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National Intelligencer.
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER
VOL. X.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. 1434.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM,
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1809.
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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
The following Extracts from a Speech delivered by Mr. Giles in the Senate, on the 13th of February last, exhibit more in detail the course pursued by the British government in the case of De Palm, and, further, shew the sentiments entertained by Mr. Giles at that time.
"Let me now, sir, implore your most serious attention to the publication of Mr. Canning's letter in the Boston newspaper. The time and circumstances attending its publication aggravate the act. It was an unpardonable insult, and ought to be repelled with indignation; particularly insulting was it to those for whose use it was more immediately intended. Is it possible that the British Parliament or nation can justify this act of abandoned profligacy? In the cases of Greville, Yrujo, &c. their ministerial functions were suspended. Their recall was immediately requested and complied with. In those cases the authors were owned; in this he is concealed. The publication is conducted or directed by an invisible hand; but, sir, the act is not the less dishonorable nor reprehensible on that account."
"N, sir, the author skulking from public view, stamps the character of the transaction with a peculiar disgrace. Insults of this kind, sir, have been practiced upon the British government and nation. Let us see how insults of this nature were received and treated by that government and nation. Several cases of this nature have occurred in Great Britain, but I will select one in point which occurred in the time of George the 1st, in the year 1727. It will be found recorded in Belsham's memoirs of George the 1st, pages 192, 193, and in the proceedings of Parliament of that day, in reference to that subject. These I have examined and find them still more pointed than the historical account of them, particularly the resolutions of the House of Commons, which are highly worthy of imitation: they are contained in a very large book, and I therefore declined bringing it to the Senate. The case was, sir, that the imperial resident at the court of London, Count de Palm, was instructed by his government to present to his Britannic majesty a strong and pointed memorial against certain expressions or intimations in the king's speech to Parliament, which were suggested by the imperial court to be unfounded and false, as they probably were, &c. &c. and to publish the memorial for the information of the British nation. How, sir, did the British government and nation receive and repel this insult? Sir, it was received with universal detestation, and repelled with universal indignation. It hushed for the moment the spirit of party. It was deemed an insult to every man, woman and child in Great Britain, &c. &c. But, sir, let me give you the account in the words of the historian."
"With the memorial also was transmitted from Vienna a letter from the chancellor count Zinzendorf to count Palm, expressly commanding him, in the name of his imperial majesty, after presenting the memorial to the king of Great Britain, to publish it together with the letter annexed, for the information of the British nation. The chancellor Zinzendorf, affirms in this letter "that it is easy to see that the speech was made for no other purpose but to exhort the nation to a rupture and open war with the emperor and Spain, and to make the Parliament approve the precipitate and burdensome measures which the government has taken for private ends too well known." That on the first report of these false suppositions, the emperor and the king of Spain in order to silence them, proposed a formal act de non offendendo , into which all the contracting parties of the treaties of Vienna and Hanover might enter, till such time as a definitive agreement might have taken place; but that this proposition was rejected. He says, that the article of the quadruple alliance are expressly and publicly laid down as the unalterable basis of the treaty of Vienna, and that to affirm that by a secret pact concluded at the same time, engagements have been entered into by their imperial and Catholic majesties, repugnant to the same, is an outrageous insult to the majesty of the two contracting powers, who have
a right to demand a reparation proportioned to the enormity of the affront. And that the high contracting parties had no other view than that of making peace between themselves without injuring any one else." The allegations contained in this letter and memorial seem but too well founded; but the intemperate language of those papers gave high and just offence; and Mr. Shippen, Mr. Hungerford, Sir William Wyndham, and all the leaders of opposition in Parliament, warmly concurred in the address presented to the throne on this occasion, and which passed the house without a dissentient vote. And an order was sent to M. de Palm, signifying "that the said Palm having delivered into the hands of his majesty at his late audience, a memorial highly injurious to the honor and dignity of his crown; and having also publicly dispersed the same with a letter from the count de Zinzendorf to him the said Palm, still more insolent than the memorial, his majesty looked upon him no longer as a public minister and required him forthwith to depart out of his kingdom."
"Here, sir, we find the imperial resident, the count de Palm, immediately ordered out of the country, and the nation rising into instant war to repel the insult & retrieve the wounded honor of the nation. Here, sir, we find the bickerings of party silenced—we find every heart united—we find the opposition facing about, and the whole nation presenting a hostile front to the authors of the insult. Can you believe, Mr. President, that a nation which feels so just a sensibility, when an insult is inflicted by others upon itself, can for a moment justify its ministry in inflicting a similar insult upon another nation? Can you believe, sir, that the British nation or ministry can feel any respect for those for whose use the publication was intended, when you contrast their conduct with the generous and correct conduct of the British opposition? When instead of rousing every American feeling to repel the insult with indignation, it seems to have been received with complacency, and directed to its iniquitous end! And shall we be compelled to believe that all honorable feeling is lost and buried under the dominant influence of party sensibility? Surely, sir, this cannot be an attitude which any party would wish to assume, and thus present itself either to the American or the British nation! Yet, sir, the only difference in the character of the insult in the two cases is, that in one the author was known and avowed, and in the other, he secures himself by his invisibility. But, sir, if the author of the publication be an authorised British agent, and he will avow himself in a bold and manly way, I have no hesitation in saying he ought instantly to be sent out of the country, let the consequences be what they may. Sir, in no country in the world ought this point to be held more sacred, and the insults more firmly repelled than in the United States, where our presses are under no restraint—where not only freedom, but licentiousness, characterises almost every page."
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
December 13.
[Minutes concluded from our last.]
COLLEGE IN WASHINGTON.
Mr. Love presented a memorial of the Board of Trustees of the Public Schools of the city of Washington, praying the patronage of Congress in the institution of a College in Washington.—Referred to the committee of the District of Columbia.
A report was received from the Secretary of the Treasury, enclosing, in pursuance of a standing resolution of the House, a statement of the drawbacks payable on articles exported from the United States in the years 1806, 1807 and 1808, compared with the amount of duties collected on the same respectively. From this statement the following abstract is made:
   Duties paid. Drawbacks payable.     Years 1806 26,197,638 9,145,875   1807 26,709,833 10,067,191   1808 11,158,617 249,396  
Ordered to lie on the table.
A bill from the Senate for extending to Joseph Joshua Dyster certain privileges (permitting him to obtain a patent for the invention of cast iron bridges, he not yet being a citizen); and a bill in addition to an act regulating the laying out and making a road from Cumberland in the state of Maryland to the state of Ohio, were each read the first and second time, and the first referred to a select committee of the whole, and the latter to a select committee, consisting of Messrs. Morrow, Nelson, Lewis, Ross and Gardener.
MR. VAN HORN'S PROPOSITIONS.
Mr. Van Horn called for the consideration of the resolutions laid on the table by him a few days ago relative to repealing drawbacks, &c. with a view of having them referred to a committee.
After some conversation between Messrs. Dana, Quincy, Mason and Van Horn, as to the proper committee to which they should be referred, Mr. Van Horn agreed that they should go to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
Mr. Rhea objected to the reference of a part of these resolutions, on the ground of the total inexperience of the propositions contained in them, and assigned his reasons for that opinion at some length. He said that the subject of their property belonged to the treaty-making power, and the legislating on them at all would take a powerful instrument out of its hands. They went to surrender those rights for which the United States had long been striving; and, if passed into law, when they should be again conceded for, our minister would be told, here is a law of your own Congress formally surrendering that for which you contend.
Mr. Van Horn said in reply that it is well known to all that we never should during the existence of a war in Europe be able to obtain an equitable treaty from either of the belligerent powers. As to the surrender spoken of, it was not a surrender at all, but a refusal to exercise certain privileges because injurious to us. If our merchants, instead of employing their vessels in the carrying trade, the source of almost all our difficulties, were compelled to employ them in the carriage of our domestic produce, it might be beneficial to the country. How happened it, he asked, that our merchants were growing rich and our planters poor?—For such was the fact. The system of commerce producing such consequences must be erroneous—and therefore he had proposed to enquire into the propriety of a change.
Mr. Rhea (T.) rebutted the idea held out by Mr. Van Horn in his resolutions would afford a remedy to the depressed state of the planters. Instead of enriching them, his resolutions, by doing away all foreign competition in the market for their produce, would make them still poorer.
A motion was made by Mr. Rhea to postpone the consideration of the subject till tomorrow. Negative.
Mr. Mason observed that a reference of the resolutions by no means committed any gentleman to vote for them.
Mr. Rhea (T.) then required a separate question to be taken on each resolution.
And the question being so taken, three of the resolutions were referred, and two rejected.
Those referred relate to the prohibition of the exportation of domestic produce in any other vessels than those owned and wholly navigated by citizens of the U. States; to laying an additional discriminating duty in favor of vessels of that description; and to modifying or repealing the laws allowing drawback.
Those rejected relate to prohibiting exportation from our ports of foreign goods in American vessels; and to prohibiting American vessels from carrying articles of foreign growth from one foreign port to another.
And the House adjourned at 3 o'clock.
December 14.
Mr. Gold, from the committee yesterday appointed to wait on the President of the U. States with the resolution passed by the House, reported that they had performed the duty assigned them, and that the President had returned for answer that he would attend to the request of the House.
On motion of Mr. Turner, Resolved, That the committee of Commerce and Manufactures be directed to enquire into the expediency of erecting a beacon on Beach Point, at the entrance of Plymouth harbor in Massachusetts, agreeable to the prayer of the petition of sundry inhabitants of Plymouth, Duxbury and Kingston in said state; in stead of erecting two beacons on the Stony Mussels Bed near said harbor, as provided for in the act of Congress, approved March 17th, 1808.
Mr. Nelson, from the committee appointed on the subject, reported a bill for the relief of the infirm, disabled and supernumerary officers of the late Revolutionary army and of the present army of the U.S.
Mr. Johnson, from the committee of Claims, also reported a bill for the relief of William and Elias Rector.
