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National Intelligencer.
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. VIII.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. 1165.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1808.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
PUBLIC MEETING.
AT a Meeting of the Citizens of Washington, held at Lindsay's Hotel, on Monday the 28th of March 1808, pursuant to public notice, it was Resolved unanimously , That the City of Washington forming at least one third part of the county, is already taxed beyond its due proportion, in repairing the several roads and streets of the said city.
Resolved unanimously , That as Georgetown is principally benefited by its intercourse with Washington and the trade carried on between Georgetown and Washington is entirely in favor of the former, it is unjust that the citizens of the latter should be taxed for erecting and repairing the Bridges over Rock creek.
Resolved unanimously , That as three Bridges, and several Foot-ways, leading to George Town, have already been made by the former Commissioners out of the city funds, that the citizens thereof ought not now to be taxed on account of the same.
Resolved unanimously , That a committee be appointed to wait on the Mayor, requesting him to convene the City Council; and the said committee also wait on the City Council, when so convened, and request their aid in taking such measures as will be most effectual to prevent a repeal of the law passed by Congress in the year 1804, exempting the City from taxation by the Lev. Court.
Resolved unanimously , That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the National Intelligencer on Wednesday next.
GEORGE BLAGDEN,
Chairman
DANIEL RAPINE, Sec.
March 30—
LAND HOLDERS IN THE STATE OF OHIO.
BY one of the propositions made by Congress to the people of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, when it was about to pass into a state government, provision was made for an exemption, of the lands sold by Congress, from taxation, for the space of five years, after the sale. That time has now elapsed, as to all lands sold previously to the 30th day of June, 1803; and they will, this year, be entered, by the Auditor for taxation, at 100, 75, and 50 cents per 100 acres of 1st. 2d. and 3d. rate land. So, for the next year, those lands sold previously to the 30th day of June, 1804, will be in like manner entered. Every year the system will progress, in this manner, until the whole of the lands will be embraced. The sale of lands, for tax, commences on the first Monday of December.
We give this early information, that non-residents may take advantage of it, and, by the like early provision, may save their property from the grasp of speculating harpies.
T. S. HINDE, and
CH. A. STUART,
Agents for non-residents.
Chillicothe, March 10th, 1808.
It is desired that the Enquirer, Aurora, and United States Gazette, will insert the above notice twice, and forward their accounts.
April 1—3t
THE DRAWING OF THE NEW YORK STATE LOTTERY.
Will positively commence on Tuesday the 5th of April, and continue drawing at the rate of 3000 Tickets per week until finished.
Present price of Tickets 7 Dollars & 50 Cents, but will positively rise to 8 dollars on the 5th of April.
* * Tickets may be had by early application at J. MARCH'S Book Store, George Town, where a regular Check book of the drawing will be kept.
April 1—2t
NOTICE.
THE subscriber under painful sensations announces to the public his intention to apply to the next Prince Georges county court, or in its recess to one of the judges thereof, for the benefit of an act of Assembly, entitled, "An act for the benefit of insolvent debtors," passed November session, 1805, and the "Act supplementary thereto," passed November session 1806.
ROBT. MCKOY.
April 1—w3t
20 DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away, on the 1st day of Oct. 1807, from the subscriber, in Prince George's county, two miles from the Governor's Bridge, a negro man named SAM, but sometimes calls himself SAM JONTER, he is about five feet seven inches high, a little bow legged, stoops as he walks, has short wool, and is fond of strong liquor; he is upwards of 50 years of age; his clothing unknown; he may change his name, and endeavor to pass for a free man; I suspect he is harbored either at Mr. Fielder Gant's, or at Mr. Stoddert's quarters, or the Federal city, where he has relations. Whoever takes up said negro, and brings him home, or secures him in jail, so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward.
MARSHALL DUVALL.
All masters of vessels, and others, are forewarned harboring, employing, or carrying off said fellow, at their peril.
April 1—3t.
IN CHANCERY, MARCH 21, 1808.
Robert H. Smith, versus Elizabeth C. Smith.
THE bill in this case states that the complainant as executor of John H. Smith has in settling the estate and discharged, overpaid the personal estate to a considerable amount. It further states that the said John H. Smith devised a considerable real estate situate in Calvert county, Ohio two daughters, Elizabeth Chew Smith & Mary Smith, who is since dead intestate and with it issue, and that the said Elizabeth Chew Smith is sole executor now as the heir at law of her sister of the whole of the real estate of her father John H. Smith. The bill further states, the said Elizabeth is an infant under the age of twenty-one years and now resides in the state of Kentucky near George Town in Scott county, and prays that the real estate of the said John H. Smith may be sold to reimburse to him the money he has advanced to pay the debts of the said John H. Smith; all the personal estate being exhausted. It is thereupon this 21st day of March eighteen hundred and eight, by William Kirby, chancellor and by the authority of this court ordered and adjudged that the complainant cause a copy of this order to be inserted at least three successive weeks before the first day of May next, in the National Intelligencer that the said Elizabeth C. Smith may be warned to appear in this court on or before the 1st day of September next, to show cause why a decree should not pass as prayed.
True copy Test NICH. BREWER, R. C. C. April 1—w3t
BY AUTHORITY.
AN ACT Extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized to issue military land warrants to such persons as have, or shall, before the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten, produce to him satisfactory evidence of the validity of their claims; which warrants, with those heretofore issued and not yet satisfied, shall and may be located in the names of the holders or proprietors thereof, prior to the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ten, on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships and the fractional quarter townships, reserved by law for original holders of military land warrants.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO: CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. March 21, 1808.
APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Granting William Wells the right of pre-emption.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That William Wells shall have the right of pre-emption to three hundred and twenty acres of land, to include his improvements situated at Fort Wayne, in the Indiana Territory, at the confluence of the rivers Saint Joseph's and Saint Mary's, which form the Miami of the lake; the boundaries of which shall be designated under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; which tract of land shall be granted to him, at the same price, and on the same terms for which other public lands are sold at private sale, and the respective instalments of the purchase money shall become due at the same time with those of the first public lands which may be sold in the tract of six miles square ceded by the treaty of Greenville to the United States, at the confluence of said rivers.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO: CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. March 18, 1808.
APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT For erecting a light-house on the south point of the island of Sable, and for placing buoys and beacons in the shoals of the inlet leading to the town of Darien, and near the entrance of Ipswich harbor, near Plymouth harbor, before the harbor of Nantucket, and on the island of Tuckanuncket, at
or near the entrance of Connecticut river, and near the entrance of Great Egg Harbor river.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That as soon as the jurisdiction of so much of the head land of the south point of the island of Sable, in the state of Georgia, as the President of the United States shall deem sufficient for the purpose of erecting a light-house and its appurtenances, shall have been ceded to the United States, provided the said land can be obtained at a reasonable price, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide by contract, which shall be approved by the President of the United States, for building a light-house thereon, and furnishing the same with all necessary supplies, and also to agree for the salaries or wages of the person or persons who may be appointed by the President, for the superintendence and care of building the said light-house: And the President is hereby authorized to make the said appointment.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be further authorized and directed to cause to be placed four buoys on the shoals called the South and North banks of the harbor or entrance of the inlet leading to the town of Darien.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be erected and placed beacons and buoys at the following places, to wit: two beacons and three buoys near the entrance of Ipswich harbor; three buoys, one on Gurnet neck, one on Boss rock, and one on Deck's flats, and two beacons on the stony muscle bed, near Plymouth harbor; three additional buoys before the harbor of Nantucket, and a buoy or leading mark on the island of Tuckanuncket, in the state of Massachusetts—three buoys at or near the entrance of Connecticut river, and three buoys to be placed at or near the entrance of Great Egg Harbor river, in the state of New-Jersey.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appropriated and paid out of any monies in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding eleven thousand five hundred dollars, for the purpose aforesaid.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO: CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. March 17, 1808.
APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT.
