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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. VI.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. DCCC.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1805.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES: AN ELEGY, Occasioned by the death of Robert Ferguson, By Mr. JOHN TATE.
DARK was the night—and silence reign'd o'er all; No mirthful sounds urg'd on the lingering hour: The spectral ghost stalk'd ghastly thro' the hall, And ev'ry breast confess'd chill horror's pow'r.
Slumbr'ring I lay: I mus'd on human hopes: "Vain, vain, I cry'd are all the hopes we form; "When winter comes, the sweetest flow'rets drops, "And oaks themselves must bend before the storm."
While thus I spake, a voice assail'd my ear. 'Twas sad—'twas slow—it fill'd my mind with dread! "Forbear, it cry'd—thy moral lays forbear, "Or change the strain—for Ferguson is dead!
"Have we not seen him sporting on these plains? "Have we not heard him strike the muse's lyre? "Have we not felt the magic of his strains, "Which often glow'd with fancy's warmest fire?
"Have we not hop'd these strains would long be heard? "Have we not told how oft they touch'd the soul? "And has not Scotia said, her youthful Bard "Might spread her fame ev'n to the distant pole?
"But vain, alas! are all the hopes we rais'd; "Death strikes the blow—they sink their reign is o'er; "And these sweet songs, which we so oft have prais'd— "The mirthful strains shall now be heard no more.
"This, this proclaims how vain are all the joys "Which we so ardently wish to attain; "Since ruthless fate so oft, so soon destroys "The high born hopes ev'n of the muses train."
I heard no more—the cock, with clarion shrill, Loudly proclaim'd th' approach of morning near— The voice was gone—but yet I heard it still— For every note was echo'd back by fear.
"Perhaps, I cry'd, ere yonder rising sun, "Shall sink his glories in the western wave; "Perhaps ere then my race too may be run "And I myself laid in the silent grave.
"Oft then, O mortals! oft this dreadful truth "Should be proclaim'd—for fate is in the sound, "That genius, learning, health and vigorous youth, "May, in one day, in death's cold chains be bound."
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Observations relative to a commercial treaty with Great Britain, by James M'Henry, esq. (CONCLUDED.)
But I imagine the change in our situation will increase our ability beyond past years. 1st. Because we shall get more for the sum total of our exports than we used to do formerly, when the British marked engulphed nearly the whole. 2dly. We shall have more articles to export, having a greater commerce and greater country. 3dly. We shall be richer by the establishment of manufactures; a beginning, as it were, but an endless source of wealth. And lastly, we shall pay less for the aggregate of our imports than when we were obliged to take them from Great Britain. What America must save under these four heads will be very considerable; although it would not be easy to calculate. Take for the sake of an example, a single article of import; see how many pounds of tea are annually consumed, then estimate the difference between its price in England and Holland or China, or those places we have mentioned in our statement where it can be had cheaper, and you will be astonished at the greatness of the sum this country will save upon this single article.
To conclude. Let no reasoning persuade you that you ought to leave the accomplishment of a commercial treaty entirely to your commissioners. They
are anxious that you should assist their labors, by giving a proof to Europe, that you are united and can act as a nation. You are advised by some not to give this proof, and the resolutions of those states that displayed it, are made the object of censure. Do not suffer yourselves to sink into a state of quietism on a point so interesting, nor believe those preachers who argue in favor of doing nothing. I would not have you shew resentment, but dignity; this will make you admired, another conduct despised. Be assured that Great Britain in particular is more anxious to sell her manufactures than you are to buy them; and that it is more her interest to gain your trade than yours to give it. An increasing and prosperous people without manufactures are her what South America is to Spain. How greatly is her prosperity connected with our consumption! Only think, were three millions of people to resolve to do without her manufactures, what must be the event? Maryland is proceeding in this great business with caution: she has laid some light duties upon goods imported in British bottoms, but I presume she expects the other states will follow her example; as remaining singular, would not answer the intention of these duties. She has also, in the same act laying the duties, proposed a new article for the confederation; but this cannot be operative till every state agrees to one substantially the same. The power it contains is pointed at no kingdom: and in its fullest effect, must increase our navigation; and we may reasonably expect that under this power, congress would devise a navigation act suited to the circumstances of this country. If my memory serves me right, when Great Britain passed her navigation act, she had little more than eighty thousand tons of shipping, she has now about eight hundred thousand, said to be the fruit of this celebrated act.
March 14, 1784.
FROM THE [LONDON] SUN OF SEPT. 21.
Mr. Belsham's History of Great Britain from the revolution to the peace of Amiens.
WITH singular pleasure we congratulate the public on the completion of this celebrated Work, which, by the recent addition of the 11th and 12th volumes, is now brought down to the peace of Amiens, a period beyond which, according to the intimation of the author, it is not his intention to extend his historical labors.
As a whole, in which this history is now therefore to be considered, it may be confidently recommended as a work which however different in some points of view, may be studied with satisfaction as a sequel to, or a continuation of, the deservedly admired history of Mr. Hume.
In the earlier period of our national annals Hume has so fixed his reputation as apparently to bid defiance to successful rivalry, and since his time it has been the constant subject of national regret, that almost equally hopeless was the prospect of such a continuation of his work since the period of the revolution as might claim with justice, and obtain without hesitation, the honor of ranking as its companion.
The errors and defects of Smollett, the only name which can stand in any degree of competition, has long been universally felt and acknowledged; he possessed unquestionable talents, but his genius was entirely turned to the low and the ludicrous. Of the dignity and beauty of historic composition he had no conception, and much less could he boast of any portion of its all pervading and philosophic spirit. Other productions of the same nature have had an ephemeral existence—have lived their little day, and have hurried into neglect and oblivion.
In this state of our historic attainments, Mr. Belsham several years ago published the first volume of his history of Great Britain. The work was immediately pronounced a phenomenon in that branch of literature, and it was received with that general applause which incited the author to proceed with increasing energy in his undertaking; and, after the labor of 14 years, it now appears before the public as a complete work.
In examining critically the intrinsic merit of this performance, several striking claims to distinction are instantly obvious: One of the most prominent of them is, that in no place do we meet with anything like the transcription of the dull records of the day; every page bears the impression of research and of original thought. With acute discrimination Mr. Belsham develops the causes and the motives of action; recurring frequently to sources and documents which lie beyond the sphere of ordinary investigation.
In our Domestic History his arrangement is in a high degree luminous and exact. The unfortunate contest with the colonies is reviewed and its progress traced with discernment and care; and in the narrative of the late war, by which the present reign will be rendered still more memorable, the author seems, in a most particular manner, to have exerted all his powers to do justice to the importance of the occasion.
The affairs of the continent, as subservient to his primary object, he has treated with extraordinary ability; and the wars of king William and queen Anne, as well as the events resulting from the wonderful change which the last seventeen years have introduced in the condition and politics of Europe are related with a singular combination of political and historical talent. The transactions in India are also detailed at considerable length, and with great ability.
In estimating his general politics as an historian, it is impossible to avoid noticing his peculiar excellence in the delineation of character; with a keenness of penetration, a solidity of judgment, and a warmth and fidelity of colouring, unrivalled, he arrests the fleeting personages of his scene, and transmits to his reader their intellectual portraits: add to this, that his stile throughout possesses an animation, a vigor, and fluency, which can scarcely be paralleled; and every part of his work is pervaded by the genuine philosophy of history , without which the most interesting materials, united to the greatest attractions of stile, cannot aspire to be ranked in this highest department of literature.
It now remains only to speak of his political principles: whatever savors of the appellation of party is undoubtedly so far odious; yet in this nation one great distinction has long existed, and must long continue to exist, for its foundation is fixed in the nature of things. By the very essence of our constitution, the conscientious friends of privilege , and those of prerogative , can never perfectly coalesce; and the principles of whiggism received at the revolution of 1688 a practical sanction which ensures them a durability co-existent with that constitution itself, and sets their advocates far above the stigma usually attached to party denomination.
MR. BELSHAM then is a perfect model of a whig of the old school. The cause of the revolution is the banner under which he fights; and, to the test of its genuine and unalterable decisions he brings every act of domestic policy which incurs his observation. But we perceive that we have already passed our prescribed limits; and must therefore briefly add, that we recommend it most strongly to our readers, and express our confidence , for we are persuaded our hope is superfluous, that it will remain, as long as the language in which it is written shall endure, an illustrious repository of the principles of genuine patriotism, and a noble monument of historic genius.
Translated for the Mercantile Advertiser.
AUSTRIAN MANIFESTO.
[The two following Notes have been transmitted to the minister of foreign relations by count Philip de Cobentzel, on the 12th September.]
THE Court of Vienna does not hesitate to comply with the demand made to it on the part of the emperor of the French, to explain itself categorically upon its intentions and the motives of its armaments.
It has no other intentions but to maintain peace and its friendly intercourse with France as well as the general repose of the continent; no other desire but to see the intentions of the emperor Napoleon correspond with his own.
But the maintenance of peace between two powers does not consist merely in not attacking each other. It consists not less essentially in the accomplishment of treaties upon which peace has been established. The power who transgresses them in the essential points and refuses to do justice to representations, is as much the aggressor as if it should attack the other unjustly.
The peace between Austria and France rests upon the treaty of Luneville, one of whose conditions stipulates and guarantees the independence of the Republics of Italy, as well as the Helvetic and Batavian Republics, and insures them the liberty of chusing for themselves their own government. Every enterprise to compel them to adopt a government, a constitution or a master, otherwise than their free choice, and otherwise than in preserving a real political independence, is an infraction of the peace of Luneville, and Austria has the right to complain and to sue for redress.
The wish to maintain usual friendship, to calm suspicions and preserve public repose from greater dangers, will, in the midst of critical and delicate circumstances, induce the claiming party to adopt mild measures, to use great moderation in the prosecution of its grievances, and to postpone the discussion thereof to subsequent negotiations, but regards of friendship can never make it a duty in him to renounce the stipulations of treaties, and the power who, after having broken them, declines explaining itself, refuses to negotiate and substitutes menace to conciliation, wounds as much the laws of friendship as the sacred rights of peace.
