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National Intelligencer.
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. VIII.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. 1216.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1808.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
CASE OF JOHN SMITH.
Mr. Key's speech continued.
The first question asked on these occasions is "what is the general character of this witness?" We have traced this person, sir, from his first setting out in life, have followed him into every place where he has lived, and put this question to his neighbors. How is it answered? At Newtown Connecticut, where he first established himself, thirteen deponents declare him unworthy of credit; with some slight difference of expression this is clearly and positively affirmed by them all. One of them, however, (Mr. Oliver Touhy, I believe) states that he made particular enquiries of almost almost all the respectable persons in and about Newtown, & that he enquired of none but respectable persons; that from the result of these enquiries he is induced to believe that, was a respectable jury taken from Newtown and Elias Glover sworn as a witness before them, he would not be believed. It seems, sir, that he soon changed so disagreeable a situation we next hear of him at Delhi, in Delaware county New York. From this place, sir, we have produced to you the depositions of twenty-one witnesses who all concur in a similar opinion of his infamy, using if possible still stronger language than the witnesses from Newtown. By what means can a character thus charged be defended? Can it be said that these men have been selected, and are not enemies? They swear they are not. That they are not themselves credible? Many of them were fortunately known to the honorable members of the other House who have told you they are respectable. Among them are the chief judge and the associates and the sheriff of the county in which he practised, of whom one is now a senator of New York and two of the other members of the assembly; nor can such testimony be outweighed by that which his father and his uncle have collected in support of his character. There are few men so infamous but that some persons may be always found to declare a good opinion of them, and what sort of persons these are who have said they never heard any thing against the reputation of Elias Glover, it may not be difficult to ascertain. Upon this subject it is only necessary to recall the attention of the Senate to the manner in which those depositions in New York are proved to have been taken by his uncle David Beems, who is himself one of the deponents. Ezekiel K. Granger states that this man used every expedient to prevent the attendance of Mr. Smith's attorney; that he refused to examine any witness in his presence, and that nearly half of whom he did procure to depose are the relations of Glover, a circumstance on which the deponents are entirely silent. In addition to this, he is proved by one of those persons to have altered, and mistated his testimony. Surely his character is very far from receiving any support from depositions thus taken. We have also produced a record from Delaware county court, which though it may not prove him guilty of forgery, yet contains evidence charging him with an act almost equally dishonorable. From this accumulating weight of disgrace, thus increasing with his progress in depravity, he again finds it necessary to escape, and wisely determines to fix upon a still more distant residence. The last two or three years of his life have been spent in the state of Ohio, and during that period I shall be able to show that he has reached a height of profligacy even beyond the promise of his former years. The numerous witnesses from Cincinnati, though not particularly questioned as to his general character, (being examined to impeach his credit on other grounds) yet show the degree of estimation in which he is there held; and thus, sir, we flatter ourselves with having produced the most ample proof that truth is not to be expected from this witness; that he would not shrink from perjury, when prompted to accomplish a favorite object. That such an object was presented to him on this occasion; that the inducements to his crime were considerable, is obvious. We are informed by many of the deponents from Cincinnati, particularly by
Mr. Burnet and Mr. St. Clair, that he had long felt and evinced the most malignant animosity towards Mr. Smith. The existence of this disposition in himself and others associated with him in the same dishonorable cause, is further evidenced by the base and unmanly means they have used during this enquiry. I allude, sir, to their refusal to give evidence for Mr. Smith, and then secretly sending their depositions to the Senate; conduct in every respect worthy of the friends of Elias Glover; and also to those anonymous slanders which have been forwarded (doubtless from the same source) to almost every honorable member of this House. Of these deponents and the support their testimony attempts to give to the character of Glover, little need be said. I cannot suppose it possible the Senate will receive this evidence, or if received, that any reliance will be placed upon it. The profligacy however of the principal one among them is so palpable and audacious that it deserves some little notice; I mean William M'Farland, the friend to whom Elias Glover alludes as having been present when Mr. Smith acknowledged his participation in the conspiracy. This man, sir, has had the effrontery (after refusing to answer Mr. Smith's interrogatories) to send on to the Senate an affidavit in which he states that Elias Glover's deposition is substantially correct; yet he had been before sworn at Richmond, and and we have his affidavit, and again at Chillicothe before the grand jury, and we have a statement of his evidence. They afford the most direct contradiction of his present deposition that can be conceived. Unless Mr. M'Farland then will condescend to tell us, how are we to ascertain which is true and which is false? As it now stands we have, in addition to his declarations to General Gano, Mr. Burnet, one or two of his depositions acquitting Mr. Smith, to set off against the one which accuses him. Of the other deponent I shall say no more than what appears from their own representation, (and nothing more harsh could well be said of them) they are the friends of William M'Farland and Elias Glover. To have obtained the enmity of men disgraced by such a friendship is no small honor to Mr. Smith.
However conclusive this proof of the general character of this witness may appear, it yet constitutes but a small part of the infamy with which we have overwhelmed him. We have shown his capacity for perjury, and the disposition he must have felt to exert it on this occasion. I now proceed to point out the actual commission of it in the most wilful, premeditated and repeated instances. This witness, it seems, appeared before a grand jury at Chillicothe, in January last, which body had the penetration to discern his falsehoods, though no testimony was produced to discredit him. One of the jurors, Mr. Ethan Stone, has stated to us in his deposition the substance of his examination on that occasion, from his notes which he tells us he was very particular in taking. His statement is also corroborated by General Gano and Colonel Armstrong, who were members of the same jury. We are thus informed that Elias Glover on that occasion declared "that he had never published or offered for publication any piece in ridicule of the measures taken by government to arrest the progress of Burr's conspiracy." Of the falsehood of this assertion we have produced the most undeniable evidence.
The editor of the Western Spy, David L. Carney, deposes that Glover brought him such a piece which he refused to publish. Ephraim Morgan swears that he was present at the time and confirms this statement. If Mr. Glover is disposed to dispute the point with these two witnesses we will call a third to whom, however objectionable, he must submit. This is no other than himself. He told Mr. Arthur Sinclair (as that gentleman states in his deposition) that "he had published one piece, ridiculing the measures taken to stop Burr, and had written another (which he offered to show him) which the printers had refused to publish." He again told the same to Mr. Jacob Burnet and urged him to join in squibbing the measures of government. Can anything be more complete and confounding than this detection? Let us
view another instance. The same Grand Juryman informs us that during his examination he declared, "that he never had any correspondence with col. Burr;" these are the words taken from Mr. Stone's notes. And yet he tells captain Nichols, whose deposition we have produced, that he had written to Burr, and that he daily expected to hear from him. In addition to this, the testimony of Mr. George Russell is before the Senate, who is personally known to several of the honorable members of this House, who declares that Glover actually gave him a letter to carry to colonel Burr, with injunctions to burn it if he did not see him.
I might, sir, point out other instances of falsehoods equally gross, but it cannot be necessary to take a particular notice of each. I shall therefore only call the attention of the senate to a circumstance which exhibits a number of them in one general point of view. He appears from his own testimony to have been the person who furnished Matthew Nimmo with his information relative to Mr. Smith's participation in the conspiracy. Now the information he gave Nimmo should certainly agree with that which he now gives us in his deposition. Yet they are essentially different, nay, even directly contradictory, as is obvious from comparing them.
But, sir, independent of all these circumstances, I would ask nothing more to discredit the witness than the internal evidence of falsehood which his deposition bears. What can be more incredible than the facts he states? Mr. Smith is an associate in Burr's conspiracy, and yet never commits an act which evinces the least participation in it, never affords the least support, never endeavors to interest his friends and dependants in it, but would have remained wholly unknown and unsuspected but for his disclosure to Elias Glover; and this confidant whom he thus highly trusts was at that very moment and before and afterwards his open and irreconcilable enemy.
He further tells us that he received this communication "under the strictest injunctions of secrecy, that to divulge it on any occasion less pregnant with evil would reflect infamy and disgrace upon his character and conduct, and that he therefore balanced between his honor and his patriotism before he could divulge it." Now can Mr. Glover reasonably expect any one to believe this? And if we were thus to indulge him, how much reputation would he save by it? Does a man of character ever allow any circumstances, however "pregnant with evil," to induce him to receive a communication, promise to conceal it, and then divulge it? Where, sir, does he find a sanction for a doctrine so absurd and detestable? Does that sacred volume which he has dared to profane with his touch, and thus openly contemns, allow any such dispensation from the eternal and immutable laws which it awfully commands us on all occasions to observe? Is any such ridiculous exception to be there found, which shall justify a man in violating the plainest rule of morality and becoming a scoundrel for the good of his country? But even if this pretext could account for his disclosure to Nimmo in November, it can be no pretence for his afterwards voluntarily and certainly unnecessarily reducing it to an affidavit in February. Some delay in making out this deposition might be necessary from the nice balance which he tells us he was adjusting. With his honor in one scale and his patriotism in the other, it is not wonderful that it should take him a month or two to ascertain which of these two straws was the heaviest; but it is singular that his patriotism should not preponderate till all symptoms of danger to his country had disappeared, till the conspiracy was completely defeated.
