The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1805-10-04 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. V.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
No. DCCLXXVIII.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1805.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
To be Sold,
Or exchanged for other property in the City or its vicinity.
TWO valuable and contiguous TRACTS of LAND in the state of Kentucky, the one containing 6880 acres, and the other 6252 acres, by late re-survey. They are under old and indisputable titles of more than twenty years, and situate in a populous county, adjoining flourishing settlements. All taxes thereon have been fully paid.
Apply to the subscriber,
JOHN BECKLEY. City of Washington, July 17—epam
For Sale
IN the county of Prince William, Virginia, Neshico furnace and its appurtenances, with four or five thousand acres of land adjoining, near the town of Dumfries, and within four or five miles of the Potomac—the soil is generally adapted to small grain, and if too considerable for one purchaser, will be laid off in Lots suitable for small farms—a description of the land is thought unnecessary—as those wishing to purchase will no doubt first view it: the payments required will be one third cash, and the other two thirds in annual installments, to be secured by a mortgage on the land; and no deed given until the last payment is made; any person wishing to purchase, may know the terms by applying to Mr. Thomas T. Page, living near the premises, who is fully authorized by me to sell the whole or any part.
JOHN TAYLOR.
August 16—3m.
N.B. A valuable mine bank in Maryland may be had with the furnace if required.
J. T.
WASHINGTON RACES.
ON Tuesday the 29th of October next, will be run for over the Washington course, a JOCKEY CLUB PURSE, the four mile heats free for any horse, mare or gelding, agreeably to the rules of the club.
WEDNESDAY.
A JOCKEY CLUB PURSE the three mile heats, free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding day excepted.
THURSDAY.
An Elegant Fifty Guinea silver cup. Ten subscribers—single four miles, and a handsome City and Town Purse. The two mile heats free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding day excepted.
Weight as follows.
 Aged Horses 125 lb.  6 years old 120  5 do. 112  4 do. 100  3 do. 86 
Mares and Geldings allowed 5 lb. The members of the Club will meet at the Club Room on the evening before the Races, in order to make proper arrangements for the same. Those who cannot attend are particularly requested to forward their dues to the subscriber.
CH. M'LAUGHLIN, Sec. & Treas. W. J. Club.
N.B. The amount of the Purse cannot at this time be ascertained, as they are in part to be raised from toll at the gates and rent of booths.
C. M'L.
Sept. 6, 1805—cpf.
Negroes for Sale.
ON Thursday the 3d day of October next, at Semme's tavern in George town, I shall offer at public SALE for cash, TWELVE likely NEGROES, consisting of Boys from 8 to 18 years of age, and women and children.
JOSEPH BREWER.
Sept. 6—rawtdof.
On a liberal credit.
THE subscriber will dispose of at private sale, his estate called Chichester, lying on the eastern branch, immediately east of land on the city of Washington. This tract of land containing 697 acres is laid off in lots from 83 to 144 acres for the convenience of purchasers. Plats of the estate and the terms of sale are in the hands of colonel Hanson at the navy yard, and Charles Wayman of George Town. The lots will be shown by Mr. Wedden, living on the premises, near the Eastern Branch bridge.
ANTHONY ADDISON.
Barnaby, 12th June 1805—tf
FOR RENT,
THAT valuable property adjoining the Bank of Columbia, in George Town which is now occupied by Mr. Joseph Semme, as the Indian King Tavern. This property is in the centre of George Town; the house is large and commodious, with every convenience necessary for a tavern, adjoining thereto a kitchen, stables and necessary out house. There is attached to said property an excellent dwelling house for a family that will be rented with it. Possession will be given immediately. Apply to the subscriber living on Capitol Hill, city of Washington.
WM. O. STRIGG.
Sept. 16—tf
This day is published
AND FOR SALE BY RAPINE, CONRAD & Co. IN NEW JERSEY AVENUE, CAPITOL HILL.
FLEETWOOD;
Or the New Man of Feeling, BY WILLIAM GODWIN, Author of Caleb Williams, St. Leon, &c. Sec. price 17 1/2 cents. Sept. 25.
STELLE'S HOTEL & CITY TAVERN.
THE Subscriber takes this method of thanking his friends and the public for their favors whilst on the Capitol Square and begs leave to acquaint them that having purchased and now occupying the tavern, late Tunnicliff's hotel; which he has commenced enlarging and improving—he respectfully solicits a continuance of the patronage of his friends and the public; assuring them that 'tis his full determination to fit up his present hotel, and to conduct it, as to merit, he hopes, the preference of the public travelling, as well as those coming to the permanent seat of the Government of our Land of Liberty.
PONTIUS D. STELLE.
Washington City, March 25—tf
PUBLIC NOTICE.
PURSUANT to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States of the 28th of February last, directing the Clerk of the said House to advertise for and receive separate proposals for supplying the said House at their next session with the necessary Stationery and Printing wanted, separate contracts have been duly made and entered into, to wit: with Edgar Patterson, of George Town, in the District of Columbia, for the supply of Stationery; and with Andrew and George Way, of the City of Washington, in the said District of Columbia, for the Printing, at the following prices, to wit:
FOR THE STATIONARY.
  D. C.    Very best extra large English wove hot pressed 4 to post paper 6 50  Do. do. plain gift, do. per ream, 6 50  Do. do. wove 4to post paper per ream 5  Do. do. plain do. 5  Do. do. American wove do. 4  Do. do. do. plain do. 3 50  Do. do. English folio post wove and plain, 10  Do. do. American do. 7 50  Do. do. Medium engrossing paper, 12  Do. Superfine English foolscap, do. wove or plain, 8  Do. do. American do. do. 4 50  Do. ready made pens per 100, 1 50 a 1 75  Do. Holland quills, do. 2 50 a 3  Superfine Dutch red sealing wax, per lb. 1 50 a 1 75  Do. black do. 1 50  Do. black & red Irish wafers per lb. 1 50  Black sand per lb. 3  Tin wafer boxes, each, 4  Ink and sand glasses, per doz. 3  Half pint phials with corks, per doz. 60  Ivory paper folders, per doz. 6  Ink and sand glasses, plated tops, per pair, 1 50  Warranted black lead pencils, per doz. 1 50  Red tape D 1 50 a 2 50 per doz. or 12 1 2 and 25 cents per piece.  Black ink per gallon, 1 25  India rubbers, per piece, 87 1 2  Parchment dressed and pounced, 28 by 32 inches per doz. 8  Office pen knives, 50 cents each, and scratchers 37 1 2 cents each.  
FOR THE PRINTING.
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Published by order of the House of Representatives of the United States. JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk. Sept. 27—ep3w
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
WE have been requested to republish the pieces under the signature of a Countryman. We accordingly insert the first number; not possessing those published for some time past we must request the writer to furnish them.
TO THE PEOPLE OF MARYLAND.
THE bill to provide for the trial of facts in the several counties of this state, and to abolish such parts of the constitution as relate to the general court and court of appeals, having been promulgated in the body of the laws of last session, and published in several newspapers for the consideration of the people, in conformity to the constitution, it may be deemed not unreasonable at this time to enter upon a true and candid investigation and discussion of the subject.
The bill contemplates an alteration in one of the prominent features of the constitution; its object is the new moulding of the courts of law in the state, and is in its nature, necessarily, of high importance. The expediency or inexpediency of adopting the measure, is a question of state policy; general politics ought not to be blended with it; they have, or ought to have, no bearing upon it; it is a question which ought to be tested by cool, deliberate, and dispassionate reason, and be decided upon its own merits. In the examination, the appeals should be made to the judgment and understanding, and to experience, whether the grievances are real or imaginary, which are clamored against under the present establishment; and if real, whether they are so serious and oppressive as to require a remedy; whether the remedy provided and contemplated will be co-extensive to the redress of the existing evil, and whether the contemplated system will be an improvement or otherwise, of the existing plan, are questions arising out of the measure now submitted to the opinion of the people, and merit earnest and deliberate consideration. In the enquiry, the decision is not to be controlled by the effects of the measure on any small and partial sections of the state; the great interest and convenience of the whole are to be taken into view, and if preponderating, those of an inconsiderable portion must bend, particularly in a matter of such general moment and concern. Individual feelings too, ought not to influence, because it is levelled against no particular individual; but seems bottomed upon the broad and proper basis of public economy, general convenience, and the express letter and genuine spirit of the Bill of Rights, that great index within the circle of our constitutional liberties, which emphatically points out to civilised man, "that the trial of facts, where they arise, is one of the greatest securities of the lives, liberties, and estates of the people." Neither ought this measure to be decided, as its opponents have idly done on the floor of the Legislature, as being an innovation, novel & visionary. The people inherit by the constitution, the immensely valuable and salutary power of altering, as circumstances may from time to time demand, the whole, or any prominent or minute feature of the government; the framers of the instrument, by engraving into it the principle of alteration, have themselves recognised, and in my mind wisely too, that a change of circumstances, great inconvenience, manifest oppression, enormous expence, and a variety of other causes, might and would exist to justify and require a change in the constitution and form of government; and the people, in the majesty and plenitude of this constitutional corrective power, have, in repeated instances, cured existing evils, modelled the form of government to suit existing circumstances, and abolished entirely, where the reasons for particular parts of the charter ceased to exist. So in the instance of the bill under consideration, if the state hath felt and experienced, that the general court, as now constituted and conducted, is oppressive and impoverishing, productive of delay, burthensome, expensive, and inconvenient to the people of Maryland, and that the present appellate court, in the event of the general court being abolished, will be useless and supernumerary. It will be idle and nugatory to denounce the remedy of these evils, novel and innovating, and the evils themselves visionary. The people have political knowledge to discern, and decision and firmness to redress, these public grievances when felt, in despite of impotent denunciations. But let us enquire and examine if the grievances complained of exist in reality.