As to the maintenance of public repose, it requires that each state confide itself within its limits, and respect the
rights of the independence of other states whether weak or strong. That repose is disturbed when a power attributes to itself rights of occupation, protection or influence, that are avowed neither by the laws of nations nor treaties; when it speaks of the right of victory after the peace that has extinguished it; when it employs force and fear to dictate laws to its neighbors, to oblige them to assimilate their constitutions to its own, or to force out from them alliances, concessions, acts of submission and incorporation; when it pretends that its dignity is offended by just representations, whilst its own journals attack successively all monarchs; when in short it erects itself sole arbiter of the fate and common interests of nations, and that it will debar other powers from all participation in the maintenance of the tranquility and equilibrium, some because they are too far off, others because an arm of the sea separates them from the continent, opposing to the claims of the powers the nearest to the danger, vague answers, sending troops on their frontier, and menaces of rupture if they put themselves in a state of defence.
It is that power therefore who provokes the other powers to arm themselves to succour each other; in fine, to unite, if necessary, for the maintenance of the public safety and of their own.
It is thus that the armaments of the court of Vienna have been provoked gradually, as much by the armaments of France as by the insufficiency of the conciliatory means to insure the maintenance of a true peace and future tranquility.
All Europe has acknowledged the sincerity of the pacific dispositions of his majesty the emperor, in his exactitude to fulfil the conditions of the treaty of Luneville; in his great condescension on the subject of the extensions prejudicial to his interests given to the execution of that treaty in Germany; in his moderation, not less great at the time of the first deviations of the French Republic from that treaty, concerning the other Republics.
Attributing these deviations to the necessity of guaranteeing from all external danger the development of the plan formed for the re-establishment of the monarchical government in France, his majesty made no difficulty in acknowledging the state of things established in Italy towards the latter end of the year 1802. His confidence in the views of the first consul, the engagements taken by the latter towards the new Italian Republic upon the temporary duration of his presidency, the public and solemn assurances which have accompanied his elevation to the imperial dignity, and his repugnance from all views of aggrandizement and from every thing injurious to the independence of the Italian states; and finally the subsisting engagements on his part with the sovereign of Russia, namely, upon the indemnification of the king of Sardinia, and upon a common arrangement of the affairs of Italy. All these motives have occurred to give birth and to nourish in the heart of his majesty the hope that the consolidation of the new empire of the French would in a short time bring the policy and the measures of its government to relations compatible with the balance and safety of Europe. And yet when some time afterwards the first reports of the new alterations in the states of Lombardy induced the ambassador of the court of Vienna in Paris, to require explanations on that point, his majesty was still confirmed in his hopes by the official assurance given in the name of the emperor Napoleon, that the Republic of Italy would not be united to France, and that no innovation would be made contrary to their political independence.
Europe will judge whether these assurances have been fulfilled. The emperor has not ceased to claim as the correspondence it has occasioned between the two sovereigns will prove, as well as the official and ostensible representations which ambassador count de Cobentzel, was charged to make; and notwithstanding the letters by which the emperor Napoleon participated with his majesty some dispositions for the establishment of a kingdom of Italy, were accompanied with menaces and armaments, notwithstanding that every thing revealed then what the event has since proved, that the emperor of the French was determined to support these innovations by force. His majesty has, nevertheless, never acknowledged dispositions that were announced to him as merely provisional arrangements. He contented himself with repulsing the calumnies which served as a pretext to the menaces, and to manifest the hope that the principle of separation and of independence consecrated by the treaty, would be maintained by the definitive arrangements which the emperor Napoleon made to depend upon ulterior negotiations with the courts of Petersburg and London, at the period of the re-establishment of peace.
These negotiations were in effect the only hope remaining to his majesty, to succeed by the means of conciliation, in consolidating peace and restoring tranquility to agitated Europe, from north to south, by enterprizes, whose number
and extent are every moment increasing.
His majesty the emperor of the French has made a first pacific step towards the king of England, but continuing still to hold out his design of excluding him from the rights of participating in the grand concerns of Europe. That restriction, together with the relations existing between him and the court of Petersburg, induced his Britannic majesty to have recourse to the mediation of his majesty the emperor of Russia, who, notwithstanding the interruption of official intercourse with France, did not hesitate to interpose his good offices, to send to that effect, a negotiator, and to solicit his admission to the sovereign of France.
But, the hope grounded upon all their pacific proceedings soon vanished. New blows were aimed at the political existence of other independent states of Italy, at the moment when the passport demanded for the Russian ambassador for his journey to France was forwarding to him; the emperor Alexander thought from that time he ought to consider his mediation as compromised on the other hand, the French armies were suddenly collected in Italy, notwithstanding the promise made that they should not arm there; a camp of 30,000 men assembled in the plains of Marengo, was followed by another camp of 40,000 men, stationed on the frontiers of Tyrol and of the Venetian provinces of Austria; his majesty, therefore, saw himself compelled to provide effectually for his safety. From that time he acquired the conviction that the sentiments of peace, friendship, and moderation which he professed did not meet with similar sentiments on the part of his majesty the emperor of the French, and he cannot neglect any longer to prepare the necessary measures for the defence of his rights and for the maintenance of the dignity of his empire.
Such is the real cause of his armaments. But the same sentiments which have actuated his majesty in delaying to resort to these measures, have at the same time determined their aim. The emperor arms himself, not with hostile views, not to make a diversion to the descent on England, whose execution, after two years' menaces, ought not to appear to be reserved for the moment when France had just provoked Austria and Russia; he arms for the preservation of the peace which exists between him & France, & for the maintenance of the conditions of peace without which that peace would be illusory; to attain the end of an equitable reconciliation grounded upon the moderation of all the powers concerned, and fit to insure the equilibrium and permanent tranquility of Europe.
The steps taken by his majesty in inviting at the same time the principal courts concerned, to renew the interrupted negotiations had the same tendency. The unexpected refusal which his interposition has experienced on the part of the emperor of the French, does not deter him from renewing it.
He has been more fortunate with the emperor Alexander. That monarch, who occupies with glory a distinguished station in the senate of the powers of Europe, whose equilibrium and general welfare are the constant object of his cares, testified in the subjoined answer which he has just transmitted to his majesty, a desire similar to his own for the conclusion of an equitable and moderate arrangement. He is equally convinced of the necessity of an eventual armament, and thinks himself obliged, by the same repugnance alledged, to prove the right and the consequence of his intervention to bring forward a part of his troops in order to insure to that intervention all the weight and efficacy worthy of so great a power.
To complete the proof of the rectitude of the intentions of the Imperial courts of Austria and Russia, it is here solemnly declared, in the name of both.
That they are ready to negotiate with the court of France for the maintenance of the peace of the continent, on terms the most moderate, compatible with the general repose and security.
That whatever may be the issue of the negotiations, and should the tumult of war be inevitable, they have mutually engaged to abstain from any enterprise which would tend to intermeddle with the internal affairs of France, to alter the state of arrangements which are now legally established in the Germanic Empire, or to wound in the smallest degree the rights and interests of the Ottoman Porte, whose integrity and possessions on the contrary they are ready to defend to the utmost of their power.
It short, that G. Britain has made known to them that her sentiments are perfectly similar to theirs, and her dispositions equally moderate for the re-establishment of peace with France.
His Majesty hopes that these explanations, as sincere as they are frank, upon which he has just entered, will be sufficient to dissipate the doubts which may exist in the mind of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, upon the intentions and motives which animate him; and all his wishes will be accomplished, if these explanations can contribute to prevent the misfortunes which it will not depend upon him to spare to humanity.

MANIFESTO OF RUSSIA.
Copy of the declaration transmitted by count de Rosoumowsky, ambassador of his imperial majesty of all the Russias.
It would be superfluous to retrace here the motives which induced his majesty the emperor of all the Russias to recall the plenipotentiary whom he had sent, in concert with his Britannic majesty, to treat for peace with the chief of the French government.
These motives are too just and too evident not to be appreciated by all Europe. They have been expressed in the note transmitted to the ministry of his Prussian majesty by M. de Novosiltzeff, the 28th June (10th July) and the resolution they had provoked is but a consequence of the same sentiments and principles which have constantly induced his imperial majesty to employ his arduous cares for the re-establishment of general tranquility.
Since the rupture between France and England, his majesty has seen with surprise and sorrow the greater part of the states of the continent successively compelled to bear the weight of a war entirely inimical to its principles, and foreign to their internal interests, but he could not persevere in the hope that the means of a frank and friendly negotiation would be sufficient to put an end to that afflictive state of things, when he was apprised that, without any regard for the solemn steps tending to establish peace, and at the very moment when Russia offered to treat for its conclusion, new states were still losing their independence.
If, therefore, his imperial majesty has taken the resolution of recalling his plenipotentiary, it is only because he had acquired the complete certainty that that mission would not have a satisfactory issue, not that his ardent wishes for restoring peace to Europe were in the least diminished.
The most signal proof which the emperor can give of it, is to adhere at the present time to the request which has just been made by his Austrian imperial majesty and king, simultaneously to England, France, Prussia and Russia, for the purpose of having the interrupted negotiations resumed.
His imperial majesty, however, cannot, in the mean time, dissemble the probability that a conduct on the part of the French government similar to that which has already compelled the emperor to retract his first step towards a negotiation for peace, will render ineffectual that which Austria proposes to renew.
The painful apprehension, but which experience justifies, of seeing new encroachments take place at the moment the negotiation will have been accepted or during its course; that greater dangers will arise for Europe from a step that has no other aim but to save it; the certainty that they will be unavoidable as soon as the just demands of the continental powers, as well as those which the French government will set forward in support of its successive encroachments, shall not have been satisfied on either point; the obligation especially, in which the emperor finds himself in such calamities and difficult circumstances, to come to the assistance of his allies, whose security and even existence is imminently menaced, and to offer them, in short, not an illusory assistance, but real, immediate and efficacious; all these considerations united, point out to the only conduct which it appertains to his imperial majesty to follow.