There are, sir, two other depositions relative to the credit of this witness which I had intended to notice. Mr. Longworth details to us a conversation held between him and Glover early in February and just after he had made this affidavit. Glover then told him that he had not "acted against Mr. Smith," that "he thought him unjustly accused" and believed "he had no share in the conspiracy." In the April following, Dr. Lantier's deposition informs us of an interview
(at which he was present) between Mr. Smith and Glover. How strongly marked is the conduct of each on that occasion! In Mr. Smith we see the firmness of an innocent man indignantly daring forth his slanderer, and in the other a soul as contemptible for its meanness as detestable for its vices, descending (if indeed such a creature can properly be said to descend to any thing) to the grossest falsehoods and most humiliating prevarications.
I have done, sir, with this witness. I fear I have detained the Senate unreasonably upon this subject. I therefore leave him to that contempt which I trust he will meet with here, and to that punishment which public justice will hereafter inflict upon him. For should he escape from this, I have no doubt it will be owing more to his own agility than to the crippled condition of our courts. Nor shall I have much apprehensions of his acquittal even if he is allowed to plead that "he is possibly innocent."
I now proceed to make a few hasty observations upon the circumstantial testimony offered by other witnesses in support of this accusation, and first by Peter Taylor. The circumstances principally relied on in the statement of this witness is the conversation which he details between Mr. Smith and himself, and particularly the charge which Mr. Smith, he says, gave him "not to go a tavern lest the people should sift him with questions." Admitting this conversation to be correctly repeated, nothing can be more unfair and unreasonable than to infer from it that Mr. Smith was concerned in the conspiracy or even acquainted with its object. May it not be more properly attributed to his knowledge of the public agitation which Mr. Burr's movements had excited, his belief that they were innocent, and his apprehensions that this agitation might be dangerously increased by Peter Taylor's representation and exaggerations of Mrs. Blannerhasset's alarm. There are various other motives equally pure to which this direction might have been owing, and it would therefore be unjust to attribute them to a criminal one. It could not have arisen from any fears in Mr. Smith that this man would disclose any of the plans of the conspirators. He had himself already "sifted him with questions" and could learn nothing, and therefore could not have supposed that others would be more successful.
But, sir, this admission is fully as unreasonable as the conclusion attempted to be drawn from it. We do not impeach the character of Peter Taylor; we do not say that he has wilfully misrepresented this conversation, but we deny him that degree of intelligence, recollection, and accuracy so essential to a witness who is to repeat a conversation with necessary correctness. Can this honorable House infer guilt from words without very strong evidence that they are accurately related? The least variation, the suppression or addition of a syllable may make the most material difference. May he not have misunderstood Mr. Smith? may he not have forgotten parts of the conversation, and be indistinct and confused in his recollection of it? We have, sir, among these depositions a most remarkable instance in which two gentlemen, both respectable and intelligent, undertake to detail to us the particulars of one of Mr. Smith's conversations (I mean col. Taylor and Dr. Sellman) and their statements are directly contradictory. Let us now
look for a moment at the deposition of this witness, and see whether it bears those marks of accuracy which should entitle him to attention. Besides that gross stupidity so observable in every sentence of it, there are several of the most palpable misstatements contained in it. First he tells us that Dudley Woodbridge was on the bank of the river when the boats left the island after midnight, and yet that person and the man who slept with him, depose that he was not out of bed after 10 o'clock. Again he states in his last deposition that when he went to Mr. Smith's they had never seen each other before, and yet on his examination at Richmond he had stated that Mr. Smith knew him; and this strange contradiction is made al-
though the statement of his former evidence in the Richmond Enquirer was but the moment before read over to him and acknowledged to be correct. There is one other remarkable instance which shows that he cannot even remember with any tolerable distinctness his own conversations. On the statement of his evidence at Richmond he tells us that when Blannerhasset and himself were returning to the island, after he had left Mr. Smith's, he was urged by him to accompany him in this expedition, that he refused all the honors offered him unless he should be permitted to take his wife with him. Now, sir, he could have said no such thing to Blannerhasset, for his wife had been dead for a month or two; he himself admits in his subsequent deposition that she died in September, and this conversation took place late in October or early in Nov. following.
It is totally immaterial to what cause these palpable misstatements are to be attributed; they essentially effect his accuracy as a witness, and show how little reliance is to be placed on this part of the evidence.
There are various other circumstances which have been collected by the malignant industry of Mr. Smith's enemies, in that strict scrutiny to which all his actions have been subjected, and these have been exaggerated and distorted till they were made to bear some suspicious appearances. Of these it can be necessary to say but little. I rejoice that Mr. Smith has been enabled to present so complete & satisfactory an explanation of them. Of his entertaining col. Burr at his house I shall say nothing, since if that fact merited consideration, it would equally implicate most of the respectable people in Cincinnati, and particularly Col. Taylor himself, who informed us that he waited on col. Burr and invited him to dinner.
But it is said he corresponded with col. Burr—true, sir, but in what manner? Not in cypher, as it is well known the associates in this project made their communications to each other; or in any secret manner whatever. Mr. Smith immediately and publicly speaks of it. We have offered the depositions of many of the first characters in that country to whom Mr. Smith showed these letters just after they were written; of one particularly who was present when he received col. Burr's answer from the Post-Office and to whom he instantly handed it. We have produced to you these two letters and they contained nothing criminal; nothing but what persons in their situation and with their views might be supposed to have written. Nor can there be the least pretence for supposing they were fabricated for the purpose of removing suspicions. For at the time they were shown by Mr. Smith he was suspected by nobody, nor had he any reason to suppose he ever should be.
He has been also charged with receiving and forwarding dispatches from Blannerhasset to Burr. This circumstance is mentioned by colonel Taylor, as one which operated to Mr. Smith's disadvantage. Now, sir, he has shown the nature of these dispatches by the depositions of persons who were requested to convey them, and by others who saw them opened, and by many to whom Mr. Smith openly spoke of them. They contained a silk coat and a note from Blannerhasset requesting him to forward it to Mr. Burr.
Equally unreasonable were the conjectures formed from his having accepted and paid a draught of colonel Burr's. To this circumstance we have offered every explanation of which it was susceptible. We have proved by various depositions that it is usual for persons travelling in that country to deposit their money in safe hands and afterwards draw for it, and we have clearly shown that this draught must have originated in that manner from Mr. Smith's mentioning it at the time. Gen. Carberry informs us that about the time of Col. Burr's departure Mr. S. told him that he had left in his care a part of his baggage and a sum of money. All these circumstances, Mr. S. if guilty would have endeavored to conceal; and yet it appears that the first information of them, and that too immediately on their occurring, is un-

formly derived from himself. Neither can his guilt be inferred from his son's being the bearer of a letter to Blandres's island, even if it were admitted (of which however there is not the least shadow of proof) that he knew the contents of the letter he carried. Mr. Smith has proved that he was then, and had been for some time, absent from home, and that he expressed strong disapprobation of his son's imprudence upon his return.
Another incident in this string of vague possibilities is his happening to go to Frankfort at a time when Col. Burr was there. He has explained the motives of this journey. Mr. Kelly, Mr. Hart, and several other gentlemen depose to the urgency of the business which occasioned it.
His absence from the U. States at the time the indictment was found against him, is, I understand, also relied upon. If this indeed appeared to have been owing to any desire to avoid an investigation into his conduct, if he had sought to remain within the Spanish territory and had been unwillingly brought forward to answer this charge, it would indeed have been a circumstance amounting to proof infinitely stronger than all which this enquiry has produced. But if his conduct was directly the reverse of this; if he was carried there by important and indispensable engagements; if, when there informed of the indictment, he immediately relinquished his business and took the most prompt & decided steps to return and face the prosecution and did so (of all which has produced the most conclusive evidence); then, sir, this circumstance not only ceases to afford any presumption of guilt but clearly evinces his innocence.
Mr. Key's speech to be continued.
Details of the Counter Revolution in Spain.
GIBRALTAR, April 23.
We have been favored with the following translation of a letter from the count of Espeleta, captain general of Catalonia, to his excellency general of division Duhesme, commanding in chief the army of observation of the eastern Pyrenees:
BARCELONA, March 18.
