The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1802-08-27 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. II.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCLXXX.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27th, 1802.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
THE STATUE—An Epigram.
Shall then a statue rise to Pitt Who sunk us in despair? Long since, 'ere on that rock we split, Our course was smooth and fair: Yet might we grant thy statue, Pitt, Couldst thou at least, with all thy wit, Place us in STATU-QUO! Sternhold & Hopkins.
Case of Long-Suspended Sensibility.
Communicated to Benjamin B. Simons, M. D. &c. by William Roots, Esq. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.
In the summer of 1800. Mr. Davy, demonstrator to the anatomical theatre at St. Thomas's hospital, went accidentally to Deptford; and going out of curiosity to visit the house erected there for the reception of the sick and hurt, in one of the beds he was struck with the appearance of a man in a comatose state; and on making enquiries, the nurse of the ward could give him no further account than that he had been brought there from a board a vessel some weeks since, in the same senseless state which he had been in for several months before. Mr. Davy was not satisfied with this account, returned to town and requested me, being the senior dresser of the hospital, to go down to Deptford with him the next day, which I did. We saw the surgeon, who seemed quite as careless as he was ignorant about the case, and we requested he would permit the patient to be brought to our hospital. He consented, and the man was brought into St. Thomas's. Mr. Cline examined him; there seemed to be some little uneasiness on one side of the os occipitis, close to the lambdoidal suture, and another on the other side of the head, extending, though in a very small degree, from the sagittal suture about an inch and a half down the parietal bone. The patient was, during the whole time, perfectly senseless. Mr. Cline proposed laying bare the cranium on the next day. On carrying the man into a ward, a patient in an adjacent bed cries out "Oh that is my old shipmate, Ned Langley." On asking this man some questions, he said, that Ned Langley was cruising off Port Mahon in the same ship with him, upwards of a twelve month ago; that during a smart breeze, the yard arm came down on deck and struck Langley on the head; that he was taken up senseless and carried to his hammock; that he continued with him aboard in the same state during two months; that the ship put in afterwards to Gibraltar, where Langley was sent on shore; that after remaining there some little time, he was sent on board an hospital ship in the Straits, and after that he was sent up the river and put on shore at Deptford. This evidence was corroborated by another man, accidentally a patient in another ward, who was at Gibraltar at the time Langley came in there, and who came home in the same ship with him; and what was still more extraordinary, one of the pupils attending recalled perfectly Langley to have lived five years ago with his father as footman, in Cornwall, and that he left his service to take to a sea-faring life; and he recollected his features perfectly, and knew his parents, who thought he was dead long ago. The next day Langley was brought into the theatre. Mr. Cline made an incision so as to form a triangular flap on one of the depressed parts. He found the pericranium thickened, and to a great degree as to fill up almost a very great depression in the cranium, which was evident on the removal of the pericranium; indeed, it was wonderful the degree of thickness of the membrane had produced on this membrane. Mr. Cline, with great difficulty, applied the trephine immediately on the depressed part, wishing to remove it at once, as there was but little chance of using the elevator, after such a period had elapsed from the fracture, and the surrounding parts had acquired more than common hardness. With great caution and dexterity he removed the depressed part, but not without cutting into the longitudinal sinus; the hemorrhage was easily stopped by dossil of lint. The moment the bone was removed, the patient opened his eyes quite wide, and the subfluous tendon inhaled; he yawned and stretched his arms and legs, though with difficulty. He was ordered to bed, and to be kept without interruption for six hours, and if he did not mend, Mr. Cline proposed removing the depressed part on the other side the next day. The patient did not evince the least sign of feeling during the operation. One of the pupils being rather impatient before the six hours had elapsed, went to his bedside in order to feel his pulse, and taking his watch out, he dropped it with fright when the patient hallowed out "Damn you, Jack, what's o'clock?" And looking about him, enquired, "Where the devil he was? What ship he was on board? He had been dreaming all night he was in a terrible storm, and by G—d he believed it was true, for he seemed on board the devil's hulk."