Russia cannot at present resume the thread of interrupted negotiations but by putting herself in a situation to succour her allies at the very moment they should be attacked, and to preserve Europe from an ulterior overthrow. She must combine her measures in such a manner as to procure herself a well grounded hope that the negotiation for peace will promise happier results than those obtained from all the pacific steps made until now, and which have unhappily been marked only by the want of regard which the French government has shown for the instances and representations of Russia and other continental powers, and by an increase, continually repeated, of the dangers of Europe.
It is in consequence of all that has just been alledged, that the undersigned has orders to make known to the ministry of his Austrian imperial majesty and king, in answer to the note which ambassador, count de Stadion, has transmitted to the cabinet of St. Petersburg on the 26th July (7th August) that his majesty the emperor of all the Russias has taken the following determinations:
To adhere to the request of renewing the negotiations for peace, interrupted by the recall of M. de Novosiltzeff, and to proceed thereon as soon as the chief of the French government shall have manifested a similar disposition:
To cause two armies of 50,000 men each, immediately to advance towards the Danube through Galicia, with the view of combining with the negotiations for peace a powerful armament of mediation and observation, calculated to prevent future encroachments during the work of pacification, and to guarantee at its issue, Austria and the neighboring country from all attack on the part of France:
To invite his imperial majesty and king, and other powers still to co-operate on their side in that salutary measure whose suitability will be acknowledged by the French government itself, if it will judge impartially.
The undersigned in acquitting himself of his present office near the ministry of his Austrian imperial majesty, must add, by express orders from the emperor his master, that it is altogether a most sincere desire of restoring peace to Europe that regulates his conduct in this instance; that Russia will
bring to the negotiations for peace, dispositions the most conciliating and the most proper to attain the happy issue thereof; and that she declares solemnly she will be ready to withdraw her troops as soon as the result so much wished for shall have been obtained by sureties sufficient for all the states of Europe.
His imperial majesty invites formally his Austrian imperial majesty and king to join in the measures he has adopted; and the undersigned is authorised to act in concert with his ministry upon every thing that may relate to this important object.
Signed, C. A. DE ROSOUMOWSKY. Vienna, Saturday 19th Aug. (31st Aug.)
CONSERVATIVE SENATE.
1ST VENDEMIARE (SEPT. 22).
Exposition of the reciprocal conduct of France and Austria, since the peace of Luneville. Read by the minister of Exterior Relations.
All Europe knows that during the war, even amidst the most splendid and decisive triumphs, the Emperor of France constantly wished for peace, that he repeatedly offered it to his enemies, that after compelling them to receive it as a favour, he accorded them conditions far beyond their most flattering hopes and displayed a moderation more glorious than victory. He felt all the glory acquired by arms, in a just and necessary war; but a glory far more dear to his heart, his first wish, the constant end of all his efforts, is the tranquility of Europe, the repose and felicity of nations. This end was attained; this wish was fulfilled by the peace of Amiens. Every exertion was made by the Emperor to render it durable. It would have still subsisted, had not the increasing prosperity of France fixed its term.
At first it was interrupted by the arts, and soon broken by the open perfidy of the Cabinet of St. James. Notwithstanding, peace would still have reigned, had not Europe discerned the true motives of England, amidst the false and frivolous pretences, under which she sought to conceal them.
England dreaded to see the French colonies rising from their ruins, & restored to a state as flourishing as they had once enjoyed; her jealousy wished to annihilate, or at least to arrest in its career, that industry which peace had reanimated in France. She cherished the senseless desire of chasing from the ocean the French flag, which had heretofore been displayed with such éclat, or at least to reduce it to a condition unworthy of the rank which France held among nations. But these were not the only motives of England. She was led on by that insatiable avidity which made her covet the monopoly of commerce; it was this unbounded pride which made her believe herself the sovereign of the ocean, and which is the sole foundation of the monstrous despotism which she there exercises. The cause which France had to defend, was then the cause of Europe, and it was natural to believe, that neither the intrigues of England, neither the gold she promised to those who would minister to her ambition, nor her fallacious promises, would have engaged in her party any of the continental powers, and none in truth appeared willing to receive her propositions. Easy as to the dispositions of the continent, the Emperor turned all his thoughts towards maritime war, to maintain which every thing was to be created. Fleets were constructed, harbors formed, camps spread along the shores of the ocean; the Emperor there united the whole strength of his empire, his troops were formed under his eyes to new evolutions, and prepared for new triumphs.
England saw the danger which menaced her. She thought to avert it by crimes, assassins were thrown upon the coast of France; English ministers, near neutral powers, became the agents of a warfare, infamous as atrocious, that of conspiracy and assassination. The Emperor beheld with contempt, those miserable intrigues, and continued to offer peace on the same terms it had been previously made.
This generosity, far from calming, seemed rather to increase the fury of the cabinet of St. James; its answer, clearly shews, that peace was not desired till she had lost the hope of covering the continent with carnage & blood; but in order to accomplish this design, it was not sufficient to associate in her views, a power estranged by its position from the continental system; but having nothing to expect from Prussia whose sentiments were well known, her hope would have proved vain, had Austria remained faithful to her neutrality.
Austria having twice experienced at the issue of two fatal wars, in the treaties of Campo-Formio and Luneville, the generosity France extended a conquered enemy, had not like France, religiously observed her treaties. Notwithstanding formal stipulations, the debt of Venice was not paid, it was even declared annihilated. The Emperor knew that his subjects in Milan and Mantua, experienced but partial justice and that the court of Vienna, in contempt of solemn engagements, made no payments. He knew that the commercial relations of his kingdom of Italy, were interwoven with those of the hereditary states, and that his French and Italian subjects received from Austria a very different treatment from what a state of peace would give them a right to expect. In the distribution of indemnities in Germany, Austria had been treated with a degree of favour, which should have satisfied her desires, and which surpassed her hopes. However her actions showed that her ambition was not satisfied;
she employed by turns menaces and promises to gain from the petty princes possessions that suited her convenience; it was thus she acquired Lindau upon the Lake of Constance, and the Isle of Menau in the same Lake, thus getting into her hands one of the keys of Switzerland. She gained over by the Teutonic order, Althausen, which made her mistress of the important post of Rhaetia; she thus increased her territory by many acquisitions, and meditated new ones.
As one mode of aggrandisement she feared not to employ the most palpable usurpations, which she sought to conceal under legal forms. It is thus under the pretext of a right of Escheve , a right which she had expressly renounced by a treaty, and the exercise of which was incompatible with the resolutions of the Germanic empire, she possessed herself of property, she pretended to believe unappropriated, or free from legitimate claims, altho' the above resolutions had expressly disposed of such property by the distribution of indemnities; she thus deprived many princes of what had been justly assigned to them, and under pretext of this same right, she carried off from Helvetia considerable property. In Bohemia, she sequestered fiefs belonging to a neighboring prince under pretext of compensation due to the elector of Salzburg, of which against all justice he constituted herself the arbitress. She insisted even with menaces on keeping recruiting officers in the Bavarian Provinces, in Franconia and Suabia, and she impeded all in her power the conscription of the electoral army. Abusing prerogatives heretofore appertaining to the Germanic body, but fallen into disuse, she revived them, in order to disturb the exercise of the sovereignty of the neighboring princes in the possessions which had fallen to them by division, and in the diets to deprive them of the increased influence they gained from these possessions. That resolution of the Empire, which was the result of the treaty of Luneville, independently of the distribution of indemnities, had for its object to establish in the centre of Germany, an equilibrium, which would insure its independence, and prevent those causes of war and misunderstanding which so often arise in territories adjoining France and Austria; such was the wish of the Germanic Empire, equally dictated by justice, by reason, humanity and a policy conformable to the true interests of Austria herself. It was Austria then, that overthrew resolutions which had been so wisely entered into, when by her acquisitions in Suabia she weakened the barrier that ought to separate her from France, when attempting to interpose between France and the middle states of Germany, and when by a combined system of sequestrations, pretensions, caresses and menaces, she incessantly tried to gain an influence, exclusive, arbitrary and universal over that part of the Empire, she evidently violated treaties, and each of her acts should be considered as an infraction of the peace. Since the rupture of the treaty of Amiens, Austria has more than once discovered herself partial to England, she acknowledged in fact, the pretended right of blockade which England had dared to arrogate to herself; she suffered without complaint or remonstrance the neutrality of her flag to be continually violated, to the obvious detriment of France. All these facts were known to the Emperor, many of them excited his solicitude, and they were just motives for war; but from the love of peace, the Emperor abstained from all complaint. The court of Vienna received from him only new testimonies of deference, and he carefully avoided whatever might give the slightest umbrage to Austria.
When called to Milan by the wishes of the people of Italy, troops were assembled, camps were formed, with the sole view, however, of mingling military pomp with religious and political solemnities and rites; the Emperor acknowledged also that he felt considerable pleasure at seeing his companions in arms, on ground consecrated by victory; but apprehensive of giving the court of Vienna any disquietude, he assured it of his pacific intentions, declaring that the camps which had been formed should be broken up at the end of a few days, which promise he punctually fulfilled.
Austria replied by protestations equally amicable and pacific, and the emperor quitted Italy with the pleasing persuasion that the peace of the continent would be maintained. What was his astonishment, when scarcely arrived in France, and at Boulogne, hastening the preparations for an expedition which he was on the eve of effecting, he received from all parts the news that the Austrian army was in motion; and proceeding with forced marches along the Adige in the Tyrole, and upon the banks of the Inn: that they were collecting magazines, fabricating arms, levying horses, fortifying the passages of the Tyrole and Venice, and that in short they were making preparations which announced war.