To amend the act, entitled "An act establishing circuit courts and a bridging the jurisdiction of the district courts of the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the second section of the act, entitled "An act establishing circuit courts, and abridging the jurisdiction of district courts of the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio," passed the twenty-fourth day of February eighteen hundred and seven, constituting the state of Tennessee one district, for the purpose of holding circuit courts therein, shall be, and is hereby repealed, and from and after the passage of this act, the state of Tennessee shall be divided into two districts, for the purpose of holding circuit courts therein, and the limits of the said districts shall be the same as those now prescribed for the districts of east and west Tennessee, in and by the fourth section of the above recited act, and there shall be holden annually in each of the said two districts, one circuit court, to consist of one justice of the supreme court of the United States and the district judge of the said districts of east and west Tennessee, and the sessions of the said courts shall be held in each of the said districts, at Nashville on the second Monday in June, and at Knoxville on the third Monday in October annually; and that all actions, causes, pleas, processes, and other proceedings relative to any cause civil or criminal, which shall be returnable to, or depending in the said circuit court of the United States, to be held at Nashville on the first Monday of
June next, shall be returned, and held continued to, and be proceeded upon, on the second Monday in June next, in the same manner they would have been if this change had not taken place.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That where any suit or suits has or have been brought, or is or are now pending before the circuit court held at Knoxville, in and for the district of east Tennessee, against a person residing in said district of east Tennessee, such suit or suits shall be proceeded upon, and finally determined in the district of east Tennessee, and where any suit or suits has or have been brought, or is or are now pending before the circuit court held at Nashville, in and for the district of west Tennessee, against a person residing in the said district of west Tennessee, such suit or suits shall be proceeded upon and finally determined in the district of west Tennessee.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the district judge of Tennessee to attend at Knoxville on the first Thursday after the third Monday in April next, and on the first Thursday after the third Monday in April of each and every year thereafter, and at Nashville on the first Thursday after the fourth Monday in November next, and on the first Thursday after the fourth Monday in November of each and every year thereafter, who shall have power to make all necessary orders touching any suit, action, appeal, writ of error, process, pleadings, or proceedings returned to the circuit court next to be holden thereafter at Knoxville, and Nashville, or depending therein, preparatory to the hearing, trial, or decision of such action, suit, appeal, writ of error, process, pleadings or proceedings; and all writs and process may be returnable to the said courts on the first Thursday after the third Monday in April, at Knoxville, and on the first Thursday after the fourth Monday in November, at Nashville, in the same manner as to the sessions of the circuit court, directed to be held by this act in the district of east Tennessee, at Knoxville, and in the district of west Tennessee, at Nashville; and the said writs, returnable to the circuit courts to be held at Knoxville, may also bear test on the said first Thursday after the third Monday in April; and the writs returnable to the circuit courts to be held at Nashville may bear test on the first Thursday after the fourth Monday in November, as though a session of the said circuit court was holden on those days at Knoxville and Nashville, respectively.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be two clerks appointed, one for the circuit court to be held at Knoxville, and one for the circuit court to be held at Nashville, whose duty it shall be to attend the said district judge on the said first Thursday after the third Monday in April, and on the said first Thursday after the fourth Monday in November, of each and every year, at the places aforesaid, who shall make due entry of all such matters and things as shall or may be ordered by the said judge, and at each and every of the said sessions so held for the purpose aforesaid, all actions, pleas, and other proceeding relative to any cause civil or criminal, shall, for the circuit court to be held at Nashville, be continued over to the ensuing second Monday in June, and shall for the circuit court to be held at Knoxville, be continued over to the ensuing third Monday in October.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings of what nature or kind soever, civil or criminal, which were originally returned to the circuit court begun and held at Nashville, on the first Monday in June last; and all writs process, and proceedings, as aforesaid, which are or may be made returnable to the said circuit court to be held at Nashville, shall after the next June term of the circuit court be continued, returned to, and have day in the session to be held by this act, on the first Thursday after the fourth Monday in November next, and all actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings of what nature or kind soever, civil or criminal, which were originally returned to the circuit court begun and held at Knoxville, on the third Monday in October last; and all writs
process, and pleadings as aforesaid which are or may be made returnable to the said circuit court, shall be continued, returned to, and have day in the session to be held by this act, on the first Thursday after the third Monday in April next; and such proceedings shall be had thereon, at the said session as are herein before provided.
J. B. VARNUM,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEO: CLINTON,
Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.
MARCH 22, 1808.
APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9.
Debate on the passage of the bill concerning courts martial and courts of enquiry—Continued.
Mr. ROWAN rose to oppose the passage of the bill. His colleague (Mr. Johnson) seemed to think that this bill proposed no encroachment on those rights to which the people had been long habituated. He set on, said Mr. R. by telling the House that he was opposed to giving an ascendancy to the military power: I did hope that he would have gone further, and said he was opposed to making it so ordinate with the civil. The gentlemen who have supported the bill have endeavored to sanction its provisions by arguments drawn from similar authority given to our civil tribunals; but they did not seem to recollect that they are not the same. The military cannot be equal to the civil. Two equal powers cannot exist; for if a conflict occurs between two equal powers and neither yields, a paralysis takes place. But this bill is far, very far from leaving the military on a level with the civil authority; it has far transcended it. In the very first section I will show that a decided, clear, pre-eminent, and prominent advantage is given to the military over the civil authority.
This bill provides that when an officer is accused of a crime touching his life, depositions shall not be read in evidence; indeed so tender is it of the officer, that if conviction might subject the officer to dismissal or cashiering, depositions shall not be read; and if witnesses cannot be procured re-examining within 100 miles of the place where the court martial shall be held, their evidence shall not be admitted. What is the result? An officer shall have committed the most flagrant crime; if you can prove his guilt by witnesses within 100 miles, he may be convicted; if not he may be exempt. He shall commit a crime which shall subject him on conviction to cashiering; he is secure except a witness can be found within one hundred miles; for out of this circle even depositions cannot be read—thus putting the officer infinitely above the citizen, for the action forms the limit to civil jurisdiction. In case of an offence committed by an officer, if you can find a witness within one hundred miles, his head may pay the forfeit; if not, he is totally exempt from punishment.
Contrast this with the provision for the meritorious class of militia men. Let us examine the case. You may take depositions in cases of these men, and convict them on depositions taken anywhere on the continent; thus a species of testimony which shall not in the least affect an officer, may take away the life of a militia man. Every citizen when called into service in the militia, may have his life taken upon that species of testimony which shall not subject an officer to cashiering or dismissal.
Take another side of the picture. By this bill it is the privilege of the officer that he is not subject to examination before a court of enquiry even, without the benefit of viva voce testimony, if to be had within one hundred miles, while the militia man has the poor privilege of having testimony if to be had within 25 miles. One hundred miles are marked for the officer, and 25 for that description of men, who, we are told, are to be so much favored by this bill.
With what eyes do gentlemen view this bill? How can they expect to look their fellow-citizens in the face whom they have subjected in this way? We may be our constituent, that if a charge be made against a citizen when in actual service, we have passed a law which will enable you to go out of the lines to procure evidence. How far? If you can find a witness within 25 miles; you may compel him to attend; beyond that distance, if you can get out of camp (and a military man's influence in an army to be sure is vast), you may in time of war go out and collect depositions; in the mean while your life may be taken from you by deposition-mode where you had not an opportunity to cross-examine. The bill indeed provides that notice of the time and place of taking depositions shall be given by

the party taking them to the adverse party. Can any thing be more farcical than to suppose that a militia man would be suffered to go out of the ranks in time of war, and cross-examine witnesses when depositions are to be taken? Are these the privileges you allow to the "militia?" The thing is impracticable, sir; it can exist but in theory. It may be talked about, but never can be practiced. If you will pass this bill, you will upon practical principles, state the grounds on which it may be practiced and understood, and give it a shape in which it may effectuate the purpose for which it is intended.
A little reference by this bill given to the military over the civil did not strike my colleague in the parallel which he drew: In the civil courts there are such things as pleadings, and the cause of action is in a visible shape. Not so in military courts. In civil cases, if a man summon more than three witnesses in some states, and in others more than a reasonable number, it subjects him to costs for harassing his enemy. There is no such restriction in this bill; a military officer goes to the civil court and summons witnesses in every direction within the limits of 100 miles from the centre, without restriction to number. This gives the military an advantage instead of bringing them up to the level.
But something more as to this equality, and bare equality, for certainly it cannot be a pre-eminence of the military that is contended for. When in civil cases a deposition is to be taken, the judge is not subject to the trouble of taking them, but a commission is issued, while this bill, as it desires to subject all the constituted authorities, commands all courts and judges of whatever description to attend upon the requisition of this military man. Where is the man in civil life who can command such honorable servants? Where is the man who can reckon so honorable a suite? They are all subject to be called upon by a military man—to save his life? No. To save him from cashierment? No. They are all to be called upon to take depositions without limitation to number to save him from a reprimand! All the judges, of states, inferior and superior—all are to be put in requisition to save this person from a reprimand. Where is the man in civil life who enjoys these privileges? Does the militia man enjoy them? He does not, sir, whether in actual service or as a citizen; they attach to the officer only.
There is another provision in the bill which is extremely objectionable, both as to its manner of construction and its effectuation; I allude to the power given to compel production of papers. "The said witness in such summons may be further directed and required to exhibit in evidence before such court martial or court of enquiry, any public paper, document or record in his possession, power, or control." What is meant by "public paper?" If it is meant to signify a part of a record, a copy is sufficient; if private papers, they cannot be surrendered. If it be a record within his control, shall a person, because he is summoned as a witness, be compelled to go and get it? The records of the union are at my control to copy; I cannot take the originals, for they are testimonials in perpetuum rei memoriam; good policy will not permit them to be removed. Here then is an advantage given to the military. A copy will do for the citizen, whilst the military man by this law is authorised to take the original. We all revolt instinctively at the idea of making a man produce his private papers. What public papers are in the hands of the citizen? If a paper be in possession of an individual, it is his paper; and it is a violation of the constitution and of the first principles of right to force him to surrender it.
But that the bill may not taste bitter, it is sugared, glossed over, by a provision ostensibly going to show that we have a very high regard for private papers and rights. I feel as well as all gentlemen must, that we tread on sacred ground; but I contend that gentlemen are deceived in believing that these checks operate as a restraint, while in fact they serve only to obscure the danger, "which said papers, document, or record shall be specified in such affidavit and certificate."—How specified? In hac verba? "As described in such summons." I am really at a loss to know how it is to be described—"and in the opinion of the judge shall contain evidence pertinent to the issue or subject matter which may be on trial before such court, and which said witness might be compelled to produce by the ordinary rules of proceeding in a court of civil jurisdiction." This clause I confess I am not able to construe. The judge to whom application is made in the first place is to examine whether the paper be pertinent to the issue.