Sir, The troops in the citadel, and forts of Monjuic, may consider the whole of this city as magazines, and all its provisions as theirs. They have no enemy to fear, nor any thing to expect, except in so far as having a common interest with the town and Spanish inhabitants. Your excellency occupied these fortresses, in the name of the emperor and king, as an ally; and as such, the Spanish government consented to the occupation of them by your troops, with the greatest good faith and confidence. With the same sentiments, it has opened to you and the army under your command, its treasures, its resources, and the bosom of its families, in order to afford to you an hospitable reception, and to share with you the food destined for its own use.
Military laws prescribe the mode of supplying garrisons, when it happens that they are either engaged in hostile operations, or are besieged, or when a scarcity in the country is threatened, which obliges the general commanding to take precautions for the subsistence of his troops, by establishing depots; but, exclusive of these circumstances, this measure only serves to create suspicion and distrust. Neither my conduct, nor the constant moderation of my troops, nor the favorable reception the French army have met with, ought to excite alarm.
The town is provided with supplies of every description, as you will perceive from the annexed official statement of the Intendant; and even although there should be some deficiency, your excellency gives us the strongest assurance, that provisions are collecting at the ports of France, which are to be sent to this country, free of all duty.
His majesty the emperor and king, whose worthy name has inspired us with confidence, while his troops occupy our forts, being truly informed of our docility and honorable principles, will not be well pleased when he hears, that you alarm this city with terrible forebodings, as a recompense for its constant submissive conduct.
Your excellency will please to request the opinion of his imperial majesty respecting your determination, before you carry it into effect, and to accompany your request with this explanation of mine, as I shall lay the business before the king, my master, without whose orders, I cannot give to your excellency what the forts in possession of the Spanish troops have not.
If, before you receive the resolutions of the emperor, your excellency should find grounds for living with precaution, and under the influence of fear, in the forts which at present are
to be considered as forming part of the town, then the measure you propose might be resorted to with propriety. But, in the mean time, when no such necessity exists, I wish to impress on your mind, that it will serve no good purpose to supply the forts with stores of provisions; that such an intention is pointed and offensive; and that it will not be in the power of your excellency, or myself, to remedy the consequence of the sensation which such a measure may excite among the inhabitants.
Your excellency will be pleased to accept of my most high consideration. May God preserve you many years.
THE COUNT OF ESPELETA.
MADRID GAZETTE, MAY 13.
Circular address of the council of Castile.
Most Faithful Spaniards!
You have, for twenty years together, obeyed with unexceptionable loyalty, the august monarch of Spain, ever treading in the steps of your forefathers; you have made suitable returns to his paternal love, and shared the just concern which the council expressed to his majesty respecting his abdication, on the day following that on which it took place. If we published his successor's accession to the throne, it was merely to comply with his supreme commands. We would have long continued submissive and faithful to his majesty, if we had understood, that his abdication and resignation of the crown was not accompanied with the requisite spontaneous freedom.
Ever since Charles IV. made it known, that this abdication had been forced from him, and that he deemed himself fully entitled to resume the crown—the board of government, the council of Castile, and the whole nation, have been anxiously waiting for the decision of a question of such high importance; and the council have examined, with the greatest attention, the documents upon which the powerful umpire who has been appointed for that purpose, has grounded his determination. The most important of these are subjoined hereto; and in the opinion formed by the council, they have the certainty, that they have not deviated from that which the august party himself would have adopted, if less complicated circumstances had not opposed that concert. It is undoubtedly unfortunate, that the union of the fathers of the people has not yet taken place; but this misfortune will prove less distressing to their beneficent hearts, as the result of the late events hold out flattering hopes for the future, and the nation will shortly be enabled to proceed with steady steps, in the career of her happiness and her prosperity.
Those hopes begin to be realized, since the king has appointed, to supply his place in the government of these kingdoms, a prince who without any other interest than that of Spain, already evinced by his beneficent and unremitted exertions at the head of his army, devotes himself, with eagerness and the most suitable means, to whatever is conducive to her glory and felicity.
The board of government, which shares all the sentiments of the council, has viewed the crisis of the preceding events in the same light, and considers the determination adopted by the wisdom of the tribunal, and to which it subscribes without restriction, as the fulfilment of the irrevocable decrees of Providence, which never forsakes a religious people, attached to their sovereign and to the laws by which they are governed.
The principal documents quoted, and which the council had taken into consideration at the meeting held on the 6th inst. in the presence of their excellencies marquis Caballero, don Fco. Gil and Gonzalo O'Farrell, members of the board of government, are the following ones:
PROTEST OF CHARLES IV.
"Dearest brother"—On the 19th of last month, I put into the hands of my son a decree of abdication. On the very same day I entered a solemn protest against the decree which had been issued in the midst of wild commotions, and forced from me by the circumstances of that period. Now that tranquility is restored, that my protest is in the hands of my august friend and faithful ally the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, and it is notorious, that my son could not induce his imperial and royal majesty to acknowledge him in that capacity, I solemnly declare that the deed of abdication, which I subscribed on the 19th of last month, is null and void in all its parts; and, therefore, it is my will that you should make it known to all my subjects, that their good king who loves them, wishes to dedicate the remainder of his life to unremitted exertion for their happiness. I provisionally confirm in their situations the members of the present board of go-
vernment, and all the civil and military officers who have been appointed ever since the 19th of March last. I intend to go and meet my august ally, the Emperor of the French, King of Italy; after which I will send further orders to the board.
I THE KING.
San Lorenzo, April 8, 1808.
To the supreme Board of government."
Letter of his majesty the Emperor of France to his royal highness the Prince of Asturias.
"BROTHER"—I have received your royal highness's letter. The inspection of your royal father's papers, must already have convinced you of the affection which I have ever bore for him; under the present circumstances, you will allow me to speak to your highness with frankness and candor, I entertained a hope that upon my arrival at Madrid, I might persuade my illustrious friend to make some necessary reforms in his dominions, and in some degree to gratify the public opinion. The Prince of Peace's dismissal appeared to me requisite for his happiness and that of the people. The events in the north have retarded my journey. In the mean time the occurrences at Aranjuez have taken place. I do not set up for a judge of what has happened, nor of the conduct of the Prince of Peace, but what I know is, that kings should never inure the subject to shed blood, doing themselves justice. I pray to God that your royal highness may never experience it. It would not suit the interest of Spain that a Prince who has married a princess of the royal family, and who has so long governed the kingdom, should be persecuted. He has no friends left; nor would your royal highness have any, if you should one day be unfortunate. The people gladly seize the opportunities of making themselves amends for the respect they shewed us. You cannot try the Prince of Peace; his crimes, if he were charged with any, ought to be buried in the rights of the throne. I have often expressed my wish, that the Prince of Peace might be dismissed; if I have not been more urgent, it has been owing to my friendship for king Charles, from whose weak partiality I chose to turn my eyes. Oh wretched humanity! imbecility and error; such is our motto! All this, however, may be reconciled; let the Prince of Peace be banished from Spain, and I offer him an asylum in France.
With respect to the abdication of Charles IV. it has taken place at a time when my armies occupied Spain; and Europe and posterity might believe that I have sent so many troops for the sole purpose of driving my friend and ally from his throne.
As a neighboring sovereign, I am bound to enquire into what has taken place, previous to my acknowledging this abdication. I therefore wish to converse with your royal highness upon the subject. The caution with which I have hitherto proceeded in these affairs, ought to convince you of the support you will find in me, if actions, of any description, ever disturb your reign. When king Charles informed me of the events of October last, I was greatly concerned at them, and I flatter myself, that I have contributed, by my suggestions, to their happy issue. Your royal highness should dread the consequences of popular commotions; some of my scattered soldiers may be assassinated, but such excesses could only bring ruin on Spain. Your royal highness knows all the recesses of my heart; you may see that I am agitated by various ideas which want to be fixed. You may be certain, that, at all events, I will deal with you as I have done with your royal father: rely upon my wish to reconcile every thing, and to find opportunities to give you proofs of my affection and high regard. And so, I pray God may keep you, brother, under his holy and worthy protection.
(Signed)
NAPOLEON.
The royal council has subsequently received, under date the 7th and 8th, the following royal address, letter, royal decree, and order:
ROYAL ORDERS.