The emperor could not at first believe that Austria seriously wished for war; that she would encounter new hazards, or condemn to new calamities a nation, harassed by so many defeats, and exhausted by so many sacrifices. Twice having the power to detach from the House of Austria the half of its hereditary estates, far from diminishing, he had increased her power. If he did not count upon her gratitude, he at least depended upon her loyalty. He had given her the highest mark of confidence which he could bestow, by leaving his continental frontiers unarmed. He believed her incapable of abusing this confidence, because in like circumstances he felt that he himself would have been so. Suspicion cannot enter into generous hearts, nor find a place in reflecting minds.
The emperor, relying upon these favorable presumptions, openly manifested how much he wished them realized. The court of Vienna neglected nothing to prolong the illusion: she multiplied her pacific declarations; she authorised her ambassador to make the most positive assurances; she sought, in fine, either by plausible explanations or formal denials, to dissipate the suspicion to which her measures might give rise. Hostile preparations, however, every day increasing in activity and extent, it became more difficult to justify them. The emperor ordered that count Philip de Cobentzel, ambassador from Vienna, should be invited to new conferences; and that the correspondence of the diplomatic and commercial agents of his majesty should be communicated to him. Four successive days count de Cobentzel waited on the minister of exterior relations, and showed him dispatches previously received, and those which successively arrived from all parts of Germany and Italy. The cabinets of Europe can shew few examples in their archives of such communications, made under circumstances of so suspicious a nature. The emperor could not give a more convincing proof of his good faith; he could not carry further his loyalty and delicacy. The ambassador from Vienna received the most positive and incontestible information from all quarters of the approaching rupture, preparations for which were carefully concealed.
How could he explain this? For till this moment pacific intentions had been professed by his court both at Paris and Vienna; tho' upon his frontiers warlike measures had been openly organized. The emperor, however, still retained hopes of reconciliation. He persuaded himself that Austria might be under foreign influence—he resolved to make every effort in his power to convince her of her true interests: he represented to her that if she wished not for war, all her preparations were without an object, since all her neighbors were at peace; and that she would be unintentionally serving the English party, by making a diversion in its favor not less powerful and more injurious to France than an avowed war. If she wished for war, he would lay before her its probable effects. Superior to those considerations by which weak minds are influenced, he did not conceal that he deprecated war. After so many battles fought in the three quarters of the old world, he could not fear danger, so often braved and so often surmounted; but he feared war on account of the blood it would cause to be shed; on account of the numerous victims it would cost Europe, and from, perhaps, an excessive love of peace. He conjured Austria to discontinue those preparations, which, in the present state of Europe, and in the peculiar situation of France, could be considered only as a declaration of war, and a consequence of the connexion between her and England. And further, he desired that similar representations should be addressed to the court of Vienna by all its neighbors, who, tho' unconcerned in the causes of the war, it was to be feared would be its victims. The conduct of the court of Vienna every day lessened his hopes—Far from discontinuing her preparations, she augmented them; she alarmed by her armaments the people of Bavaria and Suabia, and the Helvetians were terrified lest the repose which they had obtained by the act of mediation, should be torn from them. All invoked France as their support—as the guarantee of their rights. However, she still dissimulated, and as a pledge of her pacific intentions, she offered a sort of intervention which it is difficult to characterise, but which, judging from its obvious intention, must be regarded as idle and puerile. The emperor of Russia had demanded passports for one of his chamberlains, whom he meant to send to Paris: the emperor knew not the views of the cabinet of Petersburg; they were not officially communicated; but always ready to seize on every thing that might produce a reconciliation, he had granted the passports without delay or explanation. All Europe knows the return for his compliance. The emperor afterwards learned by indirect means, that the design of the court of Russia had been to try, by conferences, an extraordinary species of negotiation at Paris, according to which she would have at the same time stipulated for England, (from whom she alledged she had received full powers; proving to what a degree England counted on her aid,) and have negotiated on her own account; so that mediatrix in name, she would in fact have been a party. Such was the end of the mediation which Russia had projected, & which she afterwards renounced, because on reflection she perceived its inconvenience. It was precisely this same mediation, which the good offices of Austria attempted to revive. It was not, indeed, likely, that France would place herself in a situation in which her real enemies, under the imposing name of mediators, should flatter themselves with prescribing a rigorous and violent rule of conduct. But the cabinet of Vienna, without expecting these good offices would be accepted, found an advantage in offering them, by continuing to deceive France; thereby making her lose that time which she herself gained.
At length, putting aside the mask, Austria in a backward reply, manifested by her language what she had previously announced by her preparations. To expostulations she opposed accusations; she made herself the apologist of England, and announcing that she had opened her territory to two Russian armies, she boldly avowed her concert with Russia on the side of England. This reply of the court of Vienna, full, at the same time, of injurious allegations and menaces, was calculated to excite the indignation of the empe-
ror; but through this rancoring and injurious language, he thought he perceived the possibility of a reconciliation, and therefore sacrificed his natural spirit to considerations all powerful to his heart.
The interest of his people, that of his allies, and that of Germany, about to become the theatre of war; the desire, too, of doing something in correspondence with the sentiments of a prince who, repelling with praise worthy firmness the insinuations, the entreaties, the reiterated offers of England, and of those so urged by her, had shown himself always ready to concur, by his good offices, either in the re-establishment or maintenance of peace: all these motives induced the emperor to silence his just resentment, and determined him to demand of the court of Vienna explanations which might be made the basis of negotiation. He ordered the minister of exterior relations to prepare a note to this effect. The courier, who was to carry it was just departing, when the emperor was advised of the invasion of Bavaria.
The elector of Bavaria had been summoned to join his army to that of Austria, and as if his refusal to make a common cause with Austria, from whom he had received nothing but injury, against France from whom he had received benefits only, had been considered by the court of Vienna as a just cause of war, the Austrian army without any previous declaration, and in contempt of the duties which the character of the emperor of Germany imposed on the emperor of Austria; in contempt of the Germanic constitution, of the Germanic empire itself; in contempt of the most sacred rights, had passed the Inn, and invaded Bavaria then in the full enjoyment of peace.
After such an act on the part of the court of Vienna, the Emperor could have nothing more to ask of it. It became evident that even the congress, proposed with such an imperious tone, and with views so visibly hostile to France, was only a new snare laid for her faith, that Austria irrevocably decided upon war, would not return to pacific views, and that she was even no longer free to return to them. The exchange of all places evidently proved that a part of the sums granted to the English ministry, to serve their ends upon the Continent, was arrived at its destination, and the power which had thus trafficked with her alliance, could no longer spare the blood of her subjects, the price of which she had just received.
All further explanation with the Court of Vienna being thus become unattainable, the way of arms is henceforward the only one compatible with honor.
Let England applaud herself upon having at length found allies; let her rejoice that blood is about to flow upon the Continent; let her flatter herself that her own will be spared; let her hope to find her safety in the discord of other states; her joy will be of short duration, her hopes will be vain, and the day is not far distant when the rights of nations will be at length avenged.
The Emperor, obliged to repel an unjust aggression, which he has in vain endeavoured to prevent, has been constrained to suspend the execution of his first designs. He has withdrawn from the shores of the ocean those veteran bands so often victorious, at whose head he marches. He will not lay down his arms before he has obtained full and entire satisfaction; and complete security as well for his own states as for those of his allies."
SIR SIDNEY SMITH'S GUN BOATS.
The one is called the Cancer, the other the Gemini. The Cancer is formed of a galley, about 48 feet in length, cut exactly in two, from stem to stern; those two parts are joined to the ends of five pieces of timber, which cross them and are made secure by braces of iron; upon those five beams is raised a platform, in the centre of which stands a three pounder, ready mounted, with ammunition, boxes, &c. The wheels of this cannon stand in a groove, upon a sort of frame work which runs out one foot beyond the bows, so that at the moment the vessel is run ashore, the cannon can be landed, and instantly put in use. In the centre of each of the two extreme beams which join the two half galleys, masts are fixed, each of which carries a large square sail, with proper rigging. A foresail projects from a boom, which is fixed to the frame. There are four rudders, one to each extremity of the half galley, two only of which are worked at a time, by a cord connected with a larger one in the centre, and managed by a person on the platform. These rudders can be shipped or unshipped in a moment, and the half galleys being equally sharp at both ends, she can be run backward or forward at pleasure. The half galleys are decked, with eight holes cut along each, large enough to admit a man's body, to the mouth of each of which is fixed a canvas bag, painted so as to prevent the water penetrating, with a running string in the top; in these bags the sixteen men, who pull at the oar, seat themselves and tie them above their hips; this sufficiently lashes them to the boat, and prevents their being washed overboard. Besides these sixteen oars, and the other persons who manage the sails, &c. this vessel is capable of holding fifty soldiers. Her sides are entirely lined with cork, so that it is impossible to upset her; and in a heavy sea, it passes over her without doing any injury, except giving the men a wet jacket. The other boat, the Gemini, is of the same construction, but much larger, with this difference—she is formed of two entire galleys, fastened together as the Cancer, with 16 holes in each galley, for the rowers are inside the other; the 16 outside men row with oars, while those at the inside are furnished with a

sort of spade, in the shape of a paddle of an Indian canoe, the blade made of iron; and a space is left between the platform and the galleys for the men to work those paddles. This instrument is useful also in clearing away the sand or gravel, to facilitate the landing of the cannon. The Gemini also carries a pounder, and a proportionate number of men more than the Cancer. These vessels when heaviest laden, draw only eighteen inches water.
FROM THE BOSTON PALLADIUM.
Messrs. Editors. Being a mariner I think it a duty incumbent on me to give the public every information that may tend to promote the safety and prosperity of navigation. I therefore take this method to acquaint them of a new discovery of an island lying on the Pacific Ocean, which took place on board the ship Nancy, under my command, on her late voyage from Europe to Canton.
Yours, &c. J. CROCKER.
Extract from the Journal.