To do this, the subject must be before him. But it is not; it is before a military tribunal. He must first judge of the matter then to enable that court to have the means of judging it. There ought to have been a provision for a transcript of papers on the subject, that he might have the subject before him; but there is no such thing; he is to determine whether a paper is pertinent to the subject matter without having the subject before him, and also to determine whether the paper called for could be legally required in a civil tribunal, by which public papers cannot be called for; I have never known a witness in a civil action constrained to produce a paper except it had been placed in his safe keeping and he would not surrender it till required by the civil authority. I know of no law authorizing a party in a suit to call upon a witness for private papers, and he is not presumed to have public papers in his possession. This pro-
vision then is either inefficient or it proposes a violation of private right; it does not require even that upon inspection of the paper the judge may determine whether it be pertinent to the issue. I cannot suppose it to be in contemplation that private papers shall be thus produced, and yet this I am assured will be the effect of the provision. How is a military court to determine whether a paper ought to be produced in evidence? You go upon the supposition that officers composing a military court are acquainted with civil process. The paper when produced must be read, or this military court must decide upon laws not military, but upon the laws which regulate the actions of mankind, and upon the practice of the country. To this military men cannot be competent; they are not presumed to be so. This provision may work mischievous; private papers are secured from exposure by the constitution; they are not exempted by this bill. This section I fear might be made use of to violate the sacredness of private transactions and private confidence, to expose to public gaze papers totally improper for it, and constitutionally exempt. It might tend to render our government perhaps less stable and permanent than it might otherwise continue.
The next provision is objectionable and radically defective: "And for every fault in not duly serving and returning any summons as aforesaid, the marshal, or officer acting as such, shall be liable to the same penalties, and to be proceeded against in like manner, as if he had made such default in not serving or returning any summons or citation in causes depending in the district court of the United States, holden in the district or territory, whereof he may be marshal, or acting as such."
I ask how punishment on this officer is to be inflicted? The civil courts punish their officers for offences of which the record is their own personal knowledge; but if the officer has neglected his duty out of doors, a jury must intervene to ascertain the fact, and the officer is punishable by suit at the instance of the party injured. The marshal then cannot be punished in the way contemplated by the bill. The summons is not returnable to the civil court, but to the military court. Whether it be executed or not the civil court can never see. The officer is not bound to make return; if he fail to execute a summons, it will not appear on the face of it because he does not endorse it. How can he then be punished? In no way but by suit.
I am thus stating objections to the detail to show that if it passes it will be ineffectual, and incompetent even to its intended purpose, which I unequivocally disapprove.
"If any person, duly summoned as a witness in pursuance of this act, shall fail to appear and give evidence before such court martial or court of enquiry, according to the tenor of the summons, or shall, in any respect, wilfully disobey any summons duly issued and served, in pursuance of this act, or having appeared, in obedience to any summons, shall depart without leave of the court before his examination shall have been definitively taken down in writing, subscribed and concluded, every such person shall be liable to the same penalties and to be proceeded against in like manner before any court of the U. S. holden for the district or territory where he resided or may have been found at the time of being summoned, as is provided by law in cases of default by any witness, summoned in civil causes, &c." How long may the court sit? How long is he to be detained? The court may sit for months; and when the witness is once before them, he is at their discretion. Our civil courts have defined sessions; the attendance of the witness is defined, and his rights are not violated. This bill is to carry him before a strange tribunal, strips him of his rights except at their caprice; he is not to go away unless regularly dismissed, and how long they are to sit is left to their discretion. If a witness is guilty of contempt, he may be fined and imprisoned. When they have a man before them, they will keep him till they get his testimony; whether they imprison him or not till he has given his testimony, or if guilty of contempt, whether they will imprison him till he atone for it, will depend upon them. It is putting the civil in the power of the military in a way at which my feelings revolt.
Here is a hardship then. An amendment was offered by a gentleman from Massachusetts and negatived, that the witness should be tendered his wages. I lay it down as a rule of law that you cannot compel a witness to attend except his pay be tendered him; and wherever it has been attempted to punish a witness for contempt, it has been always asked was his pay tendered to him? If not, he has not been punished. Here then is a decided preference to the military over the civil authority; as no provision is made that his expenses shall be tendered.
The most exceptional part of all is that mentioned by the gentle-
man from Virginia (Mr. Randolph,) "And the certificate on oath of the President of any such court martial or court of inquiry, and of the judge advocate or person officiating as such, stating in what respect such summons may have been neglected or disobeyed, which certificate shall have been entered and recorded in the proceedings of such court martial at the time of such neglect or disobedience, shall be admitted as evidence of such default in such witness as aforesaid." In the first place you lay all the civil authorities under contribution to this military man; all our courts and judges shall dance attendance upon him. No depositions can then be taken within 100 miles; the witness must personally attend, and the oath of this honorable judge of this very honorable court is competent to subject him to punishment for default. Is not this a monstrous disparity? Contrast the civil and military for a moment. In a civil court you cannot make the court take depositions; the utmost you can do is to have commissioners appointed to take them. Not so by this law in relation to the military. We there require testimony before conviction of a citizen; there in criminal prosecutions there is a constitutional guarantee that the accused shall be confronted with his accusers and have the benefit of cross examination. Here you prostrate that, and say that the certificate of a military officer shall be proof competent to the conviction of one of these militia men who we are told are intended to be favored by this bill. Does not the constitution say, that in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have testimony in his favor? And can any man or can the nation be persuaded that the certificate of a court martial shall be a sufficient substitute for the constitutional provision? I cannot help repeating that it seems to me monstrous. There is something worse than this: the naked certificate of this court may subject you to prosecution, the oath of one of these military men may subject you to the process of a civil court and to great expense and loss of time—and, you are also made to pay the costs. True, the militia man may be abundantly consoled by the reflection that he is reduced to this trouble and expense by the certificate of a court martial, or by the oath of a military officer!
"Provided nevertheless, That in cases such witness shall satisfy the court before whom such proceeding against such witness shall be had as aforesaid, that the default imputed to him was produced by sickness or other inevitable impediment, and was not an act of contempt or wilful disobedience, such witness shall be forthwith discharged from any farther proceedings thereupon in said court." A vast privilege, considering by whom it is summoned and on what authority.
I shall make no comment on the text part, but beg leave to read it, or its very sound will have influence against it: "That depositions taken before a judge of any court of the United States, or before a judge of any circuit or district court, court of chancery, common pleas, errors or appeals, or any superior or supreme court of a state or territory." Nothing short of supreme and superior, and superior and supreme again must minister to their case—"where the deponent or deponents shall reside, or may happen to be, or before any three or more of five commissioners, to be appointed and commissioned by a judge of any court of the United States, or territories thereof, may be read in evidence before any such court martial or court of inquiry, in relation to any charge." One would think after all this that some desperate punishment must be awarded to the accused if convicted. Not at all. After all these have ministered to their convenience, depositions may be read—"where the punishment, upon a definitive sentence of conviction, may not extend to life, nor to the cashiering or dismissal of a commissioned officer."
To the latter end of the same section also, I will state an objection. Papers, documents, and records are not only to be produced by the witness personally before a court martial; but he is constrained by a subsequent provision to produce these papers before five commissioners—to do what with them? They are compelled to surrender these papers to the commissioners, and no provision is made as to what shall then be done with them. While the witness is before the court martial, his papers are with him but here they are taken from him, and what is to be done with them depends upon the pleasure of the commissioners before whom they are produced, unless perhaps otherwise directed by the military court.
After all this, depositions are not to be read unless "reasonable notice" be given by the parties. Who is to judge what is reasonable? Every gentleman of the bar knows that in civil courts every question of reason is decided on settled principles of law, as incontrovertible as the statute law; no discretion is exercised,
and so happy is the constitution of the country that the civil authorities are not trusted with the play of discretion upon us: Reason is fixed on sound maxims of law. What is reason to a military man, who knows nothing but dispatch, and whose habits are hostile to it? And yet he is to judge what is reasonable notice! Although the militia man about whom we are so solicitous, may take depositions from persons in civil life, it is made to hang upon the discretion of a court martial whether he shall be allowed five, ten or twenty days to do it. Thus they may prevent depositions from being read if they are so disposed. I am averse to placing discretion any where, but particularly so to giving discretion to a court martial in relation to a man constitutionally exempt from military service.
"Every person, attending as a witness in obedience to any summons issued under this act, shall be entitled to the same compensation, and be privileged from arrest, in like manner as witnesses duly summoned before a circuit court of the U. States." Who is to pay them I ask? How is it to be recovered? You tell them they shall be entitled to compensation—from whom? How are they to get it? After they have been there and rendered their service, they are to be told that they are entitled to the same compensation as in civil cases; but no way provided for them to get it.
I have now gone through my objections to the detail. When the bill was first introduced, I opposed the principle. I did confess then, and I do now that I am very little acquainted with the things belonging to the military department; but the impression was early made on me that military institutions should be watched with the utmost jealousy; that they exist but as an evil, in a feeble state of society; that they should be tolerated in certain situations, but not permitted to draw after them evils which might be prevented. If it were necessary to pass a bill of this kind at all, I was unwilling that it should be so constructed as to familiarize or blend the civil and military institutions: I wish it to be more explicit—not to take so wide a ground as this. If all the civil authorities be liable to be called upon to act by a military court, the military becomes less odious, and thus we may slip out of civil liberty to passive obedience.
A case may not occur in a century in which the provision intended by this bill would be necessary. It is known that till a little before the reign of Elizabeth, the law did not permit a witness in a civil case, and here they cannot be summoned out of a state and yet no man suffers for want of testimony; it is rendered cheerfully; and when any of our militia men shall be thus jeopardized, their fellow militia men will step forward in the same way as a witness comes forward in civil cases without process.