"Spaniards and beloved subjects."—Perfidious men are endeavoring to bring ruin upon you, and would fain supply you with arms, that you might turn them against the French troops, anxious reciprocally to stir you up against them, and them against you. What would be the result of such sinister intentions? No other, without doubt, than the devastation of Spain, and calamities of every description. The factious minds, from which I had so much to bear, are as yet in agitation, and, under circumstances equally important and critical, I am concerting matters with my ally, the em-
peror of the French, concerning whatever is connected with your happiness. But be sure not to listen to his enemies; they who exasperate you against France thirst for your blood, and are either the enemies of our nation, or the agents of England. If you hearken to them, you will occasion the loss of your colonies, the division of your provinces, and a long series of disturbances and evil to your country.
"Spaniards, trust my experience, and submit to the authority which I hold from the Almighty and from my ancestors. Follow my example, and believe, that the friendship of the emperor of the French, our ally, can alone save Spain and make her happy.
Bayonne, in the imperial palace of government, May 4, 1808.
I THE KING.
Letter inclosing the royal decree to his imperial and royal highness Murat.
"BROTHER"—My absence and infirmities not allowing me wholly to dedicate myself to the unremitted exertions required for the government of my states, the tranquility of my kingdom, and the preservation of my crown, it has struck me, that I could do nothing better than to appoint a Locum tenens , who, invested with the supreme authority which I hold from God and my ancestors, should govern and rule, for me and in my name, over all the provinces of Spain.
In consequence whereof, and having previously consulted the welfare of my people, and my wish to rescue the monarchy from the precipice into which the malevolent, and the enemies of the peace of the continent, were on the eve of plunging her; duly appreciating, on the other hand, the eminent virtues of which your imperial and royal highness has given us so many proofs, and the great services you have done us; I have resolved, with the consent and approbation of my great and faithfully the emperor and king, upon appointing your imperial and royal highness my lieutenant general, by the decree which I have just issued to the board of government, and which is here annexed; intreating you, prince, to transmit it to them, and to accept of this appointment, which will restore peace to my mind.—And so I pray God may keep you, brother, under his holy and worthy protection.
Bayonne, May 4, 1808.
(Signed)
CHARLES.
Appointment of the Grand Duke of Berg, to the high dignity of lieutenant general of the kingdom.
To the Supreme Board of Government.
"Having deemed it proper to give the same direction to all the forces of my kingdom, with a view to the security of the property of individuals, and the maintenance of public tranquility against both internal and external foes, I have thought it my duty, in order to attain that object, to appoint lieutenant general of the kingdom, our beloved brother the Grand Duke of Berg, who at the same time commands the troops of our ally the emperor of the French.
And therefore, we command our supreme council of Castile, and other councils, the chanceries, audiences, and justices of the kingdom, the captain-generals and governors of our provinces and places, to bear him obedience, execute and enforce the execution of his orders and dispositions, such being our will, as likewise that, as lieutenant general of the kingdom, he shall preside over the board of government. Let it be so understood for the due fulfilment of my present supreme determination.
Bayonne, Imperial Palace of Government, May 4, 1808.
(Signed)
I THE KING.
Order accompanying the Royal Decree and Address.
"Most illustrious sir"—The grand duke of Berg has directed me to transmit to the council, as I hereby do, the annexed royal decree of our lord king Charles IV. issued at Bayonne, in the palace of government, and by which his majesty has been pleased to appoint lieutenant general of the kingdom, his imperial and royal highness the above named grand duke of Berg, that the same may be so understood by the council, and by them be carried into execution, and circulated with all possible speed for the corresponding purposes.
"I likewise send to the council, in compliance with the said grand duke's commands, the annexed address of our said lord, king Charles IV. in which he exhorts his subjects to submit to his dispositions for the security of Spain, the promotion of her happiness, and the preventing of the distractions and calamities with which she is threatened, that the council
may also publish and circulate the said address. May God, &c.
(Signed)
SEBASTIAN PINUELA.
Palace, May 7, 1808."
To the senior member of the council.
The whole having been read at the meeting held this day in the presence of two members of the supreme board of government, his excellency Don Gonzalo O'Farrell, & his illustriousness Don Bernardo Yriarte, appointed for that purpose by his imperial and royal highness the grand duke of Berg; after deliberating upon the subject, and hearing the king's fiscal, it has been unanimously resolved, that the annexed royal decree and address, shall be carried into execution, and communicated to all the captains general, presidents and regents of all the chanceries and audiences, governors, corregidores, intendents, ordinary justices, to the most reverend archbishops, reverend bishops, and the heads of the secular and regular clergy of the kingdom, that they may understand, execute, and procure the execution of the same, obeying and enforcing obedience to the orders and resolutions of his imperial and royal highness in his capacity of lieutenant general of the kingdom, without opposing or suffering the same to be opposed in any manner whatever.
Madrid, May 18, 1808.—Duly registered.
His excellency don Sebastian Pinuela, communicated on the tenth of May, to don Arias Mon, senior member of the council and chamber, the royal order and inclosures, of which the following are copies:
"Most illustrious sir"—I send you by his imperial and royal highness the grand duke of Berg, lieut. general of the kingdom, the annexed decree of Ferdinand VII. addressed to the supreme board of government, and inclosing a letter which he wrote to his august father, resigning the crown in his favor; and the revocation of the powers given to the said board of government, most particularly charging the latter to submit to his said august father.
"I likewise inclose you the letter which the same Ferdinand VII. wrote to his imperial majesty the emperor of the French upon the same subject; that the whole may be immediately published, printed, and circulated by the council.
"I have this day, delivered to my father a letter worded thus:—Sire, venerated father and sir, in order to give your majesty a proof of my love, obedience and submission, and to comply with the wishes which your majesty has repeatedly expressed to me, I resign my crown in favor of your majesty, wishing that your majesty may enjoy it for a long series of years. I recommend to your majesty the persons who have served me ever since the 19th of March, fully relying upon the assurances which your majesty has given me on this head. May God, &c. &c.
Your majesty's most humble son, (Signed) FERDINAND. Bayonne, May 6, 1808."
In consequence of this resignation of the crown in favor of my august father, I revoke all the powers with which I had invested the board of government, previous to my departure from Madrid, for the dispatch of the important and urgent business that might occur during my absence. The board shall obey the commands of our beloved father and sovereign, and shall enforce their execution throughout the kingdom. Before I conclude, I have to return thanks to the members of the board, to the constituted authorities, and to the whole nation, for their services to me; and to charge them most heartily to unite with my beloved father, king Charles, and with the emperor Napoleon, whose power and friendship can, more than any thing else, secure to Spain her most valuable blessing, namely, her independence and the integrity of her territory. I also charge you not to suffer yourselves to be seduced by the artifices of our eternal enemies; to live together in perfect harmony, and to keep up a good understanding with our allies; and lastly, to avoid the effusion of blood, and the misfortunes which would otherwise result from the present circumstances, if you should allow yourselves to be led away by the spirit of delusion and discord. Let it be so understood by the board, &c.
Bayonne, May 6, 1808. (Signed) FERDINAND. To the infant Don Antonio.
"Sir and Brother"—I have the honor of sending to your imperial and royal majesty a copy of the letter which I intend to deliver to my august father, in which I abdicate the crown of Spain in favor of his majesty, in compliance with

the wish he this day expressed to me, in the presence of your imperial and royal majesty.
"I entreat your imperial and royal majesty to take under your protection my person, and that of my brother the infant don Carlos, and to guarantee the persons and properties of all my followers.
"In this confidence I beg your imperial and royal majesty will accept of the assurances of the high consideration, &c.
(Signed) FERDINAND. Bayonne, 5th May, 1808."
"The whole having been published in the council, it has been resolved that it should be carried into execution, and communicated to the captains-general, &c.
(Signed) BARTOLOME MONOZ. Madrid, May 10, 1808."
In consequence of the royal decree appointing the grand duke of Berg, lieutenant-general of the kingdom, and his imperial and royal highness having confirmed the members of all the tribunals in their respective places, the council has issued, under the same date, a royal decree, enjoining the impartial and speedy administration of justice, and directing stamp paper to bear the words, government of the lieutenant-general of the kingdom.
MADRID, May 20. The Spanish monarch must, when the affairs of the north are settled, make room for a member of the new dynasty. A lawful sovereign, a Bourbon, and master of one of the finest countries in Europe! how can he expect to be absolved, while such heavy charges can be preferred against him!
The king, the prince of Asturias, and their highnesses don Carlos and don Antonio, have renounced the crown, and their rights to the same, as appears by the following documents:
"I have thought it proper to give my beloved subjects the proof of my paternal love for them. Their happiness, the peace, prosperity, preservation and integrity of the dominions which Divine Providence had put under my government, have been, during my reign, the only object of my incessant solicitude. Whatever dispositions have been adopted ever since my accession to the throne of my ancestors, tended to that just end; nor could they tend to any other. At present, under the extraordinary circumstances in which I have been placed and see myself, my conscience, my honor, and the fair name which I leave to posterity, imperiously require from me, that the last act of my sovereignty should be exclusively directed to the prosperity, security and integrity of the monarchy, the throne of which I relinquish; and to the greatest happiness of my subjects of both hemispheres.