Thursday, 24th December, 1804— Variable winds, mostly from N. E. with squalls and calms, steered N. N. W. At 1 P. M. we very unexpectedly discovered from the prop-deck an Island, bearing N. E. by N. 1-4 N. distant about 11 leagues. At 6 do. it bore N. E. about 7 leagues to the nearest shore. It appeared to be about 12 or 15 miles long, from N. N. W. to S. S. E. It is quite high land, with some considerable mountains in the middle, and I presume may be seen off deck at the distance of 15 leagues in clear weather. Its latitude I make, from good observation of the Sun's altitude, to be 5 deg. 12 min. and from an observation of a Star's altitude, when the island was seen East of us, to be 5 deg. 11 min. North; and its longitude, from two sets of distances of the Moon and Star, taken when about 50 miles from it, to be 162 deg. 58 min. East of Greenwich. Having no such island laid down in any of my Charts (India Pilot) I conclude it must be a new discovery, and as such I name it STRONG'S ISLAND, in compliment to CALEB STRONG, Esq. Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."
New-York, Nov. 16.
We have been favored with a copy of a letter from Gen. Eaton, dated at Grand Cairo, December 26, 1804. This letter contains a detailed statement of an examination of a Jewish merchant respecting the history of David Valenzin, who, in the summer of 1803, was captured in the Mediterranean by an American frigate, and brought to this country as a Tripolitan prisoner; and who died at Washington the following winter. The testimony of this Jewish merchant fully corresponds with the account which the prisoner gave of himself to the American government. We hope soon to be permitted to publish this interesting statement, together with other documents respecting the unfortunate Valenzin.
The letter of Gen. Eaton closes with the following general remarks on the physical, moral and political state of Egypt. We cannot but notice with what ease and sprightliness this enterprising officer has written on subjects totally unconnected with his pursuits) at the moment he was forming the project of collecting a few scattered soldiers, and traversing an unmeasured and dreary wilderness to attack the enemies of his country, and to "liberate his brethren from servitude and chains."
"Can you expect me to say any thing of Egypt, after Volney and Denon?—They have drawn from life, and in nothing exaggerated. Egypt's physical appearance is the same; and its political is only changed in that British regulars have succeeded to French marauders, and Turkish brigands to both. The domination of the country is now disputed with these by the Mamelukes—and the desert Arabs, like the ravens and vultures of our wilderness, hanging on the rear of both armies, devour every thing which is left defenceless; the consequent wretchedness of the inhabitants is inconceivable; danger and despair stalk every where."
"Egypt must really seek a deliverer in a foreign conqueror. There is, however, a singular tradition among the people, that "their deliverance must be effected by the Mamelukes, another name for slaves; because God hath ordained, that since its salvation by Joseph, a mameluks, the country must be saved by slaves!" They admit the English rendered them much service in expelling the French; and pray for their return to drive out the Turks; but then all must be ascribed to the influence of Joseph's spirit."
"Whatever events may take place to regulate its government and ameliorate the situation of its inhabitants, Egypt, like Carthage and Syracuse, will no more see its ancient splendor. It was the commerce of India and the borders of the Red sea, more than inherent resources flowing through these plains, that gave wealth and grandeur to an-
cient Egypt; these sources have found new channels, wealth and grandeur have flown with them. I can see nothing therefore on the celebrated Nile, which the Ohio, Mississippi, Altamaha, Savanna, and Chesapeake, do not offer us; even her crocodiles and her layat would have nothing to boast side and side by our alligators and catfish—they are precisely the same animals; and her half-grown mules , of geography, can certainly be nothing more than abortions. But when I contrast the pure currents, healthful margins, and delightful landscapes of our Susquehannah, Delaware, Hudson, and Connecticut, with the muddy waters, miry or parched banks, and eternal burning deserts of this river; and the intelligence, freedom, and felicity of the citizens there, with the stolid ignorance, rivetted vassalage and hopeless misery of the peasants here, I almost lose the sensibility of pity in the glad reflection that I am a citizen of the United States. Ruined temples, pyramids and catacombs, monuments of the superstition, pride and frailty of their founders, disgust my sight; for with their magnificence I cannot but couple in my mind the idea of the slaves who must have groaned under the oppressive folly of their fabrication. Egypt, like hypocrisy, shows best in perspective."
Philadelphia, Nov. 18.
Letters by the Hannah from New Orleans, are to the 20th ult. They continue to state several occurrences which lead to a supposition, that a state of tranquillity cannot be long maintained. The Marquis de Cassa Calvo had left New Orleans for Natchitoches, which occasioned various conjectures. It was very confidently asserted, that a very considerable body of cavalry had arrived on the western frontier, either with a view of crossing thence to the Floridas, or to remain there ready for any sudden emergency. The frigate Pomona had arrived at Pensacola, and landed 400 men. These circumstances it is added, very naturally awaken in us, strong apprehensions of the continuance of peace.
November 19.
Arrived at this port, the brig Hannah of Philadelphia, in 22 days from New Orleans. Came passenger, Wm. Ketestass, esq. of the city of New York. Mr. K. left the state of N. York, the 18th June, for St. Louis, the northern route, by way of the Lakes, Green Bay, the Fox and Ousconsin rivers, entering the Mississippi 666 miles above St. Louis, the Indian traders' route from Montreal to the numerous tribes of Indians to the west, with whom they exchange certain English manufactures, adapted to the Indian trade, for furs of great value, and over whom, by this commerce, they have an ascendancy of a commanding nature, so much so, Mr. K. being alone, was advised to pass as an Englishman, for his personal safety, as some tribes through which he was to pass, were disposed to go to war with the U. States. Mr. K. however, met with no difficulty without practising this humiliating dissimulation, preferring to hazard his life than to differ from himself. Mr. K. after spending one month at St. Louis, descended the Mississippi to N. Orleans, and returned by way of the ocean, as intended when he took his departure. Having travelled in 90 days upwards of 5000 miles, which may be performed from and to the city of New York by water with the exception of 36 miles land carriage, divided into five portages; if by Chicago, with less land carriage. Mr. K. we presume, is the only gentleman who ever took this route from the state of New York, or perhaps in the United States.
November 20.
A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of this city, was held last evening for the purpose of taking into consideration the present state of American commerce. After mature deliberation, it was agreed to appoint a committee of that body to collect information relative to the various instances of violence and wrongs committed on our trade; a statement of which, together with a remonstrance or petition, is to be forwarded, with all dispatch, to the department of state. This committee consists of Messrs. T. Fitzsimons, T. W. Francis, Robert Waln, Samuel W. Fisher, John Craig and James Yard.
Frankfort, Nov. 4.
Collector's Office, District of Mobile, Port of Fort Stoddert, August 1st, 1805.
Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ult. written to me in Spanish, together with a translation thereof, by Mr. William Simpson, which is as follows:—
"Three or four nights ago, the schr. Cato commanded by Cadet Freret, passed this port, without, as is customary and required, having stopped to present a manifest, or list of her cargo, and here as she ought to have done, paid the duties thereon. Col. Maxent regrets that such attempts should be made in opposition to the laws of this government and requests that you will, as commandant and collector at Fort Stoddert, forward him by the first occasion a copy of the clearance or cargo of the said schr. that this government may on her return, make a legal demand of the duties on her cargo. He moreover begs in future, that you will desire all patrons of vessels to stop at this port, and present their clearance from Fort Stoddert, in order to prevent any unnecessary delay or trouble."
In reply to your communication, I deem it my duty to inform you, that the schr. Cato is owned and navigated by citizens of the United States, as appears from the enrollment and license, which
were granted by the collector of New Orleans for carrying on the coasting trade: and that on the 23d ult. the said schr. cleared out at this office, for the port of Bayou St. John's, laden with cotton, the growth and product of this country, together with a few beaver skins; she had therefore, an indefeasible right to proceed without touching at any intermediate port.
It is my earnest desire at all times, to preserve the good correspondence and harmony which has hitherto subsisted between the citizens of this place, and our Spanish neighbors; and I shall most cheerfully use every proper means in my power, to prevent infringements of any law of Spain which comes within my knowledge: but being well assured that no law can exist, which contravenes the stipulations and provisions contained in the treaty between the United States and Spain, and being well convinced that the exaction of duties as practised on our commerce passing the city of Mobile, is not sanctioned by the letter of that treaty, and is directly opposed to the spirit and reasonable construction thereof; I must therefore doubt the existence of a law authorising such impositions, and trust they will not be practised in future.
Under these impressions I cannot consent to forward the papers which you request; nor can I, by any means, comply with the latter clause of your letter; because the laws of the United States hold her citizens strictly accountable for their actions; and I am in like manner held accountable for mine; they like myself deem it no crime, for United States vessels, regularly licensed for carrying on the coasting trade, to sail freely, from one of our own ports to another without suffering any illegal detention or imposition whatever. Every proper measure has been adopted by our government to secure to her citizens the enjoyment of free and uninterrupted commerce, so far as her own laws can extend; and treaties have been entered into with our neighbors which secure, and extend as far as we can expect or wish, those precious privileges. Is it because a few of our timid traders have failed to embrace these privileges, and have submitted to being stripped of almost one eighth of their cargoes, when passing Mobile from one of our own ports to another, that you now call on me to aid you in this iniquitous practice? Or is it because this practice has for some time prevailed, in contravention of existing treaties, that it is now to be adopted, and the solemn stipulations contained in those treaties disregarded? It is presumed not.
Our government possessing in a most extensive degree, the affection and confidence of her citizens, her laws and treaties are observed by them with the highest respect and veneration.
Our treaty with Spain points out how far the privileges of navigation and commerce shall extend, and while that treaty allows us to pass with our vessels and effects in the freest manner, even to ports belonging to an enemy, we find the officers of Spain at Mobile assuming the power of prohibiting this freedom of commerce to extend from one of our own ports to another.
These extraordinary proceedings will doubtless undergo a proper investigation by the government of the U. States, but in the mean time it is a duty incumbent on the officers and inhabitants of both countries, to act in conformity to existing treaties. I have therefore to request your attention to the "treaty of friendship, limits and navigation between the United States of America and the King of Spain," entered into at San Lorenzo el Real, in October 1795, also, the "treaty between the United States of America and the French Republic," entered into at Paris, the 30th April, 1803—in a particular manner to the 1st article thereof, as well as to the treaty between France and Spain, to which the said 1st article has reference.