On being informed of his situation, he laughed, and said they could not palaver him into such a belief, for it was but yesterday he was off port Mahon, and nothing could convince him to the contrary, not even his old ship mates; till the young gentleman whose father he lived with came; the fellow immediately knew him, and asked after his father by name, but still he could hardly reconcile himself to the belief of his being where he was, and he continued talking of events on board his ship to the very moment of his meeting with the accident; all which length of time to the present, seemed as only one short night's sleep to him. And from examining all these evidences separately, there is every reason to believe he continued in this state of total torpor for upwards of fourteen months. We could trace it in the clearest manner possible for eleven months, and from corroborating circumstances, he met with the accident above three months before: he was kept quiet, and continued mending very fast; his spirits were very great; he damned their eyes with all the good humour of a British tar; he sang, and would have drunk, had he been suffered; in seven weeks he went out perfectly well and sane in every respect, so that there was no necessity for operating on the other side. Now, the fortunate termination of this case was entirely owing to Mr. Davy accidentally meeting with the poor fellow, who otherwise must have fallen a victim to want of activity and exertion in the medical hands he had fallen; and indeed it reflects the greatest credit on the nurses that had the care of him, for had it not been for the greatest care and attention in his state of insensibility, he must have perished through want of food, for every portion of nutriment during his comatose state, was forced down his throat, chiefly liquids; he had passages generally once in two or three days. And here we must say, till he came into St. Thomas's, he reflected the highest credit on his nurses, and the greatest disgrace on his surgeons.
N. B. I frequently conversed with the man during his convalescence, and he declared it seemed like enchantment; for when he first asked, what it was o'clock, he would have sworn he had not been abed above six hours from the day he received the accident off Port Mahon; a strong proof of the suppression of all sensation during that long period. Mr. Cline, as well as the rest of the surgeons present, declared it to be the most remarkable case they ever heard or met with in the annals of medical wonders. The man was as well as ever he was in his life when he left the hospital to visit his friends and relatives in Cornwall.
[From the Albany Gazette]
Extract of a letter from a respectable mercantile house in France, to a gentleman in Albany, dated Nantz, June 14, 1802.
Wishing to convey to my friends in America true information, and capable of fixing their opinion in a firm and profitable manner, it perhaps would have been more advisable to have deferred it a little longer, but as for this considerable time past, the successive fall of prices has made mostly all speculations turn to disadvantage, it appears very natural that the sufferers should embrace the first favorable opportunities to recover their losses.
I can say generally, that the rapid retrogression of prices, and the losses occasioned thereby to most of the retailers, discouraged them from making large provisions, the more so, as they forelaw a still greater one after the general peace. To this opinion, therefore, and to the great abundance, the fall can justly be attributed. It is well known, that the degradation was more considerable, and the eagerness greater to sell and dispose of, in the places distant from the principal sources: whereas in England, that has the greatest supplies, the fall has been until now of little consequence, and far from apprehending there the same fluctuations as on the continent, it is expected that so many new openings to the English commerce, by the happy conclusion of peace, will produce considerable demands for which they are not sufficiently provided.
By this very reason, added to the want of supplies in the interior parts, I am firmly of opinion, that as soon as the spirit of speculating largely revives, necessity will compel the consumers and retailers at large to provide, and that consequently we may expect a brisk rise; and I think myself the better founded, as no material event can be foreseen to occasion a fall. Peace and free navigation, cannot bring us very considerable supplies, and we can then safely and ultimately attribute the present state of things to mistaken ideas, to the want of money, or to fear, rather than to the expectation of large supplies.
In order to ascertain how long this languid state may last, we must endeavor to calculate how long the retailers and consumers may yet be deterred from purchasing; and from what I said here above, it cannot last more than two or three months at most. So many countries pillaged and ransacked by the war, just beginning to breathe, but destitute of all commodities, will now be rouzed from inaction, and re-animate their industry and their commerce. The large purchases alone, made every year in the spring, must no doubt suffice to produce a sensible augmentation in prices—the most advisable then, according to my humble opinion, would be to ship and send supplies without much delay.
The quantity of coffee in England is pretty considerable, there is not as much on the continent; coffee of the best quality is scarce, there is much of the inferior sort.
The quantity of sugar in England is not great, for which reason it holds its price so well; being scattered in several hands, and depending chiefly on the refiners, who through mistaken opinions and fear, make no purchases, we could not expect (with us) the great fall in the price that it has undergone. By the same forcible reason as soon as large orders come to and from the refiners, we must rely on a considerable encrease. I judge then this is the best time to ship sugars for our markets, the more so as there remains, or is made, but little of that commodity in our islands.