These bills were twice read and referred to a committee of the whole.
YAZOO CLAIM.
Mr. Bacon having moved that the petition of the New England Mississippi Land Company should be referred to the Committee of Claims—
Mr. Troup moved to reject the petition. He said that the virtue of the House had induced it to reject a petition of the same tenor heretofore, and under circumstances too which would have rendered an attention to it more excusable than at present—and why? Because the nation was at peace and had a full Treasury. And what, said he, is our situation at present? The country is on the eve of a war and has an exhausted Treasury. And what is the amount of the claim made upon you? I know not what is expected of you at this time; but four years ago ten millions of dollars was the estimated amount of it. And are you prepared to grant to these men a donation (for it can be considered in no other light) of even three millions of dollars? If you have three millions of surplus money in the Treasury, throw it into the ocean, give it to the beggar who besieges the door of the Capitol,
to the old revolutionary soldiers who daily ask for bread—or put it in your own pockets as a reward for your public services—but in the name of justice do not think of putting your hand into the Treasury to pay the hire and wages of corruption. As much as I hate in my heart this corruption, and as much as I have viewed with horror its triumph over the virtue of my country, I have heretofore been content to see this petition lie on the table. But now the case is altered; the time is proper, and I hope that the virtue and understanding of the House will induce it to agree to its immediate rejection.
Mr. Bacon said he was not prepared nor was it his wish to reply to the eloquent declamation and pointed denunciation pronounced by the gentleman from Georgia. He would only say that the petition was preferred by a respectable portion of citizens and ought to be referred. It embraced the claim of not only a respectable but of a numerous portion of the people of the state which he represented although he had not himself a constituent who was interested to the amount of a cent in the claim. It was a subject of as great magnitude as any ever presented to the House, and in his opinion extremely interesting to the internal policy and interests of this country. It was a claim sanctioned by high authority, by persons of the most respectable standing in the government. Should a claim of this amount, which had more than once attracted the notice of the Legislature of Massachusetts, not be referred? In this House there were not less than forty or fifty members to whom the subject was new and who ought to be made acquainted with it before they decided on it. Were they sufficiently versed in it to enable them to determine at once that this claim was so unjust that they would immediately shut the door on it? It appeared to him that the house could not be prepared to adopt the motion of the gentleman from Georgia, whose sensibilities were so highly excited.
The Speaker decided that the motion to refer a petition had preference of the motion to reject it, because it had been first made.
Mr. Dana observed that from what he had heard of the petition, it related to the same subject as a report made to Congress by certain commissioners appointed to investigate it, viz. James Madison, Albert Gallatin and Levi Lincoln, the then Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney general. These persons had so far respected the right of the claimants and the interest of the United States as connected with it, as to recommend a compromise. If the gentleman from Georgia had spoken of things of his own knowledge, and not of things which depended upon proof of which different opinions might be formed by different persons, Mr. D. said he should place implicit confidence in his opinion. But when doubts did exist in relation to the justice of the claim, when a respectable board of commissioners had reported in its favor, were the House ready to say that this petition should be driven from them as infamous? Were they at liberty thus to refuse it a reference or reject it upon the denunciation of the delegation of any state, however respectable the state or its delegation? Mr. Dana said he did not feel disposed to do so, and had rather that the petition should take the usual course.
Mr. Stanfield said that the report of the commissioners alluded to by the gentleman last up, had declared that in justice no claim could be set up by the petitioners; but it recommended a compromise on the ground of policy. He hoped the House would not agree to refer this petition, when they had peremptorily rejected a bill from the Senate, heretofore, going to carry into effect their prayer. He called for the Yeas and Nays on the question of reference.
Mr. Troup said he was aware how improper it was on the question of reference to enter into a consideration of the merits of the claim. But one word he must be permitted to say as to the respectable characters who had recommended an adjustment. How, in what way had they recommended it? In the same breath in which they had stated that it would be advisable to compromise the claim, they had said that the Yazoo claimants had not a shadow of title, but had advised Congress to get rid of them as a formida-
ble faction. In the same report in which the commissioners had advised Congress to pay them and send them off, they had also declared the four fifths of the Legislature whose act was the foundation of this claim, were bribed and corrupted.
Mr. Poindexter said that the petitioners prayed for a compromise of their claim, not for money but for a portion of the land to which they declared themselves to be entitled. He could therefore see no propriety in the petition's being referred to the committee of Claims; it should rather be referred to the committee of Public Lands. If referred to that committee they would examine in what situation the claim was placed by the articles of agreement and cession between the United States and Georgia. According to these articles, after one year from the ratification of them no act could be passed by Congress to cede any part or portion of the land to any individuals or companies whatever; and if such cession should be made, by the same articles the land so ceded would revert to the state of Georgia. If the House then were to cede land to the petitioners as prayed, it would immediately become the property of the State of Georgia; the cession would confer no title, because it could be in contravention of the very agreement on which they had proceeded to legislate. He submitted to the house the propriety of referring a subject on which the house could not act without impairing a solemn compact. It would be impossible, without nullifying the articles of agreement, to give them any portion of the land thus ceded by Georgia. Either the articles of cession must be repealed or the prayer of the memorialists must be rejected. He was not inclined to say much about the corruption practised in obtaining the act of Georgia of 1795 for a cession of forty millions of acres, but he was generally inclined to do anything in favor of the petitioners, because he believed the grant had originated in fraud, and that fraud had attached to it through all its various ramifications.
Mr. Bacon remarked that it was true that the articles of cession provided that after the term of one year no cession of any part of the land should be made by the United States. In 1803, however, within a year after that time, an act had been passed regulating grants of land south of the State of Tennessee in which so much of five millions of acres as may be necessary to satisfy claims against the land is reserved for that purpose. This section of the law obviously had in view the claims of the petitioners. He presumed the gentleman from Mississippi Territory had not adverted to it. With respect to the mode of reference, Mr. B. said it was true that the petitioners asserted a claim to land, but they expressed a desire for a compromise in any way. It was not for land that they specifically asked, but for such compensation as Congress should think fit to give them. He should be glad to see to what conclusion any committee, sitting coolly down in their chamber to investigate it, would come on this subject. Instead of servid eloquence and glowing declamation, he should like to see a cool and deliberate investigation of the claim.
Mr. Livermore said it was true, as had been observed, that this was a large claim, but its magnitude did not render it the less just—if the facts stated in the petition could be substantiated, he appealed to every gentleman who had ever entertained an idea of justice whether the petitioners were not entitled to redress. If they could not be proved, the effect of it would be very different—and therefore, to ascertain the correctness of the statement, an enquiry ought to be made. As to the assertion that fraud attached to the claim through all its ramifications, Mr. L. said that he was acquainted with some of the petitioners, and knew that there were no men on the face of the globe who would more despise the idea of fraud than those petitioners—the gentleman himself could not be less disposed to succour it than they would. These persons had purchased the land, for which they had paid their money and had been ruined by it—men who had been rich were now beggared by it. It would be denying justice to refuse a reference of the petition. If gentlemen believed facts to be against the petitioners, could they not trust them

to an examination of them? The first question would be, are they entitled to claim any thing? If so, would the house do them justice or not. It was the greatest injustice to stop a claim, alleged to be just, at the very threshold of the House.
Mr. Troup asked, if, as had been stated, he had treated this subject in a declaratory style, in what mode could it be treated? He put it to the gentleman's liberality, he put it to the House and to the world, if it was not more becoming to resist with vehemence the introduction of corruption, than to support it with his deliberate understanding? What, sir, said Mr. Troup, would you say to a murderer who should rush into this hall with his knife yet reeking with the blood of a fellow man? Would you stop to reason with him on the turpitude of the act? Have no objection to reason upon it, if the House think proper to send it to a committee; and if they do, if I do not prove it, as called by the gentleman from Mississippi, one tissue of corruption in all its ramifications, I hope the House will never again give me credence. I will prove not only that the Legislature who made the grant were corrupted, but that these people who pretend ignorance were parties to it, participes criminis , and ought to be treated as the original actors in it. Mr. Troup then made some observations with a view to show that a question of rejection ought to take place of a question of reference, because if the House refused to refer it to one committee, it would be moved to refer it to another, and there would be no end of the business.
Mr. Sheffey wished to know if the motion for reference could not be divided, so as to take a question first generally on its reference, and afterwards decide to what committee it should go?
The Speaker conceived not. Mr. Pickett remarked that he never knew a petition to be rejected on its first reading. A motion might be made tantamount to a rejection, but the rejection of a petition, unless its language was indecorous, was unprecedented. The right of petition was one secured to the people of the United States by the constitution; and so long as petitions were couched in decorous language, he contended that it was not in the power of the House to reject them. The parliamentary practice he understood to be to examine, in doubtful cases, whether the language of a petition was decorous, and even to appoint a committee for that purpose. If found to be consistent with decorum, a motion could not be made to reject a petition on its presentation. He thought it incorrect at this time to go into the merits of the petition, which he wished to take the usual course of reference to a committee, whose report would prepare the subject for discussion.
Mr. Ross said, being totally unacquainted with the subject but through the medium of newspapers, from what had been said on both sides on the present occasion, he thought it important that the petition should be referred. If it were true, as alleged by those opposed to the reference, that gross and palpable fraud had been committed in relation to the claim set up by the petitioners, he asked whether it was not all important to the interests of the United States that it should now be decided on, when there were so many living witnesses of the fact? Was it not important that a report should now be made, spreading to the public view the gross and palpable fraud which attached to this whole transaction? If, on the contrary, the transaction had been fair and bona fide, and the persons implicated had been injured, it was but fair and right and reasonable that justice should be dealt to them. For himself he was not disposed to stifle a petition in the first out-set, by rejecting it; when the terms of it were decorous to the House. He could know nothing further on this subject than had been suggested by different members of the House. It could not be expected that gentlemen who were new members of the House, could consent to refuse to give to this petition the usual course.