I trust, sir, on a candid review of those treaties, you will at once perceive that United States' vessels passing from this to the port of Bayou St. John's are not obliged to stop at Mobile, and that you have no right to detain or molest such vessels.
I am, sir, Respectfully, Your most obdt. servant, EDMUND P. GAINES.
Colon: FRAN'CO MAXIMO. P. MAXENT, City of Mobile.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman who communicated the above information.
"Since the above was written, the schooner Cato returned (about a month since) from New-Orleans bound to Fort Stoddert. She stopped at Mobile, and was instantly seized, and the captain, who is a Frenchman, was thrown into prison; but he gave information unfavorable to the owner of the cargo and I believe is now liberated."
"The vessel and cargo are still in the hands of the Spanish officers, and it is supposed will be confiscated—tho' the owner of part of the cargo, Dr. Strong, was altogether unconcerned in her cargo when she passed down without calling at Mobile."
"The whole waits the determination of Gov. FOLK, who resides at Pensacola."
FOR SALE.
8000 weight of SHIP BREAD, WHICH will be sold low for cash on immediate application. SAMUEL LOWDERMILK, & co. Corner of North L. and 8th Streets near the Navy Yard.
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25.
We have received the French Moniteur to the 29th September, containing the official papers relative to the rupture of negotiation, and the proceedings of the Tribune on their communication. We have omitted several original articles in readiness, that they might be laid without delay before our readers. Some are original translations and others taken from the Mercantile Advertiser. In our next we shall offer the translations of several additional official documents, as well as extracts from the Speeches delivered in the Tribune, which evince the enthusiasm with which the measures of the Emperor or of France are received in that body, and the spirit with which war is about to be waged.
The legislature of Rhode-Island have established two additional banks in that state. They have rejected a petition for a fourth bank in Providence. There are five or six species of bill in circulation, under denominations unlike those of any existing bank.
ELIAS EARLE, is elected a member of Congress, to represent the united districts of Pendleton and Grenville in the state of South Carolina, in the place of John B. Earle, who declined taking his seat.
FIRE.—With the deepest regret we announce to the public the destruction of the Cayuga Academy , in this village by fire. This melancholy event happened this morning, (Oct. 30) about sunrise; there is every reason to believe, however, that it originated from the fire made in the upper room the day before, which, by some means, must have caught imperceptibly, adjoining the hearth, and have remained in a smothered state till about day break, soon after which, the doors being opened, the fire was discovered under the hearth, in the side walls back of the fire place. It instantly increased, and spread with great violence, the wind blowing fresh; and notwithstanding the utmost exertions of the inhabitants, this young and flourishing seminary was, in an hour reduced to ashes. The library and other contents of the academy were saved. Convenient buildings are already provided for the accommodation of the different schools, which will be continued as heretofore, without interruption, and the re-building of the academy, on an enlarged plan, will be commenced without delay.
Aurora Gazette.
Norfolk, November 18.
LATEST FROM EUROPE. Captain Smith, of the ship Eliza , in 58 days from Bordeaux, has favored us with a regular file of Paris papers to the 30th of September, and of Bordeaux to the 5th of October.
War had not been declared, nor hostilities been commenced, unless the seizure of the territory of the elector of Bavaria by the Emperor of Austria, is to be regarded as such.
The French army had crossed the Rhine in three places; and is commanded by the Emperor Bonaparte in person, who had arrived at Strasburg. The Austrian army had been prompt in entering Bavaria, and was animated by the presence of the Emperor of Austria. The Russian army in two divisions were advancing through Galicia, and were expected to form a junction with the Austrian army in Germany, sometime in October. The Austrian army in Italy is commanded by the arch duke Charles, and that of the French by Massena.
Diplomatic relations do not appear to be entirely broken off between France and Austria; as by the latest accounts it will be seen that the French ambassador was still at Vienna, and we do not perceive, after a careful examination, that the Austrian minister had quitted Paris.
Chillicothe, Nov. 7.
The emigration to the state of Ohio, the present season, far exceeds all reasonable bounds of calculation. We are informed by a gentleman who arrived in town last evening from Wheeling, that he passed not less than eighty waggons with families, from various quarters of the Atlantic states, bound to different parts of this state.
Petersburg, Aug. 25.
M. de Markoff has been called to St. Petersburg.
We are assured that the plan of the campaign which is about to open, is the work of general Suckelein.
The Russian army assembled at Wilna, will be commanded by the emperor in person.
NOTICE.
This is to give notice that the subscribers have obtained from the Orphans Court of Washington county in the district of Columbia, letters of administration on the personal estate of Mrs. CATHERINE JOHNSON, late of said county, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscribers at or before the 20th day of May next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from the benefit of the said estate. Given under our hands, this 17th day of November, 1805. WILLIAM BRENT, WASHINGTON BOYD. Nov. 18. wgt.
OPENING THE TIBER.
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WANTED BY THE SUBSCRIBER. Five or Six good hands will find constant employ and the full prices given by applying to CHARLES H. VARDIN, Capitol Hill, Washington city Nov. 25—4t
Five Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or stolen from the subscriber living near the West Market, on the 17th inst. a dark brown horse with a saddle on a bridle on, ab out 12 hands high, a small white flap in his forehead, a ratch'd mane, a switch tail, his near hind foot white, his hough's (when clean) appears striped with white and blue, on the top of his shoulders is a hollow occasioned by a fettle I will give the above reward to any person that will deliver said horse to me again. JOHN KEDGLE. Washington, Nov. 25—3t
Washington's Life.
THE Subscribers to Washington's Life are respectfully informed that the Fourth Volume is just received at J. March's Book and Stationary store, George Town. As the publisher has obtained more subscribers than he has books to supply them with, gentlemen wishing to possess complete sets of Washington's Life , will be disappointed, except immediate application is made at John March's Book Store; where are just received, a new and complete supply of books and Stationary. Nov. 25—wgt
WASHINGTON CITY.
BOARDING HOUSE.
MRS. THOMPSON, RESPECTFULLY informs the Members of Congress and others, that having taken Two of the Six Buildings, she is prepared for genteel accommodation of a number of Ladies and Gentlemen, as transient boarders or by the year. Those who honor her with their custom, will find it an eligible spot, situated half way between the President's house and George Town; dry, healthy, and convenient to the Public Offices. She has apartments for servants, excellent stables and coach houses, and will spare no pains to give general satisfaction. November 25—
GENTEEEL PRIVATE
BOARDING & LODGING.
CONFINED EXCLUSIVELY TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
THE Subscriber having altered and fitted up the two houses opposite to Mr. Duane's Book Store, on the Pennsylvania Avenue, containing thirteen lodging rooms, all with fire places, and neatly furnished; having laid in a stock of wood, coal, &c. sufficient for the whole of the season, and provided good cooks and waiter—hopes to be successful in accommodating those who reside in his house. Besides the foregoing rooms, there is a private parlor well fitted for the accommodation of a family. JOHN DOYNE. Washington, Nov. 25—
N. B. Good stabling to be had for four or more horses.
INDIANA TERRITORY.
Auditor's Office, Vincennes } 16th Sept. 1805. Agreeable to an act of the territory for levying and collecting a tax on land I publish the following extracts from the said acts, for the information of non-residents claiming land within this territory.
"Be it enacted, that if any non resident claiming lands in this territory either by entry, patent, deed of conveyance, or any other evidence of claim, if his agent or attorney shall neglect or refuse to lift his or her lands with the assessor of the county, when such lands may have been entered or located, between the first day of January, and the twelfth day of February agreeably to the requisitions of the third section hereof, then the assessor shall immediately proceed to lift the lands of such non-resident that may be in his county."
"Be it enacted, that the collector of each county, by the twenty fifth day of May, shall demand payment of the tax or sum assessed on each inhabitant in his county, in person or by notice in writing left at his usual place of residence."
"Be it enacted, that in case of non payment of taxes at the time appointed, it shall be the duty of the collector to levy and collect the tax, so in arrear with costs by a sale at the court house of his county of the lands of such delinquent, whether resident or non-resident, giving at least forty days notice by advertisement at the county seat, and in some public newspaper in this territory, of the time and place of such sale. PETER JONES, Auditor of said territory. October 30—
ELIAS B. CALDWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW. HAS removed his Office, to the house lately occupied by Mr. LAW, on Capitol Hill, Washington, July 26—tt

District of Columbia, Washington county, to wit. I hereby certify, that Mr. Benjamin Bell, of the county aforesaid, living near Rock Creek Church, brought before me one of the Justices of the peace for the said county. A trespassing stray Sorrel Mare, about 8 years old, 13 and an half hands high, a star on her forehead, her left hind foot white, with a few white spots, trotts and gallops. Given under my hand, this 21st day of November, 1805. SAML. HAMILTON. Nov. 22-3t.
FALL & WINTER GOODS.
JOHN COX HAS this day received a Large addition to his former supply of FALL and WINTER GOODS, which makes his assortment very complete. Most of his goods were bought on such terms as to enable him to offer them by piece or retail lower than the regular importers can afford to sell at. George town, Oct. 18-Ni&UGeptf
PUBLIC SALE.
Pursuant to a decree of the Court of Chancery, I will sell at public sale on Saturday the 30 inst. the following valuable property in the city of Washington.
All that Lot of ground, being part of square No. 74, adjoining the Six Buildings, upon which several frame buildings are erected, one of which is large and well calculated for an extensive wet or dry good store, and the others with a small expence may be made to suit a family. This valuable property has a front of 86 feet on Pennsylvania avenue, and 140 feet front on 21st street. Also,
Lots numbered 3, 4, 5, and 6, in square No. 38 - the three first having a front of 28 feet 7 inches each, and the last 92 feet 1 inch, on Pennsylvania avenue; each lot is improved by a two story brick building intended for back buildings, but which may, at an inconsiderable expence, be rendered comfortable dwellings. A more particular description of those lots will be given on the day of sale, or at any time before, on application to me. Terms of sale to be for ready money, or money to be paid immediately upon the ratification of the sale by the Court of Chancery for the District of Columbia. The sale to commence at half after 10 o'clock A. M. on the premises. JOSEPH FORREST, Trustee. November 3-ttdf
WASHINGTON TONTINE.
