when performed.
CHARLES LITTLE.
April 7.
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About the 20th inst. a number of healthy prime Negroes, that can be well recommended. Families will be received, and a generous price given for one or two blacksmiths or carpenters.
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April 3.
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Valuable Building Lots FOR SALE.
On Wednesday the 5th of May next, the subscribers will offer at public sale, on a credit which will then be made known,
About 80 LOTS
of convenient dimensions for building, lying between Queen and Oronoko streets, in the vicinity of the powder house. And as soon as the sale of those lots is over, they will proceed to sell in lots, a plat of which will be exhibited, about nineteen ACRES OF GROUND, a little farther to the westward, bounded on the south by the garden in the tenure of Thos. Purkes, on the west by ground of Mr. Dulany, on the north by ground of captain Conway, and on the east by ground of Mr. Chas. Alexander and the heirs of Samuel Arell deceased. Possession may be had immediately on the payments being secured according to the conditions of the sale, which will commence at nine o'clock in the morning, if the day is fair, otherwise at the same hour the next fair day.
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WRITTEN IN 1788.
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ON
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WRITTEN IN 1793.
The whole revised and corrected, with new passages and notes.
THE FEDERALIST was written in a series of numbers, under the signature of Publius, shortly after the promulgation of the Federal Constitution, and addressed to the People of the State of New-York, with the design of enforcing the propriety and necessity of its adoption.
It is principally the production of a man whose name will be held in sacred respect long after the pitiful attempts which have been made to slander his fame shall have sunk into oblivion. Two other gentlemen, of distinguished talents, occasionally contributed some essays, which will be marked in the publication.*
All parties seem at length united in professions of regard for the Constitution; if they are sincere, the consideration cannot fail to enhance the value of a work, which, by employing in its favor all the energy of argument, and all the persuasion of eloquence, was eminently useful in promoting its general ratification.
Whoever is desirous of being well informed of the principles and provisions of our Government, and the manner in which they have been supported and vindicated, of the objections that were made to the Constitution by its first opponents, and how they were answered, will find these volumes fraught with ample and satisfactory instruction. The study of them must form an essential part of the education of the American statesman. Politicians, indeed, of every country, will here discover materials in the science of Government well worthy of their attention; a science, of all others, the most interesting to mankind, as it most deeply concerns human happiness. The Federalist contains principles that may be remembered and studied with advantage by all classes of men in other countries than our own, and in other ages than that in which we live. The People of America alone have afforded the example of a pure Representative Republic. In this work it will appear, that the principles of this form of Government have been well understood, and thoroughly developed, and should, unfortunately, the experiment which we have made, hereafter fail, it will be in vain to attempt the renewal of similar systems, as no rational hope can be entertained, that more correct notions on this subject will prevail than are here exhibited.
To preserve these papers, therefore, which have so much intrinsic merit, and such lasting utility, in a dress suitable to their character, is the inducement to their re-publication.
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Now that the storm has passed over, and the angry and tempestuous passions which at that time agitated our country, have in some measure subsided, these papers will be read with profit and pleasure by the intelligent man of every party. Candor will probably wonder, that any should have doubted of the fitness of the measures which this writer has so ably advocated, and which experience has so forcibly proved to have been the best adapted to the interests of the country.
To give to these latter Essays a form which shall outline the fleeting impressions of a newspaper, they are incorporated in these volumes—Publius and Pacificus will serve to keep in remembrance two very important events in the history of our country.
* The first gentleman here alluded to is General Hamilton—the other two, Mr. Madison and Mr. Jay.
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