Mr. Dobb said he should not have said anything on this question, because he cared very little whether the petition was referred or not—for he was very sensible that there was a large majority of the House against complying with the prayer contained in it—but for the remark of the gentleman last up, who seemed not well to have understood the history of this business. It had been before Congress almost every session for five or six years, and one session a bill had been received from the Senate in favor of the claimants; the subject was then investigated maturely, and, after a full discussion, the bill had been rejected on its first reading.
Mr. Macon said that a few years ago it had been attempted to establish the practice of refusing to refer all petitions once decided against except new testimony had been produced relative to them. This appeared to be reasonable; for if the House were called upon to decide on petitions year after year on the same testimony, there would be no end of them. He quoted the journals to show that this had
been the case in some instances. Mr. M. said if all the time of the House that had been occupied on this subject were put together, it would make one of the longest sessions that had ever taken place under the government. It is a standing dish, said he. The petitioners will not believe you when you say no to them. I believe I am the last man in the House who would throw the smallest shade of doubt on the right to petition. But, sir, after petition and petition, after you have said no and no and no again, is there to be no end to it? I do not understand the argument used on this question that the petitioners are respectable and numerous. Every man petitioning here has the same right to have his petition attended to; no matter what be his standing in life, if right be on his side, it ought to be done to him. If the President were to come here with a petition, he would have no more claim to attention than if he was a beggar at our door. Their rights are perfectly equal. Sir, if there be merit in the claim, there is no occasion to tell us of the merits of the petitioners; if there be not, their merit will not avail it. I did not attend to the reading of this petition, sir, but I should not be astonished if it had told you that the Senate had once passed a bill on the subject. I have been long enough in this body to see the possibility of getting any claim through the National Legislature by a step at a time; for at last every attention heretofore given to it passes as a good argument in its favor. I believe, with the gentleman from Georgia, that there is scarcely a man in the nation who does not know that the transaction originated in fraud. I recollect a gentleman from Vermont told us here that the fraud was as well known in Vermont as in Georgia. Why, sir, the newspapers rung with it. Upon the very spot where the scene took place, what was done? Almost every man in the Legislature who was concerned in it was hurled from his seat, and what was called the rescinding Legislature followed. That cannot be good which originated in fraud, in sin, in iniquity, in the most flagrant political iniquity ever known. Nothing we can do can make it righteous. Gentlemen may talk as they please of declamation, but the most eloquent speech I ever heard in my life was on this subject from a gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Randolph) which then put an end to all opposition on the subject. I could almost wish to postpone this question to hear the gentleman again speak on it—I believe was the most eloquent speech ever made within the walls of this House. Mr. M. said the testimony on this subject had been printed over and over again. He recollected it had been stated that on examination of the clerk's library, the whole of the testimony on this subject had been torn out of the volume of printed documents of the year in which it had been laid before the House. Sir, to keep this petition out of these walls, I would be willing to vote to give the state of Georgia a sum equal to what we have given for the land, to take it back. We made a bad bargain with her; I thought so then and I think so still.
At one time, sir, we are told that these people can sue for this land and recover it. Let them do so. I for one will make no compromise with them. Can any man believe they would be willing to take the fragments which are not yet taken up of five millions of acres, if they had a legal and just claim to the whole? It does not tell. If I believed that I had a just claim to the whole Indiana territory and that I could recover it, do you believe, sir, that I would take the fragments of five millions of acres of which the best has been picked out? No sir—I would have all or none. This claim has never come up at any time at which the merits of it have not been discussed. If no vote had ever been taken on it, I would vote to-day to refer it. There ought to be a time to begin and a time to end; and this bill has had both; and, sir, it is a little remarkable that at the time a motion was made to reject it some years ago, we were discussing the state of our foreign relations. Such is now our situation; & up comes this claim again. If it had never been referred I would now vote for it; but it has already been once decided, and I would not refer it again. It is due as well to the petitioners as to ourselves to settle this question, to refuse to pay attention to their petition.
Mr. Dana said he felt the impropriety of going into the discussion of the merits of the claim on a motion to refer it; but he rose simply to state to the House what was contained in the report of the commissioners on the subject already alluded to. [Mr. Dana read a part of the report.] In doing this he did not enter into the merits of the claim, but was merely desirous to show that there were persons high in public confidence who really had thought it so worthy of consideration that they had recommended a compromise; and, it would not be easily admitted that this was so notorious a fraud on the part of the applicants that they should be branded with infamy, and yet that these gentlemen should have been willing to make a compromise with this
iniquity. He did not feel himself at liberty to suppose that any public officer would propose a compromise of a claim so utterly improper that this House ought not even to listen to it. Mr. Pickett observed on Mr. Macon's idea of refusing to refer petitions once acted on by the House, that he did not apprehend that the petition before the House was one with which this course ought to be taken. It would be unnecessary to say that a report had once been made in favor of it; and, although not assented to by the House, there had very often been nearly an equal division on the subject. Instances would be found on the journals where petitions had been decided against and yet which had been repeatedly referred. He hoped the usual mode of proceeding would be adopted in relation to this petition. He did not believe, whatever fraud might have attached to the original purchasers, that it could attach to those who purchased subsequently. The gentleman from Georgia had said that he could prove the contrary. Let the question then be examined, and if the gentlemen had any proof let it be produced. Mr. P. said that for his part he had never seen any such testimony. He had been acquainted in substance with the transaction at the time the Georgia land was sold, & he had never heard that the petitioners were connected with the fraud. If so, let it be proved before a committee and let the fact be reported to the House. It was certainly a question of great moment as it respected the petitioners and as it respected the U. S. and ought to be examined.
Mr. Livermore thought that the honorable gentleman from Georgia had furnished a strong argument in favor of a reference of the petition. If he had understood him correctly, the gentleman had undertaken to say that he could prove that these petitioners were participes criminis in this fraud practised concerning the state of Georgia. If that were the case and the gentleman was prepared to make good the assertion, it was surely a reason why the petitioners should have a fair hearing. He said that a charge of serious import had been exhibited to the world, that a number of gentlemen petitioners, asking for justice, had been so guilty of fraudulent practices that their petition should not even be referred. He submitted it to the House whether it would not be cruel to let this go without enquiry. The committee to whom it should be referred would report facts; for, Mr. L. said, he had great doubt, to say no more of it, whether there were good grounds for this assertion—he said this from a knowledge of the characters who petitioned. He did not contend, as seemed to be supposed by a gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Macon) that one man had a better right to have his petition heard than another, because all citizens had equal rights. The respectability of character of the petitioners had not been mentioned as a reason why their prayer should prevail, but to rebut the assertion that they were profligate characters, guilty of such fraudulent transactions as to justify Congress in refusing them a hearing. He should wish them only to be treated as other petitioners, to hear every thing for or against their claim. It was no argument, he said, against their claim, that we were on the eve of a war—he hoped that calamity was far from us—and if it were not, it could be no argument against a just claim. He hoped it would be connected with no political question, but stand on its own merits. What argument either was it against their claim to five million or to a less number of acres of land, that they were entitled to a much greater portion? They must take what they could get, when it was not in their power to get the whole to which they were entitled. Upon the whole, he could not conceive why an investigation should be denied.
Mr. Upaham said a few words, not distinctly heard by the reporter, in favor of a reference. He urged as a reason why it merited that attention, that it had heretofore received the sanction of commissioners appointed to enquire into it, of one branch of the National Legislature, and of a committee of the House.
Mr. Gardenier moved to adjourn.—Negatived, Ayes 18.
Mr. Stanford quoted a message of Gen. Washington to Congress, soon after the passage of the acts of the legislature of Georgia making this grant, in which he communicated these acts to Congress, and recommended them to their attention. If alarm had been excited in the mind of Washington by the passage of these acts so far as to induce him to communicate them to Congress within 15 or 20 days after their passage, it was conclusive evidence that the suspicious nature of their transaction could not have been unknown to the petitioners at the time they purchased the claim.
The question of reference was then decided by Yeas and Nays as follows: YEAS—Messrs. Anderson, Bacon, Blair, Boyd, Breckenridge, Campbell, J. C. Chamberlain, W. Chamberlain, Champion, Chittenden, Cuts, Dand, Davenport, Ely, Emott, Findley, Fisk, Gannett, Gardner, Golksborough, Gold, Hale, Haven, Heister,
Helms, Howard, Hubbard, R. Jackson, Lewis, Livermore, Livingston, Matthews, M'Kee, Miller, Milnor, Morrow, Moseley, Newbold, Pitkin, P. B. Porter, Potter, Quincy, Root, Ross, Sheffey, Southard, Siedman, Stephenson, Sturges, Swoope, Tallmadge, Thompson, Tracy, Turner, Upham, Van Rensselaer, Weakley, Wheaton, Whitman, Wilson.—60.
NAYS—Messrs. L. J. Alston, W. Alston, Bard, Bassett, Bibb, J. Brown, R. Brown, Butler, Calhoun, Clay, Cobb, Cochran, Cox, Crawford, Crist, Dawson, Desha, Eppes, Franklin, Gardenier, Gholson, Goodwyn, Gray, Huffst, Kenan, Kennedy, Lyle, Macon, Marion, M'Bryde, M'Kin, Montgomery, N. R. Moore, T. Moore, Nelson, Newton, Nicholson, Pearson, Rea, (P.) Richards, Roane, Sage, Sammons, Seaver, Smelt, Smilie, G. Smith, J. Smith, S. Smith, Stanford, Stanley, Taylor, Troup, Van Horn, Whitehill and Witherspoon.—56.
Majority for reference—4.
[The following gentlemen did not vote on this question:—Messrs. Barwell, Clopton, Cook, Denning, Holland, J. G. Jackson, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Key, Knickerbacker, Love, Lyon, Mumford, Pickman, J. Porter, Randolph, Rhea of Ten. Sawyer, Seybert, Shaw, Taggart, Van Dyke, Winn.—24; of whom those in Italic have not appeared in the House during the present session.]