The provincial court, which in our constitution is styled the general court, as early as the year 1714, when the business could not have much accumulated, was considered as a machine of oppression and impoverishment, for by a law then passed, entitled, "An act for relieving the inhabitants of this province from some aggrievances in the prosecution of suits at law," chap. 4, the then deplorable circumstances of the people are stated, "which" (as the law pro-
ceeds to recite) "are very much heightened and aggravated by their being sued and brought to Annapolis, from the remotest parts of this province, to their manifest oppression and impoverishment." Costs in the then provincial court were low, and expences of living cheap. A juror was then allowed 30 pounds of tobacco, or 3s. for each day's attendance at the provincial court, and a witness 40 pounds of tobacco, or 4s. and the other costs were low in the same ratio. At present a juror to the general court formerly called the provincial court, has two dollars and fifty cents per diem, a witness one dollar and fifty cents per diem, and the costs of the officers of the court increased very considerably; besides the expence of living is much increased. It cannot then be contended, that the oppression and impoverishment in bringing persons from the several remote counties to Annapolis and Easton, under all this accumulation of costs and expences, is less manifest now, than it was in the year 1714, unless it can be contended, that the heavier the burthen, the lighter will be the weight, and the more enormous the expence, the more easily will it be sustained.
The general court as now conducted, and under its present circumstances, is productive of inconvenience and expensive delay. At its first establishment and for a considerable time afterwards, it might perhaps have been competent to the then business of the court, and have acted upon it without delay or inconvenience; but the increasing number of inhabitants has caused, and will continue to cause, an increase of business; to dispatch this the court has appointed particular weeks to particular counties throughout the state. This regulation, if the particular business of each week was completed during the week, would have a beneficial tendency to effect dispatch and prevent delay. But notwithstanding this regulation, or any other which the invention and ingenuity of the court have yet been able to devise or adopt, it is sorely experienced, that when a jury is sworn in a cause which occupies the whole of the week, also the whole or a part of the succeeding week, which has sometimes happened, and during the present term did happen in Mr. Harper's noted case against Wade Hampton, in such cases, all the disputed and untried causes of the particular week are generally delayed to another term, let the parties be ever in such a state of readiness, though the witnesses be numerous and punctual in their attendance, or obliged to come from remote distances, or how inconvenient soever attendance to them, or how difficult their coming. These delayed suits being added to the trial docket of the succeeding term, and the business accumulating in this manner for a series of years, hence and from other causes it is that the general court has become cumbrous, otters, and is well nigh borne down by its own unwieldy weight. But it may be answered, that this inconvenience and expensive delay will be prevented by a decrease of suits in the general court, by reason of the restriction of its jurisdiction, under the act of 1801. Candor must concede, that since that period, notwithstanding that restriction, inconvenience and expensive delays have been experienced every term, by the unavoidable continuance of causes on account of some single cause having taken up the whole or more than the allotted week, and therefore that this evil still exists.
The general court is burthensome. Parties, witnesses and jurors, brought from remote counties of both shores, will attest this; aged and infirm witnesses will attest it; the merchant of Baltimore who has his sales and bank negotiations to attend to, the mechanic who has a number of hands under his direction, the daily laborer whose family depends for subsistence upon the wages of each day, the presidents and cashiers of the banks, and the presidents and secretaries of the insurance companies, who have been brought to Annapolis as parties, witnesses, or jurors, will concur in one sentiment, that the attending & continuing at the general court is a grievous and real burthen, and not visionary and imaginary. The little article of enormous expense attending the trial of facts in the general court—the contrasting the difference in the trial of facts in the general court and county courts—all so the contrasting the difference in point of expense between the administration of the present system and that of the contemplated plan, and such other topics as arise out of the merits of the bill, will be subjects of publication from time to time till Oct. next.
A COUNTRYMAN.
JOHN BAPTIST BARON DE RUFINI.
INFORMATION, whether this gentleman be living and where he resides, is requested by the Department of State, for the satisfaction of his relatives in Europe.
Department of State, 26th Sept. 1805, Sept. 27—31.
From French papers, received at the office of the Commercial Advertiser.
PARIS, JULY 31.
It is a picture of high importance to take a view of the present situation of France relatively to Russia, and of the menacing position of Russia with regard to the rest of Europe! An enlightened publicist has just thrown a great light upon this matter; but it may still be looked upon in some different points of view, when it will appear that the delays used in the negotiations opened for peace, have only been occasioned by England, and for her own interest alone; that the pretended aggrandizement of France, which has served as a pretext for these delays, is a natural effect of the present position of Europe, and that, far from alarming the neighboring powers, this preponderance of France is become necessary to their interest and to their independence. Let us briefly examine these several questions.
The history of the two last centuries proves pretty clearly that England has never made war upon the Continent, but through an interest purely personal. It is only vulgar politicians who are the dupes of the pretexes with which the Court of London has always sought to veil its ambitious pretensions; the independence of Europe is the usual pretext of the warlike messages of His Britannic Majesty; but it is well known that his aim is to consecrate, to augment, and to perpetuate the maritime Empire which he thought himself arrived at without opposition. France has ever appeared the particular object of the hatred of England, because she is more able than the other states to resist her pretensions. As long as the Hollanders had powerful colonies, a flourishing trade, and a formidable navy, Holland was also the object of the same enmity. Spain was for a long time subject to it, and it is to the intrigues of England that she is to attribute the separation of the Kingdom of Portugal and the hereditary hatred which has since been kept up between the two nations. Austria herself was the object of her comedy inquietude, when that power attempted last century to raise a navy, and to create a trading company at Ostend.
England has adhered more particularly to her hatred against France, because France has held out against her with more determined resistance, because the national industry of France creates to her more dangerous rival, because their situation among the powers of southern Europe favors more strongly the development of her opulence and of her industry. The least advantages that France has obtained either by victories or by treaties, have been considered as usurpations made over England. At the time of the succession of Spain, William would rather have held the crown of Spain, the Low-Countries, Italy and the Empire united upon the same head, than that the Grand-Son of Lewis XIV. should have ascended the throne of Spain. However, this was exposing Europe to see the universal monarchy of Charles V. renewed; and there had been an end to liberty, had France been defeated in that general war.
England has seen all the revolutions of the North without troubling herself about their effects or their consequences; she has beheld ten millions of new subjects pass, from 1774 to 1795, under the dominion of Catherine II.; she has seen provinces invaded, whole kingdoms usurped; it seemed as if all this was going forward a thousand leagues from Europe, and yet it was in the very midst of it that that power was insensibly rising, which is this day so colossal, which at once menaces both Europe and Asia! However, the cession of a few maritime departments, which made a part of an ancient France, has alarmed England more than so formidable an Empire: England has caused rivers of blood to be shed for the purpose of ascertaining whether Frenchmen should remain united to France. Victory has decided the question.
It would be highly astonishing, that the union of Genoa to France should be the cause of a new continental war. It might in the first place be observed that no power upon earth has the right to interpose between the will of two independent nations that wish to unite themselves to each other. Were Sweden disposed at this day to acknowledge the Emperor of Russia, no other state could, without injustice, oppose a contract made between these two nations. Nobody ever thought of opposing the Union of Ireland with England; it is an act absolutely free between states, and Russia has by far too much to gain by this system, to find fault with it.
Be it as it will, no position was ever made to Genoa's putting herself under the protection of France, which she has been so often forced to embrace. It is of little concern to Germany, to Russia, to all the other powers that Genoa should belong to France, since she adds nothing to her continental force. The decree issued in Genoa by the Emperor of the French, established that Genoa,

It will be considered here for the army. It is then only with regard to the navy that Genoa is of any advantage to France; and even this advantage can only be made use of against England. Hence it is England alone that has any interest in preventing this union. Now if the Genoese must wish that there should be a length of time a people who, preserving their independence and the dignity of their navy, may restore to the others the liberty of their commerce and the power of their insular flag.
Now if it be examined what force and preponderance France should have for her own safety; for the defence of the rest of Europe, she will hardly be found sufficiently powerful.
She is the most ancient monarchy in Europe: At different periods she has had the preponderance, without having ever attempted to encroach on the general liberty; she has, on the contrary, often defended it against the incursions of barbarians: she shielded it from the monarchy of Charles the Fifth. She was more powerful under Charlemagne, she was as formidable under Lewis XIV. The weakness of a government as a prescription of forfeiture for the nation; when there appears a sovereign worthy of it and of his rank, he is bound to restore to his people the lustre they had lost under degenerate kings. This is what the Emperor of the French has done.
The present situation of Europe, the changes effected in the other states, has rendered this increase of France necessary. This subject has already been too clearly developed to need any further investigation. It suffices to observe that there is this difference between the power of France and that of Russia, that France has natural bounds, and the other will acknowledge none; that France borders on all sides upon great states, upon which she neither can nor will make any acquisitions, unless a new war should again bring the political existence of nations into dispute; that France has religiously respected the territory of her allies; that she is arrived at the term at which she must naturally stop; that she is powerful by her population; that this population can scarcely augment; that she is by her nature a fixed state, making an independent member of the great European family, sufficiently potent to defend herself, but impotent to oppress.
Russia whom the Cabinet of London invokes in the name of the independence of other nations, is no doubt very far from affording them the same guarantee. Every step she proceeds, is an advance towards universal empire. Her Emperor, more powerful in territory than all the monarchs of Europe, has only to leave it to time to render himself also the most formidable in population. By a wise administration, disembarrassed of foreign influence, by giving a free exercise to the industry of his people, he may make more real conquests than by devoting new provinces. Nothing seems more contrary to his interests, at the present moment, than a war which should dry up the source of his population without aim, without any reasonable hope, unless it be to prolong for some time the maritime empire of England. There is nothing but the case of a war so strange, so hurtful to the interests of the Emperor of Russia, that seems capable of delaying the progress of his enormous increase of power.
When one reflects indeed that it is not above a hundred years since Peter the Great came, at the head of a new and barbarous people, to take place amongst the power of Europe, and when one examines the gigantic increase of his Empire in so short a time, one must tremble at the idea of the formidable impression with which the rest of the earth is menaced by Russia: and it is impossible not to repeat to one's self, that it was from the heart of that vast empire that formerly issued those clouds of barbarians, who inundated and subdued almost every part of our hemisphere!