"And accordingly, I have ceded to my ally and dear friend, the emperor of the French, all my rights to Spain and the Indies, having stipulated, that the crown of Spain and the Indies shall continue independent and entire, such as it has been under my dominion; and likewise, that our holy religion is to be not only the established religion, but the only one professed throughout the territories of this monarchy. You are to understand it so, and to communicate the same to the other councils, to the tribunals of the kingdom, to the heads of the provinces, both military, civil and ecclesiastical, and to all the justices of my kingdoms, that the last act of my sovereignty may come to the knowledge of all throughout my Spanish and Indian dominions, and that you and they may concur in carrying into execution the dispositions of my dear friend, the emperor Napoleon, whose aim is the maintenance of peace, friendship and union between France and Spain, and the preventing of excesses and popular commotions, the effects of which are invariably found to be public calamities, the desolation of families, and the ruin of all.
Given at Bayonne, in the Imperial palace of government, May 8, 1808. I THE KING. To the temporary governor of my council of Castile."
"Don Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias, and the infants Don Carlos and Don Antonio, grateful for the love and constant fidelity which all the Spaniards have displayed towards them, are deeply concerned at seeing them, at present, a prey to confusion, and consequently threatened with the greatest calamities; and well knowing that with the greatest part of them, this originates in their ignorance both of the motives of the conduct of their highnesses up to this moment, and of the plans which have been devised for the happiness of the
country, they conceive it to be their duty to give them the salutary information they stand in need of, not to impede their execution, and at the same time, the clearest proof of the love which they bear them.
They are, therefore, under the necessity of making known to them, that the circumstances under which the Prince, after the abdication of the king his father, assumed the rights of government, when many provinces of the kingdom and all the frontier towns were occupied by a great number of French troops, and upwards of 50,000 men of the same nation were stationed in the capitol and its environs—that these circumstances, and several facts which could not be known to other persons, convinced their highnesses, that surrounded with dangers they had only to choose the course which should be attended with fewest evils; in consequence of which, they have resolved upon setting out for Bayonne.
No sooner had their highnesses reached that town, than the Prince (then king) unexpectedly found that the king his father, had protested against his abdication, asserting it to have been forced from him; and, as the Prince had bona fide believed it to have been voluntary, when he accepted the crown, he was induced by his filial love to restore it as soon as he had ascertained that such a protest existed; and, shortly after his father resigned it in his name and that of his whole dynasty, in favor of the Emperor of the French, that the latter, consulting the good of the nation might select the person and dynasty who are to wear it for the future.
In this state of things, their royal highnesses taking into consideration the situation in which they find themselves, and likewise the critical circumstances in which Spain is placed, and under which every attempt, on the part of her inhabitants, in support of their rights, will not only be useless, but fatal as it will be attended with no other consequences than great bloodshed, and the infallible loss of at least great part of her provinces, and of the whole of her colonies beyond the seas—reflecting on the other hand, that the respective concurrences of each of their highnesses in the cession of their rights to that throne, already made by their father, will prove a preventative of those calamities—observing also, that the Emperor of the French binds himself, in his supposition, to preserve the independence and integrity of the Spanish monarchy, as well as for all her ultramarine settlements, without reserving to himself, or dismembering the least part of her territories; and further, to maintain the purity of the catholic religion, private property, and the laws and usages of the country; which secured for a long period of time, and in an infallible manner, the power and prosperity of the Spanish nation—their royal highnesses think, that they give the most convincing proof of their generosity, of the love they bear the Spaniards, and of the grateful sense which they entertain of their attachment, by sacrificing, as far as in them lies, their interests to their advantage, and for this purpose, adhering, as they have adhered by separate convention, to the cession of their rights to the throne.
In consequence whereof, they release the Spaniards from all their obligations in this respect, and exhort them to look to the common interest of the country, keeping quiet, and expecting their happiness from the wise dispositions and power of the Emperor Napoleon; by their ready submission to which they will give their Prince and the two infants, the strongest proof of their loyalty, as their highnesses give it to them of their paternal affection, by resigning all their claims, and disregarding their own interests to make them happy: which is the only object of their wishes.
I THE PRINCE, CARLOS.—ANTONIO. Bordeaux, May 4, 1808."
RUNAWAY.
WAS committed to the jail of Washington county, in the state of Maryland on the 16th inst. as a runaway a negro man who calls himself ALFRED says he belongs to James Bowling, near Middlebury, Loudon county, Virginia—his height is about 5 feet; says he is about 27 years old, but from appearance is not more than 20; had on when committed a tow shirt and trowsers. His owner is desired to take him away, or he will be sold for his prison fees, &c. according to law.
ISAAC S. WHITE, Sheriff. July 29—w 3t
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, JULY 29.
We have in our possession a copy of an opinion lately delivered to the executive by the attorney general of the United States on the subject of the mandamus issued by the circuit court of the United States for the district of South Carolina, requiring the collector of the port of Charleston to permit the departure of certain vessels which he had detained. Not having room for the insertion of the document in this paper, it shall appear in our next.
In addition to the proceedings of the ward meetings of Philadelphia already given, we have received several others, whose length preclude their insertion, all breathing the same spirit as those already given. These meetings have invariably expressed their approbation.
1st. Of the conduct of the present administration generally. 2d. Of the embargo in particular. 3d. Of the nomination of Mr. Madison to succeed the present venerable chief magistrate.
We rejoice to see the people of Pennsylvania thus rising in their majesty, to shew themselves superior to the arts of a disorganizing faction.
The Philadelphia Premium Society, an association for encouraging the cultivation of our internal resources, have judiciously offered premiums for the best American broad cloth, forrest cloth, fancy cloth, flannel, cotton shirting, cloth, and sheeting, raven duck, &c. They have also published an address to the people of the U. States on the subject, which we shall do ourselves the pleasure to present to our readers.
The committee appointed by the friends of manufactures in Richmond, have also published an elegant and impressive address to the people of Virginia, recommending to their attention the plan for an association lately submitted, and developing in a striking manner, the capacity of the U. States for internal improvement and manufactures.
The City Council of Savannah have recommended to the citizens to keep Thursday the 14th inst. as a day of fasting and prayer for the signal interposition of Providence in rescuing the city from total destruction by the late fire.
INSANITY.
QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE, PRIUS DEMENTAT.
The two following instances are taken from the Washington Federalist.
"Jefferson and the Embargo—The friends of Mr. Jefferson are endeavoring to support his popularity, which is now rapidly sinking under the weight of the embargo, by feeding the people with false hopes of its speedy revocation. We say false hopes , for we know Mr. Jefferson has no intention of removing it. Since the return of the Osage, he has repeatedly declared his opinion that a perseverance in that destructive, ill-judged measure was our wisest policy—that it would eventually prove more injurious to the powers of Europe than actual war, and that he had resolved on recommending to Congress, at the opening of the next session to continue it nine months longer.
"Let not the people delude themselves, or suffer others to delude them with dreams of relief from the worst of national curses. The fixed intention of the administration is to destroy commerce altogether, and it will be persevered in until the people command it to be abandoned. The farmers and planters of our country have already one crop rotting on their hands, and the mighty mass of ruin is to be augmented by another; and all to test an experiment founded in folly and which must end in disgrace."
"We here from N. Jersey, that there is the most flattering prospects of the next legislature of that state being federal."
At a meeting of the Rubus (S. C.) Republican Light Infantry of Beaufort district, on the 4th of July, the following resolutions were adopted:
1st. Resolved, That we do agree to, and approve of, the measures pursued by the President of the United States in the present emergencies of our country. 2d. Resolved, That we do heartily concur in the law laying an embargo, and are willing, as much as we deprecate war, to sacrifice our lives and fortunes in support of the same. 3d. Resolved, That we do approve of the positions taken by our government, with regard to G. Britain.
4th. Resolved, That we do think it a necessary expedient for the embargo to remain in full force, until our affairs with the belligerent powers of Europe are amicably settled.
5th. Resolved, That we do approve of the conduct of Mr. Jefferson throughout his whole administration.
6th. Resolved, That we do approve of Mr. Madison for our next President, and are determined to support Representatives at our next election favorable to him.
Baltimore, July 25.
Arrived, sloop Maria, Hallam, N. London, 4 days. On Wednesday, off Chincoteague shoals, saw several large sail, which appeared to be line of battle ships, standing to the northward.