Friday, December 15.
On motion of Mr. Southard,
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire into the propriety of passing a law to prescribe the mode of taking evidence in cases of contested elections for members of the House of Representatives and to compel the attendance of witnesses; and that the committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise.
Mr. Johnson, from the committee of Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of John Murray.—Committed to a committee of the whole.
YAZOO CLAIM.
Mr. Troup moved a resolution for printing for the use of the members of the House, in consequence of what took place yesterday, the usual number of copies of the act of Georgia, passed in 1796, commonly called the rescinding act; of the constitution of Georgia of 1789; of the constitution of the same state of 1798; of the report of the commissioners appointed in pursuance of an act for the amicable settlement of limits within the state of Georgia, &c. made on the 29th of November, 1804; and of the articles of settlement and agreement between the U. S. and Georgia. He said he had included in the motion the constitution of Georgia of 1789, because it would show that the Legislature of 1795 had no right to make the grant; and the constitution of 1798, because in it the convention had in the most solemn manner ratified the rescinding act. Mr. Troup made some observations as to his motives for making this motion, in too low a tone of voice to be distinctly understood by the reporter.
Mr. Bacon said he was not opposed to this motion but in favor of it; but there were probably some other papers which it might be proper to connect with these. He asked the favor of the gentleman to let it lie on the table till he could ascertain what papers it would be proper to add to them.
Mr. Troup consenting, the motion was ordered to lie on the table.
The bill to revive an act for the relief of the British refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia, was read a third time and passed.
BATTURE AT NEW ORLEANS.
On motion of Mr. Sheffey, the House took up for consideration the resolutions on the subject of the Batture laid on the table by him a few days ago.
Mr. Sheffey laid on the table several certificates and other papers relating to this subject.
Mr. W. Alston moved to refer the resolutions to the committee of Public Lands, to whom had already been referred a memorial of the corporation of New Orleans on the same subject, and a resolution for vesting in them the right of the U. S. to the Batture. This motion was negatived, 52 to 49.
The resolutions of Mr. Sheffey were then ordered to lie on the table on motion of Mr. Nelson, with a view to make way for the following motion.
Mr. Nelson moved to discharge the committee of Public Lands from the further consideration of the papers on this subject referred to them, with an intention to refer them, together with Mr. Sheffey's resolutions, to a committee of the whole House.
This motion finally prevailed, 57 to 51; but, from the lateness of the hour, (4 o'clock) no question was taken on the reference to a committee of the whole.
On these several questions a diffuse debate of more than three hours arose; in which Messrs. Alston, Smilie, Poydras, Macon, Eppes and Gholson advocated a reference to a select committee for the purpose of preparing a report of the facts on the case and reporting their opinion thereon; and Messrs. Sheffey, Nelson, Ross, Gardenier and Key supported the proposition to send the papers to a committee of the whole in the first instance, and thus to bring them more immediately before the House.
[The arguments in favor of a reference to the committee of Public Lands, or to a select committee, were
generally, that it was improper, on the ground of the equal rights of all petitioners, to give to the claim of Edward Livingston a direction different from that given to other claimants for land now held by the United States; that petitions of persons appealing from the decision of the commissioners appointed by the United States to try titles to land had always taken that course; but that yesterday the petition of the Yazoo claimants, involving a claim of at least equal magnitude with that now under consideration, had been referred to a select committee to enquire into it, and no other reference had ever been asked of it; that the claimant could have nothing to fear from the report of a select committee, as on that report there would be ample scope for discussion; that the circumstance that almost every one who spoke on the subject differed as to facts from the gentleman who preceded him, was evidence of the propriety of having a report of facts made which could be depended on; that, although the House were not asked by the petitioner to try his title, but merely to designate a proper tribunal to do it, yet they were asked in the mean while to reinstate him in possession of the land from which he had been ousted, and that they could not consistently do this until they were convinced by facts that the petitioner had a color of title and was not an unwarranted intruder on the public land.
On the other hand, it was contended in favor of a reference to a committee of the whole, that this was not a case which could be identified with ordinary claims for Public Lands, which were generally referred to a committee of that name, for it was a case in which it had become a question whether the lands claimed were Public Lands or not; that the propriety of passing Mr. Sheffey's resolutions depended materially on the construction of a statute and on a constitutional question, on which topics it was not peculiarly the province of the committee of Public Lands to decide; that this was not a case in which the House were asked to decide on a claim, but to appoint a tribunal for the purpose of deciding it, and it was therefore unnecessary for them to have a report of a committee minutely stating facts and investigating the legality of the title; that it was sufficient to induce the House to establish some tribunal to try the title, to know that the petitioner had once been in possession of the property claimed, and therefore had a color of title; and that the propriety of reinstating him in possession of the land could no where with more propriety be first discussed than in committee of the whole, which course also would afford a prospect of coming to an earlier decision on the subject of the Batture.
In addition to these observations, gentlemen on both sides entered somewhat into a discussion of the relative merits of the titles of the United States and of Edward Livingston, and an examination of the questions of law and fact involved in it.]
Mr. JACKSON'S CIRCULAR, &c.
The following Message was received from the President of the U. States, by Mr. Graham:
To the House of Representatives of the United States.
According to the request of the House of Representatives expressed in their resolution of the 1st inst. I now lay before them a printed "copy of a paper purporting to be a Circular letter from Mr. Jackson to the British Consuls in the United States," as received in a Gazette at the Department of State; and also a printed paper, received in a letter from our minister in London, purporting to be a copy of a despatch from Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine of the 23d of Jan. last.
JAMES MADISON.
December 12, 1809. [The first paper enclosed was the Independent American of Nov. 21, & the second piece cut out of a London news-paper.]
On motion of Mr. Quincy, these papers were ordered to be printed—for the motion 59—against it 40.
And the House Adjourned to Monday, Ayes 74.
IN SENATE.
Wednesday, December 13.
Mr. Meigs gave notice that to morrow he should ask leave to bring in a bill to authorise the surveying and making of certain roads in the state of Ohio, as contemplated in the treaty of Brownstown, in the Michigan territory.
Thursday, December 14.
Agreeably to notice given, Mr. Meigs asked and obtained leave to bring in the above-mentioned bill, which was read, and passed to the second reading.
Friday, December 15.
The abovementioned bill was read the second time and committed to Messrs. Meigs, Bradley and Pope, to consider and report thereon to the Senate.
The resolution yesterday submitted by Mr. Leib calling upon the President of the United States for a copy of the correspondence between him and the Governor of Pennsylvania in the case of Gideon Olmstead, was agreed to.
The bill to incorporate religious societies in the District of Columbia

AN ACT
Supplement to an act, entitled "An act extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes." Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the governor of the Indiana territory, for the time being, be, and he is hereby authorised and empowered to appoint the representatives among the several counties in said territory as he shall think proper, having regard to the numbers limited in the fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement, and to issue his writ for the election of such representatives agreeably to the apportionment which he may make, at such time as he shall deem most convenient to the citizens of the several counties in said territory.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the legislature of said territory shall be convened, the number of representatives in each county thereof, shall be regulated by the general Assembly.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy shall occur in the legislative council, by death, resignation or removal from office, or when from either of the causes there shall be no delegate from said territory to the Congress of the United States, the governor shall, in either case be authorised to issue his proclamation, directing an election to be held to supply such vacancy according to law.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ANDREW GRIFFIN, President of the Senate, pro tempore. December 15, 1809. APPROVED JAMES MADISON.
LEATHER MANUFACTORY BY DANIEL MILLER, High-street Georgetown, near door to Mr. Lutz and nearly opposite Mr. Holleman's tavern. WHERE he has on hand, and means constantly to keep on hand, a quantity of the best Spanish Sweet Sole Leather, Slaughter Sole, Harness Skirting, Bridle and Collar Leather, Bag Leather, Covering Leather, Upper Leather, Grain and Wax Rip Skins, Wax Calf Skins, Grain Calf Skins, Foot Legs, Cordovan Boot Legs of all kinds, Top Skins, Shoe Bindings, Book Bindings, &c. all finished in the most elegant manner. N. B. Cash given for leather in the rough, and Raw Hides and Skins. December 18—w3t
MORO CO LEATHER Manufactured and for Sale by MATTHEWS & LAWRENCE, Near the lower Bridge on Rock Creek, Washington city, district of Columbia. 50 dozen black skins 30 do. yellow do. 30 do. green do. 6 do. purple do. 4 do. red do. 20 do. black, real Morocco 10 do. yellow do. 10 do. green do. 3 do. red do. And also 50 dozen white Leather. December 18—5t
GEORGE HOID, INFORMS his friends and acquaintances in Georgetown and the city of Washington that he has opened STORE at the House formerly occupied by Mr. JOHN PETER, where he solicits a portion of their custom. He has within a few days received a handsome supply of GOODS from Baltimore, which together with the Stock had of Mr. Peter renders his Assortment very complete. Georgetown, December 12—3w
NOTICE. THIS is to give notice, that the Subscribers of Washington city, have obtained from the Orphans court of Washington county in the district of Columbia, Letters Testamentary on the Will & Personal Estate of EDWARD FENNELL late of said city deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof to the Subscribers or one of them, on or before the 20th day of July next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. All persons indebted to the deceased are requested to make immediate payment. Given under our hands this 15th day of December, 1809. MARGT FENNELL, Executrix. JAMES HOHAN, GEORGE ANDREWS, Ex'rs. December 18—w3t
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. THIS is to notify the public that I purchased of Benjamin Oden, a Negro Woman named JUDY, and two Children, JOHN and MARY—the Woman and her daughter Mary has been harbored by a yellow man, by the name of John Herbold, who has the woman for a wife. I forewarn any person from hiring or harboring the said Negroes as I am determined to put the law in force against them. I will give TEN Dollars Reward for the Woman and Girl, if brought home to me at Little Monocacy in Montgomery county and all reasonable expenses paid by JAMES WHITE. December 18—3t
This day is Published By J. MILLIGAN, GEORGETOWN, THE PARENTS ASSISTANT, By MARIA ENGELWORTH, Author of Practical Education, Letters to Literary Ladies, etc. In Three Vols. 18mo.—Price $2 50, bound. The above work may also be had of R. C. Weightman, Pennsylvania avenue, and of D. Rapine, Capitol Hill, Washington. J. M. has also in considerable forwardness "Tales of Fashionable Life" by the same author, in 2 Vols. 12mo. For a character of the above work, see a critique from the Edinburgh Review in No. 12 of Select Reviews or Spirit of the Foreign Magazines—by E. Bronson and others. December 18—3t
CATHARINE FLUET, MANTEA MAKER, HAS the honor to inform the Ladies of Washington City and Georgetown, that she has left Mrs. Mary Ann Poy and is now working for her own account at her lodgings, in the house formerly occupied by Mr. W. Holmes, between the War Department and the Seven buildings. She begs the Ladies of Washington City and Georgetown, to favor her with their patronage, which she will try to deserve by good work and punctual attendance. N. B. An APPRENTICE for Mantua Making will receive good encouragement. December 15—3t
preparing to return to this country immediately. Our army in Spain was recovering fast. The French have pushed a corps into La Mancha. According to private letters from Portugal, Lord Wellington has estab-lished magazines at Almeida, with a view of opposing the enemy, in case he should make an attack on Ciudad Rodrigo, which he was still expected to do. Sir Robert Wilson had charge of the flying bridge at Villa Velha and occupied the frontier north of the Tagus. The duke del Parque was near Ciudad Rodrigo, waiting for reinforce-ments.