Europe is blind to the insensible progress of a power who finds no more enemies to vanquish around her, and who perhaps carries her hopes very far. It is possible that the sharing of the Mediterranean, of the trade of the North and of Asia may for some time unite England and Russia. It belongs to the other powers, involved in a double servitude, to foresee the dangers that menace them. It is no longer time to suffer ourselves to be dazzled by parcels of territory which might be offered to mask more important usurpations. The general interest requires that the great states of Europe should keep themselves closely united; they are in some measure bound to stand by each other. Universal monarchy cannot come from him whom nature has confined within just bounds; it is useful to the others that he be able to defend himself, to inspire some respect, to prevent the ruin of states menaced from afar, and to afford a counterpoise which the south of Europe has been long in need of, against the vast and devouring ambition of the north.
LONDON, August 16.
Every measure that vigilance and vigor can dictate, has been adopted by our Govt. Our Downs and North sea squadrons have been strongly reinforced and are all on the alert on the enemy's coast, not a brig, not a boat could leave any one of the enemy's ports without being instantly discovered by our cruisers, that swarm along the enemy's shores. Orders have been sent to every part of the coast, where there is a probability that the enemy might attempt a landing for numerous patrols to be established. The signal posts judiciously placed on the heights along the coast in Suffolk, Essex, Kent and Sussex, could instantly communicate the intelligence of the enemy having left their own coast: so that a large military force would be collected on any spot to which the enemy might direct their flotilla, long before they had reached that spot, should they be fortunate enough to escape destruction from our squadron.
The Duke of York has, we understand, issued orders for suspending all furloughs and leave of absence in the army, and for requiring all officers and soldiers absent on leave, to join their respective regiments with all possible dispatch. All the yeomanry and volunteers of the kingdom, together with the waggons attached to each corps, are immediately to be inspected. The brigade of Royal East India volunteers is ordered upon permanent duty this month by alternate regiments. The 2d regiment, commanded by col. sir Hugh Inglis, is to take the lead, and will march, we understand, for Chatham Lines or Chelmsford next week. Each regiment will not remain upon duty longer than 14 days. The loyal Southwark volunteers with sharpshooters attached, so lately encamped at Epsom, are ordered to muster on Tuesday next at their head quarters, with arms, clothes and accoutrements in complete order to march immediately for field exercise. It was also reported last night, that orders will be issued next Monday for embodying the levy en masse; and that a messenger was sent in the course of the day to Weymouth, with the necessary orders for his majesty's signature.
The number of troops which the desperate enterprize, amounts in Holland to 40, or 50,000; at Boulogne and the other French ports to 150,000—200,000 men in all! If the mind contemplates so large a number with a feeling of awe, it is not because it apprehends that such a force, or 10 times the amount, could destroy the independence and freedom of our happy island, break down the valour and spirit of the British people, or convert our dear native home into a province of France—oh no! no! The awe we feel arises from the idea that so many thousands of human beings, in the prime and vigor of life, fathers, sons, husbands and brothers, are to be sent as sacrifices to the insatiable ambition, the furious revenge, the hatred, and envy and malice of one solitary being!
Of the result of this crisis, of the issue of this struggle, the people entertain no apprehensions—they are prepared to meet it—they will rejoice that it is at length arrived—they are eager to prove themselves worthy of the ancestors from whom they are descended, of those immortal names by which their independence was achieved, of the cause for which they are fighting, the cause of justice and humanity, of real liberty against cruelty, oppression and slavery. But if in this crisis there be any of the British people who feel more joyful ardor than others, they are, we sincerely believe, the volunteers of the kingdom. They are anxious to repel the charges brought against them by the Crawfords and the Windhams—they are eager to silence forever those who have sneered at their exertions, ridiculed the discipline, and represented them as forming part of our weakness, rather than, as we have always characterised and called them, a part of our real strength and vigour.
Courier.
To be Sold,
ON the 10th of October next, if fair, if not the next fair day, by order of the Orphans Court of Prince George's county, at the plantation of WILLIAM HUTCHIN near Upper Marlboro', to the highest bidder on 9 month's credit, all the personal estate of JOHN T. WILLETT, late of Prince George's county, deceased, viz. seven negroes, consisting of women, boys and girls, herds, cows and hogs, some household furniture—the purchaser to give bond with approved security bearing interest from the date, the sale to commence at 12 o'clock.
FINIAN T. WILLETT, Adm'r. Sept 13—taw3w
Runaway Negro.
CAMPBELL, about 32 or 33 years of age, five feet 9 inches high, yellow complexion, has a scar between his eye brows, and 3 or 4 remarkable ones on his breast, besicles several on his shoulders, apparently occasioned by the whip—has with him a blue cloth coat with a black cape, a pair of blue pantaloons, and several other articles of clothing less notable—has for some time back passed in the city as a free man; but latterly confesses that he is the property of Wm. Smith of Faquier county, Virginia, to whom he was sold by George Robinson—was committed to the jail of Washington county, in the district of Columbia, on the first instant.
ALSO,
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4.
The PRESIDENT of the United States arrived yesterday from Monticello.
Advices have been received from London by our government, as late as the 9th Aug. when our minister had introduced to the attention of the British government the subject of the recent captures of our vessels under the pretext of their being engaged in an illicit trade between the European and colonial possessions of the enemies of Great Britain.
TRIPOLITAN TREATY.
We understand, that independently of the articles which regulate the terms of peace with the Bashaw of Tripoli, the arrangements of the treaty are extremely favorable to the U. S. The former are comprised in the 1st, 2d & 3d arts. which in substance stipulate the mutual delivery of prisoners, and the payment of 60,000 dollars to the Bashaw, in consideration of the number in his hands exceeding, by the computed number of 200, those in the hands of the U. States; that the U. States shall, as a consequence of the peace, withdraw their forces from the dominions of Tripoli; that they shall use the means of persuasion to induce the brother of the Bashaw to do the like; that they will cease to furnish supplies to the subjects of Tripoli in hostility; and that the Bashaw shall deliver up to his brother his wife and children, in case of his withdrawing from the dominions of Tripoli.
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE CONSTITUTIONALITY AND EXPEDIENCY OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT MAKING PROVISION FOR EDUCATION AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
(Continued.)
5. But the strongest argument in favor of this power being exercised by the general government is, that it can in no other way be exercised so as to insure a wise, systematic & impartial execution. Exercised by the states, or by any subordinate associations, it could not fail to be tinged by prejudice, ignorance, or peculiar interest at variance with the general welfare. Though it be indisputable that the interests of the whole union are homogeneous, and that whatever in the greatest degree conduces to the interest of the whole likewise conduces in the highest degree to that of the several parts of which it is composed, & vice versa; yet this only holds true with regard to the ultimate effects produced by measures pursued on an extensive scale. However, moreover, undisputed this truth may be among wise men, whose minds have been expanded by reflection, it is far from being acknowledged by men of a contrary stamp, who, unfortunately constitute the bulk of communities. They believe that their own prosperity ordinarily depends upon the depression of their rivals, or those with whom they hold intercourse; and they believe, with greater tenacity, that the interests of the little community in which they live thrive not more in proportion to their own exertions, than the want of exertion of those around them, with whom they carry on business. Hence, while they are laudably engaged in improving their farms, and roads, and navigable waters, and in promoting their manufactures, they look with satisfaction on the desert that surrounds them, and ascribe to it no inconsiderable portion of their wealth. Whereas the truth is that while their wealth augments that of their neighbors, it is repressed by the poverty of the latter.
Of these sentiments the smallest communities are generally the greatest victims; and thus circumstance is, perhaps, one of the strongest arguments that can be urged against a confederacy of states. Unless very differently organised, from those which the old world has given birth to, such a confederacy is sure to create separate interests where nature had made them the same; and from these imaginary interests educe the complicated evils of jealousy, ill-will, and warfare. Nature, instead of devising the means of separating, has, with a bold hand, created those of uniting her children into one great family. What the rude mind of the savage contemplates as the boundary of intercourse, and the barrier to an exchange of good offices, is found, as civilisation and science advance, to be the happiest means for promoting both. Whence the different climates, habits, wants, and pursuits of different nations, but that one nation may be tempted to an intercourse with another, by interchange of their varying commodities; and that the productions of nature may be given for the fabrics of art? Whence the extensive rivers, and numerous tributary streams, and the ocean itself, but that the mind of man, by looking abroad, may see how easily he can command, by the exercise of his ingenuity and labor, an enlarged circle of enjoyment for himself by adding to the enjoyments others? These, properly understood, and but for ignorance and kings they would have been properly understood—are the strong ties, created by nature, for uniting nations in the bands of peace.
Such, however, is the admirable mechanism of this terrestrial scene, that nature with all the luxuriance of her bounty, has left much to be accomplished by man; and his happiness is made directly to depend upon his progress in civilisation and knowledge. Hence, though rivers are made by nature the
bonds of union, to further this effect, it becomes necessary to remove by art the numerous obstructions with which they abound, to unite them by canals, and in some instances to use them almost exclusively for the latter purpose. Hence mountains, otherwise impassable, demand the labor of man to form roads over them. For the accomplishment of this great object, the enlarged spirit, of which we have spoken, becomes absolutely necessary. It requires a discernment of the fact that the interests of the whole community, however scattered, claims its being effected; it requires, consequently, a prostration of all local prejudices; and it also requires pecuniary means correspondent to the magnitude of the object to be effected. Is this spirit, the latest offspring of wisdom, to be looked for in the minds of those who administer the affairs of a small state? Who have not carried their views beyond its limits, and often not beyond the limits of their own contracted acres? Will not such men refuse to listen to arguments opposed to all their prejudices, and will they not reject every thing which, in their limited apprehension, threatens to diminish the sources of their prosperity? That they will, has been abundantly proved by our own experience. They may, perhaps, after a long resistance, be induced to make a few turnpike roads in the centre of the state, or to clear the bed of a river until it approaches the boundary of another state; but the moment an attempt shall be made by extending these roads, or these improvements of the navigation of rivers, so as to touch or pass the state limits, a host of prejudices will be arrayed, which will generally sentence the wisest schemes to abortion. Hence little that ought to be accomplished will be attempted, and, for want of means, that little will either altogether fail to be done, or be badly executed.