In England, in the dawn of jurisprudence, jurors were witnesses; being drawn from the vicinage, in which the offence was committed, it was thought that their knowledge of the fact was sufficient; their testimony determined the fate of the man. Now if that mode has been considered competent in civil life, do you suppose that in military life a man can do a thing for which he is subject to conviction by military law, without sufficient testimony in the ranks, and which may be coerced by a file of men? A case has never yet happened; though we have passed through one war, in which the provisions of this bill was necessary. It is acknowledged on all hands that a cause now within our knowledge is the object of this bill. I for one am inclined to think that a case will not occur in future, and I will not hesitate to say, and indeed the House have said it, that the present case is not cognizable by the articles of war. Recollect the amendment of the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Livermore.) The rejection of that amendment was a tacit acknowledgement that the case so often alluded to was not considered strictly cognizable by the articles of war. Of this I have myself no doubt, and I take that vote as expressive of the sense of the House on the subject.
I shall now content myself with voting against the bill, and with expressing a strong wish and a great hope that the good sense of this House will refuse their assent to its passage.
(DEBATE TO BE CONTINUED.)
SALE.
By order of the Orphan's Court of Montgomery county, will be sold, at Public Sale, on Saturday the 23d of April, at the dwelling of Absalom Price, deceased, THE Property remaining unsold, consisting of Hogs, Plantation Utensils, and a number of other articles too tedious to enumerate.
A credit of nine months will be given to the purchaser, by giving note, with approved security. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock.
JAMES BEDDO, Ex't.
April 1—3t
Some of the federal prints have already commenced an attack on the administration for the ground taken in the case of the Chesapeake. As it is impossible to foresee the consequences to which the suspension of the negotiations may lead, it is very desirable that the public should fully understand the merits of this case.
Of the enormity of the outrage it is unnecessary to say any thing. The voice of America, the award of the world, that even of England herself has determined its character. On all hands, it is admitted, that, if equalled, it has never been surpassed by any aggression committed on an independent nation, and that consequently the reparation such a nation has a right to claim ought to be neither nominal nor trivial.
At the commission of this outrage there was throughout the U. States one burst of indignation, one call for vengeance. Men of all parties denounced it as an act that called for an exertion of the full energies of the government. Meetings of the most respectable citizens were held in every part of the union, which called upon the Executive to exert these energies, pledging their lives and fortunes to support the measures which he should pursue. The ordinary distinctions of party were lost, and national feeling was unchecked. The lightening of its vengeance was ready to fall wherever the government directed it.
The President convened his cabinet, the members of which were in some measure dispersed; they deliberated on the momentous object confided to them, with calmness, and without precipitation. Impatient as the nation was for their measures, they regarded their trust too deeply to take them before they had passed the ordeal of a mature judgment.
In a counsel issued in the promulgation of the Proclamation, is there any man among us who forgets the feelings with which that proclamation was received? The republican part of the community, confiding in the wisdom and integrity of the Executive, declared themselves satisfied with it, although many of them viewed it as much below what the case required; the federal part of the community were the loudest in its praise. Its wisdom, its forbearance, its moderation, its dignity, its calmness, surpassed their expectations, and even gratified their wishes. A solitary, and disregarded murmur among the Essex Junto, for which they were denounced by the federalists of the South.
This proclamation expressly declares the intention of our ports to British armed vessels to have been taken in consequence of the numerous outrages, commencing with the attack on the Chesapeake, committed on our rights as a neutral and independent nation.
"Hospitality, it says, under such circumstances, is a duty; & a continuance of it, with such uncontrolled abuses, would tend only by multiplying injuries and irritations, to bring on a rupture between the two nations. This extreme resort is equally opposed to the interests of both, as it is to assurances of the most friendly dispositions on the part of the British government, in the midst of which this outrage has been committed. In this light the subject cannot but present itself to that government, and strengthen the motives to an honorable reparation of the wrong which has been done, and to that effectual control of its naval commanders, which alone can justify the government of the United States in the exercise of those hospitalities it is now constrained to discontinue."
No sooner was this instrument, going to provide, as far as the Executive could provide, for the preservation of peace among ourselves, issued, than honorable reparation, and an effectual control of her naval commanders were demanded of G. Britain. It was thought by our government that the former object was likely to be more successfully effected by its union with the latter, than by its standing alone. The reasons for this opinion are to be seen in Mr. Madison's able paper to Mr. Monroe. They are such as ought to have prevailed with the British government, and such as might have prevailed but for the secret purpose entertained, it is to be feared, by that government to refuse, under some pretext or other, the honorable reparation claimed. Before the instructions of the government reached Mr. Monroe, he had, with commendable promptitude, remonstrated to Mr. Canning on this outrage. Mr. Canning declared it to be unauthorized, and professed his readiness to treat on the subject of reparation. Mr. Monroe, a short time after, received instructions not to separate the subject of the Chesapeake from the general subject of impressments. Mr. Canning required their separation. In consequence of this disagreement the British government resolved on a special mission, and Mr. Rose was sent to this country.
On the eve of his departure, an order of council was issued disclaiming the right of search of national ships, but coupled with the assertion of rights relative to seamen born in Britain, and found on board of neutral private vessels, previously unasserted by Britain herself, unknown to the other nations of Europe, and constantly and strenuously resisted by us.
Mr. Rose left England either the end of October or the beginning of November, about which time were issued the celebrated orders, which, with the French decrees, compelled us to adopt the severe measure of an embargo on our ships and goods. These orders bear date the 11th day of November, and must have been determined upon some time before. Of them Mr. Rose and our ministers were studiously kept ignorant. These orders our government had a right to consider as a cause of war. In this light we find

...ved by the ablest statesmen... who, to this conviction have... aded their belief that America would... never submit to them.
Thus stood the relations between the... two nations on Mr. Rose's arrival in... this country. The British government... had nominally disavowed the outrage... unmarked with any act of reparation...
Under this state of things our govern... ment might (as we believe the British gov... ernment would, had it been placed in... our situation) have demanded the revoca... tion of the obnoxious part of these or... ders before it received Mr. Rose. It... might have said, what subsequent... events but too strongly justify, at the... very moment when you are professing a... disposition to redress a particular... wrong, and avowing your readiness to... arrange the terms, you have inflicted... wrongs of a more general and hostile... character. Can we confide in the sin... cerity of a government that at the very... instant that it disavows one outrage... commits another of a deeper dye. But... our government, anxious to preserve... the peace of the country, and above... all solicitous that we should have un... disputed justice on our side, in case of... an appeal to force, opposed no such ob... stacles to the offer of Britain. It took... her professions in the fullest latitude in... which they were made; and without... hesitation received Mr. Rose with every... demonstration of respect and at... tention.
We shall pass over the unpleasant... altercations at Norfolk, which detained... Mr. Rose near a fortnight, with the... single remark that they manifested any... thing else than an anxious desire to... restore the amicable relations of the two... countries. Mr. Rose at length reached... Washington; his first requisition was... that the affair of the Chesapeake should... be separated from all other subjects. The... reader is desired to mark this. His first demand was, not that the pro... clamation should be revoked before the... negotiation was entered upon; but that... the subjects should be treated separate... ly. Why was this made the first step, when it was intended also, if this were... conceded, to take the other? Consis... tency would have dictated a different... arrangement. The question, whether... the affair of the Chesapeake should be... distinctly considered, was of itself a... subject of discussion appurtenant to, and... forming a part of the negotiation, and... ought, therefore, to have followed, in... stead of preceding, the demand for the... revocation of the Proclamation; for if... the President had refused to revoke his... proclamation, according to Mr. Rose's... instructions there was an end to the... business. But the true cause of this... transposition was the ground already... taken by our government, the instruction... given to Mr. Monroe not to separate... the subjects, but to insist upon security... for the future, as well as redress for the... past. It comported with the feelings... and views of the British administration... to present the shew of amity and repa... ration. So far they were willing to go, and hence the embassy of Mr. Rose. But were they willing to do more? Were they really to make honorable repara... tion? We will not affirm that they were not; but surely if it was their se... cret purpose not to make such repara... tion, they could not have pursued a... course more likely to anwer their end. There must have been on their minds... the impression, at least of probability... that our government, in a case of such... manifest injustice, would adhere to the... ground it had taken, more especially... under the feeling which could not but be... excited by the more recent and... more extensive outrages committed on... our neutral rights, and would conse... quently reject the demand for a sepa... ration of the subjects. What right had... Britain, in fact to demand such a sepa... ration? The right might have belonged... to us to insist upon it, as we were the... aggrieved party. We might have said, if we pleased, this is a transaction in... itself of such magnitude, it has so deeply... wounded the sensibility of our citizens, and cast so dark a reproach upon our... national character, that we are com... pelled to demand instantaneous disa... vowal & reparation before we will pro... ceed in the adjustment of that long cata... logue of injuries which you have done us. But what right had Britain to insist upon... upon such a course? It was our honor, not hers, our rights, not hers, that... were wounded and violated. The de... mand, therefore, if made at all, should... have come from us, not her; and if... we preferred a settlement of all sub... sisting differences, in which the affair of... the Chesapeake should be merged, al... though connected with some delay, to... the instant reparation of a solitary... wrong, what reason had she for com... plaint? She had none. She could have... none; for if her nice sensibility to honor... prompted her to the immediate pursuit... of means, calculated to wipe away the... indelible stain fixed upon her character... by the outrage on the Chesapeake, she... might have proceeded formally to disa...  vow it; she might have punished those... who committed it; she might have deli... vered up the men taken from the... Chesapeake; without any consultation... or negotiation with our government: The moral obligation to make this... atonement could be neither increased... by the demand to make it; or impaired... by an omission to make it. It is impos... sible, therefore, to perceive in this... first requisition any thing like a solic... itude to pave the way towards making... the honorable reparation due to this... country.