Extract of a letter from Gijon, October 18. "Our American friend, Mr. Brown, is just this moment arrived at Santan-der. He brings account of the French troops (400) having left Bilbao in a hasty manner, and that the patriots, to the number of 9000 men, have en-tered it, as also Santona and Castro.—At his departure from Santander, it was supposed that Gen. Bonnet would pursue the same route."
Oct. 18.—For the last three suc-cessive days we have received the latest French papers exclusively. Those of to-day are to the 25th inst. They en-able us to contradict the rumor of Bo-naparte's illness. If they are to be relied on, the Emperor of the French is moving about at Vienna. Notwith-standing there never was less bombast about a peace. Bonaparte, it will be remembered, threatened to annihilate Austria, and we now see him giving direction to evacuate Vienna in virtue of a peace. Certainly there is a de-gree of mystery hangs over the pro-ceedings at Vienna.
There is some credit to a report to-day, that peace has been concluded be-tween Russia and the Turks. The latter give up Wallachia and Molda-via.
We are enabled to state that the Ministerial arrangements are com-pleted. Lord Liverpool is to succeed Lord Castlereagh as Secretary of State for the War and Colonies; Mr. Ryder is to be Secretary of State for the Home Department, in the room of Ld. Liverpool, and Mr. Charles Manners, son to the Archbishop of Canterbury, succeeds Mr. Ryder as J. Ige Advo-cate. The Cabinet will the-efore con-sist of the following mem-bers.—Mr. Percival, Lord Elden, Lon. Liverpool, Lord Bathurst, Mr. Ryder, Lord Cam-den, Lord Westmoreland, Lord Har-rowby, Mr. Dundas, Lord Mulgrave, and Lord Chatham.
Whitehall, Nov. 23.—The king has been pleased to constitute and appoint the right hon. Henry John Viscount Palmerston to be his majesty's Secre-tary at War.
Dublin, Nov. 3.—It is said that the exchange on Hamburg is increased 50 per cent.—Signature must be given as an acknowledgement for a single sit-ter, the value of a British penny, the Jews having according to report bou-ght up all the hard cash in the country.—There is to be a strong English party in Copenhagen. A request has been re-warded to persons residing in Zea-land to give up their plate, &c. the gov-ernment agreeing to guarantee its value.
By the remonstrances of the Russi-an minister at Copenhagen, the priva-teers are called in. All Americans can now pass the Sound unmolested, on condition of paying the dues.
Copenhagen, Oct. 3.—According to the accounts of travellers we are assur-ed, that on the 11th of this month all the Swedish ports will be shut to all English ships.
Stutgard, Oct. 17. (Eight in the evening.)—An estafette, who left the imperial head quarters at Strasburg on the 14th, has this instant arrived here with intelligence that peace has been signed between France and her allies on one side, and Austria on the other.
At the same time, relays have been ordered for the service of his majesty the Emperor Napoleon, who was to leave Schoenbrunn on the 15th to pro-ceed by way of Munich, Stutgard and Strasburgh, to Paris.
The ship Gosport, arrived at New York, brings London advices to the 4th of Novem-ber; and the Woodrop Sims, arrived at Norfolk, brings advices a day later. They add little to our previous news. Napoleon reached Paris on the 26th October; and on the 31st of November accounts were receiv-ed in London of the death of Talleyrand.
London, Nov. 4.—The last accounts from Portugal concur in stating, that our troops have been reduced by the sword, famine and disgrace, to 12,000 men. [Statesman.] The accounts from Walcheren are still less favorable. The disease among our troops resists the utmost efforts of medical science in that mephitic swamp. Whilst our force is thus hourly diminishing, Na-poléon is making vigorous preparations to at-tack the island. [Statesman.] Prices.—Wheat 90 to 192s.—Fine 104 to 108s.—Pine flour 90 to 93s.
Both Houses of Parliament met on the 2d November, and were further prorogued till the 12th of December.
Norfolk, December 14. By the ship St. Lawrence, captain Dumbur, in 41 days from Lisbon, which port he left on the 2d of November, we learn verbally that about 150 sail of British transports lay in the Tagus, 50 of which had recently ar-rived—that no battle had lately taken place between the British and French armies, and that it was reported that Bonaparte was marching an army of 100,000 men into Spain; that the British troops had evacu-ated Bilbao; and that no fresh troops had lately arrived from England.
There are henceforth to be in the city eight commissioners of police.
English honor.—Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, dated October 21. The English, by the capitulation of Middleburg, have guaranteed the sat-isfy of all property. In the mean tin-the commissaries and prize agents are permitted to sell at auction, in con-tempt of the capitulation, tea and spi-ces, which they found in the ware-houses of our East India company, & of several persons in Holland. The inhabitants of Walcheren have con-ducted themselves on this occasion in a manner which does them great ho-nor. They have declared, that not-withstanding the actual scarcity of tea in Holland, they will not buy any thing which they know to be the property of their fellow-citizens. There is but one person in Flushing who has made a purchase of tea, and he is treated with universal contempt. The English have been compelled to suspend the sales."
Amsterdam, Oct. 11.—There are no Americans here, having all gone to Tonnigen, to escape pirates and robbers. Colonial produce high.—cotton is one dollar per lb! Tobacco 34 dollars per cwt. 1 There are 50 sail of Americans in Tonnigen. Sugars, generally, from 25 to 30 dollars per cwt.; Muscovado 28 to 32 1/2. White do. 32 1/2 to 38.
Naples, Sept. 24.—We have re-ceived letters from Malta of the 13th of this month; they state that the commerce of this island suffers great-ly since the occupation of Trieste by the French who have shut that port to the English. The insurance compa-nies have experienced immense losses by this event; the ware houses at Ma-lta are loaded full of produce and colo-nial merchandise which have no open-ing for sale and have fallen to a very low price. A ready made shirt, of the finest Perkal, brings no more at Malta than 8 francs, but articles of French Manufactory of every kind are very dear. Linen thread there is none, and its place is obliged to be supplied by cotton. A hat sells for 30 francs; a pair of shoes for 25; boots for 100; as for the rest there is a sup-plus on the island. Houses which formerly let for 300 francs, now bring 3000 francs, &c. &c.
London, Oct. 22.—Ministers are re-solved on the retention of Walcheren, and the Commissary's Department is now engaged in contracts for the sup-ply of various articles of provisions during the ensuing winter.
New York, Dec. 18. LATEST FROM ENGLAND. The arrival of the ship Eliza Ann, capt. Potter, in 34 days from Dublin, has put the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser in possession of Irish pa-pers to the 7th of Nov. (the day of her sailing) containing London news of the 2d, 10 days later than any previous advices from England. The ship Paragon, Hague, has also extended our file of Greenock papers to the latter end of October. The Duke of Portland died on the 30th October.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, dated Nov. 7. "Since writing my letter the Pack-et has brought an account that an order in council is expected to appear im-mediately in the Gazette, prohibiting the landing of American produce that has been landed or warehoused in any place since they left America, except from British ships, or American ships with British licence. This seems intended to drive you to your embargo, which from experience, it is expected you cannot maintain."
London, Oct. 24.—Despatches have been sent off to marquiss Wellesley, by a king's messenger, who sailed from Plymouth in the Whiting schr. on Sunday last. It is rumored at the port whence the vessel sailed, that those despatches contain orders for the total evacuation of Spain by the British; the last despatches from mar-quiss Wellesley, Mr. Frere and lord Wellington, as well as communica-tions from other well informed persons having fully convinced government of the impossibility of effecting the deli-verance of a people, who are so supine-ly callous to their own welfare."
October 26.—A report, which was circulated more than a week since, has been revived in the city, and with more confidence than at first—that some ne-gotiation has been carrying on through an indirect channel, between the Bri-tish government and that of France, the object of which is the re-establish-ment of a general peace. The mar-quiss Wellesley, it is said, is about to proceed to Paris in further pursuit of this grand object, the way to which, it is understood, has been smoothed by the mediation of a great northern power, and whose interference was the chief cause of the prolongation of the negotiations at Altenburg, which are now entirely closed. The evacu-ation of Spain is said to be the simple condition on which England is to be admitted a party in a general Congress of European powers. The claims of Portugal as an independent state to become subject to future discussion—STAR
From the London Gazette. October 29.—Dispatches were re-ceived this morning from lord Welles-ley, dated on the 16th inst. He wa
spirit of the nation calls for something more effective than long speeches. Mere wind will not atone for national indignity, nor restore the lives or li-berties of our impressed seamen, or the plundered commerce of our coun-try."