Contrast with this humiliating picture the measures of a government, possessed of powers co-extensive with the whole territory, and of correspondent means.
The measures pursued by such a government will be the best that can be devised, as they will be the result of local information & general views. The former will not be wanting; but will be regulated by a principle of general benefit. When the general government shall direct their attention to internal improvements, every part of the union will unquestionably lay its claim to the accomplishment of some objects interesting to itself. There is scarcely a doubt that more objects will be proposed than can be compassed. A spirit of enquiry will be excited, an investigation will take place of those objects most entitled to attention, which will in most instances be preferred. The enquiry will be, not so much whether a proposed road or canal will benefit this or that spot, as whether it will benefit either the union generally, or a great district of it. Those improvements will be first effected which combine the widest interests.
Under the individual states, improvements would be conducted without regard to that system founded on considering the whole union as possessed of one interest, and consequently much of the treasure and labor embarked would be lost as to the execution of this great object; whereas, under the general government, the wisest system might be expected, from which the greatest results would be accomplished at the least practicable expence. The universal & predominant motive would be to open and facilitate intercourse from one part of the country to every other part; while, the operation of improvements conducted on a smaller scale, would be generally limited to the narrow interests of those whose immediate benefit was likely to be affected by them. The necessary effect of the former measures would be to increase intercourse, to bring more commodities to market, to enliven competition, and ultimately to promote in a particular district the growth of the productions most congenial to the soil, the climate, and the pursuits of its inhabitants. The effect of such measures in augmenting the stock of national wealth would be almost incalculable. Nothing comparatively would be lost: The general government would, in the first instance, form the best plans, and would afterwards, by engaging the ablest superintendents, stand the best chance of having them well executed. The abundance of their resources would likewise enable them completely to accomplish what they undertook, in which the states or subordinate corporations have heretofore been so frequently unsuccessful. The work executed would be fitted for perpetuity. By these means a moiety, at least, of the ultimate cost would be saved, in addition to the vast benefits derived from the superiority of the improvements.
Let us illustrate our ideas by facts. Were a particular state to cut a canal, necessarily circumscribed in their power by their pecuniary means, they would effect the object on a narrow scale, would be chiefly if not exclusively governed by a regard to state interests, would execute it in such a manner as to admit but an occasional navigation for a short distance in small craft, and so imperfectly as to require constant and expensive repairs. The effects of such operations would be so limited, their benefits would be so partial or equivocal, the advantages of the water navigation would so little transcend land carriage, that it might admit of a question whether, upon the whole, good was the general result. Let, however, a canal be constructed by the U. States upon a munificent scale. Instead of being conducted a few miles, let it be run as many hundred. Let it not only unite a few large streams, but let it receive tribute from numerous small ones. Let it be so wide as to admit boats of considerable burthen, and the work be done so well as to require little repair. The effects of
this operation would be so extensive, the benefits would be so general and manifest, and the superiority of water over land conveyance would be so decisive, that the advantages derived from it, would be more an object of sensation than reflection.
(To be Continued.)
BALTIMORE, September 5:
On Saturday the 28th inst. the Rock-Hall packet, capt. Humphreys, sailed from Baltimore at about 9 o'clock A. M. wind N. E. progressed 4 miles below North Point, when being met by a sudden squall of wind, the packet with 2 souls on board, was completely upset—The captain and all on board stuck to the wreck—the whole being on deck when the accident happened—they all clung to the after quarter of the rail, till about 12 o'clock at night—when owing to a heavy swell of sea, all were swept off together, except an old black man, who perished with cold and fatigue, in less than 15 minutes after the vessel went down.
Capt. Humphreys further states, that Richd. Hatcheson, Esq. and Mr. Charles Ridgeley, frequently asked him, "how he felt," who replied, that he felt "cold and chilly," to which Mr. Hatcheson subjoined, "keep up your spirits, capt. H. I can stand it 48 hours yet, and I'll warrant we'll be taken off before that time." The captain sat between the legs of Mr. Ridgeley, who was in his shirt sleeves, and covered his arms with captain H's great coat. These remarks were made about 11 o'clock—all at the same time being covered by the topsail. About 12, as above stated, the whole were swept off—none of whom, except captain Humphreys and a man by the name of Jones, who was going to the Eastern Shore to see his friends, could regain the wreck. The names of the sufferers are, R. Hatcheson, for several years past a delegate in the legislature of this state for the county of Kent; C. Ridgeley, of this city, Richard Goodman, mate, together with two negroes, besides the one first mentioned.
We received the foregoing particulars from captain Humphreys.
ONE THOUSAND ACRES OF VALUABLE LAND.
To be Sold at Public Sale on the 7th day of November next at Robb's tavern Montgomery Court House 1000 acres of Land, part of Bradford's Rest—there is on the tract 200 acres of wood land—the rest is cleared the whole well watered, the soil naturally fertile and favorable to tobacco, wheat, and corn, and admirably adapted to the use of Fruits—a considerable portion of meadow may be easily made; it is distant four miles from the Court House of Montgomery county and about 14 from the city of Washington. It will be sold a great bargain, one 4th of the purchase money down, the residue in three equal annual installments with interest. The title is unquestionable, and a deed with general warranty will be given on payment of the purchase money.
JOHN RON BY PLATER. October 4—taw6w
Two PRINCIPAL TEACHERS are wanted in the Academy at the City of Washington, to be opened on the first Monday of January next. They must be qualified to teach reading, writing, the English and Latin languages, geography and the mathematics. Each Principal Teacher to receive five hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly, for which he is to instruct such poor scholars as may be sent by the Board of Trustees, provided their whole instruction shall not exceed one hundred and twenty quarters in each year; & likewise to receive the entire amount of the tuition money for pay scholars at the rate of five dollars a quarter until the number amount to fifty, and beyond that number as shall be fixed by the Board. Out of this compensation he is to pay for necessary assistants, the rent of the school rooms, and other incidental expenses.
Applications will be received until the first Monday in December next at the City of Washington by WASHINGTON BOYD, Secretary of the Board of Trustees, or by
GABRIEL DUVAL, A committee SAMUEL H. SMITH, appointed for WILLIAM CRANCH, that purpose
Editors friendly to the advancement of Education, are requested to insert the above advertisement a few times.
PUBLIC SALE.
On the first Monday in November next will be held at Public Auction, on the premises at the hour of eleven o'clock A. M. all those Lots of ground, No. 18 and 26 which were allotted and set apart for JAMES WIGFIELD, of Washington county, District of Columbia, situated near the fourth end of the Eastern Branch Bridge, and vested in me in virtue of a deed of trust from said Wigfield. Terms of sale CASH.
BENSON L. M'GORMICK, July 29—1wtN.
NOTICE.
THE Subscribers having obtained letters of administration from the Orphan's Court of Prince George's county upon the personal estate of JOHN FRANCIS HARDY, deceased; they therefore give notice to all those indebted to the estate of the said John Francis Hardy to pay the same respective debts. Those who have claims upon the estate are requested to exhibit them legally authenticated.
ELIZABETH HARDY, Adm'r. RICHARD M. GARDINER, } Magruder's Ferry, Prince George's county, Sept. 13—3w2.

A LIST OF LETTERS remaining in the Post-Office at Washington City on the 1st day of October, 1805.
There is no more ludicrous exhibition than to see a man in a passion when every body round him is calm and contented. When the malignity of revenge is restrained by the impotency of power, the unfortunate subject is justly the object of mirth and derision. When men are disposed to do mischief, it is not frequently the case that they meet entire disappointment. The devil is very fond of his favorites, and generally indulges their malevolent dispositions; but as if his power was not always equal to his wishes, he sometimes leaves them before their designs are completed, contemptible for the baseness of their attempt, and ridiculous for its non-execution. We cannot but think he is playing some sport of this kind with the federal editors. According to their general rule, every act of the national government, and every thing connected with it, is not only wrong by design, but never even right by accident.
When our squadron was victorious in the Mediterranean, they said it was a fortunate event, but no credit was due to government; for as they did not send all the ships they could muster, they did not do every thing in their power. When peace is concluded, it is a desirable thing; but as it happened under JEFFERSON's administration, there must be something wrong. At last they find HAMET BASHAW in the case, and as it would not be very politic to have bound ourselves with him in all events, they charitably presume such arrangement was made, and are more concerned for poor HAMET, than for all our prisoners!
Having thus found out that an alliance must have been formed, because such a measure was wrong, they find fault with the peace, because that could not be right! By and by comes Com. Barron's letter denying the power of making such alliance, and of course the fact. Now something must be contrived to blow that in the wind, and one "able editor" luckily finds out that it was dictated by personal jealousy and envy of superior merit. This does well for a time; but then another discovery is made—Barron is a federalist—and as jealousy and envy are contrary to the moral and political creed of that party! and as no good federalist was ever jealous or envious! but does every thing from pure uprightness of mind, why these motives could not operate on the Commodre. Something must be hatched up however; and at last it is found that Gen. EATON had "powers" as well as the naval commander; & as nothing is ever more right—days that comes from Washington, why these "powers" must have been different. It could not have been otherwise; the administration was certainly wrong, and this must be the cause.
Such is the weakness into which malevolent censure leads degenerate minds, never feeling correct motives they believe nothing is executed from patriotic intention; and giving no credit to desires for success, they seem to think nothing executed by judicious designs. Yet their attacks are so weak, that their malice is contemptible; their zeal so great, that want of success makes them perfectly ridiculous.
SYMPATHY.
BY CAMOENS.