Cotton is the article at this time the least subject to fall in price. The greatest part of Europe cloathing with this commodity, we may reasonably expect that the consumption can only increase; the manufactures of cotton goods multiply daily, but it is also probable it will not look up in price, as there is more of this article in the colonies than of any other, and the vessels that have just failed, and those which are fitting out for the East-Indies, may bring a considerable supply of ready manufactured goods—this article can only maintain its present price.
Tobacco fell very sensibly, and it was the effect of a very ill-founded opinion respecting this article. The quantity of it is not more considerable in America than it was before, and the consumption in France has encreased from eighteen millions of pounds before the war to thirty millions at present, I consequently believe firmly, that it is and will be an object of good speculation.
The encouragement that peace will give to our manufactures must necessarily support the price of Indigo.
The high price of wheat must naturally maintain the of rice for a long time to come; some considerable shipments would be sold at an advantageous price, and would turn out very well. This article, under the denomination of grain, pays no duty whatever.
Cocoa is not very abundant, some supplies consequently would be wanted. As but few articles will arrive from China, tea is an article that will keep up in price.
This place (Nantes) by its situation and local resources bids fair to recover its former splendor, and to become yet one of the most considerable cities in France. With much esteem and regard, &c.
SIMON LYNCH.
From the same to the same.
The most extensive manufactures in bull skins, are now in great activity and much encouraged by government, at Niort, a town distant only 65 miles from hence, will employ annually four hundred thousand weight of cod and whale oil, some quantity of potash, and eighty thousand deer and elk skins. I am connected with the principal manufacturers who would readily buy from me any quantity of the aforesaid articles, or would contract to be supplied annually at a stipulated price."
In Exchange.
VALUABLE property in the borough of York, is offered in exchange for property in or near the Federal City.—Enquire at this office.
August 2, 1802.
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WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1802.
In addition to the extracts presented in our paper, the English prints contain the king's speech proroguing, and his proclamation dissolving, the present Parliament. These in our next.
JUDGE BASSETT, one of the late circuit judges, has published a protest against the late judiciary law abolishing the circuit courts, established by the act of the 13th February 1801. It is a very long performance. As soon as we can find room, we shall give it a place.
The deaths in Philadelphia were on the 22d and 23d, 7—24th, 8.
On Monday last, the Board of Health of Bolton, commenced an experiment on the efficacy of the Kine-Pock. Upwards of 20 adults and children were inoculated with the vaccine matter, at their rooms, by Doctors Waterhouse, Lloyd, Rand, Jeffers, Dantoorth and Howard. After having gone through the Kine-Pock, they are to be inoculated with the small-pox, at Rainsford-Hall; and the result will then be published.
FEDERAL MISREPRESENTATION.
No. XX.
Too absurd to require a word of refutation.
It is now, beyond all contradiction, reduced to a certainty, that the celebrated letters bearing the signature of Mr. Jefferson, which while Mr. J. was secretary of state were addressed to Mr. Hammond, at that time British minister in this country, and which have for many years been adduced by his friends as undeniable proofs of his erudition as a scholar and his researches as a statesman, were actually the productions of Mr. Lewis, who was at that time as at present, a lawyer of distinguished eminence in the city of Philadelphia—All that Mr. Jefferson did, was to add his signature.
New port pap.
A RETURN
Of the Goods, Wares and Merchandize, of the growth and Manufacture of the United States, exported from the port of Louisville, in the state of Kentucky, from the 1st day of January, to the 30th day of June 1802, to the Floridas and Louisiana.
 Apples, bbls. 841  Beer, Porter & Cyder, galls. 7,971  Beef, bbls. 60  Biscuit or Ship-bread, do. 179  Beans, (bushels of) 4  Butter, lb. 3,309  Boots, (pair) 4  Corn, (Indian) bush. 1,237  Cheese, lb. 1,188  Wax, do. 55  Tallow, do. 1,148  Cables & Cordage, cwt. 2,402 73 lb.  Coaches and other Carriages, value 284 dolls.  Flour, bbls. 85,570  Furniture, (household) value, 1,277 dolls.  Flax seed Bush. 5  Oil, galls. 100  Gun powder, lb. 346  Hats, value 333 dolls.  Hams and Bacon, lbs. 272,866  Hemp, lb. 42,048  Castings, value, 1,501 1-4 dolls.  Lead, lb. 55,302  Meal, (Indian) bush. 1,079  Merchandise, value 26,087 dolls.  Oats, bush. 179  Pork, bbls. 2,485  Potatoes, bush. 342  Spirits distilled of domestic produce, gal. 24,694 1-4  Shoes and Slippers, pair, 6  Saddlery, value 682 dolls.  Soap, lb. 2,399  Tobacco, manufactured, lb 2,640  unmanufactured, 503,618 cwt.  Tar, bbls. 4  Boards, Plank, Scantling &c.  Timber, feet, 13,666  Total value in Dollars 590,965 1-2 
New York, August 24.