In the House of Delegates, of Maryland, December 1 Maryland, December 11, 1809. On motion by M. J. E. Spencer, the following resolutions were read.
WHEREAS the unexampled con-duct of Francis James Jackson, late minister Plenipotentiary of his Britan-nic Majesty near the United States, has induced the President to make known, that no further communica-tions will be received from him: And whereas the General Assembly of Maryland, duly appreciate the cor-rectness of such procedure; therefore Resolved, That the conduct of Francis James Jackson, in charging the Ex-ecutive with closing the late negotia-tion with his predecessor, Mr. Ers-kins, under a perfect knowledge, that the powers vested in him were not commensurate to the object, was a vi-olation of the decorum and respect due the American Government.
Resolved, That after the explicit and repeated declarations of the Presi-dent, (through the proper organ of communication,) that he had no know-ledge of any want of power in Mr. Er-skins to conclude the late negotia-tion, and that if such knowledge had existed the arrangement would not have been made, that then the reiteration of the original charge was in effect to add in-sult to injury.
Resolved, That the circular letter bearing the signature of the said Fran-cis James Jackson, is an additional proof of the disrespect and contempt which has marked the conduct of that minister towards the American Gov-ernment, and is highly calculated to rouse the indignant spirit of an inde-pendent people.
Resolved, That the suspicion ex-pressed by Francis James Jackson, through Charles Oakley, his Britan-nic majesty's secretary of legation, for the personal safety of himself and suite, intimates an abandonment, on our part, of the most sacred principle of the code of nations, and contains an unwarrantable reflection upon the peo-ple of the United States.
Norfolk, Dec. 11. By the Spanish schooner Havanna from Havanna we learn that the im-portation of flour from the United States into Cuba, is prohibited even in Spanish vessels. The government of Cuba have contracted for flour for that island at La Vera Cruz.
Philadelphia, Dec. 13. Captain Chatty of the schooner Re-solution, reports that the city of St. Domingo is now entirely under the command of the Spaniards, the Bri-tish having entirely left it; that, A-merican produce having poured in from the other islands was low, flour at eight dollars, and other arti-cles in proportion. That the Spanish part as well as the rest of the island, seemed rather in a quiet undisturbed state.
DIED.—In the Isle of Santa Mar-garetta, near the frontier of France, in Provence, Barnabe Chiaromonte, Pope Pius VII. who was born in Cesena, in Romania, the 14th April, 1742, created Cardinal in April, 1785, and elected Pope, at Venice, the 14th March, 1800; and crowned the 21st of the same month.—The Spanish pa-pers which mention his death say he was poisoned; and that the successor as head of the Church is to be Cardi-nal Fesch, uncle of Bonaparte.
Extract of a letter from Copenhagen, of the 19th Sept.
The proclamations signed by the English in Iceland since they have be-come its masters, are very rigorous.—From the first which appeared on the 21st of June, several magistrates and merchants have been put in a state of arrest in their own houses and strictly watched. The proclamations are signed by a certain Jorgen Jorgensen who is said to be a native of Den-mark.
Rome, Aug. 25.—All the heads of the religious orders which were in Rome, and in the other cities of the late estates of the Church, have been conducted to France under es-cort.
Letter from his imperial and royal ma-jesty, to the general of division, Des-bureaux.
Mr. General of Division, Desbu-reaux.—Make known, by the Tele-graphs, to the Empress, that the peace has been signed on the 14th instant, at 9 A. M. between Mr. De Champag-ny and Prince L. Chateauvieux. Extend this news throughout your division, and in particular, make it known to the Mayor of my good city of Stras-burg.
This letter having no other pur-port, I pray God to have you in his holy keeping. Schoenbrunn, 14th Oct. 1809. (Signed) NAPOLEON.
Rome, September 23. All English merchandise has been confiscated in the two departments.
was, on motion of Mr. Bradley, made the order of the day for the first Mon-day in January next.
Mr. Bradley submitted for conside-ration the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be and hereby is requested to lay before the Senate a statement of the payments which have been made by the respective states of the direct tax; designating, as far as may be, what sums have been paid into the Treasury, what sums are unaccounted for by the supervisors, what sums are in the hands of collectors, and the per-sons in whose hands such monies are; and what sums are still due from any of the respective states.
[Committee appointed agreeably to the 22nd rule, for conducting business in the Senate: Messrs. Gilman, Gris-wold and Mathewson.]
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18.
Bruckner Thurston, Esq. has been ap-pointed by the President of the United States an associate Judge for the District of Co-lumbia, in the room of A. B. Duckett, Esq. deceased.
[The following communication re-lative to Mr. Brent's resolutions in the House of Delegates of the state of Maryland, has been in type for several days.]
Mr. Brent's resolutions have passed the House of Delegates almost unani-mously. Although the federalists op-posed them with great warmth, in de-bate, when they were put upon the final passage, only five voted against them. The debate commenced on Thursday the 7th inst. and did not end until about 2 o'clock on Monday night.
Both sides of the question were supported with talents and eloquence. In the opposition were Messrs. J. H. Thomas, Dorsey, Purnham, and Herbert. In support of the resolu-tions were Messrs. Brent, Spencer, Archer, Wetherington, and Tabbs. Owing to the late hour of the night, Mr. Bland feeling a wish not to press the debate further, and thinking the debate had already occupied too much time, declined saying any thing, else we have no doubt he would have added much to the support the resolutions met with. Mr. Brent was the conspi-cuous centinel, and the faithful guar-dian of the cause of Republicanism.
This young man is an ornament to the state, and one day will become an ho-nor & an ornament to these U. States. Although a youth of not more than 24 years, and it being the first time he ever was in any legislative body, he displayed in the debate a knowledge of politics, and the real situation of this country and of Europe, which is seldom to be met with in old and great minds. As an orator he is great. His is the eloquence "that never tires the attentive ear." His delivery is grace-ful and manly—his language is glow-ing and enthusiastic—his style is pure and classical—his mind lofty and tow-ering, and when patriotism or the in-juries his country has received, is his theme, his feelings which at all times flash from his eyes, gives a tone to his expression and elocution, which plant "the scorpion sting of despair" in the breasts of the enemies of the adminis-tration and of the government of this country. As may be expected, he is beloved by the friends of republi-canism here, and although the federalists cannot refrain from admiring his ta-lents, they cannot forget the lashing he has given to their party, and the proper point of view he has placed their conduct in, of course he finds an enemy in every federalist. Mr. I. C. Spencer, in a firm strain of reasoning did justice to the resolutions. Mr. Ar-cher has also displayed great talents and enthusiasm in the cause of repub-licanism. Mr. Wetherington pro-mises to be great—his sarcasm and wit, combined with the soundness of his understanding, will, we trust, ele-vate him high in the confidence of his country. Mr. Tabbs has also distin-guished himself. He has a command of language, and a glowing imagina-tion, well calculated to make a great and eloquent advocate.
Extract of a letter from an influential member of the Legislature of New Jersey, to one of his friends in this city, dated December 7th, 1809.
"The Republican majority is con-siderably increased in our state since last year, and we trust is still increas-ing. Republicanism stands on a basis in New Jersey, too strong and broad to be over-set either by the open as-saults or secret intrigues of its ene-mies."
"The conduct of Jackson seems to have astonished even the British fac-tion themselves. It is at present a death blow to Toryism. Some of them pretend to discard and condemn his conduct; but the leaders of the jun-to (whose names I need not men-tion) have already become the pallia-tors and even the defenders of this foreign emissary, and charge the whole miscarriage of the negotiation to our own government."
"I am much pleased with the firm and decided language which the Presi-dent's message speaks, and most heart-ily wish the decisions of the national legislature may be in unison with the sentiments of the Executive. The

SAMUEL STETTINUS,  Pennsylvania Avenue, Near the Centre Market.  Has leave to refer to his last advertisement of dry goods, and to inform his friends and the public at large that he has added to them a few days ago another extensive stock, which, completing his stock of fall goods, will enable him to accommodate every kind call with which he might be favored.  He has also received from Philadelphia per Schooner Eleanor, Capt. Wm. Howard, 10 Hds. New Orleans Sugar 13 Bbls. do. do. 1/2 Pipes 4th proof French Brandy 1 Hhd. Jamaica Spirits, 4th proof 2 Casks first quality Young Hyson Tea 2 Hyson Skin do. 1 Imperial do. 15 Boxes Tin Plates 1 Bbl. Corks 4 Gross empty bottles 200 pounds of Black Pepper 300 Raisins 500 Cheese 3 Bbls. Spermaceti Oil 4 Kegs of Copperas and Alum 6 Boxes Mustard 3 Quarter casks first quality Lisbon Wine 2 do. do. Malaga do. do. 1 Bbl. Superfine Barley Currants, Mace, Almonds Saltpetre and Flask Oil 1 Box Fly Blue, best quality 1 Quarter Cask Sherry Wine 15 lbs. Allspice, and 50 Boxes clarified Sweet Cyder in bottles.  —ALSO—  A most extensive assortment of hollow glass, consisting of flowered and gilt Decanters, cut and flowered ditto, quart, pint and half pint tumblers, wine glasses, with a number of other articles.  Those of his friends who wish to buy by the wholesale as well as those buying by retail, may rest assured that he will endeavor to deserve their respective satisfactions, by selling them at pleasing terms and very low.  December 8-4f.