YES, let the miser count his gold, And toil and scrape to swell the heap, Nay, can the heart that's winter cold Of wealth the fruitful pleasures reap?
Say, can the soul in self that's wrapt, The bliss of pure enjoyment taste? Ah no! when feeling's chain is snapt, How void the heart and drear the waste!
Was it for this, poor creeping thing! To pine within a gilded cage, That nature gave thee power to wing The piercing thot, and read her page?
Does she ne'er whisper in thy dreams, "The wretch who loves himself alone, Can never drink of rapturous streams, Or conscious warm existence own."
The sweetest joys which health can give To light pale want's lacklustre eye, And aid the toil-worn mind to live; Are joys which thou canst never buy.
Then count thy hoards of shining gold, And toil and scrape to swell the heap; The heart like thine that's winter cold, No fruits of wealth can ever reap!
Oh! give to me sweet nature's right... The sum of life, blest Liberty! And the warm throb of soft delight, That thrills the soul of sympathy!
Give me, oh Heaven! the power to heal The wounded soul of sinking woe; Give me the bosom quick to feel Affection's purest, warmest glow!
Give me to share in Julia's sigh, And rest my head on Julia's breast, To chase the tear from Julia's eye... Then let the miser take the rest.
DOCTOR BENSON,
HAS removed to a house on PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE opposite Mr. MORIN's Tavern.
October 2—6t
RAGS.
The highest price, in Cash or Books will be given for any quantity of clean Linen and Cotton RAGS, by Rapine Conrad and Co. Capitol Hill. Just 24—
A. Thomas Arbuckle, Anthony Addison, Esq. Jeff Amors, John Armstrong.
B. Philip Hines Baker, Matthew Bonnett, Capt. Charles Bradford, Betsy Bowen, (care of Mr. Moren) Robert Beverly, Esq. 4, Richard Butler, Thomas Boger, Robert Barber, Levy Belt, John N. Barron 3, Mrs. Banfield 2, Frederick Betz, Miss Elizabeth Brown, William Burwell, Esq. 2, Henry Baggery.
C. Doctor John Cumming, Capt. Isaac Chauncy, William Conner 2, George Carleton, Mrs. Margaret Coone, Doctor Jonathan Cowdery, Elias B. Caldwell, Esq. 6, Nicholas Carson, Esq. William Coffin, Thomas S. Crawford, Master James Casey.
D. James Douglass, Robert Davidson, Simon Dennis 2, William Donaldson, Mrs. Eliza Dempsey 2, William Dyer 2, James R. Derron 3, Patrick Duggin, (care of Charles Dent.)
E. Miss Polly Elvin.
F. John Frier, Thomas Freeman, Esq. William Fletcher, Miss Rosanna Fanagan, Thomas Fitzgerald.
G. Joanna Gallaspy, John Gilmore, William Given, Hon. Cyrus Griffin, Esq. Sloss H. Grenel, John Gardiner, Frederick Gueker, William Gardner junior, Thomas Gorruck, Lieut. Charles Gordon, John Gillaspay, Mrs. Polly Gates, George L. Gray and Daniel Garling, Revd. Matthew Greentree, James Gibson.
H. Lieut. John M. Haswell, John H. Hopney, James Hallom, Midshipman Wm. E. Hill, Michael Haley, Seth Hunt, Esq. 5, Mrs. Hughes, (care of Mr. Bentley) 4, John Hall, Joseph Healey, (care of Patrick Healey) Thomas Holiday, Robert Henderson, Elisha Harrison, John Harvey, Lieut. J. Montresor Haswell, Walter Harris.
I. Hon. William Johnson 7, Lieut. Jacob Jones, Mrs. Rebecca James, John Jones, Captain Aquila Johns.
K. Daniel Kelly, Robert Kassuck.
L. William Lambert, Samuel Lowe, Joshua Laws, Henry Lucas, Joshua Lane, Archibald Lee, John R. Leavcraft, James Linkin, Frederick Lang, Charles Lake, William Lenard, Esq. Milly Lomax, Alexander Lyon.
M. Miss Sophia Michael, Joseph McDonald, Alexander McDonald, Robert McIntosh, James Read M'Dermot, Mr. May.
N. Mrs. Lucy Nash, Lewis Nicholas, Paul Noon, Henry Newman, jun. Esq. Edward D. Nichols, Midshipman, Elizabeth Nevit.
O. Richard O'Brien, Esq.
P. Richard Paul, John Pennenton, George Pollock, Oliver Pollock, Henry Preble, Esq. Commodore Edward Preble, Lieut. Francis Passon, Capt. Gad Peck, Don Henry Peyroux 3, John Prengle, Lieutenant Oliver H. Perry, Elijah Phelps, William Pitman, Thomas Peterkin, Lawson Pearson 2, Monsieur Godefroid Peintre, Mrs. Harriot Peden, R. Peacock, Esq. Charles Pinckney, Esq.
R. William Rogers, Jacob Rump, jun. Esq. 2, William W. Rodman, Francis Richard, Lieut. Benj. F. Read, Robert Richey 2, Doctor William Rogers, Mrs. Elizabeth Runnells, Thomas Robertson, James Renshaw.
S. Mrs. Sares, Mr. Edward Smothers, Thomas Sprigg, Esq. 2, Mr. James Smith, Mr. Robert Smith, Mr. Alexander Soper 2, Solomon Sibbitt, Reverend Robert Sparks, Livingston Shannon, Gilbert Stewart, Esq. James Stone 2, Charles Swann, Walter B. Smallwood.
T. Robert Taylor, Doctor James M. Taylor, Miss Elizabeth Tacker, William Tunnicliff, George Thompson, Miss Tarlanson, John Thurman, Esq. Miss Sally Thompson, William Travis 2.
U. Thomas W. Ustick 2.
V. Lund Washington, Zephaniah Wade, David Watson, Henry Wert, Doctor James Wallis, William Weaden, Mr. Williams, Mr. Wilson, Henry Weaver, Revd. M. L. Weems, David Wilkinson, Miss Ann Woodfield, Miss Elizabeth Wilkinson, Joseph Wilson, Issac Wilson, Elizabeth Washington, John Wilson, James Woodroof, Joshua Watson.
Y. Samuel Vicary; James Young, Henry Yenaaway.
SALE at AUCTION.
ON the 7th of October at 11 o'clock in the forenoon will be sold at public auction (at the COLUMBIAN INN in GEORGE-TOWN) a handsome assortment of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, consisting of beds, bedsteads and furniture, mahogany dining tables, side board, walnut tables, looking glasses, carpets, chairs, bras and andirons, fenders, shovels and tongs, &c. &c. and a great variety of other articles—a liberal credit will be given for all sums above one hundred dollars. JOHN TRAVERS, Auct. Aug. 27—22wtf
THEATRE.
For the BENEFIT of M rs . WILMOT.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 4, 1805,
Will be presented a Comedy, written by the Author of the "West Indian," &c. called
The Sailor's Daughter.
END OF THE PLAY,
Song, Mrs. Claude. Recitation—Snowstorm, Mr. Clark. Song—Old Commodore, in character, Mr. Comer. Recitation—Alonzo & Imagine, Mr. Poe. Song—Natty Sam the Tinker, in character, Mr. Wilmot.
To which will be added the Musical Entertainment of
The Adopted Child.
ADMITTANCE—Box one Dollar, Pitt three quarters of a Dollar. Tickets to be had at Mr. McLaughlin's tavern, George-Town, at the office of the Washington Federalist, at the Theatre, and at A. & G. Way's Printing-Office. Doors to be opened at 6, and the performance to commence at 7 o'clock precisely.
Runaway Negro.
WAS committed to the jail of Washington county, in Maryland, as a runaway, on the 3th day of August, a negro man, who says his name is WILL, and that he belongs to John TYLER, near Leesburg in Virginia—He is about 40 years old, rather low in stature; his clothes are one old gingham coat, coarse brown linen trowsers, two coarse shirts, and an old wool hat; he has a scar on his left arm, which he says has been branded. The owner is desired to release him, or he will be sold agreeably to law.
N. ROCHESTER, Sheriff. October 2—w3t
TO RENT
FOR ONE OR MORE YEARS,
A two Story Brick House, situated on Pennsylvania avenue nearly opposite the SIX BUILDINGS. There is a large garden attached thereto and a pump with excellent water in the yard. The house was constructed for the purpose of having a store in front, or to suit a mechanic, as well as to accommodate a family. It is an eligible place for business and the situation is remarkably healthy. The terms of rent will be moderate—For further information apply to Phileas Bradley near the premises or to the subscriber. REBECCA HODGSON. October 2—w6t
CAUTION.
ALL persons are hereby warned against taking an assignment on a note given by me to WILLIAM ADAMS, for the sum of seventy dollars thirty four cents, bearing date July 22d, 1805, payable in ninety days from date. As I have a claim in bar against the said note, and are determined not to pay until he comes forward and settles the same. GEORGE ST. CLARE. Sept. 30—ep3t.
CHARLES H. VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR.