Notwithstanding, however, these in... dications of an intention on the part of... the British government only to profess ,... but not to make reparation, the magn... animity, and moderation of our govern... ment, anxiously regarding the great end... to be accomplished, and desirous to do... every thing towards its accomplishment... not inconsistent with its honor, at once, apparently without a murmur, agreed... to separate the subjects. By thus... abandoning that ground which it had... deliberately taken, and which it had a
right to maintain, it manifested a dispo... sition forbearing and friendly, ready to... make every sacrifice, even the pride... of opinion, and in a case wherein it was... the injured party, not incompatible... with honor and justice.
But no sooner is this concession made... than another is demanded. The in...  juring detourously converts its if... the aggrieved party, and requires the... rescinding of an uncontested act of... sovereignty, before it will make any... offer of reparation in a case in which it... had solemnly admitted itself to have... been the aggressor. Having claimed, as a sine qua non , the separation of the... outrage on the Chesapeake from all... other acts of either government, the... moment this claim is acceded to, it de... mands the previous settlement of an... other & distinct question. Can inconsis... tency be more flagrant? And can even... charity herself consider such anomalous... conduct as evincive of those just, pacific... and friendly sentiments, from the pre... valence of which alone honorable repa... ration could rationally be expected?
It required no reflection, on the part... of the Executive, to reject this demand; but, still true to its predominant wish... to restore the amicable relations of the... two nations, the offer is made to make... the revocation of the proclamation bear... the same date with the acceptance of... the reparation offered. But even this... proposition is rejected.
We shall not attempt to go at any... length into a discussion of the diffi... culty, thus unexpectedly and unfortu... nately raised by the British govern... ment. So far as it is made a subject... of argument it may be confidently... suffered to rest on the incontroverti... ble reasons assigned by Mr. Madison, and so far as it is a matter of feeling... it may be permitted to repose, with... equal safety, on the universal senti... ment of America.
There are, however, perhaps, some views, which it did not behove Mr. Madison in the relation in which he stood to take, which may be very properly offered when the question becomes one between the American people and their government. There is, besides, between the negotiators of two governments a becoming for... bearance which ought to restrain, and in this instance appears eminently to... have restrained, an expression of... some truths which might have had... an irritating rather than an emollient... effect upon the general relations of... the two nations.
Mr. Rose required the absolute re... vocation of the proclamation before any specific tender of reparation; our government offered to consider any tender which should be made, and, if acceptable, to revoke the proclamation at the same time that such tender was accepted. Let us test the character of these opposite courses by considering their relative effects, had they been pursued, on the character and interests of the two nations?
The American had at least an equal right with the British govern... ment to prescribe the course to be... pursued. It was her honor that was to be healed, and her rights that were to be redressed. Of the reparation she was to be the judge. She had claimed, not merely a naked disavowal, but a positive reparation, and G. Britain had herself acknowledged the justice of the demand. The former was only important as it let to the latter. The disavowal did not in... clude the reparation; the reparation did include the disavowal. The one was a mockery, and, persisted in, would be an insult without the latter. The disavowal, moreover, was no evidence that the reparation would follow. There existed strong reasons to justify the suspicion that an honorable reparation was not meant. The officer who committed the out... rage was not disgraced, the men ta... ken were still retained, and, above all, the discontinuance of the British armed vessels to infest our waters did not follow, as it immediately should have followed, the disavowal in En... gland. They continued, notwith... standing, for months, to violate our territory and infringe our laws.
Had our government, under these circumstances, rescinded the Proclamation, as a preliminary to the ne... gotiation for reparation, they would have abandoned the deliberate ground taken in that instrument, which im... posed the interdiction until an honor... able reparation was made, and a dis... position manifested by the British government in future to control the excesses of its officers; they would, consequently, have acknowledged themselves to have done a wrong, even in the exercise of an incontesti... ble attribute of sovereignty, and have given, instead of themselves receiv... ing, the first measure of atonement; they would have been dishonored in that their own eyes and disgraced in that of their country; and they would have shamefully compromised the American character—for the world would have stigmatised the act as mean and pusillanimous. It is true, that the revocation of the proclama... tion might have been followed by the tender of an honorable reparation; but it is equally true that it might not; and, if this had eventually been the case, what time might not have elapsed before its final arrangement? During all this period, we should have remained exposed to the same indignities and outrages so uninte... ruptedly received, the temper of our people would have been lowered,
perhaps humbled by the humiliating... conduct of their government; we would have afforded to the British nation and to Europe the spectacle of a bully, full of words, but ready, at the least appearance of danger, to shrink from the most moderate course that could have been pursued. For such, as we have already shown, was the universal opinion of the procla... mation when issued, even by the sys... tematic opponents of the administra... tion; and that proclamation, we re... peat it, made the continuance of its restrictions coeval with the refusal to grant reparation and to control ex... cesses.
Such would have been the effect of this concession on us. What would have been the effect on the British government, had it acceded to the proposition made by our govern... ment?
The outrage committed on the Chesapeake had been acknowledged by her to be unauthorised, and to re... quire reparation. She had, conse... quently, declared herself under a moral obligation to make reparation. In this point the two governments are agreed. In granting this reparation, then, the British government could only perform a solemn, undisputed duty. She could not disgrace herself in her own eyes, she could not sul... ly her honor in the eyes of the world. Instead, however, of rendering this reparation, she requires that the proclamation should be previously re... voked, because, it is alleged, to have been, when issued, wrong in itself; and, secondly, because, the disavowal and the promise to make reparation, ought to induce our gov... ernment to revoke it. It is contended to have been wrong in itself, as taking into our own hands the means of reparation, while we are claiming this reparation from the British gov... ernment. But this argument, even allowing, for argument sake, the fact to be correctly stated, is unsound, inasmuch as it leads to the monstrous conclusion, that the obligation to re... pair an acknowledged and flagrant in... jury is cancelled by receiving a doubtful and minor one, resulting from the original injury done. Jus... tice, common sense, and feeling all require that he who commits the first wrong should repair the injury before he can sustain a claim for re... paration for a minor injury growing out of the original wrong.
The last argument has been already sufficiently noticed, and it has been made manifestly to appear, that, taking the whole conduct of the British government into considera... tion, considering the enormity of the original outrage, the persistence of those who committed it, even after the disavowal, to infringe the procla... mation, the nakedness of the disa... vowal itself, the entire omission so far to make reparation as it is in the power of Britain herself to make it without consulting us by punishing her officers and giving up the men taken from the Chesapeake, the total silence as to the nature of the repa... ration meant to be offered, and the cotemporaneous issue of orders every feature of which is marked with hostility, there exists not a shadow of right on her part to require from us an act not of justice, but of weak... ness, so far as it related to ourselves, and of generosity, perhaps credulity, so far as it related to her.
If then the British government not only could, but ought to have made an honorable reparation, notwithstanding the existence of the procla... mation, without violating their honor or receiving the least injury; while our government could not, consist... ently with the national honor or inter... ests revoke it until the cause which produced it should be removed; was there not every obligation of honor and justice on her part, without delay, to make an honorable reparation; and was there not every obligation of the like kind on the part of our govern... ment, while they went as far as they possibly could go with honor, to shrink from the precipice to which another step would have brought them, a precipice which presented nothing but humiliation and dis... grace?
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30. The House went into a committee on the report of the select com... mittee to whom was recommitted the bill for raising an additional military force.
The amendment reported by the select committee was, after a few ob... jections by Mr. Rhea, agreed to, Ayes 66.
The bill being now open to amend... ment, Mr. Rowan moved to amend the bill by striking out that part relating to cavalry. This motion was supported by himself, and opposed by Messrs. Tallmadge, Smilie, Durell, and Findley.
[Debate, excluded by other matter, in our next.]
A message was at this moment re... ceived from the President of the U. States.
Mr. Gardner said that possibly the message might throw some light on
the subject now before the Commit... tee. He therefore moved that the committee rise.
The committee rose, reported pro... gress and obtained leave to sit again.
The Speaker having opened the President's message, declared it to be of a confidential nature. The gal... leries were cleared, and the doors re... mained closed till a few minutes past four, when the House immediately adjourned, the injunction of secrecy not having been taken off.
THURSDAY, MARCH 31.
On this day the resolution for an enquiry into the conduct of Har... ry Innes was taken up and passed.
The bill for raising an additional military force was ordered to a third reading to-day.
After which,
Mr. Randolph, said that according to the rules of the House, though the business was not to be sure very important, yet he had a report to make, which required that the gal... leries be cleared.
They were cleared accordingly, and so remained until four o'clock when the House immediately adjourned.
[Further detail of this day's pro... ceedings in our next.]
Rumor says, that Mr. Canning, the prime secretary of England has resigned. If Mr. C. has resigned, a general change may be expected in the political concerns of Europe.
Oracle.
New-York, March 28.