COMMUNICATION.
Messrs. Denniston and Cheetham.
I understand the district court of the United States for the New-York district, was opened at the Federal Hall on the 27th last, and the officers assembled in order to try any causes that should come before them; but finding there were no causes to try, they adjourned to the next term.
Now what a pity it is that we have not more judges of this court! How is
it possible that Mr. Jefferson and his party could have the folly and impudence to turn out so many of these good judges?
If there is no cause to try in the populous and great mercantile city of New-York, what business will the poor judges have to do in a great many thinly settled districts? I am afraid they will hardly have enough to keep them in countenance to receive their fine salaries.
A. YANKEE.
Philadelphia, Aug. 24.
Arrived yesterday morning, the Tom, capt. Turner of Portsmouth, N. Hampshire, in forty four days from Liverpool, capt. Turner failed from thence on the 17th of July, and has brought papers to the 5th, from which the subsequent articles have been selected.
London, June 21.
Letters from the north of Germany announce positively, that the duke of Cambridge, will be immediately proclaimed sovereign of the states of Brunswick, Lunenburg, and elector of Hanover. The king of England, his father, will cede to him all his possessions in Germany. The inhabitants of the electorate of Hanover applaud this change in their government, which will establish a splendid court in the city of Hanover. It will not however, be carried into execution until the affairs of the Germanic empire will be entirely decided.
June 5.
It appears by letters from the Hague of the 10th ult. that the troops destined to take possession of the Cape were immediately to be embarked in the Texel. The Batavian government has appropriated a large sum to the re-establishment of the civil and military administrations of its colonies.
Paris, June 30.
A letter from Berlin of the 15th, states as follows:
"We now know to a certainty what States fall to the lot of the Prussian Monarch, as an indemnity for his possessions beyond the Rhine, viz. 1st the Bishoprick of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, containing about 54 square leagues, with eight cities (among which are Hildesheim, the population of which amounts to 12000 souls, Peina and Alfeld,) four borough towns, and 234 villages. This country, though within the circle of the Hanoverian States, is contiguous to the western boundaries of the Duchy of Halberstadt, belonging to the King of Prussia; the income of it is about 250,000 crowns currency.
2dly. "The Bishopric of Paderborn, in Westphalia, 54 square leagues, with 23 small cities, one borough town, and 136 villages, 60,000 souls; the income 60,000 rix dollars.
3dly. "A part of the Bishopric of Munster including about one third of that Bishopric, on the right bank of the Rhine, with 40,000 inhabitants.
4thly. "Eichsfeld, in Thuringia, formerly belonging to the elector of Mentz, containing forty square leagues, four cities, 168 borough towns, and villages, and 74,000 inhabitants, the income is estimated at 300,000 Imperial florins.
5thly. "The city of Erfurt, with its territory of 15 leagues. Erfurt contains 14,000 inhabitants, there are 73 borough towns and villages, and about 41,677 souls.
6thly. "The Imperial city of Goslar, with 6000 inhabitants.
7thly. "The Imperial cities of Mulhausen and Nordhausen; the former of these cities, including its territory, 13,000, and the latter 9000 inhabitants."
The whole of the indemnities comprehends 200 square leagues, and 600,000 inhabitants, possession will be taken at the beginning of July, and the inhabitants will then take the oath of allegiance to their new sovereign.
A letter from Ratibon, of the 20th of June, says, "Several of the accredited ministers to the Diet have received from their courts an intimation, that the arrangements relative to the indemnities are already agreed upon, and that there remains nothing more to be settled upon this subject but a few subordinate points of very little consequence. The most powerful Princes of Germany will immediately take possession of the several states assigned to them, in which the necessary oaths of fidelity are forthwith to be taken."
An imperial decree is expected to be immediately presented to the Diet recommending a revocation of the conclusion for nominating an extraordinary deputation of the empire, which, from recent circumstances and events, would be useless and unnecessary; and at the same time announcing to the assembly of the German states, that the arrangements

agreed upon between the governments of France, Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and by which the several indemnities have been settled, will shortly be submitted for the approval of the diet.