Has received from Philadelphia a handsome assortment of FALL goods, consisting of the best London and French superfine cloths, cashmeres, patent Benner's cord, toiletens, fancy and white Marcellas, black and figured silk, mole skins, fancy silk, Marcellas, constitution cords, velvets, Genoa cord, silk and satin Florentines, superfine coating, knapped cloths, with a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season. N. B. Ladies habits, regiments, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, December 10—tf
ISAIAH BALDERSTON, & SON
AT the sign of the Fan and Screen, No. 52 Front street, Old town, and 1 Hanover street nearly opposite Evans's Tavern) Baltimore, Manufacture and sell the following articles, viz. Fans for cleaning wheat, Wire Safes of the most approved kinds, Rolling & Standing Screens (for merchant mills, and flaxseed Rolling Screens may be had on the common construction, or on Isaiah Balderston's improved plan, which is found to be superior to any heretofore in use for separating garlic from wheat) Riddles and Seives for corn, coal, ore, barley, rye, oats, flax and clover seeds, wheat, cockle, lime, sand, fluff, flarch, and brick dust. Woven Wire for milk houses and cellar windows, together with all kinds of wire work, of which they constantly keep a complete and extensive assortment. Orders for any of the above articles left with Wm. Morgan, George Town, or forwarded to them will be executed with punctuality and dispatch on moderate terms. 8th Mo. 23—
FOR SALE,
A TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE and LOT in the city of Washington, situated on the Pennsylvania avenue near the Centre Market, and next door to Mr. Duane's book store, now leased to Mr. Solomon Myers for three years, and occupied by him as a tavern. This property will be sold considerably below the first cost, and the payments made easy. For terms apply to the subscriber next door to Mr. Way's Printing Office. WILLIAM WOODWARD. September 18—22wtf
A Valuable Tract of Land FOR SALE,
LAYING on the main road, leading from Charlotte (village to Washington city, containing 868 acres; six miles from Cuipepper Court House, Virginia, convenient to a number of fine merchant and saw mills. The situation is pleasant and remarkably healthy, the land level, fertile and well adapted to the production of Indian corn, tobacco, wheat and other small grain, and is remarkably well watered, having the north fork of Cedar Run passing through the center of it, and sixteen bold and never failing springs on it; 140 acres of timothy meadow land on it, all of which may be put in good repair at a very small expense and a superabundance of large and lofty timber on it. The improvements are a dwelling house, three rooms on a floor, a good kitchen, a very large barn two stories high and other out houses sufficient, and which are strong and well built—2200 bearing fruit trees, principally apple trees, together with all kinds of seed and stone fruits. It is so situated as to admit of being divided into two convenient and profitable farms. I will sell it entire or divide it as may be found most convenient and give immediate possession—there is a good chance to feed a large crop of grain on it this fall. I will take negroes to the full amount of the above land or any part thereof for the accommodation of a purchaser; if the above land is not sold before the 20th of October, it will be sold on that day to the highest bidder; the sale to take place on the premises. MORTON PANNELL, Cuipepper county, Virginia. August 21—wtf
FLOWER ROOTS.
THEO. HOLT has for sale at his Nursery Garden the following Flower Roots imported by him last spring, but came too late then to offer them for sale consisting of, Double Yellow Hyacinths, Red, do. Blue, do. White, do. Polyanthus Narcissus of sorts, Double Roman, do. Fine mixed Tulips, Large Double Jonquils, Crown Imperials, &c. &c. Washington city, Aug. 26—w6t
RUNAWAY
Now in this City. On Wednesday last, a likely mulatto girl named CELIA, about twelve or thirteen years of age, has a small impediment in her speech, and when spoken to has a diffident or down look; she brought off a variety of decent clothing, and had on a green satin bonnet, long square front lined with pink. She passes herself as free under the name of NANCY ADAMS. I will give FIVE DOLLARS for securing her in jail so that I get her again, or TEN DOLLARS for delivering her to me in Alexandria. JAS. S. SCOTT.
N. B. I caution all persons against aiding or harboring her after this date. Sept. 18—tf
City of Washington, Sept. 9, 1805.
Several persons under the impression that the public lots in this city are to be disposed of in future by public sales only, having made enquiries when the next sale will probably take place, we are requested to state that those lots may at any time be purchased at private sale of the Superintendent of the City. tt
The subscriber begs leave
to inform his friends and the public generally that he has moved from the Navy Yard to the Capitol Hill, in the hotel lately occupied by Mr. W. D. Steele, where he hopes to be favoured with a part of their patronage. It being a desirable situation, and the conveniences of the hotel excelled by none in the city. He therefore hopes to please those that call upon him in every instance. WILLIAM R. KING. August 30—tf.
Ten Dollars Reward.
WAS missed on Sunday, the 5th of May a double cased silver Watch, maker's name Crosswhite, Dublin, and in the outer case was a watch paper with Mr. Park's name of Philadelphia—Whoever will bring the said watch to the office of the National Intelligencer, shall receive the above reward, and no questions will be asked. May 10—tf.
By Prince George's County Court, September term, 1805.
WHEREAS the commissioners appointed on the petition of SARAH ADAMS and ANNE ADAMS, praying that a commission might issue to ascertain whether the real estate of GEORGE WALTER GIBBONS, late of Prince George's county, deceased, would admit of division without injury or loss to the parties concerned, having made a return stating, that on examination of the premises, a division would be prejudicial to the parties. And whereas all the representatives of the said Gibbons having been summoned to appear in the county Court aforesaid, to show cause why the return aforesaid should not be confirmed except Josias Kedwell, son of Leonard, who, as it is represented, resides out of the state, to wit, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is thereupon ordered, that the said Josias Kedwell appear before the said county Court to be held at the town of Upper Marlborough, in the county aforesaid, on the first Monday in April next, to show cause, if any he hath, why the aforesaid return should not be confirmed and that notice be given to the said Josias Kedwell, by a publication of this order in the National Intelligencer once in each week for four weeks successively before the fifteenth day of November next. JOHN READ MAGRUDER, Jr. Ck. Sept. 27—w4t.
Advertisement.
OFFER for sale the plantation in Prince George's county on which Mr. Michael L. L. now lives, consisting of two tracts of land, viz. Trial and Deer Pond enlarged, and containing 408 acres.
Any person disposed to purchase will be pleased to apply to Mr. Thomas Mundell near Piscataway, whom I have empowered to sell for me. Should this property not be disposed of by private sale before Wednesday the 9th of October next it will at 12 o'clock of that day be offered at PUBLIC SALE by Mr. Minnel at Mr. Bowling's Tavern in Piscataway. The sum of 1400 DOLLARS, in ready money will be required of the purchaser, and a credit given for the balance, which will be made known on the day of Sale. ROBERT FERGUSON. Sept. 20—w7t
Rich Kanawha Bottom Lands FOR SALE or EXCHANGE.
THE subscriber offers for sale, or exchange for Lands or other real property on the east side of Blue Ridge about 7000 acres of rich bottom lands on the Great Kanawha river, and on both sides thereof, opposite and below the mouth of Poketolico creek in the state of Virginia, 25 miles from Point Pleasant, the county town of Mason county, and 12 miles from the county town of Kanawha county, and adjoining the lands of the late Gen. Washington. They were surveyed at the same time with these lands, viz. in the year 1773, and are held under the same titles, viz. old military rights which are unquestionable.
The Lands are of the very first quality, the bottoms in many places a mile wide. The have been lately reley-yed and divided into lots containing from 150 to 350 acres each; for the accommodation of purchasers, each lot fronting on the river, and extending back from thence to the hills, which afford a most extensive range for flock, which can never be interrupted. 100 acres therefore of this rich bottom with its advantages would make a good settlement. The great Virginia state road leading to the states of Ohio and Kentucky, passes by and through these lands, which being on a fine navigable river will command a ready and high price for the produce to the emigrants to the western countries both by land and water. Their situation besides gives their occupants choice of the eastern or western markets as produce or stock may be found most profitable. The climate is mild and remarkably favorable to the production of fruit. Salt works are erected on the banks of the river but a few miles above these lands, and the neighborhood furnishes abundance of iron, coal, limestone, mills and mill seats—so that there is no part of the western country which holds out more advantages to persons desirous of emigrating. A more particular description of these lands, with plots of the several lots, their situation, description and price may be had by application in Alexandria, to Mr. Wm. CRAIK to attend the surveying of them, or to the subscriber. JAMES CRAIK. Sept. 11—w6w
ELIAS B. CALDWELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HAS removed his Office, to the house lately occupied by Mr. LAW, on Capitol Hill. Washington, July 26—tf
Alleghany.
The subscriber having determined to reside in Alleghany Co. Maryland, offers for sale 40,000 acres of land there and in Hardy County, Virginia, which is separated from Alleghany county, only by the North branch of Potomac. The land to be laid off in small or large quantity as to suit purchasers. He will remain here till 5th October, and be in Western Port at the mouth of Georges creek, 25 miles above Cumberland on 12th of October, for the express purpose of showing, selling, and laying out lands for those who wish to purchase. The terms of sale will be very reasonable, and a long time allowed for a large proportion of the payments, and produce or stock of any kind will be taken from year to year, at the Cumberland prices, and as he will want hand opened labor will also be taken in payment. A small payment will be expected at the time of purchase, say one eighth part which may be made in cash, good notes, bonds or slaves. He also offers a number of good lots at the west end of the city of Washington, and his dwelling house, out houses, garden &c. in George Town, now under the occupation of Washington Bowles, Esq. The lots will be sold for cash or on a long credit, or leased on ground rents. The place in George Town is one of the handiest in the world, is well calculated for a man of business, and particularly well for a gentleman with a family of children to educate, it being situated in the midst of excellent seminaries for male and female, and good society, with fine water and excellent health. For further particulars respecting the city and George Town property, apply to Mr. CHARLES WAYMAN in George Town. The country at the head of the Potomac, where the subscriber offers his lands for sale, has perhaps important advantages over all other new countries, though in general it is mountainous, yet there are large bodies of land sufficiently level, and fertile in a high degree. No country is more healthy, no e better adapted to farming and grazing. The crops of Indian corn are from 5 to 8 barrels the acre, in the common mode of cultivation, and there is no country superior for wheat, rye and oats, but its greatest advantage over most new countries, is its convenience to market, being not more than 150 miles from the seat of government of the United States; to which the produce can be brought by water. Those who may wish for further particulars, may see me in George Town any time between this and 5th of October. JOHN TEMPLEMAN. Sept. 4—w3v.

HISTORY
Of the West Indies :
A WORK in the contents of which every citizen of America must be interested whether devoted to business, or desirous of information through the medium of amusement.
A new & revised edition of Mr. EDWARDS's History of the West Indies, with a third volume, (completed by his amiable author a short time previous to his death) has lately been published in London. This third volume contains the interesting and important history, with a large Map of the Island of St. Domingo, or Hispaniola, as also that of Tobago; likewise a history of the war in the West Indies from its commencement in 1773, and a tour of Sir William Young through several of the islands. It is accompanied by a highly finished portrait of Mr. Edwards, a hitherto unpublished portrait by himself, and a prefatory advertisement by Sir William Young, Baronet, M. P. F. R. S. &c. under whose editorship it has been given to the public.