By the fast sailing ship Oliver Ells... worth which arrived at this port on Saturday evening from Liver... pool, the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser has completed his files of London papers to the 22d February, inclusive, Liverpool papers to 24th, & Lloyd's lists and Price Currents to the 19th.
The papers are principally occupi... ed with the debates in the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain on the late Orders in Council against neu... tral commerce; the expedition to Copenhagen; the proposed mediation of Austria between England and France; the negotiation with Por... tugal; the expedition to the Darda... nels; and the improper use which his Majesty has made of the Droits of Admiralty, by granting the sum of 20,000l. sterling to several of his profligate children, at a time when the pressure of the public burthens be... came almost intolerable to the great mass of the nation.
For the late orders of council the mi... nistry have had recourse to a bill of indemnity. In the House of Peers, when the subject of these orders was under consideration, Lord Erskine (1st Chancellor) observed that they must lead to the most calamitous conse... quences. America, it was generally acknowledged, was the main source of British commercial prosperity, and these measures would inevitably dry it up and compel the people of the U. States to turn their thoughts to a navy and manufactures, contrary to the ad... vice of the great and good Washington, and thereby fix permanently their at... tention on what may ultimately ruin England.
On a motion in the same House for an "Address to his majesty praying for the production of official informa... tion touching the execution of the French decree of blockade previous to the 11th November" the ministry were left in a minority of 9.
A bill was before Parliament at our last dates, for "more effectually car... rying into execution certain orders in council made for the protection of the trade and navigation of G. Britain, and granting duties of customs on certain goods exported from G. Britain;" and a meeting had been called, by 22 of the most respectable houses in Liverpool to petition Parliament against its pass... ing into a law until the objectionable parts of it should be expunged or modi... fied. Among other articles of taxa... tion, the bill proposes an export duty of 2s. 6d. sterling per bushel on Salt, which is considered as a staple branch of the export trade of Liverpool. This port, it is computed, carries on three fourths of the trade between the U. S. and G. Britain; and some idea of its importance may be collected from the fact that the annual export of British manufactures to the U. S. exceeds ten millions sterling, and the demand constantly and rapidly increasing. In the port of Liverpool alone, during the year 1807, entered 489 American ves... sels, averaging 252 tons, and paying a tonnage duty of 36,968l. In addition to which, the amount paid in dock duties, port charges, and disbursements among the tradesmen of Liverpool, is estimat... ed at 149,500l. exclusive of any charge, or expense on the cargo's.
A Gottenburg article of February 12 states the declaration of war by Russia against Sweden, and that the Russians had entered Swedish Finland.
Philadelphia, March 28.
It appears that the Rochefort squadron has completely eluded the vigilance of the British look-out fleets. It was spoken off the Isle of Tormentara. This isle is situated in the Mediterranean a few leagues to the southward of Ivice, and is de... served, in consequence of the number of serpents that infest it.
New-Orleans, Feb. 16. 1808.
We learn that the governor has just received a letter from the Balize, informing him that an English armed
vessel requested permission to enter, in order to take in a supply of provi... sions intending to sail immediately after for Jamaica. She has a pilot on board, and being refused permission to enter (which refusal the captain was informed was founded on the President's Proclamation) she put to sea. The person who conveyed to the English captain the letter men... tioning the President's proclamation, had not returned before the departure of the letter written to the governor.
The letter written to the English captain requests him to send back the American Pilot whom he has on board. This vessel is thought to be the brig Soilar.
Persons from the Balize, with whom we have spoken, report that for these six days past there have been several English vessels at the entrance of the pass, that a frigate is at anchor there, and that two others are cruising off it.
LONDON, FEB. 13.
All accounts from Yorkhire and Lan... cashire are full of dreadful com... plaints on the state of trade, the woollen and cotton manufactures are said to be near... ly at a stand; several large houses in Yorkhire have had letters from their friends in America, desiring them not to purchase any more wool on any ac... count, and many both woollen and cotton manufacturers have been under the necessity of discharging their work... people, and of shutting up their manu... factories till the return of a better trade.
LONDON, FEB. 18.
Another Gottenburgh mail, the sixth, arrived last night. It brings a confirmation of the intelligence previously received respecting the melan... choly state of Portugal; com... merce totally destroyed, and famine approaching. Some particulars of the insurrection, soon after the French entered Lisbon, are given.
FEB. 19.
A Circumstance rather remarka... ble, happened yesterday in the House of Lords, where a motion of Lord Grenville, for papers connected with the order of council was carried a... gainst the administration, by a ma... jority of 9: but it appears that in this instance ministers were taken by sur... prize; and lord Sidmouth's motion for restoring the Danish fleet, was afterwards negatived, on a division of 103 to 51. The division in which the opposition were successful, was allu... ded to in the House of Commons by Lord Henry Petty who mentioned it in terms of exultation. The following is a list of the majority: Glou... cester, Norfolk, Somerset, Bedford, Essex, Carlisle, Albemarle, Jersey, Spencer, Cholmondeley, Cowper, St. Vincent, Grey, Sidmouth, St. John, Darnley, King, Somers, Holland, Grenville, Auckland, Erskine, Moira, Hutchinson, Ellenborough, Lander... dale, Selkirk.— Proxies —Bute, Here... ford, Thanet, Bulkeley, Lucan, Os... sary, Camarvon, Shaftesbury, Bland... ford, Rosslyn, Guildford, Bucking... hamshire, Stawell, Mennip, Bray... brooke, Derby, Caerslort, Fife, Southampton, Foley.
FEBRUARY 22.
A report has been in circulation since Saturday, that Mr. Canning, disgusted with his colleagues, and indignant at the insults he has receiv... ed, means to take ample vengeance for his wrongs by immediately resign... ing. Strong hopes, however, are still entertained, that this catastro... phe, so pregnant with national mischief, may be averted; and that the wrath of our secretary, like a storm in... in spring, will, after an evanescent bluster, give place to sunshine and tranquility. For our own part we have no hesitation to confess that such is our decided opinion, for although we have no doubt that Mr. Canning would have great satisfaction in mort... ifying or injuring his colleagues, even to the violence of every patriotic feel... ing, we are well convinced that he is by no means inclined to quarrel with his bread and butter . And the latter, we are enabled to assure our readers, would, as affairs are at present situat... ed, be the inevitable consequence of the former.
FEB. 22.
Ministers we understand, intend to muster all their forces in the House of Lords on a motion for rescinding the resolution passed on Thursday night contrary to their wishes. The grounds on which they mean to justify this proceeding is, the non... existence of that information which they have asserted, in the preamble to the Orders of Council, to be in pos... session of; and which the vote of their Lordships calls upon them to produce.
WASHINGTON THEATRE.
Br AUTHORITY.
On Monday Evening, April 4th, will be presented a choice SELECTION FROM THE DRAMA. (Particulars in hand-bills.)
Mr. & Mrs. Ormsby respectfully in... form Ladies and Gentlemen that, from the very flattering reception their first performance met with, they are induced to make every addition in their power to the Theatrical Entertainments. Se... veral necessary improvements will be made, and no assistance shall be want... ing that can be procured, in order to render the Theatre worthy the atten... tion of the lovers of the Drama.
April 1—2p

PORT WINE. Of very good quality in casks, each one inclosed in a dry case for security against any adulteration, with a small parcel of other excellent Wines in casks and in bottles; among which are Red & White Claret, Dry Lisbon, and very old Brazil Madeira Wine , just received and for sale, by
JOHN GOULDING Who has on hand as usual an assortment of choice Liquors of most kinds used here. Georgetown, March 25—
THE CAPITOL PRIZE. Ticket No. 6974 was drawn the 36th day in St. Mary's College Lottery, a prize of 30,000 dollars. The ticket was sold at G. & R. WAITE'S Truly Fortunate Lottery office, corner of Market & Charles streets, to Mr. Dobbin, who we understand afterwards is disposed of it to another person in this city. Ticket No. 15,564, which was drawn the second capital prize 15,000 dollars. Ticket, No. 7,001, which was drawn the third capital prize, 10,000 dollars, and Ticket No. 1977 was drawn the 4th capital prize, 5,000 dollars, were all sold at the same lucky office.
STATE LOTTERY—NEW YORK. For the promotion of Literature, and for other purposes. Positively commences drawing on the
First Tuesday in April next. Payment of prizes guaranteed by the state Legislature. HIGHEST PRIZES, 1 25,000 dollars. 1 10,000 dollars. 2 5,000 dollars. 4 2,000 dollars. 7 1,000 dollars.
And a very considerable number of inferior prizes. Less than two blanks to a prize. The tickets are now offered for sale in a variety of numbers at G. & R. WAITE'S truly fortunate Lottery Offices in New York, at the following prices,
Whole 7 50 Quarters 2 Halves 3 75 Eighths 1 B.t will in a few days advance in price. All prizes purchased of G. & R. Waite will be paid by them, and every information relative to the Lottery will be given to distant advertisers gratis.
Prize tickets in the New York and Baltimore Lottery taken in payment. Orders for G. & R. Waite, taken and punctually attended to, at J. MARCH'S Book-Store, High street George Town. March 18—6t
PUBLIC SALE By Virtue of a decree of the honorable the High Court of Chancery of Maryland, will be exposed to sale on the 8th day of April next at 12 o'clock at the store of Thomas Davall, a Tract of LAND, containing One Hundred and Eighty-Seven acres, called Brashear's Pacoison, the property of John Turner deceased, lying in Prince George's county, about 7 miles from Bladensburg, 10 from the city of Washington, and 25 from Annapolis; about one third in wood, the remainder in a state of productive cultivation. The terms of the above sale are, that the purchaser shall give bond with good security such as shall be approved of by the trustee for paying one half within 9 months, and the other half within 12 months with interest on each payment from the day of sale.