THE Subscriber, appointed by the Directors, agent for the sale of lots belonging to this institution has opened an office for that purpose in the third house from the west end of the Six Buildings, where he will attend every day from 3 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The Lots are generally situate between George Town and the President's square between that square and the Capitol, and about the Navy Yard, and amongst them there are some water lots, equal to any in the city the terms of sale, cash, or short or long credit to suit purchasers; but in cases of credit, the punctual payment of annual interest, and of the principal at the period stipulated must be well secured. If this be done to satisfaction, the purchasers may almost name their own time of credit. JOSEPH FORREST. October 16-tD
1500 DOLLARS REWARD.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
YESTERDAY about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, Mr. JOHN PETER, an Officer of the BANK OF COLUMBIA, was stopped on horseback on the road between this town and Alexandria, and within about 2 miles of the latter place, by some unknown villain, shot through the body with a pistol, and robbed of a sum of money in his possession belonging to this institution which he was taking to Alexandria, and for the purpose of exchanging with the banks there. The whole sum taken amounted Eighteen Thousand One hundred and Fourteen Dollars and Sixty five Cents, made up in several packages, among which were,
Table with 2 columns: Item, Dol. C. 1 post note of the Bank of Virginia, for 800. 1 do. of the same, for 500. 1 do. of the same, for 500. 1 do. of the same, for 450. 1 do. of the Bank of Potomac in favor of Joseph Riddle by him endorsed to Washington Bowie, dated 6 July, 1805. No 117 149 05.
A check of the Union Bank, on the Bank of Alexandria, drawn by R. Higginbotham, cashier, in favor of Greatham and Devereux, by them endorsed and by Senj. Stoddert, and C. Smith, teller. There were also a parcel of post notes of the Bank of Alexandria for 100 dollars, and for 50 dollars, each. The remainder was in current notes, principally of the banks of Alexandria and Potomac, and some few of the Bank of Virginia of different sizes and denominations. As the attack was sudden, and the wound received of a nature to deprive Mr. Peter of almost all his senses, (although it is now hoped he will recover) the description obtained may not be very accurate - as far as we are informed the man who perpetrated the act, is of middle stature, good countenance, and had a genteel appearance. He had on a dark blue or black coat, nankeen pantaloons, shoes, and a black hat, he was on foot and alone at the time, but may have had accomplices concealed, and will probably change his clothes. FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS will be given to any person or persons, who will detect and bring to conviction the robber: and ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS additional for the recovery of the whole of the money, or in proportion for any smaller sum recovered - should there be accomplices, and one of them make a discovery, so that it leads to the conviction of the robber, or to the recovery of the money he shall receive the above reward, and interest will be made to obtain his pardon. WILLIAM WHANN, Cashier of the Bank of Columbia. George Town, July 31-
INDIAN KING TAVERN.
THE SUBSCRIBER HAS rented that large and commodious house formerly occupied by Mr. WILLIAM RHODES, near the Treasury Department, on F street. He respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he will use his utmost endeavors to have at all times the best accommodations for Travellers and Boarders, by the Day, Week, Month and year. JOSEPH M. SEMMES. November 22-3w
District of Columbia, Washington county, to wit.
ON the petition of WILLIAM RUTHERFORD an insolvent debtor confined in the prison of Washington county for debt - notice is hereby given to the creditors of the said Wm. Rutherford, that on the 2nd day of December next, at 10 o'clock A. M. at the court room in the Capitol, the oath prescribed by the act of Congress, for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia, will be administered to the said Wm. Rutherford and a trustee appointed unless sufficient cause then and there be shown to the contrary. It is ordered that this notice be published in the National Intelligencer three times previously to said day. WM. BRENT, Ck. District of Columbia, Washington county, to wit:
ON the petition of JOHN D. BRASHEARS an insolvent debtor confined in the prison of Washington county for debt, notice is hereby given to the creditors of the said John D. Brashears that on the second day of December next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. at the court room in the Capitol, the oath prescribed by the act of Congress, for the relief of insolvent debtors within the District of Columbia, will be administered to the said John D. Brashears and a trustee appointed unless sufficient cause then and there be shown to the contrary. It is ordered that this notice be published in the National Intelligencer, three times previously to said day. WM. BRENT, Ck. November 22-3t
SPERMACETI OIL & CANDLES.
50 Boxes superior quality Spermaceti Candles. 10 Barrels do. do. do. Oil, just landed and for sale by the box and barrel at his grocery store in Bridge street, George Town, where he continues to be supplied as usual, with the oldest and best liquors, for sale in casks and bottles, and by retail - among which are 30 cases of real Holland Gin. Nov. 22-1m.
NOTICE to Delinquent Subscribers to the THEATRE.
ALL Subscribers to the Theatre, who have not made full payments on their shares, or contributed the materials and work promised, are hereby notified that unless the same be done on or before the first day of December next, their shares will be forfeited; after which day certificates of stock will be issued to those subscribers who have complied with the terms of subscription on application to the Directors. ROBERT ERNT, WILLIAM ERNT, } Directors. SAMUEL H. SMITH, } Sept. 4 tf
New DRY GOOD STORE.
BENJ. & HORATIO JONES, HAVE just received at their store in High street, next door to Mr. John Cox's, a handsome assortment of Fall and Winter Goods, which being laid in on the best terms, they will dispose of them unreasonably low, for cash. George Town. Nov. 13 6w
CITY OF WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 1805. Several persons under the impression that the public lots in this city are to be disposed of in future by public sales only, having made enquiries when the next sale will probably take place, we are requested to state that those lots may at any time be purchased at private sale of the Superintendent of the City. f
STELLE'S HOTEL & CITY TAVERN.
THE Subscriber takes this method of thanking his friends and the public for their favors whilst on the Capitol Square and begs leave to acquaint them that he has taken the Spacious Hotel lately erected by Mr. Carroll, near the Capitol. The hotel being above one hundred feet in front, and containing fifty rooms enables the subscriber to offer every accommodation to members of Congress and travellers which can be expected in a public house. PONTIUS D. STELLE. Washington City, March 25-tf N. B. - P. D. S. will rent the house lately occupied by him on the adjoining square.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
AARON, a mulatto man about 43 years old, left the city of Washington early in October, and was seen on the road leading from Alexandria to Leesburg in company with a black woman, who I am informed is the property of some person in the vicinity of this place - he is about 5 feet 10 inches high, has a black hair, very bald in one of his eyes, there is an indented scar occasioned by a stroke he received, which fractured the bone in that place, and whenever he has it in his power never fails to drink to excess. It is probable that he has gone to Jefferson or Berkeley county in Virginia, where he formerly resided, and from thence will endeavor to go to Kentucky. The above reward will be paid to any person who will have him committed to jail, and give information thereof to the subscriber in George Town, district of Columbia. EDWARD GANTT. Nov. 11-tf
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber anxious to settle with all those who have accounts standing against him unpaid, earnestly requests all persons indebted to him for Medical Services rendered previous to the 1st of Jan. 1805, immediately to pay off their respective balances, as no further indulgence can be given. Those who do not comply with the above request may be assured that the most speedy and effectual mode to compel payment will be adopted without respect of persons. EDWARD GANTT. Nov. 10-1m
Twenty Dollars Reward.
WILL be given for apprehending NIM, a small mulatto fellow, about 5 feet 4 inches and a half high, active and well made, 22 or 23 years of age, tho' perhaps of an appearance more youthful, and cunning and artful in the extreme. His features are regular, and the expression of his countenance agreeable - his thumbs are short and unusually thick at the ends - he is an excellent coachman and hostler, having done little else than attend to horses for many years. He carried with him a short blue cloth coat, corduroy pantaloons, and a drab great coat, and many other articles of clothing in a pair of black saddle bags. The above reward will be given for securing him in jail. JOHN COLES. Albemarle county, Virg. Nov. 1-
KING'S HOTEL.
The subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public generally, that he has moved from the Navy Yard to the Capitol Hill, in the hotel lately occupied by Mr. P. D. Stelle, where he hopes to be favoured with a part of their patronage. It being a desirable situation, and the conveniences of the hotel excelled by none in the city. He therefore hopes to please those that call upon him in every instance. WILLIAM R. KING. August 30-tf.
CHARLES H. VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR.
Has received from Philadelphia a handsome assortment of FALL goods consisting of the best London and French superfine cloths, cashmeres, patent Bennet's cord, toilettenets, fancy and white Marseilles, black and figured silk, moleskins, fancy silk Marseilles, constitution cords, velvets, Genoa cord, silk and fatten Florentines, superfine coating, knapped cloths, with a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, December 10-tf
Reward for Lost Watch.
LOST on the Race ground on the 29th ult. A SILVER WATCH, made by John Richard, and numbered 1294; also lost three Five Dollar bank notes, a half Joe, and Five Dollars in Silver. Five dollars will be given to whoever shall return the watch, and ten dollars more for apprehending the thief. Enquire further at office of National Intelligencer, or at avid Waterstone on Capitol Hill; or of Mr. M'Laughlin, George Town. JOHN KERR. Nov 20-3t
PUBLIC SALE.