MRS. WALKER acquaints the ladies of the city of Washington and its vicinity, that on Monday morning the 11th inst. in the Front Room of Mr. Peter's house, near the Centre Market, Pennsylvania Avenue, she opened and offers for Sale on reasonable terms, a FRESH and BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT of Fashionable Silk Velvets, Satin, Silk and silk-stripe Bonnets and straw Hats, dress Caps & Turbans, artificial Flowers and Feathers, Pelisses, Great Coats and Dresses of every description made up at the shortest notice and in the most fashionable manner. Should Mrs. WALKER receive that encouragement which she hopes the moderation of her terms, her punctuality, and attention to please will entitle her to, from the known liberality of the Ladies of Washington, she will become a permanent resident of the City. She also offers for Sale an elegant set of Chairs and Settees, a sample of which will be exhibited.  November 13-3t.
TAKE NOTICE.  The Subscriber respectfully informs the public that he has opened an  ELEGANT HOTEL,  In the house lately occupied by the Hon. R. Smith, Capitol Hill City of Washington; where he is enabled, (if proper encouragement shall be offered,) to afford the best and most splendid accommodations.  The House is prepared so as to admit a display of Elegance and Taste in the arrangements of the SEASON BALLS, not to be excelled in the United States, and he hopes from long experience he has had in that line the Ladies and Gentlemen of Washington will enable him by their encouragement to excel in that particular.  The Subscriber tenders his acknowledgements to his Friends and the Public, for the marks of preference they have heretofore bestowed upon him, and hopes by his renewed exertions to please to deserve and receive a continuance of their favors.  A few Members of Congress can be accommodated with Board.  Boarders will be taken by the day, week, month or year.  Wm. CATON.
December 6-1m  BEAUTIFUL SPRING HOTEL, near between Washington and Alexandria.  The Subscriber respectfully returns his thanks to the public, especially to those Members of Congress who frequented his house, for the encouragement he has received and flatters himself that by his continued exertions to merit an additional support. He takes the liberty of informing the Ladies and Gentlemen of the vicinity and from a distance, that he will always endeavor to keep supplied with the dainties of the season.  Dinner parties, Tea parties, (with or without Music) &c. &c. can be furnished at a short time. Rooms will be reserved for select companies who may engage weekly entertainments. White Racks and Venison (when to be procured) will always be ready for amateurs.  A. LINDO.
November 15-1m  SERVANTS WANTED.  I will give the highest wages and encouragement for a smart Female House Servant, a Female Cook, a Girl capable of nursing children, a Laborer and a good Waiter.  A. LINDO.
Just received and for sale by  LYNDE ELLIOTT, North P Street, opposite the Meeting House.
170 barrels Cider, 30 do. large Apples, Goshen Cheese, Potatoes, Onions, Shad by the barrel, Herrings, do. 100 pair men's coarse and fine shoes, 120 pair women's slippers, Loaf and Brown Sugars, Coffee, Chocolate, Mustard, Imperial Young Hyson and Hyson Skin Teas, Men's Hats, Salmon in Kegs, Mackerel, Cod Fish, Bacon, and a variety of other articles in the Grocery line.  December 11-3t  The different Port Masters of the United States are, by Wm. H. DORSEY, Merchant in Baltimore, respectfully solicited to examine their Boxes for a Letter of consequence, to him addressed, which was lodged for transmission at the Post Office in Washington City, on 10th August last, and as it has never by him been received, it is supposed must have taken a wrong direction from thence. It found they will particularly oblige him by forwarding it either to him or to the General Post Office in Washington.  Baltimore, Nov. 20-1m
PUBLIC SALE OF CITY LOTS.  By virtue of a decree of the circuit court of the district of Columbia, in a suit in Chancery (Charles Minifie and others against George Walker) The subscribers, appointed trustees for the sale of property mentioned in said decree, will, on Monday the 15th day of January next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at Long's Hotel, in the city of Washington, offer for sale the following lots in the said city, viz:    The whole of square numbered  936    Lots No. 1 and 2 in square  961    3, 4, 9, 10, 11 and 12,  965    3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8,  968    5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10,  1011    No. 1,  1012    5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 25, 26, 27 and 28,  1015    12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18,  1018    4, 5 and 7,  1039    2, 3, 4 and 5,  1040    5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16 and 17,  1041    14, 15, 16, 17 and 18,  1047    10, 11, 12, 13 and 14,  1048    1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13 and 14,  1062    5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 & 17  1063    Containing 708,646 square feet.  The terms of sale to be, the purchase money to be paid on the ratification of the sale by the court.  P. B. KEY, Wm. BRENT, } Trustees.  December 11-3t
PAPER HANGING.  SAMUEL FITZHUGH, Has just received at his NEW STORE High Street, George Town, Two doors above J. Milligan's Book Store,  An elegant assortment of the most fashionable Paper Hangings from the manufactory of Thomas and Caldecough.  He is just opening an assortment of  SEASONABLE DRY GOODS Together with a neat and well selected supply of  CUTLERY JAPANED WARE, &c.  N. B. S. F. having employed a paper hanger, will engage to paper rooms with neatness and dispatch.  Georgetown, December 6-5w.
PROPOSALS For Carrying the Mails of the United States on the following routes will be received at the General Post Office until the first day of February, 1810.  1. From Petersburg by Harris's, Percival's, Drummondsburg, Warrenton and Louisa to Raleigh three times a week.  Leave Petersburg every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Raleigh on Wednesday Friday and Monday by 7 A. M. in 42 hours.  Leave Raleigh every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5 P. M. and arrive at Petersburg the next Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday by 11 A. M. in 42 hours.  2. From Raleigh by Avery'sboro' to Fayetteville three times a week.  Leave Raleigh every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Fayetteville by 10 P. M.  Leave Fayetteville every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 2 A. M. and arrive at Raleigh by 4 P. M.  3. From Fayetteville by Lumberton and Barfield's Mills to Portiserry on Pee Dee three times.  Leave Fayetteville every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 2 A. M. and arrive at Portiserry by 10 P. M. in 20 hours.  Leave Portiserry every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2 A. M. and arrive at Fayetteville by 10 P. M. in 20 hours.  4. From Portiserry by Gaspee, Georgetown and Tidwin to Charleston three times a week.  Leave Portiserry every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Tidwin by 8 P. M.  Leave Tidwin every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday at 3 A. M. and arrive at Charleston by 10 A. M.  Leave Charleston every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Tidwin by 8 P. M. and arrive at Portiserry on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by 6 P. M.  5. From Athens by Coweta, Tuckebatchy, Tensaw and Fort Stoddert to Pascagoola River once a week.  Leave Athens every Saturday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Pascagoola River the next Saturday by 10 A. M.  Leave Pascagoola River every Saturday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Athens the next Saturday by 10 A. M.  6. From Pascagoola River to Mr. Spell's at the mouth of Casten Creek on Lake Pont Chartrain.  Leave Pascagoola River every Saturday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Mr. Spell's on Monday by 8 P. M.  Leave Mr. Spell's every Thursday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Pascagoola on Saturday by 10 A. M.  7. From Mr. Spell's on Lake Pont Chartrain to New Orleans once a week.  Leave Mr. Spell's on Lake Pont Chartrain on Tuesday at 3 A. M. and arrive at New Orleans by 3 P. M.  Leave New Orleans on Wednesday by 10 A. M. and arrive at Mr. Spell's by 10 P. M.  Proposals for this route will be received by the Postmaster at New Orleans.  NOTE. The contracts are to commence on the 1st day of April next, and are to continue in force for one year, and the customary penalties for failures and delays will be stipulated in the contract and executed.  GIDEON GRANGER, Post-Master-General.
GENERAL POST OFFICE, December 9. 1809. Dec 13-4f.