The subscriber, impressed with a sense of the great importance a general knowledge of the History, civil and commercial, of the West Indies, must be to every citizen of America, and of the great celebrity of the above work, proposes to print it by subscription, and respectfully offers the following for public patronage and encouragement.
Proposals for Printing,
From the London copy, 3 volumes quarto,
THE HISTORY,
CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL,
Of the British Colonies in the West Indies.
BY BRYAN EDWARDS, ESQ. F. R. S. A. S.
Containing, with a variety of other matter:—
A political and topographical survey of the sugar islands.
A comprehensive account of the ancient and present inhabitants, agriculture, productions, laws, government, constitution and commerce.
An historical review of the slave trade; including observations on the character, genius, dispositions, and situations of the enslaved Africans.
An historical review of St. Domingo, comprehending an account of the former government of the French part of that island, its political state, populations, productions, and exports; a narrative of the calamities which have desolated the island ever since the year 1789; and a detail of the transactions of the British army in that island.
Also, a tour through the islands of Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Antigua, Tobago and Grenada, by Sir William Young, Baronet, &c. And
A history of the war in the West Indies from its commencement in 1773, &c. &c.
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It will be printed in four volumes, large octavo, on a perfectly new and beautiful type; and on a handsome large medium paper, agreeable to a specimen, which may be had at the subscriber's Book Store.
The price to subscribers to be three dollars the volume, in boards; each volume to be paid for on delivery.
With the last volume will be given an ATLAS, (without any additional price) containing the following maps, viz.
 1 A large general map of the West Indies.  2 Map of Jamaica.  3 Barbadoes.  4 Grenada.  5 St. Vincents.  6 Dominica.  7 St. Christopher's.  8 Nevis.  9 Antigua.  10 Virgin islands.  11 St. Domingo, or Hispaniola.  12 Tobago. 
To prevent disappointment or complaint, it is now promised, that on the publication of the second volume the subscription price will be advanced to three dollars and a half the volume, and on the publication of the last volume the price will be again enhanced.
With the last volume, besides the Atlas, will be given an elegant engraving of the celebrated author. Also a list of the subscribers names.
The London copy of the foregoing work in three volumes cannot be sold in America, in boards, under sixty dollars.
JAMES HUMPHREYS.
Subscriptions are received by said Humphreys at his book-store the corner of Second and Walnut streets, and by the principal Booksellers through the Union.
Philadelphia, July 15—
Preparing for the Press
AND will be published early in the Spring, in one closely printed volume, The spirit of the Public Journals;
Being an impartial selection of the best original Poetry, Essays, &c. which have appeared in the newspapers of the United States during the year 1805.
The Editors of Newspapers who exchange with the BALTIMORE Evening Post, are requested to give the above advertisement a few insertions in their papers. When published, a copy of the work will be sent to each office.
Sept. 9—
SULLIVAN'S LECTURES,
PROPOSALS
By THOMAS B. WAIT & Co.
FOR PRINTING, BY SUBSCRIPTION,
AN HISTORICAL TREATISE
ON THE
FEUDAL LAW,
AND THE
CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF ENGLAND;
With a Commentary on Magna Charta, and Illustrations of many of the English Statutes.
BY THE LATE
FRANCIS STOUGHTON SULLIVAN, L.L.D. Royal Professor of Common Law in the University of Dublin.
To which authorities are added, and a Discourse are prefixed, concerning the Laws and Government of England.
BY GILBERT STUART, L.L.D.
THE Lectures of Professor Sullivan, delivered to the Students in the University of Dublin, are in very high repute among all Lawyers of eminence, and have been uniformly recommended as an elementary book to those young gentlemen who begin the study of Law with a view to render themselves respectable in the profession.
However obsolescent the feudal policy may now seem to be, it having gradually disappeared as mankind grew more civilized and became better acquainted with their natural and inalienable rights and privileges; yet a research into the history of the government of jurisprudence of the nations of Europe, will satisfy any one, that many consequences of that system still exist and influence the opinions and decisions of the highest and most enlightened tribunals of justice. Every author who has undertaken to give a regular and systematic account of the rise and progress of modern nations, has felt himself obliged to resort to the history of feuds and feudal rights, as the fundamental principle from which all existing civil and political institutions have taken their rise; and every jurist who has employed himself in explaining the constitution and laws of his country, has gone to the same source for the correct materials of his essays and dissertations. Robertson, in his history of the Emperor Charles V. has with great beauty and perspicuity illustrated so much of the feudal policy as was necessary to enable the scientific reader to understand that valuable book; and Sir Wm. Blackstone has in the course of his commentaries, led the student to a contemplation of the ancient tenures, many of which depend upon the doctrine of feuds, as established in England by the Norman conqueror.
But in both those invaluable productions, the feudal policy was adverted to, only as incidental to the principal object of the authors, and therefore cannot be supposed to furnish so complete and satisfactory an account, as would be given by so distinguished a lawyer as Professor Sullivan, who declares the great purpose of his lectures to be the full discussion of the subject, which was of necessity but partially considered by the other writers.
This work has become so scarce in this country, as to be seldom seen, even on the shelves of a practising lawyer; a fact to be accounted for only by the difficulty of obtaining the book: for it cannot well be supposed that any one of the profession, who has higher views than the mere pecuniary advantages of the practice, would willingly neglect an enquiry into those ancient institutions, upon which, notwithstanding the lapse of ages, most modern improvements are founded. But it is not to the profession alone, that this book may be considered useful. In this rising empire, where political knowledge to a certain degree is claimed by all, and actually possessed by many; a book which succinctly and perspicuously brings to view the laws, institutions, manners and customs of those nations from which our English ancestors descended, must be peculiarly useful as it will enable young politicians to trace all our civil regulations to their source, and thus to account methodically and scientifically for many modern usages and practices, of which their knowledge is extremely superficial. In this book they will see how our ancestors struggled for the establishment of those privileges which artful monarchs and a proud nobility were continually attempting to destroy; and they will also learn that the persevering industry of the people, aided by the wealth which their skill and enterprise brought into the country, finally obtained a complete victory in the establishment of principles and customs, which, transplanted into America by our progenitors, terminated in those glorious constitutions which distinguish the people of America, for liberty and happiness, from every other people on the earth.
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The work shall be elegantly printed, in two octavo volumes, on fine wove paper, with a new and beautiful type. It will be delivered to Subscribers, bound in calf, at Five Dollars; and in boards, at Four Dollars—To non-subscribers the price will be enhanced. No money will be required till the delivery of the work.
Those who subscribe for ten sets shall have one gratis. To booksellers the usual allowance will be made.
Portland, June 24—
The above work will be printed from a correct London Edition—The few copies of an Irish Edition now circulating in this country are considered by the first law characters, as extremely incorrect, and not to be relied on by historical authority.
Council, Annapolis, May 16, 1805.
ORDERED, That the act to provide for the trial of felons in the several counties of this state, and to alter, change and abolish, all such parts of the constitution and form of government as relate to the general court and court of appeals, be published twice in each week for the space of three months in the Maryland Gazette at Annapolis; the American, Telegraph and the Federal Gazette at Baltimore; the National Intelligencer; the Republican Advocate and Bartgis's paper at Frederick-Town; Greaves's paper at Hagerstown, and in Smith's and Cowan's paper at Easton.
By order, NIANIAN PINKNEY, Clerk.
AN ACT
To provide for the trial of felons in the several counties of this state, and to alter, change and abolish, all such parts of the constitution and forms of government as relate to the general court and court of appeals.
BE it enacted by the general assembly of Maryland, That the state shall be divided into six judicial districts in manner and form following to wit: St. Mary's, Charles and Prince George's counties, shall be the first district; Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot counties, shall be the second district; Calvert, Anne Arundel and Montgomery counties shall be the third district; Caroline, Dorchester, Somerset and Worcester counties, shall be the fourth district; Frederick, Washington and Allegany counties shall be the fifth district; Baltimore and Harford counties shall be the sixth district; and there shall be appointed, for each of the said judicial districts, three persons of integrity and found legal knowledge, residents of the state of Maryland, who shall previous to and during their acting as judges, reside in the district for which they shall respectively be appointed, one of whom shall be styled in the commission chief judge, and the other two associate judges, of the district for which they shall be appointed; and the chief judges, together with the two associate judges, shall compose the county courts in each respective district; and each judge shall hold his commission during good behavior, removable for misbehavior on conviction in a court of law, or shall be removed by the governor, upon the address of the general assembly, provided that two thirds of all the members of each house concur in such address; and the county courts, so as aforesaid established, shall have, hold and exercise, in the several counties of this state, all and every the powers authorities and jurisdictions, which the county courts of this state now have, use and exercise, and which shall be hereafter prescribed by law; and the said county courts established by this act shall respectively hold their sessions in the several counties at such times and places as the legislature shall direct and appoint, and the salaries of the said judges shall not be diminished during the period of their continuance in office.
II. And be it enacted, That in any suit or action at law hereafter to be commenced or instituted in any county court of this state, the judges thereof, upon suggestion in writing by either of the parties thereto, supported by affidavit or other proper evidence, that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in the county court of the county where such suit or action is depending, shall and may order and direct the record of their proceedings in such suit or action to be transmitted to the judges of any county court within the district for trial, and the judges of such county court, to whom the said record shall be transmitted, shall hear and determine the same in like manner as if such suit or action had been originally instituted therein; provided, nevertheless, that such suggestion shall be made as aforesaid before or during the term in which the issue or issues may be joined in the said suit or action; and provided also, that such further remedy may be provided by law, in the premises, as the legislature shall from time to time direct and enact.