GEO. PAGE, Trustee. The Creditors of John Turner, deceased, who have not yet exhibited their claims, are hereby notified to bring the same into the Chancery Court, with the vouchers thereof within six months from the day of sale. G. PAGE. March 16—3w
PUBLIC NOTICE. By order of the Orphan's Court of Prince George's county, will be sold on Thursday the 21st day of April next, at his late dwelling in Prince George's county, all the personal estate of John Rustin , late of said county, deceased, consisting of Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Plantation Utensils and a variety of other articles too numerous to mention. The terms of sale are six months credit, for all sums above ten dollars, the purchaser giving bond with two good securities bearing interest from the day of sale; for all sums to the amount of ten dollars and under, the cash must be paid. The sale to commence at 12 o'clock. JOHN H. HALL, Adm'r. March 25—3w
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE That the subscriber of St. Mary's hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of Saint Mary's county in Maryland, Letters Testamentary on the personal estate of Wilfred Neale , late of Saint Mary's county, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof to the subscriber at or before the 25th day of September next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 26th day of March 1808. HENRY NEALE, Ex'r. March 25—6w
ADVERTISEMENT. TO be sold on Thursday the 7th of April at the Dwelling House of Mrs. Ann Smith in High street, Her whole Household Furniture, consisting of Feather Beds, Bedsteads, Baskets, Chairs, Mahogany Tables, Desk, Mirror, Glasses, Grate, 4 Stoves, Brass Fender, Andirons, Crockerware, Kitchen Furniture, a Milk Cow, Shower Bath, a pair of Globes, an excellent Piano, in perfect repair; the Piano to be sold either at private or public sale; a valuable Negro woman about twenty, with a fine boy, near two years old; the woman is a good cook, a washer, ironer, and house maid. George Town, March 28—
30 DOLLARS REWARD, FOR apprehending and safe keeping, black MOSES , about 5 feet 10 inches high, about 25 years old; has lost an upper fore tooth, has a rupture near his groin; when sharply spoken to shows submission, his voice is soft and low, his gestures is such as has enabled him to deceive those who are acquainted with him. I have had him twice since the 30th of July last; once he broke from the stocks; once from five men on the 26th December last. On the day after he broke Wm. Lee's house, and took therefrom all said Lee's wearing apparel, also a saddle and bridle and a horse from my stable. The horse, saddle and bridle I have recovered, which was taken from him by Mr. Rison who keeps ferry near Dumfries. The principal part of clothing he had with him when he was lodged in Dumfries jail, on 30th December last, consisted of home made cloth, which he took with him on the 1st of January last when he broke jail and cleared himself. I suppose he is lurking about George Town or Alexandria. He called himself a freeman, and passed by the name of John Lucas Roulis. It is likely he will take some other. The above reward and all reasonable charges I will pay to any person who will lodge him in any jail, or deliver him to me in Orange county. JOHN PAYNE, Black Walnut Run. March 18—10
MR. JOSHUA B. BOND'S CELEBRATE running HORSE FIRST CONSUL, Will stand this season, at the subscriber's farm in Prince George's county, Maryland, about seven miles from Queen Anne, ten from Bladensburg, the same distance from Upper Marlborough, and about sixteen miles from the city of Washington; at Twenty-Five dollars the season, and one dollar to the groom; but Twenty-One dollars will be received in full if sent with the MARES; if the money is not sent with the MARES it is requested that notes of hand will be sent at that time, given for Twenty Six dollars, payable at the expiration of the season, which will commence immediately and end the 1st of August. Good pasture will be furnished gratis, as soon as the grass is good, and in the mean time, hay and corn furnished at the common price, for the mares according to orders. The utmost care will be taken of the mares, but I will not be answerable for accidents or escapes. Consul is of fine figure, beautiful bright bay, with a small blaze in his face, and his hind ankles white; full 15 and 1 2 hands high. It is expected that the stock from Consul and well bred mares, will not be surpassed by the stock from any horse (scarcely) in America, for the turf, carriage, or saddle; or even from Consul and good looking mares, which have none of the running blood; their colts cannot be other than elegant in a carriage or under the saddle. Such mares as have little, or not any of what is supposed to be running blood in them, may be put to Consul at half price, the money sent with the mares. If I should be preferred by gentlemen living beyond Bladensburg and Upper Marlborough, who wish to breed from Consul, by giving notice to the subscriber, he can be sent one day in each week to each place, from the first day of April, while there will be any mares to send to him from either of those directions; say Bladensburg on Tuesday, and Upper Marlborough on Saturday. ISAAC DUCKETT. March 12, 1808.
PEDIGREE OF FIRST CONSUL. HE was foaled in Philadelphia county, June 1798, got by the noted running horse Flag of Truce , his dam by the imported horse Slender , his granddam by the imported mare Diana . Diana was got by Old Eclipse , Slender was got by King Herod , who produced more runners than any other horse in England, as may be seen by the Racing Calender , therefore it may in truth be said on the dam side of First Consul , the two great grand sires were the best horses England ever produced. Flag of Truce was bred by colonel Good of Virginia and was esteemed the best turf horse in his day and was the sire to colonel Taylor's famous running horse Leviathan . First Consul has won either 20 or 22 purses from 100l. and 100g. and never started against a horse he did not outrun until the fall he was eight years old—the spring following he won three purses and distanced the field the first day at New Market on Long Island. JOSHUA B. BOND, Philadelphia. March 18—eptM&wtf
A Stock of well Assorted HARDWARE, FOR SALE. THE subscriber wishes to decline the Hardware business, and offers his entire stock in that line at a low advance upon the first cost, to a person wishing to purchase the same, a credit will be given, upon giving approved security. HENRY INGLE. March 18—2aw1m
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the subscriber of St. Mary's county, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of St. Mary's county in Maryland Letters Testamentary on the personal estate of Comand Plowden late of the county aforesaid deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with vouchers thereof to the subscriber, at or before the 25th day of September next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 18th day of March, eighteen hundred & eight. HENRY NEALE, Ex'r. March 25—6w
BALTIMORE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Office, No. 6, South Street. PROPOSALS FOR INSURING Houses, Buildings, Stores, Ships in harbor, Goods, Wares and Merchandise from loss or damage by Fire. THE Legislature of the State of Maryland having incorporated the Baltimore Fire Insurance Company, with a capital of five hundred thousand Dollars, for the purpose of insuring buildings, and every kind of personal property, from loss or damage by Fire, as well as insurance on lives—The number of shares authorized by law being all subscribed with avidity, the Directors feel a particular satisfaction in offering to their fellow citizens throughout the United States, the means of security against that kind of loss which frequently in an unexpected moment, involves in destruction the earnings of a life of industry and frugality, and reduces the independent and affluent together with their families, to poverty and distress. To provide an additional guard against calamities of this nature, has been the primary motive of the institution; and the directors engage to conduct its concerns with a fairness, candor and liberality which will justly entitle it to the confidence and patronage of the public. ** No insured person will be liable to make good the losses of others, but in case of fire, the sufferer will be fully indemnified.—The company also make good losses on property burnt by lightning.
CONDITIONS OF INSURANCE. I. All applications for insurance must be made at the office of the company in writing. II. In all applications for insurance of property, the applicant must furnish an accurate and just description of the same—viz. Of what materials each building is constructed; whether occupied as private dwellings, or how otherwise; where situated; the name of the present occupiers; how situated with respect to other buildings. And in the insurance of goods, wares and merchandise, the place where the same are deposited, is to be described; also, a general description of such goods, and whether any manufactory is carried on in the premises, all which is to be certified and attested in such manner as the nature of the case may admit. And if any person or persons shall insure his or their buildings or goods, and shall cause them to be described in the policy otherwise than they really are, so as the same be charged at a lower premium than would otherwise be demanded; or if such description be false or fraudulent, such insurance will be void and of none effect.
III. Goods held in trust, or on commission, are to be declared as such; otherwise the policy will not extend to cover such property. IV. Every policy of assurance, made by this company, shall be sealed with its seal, signed by the president and attested by the secretary; and the person for whose interest the insurance is made, must be declared and named therein; nor can any policy or interest therein be assigned but by consent of the company, expressed by endorsement made thereon. V. No insurance will be considered as made or binding until the premium is paid. VI. Jewels, plate, medals, or other curiosities, paintings and sculptures, are not included in any insurance, unless such articles are specified in the policy.
VII. All persons insured by this company, sustaining any loss or damage by fire, are forthwith to give notice to the company, and as soon after as possible, to deliver in as particular an account of their losses or damage, signed with their own hands, as the nature of the case will admit of, and make proof of the same by their oath or affirmation, and by their books of accounts, and other proper vouchers, as shall be reasonably required: and shall make oath whether any and what other insurance is made on the same property; and shall procure a certificate, under the hand of a magistrate, or notary public, (most contiguous to the spot where the fire happened, and not concerned in such loss) that they are acquainted with the character and circumstances of the person or persons insured; and do know or verify believe, that he, she, or they, really, and by misfortune, and without fraud or evil practice, have sustained by such fire, loss and damage to the amount therein mentioned; and, until such affidavits and certificates are produced, the loss shall not be payable. Also, if there appears any fraud, or false swearing, the claimant shall forfeit his claim to restitution or payment, by virtue of his policy.