ON the first Monday in November next will be sold at Public Auction on the premises at the hour of 11 o'clock A. M. all those Lots of ground, No. 18 and 26 which were allotted and let apart for James Wigfield of Washington county, district of Columbia, situated near the fourth end of the Eastern Branch bridge, and vested in me in virtue of a deed of trust from said Wigfield. Terms of sale cash. BENSON L. M'CORMICK. July 29-wtN
The above sale is postponed to 11 o'clock A. M. on Monday the 25th inst. when it will positively take place. Nov. 20-3t
Strayed or Stolen, on or about the first instant from the commons of Washington city TWO MARES, one a large handsome sorrel supposed to be about 8 or 9 years old, the off hind and fore foot white, shod all round, short bob tail, switch mane, some white on her forehead; had on when she was missed a lock on the off fore foot as well as I recollect. The other a small very dark bay mare apparently with foal, switch tail and mane, two fore feet shod, and a little white (I believe, but am not quite certain) on the off hind foot - whoever will deliver the above mares to the subscriber in the city of Washington, near the Capitol, shall receive Five DOLLARS if found within ten miles, and TEN DOLLARS if twenty miles or upwards from the Capitol. AND. T. M'CORMICK. Nov. 20-tf
WASHINGTON TONTINE.
SUBSCRIBERS to this institution who have not fixed the lives on which they choose their stock to depend, will please to take notice, that it cannot be done after the 31st day of December ensuing; the constitution providing, that after that day, there can be no change of lives. Written directions on this subject, sent to the subscriber in season, will be duly attended to. BEN: STODDERT. October 16-cptDec.
ELIAS B. CALDWELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW.
HAS removed his Office, to the house lately occupied by Mr. LAW, on Capitol Hill. Washington, July 26-tf
On a liberal credit.
THE subscriber will dispose of at private sale, his estate called Chichester, lying on the eastern branch, immediately opposite the city of Washington. This tract of land containing 697 acres is laid off in lots from 83 to 144 acres for the convenience of purchasers. Plats of the estate and the terms of sale are in the hands of colonel Manion at the navy yard, and Charles Wayman or George Town. The lots will be shown by Mr. Wedden, living on the premises, near the Eastern Branch bridge. ANTHONY ADDISON. Barnaby, 12th June 1805-tf
PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE AND MYER'S CITY TAVERN.
THE Subscriber respectfully acquaints his friends and the public in general that he has removed from his old tavern Rand, to the adjoining houses on the Pennsylvania avenue, lately occupied by Mrs. Wilson as a boarding-house, and Mr. Woodward's tavern, in which he is now opening a Complete Hotel. This stand is probably not excelled by any in the city, either for the accommodation of travellers or boarders; being at a convenient and almost equal distance from the Capitol, the President's House, and Public Offices; near the Theatre, Messrs. Way's Printing Office, and Centre Market, opposite the office of the National Intelligencer, and adjoining Mr. Duane's book store. These houses contain twenty-six lodging rooms with fire places, exclusive of dining, bar, assembly, and coffee rooms, servants apartments, &c. The celebrated ridge spring, is conveyed in pipes to the yard of this hotel, where it supplies the whole neighborhood with flowing, cool water, to which the general health of this part of the city has in a great measure been attributed. The stabling of the hotel now erected is considerable; more however will be completed before the meeting of Congress. I now beg leave to inform my friends with confidence, that my prices shall be as heretofore, corresponding with Pennsylvania tavern rates, and in proportion as my elow room has increased my disposition to please shall be enlarged: I therefore respectfully hope the continuance of a share of the public patronage. SOLOMON MYER. Washington, July 24- Independence the 30th year-tf
TO HIRE OR FOR SALE
A MIDDLE aged, strong Negro Woman, who has been accustomed to House work. Also, a NEGRO GIRL, in her fourteenth year. Apply at the Office of the National Intelligencer. October 25-tf
25 DOLLARS REWARD,
Will be given for apprehending a negro man named LEN, he is 37 or 40 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high or thereabout, and of a very dark complexion, with short wool and cross eyes; he is also pockmarked and flammers very much; he formerly belonged to major Chew, living at the head of Herring Bay, who disposed of him to Mr. Wm. Campbell near Fredericktown Maryland; Dr. Manuel Kent who lives at Lower Marlboro, purchased him of Mr. Campbell and sold him to the subscriber. LEN was seen, during the months of April and May last, near Lower Marlboro and it is presumed that he is now near one of the abovenamed places. I will give FIFTEEN DOLLAR on his being secured in jail and information given to me, so that I may get him immediately, or the above reward if he be delivered to me at the Navy Yard in the city of Washington. NICHOLAS VOSS. Nov. 22-2stwf
ELISHA RIGGS,
Has imported by the ships Wm. Murdoch and Enterprise from London, and the United States, Newton, and Abacona from Liverpool, Eighty-nine PACKAGE of Seafaring Goods, which he bought of the manufacturers principally for cash, will be sold much lower by the piece or retail, than any not imported direct to this place, for cash or in exchange for tobacco.
Among them are,
9 Bales superfine, and second clothes and coatings, 29 do. plains. kerseys, cottons and blankets, 8 do. flannels, carpets and bookings, 10 trunks, clintex, calicoes and hosiery, 5 do. cambric muffs and umbrellas, 8 cases London hat, 3 do. ladies Hawkesbury bonnets, 1 trunk lace shades, black laces and veils, 1 case demick and diaper table cloths and ticking, 6 cases knives and forks, buttons, saddlery, seine twine, &c, 3 cases shirting cambrics, dimities and cotton counterpanes,
Also,
Silk hosiery, Chambray muffs, Irish linens, Gloves, hatters trimmings, Silk fashions, furniture trimmings, and many other articles. George Town, Oct. 30-tawtJa
NOTICE.
This is to give notice that the subscribers have obtained from the Orphans Court of Washington county in the district of Columbia, letters of administration on the personal estate of Mrs. CATHERINE JOHNSON, late of said county, deceased - All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscribers at or before the 20th day of May next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from the benefit of the said estate. Given under our hands, this 17th day of November, 1805. WILLIAM BRENT, WASHINGTON BOYD. Nov. 18-w3t.
IRON WOODS ON POTOMAC.
The Subscriber has for Sale or Rent, a good seat for a Furnace upon the North Branch of Potomac in Hampshire county, with plenty of ore already investigated at considerable expence and found to be good, a constant and sufficient stream with upwards of 30 feet fall, and the wood of more than 9000 acres of well timbered land; enough of which is arable to form a complete establishment. Connected with this is also the re-ed the forge built by Mr. John Potts at the Great Falls of Potomac, now the property of the subscriber. It is conceived that these two seats are particularly worthy of the notice of Iron Masters of capital; as they are fully adequate to the supply of iron, in its various forms, to an extensive country, having great demand for that article, both above and below the Blue Ridge. The Hampshire property is free from every incumbrance, and the payment of a very few thousand dollars due to the proprietor of the fee simple at the Great Falls (my lease of which is for upwards of 900 years at a low rent) for rents in arrears prior to my purchase, will render this property clear; and afford a complete establishment for all the various manufactures of iron, as well as for mills, with a convenient farm, &c. &c. I have lots equally eligible (if not superior) for furnace and forge, upon the river Shenandoah in this county, with ore, wood, and water, all convenient and abundant; which may be rented for a long term of years, with rich farming land attached thereto. FERDINANDO FAIRFAX. Charles town, Jefferson Co. Virg. November 16-wtf
FOR SALE.
WILL be offered at public sale on Wednesday the 15th day of January 1806, that valuable tract of land whereon the subscriber now lives, called BROOKFIELD; the terms of sale are 3000 pounds of the purchase money on the following credits, one fourth of which to be paid on the first day of August 1807, with interest on the sum remaining due, and a like sum on the first of August in every year thereafter until the whole is paid - cash will be required for any amount that the above property may sell for above three thousand pounds, at which time a good and sufficient title will be given by the subscriber, and a mortgage required on the property until the purchase money is fully paid. At the same time will be sold upwards of 130 acres of wood land, about four miles distant from the above mentioned tract - a credit of 12 months will be given the purchaser giving bond with approved security, bearing interest from the date. THO. F. BROOKE. Prince George's county, Nov. 22-w3t
Valuable property for Sale.
THE subscriber being desirous of removing from this part of the country, will offer for sale, to the highest bidder, on Wednesday the 20th of November next, if fair, if not the next fair day, the plantation on which he resides. This property contains upwards of 500 acres of land, and is situated in the Forest of Prince George's county about four miles from Upper Marlborough, and thirteen from the city of Washington upwards of 150 acres of the above is very valuable wood land, the balance arable, except about 30 acres of meadow to which 15 or 20 more may be added at a small expence, remarkably level and equal for the production of tobacco, Indian corn, and small grain, to perhaps any land in the county. The improvements are a comfortable framed Dwelling house, sufficient for the accommodation of a large family, and every necessary out houses, four good tobacco houses, overseers house, blacksmith's shop, all in good repair, an extensive garden and two wells of good water. A further description of the above valuable property is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed that no one will bid for the same without previously viewing it. The terms of sale will be made known on the day of sale, and provided the proprietor can effect a satisfactory sale thereof, he will on the same day offer for sale a valuable personal property, consisting of negroes, flock of various kinds, household furniture, plantation utensils. The terms of sale for which will also be made known on the day of sale. CLEMENT BROOKE. Prince George county Maryland, September 20-wtf
To be Sold,
Or EXCHANGED for other property in the City, or its vicinity.
TWO valuable and contiguous TRACTS of LAND in the state of Kentucky, the one containing 6380 acres, and the other 6252 acres, by late survey. They are under old and indisputable titles of more than twenty years, and situate in a populous country, adjoining flourishing settlements. All taxes thereon have been duly paid. Apply to the subscriber, JOHN BRINKLEY. City of Washington, Nov. 6-wtf
HUGH DRUMMOND.
HAS just opened a house of entertainment in the house lately occupied by D. DOFFIN near the Navy Yard - He has provided the best liquors, stabling, &c. for the accommodation of travellers and others, and he flatters himself that he will give satisfaction to those who may honor him with their custom. Nov. 22d-wtf.
NOTICE.
MY Limited pecuniary resources render it indispensable necessarily that I should provide the necessaries of life on the most advantageous terms - of course with ready money. And that I shall not subject myself to the payment of articles never received, I give notice that I shall not hold myself responsible for any debt unless contracted by myself in person, or by my written order. RICHARD WILLSON. November 15-wtf