The embargo has given the opposition an opportunity to tell many stories about the prosperity of Canada and Nova-Scotia. Let the man who talks so much of this prosperity go & share in it. These speculators do not believe it, or they would soon be on the start for it.
Essex Register.
The French privateers, belonging to the Isle of France have been very successful in capturing English East Indiamen. Surcouf, a man of the greatest courage, has taken most of the valuable ships in the trade. There are also several frigates on the same coast. One ship alone had on board 500,000 dollars in specie, besides indigo and other valuable articles. She was taken by a lateen rigged vessel, of one gun, and sixty-five men. They generally succeed by boarding their antagonists. Oracle.
We learn from Upper Canada, that on the 1st. inst. as a raft was passing down the river St. Lawrence, valued at 100,000 dollars, on board of which were 100 men, it was taken by the tornado, 15 miles below Three Rivers, and totally destroyed, and 97 of the men drowned—three only of the 100 reaching the shore. Further particulars we have not yet received.
Erie, June 8.
We are informed by capt. Dobbins, immediately from Buffalo, that information had been received there by letter, from M. Lee, collector of the American port at Fort Niagara, of his seizure of 6 boat loads of British goods, in consequence of an attempt made to pass the fort without laying to or making report agreeably to law. The merchandise, says our informant, belonged to the N. West trading company, and is stored in the American warehouses at Niagara, to wait the issue of legal process.
Raleigh, N. C. July 21
We are happy to have it in our power to announce, from authority, that the long existing boundary dispute betwixt this state and South Carolina, is finally and amicably adjusted. The joint commissioners of the two states met at Columbia on the 1st inst. and on the 11th executed articles of a conventional agreement on all the points of controversy between the two states. As soon as an official communication on the subject is received, it shall be laid before our readers.
A communication, signed by Mr. R. CHERRY, was received last evening, too late for insertion in this days Intelligencer .
To the Editor of the National Intelligencer.
MR. SMITH, I entertain no doubt of your giving the enclosed letter a ready insertion in the National Intelligencer . Yours respectfully JAMES FENWICK.
Charles County, Pomonkey, July 25, 1808.
(COPY)
SIR,
IN a review which I have taken of the proceedings at a meeting of the Citizens of Charles county, held at Port Tobacco on Friday 22d of July, which meeting was called for the purpose of taking into consideration the present situation of the political affairs of our country, and of adopting resolutions expressive of the opinions of the said citizens at the present crisis; and for the further purpose of organizing a committee of correspondence with the view to operate an union of opinion throughout the state, harmonising with the opinions of said meeting—I say, sir, in a review which I have since taken in my mind, I find most serious causes of complaint to allege against the proceedings of that meeting, and upon the subject of which complaints, I mean to make an appeal to the world, and more particularly to my fellow citizens of Charles county. In the statement I mean to make, I shall not withhold an exposure of the singular circumstances of that meeting, so far as I was personally implicated. I shall not forbear to expose in what manner the privileges of free citizens have been indecorously violated in my person. I shall not forbear to state, that in the act of delivery
of my sentiments in opposition to the resolutions, I was repeatedly called upon, at several momentary pauses, in a loud and arrogant tone of voice, to know if I had finished; and I am not sensible that there was any interposition on the part of the Chairman of the meeting, to repress this rude and ungentlemanly conduct; and if there was any such interposition, I am sensible it had no effect. I shall not forbear to state, how the same gentleman gave me a direct personal insult in relation to the observations I had delivered to my fellow citizens, and I am not sensible that there was any interposition of the authority of the Chairman or any of the leading members to rebuke and repress this insulting language, although I am sensible of a strong buzz of disapprobation of it in the surrounding multitude. As the gentleman who used this language now redeems himself in a moment of reflection, after having made a voluntary public apology (an interference of the chairman, or other person, to produce this apology is known to me) this circumstance in the transaction would not have again been brought into view, if the insult had not been repeated by the same gentleman, to nearly, if not quite the same extent on the very next day in a circle of gentlemen at a tavern; where among other things, I was told that I was the agent of an infamous and rascally government, for having delivered my sentiments upon public measures at this particular period of time. This rapid repetition of results, arising out of the same subject, has cancelled all the merit or obligations of silence in regard to the transaction, which the apology of the preceding day would have most scrupulously imposed upon me, towards a man, whose opinions and apologies I now hold in equal contempt.
I shall not forbear to point out the singular mode of attack and defence in debate upon this occasion, and I believe no where to be found but at a Federal meeting; where a late illustrious and high minded Senator of the United States, was reviled with the most opprobrious epithets of apostate, traitor, & a noiz; whose credibility was not deemed sufficient to establish the truth of the contents of a letter or letters which the said Senator had published to the world that he himself had read, and which Senator I had quoted as authority for information derived to this country by private letters from a foreign nation. These transactions, sir, will form the leading features of the exposure I mean to make of the proceedings of that memorable meeting, whose resolutions are about to be ushered to the world with great clamor. Sir, I shall send a copy of this letter to the press, to prepare the public mind for the statement I mean to make; which statement I mean to have printed in hand-bills and circulated through Charles county; and I mean to request my political friends to multiply copies of this letter to be circulated and posted up in every corner of the county, in order to show to the people the temper of the leaders of that party which now forms the majority; to show to the people, that their fellow-citizens differing in political opinions from those leaders, have not the liberty to deliver their political opinions in public or private circles, where a certain character is present, without being subject to direct personal insult; to show to the people, that the principal leaders of that party have not the magnanimity to interpose their reclamations for the observance of impartial conduct towards citizens differing from them in political opinion, and delivering their sentiments upon the public measures of the government.
I have written this by way of open warning of my intentions, and perhaps in point of form it ought to have been addressed to the Chairman of the meeting; but he is too deeply implicated in the subject of my reclamations, to be entitled to the respect which would have otherwise been due to him. Sir, you were my opponent in the discussion and treated me more fairly in point of argument than any other of my opponents; with the exceptions made, I have no personal complaint against you or any other of the gentlemen of the meeting, except for the general desistance from interposing upon the occasion to procure that fair and impartial treatment to which a fellow-citizen, was entitled of equal respectability in the private walks of life at least, to any there present.
I am, sir, With great respect, Your obedient servant, JAMES FENWICK. Pomonkey, July 25th, 1808. To CLEMENT DORSEY, Esq. P. M. Tobacco. }
TAKE NOTICE.
WAS committed to the jail of Frederick county, Maryland, on the 20th day of April last, as a runaway, a negro man who calls himself JOHN ROMAN; he appears to be about 29 years of age, about five feet five or six inches high, well made, very black, and has a smiling countenance; his clothing when committed, was as follows:—a blue cloth coat and pantalettes, a striped cotton waistcoat, an osnaburgh shirt, a pair of black woollen stockings, and one pair of shoes, all of which are pretty much worn; by trade, as he says, a blacksmith and gunsmith; he has a small scar between his eyes, and says he belongs to Bennet Taylor, of Jefferson county, Virginia, within six miles of Charlottesville, on the water of Bullskin, near the place it empties into the Shenandoah. The owner is requested to come and release him otherwise he will be sold for his prison fees agreeable to law.
GEORGE CREAGER, Jrn. Sheriff, Frederick county, Md. May 12—w 8t

MILITARY LIBRARY. No. 10. This valuable Work is just received, and for sale at R. C. WEIGHTMAN'S Book-store.
R. C. W. receives subscriptions for major Z. M. PIKE'S EXPEDITIONS to the sources of the Mississippi, and through the western parts of Louisiana, to the sources of the Osage, Arkansas, Kaus, La Platte, and — rivers, performed by order of the government of the United States in the years 1805, 6, and 7.
This work will be divided into three parts, but comprised in one volume large octavo—Price to subscribers, three Dollars in Boards, payable on delivery.
Subscriptions are also received for an interesting Novel of Mrs. Opie, entitled "Adeline Mervyn, or the Mother & Daughter," in 2 vols. Price to subscribers 75 cents per vol. in boards; to non-subscribers 87 1/2 cents.
July 27—3t IMPROVED BREED OF SHEEP. FOR SALE.
From 40 to 50 half blooded English EWES, (part of the flock of the subscriber) by imported Rams of the celebrated Teeswater, Dishley and South Down breeds—price EIGHT dollars each; likewise half and three quarter blooded RAM LAMBS. TEN dollars each; to be viewed at Ross Hall, near Brunswick, New Jersey. MILES SMITH. July 27—3t
MILITARY NOTICE.
MARY A. PIC has the honor to inform military gentlemen that she has just received an elegant assortment of articles in the Military Line, consisting of
400 pair Gold & Silver Epaulets, among which some are truly elegant. Plumes of all colors and sizes, Gold and silver tassels, Ditto cord, Tinsel do. Sword knots, Cockades, Stocks, &c. &c.