FROM LATE LONDON PRINTS.
It is a most happy reflection to the governors of the human society and men of sensibility, that in these latter days many, very many of our fellow-creatures are restored to life, who in former times, under the appearances of death, would have been prematurely committed to the grave.
Long had mankind by dangerous error led, Dumb'd like the Breathless and the Dead!
Mr. Edgar, forsooth, has communicated to the Managers of the above institution an extraordinary instance of reanimation. "At Lynn, last month during the transfer from J. Mitchell, had taken shelter in a cottage, which was struck by lightning: it sealed the walls without and within, and unroofed the dwelling. The unfortunate man was forced by the violence of the electric fluid (which appeared like one sheet of fire) from off his chair upon the floor, where he remained apparently in a lifeless state. On my arrival the various methods recommended by the humane society were judiciously employed, which providentially restored animation, and Mitchell now enjoys life and health." This is the fifth instance of the apparently dead by lightning being resuscitated by the Medical Assistance of the humane society.
LUSUS NATURAE
Mr. Schwartz, counsellor of regency to the king of Prussia, has published in a journal entitled Brennus, commenced some months ago at Berlin, the following account of a very curious phenomenon: "Last year, a Jew, at Posen, in Poland, exhibited for money, a fowl, having a human figure. It had been hatched on a farm near Wirtzenire, which had been made over to the Jew in the payment of a debt. He alleged, that there was another perfectly similar of the same brood, but that it had died very soon after being hatched. The animal which he exhibited, and which I myself saw, was alive and in very good condition. It had grown to the natural size, being more than a year old. The body was covered with feathers of different colors, and the animal resembled all other fowls, with the exception of the head. This was of the usual size, but without feathers, and covered with a bluish skin. The cavities of the eyes were exactly formed like those of a human being; and were surmounted with two small arches of fine down, forming very regular eye brows. The upper part of the beak was shorter than usual, its point being obtuse, and the nostrils placed pretty low, so that, though a horny substance, it completely resembled a well-shaped nose. Below this nose was a regular mouth, with lips, two rows of teeth, extremely white, close and pointed, with a full broad tongue, completing the singular lusus naturae. This resemblance to the human figure had something disagreeable, and even frightful in its appearance. It was, however, perfect, and in tracing it, the assistance of the imagination was unnecessary."
PUBLIC SALE,
OF GROWING TIMBER, &c.
ON Saturday next the 28th inst. at 10 o'clock in the forenoon will be sold to the highest bidder for cash a number of oak, walnut, mulberry and cedar trees, now growing on the Hopsyard about half a mile east of the Capitol. Also several parcels of fire-wood together with
An oak frame barn, 48 feet by 24, almost new—And a two story frame house 18 feet by 19, calculated for a store.
NOTICE.
On the first of September next, if fair, if not the next fair day, will be sold to the highest bidder, the London Lands lately advertised by us in this paper.
As we have before fully described them it will be unnecessary now to add anything more in their favour. Suffice it to say that their quality and situation can not fail to recommend them to all persons desirous of establishing themselves in that part of the State lying within 40 miles of Alexandria and the Federal City, and as well adapted to farming as any lands in that country.
The terms will be made known on the day of sale. JAMES M. GARNETT, JOHN T. BROOKS, Adm's. with the will annexed of James Mercer, Esq. deceased. Aug. 23. 1802. epts
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. aw220D
This is to give Notice,
THAT the subscriber has obtained from the orphan's Court of Prince George County letters testamentary on the personal estate of JOHN STAMP, late of said county, deceased. All persons having claims against said deceased, are requested to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber on or before the 10th day of January 1802; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand and seal, this tenth day of August eighteen hundred and two. J. W. WOOD. Aug. 27, 1802. 1aw3t
To be Sold,
On the premises on Tuesday October 5, 1802, upon reasonable terms.
A VALUABLE tract or parcel of Land, containing upwards of six hundred acres, lying and being in Prince George county, about sixteen miles from the City of Washington, eight miles from Piscataway creek which empties into Potomac river, and about eight miles from Piscataway, both navigable waters. There is a small remnant thereon, and about 50 acres of land cleared, all the rest in wood, abounding in valuable timber of different kinds, lying exceedingly level, a great quantity of which may be made into excellent meadow. It is kindly adapted to wheat, &c. An unexceptionable title will be given. A part of the purchase money will be required to be paid in hand, good bonds with approved security will be taken for the remainder. HEDWICH HOLLIDAY. Aug. 27, 1802. 1aw3t
To the Public.