III. And be it enacted, That if any party presented or indicted in any of the county courts of this state, shall suggest in writing to the court in which such prosecution is depending, that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in such court, it shall and may be lawful for the said court to order and direct the record of their proceedings in the said prosecution to be transmitted to the judges of any adjoining county court for trial, and the judges of such adjoining county court shall hear and determine the same in like manner as if such prosecution had been originally instituted therein; provided that such further and other remedy may be provided by law in the premises as the legislature may direct and enact.
IV. And be it enacted, That if the attorney general, or the prosecutor for the state, shall suggest in writing to any county court, before whom an indictment is or may be depending, that the state cannot have a fair and impartial trial in such court, it shall and may be lawful for the said court, in their discretion, to order and direct the record of their proceedings in the said prosecution to be transmitted to the judges of any adjoining county court for trial, and the judges of such county court shall hear and determine the same as if such prosecution had been originally instituted therein.
V. And be it enacted, That there shall be a court of appeals, and the same shall be composed of the chief judges of the several judicial districts of the state, which said court of appeals shall hold, use and exercise, all and singular the powers, authorities and jurisdictions, heretofore held, used and exercised, by the court of appeals of this state, and also the appellate jurisdiction heretofore used and exercised by the general court; and the said court of appeals hereby established, shall sit on the western and eastern shores for transacting and determining the business of the respective shores, at such times and places as the future legislature of this state shall direct and appoint, and any three of the said judges of the court of appeals shall form a quorum to hear and decide in all cases pending in said court and the judge who has given a decision in any case in the county court, shall withdraw from the bench upon the deciding of the same case before the court of appeals; and the judges of the court of appeals may appoint the clerks of said court for the western and eastern shores.
respectively, who shall hold their appointments during good behavior, removable only for misbehavior on conviction in a court of law; and in case of death, resignation, disqualification or removal out of the state, or from their respective shores, of either of the said clerks in the vacation of the said court, the governor, with the advice of the council, may appoint and commission a fit and proper person to such vacant office, to hold the same until the next meeting of the said court; and all laws passed after this act shall take effect, shall be recorded in the office of the court of appeals of the western shore.
VI. And be it enacted, That all and every part of the constitution and form of government which relates to the court of appeals and the general court, or the judges thereof, or that is in any manner repugnant to, or inconsistent with, the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed, abrogated and annulled upon the confirmation hereof; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to as to authorize the removal of the clerks of the respective county courts being in commission at the time of the passing of this act, in any other mode or manner than that prescribed by the constitution and form of government.
VII. And be it enacted, That if this act shall be confirmed by the general assembly, after the next election of delegates, in the first session after such new election, as the constitution and form of government directs, that in such case this act, and the alterations and amendments of the constitution and form of government therein contained, shall be taken and considered, and shall constitute and be valid, as a part of the said constitution and form of government, to all intents and purposes, any thing in the said constitution and form of government to the contrary, notwithstanding.
May 31—2a-w3m
Runaway Negro.
WAS committed to the jail of Frederick county, as a runaway, on the 25th day of last June, a negro man who says his name is BEN JOHANSON, he is about 30 years old; is 6 feet 1 inch high and has a scar above his left eye—His clothes are 1 check and 2 linen shirts; one red cashmere and one striped jacket; one pair of blue, one pair of nasskeen, and one pair of osnaburg overalls; two pair of stockings, one brown cloth coat, two round-about jackets with sleeves, and one fur hat. His owner is desired to release him, or he will be sold for his all fees agreeably to law.
GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick county.
August 7—w3t
Runaway Negro.
WAS committed to the jail of Frederick county, on the 25th of July last, as a runaway, a negro man named JIM, about 23 years of age, five feet four inches high; his clothing is a velvet jacket, osnaburg shirt and trousers, and a wool hat. He says he belongs to Mr. Evans, of Natchez, and that he was purchased of Rezin Hammond, of Anne-Arundel county, Maryland. His owner is desired to release him, or he will be sold for his jail fees agreeably to law.
GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick County
Aug. 16th—1805—rawgw.
ENTERTAINMENT FOR Man and Horse.
THE subscriber takes this method to inform the public, and particularly those travelling to the City of Washington, that he has opened a house of entertainment opposite the Branch Bank of the United States, where travellers shall be well accommodated on the most reasonable terms.
THOMAS THORPE.
July 3—1awtf.
NOTICE to Delinquent Subscribers to the THEATRE.
ALL Subscribers to the Theatre, who have not made full payments on their shares, or contributed the materials and work promised, are hereby notified that unless the same be done on or before the first day of December next, their shares will be forfeited; after which day certificates of stock will be issued to those subscribers who have complied with the terms of subscription on application to the Directors.
ROBERT BRENT, WILLIAM BRENT, SAMUEL H. SMITH, } Directors.
Sept. 4—tf
PUBLIC SALE,
Of Houses, Lots, and lands, situated in Fredericktown, and in the county of Frederick and state of Maryland.
ON the 23d of October next, at Mrs. Kimbolls in said town, will be sold at auction for the benefit of creditors, viz in Fredericktown.
A large, handsome and commodious three story brick dwelling & storehouse, in a central situation for business—Also an extensive range of building, forming a very eligible family residence, in an airy situation with every needful improvement, and an out lot of 22 acres, enclosed with a post and rail fence, now in clover—453 acres of good farming land, in two tenements well apportioned, with meadow, upland, improvements and timber, distant about 12 miles. The terms, one twelfth in hand, one fourth in one month, the residue in two equal annual instalments with interest, on bond and security.
JOHN RITCHIE, Trustee.
Frederick town, Sept. 11—
A Brewery for Sale.
BY virtue of an authority given to the subscriber will be sold upon the premises to the highest bidder, on Monday the 21st day of October next at the hour of twelve, Lot numbered 10 in square east of square numbered 88 in the city of Washington; upon this lot are a malt house and kiln, a dwelling house of four rooms, to which is attached the brew house, containing a copper of 600 gallons and another of 100 gallons, a mashing tun, at present down, a working tun and a number of hogsheads; also a small granary with cellar room for sixty rum hogsheads—the standing works are convenient and the whole may be put in complete repair for 500 dollars. Annexed to the brewery is a good horse mill. A wharf may be extended from it at a small expence, to receive wood and grain, and beer may be conveyed from it by water to all the more populous parts of the city and George-Town. The above property is extremely desirable in all respects to a person wishing to go into the brewing line.
The terms of sale are, the purchase money to be paid one half in six and the other in nine months. For which payments security will be expected. Any person wishing to view the premises will please apply to Dr. Conningham residing thereon.
MARSHAM WARING.
Sept. 2—tdoi
Republican Proceedings.
AGREEABLY to notice, a meeting of a number of respectable Republicans from the several election districts in Prince George's county, was held at Upper Marlborough in said county, on the 11th of September, for the purpose of recommending to the Republicans of said county, proper characters to represent them in the next General Assembly of Maryland.
RINALDO JOHNSON, Esq. was called to the chair, and Mr. FIELDER RIDGWAY appointed Secretary of this meeting.
On motion, Resolved that this meeting now proceed to ballot for four candidates to be recommended to the citizens of Prince George's county as delegates to the next General Assembly and that this meeting will support by their votes at the ensuing election such gentlemen as shall have a majority of ballots in their favor.
The meeting then proceeded to the balloting, and upon calling up the votes it appeared that Alexander Contee, Osborn Sprigg, Samuel Tyler, Sen. and Thomas Woodward, Esquires had a majority of votes.
Whereupon, Resolved, That this meeting recommend to the Republican Citizens of Prince George's county, Alexander Contee, Osborn Sprigg, Samuel Tyler, Sen. and Thomas Woodward, Esquires as proper characters to serve in the ensuing General Assembly.
Resolved, That the foregoing proceedings be signed by the Chairman and Secretary of this meeting, and published in the National Intelligencer.
RINALDO JOHNSON, Chairman, FIELDER RIDGWAY, Secretary.
Sept. 18—tdoi 7
1500 DOLLARS REWARD.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
YESTERDAY about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, Mr. JOHN PETER, an Officer of the BANK OF COLUMBIA, was stopped on horseback on the road between this town and Alexandria, and within about 2 miles of the latter place, by some unknown villain, shot through the body with a pistol, and robbed of a sum of money in his possession belonging to this Institution which he was taking to Alexandria, for the purpose of exchanging with the banks there.
The whole sum taken amounted Eighteen Thousand One hundred and Fourteen Dollars and Sixty five Cents, made up in several packages, among which were,
 1 post note of the Bank of Virginia, for 800  1 do. of the same, for 500  1 do. of the same, for 500  1 do. of the same, for 450  1 do. of the Bank of Potomac in favor of Joseph Riddle by him endorsed to Washington Bowie, dated 6 July, 1805. No 117 149 05 
A check of the Union Bank, on the Bank of Alexandria, drawn by R. Higginbotham, cashier, in favor of Greatham and Doversu, by them endorsed and by Benj. Stoddert, and C. Smith, Teller.
There were also a parcel of post notes of the Bank of Alexandria for 100 dollars, and for 50 dollars each. The remainder was in current notes, principally of the banks of Alexandria and Potomac, and some few of the Bank of Virginia of different sizes and denominations.
As the attack was sudden, and the wound received of a nature to deprive Mr. Peter instantly of his senses, (although it is now hoped he will recover) the description obtained may not be very accurate—As far as we are informed—the man who perpetrated the act, is of middle stature, good countenance, and had a genteel appearance. He had on a dark blue or black coat, nasskeen pantaloons, shoes, and a black hat, he was on foot and alone at the time, but may have had accomplices concealed, and will probably change his clothes.
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS will be given to any person or persons, who will detect and bring to conviction the robber; and ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS additional for the recovery of the whole of the money, or in proportion for any smaller sum recovered—should there be accomplices, and one of them make a discovery, so that it leads to the conviction of the robber, or to the recovery of the money he shall receive the above reward, and interest will be made to obtain his pardon.
WILLIAM WEHANN, Cashier of the Bank of Columbia.
George Town, July 31—