She has also a parcel of fine VIRGINIA CLOTH, different patterns—unbleached, a large assortment of split straw hats and bonnets—ribbons, and as usual every other article in the military line. July 27—3t.
WANTED
AT the Woodyard for the ensuing year a Manager, to take charge of the whole estate. He must be a sober, diligent and discreet man—well acquainted with the culture of wheat, corn and tobacco, and the management of negroes. To such a man who can produce unquestionable testimonials of his capacity, sobriety and fidelity, high wages will be given. A person not connected in the neighborhood will be preferred. Apply to RD. W. WEST, Woodyard. N. B. Application must be made before the 1st. Sept. next. May 13—cp13
PROPOSALS for carrying the Mails of the United States, on the following Post Roads, will be received at the General Post Office, until the 6th day of September next.
1. From Athens in Georgia, by Apalachy, Flint River, and Coweta to Tuckabatchy on the Mississippi territory, estimated at 220 miles, once a week. Leave Athens every Saturday at 1 p. m. and arrive at Tuckabatchy the next Tuesday by 8 o'clock p. m. Leave Tuckabatchy every Wednesday at 4 a. m. and arrive at Athens the next Saturday by 10 o'clock a. m.
2. From Tuckabatchy by Majors Creek on Alabama, or Tensaw to Fort Stoddert, estimated at one hundred and seventy three miles, once a week. Leave Tuckabatchy every Wednesday at 4 o'clock a. m. and arrive at Fort Stoddert the next Saturday by 10 o'clock a. m. Leave Fort Stoddert every Saturday at 2 p. m. and arrive at Tuckabatchy the next Tuesday by 8 p. m.
3. From Fort Stoddert to Farre's on Pearl River, estimated at 160 miles, once a week. Leave Fort Stoddert every Saturday at 2 p. m. and arrive at Farre's the next Tuesday by 8 o'clock p. m. Leave Farre's at Pearl River every Wednesday at 4 o'clock a. m. and arrive at Fort Stoddert the next Saturday by 10 o'clock a. m.
4. From Farre's on Pearl River to New Orleans, once a week. Leave New Orleans every Monday noon, and arrive at Farre's on Tuesday by 8 p. m. Leave Farre's every Wednesday at 4 a. m. and arrive at New Orleans on Thursday by noon.
NOTE 1. If the depending mail shall not have arrived at the time fixed for departure, the contractor shall be bound to wait for it, provided it arrives within six hours after such fixed time. NOTE 2. For every failure, and for every delay which shall continue so that the depending mail loses a trip, the contractor shall forfeit double the pay he would have received for such a trip, unless the failure shall have been occasioned by unavoidable accident; and in that case, the amount of the pay for such trip shall be forfeited, so that no pay shall be made unless the service is performed.
NOTE 3. For every hours delay, the Contractor shall forfeit one dollar; but no forfeiture for the delay of any one trip can exceed double the value of such trip. The contracts are to commence on the 1st day of October next, and continue in force until the 31st March, 1810. General Post Office, July 20th, 1808.
PUBLIC SALE.
By virtue of a decree of the honorable the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, sitting as a court of Chancery for the county of Washington in the suit of
Gideon Snow—complainant, against Abigail Perkins, widow and administratrix, and Hannah Perkins, sister and heir of Joseph Perkins deceased, and Nathan Bond—Defendants.
WILL be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on Monday the twenty-ninth day of August next at Rhodes's hotel in the city of Washington, at the hour of 10 A. M. all the Estate, right, title, claim and demand both in law and equity of the said Joseph and of the said defendant Hannah, as heir at law of the said Joseph, of, in, and to Lots Nos. 5 and 6 in square No. 533, and Lot No. 2 in square No. 408, with their improvements, all lying and being in the city of Washington, and which said lots are laid out and designated in the general plan of said city as above described.
The terms of sale are, a credit of six months, the purchaser or purchasers giving bonds with approved security for the amount of the purchase money, bearing interest from the day of sale. This sale is not to affect any claim of dower which the said Abigail Perkins may have in said lots.
JOHN G. McDONALD, Trustee. July 13—3wep
20 DOLLARS REWARD.
ESCAPED from the subscriber on the road leading from George Town towards Leesburg, about 15 miles from the former place, a negro man named LUKE, about 35 years of age, 6 feet high, dark skin, two of his upper fore teeth are out; he has a down cast look, and generally speaks in a low voice; his clothes and name he will probably change, I purchased him of Mr. Theophilus Hughs to take to my residence in Kentucky, he has had several masters about Bladensburg, and he will certainly be lurking about that place as he has a wife, the property of Mr. Isaac Barrett near Bladensburg. I have appointed Mr. Everard Gary of George Town my agent, and the above reward will be paid by him to any person who will deliver the said fellow to Mr. C. Tippet in the city jail. SAML. M'LEAN. July 23—6w
BURAS AND BRILL
WOOLLEN drapers, men's mercers, and tailors, New Jersey Avenue, opposite the Secretary of the Navy's, respectfully inform the public that they have commenced business in the above line, where they will endeavor to give satisfaction—they have on hand a fresh supply of the most fashionable goods, suitable for the approaching season, all fresh and of the very best quality. N. B. Regimentals and naval uniforms made in the most elegant and fashionable style with neatness and dispatch. October 23—tf.
FOR SALE.
By virtue of a decree of the high court of Chancery of the state of Maryland, will be exposed to public sale, in the town of Port Tobacco, Charles county, at the court house at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the second day of the next August term of Charles county court (which commences on the fourth Monday of August next) a parcel of land situate in the county of Charles, being part of a tract of land called Peyton Manor, lying upon a branch of Nanjemoy creek on the east road leading to Nanjemoy from Port Tobacco near the "Hill Top" about seven miles from Port Tobacco.
This land consists of about 300 acres, of which between 50 and 100 acres are well timbered, about twenty acres are in marsh, and the remainder arable and very productive.
The terms of sale are that the purchaser shall give bond with sufficient security to pay the purchase money in twelve months from the sale. It will be sold either in parcels as may best suit the persons inclined to purchase. F. S. KEY, Trustee. July 4—tdcs
IN CHANCERY, JULY 9, 1808.
Charles Neale, versus Leonard Neale, Francis Ignatius Neale, and others.
THE object of the bill in this cause is to obtain a decree for a certain unspecified quantity of two Tracts of Land lying and being in Charles county, devised by the complainant's father, Raphael Neale to the said Leonard Neale, Francis Ignatius Neale, and others, during their lives, with a provision that they should release to the said complainant when he arrived at age so much thereof with the buildings thereon as should be necessary for him and his negroes to cultivate.
The bill states that the said Leonard Neale and Francis Ignatius Neale, reside out of the state of Maryland. It is thereupon adjudged and ordered that the complainant, by causing a copy of this order to be inserted three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer before the 6th day of August next, give notice to the absent defendants of this application, and of the object of the bill, that they may be warned to appear here in person or by a solicitor of this court on or before the 6th day of December next to show cause if any they have, wherefore a decree should not be passed as prayed. Test NICHAS BREWER, Reg. Cur. Can. July 13—w3t
PURSUANT to an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at November session, 1806, entitled "An act authorizing the collection of certain ground rents due on lots in the Town of Cumberland, in Allegany county," and a supplement thereto, passed at November session, 1807, Public Notice is hereby given to all persons holding unimproved lots in said town, on which ground rents are now due, that unless the said rents are paid on or before the first day of December next, the said lots will on that day be offered at public sale to the highest bidder, on a credit of 60 days. The sale to be held at Mr. J. Rine's tavern in said town, to commence at ten o'clock, A. M. and continue from day to day, until the whole are sold.