When the natural advantages of the United States are considered there is no subject that strikes with more force than our inland navigation. Various attempts have been made to accelerate it by mechanical means of transportation, and great merit is due to the projectors, yet they have unfortunately too generally failed. I now come forward to offer an invention of my own for propelling boats and vessels of any size according to the force that may be applied, totally new and different from any others that have been produced. I will remark that I have produced it, I have experimented it, and it remains with the public to carry it into execution. I refer to the President of the United States, to the Secretary of State, to the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Superintendent of the Navy, and to many of our respectable citizens, who have seen its effects, and who will give their opinions. I refer to the thing itself, where experiments, by manual labour, will convince equal observation, and obviate all less verbal or written description. It is proper, however, to give some account of its qualities. They consist in its simplicity, in its convenience, its durability, its adaption to manual, horse or steam power, and in the double or successive stroke. This double or successive stroke is worthy the attention of the mechanic and of the navigator, for by it a constant effect is kept up. It exceeds the common oar by the single stroke only, and of course must gain rapidly when the successive stroke is applied. It can be used either vertically or horizontally, and at the stem, stern or sides of the vessel, and is constructed and operated at direct lines instead of rotary lines. Its chief importance consists in its obviating manual labour, being, with the greatest convenience, adapted to the steam engine, whose force is durable, competent, and equal; and this equal force it is that gives uniform power to the successive strokes. It can be used in all cases where rowing can be done, and may be extended to Bay, Lakes and short coasting trade. Whenever there is want of wind, therefore a principal advantage in the invention. In instances of long rivers, such as the Mississippi, Ohio, &c. it is intended that the machine-boat shall be designated to tow other boats; but larger vessels will justify separate engines. Fuel may be deposited along the shores of rivers at convenient distances to be taken in occasionally by skiffs, so as not to impede the progress of the machine. To the steam engine I would recommend the attention of the public, but machines may be modified for any power, either manual or horse. Besides encouraging this invention for common utility, individuals will be benefited in proportion to the early application they shall make for privileges, my patents being dated the 22nd day of February 1802. In case of applications, I promise to direct the manufacturing of machines, and will give every instruction and aid in my power to accelerate the business. Steam engines can be had made in some of the principal seaport towns, particularly Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, Baltimore—and other parts of the United States. R. CLAIRBORNE. Aug. 27, 1802. The editors of Newspapers will do a patriotic act by promulgating the above.
CHARLES VARDEN,
MERCHANT TAYLOR from Philadelphia, Capitol Hill, New-Jersey Avenue. HAS received an assortment of summer goods consisting of the best superfine Cloths. Cassimeres, Silk Borrazhas, English Striped Nankeens, White India Dimities, White and printed Marcellies, 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
Thomas Carpenter,
TAYLOR, HAS just received an elegant and fashionable assortment of summer goods, consisting of London superfine cloths and cassimeres; India, Manchester, and silk striped nankeens; cotton cassimeres, beglepoor, Bengal elegant white chord for pantaloons, white and coloured marcellies, janes and satin croseovers, 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. eptf
State of Maryland,
IN CHANCERY, Aug. 12th, 1802.
Alexander Clagett and Richard Henderson, vs. Charles Vance & Mary his wife, & Mary Beall.
THE object of the bill is to obtain the sale of two tracts of land called "Avondale" and "Gleaming" for the payment of a debt due from Isaac Beall deceased, to Samuel Beall, deceased, or so much thereof as will be sufficient for the payment of that debt.
The bill states that Isaac Beall was indebted to David Ross, Richard Henderson, and said Samuel Beall, to secure the payment whereof, on the ninth day of January, seventeen hundred and seventy five, executed a bond to them for the conveyance of the aforesaid land, with an indorsement on the bond, that it was intended merely to secure the debt. That said Isaac Beall, died without paying the debt, and by his will devised the said land to his children, Ann, Alexander, and Mary Beall, in tail as tenants in common after the death of Mary her wife, that Ann and Alexander have since died intestate, under age, and without issue, that Mary married the said Charles Vance, and that they reside in the state of Virginia. The bill further states, that said Samuel Beall has also died intestate, and that the complainant Alexander Clagett, administered on his estate, that the debt due as aforesaid was at the instance of Isaac Beall and his heirs, paid by your complainant, Clagett, out of the estate of said Samuel Beall. It is thereupon on the motion of the complainant ordered, That he cause a copy of this order to be inserted at least once in each of three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer, before the end of September next, to the end that the said Vance and wife may have notice of the complainant's application to court, and of the subject and object of their bill, and may be willing to appear in this court in person or by a solicitor, on or before the first day of February next, to show cause wherefore a decree should not pass as prayed.