VIII. In case any difference shall arise, touching any loss or damage, it may be submitted to the judgment of arbitrators, indifferently chosen, whose award in writing shall be binding on the parties. And when any loss or damage shall happen, the company shall pay for the same in sixty days after the loss shall have been ascertained and proved, without allowance of discount, fees, or any deduction whatever.
IX. Insurance may be made for seven years, by paying the premium for six years; and for a less number than seven, a reasonable discount will be allowed. March 23—w1m.
UTILIO A Young Man of experience in teaching, wishes for a situation as a private tutor. He can produce satisfactory recommendations, and has no objection to go to any part of the United States. Enquire of the Printer. March 30—8t
NOTICE. PURSUANT to an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at November session, 1806, entitled "An act authorizing the collection of certain ground rents due on lots in the Town of Cumberland, in Allegany county," and a supplement thereto, passed at November session, 1807, Public Notice is hereby given to all persons holding unimproved lots in said town, on which ground rents are now due, that unless the said rents are paid on or before the first day of December next, the said lots will on that day be offered at public sale to the highest bidder, on a credit of 60 days. The sale to be held at Mr. J. Rine's tavern in said town, to commence at ten o'clock, A. M. and continue from day to day, until the whole are sold. THOMAS BEALL, of Saml. March 21—eptds
SECRET HISTORY OR HORRORS OF ST. DOMINGO. IN a SERIES OF LETTERS written by a LADY, to Col. BURE, late Vice-President of the United States, principally during the command of general Rochambeau, Price One Dollar. And other NEW BOOKS. Among which are the following:
Third vol. Chapman's Select Speeches, 2 50 Fourth volume, do. 2 50 Reeces Medical Guide, 3 00 Hitchcocks Poems, 75 Barlow's Columbiad, fine plates, 20 00 Brooke's Gazetteer, new edition, 3 50 Public Characters for 1807, 4 25 Lay of an Irish Harp, by Miss Owenson, 1 00
LIKEWISE, The second number of Col. Townsend's American Artillerists Companion 2 00 The third number is now in the Press. Gentlemen wishing to patronise this valuable work, are earnestly requested to call and leave their names at J. MARCH'S, Book Store, George Town.
Where may be had any book that can possibly be procured in New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore, without any advance on the price. March 18—6t
NOTICE. THE Subscriber being anxious to settle all his business, has sold his entire stock of goods to John Peter; he therefore requests all those indebted to him to call and pay their accounts, (particularly such as are of long standing, as further indulgence cannot be given them). His Books are removed to the counting house of his brother Romulus Riggs, where all his accounts will be ready for settlement by his assistant Mr. Samuel C. Offut, or ELISHA RIGGS. George Town, March 16—tf
THE subscriber has purchased the stock of GOODS lately belonging to Mr. Elisha Riggs, and will be enabled, from the conditions of purchase, to dispose of them in the same house on as liberal if not better terms than they were sold before. He expects by capt. Hand, from Philadelphia this week or the first of next, a handsome Spring Supply, which will make his assortment complete. They were laid in for cash, therefore will accommodate his friends no doubt satisfactorily. JOHN PETER. George Town, March 16—ep4w
NOTICE. A Dividend will be made amongst the Creditors of the late Mr. Richard Cramphin on Friday the 1st day of April next, at Mr. William Ross's tavern, in Bladensburg. The creditors are requested to attend with their claims legally authenticated, as no respect will be paid to any others, except those known to be justly due by the Administrator. Bonds passed to the subscriber for property purchased at the sales of the deceased's effects last Spring, became all due on the 10th of this month, and unless taken up by Saturday the 19th will be put in suit without respect to persons. THOMAS BOWIE, Adm'r of Rich'd Cramphin. March 16—7t
WHEREAS the SUBSCRIBER together with John Stockwell the Elder, and George Johnston and Jane his wife of the county of Tyrone in the kingdom of Ireland, executed a power of attorney, dated the 9th day of April 1806, authorising John Stockwell, jun. to receive, and to sell and convey all the estate, real and personal to which we were entitled under the wills or as heirs at law of Mark Stockwell late of the city of Washington, or of Henry Stockwell late of Philadelphia consisting principally of Lots in the city of Washington, and Lands in Greenbrier, and Kenaway, counties in Virginia. Now know all to whom this writing shall come, that we, for good causes, do hereby revoke and entirely annul the said letter of attorney herein before mentioned. Given under our hands and seals this 28th day of March 1808. (Seal) JAMES HANCOCK. March 30—3t
BURNS AND BEALL. WOOLLEN drapers, men's merchants, and tailors, New-Jersey Avenue, opposite the Secretary of the Navy's, respectfully inform the public that they have commenced business in the above line, where they will endeavor to give satisfaction—they have on hand a fresh supply of the most fashionable goods, suitable for the approaching season, all fresh and of the very best quality. N.B. Regimentals and naval uniforms made in the most elegant and fashionable stile with neatness and dispatch. October 23—tf.
ROSS AND GETTY, HAVE for sale at their store George Town, the following articles just received from Philadelphia, by the schooner Carolina, capt. HAND, jun. viz. 30 kegs butter, 20 barrels, New Town, Pippin Apples, 10 do. buck wheat flour, 10 do. Cranberries, and 10 do. shell bark hickory nuts. Also a small assignment of very elegant Looking Glasses, Waiters, Trays, polished steel Shovel and Tongs, with cu and brass heads, &c. &c. January 9—tf
AGREAT BARGAIN. JOSEPH WHEATON Broker and Commission Merchant, has put into his hands for sale, at his office in F street near the Bank, a valuable property in the city of Washington, consisting of 646,453 square feet of city LOTS advantageously situated on the most prominent and valuable streets, and near the Navy Yard and Bridge, and to be had on the most reasonable terms of payment. This great bargain is recommended to gentlemen desirous of securing an early fortune, in this truly growing and flourishing city; the permanent residence and seat of the government of the United States. Other city property to be had—Houses and Lots—Enquire as above. All kinds of STOCKS bought and sold. Wanted to Purchase a few MILITARY LAND WARRANTS. Washington city, Dec. 11—tf
LINDSAY'S HOTEL. The Subscriber has taken that well calculated house on the Capitol Hill. Late occupied by Mr. Prost formerly by Mr. Stelle—Where he intends to open a Tavern on the 24th October. Those gentlemen who may favor him with their Custom may rely on every attention in the Power of the Public's devoted Servant. GEO. W. LINDSAY. N.B.—EIGHT or TEN BOARDERS may be conveniently accommodated. October 19—tf.
TUNIS CRAVEN HAS removed his entire stock of DRY GOODS from Alexandria to Washington, and is now opening, at his new Store, between the Marine Garrison and Navy Yard Gate, an assortment equal to any in the District; among which are, Wood's best London cloths, Do. double milled & plain cassimeres, Bennett's cords and velvets, Constitution, Gerrow, hunting, Trafalgar, and silver cords, Velvets, Imperial, Brunswick waistcoating, Silk moleskins do. Toilnets, swansdown do. Plain and figured Marseilles do. Beaver skin coatings, Plains, kerseys, halfhicks. Rose and duffel blankets, flannels, Superfine green cloth table covers, Calicoes, colored cambrics, Gingham, silk and cotton chambrays, Furniture Chintz, Cambric and jaconet muslins, India and British book do. India muslin figured and plain, Plain and figured lenoes, Laced cambrics, Elegant tamboured mulls, Grecian robes and Pelisse dresses, 8 4 damask and raw silk shawls, Dams. & co. rfs, Camel's hair and swansdown do. Down scarfs, Long and short lace sleeves, spider & nett sleeves, Extra long and habit kid gloves, Do. do. silk do. Do. do. raw silk do. Cross-barred and plain Mantuas and Intestrings, Persians and Medes, Thread and cotton laces, Lace caps and handkerchiefs, Book muslin and leno cap patterns, 4-4 7-8 Irish linens, Long lawns, linen cambrics, Irish diapers, table-cloths, napkins, Cotton counterpanes, Cambric Dimities, Common do. Furniture do. Ladies' and gentlemen's silk, thread, cotton, worsted, lamb's wool & Angola hose, Gentlemen's pantaloons do. Silk cords and buttons, Ribbons, floss threads, Scarlet and other colored bombazets, Hearth rugs, Russia sheeting, ticklingourg, Osanburgs, baftas, gurrahs, &c. &c. ALSO, Imperial and young hyson tea of a superior quality in small boxes, to suit families, or by the pound—Also genuine Havana segars. T. C. is determined to sell on the lowest terms. February 3—tf
PUBLIC SALE. By order of the Orphan's Court of Washington county, District of Columbia, the subscriber will offer at Public Sale, on Friday the 8th of April,
PART of the Personal Estate of John Wight, deceased, consisting of Wheat, Corn, Oats, Rye, Horses, horned Cattle; among which there is one yoke of valuable Oxen, Hogs, Sheep, Plantation Utensils, &c. The sale will commence at 11 o'clock, A. M.—Terms all sums under 20 dollars cash, above that sum a credit of six months, the purchaser giving bond, with approved security, to bear interest from the date.
WASHINGTON BOYD } Ex'rs of GEORGE MOORE, } J. Wight, March 30—eptds } Sued'd.
PORTRAITS, PAINTED IN OIL COLORS. By C. BOYLE, at the Building formerly occupied by Mr. G. Stewart, Pennsylvania avenue. Washington, March 11—tf