ANNUAL MEETING of the Stockholders in the Washington and Alexandria Turnpike Company will be held at the City Tavern, in the town of Alexandria on the first Monday in January next. By order of the Directors.  G. DENEALE, President.  Dec. 13-td
DRUGS & MEDICINES.  A fresh supply just received from New York, at  H. CATLETT'S DRUG STORE, F Street Also, PAINTS, OILS, &c.  October 18-4f
SALE OF NEGROES.  By virtue of the last will and testament of Rebecca Nally, deceased, I will offer for sale at auction, for cash, on Monday the 18th inst. at the late residence of said Rebecca Nally, near the Navy Yard, at 11 o'clock, A. M. a Negro man, two Negro women and a Negro girl.  SAML. N. SMALLWOOD, Executor.  December 11-3t
REILLY'S STORE, On Pennsylvania Avenue,  IS now supplied with a fresh assortment of  LIQUORS & GROCERIES, viz.  Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, Malaga and Tenerife Wines, French Brandy, Holland Gin, Jamaica Spirit, Whiskey, Rum, and Whisky Bounce, Molasses, Imperial, Hyson and Young Hyson Teas, Loaf and Lump Sugar, Muscovado do. Coffee, Chocolate, Mustard, Pepper, Allspice, Ground Ginger, Nutmegs, Cloves, Salt and Saltpetre, Spermaceti Candles, Shaving and Brown Soap first quality, Chewing Tobacco, Spanish and Country Segars, Men and Women's coarse and fine Shoes, Youth's and Children's do. best quality Goshen Cheese, Bloom, Muscaded and Keg Raisins, Sweet Oranges, Lemons and Fresh Cranberries, a few barrels of Apples, Salmon in barrels and kegs, Codfish, Shad and Herrings, Finkin Butter, Irish Potatoes, and as usual best quality Superfine Flour, carefully selected at Alexandria for family use, Jamieson's water crackers—Also corn, oats, chopt rye, shorts, bran and straw.  Dec 13, 1809. 9t
NOTICE.  THE Creditors of JOHN McCARTY, deceased, are hereby informed, that a distribution of his Estate will be made, at the Office of the Register of Wills in the city of Washington, on Saturday the 23rd instant at 10 o'clock, A. M., when and where they are requested to attend with their claims, to receive their dividends.  City of Washington, Dec. 11-3t
PUBLIC SALE.  By virtue of a decree of the High Court of Chancery the Subscriber will sell at Public Auction on Monday the 18th day of December next, if fair, and if not, on the first day thereafter, on the premises, that beautiful and highly improved FARM in Prince Georges county, called Mount Calvert , late the property of Mr. John Brown, deceased, being part of Two Tracts of Land, called Mount Calvert Manor & Beall's Gift , containing upwards of four hundred acres. This Land is beautifully situated on the Banks of Patuxent river, about half way between the town of Upper Marlborough and Nottingham, is bounded by said river for more than a mile on one side, where it is navigable by vessels of any burthen: it is well adapted to the production of Tobacco, Indian Corn and all kinds of small grain, has a great quantity of Meadow ground, part of which is now in high cultivation and abounds with Wood and Timber. The improvements thereon are a Brick Dwelling House two stories high, nearly new, a very good Kitchen, two good Tobacco Houses, a Barn and Stables, together with every other necessary building all in good repair.  The terms of sale are eighteen months credit, the purchaser giving bond with security to be approved by the Trustee bearing interest from the day of sale and on the ratification of the sale by the Chancellor and payment of the whole purchase money, the Trustee will by a good deed convey to the purchaser and his heirs all the right, title and interest of the said John Brown, deceased, in and to the above described Lands and premises.  The sale will commence precisely at 12 o'clock.  TRUEMAN TYLER, Trustee.  November 22-w3w
BOARDING HOUSE.  ON CAPITOL HILL.  THE Subscriber has taken the House lately occupied by  MR. HENRY TITS,  Where he has made comfortable arrangements for  TEN BOARDERS.  B. RICHMOND.  Nov. 24-4f
ROSS & GETT  Have just received from New-York and Philadelphia, the following  GROCERIES & LIQUORS, viz.  12 Hds. Prime Jamaica Sugars. 8 do. Second Quality. 6 do. Molasses. 4 do. Jamaica Spirits. 300 Baskets Salt. 60 Boxes Mould and Dipped Candles. A few pipes Holland and New-York Anchor Gin. Cogniac Brandy, Mace, Pepper, Cloves, &c. &c.  —IN STORE—  Gun Powder Tea in canisters of 2 pounds each.  Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, & Souchong, } Teas all of this year's importation, end of the best quality, 3000 pounds prime Green Coffee. 3 Pipes genuine old Madeira Wine. 5 do. Sicily Madeira. 4 do. Lisbon Wine. Port Wine in pipes, qr. casks and bottles Claret in Boxes. Brushes of all kinds. Powder and Shot. Cordials, &c. together with a large variety of articles in their line, which renders their assortment complete. Also, just received on commission, a small invoice of handsome looking glasses. And-Irons. Brass mounted Fenders, Shovels and Tongs. Tea Trays, waiters, coal hods, &c. &c. All of which will be sold cheap, on early application to them at their store, corner of Washington and Bridge Street, opposite the Union Tavern, George Town.  November 8-tf
LANDS IN THE STATES OF OHIO AND KENTUCKY  FOR SALE.  By Virtue of the Last Will and Testament of Robert Means, deceased, the subscriber offers for sale, all the Lands of the testator in the states of Ohio & Kentucky. As there is a large quantity of these Lands, and the quality in general good, they are well worth the attention of all persons desirous of purchasing Lands in those parts of the country. The tracts are of various sizes, and consequently calculated to suit purchasers of all descriptions. Further information respecting the said Lands may be obtained from Mr. Walter Dun, residing in, or near the town of Chillicothe in the State of Ohio.  DANIEL GALL, Executor of the last will & testament of Robert Means, dec'd.  Richmond, July 19-tf
UNITED STATES—DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington county, to wit:  Circuit Court, June term, 1809.  IN CHANCERY.  Solomon Davis—Complainant, against  Abiel Jenners and Deborah his wife, and Ferdinando Fairfax—Defendants.  THE report of Samuel Elliot, jun. the trustee formerly appointed in this cause under the decree of the 12th day of April last, having been sworn to, returned and filed, and the proceedings thereon approved:  It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed this sixth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, that the said report be ratified and confirmed unless cause be shown to the contrary on or before the fourth Monday of December next; Provided, a copy of this order be published for three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer before the said fourth Monday of December next.  The report states, that the mortgaged premises mentioned in the bill, were sold for the sum of five hundred sixty-one dollars and fifty cents.  By order,  Wm. BRENT, Ck.  True copy,  Wm. BRENT, Ck.  November 13-ep1252m
FOR SALE  ON Monday the first day of January next, at the Plantation of the late Robert Peter in the SUGAR LANDS, within one mile of the Seneca Mills, about  FIFTY VALUABLE SLAVES:  Consisting of Men, Women, Boys & Girls; Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs; Plantation Utensils, and a quantity of Indian Corn. The Sale will commence at 11 o'clock, A. M. and continue till all are Sold—Terms of Sale six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with such security as will be approved of, bonds bearing interest from day of Sale.  THOMAS PETER, Executor.  Dec 11-ads
GRAND LOTTERY, THREE PRIZES of 25,000 DOLLARS EACH.  State of New York,  UNION COLLEGE LOTTERY, No. 1.  MANAGERS.  William W. Gilbert, Benjamin Dewitt, George Mercant, Isaac Demmum, and Stephen Thorne.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.  RAN AWAY from the Subscribers living near Nottingham, Prince Georges county state of Maryland, on the 19th of November, a Negro man named CHARLES, sometimes calls himself CHARLES ODEN, about 23 years old, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, has a dark complexion, when spoken to has a down look, one of his upper fore teeth is out, has several scars about his face occasioned by a scald when young, he is rather slender made, brisk and active about any thing, particularly cooking and waiting, he took with him two homespun cotton shirts, India cotton shirts, and brown round about jacket, sunny waistcoats, one pair corduroy pantaloon, home made yarn stockings and shoes, one furred hat and wool hat. He has a variety of clothing unknown, but being an artful, cunning fellow he may change them for others, it is very likely that he is got a forged pass, and it is very likely will endeavour to pass as a free man, we expect he is making towards Pennsylvania. If taken within ten miles, ten dollars; if twenty miles twenty dollars; if thirty miles, thirty dollars; if taken without the state the above reward will be given to any person or persons securing him in any jail, so that we get him again. All persons are forewarned harbouring, employing, or carrying said negro out of this state.  LEONARD P. HARVEY. WILLIAM HARVEY.  Dec. 4-4w.
100 DOLLARS REWARD.  A LETTER covering the two following BANK NOTES, viz. United States Bank , No. 5004 dated 28th April 1807 for $100. Do. do. do. O. No. 5032, dated 28th April 1807 for $100. directed to the Subscribers in Baltimore, was forwarded from the Post Office in Jonesborough, Tennessee, the 6th of September last, and as the said Letter has not come to hand, it is supposed to have been pilfered from the Post on the way—We therefore offer a reward of One Hundred Dollars to any one who will give information as will lead to a discovery of the money and the conviction of the Robber.  T. JONES & H. YOUNG.  Baltimore, Nov. 24-3t
WM. S. NICHOLLS.  BEING determined to close and settle up all his business in Georgetown, takes this method of informing his friends and the public that he will sell off his entire stock of Goods, which is very extensive & complete, at Cost and Charges for cash only—and invites all persons who wish to buy Cheap Goods to call on him, as his goods will go at very low prices. He has it in contemplation to leave Georgetown in the course of the ensuing summer & requests all those who are indebted to him to make immediate payment, as longer indulgence cannot be given.  Nov. 29-3w.
RICHARD BECK  Has just received for the latest arrivals, a large and handsome assortment of  SEASONABLE GOODS,  Among which are—  Superfine cloths and cashmers, Second do. do. Cravats, Kersey Moleskins, Cords and Velveteens, Moleskin & Swansdown Waistcoating, Silk Florentines, Rose and Stripe Blankets, Plains and Kerseys, Double Milled Devonshire Kersey, Flannels, Buckskins and Baizes, Carpeting and Hearth Rugs, Apron Checks, Cotton Stripes, Brown Hollands, Fashionable Buttons, Bed Tickings, Italia Mantuas, India Lutestring, Bombazets and Wildbores, Ginghams, Fancy Shawls and Muslins, Damask and large Silk Shawls, Laces and Ribbons, Worsted, Cotton and Silk Hosiery, Silk Velveteens, Furniture Dimity, Chintzes and Cambrics, Pelisse Velveteens, Chambrays, Madras Handkerchiefs, Bandana do. 3 Trunks Calicoes, 1 Do. Furnitures, 1 Do. Cambric Muslins, 1 Do. Shirting Cottons, &c. &c. 4 Bales German Linens, 6 Bales India Muslins, 1 Case Irish Linens.
All of which being well selected and on the best terms, enables him to sell them at wholesale or retail, at the most reduced prices for cash, or approved notes.  He flatters himself that from his regular mode of dealing, that all those who favor him with a call will meet with such bargains as will please—and will on his part leave nothing undone to render general satisfaction.  December 15-3w&4f.
PUBLIC SALE.  PURSUANT to an order of the Orphans Court of Prince Georges county will be offered for sale, on Monday the 8th of January next, if fair, if not, the first fair day thereafter, at the late Dwelling of Mary Meek Duckett , deceased, (within 7 miles of Upper Marlboro, and near Mr. Dennis Nugrudon) the PERSONAL PROPERTY of said deceased, consisting of Negroes, Bees, Furniture, Cattle, etc. etc. A credit of nine months will be given, the purchasers giving bond with approved security. The sale to commence at 9 o'clock, A. M. and to continue from day to day until the whole Personal Estate ordered to be sold, shall be disposed of.  JACOB DUCKETT, } Exrs. U. BRUCE, }  It is desired that all claims against the above Estate, may be presented to the Executors by the day of sale.  Prince Georges county, Dec. 14-10t
GRAND PIANO FORTE.  HENRY SHULTZ, High-street George- town has for Sale an Elegant GRAND PIANO FORTE, which he will sell low for cash.  December 15-3t
FOR RENT.  A TWO STORY BRICK House, Of moderate size and well finished, near the War Office, opposite Mr. Nicholas King's. Possession may be had immediately. Enquire of  THOS W. PAIRO, F street.  December 15-3t