(True Copy) Test. SAMUEL H. HOWARD, Reg. Cur. Can. Aug. 20, 1802. 1aw3t
State of Maryland,
IN CHANCERY, August 7, 1802.
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Nicholas Carroll, Daniel Carroll of Duddington, William Smith, Abraham Vanbiber, and Isaac Vanbiber, vs.
Anne Ogle, Rebecca Dulany, John Tasker Carter, Robert Mitchell, Priscilla Mitchell, Spencer Ball, Betty Landers Ball, John James Maund, Harriot Lucy Maund, John Chenn, Sarah Fairfax Chenn, Harriot Peck, John Carter Peck, Emanuel Peck, Hugh Quinlan, Tasker Carter Quinlan, Thomas Jones, Frances Tasker Jones, Thomas Jones the younger, Sarah Jackall Jones, Elizabeth Jones, Jane Jones, Sophia Carter, Julia Carter, Ann Lowndes, Francis Lowndes, Benjamin Stoddert, Benjamin Stoddert the younger, Elizabeth, Ann, Harriot, Richard, William, Rebecca, and Christopher Stoddert, Charles Lowndes, Levi Gantt, Harriot Gantt, and Benjamin Lowndes.
THE object of this bill is to obtain the recording of an Indenture of bargain and sale from Benjamin Tasker, deceased, the ancestor of the defendant, whose heirs at law are entitled to be, to Daniel Dulany and Company, for a tract of land called "Piney Grove," which Indenture bears date July 2, 1754, and was duly acknowledged on the ninth of the same month, but hath not yet been recorded, the omission to record not having proceeded from a fraudulent design or intention in any person whatever.
The bill states that the said conveyance was for the use of the said Daniel Dulany, Charles Carroll, son of Daniel, Doctor Charles Carroll, of Annapolis, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, and Benjamin Tasker, jun. and their heirs, in equal fifth parts, as tenants in common and not as joint tenants; that their interest and estate under the said Indenture hath passed by sundry devises and mefe conveyances, to the complainants in fee simple, as tenants in common, who are now seized and possessed of the said land; that the said Benjamin Tasker the bargainer died intestate, leaving four daughters his only children and co-heiresses at law, of whom Anne Ogle and Rebecca Dulany the defendants, are two; that Frances Carter and Elizabeth Lowndes, the other two of the said daughters, are dead, and that the other defendants are, by marriage or descent, their representatives and heirs at law.
The bill further states, that the defendant Rebecca Dulany resides in the state of Rhode-Island; the defendants John Tasker Carter, George Carter, Robert Mitchell, Priscilla Mitchell, Spencer Ball, Betty Landers, John James Maund, Harriot Lucy Maund, John Chenn, Sarah Fairfax Chenn, Harriot Peck, John Carter Peck, Emanuel Peck, Hugh Quinlan, Tasker Carter Quinlan, Thomas Jones, Frances Tasker Jones, Thomas Jones the younger, Sarah Jackall Jones, and Elizabeth Jones, reside in the state of Virginia; and that the defendants Charles Lowndes, Francis Lowndes, Benjamin Stoddert, Benjamin Stoddert the younger, Elizabeth, Ann, Harriot, Richard, William, Rebecca, and Christopher Stoddert, reside in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.
It is on the complainant's motion ordered, That they procure a copy of this order, to be inserted at least once in each of three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer, and in the Maryland Gazette, before the fifteenth day of September next, to the intent that the aforesaid defendants, and all other persons (if any there be) who are heirs of the said Benjamin Tasker, deceased, may have notice of the complainants' application, and of the substance and object of their bill, and that each of the said heirs may be warned to appear here in person or by a solicitor, on or before the second Tuesday in December next, to show cause why a decree should not pass as prayed.
Test. SAMUEL H. HOWARD, Reg. Cur. Can. Aug. 28, 1802. 1aw3t
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 3 to 70 dollars each.—Also candlesticks, 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 12, 1802. eptf
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 Stall'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 resurveyed," 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. 19thA The above sale is postponed till Saturday the 9th day of October next. Aug. 16, 1802. ts
NOTICE.