THOMAS BEALL, of Saml. March 21—cpids
JAMES CRAVEN
HAS removed his entire stock of DRY GOODS from Alexandria to Washington, and is now opening, at his new Store, between the Marine Garrison and Navy Yard Gate, an assortment equal to any in the District;—among which are,
 Wood's best London cloths,  Do. double milled & plain cassimeres,  Bennett's cords and velvets,  Constitution Gerrow, hunting, Trafalgar, and silver cords,  Velvets,  Imperial, Brunswick waistcoating,  Silk moleskins do.  Toilnets, swansdown do.  Plain and figured Marseilles do.  Beaver skin coatings,  Plains, kerseys, halfhicks,  Rose and duffil blankets, flannels,  Superfine green cloth table covers,  Calicoes, colored cambrics,  Gingham, silk and cotton chambray  Furniture Chintz,  Cambric and jaconet muslins,  India and British book do.  India mullmull figured and plain,  Plain and figured lenoes,  Laced cambrics,  Elegant tamboured mulls,  Grecian robes and Pelisse dresses,  8 4 damask and raw silk shawls,  Damask scarfs,  Camel's hair and swansdown do.  Down scarfs,  Long and short lace sleeves, spider & nett sleeves,  Extra long and habit kid gloves,  Do. do. silk do.  Do. do. raw silk do.  Cross-barred and plain Mantuas and interlinings,  Persians and Medes,  Thread and cotton laces,  Lace caps and handkerchiefs,  Book muslin and leno cap patterns,  4 4 7 8 Irish linens,  Long lawns, linen cambrics,  Rich diapars, table-cloths, napkins,  Cotton counterpanes,  Cambric Dimities,  Common do.  Furniture do.  Ladies and gentlemen's silk, thread, cotton, worsted, lamb's wool & Angola hose,  Gentlemen's pantaloons do.  Silk cords and buttons,  Ribbons, floss threads,  Scarlet and other colored bombazets,  Heath rugge, Russia sheeting, ticklingburg,  Osnaburgs, bastas, gurrahs, &c. &c. 
ALSO,
Imperial and young hyson tea of a superior quality in small boxes, to suit families, or by the pound—Also genuine Havana segars. T. C. is determined to sell on the lowest terms. February 3—tf
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, DAN living in St. Marys county, on Patuxent river, in Halfpence neck, two negroes, Baptist and Lydia. Baptist is a black man about 35 years of age, nearly 6 feet high; he is an artful insinuating fellow, in conversation talks much of his travels; he has been in the bay trade, and once in the West Indies; he has a scar on his breast, short, but the flesh much raised; he has had a bone-breeder on his right thumb, that has been recently cured; he plays well on the violin, and probably may have one with him as he carried one off; he had on, when he went away, a new shirt and trousers of a blue striped short coat, but I think it needs to describe clothing as they both had pretty good, and they probably may change them, as also their names. Lydia is a low woman of a yellowish complexion, about 18 years of age, pretty far advanced in pregnancy, & it is highly probable they may endeavor to pass for man and wife, and also free people, as they well know that there are many now that pass and repass in every town and city in the United States without examination.
Whoever takes up and secures the said runaways in any jail so that I get them again, shall be entitled to a reward of five dollars, if taken in this county, if in Montgomery or nearer home ten dollars, if farther twenty dollars, and if out of the state the above reward, together with all reasonable charges, paid by JOHN TIPPETT. N. B. All masters of vessels are forewarned from carrying the above runaways off at their peril. July 13—w3t
LANDING THIS DAY,
From on board the schooner MARIA, capt. Fitzhugh, from New York—A quantity of prime St. Croix sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Port Wine, Nutmegs, and Chocolate. Also, Gun-Powder, Imperial, and Hyson Teas, in chests, half and quarter chests and canisters of this spring's importation, For sale by ROSS & GETTY. George Town, June 20—tf
NOTICE
Is hereby given that application is intended to be made to the Treasury of the United States for the renewal of the undermentioned Certificates of Six per Cent Stock issued by Joseph Nourse, Register of the Treasury, in the name of Christian Alexander , of London or of Bath in Great Britain, which certificates were sent in the ship Bristol Packet, capt. Burns, captured and burnt by the French, and lost in the same, viz.
N. B. The name is sometimes written Christine but it is the same person.
   Denomination of the stock. Dates of the Certificates. Numbers. Sums in   Dolls. Cts.     6 per cent stock 1792 December 5. 8268 11,000   1795 May 11. 13168 800   1796 July 16. 13450 250 08   1796 June 11. 14337 2,000   1797 February 14. 14341 247 81   1797 February 7. 3615 1,567 55   1797 February 7. 14942 277 30   1798 February 1. 15605 2,973 25   1799 December 17. 16918 882   19,999 99  
Standing to her credit on the 1st. April 1808.
Also for the following Certificates of six per Cent Stock issued as above, in the name of Jane Alexander of Bath aforesaid, which were also lost in the said ship Bristol Packet, viz.
   Denomination of the Stock. Dates of the Certificates. Numbers. Sums in   Dolls. Cts.     6 per cent stock. 1796 June 14. 14344 2,000   1797 February 7. 14345 2,000   1797 March 3. 14346 2,000   1797 June 3. 14347 2,000   1797 June 16. 14348 75 42   1798 February 1. 3616 2,000   1799 December 17. 3617 2,000   3618 2,000   3619 2,000   3620 2,000   3621 45 15   1797 February 7. 14944 227 05   1797 March 3. 15005 1,500   1797 June 3. 15204 766 73   1797 June 16. 15237 1,700   1798 February 1. 15604 1,500 65   1799 December 17. 16917 980   45,891 05  
Standing to her credit on the 1st. April 1808.
WILLIAM WHANN. June 20—cp6w
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of Leonard Waring, deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same with vouchers thereof to the subscriber on the first Tuesday in September next, at which time a dividend of the funds in hand will be made. Those neglecting this notice may by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate.
CLEMENT HOLLYDAY, Ad'r. of L. Waring, deceased.
July 4—w3t
St. Mary's county court, March term 1808.
ON application of Benjamin Tabbs of St. Mary's county to the judges of the said county court, by petition in writing, praying the benefit of the act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, on the terms mentioned in said act, a schedule of his property and a list of his creditors on oath as far as he can ascertain them being annexed to his said petition, and the said county court being satisfied by competent testimony, that the said Benjamin Tabbs has resided the two preceding years prior to the passage of the said act, within the state of Maryland. It is thereupon adjudged and ordered by the said court that the said Benjamin Tabbs give notice to his creditors of his intention to apply to the next county court to be held at Leonard Town in said county on the first Monday of August next, for a discharge from his debts, and to warn his said creditors to appear before the said judges on the day and at the place aforesaid to show cause if any they have why the said Benjamin Tabbs should not be discharged agreeably to his said petition, by causing a copy of this order to be inserted in the National Intelligencer, weekly for three months successively.
By order, JOSEPH HARRIS, Cr.
May 2—w3m
St. Mary's county, Orphans Court, June term, 1808.
ORDERED by the court, that Monica Jones , deceased, administratrix of Solomon Jones, deceased, sell at Public Auction the whole of the deceased's Personal Estate for ready money, after giving four weeks previous notice of the same, in the American and Commercial Daily Advertiser, National Intelligencer, and Washington Federalist. Test JAMES FORRESTER, Register Wills for St. Mary's county.
NOTICE.
IN Virtue of the above order, will be offered for sale, for ready money, on Saturday the 30th day of July next, at the late dwelling of the deceased, near the Great Mill in St. Mary's county, all his Personal Estate, consisting of seven very likely young Negroes, Stock of all kinds, house and kitchen Furniture, plantation Utensils, and other property which it is unnecessary to mention.
MONICA JONES, Adm'tx. July 1—w4t
WASHINGTON & ALEXANDRIA TURNPIKE COMPANY.
THE Stockholders of the "Washington and Alexandria Turnpike Company" are hereby notified that the second installment of TEN dollars on such share is called for by the President and Directors of the said company, and is required to be paid to Charles Page, Treasurer in Alexandria, on or before the 26th day of August next, agreeable to the act of Congress, entitled "An act for the establishment of a Turnpike Company in the county of Alexandria in the district of Columbia." By order of the Directors, G. DENEALE, President. July 25—tA26
BALTIMORE TRINITY CHURCH LOTTERY,
Positively commences drawing on the first day of November next.
The Managers give notice that they have contracted with a Company of Gentlemen for nearly all the unsold TICKETS and have given them bonds that the drawing shall positively take place as above stated, and to draw 2000 tickets per week till the whole is completed.
SCHEME.
   Subject to no Deduction.   Dollars. Dollars.     1 prize of 5000 15,5000   1 3000 3000   2 2000 4000   2 1500 3000   3 1000 3000   6 500 3000   20 200 4000   35 100 3500   70 50 3500   175 20 3500   500 10 5000   5250 6 31,500   90,000  
6065 Prizes, 11935 Blanks. 18000 tickets less than two blanks to a prize: sum raised 15000 Expenses including commission to the corporation, 3000
Part of the Capitals will be determined as follows:
   1 prize of 200 dollars to the first drawn blank. 1 do. 200 do. after 2000 tickets.   1 do. 200 4000   1 do. 200 6000   1 do. 200 8000   1 do. 1000 10000   1 do. 500 12000   1 do. 500 14000   1 do. 500 16000   1 do. 1500 17000   1 do. 2000 last drawn blank.