A MEETING of the subscribers to the Little River Road Company, is called at the house of Mrs. McCabe in Leesburg, on the fourth Wednesday in September next, being the 22nd 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. ept24S.
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, and trouble, be watered if required; there is a dwelling house, kitchen, barn, blacksmith's shop, and several out houses, a number of large and never-failing springs, several of which being quite convenient to the dwelling house, there is a valuable apple orchard, together with a number of other fruit trees, of the most choice kind.
A tract adjoining on said marsh, containing seventy-seven and two thirds acres, with a dwelling house, kitchen, a large commodious distillery with four stills, tubs, 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 wherein 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 those tracts, consist of rich low ground, on both sides of said creek; about twenty acres of handsome meadow, a dwelling house, kitchen, a large fleeced barn, with a number of other convenient and necessary outhouses, 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 willing 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. ept4t
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber having a full power of attorney from THOMAS LAW, Esq. of this City, during his absence on a visit to Europe, requests all persons having business with the said Mr. Law, to apply to him. WM. BRENT.
N. B. Persons indebted to Mr. Law, will please to call on Wm. Brent for the settlement of their accounts—he being alone authorised to receive all monies due to him in this country. August 2, 1802. ept6t
SUPERINTENDANT'S OFFICE,
Washington, June 19, 1802.
IN pursuance of the directions of the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to abolish the Board of Commissioners in the City of Washington and for other purposes," and by virtue of the act of assembly of the state of Maryland, entitled "A further supplement to the act concerning the Territory of Columbia, and the City of Washington," the lots mentioned in the subjoined list (many of which are amongst the best lots in the city) will be exposed to sale by Public Auction at this office on Monday the 30th day of August next.
The sale will commence at ten o'clock A. M. and be continued by adjournment. The terms of the sale will be, The purchase money to be paid down, or before ten o'clock on the next day of sale. In cases of default in payment as aforesaid, the purchaser will be deemed void, the lots so purchased will be liable to re-sale under this advertisement, without other notice, and the defaulters may afterwards be rejected as bidders during the sale. THOMAS MUNROE, Superintendent.
List of Lots in the City of Washington referred to in the above advertisement, viz.
No. 2 in square No. 1, no 2 in sq 2, no 3 in sq north of sq 4, no 24 6 in sq 5, no 1 7 8 in sq 6, no 1 3 in sq 7, no 2 3 13 in sq 12, no 1 2 3 12 13 14 15 16 17 in sq 17, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 19 20 in sq 20, no 2 12 in sq 23, no 1 2 3 6 7 10 11 23 24 25 28 29 in sq 28, no 1 2 3 in sq 29, no 1 2 6 in sq 30, no 1 2 8 10 14 15 in sq 31, no 1 2 7 8 9 10 11 25 26 in sq 23, no 3 4 5 6 7 in sq 37 no 1 8 in sq 40, no 1 3 4 5 14 15 16 in sq 41, no 11 12 13 14 15 16 in sq 42, no 2 in sq 43, no 2 in sq 47, no 5 6 in sq 57, no 4 in sq 59, no 4 in sq 60, no 7 in sq 61, no 2 3 in sq 71, no 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 in sq 75, no 1 2 3 8 9 10 11 12 19 20 21 22 28 29 30 in sq 76, no 9 10 in sq 77, no 6 7 8 in sq 81, no 3 in sq 83, no 1 2 3 16 17 18 in sq 85, no 7 8 14 15 20 21 in sq 86, no 4 7 in sq 87, no 10 11 in sq 88, no 3 4 5 in sq 99, no 1 10 in sq 100, no 1 2 in sq 107, parts of no 3 12 in sq 118, no 4 5 6 in sq 119, no 6 7 8 in sq 120, no 15 16 17 18 19 24 25 26 27 in sq 126, no 20 in sq 141, no 11 in sq 142, no 2 3 4 and half of 18 in sq 143, no 6 in sq 144, no 2 3 7 8 9 10 12 13 in sq 158, no 1 4 5 6 7 in sq 161, no 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 in sq 172, no 1 2 5 6 10 11 12 13 16 17 21 in sq 185, no 1 2 4 7 8 9 14 15 16 in sq 196, no 15 16 in sq 198, no 1 9 10 11 12 13 in sq 226, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 in sq 247, no 6 in sq 253, no 12 in sq 288, no 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 6810